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Radio Africa - Latin Quarter

Told ya… Just for the bass playing, Oil on Canvas - Japan, Mick Karn shining throughout. Graceland does have some stunning playing though - GAH! 😫

Just one? Ooh, tough choice. Avoiding solo albums by bass players, probably Paul Simon’s Graceland.* *I will no doubt change my mind as soon as I hit submit reply.

I don’t know what you mean?

Oh, great and wise denizens of the Abstinence Thread, what is your thinking about having a bass defretted, in terms of category 1/2 failure?

Sexiest looking guitar on the planet IMO. I can’t play them, however. The ergonomics are all wrong for me (that’s my excuse anyway ).

Mixed emotions with that one for you certainly. However, if it makes you think of him every time you play it (hopefully, of good times), maybe that’s not a bad thing.

Some of the reactions to other peoples’ musical tastes here is amusing. Artistic taste is subjective, if often perplexing from one’s own perspective. People forget he’s had excursions outside of DP. I used to love his voice and saw Gillan at The Marquee, now it’s like fingernails on a blackboard to me, not to mention his awful lyrics. Same goes for Quo & Iron Maiden in terms of my about face on my opinion of them. I must now refer myself to my first paragraph above and not judge others for liking them (I don’t).

Paper Plane - Quo

I think they already had this info from months/years of weekend request shows and the weekday request hour (1-2). What seems to have happened is that they had more people listening for longer and, unless they have premium access, being exposed to more ads. The top 500 was what listeners, at least the ones who voted, wanted. I hope this doesn’t see a shift away from playing more recent bands or the country rock that they have been pilloried for. If it wasn’t for PR (I'm a listener from the very early, ad free days) I wouldn’t have heard bands like Volbeat, Those Damned Crows, Blackberry Smoke, Black Stone Cherry, Greta Van Fleet, the list goes on and I’m happy about that. It has also achieved the reverse by confirming my dislike of some bands that a lot of folk hold in high regard. It’s not all gold, but then I refuse to believe that any artist’s catalogue is all gold, no matter how revered they are. Finally, a top whatever that has caused controversy; who would have thought that would be the outcome?

Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses

Umbrella - Rihanna

Thought Rush might do better, but that’s exactly what a Rush fan would think.

I often said you probably only need 1 AC/DC album (dons tin hat). Get in! Yep, LZ fanboy. Surprising really as I didn’t ’get them’ until ‘76, when they were almost done, I was a Purple guy (whom I now can’t stand, along with other performers from that time in my life that I adored, I'm looking at you EC). PR play sooo much Queen, who, IMO, weren’t particularly ‘rock’ post Sheer Heart Attack. I do wonder if Sabbath would have finished so high, were it not for Ozzy’s demise; we’ll never know. Finally, big thanks to @rwillett for doing the spreadsheet, donkey work on this, most appreciated.