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Primarily, but not exclusively, Progressive Rock. Promoting new progressive bands and albums whilst also celebrating music from the classic era.

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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
9 months
Happy birthday Geddy 👍
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
1 year
Absolutely heartbroken … Rest easy fella 💔
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5 months
Goodnight all …
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4 months
Now playing … Released 47 years ago today, completing what I regard as the greatest successive three album run ever. Animals captures a cohesive (soon to be divided) Floyd at their musical peak and lyricist Roger Waters at his most vicious and direct. Timeless and relevant.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
6 months
Now playing … Possibly the best album ever recorded.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
Tonight’s listening … Ahead of Macca’s headlining performance at Glastonbury tomorrow, without a shadow of a doubt the greatest Greatest Hits collection ever. Beatles haters need not reply.
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4 months
“ Confusion will be my epitaph As I crawl, a cracked and broken path If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying … ” Undoubtedly one of the most important recordings of my generation.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
Led Zeppelin, moments before going on stage at the Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert at the O2 Arena in December 2007.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
6 months
Now playing … Approaching 50 years and IMHO still the best concept album of them all .
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
7 months
Last up tonight … 50 years ago yesterday one of the most enduring albums in the history of prog rock was released. I wonder if those five 23 year olds realised that their music would still be revered half a century later.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
1 year
Now playing … For me, recorded at a time when Genesis ruled the world.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
1 year
Happy 77th birthday to Dave Gilmour.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
9 months
Home alone this evening. Time for a curry and some pretentious garbage …
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
11 months
Now playing … A very strong candidate for my favourite album. Ever. My favourite bit? The lyrics to Los Endos, which echo those that conclude Supper’s Ready and provide the perfect bridge between the two line-ups. Eight perfect tracks (waits for all those RA+B haters…)
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
1 year
Now playing. Not bad for five guys with an average age of 21 …
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
Now playing … A true gem.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
Now playing … So sad to hear about Alan White. He played drums and percussion on my favourite track of all time - the most perfect song ever recorded IMHO - and for that he’ll always be remembered … Rest easy fella and thanks for the music 🎶 🎵 #awaken
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
Tonight’s listening Four albums I couldn’t do without …
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
1 year
This afternoon’s listening …
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
3 months
“ Can you tell me where my country lies …? ”
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
1 year
Happy 50th birthday to quite simply the greatest album ever recorded. I first heard it a few days after it’s release at a friend’s house, played on his father’s hifi with speakers filling the cavities between the chimney breast. Time came on and I was hooked …
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
9 months
Now playing …
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
1 year
Now playing … 47 years ago today Genesis released what I believe to their finest album. Confronted with the loss of their charismatic frontman and consequently written off by the music press, the remaining members responded by producing an enduring and endearing masterpiece.
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Now playing … 46 years old yesterday but sounding just as fresh now as it did back then.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
Pre-dinner tunes. Critics wrote them off and this was their response. Sheer perfection.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
4 months
“ Speak to me of summer Long winters longer than time can remember … ” A quite magnificent album.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
7 months
Last up tonight … For me, and I guess for many, their last truly monumental album.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
6 months
This morning’s listening .. Winding the clock back 50 years to 1973.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
Tonight’s listening … 1971: a vintage year for music.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
6 months
Now playing …
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Now playing …
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Now playing …
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
9 months
Now playing … Arguably my favourite album of all time. Easily the band’s greatest achievement, given the circumstances and enormous pressure under which it was recorded. The songwriting, the musicianship, Colin Elgie’s artwork and Phil’s vocals are all completely flawless.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
Tonight’s listening … Forward into the past and tonight it’s 1973 … yet another solid gold year for progressive rock.
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2 years
Now playing …
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
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Now playing … My favourite live album right from the first time I heard it back as 16 year old.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
1 year
Morning all …
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
1 year
Now playing … my favourite Yes album. Upbeat throughout, the return of Rick Wakeman and … Awaken, for me quite simply the best track ever recorded. By anyone. Ever. An absolute dream and for me their last venture into greatness.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
3 months
Pre-dinner tunes … “A man conceived a moment's answers to the dream…” Second only to the mighty Awaken.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
Sad news … A hugely distinctive voice, and undoubtedly one of the grand-fathers of progressive rock. Rest easy fella
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
Now playing … To my ears, quite simply the greatest live album ever. Nothing gets remotely close.
