Of course I've been giving up on radio for YEARS, but this time it's Serious.
After going thru a brief nothing-but-radio phase (because I was bored with my music from home) & a nothing-but-news-&-talk-radio phase, I'm convinced there's nothing in the Seattle area worth tuning-into anymore. Can't remember the last time I was surprised by any music, the news stations just repeat themselves, & the late-nite talk-radio programs ... well, don't get me started. Some people will believe ANYTHING. The BS factor is pretty high.
The weird thing is, the Seattle stations sometimes run commercials about how 2 million people in the greater Seattle area listen 2 at least 2 hours of radio per day -- usually when they're stuck in traffic, I'll bet. With that kind of audience, you'd think there'd B something 4 every1. But there isn't. More & more it seems radio programming is all about AVOIDING surprises, about making sure everything is comfortable & familiar 2 the listener.
When's the last time you heard something surprising on your local radio station? When's the last time they kicked-off the weekend with something fairly high-energy -- say Cheap Trick's "Surrender" or the Easybeats' "Friday on My Mind" or the Bobby Fuller Four's "I Fought the Law," or even Bob Seger's "Hollywood Nights"?
The 1 moderately adventurous Oldies station we had here has gone WAY more mainstream & safe since more people discovered they're around. Now they play the same old worn-out list of 200 publicly-acceptable oldies. It's been a long time since they've played anything as off-the-wall as Small Faces' "Lazy Sunday," or even Jefferson Starship's "Play on Love." Or even Perry Como....
Not everybody likes surprises -- some people might actually B jolted enuf 2 mess-up the traffic flow, or even change 2 another station. & we can't have that.
(My girlfriend assures me Country stations R the same way -- most of them play the current country hits 2 death, & maybe an occasional oldie from as far as 10 years back. But if you want 2 hear any classic country, the formats R so fragmented that you havta find a Classic Country station. Sounds just like the rock&roll situation, don't it?)
So, almost every day when I go 2 work I carry a big bag of about 3-dozen motivational CD's, everything from the Beatles & Fleetwood Mac & the Bangles & the Go-Go's 2 Camel & Caravan. & even tho I'm fairly bored with almost all of them, I know I can come up with a better, more motivational playlist than any of my local music stations.
& I'm sure millions of other folks around the country do something similar -- with CD's or iPods or whatever. No wonder radio's dying -- fewer listeners, smaller pool of $$$ 2 support the format, downward spiral, everything gets tight & conservative, etc....
(To be continued....)
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Sunday, March 10, 2013
Saturday, February 23, 2013
#636: Look Through Any Window
Privacy issues have taken up a lot of Seattle-area TV-newstime & newspaper space recently, some pretty intresting stories:
The Seattle Police Department has backed away from a plan to deploy unmanned police drones around the city, following lotsa public outcry & Mayor Mike McGinn's subsequent order 2 drop the plan.
But the city has also installed a number of surveillance cameras around Elliott Bay, allegedly to keep the Port Of Seattle safe from terrorists. The cameras are scheduled to be switched-on within the next 6 weeks. & tho the cameras R intended 2 B pointed at the bay, it seems they can also be used 2 conduct surveillance on ordinary people going thru their daily routines along the waterfront.
The American Civil Liberties Union has expressed some concern about the federally-funded drones & cameras -- asking why the SPD would consider putting up drones without getting public input about the plan 1st, & about why the city would potentially B conducting surveillance on people who R doing nothing wrong....
Paranoia?
It's true that the port/ferry/cruise-ship-docking area adjacent 2 downtown Seattle is basically wide open. & it's true that a terrorist was caught & convicted of trying 2 smuggle explosives thru the nearby Port Angeles US port-of-entry a few years back.
But is there a perceived threat to the Port Of Seattle?
Or is this just a chance 2 put the latest technology 2 use 2 surveil the public 4 no really good reason?
Maybe I've been listening-2 2 much late-nite talk radio recently, but concerns about privacy issues & the government R popping up more&more often lately.
& sometimes it gets pretty close 2 home.
When I'm at home, looking 4 wi-fi signals I can catch a ride on so I can post silly stuff here, 1 of the wi-fi systems I'm NOT allowed on2 (because it's secured) is registered 2 "Surveillance Van 004." Not sure where that van is, but with the World's Smallest Laptop's abilities, I havta assume that van is parked somewhere within a coupla blocks of my house.
Not sure why anybody would B doing surveilling in the outskirts of a town as small as Port Orchard -- unless they're watching out 4 drug deals ... & there's no evidence of that.
But apparently somebody's out there....
Paranoia?
Would you like having a drone hovering over your backyard while you're busy doin' nothin', breaking no laws, just being yourself?
How about a camera?
...Be Seeing You!
The Seattle Police Department has backed away from a plan to deploy unmanned police drones around the city, following lotsa public outcry & Mayor Mike McGinn's subsequent order 2 drop the plan.
But the city has also installed a number of surveillance cameras around Elliott Bay, allegedly to keep the Port Of Seattle safe from terrorists. The cameras are scheduled to be switched-on within the next 6 weeks. & tho the cameras R intended 2 B pointed at the bay, it seems they can also be used 2 conduct surveillance on ordinary people going thru their daily routines along the waterfront.
The American Civil Liberties Union has expressed some concern about the federally-funded drones & cameras -- asking why the SPD would consider putting up drones without getting public input about the plan 1st, & about why the city would potentially B conducting surveillance on people who R doing nothing wrong....
Paranoia?
It's true that the port/ferry/cruise-ship-docking area adjacent 2 downtown Seattle is basically wide open. & it's true that a terrorist was caught & convicted of trying 2 smuggle explosives thru the nearby Port Angeles US port-of-entry a few years back.
But is there a perceived threat to the Port Of Seattle?
Or is this just a chance 2 put the latest technology 2 use 2 surveil the public 4 no really good reason?
Maybe I've been listening-2 2 much late-nite talk radio recently, but concerns about privacy issues & the government R popping up more&more often lately.
& sometimes it gets pretty close 2 home.
When I'm at home, looking 4 wi-fi signals I can catch a ride on so I can post silly stuff here, 1 of the wi-fi systems I'm NOT allowed on2 (because it's secured) is registered 2 "Surveillance Van 004." Not sure where that van is, but with the World's Smallest Laptop's abilities, I havta assume that van is parked somewhere within a coupla blocks of my house.
Not sure why anybody would B doing surveilling in the outskirts of a town as small as Port Orchard -- unless they're watching out 4 drug deals ... & there's no evidence of that.
But apparently somebody's out there....
Paranoia?
Would you like having a drone hovering over your backyard while you're busy doin' nothin', breaking no laws, just being yourself?
How about a camera?
...Be Seeing You!
Friday, February 8, 2013
#631: Future Playlist 5
Here's another suggested-back-up playlist 4 radio, most of them folkies 4 some odd reason....
Joni Mitchell -- Raised on Robbery, Coyote.
Dan Fogelberg -- As the Raven Flies, Someone's Been Telling You Stories, There's a Place in the World for a Gambler, Tell Me to My Face, Phoenix, Along the Road, Wishing on the Moon, Heart Hotels, Nexus, The Innocent Age, The Reach, In the Passage, Stolen Moments, The Lion's Share, Times Like These.
Arlo Guthrie -- Presidential Rag, Coming into Los Angeles, Motorcycle (Significance of the Pickle) Song, The Story of Reuben Clamzo and His Strange Daughter in the Key of E, Alice's Restaurant Massacree.
Neil Young -- The Loner, Cortez the Killer (live), Cinnamon Girl (live).
Rare Bird -- Birdman, Epic Forest.
Ringo Starr -- Early 1970.
Happy the Man -- Wind-Up Doll Day Wind, Service With a Smile, Open Book, Morning Sun, Ibby it Is, Steaming Pipes, On Time as a Helix of Precious Laughs.
Peter, Paul and Mary -- Day is Done, Man Come into Egypt, A'Soulin', Settle Down, This Land is Your Land, The Wonderful Toy.
Fairport Convention -- Tale in Hard Time, Come All Ye, I'll Keep it with Mine, Million Dollar Bash, Meet on the Ledge, Chelsea Morning, Mr. Lacey, Stranger to Himself.
Sandy Denny -- Listen Listen, The Simple Joys of Brotherhood.
Donovan -- Season of the Witch, Life Goes On.
Nick Drake -- Hazey Jane II, At the Chime of a City Clock, One of These Things First, Hazey Jane I, Northern Sky, Fly, Sunday, Pink Moon, Things Behind the Sun, From the Morning, Cello Song.
