John & Yoko Radio

JOHN LENNON AND YOKO ONO REUNITED AGAIN ! PLUS LENNON'S BEST SONG, INSTANT KARMA, AND YOKO'S GREAT DEATH OF SAMANTHA. I DUMPED HARRY NILSSON'S COCONUT AND LEON RUSSEL'S OUT IN THE WOODS AS SONG SEEDS BECAUSE I WANT THIS STATION TO FOCUS ON NEW MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS AND ARTISTS THAT WERE INFLUENCED BY JOHN AND YOKO'S RAW MINIMALISM AND ALLOW THE LISTENER TO DREAM OF WHAT JOHN AND YOKO ACCOMPLISHED IN THEIR LIVES AND MUSIC. http://www.pandora.com/station/217100817192757422

Dylan Fan Radio

PRESENTING "DYLAN FAN RADIO", INCORPORATING BOB DYLAN PLUS THREE ADDITIONAL ARTISTS, NEIL YOUNG, NICK DRAKE AND SIMON JOYNER PLUS FOUR DYLAN TUNES FROM MODERN TIMES AS SONG SEEDS, INCLUDING THUNDER ON THE MOUNTAIN, ROLLIN' AND TUMBLIN', SOMEDAY BABY AND THE LEVEE'S GONNA BREAK. THIS STATION IS AN ATTEMPT TO PRESENT CONTEMPORARY AND POPULAR MUSIC-ORIENTED VERSION OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A FAN OF BOB DYLAN. I WANTED TO MAKE A STATION FOR BOB DYLAN AND HIS MANY DISCIPLES, PRETENDERS TO THE THRONE AND IMITATORS. WELL, IF THE IMITATORS HAVE TALENT THEY MAY BE FOUND HERE. HOW WIDESPREAD IS BOB DYLAN'S INFLUENCE ? I CHOSE NEIL YOUNG, NICK DRAKE AND SIMON JOYNER BECAUSE I THINK THEY ARE ALL APPROACHE SONGWRITING WITH AN ATTITUDE SIMILAR TO DYLAN'S. REPRESENTED HERE AS WELL ARE ELLIOTT SMITH, RYAN ADAMS, TOM PETTY AND PETE SEEGER, PHIL OCHS AND ROD MACDONALD AND MANY MORE...[DEVELOPING]... http://www.pandora.com/station/217238311980804270

Formalist Masterpiece Radio

FORMALIST MASTERPIECE - BRIAN ENO, CAN, MIKE OLDFIELD, STEVE REICH PLUS KRAFTWERK'S "COMPUTER LOVE" - ALL FORMALIST MASTERS IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC. http://www.pandora.com/station/217568633620572334

Jazz Performance Radio

I CREATED THIS STATION IN 2007 TO FEATURE JAZZ PERFORMERS LIKE BLUE MITCHELL, CAL TJADER AND LIONEL HAMPTON. IN 2010 I ADDED JIM HALL AND IN 2016 I ADDED CECIL TAYLOR AND ANTHONY BRAXTON. LIONEL HAMPTOM WAS DELETED AND MOVED OVER TO JAZZ PIANO, BUT HE MAY BE RE-INSTALLED HERE ONE OF THESE DAYS (January 4, 2016). http://www.pandora.com/station/217679967762819246

Jazz Piano Radio

PIANO JAZZ RADIO = BILL EVANS + KEITH JARRETT + BRAD MEHLDAU + PAUL BLEY In 2010, I deleted Paul Bley and added Lionel Hampton as his substitute. In 2015, I returned Lionel Hampton to the Jazz Performance radio station and added Oscar Peterson to Jazz Piano radio, which I feel is where he belongs. In 2016, I added Andrew Hill (January 4, 2016). http://www.pandora.com/station/219270969678145710

WINELIGHT Radio

This station was originally dedicated to the music of Grover Washington Jr. and named after his excellent album, WINELIGHT. I later added Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" as a song seed and I also introduced some rap music on this station, first I tried Arrested Development, a rap group I liked in the late 19890s, but I didn't like how the station played so I dropped them and added Michael Franti and Spearhead instead. These changes were made in the summer of 2009. In 2010, I added The Modern Jazz Quartet. In 2012, I added Kenny Burrell. In 2014, I added Lee Morgan, whom I wish this station would play more frequently. TURN THIS ONE UP ! (October 1st, 2015) http://www.pandora.com/station/219417501077383342

