KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, April 28th, 2019

Quotation Of The Week ~Todd Rundgren: My favourite musician of all time is Maurice Ravel, for at least one good reason. He wrote the first rock and roll song, Bolero. It had drums all the way through it, and when they performed it people rioted. This is how artists make progress: by regularly offending the normal sensibilities.

[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 back to North B|ergen, New Jersey.]

(At the risk of offending Todd Rundgren, i hate that sodding Bolero. One of the worst pieces of music ever, IMFFHO.)

It's with some reluctance that i'm grading this week's instalment an A. There was nothing wrong with it, exactly – no, it was fine, it was great, but it wasn't extraordinary. There were a few songs i love – not many, though, and far too much of what you might call generic classic rock.

The songs that dragged it up from being an A- or even a B+ were those by ELO, Mama's Pride, Fleetwood Mac and Paul McCartney. Yes, Macca! I have a lot of problems with that man, i hate the historical revisionism he's been performing with The Beatles, but i can't deny he wrote some much-loved music. (Although what has he done lately, eh? Eh?)

Anyway, here's North Bergen. As i've spent so many Sundays there, i was (and thought you might be) interested in seeing what it looks like.

Trapeze – Don't Ask Me How I Know

Hardline – Hot Cherie

Kayak – Periscope Life

Jackson Browne – Lawyers In Love

Neil Young – Down By The River

Utopia – The Road To Utopia

Foreigner – I'll Get Even With You

The Electric Light Orchestra – 10538 Overture

Head East – Love Me Tonight

Mama's Pride – Laurie-Ann

Rush – Making Memories

Sammy Hagar – Run For Your Life / Danger Zone

Jesse Colin Young – Songbird

Grand Funk Railroad – Some Kind Of Wonerful

James Taylor – Carolina In My Mind

Wings – Let 'Em In

Eric Clapton – The Shape You're In

Steely Dan – Razor Boy

The Guess Who – Bus Rider

Shooting Star – Bring It On

Deep Purple – Might Just Take Your Life

Steppenwolf – Sookie Sookie

Climax Blues Band – Couldn't Get It Right

Bad Company – Weep No More

Fleetwood Mac – I Don't Want To Know

Michael Stanley Band – Promises

10 c.c. -- The Wall Street Shuffle

Bruce Springsteen – Down Bound Train

Judas Priest – Turning Circles

Gary Wright – Fascinating Things

Joe Walsh – At The Station

The Kinks – All Day And All Of The Night

Genesis – Tonight, Tonight, Tonight

Starz – Cherry Baby

Angel – Rock And Rollers

Foghat – Take Me To The River

REO Speedwagon – Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes)

Robert Palmer – Sailin' Shoes / Hey Julia / Sneakin' Sally

Here are the albums my therapist – her name is Brigitte and she works at Mademoiselle Fifi's House Of Pain – told me to play this week. God, she's good...

Chelsea Williams – Boomerang

Wishbone Ash – Argus

Terje Rypdal – Chaser

Various Artists – The Rolling Stones' Rock And Roll Circus

Dan Fogelberg – Souvenirs

Don Henley – Building The Perfect Beast

Eliza Carthy – Red

Planxty – One Night In Bremen

Hothouse Flowers – Born

Wynonna Judd – Tell Me Why

Runrig – The Story

David Bowie – The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars

Fairport Convention – Liege & Lief

Stone The Crows – Teenage Licks

John Kirkpatrick – Going Spare

John Lennon – Menlove Avenue

Sheila Chandra – Weaving My Ancestors' Voices

Franz Ferdinand – Tonight

Dixie Chicks – Fly

Bob Dylan – Modern Times

Renaissance – Ashes Are Burning

Max Webster – Max Webster

The Sugarcubes – Life's Too Good

Alan Stivell – Live In Dublin

The White Stripes – Elephant

Mike Oldfield – Elements

Various Artists – Circle Dance

Florence + The Machine – How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

Yes – The Yes Album

Pink Floyd – A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

Mark Knopfler – Golden Heart

King Crimson – Larks' Tongues In Aspic

Humble Pie – Joint Effort

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, April 21st, 2019

Quotation Of The Week ~Marilyn Monroe: Everyone's a star and deserves the right to twinkle.

