Saturday, December 22, 2012

2012-12-22 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

You can listen to the show right here on PRX!


Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG - O Tannenbaum
Sufjan Stevens - O Come O Come Emmanuel (new)
ID
Elizabeth Mitchell - Kooks (new)
Elvis Presley - There'll Be Peace in the Valley
ID
Jonathan Coulton & John Roderick - Christmastime is Wunnerful (new)

Segment 2
Toni Wang - (Twinkle Twinkle) Little Star (new)
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Everyday People
The Jimmies - Cool to Be Uncool
ID
Jingle Punx - Wonderful Christmastime

Segment 3
Nat "King" Cole - The Happiest Christmas Tree
Brady Rymer - Love Me For Who I Am
ID
Lunch Money - Original Friend
Lucky Diaz - Quite Like You
Rosy Grier - It's Alright to Cry
ID
TMBG - Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go to Work)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Saturday, December 15, 2012

2012-12-15 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

You can listen at our page at PRX.org.

And here's what we played:


Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG - My Name is Kingof Socks
Willie Nelson - I'm My Own Grandpa
ID
Cat Doorman - All the Birds (new)
Dan Zanes - I'm Counting the Days (Until Christmas)
ID
The Ukulady - Unlikely Friends (with TV's Frank) (new)

Segment 2
Justin Roberts - Heart of Gold (new)
ID/prep to Rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock
ID
Boogers - This Land is Your Land (new)
Artichoke - Coffee and Pi: Daydream of a Mathematician (new)
ID
Fountains of Wayne - I Want an Alien for Christmas
Tim & the Space Cadets - Superhero
ID
Sweetback Sisters - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas


Segment 3
T. Rex - New York City
Mama Doni - Chanukah Fever
ID
Run-DMC - Christmas in Hollis
Moona Luna - What Time Is It? (new)
Deedle Deedle Dees - Vegetarian Tyrannosaurus Rex
ID
TMBG - I Am a Paleontologist
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Saturday, December 08, 2012

2012-12-08 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen right now at PRX.org!


Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG - The Ballad of Davey Crockett (In Outer Space)
Tom Waits - Bend Down the Branches
Elizabeth Mitchell - Blue Clouds (new)
ID
Randy Kaplan - Forever Young
Renee & Jeremy - Deck the Halls (new)
ID
Willie Nelson - Rainbow Connection

Segment 2
Billy Bragg & Wilco - Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key
ID/prep to Rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock
ID
Boogers - (I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone) (new)
Los Lobos - Heigh-ho
The Not-Its! - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (new)
ID
Billy Kelly -  People Really Like Milk
Play Date - XYZ (new)
ID

Segment 3
Henning Ohlenbusch - Little Black Train
Alison Faith Levy - Like a Spinning Top
ID
The Pop-Ups - Outside Inside
Moona Luna - Vamos, Let's Go! (new)
ID
TMBG - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (electronic version)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Saturday, December 01, 2012

2012-12-01 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen on demand at our page at PRX.org!


Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG - Ant
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem - If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out
Renee & Jeremy - Three Little Birds
ID
Jambo - Your Sweet Smile
Mister G - Sneaky Chihuahua
ID
Artichoke - Porcupine

Segment 2
Jad Fair - Inky & Winky/John Jacob Jinglehimer Schmidt
ID/prep to Rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock
ID
Boogers - John Jacob Jinglehimer Schmidt (new)
I'm From Barcelona - Collection of Stamps
Bazillions - Candy Garden (New)
ID
Teenage Fanclub - Starsign


Segment 3
Sponsor ID
David Tobocman - Run Run, Race Car (new)
Jonathan Coulton & John Roderick - 2600 (new)
ID
Sara Hickman - Radiation Man
Mr. Richard - Butterfly Day
Imperial Teen - It's You
ID
TMBG - 813 Mile Road Trip
TMBG - Spare the Rock

2012-11-24 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen to the stream at our page at PRX.org!


Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG - Ant
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem - If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out
Renee & Jeremy - Three Little Birds
ID
Jambo - Your Sweet Smile
Mister G - Sneaky Chihuahua
ID
Artichoke - Porcupine

Segment 2
Jad Fair - Inky & Winky/John Jacob Jinglehimer Schmidt
ID/prep to Rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock
ID
Boogers - John Jacob Jinglehimer Schmidt (new)
I'm From Barcelona - Collection of Stamps
Bazillions - Candy Garden (New)
ID
Teenage Fanclub - Starsign


Segment 3
David Tobocman - Run Run, Race Car
Jonathan Coulton & John Roderick - 2600
ID
Sara Hickman - Radiation Man
Mr. Richard - Butterfly Day
Imperial Teen - It's You
ID
TMBG - 813 Mile Road Trip
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Saturday, November 10, 2012

