Moving Right Along - 1/31/05

Okay, today's show was kind of a mess. I woke up at 1:30 to get to my 2 o'clock show so I threw some stuff in a bag and raced across town sans shower. Ick.

The Pretenders song is that one where Chrissie Hynde sings about Christmas. I didn't realize it was that one until it was halfway over but I would have played something else if I'd thought of that.

The CD burner was a bit out of whack today which is why there are so many songs that didn't make the discs.

The personal emergency. I'll leave that one to your imaginations.

As usual, see below for the list.


Original Mirrors - Reflections (Diana Ross & The Supremes)
Soul Kid #1 - More Bounce in California (Win A Date With Tad Hamilton soundtrack)
Liz Phair - Why Can't I? (Win A Date With Tad Hamilton soundtrack)

Cd1
The Pretenders - 2000 Miles
Shonen Knife - Cobra Versus Mongoose
The Strokes - Trying My Luck
*Talk*
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Rich Girl
Boston - Rock 'n' Roll Band
Britney Spears - What It's Like to Be Me
Peggy Lee - Where Can I Go Without You
Little Feat - Roll Um Easy
Meatloaf - You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
Johnny Thunders - You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory (Bringing Out the Dead soundtrack)
Dean Martin - Baby-O

*Talk - PSA - Big Difference/Energy Star*

James Taylor - Sweet Baby James

*Talk*

Something Corporate - The Runaway
Huey Lewis & The News - Now Here's You
Bryan Adams - Long Gone
Aerosmith - Draw The Line
(cut off for personal emergency)
Genesis - In Too Deep
Genesis - Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
(cut off because personal emergency was over)
*Talk*

CD2
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
10,000 Maniacs - Like the Weather
Floetry - If I Was a Bird (live)
Josie Cotton - He Could Be the One (Music from the Soundtrack Valley Girl)
Janet Jackson - Island Life
Joan Armatrading - Down to Zero
Bob Marley - Africa Unite
John Mellencamp - Lonely Ol' Night
*Talk*
Fleetwood Mac - Over My Head

Who? What? Where? - 1/24/05

The title of today's show could also describe most of my weekend. Thanks to the never-ending cold (it's here, it's gone, it's here, it's gone - ENOUGH ALREADY), I have been self-medicating the over-the-counter way: with NyQuil and i missed my show on Saturday. This is a half truth, natch, and I'd tell the real story but it's too sordid for blogging. Suffice it to say, sometime on Sunday, I bolted upright and thought to myself, "self, you had a radio show you missed yesterday. yikes!" (I speak to myself in all lower-case letters). Anyway, upon this realization, I quickly logged into my soon-to-be-defunct exploremaine.com e-mail account and found a message from the newly appointed GM telling me my new show was today (yipee!) and nothing announcing my brief lapse of all brain activity (yipee! yipee!).

To make that completely clear - the new time for my show - formally known as Working Together - is from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. on Mondays.

So, I was nearly completely unprepared for today's show since NyQuil sleep seems to only keep me in SleepyTown (thanks for that one Mathy) for the documented 6 hour dosing and my early awakening was quickly followed by a little nappy-poo. So, arising abruptly to a Rush rock-block on VH1 Hits at about 1:20, I crawled out of bed, threw a handful of records, a couple of handfuls of CDs and a pile of blank discs into my backpack and raced across town to the radio station. I played about 70 percent of the CDs I brought and none of the records. I also had no phone calls today, from people who are incredibly hammered at noon or otherwise (right Ebony?).

Anyway, I think it was good and my one confirmed listener (Melinda) agreed.

CD1
Ms. Dynamite - Put Him Out
Floetry - Getting Late (live)
Lenny Kravitz - Sister
Luscious Jackson - Water Your Garden
Journey - Wheel in the Sky
The Cars - Drive
The Robert Cray Band featuring The Memphis Horns - Move A Mountain
Big Head Todd & The Monsters - It All Comes Down
David Bowie - Pallas Athena
Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop
Nick Drake - Which Will

*PSA - Global AIDS Awareness (Michael Douglas) & Talk*

John Mayer - Back To You
Suzanne Vega - Stockings

CD2
Bone Thugs -N- Harmony - Days of Our Lives
(there were a couple of swears in this but I won't tell anyone if you don't)
Marvin Gaye - I'll Be Doggone (live)
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr. - We Open In Venice (live)
Elton John - Dark Diamond
Ray Davies - See My Friends (live - acoustic)
Counting Crows - A Long December
The Knack - My Sharona (Reality Bites soundtrack)
Smash Mouth - Padrino
Widespread Panic - Tall Boy
The Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
LL Cool J - Goin' Back to Cali
Bob Marley - Who The Cap Fit
Kings Of Leon - Taper Jean Girl
(fades out into the all-Spanish, all-the-time show after mine)

Thrown Together...but well - 1/18/05

Okay, so today's show started off as a big mess. I'm just ill-prepared in general I think. But then it settled in and turned out pretty well I think. I had another person tell me I should talk more. Tell people what they're hearing and all. But I've never been very into that. People who know me might think that's pretty odd though since I do tend to talk a lot. But talking to people is generally easier than talking on the air.