[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 New York City.]

This week's instalment automatically is graded an A+ thanks to the inclusion of a Dan Fogelberg song but to tell you the truth, based on the first half of the show, an A- was about all i was going to manage. Some excellent music in the first two hours, but very little i could honestly say i loved.

The second half changed all that, though: there was loads of much-loved music and even though i hated the REO Speedwagon track, the great schtuff negated the bad taste REO invariably leaves in my mouth.

I do have one big problem with The Byrds' song “Chestnut Mare.” I love the song, i do. Part of the chorus is “and we'll be friends for life / i'll treat her like a wife.” Er, what?!? He's singing about a horse, for goodness' sake. Just what is going on here?

This week's pic is of A.O.C. I'm inserting it because this is my blog and i can do what i want. American politics these days is such a farce, but i like Alexandria :-)

Kenny Loggins – Easy Driver

James Taylor – Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight

Buckingham Nicks – Don't Let Me Down Again

The Steve Miller Band – Don't Let Nobody Turn You 'Round

Foghat – It's Too Late

The Electric Light Orchestra – Can't Get It Out Of My Head

Michael Franks – Born With The Moon In Virgo

Jefferson Starship – Count On Me

Neil Young – My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue)

Steely Dan – Night By Night

The Michael Stanley Band – Last Night

Dire Straits – Solid Rock

Paul McCartney – Helen Wheels

Orion The Hunter – So You Ran

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – C'est La Vie

38 Special – Teacher Teacher

The Byrds – Chestnut Mare

Robin Trower – Sweet Wine Of Love

Eddie Money – Take A Little Bit

Jackson Browne – For America

Styx – Boat On The River

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils – You Know Like I Know

Van Morrison – Domino

UFO – Shoot Shoot

Michael Bolton – She Did The Same Thing

The Rolling Stones – As Tears Go By

Genesis – I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)

REO Speedwagon – Dead At Last

Sammy Hagar – Love Or Money

Dan Fogelberg – As The Raven Flies

Bruce Springsteen – I'm On Fire

Ten Years After – Rock And Roll Music To The World

Bob Welch – Sentimental Lady

Dave Mason – Don't It Make You Wonder

Pink Floyd – Take It Back

Yes – America

Icehouse – Electric Blue

Stills-Young Band – Long May You Run

America – Lonely People

Heartsfield – House Of Living

The Doobie Brothers – Minute By Minute

And these are the albums my cat's psychologist told me to play for her, the suggestion being that it would help soothe her savage breast. It didn't work, of course, but i should have the bandages off by next Sunday.

James Taylor – Greatest Hits

Paul McCartney – Ram

Eliza Gilkyson – Lost And Found

Annie Haslam – Annie In Wonderland

Eddi Reader – Eddi Reader

Don Henley – The End Of The Innocence

Home – The Alchemist

The Sutherland Brothers & Quiver – Beat Of The Street

Joan Armatrading – Show Some Emotion

Blodwyn Pig – All Said And Done

Various Artists – Communion

Jethro Tull – Stormwatch

Maddy Prior & Tim Hart – Summer Solstice

Afro-Celt Sound System – Volume 2: Release

Sharon Shannon – Sacred Earth

Jill Sobule – Happy Town

Genesis – Nursery Cryme

Linda Ronstadt – Heart Like A Wheel

Strawbs – A Choice Collection Of Strawbs

Runrig – Mara

The Beatles – Revolver

Dusty Springfield –The Silver Collection

Kula Shaker – Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts

Kate & Anna McGarrigle – La Vache Qui Pleure

Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms

Steve Earle – Jerusalem

Gryphon – Red Queen To Gryphon Three

Dead Can Dance – Dionysus

Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love

Happy Rhodes – Ecto

Randy Meisner – One More Song

Horslips – Happy To Meet ... Sorry To Part

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, April 14th, 2019

Quotation du jour ~ Stephen Fry: Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

[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 Santa Clara, California again.]

