Episode 11: Loneliness
Turn the sound up extra loud on the iPod to increase your sense of isolation! Featuring:
Eleanor Rigby - Joe Jackson
Better Than Nothing At All - Admiral Twin
In Need of A Friend - The Cowsills
Mister Cellophane - John C. Reilly
Coin-Operated Boy - Dresden Dolls
Episode 12: Cheer Up!
Don't be such a sourpuss... life is just a bowl o' cherries! This is music that will so cheerful you may be compelled to pull out your own eardrums. Featuring:
Shonen Knife - Top of the World
Blue Man Group - Chicken Dance
Free Design - I Found Love
The Sugarplastic - Say Katie
The Cowsills - We Can Fly
Anthony and Tony Rivers - What a Groovy Day
The New Main Street Singers - It's Just That Kind of Day
Episode 13: Who's in Charge? Not Me!
This week we'll take a look at why you're so depressed... it's the authority figures who run your life! Music about your bosses, as follows:
Kevin Ayers - Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes
Leonard Cohen - A Singer Must Die
Stan Ridgway - Big Dumb Town
Devo - Head Like a Hole
Honor Blackman, Patrick MacNee - Kinky Boots
Laurie Anderson - Babydoll
Episode 14: Why I Oughtta...
Anger. You got a problem with that?:
Joe Jackson - Right
Randy Newman - Political Science
Veruca Salt - Seether
Richard Cheese - Fight For Your Right to Party
Eminem - White America
Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street
Episode 15: Go Ahead - I Dare You!
This week we consider the positive aspects of suicide. Weigh your options! :
Residents - Love Leaks Out, Amber
Oingo Boingo - Don't Fear the Reaper
Mountain Goats - No Children
Joe Jackson - Blaze of Glory
Randy Newman - Better Off Dead
Episode 16: Love, Mislaid
The end of love, actually. Lament what was (and what never was!) with:
Lene Lovich - New Toy
Steven Franque - High Lonesome Sound
Ben Folds Five - The Last Polka
Nice Peter - Shannon
Abba - S.O.S
Dramarama - Out In the Rain
Episode 17: Hang On St. Christopher
It's summertime and half the office is on vacation, so this time the show is about traveling. Go ahead, drive with the earphones in... in many states it isn't illegal!
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
They Might Be Giants - They Got Lost
Nichelle Nichols - Theme to Star Trek
Tom Waits - Hang On St. Christopher
Stan Ridgway - That Big 5-Oh
Folksmen - Never Did No Wanderin'
David Bowie - She'll Drive the Big Car
Episode 18: Psychosis!
It's kind of a generic theme, but you can save money with generics... Let the iPod fill your head with the voices of the criminally insane!
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
Chicago Soundrack - Cell Block Tango
Alice Cooper - The Ballad of Dwight Frye
Episode 19: Meat, American Style
Darker than the red white and blue...it's Independance Day weekend as I write this, here on the far west edge of the greatest nation to ever make that claim. So let's sing the praises of all the things that make America the gargantuan loveable monster that it is.
Dilator - Lawyers, Guns and Money
Garbage - The World Is Not Enough
Nice Peter - The Bush Song
Johnathan Pryce - The American Dream
Soul Coughing - Unmarked Helicopters
Brian Wilson - Roll Plymouth Rock
David Bowie - That's Motivation
Episode 20: 10 Cents a Dance
Explore the seamy underbelly of entertainment with Dark Meat's sex industry show! Songs about the big O for sale by:
Siouxie and the Banshees - Peek a Boo
Steely Dan - Everyone's Gone To the Movies
The Davenports - Hi Tech Lowlife
Bob Peck - Thank You, Mr. Bell
Candypants - Fake It
Dilator - Can't Stop the Show