Here's a Monday playlist for the BoCThurs, thanks to Becky for trading days with me this week! I'll be back on Thursday Dec 18th. In the meantime enjoy this December 8th 2008 edition of the Breakfast of Champions on WMBR Cambridge.

(08:00 - sifting through some recent reissues)
Allez Allez - "Allez Allez"
apb - "Talk To Me"
The Waltones - "Everything's Just Fine"
Grow Up - "Dear Isobel"

(08:15 - falling into your lap)
Mark Eitzel - "Ladies and Gentlemen"
Big Star - "You Can't Have Me"
Life Without Buildings - "The Leanover"
Sean Smith - "Palak Paneer" (background music)

(08:30 - band of the week)
The Stooges - "T.V. Eye take 4 [false start]"
The Stooges - "T.V. Eye take 5"
The Stooges - "Loose take 3 [false start]"
The Stooges - "studio dialogue"
The Stooges - "Loose take 4"

(08:45 - bad segue of the week)
Rainy Day Saints - "No Surprise"
The Bevis Frond - "Red Hair"

(09:00 - new music of the month)
Hush Arbors - "Sand"
Bird By Snow - "Domestic Freedom"
Antrilon - "Depths of Insanity" (concert report music)

(09:20 - bereft of responsibility)
The Bye Bye Blackbirds - "Shed The Skin"
The Televangelist and the Architect - "... By The Pond"
The Tallest Man on Earth - "The Sparrow and the Medicine"
Welcome Wagon - "Hail to the Lord's Anointed"

(09:40 - call me pious, don't call me pontius)
Love Is All - "Give It Back"
Crystal Stilts - "Prismatic Room"
Arliss Parker - "Besos"
Celestial - "How Does It Feel?"
Bears - "What Makes Me Happy"

(09:55 - the problematic conclusion)
Skeletons - "STEPPER a.k.a. Work"

December 4, 2008 playlist for Breakfast of Champions on WMBR Cambridge.

(08:00 - all the things you show me, all the things you know)
Sneaky Feelings - "Throwing Stones"
The Glands - "Straight Down"
Bettie Serveert - "Unsound"

(08:15 - nipping at my heels)
Idaho - "The Worm"
Low - "Sunflower"
Duster - "Unrecovery"
Dakota Suite - "Hands Swollen With Grace" (background music)

(08:30 - band of the week)
Moving Targets - "Almost Certain/Drone"
Moving Targets - "Nothing Changes"
Moving Targets - "Away From Me"

(08:45 - oh oh oh oh)
Helium - "Pat's Trick"
Those Bastard Souls - "Telegram"
Rainer Maria - "Artificial Light"

(09:00 - new music atrophy)
The Clientele - "Retiro Park"
Bubblegum Lemonade - "Tired Of Sleeping"
Like Honey - "Five Minute Dream"
Plinth/Textile Ranch - "The Rest, I Leave To The Poor" (concert report music)

(09:20 - didn't wait for the new music)
Suki Ewers - "Forever Girl"
Mia Riddle - "Echo"
Would-Be-Goods - "Temporary Best Friend"
Belle & Sebastian - "(My Girl's Got) Miraculous Technique"

(09:40 - here i go losing control)
Heartsrevolution - "Dance Till Dawn"
Ladyhawke - "My Delirium"
Los Campesinos! - "It's Never That Easy Though, Is It? (Song For The Other Kurt)"
The Sound Of Lucrecia - "De Vez En Cuando"

(09:55 - in the forefront)
Paul Collins Beat - "Ribbon Of Gold"

You can listen to an archived version of this program or just peruse the song titles and say "ooh, ahh" occasionally.

On November 20, 2008 these were the playlist selections for the Breakfast of Champions show on WMBR Cambridge MA.

