10 SONGS: 3/7/2025

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 # 1275

STAR COLLECTOR: I Feel You

DAVE COPE AND THE SASS: Starlight

THRIFT STORE HALO: Do You Still Feel Like I Do?

Superb music for a worthy cause. Our friends at Kool Kat Musik have assembled Pop Aid 2, an irresistible various-artists compilation to benefit American Red Cross relief efforts for those affected by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. We are delighted to support this project, and I've ordered my own physical copy. This week we start our on-air support of Pop Aid 2 with selections by Star Collector, Dave Cope and the Sass, and Thrift Store Halo. We'll hear another track from Pop Aid 2 on our next show.

ROBERTA FLACK: Killing Me Softly With His Song

When news broke that Roberta Flack had died, my wife wondered whether or not Dana and I would consider any of Flack's work sufficiently within this little mutant radio show's hypothetical format. No worries; I've always loved "Killing Me Softly With His Song," and I gave it a chapter in my book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1):

"...Roberta Flack's 1973 hit "Killing Me Softly With His Song" presents a haunting mix of smooth 'n' silky delivery with an exposed vulnerability bordering on the outer suburbs of paranoia. It was an unforgettable component of my prime AM radio-listening era...."

And I say it fits in perfectly with whatever the hell it is that we do here. Rest in peace, Ms. Flack. 

THE CYNZ: Heartbreak Time

New music from the Cynz?. Yes, please. From their forthcoming album, "Heartbreak Time" joins previous TIRnRR Fave Rave "Woman Child" as an effective shill for the next Cynz long-player. "Heartbreak Time" crushes its TIRnRR debut this week, and it spins again on the radio in Syracuse this coming Sunday night.

(I don't think the Cynzs have made a public announcement of the title for their new album. I say it should be Forgive Us Father, We Have CYNZ!! Rock 'n' roll absolution awaits.)

THE HALF/CUBES: The Girl

HARMONIC DIRT: Tumbleweeds

MODAFFERI: Raw Foundation

The SAMMYs (Syracuse Area Music Awards) are tonight, and each of the above albums has been nominated for an award. The Half/Cubes' Pop Treasures is up for recognition in the Best Rock category, Harmonic Dirt's Tumbleweeds is in Best Americana, and Modafferi's The Production is in Best Alternative. All great choices, well worthy of acclaim. The Half/Cubes' remake of the Rubinoos' pop treasure "The Girl" has the added oomph of studio assistance from members of the 'Rubes themselves.

And we've been playing all of these on TIRnRR. Dana and I grew up hearing Syracuse music on the radio, AM and FM, seeing local bands in clubs, buying their 45s, cassettes, LPs, and CDs at area record stores. Syracuse is a great place to be a fan of music. Best of luck to the Half/Cubes, Harmonic Dirt, and Modafferi, and we hope to see to a bunch of Syracuse music fans at the SAMMYs tonight.

(Dana and I will be among the celebrity presenters at this year's SAMMYs, proving once again that Syracuse has a very loose definition of "celebrity." The SAMMYs take place at The Palace Theatre on James Street, with doors opening at 6 pm and show commencing at 7 pm. If you can't be there in person, you can see the free livestream at the SAMMYS Facebook page.)

THE GO-GO'S: We Got The Beat

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BADFINGER: Keep Believing

This week's show was already fully programmed and recorded before we learned of the passing of Badfinger's Joey Molland. It will surprise no one that we happened to have a Badfinger track on this playlist anyway. 

"Keep Believing" comes to us from the recent release of Badfinger's previously-unreleased 1974 album Head First. Like most of Badfinger's best-known songs ("No Matter What," "Baby Blue," and "Day After Day"), "Keep Believing" was written by Pete Ham. Molland was no longer in the band by this time. We'll put a specific spotlight on Molland's work on our next show, and we'll also salute the late, great New York Dolls frontdoll David Johansen. 

It pains us to have to bid farewell to so many of our heroes so goddamned often. Nevertheless: We keep believing.

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10 SONGS: 9/16/2021

10 Songs is a weekly list of ten songs that happen to be on my mind at the moment. Given my intention to usually write these on Mondays, the lists are often dominated by songs played on the previous 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 # 1094.

ALICE COOPER: Clones (We're All)

New wave Alice Cooper! Dunno if the mighty Alice could have really felt threatened by punk or new wave circa 1980; his essential place in rock history was already secure, but I guess we should concede that it might not have seemed so at the time. Whether an attempt to beat Gary Numan at his own game or just Alice being Alice, "Clones (We're All)" was a minor hit (# 40 in Billboard), following a string of middle-of-the-road pop single successes in the late '70s. Cooper could do shock, schmaltz, and electric friends riding in cars (and, later, hair metal, as in his '89 hit "Poison"), and he could do 'em all with style. His style. Alice Cooper was never anybody's clone.