2012-11-10 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child



Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
Ella ID 
TMBG - One Dozen Monkeys
Harmonica Pocket (with Caspar Babypants) - Monkey Love (new)
ID
Ray Charles - You Are My Sunshine
Justin Roberts - Nothing On You (new)
ID
Primate Fiasco - Sunny Side of the Street
Lunch Money - It Only Takes One Night To Make a Balloon Your Friend

Segment 2
Deedle Deedle Dees - Major Deegan
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
ID
Superchunk - Hyper Enough
Boogers - I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground
ID
MGMT - Kids

Segment 3
Medeski, Martin & Wood - Where's the Music?
Joe McDermott - Roller Coaster
Baby Loves Jazz Band - I Like Blue Lemurs
ID
Bazillions - Super Sonic Rocket Bike
Dick Dale - Miserlou
Bramble Jam - Pancakes
ID
TMBG - Heart of the Band
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Saturday, November 03, 2012

2012-11-03 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child


Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG - Toddler Hiway
ID
Guest DJ set from Aran from Shutesbury

Segment 2
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
Bob Mould - Sunspots
ID/prep to Rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock
ID
NoMeansNo - Joy
CandyBand - Get Up Already
The Board of Education - Why Is Dad So Mad?
Kepi Ghoulie - Spazz Out!
ID

Segment 3
Jambo - Be Yourself
Boxtop Jenkins w/ Indigo Girls - Wag More
ID
De La Soul - The Magic Number
David Tobocman - Escalator
Trout Fishing in America - 18 Wheels on a Big Rig
ID
TMBG - Boat of Car
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Saturday, October 27, 2012

2012-10-27 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen on demand at our page at WRSI.com!


Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG - Triops Has Three Eyes
Wee Hairy Beasties - Pumpkinhead
ID
Papa Crow - The Sun is Yellow
Mo Phillips - Monster Suit
Boxtop Jenkins (w/ Shawn Mullins) - Rattlin' Rattlin' Bones
ID
Mister G - Waiting for the Ball (Academy of Music this Sunday)


Segment 2
Tom Waits - Midnight Lullabye
ID/prep to Rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock
ID
Suburbs - Rattle My Bones
Mighty Weaklings - Monster Under My Bed
ID
Todd McHatton -Ooh Shiny
Nields - Who Are You Not to Shine?
ID

Segment 3
Jad Fair In-Studio
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Little Demon
ID
TMBG - Spider
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Saturday, October 20, 2012

2012-10-20 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child


Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG - The Bloodmobile
The Board of Education - Binary
ID
Kepi Ghoulie - Days that End in "Y"
Mike Doughty (w/ Rosanne Cash) - Country Roads
ID
The Pop-Ups - Miss Elephant's Gerald

Segment 2
Play Date - Dance Like a Monster
ID/prep to Rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock
ID
New York Dolls - Dance Like a Monkey
ScribbleMonster - Just Happy To Be Me
ID
Weezer - My Best Friend
Matt & Kim - Don't Slow Down
ID

Segment 3
ID
Mister G Guest DJ:
A Scary Song                   Alastair Moock
Purple People Eater          Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem
Them Belly Full                Bob Marley
Extraterrestrial                 The Okee Dokee Brothers
Ghosts and Goblins          Mister G 
ID
TMBG - A Shooting Star is Not a Star
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Saturday, October 13, 2012

2012-10-13 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child


Listen any time you like at PRX.org!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG - Robot Parade
Elizabeth Mitchell - I Wish You Well
ID
Andrew Bird - Bein' Green
Hullabaloo - Are We There Yet?
ID
Billy Kelly - Is This Some Kind of Joke?

Segment 2
Papa Crow - Along in the Sun and the Rain
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
ID
Matt & Kim - Let's Go
KinderAngst - Let's Play
ID
Old 97's - King of All The World
Avett Brothers - Kick Drum Heart
ID

Segment 3
The Plants - October 31
ID
Ralph's World - Pickle Me Juice
The Roots - Lovely, Love My Family
ID
Mates of State - I Am a Scientist
The Board of Education - Three
ID
TMBG - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Electronic)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, October 05, 2012

2012-10-06 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child


You can stream the show at PRX.org!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG - Alphabet of Nations (bonus extended version)
Psapp - Everybody Wants to be a Cat
Charlie Hope - Goodnight Little Arlo
ID
Lunch Money - You Were a Basket of Flowers
Randy Kaplan - Green Green Rocky Road
ID

Segment 2
Caspar Babypants - Grassy Grass Grass
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
ID
Alison Faith Levy - Itsy Bitsy Spider
Los Lobos - Heigh-Ho
Firewater - Ponzi's Revenge
ID
Frank Turner - I Still Believe

Segment 3
Billy Kelly - Don't Worry About the Government
ID
Lucas Miller - Go Wild- Read!
Hullabaloo - Road Trip
ID
Beastie Boys - Intergalactic
ID
TMBG - Robot Parade (Live
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Saturday, September 29, 2012

2012-09-29 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child


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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG - Fibber island
Elena Moon Park - DiuDiuDeung
Elizabeth Mitchell - Rollin' Baby
ID
Louis Armstrong - When You're Smiling
Orange Sherbet - Delicious!

