#YearPlaylist

2025-08-17

#YearPlaylist: 1966 Part 2

- the peak year of garage rock -

I Hate You

I Need You

I Want You

I'm Gone

Only 4 out of 17 primeval garagepunk emotions in this set

But there's some sweet pop and soul relifef along the way from the Shangri-Las, Monkees, Shirelles, Eddie Floyd, Wilson Pickett, and Betty James

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ

#Year1966 #Playlist

Artist	Title
The Shangri-Las	He Cried
The Leaves	Hey Joe
Link Wray	Hidden Charms
Little Boy Blues	I Can Only Give You Everything
The Heard	I Don't Believe You
Q65	I Got Nightmares
The Monks	I Hate You
Betty James	I Like the Way You Walk
The Shirelles	I Met Him on a Sunday ('66)
Zakary Thaks	I Need You
The Troggs	I Want You
Magic Mushroom	I'm Gone
The Outcasts	I'm in Pittsburgh (and It's Raining)
The Gentlemen	It's a Crying Shame
The Choir	It's Cold Outside
Eddie Floyd	Knock on Wood
Wilson Pickett	Land of 1,000 Dances
The Monkees	Last Train to Clarksville
Customs Five	Little Louie
The Heard	Little Miss Sad
Chocolate Watchband	Loose Lip Sync Ship
The Seeds	Lose Your Mind
Swamp Rats	Louie Louie
2025-08-09

#YearPlaylist: 1948

It's a short one for a change, but sometimes those are the best.

Might as well call it CBGB because it's nothing but country, bluegrass, and various shades of blues.

EDIT: eejit here forgot the link: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ

#Year1948
#HankWilliams
#MuddyWaters
#JohnLeeHooker

Artist	Title
John Lee Hooker	Boogie Chillun
Armstrong Twins	Cabin Home in Caroline
Eddie Mack	Good News
Wynonie Harris	Good Rockin' Tonight
Roy Milton	Hop, Skip and Jump
Muddy Waters	I Feel Like Going Home
Hank Williams	I Saw the Light
Stanley Brothers	The Little Glass of Wine
Stanley Brothers	Molly & Tenbrooks
Hank Williams	Six More Miles (To the Graveyard)
2025-07-31

#YearPlaylist:1989-91

3-year combo because during this time I moved from Iowa for the second time to Ireland for the first time then back to Chicago, had our second kid, plenty of grad school, temp jobs, and wondering what the hell we were going to to.

Paul's Boutique (Beastie Boys), Pogues (Peace & Love) and adjacent, VU and adjacent/derived, plus a couple garagepunks

#Playlist
#Year1989
#Year1990
#Year1991

Artist	Title
Beastie Boys	3-Minute Rule
Beastie Boys	B-Boy Bouillabaise
Maureen Tucker	Bo Diddley
The Pogues	Boat Train
Beastie Boys	Car Thief
Kirsty MacColl	Days
Beastie Boys	Hey Ladies
Mazzy Starr	Be My Angel
Mazzy Star	Give You My Lovin'
Saw Doctors	I Useta Lover
The Pogues	Lorca's Novena
June Tabor and Oysterband	Lullaby of London
Hasil Adkins	Peanut Butter Rock and Roll
Shop Assistants	Respectable
Mazzy Star	Ride it On
Thee Headcoatees	Meet Jacqueline
2025-07-14

Forgot to put this in the #YearPlaylist thread but it's too long anyway so I'll just use the hashtag from now on

2025-07-14

#YearPlaylist: 1978 Part 1

No apologies.

23 prime slices of punk, new wave and post-punk

Buzzcocks, Kleenex, and Television Personalities appear more than once

There is only one outlier: early Washington, DC Go-Go by Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ

#Year1978

Playlist entries:

Artist	Title
Television Personalities	14th Floor
Alternative TV	Action Time Vision
Kleenex	Aint You
The Nips	All the Time in the World
Public Image Limited	Annalisa
Gang of Four	Armalite Rifle
La Peste	Better Off Dead
Elvis Costello & the Attractions	Big Tears
Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers	Bustin' Loose
Blondie	Denis
Crass	Do They Owe Us a Living?
Wire	Dot Dash
The Undertones	Emergency Cases
Buzzcocks	Fast Cars
Kleenex	Hedi's Head
Jilted John	Jilted John
The Germs	Lexicon Devil
Buzzcocks	Lipstick
Buzzcocks	Love Battery
Kleenex	Nice
Pere Ubu	Non-Alignment Pact
Buzzcocks	Nostalgia
Television Pesonalities	Part-Time Punks
The Lurkers	Pills
2025-07-07

