Need proof? Okay. Neil Finn’s 7 Worlds Collide project just hatched a brand new studio album (which should be hitting my doorstep as soon as this silly supersized holiday is over…hopefully). Then, earlier this year, this news broke:
[Jeff] Lynne, the bearded Svengali famed for leading the art-rock band Electric Light Orchestra, is also working on a solo album, which he hopes to release later this year. It would be the follow-up to his first solo outing, 1990’s “Armchair Theatre.”
And not too long ago, I noticed this on the official website for Alan Parsons’ upcoming DVD set The Art & Science Of Sound Recording:
Alan Parsons conducted a live recording of a brand new ‘Alan Parsons’ song All Our Yesterdays at Simon Phillips’ Phantom Recordings studio in Los Angeles, calling on pre-eminent LA session musicians all of whom are featured in the program itself. The track is currently being completed and will be heavily featured in ASSR both in the Recording Techniques and Mixing sections. Plans are still on-going for a separate release of All Our Yesterdays.
Now, I have my doubts that Lynne’s actually going to get something out by the end of this year – I love his work, but the man works so slowly that he loses drag races with glaciers – but in theory, this would mean my “big three” favorite music acts would be releasing new material all at roughly the same time (within 4 months of each other if they all release something between now and New Years’ Eve?) for the first time since 1983 (a year during which, if you recall, the world also ended*).
Add to that all the fantastic music we’ve gotten this year already (prior to the end of the world*, of course) and are getting right now (hellooooo, Beatles remasters!), and I’m going to be doing well if I can bring this year’s end-of-the-year music podcast in at under a day long. I apologize in advance if this year’s podcast exceeds the capacity of your pod*.
In other news, I watched the first installment of Starship Farragut: The Animated Episodes this weekend; it’s a Star Trek fan film project done in the style of Filmation’s early ’70s Star Trek cartoon. I’ll be posting a more detailed review in theLogBook’s sorely underutilized fan film section, but it’s great fun if you’re even remotely fond of the animated Trek. It really does look like something that just came from the Filmation vaults, right down to the same stock music! (Someone needs to release that music, BTW. We, the anal-retentive completists of the world*, demand it.)
P.S. – if you think there’s a whiplash-inducing change of topic in this post, think again – Alan Parsons’ song shares the title of the penultimate episode of the original Star Trek**. Strange, eh? Okay, enough of that. I’m off to bed*.
* not really.
** really.
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