KJON Radio Playlists

12/12/2023

https://youtu.be/kRG2GfUvKF4?si=TL_x24U20fP7rPTJ

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupBig Wheels In Shanty Town · Rain Tree CrowCamphor℗ 1991 Virgin Records LimitedReleased on: 2002-01-01Producer, St...

08/10/2023

RIP Robbie Robertson

Sorry it's been so long since I've uploaded a video everybody... I had one video I was working on for many months that I accidentally deleted, which led to m...

04/11/2023

03/30/2023

NEW FEATURE: 3 SONGS IN OUR HEAD. There usually isn't much explanation. Sometimes you are just in the shower and a song pops in. Perhaps it sneaks in on a Netflix series or a commercial. But here are the three songs in our head for this week:

https://youtu.be/yLvpZwN9Oko

An overlooked gem from The Joshua Tree. The new version on Songs of Surrender is gawd awful, adding chintzy horns. Can't shake the ghost of this version.

https://youtu.be/g_QtO0Rhp0w

My head won't sit still whenever I hear this song. The air drumming on my car dashboard is cat-like. The guitar breaks sound like na-na-na-na-na-na-na in my head long after the song is over.

https://youtu.be/izpAwHLzCoI

This one came out of nowhere. I can't remember the last time I actually listened to it. One day I just sat and wondered, "Who are the dead next door?" Was this some kind of 80's nuclear bad dream in the era of Reagan? One error, silent terror - the dead next door. It could happen anywhere. Sunday was hot, Monday was not?

What songs popped into your head recently?

03/19/2022

Our favorite TEARS FOR FEARS studio albums ranked. Where does their new one fit in?

#6

02/21/2022

I would add an iPod between the streaming kids and perhaps add an 8-Track

02/15/2022

If you are over 50, these are the best slow dance songs in middle school ranked!

#10 - REO Speedwagon, Can't Fight This Feeling
https://youtu.be/zpOULjyy-n8
#9 - The Cars, Drive
https://youtu.be/xuZA6qiJVfU
#8 - Foreigner, I Want to Know What Love Is
https://youtu.be/r3Pr1_v7hsw
#7 - Cyndi Lauper, Time after Time
https://youtu.be/VdQY7BusJNU
#6 -Duran Duran, Save a Prayer
https://youtu.be/6Uxc9eFcZyM
#5 - The Police, Every Breath you Take
https://youtu.be/OMOGaugKpzs
#4 - Journey, Open Arms
https://youtu.be/i5pUOVC50Y8
#3 - Bryan Adams, Heaven
https://youtu.be/s6TtwR2Dbjg
#2 -Thompson Twins, Hold Me Now
https://youtu.be/H9694K85Xc8
#1 - Foreigner, Waiting For a Girl Like You
https://youtu.be/5jhocSCSZzk

What would you add?

12/28/2021

Good God

12/21/2021

Only our people will get this

11/17/2021

Interesting map of best selling artists

11/12/2021

90s flashback song of the day I hear they're touring again enjoy
https://youtu.be/5w2YLdjxS_M

Letters to cleo - here and now HQ

10/02/2021

Converting the archives

08/31/2021

What we were excited about 30 years ago!

03/13/2021

One of our favorite bands

https://uproxx.com/indie/rem-best-songs-ranked/

The 100 greatest tracks by one of the best American rock bands ever.

03/11/2021

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lou-ottens-inventor-audio-cassette-tape-dead-obit-1139657/

Engineer at Philips also involved in developing compact disc technology

02/13/2021

Our song of the day...live life to its fullest!

https://youtu.be/l3VqAsMXE7o

Official Video for Life's What You Make it by Talk Talk.Stream Talk Talk's greatest hits here ▶ https://RhinoUK.lnk.to/talktalkhitsWatch Talk Talk's other o...

