Jan 15: Bonus Time

I got to hang out with Magnus on his show for 30 minutes and then cranked out the set below. I hope you enjoyed:
U2 – Pride (In The Name Of Love).mp3
Soweto Gospel Choir – Pride (In The Name Of Love).mp3
Wilson Pickett – 634-5789.mp3
St. Paul & The Broken Bones – Call Me.mp3
Danielle Ponder & the Tomorrow People – Blow out the Sun (feat. Quinn Lawrence).mp3
Bonerama – Epistrophy.mp3
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – I’m Still Here.mp3
Lake Street Dive – Close to Me.mp3
The Cranberries – Gold (CD1)\01. Dreams.mp3
Pink Martini – Hey Eugene.mp3
Mahalia Jackson – We Shall Overcome.mp3
Bruce Springsteen With The Sessions Band – Open All Night.mp3
Beth Ditto – Fire.mp3
The Avett Brothers – Satan Pulls The Strings.mp3
Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Down By The River.mp3
Widespread Panic – Hope In a Hopeless World.mp3
Son Volt – Promise the World.mp3
Drive-By Truckers – The Perilous Night.mp3
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – White Man’s World.mp3
Ryan Adams – Do You Still Love Me_.mp3
Maggie Rogers – Alaska.mp3
Wilco – All Lives, You Say_.mp3
MC Lars – Summer Camp Love (Is So in Tents).mp3
Weird Al_ Yankovic – Tacky.mp3
Courtney Barnett – Debbie Downer.mp3
Kopecky – Quarterback.mp3
Big Thief – Mary.mp3
Craig Finn – God in Chicago.mp3
Blues Traveler – Alone.mp3
Queens of the Stone Age – The Way You Used To Do.mp3
Alice Merton – No Roots.mp3
The Demos – Another Day.mp3
The Mountain Goats – Rain in Soho.mp3
The War On Drugs – Pain.mp3
Guided By Voices – The Birthday Democrats.mp3
Slobberbone – Gimme Back My Dog.mp3
Tart Vandelay – How Hard Could It Be.mp3
Ted Leo – Can’t Go Back.mp3
Joywave – Rumors.mp3

More Posts for Show:

2017: The Year in Review

Because December is far too early to do a year in review show, I cranked one on this week. Here’s some of my picks for the best songs of the year, and a listen to some of the great music from some of the greats we lost last year. Enjoy:

Queens of the Stone Age – The Way You Used To Do.mp3
Portugal. The Man – Feel It Still.mp3
U2 – Lights Of Home.mp3
Dan Auerbach – Waiting on a Song.mp3
Beth Ditto – Fire.mp3
HAIM – Want You Back.mp3
Manchester Orchestra – The Gold.mp3
The Mountain Goats – Rain in Soho.mp3
The National – Day I Die_1.mp3
The War On Drugs – Up All Night_1.mp3
Alice Merton – No Roots.mp3
Brian Fallon – Forget Me Not.mp3
Arcade Fire – I Give You Power (feat. Mavis Staples).mp3
AC_DC – Thunderstruck.mp3
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Makin’ Some Noise.mp3
Steely Dan – Can’t Buy A Thrill (1972)\06 Reelin’ in the Years.mp3
The Tragically Hip – Ahead By a Century.mp3
The Allman Brothers Band – Melissa.mp3
Glen Campbell – Hold On Hope.mp3
Guided By Voices – The Birthday Democrats.mp3
Ted Leo – Can’t Go Back.mp3
Japandroids – No Known Drink Or Drug.mp3
Joywave – It’s A Trip!.mp3
Beck – Dear Life.mp3
Kopps – Lose Control.mp3
LCD Soundsystem – oh baby_1.mp3
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Hope the High Road_1.mp3
Drive-By Truckers – The Perilous Night.mp3
The Crooked North – Where We Are.mp3
Craig Finn – God in Chicago.mp3
Pink Elephant – Tent City.mp3
Japanese Breakfast – Road Head.mp3
Valerie June – Shakedown.mp3
Real Estate – Darling.mp3
Thundercat – Show You The Way (feat. Kenny Loggins & Michael McDonald).mp3
Big Thief – Mary.mp3
Justin Townes Earle – Champagne Corolla.mp3
Hurray For The Riff Raff  – Pa’lante.mp3
Father John Misty – When the God of Love Returns There’ll Be Hell to Pay.mp3
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – You Can’t Judge A Book By The Cover.mp3

