Sunday, 7 October 2018

KSHE Klassics Show, Oct. 7th, 2018


Quotation du jour: Edgar Allen Poe ~ There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

[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 San Francisco. Although i've listened from there before, i've never actually been to the left coast of the U.S.A. Western Canada, yes, but the furthest west i've ever been in the States is St Clair, Missouri.]

The Klassics Show scores an automatic A+ today for including the brilliant but now mostly forgotten Rory Gallagher. My regular reader will know who Rory was, of course, but very few radio stations play him any more and millennials certainly have no clue who he was, even those who love classic rock. Thank you KSHE!

The truth is, today's program would have veered very close to an A+ anyway. (Or, "anyways," as they say here.) There were a couple of deservedly obscure tracks (The Pine Valley Cosmonauts???) but nothing that was painful, and a shedload of songs that i love.



The Alan Parsons Project – The Raven
Atlanta Rhythm Section – Spooky
Rory Gallagher – Edged In Blue
Golden Earring – Vanilla Queen
The Moody Blues – New Horizons
Alexis – Fly By Night
Kansas – Hold On
Pat Travers – Off Beat Ride
The Kingbees – My Mistake
The Greg Kihn Band – Rendezvous
Batdorf & Rodney – Can You See Him
Grinderswitch – Kill The Pain
Al Stewart – Nostradamus
Supertramp – Sister Moonshine
Kingfish & Bob Weir – Hypnotize
Janis Joplin – Me & Bobby McGee
Angel – Rock And Rollers
The Michael Stanley Band – Don't Stop The Music
John Lennon – Mind Games
Moon Martin – Rolene
Gypsy – As Far As You Can See
Yes – Time And A Word
The Yardbirds – For Your Love
Rose Tattoo – Rock 'N' Roll Outlaw
Peter Frampton – (Baby) Something's Happening
Wishbone Ash – Persephone
Lake – Time Bomb
Nektar – Show Me The Way
The Pine Valley Cosmonauts – Goin' Down The Road
The Allman Brothers Band – Melissa
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils – Country Girl
Spirit – Nothin' To Hide
Hammersmith – Late Night Lovin' Man

Here at Spriggs Towers, it's been a kinda crazy week. I wonder if i can submit the price of these albums to my health insurance company? They really were my medicine. (Prob'ly not: i didn't save the receipts.)

Paul Simon – In The Blue Light
Ian Anderson – The Secret Language Of Birds
Pink Floyd – A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Joan Osborne – Bring It On Home
Chris Squire – Fish Out Of Water
Youssou N'Dour – Set
Johnny Clegg & Savuka – Heat, Dust & Dreams
Kate Bush – The Red Shoes
The Kinks – Sleepwalker
Rory Gallagher – Deuce
Sharon Shannon – Sacred Earth
Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run
Waterson : Carthy – Common Tongue
Colin James – Miles To Go
Emerson, Lake & Powell – Emerson, Lake & Powell
Runrig – The Ones That Got Away
Andy M. Stewart & Mánus Lunny – At It Again
Afro-Celt Sound System – Anatomic
Fish – Internal Exile
Spirit – Clear
Peter Gabriel et al. – Big Blue Ball
The Beatles – Rubber Soul
Dan Fogelberg – Nether Lands
Jethro Tull – Minstrel In The Gallery
Various Artists – British Invasion: The History Of British Rock, Vol. 5
Silly Wizard – A Glint Of Silver
Jack Bruce – Somethinels
Bruce Guthro – Guthro
Genesis – Nursery Cryme
Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic
Joni Mitchell – Hejira
Siouxsie & The Banshees – The Millennium Collection: The Best Of Siouxsie & The Banshees
Dire Straits – Money For Nothing
King Crimson – Starless And Bible Black

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