Y-Rock was the main alternative station in Philadelphia. Then it changed formats and the refugees went over to the internet and WXPN (which took over the XPN airwaves for a few hours per week. Then HD radio happened and Y-Rock became the HD-2 station for WXPN. Now that the commercial radio pressure's off it was free to develop into one of the coolest stations in the country.
1. 1901 -- Phoenix
2. Uprising -- Muse
3. Pamic Switch -- Silversun Pickups
4. My Girls -- Animal Collective
5. Daylight -- Matt & Kim
6. Two Weeks -- Grizzly Bear
7. Use Somebody -- Kings of Leon
8. Zeros -- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
9. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To)-- Weezer
10. The Reeling -- Passion Pit
11. Mykonos -- Fleet Foxes
12. No You Girls -- Franz Ferdinand
13. The Fixer -- Pearl Jam
14. Meet Me On the Equinox -- Death Cab for Cutie
15. Help I'm Alive -- Metric
16. Lisztomania -- Phoenix
17. Slow Burning Crimes -- East Hundred
18. Silence Is the Move -- Dirty Projectors
19. The Rake's Song -- The Decembrists
20. Heads Will Roll The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
21. The Fear -- Lily Allen
22. Summertime Clothes -- Animal Collective
23. These Are My Twisted Words -- Radiohead
24. French Navy -- Camera Obscura
25. Little Secrets -- Passion Pit
26. Notion -- Kings of Leon
27. Spaceman -- The Killers
28. Life in Technicolor II -- Coldplay
29. Crying Lightning -- Arctic Monkeys
30. Nothing to Worry About -- Peter Bjorn & John
31. Say Please -- Monsters Of Folk
32. Grapevine Fires -- Death Cab for Cutie
33. Just Breahe -- Pearl Jam
34. 40 Day Dream -- Edward Sharp & the Magnetic Zeros
35. Chystallized -- xxx
36. Daniel -- Bat for Lashes
37. 21 Guns -- Green Day
38. Laughing With -- Rewgina Spektor
39. I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked -- Ida Maria
40. Wheels -- Foo Fighters
41. Hell -- Tegan & Sara
42. The Great Defector -- Bell X1
43. You Never Know -- Wilco
44. Gimme Sympathy -- Metric
45. Treat Me Like Your Mother -- The Dead Weather
46. While You Wait for the Others -- Grizzly Bear
47. Substitution -- Silversun Pickups
48. Never Had Nobody Like You -- M. Ward
49. Percussion Gun -- White Rabbits
50. Airstream Driver -- Gomez
51. Hurt Feelings -- Flight of the Conchords
52. Ulysses -- Franz Ferdinand
53. Dog Days Are Over -- Florence and the Machine
54. Can You Tell -- Ra Ra Riot
55. Cousins -- Vampire Weekend
56. Hang On -- Illinois
57. Satellite Skin -- Modest Mouse
58. Wilco (The Song) -- Wilco
59. Wrong -- Depeche Mode
60. Fresh Blood -- eels
61. Animal -- Miike Snow
62. Oh My God -- Ida Maria
63. New Fang -- Them Crooked Vultures
64. Great Expectations -- The Gaslight Anthem
65. At the Bottom -- Brand New
66. Cornerstone -- Arctic Monkeys
67. DC Comics and Chocolate Milkshake--Art Brut
68. Not Fair -- Lily Allen
69. Sweet Disposition -- The Temper Trap
70. Kingdom of Rust -- Doves
71. Sacred Trickster -- Sonic Youth
72. I Want to Know -- Dinosaur Jr.
73. Hearing Damage -- Thom Yorke
74. Magnificent -- U2
75. I Know What I Am -- Bamd of Skulls
76. Ambling Alf -- Yeasayer
77. Black Hearted Love -- P.J. Harvey & John Parish
78. Audience -- Cold War Kids
79. Wicked Blood -- Sea Wolf
80. 11th Dimension -- Julian Casablancas
81. Plus Minus -- East Hundred
82. 0...Saya -- M.I.A.
83. I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris -- Morrisey
84. From the Hips -- Cursive
85. Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) -- Florence & the Machine
86. Silver Trembling Hands -- Flaming Lips
87. Young Adult Friction -- The Pains of Being Pure At Heart
88. Nothing to Hide -- Yo Lo Tengo
89. Little Bribes -- Death Cab for Cutie
90. People Say -- Portugal the Man
91. Know Your Enemy -- Green Day
92. Even Think -- Drink Up Buttercup
93. Never Forget You -- The Noisettes
94. Actor Out of Work -- St. Vincent
95. Dominos -- The Big Pink
96. Got Nuffin -- Spoon
97. Now We Can See -- The Thermals
98. Lessons Learned -- Matt & Kim
99. Last Dance -- The Raveonettes
100. Papillion -- The Editors
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
The Essential 11 for May 2010
The list that separates the CD 101s from the Q 101s.
