Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 079)

The faces that launched a thousand gym memberships.

Intro
Turn Over A New Leaf / John Lee Hooker
Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky (From Now On) / Lee Dorsey
Take It As It Comes / The Doors
No More Mr. Nice Guy / Alice Cooper
Stay Positive / The Hold Steady
I Will Dare (Live) / The Replacements
Promises, Promises / The Viceroys
You Hurt Me For The Last Time / Inez Foxx
Next Time / Johnnie Taylor
I'll Never Do You Wrong / Joe Tex
Thankful N' Thoughtful / Sly & The Family Stone
Try Again / Big Star
My One Bad Habit / Dave Brubeck & Carmen McRae
Just A Little While To Stay Here / Rebirth Brass Band

This Week's Mix: Be It Resolved

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 078)

Feel free to be openly merry.

Intro
Swingin' Them Jingle Bells / Fats Waller and His Rhythm
Back Door Santa / Clarence Carter
Soulful Christmas / James Brown
Kung Fu Christmas / National Lampoon
The Wildest Christmas / The Boy Next Door
Run Rudolph Run / The Outlaws
Sleigh Bell Rock / Three Aces & a Joker
Christmas In Jail / The Youngsters
Christmas Day / Ral Donner
Joy to the World / Staple Singers
Slick Nick, You Devil You / Fishbone
White Christmas / Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters
Christmas In New Orleans / Louis Armstrong
I'm Your Private Santa Claus / Eddy Arnold
Blues For Christmas / John Lee Hooker
The Christmas Song / Stevie Wonder
Silent Night / Phil Spector and Artists

This Week's Mix: Don't Ask, Don't Jingle

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 077)

Intro
Rock 'N' Roll Children / Cactus
Academy Award / Jo Jo Gunne
Sweet Thang / LTD
Something's Wrong With This Picture / Galactic
Holy Ghost / The Bar-Kays
Catch Up To My Step / Junkie XL
Crystalline Green / Goldfrapp
Them Changes / Buddy Miles
Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get / The Dramatics
Funky, Yeah / Curley Moore & The Kool Ones
Get the Funk Out Ma Face / Brothers Johnson

This Friday's Mix: Big Bottoms

Been a Long Time Since I Blogged and Polled

Here's the thing. Lately, this blog/podcast hasn't been easy to keep up, both in terms of technical abilities (which can always be addressed) and time/effort (less can be done there). Also, I haven't been buying as much new music, which was always the raisin detritus for doing this.

But I do miss it.

Here are my questions, for the maybe seven readers who might see this, about resumption:

Would you play the audio directly on this site or via the RSS feed?

Would you listen on a Friday around 4-5pm your time (the original intent) if it were ready then? Or does it not matter?

I await the words you send to me, your poison letters, your telegrams. And I *will* give a damn.

Today's FOCR: "Since You've Been Gone," Head East

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 076)

This theme was delayed by opponents who felt its lyrics provide support for federal funding of rock.

Intro
Take What You Can Get / Sam The Sham
Won't Take No For An Answer / The Electras
Don't Fight It / Kenny Loggins
Take, Take, Take / The White Stripes
First It Giveth / Queens Of The Stone Age
The Spirit Of Giving / The New Pornographers
The Negotiation Limerick File / The Beastie Boys
Time To Get It Together / Marvin Gaye
Give It Up or Turnit a Loose / James Brown
Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough / Michael Jackson
Do the Push & Pull, Part 1 / Rufus Thomas
Together / The Raconteurs
Won't Give In / Finn Brothers
You Sure Drive A Hard Bargain / Albert King
Workin' Together / Ike & Tina Turner
Sing This All Together / The Rolling Stones
Feudin' and Fightin / Bing Crosby

This Friday's Mix: Reconciliation

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 075)

When you reach 75, you have to treat yourself. Twice daily. External use only. Ask your doctor if diamonds are right for you.

Intro
Four Little Diamonds / Electric Light Orchestra
Minnie The Moocher / Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen
Old Chunk Of Coal / Billy Joe Shaver
Fourteen Carat Mind / Gene Watson
Let Me Ride / The Allman Brothers Band
Betty And Dupree / Cookie & The Cupcakes
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl / Mississippi Fred McDowell
Black Diamond / Kiss
Blue Collar / Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Showdown / Thin Lizzy
Be Thankful for What You Got / William De Vaughn
Chevrolet / Taj Mahal
Black Diamond Bay / Bob Dylan
Diamond In Your Mind / Solomon Burke

This Friday's Mix: Diamond Jubilee

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 074)

Intro
Original Love / The Feelies
Up In Heaven (Not Only Here) / The Clash
That's The Way / Led Zeppelin
It’s Not Funny Anymore / Hüsker Dü
Short Change Hero / The Heavy
Maybe So, Maybe No / Mayer Hawthorne
Disconnected / RJD2
My Mind is at Ease / West Coast Revival
I Am The Resurrection / The Stone Roses
Hallucinations / The Raveonettes
You Make A Fool Out Of Me / Brendan Benson
Overs / Simon & Garfunkel

This Friday's Mix: Themeless Transition 2: Eclectic Boogaloo

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 011)

I've never used this theme before. It's true.

