Published Today: My new book GUITARS VS. RAYGUNS!! SHORT STORIES AND OTHER WHITE LIES

My new book Guitars Vs. Rayguns!! Short Stories And Other White Lies is published today. Mind you, I don't have copies yet (other than my advance proof copy), but I hope to have them soon. Definitely soon. For those who wish to buy a physical copy of this book (or any of my previous books) directly from me, the facts are these:

CARL'S BOOKS!

Guitars Vs. Rayguns!! Short Stories And Other White Lies (2026): $15
The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) (2024): $30
Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones (2023): $25

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Well, I'm convinced. The paperback and ebook editions of Guitars Vs. Rayguns!! should also be available from your usual online resources, and it's also available to any local bookstore that wants to order it. KEEP BOOKSTORES ALIVE!

This new book is the culmination of more than fifty years of dreaming, ever since fifteen-year-old me started reading Harlan Ellison's short story collections circa 1975 and decided, I wanna do THAT! Being able to add my own scribbled illustrations is the closest I'll ever come to realizing one of my other teen dreams of becoming a comic book artist. Now, if I could just learn to sing and to play guitar....

The book has been a labor of love, and I think that fact will be evident when you read it. On Sunday, June 14th, This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio will be devoting the entirety of its playlist to some of the real-life musical acts mentioned alongside the imaginary tunemeisters I concocted for the book.

I am very proud of this book. It's my first long-form fiction project, something I've wanted to do for more than five freakin' decades, and I'm delighted with the final product. One of the stories, "Lone Star Falling," may be the single best thing I've ever written. But I like all of the stories--I'm a big fan of me.  

The book is OUT! And I hope some of you folks will be interested in reading some of my professional lies. 

Guitars Vs. Rayguns!! Short Stories And Other White Lies gathers tales of a foul-mouthed rock 'n' roll guitarist hijacked into space, an Old West gunslinger, a film noir gun moll who longs to be in a musical, a humorous fill-in superhero suddenly called to greatness, a former boy band star turned record company fix-it man, a would-be painter, an obsessed collector, a fated swordswoman, a fallen giant, a frustrated time traveler, a condemned sinner guiding tourists in Hell, a departed soul interviewing for a spot in Heaven, a 1976 Beatles reunion concert, and other untruths detailing love, loss, disappointment, miscellaneous hijinks, a fascination with shiny objects, and—occasionally--a juvenile sense of humor. 

WARNING: RUDE LANGUAGE! The author is a potty-mouth.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD: Short stories and other white lies
Introduction: IT'S HARLAN ELLISON'S FAULT!
GUITARS VS. RAYGUNS!
HOME OF THE HITS
THE LAST RIDE OF THE COPPERHEAD KID
POP FRICTION
MONTIE PYLON FINDS HIS HOLY GRAIL
THE PICTURE OF AMONTILLADO
TIME, AND THE JUNK FOOD OF YOUR LIFE
GUITARS VS. RAYGUNS! Last Stand On Uranus
THE GREATEST THUD NEVER HEARD
RAIN-HAT SAM
JACK MYSTERY (some truths and some white lies)
GUITARS VS. RAYGUNS! Battle Of The Band
THE BEATLES: The 1976 Reunion Concert
AN OPEN LETTER TO AN IMAGINARY ROCK BAND
THE LOVABLE LUNKHEAD RETURNS
SWORD OF THE CHOSEN ONE
DREAMING DEADLY
GUITARS VS. RAYGUNS! Return To Uranus
PRESIDENT COPPERHEAD
JUSTICE FOR THE PUPPET MASTER
I'M AT BAT!
THE TRAITOR'S TOURIST GUIDE TO HELL
YOU'LL BE JUDGED BY THE HEARTS YOU BROKE
LONE STAR FALLING
GUITARS VS RAYGUNS!! At BudoKHAAAAAAAAN!!
APRIL REGRETS
LAZARUS LIVES
AFTERWORD

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My new book of short stories Guitars Vs. Rayguns!! Short Stories And Other White Lies is out now, and you can get autographed copies of the new book and my previous book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) directly from me. You can still get my previous previous book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones from publisher Rare Bird Books, OR an autographed copy here. If you like the books, please consider leaving a rating and/or review at the usual online resources.

