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.
Okay. Following in the footsteps of a classic real-world TIRnRR celebrating THIS IS 1965!, a recent phony-baloney playlist devoted to THIS IS 1966!, and this week's actual playlist (which was influenced by the passing of Television's singer and guitarist Tom Verlaine), we now turn the fake TIRnRR spotlight on THIS IS 1977!
Like I just said yesterday, the spring of '77 was the end of my senior year in high school, leading into the fall of my freshman year in college. I was 17 years old, and my pop music horizons were expanding and exploding. A sudden awareness of something called punk rock had a lot to do with that. You can read part of the story here, and a dovetailed part here. Looking back, I gotta say 1977 deserves its own playlist.
And here it is. As with the 1965 and 1966 editions, the 1977 playlist includes a few tracks that were released prior to the year at hand, but which had impact in our year of focus. As always, I am not under oath here. The playlist isn't meant to be a definitive representation of pop music '77--not objectively, nor of my direct experience of it--but it culminates with the record that changed my life, "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" by the Ramones.
I'm not backing away from my conviction that 1965 and '66 were pop music's best years. But I can't deny the importance of '77. And besides, ALL years offer some great rockin' pop music for anyone with the will to find it and revel in it. Today, we revel in 1977. I can't speak for you, but I'm all hopped up and ready to go.
So, let's GO! THIS IS 1977!
This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl--y'know, the real one--airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, and on the web at westcottradio.org 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). TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS are always welcome.
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