:: The Cook Trio ::

Existing somewhere between Djangos and ninjas, The Cook Trio makes gipsy jazz classy and effortless.

In this episode: 1990s, Boogie Balagan, Brainiac, Butthole Surfers, Elvis Costello, Herb Remington, Les Hommes, Perez Prado & His Orchestra, Pixies, Sourdough Slim, Squarepusher, The Cook Trio, The Cramps, The Gentle People, The Hold Steady, The Starlight Mints

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Radio Apeshot

   Brainiac

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3. Moving To Florida

   Butthole Surfers

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4. Chez Jacquet

   The Cook Trio

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5. BREAK

6. My Mood Swings

   Elvis Costello

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7. New Kind Of Kick

   The Cramps

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8. Big Bad Bill

   Sourdough Slim

   [asa]B001I94FIA[/asa]

   

9. Dalida Blooz

   Boogie Balagan

   [asa]B003L9TOOA[/asa]

   

10. BREAK

11. Everybody Please Relax

    1990s

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12. Hula Blues

    Herb Remington

13. Knuckles

    The Hold Steady

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14. Posada Do Amor

    Les Hommes

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15. BREAK

16. Guaglione

    Perez Prado & His Orchestra

    [asa]B00138J9YG[/asa]

    

17. Levitate Me

    Pixies

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18. Freeway

    Squarepusher

    [asa]B001E45LLO[/asa]

    

19. What’s Inside Of Me?

    The Starlight Mints

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20. BREAK

21. Underwater

    The Gentle People

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Jumpin’ Jive

   Joe Jackson

   Thank you electroswing!

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3. BREAK

4. Lazy Bones

   Wooden Shjips

   Fuzzmaster 3billion

   [asa]B005M01M4Q[/asa]

   

5. Straight

   Deadweight

   Rockin’ the cello

   [asa]B001VG88YC[/asa]

   

6. Girl With One Eye (Bayou Percussion Version)

   Florence and the Machine

   Sounds like the beginning of True Blood

   [asa]B004PLWGVG[/asa]

   

7. BREAK

8. Stuart

   The Dead Milkmen

   Keep your head and arms inside the mixer at all times!

   [asa]B001RY44I2[/asa]

   

9. Hunting My Dress

   Jesca Hoop

   Spooky Jesca

   [asa]B003URDM1O[/asa]

   

10. Boom

    Lo-Fi-Fnk

    Engage disco blasters!

    [asa]B005ST0UYY[/asa]

    

11. You Don’t Love Me

    Caro Emerald

    Dutch chanteuse

    [asa]B0042L78MG[/asa]

    

12. BREAK

13. IHOP

    Luna

    Ungh on that bass

    [asa]B001OGPYX2[/asa]

    

14. Lonely You

    The Subjects

    Whiz bang chording

    [asa]B002X4API8[/asa]

    

15. One Time Doomsday Trip

    Zig Speck & His Specks

    Still unsure what this project is about

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16. Underground

    Ben Folds Five

    Beat that piano, why dontcha

    [asa]B005Q6DW9O[/asa]

    

17. BREAK

18. Eskeleto feat. Afrikan Boy

    Buraka Som Sistema

    Harsh and real

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19. Never

    The Future Kings of Nowhere

    Punkoustic mastery

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20. Balboa

    Downtown Harvest

    From Philly, right?

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21. BREAK

22. Ghost Dance 1492

    Beachwood Sparks

    Appreciate or forgive the Zombies reference

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23. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

    The Police

    Must be the remastered version

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24. Greetings In Braille

    The Elected

    From a tragic country

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25. i.r.o.C.

    Seks Bomba

    Rushing to the airport

    [asa]B000S57776[/asa]

    

26. BREAK

27. Bad Boy Good Man

    Tape Five

    The electroswing bounty continunes

    [asa]B002XNIE96[/asa]

    

28. I Couldn’t Spell @*&!

    Roy Loney and the Young Fresh Fellows

    That’s all I got to say

29. Decoy

    Jenny Toomey

    Originally by Franklin Bruno

    [asa]B005DDAXVK[/asa]

    

30. BREAK

31. Mucha Muchacha

    Montefiori Cocktail

    From Mexico via Italy

    [asa]B0028GGH7Y[/asa]

32. Weapon of Mass Destruction

    Andre Williams & The Sadies

    Andre Williams for Secretary General!

    [asa]B000UOQHTO[/asa]

    

33. Dead End Road

    Sonny Smith

    Your mother makes a pretty good lasagna

34. The Bee

    The Starlight Mints

    We’re due a new one

    [asa]B000S54VJ8[/asa]

    

35. BREAK

36. C30-C60-C90 Go!

    Bow Wow Wow

    Two drummer attack

    [asa]B00138KC2Y[/asa]

    

37. We Used To Be Friends

    The Dandy Warhols

    Portland before Portland was cool

    [asa]B000SXBOW2[/asa]

    

38. Marcia Baila (Ft. Adrienne Pauly)

    Nouvelle Vague

    How very French

39. Weekend

    Class Actress

    Bring it on!

    [asa]B005RTSSQM[/asa]

    

40. BREAK

41. 11

    Olo

    Subtle ululation

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Ice Ice Baby

   Ben Kweller

   That Miami guy may have been onto something

3. BREAK

4. The Sun

   The Naked + Famous

   Ominous, relentless

5. Jump Around

   Brooklyn Funk Essentials

   Latinesque

   [asa]B000QQXE6A[/asa]

   

6. Committed

   Jenny and Johnny

   Hard candy pop glaze

   [asa]B0040JEEJK[/asa]

   

7. Digga Digga Do

   Asylum Street Spankers

   Cantina musick!

