10 SONGS (plus one): 5/9/2026

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 # 1335

THE GREENBERRY WOODS: The One That Makes You Happy

If you thought the release of another new single by long-standing power pop idols the Greenberry Woods would automatically occupy the lead-off slot in this week's show, you were correct in your thinking. You're pretty good at this thinking stuff. "The One That Makes You Happy" lives up to its titular hype, and we're happy to play it. "The One That Makes You Happy" serves as a sneak peek at the new Greenberry Woods album It's All Good, Sugar..., which is due out May 29th.

And that should make everyone happy. That's what we think.

T. REX: Cosmic Dancer

When T. Rex singer Marc Bolan was killed in a car accident in September of 1977, I was a college freshman and I was pissed that no one else in my dorm knew who Marc Bolan was. It's not like I was an expert on all things related to T. Rexstasy--at the time, I only knew "Bang A Gong (Get It On)"--but I did have at least an inkling of Bolan's importance, and I was disappointed to discover how alone I was in that setting. (Later, "20th Century Boy" assumed the permanent role of my favorite T. Rex track, as detailed here). I remain a Marc Bolan dilletante, and I owe myself a deeper Jeepster dive in the near future.

Although I've owned a copy of T. Rex's Electric Warrior album track "Cosmic Dancer" for decades, I didn't notice it until it popped up in an episode of the (now-cancelled) 2025 Amazon Prime TV series Étoile. Created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino (creators of Gilmore Girls and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Étoile details the dynamics of a pair of interconnected ballet companies, one in New York and one in Paris. Hijinks ensue, as they often do. The series is most definitely not for everyone, but one doesn't need any proper knowledge of ballet to follow what's going on here (nor in the Palladinos' previous ballet-set series Bunheads). For us rockin' pop enthusiasts, David Byrne makes a cameo appearance in one episode, and Sparks perform "I Married Myself" in the series finale.

In one episode, "Cosmic Dancer" plays in the background, the song's ethereal evocation of dance serving as accompaniment to the visuals while bellying up to the barre in its own right. That was sufficient inspiration to place "Cosmic Dancer" on this week's playlist.

SPECTRAFLAME: Yesterday (Jane)

Sometimes it take us time to get around to things. TIRnRR plays the music of Spectraflame with some frequency, as we oughta. We'd planned to program Spectraflame's "Yesterday (Jane)" a while back, but the track got lost in our self-inflicted shuffle. We're inept, but we're adorable. We got to it now! TODAY, Jane! Today!

GENERAL JOHNSON AND JOEY RAMONE: Rockaway Beach (On The Beach)

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

FIRST CLASS: Beach Baby

KIRSTY MacCOLL: He's On The Beach

THE GO-GO'S: Beatnik Beach

THE FLASHCUBES: Muscle Beach

THE 'B' GIRLS: Fun At The Beach

Segues are often capable of writing themselves, without much (if any) reliance on prior blueprinting. I had determined ahead of time that I wanted General Johnson and Joey Ramone's sublime beach-soul remake of the Ramones' "Rockaway Beach" to occupy this week's Greatest Record Ever Made! slot. This was the sum total of preplanning that went into the forging of what wound up being an entire beach-related set.

Dana followed Johnson 'n' Ramone with First Class and their first-class Beach Boys homage "Beach Boys," a lovely track that earns its own chapter in my book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1). This prompted me to answer with Kirsty MacColl's "He's On The Beach," a fantastic track that I hadn't had any intention of playing this week. But...it fit! And so it played.

Game on.

Our Kirsty inspired Dana to play "Beatnik Beach," a vibrant li'l number that was the B-side of the Go-Go's' irresistible "Vacation" 45. HuzZAH! I was compelled to follow the Go-Go's with Syracuse's own power pop powerhouse the Flashcubes, represented by an incendiary 1979 live performance of Paul Armstrong's "Muscle Beach" from the album Flashcubes On Fire. Dana wrote finis in the sand of this beach trip with the 'B' Girls and "Fun At The Beach."

Does big-time TIRnRR DJing seem easy to you? It IS! We always follow the can't-miss two-step formula to programming the best rockin' pop radio. STEP ONE: Know which rockin' pop songs are the best rockin' pop songs. STEP TWO: Play those. Hodads! Honeys! Fall in! The sound of the beach awaits.

