You don’t always have to write your own songs. Really. Just be careful with what you do to someone else’s tune. (Or we will have to kick your ass.) This is the premiere episode of our tribute to the cover version, Gimme Back My Song. We scour the music library for special cover versions that sometimes sound better than the original. Hey, who wrote that?? We know you listened. Now buy some music.
PLAYLIST:
LAURA NYRO: I MET HIM ON A SUNDAY (GONNA TAKE A MIRACLE)
MARK LANAGAN & ISOBEL CAMPBELL: RAMBLIN’ MAN (BALLAD OF THE BROKEN SEAS)
BEAU BRUMMELS: MONDAY, MONDAY (BEAU BRUMMELS ’66)
EMMYLOU HARRIS: SWEET OLD WORLD (WRECKING BALL)
THE HOLLIES: THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN’ (HARD RAIN, VOL. 1)
IKE & TINA TURNER: LET IT BEE (WORKIN’ TOGETHER)
JACKSON 5: YOU REALLY GOT A HOLD ON ME (MOTOWN SINGS MOTOWN TREASURES)
AL GREEN: LIGHT MY FIRE (GETS NEXT TO YOU)
KATHRYN WILLIAMS: ALL APOLOGIES (RELATIONS)
LIZZIE WEST: I’M YOUR MAN (LIZZIE WEST EP)
THE BYRDS: IT’S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE (BALLAD OF EASY RIDER)
LUCINDA WILLIAMS: WHICH WILL (SWEET OLD WORLD)
MARK KOZELEK: UP TO MY NECK IN YOU (WHAT’S NEXT TO THE MOON)
ARETHA FRANKLIN: THE WEIGHT (SOUL QUEEN)
GOLDEN SMOG: GLAD AND SORRY (DOWN BY THE OLD MAINSTREAM)
MADELEINE PEYROUX: DONE ME TO THE END OF LOVE (CARELESS LOVE)
MARVIN GAYE: MY GIRL (MOTOWN SINGS MOTOWN TREASURES)
NINA SIMONE: HERE COME THE SUN (JUST LIKE A WOMAN)
OTIS REDDING: SATISFACTION (OTIS BLUE)
GORDON LIGHHTFOOT: ME & BOBBY MCGEE (IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND)
ROBYN HITCHCOCK: MORE THN THIS (GREATEST HITS)
DAVID BOWIE: GROWIN’ UP (DIAMOND DOGS)
RY COODER: STAND BY ME (CHICKEN SKIN NUSIC)
THE TURTLES: LIKE A ROLLING STONE (IT AIN’T ME, BABE)
MATT COSTA : DARLING, BE HOME SOON (SONGS WE SING)
TODD RUNDGREN: STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER (FAITHFUL)
101 Series Lesson 1: Steve Earle (Debut)
Good morning, class, and welcome to your new musical tutorial of history as we see it. This is the debut lesson in the 101 Series. A program that will examine the persons, places and things in music. All the nouns! From laughs to tears to a few surprises not like any other retrospective program. We devote the entire episode to any topic we decide to marginalize. Country Music legend Mr. Steve Earle is Lesson 1 in the 101 Series. Take notes for future reference and please get rid of that gum!
PLAYLIST:
ANGEL IS THE DEVIL (TRAIN A-COMIN’)
YOURS FOREVER BLUE (THE MOUNTAIN)
GUITAR TOWN (LIVE)
MYSTERY TRAIN PT. 1 (TRAIN A-COMIN’)
MORE THAN I CAN DO (I FEEL ALRIGHT)
THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN (EL CORAZON)
SWEET LITTLE ’66 (FEARLESS HEART)
I STILL CARRY YOU AROUND (EL CORAZON)
THE DEVIL’S RIGHT HAND (LIVE AT MONTREAUX 2005)
THINK IT OVER (LIVE)
NOTHIN’ WITHOUT YOU (TRAIN A-COMIN’)
I FEEL ALRIGHT (I FEEL ALRIGHT)
SAN ANTONIO GIRL (LIVE AT THE BBC)
DON’T WANT TO LOSE YOU (TRANSCENDENTAL BLUES)
TEXAS EAGLE (THE MOUNTAIN)
GOODBYE’S ALL WE GOT (LIVE)
HILLBILLY HIGHWAY (LIVE AT THE BBC)
TELEPHONE ROAD (EL CORAZON )
COMIN’ ROUND (THE REVOLUTUION STARTS HERE)
OPEN YOUR WINDOW (SIDETRACKS)
I’M STILL IN LOVE WITH YOU (THE MOUNTAIN)
I LOVE YOU TOO MUCH (LIVE AT THE BBC)
EVEN WHEN I’M BLUE (COPPERHEAD ROAD)
THE WEEK OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY (EXIT-0)
THE MOUNTAIN (LIVE AT MONTREAUX 2005)
YOU BELONG TO ME (COPPERHEAD ROAD)
EVERYONE’S IN LOVE WITH YOU (TRANSCENDENTAL BLUES)
X-Chromosome Ep. 1 (Debut)
We at the Balcony realize that the guitar is not an extension of the penis. As total feminists, we recognize that chicks rock, too. This is the debut episode dedicated to the smart ones in the room, the Ladies. Featuring multiple styles and genres. Seriously, don’t be a sexist. Buy some girl music.