#YearPlaylist: 1985 Part 1

More than any other, this one reflects what I was listening to at the time. I started working in the record shop in June and immediately got into hip hop. But I was still heavily into a hodgepodge of garagey indie punky stuff. So you can see I was equally obsessed with Mantronix and Shop Assistants that year.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ
#Year1985

Playlist titles:

Artist	Title
The Pogues	A Pair of Brown Eyes
Shop Assistants	All That Ever Mattered
Mantronix	Bassline
Roxanne Shante	Bite This
Sophia George	Girlie Girlie
Treacherous Three	Gotta Rock
Schoolly D	Gucci Time
Mad Professor and Pato Banton	Gwarn (Go On)
Mantronix	Hardcore Hip Hop
Run-DMC	Here We Go (Live)
LL Cool J	I Can't Live Without My Radio
Band of Outsiders	I Wish I Was Your Kid
Slaughter Joe	I'll Follow You Down
Jesus and Mary Chain	In A Hole
Shop Assistants	It's Up to You
Run-DMC	King of Rock
Husker Du	Makes No Sense at All
Mantronix	Needle to the Groove
The Huns	Old Abilene Blues
2025-06-29

#YearPlaylist: 1965 Part 1

A long one, mostly garage rock, including some bubblegum imitations, Iggy Pop's first demo with The Iguanas, and 2 from The Sonics, the giants of garagepunk.

There's also some ska, blues, jazz, Motown and R&B, alongside a few big rock names from 1965.

Only a couple of women here to counter the cartoonish misogyny of one of the young garage bands ("Be A Caveman"), including the last and best track on the playlist by The Shangri-las

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ

#Year1965

Arist	Title
Polka Dot Slim	A Thing You Gotta Face
The Iguanas	Again and Again
The Beatles	Bad Boy
The Avengers	Be a Caveman
Wilde Knights	Beaver Patrol
Granville Williams Orchestra	Beverly Hillbilly Ska
The Trashmen	Bird '65
Bob Dylan	Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
The Sonics	Boss Hoss
The Seeds	Can't Seem to Make You Mine
The Strangeloves	Cara-Lin
The Arondies	Class of '69
Daniel Johnson	Come On My People
The Fugitives	Come on Now
Chantal Goya	Comment le Revoir
Roy Richards	Contact
The Invictas	Do the Hump
John Patton	Fat Judy
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles	Going to a Go Go
Sonny Boy Williamson II	Got to Move
The McCoys	Hang on Sloopy
The Sonics	Have Love Will Travel
Beach Boys	Help Me Rhonda
Terry Knight and the Pack	How Much More
The Shangri-Las	I Can Never Go Home Anymore
2025-06-22

#YearPlaylist: 1979 Part 1

Another peak year, necessitating a 3-part playlist.

Part 1 only for now, but Gang of Four will be sprinkled throughout all three. Which is timely since they are currently playing the last several shows of their farewell tour, including three in Ireland later this week.

Roll on Friday night.

#Year1979 #Playlist #PostPunk

Artist	Title
Glueams	365
Jonathan Richman	Back in Your Life
The Undertones	Billy's Third
Sex Pistols	C'mon Everybody
Dead Kennedys	California Uber Alles
James White & the Blacks	Contort Yourself
Gang of Four	Contract
Nick Lowe	Cruel to be Kind
Public Image Limited	Death Disco
The Fall	Dice Man
Gang of Four	Ether
The Nips	Gabrielle
Dave Edmunds	Girls Talk
The Huns	Glad He's Dead
Gang of Four	Glass
Chic	Good Times
The Clash	Hateful
Black Flag	I've Had It
2025-06-15

#YearPlaylist: 1957 Part 1

Two songs from the American Graffiti soundtrack reflecting that early doo wop-influenced northern version of rock n roll, but much more southern rockabilly as usual for this time period.

The last number by Johnny Horton is a particular fave.

Fats Domino, Billie Holiday, Elmore James, Slim Harpo, and Huey "Piano" Smith complete the ranks.

