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1. Song
   Artist

2. 100,000 Fireflies

   Superchunk

   The beautiful song by the Magnetic Fields, in a different fashion

   [asa]B0000019ML[/asa]

   

3. BREAK

4. Nine Straight Lines

   Push Kings

   Velvet melodies

   [asa]B000008TG1[/asa]

   

5. 61 Sideburns

   The Capstan Shafts

   Rough, but ready

   [asa]B000VS6QV8[/asa]

   

6. Bells Of 59

   Bedouin Soundclash

   Very Clash, isn’t it?

   [asa]B000R4S6I2[/asa]

   

7. Seven Nation Florida

   The Flaming Lips

   Transfixing dimensions with the boys

8. BREAK

9. B1

   Soundhack

   From the DJ Kicks Hot Chip mix

   [asa]B000NKHS8O[/asa]

10. Bends For 72 Miles

    Alfie

    Briefly from Manchester

    [asa]B000063ITX[/asa]

11. Love Plus One

    Haircut One Hundred

    Dig the video.

    [asa]B00005S84K[/asa]

    

12. BREAK

13. Ten More Minutes to Live

    House of Freaks

    What a racket

    [asa]B00000E78S[/asa]

14. No. 13 Baby

    Pixies

    David Lovering is now a magician

    [asa]B000065PUE[/asa]

    

15. 1979 Semi-Finalist

    The Bad Plus

    Not quite Bad Apple, but…

    [asa]B0001AP0PY[/asa]

    

16. BREAK

17. Six Feet Under Main Theme

    Thomas Newman

    Were you running for the TV?

    [asa]B00005Y1YA[/asa]

    

18. Apt. 23B

    Laika & The Cosmonauts

    Finnish it!

    [asa]B0000ZMHAQ[/asa]

    

19. Sixteen Tons

    Brave Combo

    Yes, that Sixteen Tons

    [asa]B0000003MY[/asa]

20. BREAK

21. Six Days On The Road

    Junior Brown

    The classic by Roger Miller

    [asa]B00097DXGW[/asa]

22. 96 Tears

    Question Mark and The Mysterians

    That’s about 41 ml of tears.

    [asa]B00005MKA8[/asa]

    

23. The Seven Souls

    Bill Laswell

    Unminstakable Billy Burroughs

    [asa]B00004799X[/asa]

24. BREAK

25. Forever 16

    Stereo Total

    Like electro-shock therapy for my ears

    [asa]B00006NSJF[/asa]

    

26. 68

    bicycle

    What’s that? Tiddilly?

27. 19-2000

    Gorillaz

    The ground-breaking first album

    [asa]B00005LMBK[/asa]

    

28. Route 66 (Get Your Kicks On)

    The Cramps

    He’s sly, that Lux

    [asa]B000002L31[/asa]

29. BREAK

30. 1 2 3

    Zoobombs

    Energy is a-droolin’ out of this one

    [asa]B0000296VM[/asa]

31. One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces

    Ben Folds Five

    Tell us how it was, Ben

    [asa]B0007TFGXU[/asa]

    

32. 3000

    Dr. Octagon

    My favorite time-travelling alien gynecologist

    [asa]B000005AM7[/asa]

    

33. BREAK

34. 25 O’Clock

    They Might Be Giants

    Originally by the Dukes of Stratosphear / XTC

    [asa]B0000057NY[/asa]

    

35. 99 Red Balloons

    7 Seconds

    Oh, Nena.

    [asa]B0000001XV[/asa]

    

36. Mambo No 5

    Pérez Prado Orchestra

    Scurry about the living room with this one

    [asa]B0007G8BZ8[/asa]

    

37. BREAK

38. Barry 7′s Contraption

    Add N To (X)

    Ahead of their own curve

    [asa]B00000IAG8[/asa]

39. One Step Ahead

    Split Enz

    New Zealand is the place

    [asa]B000002GCZ[/asa]

    

40. Eighties

    Killing Joke

    Big ending, folks!

    [asa]B000VWWSCA[/asa]

    

41. 50 Ft. Queenie

    PJ Harvey

    Hide all the knives

    [asa]B000J3DEII[/asa]

    

42. BREAK

43. 30 Lashes

    Six Finger Satellite

    Grinding it down

    [asa]B0000035I9[/asa]

    

44. 12XU

    Minor Threat

    A Hallmark Classic Hardcore Moment

    [asa]B000000JO3[/asa]

45. 19 20 20

    The Grates

    Clinky clink

    [asa]B000FBFZCC[/asa]

    

46. Mondo ’77

    Looper

    Around and around

    [asa]B00004T6RP[/asa]

    

47. BREAK

48. 5 9 78

    Boards of Canada

    Subtlety is their name

    [asa]B00005Y0Q3[/asa]

:: Arling and Cameron ::

I once interviewed the AC3D artificial intelligence, modeled after the Dutch quirks of Arling and Cameron. It was a very polite and well-spoken AI.

