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A KJON favorite has died. RIP Mike Peters from The Alarm. Here is our top 10 playlist:Top 10 Alarm Songs for your tribut...
04/30/2025

A KJON favorite has died. RIP Mike Peters from The Alarm. Here is our top 10 playlist:

Top 10 Alarm Songs for your tribute playlist:

1. Spirit of 76
2. Blaze of Glory
3. Strength
4. Rain in the Summertime
5. 68 Guns
6. Absolute Reality
7. Rescue Me
8. Marching On
9. Permanence in Change
10. The Stand

The Denbighshire-born singer sold 5m records with The Alarm and lived with cancer over three decades.

Our Top 100 U2 Tracks of All Time in case you missed our countdown episode.1 Where the Streets Have No Name 2 Bad 3 With...
04/26/2025

Our Top 100 U2 Tracks of All Time in case you missed our countdown episode.
1 Where the Streets Have No Name
2 Bad
3 With or Without You
4 Gloria
5 New Years Day
6 Surrender
7 October
8 The Unforgetable Fire
9 All I Want is You
10 Walk to the Water
11 Sweetest Thing
12 Red Hill Mining Town
13 Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
14 Drowning Man
15 Running to Stand Still
16 City of Blinding Lights
17 Ultraviolet
18 I Still Havent Found
19 A Sort of Homecoming
20 Desire
21 Stay
22 Promenade
23 Into the Heart
24 An Cat Dubh
25 Pride
26 Two Hearts Beat as One
27 Sunday Bloody Sunday
28 The Fly
29 One
30 I Threw a Brick
31 Love Comes Tumbling
32 Deep in the Heart
33 Luminous Times
34 Until the End of the World
35 11 O'Clock Tick Tock
36 Out of Control
37 Scarlet
38 Angel of Harlem
39 Zooropa
40 Spanish Eyes
41 Love is Bigger Than Anything In Its Way
42 Mysterious Ways
43 40
44 One Tree Hill
45 Magnificent
46 Walk On
47 The Electric Co
48 Even Better Than the Real Thing
49 Beautiful Day
50 A Celebration
51 Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World
52 Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
53 Cedarwood Road
54 Kite
55 Rejoice
56 Breathe
57 The Three Sunrises
58 Stories For Boys
59 I Will Follow
60 Heartland
61 Crumbs From Your Table
62 In God's Country
63 Raised by Wolves
64 The Little Things That Give You Away
65 Hallelujah, Here She Comes
66 Every Breaking Wave
67 Zoo Station
68 With a Shout
69 Tomorrow
70 Song For Someone
71 Gone
72 Vertigo
73 Sometimes You Cant Make it On Your Own
74 The First Time
75 A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel
76 Peace on Earth
77 Moment of Surrender
78 A Day Without Me
79 Please
80 MLK
81 God Part II
82 All Because of You
83 Red Flag Day
84 Wire
85 When I Look at The World
86 Dirty Day
87 Acrobat
88 Bullet the Blue Sky
89 A Man and A Woman
90 Do You Feel Loved
91 Youre the Best Thing About Me
92 This is Where You Can Reach Me Now
93 I'll Go Crazy If I Dont Go Crazy Tonight
94 The Crystal Ballroom
95 I Don't Wanna See You Smile
96 Atomic City
97 Picture of You
98 No Line on The Horizon
99 Trip Through Your Wires
100 Seconds

04/23/2025

This generation is coming around to the concept of an album versus a downloadable song. Owning and collecting. There is magic and experience along with craft and creation while creator connects with consumer. This largely does not occur in a digital playlist. The primary loss to the devotee is the experience itself which requires patience and space while the art reveals itself in subjective ways - often building significant moods which as a body of work resembles that of an epic opus compared to a singular scene. Song order matters. Songs play off each other. Album art now lost as concepts are now hidden. Imagine watching a 15 second edit of The Fellowship of the Ring without the context of the entire film or book. In the downloadable world the consumer does not own nor partake in the creator's original inspiration but rather samples its taste. It leaves the listener wanting more but forgos the path to take them there. The artist remains elusive and vague like a poster on the wall without the ability to communicate. Fans wear the t shirt without knowing the story.

06/19/2024

Our worst songs of the 80s
1. Come on Eileen
2. The Future is so Bright You Have To Wear Shades
3. You Spin Me Round
4. Wake me Up Before You Go Go
5. Tainted Love

RIP Robbie Robertson
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?

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