KHQG’s “Album Side Thursday”
By Barrett Chase on Nov 12, 2009 in Music
On his Fly High Duluth! blog, Duluth Budgeteer reporter Matt Perrine announced that KHQG-FM 102.5 will be playing uninterrupted vinyl album sides from 9:30am-midnight on Thursday, December 3, 2009. The station is taking requests for album sides to play that day. Perrine himself requested side one of Van Halen’s self-titled 1978 debut album.
While classic rock may or may not be a favorite genre of the PDD crowd, and corporate radio doesn’t get any love here at all, I feel like asking: What’s your favorite album side? Feel free to choose from any musical genre, not just classic rock. If you had 25 minutes or so of public airwaves to fill, which slice of vinyl deliciousness would you send out into the stratosphere?
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Side one of Danzig II
Danny G | Nov 12, 2009 | ReplyEchoes (a.k.a., side two of Meddle.)
Green side two (metal)
Dark Side (of course) side one
American Beauty side one
Who’s Next side two
Catch Bull at Four side one
Ghost in the Machine side one
Secret Treaties side one
Days of Future Past side one
the list goes on and on….
zra | Nov 12, 2009 | ReplyKind of a conditional answer, if by album you specifically mean LP then
Sketches of Spain (1)
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1)
I do really like LPs, but only find them truly audiological worthwhile with music you concentrate on, stuff that is almost textual.
Classic Rock wise Billy Thorpe’s Children of the Sun (1), it’s goofy, but also fun.
edgeways | Nov 12, 2009 | ReplyTom Waits’ The Black Rider, side one
Footloose soundtrack, side one
Play them back to back, please.
Paul Lundgren | Nov 12, 2009 | ReplyPhish – Junta, Side 1
Shane Bauer | Nov 12, 2009 | ReplyBob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
Tony Ramone | Nov 12, 2009 | ReplySide 4
KISS – Destroyer – Side 1
Dan E. | Nov 12, 2009 | ReplyBoston – Self Titled Debut – Side 1
wildgoose | Nov 12, 2009 | ReplyCraig Spates — Just Me, side 2
baci | Nov 12, 2009 | Reply@Edgeways: Are there albums that are not LPs? I mean, as far as I know, there are albums and singles, and that’s about it in my experience. Sure, there are those weird 45s that have two songs on each side, and there are 10″ singles, and 78s of course, which are also singles.
I can’t think of any way in which the terms LP and album are not synonymous.
Barrett Chase | Nov 12, 2009 | ReplyI’m gonna go with Beatles – Abbey Road side 2
Led Zeppelin III side 2.
Wilco – Sky Blue Sky side 1
It really is a shame so few albums have ’sides’ nowadays…
Jeepers | Nov 12, 2009 | ReplyRadiohead – Kid A – Side 2
@ndy | Nov 12, 2009 | ReplyAbbey Road/side 2
kokesie | Nov 12, 2009 | ReplyClose to the Edge/side 1
U2 War – Side 2
vicarious | Nov 12, 2009 | ReplyIn addition to most of all the above…
Queen II, side 1
Peter Gabriel “Security” side 2
Cheap Trick “Dream Police” side 1
Led Zepplin “Physical Graffiti” side 2
Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here” any side
Aerosmith “Rocks” side 2
ACDC “Back In Black” side 1
Tom Waits, any/all, any side
I could go on and on. That’s enough for now.
Gwanto | Nov 12, 2009 | Replyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_of_the_World_(album)
Queen “News of the World” Side 1
Jeff | Nov 13, 2009 | ReplyJust need to take out the 2 overplayed songs at the 1 and 2 spots and the rest are great!
Allman Brothers Band – Live at Fillmore East – Side 1
jay | Nov 13, 2009 | ReplyI would like to point out that the official soundtrack to Mad Max: Beyond The Thunderdome is available for sale, on vinyl at Father Time Antiques in Canal Park.
Either side will do.
Sjixxxy | Nov 13, 2009 | Replypatti smith – easter or horses.
c-freak | Nov 13, 2009 | ReplyPlaying around on Snopes last night I started investigating various “Dark Side of the Rainbow” theories and web sites and thought of this post. Here’s a good starting place if anyone else wants to take a trip down synchronicity lane: http://members.cox.net/stegokitty/dsotr_pages/dsotr.htm
Although I’m sure most of you cliff-dwelling pot fiends already have heard the theory, to summarize, people say that Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon (all sides) synchronizes intentionally (or unintentionally) with The Wizard of Oz
wildgoose | Nov 13, 2009 | ReplySide 1 of John Coltrane’s Blue Train and the Whipping Post side of Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore East. And I second Koksies vote for Yes’ Close to the Edge
-Berv | Nov 13, 2009 | ReplyHendrix – Electric Ladyland – all 4 sides
carla | Nov 13, 2009 | Replyand ditto Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
carla | Nov 13, 2009 | ReplyIt would be a shame if Iron Butterfly’s “In A Gadda Da Vida” didn’t get played.
samh | Nov 13, 2009 | ReplySide 1 XTC Skylarking during the day, side 2 at night.