Yes, i know i'm late getting this week's post up. I've had a rough couple of days, moan, groan. Work-related stress, plus that terribly 21^st century problem, lack of time. But this week's program was definitely time well spent. I'm grading it an A.

Lots and lots of wonderful classic rock there and in fact the only song that annoyed me was one by, of all things, a St Louis band, Pavlov's Dog (i generally love all things St Louisan). Their singer, David Surkamp, has possibly the most irritating voices of all time – worse, even, than Roger Chapman's. He, at least, had better material to work with.

I can't possibly choose a highlight, there was just so much wonderful schtuff. Here's the playlist, but before that there's a pic of The Snake Charmer, an absolutely wonderful Bengali musician and i can guarantee that she'll never be played on KSHE:

The Kinks – 'Till The End Of The Day

Jethro Tull – To Cry You A Song

Kim Mitchell – Go For A Soda

The Alan Parsons Project – I'd Rather Be A Man

The Beatles – I Should Have Known Better

Jefferson Starship – Mary

Shooting Star – Breakout

The Cars – Since You're Gone

Journey – Where Were You

Bob Weir – Bombs Away

Steely Dan – Kid Charlemagne

Robin Trower – Victims Of The Fury

Michael Fennelly – Shine A Light

The Grateful Dead – Tennessee Jed

Breathless – Takin' It Back

Roger Daltrey – It's A Hard Life / Giving It All Away

Deodato – Super Strut

The Sutherland Brothers & Quiver – (I Don't Want To Love You But) You Got Me    Anyway

Rush – Time Stands Still

The Poussette-Dart Band – Amnesia

Poco – Bad Weather

The Smithereens – Blues Before And After

Michael Murphey – Wildfire

Stephen Stills – Change Partners

Thin Lizzy – Don't Believe A Word

Steely Dan – Dr Wu

Don Henley – The Last Worthless Evening

The Little River Band – Take It Easy On Me

April Wine – Like A Lover, Like A Song

The Sweet – (Love Is Like) Oxygen

Eagles – Midnight Flyer

Loggins & Messina – My Music

Michael Stanley Band – Nothing's Gonna Change My Mind

Santana – Over And Over

Bruce Springsteen – Prove It All Night

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – Ripplin' Waters

Frankie & The Knockouts – Running Into The Night

Pavlov's Dog – She Came Shining

Dave Mason – World In Changes

George Harrison – So Sad

My psychiatrist suggested that i play these albums at home this week. Cheaper than valium, she said, and she was right.

Oh, did i say psychiatrist? I meant, bartender. Same thing.

Rory Gallagher – Blueprint

Procol Harum – Procol Harum

Fairport Convention – Farewell, Farewell

The Beatles – A Hard Day's Night

Dan Fogelberg – Captured Angel

James Taylor – Greatest Hits

The Hollies -- “Buddy Holly”

Pyewackett – The Man In The Moon Drinks Claret

Bonnie Raitt – Sweet Forgiveness

Brian Plummer – No Questions

Nazareth – Loud 'N' Proud

The Sugar Cubes – Life's Too Good

Eliza Gilkyson – Paradise Hotel

Staind – 14 Shades Of Grey

Donald Fagen – Kamakiriad

Roy Wood – Main Street

Tori Amos – From The Choirgirl Hotel

Renaissance – Azure D'Or

Maddy Prior & June Tabor – Silly Sisters

This Mortal Coil – It'll End In Tears

Texas – The Hush

Renaissance – Novella

Kim Mitchell – Kimosabe

Rob Hyman et al. -- Largo

Ray Davies – Working Man's Café

Fish-- A Feast Of Consequences

Randy Newman-- Little Criminals

Mike Oldfield -- The Songs Of Distant Earth

Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine

Big Wreck – The Pleasure And The Greed

Various Artists – Blues Breakers

Horslips – Happy To Meet ... Sorry To Part

Richard Thompson – Strict Tempo!

