GUESS WHO'S BACK

Get Under the Covers with us again!  KJRW returns to Radionomy for a limited time only!

How limited?  One month? Three months?  Nine months?  Longer?
That depends completely upon YOU.  If you listen long time, we'll stick around.

DJ Spinster is back, playing songs from The Ramones, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Green Day, Black Flag, Rancid, Dead Kennedys, Misfits, Bad Religion, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, and many more.

KJRW has a new promotions director, Bass Master Nate.  He's in charge of getting the word out about the station.  Please give him a warm welcome, and help him by telling your friends about KJRW.

Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and now Instagram!

Comment with a song request.

Tune in THIS THURSDAY, February 1st for the return of the prodigal radio station. 

http://www.radionomy.com/en/radio/kjrwseattle/

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!

TOP TEN

L7 stays at the top of the heap this week on KJRW:

1. The Masses Are Asses - L7
2. Suicide - Battered Wives
3. Minor Threat - Minor Threat
4. Bad Reputation - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
5. Oh Come On - Julie Ruin
6. Need You Around - Smoking Popes
7. Paralyzed - Rock Kills Kid
8. Look Back and Laugh - Minor Threat
9. Lexicon Devil - Germs
10. Dancing With Myself - Generation X

We're filtering in some of your old favorites from the past year on KJRW from the Stooges, Misfits and more in preparation for the TOP 113 of 2013.  Stick a song to the wall on the facebook page to get it on the list.  The countdown of the TOP 113 begins December 1st on KJRW.*

*If we are able to renew our subscription with Live365.com

You can help us stay online by making a donation.

TOP TEN

The Runaways are number one this week!  Here are the top ten tracks on KJRW:

1. School Days - Runaways
2. Train In Vain - Clash
3. Minor Threat - Minor Threat
4. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
5. Different - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
6. Wild Thing - X
7. Emotional Blackmail - UK Subs
8. Need You Around - Smoking Popes
9. I Fought the Law - Clash
10. Maxwell Murder - Rancid

Listen for spooky tunes from Godsmack, the Kills, Misfits and more for Halloween week on KJRW...

TOP TEN

There are a few changes to the list for the second week of July.  It contains a surprising New Wave Summer song in the middle, but a predictable number one.  Here are the Top Ten Tracks on KJRW:

1. Miss Impossible - Poets of the Fall
2. The Guns of Brixton - Clash
3. Peaches - Stranglers
4. Suddenly Last Summer -Motels
5. Attitude - Misfits
6. When She Begins - Social Distortion
7. Sabotage - Beastie Boys
8. Rebel Girl - Bikini Kill
9. Kiss Them For Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
10. Color Me Impressed - Replacements

Listen for new songs from More of Anything and The Pixies and give them a "thumbs up" if you like them.

TOP TEN

The first list of July is almost the same as the last list of June.  Here are the current crowd-pleasing songs on KJRW:

1. Miss Impossible - Poets of the Fall
2. When She Begins - Social Distortion
3. Attitude - Misfits
4. Sabotage - Beastie Boys
5. Kiss Them For Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
6. (I'm Gonna) Run Away - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
7. Color Me Impressed - Replacements
8. What Love Is - Dead Boys
9. I Want To Hear What You Have Got To Say - Subways
10. Bob - NOFX

To see the songs you like in the Top Ten, click the thumbs up icon while they are playing on KJRW.

TOP TEN

A different Poets of the Fall song tops the list the last week of June on KJRW:

1. Miss Impossible - Poets of the Fall
2. When She Begins - Social Distortion
3. Attitude - Misfits
4. Kiss Them For Me - Siouxsie and the Banshees
5. Sabotage - Beastie Boys
6. Color Me Impressed - Replacements
7. (I'm Gonna) Run Away - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
8. Modern Love - David Bowie
9. TV Party - Black Flag
10. Derailed - 7 Year Bitch

Listen for New Wave Summer songs from Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Soft Cell, Modern English and more on KJRW!

