Sunday, 9 September 2018

KSHE Klassics Show, Sept. 9th, 2018


Quotation du jour: Quentin Tarantino ~ "Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it's a Tarantino movie. You don't go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down."

[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 and happy to be there again.]

A great show this week.

As i've said before, any edition that includes a song by Dan Fogelberg is given an A+ and this week there were two numbers. Admittedly, the first of the two was an overture rather than a song, but who's carping?

The fact is, though, that the A+ was merited regardless. I don't really think that metal bands like Molly Hatchet and Judas Priest belong on the Klassics Show, but i didn't dislike their contributions, so let that pass. There were also one or two songs that i could have lived without, but i didn't hate them; i can't complain about that, either. [My cat writes: oh, shut it, i'm sure you'll find something to complain about somewhere.]

Two of my top fifty fave songs of all time were here, too: the Mott The Hoople and the Todd Rundgren, but, really, there was so much schtuff that i loved. I want to have this program's babies. It was, as usual, the highlight of my week.



Asia – Here Comes The Feeling
.38 Special – Wild-Eyed Southern Boys
Thin Lizzy – Showdown
Fleetwood Mac – Heroes Are Hard To Find
The Steve Miller Band – Serenade
Jefferson Starship – No Way Out
The Quicksilver Messenger Service – Gypsy Lights
Journey – The Girl Can't Help It
April Wine – Roller
The Michael Stanley Band – Last Night
Eric Clapton – Let It Rain
Glass Moon – Killer At 25
Molly Hatchet – Beatin' The Odds
Bob Dylan – Positively 4th Street
Snail – The Joker
Dan Fogelberg – Tullamore Dew/Phoenix
Touch – Black Star
Santana – Winning
The Byrds – Eight Miles High
Gerry Rafferty – Right Down The Line
Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade Of Pale
The Babys – California
Zebra – Tell Me What You Want
The Moody Blues – Legend Of A Mind
Charlie – Don't Look Back
Judas Priest – The Ripper
Michael Murphy – Medicine Man
Chris De Burgh – Don't Pay The Ferryman
Gary Wright – Fascinating Things
The Beat – Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight
Steely Dan – Night By Night
Firefall – Mexico
Styx – Snowblind
Elton John – Where To Now St Peter
Jethro Tull – Thick As A Brick (ed. note: radio edit, not the full album)
Spirit – Mr Skin
Flash And The Pan – Down Among The Dead Men
Kansas – Portrait (He Knew)
Wings – Venus And Mars/Rock Show
The Rolling Stones – Monkey Man
Mott The Hoople – All The Way From Memphis
Todd Rundgren – I Saw The Light
The Who – Athena
Grinderswitch – Higher Ground

These are the albums my bartende... er, therapist, told me to play to help me cope with whatever i'm suffering from this week. (N.b., it's not pyromania – I haven't burned down a major building in years.)

John Kirkpatrick – Earthling
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déjà Vu
The Albion Band – Lark Rise To Candleford
Paula Cole – Amen
Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells
Mott The Hoople – Mott
Florence + The Machine – High As Hope
Fairport Convention – Gladys' Leap
Yes – Going For The One
Marillion – Sounds That Can't Be Made
Jean-Pierre Rasle – Cornemusiques
Loggins & Messina – Sittin' In Again
Paul Simon – You're The One
Silly Wizard – A Glint Of Silver
Emerson, Lake & Powell – Emerson, Lake & Powell
Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet – Landfall
Barbra Streisand – The Broadway Album
Runrig – The Ones That Got Away
Siouxsie & The Banshees – A Kiss In The Dreamhouse
Nanci Griffith – Other Voices/Other Rooms
Peter Hammill – Sonix
Wolfscote – Turn The Glass
The Kinks – Muswell Hillbillies
Rory Gallagher – Wheels Within Wheels
10 c.c. – 10 c.c.
Jethro Tull – Original Masters
Trigger Hippy – Trigger Hippy
Rod Stewart – Vagabond Heart
Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill

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