More Posts for Show:

Music Show #80 – 1/5/2018 – Telling our stories: Part 4

Another show in a series dedicated to encouraging us all to share our stories.

This month’s story: The Last Guard at Outpost #7″ – Many people have had experiences dealing with a bully and this story is about mine.

Song #1 “Blank Pages” – A song about how it feels to sit down as a young adult and look towards the future. How it can be much like an artist when they sit down to start working on a new project and stare at the blank pages in front of them.

Song #2 “Time Goes By” – A fun song about how time can really fly and how it’s all good time when you’ve got your friends.

Song #3 “Remember It All” – “Old, young or in between – remember where you’ve been – ah, remember it all.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9zexPiabNI&index=3&list=PL5294AD25E7CB1953

Song #4 “We Are” – A song that emphasizes the importance of what each one of us has to contribute to the creation of the better world.

Song #5 “Playing as the Breeze” – A song about the freedom experienced when we sing with love.

Song #6 “Young Child” – A coming of age song.

Song #7 “I’m Just a Bug on the Windshield of Life” – (Geoff Brown) A humorous song about how life can feel overwhelming at times.

If you like what you hear and want to support our unique programming please click on the Patreon button at RochesterFreeRadio.com. Even the smallest of contributions will help us to stay on the air. Thanks so much.

If you’d like to view some of the Fresh Toones music videos please visit:  youtube.com/davesfreshtoones

Underwriter of The Fresh Toones Music Show


More Posts for Show: Fresh Toones

The No Format Demented Christmas Spectacular 2017

Another year, another set of the funky, weird poignant and funny in Christmas music. Hope you enjoyed.
The Brian Setzer Orchestra – Angels We Have Heard On High.mp3
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy – Mr. Heatmiser.mp3
Louis Armstrong – Zat You, Santa Claus.mp3
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kin… – Ain’t No Chimneys in the Projects – Sharon Jones & The Dap-K.mp3
Bruce Springsteen – Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town.mp3
Otis Redding – Merry Christmas, Baby.mp3
James Brown – Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto.mp3
Sting – Gabriel’s Message.mp3
The Kinks – Father Christmas.mp3
Weezer – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.mp3
Fountains of Wayne – I Want an Alien for Christmas.mp3
The Reverend Horton Heat – Santa On the Roof.mp3
Ramones – Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight).mp3
Twisted Sister – Deck the Halls.mp3
The Chesterfield Kings – Hey Santa Clause.mp3
The Flaming Lips – A Change At Christmas (Say It Isn’t So).mp3
Spinal Tap – Christmas with the Devil.mp3
Barenaked Ladies – Deck The Stills.mp3
The Decemberists – Please Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas).mp3
El Vez – Santa Claus is Sometimes Brown.mp3
Jonathan Coulton & John Roderick – 2600.mp3
Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart – Can I Interest You In Hannukah_.mp3
Bob Rivers – Chipmunks Roasting On an Open Fire.mp3
John Denver & The Muppets – Twelve Days of Christmas.mp3
Holly Golightly – That’s What I Want For Christmas.mp3
Dr. Doofenshmirtz – I Really Don’t Hate Christmas.mp3
Robert Goulet – Jingle Bells.mp3
U2 – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).mp3
Richard Cheese – Do They Know It’s Christmas.mp3
Emmy The Great & Tim Wheeler – Zombie Christmas.mp3
Sufjan Stevens – Get Behind Me, Santa!.mp3
Weird Al_ Yankovic – The Night Santa Went Crazy.mp3
The Waitresses – Christmas Wrapping.mp3
Fall Out Boy – Yule Shoot Your Eye Out.mp3
Robert Earl Keen – Merry Christmas from the Family.mp3
Tom Waits – Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis.mp3
Clarence Carter – Back Door Santa.mp3
The Pogues – Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl).mp3
Asylum Street Spankers – You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch.mp3
Straight No Chaser – The 12 Days of Christmas.mp3
Guster – Carol of the Meows.mp3
The Chevelles – Come All Ye Faithful Surfer Girls.mp3
Garfunkel and Oates – Present Face.mp3
Phoenix – Alone on Christmas Day (feat. Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzmann, Buster Poindexter & Paul Shaffer).mp3
Stephen Colbert – Nutmeg.mp3
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’.mp3
Run-D.M.C. – Christmas in Hollis.mp3
Was (Not Was) – Christmas Time In Motor City.mp3
John Prine – Christmas in Prison [Live].mp3
Calexico – Green Grows The Holly.mp3
Sonic Youth – Santa Doesn’t Cop Out On Dope.mp3
The Therapy Sisters – Codependent Christmas.mp3
Old 97’s – Here It Is Christmas Time.mp3
Boss Martians – 3 Ghosts (A Modern Christmas Carol).mp3

