I love VH1 classic

I could spend a lot of time watching this channel. I’ve seen several “Classic albums” shows and they are quite good. I’m a little suspicious about their qualification basis though. I’ve seen “Never Mind the Bollocks,” “Dark Side of the Moon,” Elvis Presley’s first album, and “Hysteria” by Def Leppard. Hmm, which one of these doesn’t belong? I mean c’mon, no matter what you think of the music of the first three, you can’t really debate their impact. Def Leppard not so much… The one on “Dark side…” actually made me want to listen to Pink Floyd again (God help me…). DSOTM is done really well, but the things that made me nostalgic for them was a song called “Echos” from Meddle and “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” from Ummagumma. That second one is actually a live recording, I’ll never forget the spectacle of my RA my freshmen year bursting into my room and dancing to that that song. It’s not the kind of thing you usually think about dancing to, but she was a dance major and she was mesmerizing, and maybe stoned too…

I’ve also caught some of the concerts that VH1 classics has shown too. Thin Lizzy and Twisted Sister aren’t exactly my favorites, but the Smiths concert was pretty good. It sounded like it was right after their first album. Morissey was scrawny and had a ridiculous early 80’s hairstyle that was a combination of rockabilly and new wave. At the beginning of the show, you could just tell that he was so into himself, he really believed that he was the best thing ever. Who could blame him really, he was being showered with flowers and people were going crazy for him. I’ll tell you this, he has quite the stage presence, I was starting to believe him halfway through “Pretty Girls Make Graves.” I was also really impressed with Johnny Marr, for some reason his guitar was more noticeable live. It was a crazy show, the stage ended up being mobbed with what looked like about 50 people making fools of themselves attempting to dance. To be fair, I have no idea how anyone could dance to any song by the Smiths…

Anyway, it’s a good thing I’ve never had this station before, I probably wouldn’t have gotten anything done, I’ love this sort of stuff…