Johnny Mars took us to 2004. The year Chicago’s Millennium Park opened just 4 years late and a couple, 2-3 hundred grand over budget. That said, all are in agreement. It is an urban space well worth every minute and dollar. Some gave the new social media platform, Facebook a thumbs up and others turned to the big screens for films like “Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind”. Here's the playlist.
9AM
U2- “Vertigo”
Counting Crows- ”Accidentally In Love”
Toots & The Maytals w/Bonnie Raitt- “True Love Is Hard To Find”
John Butler Trio- “Zebra”
Bodeans- “If It Makes You”
The Cure- “The End Of The World”
Loretta Lynn w/Jack White- “Portland Oregon”
Finn Brothers- “Won’t Give In”
Modest Mouse- “Float On”
Indigo Girls- “Perfect World”
Ray Charles w/Van Morrison- “Crazy Love”
Los Lonely Boys- “Heaven”
10AM
Franz Ferdinand- “Take Me Out”
KT Tunstall- “Black Horse & The Cherry Tree”
Green Day- “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams”
Wilco- “I’m A Wheel”
R.E.M.- “Leaving New York”
Killers- “All These Things That I’ve Done”
Elvis Costello- “Monkey To Man”
Norah Jones- “What Am I To You?”
Keane- “Somewhere Only We Know”
Arcade Fire- “Wake Up”
Los Lobos w/Mavis Staples- “Someday”
11AM
Scissor Sisters- “Take Your Mama”
Mark Knopfler- “Boom Like That”
The Hives- “Walk Idiot Walk”
Steve Earle- “The Revolution Starts Now”
Kings Of Leon- “The Bucket”
Ray Lamontagne- “Trouble”
Jem- “Just A Ride”
Blue Merle- “Burning In The Sun”
Eric Clapton- “Come On In My Kitchen”
The Walkmen- “The Rat”
Lenny Kravitz- “Lady”
Gomez- “Nothing Is Wrong”
Remember to email us at flashbackbonustracks@wxrt.com with any suggestions of songs we might have missed for our Flashback Bonus Track each weekday at 1pm with Annalisa.
Next week, Johnny Mars takes us to 1989. The year Mayor Daley oversaw the groundbreaking for a New Comiskey Park, The Exxon Valdez struck ground & spilled 10 million or so gallons of crude oil into Alaska’s Prince William Sound & the World Wide Web was invented.
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