What's up y'all? Got that fun here of course and I want to thank you for joining me. Now I thought considering the sort of heavy nature of the last couple videos I made, I'd do something a bit more lighthearted and I wanted to share some stuff about myself with you all. Before I do that though, just a quick update. A week or two ago I mentioned on my channel that my mom had been putting isolation because she was on the cruise ship that Donald Trump wouldn't let Doc. And I'm pleased to be able to report that my mom was tested negative for COVID-19 and release from quarantine on the 25th of March and she is now at home in good spirits. So now that I've got that out of the way, I really apologize. I should have mentioned that right after she got out. Anyway, so I have a passionate love of music of all kinds. Maybe not all kinds. I don't really like opera and I don't really like country and western. And when it comes to those two genres, I confess to being something of a musical bigot because I know that it's just plain intellectually wrong to write off an entire genre of music. It's just wrong. You know, you can't say, oh there's no such thing as a good country song or there's no such thing as a good opera song. Of course there's good songs out there in those genres. But overall the genres for different reasons just really bother me and get under my skin. Most other genres either like or can tolerate reasonably well. But like in the main, you know, I like all kinds of different pop music, you know, all variations of rock pretty much. I like all variations of funk and hip hop and reggae and most iterations of jazz, etc. So I like all kinds of music. World music as well, ambient music, electronic music, all that kind of stuff. I'm into it. I dig it. And I have, I am an old-fashioned sort of record collector, CD collector. I like my hard copies of music. I never really want to lose my hard copies of music. I understand that there's a whole generation of people now who don't own hard copy. Everything's on their electronic devices. And you know, that's fair enough more power to you. But I like my hard copy even though it can be expensive to travel with if I ever move away. Anyways, for this video, I thought I'd show you some of my records. Now I've got a big stack of albums and I could never possibly show them all. And I've got a huge stack of 45s, which I couldn't possibly show you all of either. But I'm going to show you some of my favorite 45s for this video. So my favorite band in the world is Yes. And I only have a few 45s of theirs. This one is Don't Kill the Whale from 1978. Got a kind of a nice cover to it, which is why I got that. I also have another copy of that record, but without that cover. This is Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, one of the best 45s of all time. We will rock you. We are the champions, double A side. An amazing 45. Yep, that's right. This was a really fun song. It's one of those songs that once you hear it, it gets stuck in your head for the rest of the day. ACDC, Highway to Hell, the MUST, MAKIN DAVE, great, great cover. Do they know it's Christmas? Do they know it's Christmas? And if you have that, you have to have USA. We are USA. We are the world USA. USA for Africa. That's right. No record collection is complete. A Viering My Demographic without at least one Madonna single. I have two, like a prayer, and into the groove. One of the best musical artists of my lifetime. It was my pleasure to be able to see Stevie Wonder in the summer of 2019 in London and Hyde Park with my daughter. Great concert. As y'all must know, I'm a huge fan of Prince. I've got a big stack of Prince 12 inches as well, but the 45s are as follows. I've got mountains. This is Paisley Park, but I have this song because the other side of it, the back side is, she's always in my hair. And that's a really good song. You'll bat dance. This is when Dub's Cry. That one's Purple Rain. This one is from a band that I got into. Not long after I moved to the UK, they were called the Dream Warriors. My definition of a Boombastic Jazz style. I'll tell you what, if you want to have it a good sort of a, a pop around for four or five minutes. Look, this one up on YouTube and put it on in the background. It's a great song. Really kind of a funky, jazzy sort of thing. This is my little stack of Beatles 45s. I've got some pretty good ones here. Some more classics. And the best part is, they're all on the old record label, Parlyphone. I want to hold your hand. This is a double A side. We can work it out. Daytripper. Yesterday, again, these are all old originals. They're not the reprints. This is on Apple Records. Get back. Which one's this? This is John Lennon. Give a piece of chance. Double A side. Strawberry Fields forever. And Penny Lane. And the song that started it all off in America, at least she loves you. So yeah, loving my 45s. I think I'm going to start listening to some of them right now after I make this video. So let me tell you what you've got. Do you still have any records? Is it just albums? Do you have 45s as well? Which is bigger in your collection? 45s or records? What makes you decide to keep them? Do you ever listen to them anymore? Let's talk records. Hit me up down below in the comment section. And by the way, in order to reply to comments right now, because my keyboard doesn't work, what I'm having to do is I go to my email on my phone, type in a reply to someone's comment on my phone, send it to myself and an email as a draft, then I have to go on my computer and copy and paste it and take it out for my emails and put it on your comment. Okay? So if I leave you a comment, I hope you appreciate it because I went to a lot of work to do that. Thank you very much for watching this video. Let's talk about records. Peace.