Jan 26

the undertones-more songs about chocolate and girls
delaney-a toute alerte
my dad is dead-my safe place
galaxie 500-don't let our youth go to waste
the ex-in the event
destroyer-farrar, strauss, and giroux
chris bell-you and your sister
buffy st. marie-now that the buffalo's gone
matt pond pa-brooklyn stars
gram parsons-the new soft shoe
paper airplane pilots-she is a ghost
bigger lovers-they haunt me still
soft boys-positive vibrations
todd rundgren-it wouldn't have made any difference
ken stringfellow-here's to the future
mayflies usa-the good girls goodbye
pure joy-travelling is the king
kirby grips-all the time
stratford 4-displacer
big star-don't lie to me
celibate rifles-24 hours
mekons-empire of the senseless
television personalities-this angry silence
unicorns-les os
undertones-there goes norman
kursaal flyers-television generation
seventeen-don't let go
dwight twilley band-england
regular guys-it's a secret
barracudas-violent times
stratford survivors-now i know
pandoras-haunted beach party

1/19/06

Undertones-Chocolate and girls
Secret Affair-I'm not Free (but i'm cheap)
zumpano-here's the plan
matt pond pa-so much trouble
moon-faith healers
lost patrol band-golden times
fear-beer:30
can-halleluwah
julian cope-sunspots
only ones-you've got to pay
gang green-time to pay
gears-high school girls
human eye-kill pop culture
times new viking-the statue pt. ii
bevis frond-stain on the sun
flop-hello
raspberries-i wanna be with you
flamin' groovies-jumpin' in the night
the church-kings
the flatmates-i could be in heaven
teensge fanclub-slow fade
voxtrot-wrecking force
crawdaddys-you're gonna need my love someday
pezband-i'm leaving
paper airplane pilots-olivia
cheap trick-ain't that a shame
chesterfield kings-running through my nightmares
dils-tell her you love her
buzzcocks-ever fallen in love?
real kids-rave on
exploding hearts-modern kicks
nerves-when you find out
briefs-forty and above

January 12, 2005

Telenovela – Work4U
The Fall – Totally Wired
The Chords – Happy Families
This Moment in Black History – Wiggly World (Devo cover)
Toca – Joyful Misery
Charles Wright – One Lie (Leads to Another)
Soft Cell – Sex Dwarf
Why? – Gemina (Birthday Song)
14 Iced Bears – Balloon Song
Friends of Sound – Commitment
Royalchord – Fall in Line
Serge Gainsbourg – L’Hotel Particulier
Voxtrot – Missing Pieces
Headlights – It Isn’t Easy to Live That Well
The Shoes – Tomorrow Night
The Plimsouls – Everywhere at Once
The Nils – Scratches and Needles
The Zeros – Beat Your Heart Out
The Dickies – Infidel Zombie
The Mops – I’m Just a Mops
The Mummies – (I Should Better Be Lookin’ for) Dangerman
Rockpile – Play That Fast Thing (One More Time)
Nurses – Rubberheads
Secret Affair – Time for Action
The Nips – Take Me Down
The Pedestrians – Nickel and Dimed
Agony Column – Love in the Head
The Boys – Rue Morgue
Sylvain Sylvain & the Criminal$ - Without You
Carla Thomas – I’ll Bring It Home to You
The Nice Boys – You Won’t See Me Anymore

The Return Of

After a long hiatus, the blog for Chocolate and Girls (the finest radio show to be heard weekly on WHPK, 88.5 FM Chicago, from 8 to 10 on Thursday mornings) has returned. With a vengeance.

