July 7th, 2011
Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime. It’s just too hot outside! Dark Meat encourages you to strip, lay down on the carpet just below the air conditioning, and do your best to survive. Get up again in late September. Don’t forget to hydrate!
* Spinal Tap – The Sun Never Sweats
* Velvet Underground – Who Loves The Sun
* Stan Ridgway – Into the Sun
* Steely Dan – Blues Beach
* Wink Martindale – Shifing Whispering Sands
* Siouxie and the Banshees – Burn Up
* Be Bop Deluxe – Sleep That Burns
* Tom Waits – Earth Died Screaming
* Sparks (with Jane Wiedlin) – Cool Places
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June 29th, 2011
Happy 4th of July everybody! It’s the annual Dark Meat Independence Day special, which I’m remembering to put out BEFORE Independence Day this year. This year’s theme is “what America means to me” and I may follow it up next week with “what show themes mean to me”.
* Bitter/Sweet – The Bomb
* Ani DiFranco – To The Teeth
* Brian Wilson – Heroes And Villains
* Ragtime – Henry Ford
* Standard Oil Company – I Love A Salesman
* Joe Jackson – It’s All Too Much
* Dave Frishberg – Van Lingle Mungo
* Rupert Holmes – Our National Pastime
* The Folksmen – Old Joe’s Place
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June 14th, 2011
Life is nasty, brutish and short – in order to make it through without goin’ insane we need to sugar-coat it sometimes. Most of the time. Okay, I was fibbing; we ALWAYS need delude ourselves about how awful life really is. So let’s delude together!
* Colorblind James Experience – He Must Have Been (Quite A Guy)
* Once On This Island – Some Say
* Jonathan Coulton – Chiron Beta Prime
* Brendan Perry – Utopia
* Wink Martindale – Deck of Cards
* Sparks – I Bought The Mississippi River
* Rupert Holmes – The Place Where Failure Goes
* Lisa Germano – Eli’s Comin’
* Petra Haden – Armenia, City In The Sky
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June 7th, 2011
I don’t usually do topical shows (it cuts into their rerun potential) but the Anthony Weiner OMG IT’S A PICTURE OF UNDERPANTS scandal has captured the nation’s imagination. Enjoys songs that seem to be about it, though some were written when even he was just a kid.
* Beatles – Carry That Weight
* Avenue Q – The Internet Is For Porn
* Nilsson – Everybody’s Talkin’
* Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention – How Could I Be Such A Fool
* Ben Folds Five – Mess
* Admiral Twin – Be The Show
* Candypants – Cherry Picker
* The Kinks – Dandy
* Randy Newman – I’m Dead (But I Don’t Know It)
* Papas Fritas – Say Goodbye
* Peaches – Tent In Your Pants
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May 31st, 2011
This is America, where cars have more rights than people. So today’s show is about these lofty vehicles – driving them to places, listening to them, and renting them.
* Katie Melua – On The Road Again
* Adam Balbo – Obligatory Highway Analogy
* Tom Waits – Hang On St. Christopher
* Beck – Rental Car
* David Bowie – She’ll Drive The Big Car
* LeTigre – We Like The Cars That Go Boom
* Barry Gray Orchestra – Supercar (Series 2 Titles)
* The Shaggs – That Little Sports Car
* John Adams – Short Ride In A Fast Car
* Residents – Hit the Road Jack
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May 24th, 2011
This is a suicide-themed show. I’ve done one before, and I just noticed that it’s gotten the highest numbers of any of my shows. Give the people what they want! Interestingly, no repeat downloads. Hmmmm.
* Pink Floyd – Goodbye Cruel World
* Joe Jackson – Blaze Of Glory
* The House Of Love – Who By Fire
* Randy Newman – Better Off Dead
* David Bowie – Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide
* They Might Be Giants – At The End Of The Tour
* Blue Oyster Cult – Don’t Fear The Reaper
* Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Death Is Not The End
* Rupert Holmes – The Bitter End
(Disclaimer: Suicide is for chumps. There are better escape hatches.)
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May 17th, 2011
H2OMiGod! Show’s all about large bodies of water today . Thirsty? Hope so!
* Petula Clark – My Friend The Sea
* Tom Waits – The Ocean Doesn’t Want Me
* Joe Jackson – Sea Of Secrets
* Donavan – Atlantis
* Frank Sinatra – Watertown
* The Cowsills – Indian Lake
* David Bowie – Looking For Water
* Sparks – Waterproof
* Stan Ridgway/Stewart Copeland – Don’t Box Me In
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May 10th, 2011
Digging deep, deep DEEP into the catalog tonight for items I never (okay, at most seldom) play on the show. What the hell am I doing with this stuff? I don’t know!
* Doug Duke – Witchcraft
* Paul Jones – Privilege
* David G. Moore – Kitten On The Keys
* Kevin Ayers – Guru Banana
* Captain Beefheart – Ella Guru
* Boney M. – Ra Ra Rasputin
* Circus Maximus – Negative Dreamer Girl
* Dilator – California Loves You
* Esquivel! – Mucha Muchacha
* Ian Hunter – Standing In My Light
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May 3rd, 2011
You aren’t going to live forever, my friend. Ain’t nobody does. Which begs the question, what happens afterwards? Honestly I have no idea, and neither do the people who wrote these songs, but it’s something to to think about anyway. Or I just threw together as many heaven/hell/afterlife titles as I could find in half an hour.
* Sparks – The Number One Song In Heaven
* Sugarplastic – Where Dead Bullies Go
* Paul Simon – The Afterlife
* The Four Saints – Heaven Help A Man
* Belinda Carlisle – Heaven Is A Place On Earth
* Spinal Tap – Hell Hole
* They Might Be Giants – Snowball In Hell
* Pat Boone – Stairway To Heaven
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April 26th, 2011
Teenagers. Can’t live with ‘em, can’t kill ‘em for their pelts. Today’s show is all about teenagers and their magnificent hormones.
* Alice Cooper – Teenage Lament ’73
* Amanda Palmer – Oasis
* The Tubes – Boy Crazy
* Frank Zappa and the Mothers Of Invention – Wowie Zowie
* The Beatles – Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand
* Candypants – Sweet Judy Blume Eyes
* Beach Boys – Wouldn’t It Be Nice
* Johnathan Coulton – The Town Crotch
* Bob Peck – Sweet Sixteen
* Oingo Boingo – Only A Lad
* Buzzcocks – Orgasm Addict
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* Spinal Tap – The Sun Never Sweats
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