Dead Fan Radio

I created this station in 2007 to be a way of presenting my favorite band, The Grateful Dead - but I didn't just stop with the Dead as my single artist seed. What I originally wanted to do then was to establish an amalgam of the Grateful Dead's musical ethos by incorporating several additional musical performers. I chose the HAPPY MONDAYS, THE NEW BOHEMIANS and the ZEN TRICKSTERS, plus I used several Dead songs as seeds, mostly live versions, including MORNING DEW, BERTHA, BIG RAILROAD BLUES, FIRE ON MOUNTAIN and JACK STRAW. In short, this station was my attempt to present a contemporary and popular music-oriented version of what it means to be a Grateful Dead fan in the new millennium. I returned to this station in 2009 and added JEFFERSON AIRPLANE and PHISH and I added STEVE MARTIN (the comedian) as an artist seed in 2013, when Pandora allowed you to add comics and funny-men. In 2015 I removed all the songs seeds and some of the earlier artist seeds and, instead, I added different Grateful Dead song seeds (studio cuts mostly), like UNBROKEN CHAIN, RAMBLE ON ROSE, ATTICS OF MY LIFE, CUMBERLAND BLUES, plus a live version of WHARF RAT from 1976 (my favorite year for Dead live recordings) and also my favorite GD song -- Stella Blue. By this time the station had dozens of Grateful Dead song favorites on filer, and so I deleted The Grateful Dead as my original artist seed. Let's see how this station plays now after that trick ! Just press play and I think you'll find yourself on the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets in the blink of an eye..... (August 18, 2015) http://www.pandora.com/station/219743446145476782

West Cost Beats Radio

TOM WAITS - TOM WAITS & RICKIE LEE JONES ARE 2 CONTEMPORARY BEATNIKS FROM CALIFORNIA ! THEY USED TO BE A COUPLE AND NOW THEY ARE AGAIN, THRU THE MAGIC OF PANDORA ! http://www.pandora.com/station/219804511990491310

Old Hippie Radio

BUFFETT & CROSBY - JIMMY BUFFETT & DAVID CROSBY PLUS "ALMOST CUT MY HAIR" AND "CHANGES IN ATTITUDE, CHANGES IN LATITIUDE"+ "SON OF A SON OF A SAILOR" THIS STATION IS FOR YOU OLD HIPPIES OUT THERE, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. SONGS HAVE BEEN SELECTED WITH AN EYE TOWARDS SUMMER MUSIC. ALSO PRESENTED HERE ARE ART GARFUNKEL, MARK KNOPFLER'S MUSIC WITH EMMYLOU HARRIS, LIVINGSTON TAYLOR, VERY LIGHT ROCK ARTISTS. ANYTHING HEAVIER THAN "MUSKRAT LOVE" REALLY SHOULDN'T BE HERE.... http://www.pandora.com/station/222547205091272878

Classic Reggae Radio

I created this station in NJ in June 2007 and I returned to it seven years later. At first it only was a Bob Marley station and it grew from there. First I added Jimmy Cliff's music to the mix, then I added Gregory Isaacs, whose song called "Night Nurse" was featured on my "Grooveyard" reggae music CD, which expanded my view of reggae beyond Bob Marley when I was in high school. I gradually added more artists, including UB40 and Black Uhuru, plus several song seeds from Bob Marley such as "Trench Town Rock", "One Love/People Get Ready", "The Heathen", "Guiltiness", "So Much Things to Say" and "Natural Mystic". I also added today the song seeds "Police and Thieves" by Junior Murvin as well as "Two Sevens Clash" by Culture, both of which I will keep as long as it takes for these tracks to appear on this station (October 9, 2014) http://www.pandora.com/station/222701424481970350

Miles Etc. Radio

I WAS FLOUNDERING ON THIS ONE. FOR SEVERAL MONTHS IT WAS JUST A STATION WITH ONE SONG SEED, MILES DAVIS'S "PINOCCHIO" FROM NEFERTITI. BUT I GREW DISSATISFIED AND TRIED A NUMBER OF MILES SONG OUT AS INDIIVDUAL STATIONS, INCLUDING "SEVEN STEPS TO HEAVEN" AND "IN A SILENT WAY" WHICH BY THE WAY IS AVAILABLE AS A DJ CAM MIX, WHATEVER THAT IS. THEN I CONVERTED THE PINOCCHIO STATION TO SOMETHING I CALLED "MILES CTI" - MILES SONGS PLUS SOME ADDITIONAL ARTIST SEEDS, WHICH I PICKED OFF OF THE CTI ARTIST ROSTER FROM THE 1970s CTI CATALOG - FREDDIE HUBBARD, JIM HALL, LEE MORGAN, RON CARTER, PLUS THE MILES SONG SEEDS E.S.P., IN A SILENT WAY, PINOCCHIO, SEVEN STEPS. THIS DID NOT WORK AT ALL, THE STATION WAS GOING ALL OVER THE PLACE AND I WAS VERY DIS-SATSIFIED WITH THE RESULTS. I JUST RE-DID IT AND SO FAR I AM VERY PLEASED WITH THE SONG SELECTIONS I HAVE GENERATED. I DID IT BY PUTTING MILES AS THE ARTIST SEEDS (THE ONLY ONE) AND I PICKED TWO TRACKS FROM THE 60s - "E.S.P." AND "PINOCCHIO" - AND TWO FROM THE 80s - "HANNIBAL" AND "TUTU". WOW ! I AM ASTOUNDED AT THE DIFFERENCE. THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST BE TALKING ABOUT WHEN YOU SUGGESTED I GO TO WEBEFUNKRADIO.COM OR SOME SUCH THING. AS I TOLD YOU, I HAVE SWORN ALLEGIANCE TO PANDORA - AND SO SHALL IT EVER BE ! FOR ME, INTERNET RADIO BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THE MUSIC GENOME PROJECT. EVERYTHING ELSE IS JUST MARKETING... (2007). I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT THIS STATION NOW SWINGS WITH A YOUNGER SET WHO ARE DEEPLY INFLUENCED BY MILES FUSION PHASE, INCLUDING EDDIE HENDERSON AND CHRIS BOTTI, AS MILES WAS ALWAYS SOMEONE WHO WANTED TO HAVE MUSICIANS BREAK NEW GROUND WHEN THEY PERFORMED (2009). Returning to this station after a break of five years, I have decided to restrict that station seeds to just Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter and I have also decided to include three different song seeds, all by Miles Davis, "Half Nelson", "It's About That Time (live)" and "Kix (live)." I am eager to see what results I get as a result of this new, more restrictive format (June 2014). "Masqualero" by Miles Davis added as a song seed based on Ivar's suggestion (June 23, 2014). http://www.pandora.com/station/223636709445249198

