Grove Show Playlists

1. The Beastie Boys – (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right to Party

2. The Ramones – Sheena is a Punk Rocker

3. Blondie – Union City Blues

4. Sinead O’Connor – Mandinka

5. Kate Bush – Babooshka

6. Garbage – Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!)

7. Suede – Trash

8. REM – Strange

9. Sultans Of Ping PC – Where’s Me Jumper?

10. Something Happens – Hello (Petrol)

11. The Stone Roses – She Bangs the Drums

12. The Smiths – Panic

13. The Cure – 10.15 Saturday Night

14. New Order – True Faith

15. Depeche Mode- World in My Eyes

16. AC/DC – Touch Too Much

17. Rainbow – Since You’ve Been Gone

18. Nirvana – In Bloom

19. Jane’s Addiction – Been Caught Stealing

20. Talking Heads – Psycho Killer

21. Bob – Dylan – Lay Lady Lay

22. Brian Kennedy – Captured

23. The Monkees – What am I Doing Hangin’ Round

24. The Beatles – Don’t Let Me Down

25. The Rolling Stones – She’s a Rainbow

26. Tom Petty – Christmas All Over Again

27. Oasis – Merry Xmas Everybody

28. The Pogues - Fiesta

...and wishing you, Marian, Grace and your wider family a healthy and peaceful New Year for 2024...

1. Haunted – Shane McGowan RIP - 65 & Sinead O’Connor RIP - 56

2. So Long Marianne – Christy Dignam RIP - 63

3. Our House – David Crosby RIP (81), Stills, Nash & Young

4. Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd (Gary Rossington RIP - 71)

5. We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) - Tina Turner RIP - 83

6. Underwear -Pulp (Steve Mackay RIP -56)

7. There is a Light that Never Goes Out - The Smiths (Andy Rourke RIP - 59)

8. Fool for Your Lovin’ – Whitesnake (Bernie Marsden RIP - 72)

9. So Far Away – Dire Straits (Jack Sonni RIP – 68)

10. Desperado - Linda Ronstadt (Randy Meisner RIP - 77)

11. Home Thoughts from Abroad - Clifford T Ward (for Teresa Kelly Bridgette RIP)

12. Lola – The Kinks (John Gosling RIP – 75)

13. Band on the Run – Wings (Denny Laine RIP - 79)

14. See No Evil – Television (Tom Verlaine RIP - 73)

15. Early Morning Rain – Gordon Lightfoot RIP - 84

16. Rain Drops Keep Falling on my Head – Manic Street Preachers (Burt Bacharach RIP - 94)

17. The Band – The Weight (Robbie Robertson – 80)

18. Pretty in Pink – Psychedelic Furs (Mars Williams – 68)

19. Smash it Up – The Damned (Algy Ward RIP - 63)

20. Trouble (with a Capital T) – Horslips (Johnny Fean RIP - 71)

21. Nearly Lost You - The Screaming Trees (Van Connor RIP - 55)

22. The 80s – Killing Joke (Geordie Walker RIP – 64)

23. Spellbound – Siouxsie & the Banshees (for Paula O’Connor RIP)

24. Hi Ho Silver Lining – Jeff Beck RIP - 78

25. Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) – Pink Floyd (for Andy St. Ledger RIP)

26. Don’t Give Up on Us  - David Soul RIP - 80 

27. Life On Mars – David Bowie (anniversary birthday next week). 

1. Can I Sit Next to You Girl – AC/DC

2. Night by Night – Steely Dan

3. Witch Queen of New Orleans - Redbone

4. The Night Comes Down – Queen

5. Rain – Status Quo

6. Fire and Water – Free

7. Mississippi Queen – Mountain 

8. Bring it on Home – Led Zeppelin (for to Barbara O Shea - here's to a great year in 2024)

9. Party Girl (live) – U2 (Happy Birthday Peter Gaynor)

10. The New York Shuffle – Graham Parker & the Rumour

11. One More time – Joe Jackson

12. Mary Jane’s Last Dance (Live) – Tom Petty (for the radio crew, for the fantastic work they do to keep us Grovers entertained; also to all my loyal Grove pals, at home and abroad. I love being in the Grove gang)

