Setlist from last night (23/24 March)

A full rich playlist on 20FR last night. Lots of birthday tributes, including full-scale tributes to Ric Ocasek (two blocks worth of his productions) and Carol Kaye (a block of her prime recordings, plus excerpts from last year's interview). Thanks to all of you for your suggestions for the "artists only" block. All that, and pitches at each break for KSER's pledge drive.

"You Don't Need Excuses to Be Good" - Sloan
"Crazy" - R.E.M.
"Flight of the Rufous" - Jim Hilmar
"Jealous" - Robert Palmer

"Desirée" - The Left Banke (R.I.P. Michael Brown)
"In Little Ways" - Let's Active
"Drive, She Said" - Stan Ridgway
"The Anti-Midas Touch" - The Wolfhounds

"Blue Tip" - The Cars (for Ric's birthday)
"Masterjam" - Rufus (for Chaka Khan's birthday)
"Lonesome Street" - Blur (for Damon Albarn's birthday)
"Baton Rouge" - The Nixons (for drummer John Humphrey's birthday)

"Stalemate" - Nada Surf
"Burning for No One" - The Cribs
"Saturday Nite Riot" - The Pink Spiders
"Eulogy for a Rock Band" - Weezer

"Surgical Focus" - Guided by Voices
"Diamonds, Fur Coat, Champagne" - Suicide
"Platinum Blonde Life" - No Doubt
"Never Say Never" - Romeo Void

"Max Ernst" - Mission of Burma
"Andy Warhol" - David Bowie
"Pablo Picasso" - Burning Sensations
"Man Ray" - The Futureheads

"Valleri" - The Monkees
"Alone Again Or" - Love
"Games People Play" - Mel Tormé
"Mission: Impossible Theme" - Lalo Schifrin
"Feelin' Alright" - Joe Cocker

"So It Goes" - Nick Lowe (for Nick's birthday)
"Low Rider" - War (for harmonica player Lee Oskar's birthday)
"I Like to Rock" - April Wine (for bassist Steve Lang's birthday)

Great list. I've always preferred the Burning Sensations version over Jojo's.

As for Ric Ocasek - no Bad Brains? I still find it wild that he produced "Rock for Light"

I took Rock for Light with me to the station last night, along with Door to Door, the only Cars album that Ocasek produced) and a couple of Ric's solo albums. In the end, though, well, that's what I chose. (I find it kind of wild that he produced a couple of tracks on Rock Steady, considering the other producers that No Doubt worked with on that album.)