KSHE Klassics Show, May 6th, 2018

Quotation du jour ~ Ezra Pound: A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. [yes, i know he was talking about literature, but i thought it was apt]

I was listening from Clifton, New Jersey again this morning. It's the birthplace of Vera Farmiga, which gives me an excuse to use a photo of the gorgeous woman as my image of the week (below).

I'm sorry to say that there was one number today that i couldn't identify – an instrumental piece. It came after the UFO song. Usually KSHE will post the title in a couple of places on their website, but i couldn't find it (their new site is under construction since their move from Union Station to Creve Coeur, it seems) and, as it was an instrumental, i couldn't Google (or, more accurately, DuckDuckGo) the lyrics – which i confess i have had to do occasionally. It wasn't that great a piece of music, anyway.

It was a great show over all, though. Just look at that playlist! Some of my favourite artists and quite a few songs that i love.

Oh, and incidentally, there won't be a post next Sunday. It's Mother's Day and i have to work. The manager asked me if i wanted to work and i said, not really, but that i would if i had to (it's the busiest day of the year in my biz). Guess i have to.... Basically, next week is already ruined for me but i shall return.

Genesis – A Trick Of The Tail

Chilliwack – Roll On

Derek & The Dominos – Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad

Peter Frampton – Do You Feel Like We Do

The Byrds – Mr Tamborine Man

Bob Dylan – Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Badfinger – Day After Day

Fleetwood Mac – Spare Me A Little Of Your Love

The Grateful Dead – Truckin'

UFO – Doctor Doctor

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Dr John – Right Place, Wrong Time

The Electric Light Orchestra – Telephone Line

Alvin Lee & Mylon LeFevre – So Sad (No Love Of His Own)

Kansas – Two Cents' Worth

Horslips – Sure The Boy Was Green

April Wine – Just Between You And Me

Journey – Look Into The Future

Steely Dan – Black Friday

Santana – Everything's Coming Our Way

Nils Lofgren – No Mercy

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Little Wing

String Driven Thing – Circus

Rod Stewart – Gasoline Alley

The Little River Band – It's A Long Way There

Queen – Bicycle Race

Black Oak Arkansas – Jim Dandy

Jethro Tull – Living In The Past

Jeff Beck – Rice Pudding

Todd Rundgren – Love Of The Common Man

Rocky Burnette – Tired Of Towin' The Line

Rush – The Analog Kid

Bruce Springsteen – Kitty's Back

Yes – Wonderous Stories

Rare Earth –I Just Want To Celebrate

Charlie Daniels – Birmingham Blues

Styx -- Lady

Here's what we've been annoying passersby with this week:

Various Artists – The World Is A Wonderful Place: The Songs Of Richard Thompson

Al Stewart – The Best Of Al Stewart

Richard Thompson – Sweet Talker

Big Audio Dynamite – Greatest Hits

Sparks – Exotic Creatures Of The Deep

The Beatles – Help!

Joni Mitchell – Don Juan's Reckless Daughter

Dan Fogelberg – Captured Angel

Lisa Gerrard – The Mirror Pool

Davy Spillane – Atlantic Bridge

Fairport Convention – Gladys' Leap

Focus – Hamburger Concerto

Dick Gaughan – Handful Of Earth

Lucinda Williams – World Without Tears

Jon And Vangelis – The Friends Of Mr Cairo

“Guys And Dolls” – Broadway Cast Recording

Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill

Colin James – National Steel

Peter Gabriel – Ovo

Chicago – Chicago VII

Mike Oldfield – Platinum

Siouxsie & The Banshees – A Kiss In The Dreamhouse

Chantal Kreviazuk – Under These Rocks And Stones

Franz Ferdinand – Tonight

Jack Bruce – Shadows In The Air

Stephen Duffy w. Nigel Kennedy – Music In Colors

Patti Smith – Outside Society

George Harrison – Best Of Dark Horse 1976-1989

Mott The Hoople – Mott

KSHE Klassics Show, April 29th, 2018

Quotation du jour ~ Stevie Wonder: Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

Listening from Clifton, New Jersey again this week. Good choice: it's warmer there than it is here and i'm fed up with the f****ng cold. It was a seamless listening experience – no problems with connectivity at all – and, as usual, the highlight of my week.

