10 SONGS: 6/8/2024

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 # 1236. 

sparkle*jets u.k.: Box Of Letters

One of the rules for puttin' on a show is to open BIG. A new single by the mighty sparkle*jets u.k. fits that bill from our POV, especially with this fab track "Box Of Letters." BIG pop music! We'll hear it again on our next show. Big pop music is its own reward.

JOHNATHAN PUSHKAR: Don't Stop

No, it's not the Fleetwood Mac song (not that there would be anything wrong with that). Johnathan Pushkar's righteous rendition of the Rolling Stones' "Don't Stop" comes to us via the new tribute album Jem Records Celebrates Jagger & Richards. Dana's pick! 

And a good pick it is, too. It's a 21 century Stones track, and I wasn't at all familiar with the original version. Hey, wait here while I check that one out.

Awright, I'm back. The Rolling Stones' version is fine, but I do prefer the pop of Pushkar's take. We'll hear another track from Jem Records Celebrates Jagger & Richards on our next show.

ALAN MERRILL: Everyday All Night Stand

The late Alan Merrill was an American musician who sounded like a British musician. I mean that as a compliment. Merrill was a member of the Arrows, a '70s UK group that also included fellow Yank Jake Hooker. The Arrows are best remembered for a then-obscure B-side written by Merrill and Hooker: "I Love Rock And Roll." 

Joan Jett was a fan. We know the song now because Joan Jett loved it, covered it, and spread its Gospel. Put another dime in the jukebox, baby. I wrote about the song back in 2020, right after Merrill died due to COVID:

"Joan Jett is about my age, and of course I had a crush on her. Duh. When the Runaways split at the end of the '70s, Jett seemed the one former member most likely to make some interesting new music; Lita Ford was more suited to hard rock, Sandy West, Jackie Fox, and Fox's replacement Vickie Blue didn't appear to be headed to solo careers, and although Cherie Currie (with her sister Marie Currie) did an appealingly basic cover of Rainbow's 'Since You've Been Gone,' none of them quite had Jett's potential. But Joan herself? Joan loved rock 'n' roll.

"So she made rock 'n' roll. She kicked the bad habits that could have ended her career and her life, she kept playing, she kept recording, and she kept playing some more. Her eponymous 1980 debut album (later reissued as Bad Reputation) was one of my favorite records in that period. She had done some recording with former Sex Pistols Steve Jones and Paul Cook, some of which appeared on that first album. But the B-side of her UK single cover of Lesley Gore's "You Don't Own Me" remained non-LP. I confess I was a little disappointed with the Gore cover, but I played that B-side a lot. That was 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll'...

"While (forgive the redundancy) I love 'I Love Rock 'n' Roll,' I've never felt it was Joan Jett's very best track. I'd put 'Love Is Pain,' 'Bad Reputation' (and nearly all of that debut album), her take on Bruce Springsteen's 'Light Of Day,' 'This Means War,' 'Eye To Eye,' and several others above it. Similarly, when the Coronavirus claimed the song's co-author Alan Merrill last month, I recalled that it wasn't quite my favorite among his own catalog either."

My favorite Merrill track remains "Everyday All Night Stand,": which I first heard on his 2012 album Snakes And Ladders. I didn't realize until, like, a week ago that the Snakes And Ladders track was a remake of a song Merrill had originally recorded and released in the early '70s, pre-Arrows. The earlier version is now among my all-time Fave Raves, and a near-miss for my recently-posted All-Time Hot 150.

Allan Merrill was one of the first musicians I heard of succumbing to COVID. It feels like a million years ago, and it feels like yesterday. As I write this, I'm still in shock over the real-life yesterday's news that long-time TIRnRR friend Scott Cornish  has also passed from this damned virus. 

Brenda and I with Scott "King" Cornish at a Joan Jett show

I don't have words. I don't. I don't even have a song to play, because Scott was so passionate about so, so much music. Many of our other friends have already spoken eloquently in Scott's memory, and I cede the dais to all of them. We mourn together. Godspeed, King Cornish. Here's to an everyday all night stand.

Somewhere.

HUNGRYTOWN: Green Grow The Laurels

Lush Americana. Don't argue with the blogger, man. Hungrytown's new album Circus For Sale is available right now. Go! GROW!

PARTHENON HUXLEY: Double Our Numbers

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

SLYBOOTS: Blindsided

Ace NYC combo Slyboots made their TIRnRR debut two weeks ago, with a spin of their recent cover of Meat Puppets' "Oh, Me." All well 'n' groovy. Now, we dig a little bit deeper for a way swell Slyboots original called "Blindsided." "Blindsided" was released last summer, but you know the drill: 

Any record you ain't heard is a new record.

