In this episode I break down The Police's timeless hit song "Walking on the Moon" from the 1979 album 'Reggatta De Blanc'.

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Rick Beato
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The complete session recorded by The Police on 23 July 1979 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 30th of that month.

Tracklist:
1. Next To You (0:32)
2. Can't Stand Losing You (The Bit We Left Out) (3:15)
3. The Bed's Too Big Without You (5:42)
4. Message In A Bottle (10:55)

Songs from the Big Chair is the second studio album by the English band Tears for Fears, released on 25 February 1985 by Mercury Records, distributed by Phonogram Inc. A follow-up to the band's successful debut album, The Hurting (1983), Songs from the Big Chair was a significant departure from that album's dark, introspective synth-pop, featuring a more mainstream, guitar-based pop rock sound, sophisticated production values and diverse stylistic influences, while Roland Orzabal and Ian Stanley's lyrics displayed socially and politically conscious themes.

The album peaked at number two in the UK and at number one in the U.S., becoming a multi-platinum seller and the band's most successful studio album to date. The singles "Shout" and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" both topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and reached the top 5 of the UK Singles Chart, while "Head over Heels", "Mothers Talk" and a live version of "I Believe" were also successful internationally. Receiving positive critical reviews upon release, Songs from the Big Chair has accrued lasting praise and has been named one of the 1980s' best albums.

Tracklist:
0:01 Shout
6:33 The Working Hour
13:05 Everybody Wants To Rule The World
17:16 Mothers Talk
22:24 I Believe
27:16 Broken
29:56 Head Over Heels
34:51 Listen

Tears for Fears
Roland Orzabal – vocals, keyboards, guitars, synth bass (1), LinnDrum programming (1), grand piano (5)
Curt Smith – vocals, bass guitar, synth bass (3)
Ian Stanley – keyboards, LinnDrum programming, arrangements (8)
Manny Elias – drums (2-7), drum arrangement (2)

Additional personnel
"Shout": Chris Hughes – drums, Sandy McLelland – backing vocals
"The Working Hour": Andy Davis – grand piano, Mel Collins – saxophone, Will Gregory – saxophone solos, Jerry Marotta – percussion and saxophone arrangements
"Everybody Wants to Rule the World": Neil Taylor – second guitar solo, Chris Hughes – LinnDrum and MIDI programming
"Mothers Talk": Stevie Lange – backing vocals
"I Believe": Will Gregory – saxophone
"Broken": Neil Taylor – guitar solo
"Head Over Heels": Andy Davis – grand piano, Marilyn Davis – backing vocals, Annie McCaig – backing vocals, Sandy McLelland – backing vocals
"Listen": Marilyn Davis – operatic vocal
"The Big Chair": samples dialogue from the film Sybil (1976)

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In 55 BC, Rome had its sights set on Britain. Across two attempts, a huge invasion force led by one of the greatest miltary leaders in history, Julius Caesar, landed in Kent. Eventually he would break through and conquer the southern heart of the island.

It had not been an easy task. In his first attempt to conquer Britain, Caesar took with him only two legions, and achieved little beyond a landing on the coast of Kent. His force was heavily contested as soon as it landed on the beaches near Dover and had only managed to break inland through a combination of grit, determination and advanced military weapons and tactics.

Caesar's second invasion consisted of 628 ships, five legions and 2,000 cavalry. The force was so imposing that the Britons did not dare contest Caesar's landing in Kent, waiting instead until he began to move inland. Caesar's force penetrated into Middlesex and crossing the Thames, forcing the British warlord Cassivellaunus to surrender as a tributary to Rome.

Yet the great Caesar did not stay in Britain long. Instead, he returned to Rome in triumph, utilizing the success of his distant conquest to bolster his eventual dictatorship.

In this series, bushcraft and survival expert Ray Mears explores the surviving evidence we have of Caesar's invasions of Britain over 2000 years ago and then recounts the Claudian invasion of Britain in 43 AD and explores the ensuing Battle of the Medway in the lands of the Iron Age tribe of the Cantiaci. Featuring historians Dr Simon Elliot, Dr Steve Willis, Professor Matthias Strohn, and Roman reenactor David Richardson.

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+++ Some brilliant film editing here - Alex +++
Just goes to show you how much animation can change in 40 years. And how much dirtier and more violent cartoons were back then.

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The complete session recorded by The Damned on 20 December 1978 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on 8 January 1979. This recording is taken from the repeat on 28 May 1979.

