What Are You Listening To? Febus Mark V - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Wow, I was just comparing 2009 to 2010 only thirty four new titles added to my collection in 2009 and so far I'm up to 30 for 2010. Anyway, I decided to take a break from the randomly selected and run through my last 50 in chronological acquisition order, which brings me to this:

Added in CD format April 2009, but I first heard it many years ago.

From Wiki:

Describing how the idea of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra came to him, Jeffes said:

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In 1972 I was in the south of France. I had eaten some bad fish and was in consequence rather ill. As I lay in bed I had a strange recurring vision, there, before me, was a concrete building like a hotel or council block. I could see into the rooms, each of which was continually scanned by an electronic eye. In the rooms were people, everyone of them preoccupied. In one room a person was looking into a mirror and in another a couple were making love but lovelessly, in a third a composer was listening to music through earphones. Around him there were banks of electronic equipment. But all was silence. Like everyone in his place he had been neutralized, made grey and anonymous. The scene was for me one of ordered desolation. It was as if I were looking into a place which had no heart. Next day when I felt better, I was on the beach sunbathing and suddenly a poem popped into my head. It started out 'I am the proprietor of the Penguin Cafe, I will tell you things at random' and it went on about how the quality of randomness, spontaneity, surprise, unexpectedness and irrationality in our lives is a very precious thing. And if you suppress that to have a nice orderly life, you kill off what's most important. Whereas in the Penguin Cafe your unconscious can just be. It's acceptable there, and that's how everybody is. There is an acceptance there that has to do with living the present with no fear in ourselves.^[1]

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Edited by Slartibartfast - July 29 2010 at 14:30

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...