This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl is simply too large a concept to be neatly contained within a mere three-hour weekly time slot. Hence these occasional fake TIRnRR playlists, detailing shows we're never really going to do...but could.
I went to college in Brockport, NY, 1977-1980. I graduated before my girlfriend (and now wife) Brenda, so we got an apartment in the village of Brockport, and we remained there for another two years.
I've done previous fake TIRnRR playlists dedicated to music I listened to in my dorm rooms and music I listened to in my first apartment. Today, I wanna throw together a playlist of records I purchased in Brockport. I'm only including actual purchases, whether new or used; this list excludes radio-station giveaways (disqualifying Radio Birdman and Oingo Boingo, among others), free-with-purchase goodies at the best little record store that ever was, Main Street Records (thus excluding "She's A Dog" by Simply Saucer and Dressed To Kill by KISS), and records received as gifts (like the Yardbirds and Animals LPs given to me by a girl I knew from my McDonald's job, or the Village People live album Brenda gave me).
Otherwise? Fair game here encompasses any LP, 12" single, 45, cassette, or (much later) CD that I acquired in Brockport for cash or (much later) credit card, whether it was the used copy of the Monkees' Head album I bought for a buck a two from a friend or the three-LP Australian import Monkeemania I scored at Main Street. In addition to scores at the mighty Main Street, it includes purchases made at The Record Grove, The Vinyl Jungle, Trader Shag's Emporium (which now occupies the space that once housed Main Street Records), or any other new or used retail outlet in Brockport, plus garage sales, on-campus transactions, and what have you. It includes purchases made on visits back to Brockport in later years, but it doesn't include anything I bought on my most recent visit in 2024, because...well, because I don't remember what I bought on that visit. Yes, I do indeed remember purchases made in 1977-1982 waaaay better than I remember 2024.
And I remember each of the records listed below. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you some of the sounds I bought in Brockport. And obviously, it begins with the Record Grove purchase that changed my life in 1977. Take it, Dee Dee.
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Fake TIRnRR Playlist: Records I purchased in Brockport, NY [and where I bought 'em]
THE RAMONES: Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (Sire, single) [The Record Grove]
RICK JAMES: Give It To Me Baby (Gordy, Street Songs) [Main Street Records]
THE ROLLERS: Doors, Bars, Metal (Epic, Ricochet) [MSR on my last-ever visit, circa 1988]
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: I'll Be Your Mirror (Verve, The Velvet Underground & Nico) [MSR]
SQUIRE: The Life (Hi-Lo, ...Get Smart!) [MSR]
THE SEX PISTOLS: Did You No Wrong (Virgin, single) [TRG, same day I bought "Sheena"]
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GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS: I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Motown, VA: The Motown Story) [MSR]
KLAATU: California Jam (Collectors' Choice Music, 3:47 e.s.t.) [Trader Shag's Emporium]
THE KINKS: I Took My Baby Home (Pye, The Pye History Of British Pop Music) [The Vinyl Jungle]
ELVIS PRESLEY: (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame (RCA, Elvis's 40 Greatest) [MSR]
CAT STEVENS: First Cut Is The Deepest (Decca, VA: Hard-Up Heroes) [TRG, special order import!]
HOLLY AND JOEY: I Got You Babe (Virgin, single) [MSR]
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THE HULLABALLOOS: Did You Ever (Collectables, England's Newest Singing Sensations/On Hullabaloo) [TSE]
THE FLAMIN' GROOVIES: You Tore Me Down (Sire, Shake Some Action) [MSR]
THE MOST: Rockerfeller (Out Of Print, VA: From The City That Brought You...Absolutely Nothing) [MSR]
CHUCK BERRY: Johnny B. Goode (Chess, Chuck Berry's Greatest Hits) [MSR]
JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS: Love Is Pain (MCA, I Love Rock 'n' Roll) [MSR]
THE DAVE CLARK FIVE: Concentration Baby (Epic, single) [table set up on campus]
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THE NEW YORK DOLLS: Babylon (Mercury, Too Much Too Soon) [MSR]
R.E.M.: Radio Free Europe (IRS, single) [MSR]
LITTLE RICHARD: Good Golly Miss Molly (United Artists, The Very Best Of Little Richard) [MSR]
LOVE: My Little Red Book (Elektra, Love) [MSR]
BLONDIE: In The Flesh (Chrysalis, Rip Her To Shreds) [TRG]
THE PRETENDERS: Kid (Sire, single) [MSR]
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THE MONKEES: Long Title: Do I Have To Do This All Over Again? (Colgems, Head) [purchased from a friend]
THE MONKEES: Circle Sky [live] (Arista, Monkeemania) [MSR--saved up money for weeks!]
