Working Together (for four hours) - 2/25/05

Hi everybody. Since this was spring break week (or at least some kind of break week) at Bates, I volunteered my time to do two long (four hour) shows. This one is the second of the two.

Again, I was trying to play a lot of the new stuff I'd bought, but I was also just trying to play a lot of stuff I really like.

I am going to try to stop harping on this, but I REALLY like Kasey Chambers' voice. It has a haunting quality that I can't get out of my head. She bends it from the deep twang of traditional country to an almost raspy tone to give some songs a harder edge.

I know John Mayer is all cheese but I can't help liking his songs. They're sweet, yet poignant and they make me long for bigger things.

The Go-Go's - this song recently has me thinking of a scene in Gilmore Girls where Luke was complaining about "this town" (Stars Hollow) and Lorelei follows up with "is so glamorous/bet you'd live here if you could/and be one of us." Warren Zevon- I always think of working at the P.I. indoor pool with Eric Lisnik (who frankly had a way better knowledge of good classic rock than I did back then thanks to his brother) because this was one of the tapes sitting in a dirty little bin that we played in one of those way cool, little yellow Sony Sports radios.

Joan Armatrading writes some of the best songs I've ever heard. I remember when Tracy Chapman first came along with "Fast Car," a lot of her press referred to her as "the next Joan Armatrading." And while her battle with crack derailed that destiny for a while, i honestly can't find a Tracy Chapman song I don't like. So in that respect she really is the next Joan Armatrading.

Jason Spooner is this guy who plays in Portland all the time. I'd heard his name but when Jill moved into my tiny little pad and started looking for stuff to do, she got all excited because he used to go to - and play at - Colby when she was there. She's been down to see him in Portland several times and she brought home his CD. And since she was listening to the show, I thought she'd think it was pretty cool if I played it on the show. P.S. See, I don't even know this guy and I play his stuff. Hint, hint...John, Chris, Tim, Will (via Pat)...

Little Feat fits into that classic rock category. Best Little Feat memory: Meaghan: You can't like Little Feat, they're my thing."

Joan Jett, it was either this, I Hate Myself for Loving You or Bad Reputation, but I've always dug the reverb in this song.

Van Halen - I played "Ice Cream Man" last week. But really, does anyone think that Eddie Van Halen does not absolutely rock the guitar?

Nick Drake - Everyone always talks about how great Nick Drake is but, honestly, I don't see it too much. But this song gets to me. Perhaps because of that dream-like quality of his voice or the memory of the VW ad.

James Taylor - If you look back a couple of weeks (or if Ebony could tell me how to make those links in the text of my blog), you'll find the little theory I wrote about how JT is a part of everyone's musical heritage. And it seems to occur at the same age. But that doesn't mean it's not good. JT knows how to spin a song.

10,000 Maniacs were just this little band when my cousin Mary blew into Portage one summer with the tape in her little brown Honda. That summer also gave me Premiere magazine and Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians.

The B-52's put on one of the best shows I've ever seen (and it was my first one too). And I always think of Jocelyn when I hear them.

Somehow I can never remember that this Grateful Dead tune is George Ferland's "Odessa" song. But it is. And that's what I always think of when I hear it.

I've always loved The Ramones and this, the first and last solo album from Joey, is as good as anything I can think of. The ode to Maria Bartiromo is more than just a silly love song.

Kathy Cyr (formerly - now Sligh) reminded me of how she came to UMO for this show. I don't really remember that too much but that's pretty typical of most of UMO for me and especially weekends when there were shows. But I do remember their show. They sounded like they do on album but even better.

I still can't stop liking Kelly Clarkson (Nason knows what I'm talking about). And this song is the hidden gem of Breakaway.

Bob Marley holds a special place in my heart. One summer in P.I., I spent a lot of time riding around in my car and in between wearing out copies of Snoop Doggy Dogg's "Doggystyle" on cassette I found out that nothing makes the rear view mirror bounce like a little Bob.

