2 Many DJs, Asylum Street Spankers, Ben Folds Five, Ben Kweller, Bob Pollard And Kim Deal, Camper Van Beethoven, Casper Fandango, Cub, Discovery, Eddi Reader, Fastbacks, Flat Duo Jets, Jake Shimabukuro, Kinky, Leonard Nimoy, Mad Tea Party, Madness, Maxence Cyrin, Primus, Sally Timms, The Coctails, The Dandy Warhols, The Puppini Sisters, The Shins, The Soft Boys, The Wedding Present, Thee Shams, Titilia, Titán, Tugboat, White Hassle, William Shatner, Young Fresh Fellows

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Human Fly

   2 Many DJs

   Mashing up the Cramps

3. Shame & Scandal

   Madness

   A standard from Trinidad

4. Make Me Smile

   The Wedding Present

   So very British

5. All I Have To Do Is Dream

   The Dandy Warhols

   The Everly Brothers, but even more haunted

6. BREAK

7. Book Of Love

   The Soft Boys

   The Monotones never saw it coming

8. If You Gotta Go

   Thee Shams

   Hey Bob Dylan!

9. These Boots Are Made For Walking

   Titilia

   Hot dang, forget Nancy Sinatra

10. Tenderness

    Casper Fandango

    General Public to the white courtesy phone

11. BREAK

12. In My Life

    Jake Shimabukuro

    The Beatles on a tiny stringed instrument

13. Picture Book

    Young Fresh Fellows

    You knew I had some Kinks on me

14. Sing Sing Sing

    Flat Duo Jets

    Gene Krupa’s showcase piece

15. Brand New Key

    Mad Tea Party

    Almost as sappy as Melanie’s original

16. BREAK

17. Corazón

    Titán

    Over 40 remixes available.

18. We Will Become Silhouettes

    The Shins

    The Postal Service is so TwenCen

19. She Don’t Use Jelly

    Ben Folds Five

    The Flaming Lips are waiting in the lounge

20. Common People

    William Shatner

    Smashed to a Pulp

21. BREAK

22. Have A Cigar

    Primus

    Extra snarky for Pink Floyd

23. BREAK

24. Never Going Back Again

    Eddi Reader

    How’s that Fleetwood Mac treating you?

25. I Walk The Line

    Leonard Nimoy

    Johnny Cash may be spinning at warp speed

26. El Scorcho

    Tugboat

    More 8-bit Weezer

27. The Air That I Breathe

    White Hassle

    Also worked for Albert Hammond and The Hollies

28. BREAK

29. D.R.I.N.K.

    Asylum Street Spankers

    Time to frequent the Jazz Butcher

30. Tennessee Waltz

    Sally Timms

    From Pee Wee King and Patsy CLine

31. Where Is My Mind

    Maxence Cyrin

    Haunting the Pixies

32. DEVO Corporate Anthem

    The Coctails

    We salute you, Devo

33. BREAK

34. Love Hurts

    Bob Pollard And Kim Deal

    They should call them “Snazzareth”

35. Ice Ice Baby

    Ben Kweller

    Vanilla Ice Ice Baby

36. I Want You Back (In Discovery)

    Discovery

    Make it the Jackson 5000

37. She’s Like A Rainbow

    Cub

    It also worked for the Rolling Stones

38. BREAK

39. Rocket Man

    Fastbacks

    Blasted off for Elton John

40. Mexican Radio

    Kinky

    A Mexican take on Wall of Voodoo

41. Heart of Glass

    The Puppini Sisters

    Timewarping the Blondie

42. BREAK

43. Interstellar Overdrive

    Camper Van Beethoven

    Epic choice of a Pink Floyd song

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1. Song
   Artist

2. I Want You Back (In Discovery)

   Discovery

   Exploding with Auto-tune!

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3. BREAK

4. Wanted

   Nortec Collective

   Tijuana’s most wanted, actually

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5. Gimme Gimme Your Heart

   The Cryptkeeper Five

   Some dramatic New Jersey sound for yer

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6. My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama

   The Persuasions

   Zappa would approve

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7. I Want Answers

   House of Freaks

   A reasonable request

8. BREAK

9. I Want Candy

   Bow Wow Wow

   Other bands with two drummers?

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10. What You Need

    Westbound Train

    Rocksteady from Boston

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11. Money (That’s What I Want)

    Barrett Strong

    Recognizable!

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12. What Do You Want Me to Say?

    The Dismemberment Plan

    Falling apart nicely

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13. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme

    Ben Vaughn Combo

    Don’t mince words, Ben

14. BREAK

15. Gimme Danger

    Iggy And The Stooges

    The birth of punk

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16. You Want Me Shimmy

    Tall Dwarfs

    Weirdness from New Zealand

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17. I Want The Drugs

    Supersuckers

    Get to the point, Eddie

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18. Give Me Bread

    The Tennors

    The history of Jamaican music

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19. Whatever Lola Wants (Gotan Project Remix)

    Sarah Vaughan

    Beated up

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20. BREAK

21. We Want Fun

    Andrew W. K.

    Sounds like a plan, Andy

22. I Want You To Want Me

    Cheap Trick

    The non-fuzzed-out version

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23. I Want To Be Sexy

    Winterbrief

    Why is French the language of sexy?

24. Gimme, Gimme

    Nikki and the Corvettes

    Time warp time!

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25. BREAK

26. Give Me One Reason

    Tracy Chapman

    I don’t think she really wants a reason

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27. I Want Some

    The Make-Up

    Save some for me.

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28. I Want You 2 Love Me So Much I Can’t Stand Up

    We Ragazzi

    A cry of desperation

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29. Gimme Some Money

    Spinal Tap

    Where are they now?