Tracklist:
1. Love Song (0:35)
2. Melody Lee (3:36)
3. I'm A Burglar (6:27)
4. Looking At You (10:25)

The Damned are an English punk rock band formed in London in 1976 by lead vocalist Dave Vanian, guitarist Brian James, bassist (and later guitarist) Captain Sensible and drummer Rat Scabies. They were the first punk band from the United Kingdom to release a single, "New Rose" (1976), release a studio album, Damned Damned Damned (1977) and tour the United States. Nine of the band's singles charted on the UK Singles Chart Top 40.

Singles Going Steady is a compilation album by English punk rock band Buzzcocks, first released on I.R.S. Records in the United States on 25 September 1979.

Tracklist:
00:00 Orgasm Addict
02:02 What Do I Get?
04:56 I Don't Mind
07:15 Love You More
09:04 Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?)
11:45 Promises
14:21 Everybody's Happy Nowadays
17:32 Harmony in My Head
20:40 Whatever Happened To?
22:53 Oh Shit!
24:31 Autonomy
28:15 Noise Annoys
31:06 Just Lust
34:07 Lipstick
36:44 Why Can't I Touch It?
43:20 Something's Gone Wrong Again

Audio: 320 kbps 48.000 kHz

Buzzcocks
Pete Shelley – lead vocals, guitar
Steve Diggle – guitar, backing vocals, lead vocal on "Harmony in My Head"
Steve Garvey – bass guitar (except "Orgasm Addict" and "What Ever Happened To?")
John Maher – drums
Garth Smith – bass guitar on "Orgasm Addict" and "What Ever Happened To?"

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Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols is the only studio album by English punk rock band the Sex Pistols, released on 28 October 1977 through Virgin Records in the UK and on 11 November 1977 through Warner Bros. Records in the US. As a result of the Sex Pistols' volatile internal relationships, the band's lineup saw changes during the recording of the album. Original bass guitarist Glen Matlock left the band early in the recording process, and while he is credited as a co-writer on all but two of the tracks, he only played bass and sang backing vocals on one track, "Anarchy in the U.K." Recording sessions continued with a new bass player, Sid Vicious, who is credited on two of the songs written by the band after he joined. While Vicious's bass playing appeared on two tracks, his lack of skill on the instrument meant that many of the tracks were recorded with guitarist Steve Jones playing bass instead. Drummer Paul Cook, Jones and singer Johnny Rotten appear on every track. The various recording sessions were led alternately by Chris Thomas or Bill Price, and sometimes both together, but as the songs on the final albums often combined mixes from different sessions, or were poorly documented who was present in the recording booth at the time, each song is jointly credited to both producers.

The album has influenced many bands and musicians, and the industry in general. In particular, the album's raw energy, and Johnny Rotten's sneering delivery and "half-singing", are often considered game changing. It is frequently listed as the most influential punk album, and one of the greatest and most important albums of all time. In 1987, Rolling Stone magazine named the album the second best of the previous 20 years, behind only the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The same magazine ranked it 73rd on their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in 2020. In 2006, it was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest albums ever.

Tracklist
00:00 Holidays In The Sun
03:22 Bodies
06:25 No Feelings
09:16 Liar
11:58 God Save The Queen
15:18 Problems
19:30 Seventeen
21:33 Anarchy In The UK
25:05 Submission
29:18 Pretty Vacant
32:35 New York
35:40 E.M.I.

Audio: 320 kbps 48.000 kHz

Sex Pistols
Johnny Rotten – lead vocals
Steve Jones – guitar, bass on all tracks except for "Anarchy in the UK", backing vocals
Paul Cook – drums
Glen Matlock – bass and backing vocals on "Anarchy in the UK"
Sid Vicious – partial bass on "Bodies" and "God Save the Queen"

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All things must come to an end. But in the case of Looney Tunes and the studio that made them, it was not a dignified one.

Chapters:
00:00 The 60s: A Decade of Change
03:17 Opening
03:49 DePatie and Freleng Start an Enterprise
09:37 The DePatie-Freleng Era
22:17 The Looney Tunes Director Diaspora
25:52 More Tunes on TV
28:14 The Warner-Seven Arts Era
40:20 Bad Colorizations and Censorship
47:03 The Last of the Looney Tunes
52:32 Patreon Ad and Credits

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The complete session recorded by Bob Marley & The Wailers on 1 May 1973 for John Peel on the Top Gear show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 15th of that month. This recording is taken from the repeat on 14 July 1980.

