2022-12-23 Part 7

Part 7 of 2022-12-23 is a mixed bag of songs with no theme as we finished off recordings for the day to watch Franco Harris and Immaculate Reception documentaries.

Setlist:

1. Shades Apart - Tainted Love

2. Suicide Machines - New Girl

3. Fugazi - Waiting Room

4. Replacements - Beer for Breakfast

5. Husker Du - Don't Want to Know if You Are Lonely

6. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Nothing Compares 2 U

7. Lagwagon - E Dagger

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2022-12-23 Pt 6 - Specials Tribute Pt 2

Part 6 of 2022-12-23 is focused on bands influenced by The Specials.

Setlist:

1. Interrupters (with Tim Armstrong & Rhoda Dakar) - As We Live

2. Rancid (with Roddy Byers, Lynval Golding, and Neville Staples) - Hooligans

3. Operation Ivy - Sound System

4. No Doubt - Sunday Morning

5. Reel Big Fish - Sell Out

6. The Gadjits - Party Girl

7. Specials - Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)

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2022-12-23 Part 5 - Specials Tribute Pt 1

Part 5 of 2022-12-23 is focused on 2 Tone family tree.

Setlist:

1. Specials - Gangsters

2. Madness - The Prince

3. The Selecter - Too Much Pressure

4. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down

5. Bodysnatchers - Let's Do Rock Steady

6. General Public - Tenderness

7. Fine Young Cannibals - Good Thing

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2022-12-23 Part 4 - Chicago 80s-90s Punk

Part 4 of 2022-12-23 is focused on 80s-90s era Chicagoland punk bands.

Setlist:

1. Naked Raygun - New Dreams

2. Naked Raygun - Vanilla Blue

3. The Effigies - Body Bag

4. The Effigies - The Guv'nor

5. Articles of Faith - Up Against the Wall

6. Articles of Faith - What We Want Is Free

7. Pegboy - Through My Fingers

8. The Bollweevils - 7 1/2 Clicks

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2022-12-23 Part 3 - Clash Tribute Pt 3

Part 3 of 2022-12-23 is focused on bands inspired by The Clash.

Setlist:

1. Red Rockers - Teenage Underground

2. Red Rockers - Guns of Revolution

3. Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device

4. Social Distortion - 1945 (13th Floor Records version)

5. Billy Bragg - To Have and To Have Not

6. US Bombs - JAKS

7. Riverboat Gamblers - Drink Alone

8. Rancid - Indestructible

9. Rancid - I Wanna Riot

10. Rancid - The 11th Hour

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2022-12-23 Part 2 - Clash Tribute Pt 2

Part 2 of 2022-12-23 is focused on Clash songs played by other bands.  Oh, yeah, go find the song "Fire!" by Deal's Gone Bad who some of the member of The Crombies played in.

Setlist:

1. M.I.A. - Paper Planes (Straight to Hell)

2. The Equals - Police on My Back

3. Buck-O-Nine - Wrong Em Boyo

4. The Crombies - English Civil War

5. Green Room Rockers - Clampdown

6. Anti-Flag - Should I Stay or Should I Go?

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2022-12-23 Part 1 - Clash Tribute Pt1

Part 1 of 2022-12-23 is focused on Clash songs played by other bands.

Setlist:

1. Rancid - Cheat

2. Cracker - White Riot

3. Social Distortion - Death or Glory

4. Hot Water Music - Clampdown

5. Frantic Flintstones - Jimmy Jazz

6. H20 - Train in Vain

7. Dead Ending - Complete Control

8. Special Duties - Tommy Gun

9. Violent Society - I'm So Bored with the USA

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2022-12-22 Part 2 - Joe Strummer 20th Anniversary Memorial

Part 2 of 2022-12-22 is focused on songs in memory of the 20th anniversary of the passing of Joe Strummer on December 22, 2002. 

