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 Mid-October)

We're midway through October and ALL Request FALL on KJRW.  The most-requested songs currently are:

1. Season of the Witch - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
2. All Apologies - Nirvana
3. Indecent - The Spunk Lads
4. Wanted To Be Your - Spoon
5. Empty Head - Screaming Females
6. Dangerous - Big Data
7. Paul Revere - Beastie Boys
8. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
9. I Was Wrong - Social Distortion
10. Quitter - The Rhones

Listen for the Great Punkin Tunes the rest of the October.  Get the KJRW Halloween T-shirt. 
And join us in costume THIS MONDAY at the Shadowland Pub Quiz.  Scott M.X. is Quizmaster Extraordinaire at Shadowland  every Monday night.   Shadowland is located at the corner of  California and Oregon in West Seattle.  Come Out and Play one of the rare INDEPENDENT trivia nights with NO ENTRY FEE.  Don't settle for a nationwide chain-quiz!  The Shadowland Pub Quiz is written fresh every week here in West Seattle.  KJRW presents the music question round the last Monday of each month.

WHAT'S GOING ON (At the Beginning of October)

September was a great month for KJRW.  The station reached its highest rank ever on Live365.com.
There were over 2 thousand visits to the station page last month.

People spent the most time listening to KJRW since last spring.  Where were they listening?  In the U.S., Canada, Switzerland, Spain, Argentina, Belarus, Sweden, New Zealand, Mexico and Italy.  Washington, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, New York, California, Tennessee, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Kentucky were the places inside the U.S. with the most listeners.

And we got to hang out with the Dollyrots at the Crocodile Café in the middle of September.

They are currently working on their first live CD/DVD.  You can get the scoop on that and even suggest a title they may use here:  http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/dollyrotslive/updates/59837.


ALL Request FALL continues on KJRW.  Send us some spooky Halloween song suggestions at kjrwwestseattle@yahoo.com.  The most requested tunes on KJRW right now are:

1. Dangerous - Big Data
2. Paul Revere - Beastie Boys
3. Quitter - Rhones
4. Indecent - Spunk Lads
5. I Was Wrong - Social Distortion
6. Empty Head - Screaming Females
7. Change the World - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
8. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
9. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
10. Look Back and Laugh - Minor Threat

TOP TRACKS (APRIL)

The Top Tracks for April were:

1. Woman - Wolfmother
2. Shut Your Face - Bratmobile
3. Human Fly - The Cramps
4. Dangerous - Big Data
5. Precious - The Pretenders
6. Queer - Garbage
7. Bad Reputation - Joan Jett
8. Cannonball - The Breeders
9. Oh Come On - The Julie Ruin
10. Wendy - The Descendents
11. Teen Age Riot - Sonic Youth
12. Why Can't I - Big Eyes
13. Search and Destroy - Iggy & the Stooges
14. Sweet Jane - The Velvet Underground
15. Fall Behind Me - The Donnas

Click the thumbs up icon when your favorite song is playing on KJRW to see it make the list.

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

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction is this weekend.  KJRW is celebrating members all month long.  Listen for Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground.  The Velvets joined a few years back, and this year it's Lou's turn as a solo artist.  You will also hear David Bowie, The Ramones, Talking Heads, The Police, The Clash, Elvis Costello, The Pretenders, U2, Sex Pistols, Blondie, Patti Smith, R.E.M., The Stooges, Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana. On top of that are a couple more artists entering the hall this weekend:  Green Day and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.

April Fool's Day didn't drive folks away, even though it consisted mostly of 80's and 90's pop music. In fact, that day saw the most visits to the station page so far this month.

We recently added a boatload of tunes to the mix, and will continue to add more each week.  Your favorite songs playing on KJRW currently are:

1. Seether - Veruca Salt
2. Fall Behind Me - The Donnas
3. Dangerous - Big Data
4. Teen Age Riot - Sonic Youth
5. I Hate Myself for Loving You - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
6. Bad Reputation - Joan Jett
7. Woman - Wolfmother
8. Violet - Hole
9. Ring of Fire - Social Distortion
10. The KKK Took My Baby Away - The Ramones

KJRW is listener-supported INDIE Radio.  You can throw a few bucks our way on the Go Fund Me page.

WHAT'S GOING ON (at the end of March)

During the past month, KJRW has enjoyed honoring Women Who Rock. We hope you enjoyed it also. There were over twelve hundred visits to the station page at Live365. 

People spent over a thousand hours listening in the U.S., Spain, Canada, Belarus, Mexico, Germany, New Zealand, France, United Kingdom and Italy in March.  Tops in time listening inside the U.S. were Seattle, Dallas, Cincinnati, Chicago, Charlotte, New York, Peoria, Philadelphia, Fort Myers and San Francisco.

Your favorite tunes were:

1. I Hate Myself for Loving You - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
2. Teen Age Riot - Sonic Youth
3. Seether - Veruca Salt
4. Dangerous - Big Data
5. Prisoner of Society - Living End
6. I Feel You - Depeche Mode
7. Pinhead - Ramones
8. M.e.x.i.c.o. - Kills
9. Stranger Than Fiction - Bad Religion
10. Human Fly - Cramps

In April, KJRW celebrates the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame. This year's inductees include Lou Reed, Green Day and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.  We will also highlight members such as Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, David Bowie and more.

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

KJRW is halfway through Women Who Rock month. We achieved the milestone of having over 60 thousand visits to the station page at Live365.com.

Your current favorite songs on KJRW are:

1. Human Fly - Cramps
2. My Generation - Green Day
3. Do You Wanna Touch Me - Joan Jett
4. Alternative Ulster - Stiff Little Fingers
5. Merchandise - Fugazi
6. Dangerous - Big Data
7. House of the Rising Sun - Adolescents
8. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
9. Los Angeles - X
10. Woman - Wolfmother

Listen for Celtic punk rock from Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly and more on St. Patrick's Day on KJRW.