(08:00 - your presence is requested)
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - "Rattlesnakes"
Scott Walker - "Mathilde"
Pulp - "Babies"

(08:15 - soylent green is people)
Keren Ann - "Lay Your Head Down"
Kings of Convenience - "Failure"
Sibylle Baier - "Tonight"
Tracey Thorn - "Simply Couldn't Care"
Alps - "Hallucinations" (background music)

(08:30 - band of the week take me away)
Devendra Banhart - "When The Sun Shone on Vetiver"
Devendra Banhart - "Hey Mama Wolf"

(08:45 - calgon is comfort food)
Mark Kozelek - "Bad Boy Boogie"
The Bathers - "If Love Could Last Forever"
The Music Lovers - "This World vs. The Next World"
Misty Roses - "Into The Sky"

(09:00 - new music is nourishing)
Misty Roses - "Into The Sky"
Winterpills - "Burning Hearts"
Fennesz - "Perfume For Winter" (concert report music)

(09:20 - after the concert report)
Max Tundra - "Nord Lead Three"
Pretty & Nice - "Wandering Eye"
Of Montreal - "Wicked Wisdom"
Telepathe - "Chrome's On It"

(09:40 - art is a battle with many survivors)
State Shirt - "Fell Out Of The Sky"
Her Space Holiday - "The New Kid Revival"
The Soft Hands - "I Hope So"
El Guincho - "Cuando Maravilla Fui"

(09:55 - wave bye-bye)
Tobacco - "Hairy Candy"

Thanks for looking it over, the archive has all WMBR programming over the past two weeks available for your listening pleasure.

Playlist for post-fundraising hangover edition of WMBR's Breakfast of Champions show, November 13th, 2008.

(08:00 - vaguely noodles)
Frida Hyvönen - "Birds"
Juliette Commagere - "Overcome"
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - "Sally, Don't You Cry"

(08:15 - fawning sunset honors)
Mogwai - "The Sun Smells Too Loud"
That Ghost - "Top Shelf"
Longwave - "No Direction"
The Present - "Symbols On High" (background music)

(08:30 - band of the week)
Unrest - "When It All Comes Down"
Unrest - "Bavarian Mods"
Unrest - "Make Out Club"

(08:45 - release the hounds)
Three Second Kiss - "This Building Is Loud"
The Wolverton Brothers - "Dead Horse"
The Lines - "Have A Heart"

(09:00 - more new music if you needed it)
Cobra Verde - "Wildweed"
The Kickbacks - "Going Out To Get Home"
Grampall Jookabox - "The One Thing"
Johann Johannsson - "The Rocket Builder (Io Pan!)"

(09:20 - a few to tie us up)
Love Is All - "Give It All"
The Rosebuds - "Bow To The Middle"
Friendly Fires - "Jump In The Pool"

(09:30 - Joe Carducci interview)
The Dogs - "Younger Point Of View"

This fundraising week I'll keep the on-line playlist on the track-blaster website since it's a wee bit easier than doing two of these things as once. For those who would like to donate between the hours of 8AM and 10AM just call 617-253-8810. Or feel free to use the web pledge and select Breakfast of Champions Thursday as your favorite show. Either way I'll make sure to get you the 2008 edition of the Favorites compilation. A sure hit with small dogs and indigenous fauna, tested on prisoners so you know it's safe for children.

A wee bit late, but here's the playlist. Note that on fundraising week I break between each song so not much witty to add here.

Broken Social Scene - "Stars And Sons"
Girl Talk - "Like This"
The Shangri-Las - "Heaven Only Knows"
Killdozer - "Knuckles The Dog (Who Helps People)"
Hell On Wheels - "Heard You On The Radio"
Thin Lizzy - "She Knows"
Say Hi To Your Mom - "Sad, But Endearingly So"
The Cavedogs - "La La La"
Prefab Sprout - "Appetite"
Smog - "A Hit"
Tweeds - "I Need That Record"
Chromatics - "Running Up That Hill"
Andre Previn - "Executive Party Dance"
The Dismemberment Plan - "The Face of the Earth"
Peter Laughner - "Sylvia Plath"
Laura Veirs - "Drink Deep"
The Nerves - "Hanging on the Telephone"
Vitalic - "My Friend Dario"
Menomena - "The Pelican"
Strawberry Switchblade - "Since Yesterday"

FYI, WMBR has been beta-testing a new playlisting program called Track Blaster, so those of you looking to follow along in real time can utilize that site to get your up-to-the-minute updates. Otherwise, this page will provide Breakfast of Champions updates every 15-20 minutes or so for October 30, 2008.