I was holed up in my room at UMO one day watching the campus movie channel and this movie came on. Now I'm not much of a Bette Midler fan but Dennis Farina is awesome. And the soundtrack to this movie is one of the best. If you like standards (Nat King Cole's "Love" and Ella Fitzgerald's "At Last." for examples), this is a great disc. After the movie ended, I ran out and found this disc.

The Eagles - Keri Sewell's (formerly, now Sietz) mom (and maybe her dad too) was always a huge Eagles fan and I always think of sitting in their living room on Dupont Drive when I hear their tunes.

Marcy Playground had a huge hit on the radio and the summer it was a hit Jossie and Daniella were in P.I. I went over one day and Joss asked me if I'd heard of them. Since I listen to the radio, I had but thought they'd stumbled on something really great. And I think they did. Some of their songs a little too geeky for me but they all pretty much rock. Except that hit. "Sex and Candy" doesn't rock but it always makes me think of that kitchen.

Sade makes every song she sings sound like she's trying to break my heart. And she does, almost every time.

Bif Naked guested on "The Chris Isaak Show" one time and it was the funniest thing I've seen in ages. Just introducing yourself to someone's parents as Bif Naked is funny but that wasn't even the funniest part.

I hadn't heard and REO in a while but after I played this song Friday, I've heard it three times since then. Allen Deeves used to be THE biggest REO fan. I bet he denies that now.

I bought a few DVDs the other day and Pretty In Pink (along with St. Elmo's Fire and The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles) was among them. Jill told me I bought lame movies. But sometimes the music in the movie makes the movie better than it is. These movies do not fall in this category because they are awesome, timeless masterpieces but the soundtracks are also phenomenal.

Madonna - Some time ago remastered editions of Madonna's albums (and Michael Jackson's too) were released and I've managed to come across a few of them. As good as this one is (and True Blue) I've GOT to get her first album.

Angie Stone's voice is among the best out there. If you've never heard her, check her out. Personally, I like stuff from Black Diamond but I had Mahogany Soul with me so that's what I played. And this song didn't disappoint me.

Ricky Fante's album is the other one I can't stop talking about. It sounds like 50's-70's soul but it's all new. I thought it was all covers the first time I heard it.

Floetry - I thought this whole disc was live but I guess I was wrong. That doesn't make it less good though. The girls mix it up with Mos Def here and make it look easy.

Something Corporate has quickly become one of my favorite bands. I first heard them when Brooke Woodard's show used to follow mine but I was never really taken in - well, sort of maybe. I saw them on Cold Pizza one morning and they were really good too. Eventually, I came to own a couple of their albums and every time I listen to them I like them a little bit more. The new angst-rock they way I want it to be.

I'm slowly working my way through this Echo & The Bunnymen greatest hits package and I've got to tell you "Bring On The Dancing Horses" and "Lips Like Sugar" are not a good overview of this band.

I'm not sure I've ever made it past the Aimee Mann song on the Melrose Place soundtrack.

I'm not sure how I managed to make it this long without really ever having heard X but I'm pretty sorry I did. Their GH package is getting better the more I listen to it.

Cheap Trick might be coming to Rumford this summer. And the band is all back together. And it's the Moontide festival. And...aww, hell, it's Cheap Trick, I'm so going if it happens.

I'm not going to claim to be some huge "Luka" fan but Suzanne Vega has had my attention since that "Tom's Diner" thing with D.N.A. This album is good. Soft and sweet but with a little touch of bitter.

I was hanging out in a Bar Harbor bar one night with the one and only alternateen, Lara Hodge, and I got talking to this guy about music. He said The Motels were one of the most underrated bands ever. I agree. On a side note, about a month later I accosted a guy in a store and accused him of being the one who'd told me about them and how much I agreed with him. He took umbrage at my mistake and left.

The Cure has been a part of the soundtrack of my life since junior high. I'd like to thank Doug Dow for his early enthusiasm for all things music and for making all of us listen to all this stuff since way back.