   [asa]B000U8PFN4[/asa]

   

8. BREAK

9. Hells Angels

   Fort Lauderdale

   Actually from across the pond

10. My Baby She’s Allright

    Scruffy the Cat

    So bright, so brief

11. Sorry Mama

    Westbound Train

    Boston rocksteady

    [asa]B000YQOW3G[/asa]

    

12. Give Me Back Time

    Holly Golightly

    Unbalanced women are so hot

13. BREAK

14. Keep It On The Paper

    Keller Williams

    Nice moogy solo

    [asa]B00476GJL2[/asa]

    

15. Greasy Spoon

    AK Momo

    Swedish clockwork siren

    [asa]B0023CTZPY[/asa]

    

16. How Now

    Get Set Go

    The Dutch girls like to play with their tools?

    [asa]B0013F0GG4[/asa]

    

17. Testify

    Switches

    Delicious syrupy wooziness

    [asa]B0015O7OX6[/asa]

    

18. BREAK

19. Odd Couple

    Weezer

    Death to false metal!

    [asa]B0048ZFDNW[/asa]

    

20. Don’t Try To Fool Me

    Miss Li

    Mmmm, saxy

    [asa]B0040EZWJ6[/asa]

    

21. Girl O’ Clock

    The Dismemberment Plan

    The stuttering monster

    [asa]B000QQVKWA[/asa]

    

22. Wild and Blue

    The Mekons

    Beautiful take on the John Anderson waltz

    [asa]B00005ABLV[/asa]

23. Good Girls

    Amy Rigby

    Check her out

    [asa]B000V98NKY[/asa]

    

24. BREAK

25. Born In The Ghetto

    Binder & Krieglstein

    A sound for every nation

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26. The Eyes Of The Night

    The Starlight Mints

    There’s cookie monsters in the kitchen

    [asa]B000S54VJ8[/asa]

    

27. Steam Powered (feat. Mr Jon Clark)

    Professor Elemental

    All about steampunk

    [asa]B0045F5LI2[/asa]

    

28. Solid, Jackson

    Kincaid

    Is this Elephant Six? Ya think?

    [asa]B000QZRJQC[/asa]

    

29. BREAK

30. I Can’t Put My Finger On It

    Ween

    I don’t know either, guys

    [asa]B00123KDWE[/asa]

    

31. Bangin’

    Bim Skala Bim

    Back when ska was weird

    [asa]B00000AEU8[/asa]

    

32. You And Your Sister

    The Vulgar Boatmen

    Gainesville jangle

    [asa]B000QZR2RS[/asa]

    

33. New Big Prinz

    The Fall

    That insolent Mark E. Smith

    [asa]B000S5BYBQ[/asa]

    

34. BREAK

35. Rum & Coca Cola (JoJo Effect Remix)

    Andrews Sisters

    Damn you, Morey Amsterdam

    [asa]B002YSWU68[/asa]

    

36. a temporary loss of power

    The Consortium Of Genius

    Mad science interval

37. Button Down Disco (Fila Brazilla Remix)

    Clinton

    Eurovision 1979 — you had to be there

    [asa]B000S9C3NU[/asa]

    

38. Od Srca (From The Heart)

    Boban Markovic Orkestar

    Missing vowels

    [asa]B000W1MDX4[/asa]

    

39. Boom Pam

    Boom Pam

    Eponymous Instrumental

    [asa]B001E4VYHY[/asa]

    

40. BREAK

41. Mad Went The Barber

    The Mabuses

    Some Penny Lane subliminals

42. Sunnyside

    The Goodnight Loving

    Dig their latest album with me

    [asa]B003WA3EWG[/asa]

    

43. Serpent Head Crushed

    Half-Handed Cloud

    Knoxville weirdness

    [asa]B000S58E2S[/asa]

    

44. Discoball World

    David Garza

    The Four Track Manifesto version

    [asa]B001NS7JKC[/asa]

    

45. BREAK

46. On & On

    VHS Or Beta

    Time for retro-disco-retro

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Blackbird

   Jaco Pastorius

   A stellar rendition

   [asa]B001A3EMV4[/asa]

   

3. BREAK

4. 2 Fingers Cross’d

   White Hassle

   Junk-core at its finest

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5. Destination Danger

   Four Corners

   The Sixties called and they said you’re doing a fine job.

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6. Nova (Pt. 1)

   Tracker

   Desert music

   [asa]B000S54NF0[/asa]

   

7. Mood To Burn Bridges

   Neko Case

   Don’t mess with Neko

   [asa]B000X6V9ME[/asa]

   

8. BREAK

9. Yodeling Cowhand

   Wylie and the Wild West

   Throwback or hipster?

   [asa]B0010VBKGG[/asa]

   

10. Cranked Up

    The Lonesome Organist

    Frantic fingers of Jeremy Jacobsen

    [asa]B0014VPTU0[/asa]

    

11. Cowboy Ska

    Arling + Cameron

    The wild west via Jamaica via some Dutch dudes

    [asa]B00005AQKO[/asa]

    

12. Falling Stars

    Oranger

    Channeling the Beach Boys

    [asa]B001W6DI9G[/asa]

    

13. BREAK

14. The Long Winters

    Oh so dramatic

    [asa]The Commander Thinks Aloud[/asa]

    

15. Truckdriver Joe

    Barnyard Playboys

    Dumbass on a rampage!

    [asa]B001CPI6RQ[/asa]

    

16. Girlfriend

    Uptown Sinclair

    Hey Dave, do the music thing once more.

    [asa]B0014DI5W2[/asa]

    

17. BREAK

18. I’m In The Mood For Love

    Jools Holland Big Band

    Jay Kay now shills Japanese products!

    [asa]B00005USBX[/asa]

    

19. So Lonely

    The Police

    This would sound good on a ukulele

    [asa]B000W292C8[/asa]

    

20. An Orchid Is Not A Rose

    Shrimp Boat

    An orchid is not a coal-burning power plant

    [asa]B000W0DXSO[/asa]

    

21. Reflections In A Pl. Glass

    The High Llamas

    Burbling and skueaking

    [asa]B002HO900S[/asa]

    

22. BREAK

23. Submarine #3

    The Starlight Mints

    Sawed to sleep by a cello

    [asa]B002A7296O[/asa]

    

24. This Is What It Feels Like

    Beachwood Sparks

    Dig the Zombies reference

    [asa]B000YN0CVK[/asa]

    

25. Se Todos Fossem

    Cris Delanno

    Brazilian redone

26. Beeflog

    Brak

    Are you with Brak, or you with Zorak?

