101 Series

Put your lip gloss back on and gas up the minivan, it’s time to head back out on tour with Taylor and 75,000 of her friends in football stadiums nationwide. Taylor Swift’s Eras tour has dominated music all summer and is taking over Balcony Radio for 101 Series Lesson 162. This week, we play the second half of Taylor’s set list. You’re welcome — we’re saving you from $1,200 behind the stage tickets, a four hour merch line and traffic leaving the parking lot. Even the tailgating has been cancelled! Stay home, turn it up, shake it off.

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SETLIST:
ALL TOO WELL (TAYLOR’S VERSION) (RED)
INVISIBLE STRING (FOLKLORE)
BETTY (FOLKLORE)
THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN DYNASTY (FOLKLORE)
AUGUST (FOLKLORE)
ILLICIT AFFAIRS (FOLKLORE)
MY TEARS RICOCHET (FOLKLORE)
CARDIGAN (FOLKLORE)
STYLE (1989)
BLANK SPACE (1989)
SHAKE IT OFF (1989)
WILDEST DREAMS (TAYLOR’S VERSION) (WILDEST DREAMS)
BAD BLOOD (1989)
LAVENDER HAZE (MIDNIGHTS)
ANTI-HERO (MIDNIGHTS)
MIDNIGHT RAIN (MIDNIGHTS)
VIGILANTE SHIT (MIDNIGHTS)
BEJEWELED (MIDNIGHTS)
MASTERMIND (MIDNIGHTS)
KARMA (MIDNIGHTS)
I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE (TAYLOR’S VERSION) (RED)

There is a barnstorming operation currently crossing American stadiums called the Eras Tour that makes any show by your Stones, Floyds or Bruces look like mere club dates. For part one of Lesson 162 of the 101 Series, we save you a thousand bucks a ticket and bring Taylor Swift and the biggest tour ever to you. We found the Eras Tour setlist online and we’re reproducing the show — except for the 75,000 screaming girls, bracelet trading, and empty men’s restroom. See you next week for part two.

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PLAYLIST:
MISS AMERICANA & THE HEARTBREAK PRINCE (LOVER)
CRUEL SUMMER (LOVER)
THE MAN (LOVER)
YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN (LOVER)
LOVER (LOVER)
THE ARCHER (LOVER)
FEARLESS (TAYLOR’S VERSION) (FEARLESS)
YOU BELONG TO ME (FEARLESS)
LOVER STORY (TAYLOR’S VERSION) (LOVE STORY)
‘TIS THE DAMN SEASON (EVERMORE)
WILLOW (EVERMORE)
MARJORIE (EVERMORE)
CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS (EVERMORE)
TOLERATE IT (EVERMORE)
READY FOR IT? (REPUTATION)
DELICATE (REPUTATION)
DON’T BLAME ME (REPUTATION)
LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO (REPUTATION)
ENCHANTED (SPEAK NOW)
22 (TAYLOR’S VERSION) (RED)
WE ARE NEVER EVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER (TAYLOR’S VERSION) (RED)

We at Balcony Radio know who the ultimate heartbreaker is: Mother Nature. She always comes out on top. In Lesson 160 of the 101 Series, we take a look at songs about natural disasters, bad weather, and situations beyond (y)our control. Dig in, the best course is to ride it out while blasting this show.