(08:00 - never know your names)
Love Is All - "Give It Back"
Grampall Jookabox - "The Girl Ain't Preggers"
Friendly Fires - "Lovesick"
Yelle - "Ce Jeu (St. Andrews Remix)"

(08:15 - hold the world in your head)
Mascott - "Nite Owl"
The Sea and Cake - "Window Sills"
Fight Bite - "Widow's Peak"

(08:30 - band of the week)
Bedhead - "Bedside Table"
Bedhead - "Lepidoptera"
Jonas Reinhardt - "How to Adjust People" (background music)

(08:45 - flying towards the unlit light)
The Dears - "Demons"
The Knew - "Coldblack"
The Decemberists - "Valerie Plume"

(09:00 - 2nd straight week with suspension of old music priviledges)
Copeland - "Not Allowed"
The Cure - "Siren Song"
Benoit Pioulard - "Ahn"
A Slow Rip - "Devil In The Well" (concert report music)

(09:20 - quite swell actually)
Final Fantasy - "The Butcher"
Lukestar - "The Shade You Hide"
Army Navy - "Saints"
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "Everything With You"

(09:40 - i'm in your standard time)
+/- - "Xs On Your Eyes"
Panda Riot - "Like Flowers At Night"
Desolation Wilderness - "And All The Boys Looked"
Chop Chop - "C Train David"

Remember, the archive is always available on WMBR's website!

Back from the southern hemisphere and ready to provide a playlist for WMBR's Breakfast of Champions show dated October 23, 2008.

(08:00 - a real sense of purpose, really)
Of Montreal - "St. Exquisite's Confessions"
Eleanoora Rosenholm - "Bolly palkkionmetsästäjä"
El Guincho - "Cuando Maravilla Fui"
Gang Gang Dance - "First Communion"

(08:15 - now is better than later)
B. Fleischmann - "24.12."
Guitar - "Free"
Ben Reynolds - "Unmighty Plumes of to Moon Shit" (background music)

(08:30 - make way for band of the week)
The Dambuilders - "Pop Song = Food"
The Dambuilders - "Drive By Kiss"

(08:45 - could you turn the bass up a bit louder)
Crooked Fingers - "Cannibals"
Surf City - "Records Of A Flagpole Skater"
Parts and Labor - "Nowheres Nigh"

(09:00 - bisecting the new music instead of starting it)
Brighton MA - "Your Sweet Time"
The Little Ones - "Morning Tide"
Pnuma Trio - "More Samples" (concert report music)

(09:20 - getting past the responsibilities)
Autodrone - "Through the Backwoods"
Crystal Stilts - "Prismatic Room"
Tearwave - "Reflection"
The Postmarks - "OX4"

(09:40 - finest quality goods fresh for you)
School of Seven Bells - "Iamundernodisguise"
Dokkemand featuring Alison Shaw - "Undulat"
Roommate - "Tea Leaves"
Larytta - "Love Love Odyssey"

(09:55 - conclusion and summary statement)
The Dirty Truckers - "*amStereo"

Thanks for visiting the playlist/blog, if you'd like to actually listen to the program visit WMBR's archives for two weeks of content awaiting your perusal.

A majority of the WMBR Breakfast of Champions crew is now keeping the playlist live on track-blaster as well, you can go there to see the play-by-play for October 9, 2008 as well.

(08:00 - isn't it grande? isn't it?)
The Evolution Control Committee - "Isn't It Grand To Be A Christian"
David Karsten Daniels - "Oh, Heaven Isn't Real"
Northern Picture Library - "Isn't It Time You Faced The Truth?"
The Field Mice - "Anyone Else Isn't You"
Galaxie 500 - "Isn't It A Pity"

(08:15 - whatever this is, it isn't it)
Giant Drag - "This Isn't It"
Ultra Vivid Scene - "This Isn't Real"
East River Pipe - "The Club Isn't Open"
The Clientele - "Isn't Life Strange?"
Martin Rev - "Narcisse" (background music)

(08:30 - this is band of the week)
Bjork - "5 Years"
Bjork - "Unison"

(08:45 - i'm positive this isn't true)
The Chameleons - "A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days"
The Radio Department - "Where Damage Isn't Already Done"
Headlights - "It Isn't Easy To Live That Well"

(09:00 - new music begins here)
Sofia Talvik - "Burning Fields"
Marianne Dissard - "Sans-Façon"
Lowfish - "DFD" (concert report music)

