As we noted in our most recent treadin' water update on my book-in-progress The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1), I've expanded the book's afterword to include a section called Bonus Tracks. This is just a list of songs that were also under GREM! consideration at some point in the process, whether for use in the book or on the blog. Here's that section as it currently reads:
The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1). The "Volume 1" is in the title for a reason, and that reason isn't just an attempt to drum up interest in a sequel. Calling this Volume 1 is a reminder that the discussion of a Greatest Record Ever Made isn't limited to just one book, even if no other book ever appears under that title. We say there's an infinite number of songs taking individual turns as the greatest record ever made; if that's so, then there are still so, so many more fantastic tracks on roughly equal footing with the songs we've talked about today.
To illustrate, here's a list of songs that were included in this book's proposed Table of Contents at some point or another, or were at least penciled in as GREM! blog posts, before being crowded out by other songs.
THE ANIMALS: It's My Life
THE AVENGERS: We Are The One
STIV BATORS: It's Cold Outside
THE BEATLES: Hey Jude
THE BEAU BRUMMELS: Laugh, Laugh
THE BEVIS FROND: He'd Be A Diamond
THE BOX TOPS: The Letter
THE BUZZCOCKS: Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)
THE CASTAWAYS: Liar, Liar
ANNY CELSI: Empty Hangers
THE CONTOURS: Do You Love Me?
THE CREATION: Making Time
THE DANDY WARHOLS: We Used To Be Friends
DAVE DEE, DOZY, BEAKY, MICK & TICH: Hold Tight
DEEP PURPLE: Hush
THE DIRTY ROYALS: I'm In Love
BOB DYLAN: Like A Rolling Stone
THE ENGLISH BEAT: Save It For Later
FIRST AID KIT: America
AL HIRT: The Green Hornet Theme
HOLLY GOLIGHTLY: Time Will Tell
THE JAM: In The City
JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS: Light Of Day
THE MC5: Kick Out The Jams
THE MONKEES: Riu Chiu
THE MOTORS: Dancing The Night Away
MOTT THE HOOPLE: All The Way From Memphis
NAZARETH: Love Hurts
PINK FLOYD: Wish You Were Here
THE PLIMSOULS: A Million Miles Away
THE PRIMITIVES: Crash
R.E.M.: Radio Free Europe
THE RAMONES: Blitzkrieg Bop
THE RECORDS: Starry Eyes
PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS: Kicks
AMY RIGBY: Dancing With Joey Ramone
THE ROLLING STONES: Happy
THE RONETTES: Be My Baby
THE SAINTS: (I'm) Stranded
SLADE: Mama Weer All Crazee Now
SPLIT ENZ: History Never Repeats
THE STEMS: Never Be Friends
SUGAR: If I Can't Change Your Mind
THE SUPREMES: Stop! In The Name Of Love
SWEET: Ballroom Blitz
TELEVISION: Elevation
THE TEMPTATIONS: Papa Was A Rollin' Stone
TOOTS & THE MAYTALS: Pressure Drop
IKE & TINA TURNER: River Deep, Mountain High
THE DWIGHT TWILLEY BAND: You Were So Warm
TWINKLE: Golden Lights
THE UNDERTONES: Teenage Kicks
THE VENTURES: Walk--Don't Run
THE VOGUES: Five O'Clock World
THE YARDBIRDS: Heart Full Of Soul
Our favorite records don't live in isolation. Each one has a story to tell. Those stories continue.
Infinitely.
Snazzy, right?
This list only includes tracks that my notes indicate were under individual consideration somewhere along the line; I could easily add more worthy entries right now, but these are the ones I actually penciled in at some point or another. And they weren't all intended for the book, or at least not for this book. For example, I wrote an entry on "Hey Jude" to run on the blog the day I saw Paul McCartney in concert in 2017, but I never had any plan to make it an entry in the book. I have several placeholder GREM! files in my draft queue, and many of those are for unfinished blog pieces rather than as additional chapters for a book that's already a-bustin' at its virtual seams.
But a lot of these were indeed included in some of the book's previous tentative Tables of Contents. Hell, the completed entry discussing "Liar, Liar" by The Castaways was in the book a few weeks ago. Things change. There may still be more changes yet to come.