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1 year
Home alone tonight, so burnt pizza and …
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Now playing …
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2 years
Timeless …
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
3 months
Last up tonight … Released 48 years ago today. Imagine having to follow Trespass, Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England and The Lamb: minus your charismatic lead singer. This is why I regard this as the band’s greatest achievement.
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Now playing …
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
10 months
Pre-dinner tunes. My favourite live album of all time and one on which for me (perhaps somewhat controversially if you prefer the PG era) every track is the definitive version. Firth of Firth, Supper’s Ready and The Cinema Show showcase a band at their peak.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
1 year
To hit these heights just once in a lifetime must be every musician’s dream. Genesis did it at least held a dozen times
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
1 year
Very sad news So glad I got to see him play live last year. He really was something else. Rest easy Jeff
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
The irreplaceable Chris Squire. For me, simply the greatest bass player ever.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
Why bother to choose when you can listen to both?
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
8 months
Now playing … IMHO one of the finest albums ever recorded.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
1 year
Some albums I simply never tire of playing …
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
Tonight’s listening … one of my most precious possessions. Released 45 years ago today and for me, quite simply the best live recording ever released: nothing gets remotely close. My only criticism is that it could and should have been a triple album.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
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Now playing …
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2 years
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
Tonight’s listening … Fast forward to 1974.
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Now playing …
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Morning all …
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
“Hello mate … what kept you?”
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Now playing ..
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Now playing …
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Tonight’s listening …
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
6 months
Just watched the short documentary for the forthcoming, and final Beatles single Now and Then with a lump in my throat. IMHO the most important band of my generation I’m sure I’ll get a fair few replies (as usual) stating how grossly overrated they were. Don’t waste your time.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
4 months
Now playing … “ They say the lights are always bright on Broadway. They say there's always magic in the air”
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
9 months
ELP … progressive rock at its finest.
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6 months
Last up tonight … 52 years old today and for me, their best* with Gabriel at the helm. The average age of the band at the time was a ridiculously young 21. * cue replies saying I’m wrong and it was in fact Selling England By The Pound.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
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Happy 72nd birthday to @itspetergabriel The albums he made with Genesis - and indeed his early solo albums - were amongst the best that progressive rock has.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
Why bother to choose when you can listen to both?
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Now playing …
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Now playing … For me, the best Gabriel era Genesis album* *Yes, including Selling England By The Pound
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Now playing … 46 years old today. Still reeling from the recent departure of Steve Hackett, I didn’t want to like it. But I did.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
6 months
Morning all …
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Tonight’s classics …
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Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins and early ‘70s Genesis tour manager Richard Macphail photographed recently at the O2 Arena in London. - photo courtesy of Maggie Cole.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
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Morning all …
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1 year
3am in the UK. Trouble sleeping, so …
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9 months
Back to 1974 this afternoon …
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
6 months
Now playing … Still reeling from the departure of Steve Hackett and their strange - and for me, musically fatal - decision not to replace him with another innovative guitarist, this was an album I didn’t want to like. But I did.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
3 years
Happy Xmas everyone
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
5 months
RIP Denny Laine
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Now playing … I’ve listened to it so many times over the past 50 years that I know all the lyrics off by heart.
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Phil (Primarily_Prog)
2 years
Pre-dinner tunes … For me, one of the greatest feats of recording ever.
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1 year
Now playing … Every track an absolute gem (all killers, no fillers) with the distinctive and very different songwriting and singing of Hodgson and Davies combining to make this (for me, anyway) one of the very best albums of the ‘70s.
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Now playing … A favourite since the day I first heard it, still reeling from the departure of Steve Hackett. For me, pretty much every track on here is the definitive version, not least the phenomenal Cinema Show. An 11/10 album if ever I’ve heard one.
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Now playing … IMHO the best live album ever. One of the few albums I remember buying. I recall it was released on a Friday, which meant a rush home from work to get to my local record shop, Miltons in Bristol. I arrived too late and had to wait until Saturday morning. Gutted.
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“ Tell me my life is about to begin Tell me that I am a hero … ” 53 years old today.
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