THE TOP 115 OF 2015

It's the end of the year, so there has to be a countdown, right?  Newcomer Big Data tops the list of songs you gave the thumbs up.  The Clash, Ramones and Social Distortion are in a three way tie for most songs in the countdown.  Here is the Top 115 of 2015:

1. Dangerous – Big Data
2. Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
3. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4. Change the World – Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
5. Woman – Wolfmother
6. Know Your Rights – Clash
7. Violet – Hole
8. Human Fly – Cramps
9. Strangelove – Depeche Mode
10.  Song 2 – Blur
11.  I Was Wrong – Social Distortion
12. Porch – Pearl Jam
13. Nearly Lost You – Screaming Trees
14.  Incinerate – Sonic Youth
15.  Suspect Device – Stiff Little Fingers
16.  Maxwell Murder – Rancid
17.  Communist Eyes – Germs
18.  Cannonball – Breeders
19.  Drug Train – Social Distortion
20.  Merchandise – Fugazi
21.  Got the Time – Anthrax
22.  Seether – Veruca Salt
23.  Fall Behind Me – Donnas
24.  I Wanna Be Where the Boys Are – Runaways
25.  Teen Age Riot – Sonic Youth
26.  Celebrity Skin – Hole
27.  Breathe – Prodigy
28.  Bittersweet Symphony – Verve
29.  Ring of Fire – Social Distortion
30.  Rockaway Beach – Ramones
31.  God Save the Queen – Sex Pistols
32.  All Apologies – Nirvana
33.  Look Back and Laugh – Minor Threat
34.  Bad Reputation – Joan Jett
35.  American Idiot – Green Day
36.  The Passenger – Iggy Pop
37.  Blood Sugar Sex Magic – Red Hot Chili Peppers
38.  Self Esteem – Offspring
39.  Clampdown – Clash
40.  Suburban Home – Descendents
41.  Los Angeles – X
42.  Tighten Up – Black Keys
43.  Love In Plaster – Hives
44.  Corona – Minutemen
45.  We Are the One – Avengers
46.  1 2 X U – Wire
47.  Halloween II – Misfits
48.  Waiting Room – Fugazi
49.  Questioning My Sanity – L7
50.  My Hero – Foo Fighters
51.  Empty Head – Screaming Females
52.  Henrietta – Fratellis
53.  Let’s Dance – David Bowie
54.  Quitter – Rhones
55.  It Haunts You Now – Go Betty Go
56.  If You Could Only See – Tonic
57.  Paul Revere – Beastie Boys
58.  Indecent – Spunk Lads
59.  Radio – New Hell Republic
60.  Alternative Ulster – Stiff Little Fingers
61.  Pronoia – Strange Wilds
62.  Underground – Sneaker Pimps
63.  House of the Rising Sun – Adolescents
64.  Straight To Hell – Clash
65.  Radar Love – Ministry
66.  Bodies – Sex Pistols
67.  Repeater – Fugazi
68.  Sappy – Nirvana
69.  Kids In America – Kim Wilde
70.  I Hate Myself For Loving You – Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
71.  Natural One – Folk Imposion
72.  Howlin’ For You – Black Keys
73.  My Generation – Green Day
74.  I Just Wanna Have Something To Do – Ramones
75.  New Wind – 7 Seconds
76.  The Hardest Button To Button – White Stripes
77.  What Love Is – Dead Boys
78.  Kiss Them For Me – Siouxsie and the Banshees
79.  Friction – Television
80.  Wild Thing – X
81.  Lexicon Devil - Germs
82.  Wendy – Descendents
83.  Supermassive Black Hole – Muse
84.  Personality Crisis – New York Dolls
85.  Ven Cerca – Girl In A Coma
86.  Nazi Punks Fuck Off – Dead Kennedys
87.  Spoonman – Soundgarden
88.  Rise – Public Image Ltd.
89.  Closer – Nine Inch Nails
90.  One Way Or Another – Blondie
91.  Straight Ahead – Pennywise
92.  Stranger Than Fiction – Bad Religion
93.  Rocket – Smashing Pumpkins
94.  Prisoner of Society – Living End
95.  What Do I Get? – Buzzcocks
96.  We Care A Lot – Faith No More
97.  Crimson Wave – Tacocat
98.  Queer – Garbage
99.  Search and Destroy – Iggy and the Stooges
100. The KKK Took My Baby Away - Ramones
101. Two of a Kind – Beat Dolls
102. Precious – Pretenders
103. Pigs In Zen – Jane’s Addiction
104. Gone Daddy Gone – Violent Femmes
105. Sweet Jane – Velvet Underground
106. Give It Away – Red Hot Chili Peppers
107. Just Like Heaven – The Cure
108. Jocko Homo – Devo
109. Wild in the Street – Circle Jerks
110. Kick Me to the Curb – Dollyrots
111. When You Find Out – Nerves
112. Kick Out the Jams – Bad Brains with Henry Rollins
113. Plowed – Sponge
114. Scoff – Nirvana
115. Ghost Town – Specials