July 27

The Shivvers – No substitute
The Varukers – March of the S.A.S.
Crass – Big a little a
Slaughter and the Dogs – We don’t care
Jack Tragic – I kill hippies
I Guard the Sheep – Fair lady rides the trolley
The Fall – Jawbone and the air rifle
Spelling Mistakes – No contact
Josie Cotton – Johnny are you queer?
The Singles – He can go, you can’t stay
Candy – Whatever happened to fun?
The Rosebuds – Is there room?
Superchunk – Hyper enough
Novillero – The art of carrying on
The Soft Boys – Strings
Secret Affair – I’m not free (But I’m cheap)
The Housemartins – Happy hour
Cock Sparrer – Take ‘em all
X – The world’s a mess, it’s in my kiss
Notekillers – Run Don’t Stop
Pandoras – That’s your way out
The Gears – Trudie Trudie
Rollercoaster – Insane
The Cinch – Once a week
Wire – Drill (live)
Deerhoof – Holy night fever
The Barracudas – California lament
Grand Buffet – Americus
The Cripples – The itch
Groovski – Currently women
Nashville Ramblers – The trains
999 – Nasty nasty
The Distractions – One way love
Chris Stamey – The summer sun
Earthquake – Hit the floor
The Kirby Grips – Washing machine
Rockin’ Horse – Biggest gossip in town
Enon – Tilt you up!
Versus – Underground
The Brunettes – Holding hands, feeding ducks
Cadallaca – Two beers later
Minutemen – Corona
Bram Tchaikovsky – Girl of my dreams
The Buzzcocks – Why can’t I touch it?
The Romantics – Tell it to Carrie
The Auteurs – Land lovers

July 13

Acid Mothers Temple – Atomic Rotary Grinding God
The Plastic Letters – Don’t tell your boyfriend
Paul Collins – On the highway
The Last – Looking at you
20/20 – Remember the lightning
The Barracudas – Surfers are back
Stiv Bators – The last year
The Gears – Baby runaround
The Electric Shadows – Operator
Eyeball Skeleton – Eyeball skeleton
The Vapors – Waiting for the weekend
The Chords – In my street
The Jam – The place I love
The Clash – Stay free
Fingerprintz – Hey Mr. Smith
The Spelling Mistakes – Feels so good
The Riffs – L.A. Suicide
The Essex Green – The late great Cassiopeia
The Plimsouls – A million miles away
Young Playthings – Lies
Teenage Fanclub – Sparky’s Dream
The Undertones – Mars Bar
The Replacements – Alex Chilton
The Pernice Brothers – Clear Spot
Islands – Abominable Snow
Quasi – The Iron Worm
Superchunk – Art class
Toca – Joyful misery
The Specials – Ghost town
Gram Parsons – We’ll sweep out the ashes in the morning
The Wedding Present – Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Eyeball Skeleton – Spooky Mummy Case
Daniel Johnston – Life in vain
Nikki Corvette – What’s on my mind
The Briefs – (I think) my baby is a communist
The Damned – Love song
The Carpettes – Youth rebellion
Gorilla Biscuits – Start today
XTC – Statue of liberty
Redd Kross – Jimmy is fantasy
Bangles – Restless
The Monkees – Daydream believer
Amebix – Arise!
Analbatross – The revolutionary politics of dance
Clorox Girls – Don’t take your life
The Adverts – Looking through Gary Gilmore’s eyes
Big Star – Give me another chance
The Raspberries – Go all the way
Saucers – She’s alright
The Real Kids – Better be good

June 29

This was our first real show of the summer quarter!

The Undertones – More Songs About Chocolate and Girls
Galaxie 500 – Don’t let our youth go to waste
The Ex – 3:45 AM
The Nerves – Hanging on the telephone
Cocksparrer – Where are they now
The Last – She don’t know why I’m here
The Flamin’ Groovies – Take me back
East River Pipe – My life is wrong
The Mendoza Line – It’s a long…(hole punch)
The Exploding Hearts – We don’t have to worry anymore
Dressy Bessy – Stop foolin’
The Nice Boys – You won’t see me anymore
The Ramones – Beat on the Brat
The Briefs – Love and ulcers
The Rolling Stones – Rocks off
The Real Kids – My Baby’s Book
Demolition Doll Rods – Rock it up
The Criminal$ - Rockin’ good time
The Undertones – Thrill me
The Mekons – Beetroot
Sally Timms – Drunk by noon
Quasi – Queen Majesty
Steve Earle – Rivers of Babylon
Johnny Thunders – Born to lose
The Lolas – Down to the boathouse
The Breakup – She went black
Redd Kross – Lady in the front row
JTT – Lost my
Strawberry Switchblade – Deep water
Busdriver – Imaginary places
The Sharp Ease – From the dodge
Screamers – Magazine Love
The Knack – Heartbeat
Rubber City Rebels – Child eaters
Paul Revere + the Raiders – Just like me
The Legendary Hucklebucks – Railroad Bill
The Plastic Cloud – Dainty General Rides
The Vibrators – Baby, baby
Siouxie & the Banshees – The passenger
Nikki Sudden – Whiskey Priest
Serge Gainsbourg – Melody
Fairport Convention – Chelsea morning
Dwight Twilley Band – You were so warm
Damon and Naomi – House of glass
The dBs – The fight
Pogues-Fairytale of New York

summer schedule

For the rest of the summer, our show will be midnight-3 am every other Wednesday morning (AKA Tuesday night). Listen!

