10 Songs is a weekly list of ten songs that happen to be on my mind at the moment. The lists are usually dominated by songs played on the previous Sunday night's edition of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. The idea was inspired by Don Valentine of the essential blog I Don't Hear A Single
This week's edition of 10 Songs draws exclusively from the playlist for This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1336
BANDA AL9: I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
Banda AL9 are an invigmoratin' pop combo from Brazil, with a new album called Hey! Hey! We're Banda AL9 due out this summer from Wicked Cool Records. The titular Hey! Hey! calls the Monkees to mind (and we approve of that message), and it also connects with this advance non-album single, covering the Rubinoos' power pop classic "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend." Hey hey you you! And what the Hey!, we're spinning this one again on our next show. Can't wait to hear the album.
GIRLSCHOOL: 20th Century Boy
I mentioned T. Rex in last week's 10 Songs, and also mentioned therein that "20th Century Boy" is my favorite T. Rex song. Knowing that this week's TIRnRR Greatest Record Ever Made! spotlight was set to shine on Headgirl (the combined forces of Girlschool and Motörhead, as discussed in my book The Greatest Record Ever Made! [Volume 1]), it seemed appropriate to serve up a first-set foreshadowing of that selection with a li'l sumpin' from Girlschool as well. Girlschool's able T. Recstasy channeling of "20th Century Boy" just about programmed its own way into the first set. We're your boys, Girlschool!
(And recognizing Headgirl's other half, we'll get to Motörhead on our next show. In fact, we'll reprise the very first Motörhead song I ever heard.)
THE PORTUGAL JAPAN: Boy Meets Girl
Kick. Ass.
"Boy Meets Girl" by early 21st century Japanese punk grrls the Portugal Japan has been an occasional TIRnRR playlist treat for years. From a previous 10 Songs:
"Man, this record is like sugar-frosted amphetamines. BOY MEETS GIRL! GIRL MEETS BOY! Dana had a compilation CD called Innocence Is Bliss, subtitled 'A Female Frenzy Of Sensational Sounds!' From that set, he played the Portugal Japan's 'Boy Meets Girl,' and I knew I needed my own copy, STAT...."
And while I did indeed score my very own Innocence Is Bliss (albeit in a time frame inexcusably longer than "stat"), I've never gotten around to further investigation of the Portugal Japan library. Their eponymous 2005 album appears to be the only Portugal Japan material to ever reach the marketplace, but I'm streaming it right now as I write, it's also transcendentally kickass, and I'm gonna need to own it. Radio's job is to sell records. Sometimes we sell the records to ourselves..
GO TIME!: Rules Don't Apply
"Rules Don't Apply?" Hey, it's the Federal government's theme song. NO! I KID! I'm a kidder. The music of Go Time! deserves better than my cheap jokes (though nothing will stop me from making cheap jokes), and as a rule, the group's new album 11 deserves to be applied to rockin' pop playlists everywhere. We'll do our part. Rules are rules, man. Rules are rules.
AMOS MILBURN: Down The Road Apiece
From 1947: Amos Milburn, and the first rock 'n' roll record. I doubt anyone could ever convince me otherwise. I made my argument on Milburn's rock 'n' roll behalf here.
THE LEGAL MATTERS: It Doesn't Matter
I'm far too lazy to do the research, but I believe TIRnRR was one of the first radio shows to program selections from the Legal Matters' ace current album Lost At Sea. "It Doesn't Matter" is my favorite track on Lost At Sea, and hearing it pop up again on my car stereo during a recent commute was more'n sufficient grounds to return it to the playlist, where it belongs. And do you know what the Legal Matters' "It Doesn't Matter" has in common with Banda AL9's cover of the Rubinoos' "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend?" It will also spin again on our next show. Hey HEY! It MATTERS!
THE PRODUCERS: What's He Got
Again: HEY!
THE MONKEES: She
And once again: HEY! I say, HEY!!! The Monkees sure knew their way around a proper HEY!!!
THE SHIRTS: Tell Me Your Plans
We've been offering advance airings of tracks from Live At Paradise 1979, Think Like A Key Music's exquisite new archival release from CBGB stalwarts the Shirts. And now: THE ALBUM IS OUT! BUY IT!! It's really good. To celebrate, we return to the Live At Paradise 1979 performance of "Tell Me Your Plans," which is probably my favorite Shirts number.
HEADGIRL: Please Don't Touch
The Greatest Record Ever Made!
How do I know it's the greatest record ever made? Because the first time I heard it, I didn't want to hear any other track, just this one, over and over, again and again. A lot of records have that immediate, welcome effect on me. An infinite number of tracks can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. Here's to infinite turns, always and forever.
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