I Went...SI--SI--SIRIUS...All The Way Home (again) #44

 (a short jaunt)


"Apricot Brandy" - Rhinoceros / "Rhinoceros" (1968)

Very cool hearing early lesser-known bands do their thing.  I remember exactly where I found this album.  It was squeezed in the middle of an over-packed dollar box filled mostly with Peter, Paul & Mary records.  I almost stopped looking before I hit it.  Rhinoceros was mostly a blues-rock acid band that was okay, but not nearly as cool as their album cover would suggest.  Nonetheless, they were still a supergroup of sorts.  Members from Iron Butterfly, Buffalo Springfield, The Daily Flash, and The Electric Flag were all plugging in together.  Mostly blues-rock stuff, but "Apricot Brandy" is a pretty good jammer and fun to yank the crank just the same.  The song was from the band's first album. (OWN)


"Waiting (Phase One)" / Porcupine Tree / "Signify" (1996)
"Waiting... to be born again.
Wanting... the saddest kind of pain.
Waiting for the day when I will crawl away."

The entire song is covered in a dreamy, floaty ambiance...and stays that way even when the guitar begins to paint on the magic soundboard.  Just perfect for one of those late-night, no-traffic drives across the prairie highway.  If the rest of the album sounds anything like this, I want it.  This was the fourth album from Porcupine Tree. (NEED)


"Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" - Burton Cummings / "Burton Cummings" (1976)
"I met a devil woman.
She took my heart away.
She said I've had it comin' to me,
but I wanted it that way."

I don't know if this BTO rock song, turned into a jazzy lounge number, was a thumb's up nod to his ex-bandmate Randy Bachman or a snidely nose-thumb.  I'm not hip to their history, but Cummings' vocals pull it off either way.  This was the closing track from his debut solo album. (NEED)

"WILMA,  I'M HOME!"

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