Gosh, two songs in a row by bands from St Louis this morning: Pavlov's Dog and Mama's Pride. What a difference, though: the former was probably the worst song of the show, the latter one of the best – although there was a lot of competition: quite a few songs i love today, including one i love so much i had tears of happiness welling up when Uman played it. (I'll give you a hint: it wasn't the song by The Who.) Yes, 'twas a good 'un, and, as so often happens, the end of the program took me by surprise.

This may suggest the song that had me on the verge of being lachrymal:

Tony Carey – I Won't Be Home Tonight

Electric Light Orchestra – Livin' Thing

Status Quo – Down Down

Jethro Tull – Cross-Eyed Mary

Sherbs – No Turning Back

Traffic – Medicated Goo

Real Life – Send Me An Angel

April Wine – Say Hello

Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Stone Free

Bandit – Visions Of You

Triumvirat – March To The Eternal City

Bruce Springsteen – Prove It All Night

Stingray – Lovesaver

Queen – I'm In Love With My Car

Rush – Lakeside Park

Charlie Daniels – The Orange Blossom Special

Steely Dan – My Old School

Kenny Loggins – Celebrate Me Home

Couchois – Roll The Dice

Yes – Yours Is No Disgrace

Michael Stanley – Last Night

Bob Welch – Sentimental Lady

Joe Walsh – Indian Summer

Toby Beau – Westbound Train

The Who – Happy Jack

The Moody Blues – Question

Rod Stewart – Hot Legs

The Climax Blues Band – I Am Constant

Pavlov's Dog – Julia

Mama's Pride – Ole St Lou

Roger Daltrey – Say It Ain't So Joe

Bob Seger – Heavy Music

The Marshall Tucker Band – Take The Highway

Dan Fogelberg – Illinois

Graham Parker – White Honey

Rare Bird – Turn Your Head

Robert Palmer – You're Gonna Get What's Coming

My regular reader knows that i love lists, and now i know why i do. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/a-list-of-reasons-why-our-brains-love-lists So here's the list of what my cat the dj chose for us this week:

Kathy Mattea – Right Out Of Nowhere

Keane – Strangeland

“West Side Story” (Original Soundtrack)

Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill

Donovan – The Hurdy Gurdy Man

Spirit – Clear

Pyewackett – The Man In The Moon Drank Claret

Bob Dylan – Bringing It All Back Home

Mama's Pride – Uptown And Lowdown

The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir – Superior Cackling Hen

Chicago – Chicago V

Patti Smith – Outside Society

The Pretty Reckless – Going To Hell

Yes – The Yes Album

Bonnie Raitt – Home Plate

Son Volt – Notes Of Blue

Richard Thompson – Sweet Warrior

Happy Rhodes – Building The Colossus

Max Webster – The Millennium Collection

Various Artusts – Compil Folk 31

Linda Ronstadt – Greatest Hits, Volume 2

Steeleye Span – Time

Dave Whetstone – The Resolution

Rush – Roll The Bones

Siouxsie And The Banshees – The Rapture

Marillion – All One Tonight

Rob Thomas – Cradlesong

Faces – The First Step

KSHE Klassics Show, April 22nd, 2018

Quotation du jour: Sir Thomas Beecham: The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

I started out listening from Santa Clara yet again this morning, but about an hour in there was a momentary power outage here and i had to restart the computer. When i came back on, i no longer had a secure tunnel to the U.S. Something had changed in my V.P.N. When i finally got that sorted out, i was listening from Clifton New Jersey. I'm a gadabout, what can i say?