(09:20 - new music continues here)
Margot and the Nuclear So & So's - "German Motor Car"
Palms - "End Of Term"
Marnie Stern - "The Package Is Wrapped"
Ghost of the Russian Empire - "The Winter Soldier"

(09:40 - new music winds up here)
The Rosebuds - "Bow To The Middle"
Army Navy - "My Thin Sides"
Her Space Holiday - "Just Another Day"
Pretty & Nice - "Wandering Eye"
The Manhattan Love Suicides - "Burning Wire"

(09:55 - i am pleased to be able to end the programme)
Jesus H. Christ and the Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse - "Julie on the Fung Wah Bus"

Of course the WMBR archive has this show and every show over the past 2 weeks, don't be silly.

Didn't get to update the Breakfast of Champions October 2, 2008 playlist live since our internet was down at WMBR, so post-production here it is

(08:00 - can you feel it?)
Basement Jaxx - "U Can't Stop Me
Sugar - "If I Can't Change Your Mind"
The Sidewinders - "If I Can't Have You"
Butterglory - "She Can't Hide From Radios"

(08:15 - I guess you can't)
The Autocollants - "We Can't Have It All"
The Montgolfier Brothers - "Even If My Mind Can't Tell You"
Birdie - "I Can't Let Go"
Ryoji Ikeda - "Test Pattern #1001" (background music)

(08:30 - band of the week)
The Frames - "What Happens When The Heart Just Stops (live)"
The Frames - "The Side You Never Get To See"

(08:45 - we'll have to let it go)
The Smiths - "I Want The One I Can't Have"
Gene - "Still Can't Find The Phone"
Marshall Crenshaw - "She Can't Dance"
The V.I.P.'s - "Just Can't Let You Go"

(09:00 - new music starts now)
TV on the Radio - "Stork & Owl"
Lambchop - "Slipped, Dissolved and Loosed"
Baja - "Go Wolpertinger! Go!" (concert report music)

(09:20 - new music continues now)
Deerhunter - "Never Stops"
The Week That Was - "The Airport Line"
Tobias Froberg - "Blissful"
Boston Spaceships - "You Satisfy Me"

(09:40 - new music never ends)
Ane Brun - "My Star"
Boduf Songs - "Things Not To Be Done On The Sabbath"
Jolie Holland - "Mexico City"
Sonya Kitchell - "Running"

(09:55 - oops guess I was wrong)
Anthems MA - "Adore"

Normally you'd find this show amongst all the others at WMBR's archive, but since the web was down it's probably not there.

The playlist for Breakfast of Champions Thursday September 25th, 2008 on WMBR Cambridge.

(08:00 - you don't think it's totally psychedelic?)
Lesley Gore - "You Don't Own Me"
Matthew Sweet - "You Don't Love Me"
Roky Erickson - "You Don't Love Me Yet"

(08:15 - you don't look to see if it's parve?)
Klaus Nomi - "You Don't Own Me"
Adult. - "You Don't Worry Enough"
The House of Love - "You Don't Understand"
Fields - "You Don't Need This Song (To Fix Your Broken Heart)"
Tobacco - "Backwoods Altar" (background music)

(08:30 - you don't know it's band of the week?)
Polvo - "Sure Shot"
Polvo - "Bombs That Fall From Your Eyes"

(08:45 - you don't know what you're looking for?)
Dusty Springfield - "You Don't Own Me"
Sing-Sing - "You Don't Know"
Squire - "You Don't See Me"
The Bigger Lovers - "You Don't Feel Anything"

(09:00 - a relief for those who value new music above all else)
Winterpills - "You Don't Love Me Yet"
All Girl Summer Fun Band - "Oh No"
Hearts of Palm UK - "Jonathan FMF"
Max Richter - "When The Northern LIghts / Jasper and Louise" (concert report music)

(09:20 - new music for sleepy people)
Jenny Lewis - "Godspeed"
Karl Blau - "Mockingbird Diet"
Dungen - "Fredag"

(09:40 - new music for post patterns)
Friendly Fires - "Lovesick"
XX Teens - "Onkawara"
The Cure - "Freakshow (Wolves At The Gate Remix)"
Pivot - "Sweet Memory"

(09:50 - new music for exit ramps)
Land of Talk - "Some Are Lakes"

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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.

