In the period 1965-66, The BEACH BOYS were in major transition, moving from an infectious touring pop band playing its innocuous pop hits to a serious contender in the pop artistry sweepstakes.  At the heart of this change was songwriter/producer wunderkind BRIAN WILSON and his chosen lyrical collaborators Tony Ashton and Van Dyke Parks.  The result was two intriguing and engaging albums, Pet Sounds and Smile.  While Pet Sounds stands as a beautifully creative response to The BEATLES’ Rubber Soul, Smile was destined to be abandoned and never officially released.  Hear both works in their entirety (the latter as re-recorded and finished by WILSON and PARKS in 2004) and selections with the hastily recorded Smiley Smile on this episode of GE.  The pain of genius unmasked, fellow music geeks!

BRIAN ENO spent a good chunk of time in the latter half of the 1970s in Germany, collaborating with the likes of CLUSTER, HARMONIA and DAVID BOWIE.  Hear some of the highlights of those collaborations, many of which cemented ENO’s role as the unappointed King Of Ambience.  Space out righteously, fellow music geeks!

The Rock’N’Roll Nurse gets a huge boost this week from special guest DJ MISS DEENA, as 2 vinyl lovin’ fanatics sport their most questionable finds from across the years.  Weird, obscure, headscratching, goofy, zany — you’ll hear the likes of YMA SUMAC, RICHARD SIMMONS, RODD KEITH, JIMMY HASKELL, SAMMY DAVIS JR., BARRY MANILOW and MIKE NESMITH on this very special episode.  Cognitive dissonance in spades, fellow music geeks!

BRIAN ENO is known for his great solo records stretching back to the 1970s, but has also been an amazing collaborator on many very influential records as well.  This episode of GE focuses on a few of those fertile collaborations, including the LP collaboration with ROBERT FRIPP from 1973 “No Pussyfooting”, which is presented in its entirety.  ENO +1 for you, fellow music geeks!

JEAN SMITH is arguably Canada’s best-known musical feminist agitator, and in the 1990s had an explosive output of material playing with both 2 FOOT FLAME (featuring New Zealanders PETER JEFFERIES and MICHAEL MORLEY) and MECCA NORMAL (with guitarist/artist DAVID LESTER).  She tells her own story of participating in both bands, the latter of which lasts to the present day, for this in-depth episode of GE.  Rage grrrl style, fellow music geeks!

Your pal The Rock’N’Roll Nurse was a wee tyke of 12 in 1975, but was a voracious consumer of oddball pop/rock/whatever LPs. Hear some of his more memorable polyvinyl chloride finds from back in the day on Part 4 of a 4-part tribute to the halfway point of the ’70s (featuring bands with names S-Z in his meticulously alphabetized collection)!

Your pal The Rock’N’Roll Nurse was a wee tyke of 12 in 1975, but was a voracious consumer of oddball pop/rock/whatever LPs.  Hear some of his more memorable polyvinyl chloride finds from back in the day on Part 3 of a 4-part tribute to the halfway point of the ’70s (featuring bands with names M-S in his meticulously alphabetized collection)!

Your pal The Rock’N’Roll Nurse was a wee tyke of 12 in 1975, but was a voracious consumer of oddball pop/rock/whatever LPs.  Hear some of his more memorable polyvinyl chloride finds from back in the day on Part 2 of a 4-part tribute to the halfway point of the ’70s (featuring bands with names F-M in his meticulously alphabetized collection)!

Your pal The Rock’N’Roll Nurse was a wee tyke of 12 in 1975, but was a voracious consumer of oddball pop/rock/whatever LPs.  Hear some of his more memorable polyvinyl chloride finds from back in the day on Part 1 of a 4-part tribute to the halfway point of the ’70s (featuring bands with names A-F in his meticulously alphabetized collection)!

GE gets woefully obscure in a 2-hour celebration of the mostly forgotten ’70s pop-prog pioneers ARGENT.  From the ashes of Brit baroque-pop sensations The ZOMBIES came an ambitious band bent on breaking musical barriers led by keyboard wizard ROD ARGENT (and including his cousin JIM RODFORD on bass).  Mostly known for 1 smash hit (1972s “Hold Your Head Up”) and 1 cult classic (1973s “God Gave Rock And Roll To You”), their first 5 LPs informed the young musical palate of your host The Rock’N’Roll Nurse, and he obsessively presents highlights from those records for your aural pleasure.  Prog-Lite forever, fellow music geeks!