10 SONGS: 8/17/2024

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 # 1246.

JAMIE HOOVER: War Of The Roses

Jamie Hoover's new single "War Of The Roses" presents a tale of uncivil war, the aftermath of a D-I-V-O-R-C-E that can not be called amicable. Hearts will be broken tonight, as will some joint bank accounts, and maybe some dishes while they're at it. C'mon, Roses! Can't we all just get along?

The story is told with the accomplished pop panache we expect from Jamie Hoover. Oooo, and the song was co-written by long-time TIRnRR pal Rich Rossi, with backing vocals from TIRnRR Fave Rave Elena Rogers. That's a This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio trifecta, and we'll say that on the air this coming Sunday night when "War Of The Roses" returns to the playlist. (And an open memo to the estranged Mr. and [ex-] Ms. Rose: Curb your lawyers. Lay down your arms. War is over. If you want it.)

CIRCE LINK AND CHRISTIAN NESMITH: The Magician

The dynamic duo of Circe Link and Christian Nesmith are so, so adept at the art of popcraft. Everything they do sounds sublime, and their powers and abilities cross genres with authority. Pop music? Classic rock? Folk? Circe and Christian can do it all, and all of it will sound amazing.

That statement applies equally to their ventures into the realm of progressive rock. I'm not a prog guy by any stretch, but man, I love what Circe Link and Christian Nesmith are able to execute while cavortin' in that vast and inventive playground. In the past, they've demonstrated their prog love and chops with well-chosen covers, and with their original prog album Cosmologica in 2021. Their new album Arcana continues and expands that vision.

Prog as pop. The music of Yes was certainly a part of my Top 40 AM radio world in the early '70s, and a chapter discussing my love-hate relationship with Pink Floyd appears in my book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1). Even with my short attention span and my enthusiastic embrace of punk, I still recall and recognize prog's appeal, especially when a progressive rock track employs hooks and palpable melody, the irresistible qualities that make the very best rockin' pop music. 

Arcana has those qualities in quantity. The songs sound like they could have comprised a hypothetical second LP of Fragile, but with Circe Link replacing Jon Anderson at the microphone. The result is endlessly captivating, almost as if Yes had formed a supersupergroup with Annie Haslam and Renaissance. And this week, we break format just a little bit to program the exquisite eleven-plus-minute Arcana track "The Magician."

Magic. 

Even this unrepentant punk can't resist that. 

sparkle*jets u.k.: Little Circles

This week's episode of the Material Issues podcast found hosts Mark Hershberger and David Bash welcoming Michael Simmons, Susan West, and Jamie Knight from the mighty sparkle*jets u.k. As always with Material Issues, a splendid time was forcefully mandated for all. (That guarantee may not apply next week, when I'll be the guest on Material Issues, hawking the above-mentioned Greatest Record Ever Made! book. I'm hoping there will be at least a few fleeting moments of interest to you, the discerning rockin' pop fan.)

sparkle*jets u.k.'s recent release Box Of Letters is most definitely one of this year's very best albums, and you hear all about it on this week's Material Issues. We've certainly been programming Box Of Letters with manic glee on our little mutant radio record party. The album's title tune is likely to score a berth on the year-end countdown show of our most-played tracks in 2024. With this week's spin of "Little Circles," we have now played seven of the twelve selections included on Box Of Letters. We'll add an eighth from Box Of Letters on Sunday. 

After that: Four more to go! Plus, y'know, additional play for the title ditty. It's a hit!

We play the hits.

THE MONKEES: Love Is Only Sleeping

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

THE LINDA LINDAS: Too Many Things

JOSIE COTTON: Sheena Is A Punk Rocker

A couple of weeks ago, Dana and I recorded an upcoming appearance on Only Three Lads, the fab weekly podcast devoted to classic alternative rock of the '70s, '80s, and '90s. During the course of our conversation with O3L hosts Brett Vargo and Uncle Gregg, we mentioned Josie Cotton's cover of the Ramones' "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker," from Cotton's recorded-in-the-'80s/released-in-friggin'-2019..?! gem Everything Is Oh Yeah. And Dana commented that he'd love to see our Josie team up with young punks the Linda Lindas for more Ramones-inspired Rock 'n' Roll High School razzmatazz.

GREAT idea!

And we used that idea to program a two-fer spin of an advance track from the Linda Lindas' forthcoming album No Obligation into Ms. Cotton's rendition of the Ramones' nonpareil statement of New York City really having it all. Oh yeah, oh yeah...EVERYTHING'S oh yeah! 

