The 'What Are You Listening To?' Thread

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I used to regret missing songs but now I would think it a blessing. How often do you get to hear a new song by a group that hasn't been around in years? I am much like this with music from the 80s and 90s when I wasn't as into Rock as I am now. My late wife's home care attendant came from Poland. During the cold war the USSR censored much of the rock coming from England including the Beatles. You should've seen her face when I played Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club. She swore it wasn't the Beatles until I showed her the album. Voice of America didn't help. During the 80s when I was there, they decided to ban all rock and roll especially The Beatles.

There were so many songs written and recorded in the 60s that some of them didn't get released here until the early 70s. Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress - Hollies and The Moody Blues album Days of Future Passed come to mind. Both were done in the 60s and didn't get released until the early 70s. One of the guys who was in the Hollies got his royalty check in the mail and couldn't figure out why. The Hollies had been broken up for years at that point.

Too bad they couldn't listen to "Back in the USSR".

This is another tune I don't remember hearing until the mid 80's.

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Cheers to my Southern brothers and sisters.

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As Tears Go By is interesting as it's one of the few slow ballads the early Rolling Stones did. You might have been too young to hear it. In the 60s, the Next Big Thing was what pop culture was all about and once a song was off the charts, you'd rarely hear it on the air again.

Here's one that most people have never heard the Stones do.

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My age had little to do with it. My sister was playing the radio all the time. She is a few years older than you, I believe. Well anyway she is 61 in a few weeks. I think it was the local area playlist. It just wasn't there.

That's some pretty zany Stones right there. They were trippin'.

Someone who was high for a performance was Ann Wilson in Heart. She had a huge fallout with Mushroom records over her activities. They released the album "Magazine" with no fanfare for a few days and pulled them off the shelf. I happened to be in the record store and saw the album and bought the thing before it was pulled. They re-released the album with many changes. Here is a video of her trippin'

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Jazz with the best guitarist in history.

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