So, I'm finally putting up all my old playlists. It's not perfect, because not every meticulously prepared playlist makes it to air the way I planned. Sometimes a song doesn't play right, sometime I screw up pushing the right buttons, and sometimes I've miscalculated times and have to drop a song or two (or three).
You won't get that from here. Two things have made me decide to use the original complete lists: first, I'm too lazy to go back and check the videos to see what I dropped, and second, these lists ARE what I meant to play. My songs choices, more often than not, are made because of the associations I make from one track or group of track to the next, how the basic sounds of the songs relate to one another, both to my ears and my head.
After the opening blasts of Mars Volta and the Buzzcocks (my favorite song of theirs), I slapped together four Detroit tracks. Whenever I need a bundle of loud songs, I fall back on heavy seventies-style songs, and Detroit bands produced so many great ones it's always and easy choice.
I don't love the blues, but I love a lot of blues influenced artists. The next group of songs, starting with Mick Abram's short-lived Blodwyn Pig and ending with Free, is a nice assortment of such music. BP is weird and jazzy, Johnny Winter and Gov't Mule much more traditional, and Free more heavy soul. An important not for anyone whose impressions of Paul Rodgers are based only on Bad Company or the best-forgotten Queen travesty, you need to listen to Free's
Fire and Water. It is a perfect record, even with the too-played "Alright Now." Rodgers' voice is never less than amazing and the band plays tight and heavy with perfect control.
Then there's a batch of San Francisco songs. I plan to play a much longer set at some point, but this is a nice introduction and reminder of what good music the city produced fifty years ago. Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Moby Grape aren't the only bands of note but they are four of the best.
The last songs are just a bunch of cool stuff that sounded good together. That's the real ongoing theme of the show - songs that sound good.
| Song | Artist | Album | Year |
| Inertiatic ESP | Mars Volta | De-loused in the Comatorium | 2003 |
| ESP | the Buzzcocks | Love Bites | 1978 |
| Crack in the Universe | Wayne Kramer | The Hard Stuff | 1995 |
| Mark Say's Alright | Grand Funk RR | E Pluribus Funk | 1971 |
| Baby Won't Ya | MC5 | High Time | 1971 |
| Wreck My Flow | the Dirtbombs | We Have You Surrounded | 2008 |
| Ain't Ya Coming Home, Babe? | Blodwyn Pig | Ahead Rings Out | 1969 |
| Fast Life Rider | Johnny Winter | Second Winter | 1969 |
| Broke Down on the Brazos | Gov't Mule | By a Thread | 2009 |
| Fire and Water | Free | Fire and Water | 1970 |
| Ramble Tamble | Creedence | Cosmo's Factory | 1970 |
| Guarded by Monkeys | Cracker | Forever | 2002 |
| Safesurfer | Julian Coper | Peggy Suicide | 1991 |
| Hey Frederick | Jefferson Airplane | Volunteers | 1969 |
| Box of Rain | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | 1970 |
| Dino's Song | Quicksilver Msgr. | Quicksilver Messenger Service | 1968 |
| Lazy Me | Moby Grape | Moby Grape | 1968 |
| Hersham Boys | Sham 69 | single | 1979 |
| Let's Break the Law | Anti-Nowhere League | We Are...the League | 1982 |
| To Be Continued | SAHB | Tomorrow Belongs to Me | 1975 |
| Lookout Joe | Neil Young | Tonight's the Night | 1975 |
| Goodbehavior | the Bellrays | Let It Blast | 1998 |
| Ring of Fire | Eric Burdon & the Animals | Love Is | 1968 |
