Prog goes mainstream

[D S]

Was driving in the car just now and put on Radio 2 to play along with Ken Bruce's Popmaster.  First song afterwards was King Crimson's In The Court of the Crimson King!    The next but one song was ELP's Fanfare for the Common Man!  What's going on?!

[tigermoth]

Ken is a bit of a Prog fan on the quiet. I've heard Genesis a good few times, although bizarrely for some reason he usually chooses Match Of The Day. I think Richard Alinson is a progger too.

[Jem]

I love Popmaster, and not just because 50% of Frost* are playing on the jingle.

[D S]

I love Popmaster, and not just because 50% of Frost* are playing on the jingle.

I think my family are getting bored of me pointing that out every time it plays!    I love the flourish of strings near the end.
Is it my imagination or is Popmaster getting more obscure / harder?  Always good for a challenge though.

PS - seems to have been some pretty nasty weather down your way today.  I trust the Cube is intact?

[Jem]

Dunno if it's getting harder, I always seem to get most of it wrong as it is. I'm always a year out on the Name The Year questions. 

We've had some very luxurious thunderstorms here today. The Cube smells damp after 10 days of inactivity, but nothing that a day or two of usage won't sort. The Police Box however is like a swimming pool inside, I shall have to get out the all weather sealant as soon as things settle down.

[tigermoth]

I think the answers I know are easy and the ones I don't know are hard.

[gr8gonzo]

The Police Box however is like a swimming pool inside

Aha! So there IS enough room! I knew it.

[L33VEY]

Lucky enough to get onto Popmaster some years ago.
Scored 33 out of 39 and beat a Scottish mobile DJ - but could only name 2 Go West top 40 singles 

I now listen to so much modern Prog and so little mainstream stuff that my scores always lousy these days..

[D S]

I'm not sure if Radio 6 Music counts as 'mainstream' but Liz Kershaw just interviewed Steve Hackett and played Firth of Fifth, Spectral Mornings and a 1971 John Peel session version of Harlequin, which I've certainly never heard before.