Saturday, December 26, 2009

2009-12-26 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Put it to the Test (Here Comes Science)
Billy Bragg & Wilco - My Flying Saucer
Tom Waits - You Can Never Hold Back Spring (Bawlers)
Stan Ridgway & Pietra Wexstun - Bring It On the House
ID
Frances England - Daddy-O (Fascinating Creatures)
Earthworm Ensemble - Bang a Drum (s/t)
Kaiser Cartel - The Season Song (Park Slope Parents Vol.1)
ID

Segment 2
Dog on Fleas w/ Elizabeth Mitchell - Handsome Molly (High Mountain Songs)
The Good Ms. Padgett - So So Good (The Good Ms. Padgett)
ID/prep to rock
Jingle Punx - Auld Lang Syne
ScribbleMonster - Winter Wonderland
I'm From Barcelona - Collection of Stamps (Let Me Introduce My Friends)
Sgt. Major - Nellie the Elephant (Play)
ID

Segment 3
Flannery Bros - One Wasn't Enough
Jonathan Richman - That Kind of Music
Nields - Anna Kick a Whole in the Sky
Robbins in a Tree-O - Never Cook Your Sister in a Frying Pan (We're Not Kidding, a Tribute to Barry Louis Polisar)
ID/book time with Ella (The Adventures of Robin Hood)
Neko Case - This Little Light (The Tigers Have Spoken)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Marty Beller Guest DJ set:
ID
B-52s - Roam
AudraRox - Five Minutes More (world premiere)
Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown
My Friend Stu
April March -

Segment 5
Marty Beller Guest DJ set, con't:
Green Day - Viva La Gloria
They Might Be Giants - Speed & Velocity
John Sampson - Right Now
Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends
Go-Gos - Vacation

Segment 6
Ella Jenkins - Kwanza Time
Gear Daddies - Zamboni
James Kochalka Superstar - Hockey Monkey
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees - Tres Muralistas (History + Rock & Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)
Telephone Company - I Don'w Want to Shop (The King's Surprise)
The Verve Pipe - Be Part of the Band (A Family Album)
Board of Education - Ice Ages Are Fun! (Board of Education)
ID
They Might Be Giants - D is for Drums (Here Comes Science)

Friday, December 18, 2009

2009-12-19 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1

TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - O Tannenbum
Vince Guaraldi - Linus & Lucy (Charlie Brown Christmas)
Ella Jenkins - Harmonica for Hanukkah (Holiday Times)
Elizabeth Mitchell & Friends - Jubilee (You Are My Sunshine)
ID
Dean Jones - Beautiful World (Beautiful World)
John Denver & the Muppets - When the River Meets the Sea (A Christmas Together)
ID

Segment 2
Barenaked Ladies - Hanukkah Blessings
Matt Surowiec & the Tricentennial Band - Ain't No Hole in the Washtub (Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas)
Low - Just Like Christmas (Christmas)
ID/prep to rock
ScribbleMonster - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (single)
CandyBand - I Want a Big Fat Cookie for Christmas (Holiday Hootenanny)

Segment 3
Key Wilde & Mr Clarke - Rattlin' Can
Todd McHatton - Santa Flying in Your Sleigh (Christmas Songs)
Old 97's - Here It Is Christmas Time
ID
Verve Pipe - Complimentary Love (A Family Album)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Uncle Rock holiday in-studio

Segment 5
ID
Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - I Gotta Be Me (Easy)
Hipwaders - It's Wintertime (A Kindie Christmas)
Sly & the Family Stone - Thank You
Leon Redbone - Let It Snow
ID/book time with Ella (Olivia Helps with Christmas)

Segment 6
Wee Hairy Beasties - Dinosaur Christmas
Jingle Punx - Wonderful Christmastime
ID
XTC - Thanks for Christmas
Justin Roberts - Meltdown
ID
TMBG - Santa Claus

Friday, December 11, 2009

2009-12-12 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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And, by the way, have you checked out the new SpareTheRock.com? You should.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - 9 Bowls of Soup (Here Come the 123s)
Martin Sexton - Holly Jolly Christmas (Family Christmas)
Wee Hairy Beasties - Yellow Snow PSA
Steve Weeks - Monkeys (Alphabet Songs II)
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees - The Brooklyn Bridge Song (History + Rock 'n' Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)

Segment 2
New Standards - O Tannenbaum (Candy Cane)
Caspar Babypants - $9.99 (More Please!)
ID/prep to rock
Jingle Punx - Mele Kalikmimaka (Coal)
Leevees - How Do You Spell Chauunnuukkaaahhh?
Los Lobos - Heigh-Ho (Los Lobos Goes Disney)
ID

Segment 3
ID
Suburbs - Cows (In Combo)
Key Wilde & Mr Clarke - Big Pet Pig (Rise & Shine)
Milkshake - Shake It Up! (Great Day)
AudraRox - I Can Do It By Myself! (I Can Do It By Myself!)
ID/book time with Ella (Peter & the Starcatchers)
Lunch Money - I Love My Library (Dizzy)
Dean Jones - Roncando (feat. Uncle Rock) (Rock Paper Scissors)
Yosi & the Superdads - I Have a Little Dreidel (...and a Happy New Year) (Cup & Top on Tuesday after school - 4:00)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa (Christmas in the Heart)
Sufjan Stevens - The Friendly Beasts (See You on the Moon)
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem - It's a Big World
Renee & Jeremy - It Makes You Feel Good
Readeez - When I Dance (Songeez)
ID

Segment 5
Suburbs - Rattle My Bones
Clementown - Kansas City Octopus (Polkabats and Octopus Slacks)
Uncle Rock - Too Many Presents (live) (Express Your Elf)
The Come Ons - More (Holiday Hootenanny)
Marcy Gregoire - Spittin' Seeds (Spring) (this afternoon at 4 at Thornes, tomorrow at Barts, next Wednesday at Cup & Top)

Segment 6
Asylum Street Spankers - You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch (A Christmas Spanking)
Of Montreal - Brush Brush Brush (Yo Gabba Gabba)
Sippy Cups - My Loose Tooth (The Time Machine)
Shins - They'll Soon Discover
Danielle Sansone - Too Much Coffee (Two Flowers)
ID
They Might Be Giants - Solid Liquid Gas (Here Comes Science)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, December 04, 2009

2009-12-05 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Apartment Four (Here Come the 123s)
Keith Munslow - Spork (Homemade Fun) (12/18 at Thornes)
Bill Harley - 50 Ways to Fool Your Mother (tomorrow at Iron Horse)
Dennis Caraher - Chasing After Chickens (I Miss the Mud) (Today at Thornes)
ID/book time with Ella
Telephone Company - What Am I Gonna Do With This Baby (Panda Brain)

Segment 2
The New Standards - Favorite Things
Kimya Dawson - Happy Home (Keep On Writing)
ID/prep to rock
Hipwaders - The Books I Like to Read
Ben Kweller - The Things I Like to Do
Uncle Rock - The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
ID

Segment 3
ID
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem - Purple People Eater (Ranky Tanky)
Trip Shakespeare - Snow Days (Across the Universe)
Devo - Working in a Coal Mine
Danny Adlerman & Friends - Tikkun Olam (Cup & Top 12/15 4:00)
ID
Elvis Costello - What's So Funny 'Bout Peace Love and Understanding?

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Bill Harley Guest DJ Set

Segment 5
Bill Harley Guest DJ Set

Segment 6
Bill Harley Guest DJ Set
Bill Harley - Barbie's Head is Missing (I Wanna Play)
ID
TMBG - Alphabet of Nations (Here Come the ABCs)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, November 27, 2009

2009-11-28 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - No! (No!)
Dean Jones w/ Felice Brothers - Mama Said No (Rock Paper Scissors)
ID
Ladysmith Black Mambazo - People Get Ready (Cover the World)
Brian Wilson - Vega-Tables (Smile)
Alan Sparhawk - Be Nice to People With Lice (See You on the Moon!)
ID

Segment 2
Caspar Babypants - Take the Sun (More Please!)
Gustafer Yellowgold - I'm From the Sun (live at Spare the Rock)
Bing Crosby - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
ID/prep to rock
Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now
Songeez - Love's Enough (Songeez)
Bunny Clogs - Three Dogs and a Pancake (More! More! More!)
Replacements - Jungle Rock (All For Nothing)
ID

Segment 3
ElEmEnOs - The Planets
ID
Mama Doni - Channukah Fever (Channuka Fever)
Danny Adlerman & Friends - I'm Spending Hannukkah in Santa Monica (...and a Happy New Year)
ID (Danny & Yosi at Cup & Top on 12/15 at 4:00)
Mr. T Experience - Spider-Man (Greasy Kid Stuff 3)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Bring 'Em In (History + Rock 'n' Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)
Billy Kelly - People Really Like Milk (Thank You For Joining the Happy Club)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Guest DJ set from Max Germer:
Medeski Martin & Wood - Where's the Music
Lunch Money - Tricycle
Fountains of Wayne - Hey Julie
Lisa Loeb - Disappointing Pancake
School for the Dead - Ayla
Rosie Flores - Red Red Robin

Segment 5
Guest Dj set, continued:
Justin Roberts - Yellow Reflector
TMBG - C is for Conifers
Jack Johnson - Jungle Gym
K. McKarty - Like a Monkey in the Zoo
Fawns - Snow Day
Ralph's World - We Are Ants

Segment 6
ID
Primate Fiasco - Bourbon St. Parade (later today at First Churches!)
Asylum Street Spankers - Everybody Loves My Baby (live at Spare the Rock)
Daisy Mayhem - They All Ask'd For You (Ranky Danky)
ID
TMBG - Put It To the Test (Here Comes Science)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Saturday, November 21, 2009

2009-11-21 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
Mister G - Run (Pizza for Breakfast)
Peter Rundquist - Bug Feathers (Bug Feathers)
Rock Your Baby - Pony Boy
ID
Bruce Springsteen - Erie Canal (Seeger Sessions)

Segment 2
Bill Harley - Grownups Are Strange
BNL - Pollywog in a Bog
Promo for Hot Chocolate Run
ID/prep to rock
Jonathan Richman - Roadrunner
ScribbleMonster - All Ready to Go
ID

Segment 3
ID
Polyphonic Spree - Running Away
Mr. Richard - The Hey Hey Song
Lanny Sherwin - Meltdown
Uncle Rock - Hold It In My Heart (Express Your Elf)
ID
David Byrne - Don't Fence Me In

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Jellydots - It's Your Birthday (Jelly Jukebox)
Justin Roberts - It's Your Birthday (Meltdown)
Owl City - Fireflies (Ocean Eyes)
Sippy Cups - Starry Morning
The Specials - Rudi, A Message To You
ID
Fids & Kamily Awards:
11. The Not-Its - When I'm Five

