My Back Pages

"Why do you have porn on your computer?"

"That's not porn. That's Betty Page."

"Well, I think you're a perv and that picture is degrading to women."

"You do? Fine. I'll delete the damn thing...there...happy?"

"You idiot. I was only kidding. I love Betty Page."

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What a week. I've been splitting time between being bored and unproductive and being manic and over-reactive. And just plain depressed.
I need radio. Lots of radio. Six hours of radio.



Thursday:


Atomic Rooster- Intro/Breathless

Grace Slick- Silver Spoon

Be Bop Deluxe- Sister Seagull

Oingo Boingo- Dead or Alive

Mike Watt- Against the 70's
Most of the songs in this set are from the 70's.

10 CC- Rubber Bullets

Larry Graham- Water

Steve Hillage- New Age Synthesis/Unzipping the Zype

Katie Lee- Will to Fail

Marianne Faithfull- Broken English
What are we fighting for? It's not my security

James Brown- Living in America

Lou Reed - America

Nina Hagen- African Reggae
Nina Hagen fled East Germany back when that meant something.

Joe Strummer- Coma Girl

Arctic Monkeys- Look Good on the Dance Floor

Spoon- Everything Hits at Once

Cardiacs- Buds and Spawn

P.J. Harvey- Long Snake Moan

Damien Dempsey- Marching Season

Neil Young- Vampire Blues

Allan - In the System
Check me out. I'm on the radio.

Peter Tosh- No Nuclear War

Kinks- Gotta Be Free

Blue Oyster Cult- Godzilla

Ray Manzarek -Begin the World Again

Gary Numan- Slow, very slow...oops

X- When our Passed Out on the Couch

Flaming Groovies - High Flyin' Baby

Polite Society- William Whitelowe
This is one of my old bands. I'm on the radio again.

Jethro Tull - Hymn 43
Amen!

Neil Young- Powderfinger

Drive-By Truckers-Ronnie and Neil
'Powderfinger' followed by the DBT's 'Ronnie and Neil'. Get it? Sigh. Never mind.


Steve Hillage- 1988 Aktivator
Dude called: "Who was that? I loved it!" I live for calls like that. Pretty sad for me eh?

Ramones- Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World

Black Sabbath - A National Acrobat

Soft Boys- Rock and Roll Toilet

Stranglers- Nice and Sleazy

Frank Zappa- Excentrifugal Forz/Apostrophe

Pretty Things- All Light Up!
I played an anti-smoking PSA and then segued into this song, which features a chorus of English schoolchildren chanting "All Light Up!" over and over again. Tsk.

Crack the Sky - Lighten up McGraw

Agony Column- Mississippi Queen

John Cale-Mercenaries (Ready for War)
Nowadays we call them 'contractors'.

Sex Pistols- Sub-Mission

Cop Shoot Cop- Two at a Time

Motorhead- I Don't Believe a Word

X-Soul Kitchen
A Doors cover- Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek produced and played on this seminal L.A. Punk album.

Paw- Max the Silent
Based on a character from Andrew Vacchs' Burke novels.

Sunday:

R.Crumb- Confessions/Wee Dog Waltz

Steeleye Span- Calling-on-Song/ Blacksmith

J.D.Steele Singers- How Can I See You Through My Tears?

Neil Young- When You Dance I can Really Love

The Kinks- Hot Potato

Cat Whatever his Name is Now- Bitter Blue

Grace Jones- The Apple...

Stranglers- (Sweden) All Quiet On The Eastern Front
This is for my TSIGF.

Can- Mother Upduff
My European vacation.

Altan-Stor, A Stor, A Gha

Pretty Things- Summertime

Damien Dempsey- Celtic Tiger

Lou Reed- Betrayed
You know, I should feel ashamed. Or remorseful. Or at least a little bit guilty. But I don't.

Melanie O'Reilly- This Place

Golden Palominos- No Skin

Steve Hillage- Love Guitar

Frank Zappa- My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama

Fiona Joyce- Long Road to Travel

Eleni Mandell- Dreamboat

Fairport Convention- Tam Lin

Tom Waits- Hoist

Jefferson Airplane- Come Up The Years

Flaming Groovies- Jailbait

Jethro Tull-Moths

Well that's all for now. I'm still unemployed, my grandmother is at home but still sick and the world continues to spiral out of control. Stay tuned.