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Songs inspired by commemoration and celebration. R.I.P. Angela.

• ARCHIVES
• Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday
• No More Auction Block – Bob Dylan
• Redemption Song – Bob Marley & The Wailers
• Slave Driver – Bob Marley & The Wailers
• Slavery Days – Burning Spear
• Chains – Black & Blues
• When the Revolution Comes – The Last Poets
• John Brown’s Body – Paul Robeson
• Sanders of the River – Paul Robeson
• Go Down Moses – Louis Armstrong, Sy Oliver Choir, The Allstars
• Wade in the Water – Ella Jenkins
• Wade in the Water – Ramsey Lewis
• Song of the Underground Railroad – John Coltrane
• Oh, Freedom – The Montgomery Gospel Trio
• When Will We Be Paid – The Staples Singers
• Who’ll Pay Reparations on My Soul? – Gil Scott-Heron
• Mississippi Goddamn- Nina Simone
• The Death of Emmett Till – Bob Dylan
• Niggers Are Scared Of Revolution – The Last Poets
• Fight the Power – Public Enemy
• This is America – Childish Gambino
• Home is Where the Hatred Is – Gil Scott-Heron
• Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler) – Marvin Gaye
• The Ghetto – Donny Hathaway
• Chocolate City – Parliament
• Say It Loud – I’m Black and Proud – James Brown
• Brown Sugar – The Rolling Stones
• Slave – The Rolling Stones
• Give the People What They Want – The O’Jays
• We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue – Curtis Mayfield
• (For God’s Sake) Give More Power to The People – The Chi-Lites
• Someday We’ll All Be Free – Donny Hathaway
• A Change is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
• People Get Ready – Aretha Franklin
• Freedom – Charles Mingus
• Summertime – Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald

Songs inspired by rockin’ and rollin’ unidentified objects!

• ARCHIVE
• Two Little Men In A Flying Saucer – Ella Fitzgerald
• Destination Moon – Dinah Washington
• Here Come the Martian Martians – Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
• Flying Saucer – Little Walter
• Rocket 69 – Todd Rhodes, Connie Allen
• Flying Saucers Rock & Roll – Robert Gordon, Link Wray
• Out Of This World – The Detroit Cobras
• Zero Zero UFO – Ramones
• I Got Abducted by a UFO – The Lillingtons
• Alien She – Bikini Kill
• Astro Zombies – Misfits
• Books About UFOs – Hüsker Dü
• Planet Claire – The B-52’s
• 53 Miles West of Venus – The B-52’s
• Bike Ride to the Moon – The Dukes of Stratosphear
• Unfunky UFO- Parliament
• Mothership Connection (Star Child) – Parliament
• UFO – Sun Ra
• Planet Queen – T. Rex
• I Made Love to a Martian – Mustard Plug
• Sex Dwarf – Soft Cell
• Homo Sapiens Extraterrestrials – Space Tribe, Volcano
• Monkeys in Space – Akira the Don, Joe Rogan
• Space Monkeys On The Radio – Aaron Leister
• Space Monkey – Patti Smith
• My Flying Saucer – Billy Bragg, Wilco
• It Came Out Of The Sky – Credence Clearwater Revival
• Waiting For The UFO’s – Graham Parker
• Mr. Spaceman – The Byrds
• Starman – David Bowie
• Loving The Alien – David Bowie
• Alien – Die Antwoord
• Subterranean Homesick Alien – Radiohead
• Spacelab – Kraftwerk
• Planet Rock – Afrika Bambaataa, The Soulsonic Force
• Flying Saucers – Nina Hagen
• Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft – Carpenters
• Interplanet Janet – Schoolhouse Rock

Songs inspired by everything that Summer is about. Thank you my dear friends! Happy Birthday Richard! Keep on huffin’ the dinosaur!

