2011-08

Harmless Pop

  Don't worry, it won't hurt you, it just wants to be friends! Song Artist Album Year This Must Be The Place (naive melody) Talking Heads Speaking In Tongues 1983 Driving Away From Home (Jim's tune) It's Immaterial Life's Hard and Then You Die 1986 Days That Are Gone Sondre Lerche Two Way Monologue 2004 Fools By Your Side Hal Hal 2005 Weather With You Crowded House Recurring Dream 1996 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Little Plastic Castle Ani Difranco Little Plastic Castle 1998 Home Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Up From Below 2009 Old Old Fashioned Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight 2008 Shake Our Tree The Rosebuds Birds Make Good Neighbors 2005 Captain Easychord Stereolab Sound-Dust 2001 Everything You See (kids count hallelujahs) Portugal, The Man In The Mountain, In The Cloud 2011 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Like Totally Whatever Taylor Mali Slam Nation DVD 1998 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Love Is Better Than A Warm Trobone Gomez Bring It On 1998 Our Love Would Be Much Better (if I gave a damn about you) Dag Apartment #635 1998 Suddenly The Bogmen Life Begins At 40 Million 1995 Big Ass Love The Crash Pony Ride 2007 Ode To Janice Melt Army Navy The Last Place 2011 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Happy Birthday Mr. Children When The Night Feels My Song Bedouin Soundclash Sounding A Mosaic 2004 Diner Martin Sexton Black Sheep 1996 Canary In A Coalmine The Police Zenyatta Mondatta 1980 Fighting For My Love Nil Lara Nil Lara 1996 Bring Back The Funk (pts. 1 & 2) Paul Weller As Is Now 2005 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Radio Days World Party Bang! 200 You Can't Get What You Want ('til you know what you want) Joe Jackson Joe Jackson - Live 1980/86 1988

It’s an old fashioned 80’s rock n roll dance party!

  Anyone remember when we DANCED to ROCK N ROLL??? You remember, that GUITAR based music? Well, it went a little something like this... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Another Girl Another Planet / The Only Ones So It Goes / Nick Lowe Girl Talk / Dave Edmunds Play That Fast Thing (one more time) / Rockpile So Long Baby Goodbye / The Blasters Faith Healer / Big Dipper +++++++++ Mystery Dance / Elvis Costello I'm The Man / Joe Jackson Don't Worry Baby / Los Lobos Gotta Tell Me Why / Slickee Boys The New World / X You Drive Me Ape (you big gorilla) / The Dickies +++++++++ Little Bitch / The Specials Let Me Out / The Knack Tayter Country / The Cavedogs Standing In The Rain / Husker Du Another Horn's Cry / The Downsiders Whenever You're On My Mind / Marshall Crenshaw +++++++++ I Must Be Dreaming / Mink DeVille Different Kind Of Girl / The Beat Now / The Plimsouls Girl Don't Tell Me (demo Beach Boys cover) / The Smithereens Cry For A Shadow (Beatles cover) / Translator Diamond Smiles / The Boomtown Rats +++++++++ This Is Pop / XTC Hanging On The Telephone / Blondie Jimmy Jimmy / The Undertones You Can Run / Razz Clean Clean / The Buggles Tonight / Jim Basnight +++++++++ Nellie The Elephant / Toy Dolls Ca Plane Pour Moi / Plastic Bertrand C'est Comme Ca / Les Rita Mitsouko Nur Gertraumt / Nena I Got The Message / Men Without Hats

The Monday Morning Breakfast Blend Is…

...the daisy that soothes the savage beast that is Monday morning! Song Artist Album Year Doot Doot Freur Doot Doot 1983 This Charming Man (Smiths cover) Stars Nightsongs 2001 One With The Freaks The Notwist Neon Golden 2003 Min Siste Dag Casiokids Topp Stemning På Lokal Bar 2010 Smile dZihan & Kamien Freaks & Icons 2001 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Kreuzberg Bloc Party A Weekend In The City 2007 Sweet Love Hangover Love & Rockets Sweet F.A. 1996 Fireworks Animal Collective Strawberry Jam 2007 Ran Azeda Booth In Flesh Tones 2008 Tensile Clean Mister Pop 2009 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ All Together Now The Farm Spartacus 1991 Mingus I'm From Barcelona Who Killed Harry Houdini? 2008 Just Can't Get Enough (Depeche Mode cover) Nouvelle Vague Nouvelle Vague 2004 But Not Tonight Depeche Mode Black Celebration 1986 Enter Space Capsule (remix) Gerling Children of Telepathic Experiences 2000 Benny & The Jetts TV Girl Benny & The Jetts EP 2011 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Sunshower Asobi Seksu Hush 2009 53100 Cafe Tacuba SiNo 2007 Follow Your Bliss The B 52's Cosmic Thing 1989 Drinking In L.A. Bran Van 3000 Glee 1998 Rock #1 Cassius 15 Again 2007 Ladyflash (Hot Chip remix) The Go! Team +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Pennies From Heaven (Count De Money remix) Billie Holiday Billie Holiday: Remixed & Reimagined 2007 Cuchi Cuchi Los Amigoes Invisibles Arepa 3000 2000 Carolina Seu Jorge Carolina 2005 Try Jah Love Third World You've Got The Power 1982 Timba Awa Band Timba EP 2000