But for now: The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) will contain entries on 107 GREM! song selections (or really 108, since the Buddy Holly chapter names both sides of the "Peggy Sue"/"Everyday" 45). There are 100 main entries, plus an entr'acte, three encores, a last call, one coronated Greatest Record Ever Made, and a closing instrumental. There are also three interludes, each discussing a song that isn't necessarily The Greatest Record Ever Made--honestly, I actively despise one of 'em, though the other two are certainly cool tunes in their own right--but which serves as an enhancement to another entry. Throw in all the supplemental material--foreword, afterword, user's guide, overture, coda, and a chapter about underrating The Beatles--and I hope we wind up with a substantial and compelling read.
And, of course, I hope you get to read it.
Someday.
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Fans of pop music will want to check out Waterloo Sunset--Benefit For This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, a new pop compilation benefiting SPARK! Syracuse, the home of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. TIR'N'RR Allstars--Steve Stoeckel, Bruce Gordon, Joel Tinnel, Stacy Carson, Eytan Mirsky, Teresa Cowles, Dan Pavelich, Irene Peña, Keith Klingensmith, and Rich Firestone--offer a fantastic new version of The Kinks' classic "Waterloo Sunset." That's supplemented by eleven more tracks (plus a hidden bonus track), including previously-unreleased gems from The Click Beetles, Eytan Mirsky, Pop Co-Op, Irene Peña, Michael Slawter (covering The Posies), and The Anderson Council (covering XTC), a new remix of "Infinite Soul" by The Grip Weeds, and familiar TIRnRR Fave Raves by Vegas With Randolph, Gretchen's Wheel, The Armoires, and Pacific Soul Ltd. Oh, and that mystery bonus track? It's exquisite. You need this. You're buying it from Futureman.
Hey, Carl's writin' a book! The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) will contain 100 essays (and then some) about 100 tracks, plus two bonus instrumentals, each one of 'em THE greatest record ever made. An infinite number of records can each be the greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. Updated initial information can be seen here: THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! (Volume 1).
I've loved comic strips since I was a little kid. While my primary panel allegiance is to comic books, there's never really been a time when I didn't peruse at least the Sunday funnies. My earliest specific memory of reading newspaper comics goes back to 1966, when I was six years old and fallin' hard for superheroes (thanks to the Batman TV series). One week, there was a Sunday Beetle Bailey strip where Sgt. Snorkel dreams that he and Beetle have become their own Dynamic Duo Fatman and Slobber, and high-camp hijinks ensue. There's no way that was my first exposure to Beetle Bailey and the rest of the popular features found in Syracuse's Sunday Herald American, but that one certainly resonated with me. And for weeks thereafter, I kept waiting for Fatman and Slobber to reappear in Beetle Bailey, but alas, it was their only appearance. I betcha they were probably erased from continuity in Crisis On Infinite Earths anyway.
In addition to Beetle Bailey, my early favorites included The Family Circus, Dennis The Menace, Blondie, Archie, Pogo, and (I think) Peanuts. I probably read Li'l Abner, too. We received the daily newspapers as well, The Post Standard in the morning and The Herald Journal in the afternoon, so I started scannin' those black-and-white strips during the week. Although I was (as noted) big into superhero comic books, I didn't really follow any syndicated adventure or dramatic strips. If memory serves, the non-comical comic strips the Syracuse papers offered at the time would have included Dick Tracy, Steve Canyon, Prince Valiant, Dondi, and The Phantom. The Phantom was the only costumed hero of the bunch--the Syracuse papers did not carry Superman or Batman--but I didn't start following the exploits of The Ghost Who Walks until later (after The Phantom [and Steve Canyon] were included as accessory identities for the Captain Action superhero doll in 1967).
In the late '60s and into the '70s, the adventure strips began to seem more attractive to me, especially The Phantom, Steve Canyon, and Rip Kirby. Aside from reprints in Peanuts paperback collections, the first older newspaper strips I ever read were the 1940s Batman and the 1929/1930s Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, both of which I discovered in the early '70s. The Batman strips had been reprinted in a few of DC Comics' 80-Page Giants in the '60s, comic books which I encountered as back issues circa...'72, or so? And a Christmas or birthday around that time brought me the hardcover volume The Collected Works Of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century. Reading the adventures of the intrepid Buck Rogers influenced my own eighth-grade art project, a comic strip called Jack Mystery.
