Today's Five O'Clock Rock

My New Year's resolution really ought to be about cutting back on last year's playlists.

Here's -- ahem -- another new-to-podcast mix, as a sign of solidarity with Rollie Fingers...

Intro
Look at This Face (Oh My God They're Gorgeous) / Handsome Boy Modeling School
Roller Derby Queen / Jim Croce
Disco Lady / Johnnie Taylor
Disco Boy / Frank Zappa
Stuck on You / Lionel Richie
Reconsider Me / Narvel Felts
Up From The Skies / Jimi Hendrix Experience
I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) / Hall & Oates
Just One More Day / Otis Redding
Stay Clean / Motorhead
Cowboy Movie / David Crosby
Sold American / Kinky Friedman
Te Na Na (Mama's Got a Baby Named) / Leon Redbone
Atlantic City (My Old Friend) / Robert Goulet
Jeopardy! / Various Artists
Lydia The Tattooed Lady / Groucho Marx

This Friday's Mix: Mustache Day

Today's Five O'Clock Rock

Time got away again. However, enjoy another “classic” Five O’Clock Rock for the first time.

As you think over resolutions for what you should do, consider what it is that you really want to do.

Intro
I Wanna Rock / Twisted Sister
I Wanna Be Sedated / The Ramones
I Wanna Know About You / The International Noise Conspiracy
I Wanna Be / Fu Manchu
I Wanna Be Your Dog / Stereophonics
I Wanna Make It Wit Chu / Desert Sessions
I Wanna Make It Alright / Paul Weller
I Wanna Be Your Pants / Huffamoose
I Wanna Be Your Lover / Prince
I Wanna Dance With You / Nathaniel Mayer
I Wanna Be Like You / Pizzicato Five
I Wanna Get High / Cypress Hill
I Wanna Be Committed / Sweet
I Wanna Drive You Home / ZZ Top
I Wanna Live / Nashville West
I Wanna Roo You / Goldie Hawn

This Friday's Mix: Merely Wanna

Today's Five O'Clock Rock

Too busy this week. Instead, enjoy this appropriate “classic” Five O’Clock Rock.

Intro
"Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night," The Hold Steady
"Sleepwalk Capsules," At the Drive-In
"Sleepy Vampire," Supersuckers
"Fear of Sleep," the Strokes
"You Can't Walk in Your Sleep (If You Can't Sleep)," the Go-Go's
"Sleepless," Rick Derringer
"Sleepless Night," the Kinks
"I Don't Sleep, I Dream", R.E.M.
"I Can't Go to Sleep," Wu-Tang Clan
"Tired Out," Buck 65
"Sleepwalkin'," Tom Verlaine
"Sleepless," Soul Coughing
"I'm So Tired," the Beatles
"Tired Eyes," Neil Young
"Sleepy California," Her Space Holiday
"Enter Sandman," Pat Boone

This Friday's Mix: OMG IM SFT

Today's Five O'Clock Rock

Bringing the A game.

Int-A-Ro
Ting-A-Ling / Shabba Ranks
Rock-A-Bye / Black Buddafly
Freak-A-Zoid / Midnight Star
Freak-A-Ristic / Atlantic Starr
Peek-A-Boo / Gwen Guthrie
Christmas-A-Come / Eek-A-Mouse
Spank-A-Lee / Herbie Hancock
Chick-A-Boom / Joe Bataan
Jock-A-Mo / Sugar Boy Crawford
Shing-A-Ling / Arthur Conley
Am-A-Do / Bob Marley
Look-A-Here / The Ramsey Lewis Trio
Rhythm-A-Ning / Thelonious Monk
Peek-A-Boo / Siouxsie and The Banshees
Vis-à-vis / Étienne Daho
Sound-A-Sleep / Blondie

This Friday's iMix: Time-A-Rock

Today's Five O'Clock Rock

Steer into the skid.