Photo by Gijsbert Hanekroot
PLAYLIST:
MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS: A TEAR FOR THE GIRL (MOTOWN SINGLES 1964)
SAM PHILLIPS: POWER WORLD (OMNIPOP)
AIMEE MANN: IT’S NOT (LOST IN SPACE)
JUDEE SILL: THE KISS (LIVE IN LONDON)
BE GOOD TANYAS: SHIP OUT TO SEA (CHINATOWN)
DAWN LANDES: SCARS (DAWN’S MUSIC)
GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS: EVERY BEAT OF MY HEART (DOO WOP HITS OF THE 50S & 60S)
KATE WOLF: LOOKING BACK AT YOU (SAFE AT ANCHOR)
MILLIE JACKSON: STRANGE THINGS (MILLIE JACKSON)
XX: ISLANDS (XX)
LEWIS SISTERS: YOU NEED ME (MOTOWN: 60S)
WHITE STRIPES: COLD, COLD NIGHT (ELEPHANT)
MIA: PAPER PLANES (KALA)
ELLA FITSGERALD: IT’S ONLY A PAPER MOON (COMPLETE ELLA FITZGERALD SONGBOOK)
LAURA NYRO: YOU’VE REALLY GOT A HOLD OF ME (GONNA TAKE A MIRACLE)
ALLISON MOORER: HEY JEZEBEL (MISS FORTUNE)
SHELBY LYNNE: WILLIE & LAURAMAE JONE (JUST A LITTLE LOVIN’)
CAROL KING: I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE (THE CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT)
MAZZY STAR: TELL ME HOW (BATMAN FOREVER SOUNDTRACK)
STEVIE NICKS: LANDSLIDE (CRYSTAL VISION: BEST OF STEVIE NICKS)
TANYA TICKER: LOVE’S THE ANSWER (GREATEST HITS)
JANIS IAN: TEA & SYMPATHY (BETWEEN THE LINES)
PATTI SMITH GROUP: FIRE OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN (WAVE)
UTE LEMPER: PUNISHING KISS (PUNISHING KISS)
BLONDIE: SUNDAY GIRL (PARALLEL LINES)
PORTISHEAD: HALF DAY CLOSING (ROSELAND NYC LIVE 1989)
Time For Bob Episode 1
The Man. The Myth. The Nose. Â Mr. Zimmerman. Please step aside . . .
Bob! Bob! Bob! Bob! Bob!
PLAYLIST:
Guess I’m Doing Fine (Demo)
One Too Many Mornings (The Times They Are A-Changin’)
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down (Bob Dylan)
Motorpsycho Nitemare (Another Side Of Bob Dylan)
I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Met) (Another Side Of Bob Dylan)
To Ramona (The Free-Wheelin’ Bob Dylan)
I Wanna Be Your Lover (Biobraph)
Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3)
Queen Jane Approximately (Highway 61 Sessions)
Jet Pilot (Biograph)
That’s Alright, Mama (w-Johnny Cash)
Peggy Day (Nashville Skyline)
Living The Blues (Self-Portrait)
Waltzing With Sin (The Basement Tapes Sessions)
Four Strong Wings (The Basement Tapes Sessions)
Odds & Ends (The Basement Tapes Sessions)
This Wheel’s On Fire (The Basement Tapes Sessions)
Is You Love In Vain? (Street Legal)
Blue Highway Episode 1
Our first venture down the dusty roads of Americana, alt-folk and classic country, tumbleweeds and all.
Get some twangy music in your life. It is good for you. (Believe us.). Check out the playlist below and go buy some tunes. You know you want it!
