[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 one of my regular haunts, Cheney, Kansas.]
Quotation Of The Week ~ Lester Bangs: The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.
OMG, i think that if i had to listen to commercial radio stations all the time i'd wind up throwing the radio out and playing nothing but CDs. There seemed to be more of them than usual today, but at least there was a new spot from Bart Inman of Inman of Inman Air (heating and air conditioning). But there were also a few ads that featured the boring-as-hell voice of Tom Shane (my "friend in the jewellery business" ha ha). Based on the ads alone, this week's Klassics Show scores an "F+".
As to that secondary matter, the music.... I'm reluctantly giving the show a grade of "A+" with reservations. That grade is primarily because of the inclusion of the great Dan Fogelberg song, but there was other excellent schtuff too, starting with the opening track, followed immediately by the second one. Then we had Neil Young, Pretenders, JT, Blind Faith, The Beach Boys' number that apparently Paul McCartney called the "greatest track ever recorded," Blind Faith and The Police.
On the downside, though, while i love a great deal of John Lennon's music, Give Peace A Chance is one of his songs i like least (and it includes Yoko Ono caterwauling in the background), Ted Nugent is a waste of time, Eric Burdon single-handedly fought against religious hyprocrisy in his usual ham-handed fashion, whoever wrote Trapeze's Medusa obviously needs to brush up on his classical mythology (Medusa didn't have a "head of fire," she had snakes for hair), the Titus Groan song was all right but not all right enough to sustain its +10 minutes and David Surkamp, the singer for St Louis's own Pavlov's Dog, has one of the worst voices i have ever heard (apart from my own, that is).
And although it came at the very end of the program, it was nice to hear the tribute to Leslie West of Mountain, who died last week....
Here's the playlist
Genesis -- Alone Tonight
Procol Harum -- Whiskey Train
Rush -- Cinderella Man
Journey -- Dixie Highway
Santana -- Everybody's Everything
Neil Young -- Don't Let It Bring You Down
Novo Combo -- Tattoo
38 Special -- Rock And Roll Strategy
Crosby, Stills & Nash -- Wasted On The Way
Michael Nesmith -- Joanne
Bubble Puppy -- Hot Smoke And Sassafras
John Lennon -- Give Peace A Chance
Paul McCartney -- Monkberry Moon Delight
Ted Nugent -- Snakeskin Cowboys
The Rolling Stones -- All Down The Line
The Animals -- Sky Pilot
The Alan Parsons Project -- Damned If I Do
Dan Fogelberg -- False Faces
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen -- Hot Rod Lincoln
Heads Hands & Feet -- Country Boy
Trapeze -- Medusa
Titus Groan -- Hall Of Bright Carvings
Pretenders -- Talk Of The Town
James Taylor -- Steamroller
Robert Palmer -- Every Kinda People
Pavlov's Dog -- Natchez Trace
Eric Clapton -- Promises
George Harrison -- Bangladesh
Off Broadway -- Bad Indication
Stephen Stills -- Turn Back The Pages
Blind Faith -- Sea Of Joy
The Marshall Tucker Band -- Fly Like An Eagle
The Beach Boys -- God Only Knows
Rare Earth -- (I Know I'm) Losing You
Styx -- Father O.S.A.
Bad Company -- Crazy Circles
The Police -- Canary In A Coalmine
Elton John -- Harmony
David Bowie -- Jean Genie
Mountain -- Nantucket Sleighride (RIP Leslie West)
My personal playlist is a pretty long one this time. Well, it's Christmas week and my lovely workplace did grant me a whole 3½ days off! Obviously i used the unwonted time off wisely.
The Doobie Brothers -- Livin' On The Fault Line
Home -- Pause For A Hoarse Horse
T. Rex -- T. Rex
CANO -- Aù Nord De Notre Vie
Zaz -- Recto Verso
Martin Carthy -- Shearwater
Siouxsie & The Banshees -- The Rapture
Fish -- Weltschmerz (2 CD)
Wendy Carlos -- Clockwork Orange
Van der Graaf Generator -- I Prophesy Disaster
Garfield -- Out There Tonight
Richard Thompson -- Henry The Human Fly
Allan Holdsworth -- Metal Fatigue
Various Artists -- Encomium: A Tribute To Led Zeppelin
Robert Plant -- The Principle Of Moments
Zaz -- Sur La Route
Kenny Loggins -- The Essential Kenny Loggins (2 CD)
Fastball -- All The Pain Money Can Buy
Various Artists -- A Little On The CD Side, Vol. 18
Baka Beyond -- The Spirit Of The Forest
Bob Dylan -- The Times They Are A-Changin'
Chuck Berry -- The Great Twenty-Eight
Runrig -- The Ones That Got Away
The Kinks -- Something Else
Zaz -- Zaz
Eliza Gilkyson -- Lost And Found
Joan Osborne -- Breakfast In Bed
Rory Gallagher -- Wheels Within Wheels
Colin James -- Miles To Go
Maddy Prior -- Year
The Home Service -- A New Ground
Steve Hackett -- Defector
The Bothy Band -- Out Of The Wind Into The Sun
Various Artists -- Dream Pop
Sheryl Crow -- Be Myself
The John Kirkpatrick Band -- Welcome To Hell
London Grammar -- Truth Is A Beautiful Thing
Peter Hammill -- Out Of Water
Jane Siberry -- Bound By The Beauty
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