IdRatherBeSkiing's Top 20 (Sunday, June 21st, 2020 version)

Here are a couple of Stonebol's other tracks








I already had these ones captured from vinyl.

(needed to separate from last post as board has limit of 5 videos.)
 
I'm heading out for the weekend so I may not get to listen to all those posts until Monday. But I like the story! I wish I still had at least the tracklistings of my "taped-off-the-radio" cassettes from the early 80s that I used to play when hanging with my friends at the ol' rope swing.
 
More obscurities. When I say Baby Jane you may think of Rod Stewart. But if you were me in 1981 you would be wrong. The correct answer is Christopher Ward.

 
Some deep cuts (or Canadian favorites) by IRBS! I'd like to find my mix tape cassettes I made back in the day to see what songs I was in to at the time.

Along with the Dire Straits songs already mentioned, I like So Far Away.
 
Almost forgot today's artist Top 10. Today is Electric Light Orchestra. I could pretty much order these 10 any way. I could make a case for each of them being my favourite. But here are the 10 as they are ranked in my playlist. You may have guessed that Discovery is my favourite ELO album. I put a * beside any song from that album in case you didn't know. For the record I also liked their Time album as a concept album.

10. The Diary of Horace Wimp *
9. Sweet Talkin' Woman
8. Last Trade To London *
7. Confusion *
6. Roll Over Beethoven
5. Rock 'N' Roll Is King
4. Turn To Stone
3. Hold on Tight
2. Don't Bring Me Down *
1. Shine a Little Love *
 
Today's Top 10: Fleetwood Mac. A difficult one to keep to just 10. I had to trim Think About Me, Seven Wonders, Big Love and Little Lies. The latter 3 from their 1987 Tango In The Night which I enjoyed. However, as good as they were, they just don't compare to their earlier work. So without further ado:

10. Tusk (I find the song sort of hypnotizing and cool -- not a typical Mac song and I know several don't like it).
9. You Make Loving Fun (Rumours has to be one of the desert island cds)
8. Go Your Own Way
7. Hold Me
6. Don't Stop (I now think of Clinton when I hear this song)
5. Rhiannon
4. Sara (this one became more of a Mac staple for me once my granddaugher of the same name was born)
3. Gypsy (I love Nick's soft voice on the top 5. That woman can sing)
2. Dreams (I loved this song and always thought it cheery. Then I was at a party and they were doing group karaoke and I saw the lyrics. Became a sad song, still like it. Also discovered I tend to naturally sing the backup parts rather than the lead)
1. Landslide (I like all versions of this song that I have heard: The Dixie Chicks, Smashing Pumpkins -- Mac's version still the best)
 
In going through my old cassettes I see how I changed the way I made them. In the start I just put songs on in an order that felt good. Sort of picking the next song based upon how it fit the mood of the cassette. In the later years, I would have a list of all the songs I wanted on cassette. Usually enough to make 3-4 cassettes. I would record on a paper their time. I would then take the times and divide them into 50 minute chunks (I first made sure total was multiple of 100). Then I would get a side list and organize those songs in an order that made sense. It would be a whole weekend activity (not unlike the activity I am doing this weekend). I wonder if this has triggered some sort of music-mid-life crisis for me. I seem very attracted to the past right now.

I sometimes think kids today lose something when they are not restricted to 45 or 50 minutes for a "side". So much of the music venacular I have experienced comes from physical limitations of media (all of which are now gone).

Perhaps once I am done with the top 10s I will share some of these cassettes.
 
ELO:

Can't Get It out of My Head
Mr. Blue Sky
Telephone Line
Sweet Talkin' Woman
Strange Magic
Evil Woman
Don't Bring Me Down
Livin' Thing
Turn to Stone

Fleetwood Mac - yeah, wasn't easy to trim the list to 10

Landslide
Silver Springs
Hold Me
Gypsy
Little Lies
I Don't Want to Know
Songbird
Don't Stop
You Make Loving Fun
The Chain
 
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