I liked everything I played again today but I was especially impressed with Big Head Todd & The Monsters, Something Corporate, Nikki Meets the Hibachi, the second Tom Petty song and the Talking Heads.

I was a little underwhelmed by Television, James, New Potato Caboose and Julian Lennon.

If you look below, you'll see the list...


Finley Quaye & William Orbit - Dice

CD1
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - A Thing About You
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Change the Locks (She's the One soundtrack)
The Ramones - I Wanted Everything
New York Dolls - Looking for a Kiss
Television - Prove It
Something Corporate - Space
     (a little of New York Dolls - Vietnamese Baby snuck in there)
Nikki Meets the Hibachi - Outside Looking In
Matthew Sweet - I've Been Waiting
Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Circle
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
James - What For
New Potato Caboose - She Don't Know Why
David Gray - Babylon II
Original Mirrors - Reflections (Diana Ross & The Supremes)
Kelly Price f/ Darron Jones & Quinnes Parker - You Complete Me

*Talk - PSA - Something*

CD2
Soul Kid #1 - More Bounce in California (Win a Date with Tad Hamilton soundtrack)
The Flirts - Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime) (Music from the Soundtrack - Valley Girl)
The Jam - Town Called Malice (More Music from the Soundtrack - Valley Girl)
Julian Lennon - Let Me Tell You
Native Tongue - Speaking In Captions
Flesh For Lulu - I Go Crazy (Some Kind of Wonderful soundtrack)
    (problem with the start - Adrianne called and was distracting me)
Josie & The Pussycats - 3 Small Words (Josie & The Pussycats soundtrack)
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Bad Reputation
The Motels - Anticipating
Talking Heads - Slippery People
The Cure - Why Can't I Be You?
The Cure - Fire In Cairo
The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail
Keane - We Might As Well Be Strangers

On Time - 1/11/05

Okay, so the show was going along pretty well and then Ebony showed up at the door and since I'm a bonehead and didn't see the doorbell light blinking I got a call on my cell phone saying, "Open the door." Then she came in and proceeded to tell me all the music I was playing was junk and bad. But this is a criticism I've endured for ages so it rolls off me like a cup off coffee flies off my dashboard.

Anyway, today's show was, once again, all stuff I regularly listen to so "The Good" pile would be all of it. I was very upset about the skipping song ("Reuters" by Wire) that Jeremy Toback tune (from a CD from my buddy Christopher Chaplin which looked like it was a submitted sampler of stuff to use in TV shows or movies - pretty hit or miss over all) was kind of lame.

Ebony picked out the Mandy Moore cover tune, the Kleenex Girl Wonder tune and then asked if we could play the Gladys Knight and The Pips song at the end. She must not have realized how much I love Gladys Knight and The Pips and especially "Midnight Train to Georgia."

Again, here's the list.

CD1
Finley Quaye & William Orbit - Dice
Urge Overkill - Heaven 90210
The Clash - London Calling
New York Dolls - Subway Train
Something Corporate - 21 and Invincible
The Pretenders - Talk of the Town
Joan Armatrading - Me Myself I
Floetry - Say Yes (Intro) (Live)
Floetry - Say Yes (Live)
Nina Simone - Seems I Never Tire of Lovin' You
Muhammad Ali - Mr. Tooth Decay (When We Were Kings soundtrack)
The Spinners - I'm Coming Home (Live) (When We Were Kings soundtrack)
Bob Marley - Iron Lion Zion
The Rolling Stones - Jump On Top of Me (Pret-A-Porter soundtrack)
The Ramones - She's the One
Jeremy Toback - Perfect From the Start
The Cure - Hot Hot Hot !!!