Jazz Fusion Radio

THE JAZZ FUSION STATION COMBINES THE TALENTS OF JACO PASTORIUS, PAT METHENEY AND JOE ZAWINUL, PLUS "MANOLETE" BY WEATHER REPORT AND "KIX" BY MILES DAVIS. OTHER ARTISTS FEATURED HERE INCLUDE LARRY CARLTON, HERBIE HANCOCK, WAYNE KRANTZ, JEAN-LUC PONTY, STANLEY CLARKE, CHICK COREA AND MORE.... WEATHER REPORT SONGS GET PUSHED HERE (JUNE 2009). This station originally was just a Pat Metheny station to which I added, over the course of years, the artist seeds Jaco Pastorius and Joe Zawinul, plus a couple of song seeds by Weather Report and Miles Davis. I was never really satisfied with how this station played and discontinued listening to it. I returned to this station eight years after I originally created it and I decided to remove all of the seeds except Pat Metheny, to which I added Chick Corea and Weather Report, as well as one song seed - John McLaughlin's "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - which Ivar recommended. Now I like how this station plays ! (November 2014) http://www.pandora.com/station/223649023116486830

George Bernard Singles Party Radio

THIS STATION REFLECTS THE BEATS THAT GETS ME ON THE DANCE FLOOR, JUST LIKE THE MUSIC PLAYED BY THE DJ AT TAVERN ON THE GREEN AT GEORGE BERNARD'S SINGLES PARTIES, WHERE I TOOK ANNIE ARMSTRONG IN 2005, SHORTLY BEFORE MY STAY AT THE BERGEN REGIONAL. ABBA AND LEO SAYER, THE BEE GEES AND "DISCO DUCK" - THAT'S JUST FOR STARTERS: MICHAEL JACKSON'S "ROCK WITH YOU", ROBERT PALMER'S "EVERY KINDA PEOPLE" AND OF COURSE, DONNA SUMMER'S "DISCO INFERNO". OTHER FAVORITES INCLUDE LAURA BRANIGAN'S "GLORIA", IRENE CARA'S "FAME", "DANCING QUEEN" AND "WATERLOO" BY ABBA, "SEXY EYES" BY DR. HOOK, "YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE DANCING" BY LEO SAYER AND, OF COURSE, "Y.M.C.A." BY THE VILLAGE PEOPLE. IF YOU HANG AROUND THIS STATION UNTIL MIDNIGHT, THIS STATION WILL PLAY "LAST DANCE" AS A SPECIAL SEND-OFF TO ALL THOSE WOULD-BE LOVERS OF THE NIGHT-LIFE OF NYC, WHICH I ROAMED FROM 1999 TO 2006. http://www.pandora.com/station/223922316180498606

"Bobby" Bojangles Radio, OR "Andrew" Zimmerman Radio

BOBBY BOJANGLES - KRIS KRISTOFFERSON'S "ME AND BOBBY MCGHEE" AND NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND'S "MR. BOJANGLES" - TWO OF THE MOST LONESOME SONGS OF THE 70s. BOTH ARE WOEFULLY POIGNANT CHARACTER STUDIES. IF MY "HIGH TIME" STATION IS MEANT TO RE-CREATE THE FEEL AND CONTEXT OF LIVING INTO THE 1960s, THIS STATION INTENDS TO DO THE SAME FOR THE 1970s. IN ADDITION, THIS STATION IS MEANT TO BE A SHOWCASE FOR BOB DYLAN AND JANIS JOPLIN, TWO PEOPLE WHO I ALWAYS THOUGHT WERE MEANT TO BE TOGETHER. THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN THE GREATEST MUSICAL COUPLE EVER. ADDED ARTIST SEED ROY HARPER (JUNE 2009). BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN SONGS GET PUSHED HERE (AUGUST 2009). http://www.pandora.com/station/223925052074666158