More Posts for Show:

Music Show #79 – 12/29/2017 – Introducing Bat McGrath & Don Potter

Songs from their first album together.

Underwriter of The Fresh Toones Music Show

If you like what you hear and want to support our unique programming please click on the Patreon button at RochesterFreeRadio.com. Even the smallest of contributions will help us to stay on the air. Thanks so much.

If you’d like to view some Fresh Toones music videos please visit:  youtube.com/davesfreshtoones


More Posts for Show: Fresh Toones

Music Show #78 – 12/22/2017 – Hopes for the New Year

Songs to encourage our renewed efforts towards creating a fulfilling future.

Song #1 Raise Your Glass – A toast to the New Year. “Though your days may seem lost to you.  All the love you once knew is still within your view.”

Song #2 “Help Us to Know What Love Is” – A joyful song that requests some assistance in our search to understand what love is.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihw_MSc9c-8&t=37s&index=3&list=PLOyRYerTUWm1wWx0rABevP5sOfMkRgmtp

Song #3 “Keep Your Eyes on It” – Keep your eyes on the love you want to become.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHtj5bx9e8E&list=PLE97D99925458A2C2&index=2

Song #4 “Turn Around” – Sometimes we might need to turn around and find a better path for ourselves.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KcwKG3HuDg&list=PLE97D99925458A2C2&index=20

Song #5 “We’re Looking” – We may be distracted for a long time with the pursuit of many other things, but in the end we are really trying to come to understand our love.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP36-HqR6vk&index=11&list=PLOyRYerTUWm0DE4ISRsl4aW5VXvcEWoaf

Song #6 “I Wish I Could Know” – I wish I could know what love means. “She’s in your heart … She’s not that far … She’s in your heart for you.”

Song #7 “Sing Your Song” – Most importantly, we need to sing our songs as we pursue our hopes and dreams.

Song #8 “Do Justice to Yourself” – A happy upbeat song that reminds us all to do what’s best for ourselves by making good thoughtful and loving decisions in our lives. We need to become the prophets that we seek.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7oGyAb2crU&index=2&list=PLOyRYerTUWm0DE4ISRsl4aW5VXvcEWoaf

Song #9 “I Can’t Stop Looking” – A bouncy song about the joys of traveling down the road as we strive to find our love.

If you like what you hear and want to support our unique programming please click on the Patreon button at RochesterFreeRadio.com. Even the smallest of contributions will help us to stay on the air. Thanks so much.