BO DIDDLEY: Bo Diddley 1969

Bubblegum Bo Diddley! It's heresy that this chewy-chewy trifle is my favorite Bo Diddley track, but I am as the Bo Diddley beat made me. And let's be clear: "Bo Diddley 1969" isn't bubblegum just because of its songwriters' identities (bubblevets Bo Gentry and Ritchie Cordell) or that it was a Super K production, like records by the Ohio Express and the 1910 Fruitgum Company; it's bubblegum because it's friggin' bubblegum. And I'm okay with that. Hey baby, I'm back and I'm feelin' fine...!

THE EQUALS: Softly Softly

I have mixed feelings about this song. On the one hand, it's just insanely catchy, maybe the single most infectious track the Equals ever did. And the Equals did a lot of great tracks, including sole U.S. hit "Baby Come Back," the forgotten original of "Police On My Back," and a Bomp! magazine-approved power popper called "I Can See But You Don't Know." So...great!

But the song's lyrics bug me. "Softly Softly" concerns a guy who claims to love his girl Jenny, but he's in imminent danger of losing her because...uh, because she found out he was trying to cheat on her with a hinge-heeled girl named Lucy? My sympathy for this would-be Lothario is limited. Still a catchy song, but the jerk got what he deserved. And he didn't even kiss Lucy.

HARMONIC DIRT: Passport

Syracuse's fabulous folk-roots combo Harmonic Dirt was responsible for the song "Maybe," which was TIRnRR's most-played track in 2018. We've been playing "Blue Moon Atlas" from the group's most recent full-length album Rhode Island Street, and now they also have a brand-new EP called Blame The Horizon. "Passport" from that EP made its TIRnRR debut this week, and [SPOILER ALERT!] it will make a return appearance on next week's show. 

JUSTINE AND THE UNCLEAN: Vengeance

Every story starts somewhere. The Rum Bar Records single of "Vengeance" was our introduction to the music of Justine and the Unclean in 2020, a track which wasted no time in casting us in its eager thrall. We must obey the will of Justine. Justine's will must be obeyed. This led to more airplay for Justine and the Unclean and associated group Justine's Black Threads, which led us to Justine's involvement with WhistleStop Rock. More airplay. Simone Berk, lead singer on WhistleStop Rock's "Queen Of The Drive-In" single, became aware of us, and began sending music for us to play. Justine started her own Red On Red Records label. Airplay upon airplay. From this spontaneous, interconnected generation, we were able to stuff our playlists with music from Sugar Snow, Kid Gulliver, the Chelsea Curve, Andrea Gillis, the Jacklights, Linnea's Garden, Cold Expectations, Nightspell, Quest For Tuna, and this coming Sunday night's spin of the new single by the Daylilies.

This elements of this story all started with "Vengeance." And it's a happier story than you might think vengeance would bring. Thank you, Justine!

BILL LLOYD: Satellite

The mighty Big Stir Records has partnered with SpyderPop Records to bring some renewed retail focus to some SpyderPop releases that didn't get the attention they deserved on their first go-around. These include Bill Lloyd's lovely 2018 album Working The Long Game, represented here by the ace single "Satellite." The Big Stir-SpyderPop alliance also features stellar work from TIRnRR Fave Raves Danny Wilkerson and Lannie Flowers. And we're gonna play 'em all. It's a crusade, man. We all gotta do our part.

RUMBLE STRIP: Adam West

Rumble Strip is a collaboration between Dave Nachmanoff and TIRnRR's old friend Richard Rossi, servin' up a new five-song EP called Let's Roll. The partnership grew out of For The Record, the simply fantastic John Wicks tribute album that Richard curated last year. Awright, given that genesis, we're fans already. And it certainly doesn't hurt that the EP's single is named after the star of the Batman TV series (prompting me to shout HOLY ARBITRONS! when we played it on Sunday's TIRnRR). 

As cool as "Adam West" is, though, Let's Roll's amiable Americana vibe thrives on more than mere novelty. It may not even be my favorite song on the record, but we'll investigate the matter over the course of further Bat-times at this Bat-channel. With or without a Caped Crusader on hand, Richard's words and Dave's music meet in that no-frills friendly diner off the interstate, music for that moment when the waitress smiles at you as she pours your cup o' coffee. I...yes, I think I will have another cup of coffee, thanks, and another piece of pie. Rumble Strip's on the jukebox. All is right with the world.