Rock Festival Radio

ROCK FESTIVAL - THIS STATION USED TO BE DEVOTED TO JUST JIMI HENDRIX AND PINK FLOYD, BUT I FOUND THAT ADDING LED ZEPPELIN TO THE MIX REALLY SPICED THINGS UP. THIS STATION IS A REAL ROCK FESTIVAL ! I also added The Doors in 2009 and, furthermore, I added Queen in 2014. I listened to this station for a week straight, at the conclusion of the summer of 2016 (August 31, 2016). http://www.pandora.com/station/224294801514211502

Wild Children Radio

I created this station in 2007 and my intention, as I originally conceived it, was to create a station devoted to the "Wild Children" of the blues, specifically Van Morrison and Graham Parker, but later expanded to include Jeffrey Gaines and Larry McMurtry. I then decided that I would give a "thumbs-up" to all of those artists who I felt represented a "Blues-Pop" aesthetics. Plus I incorporated several Van Morrison song seeds, such as "Whenever God Shines His Light" and "Haunts of Ancient Peace" -- this caused much confusion in the station's play, and so these song seeds were removed. I returned to this station seven years later, in 2014, and added Peter Case, John Hiatt and Ryan Adams, performers who I also consider to be wild children of the blues and artists I yearn to hear more from (October 2014). UPDATE: I deleted Peter Case as an artist seed, as I don't find his work after his album "The Man With the Blue Guitar" to be all that compelling (August 18, 2015).

Pop Mininmalist Radio

POP MINIMALIST RADIO = GILLIAN WELCH & JACK JOHNSON ANOTHER GREAT COMBINATION ! (2007) Revisiting this station seven years later, I still think the combination of Gillian Welch and Jack Johnson is great, but now I've added "Matthew Sweet" as an artist seed mas well as a few song seeds. I also want to make this a station to expose me to various indie music artists, and so I added "Phoenix", "Young the Giant" and "Foster the People" as three indie artist seeds. Now I've really livened things up ! Note: This station plays best, I have found, by not clearing out these "thumbs-down" tracks. (2014) http://www.pandora.com/station/220174781121079470

Blues Performers Radio

THIS IS A STATION DEDICATED TO PERFORMERS OF ELECTRIC BLUES MUSIC, SPECIFICALLY WITH THE BLUES MUSIC OF JOHN HAMMOND, ROY BUCHANAN AND PAUL BUTTERFIELD IN MIND. I FIRST CONCEIVED THIS STATION IN 2007 AND I WAS FREQUENTLY PLAYING JIMI HENDRIX'S THEN-ISSUED CD CALLED, SIMPLY, "BLUES" AND THUS I INCLUDED HENDRIX'S "ONCE I HAD A WOMAN BLUES" AS A SONG SEED IN THE HOPES THAT PANDORA WOULD HIGHLIGHT JIMI'S BLUES REPERTOIRE ON THIS STATION TOO. THIS IS THE FIRST GREAT STATION IN THE "ANDREW B. NOSELLI PRESENTS THE BLUES" SET OF STATIONS. SEE HOW MANY OF THEM YOU CAN LISTEN TO ! In 2012, after I moved from NJ to MA, I returned to this station and added Albert Collins and Albert King, and I added Freddie King in 2015. Final update: I listened to this station all night on January 29th, 2016. I am contemplating adding Hendrix's "Red House" because I think this is his best blues workout on record but I'm worried that it will cause this station to play too much Classic Rock. This station rocks hard as is ! http://www.pandora.com/station/225063300012484782

Blues Clubs Radio

BLUES CLUBS RADIO STATION WAS CONCEIVED IN 2007 AND WAS ORIGINALLY COMPOSED OF GEORGIE FAME AND MOSE ALLISON. THIS RADIO STATION IS MEANT TO EVOKE A VERY POSITIVE ENVIRONMENT, SAY AT A BLUES "CLUB" WHERE AN INDIVIDUAL OR A BAND PERFORMS FOR AN AUDIENCE THAT IS FOCUSED ON HAVING A GOOD TIME, AS OPPOSED TO AN INDIVIDUAL OR A GROUP WHERE THE FOCUS IS ON THE PERFORMANCE ITSELF AND THE INDIVIDUAL WHO SUFFERS THE BLUES -- SEE MY "BLUES PERFORMERS" STATION FOR AN SPECIMEN OF THOSE SORTS OF BLUES. I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE IT EXACTLY RIGHT YET, BUT THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT... In 2010, I added Robert Cray as an artist seed. In 2012, I added Sarah Vaughn and Duke Ellington as artist seeds. And most recently, in 2016, I added Sonny Clark as an artist seed - now this station is complete ! I listened to this station all night on January 26, 2016. http://www.pandora.com/station/224563009336944814

