Wednesday 25 February 2015

Time Sweep 28th February

Part one
1.  The Who - The kids are alright
2.  Manfred Mann - Ragamuffin man
3.  Skid Row - Youth gone wild
4.  Rory Gallagher - Bad penny
5.  ACDC - Highway to hell
6.  Bon Jovi - Wanted dead or alive

Part two
1.  Yes - Leave it
2.  ZZ Top - Rough boy
3.  Metallica - Enter sandman
4.  The Zombies - She's not there
5.  Pink Floyd - High hopes
6.  J Giels Band - Love stinks

Part three
1.  Led Zeppelin - Communication breakdown
2.  Blood Sweat And Tears - Spinning wheel
3.  David Bowie - Space oddity

Part four
1.  Them - Gloria
2.  Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe
3.  The Beatles - Hey Jude
4.  The Faces - Stay with me

Part five
1.  The Babys - Isn't it time
2.  Journey - Who's crying now
3.  REO Speedwagon - Take it on the run

Part six
1.  Guns 'N' Roses - You could be mine
2.  Ozzy Osbourne - Mr Crowley

Part seven
1.  Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
2.  Buffalo Springfield - For what it's worth
3.  Rod Stewart - Maggie May

Part eight
1.  Led Zeppelin - Stairway to heaven
2.  REO Speedwagon - Can't fight this feeling

Part nine
1.  Van Halen - Right now
2.  REM - Radio song
3.  Guns 'N' Roses - Civil war

Part ten
1.  Bryan Adams - Can't stop this thing we started
2.  Marillion - No one can
3.  Seal - Crazy

Part eleven
1.  Tom Petty - Into the great wide open
2.  Thunder - Love walks in
3.  Ozzy Osbourne - No more tears

Brit Rock 28th February

1.  T-Rex - Deborah
2.  The Doors - Hello I love you
3.  Vanilla Fudge - Ticket to ride
4.  The Beatles - Blackbird
5.  Steppenwolf - Magic carpet ride
6.  Iron Butterfly - In a gidda da vida
7.  Creedence Clearwater Revival - I put a spell on you
8.  Canned Heat - On the road again
9.  Rolling Stones - Street fighting man
10. The Marbles - Only one woman
11. Jimi Hendrix - Crosstown traffic
12. Status Quo - Pictures of matchstick men
13. Blackfoot - Highway song
14. Generation X - King rocker
15. Black Star Riders - The killer instinct
16. Thin Lizzy - Waiting for an alibi
17. Ransom & The Subset - Million out of me
18. U2 - The fly
19. Stereophonics - A thousand trees
20. Suede - Animal nitrate
21. Fall Out Boy - Centuries
22. Blackberry Smoke - Let me help you find the door
23. Gillan - Nightmare
24. Deep Purple - Knocking at your back door
25. Biffy Clyro - Many of horror
26. The Motors - Dancing the night away

Hour three consists of rock songs about love
1.  Kiss - I was made for lovin' you
2.  ACDC - You shook me all night long
3.  Van Halen - I can't stop loving you
4.  Cheap Trick - If you want my love
5.  Rolling Stones - Wild horses
6.  Journey - Open arms
7.  Crosby, Stills Nash & Young - our house
8.  The Scorpions - No one like you
9.  Queen - You're my best friend
10. REO Speedwagon - Can't fight this feeling
11. Styx - Babe
12. Europe - Carrie
13. Bryan Adams - Straight from the heart
14. Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie

Rock Talk

Appearing on a radio station near you is my weekly rock interview show.
Recent guests were
February 7th Vintage Ronnie James Dio interview
February 14th Paul Rodgers
February 21st Glyn Johns part one. Legendary producer talks about working with the Who, the Eagles and others.
February 28th Glyn Johns part two
March 7th Suzi Quatro

Wednesday 18 February 2015

Time Sweep 21st February

Part one
1.  Queen - Hammer to fall
2.  ACDC - You shook me all night long
3.  Faith No More - Midlife crisis
4.  INXS - Heaven sent
5.  Nirvana - Come as you are
6.  Ugly Kid Joe - Everything about you

Part two
1.  Genesis - Jesus he knows me
2.  Extreme - Rest in peace
3.  Bon Jovi - Sleep when I'm dead
4.  Tom Cochrane - Life is a highway
5.  REM - Nightswimming

Part three
1.  Neil Young - Heart of gold
2.  Paul McCartney - Live and let die
3.  Alice Cooper - The man with the golden gun
4.  Judas Priest - Living after midnight

Part four
1.  The Clash - London calling
2.  Sex Pistols - Pretty vacant
3.  Talking Heads - Psycho killer
4.  The Ramones - Sheena is a punk rocker

