So when Sluggo asked me what my all-time favorite KROQ songs are, at first I thought, “are you kidding me?” What an impossible question. Impossible mainly because the answers were endless.

However, I have a few KROQ songs that I have loved my entire life and these are the songs that I pledge an eternity of devotion to for no other reason than I absolutely love the way they make me feel.Watch the videos here

So, I’m still ‘touring the facilities’ in my long, white jacket and I think it’s gonna take the rest of the week. THEREFORE, my fine feathered fellow KROQ joqs are tossing you a bone and playing videos at you here on the series of tubes in my absence.

My friend KAT is up today – her first choice is by Friends and it’s called “Friend Crush”. I’m crossing everything that I can that this is some sort of clandestine message to me. Like, maybe she’s had a labotomy recently and suddenly I don’t look so bad.

Anyway, about it she says: “I love the retro sound of this and the weird keyboard is very dreamlike.”Watch the videos here

So, I decided to take a week off and re-build the Great Wall of China and before I left I asked the rest of the KROQ joqs to name some songs they’d like to play at you for this daily website feature I do. Most of them responded and over the next few daze you’ll see their choices here, but Jed and a few others refused to play along and furthermore said you all should “die in a tragic, futuristic moon shuttle explosion in space”.

KROQ’s always cool Rubin (“weekends and whenever”) was the first to hit me back and he suggested one of my all time favorite KROQ bands ever, Mr. Les Claypool ans his Primus pals. I don’t think he even knows the story of how someone in management back in the day once called me on the station ‘hot line’ to scream about my playing “Tommy The Cat” as a ‘cheat’ song for you.Watch the video here

We’re wrapping up this week of videos made up of songs that used to be all over KROQ but have, over the years, vanished.

This particular sound remains one of my absolute favorites (Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Nitzer Ebb) and had Swedish Egil or I had been able to convince management of the time to let us do an Industrial show we might have more to choose from today, but alas.  Tragedy for you.

Watch the video here

Our uncle JACK across the hall played this song a few times when he first murdered ARROW but I haven’t heard it much lately when visiting their bathrooms (the only clean ones in the building).

This was a KROQ staple when it was new and for years afterward and is a perfect example of a 1980′s concept video.  Yup – a little silly; but the song still sounds pretty cool, no?Watch the video here

This week’s flashbacks are songs that once got a LOT of exposure on 106.7 fm but have since pretty much gone the way of the dodo.  You might have a hard time even believing that this song was not only played on our wee little station but that it was actually a KROQ standard from 1990-1991.

It was a perfect example of the changing sound of ‘alternative’ music from very synth based to a lot of sampling and mellow vibes (right around the time we started playing 311/Do You Right).  This may make you wanna drain and skate your pool.Watch the video here

Continuing this week’s look at KROQ songs that went from heavy rotation to complete obscurity we stumble across this early example of Rockabilly.

Mixing the new sound of the old 1950′s and lyrics dotted with New Wave influenced computer terms these fine fellas had lots of people trying to remember the exact order of the words ‘diode, cathode, electrode, over load, generator, oscillator…make a circuit with me’…and generally failing.Watch the video here

This week’s videos will all be songs that, at one time or another, were in quite heavy rotation on Der Roq but have, over the years, slipped through the cracks and really vanished.

For a number of years you would hear something from New Order within 40 minutes (of Non-Stop KROQ?) every time you turned on the radio.

An extremely unscientific poll recently concluded that this is a fave of New Orderites.  If you tend to disagree, send me ten dollars.Watch the video here

A certain young lady (NICOLE!) here at the Roq told me once recently she didn’t really know The Fixx – and I was taken aback (whatever that means).

This particular song from these New Wave kings (they certainly perfected the sound) encapsulates the overall alienation and determination of the KROQer of the 80′s and 90′s – and shit like that. Our uncle JACK stole this album several years back and refuses to return it (the not-so-good LIVE versions are all you can seem to find anymore), but here’s the original clip via YouTube.Watch the video here

Our resident KROQ flashback expert (other than Rodney), the proprietor of the site MEMORY PAIN tells me this was the song that made him decide to start listening to KROQ back when it was new.

He says he couldn’t stand hearing “Bette Davis Eyes” one more time on every other radio station in the universe and so drove up the dial to 106.7 where this rude little ditty was being belted out by the always way cool Deborah Iyall and friends. Then Jed popped on and said something insane and it was all down hill from there (well, that’s true enough, huh?!?!  Hahaha).

There tain’t no video for this former KROQ standard so re-enact his first day with the station and pretend you’re listening to the radio.  You remember those things, yeah?Watch the video here

“Midnight City” was one of my recent fishing stories and I’m glad that pup has been landed.

Here’s another, earlier one from those fine French folk whom ye shall be seein’ at Coachella this year and there are bits of this video I enjoy a GREAT deal…including the bit where they’re skating down the highway…but before that bit…Watch the video here

PJ is spending the month of January touring Australia.  Will she be re-enacting Priscilla?  Only her hair dresser knows for sure.  “Oh, Felicia!  Where the f### are we?!?”

This is an odd little song, ain’t it?  When it first popped up on the Roq in 1995 or so in and amongst the many grunge songs we were playing it really stood out.  Leapt out, one might say.  Go ahead – say it.  Louder.  Felt good, huh?

Iffin’ you don’t remember quite how it goes, give it a spin via VEVO.Watch the video here

The Weezer cruise aboard Carnival’s Destiny is coming to a close today and considering recent events, one assumes they won’t be playing the old ‘Poseidon’ game at any point.

Sure, it’s true, you and I didn’t make it on board and sure, it’s true that everyone who did has had a lot more fun over the last few days than WE have but let’s not be jealous and, instead, celebrate their return to real life with this ROQ classic.  Hoola skirts all around!Watch the video here