I don't think i missed any music, though – when i realised that there was the danger of it, i fired up the iPad and listened on that, and it was really not much more than four minutes before i was able resolve the problem(s), and most of it happened during a commercial break. They were four very fraught minutes, though!

Just clock the playlist: this is what classic (and Klassic) rock is all about, and not a single duff track in the entire four hours. The other radio station i listen to, Radio Paradise, can't go for four hours without playing something i hate; KSHE's regular programming includes something i hate virtually every hour; and sometimes the Klassics show includes music i can't stand. Not today! Brilliant radio. I came dangerously close to dancing in my living room during the song by Diesel....

Paul McCartney – Smile Away

Cheryl Dilcher – Together

J. Geils Band – Looking For A Love

Electric Light Orchestra – Sweet Talkin' Woman

Canned Heat –On The Road Again

Wiggy Bits – Oh Captain

Supertramp – Hide In Your Shell

Steely Dan – Black Cow

Blackfoot – Train Train

Firefall – Livin' Ain't Livin'

The Tubes – Don't Touch Me There

Trevor Rabin – Finding Me A Way Back Home

April Wine – All Over Town

Jethro Tull – Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll, Too Young To Die

The Grateful Dead – Estimated Prophet

Pat Travers & Carmine Appice – Boom Boom Out Go The Lights

The Sutherland Brothers & Quiver – Slipstream

Genesis – Dance On A Volcano

Kenny Loggins – Keep The Fire

The Dixie Dregs – Take It Off The Top

Uriah Heep – Sweet Lorraine

Rainbow – Long Live Rock And Roll

Rod Stewart – True Blue

Thin Lizzy – Don't Believe A Word

The Blue Oyster Cult – In Thee

Strawbs – Little Sleepy

Angel -- The Tower

Charlie Daniels – Trudy

Touch – When The Spirit Moves You

UFO – Shoot Shoot

Budgie – Sky High Percentage

Shooting Star – You Got What I Need

Diesel – Sausalito Summernight

The Animals – We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

Trapeze – Midnight Flyer

The Babys – Turn And Walk Away

Rare Bird – Peace Of Mind

The Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils – Spaceship Orion

The upstairs neighbours were bouncing bowling balls off their floor and having boisterous sex all week – here's what i played to drown out the noise:

Steely Dan – Aja

Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band – No Roses

Mott The Hoople – Mott

Terje Rypdal – After The Rain

The Rolling Stones – Got Live If You Want It

Richard Thompson – Acoustic Classics 2

Ten Years After – A Space In Time

Mama's Pride – Uptown And Lowdown

Kate Bush – The Sensual World

Bjőrk – Volta

Al Stewart – Year Of The Cat

Various Artists – Red Hot + Country

Planxty – One Night In Bremen

Sarah McLachlan – Afterglow

Laurie Anderson – The Ugly One With The Jewels

Tori Amos – From The Choirgirl Hotel

Rory Gallagher – Blueprint

Sheryl Crow – Be Myself

Dick Gaughan – The Definitive Collection

Ofra Haza – Fifty Gates Of Wisdom

Pretenders – Learning To Crawl

Donna Summer – The Ultimate Collection

The Beatles – Please Please Me

Marcia Ball – Shine Bright

Garfield – Out There Tonight

Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel

Peter Hammill – The Noise

Dan Fogelberg – Souvenirs

Barlow – Barlow

Switchfoot – The Beautiful Letdown

Focus – Hamburger Concerto

KSHE Klassics Show, April 15th, 2018

Quotation du jour: John Lennon ~ Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted.

I was listening from Santa Clara, California again this morning. Well, can you blame me? It's 19° there as i type (i looked it up); in my part of Canada it's -10° and yesterday (Saturday) we had an ice storm that lasted all day. It was so bad that i had to take a cab home from The Beer Store. (Walking there empty-handed was tough enough; returning fully-laden would have been a nightmare....)

