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Over the past twenty years music education has disappeared from our schools. This becomes obvious when listening to new music on the radio only to hear music that is unoriginal or even bad. Most of today's so called artists do not write their own music or even play their own instruments.
So in the spirit of teaching you everything we can, this page features an Album of the Week. These are not ordinary albums in the history of music. These are the groundbreaking pieces of music that truly shaped how music was presented, recorded, and how it influenced other musicians and the public.
A few notes about the choices. They are albums and not collections of single songs thrown together willy-nilly. They were meant to be played in order. They often told a story or set a mood. Some of them defined a genre and some defined a generation. I strongly recommend that you ask your Parents/Grandparents to dig through their record collections and find their old copies of these and put them on the turntable and experience them the way they were meant to be experienced.
Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce as Cream were the super Trio that every rock band wanted to be. Queen has regularly pointed to them as a major influence in their sound. ZZ Top also cite them as a major influence. They were short lived only lasting two years or so but what they accomplished was amazing and can never be matched.
They had an amazing set of three albums but I have to pick their second album Disreali Gears to best represent them. The name was taken from a famous British Prime Minister, not as an Homage, but a mispronunciation. Eric Clapton was thinking of buying a racing bicycle and instead of saying derailleur gears he said Disraeli and Ginger Baker loved the name so it stuck.
This album produced what may be the single best example of a short and to the point rock and roll song, Sunshine of Your Love. Ginger was the subject of a pretty amazing Netflix documentary a few years back called “Beware Mr. Baker” that you may enjoy. Take a listen and enjoy Disreali gears. It holds up really well over 50 years after its release.
Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce as Cream were the super Trio that every rock band wanted to be. Queen has regularly pointed to them as a major influence in their sound. ZZ Top also cite them as a major influence. They were short lived only lasting two years or so but what they accomplished was amazing and can never be matched.
They had an amazing set of three albums but I have to pick their second album Disreali Gears to best represent them. The name was taken from a famous British Prime Minister, not as an Homage, but a mispronunciation. Eric Clapton was thinking of buying a racing bicycle and instead of saying derailleur gears he said Disraeli and Ginger Baker loved the name so it stuck.
This album produced what may be the single best example of a short and to the point rock and roll song, Sunshine of Your Love. Ginger was the subject of a pretty amazing Netflix documentary a few years back called “Beware Mr. Baker” that you may enjoy. Take a listen and enjoy Disreali gears. It holds up really well over 50 years after its release.