Tracklist:
1. Concrete Jungle (0:25)
2. Rasta Man (4:34)
3. Slave Driver (8:29)

Bob Marley and the Wailers (previously known as the Wailers and prior to that the Wailing Rudeboys, the Wailing Wailers and the Teenagers) were a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae band. The founding members, in 1963, were Bob Marley (Robert Nesta Marley), Peter Tosh (Winston Hubert McIntosh), and Bunny Wailer (Neville Livingston).

The complete session recorded by Buzzcocks on 7 September 1977 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 19th of that month.

Tracklist:
1. Fast Cars (0:07)
2. Pulse Beat (2:23)
3. What Do I Get? (7:10)

Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band that singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto formed in Bolton in 1976. During their career, the band combined elements of punk rock, power pop, and pop punk.

Strange Days is the second studio album by the American rock band the Doors, released on September 25, 1967 by Elektra Records, arriving eight months after their self-titled debut album. After the latter's successful release, the band started experimenting with both new and old material in early 1967 for their second record. Upon release, Strange Days reached number three on the US Billboard 200, and eventually earned a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It contains two Top 30 hit singles, "People Are Strange" and "Love Me Two Times".

Despite the album's failure to match the success of its predecessor, it was "arguably the one the band itself most appreciated musically and creatively", according to author David V. Moskowitz. Music journalist Stephen Davis considers Strange Days the best Doors album and "one of the great artifacts of the rock movement.

Tracklist:
00:00 Strange Days
03:05 You're Lost Little Girl
06:04 Love Me Two Times
09:18 Unhappy Girl
11:14 Horse Latitudes
12:48 Moonlight Drive
15:50 People Are Strange
18:01 My Eyes Have Seen You
20:28 I Can't See Your Face In My Mind
23:50 When The Music's Over

Audio: 320 kbps 48.000 kHz

The Doors
Jim Morrison – vocals, moog synthesizer on "Strange Days"
Ray Manzarek – keyboards, marimba, harpsichord on "Love Me Two Times"
Robby Krieger – guitar
John Densmore – drums

Additional musicians
Doug Lubahn – bass guitar (except on "Unhappy Girl", "Horse Latitudes" and "When the Music's Over")
Paul Beaver – moog synthesizer programming on "Strange Days"

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Crisis? What Crisis? is the fourth album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in 1975. It was recorded in Los Angeles and London – Supertramp's first album to have recording done in the US.

Record Mirror included Crisis? What Crisis? on its end-of-year list for 1975, recognising the best albums of the year.

Tracklist:
00:00 - Easy Does It
02:19 - Sister Moonshine
07:34 - Ain't Nobody but Me
12:45 - A Soapbox Opera
17:38 - Another Man's Woman
23:55 - Lady
29:19 - Poor Boy
34:28 - Just a Normal Day
38:30 - The Meaning
43:54 - Two of Us

Supertramp
Rick Davies – lead and backing vocals, acoustic piano (tracks 3, 5, 7, 8), Wurlitzer piano (track 7), harmonica (track 2), organ (tracks 2, 3, 6, 10), harpsichord (tracks 4, 6, 10), synthesizers (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9)
Roger Hodgson – lead and backing vocals, electric guitar (tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9) 12-string guitar (tracks 1, 2, 9, 10), acoustic piano (track 4), Wurlitzer piano (track 6), flageolet (track 2), cello (track 7), pump organ (track 10), marimba (track 6), electric sitar (tracks 1, 2)
John Anthony Helliwell – saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet (tracks 7, 10), backing vocals (tracks 3, 6, 7, 10)
Dougie Thomson – bass guitar
Bob Siebenberg (credited as Bob C. Benberg) – drums, percussion

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Television rules a nation as Termite Terrace tries to play nice with the emerging medium. But try as they might to keep their heads above water, the studio will soon be pulled under thanks to a combination of ill-timed departures, broken contracts and Chuck Jones becoming too artsy for his own good.

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In this episode of What Makes This Song Great? we explore the music of Pink Floyd. The song is "Comfortably Numb" off Pink Floyd's 1979 release entitled "The Wall".

