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Ah, the bizarre love/hate life of the New Order fan. What’s your most loved and least favorite song on Low-Life?! For our fourth Request Episode Election, we went through dozens of listener suggestions to nominate Joe Jackson's Look Sharp, Jane's Addiction's Ritual de lo Habitual and this 1985 Manchester classic, which won in a landslide election. While half of us moaned about the album choice from our mystery nominators (MIA), we all had lots of great memories to share of adoring and rolling our eyes at NO. Superfan Sam hosted and held up lots of New Order vinyl, old tshirts were dusted off and Adam delivered an avalanche of guest rankers, starting with internationally-loved San Diego superstars Koi Division, who donned their iconic fish heads for a filmed interview. Days later, he visited Gold Diggers Sound in Los Angeles to chat with Dave Trumfio of the synth-lovin' Pulsars, whose lone 1997 debut/farewell album has finally recently been reissued. The two full interviews will be on our Youtube channel. Just you wait. In addition to getting tribute band opinions from San Francisco's Temptation and San Diego's Thieves Like Us (Substance responded too late to have their support for "Sunrise" be included), he got first hand accounts of 91X FM's infamous 1985 year-end countdown switcheroo from DJs Dwight Arnold, Pam Wolf and Billy Bones. Listen at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify and your favorite voting booth. Follow us and weigh in with your favorites on Facebook, Instagram & Threads and Twitter @wewillrankyoupod .
SPOILERS/FILE UNDER: Angel dust, Angel Dust, Dwight Arnold, As It Is When It Was, Blue Monday, Billy Bones, breathing solo, Brotherhood, capitalization, Jimmy Cliff, Ian Clownfish, cowbell, the Cure, dance pop, darkwave, Darker Waves Festival, Jonathan Demme, Depeche Mode, double claps, Echo and the Bunnymen, Elegia, England, Erasure, Face Up, Factory Records, folk music, frogs, funeral soundtrack, Gene Loves Jezebel, Gillian Gilbert, harpsichord, Hook, Peter Hook, hooky, Hooky, Joy Division, Koi Division, Love Vigilantes, Low-Life, Manchester, Ennio Morricone, Stephen Morris, New Order, new wave, 91X FM, Oyster Band, Paradise, The Perfect Kiss, post-punk, Power Corruption and Lies, Pretty In Pink, Pulsars, request episode, Bernard Salmon, Peter Saville, seasonable, shaft, shenanigans, Simple Minds, Sooner Than You Think, Sub-culture, Bernard Sumner, Sunrise, synthpop, Temptation, terrible lyrics, Thieves Like Us, This Time of Night, tribute band, Dave Trumfio, Weirdo, Steve West, Pam Wolf, 1963, 1985.
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What's your most favorite and least-loved songs on World Party's second album Goodbye Jumbo? Dan chose this old college fave but Jim and Adam recall seeing them on this tour before playing spot the references on this fun episode. We received not one but TWO amazing late guest ranker responses. Stay to the very end to hear Ian McNabb from Icicle Works and Johnette Napolitano from Concrete Blonde's sweet soul remembrances. Hear our latest rankin' at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify, Youtube and on Love Street. To hear Johnette talk about World Party for more than one sentence, we recommend this 2024 episode of Songs You Forgot https://open.spotify.com/episode/3b6fgzq3OX7cAfUun6ncSK. FILE UNDER/SPOILERS: Ain't Gonna Come Till I'm Ready, And I Fell Back Alone, Baby Please Don’t Go, the Beatles, Be Bop A Lula, Joe Blaney, Concrete Blonde, Sheryl Crow, fake flutes, Peter Garrett, God on My Side, grow the beard, hippy, Icicle Works, Is It Too