Yesterday was Mike Marrone’s fiftieth birthday.\u00c2\u00a0 And he had the idea that I should substitute for him on the Loft.\u00c2\u00a0 So, when I was at XM two weeks ago, we created six hours of programming.\u00c2\u00a0 I couldn’t turn on the radio yesterday until about four, an hour after I started, but when I pushed the button on my boombox, I was shocked.\u00c2\u00a0 Because it was my choices.\u00c2\u00a0 And then me, coming over the airwaves.<\/p>\n
Now Mike has got 13,000 plus songs in his library.\u00c2\u00a0 And I was rushing to catch a plane.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I quickly picked tracks.\u00c2\u00a0 After hearing myself I was so elated that I fired up my Inno and recorded what was left of my show.\u00c2\u00a0 People always ask me what I listen to, well, here you go.<\/p>\n
1. "Over My Head"<\/strong> They say it’s about Stevie Nicks, I’ve always been in love with Christine McVie.\u00c2\u00a0 She’s more accessible.\u00c2\u00a0 And when she sings about being in love, I feel like it could be me.<\/p>\n 2. "White Ladder"<\/strong> I don’t think he’s equaled this effort on his last two albums, but the album from which this is the title track is enchanting.\u00c2\u00a0 Not just the hit "Babylon", but stuff like "My Oh My" and "Silver Lining".<\/p>\n 3. "Never Stop"<\/strong> From "The Naked Ride Home". 4. "A Long Time, A Long Way To Go"<\/strong> The best Runt song ever.\u00c2\u00a0 All the talent, all the beauty, encapsulated in just over two minutes.<\/p>\n 5. "New York Tendaberry"<\/strong> I’ve been meaning to write something about "Save The Country" for weeks now.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only where is the antiwar protest, where are the PACIFISTS?\u00c2\u00a0 But that’s a rocker, and this is so intimate and vulnerable…\u00c2\u00a0 There’s heart in this that you’ll never ever see on television or in the movies.<\/p>\n 6. "Sixty Years On"<\/strong> "Take Me To The Pilot" got me hooked on Elton.\u00c2\u00a0 But all these years later it’s "Sixty Years On" and "The King Must Die" I keep listening to.<\/p>\n 7. "Seasons" Hearing this track on DeepTracks in January 2003 sold me on XM.\u00c2\u00a0 You think Steve Miller is the dittymaster?\u00c2\u00a0 Then you haven’t heard THIS!\u00c2\u00a0 EXQUISITE!<\/p>\n 8. "Heart Of The Night"<\/strong> Funnily enough, Poco didn’t have hits until all the key frontmen were gone.\u00c2\u00a0 Even the SUBSTITUTE frontmen, like Timothy B. Schmit.\u00c2\u00a0 Great looping groove here.<\/p>\n 9. "Isn’t Always Love"<\/strong> Well isn’t it always love that makes you hang your head Unknown by today’s generation, but not forgotten by we who bought her debut Columbia album.\u00c2\u00a0 Truth and vulnerability.\u00c2\u00a0 Better than any Ronstadt record, a MUST HAVE!<\/p>\n 10. "This Is Us"<\/strong> I can’t burn out on it!<\/p>\n 11. "Hide and Seek" The best song off his debut.\u00c2\u00a0 So quiet, so meaningful.<\/p>\n 12. "Today"<\/strong> So beautiful as to almost not believe it’s real.<\/p>\n 13. "Jeannie’s Diary" The most played song in my iTunes library, presently at 225 complete spins, never mind iPod plays.<\/p>\n I don’t have a chance at writing the book 14. "Magazines"<\/strong> My favorite song by him.\u00c2\u00a0 Heard it first on the Loft.<\/p>\n 15. "Baby Come Home"<\/strong> Mike believes "Black Rose" is the best singer\/songwriter album of 1976.<\/p>\n If you could trust me You can break up with them, but you can never forget them.<\/p>\n 16. "Between A Laugh And A Tear" Best song he ever did.\u00c2\u00a0 With Rickie Lee Jones duetting.\u00c2\u00a0 Really, "Scarecrow" was as good as the Springsteen albums of those years.<\/p>\n 17. "Give Me An Inch" You never hear this on the radiio anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 This sold me on him, so smooth, so sexy.<\/p>\n 18. "Drawn To The Rhythm" From BEFORE she made it.\u00c2\u00a0 Magical.