Quotation
du jour: Elmore Leonard ~ My purpose is to entertain and please
myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough
other readers who will be entertained, too.
[As
you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE
doesn't stream their audio to here. I have to connect via
a VPN to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to
https://whatismyipaddress.com/,
i was listening from New York City again, somewhere in Manhattan.
Great! I love NYC.]
It's
difficult to know what to say about this morning's show. There was
quite a lot that was pretty ordinary, and a few songs i could have
happily lived without. I almost gave it a B, but when "Friends
Of Mr Cairo" came on, that was automatically bumped up to B+
I
have occasionally listened to an online station called St Louis
Classic Rock [dot] com. They pride themselves on how long they can go
without repeating a song. The last time i looked, they were well over
5000. (Your average radio station – not that i ever listen to
average radio stations – plays the same 300 songs every day.) The
problem there, though, and the reason i rarely listen, is that, by
necessity, some of what St Louis Classic Rock plays is really
obscure, and deserves to be!
I
had that feeling this morning – that a lot of what Uman played was
utterly dispensible. Michael Bolton – really, John! -- Runner,
Gypsy, Rainbow.... Quelle
blague!
But there were a few songs that i love. Not a huge number, but enough
to make the show the highlight of my week, as it usually is, and
there was nothing that i hated, so, yes.
Runner
– Fooling Myself
,38
Special – Rock And Roll Strategy
Little
Feat – Oh, Atlanta
Todd
Rundgren – Just One Victory
Paul
Kantner, Grace Slick & David Freiberg – Across The Board
Stephen
Stills – Turn Back The Pages
Dave
Mason – Look At You, Look At Me
April
Wine – Say Hello
Jay
Ferguson – Thunder Island
Bachman-Turner
Overdrive – Hey You
Michael
Bolton – Fool's Game
Bruce
Cockburn – If I Had A Rocket Launcher
Montrose
– Town Without Pity
Pure
Prairie League – Amie
Billy
Joel – The Ballad Of Billy The Kid
The
Little River Band – Every Day Of My Life
Justin
Hayward – Forever Autumn
Steely
Dan – Black Cow
Thin
Lizzy – Dancing In The Moonlight
The
Rolling Stones – Wild Horses
Gypsy
– Dead And Gone
The
Charlie Daniels Band – Orange Blossom Special
Mott
The Hoople – All The Young Dudes
John
Mellencamp – Small Paradise
The
Moody Blues – Gypsy/Eternity Road
Elton
John – Take Me To The Pilot
Eagles
– Outlaw Man
The
Grateful Dead – Playing In The Band
Jefferson
Airplane – Volunteers
Richie
Blackmore's Rainbow – Long Live Rock And Roll
Fleetwood
Mac – Hypnotized
Jimi
Hendrix Experience – Little Wing
Jon
& Vangelis – The Friends Of Mr Cairo
Manassas
– It Doesn't Matter
Trooper
– Raise A Little Hell
Santana
– Well Alright
Queen
– I Want It All
Shooting
Star -- Breakout
I
had a rough week at the office. At home, these albums, along with the
imbibing of a certain hops-based beverage, were my medicine:
The
Nice – The Nice
Radiohead
– O.K. Computer
Tyrannosaurus
Rex – Prophets, Seers And Sages, The Angels Of The Ages
Kronos
Quartet – Pieces Of Africa
Various
Arists – A Tribute To Dan Fogelberg
The
Kinks – The Collection
Dan
Fogelberg – Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed …
And Some Blues
Runrig
– Heartland
Fairport
Convention – Live In Finland, 1971
The
Kinks – Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround
Wolfscote
– Turn The Glass
Florence
+ The Machine – High As Hope
Loggins
And Messina – Sittin' In Again
Harry
Nilsson – The Harry Nilsson Anthology: Personal Best
Runrig
– The Ones That Got Away
Happy
Rhodes – Ectotrophia
Garfield
– Out There Tonight
The
Electric Light Orchestra – No Answer
Maddy
Prior – Year
Mott
The Hoople – Mott
Mike
Oldfield – QE2
Peter
Gabriel – So
Little
Johnny England – Mercs And Cherokees
City
Boy – Young Men Gone West
The
Kinks – Sleepwalker
Pink
– Try This
Garmarna
– Hildegard von Bingen
Genesis
– Foxtrot
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