Radio Saviors Week: Influential Music Albums Part II (with Mike Ensing)

[00:00:30] Okay, here we go.

[00:00:47] Welcome, ladies and gents.

[00:00:49] Mike Ensign is back in the house.

[00:00:53] So yeah, just continuing another trend, some inspirational music bands.

[00:00:59] Yeah, probably my 10 favorite artists after all the years of listening to music for 50 plus years.

[00:01:06] So and I was thinking earlier everyone's got a different list of their 10 favorite artists to be

[00:01:13] really, you know, know how much of it is, you know, the record company is jotting to be on that list

[00:01:17] versus they actually legit love those guys growing up and no one can tell them otherwise because

[00:01:24] on the store, it's so powerful.

[00:01:27] Yeah. So these are these are just artists I go back to all the time.

[00:01:31] So and then I'm doing the four favorite albums or not necessarily favorite four albums that represent them

[00:01:39] in and then maybe a couple of those might be oh this is kind of an underrated album but you

[00:01:45] got to hear this and this is why so that's what that's what we set it up as. So anyway,

[00:01:50] I get started on Otis Redding. Yeah, let's do it.

[00:01:56] Live in Europe is an amazing live album. It's 67.

[00:02:02] He died in 67 the end of the year with a plane crash but Live in Europe and it's been repackaged

[00:02:10] with more songs and stuff but the original Live in Europe that came out back then is just one

[00:02:15] of these records where the sound is terrific. The audience interaction is terrific.

[00:02:22] He goes through 10 songs of his catalog and improves every one of them. He out I think he

[00:02:26] outdoes the Rolling Stones on satisfaction on this. That's how good a live performance it is.

[00:02:32] You know, so there's day driven by the Beatles and there's a great moment where Otis says

[00:02:39] I want to sing a ballad song something what we call so then someone in the audience goes

[00:02:43] yeah and he starts laughing. It's just the interaction with the performer and the audience

[00:02:51] in this record is amazing. It's really worth picking up. It should be easy to find. Otis

[00:02:56] Redding live in Europe so that's a good one to kick off there. Live in Europe, they don't.

[00:03:02] Yeah and then probably his best studio album is Otis Blue. The full title is Otis Blue

[00:03:09] Flash. Otis Redding sings Soul and it's got a white blonde woman on the cover. That's how they

[00:03:16] marketed records back then. Soul records you know a lot of times but that's got Old Man Trouble.

[00:03:23] Change is going to calm me. Cover's the Sam Cook classic. I've been loving YouTube along.

[00:03:29] My girl wonderful yeah a lot of this stuff is on Live in Europe but this is the studio

[00:03:34] version. Tech satisfaction is on there too. So that's you're going to pick one Otis Studio album

[00:03:41] that's the one to get and another great live album is Live at the Whiskey of Go Go from Otis Redding.

[00:03:50] Live at the Whiskey of Go Go. Okay yeah it's an LA. I've been in that building once. I was in

[00:03:56] LA in 85 and I wanted around Sunset Strip and then at that time the Whiskey of Go Go was used for a

[00:04:04] Springsteen. It was called the Boss Club on Tuesday nights. They all the Springsteens they play

[00:04:10] Springsteen videos and that's when you know Springsteen was almost bigger than Coca-Cola

[00:04:15] in 1985. So but it was the same building. Whiskey of Go Go of course is famous for

[00:04:20] the doors being the house band for a while and it's pretty historic place but that's another live

[00:04:28] album where it's you can just feel the audience interaction. It's almost like you can taste

[00:04:34] the sweat on that one. Just that visual and interactive. Yeah it's an audio record but

[00:04:42] you just it feels like you're in the house. So it's pretty amazing that those two live albums

[00:04:48] from him the sound quality was that good even back in the late 60s. And then

[00:04:56] there's also a box that called the definitive Otis Redding which just goes through tracks from

[00:05:02] his albums, rare stuff, rare B-sides and if you're gonna get one Otis Redding thing that'd

[00:05:09] be the one to pick up the definitive box but Otis Redding I just his sounds me I think

[00:05:17] I think he died. He's not, I don't think he's in the 27th club. I think he died when he was 20

[00:05:24] but he has this authority on stage. Sounds like a guy in his 40s.

[00:05:33] Yeah okay 1941 to 1967.

[00:05:37] 26. Yeah he might have been only 26 when he died.

[00:05:49] That's terrible. He's 26 and I just it always I it always sounds when I realize he's only 26 years

[00:05:55] old. He just he has like I said he's got the authority of a 40 year old man you know and

[00:06:02] like he'd been doing it for 40 years performing live so and that voice has influenced

[00:06:09] tons of singers since. I remember a Rolling Stone Record guide they'd listed

[00:06:18] I think every one of his albums had five stars you know back when that came out in the 80s.

