PART 1: American Beat ’84 – The Fleshtones; I Hate the 21st Century – The Godfathers; The Right Time – Hoodoo Gurus; Ages of You – R.E.M.; You Don’t Know Where Your Interest Lies – Dana Valery; Shape of Things to Come – Max Frost & the Troopers; Looking for a Kiss – New York Dolls; Sinking Ship – David Johansen; Waiting – The Altons; Tangled Up in You – The Altons; Where Did She Go? – The Altons; Del Cielo Te Cuido – The Altons; Your Light – The Altons; Love Stinks – The J. Geils Band; What’s This Shit Called Love? – The Pagans; It’s Cold Outside – The Choir
PART 2: A Hard Day’s Night – The Beatles; Pretty Things Are Unfair – The Botswanas; Day Tripper – Otis Redding; Back in My Arms Again – The Supremes; The Girl Across the Street – Moses Smith; Back to California – 20/20; Something to Believe In – APB; It’s My Time – The Mynah Birds; What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes? – Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings; Want Ads – Honey Cone; No Heart – Human Switchboard; Modern Day Ripoff – Iggy Pop; Out of Our Tree – The Wailers; King Louie Stomp – Impala
PART 3: Lost to Winter – Sarah Dunn; When Harpo Played His Harp – Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers; Slow Down Girl – Jonny Benavidez; Fortune Teller Lied – Kevin Robertson; I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better – The Byrds; Can’t Get Enough of Your Love – The Dantes; How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live – The Del-Lords; Juke Box Music – The Kinks; Dance, Dance, Dance (Alternate Take) – The Beach Boys; Let Her Dance – Marshall Crenshaw; Do You Wanna Dance? – Ramones; I Call That Living – The Reducers; Life in the Neighborhood – The Reducers; Chicks Dig It – The Big Fat Combo; Give Him a Great Big Kiss – The Shangri-Las; Walls Come Tumbling Down – The Style Council; Fight Fire – The Pist; On and On – The Muffs
… is the hostess of Franorama 2.0, most Thursdays from 1-5 p.m. Eastern Time on Cygnus Radio. So what’s a genre? I just throw everything against a wall and see what sticks. Rock’n’roll, garage, punk, soul (especially Northern), rockabilly, real country, cheesy goofball stuff – no matter what generation, if it has a heart and soul, it has a home here.