1. Intro
2. The Blizzard / Charley Pride
3. Snowflake / Jim Reeves
4. Snowflake / Girls Are Short
5. The Blizzard of '96 / The Walkmen
6. Snowflakes / Carmen Rizzo
7. Snowflakes / Just Jack
8. Blizzard of '77 / Nada Surf
9. Whiteout / Boss Hog
10. Blizzard of '78 / Ida
11. Snowflakes / Pizzicato Five
12. Snowflakes / Grant Lee Phillips
13. Snowflakes / Doug Hoekstra
14. Blizzard / Ellis Paul
15. The Blizzard / Cowboy Nation
16. Snow Days / Trip Shakespeare
17. Snow Blizzard

This Friday's Mix: No Two Alike

It's That Jazz Singer. Or Is It Saddam Hussein's Son?

Anita O'Day, jazz singer and perennial 37-Down answer, dies.

Today's Five O'Clock Rock

Have a nice tryptophan.

1. Intro
2. Fly By Night / Rush
3. Airport Motels / Crystal Skulls
4. The Airport Song / The Byrds
5. Last Train / Allen Toussaint
6. Airport Feelings / Kinky
7. Slow Bus A-Movin' / Fishbone
8. Waitin' for the Bus / ZZ Top
9. Everybody Loves A Train / Los Lobos
10. Railroad Days / Poco
11. Big Bird / Eddie Floyd
12. Rude Boy Train / Desmond Dekker
13. Train In Vain (Stand By Me) / The Clash
14. Waitress in the Sky / The Replacements
15. Magic Bus / The Who
16. The Travel Jam / Brand Nubian
17. Downbound Train / Chuck Berry

This Friday's Mix: Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Today's Five O'Clock Rock

Now that the pressure's off, House Republicans can really let their freak flags fly.

1. Intro / Five O'Clock Rock
2. Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out) / The Hombres
3. East Bound and Down / Jerry Reed
4. After Midnight / Maggie Bell
5. Brick House / The Commodores
6. Doowutchyalike / Digital Underground
7. Let It All Hang Out / A.D.O.R.
8. Let It All Hang Out / Richard "Dimples" Fields
9. Let It All Hang Out / Timmy Norman and The O'Jahs
10. Man-Size / PJ Harvey
11. Rock And Roll (Part 1) / Gary Glitter
12. Beating Around the Bush / AC/DC
13. Sweet F.A. / Sweet
14. Fat Bottomed Girls / Queen
15. Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile) / Dexy's Midnight Runners
16. Children of the Revolution / Arto Lindsay & Marc Ribot
17. Let It All Hang Out / David Lee Roth

This Friday's Mix: Let It All Hang Out

Today's Five O'Clock Rock

It took this long to actually include Whitesnake? What was I thinking...?

1. Intro
2. Tequila Sundae / Urge Overkill
3. Combination / Aerosmith
4. Black Betty / Ram Jam
5. Calm Like A Bomb / Rage Against The Machine
6. Hey / Fu Manchu
7. Tomorrow And A Loaded Gun / Throttlerod
8. Death Is The Answer / Early Man
9. Still Of The Night / Whitesnake
10. Cities On Flame With Rock and Roll / Blue Oyster Cult
11. Sour Flower / Elliott Randall
12. Are You Ready / Thin Lizzy
13. That's a Drag / Spencer Dickinson & Jon Spencer
14. Fancy / Yeah Yeah Yeahs
15. Subcutaneous Phat / Desert Sessions
# 16. The Platform on the Ocean / Arthur Russell
17. Massive Cure / Smoosh

This Friday's Mix: A Bit Fuzzy

Today's Five O'Clock Rock

I sure don't feel a "little bit wiser."

1. Intro
2. Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old) / Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
3. When I Write The Book / Rockpile
4. Walk Like a Man / Grand Funk Railroad
5. Man in the Wilderness / Styx
6. Bang / Blur
7. This Year / The Mountain Goats
8. I Wish / Stevie Wonder
9. (You Gotta Walk) Don't Look Back / Peter Tosh
10. Dirty Life & Times / Warren Zevon
11. Rock N' Roll (I Gave You The Best Years Of My Life) / Mac Davis
12. Once Upon A Time / Smashing Pumpkins
13. My Life Is Right /Big Star
14. Life's A Gas / T.Rex
15. Cynical Days / XTC
16. My Life / David Banner feat. Sky & Carl Thomas
17. It Was a Very Good Year / William Shatner

This Friday's Mix: Another Year

Today's Five O'Clock Rock

I think I pulled something.