Bob Dylan -- One of Us Must Know, Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat, Tangled Up in Blue.
Steeleye Span -- Allison Gross, All Around My Hat, One Misty Moisty Morning, Fighting for Strangers.
Group 87 -- One Night Away from Day, Future of the City, Magnificent Clockworks, The Bedouin, While the City Sleeps, Moving Sidewalks.
Supertramp -- School, Dreamer, If Everyone was Listening, Crime of the Century, Babajii, From Now On, Fool's Overture, Gone Hollywood, Just Another Nervous Wreck, Child of Vision.
Rickie Lee Jones -- On Sunday Afternoons in 1963, We Belong Together, Living it Up.
Norah Jones -- Shoot the Moon, The Long Day is Over.
Left Banke -- She May Call You Up Tonight, Desiree, I've Got Something on My Mind.
U.K. -- In the Dead of Night suite, Time to Kill, Mental Medication, Nevermore, Nothing to Lose, Rendezvous 6:02.
.38 Special -- Chain Lightning.
Procol Harum -- Shine on Brightly, Wreck of the Hesperus, A Salty Dog, Homburg, In Held T'was in I (live), In the Autumn of My Madness/Look to Your Soul/Grand Finale (live).
Jim Croce -- It Doesn't Have to be That Way, Lover's Cross.
Sky -- Where Opposites Meet, Vivaldi, Scipio, Toccata, Fifo, Adagio, Scherzo, Watching the Aeroplanes, Connecting Rooms, Meheeco.
More coming whenever I think of more....
Joni Mitchell -- Raised on Robbery, Coyote.
Dan Fogelberg -- As the Raven Flies, Someone's Been Telling You Stories, There's a Place in the World for a Gambler, Tell Me to My Face, Phoenix, Along the Road, Wishing on the Moon, Heart Hotels, Nexus, The Innocent Age, The Reach, In the Passage, Stolen Moments, The Lion's Share, Times Like These.
Arlo Guthrie -- Presidential Rag, Coming into Los Angeles, Motorcycle (Significance of the Pickle) Song, The Story of Reuben Clamzo and His Strange Daughter in the Key of E, Alice's Restaurant Massacree.
Neil Young -- The Loner, Cortez the Killer (live), Cinnamon Girl (live).
Rare Bird -- Birdman, Epic Forest.
Ringo Starr -- Early 1970.
Happy the Man -- Wind-Up Doll Day Wind, Service With a Smile, Open Book, Morning Sun, Ibby it Is, Steaming Pipes, On Time as a Helix of Precious Laughs.
Peter, Paul and Mary -- Day is Done, Man Come into Egypt, A'Soulin', Settle Down, This Land is Your Land, The Wonderful Toy.
Fairport Convention -- Tale in Hard Time, Come All Ye, I'll Keep it with Mine, Million Dollar Bash, Meet on the Ledge, Chelsea Morning, Mr. Lacey, Stranger to Himself.
Sandy Denny -- Listen Listen, The Simple Joys of Brotherhood.
Donovan -- Season of the Witch, Life Goes On.
Nick Drake -- Hazey Jane II, At the Chime of a City Clock, One of These Things First, Hazey Jane I, Northern Sky, Fly, Sunday, Pink Moon, Things Behind the Sun, From the Morning, Cello Song.
Bob Dylan -- One of Us Must Know, Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat, Tangled Up in Blue.
Steeleye Span -- Allison Gross, All Around My Hat, One Misty Moisty Morning, Fighting for Strangers.
Group 87 -- One Night Away from Day, Future of the City, Magnificent Clockworks, The Bedouin, While the City Sleeps, Moving Sidewalks.
Supertramp -- School, Dreamer, If Everyone was Listening, Crime of the Century, Babajii, From Now On, Fool's Overture, Gone Hollywood, Just Another Nervous Wreck, Child of Vision.
Rickie Lee Jones -- On Sunday Afternoons in 1963, We Belong Together, Living it Up.
Norah Jones -- Shoot the Moon, The Long Day is Over.
Left Banke -- She May Call You Up Tonight, Desiree, I've Got Something on My Mind.
U.K. -- In the Dead of Night suite, Time to Kill, Mental Medication, Nevermore, Nothing to Lose, Rendezvous 6:02.
.38 Special -- Chain Lightning.
Procol Harum -- Shine on Brightly, Wreck of the Hesperus, A Salty Dog, Homburg, In Held T'was in I (live), In the Autumn of My Madness/Look to Your Soul/Grand Finale (live).
Jim Croce -- It Doesn't Have to be That Way, Lover's Cross.
Sky -- Where Opposites Meet, Vivaldi, Scipio, Toccata, Fifo, Adagio, Scherzo, Watching the Aeroplanes, Connecting Rooms, Meheeco.
More coming whenever I think of more....
Sunday, February 3, 2013
#630: Future Playlist 4
Here's some more good non-hit stuff you really should check-out B4 Corporate Radio homogenizes your brain 2 the point where you can't grasp this stuff anymore....
...& BTW, I'm updating those previous "Future Playlists" as I think of more stuff I forgot about B4. Hey, it's A Work In Progress....
In MY Universe, this is the kinda stuff that'd get played on the radio Every Day.... Something for everyone....
Police -- On Any Other Day, Does Everyone Stare?, Can't Stand Losing You, Omegaman, Secret Journey, Darkness.
My Chemical Romance -- Teenagers (scare the living shit out of me).
Heart -- Soul of the Sea, Mistral Wind, Rockin' Heaven Down, Sweet Darlin' (live), Love Alive.
Tom Petty -- Even the Losers.
Boston -- Hitch a Ride, It's Easy, Used to Bad News, My Destination, Hollyann.
Byrds -- John Riley, Chestnut Mare, Wasn't Born to Follow, Ballad of Easy Rider, I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better.
Bruce -- Rosalita.
Lynyrd Skynyrd -- Tuesday's Gone.
Outlaws -- I Can't Stop Loving You, Devil's Road.
Poco -- Here We Go Again, A Good Feeling to Know, And Settlin' Down, Crazy Eyes, Get in the Wind, Believe Me.
Steve Winwood -- Still in the Game, Spanish Dancer, Night Train, Dust.
Allman Brothers -- Jessica.
Barclay James Harvest -- Hymn, Spirit on the Water, Poor Man's Moody Blues, Play to the World, The Song They Love to Sing, Ring of Changes.
Gentle Giant -- Funny Ways (live), Raconteur Troubadour, Pentegruel's Nativity, The Advent of Panurge, Peel the Paint, Think of Me With Kindness, The Power and the Glory, Proclamation, Cogs in Cogs, His Last Voyage, Time to Kill, Talybont, Free Hand.
Jimi Hendrix -- The Wind Cries Mary.
Joan Jett -- Nag, Be Straight, Victim of Circumstance, Everyone Knows.
Deep Purple -- Kentucky Woman, Highway Star.
Lighthouse -- Hey Pretty Lady.
Creedence Clearwater Revival -- Wrote a Song for Everyone, Long as I Can See the Light.
Aerosmith -- Seasons of Wither.
Eric Clapton -- Let it Rain, Let it Grow, Bell Bottom Blues, Another Ticket.
CSNY -- Carry On, Deja Vu, Wooden Ships.
Jefferson Airplane -- Good Shepherd, Mexico, Volunteers, We Can Be Together, Crown of Creation.
Jefferson Starship -- All Nite Long, Lightning Rose, Things to Come, Awakening, Just the Same, Fading Lady Light, Freedom at Point Zero, Save Your Love.
Styx -- Suite Madame Blue.
Golden Earring -- Save Your Skin, Need Her.
Elton John -- Teacher I Need You, Elderberry Wine, Have Mercy on the Criminal, Ego, Step into Christmas, Tiny Dancer, Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, Gray Seal, All the Girls Love Alice, Ballad of Danny Bailey, Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock and Roll), Harmony, Roy Rogers, Social Disease, Grimsby, Sick City, (Gotta Get a) Meal Ticket.
John Cougar Mellencamp -- I Need a Lover.
Jethro Tull -- Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day, The Third Hoorah, Baker Street Muse, One White Duck/Nothing at All, The Mouse Police Never Sleeps, Dun Ringill, Dark Ages, Songs from the Wood, The Whistler, Ring Out Solstice Bells, Fire at Midnight, Back to the Family, Life's a Long Song, One Brown Mouse, A Passion Play (edit #8), Thick as a Brick (edit #1).
Rolling Stones -- Street Fighting Man, Worried About You.
