2008-12-27 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - C is for Conifers (Here Come the ABCs)
The New Standards - Oh Tannenbaum (Candy Cane)
Brian Wilson - Vege-Tables (Smile)
ID
Steve Lee - Wake-Up (What Did You Do Today?)
ID

Segment 2
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - The Hanukkah Waltz (Jingle All the Way)
Lyle Lovett - Straight Up and Fly Right
Matt Surowiec & the Tricentennial Band - BarBQ (Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas)
ID/prep to rock
Bzots - Join the Party (It's New Year's Eve!)
ScribbleMonster - Chocolate Milk
ID

Segment 3
ID
Uncle Rock - Sugar Talkin' (Plays Well With Others)
Princess Katie & Racer Steve - Holidays (Fast & Feisty)
The Boogers - This Song Is About Transportation (Road to Rock)
ID
Recess Monkey - Pedal Power (Tabby Road)
John Carlin - A Dinosaur Named Fred (Welcome to the Kids Music Underground)
Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life (True Stories)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Bunny Clogs - Confessions of a Teenage Lima Bean (More! More! More!)
Prince - Get on the Boat (3121)
Booker T & the MGs - Green Onions
Of Montreal - I Want to Have Fun (For the Kids Three)
ID (backsell River Rack)

Segment 5
Lunch Money - It Only Takes One Night (To Make a Balloon Your Friend)
Ingrid Michaelson - The Way I Am
ID
Maria Sangiolo - Mermaid Molly (at Cup & Top on 1/10, 11:00 AM)
ID/Book time with Ella
Laura Freeman - Purple (Color Wheel Cartwheel)
Michelle Shocked - When I Grow Up (Short Sharp Shocked)
ID

Segment 6
ID
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Luck (Easy)
Sippy Cups - Springtime Fantastic (Electric Storyland)
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees - Ina Mina Dika (Let It Dee)
Elvis Costello - What's So Funny 'Bout Peace Love and Understanding?
ID
TMBG - Experimental Film (The Spine)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

2008-12-20 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Here's what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Liam ID
TMBG - Happy Doesn't Have to Have an Ending
Fountains of Wayne - Chanukah Under the Stars
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole... - Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World
ID
Robbi K - Favorite Things (Music Makes Me Happy)
Shawn Colvin - All The Pretty Li'l Horses (Holiday Songs and Lullabies)
ID

Segment 2
Low - Just Like Christmas (Christmas)
Trip Shakesepeare - Snow Days (Across the Universe)
ID/prep to rock
Ralph's World - Santa Please (unreleased)
Justin Roberts - Way Out (Way Out)
ID

Segment 3
Yosi & the Superdads - She Just Doesn't Get It (...and a Happy New Year)
Jingle Punx - You Gotta Get Up (Coal)
ID
Lunch Money - Cookie As Big As My Head
Candyband - I Want a Big Fat Cookie for Christmas (single)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Obedience School (Freedom in a Box!)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
G. Love - Julius Coolius (World of Happiness bonus track)
Lyle Lovett - Church (Joshua Judges Ruth)
Asylum Street Spankers - You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch (A Christmas Spanking)

Segment 5
Miles Davis - Godchild (Birth of the Cool)
Vince Guaraldi Trio - Linus & Lucy (Charlie Brown Christmas)
Ivy - Christmas Time is Here (Maybe This Christmas)
ID
Uncle Rock - Too Many Presents (Uncle Rock U)
TMBG - Santa Claus (Holidayland!)
ID

Segment 6
Gwendolyn & the Good Time Gang - Channukah Medley ('Tis the Season to be Rockin')
Mates of State - Jellyman Kelly
ID
ScribbleMonster - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Danny Adlerman & Friends - Two Sets of Footprints (...and a Happy New Year)
Polyphonic Spree - Happy Xmas (War is Over) (Maybe This Christmas Tree)
ID
TMBG - O Tannenbaum (Holidayland)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

