Stonehenge Playlist 08-19-2011

This week's Classic Rock Album was Van der Graaf Generator's masterful third LP, 'H to He Who am the Only One'.

"H To He" = Hydrogen to Helium = Nuclear Fusion.

Here's some great French footage of the band in Paris in 1972 playing the opening track from that LP, 'Killer':

Artist - Album -- Song

• Groundhogs - Thank Christ For the Bomb -- Soldier
• Traffic - Mr. Fantasy -- Coloured Rain
• Funkadelic - Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow -- I Wanna Know If It's Good to You?
• Gong - Angel's Egg -- I Never Glid Before
• Can - Ege Bamyasi -- One More Night
• The Stooges - Funhouse -- Down on the Street
• Vanilla Fudge - Rock & Roll -- Need Love
• Cream - Wheels of Fire -- Sitting on Top of the World
• String Driven Thing - The Machine That Cried -- The Machine That Cried
• Focus - Focus 3 -- Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!
• Joe Walsh - Barnstorm -- Turn to Stone
• Lou Reed - Transformer -- Vicious
• Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath vol. 4 -- FX
• Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath vol. 4 -- Supernaut
• King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black -- Starless and Bible Black
• Uriah Heep - Sweet Freedom -- Pilgrim
• Jimi Hendrix - First Rays of the New Rising Sun -- Drifting
• Quicksilver Messenger Service - Just for Love -- Fresh Air
• Budgie - Budgie -- All Night Petrol
• Deep Purple - Deep Purple -- Fault Line/The Painter
• Arthur Brown - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown -- Spontaneous Apple Creation
• Jethro Tull - A Passion Play -- A Passion Play (Part 1)
• The Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of the Mind -- Surrender to Your Kings
• Sly & the Family Stone - Dance to the Music -- Don't Burn Baby
• Small Faces - Small Faces -- I Feel Much Better
• The 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators -- Fire Engine
• Pink Floyd - 1967: The First Three Singles -- Arnold Layne
• Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation -- Genesis
• Silver Apples - Contact -- Gypsy Love
• The Soft Machine - The Soft Machine -- Why Are We Sleeping?
• The Move - Shazam -- Wild Tiger Woman

Stonehenge Playlist 08-12-2011

This week's classic album was celebrating its 40th Birthday: the Who's furious and bombastic LP 'Who's Next', borne of the unrealised 'Lifehouse' rock-opera project abandoned by Pete Townshend following a nervous breakdown. Whilst we can mourn the fact that Lifehouse went unfinished, we can celebrate this amazing LP, which is one of their very best. Here is is a fantastic live version of 'Love Ain't for Keeping', performed at a special concert from 1971 at the Young Vic theatre in London, where the Who tried out some of the Lifehouse songs for the first time.

Artist - Album -- Song

• Pete Townshend - Who Came First -- Pure and Easy
• Iron Butterfly - Metamorphosis -- Free Flight
• Iron Butterfly - Metamorphosis -- New Day
• Captain Beyond - Sufficiently Breathless -- Starglow Energy
• Canned Heat - Future Blues -- So Sad (The World's in a Tangle)
• Hot Tuna - America's Choice -- Funky #7
• Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards -- Easy Livin'
• Love - Forever Changes -- Alone Again Or
• Love - Forever Changes -- A House Is Not a Motel
• The Illusion - If It's So -- Man
• The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday -- Everybody's Been Burned
• Raven - Raven -- Let's Eat
• Keef Hartley Band - The Battle of North West Six -- Don't Be Afraid
• Vanilla Fudge - Renaissance -- The Sky Cried/When I Was a Boy
• Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire -- Birds of Fire
• The Flock - The Flock -- Clown
• Billy Cobham - Crosswinds -- Crosswind
• Jeff Beck - Wired -- Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
• Return to Forever - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy -- Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
• Golden Earring - Moontan -- Big Tree, Blue Sea
• Blue Öyster Cult - On Your Feet Or on Your Knees -- Subhuman
• The Nice - Everything as Nice as Mother Makes It -- She Belongs to Me
• Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' -- The Ballad of Hollis Brown
• David Bowie - David Live -- 1984
• David Bowie - David Live -- Rebel Rebel
• Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway -- The Colony of Slippermen
• Amazing Blondel - Blondel -- Weaver's Market
• Caravan - Caravan & the New Symphonia -- For Richard
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer -- Knife-Edge
• Roger Daltrey - Daltrey -- It's a Hard Life
• Roger Daltrey - Daltrey -- Giving It All Away

Stonehenge Playlist 08-05-2011

This weeks Classic Rock Album was the third solo LP from Robin Trower - 'For Earth Below' from 1975. Nuff said! Here's a cracking Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC) performance of Alathea from the same year:

