POP Goes The World!
Episodes
Friday May 29, 2015
Friday May 29, 2015
For the 5th year in a row, the ever discerning readers of Style Weekly have voted WRIR Richmond's Best Local Radio Station, and I continue to be humbled to be part of a station that's entirely run by non-paid volunteers, on a budget of just a little over a hundred thousand dollars a year, that consistantly beats out every other station in town that's mostly run by "radio professionals" on yearly budgets in the millions.
So, we'll take yet another well deserved celebratory POP victory lap!
Song
Artist
Album
Year
Sister Surround
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
Behind The Music
2001
Cemetary Lawn
The Rosebuds
Night Of The Furies
2007
She Says
VHS or BETA
Bring On The Comets
2007
Coral
Soda Stereo
Comfort Y Musica Para Volar
1996
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Death
White Lies
To Lose My Life...
2009
Sound & Vision (David Bowie cover)
The Sea & Cake
One Bedroom
2003
Girls & Boys
Blur
Parklife
1994
This Is The Day
The The
Soul Mining
1981
Female Of The Species
Space
Spiders
1996
She Smokes In Bed
TV Girl
Lonely Women
2013
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Money City Maniacs
Sloan
Navy Blues
1998
Rock & Roll Submarine
Urge Overkill
Rock & Roll Submarine
2011
Rebel In You
Supergrass
Diamond Hoo Ha
2008
Under Your Thumb
The Vaccines
What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?
2011
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Radio Capital
La Vida Boheme
Nuestra
2011
Red Angel Dragnet
The Clash
Combat Rock
1982
The New World
X
More Fun In The New World
1983
How Long Will It Take
The Plimsouls
Everywhere At Once
1983
Tattooed Love Boys
Pretenders
Pretenders
1980
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Devilman
Vampire Beach Babes
Beack Blanket Bedlam
2005
Call Me
Reigning Sound
Love & Curses
2009
Rockin' Around In N.Y.C.
Marshall Crenshaw
Marshall Crenshaw
1982
I'm Looking For Someone To Find Me
Richard Hawley
Lady's Bridge
2007
Heart
Rockpile
Seconds Of Pleasure
1980
Do You Wanna Dance
The Ramones
Rocket To Russia
1977
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Comin' Down
The View
Hats Off To The Buskers
2007
Long Before Rock 'n' Roll
Mando Diao
Ode to Ochrasy
2006
Gabrielle
Ween
Shinola (Vol. 1)
2005
How Dangerous
Smoking Popes
This Is Only A Test
2011
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Are You Receiving Me?
XTC
Go 2
1978
Keep It Up
The Boomtown Rats
The Fine Art Of Surfacing
1979
Jimmy Jimmy
The Undertones
The Undertones
1979
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Spacehead
The Primitives
Lovely
1988
Friday May 22, 2015
Friday May 22, 2015
It's the unofficial kickoff of summer, so let's all have one last "HURRAH" together before everyone goes away for the Memorial Day weekend!
SongArtistAlbum
YearThat Summer FeelingJonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers (Thanks To Rough Trade For) A Constant Source Of Interruption
1990SummertimeskunksNo Apologies
1996Summer BreezeParis MatchQuattro
2003SummertimeThe Fun Boy ThreeFun Boy Three
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Summer's Cauldron/GrassXTCSkylarking
1986Summer Is Almost HerePas/CalI Was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura
200813th Summer DayJohn EasdaleBright Side
1997Summer BonfireGreat Lakes Myth SocietyCompass Rose Bouquet
2007Summer GrofThe Spinto BandMoonwink
2007Dirty SummerMother FalconYou Knew
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Cannibal SummerWax FangLa La Land
2007Indian SummerHighasakiteAll That Floats Will Rain
2012Summer Of '79JapantherSkuffed Up My Huffy
2007SummertimePangeaLiving Dummy
2011Saddest SummerThe DrumsSummertime!
