Putting the smiley face emoticon at the end of my 5 year tenure hosting The Monday Morning Breakfast Blend! This is my final blend as I'll be moving my acutely fine tuned "pop" aesthetic nxet week to Tues. nights from 11 p.m. - 1 a.m. (if you haven't done so yet, I'd love it if you joined my facebook page for my new show, Pop Goes The World here )
Song
Artist
Album
 
Year
Hello, I Must Be Going
Groucho Marx
 
 
 
Goodbye, Goodnight
Jars Of Clay
If I Left The Zoo
 
1999
Bye, Bye, Bye
Jellyfish
Spilt Milk
 
1993
Goodbye Girl (Squeeze cover)
The Shins
 
 
2011
Goodbye Goodtimes
Gary Charlson
Titan: It's All Pop! Sampler
 
2008
Bye Bye Love
The Cars
The Cars
 
1978
Hello Goodbye
The Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour
 
1967
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
Last Goodbye
Jeff Buckley
Grace
 
1994
Bye Bye Beaute
Nada Surf
If I Had A Hi-Fi
 
2010
A Fond Farewell
Elliott Smith
From A Basement On The Hill
 
2004
P.S. Goodbye
The Chameleons
What Does Anything Mean? Basically
 
1985
The Goodbye Song
Space
Suburban Rock 'N' Roll
 
2004
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
Kiss Goodbye
Girls Names
Dead To Me
 
2011
Goodbye
Best Coast
Crazy For You
 
2010
Say Goodbye
From Bubblegum To Sky
A Soft Kill
 
2008
We Said Goodbye
Bela
No One Will Know
 
2007
I Ain't Saying My Goodbyes
Tom Vek
We Have Sound
 
2005
Song To Say Goodbye
Placebo
Meds
 
2006
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
Say Goodbye
Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick
 
1997
The Long Goodbye
Army Navy
The Last Place
 
2011
One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell
Morrissey
Years Of Refusal
 
2009
No Way To Say Goodbye
Emmet Swimming
Big Night Without You
 
1998
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
So Long Baby Goodbye
The Blasters
The Blasters
 
1981
Goodbye-Goodbye
Oingo Boingo
Best O Boingo
 
1992
Goodbye Baby
Empire Dogs
Love Attacks!!!
 
2004
Goodbye
The Coral
The Coral
 
2002
Saying Goodbye
The Muffs
The Muffs
 
1993
Say Goodbye
Slickee Boys
Cybernetic Dreams Of Pi
 
1983
Bye Bye Baby
Social Distortion
Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
 
1992
Goodbye To You
Scandal
Scandal EP
 
1982
++++++++++++++
++++++++++++
+++++++++++++++
 
 
Bye Bye Baby
Bay City Rollers
 
 
 
Kiss Me Goodbye
Petula Clark
 
 
 
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
Never Can Say Goodbye
The Communards
Red
 
1987

 
  When life is cake, everything else is ganache! This is a fact that had only recently become apparent to me. Especially since I'd never even HEARD of "ganache", let alone TRY it until 2 weeks ago, and for a European foodie such as myself , that's just downright unacceptable! Rest assured, in the last 2 weeks I've been making up for it.
Song
Artist
Album
 
Year
Mary's Prayer
Danny Wilson
Meet Danny Wilson
 
1985
Could Have Been Friends
This Perfect Day
C-60
 
1998
Wouldn't It Be Good
Nik Kershaw
Human Racing
 
1984
I Must Be Dreaming
Mink DeVille
Sportin' Life
 
1985
Different Kind Of Girl
The Beat
The Beat
 
1980
Now
The Plimsouls
The Plimsouls
 
1981
Girl Don't Tell Me (Beach Boys cover)
The Smithereens
 
 
1980
Cry For A Shadow (Beatles cover)
Translator
The Best Of Translator: Everywhere That We're Not
 
1983
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
+++++++++++++
 
 
Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five
The Golden Dogs
Big Eye Little Eye
 
2006
Sunflower
Paul Weller
Wild Wood
 
1993
Looting Takes The Waiting Out Of Wanting
Bricolage
Bricolage
 
2009
The Best Things In Life
The Silver Seas
Chateau Revenge!
 
2010
Breakfast By The Mattress
Kristoffer Ragnstam
Sweet Bills
 
2007
Cheap Champagne
Sloan
Parallel Play
 
2008
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
Say No To Love
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Say No To Love
 
2010
The Bells Ring
The Swimming Pool Q's
The Swimming Pool Q's
 
1984
Blush
The Hummingbirds
loveBUZZ
 
1989
Might Be Stars
The Wannadies
The Wannadies
 
1997
Faces On Stone
The Dentists
Behind The Door I Keep The Universe
 
1994
Hollywood Girl
Menswear
Nuisance
 
1995
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
Bohemian Like You
The Dandy Warhols
Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
 
2000
Catch The Sun
Doves
Lost Souls
 
2000
Solar Sister
The Posies
Frosting On The Beater
 
1993
23 Below Freezing
Jon Auer
 
 
2000
Happy Kid
Nada Surf
Let Go
 
2002
Happy Man
Greg Kihn Band
Kihntinued
 
1982
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
Proto
The Elevator Drops
People Mover
 
