This week's RoasterBoy playlist

• Marvin Gaye - What's Going On ( Thursday, Mar 06 at 06:49 PM )

  As with Curtis Mayfield around the time of Superfly, this song and album is a deep and unending ache for what's happening on the street corner. Gaye, however, not only looks at the drugs and gangs and violence, but also looks up and around to see the bigger issues of the environment and the…

• YouTube - Vampire Weekend- Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa ( Tuesday, Mar 04 at 08:11 PM )

  Great guitar hook: YouTube - Vampire Weekend- Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

• Van Halen - Dreams ( Monday, Mar 03 at 09:55 PM )

  Most of VH's best stuff, of course, comes from the David Lee Roth years, but Dreams is great showcase for Sammy Hagar, as well as Eddie on keyboards. (DLR's Jump also includes a good keyboard-as-rhythm-section.) Dreams came out about the same time as the Challenger explosion and I still…

• YouTube - Jonathan Richman- Roadrunner ( Monday, Mar 03 at 06:34 PM )

  Probably the only song that mentions Stop & Shop: YouTube - Jonathan Richman- Roadrunner

• YouTube - The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (live) ( Saturday, Mar 01 at 04:08 PM )

  Happy Birthday, Roger Daltry - YouTube - The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again (live) Best rock 'n roll scream evar. OH, BY THE WAY, DID YOU KNOW THAT PETE TOWNSHEND IS ALMOST DEAF?

• Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson ( Friday, Feb 29 at 10:04 PM )

  "I'm black. I'll never let them forget it." -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com Drink from the well and yield your place to another. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

• YouTube - U2 When Love Comes To Town live from Rotterdam,Lovetown 1990 ( Thursday, Feb 28 at 10:32 PM )

  With B.B. King: YouTube - U2 When Love Comes To Town live from Rotterdam,Lovetown 1990