Monkees -- Sweet Young Thing, Papa Gene's Blues, Gonna Buy Me a Dog, Take a Giant Step, Your Auntie Grizelda, The Door into Summer, Love is Only Sleeping, Sunny Girlfriend, No Time, Shades of Gray, Daily Nightly, What Am I Doin' Hangin' Round?, Porpoise Song, As We Go Along, Randy Scouse Git (Alternate Title), Listen to the Band, Tapioca Tundra, I'll Be Back Up on My Feet.
Buffalo Springfield -- Mr. Soul, Bluebird, Rock and Roll Woman, On the Way Home, Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing, Broken Arrow, Go and Say Goodbye.
Foreigner -- Do What You Like, Rev on the Red Line, Blinded by Science.
AC/DC -- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.
Be-Bop Deluxe -- Sleep That Burns, Crying to the Sky, Maid in Heaven.
Porcupine Tree -- The Sound of Muzak.
Mike McGear -- Leave It.
Kracker -- Because of You (The Sun Don't Set).
America -- Sandman, Don't Cross the River, Only in Your Heart.
Osmonds -- Think, Catch Me Baby, Most of All, Motown Special.
INXS -- Don't Change, This Time, Mystify, Bitter Tears, The Gift.
Blue Oyster Cult -- ETI, Revenge of Vera Gemini, Morning Final, Debbie Denise, Astronomy (IMAGINOS version), I Love the Night.
Bachman Turner Overdrive -- Blue Collar, Tramp.
Enya -- Storms in Africa.
ELO -- The Way Life's Meant to Be, Summer and Lightning, It's Over, Across the Border, Yours Truly 2095, 10538 Overture (live).
Pat Metheny -- San Lorenzo, New Chatauqua, The Search, Ozark, As Falls Wichita So Falls Wichita Falls, Praise, The First Circle.
Lyle Mays -- Ascent.
Aaron Copland -- El Salon Mexico, Hoedown, Buckaroo Holiday, Corral Nocturne, Saturday Night Waltz, Simple Gifts.
Tarney Spencer Band -- No Time to Lose, Live Again, Won'tcha Tell Me, Run for Your Life.
Lindisfarne -- Lady Eleanor, Road to Kingdom Come, Clear White Light, Turn a Deaf Ear, Winter's Song.
Tears for Fears -- The Working Hour, Broken, Mother's Talk.
Bowie -- Suffragette City, TVC15, DJ.
Mott the Hoople -- All the Way from Memphis, Honaloochie Boogie, Violence.
Spooky Tooth -- Feelin' Bad.
Stevie Nicks -- Think About It, Outside the Rain.
Lindsey Buckingham -- Holiday Road.
Buckingham/Nicks -- Without a Leg to Stand On, Crying in the Night, Crystal, Long Distance Winner.
Andy Pratt -- Pistol Packin' Melody.
U2 -- I Will Follow, Twilight, Into the Heart, Out of Control, The Electric Co., Gloria.
Rod Stewart -- Handbags and Gladrags.
The Sutherland Brothers and Quiver -- Arms of Mary, You've Got Me Anyway.
Al Stewart -- Lord Grenville, Flying Sorcery, Broadway Hotel, One Stage Before, Almost Lucy, Valentina Way, Rocks in the Ocean, Running Man, Carol, Apple Cider Reconstitution, The Dark and Rolling Sea, Modern Times, Roads to Moscow, Terminal Eyes, Nostradamus, The World Comes to Riyadh (live), Mondo Sinistro, Red Toupee.
Cyndi Lauper -- When You Were Mine, Money Changes Everything.
Spider -- Shady Lady, Crossfire, Everything is Alright.
...More soon!
...& BTW, I'm updating those previous "Future Playlists" as I think of more stuff I forgot about B4. Hey, it's A Work In Progress....
In MY Universe, this is the kinda stuff that'd get played on the radio Every Day.... Something for everyone....
Police -- On Any Other Day, Does Everyone Stare?, Can't Stand Losing You, Omegaman, Secret Journey, Darkness.
My Chemical Romance -- Teenagers (scare the living shit out of me).
Heart -- Soul of the Sea, Mistral Wind, Rockin' Heaven Down, Sweet Darlin' (live), Love Alive.
Tom Petty -- Even the Losers.
Boston -- Hitch a Ride, It's Easy, Used to Bad News, My Destination, Hollyann.
Byrds -- John Riley, Chestnut Mare, Wasn't Born to Follow, Ballad of Easy Rider, I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better.
Bruce -- Rosalita.
Lynyrd Skynyrd -- Tuesday's Gone.
Outlaws -- I Can't Stop Loving You, Devil's Road.
Poco -- Here We Go Again, A Good Feeling to Know, And Settlin' Down, Crazy Eyes, Get in the Wind, Believe Me.
Steve Winwood -- Still in the Game, Spanish Dancer, Night Train, Dust.
Allman Brothers -- Jessica.
Barclay James Harvest -- Hymn, Spirit on the Water, Poor Man's Moody Blues, Play to the World, The Song They Love to Sing, Ring of Changes.
Gentle Giant -- Funny Ways (live), Raconteur Troubadour, Pentegruel's Nativity, The Advent of Panurge, Peel the Paint, Think of Me With Kindness, The Power and the Glory, Proclamation, Cogs in Cogs, His Last Voyage, Time to Kill, Talybont, Free Hand.
Jimi Hendrix -- The Wind Cries Mary.
Joan Jett -- Nag, Be Straight, Victim of Circumstance, Everyone Knows.
Deep Purple -- Kentucky Woman, Highway Star.
Lighthouse -- Hey Pretty Lady.
Creedence Clearwater Revival -- Wrote a Song for Everyone, Long as I Can See the Light.
Aerosmith -- Seasons of Wither.
Eric Clapton -- Let it Rain, Let it Grow, Bell Bottom Blues, Another Ticket.
CSNY -- Carry On, Deja Vu, Wooden Ships.
Jefferson Airplane -- Good Shepherd, Mexico, Volunteers, We Can Be Together, Crown of Creation.
Jefferson Starship -- All Nite Long, Lightning Rose, Things to Come, Awakening, Just the Same, Fading Lady Light, Freedom at Point Zero, Save Your Love.
Styx -- Suite Madame Blue.
Golden Earring -- Save Your Skin, Need Her.
Elton John -- Teacher I Need You, Elderberry Wine, Have Mercy on the Criminal, Ego, Step into Christmas, Tiny Dancer, Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, Gray Seal, All the Girls Love Alice, Ballad of Danny Bailey, Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock and Roll), Harmony, Roy Rogers, Social Disease, Grimsby, Sick City, (Gotta Get a) Meal Ticket.
John Cougar Mellencamp -- I Need a Lover.
Jethro Tull -- Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day, The Third Hoorah, Baker Street Muse, One White Duck/Nothing at All, The Mouse Police Never Sleeps, Dun Ringill, Dark Ages, Songs from the Wood, The Whistler, Ring Out Solstice Bells, Fire at Midnight, Back to the Family, Life's a Long Song, One Brown Mouse, A Passion Play (edit #8), Thick as a Brick (edit #1).
Rolling Stones -- Street Fighting Man, Worried About You.
Monkees -- Sweet Young Thing, Papa Gene's Blues, Gonna Buy Me a Dog, Take a Giant Step, Your Auntie Grizelda, The Door into Summer, Love is Only Sleeping, Sunny Girlfriend, No Time, Shades of Gray, Daily Nightly, What Am I Doin' Hangin' Round?, Porpoise Song, As We Go Along, Randy Scouse Git (Alternate Title), Listen to the Band, Tapioca Tundra, I'll Be Back Up on My Feet.
Buffalo Springfield -- Mr. Soul, Bluebird, Rock and Roll Woman, On the Way Home, Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing, Broken Arrow, Go and Say Goodbye.
Foreigner -- Do What You Like, Rev on the Red Line, Blinded by Science.
AC/DC -- Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap.
Be-Bop Deluxe -- Sleep That Burns, Crying to the Sky, Maid in Heaven.
Porcupine Tree -- The Sound of Muzak.
Mike McGear -- Leave It.
Kracker -- Because of You (The Sun Don't Set).
America -- Sandman, Don't Cross the River, Only in Your Heart.
Osmonds -- Think, Catch Me Baby, Most of All, Motown Special.
INXS -- Don't Change, This Time, Mystify, Bitter Tears, The Gift.
Blue Oyster Cult -- ETI, Revenge of Vera Gemini, Morning Final, Debbie Denise, Astronomy (IMAGINOS version), I Love the Night.