TOMMY TUTONE: 857-5309/Jenny

A little Byrdsy, a little Stonesy, a little Tommy Tutonesy. See, this is why Hallmark refuses to hire me. Bastards. 

But I digress: great song, then and now. And it came up during a recent vacation, when I discovered that my hotel's WiFi password was 8675309. Jenny could not be reached for comment. But I bet she woulda been pissed.

VELOCITY GIRL: I Can't Stop Smiling

My first exposure to this song (and to Velocity Girl in general) came when Rhino Records hired me to write liner notes for the 1997 compilation Poptopia! Power Pop Classics Of The '90s. The good folks at Rhino sent me the tracks, and I had sufficient hubris to suggest (in vain) that Velocity Girl shouldn't be on the comp, because this certainly isn't power pop in any way, shape, or form. 

Which doesn't mean I don't like song; I do like it, and I played it on the radio this week, even if I still don't think it fits into any discussion of power pop. 

Ah, meaningless labels. What can ya do? Here's what I said about the song in those Poptopia! liners:

"On the more alternative side of pop, Velocity Girl offers a sound that Rolling Stone described as 'haunting yet hummable noise pop.' The group has done a whole passel o' records for Sub Pop, with 'I Can't Stop Smiling' coming to us from 1994's ¡Simpatico! It may not be power pop in the traditional Beatles/Who/Beach Boys/Big Star sense, but it sure is catchy nonetheless."

THE WELL WISHERS: Wonderful Life

I was at Denny's last week--no, I don't care what you think about that--and when I was settling the bill the server joked that my AARP discount represented something good about getting older. I smiled and said, "There's a lot of good about getting older. I saw BANDS...!"

And it's true. I saw the Ramones nine times. I saw the Kinks three times. I saw Prince, David Bowie, KISS, the Animals, the Everly Brothers, Ray Charles, Paul McCartney, the Pretenders, the Runaways, Iggy Pop, the Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, the Replacements, the Fleshtones, the Beach Boys, the Georgia Satellites, the Smithereens, the Monkees, the Searchers, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Ian Hunter, Joe Jackson, Talking Heads, the Clash, Cheap Trick, the Saints, 999, Culture Club, the dB's, the Bangles, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Wang Chung, Regis Philbin, and...it's a long list. (Wait...Regis Philbin?! And Wang Chung?) And it doesn't even get to the records I heard, the comic books I read, the movies I saw, the books I wrapped all around me. The friends. The meals!  The love of my life, and the daughter we cherish. I'm okay with being middle-aged. I have health; I don't have as much hair as I wish, sure, but it's been a wonderful life so far.

"Wonderful Life" is also the title of the latest single from the reliable pen of Jeff Shelton and his jangly band the Well Wishers. Sales of the digital single benefit the California Community Foundation's Wildfire Relief Fund, helping families displaced by the devastation of wildfires. Wonderful song, wonderful cause. Pop music doing good in the real world. Folks of any age should appreciate the wonder of that.

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10 SONGS: 2/11/2020

10 Songs is a weekly list of ten songs that happen to be on my mind at the moment. Given my intention to usually write these on Mondays, the lists are often dominated by songs played on the previous 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 # 1012.

THE ANIMALS: Inside--Looking Out



My Christmas 1976 acquisition of the double-album Best Of The Animals was an integral part of my rockin' pop development during that '76-'77 period that I often call my musical crucible. As great as it was to own copies of "It's My Life," "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place," and "House Of The Rising Sun," and to be introduced to new-to-me Animals classics like "Baby Let Me Take You Home," "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," "I'm Crying," Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home To Me," and even "Story Of Bo Diddley," the gatefold liner notes made teasing, maddening references to a couple of songs not included on that compilation: "Don't Bring Me Down" and "Inside--Looking Out." What the...?! I was especially intrigued by the description of the latter song as an example of "the typically British rave up sound which The Animals helped to create," and I just ached to hear its sure-to-be transcendent sound. I eventually tracked down a copy of the original MGM single at the flea market, and it did not disappoint.

