Author: Lorenzo Mameli

December 11 Playlist: Rockin` Christmas JamsDecember 11 Playlist: Rockin` Christmas Jams

Rest ye merry, gentlemen and ladies! We did all the work in putting together a rockin’ Christmas show for ya! If you missed it, just click here and turn up the volume! Here’s the playlist:

• GEORGE THOROGOOD Rock and Roll Christmas
• BOBBY HELMS Jingle Bell Rock
• CHUCK BERRY Run Run Rudolph
• THE PENGUINS Jingle Jangle
• JOAN JETT The Little Drummer Boy
• DROPKICK MURPHYS The Season’s Upon Us
• SPLIT Last Christmas
• NEON TREES Holiday Rock
• CHEAP TRICK I Want You for Christmas
• THE WAITRESSES Christmas Wrapping
• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Santa Claus is Coming to Town
• Do You Hear What I Hear?
• THE SMITHEREENS Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• SI CRANSTOUN Christmas Twist
• JD McPHERSON Hey Skinny Santa
• JOSE FELICIANO Feliz Navidad
• BRENDA LEE Rocking Around the Christmas Tree
• .38 SPECIAL Hallelujah, It’s Christmas
• BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
• BUSTER POINDEXTER Zat You, Santa Claus?
• TRAIN Shake Up Christmas
• BOWLING FOR SOUP Frosty the Snowman
• KYLE BROOK Every Snowflake’s Different
• MARIAH CAREY & QUEEN Don’t Stop Christmas
• THE MAVERICKS Hey Merry Christmas
• BILLY IDOL Yellin’ at the Christmas Tree
• THE GREEDIES A Merry Jingle
• SLADE Merry Christmas Everybody
• TOM PETTY Christmas Time Again
• JOHN LENNON Happy Xmas (War is Over)

December 4 PlaylistDecember 4 Playlist

Today’s show began with an ode to resiliency, a soulful tribute to Hanukkah, a comical walk-through Staten Island, a 20th birthday, a 29th wedding anniversary, a 50th anniversary of the events that inspired a classic rock tune, a tribute to Steven Sondheim, an incredible Michael Jackson cover and ended with a rockin’ rendition of Silver Bells…and that’s only a third of the show!

Listen to the rest of it here!

Here’s the full playlist:

• THE BAD EXAMPLES Not Dead Yet
• LOS STRAITJACKETS Game of Thrones Opening Theme
• MATTHEW SWEET Sick of Myself
• WINGS Junior’s Farm
• BUSH TETRAS You Can’t Be Funky
• SHARON JONES & THE DAP-TONE HORNS 8 Days of Hanukkah
• GWEN McCRAE Rockin’ Chair
• AVRIL LAVIGNE Sk8er Boi
• RANCID Roots Radicals
• THE ROOTS How I Got Over
• PETE DAVIDSON, BIG WET, MARC COHN & METHOD MAN Walking In Staten
• DEEP PURPLE Smoke on the Water
• DOKKEN Just Got Lucky
• THE BEATLES I’ve Just Seen a Face
• FLORENCE + THE MACHINE No Choir
• PET SHOP BOYS Somewhere
• BRYAN FERRY Send in the Clowns
• DURAN DURAN Femme Fatale
• MINK DEVILLE Guardian Angel
• CHRIS CORNELL Billie Jean
• LENNY KRAVITZ Dig In
• FOO FIGHTERS Love Dies Young
• EAGLES OF DEATH METAL I Want You So Hard
• PEARL JAM Rearviewmirror
• TWISTED SISTER Silver Bells

November 6 PlaylistNovember 6 Playlist

A stupendous potpourri of sounds from then and now, including some cuts from participants in The Battle of the Bands at Flagship Brewery. Click here and turn it up!

THE PLAYLIST:

• CHEAP TRICK Hello There
• BOBBY LEE COMBO Let’s Dance
• JD McPHERSON Everybody’s Talkin’ ‘Bout the All-American
• LEON BRIDGES Better Man
• MANNESKIN Beggin’
• SCORPIONS I Can’t Explain
• BREWSTER MOONFACE Catcall Blues
• LISSIE Better Days
• TEDDY GEIGER Tomorrow Never Comes
• DAN CORIO BAND Hanging Up the Phone
• THE HORRIBLE CROWES Behold The Hurricane
• THE BEATLES And Your Bird Cam Sing
• LOVELY THE BAND These are My Friends
• BLACK ROSE BURNING Black Sun Saturday
• GOON DADS Peps
• ALL-IN MOMENT For You
• ON PINK A Lighter
• PERSEI A Way Out
• YOGABALL HEADACHES Perpetual Retreat
• TOM WAITS Downtown Train
• DAVID BOWIE Heroes
• ELVIS COSTELLO Alison
• AMY WINEHOUSE Me and Mister Jones
• GEM AND EYE Roaring Twenties
• ROD STEWART Maggie May
• ALLMAN BROTHERS Revival

October 9 Playlist: 2 Year AnniversaryOctober 9 Playlist: 2 Year Anniversary

For our 2nd anniversary show on MPR, we asked our listeners to tell us what they wanted to hear. This is the playlist they created. Click here for the link to the show.

