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.
Now that this year's epic countdown show (playlist here and podcast here) is in the books, and now that we've also revealed our top 60 most-played artists in 2022, let's supplement the celebration with a fabricated playlist. The real-life show presented our 60 most-played tracks over the past year; today's exercise in fakery conjures a playlist of the most-played artists, but without duplicating any tracks from the actual countdown show.
And that...proved to be a challenge, at least on the opening track. Our # 60 most-played artist in 2022 was the Flashcubes with the Spongetones, whose collaborative remake of the latter group's pop classic "Have You Ever Been Torn Apart?" was our # 9 most-played track in '22. It's also the only track that's ever been released by the combined forces of the 'Cubes and the 'Tones. If our fake playlist is determined not to repeat any tracks from Sunday's countdown show, we would just have to skip the Flashcubes with the Spongetones.
Or, y'know, we could just make something up.
I like that idea. 2022 gave us the delight of two of my favorite groups teaming up to record a Spongetones song. In 2023, imagination gives us the dream of this expanded combo reuniting for a Flashcubes song. I considered a number of Cubic originals, including Paul Armstrong's "You For Me," Gary Frenay's "You Got My Promise," and Arty Lenin's "When We Close Our Eyes." It would probably make the most sense to choose one of the Flashcubes' better-known numbers, like "Christi Girl," "Wait Till Next Week," "No Promise," or "It's You Tonight." But for the purposes of our idealized fakery, I opted for the 'Cubes and 'Tones meetin' up again for a performance of Arty's "Nothing Really Matters When You're Young," a song that offers one of the all-time best sets of post-teen alienation lyrics. In my head, I can hear Steve Stoeckel, Jamie Hoover and/or Pat Walters singing the lines, Can't really think about life being fair/But you can't forget the faces that took away your share. Magic. It would be magic.
There's a lot of magic in the real world, too. We'll get back to crafting that magic on Sunday night. Meanwhile, here's a fanciful little salute to the musicmakers who racked up the most TIRnRR spins in 2022. Nothing really matters? We disagree. Music maters. Friends matter. Let's listen to some records together.
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