Source:
Rick Beato
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Once Upon a Time is the seventh studio album by Scottish rock band Simple Minds, released on 21 October 1985 by record label Virgin (A&M in the US), Once Upon a Time topped the UK charts, and peaked at No. 10 on the US charts, spending five consecutive weeks in the Top 10 of Billboard and 16 weeks in the Top 20.

Tracklist:
1. Once Upon a Time 0:00
2. All the Things She Said 5:47
3. Ghost Dancing 10:04
4. Alive and Kicking 14:48
5. Oh Jungleland 20:15
6. I Wish You Were Here 25:29
7. Sanctify Yourself 30:18
8. Come a Long Way 35:10

Simple Minds
Jim Kerr – vocals
Charlie Burchill – guitars
Michael MacNeil – piano, synthesizers
Mel Gaynor – drums, backing vocals
John Giblin – bass

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Fire of Unknown Origin is the eighth studio album by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released on June 22, 1981. It was produced by Martin Birch.

The album, which included the Top 40 hit "Burnin' for You" (#1 on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart), represented a resurgence of the group's commercial standing after two albums with disappointing sales. It became the band's highest-charting studio album on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 24. Fire of Unknown Origin would be the final studio LP featuring the band's original lineup; during the subsequent tour, the band fired original drummer Albert Bouchard.

Tracklist:
1.- Fire of Unknown Origin 0:00
2.- Burnin' For You 4:13
3.- Veteran of the Psychic Wars 8:47
4.- Sole Survivor 13:38
5.- Heavy Metal: The Black and Silver 17:47
6.- Vengeance (The Pact) 21:07
7.- After Dark 25:51
8.- Joan Crawford 30:19
9.- Don't Turn Your Back 35:14

Blue Öyster Cult
Eric Bloom – vocals, guitar, bass on track 5
Donald 'Buck Dharma' Roeser – lead guitar, vocals, percussion on track 3, bass and sound effects on track 8
Allen Lanier – keyboards
Joe Bouchard – bass, vocals
Albert Bouchard – drums, synthesizer, vocals, mixing (uncredited)

Additional musicians
Karla DeVito – background vocals on track 4
Sandy Jean – background vocals on track 9
Bill Civitella, Tony Cedrone – additional percussion on track 3
Jesse Levy – string arrangements on tracks 3 and 8

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We now enter the 1950s and take a look at how that decade was completely dominated by Chuck Jones and his hot streak of acclaimed and influential shorts. We'll also be talking about how the other directors fared in this period and how a short-lived fad ended up changing Termite Terrace forever.

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On Episode 22 of "What Makes This Song Great?" we explore the music of Van Halen.

Source:
Rick Beato
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+++ One of my favourite YouTube music educators. If you guys enjoy them, I plan to put up more of his videos...including interviews with rock musicians. - Alex +++

Richard John Beato (born April 24, 1962) is an American YouTube personality, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, and educator. Since the early 1980s, he has worked variously as a musician, songwriter, audio engineer, and record producer; he has lectured on music at several universities.
Beato owns and operates Black Dog Sound Studios in Stone Mountain, Georgia; he has produced for and worked with bands such as Needtobreathe, Parmalee, and Shinedown in the studio. He is known for his YouTube channel on which he covers different aspects of rock, jazz, blues, techno, rap, and popular music as well as interviews with well-known musicians and producers.

The complete session recorded by Syd Barrett on 24 February 1970 for John Peel on the Top Gear show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on 14 March 1970.

Tracklist:
1. Baby Lemonade (0:07)
2. Effervescing Elephant (2:37)
3. Gigolo Aunt (3:38)
4. Terrapin (7:19)
5. Two Of A Kind (10:23)

Two CD Anthology with all the Greatest of his Hits. Released in 1995.

Tracklist:
0:00 Heartbreak Hotel
2:11 My Baby Left Me
4:23 Tutti Frutti
6:23 Hound Dog
8:39 Don’t Be Cruel
10:42 Love Me Tender
13:25 All Shook Up
15:24 (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
17:12 One Night
19:44 Jailhouse Rock
22:13 Treat Me Nice
24:25 Don’t
27:15 Hard Headed Woman
29:10 Trouble
31:29 King Creole
33:39 A Big Hunk o’ Love
35:53 Stuck on You
38:14 Fever
41:47 It’s Now or Never
45:03 I Gotta Know
47:19 Are You Lonesome Tonight?
50:27 Wooden Heart
52:31 Flaming Star
54:58 Surrender
56:52 Can’t Help Falling in Love
59:53 Kiss Me Quick
1:02:41 His Latest Flame
1:04:50 Good Luck Charm
1:07:16 Return to Sender
1:09:25 (You’re the) Devil in Disguise
1:11:47 Viva Las Vegas
1:14:10 Love Letters
1:17:02 Guitar Man
1:19:08 In the Ghetto
1:21:55 Suspicious Minds
1:26:25 Don't Cry Daddy
1:29:15 The Wonder of You
1:31:51 You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
1:34:23 Burning Love
1:37:14 My Way

