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The Album Years

#28 (1977 Part 2A) Rush, Yes, Kansas, Utopia & more

The Album Years

W!ZARD Studios

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4.9859 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Steven & Tim dive into the progressive rock albums that defined 1977, with releases by Rush, Yes, Kansas & more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

0:04.0

Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s.

0:08.0

Tea break.

0:09.0

Lunt break.

0:10.0

Maybe listen to the outbreak.

0:12.0

Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?

0:15.0

It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nam time go on play some other time

0:22.7

put your phone down

0:23.9

Tombollah

0:24.7

open for fun

0:26.5

Terms apply 18 plus gamble

0:28.5

aware.org

0:29.4

Toaddleware.org Hello and here we are again, myself Stephen Wilson and my colleague Tim Boness here.

0:54.1

And this is the second part of our album years podcast discussing what is turning out to be an incredibly verdant year for important and significant album releases, 1977.

1:06.8

And in the first episode, Tim, we talked about the sort of UK, US punk scene and how that also influenced, or whether coincidentally, or by design, some of the other music that was coming out of the time.

1:22.3

Specifically, how it had an impact on some more progressively orientated artists, people like Vandegroft Generator,

1:30.3

Hawkwind, and Pink Floyd's album of the Year Animals, which was a very angry record.

1:35.6

So now we're going to actually talk about progressive rock itself, because there was a whole lot

1:39.7

of other progressive rock that paid no lip service to what what was going on in terms of of punk music

1:48.3

and disco music. So the more purest approach, if you like, to progressive rock or the kind

1:55.0

of progressive albums that seemed oblivious to the shift in in the musical climate and there's quite a lot isn't there and

2:03.9

some of these are good records right yeah well I think as we said in the other show that this year

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