PART 1: American Beat ’84 – The Fleshtones; Party Machine – Hoodoo Gurus; Morgantic Panic – The Shang Hi Los; Keep Walking That Way – The Kaisers; Ain’t That Peculiar – Marvin Gaye; All in My Head – The Linda Lindas; Standing in the Shadows – Sour Ops; Nothing’s From Today (4 track version) – The Vipers; Funk Pop-a-Roll – XTC; Break Them Down – Graham Parker & the Shot; The Ologist Song – Graham Parker & the Goldtops; Life Gets Better – Graham Parker; Sunday Getaway – JD McPherson; Telegram Sam – T.Rex; Fascist Bumblebee Winter Formal – Blake Jones & the Trike Shop; Ghosting – Kevin Robertson; Illusions – Jalen Ngonda; Satisfied – Ben Aiken
PART 2: I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead – Warren Zevon; Run Run Run – The Gestures; Let’s Go Crazy – Prince; New Day Rising – Hüsker Dü; Kiss Me on the Bus – The Replacements; I Am the Cat – Lys Guillorn; Too Much Stress – Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour feat. Brian May; Festa di Frankenstein – The Fleshtones; The Dedication Song – The Fleshtones; Skating by Myself – The Zambonis; Walking Down the Street – Andy Lewis (House of Four); You Don’t Believe Me – Popincourt (House of Four); Defecting Grey – Papernut Cambridge (House of Four); House of Ten – Robert Rotifer (House of Four)
PART 3: Long Distance Romance – The False Positives; Stood There Watching – Stop Calling Me Frank; One Glorious Moment – The Glimmer Stars; Pictures of You – The Glimmer Stars; Sunday – The Glimmer Stars w/Karen Bassett; Shine (Half-Read Books and Coffee) – The Glimmer Stars; Where She’s Going – The Glimmer Stars; I Go to Pieces – Nils Lofgren; Summer’s Cauldron/Grass – XTC; Hung Up With Summer – Big Star; Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do) – Aretha Franklin; Summer Breeze – The Isley Brothers; Soul Beat/Intoxica – The Raybeats; Up the Ladder to the Roof – The Supremes; Go Ahead – The Squires; Weird Summer – Velvet Crush; Stay – Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs
… 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.