
Keepers:
Bip Bop
Some People Never Know
Mary Had a Little Lamb (bonus)
Are we going to hear the retirement-age Who sing new meaning into the words “hope I die before I get old” tonight? Here’s hoping! In the meantime, these are my favorite Halftime moments from recent years:

1. Bruce Springsteen almost killing a camera man and causing thousands of cases of hi-def wall-mounted whiplash.

2. Prince (nudge-nudge-wink-wink)

3. Bono revealing that his armpit had provided sweaty cover for an American flag throughout his performance.
Got any you’d like to add?
Curty Ray of Power Pop Overdose comments:
Now that’s a tough one. I’ve never understood Bruce Springsteen’s uber-appeal… he’s good, but why and how did he become BRUUUUCE?
His first couple of albums were full of wordy shuffles that inexplicably got him branded as the next Dylan, and a few years later we got a couple of thin sounding synth-y things that were huge commercially, but pretty hard to listen to if you were on the fence to begin with. Fact is though, there were some really good records mixed in there as well and it all worked out: his mediocre records made him more popular and his good records made him more popular, and intermittent suckiness just didn’t make an ounce of difference. Everything the guy did seemed to enhance the icon factor. Think about it – the guy writes a melodically simplistic song about a Vietnam vet living a dead end life (Born In The USA), and it becomes misinterpreted into some sort of fist-pumping patriotic anthem that gets played at every fireworks display in America. Good work if you can get it.
My theory? Hard, hard work, a great live show, enough intelligence to pull back and deconstruct every so often (Nebraska) and a sneaky ability to create music (and a persona to match) that can be misunderstood in surprisingly beneficial ways. Overrated? maybe. Undeserving, no.

Keepers:
Golden Hours
St Elmo’s Fire
Sky Saw
The Big Ship
Another Green World
Everything Merges with the Night
I’ll Come Running

Keepers:
The Width Of A Circle
All The Madmen
After All
The Man Who Sold The World
Lightning Frightening (bonus)
Michael Fennelly himself posts a video on YouTube: a demo version of one of my all-time favorite songs.
Michael Fennelly – To Claudia On Thursday

Both Shocking Blue songs on this comp are great, and I promise they’ll show up here when I listen to the albums they originally appeared on.
Keepers:
Shannon – Abergavenny
Bill Deal – May I
George Baker – Little Green Bag
Showstoppers – Ain’t Nothin But a Party
Tee Set – Ma Belle Amie

Keepers:
This Must Be The Night
Savoir Faire
That World Outside
Slow Drain
You Just Keep Holding On
Lipstick Traces
Heaven Stood Still
Turn You Every Way But Loose

Keepers:
Here In Heaven
This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us
Amateur Hour
Talent Is an Asset
In My Family

Poor bastards. Ham and Evans already have a deer-in-the-headlights look about them on the cover, don’t they?
Played this thing to death on 8-track, then bought the lp, then bought the CD with extra tracks, now feel guilty for having not paid for the mp3s. Something’s screwed up somewhere, and three of these guys aren’t with us to not get the money they wouldn’t have gotten from the 4th format of this album that I have or have not owned for 38 years.
Keepers:
Baby Blue
I’d Die Babe
Name Of The Game
Sweet Tuesday Morning
Day After Day
Sometimes
Perfection

Keepers:
Photograph
Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond)
You’re Sixteen (You’re Beautiful and You’re Mine)
Oh, My My
You and Me (Babe)
It Don’t Come Easy [bonus track)

Keepers:
Bluebird Wine
Too Far Gone
Boulder to Birmingham
Before Believing
Bottle Let Me Down
Sleepless Nights
Coat of Many Colors
For No One
Queen of the Silver Dollar
RedTelephone66 – OMG it’s The Goldebriars! Curt Boettcher/Becher/Betcher/Youbetcha fans go, go, go! Now!
Twilightzone! – Mono Stones (no Beatle Bones) and enough Rebel Rockabilly Rock to keep you moving for a while.
Power Pop Criminals has an Advent best-of, Houba Houba footage and Part 1 of a John Wicks/Paul Collins performance.
Power Pop Overdose – Part 2 of the John Wicks/Paul Collins performance (see above).
And by all means… scroll.

Keepers:
Cowboys
Undenied
Half Day Closing
Over
Humming
Seven Months
Elysium
Western Eyes