02/08/2021

Our favorite play list of the moment! Check out Dark Wave Goodbye on our Spotify channel. Return to a darker shade of 80s synth, goth, new wave, and industrial.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6sd5efqT8KOhvRIGjdcpHm?si=ldLUOj2qTz6JnHuavZblJw

02/04/2021

One of our favorite Albums of all time is the debut of Sinead O'Connor, The Lion and the Cobra. This album tore up our hearts in a good way in 1987. Due to the limitations of the vinyl format, it only had 9 songs, of which came classics Troy, Mandinka, and Just Like You Said it Would Be. Deeper cuts like Jerusalem, the haunting lead off dirge Jackie and chill out dystopian Drink Before the War were also highlights. And now KJON dares to reimagine this classic album and its song order in order to experience it a new and fresh way! We also decided to expand the album of a few extra tracks recorded around the same era that fits the feel of the original to make it a more complete offering. Call it sacriledge but we dare you to listen to our Spotify playlist from start to finish (and no, definately not on shuffle mode). The goal is to reimagine the album be altering and adding songs, but keep the same spirit and flow of the original. Check it out here:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/03uxrNi87tKRp363iQUeXd?si=dFxurS2bRESs_urYg7W-oQ

Our new playlist order:

1. Troy
2. Mandinka
3. I Wany Your Hands On Me
4. Drink Before the War
5. Jerusalem
6. The Value of Ignorance
7. Jackie
8. Just Like You Said it Would Be
9. Just Call Me JOe
10. Never Get Old
11. Still Listening
12. Heroine

What did you think about this landmark album? How does it hold up today? PLay it this week and tell us how you like or dislike our new order!

Check out the original Mandinka video

https://youtu.be/h08pCvyKfbs

01/18/2021

05/27/2020

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In what amounts to a shockingly quick turnaround for us — less than a month! — we're back with the eighth installment of our Best of the '80s Redux series, the sporadic Slicing Up Eyeballs poll in which our readers have now ranked the Top 100 songs of 1987. Click through to see the full list and...

05/24/2020

Trio for today...1994's Bad Religion Stranger Than Fiction; 1989's Peter Murphy Deep; 1990's The Alarm Standards.

So I just received the Bad Religion CD from an auction on eBay. It is the first time I've listened to it from start to finish in probably 10-15 years. It is a solid album which divided its fans. Some of their hardcore fans cry foul and smell selling out as it was their major label debut. It gained a lot of new fans as songs like Infected and 21st century digital boy we're in heavy rotation on alternative radio. MTV helps a little bit but it was their non-stop touring that won them their fans.

Next up is a modern rock classic 1989 Deep from Peter Murphy. This was his third solo album since stepping down from Bauhaus duties and was his most successful crossover to date. The modern rock smash Cuts You Up brought in new fans and old fans loved deeper cuts Like Marlene Dietrich Favorite Poem and a Strange Kind of Love. Crystal Wrists was sadly overlooked and is a standout track. I really enjoyed the first listen and listened to the CD two more times.

In the guilty pleasure album of the day we get the Alarm Standards which is a best of/ new song selection that came out in 1990 near the band's demise. Many of these songs bring back memories of Arena Rock social awareness and the days of Apartheid awareness and trying to connect spiritually to fans a la Simple Minds, Big country and U2. Today's listen sounds more like third generation The Clash. What once seemed like passion now sounds cliche. Some songs still excite me like Spirit of 76, Rain in the Summertime and Rescue Me but others like Sold Me Down the River I skipped.