Bachman Turner Overdrive -- Blue Collar, Tramp.
Enya -- Storms in Africa.
ELO -- The Way Life's Meant to Be, Summer and Lightning, It's Over, Across the Border, Yours Truly 2095, 10538 Overture (live).
Pat Metheny -- San Lorenzo, New Chatauqua, The Search, Ozark, As Falls Wichita So Falls Wichita Falls, Praise, The First Circle.
Lyle Mays -- Ascent.
Aaron Copland -- El Salon Mexico, Hoedown, Buckaroo Holiday, Corral Nocturne, Saturday Night Waltz, Simple Gifts.
Tarney Spencer Band -- No Time to Lose, Live Again, Won'tcha Tell Me, Run for Your Life.
Lindisfarne -- Lady Eleanor, Road to Kingdom Come, Clear White Light, Turn a Deaf Ear, Winter's Song.
Tears for Fears -- The Working Hour, Broken, Mother's Talk.
Bowie -- Suffragette City, TVC15, DJ.
Mott the Hoople -- All the Way from Memphis, Honaloochie Boogie, Violence.
Spooky Tooth -- Feelin' Bad.
Stevie Nicks -- Think About It, Outside the Rain.
Lindsey Buckingham -- Holiday Road.
Buckingham/Nicks -- Without a Leg to Stand On, Crying in the Night, Crystal, Long Distance Winner.
Andy Pratt -- Pistol Packin' Melody.
U2 -- I Will Follow, Twilight, Into the Heart, Out of Control, The Electric Co., Gloria.
Rod Stewart -- Handbags and Gladrags.
The Sutherland Brothers and Quiver -- Arms of Mary, You've Got Me Anyway.
Al Stewart -- Lord Grenville, Flying Sorcery, Broadway Hotel, One Stage Before, Almost Lucy, Valentina Way, Rocks in the Ocean, Running Man, Carol, Apple Cider Reconstitution, The Dark and Rolling Sea, Modern Times, Roads to Moscow, Terminal Eyes, Nostradamus, The World Comes to Riyadh (live), Mondo Sinistro, Red Toupee.
Cyndi Lauper -- When You Were Mine, Money Changes Everything.
Spider -- Shady Lady, Crossfire, Everything is Alright.
...More soon!
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
#629: Future Playlist 3
...& the non-hits just keep on coming. Try some of these out B4 they get inflicted on you....
Beach Boys -- Let Him Run Wild, Please Let Me Wonder, There's No Other (Like My Baby), God Only Knows, Here Today, Kiss Me Baby, Gettin' Hungry, Vegetables, I'd Love Just Once to See You, Cabinessence, Slip on Through, This Whole World, Add Some Music to Your Day, It's About Time, Long Promised Road, Feel Flows, 'Til I Die, Surf's Up, Marcella, Good Time, Johnny Carson, Lady Lynda.
Chicago -- In Terms of Two, Critic's Choice.
Gordon Lightfoot -- Seven Islands Suite, High and Dry, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Summer Side of Life, Beautiful, Ten Degrees and Getting Colder, Circle of Steel.
Neil Diamond -- Love to Love, The Boat That I Row, I am the Lion, Crunchy Granola Suite, Done Too Soon.
Carly Simon -- We're So Close.
Three Dog Night -- My Impersonal Life, Heavy Church.
Ramones -- I Wanna Be Sedated, Blitzkrieg Bop, I Just Wanna Have Something to Do.
Billy Joel -- Travelin' Prayer, The Stranger, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, All for Leyna.
Queen -- Rock It (Prime Jive), Need Your Loving Tonight, Save Me, Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to....), '39, The Prophet's Song, The Show Must Go On.
Elvis Costello -- What's So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding?
Linda Ronstadt -- Party Girl, Someone to Lay Down Beside Me.
Dave Edmunds -- Girls Talk, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Information.
Jeff Lynne -- Lift Me Up, Every Little Thing.
The Move -- Do Ya?, Message from the Country, Tonight.
John Miles -- Highfly.
Alan Parsons Project -- Some Other Time, The Gold Bug, You Don't Believe, I'd Rather be a Man, The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether.
Icehouse -- Great Southern Land.
Split Enz -- History Never Repeats, Hard Act to Follow, Iris, Clumsy, Six Months in a Leaky Boat, Poor Boy.
Squeeze -- Pulling Mussels from the Shell, In Quintessence, Another Nail in My Heart, Hourglass.
Pat Benatar -- Wuthering Heights, Precious Time, Hard to Believe.
Kate Bush -- The Man with the Child in His Eyes, Saxophone Song, Kite, Strange Phenomena, Wow, Babooshka, Delius (Song of Summer), December Will be Magic Again, Empty Bullring, Cloudbusting, This Woman's Work.
Wigwam -- Bless Your Lucky Stars.
Nektar -- Do You Believe in Magic?, King of Twilight, It's All Over, Astral Man, Fidgety Queen.
Mary-Chapin Carpenter -- Passionate Kisses, The Hard Way, Middle Ground, You Win Again, The Long Way Home, Downtown Train.
Pam Tillis -- Melancholy Child, Whenever You Walk in the Room, I Was Blown Away, Homeward Looking Angel.
Wynonna Judd -- Tell Me Why.
Holly and the Italians -- I Wanna Go Home, Youth Coup, Miles Away.
Blondie -- Angels on the Balcony, Victor, 11:59, Will Anything Happen?, Sunday Girl, Just Go Away, Union City Blue.
Pretenders -- Kid, Stop Your Sobbing, Lovers of Today, Mystery Achievement, Up the Neck, Tattooed Love Boys, Space Invaders, Birds of Paradise, I Go to Sleep, Message of Love, Talk of the Town, Pack it Up, 2000 Miles, Time the Avenger.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer -- Karn Evil 9 - 1st Impression (Part 1), Fanfare for the Common Man.
Keith Emerson -- Piano Concerto #1 - 3rd Movement.
Miles Davis -- In a Silent Way.
John Coltrane -- Giant Steps.
Thelonious Monk -- Thelonious.
Dixie Dregs -- Hereafter, Night Meets Light.
Gong -- Wingful of Eyes, Master Builder, A Sprinkling of Clouds.
Gryphon -- Lament, Spring Song, Major Disaster, The Ploughboy's Dream, Ethelion, Wallbanger, (Ein Klein) Heldenleben.
Providence -- Fantasy Fugue, If We Were Wise, Neptune's Door.
Carole King -- Snow Queen.
Boz Scaggs -- Dinah Flo, You've Got Some Imagination.
Van Morrison -- Into the Mystic, Caravan, Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile).
Brewer and Shipley -- Witchi-Tai-To.
Hollies -- Magic Woman Touch, Sandy (4th of July Asbury Park), Won't We Feel Good?, Look Through Any Window, Slow Down.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band -- Stranded, Heart on the Street, Don't Kill it Carol, Belle of the Earth, Hollywood Town, Living Without You.
Renaissance -- Rajah Khan, At the Harbour, Ocean Gypsy (live), Can You Understand? (live), Running Hard (live), Mother Russia (live), Ashes are Burning (live, 1st 3 minutes), Northern Lights, The Vultures Fly High.
Illusion -- Everywhere You Go, Candles are Burning, Face of Yesterday, Roads to Freedom, Madonna Blue.
Stevie Wonder -- A Seed's a Star/Tree Medley.
Tubes -- Prime Time, I Want it All Now, Love's a Mystery (I Don't Understand), What Do You Want from Life?, White Punks on Dope.
Charlie Dore -- Don't Say No, Wise to the Lines, Like They Do it in America.
Todd Rundgren -- Couldn't I Just Tell You?, Song of the Viking, Saving Grace, Dust in the Wind, Intro, Real Man, Just One Victory, Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song, An Elpee's Worth of Tunes.
Utopia -- The Very Last Time, You Make Me Crazy.
Kansas -- Journey from Mariabronn, Song for America, Miracles out of Nowhere, Questions of My Childhood, Cheyenne Anthem, The Wall, Reason to Be, Back Door.
Coheed and Cambria -- The Road and the Damned, Feathers.
Rush -- The Camera Eye, Red Barchetta, Distant Early Warning, Manhattan Project, Marathon, Time Stand Still, Force Ten, Mystic Rhythms (live), Show Don't Tell, Fly by Night, Closer to the Heart, Freewill.
Pink Floyd -- Flaming, Astronome Domine (live), Jugband Blues, In the Flesh?, The Trial, High Hopes.