It was a seamless listening experience and a good program, too, although sometimes i think – and this is not a complaint at all – that i'd prefer more music that i'm familiar with, rather than performers like Zebra, Cheryl Dilcher, Breathless, etc. – good as their music is – that i only hear once a year on the Klassics Show. But there was a lot of music that i love here, too. So, until i start my own radio station, i'm perfectly happy to listen to this every Sunday.

Blind Faith – Sea Of Joy

Eric Clapton – Mainline Florida

Zebra – Who's Behind The Door?

Frankie & The Knockouts – Running Into The Night

Steve Walsh – Every Step Of The Way

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Crosstown Traffic

Les Dudek – City Magic

Kenny Loggins – Easy Driver

Michael Stanley – Rosewood Bitters

April Wine – I Like To Rock

Thin Lizzy – Romeo And The Lonely Girl

Breathless – Takin' It Back

Uriah Heep – Look At Yourself

The Who – Dr Jimmy

.38 Special – Rock And Roll Strategy

Charlie – She Loves To Be In Love

The Babys – California

The Band – Up On Cripple Creek

Traffic – The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys

Foghat – My Babe

Quicksilver Messenger Service – Fresh Air

Electric Light Orchestra – Turn To Stone

Queen – Liar

Cheryl Dilcher – Who's The Captain (Of Rock 'N' Roll)

Santana – Samba Pa Ti

Poco – You Better Think Twice

Yes – Starship Trooper

Prism – Hello

Henry Gross – One More Tomorrow

Loverboy – Lucky Ones

Vinegar Joe – Never Met A Dog

Joe Walsh – Turn To Stone

Pure Prairie League – Two Lane Highway

Heart – Even It Up

Here's what we played at world headquarters this week:

Supertramp – Crisis? What Crisis?

Sharon Shannon – Each Little Thing

Dick Gaughan – The Definitive Collection

Mott The Hoople – Mott

Davy Spillane – Atlantic Bridge

Maddy Prior w. Hannah James & Giles Lewin – 3 For Joy

Randy Newman – Little Criminals

Dan Fogelberg – Nether Lands

John Kirkpatrick – Sheepskins

Shirley Collins And The Albion Country Band – No Roses

Planxty – One Night In Bremen

Marillion – All One Tonight: Live At The Royal Albert Hall

Green Day – American Idiot

My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade

The Nice – The Best Of The Nice

Runrig – In Search Of Angels

Saga – Worlds Apart

Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill

Jane Siberry – Angels Bend Closer

The Kinks – Arthur, Or, The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire

Elton John – Tumbleweed Connection

Talking Heads – Fear Of Music

Paula Cole – This Bright Red Feeling

Keith Emerson – Emerson Plays Emerson

Jethro Tull – A

Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle

Van der Graaf Generator – I Prophesy Disaster

Robin Trower – Truce

Brand X – Unorthodox Behaviour

Fairport Convention – Gladys' Leap

KSHE Klassics Show, April 8th, 2018

Quotation du jour ~ Steve Martin: Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

According to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ i was listening from Santa Clara, California this morning. I must like that place: i've listened from there before. (And there's what looks like a good pub there: The Yard House.)

Last week, i was complimenting Hubbard Radio – who bought KSHE a couple of months ago – for improving the audio stream listeners' experience. So i suppose that the blame for today's miserable experience must lie with my ISP. I had frequent drop-outs, rebooting both the router and the modem and restarting the computer was no help. I'm pretty sure i missed at least one song, and missed a good chunk of several others. It wasn't until the final hour that my connection stabilised. (On the whole, i'm very happy to be with an independent provider, but the big disadvantage – in fact the only disadvantage: no 24-hour tech support).

Speaking of Hubbard Radio, i was wondering if they would allow KSHE's audio stream into Canada, so i tried to connect to the stream without connecting to my VPN. Nope. I wonder why, when i've been able to connect from The Philippines and Norway? Maybe they're still pissed off about the War Of 1812....

As to the music, it was hardly a classic Klassics Show, but it's still the best radio program that i know of, and the highlight of my week.

