WFMU: Imaginary Radio: Playlist from May 25, 2017

Listener comments!
	12:08pm Threemoons: Oh yeah. Berlin era Bowie. Love it.
	12:08pm Rev. Turnip Druid: may i say hello now.
	12:09pm Jeff: I will say it as well. Hello, Chris and all.
	12:12pm Threemoons: KRAFTWERK. YOU'RE KILLING ME!!!
	12:13pm zopa: gluten tag
	12:13pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Perfect. I'm about halfway through that Electri_City book on the Dusseldorf scene; this era of kraftwerk has been a steady background brain thing.
	12:13pm Listener142985: Dim mind sensing a theme here... those cars and clothes all look circa 1977.
	♥ 12:14pm Greg from ZONE 5: Kris Kraft!
	♥ 12:14pm steveo: The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977.
	12:15pm V Priceless: hey Chris M. and team
	♥ 12:24pm Polyus: Was this the same year as the sanitation workers strike?
	♥ 12:26pm steveo: In 1977 I was 7 years old, and what I remember most was that Fly Like an Eagle would come on the radio at the same time every night after dinner. This was a few months before my parents got divorced (tore apart our happy home in (not) Memphis, Tennessee). This week I was reading the lyrics to Fly Like and Eagle and it was making me sick to my stomach.
	♥ 12:27pm Polyus: oops, I was not even close on that one.
	12:27pm Jeff: @zopa: because it won't be gluten-frei tag until tomorrow?
	12:29pm zopa: @jeff. hee hee her. well done! sehr gut!
	♥ 12:29pm coelacanth∅: greetings Chris and figments love that picture esp the cars at the (very) tail end of when cars had some character
	♥ 12:30pm steveo: Tick tock tick; doo doo doo doo.
	♥ 12:30pm Greg from ZONE 5: My mom was pregnant with me when she took my brothers to see Star Wars, so technically I saw it in the theater.
	12:31pm V Priceless: Yeah baby!! Damned!
	12:35pm oks: 1977!!! the Best!!
	♥ 12:37pm Rich in Washington: I forgot what a great album Leave Home is.
	12:39pm themutante: Loose lips sink ships, do you hear that Donny-boy? Take heid, ya mad walloper!
	12:40pm ron in S FL: I love this Teenage Treats.
	♥ 12:49pm frozen_peas: this set has me swooning.
	12:49pm Chris from DC: Yes!
	12:49pm Cheri Pi: She sounds 14!
	12:50pm Cheri Pi: I still have my Eater t-shirt from the 80's
	12:51pm Rev. Turnip Druid: in 1977 I was notably shorter.
	♥ 12:53pm Greg from ZONE 5: Man, ya talk about yer flawless albums. Holy smokes.
	12:54pm Rev. Turnip Druid: th'MOTOR.
	12:54pm Chris from DC: Oh hell yes!
	12:55pm Jim Devoid: 'HEAD!
	12:55pm oks: YES!!!!!
	12:55pm Cheri Pi: ¨
	12:55pm Chapelhillian: How about either of the first Ultravox (John Foxx version) records both released in 1977?
	12:55pm PKNY: Real talk: this set is SLAYING!
	12:56pm zopa: in 1977 i was preparing to fall in love with nicolette larsen
	♥ 12:56pm Greg from ZONE 5: Consider this episode clicky-starred.
	♥ 12:57pm mrdonutsu: You can get a lot done in five days...
	12:58pm Bronwyn Bishop: YES 1977 YES also hi Chris and everyone
	12:58pm Rev. Turnip Druid: "...aint felt this good for an hour" remains one of the better lyrics in rock 'n roll history. I have spoken.
	♥ 1:00pm mrdonutsu: Bought my first "real" album in 77 - Kiss Alive II
	1:01pm MenfussMike: KISS ALIVE II was my first record ever mrdonutsu. Spring 78
	1:03pm MenfussMike: well, first rock n roll record. i had a six million dollar man record before that
	♥ 1:04pm MD: Nice Photo! I think I see my '73 Gran Torino in the background!!!!
	1:04pm Chris from DC: Saw my first show that year, Queen and Thin Lizzy.
	1:05pm V Priceless: @ Chris from DC: I saw that tour! Woo!
	1:10pm Chris from DC: I have flashbulb memories of it.
	♥ 1:18pm Summer and Michael: What a great idea for a show today, Chris! Loving it!
	♥ 1:19pm coelacanth∅: my first big concert was 1977. grateful dead. my friends who brought me to it were fairly confused when within a few months i was neck deep in the clash, ramones, blondie, talking heads and Elvis Costello.
