Show #353--SMC (1972-1976)

On this Sunday's show, it's time for another Sunday Music Club, my miniature version of the summertime and semester-break show where I follow a musical timeline filled with big hits and relative obscurities from a particular time period, this time from 1972-1976.

The Cover of “Rolling Stone”—Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show

Moon Tears—Grin

Wild Eyes—Stampeders

Keep Yourself Alive—Queen

I Can’t Stand the Rain—Ann Peebles

Early in the Morning—Nilsson

It’ll Take a Long Time—Sandy Denny

Sweet Talkin’ Spoon Song—Split Enz

Could It Be I’m Falling in Love—The Spinners

Hey! Love—The Delfonics

The Coldest Days of My Life—The Chi-Lites

Thunder and Lightning—Chi Coltrane

March to the Eternal City—Triumvirat

Hour 2

Sail On Sailor—The Beach Boys

Keep on Sailing—Ian Matthews

Lovin’ You Ain’t Easy—Michel Pagliaro

I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight—Richard and Linda Thompson

Jackie Wilson Said (I’m in Heaven When You Smile)—Van Morrison

Sound Your Funky Horn—KC & the Sunshine Band

The Show Must Go On—Three Dog Night

#9 Dream—John Lennon

Court and Spark—Joni Mitchell 

Hesitation—Honk

Une Nuit a Paris—10cc

I’m Not in Love—10cc

Blackmail—10cc 

Show #352--9/23/12

Every Single Night—Fiona Apple

St. Petersburg—Supergrass

Winter Song—Gabriel Kahane

Living a Lie—Aimee Mann (feat. James Mercer)

Indian Song—Elastica

We Are Waiting—The Knack 

Legend of a Mind—The Moody Blues

The Story in Your Eyes—The Moody Blues

Oh Yeah—Can

Speak in Rounds—Grizzly Bear

Offspring Are Blank—Dirty Projectors

Female Robbery—The Neighbourhood

Hour 2: Stealin’

Probably a Robbery—Renegade Soundwave

Stealin’ Watermelons—Elvin Bishop

Held Up Without a Gun—Bruce Springsteen

I Wanna Rob a Bank—Jason Collett

Robbers—Cold War Kids

Burn & Rob—Paleface

Stealing People’s Mail—The Dead Kennedys

I Fought the Law—Bobby Fuller Four

Burglar Song—Autosalvage

Beg, Borrow, & Steal—The Ohio Express

Cops and Robbers—George Thorogood & the Destroyers

Shoplifter—Green Day

Been Caught Stealing—Jane’s Addiction

Steal My Sunshine—LEN

Bankrobber—The Clash

Bigfoot Stole My Baby—John Lilly 

Show #351--9/16/12

Hungry Like the Wolf—Duran Duran

Limbs of a Pine—Marco Benevento (feat. Kalmia Traver)

Hexagon—Beta Hector

Stop—Twin Sister

Family Haircut—Agent Ribbons

When She’s Near—Fiction Family 

The Hate—Exit Clov

The Killing Type—Amanda Palmer

Knife-Edge—Emerson, Lake & Palmer

We Close Our Eyes—Go West

I Heard it Through the Grapevine—The Slits

Come Back—TEEN

Hour 2: What’s That You Called Me?

Mr. Blue—The Fleetwoods

Candy—Big Maybelle

He Called Me Baby—Candi Staton

Tramp—Otis Redding & Carla Thomas

Pet Names—Chuck Jackson

Call Me Lightning—The Who

The Seeker—The Smithereens

I Call My Baby Candy—The Jaggerz

The Joker—Steve Miller Band

You Can Call Me Al—Paul Simon

Why Don’t You Call Me?—James Blake

Call Me a Dog—Chris Cornell

Calling Dr. Love—Kiss

Don’t Call Me Baby—Voice of the Beehive

That’s Not My Name—The Ting Tings 

Show #350--9/9/12

Sunrise Dance with the Devil—Hot Tuna

You Upset Me, Baby (Live)—Albert King

The Moose is Loose—Kristi Johnston

Terrapin—Field Music

Presence of Mind—The Fresh & Onlys

Storytelling—Belle & Sebastian

Sweather Weather—The Neighbourhood 

Roll to Me—Del Amitri

Living Decorations—Maps & Atlases

Pulleys—Animal Collective

Faster, Sooner, Now—David Gray

I Wanna Do for You—Honk

Sunshine—Jonathan Edwards

Chimacum Rain—Linda Perhacs 

I Don’t Mind—Marcela Mangabeira

I Don’t Mind—The Buzzcocks

Hour 2: Harvest Records Sampler

An hour’s worth of mainly 70s progressive rock (with bookends of 60s and 80s) from this distinctive label from England (an arm of EMI Records). 

You can stream this hour of the show by clicking the "Harvest" file to the right. 

Kentucky Woman—Deep Purple

It Didn’t Work Out—Michael Chapman

Taking Some Time On—Barclay James Harvest

Aeroplane Head Woman—Pete Brown and Piblokto!

Brain Damage—Pink Floyd

The Mexican—Babe Ruth

See My Baby Jive—Wizzard

Shouting in a Bucket Blues—Kevin Ayers

Stage Whispers—Be Bop Deluxe

Ex Lion Tamer—Wire

Running Free—Iron Maiden

The Zoo—Scorpions 

Show #349--9/2/12

Going to Tampa—Ry Cooder

Nothing New—April March

Drinking in L.A.—Bran Van 3000

Hurricane Season—Holobody

As a Child—Suzanne Vega

Take a Walk—Passion Pit   

Infinite Me—The Lapse

Hammer Meets Tongs—Lorelei

23—Blonde Redhead

Letter from an Occupant—The New Pornographers

Fete d’Adieu—Deerhoof

Flaggin a Ride—Divine Fits

Wonder Girl—Sparks

Bustin’ Loose—Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers

Hour 2: Three Longer Pieces

Nothing very complicated here, just three extended instrumentals that I think are interesting and worth your time.

The Bullion track came out last year. This is an EP released by London producer Nathan Jenkins, and it’s a crazy quilt of fun dance music with different moods, samples, and the like. I really enjoyed it, and would’ve put it on my “Favorites of 2011” show…but it’s 20 minutes long, and there was too much other stuff, blah blah. So it “debuts” on tonight’s show.

The Derek Trucks Band cut is from their 2006 album “Songlines.” It’s a remake of a song by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, at first meditative, then funky and declamatory. Sort of hypnotic, too.

Finally, one half of one of the cornerstones of progressive rock, Mike Oldfield’s “Tubular Bells.” I’m playing Part One, as I’m kind of partial to that side, and I think it stands fairly well on its own (though the whole album is an experience worth spending some time with at least once. It gets more bizarre on Side 2).

Those not familiar with the piece under that name may recognize the opening themes – they were appropriated by director William Friedkin for his movie “The Exorcist.” Favorite part’s the end of Side 1, though.

You Drive Me to Plastic—Bullion

Sahib Teri Bandi/Maki Madni—The Derek Trucks Band

Tubular Bells Part One—Mike Oldfield