:: Camera Obscura ::

How do Scottish bands manage to out-American the Americans? I’m looking at you, Country Teasers, Fratellis, Rezillos and the lot of you troublemakers.

In this episode: All Girl Summer Fun Band, Angry Samoans, Beirut, Brendan Benson, Camera Obscura, Islands, Los Amigos Invisibles, Marmoset, Mika, Self, Stone Roses, The Avett Brothers, The Soft Boys, Tower of Power, Up Bustle & Out, Vampire Weekend

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1. Song
   Artist

2. You Told A Lie

   Camera Obscura

   I just like to say “Glaswegian”

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3. Ninja’s Principality

   Up, Bustle & Out

   Snaking its way through

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4. EOL

   Islands

   With the guy from the Unicorns

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5. BREAK

6. Dun Dun

   Los Amigos Invisibles

   It’s happiness in a shiny bottle

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7. Folk Singer

   Brendan Benson

   From 2003’s Lapalco

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8. It’s Raining Today

   Angry Samoans

   Uncharacteristic! But playable.

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9. Grace Kelly

   Mika

   Channeling Freddy Mercury

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10. BREAK

11. What Is Hip?

    Tower of Power

    Drew Carey outdid himself with this number

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12. Meg Ryan

    Self

    Another famous person song

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13. Fools Gold

    Stone Roses

    Post new wave new wave

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14. Dear Mr. & Mrs. Troublemaker

    All Girl Summer Fun Band

    Typewriter music!

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15. BREAK

16. Oh’ Dear Handlebars

    Marmoset

    It’s a thin line between sloppy and artful

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17. And It Spread

    The Avett Brothers

    From their new album

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18. A Sunday Smile

    Beirut

    O so mournful

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19. Horchata

    Vampire Weekend

    Call me an ambivalence!

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20. BREAK

21. Vegetable Man

    The Soft Boys

    The Syd Barrett classic

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