#Year1957

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ

Artist	Title
Billy Barrix	Almost
Danny & the Juniors	At the Hop
Gene Vincent	B-I-Bickey-Bi, Bo-Bo-Bo
Johnny Burnette & the Rock N Roll Trio	Eager Beaver Baby
Billie Holiday	Fine and Mellow
Billy Lee Riley And The Little Green Men	Flying Saucers Rock n Roll
Huey "Piano" Smith	Free, Single and Disengaged
The Silhouettes	Get A Job
Jerry Lee Lewis	Great Balls of Fire
Charlie Gracie	Guitar Boogie
Gene Vincent	Hold Me, Hug Me, Rock Me
Johnny Cash	Home of the Blues
Collins Kids	Hop, Skip and Jump
Clyde Stacy and the Nitecaps	Hoy Hoy
Slim Harpo	I'm a King Bee
Fats Domino	I'm Walkin'
Elmore James	It Hurts Me Too
Johnny Horton	Lover's Rock
2025-06-08

#YearPlaylist: 1984 Part 1

I bet my 1984 playlist doesn't look like yours.

Apparently, for me 1984 was all about the all-women garage punk band from LA called The Pandoras, who appear 4 times.

In a similar vein, The Sting-rays, my friends from London, appear twice.

But, so does Shinehead, one of the first artists to mix reggae with hip hop.

#Year1984

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ

Artist	Title
The Special AKA	(Free) Nelson Mandela
Kirsty MacColl	A New England
Les Calamités	Behind Your Sunglasses
Shinehead	Billie Jean
The Sting-rays	Escalator
The Bangles	Going Down to Liverpool
The Pandoras	He's Not Far
The Pandoras	High on a Cloud
Sid Presley Experience	Hup Two Three Four
LL Cool J	I Need a Beat
The Pandoras	I Want Him
T. La Rock & Jazzy Jay	It's Yours
The Pandoras	James
Sandie Shaw	Jeane
Shinehead	Mama Used to Say
Smiley Culture	Police Officer
2025-06-01

#YearPlaylist: 1932-1935

I feel like a failure, not having enough records to have individual year playlists for this period. My rules don't allow me to fill in the gaps, I must use the playlists from my old show.

It starts out with a topical Depression-era pop song, followed mostly by jazz but there's a few other things in there.

My faves are It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Aint Got that Swing), Garbage Man Blues, and Rye Whiskey.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ

#Year1932
#Year1933
#Year1934
#Year1935

Artist	Title
Bing Crosby	Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Duke Ellington with Ivie Anderson	It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Will Batts	Country Woman
Cab Calloway	Harlem Hospitality
Tex Ritter	Rye Whiskey
Milton Brown & his Musical Brownies	Garbage Man Blues
Cab Calloway	Harlem Camp Meeting
Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers	Hawkins Rag
Carl Martin	Farewell to You Baby
Harry Roy & His Orchestra	La Cucaracha
Bessie Jackson	Pig Iron Sally
Tommy Dorsey	The Music Goes Round and Round
2025-05-25

#YearPlaylist: 1970

Featuring the Turtles, and Kermit the Frog

Alice Cooper, and Jerry Reed

Bob Marley, and Wanda Jackson

Plus some other big names, and some not so big names.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ

#Year1970

2025-05-18

#YearPlaylist: 1967 Part 1

I am so grateful that Dublin Digital Radio was perfectly happy to have someone do a show that played music recorded between 1925 and 2019, from across many different genres.

That's how I did it on the show, with years all mixed up, but now I'm replaying them in year batches.

Here is part one of 1967.

Genres this year include ska, garage rock, pop, psychedelic rock, blues, soul, country, folk rock, and funk.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ

#Year1967
#Playlist

Text playlist:

Artist	Title
Desmond Dekker	007 (Shanty Town)
Moving Sidewalks	99th Floor
The Litter	Action Woman
Dionne Warwick	Always Something There to Remind Me
Jimi Hendrix Experience	Are You Experienced?
Tommy Thompson & Chapter 17	Beggarman
Albert King	Born Under a Bad Sign
The Doors	Break on Through
The Hergs	Cadillac
Grateful Dead	Cream Puff War
Sly & the Family Stone	Dance to the Music
Clockwork Orange	Do Me Right Now
Loretta Lynn	Don't Come Home A-Drinkin'
Big Brother and the Holding Company	Down on Me
Neil Young	Down to the Wire
Zakary Thaks	Face to Face
Electric Prunes	Get Me to the World On Time
Belfast Gypsies	Hey Gyp! Dig The Slowness
Booker T. and the MGs	Hip Hug Her
Georgy & the Velvet Illusions	Hippy Town
Red Krayola	Hurricane Fighter Plane
2025-05-11

#YearPlaylist: 1958 Part 1

Extremely rocking set of half a dozen pre-surf intros, featuring both twangy guitar and sax, with a similar quota of rockabilly, plus R&B, pop/jazz and folk in smaller doses.

