Superchunk - Break the Glass (3:15)
The Come Ons - Come On Blues (0:42)
The Come Ons - Sunday Drive (2:38)
Dwight Yoakam - I Want You To Want Me (3:28)
The Apples In Stereo - Told You Once (3:58)
Agentes Secretos -Todo Para Ti (1987) (3:41)
The Minders - Yeah Yeah Yeah (2:08)
Golden Torso - Cuckholding Hands (1:52)
Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang - Wild Cat (1927) (2:54)
Samson - Telephone (3:01)
The Thunderbeats - I Sing (1:59)
Zoogz Rift - Art Band (5:21)
Bob Mallin - Nobody's Darlin' But Mine (2:49)
The Pogues - Haunted (3:29)
Miss World - Lip Job (1:38)
The Telescopes - Silent Water (4:26)
The Romancers - She Took My Oldsmobile (1966) (2:49)
The Lovely Eggs - I Shouldn't Have Said That (2:12)
The Freshies - I Can't Get Bouncing Babies By The Teardrop Explodes (1981) (4:00)
Soft Shoulder - Mary Ann (2:38)
Chuck Rhubarb - Animal Rock 'N Roll (2:49)
Hodera - North Dakota (3:35)
Spiral Jetty - Exactly How She Feels (2:45)
SadGirl - Motorbreath (2:09)
Zorro - Arrods Don´t Sell ´Em (2:51)
The RPMs - Another Sunday (3:07)
Spice Boys - Spice City Boys (3:28)
Haley Heynderickx - Oom Sha La La (2:54)
Slaughter Beach, Dog - Friend Song (2:16)
Telethon - Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve (w Laura Stevenson) (3:18)
Pussycat and the Dirty Johnsons - Ain't No Pussy (2:36)
Miss World - Buy Me Dinner (2:46)
The Oranges Band - I Wouldn't Worry About It (2:44)
The Successful Failures - Ichor of Nettle (3:52)
The Nines (Steve Eggers)- I'm Lucky (1:49)
The TopDollar Hour - Episode 48
The Cribs - Mirror Kissers (3:37)
Mean Motor Scooter - Shape Shifter (3:21)
The Fadeaways - I Hate You (2:37)
Sparklehorse - Little Bastard Choo Choo (0:39)
Brad Byrd - Highest Mountain (3:25)
The Yawpers - A Decision is Made (2:12)
Purple Wizard - BBQ (2:07)
Les Thugs - Moon Over Marin (5:28)
Venta de Garage - Heroína del viernes (2:26)
BOYO - Insomnia (2:40)
Eerie Glue - You & Me (3:29)
The Brixton Riot - Slow Evolution (2:58)
eX-Girl - Aji Fry (Fried Horse Mackerel) (4:11)
The Routes - Ego A Go Go (3:03)
E1SBAR - Long Bow (3:51)
Daddy's Hands - Dress You Down (2:52)
Ariel Pink - Dreamdate Narcissist (2:28)
Pylon Reenactment Society - K (4:37)
Sparklehorse - Ballad of a Cold Lost Marble (0:46)
Partner - Ambassador to Ecstasy (3:29)
Oddnesse - Somewhere Somehow (2:44)
Hipshakes - YOU MAKE ME MALFUNCTION (1:19)
John Leyton - Johnny Remember Me (2:41)
John Foxx - He's a Liquid (2:58)
Claude Bolling - strange magic (2:35)
The Pirates - Cuttin' Out (1966 ) (2:01)
The Pink Tiles - Time For Love (2:47)
Jad Fair - The Zombies Of Mora-Tau 2 (4:56)
The Successful Failures - Misguiding Light (4:25)
Hurricane Fight Plane - I Can't Win (3:36)
Sunday Sun - Highly Respected Rebel (3:16)
Sparklehorse - Box of Stars, Pt. 2 (0:51)
Sparklehorse - It's Not So Hard (2:52)
Jellyfish - All is Forgiven (4:09)
Jellyfish - Hush (1:47)
The TopDollar Hour - Episode 47
Coco Hames - I Don't Wanna Go (2:49)
Deer Tick - Jumpstarting (3:26)
Ludus - I Can't Swim I Have Nightmares (5:16)
Buck Owens and His Buckaroos - Under Your Spell Again (2:41)
Alabama Red Peppers - The Drag (1928) (3:15)
Suspect Parts - Run For Your Life (2:49)