13. Take me back ‘ome – Slade

14. The Boys of Summer – Don Henley (Happy 60th Anniversary Vera & Kevin Byrne)

15. School Days – The Runways                                                    

16. Spooky – Dusty Springfield

17. Whorehouse Blues – Motorhead

18. Badge – Cream

19. New York Telephone Conversation – Lou Reed

20. Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles (for Cecil RIP)

21. Light Flight – The Pentangle

22. Let’s Spend the Night Together – The Rolling Stones

23. Gimme Shelter – The Rolling Stones

24. Late in the Evening – Paul Simon

25. Kayleigh – Marillion

26. Bad Reputation – This Lizzy

27. Comin’ Home – Delaney and Bonnie    

28. Take it Easy – The Eagles-(for Glen Frey anniversary, 18 Jan)

Like you I couldn't afford to buy much stuff in my teens (before I started working, even then not so much for a couple years) so depended on radio Luxembourg, radio Geronimo !, BBC radio...

I am the same with pulling together playlists, lots of stuff, trying to decide what's Grove-suitable/played in the Grove/band that was played in the Grove, maybe a different track that hadn't been played there etc. And the odd track from the 60s/70s that maybe was never played in the Grove, but that I think people might enjoy (couple of them in my playlist on Friday!).  I always end up with enough material for another playlist from what I left out of the current one ... and so it goes...

I have never played a song that I don't like; one of the pleasures of doing out playlists is I get great enjoyment from listening to them myself! Interesting that Cecil said the same, something I often wondered about him. 

There's also a fair bit of stuff I listen to that wouldn't really suit the radio show  - too heavy, too niche, etc. And we have to respect that too. At the end of the day, and within the Grove parameters, the songs on the playlist have to entertain the listeners, and that's what it's all about...

And you thought you were babbling, Pat!!! 

1. Cinema – Yes

2. Eminence Front -The Who

3. Canary in a Coalmine – The Police

4. Upon the My Oh My – Captain Beef-heart & His Magic Band

5. Run Through the Jungle – Creedence Clearwater Revival (for Pat McMorrow & Mel Lavin)

6. Dirty Laundry – Don Henley

7. Shout to the Top – The Style Council (for Paula O’Connor RIP)

8. More than This – Roxy Music

9. Lost in the Supermarket -The Clash

10. The Beast in Me – Nick Lowe

11. Over the Hillside- The Blue Nile

12. The Fletcher Memorial Home – Pink Floyd

13. Mrs Robinson – The Lemonheads

14. Nothing But Flowers – Talking Heads

15. Got to Give it Up – Thin Lizzy

16. Blitzkrieg Bop -The Ramones

17. Solsbury Hill – Peter Gabriel

18. Dreams -The Cranberries

19. Oceans – Pearl Jam

20. Blue Jean-David Bowie

21. May You Never -John Martyn

22. Hounds of Love – Kate Bush

23. Gypsy – Fleetwood Mac

24. Tomorrow Never Knows – The Beatles

25. 40 – U2

The Grove Radio Show - 15 March 2024- Johnny Holmes 1977 Rock Playlist

1. Status Quo – Rockin’ All Over the World

2. Sex Pistols – Pretty Vacant

3. Tom Robinson Band – 2, 4, 6, 8 Motorway

4. Ram Jam – Black Betty

5. Foreigner – Cold as Ice

6. Eagles – Hotel California

7. Eric Clapton – Cocaine

8. 10cc – The Things We Do for Love (Released Dec ’76 but Major Hit in ’77)

9. Queen – We Are the Champions

10. The Boomtown Rats – Lookin’ After No. 1

11. Mr. Big – Romeo

12. Boz Scaggs – Lido Shuffle

13. Thin Lizzy – Dancing in the Moonlight (It’s Caught Me in Its Spotlight)

14. The Stranglers – No More Heroes

15. Electric Light Orchestra – Telephone Line

16. Steve Miller Band – Jet Airliner

17. David Bowie – Sound and Vision

18. Yes – Wonderous Stories

19. Fleetwood Mac – Don’t Stop

20. The Dead-End Kids – Have I the Right?

21. Alessi Brothers – Oh Lori

22. Queen – We Will Rock You

23. Rod Stewart – You’re in My Heart

24. Electric Light Orchestra – Turn to Stone

25. The Stranglers – Peaches

26. The Boomtown Rats – Mary of the 4th Form

27. 10cc – Good Morning Judge

28. David Bowie – Heroes

29.  Fleetwood Mac - Dreams