Favoriting Optical Sound with Mike Sin: Playlist from April 20, 2013 Favoriting

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A sight for sore ears. Power pop, freakbeat, and psychedelic songs for all six senses.

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Favoriting April 20, 2013: Filling in for Michael Shelley... For every #1 hit, there's a #1 interview!


Every track played today has a corresponding interview conducted by Michael Shelley
with the artist or the band members! They can all be accessed through his archives right HERE!


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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments Approx. start time
Laughing Dogs  I Need A Million   Favoriting The Laughing Dogs  Columbia  1979  LP  Check Michael Shelley's 5/9/09 archive!  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Flamin' Groovies  Headin' for the Texas Border   Favoriting Flamingo  Kama Sutra  1970  LP  Check the 4/16/2011 archive!  0:02:32 (Pop-up)
dB's  Neverland   Favoriting   Albion  1982  7"  Check the 1/6/07 archive!  0:07:44 (Pop-up)
Rich Kids  Rich Kids   Favoriting Best of the Rich Kids  EMI  2003  CD  Check the 9/10/11 archive! 1978 track.  0:10:23 (Pop-up)
Plimsouls  Who's Gonna Break the Ice?   Favoriting Beach Town Confidential, Live at the Golden Bear 1983  Alive  2012  CD  Check the 11/6/10 archive!  0:13:18 (Pop-up)
The Knack  Just Wait and See   Favoriting Round Trip  Capitol  1981  LP  Check the 11/6/10 archive!  0:17:16 (Pop-up)
Shoes  Okay   Favoriting   Bomp  1978  7"  Check the 9/8/12 archive  0:20:10 (Pop-up)
Knickerbockers  One Track Mind   Favoriting The Great Lost Knickerbockers Album  Sundazed  1992  CD  Check the 3/27/10 archive! 1966 track.  0:22:30 (Pop-up)
Dave Berry  Don't Give Me No Lip, Child   Favoriting VA: The R&B Scene  Decca  1999  CD  Check the 10/6/07 archive! 1964 track.  0:25:19 (Pop-up)
Remains  Let Me Through   Favoriting   Sundazed  2011  7"  Check the 4/18/09 archive!
Live on the Ed Sullivan Show, 12/26/65
 
0:27:16 (Pop-up)
 
Zombies  Is This The Dream   Favoriting Zombie Heaven  Big Beat  1997  CD box set  Check the 8/4/12 archive! 1965 track.  0:38:50 (Pop-up)
Honeybus  Girl of Independent Means   Favoriting At Their Best  See For Miles  1989  CD  Check the 1/27/07 archive! 1968 track.  0:41:42 (Pop-up)
Honeycombs  Something I've Got to Tell You   Favoriting All Systems Go!  Beat Merchant    CD  Check the 1/5/08 archive! 1965 track.  0:44:19 (Pop-up)
Byrds  Thoughts and Words   Favoriting Younger Than Yesterday  Columbia  1996  CD  Check the 10/13/07 archive! 1967 track.  0:46:28 (Pop-up)
Marshall Crenshaw  Run Back to You   Favoriting The 9 Volt Years: Battery Powered Home Demos & Curios (1979-198?)  Razor & Tie    CD  Check the 4/23/11 archive  0:49:21 (Pop-up)
Pezband  It Was Alright   Favoriting Pezband  Passport  1977  LP  Check the 5/26/07 archive!  0:51:49 (Pop-up)
Belle and Sebastian  You're Just a Baby   Favoriting Tigermilk  Matador  1996  CD  Check the 7/7/12 archive!  0:54:25 (Pop-up)
Merry-Go-Round  Gonna Leave You Alone   Favoriting Listen Listen: The Definitive Collection  Rev-Ola  2005  CD  Check the 2/13/10 archive! 1967 track.  0:58:03 (Pop-up)
Gary Lewis & The Playboys  Jill   Favoriting VA: Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968  Rhino  2009  CD box set  Check the 1/20/07 archive! 1967 track.  1:00:27 (Pop-up)
Bernard "Pretty" Purdie  On the Outskirts of Minitown   Favoriting Soul Drums  Sony Music    CD  Check the 1/23/10 archive! 1968 track.  1:02:38 (Pop-up)
 
