Hear The Marvel World Of Icarus

I was chatting with Ray Wall (of The Ray Wall Band fame) this weekend about comic book rock in general and what he's working on in particular. (Nothing I can mention just yet, but I'm fairly certain he'll have some nice announcements later this year.)

In any event, he pointed me to a band from the 1970s that went by the name of Icarus. All of the members were big Marvel fans and produced a Marvel-themed album called, straight-forwardly enough, The Marvel World of Icarus. I did a bit of digging and found that it crops up in blogs from time to time as people discover a copy at a yard sale or record shop or what-have-you. Sometimes, they'll include a bit of background about how there was a bit of legal scuffle over the thing and the album was pulled almost immediately after release, which owes to its obscurity. Occasionally, they'll make some vague references to the 1970s prog rock vibe all the songs have.

OK, so nothing terribly new or insightful there. But I have NOT seen mentioned very often at all is that six of the songs are available to listen to on The Marvel World of Icarus MySpace page. Furthermore, I found another three songs posted on YouTube and, since I was having trouble getting those MySpace tunes to play in some browsers, thought I'd embed them here...
The album was re-issued in 2007 with five more songs than the original record contained. The CD is available from Amazon. Personally, I really like the nine songs I've heard thus far and am definitely interesting in adding the full album to my MP3 player.