Segment 5
10. Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family - Go Waggaloo (Go Waggaloo)
ID
9. Captain Bogg & Salty - Don't Drink Sea Water (Emphatical Piratical)
8. Billy Jonas - Eyes Wide Open (Happy Accident)
ID
7. Gustafer Yellowgold - Melter Swelter (Mellow Fever) (Iron Horse 3-14)
6. Milkshake - Happy Place (Great Day)

Segment 6
5. Ziggy Marley - Wings of an Eagle (Family Time)
4. Peter Himmelman - My Trampoline
(My Trampoline)
ID
3. Recess Monkey - The Teens (Field Trip)
2. Lunch Money - Everybody's Coming the Zoo (Dizzy)
ID/book time with Ella
TMBG - Science is Real (Here Comes Science)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, November 13, 2009

2009-11-14 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Shoehorn with Teeth (Lincoln)
Robbi K & Friends - Favorite Things (Music Makes Me Happy)
Butterflyfish - Ladybug (Ladybug)
ID
Harmonica Pocket - Spiders in My Breakfast (live at Spare the Rock)
Real Tuesday Weld - I Love the Rain

Segment 2
Renee & Jeremy - It's a Big World
Bill Brickey - Down in the Valley
ID/prep to rock
Boogers - This Song is About Transportation!
Baze & His Silly Friends - Everyone Everywhere (Toddlerville)
Daddy A Go Go - It's a Kids' World (Eat Every Bean and Pea on Your Plate)
Jimmies - Bedhead (Make Your Own Someday)
ID

Segment 3
Telephone Company - Bomb Pop (Panda Brain!)
Chuck Prophet - You Did
Board of Education - Ice Ages Are Fun! (at Cup & Top on 2/15)
ID
Jambo - It's a Good Day
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family - Take Me to Show & Tell
Trout Fishing in America - It's a Puzzle
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Dream Warriors - My Definition
Cathy & marcy - It's the Beatbox
Prince - Starfish and Coffee
Bunny Clogs - Confessions of a Teenage Lima Bean
Kool & the Gang - Funky Stuff
ID

Segment 5
Cloud Cult - Everybody Here is a Cloud
Money Mark - Robo Dancing (Yo Gabba Gabba)
Flannery Brothers - Jump Up and Down (Love Songs for Silly Things)
ID/book time with Ella
Dean Jones & Felice Brothers - Rock Paper Scissors
Southern Culture on the Skids - Te Ni Nee Ni Nu (Countrypolitan Favorites)

Segment 6
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Daisy Mayhem - If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out
Earth Wind & Fire - Shining Star
Deedle Deedle Dees - Party Girl (History + Rock 'n' Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)
ID
TMBG - LMNO
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, November 06, 2009

2009-11-07 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (Here Comes Science)
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family - Bright Clear Day (Go Waggaloo)
School for the Dead - Beautiful Day in the Woods (Ayla)
Liz Mitchell - You Are My Sunshine (You Are My Sunshine)
ID
Zee Avi - Honey Bee
David Tobocman - Home (I Count to Ten)

Segment 2
Lunch Money - Umbrella (Silly Reflection)
Frances England - Sleepyhead Mommy (Family Tree)
ID/prep to rock
ScribbleMonster - Chocolate Milk (Chocolate Milk)
Paul Westerberg - Love You in the Fall (Open Season)
Clementown - Bathtub Driver (Polkabats and Octopus Slacks - The Music!)
ID
Sugar Free Allstars - Bathtub Boy (Live)
Princess Katie & Racer Steve - Tell Them How You Feel (Songs for the Coolest Kids)
ID (guest DJ set up next)

Segment 3
Guest DJ set from Ben:
ID
Altered Images - Happy Birthday
Wings - Heart of the Country
Weezer - Pork and Beans
Split Enz - I Got You
The Phenomenauts - (Don't Give Me That) Broccoli

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Cloud Cult - Lucky Today (Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus)
Duplex! - Alive
Artichoke - Iguana
The Format - Does Your Cat Have a Mustache?
Zoe Lewis - Sheep (Folk Playground)
ID

Segment 5
Dean Jones (w/ Felice Brothers) - Sing Like a Sparrow
Theresa Andersson - Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Funky Kidz)
ID/Beautiful Future plug/book time with Ella
Vampire Weekend - Horchata
Keith Munslow - Baby Brother (Homemade Fun)
Bill Harley - Wash Your Hands
ID

Segment 6
ID
Verve Pipe - Wake Up (A Family Album)
Eric Herman and the Invisible Band - Come Play (What a Ride)
Baze & His Silly Friends - Time of Your Life (Toddlerville)
The Shins - It's Okay, Try Again (Yo Gabba Gabba)
The Good Miss Padgett - Love My Kitty (The Good Miss Padgett)
Parker Bent - Lucky Day (Charlie Davidson's Tricycle Club)
Ratboy Jr. - Floating Up
ID
TMBG - Other Mother Song
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Saturday, October 31, 2009

2009-10-31 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Hovering Sombrero '05 (Here Come the ABCs)
Tom Knight in-studio

Segment 2
Steve Weeks - 4 Little Girls
Telephone Company - The Old Man Song (Panda Brain)
ID/prep to rock
Baze and His Silly Friends - Scare Me Scare You!
Mighty Weaklings - The Monster Under My Bed
ID

Segment 3
REM and Muppet Rocker - Furry Happy Monsters
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You
Monty Harper - Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet
ID
Ralph's World - Monster
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Spellbound

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
ScribbleMonster - A Monster Goes Rrraargh!
Los Straightjackets - Munsters Theme
Laura Freeman - My Brother's a Monster
Clementown - Skeleton Flowers
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Boogie Man
ID/play time with Ella

Segment 5
Tom Waits - Heigh Ho (The Marching Song)
ID
Pixies - Tony's Theme
Robbert Bobbert - We R Superheroes
School for the Dead - Superhero
ID
CandyBand w/ Detroit Youth Symphony - Monsters
Wee Scary Beasties - Pumpkinhead
Keith Munslow - Boogieman

Segment 6
ID
I'm From Barcelona - Just Because It's Different Doesn't Mean Scary (Yo Gabba Gabba)
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1
Bobby "Boris" Pickett - Monster Mash
ID
Uncle Rock - Picnic in the Graveyard
Sippy Cups - Day After Halloween
ID
TMBG - Experimental Film
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, October 23, 2009

2009-10-24 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Thanks to Sarah Lee & Johnny and to Dan Zanes for coming by!

Here's what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - E Eats Everything
Sarah Lee & Johnny In-Studio
- If Mama Had Four Hands
- Take Me to Show-and-Tell

Segment 2
Wilco - What Light
Astrograss - The Homework Machine
Aric Bieganek - Central Park Kitty (live in-studio) (1:00 at Eric Carle Museum)
ID/prep to rock
Hipwaders - Twitchy
Deedle Deedle Dees - Bring 'Em In (History + Rock and Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)
CandyBand - Wheels on the Bus (CandyBand)
ID

Segment 3
Pogues - Metropolis
Peter Himmelman - Feet (My Green Kite)
Terrible Twos - Lily Names Everthing Sandy (Jerzy the Giant)
Mr. Richard - Tummy Talk
ID/book time with Ella
The Roots - Lovely, Love My Family
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Family Tree
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Jim Armenti - The Great Pumpkin Roll (Town Center Library Project)
Vibrations - Ain't No Greens in Harlem
Dick Dale & Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pipeline
Juliana Hatfield & Tanya Donelly - Josie & the Pussycats
Danny Adlerman & Friends - How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck? (One Size Fits All)

ID

Segment 5
Dan Zanes in-studio:
Catch That Train
Rock Island Line
Moonlit Town

Segment 6
Sippy Cups - Magic Toast
NRBQ - RC Cola and a Moon Pie
Justin Roberts - Maybe the Monster
ID
TMBG - The Bloodmobile (Here Comes Science)

Friday, October 16, 2009

2009-10-17 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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If you want to win a pair of tickets to see Dan Zanes & Friends on Friday at the UMass Fine Arts Center, send me an e-mail (show AT sparetherock DOT com) with the name of the DZAF song we played today by the end of the day on Sunday. One lucky e-mailer will win!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - What Is a Shooting Star?
The Nields - Percy on Pluto (Rock All Day, Rock All Night)
Little Mo' McCoury - Man Gave Names to All the Animals (Little Mo' McCoury)
ID
Trout Fishing in America - What I Want is a Proper Cup of Coffee (Family Music Party)
Lead Belly - Rock Island Line (Sings for Children)

Segment 2
Miles Davis - Move (Birth of the Cool)
Gunnar Madsen - Sun Comes Up
ID/prep to rock
B-52s - Rock Lobster
Miz B - Raise the Brain(Raise the Brain)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 3
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees - Growl Growl (History + Rock 'n' Roll = Deedle Deedle Dees)
Duplex! - Orange Popsicle (Worser)
Princess Katie & Racer Steve - Jeans!
ID
Ramones - Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio
Jimmies - Do the Elephant (Live) (Trying Funny Stuff)
ID

Segments 4 & 5
Guest DJ set from Uncle Rock:
Dean Jones & the Felice Bros - Hail Hail the Gang's All Here
Paul McCartney & Wings - Magneto & Titanium Man
Daniel Lavoie - Le Baby Dragon
Alan Lomax - Down in the Valley
Donovan - Riki Tiki Tavi
Uncle Rock - The Night the Lights Went Out
Wanda Jackson - Let's Have a Party
Phillips Wonders - Hambone
Kim Walsh - The Troll
Tarantainas De La Casa Sin Pared
Pete Seeger - I Know a Little Girl
Dave Clark 5 - Live in the Sky
Dean Jones - Baby in My Pocket

Segment 6
(Dan Zanes ticket giveaway)
Dan Zanes & Friends - I Won't Grow Up (76 Trombones)
Rhythm Child - Riding on the Bus (Eat a Bowl of Cherries)
ID
Asylum Street Spankers - Don't Turn Out the Light (Mommy Says No!)
ID
TMBG - Particle Man
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, October 09, 2009

2009-10-10 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Thanks to Laura Doherty for her guest DJ set! Remember, she's doing a benefit for Noho Pride this coming Thursday at 4:00 at the Florence Civic Center. Tickets are available at Cup & Top Cafe.