CD2
Duran Duran - Save A Prayer
Josie & The Pussycats - I Wish You Well (Josie & The Pussycats soundtrack)
Kasey Chambers - A Little Bit Lonesome (Eddie Bauer Homeward Bound collection)
Janet Jackson - Come Give Your Love to Me
Bow Wow Wow - Sexy Eiffel Towers
X-Ray Actress - More of This
The Strokes - Alone Together
Wire - Reuters
(this skipped so I faded it out)
Big Brother & The Holding Company - Combination of the Two (Bringing Out the Dead soundtrack)
Mandy Moore - One Way or Another (Blondie)
(this was so awful Ebony faded it out)
Television - Guiding Light
Sparks - Eaten By the Monster of Love (More Music from the Soundtrack Valley Girl)
Sparks - Angst in My Pants (Music from the Soundtrack Valley Girl)
Kleenex Girl Wonder - The Bostonians
Tom Petty - A Thing About You
Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia

In My Head - 01/08/05

So, today I was joined in the studio for the last hour of my show by the one and only Ebony. Which was fun. Her picks = Simon & Garfunkel, Can, The Beatles, Built to Spill, Pavement and Reel Big Fish (this pick was inspired by her picking up my cell phone which I have named Unity (for the time being) instead of just putting in the super-lame "Jason's phone" or something equally as wack).

Most of her selections came from a mix CD she had made which led me to the realization that mix tapes or CDs or what have you are often designed along an age thing. For those of you who make (or made) these things, you'll realize that certain songs are like coming-of-age rights of passage. Like Simon & Garfunkel (especially Cecilia, Me & Julio and I Am A Rock) was for Ebony's mix CD, James Taylor, The Violent Femmes (which I've gravitated back to by now) and a certain amount of 60's and 70's classic and prog-rock (Alan Parson's Project, ELO, etc.). And it became apparent today that these inclinations are based on age and personal discovery more than anything else. You just find these bands at a certain age, I guess. Not that there's anything wrong with that. In fact, it's kind of a refreshing revelation.

But to move on, today's show went pretty well. It was rudely interupted several times by a very drunk caller (and yes, my show is from noon until two in the afternoon) making several requests. I played what I could find and flat out refused to play a couple (Robert Plant, for instance, I was just not in the mood to look for). And then, near the end, another guy called and wanted the Granddaddy song (which made Ebony very happy although I'd never heard of them) and he said he loved my show (which made me very happy).

The CD burner worked like a charm.

CD1
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities In Dust
Jesse Johnson - Get To Know Ya (Pretty In Pink soundtrack)
The White Stripes - Offend In Every Way (live)
Roxy Music - Would You Believe?
Paul McCartney - We Can Work It Out (live - Unplugged)
Widespread Panic - Hope in a Hopeless World
(mistakenly played about 30 seconds of the next song - Happy - too)
*Talk*
Rod Stewart - Street Fighting Man
The Stone Roses - Love Spreads (request)
X-Ray Actress - In Your Light
*PSA - Blood Donation*
Changing Faces - Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper)
(played the opening of the album (rain sound) by mistake)
Christina Aguilera - Loving Me For Me
Kelly Price - You Should Have Told Me

CD2
Michael Jackson - Why You Wanna Trip On Me
Boogie Down Productions - My Philosophy
Kid 'N' Play - Gittin' Funky
Slick Rick - Children's Story
(this skipped)
Bill Withers - Who Is He (And What Is He to You?) (Jackie Brown soundtrack)
Tracy Chapman - Give Me One Reason (request)
Simon & Garfunkel - Cecilia
Can - Turtles Have Short Legs
The Beatles - I'm Looking Through You
Built to Spill - Big Dipper
Pavement - Shady Lane
Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard In My Backyard
(this had swears so I had to shut it off)
The Ramones - Needles & Pins
Reel Big Fish - Unity
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax (request)
Grandaddy - Taster (request)
Foo Fighters w/ Chick Corea - Times Like These (live - Grammys with intro by Snoop)

Working Together - 02/05/02

Again, I was digging through my old e-mails and I found this set list. Apparently I wasn't being very ambitious this day (note the four-in-a-row from The B-52s) but it seems like I got most of this stuff from the record (LPs) archives at RBC which is cool.

Since the reorganization of the records room I think I'll be having to make another foray into the racks to gather up all the stuff that I like. Not sure how I'll keep tabs on it though since I'm sure not too many people appreciate the "Jason's picks" shelf I was keeping before. Maybe a list or something. Not that this part is too interesting to all of you.

Anyway, this is what a lot of my old shows sounded like and surprising (or not) some of them still do.

