One Good Song: Van Der Graaf Generator - Theme One

Yes, even the worst of the nonsense prog rockers of the 1970s have a single good tune - and this one even has a madcap live performance to go with it. Although you can knock some points off as Van Der Graaf Generator didn't actually write Theme One - that was George Martin bizarrely.

One Good Breakbeat: Billy Squier's 'The Big Beat'

With Mof giving mad props to b-boy anthem The Mexican yesterday and my hip-hop friendly Beginners Guide To Bob James, looks like we're 'all about' classic breakbeats this week on Electric Roulette. In that spirit, here's sampler's favourite The Big Beat by Billy Squier, which is a bit of a crap song, but opens with the biggest, fattest, funkiest break you ever did hear...Jay-Z, Run DMC and Dizzie Rascal, amongst dozens of others, were listening...

Amon Duul II - Between The Eyes

This could be a case of 'One Good Song' for all I know. Amon Duul II is not a batch of rekkids I've delved into... yet. Whatever... Between The Eyes is super-heavy prog dynamite!

One Good Song: Sugarloaf's Green Eyed Lady

Okay. I'm lazy. I couldn't find a decent shot of Sugarloaf's eponymous LP. I couldn't even be bothered to take a picture of my own copy of it. Why would I want to do that? Well, on that album is the wonderful Green Eyed Lady which was a one hitter back in the late sixties or early seventies (who cares when it was right? A great track is a great track... and we've already established I'm too lazy to find stuff out).

The track itself is a proggy pop monster, with wailing guitars and a funky-as-hell bassline. It's also got the finest noise ever featuring heavily... and that's a Hammond B3. The track starts off a little too noodly, but boy-o-boy, when the bassline kicks on, you'll be praising the invention of the stylus! Click here to give it a listen... and I'll apologise for the cruddy nature of the fan-made vidjo.

Hang on... Two good songs by The Osmonds?

Y'know Mr Fuzz alluded to the fact that Crazy Horses wasn't the only rockin' acid track by The Osmonds? Well, curiosity got the better of me and I had a delve... and found this fuckin' insane video of the grinning inbreeds kickin' out Music Through The Ages. This glitterfest takes in Sly and the Family Stone, The Beach Boys and... unbelievably... prog and Moog. Yup. Watch it. You prolly won't believe y'eyes.

One Good Song: The Osmonds 'Crazy Horses'

As far as I can tell, almost everything The Osmonds ever did sucked beyond all reason. They were the living end, a buncha perma-grinning freaks in glitter flares whose emptyheaded sub-Jackson 5 bubblegummery was custom built solely to distract America from the Vietnam War, social breakdown, Watergate etc etc...and yet, somehow they managed to produce THIS MONSTER, 'Crazy Horses', one of my all time favourite singles, a wacked-out psychedelic-soul stomper which comes fully equipped with insane wailing vintage synths, crazy guitar breaks, thumping drums and a fat brass section. Amazingly, a brief Googling has revealed that this is far from The Osmonds only acid-soul nugget, but until I dig all those out the crate, here's the quite-good-sometimes Osmonds, with 'Crazy Horses'. (PF)

One Good Song: Cozy Powell's 'And Then There Was Skin'

What's this? Heavy breakbeated proggy thing by famous drummer? As sampled by DJ Shadow? Yup. It's Cozy Powell's 'And Then There Was Skin' which can be found for next to nuthin' on the b-side of Dance With The Devil (which is not so great).