10 SONGS: 5/25/2021

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 # 1078.

HEADGIRL [Motörhead and Girlschool]: Please Don't Touch

Yeah, I know I already spent the entirety of this week's playlist commentary a-ramblin' and a-ravin' about "Please Don't Touch," the one-off 1981 consolidation of Motörhead and Girlschool as Headgirl. My obsession remains proudly in place. You could (rightly) call this a bludgeoning of the old Johnny Kidd and the Pirates ditty, but it's an affectionate roughhousing, faithful in its way to the swing and spirit of the original, heavier and more ominous, yet unerringly pop. And righteous. And LOUD! It could do with another spin right now. Obsessive? I am as Headgirl made me.

NELSON BRAGG: Lost All Our Sundays

The biggest single entry on the mighty Nelson Bragg's rock 'n' roll c.v. is his record of service as a percussionist for Brian Wilson, which also led to Bragg participating in The Beach Boys' acclaimed 50th anniversary tour. 

Well. Is that all? 

That's, um...actually that's a pretty big deal, innit? The fact that Nelson has also done a lot of other great stuff outside of the Wilson aegis further illustrates the significance of his rockin' pop propers. He's done some fine work with perennial TiRnRR Fave Rave Anny Celsi, and his solo tracks "Forever Days" and "Tell Me I'm Wrong" have been essential building blocks in this show's ongoing jones for assembling The Best Three Hours Of Radio In The Whole Friggin' Planet. A great show is constructed of great parts. We can rely on Nelson Bragg for that.

Nelson's working on a new album, Gratitude Blues, which is due out before 2021 dims its lights and heads to bed. The album is teased now with an advance single of one of its tracks, a cover of Elton John's "I Want Love," a fresh digital release in the ongoing saga of Big Stir Singles. "I Want Love" will be included on Gratitude Blues, but its virtual B-side "Lost All Our Sundays" will not. So, we figured we oughtta play that one. On a Sunday night radio show. That's how ya win back all those lost Sundays, friends. We're happy to help.

COLD EXPECTATIONS: Summer Dress

Ah, such a cool, yearning summer song. Red On Red Records does it again.

MICKY DOLENZ: Different Drum

At this writing, I have just received my CD copy of the new Micky Dolenz album Dolenz Sings Nesmith. But I've already heard enough of it to know I love it. We've been playing the digital single of "Different Drum," and we'll be playing at least one other track from Dolenz Sings Nesmith on next week's show.

(We will, in fact, be playing a lot of Micky Dolenz material on next week's show: new and old, solo and with The Monkees, and in other incarnations, too. It's been a long time since we've been able to spotlight a Featured Performer on TIRnRR. It's time for that spotlight to fall upon Micky Dolenz.)

THE FOUNDATIONS: Build Me Up Buttercup

Familiarity has not bred anything resembling contempt for The Foundations' signature hit "Build Me Up Buttercup." Great songs are supposed to get played again and again, fercryinoutloud, and the best tunes can survive such saturation spins without losing luster. It's true that I've become more immediately interested in some of The Foundations' other numbers (especially "In The Bad Bad Old Days [Before You Loved Me]"), but I doubt I'll ever become sick of hearing "Build Me Up Buttercup." Hell, I doubt I'll ever get even a little bit tired of hearing it.

LINNEA'S GARDEN: Replacement

Ah, such a cool (if bittersweet) observation of a parting of the ways. Red On Red Records does it again...again!

THE NEW YORK DOLLS: Personality Crisis

A basic rule of this blog: when I complain about The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, don't bother telling me that the RnRHOF doesn't matter; I already know it doesn't matter. But rock 'n' roll should honor is own, and I will continue to rant on behalf of deserving acts that are snubbed by that overblown Hard Rock Cafe on the banks of Lake Erie.

The Monkees remain the Hall's most egregious snub to date. With this year's inductees, long-standing snubs of Tina Turner, Carole King, The Go-Go's, and Todd Rundgren have finally been set right. The New York Dolls were also nominated this round, but they didn't get the damned votes. Oy. The Dolls were among the most influential rock 'n' roll acts of the '70s, and failing to recognize their sheer and ongoing impact is willful lunacy.

DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES: Love Child

Playing the Dolls on the latest TIRnRR had no conscious influence on my decision to also include Diana Ross and the Supremes in this week's playlist. After the fact, it occurred to me that The David Johansen Group used to cover "Love Child" in late '70s live sets. I don't remember whether or not DJ and his boys did the song at my first Johansen show in 1979, but it's on The David Johansen Group Live, which preserves a hot-hot-hot 1978 NYC show, and is a much more compelling live document than Johansen's Live It Up! The Johansen Group's '78 performance of "Love Child" was a conscious influence on Syracuse's own power pop powerhouse The Flashcubes, who subsequently started covering The Supremes' "Stop! In The Name Of Love" in their own killer live shows. As much as I still love The Supremes' original, I really liked the 'Cubes' arrangement of "Stop! In The Name Of Love," which nicked its opening from The Four Tops and sounded perfectly of a piece with the Flashcubes sound.

But "Love Child?" Gotta love The David Johansen Group, sure, but you can't top Diana Ross and the Supremes on "Love Child."

THE RUTLES: Doubleback Alley

Pop fans like us remain fond of The Rutles' music and TV special, which were an effective and engaging parody of some little-known combo called The Beatles. I am reasonably certain you've heard of The Beatles, and I betcha you know The Rutles, too.

But The Rutles' album and show were both relative commercial failures in 1978. Not in my ears nor in my eyes, of course; I adored all of it without reservation, and I still do. In the period between watching All You Need Is Cash in my freshman dorm and receiving an import LP of The Rutles as a gift from my sister, I bought the Prefab Four's U.S. 45, "I Must Be In Love"/"Doubleback Alley." The Merseymania A-side was the song that had introduced me to The Rutles on Saturday Night Live, and the flip was a pastiche of "Penny Lane." As an 18-year-old power-pop punk in '78, I was beginning to distance myself from the post-1966 Beatles sound, and therefore found "I Must Be In Love" intrinsically more interesting than "Doubleback Alley." Dig 'em both now. A legend that will last a lunchtime. 

SPIRIT: I Got A Line On You

Classic rock! In a good way. I became particularly enamored with Spirit's 1968 gem "I Got A Line On You" when I was living in Buffalo in the early '80s. There was no distinctive impetus for this; I must have heard the song on an oldies radio show somewhere, and it clicked.

I do remember seeing a local oldies cover band a few times at a bar near the corner of Kensington and Bailey, a short walk from my rat-infested apartment. My stubborn brain cells have reluctantly conceded that the bar was called McGillicuddy's, but even a quick span of my Virtual Ticket Stub Gallery fails to jog my memory enough to recall the name of the band. I know I liked 'em okay, so it wasn't Phil and the Spectors (whom I didn't like). The true ID of the band in question is likely lost. 

But, whoever they were,  they weren't bad at all: a nice, meat 'n' potatoes oldies bar band, providing the soundtrack to good times. I'll drink to that. And I did! Did I mention the bar was within walking distance? It was within staggering distance, too.

On one of the occasions that I saw them, this capable oldies combo did a more-than-capable cover of Spirit's "I Got A Line On You." As the song finished, I shouted out, "YEAH, THAT'S THE SPIRIT!" The band's leader chuckled and winced at the same time, moaning, "Who said that?"

Lines? I got a million of 'em. One or two might even be funny.

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10 SONGS: 5/4/2021

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 # 1075.

THE BAY CITY ROLLERS: Wouldn't You Like It [live]

Musician Binky Philips has written a number of fascinating recollections of his life in and around music. His autobiography My Life In The Ghost Of Planets: The Story Of A CBGB Almost-Was is an essential read, and each of his many scattered pieces showcases his ability to tell a story and put you at the scene of rock 'n' roll as it happened. 

One of my favorite Binky Philips stories is his account of seeing The Bay City Rollers in 1977. Binky went to the concert with the intent of snickering at this teen-hype boy band; to his surprise, the minute the Rollers began to play, Binky turned to his buddy as they both said, They're GOOD!

And they were. The Bay City Rollers were way, way better than a fresh-faced combo of poster boys had to be. I like them a lot; I've never had any use for their ballads and teen-dream goop, but when they wanted to rock, they could indeed rock. You don't like them? Not my problem. As I wrote recently in a different context: "In the real world, there is perhaps no greater super power than the ability to shrug off the disapproval of others. Dig what you dig. Love who you love. Be who you want to be, not whatever some gray THEY want you to be. Don’t give a damn about your reputation.”

As a college student in the late '70s, lost in a sea of Southern rockers and Deadheads trying to dictate my taste to me, I put a Bay City Rollers poster on the wall of my dorm suite as an act of defiance. In my room, on my walls, The Bay City Rollers joined The Beatles, The Runaways, The Sex Pistols, KISS, The Flashcubes, Suzi Quatro, The Heartbreakers, The Beach Boys, Louise Goffin, and many other graven rockin' pop images (as well as Suzanne Somers and various Playboy centerfolds) as my chosen tokens and talismans. What I liked, not what outsiders told me to like. Get thee behind me, Jerry Garcia.