1. Rise Up -- Cypress Hill
A little dose of Tom Morella was just what the doctor ordered to jump start these gansta potheads' careers.
2. I Was A Teenage Anarchist -- Against Me!
These Florida punkers certainly can write a good lyric. And they know how to mess with the punk formula, loud fast & messy just enough.
3. Stella the Artist -- David Gray
I'm coming a little late to this one. Never was impressed with "Babylon" -- sounded like warmed over Al Stewart to me. But this is the second straight song I've heard off this album that has impressed me.
4. Die by the Drop -- the Dead Weather
Of all of Jack White's bands this is the one that takes a little effort to get into. Allsion Mosshart is so over the top gothic dramatic that she makes Siouxsie Sioux sound like Norah Jones. But hey, this is a Jack White band, and this is probably the loudest song you'll be hearing on AAA radio this summer.
5. Hurricante J -- the Hold Steady
They seem to be slowly getting over their Springsteen fetish, which will only make this band stonger
6. Tighten Up -- The Black Keys
Their totally cool video stars Frank the singing Funkasaurus. The song could have easily been a 70's top 40 hit, only it's done by two guys.
7. Forced to Love -- Broken Social Scene
The Toronto based indie rock collective (which has in the past included Feist and Emily Hainse of Metric) has put out their strongest single yet. Tense and coiled but with a catchy chorus. This could actually make them catch on in the USA. Lord knows they deserve it.
8. Giving Up the Gun -- Vampire Weekend
As per usual for me with this band it took 3-4 listens for this song to kick in, but kick in it did. The African influences are more subtle than usual, but they make it propulsive and
9. O.N.E. -- Yeasayer
As someone who sat through countless hours of Howard Jones and Duran Duran waiting for WLIR to play the Ramones or thw Smithereens I'm not inclined to hail the return of synth rock as the wave of the future, but I'll admit that it's a welcome break from the endless minor key dirges of post-grunge that still dominate many so-called alternative stations. It helps when you use real percussion rather than syndrums, the bane of the
80's.
10. This F----- Job -- Drive By Truckers
Too southern sounding for alt rock stations, too classic sounding for active rock, too loud and unkempt for AAA, this band's critical acclaim is in inverse ratio to its airplay. This is the thinking person's Skynard and you ignore them at your peril.
11. The Open Road -- John Hiatt
Rocking hard for the first time in years and with gift for writing short stories with a beat, he deserves more airplay than he's getting.
1. Rise Up -- Cypress Hill
A little dose of Tom Morella was just what the doctor ordered to jump start these gansta potheads' careers.
2. I Was A Teenage Anarchist -- Against Me!
These Florida punkers certainly can write a good lyric. And they know how to mess with the punk formula, loud fast & messy just enough.
3. Stella the Artist -- David Gray
I'm coming a little late to this one. Never was impressed with "Babylon" -- sounded like warmed over Al Stewart to me. But this is the second straight song I've heard off this album that has impressed me.
4. Die by the Drop -- the Dead Weather
Of all of Jack White's bands this is the one that takes a little effort to get into. Allsion Mosshart is so over the top gothic dramatic that she makes Siouxsie Sioux sound like Norah Jones. But hey, this is a Jack White band, and this is probably the loudest song you'll be hearing on AAA radio this summer.
5. Hurricante J -- the Hold Steady
They seem to be slowly getting over their Springsteen fetish, which will only make this band stonger
6. Tighten Up -- The Black Keys
Their totally cool video stars Frank the singing Funkasaurus. The song could have easily been a 70's top 40 hit, only it's done by two guys.
7. Forced to Love -- Broken Social Scene
The Toronto based indie rock collective (which has in the past included Feist and Emily Hainse of Metric) has put out their strongest single yet. Tense and coiled but with a catchy chorus. This could actually make them catch on in the USA. Lord knows they deserve it.
8. Giving Up the Gun -- Vampire Weekend
As per usual for me with this band it took 3-4 listens for this song to kick in, but kick in it did. The African influences are more subtle than usual, but they make it propulsive and
9. O.N.E. -- Yeasayer
As someone who sat through countless hours of Howard Jones and Duran Duran waiting for WLIR to play the Ramones or thw Smithereens I'm not inclined to hail the return of synth rock as the wave of the future, but I'll admit that it's a welcome break from the endless minor key dirges of post-grunge that still dominate many so-called alternative stations. It helps when you use real percussion rather than syndrums, the bane of the
80's.
10. This F----- Job -- Drive By Truckers
Too southern sounding for alt rock stations, too classic sounding for active rock, too loud and unkempt for AAA, this band's critical acclaim is in inverse ratio to its airplay. This is the thinking person's Skynard and you ignore them at your peril.
11. The Open Road -- John Hiatt
Rocking hard for the first time in years and with gift for writing short stories with a beat, he deserves more airplay than he's getting.
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