“Disco Demolition Night” Remembered In A New Song By the Baseball Project
This morning on “All Mixed Up” on WDHA, Jim Monaghan played some great new DHA rock from Lucinda Williams, Semisonic, Rickie Lee Jones, and the Baseball Project.
Opening Theme – “Signe” by Eric Clapton
New Frontier – Donald Fagen
FM – Steely Dan
My Place In the Sun – Jeff Baxter w/ Michael McDonald
Little Bit of Sun – Semisonic
Lovers In A Dangerous Time – Barenaked Ladies
Roll To Me – Del Amitri
They Can’t Take That Away From Me – Rickie Lee Jones
Free Man In Paris – Joni Mitchell
The Fever – Bruce Springsteen
Ghost of Days Gone By – Alter Bridge
Some Good Years – Cowsills
Good Things – Bo Deans
I Am In Love – Deni Bonet
The Door Into Summer – Monkees
Rock N Roll Heart – Lucinda Williams
Every Picture Tells A Story – Rod Stewart
All You Can Carry – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Disco Demolition – Baseball Project
The Disco Strangler – Eagles
Shakedown Street – Grateful Dead
Bad Time – Jayhawks
I’m Your Captain (Closer To Home) – Grand Funk Railroad
Walk Around the Moon – Dave Matthews Band
She Might Look My Way – Chris Stamey
Human – Pretenders
The Bulrushes – Bongos
Twelve-Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To the Canyon) – Rufus Wainwright
The Teacher – Foo Fighters
Let It Rain – Eric Clapton
Closing Theme – :Take Five” by the Dave Brubeck Quartet
Thanks for listening this morning.
5 Rock Bands Americans Just Don't 'Get'
Rock is a far more diverse genre than it often gets credit for. If you want proof, look no further than our friends from the U.K. and Ireland.
There are a bunch of very popular bands in the U.K. and Ireland that just haven’t taken off in the States for one reason or another. One of those bands is The Darkness, whose debut album, Permission to Land, turns 20 today (July 7) In the States, the LP is best known for its wild single “I Believe in a Thing Called Love,” but the album also boasts killer tracks like “Black Shuck,” “Get Your Hands off My Woman,” “Growing on Me” and “Love Is Only a Feeling.”
The Darkness followed Permission to Land with 2005’s One Way Ticket to Hell…and Back, which doubles down on the glam and, perhaps, was just too English and cheeky for most American audiences. Like Permssion to Land, the album still contains a bunch of bangers, like the title track, “Knockers” and “Is It Just Me?”
Sadly, The Darkness fell into the usual trappings of rock stardom. Singer Justin Hawkins went to rehab for drug and alcohol issues in 2006, which led to the band going on a five-year hiatus that saw them pursue other projects. In 2011, they would reform. The following year, they dropped their third studio album Hot Cakes, which contains the biographical song “Every Inch of You” that still slaps more than a decade later.
Since then, they’ve released four additional studio albums and continue to carry the torch for glam rock in a way few other bands really have.
Of course, there are plenty of other bands that, like The Darkness, should really be given another look by American rock fans. Keep scrolling to see which other acts you should check out sooner than later that Americans just don’t seem to “get.”