And, new or old, we're delighted to hear this record. We'll hear it again Sunday night.

THE GRIP WEEDS: We Love You

THE AVENGERS: Paint It Black
THELMA HOUSTON: Jumpin' Jack Flash

THE BEATLES: I Wanna Be Your Man

This week, programming picks t' click from Jem Records Celebrates Jagger & Richards inspired us to supplement that Nanker Phelge mania by closing out the show with a few extracurricular Stones covers. 

That closing half-set commenced with one of the Grip Weeds' two contributions to this superb Stones tribute album. I'm sure we'll get to their take on "Dandelion" before long, but we for damned sure wanted to slot in the Grip Weeds' characteristically confident performance of "We Love You" ASAFP. "We Love You" has long been one of my very favorite Rolling Stones tracks, and our Grip Weeds do it justice. Grip Weeds go WILDE!

We then switch to a pair of older Stones covers. From circa 1978, the great San Francisco punk group the Avengers pull off a fiery version of "Paint It Black," and then Thelma Houston serves up a 1969 recording of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" that is A) her single best-ever track, and B) a peer to the Stones' seemingly nonpareil original. It IS, in fact, a gas, gas, gas!

Finally, we close with a Stones cover that isn't exactly a cover. John Lennon and Paul McCartney wrote "I Wanna Be Your Man" for those Rolling Stones; it was the Stones' second single, and their first UK hit. The Beatles then recorded it themselves, with Ringo singing lead. No offense to our little Richard and his moptopped fellow Fabs, but the Rolling Stones' "I Wanna Be Your Man" is a rare case of a Beatles song done better by a group other than the Beatles.

Oh, and the Beatles' version is also great. Beatles or Stones? In the larger scheme o' things, there's simply no need to pick a side. Together, lads!

BONUS TRACK!

THE ROLLING STONES: Sing This All Together

Well? Why don't we sing this song all together? Inquiring minds wanna know. C'mon. Let's roll.

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Carl's book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones is available, courtesy of the good folks at Rare Bird Books. Gabba Gabba YAY!! https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/

If it's true that one book leads to another, my next book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) will be published in July. Stay tuned. Your turn is coming.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, streaming at SPARK stream and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. Recent shows are archived at Westcott Radio. You can read about our history here.

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10 SONGS: 3/30/2024

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 # 1226. This show is available as a podcast.

THE CYNZ: Fall Away

Pay attention. This gets an eensy bit complicated.

We opened this week's rockin' pop extravaganza with "The Eraser," the latest single from the Midnight Callers. We LOVE the Midnight Callers! The commentary accompanying this week's playlist told of our efforts to make sure we got the then-unreleased track in time to air on Sunday night (two days after its release, but on a show recorded two days before its release). We petitioned Maureen, Jem Records' High Priestess of Hype, and she secured what needed securing. All hail the High Priestess! And it was on with the show.

Our second set opened with Wonderboy, singin' that TIRnRR Pick Hit "Girl Songs." On the occasion of one of our (many) previous programmings of "Girl Songs," we told Wonderboy's Robbie Rist that we were following his tribute to girl songs with something from the Beatles' White Album, and he presumed it would be "Julia." Y'know...an actual girl song. But NO! We'd put in "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?" instead. That was a missed opportunity. We corrected it with this week's back-to-back "Girl Songs"/"Julia."

And then: A song BY a girl, playing with some guys, and collectively calling themselves the Cynz. On Jem Records, home of the Midnight Callers. All hail High Priestess Maureen again! We've been playing advance tracks from the new Cynz album Little Miss Lost, and we needed to celebrate its at-long-last-unleashed status by blastin' a new Cynz treat we ain't played yet. Huzzah AND hallelujah!

We'll pay further tribute to High Priestess Maureen on our next show, with further spins of the Midnight Callers and the Cynz, and additional carpet-bombing by Jem stars Paul Collins, the Weeklings, and the Grip Weeds. Gotta keep the High Priestess happy. It makes the listeners happy, too.

(Oh, and "Girl Songs" spins again as well. Also gotta keep Wonderboy happy. It leads to stuff.)

TALL POPPY SYNDROME: This Time Tomorrow

Well, we should have gotten to this one a lot sooner than we did. Here, the great Tall Poppy Syndrome--Paul Kopf, Vince Melouney, Jonathan Lea, Alec Palao, and Clem Burke--take on "This Time Tomorrow," a track originally done by TIRnRR's house band the Kinks. They do a damned good job of it, too, turning in one of the better Kinks covers to reach these dedicatedly followin' ears. 

