Pomp Rock Pick 3

I really should be checking if I actually posted certain compilations or not. I have a bunch that I thought I posted but now I'm not so sure. I had a pick of New Prog. Did I already post it? I have no idea. I will have to check and post it if I didn't. I have series of Prog picks. I'll have to now check those. This volume of Pomp Rock has a few bands I've posted before, in volume one or two. One, Yes, that's pretty known for prog, but this track is pretty AOR and has a lot of pomp. Styx, Supertramp still more well known for their rock hits had great pomp songs. Hush is Robert Berry's early pomp/prog band from the Bay Area. Blue Oyster Cult, Babys, Toto and Ambrosia also less known for pomp rock or prog, but these songs prove they had it in them. 

Pomp Rock Pick 3

34 Speedway Blvd - Out Of The Fire

35 Toto - Hydra

36 Storm - Dangerous

37 The Babys - Every Time I Think Of You

38 Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son

39 Stencil Forest - The Pandemonium Shadow Show

40 Supertramp - Fool's Overture

41 Hush - Money

42 Yes - Wonderous Stories

43 Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper

44 Styx - Come Sail Away

45 Ambrosia - Time Waits for No One

Pomp Rock Pick 2

I have a few that I am posting, frankly I thought I had posted them earlier, but somehow missed them and started work on pick volume 3 and 4, but never even posted number 1 until yesterday. I must be losing my mind. So here is volume two. I gave you my thoughts on Pomp Rock yesterday. Most of these bands would probably not be considered Prog rock nowadays, but they had elements of prog and still do now and again, but for sure there is a lot of Pomp in these songs.

Pomp Rock Pick 2

18 Saga - Scratching The Surface

19 Robert Berry - Last Ride Into The Sun

20 Morningstar - Through The Night

21 Sweet - Love Is Like Oxygen

22 Electric Light Orchestra - Sweet Talkin' Woman

23 Roadmaster - It Doesn't Mean A Thing

24 Nightwish - Nemo

25 Asia - Sole Survivor

26 Styx - Man Of Miracles

27 Magnum - Kingdom Of Madness

28 Zon - Back Down To Earth

29 White Sister - Can't Say No

30 Speedway Blvd - Speedway Boulevard

31 Spy - Ruby Twilight

32 Supertramp - Bloody Well Right

33 Balance - Ride The Wave

Pomp Rock 1

This pick of Pomp Rock is one of a couple in a row. They define Pomp Rock: “A genre of rock music, especially prevalent in the late 1970s and early 1980s, typically characterized by prominent keyboards and drums and heavy use of guitar effects, often regarded as bombastic or grandiose in its delivery.” The term was used mainly by the British music press to identify Symphonic/Progressive Rock played by American bands. In the US these bands usually were labeled as AOR. I didn't limit it to American bands, but these are all pretty much bombastic or grandiose songs. One of these bands is a San Jose band featuring Robert Berry. Look him up if you don't know him. Great guy, musician and fabulous studio.

Pomp Rock 1

01 Spy - Can't Complain

02 Touch - Don't You Know What Love Is

03 Sweet - Mother Earth

04 Roadmaster - Sweet Music

05 Hush - Who Holds The Light

06 Balance - In For The Count

07 Angel - Cast The First Stone

08 Morningstar - Let Me Dream

09 Emerson Lake & Palmer - Jerusalem

10 Starcastle - Stargate-Sunfield

11 Alpha Centauri - Hard Life

12 Journey - Majestic

13 Saga - On The Loose

14 Speedway Blvd - (Call My Name) Rock Magic

15 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

16 Electric Light Orchestra - Rockaria!

17 Supertramp - Dreamer