Here It Is - 5/16/05

I showed up for today's radio show an hour early by mistake. When it was a little before three, I was getting ready to go (since I'd been there for two hours already) and I looked up at the clock and noticed that it was only three. Which meant I had a whole hour left to go.

There's a lot of good stuff here.

Things I played for the first time and liked:
X, Blondie, Mary J. Blige, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Dana & Susan Robinson, Sade, Thelma Houston

The Randy Crawford with Eric Clapton and David Sanborn was a new one to me too but it wasn't as good as I'd hoped.

Everything else I'd heard before.

Have you? Look at the list. No, really, look at the list.


CD1

X - My Goodness
Blondie - Slow Motion
Soul Kid #1 - More Bounce In California (Win A Date With Tad Hamilton soundtrack)
Christina Aguilera makes a joke (2004 Grammy Awards)
Christina Aguilera - Beautiful (live from the 2004 Grammy Awards with Introduction by Queen Latifah)
The Temptations - Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) (Dead Presidents soundtrack Vol. II)
Randy Crawford with Eric Clapton and David Sanborn - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cross-Tie Walker
Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
Mary J. Blige - Crazy Games
Big Brother & The Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin - Blindman
Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero (Footloose soundtrack)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Tomorrow Never Comes
Genesis - Man On The Corner
Suzanne Vega - No Cheap Thrill
Dana & Susan Robinson - Red Rocking Chair
Sade - Haunt Me

CD2

The Kinks - Come Dancing (live from The Road)
Smoking Popes - I Need You Around (Clueless soundtrack)
Dana & Susan Robinson - The Cuckoo
John Mellencamp - Pink Houses
Counting Crows - Long December
Rick Springfield - I've Done Everything For You
Sammy Davis Jr. - The Goin's Great (live from The Rat Pack - Boys Night Out)
Thelma Houston - It's Just Me Feelin' Good
James Brown - Gonna Have A Funky Good Time (live from When We Were Kings soundtrack)
The Beach Boys - I Get Around
Rod Stewart - Handbags And Gladrags
Van Morrisson - T.B. Sheets

Not on a CD

10,000 Maniacs - Gun Shy
Millie Jackson - Cheatin'
Millie Jackson - If You're Not Back In Love On Monday
Kelly Clarkson - Beautiful Disaster (live from Breakaway)
Toots & The Maytals with Ben Harper and Jack Johnson - Pressure Drop (live from Saturday Night Live)
Toots & The Maytals with The Roots & Bootsie Collins - Funky Kingston (live from Saturday Night Live)
Sam & Dave - When Something Is Wrong With My Baby (from Dead Presidents soundtrack Vol. II)
Curtis Mayfield - We People Darker Than Blue (live version) (from Dead Presidents soundtrack Vol. II)
Zapp - Computer Love

Been A While - 5/9/05

I guess the show title was more prophetic than I knew. I called it "Been A While" becuase I hadn't done a show for a couple of weeks. But now that it's the following Monday and I still haven't actually posted this yet, it seems even more appropriate. So, to that end, I'll post. I was trying to make it just a random mix of songs. Stuff I like. And it sort of turned out that way but not quite as cohesively as I might have liked (this week's is going about the same, just so you know).

Anyway, either way, I dig 'em. Do you? Check out the list below.


CD1
The Donnas - Mama's Boy
Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself
Journey - Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
New York Dolls - Lookin' For A Kiss
The Strokes - Last Night
Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
Lone Justice - Ways To Be Wicked
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities In Dust
Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London
Queen - I Want It All
Elton John - Madman Across The Water
James Taylor - Steamroller
(totally forgot he says "motherfucking" right at the end of this song)
Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
Sparks - Angst In My Pants
The Ramones - Chinese Rock
(this one says "bitch" several times and I'm not sure that that's a bad thing)

CD2
Blues Traveler - Alone (live from Live From The Fall)
Meatloaf - Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad
Van Halen - Jump
Michael Jackson - Pretty Young Thing
Wilson Pickett - Don't Let The Green Grass Throw You
Joan Armatrading - Me Myself I
(played a little of Michael Jackson "Lady In My Life" by mistake before this one)
Styx - Renegade
Duran Duran - Union Of The Snake
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Hate Myself For Loving You
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Even The Losers
Kasey Chambers - Paper Aeroplanes