...More coming soon, including maybe some real no-hit wonders. + commentary on all this....
Beach Boys -- Let Him Run Wild, Please Let Me Wonder, There's No Other (Like My Baby), God Only Knows, Here Today, Kiss Me Baby, Gettin' Hungry, Vegetables, I'd Love Just Once to See You, Cabinessence, Slip on Through, This Whole World, Add Some Music to Your Day, It's About Time, Long Promised Road, Feel Flows, 'Til I Die, Surf's Up, Marcella, Good Time, Johnny Carson, Lady Lynda.
Chicago -- In Terms of Two, Critic's Choice.
Gordon Lightfoot -- Seven Islands Suite, High and Dry, Canadian Railroad Trilogy, Summer Side of Life, Beautiful, Ten Degrees and Getting Colder, Circle of Steel.
Neil Diamond -- Love to Love, The Boat That I Row, I am the Lion, Crunchy Granola Suite, Done Too Soon.
Carly Simon -- We're So Close.
Three Dog Night -- My Impersonal Life, Heavy Church.
Ramones -- I Wanna Be Sedated, Blitzkrieg Bop, I Just Wanna Have Something to Do.
Billy Joel -- Travelin' Prayer, The Stranger, Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, All for Leyna.
Queen -- Rock It (Prime Jive), Need Your Loving Tonight, Save Me, Death on Two Legs (Dedicated to....), '39, The Prophet's Song, The Show Must Go On.
Elvis Costello -- What's So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding?
Linda Ronstadt -- Party Girl, Someone to Lay Down Beside Me.
Dave Edmunds -- Girls Talk, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Information.
Jeff Lynne -- Lift Me Up, Every Little Thing.
The Move -- Do Ya?, Message from the Country, Tonight.
John Miles -- Highfly.
Alan Parsons Project -- Some Other Time, The Gold Bug, You Don't Believe, I'd Rather be a Man, The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether.
Icehouse -- Great Southern Land.
Split Enz -- History Never Repeats, Hard Act to Follow, Iris, Clumsy, Six Months in a Leaky Boat, Poor Boy.
Squeeze -- Pulling Mussels from the Shell, In Quintessence, Another Nail in My Heart, Hourglass.
Pat Benatar -- Wuthering Heights, Precious Time, Hard to Believe.
Kate Bush -- The Man with the Child in His Eyes, Saxophone Song, Kite, Strange Phenomena, Wow, Babooshka, Delius (Song of Summer), December Will be Magic Again, Empty Bullring, Cloudbusting, This Woman's Work.
Wigwam -- Bless Your Lucky Stars.
Nektar -- Do You Believe in Magic?, King of Twilight, It's All Over, Astral Man, Fidgety Queen.
Mary-Chapin Carpenter -- Passionate Kisses, The Hard Way, Middle Ground, You Win Again, The Long Way Home, Downtown Train.
Pam Tillis -- Melancholy Child, Whenever You Walk in the Room, I Was Blown Away, Homeward Looking Angel.
Wynonna Judd -- Tell Me Why.
Holly and the Italians -- I Wanna Go Home, Youth Coup, Miles Away.
Blondie -- Angels on the Balcony, Victor, 11:59, Will Anything Happen?, Sunday Girl, Just Go Away, Union City Blue.
Pretenders -- Kid, Stop Your Sobbing, Lovers of Today, Mystery Achievement, Up the Neck, Tattooed Love Boys, Space Invaders, Birds of Paradise, I Go to Sleep, Message of Love, Talk of the Town, Pack it Up, 2000 Miles, Time the Avenger.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer -- Karn Evil 9 - 1st Impression (Part 1), Fanfare for the Common Man.
Keith Emerson -- Piano Concerto #1 - 3rd Movement.
Miles Davis -- In a Silent Way.
John Coltrane -- Giant Steps.
Thelonious Monk -- Thelonious.
Dixie Dregs -- Hereafter, Night Meets Light.
Gong -- Wingful of Eyes, Master Builder, A Sprinkling of Clouds.
Gryphon -- Lament, Spring Song, Major Disaster, The Ploughboy's Dream, Ethelion, Wallbanger, (Ein Klein) Heldenleben.
Providence -- Fantasy Fugue, If We Were Wise, Neptune's Door.
Carole King -- Snow Queen.
Boz Scaggs -- Dinah Flo, You've Got Some Imagination.
Van Morrison -- Into the Mystic, Caravan, Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile).
Brewer and Shipley -- Witchi-Tai-To.
Hollies -- Magic Woman Touch, Sandy (4th of July Asbury Park), Won't We Feel Good?, Look Through Any Window, Slow Down.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band -- Stranded, Heart on the Street, Don't Kill it Carol, Belle of the Earth, Hollywood Town, Living Without You.
Renaissance -- Rajah Khan, At the Harbour, Ocean Gypsy (live), Can You Understand? (live), Running Hard (live), Mother Russia (live), Ashes are Burning (live, 1st 3 minutes), Northern Lights, The Vultures Fly High.
Illusion -- Everywhere You Go, Candles are Burning, Face of Yesterday, Roads to Freedom, Madonna Blue.
Stevie Wonder -- A Seed's a Star/Tree Medley.
Tubes -- Prime Time, I Want it All Now, Love's a Mystery (I Don't Understand), What Do You Want from Life?, White Punks on Dope.
Charlie Dore -- Don't Say No, Wise to the Lines, Like They Do it in America.
Todd Rundgren -- Couldn't I Just Tell You?, Song of the Viking, Saving Grace, Dust in the Wind, Intro, Real Man, Just One Victory, Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song, An Elpee's Worth of Tunes.
Utopia -- The Very Last Time, You Make Me Crazy.
Kansas -- Journey from Mariabronn, Song for America, Miracles out of Nowhere, Questions of My Childhood, Cheyenne Anthem, The Wall, Reason to Be, Back Door.
Coheed and Cambria -- The Road and the Damned, Feathers.
Rush -- The Camera Eye, Red Barchetta, Distant Early Warning, Manhattan Project, Marathon, Time Stand Still, Force Ten, Mystic Rhythms (live), Show Don't Tell, Fly by Night, Closer to the Heart, Freewill.
Pink Floyd -- Flaming, Astronome Domine (live), Jugband Blues, In the Flesh?, The Trial, High Hopes.
...More coming soon, including maybe some real no-hit wonders. + commentary on all this....
Monday, January 28, 2013
#628: Future Playlist 2
We have been advised by our Official Legal Advisers that releasing Your Future Playlist thru clever asides, hints & hidden subtexts is not gonna cut any ice with music fans.
So. A partial playlist appears below, featuring a few of R favorite artists & summa their songs you can Xpect 2 hear blaring from local rock&roll stations in the not-2-distant future. This is just the beginning, but it should give you something to chew on 4 awhile.
If you've been reading here 4 very long, you'll probly find few suprises below. But if you're a more "mainstream" radio listener, this list might mess you up a bit.
Get used 2 it. It's For Your Own Good. Really.
More soon.
Beatles -- I'm Down, Hey Bulldog, Things We Said Today, Everybody's Trying to be My Baby, There's a Place, You Never Give Me Your Money, Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End, Old Brown Shoe, The Night Before, I Need You, Oh! Darling, Dear Prudence, I Will, In My Life, Thank You Girl, I Don't Want to Spoil the Party, Tomorrow Never Knows, Tell Me Why, Any Time at All, And Your Bird Can Sing, It's Only Love, For No One, I'll be Back, No Reply, I'm a Loser, Birthday, Across the Universe.
Moody Blues -- Peak Hour, Evening: Time to Get Away, Twilight Time, Simple Game, The Actor, Voices in the Sky, Lovely to See You, Never Comes the Day, Gypsy, Eyes of a Child Part 2, Don't You Feel Small?, It's Up to You, Our Guessing Game, One More Time to Live, You Can Never Go Home, You and Me, Land of Make-Believe, For My Lady, Meanwhile, In My World, Veteran Cosmic Rocker, Blue World, Sorry.
Yes -- The South Side of the Sky, Wondrous Stories, Every Little Thing, No Opportunity Necessary No Experience Needed, Looking Around, Sweet Dreams, America, Survival, Time and a Word, Close to the Edge (live), And You and I (live), Siberian Khatru (live), Starship Trooper (live), Yours is no Disgrace (live), Perpetual Change (live), Changes.
