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Diamonds in the Rough (Vol. II) - Fan Favorites (Episode 8) (Patreon)

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2022-09-30 20:24:29
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2023-05

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I really enjoy this genre for our Fan Favorites videos. This is the second time we've done a round of underappreciated songs and bands, and the music was sublime! Thanks for all your participation and voting. Rest assured we'll be retuning to this topic often!

Included in this video are:
- Moon Safari - A Kid Called Panic
- National Health - Squarer for Maud
- Strawbs - A Glimpse of Heaven
- The Tangent - The Melting Andalusian Skies
- Nektar - Crying in the Dark / King of Twilight
- Strawbs - Hero and Heroine

Unlisted Vimeo Link: https://vimeo.com/755696456/201e0e94e1

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Diamonds in the Rough (Vol. II) - Fan Favorites (Episode 8)

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Steve Hartke

More Nektar, more Nektar, more Nektar… etc, etc!!!

REP in NYC

Glimpse of Heaven was inspired by a village in Devon called Branscombe...really great live versions with electric guitar when the band reformed.

REP in NYC

Hero & Heroine was voted the 34th best prog album in Rolling Stone magazine a couple of years back. Live there is an extended instrumental in the middle...The theme draws on the Odyssey but may also refer to addiction. The ambiguity makes it work. Rick Wakeman has said that Cousins is the best rock lyricist.

Stop Propaganda

Great set of loss leaders! Back in '74 my sister took me to see Nektar at the Wildwood Convention Center when they were touring "Remember the Future", and they were fantastic and yes the projectionist doing the lights was a full major member of the band!

Anonymous

I'm so pleased that you've been introduced to Nektar, my 2nd favorite all-time band behind Pink Floyd. Right off the bat, I'm a little surprised that your notes didn't include the tidibt that King of Twilight has been covered by Iron Maiden. You might want to YouTube that version. Secondly, it was a little strange hearing you piece together Nektar's influences, such as Pink Floyd and ELP. Tab in the Ocean was released in 1972, so not only were they contemporaries of those other bands, those other bands had a different sound (at least in Floyd's case) in '72 than their subsequent releases (Darkside in '73) As a Nektar veteran, I just hear the sound of Nektar. Finally, if you decide to jump down the rabbit hole, you'll find that in Nektar's heyday (first 6 albums), every single one of their albums sound very much different than the others. Andrew mentioned the debut above, but Remember the Future is listed by many as their most popular with Tab, Recycled, Sounds Like This, and Down To Earth all worth exploring. Hope to see more Nektar on the channel in the future. Thank you for all you do, Doug!

Jim Reeves

Hero & Heroine was on the right track, should've continued into the next track. The rest was forgettable, derivative.

Ron Swirson

I sincerely hope that Doug reads his Patreon page as much as he does his Discord because I am not available when he has his Discord gatherings. Doug, Dave Cousins is a brilliant lyricist and poet, I'm so glad you caught it. His vocals and his lyrics are vastly underrated. If he just published his song lyrics they'd be well praised. I HAVE to find a way to have you hear 2 songs of Strawbs that he wrote and I'm 1000% certain will have you by the head and heart. The first is from the album called "Nonmadness" and is called "Hanging in the Gallery" it so poetically and brilliantly asks "is it the artist or the art that's hanging in the gallery" through several verses that touch on different art forms. The melody is just lovely as well and a song you'll want to share with friends. Lastly from the album "Ghosts" is "Grace Darling" it's the last song on that album. Doug, you said you love choral music well this has it all. Dave Cousins vocals and once again lyrics (see Wikipedia for more info on this particular song, you'll be interested in the backstory) will make you wonder why he as a lyricist alone isn't well known. On this one Doug you'll enjoy a gorgeous choir and a church pipe organ. PLEASE PLEASE I'M BEGGING YOU listen to these 2 songs with Megan. Personally Grace Darling is among the most beautifully grand, yet simple, songs musically & lyrically I've ever heard (sans strictly orchestral music)...PS: I don't care if you listen to them on your own but you have to hear them (they aren't long song).