(The allure of older newspaper strips was strong, but I didn't have much opportunity [or funds] to indulge it in the '70s. I coveted a publication called The Menomonee Falls Gazette, which published a variety of comic strips, but I don't think I ever bought an issue. I started clipping and saving The Phantom strip from the Syracuse papers, I read paperback novelizations of 1930s Phantom and Flash Gordon strip continuities, and I immersed myself in a fantastic tabloid Dick Tracy one-shot published by DC Comics. I never got around to buying or reading any other vintage newspaper strip collections.)
As time wore on, there were fewer adventure or drama options to be found on the funnies pages in the Syracuse newspapers. The Phantom hung on (and it's still there today), but Rip Kirby and Steve Canyon faded away, and Dick Tracy eventually disappeared locally, too. I never developed any interest in Mark Trail or Mary Worth, though I did at least flirt with Brenda Starr, Reporter. On the humor front, of course, I was completely taken by Doonesbury, and later by Bloom County, Calvin And Hobbes and The Far Side, too. The late '70s also brought a number of new strips based on comic books--The Amazing Spider-Man, World's Greatest Superheroes, The Incredible Hulk, Conan The Barbarian, and Howard The Duck--but the ones I saw didn't grab me, and the ones I didn't see, I...um, didn't see.
Fast-forward through the '80s (something I wish I could have done in real life). When I lived in an apartment in Buffalo in the '80s, I subscribed to home delivery of The Buffalo News and continued to get my daily comic-strip fix. I cancelled when I moved back to Syracuse in '87. In 1989, I bought a house in the Syracuse suburbs. The blockbuster success of the 1989 Batman movie spawned a new syndicated Batman comic strip, ghost-written by my favorite mystery novelist Max Allan Collins and illustrated by my all-time favorite Bat-artist Marshall Rogers. The new strip would be carried in the Syracuse newspapers, and that was sufficient motivation for me to start getting home delivery of the paper again.
I thought the new Batman strip was just wonderful, but it didn't last long in the Syracuse papers. I was able to continue following it in a promo publication given away at participating comic book shops, but the strip ended entirely not long thereafter. It also appeared in a magazine called Comics Revue, which contained a great mix of new, old, comical, and straight comics. I had already been buying Comics Revue regularly (and was hooked by its reprints of the great British spy strip Modesty Blaise), but I eventually stopped getting it because issues were accumulating faster than I ever got around to reading them.
The newspaper game has changed, not for the better. There is no daily newspaper in Syracuse anymore; the Herald is long gone, and the Post now publishes a mere three days a week, with daily content posted online. I still receive home delivery on Thursdays and Sundays, but I read my comics online. Writer/artist/musician Dan Pavelich began a humor comic strip called Just Say Uncle, and it was (and remains) available on the Go Comics site. Go Comics carries a number of comic strips, including my other current favorites Dick Tracy, Pearls Before Swine, Luann, Carol Lay's essential weekly Lay Lines, Non Sequitur, Doonesbury, Fox Trot, and Jump Start, classic Tarzan, and much more. Go Comics has become my daily comics resource. It's not the same as getting a new Batman newspaper strip delivered to my home every day, but it's going to have to suffice.
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Fans of pop music will want to check out Waterloo Sunset--Benefit For This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, a new pop compilation benefiting SPARK! Syracuse, the home of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. TIR'N'RR Allstars--Steve Stoeckel, Bruce Gordon, Joel Tinnel, Stacy Carson, Eytan Mirsky, Teresa Cowles, Dan Pavelich, Irene Peña, Keith Klingensmith, and Rich Firestone--offer a fantastic new version of The Kinks' classic "Waterloo Sunset." That's supplemented by eleven more tracks (plus a hidden bonus track), including previously-unreleased gems from The Click Beetles, Eytan Mirsky, Pop Co-Op, Irene Peña, Michael Slawter (covering The Posies), and The Anderson Council (covering XTC), a new remix of "Infinite Soul" by The Grip Weeds, and familiar TIRnRR Fave Raves by Vegas With Randolph, Gretchen's Wheel, The Armoires, and Pacific Soul Ltd. Oh, and that mystery bonus track? It's exquisite. You need this. You're buying it from Futureman.