	♥ 1:22pm dale: was that czech? that was cool.
	1:23pm Chris from DC: Speaking of Queen. Cool.
	1:24pm 23 Wolves: Of course you're not dead and gone...77 rules, Queen rules! Awesome show.
	1:24pm đ¢ ÞäŦ: Ah, fuck. I missed the whole punk set. Play it again?
	♥ 1:25pm dale: i don't like queen because all i ever heard by them were the same singles over and over. this is wonderful. 1977 i got my drivers license and my 74 hornet hatchback to go cruising in.
	1:30pm zopa: Gong! Wheeeeeee...
	♥ 1:32pm dale: popul vuh's soundtrack to herzog's heart of glass came out in 77. just sayin'
	♥ 1:33pm coelacanth∅: dale, i despise the queen that most ("mainstream") people like; but you might want to check out the sheer heart attack album.
	♥ 1:34pm coelacanth∅: ...and this is Excellent, but i think heavily derived from a hawkwind song.
	1:34pm V Priceless: @ Chris M: anything from The Jam's "This Is The Modern World" in the mix? Or perhaps Peter Gabriel's "Modern Love"? Fabulous show, btw! what fish said. hey fish!
	1:34pm V Priceless: (about S.H.A.)
	1:35pm Rev. Turnip Druid: back in time for th'WIND. All is good.
	♥ 1:36pm dale: ilivia newton john's 'sam' came out in 77 as well. i'm giving all good options here.
	♥ 1:36pm coelacanth∅: howdy VP!
	♥ 1:37pm Rich in Washington: Foolishly, for the most part, my knowledge of Hawkwind begins and ends with Lemmy's tenure. I should check out more of their post-Lemmy stuff.
	♥ 1:38pm coelacanth∅: some of the pre-Lemmy hawkwind is fantastic.
	♥ 1:39pm Rich in Washington: Although, I do enjoy P.X.R.5, which had the best Roxy Music sounding song that Roxy Music never did, the track Highrise.
	1:40pm rw: 1977!! I was 15 yrs. old (the same age my son is now) and listening to a lot of this stuff. I think I bought that Hawkwind LP that year. Still sounding good. Thanks Chris M.!
	♥ 1:40pm Rich in Washington: I need to give the earlier albums another go. I just remember them being a bit too psychedelic for my taste at the time.
	1:43pm rw: Oh, and coincidentally my 15 yr. old son is now listening to the Germs daily. Loud too.
	♥ 1:43pm dale: 77 - the great 8 track vs cassette debate. fm converters for the car. ten cent chicken wings and 50 cent drafts.
	♥ 1:43pm dale: YES!!!!!!!!
	♥ 1:46pm tmoyo: 77, what a great year! I was a clueless 7 year old in Fort Lee NJ. So much going on across the river, no radio in the house...darn darn darn
	1:46pm DaveinPA: Listening to the show today on my 1977 silver face Pioneer receiver... albeit through the magic of internet radio...
	♥ 1:47pm Mark the Sardine: Great set!
	1:51pm rw: DaveinPA, that's cool. I've still got my receiver from around that time. I need to get it working again. Why is everything shiny black now? Silver was so much nicer!
	♥ 1:52pm Rich in Washington: I was a clueless ten year old who just got gobsmacked by Star Wars. My music obsession was a few years away.
	♥ 1:55pm coelacanth∅: sometime prior to 1977 i asked for a cassette deck for xmas to begin building a component system. instead my parents gave me an integrated piece of crap with no cassette and an 8-track. this was in fact an inadvertent blessing because it was an 8-track RECORDER - so i quickly learned how to use this in unconventional ways, which i still use today.
	1:55pm TDK60: '77 was great; it woke up those of us a bit older to new sounds. The previous few years had been a big yawn.
	♥ 1:57pm Polyus: I would have been 9-10 years as well. Lived in a small town but loved big city album rock stations even at that age. Was not quite ready for punk at that point, though. Felt kind of freaked out when they first played the Sex Pistols.
	♥ 1:58pm Polyus: I also thought the teenagers in my neighborhood were the coolest people in the world, and wished I could be that age.
	2:00pm j-biz: In 1977, I was nine years away from existence.
	♥ 2:03pm Michael 98145: it will be great to have this show in the archive -
	♥ 2:03pm Greg from ZONE 5: Probably my favorite Aerosmith song.
	2:03pm Chris from DC: Jeez what a year.
	2:04pm Cliff (temporarily not) in Prague: I was born one year later!
	♥ 2:04pm coelacanth∅: i think oreosmith stole this song.