Audio: 320 kbps 48.000 kHz

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Naked is the eighth and final studio album by American rock band Talking Heads, released on March 15, 1988, by Sire Records. Following the more straightforward new wave and pop rock sound on Little Creatures (1985) and True Stories (1986), Naked marked a return to the worldbeat stylings of both Remain in Light (1980) and Speaking in Tongues (1983), blending elements of Afrobeat, Latin funk, and art pop. The album's songs were formed from improvisational jam sessions recorded in Paris, which featured the participation of numerous guest musicians such as former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr and singer Kirsty MacColl. Lyrics and vocals were then added in New York City following the Paris recordings.

Tracklist:
CD version
01. Blind 0:00
02. Mr. Jones 5:00
03. Totally Nude 9:21
04. Ruby Dear 13:31
05. (Nothing But) Flowers 17:19
06. The Democratic Circus 22:52
07. The Facts of Life 27:54
08. Mommy Daddy You and I 34:19
09. Big Daddy 38:16
10. Bill 43:53
11. Cool Water 47:14

Talking Heads
David Byrne – vocals, guitar, keyboards, toy piano, slide guitar
Chris Frantz – drums, keyboard percussion
Jerry Harrison – piano, keyboards, guitar, slide guitar, tambourine, backing vocals
Tina Weymouth – bass, keyboards, organ, backing vocals

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Leon Schlesinger has finally sold his studio and the new management now expects results from the four directors and units they inherited. Luckily for them, Termite Terrace is ready to meet those expectations with some of their best shorts and their best new cartoon stars.

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+++ Happy Canada Day 2024, with Canada's greatest rock band! - Alex +++
Chronicles is a double compilation album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1990.

Tracklist:
0:00 Finding My Way
5:08 Working Man
12:20 Fly By Night
15:41 Anthem
20:05 Bastille Day
24:44 Lakeside Park
28:54 2112 Overture/The Temples of Syrinx
35:42 What You're Doing (Live)
41:23 A Farewell to Kings
47:16 Closer to the Heart
50:11 The Trees
54:51 La Villa Strangiato
1:04:28 Freewill
1:09:53 The Spirit of Radio
1:14:50 Tom Sawyer
1:19:19 Red Barchetta
1:25:37 Limelight
1:29:59 A Passage to Bangkok (Live)
1:33:47 Subdivisions
1:39:20 New World Man
1:43:02 Distant Early Warning
1:48:02 Red Sector A
1:53:14 The Big Money
1:58:50 Manhattan Project
2:03:56 Force Ten
2:08:30 Time Stand Still
2:13:42 Mystic Rhythms (Live)
2:19:26 Show Don't Tell

Audio: 320 kbps 44,100 kHz

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The Doors is the debut studio album by American rock band the Doors, released on January 4, 1967, by Elektra Records. It was recorded in August 1966 at Sunset Sound Recorders, in Hollywood, California, under the production of Paul A. Rothchild. The album features the extended version of the band's breakthrough single "Light My Fire" and the lengthy closer "The End" with its Oedipal spoken word section. Various publications, including BBC and Rolling Stone, have ranked The Doors as one of the greatest debut albums of all time.

Tracklist:
00:00 Break On Through (To The Other Side)
02:25 Soul Kitchen
05:59 The Crystal Ship
08:31 Twentieth Century Fox
11:03 Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
14:20 Light My Fire
21:26 Back Door Man
24:59 I Looked At You
27:20 End Of The Night
30:11 Take It As It Comes
32:26 The End

Audio: 320 kbps 48,000 kHz

The Doors
Jim Morrison – vocals
Ray Manzarek – organ, piano, bass; backing vocals and marxophone on "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)"
Robby Krieger – guitar; bass guitar on "Soul Kitchen" and "Back Door Man"; backing vocals on "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)"
John Densmore – drums, backing vocals on "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)"

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