Playlist for September 23

An extra-long equinox show, featuring live music by Frabjous the Young Lizard Wizard. He carries the moon on his guitar and a gremlin spirit in his vocal cords.

Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch
More News from Nowhere – Red to Green
Cream – I Feel Free
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T. Rex – The Avengers (Superbad)
Tubeway Army – The Crazies
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterwork Company – Train
Einstürzende Neubauten – Alles Wieder Offen
Naked City – Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh
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Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages – 'Til the Following Night
Robert Fripp and David Byrne – Under Heavy Manners
The Bar-Kays – Son of Shaft
The Ukrainian Brass Band from Vinnitsa – Freilik
Madness – Madness (Is All in the Mind)
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Sarah Vaughan – Lullaby of Birdland
Donovan featuring Jeff Beck – Barabajagal
Tower of Power – The More You Know
Ornette Coleman and Charlie Haden – Soap Suds
La Guapa Papa – B and D
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The Incredible String Band – The Water Song
Roxy Music – Virginia Plain
The Lounge Lizards – Demented
Eddie Hazel – Straighten Up
David Bowie – Oh! You Pretty Things / Eight Line Poem
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Live set by Frabjous, the Young Lizard Wizard:
Cat-Eyed Frankenstein
Folsom Prison Blues
Deborah / Improvisation (featuring Felix the Cataclysm)
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James Brown – Super Bad
The Beatles – I Am the Walrus
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Live set by Frabjous, the Young Lizard Wizard:
The Curly-Haired Blues
Train by the River
Clapping
Going for a Walk
Coloradoo
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Gentle Giant – Just the Same
Funkadelic – Cosmic Slop
The Rolling Stones – No Expectations
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Zach Schneider – Song for Casey (live)
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Tim Buckley – I Woke Up
Sheb Wooley – Purple People Eater
Devendra Banhart – Lend Me Your Teeth
Billy Holiday – East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Playlist for September 16

Duke Ellington – Mount Harissa
Ken Nordine – Muddy
Tom Lehrer – Lobachevsky
Brian Eno – Bone Bomb
Procul Harum – Repent Walpurgis
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Shamin Ahmed – Nat-Bharaiv / Rhamaj
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The Residents – Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats?
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic – Sound Valentine
Ken Nordine – Rosey
Klaus Nomi – Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead
Judy Garland – Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart
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Daniel Higgs – Moharsing and Schoenhut
Nine Inch Nails – La Mer
Neil Young and Crazy Horse – Down by the River
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David Bowie – The Width of a Circle
The 6ths feat. Gary Numan – The Sailor in Love with the Sea
Nina Simone – Sinnerman
Ken Nordine – Nutria
Timber Timbre – Demon Host
Tim Buckley – Star Sailor
The Dresden Dolls – Mrs. O
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Funkadelic – Standing on the Verge of Getting It On

Playlist for September 9

This was the first Danger Blossoms to feature live music. Viola Joe provided eclectic string manipulation during the breaks, as well as lots of amazing music selections. At the end of the show, he was joined by Jake (the Sax Man) for a spell of drone-accompanied improvisatory goodness. Thank you, Joe and Jake, for making this show wonderful and unique!

Brian Eno – Kurt's Rejoinder
Susheela Raman – Ganapati
John Zorn – Peur sur la ville
Phil Scarff – Footwear
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Joe McConaughy – Sqmmlmox (Improvisation)
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Conjure – Mo Ku Lana, Mo Jinde Loni
Julie Andrews – Le Jazz Hot
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Joe McConaughy and Felix Seidel – The Loneliest Little Loser (Story)
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Bill Laswell – Imaginary Cuba
Van Dyke Parks – Riverboat
Hamza El Din – I Remember
Amon Düül – Snow Your Thirst and Sun Your Open Mouth
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Joe McConaughy – Cello Prelude II (J. S. Bach)
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Beirut – The Gulag Orkestar
Judy Garland – Stormy Weather
Bill Evans – Come Rain or Come Shine
The Velvet Underground – Andy's Chest
Etta James – Steal Away
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Jake Messersmith and Joe McConaughy – Untitled Improvisation

