This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio 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 a make-believe follow-up to this week's real-word Cubic Roots edition of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio. The actual show gathered the original versions of songs that the Flashcubes or the Half/Cubes covered on officially-released albums; today's addendum presents a playlist of originals that I saw the Flashcubes cover live, but in each case a song that never appeared on any legit 'Cubes release.
My memory stopped short of providing enough songs to fill a three-hour radio show, so we have two supplemental sets to muscle things up. The Not Really Covers set is six original songs that individual members of the 'Cubes released outside of the group's aegis, but which subsequently appeared in a Flashcubes live performance. I'm not 100% sure that Arty Lenin wrote or cowrote Steve Carr's "I Want To Touch You In The Dark," but he plays and sings lead, and it's close enough for our purposes. The Second-Hand News set collects a few songs the Flashcubes covered in live shows, but which I never had the good fortune of witnessing first-hand.
And the show begins with the very first song the Flashcubes played at their very first show, September 1st 1977 at The Brookside. Another Fab Four. John, Paul, George, and Ringo? Meet Gary, Paul, Arty, and Tommy. Hold tight! It's more of the roots of the Flashcubes.
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 http://sparksyracuse.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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FAKE TIRnRR Playlist: Cubic Roots Addendum
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