2008-12-13 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 - Nine Bowls of Soup (Here Come the 123s)
Wee Hairy Beasties - Dinosaur Christmas (Holidays Gone Crazy)
ID
Semisonic - Down By The Riverside (Down by the Riverside)
Elizabeth Mitchell - Peace Like a River (You Are My Little Bird) (NCMC 2/21)
Justin Roberts - Henrietta's Hair (Pop Fly)
ID/River Rack backsell

Segment 2
Spare the Rock at Hot Chocolate Run
Smoosh - But Now I Know
Sippy Cups - Ladybug Beat (EP)
ID/prep to Rock
Fountains of Wayne - Alien for Christmas (Out of State Plates)
Suburbs - Cows (In Combo)
ID
Lunch Money - Tiny Dinosaurs
ID

Segment 3
Deedle Deedle Dees - Underground Railroad (Let It Dee)
ID
Fleshtones - Super Rock Santa (Stocking Stuffer)
ScribbleMonster - Doing the Right Thing Isn't Always Easy, Doing the Easy Thing Isn't Always Right (Songs With No Character)
Ellen and Matt - Side By Side (Best Friends)
ID
SteveSongs - Fast Monkey (DVD Bonus CD)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Hipwaders - Educated Kid
Raveonettes - Christmas Song
Eric Herman - My Lucky Day (Snow Day!)
ID
Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis (Very Special Christmas)
ID/Book time with Ella

Segment 5
Randy Kaplan in-studio
No Nothing
Shampoo Me

Segment 6
Aric Bieganek - Doo Doo Doo Doo (Bright Lights, Big Kitty)
Spanglish Wrangler - Desayuno Boogie (Spanglish Wrangler)
Dan Zanes & Friends - Colas (Nueva York)
Allen Toussaint - Yes We Can Can
ID (thanks again to Randy Kaplan)
TMBG - The Ballad of Davy Crockett in Outer Space (Disney Music Block Party)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

2008-12-06 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 - One Dozen Monkeys (Here Come the 123s)
Sufjan Stevens - The Friendly Beasts (See You on the Moon)
ID
Nields - Come Go with Me (Rock All Day Rock All Night)
Laurie Anderson - Excellent Birds
Lunch Money - Wake Up World (Dizzy)
ID

Segment 2
Buddy Holly - Everybody
Trout Fishing in America - Big Round World (Big Round World)
ID/prep to rock
Sippy Cups - Move Your Pants (Electric Storyland)
Papas Fritas - Vertical Lives (Buildings & Grounds)
ID

Segment 3
Justin Roberts - Meltdown (Meltdown)
Hank Hooper - ABC-234 Song (Playground Fortune Teller)
ID
Asylum Street Spankers - Everybody Loves My Baby (Live at Iron Horse for Spare the Rock)
Madness - One Step Beyond
ScribbleMonster - Winter Wonderland (single)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Brave Combo - No, No, No, Cha Cha Cha
Milkshake - Boom, Boom (Bottle of Sunshine)
Slavic Soul Party - Never Gonna Let You Go (Teknochek Collision)
Yosi - Bulbes (What's Eatin' Yosi)
Chris Kenner - I Like It Like That (New Orleans Playground)
ID

Segment 5
Wee Hairy Beasties - Holidays Gone Crazy (Holidays Gone Crazy)
Ralph Covert - Fools Will Try (Park Slope Parents Vol. 1)
ID/book time with Ella
Mike Doughty - More Bacon Than the Pan Can Handle (Golden Delicious)
AudraRox - I Can Do It By Myself (I Can Do It By Myself)
ID

Segment 6
David Bowie - Changes (Essential)
SteveSongs - Library (Little Superman)
ID
School for the Dead - Beautiful Day in the Woods (Ayla) (live at Spare the Rock)
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Have Fun (Easy)
ID
TMBG - Destination Moon (John Henry)
TMBG - Spare the Rock