[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, where i've been so often of late.]
Quotation Of The Week ~ Tom Petty: Music is probably the only real magic i have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
After the first three hours of this morning's program, i was all set to give it a grade of “B+,” an improvement over the relatively lacklustre recent instalments, but then, but then... along came Harry Chapin, to completely ruin everything. All on its very own, that sank it to a “B-,” which is a dreadful score for The Klassics Show. And it's a dreadful song, histrionic and bathetic and painful to endure. It wasn't the only number to exasperate me, either – we had, as we so often do, the annoyances of Ted Nugent and REO Speedwagon, a good song by The Animals scuttled by Eric Burdon's pretentious lyrics, and The Charlie Daniels Band – a group whose music i generally enjoy – with their maudlin song about dead rock singers. Ugh.
It wasn't all a horrorshow, of course. There were favourite songs by Bob Dylan (a song produced by his brother David Zimmerman, although David received no credit at the time) (i believe this has since been rectified), Cream, ELO and one of Billy Joel's greatest, along with good stuff by The Police (a group i loved more in the eighties than i do now but today's song was a treat) and, oh, PG-era Genesis, which made a nice change from PC-era Genesis.
I have no opinion whatever about the Albert Hammond song – my computer crashed (yes, the dreaded BSOD) (a page fault in an unpaged area, apparently) and by the time i re-booted the song was over. It was great to hear Cheryl Dilcher – and wasn't i moaning just recently about how seldom solo female singers show up on this show? She was the only one today apart from Grace Slick on the Jefferson Airplane track and oh, my, how nice to hear Jefferson Airplane rather than Jefferson Starship!
Here's the playlist, and a portrait of the late and much-loved Duke Of Edinburgh – i don't know too much about his tastes in music, but i know he couldn't stand Elton John or Joe Cocker!
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Rebels
Bob Dylan – Tangled Up In Blue
Steely Dan – The Caves Of Altamira
Dio – The Last In Line
Carilo – She Takes The Night
Manfred Mann's Earth Band – The Runner
Kansas – On The Other Side
The Charlie Daniels Band – Reflections
The Animals – Sky Pilot
Cream – Tales Of Brave Ulysses
Huey Lewis & The News – Tell Me A Little Lie
Electric Light Orchestra – Roll Over Beethoven
Billy Joel – Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
Dave Edmunds – Slipping Away
Jay Ferguson – Snakes On The Run
The Police – Walking On The Moon
Ted Nugent – Snakeskin Cowboys
Rush – Vital Signs
The Allman Brothers Band – Soulshine
Flash – Small Beginnings
Robin Trower – Victims Of The Fury
Journey – Something To Hide
Genesis – Visions Of Angels
REO Speedwagon – Son Of A Poor Man
Robbie Robertson – Showdown At Big Sky
Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers
Montrose – Spaceage Sacrifice
Albert Hammond – Smokey Factory Blues
Harry Chapin – Sniper
Loverboy – When It's Over
Molly Hatchet – Whiskey Man
Cheryl Dilcher – Who's The Captain (Of Rock And Roll)
Manfred Mann's Earth Band – Spirits In The Night
Frankly, i'm surprised my personal playlist isn't longer this week. Yes, there were two multi-disc sets, but also we're in lockdown again and, since Thursday, have been under a stay-at-home order. Unfortunately, i haven't been able to: still going to work six days a week. (Because, apparently, i'm “essential” ha ha.) Well, it's long enough! Read on:
Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
Paul Simon – The Rhythm Of The Saints
Joni Mitchell – The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Eliza Gilkyson – Land Of Milk And Honey
Curved Air – Second Album
Badfinger – No Matter What: Revisiting The Hits
R.E.M. -- Automatic For The People
Robert Fripp – Exposure (deluxe edition) (2 CDs)
Kathleen Edwards – Back To Me
Dusty Springfield – The Silver Collection
Peter Hammill – The Fall Of The House Of Usher
Bob Seger – Smokin' O.P.'s
Various Artists – The Busby Berkeley Album
The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out
The Faces – First Step
Florence + The Machine – Lungs
The Doobie Brothers – The Doobie Brothers
Free – Heartbreaker
David Lindley – El Rayo-X
Lindisfarne – The Very Best Of Lindisfarne
Matchbox 20 – Yourself Or Someone Like You
This Mortal Coil – It'll End In Tears
The Beach Boys – All-Time Greatest Hits
The Kinks – Misfits
Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Love Over And Over
Sky – Sky 2
Richard Thompson – Watching The Dark (3 CDs)
Maddy Prior & June Tabor – No More To The Dance
Steeleye Span – Live At Last!
Home – The Alchemist
Talking Heads – Fear Of Music
Stevie Ray Vaughan – The Real Deal: Greatest Hits Vol. 2
The Strokes – Is This It?
King Crimson – Starless And Bible Black
Roxy Music – Roxy Music
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