Allhallowsday

From bad to worse.

FLAMIN' GROOVIES Shake Some Action

^ Lousy record.

I was listening to AOR by the mid '70s, seguing to lots of Prog and by the end of the decade Punk and/or New Wave. By 1980 I was looking for OOP albums that were always hard to find. I remember the DJs you refer to, there were 2 main AOR stations out of NYC, one was WPLJ the other probably WNEW and DJs like Carol Miller or Scott Muni ("Scottso") lots of others...

The first album I bought myself was ELTON JOHN ...I was 11 or 12... I also bought a lot of WINGS, and Greatest Hits collections of many artists, stuff now I am less inclined to listen to. In my youth, I listened to MOR and Oldies radio.

I was over WINGS At The Speed Of Sound for decades because of that song - more sugar-coated sincerity. Ick. I had listened to the album for months not too long ago. I actually like the Paul not singing songs, and the song I once thought well of "Beware My Love" is indeed overlong. "Silly Love Songs" does have a terrific bass line and has not worn out as much as I'd have expected after all this time. "Let 'Em In" I owned on 45 before the album, still like it.

^ I like BOB SEGER.

BARRY LYNDON Soundtrack

I was never a big WHO fan, though I had 3 or 4 on vinyl, the only one I had to own on CD was Who's Next. There aren't too many that had a record like that for me that holds up forever.

That's what I was listening to and the "bonus" selections were wisely left off of that perfect record.

One of the very greatest Rock n' Roll albums : THE WHO Who's Next What a stunner! What a cover...

THE HARMONICATS Times to Remember

And that absurd sticky treacle is the reason I do not have a copy of this album, which I overall like very much. That "Treat 'er Gently" crap works my nerves. JIMMY's song "Wino Junko" on the next album is like "Medicine Jar" - weirdly prescient.

I have CDs of all of them. The one I like best is LOUIS PRIMA - "Old Black Magic"...

I had read somewhere that JOHN AGAR drank and had not treated SHIRLEY right and that was why they divorced...

Of course you're right - it went to #1 the month after his death! The first time I cried when a famous person died was JOHN LENNON.

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS and DELIUS Broughton English Symphony Orchestra

BOB DYLAN's Greatest Hits Vol. 2

His only in USA? I know he appeared on stage with ELTON JOHN because they had a bet that it wouldn't go to #1... BOB DYLAN Bringing It All Back Home

There are a few movies that I describe as "motionless" which of course they aren't. But hypnotic films with long stretches to look, listen, and think I have come to love. Like 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY or LAWRENCE OF ARABIA or DEATH IN VENICE. Each must be in my list of top 10 favorite films.

Classics For Meditation