PART 1: American Beat ’84 – The Fleshtones; Don’t Think – The Linda Lindas; Neanderthal – Bob Mould; New York’s Alright If You Like Saxophones – Fear; Higgle-dy Piggle-Dy – the monks; Shut Up and Drink Your Beer – Miss Georgia Peach; Git Up and Go – The Untamed Youth; Catch These Fists – Wet Leg; Just as Long as We’re Together – Jalen Ngonda; I Thought You Were Mine – The Natural Four; If I Can’t Have You – Yvonne Elliman; This Thing Called Love – Johnny Wyatt; What – Judy Street; Keep on Moving – The Jay Vons; A Solid Bond in Your Heart – The Jam; Walls Come Tumbling Down – The Style Council; Boys – Peter Best; All Good Things (Live, Cavestomp ’98) – The Remains
PART 2: Since I Fell for You – Lenny Welch; Capital (It Fails Us Now) – Gang of Four; He’d Send In the Army (Live) – Gang of Four; I Love a Man in Uniform – Gang of Four; Is It Love? – Gang of Four; Cheeseburger – Gang of Four; Planet Rock – Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force; Dreaming – Blondie; The Hardest Part – Blondie; Union City Blue – Blondie
PART 3: Shayla – Blondie; Die Young Stay Pretty – Blondie; Accidents Never Happen – Blondie; Slow Motion – Blondie; Atomic – Blondie; X-Offender – Blondie; Detroit 442 – Blondie; Denis – Blondie; (I’m Always Touched by) Your Presence, Dear – Blondie; Hanging on the Telephone – Blondie; Heart of Glass – Blondie; 11:59 – Blondie; Pretty Baby – Blondie; Sunday Girl (en francais) – Blondie; The Tide Is High – Blondie; Rapture – Blondie; Maria – Blondie; My Monster – Blondie
PART 4: F-f-f-fascination – The Fleshtones; A World Gone Wild – Chequered Past; Don’t Look Around – Jimmy Destri; Platonic – Iggy Pop; Thorn in My Side – Eurythmics; Missionary Man – Eurythmics; Crashing by Design – Pete Townshend; Under Your Spell – Bob Dylan; Where Were You (When I Needed You) – The Adult Net; Playing With Jack – The Plimsouls; Work for Food – Dramarama; Guitars, Talk, Love and Drums – Kathy Valentine; California Girls – Nancy Sinatra; Blue Moon of Kentucky – Wanda Jackson; Midnight to Six Man – The Romantics; FBI – International Swingers; Perfect World – The Empty Hearts; She Is Everything (live at Cafe Nine, 4/26/14) – The Split Squad
… 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.