PLAYLIST:
Del McCoury Band: My Love Will Not Change (It’s Just The Night)
Kasey Chambers: Last Hard Bible (The Captain)
White Mansions: No One Would Believe (Confederate Tales)
Hank Williams, Jr: Family Tradition (Best of…)
Handsome Family: So Much Wine (Live at Schubas’s)
Glen Campbell: Wichita Lineman (All The Best)
Shelby Lynn: Sleep (Suit Yourself)
Allison Moorer: A Soft Place To Fall (The Definitive Collection)
Kitty Wells: I Gave My Wedding Dress Away (Country Music HOF)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys: Take Me Back To Tulsa (Best of…)
Marty Robbins: Big Iron (More Greatest Hits)
Cullen Galyean & Bobby Harrison: Let Me Fall (Let Me Fall)
Bobby Bare: Quaaludes Again (Bobby Bare Sings Lullabys, Legends & Lies)
Dolly Parton: She Never Met A Man (She Didn’t Like) (Coat Of Many Colors)
Loretta Lynn: Portland, OR (Van Lear Rose)
Hank Williams: 6 More Miles (Complete Hank Williams)
Gene Clark: I Know I’d Wamt You (Echoes)
Neko Case: Wayfaring Stranger (The Tigers Have Spoken)
Lonesome Sisters: Elkhorn Ridge (Lonesome Sisters)
Johnny Cash: Mean Eyes Cat (The Sun Years)
Steve Earle: Telephone Road (El Corazon)
George Jones: The Window Above (Definitive Collection)
Levon Helm False Hearted Lover Blues (Dirt Farmer)
John Doe & The Sadies: Before I Wake (Country Club)
Uncle Tupelo: Give Back The Keys To My Heart (Anodyne)
Jerry Jeff Walker: Up Against The Wall, Redneck (Viva Terlingua)
Jimmie Rogers: T.B. Blues (Essential…)
The Flatlanders: Deep Eddy Blues (Wheel Of Fortune)
Townes Van Zant: If I Needed You (High, Low & In Between)
George Strait: Take Me Back To Tulsa (Saugus, MA 8/23/1983)
Gram Parson: Your Angel Step Out Of Heaven (GLH)
Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys: Heavy Traffin Ahead (Columbia Historic Recordings)
Jimmie Dale Gilmore: tonight I think I Gonna Go Downtown (After Awhile)
Hank Williams III: 7 Months, 39 Days (Lovesick, Broke & Drifting)
The FreeSpace Episode 1
The first of our adventures in to freeform radio. In this episode, we play whatever the hell we want. What other show will play the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and the Sex Pistols within half an hour?
Be a cool person. Buy some music.
PLAYLIST:
Funkadelic: Back In Our Minds (Maggot Brain)
Aretha Franklin: Spanish Harlem (Spanish Harlem)
Lucinda Williams: Six Blocks Away (Sweet Old World)
Frank Zappa: WPLJ (Burnt Weenie Sandwich)
BeBop Deluxe: Ships In The Night (Live! In The Air Age)
Pink Floyd: Chapter 24 (The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn)
Grateful Dead: Scarlet Begonias (Live From The Mars Hotel)
Seachain: Flute Thing (What It Is! Funky Soul & Rare Grooves)
Moody Blues: Dear Diary (On The Threshold Of A Dream)
Marshall Tucker Band: Where a Country Boy Belongs (Where We All Belong)
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: You Are My Flower (Will The Circle Be Unbroken)
Cream: Tales Of Brave Ulyses (Those Were The Days)
Al Stewart: Flying Sorcery (Year Of The Cat)
Angel City: Comin’ Down (Face To Face)
Marvin Gaye:P I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Live)
The Yardbirds: You Can’t Judge A Book By Looking At The Cover (Five Live Yardbirds)
White Noise: Here Come The Fleas (An Electric Storm)
Wanda Jackson: Honey Bee (Rockin’ With Wanda)
Black Keys: Thickfreakness (Your Touch ep) “live” in Darwin, Aus.
Porcupine Tree: Signify (Signify)
Dukes of Stratosphere: What In The World?? (Chips From The Chocolate Fireball)
The Beatles: Watching Rainbows (Get Back Session)
David Crosby: Music Is Love (If I Could Only Remember My Name)
REM: Exhuming McCarthy (Document)
Wilson Picket: Hey Jude (The Very Best of…)
Sex Pistols: Problems (Winterland, San Francisco 1/14/1978)
Velvet Underground: Run Run Run (Velvet Undergound & Nico)
Eric Burden & The Animals: Don’t Bring Me Down (The Best of…)
Alton Ellis: My Time Is The Right Time (Be True To Yourself)
Todd Rundgren: Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way (& I’ll Go Mine) (Faithful)
This Pill Makes You Small Episode 1
Here is our first step into the ether. In this episode we play 90 minutes of psychedelia. We recommend you lie down on something soft while listening to this program. (Also, remember to stay hydrated.)
You love music. You love supporting people who sell music. Here is a list of the music we played. Go buy them!
