Episode 39: Stuck on You

Yes, we've had to delay for a few days to get our ducks in a row (in accordance with Bylaw 11.34(20), "Provisions for Fowl Alignment"), but what a show this week! Earworms: songs that are so catchy, you'll need a restraining order to distance yourself from this episode. Co-stanza...

PLAYLIST

Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out of My Head

Dion & The Belmonts - Runaround Sue
The Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
The Archies - Sugar, Sugar

The Muppets - Mah Nà Mah Nà
Elton John - Bennie and the Jets
The Knacks - My Sherona

The Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches
The Cardigans - Love Fool
Coldplay - Yellow

Daft Punk - Around the World

Hot Chip - Over and Over

EPISODE 38

With people getting hit by trains and bunnies being burned for fuel, is it any wonder that we spend a good portion of this comfort-food episode to discuss our favourite streets? Also, as usual, a look at the latest episode of The Office, with some passing thoughts on Inglorious Basterds.

MUSIC CREDITS

Badly Drawn Boy - Camping Next to Water
Zeus - How Does it Feel

The Guess Who - Hand Me Down World
Sea Wolf - The Violet Hour

Traveling Wilburys - Handle with Care

Paul Simon - Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard


LINKS

Balloon Boy
Stroller platform incident in Melbourne, Australia
Woman struck by Via Train in Cornwall
Bunny biofuel

EPISODE 37

This week, well, why not just listen?

MUSIC CREDITS

Death Cab For Cutie - Information Travels Faster
She & Him - I Was Made For You

St. Vincent - Marrow
Land of Talk - A Series of Small Flames

Pick A Piper - Rooms

Monty Python - Drunken Philosophers' Song

For a worthwhile blog jam-packed with art and music, check out: Nocturnal Weeks

The Cover Episode (36)

It's the episode you've all been waiting for - COVERS!


(Stephen Harper performing with Yo-Yo Ma at the NAC Gala: Video)

With a Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker (Beatles Cover)

Time Is On My Side by Irma Thomas (Covered by The Rolling Stones)
Hard To Handle by Otis Redding (Covered by The Black Crowes)

Love Hurts by The Everly Brothers (Covered by Roy Orbison and Nazareth)
Black Magic Woman by Fleetwood Mac (Covered by Santana)

Proud Mary by Tina and Ike Turner (CCR Cover)
Nothing Compares To U by Sinead O'Connor (Prince Cover)
It's My Life by No Doubt (Talk Talk Cover)

I Heard It Through The Grapevine by Gladys Knight and the Pips (Smokey Robinson and The Miracles cover, covered by Marvin Gaye and CCR)
I Fought The Law by The Clash (The Crickets cover, covered by Roy Orbison, , and The Dead Kennedys)
Halleujah by Jeff Buckly (Leonard Cohen Cover)

All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix (Bob Dylan Cover)
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You by Led Zeppelin (Joan Baez Cover)
Killing Me Softly [With His Song] by The Fugees (Roberta Flack Cover, originally written by Lori Lieberman; see Flack & Fugees together here.)

They Can't Take That Away From Me by Ella Fitzgerald (Fred Astaire in Shall We Dance)

Cruel To Be Kind by Letters to Cleo (Nick Low Cover)

(Photo courtesy of cbc.ca)