THE BANGLES: Tell Me


Before the big hits, The Bangles were more likely to be heard on alternative radio stations than on CHR in the mid '80s. When the group played in Buffalo around 1984 or so, I owned a copy of their eponymous indie EP, but hadn't yet picked up their major-label debut album All Over The Place. The Bangles' concert was to take place at Buffalo's left-of-the-dial club The Continental, promoted by New Music Radio WBNY-FM, the Buffalo State college radio station. I recall promo spots for the show including snippets of tracks from All Over The Place, definitely including "All About You," possibly including "Tell Me." I had to be there, and I was (possibly via free tickets secured through a WBNY on-air giveaway). They were great, and I bought All Over The Place soon thereafter. All Over The Place remains one of my favorite albums of the '80s, and nearly every track is fantastic; the presence of the ballad "More Than Meets The Eye" is all that has prevented me from celebrating the album in my Love At First Spin series. The Bangles' (definitive) cover of Katrina & the Waves' "Going Down To Liverpool" is my top track here, but "Tell Me" comes close. And "Silent Treatment." And a cover of The Merry-Go-Round's "Live." And "He's Got A Secret." And..and..and...!

THE BAY CITY ROLLERS: Sweet Virginia


By 1977, teen idols The Bay City Rollers were nearing the end of their hitmaking tenure, but not quite done yet. The It's A Game album yielded the Tartan-clad group's final American radio hits, "You Made Me Believe In Magic" and "The Way I Feel Tonight." I recall my friend Dan Bacich being amazed that a group like the Rollers (whom he normally detested) was capable of making a record he liked as much as "You Made Me Believe In Magic." Me, I liked the Rollers' earlier hits just fine, and thought the new stuff okay, too (if nowhere near as pleasingly exuberant as the previous year's "Rock And Roll Love Letter"). The album as a whole seemed like an attempt to groom a slightly more mature BCR audience, though our Rollers may have been undecided about exactly what kind of mature audience to target. MOR? Disco? The rock crowd, via a cover of David Bowie's "Rebel Rebel?" Album track "Sweet Virginia"'s tragic tale of a young lesbian taking her own life (Was it really such a crime, to be lovin' your own kind?) is certainly grown-up in its subject matter, its sprightly, boppin' arrangement providing an odd juxtaposition with its downbeat storyline. The Bay City Rollers' next album didn't sell, and they wound up hosting a Saturday morning kiddie TV show. The mature audience didn't materialize.

CHUCK BERRY: All Aboard


Ha! Credit TIRnRR listener Scott "King" Cornish with making us aware of this fine track, specifically for its lyrical train travelogue shout-out to Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo. That bit reminds me of when my new girlfriend Brenda saw the 1978 Superman movie back home in New York over Christmas break, a few weeks before her first trip to meet me and my parents in Syracuse. She later told me of how I immediately came to her mind when a scene in the film similarly called out transportation connections to Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo. I do believe she kinda liked me, and that she still does. All aboard!

DOUG DEREK & THE HOAX: Bobby's Gotta Get Back To Boston [1981 version]


Although we're now up to TIRnRR # 1012, my CD carrying case still contains a number of discs I'd hoped to include within the larger celebration of our 1000th show back in November. These were all tracks that meant something to our show over the weird course of our mutant history, and I wanted to play as many of them as I could in the weeks before and after the milestone itself. Never got around to reprising this one, but it absolutely qualifies; friend and listener Beth Woodell once told me something to the effect that "Bobby's Gotta Get Back To Boston" is pretty damned close to a definitive TIRnRR track, its speedy, hook-laden and aggressive pop approach a perfect summary of whatever the hell it is we have in mind in each week's pursuit of The Best Three Hours Of Radio On The Whole Friggin Planet. From Kool Kat Musik's essential Doug Derek & the Hoax CD anthology Who The Hell Is Doug Derek?

HARMONIC DIRT: Maybe


TIRnRR's most-played track in 2018, thanks entirely to Dana, who knows a hit record when he hears it. I don't think the members of Harmonic Dirt even realized how special this track is, and we're still playing it because we love it, our listeners love it, and you oughtta love it, too. Harmonic Dirt played the song live last week on an episode of the local TV morning show Bridge Street, and their Anthracite album has been nominated for a SAMMY (Syracuse Area Music Awards). See? We play the HITS! (And you can read my little song and dance on behalf of Harmonic Dirt right here.)

MARYKATE O'NEILL: I'm Ready For My Luck To Turn Around


God, I love this little gem, the lead-off track from Marykate O'Neil's 2006 album 1-800-Bankrupt. As I continue my ongoing Sisyphus impression in attempts to get some notice for my writing, this track joins Eytan Mirsky's "This Year's Gonna Be Our Year" and The Zombies' "This Will Be Our Year" as a personal motivation theme. I'm ready.

