La Historia De La Musica Rock

Phoenix Without Ashes. Still thrashprogbilly bebopcosmichetronica blueslofidelica grindpunkbossanovacore. Still a companion to my blogspot. And, now, to my Substack. Known to talk shit about Fleetwood Mac. And Steely Dan. Over 15 years and counting of Very Little Nick Cave

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5:11 PM EDT June 28, 2026:

Black Uhuru - "Great Train Robbery" From the album Brutal (1986)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Roots/Reggae

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5:01 PM EDT June 28, 2026:

Pixies - "Down To The Well" From the album Bossanova (August 13, 1990)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under:    Albums Whose Titles Purposely Don't Describe Their      Contents

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4:51 PM EDT June 28, 2026:

Tony Williams Lifetime - "Proto-Cosmos" From the album The Collection (September 15, 1992)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Fusion

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4:41 PM EDT June 28, 2026:

Portico Quartet - "Signals In The Dusk" From the album Memory Streams (October 4, 2019)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Contemporary UK Jazz

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4:31 PM EDT June 28, 2026:

Mogul Thrash -   "Dreams Of Glass And Sand (Alternate Take)" From the album Mogul Thrash (1971)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Keyboardless Prog, for the most part

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4:21 PM EDT June 28, 2026:

Rupert's People - "A Prologue To A Magic World" From the album Point Me at The Sky (September 2024)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

'15 Flashbacks to the Golden Age of British Psych.' FGA with the November 2024 issue of Mojo.

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4:10 PM EDT June 28, 2026:

The Red Krayola -   "Transparent Radiation (Free Form Freakout)" From the album The Parable of Arable Land (1967)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under:    Sort of like if The Fugs were from Texas

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4:00 PM EDT June 28, 2026:

Maserati - "Who Can Find The Beast?" From the album Pyramid Of The Sun (November 9, 2010)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Athens post-rock

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3:50 PM EDT June 28, 2026:

The Doors - “The Unknown Soldier” From the album Waiting for the Sun (July 3, 1968)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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3:40 PM EDT June 28, 2026:

Megadeth - "Peace Sells" From the album Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? (July 20, 1986)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Tell me: it's still We, The People, right?

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3:30 PM EDT June 28, 2026:

Flamin' Groovies - "My Girl Josephine" From the album Flamingo (July 1970)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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3:10 PM EDT June 28, 2026:

Guided by Voices - "A Big Fan Of The Pigpen" From the album Bee Thousand (June 21, 1994)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Lo-fi

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3:00 PM EDT June 28, 2026:

Soft Machine - "Slightly All The Time" From the album Third (June 6, 1970)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Music of the Spheres

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2:34 PM EDT June 28, 2026:

Aerosmith - "Chip Away The Stone" From the album Live Bootleg (‎October 1978)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

'There's nothing like a tortured Strat'

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2:24 PM EDT June 28, 2026:

Duster - "Go Back" From the album Duster (December 13, 2019)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

It always takes a while for this kind of shit to line up for me, but by now, it's become crystal clear to me that this was the best album of 2019

File under: Slowcore

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2:14 PM EDT June 28, 2026:

The Police - "Synchronicity I" From the album Synchronicity (June 1, 1983)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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