PART 1: American Beat ’84 – The Fleshtones; Flashlight – Parliament; Trampled Underfoot – Led Zeppelin; It’s You – Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers; First Christmas – Diane Keaton; Hey Now Sunshine – The Vibeke Saugestad Band; Another Light – The Vibeke Saugestad Band; 2nd Avenue – The Vibeke Saugestad Band; Last Days of Summer – The Vibeke Saugestad Band; Dead Man’s Car – Reale Wolfe; Astor Place – Edward Rogers; Lies Cries and Alibis – Edward Rogers; Romeo – Edward Rogers; I Walk Behind Your Shadow – Edward Rogers; 15 Eldon Road – Edward Rogers
PART 2: Dead Man’s Car – Reale Wolfe; Hearts Arrive – The Autumn Defense; I’ll Take You Out of Your Mind – The Autumn Defense; Love Lives – The Autumn Defense; Give Her the Gun – Speedtwinn; Cold Open – Splitsville; A Glorious Lie – Splitsville; Fallsway – Splitsville; Beth Steel – Splitsville; Ghoul You Want – Librarians With Hickeys; Eyeball Eater (From Outer Space) – sparkle*jets u.k.; Frankie’s Back – Shplang; I Was a Teenage Frankenstein – Splitsville; Music of the Devil (live) – Graham Parker & the Goldtops; Phantom – The Jack Rubies; Halloween Wind – Blake Jones & the Trike Shop; Full-On Witch Mode – The Armoires; Ghost in the Airwaves – The Gold Needles; Stories of Souls – Rick Hromadka; Zombie Century – Dolph Chaney featuring The Speed of Sound; I Watch You Sleep – Lady Darkevyl featuring Chris Church; Monsters – Strawberry Alarm Clock
PART 3 (Ray Davies): Sweet Lady Genevieve; Dedicated Follower of Fashion; Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues; Autumn Almanac; Victoria; 20th Century Man; London; Story #1 – That Old Black Magic; Tired of Waiting for You; Shangri-La; Set Me Free; See My Friends; X-Ray; Stop Your Sobbing; Rosie Won’t You Please Come Home; Art School Babes; Story #2; You Really Got Me; Animal
PART 4 (Ray Davies): Twist and Shout; Story #3 (The Beatles), with Smokestack Lightning (musical bed), You Really Got Me); A Well-Respected Man; Story #4 (America); I Go to Sleep; Two Sisters; Dead End Street; Julie Finkle; Lola; To the Bone; Village Green Preservation Society; Animal Farm; Days; Waterloo Sunset; Story #5 with You Really Got Me; Better Things – The Kinks
… 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.