Quotation du jour: Michelle Obama ~ The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
[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 North Bergen, New Jersey. I've listened from there before; it's an easy commmute to NYC.]
Oh, this is very bad: today's show included the very first Christmas ads i've heard this season. Of course, I rarely listen to commercial radio apart from on Sunday mornings and I never watch television so maybe i've been missing out. Still, they came as a bit of a shock....
As for the music, werrl, it would have been difficult to top last week's extraordinary edition and Uman didn't. In fact i fear I can only rate the show an A- (which is still pretty darned good). Sure, there was a lot that I loved: the standout track was probably “Starship Trooper,” but there was also Traffic, The Who, the Cheryl Dilcher classic, ELO, George of course (pictured below) although it wasn't his best song. One or two others. There was nothing that pissed me off but there was a lot that I would call “merely” very good rather than great. And I doubt if i'll ever love Ted Nugent's music, but Uman generally finds some that don't make me squirm; today's selection wasn't too embarrassing.
George Harrison – This Song
Trapeze – Medusa
The New Riders Of The Purple Sage – Panama Red
Les Dudek – City Magic
Traffic – The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys
Eric Clapton – Mainline Florida
Gypsy – Don't Get Mad (Get Even)
The Atlanta Rhythm Section – Homesick
Rod Stewart – You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)
The Charlie Daniels Band – Birmingham Blues
Kenny Loggins-- Celebrate Me Home
Ray Gomez – Make Your Move
The Who – Dr Jimmy
The Electric Light Orchestra – Turn To Stone
Ambrosia – Life Beyond L.A.
Wet Willie – Street Corner Serenade
Heart – Even It Up
The Grateful Dead – Alabama Getaway
Cheryl Dilcher – Who's The Captain
Supertramp – Lady
Danny Spanos – Hot Cherie
Yes – Starship Trooper
Steppenwolf – The Pusher
Jefferson Starship – Play On Love
Chilliwack – Roll On
Ted Nugent – Call Of The Wild
Lake – Key To The Rhyme
Santana – Everything's Coming Our Way
Journey – Stay Awhile
Kansas – What's On My Mind
Neil Young – Like A Hurricane
Todd Rundgren – We Gotta Get You A Woman
Jackson Browne – The Fuse
Joe Walsh – Meadows
Little Feat – Rocket In My Pocket
And this was my personal musical medication for this past (insanely busy) week:
Steeleye Span – Please To See The King
Sandy Denny – Sandy
The Allman Brothers Band – Beginnings
Peter Gabriel et al. – Big Blue Ball
Davy Spillane Band – Out Of The Air
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich – The Very Best Of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich
Fish – Internal Exile
Steve Hackett – Metamorpheus
The Kinks – Sleepwalker
Dan Fogelberg – Captured Angel
Melissa Etheridge – Yes I Am
Rory Gallagher – Blueprint
Wolfscote – Turn The Glass
The Waterboys – Room To Roam
Gryphon – Kings & Beggars
Renaissance – Novella
The Beatles – Help!
Highly Strung – When The Winds Begin To Sing
Paul Simon – In The Blue Light
The Beat – I Just Can't Stop It
Poco – Crazy Eyes
Jethro Tull – Heavy Horses
Lucinda Williams – World Without Tears
Rick Wakeman – The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
Graham Nash & David Crosby – Graham Nash David Crosby
Paula Cole – Ballads
FM – Black Noise
Happy Rhodes – Ectotrophia
King Crimson – Larks' Tongues In Aspic
Tangerine Dream – Phaedra
Don Henley – The End Of The Innocence
Jon & Vangelis – The Friends Of Mr Cairo
Garfield – Out There Tonight
Mark Knopfler – Shangri-La
Linda Ronstadt – Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
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