Artist - Album - Song

• Aardvark - Aardvark -- Copper Sunset
• Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste -- The House, the Street, the Room
• Aunt Mary - Janus -- Nocturnal Voice
• Bloodrock - Bloodrock 3 -- Breach of Lease
• The Kinks - Something Else by the Kinks -- Love Me till the Sun Shines
• Quatermass - Quatermass -- Make Up Your Mind
• Ten Years After - Rock & Roll Music to the World -- Standing at the Station
• Lucifer's Friend - Banquet -- Spanish Galleon
• Kingdom Come - Journey -- Time Captives
• King Crimson - Islands -- Ladies of the Road
• Love - Out There -- Love Is More than Words (Or Better Late than Never)
• Jeff Beck - Truth -- Shapes of Things
• Muddy Waters - Electric Mud -- Herbert Harper's Free Press News
• Randy California - Kapt. Kopter and the (Fabulous) Twirly Birds -- Day Tripper
• Funkadelic - Maggot Brain -- Super Stupid
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love -- Ain't No Telling
• Sam Gopal - Escalator -- Season of the Witch
• Skip Bifferty - Skip Bifferty -- Guru
• The Creation - We Are Paintermen -- Biff Bang Pow
• Todd Rundgren's Utopia - Todd Rundgren's Utopia -- Utopia Theme
• Wishbone Ash - Wishbone Four -- The Ballad of the Beacon
• Shuttah - The Image Maker vol. 1 & 2 -- The Wizard
• Stray - Saturday Morning Pictures -- After the Storm
• Aphrodite's Child - 666 -- Aegean Sea
• T. Rex - The Slider -- Buick Mackane
• Faces - A Nod Is as Good as a Wink... to a Blind Horse -- Too Bad
• Terry Reid - Super Lungs: The Complete Studio Recordings 1966-1969 -- I've Got News For You
• The Doors - L.A. Woman -- The Changeling
• The Freak Scene - Psychedelic Psoul -- The Subway Ride Thru Inner Space
• John Cale and Terry Riley - Church of Anthrax -- Church of Anthrax
• The Monkees - Head -- Long Title: Do I Have To Do This All Over Again
• Grand Funk Railroad - Grand Funk -- Paranoid
• Ten Wheel Drive - Brief Replies -- Pulse

Stonehenge Playlist 07-29-2011

This week's Classic Rock Album (a full LP played to begin the show at 8pm every week for more than 30 years) was the self-titled debut LP from 'It's a Beautiful Day', released in 1969. Here's the band performing their (nearly hot 100) hit 'White Bird' live. Sadly, Patti Santos, their female vocalist from 1967 - 1974, died in a car crash in 1989, so we dedicate this CRA to her.



Artist - Album -- Song

• The Orkustra - Adventures in Experimental Electric Orchestra from the San Francisco Psychedelic Underground -- Flash Gordon
• Frankie Miller - Once in a Blue Moon -- In No Resistance
• Alex Taylor - With Friends and Neighbors -- It's All Over Now
• Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends -- Bye Bye Blackbird
• The Youngbloods - Elephant Mountain -- Darkness, Darkness
• McKendree Spring - McKendree Spring 3 -- Down by the River
• Neil Young - Harvest -- Words (Between the Lines of Age)
• Dino Valenti - Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965 - 1970 -- Let's Get Together
• Donovan - Sunshine Superman -- Fat Angel
• Jefferson Airplane - Bless It's Pointed Little Head -- The Other Side of This Life
• The J. Geils Band - The J. Geils Band -- Hard Drivin' Man
• Cactus - Cactus -- You Can't Judge A Book by the Cover
• Odin - Odin -- Be the Man You Are
• Mountain - Climbing! -- Theme for an Imaginary Western
• Jo Jo Gunne - Jo Jo Gunne -- Shake That Fat
• Family - Family Entertainment -- The Weaver's Answer
• Stray Dog - While You're Down There -- Worldwinds
• Queen - A Night at the Opera -- Death on Two Legs (Dedicated To...)
• Birth Control - Hoodoo Man -- Buy
• Pablo Cruise - Lifeline -- Zero to Sixty in Five
• April Wine - Electric Jewels -- Weeping Widow
• Cat Mother and the All-Night Newsboys - Albion Doo-wah... -- Riff Raff
• Alice Cooper - School's Out -- Public Animal #9
• The Electric Flag - A Long Time Comin' -- Another Country
• The Electric Flag - A Long Time Comin' -- Easy Rider
• Free - Free -- Sugar for Mr. Morrison
• Gary Moore - Back on the Streets -- Flight of the Snow Moose
• Leon Russell - Carney -- Magic Mirror
• The Who - Tommy -- Do You Think It's Alright?
• The Who - Tommy -- Fiddle About
• The Who - Tommy -- Pinball Wizard
• The Who - Tommy -- There's a Doctor
• The Who - Tommy -- Go to the Mirror!
• The Who - Tommy -- Tommy Can You Hear Me?
• The Who - Tommy -- Smash the Mirror
• The Who - Tommy -- Sensation
• The Mr. Albert Show - Warm Motor -- Did You Really Find Somebody
• America - Hat Trick -- Green Monkey
• Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman -- Tea for the Tillerman
• Amon Düül II - Tanz Der Lemminge -- A Short Stop at the Transylvanian Brain-Surgery
• The Pink Fairies - Never Never Land -- Say You Love Me