Cyndi Lauper is so much more than "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" and "She-Bop". This song is beautiful and she has a voice that matches.

Dashboard Confessional - this is the band I thought was going to be as good as Something Corporate. I don't think they are. They're not bad, and this song has everything a good song needs but the album is not the end-all-be-all.

Okay, my fingers hurt now, so I'm gonna stop. I bet you think I forgot it, but no, if you look down, you'll see the list.
 

Kasey Chambers - A Little Bit Lonesome

CD1
The Go-Go's - This Town
(missed a little of the beginning)
John Mayer - Come Back To Bed
Warren Zevon - Ain't That Pretty At All
Joan Armatrading - Love And Affection
Jason Spooner - Cry Me To Sleep
Little Feat - Fat Man In The Bathtub
*Talk - PSA - Maine Lobster - Promo - Rockin' Roger*
Kasey Chambers - Stronger
Tracy Chapman - You're The One
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Crimson & Clover (Tommy James & The Shondells)
Van Halen - Little Dreamer
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
James Taylor - Country Roads
10,000 Maniacs - Don't Talk (live from MTV Unplugged)
The B-52's - Bushfire

*Talk - PSA - Maine Lobster*
The Grateful Dead - All New Minglewood Blues
Joey Ramone - Like A Drug I Never Did Before
Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Bittersweet

CD2
Kasey Chambers - On A Bad Day
Kelly Clarkson - Beautiful Disaster (live from Breakaway)
Bob Marley - Roots, Rock, Reggae
Keely Smith - There Will Never Be Another You (That Old Feeling soundtrack)
The Pretenders - A Thin Line Between Love And Hate
(played a little of 2000 Miles because I can never remember that it's the "Christmas" song)
Bob Dylan - Forever Young
The Eagles - Peaceful, Easy Feeling
*Talk - Promo - Ky Winborn*
Marcy Playground - Shadow Of Seattle
Sade - Nothing Can Come Between Us
Jason Spooner - Pickup Truck
Violent Femmes - Please Don't Go (demo - 1981)
Bif Naked - Lucky
REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You
*Talk*
The Psychadelic Furs - Pretty In Pink (Pretty In Pink soundtrack)
Madonna - Shoo-Bee-Doo
Angie Stone - Snowflakes
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Kasey Chambers - Guilty As Sin

*Talk - PSA - Blood Donation*
UB40 featuring Chrissie Hynde - Breakfast In Bed

CD3
Joan Armatrading - Weakness In Me
Ricky Fante - A Woman's Touch
Floetry featuring Mos Def - Wanna B Where U R (Thisizzaluvsong)
The Cars - Just What I Needed
Something Corporate - She Paints Me Blue
Echo & The Bunnymen - Silver
*Talk*
Kasey Chambers - This Mountain
Aimee Mann - That's Just What You Are (Melrose Place soundtrack)
The Dead Milkmen - Born To Love Volcanos
X - When It Rains...
Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me (live from At Budokan: The Complete Concert)
Jason Spooner - No Fantasy
Suzanne Vega - World Before Columbus
*Talk*
The Motels - Suddenly Last Summer (live from The Motels, The Fixx & Berlin Live)
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Dashboard Confessional - As Lovers Go
Kasey Chambers - Pony

Slow and Easy - 2/22/05

This is a bonus show (sort of) since it's break week at Bates. I didn't do my show on Monday (previously engaged) so I did four hours today and I'll be back for four more on Friday (12-4 p.m. if anyone cares to tune in - www.bates.edu/wrbc and then find the listen link and follow the directions).

I'm still trying to successfully play all the new stuff I've bought recently. Almost did a decent job today but still missed a few. You'd think four hours would be more than enough time but I woke up with about 12 minutes to get to the station (of course, when I put the station on in the car and heard a jazz mix and then called the station and no one answered I realize there was no big hurry so I stopped at Dunkin' Donuts for some coffee).

Anyway, I did play a lot of stuff (and a lot of the comments from last week still apply) and I'm going to try to get this all together for Friday as well. I've got my fingers crossed and I know you do too.