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, April 7th, 2019

Quotation du jour ~ Benjamin Franklin: In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

[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 North Bergen, New Jersey again.]

Well, wow. And indeed, WOW! I'm almost – almost -- tempted to give this week's show an A++ even though there was no Rorysong. It was brilliant, rather like listening to my own record collection without the hassle of having to leave my chair every five minutes to change the CD. So much music that i loved and at least three songs that i would include in my personal top 100 favourites: Renaissance, Eagles and Genesis.

In fact, in the entire four hours' worth of music (which, without the ads would probably be little more than 2½ hours) (i keep meaning to verify that with a stopwatch, but i forget every week), there was only one song that kinda sorta annoyed me. No, it wasn't Styx, surprisingly enough. It was Derek &The Dominos. Their album has some great music on it but it was a alcohol / cocaine / heroin-fuelled mess and today's track was the worst.

And here's a great St Louis brew:

And here's a great radio program:

Billy Joel – Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)

The Doobie Brothers – Little Darling (I Need You)

Slade – Cum On Feel The Noize

Ten Years After – Choo Choo Mamma

The Who – The Real Me

Eddie Money – Wanna Be A Rock And Roll Star

Bruce Springsteen – Streets Of Fire

Dire Straits – Industrial Disease

Wet Willie – Everything That You Do (Will Come Back To You)

Neil Young – Alabama

Sweet – Fox On The Run

Status Quo – Down Down

Renaissance – Northern Lights

Pretenders – Message Of Love

U.K. -- Nothing To Lose

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – A Woman In Love

Dan Fogelberg – Missing You

Loggins & Messina – Be Free

Michael Stanley Band – Misery Loves Company

Styx – Lights

Montrose – Rock The Nation

The Moody Blues – The Story In Your Eyes

Eagles – The Last Resort

Genesis – A Trick Of The Tail

The Marshall Tucker Band – Desert Skies

Charlie – Johnny Hold Back

Bob Seger – Turn The Page

Dave Mason – Lonely One

George Harrison – Dark Horse

Kansas – Fight Fire With Fire

Derek & The Dominos – Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad

Yes – Perpetual Change

Pete Townshend – A Little Is Enough

Firefall – Headed For A Fall

Flame – Beg Me

Foreigner – The Modern Day

38 Special – You Keep Running Away

Ambrosia – No Big Deal

And here's what kept the doctor away on my own optical drive this week:

Randy Meisner – Randy Meisner

Joan Armatrading – Show Some Emotion

Steve Hackett – Metamorpheus

Marillion – Anorak In The U.K. Live

Rose Among Thorns – Rose Among Thorns

Rush – Presto

Max Webster – Max Webster

Eliza Gilkyson – Lost And Found

Genesis – Foxtrot

Free – Tons Of Sobs

Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball

Kate Bush – The Red Shoes

Curved Air – Air Conditioning

Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic

Sparks – Exotic Creatures Of The Deep

Dead Can Dance – Anastasis

Bowling For Soup – A Hangover You Don't Deserve

Jethro Tull – Heavy Horses

Various Artists – Western Skies

Neil Young – Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere

The Albion Band – Rise Up Like The Sun

Rod Stewart – When We Were The New Boys

Beth Gibbons – Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs

Horslips – Happy To Meet ... Sorry To Part

Wishbone Ash – There's The Rub

Steely Dan – A Decade Of Steely Dan

Rory Gallagher – Defender

Wishbone Ash – Argus

Talk Talk – Natural History: The Very Best Of Talk Talk

The Byrds – Sweetheart Of The Rodeo

Renaissance – A Song For All Seasons

David Crosby – If I Could Only Remember My Name

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, March 31st, 2019

Quotation du jour ~ Albert Einstein: If i were not a physicist, i would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

[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 Santa Clara, California: the first time in a while that i've been in the 95051 zip code.]