Tony Bennett - Jeepers Creepers
*Talk*
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peek-A-Boo
The Style Coucil - Shout To The Top [this one's a little skippy]
The Waitresses - Square Pegs
The B-52's - Toss That Beat In The Garbage Can
The B-52's - 6060-842
The B-52's - Girl From Ipenema Goes to Greenland
The B-52's - Rock Lobster
*Talk*
Stacey Q - Two Of Hearts
The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed
The Go-Go's - Vacation
*PSA*
The Runaways - Bad Reputation
Mel C - Goin' Down
Pat Benetar - All Fired Up
Meatloaf - You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Nights)
*Talk*
Lou Reed - Romeo Had Juliette
The Jam - A Town Called Malice
The Housemartins - Happy Hour
The Furies - The Museum Song
The Cure - Why Can't I Be You?
Danny Hutton's Hitters - Wouldn't It Be Good? (Pretty In Pink soundtrack)
The March Violets - Turn To The Sky (Some Kind of Wonderful soundtrack)
Wild Men Of Wongo - Why Don't Pretty Girls Look At Me? (Weird Science soundtrack)
Kim Wilde - Kids In America (Clueless soundtrack)
The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away (Valley Girl soundtrack)
Big Audio Dynamite (B.A.D.) - Champagne
*PSA - Talk*
The Vapors - Turning Japanese
The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
INXS with Jimmy Barnes - Good Times (Lost Boys soundtrack)
The March Violets - Miss Amanda Jones [this one's a little skippy] (Rolling Stones) (Some Kind of Wonderful soundtrack)
X-Ray Spex - Warrior In Woolworths
*Talk*
The Flirts - Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime) (Valley Girl soundtrack)

That's it. That's the end. Woohoo!

All Alone - 01/04/05

Hey all. For Bates holiday break this year I decided to do an extra radio show. Tuesdays from noon until two. This edition saw me moving back to my traditional format. Which is not so much a format as it is just stuff I like to hear. Rather than having to listen to what other people want to hear. Also known as "why I do a radio show in the first place."

Marden's was having a huge sale on CDs they must have gotten from a flooded or burned out store and I bought a live Floetry CD (which came with a DVD), the soundtrack to Win A Date With Tad Hamilton (very cute - just like the movie) and Ms. Dynamite. I haven't a bulk (-ish) CD purchase go that well in ages.

I don't feel the need to explain the songs I picked and played because they are all great tunes but if you want to make comments feel free.

There are CDs for this set but I missed about three seconds at the beginning of CD2 because I pushed the bottons in the wrong order.

CD1
Finley Quaye w/ William Orbit - Dice
Soul Kid #1 - More Bounce in California (Win A Date With Tad Hamilton soundtrack)
Liz Phair - Why Can't I? (Win A Date With Tad Hamilton soundtrack)
Joan Armatrading - Drop the Pilot
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
Aerosmith - Back in the Saddle
David Gray - Silver Lining
Bif Naked - I Died
Boney M. - Rasputin
Elton John - Love Her Like Me
Alvin Lee - I Hear You Knockin' (Live)
Tom Petty - Don't Do Me Like That
Talking Heads - Swamp

CD2
Kevon Edmonds - No Love
Janet Jackson - Like You Don't Love Me
Mary J. Blige - Beautiful Day
Something Corporate - I Won't Make You
Rufus Wainwright - One Man Guy
Ms. Dynamite f/ Kymani Marley - Seed Will Grow
Melanie C - Be The One
Alicia Keys - A House Is Not A Home (Luther Vandross) (Live) (2004 Grammy Awards)
Frank Sinatra - How Little It Matters How Little We Know
Hall & Oates - Rich Girl
The Cars - Tonight She Comes
REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You
10,000 Maniacs - My Sister Rose
The March Violets - Miss Amanda Jones
Pink - Eventually
The Crimea - Baby Boom

Little Ricky's World - 01/01/05

Today there are no CDs because the burner wouldn't take the second disc. Rick was in the studio to help pick tunes and he brought some stuff too. So we heard picks from the studio albums (L.A. Guns, Bonham, Triumph, Temple of the Dog, Loverboy) and things he brought from home (Gerry Rafferty, Chicago, Foreigner, Steely Dan, The Cutting Crew, Roger Miller). All in all a fairly disjointed show with no real theme or anything. Not my best effort. Rick and I will have to work on getting it together a little better. This is also an incomplete list of tracks as I forgot to e-mail it to myself directly after the show and also, apparently, forgot to write the last four or five tunes on the playlist in the studio.

INXS - What You Need
Joan Armatrading - Drop the Pilot
Chicago - Saturday in the Park
Patsy Cline - Walking After Midnight
James Taylor - Handy Man
Gerry Rafferty - Right Down the Line
L.A. Guns - Ballad of Jane
U2 - Love Tumbling Down
Temple of the Dog - Say Hello to Heaven
Bonham - Wait for You
Roger Miller - King of the Road
Foreigner - Double Vision
Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse - Look Out For My Love
Steely Dan - Any Major Dude
Steely Dan - Barrytown
Billy Joel - Los Angelenos
Elton John - Madman Across the Water
Cutting Crew (I Just) Died In Your Arms
Fine Young Cannibals - Suspicious Minds
Loverboy - Turn Me Loose
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
Triumph - Lay It On the Line