DJ SOUND BITES Oct 19 – Oct 24

Jeff Weigl Beats Working Friday @ 4pm
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Handle With Care was the first single from The Traveling Wilburys, a supergroup created by George Harrison and Jeff Lynne. Initially an informal grouping with Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, they got together at Bob Dylan's Santa Monica, California, studio to quickly record an additional track as a B-side for the single release of Harrison's song "This Is Love."  "Handle With Care" was the song they came up with, which Harrison and his record company immediately realized was too good to be released as merely a B-side. The five superstars decided to form a band and make an entire album, recording nine more songs at Dave Stewart's (of Eurythmics) house in Los Angeles in a 10-day window when they were all available.  "Handle With Care" is a phrase that is sometimes stamped onto boxes to let delivery personnel know that the contents are fragile. In this song, the singer must be handled with care because he's been hurt in the past.  Bob Dylan's studio, where they recorded the song, was in his garage, and George Harrison noticed a box that was marked "Handle with Care," inspiring the lyric.
 
Sunday Papers is one of the few songs on Joe Jackson's debut album Look Sharp! that isn't about interpersonal relationships and matters of love. It is a takedown of the Fleet Street press, the UK print media that were prone to cover sensationalistic and frightening news stories to boost readership. Jackson had his battles with the press, who often categorized him in ways that weren't to his liking. His message here: don't trust everything you read, and don't let it affect your lifestyle.
 
Rock Critic Dave Marsh described Roger Daltrey’s scream near the end of the song Won’t Get Fooled Again by The Who as "the greatest scream of a career filled with screams".  The song was originally intended for a rock opera Townshend had been working on, Lifehouse, which was a multi-media exercise based on his followings of the Indian religious avatar Meher Baba, showing how spiritual enlightenment could be obtained via a combination of band and audience.  After Lifehouse was abandoned as a project, producer Glyn Johns felt "Won't Get Fooled Again", along with other songs, were so good that they could simply be released as a standalone single album, which became Who's Next.