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Agostino Ramelli’s Theatre of Machines (1588)

Artist Track Album Approx. start time
Henry Kaiser  A Carrot Is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond   Favoriting Those Who Know History are Doomed to Repeat It   
Dr. "Rusty" Venture & Dean  Dean Discovers Prog Rock   Favoriting The Venture Bros./Adult Swim  0:01:10 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Willow  Symptom of Life   Favoriting Empathogen  0:02:05 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Crack the Sky  Ice   Favoriting Crack the Sky  0:05:25 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Frank Zappa  Twenty Small Cigars   Favoriting Chunga's Revenge  0:09:34 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Julia Holter  The Laugh Is in the Eyes   Favoriting The Laugh Is in the Eyes  0:12:09 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Man/Woman/Chainsaw  What Lucy Found There   Favoriting What Lucy Found There  0:16:43 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Bradley Hall  Turning Classic Rock Riffs into Prog   Favoriting Bradley Hall Guitar  0:22:22 (MP3 | Pop-up)
The Grodeck Whipperjenny  Put Your Thing on Me   Favoriting The Grodeck Whipperjenny  0:24:14 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Spirit  Poor Richard   Favoriting The Family That Plays Together  0:28:48 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Fievel Is Glaque  Save the Phenomenon   Favoriting Flaming Swords  0:30:57 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Paul & Linda McCartney  Another Day   Favoriting Ram  0:32:59 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Talulah  Time   Favoriting The Question  0:36:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Dweezil Zappa  Electrocoustic Matter   Favoriting Go with What You Know  0:45:34 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Melody's Echo Chamber  Norfolk Hotel   Favoriting Unfold  0:49:42 (MP3 | Pop-up)
Roar  Difluoroethane   Favoriting Knives for Aries  0:54:11 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 1/9 8:05am
Irwin:

Glad to be filling in for Dave again. Tonight I'll be featuring some Prog hybrids and adjacent genres Dave tends to ignore, including:

• Regressive Prog
• Canterburial Doomcore
• Haftorah Prog (played backwards)
• Fourth-Stream Indie-Prog
• Symphonic Speed Drone
• Krauthammer
• Mood Mellotronica
• Atonal Avant Folkprog
• Prog Two-Step
• Yacht-Prog
• Racist Minstrel-Prog
• Prog-tastic Vegas-Core!
• Neonatal Amnioprog
• Intergalactic Space Tedium
• Barbershop-Prog
• Amputee Meter
• Old-school Post-Zeuhl
• Jazz
• Steamprog
• "The prog that dare not speak its subgenre"
• Artists Who Tried to Play Rock but Were Such Spazzes That Their Recordings Sound like Prog
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
ultradamno:

Irwin! Progsids!
Avatar 🤯 7:00pm
Troy:

Present!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
ultradamno:

Krauthammer? Not Charles, I hope
  7:00pm
mic_a:

Hello Irwin and progilists! Will there be Incorrect Prog on the slate?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
ultradamno:

Beeflike!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

Good evening Irwin and all!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
Handy Haversack:

Irwin. Irwinners.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
coelacanth∅:

stoked for the steamprog
  7:01pm
Dean:

Yes!
Avatar 7:01pm
Mister Dobalina:

Did you say Jazz?
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Deano de los Muertos:

no pierogprog? 🇵🇱🥟
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
bleubombersune:

Hi Irwin and all Progolytes
  7:02pm
listener phat in lincoln:

Hey all. I wondered what happened to Five Percent For Nothing...
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Deano de los Muertos:

Venture Bros!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Deano de los Muertos:

my namesake
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
chresti:

Hi Irwin it's complicated show!
  7:02pm
Dean:

Proto-prog: the symphonies of Gustav Mahler.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
ultradamno:

Scored by previous artist played on this program JG Thirlwell
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
dio gen knees:

twisted michelle branch
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
dale:

hey now.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
chresti:

Haha buckle your mind in.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Song: "Dean Discovers Prog Rock" by "Dr. "Rusty" Venture...
Thanks for that, Irwin
  7:05pm
djsheilab:

Irwin! I so dig this Willow track. Her Tiny Desk performance is really something. Mohini Dey on bass 🔥
  7:05pm
KWilde:

A lot of ground to cover tonight
Avatar 7:05pm
herb.nyc:

Hi Irwin, we talked briefly while you stacked chairs, Fri night

But 90secs ago my 91.9 is all “buzzzz…”. While 91.1 is ok
  7:06pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Irwin @8:05
All in one hour!?
  7:06pm
Dean:

