Final week of BIG APRIL celebrating some BIG ALBUMS here on WMBR. The Breakfast of Champions is pleased to provide you with the playlist for April 24, 2008.

(08:00 - only in my dreams)
Bongwater - "Celebrity Compass"
The Lovin' Spoonful - "You're A Big Boy Now"
The Cramps - "Sheena's In A Goth Gang"
The Golden Dogs - "Construction Worker"

(08:15 - I do not want what I haven't got)
Wreckless Eric - "Take The Cash (K.A.S.H.)"
XTC - "You're The Wish You Are I Had"
Game Theory - "Crash Into June"
The Great American Main Street Band - "Grand Entry: Caesar's Triumphal March Snare Drum & Chord" (background music)

(08:30 - Band of the Week)
Uncle Tupelo - "Postcard"
Uncle Tupelo - "No Sense In Lovin'"

(08:45 - you don't wanna know)
Buffalo Tom - "Dry Land"
X - "Hungry Wolf"
The Original Sins - "Can't Feel A Thing"
Tears for Fears - "Head Over Heels"

(09:00 - new music for now people)
Robert Forster - "Pandanus"
Sarandon - "Very Flexible"
Lubomyr Melnyk - "KMH" (concert report music)

(09:20 - now more new music, people)
The Submarines - "You Me And The Bourgeoisie"
The Botticellis - "Up Against The Glass"
Tokyo Police Club - "Tessellate"
Pomegranates - "The Bellhop"
The Old Haunts - "Hurricane Eyes"

(09:40 - people knew music now)
Leerone - "To Fill The Void"
El Perro Del Mar - "Do Not Despair"
Sun Kil Moon - "Heron Blue"

(09:55 - final song)
M83 - "Dark Moves Of Love"

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Thanks,
keith

Big band Thursday here on the Breakfast of Champions, as this playlist will prove. Originally broadcast April 17, 2008 on WMBR Cambridge.

(08:00 - I like 'em big & stupid)
Big Boys - "Shut Up"
Big Flame - "Where's Our Carol?"
Big Black - "The Power Of Independent Trucking"
Big Stick - "Drag Racing"
Big Buildings - "We Are Steamships"
Big Drill Car - "Take Away"

(08:15 - I like 'em big & real dumb)
The Bigger Lovers - "Bought Your Ghost"
The Big Lie - "I'm Going To Ruin Her"
Big Star - "Watch The Sunrise"
Big Tobacco - "Pipe Bomb"

(08:30 - band o' the week)
Akron/Family - "The Rider (Dolphin Song)"
Akron/Family - "Crickets"
Yea Big - "Manufacturing Morals" (background music)

(08:45 - I like 'em larger than life)
Big Audio Dynamite - "E=MC²"
Big Heifer - "Electric Penpal"

(09:00 - the new music hour!)
Barry Adamson - "Straight 'til Sunrise"
Ness - "Pretty White"
Hammock - "Mono Mo Aware" (Concert Report Music)

(09:20 - more new music hour!)
This Is Ivy League - "A Summer Chill"
Maybe It's Reno - "Lone Star"
Pattern Is Movement - "Peach Trees"
New Bloods - "Oh, Deadly Nightshade!"

(09:40 - even more new music hour!)
Cut Copy - "So Haunted"
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - "Dawn Of The Dead"
Bess Rogers - "Undone"
Park Avenue Music - "Tufts"

(09:55 - the closer is always the strongest song, right?)
The Guns of Detroit - "Animals Out Killing"

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WMBR is duty-bound to present the Thursday April 10th edition of the Breakfast of Champions. Now, on with the playlist.

(08:00 - more special bigness)
XTC - "Big Day"
Yo La Tengo - "Big Day Coming (demo)"
Shirley Matthews and the Big Town Girls - "Big Town Boy"
Dressy Bessy - "Big Vacation"

(08:15 - i have a future in alliteration)
Kate Bush - "The Big Sky"
PJ Harvey - "Big Exit"
Silverfish - "Big Bad Baby Pig Squeal"
Slapshot - "Bigmouth Strikes Again"
Al Caiola - "Big Noise From Winnetka/Midnight Swim" (background music)

(08:30 - band of the week)
Mission Of Burma - "Falling"
Mission Of Burma - "Let Yourself Go"

(08:45 - la da da da)
Scud Mountain Boys - "Big Hole"
The Doublehappys - "Big Fat Elvis"
The Smiths - "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others"
Mojave 3 - "Big Star Baby"

(09:00 - the cattiest new music hour evah!)
Sun Kil Moon - "Moorestown"
American Music Club - "On My Way"
Four Tet - "Swimmer" (concert report music)

(09:20 - followed by a loverly concert report)
Tapes 'n Tapes - "Conquest"
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - "You Could Write A Book"
American Princes - "Son Of California"
The Silver State - "Faith You Changed Your Name"

(09:40 - telling stories, telling secrets)
For Against - "Why Are You So Angry?"
Secret Shine - "Stars In The Sky"
Midaircondo - "Perfect Spot"

(09:55 - closing out the calumny)
Entertainment - "Patroness"

I thank you all for you attention and point to towards the archives if you'd like to actually hear some of the program in its original audio form.

Playin' them songs on WMBR Cambridge MA on April 3 2007 on Breakfast of Champions on playlist!

(08:00 - I'm talkin' big here)
Budget Girls - "Big Business"
The Darling Buds - "Big Head"
Cheap Trick - "Big Eyes"
The dB's - "Big Brown Eyes"
The Screamer - "Bigfoot Infestation"
The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group - "Bigfoot (I Remember Wes)"

(08:15 - we say big we mean big)
The Shangri-Las - "Give Him A Great Big Kiss"
Rockin' Horse - "Biggest Gossip In Town"
Guided By Voices - "A Big Fan of the Pigpen"
Devo - "Big Mess"
Haysi Fantayzee - "John Wayne Is Big Leggy"
Sam Spence - "Let's Go Big O" (background music)

(08:30 - quite appropriately, a big band of the week)
The White Stripes - "The Big Three Killed My Baby"
The White Stripes - "Hand Springs"
The White Stripes - "Well, It's True That We Love One Another"

(08:45 - keepin it big, all month long)
The Sugarplastic - "Big World"
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - "Big Tears"
The English Beat - "Big Shot"
Pedro The Lion - "Big Trucks"
Appletree Theater - "You're The Biggest Thing In My Life"

(09:00 - new music hour)
Wye Oak - "I Don't Feel Young"
Neva Denova - "Squirrels"
Jim Noir - "Ships and Clouds"
Blues Control - "Always On Time" (concert report music)

(09:20 - i've never been to me)
French Kicks - "New Man"
Soundpool - "Do What You Love"
Voyager One - "I Remember Everything"

(09:40 - but i've been to paradise)
South - "Better Things"
Working For A Nuclear Free City - "Forever"
Hanne Hukkelberg - "Ticking Bomb"

(09:55 - don't ask me where you've been)
Duchess Says - "Black Flag"

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