If you’d like to view some of the Fresh Toones music videos please visit:  youtube.com/davesfreshtoones

Underwriter of The Fresh Toones Music Show


More Posts for Show: Fresh Toones

Dec. 11: She & Him Trampled by a Joywave in the War on Drugs, Tragically.

Joywave – Doubt_1.mp3
The Hold Steady – Entitlement Crew.mp3
Band of Skulls – I Know What I Am.mp3
The War On Drugs – Up All Night_3.mp3
Wilco – Impossible Germany.mp3
Uncle Tupelo – We’ve Been Had (Live).mp3
The Tragically Hip – Poets.mp3
Trampled By Turtles – Walt Whitman.mp3
Drive-By Truckers – The Perilous Night.mp3
Spacetrucker – Pushing Time_1.mp3
Robert Earl Keen – Merry Christmas from the Family.mp3
Wilson Pickett – 634-5789.mp3
Dion – Runaround Sue.mp3
Barry McGuire – Eve of Destruction.mp3
Neil Young – Mr. Soul.mp3
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – I Hate Myself for Loving You.mp3
Bruce Springsteen With The Sessions Band – How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live_.mp3
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Swingin’.mp3
Ted Leo – Can’t Go Back.mp3
The Postal Service – Such Great Heights.mp3
metallica – ride the lightning.mp3
Black Sabbath – Paranoid.mp3
Megadeth – Crush ‘Em.mp3
Guns N’ Roses – My Michelle.mp3
Poison – Talk Dirty to Me.mp3
White Lion – Wait.mp3
Polar Bear Club – For Show.mp3
Warrant – Cherry Pie.mp3
The Crooked North – Seven Years.mp3
The Jayhawks – Waiting For The Sun.mp3
Little Steven – Soulfire.mp3
The Orwells – Vacation.mp3
Shout Out Louds – The Comeback.mp3
The Weakerthans – Aside (Live).mp3
HAIM – Want You Back.mp3
Guided By Voices – The Birthday Democrats.mp3
Pink Elephant – Tent City.mp3
Lucinda Williams – It’s a Long Way to the Top.mp3
Maggie Rogers – Alaska.mp3
Pink Martini – Hey Eugene.mp3
Sharon Van Etten – The End of the World.mp3
She & Him – Oh No, Not My Baby.mp3

More Posts for Show:

Dec. 4: A World Party

World Party – Way Down Now.mp3
Jonathan Coulton – Don’t Feed the Trolls_1.mp3
Matthew  Sweet – Superdeformed.mp3
Brian Fallon – Forget Me Not.mp3
U2 – American Soul.mp3
Better Than Ezra – Teenager.mp3
The National – Day I Die_2.mp3
The English Beat – Save It For Later.mp3
Vampire Weekend – Diane Young.mp3
The Big Pink – Dominos.mp3
Tacocat – The Internet.mp3
Valerie June – Shakedown_1.mp3
Tart Vandelay – How Hard Could It Be.mp3
Beck – Dreams (Colors Mix).mp3
The Faint – The Geeks Were Right.mp3
The Avett Brothers – Smithsonian.mp3
Old Crow Medicine Show – Visions of Johanna (Live).mp3
The Black Crowes – She Talks To Angels.mp3
Bruce Springsteen – Jungleland.mp3
The War On Drugs – Up All Night_3.mp3
The Replacements – Alex Chilton.mp3
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Hope the High Road_1.mp3
Justin Townes Earle – Champagne Corolla.mp3
Muddy Magnolias – Devil’s Teeth.mp3
Throw Me The Statue – Lolita.mp3
MC5 – Back In The USA.mp3
Guided By Voices – When We All Hold Hands at the End of The World.mp3
Japandroids – Near To The Wild Heart Of Life_1.mp3
Firewater – Electric City.mp3
RUN-DMC – My Adidas.mp3
Nooky Jones – Hello_2.mp3
Danielle Ponder & the Tomorrow People – Three Word Revolution.mp3
Earl St. Clair – Ain’t Got It Like That (feat. PJ)_1.mp3
L.A. Salami – That Ain’t Me.mp3
She & Him – Oh No, Not My Baby.mp3
Vijay Iyer – Human Nature.mp3
Moose Blood – Glow.mp3
Pink Elephant – Tent City.mp3
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band\Diddy Wah Diddy EP (RSD Mono 45) (Vinyl)\01 Diddy Wah Diddy.mp3
The Animals – We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (Original US Version).mp3
 Terence Trent Darby – Wishing Well.mp3