Friday, October 02, 2009

2009-10-03 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Thanks to Aric Bieganek for a great guest DJ set! You can listen to the show any time you like on our page at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - How Many Planets?
Hipwaders - The Books I Like to Read
Steve Weeks - Monkeys
Tarika Sammy - Hendry (African Playground)
ID
ScribbleMonster - Scratchy Records (Songs with No Character)

Segement 2:
Uncle Rock - Please Don't Make Me Laugh When I'm Upset (live at Spare the Rock)
Johnny Bregar - 9 lb hammer
ID/prep to rock
Captain Bogg & Salty - Emphatical Piratical
Pixies - La La Love You
Yosi & the Superdads - Funky Monkey

Segment 3
Soccer Team - I'll Never Fear Ghosts Again (Play)
Chris Collingwood - Cookie Jar
AudraRox - All My Toys Are Broken
ID
Artichoke - Elephant


Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Aric Bieganek guest DJ
Beatles - Nowhere Man
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
The Who - Boris the Spider
James Brown - Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
Aric Bieganek - Bright Lights, Big Kitty


Segment 5
Aric Bieganek guest DJ
Blitzen Trapper - Sleepytime in the Western World
John Vanderslice - Time Travel is Lonely
Paul Westerberg - Jingle
Golden Smog - Starman
Joey Ramone - What a Wonderful World

Segment 6
ID
Mister G - Pony with a Problem
Renee & Jeremy - Do Do Do Do (C'mon)
Jellydots - Adventure Quest!
Bob Marley - Redemption Song (B is for Bob)
ID
TMBG - I Am a Paleontologist
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, September 25, 2009

2009-09-26 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Electric Car
Ratboy Jr - Playing on the Patio

Segment 2
Ratboy Jr - Playing on the Patio, pt. 2
ID/prep to rock
Justin Roberts - Picture Day (Way Out)
Primal Scream - Movin' On Up
ID

Segment 3
Spoon - Fitted Shirt
Donovan - I Love My Shirt
ID
Uncle Rock - (It's Hot! Don't Touch It!)
Earth Wind & Fire - Sing a Song
Wee Scary Beasties - Monster's Disco
ID

Segment 4
Keith Munslow guest DJ set:
(Doin' The) Boom Boom - Eli Paperboy Reed
Lollipop - Corn Mo
New Year's Eve in a Haunted House - Raymond Scott Orchestra
Brand New Key - Melanie
Chattanooga Shoeshine Boy- Dan Hicks
Spork - Keith Munslow (Homemade Fun)

Segment 5:
Keith Munslow guest DJ set:
Linus & Lucy - Vine Guaraldi Trio
Me and My Arrow - Harry Nilsson
Shuffle Off To Buffalo - The Boswell Sisters
Everybody Eats When They Come To My House - Cab Calloway
Are You Gonna Eat That? - Keith Munslow (Homemade Fun)

Segment 6
ID
Jellydots - Where Is My Package? (Jelly Jukebox)
War - Why Can't We Be Friends?
Dan Zanes - Cape Cod Girls (The Fine Friends Are Here!)
Michelle Shocked - Flying Lesson
ID
TMBG - One Everything

Friday, September 18, 2009

2009-09-19 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Pirate Girls Nine
Sam Hinton - Whoever Shall Have Some Good Peanuts
Randy Kaplan - Loquat Rooftop (Loquat Rooftop)
ID
Fox & Branch - Bear Hunt
Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel - Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon
ID

Segment 2
Lee Dorsey - Ya Ya (New Orleans Playground)
Booker T - Hey Ya (Potato Hole)
ID/prep to rock
Teddybears - Cobrastyle
Strange Kidz - Superhero
Ellen and Matt - Juice Box Rock
ID (and thanks to piratejokes.net)

Segment 3
Recess Monkey - Centipede Pirate
Board of Education - The Many Uses, and Dangers, of Commas
ID
Mighty Weaklings - It's Sunny When You Share
Robin Vaughan - What Do You Like More? (Rock 'n' Roll Coochicoo Revue)
ID
SteveSongs - On a Flying Guitar

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Egg - Zoom!
Flannery Bros - One Wasn't Enough
ID
Keith Munslow - Are You Gonna Eat That?
ID/book time with Ella
Syd Barrett - Effervescing Elephant
The Telephone Company - I-C-E C-R-E-A-M

Segment 5
Bruce Haack - Robot Dance
Mr. Leebot - Robot Dance (Extended Data Mix)
Robbert Bobbert - I Am a Clock
ID
Laura Doherty - Elevator Escalator
BNL - Crazy ABCs
Nields - ABC (Rock All Day, Rock All Night)
ID

Segment 6
Deedle Deedle Dees- Stand Up Straight (Let It Dee)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Underground Railroad (Freedom in a Box!)
ID
Dan Zanes (w/ Loudon Wainwright III) - All Around the Kitchen
Bruce Springsteen - Pay Me My Money Down (Seeger Sessions)
ID
TMBG - My Brother the Ape (Here Comes Science)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, September 11, 2009

2009-09-12 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Roy G. Biv
Esquivel! - Begin the Beguine
Dog on Fleas - Beautiful World
Frances England - Animal Inside You
ID
Dan Zanes & Friends - Night Owl
ID

Segment 2
Dr. John - Row Row Row Your Boat
Steve Pullara & His Cool Beans Band - A Big Fat Pig (Zooboogie!)
Jon Langford - Take This Hammer
ID/prep to rock
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Kinder Words (Question the Answers)
The Quiet Ones - Ultrafoot (Make Some Noise)
CandyBand - Pancake Mountain
ID

Segment 3
Obama speech

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Milkshake - Dance in the Sun
Mister G - Fun
Chickasaw Mudd Puppies - Jambalaya
ID/book time with Ella
Cathy & Marcy - Soup, Soup

Segment 5
Primate Fiasco - South Pole and the Pyramids (Geek Dreams)
Flannery Brothers - Jump Up and Down (Flannery Brothers)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Henry Box Brown (Freedom in a Box)
ID
Baby Loves Jazz Band - Scat Song
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Gotta Be Me

Segment 6
v/a - Chickens
Meters - Chicken Strut
Asylum Street Spankers - Super Frog
Medeski Martin & Wood - Where's the Music?
Shinyribs - Birthday is Over
ID
TMBG - Photosynthesis (Here Comes Science)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, September 04, 2009

2009-09-05 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 - Why Does the Sun Really Shine?
Kimya Dawson - Sunbeams and Some Beans
White Stripes - We Are Going to Be Friends
ID
Kirsty Hawkshaw - Telephone Song
Elizabeth Mitchell - 3 is a Magic Number
ID

Segment 2
Northamptones - Mushaboom
Don Robertson - The Happy Whistler
ID/prep to rock
Elvis Costello - Veronica
Mommie - Shadow (Mommie's Dearest)
Guided by Voices - Hank's Little Fingers
Artichoke - Sea Urchin (26 Animals)
ID

Segment 3
Los Lobos - Jenny's Got a Pony
Meters - Ride Your Pony
Charity & the JAMband - Whatcha Gonna Bring?
ID
Mister G - Squirrels (Pizza for Breakfast)
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Fat Cat Keeps Getting Fatter
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Eric Herman & the Invisible Band - How to Move a Monster (What a Ride!)
Hipwaders - Twitchy
Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life
ID/prep to rock
Weezer - My Best Friend

Segment 5
Killian Mansfield - Starman (feat. Todd Rundgren)
Rocknoceros - Playground (Pink)
ID
Flaming Lips - Yeah Yeah Yeah Song

Segment 6
Keith Munslow - Watchin' All the Cars Go By
Human Tim + Robot Tim - Lizard on My Leg
Southern Culture on the Skids - Camel Walk
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees - Aaron Burr
ID
TMBG - Speed and Velocity (Here Comes Science)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, August 28, 2009

2009-08-29 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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And thanks to StarFish for a fun guest DJ set!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - I'm a Paleontologist
The Good Ms. Padgett - Love My Kitty (The Good Ms. Padgett)
Jason Mraz - Rainbow Connection For the Kids Too)
Clem Snide - Fontanelle
ID
Sippy Cups - One Day Soon (The Time Machine)
David Tobocman - Home (I Count to Ten)
ID

Segment 2
CSNY - Our House
Gustafer Yellowgold - I Jump on Cake
Lunch Money - I Want a Dog (Silly Reflection)
ID/prep to rock
Deedle Deedle Dees - Teddy Days
Uncle Rock - Too Many Presents
Billy Bragg - The Beach is Free
ID

Segment 3
Justin Roberts Interview
Laura Doherty - Hot Dog (Kids in the City)
Duplex! - Orange Popsicle (Worser)
ID
Debbie & Friends - Opposite (Story Songs & Sing Alongs)
Flannery Brothers - Sunglasses
Jonathan Richman - Corner Store
ID

Segment 4
Starfish guest DJ set
ELO - Rock & Roll is King
Monkees - Last Train to Clarksville
Sweet - Little Willie
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Hoodoo Voodoo
Starfish - Here Comes Trouble

Segment 5
Smithereens - Cry for a Shadow
Eddie Coker - Save Our Planet
The Who - Pinball Wizard
StarFish - Air Guitar

Segment 6
Marvin Gaye - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Keith Munslow - Every Day is a Summer Day (Homemade Fun)
ID
Killian Mansfield - Love in My Food (with Ralph Legnini and Kate Pierson)
Suburbs - Rattle My Bones
ID
TMBG - Put It to the Test
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, August 21, 2009

2009-08-22 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Thanks to Alice for coming by, and remember: Justin Roberts. Tomorrow! Iron Horse.

Listen to the show any old time you like at our streaming archive page at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Electric Car
Keith Munslow - The Leftovers (Homemade Fun)
Golden Smog - Pecan Pie (Down by the Old Mainstream)
ID
Dennis Caraher - Chasin' After Chickens (I Miss the Mud)

Segment 2
Asylum Street Spankers - Everybody Loves My Baby
Velvet Underground - I'll Be Your Mirror
Liz Mitchell - Jubilee (You Are My Sunshine)
ID/prep to rock
Fountains of Wayne - Laser Show
Deedle Deedle Dees - Ina Mina Dika (Let It Dee) (Iron Horse 9/20)
Recess Monkey - Fort (Field Trip)
ID

Segment 3
Milkshake - Shake It Up (Great Day)
Quiet Ones - Invisible Trousers (Make Some Noise)
Polyphonic Spree - Running Away (Fragile Army)
ID
Jimmies - Cool to be Uncool (Live) (Trying Funny Stuff)
I'm From Barcelona - Treehouse (Sing!)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Artichoke - Vulture
School for the Dead - Superhero
Robyn Hitchcock - Balloon Man
ID/book time with Ella and Alice
Telephone Company - Mustache (The King's Surprise?)
Gustafer Yellowgold - Your Eel

Segment 5
Patsy Cline - Gotta Lot of Rhythm in My Soul
Cathy & March - Soup, Soup
Father Goose - Flying Machine (It's a Bam Bam Diddly!)
ID
Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart (World Clique)
Mr. Leebot - Bouncing Off the Walls (Robot Dance)
ID

Segment 6
ID
Justin Roberts - Pop Fly (Pop Fly)
ID
Hipwaders - Sesame Street theme
Dutch Sesame Street theme
Duplex - Stupid Things I Have Done
Ralph's World - Do the Math (Rhyming Circus)
Dreamtree Shakers - Don't Pick on a Porcupine (Dream and You Will see)
ID
TMBG - Science is Real
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, August 14, 2009

