KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, August 25th, 2019

Quotation Of The Week ~ Bob Dylan: Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

[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, https://whatismyipaddress.com/ was again unable to locate me precisely, but i was somewhere in central Kansas for the second time.]

I don't think i can grade this week's show much higher than a B, i'm sorry to say. There was nothing actively wrong with it and nothing annoying, but there was not much extraordinary, either: probably only two or three numbers that would make my Top 1000 Favourite Songs List. I didn't think that Michael Bolton belonged here (although his song was all right) and why a 16-minute song by Nektar for goodness' sake? Again, it was all right, if a little tedious, but that 16 minutes could have been put to far better use, IMO. (Few performers can pull off a sixteen-minute track; Nektar isn't one of them.)

The highlight for me was probably the Jefferson Starship track, although it was great to hear that 1960s British Invasion schtuff. Anyway, here's the playlist and some nectar. 

Crawler – Stone Cold Sober

Moxy – Sail On Sail Away

Uriah Heep – Sweet Lorraine

Bob Dylan – Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts

Santana – Flor D'Luna

Jefferson Starship – Miracles

The Animals – Don't Bring Me Down

Pink Floyd – Keep Talking

Steppenwolf – Rock Me

Krokus – Screaming In The Night

Rik Emmett – Saved By Love

The Outlaws – Freeborn Man

Blind Faith – The Presence Of The Lord

Shoot – Sepia Sister

Fleetwood Mac – Heroes Are Hard To Find

Jay Ferguson – Thunder Island

Jonathan Edwards – Shanty

Michael Bolton – Fool's Game

The Sutherland Bros. & Quiver – Real Love

Nektar – Remember The Future

The Tubes – She's A Beauty

Tony Carey – I Won't Be Home Tonight

The Rolling Stones – Rock And A Hard Place

Barclay James Harvest – See Me, See You

Off Broadway – Stay In Time

Gary Wright – Water Sign

Procol Harum – A Salty Dog

The Kinks – Set Me Free

Humble Pie – Shine On

Rainbow – Man Of The Silver Mountain

Night Ranger – Sing Me Away

Supertramp – Lover Boy

Jethro Tull – Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day

Budgie – Sky High Percentage

Yes, it was another one of those weeks. Here's the soundtrack to it, and, with my therapist in Bali for a much-needed rest (from me) and my secondary therapist Adriana (bartender at Bentley's Inn) MIA (she may have fled to Bali, too!) i had to choose these all by myself. I think i did okay....

Natalie Maines – Mother

Jackson Browne – Lives In The Balance

Wishbone Ash – Melodic Sounds

Keith Dewhurst & The Albion Band – Lark Rise To Candleford

Rory Gallagher – Against The Grain

Dead Can Dance – The Serpent's Egg

Brand X – Unorthodox Behaviour

Van der Graaf Generator – The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other

Pretenders – Learning To Crawl

The Nice – The Best Of The Nice

Pink Floyd – The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Highly Strung – Bagatelles And Belgian Lace

Outback – Baka

Judy Collins – In My Life

Dan Fogelberg – River Of Souls

Crispian St Peters – Follow Me

Sharon Shannon – Sacred Earth

Fairport Convention – XXXV

Steve Earle – El Corazόn

Susan Tedeschi – Live From Austin TX.

Wendy Carlos – Clockwork Orange: Complete Original Score

London Grammar – If You Wait

The Kinks – Muswell Hillbillies

The Bee Gees – Odessa

Frank Zappa – Hot Rats

The Yardbirds – BBC Sessions

Florence + The Machine – High As Hope

Jane Siberry – Bound By The Beauty

Donovan – Sunshine Superman

Kenny Loggins – The Essential Kenny Loggins

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, August 18th, 2019

Quotation Of The Week ~ Dylan Thomas: Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

[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, https://whatismyipaddress.com/ was unable to locate me precisely, but i was somewhere in central Kansas .]

I don't think i can grade this week's program higher than a B plus, i'm afraid. There was one truly awful song (the Ray Manzarek, and he's neither a singer nor a songwriter) and the number by Axe was pretty moronic, but the problem was that there wasn't a whole lot that i loved this morning: maybe six songs in four hours (the highlight being FM's “Phasors On Stun”).

Plus, in an appalling gaffe, Uman mis-identified the group Man as being English, whereas they are a group proud of their Welsh heritage. In fact, i have an album of theirs on which the cover is a cartoon of the group pushing Cymru (that's Welsh for Wales) away from England with bargepoles...

