This Week's Playlist & Podcast

Shoes

The latest edition of my summer radio show, The Idiosyncratic History of Rock & Roll, focused on some classic Power Pop, as you can see from the list below. Click here to listen to a full recording of the program. 

I Need That Record, the Tweeds

Without You, Badfinger

(My Girl) Maryanne, The Spongetones

Day Tripper, Beatles

Come On Let’s Go, The Paley Brothers & Ramones

Go All the Way, Raspberries

What I Like About You, Romantics

Get Away, Chris Bell

Rock and Roll is Dead, Rubinoos

Hearts in Her Eyes, Searchers

Teen Line, The Shivvers

Look at the Outside, Chelsea

Radio Heart, The Secrets

Plain Jane, New Hearts

Girls, Dwight Twilley Band

Dream Police, Cheap Trick

My Business, Eater

She Satisfies, Shoes

Don’t Do This to Me, Shoes

Only in My Sleep, Shoes

Girls of Today, Shoes

Another Girl Another Planet, The Only Ones

Broken Doll, Wreckless Eric

Baby’s Coming Back, Jellyfish

West One (Shine on Me), Ruts

Cynical Girl, Marshall Crenshaw

9 O’Clock, Snips

Cycles Per Second, dBs

Biff! Bang! Pow! The Times

Different Kind of Girl, The Beat

Shake It Up (Ain’t it Time?), the Cryers

A Million Miles Away, Plimsouls

I Like Girls, the Know

Love is a Rock, Donnie Iris

Shake Some Action (First Version), Flamin' Groovies