Z-Rock Hawaii - Tuchus (3:09)
Rubén González - Siboney (2:32)
Veronica Falls - Broken Toy (2:25)
Clyde McCoy and his Orchestra - The Nightmare (1931) (3:13)
Ohmme - Fingerprints (4:23)
Crackers - Judy, Judy, Judy (3:12)
The Melvins - Buck Owens (3:09)
Mean Motor Scooter - Intro (0:52)
Mean Motor Scooter - We're Not Alone (2:33)
Annette Hanshaw - Am I Blue (3:19)
Bawlers - Conocerte (2:12)
Yumi Zouma - The Brae (4:16)
The Dahlmanns - Dancing with Joey Ramone (2:42)
Henry Threadgill - Little Pocket Size Demons (10:50)
UFO or Die - Space Wrist (1:41)
Robert Lloyd - The Part of the Anchor (4:03)
Ruins - Redhark (1:05)
Front Lines - Dying In Fiction (3:13)
Don Voorhees, Charles Kaley - Dancing the Devil Away 1927 (2:53)
Gestures - Kicks (2:50)
Weaves - Walk Away (3:36)
Allah-Las - Could Be You (3:13)
The Successful Failures - When Did Everybody Grow Up (2:59)
Jason Falkner - Tell Me You Love Me (2:21)
The Black Angels - I'd Kill for Her (3:37)
Strange Ranger - Glow (4:50)
The Top Dollar Ten - September 2017
Even though it’s a bit late for a September top ten, gosh darn it, this playlist is swell as heck! Every song is filled with goosebumps, daydreams and a good cry or two. Beware of emotional catharsis! (just enjoy ‘em) Oh, they’re not in any order.
Underlined Passages – Ruthenia
I’d like to meet Ruthenia.
Tobin Sprout - Atom Eyes (sprite version)
Eternally in high rotation
Lusterlit - Nothing
Comfort in nothing.
Karla Kane - Don't Hush, Darling
A lullaby. The lullaby.
MIS+RESS - OBAFGKM
Driving home alone
SAL MINEO - Sharp Dressed Man
No nonsense biography.
Elvis Costello - Girls Talk (alt. Version)
I don't ask questions.
Grant Hart - The Main (acoustic)
This is how I define Mr. Hart.
Michael Cera w/ Sharon Van Etten - Best I Can
Playful, sweet and pure.
Courtney Farren - Change Your Mind
I tear up remembering second chances that'll never happen.
The TopDollar Hour - Episode 46
The Soft Boys - (I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp (3:00)
Purple Wizard - Chiquitita (ALTERNATE VERSION) (2:10)
Professor Longhair - Walk Your Blues Away (2:56)
Soft Shoulder - Tabouli Outlet (4:17)
Michael Cera - Best I Can (w/ Sharon Van Etten) (3:16)
The Hollywood Persuaders - Drums A GO GO (2:19)
Alan Vega, Alex Chilton, Ben Vaughn - Fly Away (5:32)
Tobin Sprout - Atom Eyes (Sprite Version) (2:16)
Drink Up Buttercup - Young Ladies (2:42)
Veronica Falls - Timeless Melody (2:28)
Pissed Jeans - I Broke My Own Heart (4:37)
The Cactus Blossoms - Mississippi (4:00)
Alternative TV - My Hand Is Still Wet (3:24)
Sleep Loan Sharks - A Gift (2:38)
MIS+RESS - OBAFGKM (1:52)
Buzzov*en - Whiskey Fit (2:39)
Tester Housing - Into You (1983) (4:01)
Tony Osborne - Turkish Coffee (2:08)
Indian Agent - Refined (2:02)
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Heavy Head (4:59)
The Sadies - Another Season Again (2:24)
The Buzzards - High Class (2:58)
Boredoms - Sun, Gun, Run (2:47)
The Nits - Yes or No (3:03)
Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks - The Ramble (3:16)
Karla Kane - Don't Hush, Darling (2:54)
Toothless - Palm's Backside (w/ Marika Hackman) (4:02)
