Sept 1, 2, 3, 4 AOTD: Styx, Tom Petty, Queen and Police

Styx - The Grand Illusion

1977



Link to Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO62scTZ7Qk&list=PL15D2FB6E422EC88B

Hey folks, I am going on vacation to Canada to go camping for a week.  I'll be back next Wednesday.

So here are the albums for the days I will be gone:

Saturday, Sept 1: Styx - The Grand Illusion

Sunday, Sept 2: Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes

Monday, Sept 3: Queen - The Game

Tuesday, Sept 4: Police - Synchronicity

The first two arrived in the late 70s when my taste in rock was being solidified at the time with a penchant for the more intellectual, dramatic progressive rock (of bands like Styx) AND the classic rock of what sounded like the heartland of America to me, basically Springsteen, Petty and eventually Mellencamp.  Come sail away was as irresistible to me as Refugees was

The next were represent some of my early 80s obsessions.  My number one obsession at the time was Queen.  I literally wore out cassettes of "Live Killers" and "The Game," whereby after getting stuck, I would completely pull out the tape and then rewind them with a pencil.  I also took apart cassette players, determined to fix them, though that never went as well as recycling the cassettes themselves.

Synchronicity is an MTV album, with at least 3 or 4 major hits that were in constant rotation on the music network.  One of my favorite images from that era will always be Sting dancing in slow motion through about a hundred candles in "I'll Be Wrapped Around Your Finger."