1997
Old School
Bran Van 3000
Glee
 
1998
Staying Cool
Natalie Portman's Shaved Head
Glistening Pleasure
 
2008
Jump In The Pool
Friendly Fires
Friendly Fires
 
2008
Regret
New Order
Republic
 
1993
Happy
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
God Fodder
 
1991
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

  As some of you may or may not know, after helming The Monday Morning Breakfast Blend for 5 years I was offered the opportunity to change time slots and I decided to take it. My new show will air on Tuesday nights from 11 p.m. - 1 a.m. right here on WRIR and will be called Pop Goes The World! and will start airing 1/31 So I have 3 more Monday Morning Breakfast Blends left, but not to worry, I wouldn't leave you high & dry, not after all we've been through. We've laughed, we've cried, we sang songs for chrissakes! So I've secured the most excellent Allison Apperson to take over The Monday Morning Breakfast Blend and she has my utmost confidence to insure that your Monday mornings remain suck-less! Please join the facebook page for my new show Pop Goes The World! here
Song
Artist
Album
 
Year
Hold On Hope
Guided By Voices
Do The Collapse
 
2002
Like A Fool
Ryan Adams
Score! 20 Years Of Merge Records: The Covers!
 
`200
Stars Of CCTV
Hard-Fi
Stars Of CCTV
 
2005
Slapped Actress
The Hold Steady
Stay Positive
 
2008
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
Every Beat Of The Heart
The Railway Children
Native Place
 
1990
The Whole Of The Moon
The Waterboys
This Is The Sea
 
1985
Into The Blue
Geneva
Further
 
1997
Loon
Poole
Loon EP
 
1995
Without Love
Satchel
The Family
 
1996
Changing Man
Paul Weller
Stanley Road
 
1995
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
Good Thing
The Woodentops
Giant
 
1995
High
The Cure
Wish
 
1992
You Should Close The Door
Craft Spells
Idle Labor
 
2011
Hazel
Weekend
Red
 
2011
I Say Nothing
Voice Of The Beehive
Let It Bee
 
1988
Timeless Melody
The La's
The La's
 
1990
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
Tonight Let's Dance
Elefant
Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid
 
2003
Leaving On The 5th
Voxhaul Broadcast
Timing Is Everything
 
2011
Moving Clocks Run Slow
We Were Promised Jetpacks
These Four Walls
 
2009
Glass Harmonica
Arms
Summer Skills
 
2011
Fall Hard
Shout Out Louds
Work
 
2010
The Same To You
Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves
Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves
 
2009
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
At Midnight
The Mighty Lemon Drops
Laughter
 
1989
Lost
The Mary Onettes
The Mary Onettes
 
2007
She Says
VHS or BETA
Bring On The Comets
 
2007
Cemetary Lawn
The Rosebuds
Night Of The Furies
 
2007
My Leather, My Fur, My Nails
Stepdad
Ordinaire
 
2011
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
Just Don't
Raphael Saadiq
Stone Rollin'
 
2011

  I can't take credit for this pithy sentiment as it pertains to the beginning of this year. The honor for that goes to Charles Williams, host of "The Other Black Music" and co-host of "The Motherland Influence", but if there was a nail to be hit, that was it! It seems to have been the general consensus, talking to people and reading over the last couple of days, that 2011 left very little to be desired, pretty much across the board. Surely we can do better than 2011! So let's all collectively take a deep breath and try this again, shall we? Alright, huddle up. 2012 on three. One. Two. Three. 2012!!!
Song
Artist
Album
 
Year
That Was Then But This Is Now
ABC
Beauty Stab
 
1983
Here Come The Good Times
A-House
Wide Eyed and Ignorant
 
1994
68 Guns
The Alarm
Declaration
 
1984
The Irish Keep Gate Crashing
The Thrills
Let's Bottle Bohemia
 
2004
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
The Apple Of My Eye
Damien Dempsey
Seize The Day
 
2003
Like Castanets
Bishop Allen
The Broken String
 
2007
Memory Lane
Elliott Smith
From A Basement On The Hill
 
2004
Once Around The Block
Badly Drawn Boy
The Hour Of The Bewilderbeast
 
2000
Round and Round
Paul Weller
Paul Weller
 
1992
Footprints On Water
The BellRays
Hard Sweet & Sticky
 
2008
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
Love & Kisses
Altered Images
Happy Birthday
 
1981
I Kiss The Flower In Bloom
Close Lobsters
Foxheads Stalk THis Land
 
1987
Butterfly Kisses
The Depreciation Guild
In Her Gentle Jaws
 
2007
Kiss Me On The Bus
The Replacements
Tim
 
1985
I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
The Rubinoos
Back To The Drawing Board
 
1979
When You Love Somebody
Fruit Bats
Mouthfuls
 
2003
Home
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Up From Below
 
2009
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
Poor Boy
Split Enz
True Colours
 
1980
Brand New Friend
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
Easy Pieces
 
1985
Blue Skies For Everyone
Bob Schnieder
Lonelyland
 
2001
Underdog
Spoon
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
 
2007
The Last Polka
Ben Folds Five
Ben Folds Five
 
1995
Wax and Wire
Loch Lomond
Night Bats
 
2009
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
++++++++++++
 
 
Ageless Beauty
Stars
Set Yourself On Fire
 
2005
Breather
Chapterhouse
Whirlpool
 
1991
Fingerpops
Garageland
Last Exit To Garageland
 
1996
Stars Were Exploding
Good Luck
Into Lake Grify
 
2008
Atmosphere
The Oranges Band
The World an Everthing In It
 
2005
Scale It Back
DJ Shadow w/Little Dragon
The Less You Know,The Better
 
2011
Perfect Day
Lou Reed
Transformer
 
1972
And I Remember Every Kiss
Jens Lekmen
Night Falls Over Kortedala
 
2007