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Tales of the Proverbial 2nd Chance v 61

Artist Song
Wreckless Eric  Whole Wide World 
Ramones  Babysitting 
Cheap Trick  He's A Whore 
Who  Anyway Anyhow Anywhere 
Blondie  In The Sun 
Buzzcocks  Ever Fallen In Love 
Elvis Costello  Big Tears 
Pretenders  Precious 
Plastic Bertrand  Ca Plane Pour Moi 
XTC  Traffic Light Rock/Into The Atom Age 
Motors  You Beat The Hell Outta Me 
Modern Lovers  Modern World 
Pete Shelley  Homosapien 
Bay City Rollers  Saturday Night 
Raspberries  Go All The Way 
Abba  Waterloo 
Nick Lowe  Shake and Pop 
Runaways  Queens Of Noise (live in Tokyo 1978) 
Blondie  Bang A Gong/Funtime (live in Dallas 1980) 

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This is volume 61 of Tales of the Proverbial 2nd Chance, a mix intended for broadcast on public radio and/or internet radio. Power Pop history. Sugarless bubble gum, anyone?
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lo-fi jr.
Date: 1/21/2002
Great cover (as always)& my favorite mix of your series thus far.
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Jon Neukam
Date: 1/21/2002
:-) thanx....you can see it is a pretty standard run through, but the thing that really turned out to be a lot of fun was the perfect way the Saturday Night chant laid right on top of the guitar intro to Go All The Way.....there is a guilty pleasure in this mix as well, the final Blondie cut is from a rerelease Capitol did, at the beginning of it, Debbie Harry is screaming at the crowd to move back 'cause the folks at the front were getting crushed...well, that was me getting crushed...I will never forget that show 'cause she grabbed my hand and pulled me to the front to sing In The Flesh to me....whoa
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Rob Conroy
Date: 1/23/2002
Yeah, this *is* great, Jon.
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Jon Neukam
Date: 1/23/2002
thanx a lot...that is really appreciated...you know, one of the interesting things about this set is not so much the artists, but the producers that actually designed the tunes...think about it: you've got Mike Chapman, Nick Lowe, Jack Douglas, John Leckie, Kim Fowley...they are the ones that designed it...and in terms of being disposable, almost all of them have admitted what would be considered "shame" for doing it....it was a great time in music....i remember seeing Kim Fowley on the old Tom Snyder show (not the recent series but the first) back in 1977 already talking about power pop just as Snyder was trying to introduce at least a grab of what punk was to the American audience....the word was that at the time, Nick Lowe only owned three albums and the one he would not stop raving about was Cheap Trick's "In Color"...then Pure Pop For Now People was released and the rest is history (he stayed a failure, hahah, until a guy picked up on What's So Funny for The Bodyguard soundtrack)
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p the swede
Date: 3/11/2002
this was a fab mix
even Bay city rollers fits in