:: Danny Elfman ::

Someone once compared Danny Elfman’s music to elephants running up the down escalator while playing tubas. I don’t think they were very far off.

In this episode: Animal, Apache Indian, Danny Elfman, Dopo Yume, Herb Alpert, Hissanol, Joe Jackson, MC Frontalot, Mano Negra, Nomo, Phase Selector Sound, Stereo Total, Sugarcubes, That Handsome Devil, The Soft Boys, The Squirrels

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Tongue-Clucking Grammarian

   MC Frontalot

   We all know one

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3. Uphill Spectre

   Animal

   The drone of forgotten toys

4. Beat Crazy

   Joe Jackson

   By request for Angela

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5. Breakfast Machine

   Danny Elfman

   Who wants pancakes?

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6. BREAK

7. The Postcard

   Dopo Yume

   You know the sound

8. Magic Dice

   Mano Negra

   Lucky Manu Chao

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9. Larmes De Métal

   Stereo Total

   Totally Stereo Total

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10. Edge Of Yodeling

    The Squirrels

    Fritzy and skittering

11. BREAK

12. Deus

    Sugarcubes

    Early freaky

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13. Zorba The Greek

    Herb Alpert

    Who was it that wanted some Herb?

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14. That’s When Your Heartaches Begin

    The Soft Boys

    Exceedingly rare and good

15. Miss America

    That Handsome Devil

    Ominous

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16. BREAK

17. Strangled

    Hissanol

    The Postal Service of the ‘90s

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18. Boom Shack-a-Lack

    Apache Indian

    Naughy naughty

19. Refraction

    Phase Selector Sound

    Dub a dub dub

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20. BREAK

21. Last Beat

    Nomo

    Afrobeat is alive

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Hawaii Take 5-O

   The Squirrels

   Hard to get twisteder

3. BREAK

4. Better Times

   Beach House

   Wistful Scandinavia

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5. Dust Devil

   Madness

   Don’t call it a comeback

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6. Miles From Minnesota

   Lower 48

   About 1300, to be exact

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7. BREAK

8. Sadie

   Joanna Newsom

   Spooky voice and a harp

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9. Big Fat Cigar

   Sleepyhead

   Juxtapop

10. My Own Sake

    Holly Golightly

    Like Marcellus Hall but not

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11. BREAK

12. Working Holiday

    The Coctails

    Lovely vibrations

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13. Winter Vacation

    The Subjects

    A lovely winter sweater of a song

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14. Meyrin Fields

    Broken Bells

    Mindtrippery, I tell you

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15. J.U.F.

    Last WIsh of the Bride

    Hit it, Hutz

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16. BREAK

17. Bam B-B-Bam Bam Bam

    Junior Varisty

    There was a dancing bear

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18. Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh

    Say Hi

    So redundant

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19. Radio Down! (featuring Biz Markie)

    Aquabats

    Nice Billy Idol reference

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20. Hush Pup

    Luigee Trademarq

    Some French adult film music to heat up the evening

21. Thou Shalt Always Kill

    Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip

    Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry

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22. BREAK

23. Mike Love Not War

    Oranger

    From Doorway to Norway

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24. Hectified

    Jason Falkner

    Solofied

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25. Sugar Man

    Rodriguez

    Back from 1970

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26. Make Some Time

    Black Diamond Heavies

    More of that swampy stuff

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27. BREAK

28. The Passenger

    Iggy Pop

    Always a classic

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29. Walking in Your Footsteps

    The Police

    Yeah, Synchronicity

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30. Safety Pants

    Scout Niblett

    Chant along, everyone

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31. BREAK

32. Make Love A Star

    The Poison Control Center

    Phonetically similar to “Mike Love Not War”

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33. Make My Way

    The Mooney Suzuki

    Loud and sweaty

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34. Proofs

    Mates of State

    From the SImple Mental Math compilation

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35. The Wind Cries Mary

    The Bobs

    One of my fave Jimi songs

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36. BREAK

37. Batucada

    Walter Wanderley

    Master of the Bossa Nova organ

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38. Yosemite Theme

    The Go! Team

    Strange brew indeed

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39. Tijuana Taxi

    Herb Alpert

    Honk!

