Playlist January 19 2018

    The 50 Best Songs of 2017      Harry Rag

 1      The Dream Syndicate                                      Glide                        How Did I Find Myself Here? (Anti)

 2      Eleni Mandell                                I Belong To Someone New                                         Single (Yep Roc)

 3      Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile            Over Everything                             Lotta Sea Lice (Matador)

 4      Robyn Hitchcock                            Mad Shelley’s Letterbox                      Robyn Hitchcock (Yep Roc)

 5      Juana Molina                                          Cara De Espejo                                         Halo (Crammed Discs)

 6      Marika Hackman                                         Boyfriend                                  I’m Not Your Man (Sub Pop)

 7      Miranda Lee Richards                    On The Side Of Heaven         Existential Beast (Invisible Hands)

 8      Chuck Prophet     Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins      Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins (Yep Roc)

 9      Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions    Antiquity                       Son Of A Lady (Tendril Tales)

10    Spoon                                               Whisper I’ll Listen To Hear It                    Hot Thoughts (Matador)

11    Kelley Stoltz                                          Looking For A Spark                                 Que Aura (Castle Face)

12    The Feelies                                               Gone Gone Gone                                    In Between (Bar/None)

13    Coco Hames                                                I Do Love You                                             Coco Hames (Merge)

14    Psychic Temple                                     Isabella Ocean Blue                                               IV (Joyful Noise)

15    The Sexual Objects                                      Sometimes                               Marshmallow (Triassic Tusk)

16    Kevin Morby                                                   Crybaby                                          City Music (Dead Oceans)

17    Aldous Harding                                             Horizon                                                                     Party (4AD)

18    Wire                                                         Sleep On The Wing                                     Silver/Lead (Pinkflag)

19    Ron Gallo                                       Young Lady, You’re Scaring Me                    Heavy Meta (New West)

20    Shout Out Louds                                        Ease My Mind                                        Ease My Mind (Merge)

21    Flamin’ Groovies                                   End Of The World                       Fantastic Plastic (Sonic Kicks)

22    Filthy Friends                                               Windmill                                       Invitation (Kill Rock Stars)

23    Woods                                                         Bleeding Blue                                       Love Is Love (Woodsist)

24    XX                                                                         Naïve                                               I See You (Young Turks)

25    The Chills                                                    Lost In Space                                                             Single (Fire)

26    Phoebe Bridgers                                      Smoke Signals               Stranger In The Alps (Dead Oceans)

27    Alvvays                                                         Not My Baby                                     Antisocialites (Polyvinyl)

28    The Bats                                                      Walking Man                                   The Deep Set (Flying Nun)

29    Real Numbers                                       Frank Infatuation                                     Single (Market Square)

30    Father John Misty                                   Real Love Baby                                                    Single (Sub Pop)

31    Foxygen                                                  Follow The Leader                                            Hang (Jagjaguwar)

32    Beck                                                            No Distractions                                                Colors (Fonograf)

33    The Dahlmanns                                     Forever My Baby                                      Single (Next Big Thing)

34    Girlpool                                                   It Gets More Blue                                                Powerplant (Anti)

35    Garbage                                                           No Horses                                                 Single (StunVolume)

36    Ty Segall                                                  Thank You Mr. K                                             Ty Segall (Drag City)

37    St. Vincent                                                           Pills                                          Masseduction (Loma Vista)

38    The Courtneys                                                 Frankie                                  The Courtneys II (Flying Nun)

39    Big Thief                                                       Shark Smile                                          Capacity (Saddle Creek)

40    The New Pornographers          We’ve Been Here Before    Whiteout Conditions (Collected Works)

41    Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker        I Heard Them Singing                     Spiderbeetlebee (Drag City)

42    Jens Lekman    What’s That Perfume That You Wear?  Life Will See You Now (Secretly Canadian)

43    Laura Marling                                          Don’t Pass Me By                  Semper Femina (More Alarming)

44    Dhani Harrison                                            Never Know                                 In///Parallel (Hot Records)

45    Jane Weaver                                                 Slow Motion                                     Modern Kosmology (Fire)

46    Paul Weller                                                        Nova                               A Kind Revolution (Warner Bros.)