<\/p>\n 19. "The First Cut Is The Deepest"<\/strong> The definitive version, even better than the Cat Stevens original.<\/p>\n 20. "The Road"<\/strong> You probably only know the cover on Jackson Browne’s "Running On Empty".\u00c2\u00a0 You’ll LOVE the original.<\/p>\n 21. "Bitter Creek" I could do a whole post on this.\u00c2\u00a0 I believe I have.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, what a middle of the desert late at night feel.\u00c2\u00a0 OH PEYOTE!!<\/p>\n 22. "Sand In My Shoes"<\/strong> The second most played track in my iTunes library, with 205 spins.\u00c2\u00a0 But really, number one, since "Sand In My Shoes" is 4:59 and "Jeannie’s Diary" is 3:37. 23. "Real Life Ain’t That Way" Heard first on the Loft.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the kind of song you can play ALL DAY!\u00c2\u00a0 Kind of a cross between Pablo Cruise, the Doobie Brothers and Chicago.\u00c2\u00a0 A sax, but so much rock energy.\u00c2\u00a0 The kind of chorus Journey popularized, but here, without Steve Perry’s bombast, you feel so ALIVE!<\/p>\n 24. "I Am So Ordinary"<\/strong> Forget the hairy armpits.\u00c2\u00a0 Forget the hits.\u00c2\u00a0 This is from the debut. And when your mother came to boston you disappeared 25. "Oh Yeah"<\/strong> If you haven’t heard this, your life is lacking.<\/p>\n 26. "Dirty Work"<\/strong> A cover of Steely Dan’s truly most famous work.\u00c2\u00a0 Not as good as the original, but such a great song.<\/p>\n 27. "One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Man’s Floor"<\/strong> Have you played "Rhymin’ Simon" recently?\u00c2\u00a0 Talk about HOLDING UP!<\/p>\n 28. "Carolina Day" Remember when we bought every album with "Taylor" on it? 29. "Carolina In My Mind"<\/strong> The original, from the Apple debut.\u00c2\u00a0 With an elation as opposed to the remake’s contemplation.\u00c2\u00a0 Makes you feel so ALIVE!<\/p>\n 30. "Riding On A Railroad"<\/strong> As I said on the show, I put the CD in an endless loop.\u00c2\u00a0 This, "Machine Gun Kelly" and "You Can Close Your Eyes". 31. "I Used To Be A King"<\/strong> We didn’t expect much of Willie.\u00c2\u00a0 But he put out the best debut solo album of the three.\u00c2\u00a0 Doesn’t quite hold up, but I still love this song.<\/p>\n 32. "I Don’t Know Where I Stand"<\/strong> She gets the concept so right it’s almost CREEPY!\u00c2\u00a0 Do they love you or don’t they?\u00c2\u00a0 Will you ever be able to fall asleep?\u00c2\u00a0 Or will you have to debate it ALL NIGHT?\u00c2\u00a0 You need them, do they need you?<\/p>\n 33. "Diamond In The Rough" Second song, the one that hooked me on the advance tape, from my favorite album of the nineties, even if it did come out in the fall of ’89.<\/p>\n 34. "My Thanksgiving" Nobody has heard this, it’s like Henley’s "Inside Job" never came out.\u00c2\u00a0 But it did just as baby boomer acts could no longer get airplay, just tour.\u00c2\u00a0 And if they did happen to get airplay, it wasn’t with rockers.\u00c2\u00a0 I LOVE THIS!<\/p>\n 35. "Hearts In Your Eyes"<\/strong> Forget the first album and "Starry Eyes", the second is where it’s at!\u00c2\u00a0 With the girl in the golden disc!<\/p>\n 36. "Thirteen"<\/strong> Won’t you let me walk you home from school Won’t you tell your dad, get off my back Won’t you tell me what you’re thinking of 36. "Motel Blues"<\/strong> A live version cut at XM.<\/p>\n In this town television shuts off at two I don’t wanna make no late night New York calls There’s a Bible in the drawer don’t be afraid 37. "Last Night Of The World"<\/strong> Also cut live at XM. 38. "Big Sky Country"<\/strong> The track that built his reputation.<\/p>\n 39. "She Talks In Stereo"<\/strong> Remember that guitar sound??!!<\/p>\n 40. "Really Wanted You"<\/strong> I wanted to play "Love Will Stone You", but this will do.<\/p>\n 41. "Streetlife Serenader"<\/strong> Buy Billy’s "Songs In The Attic", it will convince you that he’s not a sap.\u00c2\u00a0 I only knew this from that live album.