Hello and welcome to Morganchem, the home of all things NErDy at Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School and the official web presence of Michael Morgan.
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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.
In 1981 when I was a high school student there were many different social groups, not at all unlike today, that existed on campus. Typically I most identified with the outcasts, definitely not with the popular kids. These outcasts were not afraid to tell you what they thought or what they enjoyed musically. They also tended to be a little better read and quite a bit more intelligent than the popular kids. Progressive rock was a favorite of many of them especially when playing Dungeons and Dragons and other similar endeavors. Rush entered into this picture with great force! The album Moving Pictures broke onto the airwaves of the radio in a major way and introduced a much larger group to the amazing musicianship of this Canadian trio.
Side one of the album was a tour de force and left you with a blown mind and short of breath. The four tracks hold up as well today as when they were first released. They highlighted the band’s sense of humor and extreme intelligence. The drummer was the primary lyricist and really spoke to the youth that felt they did not belong in any specific group of kids outside of the misfits! Tom Sawyer, Red...(continued)
In 1981 when I was a high school student there were many different social groups, not at all unlike today, that existed on campus. Typically I most identified with the outcasts, definitely not with the popular kids. These outcasts were not afraid to tell you what they thought or what they enjoyed musically. They also tended to be a little better read and quite a bit more intelligent than the popular kids. Progressive rock was a favorite of many of them especially when playing Dungeons and Dragons and other similar endeavors. Rush entered into this picture with great force! The album Moving Pictures broke onto the airwaves of the radio in a major way and introduced a much larger group to the amazing musicianship of this Canadian trio.
Side one of the album was a tour de force and left you with a blown mind and short of breath. The four tracks hold up as well today as when they were first released. They highlighted the band’s sense of humor and extreme intelligence. The drummer was the primary lyricist and really spoke to the youth that felt they did not belong in any specific group of kids outside of the misfits! Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, and Limelight were amazing!
The name of the album led to a great album cover. It is a triple entendre; the front depicts movers who are carrying pictures. On the side, people are shown crying because the pictures passing by are emotionally "moving". Finally, the back cover has a film crew making a motion picture of the whole scene.