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Monday Links from the Bench vol. DXVIII

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    #11
    Originally posted by cojak View Post
    Well, I must admit.

    I don't own a single album on that list.
    In a quick scan I counted 16*. There are at least 7 I've got on two different formats. I have also owned a couple of Wishbone Ash albums in the past () but I can't recognise them on that list.

    *Edit: For the curious, they're all Floyd, Genesis, or Gabriel.
    Last edited by Mordac; 2 December 2019, 23:57.
    His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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      #12
      Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
      The halcyon days when the BBC’s main science programme was watched by musicians who were then inspired to write songs about what they’d seen: Horizon - BBC Two England - 6 May 1974 - BBC Genome
      The halcyon days when I used to watch it and it was still worth watching.

      Long long ago and far far away, they did things differently then.

      Though I find it odd to think of Calvert or Brock or both watching Horizon.
      Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 2 December 2019, 23:52.
      When the fun stops, STOP.

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        #13
        Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
        The halcyon days when I used to watch it and it was still worth watching.

        Long long ago and far far away, they did things differently then.
        Indeed. When I was searching for that episode on the BBC Genome site, it was disheartening to read through the programme summaries from 1968 through the 1970s and reflect on how good it used to be, and how lacking TV is in science programmes of that quality nowadays

        Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
        Though I find it odd to think of Calvert or Brock or both watching Horizon.
        Not much stranger than one or both of them reading Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf, which is quoted wholesale in the eponymous track on Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music. Though Timothy Leary recommended Hesse's novels in his writings, so maybe that’s how they found it

        But I’m sure Michael Moorcock was an avid Horizon viewer; perhaps he got them into it

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          #14
          The 3D representation of the Runway Palette is "interesting" - especially the groupings.
          Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.

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            #15
            Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
            Indeed. When I was searching for that episode on the BBC Genome site, it was disheartening to read through the programme summaries from 1968 through the 1970s and reflect on how good it used to be, and how lacking TV is in science programmes of that quality nowadays



            Not much stranger than one or both of them reading Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf, which is quoted wholesale in the eponymous track on Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music. Though Timothy Leary recommended Hesse's novels in his writings, so maybe that’s how they found it

            But I’m sure Michael Moorcock was an avid Horizon viewer; perhaps he got them into it
            One or other of them was into Roger Zelazny's oevre with "Jack of Shadows", "Damnation Alley" etc.
            When the fun stops, STOP.

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