WHAT'S GOING ON (In the middle of November)

There are only a couple weeks left of ALL Request FALL on KJRW.  Here are the current most requested songs:

1. Halloween II - Misfits
2. My Hero - Foo Fighters
3. Celebrity Skin - Hole
4. Porch - Pearl Jam
5. Howlin' For You - Black Keys
6. Waiting Room - Fugazi
7. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
8. I Wanna Be Where the Boys Are - Runaways
9. Breathe - Prodigy
10. Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers

Remember to join us the last Monday of the month (November 30th) at the Shadowland Pub Quiz.   The trivia questions and Happy Hour food specials start at 8 p.m.  Win FREE drinks and more, where Oregon meets California in West Seattle.  There's NO ENTRY FEE, so Come Out and Play!

KJRW's 5th year online ends in a couple weeks.  You can help keep us online with a donation.  We begin our 6th year with your favorite feature, Under the Covers!  Punk Rock versions of Pop songs.  Punk Rock versions of Classic Rock songs.  Punk Rock versions of -- Punk Rock songs.  Get Under the Covers with KJRW this December and all winter long!

WHAT'S GOING ON (In the middle of September)

ALL Request Fall is underway at KJRW.  You may email your song requests to kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com.  The most requested songs playing on KJRW now are:

1. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
2. Look Back and Laugh - Minor Threat
3. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
4. I Was Wrong - Social Distortion
5. Change the World - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
6. Human Fly - Cramps
7. Know Your Rights - Clash
8. Tighten Up - Black Keys
9. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
10. Crimson Wave - Tacocat

Our rank among the thousands of stations on Live365 is climbing higher and higher.  We've been made a favorite station several more times.  KJRW has picked up a few more followers on twitter and facebook.

We designed a Special Edition T-shirt with tfund.  It is not available in the KJRW Corner Store.  It is only available here.  10 shirts need to be pre-ordered in the next 10 days, or the shirt will not get printed!  It's only $20 and part of that will go to keep our little radio-station-that-could chugging away. Please order a shirt today!

Last Monday is a little over a week away.  KJRW hosts the music round at the Shadowland Pub Quiz on the 28th at 8 p.m. in West Seattle.  This month's category is Alternative Rock Resumes.  Musicians who have been members of more than one successful band are highlighted.  Come Out and Play!

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the beginning of September)

Monday night's Shadowland Pub Quiz was rockin' and raucous. Rico walked away with the fan-made KJRW T-shirt for correctly guessing the lyrics: "You said irony was the shackles of youth" belonged to a song by R.E.M. (What's the Frequency, Kenneth?). We thank Scott M.X. for letting us invade his quiz show the last Monday of every month.  Scott hosts the Shadowland Pub Quiz in West Seattle Monday nights at 8.

The station's rank climbed a few notches in August. We hit the milestone of 70 thousand visits to the KJRW station page at Live365.com.  There were almost 2 thousand visits in August alone. VIPs spent more time with us in August than in the previous 3 months.  KJRW was made a favorite station the most times since January.  The Facebook page got a bunch more likes.  And we gathered another batch of followers on Twitter.