	2:05pm V Priceless: Joe Jackson did a recent cover of this!
	♥ 2:06pm dale: taking my leave of the board but continuing to listen - thanks chris m!
	2:09pm Cliff (temporarily not) in Prague: Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life" was the #1 hit song on the date of my conception (which I estimate to be around Halloween)
	2:09pm sufferwords: sounds like you x-ray spexed into my record collection today - comforting on this gloomy L.A. morn - thanks too much
	2:09pm Sue P.: No matter how shit my mood Thin Lizzy always makes me feel a bit better.
	2:10pm Chris from DC: Yay
	2:11pm Cecile: Got Chic? Or the Brothers Johnson?
	2:12pm Chris from DC: Hey is that freedom rock? Well turn it up!
	♥ 2:15pm coelacanth∅: - probably not the track i'd have chosen from stars n bars! but great track nonetheless.
	2:20pm đ¢ ÞäŦ: Love Lee Hazlewood..
	♥ 2:21pm coelacanth∅: some douche at our school newspaper gave stars n bars a scathing review ...some shit about Neil being "too wasted" to make a good album.
	2:21pm McGreivey: Grinder Switch? I haven't heard that since I was 15.
	♥ 2:22pm MD: THE LIFE OF A COUNTRY MUSICIAN!!
	♥ 2:23pm Rich in Washington: @coelacanth∅: my first stereo was the exact same scenario. I had few records by the time I had inherited my older sister's stereo (a cheap ass Radio Shack Clarinette model). I found I could record over her old 8-tracks with what few records I had acquired, later experiments with a broken electric guitar and bass.
	2:29pm Mark Williams: In 1977 my mother sent me on a 6-week vacation with my German uncle's family, which took us to beaches in Southern France, Spain and Portugal, all out of a big tent. On that trip I bought my first 45, which was the Portuguese pressing of the Space 45 "Magic Fly." It got warped from the sunlight, but it still plays. https://www.discogs.com/Space-Magic-Fly/master/30512
	2:30pm đ¢ ÞäŦ: I love Suicide
	♥ 2:31pm coelacanth∅: haha Rich it was fun, right! -plugging the guitar directly into the mic jacks created the most disgusting distortion! -and the first time a tape got eaten i took it apart and marveled at the mechanism! i realised the possibilities and started sacrificing tapes i never listened to for shorter loops and backwards noise!
	♥ 2:38pm coelacanth∅: sweet's a little queenie.
	2:39pm Cecile: Yes! AC/DC. I think Sweet beat them to recording first but Queen had their own spin. I'm sure there was a lot of back and forth going on.
	♥ 2:39pm Polyus: Heh, not Bon's finest moment as a lyricist, but still a total jam.
	2:39pm Chris from DC: Clicky episode.
	♥ 2:39pm mrdonutsu: Oh man, I would have gone with Overdose, but never going to complain about anything on Let There Be Rock!
	♥ 2:40pm mrdonutsu: (Let There Be Rock itself being (as they say in French) Hors Categorie...
	2:40pm Chris from DC: For that matter "Hell Ain't A Bad Place to Be", but it's all good.
	♥ 2:41pm coelacanth∅: yeah Cecile, i was wondering. i don't know sweet's history.
	2:41pm DaveinPA: Just a side note - there was a Southern rock band 'Grinderswitch' (alt. spelling 'Grinder Switch', and a 'Garland Jeffreys and Grinder's Switch', not to be too confusing...
	2:42pm miles: penis
	2:44pm Listener142985: Tip of the hat to Chris M., radio artist.
	2:44pm DaveinPA: ...and a head by miles (bahdum tiss)
	2:45pm Cecile: They both explored layed vocals and guitars, but Sweet started as a Chinn/Chapman bubblegum band, while Queen were pretty autonomous. But Sweet were super-talented, and when they ditched Chinnichap, they made some good albums and had hits.
	2:46pm Cecile: While they didn't have a Brian May, they were excellent musicians, and could completely reproduce the high harmonies live.
	♥ 2:50pm Ken From Hyde Park: Agreed, Cecile, but if you meant anonymous instead of autonomous, we can chalk it up to autocorrect. I also agree that this has been a dynamite program today.
	♥ 2:50pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Cecile. i'll explore. - i do remember that when "Love is like oxygen" came out, i was like "this is the group that did "little willy"?! i got the oxygen 45 but somehow have overlooked really digging in. (i guess i didn't have much faith at the time because i only bought 45s when i didn't expect much of the album)
	♥ 2:52pm coelacanth∅: queen was pretty autonomous.
