Monday 20 July 2020

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, July 19th, 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 New York City, where the big Black Lives Matter sign in front of Trump Tower – which the mayor helped to paint – coninues to piss off the Donald, he he.]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Winston Churchill: Americans always do the right thing – after they've tried everything else.

I learned today that our host, John Ulett, doesn't know how to pronounce the word “segue.” I've heard him mis-pronounce it before, but it wasn't until this morning that i went to dictionary dot com and confirmed that it is a two-syllable word. There is no shame, of course, in not knowing how pronounce something one has only ever read and never heard spoken. (I, personally, didn't know how to pronounce “tao” until i was corrected a few years ago. What hurt about that was that my informant was someone i can't stand....)

Enough sociolinguistics, though: on to the music. And it was going pretty well, too, until about three-quarters in and then, bam, a double-whammy of dreadful, Pavlov's Dog and REO Speedwagon. Double McYuck burgers. How did these guys ever make a living? It's also baffling how Uman can insist that Kenny Loggins' “Celebrate Me Home” is not a Christmas song. I like it and i'm perfectly happy to listen to it at any time of the year, but it seems pretty Yuletidal to me (quantum mechanics baffle me too, so maybe it's just me).

Just a few notes gleaned from our host's comments this morning and from my own feelings. Uman agrees with me that Steely Dan's “Aja” is just about a perfect album – along with “Sgt. Pepper” and “The Yes Album,” although nothing from the latter was played this morning. I had no idea that The Cars, at the start of their career, were so poorly-received that they were often booed off stage. They became such a great band. And there was an extrordinary amount of Canajun music this morning – especially if you include Heart, who were from Seattle but living in Vancouver when they got their big break, and Neil Young, who was born in Ontario but has spent most of his life in California. And The Band, of course, most of whose members were Canucks.

My personal favourite tracks today: The Doobie Brothers, ELO, The Cars, J. Geils and Poco. Pavlov's Dog and REO notwithstanding, i'm grading this morning's edition (drum roll, please) an “A.”

Here's the view from Rump, er, Trump Tower, and the playlist:


Crosby, Stills & Nash – Fair Game
Little Feat – Fat Man In The Bathtub
Elton John – Grey Seal
Steely Dan – Josie
The Electric Light Orchestra – So Fine / Livin' Thing
The Cars – Tonight She Comes
UFO – Only You Can Rock Me
Heart – Dreamboat Annie
April Wine – Roller
The Beatles – She's Leaving Home
Neil Young – Sugar Mountain
The Doobie Brothers – Natural Thing
The Little River Band – Take Me Home
Rush – Test For Echo
Triumph – I Can Survive
Michael Quatro – Rachmaninoff's Prelude
Prism – Julie
Stephen Stills – Love The One You're With
Giant – See You In My Dreams
Kansas – Two Cents' Worth
The J. Geils Band – Give It To Me
Lake – Between The Lines
Ian Matthews – Lonely Hunter
The Marshall Tucker Band – Windy City Blues
Supertramp – Fool's Overture
Pavlov's Dog – Late November
REO Speedwagon – That Ain't Love
Kenny Loggins – Celebrate Me Home
The Rolling Stones – Emotional Rescue
Poco – Good Feelin' To Know
Jackson Browne – In The Shape Of A Heart
Journey – Topaz
The Band – Ophelia
The Scorpions – Is There Anybody There
Michael Stanley – Rosewood Bitters
Queen – Stone Cold Crazy
The Charlie Daniels Band – Midnight Wind
Kayak – Keep The Change

As we have moved into Stage 3 of the re-opening here in this country's Tornado Alley, this week's personal playlist isn't as lengthy as those of the past five months, as i've been at work more and there has been the resultant reduction in music-listening time. I still managed one 4-CD box set, though: the Ashley Hutchings, which was a totally unnecessary acquisition: i have all of its great schtuff on other albums. Oh, well, more dollars than sense, that's me.

Joan Osborne – Relish
Renaissance – Novella
Carolina Chocolate Drops – Genuine Negro Jig
Court Yard Hounds – Court Yard Hounds
Ashley Hutchings – Burning Bright: The Life And Times Of Ashley Hutchings
Peter Gabriel – Rated PG
Free – Heartbreaker
The Allman Brothers Band – At Fillmore East
Argent – In Deep
Cat Stevens – Buddha And The Chocolate Box
Television – Marquee Moon
The Mothers Of Invention – Uncle Meat
Trigger Hippy – Trigger Hippy
Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts -- Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts
David Lindley – El Rayo-X
Great Big Sea – Play
Nik Kershaw – To Be Frank
10,000 Maniacs – In My Tribe
Florence + The Machine – Unplugged
Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers
Wings – Band On The Run
James Taylor – Greatest Hits
Jerry Douglas – Traveler
Elbow – Little Fictions
Fairport Convention – Angel Delight
Dick Gaughan – Gaughan
Peter Hammill – Sonix
Talking Heads – Fear Of Music
Brian Eno & David Byrne – My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Jefferson Airplane – Bless Its Pointed Little Head
Blodwyn Pig – Getting To This

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