It was a good night on "Twenty Flight Rock," including a full-block commemoration of International Beer Day
and a tribute to Clem Burke, in advance of the upcoming documentary about the great drummer.
"Hello There" - Cheap Trick
"Gave You Everything" - The Interrupters
"Peacock Suit" - Paul Weller
"How Can You Stand There?" - The English Beat
"Tears in My Beer" - The Specials
"Beer" - Reel Big Fish
"Wonder Beer" - Naked Raygun
"Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers" - ZZ Top
"The Band Wore Blue Shirts" - Joe Jackson
"Super Bon Bon" - Soul Coughing
"Zeroes" [2018 edit] - David Bowie
"Me and Billy the Kid" - Joe Ely
"Me and Michael" - MGMT
"Me and Baby Brother" - War (for bassist B.B. Dickerson's birthday)
"Me and My Guitar" - Wishbone Ash
"Eat to the Beat" - Blondie
"Gun Control" - The International Swingers
"90 Miles an Hour Down a Dead End Street" - The Empty Hearts
"Now Hear This" - The Split Squad
"Barbarella" - The Bongos
"Floating Features" - La Luz
"Under the House" - Public Image Ltd. (for Martin Atkins' birthday)
"EMI" - The Sex Pistols (by request)
"It's the Music" - Meat Beat Manifesto
"Where the River Flows" - Collective Soul (for singer Ed Roland's birthday)
"The Struggle Within" - Metallica (for James Hetfield's birthday)
"Tomorrow Night" - The Pop Cycle
"Clean Slate" - Rolling Blackouts C.F.
"This Wheel's on Fire" - The Byrds (for bassist John York's birthday)
"Twenty Flight Rock" [live] - Stray Cats (for bassist Lee Rocker's birthday)
The following day, I covered "The Gumbo Mix." Not nearly as many requests as I usually get during that show, but still a good time.
"Got to Give It Up" - Marvin Gaye
"They Just Can't Stop It (The Games People Play)" - Spinners
"For the Love of Money" - O'Jays (by request)
"Who Stole My Monkey" - Zachary Richard (by request)
"Low Rider" - War
"Family Affair Sly & the Family Stone
"Wild Weekend" - The Rivieras (by request)
"When Will I See You Again" - The Three Degrees
"Tell Me Something Good" - Rufus
"Slow Love" - Prince
"Every 1's a Winner" - Hot Chocolate
"You Dropped a Bomb on Me" - The Gap Band
"Faraway Eyes" - The Rolling Stones
"Nights on Broadway" - Bee Gees
"Let the Music Play" - Shannon
"Stay" - David Bowie
"Word Up" - Cameo
"MacArthur Park" - Donna Summer
"The Night Chicago Died" - Paper Lace
"Walking in Rhythm" - The Blackbyrds
"Driver's Seat" - Sniff 'n' the Tears (by request)
"Dancing in the Moonlight" - King Harvest
"Heard It Through the Grapevine" - Gladys Knight & the Pips
"Hunting High and Low" - a-ha
"Born on the Bayou" - Creedence Clearwater Revival (by request)
"I Can't Get Next to You" - The Temptations
"Boogie Oogie Oogie" - A Taste of Honey
"Neither One of Us Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye" - Gladys Knight & the Pips