TOP TEN

The first list of May finds Poets of the Fall at the top yet again.  In fact, the only big change was Kaiser Chiefs replacing Nirvana.

1. Psychosis - Poets of the Fall
2. I Want to Hear What You Have Got To Say - Subways
3. One of My Lies - Green Day
4. Jackie Chan - Dollyrots
5. Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
6. Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
7. I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs
8. Self Esteem - Offspring
9. Hybrid Moments - Misfits
10. Drug Train - Social Distortion

Soon on KJRW:  the new song from Iggy and the Stooges, as well as tunes from Tool, Shonen Knife, The Bellrays and more!

TOP TEN

Psychosis stays at the top!  Here are the ten tracks that got the highest 'thumbs up' from KJRW listeners this week:

1. Psychosis - Poets of the Fall
2. I Want To Hear What You Have Got To Say - Subways
3. One of My Lies - Green Day
4. Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
5. Breed - Nirvana
6. Jackie Chan - Dollyrots
7. Drug Train - Social Distortion
8. Hybrid Moments - Misfits
9. Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
10. Self Esteem - Offspring

 Tunes from Soundgarden, Iggy Pop, NOFX and more are making their debut on KJRW right now!

TOP TEN

Psychosis is number one for a record 8th week in a row on KJRW.  The rest of the list is completely different:

1. Psychosis - Poets of the Fall
2. Dig Me Out - Sleater-Kinney
3. Breed - Nirvana
4. Jackie Chan - Dollyrots
5. Drug Train - Social Distortion
6. Hybrid Moments - Misfits
7. Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols
8. Love Kills - Circle Jerks
9. I Might Need You To Kill - Thermals
10. Self Esteem - Offspring

Listen for the brand new song from Mudhoney on KJRW!

Click here to send us your song requests.

TOP TEN

The first top ten list of KJRW's third year on Live365.com includes two songs from Iggy Pop.

1. Closer - Nine Inch Nails
2. The Passenger - Iggy Pop
3. Soup Is Good Food - Dead Kennedys
4. Where Eagles Dare - Misfits
5. Lust for Life - Iggy Pop
6. Look Back and Laugh - Minor Threat
7. Alone, Together - Strokes
8. Straight Ahead - Pennywise
9. Scentless Apprentice - Nirvana
10. Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger

A slew of songs were just added.  We'll see if any of them make it into the top ten list next week...

TOP TEN

The songs shuffle in the top ten for the end of November.  These were the most popular songs on KJRW this past week:

1. Soup Is Good Food - Dead Kennedys
2. You Got A Problem - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
3. Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
4. Scentless Apprentice - Nirvana
5. Straight Ahead - Pennywise
6. Lust for Life - Iggy Pop
7. The Busdrivers - Josh's Shirt
8. Alone, Together - Strokes
9. Where Eagles Dare - Misfits
10. Look Back and Laugh - Minor Threat

The Top 112 is on now.  That list will be posted soon.

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

If the Mayans were correct, this may be the last countdown we ever hear.  And it will be a good one.  The Top 112 of 2012 begins December 1st - the start of KJRW's third year on Live365.com.

Countdowns are kind of a media year end tradition - a way to tie up the past year in a little bow and present it as a gift for the holidays.  Back in 1999, the program director of Seattle's One and Only Classic Rock Station decided it would be a good idea to countdown the 1,000 best Classic Rock songs of all time.  We all agreed this would be a great way to celebrate the new millennium.  We would reach number one on New Year's Day, provided we were still on the air after Y2K shut down all the computers.  For some reason, the Classic Rock Station still does the thousand song countdown every year between Christmas and New Year's.  The songs are all the same, and Stairway to Heaven is always number one.

KJRW's Top 112 of 2012 is not a rehash of the same old songs.  It is not even the same as the Top 111 of 2011.  For starters, it goes to 112, that's one higher.  (This is Spinal Tap reference)  Nirvana had the most songs on the list last year, but this year only have two.  We would be willing to bet at least half the songs on this year's list were not on last year's, and the ones that do make a return trip are not at the same rank.  The Top 112 is not your typical list of the top punk songs, either.  Surprisingly, there's no Dead Kennedys, Replacements, Minor Threat nor Misfits, and only one Sex Pistols song. 