In this episode: Akakage’s Happy Set, Arling + Cameron, Ben Vaughn, Brave Combo, Countdown Quartet, Devo, Dusminguet, El Flaco, Neutral Milk Hotel, Owsley, Primus, Sir Millard Mulch, The Folksmen, Ween

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1. Song
   Artist

2. How About The Boys

   Arling + Cameron

   Celebratory apropos of Young Thomas Mapother Lacking IV’s birthday

   [asa]B00000HYBJ[/asa]

   

3. La Negra

   Brave Combo

   From Tejas!

   [asa]B0056D4IY0[/asa]

   

4. Lupin 3

   Akakage’s Happy Set

   Japanimania!

5. BREAK

6. Unflappable

   El Flaco

   Crunchy, isn’t it?

7. Tiger Rag

   Countdown Quartet

   Hold dat tiger!

   [asa]B000QZVWWO[/asa]

   

8. Go

   Dusminguet

   French and frantic

   [asa]B00008O2WN[/asa]

9. Blood On The Coal

   The Folksmen

   Favorite folk disaster mashup!

   [asa]B00282Y7YI[/asa]

   

10. BREAK

11. Song Against Sex

    Neutral Milk Hotel

    Noisy syrup

    [asa]B000VP94UG[/asa]

    

12. Oh No The Radio

    Owsley

    Named after the famed LSD concoctioner

    [asa]B003A97Y6Q[/asa]

    

13. Making Plans For Nigel

    Primus

    Unstoppable beat

    [asa]B000V6AEJU[/asa]

    

14. BREAK

15. Girl U Want

    Devo

    Everyone remembers this one from the skate park

    [asa]B002TSO53O[/asa]

    

16. I Hate Retro!

    Sir Millard Mulch

    Was that Rush in the middle?

    [asa]B001GCGF9Q[/asa]

    

17. So Many People In The Neighborhood

    Ween

    The delightful weirdness

    [asa]B003Z9PKAS[/asa]

    

18. BREAK

19. El Camino

    Ben Vaughn

    Vaughn also produced Ween’s fantastic country album

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1. Song
   Artist

2. El Camino

   Ben Vaughn

   Vaughn also produced Ween’s fantastic country album

3. BREAK

4. How About The Boys

   Arling + Cameron

   Celebratory apropos of Young Thomas Mapother Lacking IV’s birthday

   [asa]B00000HYBJ[/asa]

   

5. La Negra

   Brave Combo

   From Tejas!

   [asa]B0056D4IY0[/asa]

   

6. Lupin 3

   Akakage’s Happy Set

   Japanimania!

7. BREAK

8. Unflappable

   El Flaco

   Crunchy, isn’t it?

9. Tiger Rag

   Countdown Quartet

   Hold dat tiger!

   [asa]B000QZVWWO[/asa]

   

10. Go

    Dusminguet

    French and frantic

    [asa]B00008O2WN[/asa]

11. Blood On The Coal

    The Folksmen

    Favorite folk disaster mashup!

    [asa]B00282Y7YI[/asa]

    

12. BREAK

13. Song Against Sex

    Neutral Milk Hotel

    Noisy syrup

    [asa]B000VP94UG[/asa]

    

14. Oh No The Radio

    Owsley

    Named after the famed LSD concoctioner

    [asa]B003A97Y6Q[/asa]

    

15. Making Plans For Nigel

    Primus

    Unstoppable beat

    [asa]B000V6AEJU[/asa]

    

16. BREAK

17. Girl U Want

    Devo

    Everyone remembers this one from the skate park

    [asa]B002TSO53O[/asa]

    

18. I Hate Retro!

    Sir Millard Mulch

    Was that Rush in the middle?

    [asa]B001GCGF9Q[/asa]

    

19. So Many People In The Neighborhood

    Ween

    The delightful weirdness

    [asa]B003Z9PKAS[/asa]

    

20. BREAK

21. Magnetize Your Food

    Evolution Control Committee

    Magnetize your kittens!

22. Core

    The Cardiacs

    Under-appreciated band of the evening

    [asa]B00000JP6T[/asa]

    

23. El Barzón

    Maldita Vecindad & Los Hijos Del Quinto Patio

    More Mexican monsterbeats

    [asa]B00138H4TI[/asa]

    

24. BREAK

25. Party At Ground Zero

    Fishbone

    It’s the nonstop partying!

    [asa]B00138H9MU[/asa]

    

26. Stink Stinky Ashtray

    Damn

    Nice Ren sample

    [asa]B002R9ATY4[/asa]

    

27. Reggae Got Soul

    Toots + The Maytalls

    An original

    [asa]B000VZYWS0[/asa]

    

28. Dancin’ In The Moonlight

    King Harvest

    One hit wonders, expats in Paris

29. BREAK

30. One Step Beyond

    Madness

    A second wave standard

    [asa]B004IJY2FS[/asa]

    

31. Lovely Rita

    The Beatles

    With a comb-and-paper section

    [asa]B0025KVLTM[/asa]

    

32. Kana Kapila

    The Continental Cousins

    From the surfing shores of… Belgium?

    [asa]B004K1869W[/asa]

    

33. Kinder

    Davíd Garza

    Discover Dah-veed.

