Face The Music: An Electric Light Orchestra Song-by-song Podcast

It's two reviews in one!

Frying lemon pepper salmon in butter while snacking on crackers, and a cat barfing in his food bowl. Recorded: February 23, 2025 5 PM

It's songs about the 1st of December! Donate to the podcast through PayPal eloftmpodcast@gmail.com Or subscribe to my comic strip at patreon.com/LNTCS

After releasing one of the most influential albums in history Pink Floyd found itself without its guiding light, Syd Barrett. With new guitarist David Gilmour, the band was tasked with recording a follow-up to The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. In 1968 they released A Saucerful of Secrets which, though it was largely made without Barrett's involvement, so continued in the spirit of what he had started. 

The top 40 songs from this week in 1959.

The words of Erics fill the air.

Eric's rant against kids, a report from Radiotrola-con 2011, and Point/Katerpoint. It's the first good Radiotrola Program! Donate to the podcast through PayPal eloftmpodcast@gmail.com Or subscribe to my comic strip at patreon.com/LNTCS

Vincent Price and his army of fembots try to take over the world.

People will believe anything. ANY-THING! Talk back to us at 623-850-3375 Donate to the podcast through PayPal eloftmpodcast@gmail.com P.O. Box 1932 Superior, AZ 85173.

Olde timey songs about Spring.

Although it was a parody of progressive rock (Ian Anderson wasn't too happy about Aqualung being lumped in with such,) Thick As a Brick reached number one on the Billboard 200 despite the fact the album was one song that took up two sides of the record. Efforts to do a follow-up at the Château d'Hérouville in rural France proved fruitless, being renamed by Anderson and crew "Château d'Isaster" and the entire album they had planned abandoned. Returning to the UK they quickly recorded A Passion Play. What was supposed to be a concept album of mini-suites following a man's journey through the afterlife was released, like Thick As a Brick, as one complete work.  While it again reached the top of the charts it was hated by critics and the band itself, although it has developed a following over the years.

The top 40 songs from this week in 1959.

Bev Bevan smelt it, we dealt with it. Donate to the podcast through Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/ELOPod Or PayPal eloftmpodcast@gmail.com P.O. Box 1932 Superior, AZ 85173.

Eric rages against the heat, and old people picking bread. Plus, like Scrooge, he learns the error of his ways, and changes.

The weakest Marx Brothers movies!

It's a new podcast series creating avant garde art with sound. Or in the case of the premiere episode...no sound.

A day late, and a beer short, but here are olde timey St. Patrick's Day songs.

Alan Parsons cut his teeth as an assistant on the Beatles' Abby Road, and by 1973 he was the main engineer for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. Producing was the next step and, in 1975, the Scottish band Pilot had a top five it with the song "Magic". Parsons joined with songwriter and keyboardist Eric Woolfson and arranger Andrew Powell and, with Pilot and a number of session musicians vocalist, produced Tales of Mystery and Imagination in 1976. What was originally a one-off collaboration began a full studio band, stripped down for their first hit album I Robot and even further for the third album, Pyramid. Though pretty much an overlooked album in Parsons's catalogue, it features excellent songwriting by Eric Woolfson and the first vocal performances of bassist David Paton and former Zombies vocalist Colin Blunstone on one of the Project's records.

The Top 40 songs this week in 1959.

The Minister meets the Paperback Writer in this Move track. Donate to the podcast through Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/ELOPod Or PayPal eloftmpodcast@gmail.com P.O. Box 1932 Superior, AZ 85173.