THE CHELSEA CURVE: Ride

The same self-inflicted shuffle that delayed us in playing Spectraflame's "Yesterday (Jane)" nearly did similar disservice to the Chelsea Curve's recent single "Ride." But we love the Chelsea Curve, and we made damned sure to navigate that imposing shuffle and guarantee that "Ride" secured its rightful place on this week's playlist. The Chelsea Curve's new album The Rideout is available now. The single rides again on our next show.

THE RONETTES: Be My Baby

Also The Greatest Record Ever Made! Godspeed, Nedra Talley.

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10 SONGS: 3/21/2026

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 # 1328

THE ON AND ONS: Speck Of Smiling Faces

From the group's native Australia to our native Syracuse airwaves, the On and Ons have been fixtures on This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio since their 2020 EP Menacing Smile, and that unrelenting barrage of pure pop oomph will keep on keepin' on and on with the forthcoming On and Ons album Luminary. The album ain't out until April, but advance single "Speck Of Smiling Faces" has already made its way to hearts, ears, and smiling faces everywhere in the here, the now, and the AWIGHT!. One should expect no less from  luminaries like the On and Ons.

THE COCKTAIL SLIPPERS: Joyride

"St. Valentine's Day Massacre" by the great Norwegian garage pop group the Cocktail Slippers is one of my all-time favorite tracks, and it earned its own chapter in my 2024 book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1). Through an evolving line-up, the group has continued to fascinate and amaze with the same tightly-executed sass that made us love 'em in the first place. New single "Joyride" offers another delighted cruise in the Slippersmobile, where speed limits are optional and the radio's volume is always set to SURRENDER!! Joy! Let's ride.

THE SURFRAJETTES: She Loves You

The Surfrajettes at Middle Ages Beer Hall In Syracuse 3/19/2026

Decades ago, I had the pleasure of witnessing a performance by the Ventures, wherein the group had the admirable audacity to open their fantastic show with "Walk--Don't Run." The club owner introduced the Ventures as "the best fucking dance band in the world," and damned if they didn't prove it.

That torch has been passed to a new generation of North Americans. Over the course of the past eleven years, Toronto's phenomenal pop combo the Surfrajettes have established themselves as one of this world's preeminent surf instrumental groups. On Thursday, the Surfrajettes and their ace opening act Bethlehem Shalom kicked off the second leg of their Road Dogs tour in our beloved Salt City for a show at Middle Ages Beer Hall, and their energetic fun-in-the-sun twang served as the perfect weapon to drive a motherlovin' stake through the icy heart of Syracuse Winter. Armed with original tunes and impeccable savvy in choosing covers (routinely reaching outside the box to convert material by Cream, Iron Butterfly, Spice Girls, and more into their own chosen style), the Surfrajettes are what the Ventures were: The best fucking dance band in the world. The Ventures would be proud to share that distinction with the Surfrajettes.

I remain chagrined by the fact that TIRnRR didn't get around to programming the Surfrajettes until last week's spin of the title track from their Easy As Pie album. We're slackers, but we're slackers with a vision. This week brings us Surfrajettes TIRnRR spin # 2, as the 'Jettes apply yeah-yeah-yeah reverb to "She Loves You" (from previous album Roller Fink). This coming Sunday night brings a reprise of "Easy As Pie," and Dana and I agree that maybe we should just commit to playing the Surfrajettes every week from now on. Pipeline to the stars, man. Surf's up.

THE GREENBERRY WOODS: Whenever You Want Me Too

Rapple Dapple! In my liner notes to Rhino's 1997 compilation Poptopia! Power Pop Classics Of The '90s, I wrote:

"The unfortunate fate of the Greenberry Woods offers a sobering reminder that even the best pop bands can still be resolutely ignored by the buying public. Maryland's favorite pop sons released two absolutely dreamy albums--1994's Rapple Dapple and 1995's Big Money Item--only to be met with appalling indifference by retail and radio. Following the group's apparent demise, a couple members resurfaced in a new group called Splitsville, and released an interesting, cartoony debut album on Big Deal in '96. But Splitsville ain't a proper substitute for the Greenberry Woods, whose passing we mourn here with a spin of their signature tune 'Trampoline,' an impossible-to-resist barrage of singalong charm and halcyon AM-pop style. Come back, guys!"

(Before we go any further, it's important to note that, my '97 self notwithstanding, I soon became a Splitsville fan as well. Pop pundits. We can be a mite slow on the uptake sometimes.)