	♥ 2:52pm Rich in Washington: Jesus, I'd researched the looping music thing pretty thoroughly (I thought). How come I have never heard of this piece?
	2:53pm Cecile: autonomous. Queen had much more artistic control through their career than Sweet did. I don't think Sweet ever could quite ditch the bubblegum label in a lot of circles, though they tried. Whatever crap people would talk about Queen, it wouldn't be because they were puppets of producers, or bubblegum. It wasn't fair to Sweet, but that's how it went.
	♥ 2:54pm Ken From Hyde Park: Oh, OK. Thanks for clearing that up. I see now.
	2:55pm WO Town Wick: Incredible show today, Chris M. Really dug it.
	♥ 2:57pm coelacanth∅: ...when i heard "fight from the inside" on news of the world i imagined i understood why my favorite band was release such drivel now. it helped me to keep respecting them, but i never liked them again!
	♥ 2:57pm Rich in Washington: This is a great show. What an amazing year for music. Nice pickin', Chris!
	♥ 2:57pm Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Chris! Great stuff.
	2:58pm northguineahills: That was a great Dickie Landry track.
	♥ 2:58pm Michael 98145: great, great; thank you DJ Chris M
	♥ 2:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Chris! Most Excellent!
	2:59pm tidaleneigjen: Wow! I don't think I've ever heard the mellotron sounding thing in the bumper music before. Sounds cool.

Imaginary Radio: Playlist from May 25, 2017

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May 25, 2017: 1977

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Approx. start time
Didier Bocquet	Eclipse "Eclipse" by "Didier Bocquet"	Eclipse	1977	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	Neuköln "Neuköln" by "David Bowie"	Heroes	1977	0:06:45 (Pop-up)
Kraftwerk	Schaufensterpuppen "Schaufensterpuppen" by "Kraftwerk"	Trans Europa Express	1977	0:11:08 (Pop-up)
The Stranglers	Sometimes "Sometimes" by "The Stranglers"	Rattus Norvegicus	1977	0:17:20 (Pop-up)
John Cale	Memphis "Memphis" by "John Cale"	Animal Justice	1977	0:22:11 (Pop-up)
The Runaways	Queens Of Noise "Queens Of Noise" by "The Runaways"	Queens Of Noise	1977	0:25:32 (Pop-up)
The Sex Pistols	Seventeen "Seventeen" by "The Sex Pistols"	Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols	1977	0:28:55 (Pop-up)
The Damned	Stab Your Back "Stab Your Back" by "The Damned"	Damned Damned Damned	1977	0:30:49 (Pop-up)
Viletones	Screamin Fist "Screamin Fist" by "Viletones"	Screamin Fist	1977	0:31:51 (Pop-up)
Eater	Outside View "Outside View" by "Eater"	'Outside View' b/w 'You'	1977	0:33:46 (Pop-up)
Ramones	Swallow My Pride "Swallow My Pride" by "Ramones"	Leave Home	1977	0:35:48 (Pop-up)
The Wasps	Teenage Treats "Teenage Treats" by "The Wasps"	Teenage Treats / She Made Magic	1977	0:37:52 (Pop-up)
The Vibrators	Into The Future... "Into The Future..." by "The Vibrators"	Pure Mania	1977	0:40:53 (Pop-up)
The Adverts	Quickstep "Quickstep" by "The Adverts"	One Chord Wonders / Quick Step	1977	0:43:12 (Pop-up)
The Germs	Forming "Forming" by "The Germs"	Forming	1977	0:46:25 (Pop-up)
The Slits	Love And Romance "Love And Romance" by "The Slits"	05/13/1977, Dingwalls, Camden Town, London	1977	0:47:59 (Pop-up)
Vertical Slit	In-No-Sense 1x2 "In-No-Sense 1x2" by "Vertical Slit"	Slit And Pre-Slit	1977	0:50:22 (Pop-up)
Wire	Fragile "Fragile" by "Wire"	Pink Flag	1977	0:52:39 (Pop-up)
Motörhead	Motorhead "Motorhead" by "Motörhead"	Motörhead	1977	0:53:58 (Pop-up)

Id	Sunrise (A New Day) "Sunrise (A New Day)" by "Id"	Where Are We Going	1977	1:02:45 (Pop-up)
Bachdenkel	The Whole World (Looking Over My Shoulder)	Stalingrad	1977	1:07:00 (Pop-up)
