79 Turn It Up!
A new theme, the rationale for this one was tracks that have a great musical hook (something that draws you into the music straight away), are memorable (so you want to hear them again) and make you want to turn it up, to hear it better. Despite my making a mistake about the broadcast time, because the UK had ended DST in the early hours of Sunday but the US would not do so until the next week, we had a great audience, and more people on the plaza than we’ve seen for some time.
The preshow was from my stash again, and ended with Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters singing Turn It Up, which seemed only right. Postshow was taken from some of the tracks that didn’t make it to the show, as usual, but we still have plenty left. Let us know here if you liked it enough for us to do another similar show.
We also introduced an new feature (or possibly bug), Awful Warnings. As the last track in the postshow, I put in a track from my folder of songs that you probably don’t want to hear twice. At some time in the past someone will have requested these, at a disco or party. The folder has novelty songs, over-the-top stuff and other strange items. I think it’s wise to let them have an airing occasionally, in case they get bored and start trouble 😀
Preshow
| Title | Artists | Album | Year |
| May You Never | John Martyn | Solid Air | 1973 |
| That’s The Way It Is | Jimmy Guiffre 3 | Hollywood & Newport 1957-1958 | 1992 |
| Walking On Air | John Wetton | The Studio Anthology Disk 2 | 2015 |
| The Train And The River | Jimmy Guiffre 3 | Hollywood & Newport 1957-1958 | 1992 |
| Another Twist Of The Knife | John Wetton | The Studio Anthology Disk 1 | 2015 |
| In France They Kiss On Main Street | Joni Mitchell | Shadows And Light | 1979 |
| Turn It Up | Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters | Live, Later | 2015 |
The Show
| Cocaine | J.J. Cale | Troubadour | 1976 |
| Boom Boom | John Lee Hooker | single | 1962 |
| Rise to It | KISS | Hot in the Shade | 1989 |
| Hot Blooded | Foreigner | Double Vision | 1978 |
| Smoke On The Water | Deep Purple | Machine Head | 1972 |
| Fire in the Night | Dion | Fire in the Night | 1979 |
| The Core | Eric Clapton | Slowhand | 1977 |
| You Really Got Me | The Kinks | Kinks | 1964 |
| For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) | AC/DC | For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) | 1981 |
| Johnny B. Goode | Chuck Berry | single | 1958 |
| Sharp Dressed Man | ZZ Top | Eliminator | 1983 |
| Billie Jean | Michael Jackson | Thriller | 1982 |
| I’m Not In Love | 10cc | The Original Soundtrack | 1975 |
| Honey Don’t | Carl Perkins | single | 1956 |
| All Right Now | Free | Fire And Water | 1970 |
| Oh Well | Fleetwood Mac | Then Play On | 1969 |
| Take The Money And Run | Steve Miller Band | Fly Like An Eagle | 1976 |
| Always On The Run | Lenny Kravitz | Mama Said | 1991 |
| Big Time | Peter Gabriel | So | 1987 |
| Ghostbusters | Ray Parker Jr. | single | 1984 |
| Night Train | Steve Winwood | Arc Of A Diver | 1980 |
| Superstition | Stevie Wonder | Talking Book | 1972 |
| Riders On The Storm | The Doors | L.A. Woman | 1971 |
| Thirteen Days | J.J. Cale | 5 | 1979 |
Postshow
| I Want A New Drug | Huey Lewis & The News | Sports | 1983 |
| Don’t Stop | Fleetwood Mac | Rumours | 1977 |
| Hotel California | Eagles | Hotel California | 1976 |
| Don’t Believe A Word | Thin Lizzy | Johnny The Fox | 1976 |
| Fame | David Bowie | Young Americans | 1975 |
| Takin’ It to the Streets | Doobie Brothers | Takin’ It to the Streets | 1976 |
| Roxanne | The Police | Outlandos d’Amour | 1978 |
| Get Dancin’ | Disco Tex and His Sex-O-Lettes | single | 1974 |