[00:06:24] Right. Yeah and I'm still waiting for the movie.

[00:06:29] It might be too tough to do a movie. I know if you want to see a movie about

[00:06:32] Otis Redding watch Monterey Pop and there's two or three songs that he does at Monterey

[00:06:41] the Monterey Pop Festival. It was wild how in those like first giant five decades of film how

[00:06:50] it was pretty easy for them to just kind of just get a bunch of variety show people

[00:06:56] and music people in every other film and yeah it seemed like only other kids movies seemed to

[00:07:02] kind of follow that trend for a while and then got back on it. Yeah the Tammy shows another early

[00:07:10] rock film that has I mean the Rolling Stones on it James Brown's in it.

[00:07:15] Jan and Dean host it. It's just it's an amazing one to look up to.

[00:07:20] Anyway so yeah Otis Redding

[00:07:26] kind of blew live in Europe whiskey go go in the definitive box that he wants to pick up

[00:07:33] and I mentioned the Rolling Stones I'm going to go. I didn't like the Stones for a long time

[00:07:39] because I saw them in 81 at the Pontiac Silver Dome which is a terrible place to see a concert.

[00:07:47] It was it's no longer there it was where the Detroit Lions played

[00:07:52] back back in the day and it's just a huge barn and it's just I don't know 150,000 seats or whatever

[00:08:01] it was and sweet the big echo chamber and what ticked me off is Iggy Pop open for him he got

[00:08:09] booed off the stage which was sad because he's from Detroit. Was he just not killing it all

[00:08:16] that well or was he just I don't think a lot of the crowd knew who he was sadly even though he's from

[00:08:24] Detroit area is I think they were there to see the Stones and that was it and then Santana came out

[00:08:30] and they played really well but then I second tonight and I think Mick and Keith had some argument

[00:08:38] going because after Santana they didn't come out for two hours. Oh that's garbage. We all just sat there

[00:08:48] I remember looking at where we had seats up on one of the right you know on the side

[00:08:52] of high and I remember looking at the crowd on the main floor and seeing all this brown he was

[00:08:56] in wintertime seeing all this brown hair down there I said it looks like a big pile of shit

[00:09:01] down there it was awful you know and I think somebody threw up on somebody in front of me and

[00:09:10] so I didn't like to sell for many years after that we left her in satisfaction because we were just

[00:09:15] finally let's go we've seen it you know but we you know we say it for most of it but

[00:09:21] it is hard with concerts for me nowadays where I'm just like okay well I like this

[00:09:26] and it might be worth my money's worth but you know I got to get up at a certain time I can't

[00:09:30] yeah all three hours and I did wind up seeing them years later at Michigan State University

[00:09:38] and it was it was in the summertime it was an outdoor concert you know where the where they

[00:09:42] played football there again the college team and that that was a much better show and

[00:09:49] you wanted to improve too if it's just the same in you every time

[00:09:54] yeah and we also got a wedding present two days before we got married we got to see this

[00:10:00] stones in Chicago at soldier field the only thing wrong with that it was ice cold it was in

[00:10:06] October when it was you know Chicago's cold anyway and it was just chilly and at one point

[00:10:12] Mick Jagers says I can't feel me feet so it was that was that kind of sour dad Elvis Castello

[00:10:19] open forum and I think he did a solo set and I don't remember much about that but

[00:10:27] I mentioned Elvis Castello before I'm a fan of his but anyway that's stones albums to get

[00:10:32] exile on main street a double album it's muddy sounding but and it's one of those records

[00:10:40] like I think I mentioned last time with Blonde on Blonde I didn't get it at first and then all

[00:10:44] sudden I all sudden you just it clicks okay I get it now you know you get it you read about it

[00:10:51] and oh you play it the first time I don't really that's what this is about yeah but then it kind

[00:10:57] of stays in your okay it's kind of like a mr. science theater 3000 first time I watched it

[00:11:00] what is this you know but it planted something in your brain I got it okay I gotta check this

[00:11:06] out again and all said okay I get it yeah it's got its highs and lows it's a it's uh it the way the

[00:11:14] album is structured it just each song complements the one before it and the excel main street it's

[00:11:21] got tumbling dice is on there happy keys greatest hit made the good lord put a shine his light on

[00:11:26] you shine a light uh is the song and martin square says he used that for his movie about the

[00:11:32] stones that title yep um I don't know what else that's just let's just go just go buy it

[00:11:44] and to get your yaya's out is a great live album from that's Madison Square Garden 69 I believe

[00:11:52] I remember my my wife's a big Stones fan I said you play that record it sounds like a

[00:11:58] semi-barreling down the highway with like bang just just all that noise and commotion but sounding

