Monday, July 28, 2025

Show #184 June 14, 2025


Let's give a big hand to tonight's dedicatee... Tatjana!
 
Tatjana- The Nubiles Mindblender
He's My Best Friend- Jellyfish Spilt Milk 
Nothing Would Change- The Linda Lindas No Obligation 
Hey, Guitar- Pernice Brothers Who Will You Believe 
How Can I Love Her More?- The Lemon Twigs A Dream Is All We Know 
The End Of The Day- Fastbacks For WHAT Reason! 
^Turning Japanese- The Vapors New Clear Days 
^Blister In The Sun- Violent Femmes Violent Femmes
^I Touch Myself- Divinyls I Touch Myself 
^Jerk It Out- Caesars Jerk It Out 
I'm Really Old- Death By Unga Bunga Raw Muscular Power 
Visiting Hours- The Speedways Visiting Hours 
Lightning- Gyasi Here Comes The Good Part
*Orgasm Addict- Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady 
*Pump It Up- Elvis Costello This Year's Model
*Touching Me Touching You- Squeeze Cool For Cats 
*Praying Hands- Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! 
*The Holiday Song- Pixies Come On Pilgrim 
*Get A Grip- Semisonic Get A Grip 
*Wet- Dazey And The Scouts Maggot 
>Pictures Of Lily- The Who Pictures of Lily 
>Bracelets Of Fingers- The Pretty Things S.F. Sorrow 
Me And My Vibrator- Suzie Seacell Circus Royale 
Vibrator- Electric Six Señor Smoke 
Masturbation Generation- Boys Next Door Lethal Weapons 
Every Day I Die- Tubeway Army Tubeway Army 

^Power Pop Peak[s]:
Turning #36 Billboard Hot 100 11/29/80, 
"Blister" No BB but every day in my Emerson dorm Fall 1983
"Touch" #4 Billboard Hot 100 5/18/01
"Yerk" #70 Billboard Hot 100 4/10/05 
 
*SacroSet[s]: "Going Solo" or "Dinner For 1"
 
 >Power Pop Prototypes:  1967, 1968
 

So my OCD tendencies are reeking havoc on my song selections for ALL KINDSA GIRLS.  I'll come up with an idea like "you know 'Pictures of Lily' is a cool song and while a lot of people know it, they probably don't know what it's about."  From there I thought of "Turning Japanese," "Blister In The Sun" the Buzzcocks song- and we were off.  Is it show-offy to find 30 songs that fit this or any other specific theme?  Yes.  Is it compulsive?  100%!  I'll say to myself, "I have to find EVERY song that fits because I'll never come back to this theme again- this is it!"  The irony of course, pointed out by my wife, is that there's no better metaphor for the theme itself than my exhaustively researching songs on it.   
 
In my defense, I excluded songs that directly reference the subject (with the exception of the one by Nick Cave's Boys Next Door-it rocks so hard I couldn't leave it out and gave myself a pass since it aired well after midnight PDT).  Yet, I did play "I Touch Myself," so you could say this was arbitrary.  Also nixed were songs I deemed inartful like "Doin' Laundry" by Nerf Herder and "Spank Thru" by Nirvana.  Although no one would accuse "Jerk It Out" by Caesars as being "artful," so again, pretty arbitrary.
 
I also skipped songs that fit the theme but aren't very good like "National Health" by The Kinks, "Smut" by Skyhooks, and "Self Abuser" by The Fauves.  At the end of the day, a radio show is only as good as the songs it features- you can't play so-so songs just because of their subject matter (looking at the list above perhaps you think I did not successfully dodge this bullet, hmm?)  And -this is where my OCD kicks in- I still agonized over cutting these songs, not because they're great but because they fit the theme!  
 
It all starts inn-ocently enough- a theme presents itself and I find four songs that fit for a SacroSet.  Then, I try to find a hit for the Power Pop Peak and a 50's/60's record for the Power Pop Prototype.  If I can find a song fitting the theme with a girl's name for the dedication (often hard to do), I am golden (thanks to The Nubiles for tonight's "Tatjana.")  The problems start when I find 10 or more songs early on which is when I start obsessively searching until all 25-26 songs in the show fit the theme.  On the plus side though, I would never have found "Get A Grip" (by Semisonic of "Closing Time" fame) or "Wet" by Dazey and the Scouts, a mid-2010's indie band from my hometown Boston, Mass.  I'm also quite taken with "Vibrator" by Detroit garage denizens Electric Six.
Dazey and the Scouts
 
Reading this post further confirms my OCD tendencies.  Perhaps you find it annoying?  I hear that.  If not or, even better, you can relate, then thank you for your time. Either way, enjoy tonight's show!
 
