T is for the Trashcan Sinatras with "Obscurity Knocks," off of one of my favorite late-80s/early-90s albums, Cake.
Umthandazo Wamagenge The Brother Moves On Look for more music like this as I use stuff I hear at other folks' houses to change my YouTube algorithm
V is for vvvvvooooom I am skipping v since it has been a month anyway. W is for a personal favorite, "Waiting for My Real Life to Begin" by former Men At Work headman Colin Hay.
iF It Doesn't Come Naturally Leave It. One of my favorite lines, ever: "I'm up to my neck in the crumbling wreckage of all that I wanted from life."
Heart w/ Jason Bonham - Stairway to Heaven Led Zeppelin - Kennedy Center Yes I know we've all seen it before, but it is my favourite video on youtube. Probably watched it 50 times now.
I dated a girl in ugrad school whose second favorite song was Time Passages. Her fave was This Time by Al Jarreau. I was in Chicago for two weeks in February 1989, and saw that Al was appearing somewhere in Chicago that evening*. His name was on one of those pink poster boards you sometimes see stapled to a telephone pole. I actually didn't think, "Wow, how far the mighty have fallen", just acknowledged that he'd had his day in the sun and was (should have been, anyhow) wealthy enough to quit, or play because he enjoyed it. We were in a car headed to watch the Bulls and then still-ringless Jordan beat (I'm almost certain it was) Houston. Saw the game from the absolute rafters (there was even a bar up there!), and saw Walter Payton on the way down, wearing a Rolex and signing autographs. We went to this pizza place where they carded us and I found out the girl I had kinda paired up with was born on the same day as me. Good times. *Google says he was Cincinnati that night, so it must have been for another night
Saw him this past March at City Winery in Atlanta. He's still out there, but yea, my wife was only familiar with - but really liked - Time Passages and Year of The Cat. I go back to when FM stations (back when you could buy an FM radio adaptor because most cars only had AM) would play a lot of music not on AM - or a whole side of an album, so they played quite a bit of AS - mostly Nostradamus and Roads to Moscow. ....but I digress...
FM adaptor? I don't remember that. I do remember getting an AM-FM clock radio that really made me realize just how much clearer FM was (no static at alllll). I absolutely recall the days when a station would play a whole album. Time Passages and Year Of The Cat are pretty much all I know, too... great songs, both.