Monday 31 December 2018

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, DEC. 30th, 2018

Quotation du jour ~ Hoda Kotb: I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.

[As you may or may not know, i live in Canada, and for some reason KSHE doesn't stream their audio to here and i have to connect via a VPN, to spoof a non-Canadian address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Toronto! Well, obviously that wouldn't have worked, so i disconnected from and reconnected to my VPN and – whoosh! -- i was in Clifton, New Jersey, where i've been several times.]

I was on my way to awarding this week's rather disappointing installment a “mere” B+ but then Uman played that awful tripe by Aphrodite's Child and that torpedoed it down to a B. But all was not lost – later, he played Mama's Pride and that nudged it northwards to an A minus -- and it wasn't even one of my favourite songs of theirs but it's always great to hear Pat Liston's voice. The Wishbone Ash and Thin Lizzy tracks helped, too. (The Liston brothers have a new album out but, as of this writing, it is only available through their website and they don't ship to Canada. Bummer!)

In truth, there was nothing actually wrong with this morning's show (apart from Aphrodite's Child), but there wasn't much that was great about it, either. A lot of music i like, for sure, but not much that i can honestly say i love and a lot that was merely all rigttht.

And there's The Marshall Tucker Band. Ugly bunch, really, but very pretty music.

 

The Marshall Tucker Band – Heard It In A Love Song
Poco – You Better Think Twice
Joe Walsh – Indian Summer
Lake – On The Run
King Crimson – The Court Of The Crimson King
Rod Stewart – Gasoline Alley
Kenny Loggins & Jim Messina – Nobody But You
Deep Purple – Burn
Leon Russell – Stranger In A Strange Land
Nite City – Summer Eyes
Dave Mason – So High (Rock Me Baby And Roll Me Away)
The Electric Light Orchestra – Sweet Talkin' Woman
The Spencer Davis Group – I'm A Man
Heart – Little Queen
The Little River Band – It's A Long Way There
Phantom, Rocker And Slick – Men Without Shame
The Grateful Dead – One More Saturday Night
Jackson Browne – Hold Out
The Little River Band – Cool Change
Frank Marino – Strange Dreams
Badfinger – No Matter What
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils – Spaceship Orion
Billy Joel – Captain Jack
Aphrodite's Child – Loud Loud Loud / 4 Horsemen
Paice Ashton Lord – Remember The Good Times
Rainbow – Stone Cold
The Babys – Looking For Love
Mama's Pride – She's A Stranger To Me Now
Roger Daltrey – One Man Band
Thin Lizzy – Don't Believe A Word
Wishbone Ash – Blowin' Free
The Allman Brothers Band – Jessica
Elton John – Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters
Blue Őyster Cult -- Take Me Away
Steely Dan -- Pretzel Logic
Paul Collins & The Beat -- On The Highway

In my own personal playlist, as you can see, the rot set in early in the week: Christmas music. I soon got over it, though....

Joan Osborne – Christmas Means Love
Spiers & Boden – Tunes
Jane Siberry – Shushan The Palace (Hymns Of Earth)
The Albion Christmas Band – Under The Christmas Tree
Donovan – What's Bin Did And What's Bin Hid
Shirley Collins And The Albion Country Band – No Roses
Loreena McKennitt – A Winter Garden
Paul Simon – The Rhythm Of The Saints
Sharon Shannon – Sacred Earth
Amy Grant – A Christmas Album
Keith Emerson – The Christmas Album
The Eagles – Their Greatest Hits
The Albion Band – Another Christmas Present From The Albion Band
Dan Fogelberg – The First Christmas Morning
Phil Pickett w. Richard Thompson et al. -- The Bones Of All Men
The Bothy Band – Old Hag You Have Killed Me
The Chieftains – The Bells Of Dublin
Enya – And Winter Came
Renaissance – A Song For All Seasons
Jon Anderson – Olias Of Sunhillow
The Beatles – Yellow Submarine
Neverending Bright Lights – Act I: Goodbye Friends Of The Heavenly Bodies
Camel – Breathless
Jethro Tull – Stormwatch
Five Hand Reel – Five Hand Reel
Matchbox Twenty – Mad Season
Pink – Try This
Bob Dylan -- Bob Dylan
Jack Bruce – Silver Rails
Martin Carthy – Crown Of Horn
Arkells – Michigan Left
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Superstition
Paula Cole -- Harbinger

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