Jim M | Nov 13, 2009 | ReplySamh beat me to Iron Butterly so I say Booker T & the M.G.s “Green Onions” side one.
heysme | Nov 13, 2009 | Replyu2. joshua tree. side 2.
Jessica | Nov 13, 2009 | ReplyRemain In Light side one.
zra | Nov 13, 2009 | ReplyLondon Calling side one.
When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, play side one of Led Zeppelin IV.
Mike Damone | Nov 13, 2009 | ReplyWarren Zevon – Excitable Boy – Side 1
scoe | Nov 13, 2009 | ReplyIan Hunter – You’re Never Alone With A Schizophrenic – Side 1
Country Joe and the Fish “I feel like I’m fixing to die” side one
frank nichols | Nov 13, 2009 | ReplyShriekback – Sacred City: side 1
Terje Rypdal – Descendre: side 2
Bill Nelson’s Red Noise – Sound on Sound: side 1
Be Bop Deluxe – Sunburst Finish: side 1
Lord Phosphorus | Nov 13, 2009 | ReplyI must insist on Matthew Sweet – “Girlfriend”
ToWaRd | Nov 14, 2009 | Replyside 1, natch!
Ya how long will this station format last before they flip it again? Midwest is a joke! Voicetracking galore. Who cares.
Joe Mamma | Nov 14, 2009 | ReplyIt’s not a station format. It’s a one-day gimmick, as I mentioned in the post.
Barrett Chase | Nov 14, 2009 | ReplyI think the previous post is talking about how often Midwest flip flops on their music formats. First the Bear, then the Hog and what it us now. Voicetracking is done in Green bay using phony names of jocks changing their names on each station thinking the public is stupid. I give it another 6 months and they will be another format. Rumor is KDAL will be sold soon to another company.
Bev thomas | Nov 14, 2009 | Reply1) Frank Zappa – Weasels Ripped My Flesh (side one)
2) Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues (side one)
3) Leo Kottke – Six and Twelve String Guitar (side one)
woodtick | Nov 16, 2009 | ReplyWoodtick,
Waterboys, Fisherman’s Blues: impossible to decide between side 1 or 2. Nice choice.
vicarious | Nov 17, 2009 | Reply@ woodtick:
Joe’s Garage, any side.
zra | Nov 17, 2009 | Reply2nd Vicarious on woodtick’s Waterboys choice. You guys are all too cool for me, I had to pick Boston! But it is a great classic rock side and does fit the format well, I bet they try it: That wicked organ solo on “Foreplay/Longtime” plus “More than a Feelin’” fades IN which is basically unheard of … It’s a great album side.
wildgoose | Nov 17, 2009 | ReplyThanks for the suggestions, folks. Good to see a good variety of ideas. I might have to make a visit to the Fetus or Vinyl Cave for a few missing pieces. Keep those ideas coming! If you want to e-mail your Album Side suggestions, send them to brian.wheeler@mwcradio.com
Brian | Nov 18, 2009 | ReplySide one of Rust Never Sleeps
digit3 | Nov 18, 2009 | ReplyEither side of Joni Mitchell’s Blue
Side one of Revolver
Side Two of Exile on Main St
Well I would have to suggest the greatest piece of rock n roll that has ever been pressed to viny. Born To Fucking Run Side A.
Thunder Road
Tenth Avenue Freeze Out
Night
Backstreets
The only thing that comes close is Side B.
I guess I’ll concede that Led Zeppelins Runes album Side A is also one of the greatest rock n roll sides to ever be pressed to vinyl.
But I’ll also say Side A of The Raspberries self titled debut.
kujawa | Nov 19, 2009 | ReplyI’m glad that you said The Raspberries instead of the Cranberries who suck royally.
Born to Run side A is superb indeed but I’d have a hard time going without Jungleland on the flip side.
Did you get the remastered box of Born to Run with the video of the making of the album and also the live DVD from ‘75?
digit3 | Nov 19, 2009 | ReplyAbsolutely. That documentary was awesome. Word was they had been working on a similar set for Darkness on the Edge of Town. I don’t know if it fell through or what but I wait patiently for that and Tracks 2
Kujawa | Nov 19, 2009 | ReplyHey Kujawa,
I have some nice recent acquisitions of live primal Bruce on CD if you are interested. Drop me a line at bemho69 yahoo com
digit3 | Nov 20, 2009 | ReplyKing Crimson – Discipline side two
(mmm…thela hun gunjeet!)
zra | Nov 20, 2009 | ReplyAlbum Side Thursday could become a once-a-month thing on KHQG. The next one will be in February, according to Corey Carter, operations manager at Midwest Communications.
He said the station is working on collecting albums and getting a turn-table that doesn’t skip as much.
Paul Lundgren | Jan 1, 2010 | ReplySide 1 Pink Floyd ANIMALS
sbuchanan | Jan 2, 2010 | Reply