Off Broadway – Stay In Time

Michael Stanley – All I Ever Wanted

The Edgar Winter Group – Round And Round

Electric Light Orchestra – Showdown

Genesis – Visions Of Angels

Fleetwood Mac – Emerald Eyes

Nantucket – Quite Like You

Santana – Open Invitation

Finnigan & Wood – Highway

Gary Wright – Love Is Alive

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Still ...You Turn Me On

Bob Dylan – Blowin' In The Wind

Stillwater – Women (Beautiful Women)

The Babys – Every Time I Think Of You

Stingray – The Man In My Shoes

Black Crowes – Sting Me

Gypsy – Tomorrow Is The Last To Be Heard

Thin Lizzy – Cowboy Song

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – The Wind Cries Mary

Billy Joel – Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

The Animal – House Of The Rising Sun

Traffic – Dear Mr Fantasy

John Kay – Easy Evil

Bruce Springsteen – The Promised Land

Queen – Keep Yourself Alive

Chilliwack – Baby Blue

Lou Gramm – Midnight Blue

Crawler – Sail On

Blue Cheer – Summertime Blues

Trapeze – Medusa

April Wine – Wings Of Love

The Doobie Brothers – South City Midnight Lady

The Grateful Dead – Shakedown Street

King Crimson -- 21^st Century Schizoid Man

Heart – Kick It Out

Rush – Roll The Bones

Arlo Guthrie – Coming In To Los Angeles

Steely Dan – Aja

Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen – Hot Rod Lincoln

Not a lengthy playlist this week. Work was pretty – well, not busy, but a couple of our key men were off sick, which meant some extra time at the pit for me.

Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run

Jethro Tull – Thick As A Brick

Runrig – The Stamping Ground

Pink Floyd – A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

The Beatles – Let It Be

Curved Air – Air Conditioning

Mama's Pride – Mama's Pride

Be+Bop Deluxe – Electrical Language

Dick Gaughan – Handful Of Earth

Chris Squire – Fish Out Of Water

Buffalo Springfield – Retrospective: The Best Of Buffalo Springfield

Various Artists – Common Ground: Voices Of Modern Irish Music

Mott The Hoople – Mott

Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill

Various Artists – Compil Folk 30

Genesis – Selling England By The Pound

Tori Amos – American Doll Posse

Patti Smith – Outside Society

John Lennon – The John Lennon Collection

Highly Strung – When The Winds Begin To Sing

Spirit – Clear

Various Artists – Tribute To Dan Fogelberg

Van der Graaf Generator – Do Not Disturb

Counting Crows – August And Everything After

Steve Rothery – The Ghosts Of Pripyat

James Taylor – James Taylor

Seether – Holding On To Strings Better Left To Fray

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – In The Hot Seat

Chantal Kreviazuk – What If It All Means Something

Pyewackett – The Man In The Moon Drinks Claret

The Boswell Sisters – Shout, Sister, Shout! Their 52 Finest 1931-1936

KSHE Sunday Klassics Show, April 1st, 2018

Quotation du jour ~ Abraham Maslow: A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.

I was listening from Raleigh, North Carolina this morning and noticed a major change to the way KSHE streams their audio. Listenlive.co is out and the stream now comes from https://live.kshe95.com/listen/ This is great news – i was fed up with listenlive and it looks like Hubbard Radio was, too. Apart from the fact that the local ads are no longer deleted, as i mentioned last week, starting this week the name of the song that's now playing pops up in the bottom right corner of the screen. This is especially useful for me if i'm not too sure what the song is. Hurrah for Hubbard!

This may be purely coincidental, of course, but i had, for the first time ever, i think, a 100% uninterrupted stream. Not one single drop-out. And it was a great show: any program that plays Rory Gallagher is in my good books, for sure, and there was a lot of music i love. In fact there was only one song i actively disliked -- well, i hate Aerosmith, to be honest. (Has anyone seen Jeff Beck's “Live At The Hollywood Bowl” DVD? In which guest vocalist Steven Tyler makes an utter arse of himself? It's pretty good apart from that.)