Heavy Things Radio

THE HEAVIEST SONGS IN THE ROCK PANTHEON ASSEMBLE WHEN I INPUT THE HEAVIEST SONG OF ALL TIME, THE BEATLES PERFORMING LENNON'S YER BLUES. I INJECTED TODD RUNDGREN TO MIX THINGS UP AND TO GIVE YOU A BREAK FROM THE ALL THE HEAVINESS. I'M NOT THRILLED THAT RUNDGREN'S UTOPIA SIDE PROJECT KEEPS POPPING UP, AT FIRST I COULD TOLERATE IT NOW I GIVE IT THE THUMBS DOWN. INSTEAD, GIVE ME CREAM, HENDRIX, DOORS, LED ZEP - HEAVY STUFF ! MAYBE I CAN ADAPT THE RUNDGREN SELECTIONS INTO A KIND OF HEAVY-MINDED APPROACH TO ELECTRONIC MUSIC, A LA HIS "LIARS" SOLO ALBUM. OR MAYBE PANDORA IS SMART ENOUGH TO FIGURE OUT THAT I DON'T WANT THE ULTRA-PROGRESSIVE PRE-DIGITAL FLIMSY STUFF ? LET'S HOPE SO ! (2008) ..... Five years have passed since I first conceived this station and I have made the following changes. As stated above, this station is formed around some of the heaviest songs ever from the 1960s: "Yer Blues", "Young Man Blues", Machine Gun" and "Spoonful". I've also added three songs by the Stooges: "1969", "T.V. Eye" and "Gimme Danger". I have added Todd Rundgren's Utopia as an artist seeds and I also included is "The Last Ride" as a song seed. Finally, Laughing Hyenas, Nirvana and Iron Butterfly were added as artist seeds. NOW THIS STATION PLAYS THE HEAVIEST MUSIC ON PANDORA ! (2013) Ten years after the creation of this station, I deleted Todd Rundgren as the primary artist seed because I got tired of hearing Carole King songs on this station, and I also removed Iron Butterfly and added "In-a-Gadda-da-Vida" as a song seed (January 1, 2016). Update: I added Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion AND The Black Keys as artist seeds. Like me, he's a bohemian college student (he went to Brown, while I graduated from Bard) who's obsessed with Elvis and the history of rock and roll. I deleted "Yer Blues" and "Young Man Blues" as they were causing this station to play Classic Rock only. I want to mix things up ! (I listened to this station all night on January 28, 2015.) http://www.pandora.com/station/169486075309893806

Freak Out Radio

THIS STATION FEATURES TWO GREAT GUITARISTS, FRANK ZAPPA AND JOHN SCOFIELD. ALSO AVAILABLE HERE IS KING CRIMSON, ADRIAN BELEW, PHISH, CAPTAIN BEEHEART, ROBERT RANDOLPH, GURU GURU, LOWELL GEORGE, ALVIN LEE, JEFF BECK, DEVO, FELIX CAVALIERE AND MORE.... Nine years after creating this station, I decided to deleted John Scofield and substitute in his place Jeff Beck, who I consider to0 be a more likely pairing with Frank Zappa after I heard "Sophie" from Beck's album titled "Truth". http://www.pandora.com/station/169321032601610414

a "Fantasy"