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SummertimeGirlsAlbum
2009Picnic In The SummertimeDeee-LiteDewdrops In The Garden
1994Your Summer Song (ft. J.Mitchell)ExileAM/FM
2010Summer EndsThe RaveonettesPe'ahi
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Wasted SummerSonic AvenuesMistakes
2014Constructive SummerThe Hold SteadyStay Positive
2008New York SummerMinkMink
2007It's Summertime BabyThe Cute LepersCan't Stand Modern Music
2008Summer's DeadThose Darlins
2012Indian Summer Rotary DownsCracked Maps and Blue Reports
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Can't Wait Till The Summer ComesRonnie Mayor
1981The Summer SunChris Stamey
1977Spain In The SummertimeKing Of PrussiaSave The Scene
2008Last SummerPete YornBack and Forth
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Indian SummerManic Street PreachersSend Away The Tigers
2007Midsummer Nights Dreamin'Travis Good Feeling
1997Only In The SummertimePossum DixonNew Sheets
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Summer Of LoveThe B 52sBouncing off the Satellites
1986
Friday May 15, 2015
Friday May 15, 2015
Song
Artist
Album
Year
Upon This Tidal Wave Of Young Blood
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
2005
Sister Jack
Spoon
Gimme Fiction
2005
Silver Jenny Dollar
The New Pornographers
Together
2010
One More Time
French Kicks
The Trial Of The Century
2004
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I Don't Know Why I Love You
The House Of Love
House Of Love
1990
Trampoline
Julian Cope
Saint Julian
1987
Lazy Day
The Boo Radleys
Everything's Alright Forever
1992
Breather
Chapterhouse
Whirlpool
1991
Make Up With Me
Let's Active
Afoot
1983
Touch and Go
The Cars
Panorama
1980
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I Know I'll Never
Jilted John
True Love Stories
1978
Saturday's Kids
The Jam
Setting Sons
1979
Drummer Man
Tonight
1978
Rollers Shaw
Nick Lowe
Jesus Of Cool
1978
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Let Me Into Your Life
The Beat
The Beat
1979
In The Congo
The Bongos
Drums Along The Hudson
1982
Johnny B. Goode (live Chuck Berry cover)
Guadalcanal Diary
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Nice N' Sleazy
The Stranglers
Black and White
1978
Friday On My Mind (Easybeats cover)
David Bowie
Pin Ups
1973
John, I'm Only Dancing (David Bowie cover)
The Chameleons
Strange Times
1986
Vicious
Lou Reed
Transformer
1972
See No Evil
Television
Marquee Moon
1977
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Loose 'n' Juicy
The Mooney Suzuki
Alive & Amplified
2004
You Can't Judge A Book By The Cover
The Strypes
Snapshot
2014
TwentyThirtyThree
The Whereabouts
TwentyThirtyThree
2013
Ripped
Mind Spiders
Mind Spiders EP
2010
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Seven Nights Seven Days
The Fratellis
We Need Medicine
2013
Fluorescent Adolescent
Arctic Monkeys
Favourite Worst Nightmare
2007
Punk Boy
Ash
Trailer
1994
Up The Bracket
The Libertines
Up The Bracket
2002
Caught By The Fuzz
Supergrass
I Should Coco
1995
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Teenage Nights
The Nice Boys
The Nice Boys
2006
Office Girl
The Stoat
1977
Better Take It Easy
The Spongetones
Beat & Tom
1994
Nobody Love Me
The Letters
1980
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Wrap up the Rockets and It's gonna get better
The Freshies
1981
Saturday May 09, 2015
Saturday May 09, 2015
Song
Artist
Album
Year
This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us
Sparks
Plagiarism
1997
Violins
I'm From Barcelona
Violins
2015
Rock 'n Roll Love Letter
Bay City Rollers
Dedication
1976
Punkrocker
Teddybears ft. Iggy Pop
Soft Machine
2006
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Pure Imagination
Smoking Popes
Destination Failure
1997
Ask
The Smiths
Louder Than Bombs
1987
Ode To Janice Melt
Army Navy
The Last Place
2011
A Summer Chill
This Is Ivy League
This Is Ivy League
2008
The Irish Keep Gate Crashing
The Thrills
Let's Bottle Bohemia
2004
Catch The Sun
Doves
Lost Souls
2000
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Waiting For The Weekend
The Vapors
New Clear Days
1980
My Perfect Cousin
The Undertones
Hypnotised
1980
The Kids Are The Same
Paul Collins Beat
The Kids Are The Same
1982
Girls Talk
Dave Edmunds
Repeat When Necessary
1979
Earn Enough For Us
XTC
Skylarking
1986
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Unkind
Sloan
The Double Cross
2011
If You'll Be Mine
Babybird
There's Something Going On
1998
If You Don't Love Me
Prefab Sprout
The Best of Prefab Sprout: A Life of Surprises
1992
Chorus
Erasure
Chorus
1991
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Bonin' In The Boneyard
Fishbone
Truth and Soul
1988
Charlie Brown (Coasters cover)
Voodoo Glow Skulls
Firme
1995
Monkey Man
The Specials
The Specials
1979
She's Not There (Zombies cover)
U.K. Subs
Beyond and Back
X
Roam Around
Wonderful Broken Thing
Looking for Mike Lookinland
2007
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If You Wanna
The Vaccines
What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
2011
You Better Get Ready
The Rosebuds
Unwind
2005
Hanging On
The Well Wishers
Post Modern Romantic
2010
Back To You
Twerps
Range Anxiety
2015
Punched A Friend
The Holy Cows
Blueberrie
1997
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Gimme The Wire
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
The Brutalist Bricks
2010
What She Said
The Turnback
2014
All Tricks
Title Tracks
In Blank
2011
Suki
Unrest
Imperial f.f.r.r.