The death of former Rollers frontman Les McKeown prompted me to sum up my Rollers fandom in a post last week. And of course we played the Rollers on this week's show, opening the proceedings with "Yesterday's Hero," including both "Saturday Night" and "Rock And Roll Love Letter"--The Greatest Record Ever Made--in our final set. We would have played more if the rules allowed us to do that.

We also played one live Rollers track: the fantastic "Wouldn't You Like It," as performed by The Bay City Rollers live at Budokan in 1977, the same year Binky Phillips saw them in New York. Binky was right; they were good.

I regret I never had an opportunity to witness that first-hand. I would have been ready. Defiance still sounds pretty good to me.

ERIC BURDON AND THE ANIMALS: White Houses

This was a track I'd all but forgotten until last week, but it was one of my many go-tos as a teen. You better get STRAIGHT! When I was in high school, more than a decade after the British Invasion, I developed a casual obsession with the music of The Animals, particularly "It's My Life" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place." The obsession led to an acquisition of the 2-LP Best Of The Animals at Christmas '76. From there, I started to also discover Eric Burdon and the Animals.

The Animals and Eric Burdon and the Animals were two different groups, with lead singer Burdon the only common member. Otherwise: never the twain shall meet. I was taken with the latter group's "Sky Pilot" and "When I Was Young," and I picked up a used copy of the Every One Of Us LP while visiting my sister in Cleveland Heights, circa (I think) Summer '77. That would have put Every One Of Us (as well as the original group's then-recent reunion album Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted, another Cleveland Heights score) among the records I carted off to college in August. Bay City Rollers poster? Check! Animals and Eric Burdon and the Animals LPs? Also check!

I believe Every One Of Us provided my introduction to the stalwart "St. James Infirmary," though I would hear Cab Calloway's rendition (in a Betty Boop cartoon) not long thereafter. I'd be lying if I said anything on this album grabbed me to the extent that The Animals' hits grabbed me. I'd also be lying if I claimed I didn't listen to it anyway. Most of the tracks were too lengthy for my proto-punk short attention span. But I played "The Year Of The Guru." And I played "White Houses."

I still have that album in my library, periodic collection purges notwithstanding, an LP I plucked off the shelf at either Record Revolution or The Record Exchange in Cleveland Heights more than forty years ago. Um...unless I got it for 50 cents at Mike's Sound Center in North Syracuse. My memory wages constant war with my whatchamacallit and my whosis and whatsis. Over that span of decades, "White Houses" withdrew from my memory bank completely, until a random search-and-deploy brought it back to my ears with a vengeance, just in time for this week's playlist. You better get STRAIGHT! I didn't heed that advice then. I'm not heeding it now. But I'll play it and love it. Crooked or straight. Dig what you dig.

COUNTING CROWS: Mr. Jones

I didn't have cable TV in the first part of the '80s, so my prime period of MTV-watching was mostly 1987 through the early '90s. The Sunday night left-of-the-dial showcase 120 Minutes introduced me to a lot of new stuff, and in 1993 that's probably how I first heard the irresistible "Mr. Jones" by Counting Crows. I used to record 120 Minutes every week on VHS, and "Mr. Jones" captivated me, conjuring an image of Van Morrison (in my ears, anyway) and demanding as much volume as my intrepid 27" Hitachi TV could offer.

MICKY DOLENZ: Propinquity (I've Just Begun To Care)

Five years ago, This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio was playing teaser tracks from The Monkees' then-forthcoming album Good Times!, a work that transcended even our giddy fanboy expectations. Now, in this far-future post-apocalyptic world of 2021, we're playing both sides of the advance single from the new Micky Dolenz album Dolenz Sings Nesmith, which is due May 21st. We played A-side "Different Drum" last week, B-side "Propinquity (I've Just Begun To Care)" this week, and May 21st really is too, too far away. We already care! We've been caring!  

STEVE EARLE: Guitar Town

Lacking MTV, I had to get my video music fixes wherever I could. I saw country maverick Steve Earle perform the title tune from his debut album Guitar Town on The Tonight Show in 1986. See, the MTV video jocks had nothing on Johnny Carson. Martha Quinn was significantly cuter, though.

THE ISLEY BROTHERS: Nobody But Me

The sheer magnificence of The Isley Brothers' records make it tough to cover one of their songs and surpass their version. Generally, it ain't gonna happen. My pick for the definitive "Twist And Shout" (a song originally recorded with less distinction by The Top Notes) vacillates between Beatles and Isleys, and we're all winners in that contest.