Thanks to Becky, normal host of the Breakfast of Champions Monday on WMBR, for switching with me on September 8th 2008. You'll get to sample her selections on the 11th! Onto the playlist ...

(08:00 - it seems that most bands don't do shouldn't)
Wilco - "Shouldn't Be Ashamed"
Five-Eight - "Shouldn't Be Here"
Girlboy Girl - "Should We Or Shouldn't We"
The Bats - "You Know We Shouldn't"

(08:15 - should they do shouldn't or not?)
Hawkwind - "You Shouldn't Do That (live)"
Fly My Pretties - "Shouldn't I Know"
Zomes - "Black Magic Band" (background music)

(08:30 - band of the week)
Meat Puppets - "Lost"
Meat Puppets - "Flaming Heart"
Meat Puppets - "Enemy Love Song"

(08:45 - I shouldn't criticize those who don't)
Anita O'Day - "Why Shouldn't I"
Fra Lippo Lippi - "Shouldn't Have To Be Like That"

(09:00 - more new music)
Juliana Hatfield - "So Alone"
Tracy Shedd - "Won Past Ten"
I Am Robot and Proud - "Storm of the Century" (concert report music)

(09:20 - after the concert report)
Death Vessel - "Bruno's Torso"
The Shaky Hands - "Air Better Come"
Mekons - "Trouble Down South"
Mason Proper - "Point A To Point B"

(09:40 - clear the way, we're coming through)
The Campaign For Real-Time - "The Game"
Rework - "I Want To Be Like You"
Fujiya & Miyagi - "Pussyfooting"
Pacific! - "Number One"

(09:55 - an aural handshake)
Eddy Current Suppression Ring - "Which Way To Go"

I'll be back on the normal Thursday schedule next week, as always the archived shows are available on WMBR's back pages.

September 4th, 2008 is a grand day to listen to WMBR, especially the Breakfast of Champions. On to the playlist!

(08:00 - not much we can do about this)
Descendents - "Can't Go Back"
The Wasps - "Can't Wait Til '78"
The Easybeats - "Can't Find Love"
The Drags - "Can't Change My Style"
Miss Mary - "Can't Stop"
Kylie Minogue - "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (background music)

(08:15 - or we can't do much about this)
Ivy - "Can't Even Fake It"
The Red Button - "Can't Stop Thinking About Her"
Eggstone - "Can't Come Close Enough"
The English Beat - "Can't Get Used To Losing You"
The Hollyridge Strings - "Can't Buy Me Love" (background music)

(08:30 - the die is cast on band of the week as well)
Pernice Brothers - "Working Girls (Sunlight Shines)"
Pernice Brothers - "Blinded By The Stars"
Pernice Brothers - "Saddest Quo"
Electric Light Orchestra - "Can't Get It Out Of My Head" (background music)

(08:45 - it's inevitable as charlie used to say)
The Charlatans UK - "Can't Get Out Of Bed"
Sloan - "Can't Face Up"
Piper - "Can't Wait"
The Dickies - "Can't Let Go"
Village of Savoonga - "Can't Escape" (background music)

(09:00 - Let's smoothly move into the realm of new music)
Portastatic - "When Love Breaks Down"
Ra Ra Riot - "Suspended In Gaffa"
Alias - "Oakland Morning" (concert report music)

(09:20 - no excuses or coded messages)
The Rumble Strips - "Girls and Boys In Love"
Bears - "What Makes Me Happy"
Bart Davenport - "Strangelife"
Starfuckers - "Rawnald Gregory Erickson The Second"
Your Heart Breaks - "I Could Say Ark"

(09:40 - no magic missles or micro moments)
The New Year - "The Door Opens"
Ariel Abshire - "Spots"
Jennifer O'Connor - "Days Become Months"
Hilde Marie Kjersem - "London Bridge"

(09:55 - a rush and a push and the land is yours)
Captain Dan and the Scurvy Crew - "It's All About The Booty"

This show, along with every other show on WMBR, is archived on WMBR's website for a two week time period.

The Breakfast of Champions on WMBR is all about taking you higher, as evidenced by this playlist dated August 28, 2008.

