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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