[00:12:05] great not like you know it's got that kind of energy mm-hmm like a runaway train just you know

[00:12:12] that's a really that's a great live record from them then let it bleed has got they can't always

[00:12:19] give what you want in the last song and then it's got uh it kicks off with gimme shelter which

[00:12:26] is still an amazing song and uh catch catch yeah other than the fact that was used in the movie uh

[00:12:37] can't always give what you want was if you've ever seen hyphen elby of the movie john kuzack and jack

[00:12:43] black were great where somebody says you can't always use oh but it was used in the movie

[00:12:50] the big show he goes oh yeah you can't you can't a fun movie within a movie parody yeah

[00:12:58] oh yeah oh that's right oh Dave uh frank kind of his own record is just hating the big show

[00:13:06] and I like to call I like to call it the big click you know

[00:13:12] in the the junior version was I think they actually called it the little chill when it came out

[00:13:17] saying elbows fire so much of uh overprivileged um yeah oh great we listen to motown music so we're

[00:13:30] cool they're dancing in the kitchen the motown and the big train kind of for those who don't know

[00:13:33] we make a lot of mystery science theater references yeah yeah yeah tv's frank yeah but yeah it is funny how

[00:13:41] certain movies and songs were just like well we might not like it but it is what it is you

[00:13:46] know I'm gonna rewatch it just because well the big show also started this awful trend in movies for

[00:13:53] decades later of white people bopping the soul music trying to get just right oh no you can't move that

[00:14:02] good come on you know it's not like with a family where they all got microphones and they're sick

[00:14:06] you know oh you you've seen those those scenes right I think uh there's a bruce willis movie where

[00:14:13] that happens with michelle fight for a camera then this is us I think it was called oh no that's a

[00:14:18] TV show yeah I know what you meant I think the story I think it was the story of us anyway

[00:14:24] no don't don't do that it doesn't it doesn't work out it says don't don't wear a baseball cat back

[00:14:30] which you're never gonna look as cool anyway then the other one the other stones on my leg

[00:14:37] is sticky fingers that's that might actually not to be confused with the rapper from oinks

[00:14:46] with the what not to be confused with the rapper from oinks oh I didn't even know there was one called

[00:14:51] that yeah he's an actor now sticky fingers oh okay I wonder if you got the title from the

[00:14:58] stone's album or just sure something and that's that's like uh if you boil the exile down to one

[00:15:06] album that'd be sticky fingers that's um terrific record um trying to think what's on there

[00:15:18] oh there's that one like almost a jazz rock fusion song on there I should be both prepared

[00:15:23] here start out that this is second on and wild horses has been used in movies

[00:15:31] um moonlight miles an amazing song that there's yeah again these 10 10 artists of mine there's

[00:15:39] very few bad songs and most of them are just what I like to call trends and that they just

[00:15:47] jump off the album that sounds corny but you know what I mean yes I do okay so we gotta move on

[00:15:54] Bruce Springsteen who I've been rocks I um

[00:16:04] God I used to drive people crazy when I springsteen obsession I just got ice I was 18

[00:16:11] I'm sorry guys he rocks yeah they're playing the stones there um

[00:16:19] I went down to my lunch hour I just started working at Michigan Bell I've been there like

[00:16:24] just started that year I went down on my lunch hour in june or july and got seventh row centers

[00:16:32] tickets to see him at wing stadium in Kalamazoo really you never be able to do that it didn't

[00:16:38] even sell it was it was like 6,000 seat haul 6,700 seats and it sold about 3,000

[00:16:44] but seventh row center I didn't I didn't know that you hear about notice that till later

[00:16:51] and I was just I mean I was so close to where I swear I had Bruce looked at me a few times

[00:16:56] so the and I'd read he he focuses on the first 10 rows I be an 18 year old kid I remember at

[00:17:02] one point during the show I was they were between songs and I was looking up at the ceiling

[00:17:09] mm-hmm and for oh this is kind of cool building like I wasn't bored I would guess I was you know

[00:17:18] attention span 18 years old isn't the greatest and I look back at the stage and Bruce was looking

[00:17:23] right at me and then he grinned it's like pay attention I saw I go to my dying day swearing

[00:17:28] that happened you know but yeah fun and I read later that he does focus on the first 10 rows so

[00:17:34] I was within your eye shot there that's a word but yeah I've seen I'm 62 I've seen almost that many

[00:17:43] shows and starting with the darkness tour that was 78 and then the only tour I missed was the

[00:17:51] the Amnesty International tour which he did with a bunch of other bands and even that I saw on HBO

[00:17:57] one show there and I did not I didn't see the last Broadway run um but I saw the one before it so

[00:18:06] nice so but I've seen every tour since and I've also seen Steve's band once in 83 Miami Steve

