Friday 29 January 2010

Soft Rock Classics Show 30th January 2010

Is 2010 treating you well? I'm in the UK so obviously it's cold, grey and miserable.
1) ZZ Top - TV dinners
2) Jethro Tull - Locomotive breath
3) Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Can't stop
4) Everclear - Father of mine
5) Santana - Smooth
6) Lenny Kravitz - American woman
7) Smash Mouth - All star
8) Blink 182 - What's my age again
9) Marija - Human again. To learn more about this blissfully talented female lead band from Canada, go to www.shadowtalk.com or www.myspace.com/rijamusic
10) Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I hate myself for loving you
11) Fyfe Dangerfield - She needs me
12) ELO - Don't bring me down
13) Iron Butterfly - In-a-gadda-da-vida
14) Avril Lavigne - Happy ending
15) Evanescence - My immortal
16) Bowling For Soup - 1985
17) Green Day - Wake me up when September ends
18) Linkin Park - From the inside
19) Dire Straits - Tunnel of love
20) Queen - I want it all
21) Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet home Alabama
22) Deep Purple - Perfect strangers
23) Saxon - Denim and leather
24) Status Quo - Dirty water
25) Medicine Head - One and one is one
This week's third hour features contemporary eclectic, adventurous music from a diversity of styles and eras. No, I don't understand what that means either.
1) Ryan Adams - Answering bell
2) Crosby Stills and Nash - Suite Judy blue eyes
3) Joni Mitchell - Chelsea morning
4) Van Morrison - In the days before rock 'n' roll
5) Bob Dylan - Blowing in the wind
6) Fairport Convention - Meet on the ledge
7) Damian Rice - Cannonball
8) Neil Young - Sugar mountain
9) Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
10) Jackson Browne - In the shape of a heart
11) Alan Parsons Project - Old and wise
12) Tim Hardin - How can we hang on to a dream
13) Kate Bush - The man with the child in his eyes

Monday 25 January 2010

Welcome one and all

This programme continues to be the fastest growing in Europe, with an additional eight stations coming on board in the first part of 2010. All sorts of stations for all sorts of people, the most unlikely being a station called Teenhits. Aimed at teenagers. Taking the Soft Rock Classics Show? Ah well, the more the merrier and it might educate some of these teens into the joys of proper music.

Thursday 21 January 2010

Soft Rock Classics Show 23rd January 2010

The competition to win the Waterstone's guitar is nearing its end and will be judged in the next week or so. It's your last chance to get your MP3 entry in NOW.
1) Great White - Once bitten, twice shy
2) Rolling Stones - Mixed emotions
3) Stevie Nicks - Stand back
4) Queen - The miracle
5) Marillion - Hooks in you
6) Tom Petty - Running down a dream
7) Chris Rea - The road to hell part two
8) Aerosmith - What it takes
9) Don Henley - New York minute
10) Eric Clapton - Forever man
11) Poco - Call it love
12) Led Zeppelin - Whole lotta love
13) Elvis Presley - Don't be cruel
14) Chuck Berry - Johnny b goode
15) Gene Vincent - Be bop a Lula
16) Kris Kancler - Stand up for the USA. Also known as Superstar, for more on this up and coming patriotic American artist, go to www.superstar.com
17) Van Halen - Why can't this be love
18) Panic At The Disco - I write sins, not tragedies
19) Mountain - Nantucket sleighride
20) Rush - Tom Sawyer
21) Muse - Our time is running out
22) Lost Prophets - Where we belong
23) The Who - See me, feel me
24) The Doors - Love me two times
This weeks extra third hour features non stop classic heavy rock
1) Motorhead - Ace of spades
2) Judas Priest - Hell bent for leather
3) Iron Maiden - Hollowed be thy name
4) Black Sabbath - Iron man
5) Dio - The last in line
6) ACDC - Highway to hell
7) Metallica - The unforgiven
8) Guns 'N' Roses - Paradise city
9) Ozzy Osborne - Mr Crowley
10) Ted Nugent - Cat scratch fever
11) Foo Fighters - Learning to fly
12) Megadeath - No more mister nice guy

