#NowSpinning Rendezvous - Rock and Roll Disco Boogie I will usually quickly web search an unknown band I see in thrift stores before I part with three of my hard earned dollars - to see if it's something I would be remotely interested in. I did not bother to Google Rock and Roll Disco Boogie.

#NowSpinning Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown I've often unfairly dismissed Gordon Lightfoot for the crime of growing up in the same town that I did. #MusicSky

Genuine question: What do you think the over/under is on the number of waiters, cooks, PAs, and spouses who have spit in Donald Trump's food in his lifetime? I'm guessing greater than 400 people and 4.5 kgs of phlegm.

#NowSpinning Various Artists - A Hodge Podge of Off Beat Jazz I basically paid three bucks to discover what, in fact, a hodge podge of off beat jazz entailed. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Wilco - Being There In 1996 I was given a review copy of this and the task of interviewing Jay Bennett from "some country band." Being There has since earned a constant place in my ever shifting top-ten desert island discs. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Gord Downie - Battle Of The Nudes One of my favourite album covers. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning The Weakerthans - Live At The Burton Cummings Theatre One of the best shows I ever did see was The Weakerthans/Lowest Of The Low/Billy Bragg. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy You'd get no argument from me were you to call Warren Zevon America's greatest dead songwriter. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Randy Newman - Good Old Boys You'd get no argument from me were you to call Randy Newman America's greatest living songwriter. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning The Beatles - Abbey Road Someone actually said to me "I'm a very influential person in this town" while lodging a complaint at work tonight. With a straight face. Deadly Serious. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Various Artists - A Very Busted Christmas I grabbed this electronic/hip hop album as a blind buy over the holidays and thought I should give it a listen before my Christmas spirit completely fucks off for the year. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Bootsauce - The Brown Album Gen X Canadians will remember Bootsauce, Montreal's less obnoxious answer to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I was quite thrilled to find this for five bucks. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Nancy Wilson - Today, Tomorrow, Forever I had to give the Xmas music a rest for a bit. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Frosty's Winter Wonderland or it's original title Frosty Has Needs, Children. Bass is on record calling Rankin a "fucking sellout" for changing it.

Right on! This THC drink gives me 6% of my daily required potassium.

Part one in a series I like to call: Album Covers I Don't Display Around The House As They Disturb My Partner #NowSpinning Very Frightened Man With Nostrils and Uvula

#NowSpinning Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Works Vol. 2 This is no personal slight against Emerson or Palmer but I find it mind boggling that 78,000 once attended a concert of theirs in Montreal. I had no idea they were ever that popular. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Wings - Wings Over America I'd like to thank whoever beat the hell out of this cover while leaving the vinyl relatively unscathed. Five bucks for a Paul McCartney triple LP. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Yuletide Disco Because sometimes you don't want to think so hard about it. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning I did not realize Doug Sahm was the Sir Douglas in the Sir Douglas Quintet. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway It turns out my Happy Place is mildly stoned listening to a Genesis album while Christmas lights flicker and Star Trek plays in the background. Did not see that coming. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Various Artists - Black Music I like that there's no beating around the bush. Not "Urban" nor "R&B". I'm listening to Black Music. The Germans get right to the point. #MusicSky

I've always loved Goulet's delivery of "Vera said that?"

Joe Bowen deserves better than this disinterested effort. The #Leafs are playing like a team trying to get their coach fired.

My outfit for the day it happens.

#NowSpinning Paul Kelly's Christmas Train I feel Paul Kelly would have been a bigger international deal had he not been so aggressively Australian. I quite like Paul Kelly - and Australians for that matter. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning I was not expecting to find The World Is A Ghetto by War in the thrift store today. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Max Webster - A Million Vacations As much as I like Max Webster, I rarely play them unless I am heartily sick of the snow. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Emmylou Harris - Light Of The Stable Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Dolly Parton, and Linda Ronstadt among others all sang harmony on this album. It's like the We Are The World of the '70s except it's not cringeworthy and Emmylou Harris kept all the money. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning David Bowie - Alladin Sane Contains a superior version of the Rolling Stones 'Let's Spend The Night Together' which is surprising as his next album - Pin Ups - was all cover versions and nearly universally panned as "not very good." #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Various Artists - Old School Volume 3 Rewarding myself for performing basic adult tasks with some old '70s funk. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Mannheim Steamroller - Christmas I've been listening to an Xmas album a night to try and mitigate my hatred of Winter. Nothing crams merriment down your throat harder than Mannheim Steamroller - or Manny Steam as we in the Mannheim Steamroller obsessive community call them. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Aretha Franklin - With Everything I Feel In Me Not Aretha's best effort but it doesn't have to be to be very good indeed. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning 451° A blind buy of this '70s Calgary hard rock band for I am, at heart, an explorer. I'm the Magellan of thrift store vinyl, really. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Liona Boyd - A Guitar For Christmas 'Tis a fine Christmas album but contains nothing as moving as the song I wrote and performed while shoveling my deck today entitled 'God Damned Winter (Can Fuck Right Off)'. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense OST While the record is great, it lacks the visual of a man in a giant suit. I put my marrying 'n' burying suit on different things around the house trying to recreate the experience. It served only to annoy the cat and highlight my growing THC abuse.

#NowSpinning Harry Belafonte - To Wish You A Merry Christmas Contains one of my favourite versions of The Twelve Days of Christmas, second only to Bob and Doug McKenzie. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Nilsson - The Point! The story of Oblio, the only round-headed person in Pointed Village. Either I'm mellowing with age or the times have become so very bad that this sort of hippie nonsense no longer sickens me. I've had this movie on my Tubi watchlist for about four years. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning The Ramsey Lewis Trio - Sound Of Christmas I picked this up in the summer, filed it with my Xmas LPs, and promptly forgot about it. I may have a new favourite Christmas album. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning Dalbello - she Lisa Dal Bello walked so Alanis Morissette could run. You will notice the album title was written in all lowercase letters, as was the style of the time. #MusicSky

#NowSpinning R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi Michael Stipe and company's last truly great album. #MusicSky