Friday, March 06, 2015

Stuck In Thee Garage #71: March 6, 2015

It was inevitable that one of these weeks, I was going to play an hour of songs about radio for my second-hour theme on Stuck In Thee Garage. That turned out to be this week; I mixed in some classics with some lesser known odes to radio.



The long-distance dedication playlist:

Hour 1
Artist - Song/Album
Never Young - Ur a Front/Never Young EP
Pile - #2 Hit Single/You're Better Than This
Krill - Foot/A Distant Fist Unclenching
The Districts - 4th and Roebling/A Flourish and a Spoil
Kingdom of the Holy Sun - Getting Higher/Return of the Sun Kings
The Sidekicks - Deer/Runners in the Nerved World
St. Vincent - Bring Me Your Loves/St. Vincent
Colleen Green - Deeper Than Love/I Want to Grow Up
Velocity Girl - Tales of Brave Aphrodite/Fortune Cookie Prize
Firehose - Flyin' the Flannel/Flyin' the Flannel
Ladyhawk - My Old Jacknife/Ladyhawk
Destroyer - Foam Hands/Trouble in Dreams
David Bowie - Moonage Daydream/The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored/The Stone Roses
Jarvis Cocker - Pilchard/Further Complications

Hour 2:  Radio radio
Joe Jackson - On Your Radio/I'm the Man
The Kinks - Around the Dial/Give the People What They Want
The Replacements - Left of the Dial/Tim
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe (Hib-Tone version)/single
The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner/The Modern Lovers
The Sports - Who Listens to the Radio?/Don't Throw Stones
Fishbone - ? (Modern Industry)/Fishbone
Nirvana - Radio Friendly Unit Shifter/In Utero
Jesse Malin - Broken Radio/Glitter in the Gutter
Mr. Airplane Man - C'mon DJ/C'mon DJ
Ex Hex - Radio On/Rips
New Bomb Turks - Radio Beat/Switchblade Tongues, Butterknife Brains
Elvis Costello - Radio, Radio/This Year's Model
The Hold Steady - Most People Are DJs/Almost Killed Me
David Bowie - D.J./Lodger
James Brown - Fight Against Drug Abuse (Public Service Announcement)/Funk Power - 1970: A Brand New Thang



 


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