The Bottom 30 - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Some of you may recall Kenny Everett's Bottom Thirty. It was broadcast in 1977 and was 30 of the most dreadful songs ever recorded - by the likes of Eamonn Andrews, Hughie Green and Jess Conrad - out of tune, nauseatingly sentimental, songs about dying soldiers and children losing their mommies and daddies to drunken drivers.

Is it possible to have a Prog version? Bands who should know better who have produced a real stinker - think Genesis 'Whodunnit'.... there must be loads

Just a thought

How about bands that practicality put on a record everything that they write? Tons of songs that should be edited and not published are put out for the public to listen, and frankly, many of them are awe full. Buckethead is one example of this.

octopus-4 wrote:

From a CAMEL fan: Remote Romance stinks

Seconded.

Hi,

Listening to the "Bottom 30", is a good thing.

Reminds me of the old days, when we even tuned in a station in LA (KMET I think it was!) and they were playing Dr. Demento, which, while a lousy show with a really poor personality that had no knowledge of the works at all, at least the quantity and variety of stuff was second to almost none.

I mean, even Bapu hasn't talked about "Close to You" (The Clams), or let's take a trip down Whittier Blvd, or some really odd poem by The Fool, but you had to be really stoned to enjoy that thing, though the guy himself had no sense of occasion at all.

For exceptional quality, Guy Guden of Space Pirate Radio fame, used to do special shows for Halloween and other Holidays ... and his Halloween shows were out of this world, and a whole night's worth of everything, the kitchen sink and even The Haunted House soundtrack, BACKWARDS! It also had the most music of any show I have ever heard, and I have three different years of it to prove it.

Nowhere in radioland, or internet, has anyone EVER done something that good. But some of the stuff played, was .... ... Elmo and the Crotch-hairs?

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