27. BREAK

28. Sleepless Sade

    Hanuman Care Kit

    Weirdly european

    [asa]B001M6C1CQ[/asa]

    

29. Plastic Jesus

    The Flaming Lips

    From Cool Hand Luke, originally

    [asa]B001MCKLG8[/asa]

    

30. Chick Flick

    Winterbrief

    Wait, what was that about the heroin?

31. BREAK

32. Dairy Queen (DJ Donger Jazzy Mix)

    Sucka MCs

    Dinner and a movie.

    [asa]B0038BGTY4[/asa]

    

33. #9

    Commercial

    hollAnd must be invoived with this

34. Holiday

    The Kinks

    Swagger about with the Kinks

    [asa]B0030H2ODG[/asa]

    

35. Pushin The Trucks

    Billy Bacon & The Forbidden Pigs

    Probably not kosher

36. BREAK

37. How Was It For You

    James

    British pop!

    [asa]B0013XJLDA[/asa]

    

38. Lady Waters and the Hooded One

    Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians

    Edgar Allan Poe would be proud

    [asa]B001BCV7DA[/asa]

    

39. Les Joyeaux Bouchers

    Rin-Ger

    What is being said behind the bombastic instrumentation?

40. Summer Samba

    Walter Wanderley

    Enter my elevator.

    [asa]B001O01FIQ[/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]

    

:: Young Fresh Fellows ::

I’m not one to bow to all-caps in song titles, but it’s the Young Fresh Fellows.

In this episode: Ben Folds, Blithe, Boat, China Dub Soundsystem, Fort Lauderdale, Frankenixon, Marshall Crenshaw, Mary My Hope, Mojo Nixon, Sparklehorse, Spot 1019, Swell, The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, The Fastbacks, The Mondo Crescendo, The Starlight Mints, Young Fresh Fellows

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1. Song
   Artist

2. YOUR Mexican Restaurant

   Young Fresh Fellows

   Their new one, produced by Robyn Hitchcock

   [asa]B002BEXGFO[/asa]

3. Waste Of Time

   The Fastbacks

   With Kurt Bloch!

   [asa]B0000035GL[/asa]

4. I Guess Yes

   Blithe

   Swedish amalgam of wtf

   [asa]B000001HWL[/asa]

5. Sugar Blaster

   The Starlight Mints

   Blasting back to their first album

   [asa]B00004WFJC[/asa]

6. BREAK

7. Fire

   The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown

   Going out to Broadhurst

   [asa]B000006V2F[/asa]

8. Sexy Creature

   Fort Lauderdale

   Name that commercial

   [asa]B0000CG41L[/asa]

9. Cynical Girl

   Marshall Crenshaw

   Where’s my cynical girl?

   [asa]B000002KNL[/asa]

10. Suicide King

    Mary My Hope

    Oh James, you’re so dramatic.

    [asa]B00000DUSH[/asa]

11. BREAK

12. Mushroom Maniac

    Mojo Nixon

    Mojo is wise

    [asa]B000008IZI[/asa]

13. Milk Bomb

    Spot 1019

    Lost in the mail for two years

    [asa]B000008L1U[/asa]

14. Doctor My Eyes

    Ben Folds

    From the Banger Sisters soundtrack

    [asa]B00006HCT6[/asa]

15. I’ve Got Ninjas!

    Boat

    Masters of the non-sequitur

    [asa]B000FVQLVQ[/asa]

16. BREAK

17. Three Little Words

    The Mondo Crescendo

    Catchy like the daycare flu

    [asa]B00004TZ6X[/asa]

18. I Hate You

    Frankenixon

    Why not them?

19. Hammering The Cramps

    Sparklehorse

    Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot?

    [asa]B000002TWZ[/asa]

20. Throw The Wine

    Swell

    Adrift in a sea of honey

    [asa]B0000018A2[/asa]

21. BREAK

22. Yellow Cab

    China Dub Soundsystem

    Featuring Martin Atkins

    [asa]B000W4HFYS[/asa]

:: Asylum Street Spankers ::

The Spankers always score points for obscure musical references.

In this episode: Art Brut, Asylum Street Spankers, Ben Vaughn, Five-Eight, French Kicks, Gachupín, Igmo, Illinois, Irving, Kraftwerk, Royksopp, Syd Dale, The Determinations, The Plugz, The Starlight Mints, Vells

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Antifreeze

   Asylum Street Spankers

   Hey, Jesus Lizard reference!

   [asa]B00006JCG8[/asa]

3. She’s So Blonde

   Illinois

   Bluegrass with a bad attitude

   [asa]B00265SB6M[/asa]

4. Young Lawyer

   French Kicks

   From Brooklyn via Washington DC

   [asa]B000053F7Z[/asa]

5. BREAK

6. Riverside Drive

   Gachupín

   Featuring Tony Maimone

   [asa]B000QBYCJ8[/asa]

7. Number One Spy

   Syd Dale

   More suave spyness

   [asa]B000EEE3V4[/asa]

8. Hombre Secreto (Secret Agent Man)

   The Plugz

   Off the fertile Repo Man soundtrack

   [asa]B000002PF7[/asa]

9. Gumpstumper

   Ben Vaughn

   I need to play some stuff from his Rambler ’65 album

   [asa]B0000048E5[/asa]

10. BREAK

11. Sir Prize

    The Starlight Mints

    Let’s have some violins.

    [asa]B00004WFJC[/asa]

12. Chump

    Igmo

    More violins!

13. Hey Hey La La

    Vells

    Psychedelic motown?

    [asa]B0002QO39Q[/asa]

14. Eyes Adjust to Light

    Irving

    Who wouldn’t circle back to see Willie Nelson?

