Tuesday, May 26, 2020

This Week's Playlist & Podcast



This week on the Idiosyncratic History of Rock & Roll, we drew our playlist from some of the artists and tunes mentioned by Amy Rigby in her memoir Girl to City as being influential in shaping her own musical tastes and output.  It’s an eclectic mix of influences as you can see from the list below, and by clicking here you can listen to a recording of the full program. Amy Rigby has been a long time favorite, and a mainstay on my playlists since I started doing my shows 20 years ago—her book is highly recommended for both its insight into the author’s artistic and personal development and its evocation of the music scene in downtown New York at the end of the 1970s and into the 1980s.

Crocodile Rock, Elton John
Leavin’ On a Jet Plane, Peter, Paul & Mary
The Rain, the Park & Other Things, Cowsills
Easy Come Easy Go, Bobby Sherman
The Girl I Knew Somewhere, Monkees

Stuck Inside of Memphis Blues Again, Bob Dylan
Walk on the Wild Side, Lou Reed
Gasoline Alley, Rod Stewart

Who Are the Mystery Girls? New York Dolls
I Can Dream if I Want To, Mink DeVille
You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory, Johnny Thunders
Sheena is a Punk Rocker, Ramones 6 (Rocket to Russia) p. 46

Anarchy in the UK, Sex Pistols
Hey Little Girl, Dead Boys
The Modern Dance, Pere Ubu
Blank Generation, Richard Hell & the Voidoids

Identity, X-Ray Spex
Typical Girls, Slits
Gary Gilmore’s Eyes, Adverts
She Is Beyond Good and Evil, The Pop Group
Everybody’s Happy Nowadays, Buzzcocks

Broken English, Marianne Faithfull
Middle of the Road, Pretenders
Fairy Tale in the Supermarket, Raincoats

Glow in the Dark, Bongos
Karate Party, Reivers
Tell Her, True Believers
Amplifier, dBs

Are You From Dixie, Blue Sky Boys
Take Me Back Again, Rose Maddox
Misery Loves Company, Porter Wagoner
The End of the World, Skeeter Davis

If You’ve Got the Love (I’ve Got the Time), Jason & the Nashville Scorchers
I Went Walking, Rank & File
Working Man’s Blues, Lone Justice

Just a Little is Enough, Last Roundup
Only a Dream, Shams
Love Me With Your Mind, Shams
Knapsack, Amy Rigby
All I Want, Amy Rigby

Dancing with Joey Ramone, Amy Rigby

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