Now that we have said what the Top 112 of 2012 is not, let us tell you what it is.  This compilation is made up of the songs that were in the Top Ten lists this year because they got the thumbs up from KJRW listeners.  We sat here and counted all of them.  Some of the results were very unexpected.  But what you can expect to hear is the Ramones, Clash, Pretenders, Soundgarden, White Stripes, Strokes and more.

The Top 112 of 2012 starts Saturday on KJRW.  http://www.live365.com/stations/member_10222739915?play=1 
The full list will be posted here soon. 

TOP TEN

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts finally have a number one song on KJRW.  Here is this week's list:

1. You Got A Problem - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
2. Soup Is Good Food - Dead Kennedys
3. The Busdrivers - Josh's Shirt
4. Rock & Roll Queen - Subways
5. Alone, Together - Strokes
6. Where Eagles Dare - Misfits
7. We Want the Airwaves - Ramones
8. Tall - Prat Attack
9. Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
10. Scentless Apprentice - Nirvana

If you enjoy reading these top ten lists, you will love listening to the Top 112 of 2012,  All the songs that made it into the top ten lists the most over the past year will be counted down starting Saturday, December 1st.

TOP TEN

Only one song remains from last week's list, and it does so just barely, hanging in at number ten.  Here are the most popular songs on KJRW halfway through November:

1. The Busdrivers - Josh's Shirt
2. You Got a Problem - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
3. Take It or Leave It - Strokes
4. Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr.
5. Where Eagles Dare - Misfits
6. Soup Is Good Food - Dead Kennedys
7. Straight Ahead - Pennywise
8. Alone, Together - Strokes
9. Flagpole Sitta - Harvey Danger
10. Scentless Apprentice - Nirvana

Listen to KJRW for NEW Bad Religion!

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

On this Black Friday, there is no Black Flag nor Black Keys in the Top Ten.  And I don't know if there was something in the turkey, but I think I'm seeing double.  Two from the White Stripes, Misfits and Bad Religion on this week's list.  Here is the last Top Ten of November:

1. The Hardest Button To Button - White Stripes
2. I Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones
3. My Doorbell - White Stripes
4. Astro Zombies - Misfits
5. Generator - Bad Religion
6. Infected - Bad Religion
7. The Wait - Pretenders
8. Bleed Together - Soundgarden
9. Where Eagles Dare - Misfits
10. Second Skin - Gits

Calculated from all the Top Ten lists this past year, the Top 111 of 2011 begins December 1st on KJRW.

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

A freshly added song is in the number one spot.  Here is this week's top ten:

1. Generator - Bad Religion
2. Astro Zombies - Misfits
3. Rock 'N' Roll High School - Shonen Knife
4. Promised Call - Dollyrots
5. Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo
6. Have A Cigar - Foo Fighters
7. One Way Or Another - Blondie
8. Dance With Me - Dollyrots
9. On A Plain - Telekinesis
10. Gardening At Night - R. E. M.

We are going over all the Top Ten lists from the past year to create a big countdown to celebrate the first year of KJRW.  Listen for the special presentation at the end of the month.

KJRW TOP TEN LIST

Some remnants of Halloween remain in the top ten for the first week of November.  And the Dollyrots are so nice, they're on there twice!

1. Astro Zombies - Misfits
2. Promised Call - Dollyrots
3. Kitty - Presidents of the United States of America
4. Have A Cigar - Foo Fighters
5. Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo
6. Dance With Me - Dollyrots
7. Rock 'N' Roll High School - Shonen Knife
8. Gardening at Night - R.E.M.
9. Trust - Generationals
10. Tommy the Cat - Primus

Got a song suggestion?  Comment here or write it in the Shout Out Box at the bottom of the KJRW page on live365.com.