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Sunday, February 2, 2025

Show #183 2024 Year-End Special February 1, 2025


As always, the 2024 Year-End Special is dedicated to ALL KINDSA GIRLS!
 
All Kindsa Girls- The Real Kids Real Kids 
Don't Need to Make You Mine- Nervous Eaters Rock n Roll Your Heart Away 
God Damn New York- The Dictators The Dictators 
Face in the Moon- X Smoke & Fiction 
Blind Eye- MC5 Heavy Lifting 
#Do I Love You- The Rubinoos From Home 
#Alfred Starr Hamilton- The Bye Bye Blackbirds Take Out The Poison 
#Death Ship- Hoodoo Gurus Stoneage Romeos
#September Gurls- Big Star Radio City 
#I'm in Love- The dB's Stands for Decibels 
#Annie's Gone- Redd Kross Third Eye 
Real Long Time- White Reaper You Deserve Love 
Get Away- No Tears Heart Shaped Eyes 
Don't Wanna Be Like You- Uni Boys Buy This Now! 
*All The Way Down- The Reflectors Going Out Of Fashion 
*Vitamin U- The Yum Yums Poppin' Up Again 
*Burn Out!- Billy Tibbals Nightlife Stories 
*Daylights- Valley Lodge Shadows in Paradise 
*Candy Coloured Catastrophe- Redd Kross Redd Kross 
^That's Rock 'n Roll- Eric Carmen Eric Carmen 
^Happy Man- Greg Kihn "Best Of Beserkley" '75-'84 
^Magic Power- The Paley Brothers The Paley Brothers 
^Achin' to Be- The Replacements Don't Tell a Soul 
52 Girls- The B-52's The B-52's
 
SacroSet[s]:  #Favorite 2024 Shows
*Top 5 Records of 2024
^Roll Call:  Those We Lost In 2024 
 
Well, 2024 happened.  We lived and we learned- there were some hard lessons along the way yet I strive to stay positive.  On the home front the news is good.  The theater company I help Jaime run, Sonoma Arts Live, had another successful season and my radio show ALL KINDSA GIRLS remains a Saturday night staple on KSVY.  Best of all, 2025 is starting with a wedding and by this time next year we'll be grandparents!  Like every year, my 2024 was full of great movies, TV shows, records, books and live performances.  So now, in a tradition that dates back to 1999 (this is my 25th year!) I humbly submit my 2024 Top 5 Lists: 
 
TOP 5 MOVIES:
Ghostlight (theater community)
Anora (American Dreamers) 
A Real Pain (cousin commitment)
Kneecap (Scannán spraíúil!)
The Substance (acid gaze)

TOP 5-ish STREAMING/DVD MOVIES
The Royal Hotel / How To Have Sex / Bird (save our daughters)
The Civil Dead / Snack Shack (brothers in arms)
The Innocent / Hit Man (thriller/comedy or comedy/thriller?)
Eileen / The Teacher's Lounge (in for a penny...)

TOP 5 CLASSIC THURSDAY MOVIES
Born To Kill (noir nastiness)
Christmas In July (consummate Sturges)
Detective Story (secrets revealed)
Act of Violence (war at home)

TOP 5 WORKOUT ROCUMENTARIES
Fanny: The Right To Rock (Bowie was right) 
Joy Division (atrocity exhibition)

TOP 5 ALBUMS
Yum Yums- Poppin' Up Again (Norwegian necessity) 
Redd Kross- Redd Kross (rock & roll party tonight)

TOP 5 TV SHOWS
Jury Duty (we need more like Ronald)
Disclaimer (dig two graves)
We Are Lady Parts Season 2 (faith, friendship, rock & roll)
Nobody Wants This (yet, we do)
Marianne (quelle sorcière)
 
TOP 5 BOOKS

TOP 5 LIVE PERFORMANCES
Stereophonic 8/17/24 NYC (went their own way)
The dB's 11/14/24 SF (we were happy there)
Kimberly Akimbo 11/26/24 SF (great adventure)
 
Check out the ALL KINDSA GIRLS feeds on Twitter (I disavow the name change) or Bluesky if you'd like to know what I'm watching, listening to and reading during the year (we're also up on Facebook and Instagram).  If your interested in past Top 5 lists, you can find them all the way back to 1999 at the Rick's Top 5 Lists blog.  Please send your 2024 favorites as well.  I'm always looking for quality viewing, listening and reading material- you may see your picks on next year's lists.  
 
Wishing you all the best in 2025!
 
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