As part of a series of blog posts I intend to write over the next few posts, I present you with the first in a feature I am calling "where it all began" (as pitifully unimaginative as it sounds). The songs from these posts represent the records and musicians that formed the basis of my passion for music and artists are still come back to time and time again. The universe tends to devise ever-increasingly cunning and wicked plans to steal my time away from me so I will post as often as possible but they may end up being every couple of days for the time being. I would like to present to you a song from The Nice; taken from their 1967 debut album "The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack". Featuring the guy who literally played organ with knives, Keith Emerson, before his sojourn into Emerson, Lake and Palmer territory. This was one of the first records I bought and I still love the uniqueness of the whole thing. I have many theories concerning the creative epicness of this era of music which I hope to touch on in the future but for a start, bathe your ears in the aural delight which is "The Flower King of Flies":