Kate Bush - Waking The Witch (4:17)
Boringham - Sleep, Piig (1:03)
Pink Guy - Help (2:45)
Mo Kenney - Unglued (2:58)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Echo (6:36)
The TopDollar Hour - Episode 45
The Prissteens - Staten Island Queen (3:17)
Deerhoof - Freedom Highway (The Staple Singers) (1:42)
The Shazam - So Awesome (3:45)
Lucinda Williams - Am I Too Blue (2:56)
Germ House - Video Life (3:08)
Underlined Passages - Feelings (2:40)
Chad Etchison - A Piece of Blue Sky (1:52)
Telethon - Flatpack (2:33)
Grudge - I'm Gonna Smash Your Face In (3:36)
Revenge Body - Bonus Beats 1 (1:13)
Lomelda - Nervous Driver (2:24)
Roger Roger Orchestra - Delilah (2:42)
Fazerdaze - Misread (2:30)
A Giant Dog - Photograph (2:47)
Game Theory - Valerie Tomorrow (2:55)
Slant 6 - Ladybug Superfly (2:25)
Courtney Farren - Hard To Tell (3:12)
Wild Meadows - Feel The Noise (3:08)
Lolas - Wild Blood (3:09)
Cobra Verde - Every God For Himself (4:24)
Rimshots - Little Boys & Little Girls (3:32)
Burning Palms - Nightstalker (2:45)
Psychotic Tanks - Let's have A Party (1:47)
Wanda Jackson - Let's Have A Party (2:10)
Flamin' Groovies - 11 I'd Rather Spend My Time With You (2:23)
The Laurels - Art School Girl (3:22)
Pugwash - The Perfect Summer (3:32)
Revenge Body - Bonus Beats 2 (2:57)
Grant Hart - The Main (Acoustic version) (2:56)
Mise En Scene - Waster (2:42)
Silver Sun - 17 Times (2:52)
Holiday Ghosts - Ron Song (2:05)
Revenge Body - Bonus Beats 3 (1:16)
Mirror Boys - Jumble Sale Suit (2:47)
Gem - Many Fanged Breezes (2:34)
Jane Siberry - The Taxi Ride (5:40)
The TopDollar Hour - Episode 44
Guadalcanal Diary - Litany (Life Goes On) (3:42)
Tobin Sprout - To My Beloved Martha (2:19)
The Soledad Brothers - Shaky Puddin' (3:25)
Liquid Liquid - Rubbermiro (3:34)
Slant 6 - Thirty-Thirty Vision (3:24)
Secret Powers - Miss Lonely (3:55)
The Prisoners - Better In Black (2:21)
Julian Lennon - I Don't Wanna Know (4:06)
Pia Zadora - Clapping Song (3:29)
Underlined Passages - Ruthenia (3:09)
J Church - Tide of Fate (2:58)
Bill Browning - Sinful Woman (1:42)
Night Battles - Curse the Day (4:24)
Talking Heads - Air (3:34)
Baby Scream - Stay Forever, My Love (2:01)
The Starlite Desperation - Our Product (4:36)
Old 97's - Let's Get Drunk & Get It On (3:03)
Nikki Lane - Send The Sun (2:57)
GIRLS GO-YLE - B.B.Q (3:09)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Girls Talk (1:55)
Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk (3:29)
Elvis Costello - Girls Talk (alternate version) (2:05)
Agony Aunts - Back to Back Bill (3:40)
Fleshtones - American Beat (1978) (2:30)
Rose Maddox - My Little Baby (1959) (1:52)
Rosemary Malign - These Walls (1:36)
Seminars - Fury Suit (1:48)
Liars - The Overachievers (3:16)
Germ House - Bad Organs (2:41)
Tera Melos - Warpless Run (2:33)
Frances Williams - It's Unanimous Now (1929) (2:57)
Strand Of Oaks - Goshen '97 (3:00)
Blaire Alise & the Bombshells - Telemono (3:04)
Scott Collins - The Upside (3:43)
Courtney Farren - Nothing Like It (3:12)
The TopDollar Hour - Grant Hart
Welcome to The TopDollar Hour. This is Tunacan Jones. Tonight's show is 3 hours that feature the work of Grant Hart.
