Hell's Kitchen Radio #416: The Perennial Annual Annual - 1980

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Each November I choose a year that I want to showcase for two hours. It's a random selection. For my tenth annual Annual Annual I have chosen 1980. I turned 10 that year, and was already enjoying a growing record collection I could call my own. We owned a jukebox stocked with 45s from the 60s and 70s, and my dad always enjoyed having music playing throughout the house. My two older sisters (6 and 8 years older) often had the rock hits of the day playing in their rooms or on our family room stereo. 

1980 was a strange year for music. So many subgenres had crept into the aural vernacular by this time. It was no longer just a Jazz, Rock, Soul world. By 1980 Heavy Metal, Funk, Punk, and New Wave had infiltrated the discussion, and there's nothing wrong with that, except commercial radio stations continued to divide us based on their perceived belief that we wanted stations that specialized in one particular genre, and that led to the continuing watering down of quality radio programming. 

Thank Yahweh for college radio!

The former and extremely boring KFOG used to have their daily "10 At 10" show that focused on one year at a time, but rarely, if ever, would they take a chance on some of the artist and genres that I feature on this annual special you see before you.

1980 had a lot of tasty bites to offer however. This show showcases a few commercial tunes (yes, I play the #3 most popular song based on Billboard charts. Sue me), as well as some underground morsels I'm sure you'll enjoy chewing on. 

If you dig this Annual Annual and you want to check out my previous specials take a look at the link below and have at it. 

Enjoy.

jh

Check out previous Annual Annual specials here:

ANNUAL ANNUAL - 1971
ANNUAL ANNUAL - 1972
ANNUAL ANNUAL - 1973
ANNUAL ANNUAL - 1974
ANNUAL ANNUAL - 1975
ANNUAL ANNUAL - 2006
ANNUAL ANNUAL - 1992
ANNUAL ANNUAL - 1983
ANNUAL ANNUAL - 1969

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Rapture: Blondie
This Is A Mans Mans Mans World: The Residents
Clouds: Chaka Khan

Neon Knights: Black Sabbath
Everybody Wants Some: Van Halen
Tattooed Love Boys: The Pretenders
Chinese Rock: The Ramones

Private Idaho: B-52s
Joe McCarthy's Ghost: Minutemen
Let's Lynch The Landlord: Dead Kennedys
Video Killed The Radio Star: The Buggles

Teenage Wildlife: David Bowie
Magic: Olivia Newton John
Planet Earth: Devo

Authority Stealing: Fela Kuti
Atrocity Exhibition: Joy Division

Jack-A-Roe: Grateful Dead
Little Wing: Neil Young
Generals and Majors: XTC

Hell's Kitchen Radio #386: Doin' The Pandemic Pokey

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Hey radio lovers, it's my first official show since December 2019. What I miss?

In all seriousness though, this is a remarkable time. How are you spending your days and nights? Reading those books that have been sitting on the shelf, that you swore you would read if only you had the time to do so? Watching those French Noir films that you once loved in college and realize they haven't aged all that well? Pulling out those dusty puzzle boxes sent to you by grandma when you were 20 (even though you stopped doing puzzles when you were 12)? I actually love a good landscape jigsaw puzzle. How about finally listening to that John Coltrane 45 minute Ascension and the five alternate takes, each 45 minutes to one hour in length? No time like the present.

And the present is all we've got! What would Eckhart Tolle say?

How are tight knit families doing? How is the single-set doing? How are people with horrible roommates doing? How well are you practicing social distancing? FLATTEN THE CURVE OR DIE!

I'm mostly concerned about Tinder. How ever will they survive? Did they get a piece of the stimulus package too? HA! Get it? Tinder? Stimulus? I crack myself up.

On Monday afternoon I put out a call on ye ol' Facebook asking for songs I should play for my triumphant return to Radio Valencia in the pandemic age. The list still hasn't ended. All songs except two are from that list. Thanks a ton!

On a side note, Radio Valencia lost its space last January, after we were told (along with all other tenants) that our landlord had failed to keep up rent payments to the owner. We all were given 48 hours to move out. After a couple of months searching SF for a new space, we finally landed what we believe to be our most ideal studio location yet! And then COVID-19 struck, which is keeping us from setting up the new space. I cannot wait to share details about our new home. It's sooooo exciting.

I have never hosted a show remotely from my home before, so you have heard a lot of reruns from me over the past few months, until Monday night! I'd like to say the show went off without a hitch, but you'll notice the first three minutes is a lot of noise while I scrambled to pay for the Audio Hijack I was using. And later in the show I introduced a Johnny Cash song ("Solitary Man"), which was playing on my laptop, but not on my show. There's a learning curve here, folks. Thanks for sticking with ol' Johnny Hell through all of this.