[00:18:15] Miami events at and I've seen Nils Loughlin twice in town here

[00:18:23] and trying to think who else oh max's band he played Meyer Gardens which is an outdoor place

[00:18:30] I got to hear an interview on how he got the gig on Conan O'Brien all these years a few years ago

[00:18:36] and it was wild how it just had he not seen like 60 minutes like Chet the night before he would never

[00:18:43] recognize them you know in town square wherever it was wow oh they didn't recognize him

[00:18:50] well you know Conan wasn't known back then this is when oh yeah he was first in law you know

[00:18:57] yeah unless you were working at 30 Rock you didn't know who the hell he was he was like yeah

[00:19:01] you see us during that live Simpsons Riders so yeah I remember tuning that in when I first

[00:19:06] started thinking it was terrible but then I put up to him later it's one of the

[00:19:11] one last things she had to see once or twice to get it yeah I think he's also said when

[00:19:16] they first started they were just trying way too hard they were a little bit too outrageous and

[00:19:23] but um they got over that quick so yeah Conan was great now was max his band from the get

[00:19:31] yeah he got all these other rector guys who were mainly just doing weddings and everything

[00:19:37] and it was just one of those is like the losers talked to max saying we got you how quick can

[00:19:43] you get your crew to get her yada yada yeah and let's let's make it take off and versus guy his name

[00:19:51] is jimmy of the beat well I think he had some of uh Southside John the esprit juke's horn section

[00:19:59] in that band too I believe so he definitely took people from like five different like just areas of

[00:20:05] bands who have been playing with numerous people for years and they're like at the third stage

[00:20:10] of their career by that point yeah and it worked out well you know and max hadn't done anything a while

[00:20:16] outside of you know you know east street and so he was looking for some hurt yeah it worked out well

[00:20:22] for him because then I think he actually used to well actually we've seen bruce in the east

[00:20:27] re band with max's kid playing drums because max I think he had a Conan O'Brien commitment at the time

[00:20:34] or not you know not the whole tour but he could we saw him I think in Chicago where it was max's

[00:20:42] kid playing drums so then all even out the end they all got back together and they supposedly

[00:20:50] were gonna tour this year but there's COVID's rear and it's ugly head yet so we'll see that

[00:20:55] happens anyway so I have met bruce a few times and joked around I got a great picture of a

[00:21:03] my facebook page somewhere in there and photos assuming me laughing in Chicago and then he's

[00:21:11] then he's and I met him on his acoustic tour in Detroit a few years later he signed the back

[00:21:16] of it I said can you write something funny on there he goes let's see hi so in the back of the

[00:21:21] photo it says hi so and I did meet him in front of the Broadway thing and I filmed that and

[00:21:30] and I was at the end of the line on one side and I said bruce just want to say thanks he goes thank you

[00:21:36] and then I I said I've been a fan for 46 years and he looked right at me goes I appreciate that so I

[00:21:42] got that on film so that's kind of cool nice interaction maybe yeah so yeah spring season

[00:21:50] my favorite artist of the last since you know since I probably since I was in high school 76

[00:21:57] so but the four albums born to run is still my favorite bruce album that's just

[00:22:08] there's something you never get to the bottom of that record there's just hidden stuff in there to

[00:22:14] this day I don't know if it's a production or what it's just and it's eight songs and they're all

[00:22:21] great the density of that record and the lyrics and the emotion and it was his make or break record

[00:22:28] too he just comes through and I think he's I think he's written better songs but it's kind of like

[00:22:37] Sergeant Pepper as the album is more than the sum of its parts that you know I mean

[00:22:44] mm-hmm and um and then darkness after that that's another one should born to run darkness in the

[00:22:54] river that trilogy he talked about years ago and born to run it sound like they were

[00:23:03] trying to punch through the ceiling of the studio the whole record

[00:23:06] and I dark darkness it feels like they they draw back and just get more intense

[00:23:11] and then when the river came out it sounds like there's exploded they probably figured things out

[00:23:16] it's definitely an unusual predicament it's like yeah and the first four records he did are all

[00:23:24] first one's kind of like a folk like a bob dillon wannabe record in some ways

[00:23:30] and the production isn't that great and the Wild Nandison sounds like seven different bands

[00:23:34] second album there's seven songs they sound like seven different bands recorded them then born

[00:23:39] to run came out darkest than the river and the river I

[00:23:47] it I don't know what it is it there's some weird analogy that record

[00:23:54] that it doesn't quite work for me but I you know I saw the they just did the tour a couple years

[00:24:01] ago where they did the album all the way through again to open the show you know I think it

[00:24:08] was just um I understood the record more after that I'm gonna I'm gonna go through this whole

[00:24:14] catalog but I'm not careful but the next album for Bruce would be born in the USA which a lot of