Roy Brown, Laura Lee Perkins, Chuck Berry, and the Collins Kids are probably my faves.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ

#Year1958
#Playlist

Playlist table

Artist	Title
Ronnie Dawson	Action Packed
The Chiefs	Apache!
Storey Sisters	Bad Motorcycle
The Versatones	Bila
Ronnie Self	Bop-a-Lena
Duane Eddy	Cannonball
Chuck Berry	Carol
Laura Lee Perkins	Don't Wait Up for Me
Huey "Piano" Smith	Don't You Just Know It
Warren Miller	Everybody's Got a Baby
Glenn Glen	Everybody's Movin'
Peggy Lee	Fever
John Buck and The Blazers	Forbidden City
Bob and Jerry	Ghost Satellite
Elizabeth Cotten	Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
Tune Rockers	Green Mosquito
Nite Caps	Haunted Sax
Roy Brown	Hip Shakin' Baby
Collins Kids	Hoy, Hoy, Hoy
2025-05-04

#YearPlaylist: 1981 Part 1

LA, NY, DC, SF, Chicago, London, Coventry & Manchester are the collective provenance of this list's 19 records from 1981.

But LA accounts for half, from Gun Club, X, Black Flag, The Bags, & TSOL--most of which contribute more than one.

If there's an outlier, it's the one hit--Kids in America by Kim Wilde--but it doesn't really sound out of place alongside the US punk and UK post-punk records that account for the the balance.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ

#Year1981

Artist	Title
TSOL	Abolish Government/Silent Majority
X	Back 2 the Base
Gun Club	Black Train
The Cramps	Don't Eat Stuff off the Sidewalk
Gun Club	Fire of Love
Public Image Limited	Flowers of Romance
The Specials	Ghost Town
The Effigies	Haunted Town
The Bags	Gluttony
Pete Shelley	Homosapien
Minor Threat	I Don't Wanna Hear It
X	I'm Coming Over
Black Flag	I've Heard it Before
Gun Club	Jack on Fire
Kim Wilde	Kids in America
The Fall	Middle Mass
The Effigies	Mob Clash
Dead Kennedys	Nazi Punks Fuck Off
TSOL	No Way Out
2025-04-27

#YearPlaylist: 1976

In addition to much #YearZero punk from a parade of likely suspects, there's also proto-punk from the Runaways and the 101ers, pop from ABBA and Bryan Ferry, one-hit wonders from Wild Cherry and Chris Spedding, and funk from the JBs.

A few obvious reggae classics from Dillinger, Clint Eastwood, and Junior Murvin are sprinkled throughout the noiselist.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ

#Year1976

Scan of playlist:

Artist	Title
The Runaways	Cherry Bomb
Dillinger	Cocaine in My Brain
ABBA	Dancing Queen
The JBs with James Brown	Everybody Wanna Get Funky One More Time
Sex Pistols	I Wanna Be Me
The Saints	(I'm) Stranded
Ramones	Judy is a Punk
The 101ers	Keys to Your Heart
Buzzocks	Lester Sands (Drop in the Ocean)
Bryan Ferry	Let's Stick Together
Ramones	Listen to My Heart
Clint Eastwood	Love Story
The Damned	New Rose
Ramones	Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
Wild Cherry	Play that Funky Music
Chris Spedding & the Vibrators	Pogo Dancing
Junior Murvin	Police and Thieves
The Runaways	You Drive Me Wild
2025-04-20

#YearPlaylist: 1953

There's three icons here in Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, and Hank Williams.

But in addition to the latter's posthumous release - "Angel of Death" - my faves are the Davis Sisters ("Rock-a-Bye Boogie"), LC Smith ("Radio Boogie"), Rufus Thomas ("Bear Cat") and Guitar Slim ("The Things That I Used to Do").

