Monday, 29 April 2019

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

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