In Husker Du, Nova Mob and his solo work, he was always honest with the art, relationships and the emotions involved. His music and words has influenced my own work from first listens to the revisits that I have done in the last couple of days. These next 3 hours, i hope, will give you what he gave me. I'll start the show with
a fun bonus track, an intro demo from The Last Days of Pompeii, named simply, It's Nova Mob
Nova Mob - (Intro) It's Nova Mob (bonus track) (1:26)
Nova Mob - Wernher Von Braun (2:17)
Grant Hart - Barbara (4:17)
Hüsker Dü - She's a Woman (and Now He Is a Man) (3:21)
Grant Hart - A Letter from Anne Marie (6:00)
Hüsker Dü - Pink Turns to Blue (2:42)
Nova Mob - Admiral Of The Sea (79 A.D. Version) (2:24)
Grant Hart - I Will Never See My Home (4:36)
Grant Hart - Run Run Run to the Centre Pompidou (3:45)
Hüsker Dü - Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely (3:31)
Husker Du - Terms Of Psychic Warfare (2:19)
Hüsker Dü - Sorry Somehow (4:29)
Nova Mob - Introduction (3:16)
Nova Mob - Over My Head (3:42)
Hüsker Dü - Charity, Chastity, Prudence, and Hope (3:15)
Nova Mob - The Last Days of Pompeii (rough mix) (4:18)
Nova Mob - Little Miss Information (3:49)
Hüsker Dü - Dead Set on Destruction (3:01)
Grant Hart - Twenty-Five Forty-One (4:47)
Nova Mob - If I Was Afraid / Coda (6:02)
Q: Have your sources of inspiration for song writing changed over the years?
A: I would say that it’s probably more broad now. Quite a bit more broad. For example on the last album released, as well as there being the Echo and Narcissus song, there’s a song about Charles Hollis Jones, who’s a furniture designer, as well as something that is based on a remark made by a Buddhist monk during the selection of the Panchen Lama. He said, in reference to the candidate for Lamahood: “Oh, he is like the reflection of the moon on the water but he’s not the moon” and I used that as an inspiration. I guess I would have to examine the earlier stuff but I think it was probably more like emotional involvements, feeling your way through relationships and things like that. But that seems to find it’s integration into the new stuff as well.
Interview by Imelda Michalczyk
(August 2013)
Rockshot Mag
Hüsker Dü - She Floated Away (3:38)
Grant Hart - I Am Death (2:33)
Grant Hart - I Knew All About You Since Then (2:08)
Hüsker Dü - No Promise Have I Made (3:41)
Husker Du - Books About UFOs (2:49)
Grant Hart - California Zephyr (2:59)
Hüsker Dü - Flexible Flyer (3:02)
Grant Hart - Shine, Shine, Shine (4:33)
Hüsker Dü - Green Eyes (3:02)
Nova Mob - See and Feel and Know (2:43)
Q: Where do songs come from? I've listened many times to this explanation: "they are out there floating and you just have to be 'tuned' so you can get them". It's the classic idea of inspiration as an outer force. Is it just easier to attribute it to higher powers?
A: I believe we attribute to higher powers that which we find god-like in ourselves. There is a mystical moment often called the moment of inspiration when we realize we have an exciting idea. If it were a duplicable event, then it would not be special feeling. There is a certain gloating that happens when we realize that we are to be given credit for something that just occurred. What is better than to be able to say, if only for a moment, “I am brilliant!"' Whether we acknowledge it or not it, is satisfying to be creative, to be a creator, to match God. Doing what we like to do, in a fashion and to a degree uncommon, (it) feels pretty fucking good.
From an Inteview by Luis Boullosa
(August 2013)
Website: Perfect Sound Forever
Hüsker Dü - Turn On The News (4:27)
Hüsker Dü - Keep Hanging On (3:19)
Grant Hart - You're the Reflection of the Moon on the Water (4:20)
Hüsker Dü - Never Talking To You Again (1:40)
Grant Hart - She Can See The Angels Coming (3:47)
Hüsker Dü - Every Everything (1:58)
Hüsker Dü - Actual Condition (1:52)
Nova Mob - The Sins of Their Sons (2:49)
Hüsker Dü - Dreams Reoccurring (1:40)
Grant Hart - Now That You Know Me (3:56)
Grant Hart - Come, Come (3:17)
Grant Hart - Underneath the Apple Tree (3:09)
Grant Hart - Teeny's Hair (3:17)
Grant Hart - It Isn't Love (4:15)
Grant Hart - Charles Hollis Jones (4:23)
Grant Hart - Out of Chaos (1:57)
Grant Hart - Morningstar (4:19)
Grant Hart - Awake, Arise! (5:16)
Grant Hart had demons that could fuel a life or tear it down. He has managed to navigate through them all with his relationshop to art, music and the written word. His success was defined by his unwillingness to compromise on an artistic and personal level. As the cliche goes, it was a blessing and a curse. Grant Hart's legacy, however, is best left up for him to define.
“A long time ago, I started looking at my permanent record — the history of me after I’m gone,” Grant Hart said. “Even to speak of it reeks of egotism run wild. But I think when all is said and done, the work that I produced in this lifetime will more than repay the world for any inconvenience I’ve caused it.” - from a 2009 Star Tribune interview.
