The word ‘legendary’ tends to get bandied around a little too freely, often applied to bands and artists who have merely managed to create a bit of a buzz! Well, the word is definitely warranted when discussing Jack Bruce. Travelling…
View More Jack Bruce – Smiles & Grins, Broadcast Sessions 1970-2001 [Remastered Boxset]Category: Album Reissues
Van der Graaf Generator – Still Life [Remastered]
Esoteric’s approach to reissuing albums on vinyl seems as canny as picking names out of a hat; it’s impossible to predict what they’ll choose next. With stablemates Van der Graaf Generator, Esoteric have selected two rather opposite entries from the…
View More Van der Graaf Generator – Still Life [Remastered]Various Artists – New Guitars in Town: Power Pop 1978 – 1982 [3CD Boxset]
The late ’70s and early ’80s has been a fertile era for Cherry Red Records, with releases covering the heydays of various genres of music that rode the wave of the commercial and creative booms for popular music at that…
View More Various Artists – New Guitars in Town: Power Pop 1978 – 1982 [3CD Boxset]Nektar – Recycled [5CD Remastered Boxset]
In the past, I’ve been critical of Nektar’s merits and made anything I actually liked by the group seem like some sort of a guilty pleasure. The snide remarks stop here. Loosely hanging my expectations on the albums’ ProgArchives ranking,…
View More Nektar – Recycled [5CD Remastered Boxset]Emerson, Lake & Powell – The Complete Collection [3CD Boxset]
Quoting myself from my review of Greg Lake’s Magical career retrospective box set: “I’ve never listened to the Emerson, Lake & Powell album for much the same reason I’ve never listened to any of Lake or Emerson’s solo stuff before,…
View More Emerson, Lake & Powell – The Complete Collection [3CD Boxset]Colosseum – Elegy: The Recordings 1968-1971 [6CD Box Set]
When it comes to finding the artists that were the foundation of progressive rock – shifting experimental psychedelia to something more focused and sophisticated – one cannot overlook Colosseum, founded by seminal drummer Jon Hiseman after a trip to Rome.…
View More Colosseum – Elegy: The Recordings 1968-1971 [6CD Box Set]Various Artists – Patterns on the Window: The British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1974 [3CD Boxset]
Having recently enjoyed the 3CD Beatles covers box set We Can Work it Out, I decided to give Patterns on the Window – which is presented in a very similar format – a try. The subtitle is The British Progressive…
View More Various Artists – Patterns on the Window: The British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1974 [3CD Boxset]Procol Harum – Shine On Brightly (Remastered Vinyl)
I don’t know about you, but I am fascinated by the development of ‘Progressive Rock’ in the period between 1965 and 1973. There were massive leaps from Pop and Blues Rock, to Psychedelic and then to the classic Progressive genre…
View More Procol Harum – Shine On Brightly (Remastered Vinyl)The Dream Academy – Religion, Revolution and Railways [7CD Boxset]
When Life in A Northern Town hit back in 1985, it broke through the synthesised din with the force of a bulldozer. The beautifully written, impeccably produced, acoustic, woodwind-infused vocal tour-de-force was unlike anything on radio before or since. The…
View More The Dream Academy – Religion, Revolution and Railways [7CD Boxset]Tim Blake – Crystal Presence [3CD Boxset]
Back in 2017, Esoteric reissued all of Tim Blake’s existing studio albums and I was there to review all of them… except one. I loved Crystal Machine and Blake’s New Jerusalem, found The Tide of the Century to be lacking…
View More Tim Blake – Crystal Presence [3CD Boxset]