[00:24:21] people think is overrated and brought the huge band bandwagon in but to me it sounds like the

[00:24:28] river condensed into one album I mean some of the songs even sound like and it just

[00:24:35] and it's that's it's stronger for that people always talk about the Beatles white album if

[00:24:40] they make a better single out which I don't think is true I love every track on that but

[00:24:46] that's kind of what he did with born in USA he just kind of same some of the same ideas

[00:24:53] and of course it you know made them bigger than Coca-Cola for that year that was a huge

[00:24:57] record I think it's at one time was the biggest selling record in Columbia Records history

[00:25:02] that's something and uh did he stay with Sony or did he tick off no he's been with Sony or

[00:25:12] Columbia his whole career all right cool I didn't know for what a reason I always thought he was a

[00:25:17] one butters guy and then this is gonna be controversial working on a dream came out

[00:25:27] a few years ago I don't know if you are you familiar with that record at all yeah it's got outlaw outlaw

[00:25:33] Pete and uh Queen of the supermarket and I people a lot of people hate a lot of friends of mine that

[00:25:43] were fans hated that record like what he's singing about ponies you know Queen of the Super

[00:25:49] he's pretty he's kind of critic proof in a way and at the same time like yeah I can't think

[00:25:56] of anything which would make me you know because there's been a few new two albums which were kind

[00:26:00] of a little too mushy and with Springsteen I can't think of anything that really just stood out as

[00:26:05] just a sore thumb where you're just like what were they thinking it's like yeah pretty much

[00:26:10] did what he wanted to do he's still singing you know it's pretty much all down to a personal

[00:26:14] taste at that point well the secret of working on a dream is it's a studio it's a Sargent

[00:26:21] Pepper you can't really do that album live in fact he didn't do it live it did a couple

[00:26:26] songs from it but it's a studio creation and I don't think you can duplicate that live

[00:26:33] the way it's not yeah it sounds like a of all his records it sounds more most like a Beatles

[00:26:40] record and you know Beatles after a while when they started getting really heavy in the studio

[00:26:45] they couldn't really duplicate that stuff live so that's that's the cool thing about working

[00:26:50] on a dream for me so but good grief he had asked me next week and there'll be another four records

[00:27:00] I love the last one he came out with two I let her to you that's in the car right now so

[00:27:05] the phone spinning in the car on the phone

[00:27:10] so we'll see what he does next don't they anyway got to move on to the who

[00:27:16] the who yeah I've seen I saw them at the Silver Dome I think two years after this or year and a

[00:27:26] half after The Stones and it was a much better show I just remember even after seeing Spring scene

[00:27:32] and stuff I just had this huge grin on my face that whole show with the who um just I think it

[00:27:38] was just like oh we finally got to see these guys you know Keith Moon was gone by then of

[00:27:42] course it was Kenny Jones but and that was their quote farewell tour on quote in 83

[00:27:51] and of course they've come back many times since and then I've seen them what you will guys yeah

[00:27:59] I saw the who again on the Quadrafina tour in Detroit and I've seen them

[00:28:06] three times in Grand Rapids they like Grand Rapids for some reason

[00:28:10] you know they named the arena it's probably a loyal crowd but uh they're at the stage now where

[00:28:20] you go to see the who and Roger's gonna be ticked off at some point when he gets

[00:28:25] Dave Marsh the rock critic has said the who is the band like the the one house on the block that

[00:28:31] everybody knows their domestic problems you know everybody they don't hide anything the who

[00:28:37] just you know when they're mad or they're mad about something they just speak to them yeah

[00:28:45] but anyway it's hard to even explain to certain people because they're like what are you talking

[00:28:49] about we're talking about that basically everyone connects with these guys yeah so now it's just

[00:28:57] Keith and in um Pete but the song it's the songs are so great it's cool they have Ringles Kid

[00:29:02] playing drums to Zach's Darkie so and but Keith Moon was good grief I wish I'd kind of seen Keith Moon

[00:29:12] but he was he was also a scary guy there's footage on one of their documentaries where he's high on

[00:29:20] elephant tranquilizer I think at a show and you could just it's just it's terrifying footage

[00:29:26] is I think there's a show where they actually got somebody out of the audience to play

[00:29:30] drums because he was so far out of it you know it's just a shame that he he just ruined his life

[00:29:35] like that you know but but but he was you know still one of the most powerful drummers that ever

[00:29:43] lived so that's that's a that's a big tragedy that he died so young

[00:29:51] so oh then there was that was a Cincinnati concert where the kids got trampled

[00:29:58] remember that yeah I heard about it yeah yeah 79 um and the Cincinnati band Festival Seating

[00:30:08] and I was actually at the first concert in many years after that where they allowed Festival

[00:30:15] Seating and it was Springsteen because he had they had Festival Seating in the front but it was