• ARCHIVE
• Summertime – Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald
• Summertime – DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
• Summer – War
• In the Summertime – Mungo Jerry
• Hot Fun in the Summertime – Sly & The Family Stone
• Hot Child in the City – The Nick Gilder Sweeney Todd Group
• Hot Love – T. Rex
• Feels Like Summer – Childish Gambino
• Veranda Suspensa – Céu
• Suddenly Last Summer – The Motels
• Cruel Summer – Bananarama
• Rock Lobster – B-52’s
• Misirlou – Dick Dale and his Del-Tones
• In the Sun – Blondie
• In the Summer – Fastbacks
• Rockaway Beach – Ramones
• Celebrated Summer – Hüsker Dü
• Summertime Blues – The Who
• Summer Babe – Pavement
• Don’t Touch My Bikini – The Halo Benders
• A-Punk – Vampire Weekend
• Someday – The Strokes
• Here Comes the Summer – The Undertones
• Breeze – Lush
• Summer Breeze – Seals and Crofts
• A Summer Song – Chad & Jeremy
• That Summer Feeling – Jonathan Richman
• Summer Nights – John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John
• 4th of July (Sandy) – Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
• Summer, Highland Falls – Billy Joel
• Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer – Nat King Cole
• Summer Holiday – Cliff Richard, The Shadows
• Summer Samba (So Nice) – Astrid Gilberto, Walter Wanderley
• Summer of ’69 – Tim Timebomb
• Long Hot Summer – Jimi Hendrix
• Could You Be Loved – Bob Marley & The Wailers
• Positive Vibration – Bob Marley & The Wailers
• Your Summer Dream – The Beach Boys
• Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys
• Theme from “The Endless Summer” – The Sandals
• The Boys of Summer – Don Henley
• Ice Cream Man – Van Halen

Songs inspired by a day of sun. Happy 80th Birthday tomorrow, Bob!

• ARCHIVE
• Sunday Morning – The Velvet Underground
• Good Day Sunshine – The Beatles
• Sunday Morning Coming Down – Johnny Cash
• Everyday is Like Sunday – Morrissey
• Here Comes The Sun – Ritchie Havens
• Here Comes The Sun – Nina Simone
• Sunrise – Norah Jones
• Sun Is Shining – Bob Marley & The Wailers
• Sunshine On My Shoulders – John Denver
• I’ll Follow The Sun – The Beatles
• Sun King – The Beatles
• Mambo Sun – T. Rex
• Malibu Love Nest – Luna
• Up on the Sun – Meat Puppets
• Island in the Sun – Weezer
• Sunny Afternoon – The Kinks
• Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon – Queen
• Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon – Madeleine Peyroux
• A Place In The Sun – Stevie Wonder
• You Are The Sunshine Of My Life – Stevie Wonder
• Sunday Sermon – Booker T. & the M.G.’s
• On The Sunny Side Of The Street – Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Rollins
• When Sunny Gets Blue – McCoy Tyner
• Sunny – Bobby Hebb
• Who Loves the Sun – The Velvet Underground
• California Sun – Ramones
• The Sun Always Shines on T.V. – a-ha
• Invisible Sun – The Police
• Waiting on a Sunny Day – Musica Para Bebes
• Hard Sun – Eddie Vedder
• Saturday Sun – Nick Drake
• Waiting for the Sun – The Doors
• Let The Sunshine In (Reprise) – The 5th Dimension
• Sunshine – Mos Def
• Sunblind – Fleet Foxes
• Sunsetz – Cigarettes After Sex
• Sundown Syndrome – Tame Impala
• Sundown – Gordon Lightfoot
• Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks
• You Are My Sunshine – Johnny Cash
• That Lucky Old Sun – Bob Dylan
• Sunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows – Lesley Gore

Songs inspired by freakin’ out! Get your shots, strip the mask and get freakin’!

• ARCHIVE
• Le Freak – CHIC
• Super Freak – Rick James
• Get Ur Freak On – Missy Elliot
• Freak Like Me – Santigold
• Freak Like Me – Adina Howard
• Freaks of the Industry – Digital Underground
• Freaks Come Out at Night – Whodini
• Freak-A-Zoid – Midnight Star
• B-Boys Makin’ With The Freak Freak – Beastie Boys
• Psychobilly Freakout – The Reverend Horton Heat
• Freakin Out – Death
• Freak Magnet – L7
• Freak Magnet – Violent Femmes
• Freak – Silverchair
• Freak Train – Kurt Vile
• Freak Scene – Dinosaur Jr.
• Bleed the Freak – Alice in Chains
• Pinhead – The Ramones
• Hungry Freaks, Daddy – The Mothers of Invention
• Freakin’ At the Freakers’ Ball – Dr. Hook
• Freak Flag – Southern Culture on the Skids
• White Trash Freaks – Rob Zombie
• Hollywood Freaks – Beck
• I Need a Freak – Sexual Harrassment
• I Need Love – LL Cool J
• I Need Drugs – Necro
• Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll – Ian Dury
• Be Gay, Do Drugs, Hail Satan – Super Cassette
• I Did Acid With Caroline – Jad Fair, Daniel Johnston
• 88 Lines About 44 Women – The Nails
• Sensitive Artist – King Missle
• Echo Beach – Martha and the Muffins
• Having an Average Weekend – Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet
• Punk Rock Girl – The Dead Milkmen
• Part Time Punks – Television Personalities
• American Music – Violent Femmes
• Whole Wide World – Wreckless Eric
• Apeman – The Kinks
• Homosapien – Pete Shelley
• I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar – Jonathan Richman

Starting next week Shut Up You Freak! will be on for an additional half hour. More freaks more fun!