More Posts for Show:

Music Show #77 – 12/15/2017 – Creative Visualization

Songs about the power of creative visualization.

Song #1 “I Can See” – A song about the joys of rediscovering all the love that surrounds us. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU6dz92e59g&list=PLE97D99925458A2C2&index=11

Song #2 “I Wanna See” – Empowering ourselves with the belief that we can affect our futures by clarifying what we hope to see.

Song #3 “Plant Those Seeds with Love” – A song that encourages us all to invest our love in the seeds (our life endeavors) that we plant each and every day of our lives.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lxxDXpDX0k&list=PLOyRYerTUWm1wWx0rABevP5sOfMkRgmtp&index=8

Song #4 “If There’s a Will, There is a Way” – “We’ve worked through harder things. Some say this one’s too big, but if there’s a will, there is a way.”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmM_6243HNE&index=1&list=PLOyRYerTUWm0DE4ISRsl4aW5VXvcEWoaf

Song #5 “To Aspire, is to Arrive” – A song about being in the moment as we’re striving to get to our end goals.

Song #6 “You Can to Do It” – “You can do it… You can make it through it… Even though you might wonder why.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmwwrnQqztg&list=PL5294AD25E7CB1953&index=1

Song #7 “What You See is What You Get” – What we focus on is what will be drawn into our lives.

Song #8 “The World We Want to Live In” – The choices we make in life can certainly affect our own happiness so it only makes sense that those same choices can impact the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzrfjXxwOS4&list=PL3B2C81B27208BD0D&index=17

If you like what you hear and want to support our unique programming please click on the Patreon button at RochesterFreeRadio.com. Even the smallest of contributions will help us to stay on the air. Thanks so much.

If you’d like to view some of the Fresh Toones music videos please visit:  youtube.com/davesfreshtoones

Underwriter of The Fresh Toones Music Show


More Posts for Show: Fresh Toones

Music Show #76 – 12/8/2017 – Songs of Emotion

Songs about the emotions that we experience and the importance of being sensitive to them.

Song #1 Don’t You Cry Now” – A recording of a Fresh Toone performed on a radio show in the early 80s.

Song #2 “Just as Happy as I’ve Ever Been” – A joyous song about how great it feels to have a very fulfilling day.

Song #3 “It Never Hurts to Cry” – “Big boys” might say “it never helps to cry,” but if you never cry you’ll never really come to know your love.

Song #4 “Find Your Love” – “… be your love and give your love to you.”

Song #5 “Find Some Relief” – A song from the early 70s that speaks to the angst that young adults sometimes experience.

Song #6 “Just Make Me Laugh” – A song that evolved out of a comment by a friend. “People don’t want animations that make them think. They just want to laugh.”

Song #7 “No Use in Crying” – Crying has some essential contributions to make towards becoming healthier human beings.

Song #8 “Can’t Take Today Away from Me” – A happy song celebrating the joy that one feels when you can hear “the Song” and your love is revealed.

If you like what you hear and want to support our unique programming please click on the Patreon button at RochesterFreeRadio.com. Even the smallest of contributions will help us to stay on the air. Thanks so much.

An archive of earlier Fresh Toones Music Shows can be found here:  https://archive.org/search.php?query=fresh%20toones%20music%20show

If you’d like to view some of the Fresh Toones music videos please visit:  youtube.com/davesfreshtoones

Underwriter of The Fresh Toones Music Show


More Posts for Show: Fresh Toones