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I discovered the original, which has got a street corner feel, but rocks.<\/p>\n 42. "The King Must Die"<\/strong> Here’s that other Elton track.<\/p>\n 43. "Stranger In A Strange Land"<\/strong> When you dropped the needle and heard this opening track on Leon’s second solo album, your draw dropped.\u00c2\u00a0 Where did he get that voice?\u00c2\u00a0 And when everybody but the kitchen sink comes in at the end you’re completely OVERWHELMED!<\/p>\n 44. "What Now America"<\/strong> Once again, where are the antiwar protest songs of today?<\/p>\n 45. "So Far Away"<\/strong> So far away 46. "You Can Sleep While I Drive"<\/strong> Melissa has become a caricature of herself, but this song has got the lesbian on the run in her secret universe vibe DOWN!\u00c2\u00a0 To the point where it doesn’t matter whether you’re gay or straight.<\/p>\n 47. "Sossity, You’re A Woman" You might not believe it, but thirty five years ago, Jethro Tull was an arena act that went clean everywhere.\u00c2\u00a0 Nothing else sounded quite like Tull, the exotic intimacy, like reading a Sherlock Holmes story.<\/p>\n 48. "$1000 Wedding" The song that stuck out on his second solo album, which I bought after he died, when the reviews were so good.<\/p>\n 49. "Wasted Time"<\/strong> So you can get on with your search, baby Why the Eagles are the biggest selling band in history, why they sell out every venue.\u00c2\u00a0 You might think it’s about the hits, but it’s the truth in the album tracks.\u00c2\u00a0 When you go to a show and Henley sings these lines every other baby boomer looks up into the sky and sings along, thinking of all the heartbreak and breakups they’ve endured.\u00c2\u00a0 And wondering if they’ve gotten it right, if they’ll ever get it right.<\/p>\n 50. "My First Night Alone Without You"<\/strong> I play this after every breakup, after every woman moves out.\u00c2\u00a0 Positively creepy.<\/p>\n 51. "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her"<\/strong> They say that "Waterloo Sunset" is the most beautiful song ever written.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s no prettiers than this.<\/p>\n 52. 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Fleetwood Mac<\/p>\n
David Gray<\/p>\n
Jackson Browne<\/p>\n
I like Jackson when he’s acoustic.\u00c2\u00a0 But this album is more rock.\u00c2\u00a0 But the heartfelt lyrics and groove here, if you’re a fan of his DOWNLOAD THIS!\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a change almost all the way through that will not only put you through the bends but will connect you with everybody you’ve ever been in love with.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s just that magical.<\/p>\n
Todd Rundgren<\/p>\n
Laura Nyro<\/p>\n
Elton John<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Steve Miller<\/p>\n
Poco<\/p>\n
Karla Bonoff<\/p>\n
And isn’t it always love that makes you cry
And isn’t it always love that takes the tears away
And you wouldn’t have it any other way<\/em><\/p>\n
Mark Knopfler\/Emmylou Harris<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Howard Jones<\/p>\n
Jefferson Airplane<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Eels<\/p>\n
I just want to be a page, in Jeannie’s diary
One single page<\/em><\/p>\n
Duncan Sheik<\/p>\n
J.D. Souther<\/p>\n
Try to believe me
Listen to me when I say
When I say that love is a burning fire
And it will not fade away
No it will not fade away<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/strong>John Mellencamp<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Robert Palmer<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Sarah McLachlan<\/p>\n
Rod Stewart<\/p>\n
Danny O’Keefe<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Eagles<\/p>\n
Dido<\/p>\n
Don’t dismiss Dido.\u00c2\u00a0 Buy "Life For Rent".\u00c2\u00a0 It’s every bit as good as the singer\/songwriter albums of the seventies.
