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HAPPY LABORIAL DAY!

Little Walter :: “Mean Old World”
T-Bone Walker :: “Stormy Monday Blues”
Albert King :: “She Caught the Katy and Left Me A Mule to Ride”
Hound Dog Taylor :: “Give Me Back My Wig”
Freddie King :: “Going Down” - Conflicted. An amazing song, but also, in its way, the death knell for blues proper and the beginning of blues rock.
Cream :: “I’m So Glad”
T. Rex :: “Mambo Sun”
Crystal Skulls :: “The Hold Up”
Grizzly Bear :: “Two Weeks”
French Kicks :: “Abandon”
Voxtrot :: “The Start of Something”
Jane’s Addiction :: “Been Caught Stealing (Remix)”
The Verve :: “Sonnet”
The Ashtray Hearts :: “Rules”

ROUND TWO - LABORIAL SONGS WITH “MIDDLE” OR “HALF” OR “LABOR” IN THE TITLE.

Jimmy Eat World :: “The Middle”
Stealers Wheel :: “Stuck in the Middle with You”
The Pretenders :: “In the Middle of the Road”
TV on the Radio :: “Halfway Home”
P.O.S. :: “Half-Cocked Concepts” - The heartland muhfucker, sipping whole milk muhfucker.
Aesop Rock :: “Labor”
The Black Crowes :: “(Only) Halfway to Everywhere”
The American Analog Set :: “She’s Half”

MEET SPOON

Spoon :: “The Way We Get By”
Spoon :: “My Mathematical Mind”
Spoon :: “You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb”
Spoon :: “Believing Is Art”
Spoon :: “They Never Got You”

Brakes :: “Beatific Visions”
Cotton Mather :: “My Before and After”
Centro-matic :: “The Mighty Midshipman”
Greg Reese :: “Laborial Day”

MEET JAYDIOHEAD

Jaydiohead :: “Air Roc (Airbag vs. Roc Boys)”
Jaydiohead :: “Song and Cry (High and Dry vs. Song Cry)”
Jaydiohead :: “Lucifer’s Jigsaw (Jigsaw Falling Into Place vs. Lucifer)”
Jaydiohead :: “Dirt Off Your Android (Paranoid Android vs. Dirt Off Your Shoulder)”

Snoop Dogg :: “Gz and Hustlas”
Bill Withers :: “Use Me”
David McCallum :: “The Edge” - Sampled in “Still D.R.E.”
A Tribe Called Quest :: “Electric Relaxation” - Featuring this week’s Rap-A-Doo
Blackstreet w/ Dr. Dre :: “No Diggity”
David Axelrod :: “Songs of Innocence”
At the Drive-In :: “Lopsided”
Burning Airlines :: “Pacific 231”
Elliott :: “Intro”
Sunny Day Real Estate :: “In Circles”
Slint :: “Nosferatu” - That’s right. Slint.

COLLECT THEM SHEETS.

David Bowie :: “Life on Mars?”
Def Leppard :: “Photograph”
Dire Straits :: “Romeo & Juliet”
Joe Cocker :: “With A Little Help From My Friends”
Wang Chung :: “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” - Inspired by Sasha Frere-Jones’ tweet.
Paula Abdul :: “Straight Up” - Yup. That’s right.
The Romantics :: “Talking in Your Sleep”

WINNERS ANNOUNCED - CONGRATS TO ALL THE WINNERS

The Outfield :: “Your Love”
Asia :: “Heat of the Moment”
John Waite :: “Missing You”
Nada Surf :: “Blizzard of ‘77”
The National :: “Fake Empire”
Soul Coughing :: “Screenwriter’s Blues”
Haley Bonar :: “Queen of Everything”
The Rolling Stones :: “Tumbling Dice”
The Allman Brothers Band :: “Melissa”
Halloween, Alaska :: “The Ends”
Handsome Furs :: “Talking Hotel Arbat Blues”

… and good night. It’s been a pleasure.

Clem Snide :: “Joan Jett of Arc”
Buddy Holly :: “Everyday”
13th Floor Elevators :: “You’re Gonna Miss Me”
Cream :: “Tales of Brave Ulysses”
Jimi Hendrix :: “Hear My Train A Comin’” — from Jimi Hendrix Concerts, which may be out of print but is well worth tracking down. Best version ever.
The Red Devils :: “Tail Dragger”
Tower of Power :: “What Is Hip?”

LET THE TRIVIA BEGIN!

Mos Def :: “Twilite Speedball”
Wilco :: “Bull Black Nova”
LCD Soundsystem :: “Someone Great”
Jurassic 5 :: “The Influence”
Camp Lo :: “Krystal Karrington”
The Breeders :: Cannonball
The Bangles :: “Hazy Shade of Winter”
Mr. Mister :: “Kyrie”
Neon Neon :: “Dream Cars”
Liquid Liquid :: “Cavern”
Braid :: “Always Something There To Remind Me”
The Get-Up Kids :: “Mass Pike”
King Crimson :: “In the Court of the Crimson King”
Steely Dan :: “Your Gold Teeth II”
Badalamenti/Lynch :: “Just You” — This is from “Twin Peaks.” Anyone know who actually performs it?

SOUND ROUND (AMERICAN PRIDE!)

Jackson 5 :: “Mama’s Pearl”
Radiohead :: “Street Spirit (Fade Out)”
Metric :: “Stadium Love”
Led Zeppelin :: “Fool in the Rain”
Spoon :: “The Fitted Shirt”
Living Colour :: “Cult of Personality”
Justice :: “Phantom”
The Knife :: “We Share Our Mothers’ Health”
Wyclef Jean :: “We Trying to Stay Alive”
Jay-Z w/ Dr. Dre + Rakim :: “The Watcher 2”
Freeway :: “It’s Over”
Small Sins :: “Stay”
Lateef the Truth Speaker :: “The Wreckoning”
Department of Eagles :: “Nobody Does It”
The Beta Band :: “Dry The Rain” — “I’m about to sell five copies of The Beta Band’s Three EPs.”
Dr. Dog :: “The Rabbit, The Bat, & The Reindeer”
Friends Like These :: “7th Street Queen” — Featuring Craig Finn!
Death Cab for Cutie :: “Title Track”
Dr. Dre and Eminem vs. Radiohead :: “Forgot About D.R.E.” vs. “Idioteque”
Mos Def, Kanye West, + Freeway vs. RJD2 :: “Two Words” vs. “Ghostwriter”
Cut Chemist :: “Lesson 6: Lecture”
Erik B. & Rakim :: “Follow the Leader”
Ghostface Killah :: “Be Easy”

ANSWERS (CONGRATS TO THE WINNERS!)

Hall & Oates :: “Private Eyes”
Big Star :: “The Ballad of El Goodo”
Cap’n Jazz :: “Take On Me”
Prince :: “Kiss”
Cheryl Lynn :: “Got To Be Real”
Robyn :: “Konichiwa Bitches”
Sunny Day Real Estate :: “J’Nuh”
Snowden :: “Like Bullets”
TV on the Radio :: “Dancing Choose”
The White Stripes :: “Doorbell”
Those Bastard Souls :: “Telegram”
Talk Talk :: “Ascension Day”
The Mountain Goats :: “This Year”
Calexico :: “Sunken Waltz”
Brakes :: “What’s In It For Me?”
Blitzen Trapper :: “Furr”
Bundy K. Brown, Doug Scharin, & James Warden :: “Untitled” — from Directions in Music (Tortoise side project)

… and goodnight. It’s been a pleasure.