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30. BREAK

31. Want It, You Got It

    The Rikters

    Heavy thumps

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32. Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie

    Black Flag

    Moshing in Connecticut

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33. We Want, We Would Appreciate

    Lord High Fixers

    Hy-mo-tizing

34. Gimme

    Marnie Stern

    A glorious racket

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35. I Want The Panic!

    Agenda

    Give them the panic already

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36. BREAK

37. U Got What I Need (Shake)

    Ex-Models

    A blast

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38. We Want It! We Want It!

    BOAT

    Wildly out of control

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39. Gimme Da’ting

    David Lindley & El Rayo-X

    Yes, very greasy

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40. I Want To Be In Cuba

    Mastretta

    Hispanic soundtrackery

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41. BREAK

42. I Want

    The Apples In Stereo

    Sing along with the apples

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43. Give Me A Chance

    The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

    Hoooooooo!

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44. I Want You Back

    Thee Shams

    Thee Shams in a plaintive mood

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45. We Want The Airwaves

    Ramones

    Give it them!

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46. Gimme The Wire

    Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

    He doesn’t want it, I think

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:: DJ Shantel ::

A globe-trotting episode, with entries from the Ukraine, Finland, Mexico and Romania. No visas required, and the in-flight bar is as cheap as your liquor cabinet.

In this episode: Boy Eats Drum Machine, Brazilian Girls, Discovery, Gogol Bordello, Illinois, Laika & The Cosmonauts, Mexican Institute Of Sound, Nina Simone, Nortec Collective, Papas Fritas, Shantel, Still Flyin, The Bronx, The Lothars, Tracy Spuehler

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Disko Partizani

   Shantel

   Opa Romania!

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3. Pleasure Theme Song

   Boy Eats Drum Machine

   Like John Bonham digging through the toybox

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4. Cell Mates

   The Bronx

   From the upcoming Mariachi El Bronx album… couldn’t wait

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5. BREAK

6. Mission Impossible

   Laika & The Cosmonauts

   Five four and implacable

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7. Tijuana Sound Machine

   Nortec Collective

   One of my favorite discoveries this year.

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8. Slang Tang

   Discovery

   Quite noisy

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9. It’s The Sound

   Tracy Spuehler

   Delightfully sweet

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10. BREAK

11. Karate Kid 2

    Mexican Institute Of Sound

    Can’t get enough MIS

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12. Sacred Darling

    Gogol Bordello

    An oldie and quite goody

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13. Old Saloon

    Illinois

    From the fantastic “The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe”

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14. The Call Up

    The Lothars

    It is an all-theremin Clash cover.

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15. BREAK

16. Save Me

    Nina Simone

    Smoky voice, that one

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17. Way You Walk

    Papas Fritas

    Music for pacing

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18. Dead Memory Man

    Still Flyin

    Reggae freakout

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19. BREAK

20. Internacional

    Brazilian Girls

    Not actually from Brazil…

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Mercedez Benz

   Petty Booka

   A bluegrass rendition, from Japan. With ukuleles

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3. BREAK

4. Siberia

   The Red Elvises

   From the Six String Samurai soundtrack

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5. Popsickle

   The Starlight Mints

   A rare single — track it down

6. On No the Radio

   Owsley

   Pop perfection from Alabama

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7. The Elephant Never Forgets

   Jean Jacques Perrey

   You may remember it as the theme from El Chavo del Ocho

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8. BREAK

9. Zodiac Girl

   Cats + Jammers

   Chicago rock boogie

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10. The Group Who Couldn’t Say

    Grandaddy

    Her drag and click had never yielded anything as perfect as a dragonfly.

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11. Big Sound

    The M’s

    Not to be confused with M and “Pop Muzik”

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12. BREAK

13. Alcohol

    Cansei de Ser Sexy

    Braziliant.

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14. Puppet

    Lisa Germano

    Maybe you can’t tell, but it’s also about alcohol

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15. Sports & Wine

    Ben Folds Five

    Finishing the booze triumvirate

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16. BREAK

17. Nothin’ No

    David Vandervelde

    Sounds an awful lot like David Garza

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18. When I See You I Feel Weird

    Twang Bang

    Chicago two-man racket

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19. Mucha Muchacha

    Esquivel

    Dig the stereo panning!

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20. A Go Go

    Truby Trio

    Fruitstands beware!

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21. BREAK

22. Disko Partizani

    Shantel

    Opa Romania!

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23. Pleasure Theme Song

    Boy Eats Drum Machine

    Like John Bonham digging through the toybox

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24. Cell Mates

    The Bronx

    From the upcoming Mariachi El Bronx album… couldn’t wait

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25. BREAK

26. Mission Impossible

    Laika & The Cosmonauts

    Five four and implacable

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27. Tijuana Sound Machine

    Nortec Collective

    One of my favorite discoveries this year.

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28. Slang Tang

    Discovery

    Quite noisy

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29. It’s The Sound

    Tracy Spuehler

    Delightfully sweet

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30. BREAK

31. Karate Kid 2

    Mexican Institute Of Sound

    Can’t get enough MIS

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32. Sacred Darling

    Gogol Bordello

    An oldie and quite goody

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33. Old Saloon

    Illinois

    From the fantastic “The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe”

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34. The Call Up

    The Lothars

    It is an all-theremin Clash cover.

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35. BREAK

36. Save Me

    Nina Simone

    Smoky voice, that one

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37. Way You Walk

    Papas Fritas

    Music for pacing

    [asa]B00004RI6B[/asa]

38. Dead Memory Man

    Still Flyin

    Reggae freakout

    [asa]B001U3N3UK[/asa]

39. BREAK

40. Internacional

    Brazilian Girls

    Not actually from Brazil…

    [asa]B001BPQRRS[/asa]

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