    [asa]B00006LPQF[/asa]

15. BREAK

16. Weirdo

    Five-Eight

    Mike Mantione holds no punches

    [asa]B000008FMU[/asa]

17. The Model

    Kraftwerk

    Soothing German minimalism

    [asa]B000002GYI[/asa]

18. Housewife’s Choice

    The Determinations

    Revisiting a standard

    [asa]B000005HPR[/asa]

19. DC Comics And Chocolate Milkshake

    Art Brut

    Hard to beat the Brut.

    [asa]B001UGISGQ[/asa]

20. BREAK

21. Happy Up Here

    Royksopp

    Shiny happy music

    [asa]B001TIQTJS[/asa]

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Muswell Hillbilly

   Southern Culture On The Skids

   From their fabulous Countrypolitan Favorites album

   [asa]B000QZZ5SG[/asa]

3. BREAK

4. Psychobilly Freakout

   Reverend Horton Heat

   Familiar to guitar heroes everywhere

   [asa]B0011V9KGC[/asa]

5. Here At The Home

   Tribe

   From Boston and 20 years ago

   [asa]B00000E9PI[/asa]

6. Paddling Ghost

   Dan Deacon

   Noise trance induced

   [asa]B001W2DB6U[/asa]

7. Bad Idea

   Ben Folds Five

   Bashing on the keys

   [asa]B000002G4Y[/asa]

8. BREAK

9. Baby Fratelli

   The Fratellis

   Here comes the Glasgow!

   [asa]B000MXPE74[/asa]

10. Stinky Stinky

    The Fil Lorenz Soul-Tet

    Groovy, and still in my car

    [asa]B000R00OWC[/asa]

11. Cuchi-Cuchi

    Los Amigos Invisibles

    Vengan Venezolanos!

    [asa]B000S98WCG[/asa]

12. Roda

    Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66

    The classic sound of Brazil

    [asa]B000W1RE5Q[/asa]

13. BREAK

14. Free Peepshow

    Fallopian

    Wait, how much?

    [asa]B0013RAZ7M[/asa]

15. Start Button

    2 Many DJs

    PAUSE Button!

16. My Evaline

    Soft Boys

    Hallucinatory psychedelia indeed

17. Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)

    Robyn Hitchcock

    Who was Beatle Dennis?

    [asa]B000002GHU[/asa]

18. BREAK

19. Intermediate

    Uptown Sinclair

    Featuring the very funny Dave Hill

    [asa]B0014DI5W2[/asa]

20. Cosita Rica

    Bomba Estereo

    Suggestive, to say the least

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21. The Star Position

    White Hassle

    Wail on that harmonica, Marcellus

22. Cheney Piñata

    The Bad Plus

    Dated? You be the judge.

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23. BREAK

24. Ruby

    Apples In Stereo

    Handclaps are the frosting

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25. Ruby

    Les Baxter & His Orchestra, Danny Welton

    Where’s my Mai Tai?

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26. Ruby

    The Monolith

    Bring on the strings

    [asa]B000QZTEI8[/asa]

27. Pearl’s (Submarine #2)

    The Starlight Mints

    Very different from the Submarine #3

    [asa]B000EQ46X2[/asa]

28. Pearl

    The Minders

    Bookending some Elephant 6

29. BREAK

30. Record Stack

    Fluid Ounces

    Vinyl fetishist’s tango

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31. Summer Blue

    Money Mark

    Quite Monsieur LeRoc-ky

    [asa]B000V9D106[/asa]

32. Blackhole Dub

    Painkiller

    No mistaking the Zorn horn

    [asa]B000WYB5US[/asa]

33. Brain The Size of a Rock!

    HisCheapMoves & The Real Dolls

    By request!

34. BREAK

35. Wandering Stars

    Shantel

    Is that the Balkan chord change?

    [asa]B002IEXTHM[/asa]

36. Wandering Star

    Portishead

    A song in dark blue

    [asa]B000W022XG[/asa]

37. Night On Fire

    VHS Or Beta

    Disco fever!

    [asa]B000T1JODE[/asa]

38. Scott Cronce Is The CEO

    Global Goon

    Very Numanesque

    [asa]B00005UO42[/asa]

39. BREAK

40. Love Cry

    Four Tet

    Zone out…

    [asa]B0034E4JA6[/asa]

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Memories

   The Extra Glenns

   Like only Leonard Cohen can write

   [asa]B00005Y4A3[/asa]

3. BREAK

4. Silence Is Golden

   Forro In The Dark

   Seduction your name is Brazil

   [asa]B002MR902I[/asa]

5. Wrong Side Of The Tracks

   Hugh Cornwell

   Big nods to Hendrix on this one

   [asa]B0017YY7UC[/asa]

6. You Belong To Me

   Flat Duo Jets

   Drawling on a classic

   [asa]B000006MTW[/asa]

7. The Bevel Collector

   Alex Arrowsmith

   “I’ll show you my bevels on the overhead projector”

   [asa]B000KP6ZFO[/asa]

8. BREAK

9. Alright

   Supergrass

   From “I Should Go Coco”

   [asa]B000002TXE[/asa]

10. Wrong

    True Love

    Whatever happened to True Love?

    [asa]B00004WHFW[/asa]

11. Switched On

    Islands

    The new synth-pop

    [asa]B002JODULG[/asa]

12. Drum Rhythm A (Music For Ballet Exercises)

    Koop

    Music box for robots

    [asa]B000VI6T9C[/asa]

13. BREAK

14. Lady Madonna

    The Beatles

    Wonderfully remastered

    [asa]B0025KVLVA[/asa]

15. Hey Bulldog

    Firewater

    Wonderfully reimagined

    [asa]B0000D8L3N[/asa]

16. Frendamine

    Marmoset

    Exceedingly disharmonious?

    [asa]B00005LQPO[/asa]

17. She All Right

    Dr. Frank

    Also of the Mr. T Experience

    [asa]B00000I7SA[/asa]

18. BREAK

19. Insanely Jealous

    The Soft Boys

    Lost gems

    [asa]B000059N5Y[/asa]

20. Bucovina Original

    Shantel

    From the new Planet Paprika

    [asa]B002CXG6BK[/asa]

21. SubPar Chromosone

    Drool Brothers

    They’re laughing at you man…

    [asa]B0002CDTWC[/asa]

22. Conoid Tone

    Higher Intelligence Agency

    Some sort of tone for sure.

