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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

2012-11-17 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child .

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

2012-08-04 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Listen any time at our page at WRSI.com!  Thanks to Monte for filling in.

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

2012-04-28 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

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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

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