[00:30:21] handled so well you had to have a wristband to get in and you got let it you know it wasn't like a big

[00:30:27] rush to the the stage that that happened that night so yeah they learned someone I don't you

[00:30:37] you ever you've seen W.K.R.P. do you remember the episode where the about the who concert

[00:30:43] tragedy I think I've seen part of it yeah yeah it was pretty powerful TV for you know

[00:30:50] comedy shows so anyway on the lighter side on the lighter side my favorite who album still is

[00:31:00] Quadrophenia um I've said this many times it's a it's a double album which is kind of with age

[00:31:08] of CD double album doesn't mean a lot much anymore but back on the vinyl days double oh two records

[00:31:14] two records yeah so it runs about 80 minutes but it's the most cohesive album I've ever heard

[00:31:21] which is amazing because it's twice as long as the standard albums back then

[00:31:26] it just I don't know if it I think I think the secret of that is there's so many water

[00:31:30] sound effects on it like ocean sounds something like that I think that actually connects it but

[00:31:37] I think thematically it tells it's it tells a better story than Tommy and every song just

[00:31:44] flows into the next one better than any other record I can think of so that's that's on my list

[00:31:51] and then who's next you can't you can't leave who's next out I mean we'll get fooled again

[00:31:58] and Bob O'Reilly have been played to death I know but it's still they've been played to

[00:32:04] that for a good reason because they're just great songs um

[00:32:11] and the dynamic I remember somebody complained about um we'll get fooled again that synthesize

[00:32:16] a riff towards the end where it just repeats and repeats there it's building up tension

[00:32:24] and also you know you get the Roger's scream it's just you need that you're just waiting for it

[00:32:31] and then Keith comes in on his drums you know yeah it's it's similar to uh Dave Brubeck's

[00:32:40] take five record there's a there's a drum solo towards the end where all of a sudden

[00:32:47] it builds up the same way then kicks to the next section of the song it's very similar to that

[00:32:53] you know other than one's a rock song one's a jazz song but compare those two sometimes it'd

[00:32:58] be fun to pick that out don't like so and then the who sell out is a riot um that's the one with

[00:33:09] it's a dedicated it's um influenced by pirate radio in the 60s in great britain where

[00:33:17] they go out on ships and and play records and I think they didn't have to pay fees or something

[00:33:25] but there was still I think there were still commercials on them and there's all these

[00:33:32] who's next I'm sorry the who sell out elm has all those commercials in between but I

[00:33:38] I'm still not sure if they made them up for the record they use the actual commercials

[00:33:43] but they're structured uh like little mini operas instead of your standard radio commercials

[00:33:51] they all connect together kind of like waterfina where it all just builds up to the next song

[00:33:57] the best example is the end of side side one the um pussy cat and you're where it's at

[00:34:07] the inside baby speak easy won't get through together wrote the sound strings boom and then

[00:34:14] won't get around I can see for miles kicks in I did not do that justice so you need to

[00:34:22] it's hard to replicate this you need to you need to pick that up and it's it's worth the price

[00:34:28] of admission just that last section leading to uh I can see for miles on that record

[00:34:33] and on side two it kind of they kind of get away from the the commercial concept but

[00:34:39] um it is yeah I think there's been reissues where they add more commercials again too so

[00:34:46] so that's a really fun record and very representative of 60s rock and roll on the radio

[00:34:55] and the first album my generation is groundbreaking Steve and Zant Spring scenes um

[00:35:02] I don't you follow him on twitter by any chance Steve and Zant not necessarily

[00:35:08] because he's he's he's always on twitter but he has said that's her best album so

[00:35:15] I said and he likes the Beatles help album too which is an odd choice but I can kind of see where

[00:35:21] he's coming from too like what your favorite Beatles album you know what day of the week is it you

[00:35:26] know right anyway so we get back down to Stevie Wonder who I I'm trying to think I've seen

[00:35:39] look at the top 10 list real quick I've seen Paul McCartney

[00:35:44] for the Beatles I've seen Bob Dylan several times obviously haven't seen Jimi Hendrix

[00:35:49] um saw Van Morrison once I've seen Graham Parker

[00:35:54] obviously can see Otis Redding I've seen the Stones

[00:35:59] Springsteen and at least three members of the who and I've also saw Stevie Wonder in Saginaw his

[00:36:06] hometown once so that was sweet it's pretty cool that I've been able to see most of these

[00:36:12] artists live at least once so uh great way to start with Stevie Wonder I don't

[00:36:19] I say this but I don't know if it's available anymore I bought it years ago and it's still in

[00:36:23] decent shape it's a three-record set called Looking Back it's when Motown was putting out

[00:36:31] these two or three record sets of Greatest Hits right and and they usually were you know named

