Banco at the supermarket

Earlier this morning I went to one of my local supermarket, as my food supplies needed replenishing. It is quite a large supermarket by Italian standards, and besides foodstuffs some other items can be found. As I went to the cash desk and started unloading my trolley, I noticed a CD stand right beside the desk's conveyor belt - and my eye fell on one by the title of "Le più belle canzoni del Banco del Mutuo Soccorso" (BMS's Best Song, or, more literally, Most Beautiful). Obviously it was quite a cheap affair, one of those cpllections you usually find in supermarkets and gas stations - but, believe it or not, it contained some of the best-loved tracks by the legendary Italian band, such as "La Conquista della posizione eretta", "Non mi rompete" and "25.0000 anni fa...l'amore".

The thing made me laugh quite a bit, as I thought of something my fellow Symphster Micky once said about his idea of Italy (he imagined Banco and PFM tracks blasting out of the PA system in public places... we should be so lucky!). So, I thought I'd post it here just to have you start the day with a smile and think of finding prog in the most unlikely places.

Ha - I shop/work at Tesco in England and they don't know how David Gilmour spells his surname - they have been selling his recent CD but under 'Gilmore' since March. tut tut

You know what, Fred? I don't think the people who put out that CD have the faintest idea of what prog is. Banco are a successful, well-known Italian band (who have also made more mainstream music than their Seventies masterpieces), and that's reason enough.

mystic fred wrote: I certainly hope i DON'T find Tesco or the local garage shop selling Prog CD's - i will take it as evidence that Prog music is no longer an esoteric niche market for the discerning music buyer and has "sold out" !!!!

Prog's getting more popular all the time, actually.

My local CD-store had all Gabriel era Genesis, it had two Yes' Best Of, it even had Van Der Graaf Generator's The Least We Can Is Wave To Eachother and I think they almost had the complete discography of the Mars Volta.

No King Crimson though :(