I confuse Crack the Sky with Happy the Man. Or is it Crack the Man? Happy the Sky?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
Irwin:

↳ Tom from Stirling @7:06
Off and running.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
Irwin:

↳ Irwin @7:06
Four down, seventeen to go.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
dale:

i wonder what gus bodenheim's stance is on the progressive scene.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
ultradamno:

Dig Dat Hole, even?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
Irwin:

↳ dale @7:08
Ever read his poem "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Gus"?
  7:09pm
Fredericks:

↳ Dean @7:06
The Crack Happy Sky Man.
  7:09pm
Old Dave:

Dang! I had this album as a teenager... Thanks Irwin!
Avatar 7:09pm
herb.nyc:

↳ herb.nyc @7:05
91.9 is good now. Thx for asking
  7:10pm
Fredericks:

Crack The Happy Sky Man.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
dale:

↳ Irwin @7:08
no, but i thought sly weasel was a canterbury outfit.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

"Progussive Music"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
ultradamno:

I'm pretty sure Courtney blames Fablio for all this fussy mess
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
common:

hello dave, all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
Irwin:

↳ ultradamno @7:11
For Courtney, prog hit around 1942 with the birth of bebop.
Avatar 🤯 7:12pm
erictheise:

↳ common @7:11
seems appropriate to say "Dave's not here, man."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:12pm
common:

↳ erictheise @7:12
oh shit...sorry
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
common:

hello, irwin
  7:13pm
GC in Bmore:

Enjoyed your list of genres at the top! But what about ‘that Dream Theater sh$t’ ?
  7:14pm
Dean:

Yacht prog: Wally, Alan Parsons Project, Ambrosia, Cafe Jacques
  7:14pm
Dean:

...and of course Cruise to the Edge.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
ultradamno:

Intergalactic Space Tedium involves a sleeping pod to rightly enjoy, basically if you don't own Starlink, you can't afford it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
San Pedro Girl:

Greetings, Irwin and all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
coelacanth∅:

↳ Song: "The Laugh Is in the Eyes" by "Julia Holter"
i think this is "not quite neo-classical dreampop nonprog prog"
Avatar 7:18pm
Fredericks:

Early period Rube Goldberg=
Agostino Ramelli’s Theatre of Machines (1588)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
ultradamno:

I think most of those sub-genres are only sold in this shop i.pinimg.com...
  7:20pm
Carmichael:

Heya Dave and proggers.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
PaulRobeson1925:

Ok Ok
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

My turn! Dave's not here, man!
  7:21pm
Old Dave:

↳ erictheise @7:12
lots of us daves listening
  7:22pm
Carmichael:

Uhhh, I mean Irwin. It IS complicated …
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
Dano59:

... about math? you mean, like, time signatures?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
ultradamno:

What's that I smell off the water?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
ultradamno:

Now it's gone all now that's what I call nineties...
  7:24pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Song: "Turning Classic Rock Riffs into Prog" by "Bradley...
Wolf
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
Dano59:

i listen out of interest in what the good-taste brigade at FMU would play on a prog show. But ... not a fan, per se (tho that Julia Holter was amazin')
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "Turning Classic Rock Riffs into Prog" by "Bradley...
This is such an Irwin-y pick!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
ultradamno:

That reminds me, Angus Young still wearing that uniform nowadays makes the scariest slasher villain.
Avatar 7:29pm
Fredericks:

↳ Song: "Put Your Thing on Me" by "The Grodeck Whipperjenny"
Quite a rhythm section.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

¡ Hola Complicados !
Avatar 7:33pm
morphe':

↳ Song: "What Lucy Found There" by "Man/Woman/Chainsaw"
From the WEBS ... "
oe Banks
@JoeBanksWriter
I've just been to the excellent Women In Revolt exhibition
@Tate
Britain. Great to see these again - particularly like the carpentry one..."

x.com...
  7:33pm
djsheilab:

That Spirit track was a beauty!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
Irwin:

↳ djsheilab @7:33
Hey, DJSB!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ Song: "Another Day" by "Paul & Linda McCartney"
Yacht prog?
Avatar 🤯 7:36pm
erictheise:

Ram was likely the first album I owned. which flavor of prog is this cut?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
Irwin:

↳ San Pedro Girl @7:35
The math on this is quite complex.
  7:36pm
Carmichael:

Spirit rules, Sheila! Your next rabbit-hole band.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ Song: "Poor Richard" by "Spirit"
Speaking of Spirit, I haven't heard The Great Canyon Fire In General from their first album.

