SO, WHAT'S NEW??

SO,WHAT'SNEW????
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What have we been listening to lately??

Last week’s show marked the completion of a four-month tour of popular music history, stopping off at various points in time to focus on the best (and worst) hits of a specific era. Before we start a fresh four-month round of programs, we thought it might be fun to cover some of the contemporary stuff that we’re listening to at the moment. This includes the CD’s that we seem to have become permanently lodged in our car players, plus the I-Pod tunes that we keep returning to.
By definition, then, this show is a very mixed bag of semi-obscure favorites that are not always necessarily ‘new’. The upside is a show with more music and less talk!

Here is list of the songs that we feature in this program:
1) CASTANETS – ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO
2) I WAS DRUNK – ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO
3) SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS – THE POSTAL SERVICE
4) SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS – IRON AND WINE
5) NAKED AS WE CAME – IRON AND WINE
6) TROUBLE WITH DREAMS – THE EELS
7) GOING FETAL – THE EELS
8) A GOOD COUNTRY MILE – KEVIN KINNEY
9) POSTAL BLOWFISH – GUIDED BY VOICES
10) HOT FREAKS - GUIDED BY VOICES
11) CUT OUT WITCH – GUIDED BY VOICES

Spring 1992

SPRING1992

WE’RE BACK!!!!

For the past two weeks, we’ve had wiring problems in our production studio, which prevented me from uploading the previous two episodes of American Hit Radio. I’m sorry about that, and I hope you missed us, but things are okay now, and we are back!
Today’s show features some of the best pop songs (plus one of the worst, AND a featured album track) from the Spring of 1992. If you asked me before this show, I would have said that 1992 was a fairly miserable year for popular music. Nonetheless, this show confounds me, because I enjoyed playing these songs. The music is fairly diverse – how often do you hear Billy Ray Cyrus and Nirvana side by side – but the overall effect implies some consistency, and a general improvement over the excesses of the ‘80s. Listen to the show, and you’ll hear a few interesting fun facts as well. For example, do you know which male R&B icon wrote the feminist classic “My Lovin’”? Or. Perhaps more interesting, which song does Heidy refer to as “an enigma wrapped in bacon”?
You really want to know?
You’ll just have to listen, then……
Here’s a list of the songs featured in this one hour edition of American Hit Radio:
1) Human Touch – Bruce Springsteen
2) My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It) – En Vogue
3) Tennessee – Arrested Development
4) One – U2
5) Achy Breaky Heart – Billy Ray Cyrus (as a ‘Great Miss’)
6) That Train Don’t Stop Here – Los Lobos (as a ‘Featured Album Track’
7) Come As You Are – Nirvana
8) Friday I’m in Love – The Cure