
Joy Pop
Broadcast in a post-Coronation stupor on 7.5.23: the day after, in the New Carolean era.
Fortunately, The Ramones ask us to dance; we take the skinheads bowling and play the theme from Joy Pop. You, our audience, are the housebuilders, we wield the chisels.
We play a couple of dance tracks from the Ramones; take the skinheads bowling before a bit of psychomania from The Damned. Then a brilliant cover of Depeche Mode’s ‘People are People’ from Vaja. But there’s time to play a long forgotten Brighton band ‘Us and Them’ and some Scottish Britpop from Octopus that provides us with this week’s show title.
Hour One
The Ramones – Let’s Dance (The Ramones 1976 Remaster)
The Ramones – Do You Want to Dance (Rocket to Russia 1977)
The Bouncing Souls – Kenver (Ten Stories High, 2023)
Camper Van Beethoven – Take the Skinheads Bowling ( Telephone Free Landslide Victory 1985)
The Damned – Psychomania (Anything 1986)
The Weakerthans – Reconstruction Site (Reconstruction Site, 2003)
Birdland – Shoot You Down (Birdland, 1991)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Man (Fever to Tell, 2003)
Arcade Fire – Rebellion (Lies) (Funeral, 2004)
boygenius – Not Strong Enough (The Record, 2023)
Us & Them – Out of Touch (The Girl that Got Away 2009)
Vaja – People Are People (Single, 2023)
Kevin Morby – This is a Photograph (This is a Photograph, 2022)
Hour Two
Octopus – Theme from Joy Pop (From A to B 1996)
Shawn Mullins – The Great Unknown (My Stupid Heart 2015)
Youth Lagoon – Idaho Alien (Heaven Is a Junkyard, 2023)
Anders Osborne & Monk Boudreaux – Junko Partner (Bury The Hatchet, 2005)
Jackie DeShannon – When You Walk in the Room (Breakin’ It Up on The Beatles Tour! 1963)
Annie Black – Gloomy Sunday (Meet Anna Black 1969)
Samantha Crain – Elk City (Under Branch & Thorn & Tree 2015)
Danny Schmidt – Just Wait Til They See You (Standard Deviation, 2019)
Molly Tuttle – Helpless (live) (But I’d Rather Be With You 2020)
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – Cast Iron Skillet (Weathervane 2023)
Caroline Spence ft Lori McKenna – The Next Good Time (True North 2023)
Night Beds – 22 (Country Sleep, 2013)