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Astronauts

Astronauts
Studio album by The Lilac Time
Released	1991
Recorded	1990 – 1991
Genre	Pop rock
Length	43:59?
Label	Creation
Producer	Andy Partridge John Leckie Stephen Duffy
The Lilac Time chronology
& Love for All (1990) Astronauts (1991) Looking for a Day in the Night (1998)
Singles from Astronauts
"Madresfield" Released: 1991 "Dreaming" Released: 1991 "In Iverna Gardens" Released: 1991

Astronauts is the fourth album by English band the Lilac Time and was released by Creation Records in 1991.

Release and reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Trouser Press	favourable

Astronauts was released on ________, 1991 by Fontana Records, but it didn't reach the UK Albums Chart. The single "All for Love & Love for All" was issued ahead of the album in _______ 1990 and reached number ?? in the UK Singles Chart. Two further singles, "The Laundry" and "It'll End in Tears" were issued in late 1990, but neither release charted.

Track listing

All songs written by Stephen Duffy, except track 7: written by Nick Duffy.

Side one

1. "American Eyes" – 2:32
2. "The Lost Girl in the Midnight Sun" – 3:59
3. "The Beauty in Your Body" – 3:49
4. "If the Stars Shine Tonight" – 3:40
5. "The Days of the Week" – 3:30
6. "She Still Loves You" – 3:23
7. "Paradise Circus" – 1:24

Side two

1. "The Girl Who Waves at Trains" – 4:01
2. "The Last to Know" – 2:57
3. "Father Mother Wife and Child" – 6:27
4. "The Rollercoaster Song" – 3:04
5. "Work for the Weekend" – 4:35
6. "Twilight Beer Hall" – 0:38

Personnel

• Stephen Duffy - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals
• Nick Duffy - banjo, accordian, violin
• Michael Weston - keyboards
• Michael Giri - drums, backing vocals
• Mickey Harris - bass guitar, backing vocals
• Caroline Radcliffe - backing vocals, oboe

External links

• Paradise Circus at Discogs (list of releases)

Domenic Priore

Domenic Priore
Born	Domenic Priore 1960 Pasadena, California, United States
Occupation	Author, popular music and culture historian, documentary writer, television producer
Nationality	American
Education	Pasadena City College
Genre	American popular music, American popular culture
Subject	Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys,
Notable works	Look! Listen! Smile! Vibrate!, Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece, Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock 'n' Roll's Last Stand in Hollywood

Domenic Priore (born 1960) is an American author, historian and televison producer whose focus is on popular music and its attendant youth culture. He is perhaps best known as an authority on The Beach Boys' ill-fated Smile album, having written two books on the subject, Look! Listen! Smile! Vibrate! and Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece. He has also published a number of books and articles on the greater Los Angeles area's youth culture during the 1960s, with special focus on the surf craze and the Sunset Strip music scene. In addition, Priore worked as the primary writer and creative consultant on the AMC documentaries Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955–1970) and Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s.

Life and writing

West Coast on as well as having written liner notes for a number of CD reissues by the likes of The Cyrkle, The Standells and The Byrds.

Publications and documentaries

Publications

• Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Boom (2008 Santa Monica Press)
• Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock 'n' Roll's Last Stand in Hollywood (2007 Jawbone Press)
• Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece (2005 Sanctuary Books)
• Dumb Angel Vol. 4: All Summer Long (2005 Neptune's Kingdom Press)
• Beatsville! (2004/2003? Outre Gallery Press)
• The Dumb Angel Gazzette #3: Potpourri (1994 Last Gasp)
• Look! Listen! Smile! Vibrate! (subtitled The Dumb Angel Gazette #2) (1988, revised and up-dated 1995 Last Gasp)
• The Dumb Angel Gazzette #1 (1987 Last Gasp)

Documentaries

• Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955–1970) (2000, hosted by Ringo Starr)
• Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s (2002, hosted by David Bowie)

External links

• Domenic Priore's Personal Weblog

Category:1960 births Category:Living people Category:American music critics Category:American music writers Category:American television producers

Moog modular synthesizer corrections

Edit summry: Corrected chonology of Moog appearances on rock albums & added refs to support this.

The first Moog system was bought by choreographer Alwin Nikolais. Lothar and the Hand People began using the modular Moog in 1965. Composers Eric Siday and Chris Swansen were also among the first customers. Session musician, Paul Beaver, was the first to play a modular Moog on a record in 1967: on The Monkees' Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. album. A common misconception is that The Doors' second album, Strange Days, was the first LP to feature the sound of the Moog. While it is true that the instrument was used in the song, "Strange Days", the audio engineer on the recording session, Bruce Botnick, has stated that it was only singer Jim Morrison's voice that was run through the machine. Consiquently, although the Moog was used on the Strange Days album, the sound of the instrument itself wasn't heard until its appearance on Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.. Beaver was also featured playing the instrument on a number of its other early appearances on rock albums, including The Notorious Byrd Brothers by The Byrds, The Trip: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Electric Flag, and the concept album, The Zodiac : Cosmic Sounds. It was Wendy Carlos' 1968 Switched-On Bach album (see 1968 in music), featuring Carlos' custom-built modular synthesizer as the only instrument on the recording, which brought widespread interest to the Moog synthesizer. Shortly after, Keith Emerson, Jan Hammer, Tangerine Dream, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones also became owners of modular Moogs. This new popularity led to the 1970 release of the classic Minimoog and subsequent Moog synthesizers, modeled after the larger modular systems and designed for portability, usability, and affordability. A number of universities purchased Moog systems or modules; the University of Iowa where composer Peter Tod Lewis was a faculty member, for example, owned a Moog Modular IIIC with an optional double-sequencer addition.

Sources

The liner notes to my copy of Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. say it was released on November 14, 1967, and that Paul Beaver and Micky Dolenz plays the Moog on it. But it looks like the Doors beat them by at least a couple weeks: multiple online sources say the Doors' Strange Days was released on October 1967, and like PAC&JL, it's got Paul Beaver and his Moog. The book Analog Days says: "On the title track "Strange Days" Jim Morrison's vocal is created by the filter and envelope, triggered by Jim himself hitting the keyboard on the vocal..." And it's also detectable in the white noise of "Horse Latitudes." But but but give the Monkees this: they beat the Beatles on Moog-use bragging rights by nearly two years (nearly a year and a half if you count George Harrison's Electronic Sound), and the synth bit in "Star Collector" is easily much weirder than the synth bits on Strange Days. Mickey actually bought, too, I think.

There are a few others that may have beat the Doors, but we get into less verifiable territory here. There's the Electric Flag (with Paul Beaver) and their soundtrack to Roger Corman's The Trip, can't say I know when the accompanying album was released, but imdb.com says the movie premiered August 23, 1967. The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds LP (with Paul Beaver) is often cited as the THE first album with a Moog, rock or otherwise, but I'm seeing contradictory release dates online, either May or November 1967. Emil Richards, who played on that, claims his New Sound Element: Stones (with Paul Beaver, probably) MAY have been before that, but I can't verify. And then there some uses in commercials and other kinds of "ephemeral music" prior to THAT, but whether they made it wax is anybody's guess.