I used to regard The Human Beinz' hit cover of the Isleys' "Nobody But Me" as an exception. But while the hypnotic NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!No-no-no-NO! chanted by The Human Beinz certainly makes their "Nobody But Me" a consistent frat-rock fave rave, I've started to favor the Isleys here. Slightly. We're all winners in this contest, too.

JUSTINE AND THE UNCLEAN: Vengeance

Man, this is such a great track. In the unlikely event we ever do another TIRnRR compilation, this would be high on our want list.

KID GULLIVER: Forget About Him

Man, this is such a great track. In the unlikely event we ever do another TIRnRR compilation...you know.

LIVING COLOUR: Should I Stay Or Should I Go

My Virtual Ticket Stub Gallery includes one concert by The Clash. Unfortunately, that was in 1983, after guitarist and founding member Mick Jones had been declared a non-person and exiled from the group. So, did I really see The Clash in concert? Technically, I did, as singer-guitarist Joe Strummer and bassist Paul Simonon were both there on stage at the University of Buffalo, playing with deputized Clash-type people who weren't (in my view) members of The Clash. They certainly didn't perform any Mick Jones songs. After all, ya can't perform songs written by a non-person, can ya?

So, unless I heard a bar band cover it some time in the interim, my first live experience of The Clash's "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" came in 1989, delivered by Living Colour as they opened for The Rolling Stones at The Carrier Dome in Syracuse. My first Stones show! It was also the same week I saw The Kinks for the third (and final) time. Pretty good week for concerts. 

Living Colour's Vivid album had been released in 1988, and there was quite a buzz around them in '89. "Cult Of Personality" and "Glamour Boys" had been MTV hits, and I was keen to see them with the Stones. Sure, for this life-long British Invasion enthusiast, The Rolling Stones were obviously the reason I was there. But Living Colour did not disappoint.

And Living Colour's set included their rollickin' rendition of "Should I Stay Or Should I Go." That puts 'em one up on The Not-Clash in my book.

POP CO-OP: Joe Public

The able folks of The TM Collective have assembled a tribute to the music of The Rutles, and I bet it's fab anna half. I...haven't actually heard it yet. But I have heard "Joe Public," Pop Co-Op's contribution to the tribute, and that one cut is like an album's worth of tribute in one compact track. Beatles fans, Rutles fan, pop fans, and pure fun fans, the lads of Pop Co-Op have channeled their effervescent love of all things JohnPaulGeorgeRingoStigNastyDirkBarry, a disdain for George Martin's tie, and a religious conviction that E burres stigano is very bad Spanish for "Have you a water buffalo?" into Something Borrowed and somehow made new. You can listen and play spot-the-reference, and you can listen and marvel with wide eyes and ears at the invention and ingenuity that went into this. I love The Rutles. I may love this track more than I love The Rutles. 

Bring your own trousers. Put your faith in these powers that be. Joe Public, that's me!

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10 SONGS: 3/30/2021

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 # 1070.

THE CLIQUE: Superman

The closest thing White Whale Records act The Clique ever had to a hit was their cover of Tommy James and the Shondells' "Sugar On Sunday," which peaked at # 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969. That single's B-side was a song called "Superman," which ultimately became the group's most enduring contribution to pop culture. More people know it from R.E.M.'s 1986 cover, and many folks likely presume it was written by R.E.M. The Clique's original is a little bit quirkier, sort of calling to mind the late '60s Bee Gees sound without that group's trademark falsetto. And since mentioning one comic-book song gets me thinking about another comic-book song....

BEEBE GALLINI: Nobody Loves The Hulk

HA! Ya wanna talk about a choice of cover song that hits my personal demographic right on the gamma-irradiated noggin? "Nobody Loves The Hulk" was a 1969 single by an obscure group called The Traits, and we've played it several times on past TIRnRRs. Beebe Gallini's take on the tune appears on their new Rum Bar Records release Pandemos, and it is indeed incredible, mighty, and Marvelous. They even throw in a heartful 'n' appropriate Hulk SMASH!! that I don't recall hearing in The Traits' original. Listen to it. Buy it. Don't make angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm...y'know.

