I’m now officially finished chronicling the 2010s. Four mixes, 118 songs, 109 different artists. (And I still had a couple dozen songs that didn’t make the cut.) If I were…
Dizzy Heights
Where I put on bold display how completely out of step I am with everything around me, Part 1 (of 3)
I love the smell of twentysomething drama in the morning.
Basically, I made my own episode of the ’90s Time Machine.
For the record no, it is not lost on me that my show about UK music opens with artists from Ireland and Germany.
In which I play a bunch of Brit Pop, and then alienate nearly every fan of Brit Pop.
In which we say farewell to summer – and title-themed shows, for now – with a title-themed show about summer.
New World Man takes his New Girl Now, dolled up in a New Dress, for a ride in a Brand New Cadillac.
Basically, it’s First Wave, Lithium, and Alt Nation in a blender, at a ratio of about 4:2:1.
“Great song, Bob, but it suggests that you might be gay. Better change the words.” Jesus.
Tears for Fears fans know where the next show is going.
I’ve been sitting on this idea for about a year. It felt too obvious, but then I ran into a really busy stretch, and then suddenly obvious sounded AWESOME. So…
If the first show was a Hormone Monster, this one’s the Depression Kitty.
The idea came, as a lot of my ideas do, from a Duran Duran song. Do I have enough songs to do a full show about dreams? As I quickly…
I thought there would be tons of songs about princesses. I had maybe four.
Tell me you love me. Change. Go. Disturb this groove. Or, you know, do the opposite of all those things. Your call. It’s cool.
Proof that there is always something good that can come from even the worst of things.
There is an alternate universe version of this show with Spinal Tap and Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots. Be thankful that we don’t live in that world.
Man, why are all of these songs with “blue” in the title so melancholy? Oh, right.
Followed a song by Bowie with a song about Bowie. I am not deep.
In which I execute a pivot so sharp that only John Cleese can effectively prepare the audience for what’s about to happen. And so he does. And a new Dizzy Heights tradition is born.