Some summer songs ...

Pixies: Tony’s Theme

Cheap Trick: Southern Girls

Len: Steal My Sunshine

The Knack: Your Number or Your Name

Wire Train: Crashing Back to You

The Plimsouls: A Million Miles Away

Echo & the Bunnymen: Lovers on the Run

Echo & the Bunnymen: Heads Will Roll (Summer Version)

The Psychedelic Furs: Sleep Comes Down

Gin Blossoms: Found Out About You

The Beach Boys: In My Room

Lucius: Go Home

Paul Westerberg: (Untitled Track) i.e. Postcards From Paradise

The Monkees: Pleasant Valley Sunday

Translator: Everything You See

How about some evening remixes?

The Jesus & Mary Chain: Taste the Floor

Ian McCulloch: Lover, Lover, Lover

The Psychedelic Furs: Shock

U2: Even Better Than the Real Thing

INXS: Black and White

Blur: High Cool

Blondie: Atomic

DEVO: Peek-A-Boo

Duran Duran: Is There Something I Should Know?

Human League: Release

Blue-eyed Brit soul and Pete de Freitas

Here's the playlist for this week, marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Pete de Freitas, which is next week:

Pixies: Tony’s Theme

JoBoxers: Just Got Lucky

The Style Council: Ever Changing Moods

Culture Club: Church of the Poison Mind

Spandau Ballet: True

Echo & the Bunnymen: Over the Wall (live)

Echo & the Bunnymen: Meteorites

Midnight Oil: Kosciusko (live)

The Bangles: Hero Takes a Fall

Ride: Taste

Bread: Make It With You

Big Country: Fields of Fire

Blur: Commercial Break

Tunes tonight ...

Pixies: Tony’s Theme

Echo & the Bunnymen: Holy Moses

Tones on Tail: Go!

Adorable: Sistine Chapel Ceiling

INXS: On My Way

Keith Richards: 999

Lift: Better to Be Brave

The Replacements: Talent Show

Lucius: Turn it Around

Wire Train: Should She Cry

The Damned: New Rose

The Ramones: Bonzo Goes to Bitburg

Curtain Society: Beautiful Song

Bananarama: Cruel Summer

Spinal Tap: Cups and Cakes

Three decades of ‘Ocean Rain’

This week on the Taste the Floor Show, I celebrated the 30th anniversary of “Ocean Rain,” by Echo & the Bunnymen, which was released in May 1984. Here are some tracks from the album as well as live versions and other songs recorded during the same time period:

The Killing Moon (All Night version)
My Kingdom
Thorn of Crowns (live)
Crystal Days
Angels & Devils
Seven Seas
Silver (Tidal Wave version)
The Yo-Yo Man (live)
Watch Out Below (John Peel Sessions)
Nocturnal Me
Ocean Rain

Tonight's playlist ...

If you missed the show, you can always hear it at 5 p.m. on Saturdays during the playback hour! 

Pixies: Tony’s Theme

Lucius: Don’t Just Sit There

Blake Babies: Star

My Bloody Valentine: Soon

Sybil Vane: Whips and Lollipops

The Go-Go’s: Turn to You

Elastica: The Connection

Cyndi Lauper: Money Changes Everything

Blondie: Union City Blue

Concrete Blonde: When You Smile

Annette Farrington: Let the World Go Away

Liz Phair: Rock Me

The Velvet Underground: All Tomorrow’s Parties

Ting Tings: Fruit Machine

On-air fundraiser from 4-7 p.m. today!

FYI everyone: I'll be on WNHN 94.7 LP in Concord from 4 to 7 p.m. today helping to raise money for the station. Tune in if you get the chance here: WNHN ... you can also read my story about the fundraiser here: WNHN On-Air Fundraiser Held Friday, Saturday