1992
Glory
You Say Party We Say Die!
XXXX
2009
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Saint Cobain
Vernon Reid
Mistaken Identity
1996
Friday May 01, 2015
Friday May 01, 2015
It's May!
The lusty month of May!
That lovely month where everyone goes blissfully astray!
It's here!
That shocking time of year when tons of wicked little thoughts merrily appear!
It's May!
It's May!
That gorgeous holiday when every maiden prays that her lad will be a cad!
It's mad!
It's gay!
Alive!
A lust display!
Those dreary vows that everyone takes, everyone breaks!
Everyone makes divine mistakes.
The lusty month of May
Whence this fragrance wafting through the air?
What sweet feelings does it's scent transmute?
Whence this perfume floating everywhere?
Don't you know it's that dear forbidden fruit?
It's May, the lusty month of May!
That darling month when everyone throws self-control away.
It's time to do a wretched thing or two, and try to make each precious day one that you'll always rue!
It's May!
It's May!
The month of "Yes, you may!"
The time for every frivolous whim, proper, or im.
It's wild!
It's gay!
Depraved in every way!
The birds, and bees with all their vast amorous past gaze at the human race aghast!
The lusty month of May!
It's May!
It's May!
The month of great dismay when all the world is brimming with fun, wholesome, or un!
It's mad!
It's gay!
Alive!
A lust display!
Those dreary vows that everyone takes, everyone breaks, everyone makes divine mistakes.
That lusty month of May.
Song
Artist
Album
Year
End Of A Century
Blur
Parklife
1994
Timeless Melody (previously unreleased rehersal version)
The La's
Callin' All
2010
Tonight The Streets Are Ours
Richard Hawley
Lady's Bridge
2007
Give It Time
The Woodentops
Giant
1986
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My Sweet Baby
Empire Dogs
Love Attacks!!!
2007
Sickos
The Ballantynes
Liquor, Gun Store, Pawn Shop, Church
2013
One Glass Of Water
The Bees
Free The Bees
2005
She Goes Out With Everybody
The Spongetones
Beat and Torn
1994
To Be Like I
China Rats
To Be Like I
2012
I Kiss The Flower In Bloom
Close Lobsters
Foxheads Stalk This Land
1987
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It Must Be Love
Madness
Tears Of A Clown (Smokey Robinson cover)
English Beat
I Just Can't Stop It
1980
I'm So Happy
Hokus Pick
Snappy
2001
She Loves Everybody
Junk Food Buddah
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The Popular Thing
Jukebox The Ghost
Everything Under the Sun
2010
This Is The Day
Ivy
Apartment Life
1997
Speeding Down The Highway
Arling & Cameron
All In
1999
Summertime Dream
Lisa Mychols
Above, Beyond, and In Between
2013
Sunshower
Asobi Seksu
Hush
2009
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Tidal Wave
Interpol
El Pintor
2014
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If It Speaks
Hospital Ships
Destruction in Yr Soul
2013
The Drop Beneath
Eternal Summers
The Drop Beneath
2014
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Follow Me
Jason Falkner
Presents Author Unknown
1996
Little People
The Fleeting Ends
Our Eyes Are Peeled
2013
Someone's Gonna Break Your Heart
Fountains Of Wayne
Sky Full Of Holes
2011
Misery
Brendan Benson
My Old, Familiar Friend
2009
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1789
Fuzzy Vox
On Heat
2014
Reverberate
The Cassettes
1981
Worlds Destroyed
Mind Spiders
Mind Spiders EP
2010
Alone Again
The King Khan & BBQ Show
Bad News Boys
2015
She'll Be Sweeter Than You
Nix Nomads
1964
Bye Bye Bird
Toggery Five
1964
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Pretty Face
Beat Merchants
1964