September 25 Playlist: George Grant

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)

It was beer for breakfast as the brewer of Mad Love Beer, Ricky Boyance, stopped by the studio. We did some early day drinking, talked about how he came to be a brewer, and his time as a member of one of my favorite bands, The Atlicic. Pour yourself a cold one and check it out here

• THE DOORS Roadhouse Blues
• T. REX 20th Century Boy
• SEETHER Rise Above This
• TALK TALK Talk Talk
• BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
• DIVINYLS Pleasure and Pain
• FIGHTMILK That Thing You Do
• FUEL Fall on Me
• MIDDLE AGES Never Mind Blues
• CANCION FRANKLIN Better Not Let Me Knock
• SLASH with CHRIS STAPLETON Oh Well
• THE ATLICIC Shackled
• KING LIKE MOM Die Cry Hate
• GRANDMA DRINKS Laundry Day
• YES Long Distance Runaround
• JON ANDERSON & THE BAND GEEKS Shine On
• SNACKTIME The High Life
• LEE FIELDS Forever
• THE REPLACEMENTS Beer for Breakfast
• REEL BIG FISH Beer
• ZZ TOP Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers
• THE PEAWEES The Wolf
• THE ALARM 68 Guns
• THE CALAMATIX Still Rudy
• JIMMY EAT WORLD If You Don’t, You Don’t
• KILL THE ROBOT Another Round
• MODERN DAY MACHINES Vox Populi
• LINKIN PARK The Emptiness Machine
• THE ZOMBIES Tell Her No
• THE GUESS WHO No Time
• OUR OWN YOKOS Deriving Dariya
• THE SUBWAYS Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
• THE OFFSPRING Make It All Right
• BLINK-182 Every Other Weekend
• STARCRAWLER She Said
• EARTH, WIND AND FIRE September

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• Black Velveteen
• Are You Gonna Go My Way
• Whole Lotta Love (Live at the Kennedy Center Honors)
• American Woman
• Mr. Cab Driver
• Dig In
• Again
• Always on the Run
• New York City
• California
• Can’t Get You Off of My Mind
• Believe
• Fly Away
• Like a Jet
• Deuce
• Lady
• Where Are We Runnin’
• Stillness of Heart
• Minister of Rock n’ Roll
• Rock n’ Roll is Dead
• Bring It On
• I Belong to You
• 5 More Days ‘Til Summer
• Black and White America
• Stand
• I’ll Be Waiting
• Stand By My Woman
• It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over