But, wow, didn't the end of the show sneak up on me: i thought there was a good hour left to go, but it was over. Until next week.

Rory Gallagher -- Edged In Blue

Wet Willie -- Street Corner Serenade

New Riders Of The Purple Sage -- Panama Red

April Wine -- Oowatanite

It's A Beautiful Day -- White Bird

Electric Light Orchestra -- So Fine

Ray Gomez -- Make Your Move

The Grateful Dead -- Sugar Magnolia

Jon & Vangelis -- The Friends of Mr Cairo

Grinderswitch -- Kill The Pain

Van Morrison -- Into The Mystic

Bob Dylan -- Lay Lady Lay

Yes -- Going For The One

Gypsy -- Dead And Gone

Bruce Springsteen -- Badlands

Jefferson Airplane -- Volunteers

The Byrds -- So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star

Michael Stanley -- In The Heartland

George Harrison -- Bangla Desh

Foghat -- Dreamer

Santana -- Everybody's Everything

Bob Seger -- Get Out Of Denver

Big Country -- In A Big Country

Nazareth -- Holiday

Aerosmith -- Big Ten Inch Record

Pink Floyd -- San Tropez

Ian Hunter -- Cleveland Rocks

Traffic -- Light Up Or Leave Me Alone

Lake -- Angel In Disguise

Fleetwood Mac -- Hypnotized

Little Feat -- Fat Man In The Bathtub

Heartsfield -- Racin' The Sun

Blind Faith -- I Can't Find My Way Home

Todd Rundgren -- Real Man

Kansas -- Play The Game Tonight

Montrose -- Rock The Nation

Elton John -- Take Me To The Pilot

Trooper -- Raise A Little Hell

Tucky Buzzard -- Gold Medallions

.38 Special -- Chain Lightnin'

Eagles -- Take It Easy

Here's what the staff at Spriggs Central played this week to scare the mice away:

Peter Hammill – From The Trees

The Moody Blues – To Our Children's Children's Children

Terje Rypdal – Q.E.D.

Steve Reich – Different Trains

Richard Thompson – Finding Better Words: The Essential Richard Thompson

Joan Osborne – Bring It On Home

Marillion – Somewhere Else

Various Artists – Grand Bal Folk

Jethro Tull – Aqualung

Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill

Terje Rypdal – After The Rain*

Colin James – Take It From The Top: The Best Of Colin James

Robin Trower – B.L.T.

Rocket 88 – Rocket 88

The Monkees – Greatest Hits

The Tragically Hip – Up To Here

Jonathan Edwards – Jonathan Edwards

Jeff Beck – There And Back

10 c.c. – How Dare You!

Afro Celt Sound System – Volume 3: Further In Time

Robert Plant – Fate Of Nations

R.E.M. – Life's Rich Pageant

Various Artists – A Tribute To Dan Fogelberg

Dire Straits – Love Over Gold

Mike Oldfield – The Millennium Bell

Eliza Carthy – Rice

King Crimson – The Power To Believe

Caro Emerald – Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor

America – History: America's Greatest Hits

The Men They Couldn't Hang – Majestic Grill

Dan Fogelberg – Windows And Walls

Rory Gallagher – Defender

Seether – Poison The Parish

Matchbox Twenty – Mad Season

*This was an iTunes download. I have the vinyl and it's a wonderful record, so I went to amazon to see if it was available on CD and, yes, it is, for around $600, and about $800 on vinyl. I become more and more convinced that my record and comic book collections will be my pension plan!

KSHE Sunday Klassics Show, March 25, 2018

Quotation du jour ~ Unknown: I told my dad that I wanted to be a musician when I grew up and he said "Son, you can't do both."