I'd love to share that cover with you, but i couldn't find it. Here's the Welsh flag, instead:

Procol Harum – Pandora's Box

Lake – Chasing Colours

Z.Z. Top – Party On The Patio

The Doors – Crystal Ship

Ray Manzarek – Bicentennial Blues

FM – Phasors On Stun

Eddie Money – Walk On Water

Jimi Hendrix – Red House

The Guess Who – Share The Land

John Mellencamp – Justice And Independence '85

Ron Wood – I Can Feel The Fire

Man – Kerosene

Tommy Bolin – Post Toastee

Loggins & Messina – My Pretty Princess

Bob Seger – Ramblin' Gamblin' Man

Ambrosia – Ready

Tycoon – Such A Woman

Jackson Browne – You Love The Thunder

Eric Clapton – Tulsa Time

The Beatles – From Me To You

The Yardbirds – Shapes Of Things

The Marshall Tucker Band – You Ain't Foolin' Me

The Fixx – Stand Or Fall

David Bowie – Stay

The Greg Kihn Band – Remember

Russ Ballard – Rene Didn't Do It

Foreigner – Rev On The Red Line

Blue Öyster Cult – Black Blade

Blues Image – Ride Captain Ride

The Moody Blues – Watching And Waiting

Tantrum – Rather Be Rockin'

Lou Reed – Rock And Roll

Axe – Rock 'N' Roll Party In The Streets

Phil Collins – Like China

The Fabulous Poodles – Roll Your Own

Asia – Soul Survivor

Last week, my stress-relieving playlist was suggested to me by Adriana, my favourite bartender at Bentley's. But i didn't see her this week. I had to choose this for myself!

Marc Jordan – Mannequin

Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill – Tríona

Nik Kershaw – To Be Frank

Andy Irvine & Paul Brady – Andy Irvine & Paul Brady

Martin Carthy – Carthy In Company

Dan Fogelberg – Captured Angel

Amazing Blondel – Blondel

Maria Muldaur – Waitress In A Donut Shop

A Fine Frenzy – Pines

Renaissance – A Song For All Seasons

Silly Wizard – A Glint Of Silver

Jefferson Starship – Platinum And Gold Collection

Max Webster – High Class In Borrowed Shoes

Sweet – The Best Of Sweet

FM – Black Noise

The Kinks – Soap Opera

Peter Hammill – Fireships

Richard Thompson – 13 Rivers

Ray Davies – Other People's Lives

Siouxsie & The Banshees – Nocturne

Kirsty MacColl – Titanic Days

Colin James – Miles To Go

Pink – Greatest Hits ... So Far!

Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe -- Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe

Hot Tuna – Burgers

Runrig – The Ones That Got Away

London Grammar – Truth Is A Beautiful Thing

Jon & Vangelis – Short Stories

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, August 11th, 2019

Quotation Of The Week ~ Lester Bangs: The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.

[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 San Francisco.]

I'm grading this week's instalment an A+ (the inclusion of a Dan Fogelberg song makes that grade automatic) but, seriously, without that, it would have been a “mere” A minus.

There was certainly nothing that i actively disliked, but not a whole lot that was mind-bogglingly brilliant, either. Lots that i liked, little that i loved....

Probably my favourite song was Led Zep's “Kashmir,” but i don't honestly know why that was a part of The Klassics Show as it's a song that KSHE plays regularly anyway. Possibly it was a part of regular programming, but if that's the case John Ulett ended the show three minutes early, which i would consider rather a liberty!

Otherwise, the highlights for me were Badfinger, Bob Seger, The Kinks, Saga and Bob Dylan. Here's the playlist:

Tom Petty & Stevie Nicks – Needles And Pins

The Rolling Stones – Dandelion

Dan Fogelberg – Times Like These

Vinegar Joe – Never Met A Dog

Honeymoon Suite – New Girl Now

The Moody Blues – Question

Point Blank – Nicole

The Electric Light Orchestra – Nightrider

U.K. -- Night After Night (live)

Eric Clapton – No Alibis

Nite City – Nite City

Badfinger – Baby Blue

Bad Company – No Smoke Without A Fire

Wet Willie – Baby Fat

The Tarney / Spencer Band – No Time To Lose

Bruce Springsteen – Cover Me

Bob Seger – Nutbush City Limits

Jefferson Starship – Lightning Rose

Aldo Nova – Monkey On Your Back

Rod Stewart – Oh, No, Not My Baby

Thin Lizzy – Old Flame

Saga – On The Loose

Paul Collins & The Beat – On The Highway

The Pousette-Dart Band – What Can I Say

Les Dudek – Old Judge Jones

Bachman-Turner Overdrive – Blue Collar

Lighthouse – One Fine Morning

Zebra – Tell Me What You Want

The Alan Parsons Project – Time

The Kinks – No More Looking Back

Bryan Adams – One Night Love Affair

The Allman Brothers Band – Angeline

Santana – Dance Sister Dance

The Doors – Waiting For The Sun

Tonio K. -- Better Late Than Never

Bill Quateman – Only Love

The Band – The Shape I'm In

Rare Bird – Beautiful Scarlet

Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues

Led Zeppelin – Kashmir

It's my psychotherapist who usually recommends what cds i should play as stress-relievers each week, but, thanks to the extraordinary amount of money i pay her, she's gone to Bali for a while. Maybe to get away from me, i'm not sure. This list comes, instead, from my favourite bartender (and alternate therapist), Adriana at Bentley's Bar & Inn. To whom i also pay an extraordinary amount of money, btw.... (Her all-time favourite group is Foreigner, but no one's perfect....)

Jackson Browne – Lives In The Balance

Susan Tedeschi – Live From Austin TX.

