Back from a one-week hiatus on WMBR's Breakfast of Champions Thursday, this playlist is dated September 18, 2008.

(08:00 - it seems so real I can hear it)
Porn Orchard - "Why Can't I Touch It?"
Clem Snide - "Why Can't I Touch It?"
Elf Power - "Why Can't I Touch It?"
The Buzzcocks - "Why Can't I Touch It?"

(08:15 - it seems so real I can taste it)
Eddie and the Hot Rods - "Why Can't It Be"
Turpentine Brothers - "Why Can't I Do"
The White Stripes - "Why Can't You Be Nicer To Me?"
Van Halen - "Why Can't This Be Love" (background music)

(08:30 - band of the week)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "The Mercy Seat (live)"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow"
Timmy Thomas - "Why Can't We Live Together" (background music)

(08:45 - history does unfold)
Big Flame - "Why Popstars Can't Dance"
The Cure - "Why Can't I Be You?"
Aden - "Why Can't I Make You Happy?"
Patsy Cline - "Why Can't He Be You"
Thee Mighty Caesars - "Why Can't You See?"
War - "Why Can't We Be Friends?" (background music)

(09:00 - new music starts at 9)
Noah and the Whale - "Rocks and Daggers"
Sam Champion - "Lorraine"
Dot Tape Dot - "Slow Birds For Mayo T." (concert report music)

(09:20 - new music continues 20 minutes later)
Blitzen Trapper - "Sleepytime in the Western World"
Your 33 Black Angels - "New Song"
Ten Kens - "Refined"
Novillero - "Lost Possibilities"

(09:40 - who knows when they'll say when)
Secret Machines - "Underneath the Concrete"
Tracy Shedd - "Not Giving Up"
Damien Jurado - "Trials"
Tindersticks - "The Flicker of a Little Girl"
The John Baker Tapes - "Au Printemps"

(09:55 - finish him!)
Ruby Isle featuring Amy Dykes - "Solsbury Hill"

Thanks for browsing around, the aural equivalent of this playlist is available on WMBR's archive site for 2 weeks after the original airing.