(08:00 - couldn't I find a better theme?)
Todd Rundgren - "Couldn't I Just Tell You"
The Bevis Frond - "Couldn't Care Less"
The Junk Monkeys - "I Couldn't Smile"
The Litter - "He Couldn't Find One Anywhere"

(08:15 - guess I couldn't)
The 45's - "Couldn't Believe A Word"
Television Personalities - "The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming"
The Field Mice - "Couldn't Feel Safer"
Tracey Thorn - "Simply Couldn't Care"
Talkdemonic - "Civilian" (background music)

(08:30 - band of the week)
Four Tet - "Tangle"
Four Tet - "Wing Body Wing"

(08:45 - if couldn't is could not then why isn't it spelled could'nt?)
Spacemen 3 - "Why Couldn't I See?"
Petula Clark - "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love"
Devastations - "The Night I Couldn't Stop Crying"

(09:00 - new music for the next hour)
Neil Halstead - "Queen Bee"
Drone Hooligan - "Son Risen Fear"
Dark Tooth Encounter - "Radio Bleed" (concert report music)

(09:20 - cruising past the concert report)
Pop Levi - "Love You Straight"
31Knots - "The Breaks"
Swim Swam Swum - "Not In Your Way"
The Broken West - "Auctioneer"

(09:40 - your ears are not in my way)
Damien Jurado - "Paper Kite"
David Vandervelde - "Old Turns"
Okkervil River - "Pop Lie"
Lykke Li - "I'm Good, I'm Gone"
Rework - "Questions"

(09:55 - inevitable conclusion)
Chad VanGaalen - "Bones Of Man"

Thanks for visiting, the audio is stashed on WMBR's archive for 2 weeks after the original broadcast date.

I can't quite fathom the theme for the first hour of the August 21, 2008 Breakfast of Champions show on WMBR. Oh well, guess I'll have to try to divine it from the playlist.

(08:00 - on the negative tip)
Cheap Trick - "I Can't Take It"
The Barracudas - "I Can't Pretend"
The Zombies - "I Can't Make Up My Mind"
Golden Smog - "I Can't Keep From Talking"
Rumah Sakit - "I Can't See Anything When I Close My Eyes" (background music)

(08:15 - I'm a negative creep)
Hello Saferide - "I Can't Believe It's Not Love"
The Housemartins - "I Can't Put My Finger On It"
Dusty Springfield - "I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face"
Talulah Gosh - "I Can't Get No Satisfaction (Thank God)"
Luna - "I Can't Wait"
The John Buzon Trio - "I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me" (background music)

(08:30 - and I'm band of the week)
Magic Hour - "Sunrise"
Nu Shooz - "I Can't Wait" (background music)

(08:45 - this is a negative trend)
X-Ray Spex - "I Can't Do Anything"
Snivelling Shits - "I Can't Come"
Hard Times - "I Can't Wait Til Friday Comes"
The Sound - "I Can't Escape Myself"
Hall and Oates - "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" (background music)

(09:00 - new music makes its way to center stage)
Calexico - "The News About William"
Firewater - "Paradise"
Eli Keszler - "R.L.K. 2." (Concert Report Music)

(09:20 - after the concert report, I'll be in love with you)
Theresa Andersson - "Birds Fly Away"
The Walkmen - "In The New Year"
Caesars - "New Year's Day"
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - "Come Saturday"

(09:40 - I'll be home by new year's)
The Coast - "Floodlights"
Rumi - "The Show"
One For The Team - "What Are You Gonna Cry About?"

(09:55 - and I'll be laughing, not crying)
Fixmer/McCarthy - "Look To Me"

Thanks for stopping by and gazing at the screen, as always a musical version of these playlists can be found by looking through WMBR's archives for the appropriate program and day. This offer expires two weeks from original broadcast date.

Breakfast of Champions
WMBR 88.1FM Cambridge MA3
Thursday August 14, 2008
The Playlist

(08:00 - from you can't to didn't)
Happy Flowers - "Why Didn't You Tell Me You Were Bringing Home A Baby"
Red Sovine - "I Didn't Jump The Fence"
Mecca Normal - "He Didn't Say"
Sarah White - "I Didn't Have A Summer Romance"
Don Caballero - "Let's Face It Pal, You Didn't Need That Eye Surgery" (background music)

(08:15 - didn't means you could have but you did not)
Blondie - "I Didn't Have The Nerve To Say No"
Tobin Sprout - "I Didn't Know"
Tubeway Army - "Oh! Didn't I Say"
Felt - "I Didn't Mean To Hurt You"
Magnetophone - "Didn't I Blow Your Mind?" (Background music)