    [asa]B000003C9Z[/asa]

23. BREAK

24. YOUR Mexican Restaurant

    Young Fresh Fellows

    Their new one, produced by Robyn Hitchcock

    [asa]B002BEXGFO[/asa]

25. Waste Of Time

    The Fastbacks

    With Kurt Bloch!

    [asa]B0000035GL[/asa]

26. I Guess Yes

    Blithe

    Swedish amalgam of wtf

    [asa]B000001HWL[/asa]

27. Sugar Blaster

    The Starlight Mints

    Blasting back to their first album

    [asa]B00004WFJC[/asa]

28. BREAK

29. Fire

    The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown

    Going out to Broadhurst

    [asa]B000006V2F[/asa]

30. Sexy Creature

    Fort Lauderdale

    Name that commercial

    [asa]B0000CG41L[/asa]

31. Cynical Girl

    Marshall Crenshaw

    Where’s my cynical girl?

    [asa]B000002KNL[/asa]

32. Suicide King

    Mary My Hope

    Oh James, you’re so dramatic.

    [asa]B00000DUSH[/asa]

33. BREAK

34. Mushroom Maniac

    Mojo Nixon

    Mojo is wise

    [asa]B000008IZI[/asa]

35. Milk Bomb

    Spot 1019

    Lost in the mail for two years

    [asa]B000008L1U[/asa]

36. Doctor My Eyes

    Ben Folds

    From the Banger Sisters soundtrack

    [asa]B00006HCT6[/asa]

37. I’ve Got Ninjas!

    Boat

    Masters of the non-sequitur

    [asa]B000FVQLVQ[/asa]

38. BREAK

39. Three Little Words

    The Mondo Crescendo

    Catchy like the daycare flu

    [asa]B00004TZ6X[/asa]

40. I Hate You

    Frankenixon

    Why not them?

41. Hammering The Cramps

    Sparklehorse

    Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot?

    [asa]B000002TWZ[/asa]

42. Throw The Wine

    Swell

    Adrift in a sea of honey

    [asa]B0000018A2[/asa]

43. BREAK

44. Yellow Cab

    China Dub Soundsystem

    Featuring Martin Atkins

    [asa]B000W4HFYS[/asa]

:: The Red Elvises ::

If you’re wondering about the dialogue on the opening track, it’s from the soundtrack to Six String Samurai, a delightfully incomprehensible film.

In this episode: Ben Folds Five, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Cats + Jammers, David Vandervelde, Esquivel, Grandaddy, Jean Jacques Perrey, Lisa Germano, Owsley, Petty Booka, The M’s, The Red Elvises, The Starlight Mints, Truby Trio, Twang Bang

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Siberia

   The Red Elvises

   From the Six String Samurai soundtrack

   [asa]B00000AEQ2[/asa]

3. Popsickle

   The Starlight Mints

   A rare single — track it down

4. On No the Radio

   Owsley

   Pop perfection from Alabama

   [asa]B00000I8TT[/asa]

5. The Elephant Never Forgets

   Jean Jacques Perrey

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

   [asa]B000000EEX[/asa]

6. BREAK

7. Zodiac Girl

   Cats + Jammers

   Chicago rock boogie

   [asa]B00004NKG5[/asa]

8. The Group Who Couldn’t Say

   Grandaddy

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

   [asa]B00009EIQB[/asa]

9. Big Sound

   The M’s

   Not to be confused with M and “Pop Muzik”

   [asa]B0017R5UFA[/asa]

10. BREAK

11. Alcohol

    Cansei de Ser Sexy

    Braziliant.

    [asa]B000FOPROA[/asa]

12. Puppet

    Lisa Germano

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

    [asa]B000002MQH[/asa]

13. Sports & Wine

    Ben Folds Five

    Finishing the booze triumvirate

    [asa]B000000IDJ[/asa]

14. BREAK

15. Nothin’ No

    David Vandervelde

    Sounds an awful lot like David Garza

    [asa]B001B0IPHS[/asa]

16. When I See You I Feel Weird

    Twang Bang

    Chicago two-man racket

    [asa]B000GF65QM[/asa]

17. Mucha Muchacha

    Esquivel

    Dig the stereo panning!

    [asa]B0000048DR[/asa]

18. A Go Go

    Truby Trio

    Fruitstands beware!

    [asa]B00005MJ77[/asa]

19. BREAK

20. Mercedez Benz

    Petty Booka

    A bluegrass rendition, from Japan. With ukuleles

    [asa]B000E0LLPO[/asa]

In this episode: Arling + Cameron, Boom Pam, East River Pipe, Harold Ousley, Hi-Posi, Illinois, M. Ward, Mano Negra, Mexican Institute Of Sound, Robyn Hitchcock, The Bronx, The Jesus Lizard, The Starlight Mints, The Sucka MCs, Tipsy

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Slave Labor

   The Bronx

   My current favorite

   [asa]B002FOQY3G[/asa]

3. Wedding Song

   Boom Pam

   Tel Aviv tuba surf

   [asa]B000GYHXI2[/asa]

4. Blues In A

   Robyn Hitchcock

   Agonizing, isn’t it?