1. Intro
2. The Race Is On Again / Yo La Tengo
3. Keep On Running / UK Subs
4. The Sweat Descends / Les Savy Fav
5. Marathon Not a Sprint / Camera Obscura
6. The Loneliness Of A Middle Distance Runner / Belle and Sebastian
7. Slow And Steady Wins The Race / Pedro The Lion
8. The Race / Archer Prewitt
9. Running With Your Eyes Closed / Mojave 3
10. Run and Run / The Psychedelic Furs
11. Run for Me / Richard Hawley
12. Even Marathon Runners Need to Nap / Troubled Hubble
13. You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son / Wolf Parade
14. We've Got to Keep Running / Chin Up Chin Up
15. I Ran / A Flock Of Seagulls
16. The Finish Line / Snow Patrol
17. First To Finish, Last To Start / Ted Leo + Pharmacists

This Friday's Mix: Too Skinny for Football

Today's Journalistic Exercise

Question:
Find the factual error in this title: "Apple's iPod turns five."

Answer:
Since when has an iPod ever seen its fifth birthday?

I had one that hit a ripe old eighteen months, and I couldn't delete Willard Scott's voicemails fast enough.

Today's FOCR: "Die Young," Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell

Customer for Life... Statistically Speaking

That guy changed the HELL out of my oil.

Today's FOCR: "Feelin' Satisfied," Boston, Don't Look Back

T PITIES; “TA,” JEWELS

Mr. T is giving up his gold, out of respect for Katrina’s victims.

“As a spiritual man, I felt it would be a sin against my God for me to wear all that gold again...”



[...]

The former star of “The A-Team” said he’s about more than his rough-and-tough image.

“Yes, I am qualified to beat people up. But I am pretty intelligent,” he said. “That’s what throws people off. If you’ve been through something, that gives you an authority that you can speak on certain things. That’s why people relate to me. I pull no punches.”

Due to the aforementioned qualifications, mind you.

Me, I’m still on my learner’s permit.

Today's FOCR: "Fat Gold Chain," Schoolly D, Best of Schoolly D

[Non-iTunes]

Friday’s Five O'Clock Rock (a bit late)

Begetter late than never.

“Cat's in the Cradle,” Ugly Kid Joe
”Surrender,” Cheap Trick
(#) “Dancin' Papa,” The Kleptones
“Papa Was Too,” Joe Tex
“Someday Never Comes,” Creedence Clearwater Revival
“Daddy Don't Live in that New York City No More,” Steely Dan
“Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 1,” Pink Floyd
“Mama and Papa,” Supergrass
“Dear Father,” Yes
“Kooks,” David Bowie
“Memo to My Son,” Randy Newman
(#) “Daughter, You're Still Your Daddy's Child,” Carla Thomas
(#) “Your Daddy Loves You,” Gil Scott-Heron
“Papa Was a Rodeo,” The Magnetic Fields
“Father and Son,” Johnny Cash & Fiona Apple
“Cheerios on the Floor,” Black Eyed Snakes

This Friday's iMix: The Old Block
(# = Even too rocked out for iTunes)

Today's Five O'Clock Rock

Wouldn’t it just go great right now?

“Hello, I Love You,” The Doors
“Wednesday,” Drive-By Truckers
“Valentine,” The Replacements
“Go With the Flow,” Queens Of The Stone Age
“Rock 'n' Roll,” The Sounds
“Can I Get Down 1x,” Coolio
“Popsicle,” Talking Heads
“The You I Created,” Of Montreal
“Play Something Sweet (Brickyard Blues),” Three Dog Night
“Build a Levee,” Natalie Merchant
“Like Suicide,” Soundgarden
“From the Heart Down,” The Pretenders
“Theme to Pinata,” Bright Eyes
(#) “Something Sweet,” Run On
“Come Over Here,” Sarah Bettens
“Sock It to Me, Baby!” Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels

This Friday's iMix: Something Sweet
(#) = Even too rocked out for iTunes)

Today's Five O'Clock Rock

From the land of Lakes ‘n Lakes.

