Well, that was fun.
A three-hour playlist ended up running 5 hours and change, partly because we worked in some requests and questions from listeners, partly because we got talking about weird corners of things, partly because, well, that list was pretty long to begin with, and it was never going to have fit in three hours even if I had been silent as the tomb. I had included some "maybe" songs: we were having so much fun, we ended up playing them all. And people really seemed to like it!
But because we were between semesters (the only reason there was that kind of empty time to fill), the wireless was dodgy and I wasn't able to record what we were doing, which was a shame.
Anyway, here's the playlist.
Hour 1 (1964-73)
Opening: Fountains of Wayne, “Red Dragon Tattoo”
British Invasion & American Effects
1. The Kinks (Aug 1964): “You Really Got Me”
2. The Who: (Dec 64) “I Can’t Explain”
3. The Beatles: (1966) “And Your Bird Can Sing”
4. Byrds: (1965) “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better”
5. The Cyrkle: (1966): “Red Rubber Ball”
6. Paul Revere & the Raiders: (1967) “Him or Me”
7. The Beach Boys: (1967) “Heroes & Villains”
68-73
8. The Move: (1968): “Fire Brigade”
9. Emitt Rhodes: (1970): “Fresh as a Daisy”
10. Badfinger: (1970): “No Matter What”
11. Big Star: (1972): “When My Baby’s Beside Me” &
12. “September Gurls”
13. Blue Ash: (1973) “Abracadabra (Have You Seen Her?)”
14. Raspberries: (1972): “Go All the Way”
Hour 2: Keeping the thread alive/ High Power Pop (1973-1980)
The magazines: Ira Robbins (Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press)/ Greg Shaw (Bomp!)
15. Dwight Twilley: (1976) “I’m on Fire” (but I played the single version!)
16. The Nerves: (1976) “Hangin’ On the Telephone”
17. Flashcubes: (1978) “Christi Girl”
18. Cheap Trick: (1978) “Surrender”
19. The Jam (1978): “Down in the Tube Station at Midnight”
20. The Undertones: (1978) “Teenage Kicks”
The Class of 79-80
21. Blondie: (1978-9) “One Way or Another”
22. The Knack: (1979) “My Sharona” &
23. “Good Girls Don’t”
24. 20/20: (1979) “Backyard Guys”
25. Shoes: (1979) “Tomorrow Night” &
26. “Too Late"
27. Paul Collins Beat: (1979) “Rock and Roll Girl” &
28. “I Don’t Fit In”
29. The Records: (1979) “Starry Eyes”
30. The Kings: (1980): “This Beat Goes On/Switchin’ to Glide”
31. The Vapors: (1980) “News at Ten”
32. Martha and the Muffins: (1980) “Echo Beach”
33. XTC: (1980) “Respectable Street”
34. Split Enz (1980): “I Got You”
Hour 3
The Critics: Jordan Oakes (Yellow Pills), John Borack (Goldmine), Steve Simels (Stereo Review)
35. Ail Symudiad: (1981) “Garej Paradwys”
36. The dBs: (1981) “Bad Reputation”
37. The Plimsouls: (1983) “A Million Miles Away”
38. Replacements: (1984) “Unsatisfied”
39. Redd Kross: (1987) “McKenzie”
40. Replacements: (1987) “Alex Chilton"
41. The Bangles: (1984) “Hero Takes a Fall”
Alternative Pop
42. Material Issue: (1991) “Diane” &
43. “International Pop Overthrow”
44. Teenage Fanclub: “Star Sign”
45. Matthew Sweet (1991) “Girlfriend”
46. Red Kross: (1993): “Jimmy’s Fantasy”
47. Pixies: (1991) “Head On”
48. Sugar: (1994) “Your Favorite Thing”
49. Matthew Sweet: (1995) "Sick of Myself"
50. Smashing Pumpkins: (1993) “Today”
51. Weezer: (1994) “In the Garage”
52. Guided by Voices: (1995) “Game of Pricks” &
53. “My Valuable Hunting Knife
54. Old 97s: (1999) “Murder (or a Heart Attack)”
55. Rooney: (2007) “I Should’ve Been After You”
56. Rifles: (2008) “Darling Girl”
57. Tinted Windows: (2009) “Kind of a Girl”
58. Fountains of Wayne (2011): “Richie & Ruben”
Some of you were listening: thanks so much! I hope you enjoyed it!
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9 comments:
I created a Spotify playlist of this tracklisting
http://open.spotify.com/user/barkingstars/playlist/68SnG0pusICgpkcASeWGl6
Ooo, thanks!
I feel like I haven't done much on spotify. How do you use it?
MYMary:
I loved -- nay lurved the show (although I missed the middle section due to being in transit to Brooklyn).
However, one think puzzles me -- the discussion of the Kinks influence on "My Sharona," which I totally do not hear. Is mine a minority opinion or is it considered a given by most rational folks that the Knack song derives from the Kinks?
Only in the sense that a lot of the early Kinks hits were "riff-rock" and My Sharona is completely a riff-driven song.
I wouldn't deny the Kinks influence, but I wouldn't say it's less of a stretch to say My Sharona was influenced by "Day Tripper", either.
Heard about 2/3 of it and managed a call into the studio!
I think the riff in "My Sharona" is pretty Kinky.
Closer to "Gimme Some Lovin'". The octave thing....
But after the octave thing is a Kinda quote of "You Really Got Me" as a turnaround.
Thanks for the links, I'm having fun checking out the tunes I don't know.
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