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Trying to mellow out before I do something I really regret. Music helps. Air's Cherryblossom Girl is sublime (one of the joys of the yahoo radio station is it throws up stuff you wouldn't necessarily search for). But how about these old hippies:

Sometimes late when things are real
And people share the gift of gab between themselves
Some are quick to take the bait
And catch the perfect prize that waits among the shelves

But Oz never did give nothing to the tin man
That he didn't, didn't already have
And cause never was the reason for the evening
Or the tropic of Sir Galahad.

So please believe in me
When I say I'm spinning round, round, round, round
Smoke glass stain bright color
Image going down, down, down, down
Soapsuds green like bubbles

Oh, Oz never did give nothing to the tin man
That he didn't, didn't already have
And cause never was the reason for the evening
Or the tropic of Sir Galahad

etc----America, circa early 1970s

Radio London used to play that quite a bit around 72 wasnt it the follow up to A Horse With No Name or was it Ventura Highway?

I prefer Tin Man and Ventura Highway to Horse With No Name, which sounded like a bad Neil Young impression. 1972 sounds about right, though, Steve.

Recall that at all, Steve? Gerry Rafferty's follow up to Baker Street, circa 78/79.

Class stuff

Damn---haven't ever seen the video!

Caught something on BBC3 or 4 the other week, all about the musicians that worked in and around Laurel Canyon. One producer was telling how Neil Young, hot off the Harvest success and after the death of a Crazy Horse member and a roadie from drugs, was trying to record Tonight's The Night, and wanted it done live, with the musicians just playing the stuff as they saw it on the sheet music.

He told the audience he was going to play the new album all the way through, and if they were patient with him and listened, then he'd play some stuff they'd heard before. Once he'd finished all the TTN songs, he kept his word---by playing them all again.

The producer said, "That was when I realised I loved Neil Young."

No i dont but i do recall Get It Right Next Time Baker Street always reminds me of the TV series Hazell

There was some good stuff out around then that wasn't exactly punk---Elvis Costello, Jonathan Richman, for example---and some decidedly non-punk stuff that was just perfect: Kate Bush's first album, Rafferty's Baker Street.