Fireballs  Groovy Motions   Favoriting VA: Get Ready To Fly: Pop-Psych From The Norman Petty Vaults  Big Beat  2007  CD  Check the 4/14/07 archive! 1968 track.  1:13:30 (Pop-up)
Big Jim Sullivan  Tallyman   Favoriting Sitar Beat  RPM  2002  CD  Check the 5/23/09 archive! 1968 track.  1:16:08 (Pop-up)
Los Shakers  Acostumbro A Ver TV Los Martes 36   Favoriting La Conferencia Secreta del Toto's Bar  EMI  2007  LP  Check the 2/10/07 archive! 1968 track  1:18:42 (Pop-up)
Tony Hazzard  Fade Away Maureen   Favoriting VA: Real Life Permanent Dreams - A Cornucopia of British Psychedelia 1965-1970  Castle  2007  CD box set  Check the 4/21/07 archive! 1969 track.  1:21:37 (Pop-up)
Roy Head & The Great Believers  Easy Lovin' Girl   Favoriting VA: Acid Visions: Best of Texas Punk & Psychedelic  Collectables  1991  CD box set  Check the 8/25/07 archive! 1967 track unreleased at the time.  1:24:15 (Pop-up)
Turtles  Grim Reaper of Love   Favoriting 20 Greatest Hits  Rhino  1984  CD  Check the 7/18/09 archive! 1965 track  1:27:33 (Pop-up)
Love  Your Mind and We Belong Together   Favoriting Forever Changes  Elektra  2001  CD  Check the 8/1/09 archive! bonus track from 1968 on CD.  1:29:26 (Pop-up)
Joe South  Hole in Your Soul   Favoriting Games People Play  Capitol  1969  LP  Check the 4/17/10 archive!  1:33:37 (Pop-up)
Kippington Lodge  I Can See Her Face   Favoriting Shy Boy: The Complete Recordings 1967 - 1969  RPM  2011  CD  Check the 4/14/12 archive! 1969 track written by Nick Lowe.  1:37:22 (Pop-up)
 
Solomon Burke  Home In Your Heart   Favoriting Home In Your Heart - The Best of Solomon Burke  Atlantic  1992  CD box set  Check the 5/15/10 archive! 1962 track.  1:43:57 (Pop-up)
Searchers  Umbrella Man   Favoriting VA: Fairytales Can Come True: UK Popsike from the Late 60's  Psychic Circle  2007  CD  Check the 12/107 archive! 1968 track  1:46:17 (Pop-up)
Lulu  Without Him   Favoriting To Sir with Love! The Complete Mickie Most Recordings  EMI  2005  CD box set  Check the 3/1/13 archive! 1968 track.  1:49:02 (Pop-up)
Big Star  Way Out West   Favoriting Live  Ryko  1992  CD  Check out the 3/26/11 archive! Track from live session on WLIR-FM (NY) in 1974.  1:51:46 (Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

Avatar 11:03am
SmokinJ:

Yippee!
  11:04am
dinatekno:

Great way to start the show! Caffeine is kicking in!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:05am
SeanG:

this song kicks ass
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:05am
Nate K:

"Morning" Mike.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:08am
Mike Sin:

Rollin', folks! Stay with me and make this a fun time!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:12am
efd:

There are some days when this is my favorite dB's song.
  11:13am
Toddophonic:

Good start indeed. This might turn out to be almost as good as last week's show!
Avatar 11:14am
Parq:

Mike, how nice of you to drop by for breakfast. Ass-kicking opening set.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:14am
ChrisB.:

A Michael Shelly themed show? Is this a contractual obligation?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:14am
Nate K:

I never really completely got the Rich Kids, but this song makes sense to me. Nice one.
Avatar 11:14am
Parq:

And I way dig the concept of today's show. What a lot of work you must have put in getting it together!
Avatar 11:15am
Parq:

Todd, almost.
  11:17am
timurf:

Mike Sin fill in yay yay yay
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:17am
Stevel:

Mike Sin is preventing me from going anywhere today. I do not hate him for this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:18am
Mike Sin:

Freeform, folks! No contracts!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:20am
Mike East:

Looking forward to this morning/afternoon. Gonna try to get out to the record shop, where they will hopefully be blasting WFMU. Will be tough with a baby in tow. Likely be limited to the upper stacks. Glad to hear you on the airwaves, Mike Sin
Avatar 11:22am
Parq:

Mike E, glad to know you are introducing your little one to the important things in life.
Avatar 11:22am
SmokinJ:

Sooo sweet...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:23am
Mike East:

teach the children well, parq
Avatar 11:23am
Sonny Rickles:

