14. IWasBored
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Summary: When I was at UMASS, I did a radio show at the radio station. Before I got burnt out and making playlists each week started to feel like work, I wanted every single week to be something I wouldn't mind having if I were stranded on the hypothetical island on which music nerds are forever sticking themselves.
For this list, I originally set up this 4-part structure for as many basic states of mind I might find myself in: dark and brooding, angry pissed off want to smash shit, happy jump around sing along, and blissful chill out. It didn't work. Even some the "happy" sides ended up kind of bleak. When I re-did those parts, they became considerably shorter and full of less songs I really love than songs that worked as purely an academic exercise. Keeping things obscure for obscurity's sake was pretty silly as well, for a lot of reasons. I can't make a DI list without Springsteen just because everyone knows The Boss. This place has had too much of an influence on my music taste, and I'll never have any way of knowing what everyone's ever heard anyway.
Basically, this would be the kind of playlist that I'd put together on any given week if I could ignore all FCC guidlines (and warp time, because while I played a lot of the songs here many times, not all of them were written yet/or known to me at the time). It transitions through what may or may not be considered a variety of music, depending on how the individual listener is going to classify and sub-classify these bands/songs. I think some sub-genre of punk rock is probably at the center, even after drifting off in other directions, it inevitably returns to something that someone out there refers to as punk rock. I don't really know. It's stuff I like. That's really all that matters to me now.
Part 1
1. Hudson Falcons - Jersey City Streets - La Famiglia
2. Steve Earle - NYC - El Corazon
3. Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City - Nebraska
4. Mark Lind - Better Days - Death or Jail
5. Ramallah - Just Walk Away - Kill a Celebrity
6. Blood for Blood - Some Kind of Hate - Outlaw Anthems
7. Sick of it All - Blown Away - Yours Truly
8. Agnostic Front - Gotta Go - Something's Gotta Give
9. Ducky Boys - Pride - No Gettin' Out
10. Far From Finished - Those Never Forgotten - East Side of Nowhere
11. Street Dogs - Fading American Dream - Fading American Dream
12. The Beltones - Cheap Trinkets - Cheap Trinkets
13. Darkbuster - Cheap Wine - 22 Songs That You'll Never Want to Hear Again!
14. The Damaged - Out of Today - [these guys were somewhat local, I lost my copy of the cd this was on, and google isn't even helping me to find what it was called]
15. Turbo A.C's - Nightmare - The Turbo A.C.'s
16. Tiger Army - Santa Carla Twilight - III: Ghost Tigers Rise
17. The Bruisers - Gates of Hell - Better Days
18. Social Distortion - Bad Luck - Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
19. Sinners & Saints - Marquee Lights
Part 2
0. Brian Jonestown Masscre - Wisdom - Methadrone
1. Glasvegas - Flowers and Football Tops - Glasvegas
2. The Jesus & Mary Chain - April Skies - Darklands
3. The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio - High Violet
4. The Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running - Neon Bible
5. The Magnetic Fields - Born on a Train - The Charm of the Highway Strip
6. Xiu Xiu - Dear God, I Hate Myself - Dear God, I Hate Myself
7. Pluxus - Psykopotat - European Onion
8. William Shatner - Common People - Has Been
9. Against Me! - Cliche Guevara - As the Eternal Cowboy
10. Everybody Out! - Ghettoblaster - Everybody Out!
11. Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Hope I Never Lose My Wallet - Devil's Night Out
12. Saves the Day - Jukebox Breakdown - Stay What You Are
13. Rancid - Roots Radicals - ...And Out Come the Wolves
14. Bouncing Souls - True Believers - How I Spent My Summer Vacation
15. The Clash - Death or Glory - London Calling
16. Billy Bragg - The Milkman of Human Kindness -
17. The Undertones - Teenage Kicks - The Undertones
18. The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love
19. The Kinks - Lola -
20. Dead Boys - I Won't Look Back
21. The Gaslight Anthem - Old White Lincoln - The '59 Sound
22. Say Anything - The Writing South - ...Is a Real Boy
23. The Briggs - Waiting in the Shadows - Leaving the Ways