”Kids Don't Follow,” The Replacements
# “Chemistry Set,” The Suburbs
“Ship Of Fools,” Soul Asylum
“Toolmaster Of Brainerd,” Trip Shakespeare
# “Love Is All Around,” Husker Du
“Empire Builder,” Mason Jennings
# “Ballad of the Opening Band,” Slim Dunlap
“All The Rock Star Jobs Are Taken,” Dylan Hicks
“I Remember Romance,” The Flamin' Oh's
“Red Dye No. 40,” Honeydogs
# “Cowbell,” Tapes 'n Tapes
“The Land of Clear Blue Radio,” The Soviettes
# “Pink Turns To Blue,” The Blue Up?
“Funkytown,” Lipps, Inc.
“Cry 4 Help,” Har Mar Superstar
“Hot Thing,” Prince
“Something For Nothing,” Heiruspecs
“Safety In Speed (Heavy Metal),’ P.O.S. (feat. Craig Finn)
“Always Coming Back Home To You,” Atmosphere
# “Minnesota,” Northern Light

This Friday's iMix: Duck Duck Grey Duck
(# = Even too rocked out for iTunes)

That's My Boycott

Unfortunately, it is impossible for me to skip work today. So I can't participate in today's Day Without Immigrants. However, I can do the next best thing and initiate the Day Without Foreign Words.

For one day, this Day Without Foreign Words, I shall struggle to write and talk using only bland American English words. By doing so, I will highlight how people from other countries have enriched America and its language throughout our history.

I urge you to join me in this effort. Today, we can honor the struggle and the enterprise of our compadres by...

Oh, merde on a baton rouge.

Today's FOCR: "Wooly Bully," Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs

Today's Five O'Clock Rock is a repeat of sorts.

Taxes and travel have kept me from squeezing out the rock for the past couple of weeks. I have been, shall we say, a bit rockstipated.

However, I do have a mix that is somewhat timely today. As of this week, we now have fewer than a thousand days left of the Best President Ever.

Protracted war. Nuclear threats. Rage in the Middle East. Soaring gas prices. Abuse of the Constitution. Improvised presidential powers. Surveillance of the citizenry. This guy. That guy. Hell, they're as great today as they were back in 1972.

At least these songs are, too.

"Political Science," Randy Newman
"Hercules," Aaron Neville
"Things Could Be Better," Ernie & the Top Notes
# "The Lonesomest Lonesome," Mac Davis
# "It's Alright To Cry," Rosie Grier
# "Poor Make-Believer," Brook Benton
"Little Ghetto Boy," Donny Hathaway
"Torn & Frayed," The Rolling Stones
"99 Year Blues," Hot Tuna
"The Breakdown," Rufus Thomas
"Baby Let Me Kiss You," King Floyd
# "That's Understanding," Tami Lynn
"You and Me," The Stylistics
"Les Fleur," Minnie Riperton
"Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)," Looking Glass
"Mellow," Elton John
"Place To Be," Nick Drake
"Water Song," Hot Tuna
"Tryin' Times," Roberta Flack

This Friday's iMix: 1972: Damn Straight
(# = Even too rocked out for iTunes)

Today's Five O'Clock Rock

No Lackawanna here...

“I Wanna Rock,” Twisted Sister
“I Wanna Be Sedated,” The Ramones
# “I Wanna Know About You,” The International Noise Conspiracy
# “I Wanna Be,” Fu Manchu
“I Wanna Be Your Dog,” Stereophonics
“I Wanna Make It Wit Chu,” Desert Sessions
“I Wanna Make It Alright,” Paul Weller
“I Wanna Be Your Pants,” Huffamoose
“I Wanna Know Girls,” Portastatic
“I Wanna Be Your Lover,” Prince
“I Wanna Dance With You,” Nathaniel Mayer
“I Wanna Be Like You,” Pizzicato Five
“I Wanna Get High,” Cypress Hill
“I Wanna Be Committed,” Sweet
“I Wanna Drive You Home,” ZZ Top
# “I Wanna Live,” Nashville West
“I Wanna Die,” Jolie Holland
# “I Wanna Roo You,” Goldie Hawn
“I Just Wanna Stop,” Gino Vannelli

This Friday's iMix: Merely Wanna
(# = Even too rocked out for iTunes)