Sunday, August 30, 2015

BONUS: Foo Fighters take over Live 105, October 24, 2002



Pretty much what that picture says. Dave and Taylor from the Foo Fighters stopped by the Live 105 studios to promote their newest album One By One and took over the playlist to play not only two new songs from that album (both of which would later go into heavy rotation on Live 105) but other songs they liked. I remember listening to this when it aired and had nearly forgotten about it until I had been snooping around Archive.org.

Here are the YouTube links for each song.

Foo Fighters- Low

Neil Young- Cinnamon Girl

Joe Walsh- Welcome to the Club

Sonic Youth- Teenage Riot

Jane's Addiction - Pigs in Zen

B-52's- 52 Girls

The Police- Walking on the Moon

Led Zeppelin- The Ocean

Foo Fighters- Times Like These

Live 105 playlist May 11, 2006

Hey, I finally identified a Sounds song!


1. Cypress Hill- Rock Superstar

2. Yellowcard- Rough Landing Holly

3. Marcy Playground- Sex and Candy

4. The Sounds- Song With a Mission

5. Nine Inch Nails- The Hand That Feeds

6. Gnarls Barkley- Crazy

7. Damone- Out Here All Night

8. Rage Against the Machine- No Shelter

9. AFI- Miss Murder

10. AFI- Days of the Phoenix

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

BONUS: Live 105's top artists of the '90s (December 1999)

So here's something interesting I came across through The Wayback Machine: it's Live 105's list of the top artists of the '90s. I assume they did this at the end of '99 to cap off the decade's end (I found it on a 2001 edition of the webpage, so they were still keeping this list public back then) as a lot of stations did. What's especially interesting is how Blink 182, Korn, and Limp Bizkit (who had only been popular for less than a year at that point) are near the top, which does say a lot about the state of alternative rock in 1999. It also says a lot about the decade in general, seeing how those artists are sharing a list with Siouxsie and the Banshees, Big Audio Dynamite, and The Charlatans UK. Still, it's an interesting time capsule, and one I couldn't find on Rocklists.com, so here it is on the Internet...again.

1. Nirvana
2. Blink-182
3. Korn
4. Beastie Boys
5. Rage Against the Machine
6. Sublime
7. Limp Bizkit
8. Green Day
9. Metallica
10. Smashing Pumpkins
11. Pearl Jam
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers
13. Nine Inch Nails
14. The Offspring
15. 311
16. Bush
17. Radiohead
18. Foo Fighters
19. Stone Temple Pilots
20. Live
21. Depeche Mode
22. Beck
23. Garbage
24. Alice in Chains
25. U2
26. Dave Matthews Band
27. Creed
28. The Cure
29. Third Eye Blind
30. Jane's Addiction
31. Everclear
32. Tool
33. Soundgarden
34. Filter
35. Weezer
36. Kid Rock
37. Hole
38. No Doubt
39. Marilyn Manson
40. Sugar Ray
41. Orgy
42. Cake
43. Tori Amos
44. Bad Religion
45. Godsmack
46. Goo Goo Dolls
47. R.E.M.
48. Oasis
49. Rancid
50. Blur
51. Social Distortion
52. Rob Zombie
53. Smash Mouth
54. Counting Crows
55. Silverchair
56. Primus
57. Violent Femmes
58. Fatboy Slim
59. White Zombie
60. Lenny Kravitz
61. Bjork
62. The Chemical Brothers
63. Deftones
64. Faith No More
65. Alanis Morissette
66. Prodigy
67. Everlast
68. Pennywise
69. Lit
70. Fiona Apple
71. Reel Big Fish
72. Eve 6
73. Crystal Method
74. Less Than Jake
75. Collective Soul
76. Cypress Hill
77. Butthole Surfers
78. Cowboy Junkies
79. Local H
80. The Presidents of the United States of America
81. Cracker
82. MXPX
83. Porno for Pyros
84. Blind Melon
85. King Missile
86. Matchbox 20
87. Catherine Wheel
88. Marcy Playground
89. The Wallflowers
90. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
91. Harvey Danger
92. Temple of the Dog
93. The Primitives
94. School of Fish
95. 4 Non Blondes
96. James
97. Big Audio Dynamite
98. The Breeders
99. Tonic
100. Elastica
101. The Charlatans UK
102. PJ Harvey
103. Days of the New
104. Siouxsie & the Banshees
105. Soul Coughing

Live 105 playlist May 5, 2006

1. Hawthorne Heights- Saying Sorry

2. Incubus- Megalomaniac

3. Beck- Girl

4. Jack Johnson- Upside Down

5. Nirvana- Come as You Are

6. My Chemical Romance- Helena

7. She Wants Revenge- These Things

8. Green Day- Welcome to Paradise

9. Matisyahu- King Without a Crown (Live)

10. Foo Fighters- DOA

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Bonus: WHFS' top 99.1 songs of 1993

99.1. Ween- Push Th’ Little Daisies





















































































Live 105 playlist April 18, 2006

1. Fall Out Boy- Dance, Dance

COMMERCIAL FREE MIDDAY MIXTAPE

2. The Offspring- Want You Bad

3. Crystal Method- Busy Child

4. Living Colour- Cult of Personality

5. Beastie Boys- Sabotage

6. Arcade Fire- Rebellion (Lies)

7. Smashing Pumpkins- Tonight, Tonight

8. Edwyn Collins- A Girl Like You

9. Weezer- Say it Ain't So

10. Gorillaz- Dare


Friday, August 7, 2015

Bonus: WHFS' top 99.1 songs of 1991

As I mentioned in a previous post, I have a close personal connection to WHFS. Before I moved to the Bay Area, it was my station of choice. Unfortunately, I was too young to have been listening during alternative rock's peak period of popularity, so I've always been curious about what the station sounded like in those days. For the longest time, my resource for that kind of thing has been Rocklists.com, which has year-end countdowns from several important modern rock stations, including KROQ in L.A., 91X in San Diego, Live 105, and yes, even HFS.

This site contains the year-end list for 1992, as well as every year from 1994 to 2004 (The station became defunct in 2005, but has resurfaced on at least two occasions and can currently be heard on 104.9 in Baltimore.) While it is great to see what the station was like musically each year, the lack of 1993 is disappointing as is the lack of any year before '92 (especially 1991, the year that Nirvana's Nevermind catapulted alternative into the mainstream). To make matters worse, Rocklists.com hasn't updated with any new lists since 2008, so I don't know how active it still is.

The good news? I recently came across a site called Einstein's Legacy, which features downloadable files of every one of HFS' year-end countdowns from 1991 to 1999. From its selection of songs to the various IDs, deejays, and commercials, it truly is a wonderful throwback for those who experienced HFS in the '90s and a great curio for anyone who just wants to know what it was like. Now the 2 lists I always wanted to see on Rocklists.com can be found on the Internet. If you want to experience the tapes in all their glory, I strongly suggest going over to Einstein's Legacy. If you just want to see what songs made the list in text form, you've come to the right place. I'll be posting the 1993 list tomorrow.

(Songs are in reverse order.)





































































































1. Jesus Jones- Right Here, Right Now