Real oldies in the underground garage

There're two official "oldies" stations in St. Louis.
One, KHITS, plays mostly 70s rock, with occasional
songs from the 60s by The Beatles and The Rolling
Stones.

KLOU plays mostly 60s stuff, but a lot of soul and
silly ass shit that I didn't much care to listen to
back then. Like Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the
Sky" which is actually OK compared to a lot of stuff.

(He is currently raising ostriches and lives off the
$100,000 or so a year he makes off the royalties of
that song being played on the radio.)

So KLOU is mostly disappointing. KHITS has a lot of
good stuff but it's standard rock from 70s.

Neither one of them really focus on the good stuff
from the early to mid-60s or the late 60s. (Both
eras were great in their own way, though distinctly
different.)

They never play the kind of stuff my friends and I
used to sit around and listen to -- The Standells
(still famous for their song about the muddy water
of the Charles River in Boston, but I always
preferred "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White." I
consider that one of the all-time great garage rock
songs.), The Kinks and The Yardbirds.

Yes, they were conventional British Invasion but
very little of the BI is aired now except for The
Beatles and Rolling Stones. Not the fun stuff such
as Herman's Hermits or the hard-edged stuff.

These "oldies" shows play very little Bob Dylan or
The Byrds.

But Little Steven plays all this stuff, plus some
of the later good stuff such as "We Ain't Got
Nothing Yet" by the Blues Magoos (And I liked his
comment that if you don't like the title of their
album, "Psychedelic Lollipop" -- you shouldn't be
listening to his show.), I Had Too Much Dream
Last Night and much more.

Plus, he plays stuff from the 70s punk era that I'd
forgotten about such as The Dictators.

Little Steven's Underground Garage is on at 8:00 PM
Sunday night Central Standard Time. I think it's
pre-recorded so you'll have to look for it in your
local area.

But if you like the REAL oldies from the 60s, plus
the best of punk from the 70s and beyond, that's
your show.

If you don't, what're you reading this blog for?


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