Intro
Don't Lie To Me / Big Star
Love Is Lies / Buzzcocks
I Can Tell (When You're Telling Me Lies) / John Wesley Harding
Was It a Lie? / Sleater-Kinney
You Lie / The Muffs
Lyin' Ass Bitch / Fishbone
You Gonna Lie / Little Charlie & The Nightcats
Menteur [Liar] / Steve Riley & The Mamou Playboys
Liar / The Meters
Lies / The Black Keys
Why Do I Lie? / Luscious Jackson
Lie To Me / Brook Benton
Running Out Of Lies / Etta James
Lies / J.J. Cale
That's A Lie / Too Much Joy
To Tell The Truth [Theme from the Game Show]

This Friday's Mix: Can't Not Tell a Lie

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 073)

Five your July Rock O' 24 Clock 2009 for. Songs fifteen random at.

Mavis Staples, "My Own Eyes"
Dr. Dog, "The Old Days"
Cri Cri, "El Comal Y La Olla"
The Second City: Scott Adsit & Adam McKay, "Gump"
Sugarman Three, "Turtle Walk"
Jean Ritchie, "The Unquiet Grave"
Daniel Martin Moore, "Stray Age"
Lisa Loeb and Elizabeth Mitchell, "Big Rock Candy Mountain"
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, "Pick It Up, Lay It in the Cut"
Hurray for the Riff Raff, "Skin and Bones"
Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim, "Adhan & Allah-O-Akbar"
Andrew Bird, "Yawny at the Apocalypse"
Cowboy Junkies (w/ John Prine), "If You Were the Woman and I Was the Man"
The Juan MacLean, "Tonight"
M/A/R/R/S, "Pump Up the Volume (USA 12" Mix)

This Friday's Mix: Shuffleupagus

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 20)

A North Star State of mind.

Intro
Kids Don't Follow / The Replacements
Chemistry Set / The Suburbs
The Land of Clear Blue Radio / The Soviettes
Ship Of Fools / Soul Asylum
Love Is All Around / Hüsker Dü
Toolmaster Of Brainerd / Trip Shakespeare
Empire Builder / Mason Jennings
All The Rock Star Jobs Are Taken / Dylan Hicks
Red Dye No. 40 / Honeydogs
Funkytown / Lipps, Inc.
Cry 4 Help / Har Mar Superstar
Something For Nothing / Heiruspecs
Always Coming Back Home To You / Atmosphere

This Friday's Mix: Duck Duck Grey Duck

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 72)

It just wants your attention.

Intro
Hey Tonight / Creedence Clearwater Revival
Get Off of My Cloud / The Rolling Stones
Hey Hey What Can I Do / Led Zeppelin
Treat Her Right / Roy Head & The Traits
Loose Booty / Sly & The Family Stone
Hey Pocky A-Way / The Meters
Hey / Pixies
Hey Now! / Oasis
Hey Joe / Tahiti 80
Hey You! Get Off My Mountain / The Dramatics
Hey Mama / Kanye West
Hey, Boy! Hey, Girl! / Louis Prima & Keely Smith
Hey Now Baby / Professor Longhair

This Friday's Mix Is For Horses

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 71)

If I've told you once, I've told you seventy-one times.

Intro
Always On The Run / Lenny Kravitz
Mama Said Knock You Out / LL Cool J
Mama Told Me Not To Come / Wilson Pickett
Mama Used To Say / Junior
Que Sera Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) / Sly & The Family Stone
Blues In The Night / Cab Calloway
My Mama Told Me / Barbara Lewis
Mama Said We Can't Get Married / Warren Lee
Too Many Fish In The Sea / The Young Rascals
Mama Don't Allow / Julia Lee
Easy Goin' Evening (My Mama's Call) / Stevie Wonder
I Asked My Mom / The Blacks
Don't Take Your Guns To Town / Johnny Cash

This Friday's Mix: Mama Done Told Me

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 10)
More fun this time around!

It's how I roll.

Intro
Seven Nation Army / The White Stripes
Ten Year Plan / Therapy?
Seven Day Weekend / New York Dolls
Ten Lbs. / The Delta 72
Seven Seas of Rhye / Queen
Ten Percenter / Frank Black
Seven Seas / Echo And The Bunnymen
Ten to One / The Bats
Seven / David Bowie
Ten Second News / Son Volt
Seven Long Years / The Guess Who
Ten O'Clock / ? & The Mysterians
Seven Days / Cracker
Ten Men / Morcheeba

This Friday's Mix: Seven-Ten Split

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 70)

When you squint, Facebook even looks like Flashback.