The track took some sort of wayward path to get to us. But it finally did get to us, so we're playing it now! Tall Poppy Syndrome and the Kinks. Two great tastes that go great together.

And Tall Poppy Syndrome's "This Time Tomorrow" returns to TIRnRR this coming Sunday night, sharing a set with another great band turning in another great new Kinks cover. You won't wanna miss either of them.

CARL DOUGLAS: Kung Fu Fighting

BLONDIE: Kung Fu Girls

Common response to the Carl Douglas hit record listed above: "Surely not everybody was kung fu fighting!"

Blondie's response to that: "Hold my beer."

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: I'll Be Your Mirror

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

SHUFFLEPUCK: Where The Hell Is She

Last week's TIRnRR debuted Shufflepuck's "Where The Hell Is She," the advance single from a new limited edition book and LP package called Generation Blue. Generation Blue comes to us courtesy of our friends at Big Stir Records and SpyderPop Records, so let's cede the floor and let our friends tell you all about it:

"Big Stir Records and SpyderPop Records proudly announce a unique music and rock literature event and release: Generation Blue, a Limited-Edition Vinyl LP Compilation and Oral History Book curated and edited by S.W. Lauden. The album and book together explore the Hollywood Geek Rock scene of the '90s and early 2000s, featuring key bands Nerf Herder, Ozma, Baby Lemonade, Psoma, and many others. Previewed by the hit indie single “Where The Hell Is She,” a lost Geek Rock nugget by the band Shufflepuck, the album features eleven rare or exclusive vintage tracks while the book tells the story of the scene in the words of those who were there—including Lauden who played drums for the band Ridel High. The LP/Book package is up for presale exclusively at Big Stir Records' online points of sale (including this website) and sees release April 26 as its tracks hit all digital platforms."

We're told advance sales of Generation Blue have been what's technically referred to as "through the motherlovin' roof," making an already limited edition even, y'know, limiteder. If you want this, ya best act now.

We'll hear another track from Generation Blue on our next show. Meanwhile, this past Sunday on SPARK Syracuse offered two opportunities to hear Shufflepuck's "Where The Hell Is She:" Right here on TIRnRR, and also on Radio Deer Camp.

And speaking of Radio Deer Camp....

PATRICK MACNEE AND HONOR BLACKMAN WITH THE IVOR RAYMONDE ORCHESTRA: Kinky Boots

This week marks the fourth of anniversary of our pal Rich Firestone's essential weekly show Radio Deer Camp, heard every Sunday from 5 to 7 pm Eastern right here on SPARK! YOU, my friends, should really oughta tune in to RDC every week. Like oatmeal, it's the right thing to do.

There is often some crossover between RDC and TIRnRR, when both shows independently decide to play the same track on the same day. That is A-OK by me; ya can't have a hit record if you only play it once. The crossover usually involves a new release (like Shufflepuck's "Where The Hell Is She"), though on occasion our grated minds have thought alike on some older nugget as well. We like to keep you guessing. We like to keep us guessing.

This is Radio Deer Camp, rock 'n' rollers!

But this week served up our most unlikely crossover yet, as both shows played "Kinky Boots." Not the 2005 movie nor its subsequent Harvey Fierstein-Cyndi Lauper stage musical adaptation. No, this "Kinky Boots" was a 1964 single by actors Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman, stars of the British TV series The Avengers.

Call me Scarlet Witch again and you're gettin' a kinky boot to the head, mister! 

Yeah, didn't see that crossover comin'. But awright! And congratulations to Rich Firestone and Radio Deer Camp. You keep doing whatever the hell it is you do, and we'll keep doing whatever the hell it is we do. Great radio ensues. 

THE AVENGERS: We Are The One

And of COURSE we followed Patrick Macnee and Honor Blackman with the Avengers. GET IT? Avengers Assemble! 

Wait...wrong Avengers. 

Anyway. As for this band called the Avengers, their still-unfinished entry in my Greatest Record Ever Made! series begins: "The Clash sang that anger could be power. Even before that line appeared in the Clash's London Calling album track 'Clampdown' in 1979, a San Francisco group called the Avengers was on stage at Winterland, opening for the Sex Pistols in that group's final appearance meltdown, and embodying the concept of cathartic fury. Anger. Power. Rock 'n' roll."