Playlist for September 2

Frank Zappa – Cosmik Debris
Delia Derbyshire – Falling
That 1 Guy – Bananas
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Thomas Dolby – The Key to Her Ferrari
Otis Redding – The Glory of Love
Lou Reed – Lady Day
Billie Holiday – What a Little Moonlight Can Do
Delia Derbyshire – Land
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Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombone
Conjure – 'Sputin
David Bowie – Lady Stardust
Klaus Nomi – Lightning Strikes
Squeeze – Wild Sewerage Tickles Brazil
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The Skeleton Leaves – Exit Through the Infidels
Pink Floyd – On the Run
Delia Derbyshire – Running
Bessie Smith – Baby Won't You Please Come Home
Blonde Redhead – Equus
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David Rose and His Orchestra – Banned in Boston
Iggy Pop – The Passenger
INXS – Devil Inside (request from Craig)
Claudia Lennear – What'd I Do Wrong
Antony and the Johnsons – Fistful of Love
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Lionel Louke – Griot
Howlin' Wolf – Sitting On Top of the World
Thelonious Monk – Round About Midnight

Playlist for August 5

This was the last show of the summer. I wanted it to have a certain sleazy decadence.

The Velvet Underground – Sister Ray
Serge Gainsbourg – Ford Mustang
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The Beatles – Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
That 1 Guy – Mustaches
David Bowie – Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing (Reprise)
Frank Zappa – I Am the Slime
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Roxy Music – Editions of You
King Crimson – Neurotica
Fad Gadget – Fireside Favourites
The Venus in Furs – Baby's on Fire
of Montreal – Faberge Falls for Shuggie
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Funkadelic – Alice in My Fantasies
Gang of Four – Anthrax
Elton Motello – Jet Boy Jet Girl
Prince – 1999
Scissor Sisters – Take Your Mama
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Led Zeppelin – The Lemon Song
Queen – March of the Black Queen
Chicago (Original Broadway Cast) – All That Jazz
Claudia Lennear – Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky
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Ultravox! – The Wild, the Beautiful, and the Damned
The Stranglers – Nice n' Sleazy
Betty Davis – If I'm in Luck I Might Get Picked Up
T. Rex – Rip Off
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show – Rose Tint My World
The Commodores – Sexy Lady
Adam and the Ants – Lady/Catch a Falling Star
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Bauhaus – Dark Entries
Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Angry Inch
System of a Down – Vicinity of Obscenity
The Yummy Fur – Vanilla Minelli
Blondie – One Way or Another
The Homophones – Everyone's Dead
Tom Lehrer – I Hold Your Hand in Mine
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The Stooges – I Wanna Be Your Dog
Goldfrapp – Satin Chic
Nervous Cabaret – No Politics No Sex
Love and Rockets – So Alive
Flight of the Conchords – Business Time
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Gumby – Opening Theme

Playlist for July 27, 2010

Sisters and Brothers – Dave's Basement
Moondog – Death, When You Come to Me
Tim Buckley – Healing Festival
Criswell – Introduction
Alice Coltrane – Stopover Bombay
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Cab Calloway – The Hi-De-Ho Man
Allen Toussaint – St. James Infirmary
Criswell – The Insect Year
Gogol Bordello – Harem in Tuscany
Cast of Chicago – The Cell Block Tango
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James Chance and the Contortions – I Don't Want to Be Happy
The Pointer Sisters – Pinball Number Count
Criswell – Pigs & Doomsday
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog – Break On Through
Linda Scott – I've Told Every Little Star
Pink Floyd – Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
Depeche Mode – Jazz Thieves
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The Grateful Dead – Death Don't Have No Mercy
Tom Waits – Shore Leave
Danny Kaye – Tchaikovsky
Criswell – Rakish Crowns
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Seth William Chatfield – Relight the Fires
of Montreal – Wicked Wisdom
Etta James – I'm Gonna Take What He's Got
DJ Shadow – Girls on Film Freak Out
The [Viennagram:] - THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE (DUB)
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David Bowie – Hallo Spaceboy
Revue Noir – Sometimes Sunshine
Primus – Wynona's Big Brown Beaver
Dave Kamien Division – Watermelon man
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Led Zeppelin – When the Levee Breaks
Bonnie Raitt – The Fundamental Things
Betty Davis – Your Man, My Man
Thelonious Monk – Ruby, My Dear

