THIS IS NOT YOUR ORDINARY W&F...

...as I have been joined this evening by my good friend "Slab" Slabinsky, leading to a lot of anarchic wackiness. Yeah. Woo. (And we even superseded the station's usual post 1 AM programming for a while, because we're just that dangerous.)

THE SLAB O' HAM SHOW (SEPTEMBER 24, 2008):

1. "Breakdown" - the Buzzcocks
2. "Dancing Choose" - TV on the Radio
3. B-52s-style Stairway to Heaven - unknown
4. "Yodelling Overtures" - Mary Schneider
5. "Samtigdit 1" - Dungen
6. "Summer '68" - Pink Floyd
7. "Hot Rock Radio/Carumba" - Proctor & Bergman
8. "Water Curses" - Animal Collective
9. "I Rub My Roast" - Vincent Price
10. "You're Driving Me Insane" - the Roughnecks
11. "I'm Unkind" - Thee Headcoats
12. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" - the Residents
13. "Green Eggs and Ham" - unknown (from Dylan Hears a Who)
14. "Ban Roll-On Ad" - Iron Butterfly
15. "Slow" - My Bloody Valentine
16. "Song For Lon Mabon" - Crackerbash
17. "Gedenkminute" - NEU!
18. "Starboy" - the Frogs
19. "Into the Groove(y)" - Ciccone Youth
20. "Gordon Lightfoot Sings Every Song Ever Written" - from SCTV (Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis)
21. "What's New, Pussycat?" - Liquor Giants
22. "David Foster Wallace" - Tsunami
23. "Slow Talkers of America" - Bob & Ray
24. "Vox Apostolica" - Steinski
25. "Pig Ankle Strut" - the Red Krayola
26. "Swonk Reven Worromot" - Seltaeb
27. "I Get a Kick Out of You (disco version)" - Ethel Merman
28. "Common People" - William Shatner
29. "Just Like Laila Khaled Said" - The Teardrop Explodes
30. "Victorian Squid" - Robyn Hitchcock
31. "Turkish Song of the Damned" - the Pogues
32. "Party of the First Part" - Bauhaus
33. "The Chamber" - the Last Shadow Puppets
34. Bull of the Woods ad - the Thirteenth Floor Elevators
35. "Exquisite Dead Guy" - They Might Be Giants
36. "Spoilt Victorian Child" - the Fall
37. "The Faust Tapes (excerpt)" - Faust
38. "Boss Hoss" - the Melvins
39. "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" - the Andrews Sisters
40. "Descent" - the Cure
41. "Time Out of Joint" - DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid
42. "Towers Open Fire" - William S. Burroughs
43. "National Anthem by Mel Torme" - from SCTV (Rick Moranis)

I ISSUED MYSELF A CHALLENGE...

...to get through a whole show without a single song from the 1980s. It took me seven whole songs to fail utterly.

WOW & FLUTTER, EPISODE #000071 (SEPTEMBER 10, 2008):

1. "It's Gonna Come Out Johnson" - the Corespondents
2. "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Pelvis" - Barry Adamson (w/Jarvis Cocker)
3. "Rocket Number 9" - NRBQ
4. "Kate Cleaver's House" - Hefner
5. "Infinity ytinifnI" - These New Puritans
6. "Bang Bang Rock & Roll" - Art Brut
7. "Sex Dwarf" - Soft Cell
8. "Judith Beasley (Consumer Tips)" - Lily Tomlin
9. "Damaged Goods" - Gang of Four
10. "A Year With No Head" - Blue Orchids
11. "Younger Bums" - Big Dipper
12. "The Prisoner" - the Clash
13. "Girl in the Shoes" - Dengue Fever
14. "I'm Going to Spain" - the Fall
15. "Big-Jesus-Trash-Can" - the Birthday Party
16. "St. Vitus Dance" - Bauhaus
17. "The Abyss" - Your Funeral
18. "Out of the Picture" - Robyn Hitchcock
19. "There Will Be Blood" - Patton Oswalt
20. "Organ Donor" - DJ Shadow
21. "Guitarman" - the Jesus and Mary Chain
22. "Dr. Seuss" - Autoclave
23. "Other Animals are No. 1" - Erase Errata
24. "Psycho's Blues" - Clear Spot
25. "Swingline" - Adrian Belew
26. "Sunday Morning" - the Aluminum Group
27. "Friday Night, Saturday Morning" - the Specials
28. "Mr. Bentham: Directory Enquiries" - from Blue Jam (Julia Davis, Mark Heap, Kevin Eldon, David Cann)
29. "Violent Playground" - Broadcast
30. "Twisted Nerve" - Bernard Herrmann
31. "I Need Somebody" - Nebula
32. "The Worst Job I Ever Had" - Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
33. "Damaged" - Vivian Girls
34. "Not Nice to Be Nice" - Sentridoh
35. "Nevertheless" - the Rutles
36. "Tropic of Nipples" - Richard Meltzer
37. "I Am Superwoman!" - Stu Phillips