Segment 2
Rachel Loshak - Oh Girl
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
ID
The Board of Education - Vasimr To Mars!
Professor Presley - Find a Cause 
ID
Ben Folds Five - Theme from Dr. Pyser 
Big Bang Boom - Bicycle
ID

Segment 3
Cake - Mahna Mahna
Todd McHatton - Warm & Sunny
ID
Michael jackson - Rockin 'Robin
Flannery Brothers - Hi 5 Dance
Asylum Street Spankers - Down By the Riverside
ID
TMBG - Idlewild
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, September 21, 2012

2012-09-22 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child


Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG - I am Not Your Broom
David Bowie - Changes
Elizabeth Mitchell - Kooks
ID
Elena Moon Park - Picking Flowers
Charity & the JAMband - Love is here
ID

Segment 2
Dan Zanes - Moonlit Town (live in-studio)
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
ID
ScribbleMonster & His Pals - I Want to Hold Your Ear
Hipwaders - Sesame Street Theme
AudraRox - Five Minutes More
ID
Divine Fits - Would That Not Be Nice

Segment 3
Steven Elci & Friends - Train
Mister G - Waiting for the Ball
ID (Justin Roberts)
Justin Roberts - Pop Fly
ID
Junior Senior - Move Your Feet
Ralph's World - Animal Friends
ID
TMBG - Particle Man
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, September 14, 2012

2012-09-15 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen any time you like at our page at PRX.org or on WRSI.com!


Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG - Istanbul Not Constantinople (live)
Asylum Street Spankers - Sidekick (live at Spare the Rock)
ID
Elena Moon Park - Ti Oh Oh

Segment 2
Decemberists - June Hymn
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
ID
Alkaline Trio - Movin' Right Along
ID
Hipwaders - The Books I Like to Read
Apples in Stereo - Energy
ID
Todd McHatton - Alright Already

Segment 3
Elizabeth Mitchell - Froggy Went a Courtin'
Sandra Velasquez - Deportee
ID
Candy Band - Cookie Jar
Weezer - My Best Friend
ID
TMBG - Why Does the Sun Really Shine?
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, September 07, 2012

2012-09-08 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child


Listen at our page at PRX.org -- and send your local radio station (noncommercial or commercial) over there to get the show for free!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG - Fibber island
Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
ID
Elizabeth Mitchell - I Wish You Well
Elena Moon Park - Summer's Here
Elska - I Just Had an Idea
ID
Bjork & Dirty Projectors - On and Ever Onward

Segment 2
Mister G - Chocolalala
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
ID
XTC - Do What You Do
Babe the Blue OX - Surfin' Minnesota
Princess Katie & Racer Steve - Tiny Cool
ID
Wild Flag - Electric Band

Segment 3
The Board of Education - First Day
Lucky Diaz - Explorer
ID
Dan Zanes - I Don't Want Your Millions Mister
Astrograss - Shortenin' Bread
ID
TMBG - Ant
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, August 31, 2012

2012-09-01 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen any time you like at our page at PRX.org!  (That's also where you should send your local radio station!)


Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
Ella ID
TMBG - Sleepwalkers
The Harmonica Pocket - Dream a Dream
Tom Waits - Midnight Lullabye
ID
Astrograss - Minutes into Flowers
Lego Interview

Segment 2
Jonathan Richman - Ice Cream Man
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
ID
Charity & the JAMband - Ice Cream
Todd McHatton - Ooh Shiny (Todd McHatton Presents Marvy Monstone's Mysterious Fun Time Dream Band)
ID
Lunch Money - Spicy Kid
Frances England - Mind of My Own
ID

Segment 3
Mister G - Colores
ID
Ozomatli - Changito
James Brown - Get Up Offa That Thing
Deedle Deedle Dees - Time Machine
ID
TMBG - Dr. Worm
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, August 24, 2012

2012-08-25 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child


Listen any old time you like at our page at WRSI.com, and encourage your local radio station to air the show for free via PRX.org!

TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
ID
TMBG - Courage the Cowardly Dog
Papa Crow - That's the Life for Me
Nields - Going to Boston
ID
Okee Dokee Brothes - Can You Canoe?
Cat & a Bird - Bee Jive
ID
Paul Simon - Under African Skies

Segment 2
Cloud Cult - Everybody Here is a Cloud
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
Deedle Deedle Dees - Growl Growl
Ramones - Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio
Ozomatli - Balloon Fest
ID
Built to Spill - Big Dipper

Segment 3
Michael Franti & Spearhead - Hey World
ID
Asylum Street Spankers - Everybody Loves My Baby
Mike Doughty - 27 Jennifers
Frances England - Goldilocks Zone
ID
TMBG - Science is real
TMBG - Spare the rock

Friday, August 17, 2012

2012-08-18 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen any time you like at our page at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
ID
TMBG - Stalk of Wheat (Live)
Elizabeth Mitchell - Shoo-Fly
Lunch Money - Miniature Things
ID
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
Harmonica Pocket - Bare Feet
ID
Alastair Moock & Friends - CBAs and a Twinkle Baa

Segment 2
Mister G - Sneaky Chihuahua
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
(ID)
Pixies - Distance Equals Rate Times Time
Ozomatli - Water
Moona Luna - H2O
ID
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Kinder Words

Segment 3
Mike Park - Wigily Wigily Worm
ID
Mr. Leebot - Twirl! Twirl! Twirl!
Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke
ID
The Not-Its! - Time Out to Rock
New Ps - All For Swinging Around You
ID
TMBG - Roy G Big
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, August 10, 2012

2012-08-11 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Thanks to ScribbleJim for filling in for our very first one-hour show!  We will -- if all goes well -- return next week, coming at you from Spare the Rock Towers in Austin, Texas. You can stream the show on demand at our page at WRSI.com! Here's what Jim played:


Segment 1
TMBG – It’s Spare the Rock
ScribbleMonster – Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Freelance Whales - Generator ^ First Floor
Lunch Money - I Want to Push Buttons
Cage the Elephant - Around My Head
The Morning Benders - I Wanna Be Like You
Jesse Friedberg - The Monkey Song
ID

Segment 2
TMBG – Don’t Spare the Rock
ID/Are You Prepared to Rock?
Key Wilde & Mr. Clarke - Favorite Names
The Hipwaders – Hey, Josie!
Sweet - Little Willy
Terrible Twos - Caroline
Grouplove – Chloe
ID

Segment 3
ID
Passion Pit - Let Your Love Grow Tall
ScribbleMonster (w/Racer Steve) - Someday, Little Children
Sara Hickman & Kristen Nichols - Space Poetry!
The Boy Least Likely To - I’m Glad I Hitched My Apple Wagon To Your Star
ID
TMBG - See the Constellation
TMBG – Spare the Rock

Friday, August 03, 2012

Saturday, July 21, 2012

2012-07-21 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child


Listen any time at our page at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
ID
TMBG - Alphabet of Nations (bonus version)
Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch - I'll Fly Away
ID (Alphabet of Nations)
Woody Guthrie - Wake Up
Elizabeth Mitchell - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Frances England - Bling Blang
ID

Segment 2
Wilco - What Light
Lunch Money - You Were a Basket of Flowers
Leonard Cohen - Lullaby
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
Egg - Flip Flops

Segment 3
Maya Bond - Cute Papa
The Not-Its! - Great to Be a Kid
The Boogers - Big Rock Candy Mountain
ID
Chickasaw Mudd Puppies - Cicada
Dean Jones - Flat Tire
Hullabaloo - My Eyes
ID
Buddy & Julie Miller - Ellis County

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Artichoke - Dog
Spoon - Underdog
Billy Kelly - Oh My Dog
ID
Jimmies - Bonfire
Mates of State - I Am a Scientist
ID

Segment 5
SteveSongs - Ducks Hatching
Fatboy Slim - Rockafeller Skank
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Make the Future
ID
Apples in Stereo - The Bird That You Can't See

Segment 6
Dog on Fleas - Party
Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop
ID
Deedle Deedle Dees - Marie Curie
Renee & Jeremy - (I Wanna Be Like) Madame Curie
ID
TMBG - Dr. Worm (Live)
TMBG - Spare the Rock


Friday, July 13, 2012

2012-07-14 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child


Listen any time you like at our page at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
ID
TMBG - Triops Has Three Eyes
Harry James - Back Beat Boogie
ID
Elizabeth Mitchell - Phytoplankton
John & Mark - Colors
ID
Sandra Velasquez - Deportee

Segment 2
Lyle Lovett - Church
Uncle Rock - There Is No Away
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
Arcwelder - Favor
Bunny Clogs - 3 Dogs and a Pancake
ID
Milkshake - Shake It Up

Segment 3
Alexandra - Odd Girl Out
Nields - Butterfly
ID
Mr. Richard - Butterfly Day
Lunch Money - Spicy Kid
ID
Mr. G - Bugs

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Dog on Fleas - This Land is Your Land
Deedle Deedle Dees - Zora
ID
Clifton Chenier - Choo Choo Ch' Boogie
Rebirth Brass Band - Shrimp and Gumbo
ID

Segment 5
Eloise the Great - Everybody Let's Jump (For Your Library)
Flannery Brothers - Jump Up and Down
ID
Jonathan Richman - This Kind of Music
Henning Ohlenbusch - Little Black Train
ID
Big Bang Boom - Bicycle
Barenaked Ladies - Another Postcard

Segment 6
Yuck - The Wall
Butterflyfish - Lemonade
ID
Dan Zanes & Friends - Summer Trains
Ozomatli - Love and Hope
ID
TMBG - The Spider
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, July 06, 2012

2012-07-07 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen any time you like at our page at WRSI.com!


Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
ID
TMBG - Seven Days of the Week
Kit Langdon - Robin
Felicia Sloin - Clean it Out and Give It Away
ID
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem - Tennessee Wig Walk
Liz Mitchell - Sylvie
ID
Nields - Your House is Strong (Motherwoman)

Segment 2
ID
Michelle Shocked - Greener Side
Deedle Deedle Dees - Cool Papa Bell
Prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock
Bow Wow - I Want Candy
AudraRox - Sugar High
ID
ROCK - Crab Attack

Segment 3
Go-Gos - We Got the Beat
Maxwell's Complex (Chris Rose) - Absolute Zero
ID
Mocean Worker - Chick A Boom Boom
Wunmi - Rainbow (Science Fair)
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
John & Mark - A Counting Error
Sippy Cups - Seven is the New 14
ID
Fred Leslie's Missing Link - Pinball Number Count
The Who - Pinball Wizard
ID

Segment 5
Uncle Rock - You Look Good in the Rain
Mister G - Shark in My Bathtub
ID
Rubblebucket - Came Out of a Lady
Dog on Fleas - If You Wanna Dance Say Yeah!
Ozomatli - Can't Stop
ID

Segment 6
Alastair Moock & Friends - Ladybugs' Picnic (with Mark Erelli)
Rebirth Brass Band - (I Feel Like) Busting Loose
ID
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Space Cadet
We-Bop - What a Wonderful World
ID
TMBG - Spy
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, June 29, 2012

2012-06-30 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child



Listen any time you like at our page at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
ID
TMBG - Wake Up Call
Vieux Diop - Sing Lo-Lo
Eno/Cale - Been There Done That
ID
Ella Fitzgerald - Slap that Bass
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem - If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out
ID

Segment 2
Jellyfish - I Wanna Stay Home
Medeski, Martin & Wood - All Around the Kitchen
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock
Me First & the Gimme Gimmes - Blowin' in the Wind
Terri Hendrix - Nerves
ID
Roy Handy & the Moonshot - Space Kitty!
Dressy Bessy - Electrified
ID

Segment 3
Alison Faith Levy & Rudy Trubitt - Deja Vu
Hey Dango - At the Beach
ID
Cloud Cult - Journey of the Featherless
Lunch Money - Puzzle Pieces Within
ID
Frances England - Mind of My Own

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Gruff Rhys - Beacon in the Darkness
Elizabeth Mitchell - Bling Blang
ID
War - Why Can't We Be Friends
Deedle Deedle Dees & IMPACT Repertory Theatre - Time Machine
ID
Woody & Arlo Guthrie - Don't You Push Me Down

Segment 5
Andrew Bird - The Twistable Turnable Man Returns
Hullabaloo - My Eyes
ID
Johnny Cash - One and One Makes Two
Sugar Free Allstars - Love Train
Isaac Hayes - The Grumps
ID
Mates of State - 17 Pink Sugar Elephants

Segment 6
Breeders - Divine Hammer
Ellen & Matt - Playground
XTC - Playground
Jonathan Coulton - The Princess Who Saved Herself
ID
TMBG - Alphabet of Nations (extended version)
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, June 22, 2012

2012-06-23 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child


Listen any time you like at our page at WRSI.com!

Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
ID
TMBG - Happy Doesn't Have to Have an Ending
Johnny Cash - I Love You Because
Frances England - Daddy-O
ID
Kimya Dawson - Happy Home (Keep On Writing)
Elizabeth Mitchell - Jubilee
ID

Segment 2
Lunch Money - To Be a Fossil
Steven Courtney - Bag of Dreams
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
The Posies - Dream All Day
ScribbleMonster - I Wish I Lived in Michigan
ID
Danny Adlerman - The Veggie Song
ID

Segment 3
Deedle Deedle Dees & IMPACT Repertory Theatre - Time Machine
Daniel Hales & The Frost Heaves - Bubble Test
ID
Polyphonic Spree - Heart of Gold
Terrible Twos - Jump Jump Jump
ID
Kinder Angst - Do It Yourself (with Deborah Harry)

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Rocketfuel
The Roots - Lovely, Love My Family
ID
Guided By Voices - Hold On Hope

