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8 Responses to “ROCKOLLECTIONS: PSYCHOTHERAPY LEFTOVERS PT.1”

1. rjhog | August 25th, 2010 at 10:26 am
   

   Mike, I have a few comments on this show:

   I agree with Niels than I didn’t know many of these selections. However, I’ll also agree with him that I liked what I heard. The only song I didn’t care for was the Screaming Jay Hawkins number.

   I really, really liked the first song by Maria M. called “Mad Mad Me”. That song is terrific. “Insanity Comes Quietly To The Stuctured Mind” by Janis Ian was also wonderful. I believe that “At Seventeen” was her popular song that you referred to, but this song is quite amazing. It’s a very sad song, but a lyrical masterpiece. And just think, without your show I would have never heard it. So thanks for that. “Mr. Whisper” was also a cool song. One little side note on that song. One of the lyrical lines in the song says “damn it all”. This reminds me of something. I’m a Pharmacist, and me and a friend and former co-worker (also a Pharmacist) use to make up drug names (usually because folks have such a hard time pronouncing some of tha actual drug names). But one that we came up with would be for depression or anxiety and would be named Damnitol (pronounced Damn-it-all). This song reminded me of that.

   “Brain Speak” was okay, but as I said earlier, I didn’t like the Screaming Jay Hawkins song. But disliking 1 out of 7 songs is not too bad.

   The last two songs were quite awesome and the only two that I was already familiar with. “Paranoid” is a classic. It’s amazing to me that Black Sabbath had the album of the same name finished when the record company said “We need another song”. So they wrote that in the studio in about 20 minutes (if I remember the story correctly).

   And the last song was my biggest disappointment. Not at the song itself. The song gives me chills. I haven’t heard it in ages. I loved MASH and I remember hearing that song for the first time and thinking to myself, “that’s the theme from MASH”. Another great lyrical song, and the disappointment comes from not getting to hear the whole song.

   Great show Mike. My favorite so far out of all the shows that contain new music to my ears. Thank you for continuing to post the show on Classic Rock Bottom.

2. MomHen | August 25th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
   

   This was a fun and enlightening show … I’ve liked Marc Blacks’ “Brain Speak” since he sent it to me when I put out a call for psychotherapy songs. It feels like it’s from the era it came from but at the same time, it’s got those cool electric fiddles with that “Devil Went Down to Georgia” feel. The other songs were “finds” for me, except for the theme from MASH which I knew immediately (I used to have the sheet music for that one). Thanks, too, for the shout-out!
   Jeanette aka “Mom Hen”

3. Mike Pell | August 25th, 2010 at 2:50 pm
   

   Dear Jeanette,
   I think I weaved in that Marc Black song nicely, as I was looking at some of the songs and could see that Voices In The Head set staring back at me.

   It feels like it’s from the era it came from but at the same time, it’s got those cool electric fiddles with that “Devil Went Down to Georgia” feel.

   Ahem…I would have said that, but time is always a factor and it is tough to get all the music in, lol!
   It makes me very happy that I provided “finds” for you, there is so much music out there that is ignored today.
   I try to bring them back as best I can, and that’s why I took such offense at that guy who called me predictable.
   Used to have the sheet music for MASH- nice!
   There will be another shoutout for you early in the next and final episode.
   Glad you were enlightened and funned, lol,
   Mike

4. Mike Pell | August 25th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
   

   Dear RJ,
   I understand about the Screamin’ Jay Hawkins…it’s that Screamin’, lol!
   With every song I play, I understand the risk of people liking or not liking each selection.
   It comes with the territory.
   Also the fact that some listeners don’t know many of those selections, that may or may not relate to certain factors, such as the age of the listener.
   My job is to find the best songs I can about the particular Theme I am doing and play them.
   And I always realize that I may be introducing some of these songs to listeners unfamiliar with them- and that is one of the most fun things I get to do on the show.
   Thankfully the people who run the station and the corporate donors trust me, and I am blessedly given free and unhampered rein.
   That Maria Muldaur song “Mad Mad Me” IS terrific.
   And man I had the hots bad for her when she was popular- what a sexy woman.
   Hell, I still do, lol!
   Janis Ian has always flown under the radar- her lyrics are brilliant- and I recommend her first two albums, both from 1967.
   There are many many gems in them, including the controversial Society’s Child.
   And she wrote and recorded these albums when she was 15 or 16!!!
   You know, you are probably right, without my little show you would most likely never have heard that or Dory Previn’s Mr. Whisper, lol!
   But that’s what I do.
   Very very funny line about your new product, Damnitol- where can I get some, lol?
   I said on the show, “When the hell is he going to play something I KNOW?”
   So Sabbath seemed like the way to go, then returning to the thread of Janis’ jumper by playing Suicide Is Painless.
   And I didn’t know that story about Paranoid.
   Man, some of the best songs have been written in minutes- too many to name here.
   Hearing the MASH theme seems like it was an “OH WOW!” moment for you, and providing those are the MOST fun for me on my end of our radio get-togethers.
   Thanks for writing, and I like that you are open to new music to your ears, whether it is really new or old.
   I’ll write more at Classic Rock Bottom,
   Mike

5. Uncleshag | August 26th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
   

   I know every lick of that album. And I just heard “The Dean And I” on Sirius XM. Never before had it come out of the speakers except when I dialed it up. The fact the deejay played it made me feel connected. On a continuum where the mainstream may have been clueless, but we insiders were members of an exalted club.

   “Catch A Wave”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGYC5Kyq9U

   “Rubber Bullets”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dTnvhGHDGA&feature=fvsr

   “Student Demonstration Time”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-x_FHj9yLo

   “Johnny Don’t Do It”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za7hFszJmeU

   ” Sand In My Face”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUe5JR-FaXs

   “Donna”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJX155KkMfk

   “The Dean And I”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duZprh4eojw

   “The Wall Street Shuffle”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kShTUmYRyCw

   “Somewhere In Hollywood”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNSc5CBxpTY

   http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/

6. Mike Pell | August 27th, 2010 at 2:39 am
   

   Unc,
   I don’t get it- “The Dean And I”.
   Tht’s by 10cc right?
   I didn’t play them in this series.
   Glad you were happy to hear it though, lol!
   Mike

7. Uncleshag | August 27th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
   

   The post was fluff save for the fact that the quotes below reminded me of you and what we do.

   We three do have an exclusive club that really plays the lost and forgotten. Great job all around as much as we get frustrated at times. Keep on plugging!
   -unc.

   “The fact the deejay played it made me feel connected. On a continuum where the mainstream may have been clueless, but we insiders were members of an exalted club.”

8. Mike Pell | August 28th, 2010 at 1:30 am
   

   Oh I get it.
   And it IS an exalted, exclusive club, lol!
   Jacket required.
   Mike

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