47    L.A.Witch                                              Kill My Baby Tonight                         L.A.Witch (Suicide Squeeze)

48    Peter Perrett                                                     Troika                          How The West Was Won (Domino)

49    OCS                               Lift A Finger By The Garden Path     Memory Of A Cut Off Head (Castle Face)

50    Julie Byrne                                                 Natural Blue                        Not Even Happiness (Ba Da Bing)

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Playlist January 12 2018

Yo Mike La Ira and Tengo John
 YLT 2017 Hanukkah show mixtapes 

Mike Watt - Minutemen Bassist 

 Wire “Dot Dash”  Single (1978)  Harvest
 Blue Öyster Cult “Hot Rails to Hell”  Tyranny and Mutation (1973)  Columbia
 
 John Coltrane “Countdown”  Giant Steps (1959)Columbia
 Richard Hell and The Voidoids “Walking on the Water”  Blank Generation (1977)  Sire — CCR cover
 The Pop Group “We Are Time” Y (1979) Radar
 
 Black Flag “Clocked In”  Everything Went Black (1982) SST Records
 Meat Puppets “Buckethead” Up On the Sun (1984)  SST
 Husker Du “Sorry Somehow”  Candy Apple Grey (1986)  Warner Brothers
 Sonic Youth “Pch”  Sisters (1987) SST Records — Pacific Coast Highway

 The Wipers “What Is”  Over The Edge (1983)  Brain Eater
The Last Poets “It's a Trip”  Delights of the Garden (1977)  Douglas — feat. Bernard Purdie
 Lemon Kittens “P.V.S.”  We Buy A Hammer For Daddy (1980) United Dairies
 Roky Erickson “I Have Always Been Here Before” Two Headed Dog EP (1977)  Sponge

Ira Kaplan - Yo La Tengo Guitarist and Vocals 
 
The Afro Blues Quintet “There Is A Mountain” Next Album (1968) Mira — feat. Rene Bloch - Donovan Cover
 Benny Spellman “I Feel Good”  Single (1965)  Atlantic
 Antietam “Birdwatching”  Intimations of Immortality (2017)  Motorific Sounds
 Ray Bryant “Pata Pata”  Single (1968)  Cadet
 

Lloyd Charmers “Let's Get It On”  Single (1974)  Harry J — Marvin Gaye cover
 Floyd Brown “What I Want”  Single (1961)  Montel — Swamp Pop!
 Dee Dee Sharp “Deep Dark Secret”  Single (1963)  cameo
 Redd Kross “Choose to Play” Researching the Blues (2012) Merge Records
 The Special Pillow “The Land That Time Forgot”  At the Earth's Core (2016) Zofko
 Marianne Faithfull “Rosie Rosie”  Love in a Mist (1988) London — rec 1966 - Kinks Cover- Rosie, Won't You Please Come Home

 Tom Ardolino “"Get Smart" Theme”  Unknown Brain (2009)  Mystra — NRBQ solo effort
Cliff "King" Solomon “But, Officier”  Okeh Rhythm and Blues Story (1993) Epic — Rec 1950
 Dan Penn “Everytime”  The Fame Recordings (2013) Ace — Rec 1964-66
 Guitar Slim “Certainly All”  Single (1952)  J-B Records
 
 Mongo Santamaria “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction” Hey! Let's Party (1966)  Columbia — Rolling Stones cover
 Thee Impalas “Come On Up”  Single (1967)  Whittier — Rascals cover
 Oscar Peterson Trio “Oop Bop Sh-Bam”  This Is Oscar Peterson (1952)  Bluebird
 Willie Bobo and The Bo Gents “Shut Up and Pay Attention”  Do What You Want to Do (1971)  Sussex
 Unknown “I'm In Orbit”  Boppin' By The Bayou (2013) Ace — Louisiana Rockabilly
 Third Ear Band “Druid One”  Alchemy (1969)  Harvest