THE GLADIOLAS: Little Darlin'

While on O3L, we also talked briefly about the Gladiolas' forgotten original of "Little Darlin'," a song subsequently whitewashed to chart success by the neither R nor B likes of the Diamonds.

At the time we recorded the podcast, I didn't realize that "Little Darlin'" had been written by Maurice Williams, who was a member of the Gladiolas and who later achieved chart-topping success with Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs and the # 1 smash "Stay."

As we were working on this week's radio show, the news broke that Maurice Williams had passed. The playlist had already been set, but it was an easy feat to slip the classic "Stay" in at show's end, and not too late to alter our eighth set so it could open with the Gladiolas' "Little Darlin'." These are some of the giants upon whose shoulders we stand. 

Tribute must be paid.

THE RAMONES: She's The One

Writing in Bomp! magazine in '78 or '79, Greg Shaw referred to "She's The One"--a track from the Ramones' then-new album Road To Ruin--as the group's "best fast song ever."

And lemme tell ya: The Ramones did more than just a few fast songs.

In the Gladiolas section above, we invoke the importance of paying tribute. Well, every single TIRnRR playlist is part of an ongoing tribute to the Ramones--the American Beatles, the greatest American rock 'n' roll band of all time--and that tribute is true even on those rare weeks when we don't play any Ramones songs. It's true even on the annual celebrations of Dana's Funky Soul Pit. And that's not just because our show is named after a line in a Ramones song; it's because we wouldn't be doing any of this if not for the Ramones. More than any act outside of the Beatles themselves, the Ramones are our template for what rock 'n' roll radio can be. 

So we offer tribute. Easy as 1-2-3-4! Yeah yeah it's the one, it's the one, it's the one.

ELENA ROGERS: Alone (Again)

We opened the show with a track featuring Elena Rogers on backing vocals. And we opened the week's final set with Elena herself on lead, from her wonderful current album Prelude To Whatever. 

Gotta pay tribute to the new stuff, too.

MAURICE WILLIAMS AND THE ZODIACS: Stay

Just a little bit longer. Tribute is proper. Godspeed, Maurice Williams.

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10 SONGS: 7/8/2023

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 # 1188. This show is available as a podcast.

THE MIDNIGHT CALLERS: What Goes Around

We've been poundin' pretty good with "Baby Let Me Be," the advance single from the Midnight Callers' fantabulous new album Rattled Humming Heart. The album itself is finally out now, and it seemed high time to play one of its other fantabulous tracks. We opted for "What Goes Around," but we had a lot of superstellar choices at our disposal. We're switching back to the single on our next show, but expect more from Rattled Humming Heart as these weekly radio bopathons continue. Saturation airplay suits the Midnight Callers just fine.

GLADYS KNIGHT AND THE PIPS: Midnight Train To Georgia

"Midnight Train To Georgia" dominated my beloved AM radio stations in 1973, but I wasn't initially much of a fan of the song. Don't know why this was so, but the track didn't clickety-clack in place for me until I saw Gladys Knight and the Pips perform it on some TV show. I have no idea what show it was, and I can't even swear whether Gladys and her Pips were actually singing or just lip-syncing, but whatever: the performance fascinated me. And it wasn't the visual of the Pips' dance moves that got to me; it was the singing. Gladys Knight. And the Pips. I didn't notice how great they sounded until I listened to 'em on TV. I've adored this song ever since that night.

I recently got the chance to witness Gladys Knight sing live. My God, she's magnificent. My slight disappointment that the concert ended with an abbreviated version of my favorite Gladys Knight song--omitting the entire verse about He kept dreaming that some day he'd be a star--didn't matter. I'd still heard her sing that song, and so many others, in live performance, and I'd heard her deliver them with absolute mastery. If you have a chance to see Gladys Knight, man, you need to get on board.

I know you will.

THE FLASHCUBES: Nothing To Do

Of course we've heard Pop Masters, the forthcoming new rockin' pop covers album from Syracuse's own power pop powerhouses the Flashcubes. We've had the digital files for months, I wrote part of the liner notes, and we've been carpet bombing the playlist with Pop Masters, because why even have a playlist if you can't carpet bomb it with the Flashcubes?  

That's all well and good. But I can't wait for the razzafrazzin' thing to be released. I wanna hold the CD package in my indifferently-manicured hands, and I wanna revel in the physical manifestation of a new record by one of my all-time favorite groups. The Beatles, the Ramones, and the Flashcubes. That's my Trinity.