Dear Ivar, ..... and while I think Aqualung, Living in the Past, Benefit and Stand Up are better albums in the sense that they are greater artistic achievements, my personal favorite JETHRO TULL album is "The Broadsword and the Beast." This album is Tull's best-selling album in Germany and is perhaps the best "Fantasy" album ever recorded. (I am thinking of fantasy in terms of the purlieus of Dungeons & Dragons kinds of activities.)========================== I suppose the real reason for sending this email was something that happened to me last night. Do you recall my blog-post where I said that I experience a "spiritual song" each night, just after or immediately prior to I take my evening's Risperdal ? Well, I had a box of Jethro Tull CDs purchased from Amazon.com, which I received in August of 2015 and for the last few week's, in the month of January 2016, I have been listening to various discs by this same group, mostly from the 1970s, but also two discs from the 80s and one from the 90s, and I said to myself last night, "You are enjoying this music so much, it would be a shame to wait another twelve months or more to open that package and play those CDs." I followed this thought as directed, as if by a sort of 'command 'and proceeded to empty my living room closet where I had various bags of CDs, some of them containing assortments of CDs that are sealed, and also about several packages from Amazon which I have yet to open, dating from as far back as October of 2014.========================= I soon found a box which I thought was the one I sought, as it was marked with the inscription, "J.T. 2 X 2" and when I opened it I found the specific items I had wanted to obtain, the deluxe editions of the Tull albums "A PASSION PLAY" and "WAR CHILD" -- both of which contain 2 CDs and 2 DVDs, as well as the CDs for Thick as a Brick, Living in the Past, Living With the Past and Ian Anderson plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull -- I could gush on about these individual discs and their genesis and place in the Tull catalogue, but I feel these details would be extraneous -- and so I quickly made plans to retrieve my small green Eddie Bauer bag from my bedroom closet and bring these packages to my mother this weekend to show her. I recall I specifically thought about how I would explain to her that, historically, what is known as a 'passion play' is, essentially, a dramatic narrative concerning Christ's death and resurrection and how I would play for her part of Jethro Tull's concept-album "A Passion Play" if she was willing to listen to it for a few minutes. Upon seeing all these various discs assembled upon my living room table, I decided to wait at least two weeks to bring over the Jethro Tull items and that, for this coming weekend, I would bring over the five John Lennon/Yoko Ono CDs and the six Jon Spencer CDs, all of which are remarkable packages and come with a great deal of interesting photography and artwork.========================= Well, to make an overlong story short, I was waiting for last night's 'spiritual song' to come on just prior to the time I had appointed in my mind at which I should take my medicine, a time that was fixed according to my rigid regimen, where I eat a cup of yogurt 30 minutes before I take my oral medication. I fix the time much earlier in my mind during the previous day and specifically for the requirements of the following day; in this case I had to take my meds at 2:45 AM, which would ensure that I would fall asleep precisely at 3:30 AM, as Randy Byron, my case manager from CMHS, was scheduled to visit my apartment at 1 PM today (which is a little earlier than usual, he typically sees me at 2 PM on Thursdays, not 1 PM on Fridays) -- anyhow I was waiting for the foreordained spiritual song to begin and the 'track' that came up on my iPod was "The Story of Hare that Lost His Spectacles" -- one of the two songs that comprise the entirety of Jethro Tull's "A Passion Play", which I bought used in 2008 when I was living in New Milford NJ, and which I decided in 2013 or 2014 that I would refrain from downloading onto my HP laptop (the computer I purchased after moving to Mass. in 2012) -- would refrain, at least until I had acquired the new Deluxe Edition of Passion Play with two CDs and two DVDs. FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT HOW GOD SPEAKS TO ME THROUGH IAN ANDERSON/JETHRO TULL'S MUSIC, SEE THE FOLLOWING LINK: http://andrewbnoselliwriting.blogspot.com/2014/06/homo-erratic.html

TOP 20 GRATEFUL DEAD RECORDINGS

My top 20 favorite Grateful Dead CD collections are as follows: 1) DEAD SET [2 CDs] 2) IN THE DARK 3) RECKONING/FOR THE FAITHFUL [2 CDs] 4) THE GRATEFUL DEAD MOVIE [5 CDs] 5) EUROPE '72, VOLUME 2 [2 CDs] 6) NIGHTFALL OF DIAMONDS - EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ [2 CDs] 7) DICK'S PICKS, VOLUME 29 - FOX THEATER, ATLANTA, GA - MAY 1977 [5 CDs] 8) DICK'S PICKS, VOLUME 4 - FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK, NY - FEB 1970 [3 CDs] 9) AFTER MIDNIGHT - JERRY GARCIA - UNION, NJ - 1980 [3 CDs] 10) AOXOMOXOA [WITH BONUS TRACKS] 11) DICK'S PICKS, VOLUME 22 - KINGS BEACH BOWL, LAKE TEAHOE, CA - 1968 [2CDs] 12) DIGITAL DOWNLOAD, VOLUME 1 - THE PALLADIUM, NEW YORK, NY - 1977 13) FILLMORE WEST 1969 [3 CDs] 14) LADIES AND GENTLEMAN...THE GRATEFUL DEAD - FILLMORE EAST, NEW YORK CITY - APRIL 1971 [4 CDs] 15) THE CLOSING OF WINTERLAND [4 CDs] 16) DOZIN' AT THE KNICK - ALBANY, NY - 1990 [2 CDs] 17) DICK'S PICKS, VOLUME 11 - STANLEY THEATER, JERSEY CITY, NJ - SEPTEMBER 1972 [3 CDs] 18) SUNSHINE DAYDREAM - VENETTA, OREGON - 1972 [3 CDs] 19) ROCKIN' THE CRADLE - EGYPT, 1978 [2 CDs] 20) GO TO HEAVEN

