[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 Chicago again.]
Quotation Of The Week ~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.
Lord, if i had to listen to commercial radio all the time i think i'd shoot myself in the head. (Although i'm a lousy shot, i'd probably miss.) (And the only gun i possess is a plastic Luger anyway.) Some of the ads are amusing but most are obnoxious. Ah, well, it's only four hours a week.... Or only one hour, if you remove all that pesky music.
Last week i alluded to an apparent misogyny at KSHE, whereby very, very few solo female artists make an appearance: the only two i could think of were Janis Joplin and Cheryl Dilcher. I forgot someone: Stevie Nicks. Of course, she's easy to overlook as her solo output is so forgettable. Janis dropped in this week – but with Big Brother & The Holding Company, not solo. The Wilson Sisters were here, too, but with Heart. I think this anti-female bias should be investigated! It's not that there are no candidates, no lack of rock steady chicks like Joan Osborne, Pat Benatar or Melissa Etheridge out there....
Anyway, this week's instalment. It pains me to grade this one a “mere” B. There was nothing wrong with it – and in fact not a single number that pissed me off (which is unusual) – but it wasn't superb, either. There were superb songs, for sure: in the first hour alone we had the triple whammy of Tull, Steely Dan and Pat Travers. Then wonderful songs by The Eagles and Bob Dylan and one of my very favourite Cat Stevens numbers. But the musical masterpieces were few and far between. All very nice schtuff, but....
Plus there seemed to be even more server glitches than usual, by which the song that KSHE's website says they're playing, isn't what's actually coming through the Altec Lansings. Oh Captain was by Wiggy Bits, not Chuck Berry. The Bob Dylan song was not by Johnny Vortex (who?); The Animals' number was not by Stir, and how could they confuse Badfinger with Thin Lizzy? Good grief....
Welcome to Missouri. Have a playlist:
Doucette – Mama Let Him Play
Jethro Tull – Nothing Is Easy
Steely Dan – My Old School
Pat Travers – Off Beat Ride
Queen – Liar
The Who – Magic Bus
Bryan Adams – Lonely Night
The Little River Band – Man On Your Mind
Wiggy Bits – Oh Captain
Heart – Love Alive
Firefall – Mexico
The Grateful Dead – One More Saturday Night
Journey – Look Into The Future
The Charlie Daniels Band – Midnight Wind
Eagles – On The Border
Henry Gross – One More Tomorrow
Kenny Loggins – Love Has Come Of Age
The Rolling Stones – Monkey Man
Canned Heat – On The Road Again
The Doors – Peace Frog / Blue Sunday
Eddie Money – Maybe I'm A Fool
Pink Floyd – One Of These Days
Cat Stevens – Oh Very Young
Loggins & Messina – Peace Of Mind
Grinderswitch – Pickin' The Blues
The Electric Light Orchestra – Poker
The Stabilizers – One Simple Thing
Bob Dylan – Positively 4th Street
Nantucket – Quite Like You
The Animals – Monterey
Badfinger – Perfection NOT The Boys Are Back In Town!
Chilliwack – Roll On
Asia – Only Time Will Tell
Big Brother & The Holding Company – Piece Of My Heart
David Bowie – Rebel Rebel
The J. Geils Band – Musta Got Lost
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Restless
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – Roll Me Away
Oh, and here's what gave the Spriggs Towers' laser a workout this week:
Curved Air – Second Album
The Doobie Brothers – The Captain And Me
The Moody Blues – Gold (2 CDs)
Linda Ronstadt – Heart Like A Wheel
Greg Kihn Band – Best Of Beserkley '75-'84
Blondie – No Exit
Jon & Vangelis – The Friends Of Mr Cairo
Zaz – Paris
Roy Wood – Mustard
John Fogerty – Revival
The Beatles – Past Masters, Volume One
Django Reinhardt & Stèphane Grappelli – Souvenirs
Happy Rhodes – Building The Colossus
Luna – Luna
Howard Jones – The Best Of Howard Jones
Jeff Beck – Rock 'n' Roll Party
The Walker Brothers – Portrait
Dave Swarbrick w. Martin Carthy & Diz Disley – Rags, Reels And Airs
Sheila Chandra – The Zen Kiss
Cyndi Lauper – Twelve Deadly Cyns
Dan Fogelberg – River Of Souls
The Sutherland Brothers – Lifeboat / When The Night Comes Down
Roxy Music – Flesh + Blood
Afro Celt Sound System – Volume 2: Release
The Pretenders – Greatest Hits
Court Yard Hounds – Court Yard Hounds
Various Artists – A Little On The CD Side, Vol. 24
Ivie Anderson – An Introduction To Ivie Anderson: Her Best Recordings 1932-1942
Wishbone Ash – Live In Tokyo (shh, it's a bootleg....)
Neverending White Lights – Act I: Goodbye Friends Of The Heavenly Bodies
Saga – Images At Twilight
Manfred Mann's Earthband – Chance
Frida – Djupa Andetag
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