2009-08-15 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 -Sleepwalking
Dean Jones - Needs (Nappers' Delight)
Tom Waits - Young at Heart (Brawlers, Bawlers...)
Laura Doherty - Farmer's Market (Kids in the City)
ID
Rusty Belle - Run from the Sun

Segment 2
Housemartins - You've Got a Friend
Butterflyfish - Lemonade (Ladybug)
Sweetback Sisters - Have You Seen My Chicken?
ID/prep to rock
Artichoke - Dog (26 Animals)
Jellydots - Bicycle

Segment 3
ID
Milkshake - I Want It Recipe (Great Day)
ScribbleMonster - All Ready to Go!
Duplex! - That's How We Make a Sandwich (Worser)
ID
Mr. RAY - Wait Your Turn
Beatles - Yellow Submarine
Sippy Cups - 7 is the New 14
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Nields - Who Are You Not to Shine?
Renee & Jeremy - Share (Wonder)
Hullaballoo - 400 Cupcakes (High Roller)
ID
De La Soul - The Magic Number
ID

Segment 5
Manu Chao - Bongo Bong (Clandestino)
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - The Bluegrasshopper
Spiral Up Kids - In the Fiddle is a Song
ID
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic

Segment 6
ID
Justin Roberts - Meltdown (Meltdown)
Sanford & Son Theme
Bob Marley - One Love/People Get Ready
Starfish - Starfish & Coffee
ID
TMBG - Four of Two
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, August 07, 2009

2009-08-08 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Hovering Sombrero 05
Lullatone - Bedroom Bossa Band (Plays Pajama Pop Pour Vous)
Brian Eno - I'll Come Running (Another Green World)
The Good Ms. Padgett - I'm a Little Doodlebug (The Good Ms. Padgett)
ID
Nields - The Fox (All Together Singing in the Kitchen)
Medeski Martin & Wood - All Around the Kitchen

Segment 2
John & Mark - The Elephant Leads the Way
Brandi Carlile - Have You Ever
ID/prep to rock
Beatles - Twist & Shout (Please Please Me)
Frances England - Free to Be Me (Family Tree)
Bill Janovitz - The Farm Where Everyone Does What They Want To Do (Rock 'n' Roll Coochicoo Revue)
Jimmies - Every Day's a Holiday With You (Live) (Trying Funny Stuff DVD/CD)
ID

Segment 3
Yosi - B-E-A-C-H (Super Kids Rock!)
Junior Brown - Surf Medley
ID
Apples in Stereo - Energy
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Peter Himmelman - My Trampoline (My Trampoline)
Bjork - It's So Quiet (Post)
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Robots Can't Cry (Easy bonus track)
Human Tim + Robot Tim - Little Robot (Pop of the Tots)
ID

Segment 5
Lunch Money In-Studio

Segment 6
ID
Billy Bragg - My Flying Saucer (live - Riversound Cafe)
Justin Roberts - Backyard Spaceship (Way Out)
Slavic Soul Party - Never Gonna Let You Go
Oingo Boingo - Weird Science (OST)
ID
TMBG - Seven Days of the Week
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, July 31, 2009

2009-08-01 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Thanks to Jay Mankita for coming by the studio, and to Tor Hyams for his guest DJ set. Head on over to the Eric Carle Museum for the Picnic Playground show.

As always, you can listen to the show any time you want at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - What Is a Shooting Star? (GKS 2)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Major Deegan
Ben Rudnick & Friends - Erie Canal (Frog Named Sam)
Submarines - My Darling Clementine (For the Kids Three)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 2
Randy Kaplan - Clothes Dryer (Loquat Rooftop)
Mariana Iranzi - Caballito (Aventura Collage)
ID/prep to rock
ScribbleMonster - I Wish I Lived in Michigan (I Wish I Lived in Michigan)
Pencilhead & the Playground Punks - Super
Toots & the Maytalls - Funky Kingston
ID

Segment 3
Jay Mankita in-studio

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Tor Hyams guest DJ set:
Care Bears on Fire - Everybody Else
Ralph's World - Fe Fi Fo Fum
Lunch Money - Cookie as Big as My Head
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Gotta Be Me
Frances England - I Scream, You Scream
Justin Roberts - Day Camp

Segment 5
Tor Hyams continued:
Perry Ferrell - Patience Bossa
Zach Gill - Family
Q Brothers - You Make Me Feel Good
Imagination Movers - Sunblock
Recess Monkey - Bubble Factory
Ziggy Marley - Take Me to Jamaica

Segment 6
ID
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
Robbert Bobbert - Hey Little Puppy
Beach Boys - Surfin' USA
ID
TMBG - The Bloodmobile
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, July 24, 2009

2009-07-25 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Remember: Lunch Money at the Iron Horse on Sunday 7/25 at 2:00 (1:30 doors)!

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Alphabet Lost and Found
Frances England - Firefly
Charlie Hope in-studio

Segment 2
Buddy & Julie Miller - Ellis County (Written in Chalk)
Steve Weeks - Professor Poindexter... (Alphabet Songs Vol. 2)
ID/prep to rock
Sippy Cups - My Angry Voice
Key Wilde & Mr Clarke - Big Pet Pig
ID

Segment 3
Beck - Funky Lil Song
Jim Noir - Eanie Meany
Los Straitjackets - Cal-Speed
ID/book time with Ella
The Not-Its - B.A.T.H.

Segments 4 & 5
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Molly set:
Rock N' Roll Band - Shel Silverstein
Flying a Plane - Douglas Chay
Superball - Aimee Mann
Wyoming - The Lucksmiths
Smokey - The Floor Pillows (Jay & Molly)

Jay set:
Batman - The Jam
Destination Venus - Man or Astroman
Survival Car - Fountains of Wayne
People Get up and Drive Your Funky Soul

J.P. set:
Quiet - Jump. Little Children
Everybody to the Limit - Homestar Runner
From the Tops of Trees - Danielle Howle

Segment 6
Johnny Bregar - Shoo Fly Pie (Picnic Playground)
ID
Lunch Money - I Love My Library (Dizzy)
ID
Michael Franti - Say Hey (I Love You)
Baby Loves Jazz Band - Ears Hang Low
Kaiser Cartel - The Season Song (Park Slope Parents)
ID
TMBG - Alphabet Lost and Found
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, July 17, 2009

2009-07-18 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Thanks to Recess Monkey for coming by, and to Adam Levy for the guest DJ set!

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Where Do They Make Balloons? (No!)
Nikolai Moderbacher - Papa Can I Help You
Justin Roberts - Dad Caught Stars (Not Naptime)
Barenaked Ladies - Things
ID
Lyle Lovett & Randy Newman - You've Got a Friend in Me (Songs From the Movies)

Segment 2
Okee Dokee Brothers - Wiggle Worm (Kids With Beards)
Kimya Dawson - Bobby-O (Alphabutt)
Pascal Parisot - Mes Parents Sont Bio (Picnic Playground) (Carle 8/1)
ID/prep to rock
Hold Steady - Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Hipwaders - Spoil the Rock
CandyBand - Time Out (Lollipunk)
The Not-Its - When I'm Five (We Are the Not-Its)
ID

Segment 3
Adam Levy of the Bunny Clogs Guest DJ Set

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
New Ps - Twin Cinema
Mr. Leebot - It Wasn't Me (Robot Dance)
Pianosaurus - Ready to Rock.
Dream Jam Band - Nicky Nicky Knock Knock (Kidzapalooza Vol 1)
Board of Education - 8 Is a Number
ID

Segment 5
Recess Monkey In-Studio

Segment 6
Baby Loves Jazz - Make Me Want to Scat (Baby Loves Jazz)
Michael Franti & Spearhead - East to the West
Peaches & Herb - Shake Your Groove Thing
Lunch Money - Tiny Dinosaurs (Dizzy)
ID
TMBG - One Two Three Four
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, July 10, 2009

2009-07-11 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)
Liz Mitchell - Down in the Valley
Renee & Jeremy - Three Little Birds (It's a Big World)
Uncle Rock - Picnic in the Graveyard
Frances England - Charlie Parker (Fascinating Creatures)
ID

Segment 2
Charlie Hope - I'm Me! (I'm Me!)
Johnny Bregar - Ice Cream Man
ID/prep to rock
The Not-Its - The Great Compromise (We Are The Not-Its!)
Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues

Segment 3
Justin Roberts - Day Camp (Way Out)
Brian Waite Band - Off to Atlantis City (Neptune Theater)
Moey's Music Party - I Always Sit When I Eat
ID
Egg - Flip Flops (Sunny Side Up)
Wee Hairy Beasties - Animal Crackers (Animal Crackers)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID/in-studio with the Mudcakes
Monkey Boy
How Many Teeth?
Don't Poke the Baby

Segment 5
Son Volt - Windfall
ID
Recess Monkey - Fort (Field Trip)
Harmonica Pocket - Firefly (Ladybug One)
Ziggy Marley (w/ Willie Nelson) - This Train
Michael Jackson - Rockin' Robin
ID

Segment 6
ID
Jonathan Richman - New England
Dog on Fleas - Give It Away (When I Get Little)
Lunch Money - Are You a Rabbit?
ID
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Family Tree (Easy)
White Stripes - Rag & Bone
ID
TMBG - Robot Parade

Friday, June 26, 2009

2009-06-27 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Recess Monkey took over the whole darn show! See them at the Eric Carle Museum on Sunday, July 12!

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Set One
It’s Spare the Rock – TMBG
Hi Five – TMBG
ID: Recess Monkey is moving in! The Seattle Set!
Picnic - Young Fresh Fellows
Free Like a Bird – Caspar Babypants
Tinfoil Robots – Central Services Board of Education
ID: MayMo hangs his taster spoons.
Marshmallow Farm – Recess Monkey
When I’m Five – The Not-Its

Set Two
ID: MayMo wants to add French doors
Heart of the Country - Paul McCartney
Country Life – Dan Zanes
ID: Are you prepared to rock!? Can you hear it over the construction!?
James Kolchaka Sperstar - Hockey Monkey
Allegies – Barenaked Ladies
It Must be Summer
Hipwaders - Speed of Love

Set Three
ID: It’s buggy outside! The Bug Set
Spiders in my Breakfast - The Harmonica Pocket
Ladybug - The Terrible Twos
ID: Jack discovers the renovations!
Bugging - The Flaming Lips
Muzzle of Bees - Wilco

Set Four
Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child – Scribble Monster
ID: The return of Mischievous Monkey! He’s itchy?
Furry Happy Monsters – R.E.M.
Bedhead- The Jimmies
ID: The hair set: Mischievous Monkey has a case of lice!
L.I.C.E.- Recess Monkey
Gonna Cut My Hair- Rocknoceros
Henrietta’s Hair – Justin Roberts

Set Five
ID: Mischievous Monkey just got on a bus for home
I’ve Been Everywere – Johnny Cash
There Their They’re – Astrograss
ID: Those are tough homophones!
Old Dan Tucker – Bruce Springstein
Tantrum – The Deedle Deedle Dees

Set Six
ID: MayMo just got the new John Vanderslice CD!
DIALO – John Vanderslice
I Gotta Be Me – Secret Agent 23 Skidoo
Not For You – George Harrison
I Love You Too – Ziggy Marley
Happy Doesn’t Have to Have a Happy Ending – TMBG
ID: One last plug
Spare The Rock Outro – TMBG

Friday, June 19, 2009

2009-06-20 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

How fun was Ziggy Marley's guest DJ set? That was great, and thanks again to Ziggy for putting that together for us!