TOP 20 ALBUMS I PURCHASED AS NEW RELEASES

These are the albums that I purchased when they were newly released that made the deepest impact on me: 1) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - BORN IN THE U.S.A. 2) BOB DYLAN - THE BOOTLEG SERIES, VOLUME 1-3 3) R.E.M. - AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE 3) THE GRATEFUL DEAD - IN THRE DARK 4) DAVID BOWIE - ZIGGY STARDUST: THE MOTION PICTURE 5) PUBLIC ENEMY - IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS TO SET US BACK 6) THE SMITHS - THE QUEEN IS DEAD 7) NIRVANA - NEVERMIND 8) NEIL YOUNG - FREEDOM 9) MADONNA - MDNA 10) HUSKER DU - WAREHOUSE: SONGS AND STORIES 11) LOU REED - NEW YORK 12) BOB DYLAN - MODERN TIMES 13) VAN MORRISON - TOO LONG IN EXILE 14) DAVID BOWIE - LET'S DANCE 15) PINK FLOYD - THE FINAL CUT 16) LOU REED & METALLICA - LULU 17) LYLE LOVETT - PONTIAC 18) RICHARD THOMPSON - AMNESIA 19) THE POLICE - SYNCHRONICITY 20) BOB DYLAN - OH MERCY =============================================== The Rabbi wrote: This list contains no Stevie Wonder, and is therefore invalid. Andrew says: I didn't buy "IN SQUARE CIRCLES" when it was a new release, in fact I never bought a Stevie Wonder as a new release. MY HISTORY LISTENING TO STEVIE WONDER: I taped SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE, which Ivar had in his brother's record collection, I bought TALKING BOOK as a used record from Tapeville USA in Nanuet NY and I got INNERVISIONS when I got a CD player (but I gave my copy to Heather Lynch, as I did not enjoy it that much) -- when I lived in North Carolina I purchased HOTTER THAN JULY on a tape which I still have ! And if you fast forward another 20+ years you will see that I purchased JOURNEY THROUGH THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS as a used double-disc set in 2013, I downloaded it onto my computer but I still have not played it yet.... (I knew that some of you guys would have trouble understanding this list. Again, this list is only albums that I purchased when they were newly released.) THE RABBI WROTE: in that case, your list should include numerous D'Angelo, Kendrick Lamar, and Paul Simon albums, as well as "The Ghost of Tom Joad" by Bruce Springsteen. Andrew says: Again, (you seem to be having a problem understanding the idea behind this list,) as I did not purchase any albums by D'Angelo, K. Lamar or "The Ghost of Tom Joad", in that initial six-month sales period when they were "NEW RELEASES", they do not qualify for my list. I did acquire Paul Simon's Graceland when it came out, but I do not think it influenced me as much as the other albums on my list. I'm sure d'Angelo, Kendrick Lamar and the Ghost of Tom Joan are all fine works of art in their own right, but.....etc. The Rabbi wrote: BUT YOU SHOULD HAVE Andrew says: I wanted to note Prince's Sign "O" the Times, I think it qualifies - I heard it in 1986 when it came out, but I did not buy it. Same with Van Morrison's Hymns to the Silence, probably the best album ever released during my lifetime, but I did not listen to it closely/attentively, I did not come to appreciate it until much later.....

On David Bowie

I'm sort of in mourning because one of my heroes died this week. I mean David Bowie, who I saw live in concert with my mother and sister at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford NJ in 1987. I was fifteen and we had general admission seating, which allowed us to get within 20 yards of the stage. I worshipped Bowie ever since I had his "ChangesoneBowie" 8-track when I was nine years old. Shortly after I began listening to his music, he released "Let's Dance" in 1982 and I can recall watching videos for the songs 'Let's Dance', 'China Girl' and 'Modern Love' a great many times in the early 80s on MTV, which I watched constantly when cable came to Rockland County NY at about the same time. Bowie, also known as the father of "plastic soul" music, released an album earlier this month on his 69th birthday. The album is called "Blackstar" and he shot a video for its lead track, a mini-movie featuring himself in a hospital bed with bandages over his eyes. This is his last single and video -- a track aptly titled "Lazarus" -- produced when he knew he was dying. His PR team is vague about the cause of death - my mother suggested it was probably a brain tumor, the kind of cancer that kills quickly, as in the case of the 'thin white duke', whereas other cancers are more treatable and life can be extended for a period of time and remissions are possible and even probable. My mother also says that President Obama has lost a lot of weight since he took office, especially since he started his second term; she thinks he is smoking a great deal. Today my mother took me to therapy in Duxbury Massachusetts because it was too cold to wait for my Dial-a-Ride service, which I usually take when I go to Duxbury Counseling. After that, my mother and I went to Panera for coffee, then across the street to BJ's Wholesale Shopping club, where he both did some food shopping. I had a great day with her, we'll find out next week if she has thyroid cancer, which is very treatable.

