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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

McLatchey's Second Tier

My friend Charles says it would have been Coltrane's 89th birthday today, which also made me muse a bit on how McCoy Tyner still seems indefatigable...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2015-09-23)

Circus - Movin' On

McLatchey's Second Tier

This sophomore album by this obscure Swiss band is a bit of a deep dive. It was given a CD release back in the 90s on Decoder and I swear it was barely...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2015-09-10)

Premiata Forneria Marconi - Per un Amico

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

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

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)

Gracious! - Gracious!

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)

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)

Edgar Froese - Aqua

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

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)