RASPBERRIES: Ecstasy

"Ecstasy" is a track I really wanted to include in last week's tribute to the late Eric Carmen, but it was not to be. If memory serves, "Ecstasy" was only the fourth Raspberries track I ever heard. It was the third track on the fabulous Raspberries compilation Raspberries' Best Featuring Eric Carmen, but I had already heard that LP's first, second, and fourth tracks--"Go All The Way," "Tonight," and "I Wanna Be With You"--on AM Top 40 radio well before power pop Santa Claus left the best-of album under my Christmas tree in 1976. Wally Bryson's jagged Who-like guitar on "Ecstasy" made it an instant obsession.

Our Eric Carmen tribute included "I Wanna Be With You" and "Go All The Way," plus Raspberries' "I'm A Rocker" and "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)." We achieved "Ecstasy" this week. And this Sunday night? We'll play "Tonight."

THE FLASHCUBES: Make Something Happen

Make something happen? I'm workin' on it, man. I'm working slow, but I'm workin' on it.

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If it's true that one book leads to another, my next book will be The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1). Stay tuned. Your turn is coming.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, streaming at SPARK stream and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. Recent shows are archived at Westcott Radio. You can read about our history here.

I'm on Twitter @CafarelliCarl

THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! Works In Progress

 

Although I've long since completed (and submitted) a draft of my proposed book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1), the subject itself remains open for me. I continue to work on more GREM! entries, for use here on the blog and for potential engagement in an even-more-theoretical The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 2). An infinite number of tracks can each be THE greatest record ever made as long as they take turns. Maybe I take the infinite part of the book's tagline too literally.

Nonetheless! Here's a look at bits of some of my many GREM! works in progress. 

THE PRETENDERS: Back On The Chain Gang

It was just like starting over.

The Pretenders emerged in England in 1978, led by Chrissie Hynde, an American playing guitar and singing lead. Hynde, guitarist James Honeywell-Scott, bassist Pete Farndon, and drummer Martin Chambers turned out to be great Pretenders, debuting on record with a 1979 single covering the Kinks' "Stop Your Sobbing." More records followed: singles, two albums (1980's Pretenders and 1981's Pretenders II), with the 1981 EP Extended Play in between albums. 

And then half the band died. 

WAR: Low Rider

Has anyone ever used the word "imperious" to describe the rhythm of War's 1975 hit "Low Rider?" I'd presume it hasn't been done, and it may be a stretch to use it now. But GodDAYum, that regal riddum rules by divine and absolute right. Imperious War!

When discussing the records that make us wanna dance, prance, and make romance, we often talk about the beat. But more than the beat, "Low Rider" has a visceral, almost physical rhythm that dictates a mandatory moving of your body. Typical of me being me, I didn't come to appreciate that rhythm until way, way after the fact.

BONEY M: My Friend Jack

My relationship with disco is complicated. I hated it during its heyday, but began to re-think my position as it became clear that some (not all) of the Disco Sucks movement was built upon a foundation of tacit racism and homophobia. I further realized that a lot of the disco LP-burnin' Fascists hated my preferred punk and power pop almost as much as they hated dat ole debbil disco, so...enemy of my enemy is my friend.

But never mind the shifting parameters of my mixed-signal interactions with disco. Eurodisco group Boney M was a breed apart anyway, willfully weird but extremely pop.

PEGGY LEE: Fever

There is cool, and then there is cool. Cool-as-a-fever cool. No other approximation of cool has ever been anywhere near the sizzling cool of Peggy Lee's 1958 absolute annexation of Little Willie John's R & B (and crossover pop) hit "Fever." 

THE MAYTALS: Pressure Drop

Listening to Johnny Nash didn't prepare me for this.

I first saw Toots and the Maytals name-checked in some magazine (either Rolling Stone or Playboy, possibly both) in the late '70s, though I wasn't conscious of the music until many years thereafter. I recall that Linda Ronstadt was among those praising the essential nature of Maytals LPs Funky Kingston and Reggae Got Soul, and if I couldn't quite fit reggae into my new wave rock 'n' roll world view at the time (the Clash notwithstanding), I did get there eventually. 

THE POLICE: Roxanne

When I worked at a record store in the '80s, one of my co-workers was horrified when I mentioned that I didn't really care about the music of the Police. "Horrified" may not be much of an exaggeration; he gasped, put his hands to the sides of his face in a manner that would have made Macaulay Culkin proud, and backed away from me slowly. I think I saw him mouth the world Unclean! 