    [asa]B001NS7JKC[/asa]

    

34. BREAK

35. The Famous Polka

    They Might Be Giants

    Prelude to the great Milwaukee Stage Disaster

    [asa]B002GUN3CO[/asa]

    

36. I Said

    Nose

    Grooviness

37. All-Nite Dinah

    Venice Shoreline Chris

    The always-amazing Chris Murray

    [asa]B002CYN7LG[/asa]

    

38. Stay Up All Night

    Drink Me

    Some wicked Fanta bottle on that

    [asa]B001A3GSGG[/asa]

    

39. BREAK

40. Destroy The Flower

    Lisa Germano

    Haunting pieces

    [asa]B000S5BWNQ[/asa]

    

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

   Cornershop

   In glorious Hindi. I think

   [asa]B001225B7C[/asa]

   

3. BREAK

4. For The Girl

   The Fratellis

   Smooth as it gets from Glasgow

   [asa]B000MXPE74[/asa]

   

5. God Is On My Side

   Hefner

   Hmm, glitchy

6. Strano Mondo Di Tanti Nomi (Rmx)

   Stereo Total

   A cavalcade of nomenclature!

7. Ride It On

   Mazzy Star

   Let’s see if I can pronounce this right

   [asa]B000SZH66S[/asa]

   

8. BREAK

9. Barcelona

   Nerdcore from way back

   [asa]C-64[/asa]

   

10. Where’s The Fire

    Head Of Femur

    That was very dense

    [asa]B0014WCHT0[/asa]

    

11. Words

    Missing Persons

    Pop goes the Bozzio

    [asa]B000S54Z08[/asa]

    

12. Slow Train Coming

    Low Frequency In Stereo

    Very Eighties

13. BREAK

14. Postcard

    Niños Con Bombas

    Trans-oceanic trio

    [asa]B000R02WLI[/asa]

    

15. 6

    The Wrens

    Bring the noise

    [asa]B002ZBXIQA[/asa]

    

16. Corndogs Are Our Friends

    Canoe

    Ladies and gentlement, I give you Canoe!

    [asa]B000QZTEA6[/asa]

    

17. Tame

    Pixies

    Anything but

    [asa]B000S559VW[/asa]

    

18. BREAK

19. Excesses

    Heavy Vegetable

    Originally by Klark Kent!

20. Valerie Flames

    The Starlight Mints

    Oh oh oh

    [asa]B00004WFJC[/asa]

    

21. Ballad Of The Sin Eater

    Ted Leo + The Pharmacists

    Brutal pounding

    [asa]B000WVVENE[/asa]

    

22. BREAK

23. Memories

    The Extra Glenns

    John Darnielle and Franklin Bruno

    [asa]B0034ECP84[/asa]

    

24. Pictures Of Matchstick Men

    Camper Van Beethoven

    Psychedeliclassic!

    [asa]B001UIL9Q0[/asa]

    

25. The Missing Person’s Waltz

    Chaz & The Motorbikes

    Whistle solo time

26. Picture Of The Future

    Treat Her Right

    Low and doomed

27. Memories Of Gay Paree

    Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet

    What are they saying?

28. BREAK

29. Sexyactioncool

    Atomic 7

    Evolved from the Shadowy Men

30. Train of Pain

    Barry Black

    From the Archers of Loaf’s Erich Bachman

    [asa]B000S56UC4[/asa]

    

31. Chem-oo-Chem

    Brave Combo

    Middle Eastern with a didgeridoo

    [asa]B0010SS1BQ[/asa]

    

32. Disco Ball World

    Davíd Garza

    Brilliant song

    [asa]B001NS7JKC[/asa]

    

33. BREAK

34. Sweetback’s Gonna Make It

    John Wilkes Booze

    From Bloomington, Indiana

    [asa]B000UTZ0UQ[/asa]

    

35. Orange

    Ken Nordine

    Did someone say Annoying Orange?

    [asa]B000UTXIXW[/asa]

    

36. Let Me Find The Good In You

    The Kiss Offs

    Relentless

    [asa]B001D5EG7O[/asa]

    

37. Old Tale

    Surf Gunz

    Yeah, I don’t know either

38. BREAK

39. Dynamite Chair

    Poster Children

    Chicago aces

    [asa]B001TXORCO[/asa]

    

40. More Than This

    Robyn Hitchcock

    Live in a Santa Monica music store

41. Lefty

    Rocket From The Crypt

    It’s drenched in fuzz

    [asa]B002I6AL7Q[/asa]

    

42. (I Know) The Trip

    Swell

    Eating up the miles

    [asa]B000S5E07Q[/asa]

    

43. BREAK

44. Imaginary World

    Ashtech

    Dub you into submission

    [asa]B000RGD176[/asa]

    

:: Juana Molina ::

It turns out Juana Molina is Argentinian, not Mexican. Everyone makes that mistake. But she has the best pictures.

