When you see “Eruption” coming up on a playlist, are you expecting:
Van Halen; or
Focus?
Sheep and Goats…
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or a funky disco cover version of I Can’t Stand The Rain
I was going for titles – but I take your point…
So that’s YOUR vote sorted!
Focus is the clear winner. You see?
Sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell…
As soon as you’re born you start dying…
Sheep are better in a curry than goats, less bone involved.
Any tunes ever written named Goat?
Sheep:
Not about an actual Goat, but Goat -adjacent …
We Got A Goat Out Of This Place
To answer the OP it would be Van Halen for me.
I had a feeling…
Try this Feelin’
Hagar era Van Halen at their best
Can’t see it, Unc – I’m getting “Video unavailable”…
What was it?
When you say Goat to me, I think of the funky tribal rhythms of this magnificent Swedish combo.
They kick up a storm live,
What do you think of when I say Eruption, though?
Focus. Never heard the other one.
…is the right answer!
Me too.
For years I always thought Eruption’s “One Way Ticket” was to the moon. I only released a few years go that it was a one way ticket to the blues. Must have been due to those sparkly sci-fi outfits they wore on the TV when I was a kid.
Eruption is the first part of Tarkus by ELP, who are both widely ridiculed and widely loved, sometimes by the same person. The next bit is Stones of Years. I love that album, having come back to it in recent times. Hammond organ mastery, right there. It’s surprisingly sparse.
Good point! I forgot about that one. Mind you, I’d need to check whether my player splits Tarkus into its named subsections, or it might not appear as such on a playlist…
By the way: ELP are great and Tarkus is one of their best! Nuff said!!
Tarkus is the best of ELP in a single and very long track, broken into parts.
Well…it’s a point of view…
I reckon they get a bad rap. All the albums where they used Hammond as the main instrument sound great to me. It was only when ‘Emmo’ ditched it for the big Yamaha thing, that things ran out of steam. His organ playing was expressive and unique, but on that huge synth, he just couldn’t get a good sound. In my opinion of course.
A much better point of view: and I completely agree on the big Yamaha thing, John Paul Jones had the same problem.
Van Halen.
Generally speaking, if there’s one of these choices, you can rely on me to go for the more Secondary Modern one.