Part five
1.  REM - Losing my religion
2.  ELO - Don't bring me down
3.  Free - Wishing well
4.  Rolling Stones - Gimme shelter

Part six
1.  Aerosmith - Janie's got a gun
2.  The Who - See me feel  me
3.  The Beatles - While my guitar gently weeps
4.  Fats Domino - Blueberry hill

Part seven
1.  Poco - Call it love
2.  Canned Heat - On the road again
3.  Journey - Faithfully
4.  Iron Maiden - Run to the hills

Part eight
1.  Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash
2.  The Knack - My Sharona
3.  Toto - Hold the line
4.  Status Quo - Living on an island

Part nine
1.  The Eagles - New kid in town
2.  Led Zeppelin - Dazed and confused
3.  Van Halen - Right now

Part ten
1.  Jimi Hendrix Experience - Voodoo chile
2.   George Harrison - What is life
3.  U2 - Sunday bloody Sunday

Part eleven
1.  Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee
2.  Kiss - Beth

Brit Rock 21st February

The worlds computers are against me today.
1.   Elvis Presley - You're so square
2.   Buddy Holly - Not fade away
3.   Little Richard - Long tall Sally
4.   Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole lotta shaking going on
5.   Fats Domino - Blueberry hill
6.   Eldorado - Mad woman
7.   Pat Benetar - Invincible
8.   Stevie Nicks - Edge of seventeen
9)   Alanis Morrisette - Hands clean
10. Genesis - No son of mine
11. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Davy's on the road again
12. Kid Rock - First kiss
13. Bon Jovi - Raise your hands
14. Escala - Kashmir
15. 2 Cellos - Thunderstruck
16. Elton John - Funeral for a friend/Love lies bleeding
17. David Bowie - The Jean genie
18. Pink Floyd - Us and them
19. The Who - 5.15
20. Fairport Convention - Si tu dous part ir
21. Ronnie Lane - The poacher
22. Gary Wright - Dream weaver
23. Badfinger - Baby blue
24. Graham Bonnet - It's all over now baby blue
25. Rolling Stones - Fool to cry

And in hour three, it's rock instrumentals
1.  Dixie Dregs - Take it off the top
2.  Love Sculpture - Sabre dance
3.  Joe Satriani - Surfing with the alien
4.  Focus - Hocus pocus
5.  Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein
6.  The Scorpions - Coast to coast
7.  Iron Maiden - Transylvania
8.  Van Halen - Eruption
9.  Cozy Powell - Dance with the devil
10. Mason Williams - Classical gas
11. Allman Bros - Jessica
12. Whitesnake - Toms hat trick
13. Fleetwood Mac - Albatross


Thursday 12 February 2015

Timesweep 14th February

Part 1
1.  Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
2.  ACDC - Let there be rock
3.  The Faces - Stay with me
4.  Meatloaf - All revved up with no place to go

Part 2
1.  Frankie Miller - Be good to yourself
2.  The Eagles - Life in the fast lane
3.  The Stranglers - No more heroes
4.  Neil Young - Like a hurricane
5.  Heart - Barracuda

Part 3
1.  Jimi Hendrix Experience - Little wing
2.  Rainbow - Catch the rainbow

Part 4
1.  Aerosmith - Sweet emotion
2.  John Lennon - Stand by me
3.  Pink Floyd - Breath

Part 5
1.  Van Halen - Jump
2.  Rolling Stones - Fool to cry

Part 6
1.  The Who - Who are you
2.  The Kinks - Victoria
3.  Green Day - When I come around
4.  Styx - Come sail away

Part 7
1.  Bachman Turner Overdrive - Rock is my life
2.  The Damned - Eloise
3.  Black Sabbath - Neon knights
4.  Wishbone Ash - Blowing free

Part 8
1.  Steeley Dan - Reeling in the years
2.  Cheap trick - If you want my love
3.  Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit

Part 9
1.  ZZ Top - Legs
2.  Rick Springfield - Human touch
3.  Iron Maiden - Flight of Icarus
4.  Alcatraz - Hiroshima mon amor

Part 10
1.  Bryan Adams - Cuts like a knife
2.  Meatloaf - Midnight at the lost and found
3.  ELO - Secret messages
4.  Dio - Holy diver

Part 11
1.  Def Leppard - Rock of ages
2.. Genesis - Mama
3.  Big Country - Chance

Time Sweep 7th February

Part 1
1.  Motley Crue - Public enemy number one
2.  Carol King - I feel the earth move
3.  Metallica - Seek and destroy
4.  Gene Vincent - Be bop a lula
5.  Sheryl Crow - Run baby run