Hey, Carl's writin' a book! The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) will contain 100 essays (and then some) about 100 tracks, plus two bonus instrumentals, each one of 'em THE greatest record ever made. An infinite number of records can each be the greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. Updated initial information can be seen here: THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! (Volume 1).
Beginning in the '70s, when I was a teenage wannabe writer trying to remove "wannabe" from my chosen job description, I often started with a title. Even if a specific inspiration predated selecting a title, I wouldn't really start writing a story until I had chosen a suitable title for it.
Part of what prompted this approach of naming before creating was a matter of function: the title came first at the top of the page, I didn't want to waste time or paper, so I needed to type the title and take it from there. No rewrites! No revisions! First draft should be final draft! And typos...well, typos tended to scotch the plan, but I still tried to stick to the plan, numbskulled as it was.
Looking back, though, I betcha I also favored the idea of a catchy title helping to sell the story. I was versed in superhero tropes, movie serial hype, rock 'n' roll showmanship, and the expressive eloquence of my writing idol, Harlan Ellison. The title was an integral part of the story. So the purple prose of TITLE! helped to direct and drive my fanciful ambitions.
Nightmare Resurrection. Reflections In A Golden Egg. Seven Minutes To Blackout. The Children Of Malice. Lazarus Lives. The Autobiography Of Somebody Else. The Casebook Of Sherlock Tracy. Saturday Night At The Shoot-Out. The Maltese Padlock. The "Red" Badge Of Courage (which had nothing to do with Stephen Crane). The Splitting Of Infinity. Christmas In July, and its presumed sequel Love, Death, And The Santa Claus Killer. The Men Who Read To Death. Messiah. A Piece Of The Outer Space Action. The Day I Met The Batman. My Mom says I mentioned wanting to write a book called Lone Star Falling. Sometimes the idea occurred first, sometimes title and idea were the same thing. Prose short stories, comic book scripts, some completed, some abandoned, some never really started beyond the picking of a title. None of them were any good, mind you, but each was at least a tentative step in my stumbling march toward becoming someone who writes.
My approach has evolved a bit over the decades. Nowadays, I usually start with an idea, whether it's a general concept or a line or a hook. Relaxing in a sprawled position on the coach the other day, my mind suddenly spewed out a new opening line--"The ghost of Quisling knocked back a drink"--which was in immediate need of a story to go with it. I tethered that line to an unused notion I had in college, wrote a few more lines, and gave it a tentative title of "The Traitor's Tour Guide: Visiting Hell." I'll pick at that one to see if it can become something.
I still keep track of notions by title. Even if the title is just a placeholder, it helps me navigate the Sargasso Sea of my creative process. I sold two short stories with copperhead motifs--a Western called "The Last Ride Of The Copperhead Kid" and a '30s pulp hero yarn billed as "The Copperhead Strikes!"--so of course I'm toying with the notion of a '60s secret agent story, "Codename: Copperhead!" These join my ever-present list of proposed story titles, from "The Devil And Her Details" to "The Last Will And Testament Of [Your Name Here]" to "Last Stand On Uranus." You shall know me by my trail of titles.
And I tell ya: if I can ever figure out something decent to go with "The Men Who Read To Death," I'm writin' it.
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Fans of pop music will want to check out Waterloo Sunset--Benefit For This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, a new pop compilation benefiting SPARK! Syracuse, the home of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. TIR'N'RR Allstars--Steve Stoeckel, Bruce Gordon, Joel Tinnel, Stacy Carson, Eytan Mirsky, Teresa Cowles, Dan Pavelich, Irene Peña, Keith Klingensmith, and Rich Firestone--offer a fantastic new version of The Kinks' classic "Waterloo Sunset." That's supplemented by eleven more tracks (plus a hidden bonus track), including previously-unreleased gems from The Click Beetles, Eytan Mirsky, Pop Co-Op, Irene Peña, Michael Slawter (covering The Posies), and The Anderson Council (covering XTC), a new remix of "Infinite Soul" by The Grip Weeds, and familiar TIRnRR Fave Raves by Vegas With Randolph, Gretchen's Wheel, The Armoires, and Pacific Soul Ltd. Oh, and that mystery bonus track? It's exquisite. You need this. You're buying it from Futureman.
Hey, Carl's writin' a book! The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) will contain 100 essays (and then some) about 100 tracks, plus two bonus instrumentals, each one of 'em THE greatest record ever made. An infinite number of records can each be the greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. Updated initial information can be seen here: THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! (Volume 1).