In this episode: Brave Combo, Café Tacuba, Combustible Edison & Esquivel!, Esquivel, Gael Garcia, Juana Molina, Kinky, Los De Abajo, Los Explosivos, Los Super Seven, Maldita Vecindad & Los Hijos Del Quinto Patio, Mexican Institute Of Sound, Molotov, Nortec Collective, Plastilina Mosh & Tonino Carotone With Chalo from Volován, The Bronx, The Plugz, Titán

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Anna (El Negro Zumbon)

   Esquivel

   The godfather of Mexican music

   [asa]B0000048DR[/asa]

3. Lo Que Me Exita…!!!

   Los Explosivos

   Rawking out

4. Insensible

   Juana Molina

   In French?

   [asa]B002VJ0CDI[/asa]

5. El Barzón

   Maldita Vecindad & Los Hijos Del Quinto Patio

   A modern parable of socialist mores

   [asa]B00005NNHE[/asa]

6. BREAK

7. Ojalá Que Llueva Café

   Café Tacuba

   Yodeling, even

   [asa]B00005NQIW[/asa]

8. Nothing Really

   Kinky

   Soothing sounds

   [asa]B0011U50PS[/asa]

9. 1234

   Titán

   Spycraft

   [asa]B00004SD2W[/asa]

10. Quiero Que Me Quieras

    Gael Garcia

    Wonder if the Librarian is listening?

    [asa]B0026LYM7I[/asa]

11. BREAK

12. Quinceniera

    The Bronx

    Probably my favorite song this year

    [asa]B002FOQY3G[/asa]

13. La Negra

    Brave Combo

    A Mexican classic, via Denton, Texas

    [asa]B0000003JL[/asa]

14. Hombre Secreto (Secret Agent Man)

    The Plugz

    With Tito Larriva

    [asa]B000002PF7[/asa]

15. The El Burro Song

    Los Super Seven

    Featuring members of Los Lobos, Joe Ely and more

    [asa]B0007QJ1FC[/asa]

16. BREAK

17. Rosarito

    Nortec Collective

    A pounding fiesta in your head

    [asa]B0015RB3GC[/asa]

18. Jalale

    Mexican Institute Of Sound

    Just flush your problems away

    [asa]B001T46UD2[/asa]

19. Los Lunaticos

    Los De Abajo

    Originally by the Fun Boy Three

    [asa]B000AAVE3W[/asa]

20. Cerdo

    Molotov

    Dig those lyrics!

    [asa]B001AI1QYK[/asa]

21. La Sirenita

    Plastilina Mosh & Tonino Carotone With Chalo from Volován

    A traditional fable, from the soundtrack to Y Tu Mama Tambien

    [asa]B000063XYY[/asa]

22. BREAK

23. Miniskirt

    Combustible Edison & Esquivel!

    Nice bracketing!

    [asa]B000000OK8[/asa]

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Night And Day

   Sondre Lerche

   Quite Norwegian, eh?

   [asa]B000TEPKYI[/asa]

   

3. BREAK

4. California Time

   Chris Murray

   Yeah, more Chris Murray. How much is enough?

   [asa]B002G3QM2O[/asa]

   

5. Let Me Take You Out

   Class Actress

   Thrumming and angels, a winning combination

   [asa]B0035YH6PK[/asa]

   

6. Mexico

   That Handsome Devil

   From the Weeds 4 soundtrack

   [asa]B001C4OUSQ[/asa]

   

7. Directly From My Heart

   Holly Golightly & Dan Melchior

   You know they mean it

   [asa]B00312CO5I[/asa]

   

8. BREAK

9. Me And The Devil

   Gil Scott-Heron

   Sounding like Portishead

   [asa]B0034EIVKK[/asa]

   

10. Put Some Sugar On It

    Half Japanese

    From the soundtrack to About A Son

    [asa]B000QQYOY6[/asa]

    

11. Potato Chips Polka

    Brave Combo

    For all of us forbidden the sacred Chip

    [asa]B000UDSAI6[/asa]

    

12. Here Comes A Regular

    The Replacements

    By request

    [asa]B001GD1YHI[/asa]

    

13. BREAK

14. Speech Defects

    Le Hammond Inferno

    What he said

    [asa]B000R02GSC[/asa]

    

15. That’s For Sure

    Money Mark

    Beeps and boops for all of you

    [asa]B001O03OFI[/asa]

    

16. Life Is Still Sweet

    White Hassle

    Highly recommended

    [asa]B000TEVEZW[/asa]

    

17. California Stutter

    Robb Benson

    No suggestion in his hands he ever held a knife on purpose

    [asa]B0013R46VI[/asa]

    

18. BREAK

19. Indian Summer

    Benjamin Gibbard

    A familiar voice from the Postal Service

    [asa]B001VEHGBA[/asa]

    

20. Hassidish

    Solomon + SoCalled

    Music for your hipster Jewish wedding

    [asa]B000QZZX92[/asa]

    

21. A Nanny In Manhattan

    Lilys

    Woozy psychedelia!

22. Redeye

    Subthunk

    For Weedmaster P!