And also, remember -- Brady Rymer is playing TODAY at the Taste of Amherst at noon!

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - D&W
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose (Van Lear Rose)
Steve Weeks - Aaron & His Aeroplane (Alphabet Songs Vol 1)
ID
Jim Cosgrove - Buggy Hop (Upside Down)
Trout Fishing in America - Something Sweet (Chicken Joe)

Segment 2
Renee & Jeremy - Rely (Wonder)
Asylum Street Spankers - Think About Your Troubles (Mommy Says No)
ID/prep to rock
CandyBand - Get Up Already (LolliPunk)
Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
Princess Katie & Racer Steve - Go, Go, Go! (Fast & Feisty)

ID

Segment 3
Jimmies - What's That Sound? (Make Your Own Someday)
The Boy Least Likely To - When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade
Rocknoceros - Playground (Pink)
ID
Elvis Costello - What's So Funny ('Bout Peace Love & Understanding)?
Daddy A Go Go - Come On, Get Happy
ID

Segment 4
Ziggy Marley guest DJ

Segment 5
Ziggy Marley guest DJ

Segment 6
ID
Brady Rymer & the Little Band that Could - Your Smile
John & Mark - The Lawnmower (John & Mark's Children's Record)
Bjork - Human Behavior
ID
TMBG - The Secret Life of Six (Here Come the 123s)

Friday, June 12, 2009

2009-06-13 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Thanks to Ashley from the Jimmies for guest DJing!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Apartment Four
John & Mark - Counting Error
Fine Frenzy - Come Out
Ginger Hendrix - How the Days Go By
Dan Zanes & Friends - Mananera

Segment 2
Lou Reed & Laurie Anderson - Gentle Breeze
Renee & Jeremy - It's a Big World
ID/prep to rock
Terrible Twos - Jump Jump Jump
Clash - Lost in the Supermarket
Bunny Clogs - 3 Dogs and a Pancake
Lunch Money - Roller Coaster
ID

Segment 3
Recess Monkey - S-L-E-E-P-Over
Pixies - Tony's Theme
Breeders - Divine Hammer
BB King & Sesame Street - BB King
ID/book time with Ella
Ziggy Marley -
ID

Segment 4 & 5 - Jimmies Guest DJ Set

Segment 6
Brady Rymer & the Little Band That Could - Jump Up
Big Jeff - Big Pterodactyl in the Sky
Rolling Stones - She's a Rainbow
Mommie - Shadow
ID
TMBG - Zeros
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, June 05, 2009

2009-06-06 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen on demand at WRSI.com! It rocks.

Thanks especially to Monte and his kids Atticus and Enzo (and to Profesora Belmonte, silent as often) for the second half of the show!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Seven Days of the Week
Schoolhouse Rock - Electricity, Electricity
ID
Ella Fitzgerald - Two Little Men in a Flying Saucer
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - Flying Saucer Dudes
Billy Bragg & Wilco - My Flying Saucer
ID

Segment 2
Booker T - Get Behind the Mule
Billy Jonas - Eyes Wide Open
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - 813 Mile Car Trip
Brady Rymer & the Little Band That Could - Road Trip
ID
Babe the Blue Ox - Mensy

Segment 3
Shonen Knife - Fruits & Vegetables
Danny Adlerman & Friends - The Veggie Song (Listen Up!)
ID
Sippy Cups - Don't Remove the Groove (Time Machine)
Robbert Bobbert - I Am A Clock (Bubble Machine)
Kid Koala - Fruit Belt (See You on the Moon)
Mocean Worker - Chick A Boom Boom
ID

Friday, May 29, 2009

2009-05-30 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Birds Fly (Then)
Tom Freund - Seashells (w/ Victoria Williams)
Victoria Williams - Moon River
Jayhawks - This Little Light of Mine (Down By the Riverside)
ID
Asylum Street Spankers - Don't Turn Out the Light (Mommy Says No!)

Segment 2
Lamar Holley - Parts of a Plant (Classroom Pop Vol 1)
Johnny Bregar - Dragonfly (Dragonfly)
Liz Mitchell - You Are My Sunshine (You Are My Sunshine)
ID/prep to rock
Uncle Rock - Rock Out! (Plays Well With Others)
Paper Moon - Your Attitude Towards Cuttlefish (For the Kids Too)
ID (backsell River Rack)

Segment 3
Baby Grands - Why Is It W?
Go Team - Doing it Right
Yosi - Let's Get Cookin' (What's Eatin' Yosi?)
ID
Mike Doughty - More Bacon than the Pan Can Handle (Golden Delicious)
Bzots - Workin' the Assembly Line (Powered Up!)
Moby - Anchovie (Mary Had a Little Amp)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
AudraRox - I Like to Pretend (I Can Do It By Myself)
U2 - Discotheque
Strange Kidz - Rocket Croc' (Kidz Album)
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Luck (Easy)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 5
Tom Waits - New Coat of Paint
Pianosaurus - Sun Will Follow (Groovy Neighborhood)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Aaron Burr (Freedom in a Box)
ID
Sharp Cookies - Let It Rain
Mary Lou Lord & Semisonic - Sugar Sugar
ID

Segment 6
Mudcakes - Cave Baby (Cup & Top, Tuesday July 7, 4;00)

Recess Monkey - Centipede Pirate (Sunday, July 12)
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - This Land is Your Land (Green River Festival July 17-18)
Lunch Money - Ate Too Much of My Favorite Food (Dizzy) (Iron Horse July 26)
ID
TMBG - Fake Believe (Type B)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, May 22, 2009

2009-05-23 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Ballad of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space) (Block Party)
Frances England - Digging in the Dirt (Fascinating Creatures)
M. Ward - Radio Campaign
Gustafer Yellowgold - Beard for All Seasons (Have You Never Been Yellow?)
ID
Mary Kaye - Bug (Music Box)
Sweet Honey in the Rock - Shoo Fly (I Got Shoes)
ID

Segment 2
Harmonica Pocket - Ladybug 123 (dub) (Ladybug One)
Mudcakes - Bugs (Cave Baby)
ID (Mudcakes at Cup & Top on Tuesday July 7, 4:00)/prep to rock
Duplex - Noble Gases (Worser)
Arcwelder - Bob Sez (Jacket Made in Canada)
Violent Femmes - Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah (Means I Love You)
ID

Segment 3
Sippy Cups - My Angry Voice (Time Machine)
Weezer - My Best Friend
Justin Roberts - Best Friend (Way Out)
ID (August 23, Iron Horse)
White Stripes - We Are Going to Be Friends
Egg - La La La (I Love You)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Rolling Stones - Route 66
Dog on Fleas - Green Grass of Summer (When I Get Little)
Lucas Miller - Go Wild - Read! (I Was a Supa Dupa Pupa)
ID/book time with Ella
Human_Tim + Robot_Tim - Froggies (Pop of the Tots!)

Segment 5
Deedle Deedle Dees - Nellie Bly (Freedom in a Box)
Kimya Dawson - Happy Home (Keep on Writing)
Billy Kelly - Don't Worry About the Government (Thank You For Joining the Happy Club)
ID
Gourds - Shake the Chandelier (Heavy Ornamentals)

Segment 6
ID
Ziggy Marley - ABC (Family Time)
Wee Hairy Beasties - Road Safety Song (Animal Crackers)
ID
Aric Bieganek - Central Park Kitty (Bright Lights, Big Kitty)
John Carlin - A Dinosaur Named Fred (Kids' Music Underground)
ID
TMBG - Wake Up Call (No!)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, May 15, 2009

2009-05-16 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen any time you like at our on-demand audio archive at WRSI.com.

Here's what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Toddler Hiway
Billy Kelly - Springtime: It's My Favorite (Thank You for Joining the Happy Club)
Brian Eno - Over Fire Island (Another Green World)
Nields - Summer is a Cumen In (Rock All Day Rock All Night)
Me 3 - Apple (The Thin King)
ID
Caspar Babypants - Heard a Bird (Here I Am)
Erin McKeown - Blackbirds (Distillation)
ID

Segment 2
Sunflow - Daisies & Orchids
That Baby CD - Sunday Sun (That Baby CD)
ID/prep to rock
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo & Egg - I Like Fruit
Kenny Young & the Eggplants - Curtis Mayfield's on the Moon (Arrr!)
ID

Segment 3
ID
ScribbleMonster - All Ready to Go (Songs with No Character)
Skankin' Pickle - I Missed the Bus
Ozomatli - Can't Stop (Don't Mess with the Dragon)
ID
Key Wilde & Mr Clarke - Favorite Names
Ralph's World - Gotta Be Good (Rhyming Circus)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
B-52s - Rock Lobster
Jimmies - Do the Elephant (Make Your Own Someday)
ID
Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks - Hummin' to Myself (Beatin' the Heat)
Lunch Money - Tricycle (Silly Reflection)
ID

Segment 5
Justin Roberts - Way Out (Way Out)
Monty Harpter - Reading Makes Me Want to Dance Out Loud (Let's Get Created)
ID
Ziggy Marley - Cry, Cry, Cry (with Jack Johnson)
ID/book time with Ella
Graham Nash - Teach Your Children (Mary Had a Little Amp)

Segment 6
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Mr. Felipe - Vamos Afuera
Robert Bobbert - Hey Little Puppy (and the Bubble Machine)
Beach Boys - Surfin' Safari
Bunny Clogs - Velveeta Girl & Sqatsy (More! More! More!)
Booker T - Hey Ya (Potato Hole)
ID
TMBG - Go for G (Here Come the ABCs)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Saturday, May 09, 2009

2009-05-09 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Happy Mother's Day! Listen any time at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Lazyhead and Sleepybones (No!)
Dreyer Family Band - The I Love You Song (Family Photograph)
Neko Case - This Little Light (The Tigers Have Spoken)
ID
Renee & Jeremy - Wishing Well (Wonder)

Segment 2
Islands - Jogging Gorgeous Summer
Alejandro Escovedo - Sad & Dreamy (the Big 1-0)
ID/prep to rock
Sippy Cups - Seven is the New Fourteen
Beck - Where It's At

Segment 3
MGMT - Kids
Recess Monkey - Marshmallow Farm
ID
Key Wilde & Mr Clarke - Big Pet Pig
Justin Roberts - Big Field Trip
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Pianosaurs - Thriftshoppin' (Groovy Neighborhood)
Dan Zanes & Friends - Thrift Shop (Family Dance)
ID
Lunch Money - Dizzy (Dizzy)
Sister Sledge - We Are Family

