I want to do a Detroit themed radio show

[The G Man]

I'm on the air this Friday night and would like to dedicate a good chunk of my show to Detroit. So, keeping in mind that this is a rock'n'roll show I would like suggestions for music that I should play. I'm not thinking about the classic motown sound...more dirty stuff with loud guitars. Of course The White Stripes will be in there...The Detroit Cobras...some Kiss maybe.
What are your suggestions? Classic stuff is great but more current stuff will really be appreciated.

(I know that this may belong is a different forum but the reason I'm doing this is because of the Tigers so this is where I'm stickin' it.)

I appreciate your feedback.

G.

Oh yeah...click on the link below to check out my myspace page. You can look at my past setlists but the link to last week's show isn't actually me because I was at Comerica that night.

[Todd]

MC 5 and iggy and the stooges

[Tressel=God]

nothing wrong with a little Motor City Madman, Stranglehold

[syrett4]

Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, not the new stuff.

[Rocko2]

Any White Stripes & Kid Rock since it's a more current R&R station. Test some Eminem, or I really like D12's Welcome to Detroit City, watch the cursing though!

[monkeytargets37]

eye of the tiger

[witz57]

Von Bondies

Broken Man

"I'm a broken man
This here's my broken band
From a broken land
We call Detroit City
There's no blood on these hands
That's why we came to take a stand
We take the good, we take the bad
It's all we ever -
It's all we had
yeah"

[Rocko2]

Detroit Rock City, even though Kiss is not from detroit

Other MoTown bands

Alice Cooper
Brownsville Station (Smoking in Boys Room)
Marshall Crenshaw
MC5
Grand Funk Railroad eh, close enough
Bill Haley Rock Around the Clock!
Ted Nugent
Iggy Pop
Rare Earth - I just want to celebrate
The Romantics - What I Like About You
Mitch Ryder
Bob Seger
Del Shannon
The Stooges
The White Stripes
Kid Rock


http://www.geocities.com/detroitrockandroll/

[rhino]

nothing wrong with a little Motor City Madman, Stranglehold

I saw some people wearing Cat Scratch Fever shirts at the game saturday.

[Rocko2]

Glen Frey is also from Detroit

[pape06]

Kid Rock "Outro"

Oh, oh, and ya don't stop
Uhh, Uhh, yeah uh huh
It aint no party like a Detroit party
Cause a Detroit party don't stop
I said It aint no party like a Detroit party
Cause a Detroit party don't stop
Yeah
It aint no party like a Detroit party
Cause a Detroit party don't stop
I said It ain't no party like a Detroit party
Cause a Detroit party don't stop

[zimm]

David Bowie's "Panic in Detroit" is my favorite Detroit song.

[edit to add lyrics]
Panic In Detroit"

He looked a lot like Che Guevara,
drove a diesel van
Kept his gun in quiet seclusion,
such a humble man
The only survivor of the National People's Gang
Panic in Detroit, I asked for an autograph
He wanted to stay home, I wish someone would phone

Panic in Detroit

He laughed at accidental sirens that broke the evening
gloom
The police had warned of repercussions
They followed none too soon
A trickle of strangers were all that were left alive
Panic in Detroit, I asked for an autograph
He wanted to stay home, I wish someone would phone

Panic in Detroit

Putting on some clothes I made my way to school
And I found my teacher
crouching in his overalls
I screamed and ran to smash my favorite slot machine
And jumped the silent cars that slept at traffic lights

Having scored a trillion dollars,
made a run back home
Found him slumped across the table.
A gun and me alone
I ran to the window. Looked for a plane or two
Panic in Detroit.
He'd left me an autograph
"Let me collect dust."
I wish someone would phone

Panic in Detroit

[slim pickens]

Von Bondies

Broken Man

"I'm a broken man
This here's my broken band
From a broken land
We call Detroit City
There's no blood on these hands
That's why we came to take a stand
We take the good, we take the bad
It's all we ever -
It's all we had
yeah"
Im sorry every time I hear someone mention the Von Bondies, I cant help but think what Jack White did to him inside the Majic Bag!

http://img285.imageshack.us/img285/1456/vonbondiesac9.png

[zimm]

http://img285.imageshack.us/img285/1456/vonbondiesac9.png

I am not a dousche!

