Saturday, December 2, 2017

MUSIC I LIKE Sept 10, 2017

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.


SongArtistAlbumYear
Inertiatic ESPMars VoltaDe-loused in the Comatorium2003
ESPthe BuzzcocksLove Bites1978
Crack in the UniverseWayne KramerThe Hard Stuff1995
Mark Say's AlrightGrand Funk RRE Pluribus Funk1971
Baby Won't YaMC5High Time1971
Wreck My Flowthe DirtbombsWe Have You Surrounded2008
Ain't Ya Coming Home, Babe?Blodwyn PigAhead Rings Out1969
Fast Life RiderJohnny WinterSecond Winter1969
Broke Down on the BrazosGov't MuleBy a Thread2009
Fire and WaterFreeFire and Water1970
Ramble TambleCreedenceCosmo's Factory1970
Guarded by MonkeysCrackerForever2002
SafesurferJulian CoperPeggy Suicide1991
Hey FrederickJefferson AirplaneVolunteers1969
Box of RainGrateful DeadAmerican Beauty1970
Dino's SongQuicksilver Msgr.Quicksilver Messenger Service1968
Lazy MeMoby GrapeMoby Grape1968
Hersham BoysSham 69single1979
Let's Break the LawAnti-Nowhere LeagueWe Are...the League1982
To Be ContinuedSAHBTomorrow Belongs to Me1975
Lookout JoeNeil YoungTonight's the Night1975
Goodbehaviorthe BellraysLet It Blast1998
Ring of FireEric Burdon & the AnimalsLove Is1968

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