KEN SHARP: Girl


Like me, my friend and former Goldmine colleague Ken Sharp is a Monkees fan. Unlike me, Ken's also a singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist, and he's just released a single pairing his two new covers of songs associated with the late Davy Jones. We opened this week's TIRnRR with Ken's cover of The Monkees' "Forget That Girl," and came back to play his version of Davy's solo song "Girl." "Girl" never got to be a hit record--Michael Nesmith's "Joanne" was the only solo hit for any of the former Monkees--but it's well-known from Davy's 1971 guest appearance on TV's The Brady Bunch, and from his return to sing it again in 1995's The Brady Bunch Movie. Davy Jones' "Girl" was also used in the 1971 film Star-Spangled Girl starring Sandy Duncan, a movie (based upon a play by Neil Simon) which relatively few people saw. 

Ken's digital singles of "Girl" and "Forget That Girl" are available right now at kensharp.bandcamp.com, and sales benefit our Davy's favorite charity, The Davy Jones Equine Memorial Foundation. The tracks are also available as a 45; contact Ken for details.



THE SUPREMES: You Keep Me Hangin' On



This track merits a chapter in my ever-forthcoming book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1), but I confess that I've had some difficulty getting the right handle on what I want to write. Beyond the glitz of diva Diana Ross, there is much sadness in the Supremes story, particularly in regard to the late Florence Ballard, and (to a lesser degree) Mary Wilson. For a long time on TIRnRR, our Supremes preference was to play tracks like "Nathan Jones" and "Up The Ladder To The Roof," from the post-Ross edition of The Supremes (which we billed as "without that annoying Diana Ross chick"). But the hits with Ross are still terrific, and "You Keep Me Hangin' On" is probably my favorite. I'll figure out a way to tell its story.

THE YARDBIRDS: Train Kept A-Rollin'


I first knew the song "Train Kept A-Rollin'" via Aerosmith's cover, which a guy named Steve in the dorm room across from mine liked to play during my freshman year in college at Brockport, 1977-78. I've often mentioned how my musical tastes didn't jibe with those of most of my collegiate peers; that's true, but there were nonetheless moments of rockin' pop convergence, even within that stronghold of Southern Rock. There was that one Punk Night at Brockport's on-campus Rathskeller in '78, plus the weekly Oldies Nights at the Rat, too. There was the community viewing of The Rutles' TV special All You Need Is Cash (also in Steve's room); Steve was a Beatles fan, and he occasionally played some other stuff I liked, including The Beach Boys and the above-mentioned Aerosmith. 

(It's also worth noting that I wasn't all that much into Aerosmith or The Beach Boys at the time, though I became a big Beach Boys fan as the years fell away; still, I was okay with listening to either act circa '78.)

I'm not sure when I realized that "Train Kept A-Rollin'" predated Aerosmith, but I learned pretty early on that The Yardbirds had also recorded it in the '60s. The track wasn't on my Yardbirds Greatest Hits LP, but I found out about it somehow, even though I may or may not have actually heard it. 



During my senior year of '79-'80, there was a free screening of the 1966 film Blow-Up in the ballroom at the student union. I knew (by whatever means) that The Yardbirds appeared in the movie. The screening was already in progress when I happened to pass by the ballroom, but I shrugged, figured what the hell, and slipped in with just enough time to see and hear the nightclub scene, featuring The Yardbirds performing what I thought was "Train Kept A-Rollin';" it was actually an [ahem] ORIGINAL tune called "Stroll On," but yeah, a blood test woulda proven that "Train Kept A-Rollin'" was its daddy. Satisfied to have witnessed The Yardbirds--and the short-lived Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page line-up at that--I quietly exited the ballroom without seeing any more of the film. I think I'd already missed actress Jane Birkin's appearance in the film, so I felt no reason to stick around further.

Jane Birkin

In the early '80s, an oldies radio show introduced me to Johnny Burnette's Rock 'n' Roll Trio, whose '50s version of "Train Kept A-Rollin'" inspired The Yardbirds. Decades later, I would finally hear the original version by Tiny Bradshaw. But back in that early '80s time frame, a co-worker at McDonald's gave me her beat-up hand-me-down copy of Having A Rave-Up, the Yardbirds album that contained their rendition of "Train Kept A-Rollin'." She penciled an inscription on the cover, "For Carl, you Sid," Sid being my nickname at McDonald's because I was the only Sex Pistols fan anyone there had ever met. I didn't quite fit in at Brockport. Except when I did. Those moments of communion were a little more plentiful than I may have realized at the time. They're worth remembering and cherishing. And the train kept a-rollin', all night long.

For dramatic purposes, the part of my McDonald's co-worker shall be played by Jane Birkin

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