[84 Lives!!!]

David Bowie's "Panic in Detroit" is my favorite Detroit song.

Killer song!!!

[Rocko2]

Just a city boy....Born and Raised in South Detroit....

Ok, so it's one line, but you get the idear. Also Dixie Highway, runs from Detroit To FLA. Sorry, no more Journey references from me today.

[monkeytargets37]

You should play the intro songs of all of the Tigers players

[Rocko2]

Here is a list from Wikipedia about songs "about" Detroit.

"106 miles to Detroit"- Rauschenmaschine
"25th Floor" - Patti Smith
"313" - Eminem
"7 Mile Anthem" - Johnny King/Colt City
"8 Mile Rd." - Eminem
"All My Friends are Moving to Detroit" - Kelly Jean Caldwell
"Amityville" - Eminem f/ Bizarre of D12
"Back to Detroit" - Wayne Kramer
"Belle Isle Players" - Starski and Clutch
"The Big Three Killed My Baby" - The White Stripes
"Black Day in July" - Gordon Lightfoot
"Broke In Detroit (Again)" - The Dirtbombs
"Broken Man" - Von Bondies
"Browntown Burning Down" - Angry Aryans
"Come Roll With A Nigga" - Street Lord'z
"City of Boom" - Detroit's Most Wanted
"Cry Now" - Obie Trice
"Dancing In The Street" - Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
"D in Detroit" - The Anniversary
"Detroit" - Blade Icewood
"Detroit" - Eddie "Guitar" Burns
"Detroit" - Everclear
"Detroit" - Laurent Garnier
"Detriot" - Green Concorde
"Detroit" - Ian Hunter
"Detroit" - Primal Scream
"Detroit" - Rancid
"Detroit 101" - Esham
"Detroit 4 life" - AWOL
"Detroit Breakdown" - J. Geils Band
"Detroit City" - Alice Cooper
"Detroit City" - Danny Dill
"Detroit Iron" - The Darts
"Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)" - Sufjan Stevens
"Detroit Niggaz" - Street Lord'z
"Detroit Rock City" - KISS
"Detroit Sound" - Soul Designer
"Detroit Thang" - Kid Rock
"Detroit Tickets" - Apoptygma Berzerk
"Detroit Zoo" - Disco D
"Doctor Detroit" - Devo
"Dope Man" - Jesse James (Street Lord'z)
"Don't Stop Believin" - Journey (note, however, that "South Detroit" as referenced here is not an actual neighborhood or town)
"Game Over" - Dabrye
"Heaven" - Uncle Kracker
"Hello, Detroit!" - Sammy Davis, Jr.
"Hello Detroit" - Sonny Turner
"Inmates" - The Good Life
"I Ain't Playin Witcha" - Tone-Tone
"In The City" - Marquise Porter
"I'm From Joy Rd." - Jesse James (Street Lord'z) ft. K-Deezy, & T-Woody
"Michigan & Trumbull" - The Original Brothers and Sisters of Love
"Motor City Baby" - The Dirtbombs
"Motor City Is Burning" - MC5, John Lee Hooker
"M.O.T.O.W.N. (Murderous Outcold Town Of Wild Niggas)" - Big Herk
"Move to Detroit" - Eddie "Flashin" Fowlkes
"Murder City Nights" - Radio Birdman
"My Life In The D" - Brendan Benson
"Ode to Detroit" - Wally Pleasant
"One Piece at a Time" - Johnny Cash
"Panic in Detroit" - David Bowie
"Papa Hobo" - Paul Simon
"Put Your Hands Up For Detroit" - Fedde le Grand
"Rock City" - Royce Da 5'9"
"Son of Detroit" - Kid Rock
"Walk Wit Me" - Juan (Street Lord'z)
"We Almost Lost Detroit" - Gil-Scott Heron
"Welcome to Detroit City" - Trick Trick ft. Eminem
"Where my Nigz At?" - Esham
"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot
"Throw It Up" - Juan (Street Lord'z)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_Detroit

[zimm]

Just a city boy....Born and Raised in South Detroit....