Setlist:

1. 101'ers - Keys to Your Heart

2. The Clash - White Riot

3. Joe Strummer - Love Kills

4. Joe Strummer & the Latino Rockabilly War - Trash City

5. Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - Coma Girl

6. Joe Strummer & Johnny Cash - Redemption Song

7. Joe Strummer & the Long Beach Dub All-Stars - The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff cover)

8. Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros with Mick Jones - London's Burning (2002 Live at Acton Hall)

9. Joe Strummer & Mick Jones - U.S. North (unreleased song on 001)

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2022-12-22 Part 1 - Terry Hall of The Specials Memorial

Part 1 of 2022-12-22 is focused on songs in memory of the passing of Terry Hall, the legendary lead singer of the 2 Tone ska band The Specials.  I am very happy that I got to see a version of The Specials fronted by Terry Hall in Chicago in 2013 (https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-specials/2013/vic-theatre-chicago-il-2bdb587e.html)

Setlist:

1. The Specials - Nite Klub (with guest vocals by Chrissie Hynde)

2. The Specials - Man at the C&A (co-written with Jerry Dammers and was Terry Hall's first composition with The Specials)

3. Fun Boy Three - It Ain't What You Do It's the Way That You Do It (with Bananarama)

4. Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed (co-written with Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go's)

5. The Colourfield - I Can't Get Enough of You Baby (cover of song by the Four Seasons that became a hit by Smashmouth)

6. Terry, Blair, and Anouchka - Love Will Keep Us Together (Captain and Tenille song from 1973)

7. Vegas - She (with Dave Stewart of The Eurythmics)

8. Solo - I Saw the Light (cover of Todd Rundgren song)

9. The Specials - Friday Night, Saturday Morning (single written by Terry Hall live in Paris 2014 at Le Bataclan where Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers recorded a live album)

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2022-12-17 Part 4 - Catty Dances

Part 4 of 2022-12-17 is focused on songs we would hear at middle school and high school era dances.

Setlist:

1. Chris Spedding and the Vibrators - Pogo Dancing

2. Vibrators - Baby Baby

3. Revillos - Yeah Yeah

4. Elton Motello - Jet Boy Jet Girl

5. Rose Tattoo - Nice Boys

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2022-12-17 Part 3 - Punk Christmas Part 7

Part 3 of 2022-12-17 is our 7th Christmas episode.

Setlist:

1. Adam Sandler - Hanukah Song

2. Jingle Punx - Feliz Navidad

3. Bowling for Soup - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

4. Relient K - I'm Getting Nothing for Christmas

5. Reel Big Fish - Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

6. Reel Big Fish - Carol of Beers

7. Goldfinger - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

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2022-12-17 Part 2

Part 2 of 2022-12-17 is based on a concert I went to in Joliet, IL where I picked up the DBL guitar player, Sam Williams III, at the Midway Airport and drove him to the venue.  And, damn!  I just realized the Nekromantix were on that tour but I don't remember them playing that night.

Setlist:

1. Lower Class Brats - Don't Care About Me

2. Lower Class Brats - New Seditionaries

3. Flatfoot 56 - Smokeblower

4. Casualties - We Are All We Have

5. Down by Law - Gruesome Gary

6. Down by Law - 500 Miles

7. Down by Law - Put the Boots In

8. Don't Sleep - Running Down a Dream

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2022-12-17 Part 1

Part 1 of 2022-12-17 has a theme about BEER

Setlist:

1. Green Day - Going to Pasalacqua

2. Naked Raygun - Wonder Beer

3. Street Dogs - Toby's Got a Drinking Problem

4. Big D and the Kids Table - Bender

5. Voodoo Glow Skulls - Drunk Tank

6. Mustard Plug - Beer

7. Reel Big Fish - Beer

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I'm going on a bender this weekend

I'm gonna get real drunk

I'm not going to be able to speak

And I'll pass out on my floor,

I won't be able to answer the door.

