Quotation
du jour: Milton Friedman ~ If you put the federal government in
charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of
sand.
[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 somewhere in East Hampshire, England.]
I
must confess I was a tad underwhelmed by the first half hour of
today's show. There was nothing wrong with it, it was fine, but there
were no “Holy Meow!” moments. But then I heard the opening notes
of Chicago's “Dialogue (Pts. I & II)” and I was in aural
paradise.
I
loved early Chicago. Such excellent musicianship. Their first four
albums were magic, but then they kinda wimped out (thanks in good
part due to Peter Cetera's wussy love songs). They were still
excellent players, of course, but were lumbered with poor material. I
think I finally gave up on them after album seven or eight. They've
released 28 or 29 since then and they're unlistenable – to me,
anyway. Maybe their mothers like them....
Anyway,
after the Chicago song it was almost all fabulous! I could maybe have
lived without the J.F. Murphy number, although there was nothing
wrong with it, really: it just didn't do anything for me.
Here's
the Chicago skyline, i've never been there apart from a couple of
stopovers at O'Hare. It looks magnificent.
April
Wine – Oowatanite
Humble
Pie – Fool For A Pretty Face
Fleetwood
Mac – Emerald Eyes
Santana
– Samba Pa Ti
Chicago
– Dialogue (Pts. I & II)
Nazareth
– Holiday
Steely
Dan – Time Out Of Mind
The
Electric Light Orchestra – Showdown
The
Atlanta Rhythm Section – Free Spirit
The
Little River Band – Man On Your Mind
Van
Morrison – Tupelo Honey
King
Crimson – 21st Century Schizoid Man
Eagles
– Ol' 55
The
Grateful Dead – U.S. Blues
Grand
Funk Railroad – Footstompin' Music
The
Police – Canary In A Coal Mine
Thin
Lizzy – Cowboy Song
Cream
– I'm So Glad
Poco
– Legend
Santana
– Open Invitation
Chilliwack
– Baby Blue
Firefall
– Livin' Ain't Livin'
Molly
Hatchet – Fall Of The Peacemakers
Ambrosia
– Holdin' On To Yesterday
Uriah
Heep – Look At Yourself
Paul
McCartney – Smile Away
Bad
Company – Electric Land
Yes
– Love Will Find A Way
Cheryl
Dilcher – Together
UFO
– Shoot Shoot
Canned
Heat – On The Road Again
J.F.
Murphy & Salt – Last Illusion
Crabby
Appleton – Go Back
The
Babys – Turn And Walk Away
Shooting
Star – You've Got What I Need
James
Taylor – Country Road
I'm
not sure if this comes from The Book Of Revelation or from the
writings of Confucius or Paracelsus, but I remember reading somewhere
that three or four CDs a day keep the doctor away. It seems to work,
too: i haven't even had a cold in over thirty years. These were this
week's prophylactics (it's not a long list, i came dangerously close
to having a social life this week):
Renaissance
– Novella
Poco
– From The Inside
The
Bothy Band – The Bothy Band
Nightnoise
– At The End Of The Evening
Martin
& Eliza Carthy – The Moral Of The Elephant
Peter
Gabriel et al. – Big Blue Ball
The
Kinks – Lola Versus Powerman And The Money-Go-Round
Dan
Fogelberg – Live In Colorado 1977
The
Beat – I Just Can't Stop It
Mike
Oldfield – Ommadawn
The
Soundtrack Of Our Lives – Behind The Music
Ashley
Hutchings et al. – Rattlebone & Ploughjack
Runrig
– The Ones That Got Away
Dead
Can Dance – Spiritchaser
Jackson
Browne – The Next Voice You Hear: The Best Of Jackson Browne
Buffalo
Springfield – Last Time Around
The
Bee Gees – Best Of Bee Gees, Vol. 1
Peter
Hammill – Fireships
Florence
+ The Machine – High As Hope
Camel
– Breathless
Propaganda
– A Secret Wish
Various
Artists – What's Shakin'
Dead
Can Dance – Dionysus
King
Crimson – Larks' Tongues In Aspic
Sheryl
Crow – Sheryl Crow
Trίona
Ní Dhomhnaill – Trίona
Wishbone
Ash – The Best Of Wishbone Ash
The
Albion Band – Lark Rise To Candleford
Annie
Haslam – Annie Haslam
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