Have mercy, have mercy, baby

This may be my favorite show thus far.

Like any rabid, libidinous female, I am constantly in search of music that moves me. Not just spiritually or emotionally, y'heard? I mean physically. I want that sound that makes ya shake. The  beat that makes ya bop. This rhythm that makes us rambunctious - you dig?

What I am (over)laying-out is that some favorite songs from the mid-60's -- after the originals themselves -- are garage covers of Soul and R&B tunes. Because they're the ones where the kids substitute wild enthusiasm for any practiced technique. The ones where there's yelling and hollerin' and havin' a good time. The ones where appreciation is so, so evident for the inspiration that comes from so far outside their own short experience.

When ya just don't wanna sit still. Dance and the jump.

She Comes In Colors

This is the color show. One request - a request by a very erudite listener with excellent taste - sent me spinning into show time. The request was for Green Fuz. Why? "Because it's fuzzy and raw and sounds like it was recorded in a barn," he sez.

Which is beautiful, like a martha-fishing rainbow.  And, well, it's all fuzzy, so hey kids, let's do COLORS.

Erm, ain't never claimed this Summer! Of! Themes! on the TA is anything like rocket science; it's garage music. Themes are not complicated affairs here. And colors are tasty. Thus, let us groove.

Girls talk

Show #4 was about the names of the ladies, the women who made the guys burn and pine and howl and sweat.

I just wrote a different and incredibly groovy, whole far-out intro and then deleted it by accident. Aargh. So we'll just get to it.

Show and playlist after the jump.

Too Much To Dream

Show #3: To sleep, perchance to play songs about dreams and dreaming, hallucinations and methods of occupying and preoccupying the brain. No idea why this actual playlist didn't post on the ZBC website...

Show and playlist after the divine jump.

Is this just an atomic trip?

This week on the TA, agitation preparation for the upcoming holiday weekend. Songs about social change, the perception of freedom, war, and chicks, man. American girls.

It's impossible to talk about the 60's and American garage bands without talking about the Vietnam War. Out of the era's agitated social and hormonal landscape came poetic and wrenching protest songs. What gets me is what happened to so many of the kids writing and playing those songs. There were high school kids chugging along, playing music with their friends and having a good time, maybe about to get noticed or just been signed when somebody in the band got the call-up. And even if your singer, guitarist, bass player, drummer, fuzzy Farfisa man did make it home from Southeast Asia, nothing was ever the same.

Aaah, this show's not all sober and serious. Kit & The Outlaws get feisty; The Move brings electoral swagger; and Robby John & The Seven-Teens are downright head-scratchingly silly. Jerry Howard brings a little pop cheese to close out the hour.

Alas, none of the usual dazzling audio commentary for this show. Oh the irony of doing radio and being unable to talk! Not an illustration about the muzzling of our civil liberties. Mostly laryngitis.

After the jump, your link to the music and playlist.

Back of my neck gettin' dirty and gritty

[... and - we're back!]

Hello, my chickens! The TA is back in bid'ness as of last Monday!

Pretend this next bit is flashing atcha:

MONDAYS 5-6 PM 

90.3 WZBC-FM 'n' STREAMING AT WZBC.ORG

Best thing about an hour show? It so much easier for me not to putz out on posting the audio. Just a beginning and end to trim and -- here you go!

It's ALIVE!!

The Tangerine Amphetamine will roar back to life in the middle of June, once again on The Z! Hurray!
Mondays, 5-6pm. Drive Time, baby. And in exchange for the groovy time slot, only an hour.

Which gives me the idea to focus each show. Some kinda theme, and you don't have to dress up for it. But, yesh, some kinda theme every week - broken hearts, summer, bands from New England, etc..

Still gotta get in that Northern Soul and French Ye-Ye/British Pop in at the end of the hour, too.

Can you smell the excitement?

90.3FM over the air in Boston and streaming at wzbc.org. Soon come, my chickens. Soon come.

Thursdays!

Hurray! Tomorrow and the next two Thursdays, The Tangerine Amphetamine will rise again!

And I do mean rise, because the show's on from 7-9 AM. As in morning. As in, what the hell did I just do?

S'true. Last week was fun. Once I leave the darkness behind and flip on all the studio lights, it's time to wake up. And last week - well, last week I had a terrible cold, so I sounded like Vic Tayback. So the music was killer, but the information was scant. An archive of that show is here in The Z archives (scroll down to Thursday, January 2). It'll remain up for another week. If you want to feel good about yourself, you'll listen to it.

So I'll see you tomorrow, Janaury 9, and again on the 16th and the 23rd. Listen live at 90.3 WCBZ-FM in the metro Boston area. The show also streams live from wzbc.org. And also! For you iOS users, there's a free 'Z iPhone app so you can take the station with you wherever you and your pocket computer go.

Set your alarm - I am great to wake up with, m'hmm.