Saturday, February 25, 2012

Show #322--2/26/12


Snail Shell—They Might Be Giants
On Board—Friendly Fires
Spin it On—Wings
Academy Award—The Dismemberment Plan 
Honeymooners—Ornette Coleman
Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)—Janis Joplin  
Big Bird—The Flock
It’s All the Same—Spirit
Blue Jean—David Bowie
Your Big Sister Said—Trolley

Hour 2: 70s: Malaise

It’s time for another hour where we explore a particular decade of music. This time, an hour chock full of issue-heavy music from the 70s. Bummer!


American Woman—The Guess Who
Ohio—Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore—John Prine
Nature’s Way—Spirit
Where Do the Children Play?—Cat Stevens
Big Yellow Taxi—Joni Mitchell
The World is a Ghetto—War
Inner City Blues—Marvin Gaye
You Haven’t Done Nothin’—Stevie Wonder
Funky President (People It’s Bad)—James Brown
“Mr. President” from I Think We’re All Bozos on this Bus—Firesign Theatre
Watergrate—Dickie Goodman
Stagflation—Red Shadow
A Gallon of Gas—The Kinks
Only So Much Oil in the Ground—Tower of Power 





Saturday, February 18, 2012

Show #321--2/19/12


Underground—Ben Folds Five
Wild Man—Galactic
Whole Lot of Loving—Professor Longhair
The Letter—Joe Cocker
The Hen (Part 1)—Louis Chachere
I Can’t Help Loving You—Paul Anka
Goin’ Down—The Monkees
Nothing But a Heartache—The Flirtations
16 Days—Whiskeytown

Hour 2: Very Encore-y

From the Sunday Sampler archives from 2/15/09 (mainly), a soul-heavy hour, with a bit of country, too.

See?

Made to Measure—Umphrey’s  McGee
Bloody Well Right—Supertramp
Catherine of Aragon—Rick Wakeman
I Can Take Care of Myself—Billy Vera & the Beaters
He Can Only Hold Her—Amy Winehouse
I’ve Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)—Eddie Floyd
How Can I Be Sure—The Young Rascals
Soul Poppin’—Johnny Jones & the King Casuals
I’ll Do Anything (He Wants Me To)—Doris Troy
Cry Baby—Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters
Cry! Cry! Cry!—Johnny Cash
You’re Humbuggin’ Me—Lefty Frizzell
It’s Four in the Morning—Faron Young
You Win Again—Jerry Lee Lewis
Teasin’ You—Willie Tee
Ain’t Nothing Gonna Change Me—The Sweet Inspirations
That’s the Way God Planned It—Billy Preston 

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Show #320--2/12/12


Brakhage—Stereolab
Your Lucky Day in Hell—Eels
Nettle Bed—Soft Machine
Intro/Breathless—Todd Rundgren
Heavenly Pop Hit—The Chills
New Toy—Lene Lovich
Sorry—Catpeople
Blue Hawaiian—Pavement
Car on a Hill—Joni Mitchell


Hour 2: Two Sides of Love


Little Arrows—Leapy Lee
Poison Arrow—ABC

Cupid—Johnny Nash
Cupid Must Be Angry—Nick Lowe

To Hell With Love—Annie Ross
I’m Always in Love—Wilco

Everlasting Love—Robert Knight
Love You Till Tuesday—David Bowie

Never Let Me Go—Judy Bridgewater (Jane Monheit)
Release Me—Esther Phillips

Beginnings—Chicago
It’s All Over Now—Ry Cooder

Love Makes You Happy (When It’s Not Making You Sad)—Rafter 

Saturday, February 04, 2012

Show #319--2/5/12

Never mind the Super Bowl, here's the Sunday Sampler: 


Get Down and Get With It—Slade
Fox on the Run—Sweet
Hard Lesson—Suddenly, Tammy!
I Wanna Do For You—Honk
You Can’t Dance—Jackson Hawke 
Over and Away She Goes—Bill Fox
Going to California—Led Zeppelin
Firewood—The Waxwings
Toronto Tontos—Max Webster
Foxy Foxy—Mott the Hoople

Hour 2: Pretty


A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody—Cliff Edwards
Pretty Ballerina—The Left Banke
Pretty Flamingo—Manfred Mann
Pretty Girls Everywhere—Eugene Church and the Fellows
Pretty One—Squeeze
Pretty Girls—Joe Jackson
(Oh) Pretty Woman—Van Halen
Die Young, Stay Pretty—Blondie
Pretty Lady—Lighthouse
Pretty Girls—Melissa Manchester
Stand Still, Look Pretty—The Wreckers
Pretty Words—Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Pretty Thing—The Steve Miller Band
The World is Full of Pretty Girls and Pretty Girls Are Full of Themselves Too—Robbie Fulks
Pretty and High—The Roches
Oh! You Pretty Things—David Bowie
Pretty Things—Rufus Wainwright