December 21, 2024 Playlist – Christmas Special

Our latest show featured a number of artists from this year’s New Colossus Music Festival, a visit from my ebullient colleague Nazz Radience of Channels and Winds, and several selections inspired by Stacy Dillon of Homesick and Matt Townsend of The Organic Apple. It was three hours of rocking bliss. If you missed it live, fret not – click here and feel free to make a spectacle of yourself.

• Bloom by Eric Johnson
• Bohemian Like You by The Dandy Warhols
• Red Dawn by Acid Magus
• Girl From the Record Shop by Frank Turner
• Lost in the Supermarket by Ben Folds
• Fall in Love by Coral Moons
• Punk Rock Boy by Juniper
• Ever Fallen in Love by Black Rose Burning
• Both Sides Now by Jason Falkner
• Waiting for My Man by Keith Richards
• Lora Blu by Freddy DeBoe
• The Story by Brandi Carlile
• I Can Do Anything by Johnette Napolitano
• Automatic Amnesia by Mighty Joe Castro and The Gravamen
• Amigo by Eclectic Charango Beats featuring Outernational
• Heaven Sent by Saloon Dion
• Perfectionism by Hotel Mira
• In Lipstick by Idle Hours
• Kitchen by Low Res
• Wanting and Waiting by The Black Crowes
• Puppy Luv by WoofWoof
• Alone by Stress Dolls
• Diana by Autogramm
• Where My Girls At? by NOBRO
• In The Water by Head North
• Run by Wan
• Broadway Junction by Vera Ellen
• What Was I Made For? by Billie Eilish
• Replaceable by Slapfight
• King of Kreuzberg by Shotgun Jimmie
• This Mourning by Chalk Circle
• Devil by Moon Walker
• Goin’ Out to Stellie’s by THE GOV’T

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)

Maker Park Radio’s annual participation in the celebration of International Clash Day featured over a dozen of our DJs playing 60-to-90-minute sets which featured music by The Clash and a variety of other artists. It’s our way to celebrate the spirit and the legacy of The Clash and socially conscious music in general. Here’s our playlist:

• THE CLASH Capital Radio (Edit)
• WILLIE NILE Hard Times in America
• WORLD PARTY Ship of Fools
• SPENCER TRACY Fanaticism and Ignorance (from “Inherit the Wind”)
• BAD RELIGION American Jesus
• WHITE ROSE MOTOR OIL Hateland
• GARLAND JEFFREYS Reggae on Broadway
• WYCLEF JEAN Featuring THE REFUGEE ALL-STARS Fortunate Son
• FAITH NO MORE We Care a Lot
• THE DROPKICK MURPHYS Worker’s Song
• MILLIE MANDERS & THE SHUTUP Me Too
• LITTLE GREEN CARS My Love Took Me Down to the River to Silence Me
• FRANK TURNER Make America Great Again
• JOHN MELLENCAMP Rain on the Scarecrow
• LOU REED Strawman
• ROD SERLING The Tools of Conquest (from “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”)