Plat Du Jour	Autoroute "Autoroute" by "Plat Du Jour"	Plat Du Jour	1977	1:10:30 (Pop-up)
Piramis	Szabadnak Születtem "Szabadnak Születtem" by "Piramis"	Piramis	1977	1:16:57 (Pop-up)
Queen	All Dead, All Dead "All Dead, All Dead" by "Queen"	News Of The World	1977	1:21:12 (Pop-up)
John Greaves / Peter Blegvad / Lisa Herman	Seven Scenes From The Painting "Exhuming The First American Mastodon" By C.W. Peale	Kew. Rhone.	1977	1:24:18 (Pop-up)
Gong	IAO Chant & Master Builder "IAO Chant & Master Builder" by "Gong"	Gong Est Mort	1977	1:27:56 (Pop-up)
Hawkwind	Fable Of A Failed Race "Fable Of A Failed Race" by "Hawkwind"	Quark, Strangeness And Charm	1977	1:34:21 (Pop-up)
Radka Toneff	The Butterfly "The Butterfly" by "Radka Toneff"	Winter Poem	1977	1:37:24 (Pop-up)
Samira Taoufik	Ghannou Ya Hbab "Ghannou Ya Hbab" by "Samira Taoufik"	Samira Taoufik	1977	1:38:37 (Pop-up)
Popol Vuh	Blätter Aus Dem Buch Der Kühnheit	Coeur De Verre	1977	1:42:53 (Pop-up)
Full Moon	Why Not "Why Not" by "Full Moon"	Moon Fools	1977	1:47:07 (Pop-up)
Snakegrinder	Better Late Than Frozen	...And The Shredded Field Mice	1977	1:48:54 (Pop-up)
Unknown	Hymn Of Fretilin - Eh! Foho Ramelau	Hymns And Songs Of The Revolution Of Maubere People	1977	1:53:28 (Pop-up)

Television	See No Evil "See No Evil" by "Television"	Marquee Moon	1977	2:02:51 (Pop-up)
Thin Lizzy	Dancing In The Moonlight (It's Caught Me In It's Spotlight)	Bad Reputation	1977	2:06:40 (Pop-up)
Grinder Switch	This Road "This Road" by "Grinder Switch"	Redwing	1977	2:09:58 (Pop-up)
Neil Young	Hold Back The Tears "Hold Back The Tears" by "Neil Young"	American Stars 'N Bars	1977	2:14:07 (Pop-up)
Lee Hazlewood	Back On The Street Again	Back On The Street Again	1977	2:18:18 (Pop-up)
Leonard Cohen	True Love Leaves No Traces	Death Of A Ladies' Man	1977	2:21:48 (Pop-up)
Serge Gainsbourg	Angostura "Angostura" by "Serge Gainsbourg"	Bande Originale Du Film "Goodbye Emmanuelle"	1977	2:26:02 (Pop-up)
Suicide	Rocket USA "Rocket USA" by "Suicide"	Suicide	1977	2:29:15 (Pop-up)
The Sweet	Fever Of Love "Fever Of Love" by "The Sweet"	Off The Record	1977	2:33:28 (Pop-up)
AC/DC	Go Down "Go Down" by "AC/DC"	Let There Be Rock	1977	2:37:27 (Pop-up)
Cheap Trick	Downed "Downed" by "Cheap Trick"	In Color	1977	2:42:52 (Pop-up)
Dickie Landry	Alto Flute Quad Delay	Fifteen Saxophones	1977	2:47:00 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:08pm Threemoons: Oh yeah. Berlin era Bowie. Love it.
	12:08pm Rev. Turnip Druid: may i say hello now.
	12:09pm Jeff: I will say it as well. Hello, Chris and all.
	12:12pm Threemoons: KRAFTWERK. YOU'RE KILLING ME!!!
	12:13pm zopa: gluten tag
	12:13pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Perfect. I'm about halfway through that Electri_City book on the Dusseldorf scene; this era of kraftwerk has been a steady background brain thing.
	12:13pm Listener142985: Dim mind sensing a theme here... those cars and clothes all look circa 1977.
	♥ 12:14pm Greg from ZONE 5: Kris Kraft!
	♥ 12:14pm steveo: The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout that affected most of New York City on July 13–14, 1977.
	12:15pm V Priceless: hey Chris M. and team
	♥ 12:24pm Polyus: Was this the same year as the sanitation workers strike?
	♥ 12:26pm steveo: In 1977 I was 7 years old, and what I remember most was that Fly Like an Eagle would come on the radio at the same time every night after dinner. This was a few months before my parents got divorced (tore apart our happy home in (not) Memphis, Tennessee). This week I was reading the lyrics to Fly Like and Eagle and it was making me sick to my stomach.
	♥ 12:27pm Polyus: oops, I was not even close on that one.