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40. Don’t Try to Fool Me

    Miss Li

    The extended version

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41. BREAK

42. I Said (Michael Woods Remix) (feat. Chris Lake)

    Deadmau5

    Heavy on the beat

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Wild Honey Pie

   The Squirrels

   Gone before you notice

3. BREAK

4. Warm Vanilla Sugar

   The Epizootis

   Way casual

5. Gonzalez, The Explosive Chilean

   Guignol

   Hello David

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6. Earworm

   The Goodnight Loving

   Now you have it too

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7. Nothing In This World

   The Kinks

   Ah, yes, the Kinks

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8. BREAK

9. Havana

   The Mabuses

   I picture David Niven singing

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10. Soul Revival

    Westbound Train

    Genuine rocksteady

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11. Hey, Mr. DJ

    Tiny Masters Of Today

    The poundings of Russel Simmons

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12. Never Forget You

    Noisettes

    Dig the Duck Dunn bass

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13. BREAK

14. Gonna Get Along Without You Now

    She & Him

    For Rich and the 20-year rewind

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15. A Penny For Your Brain

    Shibboleth

    It’s got Sesame Street bounce

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16. Lucky 13

    Bodeco

    Hot potato vindaloo

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17. I Got The Hots

    The Soft Boys

    No doubting it

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18. Substitute

    The Who

    Ain’t no substitute

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19. BREAK

20. Comin’ Home Baby

    The Goldstars

    From the Purple Girlfriend album

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21. Kusse Aus Der Holle Der Musik

    Stereo Total

    Pere Lachaise, eh?

22. In The Basement, Part One

    Etta James & Sugar Pie DeSanto

    It’s hot down there

23. Star Guitar

    The Chemical Brothers

    Check out the Gondry video

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24. BREAK

25. Magnetize Your Food

    Evolution Control Comittee

    Magnetize your kittens! Nomenclature!

26. Core

    The Cardiacs

    Under-appreciated band of the evening

27. El Barzón

    Maldita Vecindad & Los Hijos Del Quinto Patio

    More Mexican monsterbeats

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28. BREAK

29. Party At Ground Zero

    Fishbone

    It’s the nonstop partying!

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30. Stink Stinky Ashtray

    Damn

    Nice Ren sample

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31. Reggae Got Soul

    Toots + The Maytalls

    An original

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32. Dancin’ In The Moonlight

    King Harvest

    One hit wonders, expats in Paris

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33. BREAK

34. One Step Beyond

    Madness

    A second wave standard

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35. Lovely Rita

    The Beatles

    With a comb-and-paper section

36. Kana Kapila

    The Continental Cousins

    From the surfing shores of… Belgium?

37. Kinder

    Davíd Garza

    Discover Dah-veed.

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38. BREAK

39. The Famous Polka

    They Might Be Giants

    Prelude to the great Milwaukee Stage Disaster

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40. I Said

    Nose

    Grooviness

41. All-Nite Dinah

    Venice Shoreline Chris

    The always-amazing Chris Murray

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42. Stay Up All Night

    Drink Me

    Some wicked Fanta bottle on that

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43. BREAK

44. Destroy The Flower

    Lisa Germano

    Haunting pieces

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Love Hurts

   Bob Pollard And Kim Deal

   That Dayton scene is something else…

3. BREAK

4. Blue Eyed Black Boy

   Balkan Beat Box

   Thumping transglobalism

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5. All At Once

   Canoe

   Oh so noisy

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6. What Goes On

   Bettie Serveert

   From their VU tribute

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7. Alan Bean

   Hefner

   It’s the spaceman

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8. BREAK

9. I Used To Play The Euphonium

   The Born Again Floozies

   Everyone says that

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10. The Cat

    Seks Bomba

    Swingin’!

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11. I Got The Blue

    Chris and Tad

    From Hand Me That Door

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12. Do Not Forsake Me Billy Bremner

    Shibboleth

    Instrumentals for bicycling!

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13. BREAK

14. Coldplay Got Eaten By Piranhas

    Alex Arrowsmith

    Such a tragedy. Not.

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15. Being

    Escape Mechanism

    Billy Burroughs in the house

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16. Sing Sing Sing

    Flat Duo Jets

    Burning it up, too

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17. BREAK

18. Happy Everywhere

    The Pinker Tones

    They’re from Barcelona

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19. (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding?

    Elvis Costello + The Attractions

    Let’s hear it for Nick Lowe

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20. Ambiguity Song

    Camper Van Beethoven

    My favorite, for reals

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21. Euro Trash Girl

    Chicks On Speed

    Because one isn’t enough

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22. BREAK

23. Tongue-Clucking Grammarian

    MC Frontalot

    We all know one

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24. Uphill Spectre

    Animal

    The drone of forgotten toys

25. Beat Crazy

    Joe Jackson

    By request for Angela

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26. Breakfast Machine

    Danny Elfman

    Who wants pancakes?