Part 2
1.  The Doors - LA woman
2.  Genesis - I know what I like (in your warbrobe)
3.  Peter Gabriel - Solsbury hill
4.  Steve Miller Band - Swingtime
5.  Tim Buckley - Grace
6.  Heart - Crazy on you

Part 3
1.  Reef - Place your hands
2.  REM - Don't come back to Rockville
3.  Bob Dylan - Tangled up in blue

Part 4
1.  Aerosmith - Dream on
2.  Rush - Closer to the heart
3.  Van Halen - I can't stop loving you

Part 5
1.  Pink Floyd - Money
2.  Queen - Bohemian rhapsody

Part 6
1.  Eddie Cochran - C'mon everybody
2.  Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - please don't touch
3.  Buddy Holly - You're so square
4.  Elvis Presley - Don't be cruel
5.  Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode

Part 7
1.  Black Sabbath - N.I.B
2.  Badfinger - Come and get it
3.  Moody Blues - Question
4.  Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have you ever seen the rain

Part 8
1.  Dire Straits - Sultans of swing
2.  Jeff Buckley - Grace
3.  Bon Jovi - Living on a prayer
4.  Ugly Kid Joe - Cats in the cradle

Part 9
1.  The Beatles - Sgt Peppers lonely hearts club band
2.  The Doors - Light my fire
3.  Cream - Strange brew
4.  Moody Blues - Nights in white satin

Part 10
1.  Small Faces - All or nothing
2.  Dave Davies - Death of a clown
3.  Love - Alone again or
4.  Vanilla Fudge - Ticket to ride

Part 11
1.  Rolling Stones - Let's spend the night together
2.  The Who - Summertime blues
3.  Van Morrison - Brown eyed girl



Brit Rock 14th February

1.  Def Leppard - Stagefright (live)
2.  Steve Miller Band - Swingtime
3.  Blur - Song 2
4.  Green Day - Good riddance (time of your life)
5.  Aerosmith - Pink
6.  Radiohead - Karma police
7.  Bush - Swallowed
8.  Placebo - Nancy boy
9.  Reef - Place your hands
10. Genesis - Shipwrecked
11. Sheryl Crow - Every day is a winding road
12. Foo Fighters - Everlong
13. Pulp - Help the aged
14. Black Crowes - Hard to handle
15. Kid Rock - First kiss
16. Room 84 - So what
17. Papa Roach - Last resort
18. Tom Petty - I won't back down
19. Jeff Lynne - Every little thing
20. Queen - Love kills
21. Led Zeppelin - Thank you
22. Motorhead - love me forever
23. Black Sabbath - NIB
24. Rainbow - Eyes of the world
25. Status Quo - What's your proprosing

Hour three is a mixture of rock with connected titles
1.  Daryl Hall - Dreamtime
2.  Metallica -Enter sandman
3.  Aerosmith - Dream on
4.  H2O - dream to sleep
5.  Ozzy Osbourne - Mr Crowley
6.  Slash - Mr Brownstone
7.  ELO - Mr blue sky
8.  WASP - I don't need no doctor
9.  Jackson Browne - Doctor my eyes
10. UFO - Doctor doctor
11. The Who - The real me
12. The Doobie Bros -The doctor

Wednesday 11 February 2015

Brit Rock 7th February

1.  Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy train
2.  Y&T - Summertime girls
3.  White Stripes - Dead leaves and the dirty ground
4.  Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Universally speaking
5.  Chad Kroger - Hero
6.  Avril Lavigne - Complicated
7.  Linkin Park - In the end
8.  Sum 41 - In too deep
9.  Status Quo - Jam side down
10. Alien Ant Farm - Movies
11. Bowling For Soup - Girl all the bad guys want
12. Nightwish - Phantom of the opera
13. Creed - With one last breath
14. Hoobastank - The reason
15. Aerosmith - Walk this way
16. Eric Clapton - I ain't gonna stand for it
17. Rayne - Love live learn
18. Oasis - Cast no shadow
19. David Bowie - Rebel rebel
20. Dire Straits - Private investigations
21. Weezer - Hash pipe
22. Chuck Berry - Come on
23. Van Morrison - In the days before rock and roll
24. Eurythmics - Peace is just a word
25. Joan Armatrading - All the way from America

Hour three is an hour of extremely long songs
1. Joe Walsh- Life's been good
2. Deep Purple - Child in time
3. Whitesnake - Still of the night
4. Rainbow - Stargazer
5. Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
6. Marillion - Neverland
7. Jon & Vangelis - I hear you now

Wednesday 4 February 2015

So here we go again.

New year (ish) New blog.
Welcome. This is the new place for all future playlists and show information.
All station names and eventually photos will be posted as well. Exciting times ahead.