I compiled a various-artists tribute album called Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes, and it's pretty damned good; you can read about it here and order it here. 

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, streaming at SPARK stream and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. You can read about our history here.

THE SHOW MUST GO ON! (Oh, The Plays I've Seen--updated list)

Those of us who live in Central New York are blessed with so many lovely opportunities to experience live theater. Between student productions and local organizations, there is an amazing amount of talent in this area; add the touring companies (plus local collaborations with theaters in other parts of the country), and we wind up with ready access to brilliant and rewarding productions. 

So following another--yes, ANOTHER!--wonderfully busy run of recent plays, it's time again to update my attempt to list every theatrical production I've ever seen.

 Author! AUTHOR!

As I wrote in a separate post in 2020: "After finally experiencing my first-ever play on Broadway in 2019, I hoped to make that an annual event. The pandemic deferred that plan, but Broadway will return, and I will return to it." I look forward to adding more plays to this list...someday."

From previous updates: 

"As a companion to my ongoing Virtual Ticket Stub Gallery of pop performers I've seen in live concerts, and a follow-up to my love letter to theater, this list will attempt to make note of every live play I've ever seen. The limits of memory place an even greater restriction on this than on my concert-goin' resumé recreation, but I'll continue to update this list as both sudden recollection and (I hope) new live theater experiences dictate.

"This list does not differentiate between musicals and dramatic plays, nor does it care if the setting was Broadway, off-Broadway, the Apollo Victoria Theatre in London, Syracuse Stage, community theater, college campuses, high schools, middle schools, elementary schools, or Shakespeare in the park. As always: the play's the thing."

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
35mm: A Musical Celebration
The 39 Steps

1776
Amahl And The Night Visitors
Anything Goes
Beatlemania!
Brigadoon
Bye Bye Birdie
Carnival
Carousel
A Christmas Carol
Clue
Co-Op (eration)
Come From Away
The Comedy Of Errors
Company
Da’
Dames At Sea
Damn Yankees
Die Fledermaus
Fiddler On The Roof
Freaky Friday
Fun Home
Godspell
The Grapes Of Wrath
Grease
Guys And Dolls
Hadestown
Hair
Hamilton
A Hauntingly Whimsical Victorian Christmas 
The Hello Girls
Hello, Dolly!
High School Musical
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
Into The Woods
It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman

Jagged Little Pill
Jerry's Girls
Jesus Christ Superstar
Joe Turner's Come And Gone
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
La Cage Aux Folles
The Last Five Years

Leading Ladies
Les Misérables School Edition
Mean Girls
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
The Music Man
Oklahoma!
Oliver!
Once
The Pajama Game
Pippin
Plaza Suite
Rent
Rise: The Rock Musical
The Rocky Horror Show
School Of Rock
The Second City--65th Anniversary Show
Six
Tales By Candlelight
The Tempest
Thoughts Of A Colored Man
Three Men On A Horse
Twelfth Night
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
West Side Story
Wicked
The Wizard Of Oz
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

If you like what you see here on Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do), please consider a visit to CC's Tip Jar. You can also become a Boppin' booster on my Patreon page.

I compiled a various-artists tribute album called Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes, and it's pretty damned good; you can read about it here and order it here. My new book of short stories Guitars Vs. Rayguns!! Short Stories And Other White Lies is due out soon; meanwhile, you can get an autographed copy of my previous book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) here, and you can still get my previous previous book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones from publisher Rare Bird Books, OR an autographed copy here. If you like the books, please consider leaving a rating and/or review at the usual online resources.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, streaming at SPARK stream and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. You can read about our history here

THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! The Monkees, "Birth Of An Accidental Hipster"

Drawn from previous posts, this is not part of my book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1).

An infinite number of tracks can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. Today, this is THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE!

