Adrian Belew, Arling + Cameron, Arnaldo Antunes, Big Sandy, Buraka Som Sistema, Cage The Elephant, Dusminguet, El Loco Gringo, Gneissmaker, Home, James Kochalka Superstar, Movits, Parov Stelar, Phase Selector Sound, Pixies, Prolapse, Real Estate, Self, Sex Bob-omb, Solvents, Spinal Tap, Team USA, The Bottle Rockets, The Flaming Lips, The Police, The Wake, The Who, They Might Be Giants, Volumen, Willie Wisely, Yo La Tengo

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   Artist

2. Tubthumping

   They Might Be Giants

   Yes kids, sometimes bands called themselves Chumbawamba

   

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3. BREAK

4. Let It Overcome You

   Home

   Ah, mid-‘90s Tampa, I miss you

   

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5. Hole in My Life

   The Police

   The only police it’s safe to like

   

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6. A Spoonful Weighs A Ton

   The Flaming Lips

   Redlining the meters as usual

   

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7. BREAK

8. Melancholy Man

   The Wake

   Quite sad indeed

   

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9. Baska Brother

   Parov Stelar

   Beat beat beat

   

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10. Happy Jack

    The Who

    Always a favorite

    

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11. BREAK

12. James Brown

    Cage The Elephant

    Hot stuff

    

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13. Is It Really So Strange?

    Solvents

    Is it possible to out-mope Morrissey?

    

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14. O Seu Olhar

    Arnaldo Antunes

    That’s one deep voice

    

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15. Halloween

    Team USA

    It can only be from New Jersey

    

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16. BREAK

17. Fel Del Av Garden

    Movits

    As heard in Ikea stockrooms

    

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18. It’s Real

    Real Estate

    I like this sound

    

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19. Dreaming

    Yo La Tengo

    Hey blondie

    

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20. Mr. Grieves

    Pixies

    The Purple Tape version! For Phil and Katie

    

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21. Factory Preset

    Phase Selector Sound

    2:38

    

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22. BREAK

23. Looks And Money

    Self

    Me like it

    

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24. Watchuwanna

    El Loco Gringo

    Not quite Mongo, izzit?

    

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25. Tsja Tsja

    Arling + Cameron

    From the Sound Shopping album

    

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26. Please Don’t Talk About Me (When I’m Go

    Willie Wisely

    It’s the closer

    

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27. BREAK

28. Bitch School

    Spinal Tap

    What are they talking about?

    

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29. Slash/Oblique

    Prolapse

    Is that a gnawing in my head?

30. Jacqueline

    Dusminguet

    Cataluñan zydeco — fooled you!

    

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31. Daddy’s Other Finger

    Volumen

    Fantasy Island comes on at five

32. BREAK

33. House Of Cards

    Adrian Belew

    Very very fragile

    

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34. Dada C.B.E.

    Gneissmaker

    Turbo Something from the Twin Cities

35. Voodoo Love feat. Sara Tavares & Terry Lynn

    Buraka Som Sistema

    For A

    

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36. BREAK

37. Summertime

    Sex Bob-omb

    Kick me in the fuzz, Beck

    

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38. Night Tide

    Big Sandy

    Where’s Big Sandy these days?

    

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39. Hello Computer

    James Kochalka Superstar

    This is your computer

40. BREAK

41. Rural Route

    The Bottle Rockets

    Red hot and bluegrass

    

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