I gotta go lookin for stuff at the San Diego Record Show but may have to wait till the show's over. Sounding great, Mike!
Avatar 11:25am
Phelger Nank:

Shoes: so pedestrian
Avatar 11:27am
Phelger Nank:

Knickerbockers: they knicked their licks from the Beatles
Avatar 11:28am
glenn:

don't worry mike, there'll be plenty of women at the record store willing to look after your daughter so you can peruse the stacks. maybe you should bring a puppy too.
Avatar 11:28am
Phelger Nank:

I'd like to chuck, Berry
  11:29am
Marmalade Kitty:

Lennon sound alike followed by ringo sound alike!
Avatar 11:30am
Juke Joint Jonny:

Sixties punk rock sure takes the sting out of cleaning the house on a Saturday
  11:35am
Toddophonic:

Remains live at The Bell House in Brooklyn June 7th!
Avatar 11:35am
KP:

Mornin', Mike.
Avatar 11:37am
KP:

Phleger Nank, Shoes are pedestrian but they do have sole.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:39am
Mike East:

@glenn - I've never actually seen a woman in the record store I go to. Just some weird dudes and punkass kids.
  11:40am
calzone!:

This guy knows his stuff! Give Mike Syn his own show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:40am
Mike East:

guess which one I am
Avatar 11:43am
Phelger Nank:

KP: Stop wagging you tongue all over the lace. You on uppers, man? Nobody treads on me.

Aglet!
Avatar 11:45am
Parq:

Mike E, better go with the puppy. No wait, bring rare back issues of "Creem" and stuff them in the stroller bag.
Avatar 11:47am
Parq:

That was weird. Is something wrong with my set up here, or was anyone else getting only one channel of that Honeybees track?
Avatar 11:48am
Phelger Nank:

Honeycombs: more like saccharine
Avatar 11:50am
KP:

My favorite Byrds song (sort of)! Thanks Mike.
Avatar 11:52am
SmokinJ:

Go Marshall!
Avatar 11:59am
DeemerDave:

That Belle & Sebastian riff sounds like it was ripped-off from Yes.
  12:02pm
frenchee:

Hi Mike Sin! Good to hear ya! xxoo
  12:04pm
frenchee:

psychedelic pSintastic!
Avatar 12:06pm
Phelger Nank:

Pezband: journeymen throat-singers

Belle & S: Pop Goes the Twee-sel

Admittedly, this tune is Purdie good
Avatar 12:08pm
glenn:

i love belle and sebastian, and i'm not afraid to say it.
Avatar 12:09pm
KP:

Is it belle or is it sebastian who does it for ya?
Avatar 12:10pm
KP:

Phelger Nank, those comments convince me you are indeed a heel.
Avatar 12:17pm
Juke Joint Jonny:

Groovy Motions! I love it when cowboys go psychedelic!
Avatar 12:22pm
Phelger Nank:

Senor Phil Ramone
Avatar 12:27pm
KP:

see ya mike, frenchee.
Avatar 12:28pm
Sigurdur:

420 is abit delayed in my land out of waiting/respect for a friend
Avatar 12:32pm
Phelger Nank:

KP: Any more lip, you're on, well, KP duty. And I'm packing a stiletto, so watch it.
Avatar 12:33pm
Phelger Nank:

Love Forever? Changes...
  12:34pm
EV_Grrrl:

Great show!
  12:35pm
dinatekno:

AWESOME!!!! LOVE!! Happy 420 AND Happy Record Store Day!!
  12:35pm
EV_Grrrl:

Where's Jumpy?
  12:38pm
dale:

best joe south song i never heard!
Avatar 12:42pm
Phelger Nank:

Kippington Lodge? I'm Inn
  12:48pm
frenchee:

It's a little early for Jumpeeee.
  12:49pm
EV_Grrrl:

Umbrella Man!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:52pm
Gaylord Fields:

So many people Michael interviewed have subsequently passed away; played on this show alone, Doug Fieger (The Knack), Big Jim Sullivan, Osvaldo Fattoruso (Los Shakers), Joe South, and Solomon Burke gave definitive and final-ish interviews on his show.
  12:52pm
David in ATL from NJ:

More than a great show, Mike! Enjoyed.
  12:53pm
Pdx pals:

Loving your gig out here on the west coast - scratchy throat and all! Ignore the jerks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:54pm
Gaylord Fields:

Agreed, David in ATL: a great concept expertly curated by Mike Sin.
  1:00pm
EV_Grrrl:

Hi Gaylord!
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