April 10 Playlist

In honor of International Women’s Month, we dedicated an entire show to some of our favorite female rockers! (If you want to get a regular dose of female-fronted bands from around the globe, check out The She Pop Show with my colleague Kitty the DJ – only on MPR!) Listen to the show here!

Our playlist:

• THE BANGLES Manic Monday
• THE GO GOs We Got The Beat
• NO DOUBT Just A Girl
• THE INTERRUPTERS Bad Guy
• ROCK GODDESS I Didn’t Know I Loved You
• (‘Til I Saw You Rock N Roll)
• THE RUNAWAYS Queens of Noise
• LITA FORD Kiss Me Deadly
• PAT BENATAR We Live For Love
• GARBAGE When I Grow Up
• BLONDIE Union City Blue
• BREEDERS Divine Hammer
• FANNY Charity Ball
• JANIS JOPLIN Kozmic Blues
• IKE & TINA TURNER Proud Mary
• LIZ PHAIR Extraordinary
• HALESTORM It’s Not You
• EVANESCENCE Bring Me To Life
• PATTI SMITH Because The Night
• THE PRETENDERS Back on the Chain Gang
• PARAMORE Still In To You
• B52s Deadbeat Club
• BISHOP BRIGGS River
• EMMA & THE IDLES Shot By The River
• ANN WILSON Immigrant Song
• LUCINDA WILLIAMS Passionate Kisses
• VERUCA SALT Seether
• CONCRETE BLONDE Heal It Up
• THE PRETTY RECKLESS Death By Rock and Roll

Lots of Stones on today’s show – in tribute to the late Charlie Watts – and lots of other great stuff in our first four-hour long extravaganza! Here’s the playlist and link:

• THE ROLLING STONES Street Fighting Man
• SOULIVE Crosstown Traffic
• THE CULT In the Clouds
• SNOW PATROL You’re All I Have
• LINKIN PARK Waiting for the End
• ROLLING STONES 2120 South Michigan Avenue
• PRINCE Hot Summer
• THE UNTOUCHABLES What’s Gone Wrong
• PRICE-SULTON Oh No
• THE ROLLING STONES Monkey Man
• ALAN MORRISSEY Re-tox
• KISS Tomorrow
• MORRISSEY Tomorrow
• PERRY SERPA I Got a Fever
• NEW ORDER Avalanche
• THE ROLLING STONES Paint It, Black
• TV ON THE RADIO Trouble
• ROBERT PLANT Last Time I Saw Her
• BEN HARPER Rock and Roll Is Free
• BOOKER T & THE MGs Green Onions
• JOHN LENNON Beautiful Boy
• TOBY KEITH Hit It
• ALABAMA SHAKES Hang Loose
• THE ROLLING STONES Honky Tonk Women
• JOE JACKSON Is She Really Going Out With Him?
• QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE No One Knows
• THE KINKS Low Budget
• SLEATER-KINNEY You’re No Rock and Roll Fun
• ERIC LINDEN Chasing You
• STEELY DAN Reeling in the Years
• THE ROLLING STONES Gimme Shelter
• YAZ Don’t Go
• VOLBEAT Heaven nor Hell
• THE AUTUMN KILLERS One of Five
• THE FLAMIN’ GROOVIES Have You Seen my Baby
• HANNI EL KHATIB You Rascal You
• GARY CLARK JR. Grinder
• ERIC CLAPTON Wonderful Tonight
• RANDY NEWMAN She Chose Me
• ELLEN FOLEY We Belong to the Night
• THE ROLLING STONES Just Your Fool
• ALL-TIME LOW Wake Up Sunshine
• BLINK-182 Bored to Death
• REBECCA LOU Bad Heart
• THE ROLLING STONES Tumbling Dice
• THE MOONDOGZ Don’t Speak at All
• KYOJI YAMAMOTO Just Can’t Take it
• KEITH DiBUDUO with BILL HICKS, CHARMEL ROGERS & MIKE ROBERTO Better Days
• MOTLEY CRUE Public Enemy #1
• CHEAP TRICK I Can’t Take It
• ENUF Z’NUF Baby Loves You
• THE ROLLING STONES Like a Rolling Stone
• THE ATARIS I Won’t Spend Another Night Alone
• EVERLAST Only Love Can Break Your Heart
• IN HEAVEN Bitter Town
• ASHES FALLEN Forever
• MILLIE MANDERS & THE SHUTUP Broken Record
• THE ROLLING STONES I Know It’s Only Rock and Roll

The “Cars and Guitars” show was just so much fun to do and – from what I’ve been told – even more fun to listen to. Click the link here and decide for yourself.

• JOAN JETT Roadrunner (1986 version)
• THE RIP CHORDS ’40 Ford Time
• THE BEACH BOYS Fun, Fun, Fun
• RONNY & THE DAYTONAS G.T.O.
• WILSON PICKETT Mustang Sally
• “Expert Witness” from My Cousin Vinny
• THE BEATLES Drive My Car
• DAVID LINDLEY Mercury Blues
• RUFUS THOMAS Rocket 88
• DEEP PURPLE Highway Star
• Theme from “Speed Racer” (1967)
• THE BEACH BOYS 409
• THE RIP CHORDS Hey Little Cobra
• “The New Bluesmobile?” from The Blues Brothers
• THE HOOTERS Great Big American Car
• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Ramrod
• PRINCE Little Red Corvette
• THE STRAY CATS Built for Speed
• CHUCK BERRY No Particular Place To Go
• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Cadillac Ranch
• THE STRAY CATS Look at That Cadillac
• “A time machine…in a Delorean?” from Back to the Future
• SAMMY HAGAR I Can’t Drive 55
• KISS Detroit Rock City
• KISS Baby Driver
• GARY NUMAN Cars
• “Have you seen my car?” from Dude! Where’s My Car?
• ZZ TOP She Loves My Automobile
• EDDIE MONEY Shakin’
• MIKE CURB Theme from “Hot Wheels”
• “My a-hole brother” from Christine
• QUEEN I’m in Love with My Car
• RIHANNA Shut Up and Drive
• “Car or Debbie?” from Bachelor Party
• ACE FREHLEY Speedin’ Back to my Baby
• PAJAMA SLAVE DANCERS Fast Cars, Girls in Bikinis
• SNIFF N’ THE TEARS Driver’s Seat
• “The Ferrari” From Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
• AC/DC Highway to Hell
• JUDAS PRIEST Heading Out to the Highway
• ZZ TOP Arrested for Driving While Blind
• APOLLO SMILE Dune Buggy