Friday 15 January 2010

Soft Rock Classics Show 16th January

So how is 2010 treating you so far?
1) Iggy Pop - Lust for life
2) Ram Jam - Black Betty
3) Steve Miller Band - Swingtime
4) Thin Lizzy - Dancing in the moonlight
5) Fleetwood Mac - The chain
6) Heart - Barracuda
7) Peter Gabriel - Solsbury hill
8) Chicago - Baby what a big surprise
9) Meatloaf - All revved up and no place to go
10) Warmachine - Moving on. For more on this new, Toronto based four piece band, go to www.myspace.com/warmachine or www.warmachineonline.com
11) My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the black parade
12) Blink 182 - The rock show
13) Sum 41 - Fat lip
14) Van Der Graff Generator - Theme 1
15) Placebo - Nancy boy
16) Weezer - Hash pipe
17) Bush - Swallowed
18) Chicken Shack - I'd rather go blind
19) INXS - Beautiful girl
20) Warmachine - We're the chemical
21) Metallica - One
22) Greenday - When I come around
23) White Stripes - Dead leaves and the dirty ground
24) Buzzcocks - What do I get
25) PIL - Rise
26) Mason Williams - Classical gas
Every week,I use the extra third hour of the show to look deeper at a particular genre of rock. This week, an hour of hair metal.
1) KISS - I was made for lovin' you
2) Def Leppard - Rock of ages
3) Poison - Cry tough
4) Twisted Sister - We're not gonna take it
5) Motley Crue - Too young to fall in love
6) Ratt - Round an round
7) Skid Row - 18 and life
8) Nelson - I can't live without your love and devotion
9) Warrant - Cherry pie
10) Cinderella - Somebody save me
11) WASP - The real me
12) Quiet Riot - Cum on feel the noize
13) Loverboy - Working for the weekend
14) Extreme - More than words

Friday 8 January 2010

Soft Rock Classics Show 9th January 2010

If one more person tells me the weather is gorgeous where they are (not in the UK)random acts of violence may be committed.
1) Cream - Strange brew
2) Love - Alone again or
3) Van Morrison - Brown eyed girl
4) Jimi Hendrix - Little wing
5) Eric Burdon & The Animals - San Franciscan nights
6) Rolling Stones - She's a rainbow
7) Pink Floyd - See Emily play
8) Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to love
9) Them Crooked Vultures - New fang
10) The Scorpions - The zoo
11) Def Leppard - Nine lives
12) Python Lee Jackson - In a broken dream
13) Gary Moore - Still got the blues
14) John Lee Hooker - Boom boom
15) Stryper - Calling on you
16) David Bowie - Suffragette city
17) REM - Orange crush
18) Queen - Hammer to fall
19) Buffalo Springfield - For what it's worth
20) Bad Company - Shooting star
21) Biffy Clyro - Many of horror
22) Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian restaurant
23) Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant disguise
24) David Gray and Annie Lennox - Full steam
25) Robert Cray - Right next door (because of me)
In this weeks extra hour, I featured the second generation of rock, those group who kept rock alive in the late 1970's into the early 1980's.
1) The Cars - Just what I needed
2) Van Halen - Ain't talking about love
3) The Police - Can't stand losing you
4) John Mellencamp - Hurts so good
5) Tom Petty - Refugee
6) Foreigner - Jukebox hero
7) Aerosmith - Walk this way
8) Genesis - Mama
9) Bryan Adams - Cuts like a knife
10) Boston - More than a feeling
11) Bob Seger - Hollywood nights
12) Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie
13) Heart - Never

Saturday 2 January 2010

Soft Rock Classics Show 2nd January 2010

Happy new year, this weeks first hour looks back at 2009.
1) U2 - Get on your boots
2) Bruce Springsteen - Working on a dream
3) Green Day - 21 guns
4) Nickelback - If today was your last day
5) Dream Theatre - Wither
6) The Killers - Human
7) KISS - Modern day Delilah
8) Chickenfoot - Soap on a rope
9) Kings Of Leon - Use somebody
10) Shinedown - Second chance
11) Lynyrd Skynyrd - Still unbroken
12) Elbow - One day like this
13) Robin George - Heartline
14) Journey - Open arms
15) Genesis - Turn it on again
16) Girlschool - Race with the devil
17) Gillan - Nightmare
18) Elvis Presley - Baby I don't care
19) Fats Domino - Ain't that a shame
20) Black Crowes - Hard to handle
21) Elton John - The bitch is back
22) Asia - Heat of the moment
23) Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond
24) Uriah Heep - The wizard
25) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
From this week on selected stations there will be an extra hour of the show, looking at a particular genre of rock music. This week, it's the 1960's and 1970's.
1) The Doors - Light my fire
2) The Who - I can't explain
3) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have you ever seen the rain
4) Led Zeppelin - Ramble on
5) The Beatles - While my guitar gently weeps
6) The Band - Stagefright
7) Bob Dylan - Positively 4th street
8) Neil Young - Old man
9) Rolling Stones - You can't always get what you want
10) Golden Earring - Radar love
11) Blood Sweat And Tears - Spinning wheel
12) Badfinger - No matter what
13) Deep Purple - Woman from Tokyo