Fleetwood Mac -- Oh Well, The Green Manalishi, Dissatisfied, Hypnotized, Why?, Silver Springs, I Know I'm Not Wrong, Brown Eyes, Never Make Me Cry, Sisters of the Moon, Monday Morning (live), Fireflies (live), One More Night (live), I'm So Afraid (live), The Farmer's Daughter (live), World Turning, Wish You Were Here, Eyes of the World, Straight Back, Isn't it Midnight?, Tango in the Night, Big Love (live), Go Insane (live), Murrow Turning Over in His Grave.
Genesis -- Vancouver, Madman Moon, Ripples, Entangled, Robbery Assault and Battery, Dance on a Volcano, Squonk, Afterglow, Your Own Special Way, Supper's Ready (live), The Carpet Crawlers (live), Firth of Fifth (live), The Musical Box (closing section) (live), Down and Out, Deep in the Motherlode, Undertow, Snowbound, Burning Rope, The Lady Lies, Inside and Out, You Might Recall, Keep it Dark, Like it or Not.
Peter Gabriel -- Family Snapshot.
Phil Collins -- Droned/Hand in Hand.
King Crimson -- Epitaph, 21st Century Schizoid Man, Larks Tongues in Aspic Parts 1 & 2 (live), Doctor Diamond (live), Easy Money, The Talking Drum, The Great Deceiver, The Night Watch, Fracture, Red, Starless, Frame by Frame, Sleepless.
Paul McCartney & Wings -- Magneto and Titanium Man, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five, Love in Song.
Ronettes -- I Wonder, The Best Part of Breaking Up.
Hawkwind -- You'd Better Believe It, Lost Johnny, Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke), Sonic Attack, Urban Guerrilla.
Roxy Music -- The Thrill of it All, Oh Yeah (On the Radio), Over You, Same Old Scene, Dance Away.
Clannad -- Second Nature, The Wild Cry, Blackstairs, Indoor, Journey's End, In Fortune's Hand.
REO Speedwagon -- Blazing Your Own Trail Again.
Journey -- Daydream, People and Places, Something to Hide, Feeling That Way/Anytime, Patiently, Lights.
Caravan -- For Richard (live), The World is Yours, Aristocracy, Memory Lain/Hugh/Headloss, Surprise Surprise, The Dog The Dog He's at it Again, Be All Right, Place of My Own, Virgin on the Ridiculous, Can You Hear Me?, All the Way (With John Wayne's Single-Handed Liberation of Paris), Nine Feet Underground, Disassociation, Songs and Signs, And I Wish I was Stoned.
Camel -- Never Let Go, Rhayader/Rhayader Goes to Town, Flight of the Snow Goose, Spirit of the Water, Unevensong, First Light, Rain Dances, Breathless, Echoes, Down on the Farm, Summer Lightning, City Life, Captured, Sasquatch, Manic, Wait, Eye of the Storm, Who We Are.
Led Zeppelin -- The Rover, Carouselambra, Hot Dog, Fool in the Rain, When the Levee Breaks.
Bob Seger -- Feel Like a Number, Khatmandu, Roll Me Away.
Jackson Browne -- The Fuse, Hold On Hold Out, Disco Apocalypse, The Pretender.
Grateful Dead -- Uncle John's Band, Passenger.
Eagles -- James Dean, Outlaw Man, Seven Bridges Road, The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks.
Doobie Brothers -- Nobody, Neal's Fandango.
Cars -- Dangerous Type, Stranger Eyes, Bye Bye Love, All Mixed Up.
Kenny Loggins -- Conviction of the Heart.
Turtles -- Grim Reaper of Love, We'll Meet Again, Lady-O, Sound Asleep.
Sex Pistols -- God Save the Queen.
The Jam -- That's Entertainment, Funeral Pyre, Thick as Thieves, Little Boy Soldiers, Private Hell, Strange Town, Wasteland.
Pete Townshend -- Slit Skirts, Uniforms, North Country Girl, A Little is Enough, Jools and Jim, Gonna Get Ya, Now and Then, Misunderstood, My Baby Gives it Away, Zelda, Give Blood.
The Who -- Daily Records, Another Tricky Day, Slip Kid, Blue Red and Gray, The Relay, Bell Boy, Love Reign O'er Me, Melancholia, I'm the Face, Armenia City in the Sky, My Wife, Baba O'Riley, Music Must Change, The Song is Over, Bargain, Little Billy.
Go-Go's -- Can't Stop the World, Capture the Light, I'm With You, Forget That Day, I'm the Only One.
Bangles -- Hero Takes a Fall, Dover Beach, Restless, Going Down to Liverpool, Silent Treatment, Let it Go, September Gurls, Angels Don't Fall in Love, Be With You, Everything I Wanted, Following.
Steely Dan -- Gaucho, Third World Man, Don't Take Me Alive, Dirty Work, Berrytown, Pretzel Logic, My Old School, Bodhisattva, Any Major Dude Will Tell You.
To Be Continued....
So. A partial playlist appears below, featuring a few of R favorite artists & summa their songs you can Xpect 2 hear blaring from local rock&roll stations in the not-2-distant future. This is just the beginning, but it should give you something to chew on 4 awhile.
If you've been reading here 4 very long, you'll probly find few suprises below. But if you're a more "mainstream" radio listener, this list might mess you up a bit.
Get used 2 it. It's For Your Own Good. Really.
More soon.
Beatles -- I'm Down, Hey Bulldog, Things We Said Today, Everybody's Trying to be My Baby, There's a Place, You Never Give Me Your Money, Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End, Old Brown Shoe, The Night Before, I Need You, Oh! Darling, Dear Prudence, I Will, In My Life, Thank You Girl, I Don't Want to Spoil the Party, Tomorrow Never Knows, Tell Me Why, Any Time at All, And Your Bird Can Sing, It's Only Love, For No One, I'll be Back, No Reply, I'm a Loser, Birthday, Across the Universe.
Moody Blues -- Peak Hour, Evening: Time to Get Away, Twilight Time, Simple Game, The Actor, Voices in the Sky, Lovely to See You, Never Comes the Day, Gypsy, Eyes of a Child Part 2, Don't You Feel Small?, It's Up to You, Our Guessing Game, One More Time to Live, You Can Never Go Home, You and Me, Land of Make-Believe, For My Lady, Meanwhile, In My World, Veteran Cosmic Rocker, Blue World, Sorry.
Yes -- The South Side of the Sky, Wondrous Stories, Every Little Thing, No Opportunity Necessary No Experience Needed, Looking Around, Sweet Dreams, America, Survival, Time and a Word, Close to the Edge (live), And You and I (live), Siberian Khatru (live), Starship Trooper (live), Yours is no Disgrace (live), Perpetual Change (live), Changes.
Fleetwood Mac -- Oh Well, The Green Manalishi, Dissatisfied, Hypnotized, Why?, Silver Springs, I Know I'm Not Wrong, Brown Eyes, Never Make Me Cry, Sisters of the Moon, Monday Morning (live), Fireflies (live), One More Night (live), I'm So Afraid (live), The Farmer's Daughter (live), World Turning, Wish You Were Here, Eyes of the World, Straight Back, Isn't it Midnight?, Tango in the Night, Big Love (live), Go Insane (live), Murrow Turning Over in His Grave.
Genesis -- Vancouver, Madman Moon, Ripples, Entangled, Robbery Assault and Battery, Dance on a Volcano, Squonk, Afterglow, Your Own Special Way, Supper's Ready (live), The Carpet Crawlers (live), Firth of Fifth (live), The Musical Box (closing section) (live), Down and Out, Deep in the Motherlode, Undertow, Snowbound, Burning Rope, The Lady Lies, Inside and Out, You Might Recall, Keep it Dark, Like it or Not.
Peter Gabriel -- Family Snapshot.
Phil Collins -- Droned/Hand in Hand.
King Crimson -- Epitaph, 21st Century Schizoid Man, Larks Tongues in Aspic Parts 1 & 2 (live), Doctor Diamond (live), Easy Money, The Talking Drum, The Great Deceiver, The Night Watch, Fracture, Red, Starless, Frame by Frame, Sleepless.
Paul McCartney & Wings -- Magneto and Titanium Man, Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five, Love in Song.
Ronettes -- I Wonder, The Best Part of Breaking Up.
Hawkwind -- You'd Better Believe It, Lost Johnny, Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke), Sonic Attack, Urban Guerrilla.
Roxy Music -- The Thrill of it All, Oh Yeah (On the Radio), Over You, Same Old Scene, Dance Away.
Clannad -- Second Nature, The Wild Cry, Blackstairs, Indoor, Journey's End, In Fortune's Hand.
REO Speedwagon -- Blazing Your Own Trail Again.