People were listening the most in the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Belarus, Mexico, Italy, Japan and Belgium.

Inside the U.S., people spent the greatest amount of time with KJRW in:

• Seattle, WA
• Kansas City, MO
• Detroit, MI
• Philadelphia, PA
• Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
• Cincinnati, OH
• Atlanta, GA
• San Francisco, CA
• Albany, NY
• Boston, MA

The songs getting the thumbs up currently are:

1. Know Your Rights - Clash
2. Friction - Television
3. Don't Go - Yaz(oo)
4. Corduroy - Pearl Jam
5. Kiss Them for Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
6. Tighten Up - Black Keys
7. Maxwell Murder - Rancid
8. Ven Cerca - Girl in a Coma
9. Strangelove - Depeche Mode
10. Seven Nation Army - White Stripes

It's the last week of New Wave Summer.  Grab your T-shirt before it leaves the KJRW Corner Store.

ALL REQUEST FALL begins after Labor Day. You may make requests by clicking the talk bubble on the station page, or by emailing kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com.   You can even request your own band's music to be played if you include an mp3.

THE TOP 114 OF 2014

Merry Christmas!  Here it is:  the big list of your favorite songs you heard on KJRW this year.  The band with the most songs was Nirvana.  The White Stripes had the number one song, but it was the only song they had in the countdown. Just under 20% of the list were tunes from our College Rock and New Wave Summer features. A dozen songs were covers.  Get Under the Covers again with us in January!

1. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
2. The Busdrivers - Josh's Shirt
3. Perfect Storm - Strypes
4. So Alive - Love and Rockets
5. Feel the Pain - Dinosaur Jr.
6. Lexicon Devil - Germs
7. Wendy - Descendents
8. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
9. Get With Me - PINS
10. Oh My God - Kaiser Chiefs
11. Kundalini Express - Love and Rockets
12. I Fought the Law - Clash
13. No Fun - Sex Pistols
14. One Way Or Another - Blondie
15. T.M.I. - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
16. Strange Love - Cramps
17. Kiss Them For Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
18. Rise Above - Black Flag
19. Till I Get My Way - Black Keys
20. People Who Died - Jim Carroll Band
21. Goodnight Tonight - Dollyrots
22. Pirate Song - Go Betty Go
23. Between the Eyes - Love Battery
24. The Guns of Brixton - Clash
25. We Want the Airwaves - Ramones
26. Bad Mouth - Fugazi
27. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
28. One of My Lies - Green Day
29. School Days - Runaways
30. Dancing With Myself - Generation X
31. Sappy - Nirvana
32. Here's To Your Fuck - Gits
33. These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - 7 Seconds
34. Drama - L7
35. State of Love and Trust - Pearl Jam
36. Phenomena - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
37. Grind - Alice In Chains
38. Pablo Picasso - Modern Lovers
39. Dresden Dolls - Fall
40. Destination Anywhere - Sugarcult
41. Electric Band - Wild Flag
42. No Time Left - Crawls
43. You Sound Like You're Sick - Ramones
44. Season of the Witch - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
45. Wild Thing - X
46. Infected - Bad Religion
47. What Love Is - Dead Boys
48. Good Guys (Don't Wear White) - Minor Threat
49. Ring of Fire - Social Distortion
50. I Wanna Be Sedated - Offspring
51. Wave of Mutilation - Pixies
52. Damaged Goods - Gang of Four
53. The Wait - Pretenders
54. Love Buzz - Nirvana
55. I Want It All - Battered Wives
56. Pull A U - Kills
57. Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
58. Stray - Heatmiser
59. Rock and Roll Queen - Subways
60. Who Was In My Room Last Night? - Butthole Surfers
61. The Hand That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails
62. The Wait - Killing Joke
63. Destroy - Eyeliners
64. Goo Goo Muck - Cramps
65. Everybody's Out - Dum Dum Girls
66. Somebody Else's Baby - Murder City Devils
67. Take Me To Your, Leader - Pudz
68. The Impression That I Get - Mighty Mighty Bosstones
69. I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
70. Over Seasons - Authority Zero
71. Kiss Kiss - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
72. Dog Style - Viletones
73. Money - Flying Lizards
74. Prison Bound - Social Distortion
75. Hellhole - Detroit Diesel Power
76. (I'm Gonna) Run Away - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
77. All This and More - Dead Boys
78. Sliver - Nirvana
79. Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals
80. Suicide - Battered Wives
81. The KKK Took My Baby Away - Ramones
82. New College - Dollyrots
83. Waiting Room - Fugazi
84. Soup Is Good Food - Dead Kennedys
85. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - Devo
86. Should I Stay Or Should I Go? - Clash
87. Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers
88. Abra Cadaver - Hives
89. Wrong Way - Sublime
90. Friction - Television
91. New Radio - Bikini Kill
92. Radio Free Europe
93. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
94. Gouge Away - Pixies
95. Andres - L7
96. Bang On - Breeders
97. Lies - Greenhornes
98. Ever Fallen In Love? - Buzzcocks
99. Misunderstood - 7 Year Bitch
100. Girlsized - Glitter Mini 9
101. In Bloom - Nirvana
102. Bored of You - Agent Orange
103. Cocaine - FIDLAR
104. Radio Revolution - Vacancies
105. How Soon Is Now? - Smiths
106. Story of My Life - Social Distortion
107. Seriously - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
108. Whip It - Devo
109. First World Anarchist - Dollyrots
110. Ball of Confusion - Love and Rockets
111. Sundance - Public Works
112. Not My Idea - Garbage
113. So What - Anti-Nowhere League
114. You Know You're Right - Nirvana 