Segment 5
Steve Lee - Wake Up
New York Dolls - Dance Like a Monkey
ID
The Missing Piece - Little Brown Dog
Beck - Where It's At
Jimmies - What's that Sound?
ID

Segment 6
Uncle Rock - Rock & Roll Babysitter
ID
Elvis Costello - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding (for Saskia)
Los Lobos - Heigh Ho
Jawbone - Popsicle Soup
ID
TMBG - Electric Car
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, June 15, 2012

2012-06-16 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
ID
TMBG - O, Do Not Forsake Me
Randy Kaplan - Green Green Rocky Road
ID
Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers - King Tut
Lead Belly - Red Bird
Charlie Hope - Two Little Blackbirds
ID
Little Mo McCoury - You've got a Friend in Me

Segment 2
Papa Crow - That's the Life for Me
Willie & the Wheel - Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
Jimmies - Cool to be Uncool
Starfish - My Name is No!
ID
Flaming Lips - She Don't Use Jelly

Segment 3
Mister G - Run
Primate Fiasco - Apples and Bananas
ID
School for the Dead - Superhero (live at Spare the Rock)
Stan Ridgway - Ice Cream Octopus
ID

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Cat & a Bird - Constellation Bound
Jonathan Coulton - I'm Your Moon (live at Spare the Rock)
ID
The Pop-Ups - Connect the Stars
Prince - Starfish and Coffee
ID

Segment 5
Billy Kelly - Oh My Dog
Rufus Thomas - Can Your Monkey do the Dog
ID
Parker Bent - Scooch Back
Deedle Deedle Dees - Ah Ahimsa
Papas Fritas - Vertical Lives
ID
Ella Fitzgerald - A-Tisket, A-Tasket

Segment 6
Sunshine Collective - I Just Wanna Play
Cults - Go Outside
ID
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Gotta Be You
Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
ID
TMBG - Subliminal
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, June 08, 2012

2012-06-09 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child


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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
ID
TMBG - Other Father Song
Sarah Lee Guthrie - Bright Clear Day
Dan Zanes - Moonlit Town (live at Spare the Rock)
ID
Brian Eno - I'll Come Running
Steve Weeks - A Friend Like You
ID

Segment 2
Keller Williams - Hula Hoop to Da Loop
Martin Zeller - Down in the Valley
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
Apples in Stereo - Energy
Liz Phair - Everything's Controlled By the Brain
ID
CandyBand - Ken Lost His Head

Segment 3
Southern Culture on the Skids - Camel Walk
George Carver - They Got Feet
ID
Mister G - Grilled Cheese
Moona Luna - H2O (Science Fair)
ID
Toots & the Maytalls - Take Me Home, Country Roads

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
XTC - Helicopter
The Not-Its! - Helicopter
Lunch Money - Dizzy
Alison Faith Levy - Like a Spinning Top
ID
Luscious Jackson - Goo

Segment 5
Justin Roberts - Pop Fly
Craig Finn & Baseball Project - Don't Call Them Twinkies
ID
Visqueen - Centerfield
Deedle Deedle Dees - Bring 'Em In
ID
Frances England w/ Mates of State - Place in Your Heart

Segment 6
Frank Black - (I Want to Live on an) Abstract Plain
Terrible Twos - Math Stomp
ID
Ziggy Marley - Family Time
Los Straitjackets - Cavalcade
Bari Koral - Kick Drum Heart
ID
TMBG - Alphabet of Nations
TMBG - Spare the Rock.

Friday, June 01, 2012

2012-06-02 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child


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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
ID
TMBG - Zeroes
Elizabeth Mitchell - The Happy Song
Doc Watson - Green Grass Grew All Around
ID
Rani Arbo & daisy mayhem - They All Ask'd For You
Your Imaginary Friend - Alabama Mississippi
ID
Primate Fiasco - Sunny Side of the Street

Segment 2
Tom Waits - Heigh Ho
Randy Kaplan - Little Bee
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
Mr. T Experience - Unpack Your Adjectives
Egg - Sunny Side Up
ID

Segment 3
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Country Girl
Jonathan Richman - New England
ID
Frances England - Fast Train to Grandma's
Kinks - Last of the Steam-Powered Trains
ID
Babe the Blue Ox - Surfin' Minnesota
Suburbs - Rattle My Bones

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
REM - Stand
Always Saturday - Summer Something
Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now
ID
Ray Charles - You Are My Sunshine
We-Bop - It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
ID
Dog on Fleas - Fortunate Mistake

Segment 5
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Bag of Hammers
Billy Kelly - Don't Worry About the Government
ID
Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life
Aquabats - Idiot Box
ID
Justin Roberts - We Go Duck

