Gather ’round, it’s time to join your friends out on the Balcony for our 113th HOLIDAY MUSIC EXTRAVAGANZA!!! Come sit with us at the weird table and check out a couple dozen of the best holiday songs we could dig up amongst all this coal. It’s been a tough year, so let your buddies stuff your stockings with all the music you never knew you always needed. Music: the best gift ever. (The one thing you can’t return!) Goodbye and good riddance, 2021.
Holidays
BalconyRadio – Halloween In Quarantine II 2021
Hey all you groovy ghouls and ghoulettes, it’s time to rock the pumpkin patch with your spooky pals at BalconyRadio.com. Join hands around the table and connect with us to some of the best Halloween music we could dig out of the grave. We got all the tunes that will rattle your chains and have you howling at the moon. Scoot over on the broom, it’s time to go trick or treating. (Safely, from six feet away.)
51st Annual BalconyRadio Holiday Party Spectacular 2020
Ho ho . . . whatever. 2020 is almost over and it felt like one giant lump of coal. Even though we need to socially distance this holiday season, we’ve still got music . . . lots of it. Join the elves at Balcony Radio for our 51st Annual Holiday Radio Pageant, where we stuff your stockings with the best tunes about Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and even Solstice for the old school pagans out there. No matter how you celebrate the season, there’s always music. Let Balcony Radio soundtrack the end of your year.
BalconyRadio Halloween In Quarantine 2020
Hey all you groovy ghouls and ghoulettes, it’s time to rock the pumpkin patch with your spooky pals at BalconyRadio.com. Join hands around the table and connect with us to some of the best Halloween music we could dig out of the grave. We got all the tunes that will rattle your chains and have you howling at the moon. Scoot over on the broom, it’s time to go trick or treating. (Safely, from six feet away.)
Labor Day – Songs About Work
Gather ’round all working people, it’s time to clock out for a well earned three day weekend. Let Balcony Radio soundtrack your days off with our Annual Labor Day Show. In this episode, we spin two dozen of the best rock, pop, country and soul songs about W-O-R-K. Stick it to The Man and play songs that keep workin’ long past 9 to 5.
PLAYLIST:
FINEST WORKSONG: REM (DOCUMENT)
9-5: DOLLY PARTON (9-5 AND ODD JOBS)
DON’T TALK TO ME ABOUT WORK: LOU REED (LEGENDARY HEARTS)
SOLIDARITY FOREVER: PETE SEEGER (IF I HAD A HAMMER)
THERE B POWER IN A UNION: BILLY BRAGG (TALKING WITH THE TAXMAN ABOUT POETRY)
WHISTLE WHILE YOU WORK: LOUIS ARMSTRONG (DISNEY SONGS THE SATCHMO WAY)
WORKING GIRL: CHER (CHER)
CHAIN GANG: SAM COOKE (THE MAN WHO INVENTED SOUL)
FACTORY: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (DARKNESS AT THE EDGE OF TOWN)
GRAVEYARD SHIFT: STEVE EARLE/DEL MCCOURY BAND (THE MOUNTAIN)
16 TONS: STEVIE WONDER (DOWN TO EARTH)
5 O’CLOCK WORLD: THE VOGUES (26 GREATEST HITS)
PAY GAP: MARGO PRICE (ALL AMERICAN MADE)
WELCOME TO THE WORKING WEEK: ELVIS COSTELLO (MY AIM IS TRUE)
ALLENTOWN: BILLY JOEL (THE NYLON CURTAIN)
CLEANING WINDOWS: VAN MORRISON (BEAUTIFUL VISION)
COAL TATTOO: HAZEL DICKENS (A FEW OLD MEMORIES)
SUMMERIME BLUES: T.REX (ROCK N ROLL EP)
MORNING TRAIN: SHEENA EASTON (TAKE MY TIME)
FORTY HOUR WEEK: ALABAMA: (GREATEST HITS)
THIS FUCKING JOB: DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS (THE BIG TO-DO)
IT’S NOT MY PLACE: THE RAMONES (PLEASANT DREAMS)
WORKING MAN: RUSH (RUSH)
BalconyRadio Presents The Best of 2019
Another year has come and gone. 2019 was . . . something? Despite the last 365 days being glaringly blah, we still managed to find some amazing music to share with you. Pull up to the headphones and check out the best Country, R&B, hip hop and sorta rock spewed in 2019. Check it out!
103rd Annual Holiday Music Spectacular
Time to gather ’round the old internet machine for the best holiday music of the season. Join your friends at BalconyRadio.com as we spin the best tunes about Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Solstice we could find. All the stockings are stuffed and all the bases are covered! We got something for anyone who might be.
101 Series Lesson 139 – Thanksgiving For The Family
If there’s one thing to be thankful for, it is music. And food. So, two things to be thankful for. Join us as we celebrate the two with an entire show dedicated to T-Day. Tune out the family and the Lions losing on television, put on the airpods and let Balcony Radio soundtrack every course.
Labor Day – Songs About Work
Gather ’round all working people, it’s time to clock out for a well earned three day weekend. Let Balcony Radio soundtrack your days off with our Annual Labor Day Show. In this episode, we spin two dozen of the best rock, pop, country and soul songs about w-o-r-k. Stick it to The Man and play […]
BalconyRadio Christmas Party 2018
The bells are ringing . . . but you know what, the drums are pounding, the bass is thumping, and the guitar is twanging. That means it is time for your favorite thing: the 103rd Annual Balcony Radio Christmas Music Extravaganza. Join us as we take all the coal in the stocking and squeeze them.