This morning's show was dedicated to Olivia Ulett, the host's daughter, who has 28 candles on her birthday cake today, and she inspired an excellent program. It would have easily earned a grade of A+ even without the inclusion of Dan Fogelberg (which means – as i've probably said ad nauseam – an A+ automatically).

One reason i love this show as much as i do is that, so often, it's rather like playing my own record collection. That wasn't quite true today – i have nothing by the KBC Band or Flo & Eddie or a few others, but still, what a playlist! There wasn't anything that annoyed me and so much great schtuff....

Kansas – People Of The South Wind

Rod Stewart w. Jeff Beck – People Get Ready

The Marshall Tucker Band – Running Like The Wind

Bob Seger – Ramblin' Gamblin' Man

Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

Peter Frampton – I Believe (When I Fall In Love With You It Will Be Forever)

Loggins & Messina – Back To Georgia

Jesse Colin Young – California Child

The Alan Parsons Project – One More River

Uriah Heep – Easy Livin'

Pete Townshend – Face The Face

Michael Stanley Band – Say Goodbye

Genesis – Paper Late

Roger Hodgson – Had A Dream (Sleeping With The Enemy)

Eagles – Try And Love Again

The Jeff Beck Group – I Ain't Superstitious

Flo & Eddie – Keep It Warm

Charlie – Fight Dirty

The Who – New Song

Journey – Only The Young

Dan Fogelberg – Face The Fire

Steely Dan – The Caves Of Altamira

Illinois Speed Press – P.N.S. (When You Come Around)

Loverboy – Jump

Heartsfield – Music Eyes

Robert Palmer – Give Me An Inch Girl

Jackson Browne – For A Rocker

Manfred Mann's Earth Band – The Mighty Quinn

Mahogany Rush – A New Rock And Roll

KBC Band – America

Poco – Pickin' Up The Pieces

Paul McCartney – Letting Go

Jefferson Starship – Caroline

Neil Young – This Note's For You

Van Morrison – Caravan

Foghat – Somebody's Been Sleepin' In My Bed

Styx – Sing For The Day

I don't actually have a gynæcologist, but if i had, i'm sure he/she would have suggested this week's playlist at home – to help me deal with the -- oh, i can't use the word, but it rhymes with bunts –that i have to suffer every day at my woek.

Renaissance – Ashes Are Burning

Harry Nilsson – The Point

Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection

Joan Osborne – Relish

Dead Can Dance – Toward The Within

Kate Bush – The Other Sides

James Taylor – Greatest Hits

Eliza Gilkyson – Lost And Found

Portishead – Third

Max Webster -- Max Webster

Loreena McKennitt-- Live in San Francisco

The Sugar Cubes – Life's Too Good

Talk Talk – Laughing Stock

Steeleye Span – Dodgy Bastards

Talking Heads – Remain In Light

Afro-Celt Sound System – Anatomic

Pink Floyd – A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

The Rankin Family – Grey Dusk Of Eve

The Walker Brothers – Portrait

Randy Meisner – One More Song

Roger McGuinn – Cardiff Rose

Various Artists – Tower Of Song: The Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Beth Gibbons – Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs

The Tragically Hip – Now For Plan A

Richard Thompson – Dream Attic

Siouxsie & The Banshees – The Best Of Siouxsie & The Banshees

Pyewackett – Pyewackett

Phil Pickett (w. Richard Thompson et al.) -- The Bones Of All Men

The Allman Brothers – Idlewild South

Nazareth – Greatest Hits

Caro Emerald – Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor