Love the magical journey , its like all the characters are friends ,but Percy jones made sure they behaved themselves and got back home safely in time for tea
Amazing. Amazing how Phil Collins had so much great and complicated music is stored up there in his brain. It is far beyond my comprehension. No wonder he was able to play with so many such gifted musicians as he did here. Respect. Total respect.
Brand X is a great band, not very many people have heard of them let alone react to them, so this was a nice surprise. If you are looking for any recommendations for other songs by them, I would suggest Disco Suicide with, like this song, Phil Collins on drums. Sadly, he left in 1979 to pursue his solo career, Brand X is some of his most technical and challenging drumming.
Brand X guitarist, the late John Goodsall, also had a band with drummer Chester Thompson (Zappa, Genesis, etc.) named Fire Merchants. Their 1989 self-titled debut album was pretty good (try "Saladin").
Must agree with your comments. The funk was nice for a while, but then 'we are over it'. But when they went jazzy, it was great. Phil is brilliant. Always involved with the music with different riffs, complimenting the other musicians, he never missed a beat and could rock.
Percy's rubberized bass playing always cracked me up on this one. Gonna laugh every time. Got the record when it came out. A great band with true character.
The best Brand X album was not under the artist name Brand X, rather Lancaster and Lumley. It’s a concept album called Marscape and is one of the best fusion albums ever. Can I get a hell ya?
PERCY JONES. Mr underrepresented as one of the coolest bassist of the Jazz Prog Fusion musicians! Saw them live in a small club in DC in the late 70s. This album was my intro to BX. Raised on Funk, Fusion, Jazz and Prog, they quickly became my ultimate late 70's Fusion band! Similarly, just FYI, check out something else brilliant & obscure that won't get requested. NOVA's album VIMANA with Corrado Rustici - lead guitar, 6- and 12-string acoustic guitars, marimba, lead vocal Elio D'Anna - tenor and soprano saxophones, flute, synthesiser Renato Rosset - Fender Rhodes piano, acoustic piano, mini moog, string ensemble clavinet Percy Jones - bass guitar Narada Michael Walden - drums, Fender Rhodes piano Phil Collins - percussion Zakir Hussain - conga Produced by Robin Lumley
Evening, Justin. Dave from London. I may have been rude about Phil Collins' singing on this channel (like earlier today!), but he can Bang The Drum All Day. I saw Brand X live a couple of years after this album came out, and Phil and the band were terrific. P.S. my song ref Bang The Drum All Day is by Todd Rundgren.
Totally agree about the favorite section, which only got better. The first part could have been done by AI. It will be the expressly human bits that will come to be most treasured, I venture. I will come back to this again and again. Much obliged!
This track reminds me of Robin Lumley's project with various artists, including Brand X -- Peter and The Wolf (1975). There are lots of nice jazz vignettes, with lots of notables playing the parts of different animals, including Brian Eno as the duck (on synth), and not to be outdone, Gary Brooker does some exquisite bird calls on it. One of my Genesis fan friends didn't like it or Brand X, but I always thought it's really cool!
Unbelievable that this is the same guy who drummed on We Can't Dance. This is top-notch playing from all the musicians. I was lucky enough to see a double-header of Peter Hammill and Brand X back in the day. Wonderful.
I mean Phils drumming is still pretty damn great on WCD too lol, listen to fading lights, driving the last spike, dreaming while you sleep and living forever, he sounds great, ita just that there are also poppy songs on that record that dont require him to show out on the drums.
Also, dig into 'Moroccan Roll' album. The guitars with this group are fire.....oh, and the drummer ain't too bad either. PS Looking forward to you getting together with NicknLex!
'The Poke' and 'Masques'. They're the first 2 songs on the album 'Masques'. React to them together. Once you do, you'll see why. I agree with you about Born Ugly. I love parts of it, but in its totality, it seemed like they were trying to make it longer than it needed to be. Cool stuff though, regardless.
The first three or four albums from this band are most engaging, but the first two are so full of ideas and virtuosity as to seem ready to implode or some other over-demonstrative activity - those tensions are what makes it irresistible to me. Never far from my playlists.