	12:27pm Jeff: @zopa: because it won't be gluten-frei tag until tomorrow?
	12:29pm zopa: @jeff. hee hee her. well done! sehr gut!
	♥ 12:29pm coelacanth∅: greetings Chris and figments love that picture esp the cars at the (very) tail end of when cars had some character
	♥ 12:30pm steveo: Tick tock tick; doo doo doo doo.
	♥ 12:30pm Greg from ZONE 5: My mom was pregnant with me when she took my brothers to see Star Wars, so technically I saw it in the theater.
	12:31pm V Priceless: Yeah baby!! Damned!
	12:35pm oks: 1977!!! the Best!!
	♥ 12:37pm Rich in Washington: I forgot what a great album Leave Home is.
	12:39pm themutante: Loose lips sink ships, do you hear that Donny-boy? Take heid, ya mad walloper!
	12:40pm ron in S FL: I love this Teenage Treats.
	♥ 12:49pm frozen_peas: this set has me swooning.
	12:49pm Chris from DC: Yes!
	12:49pm Cheri Pi: She sounds 14!
	12:50pm Cheri Pi: I still have my Eater t-shirt from the 80's
	12:51pm Rev. Turnip Druid: in 1977 I was notably shorter.
	♥ 12:53pm Greg from ZONE 5: Man, ya talk about yer flawless albums. Holy smokes.
	12:54pm Rev. Turnip Druid: th'MOTOR.
	12:54pm Chris from DC: Oh hell yes!
	12:55pm Jim Devoid: 'HEAD!
	12:55pm oks: YES!!!!!
	12:55pm Cheri Pi: ¨
	12:55pm Chapelhillian: How about either of the first Ultravox (John Foxx version) records both released in 1977?
	12:55pm PKNY: Real talk: this set is SLAYING!
	12:56pm zopa: in 1977 i was preparing to fall in love with nicolette larsen
	♥ 12:56pm Greg from ZONE 5: Consider this episode clicky-starred.
	♥ 12:57pm mrdonutsu: You can get a lot done in five days...
	12:58pm Bronwyn Bishop: YES 1977 YES also hi Chris and everyone
	12:58pm Rev. Turnip Druid: "...aint felt this good for an hour" remains one of the better lyrics in rock 'n roll history. I have spoken.
	♥ 1:00pm mrdonutsu: Bought my first "real" album in 77 - Kiss Alive II
	1:01pm MenfussMike: KISS ALIVE II was my first record ever mrdonutsu. Spring 78
	1:03pm MenfussMike: well, first rock n roll record. i had a six million dollar man record before that
	♥ 1:04pm MD: Nice Photo! I think I see my '73 Gran Torino in the background!!!!
	1:04pm Chris from DC: Saw my first show that year, Queen and Thin Lizzy.
	1:05pm V Priceless: @ Chris from DC: I saw that tour! Woo!
	1:10pm Chris from DC: I have flashbulb memories of it.
	♥ 1:18pm Summer and Michael: What a great idea for a show today, Chris! Loving it!
	♥ 1:19pm coelacanth∅: my first big concert was 1977. grateful dead. my friends who brought me to it were fairly confused when within a few months i was neck deep in the clash, ramones, blondie, talking heads and Elvis Costello.
	♥ 1:22pm dale: was that czech? that was cool.
	1:23pm Chris from DC: Speaking of Queen. Cool.
	1:24pm 23 Wolves: Of course you're not dead and gone...77 rules, Queen rules! Awesome show.
	1:24pm đ¢ ÞäŦ: Ah, fuck. I missed the whole punk set. Play it again?
	♥ 1:25pm dale: i don't like queen because all i ever heard by them were the same singles over and over. this is wonderful. 1977 i got my drivers license and my 74 hornet hatchback to go cruising in.
	1:30pm zopa: Gong! Wheeeeeee...
	♥ 1:32pm dale: popul vuh's soundtrack to herzog's heart of glass came out in 77. just sayin'
	♥ 1:33pm coelacanth∅: dale, i despise the queen that most ("mainstream") people like; but you might want to check out the sheer heart attack album.
	♥ 1:34pm coelacanth∅: ...and this is Excellent, but i think heavily derived from a hawkwind song.
	1:34pm V Priceless: @ Chris M: anything from The Jam's "This Is The Modern World" in the mix? Or perhaps Peter Gabriel's "Modern Love"? Fabulous show, btw! what fish said. hey fish!
	1:34pm V Priceless: (about S.H.A.)
	1:35pm Rev. Turnip Druid: back in time for th'WIND. All is good.