There's another new digital single from Pop Masters due out soon (and up for preorder now), with the album itself slated for August release. We've been playing that track, an ace cover of the Motors' "Forget About You," and we're set to pound it into your cranium again in the coming weeks. For this week's show, since Dana closed our first set with  "The Mona Lisa's Packing, She's Leaving Tonight" from the new Sparks album The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte, we opened our second set with the 'Cubes' Pop Masters take on Sparks' "Nothing To Do." Nothing to do? Everything to do! And we do it all for you, our loyal listeners. Radio's job is to sell records. We've done our part. Now you do yours.

(Beginning with the 2021 release of the Flashcubes' first Big Stir Records single [and eventual Pop Masters track] "Baby It's Cold Outside," TIRnRR has played eleven out of the twelve tracks on Pop Masters. We've been holding the remaining one in reserve, and we'll get to it very soon.)

JOHNNY JOHNSON AND THE BANDWAGON: You

Whether they're billed as the Bandwagon, Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon, or their come-on-now! over-specification as Johnny Johnson and HIS Bandwagon, we love playing stuff from this magnificent, underrated soul combo. "Breakin' Down The Walls Of Heartbreak" (by the Bandwagon) is a stone classic, "(Blame It) On The Pony Express" (by Johnny Johnson and his Bandwagon) is the epitome of 1970 bubblesoul, and the group (by whatever name) absolutely nailed a bunch of distinct and delightful covers of everyone from Bob Dylan to the Monkees to the Four Seasons to the Rascals to the Hollies and more. More pop fans need to jump on this particular Bandwagon.

Our latest recruit is none other than intrepid listener and Radio Deer Camp host Rich Firestone, who responded to this week's spin of the Bandwagon's "You" by saying, Okay, you finally broke me with that last song...I finally bought that Johnny Johnson CD!

Radio at work, my friends. Radio at work.

sparkle*jets u.k.: Mahnsanto

The new sparkle*jets u.k. album Best Of Friends has been a big hit here on The Best Three Hours Of Radio On The Whole Friggin' Planet. It's a stunning tribute to the indie pop scene that thrived as the 20th century ceded space to the 21st, the scene that brought us sparkle*jets u.k. in the first place. Best Of Friends is loaded with superfine covers of everyone from Big Hello to the Shazam, Linus of Hollywood to the Masticators, Cockeyed Ghost to Walter Clevenger and the Dairy Kings.

I'm not familiar with the Negro Problem's original version of "Mahnsanto;" I know a little bit of TNP's work, but my lack of awareness of the bulk of their well-regarded catalog is a gap in my pop consciousness, and I need to remedy that. The TIRnRR archives say we've played the Negro Problem's "Submarine Down," "Monica Oyster," "She's Flying Naked Through The Air," "The Magic Touch," and "Sabrina Drill" at some points in our storied past, as well as TNP leader Stew's "North Bronx French Marie." But it's been a while, and we should probably oughtta do something about that. Hell, Cockeyed Ghost's early TIRnRR Fave Rave "About Jill" was about TNP accordionist Jill Meschke Blair, so Stew and company are certainly part of this radio show's DNA. Even if we don't know them all that well.

"Mahnsanto" is tabula rasa for me, but sparkle*jets u.k.'s rendition is instantly catchy, and a loop of the band's Susan West rapping To Disneyland in winter, to Disneyland in winter has been blasting non-stop in my pop-obsessed noggin all week. We'll hear a different Best Of Friends track on our next show, as sparkle*jets u.k. cover a song familiar to long-time listeners from its appearance on This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 1.

PARALLAX PROJECT: Put It Out

The next time someone tries to tell you that there's no good music being made anymore, you are within your God-given rights to call that ninny a freakin' ninny. Each and every week, Dana and I sort through stacks of new stuff, some of it negligible, but some of it fantastic. We are determined to mix new, old, and in-between in every show. It's an ongoing challenge to play some reasonable representation of all the fine tracks we want to play.

That situation also results in a lot of things we like getting played once on the show, and then never played again. I keep a list of TIRnRR airplay possibilities, and I refer to that list each week when Dana and I are assembling the new playlist. A quick scan of that reference list shows tracks by the Crushing Violets, Earth Quake, Rose Guerin, Dave Cope and the Sass, Barry Holdship, Popular Creeps, Carol Martini, Råttanson, Brad Marino, Janne Borg, the Gypsy Moths, the Weeklings, the Summertimes, Rooftop Screamers, and more, each one awaiting its return to the TIRnRR playlist, each one in the potential mix for this week's show, and each unable to secure a slot in this week's program, nor in our July 9th show. They remain on the list, and the list carries on. There's always another show to build, next week.