Maybe it's the fact that the 'bubbly' effect on the bass makes it more difficult to discern the notes and therefore the novelty of the sound wears off more quickly for you.
Check out a rare interview with Phil and John Goodsall on The Boffomundo Show recorded September 1979. th-cam.com/video/OzKNEjlwjhM/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared The talk about this album and much more. Very insightful discussion of their music. Enjoy! With Peace and Love to all! (Michael)
Phil Sounds like a 70s Darren King here. Hi hat Heaven. Who JP. Time Shirley to Unmute MuteMath? :Reset Quarantine Break the Same War Stratosphere The Nerve The same yet different. They were the best live band in the world for about 2hours in 2011.
The only thing that ever even partially irritated me about this track was that the first section was too repetitive, but otherwise this is a great track - my favorite being the interweaving melodic lines between Robin & John toward the end with Phil's fabulous fills. Can't wait till you get to "Running Of Three" - faster-paced, not as long, but so much going on!
My former drummer jam friend loved BX, he always said, work on your right hand, probably to be able to get the funk right. Some parts were RTF like and that’s not a bad thing to me. One thing that I don’t like so much about this and other reaction channels is that it seems if a tune is too this or that it must be inferior. My mind isn’t always that focused on every little detail while I’m listening at home, work, car, etc. Sometimes I am super focused. Only here, do I really try and focus as much as I can and that often leads to disappointment because nothing is perfect. Rant over. Rent not. Pls give Los Lobos a chance. Kiko, Colossal Head, The Neighborhood lots of decent stuff. Jeez, two PC songs in one day and no LL… head’s shaking.
Unlike you Justin, I love that almost liquid bass playing tone from Percy Jones in the first section of the track! I think that's what gives this instrumental its unique identity, otherwise it would just be a regular jazz fusion piece.
This cuts right through, the "Medicated Goo". That My brain is being subjected to. Phil doesn't sing(thankfully!), he just bangs the drums blue. For pain, Diazepam & Dilaudid have put me in a haze. But Brand X and the like keep me smiling these days! Meanwhile, I keep 'Traffic'-ing in rhyme. Music, Peace & Love.
@@Wolverale12 i do like it, i just mentioned that camel and happy the man have more enjoyable melodic prog output. I saw Phil Collins in Brand X supporting Genesis 1978 at Knebworth.. i think i was the only one awake at 11am when they performed....It was superb.
I heard, oh cool funk! Only it wasn't. I spent the rest of the song with failed expectations. I didn't find it pleasing as a jazz tune either. Then to hear you tell me all the big artists associated with this and I was even more disappointed. All of them have done better.
@@Wolverale12 Don't have to apologize. Occasionally, I am the lone voice in the other direction. Justin will try to find the one redeemable thing in any song. I don't have to.
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Love the magical journey , its like all the characters are friends ,but Percy jones made sure they behaved themselves and got back home safely in time for tea
My favorite Fusion band forever.... try Deadly Nightshade it's awesome!
Mine too, with lots of humor and fun.
Amazing. Amazing how Phil Collins had so much great and complicated music is stored up there in his brain. It is far beyond my comprehension. No wonder he was able to play with so many such gifted musicians as he did here. Respect. Total respect.
Brand X is a great band, not very many people have heard of them let alone react to them, so this was a nice surprise. If you are looking for any recommendations for other songs by them, I would suggest Disco Suicide with, like this song, Phil Collins on drums. Sadly, he left in 1979 to pursue his solo career, Brand X is some of his most technical and challenging drumming.
Brand X guitarist, the late John Goodsall, also had a band with drummer Chester Thompson (Zappa, Genesis, etc.) named Fire Merchants. Their 1989 self-titled debut album was pretty good (try "Saladin").
And the follow up Landlords of Atlantis with Toss Panos is also great.
Repeated listening, like most interesting music, reveals so much more!!
Great playing and musicianship. Love it.