Bender lyrics © Big D And The Kids Table Music

2022-12-03 Part 4 - Punk Christmas Part 6

Part 4 of 2022-12-03 is Part 6 of our Punk Christmas series

Setlist:

1. Fenix TX - Feliz Navidad

2. Lemmy, Billy Gibson, Dave Grohl - Run Run Rudolph

3. Face to Face - Merry Xmas

4. Billy Idol - Jingle Bell Rock

5. Vice Squad - Rockin Around the Christmas Tree

6. Jingle Punx - Up on the House Top

7. Missile Toads - Santa's a Boozer

8. Bloodsausage - Fuck Christmas, Fuck Santa, Fuck You

9. Angry Snowmans - Rudolph's Got a Problem

10. Angry Snowmans - Wasted Elf

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2022-12-03 Part 3 - Punk Christmas Part 5

Part 3 of 2022-12-03 is Part 5 of our Punk Rock Christmas series.

 

Setlist:

1. Misfits - Blue Christmas

2. Tim Timebomb - You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch

3. Anti-Nowhere League - Let It Snow

4. Man or Astroman? - Frosty the Snowman

5. Humpers - Run Run Rudolph

6. Skatune Network - Linus & Lucy

7. Death Cab for Cutie - Christmas Baby

8. Pennywise - Christmas in Hell

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2022-12-03 Part 2 - Punk Christmas Part 4

Part 2 of 2022-12-03 is Part 4 of Punk Christmas Series

Setlist:

1. Pulley - O Holy Night

2. Dave Smalley & the Bandeleros - Rockin Around the Christmas Tree

3. Reel Big Fish - Little Drummer Boy

4. Less Than Jake - I'm Getting Nothing for Christmas

5. Johnny Thunders - Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

6. NOFX - Christmas Has Been X'd

7. No Doubt - Oi! To the World

8. Los Gatos Locos - Father Christmas

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2022-12-03 Part 1 - Punk Christmas Part 3

Part 1 of 2022-12-03 is Part 3 of our Punk Christmas series

Setlist:

        1. Angry Snowmans - Somebody's Gonna Get Their Halls Decked In

2. Fear - Another Christmas Beer

3. Peter & the Test Tube Babies - I'm Getting Pissed for Christmas

4. Nerf Herder - I've Got a Boner for Christmas

5. Reel Big Fish - Skank for Christmas

6. Pretenders - 2000 Miles

7. Mad Caddies - I'm Going Surfin for Christmas

8. Angry Snowmans - Naughty Little Monster

9. Lowbrow - Jingle Bells, Batman Smells

10. Rancid - Xmas Eve (She Got Up and Left Me)

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2022-11-25 Part 6

Part 6 of 2022-11-25 features the Bouncing Souls and Hot Water Music before falling off the cliff while discussing my harmonica skills.

1. Bouncing Souls - These Are the Quotes from Our Favorite 80's Movies

2. Bouncing Souls - Bullying the Jukebox

3. Bouncing Souls - Midnight Mile

4. Bouncing Souls - Manthem

5. Bouncing Souls - Hopeless Romantic

6. Bouncing Souls - Ole

7. Hot Water Music - Trusty Chords

8. Hot Water Music - Never Going Back

9. Hot Water Music - Wayfarer

10. Hot Water Music - Vultures

11. Hot Water Music - Our Own Way

12. Blues Traveler - But Anyone

13. The Doors - Roadhouse Blues

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2022-11-25 Part 5 - Punk Christmas Part 2

Part 5 of 2022-11-25 is the second part of our punk Christmas cover song series.  There is a slight break in the 12-13 minute mark while we are accidentally recording so keep listening beyond those shenanigans.

1. Blink-182 - Happy Holidays, You Bastard

2. Fear - Fuck Christmas

3. Yobs - 12 Days of Christmas

4. UK Subs - Hey, Santa

5. Pork Dukes - My Mother Gave Me a Gun for Christmas

6. Lenny Lashley - Anti Christmas

7. Descendents - Christmas Vacation

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2022-11-25 Part 4 - Punk Christmas Part 1

Part 4 of 2022-11-25 is the start of our punk Christmas cover song series.

