So this week there are no MTV-type videos to complement the songs (all the videos are simply the bands performing their music) so it is a bit of a difficult choice to make in terms of which is my favourite video. I think this week my choice is between Sylvia's Mother by Dr Hook and When God made me by Neil Young. The latter video is by far the best in terms of video quality (a lot of the other videos suffer from their obvious age: most shot in the 70s) while the former gets my vote because Dr Hook have that unique look with Ray Sawyer wearing that very distinctive pirate eyepatch over his right eye

Another great concert I was able to see back in the 80s. I remember Phil Collins opening his concert with synchro drumming (Phil Collins is a very accomplished drummer so he was on stage with another drummer). They then went into this song.

I always think Kim Carnes is the female version of Rod Stewart (in terms of voice of course). Ahh just realised I haven't posted a song from Rod Stewart yet!

Time for some more Elton John. This song reminds me of a holiday we had when I was about 5 years old at the Hydro Majestic in the Blue mountains, Australia.

In that hotel there was a jukebox and this was one of the songs that you could select. My brother Mark and I used to spend the evening putting 10 cent coins into the jukebox and playing various songs including this one. The other thing they had in the hotel were some really cool pinball machines, which reminds me of another song by Elton John (see tomorrow's post).

Another good Youtube find. This album came out before War of the Worlds (see yesteday's post) and I guess is now long forgotten. Yet the journey to the centre of the earth musical production is certainly well worth listening to although admittedly very 70s. Originally I had a live performance of this masterpiece but alas it got taken down by Youtube. This version I think is from Rik Wakeman's official Youtube channel so hopefully it won't get taken down in the future.

So I thought this song was not about her but her brother who messed up a relationship. However I then found a live version of this song on Youtube where Dido seems to intimate that writing the song caused a major hassle in her life which suggests she did write it about a lost lover. I have now included the other version of this song below.

White Flag Live Version

This song is actually another Carol King classic which also appeared on her Tapestry album (see yesteday's post). However, I also really like Jame's Taylor's version of the song. In this post I have also included Carol King's version as well.

James Taylor

Carol King

Men at work are probably known in most countries as a one hit wonder band with their most famous song being Down Under (Covid Island Discs day 30).

However in Australia they did have other hits, and this was one of them.