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.
Following last week's phonus-balonus playlist of records I bought in Brockport, NY 1977-2012, we have a similar programming concept of tunes I snagged in Buffalo and its surrounding area,1982 to...2023, or so? I moved to Buffalo in 1982, lived there for not quite five years, and have been back for many visits since then. I picked up a Moby Grape compilation CD on a '23 visit to the Queen City, so the stated time frame seems right.
The ups 'n' downs of my life in Buffalo were detailed in my 1980s memoir The Road To GOLDMINE. I worked for a record store chain for some of that time, and this playlist deliberately excludes the many promo LPs and 45s I snagged in that capacity. Today, we're only considering LPs, 45s,, and (later) CDs that I purchased new or used from some retail or private vendor in Erie County: Apollo Records (run by none other than Bomp! magazine's Gary Sperrazza!). Home Of The Hits, The Record Theatre, Cavages, The Record Mine, whatever record and stereo equipment place was in University Plaza before Record Theatre moved in, a church rummage sale in the basement under the day care where my wife worked, and a bunch of others. Boost Buffalo, it's good for you.
Let's GO, Buffalo!
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.
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:
Fake TIRnRR Playlist: Records I purchased in Buffalo, NY and its vicinity
* indicates an act I saw perform in Western New York when I lived there
*THE REDUCERS: Let's Go (Rave On, Let's Go)
*THE BANGLES: All About You (Columbia, All Over The Place)
ROKY ERICKSON: Don't Slander Me (Dynamic, single)
VANITY: Pretty Mess (Motown, single)
MOBY GRAPE: Omaha (Columbia, Vintage)
*THE RAMONES: In The Park (Sire, Subterranean Jungle)
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FOOLS FACE: Nothing To Say (Talk, Tell America)
*EDDIE MURPHY: Party All The Time (Columbia, single)
HÜSKER DÜ: Eight Miles High (SST, single)
X: True Love (Elektra, More Fun In The New World)
GENE PITNEY: It Hurts To Be In Love (Musicor, Greatest Hits Of All Times)
*LET'S ACTIVE: Blue Line (IRS, Cypress)
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ARETHA FRANKLIN: Respect (Atlantic, single)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: My Hometown (Columbia, single)
THE LONG RYDERS: Lights Of Downtown (Island, State Of Our Union)
"WEIRD AL" YANKOVIC: Yoda (Scotti Brothers, Dare To Be Stupid)
*THE KINKS: State Of Confusion (Arista, State Of Confusion)
*THE VIPERS: Tears (Only Dry) (PVC, Outta The Nest!)
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*PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION: When Doves Cry (Warner Brothers, Purple Rain)
THE MYSTICS: Valley Of Indecision (Lolita, Dandies Are Back)
DOCTOR AND THE MEDICS: Barbara Can't Dance (IRS, Laughing At The Pieces [UK])
EDDY GRANT: I Don't Wanna Dance (Portrait, Killer On The Rampage)
THE PANDORAS: Stop Pretending (Rhino, Stop Pretending)
*THE RESTLESS: I Wanna Know (Mercury, The Restless)
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ON THE AIR: Even Try (Rhino, VA: The Girls Can't Help It)
*LYRES: Help You Ann (Ace Of Hearts, On Fyre)
*CULTURE CLUB: Church Of The Poison Mind (Epic, Colour By Numbers)
JAMES BROWN AND THE FAMOUS FLAMES: Cold Sweat--Part 1 (King, single)
THE CICHLIDS: Did You Ever (Bold, Be True To Your School)
R.E.M.: Burning Hell (IRS, 12" single)
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*THE CHESTERFIELD KINGS: I've Gotta Way With Girls (Mirror, single)
THE SCRUFFS: Teenage Girls (Power Play, single)
THE DAVE CLARK FIVE: At The Scene (Epic, More Greatest Hits)
*JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS: Frustrated (MCA, Glorious Results Of A Misspent Youth)
TINA TURNER: Better Be Good To Me (Capitol, Private Dancer)
THE BARRACUDAS: Grammar Of Misery (Closer, Mean Time)
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WHAM!: Freedom (Epic, Make It Big)
THE EVERLY BROTHERS: On The Wings Of A Nightingale (Mercury, EB 84)
EL DEBARGE: Who's Johnny? (Gordy, single)
*BILLY JOEL: An Innocent Man (Columbia, An Innocent Man)
THE RECORDS: Imitation Jewelry (Virgin, Music On Both Sides)
*THE WAITRESSES: Square Pegs (Polydor, I Could Rule The World If I Could Only Get The Parts)
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EDWIN STARR: War (Gordy, single)
*JOHNNY THUNDERS: M.I.A. (Jungle, Que Sera Sera)
SIMPLE MINDS: Don't You (Forget About Me)
*TALKING HEADS: Burning Down The House (Sire, single)
THE LOLLIPOP SHOPPE: You Must Be A Witch (BFD, VA: Pebbles Vol. 8)
THE NOMADS: Have Love Will Travel (Sounds Interesting, VA: The Rebel Kind)
THE MOD FRAMES: I Don't Want To Cry (Hit, single)
THE MEMBERS: Working Girl (Arista, Uprhythm Downbeat)
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*THE FLESHTONES: American Beat '84 (IRS, 12" single)
JOHN COUGAR MELENCAMP: R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A (A Salute To 60's Rock) (Riva, single)
ARTISTS UNITED AGAINST APARTHEID: Sun City (Manhattan, single)
THE MARVELETTES: The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game (Tamla, single)
THE GO-GO'S: Turn To You (IRS, Talk Show)
THE HOODOO GURUS: I Want You Back (A & M, Stoneage Romeos)
WILSON PICKETT: Hey Jude (Atlantic, single)
*THE MONKEES: That Was Then, This Is Now (Arista, single)
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THE SPORTS: Who Listens To The Radio? (Arista, Don't Throw Stones)
*THE CLASH: Should I Stay Or Should I Go (Epic, Combat Rock)
*THE ANIMALS: [If the K-Tel compilation Brenda won from a Buffalo radio station qualified, I could have listed "The Night']
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