[00:36:40] after the artist but they put a title on Stevie Wonder's called it Looking Back I think the other

[00:36:43] ones are like Vessa Temptations or something like that oh no they they call them anthology that's right

[00:36:50] Temptations Anthology, Four Chaps Anthology but they made exception for Stevie Wonder called

[00:36:55] Looking Back but it's an anthology and it's everything up to early 70s and if you want

[00:37:03] to just get one Stevie Wonder album it's a great one to get to represent is 60 stuff anyway

[00:37:09] you know from fingertips fingertips part two all the way through to

[00:37:14] early 70s when he really started to be his own artist instead of the Motown sound

[00:37:21] good um then there's a I think it's a trilogy intervisions talking book and songs on the key

[00:37:27] of life are just um he was kind of in a way after the Beatles broke up he kind of took over that

[00:37:41] mantle for a while other people said Elton John did but I don't really agree with that I like

[00:37:47] Elton John but not to that extent I think Stevie Wonder was I think Stevie Wonder was more creative

[00:37:53] especially songs on the key of life there is very some of it's got a real Abbey Road feel

[00:38:00] right and the way the songs connect one to another like side two of Abbey Road

[00:38:09] oh let me just a second here intervisions

[00:38:18] I remember Paul Simon

[00:38:23] one year at the Grammys he thanks Stevie Wonder for not putting on the record this year because

[00:38:27] she was he wanted to win yeah he was always getting Grammys and deservedly so

[00:38:37] oh intervisions good grief it's got too high living for the city which is great except

[00:38:44] for that little have you ever heard this song with that little dramatic thing where

[00:38:52] somebody gets busted in New York City I don't think so and that little radio plate

[00:38:58] that little sketch in the middle a little mini thing that that kind of hasn't aged well

[00:39:04] but the song itself is great um oh for Stevie Wonder oh yes where he's getting beat up

[00:39:11] by the cops yeah yeah New York just like I pictured it remember yeah and then yeah and then he

[00:39:18] hey can you do me a favor and then the signs of the times baby yeah yeah but um

[00:39:27] it's a little over dramatic but again the point is well made you're right

[00:39:31] but it's Steve is also a great balance singer all of all this fairs a beautiful song on there

[00:39:36] don't you worry about a thing

[00:39:43] golden ladies are really cool song

[00:39:47] um and then talking book you know you're awesome when you make an appearance in diehard skeleton song

[00:39:55] oh what's oh what's during the limo scene oh what song is it are they playing

[00:40:01] skeletons like seven days oh from Stevie Wonder

[00:40:08] okay yeah yeah that's a later song okay okay yeah yeah I know which one you're talking about

[00:40:16] took me so I thought you were talking about a Ricky Lee Jones song because she's got one called that

[00:40:19] which is really um back to what we were talking about earlier about the cops

[00:40:27] they're shooting somebody you know yeah stones have a song like that too called the heartbreaker

[00:40:35] of course yeah yeah there's a trilogy the skeletons and then American skin by Bruce

[00:40:41] springsteen those are like three songs you could play back to back but I'll cover the same

[00:40:47] topic very all very well

[00:40:52] talking book you're out the sunshine my life

[00:40:56] blame it on the sun

[00:41:00] superstition

[00:41:04] he had a real good run there for a while there's certain artists like the Rolling Stones and

[00:41:09] all Bruce and where they just have three or four records and really just knocked it out of the

[00:41:14] park every time and early 70s Stevie Wonder is like that so oh as long as I'm the key of life is

[00:41:22] probably my favorite

[00:41:27] and so I think songs in the key of life is the first record and bonus tracks because when it came out

[00:41:36] and on vinyl was a two-record seventh and then had a 45 with four more songs two on each side

[00:41:42] wow I think he kind of introduced the concept of bonus tracks because you know now

[00:41:48] CDs always do that now when they reissue stuff or bonus tracks so often yeah but I think that may be

[00:41:55] the first record to do that anyway I'm exhausted now so anyway I just scratched the surface on

[00:42:06] these artists the best thing to do is just you know listen to them and there's so many ways

[00:42:12] listen to music now watch them up on Alexa or whatever you need to do whatever you gotta do and

[00:42:21] which do you recommend out of all of these I mean I get that they're all pretty awesome but like

[00:42:27] just sitting everyone down like obviously you gotta get a pretty good stereo going and everything

[00:42:35] oh which which record out of all the yeah out of each of them let me say like

[00:42:40] she had to go with one from each one oh okay Beatles I'd go the Beatles I refuse to call it

[00:42:48] the other name everybody calls it oh look the cover is white let's call it the white

[00:42:54] album that title is the Beatles and that and that um a title so great because it's really

[00:43:05] um

[00:43:09] the Beatles solo backed up by the other Beatles it really broke ground all their other albums