Must agree with your comments. The funk was nice for a while, but then 'we are over it'. But when they went jazzy, it was great. Phil is brilliant. Always involved with the music with different riffs, complimenting the other musicians, he never missed a beat and could rock.
Phil is up there with the great drummers .
Superb Fusion. There are many good Brand x tunes. But, try "Sun in the Night", one of my favourite tracks.
note to self: listen to more Brand X.
All right! Excellent choice, man they have a lot of great music to check out.
Percy's rubberized bass playing always cracked me up on this one. Gonna laugh every time. Got the record when it came out. A great band with true character.
The best Brand X album was not under the artist name Brand X, rather Lancaster and Lumley. It’s a concept album called Marscape and is one of the best fusion albums ever.
Can I get a hell ya?
HELL YEAH!
PERCY JONES. Mr underrepresented as one of the coolest bassist of the Jazz Prog Fusion musicians! Saw them live in a small club in DC in the late 70s. This album was my intro to BX. Raised on Funk, Fusion, Jazz and Prog, they quickly became my ultimate late 70's Fusion band! Similarly, just FYI, check out something else brilliant & obscure that won't get requested. NOVA's album VIMANA with Corrado Rustici - lead guitar, 6- and 12-string acoustic guitars, marimba, lead vocal
Elio D'Anna - tenor and soprano saxophones, flute, synthesiser
Renato Rosset - Fender Rhodes piano, acoustic piano, mini moog, string ensemble clavinet
Percy Jones - bass guitar
Narada Michael Walden - drums, Fender Rhodes piano
Phil Collins - percussion
Zakir Hussain - conga Produced by Robin Lumley
your reaction of the first part makes me think, maybe it is the exact reason, why this tune is called "born ugly"
The very first piece Brand X wrote; kinda shows the minset of this band. And Phil is just amazing on this album.
this kind of has Brian Eno's "No one receiving" vibe early in this track.
Evening, Justin. Dave from London. I may have been rude about Phil Collins' singing on this channel (like earlier today!), but he can Bang The Drum All Day. I saw Brand X live a couple of years after this album came out, and Phil and the band were terrific.
P.S. my song ref Bang The Drum All Day is by Todd Rundgren.
Totally agree about the favorite section, which only got better. The first part could have been done by AI. It will be the expressly human bits that will come to be most treasured, I venture. I will come back to this again and again. Much obliged!
This track reminds me of Robin Lumley's project with various artists, including Brand X -- Peter and The Wolf (1975). There are lots of nice jazz vignettes, with lots of notables playing the parts of different animals, including Brian Eno as the duck (on synth), and not to be outdone, Gary Brooker does some exquisite bird calls on it. One of my Genesis fan friends didn't like it or Brand X, but I always thought it's really cool!
I was thinking exact the same thing when I have heard the first notes. Cheers!
Oh yes Peter and The Wolf is to do in entirety. I think it was this project that led to BrandX.
Now this us like it! Thanks!
Unbelievable that this is the same guy who drummed on We Can't Dance. This is top-notch playing from all the musicians. I was lucky enough to see a double-header of Peter Hammill and Brand X back in the day. Wonderful.
I mean Phils drumming is still pretty damn great on WCD too lol, listen to fading lights, driving the last spike, dreaming while you sleep and living forever, he sounds great, ita just that there are also poppy songs on that record that dont require him to show out on the drums.
Also, dig into 'Moroccan Roll' album. The guitars with this group are fire.....oh, and the drummer ain't too bad either. PS Looking forward to you getting together with NicknLex!
'The Poke' and 'Masques'. They're the first 2 songs on the album 'Masques'. React to them together. Once you do, you'll see why. I agree with you about Born Ugly. I love parts of it, but in its totality, it seemed like they were trying to make it longer than it needed to be. Cool stuff though, regardless.
Wasn't this the soundtrack to Behind the Green Door with Marilyn Chambers?
Phil on fire
Now you're talking. Brand X is "LEGENDARY" (to me).
Pretty sure the word you were looking for is "Now" 😏
I'd hardly call them legendary though. Obscure seems more accurate 🙂
@@Lightmane You are correct on the typo I did mean Now. However I will stick to my opinion. They are legendary to me.