Ok, so it's one line, but you get the idear. Also Dixie Highway, runs from Detroit To FLA. Sorry, no more Journey references from me today.

that one always troubled me. while there was an "East Detroit" at the time the song came out, there was no "South Detroit." there really isn't much of a South Detroit. Southwest Detroit, maybe. or Downriver. or Canada. Maybe he meant Delray? at the time, i'm sure there were more residents than the hundreds hearty folks who still inhabit the place.

[Yoda]

Von Bondies

Broken Man


Great band.

[Yoda]

Mentally Ill from Amityville... accidentally kill your family still..

[slim pickens]

I like that Johnny Cash song "one piece at a time"

He works at GM, and he is stealing a piece at a time, and making a car at home.

[Cmonroe]

How bout some John Lee Hooker??

[shabba4detroit]

Glen Frey is also from Detroit


So is Sonny Bono.... how about a little "I got you, Babe."

[pfife]

Im sorry every time I hear someone mention the Von Bondies, I cant help but think what Jack White did to him inside the Majic Bag!

http://img285.imageshack.us/img285/1456/vonbondiesac9.png


What about what Jack White did to him outside of the Magic Stick?

I knew that dude for a while, and I bet he deserved it.

[slim pickens]

What about what Jack White did to him outside of the Magic Stick?

I knew that dude for a while, and I bet he deserved it.
was the magic stick? I thought it was the magic bag. It was inside though, not outside!

[Rocko2]

So is Sonny Bono.... how about a little "I got you, Babe."

lol, hey, just pointing it out.

Lose Yourself is also a good Eminem track borders on rock/rap

[Rocko2]

Madonna?? lol

[Ozarkruffrider]

Gotta include more than 'Celebrate' from Rare Earth, 'Get Ready' is IMO the best rendition out there---live version about 20 minutes long though. btw, Got the new Seger CD and I really like it! Grand Funk's 'Foot Stompin' Music' is excellent. And Alice Cooper of course.

You should also ( if you can find it) some intro's or tapes of Arthur Penhollow or even WABX stuff if you can find it, some clips of Ernie Harwell, even the old Tiger theme song for the radio coverage that always introduced the game when Ernie did them.

[djhutch]

Gotta throw Alice Cooper in there as well.

[eastside billee]

Brownsville Station
The Frost
Savage Grace
SRC
Goober and the Peas
Cadillac Kidz
Radio City / Letter O
The Rationals
Frijid Pink

[toadhunter911]

Brownsville Station
The Frost
Savage Grace
SRC
Goober and the Peas
Cadillac Kidz
Radio City / Letter O
The Rationals
Frijid Pink

Great list Billie. How 'bout The Almighty Strut, Halloween, Seduce, DC Hawks. Here's a great site with alot of stuff (including MP3's) from the Detroit music scene in the 80's;

http://www.motorcityrock.com/index.shtml

[eastside billee]

thanks for that website - I registered immediately.

[JCinSummerfield]

South Normal

[baseballglove007]

Although others have said that, go for Detroit Rock City by KISS.

[The G Man]

Well, the Detroit show is going to have to wait until next week given that I've decided to go to the game tomorrow.
At least I have another week to get it together.
Rock on!!

[The G Man]

I did my Detroit show last night.
Check out the setlists at my myspace page by clicking on the link below.
The start of the second hour features half an hour of live music from Detroit and there's Detroit artists throughout. Keep in mind that I have quotas to meet for new and Canadian music so I could only do so much.
Anyway, like I said, check out the setlist and listen if you like.

G.

(aka Buck Malibu)

[DaYooperASBDT]

Wish I had seen this thread sooner! I would have voted for:

Bob Seger - Ramblin Gamblin Man

Ted Nugent - Cat Stratch Fever

Kiss - Detroit Rock City

Survivor - Eye of The Tiger

Slim, I love that Johnny Cash song too "One Piece at a Time". That does apply well to the current age span of the Tiger roster!