THE MONKEES: Birth Of An Accidental Hipster

Written by Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller

Produced by Adam Schlesinger

From the album Good Times!, Rhino Records, 2016

Here they come...again.

2016 was not a good year. No, 2016 was not a good year at all. Still, even lousy years are allowed a positive moment. 2016's best moment was the release of Good Times!, a triumphant new album by the Monkees. Leading up to the album's appearance, I wrote that I was less than captivated by its first teaser single "She Makes Me Laugh," fully taken with its second teaser "You Bring The Summer," and just awed by third single "Me & Magdalena." By the time the album itself was released at the end of May, my anticipation was at Defcon 1.

The album lived up to my expectations--surpassed them, really. I had retired--PERMANENTLY!!!!--from writing record reviews years before. In 2016, I came out of retirement just long enough to write my Good Times! review. I followed with a supplemental piece on the album's bonus tracks, and circled back later to craft my hypothetical speech inducting the Monkees into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

Yeah, that hasn't happened yet. But it should.

No one saw Good Times! coming. The surprise announcement that surviving Monkees Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, and Michael Nesmith--Davy Jones had passed away in 2012--would mark the group's 50th anniversary in 2016 with a new Monkees album called Good Times! was unexpected enough, and word that the Britpop modgasm gathering of Noel Gallagher of Oasis and Paul Weller of the Jam and Style Council had collaborated on a new composition for this new Monkees record bordered on the flabbergasting. 

But the result? Lord! "Birth Of An Accidental Hipster" builds a rainbow bridge from the best of the Monkees circa 1968 into this far-future world of the 21st century, a track that sounds simultaneously classic and contemporary. If it had magically appeared on 1968's The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees or the Head LP (also in '68), it would have been the greatest cut on the former and the second-greatest on the latter. Yet it doesn't sound retro at all, at least not to my ears. Nesmith sings this with a force and conviction that almost sounds like he's still that young maverick of fifty years ago, just a bit more seasoned, certainly wiser, but resolutely unbowed. Dolenz chimes in vocally to make it a pop song. Together, they make it a classic. Listeners of the ultracool satellite radio station Little Steven's Underground Garage voted "Birth Of An Accidental Hipster" as The Coolest Song In The World for 2016. I'm a believer. You'd best believe I agree.

Good Times! was eagerly anticipated, and it lived up to desperately sky-high expectations. "Birth Of An Accidental Hipster" is a freakin' psychedelic pop masterpiece, and it may be one of the all-time greatest tracks to ever bear the Monkees' brand name. If I were to rank my preferences among the fourteen official studio albums released under the Monkees' aegis, Good Times! might place as high as # 3 (behind Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd. and Headquarters), and no lower than # 5 (depending upon if I put the Head LP at # 4 or # 5). I like Good Times! even more than I like--love!--the two Don Kirshner-era albums (The Monkees and More Of The Monkees) and The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees. Good Times! is a sublime album; "Birth Of An Accidental Hipster" is its tipping point. The greatest comeback album ever made.

When The Monkees TV show's co-creator Bob Rafelson died in 2022, it was a coincidence that the episode of our (pre-recorded) weekly show that aired immediately following news of Rafelson's passing happened to include another spin of "Birth Of An Accidental Hipster." Not that there was anything accidental (nor remotely--ugh--hipster) about Rafelson himself; he seemed to always know what he was doing, or if he didn't know, he could figure out what to do next. 

But I do believe the Monkees' prevailing relevance, decades after the fact, far surpassed whatever dizzying heights Rafelson and his partner Bert Schneider envisioned when they concocted the concept. "Birth Of An Accidental Hipster" had nothing whatsoever to do with Rafelson and Schneider. But it was nonetheless part of the end result of the maverick creative fire they sparked so many years ago. High on a roof top, singing a song, choirs of angels all sing along. Accidents will happen. Brilliance is deliberate. And here it comes, walkin' down the street.