WHAT'S GOING ON (near the end of October)

Live365 VIPs are spending more time with KJRW lately.  VIPs get to listen commercial-free.  If you would like to test drive VIP for free for 5 days, click here.

Joan Jett was honored as Rocker of the Year by Little Kids Rock this past week, and we're happy to see she tops the list of your current favorite songs on KJRW:

1. Season of the Witch - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
2. People Who Died - Jim Carroll Band
3. The Busdrivers - Josh's Shirt
4. Feel the Pain - Dinosaur Jr.
5. Pirate Song - Go Betty Go
6. Perfect Storm - Strypes
7. Oh My God - Kaiser Chiefs
8. Till I Get My Way - Black Keys
9. Kundalini Express - Love and Rockets
10. Goodnight Tonight - Dollyrots

More spooky tunes for Halloween week coming your way on KJRW.  College Rock continues in November.  In December, our contract is up for renewal with Live365.  Help us stay online with a small donation at http://www.gofundme.com/KJRW-WestSeattle.

WHAT'S GOING ON (in the middle of October)

People have visited the KJRW station page at Live365.com 55 thousand times!

Your favorite songs this week were:

1. Till I Get My Way - Black Keys
2. Pirate Song - Go Betty Go
3. Goodnight Tonight - Dollyrots
4. Oh My God - Kaiser Chiefs
5. Stray - Heatmiser
6. Damaged Goods - Gang of Four
7. Perfect Storm - Strypes
8. How Soon Is Now - Smiths
9. The Wait - Pretenders
10. Dresden Dolls - Fall

More spooky tunes as we get closer to Halloween.  More college rock in November.  And then...

We're not sure what will happen in December.  Our contract will be up with Live365.  If we don't raise enough money to renew, KJRW may go silent.  You can keep us online if you become a VIP, or donate what you can at http://www.gofundme.com/KJRW-WestSeattle.

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the beginning of October)

Your favorite songs the first week of October were:

1. Till I Get My Way - Black Keys
2. Goodnight Tonight - Dollyrots
3. Pirate Song - Go Betty Go
4. Oh My God - Kaiser Chiefs
5. Stray - Heatmiser
6. You Sound Like You're Sick - Ramones
7. Damaged Goods - Gang of Four
8. All This and More - Dead Boys
9. Perfect Storm - Strypes
10. The Wait - Pretenders

Over a couple hundred people visited the station page during the first week of the month.  Several people clicked on the heart to make KJRW a favorite.