Late?, Jellyfish, KPRI cruise, Lenny Kravitz, Love Street, Paul McCartney, Ian McNabb, Mister Postman, Johnette Napolitano, New Kids on the Block, Sinead O'Connor, the planet, Prince, Put the Message in the Box, rare '61 Beatles, rats are on their way, San Diego Street Scene, Chris Sharrock, Ship of Fools, Show Me to the Top, Sly and the Family Stone, Supertramp, Sweet Soul Dream, Take It Up, Thank You World, TV Eye, Karl Wallinger, the Waterboys, Way Down Now, When the Rainbow Comes, Wings, Chris Witten, World Party, 1990 US: http://www.WeWillRankYouPod.com [email protected] NEW! Host tips: Venmo @wewillrankyoupod http://www.facebook.com/WeWillRankYouPod http://www.instagram.com/WeWillRankYouPod https://www.threads.net/@WeWillRankYouPod http://wewillrankyoupod.bsky.social/ http://www.YerDoinGreat.com (Adam's music page) https://open.spotify.com/user/dancecarbuzz (Dan's playlists) Songs You Forgot podcast with Johnette talking about World Party https://open.spotify.com/episode/3b6fgzq3OX7cAfUun6ncSK
What's your most favorite and least-loved songs on Lloyd Cole and the Commotions' debut classic Rattlesnakes? Jim chose this one for a full-on lovefest unifier. We've all dug Lloyd since last century, even seeing him together with Michael Penn in 1990. Mister Cole politely declined to rank his own record but you can hear him kindly chime in on our Highway 61 Revisited episode. Even better, we got Camera Obscura's Tracyanne Campbell to tell us her favorites along with Mike Remoll, the Cool Brother Hall of Famer that introduced Jim to the Commotions 40 years ago (stay tuned & listen post-credits!). Hear it at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify, Youtube and on Charlotte Street. FILE UNDER/SPOILERS: Tori Amos, Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken, Athens Georgia, Camera Obscura, Tracyanne Campbell, Truman Capote, Charlotte Street, Neil Clark, Leonard Cohen, Lloyd Cole, college rock, the Commotions, Cosmopolitan, Blair Cowan, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, Lawrence Donegan, Lonnie Donegan, Down At The Mission, Down on Mission Street, Anne Dudley, Bob Dylan, Faces, folk rock, Forest Fire, Four Flights Up, Greta Garbo, Glasgow, golf, hair, Paul Hardiman, Stephen Irvine, Jangle pop, Jim, Jodie, Julie, Grace Kelly, lead acoustic, Arthur Lee, library girl, Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken, Louise, Love, Norman Mailer, Mainstream, one note solo, Patience, Michael Penn, Perfect Skin, Rattlesnakes, REM, Mike Remoll, Ronald, Eva Marie Saint, Scotland, sexual enlightenment, the Smiths, Speedboat, Strava, strings, Tracy Thorn, 2CV, Velvet Underground, 1984 US: http://www.WeWillRankYouPod.com [email protected] NEW! Host tips: Venmo @wewillrankyoupod http://www.facebook.com/WeWillRankYouPod http://www.instagram.com/WeWillRankYouPod https://www.threads.net/@WeWillRankYouPod http://wewillrankyoupod.bsky.social/ http://www.YerDoinGreat.com (Adam's music page) https://open.spotify.com/user/dancecarbuzz (Dan's playlists) http://www.LloydCole.com https://youtu.be/Oc9BrOdET2U full Mike Remoll interview with historic photos!
What're your most favorite and least-loved songs on this first collection of Bee Gees hits from 1969? Adam chose this childhood favorite from his parents' shelves, pulling one of the most annoying music snob cards: I prefer their earlier work. Sorry, disco fans. We're talking about the super sad orchestra classics from the Brothers Gibb. Australia's own Angie Hart from Frente! chimes in from down under with her favorites. Hear it at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify, Youtube and Massachusetts (one place I have seen).