I think you’ll like this blend

  SO much great new music this morning, I had to pull out my SPECIAL coffee mug! I'll be playing about 7 tracks off a CD comp. called "Raise Your Voice". You can download this CD for FREE HERE in exchange for your e-mail to Public Broadcasting! The tracks that I'll play from the CD have an * next to them. Song Artist Album Year Stranger Me Amy LaVere Stranger Me 2011 The Real Estate Elliott Smith (unreleased track) Definite Darkness Cymbals Eat Guitars Lenses Alien 2011 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Odetta * Joe Henry Raise Your Voice Compilation 2011 Tenere, Taqqim, Tossam * Tinariwen Raise Your Voice Compilation 2011 Make It Rain * Tom Waits Raise Your Voice Compilation 2011 Jesus Gonna Do His Best J. Roddy Waltston & The Business A-Punk (Vampire Weekend cover) Ryan Adams 2011 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Life Fantastic * Man Man Raise Your Voice Compilation 2011 Everything You See (kids count hallelujahs) Potugal, The Man In The Mountain In The Cloud 2011 All The Sand In All The Sea * DeVotchKa Raise Your Voice Compilation 2011 Party With Children Ratatat LP4 2010 Jesus Flag American Fish Cuckoo Chaos Woman 2011 +++++++++ ++++++++++ +++++++++ Queen Of The Road Found Audio Chalk 2011 Drug White Denim D 2011 Mirror, Mirror * Dr. Dog Raise Your Voice Compilation 2011 Wonder Why Vetiver The Errant Charm 2011 I Might * Wilco Raise Your Voice Compilation 2011 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Benny & The Jets (NOT an Elton John cover) TV Girl Benny & The Jets EP 2011 Last Night (Strokes cover) The Morning Benders STROKED: A Tribute to "Is This It" 2011 Boyfriend (Linstrom remix) Best Coast 2011 Midnight City M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming 2011 Seasaw Sway Peter Murphy Ninth 2011 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Same Mistake Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Hysterical 2011 Running For Your Life Tommy Keene Behind The Parade 2011 You're Gonna Miss The Wood Nada Surf (unreleased demo) 2011 Bones Male Bonding Endless Now 2011 The Truth Beat Strings Fang In Rain 2009

Absurd Blend

  These are, indeed, "absurd" times we live in, my friends. Of course, EVERY generation thinks they live in absurd times. Still, always nice to mark the occasion. Song Artist Album Year Like Cockatoos The Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 1987 Na Na Ni Fredrik Na Na Ni 2008 Gare de Lyon Dosh Tommy 2010 Ponzi The Felice Brothers Celebration, Florida 2011 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Everything Counts Depeche Mode People Are People 1984 Cash Machine Hard-Fi Stars Of CCTV 2005 (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais The Clash The Clash 1977 Nice and Sleazy The Stranglers Black and White 1978 Bad Man The Coral The Coral 2002 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Right & Wrong Joe Jackson Big World 1986 The Business These United States A Picture Of The Three Of Us At The Gate To The Garden Of Eden 2006 Rebirth Of A Nation Gills & Wings Gills & Wings 2008 Trains To Brazil Guillemots From The Cliffs EP 2006 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Apples & Oranges Dogs Die In Hot Cars Please Describe Yourself 2004 See No Evil Television Marquee Moon 1977 Maniac Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Hysterical 2011 Mediocrity Rules Le Tigre From The Desk Of Mr.Lady 2001 Boots Of Chinese Plastic The Pretenders Break Up The Concrete 2008 Cheap Champagne Georgie James Places 2007 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Tell That Girl To Shut Up Holly & The Italians 1980 Popular Creeps Chris Mars Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 1992 Punched A Friend The Holy Cows Blueberries 1997 Last Man Alive The Grifters Ain't My Lookout 1996 Run Outta Luck The Golden Dogs Big Eye Little Eye 2006 One More Time French Kicks The Trial Of The Century 2004 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Blahblahblah Dont 2007 Fingerpops Garageland Last Exit to Garageland. 1996 Death To The Apple Gerls Gerling Children Of The Telepathic Experiences 1998 Beautiful World Devo New Traditionalists 1981 +++++++++ +++++++++ +++++++++ Banana Splits Theme Song The Dickies 1979