Monday, 28 September 2020

KSHE KLASSICS SHOW, Sept. 27th, 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 Santa Clara, California, again.]

Quotation Of The Week ~ Ray Charles: Music is nothing separate from me. It is me.

I came very close to grading this week's program a “B”, primarily because of the awful song by REO Speedwagon and the abysmal, embarrasingly bad piece of shite by Bloodrock, but, nah, i'm too nice a guy. Besides, those two musical nightmares were more than compensated for by the sheer brilliance of so much of the rest of the show, so, an “A” it is.

It was really nice to hear The Left Banke – Uman doesn't play much mid-sixties music apart from the British Invasion schtuff.

A few random comments. “Thick As A Brick” was the drastically shortened radio edit. We're never likely to hear the full version, as it's about 45 minutes long, but i can accept that, as long as we get a long song once in a while. My favourite numbers today were those by The Fixx, Jeff Beck (of course!), Renaissance, Buffalo Springfield, Billy Joel and Genesis.

I have a few things to say about Jefferson Starship, but, you know, if you can't say anything nice, blah blah. I loved them as Jefferson Airplane. The first couple of Jefferson Starship albums were pretty good too. After that i completely lost interest. Anyway, here's the playlist:

The Babys – Isn't It Time

Jo Jo Gunne – Ready Freddy

The Left Banke – Walk Away Renee

Budgie – I Ain't No Mountain

Atlanta Rhythm Section – Jukin'

Montrose – Space Station #5

Spirit – Animal Zoo

Jethro Tull – Thick As A Brick

Grand Funk Railroad – Bad Time

The Fixx – Secret Separation

Strawbs – Keep On Trying

John Miles – Do It All Again

America – Don't Cross The River

Robert Palmer – Best Of Both Worlds

Ted Nugent – Hey Baby

Fleetwood Mac – Never Going Back Again

Bloodrock – D.O.A.

The Dwight Twilley Band – Twilley Don't Mind

Jefferson Starship – Girl With The Hungry Eyes

Jeff Beck – Blue World

Dire Straits – Lady Writer

REO Speedwagon – Only The Strong Survive

Utopia – The Very Last Time

Renaissance – Carpet Of The Sun

The Climax Blues Band – Towards The Sun

Bill Quateman – Shot In The Dark

Buffalo Springield – Broken Arrow

Billy Joel – Root Beer Rag

Night – Hot Summer Nights

Don Henley – New York Minute

Mott The Hoople – Roll Away The Stone

Mark-Almond – What Am I Living For

Trooper – Cold, Cold Toronto

Genesis – Dance On A Volcano

The Jon Butcher Axis – Don't Say Goodnight

Rainbow – Bring On The Night (Dream Chaser)

Supertramp – Child Of Vision

The Youngbloods – Darkness, Darkness

Steve Baron – Magic Magician

The Steve Miller Band – Serenade

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils – Country Girl

Icehouse – Crazy

Bad Company – Call On Me

The Police – Invisible Sun


My personal playlist this time is a bit longer than the lists have been recently. I've been working at my other job more, which makes this a little odd, but a lot of these albums are from the seventies, when records were shorter. The only double album this week was the deluxe edition of McCartney's Ram. The New Musik was a double CD but as each disc had just one album on it, i listed them individually. So sue me.


June Tabor – At The Wood's Heart

Various Artists – Super Box Of Rock II

Cassandra Wilson – Traveling Miles

Jane Siberry – A World Without Music

Bill Bruford – One Of A Kind

Nanci Griffith – The MCA Years: A Retrospective

The Motors – Airport: The Motors' Greatest Hits

Rory Gallagher – Top Priority

Mike Oldfield – Five Miles Out

Terje Rypdal – Descendre

Jon Anderson – 1000 Hands, Chapter One

New Musik – From A To B

New Musik – Anywhere

Van Halen – 5150

Laurie Anderson – Bright Red

Carbon Leaf – Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat

The Kinks – Schoolboys In Disgrace

Joan Osborne – Trouble And Strife

Radiohead – Kid A

Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited

Judy Collins – In My Life

The Home Service – A New Ground

Bonnie Tyler – Greatest Hits

Joan Osborne – Relish

Dead Can Dance – Into The Labyrinth

Sinéad O'Connor – Throw Down Your Arms

Wizzard – Wizzard Brew

Alison Krauss & Union Station – Paper Airplane

Weezer – Six Hits

Loggins & Messina – Sittin' In Again

Paul McCartney – Ram

Quicksilver Messenger Service -- Quicksilver Messenger Service

Runrig – Everything You See

Marc Jordan – Mannequin

Jethro Tull – Thick As A Brick

Various Artists – A Little On The CD Side

Jakob Lindberg & Paul O'Dette – English Lute Duets

Jerry Douglas -- Traveler

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