Playlist for July 23, 2010

Gloria Jones – Tainted Love
Frank Zappa – Penguin in Bondage
Bob Peck – Sweet 16
Jeff Buckley – Lilac Wine
The Incredible String Band – Gently Tender
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Erykah Badu – My People
Queen – She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettos)
The Bunker – Corpse #1
Mary Margaret O'Hara – Blues in the Night
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Rasputina – Why Don't You Do Right?
Deuter – Krishan Eating Fish and Chips
The Gipsy Kings – Hotel California
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Sun Ra – Sometimes I'm Happy
Lou Reed – Wagon Wheel
The Blues Project – Wake Me Shake Me
Prince – Alphabet Street
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Richard Strauss – Also sprach Zarathustra
The Decemberists – Shankill Butchers
Kraftwerk – Megaherz
David Bowie – Suffragette City
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The Bonzo Dog Band – The Trouser Press
Mama Cass – Dream a Little Dream of Me
Ambitious Lovers – Venus Lost Her Shirt
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – Trampled Rose
Rufus Wainwright – In My Arms
Naked City – Shangkuan Ling-Feng
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Van Dyke Parks – An Invitation to Sin
The Who – Silas Stingy
Madness – Blue Skinned Beast
Amon Düül II – Eye-Shaking King
Kali Bahlu – Lonely Teardrops
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The Beatles – Revolution 9
Eileen Barton with the New Yorkers – If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a Cake
Carl Stalling – Bad Swiss Band
Chuck Berry – You Never Can Tell
Crescent City Gold – Lucille
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Ian Dury and the Blockheads – Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
They Might Be Giants – O, Do Not Forsake Me
Tom Waits – Alice
The Gothic Archies – It's Useless to Struggle
Eric Mercury – I Can Smell That Funky Music
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Charlie Haden and the Liberation Music Orchestra – Song of the United Front



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Playlist for July 15, 2010

There was a super-secret theme this time, which should be blindingly obvious in print.

King Crimson – Elephant Talk
Rasputina – Possum of the Grotto
James Brown – I've Got Ants in My Pants
The Lounge Lizards – Yak
Captain Beefheart – A Carrot Is as Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond
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Funkadelic – I Call My Baby Pussycat
The Doors – Twentieth Century Fox
Frank Zappa – The Mud Shark
Goldfrapp – Ride a White Horse
The Pillows – LAST DINOSAUR
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Yes – The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)
The Bad Plus – Rhinoceros Is My Profession
David Bowie – Joe the Lion
Louis Armstrong – The Tiger Rag
Mr. Bungle – Platypus
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Tom Jones – What's New, Pussycat?
Adam and the Ants – Ants Invasion
They Might Be Giants – Snail Shell
XTC – Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her
Paul Flaherty and Randall Colbourne – Spiders in Her Hair
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Tiny Tim – The Viper
The [Viennagram:] – Vulturestar
The Flaming Lips – Worm Mountain
Neil Young – Danger Bird
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Blonde Redhead – Misery Is a Butterfly
The Cure – All Cats Are Grey
The Magnetic Fields – Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
of Montreal – Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider
T. Rex – Ride a White Swan
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Led Zeppelin – Black Dog
The Ink Spots – That Cat Is High
The Beatles – Rocky Raccoon
Loudon Wainwright III – Dead Skunk
Bessie Smith – Gimme a Pigfoot
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Radiohead – Packt like sardines in a crushd tin box
The Faint – Sealed Human
D'Angelo – Chicken Grease
Queens of the Stone Age – Someone's in the Wolf
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David Bowie – Diamond Dogs
Brian Eno – Mother Whale Eyeless
Beck – Lazy Flies
The Lovin' Spoonful – Night Owl Blues
Raymond Scott – Penguin

Playlist for July 8, 2010

I was late last week, but the show did, indeed, go on.

