What’s to say after the inauguration? Well, if I did have something to say, I couldn’t, since I failed to get the microphones to work. So the music did the talking.
A night of resistance music began with Bob Marley, and there was plenty of Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Randy Newman and the Clash as well as a sampling from the Drive-In Truckers album. Tried to rescue the Stones from the hijacking they’ve unfairly received. Saluted Lead Belly on his birthday, and looking through old folkie protest music turned up a perfect tune for Saturday’s march: Kristin Lems’ “We Will Never Give Up.”
Closed with some Ramones, some of which had a little to do with Inaugural balls (“Cretin Hop”). And ended with the choice for the first dance — incredibly, “My Way.” Except with the Sid Vicious one.
Friday Night Rock, 1-20-2017, 9:15 p.m.-1 a.m., Radio CPR, 101.7 FM, Washington, D.C.
- “The Foundation,” Marvin Gaye
- “Get Up Stand Up,” Bob Marley & the Wailers
- “Rebel Music (3 O’Clock Roadblock),” Bob Marley & the Wailers (remix)
- “So Much Trouble in the World,” Bob Marley & the Wailers (remix)
- “Burnin’ and Lootin,’” Bob Marley & the Wailers (remix)
- “Keep On Pushing,” Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions
- “This is My Country,” Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions
- “Move On Up,” Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions
- “Funky President (People It’s Bad),” James Brown
- “What’s Happening Brother,” Marvin Gaye
- “Save the Children,” Marvin Gaye
- “The Bourgeois Blues,” Lead Belly
- “The Gallis Pole,” Lead Belly
- “We Shall Be Free,” Lead Belly with Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston
- “Links on the Chain,” Phil Ochs and the Broadside Singers
- “We Will Never Give Up,” Kristin Lems
- “Inez,” Bev Grant and the Human Condition
- “The Time Will Come,” Elaine White
- “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Come,” Pete Seeger
- “Christ for President,” Billy Bragg & Wilco
- “Ashes of American Flags,” Wilco
- “The Internationale,” Billy Bragg
- “American Tune,” Paul Simon
- “Laugh and Be Happy,” Randy Newman
- “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country,” Randy Newman
- “A Piece of the Pie,” Randy Newman
- “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today,” Randy Newman
- “Democracy,” Leonard Cohen
- “You Want It Darker,” Leonard Cohen
- “This is Not America,” David Bowie
- “Five Years,” David Bowie
- “The Rising,” Bruce Springsteen
- “Street Fighting Man,” The Rolling Stones
- “Get Off My Cloud,” The Rolling Stones
- “White Riot,” The Clash
- “Tommy Gun,” The Clash
- “I Fought the Law,” The Clash
- “Know Your Rights,” The Clash
- “Clampdown,” The Clash
- “The Guns of Brixton,” The Clash
- “I’m Not Down,” The Clash
- “Revolution Rock,” The Clash
- “Burnin’ Streets,” Joe Strummer & The Mescalaros
- “Redemption Song,” Joe Strummer & The Mescalaros
- “Revolution,” Nina Simone
- “Fight the Power,” Public Enemy
- “Darkened Flags on the Cusp of Dawn,” Drive-By Truckers
- “Surrender Under Protest,” Drive-By Truckers
- “What It Means,” Drive-By Truckers
- “Motor City is Burning,” MC5
- “Kick Out the Jams,” MC5
- “Teenage Lobotomy,” The Ramones
- “I Wanna Be Well,” The Ramones
- “I Can’t Give You Anything,” The Ramones
- “It’s a Long Way Back to Germany,” The Ramones
- “Cretin Hop,” The Ramones
- “My Way,” Sid Vicious
Friday Night Rock returns Feb. 3 on Radio CPR, 101.7 FM, Washington, D.C. or online at www.tinyurl.com/radiocpr