response 83 of 391:

Jul 20 22:39 UTC 2000

        Dire Straits greatest hits "Sultans of Swing" CD, song on now 
is 'Calling Elvis'.
        It does have 'Twisting by the Pool' but does not have 'Industrial
Disease'.

response 85 of 391:

Jul 21 01:17 UTC 2000

  re #83:  That's OK, it gives you an excuse to buy "Love Over Gold",
  which is their best album anyway..

response 87 of 391:

Jul 21 12:40 UTC 2000

The Go-Go's are about to play on the Today Show's Friday concert.

response 89 of 391:

Jul 22 04:34 UTC 2000

Tori Amos "Bliss"

response 91 of 391:

Jul 23 03:12 UTC 2000

  I doubt it'd get enough traffic to justify it, but I'm sometimes tempted
  to enter an item where we can announce excellent albums that have finally
  come back into print..

  "Flat Earth" isn't my favorite Dolby (I still like GAoW) but it didn't 
  deserve to be deleted from U.S. catalogs, either..  I'm also glad to
  note that the (English) Beat's "I Just Can't Stop It" is once again
  available domestically.

response 93 of 391:

Jul 23 04:43 UTC 2000

Ah, the last two tracks were Mingus' "Better Git It In Your Soul" 
(which I should have recognized) and a Charlie Hunter song, "Nothing 
But Trouble."  I looked the album up on Amazon and will see about getting 
a copy when I get home.

The station is Community Access Radio from Carbondale, a less pricey
town downvalley from Aspen which is at least in part an artists'
colony.  After the long jazz set they switched over to rap and I switched
over to a CD:  "Tarentule," by the French 1970s band of the same name, 
which is a folk/early music blend.  This was in a package of stuff 
which arrived today from Rockin' World.

response 95 of 391:

Jul 23 15:45 UTC 2000

Parliament, "The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein"

response 97 of 391:

Jul 23 21:15 UTC 2000

        A Louis Armstrong greatest hits package.  New on CD is Cristine
Lavin's first LP a couple of slots away  in the CD player.

response 99 of 391:

Jul 24 05:02 UTC 2000

(Does Dolby have enough to have an "early" period? To my knowledge, he only
had four full-length albums, the last of which was a pseudosoundtrack.)

"TheFlat Earth" struck me, frankly, as dolby trying to follow in Gabriel's
footsteps, and failing. "Zulu" especially smacked of someone trying to be
artsier than they were ready for (while on the other end, "Hyperactive" wasa
decent addictive radio track, was an obvious attempt at "This record's gotta
sell!") 

And actually, now that I think of it, Dolby had a total of six albums (four
studio, two soundtracks), so I guess he did have an "early period" and a late
period. =}

Of course, my two favorites -- Aliens ate my buick! and the ST to Gotic --
aren't available domestically.

And CDNow tells me it's "Mulu" not "Zulu."

Oh, to the topic, I'm not listening to anything right now.

response 101 of 391:

Jul 24 06:32 UTC 2000

You ask me if I love you, does the pope live in the woods? Quad erat
demonstrandum, baby. (Oooo! You speak French!)

I like "Astronauts and Heretics," but acknowledge it suffers from the same
disease that struck several of the early 80s New Wave lot -- Kenny G Disease.
KGD strikes pop stars who are past their creative peak and begin to make music
that's pleasant, artistic, and mostly harmless. New Wave sufferers of KGD
include Thomas Dolby, The Fixx, Thompson Twins (aka Babble), Talk Talk (aka
O'Rang), and ABC. While KGD has struck musicians from other ears (Manfred
Mann's Earth Band and Alan Parsons Project come to mind), perhaps it was the
dishonor of sitting in the Top Ten bins with Air Supply and Asia that caused
New Wave bands to be especially hard hit. Even Peter Gabriel has come down
with a severe case of KGD. Won't you please help? Give to the KGD Foundation,
so that early 80s innovators can begin innovating again. Thank you.

(eras, not ears)

response 103 of 391:

Jul 24 16:38 UTC 2000

Caledon, THE NOBLE TROUSERS.  Fourth  band for the harp duo
Mary MacMaster and Patsy Seddon; mostly a spinoff from the Clan Alba
band with Dick Gaughan missing.  Good stuff if you like harps and 
bagpipes.  This copy, which I got this week, was a replacement 
for one stolen out of my car two years ago.

response 105 of 391:

Jul 25 16:57 UTC 2000

diamonda galas and john paul jones "The sporting life"

response 107 of 391:

Jul 25 22:02 UTC 2000

"Look How Far," Bruce Cockburn, Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu.

The CD case is, of course, green (points to the Musical Jeopardy item).