What gives?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Poor Richard" by "Spirit"
Had to think of Randy being buds with Jimi with that gittar.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
Gaylord Fields:

↳ San Pedro Girl @7:35
To my ears, it's not even a Lil Yachty.
  7:38pm
Danny:

They didn’t call Paul “the proggy one” for nothing
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Lennon known for his idiosyncratic relation to Meter - like whatever fit his words...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

(( day = 0 )); while true; do (( day = $day + 1 )); echo $day; done
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Another Day" by "Paul & Linda McCartney"
..& I think Sir Macca was never the same after PetSounds...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ Gaylord Fields @7:37
Lol!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
Irwin:

↳ Gaylord Fields @7:37
It's kinda Twee-Prog. And I don't mean that in any derogatory way.
  7:41pm
Carmichael:

My DJ name in Li’l Yachty
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...'very twee, very me'...
- McCartney ('EnglishTea')
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ Irwin @7:40
Thanks for clarifying. But is there a good way to take that?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Gaylord Fields:

↳ Irwin @7:40
That shoe fits.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Franco Twinkie:

The only time I was ever on a yacht, I threw up.
  7:43pm
Carmichael:

Like The Lemon Twigs with Dweezil Zappa playing the leads.
  7:43pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Song: "Another Day" by "Paul & Linda McCartney"
Hope the Rams win tonight.
Cooper Kupp
  7:44pm
carlos danger:

The Go-Betweens' "Cattle and Cane" is pretty damn proggy for a band not usually thought of as being such
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Franco Twinkie @7:43
...more Yacht BLAUGHH than Prawg...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:44
Something like that...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...& doesn't PrawgYacht scan better anyhow...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ San Pedro Girl @7:42
Best taken with drugs.
Take twee and call me in the morning.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
chresti:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:44
Yatch Bleccch
Avatar 7:46pm
morphe':

Before knowing it is Irwin spinning .. was going to write to Dave saying this is a different sounding set...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ chresti @7:46
...more Complicated all the time...
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
chresti:

↳ San Pedro Girl @7:45
Lol!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
ultradamno:

cdn.wallpapersafari.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Electrocoustic Matter" by "Dweezil Zappa"
...VanHalen fan ...SoCal dood...
  7:49pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Song: "Electrocoustic Matter" by "Dweezil Zappa"
Bill Nelson
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:46
Irwin gilding the lily, showing off.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Deft transition from the twee to the Dwee.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @7:49
(the result of searching for 'prog rock cartoon'...I was hoping for Beetle Bailey discovering Henry Cow, but...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Irwin:

↳ San Pedro Girl @7:50
I'm trying to break your brain. How close are we?
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
B R M:

↳ Song: "Norfolk Hotel" by "Melody's Echo Chamber"
Fan of MELODY'S ECHO CHAMBER... all of their albums are worth a listen...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Irwin!
  7:53pm
Carmichael:

Noice Dweez!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ Irwin @7:51
That is too easy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ Irwin @7:51
Good try. hanks so much—fun show.
Avatar 7:54pm
morphe':

Yes, Thanks Irwin and all ..
  7:54pm
Tom from Stirling:

Thanks, man. Come back soon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
San Pedro Girl:

* thanks
As I said, my brain is already broken.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Gaylord Fields:

Thanks, Irwin! Doing all the counting during these songs was more stimulating to my old-man brain than doing today's Connections puzzle.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Deano de los Muertos:

Thank you Irwin
  7:56pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Gaylord Fields @7:56
Connections was kinda easy today.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
listener 126464:

Thanks, Irwin.
  7:57pm
lankylad:

Very much enjoyed the show! Thank you PROG IRWIN.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ Mr. IDC Sir ~
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Gaylord Fields:

↳ Tom from Stirling @7:56
Took me literally a minute, with no errors.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
bleubombersune:

Irwin Thanks All Progolytes stray safe and be well
  7:59pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Gaylord Fields @7:58
yep
Avatar 8:00pm
Mister Dobalina:

So, wait the heat stops now, but it keeps going on?
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

Thank you Irwin!!!
  8:00pm
Tom from Stirling:

The title of today's show. Its gooda.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 10:35am
G:

I'm way too overscheduled since last July. Listening to this on archive, 9am CT Tuesday.
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