Category: Dizzy Heights

Features David Bowie, Pugwash, Fine Young Cannibals, Robbie Willilams, and more

You should know, it pained me to shut the show down four episodes away from Show #100. I WAS SO CLOSE.

And then it took another year after moving before I was properly motivated. Well, that’s not entirely true. Getting used to the new routines, the kids going to different high schools, it was a LOT of change. I basically sacrificed my time to be available for them. And I think it was the right move at the time.

At the time. After a while, I was ready to start it back up. And now my youngest is only a month away from getting her driver’s license. I’m so close to retiring from my part-time job as a chauffeur that I can taste it. I only hope that with more free time comes more good show ideas.

Speaking of which, this show is a callback to a column we did in ye olden days. There is no doubt that I play several songs here that were highlighted in those columns, but I don’t know that for a fact – I was too scared to look. I didn’t want to be accused of peeking at someone else’s test.

Boom! There’s a cannon for the first hundred shows. Boom! There’s a cannon for the next.

Thank you, as always, for listening.

Features The Human League, Le Flex, Howard Jones, Climie Fisher, The Pixies, and more

Lots of songs, oodles and bunches and tons of songs to choose from when the subject is love. Too many, really, which means that I have almost certainly not played any of the first five songs that popped into your head just now. But maybe there’s something here that you will enjoy anyway. A master of the sales pitch, that is me. “Yeah, you might like this, I dunno, whatever.”

Thank you, as always, for listening anyway.

Features Sam Phillips, The Coral, Redd Kross, Elliott Smith, Ween, and more

I forgot to tell you the name of the band after my first talkie bit. It’s Slade.

I also forgot to tell you the name of a song in the first set. It’s called “Original Song.”

I am a consummate professional.

I also didn’t realize it when I was recording it, but this is likely my last show of the year. I started putting together a track list for a potential ‘Home’ show, and decided to scrap the idea. We’re on the road in two weeks, and no one listens to Mixcloud in December. I’ll see you in January.

Thank you, as always, for listening.

Features The Heavy, Dead or Alive, Teddybears, Prince, Calvin Harris, and more

Yep, I refer to a movie as a song, but did I re-record the bit once I realized the mistake?

Reader, I did not.

This is the first in a two-part series of songs about living quarters. The ‘Home’ show comes in about a month, and that wraps it up. Can’t imagine I’d get very far on songs about apartments and condos.

Thank you, as always, for listening.

This is probably going to be the new normal, flipping between themed shows and acrostic shows. Not only are these shows easier to make, they enable me to play songs I love that don’t fit a theme. Indeed, there’s a certain red-haired New Pornographer here who wrote a song that I can’t believe I’m playing for the first time in Show #93.

Thank you, as always, for listening.

I will be the first to admit that this is not the most original idea, but it’s filled with possibilities…for me to play the Boomtown Rats for the twelfth time. Not a typo.

On the other hand, six artists are making their debut in show #92, and even I’m like, I still have bands I haven’t played yet? Yes. Yes, I do.

Thank you, as always, for listening.

Features The New Pornographers, Owsley, Veruca Salt, Elastica, and more.

This was so fun, and so much easier of a process, that I will probably do this many, many more times in the future. Fair warning.

Truth be told, I hadn’t even heard the word ‘acrostic’ before Popdose’s original game maker Scraps did an episode of Name That Tune using an acrostic to spell out a hint to the final track. So not only am I stealing one of his ideas, I’m stealing one of my own ideas, because I used this exact acrostic for Cover Me. Look at the artists above and see you spot a pattern.

Thank you, as always, for listening.

Features a-ha, Go West, The B-52’s, The Smiths, and more.

Recycling another Name That Tune idea for a show (and I’m doing it again for the next one). It’s been, what, 14 years? That feels like fair game to revisit.

Hold Me. Thrill Me. Save Me. Those are the names of songs that, um, didn’t make the cut, but you get the idea. I didn’t realize it when I began work on this, but in the end, this became a tribute show to my lovely wife. The first two blocks have her fingerprints all over them

Thank you, as always, for listening.