Simon Shaheen and Ali Jihad Racy – Maqam Kurd
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The Velvet Underground – The Black Angel's Death Song
of Montreal – She's a Rejecter
The Belle Stars – Iko Iko
Cecil Taylor – Jitney No. 2
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss – Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us
Buffalo Springfield – Mr. Soul
The Klezmatics – Lomir Heybn Dem Bekher
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Beirut – Nantes
The Lounge Lizards – Harlem Nocturne
Moondog – Street Scene
Eric Hnatow – Ukrainian Roots
Tom Waits – Diamonds and Gold
Original New Orleans Rhythm Kings – Golden Leaf Strut
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Andrew Hill – Judgement
Frank Zappa – St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast
George Clinton – Atomic Dog (instrumental)
Funkadelic – Smokey
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The Firesign Theatre – The Giant Rat of Sumatra, Side 1
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The Firesign Theatre – The Giant Rat of Sumatra, Side 2
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Lou Reed – Vicious
Alice Coltrane – Journey in Satchidananda
Parliament – Up for the Down Stroke
Albert Ayler – Love Cry
Naked City – Demon Sanctuary
CAN – Father Cannot Yell
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Groucho Marx – I'm Against It

Playlist for July 1, 2010

I had a color theme to this show, though it's not strict. This was inspired by my recent acquisition of the Ken Nordine album, a great source of confusing hilarity.

Ornette Coleman – Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Ken Nordine – Yellow
The Beatles – Yellow Submarine
Donovan – Mellow Yellow
Frank Zappa – Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
Captain Beefheart – Yellow Brick Road
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Al Green – Talk to Me
David Bowie – Please Mr. Gravedigger
Avenue Q – I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today
Van Dyke Parks – Jump!
The Clash – London Calling
CAKE – Comfort Eagle
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Ken Nordine – Green
Soft Machine – Have You Ever Bean Green?
Booker T. and the MGs – Green Onions
The Supremes – Money (That's What I Want)
Can – Peking O
DNA – Blonde Redhead
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Ken Nordine – Gold
John Barry – Goldfinger
Nina Simone – Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair
John McLaughlin – Hope
Judy Garland – I'm Just Wild About Harry
Slowdive – Golden Hair
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T. Rex – Solid Gold Easy Action
Ken Nordine – Lavender
Gogol Bordello – Start Wearing Purple
Tom Waits – Black Market Baby
Howard Shore and Ornette Coleman – The Black Meat
Charles Mingus – Song with Orange
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The Staple Singers – You're Gonna Make Me Cry
Ken Nordine – Ecru
Elvis Presley – Blue Suede Shoes (requested by Samantha)
The Bonzo Dog Band – Death Cab for Cutie
The Beatles – Her Majesty
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Parliament – Flashlight
Jimi Hendrix – Purple Haze (requested by Samantha)
The Stranglers – Golden Brown
Ken Nordine – Brown
Knifeman – Resisters
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Terry Riley – You're Nogood
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Aretha Franklin – You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman
David Bowie – Velvet Goldmine
Tonetta777 – Yummy Yummy Pizza
Tears for Fears – Shout

