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.

Happy 4th, y'all.

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Playlist for June 30, 2014
All American Girl - 12 Blokes
Get Straight - The Unbelievable Uglies
Don't Tread On Me - Kit & The Outlaws
The World Ain't Changed - Warden And His Fugitives
Society And Me - Branded X

Someone Else's War - D. Daclin & The Lears
Vote For Me - The Move
Stone Free - D'Swooners
I'm Gonna Change The World - Glory Rhodes
Sweet Freedom - The Outer Limits

War Song - The Fugs
Lady Dressed In Black - The American Way
The World Is A Bomb - Survival
Revolution - Tomorrow
P.S.A.: Radio Free Europe - Lee Marvin 
I See The Light - Five Americans

The Revolution - Robby John & The Seven-Teens
A Free Soul - The Loose Ends
Gonna Fight The War - The Alphabetical Order
Are You Ready For This - Anglo-Americans
Wild In The Streets - Jerry Howard

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