6/24 3-6 am

So for our 3rd show in 48 hours, we decided to just play 3 full albums.

1. Ceschi - Fake Flowers
2. Destroyer - Streethawk: a Seduction
3. The Ex - Dizzy Spells

We ended the show with a few more songs...unfortunately...we currently have no record of them.

6/23 6-9 am

The Undertones – More songs about chocolate and girls
Oneida – Double lock your mind
Gang of 4 – To hell with poverty
Pezband – Close your eyes
Guitar Wolf – Invader Ace
The Electric Prunes – I had too much to dream last night
Badfinger – Better days
The Posies – Solar sister
Television – Prove it
Destroyer – No cease fires
Small Faces – Itchycoo Park
Neko Case – Runnin’ out of fools
The Zombies – Care of cell 44
Richard + Mimi Fariña – Pack up your sorrows
Giant Sand – Wayfaring stranger/Fly me to the moon
Steve Earle – Hometown blues
The Mekons – St. Valentine’s day
Richard X Heyman – Call out the military
Let’s Active – Waters part
Guided by Voices – If we wait
Elvis Costello – Clowntime is over
The Hold Steady – Your little hoodrat friend
Belle + Sebastian – Like Dylan in the movies
Cheap Trick – Heaven tonight
Teenage Fanclub – Here comes your man
The Electric Shadows – Operator
The Comets – Living the answer
Captain Sensible + the Softies – Jet boy jet girl
Mission of Burma – Academy fight song
The Girls – These things
Pere Ubu – The modern dance
Beggar – Don’t throw your life away
The Undertones – It’s going to happen
The Baseball Furies – Operational
The Briefs – Ephedrine blue
The Nice Boys – Lipstick love
The Management – We care
The Exploding Hearts – Sleeping aides and razorblades
Lords of the New Church – Russian roulette
The Records – Girls that don’t exist
Johnny Thunders + the Heartbreakers – Pirate love
The Boys – Brickfield nights
Nikki + the Corvettes – I gotta move
The Exploding Hearts – I’m a pretender

June 22, 6-9 am

This was the first of three shows in the Chocolate and Girl Interim Period Marathon!

The Undertones-More songs about chocolate and girls
Special AKA-War crimes
Destroyer-The bad arts
(Smog)-Vessel in vain
The Dream Syndicate-Halloween
Neil Young- Only love can break your heart
Jimmy Cliff-Better days are coming
The Melodians-Rivers of Babylon
The Jam-That’s entertainment
Willis Alan Ramsey-The ballad of spider town
Silkworm-Ooh la la
Flying Burrito Brothers-Wild horses
Corn Sisters-High on cruel
Leonard Cohen-Last year’s man
Only Ones-You’ve got to pay
Nikki Sudden-Jangle town
Thin Lizzy-The boys are back in town (live)
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists-The high party
The Beat Quartet-Before the trenches
Dead Boys-Sonic reducer
Yo La Tengo-Run run run
Eddie & The Hot Rods-Do anything you wanna
X-Ray Spex-Warrior in Woolworth
Records-Hearts in her eyes
St. Etienne-Lose that girl
The Management-Love always remains
Annie-Heartbeat
Fotomaker-Say the same for you
The Unicorns-I was born (a unicorn)
The Shivvers-No substitute
The Chords-Something’s Missing
The Penetrators-Baby doncha tell me
Charles Wright-Keep saying
Paul Collins Beat-Crying won’t help
The Angels-My Boyfriend’s back
The Undertones-My Perfect Cousin
The Poppees-Love of the loved
The Boys-Rue Morgue
Exploding Hearts-Throwaway Style
Nice Boys-You won’t see me anymore
The Criminal$-Kids are back
Flamin’ Groovies-Shake some action
Kursaal Flyers-Television generation
Richard Hell & The Voidoids-Blank generation
The Clicks-I should’ve told you

June 16, 6- 9 am

Show No. 2. From the length of the playlist, you might think that this show was much shorter, but actually we just played longer songs.

