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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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41. 50 Ft. Queenie

    PJ Harvey

    Hide all the knives

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42. BREAK

43. 30 Lashes

    Six Finger Satellite

    Grinding it down

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44. 12XU

    Minor Threat

    A Hallmark Classic Hardcore Moment

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45. 19 20 20

    The Grates

    Clinky clink

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46. Mondo ’77

    Looper

    Around and around

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47. BREAK

48. 5 9 78

    Boards of Canada

    Subtlety is their name

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Whatever

   Bastard Fairies

   Glarchy, but it’s the Spankers

3. BREAK

4. Yeh-Yeh

   Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan (USA)

   Feel de groove… de Flying Groove

5. Iowan Gal

   Les Claypool

   Thank you Coronel Claypool

6. BREAK

7. Astro Kopp

   Low Frequency In Stereo

   Hmmm, yes… very Norwegian

8. Tellin’ Youth The Truth

   The Evaporators

   Featuring the inimitable Nardwuar the Human Serviette

9. Happy Hour

   The Housemartins

   Norman Cook, future Fatboy Slim, on bass

10. BREAK

11. Winning The War On Drugs

    Asylum Street Spankers

    That was close, wasn’t it?

12. Too Famous To Get Fully Dressed

    Butch Walker & The Let’s-Go-Out-Tonites

    As heard on the Marvelous Three

13. Crazy Beat

    Blur

    Where you going with that crazy beat, Blur?

14. BREAK

15. Soul Finger

    The Bar-Kays

    Most of the band was killed along with Otis Redding

16. San Siz

    Yaqub Zoroofchi

    From Azerbaijan

17. A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)

    Spoozys

    Japanese weirdo dub

18. BREAK

19. Sad K.

    All Night Radio

    featuring members of Beachwood Sparks, Lilys

20. Jesus Christ In Reverse

    Get Set Go

    Frontman is Mike TV … very Dahly

21. Lemonhead Boy

    Heavenly

    Twee incarnate… with the wonderful Amelia Fletcher

22. BREAK

23. Plastic Stars

    Freezepop

    Cold and sweet

24. Lazy Bones

    Fluid Ounces

    That hot Murfreesboro sound

25. Dear Krazy

    Ill Ease

    Elizabeth Sharp and her unique … erm, sound.

26. BREAK

27. I Will Light You On Fire

    Golden Shoulders

    As heard on lonelygirl15

28. Warm Storm

    Giant Sand

    Arizona sprawl

29. Here Come The Warm Jets

    Brian Eno

    From his debut solo album

30. Warm Leatherette

    The Normal

    First release on Mute Records

31. BREAK

32. Kid On My Shoulders

    White Rabbits

    From Columbia, MO via Brooklyn

33. Samba Machine

    Kassin+2

    ElectroBrazil

34. The Computer No. 3

    Hi-Posi

    Hi speed Japanese!

35. BREAK

36. Call It a Ritual

    Wolf Parade

    From Canadia!

37. Parlour Games

    Six Finger Satellite

    “The Parlour” is the name of the band’s home studio

38. Henry Mancini Goes Surfing

    Heavy Vegetable

    Speed surf sensations

39. BREAK

40. Yopparai

    ICU

    Before the lawsuit changed their name to IQU