Tonight we share our broken hearts.
I did not know Kim Shattuck. I've been a fan for decades, but we were, at best, casual friends on Facebook. I don't think we ever had a conversation or shared message. Yet news of her death this week at the age of 56--56!--prompted a sadness within me apart from the all-too-familiar ache of having to say goodbye to another one of our heroes.
Why? I guess because she felt to me like someone who was close to all of us, even though she wasn't really. She was an actual part of the lives of a bunch of people I do know--a friend, a loved one--and our sense of loss can't compare to what they're going through. But man, this one hurts. I didn't know her, and it hurts anyway.
You wanna see an illustration of why we love Kim Shattuck? Go to YouTube and watch the video for Derrick Anderson's "When I Was Your Man." Anderson's ably supported here by Vicki and Debbie Peterson (his bandmates in The Bangles) and our Kim. The song and video are irresistible, but Kim especially? She's a bundle of goofy, guileless energy, a nerd and a rock star at the same time, naturally, unconsciously, absolutely. She's not exactly one of us, but she understands us. I refuse to change that into the past tense, at least for tonight.
The Pandoras. The Muffs. The Beards. The Coolies. And one of the greatest screams in all of rock 'n' roll. All heart, all fire, all go! Kim Shattuck made her indelible mark on this rockin' pop scene we so cherish. Anyone who didn't love her simply wasn't paying attention.
56 years old. Damn you, ALS. Damn you. IN MEMORY OF KIM SHATTUCK--THE ALS ASSOCIATION GOLDEN WEST CHAPTER
The parade of mortality also forced us to bid farewell this week to Ginger Baker of Cream and Barrie Masters of Eddie & the Hot Rods. We played old music, and we played new music. We toasted absent friends. We cursed the darkness, and turned our radio up as loud as we could. It's not all right. But it's what we have. This is what rock 'n' roll radio sounded like on a Sunday night in Syracuse this week.
This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl, Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse on SPARK! WSPJ-LP 103.3 and 93.7 FM, and on the web at http://sparksyracuse.org/
Fans of pop music will want to check out Waterloo Sunset--Benefit For This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, a new pop compilation benefiting SPARK! Syracuse, the home of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. TIR'N'RR Allstars--Steve Stoeckel, Bruce Gordon, Joel Tinnel, Stacy Carson, Eytan Mirsky, Teresa Cowles, Dan Pavelich, Irene Peña, Keith Klingensmith, and Rich Firestone--offer a fantastic new version of The Kinks' classic "Waterloo Sunset." That's supplemented by eleven more tracks (plus a hidden bonus track), including previously-unreleased gems from The Click Beetles, Eytan Mirsky, Pop Co-Op, Irene Peña, Michael Slawter (covering The Posies), and The Anderson Council (covering XTC), a new remix of "Infinite Soul" by The Grip Weeds, and familiar TIRnRR Fave Raves by Vegas With Randolph, Gretchen's Wheel, The Armoires, and Pacific Soul Ltd. Oh, and that mystery bonus track? It's exquisite. You need this. You're buying the digital download from Futureman and/or the CD from Kool Kat Musik.
(AND you can still get our previous compilation This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 4 on CD from Kool Kat Musik and as a download from Futureman. We live in a world of plenty!)
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Hey, Carl's writin' a book! The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) will contain 100 essays (and then some) about 100 songs (plus bonus tracks!), each one of 'em THE greatest record ever made. An infinite number of songs can each be the greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. Updated initial information can be seen here.
