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Bill Holt Discography of CDs
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Dreamies CD (2005) Special Edition
 $9.95 
"Program Eleven" exchanges that white noise for airport sounds, creepy Sgt. In fact, "Program Ten" is a combination of two identifiable songs, "Sunday Morning Song" and "The User," the two melodies weaving in and out of the cacophony of noise-crickets, atmospheric sounds, a John Kennedy speech, NASA chatter, news reports, glass breaking, a thunderstorm, sports broadcasts, and gunfire while a synthesizer spits out spacey alien sounds or cuts like a kettle whistle, and an ominous bassline oscillates beneath it all. Inspired by the aural collage of the Beatles' "Revolution Number 9," as well as the musique concrete of composers such as John Cage and Terry Riley and Bob Dylan's conscientious rock lyricism, Bill Holt quit his straight job in 1972 to follow his musical muse, hoarding various electronic gadgets and an acoustic guitar and holing up in his basement. Unlike the Beatles' White Album collage, though, the pair of sidelong, 26-minute epics -- "Program Ten" and "Program Eleven" (as if progressing directly from "Revolution Number 9") -- that Holt created were much more than symbolic representations of the chaotic times. Instead of relying simply on the juxtapositions of his sound samples to impart subjective meanings, Holt composed lovely, downhearted melodies (very much recalling John Lennon) and trippy lyrics as a jumping-off point for each collage and then let acoustic guitar guide them through the gauntlet of sound. At its heart, the album is a blend of folk and pop/rock, and in many respects, Dreamies fits in with the singer/songwriter scene that flowered in the early '70s. He emerged a year later with Dreamies, one of the finest pieces of experimental pop from the era.
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Dreamies: Program Twelve CD (2006) The End Is Near
$9.45
After more than three decades, Bill Holt releases a brand new Dreamies! His 1974 Dreamies enjoyed a great rebirth in recent years.
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Bill Holt CD discography Alternate spellings: CD discography of songs by band, discographie, dicography, discology, disography, discografie, discogrophy, diskography.
 Bill Holt Songs
Popular or famous Bill Holt music songs: Anarchy, Are You a Friend?, Connie's Confusion Part 1, Connie's Confusion Part 2. More music songs Do You Know Where You'll Be?, Home on the Range Part 1, Home on the Range Part 2, Move Your Zucchini, Rosy, Station, Times Square. More music songs Program Eleven, Pt. 5, Program Eleven, Pt. 4, Program Eleven, Pt. 1, Program Eleven, Pt. 7, Program Eleven, Pt. 6. More music songs Program Eleven, Pt. 3, Program Eleven, Pt. 2, Program Ten, Pt. 5, Program Ten, Pt. 4.
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