Segment 5
Dennis Caraher live in-studio (with Emma)
- I Love My Mom
- It's Bedtime
Dinosaur Pop - Vernon Alexander McPhee (Dinosaur Pop)

Segment 6
The Boy Least Likely To - When Life Gives Me Lemons I Make Lemonade (The Law of the Playground)
ID
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds (B Is Version)
Tom Jones - What's New Pussycat?
Human_Tim + Robot_Tim - Little Robot
ID
TMBG - Robot Parade (Rawking Version)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, May 01, 2009

2009-05-02 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen any time at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Rolling O (Here Come the ABCs)
Innocence Mission - Wonder of Birds (Innocence Mission)
Justin Roberts - Fruit Jar (Pop Fly)
ID
Nick Drake - Pink Moon (Pink Moon)
Cathy Heller - Say Hello to the Sun (Say Hello to the Sun)
ID

Segment 2
Enzo Garcia - Monkey Motions (Field Trip with Enzo)
Billy Jonas - Happy Accident
ID/prep to rock
John Wesley Harding - If You Have Ghosts (Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye)
Kenny Young & the Eggplants - Rage Against the Washing Machine (Arrr!)
ID

Segment 3
Toxic Muffin - Save Game
Deedle Deedle Dees - Baldy (Freedom in a Box)
ID
Cloud Cult - Everybody Here is a Cloud (Feel Good Ghosts)
ScribbleMonster - All Ready to Go! (Songs With No Character)
Mommie - Dumptruck (Mommie's Dearest)
RTTs - Snack Time (Turn It Up Mommy!)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Billy Kelly - People Really Like Milk (Thank You for Joining the Happy Club)
XTC - Making Plans for Nigel (Drums and Wires)
Uncle Rock - Play Outside Today (Uncle Rock U)
Grupo Fantasma - Gimme Some
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 5
AudraRox - Moms & Dads (Park Slope Parents Vol. 1)
Lisa Loeb - Best Friend (Camp Lisa)
Ziggy Marley - Walk Tall (Family Time)
ID
Charity & the JAMband - Whatcha Gonna Bring (Rock Your Socks Off)
Jay Mankita - Eat Like a Rainbow (Eat Like a Rainbow)
ID

Segment 6
Earth Wind & Fire - Shining Star
Medeski Martin & Wood - All Around the Kitchen (Let's Go Everywhere)
Allen Toussaint - Yes We Can Can
Astrograss - Airplane (Let Me Stay Up All Night)
ID
TMBG - Four of Two (No!)

Friday, April 24, 2009

2009-04-25 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen any time at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Infinity (Here Come the 123s)
Dean Jones feat. Elizabeth Mitchell - Grow Little Flower (Napper's Delight)
Liz Mitchell - Little Spring in-studio
ID
Gui Tavares - Pancada (Brazilian Playground)
Mariana Iranzi - Contamos hasta 10?
Devotchka - Strizzano (A Mad & Faithful Telling)
ID

Segment 2
Dinosaur Pop - Appendages (Dinosaur Pop)
Kaiser Cartel - The Season Song (Park Slope Parents Vol. 1)
ID/prep to rock
Uncle Rock - Too Many Presents! (Uncle Rock U)
Elvis Costello - Radio Radio
Mr. Oscat - What's that Smell? (Mr. Oscat Says...)
ID

Segment 3
Elizabeth Street - Fair (Different)
Rocknoceros - The Train Song (Pink!)
ID
Recess Monkey - Sack Lunch (Field Trip)
Seth Decker & the Missing Piece - Seasons Change (Intergalactic Tour)
Duplex - Freaky Rhesus (Ablum)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Mommie - Shadow (Mommie's Dearest)
Pencilhead and the Playground Punks - Super (Super-Powered Underwear)
ID
Ziggy Marley - Family Time (Family Time)
The Police - Walking on the Moon (Regatta De Blanc)
ID

Segment 5
Readeez - How 'Bout that Cow (Vol. 1)
REM - Radio Free Europe
ID/book time with Ella
Paul Westerberg - Any Better Than This (Open Season OST)
Terri Hendrix - Car Car (Celebrate the Difference)
10,000 Maniacs - These Are Days
ID

Segment 6
ID
That Baby CD - Pony Boy (That Baby CD)
Great Lake Swimmers - See You on the Moon! (See You On The Moon)
Adam Levy & John Munson - John Henry (Down by the Riverside)
Ben Rudnick & Friends - I Need A Hand (A Frog Named Sam)
ID
TMBG - D is for Drums (Here Come the ABCs)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, April 17, 2009

2009-04-18 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen online and on-demand any old time at WRSI.com. Here's what we played:

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - I Am a Grocery Bag (No!)
Kelly Hogan - Senor El Gato (The Bottle Let Me Down)
Joe McDermott - My Cat Can Fly (Great Big World)
ID
Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
Paul Simon - Under African Skies (Graceland)
Gustafer Yellowgold - Getting in a Treetop (Mellow Fever)
ID

Segment 2
Dan Zanes & Friends - Erie Canal
Roland Alphonso - El Pussy Cat Ska
ID/prep to rock
Morphine - Sheila (Cure for Pain)
ScribbleMonster - Chocolate Milk (Chocolate Milk)
Recess Monkey - Dr. Wiggle (Tabby Road)
ID

Segment 3
Yo La Tengo - Mr. Tough (I Am Not Afraid of You)
Milkshake - Happy Song (Happy Songs)
ID
Lunch Money - Roller Coaster
Rocknoceros - Pink (Pink)
ID
Eric Herman & the Invisible Band - No Big Deal (Snow Day)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Steve Weeks - If I Were a Cup (Alphabet Songs Vol. 1)
Me 3 - Short Song, Shorter Song, Shortest Song (The Thin King)
Peter Himmelman - My Green Kite
Henning Ohlenbusch - Short (Looks Like I'm Tall)
ID
Mr. Leebot - Robot Dance

Segment 5
Decemberists - Sons & Daughters
ID
Dream Jam Band - That's Enough for Me (Dream Jam Band)
Robbert Bobbert - Gravity (...and the Bubble Machine)
Ernie & Neal - The Leaning Tower of Pizza (Friends, Family & Pizza)
Madness - Our House

Segment 6
Jackson 5 - ABC
Little Miss Ann - Over in the Meadow
Renee & Jeremy - Share (Wonder)
ID
Jenny Lewis - Barking at the Moon (Bolt)
Billy Bragg - The Beach is Free (Mr. Love & Justice)
ID
TMBG - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, April 10, 2009

2009-04-11 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Hope you enjoyed Chris Wood's guest DJ set. We first played it about a year ago, but figured some of you might have missed it, and it's pretty great.

Listen online any time at WRSI.com in our on-demand archives!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Ten Mississippi (Here Come the 123s)
Alain Le Lait - En Voici, En Voila (European Playground)
Lunch Money - At the River (Dizzy)
Uncle Rock - Superhero Medley (live at Spare the Rock)
ID
ScribbleMonster - Halfhearted Birthday Song
Roger Day - The Greatest Day on Earth Day (Dream Big)
ID

Segment 2
Renee & Jeremy - C'Mon (Wonder)
Nikolai Moderbacher - Papa, Can I Help You? (Tabula Rasa)
ID/prep to rock
Justin Roberts - Pop Fly (Pop Fly)
Baby Grands - Sugar Makes Me Loco (The Baby Grands)
Hipwaders - Birthday Ruckus (Goodie Bag)
ID

Segment 3
ID
Jimmies - Cool to Be Uncool (Make Your Own Someday)
ID
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Gotta Be Me (Easy)
Ralph's World - What's New Pussycat? (Happy Lemons)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Teddy Days (Freedom in a Box!)
ID/Book time with Ella

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Chris Wood guest DJ set:
Arsenio Rodriguez- Canto Abacoa
Ray Charles - What'd I Say IPart 1)
Be Good Tanyas - Littlest Birds (Blue Horse)
Bill Evans - Oleo

Segment 5
Guest DJ set continues:
Taj Mahal - Cluck Old Hen
Eddie Bo - Hook & Sling
Norah Jones - Sunrise
Baby Gramps - Worm song
Beatles - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

Segment 6
ID
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - This Land is Your Land (Naturally)
Michael Franti & Spearhead - Say Hey
ID
Recess Monkey - Boogie Monster
Beatles - Birthday (White Album)
ID
TMBG - Dr. Worm (Severe Tire Damage)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, April 03, 2009

2009-04-04 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen online at WRSI.com -- any time!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Don't Let's Start
Renee & Jeremy - Three Little Birds (It's a Big World)
Ziggy Marley (w/ Liz Mitchell - Wings of An Eagle)
Bob Marley & the Wailers - One Love/People Get Ready
ID

Segment 2
Deedle Deedle Dees - Major Deegan (Freedom in a Box)
Billy Jonas - What Kind of Dog Are You? (Happy Accidents)
ID/prep to rock
Hold Steady - Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Gunnar Madsen - Library Party (I'm Growing)
ID

Segment 3
CandyBand - Get Up Already (Lollipunk)
Justin Roberts - Day Camp (Way Out)
ID
Mates of State - Goods (All In Your Head) (EP)
Strange Kidz - Forgettin' Girl
Baby Grands - Diggin' A Hole to China (The Baby Grands)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Bunny Clogs - Olive's Olives (More! More! More!)
Peter Himmelman - Baseball Tips with Professor Buckley
Theresa Andersson - Birds Fly Away
ID
Mister Felipe - Que Dia! (Cruzando el Border)

Segment 5
Lemonheads - My Hero, Zero (Multiplication Rock)
Recess Monkey - The Sun Will Shine for You (Wonderstuff)
Richie Havens - Here Comes the Sun
ID
Gustafer Yellowgold - Sunpod (Mellow Fever)
Submarines - Wake Up! Wake Up! Rock 'n' Roll Coochicoo Revue
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 6
Hank Hooper - Hey! Batter!
SteveSongs - Opposite Day (Marvelous Day)
Sly & the Family Stone - Dance to the Music
Dog on Fleas - Do You Wanna Know My New Dance Step? (Beautiful Day)
Sippy Cups - I Wanna Be Elated (Kids Rock for Peas)
ID
TMBG - New York City (Factory Showroom)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, March 27, 2009

2009-03-28 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Alphabet Lost and Found
School for the Dead - Superhero (live at Spare the Rock)
Nields - Going to Boston (Rock All Day, Rock All Night)
ID
Frances England - Spring Has Sprung (Family Tree)
Uncle Rock - Play Outside Today (Uncle Rock U)
ID

Segment 2
Ben Rudnick - A Frog Named Sam (A Frog Named Sam)
Harmonica Pocket - Spiders in My Breakfast (Ladybug One)
ID/prep to rock
Deedle Deedle Dees - Ina Mina Dika (Let It Dee)
Asylum Street Spankers - Sliver (Mommy Says No)
Spoon - Underdog (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
ID