    [asa]B0014C3ECO[/asa]

    

23. BREAK

24. Whiskey Is My Sister

    Heinous Beinfäng

    Dig the horn solo

25. Super Brothers

    Guitar Vader

    Japanese, no duh

26. Sister Death

    The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy

    From the Cult of the Basement

    [asa]B000S17E8W[/asa]

    

27. Brothers On Wheels

    Stewart Copeland

    The sounds of Tulsa in the background

    [asa]B001NU11A4[/asa]

    

28. You And Your Sister

    This Mortal Coil

    Originally by Big Star

    [asa]B000S58QCQ[/asa]

    

29. BREAK

30. Brownie Hawkeye

    Jason Collett

    Also of Broken Social Scene

    [asa]B000QZUPQ8[/asa]

    

31. Love Your Money

    Daisy Chainsaw

    Naughty naughty Katie Jane

    [asa]B001NZVSP2[/asa]

32. Upper Ferry

    Flin Flon

    From that TeenBeat scene…

    [asa]B000QQPPDA[/asa]

    

33. Gob Music

    Team B

    Free download go get it!

34. BREAK

35. Timothy

    Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer

    I assure you Mr. B doesn’t drop his r’s

36. Blank Expression

    The Specials

    Timeless, really

    [asa]B000TEMTCE[/asa]

    

37. Are Animals

    Au

    The circus in your head

    [asa]B0017UELOI[/asa]

    

38. BREAK

39. Mr. Xcitement

    They Might Be Giants

    With Mike Doughty!

40. Creepin Up The Backstairs

    The Fratellis

    That was … loud

    [asa]B000MXPE74[/asa]

    

41. Drive Thru At Molly’s Reach

    Huevos Rancheros

    Instrumental motion

    [asa]B000QZCZDO[/asa]

    

42. Bitchin!!!

    Surf Günz

    onetwothreefour bitchin’

43. BREAK

44. Dirty City Rainy Day

    King Kong

    Minimalist disco

    [asa]B000W1O1Y8[/asa]

    

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Marciano II (Punk Version)

   Molotov

   A taste of things to come

   [asa]B000667H9U[/asa]

3. BREAK

4. Update Your Blog

   Alex Arrowsmith

   Sage advice for modern times

   [asa]B000KP6ZFO[/asa]

5. New Day I Hate

   Young Fresh Fellows

   The most fun you can have under half an hour

   [asa]B002BEXGFO[/asa]

6. Coke

   El Stew

   Heady loops, y’all

   [asa]B00000IP2O[/asa]

7. Que Bueno Baila

   Grupo Vocal Sampling

   From David Byrne’s Cuba Classics 2

   [asa]B000XCZCNU[/asa]

8. BREAK

9. Yellow Fever

   Mika Bomb

   From the UK

   [asa]B0007PLZFW[/asa]

10. Mr. Orange

    Dengue Fever

    From the US, and kinda Cambodia

    [asa]B00114XM36[/asa]

11. My Sword Hand’s Anger

    Apostle of Hustle

    Thrumming

    [asa]B000M32US0[/asa]

12. We Are Not Going To Make It

    The Presidents of The United States of America

    Featuring a special gift from The Presidents

    [asa]B0018PJESU[/asa]

13. Wild Wild Workweek

    Spot 1019

    And I’m free to take lunch nearly whenever I want to…

    [asa]B000008L1U[/asa]

14. BREAK

15. Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey

    House of Freaks

    Eeriest of the eerie songs

    [asa]B0000013A5[/asa]

16. Dear Señoritas

    Mike Pinto

    Such a racket for a voice and a guitar

    [asa]B0028ERAXG[/asa]

17. That Ain’t Bad

    Ratcat

    Aussies

    [asa]B000008JT1[/asa]

18. Ten Dead Dogs

    Wild Sweet Orange

    Catchy title

    [asa]B001AI1QOU[/asa]

19. BREAK

20. Blue Flowers

    Dr. Octagon

    A true poet

    [asa]B000005AM7[/asa]

21. Meet Me At The Club House

    Quintron

    Live and bursting at the seams

    [asa]B00000GBR9[/asa]

22. That’s What You Get With People Like That On Cruises Like These…

    Solex

    Dutch, staggering

    [asa]B00000K3KT[/asa]

23. Little Bit

    Lykke Li

    Swedish

    [asa]B001B92EBC[/asa]

24. BREAK

25. Anna (El Negro Zumbon)

    Esquivel

    The godfather of Mexican music

    [asa]B0000048DR[/asa]

26. Lo Que Me Exita…!!!

    Los Explosivos

    Rawking out

27. Insensible

    Juana Molina

    In French?

    [asa]B002VJ0CDI[/asa]

28. El Barzón

    Maldita Vecindad & Los Hijos Del Quinto Patio

    A modern parable of socialist mores

    [asa]B00005NNHE[/asa]

29. BREAK

30. Ojalá Que Llueva Café

    Café Tacuba

    Yodeling, even

    [asa]B00005NQIW[/asa]

31. Nothing Really

    Kinky

    Soothing sounds

    [asa]B0011U50PS[/asa]

32. 1234

    Titán

    Spycraft

    [asa]B00004SD2W[/asa]

33. Quiero Que Me Quieras

    Gael Garcia

    Wonder if the Librarian is listening?

