Favoriting It's Complicated with Dave Mandl: Playlist from December 25, 2023 Favoriting

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An hour of prog and prog-adjacent music.

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Favoriting December 25, 2023

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Yes  Five Percent for Nothing   Favoriting Fragile  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
Náttúra  Out of the Darkness   Favoriting Magic Key  0:02:29 (Pop-up)
 
Quintessence  Bliss Trip   Favoriting Indweller  0:09:29 (Pop-up)
 
The Sun or the Moon  Trippin' on Mars   Favoriting Cosmic  0:17:10 (Pop-up)
 
Heiner Goebbels  Berlin—Kudamm 12/4/81   Favoriting V/A: Recommended Records Sampler  0:28:32 (Pop-up)
 
Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester  Tagesschau   Favoriting Hört, Hört!  0:35:13 (Pop-up)
 
Desertion Trio  Numbers Maker   Favoriting Numbers Maker  0:43:49 (Pop-up)
 
Godcaster  Gut Sink Moan   Favoriting Godcaster  0:55:31 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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ultradamno:

Dave! Mandlotrons!
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Hi Dave Mandl and a!!!
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Wendy del Formaggio:

Dave! Friends!
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dale:

merry progmas.
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HyperDose:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @7:00
Hey dude! Is this when things get weird?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

🌿 Seasons Complications 🌿
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Coach32sm:

progalicious
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HollyRT:

Yay, Progmas
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coelacanth∅:

hopefully i can count on it's complicated to not be xmas music
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Troy:

Merry Christmas 🎄
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coelacanth∅:

hi Dave and all
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erictheise:

happy ⅞-mas. been listening to Arvo Pärt all day and looking forward to this switch up.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Stephen from Glasgow:

Hello.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
chresti:

Hi Dave complicated show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
Ciggy:

Hi Dave
Feeling Prog adjacent
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Dave Mandl:

Greetings, all, and happiest of holidays to you.
  7:04pm
listener phat in lincoln:

Happy Crimble!
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Dave Mandl:

↳ erictheise @7:02
You got your wish, because this is in 7/8.
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erictheise:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:04
a stocking full of prog, thanks Dave!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
coelacanth∅:

now 5 bpm
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drumbone:

GREETINGS Dave & The Complicated.
Avatar 7:07pm
Dave Mandl:

Hey there ultradamno, Will, Wendy, dale, HyperDose, RRN63, Coach, Holly, coelacanth∅, eric, Stephenchresti, Ciggy, phat, drumbone!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hello! Now celebrating Complicatemas.
  7:08pm
Dean:

Vocalist from St. Louis!
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Dave Mandl:

Welcome Ken, Dean.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
Rory:

Greetings everyone! This track is soothing.
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Troy:

↳ Song: "Bliss Trip" by "Quintessence"
Raja Ram went on to form the ultra trippy band Shpongle.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
dale:

↳ Song: "Bliss Trip" by "Quintessence"
digging this drone.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
DjLorraine:

Hi, ello
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chresti:

↳ Song: "Bliss Trip" by "Quintessence"
indeed blissful!
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Dave Mandl:

Hey there Rory, Troy, dale, Lorraine.
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Coach32sm:

light the incense
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
Rory:

Merry Christmas hope everyone is doing well :)
  7:17pm
listener phat in lincoln:

@Coach32sm I think I will!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
Spikey BXL:

↳ Song: "Bliss Trip" by "Quintessence"
Meditation worthy! Hey Dave et al
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Dave Mandl:

@Spikey: Hey!
  7:21pm
Mhinca:

Merry Christmas Dave & all!
Bliss Trip oozed of Philip Glass & Koyanisqaatsi. Good stuff, thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
ultradamno:

They always say watch your step on the red planet...it's rough terrain.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
dale:

all great bands tonight to add to my pandora
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Dave Mandl:

@Mhinca: Same to you. And yes, I agree.
Avatar 🤯 7:26pm
Troy:

Perfect music for my cookie coma.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
ultradamno:

Required to, it's what the re is for....
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tim:

Hello Dave! Hello everyone!
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Dave Mandl:

Hey there, tim.
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Coach32sm:

Played the crap out of that (Recommended Record Sampler) in my house!!!!!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
tim:

I just got back from seeing Iron Claw. It was a prog adjacent song in it.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ Coach32sm @7:30
Me too.
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drumbone:

nice bone
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
Richy4619:

So happy to not hear x-mas music
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
tim:

↳ Song: "Berlin—Kudamm 12/4/81" by "Heiner Goebbels"
This one’s really good!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
dale:

