I Went...SI--SI--SIRIUS...All The Way Home (again) #61

(a short jaunt)


"Hey Fredrick" - Jefferson Airplane / 'Volunteers" (1969)
"Either go away or go all the way in.
Look at what you hold."

Grace Slick makes her demands known right from the start of this musical epistle which gradually builds up into a guitar jam of acid fuel proportions.  It was at about this time my head slipped into autopilot mode.  The sounds of JA have an almost Pavlovian effect that still causes my head to travel light.  This was the band's fifth album and the last with founder Marty Balin and drummer Spencer Dryden. (OWN)

"Angel In Blue" - J. Geils Band / "Freeze Frame" (1981)
"And the bees they had stung her.
The birds they had flown.
There were guys she could number
but none had she known."

This doesn't sound like any J. Geils I'd ever heard.  But dang if the band's sincerity isn't dripping out of the speakers in spades.  No smokescreens here, folks.  And I'll take catchy shit like this over a Phil Collins heart-stinker any day.  Turn it up!  This was JGB's tenth studio album. (NEED)

"Superfly" - Curtis Mayfield / "Superfly" (1972)
"Darkest of night
with the moon shining bright.
There's a set goin' strong.
Lotta things goin' on."

I've never seen the movie, but Mayfield's funky title track sets a hot table in my head.  Night streets are alive and dangerous.  Like the greasy basswork and drums that keep the song and eyewitnesses moving along.  Diggety decadence and it never gets old.  Curtis Mayfield's third solo album. (NEED)

"WILMA,  I'M HOME!"

Good stuff.

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