	♥ 1:36pm dale: ilivia newton john's 'sam' came out in 77 as well. i'm giving all good options here.
	♥ 1:36pm coelacanth∅: howdy VP!
	♥ 1:37pm Rich in Washington: Foolishly, for the most part, my knowledge of Hawkwind begins and ends with Lemmy's tenure. I should check out more of their post-Lemmy stuff.
	♥ 1:38pm coelacanth∅: some of the pre-Lemmy hawkwind is fantastic.
	♥ 1:39pm Rich in Washington: Although, I do enjoy P.X.R.5, which had the best Roxy Music sounding song that Roxy Music never did, the track Highrise.
	1:40pm rw: 1977!! I was 15 yrs. old (the same age my son is now) and listening to a lot of this stuff. I think I bought that Hawkwind LP that year. Still sounding good. Thanks Chris M.!
	♥ 1:40pm Rich in Washington: I need to give the earlier albums another go. I just remember them being a bit too psychedelic for my taste at the time.
	1:43pm rw: Oh, and coincidentally my 15 yr. old son is now listening to the Germs daily. Loud too.
	♥ 1:43pm dale: 77 - the great 8 track vs cassette debate. fm converters for the car. ten cent chicken wings and 50 cent drafts.
	♥ 1:43pm dale: YES!!!!!!!!
	♥ 1:46pm tmoyo: 77, what a great year! I was a clueless 7 year old in Fort Lee NJ. So much going on across the river, no radio in the house...darn darn darn
	1:46pm DaveinPA: Listening to the show today on my 1977 silver face Pioneer receiver... albeit through the magic of internet radio...
	♥ 1:47pm Mark the Sardine: Great set!
	1:51pm rw: DaveinPA, that's cool. I've still got my receiver from around that time. I need to get it working again. Why is everything shiny black now? Silver was so much nicer!
	♥ 1:52pm Rich in Washington: I was a clueless ten year old who just got gobsmacked by Star Wars. My music obsession was a few years away.
	♥ 1:55pm coelacanth∅: sometime prior to 1977 i asked for a cassette deck for xmas to begin building a component system. instead my parents gave me an integrated piece of crap with no cassette and an 8-track. this was in fact an inadvertent blessing because it was an 8-track RECORDER - so i quickly learned how to use this in unconventional ways, which i still use today.
	1:55pm TDK60: '77 was great; it woke up those of us a bit older to new sounds. The previous few years had been a big yawn.
	♥ 1:57pm Polyus: I would have been 9-10 years as well. Lived in a small town but loved big city album rock stations even at that age. Was not quite ready for punk at that point, though. Felt kind of freaked out when they first played the Sex Pistols.
	♥ 1:58pm Polyus: I also thought the teenagers in my neighborhood were the coolest people in the world, and wished I could be that age.
	2:00pm j-biz: In 1977, I was nine years away from existence.
	♥ 2:03pm Michael 98145: it will be great to have this show in the archive -
	♥ 2:03pm Greg from ZONE 5: Probably my favorite Aerosmith song.
	2:03pm Chris from DC: Jeez what a year.
	2:04pm Cliff (temporarily not) in Prague: I was born one year later!
	♥ 2:04pm coelacanth∅: i think oreosmith stole this song.
	2:05pm V Priceless: Joe Jackson did a recent cover of this!
	♥ 2:06pm dale: taking my leave of the board but continuing to listen - thanks chris m!
	2:09pm Cliff (temporarily not) in Prague: Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life" was the #1 hit song on the date of my conception (which I estimate to be around Halloween)
	2:09pm sufferwords: sounds like you x-ray spexed into my record collection today - comforting on this gloomy L.A. morn - thanks too much
	2:09pm Sue P.: No matter how shit my mood Thin Lizzy always makes me feel a bit better.
	2:10pm Chris from DC: Yay
	2:11pm Cecile: Got Chic? Or the Brothers Johnson?
	2:12pm Chris from DC: Hey is that freedom rock? Well turn it up!
	♥ 2:15pm coelacanth∅: - probably not the track i'd have chosen from stars n bars! but great track nonetheless.
	2:20pm đ¢ ÞäŦ: Love Lee Hazlewood..
	♥ 2:21pm coelacanth∅: some douche at our school newspaper gave stars n bars a scathing review ...some shit about Neil being "too wasted" to make a good album.
	2:21pm McGreivey: Grinder Switch? I haven't heard that since I was 15.
	♥ 2:22pm MD: THE LIFE OF A COUNTRY MUSICIAN!!