Journey -- Daydream, People and Places, Something to Hide, Feeling That Way/Anytime, Patiently, Lights.
Caravan -- For Richard (live), The World is Yours, Aristocracy, Memory Lain/Hugh/Headloss, Surprise Surprise, The Dog The Dog He's at it Again, Be All Right, Place of My Own, Virgin on the Ridiculous, Can You Hear Me?, All the Way (With John Wayne's Single-Handed Liberation of Paris), Nine Feet Underground, Disassociation, Songs and Signs, And I Wish I was Stoned.
Camel -- Never Let Go, Rhayader/Rhayader Goes to Town, Flight of the Snow Goose, Spirit of the Water, Unevensong, First Light, Rain Dances, Breathless, Echoes, Down on the Farm, Summer Lightning, City Life, Captured, Sasquatch, Manic, Wait, Eye of the Storm, Who We Are.
Led Zeppelin -- The Rover, Carouselambra, Hot Dog, Fool in the Rain, When the Levee Breaks.
Bob Seger -- Feel Like a Number, Khatmandu, Roll Me Away.
Jackson Browne -- The Fuse, Hold On Hold Out, Disco Apocalypse, The Pretender.
Grateful Dead -- Uncle John's Band, Passenger.
Eagles -- James Dean, Outlaw Man, Seven Bridges Road, The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks.
Doobie Brothers -- Nobody, Neal's Fandango.
Cars -- Dangerous Type, Stranger Eyes, Bye Bye Love, All Mixed Up.
Kenny Loggins -- Conviction of the Heart.
Turtles -- Grim Reaper of Love, We'll Meet Again, Lady-O, Sound Asleep.
Sex Pistols -- God Save the Queen.
The Jam -- That's Entertainment, Funeral Pyre, Thick as Thieves, Little Boy Soldiers, Private Hell, Strange Town, Wasteland.
Pete Townshend -- Slit Skirts, Uniforms, North Country Girl, A Little is Enough, Jools and Jim, Gonna Get Ya, Now and Then, Misunderstood, My Baby Gives it Away, Zelda, Give Blood.
The Who -- Daily Records, Another Tricky Day, Slip Kid, Blue Red and Gray, The Relay, Bell Boy, Love Reign O'er Me, Melancholia, I'm the Face, Armenia City in the Sky, My Wife, Baba O'Riley, Music Must Change, The Song is Over, Bargain, Little Billy.
Go-Go's -- Can't Stop the World, Capture the Light, I'm With You, Forget That Day, I'm the Only One.
Bangles -- Hero Takes a Fall, Dover Beach, Restless, Going Down to Liverpool, Silent Treatment, Let it Go, September Gurls, Angels Don't Fall in Love, Be With You, Everything I Wanted, Following.
Steely Dan -- Gaucho, Third World Man, Don't Take Me Alive, Dirty Work, Berrytown, Pretzel Logic, My Old School, Bodhisattva, Any Major Dude Will Tell You.
To Be Continued....
Sunday, January 27, 2013
#627: Your Future Playlist
OK, probably I've been listening 2 too much late-nite Talk Radio with their massive behind-the-scenes conspiracy theories ... but I thot it's probly time to come clean with you about my own big project....
We here at TAD's Back-Up Plan have been working steadily, quietly, clandestinely, behind the scenes ... to take over the nation's broadcasting airwaves.
At least the rock&roll stations.
This has been in the works for quite some time & involves intricacies which I simply cannot divulge on a public website such as this one. But rest assured that our nationwide takeover is at hand. & it's coming soon.
At 1st we here at TAD's had planned -- once we took over -- to open up the playlists of rock&roll stations nationwide & let real, live, honest2Ghod DJ's -- real people sorta like you & me -- pick what kind of music they wanted 2 play over the air, have some fun with it, put some LIFE back into broadcasting, get us away from that all-commanding Bottom Line. & we thot with such power in their hands, maybe we'd hear some good new tunes, 2.
But we have been dismayed to discover that 4 some folks, that's simply TOO MUCH FREEDOM, it's TOO SCARY. People get edgy when there's no safety net, nothing familiar 2 grab hold of.
Which reminds us here at TAD's that music can also be used as a sort of mind control -- a way to soothe you & keep you distracted from what's really going on.
So, we've had a bit of a re-think about our World Domination plans. & we didn't want 2 do it, but we've been forced 2 come up with a new playlist 4 the new millennium.
This new playlist will be coming SOON.
It will include no "hits." Or at least not what we once thot of as hits.
But what does that word mean anymore, anyway? We've already journeyed deep into a scary new age in which nobody knows what the #1 song in the country is anymore -- depends on what list you look at, doesn't it? & nobody cares anyway. Not at all like when I was a kid & EVERYBODY KNEW what the #1 song was -- everyone KNEW what was Hot & what was Not.
...So. This new playlist will be revealed in upcoming posts. It will be revealed indirectly, of course -- in codes, in subtext, in afterthoughts -- as befits a massive behind-the-scenes conspiracy.
But rest assured that this new playlist will include lots of GOOD MUSIC, by artists you know well -- it'll just be stuff you've hardly ever heard on radio before.... At least, not in the last 35 years. There are sure to be some surprises. You'll want to hold on tight on the curves.
Again, we would've preferred a doors-wide-open policy -- & that's what we still hope to transition into, once everybody's aboard. But we guarantee that the music you'll soon be hearing on your "favorite"(?) local radio station (is there still such a thing?) will be FAR better than the soul-shriveling Same Old Stuff the Cumulus- and Clear Channel-owned stations of these grim & ugly modern times prefer to play these days.
The new list -- & the radio takeover -- is Coming SOON. Watch for the signs. Stay awake for the hints. Look closely for the double-meanings.
We suggest that you get acquainted with these new tunes pretty damn quick. Because you're going to be hearing a lot of them....
We here at TAD's Back-Up Plan have been working steadily, quietly, clandestinely, behind the scenes ... to take over the nation's broadcasting airwaves.
At least the rock&roll stations.
This has been in the works for quite some time & involves intricacies which I simply cannot divulge on a public website such as this one. But rest assured that our nationwide takeover is at hand. & it's coming soon.
At 1st we here at TAD's had planned -- once we took over -- to open up the playlists of rock&roll stations nationwide & let real, live, honest2Ghod DJ's -- real people sorta like you & me -- pick what kind of music they wanted 2 play over the air, have some fun with it, put some LIFE back into broadcasting, get us away from that all-commanding Bottom Line. & we thot with such power in their hands, maybe we'd hear some good new tunes, 2.
But we have been dismayed to discover that 4 some folks, that's simply TOO MUCH FREEDOM, it's TOO SCARY. People get edgy when there's no safety net, nothing familiar 2 grab hold of.
Which reminds us here at TAD's that music can also be used as a sort of mind control -- a way to soothe you & keep you distracted from what's really going on.
So, we've had a bit of a re-think about our World Domination plans. & we didn't want 2 do it, but we've been forced 2 come up with a new playlist 4 the new millennium.
This new playlist will be coming SOON.
It will include no "hits." Or at least not what we once thot of as hits.
But what does that word mean anymore, anyway? We've already journeyed deep into a scary new age in which nobody knows what the #1 song in the country is anymore -- depends on what list you look at, doesn't it? & nobody cares anyway. Not at all like when I was a kid & EVERYBODY KNEW what the #1 song was -- everyone KNEW what was Hot & what was Not.
...So. This new playlist will be revealed in upcoming posts. It will be revealed indirectly, of course -- in codes, in subtext, in afterthoughts -- as befits a massive behind-the-scenes conspiracy.
But rest assured that this new playlist will include lots of GOOD MUSIC, by artists you know well -- it'll just be stuff you've hardly ever heard on radio before.... At least, not in the last 35 years. There are sure to be some surprises. You'll want to hold on tight on the curves.
Again, we would've preferred a doors-wide-open policy -- & that's what we still hope to transition into, once everybody's aboard. But we guarantee that the music you'll soon be hearing on your "favorite"(?) local radio station (is there still such a thing?) will be FAR better than the soul-shriveling Same Old Stuff the Cumulus- and Clear Channel-owned stations of these grim & ugly modern times prefer to play these days.
The new list -- & the radio takeover -- is Coming SOON. Watch for the signs. Stay awake for the hints. Look closely for the double-meanings.
We suggest that you get acquainted with these new tunes pretty damn quick. Because you're going to be hearing a lot of them....
Monday, January 14, 2013
#624: Cheers for Seattle-area radio(?!)