   [asa]B000MBZA3O[/asa]

5. BREAK

6. Shiny Shiny Pimpmobile

   East River Pipe

   From the Merge 15th Anniversary compilation

   [asa]B0002C4IF4[/asa]

7. Monkey Trick

   The Jesus Lizard

   A live rendition

   [asa]B00003XA6K[/asa]

8. Come Get It, I Got It

   Harold Ousley

   Played with Billie Holiday, George Benson and Lionel Hampton

   [asa]B000008PPM[/asa]

9. Dairy Queen (DJ Donger Jazzy Mix)

   The Sucka MCs

   We could rule the scene, walking down the street to the grocery store

   [asa]B0000658IK[/asa]

10. BREAK

11. The Wonderful Go Go

    Hi-Posi

    Frantic and Japanese

    [asa]B00001ZU1N[/asa]

12. Big Business

    Tipsy

    Space-lounge sounds

    [asa]B001GN3ZIY[/asa]

13. Eyes Of The Night

    The Starlight Mints

    As witnessed this July at the Social

    [asa]B000EQ46X2[/asa]

14. BREAK

15. Hang On

    Illinois

    Low and threatening

    [asa]B00265SB6M[/asa]

16. Outta My Head

    M. Ward

    Some older M. Ward

    [asa]B0002C4IF4[/asa]

17. Peligro

    Mano Negra

    The sound of multi-culti

    [asa]B00000DR6A[/asa]

18. We Love Dancing

    Arling + Cameron

    Yeeeeeeeey!

    [asa]B00000HYBJ[/asa]

19. BREAK

20. Sinfonia Agridulce

    Mexican Institute Of Sound

    Con trompetas!

    [asa]B001T46UD2[/asa]

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Sinfonia Agridulce

   Mexican Institute Of Sound

   Con trompetas!

   [asa]B001T46UD2[/asa]

3. BREAK

4. Slave Labor

   The Bronx

   My current favorite

   [asa]B002FOQY3G[/asa]

5. Wedding Song

   Boom Pam

   Tel Aviv tuba surf

   [asa]B000GYHXI2[/asa]

6. Blues In A

   Robyn Hitchcock

   Agonizing, isn’t it?

   [asa]B000MBZA3O[/asa]

7. BREAK

8. Shiny Shiny Pimpmobile

   East River Pipe

   From the Merge 15th Anniversary compilation

   [asa]B0002C4IF4[/asa]

9. Monkey Trick

   The Jesus Lizard

   A live rendition

   [asa]B00003XA6K[/asa]

10. Come Get It, I Got It

    Harold Ousley

    Played with Billie Holiday, George Benson and Lionel Hampton

    [asa]B000008PPM[/asa]

11. Dairy Queen (DJ Donger Jazzy Mix)

    The Sucka MCs

    We could rule the scene, walking down the street to the grocery store

    [asa]B0000658IK[/asa]

12. BREAK

13. The Wonderful Go Go

    Hi-Posi

    Frantic and Japanese

    [asa]B00001ZU1N[/asa]

14. Big Business

    Tipsy

    Space-lounge sounds

    [asa]B001GN3ZIY[/asa]

15. Eyes Of The Night

    The Starlight Mints

    As witnessed this July at the Social

    [asa]B000EQ46X2[/asa]

16. BREAK

17. Hang On

    Illinois

    Low and threatening

    [asa]B00265SB6M[/asa]

18. Outta My Head

    M. Ward

    Some older M. Ward

    [asa]B0002C4IF4[/asa]

19. Peligro

    Mano Negra

    The sound of multi-culti

    [asa]B00000DR6A[/asa]

20. We Love Dancing

    Arling + Cameron

    Yeeeeeeeey!

    [asa]B00000HYBJ[/asa]

21. BREAK

22. Under Wraps

    Barry Adamson

    From an imaginary soundtrack

    [asa]B000003Z6M[/asa]

23. Float Away

    Davíd Garza

    Always a smile from this song

    [asa]B000006E4M[/asa]

24. Wastepaper Basket Fire

    Brian Dewan

    Do not attempt to save expensive pieces of equipment!

    [asa]B000XLQGK4[/asa]

25. BREAK

26. Stewardess

    Self

    The song that started it all

    [asa]B0000009AN[/asa]

27. Return to N.Y.

    AK Momo

    Eerie and Swedish, featuring an Optigan

    [asa]B0007NMK7Q[/asa]

28. Just Another Let Down

    The Delta 72

    Drenchy R+B

    [asa]B0000019MA[/asa]

29. Jimmy Legs

    The Low Frequency In Stereo

    Do you has the jimmy legs?

    [asa]B000I0QKYW[/asa]

30. BREAK

31. Äppelknyckarjazz (ft. Herr Wranell)

    Movits

    Sweden, hip-hop, and swing music: will it blend?

    [asa]B001GO09P0[/asa]

32. Focu di Raggia (feat. Carmen Consoli)

    Goran Bregovic

    From the Balkanized “Carmen”

    [asa]B000PIU1JM[/asa]

33. Hot Sauce

    Sugarman Three

    More funky good times.

    [asa]B00006JOFQ[/asa]

34. BREAK

35. אין בגטים בגטו

    Habiluim

    No baguettes in the ghetto.

36. I Something You (Live)

    Robyn Hitchcock

    From the live “Storefront Hitchcock” DVD/CD

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37. Guns Of Navarone

    Skatalites

    Classic Skatalites!

    [asa]B00008DCRH[/asa]

38. BREAK

39. Oh Yeah

    Can

    The remastered “Tago Mago” s something to hear.

    [asa]B0011WMHRK[/asa]

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Mercedez Benz

   Petty Booka

   A bluegrass rendition, from Japan. With ukuleles

   [asa]B000E0LLPO[/asa]

3. BREAK

4. Siberia

   The Red Elvises

   From the Six String Samurai soundtrack

   [asa]B00000AEQ2[/asa]

5. Popsickle

   The Starlight Mints

   A rare single — track it down

6. On No the Radio

   Owsley

   Pop perfection from Alabama

   [asa]B00000I8TT[/asa]

7. The Elephant Never Forgets

   Jean Jacques Perrey

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

   [asa]B000000EEX[/asa]

8. BREAK

9. Zodiac Girl

   Cats + Jammers

   Chicago rock boogie

   [asa]B00004NKG5[/asa]

10. The Group Who Couldn’t Say

    Grandaddy

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

    [asa]B00009EIQB[/asa]

11. Big Sound

    The M’s

    Not to be confused with M and “Pop Muzik”

    [asa]B0017R5UFA[/asa]

12. BREAK

13. Alcohol

    Cansei de Ser Sexy

    Braziliant.

