04/25/20
- Fleetwood Mac – The Chain
- Men At Work – Overkill
- Pearl Jam – Garden
- Led Zeppelin – Ramble On
- Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down Again
- Peter Gabriel – Lay Your Hands On Me
- Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
- Lloyd Cole & The Commotions – Perfect Blue
- R.E.M. – Belong
- Melissa Etheridge – You Can Sleep While I Drive
- Duran Duran – Do You Believe In Shame?
- David Bowie – Time Will Crawl
- Prince – Pop Life
- Dan Mangan – Robots
- The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize??
- Kate Bush – Deeper Understanding
- Simon & Garfunkel – Homeward Bound
- Faded Paper Figures – Lost Stars
- Death Cab For Cutie – You Moved Away
- Talking Heads – Road To Nowhere
- New Model Army – Vagabonds
- The Lemonheads – If I Could Talk I’d Tell You
- The Clash – This Is Radio Clash
- Stone Temple Pilots – Sour Girl
- Alice In Chains – I Stay Away
- Nirvana – Heart Shaped Box
- Soundgarden – Drawing Flies
- Faith No More – Falling To Pieces
- Blue Stahli – Rumbleshaker
04/18/20
Quarantine Playlist!
I asked folks what songs are keeping them sane during lockdown. Here are some of the answers. (Listen on Spotify)
Josh from New Berlin, IL
- Kenny Loggins – Danger Zone
Mark from Springfield, IL
- Fats Domino – I Hear You Knocking
- Elvis Presley – Are You Lonesome Tonight
Lisa from Springfield, IL
- Commodores – Easy
Amy from St. Louis, MO
- Tom Petty – Walls (Circus)
- Shakey Graves – Tomorrow
- The Wild Reeds – Everything Looks Better (In Hindsight)
Peggy from Indiana
- Electric Light Orchestra – Mr. Blue Sky
- Elton John – Tiny Dancer
- Neil Young – Rockin’ In The Free World
- Jackson Browne – Running on Empty
Carmel from California
- Napoleon XIV – They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!
- Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right
Sam from Springfield, IL
- Pink Floyd – Poles Apart
- Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Killing The Blues
Songs my Quarantine Partner keeps singing wrong
- Styx – Come Sail Away
- The Knack – My Sharona
Anne from North Carolina
- Blue Oyster Cult – Don’t Fear the Reaper
- The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony
- Creedence Clearwater Revival – Lookin’ Out My Back Door
Danz from Wherever
- The Police – Message in a Bottle
Donna Lynch’s Happy Isolation Jam playlist
- The Cars – Magic
- The Sundays – Here’s Where The Story Ends
- When In Rome – The Promise
- Cocteau Twins – Ivo
- Capital Cities – Safe and Sound
- New Order – Age of Consent
Because I needed one last song
- Weird Al Yankovic – Germs
04/11/20
Featured Albums
Michelle Malone – Stronger Than You Think
- Stomping Ground
- When I Grow Up
- I Don’t Wanna Know
The New Pornographers – In The Morse Code Of Brake Lights
- You’ll Need A New Backseat Driver
- Colossus Of Rhodes
- One Kind Of Solomon
Capital Cities – Solarize
- Space
- Venus & River
- Levitate
Black Pumas – Black Pumas
- Know You Better
- Fire
- OCT 33
- Bob & Earl – Harlem Shuffle
- James Hunter Six – Stranded
- Mavis Staples – Stronger
- The Poets Of Rhythm – Path of Life
- Carlton Jumel Smith – Help Me (Save Me From Myself)
- Durand Jones & The Indications – Don’t You Know
- Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators – Paint Me In A Corner
Musicians We’ve lost to COVID-19:
- John Prine – Glory Of True Love
- John Prine – Long Monday
- John Prine – Some Humans Ain’t Human
- Joe Diffie – Cold Budweiser and a Sweet Tater
- Wallace Roney – Wolfbane
- Adam Schlesinger (lyricist) – Anti-Depressants Are So Not A Big Deal
- Bucky Pizzarelli – On Green Dolphin Street
- Ellis Marsalis – Straight, No Chaser
- Alan Merrill – Goodbye, Rock ‘n Roll Heroes
- Manu Dibango – Soul Makossa
Let’s end on a happy note:
- Professor Elemental – Everyday Is A Saturday (Weekend Remix)
04/04/20 – ’80s
- a-Ha – The Sun Always Shines On T.V.
- Kajagoogoo – Too Shy
- Naked Eyes – Always Something There To Remind Me
- Talk Talk – Talk Talk
- Kim Wilde – Kids In America
- re-flex – The Politics Of Dancing
- ABC – How To Be A Millionaire
- Corey Hart – Boy In The Box
- Katrina & The Waves – Walking On Sunshine
- The Thompson Twins – Lay Your Hands On Me
- The Motels – Only The Lonely
- Missing Persons – Destination Unknown
- Culture Club – Church Of The Poison Mind
- Human League – (Keep Feeling) Fascination
- Scritti Politti – Perfect Way
- Blondie – Call Me
- Eurythmics – Missionary Man
- The Blow Monkeys – Digging Your Scene
- The Church – Under The Milky Way
- Belouis Some – Some People
- Burning Sensations – Belly Of The Whale
- Men At Work – Who Can It Be Now?
- INXS – Burn For You
- General Public – Tenderness
- The Icicle Works – Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream)
- Go West – We Close Our Eyes
- Big Country – In A Big Country
- The Fixx – Saved By Zero
- Duran Duran – New Moon On Monday
- Toto – Africa