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
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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