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I am also like a bird. Even sometimes horse or dog. And cat.

peep! :musical_note:

YouTube suggested that to me within the past day or so, too. :grin:

I’m pretty sure people have told me sometimes that I’m like a donkey, only perhaps not in so many words. :donkey:

Back on topic, one of the Motor City Madman’s songs got stuck in my head a few days ago, but it’s probably not appropriate to share here, so I’ll drop this one instead:

One of my dad’s bands used to cover that one, which is where I first heard it.

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Who/what ignited this, Chester?

Spontaneous combustion? Or something more specific?

Can’t think of a suitable :notes: cut at the moment…

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No particular person or thing in my case. Sometimes I just want change. Sometimes when I feel like I’m juggling several things it might feel a little like this. Right now it’s not a specific accelerant.

At least tangentially related to the topic at hand:

And since we might have some :cloud_with_lightning_and_rain: in the forecast:

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Glad you magnified the avatar.

I first thought it was volcano roll sushi.

My attempt…

I boosted mine from CNN and tweaked it with remove.bg and GIMP. The sushi looks delicious!

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:point_up: This whole Alan Parsons album, On Air, is excellent. It’s a concept album with a theme of flight (including spaceflight) exploration.

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Keeping with Alan Parsons and things in the sky, this one is from 1982.

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I enjoy Alan Parsons.

I would like ā€œTimeā€ to be played at my funeral.

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This one, also from On Air, always struck me as a funerary song:

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That’s not the Eric Woolfson vocal I’m accustomed to hearing, but it’s nice! I found a playlist for that album and am listening to it now. Thanks for sharing that!

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Alan Parsons - :astonished_face: I don’t think I have heard their music since the 70’s. :laughing:

Dude’s been at it for a long time. I’ve always liked the Stereotomy album from the ā€œProjectā€. Released under ā€œAlan Parsonsā€ (not ā€œThe Alan Parsons Projectā€), I really like Try Anything Once in addition to On Air.

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Another:

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You are most welcome. I downloaded most of their albums and concerts. They are still big overseas. I have been a fan since someone introduced me to the music in early 1980.

Lately I have enjoyed listening to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

I didn’t realize he married the girl from Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66, which I also enjoy.

I also didn’t realize Herb started A&M records, hence the ā€˜A’.

I also didn’t know he made the theme song for the Dating Game.

I also didn’t know he signed ā€œThe Carpentersā€ and Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66/77/88.

I listened to that whole album/playlist after finding it. I really like that vocalist, and the instrumentation is really tight.

Your mention of ā€œbig overseasā€ made me think of Level 42. I don’t have any idea of how ā€œbigā€ they are, but I’ve run across several concert playlists and videos from European venues when looking for music on YouTube. I’ve always enjoyed how layered their music is, and I like Mark King’s bass work.

For no reason other than this popped into my head a few days ago, here’s some gratuitous (non-Frank) Zappa:

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My sister thought she picked an appropriate Judy Collins song for her wedding, She thought the title was ā€˜Send in the clouds’ I told her the real title and she thanked me. Nothing like having ā€˜Send in the clowns’ being played as they were walking back down the aisle.

I went to another wedding where both the bride and groom were well in their ā€˜70s.

One of the songs played was ā€˜Ride of the Valkyries’

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You are a very good brother.

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My father told me a story about a speech his older brother had to give to a group of people. His brother didn’t know how to pronounce ā€˜Mikado’ and asked my father who was about 10. So my uncle gets up in front of all these people and starts talking about the Mick a doo.

His brother came home hopping mad after embarrassing himself. My dad just said ā€œyou should know better than ask a 10 year oldā€

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