The Sound Chaser Progressive Rock Podcast is on the air. The show this time is a special review of albums that made the Official Progressive Albums Chart. I also have an In Memoriam feature to commemorate Moody Blues keyboardist Mike Pinder. All that, plus news of tours and releases on Sound Chaser. Official Charts is the company in the UK that keeps track of singles and album sales in the UK, the equivalent of Billboard in the US. In 2015, Official Charts started a new feature, the Progressive albums chart, which started as a monthly listing in September of that year. Charts cover a one-month period, listing the top 30 sellers in that category for that month. Because the charts simply rate according to sales, albums that make the charts include not only new music, but also reissues of old music. Thus, you will hear in the sample in this show a mix of the newer and older music. Also, I have not limited the selections to chart toppers, but have included music that peaked in different locations of the charts. 

Playlist

1. Mostly Autumn - Changing Lives, from Sight of Day

IN MEMORIAM MIKE PINDER

2. The Moody Blues - My Song, from Time Traveller [retrospective]

END IN MEMORIAM

3. Pink Floyd - Pigs on the Wing (Part One), from Animals

2. Porcupine Tree - Glass Arm Shattering, from Deadwing

3. Jethro Tull - Beastie, from The Broadsword and the Beast

4. Hawkwind - Dying Seas, from Warrior on the Edge of Time

5. The Alan Parsons Project - Time, from The Turn of a Friendly Card

6. The Alan Parsons Project - I Don't Wanna Go Home, from The Turn of a Friendly Card

7. Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe Parts 1-4, from Equinoxe

8. Nad Sylvan - A French Kiss in an Italian Café, from The Bride Said No

9. Strawbs - The Visit, from Settlement

10. Rush - A Farewell to Kings, from A Farewell to Kings

THE SYMPHONIC ZONE

11. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells, Part 1, from Tubular Bells

12. Marillion - The Space..., from Seasons End

13. Spock's Beard - To Be Free Again, from The Oblivion Particle

14. Renaissance - The Vultures Fly High, from Scheherazade and Other Stories

15. Yes - Hour of Need, from Fly From Here: Return Trip

16. Big Big Train - Brooklands, from Folklore

17. Steve Hackett - Fallen Walls and Pedestals, from Selling England by the Pound & Spectral Mornings Live at Hammersmith

18. Steve Hackett - Beasts in Our Time, from Selling England by the Pound & Spectral Mornings Live at Hammersmith 

19. The Tangent - Two Rope Swings, from The Slow Rust of Forgotten Machinery

20. The Flower Kings - Racing with Blinders On, from Islands

21. The Flower Kings - From the Ground, from Islands

22. The Flower Kings - Black Swan, from Islands

23. The Flower Kings - Morning News, from Islands

24. The Flower Kings - Broken, from Islands

25. The Flower Kings - Goodbye Outrage, from Islands

LEAVING THE SYMPHONIC ZONE

26. Public Service Broadcasting - Ich und die Stadt, from Bright Magic

27. Brian Eno - Stars, from Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks

28. Tangerine Dream - Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares, from Phaedra

29. Frank Zappa - Little Umbrellas, from Hot Rats

30. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - A Time and a Place, from Tarkus

31. Barclay James Harvest - Ball and Chain, from Once Again

32. Curved Air - Puppets, from Second Album

33. Gong - O, Arcturus!, from Unending Ascending

34. Premiata Forneria Marconi - It's My Road, from Emotional Tattoos

35. Supertramp - Crime of the Century, from Crime of the Century