• CHRIS JAGGER Anyone Seen My Heart?
• DAVID BOWIE Putting Out Fire
• THE SMITHS Cemetry Gates
• MOTLEY CRUE On with the Show
• THE BEATLES Tomorrow Never Knows
• QUEEN Bohemian Rhapsody
• STEVIE WONDER You Are the Sunshine of My Life
• DION The Wanderer
• HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS Doing it All for my Baby
• KISS Cold Gin
• KEANE Somewhere Only We Know
• POST MODERN JUKEBOX Dream On
• NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS We’re on Our Way Now
• THE KINKS Lola
• THE CLASH Lost in the Supermarket
• OUR DAUGHTER’S WEDDING Lawn Chairs
• THE BEAT Rock and Roll Girl
• LED ZEPPELIN Stairway to Heaven
• HALESTORM I Like it Heavy
• KILLERS featuring BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Dustland
• ROBERT PALMER Every Kind of People
• TOM PETTY Wildflowers
• H BLOCKX Time of Your Life
• CAROLE KING Now and Forever
• CANDLEBOX Criminals
• THE ROLLING STONES Brown Sugar

September 11 PlaylistSeptember 11 Playlist

Today’s edition of The Rocker offered a degree of catharsis from the solemn events of this morning. Plenty of bad dancing for the eyes but lots of good music for the ears. The link to the show is here.

• LOS LOBOS Love Special Delivery
• BOBBY LEE COMBO And Then There Were Drums
• THE FOUR TOPS Back to School Again
• CHUCK BERRY School Days
• THE YARDBIRDS Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
• PAUL SIMON Me and Julio Down by The Schoolyard
• JET Are You Gonna Be My Girl?
• BIFFY CLYRO Tiny Indoor Fireworks
• STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN Look at Little Sister
• ROLLING STONES Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
• THE UNDISPUTED TRUTH Smiling Faces
• THE IMPRESSIONS Choice of Colors
• URIAH HEEP Lady in Black
• GREEN DAY Still Breathing
• PERRY SERPA I Got a Fever
• BLACK ROSE BURNING Soul Is On Fire
• BON JOVI Older
• THE PRETTY RECKLESS Take Me Down
• SALIVA Bleed for Me
• TWISTED SISTER with ALICE COOPER Be Chrool to Your Scuel
• ADAM SANDLER The Lonesome Kicker
• DADDY DEWDROP Chick-a-Boom
• CAVIAR Tangerine Speedo
• SAXON Ride Like the Wind
• JUNIOR WALKER Shotgun
• AL WILSON Show and Tell
• MARVIN GAYE Inner City Blues
• CALEXICO Falling from the Sky
• MACHINE GUN KELLY featuring BLACKBEAR My Ex’s Best Friend
• REBECCA LOU Bad Heart
• PETULA CLARK Downtown
• BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The Rising

Songs of Loss Remembrance and Hope: 9/11 TributeSongs of Loss Remembrance and Hope: 9/11 Tribute

Here is the playlist and link to our September 11 tribute show, hosted by my daughter Nancy (her segments were pre-recorded.) Listen here.

• Sky Blue and Black – Jackson Browne
• Concerto in D minor – Ian Freebairn-Smith & the MGM Studio Orchestra
• I Can’t See New York – Tori Amos
• Friend of Mine – John Hiatt
• Cavatina – John Williams
• One More Light – Linkin Park
• Empty Chairs – Don McLean
• You’re Missing – Bruce Springsteen
• Theme from “Missing” – Vangelis
• The House Where Nobody Lives – Tom Waits
• Summer’s End – John Prine
• Angel – Sarah McLachlan
• Saturn – Sleeping At Last
• My Father – This Mortal Coil
• Forse Ancora Poesia – I Pooh
• We Remember Them – Sylvan Kamens and Jack Reimer
• I Will Remember You – Sarah McLachlan
• We All Need Saving – John McLaughlin
• Song For Someone – U2
• The Maker – Daniel Lanois
• Lazarus – Porcupine Tree
• In Loving Memory – Alter Bridge
• My City of Ruins – Bruce Springsteen
• Rise Up – Audra Day
• Apache Grief Poem – Nancy Mameli
• Finale from “Last Exit to Brooklyn” – Mark Knopfler

August 28 Playlist: 4-Hour ExtravaganzaAugust 28 Playlist: 4-Hour Extravaganza

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