The first three or four albums from this band are most engaging, but the first two are so full of ideas and virtuosity as to seem ready to implode or some other over-demonstrative activity - those tensions are what makes it irresistible to me. Never far from my playlists.
Maybe it's the fact that the 'bubbly' effect on the bass makes it more difficult to discern the notes and therefore the novelty of the sound wears off more quickly for you.
It's great that you go on with bands like BrandX or VDGGG even if they bring you less views. I appreciate.
It's frustrating as Phil gets so much flak for going pop, but he was a Hell of a drummer.
JP, do you have to play songs about me? After all we’ve been through?
Check out a rare interview with Phil and John Goodsall on The Boffomundo Show recorded September 1979.
th-cam.com/video/OzKNEjlwjhM/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
The talk about this album and much more. Very insightful discussion of their music. Enjoy! With Peace and Love to all! (Michael)
Phil Sounds like a 70s Darren King here. Hi hat Heaven.
Who JP.
Time Shirley to Unmute MuteMath?
:Reset
Quarantine
Break the Same
War
Stratosphere
The Nerve
The same yet different. They were the best live band in the world for about 2hours in 2011.
The only thing that ever even partially irritated me about this track was that the first section was too repetitive, but otherwise this is a great track - my favorite being the interweaving melodic lines between Robin & John toward the end with Phil's fabulous fills. Can't wait till you get to "Running Of Three" - faster-paced, not as long, but so much going on!
nice choice. i played it yesterday ! only like the guitar later on 😏
I think Percy used a different bass on the first album. I love this album but agree the beginning section is a bit long.
Dead Pretty
My former drummer jam friend loved BX, he always said, work on your right hand, probably to be able to get the funk right.
Some parts were RTF like and that’s not a bad thing to me.
One thing that I don’t like so much about this and other reaction channels is that it seems if a tune is too this or that it must be inferior. My mind isn’t always that focused on every little detail while I’m listening at home, work, car, etc. Sometimes I am super focused. Only here, do I really try and focus as much as I can and that often leads to disappointment because nothing is perfect.
Rant over.
Rent not.
Pls give Los Lobos a chance. Kiko, Colossal Head, The Neighborhood lots of decent stuff. Jeez, two PC songs in one day and no LL… head’s shaking.
I used to spin this at punk parties to get folks to leave.
Unlike you Justin, I love that almost liquid bass playing tone from Percy Jones in the first section of the track! I think that's what gives this instrumental its unique identity, otherwise it would just be a regular jazz fusion piece.
Phil Collins 🙇🏻
This cuts right through, the "Medicated Goo". That My brain is being subjected to. Phil doesn't sing(thankfully!), he just bangs the drums blue. For pain, Diazepam & Dilaudid have put me in a haze. But Brand X and the like keep me smiling these days! Meanwhile, I keep 'Traffic'-ing in rhyme. Music, Peace & Love.
Not the best day if Phil Collins ain't your thing!
Camel and Happy the Man, have much nicer tunes...
Sorry you didn't like it.
@@Wolverale12 i do like it, i just mentioned that camel and happy the man have more enjoyable melodic prog output. I saw Phil Collins in Brand X supporting Genesis 1978 at Knebworth.. i think i was the only one awake at 11am when they performed....It was superb.
@@TONE11111 Oh ok my bad, also Camel's in my top 10 bands so I like them more myself. :)
I heard, oh cool funk! Only it wasn't. I spent the rest of the song with failed expectations. I didn't find it pleasing as a jazz tune either. Then to hear you tell me all the big artists associated with this and I was even more disappointed. All of them have done better.
Sorry you didn't like it.
@@Wolverale12 Don't have to apologize. Occasionally, I am the lone voice in the other direction. Justin will try to find the one redeemable thing in any song. I don't have to.
what should go wrong with this band - haven't yet heard a tune of them that was not worth listening to
Sorry you didn't like it.
@@Wolverale12 Well I did, didn't I?