Monday 6 July 2020

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, July 5th, 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 Chicago again.]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Kurt Vonnegut: If i should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The only proof he ever needed for the existence of God, was music.

I had a bit of a connectivity problem this morning, not too serious but i missed a lot of the Steely Dan song and the first bit of Brave Belt. It was too bad, because i love both of those. (I also missed some of the Ted Nugent song, but that's okay: what i heard was awful, and some of the Derek & The Dominos track and that was all right, too, their album was mostly a cocaine-fueled shambles....) I don't know if it's related, but i was using a different browser this week. My default browser is Pale Moon, but a few weeks ago, during a Windows Update, those nice people at Microsoft dumped their new, improved Edge browser onto my system. I wasn't really interested – i try to avoid using anything Microsofty (which is a little like trying to avoid Google) – but i decided to see what it could do and, hey, i like it! Pages seem to load more quickly and it's far more customisable than Pale Moon – as the latter is a relatively minor player in the browser wars, few developers bother to write extensions for it.

No matter how often i listen to KSHE, i simply cannot get used to hearing ads for gun shops and hospitals. Why on earth would hospitals being advertising now, for goodness' sake? They're overflowing down there! (In Canada, by contrast, they are rapidly emptying out....)

But enough of that, on to the music, and it was another excellent three hours of classic rock (four hours if you include the ads ha ha): definitely a grade of “A.”

A few words about some of the songs. For no known reason, i had “Mandolin Wind” running through my head all last week, and lo and behold, it shows up this week. (I always have music running through my head. Today it was Nik Kershaw's “The Riddle,” which, as far as i know, has never been played on KSHE.) Apparently, the country group Dixie Chicks took their name from the Little Feat song – i quite like Dixie Chicks, actually. Apparently they've changed their name to The Chicks – as any mention of Dixie is on shaky ground in Amerika these days, as they so gleefully try to eliminate their history....

More: The song credited to Paul McCartney was actually sung by Jimmy McCullogh, who was the guitarist in Wings for a while. It's a song about drug abuse. Ironically, he died of morphine and alcohol poisoning in 1979 – although he wasn't known as being a heavy drug user. The Lucifer's Friend piece was nice but went on for far too long. “Yours Is No Disgrace” is definitely a favourite song, as were the Mott The Hoople and The Little River Band. Damn'd good morning!

Here's a pic of the Dixie Chicks, er sorry, the Chicks. They're far more photogenic than Little Feat, and the one on the right can have me....



Here's today's playlist:

Fleetwood Mac – Bare Trees
Rod Stewart – Mandolin Wind
The Babys – Love Don't Prove I'm Right
Journey – When You're Alone (It Ain't Easy)
Little Feat – Dixie Chicken
Elton John – The Bitch Is Back
Bob Dylan – If Not For You
Robert Palmer – You're Gonna Get What's Coming
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Everybody I Love You
Firefall – Cinderella
Steely Dan – FM (No Static At All)
Brave Belt – Another Way Out
John Mellencamp – Thundering Hearts
Santana – Searchin'
Jethro Tull – Bourée
The Beatles – I Want To Tell You
Yes – Yours Is No Disgrace
Loggins & Messina – Growin'
Paul McCartney – Medicine Jar
John Stewart – Gold
The Michael Stanley Band – All I Ever Wanted
Ted Nugent – Wango Tango
Spirit – Mr Skin
Nazareth – Shanghai'd In Shanghai
Eddie Money – You've Really Got A Hold On Me
Rick Derringer – Everything
The Little River Band – Home On Monday
Pure Prairie League – Country Song
Lucifer's Friend – Sorrow
Peter Frampton – All I Want To Be (Is By Your Side)
Derek & The Dominos – Any Day
The Quicksilver Messenger Service – Gypsy Lights
Chicago – Color My World
The Doobie Brothers – Evil Woman
Prism – Armaggedon
Dickie Betts – Hand Picked
Mott The Hoople – All The Young Dudes
Billy Idol – Hot In The City
Black Oak Arkansas – Hot And Nasty
The Blue Öyster Cult – Hot Rails To Hell
Kenny Loggins -- Heartlight

One of the few good things about the current lockdown is that i am home at Spriggs Towers more often, which means quite an increase in my music-listening time. I've been able to listen, for example, to multi-disc boxes, which i seldom do for lack of time. There was one 5-disc set this week – the collection by Free – which i think i'd only listened to twice since i bought it about twenty years ago! And it's pretty darned good, too (although a 4-CD set would have been more than adequate). Same with the Dixie Chicks' live double album. I love the Chicks (although what i've heard of their new reunion album it, to use a technical term, “sucks”) and it's a lovely set, but i can't remember the last time i played it. The Harry Nilsson and The Allman Brothers were both doubles, too. Here's the list:

Santana – Santana
Rush -- Exit ... Stage Left
Robin Trower – Live
Free – Songs Of Yesterday
Harry Nilsson – Personal Best: The Harry Nilsson Anthology
Kim Mitchell – Kimosabe
Mike Oldfield – Islands
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
Peter Hammill – Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night
Talk Talk – Spirit Of Eden
Dave Swarbrick & Simon Nicol – Another Fine Mess: Live In New York '84
Neil Young – Harvest
Jackson Browne – The Next Voice You Hear: The Best Of Jackson Browne
Dixie Chicks – Live: Top Of The World Tour
Marc Jordan – Mannequin
Art Garfunkel – Angel Clare
Martin Carthy – Crown Of Horn
The Allman Brothers Band – Eat A Peach (deluxe edition)
Steve Earle – El Corazón
Vince Guaraldi – The Very Best Of Vince Guaraldi
Kirsty MacColl – Galore
Tom Rush – No Regrets: The Very Best Of Tom Rush
Paul Simon – The Rhythm Of The Saints
Talking Heads – Fear Of Music
Jon & Vangelis – Short Stories
Susan Tedeschi – Live From Austin TX
Steeleye Span – Dodgy Bastards
The Tragically Hip – In Violet Light
The Albion Band – Stella Maris
Natalie Maines – Mother
The Kinks – Sleepwalker
Alison Krauss – Essential

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