I would like to thank my brother-from-another-mother Adam McKintosh for donating the Blue Yeti microphone to the cause. Some heroes don't wear capes.

Also, not all songs are from the FB request list. Local violinist, vocalist, and all-around exceptional musician Emily Palen sent me a couple of new tracks from her trio: KnightressM1. I was thrilled to pieces to play "SALT", from their upcoming release, TBA. Check them out live, whenever and wherever that happens in the (hopefully) near future. I love getting turned on...to good new music, and this group really sent me into the stratosphere. I hope you enjoy the track as much as I do. And dig the "lyrics". Perfect timing indeed. It really fit with the show's theme.

OK, enough of me. Take a look at the set list below. There are more hits in this one than I have ever played on my shows before, but fuck it, it's my show, and we're all bored.

Enjoy. Stay inside!!! Go masturbate again.

jh

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Don't Touch Me There x2: The Tubes
Touch Me I'm Sick: Mudhoney
Epidemic: Slayer

Why Can't I Touch It?: Buzzcocks
Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down): Ween
You Be Illin: Run DMC
I Just Want To Have Something To Do: The Ramones

People Who Died: Jim Carroll (July 15, 1979 Old Waldorf, SF, CA)
You Can't Touch This: MC Hammer
Soul Vaccination: Tower of Power

Hellbound Train: Savoy Brown
Nature's Way: Spirit
People: Barbara Streisand
Dying: XTC

So Alone: Johnny Thunders

Salt: KnightressM1
Run To The Hills: Iron Maiden
Gates of Steel: Devo
Leave Me Alone: Helen Reddy

The Wait: Killing Joke
One: Three Dog Night
Nobody Told Me: John Lennon

Knockin' On Heavens Door: Bob Dylan (November 1975, Montreal, Canada)
What A Wonderful World: Louis Armstrong

Finally, my step-brother Adam Pava sent this suggestion, but I couldn't locate an audio only track to play last night. So here ya go. Thanks Adam!

A Season in Hell #98: Movin' On Up

No guests tonight, though I did have a young lady in the studio who has an interest in all things art and entertainment. I really do enjoy talking to people about why radio is so awesome. Also, had a visit from Feast from FCCFreeRadio. I recruited Feast for that station a long time back. He's also on KFJC under another moniker: Dominic Trix.

As for music, Sherman Hemsley died last week, and who knew he was a pothead, and liked LSD and progressive rock? Also some brand new Redd Kross on vinyl because they ROCK!!! When I was standing in Aquarius Records this afternoon holding this LP, one of the employees said to me "that record rocks!". If an AQ employee tells you a record rocks, and they're not even asked, then you purchase that record, no questions asked. Got it?

I offer up a small 70th birthday tribute to Jerry Garcia with some acoustic solo performance, and some live Iron Maiden you won't find anywhere else. It's the 50th birthday of the Rolling Stones so I thought I'd throw in some very old Stones from 64. Good stuff here.

You really need to support live music. I've got a band for you: Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers. They are too much fun. Near the end of the show I play a cover of "You're No Good". If you don't know about Nicki Bluhm, then you need to check out The Van Sessions. You can thank me later.

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Enjoy.

jh

Do It: Rollins Band

The Jefferson's Theme

Show Me The Way: Nektar
Hard Workin Man: Natural Child

Concert Outlook

The Punks Are Finally Taking Acid: FIDLAR
So Desperate: King Tuff
Time To Run: Lord Huron

Stay Away From Downtown: Redd Kross
Scum of The Moon: Black Jaspers
Living Wreck: Mudhoney

Out Of My World: Milk Music
I Never Talk To Strangers: Tom Waits and Bette Midler
You Are The Reason For My Troubles: The Mojomatics
Phonograph: Wooden Shjips

Interview with Marlon

Roman Tick: Fergus & Geronimo
Fisherman: Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozi Family
Time Axe Bag Dad: Club Foot Orchestra

Ruben and Cherise: Jerry Garcia (04-10-82, Capitol Theater, NJ)
The Trooper: Iron Maiden (05-26-83)

Radios in Motion: XTC (06-03-78)
Route 66: Rolling Stones (05-25-64)
Not Fade Away: Rolling Stones (04-13-64)

Race is On: George Jones (1979)
You're No Good: Vicki Bluhm and the Gramblers (02-04-12)

Suck My Left One: Bikini Kill (09-21-92)
Kod Hang Kam (The Circle of Karma): Kana TNT

My Life with Rickets: Mark Arm