2008-11-01 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Here's what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Seven (Here Come the 123s)
Bob Dylan - Forever Young
ID
Sippy Cups - Day After Halloween
Asylum Street Spankers - Don't Turn Out the Light (Mommy Says No!)
ID

Segment 2
Nields - Going to Boston (Rock all Day, Rock All Night)
Hullabaloo - Sullivan McMullivan (Hey, Everybody!)
Dr. John - Row Row Your Boat (New Orleans Playground)
ID/prep to rock
Mighty Weaklings - Rocket Ship (Keep It Weak)
AudraRox - I Can Do It By Myself (I Can Do It By Myself)
Mr. Richard - Zanyville (Might As Well Sing)
ID

Segment 3
Jonathan Richman - Roadrunner
ID
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - The Bluegrasshopper
ID
Big Bang Boom - Happy Town (Big Bang Boom)
David Tobocman - Home (I Count to Ten)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child (Songs With No Character)
Scratchy Record Set:
ScribbleMonster - Scratchy Records (Songs With No Character)
-- via digitally simulated vinyl
The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday (Monkee Business)
-- via monophonic picture disc
Sesame Street - Five People in my Family (Original Cast Record)
-- via stereo 33 1/3 R.P.M. record
Elvis - Ready Teddy (Elvis)
-- via "New Orthophonic" high fidelity record
The Bar-Kays - Soul Finger
-- via 45 R.P.M. 7" single

Segment 5
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky (Out of the Blue)
The Hard Lessons - See and Be Scene (B & G Sides, Volume 1)
The Aquabats - Look at Me (I'm a Winner)! (Charge!!)

Segment 6
TMBG interview
Wee Scary Beasties - Monster's Disco
Aric Bieganek/Recess Rock - Officer Bob
BNL - Here Come the Geese (Snacktime)
ID
TMBG - Doctor Worm (Severe Tire Damage)

2008-10-25 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Here's what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Whistling in the Dark
Steve Weeks - 4 Little Girls (Alphabet Songs Vol 1)
ID
Kimya Dawson - Little Monster Babies (Alphabutt)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Scared By My Own Costume (Let It Dee)
ID

Segment 2
Wee Scary Beasties - Pumpkinhead (Creepy Lullabies)
Telephone Company - Baby Halloween (The King's Surprise?)
ID/prep to rock
Roger Day - Monster Face (Ready to Fly)
Ralph's World - Harry's Halloween Circus)
Dr. Strangeblood & the New Zombies - Monster Mash (EP)
Salteens - All My Friends (Yo Gabba Gabba)
ID

Segment 3
Los Straitjackets - Munsters theme
Soccer Team - I'll Never Fear Ghosts Again
ID
Baze & His Silly Friends - Scare Me, Scare You!
Egg - Night Time Party
Jimmies - Soaper the Scaredy-Bot (Make Your Own Someday)
Mike Doughty - Firetruck (Smofe + Smang)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Justin Roberts - Maybe the Monster (Meltdown!)
Hank Hooper - Human Fly (Playground Fortune Teller)
B-52s - Planet Claire (Anthology)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 5
Lamar Holley - Digestion (Classroom Pop Vol. 1)
ID
Aric Bieganek & Recess Rock - Bright Lights, Big Kitty! (Bright Lights, Big Kitty)
Monty Harper - Trick or Treat Smell My Feet (Great Green Squishy Mean Concert CD)
ID
Louis Armstrong - Jeepers Creepers (Back Through the Years)
Telephone Company - Lumberjack (Panda Brain)
ID

Segment 6
Mates of State - Starman
ID
Mighty Weaklings - Monster Under My Bed
Rechov Sumsum with Ronnie Rock - En Den Dino (Sesame Street Playground)
ID
TMBG - The Guitar
TMBG - Spare the Rock

2008-10-18 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Savoy Truffle
Deedle Deedle Dees - Major Deegan (Freedom in a Box!)
Dog on Fleas - Beautiful World (Beautiful World)
ID
Gustafer Yellowgold - Pinecone Lovely
ID

Segment 2
Kimya Dawson - Bobby-O (Alphabutt)
Neko Case - This Little Light (The Tigers Have Spoken)
Wee Hairy Beasties - Cyril the Karaoke Squirrel
ID/prep to rock
Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway

Segment 3
Terrible Twos - Big Baby J (Jerzy the Giant)
Brian Vogan - Firefighter (Little Songs)
ID
Clash - Lost in the Supermarket (London Calling)
The Cat's Pajamas - Loose Tooth (Reading Rocks!)
Danny Adlerman & Friends - When I Grow Up (Listen Up!)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Aric Bieganek - Car Seat Driver (Live at NPC)
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones (Everything that Happens) (Calvin 12/2)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 5
with Secret Agent 23 Skiddoo
Have Fun
I Like Fruit (with Egg)
Luck

Segment 6
Black-Eyed Snakes - Cheerios on the Floor
OST - Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Gorillaz - 19-2000 (Gorillaz)
Mocean Worker - Shake Ya Boogie
ID
Father Goose - Panama (It's a Bam Bam Diddly)

2008-10-11 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - ICU (Here Come the ABCs)
Lamar Holley - Parts of a Plant (Classroom Pop Vol 1)
Bob Mould - Sunspots (Workbook)
ID
Brian Vogan - We Call It Fall (Little Songs)
The Whites - Keep on the Sunny Side (O Brother...)
ID

Segment 2
Spirit House - Billy Goat Drink Clear Water
Devotchka - Comrade Z (A Mad & Faithful Telling)
ID/prep to rock
Mighty Weaklings - Monster Under My Bed (You Can't Rock Sittin' Down)
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get (Let's Face It)
Jimmies - What's That Sound? (Make Your Own Someday)
ID

Segment 3
bits from ACL
Mr. Leebot - It Wasn't Me
Slavic Soul Party - 9 at the River (Teknochek Collision)
Terrible Twos - Jerzy the Giant (Jerzy the Giant)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Aric Bieganek - Central Park Kitty (live at NCMC 10/18, 2:00, ncmc.net)
Secret Agent 23 Skiddoo - Hot Lava (Easy) (live at First Churches on Sunday, November 9 at 4:00 pm)
Us 3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
ID


Segment 5
w/ Robyn Goodmark
Northern State - Mother May I
talk
Care Bears on Fire - Everybody Else
talk
Super Pal Universe - Super Pal Universe
ID

Segment 6
Tiny Masters of Today - Stickin' It to the Man (Bang Bang Boom Cake)
talk
Candy Band - Monsters (Calling All Kids)
Not-Its - B.A.T.H.
Quiet Two - Secret Tunnel (Make Some Noise)
ID
TMBG - Ana Ng
TMBG - Spare the Rock

2008-10-04 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Here's what we played:

Here's what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - stalk of wheat (the spine)
tom freund - party in the yard (hug trees)dan zanes - erie canal (with suzanne vega)
id
sinead o'connor - someday my prince will come (stay awake)
lunch money - nightlights (silly reflection)
frances england - firefly (family tree)
elizabeth mitchell - north wind (you are my little bird)
id

segment 2
moey's music party - pierre wouldn't wash his hair (moey's music party)
trout fishing in america - when you get dressed
eno/cale - one word
id/prep to rock
westerberg - love you in the fall (open season)
pixies - tony's theme (surfer rosa)
id

segment 3
egg - zoom (sunny side up)
justin roberts - she's a yellow reflector (pop fly)
id
teenage fanclub - star sign (bandwagonesque)
ralph's world - what's new pussycat (happy lemons)
id


segment 4
scribblemonster - spare the rock spoil the child
id
world party - put the message in the box
recess monkey - i got a toy but i played with the box (monkey town)
sippy cups - ladybug beat (one day soon ep)
id
jonathan richman - this kind of music

segment 5
sharon jones & the dap kings - this land is your land (naturally)
silly bus - earth and sun (silly bus)
id
johnny cash - dinosaur song (children's album)
astrograss - pit paddle paddle (let me stay up all night)
randy newman - you've got a friend in me (best of)
id

segment 6
uncle rock - rock and roll babysitter (plays well with others)
rem - it's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)
ellen and matt - juice box rock (best friends)
id
bill janovitz - the farm where everyone does what they want to do (rock 'n' roll coochicoo revue)
id
tmbg - the bloodmobile