I had liked the band initially, around the time of their first two albums in the late '70s, but found myself losing interest in them as they became (to my taste) increasingly...mainstream? I guess. I wasn't trying to be hipper than the crowd, honest; it was just that I preferred their earlier records. I appreciate some of their bigger hits a bit more now than I did then, though I'm pretty sure I'll always detest that damned stalker song, "Every Breath You Take."

And "Roxanne?" My God, "Roxanne" was far and away the best thing on AM Top 40 in 1979. Nothing else even came close to it. 

ABBA: Dancing Queen

There is a false conviction among some rock 'n' roll fans that ABBA's music is inherently schlocky. This conviction is a big ol' pile of piggy poop.

AM radio surrendered to ABBA's "Waterloo" in 1973. I may have struggled with some indecision over whether or not I liked the song at the time, and I can't explain why. It was a pop song. I like pop songs. And I sorta liked ABBA. Ultimately, I decided that I liked "Waterloo," too. 

"SOS" was my favorite among ABBA's initial run of hits, though the only ABBA singles I bought were "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and "Take A Chance On Me." I also loved "Dancing Queen." I had no use for "Fernando." I was indifferent to "Mamma Mia" and "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do." Reading in Bomp! magazine's 1978 power pop issue about "So Long," a purportedly great ABBA power pop song I'd not yet heard, was reason enough for me to buy my friend Jay's copy of ABBA's Greatest Hits. I was perfectly okay with ABBA's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Hell, a lot of ABBA's hits are closer to original-formula '50s/early '60s rockin' pop than anything that a band like, say, Genesis ever did.

"Dancing Queen" is ABBA's signature tune. It's often lumped in with disco, but its gloss is more girl-group than Studio 54. It shimmers in its own deliciously pure pop way, not beholden to trends, timeless yet still so '70s it could have been sporting a WIN button.

THE AVENGERS: We Are The One

The Clash sang that anger could be power. Even before that line appeared in The Clash's London Calling album track "Clampdown" in 1979, a San Francisco group called the Avengers was on stage at Winterland, opening for the Sex Pistols in that group's final appearance meltdown, and embodying the concept of cathartic fury. Anger. Power. Rock 'n' roll.

BLONDIE: (I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear

A love letter from Lois Lane, sung by Marilyn Monroe, backed by the Dave Clark Five.

Blondie's lead singer Debbie Harry was sexy without any appearance of trying to be sexy. She didn't even seem to be conscious of her everyday allure, her natural beauty and glamour, her God-given possession of It. She just was. 

My first awareness of Blondie came via Phonograph Record Magazine in 1977. I've never forgotten writer Mark Shipper's description of the band's look as "like Marilyn Monroe backed by the Dave Clark Five," a blurb which (even more than Debbie Harry's attractive image) sold me on Blondie well before I ever heard a note of their music. When I got to college that fall, I immediately started carpet-bombing the school radio station with requests for all of the acts I'd read about in PRM, from Television to the Dictators, and certainly including constant (and urgent) petitions to hear Blondie's "X Offender." I loved the track on first spin, and I have never stopped loving it since. And they called it puppy love!

THE JAM: In The City

Punk could be pop. In America, the Ramones already knew that, even if the charts didn't reflect the verity of that aesthetic.

THE YOUNG RASCALS: Good Lovin'

Little Steven says garage rock is "white kids trying to play black rhythm and blues and failing--gloriously." Fair enough. So what do we call it when a white group tries to play soul music, and succeeds? We could call that the Young Rascals.

THE RECORDS: Starry Eyes

Dreams of fame and fortune are not held solely by the performers.

THE VOGUES: Five O'Clock World

It should only be a footnote in the story of "Five O'Clock World," but the result is so engaging, so perfect, that I can't help elevating it to a prime moment in the history of rockin' pop on TV. 

THE DICKIES: Banana Splits

TRA-LA-LAAAA! TRA-LA-LA-LAAAAAA! TRA-LA-LAAAA! TRA-LA-LA-LAAAAAAAAAA!

No. You get a hold of yourself. Don't be messin' with the manifest majesty of the Banana Splits.

And don't be messin' with the manifest DESTINY of The Greatest Record Ever Made!, whether it's Volume 1, Volume 2, or an undrafted free agent. The infinite does what the infinite does.

If you like what you see here on Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do), please consider a visit to CC's Tip Jar. 

Carl's new book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones is now available, courtesy of the good folks at Rare Bird Books. Gabba Gabba YAY!! https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/

If it's true that one book leads to another, my next book will be The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1). Stay tuned. Your turn is coming.

This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, streaming at SPARK stream and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. Recent shows are archived at Westcott Radio. You can read about our history here.

I'm on Twitter @CafarelliCarl