I wish the Monkees had done another proper album; 2018's Christmas Party doesn't count. Tork and Nesmith are gone now, leaving the Mick as the last Monkee standing. I hope he does another full-on album, and I mean a new mix of originals and undiscovered songwriting gems from various sources, not a Monkees album, nor a Dolenz Sings [fill in the blank]. But I'm grateful that we fans have what we have.

Good Times! 2016 can suck it. 2020, 2024, and our contemporaneous Hellscape can do likewise. I'm heading out to the sunshine, babe.

If you like what you see here on Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do), please consider a visit to CC's Tip Jar. You can also become a Boppin' booster on my Patreon page.

I compiled a various-artists tribute album called Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes, and it's pretty damned good; you can read about it here and order it here. My new book of short stories Guitars Vs. Rayguns!! Short Stories And Other White Lies is due out soon; meanwhile, you can get an autographed copy of my previous book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) here, and you can still get my previous previous book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones from publisher Rare Bird Books, OR an autographed copy here. If you like the books, please consider leaving a rating and/or review at the usual online resources.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, streaming at SPARK stream and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. You can read about our history here.

COMIC BOOK COVER GALLERY: Ninth issues acquired in the '60s, '70s, and '80s

For this ninth day of June, Comic Book Cover Gallery gathers a bunch of otherwise-unrelated ninth issues of various comic book titles. Number 9. Number 9. Number 9. Good enough for the Beatles, good enough for us!

As always, we'll be sticking exclusively to the '60s, '70s, and '80s era of acquisition I've established for these galleries. Today's selections include books I bought new, back issues I acquired after the fact (but within the timeline), and B-stock contraband originally purchased without their covers. These aren't actual photos of comics in my collection; most images are courtesy of the Grand Comics Database, which is grand indeed. But I did have each and every one of 'em at some point in time.

If you like what you see here on Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do), please consider a visit to CC's Tip Jar. You can also become a Boppin' booster on my Patreon page.

I compiled a various-artists tribute album called Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes, and it's pretty damned good; you can read about it here and order it here. My new book of short stories Guitars Vs. Rayguns!! Short Stories And Other White Lies is due out soon; meanwhile, you can get an autographed copy of my previous book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) here, and you can still get my previous previous book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones from publisher Rare Bird Books, OR an autographed copy here. If you like the books, please consider leaving a rating and/or review at the usual online resources.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, streaming at SPARK stream and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. You can read about our history here.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1340

December of this year will mark the 50th anniversary of my first live rock 'n' roll show. I've seen a bunch of other shows since then, and I hope to see many more. On Thursday night, Dana and I had the wonderful experience of witnessing Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill in concert at a local high school. It was, in fact, a high school production, with opening mini-sets by two teen bands and one faculty band, preceded by a solo set by the lead singer of one of the teen bands.

Sound dire? No. It was amazing. Joyous. Life-affirming. Young bands the Killer Pancakes and Clockwork (and Clockwork singer Isabella Destito) displayed talent, poise, and accomplishment, rippin' through an assortment of covers and--wait for it!--ORIGINALS that delighted the enthusiastic crowd. Faculty band After School Special likewise delivered, and John Cowsill hisself joined them onstage for a cover of Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/Jenny," recreating his own backing vocals from the original hit record. At the very end of the show, the kids joined Vicki and John for irresistible renditions of the Bangles' "Manic Monday" and "Walk Like An Egyptian." Gooseflesh.

In between all of that, Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill mesmerized the crowd with a sublime performance. The bulk of their set was drawn from their wonderful 2025 album Long After The Fire, which presented the duo's renditions of songs written by John's late brothers Bill Cowsill and Barry Cowsill; the material was just as riveting in live performance as it is on record. The pair dipped twice into the familiar catalogues of their respective rockin' pop alma maters--the Bangles' "Different Light" and the Cowsills' "Hair"--and the cumulative effect was just...just beyond. Transcendent. I can't convey in words how happy I was to be there.

