RA/OR 217 - BEST OF HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH

Rock and/or Roll listeners are familiar with the "Worst of" series where BJ and special guest co-host Brian Sword pick the five worst song by the best bands. Now with this new series "Best of" they've decided to turn that idea on its head and force themselves to pick the five best songs by the worst bands, starting with Hootie and the Blowfish.

RA/OR 216 - ROB ZABRECKY FROM POSSUM DIXON

BJ has a conversation with Rob Zabrecky from Possum Dixon about the great band's tumultuous decade and the career in magic he has cultivated since.

RA/OR 215 - THE WILDHEARTS

For this episode BJ has enlisted help from the two biggest Wildhearts fans he knows, his old friends Dan and Chris. Hear them reminisce about their shared discovery of and enthusiastic fandom for the Wildhearts, including a brief overview of the one of a kind band's career, and then at the end the three attempt to narrow down the band's astonishing catalog to just ten essential songs:

Sick of Drugs
TV Tan
Show a Little Emotion
29 X the Pain
I Wanna Go Where the People Go
Two Way Idiot Mirror
Someone That Won't Let Me Go
Bang!
Everlone
Slaughtered Authors

Honorable mentions:

There's Only One Hell
Mazel Tov Cocktail
Putting It On
News of the World
Do the Channel Bop
Vanilla Radio
Geordie In Wonderland
Hard Way 
Bi-Polar Baby
Red Light Green Light
Girlfriend Clothes
Schizophonic
Sky Babies
etcetera



Tower Records In Store SXSW 2004

Here's a link to an article BJ wrote about The Wildhearts for the Decibel Geek website in 2013.

RA/OR 214 - VINYL COUNTDOWN: BATTLESHIP II

BJ's record collection: 41 squares, about 80 records per square. The listeners provided the coordinates and BJ plays a song from whatever record they hit.