Here’s the playlist for 2-18-2025, in which I discussed the anomalies in John Mayall 8 tracks, discussed a trip to the Mall at Short Hills, and had Sparklejets U.K. as the featured artist:
Hour 1
- Genesis, “Turn It On Again” [Duke (1980)]
- Elvis Costello, “I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself” [Live Stiffs (1978)]
- The Zeros, “Beat Your Heart Out” [Don’t Push Me Around (1994)]
- John Lennon, “Whatever Gets You Through the Night” [Shaved Fish (1974/1975)]
- Ween, “Dr. Rock” [The Pod (1991)]
This Day in Music
- The Bonesmen, “Last Train to Clarksville” [Deuce (2009)]
- Styx, “Too Much Time on My Hands” [Paradise Theater (1980)]
- The Damned, “New Rose” [Damned Damned Damned (1977)]
- Lords of the New Church, “Live for Today” [Is Nothing Sacred (1983)]
- Frantic Flintstones, “What’d I Say” [Too Sweet to Die (2001)]
- Rockpile, “Crying in the Rain” [Seconds of Pleasure (1980)]
- Bonerama, “Misty Mountain Hop” [Bonerama Plays Zeppelin (2019)]
Hour 2
- Sex Pistols, “(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone” [The Great Rock ‘N’ Roll Swindle (1979)]
Theme Time: Songs about baseball
- George Carlin, “Baseball-Football” [An Evening with Wally Londo (1975)]
- Dora the Explorer, “Baseball, Baseball, Fun in the Sun” [Dora the Explorer (2008)]
- Yo La Tengo, “Baseball Altamont” [Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics (2006)]
- San Francisco Seals, “The Ballad of Denny McClain” [Baseball Trilogy EP (1993)]
- My Favourite Accident, “Have You Seen My Baseball?” [Hometown Beatdown (2012)]
- Bob Newhart, “Nobody Will Ever Play Baseball” [The Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart (1960)]
- Arsonists Get All the Girls, “Symphony of Baseball Bats” [Demo (2005)]
- The Baseball Project, “They Played Baseball” [3rd (2014)]
New Music Express
- Horsegirl, “Where’d You Go” [Phonetics On and On (2025)]
- Horsegirl, “Julie” [Phonetics On and On (2025)]
- The War and Treaty, “Skyscraper” [Plus One (2025)]
- Marinero, “La La La” [La La La (2025)]
- The Lumineers, “Keys on the Table” [Automatic (2025)]
Hour 3: Mandatory Mayall
- John Mayall, “That Love” [Notice to Appear (1976)]
- John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, “My Own Fault” [The Diary of a Band Vol. 1 & 2 (2007)]
- John Mayall, “Rolling with the Blues” [Rolling with the Blues (2003)]
Featured artist: Sparkle*Jets U.K.
- Sparkle*Jets U.K., “Fantastic Pantsuit” [Big Stir Singles: The Fourteenth Wave (2021)]
- Sparkle*Jets U.K., “Sunshine” [We All Shine On: Celebrating the Music of 1970 (2022)]
- Sparkle*Jets U.K., “He’s Coming Out” [Best of Friends (2023)]
- Sparkle*Jets U.K., “I Want a Pony” [Best of Friends (2023)]
- Sparkle*Jets U.K., “Today Will Be Yesterday Tomorrow” [Best of Friends (2023)]
- Sparkle*Jets U.K., “This Will Be Our Year” [Box of Letters (2024)]
- Sparkle*Jets U.K., “Box of Letters” [Box of Letters (2024)]
Hour 4: Best Albums of the 1990s: Nirvana, Soundgarden, U2, Radiohead
- Nirvana, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” [Nevermind (1991)]
- Nirvana, “Lithium” [Nevermind (1991)]
- Nirvana, “Polly” [Nevermind (1991)]
- Soundgarden, “Black Hole Sun” [Superunknown (1994)]
- Soundgarden, “Spoonman” [Superunknown (1994)]
- U2, “One” [Achtung Baby (1991)]
- U2, “Mysterious Ways” [Achtung Baby (1991)]
- Radiohead, “Just” [The Bends (1995)]
Tribute to Sal Maida
- Milk ‘N’ Cookies, “Little Lost and Innocent” [Milk ‘N’ Cookies (2016)]
- Sparks, “I Want to Be Like Everybody Else” [Big Beat (1976)]
- Sparks, “White Women” [Big Beat (1976)]
And here’s the show:
