INTELLECTUAL ROCK: My Favorite Listening Music

[DIRTYSECRET]

Nino and April-THAT was intellectual love.MacArthur Park lost me when the cake was left out in the rain.

[OttawaFreeper]

Jon and Vangelis “Friends of Mr. Cairo” was one of my FM favourites back in 1981. Very good album as well.

[sparklite2]

Zappa is baffling until you do a tab or two of acid,
then listening to him is like downloading instructions.

[dfwgator]

Czeslaw Niemen - Enigmatic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew0cF2t_bD8

One of the greatest albums ever made, in any language

[dfwgator]

Zappa didn’t do drugs though, and he’d kick you out of the band if he found out you did drugs.

[gibsonguy]

Rush definitely belongs here.
Manhattan Project
Subdivisions

Be cool or be cast out.

[Fightin Whitey]

But I stand by my total disinterest in lyrics

A few of my favorite lyric sets ...

If you are totally disinterested in them, what makes you think we would care?

[sparklite2]

It was just such original thinking, all that sweet green icing flowing down.

[Vaquero]

BILLY JOEL!

[Roccus]

Still have Yessongs and JTTCOTE on vinyl. Saw him do Journey at Madison Square Garden sometime in the 70s (74?)

[sparklite2]

That’s true enough. But his music makes a lot more sense when you’re baked.

“Suzy? Suzy Creamcheese? What’s gotten into you?”

LOL

[rochester_veteran]

I love Reelin’ in the Years. I always smile when he says, “You’ve been telling me you’re a genius since you were 17. In all the time I’ve known you I still don’t know what you mean.”

Yes, A_perfect_lady, it puts a smile on my face too! :-)

[dfwgator]

I thought “Drama” was a good album even without Jon.

Tempus Fugit was Squire’s best moment.

[Cecily]

LOL Basil was the greatest put down artist.

[sparklite2]

“But I stand by my total disinterest in lyric”
was a selected quote from the poster to whom I was replying,
hence the separating horizontal line.

[lee martell]

Lou Reed’s album “Berlin”.
Plus several works from his wife now widow; Lori Anderson.

[OttawaFreeper]

With a little Canadian content here, SAGA also has some very decent tunes like “Scratching the Surface”, “Wind Him Up”, “On The Loose”, and others.

[D_Idaho]

“Supper’s Ready” by Genesis.

[InterceptPoint]

MacArthur Park
+++++
OK. You got me on that one. I still remember hearing that song for the first and trying to figure out who the singer was. I finally did, of course, but not during that drive to Palm Springs.

And yes, the lyrics were worth listening to.

[lee martell]

Will I get Zotted if I suggest
‘The MacArthur Park’ Suite?

Written by Jimmy Webb.
Both versions were good in their own way, one by Richard Harris, the other by Donna Summer.