Playlist for June 24, 2010

The Staple Singers – Respect Yourself
Tom-Tom Club – Genius of Love
John Lennon – Imagine
Buffalo Springfield – For What It's Worth
Tim Curry – Sweet Transvestite
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy – Captain Sandwich
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Wilco – Shake It Off
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
Dredd Foole – Feed the King
The Firesign Theatre – Doctor Memory (from I Think We're All Bozos On This Bus)
Taraf de Haïdouks – Tigàneascà
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Ani DiFranco – Shameless
Aretha Franklin – Think
Roxy Music – In Every Dream Home a Heartache
Donovan – I Love My Shirt
Les Baxter – Terror
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Radiohead – Life in a glasshouse
Nina Simone – Feeling Good
Mahavishnu Orchestra – Smile of the Beyond
Karlheinz Stockhausen – Takt 638-655 (from Mantra)
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Angelo Badalamenti – Fats Revisited
The Magnetic Fields – California Girls
The Cure – Dressing Up
Othon with Ernesto Tomasini – Metalipsis
Tears for Fears – Mothers Talk
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Duke Ellington and His Orchestra – Jazz Festival Suite
Ken Nordine – Flesh
The Grateful Dead – Turn On Your Love Light
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New Order – Temptation
King Crimson – One More Red Nightmare
Spoon – Two Sides/Monsieur Valentine
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Various Kabuki Soloists – Interludes
Sun Ra – Dance of the Language Barrier
The Police – Walking on the Moon
Terry Scott Taylor – Sound Effects Record #32
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John Cage – 4'33
Billie Holiday – Stormy Weather
T. Rex – Main Man
Otis Redding – (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody

Playlist for June 17, 2010

Frank Zappa & The Mothers – Little House I Used To Live In
Katie Lee – The Will to Fail
Duke Ellington – New Mood Indigo
The Lovin' Spoonful – Daydream
DJ Earworm – Policy of Sweet Dreams (Depeche Mode vs. Eurythmics)
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Weather Report – Birdland
Gladys Knight and the Pips – I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Blue Öyster Cult – Godzilla
David Bowie – Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
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Eddie Kendricks – My People... Hold On
The Jimi Hendrix Experience – If 6 Was 9
Pink Floyd – Astronomy Domine
Tones on Tail – Slender Fungus
The Who – Odorono
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Little Richard – Nuki Suki
Dr. John – Mama Roux
T. Rex – Mystic Lady
Funkadelic – I'll Stay
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Miles Davis – John McLaughlin
Joe McConaughy – Ghost Stories
Van Dyke Parks – By the People
Cocteau Twins – Ivo
Radiohead – We suck young blood. (Your time is up.)
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Faust – No Harm
Bootsy Collins – Mug Push
Annie Lennox – Take Me to the River
La Guapa Papa – Bobby Short, Wayne Shorter
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The Bonzo Dog Band – We Are Normal
Ananda Shankar – Jumpin' Jack Flash
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Peek-A-Boo
Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli – Jeepers Creepers
Leonard Nimoy – Twinkle, Twinkle Little Earth
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Tool – Disposition
Suzanne Vega – Harbor Song
Djivan Gasparyan – Lovely Spring
My Brightest Diamond – Black & Costaud
Roy Orbison – In Dreams
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Fats Waller – The Minor Drag
Pearls and Brass – I Learn the Hard Way
Japan – Suburban Love
The Dust Brothers – Shining Star



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Playlist for June 10, 2010

Lou Reed – Intro/Sweet Jane
The Beatles – Rain
Beirut – Elephant Gun
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band – I'll Play the Fool
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Shudder to Think – The Ballad of Maxwell Demon
Benoît Charest – Cabaret Hoover
The Red Elvises – Hungarian Dance #5
Bauhaus – Slice of Life
Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Pink Elephants on Parade
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Cream – White Room
Blackalicious – Powers
Claudia Lennear – From a Whisper to a Scream
Julee Cruise – Into the Night
Iggy Pop – Baby
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Kali Bahlu – A Cosmis Telephone Call from the Angel Liesle and the Buddha
Edith Piaf – Non, je ne regrette rien
Sade – Smooth Operator (request from Mr. Siddartha Gautama)
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The Byrds – Eight Miles High
Dengue Fever – Monsoon of Perfume
The Magnetic Fields – Underwear
Neil Young – Birds
Charlie Haden – Speak Low
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The Shangri-La's – Remember (Walkin' in the Sand)
Randy California – Things Yet to Come
Gogol Bordello – Tribal Connection
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Depeche Mode – Blue Dress
The Residents – Moisture
Chic – Good Times
The Parliaments – (I Wanna) Testify
Rufus Wainwright – It's Only a Paper Moon