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 in order to spoof an American address, and this week, according to whatismyipaddress.com, i was listening from Salt Lake City yet again. I must like it there. The best pub in town is called The Beerhive (pictured below): i'll have to try it!
Quotation Of The Week: Jack Kerouac ~ The only truth is music.
Ah, yes, another excellent four hours' worth of advertising with some music thrown in as an afterthought. Actually, what am i talking about? Most of the ads were terrible. If i had to listen to commercial radio all the time i think i'd lose the will to live. Most of the advertisers must feel a great deal of contempt for their audience, thinking that we're all morons or credulous as hell or somefink. For example, the pharmacy at Walgreen's is offering “contact-free COVID testing.” Er, what? How do they do that? Hold a thermometer a foot or so away from your forehead? (I did like the ads from Bank Of America – my bank in St Louis – and from my ol' pal Bart Inman but that was all. Pretty pathetic considering that advertising is a good quarter of the program.)
As for that other stuff, the music, werrl.... It's a grade of (ta-daa!) A+
And not only because Dan Fogelberg and Mama's Pride popped in. Almost everything was fwickin' bwilliant (as Kripke would say). There were a couple of less-than-stellar moments: fifteen minutes of Midnight Sun was far too much and The Doors' cover of Van Morrison's Gloria was so full of Jim Morrison's drunken ramblings it was really embarrassing, Plus a track from Emerson, Lake & Palmer's worst album.
But then we had a track from one of Genesis's best albums, The Move's Do Ya which is far superior to ELO's version (IMFFHO) and Renaissance's Northern Lights, a song so beautiful i had no choice but to stop everything and listen. Here's the playlist, and The Beerhive:
Steely Dan – Doctor Wu
Eric Clapton – Hello Old Friend
Bad Company – If You Needed Somebody
The Mark Tanner Band – Hot And Cold
Santana – Over And Over
Styx – Snowblind
The Grateful Dead – I Need A Miracle
The Marshall Tucker Band – Desert Skies
The Move –Do Ya
Heart – Rockin' Down Heaven
Electric Light Orchestra – Boy Blue
The Sweet – Fox On The Run
The Doors – Gloria
Midnight Sun – Living On The Hill
Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Paul McCartney – Maybe I'm Amazed
Dan Fogelberg – Tullamore Dew / Phoenix
Heartsfield – House Of Living
The Byrds – Chestnut Mare
Barclay James Harvest – Poor Boy Blues / Mill Boys / For No One
Mama's Pride – Laurie Ann
Bad Company – Weep No More
Pousette-Dart Band – Amnesia
Buckingham Nicks – Don't Let Me Down Again
Grand Funk Railroad – Some Kind Of Wonderful
Eagles – Midnight Flyer
The Kinks – All Day And All Of The Night
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Love Beach
Renaissance – Northern Lights
Horslips – The Man Who Built America
David Bowie – John, I'm Only Dancing
John Mellencamp – Rumbleseat
Shooting Star – Breakout
Yes – Going For The One
Ten Years After – Choo Choo Mamma
Jackson Browne – Lawyers In Love
And here's my personal playlist for the week. It's not too unwieldy:
The John Renbourn Group – Live In America
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band – Like A Rock
Van der Graaf Generator – Present (2 CDs)
Jane Siberry – The Walking
Rival Sons – Pressure & Time
Jeff Beck – You Had It Coming
Roy Wood – Mustard
Yes – Talk
New Order – The Best Of New Order
Kraftwerk – Minimum+Maximum (2 CDs)
Various Artists – The British Invasion, Vol. 6
The Small Faces – Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
Kronos Quartet – Howl, U.S.A.
John Hiatt – Walk On
Brand X – Unorthodox Behaviour
Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms
Madonna – You Can Dance
Afro Celt Sound System – The Source
Laurie Anderson – Mister Heartbreak
The Kinks – Schoolboys In Disgrace
A-ha – Hunting High And Low
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives – Behind The Music
The Beatles – Let It Be
Paul Simon – The Essential Paul Simon
Chicago – Chicago II (2 CDs)
Dave Pegg – The Cocktail Cowboy Goes It Alone
Big Country – Wonderland: The Essential Big Country (3 CDs)
Elvis Costello – The Best Of Elvis Costello: The First Ten Years
P.J. Harvey – White Chalk
Various Artists – Good Times, Bad Times
Various Artists – Grandson Of “Morris On”
The Broadside Band – English Country Dances
Richard Thompson – Strict Tempo!
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