Here’s the playlist for 10-21-2025, in which I chronicled how I jailbroke a Fire stick, had the wrong playlist for This Day in Music, and played The Jayhawks as the featured artist:
Hour 1
- Ace Frehley, “New York Groove” [Ace Frehley (1978)]
- The Who, “Don’t Let Go The Coat” [Face Dances (1981)]
- Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey, “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window” [Going Back Home (2014)]
- Off Broadway, “Quick Turns” [I Wanna Be A Teen Again (American Power Pop In The Eighties) (1980)]
- Graham Parker, “Local Girls” [Squeezing Out Sparks (1979)]
- Number Six, “You Are No Friend” [Song parody (2025)]
This Day in Music
- Elvin Bishop, “Stealin’ Watermelons” [Let It Flow (1974)]
- Manfred Mann, “The Mighty Quinn” [The Very Best Of The Fontana Years (1968/1997)]
- Faces, “You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything” [Snakes and Ladders (1974/1976)]
- The Cramps, “Bikini Girls With Machine Guns” [Stay Sick (1990)]
- Grateful Dead, “Hell in a Bucket” [In The Dark (1987)]
Hour 2
- Iron Maiden, “Murders In The Rue Morgue” [Killers (1980)]
- John Zacherle, “Dinner With Drac (Part 1)” [Monster Mash/Scary Tales (1959/2010)]
Theme Time: Songs about Houston
- Elizadie Robinson, “Houston Bound” [The Rise and Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) (1926/2014)]
- Archie Bell & The Drells, “Houston Texas” [There’s Gonna Be a Showdown (1969)]
- ZZ Top, “Heaven, Hell Or Houston” [El Loco (1981)]
- Bobby Bare, “Houston” [Streets Of Baltimore (1966)]
- R.E.M., “Houston” [Accelerate (2008)]
- Savoy Brown, “Flood In Houston” [Getting To The Point (1968)]
New Music Express
- Tame Impala, “Dracula” [Deadbeat (2025)]
- Sudan Archives, “Dead” [The BPM (2025)]
- The Last Dinner Party, “Agnus Dei” [From The Pyre (2025)]
Hour 3
- Talking Heads, “Psycho Killer” [Talking Heads ’77 (1977)]
Phun With Phish
- Phish, “Mike’s Song (Live At The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa, 12/2/97)” [The Spectrum ’97 (2024)]
Featured artist: The Jayhawks (part five)
- The Jayhawks, “Lovers Of The Sun” [Paging Mr. Proust (2016)]
- The Jayhawks, “The Devil Is In Her Eyes” [Paging Mr. Proust (2016)]
- The Jayhawks, “The Dust Of Long-Dead Stars” [Paging Mr. Proust (2016)]
- The Jayhawks, “Come Cryin’ To Me” [Back Roads And Abandoned Motels (2018)]
- The Jayhawks, “Long Time Ago” [Back Roads And Abandoned Motels (2018)]
- The Jayhawks, “Bitter Pill” [Xoxo (2020)]
Hour 4
- Sheb Wooley, “The Purple People Eater” [Halloween Hits (1958/1991)]
- Ray Parker Jr., “Ghostbusters” [Elvira Presents Haunted Hits (1984/1988)]
- Steve Stoeckel, “The Monsters Under My Bed” [Stir The Cauldron: The Big Stir Records Halloween Collection (2023)]
Top 10 Progressive LPs (part two)
- Jethro Tull, “Overseer Overture” [A Passion Play (1973)]
- Yes, “The Revealing Science Of God / Dance Of The Dawn” [Tales From Topographic Oceans (1973)]
- Emerson Lake & Palmer, “Infinite Space” [Tarkus (1971)]
- King Crimson, “Larks’ Tongue In Aspic (part 1)” [Larks’ Tongue In Aspic (1973)]