Pop! The Beat Bubble Burst (Music)
Pop! The Beat Bubble Burst explores the music of the sixties with an emphasis on British Invasion and Mersey Beat. It then traces those branches to the present day by playing music that echoes the music of the sixties including power pop, jangle pop, pub rock, glitter and glam rock, neo-psychedelia and indie pop.
With Rich Reese
Thu Sep 15th 2011 5.00am–7.00am
R=listener request. N=music new at the station. L=local music. Your purchases using the Buy it! links
Time zone: central
5:01am | The Blades of Grass “I Love You (Alice B. Toklas)” from ...Are Not For Smoking (Rev-Ola 2003)Buy it! |
5:04am | The Raspberries “Get It Moving” from Raspberries (Capitol/EMI Music Distribution 1972) —The Raspberries did stuff that went outside what I would call Power Pop...this one is closer to the Pub Rock sound of Brinsley Schwarz.Buy it! |
5:07am | Tony Jackson Group “Let Me Know” from Watch Your Step! The Complete Recordings 1964-1966 (Sanctuary 2004) —The Searchers original lead singer out on his own. If you like a cross between the Searchers and The Animals, you will enjoy this.Buy it! |
5:09am | The Go “SMILE” from Howl On the Haunted Beat You Ride CD ALBUM (Cass Records 2007)Buy it! |
5:18am | ABBA “Does Your Mother Know?” from ABBA Gold (Universal Music AB 1979) —As I said on air - if you would have told me back in the mid seventies that one day I'd be playing music of my choice on the radio and I'd choose to play ABBA, I would have thought you were crazy... tastes change with the passage of time. They really wereBuy it! |
5:21am | David Bowie “SORROW” from Pin Ups (Sound and Vision 1973) —Great cover of the Merseys 1966 record found on David's all-covers album.Buy it! |
5:24am | The Ricochettes “I Don't Want You” from 2131 South Michigan Avenue (Sundazed 2009)Buy it! |
5:28am | Gonn “You're Looking Fine” from Gonn For Good - The Best of Gonn (Younger Than Yesterday 2005) —Some Garage rock from Keokuck, Iowa!Buy it! |
5:32am | The Dukes of Stratosphear “My Love Explodes (Demo)” from 25 O'Clock (Ape House 2009)Buy it! |
5:34am | Peter & Gordon “Leave My Woman Alone” from A World Without Love CD ALBUM (CAPITOL 1964)Buy it! |
5:39am | The Undertones “Girls Don't Like It” from The Undertones (Castle 2000)Buy it! |
5:41am | The Raveonettes “Railroad Tracks” from Punk-O-Rama (Columbia 2005) —This is a digital download that was available with the purchase of the Raveonettes' Pretty In Black CD.Buy it! |
5:43am | The Jam “Pretty Green” from Sound Affects (Polydor 1980)Buy it! |
5:49am | Bango “Inferno No Mundo” from Love, Peace & Poetry: Brazilian Psychedelic Music (Normal 2003) —Check out Andrea on Radio Rio (Saturday eve. from 5-7) and valis on Trip Inside This House (Tuesday morning from 5-7) to hear more like this!Buy it! |
5:51am | The Apples In Stereo “No One In The World” from Travellers In Space And Time CD ALBUM (Yep Roc 2010)Buy it! |
5:55am | Rainbow Ffolly “Sun Sing” from Insane Times - 25 British Psychedelic Artyfacts from the EMI Vaults (Remastered) (EMI UK www.themeatpuppets.com 2007)Buy it! |
6:01am | Bill Frisell “Nowhere Man” from All We Are Saying... (Savoy Jazz 2011) —Jazz guitarist goes a bit rock-ey on this new release which has Bill visiting the music of John Lennon (with the Beatles and solo) Very nice stuff!Buy it! |
6:06am | James McCartney “Glisten” from Available Light - EP (Engine Company 2010) —Paul's son from a CD he put out last year (or earlier this year depending on what source you use). He seems to be breaking up an album's worth of tracks into two EP's. The station just got the second EP and I will be playing something from that next week.Buy it! |
6:11am | Pete Best Combo “The Way I Feel” from English Freakbeat: Volume Five (A.I.P. 1995) —Pete served as Beatles drummer prior to Ringo's arrival.Buy it! |
6:15am | Mondo Topless “Mystery GIrl” from Freaking Out (Get Hip 2010) —A cover of the Mono Men song. In fact the entire CD consists of great covers.Buy it! |
6:17am | The American Breed “Train On A One Track Mind” from Bend Me, Shape Me: Best of the American Breed (Varese 1994) —Some Bubble Gum Music on Pop! The Beat Bubble Burst from the band that had the big hit with "Bend Me Shape Me"Buy it! |
6:19am | The Essex Green “Lazy May” from The Long Goodbye (Merge Records 2003)Buy it! |
6:25am | The Eels “Pretty Ballarina” from With Strings: Live At Town Hall (Vagrant www.vagrant.com 2006) —Mark Everett A.K.A. E makes this Left Banks classic his own.Buy it! |
6:29am | Marshall Crenshaw “There She Goes Again” from Live ...My Truck Is My Home (Razor & Tie 1994) —Another installment of Same Title...Different Song.Buy it! |
6:33am | The Velvet Underground & Nico “There She Goes Again” from The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve 1967)Buy it! |
6:39am | Dave Edmunds “Standing At The Crossroads” from Plugged In (Pyramid 1994)Buy it! |
6:42am | Bob Dylan & The Band “You Ain't Goin' Nowhere” from The Basement Tapes (Columbia 1975)Buy it! |
6:47am | Liam Finn “Music Moves My Feet” from I'll Be Lightning CD ALBUM (Fargo 2008)Buy it! |
6:49am | Dwight Twilley Band “Sleeping” from Sincerely (RIGHT STUFF 1976) —Thanks Spencer!Buy it! |
6:58am | Teenage Fanclub “Don's Gone Columbia” from Thirteen (DGC 1993) —Another installment of The Music Bed SpotlightBuy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.