See this thing below? It's the list.


Marvin Gaye - After The Dance (Hellos) (live from Live in Montreux 1980)

CD1
Marvin Gaye - Come Get To This (live from Live in Montreux 1980)
(missed a little of the beginning of this)
*Talk*
Kelly Clarkson - Since You've Been Gone
Talking Heads - Moon Rocks
Joey Ramone - I Got Knocked Down (But I'll Get Up)
Kasey Chambers - Not Pretty Enough
Elton John - Indian Sunset
10,000 Maniacs - Trouble Me (live from MTV Unplugged)
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities In Dust
Dashboard Confessional - Take This Picture
Dire Straits - Follow Me Home
*Talk & PSA - Clean Maine*
(played a few seconds of John Mayer (see below) and then talked to
apologize)
Meatloaf - All Revved Up With No Place To Go
Madonna - Angel
John Mayer - Your Body Is A Wonderland
Harry Connick Jr. - Autumn In New York (When Harry Met Sally... soundtrack)
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
Ricky Fante - Are You Lonely Too?
Sam Cooke - Bring It On Home To Me (live from One Night Stand: Live at the
Harlem Square Club, 1963)
(this cuts off because the disc was going to run out anyway)

Sade - Love Is Stronger Than Pride
Floetry - Butterflies (live from Floacism "Live")
The Donnas - I Don't Want To Know (If You Don't Want Me)
Sarah McLachlan - Drifting

CD2
James Taylor - Fire And Rain
Jerry Lee Lewis - Breathless
The Kinks - Apeman (live from The Road)
The Ramones - Baby, I Love You
Echo & The Bunnymen - A Promise
Genesis - In Too Deep
Meatloaf - You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face
Liz Phair - My Bionic Eyes
Janet Jackson - Spending Time With You
*Talk*
Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now)
The Impressions - Woman's Got Soul
Angie Stone - Easier Said Than Done
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (new vocal)
Whitney Houston - Where You Are

*Talk - PSA- Breast Feeding (Soul)*

CD3
Brandy - Love Wouldn't Count Me Out
(missed a little bit of the beginning of this one)
Jennifer Lopez - Promise Me You'll Try
Curtis Mayfield - (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To
Go (edited single version)
Sammy Davis Jr. - Once In A Lifetime (live from Boys Night Out)
Allison Krauss & Union Station - But You Know I Love You (live from Live)
Tracy Chapman - You're The One
Kasey Chambers - Falling Into You
Sade - The Sweetest Gift
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Something Big
*Talk*
Something Corporate - Me And The Moon
The Grateful Dead - From The Heart Of Me
Dire Straits - Single-Handed Sailor
Alicia Keys - Nobody Not Really
Toni Braxton - Breathe Again
Wilson Pickett - 634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.)
X - Motel Room In My Bed
Joey Ramone - Don't Worry About Me
Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway

Keeping It New - 2/18/05

Okay, this one was from Friday (note the date above, jason. duh.). Anyway, I've picked up a bunch of new discs lately and I decided to play a sampling of stuff from them. It turned out pretty well but I didn't make it through them all and I got sidetracked a couple of times and I was a bit leary of playing a few songs for fear of swear words (not during safe-harbor hours, you know) not that that prevented a few choice words from slipping through anyway.

That Femmes song is great. I remember this most about the Femmes (well, first that I first heard it at Camp Chingachgook) that I never think I know as many of their songs as I really do and if you get a chance to see them live you should. You will not be disappointed.

I'm addicted to Kelly Clarkson. I can't tell you why (I honestly don't know) but I am and I'm reveling in it.

The Donnas rock the pants off just about every band making albums right now.

Brandy, J-Lo, Marvin, Angie, Whitney. It's all about the voices. Actually with J-Lo it's also about the butt, the body - the whole package and with Whitney (as anyone who knows me can tell you) it's about her being super-sexy. And I love Brandy. If the next guy she marries turns out to be a dick to her too, I'm available. And how shocked was I about that guy from Moesha getting killed in a car crash?

