Thursday, December 27, 2007

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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Thursday, December 20, 2007

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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Thursday, December 13, 2007

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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Thursday, December 06, 2007

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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