DOLENZ, JONES, BOYCE AND HART: I Remember The Feeling (Capitol, Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart) [MSR]
THE CLASH: Complete Control (Epic, The Clash [USA]) [MSR]
CHERIE AND MARIE CURRIE: Since You've Been Gone (Capitol, single) [MSR]
THE UGLY DUCKLINGS: She Ain't No Use To Me (Trash, VA: Ear-Piercing Punk) [MSR]
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THE GO-GO'S: Vacation (IRS, single) [MSR]
THE BONGOS: In The Congo (PVC, Drums Along The Hudson) [MSR]
THE B-52'S: 52 Girls (Warner Brothers, The B-52's) [MSR]
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD.: Public Image (Virgin, single) [MSR]
DAVID BOWIE: See Emily Play (RCA, Pinups) [used record sale at the dining hall]
THE ROMANTICS: I Can't Tell You Anything (Spider, single) [TRG]
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THE BEACH BOYS: Sloop John B (Capitol, Pet Sounds) [TRG]
DAVID JOHANSEN AND ROBIN JOHNSON: Flowers In The City (RSO, VA: Times Square OST) [MSR]
JOHNNY THUNDERS: You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory (Sire, So Alone) [MSR]
THE FOUNDATIONS: Baby Now That I've Found You (Pye, VA: Best Of The British Invasion) [forgotten record retailer]
THE REAL KIDS: Now You Know (Bomp, VA: Experiments In Destiny) [MSR]
THE BOBBY FULLER FOUR: Another Sad And Lonely Night (Rhino, The Best Of The Bobby Fuller Four) [MSR]
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THE JAM: The Eton Rifles (Polydor, Setting Sons) [MSR]
THE WHO: The Punk Meets The Godfather (MCA, Quadrophenia) [MSR]
TELEVISION: Elevation (Elektra, Marquee Moon) [TRG]
THE FLESHTONES: Let's See The Sun (IRS, Roman Gods) [MSR]
BOW WOW WOW: I Want Candy (RCA, single) [MSR]
THE FOUR TOPS: I Can't Help Myself (Motown, Greatest Hits) [MSR]
THE BARRACUDAS: I Wish It Could Be 1965 Again (Voxx, Drop Out With The Barracudas) [MSR]
THE 13th FLOOR ELEVATORS: You're Gonna Miss Me (Sire, VA: Nuggets) [MSR]
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THE MC5: Shakin' Street (Atlantic, Back In The USA) [lawn sale]
SLADE: Gudbuy T' Jane (Reprise, Sladest) [MSR]
JOSIE COTTON: Johnny Are You Queer? (Elektra, single) [MSR]
THE TREMBLERS: I'll Be Taking Her Out Tonight (Johnston, Twice Nightly) [MSR]
IGGY AND THE STOOGES: Gimme Danger (RCA, Raw Power) [MSR]
THE SCRUFFS: Revenge (Power Play, Wanna' Meet The Scruffs?) [MSR]
THE RECORDS: Paint Her Face (Virgin, single) [MSR]
BIG STAR: September Gurls (Ardent, Radio City) [MSR]
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KIM WILDE: Kids In America (EMI America, Kim Wilde) [MSR]
GEN X: Dancing With Myself (Chrysalis, single) [MSR]
THE VENTURES: Hawaii 5-0 (United Artists, The Very Best Of The Ventures) [MSR]
Man! Already too long for a real-world playlist, and I still didn't get around to Talking Heads, the Lovin' Spoonful, Lords of the New Church, Judas Priest, the Fireballs, New Math, the Chesterfield Kings, Nikki and the Corvettes, the Hypstrz, Stiv Bators, Roxy Music, Shrapnel, the Rolling Stones, Blue Cheer, the Senders, the Music Explosion, the Hollies, Bruce Springsteen, Gary Numan, Cheap Trick, the Cars, the Invictas, Shoes, Utopia, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Bebe Buell, the Damned, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Quincy, Tommy Tutone, the Vapors, the Knack, Herman's Hermits, the Pleasers, Joy Division, Fingerprintz, Split Enz, the Boomtown Rats, the New Colony Six, the Buggles, Soft Cell, T. Rex, Alice Cooper, Blotto, Devo, the Rutles, Marshall Crenshaw, the Rubinoos, and...and...and...!!