I was listening from San Francisco this morning and, although it was a hassle-free listening experience (no connection dropouts or crashes of any kind), it nearly didn't happen thanks to one of my frequent technology nightmares. The details are irrelevant to this post; suffice to say that, with a great deal of time & frustration on Saturday evening, i managed to sort it all out. (I also discovered that the only place in Stratford that sells computer equipment after 6 p.m. on Saturdays is Wal-Mart* – I'll bet that's not the case in San Francisco!)

Since KSHE was bought by Hubbard Radio a month or so ago, i have noticed a major change in the way listenlive.co streams the audio. Back when Emmis Radio owned the station, the local St Louis ads were deleted from the stream to be replaced by public service announcements, ads for national corporations or ads targeted at me wherever my VPN told them i was listening from, and often with a completely inappropriate song included. Now, the insertion of a song is no longer, and i get the local ads. This week: O'Reilly's Auto Parts, One-Eleven Storage, The Goodfeet Store (with a branch in Shiloh, Illinois!), Motor City Auto Sales, Ramjack Of St Louis, Metro Lighting etc. I love listening to these ads – so exotic -- and i positively hated some of the songs so i applaud this change. Thanks, Hubbard!

Here's this week's playlist:

Danny Spanos – Hot Cherie

April Wine – Sign Of The Gypsy Queen

Paul Collins' Beat – Don't Wait Up For Me

John Mellencamp – A Little Night Dancin'

The Allman Brothers Band – Blue Sky

Blue Őyster Cult – Hot Rails To Hell

Firefall – Mexico

Electric Light Orchestra -- Ma-Ma-Ma Belle

Elton John – Where To Now St Peter

The Grateful Dead – U.S. Blues

Bruce Springsteen – Jungleland

Badfinger – Baby Blue

Heartsfield – Shine On

Brownsville Station – Smokin' In The Boys' Room

Pete Townshend – Rough Boys

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Sweet Hitch-Hiker

Nazareth – Razamanaz

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – From The Beginning

Jethro Tull – Thick As A Brick (a very abbreviated radio edit)

Grinderswitch – Higher Ground

The Sutherland Brothers & Quiver – Arms Of Mary

Nantucket – Heartbreaker

David Bowie – Golden Years

Hudson-Ford – Take A Little Word

Traffic – Rock & Roll Stew

Flash & The Pan – Down Among The Dead Men

UFO – Cherry

Supertramp – Sister Moonshine

Uriah Heap – The Wizard

Justin Hayward – Forever Autumn

The Dwight Twilley Band – Twilley Don't Mind

Thin Lizzy – Dancing In The Moonlight

George Harrison – This Song

Roger Hodgson – Had A Dream (Sleeping With The Enemy)

Grand Funk Railroad – Footstompin' Music

The Who – Athena

Foghat – Stone Blue

Dave Mason – World In Changes

Back to work after a week off and here's what eased my transition from drinking every day to gettng angry every day:

John Tams – Unity

Dusty Springfield – Dusty In Memphis

Various Artists – Tower Of Song: The Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Sharon Shannon – Each Little Thing

Alanis Morissette – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie

Dan Fogelberg – Nether Lands

Peter Gabriel – Birdy

Tangerine Dream – Phaedra

Steely Dan – Pretzel Logic

The Beatles – With The Beatles

Tori Amos – Silent All These Years

The Pretenders – Greatest Hits

Mike Oldfield – QE2

Bonnie Raitt – Sweet Forgiveness

Donna Summer – The Ultimate Collection

Dick Gaughan – Definitive Collection

Buddy Guy – Damn Right, I've Got The Blues

Talk Talk – Natural History: The Very Best Of Talk Talk

Garfield – Out There Tonight

Supergrass – In It For The Money

Jimi Hendrix – Voodoo Soup

Gowan – Strange Animal

Fairport Convention – XXXV

Steve Earle – Essential Steve Earle

Jack Bruce – Harmony Row

*It was my first-ever visit to the local Wal-Mart, which has been open for five or six years. Prior to Saturday, the only Wal-Mart i'd ever set foot in was in Belleville, Illinois....