Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Fake THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO Playlist: THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! (VOLUME 1), Part Two

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.

Here's the second of three imaginary playlists recreating the sequence of songs in my proposed book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1). You can see Part One here, and here's a reprise of what we established yesterday:

An infinite number of tracks can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns.

That's been the mantra for my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1). While that particular book still hasn't yet paved its own path to becoming real, my first book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones has just been published, and I remain hopeful that one book can lead to another. 

Currently, my GREM! document is going through a peer review; it is my good fortune that a friend of TIRnRR is an experienced copy editor and fluent in the history of pop music, able to offer corrections in both realms. His initial suggested edits have been welcome and helpful. And as he works through the project, I felt like slapping together a series of three fake TIRnRR playlists dedicated to the book's chosen tracks, in sequence.

The sequence itself isn't a revelation; you can see it as the Table of Contents within the GREM! link above, and the ToC has remained unchanged since its last update in February. I wanted to see how that sequence would play out as three weeks' worth of radio shows, supplemented with three sets of bonus tracks to fill out the third show.

We did a real-world GREM! show in 2021, offering excerpts of the proposed book's sequence as it stood at the time. Now, we'll take a peek at how the whole book would work as a series of radio shows. The infinite continues today, and we'll return to it tomorrow.

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.

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
***And NOW AVAILABLE! This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5!***
     CD or download

Carl's new book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones is now available, courtesy of the good folks at Rare Bird Books. Gabba Gabba YAY!!

You can follow Carl's daily blog Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) at 
https://carlcafarelli.blogspot.com/

FAKE TIRnRR PLAYLIST: THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! (VOLUME 1), Part Two

KISS: Shout It Out Loud
THE BAY CITY ROLLERS: Rock And Roll Love Letter
THE KNICKERBOCKERS: Lies
THE WONDERS: That Thing You Do!
THE DAVE CLARK FIVE: Any Way You Want It
JAMES BROWN: Please, Please, Please
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GRAND FUNK: We're An American Band
THE FIRST CLASS: Beach Baby
THE ISLEY BROTHERS: Summer Breeze
THE PANDORAS: It's About Time
MARVIN GAYE: I Heard It Through The Grapevine
LINDA RONSTADT: You're No Good
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P. P. ARNOLD: The First Cut Is The Deepest
THE DANDY WARHOLS: We Used To Be Friends
SAMMY AMBROSE: This Diamond Ring
BIG STAR: September Gurls
THE DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET: Take Five
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS: All For Swinging You Around
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THE BEATLES: Yesterday
THE BEATLES: Revolution
YOKO ONO: Kiss Kiss Kiss
DONNA SUMMER: I Feel Love
RUFUS: Tell Me Something Good
HEART: Kick It Out
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PAUL COLLINS/THE BREAKAWAYS: Walking Out On Love
THE EASYBEATS: Friday On My Mind
THE CHAMBERS BROTHERS: Time Has Come Today
BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY: Piece Of My Heart
THE FLAMIN' GROOVIES: Shake Some Action
THE CARPENTERS: Only Yesterday
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MATERIAL ISSUE: Kim The Waitress
THE 5TH DIMENSION: Medley: Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In (The Flesh Failures)
THE JACKSON FIVE: I'll Be There
SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE: Everybody Is A Star
THE BANGLES: Live
HEADGIRL: Please Don't Touch
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MILLIE SMALL: My Boy Lollipop
THE FLIRTATIONS: Nothing But A Heartache
THE SPINNERS: I'll Be Around
THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY: I Woke Up In Love This Morning
SUZI QUATRO: I May Be Too Young
DAVID RUFFIN: I Want You Back
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LED ZEPPELIN: Communication Breakdown
FREDDIE AND THE DREAMERS: Do The Freddie
THE BANDWAGON: Breakin' Down The Walls Of Heartache
DON HENLEY: The Boys Of Summer
BEN E. KING: Stand By Me 
THE SPONGETONES: (My Girl) Maryanne
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THE TRAMMPS: Disco Inferno
HAROLD MELVIN AND THE BLUE NOTES: Don't Leave Me This Way
GRANDMASTER AND MELLE MEL: White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)
THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: I'll Be Your Mirror
DEL SHANNON: Runaway
THE COCKTAIL SLIPPERS: St. Valentine's Day Massacre
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SAM AND DAVE: Soul Man

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