Quotation du jour ~
Henry David Thoreau: When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am
invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and
to the latest.
[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 Clifton, New Jersey. I've
been there fairly often.]
I'm giving this week's
program an A, although it just barely deserves it. The Alice Cooper
song is surely one of his / their worst, Angel's music is as
awful as one might expect from a band whose manager is / was Gene
Simmons of KISS, Uman managed to find a rare example of The Climax
Blues Band being tedious, and there were too many songs that, while
quite listenable, were simply ordinary. Then there's The Animals'
“Sky Pilot” -- a song i actually kinda like but, really, Eric
Burdon's lyrics show him at his most wankish. Gad, they're
embarrassing....
But! Full marks to Uman
for playing the 20+ minute “Close To The Edge” and the 11+ minute
“Ashes Are Burning” -- i love both of those numbers and you won't
hear them on yer average classic rock radio station. There were
plenty of other songs i love, too, so, A it is!
That photo down there
is Clifton, New Jersey's main street, btw. It doesn't look that
different from the main street where i live. Ah, Canada and the USA:
so many similarities, yet so many differences.
The Ozark Mountain
Daredevils – Standin' On The Rock
Steely Dan – Don't
Take Me Alive
Stabilizers – One
Simple Thing
Yes – Close To The
Edge
The Bliss Band –
Doctor
Heartsfield – Shine
On
Fandango – Blame It
On The Night
The Electric Light
Orchestra – Tightrope
Atlanta Rhythm Section
– Sky High
The Grateful Dead –
Sugaree
Renaissance – Ashes
Are Burning
Angel – The Tower
Jethro Tull – Hunting
Girl
Jackson Browne –
Fountain Of Sorrow
Stillwater – Women
(Beautiful Women)
Alice Cooper – The
Ballad Of Dwight Fry
The Boomtown Rats – I
Don't Like Mondays
The Animals – Sky
Pilot
Bruce Springsteen –
Badlands
Shooting Star –
Hollywood
Procol Harum – Simple
Sister
The Moody Blues –
Your Wildest Dreams
Painter – West Coast
Woman
James Taylor –
Carolina In My Mind
Thin Lizzy – Romeo
And The Lonely Girl
Crosby, Stills &
Nash – Wooden Ships
Lou Gramm – Midnight
Blue
Climax Blues Band –
Using The Power
Genesis – Your Own
Special Way
The Grateful Dead –
Shakedown Street
Todd Rundgren – The
Want Of A Nail
Spys – She Can't Wait
These are the albums my
optometrist recommended for me this week, to help me cope with (and
look at!) the grotesque and highly dubious people i have to contend
with every day:
Bonnie Raitt – The
Bonnie Raitt Collection
Various Artists – Red
Planet
Eliza Carthy – Heat,
Light & Sound
Kathy Mattea – The
Innocent Years
Ashley Hutchings et
al. -- Morris On
Paul McCartney –
Driving Rain
Dixie Chicks – Fly
Murray McLauchlan –
Greatest Hits
Florence + The Machine
– How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Nazareth – Razamanaz
George Harrison –
Cloud Nine
Rod Stewart – Never A
Dull Moment
Survivor – Vital
Signs
Marc Cohn – Marc Cohn
The Sugar Cubes –
Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!
The Beatles – Help!
The Nice – Five
Bridges
Mike Oldfield –
Ommadawn
Quintessence – In
Blissful Company
Fairport Convention –
Myths And Heroes
Garmarna – Vengeance
Renaissance – A Song
For All Seasons
Saga – Saga
Steeleye Span – All
Around My Hat
Peter Hammill / Gary
Lucas – Other World
Bruce Guthro – Celtic
Crossing
James Taylor – Before
This World
Sequentia – Ancient
Music For A Modern Age
Mike Rutherford –
Smallcreep's Day
Afro Celt Sound System
– Flight
Renaissance –
Scheherazade And Other Stories
Pink – Try This
Joan Osborne – Bring
It On Home
Oysterband – Rise
Above
Rory Gallagher –
Calling Card
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