Show #357--10/28/12 SMC (1978-1982)

Final Sunday of the month. Time for another Sunday Music Club, where the entire show is devoted to a particular chunk of musical history, this time featuring music
from the years 1978-1982.

You can stream the first hour of this show by clicking the appropriate link to the right  --->

There We Are—James Taylor

Every Kinda People—Robert Palmer

Slang (Live)—Weather Report

Ffun—Con Funk Shun

Different Point/Dancing in the City—Marshall Hain

Walking in the Rain—Flash and the Pan

New Town Animal in a Furnished Cage—XTC

Humor Me—Pere Ubu

We Live for Love—Pat Benatar

Hard to Find—Squeeze

Modern Man—4 Out of 5 Doctors

Space Invaders—Uncle Vic

Yesterday’s Love—Any Trouble

Boulevard—Jackson Browne

Loretta—Nervous Eaters

Hour 2

Money Changes Everything—The Brains

Money’s No Good—Off Broadway

Confusion—Electric Light Orchestra

I Ain’t Gonna Stand for It—Stevie Wonder

Please Don’t Ask—Genesis

Heart Hotels—Dan Fogelberg

What Do All the People Know—The Monroes

Every Time I Think of You—The Babys

Personally—Karla Bonoff

(The Boys Are) Back in Town—The BusBoys

Delirious—Prince

You Dream Flat Tires—Joni Mitchell

I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)—Donald Fagen

Why—Carly Simon 

Show #356--10/21/12

Everything to Lose—David Andrews

One for Me and You—Climax Blues Band

Scabbard—Trey Anastasio

Glide—Pinback

Slide—Tin Huey

Waveforms—Django Django

Losing My Edge—LCD Soundsystem 

Tell All the People—The Doors

Get in the Car—Echo and the Bunnymen

Family—The Cast of Cheers

(I Don’t Want to Go to) Chelsea—Elvis Costello

Are You Ready—The Sinceros

Quiet—Ian Dury & the Blockheads

Hour 2: “_____ It” 

Don’t You Just Know It—Huey “Piano” Smith & the Clowns

That’ll Get It—The Imps

Don’t Do It—The Band

I Can’t Stand It—Chris Whitley

(Go) Get It—Pat Metheny Trio 

Hold It Now, Hit It—The Beastie Boys

It Ain’t What You Do, It’s the Way That You Do It—Fun Boy Three w/Bananarama

Say It Like You Mean It—The Cinema

Beat It—Michael Jackson

Tonight I Have to Leave It—The Shout Out Louds

Give It, Lose It, Take It—Field Music

Push It—Garbage

Rumour Has It—Adele

How Bad Do You Want It?—Don Henley

Roll With It—Oasis 

Show #355--10/14/12

Come Back—TEEN

Be Above It—Tame Impala

Counting Texas—Pat Metheny Trio

Your Finest—Callers

Cameo Lover—Kimbra

Pull Me Back to Earth—Friendly Fires 

There’s Money in New Wave—A.C. Newman

Secretarial—A.C. Newman

Love My Way—The Psychedelic Furs

Repetition—The Au Pairs

Love on Your Side—Thompson Twins

Let Me Go—Heaven 17

Another World—Joe Jackson

Baby—Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti

Hour 2: Extend-a-Mix

That awkward moment when the Hour 1 mix gets too big for its britches and just keeps on keepin’ on. (No themes tonight!)

Linger—The Cranberries

Go to Sleep—The Avett Brothers

Up All Night—Grand Piano

Something More Beautiful—Beth Orton

Better Than Beautiful—Jeb Loy Nichols

Hold On—John Lennon

Every Night—Paul McCartney

Dog Star Radio—Joydrop

What Makes You Happy—Liz Phair

Bower of Bliss—The Clouds

Bobby Brown—The Soft Pack

Have a Heart—The Knack

Gacela of the Bullring—Limblifter
Freedom of Choice—Devo

For the Love of Money—Utopia 

Show #354--10/7/12

Good Vibrations—Todd Rundgren

Surfin—William Orbit

California Girls—The Magnetic Fields

Magpie—Beth Orton

Stormbird—Belleruche 

Numbers—Kraftwerk

Forgotten Words—The Raincoats

Live in This City—Dragonette 

Do It Anyway—Ben Folds Five

Where’s Summer B.?—Ben Folds Five 

Escape Horse—Marco Benevento

Throwing Stones—The Grateful Dead

It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference—Tom Middleton

Hour 2—Insecta Sides (from 5/1/11)

The Glow Worm—The Mills Brothers

Butterfly—Charlie Gracie

The Termite—Odgen Nash

Lucky Ladybug—Billy & Lillie

The Boll Weevil Song—Brook Benton

Bumble Bee—LaVern Baker

The Caterpillar—Odgen Nash

The Inch Worm—John Coltrane

Cricket—Collie Ryan

Bugs—Bobbie Gentry

Bugs—Pearl Jam

June Bug—Leo Kottke

Ants Marching—Dave Matthews Band

Fireflies—Fleetwood Mac

Insects—Oingo Boingo

Fly on the Wall—XTC

The Eyes of the Fly—Jookabox

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