[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 an American address. This week, according to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from New York City again.]
Quotation Of The Week ~ Barack Obama: When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
I'll be the first to admit that there is a lot in this life that baffles me. Quantum physics, for example, is quite beyond my comprehension. How do some people at my work manage to keep their jobs? How can anyone, anywhere, believe a single word that comes out of Donald Trump's cake-hole? And why on earth is REO Speedwagon so popular in St Louis?? I remember, years ago, when i still listened to Canadian FM radio, they were regularly actively derided, and the other (American) station i listen to these days refuses to play 'em. And yet here they are, almost every damn' week. To use a technical term, yuck.
Those bozos and Harry Chapin's pathetic song aside, though, this week's program was a return to normal after last week's comparatively dismal instalment, and earns a grade of "A minus". Certainly there were songs that weren't all that interesting: i started to think about cleaning the cat's litter box during the Stevie Nicks number, for example, but there were also many songs from my own record collection -- some of which i hadn't heard in a very long time. And no Christmas music! Well, there never is: apparently there are no Kristmas Klassics, and i'm not feeling the joy of the season this year anyway....
It's difficult for me to choose a favourite song from this morning. Possibly the Billy Joel, with Buffalo Springfield a close second, but Yes, Neil Young, Steve Winwood and The Doobies also made the short list.
Interesting facts i learned this morning: 1. Jackson Browne wrote These Days but didn't record it initially; instead he gave it to his friend Gregg Allman. It wasn't until Jackson heard Gregg's version and was impressed by his arrangement of it, that he decided to record it himself. 2. At the time of the recording of The Doobie Brothers' Livin' On The Fault Line album, singer Tom Johnston was very ill (stomach ulcers that required emergency surgery) and couldn't perform. The band brought in Michael McDonald (a St Louis native) to help and he's been with them ever since. Today's song, though, was a Tom Johnston composition.
Here's the playlist, and the opening of The Queen's Christmas Message for 2020:
Yes -- Parallels
New Riders Of The Purple Sage -- Glendale Train
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young -- Helpless
Fleetwood Mac -- Sunny Side Of Heaven
King Crimson -- Epitaph
Wings -- Bluebird
Santana -- Stormy
Neil Young -- Tell Me Why
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers -- Restless
The Small Faces -- Itchycoo Park
Steve Winwood -- Arc Of A Diver
Little Feat -- Feets Don't Fail Me Now
REO Speedwagon -- In Your Letter
The Little River Band -- Days On The Road
Chicago -- Happy Man
Nite City -- Summer Eyes
Foghat -- My Babe
Axe -- Rock 'N' Roll Party In The Streets
Bruce Springsteen -- 4th Of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
Michael Quatro -- In Collaboration
Dixon House Band -- Sooner Or Later
PM -- Piece Of Paradise
Strawbs -- Heartbreaker
Aphrodite's Child -- Break
The Blue Őyster Cult -- In Thee
Bob Seger -- Get Out Of Denver
Cream -- I'm So Glad
Stevie Nicks -- If Anyone Calls
Toto -- Ninety-Nine
The Outlaws -- Freeborn Man
Eddie Money -- When You Took My Heart
Jackson Browne -- These Days
Supertramp -- Ain't Nobody But Me
Bourgeois - Tagg -- I Don't Mind At All
Lake -- Do I Love You Much Too Much
Billy Joel -- Prelude / Angry Young Man
Harry Chapin -- Taxi
The Doobie Brothers -- Turn It Loose
It's A Beautiful Day -- A Hot Summer Day
The Fabulous Thunderbirds -- Tuff Enuff
Bruce Springsteen -- Fade Away
Buffalo Springfield -- Bluebird
Michael Stanley Band -- Strike Up The Band
This week's personal playlist is not an especially long one, thanks to crazybusy-ness at my other job. It also indicates my new obsession with the music of Zaz (real name, Isabelle Geoffroy), whose voice touches me deeply at some visceral level and makes me melt. Check her out on YouTube, or don't. Up to you.
Various Artists -- A Little On The CD Side, Vol. 16
The John Kirkpatrick Band -- Force Of Habit
Zaz -- Sur La Route
Tony Banks -- A Curious Feeling
Wishbone Ash -- Nouveau Calls
The Cure -- Greatest Hits
Afro Celt Sound System -- Volume 2: Release
Dan Fogelberg -- River Of Souls
The Electric Light Orchestra -- Zoom
Amazing Blondel -- Fantasia Lindum
Original Soundtrack Recording -- West Side Story
June Tabor -- On Air
Son Volt -- Notes Of Blue
Bruce Springsteen -- Born To Run
James Taylor -- Mud Slide Slim And The Blue Horizon
Fairport Convention -- Fame And Glory
Ashley MacIsaac -- Hi How Are You Today?
Bill Bruford -- Feels Good To Me
Karl Jenkins -- Diamond Music
Zaz -- Recto Verso
Zaz -- Paris
The Doobie Brothers -- The Captain And Me
Sheryl Crow -- Threads
Luna -- Luna
Blondie -- No Exit
Propaganda -- A Secret Wish
Genesis -- Nursery Cryme
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones -- Three Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Beatles -- A Hard Day's Night
Ofra Haza -- Kirya
T. Rex -- Electric Warrior
Alan Stivell -- The Best Of Alan Stivell
Various Artists -- A Little On The CD Side, Vol. 17
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