MrWondrous David Beckwith

Today was hurricane day, so I couldn't listen as closely as I will when listening again. I enjoyed them all, and was particularly impressed with National Health's iconoclasm. But I am all about Strawbs, and the Hero & Heroine (concept) album...which was among my prize possessions in the early '70s. I have been known to listen to the songs "Autumn" and "Winter" a half dozen times most autumns. It is another beautiful love song by the writerly band. It is an album worth doing the whole thing...like, say, 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus by Spirit...which also flows song to song. Your added value made me appreciate it even more than I already do. I wasn't so aware of the poetic precision. And thanks for that first song of Strawbs...which was new to me, and one I will hear many many times. Hope Ian is a merciful to y'all as he was to us. We're clear now.

Peter Tutak

Whenever I hear the opening and choruses of "Hero and Heroine", I can't help hearing "Gaudete", the 16th century Christmas carol.

David Crossen

Squarer for Maud is surely one of the best tracks you have reviewed. More of so-called Canterbury bands please. The Rotter's Club by Hatfield and the North is a masterpiece. It should be a masterpiece Friday but, unfortunately, the method of up-voting on Discord is unlikely to result in it being chosen.

FallingLeaf
>>92726792

From Share It to Fitter Stoke Takes a Bath/It didn't Matter Anyway, with lots of jazzy noodling in between, The Rotter's Club would be a great MPF.

Arrow2theACL

They should have just Taste the biscuit. ROFLMAO.

Einaras Sipavičius

What a selection of songs. I'm really glad you've listened to Squarer For Maud. That's one of my favourites from Canterbury Scene. National Health had a short career, but their albums are very remarkable. Also The Tangent. I also don't understand how The Tangent isn't more known. Proxy is actually my favourite The Tangent album (even by far) and one of the top albums from 2010s. Two longer suites: the title track and especially The Adulthood Lie, are really worth hearing. And I am really interested by Strawbs after this session. I knew it is a folky/proggy classic band, I'm even familiar with their newest album Settlement, but I wasn't much of a fan. That folky Wakeman organ in A Glimpse of Heaven sounds fantastic. And I really enjoyed listening to Hero And Heroine. Definitely need to check their classic works.

Ray Sincere
>>92696259

"Grace Darling" is a song I like to break out on the bot late at night when I'm feeling sentimental. Yes, it is beautiful. And of course, as a church conductor, I've wondered how you would like "Benedictus".

Ray Sincere
>>92696431

"Autumn" is on the master list, and Autumn IS coming on. It would be an appropriate selection.

Ron Swirson
>>92696259

personally, I love Benedictus and its hymnal sound. The Grave New World album itself is great. When you have 2 songs like Benedictus and Grave New World on the same album you're going to have a variety of emotions as you listen to the entire album. In my opinion, you can't go wrong with any Strawbs album from Bursting at the Seams to Hero & Heroine. Much of the stuff before and after gets spotty like any band that's in its infancy or past its heyday. Time and music march on... PS; Strawbs was the first concert I ever saw when my parents felt I was old enough to attend. It was in 1976 (I was 16) at the Capitol Theater in Passaic NJ. I still have the ticket stub (I kept all my concert stubs) and it was simulcast on the radio (WNEW 102.7 FM NY) and one of my friends who has home taped it on cassette which I later put on a cd. What a wonderful thing to have and I cherish it. The opening song was SImple Visions and the encore was.......Lay Down. The opening band was Ambrosia when they were in their pop commercial phase.

Ray Sincere
>>92819600

I've enjoyed all of their albums from From the Witchwood through Nomadness. For me, their very best are Grave New World and Bursting at the Seams. On those albums, the band had finally arrived at progressive rock; and at that stage, you had not only Dave Cousins, whose songs and vocals are great, but also John Ford, with a different vocal style that gave the albums some nice variety, and Richard Hudson, the drummer who would sometimes get off the kit to play sitar while Ford played a percussive bass track. And on Grave New World, you have the additional soft vocal color of Tony Hooper. There are some prime cuts waiting for you.

Mats Holmberg

WOW, Moon Safari finally. YES, you need to talk to Simon Åkesson. He is a great musician and composer. Sings like a god. He is the second lead vocal, the one not sounding like REO Speedwagon. Also the oldest of the three Åkesson brothers. Pronounced Awe-keson. Get in contact with him and make an interview. And for god´s sake, include more MOON SAFARI!!!