1. Bad Religion - Father Christmas

2. Dickies - Silent Night

3. Billy Idol - Run Run Rudolph

4. Dropkick Murphys - The Season's Upon Us

5. El Vez - Feliz Navidad

6. Public Image Ltd - Public Image

7. Joey Ramone - Christmas Baby Please Come Home

8. Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)

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2022-11-25 Part 3

Part 3 of 2022-11-25 has a Psychobilly genre theme.

1. Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band - Rattle Can

2. Reverend Horton Heat - Psychobilly Freakout

3. Tiger Army - FTW

4. Nekromantix - Struck by a Wrecking Ball

5. Horror Pops - Miss Take

6. Old Man Markley - Party Shack

7. Roy Clark - Magdelena

8. Stray Cats - Rumble in Brighton

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2022-11-25 Part 2

Part 2 of 2022-11-25 starts off with 70's New York City punk bands and then somehow takes a U turn and transitions to more modern era garage rock revival style bands.

1. Dictators - Faster and Louder

2. New York Dolls - Personality Crisis

3. Heartbreakers - Born to Lose

4. Strokes - Barely Legal

5. White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

6. Hives - Hate to Say I Told You So

7. Revered Peyton's Big Damn Band - Poor Until Payday

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2022-11-25 Part 1

Part 1 of 2022-11-25 starts off with a music listening experiment discussion and turns into a whirlwind of connect the dots between the songs on the show.

1. Clash - Wrong Em Boyo

2. Naked Raygun - Wonder Beer

3. The Boys - First Time

4. UK Subs - Party in Paris

5. M.I.A. - Tell Me Why

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2022-11-19 Part 7

Part 7 of 2022-11-19 is Rancid themed and may end up being a precursor to a future Wonder Beer Radio band series.

Setlist:

1. Tim Timebomb - Change that Song Mr DJ

2. Tim Timebomb - She's Drunk All the Time

3. Tim Armstrong - Wake Up

4. Oxly's Midnight Runners - Vengeance

5. Devil's Brigade - Vampire Girl

6. Rancid - Where I'm Going

7. Rancid - Back Where I Belong

8. Rancid - Up to No Good

9. Operation Ivy - Sound System

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2022-11-19 Part 5

Part 5 of 2022-11-19 has quite a variety of music styles and was a bit of a whirlwind putting together as there was story that seemed to link one song to another throughout the eposide. 

Setlist:

1. Slammin Watusis - King of Cha Cha

2. Naked Raygun - New Dreams

3. Psyclone Rangers - I Wanna Be Jack Kennedy

4. Original Sins - Just 14

5. Romeo Void - Never Say Never

6. Joan Jett & Paul Westerberg - Let's Do It

7. Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait

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2022-11-19 Part 4 - Radio Clash Part 2

Part 4 of 2022-11-19 is Radio Clash Part 2 focused on last 3 albums and Super Black Market Clash.

Setlist:

1. The Clash - Police on My Back

2. The Clash - Somebody Got Murdered

3. The Clash - Straight to Hell

4. The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go?

5. The Clash - Dirty Punk

6. The Clash - This Is England

7. The Clash - 1-2 Crush on You

8. The Clash - Listen

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2022-11-19 Part 3 - Radio Clash Part 1

Part 3 of 2022-11-19 is our first episode of RADIO CLASH

Setlist:

1. The Clash - I'm So Bored with the USA

2. The Clash - Protex Blue

3. The Clash - Clash City Rockers

4. The Clash - Complete Control

5. The Clash - Tommy Gun

6. The Clash - Safe European Home

7. The Clash - Brand New Cadillac

8. The Clash - Clampdown

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2022-11-19 Part 2

Part 2 of 2022-11-19 features some unique songs from a mix cd compilation series that I made over the years named Punk Rock n Roll from volume 2,

