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Outfield traxx always felt more like product than songs to me, and perhaps the happy beneficiaries of a payola campaign.

Maybe that's ungenerous, but there was always this thing with Meg Griffin, when a new band she didn't want to play was forced into her playlist, she'd try to give them a mealy-mouthed endorsement by trying to convince us how much they sounded like a canonical band she did want to play.

　　"Doesn't The Outfield sound a little like The Police?"

　　"Doesn't Kingdom Come make you want to get the Led out?"

　　"You can really hear the Kinks influences coming through in Jesus Jones, can't you?"

No, no, I couldn't. And such questions didn't help dispose me toward these acts. But the rules of due disclosure forces me to acknowledge not one, but two Jesus Jones CDs gathering dust in my collection.

I hafta say in my examination of the Outfield today, I came across some demo tracks of their proto- Baseball Boys days and that helped me discern their real-ness from the packaged and polished final product.

RIP Leslie West.

I always loved both the original, acoustic version of this song from "Who's Next," featuring Roger Daltrey on vocals, and also this alternate take from "Odds & Sods," electric, with Pete on vocals and Leslie on lead, which is scintillating.

And, on this same topic, while Mountain has tons of good songs, I'm partial to the 1972-1974 stuff that Leslie did with Jack Bruce from Cream, and also Mountain drummer Corky Laing, in the eponymous "West, Bruce & Laing" years.

One more from the WBL years... though most of those records featured Leslie himself on lead vocals, I think I prefer all of the tracks that Jack Bruce sang on. Here's a more or less straight blues in that same vein, from that same album.

I never heard that alterna-Who track and I guess I should have. That's pretty amazing.

Lest there be any confusion, Crenshaw is still with us, but this one goes out to Dawn Wells.

How about a video of the Honeybeees...You Need Us

Like a peach needs its fuzz!

Brilliant selection. And Lovey holds up her end.

Awwww! So cute!

Always got a chuckle at that sock as part of the stage curtain

Chad O., from the 'Guess Who Died 2020' thread:
"One of the many things I miss about living in the NYC area is flipping on the radio in my car and realizing that it was time for [Rita Houston's] 'The Whole Wide World' ".


Rita's final show, recorded shortly before her death, is available for listening on line via WFUV's archives -- https://wfuv.org/content/rita-houston-www-finale


Playlist:
1. James Brown, "Night Train"
2. Beck, "Qué Onda Guero"
3. Aretha Franklin, "Rock Steady"
4. Deee-Lite, "Groove is in the Heart"
5. Illya Kuryaki & The Valderramas, "Ula Ula"
6. John Prine, "Summer's End"
7. Brandi Carlile, "The Eye"
8. Emmylou Harris, "Red Dirt Girl"
9. Lucinda Williams, "Side of the Road"
10. Shawn Colvin, "Polaroids"
11. Gomez, “Make No Sound”
12. A Tribe Called Quest, "Kick It"
13. Los Amigos Invisibles, "Cuchi Cuchi"
14. LCD Soundsystem, "New York I Love You"
15. Sylvan Esso, "Radio"
16. Cardigans, "Lovefool"
17. Chemical Brothers, "Go"
18. Flo Morrissey and Matthew E. White, "Everybody Loves the Sunshine"
19. Al Green, "You Oughta Be With Me"
20. Steely Dan, "The Fez"
21. Nat King Cole, "Sweet Lorraine"
22. Ray Charles, "Hallelujah I Love Her So"
23. David Bowie, "Station to Station"
24. The xx, "Say Something Loving"
25. Rickie Lee Jones, "Sunshine Superman"
26. Frank Sinatra, "That's Life"
27. Manu Chao, “Me Gustas Tu”
28. Rhiannon Giddens, "Tomorrow is My Turn"
29. Hall & Oates, "Las Vegas Turnaround"
30. Bob Dylan, "Mozambique"
31. The Staple Singers, "I'll Take You There"
32. The Band, “The Weight”
33. Van Morrison, “The Philosopher’s Stone”
34. Nathaniel Rateliff, “Time Stands” (from FUV Live Studio A session)
35. The Waterboys, “In My Time on Earth” (FUV Live from Rockwood)


Interesting radio still exists ... it's just increasingly hard to find.
Delphine Blue, a name some might remember from the hey-day of WLIR, will be the host of 'Whole Wide World' going forward.

WDST 100.1 from Woodstock is decent and plays indie talent.

ashie62 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 01, 2021 5:40 pm WDST 100.1 from Woodstock is decent and plays indie talent.

Listened to WDST quite a bit growing up. Fdad used to call in and request classical music on their weekend AM programs.

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Fri Jan 01, 2021 5:33 pm Chad O., from the 'Guess Who Died 2020' thread:
"One of the many things I miss about living in the NYC area is flipping on the radio in my car and realizing that it was time for [Rita Houston's] 'The Whole Wide World' ".


Rita's final show, recorded shortly before her death, is available for listening on line via WFUV's archives -- https://wfuv.org/content/rita-houston-www-finale

Just saw this. Flipping it on now as I go through my burpee-pushup-bodyweight squat-damn I miss the gym routine. Thanks much.

RIP Gerry Marsden, front man for the *other* early sixties quartet of clean cut Liverpudlian lads.

btw Chad, 'Whole Wide World' is available for regular listening via FUV's website [one might say that the WWW is available through the www]. Go to their 'Weekend Archives' and check on the Friday dates available, usually they have the most recent two shows on tap. Of course it won't be Rita Houston going forward but the good part is that you can listen at the time(s) of your choosing. No longer living in NYC is no longer an impediment.

Thanks. It was never appointment listening for me...more serendipitous "hey, I'm driving home from the office after being stuck late on a Friday and look what's on!" But I'll flip it on now that I know where it is.

Alto Reed really blew at Game 4 of the 2011 ALCS.

Chad ochoseis wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 9:16 pm RIP Gerry Marsden, front man for the *other* early sixties quartet of clean cut Liverpudlian lads.

I think about this song a lot

I wonder if it was Brian Epstein that told them to act like doofuses here

I had not heard that song before, very nice.

I don't think our dead thread noted the demise of Don Wilson - 88, guitarist for 'The Ventures', a band out of Tacoma, Washington who were one
of the most influential guitar groups of the early '60s. Remember when instrumentals could make it to top-40 lists and actually get airplay?



Wilson is the shorter, blonder one nearest the drummer.



And, probably their biggest hit: 'Walk, Don't Run'





Unless it was this one

Love those three amp setups behind them in the first vid.

Wilson is a Holla-Fama. At the time of the Ventures' induction, John Fogarty noted that they had released something ridiculous like 275 albums, which he noted should be really eyebrow-raising to all the people in the room trying to figure out a way to sell 275 albums.

The Vents were also a really big act in the Far East.

I go super deep on Mark Lanegan.

I bought his "Whiskey for the Holy Ghost" solo album sometime in the 1997-1998 time frame, a few years after it came out, and listened to it once, and put it aside. I was maybe 24 or 25 and I didn't really get it.

I circled back to it, many years later, maybe sometime in 2008-2010 or so. And it was a revelation to me. It's brilliant, boiled down in its best moments to guitar, vocals and songwriting. I can admire someone who does it in as simple a fashion.

I still listen to that album regularly. While he has a number of other good solo records (including his 1999 "I'll Take Care of You" covers compilation), that's still the high point for me.

Dig this one, for openers.