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.
When Dana and I were guests on The Spoon in 2021 (as heard here), the podcast's hosts Robbie Rist, Chris Jackson, and Thom Bowers gave us each the opportunity to play a track for The Spoon's regular feature The Greatest Song You've Never Heard! We chose "This Year's Gonna Be Our Year" by Eytan Mirsky and "It's You Tonight" by the Flashcubes. Hearing that the 'Cubes track was from the 1990s, Robbie congratulated us on actually finding something good within the '90s music scene.
I dunno how serious Robbie was about that--I get the feeling that maybe possibly our Robbie sometimes occasionally likes to joke around an eensy little bit--but the memory of that comment popped back into my brain during a commute last week. My trusty iPod shuffled to "Mr. Jones" by Counting Crows. I've always liked that track a lot. And I started thinking about slapping together a '90s playlist.
The results of that slappin' appear below. We have popular hits, cult faves, and relative obscurities, and we have Mr. Rist hisself with his great '90s pop combo Wonderboy. This playlist is not necessarily intended to represent the best of the '90s, nor is it the '90s in microcosm. It's just a collection of fabulous rockin' pop tracks from a decade that produced its fair share of fabulous rockin' pop tracks. It's a '90s party! Like Robbie sings with his fellow Wonderlads:
Believe.
Just, y'know...don't inhale. Homie don't play that. Welcome back to the 1990s.
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:
***And NOW AVAILABLE! This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5!***
Fake TIRnRR Playlist: These Are The 1990s
THE FLASHCUBES: It's You Tonight
THE MUFFS: Saying Goodbye
COUNTING CROWS: Mr. Jones
MARY LOU LORD: Aim Low
GIN BLOSSOMS: Allison Road
THE SMITHEREENS: I Believe
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MATERIAL ISSUE: Renee Remains The Same
THE SPONGETONES: Are You Gonna, Do You Need To (Love Me)
THE GO-GO'S: The Whole World Lost Its Head
COCKEYED GHOST: I Hate Rock 'n' Roll
SHANE FAUBERT: Ophelia
CAST: Promised Land
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CHRIS VON SNEIDERN: Annalisa
WONDERMINTS: Proto-Pretty
THE CAVEDOGS: Tayter Country
HOLE: Heaven Tonight
PENELOPE HOUSTON: Scratch
PAUL McCARTNEY: Hope Of Deliverance
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JELLYFISH: The King Is Half-Undressed
CHERRY TWISTER: Don't Forget Your Man
LIZ PHAIR: Supernova
ROGER McGUINN: Someone To Love
THE SKELETONS: St. Louis
MARSHALL CRENSHAW: T.M.D.
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THE REMBRANDTS: I'll Be There For You
JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS: Eye To Eye
SEAL: Kiss From A Rose
FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE: It Must Be Summer
THE WONDERS: That Thing You Do!
SINÈAD O'CONNOR: Nothing Compares To U
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SIBLING RIVALRY: See My Way
MICHAEL NESMITH: Rising In Love
IGGY POP: Candy
BLAKE BABIES: Out There
THE VAN DeLECKI'S: What's Wrong With Yo-Yo?
THE PLIMSOULS: Playing With Jack
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THE COWSILLS: She Said To Me
WILLIE NILE: Heaven Help The Lonely
WONDERBOY: Believe
20/20: Song Of The Universe
NICK HEYWARD: Today
THE CYNICS: Girl, You're On My Mind
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KYLE VINCENT: Wake Me Up (When The World's Worth Waking Up For)
THE AQUANETTAS: Run
THE SHAZAM: Let's Away
SLOAN: The Good In Everyone
MYRACLE BRAH: I'm In Love
THE ROOKS: Reasons
AMY RIGBY: The Good Girls
THE HOODOO GURUS: Something's Coming
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THE RAMONES: I Don't Want To Grow Up
MOTÖRHEAD: Ramones
GENERAL JOHNSON & JOEY RAMONE: Rockaway Beach (On The Beach)
DANCE HALL CRASHERS: Enough
R.E.M.: Man On The Moon
DM3: 1 x 2 x Devastated
THE TEARAWAYS: Nowhere Left To Turn
THE GRIP WEEDS: Every Minute
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BIG HELLO: Today Will Be Yesterday Tomorrow
HANSON: MMMBop
THE RAMONES: Happy Birthday, Mr. Burns
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