KJRW got more twitter followers and more Facebook page likes.

Listen for College Rock and some spooky tunes all month long...

TOP TEN

The Pixies stay in the number one slot.  The rest of the list has changed completely.  Here are the songs that KJRW listeners gave the "thumbs up" to this week:

1. Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies
2. Rocket - Smashing Pumpkins
3. Bang On - Breeders
4. Welcome To Paradise - Green Day
5. Till I Get My Way - Black Keys
6. Steady, As She Goes - Raconteurs
7. Get Over You - Undertones
8. Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
9. Hope - Descendents
10. Ruby Soho - Rancid

Still taking your spooky song suggestions at kjrw@comcast.net for Halloween.

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

Chicks can't rock, they say?  The Au Pairs are at number one.  Here are the top ten songs on KJRW this week:

1. Kerb Crawler - Au Pairs
2. Over - Sugarcult
3. Close To Me - Cure
4. Train In Vain - Clash
5. Too Bad About Your Girl - Donnas
6. Bleed Together - Soundgarden
7. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
8. Mic Check - More of Anything
9. Keep Me - Black Keys
10. Girl U Want - Devo

Listen for "mother" and "mom" songs this weekend!  Write in the "Shout Out" box when you hear one to be entered to win a KJRW prize pack!

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

Here it is in Black (Keys) and White (Stripes), the first KJRW Top 10 list of May:

1. Over - Sugarcult
2. New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones - Fear
3. Train In Vain - Clash
4. Keep Me - Black Keys
5. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
6. Bleed Together - Soundgarden
7. Mic Check - More of Anything
8. Stop Your Sobbing - Pretenders
9. Too Bad About Your Girl - Donnas
10. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow

Brand new Pennywise and Jack White songs, as well as more Ramones and Sex Pistols added to the song list!

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

A double shot of the Pretenders in the middle of the list this week.  Here are the songs that got the 'thumbs up' on KJRW:

1. Keep Me - Black Keys
2. Too Bad About Your Girl - Donnas
3. Bleed Together - Soundgarden
4. Stop Your Sobbing - Pretenders
5. Kid - Pretenders
6. Mic Check - More of Anything
7. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
8. I Will Follow - U2
9. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
10. Someday - Strokes

Songs from the Kills, Foo Fighters, Black Flag and more will be added on More Music Monday!

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

It's Bring Out the Thrash Week on KJRW, but none of the thrash songs made it into the top ten.  Here's what did:

1. Keep Me - Black Keys
2. Kiss Them for Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
3. Where the River Flows - Collective Soul
4. I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
5. Trust - Generationals
6. Closer - Nine Inch Nails
7. Stop Your Sobbing - Pretenders
8. Kundalini Express - Love and Rockets
9. Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2
10. Bodies - Sex Pistols

More Nine Inch Nails, Ministry and other songs added this weekend!

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

The brand new Band of Skulls song shoots straight to number one.  Conversely, the new Red Hot Chili Peppers song is a cellar dweller.  Here is the top ten list for the last week of February:

1. Bruises - Band of Skulls
2. This Job Sucks - Gang Green
3. Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2
4. Trust - Generationals
5. I Think I'm Paranoid - Garbage
6. Superstition - Kills
7. Kundalini Express - Love and Rockets
8. Typical Girls - Slits
9. Pretty Noose - Soundgarden
10. Girl Is On My Mind - Black Keys

I was just looking at tickets for the Black Keys/Arctic Monkeys show in Seattle in May.  I would really like to go, but can't see parting with 50 bucks for a nosebleed seat.

Songs from Avengers, Fugazi, Nirvana and more just added to the list on KJRW.

By the way, have you taken step two of the challenge at http://www.facebook.com/KJRW.WestSeattle?