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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. Career Opportunities

   Sex Clark Five

   From the sprawling Sandinista Project album

3. BREAK

4. Boombox

   Mosquitos

   Witness fruit from the jungles of Brooklyn

5. When You Were My Baby

   The Magnetic Fields

   An oldie

6. Polyester

   Maximilian Hecker

   Sweet sweet poison

7. Malavida

   Mano Negra

   Later to be covered by Gogol Bordello

8. BREAK

9. While the City Sleeps

   MC 900 Foot Jesus

   The Dallas recluse at his height

10. My Relatively Obscure Tastes

    Muffulletta

    You can totally hear the Toro

11. You Open My Eyes

    The Moore Brothers

    From 2003… still fresh

12. BREAK

13. The Bandit

    The Starlight Mints

    Can’t wait for the concert

14. These Days

    Nico

    Charming

15. Science Is Golden

    The Grates

    From Australia!

16. Bat Macumba

    Os Mutantes

    I think this was dis-bitulated

17. BREAK

18. Every Night

    Paul McCartney

    Post-Beatles, pre-Wings

19. Sing, Theresa Says

    Greg Laswell

    Something about this song.

20. You’re Supposed To Be My Friend

    1990s

    From their debut, Cookies.

21. Coal Black Horses

    16 Horsepower

    The ultimate spooky

22. BREAK

23. Destro

    French Kicks

    Angular and irresistible

24. Henrietta

    The Fratellis

    What is in Glasgow?

25. El Tiradito

    Friends Of Dean Martinez

    Cantina deluxe

26. Flying Jelly Attack

    Shonen Knife

    Absolutely irresistible

27. BREAK

28. Come Alive

    Peggen

    Mysterious Swedes

29. Israelites

    Madness

    The first worldwide Jamaican hit, for Desmond Dekker

30. Party Tonite!

    Maow

    Featuring the lovely Neko Case

31. The Alphabet Business Concern

    The Cardiacs

    Majestic and strange… look up this band

32. BREAK

33. Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop

    Monte Video

    Were you ready for that?

34. Lonely Mary

    The Green Goblyn Project

    Brevard’s Own

35. Burn and Rob

    Paleface

    Listen to your Uncle Paleface, kids. Stay off the rock and roll.

36. BREAK

37. Everybody Passes Me By

    Pepe Deluxe

    Finnish beatmasters

38. Me Tienes Frito

    Muchachito Bombo Infierno

    “You have me deep fried”

39. Two Of Us

    Mr. T Experience

    So happy, so sad.

40. BREAK

41. The Upshot

    Rondelles

    Albuquerque scene-mates of the Shins’

42. Joy

    The Mattoid

    Hey, more Finland

43. Fortune Tellin’ Chicken

    Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet

    From the Kids in the Hall themesters

44. BREAK

45. Idler

    Carl Henry Brueggen

    Feel the bossa

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   Artist

2. Use Me

   Holly Golightly

   Unmistakably unstable, Holly!

3. BREAK

4. Maybe You Faked It

   Adam Elk

   From the Mommyheads

5. Ripchord

   Rilo Kiley

   Hey, don’t forget The Elected

6. My Lunatic Friends

   Deathray

   Feat. members of Cake

7. BREAK

8. Whatever

   Asylum Street Spankers

   Going out on a limb here…

9. Previous Condition

   Lung Leg

   Aow ya.

10. Mr. Bongo

    Ursula 1000

    Reminds me, bring some Tipsy in

11. BREAK

12. Seems So Heavy

    Sloan

    I want this CD back, Rob Wilson

13. El Camino

    Super Chikan

    Thank you, Iceberg Defect

14. Motherless Children

    Brian Ritchie

    Of Violent Femmes

15. BREAK

    Sorry, no Xmas music this week. Next!

16. We Used To Be Friends

    Dandy Warhols

    Talkin’ bout the BJM… check out Dig.

17. Quit Smoking

    Mayor McCa

    From the municipality of Donut Rock City

18. Sandlot Shuffle

    White Hassle

    Yes! Da Hassle!

19. BREAK

20. Check It On Out

    The Mondo Crescendo

    Mislabeled!

21. Sparks

    hollAnd

    Trevor Kampfmann, send me records!

22. Charlton Heston

    Stump

    Lights, camel, action!

23. Somebody Lied

    Kim Lenz + her Jaguars

    Awesome twist ending

24. BREAK

25. Worms

    Presets

    Wormy.

26. Kabelfreaks

    Bodenstandig 2000

    I was off by one thousand!

27. Lies Are Much More Fun

    The Grates

    Not to be confused with the Graves

28. BREAK

    Somebody out there understands!

29. Sugar’s Boogaloo

    Sugarman 3

30. Eastern Standard Time

    Don Drummond

    Time for a Jamaican standard.

31. Do Something

    Smoking Popes

    On the East Timor Benefit compilation, once again available

32. BREAK

33. Popcorn

    Hot Butter

    Marc D’s first remembered song, quite special

34. When I Turn Off The Living Room Lights

    Kinks

    Ray Davies writes like the wind

35. Itches

    Peggen

    From Sweden

36. BREAK

37. Stratosphere Boogie

    Speedy West + Jimmy Bryant

    Crazy sliding goin’ on

38. Kinky Peanuts

    Armando Trovalo

    More moog madness!

39. Get Down

    Rocket From The Crypt

    Hello nurse!

40. BREAK

    I’ll play One Note Samba / Spanish Flea if requested…

41. Scooba Dooba Diver

    King Kong

    You’ll be singing this one all day tomorrow

42. Homemade Movie Queen

    Ray Wonder

    More Swedish pop

43. Bring On The Night

    The Police

    Haven’t played much Police, hmmm….

44. BREAK

45. Ditmars

    Skinnys 21

    Tampa Bay, late ‘90s. I miss this sound