John McEntire - Tortoise Percussionist 
 
Franco Battiato “Areknames”  Pollution (1972)  Artis
Basil Kirchin “Viva Tamla Motown”  Abstractions Of The Industrial North (2005)  Trunk — Stock Film music Rec 1966 with Jimmy Page
 Hal Blaine “Love-In (December)” Psychedelic Percussion (1967) Dunhill — Wrecking Crew drummer
 Keith “98.6” Single (1967)  Mercury
 Brenton Wood “Gimme Little Sign”  single (1965) Double Shot
 
 Carol Leigh and Hank Midlin “Inquire Within”  Enjoy The Experience- Homemade Records 1958-2001 (2013)  Now Again Records — From honolulu rec 1969
 The Sylvers “Only One Can Win”  The Sylvers (1972)  Pride Records
 Alan Moorhouse “That's Nice” Kpm 1000 Series: The Big Beat - Volume 2 (2007)  KPM 1000 LP Series — Stock Film music rec 1970
 Os Mutantes “Panis Et Circenses”  Os Mutantes (1968) Polydor
 Broadcast. “Microtronics 07”  Stereo recorded Music For Links and Bridges (2003)  Warp — 3" CD EP Ha Ha tour only

Cluster “Heisse Lippen”  Zuckerzeit (1974) Brain.
 Michael Rother “Karussell”  Flammende Herzen (1977)Sky
 The Space Lady “Humdinger”  Space Lady By Amazing Thingz (1990) Night School
Pere Ubu “Heaven”  Single (1977)  Hearpen
 
The Upsetters “Popcorn”  I Am The Upsetter: The Rare Sevens Box Set (2005) Trojan.
 Andrea True Connection “More! More! More!”  More More More (1976)  Buddah
The Breakaways “That's How It Goes”  Single (1964) Pye
Michel Colombier “L'Etrange Voyage de M. Brendwood” Capot Pointu (1969) La Compagnie
 
 Lifetones “Good Side” For a Reason (1983) Tone Of Life
 Moodymann “Don't You Want My Love”  Forevernevermore (2000)  Peace Frog

Playlist December 15 2017

O U T Spells Out
 Wilco “I Got You”  Being There (2017)  Rhino/Warner Bros. — Dobro Mix
 Split Enz “I Got You”  True Colours (1980)  A and M
 
 The Real Numbers “Frank Infatuation”  Single (2017)  Market Square
 The Monochrome Set “He's Frank (Slight Return)”  Volume Contrast Brilliance (1978) Disques Bleu
 Paul Weller “Around the Lake” Sonik Kicks (2012)  Island
 OCS “Lift a Finger by the Garden Path”  Memory of a Cut Off Head (2017)  Castle Face
 Wimple Winch “Bluebell Wood”  Pop Sike Pipedreams (1986)  Bam Caruso — Unreleased Song rec 1968

 Jefferson Airplane “Crown of Creation” Crown Of Creation (1968)  RCA — Appeared on The Smothers Brothers This Date 68 - Grace Slick in Blackface
 Cindy Wilson “Change”  Change (2017)  kill rock stars — Solo from B-52's singer
 Giant Sand “Change Is Now”  Time Between  Imaginary — Byrds cover
 Television Personalities “How Does It Feel To Be Loved”  Beautiful Despair (2017)  Fire — Early version
 The Creation “How Does It Feel to Feel”  Action Painting (1968)  Polydor — UK Version - Stereo

 Jens Lekman “What's That Perfume That You Wear?”  Life Will See You Now (2017)  Secretly Canadian — Acapella intro
 The War On Drugs “Pain”  A Deeper Understanding (2017)  Atlantic Records
 Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes “Some Things Just Don't Change”  This Time It's for Real (1977)  Epic
 The Rolling Stones “Cry to Me”  On Air (2017)  Polydor Records — Saturday Club Sept 18 1965
 Kevin Morby “Crybaby”  City Music (2017)  Dead Oceans
 
 Angel Olsen “California” Phases (2017)  Jagjaguwar — Originally issued as single 2013
 Joni Mitchell “California”  Blue (1971)  Reprise
 The Beach Boys “Little Pad”  1967 - Sunshine Tomorrow (2017)  Capitol — acapella
 Psychic Temple “Isabella Ocean Blue” Iv (2017)  Joyful Noise Recordings
 
