[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 San Francisco.]
Quotation Of The Week ~ Kingsley Amis: Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
Hidden away in this week's ad-stravaganza (amongst the spots for used cars, sleep aids and real jewellery real cheap) were a couple of nice surprises: i'd never heard a schlafly.com spot here before: when i was in St Louis, Schlafly beers were some of the best beers i've ever tasted. Too bad they don't distribute their wares outside Missouri and Illinois. The Bank Of America was on this morning, too, for the first time that i can recall. In some way, my bank here has a kind of partnership with them whereby they were the only bank where i was able to use my debit card. I didn't need to do so very often but i was always impressed by the friendliness and the service.
As for that schtuff of lesser importance – the music – it's definitely a grade of A for this week's program.
What a great way to start, too! Jeff Beck is my second favourite guitarist ever, and yet, incredibly, i don't have the album Freeway Jam comes from. I rectified that using the Amazon app on my iPad during the first commercial break. (Yes, yes, i hate Amazon, too, but i know not where else to go now that all of the record stores closed.)
Beyond that, what to say? You may never have heard of The Blue Jays – not the baseball team. They were a Moody Blues spin-off featuring Justin Hayward and John Lodge and, somewhat predictably, everything i've heard of theirs has sounded like a Moody Blues' “B” side: perfectly listenable, but hardly earth-shaking. Fortunately there was a lot of earth-shaking music today. I love that Crosby & Nash song (although the KSHE web page said that it was Paradise By The Dashboard Light by Meatloaf – thank god it wasn't!) Other highlights ... well, where to start. Big Country, Eagles, Todd, Greg Kihn, Heart, all seventeen-plus minutes of Iron Butterfly and of course a song that changed music forever, Like A Rolling Stone.
In fact, there was really only one song that irked me today, and that was the Blood, Sweat & Tears. I actually liked their debut album when Al Kooper was their driving force, but when he left the band they seemed to embrace clichés as a musical style – the jazz charts? Pshaw, pshaw, i say: third-rate Chicago. Plus i have a personal dislike of their singer, David Clayton Thomas, a whitebread Ray Charles – i met him once and he was a complete pillock.
Anyway, here's the playlist, and a pic for which i apologise in advance:
Jeff Beck – Freeway Jam
The Grateful Dead – Friend Of The Devil
The Outlaws – Ghost Riders In The Sky
Blue Jays – I Dreamed Last Night
The J. Geils Band – Hard Drivin' Man
Phil Collins – I Cannot Believe It's True
Graham Nash & David Crosby – Immigration Man
Big Country – In A Big Country
Eagles – James Dean
Todd Rundgren – It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
Bruce Springsteen – I'm Goin' Down
The Greg Kihn Band – Jeopardy
Heart – Kick It Out
Blood, Sweat & Tears – Go Down Gambling YUCK!
Billy Thorpe – In My Room
Charlie – Johnny Hold Back
The Blue Őyster Cult – In Thee
The Cars – It's All I Can Do
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Knife Edge
Journey – La Do Da
Pete Townshend – Let's See Action
Deep Purple – Knocking At Your Back Door
Tom Cochrane – Life Is A Highway
The Rolling Stones – It's All Over Now
Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida all 17 minutes!
Montrose – Jump On It
Kansas – It Takes A Woman's Love (To Make A Man)
Roger Daltrey – It's A Hard Life / Giving It All Away
Traffic – Light Up Or Leave Me Alone
Bloodrock – Kool Aid Kids not bad at all!
The Little River Band – It's A Long Way There
Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Listen To Her Heart
The Hawks – It's All Right, It's Okay
My own personal playlist isn't an overly long one this week, even though i had an extra couple of days off for reasons that are none of your business.
Nick Lowe – Basher: The Best Of Nick Lowe
Various Artists – A Little On The CD Side, Vol. 23
Kiki Dee – Gold (3 CDs)
Marc Jordan – Mannequin
Kathy Mattea – Coal
Camel – I Can See Your House From Here
Dead Can Dance – The Serpent's Egg
Various Artists – The British Invasion, Vol. 7
Robin Bullock – Green Fields
T. Rex – T. Rex
Jackie De Shannon – The Definitive Collection
Bob Dylan – Blood On The Tracks
Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Love Over And Over
City Boy – Anthology
A Fine Frenzy – One Cell In The Sea
Caro Emerald – Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor
Peter Gabriel – Rated PG
Cat Stevens – Laughing Apple
Peter Green – In The Skies
Love – Forever Changes
Dan Fogelberg – Nether Lands
Peter Hammill – Clutch
The Chieftains – The Chieftains 4
Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin'
John Kirkpatrick – Make No Bones
Zap Mama – Sabsylma
James Taylor – October Road
Jethro Tull – Catfish Rising
Paul Young – Wherever I Lay My Hat: The Best Of Paul Young (2 CDs)
Tony Banks – A Curious Feeling
Steeleye Span – Now We Are Six
Zaz – Paris, Encore! (DVD)
10 c.c. -- The Best Of 10 c.c.
Godley & Creme – Cry: The Very Best Of Godley & Creme
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