Ricky Fante's album is so good everybody should own at least one copy. How this guy slipped under the radar I'll never understand.

Kasey Chambers' voice is angelic. I can't say it enough (which is obvious to anyone who reads this blog). Get her stuff.

Sade is not only among the sexiest women on the planet, her voice totally melts me. Everything she touches smolders.

And The Dead Milkmen are officially the best band I'll never get to see live (one member - guitarist, I think - died last year).

Check it out and keep checking back. I'm not sure why you're looking up, the list is below.


Finley Quaye & William Orbit - Dice
Violent Femmes - Promise
The Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl

CD1
Pink - Dear Diary
Kelly Clarkson - Since You've Been Gone
The Donnas - Fall Behind Me
The Kinks - Come Dancing (live from Live The Road)
*Talk*
Jewel - Kiss The Flame
Brandy - What About Us?
(forgot she says "bullshit" in this song)
Jennifer Lopez - Feelin' So Good (featuring Big Pun & Fat Joe)
Marvin Gaye - Got To Give It Up (live from Live in Montreux 1980)
Whitney Houston - Didn't We Almost Have It All
Angie Stone - The Ingredients of Love (duet with Musiq Soulchild)

*Talk - PSA - Blood Donation*

Dire Straits - Portabello Belle
The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination

CD2
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Insider (with Stevie Nicks)
Ricky Fante - Smile
The Impressions - Keep On Pushing
John Lee Hooker - Goin' Down Highway 51
*Talk*
James Taylor - That's Why I'm Here
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities In Dust
Liz Phair - Why Can't I?
(never noticed she says "fucked" in this song)
Kasey Chambers - Pony
Jerry Lee Lewis - Breathless
Sarah McLachlan - Push
Sade - Every Word
Sam Cooke - Twistin' The Night Away (live from Live at The Harlem Square
Club, 1963)
Fleetwood Mac - You Make Lovin' Fun

Heck Yes! - 02/14/05

Okay, so I've decided my radio blog is more interesting when I talk about the songs, so that's what I'm going to do today. But I've realized it is going to be a VERY long blog, so you might want to get a pillow so you can take naps..

I've started to begin my show with Dice because I always thought it was cool to have a song to start your show with but I never really found a great one (well, maybe Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get by The Dramatics, but I never got around to it) but now I have. I really like this song and it generally fits in well with my show (maybe I'll use that Dramatics song for the soul shows).

It took me a little while to find that AC/DC song. I'm a big old AC/DC fan and when I heard that song in Empire Records I knew it was the Aussie lads but I had no idea what song it was. I have the If You Want Blood album and shockingly that song is not on that album. It's on Dirty Deeds. The opening drumming is on like all the lights in my apartment.

Land of 1,000 - This was another song I had to hunt down. CMT played The Great Outdoors over and over this weekend and aside from being a comic classic (lips and assholes, anyone?) with the late great John Candy and Dan Aykroyd it features a great duet from the two of them on this tune at the end. It was so good I had to hunt the original down.

Breathing - I just read an "article" in Blender where Chloe Sevigny was talking about how much she loves Kate Bush. I've always dug that track she did with Peter Gabriel so I got myself her greatest hits album and this was the first song I've played. It was really, really quiet but lush at the same time.

Icebox - I've got this buddy - the inimitable Chris Chaplin - who lives and works in L.A. As part of his job, apparently, a myriad of CDs of dubious merit come across his desk and end up - it would seem - in a box. This box usually, eventually, finds its way to my house. This was not the best thing he's sent me but it isn't even close to the worst either. I'm going to give it more chances though.

Devil Inside - I've always been a bit of a New Wave geek (actually, it's not just a bit and it's not limited to New Wave either) and I've been an INXS fan from way back. It was either this tune or Original Sin but I've heard that one too much lately.