05/21/2020

The Guardian: U2's 40 greatest songs – ranked! | Culture.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/may/21/u2s-40-greatest-songs-ranked

As Bono turns 60, we look back at how the Irish greats turned scratchy post-punk into a stadium-filling proposition – and continue to move with the times

05/14/2020

One of our favorites!

discogs.com: Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms At 35.
https://blog.discogs.com/en/dire-straits-brothers-in-arms-at-35/

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05/13/2020

Recently Bono turned 60 and gave us a 60-song playlist of songs that saved him. This inspired me to do the same. KJON began in 1988 so here is our 88 songs that made us (in no particular order)

Bruce Springsteen: Tunnel of Love; U2: With or Without You and Bad; The Church: Under the Milky Way; Sinead O'Connor: Mandinka; Love + Rockets: No New Tale to Tell; 10,000 Maniacs: Don't Talk; Gin Blossoms: Found Out About You; Generation X: Kiss Me Deadly; Simon + Garfunkel: Homeward Bound and The Boxer; The Carpenters: On Top of the World; John Cougar Mellencamp: Small Town; The Smiths: How Soon is Now and Half a Person; The Cure: Pictures of You and A Forest; New Order: Blue Monday; Echo + The Bunnymen: The Killing Moon; Toad the Wet Sprocket: I Will Not Take These Things For Granted; REM: The One I Love; Driver 8 and Nightswimming; Pat Benetar: Shadows of the Night; The Eagles: Hotel California; Led Zeppelin: Stairway to Heaven; Heart: These Dreams; Tears for Fears: Everybody Wants to Rule the World and Mad World; John Denver: Rhymes and Reasons; Garth Brooks: Learning to Live Again; John Gorka: Houses in the Fields; Paul McCartney + Wings: Band on the Run; Whiskeytown: Dancing With the Women at the Bar; Marty Willson-Piper: You Whisper; Def Leopard: Hysteria; Social Distortion: Ball and Chain; Neil Diamond: Cracklin Rose; The Who: Baba OReiley; Styx: Come Sail Away; Journey: Open Arms; Supertramp: Goodbye Stranger; Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here and Comfortably Numb; Bruce Hornsby + The Range: The Way it Is; Depeche Mode: Blasphemous Rumors; The Waterboys: This is the Sea; Metallica: Fade to Black; The Scorpions: Still Loving You; Tom Petty: Free Fallin; The Fixx: Facing the Wind and Driven Out; Oingo Boingo: Dead Man's Party; Chris Tomlin: Everlasting God; Switchfoot: This is Your Life; Sarah McLachlan: Elsewhere; INXS: Don't change; The Seventy-Sevens: Don't This Way; Midnight Oil: Blue Sky Mine; The Alarm: Spirit of 76; Bryan Adams: Cuts Like A Knife; Radiohead: High and Dry; The Goo Goo Dolls: Name; Peter Gabriel: In your eyes; The Cars: My Best Friends Girl; Duran Duran: Save a Prayer; Oasis: Champagne Supernova; Elton John: Daniel; They Might Be Giants: Birdhouse in your soul; Yes: Owner of a Lonely Heart; The Police: Synchronicity II; The Smithereens: A Girl Like You; Sade: Smooth Operator; The Psychedelic Furs: The Ghost in You; Camper Van Beethoven: Sweethearts; Big Country: Chance; The Call: I still believe; The Cranberries: Linger; Concrete Blonde: Joey; The Cult: She sells Sanctuary; B-52's: Rock Lobster; The Go Gos: Our Lips Are Sealed; Robyn Hitchcock: Autumn Sea; Juliana Hatfield: For the Birds; The Pretenders: Brass in Pocket; Simple Minds: Alive and Kicking; Rush: Time Stand Still; Morrissey: Everyday is like Sunday

05/02/2020

We're having a black celebration today

12/05/2019

Great set list. Always loved Gloria. Have you seen U2 live? If so how many times?

Get the U2 Setlist of the concert at Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan on December 5, 2019 from the The Joshua Tree Tour 2019 Tour and other U2 Setlists for free on setlist.fm!

11/07/2019

Today we went to Rhino Records in Claremont. It was guilty pleasure night as we picked up a live Bryan Adams album, a classic late 80s Icehouse album, a rare acoustic Trash Can Sinatras album, and my all time favorite record from Robyn Hitchcock, Eye.

10/31/2019

https://youtu.be/iypUpv9xelg

Here's the Whole Video...they don't make movies like this anymore