Segment 6
Sleater Kinney - Lions and Tigers
Deedle Deedle Dees - Little Red Airplane
ScribbleMonster - Loud and Soft
ID
Nields - Butterfly
Beach Boys - Vegetables
ID
TMBG - Science is Real
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, May 25, 2012

Listen any time you like at our page at WRSI.com! Segment 1 TMBG - It's Spare the Rock ID TMBG - Fibber Island Grenadilla - Exactly Where I Want To Be Jason Mraz - Man Gave Names to All the Animals ID Dan Zanes - By and By Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer - Bye Bye Blackbird/Red Red Robin Medley ID Segment 2 Hullabaloo - Road Trip Okee Dokee Brothers - Haul Away Joe ID/prep to rock Royal Order of Chords & Keys - Punk Rock, One Sock!!! Jimmies - Cool to Be Uncool Pixies - La La Love You ID Matthew Sweet - Scooby Doo (6/17) Segment 3 Shiprock & Anchordog - Desert Dogs Dean Jones - Sing Like a Sparrow ID Rebirth Brass Band - Take It To The Street Flannery Brothers - One Wasn't Enough ID Sugar Free Allstars - Put 'Em Away Segment 4 ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child ID Artichoke - Mary Anning The Go! Team - Titanic Vandalism Daddy A Go Go - I Wanna Be An Action Figure ID Hipwaders - Geometry Shins - It's Okay, Try Again ID Segment 5 ID Michael Franti - Say Hey (I Love You) Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Make the Future Booker T & the MGs - Green Onions Astrograss - Drunken Sailor
ID Cab Calloway - Everybody Eats When They Come To My House Segment 6 ID Mates of State - I Am a Scientist Caspar Babypants - All That I Have Got Billy Kelly - We Could Be Pen Pals ID Lunch Money - Original Friend Gladys Knight & the Pips - Friendship Train ID They Might Be Giants - Apartment 4 TMBG - Spare the Rock

Friday, May 18, 2012

2012-05-19 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen any old time at our page at WRSI.com! Segment 1 TMBG - It's Spare the Rock ID TMBG - One Two Three Four Your Imaginary Friend - Bicycle Built for Two The Good Miss Padgett - Little Red Hen ID Tom Waits - New Coat of Paint Mo Phillips - Suction Cup ID Segment 2 Hypnotic Clambake - 500 Robots Okee Dokee Brothers - Small and Simple (w/ Elizabeth Mitchell) Elizabeth Mitchell - Hey Bo Diddley ID/prep to rock TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock! Mommie - Dumptruck Paul Westerberg - Meet Me in the Meadow ID Segment 3 Deep Fried Pickle Project - Lemonade Stand ID Dog on Fleas - Treehouse I'm From Barcelona - Treehouse Space Balloons - If You Want a Mustache ID Arlo Guthrie - Bling Blang Segment 4 ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child ID Dr. John - My Children, My Angels Keith Munslow - Accidentally ID Los Straitjackets - The Munsters Theme Medeski Martin & Wood - Let's Go Everywhere Segment 5 Booker T. Jones - Representing Memphis (feat. Sharon Jones) Dan Zanes & Friends - In the Basement (feat. Sharon Jones) ID Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - This Land is Your Land Renee & Jeremy - New Soul ID Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band - Lil' Red Rooster Segment 6 Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Hot Sauce Dick Dale - Miserlou ID Justin Roberts - We Go Duck Wee Hairy Beasties - Ragtime Duck ID TMBG - The Guitar TMBG - Spare the Rock Alison Faith Levy - Like a Spinning Top

Friday, May 11, 2012

2012-05-12 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen any time you like at our page at WRSI.com! Segment 1 TMBG - It's Spare the Rock ID TMBG - E Eats Everything Renee & Jeremy - Yellow ID Brady Rymer - One True You Laura Freeman - Spring Marissa - Alo Alo ID Caspar Babypants - $9.99 Segment 2 Dan Israel - Tomorrow Will Be Really Great Kermit - Bein' Green ID/prep to rock TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock! Alkaline Trio - Movin' Right Along Cake - Mahna Mahna Elizabeth Street -Fair ID Elvis Costello - Radio, Radio Segment 3 Dennis Caraher in-studio Kingdom of Summer I Love My Mom Segment 4 ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child ID Guest DJ set from Isabel: Peter Paul & Mary - Stewball Rusted Root - Send Me On My Way ID V/A - Real in Rio Segment 5 Isabel Guest DJ set: Blood Sweat & Tears - I Can't Quit Her Baby Loves Jazz - Scat Song ID V/A - Hot Wings (I Wanna Party) Shawn Colvin - Windy Nights ID Segment 6 ID Princess Katie & Racer Steve - Sand in My Sandwich Wavves - King of the Beach ID The Not-Its - Hot Sand Ramones - Rockaway Beach ID Beastie Boys - Intergalactic ID TMBG - How Many Planets? TMBG - Spare the Rock

