Monthly Archives: June 2010

Song Favorites

My 7-10 list on Radio Paradise. With an allowance for in-the-moment decision-making… pretty accurate.

10 – Emerson, Lake and Palmer – Lucky Man
10 – Pink Floyd – Us & Them -> Eclipse
10 – Pink Floyd – The Great Gig In The Sky
10 – Led Zeppelin – Ramble On
10 – Joe Jackson – Steppin’ Out
9 – Peter Gabriel – Mercy Street
9 – Youngbloods – Get Together
9 – Loreena McKennitt – The Mummers Dance
9 – Crosby Stills & Nash – Wooden Ships
9 – Joni Mitchell – River
9 – Steppenwolf – Magic Carpet Ride
9 – Rick James – Super Freak
9 – Led Zeppelin – Tangerine
9 – Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane – Heart to Hang Onto
9 – Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane – Misunderstood
9 – Air – La Femme D’Argent
9 – Emerson Lake & Palmer – From The Beginning
9 – Jethro Tull – Velvet Green
9 – Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
9 – Moody Blues – Ride My See-Saw
9 – Michael Hedges – Rickover’s Dream
9 – Leo Kottke – Little Martha
9 – Led Zeppelin – Kashmir
9 – U2 – Running to Stand Still
9 – Seal – Crazy
9 – Elton John – Funeral For a Friend – Love Lies Bleeding
9 – Simon & Garfunkel – Scarborough Fair
9 – Mason Williams – Classical Gas
9 – Harvey Reid – Racing the Storm
9 – Joni Mitchell – Hejira
9 – Paul Simon – Homeless
9 – Kate Bush – The Sensual World
9 – Don Henley – The Boys of Summer
9 – Herbie Hancock – Cantaloupe Island
9 – Neil Young – Old Man
9 – Toad The Wet Sprocket – Walk on the Ocean
9 – Little Feat – Roll Um Easy
9 – Vince Guaraldi Trio – Cast Your Fate To The Wind
9 – Peter Gabriel – Shaking The Tree (w/ Youssou N’Dour)
9 – Leo Kottke – Ojo
9 – Neil Young – Sugar Mountain
9 – Massive Attack – Inertia Creeps
9 – Led Zeppelin – Your Time is Gonna Come
8 – The Romantics – What I Like About You
8 – Yoav – Club Thing
8 – Les Negresses Vertes – Face a la mer (Massive Attack remix]
8 – Elton John – Levon
8 – Edwin Starr – War
8 – Colin Hay – Overkill (acoustic)
8 – The Beatles – Baby You’re a Rich Man
8 – John Cale & Brian Eno – Lay My Love
8 – Taj Mahal – Lovin’ In My Baby’s Eyes
8 – Eddie Vedder – Hard Sun
8 – R.E.M. – Nightswimming
8 – Led Zeppelin – When The Levee Breaks
8 – Orient Expressions – Istanbul 1:26 am
8 – Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood – Can’t Find My Way Home (Live)
8 – Neil Young – Look Out For My Love
8 – Amadou & Mariam – Sénégal Fast Food
8 – Lemon Jelly – Homage To Patagonia
8 – Pete Townshend – My Baby Gives It Away
8 – Ekova – Siip Siie
8 – U2 – New Year’s Day
8 – Jethro Tull – One White Duck
8 – R.E.M. – Drive
8 – Neil Young – After the Gold Rush
8 – The Kinks – Victoria
8 – Donovan – Wear Your Love Like Heaven
8 – Dire Straits – Skateaway
8 – Ray LaMontagne – Empty
8 – TV On the Radio – Things You Can Do
8 – Jefferson Airplane – Embryonic Journey
8 – José González – Heartbeats
8 – Eliades Ochoa – Chan Chan
8 – William Shatner – Common People
8 – Leo Kottke – World Turning
8 – Crosby Stills & Nash – Helplessly Hoping
8 – Ray LaMontagne – Be Here Now
8 – Bruce Cockburn – Soul of a Man
8 – Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
8 – OSI – Once
8 – Pat Metheny Group – Last Train Home
8 – Squirrel Nut Zippers – Put A Lid On It
8 – REM – Sweetness Follows
8 – The Cure – Close To Me
8 – Taj Mahal – Take A Giant Step
8 – Otis Redding – (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay
8 – Radio Citizen (feat. Bajka) – The Hop
8 – Bob Dylan – Tangled Up In Blue
8 – Orbital – The Box
8 – Primitive Radio Gods – Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth…
8 – Spoon – Don’t You Evah
8 – Iron & Wine – Naked As We Came
8 – Andrew Bird – Imitosis
8 – Sinead Lohan – No Mermaid
8 – Medeski, Martin & Wood – Mami Gato
8 – Dave Brubeck Quartet – Blue Rondo a la Turk
8 – Men At Work – Land Down Under
8 – Gotye – The Only Way
8 – Erik Satie – Gnossienne No1
8 – Single Gun Theory – From a Million Miles
8 – The Wailin’ Jennys – Take it Down
8 – Slowdive – Souvlaki Space Station
8 – Neil Young – Round & Round (It Won’t Be Long)
8 – Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale – Easy (w/ Norah Jones)
8 – Suzanne Vega – World Before Columbus
8 – Kirsty MacColl – In These Shoes?
8 – The Orb – Toxygene
8 – Richard Thompson – 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
8 – Jeff Beck – Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
