Music Suggestions for a radio show

Gazza

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So me and a couple of guys are doing this radio show on a local station, and we need to keep things fresh in terms of what music we play... and the station likes stuff that isn't too mainstream

Here's what we played last week to give an idea on what we like, so if people have any suggestions for good music, that isn't the Beatles or Led Zeppelin or whatever, let's hear them


cheers


The New Rags - To Your Room
Interpol - Say Hello To the Angels
Graham Coxon – Spectacular
Good Bad and the Queen – Herculean
The Fall – I Can Hear the Grass Grow
Jesus and Mary Chain – Reverence
Blur – Chemical World
Chemical Brothers – Believe
Beck – Rental Car
Ian Brown – You Can’t See Me
Jamiroquai – Space Cowboy
The Kinks – Waterloo Sunset
J Mascis – I’m Insane
The Who – Magic Bus
Massive Attack – Karmacoma
Arctic Monkeys – From the Ritz to the Rubble
Pearl Jam – Deep
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – In This Home On Ice
Oasis – Step Out
TV on the Radio – Wolf Like Me
New Order – Perfect Kiss
Manic Street Preachers – Scream to a Sigh
The Smiths – How Soon is Now
Paul Weller – Whirlpools End
LCD Soundsystem – Tribulations
Earl van Dyke – The Flick
The Cult – She Sells Sanctuary
Bloc Party – So Here We Are
Ride – Seagull
Kasabian – U-Boat
LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
Primal Scream – Accelerator
 
Off the top of my head

Misfits - TV Casualty, Static Age
ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
Yes - I've Seen All Good People
Rush - Closer To The Heart
Opeth - Harvest
Black Sabbath - After Forever
 
Half Man Half Biscuit-Restless Legs
The Shins-Australia
Joy Division-No Love Lost, Komakino
The Pidgeon Detectives-Romantic Type, I Found Out
British Sea Power-Remember Me

There's a few suggestions.
 
Wonder Pigeon said:
Half Man Half Biscuit-Restless Legs
The Shins-Australia
Joy Division-No Love Lost, Komakino
The Pidgeon Detectives-Romantic Type, I Found Out
British Sea Power-Remember Me

There's a few suggestions.
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Thanks for the suggestions

Maybe I'll play the new LCD Soundsystem cover of No Love Lost
 
Wibble said:
All of the tracks that I have posted in the 80's music thread.
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For sure :cool:

I tried to play some Magazine last week but they didn't have it on CD - I played some of Real Life on vinyl the week before though, so this week maybe I'll hunt down the CD
 
Gazza said:
For sure :cool:

I tried to play some Magazine last week but they didn't have it on CD - I played some of Real Life on vinyl the week before though, so this week maybe I'll hunt down the CD
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Real Life :)

So many good tracks but the driving riff of Shot By Both Sides still sends shivers down my spine.
 
I'm listening to a classic rock station in Texas atm. Posting the songs below as they play.

Hard to Handle - Black Crowes
Reeling in the Years - Steely Dan
China grove - Doobie Brothers
hands all over - Soundgarden
Pink Houses - John Mellencamp
Oh sweet nuthin' - velvet Underground
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Breakup Song - Greg Kihn band
Good Lovin gone Bad - Bad Company
Lay it on the line - Triumph
I just want to celebrate - Rare Earth
Fat bottomed Girls - Queen
Surrender - Cheap Trick
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
Serenade - Steve Miller Band
Cold As Ice - Foreigner
Won't Get Fooled Again - Who
Here Comes my girl - Tom Petty
The Boys are back in town - Thin Lizzy
waiting for the Bus - ZZ Top
 
mehro said:
I'm listening to a classic rock station in Texas atm. Posting the songs below as they play.

Hard to Handle - Black Crowes
Reeling in the Years - Steely Dan
China grove - Doobie Brothers
hands all over - Soundgarden
Pink Houses - John Mellencamp
Oh sweet nuthin' - velvet Underground
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Breakup Song - Greg Kihn band
Good Lovin gone Bad - Bad Company
Lay it on the line - Triumph
I just want to celebrate - Rare Earth
Fat bottomed Girls - Queen
Surrender - Cheap Trick
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
Serenade - Steve Miller Band
Cold As Ice - Foreigner
Won't Get Fooled Again - Who
Here Comes my girl - Tom Petty
The Boys are back in town - Thin Lizzy
waiting for the Bus - ZZ Top
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Cheers mehro, good work
 
Wibble said:
Real Life :)

So many good tracks but the driving riff of Shot By Both Sides still sends shivers down my spine.
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I played Definitive Gaze on my first show, but only because I was scared of using the vinyl on live radio and it was the first track so it was easy :D
 
Tried to think of some good tracks that would be decent for a radio show. Some suggestions in the genres you seem to play:

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Weapon of Choice
Beck - Lost Cause
Blur - Out of Time
The Black Keys - 10am Automatic
Bjork - Play Dead
Biffy Clyro - Saturday Superhouse
Elbow - Newborn
Doves - Black and White Town
Guillemots - Made-Up Lovesong #43
John Martyn - Over the Hill
Jeff Buckley - Mojo Pin
Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure
Manic Street Preachers - Faster
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Ocean Colour Scene - The Day We Caught the Train
Pink Floyd - Money
Queens of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer
Ryan Adams - Love is Hell
Stephen Fretwell - New York
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World
Supergrass - St Petersberg
Jimi Hendrix - Castles Made of Sand
The Hives - Hate to Say I Told You So
The Clash - London Calling
The Black Crowes - Twice as Hard
Thom Yorke - Black Swan
The Strokes - You Only Live Once
 
Why don't you start asking for local bands to send in cd's of themselves (most bands seem to make EP's now). Then if any of them are decent you could play them.... be some kind of John Peel characters or something.
 
On that point, we're all from different areas. You could get people to send you mp3's of the different bands that they think are shit hot from their own area or something. I should get my own radio show... I'd help out the little people........haha
 
Gazza said:
Got any more suggestions reelworld? I know we like some of the same music...
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Well, I haven't listened to much music these days, best that I can recommend that may suited your program probably Sondre Lerche's Phantom Punch, and probably Death Cab for Cutie albums, like Transatlanticism, Forbidden Love. Plans is their latest album, and considerably more 'poppish' than the rest, but good stuff also.
 
carpy said:
Why don't you start asking for local bands to send in cd's of themselves (most bands seem to make EP's now). Then if any of them are decent you could play them.... be some kind of John Peel characters or something.
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Yeah that's what I hope. I've got to fill about 6hrs a week of stuff though...

I am gonna play a nice new English band, give them some US exposure

Thanks for all the suggestions guys
 
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