Freak out 4/2

A little story behind last week's show. The Dictators have been an important part of my music listening life. Part of the liner notes for 'The Dictators Go Girl Crazy!' are little superlatives for each member of the band. Ross the Boss's was 'To Me Quantity is Quality'. So, to honor Ross the Boss, I asked my daughter to play songs less than 3 minutes. With a few exceptions she did just that. Listen every Thursday (for just this month) 10AM-12PM EDT [wpts.pitt.edu]

Horrorpops - Freaks in Uniform!
Beulah - Matter vs Space
Hypnolovewheel - I Dream of Jeannie
Richard X. Heyman - Falling Away

B-52s - Butter Bean
High Back Chairs - Dream of a Day
Too Much Joy - That’s a Lie
Maximo Park - Fear of Falling
Love Jones - Central Avenue

The Beths - Uptown Girl
Super Furry Animals - Neo Consumer
Built to Spill - Carry the Zero
X - Your Phone’s Off the Hook (But You’re Not)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden
Super Furry Animals - Dacw Hi

The Dictators - The Savage Beat (RIP Ross the Boss)
One Last Wish - This Time
Senseless Things - Should I Feel It
Wire - Mekon Headman
The English Beat - Click Click
Devo - Space Junk

Donald Fagen - Walk Between the Raindrops
Jonathan Richman - Stop This Car
Gary Numan - Tracks
Sparks - I Wish I Looked a Little Better

J Dilla - Anti-American Graffiti
The Outsiders - Time Won’t Let Me
Cheer-Accident - Arise and Shine
Chase Baker - Hip Twitch

The Avalanches and Perry Farrell - Oh the Sunn!
Dana and Alden - When We Met
Tennis - 100 Lovers

Richard X. Heyman, whoa, I listened to him a lot for a time. And High Back Chairs, that is some vintage power pop.

Fuck an A, er, um, excuse me and that is to say,
For the last fifty 50 fucking years: the New York Dolls, The Dictators & The Ramones have ruled, still rule and will always rule. The only God damn holy trilogy anyone need know.

nowplaying Stackridge- Friendliness (because it's the next best thing since Sparks)

ps MZ, yep, Richard X Heyman & Richard Hell ( and the muthafuckin Fleshtones) another great New Yawk punk power pop garage triptych!

Long Live the Trouser Press



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 04/08/2026 08:46PM by STEVE.

Was doing a whole show of short songs difficult to pull off live?

Nah, the list of songs on her cds has the song length included so she can just pick a bunch of songs that meet the requirement ahead of time. After almost three years, she's pretty good at cueing up the songs.