I wrote this paragraph a few years back for the liner notes of the Flashcubes' live album Flashcubes On Fire, and I'm gonna repeat it yet again:

"At its best, live music is alchemy in action, capable of transforming the air around us into pure gold. This mystic process is fueled by so many ingredients, both physical and phantasmic. Sweat. Love. Lust. Hate. Alcohol. Hunger. Ambition. Greed. Generosity. Divine inspiration. Betrayal. Heartbreak. Laughter. Tears. One pill that makes you larger, one pill that makes you small. Amplifiers, power chords, the beat of the bass and drums. Voices rising in anger or exultation. Taking a sad song and making it better. One for the money, two for the show. NOISE. Beautiful, transcendent noise. The sound of gold."

Gold. Gold was in the air on Thursday night. The professionals know what gold is. The kids know it, too.

NEXT WEEK: GUITARS VS. RAYGUNS! A program of some of the (many!) real-life musicmakers mentioned in my new fiction book Guitars Vs. Rayguns!! Short Stories And Other White Lies. IN TWO WEEKS: On June 21st, our Featured Performers will be VICKI PETERSON AND JOHN COWSILL. And this is what rock 'n' roll radio sounded like on another Sunday night in Syracuse this week.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, streaming at SPARK stream, and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. 

You can read all about this show's long and weird history here: Boppin' The Whole Friggin' Planet (The History Of THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO). You can follow Carl's daily blog at Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do).

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Carl's new book Guitars Vs. Rayguns! Short Stories And Other White Lies will be available...soon. Definitely soon. Read about it here. Autographed copies of Carl's previous book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) are available here, and you can still get Carl's previous previous book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones from publisher Rare Bird Books. If you like the books, please consider leaving a rating and/or review at the usual online resources.

The many fine This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio compilation albums are still available, each full of that rockin' pop sound you crave. A portion of all sales benefit our perpetually cash-strapped community radio project:

Volume 1: download
Volume 2: CD or download
Volume 3: download
Volume 4: CD or download
Waterloo Sunset--Benefit For This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio:  CD or download

Volume 5: CD or download

TIRnRR # 1340: 6/7/2026

TIRnRR FRESH SPINS! Songs we think we ain’t played before are listed in bold

THE HALF/CUBES: The Ghost At Number One (Jem, single)

THE KNACK: Good Girls Don't [live] (Omnivore, Knackology: The Zen Recordings)

THE CLASH: Rock The Casbah (Epic, Clash On Broadway)

THE dB'S: Nothing Is Wrong [demo] (Cherry Red, VA: This Can't Be Today--American Psychedelia & The Paisley Underground 1977-1988)

THE TOYS: May My Heart Be Cast Into Stone (Sundazed, A Lover's Concerto/Attack!)

THE BANGS: Getting Out Of Hand (Cherry Red, VA: This Can't Be Today--American Psychedelia & The Paisley Underground 1977-1988)

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DAVID WOODARD: Circle Of Friends (Kool Kat Musik, Skeletons)

THE MIGHTY LEMON DROPS: Out Of Hand [version] (Cherry Red, Inside Out 1985-1990)

AL GREEN: I Want To Hold Your Hand (The Right Stuff, Green Is Blues)

THE LONG RYDERS: And She Rides (Cherry Red, VA: This Can't Be Today--American Psychedelia & The Paisley Underground 1977-1988)

THE STEVE DEATON THREE: Tall Dark Stranger (Plowhandle, The Steve Deaton Three)

THE TELL-TALE HEARTS: Come And Gone (Cherry Red, VA: This Can't Be Today--American Psychedelia & The Paisley Underground 1977-1988)

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THE COCKTAIL SLIPPERS: This Town (Wicked Cool, single)

THE MIAMIS: Dancin' Together (Omnivore, We Deliver: The Lost Band Of The CBGB Era [1974-1979])

THE SPONGETONES: (I Really) Need To Kiss You (Big Stir, single)

THE GRIP WEEDS: Lady Friend (Jem, DiG)

HOLLY AND THE ITALIANS: Just For Tonight (Wounded Bird, The Right To Be Italian)

