Haha! You have that so right you have no idea…
We (my brother and a group of my friends including Heather Locklear if you have any idea who she is) would drive my parents’ Oldsmobile station wagon through the Topanga Canyon roads to Malibu and Zuma to surf…
and I have a perfect image in my mind of Miller playing on the 8 track…
California teenage heaven. :-D.
Stars on 45 eh, good memories.
Miller on 8 track must have been mind blowing. He had such a distinctive, sharp sound.
And yes, we do know Heather Locklear. 
She’s famous.
Lovely memories there Surfermom.
Anyway, the Steve Miller Band album in question ‘Fly Like An Eagle’ is still to come.
It was a bit of a gamble putting that one in, but it’s a good album all the same.
The Barron Knights don’t make the cut however!:shock:
Just put this one on today to wipe a further 50 albums off the list.
No.651: “The Yardbirds” by The Yardbirds (1966)
In 1966 The Yardbirds were in full flow having lost Eric Clapton back to his blues and retaining Jeff Beck as the major guitarist in the band before Jimmy Page would add his talents on the next release. This album is also known as ‘Roger The Engineer’, for some strange reason.
700-651:
700-STOOGES-The Stooges-1969
699-RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON-I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight-1974
698-PRETENDERS-Get Close-1986
697-DAMNED-Machine Gun Etiquette-1979
696-JUSTIN HAYWARD & JOHN LODGE-Blue Jays-1975
695-BEE GEES-First-1967
694-DON HENLEY-Inside Job-2000
693-DEL AMITRI-Waking Hours-1989
692-TOM WAITS-Nighthawks At The Diner-1975
691-CROWDED HOUSE-Farewell To The World – (Live At Sydney ‘06)-2006
690-DOLL BY DOLL-Doll By Doll-1981
689-GRANDADDY-Sumday-2003
688-ELTON JOHN-A Single Man-1978
687-J.D. BLACKFOOT-The Song Of Crazy Horse-1973
686-JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP-Scarecrow-1985
685-JON & VANGELIS-Short Stories-1980
684-YES-The Ladder-1999
683-TERRY REID-Terry Reid-1969
682-BEACH BOYS-L.A. (Light Album)-1979
681-RICHARD THOMPSON-Sweet Warrior-2007
680-POGUES-Rum, Sodomy & The Lash-1985
679-EELS-Blinking Lights & Other Revelations-2005
678-BEACH BOYS-20/20-1969
677-CHEAP TRICK-At Budokan (Live)-1979
676-DAVID BOWIE-Reality-2003
675-JACKSON BROWNE-The Pretender-1976
674-CRASH TEST DUMMIES-God Shuffled His Feet-1993
673-RICHARD HAWLEY-Coles Corner-2005
672-STEVE HACKETT-Genesis Revisited II-2012
671-QUEEN-A Night At The Opera-1975
670-JETHRO TULL-Aqualung-1971
669-ROGER WATERS-Radio KAOS-1986
668-AL STEWART-Year Of The Cat-1976
667-BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD-Buffalo Springfield-1967
666-ELVIS COSTELLO-My Aim Is True-1977
665-OZZY OSBOURNE-Blizzard Of Ozz-1980
664-QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE-Happy Trails-1969
663-TALK TALK-Spirit Of Eden-1988
662-TRAVIS-The Man Who-1999
661-ZOMBIES-The Zombies Begin Here-1965
660-STEVE MILLER BAND-Children Of The Future-1968
659-QUEEN-Jazz-1978
658-ELTON JOHN-The One-1990
657-STARSOUND-Stars On 45 – The Album-1981
656-QUEENSRYCHE-Operation Mindcrime-1988
655-METALLICA-Ride The Lightning-1984
654-DAVID BOWIE-Tonight-1984
653-EDITORS-An End Has A Start-2007
652-INXS-Kick-1987
651-YARDBIRDS-The Yardbirds-1966
Very briefly to move things on a bit, over the next three posts I’m going to list the next nine albums. This time though it’s just the titles but with a video apiece. We can chat later about any of these if you so wish 
No.650: “White Blood Cells” by The White Stripes (2001)
No.649: “So Much For The City” by The Thrills (2003)
No.648: “Roll With It” by Steve Winwood (1988)
No.647: “Head Down” by Rival Sons (2012)
No.646: “Burrito Deluxe” by The Flying Burrito Brothers (1970)
No.645: “Eagles Live” by The Eagles (1980)
No.644: “Espresso Logic” by Chris Rea (1993)
No.643: “Moondance Jam” by Blackberry Smoke (2010)
No.642: “Battle Scars” by Walter Trout (2015)
More tomorrow
The Flying Burrito Bros.
Their name intrigued me so I bought their first LP The Gilded Palace of Sin not knowing what they sounded like.It was good so I got Burrito Deluxe which was also good.Good for me 
Wild Horses I think is a Stones song but both versions sound…good.
Same here mate.
I’d read about Gram Parsons and was looking in his section in a record shop and noticed the Flying Burrito Brothers in there. I took a chance on a “2-on-1” CD package with both albums and thought it was great.
Wild Horses is a Stones song (not sure which album it’s from off hand), but this version is a corker of a tune: Susan Boyle.
I don’t normally watch these type of programmes by the way!
Yes, I like the Flying Burrito Brothers - more particularly the Gilded Palace album. I’m also a Gram Parsons fan.
Wild Horses was on the Sticky Fingers album but The Burritos released their version a year before starting a rumour that Parsons had actually written it.
Well, the first album is on it’s way before we get to the 600 mark actually, Ffosse, so I’ll make sure a put a couple of those tracks on for you
So it was mate, thanks. Sometimes I’m in the middle of typing and if I press on the ‘home page’ to check the discography I lose what I’ve just written.
I always was a bit puzzled who actually did write that great sing though.
Some more selections coming up now…
No.641: “Daydream Nation” by Sonic Youth (1988)
While we in the UK were suffering the atrocities of Stock Aitken & Waterman’s trebly and trashy disposable pap, our cousins in the USA had REM, Guns N’ Roses and this fabulous trio, Sonic Youth. Thurston & Kim Moore & Lee Ronaldo were the mainstay of this very unsung group for their entire history which lasted over two decades and produced some wonderfully avant garde indie-psyche-rock. Here’s very possibly their finest few minutes, ‘Teen Age Riot’:
No.640: “Searching For The Young Soul Rebels” by Dexys Midnight Runners (1980)
Flying onto the scene as complete outsiders in late 1979 with their brand of frantic northern soul mixed with a barrow boy East End image (what wasin those holdalls?), Kevin Rowland and his band of undesirable-looking misfits came out of nowhere amongst the new-wave and ska elite to top the charts with their homage to the late soul star Geno Washington.
It was an absolutely fantastic single which was followed by this album full of soulful songs.
Their follow-up album, Too-Rye-Ay was even more successful due mainly to the fact that it included the monster hit ‘Come On Eileen’ which is now probably one of my most hated records of all-time. But for now, let’s hear those other two classics:
No.639: “This Is The Sea” by The Waterboys (1985)
Thanks to the classic single ‘The Whole Of The Moon’ rewarding leader and main songwriter with an Ivor Novello award, The Waterboys have become one of the leading lights in Irish music. But it’s not all down to that single, the band have that uncanny Irish knack of combining melody, great songwriting and a flair for solid entertainment to provide the hits (what on Earth am I talking about?)