Setlist:

1. Dreadnoughts - Cider Road

2. Black Tartan Clan - Country Roads

3. Flatfoot 56 - Cotton Fields

4. Old Man Markley - For Better For Worse

5. Pietasters - Maggie Mae

6. Specials - Tears in My Beer

7. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - You Me and the Bottle Make 3 Tonight

8. Cherry Poppin Daddies - Zoot Suit Riot

9. Street Dogs - Punk Rock and Roll

10. Dropkick Murphys - Going Out in Style

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2022-11-19 Part 1

Part 1 of 2022-11-19 is a bit of a continuation of 80's era new wave songs.

Setlist:

1. Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Pictures to Prove It

2. Monroes - What Do All the People Know?

3. Hooters - Day by Day

4. Robert Hazard - Escalator of Life

5. Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away

6. The Police - So Lonely

7. The Police - Fallout

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2022-11-18 Part 2

Part 2 of 2022-11-18 has a theme from the Life Moves Pretty Fast - The John Hughes Mixtapes box set that was released last week.  The basis of the set is the songs from the soundtracks of his movies that were a staple of my high school years in the 80s and many others who loved his films.  For those that don't recognize the name John Hughes, I am sure you will recognize the movies I will list below under the music player.

Setlist:

1. Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11

2. Lords of the New Church - Method to My Madness

3. General Public - Tenderness

4. Belouis Some - Round, Round

5. Billy Idol - Catch My Fall

6. Spandau Ballet - True

7. Revillos - Rev Up!

8. Vapors - Turning Japanese

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John Hughes Movie Soundtracks:

National Lampoon's Vacation

Sixteen Candles

Breakfast Club

Weird Science

Pretty in Pink

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Some Kind of Wonderful

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

She's Having a Baby

The Great Outdoors

Uncle Buck

2022-11-18 Part 1

Part 1 of 2022-11-18 has a theme from the Life Moves Pretty Fast - The John Hughes Mixtapes box set that was released last week.  The basis of the set is the songs from the soundtracks of his movies that were a staple of my high school years in the 80s and many others who loved his films.  For those that don't recognize the name John Hughes, I am sure you will recognize the movies I will list below under the music player.

Setlist:

1. Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget about Me) - 1985 The Breakfast Club

2. Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark - If You Leave - 1986 Pretty in Pink

3. Oingo Boingo - Weird Science - 1985 Weird Science

4. Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink - 1986 Pretty in Pink

5. Flesh for Lulu - I Go Crazy - 1987 Some Kind of Wonderful

6. Big Audio Dynamite - BAD - 1986 Ferris Bueller's Day Off

7. Killing Joke - Eighties - 1985 Weird Science

8. The Specials - Little Bitch - 1984 Sixteen Candles

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John Hughes Movie Soundtracks:

National Lampoon's Vacation

Sixteen Candles

Breakfast Club

Weird Science

Pretty in Pink

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Some Kind of Wonderful

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

She's Having a Baby

The Great Outdoors

Uncle Buck

2022-11-11 Part 5 - 1977

Part 5 of 2022-11-11 focuses on songs from 1977.

Setlist:

1. Buzzcocks - Boredom

2. Damned - Neat Neat Neat

3. The Boys - I Don't Care

4. Users - Sick of You

5. Rings - I Wanna Be Free

6. Motorhead - Motorhead

7. Rezillos - I Wanna Be Your Man

8. Johnny Moped - Incendiary Device

9. Killjoys - Naïve

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2022-11-11 Part 4

Part 4 of 2022-11-11 features female vocals.

Setlist:

1. The Interrupters - On a Turntable

2. Vice Squad - Stand Strong Stand Proud

3. X-Ray Spex - Obsessed with You

4. Bouncing Souls - Wish Me Well (You Can Go To Hell)

5. No Doubt - Spiderwebs

6. Dance Hall Crashers - Othello

7. Distillers - LA Girl

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