Sinko Music Podcast

76: Instrumentals 3

DJs (mostly Cut Chemist, as it turns out) deliver this episode's instrumentals.

1. People Under The Stairs - Sunroof
2. Cut Chemist - (My 1st) Big Break
3. Headnodic - The Drive (Instrumental)
4. Jurassic 5 - Swing Set
5. Cut Chemist Meets Shortkut - Moonbase Alpha

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75: Guitar Jazz

1. Django Reinhardt - Appel Direct
2. Kenny Burrell & Jimmy Raney - Pivot
3. Herb Ellis & Joe Pass - Seven Come Eleven
4. Wes Montgomery - Four on Six
5. George Benson - My Three Sons

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74: Jazz

1. Gang Starr - Jazz Thing
2. Kool & The Gang - Jungle Jazz
3. The Clash - Jimmy Jazz
4. fIREHOSE - Relatin' Dudes To Jazz
5. A Tribe Called Quest - Jazz (We've Got)

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73: Yeah!

1. Yvonne Fair - Say Yeah Yeah
2. The Flaming Lips - The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)
3. They Might Be Giants - Yeh Yeh
4. Zwan - Yeah!
5. small factory - Yeah

("Yeah!" artwork from The Drawing Project)

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72: Dates

Some songs about dates -- not the fruit, and not in chronological order...

1. Minutemen - June 16th
2. Liz Phair - Cinco De Mayo
3. Danger Mouse/Jay-Z - December 4th
4. NOFX - August 8th
5. fIREHOSE - 4.29.92

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71: Buzzcocks

Buzzcocks were one of the most influential -- and in my opinion, one of the best) -- punk bands from the 70s, paving the way for the pop punk explosion (for better or worse...). This podcast follows their music from their first EP in 1976 through this past decade.

1. Breakdown
2. Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have)? [live]
3. Nostalgia
4. Raison D'etre
5. Keep On

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70: Impeach The President

Well, it's probably too late to do anything about the actual president right now. So instead here's the song by The Honeydrippers and four others that use its often-sampled beat.

1. The Honeydrippers - Impeach The President
2. Nice & Smooth - Funky For You
3. EPMD - Total Kaos
4. De La Soul - Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)
5. Digable Planets - Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)

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69: Time

1. Joe Jackson - Got The Time
2. The Futureheads - Trying Not To Think About Time
3. New Order - Fine Time
4. Hot Hot Heat - Running Out of Time
5. The Pacers - Out of Time

Photo credit: the other Martin Taylor

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68: 2:42

In an article for The Morning News, Joshua Allen did a little "research" to determine that 2 minutes and 42 seconds is the ideal song length. I think he might be right, and here are five songs that clock in at that perfect length.

1. The Smiths - Sheila Take A Bow
2. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
3. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Criminal Piece
4. Weezer - American Gigolo
5. Sahara Hotnights - Hot Night Crash

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67: Early Ska

Some songs from the 1950s/60s so-called "first wave" of ska...

1. The Ethiopians - Train to Skaville
2. Toots & The Maytals - Broadway Jungle
3. Desmond Dekker - Shanty Town
4. Bob Marley - Judge Not
5. The Skatalites - Man In The Street

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