Reading List 2015

Reading list 2015 ---------- Leo Tolstoy - The Kingdom of God is Within You - Religion - 250 pages Sigmund Freud - Selected Writings - Psychology - 350 pages Honore de Balzac - Seraphita - Literature - 140 pages Isaiah Berlin - The Roots of Romanticism - Philosophy/History/Literary Criticism - 150 pages Kenneth Burke - Attitudes Toward History - Philosophy/History/Literary Criticism - 430 pages Upton Sinclair - The Jungle - Literature - 200 pages W.E.B. DuBois - The Souls of Black Folk - Sociology - 288 pages Emile Zola - Nana - Literature - 470 pages Friedrich Nietzsche - Untimely Meditations - Philosophy - 250 pages Maxim Gorky - The Man Who Was Afraid - Literature - 360 pages Aristophanes - The Clouds - Drama - 90 pages Sigmund Freud - Three Contributions to the Theory of Sexuality - Psychology - 140 pages Henrik Ibsen - When We Dead Awaken - Drama - 120 pages Sigmund Freud - A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis - Psychology - 400 pages D.H. Lawrence - The Complete Short Stories, Volume 1 - Literature - 280 pages Leo Tolstoy - My Religion: What I Believe - Religion - 270 pages Joris-Karl Huysmans - Against the Grain - Literature - 288 pages Sigmund Freud and Joseph Breuer - Studies in Hysteria - Psychology - 315 pages Emile Zola - Four Short Stories: The Flood, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille - Literature - 90 pages Joseph Conrad - Under Western Eyes - Literature - 400 pages D.H. Lawrence - Fantasia of the Unconscious And Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious - Essays - 250 pages Ivan Turgenev - Sketches from a Hunter's Album - Literature - 400 pages Sigmund Freud - New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis- Psychology - 225 pages Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge - Literature - 385 pages Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason - Philosophy - 150 pages [UNFINISHED] Norman Kemp Smith - A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason - Philosophy - 660 pages Carl Gustav Jung - Freud and Psychoanalysis- Psychology - 340 pages Honore de Balzac - Lost Illusions - Literature - 700 pages Roland Barthes - The Grain of the Voice - Literary Criticism/Sociology - 365 pages Friedrich Engels - The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State - Sociology - 220 pages Rene Descartes - Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth - Philosophy - 53 pages Leo Tolstoy - Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy - Literature - 677 pages Theodore Dreiser - The "Genius" - Literature - 736 pages Leo Tolstoy - "Ivan the Fool"; "A Lost Opportunity"; "Polikushka"; "The Candle" - [In The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories] - Literature - 40 pages Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil - Philosophy - 245 pages Sherwood Anderson - Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories - Literature - 150 pages Edmund Burke - A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful - Philosophy - 200 pages Friedrich Nietzsche - "Homer and Classical Philology" - Philosophy - 15 pages Friedrich Nietzsche - "We Philologists" - Philosophy - 75 pages Friedrich Nietzsche - "On the Future of Our Educational Institutions" - Philosophy - 140 pages Emile Zola - Germinal - Literature - 530 pages Thomas de Quincey - Suspira de Profundis and Other Posthumous Works - Literature - 327 pages Plato - Euthydemus - Philosophy - 50 pages Honore de Balzac - "The Unknown Masterpiece"; "Gambara" - Literature - 100 pages Plato - The Republic - Philosophy - 416 pages Gustave Flaubert - Salammbo - Literature - 282 pages Sigmund Freud - The Schreber Case - Psychology - 85 pages Thomas de Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Literature - 125 pages MID-YEAR John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Volume 1) - Philosophy - 400 pages Henry James - The Tragic Muse - Literature - 700 pages George Berkeley - A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - Philosophy - 80 pages John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Volume 2) - Philosophy - 400 pages Arthur Schopenhauer - Essays and Aphorisms - Philosophy - 230 pages Rene Descartes - Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings - Philosophy - 200 pages H.L. Mencken - The American Language - Nonfiction - 320 pages George Berkeley - Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Skeptics and Atheists - Philosophy - 130 pages Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan- Popular Fiction - 320 pages Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd - Literature - 433 pages Friedrich Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human - Philosophy - 500 pages Norman Mailer - Advertisements For Myself - Literature/Essays - 531 pages D.H. Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover - Literature - 335 pages John Stuart Mill - Autobiography - Literature - 240 pages Theodore Dreiser - The Financier: A Novel - Literature - 529 pages Carl Gustav Jung - The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature - Psychology - 141 pages David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - Philosophy - 148 pages August Strindberg - Easter - Drama - 96 pages Honore de Balzac - Scenes From a Courtesan's Life - Literature - 552 pages Herman Melville - Pierre; or the Ambiguities - Literature - 416 pages Henry James - In the Cage - Literature - 50 pages Charles Dickens - Hard Times - Literature - 250 pages Confucius - The Analects - Philosophy - 350 pages Emanuel Swedenborg - The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugal Love to Which is Added the Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining to Scortatory Love - Religion - 700 pages Emile Zola - The Beast Within - Literature - 390 pages Honore de Balzac - Eugenie Grandet - Literature - 200 pages D.H. Lawrence - The Woman Who Rode Away/St. Mawr/The Princess - Literature - 210 pages Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life - Philosophy - 90 pages Marcel Proust - Swann's Way - Literature - 600 pages William James - The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy - Philosophy - 330 pages Herman Melville - The Confidence Man - Literature - 400 pages