Hi there music listeners.... No links for this playlist either....but it is a two for one special. As you can see, this is the playlist from two weeks ago. Every time I sat down to do this playlist I was diverted. What do you expect for free? lol. Yes....that's right....for all of you that do not know.....I do not get paid one cent to do this radio program. That seems to be a popular question these days. "You don't get paid??????" I get to play what I want though. I'm the programmer.....................(insert first David Bowie song you can think of here). Music For Listeners 04/06/02 1)The Stone Roses-"Breaking Into Heaven" From the CD 'Second Coming'. Great freaking song!!!! 2)Creeper Lagoon-"Chance of a Lifetime" From the CD 'Give Back the Universe and I'll Take Yesterday'. 3)Spoon-"Anything you Want" From the CD 'Girls Can Tell'. 4)The Murder City Devils-"Midnight at the Mutter Museum" From "The Thelma E.P." CD. 5)...and you Will Know us by the Trail of Dead-"How Near, How Far" From the CD 'Source Tags and Codes'. 6)The Wedding Present-"Love Slave" From the CD 'Hit Parade 2'. Also the A-side on the September 1992 single. They released a single a month that year, and the 12 singles make up 'Hit Parade 1 and 2'. 7)James-"Senorita" From the CD 'Pleased to Meet You'. 8)James-"Vervaceous" From the CD 'Millionaires'. Two James tracks played for "the" fellow James fan in A-town. 9)Weezer-"Jamie" From the CD 'DGC Rarities'. A request fulfilled. Do you have any fellow readers? 10)Chomsky-"Up" From the CD 'Onward Quirky Solders'. 11)The Polyphonic Spree-"Section 8 (Solder Girl)" From the CD 'Here Come The Polyphonic Spree'. 12)Mercury Rev-"Tides of the Moon" From the CD 'All is Dream'. 13)Bill Laswell and Jah Wobble-"Subcode" From the CD 'RadioAxiom-A Dub Transmission (Bass-The Final Frontier)'. 14)The Shins-"The Weird Divide" From the CD 'Oh, Inverted World'. 15)Dead Can Dance-"Nierika" From the CD 'Spiritchaser'. 16)Led Zeppelin-"The Rain Song" From the CD 'Houses of the Holy'. For Miss Hart...I hope to put a smile on her face with a song from her favorite album. 17)Celtic Cross-"Hicksville" From the CD 'Hicksville'. Featuring a sample from the great late William S. Burroughs. 18)Al Stewart with Peter White-"Soho (Needless to Say) (Live)" From the damn fine CD 'Rhymes in Rooms: Live'. 19)Skip James-"Devil Got My Woman" From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the film "Ghost World". 20)The Charlatans-"A Man Needs to be Told" From the CD 'Wonderland'. 21)Knife in the Water-"Sunset Motel" From the "Sunset Motel" 7" single. 22)Yo La Tengo-"Everyday" From the CD "...and Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out'. 23)"The 3 A.M. Recording" It's not that strange I guess. Their career spans almost 35 years and I've never played an album from the later "popular" years of Fleetwood Mac, and tonight is no exception. Before the Buckingham/Nicks team joined, Fleetwood Mac was more or less, a blues band. Well.....they started as a full on blues band, but after "The Green God" Peter Green left, they seems to go for more of a atmospheric approach. 1969's amazing instrumental "Albatross" was the bands first number one hit, and it was to be one of the last songs Peter Green would write for Mick and his gang. Between 1970 and 1974, Bob Welch's Fleetwood Mac, (if I may be so bold to call it that), made 5 albums that in my opinion show the most innovative side of the band. They were not afraid to break away from the blues, and move into other musical realms. The bands original bass pumping rhythm section of John Mcvie and Mick Fleetwood would still provide the moody bluesy quality. The awesome songwriting and deep atmospheric guitar swirls from the most overlooked Mac member, Danny Kirwin. The fantastic electric piano and songwriting of Christine Mcvie. (The boys wrote some mediocre songs here and there, but you could always count on Christine to have a great one. Even on the 90's recordings, her songs were still the best.) Plus first American member, Bob Welch. He's the leader of the band during this time, and it shows in his songwriting. Longer epic pieces along side the catchiest songs that only could be made by a product of 60's California. Now along with the blues heritage, The Beatles and The Byrds crept into the music. These new members were great fans of pop music as well as the great blues singers. With this influence, the band was brought into the realms of the basic pop song. This period of the Mac is very important as it bridges the band from the awesome mega-blues group that it once was, to the mega-star pop music status it achieved in the late 70's. (For me, when the 70's ended, Fleetwood Mac started their decline.) I still haven't played my favorite album from this band. Which is also from this Bob Welch period that I speak of. However, I promise to play it in November of this year, as it will be the 35th anniversary of one of the best bands ever, Fleetwood Mac. Tonight I feature the album 'Heroes Are Hard to Find'. Released in 1974, it was the last album that Bob Welch made before a not so bright solo career. The very next year the notorious Buckingham/Nicks period began, so did the cocaine. " Peace and hugs, Michael Now you can listen in live 1:05 AM-4:00 AM CST Friday Night/Saturday mornings with a live stream at: www.krtu.org And you can also hear a archive of the previous weeks show world wide on the KRTU website 24/7 at this link: http://www.krtu.org/alternative.htm Hit the "Friday Night" link on that page under "Music For Listeners". Music For Listeners web-site: http://hometown.aol.com/orbfile23/myhomepage/index.html MPEG3 of the week site: http://home.satx.rr.com/music4listeners/Mpeg3%20of%20the%20week/ Show note: This one is one of the better shows of the year.......recorded and archived on MP3.