Posted in DefaultTag on Jun 28th, 2013
The first half of this show features a conversation with sound engineer Mario McNulty who was part of the team that put together David Bowie's acclaimed comeback album The Next Day.
Part 2 salutes the penultimate season of AMC's Mad Men with records featured throughout Season 6, all from 1968.
VE 180
David Bowie:
The Next Day
The Stars Are Out Tonight
Heat
Where Are We Now
Paul Mauriat & His Orchestra: Love is Blue
Sergio Mendes & The Brazil 66: Going Out Of My Head
Lou Johnson: Always Something There To Remind Me
Friend & Lover: Reach Out Of The Darkness
Mitch Ryder & The Detriot Wheels: Baby Jane
Mamas & The Papas: Words Of Love
Janis Joplin: Piece of My Heart
Blue Sandalwood Soap: Friends I Haven't Met Yet
Judy Collins: Both Sides Now
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Posted in DefaultTag on Jun 21st, 2013
VE 179 Summer Solstice
Miles Davis: Summertime
The Band: Time To Kill
XTC: Season Cycle
Ray La Montagne: For The Summer
B52s: June Bug
The Kinks: Wonderboy
Love: The Good Humor Man
Lovin Spoonful: Rain On the Roof
Small Faces: Itchycoo Park
Tony Bennett: Lazy Afternoon
Pink Floyd: Grantchester Meadows
Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger
Thin Lizzy: The Boys Are Back In Town
Today on the VE--celebrating the summer solstice with songs to roll out the season
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Posted in DefaultTag on Jun 14th, 2013
Today on the VE
A salute to the magical rock and roll age of 17, with a reference in each song, and in tribute to the arrival in the northeast of the Peroidical Cicada, dormant for 17 years, now emerging in a late spring mating frenzy that is one of nature's weirdest spectacles. As are some of the songs on today's show.
Stevie Nicks: Edge Of Seventeen
Stray Cats: Sexy + 17
Jackson Browne: Running On Empty
Bruce Springsteen: The River
Sound Of Music Original Cast: Sixteen Going On Seventeen
Beatles: I Saw Her Standing There
ABBA: Dancing Queen
Kings Of Leon: Seventeen
Rod Stewart: Young Turks
Janis Ian: At Seventen
Frank Sinatra: It Was A Very Good Year
Jonathan Richman: Hey There Little Insect
Bob Dylan: Day of The Locusts
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Posted in DefaultTag on Jun 7th, 2013
Mona Lisa smiles, Mercury and Bowie's grace Under Pressure
Queen with David Bowie: Under Pressure
Queen: Message Of Love
David Bowie: Cat People
Kinks: Living On A Thin Line
John Wesley Harding: Like A Prayer
Jefferson Airplane: Pretty As You Feel
Grateful Dead: Eyes of the World
Marvin Gaye: Come Get To This
Michael Franks: Eggplant
Elton John: Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters
Bob Dylan: Visions Of Johanna
Nat Cole: Mona Lisa
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