    [asa]B0026LYM7I[/asa]

34. BREAK

35. Quinceniera

    The Bronx

    Probably my favorite song this year

    [asa]B002FOQY3G[/asa]

36. La Negra

    Brave Combo

    A Mexican classic, via Denton, Texas

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37. Hombre Secreto (Secret Agent Man)

    The Plugz

    With Tito Larriva

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38. The El Burro Song

    Los Super Seven

    Featuring members of Los Lobos, Joe Ely and more

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39. BREAK

40. Rosarito

    Nortec Collective

    A pounding fiesta in your head

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41. Jalale

    Mexican Institute Of Sound

    Just flush your problems away

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42. Los Lunaticos

    Los De Abajo

    Originally by the Fun Boy Three

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43. Cerdo

    Molotov

    Dig those lyrics!

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44. La Sirenita

    Plastilina Mosh & Tonino Carotone With Chalo from Volován

    A traditional fable, from the soundtrack to Y Tu Mama Tambien

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45. BREAK

46. Miniskirt

    Combustible Edison & Esquivel!

    Nice bracketing!

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1. Song
   Artist

2. 100,000 Fireflies

   Superchunk

   The beautiful song by the Magnetic Fields, in a different fashion

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3. BREAK

4. Nine Straight Lines

   Push Kings

   Velvet melodies

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5. 61 Sideburns

   The Capstan Shafts

   Rough, but ready

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6. Bells Of 59

   Bedouin Soundclash

   Very Clash, isn’t it?

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7. Seven Nation Florida

   The Flaming Lips

   Transfixing dimensions with the boys

8. BREAK

9. B1

   Soundhack

   From the DJ Kicks Hot Chip mix

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10. Bends For 72 Miles

    Alfie

    Briefly from Manchester

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11. Love Plus One

    Haircut One Hundred

    Dig the video.

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12. BREAK

13. Ten More Minutes to Live

    House of Freaks

    What a racket

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14. No. 13 Baby

    Pixies

    David Lovering is now a magician

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15. 1979 Semi-Finalist

    The Bad Plus

    Not quite Bad Apple, but…

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16. BREAK

17. Six Feet Under Main Theme

    Thomas Newman

    Were you running for the TV?

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18. Apt. 23B

    Laika & The Cosmonauts

    Finnish it!

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19. Sixteen Tons

    Brave Combo

    Yes, that Sixteen Tons

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20. BREAK

21. Six Days On The Road

    Junior Brown

    The classic by Roger Miller

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22. 96 Tears

    Question Mark and The Mysterians

    That’s about 41 ml of tears.

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23. The Seven Souls

    Bill Laswell

    Unminstakable Billy Burroughs

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24. BREAK

25. Forever 16

    Stereo Total

    Like electro-shock therapy for my ears

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26. 68

    bicycle

    What’s that? Tiddilly?

27. 19-2000

    Gorillaz

    The ground-breaking first album

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28. Route 66 (Get Your Kicks On)

    The Cramps

    He’s sly, that Lux

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29. BREAK

30. 1-2-3

    Zoobombs

    Energy is a-droolin’ out of this one

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31. One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces

    Ben Folds Five

    Tell us how it was, Ben

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32. 3000

    Dr. Octagon

    My favorite time-travelling alien gynecologist

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33. BREAK

34. 25 O’Clock

    They Might Be Giants

    Originally by the Dukes of Stratosphear / XTC

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35. 99 Red Balloons

    7 Seconds

    Oh, Nena.

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36. Mambo No 5

    Pérez Prado Orchestra

    Scurry about the living room with this one

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37. BREAK

38. Barry 7′s Contraption

    Add N To (X)

    Ahead of their own curve

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39. One Step Ahead

    Split Enz

    New Zealand is the place

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40. Eighties

    Killing Joke

    Big ending, folks!

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Dancing With Myself

   Nouvelle Vague

   Quite clever

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3. BREAK

4. Cool Baby Slut

   The Flamenco A Go Go

   Nana nana nana nana

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5. Standing By The Window

   Tactics

   From the Australian punk underground

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6. 2:1

   Elastica

   If you’re going to rip someone off, you could do worse than Wire

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7. Uncontrollable Urge

   Devo

   Are you feeling it?

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8. BREAK

9. Dancing The Manta Ray

   Pixies

   Rare track from the Monkey Gone To Heaven EP

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10. Burn 4 U

    We Ragazzi

    Like acupuncture for your brain

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11. String

    Monty Python

    Adrian Wapcaplet!

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12. Elegy For An Ex-

    LD & The New Criticism

    Accordions and trains sound well together

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13. BREAK

14. The Good Old Summer Time

    Noonday Underground

    Brief but fitting

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15. Saturday Night Shuffle

    The Fugitive Steeler

    Another brief one, to inroduce the Saturday Night double set

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16. Beer

    Asylum Street Spankers

    Can you heed this advice?