 The Minus 5 “See You in December”  Dear December (2017)  Yep Roc Records — feat. M. Ward and Chuck Prophet
 Nick Lowe “Christmas at the Airport”  Quality Street (2013)  Yep Roc Records
 
 John Lennon and Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band “Cold Turkey”  Sometime In New York City (1972)  Apple Records — Live Lyceum Dec 15 1969 - Peace For Christmas Benefit
 The Ramones “I Wanna Be Well”  Rocket To Russia (1977)  Sire — Tracking Mix
 United States Of America “Coming Down”  The United States of America (1968)  Columbia — Promo Radio Mono
 Allah-Las “Hard on Love”  Covers #1 (2017)  Mexican Summer — Television cover

 The Smithereens “Beauty and Sadness”  Beauty And Sadness - EP (1985) Little Ricky — RIP Pat DiNizio
 The Smithereens “Behind the Wall of Sleep”  In A Lonely Place (1987)  Enigma — Live at the Ritz Oct 1986
 Del Shannon “Keep Searchin' (We'll Follow the Sun)”  Live In England (1973) United Artists — Live in Manchester Dec 1972
 The Replacements “Fox On the Run”  For Sale (2017)  Rhino/Warner Bros. — Live at Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ, 2/4/86
 The Replacements “Waitress In the Sky”  For Sale (2017)  Rhino/Warner Bros. — Live at Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ, 2/4/86

 St Vincent “Pills”  Masseduction. (2017)  Loma Vista
 The Who “Sea and Sand”  Quadrophenia (1973)  Track
 Wilco “Piss It Away”  A.M. (2017)  Rhino/Warner Bros. — A.M. outtake
 The Moody Blues “Fly Me High”  Single (1967)  Decca — Mono Single

 The Yardbirds “Knowing That I'm Losing You”  Yardbirds 68 (2017)  Jimmy Page — Early instrumental version of Tangerine
 Led Zeppelin “Tangerine”  Led Zeppelin III (1970)  Atlantic Records
 The Moffs “By The Breeze”  Single B-Side (1987)  Citadel
Juana Molina “Sin dones”  Halo (2017)  Crammed Discs
 
 The Dahlmanns “The Last Time”  Forever My Baby- Single (2017)  Next Big Thing
 The Rolling Stones “The Last Time”  On Air  (2017)  Polydor Records — Top Gear March 6 1965
 Flamin' Groovies “Let Me Rock” Fantastic Plastic (2017)  Sonik Kick Records
 Marshall Crenshaw “Move It”  Thank You Rock Fans (2017) Run Out Groove — Shadows cover

 Beatles “1969 Christmas message”  Christmas flexis (2017)  Apple Records

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Playlist December 8 2017

All The Leaves Are Blown

 The Rolling Stones “2120 South Michigan Avenue”  On Air (2017)  Polydor Records — Rhythm and Blues / BBC World Service / Halloween 1964

 Television Personalities “Have A Nice Day” Beautiful Despair (2017) Fire — Rec 1990
 Girl Ray “Monday Tuesday”  Earl Grey (2017)  Moshi Moshi Records — As in Man Ray
 Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile “Let It Go”  Lotta Sea Lice (2017)  Matador
 Television “Carried Away”  Adventure (1978)  Elektra
 
 The Replacements “Kiss Me On the Bus”  For Sale (2017) Warner Bros. — Live at Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ, 2/4/86
 Filthy Friends “Windmill”  Invitation (2017)  kill rock stars
 The Torques “It's Me Not You”  Single (1965)  Lemco — Lexington Ky - Avail 2017 Oxford American CD
 Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore “A Few Miles More” Single (2017)  Sofaburn Records — Avail 2017 Oxford American CD
 Rachel Grimes “Eights”  Single (2017) Decca — From the Rachels - Avail 2017 Oxford American CD
 The Everly Brothers “Love is Strange”  The Everly Brothers Show (1970)  Warner Bros. — Avail 2017 Oxford American CD