(08:30 - Band of the week)
The Oblivians - "Kick Your Ass"
The Oblivians - "Robot Blues"
The Oblivians - "Alone Again Or"
Lobo - "She Didn't Do Magic" (background music)

(08:45 - so in that way I guess didn't do is better than can't do)
Silkworm - "Never Met A Man I Didn't Like"
The Brilliant Corners - "I Didn't See You"
Midstates - "Didn't Ask"
Swirlies - "Didn't Understand"
Yazoo - "Bring Your Love Down (Didn't I)" (background music)

(09:00 - new music for now)
Starling Electric - "Prince Of The Puff Of Smoke"
Faces On Film - "Famous Last Words"
The Royal We - "Three Is A Crowd"
Bitcrush - "Waiting For Something" (concert report music)

(09:20 - new music for later)
Moscow Olympics - "No Winter, No Autumn"
The Sound of Arrows - "Danger!"
Carolee - "Rainout"
Arms - "Tiger Tamer"

(09:40 - new music for lepers)
The Faint - "Mirror Error"
Jaguar Love - "Georgia"
Sunset - "Zombies"

(09:55 - closing out the show)
Katy Perry - "One Of The Boys"

Thanks for looking around, as always the aural equivalent is available on WMBR's archive site.

This is the playlist for the radio program on WMBR originally broadcast on August 7, 2008. It's called the Breakfast of Champions.

(08:00 - first hour is going to be a bit negative)
Johnny Thunders - "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory"
The Seeds - "You Can't Be Trusted"
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - "You Can't Kill Stupid"
The Karl Hendricks Trio - "You Can't Argue With Cash"
Billy Mahonie - "Watching People Speaking When You Can't Hear What They're Saying" (background music)

(08:15 - a theme that will continue for the upcoming months)
The Concretes - "You Can't Hurry Love"
The Go-Betweens - "You Can't Say No Forever"
Phoenix - "(You Can't Blame It On) Anybody"
The Jaywalkers - "(You Can't Be) Happy All The Time"
The Spent Poets - "You Can't Kill Michael Malloy" (background music)

(08:30 - band of the week time)
Fuzzy - "Bill"
Fuzzy - "Someday"
Fuzzy - "Summer Is Gone"
Lisa Stansfield - "You Can't Deny It" (background music)

(08:45 - more things you can't)
The Go-Go's - "You Can't Walk In Your Sleep (If You Can't Sleep)"
The 6ths - "You Can't Break A Broken Heart"
Big Star - "You Can't Have Me"
The Five Americans - "You Can't Win"
Anal Cunt - "You Can't Shut Up"
Joe Jackson - "You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Got)" (background music)

(09:00 - let's move on to new music)
David Vandervelde - "Old Turns"
Jessica Lea Mayfield - "Bible Days"
The Abbasi Brothers - "In A Field" (concert report music)

(09:20 - let's take this town alive)
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - "Bookworm"
Willoughby - "Story"
Angela Desveaux - "Sure Enough"
Shannon McArdle - "This Longing"

(09:40 - blue or brown?)
CSS - "Left Behind"
The Tough Alliance - "Holiday"
The Coast - "Floodlights"
Immovable Objects - "James Trent"

(09:55 - finish him!)
Stephen Pearcy featuring The Donnas - "Round and Round"

Remember, two weeks of programming (including this show) is always available on WMBR's archive.

This is the playlist for the Breakfast of Champions on the Thursday July 31, 2008 through the WMBR Cambridge.

(08:00am - all new stuff today as I try to catch up)
Pacific! - "Number One"
Azeda Booth - "Big Fists"
Lullatone - "The Bedtime Beatbox"
Venetian Snares - "Koonut-Kaliffee"

(08:15am - strangely we've been deluged with new stuff in July)
Disco Ensemble - "Worst Night Out"
Clinic - "Nicht"
Apollo Sunshine - "666: The Coming Of The New World Government"
Astrid - "Beware ..." (background music)

(08:30am - break for band of the week)
Throwing Muses - "Walking In The Dark"
Throwing Muses - "Finished"
Throwing Muses - "Flood"