The Undertones - More songs about chocolate and girls
Beat Happening - Godsend
Billy Bragg - Accident waiting to happen
The Modern Lovers - Girlfriend
The Like Young - Tempt me
The Pogues - Thousands are sailing
Joe Strummer - Coma girl
That Petrol Emotion - V2
Stiff Little Fingers - Barbed wire love
Kevin Ayers - The lady Rachel
The Shoes - Tomorrow night
Mayflies USA - Malaysia
The Shivvers - Teen line
The Kick! - Let's get back together
The Records - Rock'n'roll love letter
Devo - Girl you want
The Weirdos - We got the neutron bomb
The Damned - New rose
Jilted John - Jilted John
Quasi - All bent out of shape
Neko Case - If you knew
Oranger - Mike Love not war
Galaxie 500 - When will you come home
Harry and the Potters - These days are dark
Mates of State - Whiner's Bio
The Motors - Airport
Versus - Shangri-La
Pezband - Baby it's cold outside
Diodes - Tired of waking up tired
Airport 5 - Stifled man casino
Cheap Trick - He's a whore
The Only Ones - Another girl another planet
The Vapors - News at ten
Squeeze - Pulling mussels from the shell
XTC - Statue of liberty
Local Operator - Backroom boys
Secret Affair - Time for action
The Real Kids - All kindsa girls
Marshall Crenshaw - Cynical girl
The Nerves - Working too hard
Nick Lowe - I knew the bride
The Moderns - Got to have pop
The Boys - First time
The Criminal$ - Teenage news
The Soft Boys - Ms. Kennedy
Artful Dodger - Wayside
The Raspberries - I wanna be with you

June 13th, 9 am - 12 pm

Our first show. Here's what we played:

The Undertones-More Songs About Chocolate and Girls
Badfinger-Suitcase
Spongetones-Not So
Naz Nomad & The Nightmares-Kicks
Big Star-Way Out West
Sham 69-Borstal Breakout
MC5-Teenage Lust
The Adverts-No Time to be 21
Teenage Fanclub-Slow Fade
Quasi-Our Happiness is Guaranteed (1)
The Poppees-If She Cries
Daniel Johnston-Lousy Weekend
Tobin Sprout-Since I…
The Stiffs-Goodbye Love
The Jam-Boy About Town
Nick Lowe-(I love the sound of) Breaking Glass
Black Box Recorder-I Ran All the Way Home
The Management-KIDS
Elf Power-The Winter Hawk
The Ex-Fistful of Feed
The Tyrades-On Your Video
The Avengers-Friends of Mine (2)
The Zeros (US)-Beat Your Heart Out
The Penetrators-Gotta Have Her
The Dickies-Nights in White Satin
The Briefs-Shoplifting at Macy’s
Guided By Voices-A Good Flying Bird
Spoon-The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers-Rockin’ Shopping Center
The Clean-Champagne and Misery
Destroyer-The Crossover
The Only Ones-Flaming Torch
Dwight Twilley Band-I’m on Fire
The Clash-Pressure Drop
Cock Sparrer-Argy Bargy
Agony Column-Love in the Head
The Rezillos-My Baby Does Good Sculptures
The Gangsters-Best Friend
Fingerprintz-Mr. Smith
The Like Young-Really Up To You
Of Montreal-Forecast Fascist Future
Apples in Stereo-What’s the #?
Mirah-Don’t
The Dbs-Black and White
Richard X Heyman-Falling Away
The Lurkers-New Guitar in Town
The Flamin’ Groovies-Don’t Put Me On
The Rubinoos-I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
The Exploding Hearts-Making Teenage Faces
The Real Kids-Better Be Good
Stiv Bators-It’s Cold Outside
The Electric Shadows-Operator
The Nerves-When You Find Out
The Chords-Maybe Tomorrow
The Records-Teenarama
Love-You I’ll Be Following
Nikki & the Corvettes-Just What I Need
Bangles-Tell Me