Episode 102: Sound Chaser 270

Sound Chaser Progressive Rock Podcast

The Sound Chaser Progressive Rock Podcast is on the air. The show this time is a special review of albums that made the Official Progressive Albums Chart. I also have an In Memoriam feature to commemorate Moody Blues keyboardist Mike Pinder. All that, plus news of tours and releases on Sound Chaser. Official Charts is the company in the UK that keeps track of singles and album sales in the UK, the equivalent of Billboard in the US. In 2015, Official Charts started a new feature, the Progressive albums chart, which started as a monthly listing in September of that year. Charts cover a one-month period, listing the top 30 sellers in that category for that month. Because the charts simply rate according to sales, albums that make the charts include not only new music, but also reissues of old music. Thus, you will hear in the sample in this show a mix of the newer and older music. Also, I have not limited the selections to chart toppers, but have included music that peaked in different locations of the charts.
Playlist
1. Mostly Autumn - Changing Lives, from Sight of Day
IN MEMORIAM MIKE PINDER
2. The Moody Blues - My Song, from Time Traveller [retrospective]
END IN MEMORIAM
3. Pink Floyd - Pigs on the Wing (Part One), from Animals
2. Porcupine Tree - Glass Arm Shattering, from Deadwing
3. Jethro Tull - Beastie, from The Broadsword and the Beast
4. Hawkwind - Dying Seas, from Warrior on the Edge of Time
5. The Alan Parsons Project - Time, from The Turn of a Friendly Card
6. The Alan Parsons Project - I Don't Wanna Go Home, from The Turn of a Friendly Card
7. Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe Parts 1-4, from Equinoxe
8. Nad Sylvan - A French Kiss in an Italian Café, from The Bride Said No
9. Strawbs - The Visit, from Settlement
10. Rush - A Farewell to Kings, from A Farewell to Kings
THE SYMPHONIC ZONE
11. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells, Part 1, from Tubular Bells
12. Marillion - The Space..., from Seasons End
13. Spock's Beard - To Be Free Again, from The Oblivion Particle
14. Renaissance - The Vultures Fly High, from Scheherazade and Other Stories
15. Yes - Hour of Need, from Fly From Here: Return Trip
16. Big Big Train - Brooklands, from Folklore
17. Steve Hackett - Fallen Walls and Pedestals, from Selling England by the Pound & Spectral Mornings Live at Hammersmith
18. Steve Hackett - Beasts in Our Time, from Selling England by the Pound & Spectral Mornings Live at Hammersmith
19. The Tangent - Two Rope Swings, from The Slow Rust of Forgotten Machinery
20. The Flower Kings - Racing with Blinders On, from Islands
21. The Flower Kings - From the Ground, from Islands
22. The Flower Kings - Black Swan, from Islands
23. The Flower Kings - Morning News, from Islands
24. The Flower Kings - Broken, from Islands
25. The Flower Kings - Goodbye Outrage, from Islands
LEAVING THE SYMPHONIC ZONE
26. Public Service Broadcasting - Ich und die Stadt, from Bright Magic
27. Brian Eno - Stars, from Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
28. Tangerine Dream - Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares, from Phaedra
29. Frank Zappa - Little Umbrellas, from Hot Rats
30. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - A Time and a Place, from Tarkus
31. Barclay James Harvest - Ball and Chain, from Once Again
32. Curved Air - Puppets, from Second Album
33. Gong - O, Arcturus!, from Unending Ascending
34. Premiata Forneria Marconi - It's My Road, from Emotional Tattoos
35. Supertramp - Crime of the Century, from Crime of the Century