Monday 3 September 2018

KSHE Klassics Show, Sept. 2, 2018


Quotation du jour: Nick Hornby ~ I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably ...

[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 back in New York City. Suits me!]

It was the "Now That's What I Call KSHE" Labour Day weekend, although in St Louis it would have been called the "Labor" Day weekend, and listener-submitted playlists were featured for all three days. On Sunday, they took up the second two hours of the Klassics Show, and i was worried. I think that the last time a listener took the helm, the joker programmed five songs in a row by Slade. (I mean, really: i like Slade and all, but five in a row?)

I worried for nowt. Overall, today's show scores an A (i.e., 5 stars out of 5). Each half also scores an A, but i think – sorry Uman – that the second half was marginally superior to the first! There was lots of music that i love in both sections, part one's score was reduced by a millimetre with the inclusion of Bad Company's "Rock Steady." Bad Company were a great band, but that song? I've heard it so often i'm sick of it, and, after all, the Klassics Show is supposed to be about songs you haven't heard in a while.



Santana – You Know That I Love You
Electric Light Orchestra – Mr Blue Sky
Dave Mason – Every Woman
Jay Ferguson – Shakedown Cruise
Jefferson Starship – Save Your Love
Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues
Rod Stewart – Foolish Behaviour
The Marshall Tucker Band – Fire On The Mountain
Janis Joplin – Move Over
The Moody Blues – The Story In Your Eyes
Flash And The Pan – Hey St Peter
The Michael Stanley Band – Nothing's Gonna Change My Mind
Billy Rankin – Baby Come Back
Mama's Pride – Can I Call You A Cab
Gary Wright – Love Is Alive
Crosby & Nash – Immigration Man
Roger Daltrey – It's A Hard Life/Giving It All Away
The Quicksilver Messenger Service – What About Me
Queen – Tie Your Mother Down
Bad Company – Rock Steady

At this point, John Ulett handed over the reins to listeners Ken Hawkins and Tom Villhard, and here's what they gave us:

Sugarloaf – Don't Call Us, We'll Call You
Yes – America
Toto – I'll Supply The Love
Starcastle – Lady Of The Lake
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils – Chicken Train
John Mayall – Room To Move
Stillwater – Mind Bender
Off Broadway – Stay In Time
Robert Palmer – You're Gonna Get What's Coming
The Greg Kihn Band – The Breakup Song
Tony Carey – I Won't Be Home Tonight
Kansas – Fight Fire With Fire
The Babys – Midnight Rendezvous
Franke & The Knockouts – Running Into The Night
UFO – Only You Can Rock Me
38 Special – You Keep Runnin' Away
Shooting Star – Hang On For Your Life
April Wine – All Over Town
Headboys – The Shape Of Things To Come
Schon-Hammer – No More Lies

These are the albums my specialist in internal medicine prescribed for me to play at home this week:

Jill Sobule – Jill Sobule
Roy Wood – Outstanding Performer
Andy M. Stewart – Man In The Moon
June Tabor – Aleyn
Annie Haslam – Symphony Of Light
Paula Cole – Harbinger
Steve Rothery – The Ghosts Of Pripyat
Seether – Isolate And Medicate
Peter Hammill – The Future Now
The Police – Every Breath You Take: The Classics
Joan Osborne – Pretty Little Stranger
Eagles – One Of These Nights
Heart – Little Queen
The Sugarcubes – Stick Around For Joy
Mike Rutherford – Smallcreep's Day
Brand X – Unorthodox Behaviour
David Bowie – Hunky Dory
Steeleye Span – Time
Runrig – Heartland
Happy Rhodes – Ectotrophia
Rory Gallagher – Deuce
Richard Thompson – Still
Cyndi Lauper – Twelve Deadly Cyns
Leadbelly – King Of The 12-String Guitar
Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love
Def Leppard – Hysteria
Little Johnny England – Tournament Of Shadows
Fairport Convention – Sense Of Occasion
Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy
The Yardbirds – Greatest Hits
Home – The Alchemist
Be+Bop Deluxe – Electrical Language

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