THE MONKEES: Me & Magdalena [version 2] (Rhino, Good Times! Deluxe Edition)

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RICK HROMADKA: Are You Magical? (Big Stir, single)

THE GO-GO'S: How Much More (IRS, Beauty And The Beat)

ALICE COOPER: No More Mr. Nice Guy (Rhino, Mascara & Monsters: The Best Of Alice Cooper)

THE GO-BETWEENS: Was There Anything I Could Do? (Beggars Banquet, 16 Lovers Lane)

WAR: Low Rider (Hip-O, Icon 2; The Hits & More)

HAZEL O'CONNOR: Give Me An Inch (Spectrum, Breaking Glass)

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DAVID MYRH: Summer Summer Summer (Oglio, single)

LIBRARIANS WITH HICKEYS: Can't Wait 'Till Summer (Big Stir, Handclaps & Tambourines)

MIKE BROWNING: It's Festival Time (single)

IRENE PEÑA: It Must Be Summer (Big Stir, single)

SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE: Hot Fun In The Summertime (Epic, Greatest Hits)

LANNIE FLOWERS: Summer Blue (SpyderPop/Big Stir, Flavor Of The Month)

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THE BREAKERS: Boy Meets Girl (Grown Up Wrong!, Night After Night)

XTC: All You Pretty Girls (Virgin, The Big Express)

THE LITTLE GIRLS: How To Pick Up Girls (ValleyPop, Thank Heaven For ValleyPop)

THE VANDELLS: Another Girl (Cherry Red, VA: Kids On The Street--UK Power Pop And New Wave 1977-1981)

SCOTT McCARL: In Love Without A Girl (Titan, Play On)

THE REPLACEMENTS: Another Girl, Another Planet (Reprise, All For Nothing-Nothing For All)

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The Greatest Record Ever Made!

THE MONKEES: Birth Of An Accidental Hipster (Rhino, Good Times!)

PEELANDER-Z: H.I.P.P.O. (Chicken Ranch, Go PZ Go)

THE BEACH BOYS: Our Prayer (Capitol, The Smile Sessions)

THEE HEADCOATS: Cowboys Are Square (Damaged Goods, The Kids Are All Square--This Is Hip & Girlsville)

THE NUMBERS: Deception (Kool Kat Musik, My Beautiful Distance)

THEE HEADCOATEES: Money (Damaged Goods, The Kids Are All Square--This Is Hip & Girlsville)

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THE DAHLMANNS: Dark Side With You (FABCOM!/Waterside, Life In Reverse)

BLAKE JONES AND THE TRIKE SHOP: Mock Stoner Voices (Big Stir, And Still...)

THE RAMONES: I Don't Care (Rhino, Rocket To Russia)

THE DONNAS: Da Doo Ron Ron (Real Gone Music, Early Singles 1995-1999)

SPEEDFOSSIL: (You Won't) See Me (The Sound Cove, Time Flies: 10 Years Of Speedfossil)

R.E.M.: Underneath The Bunker (IRS, Life's Rich Pageant)

SUNBUZZ: Anna Lee (single)

BIFF BANG POW!: The Whole World Is Turning Bouchard! (Cherry Red, VA: Just A Bad Dream: Sixty British Garage & Trash Nuggets 1981-89)

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THE CUDAS: My Summer Song (n/a, Alien Vacation)

BEN VAUGHN: Goin' Down That Road (Bar/None, Mono USA)

SOMERDALE: Better Without Her (Kool Kat Musik, Let's Get Started)

DOLPH CHANEY: My Good Twin (Big Stir, This Is Dolph Chaney)

BONNIE RAITT: Me And The Boys (Warner Brothers, Green Light)

THE RUBINOOS: I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend (Castle, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Rubinoos But Were Afraid To Ask)

THE FLESHTONES: It Is As It Was (Yep Roc, Wheel Of Talent)

THE BEATLES: Please Please Me (Apple, 1962-1966)

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THE AMPLIFIER HEADS: A Song Called She La La (Rum Bar, single)