Playlist: 1-21-2025

Here’s the playlist for 1-21-2025, in which I had some technical difficulties, celebrated the pardoning of Ross Ulbricht, and had the Wondermints as the featured artist:

Hour 1

  1. David Johansen, “Here Comes the Night” [Here Comes the Night (1981)]
  2. Warren Zevon, “Jungle Work” [Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School (1980)]
  3. Ween, “Dr. Rock” [The Pod (1991)]
  4. Railroad Jerk, “The Ballad of Railroad Jerk” [One Track Mind (1995)]
  5. The Band, “Chest Fever” [Music From Big Pink (1968)]
  6. Dead Kennedys, “Life Sentence” [Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death (1983/1987)]

This Day in Music

  1. The Guess Who, “Clap for the Wolfman” [Road Food (1974)]
  2. The Bee Gees, “Night Fever” [Greatest (1977/1979)]
  3. Spice Girls, “Wannabe” [Spice (1976)]
  4. Billy Idol, “Cradle of Love” [Charmed Life (1990)]
  5. The Rolling Stones, “Short and Curlies” [It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (1974)]

Hour 2: Theme Time (Presidential songs/songs about fire)

  1. The Marshall Tucker Band, “Mr. President” [Tuckerized (1981)]
  2. Ian Hunter, “When I’m President” [When I’m President (2012)]
  3. Bram Tchaikovsky, “Mr. President” [The Russians Are Coming (1980)]
  4. The Royal Guardsman, “Snoopy for President” [Anthology (1968/1995)]
  5. Extreme, “When I’m President” [Pornograffitti (1990)]
  6. Ron Wood, “I Can Feel the Fire” [I Got My Own Album to Do (1974)]
  7. Mick Farren and The New Wave, “Play with Fire” [Ork Records: New York, New York (1976/2015)]
  8. Dio, “Firehead” [Strange Highways (1993)]
  9. Van Duren, “Chemical Fire” [Are You Serious? (1978)]

New Music Express

  1. 20/20, “King of the Whole Wide World” [Back to California (2025)]
  2. The Weather Station, “Window” [Humanhood (2025)]
  3. Delivery, “Digging the Hole” [Force Majeure (2025)]

Hour 3: Mandatory Mayall

  1. John Mayall, “Rolling with the Blues” [Live in Germany 1988 (2011)]
  2. John Mayall, “Got You on My Mind” [Rolling with the Blues (2003)]

Featured artist: The Wondermints (part two)

  1. The Wondermints, “Guess I’m Dumb” [Wonderful World of Wondermints (1996)]
  2. The Wondermints, “In and Around Greg Lake” [Bali (1998)]
  3. The Wondermints, “Cellophane” [Bali (1998)]
  4. The Wondermints, “Bali” [Bali (1998)]
  5. The Wondermints, “Ride” [Mind if We Make Love to You (2002)]
  6. The Wondermints, “Silly Place” [Kaleidoscopin: Exploring Prisms of the Past (2009)]

Hour 4: Worst Prog Rock Albums of All Time: Supertramp, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull

  1. Supertramp, “It Doesn’t Matter” [Free as a Bird (1987)]
  2. Supertramp, “Free as a Bird” [Free as a Bird (1987)]
  3. Gentle Giant, “Words From The Wise” [Giant for a Day (1978)]
  4. Gentle Giant, “Little Brown Bag” [Giant for a Day (1978)]
  5. Gentle Giant, “Rock Climber” [Giant for a Day (1978)]
  6. Jethro Tull, “Later That Same Evening” [Under Wraps (1984)]

Tribute to John Sykes

  1. Streetfighter, “She’s No Angel” [More Electric Warriors (1980)]
  2. Tygers of Pan Tang, “Gangland” [Spellbound (1981)]
  3. Tygers of Pan Tang, “Take It” [Spellbound (1981)]
  4. Tygers of Pan Tang, “Love Don’t Stay” [Crazy Nights (1981)]
  5. Tygers of Pan Tang, “Never Satisfied” [Crazy Nights (1981)]

And here’s the show: