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[Review] Genesis: Seconds Out (1977)

A double live lp’ing from the group’s 1976/77 tour featuring Phil Collins on vocals.

The man with the golden lips knocks off nine more covers and one brilliant original without breaking a sweat.

This edges out The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking as the best of the pink flawed following The Final Cut.

You say poh-tay-to and I say pooh-tit-bac.

The two strongest songwriters in The Moody Blues make an album together that will definitely get you in the mood.

A musical based on the Ted Hughes story, The Iron Man, featuring Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle.

The first of Paul’s post-Beatles patchwork epics, this is the best thing he’s written since Abbey Road.

An alignment of talent for the ages that, despite clashing personalities, yielded some truly angelic harmonies.

A flawless love song that finds Sir John figuratively on contrite, bended, knobby knee asking for forgiveness and love from Yoko. The sentiment…

Fripp and Eno return for another album of soothing electronic loops on side one, and dark electronic space music on side two.

[Kronomyth 9.0] Peter picks a peck of pop hits.

The album that contains George’s homage to Hoagy Carmichael. And John Lennon. But mostly Hoagy Carmichael.

[Kronomyth 15.0] Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, At Last I’ve Found You.

Roxy’s fashionable first defined the art-rock movement and featured a sense of high camp that belied the serious musical artistry underneath.

How cool is it that, twenty-five years on, CS&N can still carry on a meaningful musical dialogue with their audience? After all the…