When you hear Dido sing "But I want to see you again" you’ll feel that pitter-patter in your heart you get when you fall in love.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Jay Ferguson<\/p>\n
Paula Cole<\/p>\n
Maybe you’re self-confident, but for the rest of us who’ve felt we weren’t good enough…<\/p>\n
And then I saw you three together
I guess she makes the best impression
With her charming femininity…<\/em><\/p>\n
Roxy Music<\/p>\n
Ian Matthews<\/p>\n
Paul Simon<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Livingston Taylor<\/p>\n
Brings me right back to September 1970.\u00c2\u00a0 And I LIKE IT!<\/p>\n
James Taylor<\/p>\n
James Taylor<\/p>\n
We are sailing away on a river to the sea, when I hear this I believe you and me HAVE met again.<\/p>\n
Graham Nash<\/p>\n
Joni Mitchell<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Shawn Colvin<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Don Henley<\/p>\n
The Records<\/p>\n
Big Star<\/p>\n
Won’t you let me meet you at the pool
Maybe Friday I can
Get tickets for the dance
And I’ll take you<\/em><\/p>\n
Tell him what we said about "Paint It Black"
Rock and roll is here to stay
Come inside where it’s okay
And I’ll shake you<\/em><\/p>\n
Would you be an outlaw for my love
If it’s so, well, let me know
If it’s no, well, I can go
I won’t make you<\/em><\/p>\n
Loudon Wainwright III<\/p>\n
What can a lonely rock & roller do
Oh the bed’s so big and the sheets are clean
And your girlfriend said that you were 18
The styrofoam ice bucket is full of ice
Come up to my motel room treat me nice<\/em><\/p>\n
And I don’t wanna stare at them ugly grass mat walls
Chronologically I know you’re young
But when you kissed me in the club you bit my tongue
I’ll write a song for you, I’ll put it on my next L.P
Come up to my motel room, sleep with me!<\/em><\/p>\n
I’ll put up the sign to warn the clean-up maid
Yeah there’s lots of soap and there’s lots of towels
Never mind them desk clerk’s scowls
I’ll buy you breakfast, they’ll think you’re my wife
Oh come up to my motel room, save my life
Come up to my motel room, save my life<\/em><\/p>\n
Bruce Cockburn<\/p>\n
With this song, and this song only, you could travel a continent for a MONTH!<\/p>\n
Chris Whitley<\/p>\n
Gary Myrick<\/p>\n
Emitt Rhodes<\/p>\n
Billy Joel<\/p>\n
Elton John<\/p>\n
Leon Russell<\/p>\n
Lee Michaels<\/p>\n
Carole King<\/p>\n
Doesn’t anybody stay in one place anymore?<\/em><\/p>\n
Melissa Etheridge<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Jethro Tull<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Gram Parsons<\/p>\n
Eagles<\/p>\n
And I can get on with mine
And maybe someday we will find
That it wasn’t really wasted time<\/em><\/p>\n
Bonnie Raitt<\/p>\n
Simon & Garfunkel<\/p>\n
Jimmy Buffett<\/p>\n
It’s this song that enraptured his hard core.<\/p>\n
And I’ve run my share of grass
I made enough money to buy Miami,
But I pissed it away so fast
Never meant to last
Never meant to last<\/em><\/p>\n
J.D. Souther<\/p>\n
And the sky was cool
The night can make you a promise of love
Or it can make you a fool<\/em><\/p>\n
If the real thing shined
We’ve seen so many movies
You’d probably think it was a line<\/em><\/p>\n
Pousette-Dart Band<\/p>\n
Brian Vander Ark<\/p>\n
Meawhile, I just want to write about one more song, that played before I fired up my Inno.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>The Kinks<\/p>\n
I’m a twentieth century man but I don’t wanna be here
My mama said she can’t understand me
She can’t see my motivation
Just give me some security
I’m a paranoid schizoid product of the twentieth century<\/em><\/p>\n