PLAYLIST:
HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN: EURYTHMICS (TOUCH)
STORMY WEATHER: THE PIXIES (BOSSANOVA)
THE APOCALYPSE SONG: ST. VINCENT (MARRY ME)
NEW WORLD WATER: MOS DEF (BLACK ON BOTH SIDES)
FAULT LINE: DEEP PURPLE (DEEP PURPLE)
EARTHQUAKE: 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS (EASTER EVERYWHERE)
4 DEGREES: ANOHNI (HOPELESSNESS)
THE BLIZZARD: JIM REEVES (THE ESSENTIAL JIM REEVES)
EARTHQUAKE WEATHER: BECK (GUERO)
THE EARTHQUAKE SONG: THE LITTLE GIRLS (POSH BOY RECORDS PRESENTS AT THE WHISKEY)
HURRICANE: PLAINS (I WALKED WITH YOU AWAYS)
HERE COMES THE FLOOD: PETER GABRIEL (1: CAR)
MONSOON: THE BOMBORAS (SAVAGE ISLAND)
WILD IS THE WIND: JOHNNY MATHIS (GREATEST HITS)
THIS TORNADO LOVES YOU: NEKO CASE (MIDDLE CYCLONE)
RIDERS ON THE STORM: THE DOORS (L.A. WOMAN)
DOWN IN THE FLOOD: BOB DYLAN (GREATEST HITS VOL. 2)
TORNADOS: DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS (THE DIRTY SOUTH)
DANCING ON THE LIP OF A VOLCANO: THE NEW YOR DOLLS (ONE DAY IT WILL PLEASE US EVEN TO REMEMBER THIS)
VOLCANO: JIMMY BUFFETT (SONGS YOU KNOW BY HEART)
WASN’T THAT A MIGHTY STORM: NANCI GRIFFITH (OTHER VOICES TOO-A TRIP BACK TO BOUNTIFUL)

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We at The Balcony can sometimes seperate the artist from the art. Even if that line is very, very blurry! For Lesson 159 of the 101 Series we set aside the personal from the professional once again and take a look at the career of Phil Spector. Join us as we take a tour through the life’s work of a man who faced a life sentence. In this episode we climb the Wall of Sound and try to avoid the ricochet of bullets.

PLAYLIST:
To Know Him Is To Love Him: The Teddy Bears
Twist and Shout: Top Note
Corinna, Corinna: Ray Peterson
I Love How You Love Me: The Paris Sisters
Second Hand Love: Connie Francis
He’s A Rebel: The Crystals
Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home): The Crystals
Then He Kissed Me: The Crystals
Be My Baby: The Ronettes
Baby, I Love You: The Ronettes
You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’: The Righteous Brothers
Just Once In My Life: The Righteous Brothers
River Deep Mountain High: Ike & Tina Turner
Black Pearl: Sonny Charles & The Checkmates
Instant Karma (We All Shne On): John Lennon
My Sweet Lord: George Harrison
True Love Leaves No Traces: Leonard Cohen
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School: Ramones
Silence Is Easy: Starsailor

Pick out your best skinny tie and Aquanet that hair up high, it’s time to cruise into ’82. Join your she-boppers at Balcony Radio at the roller rink while we spin the best music of 1982. Put your Atari joystick down and crank it up for Lesson 158 of the 101 Series. This time out, we spin the best rock, country, r&b and new wave produced during the year. We’ll be listening in chronolgical order so mark it off your calendar with a magenta marker and step into the Time Zone!

Let’s take it back an even 50 years when the only way to escape a little thing called Watergate was Top 40 radio. Pull up some space on the shag carpeting next to your buddies at Balcony Radio for Lesson 157 of the 101 Series. This time out, we’re scanning the dial for the best music of the year 1972. You won’t need a pardon to enjoy this one.

Gas up the Camaro because your friends at Balcony Radio are ready to take you on a musical journey back to ’75. Join us for Lesson 156 of the 101 Series as we look at the best rock, pop, soul, and funk released in 1975. Dig out the bell bottoms and pick that hair up high, it’s time for real music.

From 1967-1972, the music bidnezz realized something: kids like music and they don’t care about art. Thus, was born the genre that launched a thousand lunch boxes: Bubblegum Music. In Lesson 155 of the 101 Series, your friends at Balcony Radio stick a big ol’ wad of sugary tunes in our mouths and spin the best AM pop music from that weird time between hippies and Watergate. Cut the crusts off your pb&j and don’t spill the grape juice while playing this one too loud.

For a brief period of time, a moment after the advent of Post-Punk and before the avalanche popularity of R.E.M., there was a microscopic sub-genre from the West and Southwest that came to be dubbed The Paisley Underground. For Lesson 154 of the 101 Series we dip our 10 gallons hats in tie-dye and experiment with the sounds of mushrooms growing in the cowpies for a brief journey in music history that hardly anyone remembers. The selection is sparce but you get the point. Even cowboys get hallucinations.