Also, the first version of much covered "Iko Iko", originally called "Jock-A-Mo", by Sugar Boy and His Cane Cutters.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ

#Year1953

List of artists and songs:

Artist	Title
Jim & Jessie	Air Mail Special
Hank Williams	Angel of Death
Chuck Hamilton Combo	Baby I Don't Want You No More
Rufus Thomas	Bear Cat
Louis Armstrong	Cool Yule
The Clovers	Crawlin'
Kid King's Combo	Gimmick
Bailey Brothers	Hearts Hall of Fame
Davis Sisters	I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
Sugar Boy & His Cane Cutters	Jock-A-Mo
Ray Charles	Mess Around
Jack McVea Combo	Oh, How the Geese Did Fly
LC Smith	Radio Boogie
Davis Sisters	Rock-a-Bye Boogie
Guitar Slim	The Things That I Used to Do
2025-04-13

#YearPlaylist: 1963 Part 1

What a year!

Lots of surf & other instros by The Blazers, Ronnie Kae, Link Wray, Dick Dale, Gary & Larry, Lonnie Mack, The Citations, & Neil Young's first group, The Squires. There's also vocal groups: the Chiffons, Crystals, Ronettes, Beatles & Beach Boys.

Plus various strands of R&B from Sonny Boy Williamson II, Bob & Earl, Derek Martin, and an early Rolling Stones demo, with some early ska from Lord Tanamo and Clancy Eccles.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ

#Year1963

Artist	Title
The Squires	Aurora
The Ronettes	Baby I Love You
The Blazers	Bangalore
The Blazers	Beaver Patrol
Rolling Stones	Bright Lights Big City
Sonny Boy Williamson II	Bring it on Home
The Beatles	Chains
Lord Tanamo	Come Down
The Crystals	Da Do Ron Ron
Derek Martin	Daddy Rolling Stone
Ronnie Kae	Drums Fell Off a Cliff
Sonny Boy Williamson II and Memphis Slim	Early One Morning (Harmonica Blues)
Link Wray	Fat Back
Gary & Larry	Garlic Bread
Bob and Earl	Harlem Shuffle
Dick Dale and His Del-Tones	Hava Nagila
The Chiffons	He's So Fine
Beach Boys	In My Room
Clancy Eccles	Judgment
Lonnie Mack	Memphis
The Citations	Moon Race
2025-04-06

#YearPlaylist: 1992-93

Since I only played two things from '93 on my old show, they get squeezed into this 1992 playlist.

It's a strange one because almost every track is either hip hop or hip hop-adjacent, or garagepunk produced or inspired by Billy Childish.

Well, that's not counting a few indie and R&B outliers by the Breeders, Morrissey and En Vogue.

There's also four whole tracks off of Luscious Jackson's debut record! (hip hop adjacent)

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ

#Year1992
#Year1993

Playlist by artist and title:
Roxanne Shante	Big Mama
Thee Headcoatees	Come Into My Life
Luscious Jackson	Daughters of the Kaos
Kriss Kross	Jump
House of Pain	Jump Around
Luscious Jackson	Keep on Rockin' It
Luscious Jackson	Let Yourself Get Down
Luscious Jackson	Life of Leisure
En Vogue	My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)
The Mummies	Skinny Minnie
Beastie Boys	So What'cha Want
The Hangmen	You Ripped Me Off
Morrissey	You're Gonna Need Someone on Your Side
The Breeders	Cannonball
Cypress Hill	Insane in the Brain
The Milkshakes	Minute Man
2025-03-30

#YearPlaylist: 1971

What a year. I know there's even books about this being the best year for albums or something, but it was no slouch for singles either.

A few classics by legends, tons of funk, soul, reggae, underground rock, and even a country song.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfQ

#Year1971

Playlist titles:
Artist	Title
Rare Earth	(I Just Want to) Celebrate
Hortense Ellis	Bed of Roses
David Bowie	Changes
Pink Fairies	Do It
Bobby Byrd	Doin' the Do
The JBs	Gimme Some More
Crushed Butler	High School Dropout
Modern Lovers	Hospital
Bobby Byrd	I Know You Got Soul
Loretta Lynn	I Wanna Be Free
The Temptations	Just My Imagination
James Brown	Make it Funky
Marvin Gaye	Mercy Mercy Me
Jean Knight	Mr. Big Stuff
Bob Marley & the Wailers	Mr. Brown
Johnnie Allan	Promised Land
David Bowie	Queen Bitch
The Carpenters	Rainy Days and Mondays
Bob Marley & the Wailers	Small Axe (original version)
The Bar-Kays	Son of Shaft
James Brown	Soul Power
Flamin' Groovies	Teenage Head
Isaac Hayes	Theme from Shaft
Led Zeppelin	When the Levee Breaks

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