Tonights Theme: Spring

9pm

The Grouch – Artsy – Show You The World

Funky Allisto – Cissy Strut – Live A Ponte Sisto

Bob Marley – Sun Is Shining – Soul Almighty

The Grouch – Simple Man – Making Perfect Sense

The Staple Singers – Samson And Delilah – Freedom Highway

Joe Gallant & Illuminati – Estimated Prophet – Terrapin

Funkadelic – Cosmic Slop

Violent Femmes – Crazy

Marianne Faithful & Anthony – Ooh Baby Baby – Easy Come Easy Go

Missy Higgins – More Than This – Covered, A Revolution In Sound

REM – Gardening At Night – And I Feel Fine…

Ani DiFranco – Garden Of Simple – Revelling/Reckoning

10pm

Jennifer Faust – Matte Kudasai

Nina Simone – Spring Is Here – The Lady Has The Blues

Morrissey – Spring Heeled Jim – Vauxhall And I

Tori Amos – In The Springtime Of His Voodoo – Legs & Boots (Live in Nashville Tennessee Nov. 12, 2007)

Alamo Race Track – Black Cat John Brown

Mates Of State – Everyone Needs An Editor – My Solo Project

Chet Baker – I Fall In Love Too Easily – Let’s Get Lost

Ursula Rucker – Spring – Supa Sista

Lauryn Hill – Everything Is Everything – The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill

Soul Rebels – I Really Don’t Love You – Let Your Mind Be Free

Average White Band – Work To Do – Face To Face Live

11pm

Lou Rawls – Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most – Seasons 4 U

Ella Fitzgerald – I Get A Kick Out Of You (Cinematic Orchestra Remix) – Verve Remixed

Peggy Lee – There’ll Be Another Spring

Ani DiFranco – This Bouquet – Not A Pretty Girl

Butthole Surfers – Lonesome Bulldog – PIOUHQD & Widowermaker!

Rob Wasserman/NeiL Young/Bob Weir – Easy Answers – Trios

Ani Di Franco – Small World – Not So Soft

The Flaming Lips – Can’t Stop The Spring – Oh My Gawd!!!

Tonights theme: Foolishness. Wherein I ask the musical questions:

“If you can’t laugh at yourself, what’s the alternative?” and “What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it’s all about?”

9PM

[Prologue]

Rachid Taha – Rock The Casbah – Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra – Lost In The Supermarket – Another World Is Possible

Pretenders – Boots Of Chinese Plastic – Break Up The Concrete

Wall Of Voodoo – Mexican Radio – Call Of The West

[Foolishness stage 1]

Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc. – Demon Days

Ernie And Bert – La, La, La – At Home With Ernie And Bert

Liz Phair with Material Issue – The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana) – from The Banana Splits Adventure Hour

Peter Pan Singers And Orchestra – The Hokey Pokey – Do The Hokey Pokey And The Bunny Hop

Face To Face – I’m Popeye The Sailor Man

[Foolishness stage 2]

Ming And FS – Is There Honey? – The Human Condition

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Down On The Corner – Willy And The Poorboys

Alzheimer – Vaporum purpurae – Alzheimer

The Mighty Sparrow – Happy Schooldays – Moods Of Sparrow Latest Bestway Release – Terrific Success

[Foolishness stage 3]

Raymond Scott – Powerhouse – Reckless Nights And Turkish Twilights

B52s – Funplex – Funplex

10PM [Foolishness stage 4]

Wax – Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy  (From The Ren And Stimpy Show)

Chaka Khan – Foolish Fool – Funk This

John Hiatt – Some Fun Now – All Of A Sudden

Natacha Atlas – Fun Does Not Exist – The Best Of Natacha Atlas

[Foolishness stage 5]

Violent Femmes – Epp Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You) (from The Jetsons)

Ween – Push The Little Daisies – Live @ The Fillmore S.F. 7/17/2008

Lily Allen – Everything’s Just Wonderful – Alright Still

Lisa Germano – Happiness – Happiness

[Foolishness stage 6]

Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks – Is This My Happy Home? – Where’s The Money?

The Hold Steady – Stay Positive – Stay Positive

Little Jimmy Tyson – Who Will The Next Fool Be? – Texas Funk

Chumbawamba – Add Me – The Boy Bands Have Won

Colonel Claypool’s Bucket Of Bernie Brains – Ignorance Is Bliss – The Big Eyeball In The Sky

Upstairs At Larry’s – Baby Elephant Walk

11PM [Foolishness epilogue]

Kermit – Bein’ Green – The Muppet Show

The Bobs – Cow Tipping, Part II – Get Your Monkey Off My Dog

Bhi Bhiman – Talkin’ Nascar – The Cookbook

Shel Silverstein – I Got Stoned And I Missed It – Freakin’ At The Freakers Ball

Sun Ra & His Arkestra – Nuclear War

Richard Cheese – Baby Got Back – The Sunny Side Of The Moon

Antibalas – Elephant – Who Is This America?

9PM

The Grateful Dead – Terrapin Station – Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino California February 26, 1977

Jimmy Martin/John McEuen/Vassar Clements (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) – Losin’ You (Might Be The Best Thing Yet) – Will The Circle Be Unbroken

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros – Redemption Song – Streetcore

The Gourds – The Way You Can Get – Haymaker!

Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 – I’m Falling – Goodnight Oslo

X – Positively 4^th Street – B side of 4^th of July (45rpm single)

Randy Newman – Blue Monday – Goin’ Home, A Tribute To Fats Domino

Loudon Wainright III – Dead Skunk In The Middle Of The Road (45rpm single)

Lily Allen – Everyone’s At It – It’s Not Me It’s You

Stevie Wonder – I Ain’t Gonna Stand For It (45rpm single)

M Ward – Epistemology – Hold Time

Anita O’Day – S’Wonderful/ They Can’t Take That Away From Me – Anita Sings The Most

10PM

Saul Williams – Black Stacey (Deadbeat Remix) – Journeyman’s Annual

Peter Schilling – Major Tom (Vollig Losgelost) – German Version 45rpm single

James Brown – Papa Don’t Take No Mess pt.1

Charles Mingus – Oh Lord Don’t Let Them Drop That Bomb On Me – Oh Yeah

William S. Burroughs – The Hipster Be Bop Junkie – Millions Of Images (45rpm single)

Rim Banna – The Grandma With A Limp – The Mirrors Of My Soul

The Roots/Jill Scott/Erykah Badu – You Got Me – Dave Chappelle’s Block Party DVD

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band & G. Love – Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) – What’s Goin’ On

The Spam All Stars – La Vida Continua – Contra Los Roboticos Mutantes

Nova Lima – Concheperla – Coba Coba

Sidestepper – Que Sera – Buena Vibra Sound System

Steel Pulse – A Who Responsible? – True Democracy