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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