And now, the return of '90s pop stars the Greenberry Woods should merit a guaranteed berth on any power pop radio playlist, and their new single "Whenever You Want Me Too" certainly deserves that instant-add status. Hell, "Whenever You Want Me Too" woulda fit in on Rapple Dapple, and I further dig its correct titular use of the word "too" to create an effective pun for would-be lovers everywhere. We want this. We hope you want it too.

GENERAL JOHNSON AND JOEY RAMONE: Rockaway Beach (On The Beach)

From a previous post:

I first heard about this beach-music team-up of Joey Ramone and former Chairmen of the Board singer General Johnson when Joey Ramone called to tell me about in 1994. Yes, I am cooler than you are. (I should probably let that illusion stand in place, but Joey's call to me was just a follow-up to a Goldmine interview we'd done within the previous week, as he wanted to make sure I was aware of a number of projects he was doing outside the Ramones' aegis. He never called again. My claim to being cooler than you are is, y'know, suspect at best.)

(Those interviews are, of course, preserved in my 2023 book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones. You should get yourself a copy from publisher Rare Bird Books, or contact me directly to purchase an autographed copy.)

But: back to the record! It's an ongoing testimony to the greatness of Ramones songs that they can thrive in different interpretations. The Swedish girl-pop group Shebang did a girl-pop bubblegum version of "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker." Ronnie Spector covered "Here Today Gone Tomorrow" and "She Talks To Rainbows." KISS did "Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?" with more kitchen-sink Phil Spector than the Spector-produced original. The Nutley Brass and the Ramonetures did entire albums of Ramones covers, in the respective styles of elevator music and surf instrumentals. It all worked. These Blitzkrieg bops remain more versatile and universal than anyone realized at the time.

Remaking the power-pop bubblepunk of "Rockaway Beach" as a soulful slow-groove Carolina beach shag would seem a preposterous notion...until you hear it. Whoa! Grab a blanket, grab your honey, and snuggle by the fire as the sun descends. It's not hard, not far to reach. Hitch a ride, baby.

MADONNA: Dear Jessie

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

THE DOLLYROTS: Attention Span

"Attention Span...?!" See, that's kind of a problem area for us, especially for me. I suffer from what my daughter calls ADOS, which is Attention Deficit...Oooooo, SHINY!

Where was I? Oh, right. "Attention Span," the flat-out full-on invigmoratin' new single from the irresistible rockin' pop forces of the Dollyrots. PAY ATTENTION! It spins here again this Sunday night.

SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE: Stand!

Good advice.

THE RAMONES: I Don't Want To Grow Up

Also good advice. 

THE LITTLE GIRLS: How To Pick Up Girls

And we finish with a snarky 'n' buoyant pop tune pretending to offer good advice while still being, y'know, snarky. I suspect the Little Girls are snickering at the odious machinations of hapless would-be Lotharios. I say we snicker right along with them.

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I compiled a various-artists tribute album called Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes, and it's pretty damned good; you can read about it here and order it here. My new book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) is now available, and you can order an autographed copy here. You can still get my previous book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones from publisher Rare Bird Books, OR an autographed copy here. If you like the books, please consider leaving a rating and/or review at the usual online resources.

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THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE: Rockaway Beach (On The Beach)

An infinite number of tracks can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as the take turns. Today, this is THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE!

This entry originally appeared as part of a larger post, and is not currently intended for my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1).

GENERAL JOHNSON AND JOEY RAMONE: Rockaway Beach (On The Beach)

Written by Ramones and General Johnson

Produced by Ben Wolff and Andy Dean

Single, Forward Records, 1994

I first heard about this beach-music team-up of Joey Ramone and former Chairmen of the Board singer General Johnson when Joey Ramone called to tell me about in 1994. Yes, I am cooler than you are. (I should probably let that illusion stand in place, but Joey's call to me was just a follow-up to a Goldmine interview we'd done within the previous week, as he wanted to make sure I was aware of a number of projects he was doing outside the Ramones' aegis. He never called again. My claim to being cooler than you are is, y'know, suspect at best.)

But: back to the record! It's an ongoing testimony to the greatness of Ramones songs that they can thrive in different interpretations. The Swedish girl-pop group Shebang did a girl-pop bubblegum version of "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker." Ronnie Spector covered "Here Today Gone Tomorrow" and "She Talks To Rainbows." KISS did "Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?" with more kitchen-sink Phil Spector than the Spector-produced original. The Nutley Brass and the Ramonetures did entire albums of Ramones covers, in the respective styles of elevator music and surf instrumentals. It all worked. These Blitzkrieg bops remain more versatile and universal than anyone realized at the time.