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17. Cars

    To Rococo Rot

    Minimalist and nothing to do with Gary Numan

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18. BREAK

19. All For Me Grog

    Rube Waddell

    Kings of Hobomusick

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20. Uh-Oh

    King Kong

    We’ve got a little problem

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21. Crash

    Heavy Vegetable

    Sing it next time Windows gives you a BSOD

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22. What A Bringdown

    MC Honky

    Silverlake troubadour

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23. BREAK

24. The Ballad of a Fair Singer

    Manfred Hubler & Siegfried Schwab

    Erotic German psychedelic jazz

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25. BALKAN DANCE PARTY!

26. Hir aj kam, hir aj go

    Magnifico

    He is Magnifico for a reason

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27. BREAK

28. Magic Mamaliga

    O.M.F.O.

    From the Borat soundtrack

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29. Sadagora Hot Dub

    Amsterdam Klezmer Band

    Not quite Balkan, but there you go.

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30. Adir Alam

    Balkan Beat Box

    It’s right there in the name!

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31. BREAK

32. Shy Kind Of Guy

    Gogol Bordello

    From the Ukraine

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33. Ani Meki (I’m Throwing Up)

    Habiluim

    Israeli manic polka

34. Jungle Shadow

    Kiril feat MC Wasp & Rucl

    East meets West!

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35. BREAK

36. Disko

    Shantel feat. Boban Markovic Orkestar

    Balkan ska dub

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37. Tortapapír

    Besh o drom

    WTF is up with this song?

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38. People Are Strange

    Brave Combo

    It’s called a “hora”

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39. BREAK

40. Tazi – Tazi

    Let 3

    Love that crazy snaky synth lead

41. Goldregen (n.o.h.a. Mix)

    DelaDap

    Opa!

42. Optisani

    Markovic

    Bring on the trumpets

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43. BREAK

44. Soske Murseske Manglape Kurva

    Goran Bregovic

    Heart-wrenching

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Illinois

Blue Skies For Black Hearts, Brave Combo, Brother Bean, DJ Dolores, Discovery, Fort Lauderdale, Frente!, Ghostbeat, Illinois, Mastretta, Micachu & The Shapes, Nick Lowe, P. Hux, Robyn Hitchcock, Seaweed, Sheila Nicholls, Super Furry Animals, Switches, The Capes, The Forty-Fives, The Z Kamp Express, Tony Allen, Ween

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Go Your Own Way

   Seaweed

   Hey, more Fleetwood Mac!

3. BREAK

4. King Of Mexico

   The Forty-Fives

   To short for comfort

5. Gabrielle

   Ween

   At their Thin Lizziest

6. Ghostiez

   The Z Kamp Express

   Thank you, Pizza T!

7. BREAK

8. Are You Coming With Me?

   Illinois

   New album on the way, if not here already

9. Drama Queen

   Switches

   Nice emphasis on the Queen

10. Calculator

    Micachu & The Shapes

    Edgy but not quite Tequila

11. BREAK

12. Von Boyage

    Brother Bean

    Recorded at Studio Wolfenstein

13. Sight Unseen

    Brother Bean

    Live in the studio

14. Yo Mama

    Brother Bean

    Recorded at Studio Wolfenstein

15. BREAK

16. One’s Too Many (And A Hundred Ain’t Enough)

    Nick Lowe

    Stuck in my head since this morning

17. Regional Heats

    The Capes

    Very energetic

18. Sleeping With Your Devil Mask

    Robyn Hitchcock

    The next time out, I’ll be a trout

19. Inaugural Trams

    Super Furry Animals

    Welsh to the extreme

20. BREAK

21. Another Satellite

    P. Hux

    He has an ELO cover album… hmmmm.

22. Y

    Ghostbeat

    Angular and hypnotic

23. Orange Shirt

    Discovery

    The dude from Vampire Weekend and the guy from Ra Ra Riot

24. Bizarre Love Triangle

    Frente!

    It’s all about the song.

25. BREAK

26. Monica No Samba

    DJ Dolores

    Minimalist batucada

27. Here Comes the Rain

    Blue Skies For Black Hearts

    Not the Eurythmics song

28. The Chilling Place

    Fort Lauderdale

    British Big Idea music

29. BREAK

30. Forozinho Aperreado

    Brave Combo

    North Brazil via Denton, Texas

31. Fallen For You

    Sheila Nicholls

    From the High Fidelity soundtrack

32. Luna De Miel (Featuring Julieta Venegas)

    Mastretta

    An anthem for passive aggressives

33. BREAK

34. Eparapo

    Tony Allen

    Master of afrobeat

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1. Song
   Artist

2. El Camino

   Ben Vaughn

   Vaughn also produced Ween’s fantastic country album

3. BREAK

4. How About The Boys

   Arling + Cameron

   Celebratory apropos of Young Thomas Mapother Lacking IV’s birthday

5. La Negra

   Brave Combo

   From Tejas!

6. Lupin 3

   Akakage’s Happy Set

   May 26, 2009 5:37 AM

7. BREAK

8. Unflappable

   El Flaco

   Crunchy, isn’t it?

