POD #183 JULY 4TH SPECIAL: PEACEFUL SONGS FOR COMPLICATED TIMES W/PAUL SIMON, MARVIN GAYE, MORE

SLOW FICTION – “Satellites” JUNGLE – “Come Back to Me” THE WOMACK SISTERS- “If I Let You” BEN VAUGHN, DEER TICK – “When Love Returns” OK COWGIRL – “Rock ‘n Roll Ruined My Life” GRAHAM HUNT- “Getting Older” @ – “Punish My Mind” THE  CHUTES – “Scraping the Last Bits of Light” OVERMONO – “After the Rain” SAWYER HILL – “Tyin’ the Noose” LEX WALTON – “Hipster Runoff” MARGARET GLASPY – “Michigan” SAILOR HONEYMOON – “Bad Apple’ WINTER, PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE – “Hide A Lullaby (Mix Tape version) MAN/WOMAN/CHAINAW – “Nosedive” REAL NUMBERS – “Was It Always This Way” EBBB – “Side On” IMPERIAL TEEN – “Overdrive” JOSH ROUSE – “JANUARY SKY” M’SHELL NEDEOCELLO, CAT POWER – “Dont You Want Me” TIM CURRY – “I Do the Rock”  

THE TUBS – “Stoop to Me” ATMOS BLOOM –  “It’s Enough” EELS – “I’m on Standy” JOSH DA COSTA – ”Skygirl” 2nd GRADE – “Cellophone Girls” STEF CHURA – “Danny” KIWI, JR. – “Pure Michigan” MILITARIE GUN, MANNEQUIN PUSSY – “World’s Always Burning” DINOSAUR., JR. – “Blowin Up” CHARLI xcx – “Rock ‘n Roll” RICHARD THOMPSON – “Cocaine Walking, Blues Talking” CAT NAP – “Free in Anarchy” ROBIN HITCHCOCK – “I Am This Thing” SHEARWATER – “Slugs in the Marigolds” PANDA BEAR & SONIC BOOM – “A ? of When” STEPHEN WILSON, JR., MIRANDA LAMBERT – “Hardwired”  

ALLISON RUSSELL W/KARA JACKSON, DENETIA, EXPLORE! POP CHOIR – “Cold April” !TWISTED TEENS – “Florida Water Blues” JAWCROPPED – “Monday” INTERPOL – “Iron City”  ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN – “Brussels Is Haunted” SWAPMEET – “I Know” TRACEY NELSON – “Dolly’s Coat” FIONA APPLE – “Horns of a Bull” LOW CUT CONNIE ‘Living In the USA” ALABAMA SHAKES – “I Feel Hope Coming” SHARP PINS – “Saturday Sun” TWIN TEMPLES – “Doomed Lovers” LAVA LA RUE – “Prince of Bologna” DISGUISTING SISTERS – “Sorry Mister” BANDA AL9 – “She Calls Me Love” JAKE XERXES FUSSELL – “Rock Island Line”    

THIS IS LORELEI – “Billy Came Back” THE TUBS – “Who’s Gonna Leave You Now?”  LOS ANIMEROS – “La Camita” TWIN BLOOM – Summer’s Gone” JULIA JACKLIN – “Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You)” THE HANGING STARS – “The Glass House” HURRY – “The Dumbest Person You’ve Ever Seen” WHITMER THOMAS – “Candy Corn” SEU GEORGE, MARISA MONTE – “Quando Chego” TRABANTS – “Mirage” GIRL AND GIRL – “Hell” STYROFAUM WINOS – “New Friend”  

(open) MIKE MARSHALL, EDGAR MYER, BELA FLEK – “Big Country” PAUL SIMON – “American Tune’ THE AVETT BROTHERS – “This Land Is Your Land” BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD – “Fow What It’s Worth” WILCO – “Cruel Country” NEKO CASE – “Wayfairing Stranger” PETE SEGER – “We Shall Overcome” ANDRA DAY – “Rise Up” THE IMPRESSIONS – “This Is My Country” JESSE WELLS – “No Kings” MAVIS STAPLES – “Sad And Beautiful World” RUFUS WAINWRIGHT – “Going To A Town” MARVIN GAYE – “What’s Going On” THE BAND – ”I Shall Be Released” DAVE ALVIN – “4th of July” RANDY NEWMAN – “Sail Away” THE MENZINGERS – “America (You’re Freaking Me Out)” SIMON AND GARFUNKEL – “America” RAY CHARLES – “America The Beautiful” NINA SIMONE – “Here Comes The Sun”

FRANCES OF DELERIUM – “Little Black Dress” WISHY – “Lovesick” GRAHAM HUNT – “Waiting for You to Come Home” PAWPAW ROD – “Bettin’ On Me” CHICO DETOUR – “Crying at Your Party” BLUE LAB BEATS, JAMILA WOODS – “Slow Heart” MO TROPER – “Back To the Music” THE MARY WALLOPERS – “Crowns of England” BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – “It Takes One Lion” REAL NUMBERS – “Never Never Again” VINCE STAPLES – “Cotton” SEASICK STEVE – “The Last Season of America” WIDOWSPEAK – “If You Change” MEMORIALS – “Just a Moon” KURT VILE – “Chance to Bleed” JALEN NGONDA – “Burning Temptation” LES BIG BYRD – “Artificial Sunlight” ROSA WALTON – “Sorry Anyway” FRUIT BATS – “Think Aboutcha” BECK – “Ride Lonesome” LULUC – “Rewarding Melody” RODNEY CROWELL, EMMYLOU HARRIS, LERA LYN – “Go Light A Candle”    