[00:43:16] are Beatles albums really but that one is just I said I said that before it sounds like it was

[00:43:23] a quarter three weeks ago it's still so fresh all their albums are great but they all sound okay

[00:43:29] that was the 60s you know but that one it influenced 70s rock it just it still sounds like something

[00:43:36] I don't know if it's the recording quality or the quality of the songs but

[00:43:42] it just escapes their catalog and I'll never get I play it everything on it all the way through

[00:43:48] every time I will not skip revolution nine you need that because then you get good night ring goes

[00:43:55] um it makes it haunting you know yeah so um Bob Dylan I would go with highway 61

[00:44:06] revisited because I still can't believe that came out in 1965 it's just it

[00:44:16] they were making this kind of music in 1965 you know the monkeys yeah no one expected it

[00:44:22] okay yeah it just transcends the the the form Hendricks I I tend to like double albums I gotta

[00:44:31] go electric lady land because side three um psychedelic the psychedelic on there how does

[00:44:39] the Beatles psychedelic I think Van Morrison um astral weeks other than the fact his voice

[00:44:48] is a little rough it just it's it's transcendent you gotta it's hard to describe this again you

[00:44:55] got to play these albums you know right uh grand parker squeezing out sparks that's all you need

[00:45:03] yeah it just back to front it just cooks uh I would just run and I'd go live in Europe

[00:45:12] just because it's a definitive live album and maybe it's spring scene live albums

[00:45:19] and if you see them in concert and they get a live album it doesn't do it justice but

[00:45:24] with the oldest writing live in Europe um

[00:45:29] you get okay this is what it was like you know you're telling your Bruce live album even the

[00:45:35] live videos it's like yeah but I've seen him do this and the problem that's because I've seen him

[00:45:41] 60 times and I know what he's capable of you know I just kept rewatching the same music concert that

[00:45:47] was from like 2001 um oh the the one that was on HBO yeah that's 2000 yeah yeah yeah that's

[00:45:57] that's a phenomenal what I'm saying they're all great that's what all great live albums

[00:46:03] the one he just put out um last December the the no nukes show is amazing you got to get the

[00:46:08] bluer of that yeah and uh I was actually on east street radio telling them that I drove

[00:46:18] from Grand Rapids to New York City in 1980 just to see the movie because it wasn't showing

[00:46:27] in town and I couldn't wait are you for real I really did Dave Marsh goes I don't blame you

[00:46:37] well plus I was 20 I wanted to get out you know get out and see the world a little bit

[00:46:43] okay I read oh it's shown in New York City of course they show them Grand

[00:46:47] show up in Grand Rapids a couple months later but

[00:46:49] I told you I was a little nutty about Springsteen after seeing him first time so I've since calmed

[00:46:57] down a little bit so anyway uh so yeah we were at uh squeezing out some oh just right 11 rolling

[00:47:07] stones um exile on main street but if you want to uh shorter record sticky fingers it's just as good

[00:47:16] um Springsteen I'd go still to the state border run even though yeah but he did he

[00:47:25] he hasn't put a bad record out you know the the quiet folky ones I go I don't know if I went

[00:47:32] and I started playing I gotta hear the end of this I gotta go I gotta hear this is that good

[00:47:36] but it's taking a bit what's that uh this is that good but it takes a bit uh just warm up

[00:47:44] at first oh yeah yeah yeah oh I thought I thought you're having technical problems sorry

[00:47:48] no um I hope not this is not good but it's taking a bit okay taking a bit I got you okay

[00:47:57] um yeah ghost and Tom jode is a quiet record you gotta listen to late at night um but it's

[00:48:03] very cinematic some of those the stories are amazing on there and it's very uh

[00:48:09] it's about it's about people you know most of his records are about people

[00:48:15] about being human you know that's the what's going on there the the Nehu quadropedia because

[00:48:22] like I said it's a double and it flows better than any record I've ever heard

[00:48:26] and Stevie Wonder songs on the key of life that's that's a cliche but it's it's

[00:48:32] it's a cliche because it's great so all right how means and where can we find you on the web

[00:48:39] I'm sorry or can we find you on the web oh my music page

[00:48:45] or oh facebook or wherever you would prefer to promote yeah I've got a music page on facebook

[00:48:55] called music past and present and there's only about 115 people on it but I can add you

[00:49:02] if I I'm in the group yeah I had a Jew I uh I got a I've kind of gotten away from posting

[00:49:12] in there a lot but right now this last year or two I've been going to 20 years yeah I've been

[00:49:18] going through 20 artists kind of which I just mentioned and the other 10 are artists I wanted

[00:49:23] to listen to more I'm going through their whole catalog and then posting about it

[00:49:28] and just going to picture them up there but there's fun stuff on there we'll return after these messages

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