Not wasted, enjoyed...

Playlist

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vol 8

UKZ - Radiation

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Acoustic Ersatzreal

Various - I Love Music, Je T'aime

Cat Stevens - Remember: The Ultimate Collection

King Crimson - The Great Deceiver

King Crimson - The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson, Vol. 1

Lou Reed - Between Thought and Expression

Tangerine Dream - Tangents

Weather Report - Forecast : Tomorrow

The Who - Thirty Years of Maximum R&B

King Crimson - Frame By Frame: The Essential King Crimson

King Crimson - The Road to Red Improvs

Yes - Yesyears

Various Composers - The A to Z of Classical Music

Various Composers - Adagio Collection

J.S. Bach - Complete Works for Organ

Journey - Journey

Angel - Angel

Angel - White Hot

Airto - Natural Feelings

Airto - Seeds On The Ground

Miroslav Vitous - Purple

Styx - Styx

Styx - Equinox

Styx - Kilroy was here

John Wetton - Caught in the Crossfire

Jogn Wetton - King's Road 1972-1980

Kiss - Rock And Roll Over

Ten Years After - Ten Years After

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Horace Parlan - Up And Down

Soft Machine - John Peel Sessions 1969-1971

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Bitter Sweet Covers

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

Doctors of Madness - Late Night Movies, All Night Brainstorms

Styx - The Serpent Is Rising

Airto - Fingers

DweezilZappa - Zappa Plays Zappa

The Golden Earrings - Just Earrings

John Foxx & Louis Gordon - Shifting City

Trees - The Garden Of Jane Delawney

Pet Shop Boys - 2017 Setlist

Up early and uploading the podcast...

Dishes washed to the sound of me and my guitar a little over ten years ago now - some nice songs there...

Then, to ensuring box sets are ripped to the day-to-day music listening source (the computer)...

All "rock & pop" and "jazz" are done but some gaps re classical...

Ripping a 5CD box of adagios led me to read the diary back re our visit to Veleso on Lake Como , Como itself and Milan back in September 2006 (where I bought said box) - and then to check the hundreds of pics not uploaded here...

Which was nice...

Listened to a few pieces from this 20CD Box...

Which was also nice...

I did not, however, venture into this...

Both that and my box of the complete works of Mozart await what will be a marathon ripping exercise at some point before I snuff it...

This week's "Death in Paradise" (last in the series) entertained - as did some Twittering back and forth - including with nephew Olly in Munich for today's game against Hamburg (8-0 ooff!)...

Never sure if I'm kind of wasting a Saturday when all I really do is listen to music but it is enjoyable...

Today, I also, however, sang through a few songs, many of which had not been sung for a few years...

I also monitored the Hearts (lost 2-0 at Partick) and Queens (won 2-1 at home to Raith) games...

All this whilst adding more stuff to the iTunes from Jorg Sonnenchein's gifted-to-me-in-October hard drive...

Loadsa Styx, Saga, Journey and Angel today...

With all those bands, they seemed to start off brilliantly and then become pish as commercial considerations took control of the songwriting process...

But also some John Wetton, Airto, Soft Machine and Miroslav Vitous...

In the evening, a tasty and not too big Indian Takeaway was enjoyed with a cheeky wee bottle of red as we were entertained by the first in the latest series of "Endeavour"...

Late on, an album I've searched for for years was re-constituted via judicious downloading from Youtube and so The Doctors of Madness' debut now nestles in the iTunes - great stuff...

Listening to the closing 15 minute epic, "Mainlines" as I type this up...

Noted also that today is the 44th anniversary of the release of my, when the chips are down, all-time favourite album...

It is of course the mighty "Billion Dollar Babies" by Michael Bruce, Glen Buxton, Alice Cooper, Dennis Dunaway and Neal Smith (with input too from Bob Ezrin, Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter)...

So I gave that a listen too...

I noted on the Twitter that it knocks those Beatles into a cocked hat...

I do like the Beatles but they were, at best, quite good but, often, utter shit...

Frankly, I cannot comprehend the unwarranted adulation & pedestal placing...

And, of course, when I say I like them, ahem...

Anyway, it's all subjective...

Kind of...

A good day of doing nothing really..

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Discovery...