Listen Up! returns to the sounds of power pop. Expect a high dose of action shaking tunes filled with hooks, riffs, harmonies, fat chords and more. Hear from the precursors, the lonely souls who kept the sounds alive in the early 70’s, the brief flash of commercial success in the late 70’s, those underground dabblers in the 80’s and because this stuff is timeless…even stuff in the now.
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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)
Opening Theme
Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996
Background Music
Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty -1965
Blue Ash – Abracadabra (Have You Seen Her) – No More, No Less – 1973
Stiiv Bators – Evil Boy – Disconnected -1980
The Plimsouls – Zero Hour -The Plimsouls – 1981
Todd Rundgren – Couldn’t I Just Tell You – Something/Anything? – 1972
Nikki and the Corvettes – I Gotta Move -Nikki and the Corvettes – 1980
The Knack – Your Number or Your Name – Get the Knack – 1979
Tommy Hoehn -Blow Yourself Up – Spacebreak – 1977
Van Duren – Chemical Fire – Are You Serious? – 1977
The Romantics – Till I See You Again – The Romantics – 1979
The Kinks – Starstruck – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society – 1968
Jetz – Do You Think That’s Funny – The Anthology 1977-79 – 1978
The Beat – USA – The Beat -1979
The Who – Pictures of Lily – Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy -1967
The Who – I’m A Boy – Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy – 1966
Guided By Voices – Glad Girls – Isolation Drills – 2001
Redd Kross – Stoned – Show World -1996
Big Star – Feel – #1 Record -1972
Poppees – Jealousy -Various: Destination: BOMP! – 1978
The Bee Gees – I Want Home – The Bee Gees – 1967
The Patriots – It Don’t Show – Pharaoh’s Land – 1986
The Spongetones – You’ll Come Runnin’ Back – Odd Fellows -2000
Jupiter Affect – White Knuckle Sound – Instructions For The Two Ways Of Becoming Alice – 2000
Game Theory – Erica’s World – The Big Shot Chronicles – 1986
The Speedies – Time – Something On My Mind -1981
The Embarrassment – Elizabeth Montgomery’s Face – Heyday 1979-1983 -1981
The Bongos – Tiger Nights – Numbers With Wings – 1983
Chris Stamey & The Db’s – (I thought) You Wanted To Know – Various:Children Of Nuggets – Original Artyfacts From The Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1996 – 1978
Badfinger – Know One Knows – Wish You Were Here – 1974
Cheap Trick – Stiff Competition – Heaven Tonight – 1978
Material Issue – Goin’ Through Your Purse – Freak City Soundtrack – 1994
The Raspberries – Tonight – Side 3 – 1973
Closing Theme
Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections – 1997
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