STONEWALL JACKSON: Me And You And A Dog Named Boo

I'm prepared to presume no one expected this one to turn up on the playlist this week (though I also imagine no one's all that surprised by it either, given our repeated insistence that it's ALL pop music). Honestly, I didn't even know this track existed until about a week and a half ago. I was toying with the idea of playing a Lobo track some time, though if I did, it (probably) wouldn't be "Me And You And A Dog Named Boo." Anyway. I was looking for Lobo-inspired inspiration when I stumbled upon this 1971 cover by country singer Stonewall Jackson. Inspiration acquired! Sorry, Mr. Lobo; I now regard Stonewall Jackson's rendition as the definitive "Me And You And  Dog Named Boo." Yeah, the Brady Bunch kids' attempt at it notwithstanding.

ALLAN KAPLON: Notes On A Napkin

Some time back, our friend and listener Allan Kaplon sent us a track called "Flesh And Blood," recorded under the dba The Non Prophets. We dug it, and we played it on the radio. Now, Allen's recording under his own name, and his album Notes On A Napkin intrigues and delights. Jamie Hoover of The Spongetones produced six of the album's 11 tracks, Jamie's fellow Spongetone Steve Stoeckel pops up on one of those six, and Elena Rogers chips in some exquisite backing vocals. That Kaplon lad's pretty good, too. 

KID GULLIVER: Forget About Him

This makes 20 weeks in a row that TIRnRR has played at least one song featuring a lead vocal from Simone Berk. Shall we make it 21 next week?

THE RUTLES: Ouch!

I was a freshman in college when the classic TV special All You Need Is Cash aired in 1978, offering the world at large its first long-form view of the fabulous Faux Four, The Rutles. The guys in the dorm room across from me had a television, one of those guys happened to be a big Beatles fan, so a bunch of us settled in front of the tube to experience Rutlemania.

Unlike my peers, I was already a Rutles fan. I was hooked about a year and a half before that, when Monty Python's Flying Circus luminary Eric Idle guest-hosted Saturday Night Live in October of '76; that show included a clip of Eric and this fake band The Rutles cavorting their moptopped way through "I Must Be In Love," a FABrication which turned out to be the musical brainchild of Neil Innes. Innes played The Rutles' John Lennon counterpart Ron Nasty alongside Idle's Dirk McQuickly; the clip had previously appeared on the 1975 BBC series Rutland Weekend Television, but it was new to me on SNL in '76. Innes returned as Nasty on SNL in 1977, leading up to the 1978 TV special. 

The Friday night prior to the March 22nd, 1978 airing of All You Need Is Cash, NBC included two Rutles clips on its weekly musical showcase The Midnight Special. One of those clips was The Rutles' "Help!" parody, "Ouch!"

Awrighty. We love you Rutles, oh yes we do.

Alas, I was the only one of those assembled in that Thompson Hall dorm room to appreciate The Rutles. Story of my life: I, Square Peg. I bought the "I Must Be In Love"/"Doubleback Alley" 45, and my sister gave me a copy of The Rutles' LP that she picked up in the UK. A legend that will last a lunchtime? Ouch. 

THE STAN LAURELS: I'm Only Sleeping

It wasn't by design, but we wound up playing a number of covers on this week's extravaganza. The Stan Laurels' fab rendition of The Beatles' "I'm Only Sleeping" is the virtual B-side of their recent Big Stir Records digital single "This Is Your Life." Since we've played the A-side in the past, we figured we'd flip instead. It is, of course, far from the first time we've flipped for The Beatles.

TAVARES: Free Ride

In a previous 10 Songs post about Tavares' hit "It Only Take A Minute," I wrote about how their cover of "Free Ride" served as my actual (if belated) gateway into all things Tavares:

"It was the late great Dick Clark who got the ball rolling in my belated discovery of Tavares. In (I think?) the '90s, VH1 was running selected, edited archival episodes of American Bandstand, and one such episode included Tavares lip-syncing their 1975 cover of The Edgar Winter Group's "Free Ride." I always liked EWG's original, and I'd never before heard Tavares' take on it, but that cover instantly became the definitive version for me...."

BADFINGER: Baby Blue

We closed this week's show with two examples in our ongoing discussion of The Greatest Record Ever Made!: "Baby Blue" by Badfinger and "September Gurls" by Big Star. An infinite number of songs can each be THE greatest record ever made, as long as the take turns. I've been writing a book about that subject, and while that project has hit some roadblocks, I aim to continue bludgeoning its path forward in my usual charmingly stubborn fashion.

The Badfinger song and the Big Star song both rate chapters in the book, and "September Gurls" was the first track I ever described as GREM! "Baby Blue" looms large in my legend as the single that meant the most to me on the radio, a song spinning in my ears at the very moment that I fell permanently in love with radio. 

BARNEY RUBBLE AND THE FLINTSTONE CANARIES: The Soft Soap Jingle

A post-playlist coda. Because it's important to be clean.

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