    [asa]B000FOPROA[/asa]

14. Puppet

    Lisa Germano

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

    [asa]B000002MQH[/asa]

15. Sports & Wine

    Ben Folds Five

    Finishing the booze triumvirate

    [asa]B000000IDJ[/asa]

16. BREAK

17. Nothin’ No

    David Vandervelde

    Sounds an awful lot like David Garza

    [asa]B001B0IPHS[/asa]

18. When I See You I Feel Weird

    Twang Bang

    Chicago two-man racket

    [asa]B000GF65QM[/asa]

19. Mucha Muchacha

    Esquivel

    Dig the stereo panning!

    [asa]B0000048DR[/asa]

20. A Go Go

    Truby Trio

    Fruitstands beware!

    [asa]B00005MJ77[/asa]

21. BREAK

22. Disko Partizani

    Shantel

    Opa Romania!

    [asa]B000TLYV82[/asa]

23. Pleasure Theme Song

    Boy Eats Drum Machine

    Like John Bonham digging through the toybox

    [asa]B000CA9DBU[/asa]

24. Cell Mates

    The Bronx

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

    [asa]B002FOQY3G[/asa]

25. BREAK

26. Mission Impossible

    Laika & The Cosmonauts

    Five four and implacable

    [asa]B000003NOQ[/asa]

27. Tijuana Sound Machine

    Nortec Collective

    One of my favorite discoveries this year.

    [asa]B0015RB3GC[/asa]

28. Slang Tang

    Discovery

    Quite noisy

    [asa]B002ADPERE[/asa]

29. It’s The Sound

    Tracy Spuehler

    Delightfully sweet

    [asa]B0002KWSE4[/asa]

30. BREAK

31. Karate Kid 2

    Mexican Institute Of Sound

    Can’t get enough MIS

    [asa]B001T46UD2[/asa]

32. Sacred Darling

    Gogol Bordello

    An oldie and quite goody

    [asa]B000060K4I[/asa]

33. Old Saloon

    Illinois

    From the fantastic “The Adventures of Kid Catastrophe”

    [asa]B00265SB6M[/asa]

34. The Call Up

    The Lothars

    It is an all-theremin Clash cover.

    [asa]B000OZ2CVG[/asa]

35. BREAK

36. Save Me

    Nina Simone

    Smoky voice, that one

    [asa]B000002WQJ[/asa]

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]

Asylum Street Spankers

Art Brut, Asylum Street Spankers, Ben Vaughn, Besh O Drom, Cass McCombs, Five-Eight, Fountains Of Wayne, French Kicks, Gachupín, Gary Numan/Tubeway Army, Hissanol, Igmo, Illinois, Irving, Jarvis Cocker, Kraftwerk, Micachu & The Shapes, Snuff, Super Furry Animals, Syd Dale, The Cops, The Determinations, The Go, The Low Frequency In Stereo, The Plugz, The Starlight Mints, The Thermals, Vells, We Barbarians, a.k.a:RUDIE, aMiniature

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Oliver’s Army

   a.k.a:RUDIE

   It got Elvis Costello banned from Saturday Night Live

3. BREAK

4. Hiker Atlas

   aMiniature

   Jagged

   [asa]B000003BJV[/asa]

5. It’s Epidemic

   The Cops

   More jaggedness

   [asa]B000W7Y2IW[/asa]

6. That’s That

   Cass McCombs

   Low and rumbling

   [asa]B000VFGQBQ[/asa]

7. Leave The Biker

   Fountains Of Wayne

   A classic

   [asa]B000002JX0[/asa]

8. BREAK

9. Are ‘Friends’ Electric?

   Gary Numan/Tubeway Army

   Courtesy of RXTL’s Soup Is Good Food

   [asa]B000006NTM[/asa]

10. You Go Bangin On

    The Go

    Detroit Garage deluxxe

    [asa]B000ROAARW[/asa]

11. Den Den

    Snuff

    British! Japanese!

    [asa]B0007WQBDG[/asa]

12. Sweet ‘n Sour

    Hissanol

    Transatlantic postal project with the Netherlands

    [asa]B000000FAE[/asa]

13. BREAK

14. Angela

    Jarvis Cocker

    Pulp vocalist’s new solo effort

    [asa]B001VE2B2E[/asa]

15. Texas Fox

    The Low Frequency In Stereo

    Norwegian champions of relenticity.

    [asa]B001PNDMVA[/asa]

16. Yesmen and Bumsuckers

    We Barbarians

    Doomy gloomy irresistible

17. Román Swing

    Besh O Drom

    You haven’t heard the theme to Mission Impossible until you’ve heard it with clarinet and cimbalom.

18. BREAK

19. Vulture

    Micachu & The Shapes

    So weird and delicious

    [asa]B001R3YJ10[/asa]

20. Pric

    Super Furry Animals

    Highly recommended

    [asa]B001YHSB8G[/asa]

21. Now We Can See

    The Thermals

    Unmistakable

    [asa]B001T46UIW[/asa]

22. BREAK

23. Antifreeze

    Asylum Street Spankers

    Hey, Jesus Lizard reference!

    [asa]B00006JCG8[/asa]

24. She’s So Blonde

    Illinois

    Bluegrass with a bad attitude

    [asa]B00265SB6M[/asa]

25. Young Lawyer

    French Kicks

    From Brooklyn via Washington DC

    [asa]B000053F7Z[/asa]

26. BREAK

27. Riverside Drive

    Gachupín

    Featuring Tony Maimone

    [asa]B000QBYCJ8[/asa]

28. Number One Spy

    Syd Dale

    More suave spyness

    [asa]B000EEE3V4[/asa]

29. Hombre Secreto (Secret Agent Man)

    The Plugz

    Off the fertile Repo Man soundtrack

    [asa]B000002PF7[/asa]

30. Gumpstumper

    Ben Vaughn

    I need to play some stuff from his Rambler ’65 album

    [asa]B0000048E5[/asa]

31. BREAK

32. Sir Prize

    The Starlight Mints

    Let’s have some violins.