That big ol' roundabout above finally brings us to "Put It Out" from the new Parallax Project album Autologous. It's a nice, radio-ready offering that merits repeat play. But it elbowed aside another Kool Kat Musik release by the Parlophonics to get into this week's show, and the Parlophonics in turn squeeze past Parallax Project to score a berth on our next show.

Parallax Project will return. They're on the list. The list abides.

THE RUBINOOS: I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

JAMIE HOOVER: Bourbon Understands

"Bourbon Understands" is the brand new single from the mighty Jamie Hoover, a countryesque number that Jamie co-wrote with TIRnRR's longtime pal Richard Rossi. We'll drink to that.

THE SUPREMES: Where Did Our Love Go?

Timing is everything. We've seen that demonstrated again and again since we began prerecording our shows more than three years ago. There was the time we closed a show with a spin of Ray Charles' "Hit The Road, Jack," which wound up airing the week that malevolent putz Putin invaded Ukraine. There have been several occasions when a beloved performer passed in between a show's recording and airing, and a work by that performer just happened to be on the playlist that week. There's no relevant intent, because we didn't know what context the world would provide after we'd already prepped our little mutant radio show; we just wanted to play the damned song.

This week, I felt like playing something by the Supremes. No real reason, just whim. A check of the database revealed that we'd never played "Where Did Our Love Go?," so that became my pick. Move on to the next song.

Cruel context arrived on June 30th, the Friday before the show. It happened to be the day after my wife and I stopped for a drink at Stonewall in Greenwich Village. I wrote about our NYC trip here, but this short passage bears a repeat in this spot:

"Stonewall is a bar in Greenwich Village, recognized as the place where Pride began. It's not the same bar that stood in 1969, when a riot became the flashpoint for recognition of gay rights. The Stonewall of today remains in that spot as a monument to the importance of what happened there. By coincidence, our visit to Stonewall was one day after the 54th anniversary of the riots, and one day before six reactionary justices on the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ruled that religious-based discrimination against the LGBTQ community is, in the Court's view, just fine and dandy. That is, in MY view, a big ol' pile of piggy poop. Love is love is love. The fight goes on."

Where did our love go? Love is love is love. Timing is everything...and nothing. We'll apply deliberate intent to open our next show.

MAURICE WILLIAMS AND THE ZODIACS: Stay

Just a little bit longer?

But no, this week's show has run its rockin' pop course. Hope you can join us again next time.

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10 SONGS: 11/23/2021

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 # 1104.

WENDI DUNLAP: Season Of Loss

Wendi Dunlap made her TIRnRR debut last week with a spin of a song called "Buildings." "Buildings" comes from her new album Looking For Buildings, and we figured we'd maybe oughtta follow that with more Wendi Dunlap this week. A song called "Season Of Loss" might seem a deliberate selection to play as we head into the holidays, but that's too glib, and it's not what the song's about anyway. We played it because it's a great song that sounds wonderful on the radio. The catharsis of pop music. Sometimes that's all you can ask for.

THE FLAMIN' GROOVIES: Yes I Am

I'm on an abundance of public record as a fan of the Flamin' Groovies. What, you want proof of that? Fine: here, here, here, and here. I like all phases of the Groovies' long and storied career, but I have a particular affection for the Sire Records era in the late '70s. "Yes I Am" was a track on the 1979 Jumpin' In The Night LP, and it's an absolutely aces track that doesn't get nearly enough attention.

THE GRIP WEEDS: Making Time

Oh, we love the Grip Weeds. We've been serving up what amounts to a carpet-bombing approach to programming tracks from the group's new covers album DiG, because in spite of what some clueless minimalists may have told you, "less" isn't more, MORE! is more.

So this week, we turn to another DiG track, a confident 'n' capable take on the Creation's Mod power pop '60s classic "Making Time." The original's unbeatable. Damned if the Grip Weeds don't match it, though, and that oughtta be impossible. It's not impossible for the Grip Weeds. We love the Grip Weeds. 

THE GUESS WHO: No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature

The music of the Guess Who was such an integral part of my essential AM radio experience and overall pop music soundtrack in the late '60s and early '70s, and I can't explain why I became...well, it would be a stretch to say that I became estranged from the group's records, but I definitely lost interest. That's a shame, because so much of this stuff is five-alarm level superb, and "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature" is just an incredible, incredible rockin' pop record.  