BRIAN FALLON – “Not Bad For New Jersey” NIA ARCHIVES – “Boys in Blue” THE CORAL – “Let the Music Play” WESTSIDE COWBOY – “Kick Stones” PETEY USA – “Kiss the City” KIWI, JR. – “Blowin’ Up” MOUNTAIN GOATS – “Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds” TOUCH GIRL APPLE BLOSSOM – “The Springtime Reminds Me of…” THE MARLOES – “I’d Be Lost” STARCLEANER REUNION – “Weather Instrument” BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE – “Paying for Your Love” TRASCAN SINATRAS – “Melodramatic” MICHAEL STIPE, ANDREW WATT – “I Played the Fool” JAMES MADDOK – “Let My Guard Down” BROTHER WALLACE – “Who’s That” MICHIGANDER – “Freaking Out” HOTT MT – “Time Banisher”  DUCKS LTD. – “Easy Come, Easy Go” CAROLINE ROSE – “Yip Yip Yow” NEIL YOUNG, CHROME HEARTS – “Big Crime” JOBI RICCIO – “Wildfire Season” WILD PINK –  “Round of Applause at the End of the World” LOS MIRLOS, JUANES – “De Jueves a Jueves” THOMAS DOLLBAUM – “Rabbits” ROLLING STONES – “In the Stars”

 Open “Egyptian Reggae” from Rock ‘n Roll with the Modern Lovers  Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers (1976) “New England” Rock ‘n Roll with the Modern Lovers (1977) “Ice Cream Man” “Abdul and  Cleopatra” Jonathan Sings! (1983) “That Summer Feeling” “The Neighbors” “Give Paris One More Chance” It’s Time For (1986) “Just About Seventeen” “Corner Store” Modern Lovers ‘88 (1988) “Dancin’ Late at Night” :”When Harpo Played HI Harp” “Gail Loves Me” “New Kind Of Neighborhood” “I Love Hot Nights” Jonathan Goes Country (1990) “She Started to Ride” I, Jonathan (1994) “I Was Dancing At the Lesbian Bar” “Party in the U.S.A.” You Must Ask the Heart (1995) “Let Her Go Into the Darkness” “The Heart of Saturday Night” “Just Because I’m Irish” I’m So Confused (1998) “I’m So Confused” “True Love Is Not Nice” Her Mystery Not of Lipstick and High Heels (2001) “Her Mystery Not of Lipstick and High Heels” “Springtime in New York” Not So Much to Be Loved As to Love (2004) “Vincent van Gogh” Only Frozen Sky Anyway (2025) “Night Fever” Nerf Herder – How to Meet Girls (2000) “Jonathan”

PARTS & LABOR – “Missed Opportunities” DAZY – “Big Problem” HEY, NOTHING – “Boat Parade” PIGEON – “Miami” KNEECAP, KAE TEMPEST – “Irish Goodbye” SEASON 2 -”Becomes A Dream” SOCIAL DISTORTION – “The Way Things Were” IZZY ESCOBAR – “Hate to Be the One” JONATHAN JEREMIAH – “Good Day” ELLEN FROESE  – “Solitary Song” SAMMY DAVIS, JR., MIKE CURB CONGREGATION – “You Can Count On me” PEARL & THE OYSTERS – “Doom Mood” JOSH ROUSE, SUNYEARS, PETER MOREN – ‘Missed Opportunities” JENSIN MCRAE – “One More Cowboy” GUN OUTFIT – “Unfelt Loss” WEIRD NIGHTMARE, JULIANA ROLINO – “Bright City Lights” CHANEL BEADS – “Song for the Messenger” GREG MENDEZ – “Gentle Love” JAWDROPPED – “Monday” RIP MAGIC – “Screwdark” JIM E BROWN – “Ryan Adams Unfollowed Me on Instagram” BETH ORTON – “Waiting” LAMBCHOP – “Weakened” 

FRIKO – “Something Worth Waiting For THE TWILIGHT SAD – “Designed to Lose” LIME GARDEN –  “Cross My Heart” SEAN SOLOMON – “Shooting Star” ROSALI – “Other Side” AARON LEE TASJAN – “Lost and Alone” THE GNOMES – “Magic Man” LENNY KAYE – “Goin’ Local” MY NEW BAND BELIEVE – “In the Blink of An Eye” FROG – “Je Ne Sais Pais” DOUG GILLARD -”Face of Smiles” DEER TICK – “Let’s Go Dancing” JADE BIRD – “Uh Huh” THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS – “Overnight Sensation” THE GOODBYE RADIO – “Daydream Believer” FANTASY OF A BROKEN HEART, JEFF TWEEDY – “My Boy Limbo” THE TUBS – “Fade to Blsck” OTIS GIBBS – “Cry for Love” MORN – “The Standard Model” MEDIA PUZZLE – “Knowledge” ADRIAN YOUNGE – “Human Absence” FUTUREBIRDS – “Sleepless in the Cage” THE MILK CARTON KIDS – “I’ll Go Home From Here” LANA DEL REY – “First Light” KENNY ROGERS – “The Gambler”