Purple Rain - EWeekly did a list of the best love songs of all time this week and this was on the list. That kind of surprised me, although I can't tell you why. It is a great song. Prince is so completely the shit.

Pressure Drop - If this hadn't been introduced by "The Donald," I could have nearly died happy. One of my favorite songs with three of my favorite musicians.

The Wasp - The Doors and I have a love/hate relationship. I was pretty into them for a while early on in my college career (thanks to their biggest fan - James Lainsbury) and then I kind of got sick of them, but this has always been a cool tune.

Miss Me Blind - I'm such a big fan of VH1 Storytellers. I wish they'd bring it back. Or at least release all the performances from it. And while they're at it they could get out all those VH1 Unplugged things too. And I'd like to see some of those Today Show performances too, since I'm rarely, if ever, up when they are on.

Late In The Evening - In the live version from the Central Park concert there are two spots in this song where the crowd goes crazy. The first is when he says that line about New York City and the second is the line about stepping out to smoke a J. When I hear this song, I am always waiting for that crowd reaction and when it doesn't come I am always a little bummed. Not because the song is any less good, but just because I'm not getting what I expected.

Little Dreamer - I love that line in Bowling For Soup's tune 1985 when he says "and who is that new guy singing in Van Halen?" Because everybody knows that no one did VH like Diamond Dave.

Wild Thing - I can still remember the first time I realized that he was referring to this song as the American national anthem. No one has ever or will ever play guitar like Jimi. I read something recently where someone was saying that it was as if whatever Jimi thought, he could play. If he could imagine the sound, he could make it.

Renegade - I've never had a big car stereo with the boomin' system, but one summer this song - and pretty much anything by Bob Marley - made my rearview mirror bounce like crazy.

Rooms On Fire - My cousin Liz was always a really big Stevie Nicks fan and I still can't listen to anything with Stevie in it and not think of Liz. And I really like Stevie Nicks (alone, with Fleetwood Mac, with Tom Petty - however).

Stronger - I bought this compilation disc at Eddie Bauer a couple of years ago and gave it it's first real listen on the way to P.I. for Christmas this year. It's mostly country (or alt-country) and anyone who knows me at all knows I hate country but her song A Little Bit Lonesome made me one of her biggest fans. I just can't get enough.

Hurts So Good - Back when John Mellencamp went by the decidedly cooler moniker Johnny Cougar.

White Wedding - I bought Billy Idol's greatest hits recently and with the exception of Mony, Mony (funniest thing I heard about Billy Idol was when he was doing VH1 Storytellers the EWeekly review of it said that it contains rare insight into the song process like when Billy said "Hey. How about we do a cover of that Tommy James tune?") I listened to it all the way through without stopping. I haven't been able to say that about an album - much less a greatest hits package - in a VERY long time.

I Can't Get Next To You - If there is a better singer out there than Al Green I don't know who it is. The next time I pass through Memphis I'm going to his church. Yeah, you heard me right, I'm going to church. The Rev. Al Green, ladies and gentlemen.

Are You Gonna Move It For Me - These girls absolutely rip and if all is right with the world I will get to see them live in Austin during the SXSW film/music festival in March. I'm so excited. I'm going to scream like a little schoolgirl.

Night Time Is The Right Time - A friend of mine sent me a list of songs he'd like to hear on my radio show and he included a little CCR (not this tune but still). One of these days I'll play the whole set but for now I give him a little CCR every once in a while. Even though I can't really take too much of there "start-fast-then-get-slow-then-speed-up-again" playing style. For me, if your looking for vintage southern classic rock (and you can't stand hearing Saturday Night Special again), ZZ Top is the way to go. La Grange is probably among my top five favorite songs of all time (which is why that "immediately come to mind" caveat is on my other blog).

Refugee - There are so many really great Tom Petty & The Heartbreaker songs that I could do a whole show of only them. I might, now that I mention it.

Chinese Rock - The Ramones definitely were a key part of my musical learning curve. Four guys playing songs that only last a couple of minutes but it changed the world.