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27. BREAK

28. The Postcard

    Dopo Yume

    You know the sound

29. Magic Dice

    Mano Negra

    Lucky Manu Chao

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30. Larmes De Métal

    Stereo Total

    Totally Stereo Total

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31. Edge Of Yodeling

    The Squirrels

    Fritzy and skittering

32. BREAK

33. Deus

    Sugarcubes

    Early freaky

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34. Zorba The Greek

    Herb Alpert

    Who was it that wanted some Herb?

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35. That’s When Your Heartaches Begin

    The Soft Boys

    Exceedingly rare and good

36. Miss America

    That Handsome Devil

    Ominous

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37. BREAK

38. Strangled

    Hissanol

    The Postal Service of the ‘90s

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39. Boom Shack-a-Lack

    Apache Indian

    Naughy naughty

40. Refraction

    Phase Selector Sound

    Dub a dub dub

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41. BREAK

42. Last Beat

    Nomo

    Afrobeat is alive

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1. Song
   Artist

2. I Wan’na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)

   The Squirrels

   Louie Prima he ain’t

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3. BREAK

4. Thank You For Making Me Feel Better

   Linus Of Hollywood

   From the Weeds 4 soundtrack

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5. Stay Zombie Stay

   Elvis Perkins

   Romancing the undead

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6. Woman In Blue

   Pepe Deluxe

   Finnish wobblies

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7. Night Tide

   Gallon Drunk

   Makes me want to drink orange juice and kill myself

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8. BREAK

9. I’ve Got A Capo On My Brain

   Dan Hicks

   Hot licks aplenty

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10. Valley Hi!

    Stereolab

    So Stereolab

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11. Amor Platonico

    Jovenes Y Sexys

    From one of the most-recommended films of 2009

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12. Color of Your Blues

    Money Mark

    Digital crickets are a nice touch

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13. BREAK

14. This World Owes Me A Buzz

    Spot 1019

    So little Spot 1019

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15. 99 Girls

    Young Fresh Fellows

    Channeling the Sonics

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16. My Ladies Can’t Remember the Eighties

    Euphone

    Deceptively calm

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17. Jockey Full Of Bourbon

    The Blue Hawaiians

    I couldn’t play it straight, Harry

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18. BREAK

19. Sea Ghost

    The Unicorns

    Brutal

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20. Desiree

    The Elected

    Wants more Elected!

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21. Chances Are

    Apostle of Hustle

    Gotta get up to date on these guys

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22. Wonder

    Giant Sand

    At its Neil Youngiest, w. Victoria Williams

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23. BREAK

24. That’s Something I Do

    Apples In Stereo

    Seems to be the loudest song ever

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25. Golden Apples

    Country Teasers

    Deceptively Scottish

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26. Looking At The Robot

    Orange Hat

    Going out to all the First Lego League parents out there

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27. Collapsed In The Superdome

    Oranger

    When did you start to think? When did you get those pangs?

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28. North Carolina

    The Oranges Band

    Desperate and longing

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29. BREAK

30. Air Batucada

    Thievery Corporation

    Dedicated to the Melbourne Drum Tribe

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31. Switchblade to Soul

    Chris Murray

    Canadian Ska Fourth Wave!

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32. Bucovina

    Shantel

    Our favorite Paprikan

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33. Man Smart, Woman Smarter

    Kid Rio

    Follow de man’s advice

34. BREAK

35. European Dreams

    Push Kings

    Fronted by Harvard Twins, I kid you not

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36. Feel’n Free

    Sukia

    Buzz!

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37. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

    The Postal Service

    From one of the best album of the Noughties

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38. BREAK

39. Step Out

    Billy Childish & Holly Golightly

    One chord to rule them all

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40. Nobody Understands Me

    Chixdiggit

    Make up your minds, guys!

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41. Vitamins

    Supernova

    You better take your vitamins!

