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Why Tho? A Personal Journey Through my Record Collection

Episode 11: History: America's Greatest Hits, by America

Season 1, Ep. 11

In this exciting episode Di and I talk about America. America is a colloquial name for the western hemisphere of the planet Earth, which is itself the third rocky planet in the Sol system. It was named for Italian map maker Amerigo Vespucci over the course of the sixteenth century due to oh wait I did it again.


Album:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrpyDacBCh7ASZSffA8SyYnoYb4Cjp4_1


Last Unicorn, just the whole movie:

https://youtu.be/Enq2pFpBz1s


Their Synthpop Album (Its sounds like a dentist waiting room):

https://youtu.be/9Ap9wWf9x8s


The Weird Indie thing, check out track 4 to hear the Nada Surf cover:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUE1pmSJDwNscyh3jRPTnpAz7kou9qDy-


Making of Here and Now, a love fest:

https://youtu.be/o2ho9iNIkK8


Geography Bands:

Boston - https://youtu.be/t4QK8RxCAwo

Kansas, I swore this was Rush - https://youtu.be/P5ZJui3aPoQ

Chicago - https://youtu.be/1A0MPWseJIE


Other Prog Rock

In A Gadda Da Vida, just the drum solo - https://youtu.be/lSttPLaTx_M

Sigh pink floyd - https://youtu.be/-0kcet4aPpQ

Rush - https://youtu.be/auLBLk4ibAk

Styx - https://youtu.be/uc6f_2nPSX8

An entire album about LOTR - https://youtu.be/mn4kXg-Oqks


Things being made at roughly the same time as all this Prog Rock:

13nth Floor Elevators - https://youtu.be/YIVpHNEPzDM

MC5 - https://youtu.be/yvJGQ_piwI0

Sweet - https://youtu.be/7lTwA5xMeTM

Ramones - https://youtu.be/268C3N2dDYk

New York Dolls - https://youtu.be/Ctg5FCS1wCM

Velvet Underground and Nico - https://youtu.be/nfAK-IAlcsY

Lou Reed - https://youtu.be/RsVLIiI8Vfo


Punk Palate Cleanser -https://youtu.be/hHnf8_bPW4Q


That one Vertical Horizon Song - https://youtu.be/U8s_q3IaglQ


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