 TC and I “Scatter Me”  Great Aspirations EP (2017) TC and I —  TC = Terry Chambers and I= Colin Moulding , No X
 Andy Partridge “Omnibus”  Fuzzy Warbles Vol 6 (2006)  Ape — Mr X - Demo version
 The Move “Omnibus”  Looking At Pictures In The Sky (2017) Grapefruit — Stereo with Extended Wah Wah Ending

 The Mamas and The Papas “California Dreamin'”  Single (1965)  Dunhill — Released Dec 8 1965
 The Bangles “Hazy Shade of Winter” A Hazy Shade of Winter Ep (1987)  Def Jam/Columbia — Less Than Zero soundtrack - Simon and Garfunkle cover
 Beck “Dear Life”  Colors (2017) Fonograf
 John Lennon “Hold On” John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)  Apple — Dec 8th 1980
 The Beatles “I Am the Walrus”  LOVE (2006)  Apple — 50th anniversary of Magical Mystery Tour LP

 Kevin Morby “Beautiful Strangers”   Single (2016)  Dead Oceans — Dedicated to all victims of Gun Violence Coming To Madison this Spring

 The Know-It-All Boyfriends “Ramp It Up”  Single (2017) Boat Records — Joey's benefit
 T-Rex “Raw Ramp”  Single B-Side Get It On(Bang A Gong) (1971)  Reprise — A Bit Rude
 Spoon “WhisperI'lllistentohearit” from Hot Thoughts (2017)  Matador
 The Turtles “I Can't Stop”  Wooden Head (1970)  White Whale — Rec 1966

 The Beach Boys “Surfin'”  Single (1961) X records — Debut Single released December 8th 1961
 The Ramones “Rockaway Beach”  Rocket To Russia (1977)  Sire
 Richard Hell and The Voidoids “Love Comes in Spurts”  Blank Generation (1977)  Sire — Alternate Electric Lady Studio Version
 Richard Hell and The Voidoids “Blank Generation”  Blank Generation (1977)  Sire — Electric Lady Studios Alternate Version
 The Doors “Love Street”  Single B-Side (1968)  Elektra — Jim Morrison's Birthday
 John Cale “Dead or Alive”  Honi Soit (1981)  A and M
 
 The Front Line “For Love”  Single (1966)  Atlantic
 The Yardbirds “Mr. You're a Better Man Than I”  Yardbirds 68 (2017)  Jimmy Page — Live at Anderson Theater March 30 1968
 The Yardbirds “Heart Full of Soul”  Yardbirds 68 (2017)  Jimmy Page — Live at Anderson Theater March 30 1968

 Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions “Son of a Lady”  Single (2017)  Tendril Tales
 L.A. Witch “Kill My Baby Tonight”  L.A. Witch (2017)  Suicide Squeeze Records
 The Cramps “Strange Love”  Flamejob (1994)  Medicine
 The Strangeloves “Rhythm of Love”  Single B-Side (1965)  Bang
 
 Angel Olsen “For You”  Phases (2017)  Jagjaguwar — Roxy Erickson cover rec 2016
 Roky Erickson “For You”  True Love Cast Out All Evil (2010)  Anti/Epitaph — with Okkervil River
 Spiritualized “Walking With Jesus”  Fucked Up Inside (1993)  Dedicated — Live in Hollywood Nov 21 1992
 Wolf Alice “Beautifully Unconventional”  Visions of a Life (2017)  Dirty Hit
 
 Husker Du “Drug Party ”  Savage Young Dü (2017) - 7th Street Entry 9/5/81
 Husker Du “It's Not That Funny Anymore”  Savage Young Dü (2017)  Numero Group - Live Tuscon 1982
 Husker Du “Insects Rule the World ”  Savage Young Dü (2017)  Numero Group - Jay's Longhorn July 1979

 
 Fleet Foxes “Mearcstapa/ On Another Ocean” Electric Lady Sessions (2017)  Dead Oceans / Hostess — June 13 2017
 Nick Harper “A Hundred Things”  Light At The End Of The Kennel (2016)  Sangraal Records
Marshall Crenshaw “Someday, Someway”  Thank You Rock Fans (2017)  Run Out Groove — June 4 1982
 Liverpool Echo “Sally Works Nights”  Liverpool Echo (1973)  Sing Sing