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.
The teen years can be a crucible. For today, let's ignore the trauma and uncertainty of that particular period of metamorphosis, and focus instead on its good side: The discovery of new music.
The imaginary playlist sprawled below gathers tracks by artists I heard for the first time when I was 16 to 18 years old. Our period of study spans January of 1976 through December of 1978, beginning just before my 16th birthday and ending a little before my 19th. That starts with the spring of my junior year in high school, and pumps up its volume as I mature (HA!) through high school graduation and my first three semesters in college.
And it was indeed a period of rockin' pop discovery for me. AM radio to FM radio, TV shows, rock magazines, movies, friends, and EVERY DAMNED THING I COULD LATCH ONTO fed my voracious desire for more. More music! MORE!!!
In each case (with a few exceptions), the track selected is the first song I can remember hearing from that artist. The quartet of exceptions--the Flashcubes, New Math, the Poptarts, the Fast--are accompanied by asterisks, designating bands I saw perform live before ever hearing their music elsewhere; those spots are filled by whatever track served as my subsequent introduction to the group's recorded work. The playlist includes older artists I heard after the fact, and it's dominated by contemporaneous rock 'n' rollers I heard as they emerged at the time.
Obviously, this wasn't my first period of discovery, and it certainly wasn't my last. Hell, we won't get to the last discovery until the doctor pulls the sheet over my face and says, Okay, I'm calling this one a wrap.
But this was my crucible. The Ramones and the Flashcubes joined the Beatles to form my pop music Trinity. The crucible was good, or at least the music part of the crucible was good.
As always: I am not under oath at any point in these proceedings. These are my best recollections of a heady time that sounded terrific in my ears. How ya doin' Crucible? Let's party.
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