    [asa]B00004WFJC[/asa]

33. Chump

    Igmo

    More violins!

34. Hey Hey La La

    Vells

    Psychedelic motown?

    [asa]B0002QO39Q[/asa]

35. Eyes Adjust to Light

    Irving

    Who wouldn’t circle back to see Willie Nelson?

    [asa]B00006LPQF[/asa]

36. BREAK

37. Weirdo

    Five-Eight

    Mike Mantione holds no punches

    [asa]B000008FMU[/asa]

38. The Model

    Kraftwerk

    Soothing German minimalism

    [asa]B000002GYI[/asa]

39. Housewife’s Choice

    The Determinations

    Revisiting a standard

    [asa]B000005HPR[/asa]

40. DC Comics And Chocolate Milkshake

    Art Brut

    Hard to beat the Brut.

    [asa]B001UGISGQ[/asa]

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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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1. Song
   Artist

2. I Got You (I Feel Good)

   Drink Me

   Because… I feel good.

3. BREAK

4. Badge

   Cream

   Writen by George Harrison for his then-pal Eric Clapton

5. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

   Daft Punk

   Definitive Daft Punkery

6. In At The Beep End

   P.P.Roy

   You can’t fake it. You either have it or you don’t

7. BREAK

8. Ready For The Floor

   Hot Chip

   Very cool videos

9. Pocket Calculator

   Kraftwerk

   Let’s go way back to the start: Germany

10. Boom Boom

    Trio

    German, indeed

11. Dedicated to Love

    Manfred Hubler & Siegfried Schwab

    More Vampyros Lesbos

12. BREAK

13. The Beach

    Quintron

    Booty break!

14. Monkey Rag

    Asylum Street Spankers

    I had to play me some A.S.S.

15. Drive Somewhere

    Vulgar Boatmen

    From Gainesville!

16. BREAK

17. Ambulance

    These Animal Men

    Referenced by Art Brut

18. T-Rex

    Jascha Ephraim

    Like Atom and his Package.

19. Elements

    Lemon Jelly

    wtf “on hiatus”?

20. BREAK

21. Radio Apeshot

    Brainiac

    I still miss Brainiac

22. Moving To Florida

    Butthole Surfers

    Dedicated to Officer Miller

23. Chez Jacquet

    The Cook Trio

    Also from Florida

24. BREAK

25. My Mood Swings

    Elvis Costello

    Very non-EC sounding intro.

26. New Kind Of Kick

    The Cramps

    Wildman Lux Interior!

27. Big Bad Bill

    Sourdough Slim

    A wildman of a different type

28. Dalida Blooz

    Boogie Balagan

    From Palestrisrael, France

29. BREAK

30. Everybody Please Relax

    1990s

    Good advice.

31. Hula Blues

    Herb Remington

    Some lovely slide guitar.

32. Knuckles

    The Hold Steady

    I’ve been trying to get people to call me Sunny D

33. Posada Do Amor

    Les Hommes

    Yurtmusik

34. BREAK

35. Guaglione

    Perez Prado & His Orchestra

    Were you doing the mambo across the room?

36. Levitate Me

    Pixies

    Early early Pixies… fans look for the Minotaur box set

37. Freeway

    Squarepusher

    Pushing the bass strings

38. What’s Inside Of Me?

    The Starlight Mints

    Going out to Bryan and Ghostbeat

39. BREAK

40. Underwater

    The Gentle People

    Swaying and bubbling

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Mother and Child Reunion

   The Bedroom Covers

   Going out to those who play Simon and Garfunkel in the bedroom

3. BREAK

4. I Like My Pulse

   HollAnd

   Music for lovesick oscilloscopes

5. Call Me Lightning

   The Who

6. Westside Angst

   that dog.

   Famous people! In this band!

7. BREAK

8. In The Dark

   Robinella + CCString Band

   Smoky classic

9. Mambo 8

   Perez Prado

10. Home is where the Hatred Is

    Gil Scott-Heron

11. Banana Meltdown

    Dub Narcotic

    Calvin Johnson is da voice

12. BREAK

13. Better Days

    Brother Bean

14. BREAK

15. Sunshine Superman

    Sugarman 3

16. Patterns

    Brother Bean

17. BREAK

18. Limousine

    Low Frequency In Stereo

    Long and stretchy

19. Disko

    Shantel

    WTF is that? Balkan dub? Reggae hora?

20. BREAK

21. Pumpkin

    The Starlight Mints

    Insiduous chordistry

22. Crazy Girl

    Los Femurs

    Here comes that crazy girl.

23. That’s Not My Name

    The Ting Tings

    Oh, this crazy girl.

24. Shiva’s R+B Dub

    Arling + Cameron

    From music for imaginary soundtracks

25. BREAK

26. Dark Dark Leaves

    Sugar Oaks

    Entrancing music from Clearwater

27. Sleeping Sleepers Sleep

    Portugal. The man

    Enter it thus on the Google!

28. Let’s Talk About Hi Fi

    Carl Henry Brueggen

    I feel like I’m flying first class.

29. BREAK

    Rabbi Shankle

30. The Citizen’s Show

    The Texas Instruments

    Assignment: Investigate this band

31. Still Rock ‘n Roll To Me

    Brother Bean

    Out on a limb, and swinging!

32. Why Don’t You Do It

    Derby

    Majestic and unexpected

33. BREAK

34. Dark Night

    Flat Duo Jets

    The real deal.

35. Lefty

    Rocket From The Crypt

    Mushy, fuzzy, sticky

36. Glue

    These Modern Socks

    Winner, band name of the night

37. BREAK

    Port St. John! Outside antenna!

38. Squeals of Enjoyment

    Dirty Poodle

    About Fee Avenue pool

39. Young Folks

    Peter Bjorn + John

    So very Swedish

40. BREAK

41. The Sleeping Knights of Jesus

    Robyn Hitchcock

    Bon soir!