Music Blog

Jeremy Petersen / March 20, 2010
@Robyn: So, no Death in the house (unfortunate in this contextm anyway), but some Stooges lined up for you... @Gunky: You will never hear any actual Hall & Oates here (I don't think), but after an ironic appreciation on my own part for a few years, I have to admit that Hall & Oates knew how to write a pop song. Even The Avett Brothers love them-- they didn't cover them that I know of, but expressed great love for their music when I interviewed them a couple of years back.

Jeremy Petersen / March 20, 2010
It's a dance party then!

Robyn / March 20, 2010
Thanks! The Alex Chilton tribute definitely made my evening :)

gunky / March 20, 2010
Hey, I love a good cover as much as the next guy. Terry Gross once had a singer-songwriter "redeem a song" and he made Abba's "Dancing Queen" seem poignant. But you're going to need to find something better than the Bird and Bee version of Private Eye to convince me. Wait, on second thought, don't! @Robyn -- Thanks. Help?

Robyn / March 20, 2010
@ gunky I wish I could help you on this Hall & Oates thing, but I've been enjoying my ass off!

Jeremy Petersen / March 20, 2010
My pleasure, thanks for hanging out!

Robyn / March 20, 2010
Stooges! Sweet!

gunky / March 20, 2010
Sigh. Revisionist history. Here I am, alone in the wilderness. Next thing you know, Michael Jackson will have been a blues singer. But let's not go there. Cheers.

Sharon / March 20, 2010
Yeah...that's super shameful! Oy vaysmeer. I'm keeping track and making a list, you know. And instead of tossing the stuff you get that isn't quite the same OPB Music fit and genre, you keep and sell it to Everyday Music and buy some used must-have classics. Like Cheap Trick. Such a great, classic American band. General Manager 101, as we learned in college radio. Le sigh. :)

Robyn / March 20, 2010
I'm literally dancing :)

Jeremy Petersen / March 20, 2010
They may be the first such announcement here, Robyn. At your service.

Sharon / March 20, 2010
Anyways, great show tonight!!! Thanks, Jeremy!

Robyn / March 20, 2010
Ok, this might be diving too deep into obscuria, but do you have the garage album "Just Colour" by the Weeds / the Lollipop Shoppe, or anything else by PDX legend Fred Cole (Dead Moon, etc.?) I would poop myself with joy ^_^

Jeremy Petersen / March 20, 2010
Eh, Cheap Trick. Meh. I like their songs when Built to Spill covers them ("Dream Police"). Otherwise, it's kind of hard to shake my childhood memory of the band: "The Flame." Forgive me, first impressions are hard to shake. And thanks for listening.

Robyn / March 20, 2010
Clearly, this is the best radio show on any bandwidth :) Can I request some old school Detroit punk (MC5, Stooges, Death, etc.?) XOXOXOX

Sharon / March 20, 2010
So delicious! I keep trying to switch over to watch the latest Caprica, but your show has been mesmerizing! The Ted Leo was awesome...I should be at that show. Also, this 'Lindstrom & Christabelle' is super wild 80's zebra-stripes fun ala Chromeo. Rad!

gunky / March 21, 2010
Ahh, JP, I hope you see the irony. You've come full circle with your last comment re: Cheaptrick (which I echo BTW) and which applies equally to the object of my previous scorn. I.e. the masters-wannabes, ... those who should not be named... H&O. I cannot shake my high school memories of them or Cheaptrick for that matter. It was a musical wasteland...

Jeremy Petersen / March 20, 2010
Well sure, Robyn. I'll see what I can do-- anything specific?

Jeremy Petersen / March 20, 2010
@Robyn- Hmm, that's a tough one. I can play new Pierced Arrows for your Cole fix. @Sharon- Yeah! Can't put it down radio! Is that what you're saying here? You cannot leave it? Can I quote you?

Ranjit / March 21, 2010
Sacrilege. Cheap Trick was the first band I saw in high school. And irony of ironies, a new-found friend's brother was the drummer kicked out of the band just before they made it big ... makes for a nice story - in kind of a sad way.

Robyn / March 20, 2010
I'd love to hear "Let the World Turn," from Death -- if you have it :)

Robyn / March 20, 2010
Yes! And that "September Gurls" really healed me. Thank you.

gunky / March 20, 2010
"Masters"? Hall and Oats? Oh, puhleez. Brings to mind thoughts of lipstick and pigs. No more of that, I beg you.

Sharon / March 20, 2010
In The Street covered by Cheap Trick? Great song.... This Replacements song is one of my own personal faves, also. Thanks.

Jeremy Petersen / March 20, 2010
Ah, you've stumped us, Sharon. Our Cheap Trick cupboard is empty. The shame.

Robyn / March 20, 2010
@Gunky: LOL

gunky / March 20, 2010
Miles Kurosky: Great antidote. I'm figuratively dancing. ;-)

Robyn / March 20, 2010
We're gonna have to start emailing you mp3s :P

gunky / March 20, 2010
I haven't heard the Avett's attempt to "master" H&O, but I have to assume they did it as a challenge. Maybe they lost a game of truth or dare?