Segment 3
Trip Shakespeare - Toolmaster (Are You Shakespearienced?)
ScribbleMonster - All Ready to Go! (Songs With No Character)
The Not-Its - Helicopter (Demo EP)
AudraRox - Short Attention Span
ID
Papas Fritas - Vertical Lines (Buildings and Grounds)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Mariana Iranzi in-studio

Segment 5
ID
Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem - The Farmer is the Man (Gambling Eden)
ID
Dennis Caraher - I Miss the Mud (I Miss the Mud
Ziggy Marley (w/ Willie Nelson) - This Train (Family Time)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 6
Fishbone - Everyday Sunshine
Breakestra - Sunny Delight
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Gotta Be Me! (Easy)
Bunny Clogs - Shpilkas (More! More! More!)
ID
TMBG - Flying V (Here Come the ABCs)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, March 20, 2009

2009-03-21 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Thermostat (John Henry)
Caspar Babypants - Monkey River (Here I Am!)
Maria Sangiolo - Celia Says (Under the Mystic Sea)
ID
Dan Zanes & Friends - Oseh Shalom

Segment 2
Us 3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
Lisa Loeb - In the Details (A World of Happiness)
Elizabeth Mitchell - Korean Spring Song (in-studio exclusive)
ID/prep to rock
Ramones - Sheena is a Punk Rocker
Mr. Richard - Airplane Jane
ID

Segment 3
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Got My Own Thing Now
Aquabats - Pizza Day
Danny Adlerman & Friends - In the Future (Listen Up!)
ID
Uncle Rock - Polar Bear Over There (Uncle Rock U)
Aric Bieganek - Central Park Kitty (Bright Lights, Big Kitty)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Dennis Caraher in-studio (with Charlie Braun)
- Chasing After Chickens
- Bow Wow Baby
- Unusual Zoo

Segment 5
M. Ward - Helicopter
Frances England - Spring Has Sprung (Family Tree)
Nields - Red, Red Robin (All Together Singing in the Kitchen)
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees - John Brown (Let It Dee)
Shonen Knife - Top of the World
ID

Segment 6
XTC - Season Cycle
Jonathan Richman - Springtime in New York
ID
AudraRox - Hope My Mama Says YES!
Terrible Twos - When I Get to Eleven (If You Ever See An Hour)
Sunflow - I Wish You Love (Under the Stars)
ID
TMBG - Bed, Bed, Bed (Live) 27
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, March 13, 2009

2009-03-14 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen on-demand at WRSI.com.

What we played:

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Alphabet of Nations
Nields - ABC (Rock All Day, Rock All Night)
Uncle Rock - There's Love in My Food (Uncle Rock U)
ID
Tom Waits - Bend Down the Branches (For the Kids)
Randy Kaplan - No Nothing (Loquat Rooftop)
ID

Segment 2
Johnny Keener - Down on the Corner (Long John)
Terrible Twos - Ladybug
ID/prep to rock
Jonathan Richman - Roadrunner
Hipwaders - Field Trip (Goodie Bag)
fIREHOSE - For the Singer of REM
ID

Segment 3
REM - It's the End of the World As We Know it (and I Feel Fine)
Jimmies - Cool to Be Uncool (Make Your Own Someday)
ID
Bunny Clogs - Butter (More! More! More!)
Mr. Leebot - It Wasn't Me
Me 3 - Peeling Paint (The Thin King)
ID
Devo - Freedom of Choice

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Mariana Iranzi live in-studio

Segment 5
Jarrett K. studio visit
ID
Jayhawks - Smile
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees - Aaron Burr (Freedom in a Box!)
Dennis Caraher - Unusual Zoo (I Miss the Mud)
ID
Lunch Money - Everybody's Coming to the Zoo (Dizzy)

Segment 6
David Byrne - Don't Fence Me In (Red Hot + Blue)
Medeski Martin & Wood - Let's Go Everywhere (Let's Go Everywhere)
ID
NRBQ - RC Cola & a Moon Pie
ID
TMBG - She Thinks She's Edith Head (Long Tall Weekend)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, March 06, 2009

2009-03-07 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen any time at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Fibber Island (No!)
Brandi Carlisle - Have You Ever (Iron Horse 4/2)
ID
Laura Freeman - Indigo and Violet (Color Wheel Cartwheel)
Ambrosia Parsley - Everybody Came (For the Kids Too)
ID
Barenaked Ladies - I Don't Like

Segment 2
Submarines - Fern Beard (Honeysuckle Weeks)
Mariana Iranzi - Woodpecker (Aventura Collage)
ID/prep to rock
Deedle Deedle Dees - Teddy Days (Freedom in a Box!)
Bruce Springsteen - Jacob's Ladder (Seeger Sessions)
Ralph's World - Happy Not My Birthday (Rhyming Circus)
ID

Segment 3
Brady Rymer - Every Day's a Birthday (Every Day Is a Birthday)
Mono Puff - Unsupervised (I Hit My Head) (Unsupervised)
ID
Pop Rockets - TRUCKS! (Blast Off)
Nields - Anna, Kick A Whole in the Sky (All Together...)
School for the Dead - Beautiful Day in the Woods (A New You)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Wanna Be Like You (This Beautiful Life)
Egg - Summer Today (Sunny Side Up)
ID
Robbert Bobbert - Hey Little Puppy (...and the Bubble Machine)
The Cat's Pajamas - Loose Tooth (Reading Rocks!)

Segment 5
Gourds - Country Love
Terrible Twos - Littlest Houdini (If You Ever See An Owl)
ID/Book Time with Ella
Bunny Clogs - Confessions of a Teenage Lima Bean (More! More! More!)
Andrew Bird - Fitz and the Dizzyspells (Noble Beast)
ID

Segment 6
Michelle Shocked - Strawberry Jam (Arkansas Traveler)
Kimya Dawson - Smoothie (Alphabutt)
Board of Education - Lonely Tomato (Central Services Presents...)
ID
TMBG - E Eats Everything (Here Come the ABCs)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, February 27, 2009

2009-02-28 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

You can listen any time over at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Mr. Me (Lincoln)
Jose Gonzalez y Banda Criolla - Bomba Te Traigo Yo (Caribbean Playground)
Father Goose - Panama (It's a Bam Bam Diddly)
ID
Mates of State - Jellyman Kelly
Frances England - The Books I Like to Read (Fascinating Creatures)

Segment 2
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Our House (Deja Vu)
Gustafer Yellowgold - Butter Pond Lake
ID/prep to rock
Kevin Kammeraad - Best Poem Ever (Tomato Collection)
Strange Kidz - Corren (Kidz Album)
ID

Segment 3
Robbert Bobbert - We R Super Heroes
Dream Warriors - My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style
Henry Mancini & His Orchestra - Pink Panther Theme
ID
Baby Loves Jazz Band - Drum Lesson # 2
Telephone Company - Mustache
ID


Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Liz Mitchell in-studio
-Little Spring
-John the Rabbit
ID
Astrograss - Drunken Sailor

Segment 5
ID
Liz Mitchell in-studio part 2
Winter's Come & Gone
Korean Spring Song
ID/book time with Ella
Jonathan Richman - This Kind of Music

Segment 6
ID (dedicated to Liam for his 7th birthday)
Asylum Street Spankers - Be Like You
Lunch Money - Wake Up World (Dizzy)
Richard Julian - Spring is Just Around the Corner
ID
Steve Weeks - Zed and Zoey (Alphabet Songs Vol III)
ID
TMBG - Seven (Here Come the 123s)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, February 20, 2009

2009-02-21 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

You can stream it at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - The Other Father Song (Coraline soundtrack)
Kimya Dawson - Happy Home (Keep On Writing)
ID
Zachary Sanders - Electricity, Electricity
Beastie Boys - Electricity (The Mix Up)
Milkshake - Tall (Happy Songs)
ID

Segment 2
Spanglish Wrangler - Cucaracha
Mariana Iranzi - Caballito (Cup & Top afternoon of March 17, Meltdown March 28)
ID/prep to rock
New York Dolls - Dance Like a Monkey
Quiet Ones - Invisible Trousers (Make Some Noise)
Egg - Zoom! (Sunny Side Up)
ID

Segment 3
Ellen and Matt - Side by Side
The Not-Its - Helcopter
Hipwaders - Heffalumps
Los Lobos - Kiko & the Lavender Moon
ID
Alex the Seal - Big Bunny in My Backyard
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Robert Earl Keen - Farm Fresh Onions
Bunny Clogs - Olive's Olives (More! More! More!)
Wee Hairy Beasties - Eat Your Greens PSA
Dog on Fleas - Ugly Fruit (live in-studio)
ID
Starfish - Starfish and Coffee

Segment 5
ID
Elizabeth Mitchell - Jubilee
Angelique Kidjo - Battu (African Playground)
Jambo - It's a Good Day (Lucy's Parade)
ID
Dan Zanes & Friends - Get On Board (Welcome Table)
Trout Fishing in America - Big Round World (Big Round World)
ID

Segment 6
Beatles - Yellow Submarine
Cake - Mahna Mahna (For the Kids)
Brady Rymer - Keep Up With You (Every Day is a Birthday)
ID
Baby Loves Jazz Band - I Like Blue Lemurs (Baby Loves Jazz Greatest Hits)
Michael Jackson - Rockin' Robin
ID
TMBG - Happy Doesn't Have to Have An Ending
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, February 13, 2009

2009-02-14 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

You can stream it on demand at WRSI.com.