I Drove All Night - If you haven't listened to Cyndi Lauper lately, pick up any of her albums and listen to it. Her voice is angelic.

Girls On Film - More than anything else I like the sound of the camera at the beginning.

Hammer To Fall - It's always a toss up between this or Radio Ga-Ga or Under Pressure or Stone Cold Crazy or Crazy Little Thing Called Love or I Want It All, well you get the picture.

And so that was this week's radio show. Come back next week for another one. I know I will.

As usual, look below for the list.


Finley Quaye & William Orbit - Dice
AC/DC - If You Want Blood (You've Got It)

CD1
Wilson Pickett - Land of 1,000 Dances
Floetry - Floetic (live from Floecism "Live")
Kate Bush - Breathing
Nada Surf - Icebox
INXS - Devil Inside (Australian Single version)
Prince - Purple Rain
Toots & The Maytals w/ Ben Harper & Jack Johnson - Pressure Drop (live from Saturday Night Live w/ introduction by Donald Trump)
The Doors - The Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
Culture Club - Miss Me Blind (live from VH1 Storytellers)
Paul Simon - Late In The Evening

*Talk - PSA - AIDS Awareness (with Michael Douglas)

Van Halen - Little Dreamer

CD2
Jimi Hendrix - Wild Thing (live from Live At Winterland)
STYX - Renegade
Stevie Nicks - Rooms On Fire
Kasey Chambers - Stronger
John Cougar Mellencamp - Hurts So Good
Billy Idol - White Wedding (Part 1)
Al Green - I Can't Get Next to You
The Donnas - Are You Gonna Move It For Me
Credence Clearwater Revival - Night Time Is The Right Time (live from CCR the Concert)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Refugee
The Ramones - Chinese Rock
Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night
Duran Duran - Girls On Film
*Talk*
Queen - Hammer To Fall

Working Together - 02/07/05

Look do you guys even read this? I keed (like Triumph the Insult Comic Dog). But seriously, I hope somebody is getting some good use out of this thing.

Today's show (which I showed up a little late for, natch) was pretty good. I didn't really get it all together until about 3:30 which only left me with about a half an hour of organized radio-ing. But that's okay.

I've been playing a lot of the same stuff lately though. Not necessarily the same songs over and over but different stuff by the same bands. I gotta break out of that rut. Maybe next week.

Anyway, take a peak because, as usual, the list is below...

CD1
Finley Quaye & William Orbit - Dice
Something Corporate - Space
Warren Zevon - I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Kendra Smith - Aurelia
The Robert Cray Band f/ the Memphis Horns - Bouncin' Back
Jr. Walker & The All Stars - Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
(I stopped this halfway through by accident but I wanted to hear the rest so I started it over again)
Janet Jackson - SloLove
Sarah Vaughn - Last Night When We Fell In Love
Little Feat - Two Trains
Tracy Chapman - Almost
Kasey Chambers - A Little Bit Lonesome (Coming Home - Eddie Bauer collection)

*Talk - PSA - Clean Maine*

New Order - Shell-Shock (Pretty In Pink soundtrack)
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Nowhere to Run (Bringing Out the Dead soundtrack)
X-Ray Actress - I Want It All
(I played a little bit of Trampoline but then decided against it)

CD2
Pitty Sing - ctwyl
Ricky Fante - I Let You Go
Wiliam DeVaughn - Be Thankful for What You Got
Sammy Davis Jr. - (Love Is) The Tender Trap
Sade - Somebody Already Broke My Heart
Joan Armatrading - The Weakness In Me
John Mayer - Neon
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
Berlin - No More Words (live)
Madonna - Open Your Heart
Blind Melon - No Rain (Ripped Away Version)
Kasey Chambers - Paper Aeroplanes
*Talk*
Liz Phair - Friend of Mine
Blue Room - Cry Like This (Some Kind of Wonderful soundtrack)
Dashboard Confessional - Ghost of a Good Thing
(this got cut off by the impatient Spanish dude who does the show after me)