We're going to end the show with Grant Hart's song, "The Main" from his first solo album, "Intolerance", which was released on December 12, 1989.
Thank you for listening.
Grant Hart - The Main (4:06)
Nova Mob 1989 - 1994
Grant Hart (Solo) 1995 - 2013
The TopDollar Hour - Episode 43
Black Market Baby - Downward Christian Soldiers (1983) (2:42)
Pizzicato Five - La Dépression (2:16)
Pearl Earl - Meet Your Maker (5:50)
Os Mutantes - A Minha Menina (4:41)
Muck and the Mires - Hang All Over Me (2:24)
Thunder Buffalo - Bring All The Drugs (1:27)
Guided By Voices - Little Whirl (1:49)
Enon - Believo! (2:09)
The Fans - You Don't Live Here Anymore (3:24)
Miya Folick - Trouble Adjusting (3:41)
Druggy Pizza - I Wanna Eat Until I'm Dead (1:48)
Dr Feelgood - Down By The Jetty (1975) (3:00)
Bitter Sweet Orange - Aimless Lady (1970) (2:31)
Korean Kittens - Can't Buy Me Love (1964) (1:54)
Magpie - Daisy Paints Her Fingers (3:00)
Lilly Hiatt - Get This Right (3:29)
Neil Young - Wonderin' - Original Version (1970) (2:12)
Neil Young and The Shocking Pinks - Wonderin' (3:16)
Mooseknuckle Sandwich - Poopyface (0:46)
BoPeep - Festival of BULUKANILO and CAMPANELLA [VOCALOID] (3:48)
The Mynabirds - Golden Age (4:45)
Yowie - Absurdly Ineffective Barricade (5:23)
STP - Go Jacqui Go (Demo 1990) (2:23)
New Orleans Owls - The Owls´ Hoot (2:44)
The Safes - Hometown (1:54)
Mooseknuckle Sandwich - Surprise Bag (0:34)
Warner Brothers - I Won't Be The Same Without Her (2:41)
Guided By Voices - Wings Of Thorn (2:10)
U.S. Maple - Songs That Have No Making Out (3:50)
The Flying Luttenbachers - Death Ray (2:12)
Splitsville - Ponce De Leon (2:19)
Eyelids - You Know I Gotta Reason (3:03)
The Zakary Thaks - Bad Girl (2:07)
Fits - Ice Cream on a Nice Day (1:16)
The Yawpers - Reunion (4:04)
Lou Reed - Vanishing Act (5:25)
The TopDollar Hour - Episode 42
The Two Tens - Friends (2:49)
SAL MINEO - The Great Expanse (0:34)
MFC Chicken with Sister Cookie - I Just Wanna Make Love To You (2:53)
Five O'Clock Heroes - Head Games (2:53)
Moodring - Nobel Iron (4:19)
Chrysta Bell & David Lynch - Beat the Beat (4:01)
Black Pudding - Tillagio (5:25)
The Guts - Heartbreaker (2:18)
Yummy Fur - Frankenstein A Go-Go (0:35)
Lift to Experience - These are the Days (8:45)
Sleep Loan Sharks - Love in Bangkok 2 (3:12)
Trupa Trupa - Snow (2:35)
Fire Engines - Get Up and Use Me (2:07)
The Meligrove Band - Free on The Air (2:41)
Henry's Dress - All This Time For Nothing (2:56)
Josephine Wiggs Experience - Head to Toe (3:36)
Golden Starlet - Girlfriend (1:36)
Magnolia - Human Race (4:46)
Bullshit Market - 21 Songs Live @ Precinct Detroit 5-18-2017 (4:41)
venta de garage - niña excelente (3:15)
Matthew Buster - Tonight (2:03)
Filthy Little Star - The Fractured Room (3:47)
La Tortuga China - Mi mejor amigo (1:36)
Throwing Muses - Hate My Way (4:06)
STP - Sweet Man (Demo 1990) (1:39)
Deathray- My Lunatic Friends (2:55)
Fullness Off Lack - Solid Clouds (0:58)
Lupers - Mi Novio Es Un Hater (2:12)
Royal Pains - Get Punched (3:08)
SAL MINEO - Sharp Dressed Man (1:36)
The PeeChees - Well Worth Talkin About from Life (2:14)
American Anymen - Late To The Party (5:49)
Rebekah Del Rio - No Stars (Twin Peaks 2017) (6:59)