IF YOU'RE PAYING ATTENTION...

...you can usually pick out the various obsessions and pop-cultural tripwires that inspire my bi-weekly playlist. A Freaks and Geeks watching binge, leading to both an XTC tune and a gen-ewww-ine disco number? You bet. Overhearing the phrase "bottle of smoke" on The Wire, reigniting memories of a wonderfully obscene Pogues reel (in both form and function)? Yeah, man. Watching a neighbor's eyes get packed out by my trained pet crows, reminding me of... ah, but maybe I've said too much.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000053 (JANUARY 16, 2008):

1. "Herter's Crow Calling Record, Part One" - Herter
2. "Fanfare" - Eric Matthews
3. "La La La La" - Blendells
4. "Greatest Gift" - Scratch Acid
5. "Funtime" - Iggy Pop
6. "Confessions" - Peter Murphy
7. "Sporting Life" - Young Marble Giants
8. "California Girls" - the Magnetic Fields
9. "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" - Hüsker Dü
10. "Ralph Spoilsport's Going Out Of Body Sale" - the Firesign Theatre
11. "Makaram Sari Bagl" - Cahit Oben
12. "Bottle of Smoke" - the Pogues
13. "The Wrong Road" - the Go-Betweens
14. "Garden of Pomegranates" - Old Time Relijun
15. "The Bullfighter" - Ken Nordine
16. "Losin' Time" - Wooden Shjips
17. "Another Girl, Another Planet" - the Only Ones
18. "Class War" - the Dils
19. "Headphones" - the Aluminum Group
20. "Nope Fun" - PRE
21. "No Language in Our Lungs" - XTC
22. "Higgle-Dy Piggle-Dy" - the Monks
23. "I'm a Mummy" - the Fall
24. "What I Believe" - Steve Martin
25. "My Little Underground" - the Jesus and Mary Chain
26. "Coach Station Reunion" - the Field Mice
27. "Repulsion" - the Tiger Lilies
28. "Qua Kue Shut" - the Creations
29. "Happy Nightmare Baby" - Opal
30. What's on TV Right Now (inc. "Time is Tight" - Booker T. and the MGs)
31. "Listening In" - Protex
32. "Axis Sally" - the Lamps
33. "I Am a Rock" - the Church
34. "When I Fall" - Squirrel Bait
35. "The Groove Line" - Heatwave
36. "This May Sound Kind Of Weird" - Wammo
37. "Repetition" - David Bowie
38. "I Am the Best Lovemaker in This World" - Elton & Betty White
39. "Signed D.C." - Love
40. untitled (The Clapping Song) - Dairy Queen Empire
41. "Glangorous" - Turn On
42. "Just You and Me" the Birthday Party