As much as I've bitched about Seattle-area radio, in the interest of Fairness I must note that this past Friday nite they outdid themselves, actually seemed 2 recognize 4 1nce WHAT NIGHT IT WAS, & played a pretty good lineup of mostly-upbeat music. For which I'd give them a B+ rating.
Oh, not 1 single radio station made this breakthru. No, that would B revolutionary. It took halfadozen diffrent stations teaming up over a 4-hour period 2 create a decent Fri nite soundtrack. From roughly 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm, I hardly hadta dip in2 my stash of CD's more than 1nce or 2wice -- there was more than enuf decent music on the radio 2 keep me motivated & moving at work.
This is possibly a 1st. It must've worked 4 other people, 2.
This doesn't mean there wasn't still a lotta crap getting played -- there were still more than enuf "Hotel California"'s & "Heartache Tonight"'s & "Philadelphia Freedom"'s & "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart"'s & other Bad Overplayed Stuff 2 avoid. & there were no shocking MAJOR suprises. There was actually rather a lot of overplayed stuff -- but it all sounded real good.
Overall, not a bad nite's work, Seattle radio. Take a bow.
Here's summa what they played:
Def Leppard -- Animal, Foolin', Photograph.
Eagles -- Seven Bridges Road, Peaceful Easy Feeling.
Fleetwood Mac -- Gypsy, Go Your Own Way.
Bob Seger -- Hollywood Nights.
Stones -- You Can't Always Get What You Want, Paint it Black, Sympathy for the Devil.
Chicago -- Beginnings.
Cars -- Bye Bye Love, Drive, Dangerous Type, Just What I Needed.
Vanessa Williams -- Save the Best for Last.
Earth, Wind and Fire -- After the Love is Gone.
Howard Jones -- No One is to Blame.
Eric and the Dominoes -- Layla.
Adele -- Rumour Has It.
Beatles -- Back in the USSR.
Zep -- Rock and Roll, Stairway to Heaven (of course), In the Evening.
Madonna -- Open Your Heart.
Who -- Behind Blue Eyes.
Kinks -- Lola.
Doors -- Light My Fire, Touch Me.
.38 Special -- Hold On Loosely.
Don Henley -- Boys of Summer.
Steve Miller -- The Joker.
Cyndi Lauper -- Time After Time.
Temptations -- Ain't Too Proud to Beg.
Bonnie Raitt -- I Can't Make You Love Me.
Des'ree -- You Gotta Be.
Beau Brummels -- Laugh Laugh.
Queen -- Fat Bottomed Girls, Somebody to Love.
Lisa Loeb -- Stay (I Missed You).
Boston -- Rock and Roll Band, Let Me Take You Home Tonight, Peace of Mind.
Pink -- Who Knew?
Jethro Tull -- Living in the Past.
Belinda Carlisle -- Mad About You.
Stevie Wonder -- I Wish.
Bruce -- Born to Run.
Supertramp -- Dreamer.
Doobies -- China Grove, Jesus is Just Alright.
Bowie -- Changes.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band -- Blinded by the Light.
Blondie -- Heart of Glass.
Avril Lavigne -- Complicated.
Anna Nalick -- Breathe.
...Of course on Sat & Sun nites the local stations reverted 2 normal form & mostly played LOTS of crap. So much so that I hadta fall back on The News & TALK RADIO 2 keep functioning thru work. Thanx a lot 4 getting my hopes up....
Later in the evenings lately I've taken 2 listening 2 nationwide syndicated talk radio -- shows like COAST TO COAST AM and OVERNIGHT AMERICA. I'm still trying 2 decide how much of this stuff is BS or comedy or paranoia, & how much is sincere warnings 2 the nation -- since mosta the topics eventually seem 2 break down 2 Government Conspiracies or Alien Abductions or UFO Sightings or Secret Behind-The-Scenes Stuff.
I AM impressed that the people who appear on these shows or call in R ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED about what they've learned or seen or Xperienced. It's hard 2 argue with that. But I'm still trying 2 make up my mind about how Real some of it is.
When I was listening on Sat nite, a customer walked in & asked what I was listening 2, & I gave him the short Xplanation & my current view of it.
"Oh, are they talkin' about stuff like the Illuminati?" he asked. "Yeah, I've read up on that stuff. There's definitely some weird shit goin' on. But I'm thinkin' maybe there's some stuff I don't NEED to know. Like, maybe I'm too busy tryin' to get through today to worry about what's comin' tomorrow...."
Oh, not 1 single radio station made this breakthru. No, that would B revolutionary. It took halfadozen diffrent stations teaming up over a 4-hour period 2 create a decent Fri nite soundtrack. From roughly 7:30 pm to 11:30 pm, I hardly hadta dip in2 my stash of CD's more than 1nce or 2wice -- there was more than enuf decent music on the radio 2 keep me motivated & moving at work.
This is possibly a 1st. It must've worked 4 other people, 2.
This doesn't mean there wasn't still a lotta crap getting played -- there were still more than enuf "Hotel California"'s & "Heartache Tonight"'s & "Philadelphia Freedom"'s & "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart"'s & other Bad Overplayed Stuff 2 avoid. & there were no shocking MAJOR suprises. There was actually rather a lot of overplayed stuff -- but it all sounded real good.
Overall, not a bad nite's work, Seattle radio. Take a bow.
Here's summa what they played:
Def Leppard -- Animal, Foolin', Photograph.
Eagles -- Seven Bridges Road, Peaceful Easy Feeling.
Fleetwood Mac -- Gypsy, Go Your Own Way.
Bob Seger -- Hollywood Nights.
Stones -- You Can't Always Get What You Want, Paint it Black, Sympathy for the Devil.
Chicago -- Beginnings.
Cars -- Bye Bye Love, Drive, Dangerous Type, Just What I Needed.
Vanessa Williams -- Save the Best for Last.
Earth, Wind and Fire -- After the Love is Gone.
Howard Jones -- No One is to Blame.
Eric and the Dominoes -- Layla.
Adele -- Rumour Has It.
Beatles -- Back in the USSR.
Zep -- Rock and Roll, Stairway to Heaven (of course), In the Evening.
Madonna -- Open Your Heart.
Who -- Behind Blue Eyes.
Kinks -- Lola.
Doors -- Light My Fire, Touch Me.
.38 Special -- Hold On Loosely.
Don Henley -- Boys of Summer.
Steve Miller -- The Joker.
Cyndi Lauper -- Time After Time.
Temptations -- Ain't Too Proud to Beg.
Bonnie Raitt -- I Can't Make You Love Me.
Des'ree -- You Gotta Be.
Beau Brummels -- Laugh Laugh.
Queen -- Fat Bottomed Girls, Somebody to Love.
Lisa Loeb -- Stay (I Missed You).
Boston -- Rock and Roll Band, Let Me Take You Home Tonight, Peace of Mind.
Pink -- Who Knew?
Jethro Tull -- Living in the Past.
Belinda Carlisle -- Mad About You.
Stevie Wonder -- I Wish.
Bruce -- Born to Run.
Supertramp -- Dreamer.
Doobies -- China Grove, Jesus is Just Alright.
Bowie -- Changes.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band -- Blinded by the Light.
Blondie -- Heart of Glass.
Avril Lavigne -- Complicated.
Anna Nalick -- Breathe.
...Of course on Sat & Sun nites the local stations reverted 2 normal form & mostly played LOTS of crap. So much so that I hadta fall back on The News & TALK RADIO 2 keep functioning thru work. Thanx a lot 4 getting my hopes up....
Later in the evenings lately I've taken 2 listening 2 nationwide syndicated talk radio -- shows like COAST TO COAST AM and OVERNIGHT AMERICA. I'm still trying 2 decide how much of this stuff is BS or comedy or paranoia, & how much is sincere warnings 2 the nation -- since mosta the topics eventually seem 2 break down 2 Government Conspiracies or Alien Abductions or UFO Sightings or Secret Behind-The-Scenes Stuff.
I AM impressed that the people who appear on these shows or call in R ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED about what they've learned or seen or Xperienced. It's hard 2 argue with that. But I'm still trying 2 make up my mind about how Real some of it is.
When I was listening on Sat nite, a customer walked in & asked what I was listening 2, & I gave him the short Xplanation & my current view of it.
"Oh, are they talkin' about stuff like the Illuminati?" he asked. "Yeah, I've read up on that stuff. There's definitely some weird shit goin' on. But I'm thinkin' maybe there's some stuff I don't NEED to know. Like, maybe I'm too busy tryin' to get through today to worry about what's comin' tomorrow...."
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