You Weekend Playlist (Dec 7)

Hey, every week we’re going to share some of the cool songs that we’ve been listening to this week

Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody

If you missed the announcement.  Queen is going on tour, with Adam Lambert next summer including a show in Toronto (Tickets HERE).  It’s called the Rhapsody Tour, they have a movie that was nominated for Best Drama at the Golden Globes, and we’re going to highlight it…(Although you may just want to go down a Queen youtube rabbit hole, and watch the Live Aid 95′ Concert in full…HERE)

Tea Party – Psychopomp

Speaking of concert announcements, the Tea Party are coming to London Music Hall April 1st, 2019.  (get tickets HERE).  We don’t play this particular song, but it was the first one I ever heard, and I used to love playing it on the Saturday Night Request Show at my first radio station.

Plastic Ono Band – Give Peace a Chance

December 8th, 1980 is a date every Beatles fan remembers.  It’s tragic to think of what the world lost that day.  We remember John Lennon

Bruce Springsteen – Blinded by the Light

We were brainstorming ideas for upcoming Classic Rock 20’s, and the topic of “Debut Singles” came up, and there are some obvious ones…(Love me Do by the Beatles, More than a Feeling by Boston, Alive by Pearl Jam) we started looking up different artists and their first singles, and this one came up for Bruce Springsteen…obviously much better known for the Manfred Mann version (still Springsteen’s only #1 hit).  But the original has its own charm…and here it is

Dean Martin – Baby, It’s Cold Outside

Paul McCartney reiterated in an interview recently that the song Blackbird was written about his observation on the treatment of African Americans (and specifically an African American woman he saw being discriminated against) and wrote the song Blackbird.  So for those who thought the song was about a literal blackbird, I apologize for shattering that illusion.  (I won’t ruin Puff the Magic Dragon for you, any more than MEET THE PARENTS did)

Apropos to this, context matters…so this song is in the news, again this Christmas season, for being “a little rapey”…If you’re looking for a reason to fight with the people who want to “ban” the song…READ THIS, for some ammunition.  In general, much like with the hubbub created by the gay slur in Money for Nothing by Dire Straits, context matters, and personally I think people may be overreacting to this.

BONUS TRACK:

And I really added Dean Martin, so that I could add this video, done by Steve Stax (of Classic Rock Mornings with Steve Stax) updated the song for 2018.  Definitely worth your time today.

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This post was written by Dan Wylie