Vasoline / Stone Temple Pilots
Milquetoast / Helmet
Queen for a Day / Jesus Lizard
Rebel Girl / Bikini Kill
Sweat / Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Orange Moon / Eleventh Dream Day
Cut Your Hair / Pavement
People in the Sky / Sloan
Haze of Love / Cake
Put Your Teeth up on the Window Sill / Southern Culture on the Skids
Twiggy Twiggy / Twiggy vs. James Bond / Pizzicato Five
Brother Sister / Brand New Heavies
May Queen / Liz Phair

This Friday's Mix: What's Up, 1994?

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 69)

Just what's at hand today. But sometimes patch works.

Intro
I Got Mine / The Black Keys
Good To Me / Brendan Benson
Get It Together (Live) / Grand Funk Railroad
Concrete Reservation / Syl Johnson
Getting Nearer / The Rascals
Mexican Candy / The Iguanas
Dreamer / Dennis Wilson
Whatever Side You're On / Shawn Lee
I Believe To My Soul / Donny Hathaway
Broken World / Shemekia Copeland
Murder in the City / The Avett Brothers
Song Of Orfeo Negro / The Fabulous Jokers

This Friday's Mix: Themeless Transition

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 68)

I got nothing.

Intro
Daniella / Hurray for the Riff Raff
Skinny Love / Bon Iver
From / Dr. Dog
The Concubine / Beirut
Streetlights / Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
Can’t You See / The Marshall Tucker Band
Calvary / Levon Helm
Mighty Ship / Angela Desveaux
Beautiful Drug / Thievery Corporation
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall / Ink Spots & Ella Fitzgerald
Grandma's Hands (Live) / Bill Withers

This Friday's Mix: Sheesh.

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 67)

Ten songs that I, and any clones thereof, can't live without.

Intro
Frankenstein / The Edgar Winter Group
Big Bird / Eddie Floyd
Mothership Connection (Star Child) / Parliament
Do the Funky Chicken / Rufus Thomas
Scenario / A Tribe Called Quest
Shake Your Rump / The Beastie Boys
Can't Hardly Wait / The Replacements
That's Where It's At / Sam Cooke
Southern Nights / Allen Toussaint
Harbor Lights / Sammy Kaye

This Friday's Mix: In Case of Emergency

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 66) Ah, crap.

Year of the Ox looking very un-bullish, seers say (IHT) Chinese soothsayers see a deepening recession, millions more losing their jobs, and stocks and home prices continuing to fall. ... [S]ome fortunetellers are throwing in other dire predictions — massive earthquakes, rising U.S.-Russian tensions and trouble for President Barack Obama. ... Obama, born in the Year of the Ox, is taking office in a particularly bad year for his Chinese astrological sign. ... Obama also is the 44th president, a number the Chinese deem extremely unlucky, because "four" is pronounced the same as "death" in Chinese.
Intro
Rocks Off / The Rolling Stones
The Ox / The Who
Brainbox Pollution / Hawkwind
"B" Movie Box Car Blues / The Blues Brothers
Looking For A Fox / Clarence Carter
When My Boy Walks Down The Street / The Magnetic Fields
Fort Knox, King Solomon / Bob Mould
The Boxer / Waylon Jennings
Knocks Me Off My Feet / Stevie Wonder
Glory Box / Portishead
Wild Ox Moan / Taj Mahal
Evel Talks Of The Future/Reprise: Ballad of Evel Knievel / Evel Knievel

This Friday's Mix: Year of the Ox

Today's Five O'Clock Rock (Episode 65) Here's to fresh faces.

Intro
Long Time Coming / Aloe Blacc
This Land Is Your Land / Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Walk Of Life / Shooter Jennings
Many Rivers To Cross / The Walkmen
Little Wing / Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Last Train To Clarksville / Cassandra Wilson
Iron Man / The Cardigans
Superman / Roger Troutman
Little Honda / Yo La Tengo
I Love Trash / Steven Tyler
Straight Out Of Compton / Nina Gordon

This Friday's Mix: Change of Personnel

Today's Five O'Clock Rod (Episode 64)

Arrest my governor once, shame on you. Arrest my governor twice, shame on me.

Intro
Been Caught Stealing / Jane's Addiction
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap / AC/DC
Jailbreak / Thin Lizzy
Trust Me To Open My Mouth / Squeeze
Wrong Again (Let's Face It) / Rockpile
I Take What I Want / Sam & Dave
Watch That Man / Lee Fields
What Have You Done for Me Lately / Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Trouble / Frederick Knight
Hometown Bust / Cactus
Claimin' I'm A Criminal / Brand Nubian
Christmas In Jail / The Youngsters
Don't Pass Your Judgment / The Memphis Nomads
Three-Dollar Bill / Maria Muldaur

This Friday's Mix: Blagoje-pinched