Monday, 17 February 2020

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, February 16th, 2020


[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 Campbellsville, Kentucky. I've never been there before!]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Greg Lake: Original music. You know, in the 70s, the music was art-led, now it's market-led. You used to have rock heroes, now you have rock product. And music has lost its identity and its personality with all the crap and pap that's dished up today.

I've been listening to this station for maybe fifteen years and i'm afraid i just can't get used to hearing hospitals advertising on it. Barnes-Jewish Hospital, who helped to pay for today's show, is apparently an excellent hospital (https://www.barnesjewish.org/), the largest in Missouri, and their spot on this morning's edition was a “nice” (for lack of a better word), unobtrusive ad (unlike a lot of them). But it just seems so odd to hear such facilities hustling for business. Ah, America, i love it but i can never forget that it's a foreign country.

On to matters of secondary importance, i.e., the music. I'm definitely grading this edition an “A+”. What a wonderful four hours and definitely the highlight of my week! Even the two songs that i disliked passionately (Harry Chapin's and REO Speedwagon's) couldn't ruin that evaluation, the rest of the music was so magnificent. Just in the first hour alone there were six songs that i love, and at least two i would include in my top 500 favourite songs list: Jefferson Airplane and Wishbone Ash. Oh, and incidentally, well done Uman for playing the unbleeped version of “We Can Be Together.” It includes the “f” word more than once and the FCC frowns upon that: most American stations won't play the song at all! Thanks, KSHE, for cocking a snook at the FCC!

Here's the third stone from the Sun, and the playlist:



Neil Young – Don't Let It Bring You Down
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Third Stone From The Sun
Nazareth – This Flight Tonight
The Grateful Dead – Touch Of Grey
Jefferson Airplane – We Can Be Together
Roger Daltrey – After The Fire
Donnie Iris – Ah Leah
Heartsfield – As I Look Into The Fire
Wishbone Ash – Blowin' Free
Gary Wright – Blind Feeling
Red Rider – Can't Turn Back
The Kinks – Where Have All The Good Times Gone
Eddie Money – When You Took My Heart
Jackson Browne – These Days
Head East – City Of Gold / Fly By Night Lady
The Bliss Band – Doctor
The Allman Brothers Band – Don't Want You No More / It's Not My Cross   To Bear
Supertramp – Ain't Nobody But Me
Bourgeois-Tagg – I Don't Mind At All
Stevie Nicks – Enchanted
Lake – Do I Love You
Kenny Loggins – Heart To Heart
Billy Thorpe – In My Room
King Crimson – Epitaph
The Animals – House Of The Rising Sun
REO Speedwagon – In Your Letter
Deep Purple – Knocking At Your Back Door
Nite City – Summer Eyes
Billy Joel – Prelude / Angry Young Man
The Electric Light Orchestra – Showdown
The Rockets – Oh Well
Led Zeppelin – The Rain Song
Harry Chapin – Taxi
The Doobie Brothers – Turn It Loose
Steve Winwood – Time Is Running Out
Planet P – Why Me

I had an extraordinary four occupational therapists (a.k.a. bartenders) this week: Jess, Kate and Amanda at Crabby Joe's Clinic, and Brooklynne (sp?) at Bentley's, and here are the albums they told me to play at home this week, to help repair my shattered nerves. I pay enough for their advice, so of course i always take it!

Dire Straits – Alchemy
Players – Players
Eoin Dillon – Pondelorum
Yes – Going For The One
Paula Cole – Revolution
Elvin Bishop – The Best Of Elvin Bishop
Caro Emerald – Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor
David Gilmour – On An Island
Carole King – Tapestry
Peter Hammill – Skin
Max Webster – Max Webster
Steeleye Span – Tonight's The Night: Live
Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home
10 c.c. -- The Original Soundtrack
Loggins & Messina – Sittin' In Again: The Best Of Loggins & Messina
The Oyster Band – Step Outside
The Doobie Brothers – Best Of The Doobies
Nick Lowe – Basher: The Best Of Nick Lowe
ABBA – More ABBA Gold
The Kinks – Muswell Hillbillies
Steve Rothery – The Ghosts Of Pripyat
Various Artists – Songs Of Our Native Daughters
Tangerine Dream – Poland
Kensington Market – Aardvark
Quintessence – In Blissful Company
Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes
The Moody Blues – Greatest Hits
Fairport Convention – Shuffle And Go
Various Artists – The Mother Of All Morris
Kim Mitchell – Aural Fixations
Steeleye Span – Please To See The King
Godley & Creme – Cry: The Very Best Of Godley & Creme
Jon & Vangelis – Short Stories

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