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.

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