Comments on: Thursday playlist: Forty song a-go-go, or, Musical roulette

By: James

James — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:48:10 +0000

14: I know you didn’t like Bruce Hornsby back in the day, but you were very diplomatic about it. Conversely, I remember thinking “we paid money for THIS?” when Fishbone was playing before INXS came out at Compton Terrace.

(Which was owned by Stevie Nicks’ dad, which gave me the thought that I ought to have done a playlist of musicians I know whose music I rarely listen to. That would be eclectic as all hell. Next year, perhaps.)

Hornsby put me through my own aesthetic trial by fire a couple years after high school, when he toured as the keyboardist for the Grateful Dead. Talk about readjusting personal tastes…

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 01 May 2008 21:18:00 +0000

The mix in 14 is one of my favorite mixes ever.

By: James

James — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:55:21 +0000

14: Okay, Enola Gay is a very good track. My cd collection from around the same time included David Byrne, Neil Young, George Harrison, and Human League. So I stand behind your 2001 playlist.

By: The Modesto Kid

The Modesto Kid — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:53:15 +0000

“somebody from Wings who was not Paul McCartney” s/b “Denny Laine”. The internet reveals that John Entwhistle was also involved in this tour; but he was not at the show I saw.

By: The Modesto Kid

The Modesto Kid — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:49:07 +0000

My middle school slow dance anthem was “Eye In The Sky”

Hello? I bought every record by APP. I was so excited a few years back, my parents-in-law subsidized a family vacation in Atlantic City, the first night there I saw posters for “A Walk Down Abbey Road”, Beatles nostalgia concert featuring Todd Rungren and APP as headline acts, plus somebody from Wings who was not Paul McCartney. That was excellent and weird.