TIRnRR # 995: 10/6/19
This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio FRESH SPINS! (tracks we think we ain't played before) are listed in bold
THE RAMONES: Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (Rhino, End Of The Century)
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THE MUFFS: Sad Tomorrow (Reprise, Blonder And Blonder)
THE MUFFS: Rock And Roll Girl (Sympathy For The Record Industry, Hamburger)
THE PANDORAS: Dark November (Burger, Hey! It's The Pandoras)
THE MUFFS: Agony (Reprise, Blonder And Blonder)
THE BEARDS: 1000 Years (Sympathy For The Record Industry, Funtown)
THE MUFFS: Crush Me (Omnivore, Happy Birthday To Me)
THE COOLIES: Uh Oh! (Wicked Cool, Uh Oh! It's...The Coolies)
THE MUFFS: That Awful Man (Omnivore, Happy Birthday To Me)
THE PANDORAS: Just A Picture (Burger, Hey! It's The Pandoras)
THE MUFFS: Kids In America (Sympathy For The Record Industry, Hamburger)
THE MUFFS: Prettier Than Me (Fat Wreck Chords, Alert Today Alive Tomorrow)
THE MUFFS: Saying Goodbye (Warner Brothers, The Muffs)
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DERRICK ANDERSON: When I Was Your Man (Omnivore, A World Of My Own)
THE DOWNBEAT 5: Dum Dum Ditty (Wicked Cool, VA: The Coolest Songs In The World! Vol. 8)
SLADE: Mama Weer All Crazee Now (Polydor, Greatest Hits)
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN: Show Me The Sun (Matador, How To Solve Our Human Problems)
THE MUFFS: Everywhere I Go (Warner Brothers, The Muffs)
THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Video Killed The Radio Star (Maverick, VA: The Wedding Singer OST)
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THE BISHOP'S DAREDEVIL STUNT CLUB: Christine You're Mean (Kool Kat Musik, End Over End)
THE CARS: You're All I've Got Tonight (Elektra, The Cars)
THE MUFFS: You Lie (Sympathy For The Record Industry, Hamburger)
SWEET: Action (RCA, Action)
EDDIE & THE HOT RODS: Quit This Town (Captain Oi!, The Singles Collection)
THE ENGLISH BEAT: Mirror In The Bathroom (IRS, The Beat Goes On)
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THE SEVEN & SIX: Dreaming With You (the7and6.com, EP # 1)
CREAM: Sweet Wine (Polydor, Those Were The Days)
THE PANDORAS: Stop Pretending (Burger, Hey! It's The Pandoras)
CREAM: What A Bring Down (Polydor, Those Were The Days)
THE RECORDS: Hearts Will Be Broken (Virgin, Smashes, Crashes And Near Misses)
CREAM: Those Were The Days (Polydor, Those Were The Days)
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KAI DANZBERG: A Fool To Me (Big Stir, Euphoria)
THE REPLACEMENTS: Alex Chilton (Sire, Pleased To Meet Me)
EDDIE & THE HOT RODS: Get Out Of Denver (Captain Oi!, The Singles Collection)
TIM BUCKLEY: Song To The Siren (Rhino, Morning Glory)
THE COOLIES: Glad I Met You (Wicked Cool, Uh Oh! It's...The Coolies)
JOHNATHAN PUSHKAR: Hackensack (Jem, Straighten Up)
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THE MIDNIGHT CALLERS: State Of Me (themidnightcallers.com)
THE MUFFS: Oh Nina (Reprise, Blonder And Blonder)
THE KINKS: See My Friends (Sanctuary, The Ultimate Collection)
THE STONE PONEYS: Different Drum (Rhino, LINDA RONSTADT: Greatest Hits I & II)
THE COOLIES: Yeah I Don't Know (Wicked Cool, Uh Oh! It's...The Coolies)
BIG BLITZ: Jungle Jim (bigblitzband.com)
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EDDIE & THE HOT RODS: Do Anything You Wanna Do (Captain Oi!, The Singles Collection)
THE MUFFS: On And On (Reprise, Blonder And Blonder)
THE PANDORAS: See If You Can (Burger, Hey! It's The Pandoras)
DEAN LANDEW: Dance All Night (deanlandew.bandcamp.com, Dean Landew 2019)
THE MUFFS: Blow Your Mind (Fat Wreck Chords, Alert Today Alive Tomorrow)
THE BROTHERS STEVE: We Got The Hits (n/a, # 1)
THE PANDORAS: It's Getting Harder All The Time (Burger, Hey! It's The Pandoras)
THE MUFFS: Lucky Guy [radio remix] (Omnivore, The Muffs)
THE MUFFS: New Love (Sympathy For The Record Industry, Hamburger)
THE MUFFS: My Crazy Afternoon (Omnivore, Happy Birthday To Me)
THE MUFFS: Jack Champagne (Fat Wreck Chords, Alert Today Alive Tomorrow)
We begin with music from Kim Shattuck. Sunday night, 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, and on the web at http://sparksyracuse.org/
