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.
Our lives involve many periods of transition. Maybe transition is constant, but in our stories some specific times of change seem to loom larger than others. For many of us, the metamorphoses carried out in our teen years provide the most noteworthy example.
I was 17 when I graduated from high school in 1977, still 17 when I entered college that fall. December of '76 to December of '77 offered an extraordinary twelve months of growth in my rockin' pop consciousness. The Beatles were already my all-time favorite group, and they still are. I listened to oldies, and I also listened to new stuff. That has always been true, and I hope that will always remain so.
In December of 1976, I saw KISS in concert and I belatedly discovered the Kinks. During the spring semester at high school, I expanded my awareness of the Monkees' music and read for the first time about punk rock. In November of '77, having immersed myself in punk courtesy of my college's radio station, my first spin of "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" propelled the Ramones into my pantheon. For Christmas, my girlfriend gave me the Sex Pistols' album.
Music played throughout the summer of 1977: music on my turntable, music on my radio, music in the air, and music in my head. High school behind me. College ahead of me. Transition had a soundtrack. Change was about to come.
Today's phony playlist collects a few of the tunes I heard that summer. Some were holdovers from high school (or earlier), some were new discoveries or acquisitions, and one--"God Save The Queen"--was a not-so-early clue to my new direction. Kansas and Boston were about to lose preeminence in my transitioning world.
No future? Oh, there was a future, all right. A future just waiting to be written.
And heard.
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