Songs inspired by sitting still. Happy New Year Robyn! Get well Lucinda. Don’t forget to ask Mom how she got to be a Mom.

• ARCHIVE
• Don’t Change – INXS
• Happy Birthday – Altered Images
• Unhappy Birthday – The Smiths
• The Book of Love – Peter Gabriel
• Modern Love – David Bowie
• Fantastic Voyage – David Bowie
• Blackstar – David Bowie
• Heroes – Peter Gabriel
• Devil Rides Backwards – R.E.M.
• Life And How To Live It – R.E.M.
• Sitting Still – R.E.M.
• Sitting Still – Tony Montana
• Sitting Still – Sofia Härdig
• Sezimary (Sitting Still) – Katsa
• Games Without Frontiers – Peter Gabriel
• In The City – The Jam
• Never Say Never – Romeo Void
• Head Over Heels – The Go-Go’s
• Let’s Go Trippin’ – The Beach Boys
• Sitting in the Midday Sun – The Kinks
• In My Room – The Beach Boys
• My Body Is A Cage – Peter Gabriel
• Weird Little Birthday Girl – Happyness
• I Have a Woman Inside My Soul – Yoko Ono
• Beautiful Girl – Robyn Hitchcock
• Queen Bitch – David Bowie
• I Can’t Give Everything Away – David Bowie
• Jubilee – Patti Smith
• Rock & Roll – The Velvet Underground

Songs inspired by verse versus verse dancing around the Maypole.

• ARCHIVE
• The ‘Layla’ Riff to Todi – Amit Chaudhuri
• Subterranean Homesick Blues – Bob Dylan
• America – Allen Ginsberg
• Subtext – John Fox, Harold Budd
• Fingernail Poem – Alan Watts
• Gangster Poem – Mack 10
• Farewell to the God of Plague – Zhang Yingzhe
• I Am a Reasonable Man – Charles Bukowski
• I Knew a Woman – Theodore Roethke
• Go Tell the Women – Grinderman
• Underwear – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night – Dylan Thomas
• Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town – e.e. cummings
• The Red Wheelbarrow – William Carlos Williams
• The Gift Outright – Robert Frost
• A Poem on the Underground Wall – Simon & Garfunkel
• Clem Snide – William S. Burroughs
• The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious – Ornament & Verbrechen
• Canto #38 – Ezra Pound
• I Have Known Rivers – Langston Hughes
• ‘B’ Movie – Gil Scott-Heron
• The Last Hotel & Some of Dharma – Jack Kerouac
• Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man – Ogden Nash
• 1959 – Patti Smith
• May Day – Patti Smith
• June’s Poem – June Carter Cash
• Daddy – Sylvia Plath
• Salt on a Slug – Black Flag
• The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock – T.S. Eliot
• Dream – Gregory Corso
• Ho Chi Minh – The Last Poets, Bernard “Pretty” Purdie
• If I Ran the Zoo – Dr. Seuss
• Ring Around the Rosie

Songs inspired by four beers, two shots and a friend. R.I.P. Shock G and Jim.

• ARCHIVE
• 300 Conejos – Alejandro Jodorowsky
• São Jorge – Hermato Pascoal
• Celluloid Héros – The Kinks
• The Good’s Gone – The Who
• The Gun and the Bible – Negativland
• Moisture – The Residents
• Telepathy – Swans
• Mother_Father – Swans
• Super-Electric – Stereolab
• Things Happen – Coil
• Too Drunk to Fuck – Nouvelle Vague, Camille
• My Favourite Beatles Song is Octopus’s Garden – the internet band
• Octopus’s Garden – The Beatles
• Octonauts Theme Song – Kid Jr.
• Yellow Submarine – Rockabye Baby!
• War Pigs – Black Sabbath
• Am I Going Insane – Black Sabbath
• If the Kids are United – Sham 69
• We’re Coming Back – Cock Sparrer
• Flowers of Romance – Public Image Ltd.
• There is a Light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths
• Everyone Is Horrid Except Me (And Possibly You) – Quilloughby
• Mexican Radio – Celtic Frost
• R.A.M.O.N.E.S. – Motorhead
• Out of Focus – Love Battery
• Second Skin – The Gits
• Celebrity Skin – Hole
• Love Buzz – Nirvana
• I Ran Away – Dinosaur Jr.
• Blank Generation – Richard Hell
• Domingo – Titãs
• I Got The Blues – Come
• Cosmic Dancer – T. Rex
• Tarot Will Teach You / Burn Your Money – Alejandro Jodorowsky