HEADGIRL: Please Don't Touch

I had a dream last week, in which I was chatting with Lita Ford at a nightclub. In the dream, she had just finished a live duet with Lemmy from Motörhead, covering Johnny Kidd and the Pirates' pre-Beatles British rock 'n' roll nugget "Please Don't Touch." 

The dream was set in the present day; yeah, even though Lemmy left this too-quiet world behind at the end of 2015--you know how dreams are. But it was the mature Lita of today (still a knockout in her sixties), not the young Lita that played guitar with the Runaways in the late 1970s. I gushed to her about how much I loved seeing and hearing her 'n' Lemmy singing "Please Don't Touch," mentioned that the Runaways' "Cherry Bomb" is discussed in my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1), but that "School Days" was really my favorite Runaways track. She smiled indulgingly (though she seemed to grimace at the mention of "Cherry Bomb," as if to say, Not friggin' "Cherry Bomb" AGAIN....!), and she was polite and friendly before moving on to talk with other people.

I have no idea why my dream about "Please Don't Touch" substituted Lita Ford for Girlschool guitarist Kelly Johnson, since Johnson is the one who actually sang and played with Lemmy when Girschool merged with Motörhead (as Headgirl) for the 1980 single of "Please Don't Touch." I guess that's just how dreams are. No slight to Ms. Ford, but I don't think anyone could do this song better than Kelly Johnson and Lemmy did it. 

JOHNNY JOHNSON AND THE BANDWAGON: Let's Hang On

Speaking of covers, the underrated late '60s/early '70s soul group Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon had a knack for rendering unique and appealing remakes of familiar tunes. Their bubblesoul version of Bashful Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" is an alchemic interpretation surpassed only by the Byrds. The Bandwagon were likewise able to grab ahold of the Four Seasons' "Let's Hang On" and make it their own, respecting the original but steadfastly hanging on to their own vision of what this song should be. I like the Four Seasons' version and I like the Spinners' subsequent hit version, too. But the Bandwagon? Man, that's the one I'm hanging on to.

KID GULLIVER: Susie Survived Chemotherapy

Given how much airplay we've gleefully given to Kid Guilliver and our full-throated endorsement of their debut album Kismet, I was surprised to discover we'd never played their Ramonesified cancer diatribe "Susie Survived Chemotherapy" before. Impossible but true! This paradox could not stand, so Dana prescribed a cure. Ask your doctor if Kid Gulliver is right for you. If your doctor says no, GET A NEW DOCTOR.

TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS: When The Time Comes [alternate version]

My first Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers record was the You're Gonna Get It LP in 1978. I bought it after seeing Tom and his heartbreakin' band o' brothers on The Midnight Special, singing (if memory serves) "American Girl," "I Need To Know," and "Listen To Her Heart." And lemme tell ya, if those three songs had been the only three songs that Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ever did, I'd still say they were worthy of induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with that resumé alone. "American Girl" had been on the group's eponymous debut, but the other two were on You're Gonna Get It. So I got it. Get it?

The album also included "When The Time Comes," a song represented by an alternate version on this week's playlist. A long time ago, I embraced that song's opening lines as my ongoing mantra: This might sound strange, might seem dumb. Words to live by.

SPYGENIUS: So You Say You Lost Your Baby

It's an odd thing for a little mutant radio show to hang its hat on, but TIRnRR has always had a thing for Gene Clark covers. That's mostly attributable to Full Circle, a simply swell 2-CD Gene Clark tribute put out by Not Lame Recordings in the late '90s. We played the hell out of that one, and some of its tracks still routinely turn up on TIRnRR more than two decades later. Not long ago, we dug out Fireking's engaging 2015 cover of Clark's "So You Say You Lost Your Baby." It was only a matter of time between afore we got to this version by Spygenius, from their new covers album Spygenius Blow Their Covers. It's all right, Gene.

MAURICE WILLIAMS AND THE ZODIACS: Stay

Balance. Having granted nearly five minutes of air time--basically, the length of two songs--to the Guess Who's "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature" earlier in the show, I needed something short and sharp to even out the playlist time. At something like 1:36 or so, "Stay" by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs is the shortest song ever to reach Billboard's top pop spot, and it was just what the timekeeper ordered. Hit the hook. Hit the road. Leave us wanting more. That's what a pop record does.

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