Renaissance – Ashes Are Burning

James Taylor – James Taylor's Greatest Hits

Max Webster – Max Webster

Big Country – The Best Of Big Country

Levellers – Levellers

Kim Mitchell – Rockland

Amelita – Court Yard Hounds

Maria Muldaur – Maria Muldaur

Anderson Ponty Band – Better Late Than Never

Dead Can Dance – Dionysus

Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure

Buffalo Springfield – Buffalo Springfield Again

Van der Graaf Generator – H To He Who Am The Only One

O.S.T. -- A Clockwork Orange

Blues Traveler – Four

Loggins & Messina – Sittin' In Again

Kim Mitchell – Shakin' Like A Human Being

Jackson Browne – Running On Empty

Neil Young – After The Gold Rush

The Beatles – Abbey Road

Eagles – Desperado

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Déja Vu

London Grammar – Truth Is A Beautiful Thing

Jane Siberry – The Walking

Carolina Chocolate Drops – Genuine Negro Jig

Natalie Maines – Mother

Mark Knopfler – Screenplaying

The Vaughan Brothers – Family Style

Fish – Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors

Deodato – Prelude

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, August 4th, 2019

Quotation Of The Week ~ Oscar Wilde: Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

[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 Brandon, Florida. I've never listened from there before, although Brandon is in the Tampa area and i've been to Tampa in what we laughingly call “real” life. ]

Now this, ladies and gentlemen, is what i call radio!

Playing Dan Fogelberg (and it was one of his most beautiful songs, too) automatically gives the show a grade of A+ but the fact is, it would have earned A+ even without that. I've never actually gone to the trouble of listing my top 500 favourite songs ever – it would be a pretty fluid list, anyway – but eight or nine of this morning's selections would definitely be included. The Allmans, Billy Joel, Camel, Steely Dan, Robin Trower, Dan's song of course....

Oh sure, there were some annoyances. Ted Nugent and REO Speedwagon of course – although their songs weren't really all that bad. The worst was the Eric Clapton. Does that surprise you? I'm not a Clapton-basher as so many of my fellow Rory Gallagher fans are. But he hit the low point in his career during the seventies and “I've Got A Rock 'N' Roll Heart” is just dull, dull, dull – and this music has nothing to do with rock 'n' roll whatsoever.

Anyway, just clock this playlist and rejoice, and welcome to Brandon, Florida!

The Allman Brothers Band – Statesboro Blues

Pretenders – Middle Of The Road

Billy Joel – The Ballad Of Billy The Kid

Triumph – Young Enough To Cry

The James Gang – Midnight Man

The Charlie Daniels Band – Orange Blossom Special

Deep Purple – Lazy

Ted Nugent – Free For All

John Mellencamp – Minutes To Memories

Kansas – The Wall

Nazareth – Razamanaz

Eric Clapton – I've Got A Rock 'N' Roll Heart

Dan Fogelberg – Nether Lands

Camel – Who We Are

The Rolling Stones – Mixed Emotions

Van Morrison – Wavelength

The Grateful Dead – Playing In The Band

The Doors – Waiting For The Sun

Joe Walsh – County Fair

The Hollies – Magic Woman Touch

Janis Joplin – Mercedes Benz

Jesse Colin Young – Mornin' Sun

Missouri – Movin' On

The Electric Light Orchestra – Mr Blue Sky

REO Speedwagon – How The Story Goes

The J. Geils Band – Love Stinks

Allan Clarke – Slipstream

Rod Stewart – Foolish Behaviour

Robin Trower – Caledonia

Queen – Dragon Attack

Pure Prairie League – You're Between Me

Steely Dan – Bodhisattva

Bob Dylan – Shelter From The Storm

Automatic Man – My Pearl

Mountain – Nantucket Sleighride

Runner – Fooling Myself

Sugarloaf – Don't Call Us, We'll Call You

Rush – Ghost Of A Chance

My psychotherapist has done it again! She gave me this list of albums to play at home this week – as stress-relievers – and they worked. Not once did i devastate anyone at work with sarcasm.

Chelsea Williams – Boomerang

Rory Gallagher – Defender

Propaganda – A Secret Wish

Van der Graaf Generator – I Prophesy Disaster

Terje Rypdal – Waves

Wishbone Ash – Argus

Dixie Chicks – Taking The Long Way

Linda Ronstadt – Heart Like A Wheel

The Kinks – Collection

Eliza Carthy – Restitute

Natalie Maines – Mother

Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli – Jazz Club

Joan Osborne – Love And Hate

Jon & Vangelis – The Friends Of Mr Cairo

Garmarna – Vittrad

Clannad – Dulamán

Renaissance – Azure D'Or

A Fine Frenzy – Bomb In A Birdcage

Steve Reich – Different Trains

London Grammar – Truth Is A Beautiful Thing

Marc Jordan – Mannequin

Peter Gabriel – Up

The Soft Machine – Third

George Harrison – Cloud Nine

Runrig – Heartland

Paul Simon – The Rhythm Of The Saints

Saga – Saga

Van der Graaf Generator – World Record