January 28 Playlist: Radioactive Material

Edwin Santiago Pupa paid a visit to the Maker Park Radio studio and he riffed on a lot of famous riffs, and played a few original riffs himself. It was a blast! Listen to the show here:

• Miserlou – Dick Dale
• Sabbra Cadabra – Black Sabbath
• Well Alright! – Santana
• Women That Rock – Boricua Guitar Power
• 25 or 6 to 4 – Chicago
• Lady – Beck, Bogert & Appice
• Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love – Van Halen
• Improvisation #1 – Pupa Santiago (Live in the MPR Studio)
• Like a Stone – Audioslave
• Hill of the Skull – Joe Satriani
• Yankee Rose – David Lee Roth
• Parisienne Walkways – Gary Moore with Philip Lynott
• The Thrill is Gone – B.B. King
• Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You – Led Zeppelin
• Improvisation #2 – Pupa Santiago (Live in the MPR Studio)
• All Along the Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix
• Voodoo Child – Stevie Ray Vaughan
• While My Guitar Gently Weeps – Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Steve Winwood, Dhani Harrison and Prince
• Sleepwalk – Santo and Johnny
• I’d Love to Change the World – Ten Years After
• Gimme Shelter – The Rolling Stones
• Maltratado Corazon – Five Miles Utopia
• Layla – Derek and the Dominoes

We marked the day by filling our space with the voices of extraordinary women from across the musical spectrum, past and present. The entire program is available to restream at your pleasure. Simply click here to access it in all its feminine glory.

• X RAY LOVE On My Stereo
• THE SURFRAJETTES Toxic
• ANN WILSON Missionary Man
• THE DETROIT COBRAS Stay Down
• DOROTHY Tombstone Town
• THE PRETENDERS Stop Your Sobbing
• LIVVA JONES & ANGELA TINARI Joker
• HALESTORM Gold Dust Woman
• PIXIES Gigantic
• LIZ PHAIR Sweet Jane
• THE HELLFLOWERS Girl U Want
• B-52s Give Me Back My Man
• BREWSTER MOONFACE Hot Rod Girl
• CASTLE BLACK Radio Queen
• ROBERTA FLACK Killing Me Softly
• ARETHA FRANKLIN You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman
• BARBARA LEWIS Hello Stranger
• PATTI SMITH Because the Night
• CONCRETE BLONDE Happy Birthday
• PARAMORE Rose Colored Boy
• SPUTNIK THE BAND Good Company
• KILLDEER Nice Enough
• GIFTSHOP Anything, Anything (I’ll Give You)
• RHONDA FUNK ‘Til I Don’t
• BRANDI CARLILE The Story
• THE METAL BYRDS Good Harbour
• NORA KELLY BAND Hymn for Agnostics
• SCARLETT TAYLOR Reckless Love
• MANIC HONEY Nothing Comes Out
• THERINA BELLA Starcrossed
• LISA SCHERMA I Gotta Go to Church
• JOAN CADELL & THE MIDNIGHT CHOIR Piece of Heaven
• ELOUR Good Girl
• THE INTERRUPTERS Bad Guy
• ANNIE GOLDEN Hang Up the Phone
• AMY WINEHOUSE Back to Black
• INGRID MICHAELSON The Way I Am
• ROYAL SHE Rollercoaster
• KATE BUSH This Woman’s Work
• PJ HARVEY This is Love
• JOAN JETT Riddles
• ALICIA KEYS Girl on Fire

A rare departure from our diverse hodgepodge of generation-spanning rock music takes you down my personal musical memory lane. Turning 65 made me wax nostalgic about the songs that helped shape my musical tastes in my formative years. Here’s a sampling of songs that resonated with me from toddler to tween to teenager in the years from 1961 through 1979. Click here to access the stream.

• HOT BUTTER Popcorn
• REUNION Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)
• THE BEATLES She Loves You
• BOBBY LEWIS Tossin’ and Turnin’
• THE BEACH BOYS Barbara Ann
• LOU CHRISTIE Lightning Strikes
• THE ARCHIES Sugar Sugar
• THE BOX TOPS The Letter
• THE DRIFTERS On Broadway
• BEN E. KING Spanish Harlem
• THE O’JAYS Back Stabbers
• OTIS REDDING (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay
• THE BYRDS Turn! Turn! Turn!
• THE ROLLING STONES Mother’s Little Helper
• SIMON & GARFUNKEL Mrs. Robinson
• JEFFERSON AIRPLANE White Rabbit
• BOB DYLAN Lay Lady Lady
• CREAM White Room
• JIMI HENDRIX Purple Haze
• THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN Something in the Air
• EDWIN STARR War
• RAIDERS Indian Reservation
• ELVIS PRESLEY Burning Love
• ELTON JOHN Crocodile Rock
• THREE DOG NIGHT Joy to the World
• CHUCK BERRY My Ding-A-Ling
• NEW YORK DOLLS Personality Crisis
• THE WHO The Real Me
• LED ZEPPELIN Heartbreaker / Living Loving Maid
• BLACK SABBATH Paranoid
• ALICE COOPER No More Mr. Nice Guy
• CHEAP TRICK Surrender (Live)
• KISS Rock and Roll All Nite (Live)
• VAN HALEN You Really Got Me
• BLONDIE One Way or Another
• JOE JACKSON Is She Really Going Out With Him?
• RAMONES I Wanna Be Sedated
• MOTT THE HOOPLE All the Young Dudes
• THE ROLLING STONES In the Stars
• JETHRO TULL Too Old to Rock ‘n’ Roll, Too Young to Die (coda)