	♥ 2:23pm Rich in Washington: @coelacanth∅: my first stereo was the exact same scenario. I had few records by the time I had inherited my older sister's stereo (a cheap ass Radio Shack Clarinette model). I found I could record over her old 8-tracks with what few records I had acquired, later experiments with a broken electric guitar and bass.
	2:29pm Mark Williams: In 1977 my mother sent me on a 6-week vacation with my German uncle's family, which took us to beaches in Southern France, Spain and Portugal, all out of a big tent. On that trip I bought my first 45, which was the Portuguese pressing of the Space 45 "Magic Fly." It got warped from the sunlight, but it still plays. https://www.discogs.com/Space-Magic-Fly/master/30512
	2:30pm đ¢ ÞäŦ: I love Suicide
	♥ 2:31pm coelacanth∅: haha Rich it was fun, right! -plugging the guitar directly into the mic jacks created the most disgusting distortion! -and the first time a tape got eaten i took it apart and marveled at the mechanism! i realised the possibilities and started sacrificing tapes i never listened to for shorter loops and backwards noise!
	♥ 2:38pm coelacanth∅: sweet's a little queenie.
	2:39pm Cecile: Yes! AC/DC. I think Sweet beat them to recording first but Queen had their own spin. I'm sure there was a lot of back and forth going on.
	♥ 2:39pm Polyus: Heh, not Bon's finest moment as a lyricist, but still a total jam.
	2:39pm Chris from DC: Clicky episode.
	♥ 2:39pm mrdonutsu: Oh man, I would have gone with Overdose, but never going to complain about anything on Let There Be Rock!
	♥ 2:40pm mrdonutsu: (Let There Be Rock itself being (as they say in French) Hors Categorie...
	2:40pm Chris from DC: For that matter "Hell Ain't A Bad Place to Be", but it's all good.
	♥ 2:41pm coelacanth∅: yeah Cecile, i was wondering. i don't know sweet's history.
	2:41pm DaveinPA: Just a side note - there was a Southern rock band 'Grinderswitch' (alt. spelling 'Grinder Switch', and a 'Garland Jeffreys and Grinder's Switch', not to be too confusing...
	2:42pm miles: penis
	2:44pm Listener142985: Tip of the hat to Chris M., radio artist.
	2:44pm DaveinPA: ...and a head by miles (bahdum tiss)
	2:45pm Cecile: They both explored layed vocals and guitars, but Sweet started as a Chinn/Chapman bubblegum band, while Queen were pretty autonomous. But Sweet were super-talented, and when they ditched Chinnichap, they made some good albums and had hits.
	2:46pm Cecile: While they didn't have a Brian May, they were excellent musicians, and could completely reproduce the high harmonies live.
	♥ 2:50pm Ken From Hyde Park: Agreed, Cecile, but if you meant anonymous instead of autonomous, we can chalk it up to autocorrect. I also agree that this has been a dynamite program today.
	♥ 2:50pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Cecile. i'll explore. - i do remember that when "Love is like oxygen" came out, i was like "this is the group that did "little willy"?! i got the oxygen 45 but somehow have overlooked really digging in. (i guess i didn't have much faith at the time because i only bought 45s when i didn't expect much of the album)
	♥ 2:52pm coelacanth∅: queen was pretty autonomous.
	♥ 2:52pm Rich in Washington: Jesus, I'd researched the looping music thing pretty thoroughly (I thought). How come I have never heard of this piece?
	2:53pm Cecile: autonomous. Queen had much more artistic control through their career than Sweet did. I don't think Sweet ever could quite ditch the bubblegum label in a lot of circles, though they tried. Whatever crap people would talk about Queen, it wouldn't be because they were puppets of producers, or bubblegum. It wasn't fair to Sweet, but that's how it went.
	♥ 2:54pm Ken From Hyde Park: Oh, OK. Thanks for clearing that up. I see now.
	2:55pm WO Town Wick: Incredible show today, Chris M. Really dug it.
	♥ 2:57pm coelacanth∅: ...when i heard "fight from the inside" on news of the world i imagined i understood why my favorite band was release such drivel now. it helped me to keep respecting them, but i never liked them again!
	♥ 2:57pm Rich in Washington: This is a great show. What an amazing year for music. Nice pickin', Chris!
	♥ 2:57pm Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, Chris! Great stuff.
	2:58pm northguineahills: That was a great Dickie Landry track.
	♥ 2:58pm Michael 98145: great, great; thank you DJ Chris M
	♥ 2:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Chris! Most Excellent!
	2:59pm tidaleneigjen: Wow! I don't think I've ever heard the mellotron sounding thing in the bumper music before. Sounds cool.

Imaginary Radio: Playlist from May 25, 2017

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