Remaking the power-pop bubblepunk of "Rockaway Beach" as a soulful slow-groove Carolina beach shag would seem a preposterous notion...until you hear it. Whoa! Grab a blanket, grab your honey, and snuggle by the fire as the sun descends. It's not hard, not far to reach. Hitch a ride, baby.

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10 SONGS: 12/2/2021

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 # 1105

JILL BROWN: Neverending Song

As fans of pop music, most of us have been enriched by recommendations from friends, family, like-minded enthusiasts, and sundry pundits in print and on the radio. I've for damned sure been the delighted and enlightened beneficiary of many such tips across a span of decades. The DJs who played Badfinger, the rockin' pop journalists who sold me on the Ramones, the convenience store clerk who hipped me to the Selecter, the visionary record store owner who said, You like that? I think you'll like this, too! as he pointed me toward the debut single from the Romantics, the friends who played live albums by James Brown, Otis Redding, the Runaways, and the O'Jays; each of these welcome resources painted an integral part of the picture of my music.

My sister Denise painted some large sections of that picture. Taking me to see A Hard Day's Night at the drive-in theater in 1964. Insisting that I watch The Monkees in 1966. Retroactively directing me back toward the Kinks in 1976. My sister looms large in my legend. 

Denise's most recent heads-up was "Neverending Song," a current single by her friend and coworker Jill Brown. So I listened. SOLD! The track's vocal melody has a structural similarity to some of Adele's stuff, but overall it's much closer in style to the classic and invigorating rockin' pop sound that informs our little mutant radio show. A new favorite! Much obliged, sis.

Again.

THE DAZZ BAND: Let It Whip

AM Top 40 was my lifeline throughout my formative years, the soundtrack of my adolescence and early-to-mid teens in the 1970s. When I was, I dunno, sixteen or so, I started listening to more oldies, and also started opening myself up to freer-form FM radio. My interest in Top 40 plummeted, yet I held on to a cherished vision of what I thought pop radio should be. 

I returned to Top 40 radio in the '80s; never exclusively, supplemented by signals from the left of the dial, but in earnest. I liked some of what I was hearing, from Tracey Ullman to the Commodores to UB40, Prince, Wham!, and more. My Top 40 experience migrated from AM to FM. It was the last time I had any real interest in what was playing in a contemporary hits format.

The Dazz Band's 1982 smash "Let It Whip" was a tangent to that environment, on the radio a bit prior to my renewal of interest in Top 40, still connected to my overall embrace of '80s pop. I've lost interest in a lot of '80s stuff, much of which now sounds too slick and synthetic for my taste. I still like this one. Let it whip.

DEVO: Whip It

Sometimes the proper segue of one song to another is so irresistible that we don't care how obvious that segue is. Like, we don't care at all. Dana played Dionne Warwick singing "Walk On By" in German, which compelled me to follow with the Beatles' moptopped goose-step through "Komm, Gib Meir Deine Hand." Jawohl. And when I played the Dazz Band's above-mentioned "Let It Whip," Dana knew Devo's new wave stalwart "Whip It" had to be next. Had to be. We answer to a higher power. Thou shalt whip it. Thou shalt whip it good. 

WENDI DUNLAP: Season Of Loss

Like your Dana and your Carl, Wendi Dunlap recalls hearing Devo and the Dazz Band on the radio in the '80s. She also appreciates hearing her own captivating new music played alongside those familiar treats on TIRnRR. This week marks her third consecutive appearance on the playlist, and the second week in a row for her song "Season Of Loss." As she heard it on the air this week, she wrote to us, "I think this is the power-poppiest song on the album." We agree! That album is Looking For Buildings, and it will be represented on our playlist again next week, too. Because after all: We play the hits.

Wendi also responded to this week's hype (which had promised a superheroic show) with an offer to send us a picture of her dressed as Triplicate Girl from the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Never underestimate the girls (and boys) of the 30th century. Comics and pop music? Wendi Dunlap is our kinda people.

THE GRIP WEEDS: I Wonder

We've been leaning full-tilt into the Grip Weeds' new covers album DiG, and it was only a matter of time before we got to their cover of "I Wonder." The Gants' original '60s nugget is an all-time TIRnRR Fave Rave, and my God, the Grip Weeds manage a superlative rendition that honors the Gants yet still makes the song their own. Not sure yet, but I think the Grip Weeds will be represented on the year-end countdown of our most-played tracks this year. I can state with some certainty that we intend to include a track by the Grip Weeds in our blowout observation of 30 YEARS OF DANA & CARL on January 16th. Grip Weeds fans? Yeah, we're Grip Weeds fans.