PLAYLIST:
Bluebird: Modessa
The Exceptions: Woman of the Green Lantern
Kevin Ayer: Shouting in a Bucket Blues
ESB: Mushroom People
The Cape Kennedy Construction Co.: The First Step On The Moon
July: The Way
The Lemmon Tree: William Chalker’s Time Machine
The Kytes: Blessed
Shadows of Time: Search Your Soul
Paul Jones: The Dog Presides
Rupert’s People: Hold On
Lee Mallory: That’s The Way It’s Gonna Be
Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera: Solisbury Plain
The Sands: Listen To The Sky
Tom Northcutt: Who Planted Thorns In Miss Alice’s Garden?
T.I.M.E.: Tripping Into Sunshine
Pan & Reliz: Waiting In The Mater’s Garden
Pure Gold: Fairground
The Dorians: Good Love
The Balloon Farm: A Question of Temperature
Tages: Fuzzy Patterns
The Mountains: Difference of Opinion
High Tea With The Beatles Episode 1 – “Live” Rarities
The first episode in our series dedicated to the greatest band in the history of sound. In this episode, we stick to just the live stuff. There is a large amount of high-pitched screaming, some by us.
PLAYLIST:
She Loves You (NME 1964)
Things We Said Today (Convention Hall, Philadelphia 9/2/1964)
This Boy (Festival Hall, Melbourne, AUS, 6/17/1964)
Ticket To Ride (NME 1965)
Twist And Shout (NME 1965)
Yesterday (Blackpool, Eng, 1965)
You Can’t Do That (AUS, 1964)
Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby (Palais Du Sport, Paris, 6/6/1965)
From Me To You (Miami 1964)
Help! (Eng, 1965)
I’m A Loser (Paris. 1965)
I’m Down (Japan 1965)
I Feel Fine (Eng, 1965)
I Saw Her Standing There (AUS, 1964)
I Wanna Be Your Man (Japan, 1966)
If I Fell (Eng, 1965)
Long Tall Sally (NME 1965)
Nowhere Man (Japan 1966)
Rock N Roll Music (Paris, 1965)
Have The Rolling Stones Killed Episode 1
The first episode in our series dedicated to the second greatest band in the history of sound. In this episode, we feature songs up to 1981. We try to avoid their pastel shirt phase. Buy some Rolling Stones albums (they’re fucking great). 
PLAYLIST:
Out of Time (Aftermath)
Pain In My Heart(The Rolling Stones NOW!)
Till The Next GoodBye (It’s Only Rock n Roll)
Off the Hook (The Rolling Stones NOW!)
Live With Me (Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Ouyt)
Under My Thumb (got LIVE, if you want it)
Tumblin Dice (‘live”,Aux Abbatois-Paris 1976)
Respectable (‘live’ 1978)
One More Try (Out Of Our Heads)
Angie (‘live’ in Brussels 1973)
Gotta Get Away ((Out Of Our Heads)
Lady Jane (‘live” Honolulu, HI 7-28-1966)
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (The Rolling Stones NOW!)
Prodigal Son (Beggar’s Banquet)
Spider & The Fly (Out Of Our Heads)
She’s A Rainbow (Their Satanic Majesty’s Request)
Happy (‘live”, Aux Abbatois-Paris 1976)
Dusty Gems Episode 1 (Our episode 2!)
The first in our series of shows dedicated to lesser-known singer-songwriters. In this epsiode we play Emmitt Rhodes, Kate Wolf, Judee Sill, Phil Ochs and other people you’ve never heard of.
Like it? Buy it. Now.
PLAYLIST
Donovan: Hi, It’s Been A Long Time
Gordon Lightfoot: The House You Live In
Chris Bell: You And Your Sister
Phil Ochs: William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park & Escapes Unscathed
John Martyn: Back Down The River
Mason Jennings: Darkness Between Fireflies
Robyn Hitchcock: Elizabeth Jade
Vashti Bunyan: Love Song
Jonathan Edwards: Everybody Knows Her
David Syvian: The Devil’s Own
Karen Dalton: Skillet Good and Greasy
Kelly Willis: Not Forgotten You
Time Buckley: Sing A Song For You
Janis Ian: Light A Light
Rickie Lee Jones: After Hours (12 Bars Past Midnight)
Dave Edmonds: What Looks Best On You
Gene Clark: True One
Judee Sill: Lopin’ Around The Cosmos
Emitt Rhodes: Better Side Of Life
Richard Thompson: Put Your Trust In Me
Kate Wolf: Early Morning Melody
Jim Carroll Band: Three Sisters
Cass McCombs: My Master
Leon Russell: A Song For You
Harry Nilsson: Caroline
Kate & Anne McGarrigle: Blues In D
Terry Reid: Things To Try
Robert Earl Keen: Gringo Honeymoon