9. Tiger Rag

   Countdown Quartet

   Hold dat tiger!

10. Go

    Dusminguet

    French and frantic

11. Blood On The Coal

    The Folksmen

    Favorite folk disaster mashup!

12. BREAK

13. Song Against Sex

    Neutral Milk Hotel

    Noisy syrup

14. Oh No The Radio

    Owsley

    Named after the famed LSD concoctioner

15. Making Plans For Nigel

    Primus

    Unstoppable beat

16. BREAK

17. Girl U Want

    Devo

    Everyone remembers this one from the skate park

18. I Hate Retro!

    Sir Millard Mulch

    Was that Rush in the middle?

19. So Many People In The Neighborhood

    Ween

    The delightful weirdness

20. BREAK

21. Magnetize Your Food

    Evolution Control Comittee

    Magnetize your kittens!

22. Core

    The Cardiacs

    Under-appreciated band of the evening

23. El Barzón

    Maldita Vecindad & Los Hijos Del Quinto Patio

    More Mexican monsterbeats

24. BREAK

25. Party At Ground Zero

    Fishbone

    It’s the nonstop partying!

26. Stink Stinky Ashtray

    Damn

    Nice Ren sample

27. Reggae Got Soul

    Toots + The Maytalls

    An original

28. Dancin’ In The Moonlight

    King Harvest

    One hit wonders, expats in Paris

29. BREAK

30. One Step Beyond

    Madness

    A second wave standard

31. Lovely Rita

    The Beatles

    With a comb-and-paper section

32. Kana Kapila

    The Continental Cousins

    From the surfing shores of… Belgium?

33. Kinder

    Davíd Garza

    Discover Dah-veed.

34. BREAK

35. The Famous Polka

    They Might Be Giants

    Prelude to the great Milwaukee Stage Disaster

36. I Said

    Nose

    Grooviness

37. All-Nite Dinah

    Venice Shoreline Chris

    The always-amazing Chris Murray

38. Stay Up All Night

    Drink Me

    Some wicked Fanta bottle on that

39. BREAK

40. Destroy The Flower

    Lisa Germano

    Haunting pieces

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1. Song
   Artist

2. She Don’t Use Jelly

   Ben Folds Five

   Some quite exotic exotica, from Loungeapalooza

3. BREAK

4. Pleasure Theme Song

   Boy Eats Drum Machine

   Relentless… goes out to Brandon at Robotronic Dynamite

5. Istambul

   The Gladiators

   Made famous by They Might Be Giants, here’s a different version

6. Tropica

   Moonbuggy

   Moogcore!

7. BREAK

8. The Bird That You Can’t See

   Apples In Stereo

   Snappy and toe-tapping

9. I Got A Hole In My Soul

   The Shake

   Bring on the psychedelia

10. Do The Don’t

    Trespassers W

    German, in the tradition of Trio

11. BREAK

12. Walters

    Pinback

    For Heather, who recently discovered Pinback

13. Beachwood Park

    Photon Band

    Sounds old and fuzzy

14. Smack

    Bettie Serveert

    Crazy Belgians!

15. BREAK

16. Anytime, Cowboy

    Country Teasers

    How rude.

17. Bad Boy

    Jive Bombers

    Not Louis Armstrong, as I’d suspected

18. Move

    Brave Combo

    Frustration Ska — you better turn down the music.

19. BREAK

20. Mirror in the Bathroom

    The English Beat

    Who knew Costner had it in him?

21. Stab The Unstoppable Hero

    Arlo

    An epic tale of tiny proportions

22. Checking In Checking Out

    The High Llamas

    Like Steely Dan, only with a banjo

23. BREAK

24. Rosemary

    The Dickies

    What can I say, it’s the Dickies

25. BREAK

26. Molly

    Ween

    High weirdness from the masters

27. Mary Anne

    Marshall Crenshaw

    Lovely ‘80s jangle

28. Catalina

    Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys

    Western swing, take me away

29. BREAK

30. Polly

    Nirvana

    Still bitter after all this time

31. Betsy

    The Squirrels

    Exploding Cabbage Patch Dolls are dated, but nonetheless still funny

32. Marla

    Nevada Bachelors

    From Robb Benson and the inimitable Bachelors

33. BREAK

34. Helen

    The Minders

    Part of the Elephant 6 collective

35. Annabelle

    The Raging Teens

    Kicking it old school

36. Judie

    Those Peabodys

    Brutal, punishing and more… hard to believe this is just two people

37. BREAK

38. Julia

    The Beatles

    About John Lennon’s mother, very tragic story

39. Anna

    Brave Combo

    A latin standard, given the BC treatment

40. Joan

    The Sharp Ease

    Punky and snotty, if you like it like that

41. BREAK

42. Lorrie Ann

    Joe Maphis

    Catchy sounds from a guitar pioneer

43. Eliza

    Phish

    Jazzy and velvety

44. Christina

    Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci

    A song of epic proportions. Welsh, too.

45. BREAK

46. Jenny

    The Mountain Goats

    Painfully exposed

47. Sweet Jane

    Cowboy Junkies

    A natural closer