Saturday, May 05, 2012

2012-05-05 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child


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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
ID
TMBG - Where Do They Make Balloons?
Lole-Lolay - Sensation
REM - We Walk
Frances England - Firefly
Deedle Deedle Dees - Major Deegan

Segment 2
Death By Chocolate - If You Want to Sing Out
Esquivel - Adios
Elizabeth Mitchell - Winter's Come and Gone
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
Iggy Pop - Real Wild Child
Alison Faith Levy - Itsy Bitsy Spider

Segment 3
Moona Luna - De Colores
Los Lobos - Everybody Loves a Train
ID
Billy Kelly - I Say I'm Tryin' to Decide
School for the Dead - Beautiful Day in the Woods (Ayla)
ID
Justin Roberts - I Chalk

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Mista Cookie Jar- Happy Place
James Brown - Make it Funky
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Space Cadet
WeBop - Night Train
ID

Segment 5
Bjork - All Is Full of Love
Renee & Jeremy - Put a Little Love in Your Heart
ID
Elizabeth Mitchell - Lovely Day
Dog on Fleas - There's a Band in My Head
ID
Big Bang Boom - Animal Sounds

Segment 6
Wilson Pickett - Soul Dance Number Three
Jose Gonzalez y Banda Criolla - Bomba Le Le
De La Soul - The Magic Number
ID
The Doubleclicks - Worst Superpower Ever
Recess Monkey - I Could See (Magically)
ID
TMBG - Can You Find It?

Saturday, April 21, 2012

2012-04-21 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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Segment 1
TMBG - It's Spare the Rock
ID
TMBG - Apartment 4
Gustafer Yellowgold - New is the New Old
Aretha Franklin - Let It Be
ID
Heidi Swedberg - Froggie Went A-Courtin'
Emily Curtis - We Belong
ID


Segment 2
Dan Zanes - Water for the Elephants
Elizabeth Mitchell - Jubilee
ID/prep to rock
TMBG - Don't Spare the Rock!
Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
Kid Koala - Fruit Belt
Board of Education - Why Is Dad So Mad?
ID
The Quiet Ones - How Fast Can You Run?

Segment 3
Little Richard - Get Down With It
Alison Faith Levy - Itsy Bitsy Spider
ID
King Curtis - Memphis Soul Stew
Dog on Fleas - If You Wanna Dance Say Yeah!
ID
Recess Monkey - Human Cannonball

Segment 4
ScribbleMonster - Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child
ID
Lucky Diaz - On My Bike (World Premiere!)
Pink Floyd - Bike
The Pop-Ups! - Box of Crayons
ID
Cathy & Marcy w/ Christylez Bacon - Soup, Soup

Segment 5
Secret Agent 23 Skidoo - Magic Beans
Chuck Womack & the Sweet Souls - Ham Hocks & Beans
ID
Flannery Brothers - One Wasn't Enough
Jonathan Richman - Ice Cream Man
ID
Thermals - Saints

Segment 6
Asylum Street Spankers - Think About Your Troubles
Cloud Cult - Help
ID
Frank Turner - I Still Believe
Justin Roberts - Never Getting Lost
ID
TMBG - Science is Real
TMBG - Spare the Rock

Saturday, April 14, 2012

2012-04-14 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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1 Songs from movies we like
-TMBG: Seven
-Dan Zanes “Tomorrow”
-Annie “Hard Knock Life”
-Neil Diamond “Turn on Your Heart light”
-My Morning Jacket ”Our World”
-The Riverbottom Nightmare Band
2 Songs to learn things by and are you prepared for hair me
-The Kelly Family “Ain’t Gonna Pee Pee My Bed”
-Interjections:Schoolhouse Rock songs
-Preamble Schoolhouse Rock
-50 States song Wakko from Animaniacs
Prepared to Rock
-KISS “God Gave Rock & Roll To You”
3 Songs about being different
-The Darkness |”I Believe in a Thing Called Love”
-I’m From Barcelona “Just Because It’s Different”
-Secret Agent 23 Skiddoo
-Sesame Street Mobity Mosley’s Months
-The Trashmen Surfin Bird/Family Guy

4 Song of Love and Unicorns and Pixies
-Ronnettes Be My Baby
-Ramones Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
-Erasure “Always” Song from Robot Unicorn Attack
-Pixies “La La Love You”

5 Song in other languages and that sound like they are from other planets
-Joe Hisaishi Studio Ghibli “Country Road”
-Ana Tijoux “La Bala”
-Feist “A Commotion”
-Rubblebucket “Came Out Of A Lady”

6 Stooges and Stuff
-Three Stooges “Swinging The Alphabet”
-The Stooges “No Fun”
-Gregory Brothers “Double Rainbow”
-Whitney Houston “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”
TMBG