(08:45am - a few more before we go)
Alice Cohen - "Footsteps"
Black Fortress of Opium - "Model Cafe"
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - "Bookworm"

(09:00 am- now the traditional start of the new music thing)
The Gordian Knot - "We Must Be Doing Somethin' Right"
Creeping Weeds - "Waits"
Goldmund - "Finding It There" (concert report music)

(09:20am - now the traditional post-concert report blur)
Brendan Canning - "Churches Under The Stairs"
The Ugly Suit - "Everyone Now Has a Smile"
Marching Band - "Letters"

(09:40am - binging and purging on the new rack)
Small Sur - "The Wind"
Windsor for the Derby - "Hold On"
Ex-Norwegian - "My Name Is Paul"
Northern Portrain - "Waiting for a Chance

(09:55 - referencing others instead of myself)
Correcto - "Joni"

You should know that WMBR has an archive of all the programming from the previous two weeks - free for your listening pleasure!

For like the 9th or 10th year in a row we'd like to welcome Christopher and Sarah down to the WMBR studios. Once again they've donated to host the Breakfast of Champions for an hour and inflict some of their favourites on the listening audience!

Today is July 24th, 2008 and this is a playlist.

(08:00 - a few new ones to start the proceedings)
The Occasional Keepers - "Leave the Secret There Forever"
The Radio Department - "The Room, Tarzana"
Carrie - "1981"
The Watson Twins - "How Am I To Be"

(08:15 - band of the week, just a little early)
Cat Power - "Taking People"
Cat Power - "Lived In Bars"
July Skies - "See Britian By Train" (background music)

(08:30 - Christopher kicks off the proceedings)
Colin Meloy - "Summertime"
Yo La Tengo - "The Summer"
The Sundays - "Summertime"
Hunters & Collectors - "Lazy Summer Day"
Belle & Sebastian - "A Summer Wasting"
Luna - "Indian Summer"
Chapterhouse - "Summer's Gone"
Buffalo Tom - "Summer"
Throwing Muses - "Him Dancing"
My Bloody Valentine - "Summer"

(09:00 - and now Sarah gets her 30 minutes of fame)
Pernice Brothers - "Somerville"
Sleepyhead - "The Family Tree"
Belle & Sebastian - "The Boy With The Arab Strap"
Black Mountain - "Stay Free"
The Black Angels - "Manipulation"
Buffalo Tom - "Hawaiian Baby"

(09:30 - back for the concert report)
David Bowie - "Five Years"
Black Kids - "I'm Making Eyes At You"
Carolee - "Rainout"

(09:55 - closing it out)
Darker My Love - "Two Ways Out"

WMBR keeps two weeks of archived audio content on their website.

The first hour of this playlist contains songs from some of my favorite albums of all time. Originally aired on July 17th, 2008 during the Breakfast of Champions program on WMBR in Cambridge.

(08:00 - the final edition in the best of the 90's series)
Long River Train - "The First"
Ween - "Birthday Boy"
The Reivers - "Keep Me Guessing"
The Ropers - "You Have A Light"

(08:15 - quite a few all-timers here)
Red House Painters - "Medicine Bottle"
American Music Club - "Will You Find Me?"
Marco Benevento - "The Real Morning Party" (background music)

(08:30 - band of the week)
Boards of Canada - "Skyliner"
Boards of Canada - "Hey Saturday Sun"

(08:45 - one last 90's album)
My Bloody Valentine - "What You Want"
Keith Canisius - "Watching Old Films With New Eyes"

(09:00 - followed by a shelf full of new stuff)
Ratatat - "Shempi"
Durutti Column - "Messages"
Jasper, TX - "Black Sleep Pt. III" (background music)

(09:20 - or the bits I've culled for airing)
The Avett Brothers - "Murder In The City"
The School - "I Want You Back"
Northern Portrait - "Waiting For A Chance"
Arms - "Tiger Tamer"

(09:40 - people I know, places I go)
Brendan Canning - "Churches Under The Stairs"
Pas/Cal - "Little Red Radio"
Conservative Man - "I, Hikikomori"
The Airborne Toxic Event - "This Is Nowhere"

(09:55 - still working on converting Joanie)
Katy Perry - "Self Inflicted"

Thanks for checking out our little jingle jangle morning, WMBR archives two weeks worth of programming on their website y'know.