This amazing Breakfast of Champions playlist of covers was intended to get us ready for the 12/29/07 presentation of Cheese Patrol. Originally aired on December 27, 2007 via WMBR 88.1FM Cambridge MA.

(8:00am - starting out with some easier to digest 70's covers)
The Black Watch - "If You Could Read My Mind"
Tarnation - "Leaving On A Jet Plane"
Lightspeed Champion - "Xanadu"

(8:15am - mostly David Bowie)
Last Town Chorus - "Modern Love"
Anna Ternheim - "China Girl"
Crooked Fingers - "Under Pressure"
The Great Kat - "Flight Of The Bumble-Bee" (background music)

(8:30am - a brief respite for Band of the Week)
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - "Dropout Boogie"
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - "She's Too Much For My Mirror"
Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - "Owed T' Alex"

(8:45am - back to the covers madness)
Xentrix - "Ghostbusters"
Polysics - "My Sharona"
Rank Sinatra - "I'll Be There"
Babes In Toyland - "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft"

(9:00am - an apertif before the concert report)
Sam Amidon - "Head Over Heels"
Bill Patton - "Let The Good Times Roll"
Christopher Walla - "Shattered Dreams"
The Cooltrane Quartet - "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" (concert report music)

(9:20am - let's take a turn towards the 80's)
Masha Qrella - "Don't Stop The Dance"
Lali Puna - "Together in Electric Dreams"
Sprites - "Pac Man Fever"
Ivy - "Digging Your Scene"

(9:40am - these are not the worst covers of 2007, but they came close)
Viva Voce - "Tonight You Belong To Me"
The Puppini Sisters - "Heart Of Glass"
Dandi Wind - "Safety Dance"
Dewey Cox - "Starman"

(9:55am - the worst cover of 2007!)
Katy Perry - "Use Your Love"

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The Breakfast of Champions Thursday (on WMBR Cambridge MA) presents the playlist of the Best of 2007 show! Originally aired on December 20, 2007.

(8:00am - featuring the finest releases known to me in 2007)
Aqueduct - "Keep It Together"
Digitalism - "Pogo"
Shellito - "Tuckahoe"
Dog Day - "End Of The World"

(8:15am - first hour contains the errata)
Lily Allen - "LDN"
The Sea And Cake - "Middlenight"
Memphis - "In The Cinema Alone"
Peter and the Wolf - "Safe Travels"
Erik Enocksson - "Through Thick Night" (background music)

(8:30am - break for band of the week)
Elliott Smith - "Ballad of Big Nothing"
Elliott Smith - "Pretty Mary K"
Elliott Smith - "Thirteen"

(8:45am - a few more for the best of bunch)
Swan Lake - "All Fires"
Rosie Thomas - "Much Father To Go"

(9:00am - let's start the top 10 countdown)
The Avett Brothers - "Pretty Girl From Chile"
Feist - "The Park"
Small Sails - "Aftershocks and Afterthoughts" (concert report music)

(9:20am - picking it up at #8)
The Clientele - "These Days Nothing But Sunshine"
The Go! Team - "Keys To The City"
The National - "Apartment Story"
Justice - "Waters of Nazareth"

(9:40am - the final four!)
The Pearlfishers - "Womack and Womack"
!!! - "Sweet Life"
Future Conditional - "Crying's What You Need"

(9:55am - the winnah and new champeen)
Laura Veirs - "Drink Deep"

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You've found your way to the playlist for the Thursday December 13th 2007 edition of the Breakfast of Champions on WMBR 88.1FM Cambridge MA.

(8:00am - a bit of a randomish 1st hour today ...)
Dump - "You and I"
Silver Apples - "Water"
Roger Miller - "No Man Is Hurting Me"

(8:15am - ... as evidenced by these selections)
The Decorators - "Times"
Died Pretty - "Through My Heart"
Crowsdell - "Stuck"
Sun Ra - "Outside The Time Zone" (background music)

(8:30am - band of the week!)
Sebadoh - "The Freed Pig"
Sebadoh - "Rebound"
Sebadoh - "Beauty Of The Ride"

(8:45 - that was a good drumbreak)
Ninian Hawick - "Scottish Temple Rite Stomp"
Bikeride - "Catch That Spark"
The Crooner - "Smiles"
Charlene - "Summertimer"

(9:00am - new music is sparse these days)
Blood Meridian - "Do You Think You Know My Name?"
Holy Roman Empire - "Scaling The UofI Art Building"
The Heliocentrics - "The Zero Hour"
Sixtoo - "Track Six" (concert report music)

(9:20am - post concert report music)
The Brother Kite - "Half-Century"
Freezepop - "Do You Like Boys?"
Text Adventure - "Boobook (for R)"
Blockhead - "Duke of Hazzard"

(9:40am - the latest and greatest for you)
Dark Captain Light Captain - "Jealous Enemies"
Math And Physics Club - "Baby I'm Yours"
Clifford T. Ward - "The Cause Is Good"
Pylon - "Read A Book"

(9:55am - the showstoppin' closer)
Digital Dance - "All Those Words"

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The Breakfast of Champions welcomes you to the Thursday December 6th 2007 version of the program. Brought to you by WMBR, 88.1FM in Cambridge. Now here's the playlist.

(8:00am - going with all newish stuff today)
HER - "Dusty Beach"
Jared Micah and Hats - "Behold, A New Thing"
epic45 - "Lost In Failing Light"
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - "I'm Loving The Street"

(8:15am - a few Swedes for nostalgia's sake)
Juni Järvi - "If We Just Want To"
Sambassadeur - "That Town"
Air Miami - "Stop Sign"
destroyalldreamers - "Le Pianiste Meteorologique" (background music)

(8:30am - band of the week)
The Clash - "Stay Free"
The Clash - "Complete Control"
The Clash - "Death Or Glory"

(8:45am - continue the retinue)
Sunnyboys - "Physical Jerk"
Polysics - "You-You-You"
hollAnd - "Imitation Sunshine"

(9:00am - a short spotlight on Matinee Records)
Math And Physics Club - "Nothing Really Happened"
The Hermit Crabs - "Feel Good Factor"
Strawberry Whiplash - "Summershine"
F.S. Blumm - "Ricke and Dina" (concert report music)

(9:20am - the wonder of the post-concert report buzz)
The Chesterfield Kings - "Elevator Ride"
Baker - "Autumn"
The Brother Kite - "Half Century"

(9:40am - i ain't missing you at all)
GB3 (feat. Angie Hart) - "Devil's Eye"
Trembling Blue Stars - "As Easy As Being Alone"
The Lucksmiths - "Dignified And Old"
Georgie James - "Comfortable Headphones"
Wussy - "Mayflies"

(9:55am - a lovely mint julep for desert)
Oorjak Hunashtaar-ool - "Bayan-kol"

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