GENERAL JOHNSON AND THE CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD: Carolina Girls

Man, I wish they all could be Carolina girls. I mean that solely in the rhetorical sense. And honestly, I half-expected this tune to be a beach-music cover of the Beach Boys' "California Girls" with the titular babe preference relocated. Heh. I said titular. But no, it's an original from 1980, recorded by beach music legends General Johnson and the Chairmen of the Board, providing tasty music to shag to. 

(Shag is a dance, by the way. Though I guess its other meaning could apply, too.)

The song actually comes to TIRnRR courtesy of a New York girl, my lovely wife Brenda. Brenda found an incomplete copy of The Beach Music Anthology Box Set in a discard pile at her workplace, said to herself, I betcha Carl might want this, and brought the beach home to me. The rest of the girls can be from the rest of the places. This boy's happy he has his New York girl. 

JOHNNY KIDD AND THE PIRATES: Please Don't Touch

It's been a big week for the Beatles, with the on-demand release of the fantastic three-part documentary Get Back on Disney +. I've only had the chance to watch Part 1 thus far, but it's been so, so good--it passes the audition!--and I look forward to seeing the rest of it. 

Nonetheless, it's important to note that essential rock 'n' roll existed before the Beatles, and has continued to exist after the Beatles. The Beatles weren't even the first incredible British rock combo. The Shadows were huge in the U. K., deservedly so. Johnny Kidd and the Pirates were also superb, and they gave the world the original version of "Shakin' All Over," a song well-known via subsequent covers by the Guess Who and the Who (the latter on Live At Leeds). Kidd split from the Pirates in the mid '60s, and was killed in a car accident in 1966.

1960's "Shakin' All Over" is great. 1963's "I'll Never Get Over You" shows Kidd and the Pirates could have been part of the British Invasion. My favorite is the group's debut single from 1959, "Please Don't Touch," a boppin' little number also covered in 1980 by Headgirl, the combined (and loud) forces of Girlschool and Motorhead. We've been playing the Headgirl track a bit this year, and this week we dug out the Pirates' original to spin as half of a two-fer with the Headgirl lads and lasses.

IRENE PEÑA: Nothing To Do With You

And now we've reached the title track. America's Sweetheart Irene Peña has been observing a year-long celebration marking the tenth anniversary of her debut album Nothing To Do With You, releasing each of its eleven songs, one at a time, as digital singles. The tenth single is "Nothing To Do With You," of course it's great, and if you don't already plan to get it, we must humbly ask what the actual...um, never mind. We were ourselves latecomers to the splendor of Irene's music (a story told here), and I presume (and hope!) Big Stir Records will be reissuing the complete Nothing To Do With You in physical form ASAP. Which still isn't fast enough. Meanwhile, we have the singles, we're playing them, and we're diggin' em. The sweetheart revolution! It has everything to do with you. Join us already.

SPYGENIUS: Step Inside Love

I was going to play Spygenius' cover of Cilla Black's "Step Inside Love" anyway, but when Dana played a track by our Cilla herself (backed by the Sounds Incorporated for a take on Junior Walker's "Shotgun"), the choice became imperative. "Step Inside Love" was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney (though it sounds to me like it was just Paul). It wasn't a hit on these shores, but I've always liked it, and Spygenius treats the song with the respect it deserves. Another fab track from their freshly-released album Spygenius Blow Their Covers.

SQUIRE: The Life

I can't testify to this in a court of law, but I think I first heard of phenomenal British pop combo Squire in the pages of Goldmine, from my friend and fellow pundit John M. Borack. A (very!) used copy of Squire's 1983 ...Get Smart! LP was one of my last-ever purchases at the best little record store that ever was, Brockport's Main Street Records. Main Street was run by Bill Yerger, the "visionary record store owner" referenced in the Jill Brown entry up top. I snagged the Squire album in 1988 on my final visit to that beloved little record store. Bill didn't specifically mention Squire to me, but John Borack's written recommendation was sufficient to place that second-hand Squire record into the small stack of records I bought at Main Street that day.

"The Life" is the opening track on ...Get Smart!, and it was my immediate and still prevailing favorite among Squire's work. Thanks for the heads-up, John. That copy of ...Get Smart! is long gone now, replaced years ago by a Squire CD best-of. The artifact fades. The sound--and the memory--remain in place. That's the life.

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