↳ Richy4619 @7:32
agree. if i hear fairytale of new york one more time....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
dale:

↳ dale @7:34
i mean. i get it...but still.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
Rory:

I’m tired of hearing about Taylor Swift. I could care less yet hear about her all the time now.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ Richy4619 @7:32
I don't have any with me! Hope that's OK with everyone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:37
Oh, thank goodness.
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tim:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:37
Dave- you really blew a perfect opportunity to play Trans-Siberian Orchestra. ;)
  7:40pm
Dean:

I'm not so sure. "Tagesshau" means daily news and "Hört" means listen. You know, not unlike the instruction to hear the word of the gospel.
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chresti:

Holidays shmallidays, on my way to tamale holiday dinner, thanks Dave!
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Dave Mandl:

↳ chresti @7:40
Bon appetit!
  7:41pm
Dean:

(There really is a vast amount of splendid Christmas music, but maybe not much of it prog.)
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Dave Mandl:

↳ Dean @7:41
We have vats of it here at FMU. ERight, not much prog, except for that one Tull song.
  7:41pm
Dean:

Hey, chresti, we just had our tamale holiday dinner. First thing this morning after coffee: make those tamales.
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drumbone:

what a hoot! I like!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
ultradamno:

Well, we're about done

mastodon.social...
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tim:

↳ Song: "Tagesschau" by "Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasor...
This definitely has an Art Ensemble/AACM playfulness to it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
ultradamno:

Dead Joe is a carol I can enjoy all year round mastodon.social...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
dale:

dave re: cuneiform, PLEASE listen to jasun martz's 'the pillory' side one when you get a chance. it blew my mind when i picked that up around 79 or 80. not asking you to play it because it's 18 or 19 minutes...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
ultradamno:

You'd think someone would have done Jingle Bell Prog by now.
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HollyRT:

Well, I always enjoy listening to the ZE Christmas album every year
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Dave Mandl:

↳ dale @7:47
Thanks. I've played him, but not that track. I'll check it out, though.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ HollyRT @7:48
Never gets old.
  7:49pm
Dean:

I couldn't even remember the Tull track!

Best Christmas song, maybe? Sequentia's "Plebs domini":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86eJ6ptzkSs

The entire album is radiant.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
ultradamno:

You'd think the yuletide would get a name drop on Winter Songs...if only for stealing focus from solstice or something.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ Dean @7:49
"Ring Out Solstice Bells." They also did Christmas Song, but that's not very proggy.
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tim:

↳ Song: "Numbers Maker" by "Desertion Trio"
This is great. I’m a sucker for guitar skronk.
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Dave Mandl:

Actually, not that I think about it, Tull did a Xmas EP with a few Xmas songs on it.
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Dave Mandl:

*now that I think about it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
ultradamno:

Rock & Roll Circus was on PBS a few weeks ago, they and Magic Band could have swapped clothes without anyone noticing
  7:56pm
morphe':

Cannot get through on the Playlist side??? Me alone??? Not Paranoid...
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Dave Mandl:

↳ morphe' @7:56
It might just be you, morphé. Sorry.
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tim:

Thanks, Dave! Dug the vibe tonight!
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Rory:

Beat Club Magic Band maybe best performance ever? Thanks Dave!
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Dave Mandl:

Thanks as always for the chatter, folks. Have a wonderful new year.
  7:57pm
Dean:

I thought maybe Jack Lancaster might have been involved in a Christmas project of some sort, but I'm not finding it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Dave!
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Troy:

Thanks Dave!
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drumbone:

Great show, Dave! Thanks mate!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ DaveMandl ~
  7:58pm
morphe':

Got through now .... Yes it is just me !!!! Merry and Happy and Healthy Dave
and all the family !!!!
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HyperDose:

Groovy stuff!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Your Ace From Exchange Place:

↳ Song: "Gut Sink Moan" by "Godcaster"
Drummer's really evoking early Keith Moon style fills.
  7:59pm
listener phat in lincoln:

Great show Dave. Until next time!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ Your Ace From Exchange Place @7:59
I love when you talk drummer!
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dale:

thanks for the show. good stuff. godcaster is difficult, but i'm hanging in there.
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erictheise:

Great show, see you next time/next year!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
StringOFperils:

thank you!
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ultradamno:

↳ Your Ace From Exchange Place @7:59
Another funny part of R&R Circus, how much Pete openly resents Moon stealing attention
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
Will thee Sound Guy:

Thank you Dave Mandl!!!
  Swag For Life Member 12:00am
bill8899:

archive listener for a while now. Xmas show was especially great, thx!
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