Adam picked the soundtrack of his childhood for his first rerun episode. Jim wrote three sentences for his rerun episode. Dan's intro was 90 seconds. Adam's Behind The Scenes Ted Talk goes on for over three unbearable minutes but the good news is that two members of Schoolhouse Rock creator Bob Dorough's 1996 band, Paul Gutierrez and Frank Meyer, who couldn't make it when we originally recorded this episode kindly sent us their picks for favorite SHR toon! Originally released July 28, 2022 HEY! What's your most-loved and least favorite Schoolhouse Rock song!? The gang takes a look at their five favorite tunes from the iconic 1970s educational television cartoons of their youth. Adam dreamed up the idea to do our first top five episode, focusing on Multiplication, Grammar and America from the series' Golden Era, 1973-1976. Our first-ever 1970s-era show is crammed with fun facts, interjections, bootlegs and contests SHR royalty Aralee Dorough (voice on "My Hero Zero" and daughter of creator Bob Dorough) even kindly weighs in with her favorite! Please tell us in the comments how YOU would rank tonight's tunes on Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Bluesky @wewillrankyoupod ! FILE UNDER/SPOILERS: ABC, American Rock, animation, Blind Melon, Jeff Buckley, cartoons, Conjunction Junction, darn that's the end, Blossom Dearie, Bob Dorough, De La Soul, education, Elbow Room, Figure Eight, Fireworks, flute, Grammar Rock, The Great American Melting Pot, Hamilton, I'm Just a Bill, Interjections!, jazz, Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here, manifest destiny, Essra Mohawk, Mother Necessity, Multiplication Rock, No More Kings, A Noun is a Person, Place, or Thing, Preamble, rats, Ready or Not, Here I Come, Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla, Saturday morning cartoons, Schoolhouse Rock, Jack Sheldon, The Shot Heard Round the World, Sufferin' Till Suffrage, Three is a Magic Number, Unpack Your Adjectives, Verb: That's What's Happening, WOW, 1970s. US: http://www.WeWillRankYouPod.com NEW! Host tips: Venmo @wewillrankyoupod [email protected] http://www.facebook.com/WeWillRankYouPod http://www.instagram.com/WeWillRankYouPod http://www.threads.com/WeWillRankYouPod http://www.YourOlderBrother.com (Sam's music page) http://www.YerDoinGreat.com (Adam's music page) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4OFTIda46Di4HkS0CDvM7L (Dan's top 100 songs of 2020) THEM: https://www.schoolhouserock.tv
What's your most favorite and least-loved songs on Soul Coughing's debut album? Dan chose this crazy bit of 1994 word salad jazz hiphop fusion for us to rank. He and Adam share stories of seeing the band, their kind submission for the Songs For Summer memorial album and witnessing their first time playing together in 25 years while Jim struggles to find nice things to say. FIGHT! Black Crystal Wolf Kids' Jeff Miller chimes in via video from Mexico. Hear it at WeWillRankYouPod.com, Apple, Spotify, Reseda, Wichita but not Chicago. FILE UNDER/SPOILERS: Alternative hiphop, Tori Amos, the Andrews Sisters, Beastie Boys, Ben Folds Five, Black Crystal Wolf Kids, Tchad Blake, Blueeyed Devil, Summer Brannin, Bus to Beelzebub, cartoon music, Casiotone Nation, Ray Charles, City of Motors, Courageous Cat Minute Mouse, Mark de Gli Antoni, Digable Planets, Mike Doughty, Down to This, the five percent nation, Mitchell Froom, Ruby Froom, Fu Schnickens, Fugazi, funky, Yuval Gabay, HFStival, hiphop, Howlin' Wolf, I'll get the wrists, Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago, Janine, jazz, Knitting Factory, Jeff Miller, Mr. Bitterness, Mister Roger's Neighborhood, the Modern Lovers, Moon Sammy, New York, noir, rap, reunion, Ruby Vroom, sampling, Schoolhouse Rock, Raymond Scott, Screenwriter's Blues, Solid Steel Radio Show, Songs For Summer, Soul Coughing, spoken word, standup bass, Sebastian Steinberg, Igor Stravinzsky, Sugar Free Jazz, Supra Genius, television themes, Toots and the Maytals, A Tribe Called Quest, True Dreams of Wichita, Uh, Zoom Zip, upright bass, Suzanne Vega, velvet crush, voulez-vous the bus, yellow number five, Yor, you get the ankles, John Zorn, 1994. US: http://www.WeWillRankYouPod.com [email protected] NEW! Host tips: Venmo @wewillrankyoupod http://www.facebook.com/WeWillRankYouPod http://www.instagram.com/WeWillRankYouPod https://www.threads.net/@WeWillRankYouPod http://wewillrankyoupod.bsky.social/