8 – The Beatles – Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows
8 – Wolfsheim – In Time
8 – Weezer – Island In The Sun
8 – Cake – Rock & Roll Lifestyle
8 – Big Daddy – Money For Nothing
8 – The Who – Love, Reign O’er Me
8 – DJ Schmolli – God’s Gonna Cut You Down
8 – Jethro Tull – Mother Goose
8 – Jane’s Addiction – Jane Says
8 – Imogen Heap – Glittering Cloud
8 – Steve Miller Band – Song For Our Ancestors
8 – Leo Kottke – Pepe Hush
8 – Beach Boys – Good Vibrations
7 – King Crimson – The Court Of The Crimson King
7 – Fleetwood Mac – Oh Well
7 – Ayub Ogada – Kothbiro
7 – Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Drought of 2013
7 – Porcupine Tree – Waiting
7 – Eels – All The Beautiful Things
7 – Midge Ure – Answers To Nothing
7 – Chuck Prophet – Summertime Thing
7 – Kan’Nal – Space Child
7 – Peter Gabriel – The Tower That Ate People
7 – Mich Gerber – By Your Side (feat. Bajka)
7 – Joni Mitchell – You Turn Me On I’m A Radio
7 – Iguanas – 9 Volt Heart
7 – Jerry Garcia – The Wheel
7 – Emmylou Harris – All My Tears
7 – Bruce Lash – Psycho Killer
7 – Greg Kihn – Remember
7 – Bad Company – Seagull
7 – Morphine – Buena
7 – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Hold on to Yourself
7 – Bryan Ferry – Goin’ Down
7 – Ani Difranco – Little Plastic Castle
7 – Béla Fleck – Katmandu
7 – Bob Dylan – It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
7 – The Call – Let the Day Begin
7 – U2 – Beautiful Day
7 – Patty Larkin – Anyway The Main Thing Is
7 – Te Vaka – Te Namo
7 – Thievery Corporation – Forgotten People
7 – Gillian Welch – Revelator
7 – Peter Gabriel – A Different Drum
7 – Dave Alvin – Highway 61
7 – Vast – Touched
7 – Ane Brun – The Puzzle
7 – Imogen Heap – Have You Got It In You?
7 – Madrugada – Hard To Come Back
7 – David Sylvian – The Blinding Light of Heaven
7 – Hem – Half Acre
7 – The Ventures – Walk Don’t Run
7 – Vienna Teng – 1BR/1BA
7 – Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day
7 – John Hiatt – Cry Love
7 – Eric Johnson – Bloom
7 – The American Analog Set – Hard to Find
7 – Michelle Shocked – Secret to a Long Life
7 – Bird York – Haunting You
7 – Joan Osborne – Man in The Long Black Coat
7 – Marc Cohn – The Rainy Season
7 – Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
7 – Medeski, Martin & Wood – New Planet
7 – Richard Shindell – Confession
7 – Dengue Fever – Seeing Hands
7 – Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter – The Dreaming Dead
7 – Big Audio Dynamite – Rush
7 – Gomez – Detroit Swing 66
7 – Propellerheads – History Repeating (w/ Shirley Bassey)
7 – Joni Mitchell – Jericho
7 – Marvin Gaye – Trouble Man
7 – The Bad Plus – Flim
7 – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!
7 – Iron & Wine & Calexico – Dark Eyes
7 – Jose Gonzalez – Teardrop
7 – Jake Shimabukuro – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
7 – Azam Ali – Endless Reverie
7 – John Lennon – Instant Karma!
7 – Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Trampled Rose
7 – Richard Shindell – Transit
7 – The Be Good Tanyas – When Doves Cry
7 – Sam Phillips – Fighting With Fire
7 – Loop Guru – Single Orphan First Year Camel
7 – Snow Patrol – Shut Your Eyes
7 – Blue Man Group – Mandelgroove
7 – Galactic – Paint
7 – Manu Chao – Me Gustas Tu
7 – Metric – Rock Me Now
7 – David Sylvian and Robert Fripp – God’s Monkey
7 – Donnie Iris – Ah! Leah!
7 – Big Head Todd & The Monsters – Please Don’t Tell Her
7 – Jon Astley – Jane’s Getting Serious
7 – Talvin Singh – Butterfly
7 – Paul Simon – Once Upon A Time There Was An Ocean
7 – Pressure Drop – Dusk
7 – Robert Plant – 29 Palms
7 – Thievery Corporation – Lebanese Blonde
7 – Rolling Stones – Lady Jane
7 – Porcupine Tree – Point 3 (.3)
7 – Bonobo – Between The Lines (feat. Bajka)
7 – Kaki King – Gay Sons of Lesbian Mothers
7 – Tommy Bolin – Savanna Woman
7 – Sufjan Stevens – Chicago
7 – John Hiatt – Cry Love (live)
7 – James McMurtry – Off And Running
7 – Supreme Beings of Leisure – Strangelove Addiction
7 – Kaki King – First Brain
7 – Tosca – Busenfreund
7 – Equation – Not The Man
7 – Cowboy Junkies – My Little Basquiat
7 – Tracy Chapman – For My Lover
7 – Mark Almond – The City
7 – The Verve – Blue
7 – Beck – Beautiful Way
7 – Johnny Cash – I’m Leaving Now
7 – Son Volt – Action
7 – Butch Baldassari Trio – As Far As I Can See
7 – !!! – Myth Takes
7 – Michael Hedges – Because it’s There
7 – James McMurtry – Choctaw Bingo