Playlist: 7-8-2025

Here’s the playlist for 7-8-2015, a show in which I had technical difficulties, read an article about Microsoft BASIC for the Commodore PET, and played Backyard Tire Fire as the featured artist:

Hour 1

  1. Led Zeppelin, “When The Levee Breaks” [Led Zeppelin IV (1971)]
  2. Sonic Youth, “Teen Age Riot” [Daydream Nation (1988)]
  3. Thor, “Rock The Nation” [Rock The Universe (2025)]
  4. Black ‘n’ Blue, “Hold On To 18” [Black ‘n’ Blue (1984)]

This Day in Music

  1. Beck, “Loser” [Mellow Gold (1970)]
  2. Foghat, “That’s Alright Mama” [Return of the Boogie Men (1994)]
  3. Haircut 100, “Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)” [Pelican West (1983)]
  4. Ron Keel Band, “Ramblin’ Man” [South X South Dakota (2020)]
  5. The Flowerpot Men, “Let’s Go To San Francisco, Part 1 & 2” [Let’s Go To San Francisco (1967)]

Hour 2: Songs about drinking/songs about rivers

  1. Lou Reed, “The Power of Positive Drinking” [Growing Up In Public (1980)]
  2. Dr. Feelgood, “Milk And Alcohol” [Private Practive (1978)]
  3. The New Pornographers, “The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism” [Mass Romantic (2000)]
  4. Talking Heads, “Take Me To The River” [More Songs About Buildings And Food (1978)]
  5. Mott the Hoople, “Wrong Side of the River” [Wildlife (1971)]

New Music Express

  1. Bruce Springsteen, “Shut Out The Light” [Tracks II: The Lost Albums (2025)]
  2. Bruce Springsteen, “Something In The Wall” [Tracks II: The Lost Albums (2025)]
  3. Ke$ha, “The One” [Period (2025)]
  4. Rival Consoles, “Catherine” [Landscape from Memory (2025)]
  5. The Reds, Pinks & Purples, “The World Doesn’t Need Another Band” [The Past Is A Garden I Never Fed (2025)]
  6. Lorde, “What Was That” [Virgin (2025)]
  7. Splitsville, “A Glorious Lie” [A Glorious Lie single (2025)]

Hour 3: Phun with Phish

  1. Phish, “Harpus/Bundle of Joy/Harpus/Golgi Apparatus (1987-08-21 Ian McLean’s Party at Connie Condon’s Farm – Hebron, NY)” [Live Bait Vol. 05 – 2011 Festival Sampler (2011)]
  2. Phish, “It’s Ice (1993-08-20 Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Morrison, CO)” [Live Bait Vol. 06 – 2011 Colorado Sampler (2011)]

Featured artist: Backyard Tire Fire (part two)

  1. Backyard Tire Fire, “315th Fall” [Bar Room Semantics (2005)]
  2. Backyard Tire Fire, “When The Truth Was Still True” [Bar Room Semantics (2005)]
  3. Backyard Tire Fire, “Thick Skin” [Bar Room Semantics (2005)]
  4. Backyard Tire Fire, “Undecided” [Vagabonds And Hooligans (2007)]

Hour 4: Tribute to Mick Ralphs

  1. The Buddies, “Pulsebeat” [Surf Age Nuggets Trash and Twang Instrumentals 1959-1966 (2012)]
  2. Doc Thomas Group & The Silence, “I’ll Be Doggone” [The Italian Job (1966)]
  3. Doc Thomas Group & The Silence, “Harlem Shuffle” [The Italian Job (1966)]
  4. Doc Thomas Group & The Silence, “Barefootin'” [The Italian Job (1966)]
  5. Doc Thomas Group & The Silence, “Rescue Me” [The Italian Job (1966)]
  6. Mott the Hoople, “At The Crossroads” [Mott the Hoople (1969)]
  7. Mott the Hoople, “Backsliding Fearlessly” [Mott the Hoople (1969)]
  8. Mott the Hoople, “Thunderbuck Ram” [Mad Shadows (1970)]
  9. Mott the Hoople, “Whiskey Woman” [Wildlife (1971)]
  10. Mott the Hoople, “Lay Down” [Wildlife (1971)]
  11. Mott the Hoople, “Angeline” [Brain Capers (1972)]

And here’s the show: