Friday, August 26, 2011

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

Thursday, August 18, 2011

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

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

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