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42. BREAK

43. L’Orient est Rouge

    Lightning Head vs. Koçani Orkestar

    Brazilian, Balkan, whatever else you like

In this episode: Afghan Whigs, Books on Tape, Brainiac, Camper Van Beethoven, Daniel Smith / Sufjan Stevens, Eddie Harris, Galactic, King Kong, Mazzy Star, Slim Bawb, The Anubian Lights, The Beatles, The Squirrels, The Wedding Present, True Love, Tupelo Chain Sex

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1. Song
   Artist

2. K155 M3, U JACK3D UP J3RK

   Brainiac

   Like a psychotic Japanese chee-wah-wah

3. You Can’t Moan Can You?

   The Wedding Present

   Fuzzy fuzz fuzz

4. Tornado Song

   King Kong

   Dedicated to today’s weather

5. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

   The Beatles

   In the mood for a classic

6. BREAK

7. Smoke and Mirrors

   The Anubian Lights

   Floating away

8. Vincent Van Gogh

   The Squirrels

   He loved color and he let it show

9. Mambo Lola

   Tupelo Chain Sex

   Anyone know anything about them?

10. Eye of Fatima

    Camper Van Beethoven

    Couldn’t find “Take The Skinheads Bowling”

11. BREAK

12. Hey Man

    True Love

    Had to play some more True Love…

13. I’m Phime

    Slim Bawb

    Inducted into the Sacramento Area Music Hall of Fame (the Sammies)

14. Sonnymoon For Two

    Eddie Harris

    Going out to Crazy Nate, hope he digs

15. BREAK

16. Hamp’s Hump

    Galactic

    Space funk from New Orleans

17. Gentlemen

    Afghan Whigs

    Greg Dulli, of the Gutter Twins and Twilight Singers

18. See You In Tokyo

    Books on Tape

    Tons of free downloadables on the internet

19. Fade Into You

    Mazzy Star

    Dedicated to the person that knows

20. BREAK

21. Worried Shoes

    Daniel Smith / Sufjan Stevens

    Feel the arrangement

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Worried Shoes

   Daniel Smith / Sufjan Stevens

   Feel the arrangement

3. BREAK

4. K155 M3, U JACK3D UP J3RK

   Brainiac

   Like a psychotic Japanese chee-wah-wah

5. You Can’t Moan Can You?

   The Wedding Present

   Fuzzy fuzz fuzz

6. Tornado Song

   King Kong

   Dedicated to today’s weather

7. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

   The Beatles

   In the mood for a classic

8. BREAK

9. Smoke and Mirrors

   The Anubian Lights

   Floating away

10. Vincent Van Gogh

    The Squirrels

    He loved color and he let it show

11. Mambo Lola

    Tupelo Chain Sex

    Anyone know anything about them?

12. Eye of Fatima

    Camper Van Beethoven

    Couldn’t find “Take The Skinheads Bowling”

13. BREAK

14. Hey Man

    True Love

    Had to play some more True Love…

15. I’m Phime

    Slim Bawb

    Inducted into the Sacramento Area Music Hall of Fame (the Sammies)

16. Sonnymoon For Two

    Eddie Harris

    Going out to Crazy Nate, hope he digs

17. BREAK

18. Hamp’s Hump

    Galactic

    Space funk from New Orleans

19. Gentlemen

    Afghan Whigs

    Greg Dulli, of the Gutter Twins and Twilight Singers

20. See You In Tokyo

    Books on Tape

    Tons of free downloadables on the internet

21. Fade Into You

    Mazzy Star

    Dedicated to the person that knows

22. BREAK

23. Sandlot Shuffle

    White Hassle

    Always a pleasure

24. I’m Not In Love

    10cc

    Dig that mellotron

25. Back Off Boogaloo

    Electric Cokernut

    Moog madness

26. BREAK

27. It’s Almost A Trap

    Architecture In Helsinki

    From Melbourne, Australia

28. Casting Agents and Cowgirls

    Busdriver

    Worked with The Unicorns?!

29. Nothing Please

    Glass Eye

    With Kathy McCarty

30. When Winter Comes

    The Ophelias

    Just downright weird

31. BREAK

32. Earth People

    Dr. Octagon

    Everyone’s favorite extraterrestrial, timetraveling gynecologist

33. When The Angels Play Their Drum Machines

    Hefner

    From the unexpected Dead Media album

34. Baby You Feel Me Up

    His Name Is Alive

    From Livonia, MI

35. No Aloha

    Breeders

    What is that about?

36. BREAK

37. Smokebomb

    Ursula 1000

    aka Alex Gimeno, from Brooklyn and Miami Beach

38. Greatest Hits

    Laptop

    Fu-nee.

39. BREAK

40. Towers of Dub

    The Dylan Group

    Trance out

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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