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Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per un Amico

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McLatchey's Second Tier

I first heard PFM when I was 17 and a friend sold me a copy of The World Become the World for 50 cents. I liked it but wasn't really drawn...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2015-08-27)

Michael Stearns - Morning Jewel

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McLatchey's Second Tier

While ambient electronic music came to prominence starting in the mid 80s and came to something of a peak in the late 90s and early 00s, there were...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2015-08-20)

Eccentric Orbit - Attack of the Martians

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Eccentric Orbit announce their intentions right out of the gate. Their debut album begins with some big Mellotron chords, then a theme on organ leads into a section where Mellotron chords are...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2015-08-07)

Moving right along...

For several months now, we've been publishing a review by Mike McLatchey every Thursday, our version of #TBT (Throwback Thursday). The albums covered have represented his "Top Tier" most favorite recordings of all time. Starting today, we're moving along to his "Second Tier": albums that are worthy of being remembered, but don't quite fit into the highest echelon. The distinction, he admits, is a fine one. "There's really not much more than an arbitrary difference from the first group in quality, all of these are classics."  » Read more
(Posted by Jon Davis 2015-08-06)

Gracious! - Gracious!

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McLatchey's Second Tier

When most of the big name progressive rock acts were barely out of their pajamas, this Vertigo band was already leaping forward from the influences of...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2015-08-06)

Edgar Froese - Aqua

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McLatchey's Top Tier #9

I first heard the first solo album by Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese when I was in high school, in fact back then we had created "carts"...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2015-07-23)

Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties

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McLatchey's Top Tier #4

If you track BOC back to their early days you can see their strong SF Bay Area roots, but by this point in their career all of the influences from those...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2015-07-09)

Cream - Live at Grande Ballroom, Oct. '67

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McLatchey's Top Tier #32

I'm fortunate that almost everything I'd put in my top tier (my favorites of my favorites of my favorites) is commercially available, but...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2015-07-02)

Alan Jenkins & The Thurston Lava Tube - Free Surf #1 & #2

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The idea of “experimental surf music” might seem odd, even contradictory, at first thought, but a little consideration should revise that assessment. A lot of the famous surf tunes of...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2015-06-27)

Robert Rich - Trances / Drones

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McLatchey's Top Tier #21

I'm not sure there's any musician alive who has a discography as long and deep as Robert Rich, and as I continue to make posts there's going to be quite a...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2015-06-18)

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