If you're interested in entering for the drawing for Golden Acrobats show at the Calvin on March 1, go here.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - James K. Polk
Jenny Lewis - Barking at the Moon (Bolt)
Nields - Who Are You Not to Shine (Rock All Day Rock All Night)
Dennis Caraher - Walk Like a Dinosaur (I Miss the Mud)
ID
Dan Zanes & Friends - Jesus on the Mainline
ID
Sage - A Bird's Home

Segment 2
Skylar - Mystery is All Over
Sacred Shakers - Taggin' Along with Jesus
The New Standards - Snow Day (Candy Cane EP)
ID
Built to Spill - Big Dipper (There's Nothing Wrong With Love)
Frances England - Free to Be Me (Family Tree)
ID
Zoe - Swirls of Shells

Segment 3
Replacements - I Will Dare (Let It Be)
Daddy A-Go-Go - It's a Kids World (Come On Get Happy)
Lunch Money - I Love My Library (Dizzy)
ID/Book Time with Ella
Mighty Weaklings - Sunny When You Share (You Can't Rock Sittin' Down)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Gustafer Yellowgold - Melter Swelter (Mellow Fever)
Peaches & Herb - Shake Your Groove Thing
Aric Bieganek - Bright Lights, Big Kitty!
ID (back to learn about the KidsBestFest Film Festival)

Segment 5
KidsBestFest Interview
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Jetta & the Jellybeans - I Wash My Hands (Tell Me What You Want To Be)
ID

Segment 6
YouthFilm Interview
Elizabeth Mitchell - Bo Diddley (You Are My Sunshine)
Astrograss - Airplane
ID
TMBG - Experimental Film
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, February 06, 2009

2009-02-07 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - James K. Polk
Jenny Lewis - Barking at the Moon (Bolt)
Nields - Who Are You Not to Shine (Rock All Day Rock All Night)
Dennis Caraher - Walk Like a Dinosaur (I Miss the Mud)
ID
Dan Zanes & Friends - Jesus on the Mainline
ID
Sage - A Bird's Home

Segment 2
Skylar - Mystery is All Over
Sacred Shakers - Taggin' Along with Jesus
The New Standards - Snow Day (Candy Cane EP)
ID
Built to Spill - Big Dipper (There's Nothing Wrong With Love)
Frances England - Free to Be Me (Family Tree)
ID
Zoe - Swirls of Shells

Segment 3
Ramones - Rock 'n' Roll Radio
Ralph's World - Gotta Be Good
ScribbleMonster - I'm a Utility Pole
Little Miss Ann - Over in the Meadow (Clap for Love)
ID
Strange Kidz - Lil' Things (Kidz Album)
Dog on Fleas - Worms (Fairly Good Songs for Fairly Good Kids)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Uncle Rock - Disco Nap (Plays Well With Others)
ID
Sister Sledge - We Are Family
Bunny Clogs - Shpilkas (More! More! More!)
KC and the Sunshine Band - Shake Your Booty
ID

Segment 5
Jimmies - What's that Sound? (Make Your Own Someday)
Medeski Martin & Wood - Where's the Music? (Let's Go Everywhere)
Stevie Wonder - Signed Sealed Delivered
Baby Loves Jazz Band - Duck Jam (Greatest Hits)
Apples in Stereo - The Rainbow
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 6
Weezer - Island in the Sun
Hipwaders - The Work Song
The Not-Its - My Favorite Person
Terrible Twos - Consonants
ID
TMBG - They Got Lost
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, January 30, 2009

2009-01-31 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Boss of Me
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - This Land is Your Land (Naturally)
ID
Auden - Howdy Cowboy
Nikolai Moderbacher - Wake Up (Tabula Rasa)
ID
Metthew - Fire

Segment 2
Nat - Sunset Fire
Bunny Clogs - Pharaoh Pharouk's Phyrst Phood Phyramid
Elizabeth Mitchell - 3 is the Magic Number (You Are My Sunshine)
ID/prep to rock
Not-Its - We Are the Not-Its
Matthew Sweet - Scooby Doo
Strange Kidz - Superhero (Kidz Album)
ID

Segment 3
Patricia - Little Holes
ID
Ratboy Jr. - Floating Up (EP)
Ben Kweller - How It Should Be (Sha Sha)
Justin Roberts - The Backyard Super Kid (Pop Fly)
Yo La Tengo - Moonrock Mambo
ID

Segment 4
Peter - The Blue Ocean
ID
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees - Vegetarian Tyrannosaurus Rex (Freedom in a Box!)
Lunch Money - Tiny Dinosaurs (Dizzy)
School for the Dead - Beautiful Day in the Woods (Ayla) (The New You)
Me3 - Apple (The Thin King)
ID/Book time w/ Ella (Dial a Ghost by Eva Ibbotson)

Segment 5
Harmonica Pocket in-studio

Segment 6
Interview with Todd Robbins
ID
Dan Zanes & Friends - Wonder Wheel
ID
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Gotta Be Me (Easy)
ID
TMBG - No! (No!)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, January 23, 2009

2009-01-24Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Thanks to Andy Ure for a great great guest DJ set! You can listen on-demand at WRSI.com.

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incadescent Gas)
Randy Kaplan - Good Morning Blues (Loquat Rooftop)
Woody Guthrie - Wake Up (Nursery Days)
Elizabeth Mitchell - You Are My Sunshine (Sing Along with Putumayo)
ID
Ladysmith Black Mambambo & Kermit the Frog - African Alphabet (Songs from the Street)
Daniel - Sleeping Tigers (Group H poetry)
ID

Segment 2
Hannah - Little Brown Bones (Group H)
Dan Wilson - Sidewalks of New York
ID/prep to rock
Paul Westerberg - Mr. Rabbit
Michael Franti & Spearhead - Obama Song
AudraRox - Short Attention Span (I Can Do It By Myself)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Baldy (Freedom in a Box!)

Segment 3
Katie - Sound Poem
ID/Meltdown announcement
Guest DJ set from Andy from the Quiet Two
1. Sit On A Sandwich – Brute Force
2. Robot Parade (Adult Version) – TMBG
3. It’s Alright To Cry - Rosey Grier / Free To Be Me and You Soundtrack
4. Bubbles – The Free Design
5. The Soft Machine – A Concise British Alphabet
6. Exercise Is Good For You – The Wombles

Segment 4
Liam - Brown Hurricanes
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Guest DJ set, con't:
7. Race You To The Corner – Music For Aardvarks
8. Cars – Gary Numan
9. Girl From Venus – Perrey-Kingsley
10. Green Tambourine – The Lemon Pipers
11. Theme from Hair from the Soundtrack
12. Nothing To Do– Bruce Haack

Segment 5
Lucas - A Nest
Guest DJ set, conclusion:
13. Do the Funky Penguin – Rufus Thomas
14. Hole In My Shoe – Traffic
15. Mc Spella – Muckafurgason
16. Secret Agent Man – Johnny Rivers
17. Someday Children – Susan and The Kids / Sesame Street
18. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious – Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke / Mary Poppins Soundtrack
19. Scarecrow – The Pink Floyd

Segment 6
Maddie - Sand Dollar
ID
Egg & Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - I Like Fruit
XTC - Fruit Nut
Rusted Root - Send Me On My Way
ID
TMBG - Dr. Worm
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, January 16, 2009

2009-01-17 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Particle Man
Nields - Muffin Man
ID
Ella Fitzgerald - The Hot Canary (Miss Ella's Playhouse)
ScribbleMonster - The Song of LIFE (Songs with No Character)
ID

Segment 2
Ben Rudnick & Friends - Cowgirl Song (live at Spare the Rock)
Grateful Dead - The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
ID/prep to rock
Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child
Mr. Richard - Zanyville (Might As Well Sing)
ID
Group H Poem: Anni - Tooth Fairy

Segment 3
Group H Poem: Anya - Color
Uncle Rock - It's Hot! Don't Touch It!
Talking Head - I Zimbri
Paul Westerberg - Meet Me in the Meadow
Terrible Twos - Lily Names Everything Sandy (Jerzy the Giant)
ID
Ben G. - Funny Books

Segment 4
Benjamin G-R - Animals
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Bunny Clogs - Midtown Greenway (More! More! More!)
Tom Freund & Friends - Hug Trees (Hug Trees)
Caitlin - Sun Burst
ID
Monkees - Gonna Buy Me a Dog
ID/book time with Ella (after the break, Uncle Rock live in the studio)

Segment 5
Uncle Rock in-studio

Segment 6
Cat Power - New York
Cathy Heller - Supergirl (Say Hello to the Sun)
ID
Marcy Gregoire - Spittin' Seeds
Dennis Caraher - Chasin' After Chickens (I Miss the Mud)
ID
TMBG - Apartment Four (Here Come the 123s)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, January 09, 2009

2009-01-10 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Thanks to Marcy Gregoire and to Cat in the Hat and Horton for coming by! (Yes, we had Cat in the Hat and Horton in the studio!)

You can listen to the show any time on-demand at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
Joe McDermott - Come to Hawaii (Hawaiian Playground)
ID
Maria Sangiolo - Power Shower (live at Spare the Rock)
Trout Fishing in America - Big Round World (Big Round World)
Frances England - Best Friends (Family Tree)
ID

Segment 2
Ziggy Marley - Beautiful Day
Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys - It's Not Easy Being Green (The Bottle Let Me Down)
Eels - Daisy Through Concrete (Daisies of the Galaxy)
ID/prep to rock (happy birthday, Ben!)
(Uncle Rock live at NCMC one week from today!)
Uncle Rock - Play Outside Today (Uncle Rock U)
Daddy-A-Go-Go - School Bus Driver(Rock of All Ages)

Segment 3
ScribbleMonster - All Ready to Go, All Ready to Go
Polyphonic Spree - Running Away (Fragile Army)
ID
Jimmies - Cool to Be Uncool (Make Your Own Someday)
Recess Monkey - S-L-Double E-P Over (Tabby Road)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
Marcy Gregoire live in-studio

Segment 5
Cat in the Hat and Horton live in-studio

Segment 6
Blitzen Trapper - New Shoes (For the Kids Three)
Winterpills - Purple Pictures
ID
Bunny Clogs - 3 Dogs and a Pancake (More! More! More!)
T. Rex - Telegram Sam
Lunch Money - Dizzy (Dizzy)
ID
TMBG - Zeroes (Here Come the 123s)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, January 02, 2009

2009-01-03 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
-Ella ID
TMBG - Hovering Sombrero (Mink Car)
NRBQ - Accentuate the Positive
Walter "Wolfman" Washington & the Roadmasters - This Land is Your Land (Funky Kidz)
ID
Billy Bragg - The Beach is Free
Dan Zanes & Friends - Keep On the Sunnyside (Rocket Ship Beach)
ID

Segment 2
The New Standards - Rock and Roll (Rock and Roll)
Kimya Dawson - Sunbeams and Some Beams (Alphabutt)
ID
Jingle Punx - Auld Lang Syne (Coal)
Apples in Stereo - Energy (New Magnetic Wonder)
Uncle Rock - Disco Nap (Plays Well With Others)
ID

Segment 3
Bunny Clogs - Velveeta Girl & Squatsy (More! More! More!)
Grupa Fantasma - Gimme More!
ID
Jellydots - Bicycle (Hey You Kids!)
CandyBand - My Bike (Calling All Kids)
Madness - Our House

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Michael Franti & Spearhead - Hey World (Remote Control Version)
Baby Loves Jazz Band - The Wheels on the Bus (Baby Loves Jazz)
ID
Sippy Cups - One Day Soon (EP)
ID

Segment 5
ID
Liz Mitchell - What Goes On (You Are My Little Bird)
Maria Sangiolo - Celia Says
ID
Nields - With Catlike Tread (Rock All Day Rock All Night)
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Hot Lava (Easy)
Harmonica Pocket - Spiders in My Breakfast (Ladybug One)
ID/book time with Ella

Segment 6
ID/book time with Ella conclusion
Richard Julian - Spring is Just Around the Corner
Lunch Money - Ate Too Much of My Favorite Food (Dizzy)
ID
Me 3 - Apple (The Thin King)
Go! Team - Milk Crisis (Proof of Youth bonus disc)
ID
TMBG - Nonagon (Here Come the 123s)
TMBG - Spare the Rock