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In honor of Pesach, the holiday of freedom, which begins this Friday night, I played all songs with the word “free” in either the song title or the band name.
| Band | Song |
| The Buzzcocks | Running Free |
| The Suburbs | Where Boys Run Free |
| Rascal Flatts | Fast Cars and Freedom |
| Dexter Freebish | My Madonna |
| Cat Power | Free |
| Cedars | Free |
| Free Movement | I’ve Found Someone of My Own |
| Monkees | I Wanna Be Free |
| The Kugiz | Free Me |
| The Beatles | Free as a Bird |
| Pete Ham | I’ve Waited so Long to be Free |
| Camera Obscura | Footloose and Fancy Free |
| REM | Radio Free Europe |
| Devo | Freedom of Choice |
| The Dickies | Free Willy |
| Neil Patrick Harris (Dr. Horrible soundtrack) | My Freeze Ray |
| The Who | I’m Free |
| Michelle Branch | You Set Me Free |
| Baz Luhrman | Everyone’s Free (to Wear Sunscreen) |
| The American Music Club | Only Love Can Set You Free |
| Robert Lloyd | At Last I am Free |
| Pink Floyd | Free Four |
| Jerry Jeff Walker | LA Freeway |
| Three Dog Night | Freedom for the Stallion |
| Sebadoh | The Freed Pig |
| K’s Choice | Everything for Free |
| New Year’s Resolution | Freedom 35 |
| Jeff Buckley | She is Free |
| Deaf School | What a Way to End it All |
On Saturday night, I went to see Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3 at the Barby Club in Tel Aviv. This is Hitchcock’s latest project, formed with Peter Buck of REM, famous for creating the latter’s trademark jangly pop sound. It was a fantastic show and so on this Brainwaves, I played a lot of both The Venus 3 and REM.
| Band | Song |
| Blitzen Trapper | Lover Leave Me Drowning |
| Fun | Take Your Time (Coming Home) |
| REM | Harborcoat |
| Jeff Buckley | Grace |
| The Cure | Secrets |
| Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3 | TLC |
| Wilco | Heavy Metal Drummer |
| Madbucha Project | Raul |
| Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3 | I’m Falling |
| REM | Welcome to the Occupation |
| The Go Betweens | By Chance |
| Fountains of Wayne | Mexican Wine |
| Rooney | I’m Shaking |
| Translator | You’re Everywhere That I’m Not |
| REM | Shaking Through |
| Decemberists | Down by the Water |
| Lemonheads | Mrs. Robinson |
| Said the Whale | Lady Hourglass You’re Heads On Fire |
| The Flaming Lips | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| The Individuals | My Three Sons Revolve Around the World |
| Blink 182 | Anthem Part Two (Take Off Your Pants and Jacket) |
| Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3 | Goodnight Oslo |
| Barenaked Ladies | The Wrong Man Was Convicted |
| Camera Obscura | The Sweetest Thing |
| Eddie and the Hot Rods | Do Anything You Wanna Do |
| The Records | Starry Eyes |
| Deaf School | What a Way to End it All |
| Band | Song |
| The The | Uncertain Smile |
| Yes | Long Distance Runaround |
| Counting Crows | Monkey |
| The Cardigans | My Favorite Game |
| The Psychedelic Furs | Run and Run |
| Richard Barone | I’ve Got a Secret |
| The Guess Who | Clap for the Wolfman |
| Mashina | Ahuvati |
| Aviv Gefen | Machar (Tomorrow) |
| The Motors | Today |
| Lisa Loeb | Waiting for Wednesday |
| Jellyfish | Now She Knows She’s Wrong |
| Anne Marie | Bubblegum I See |
| REM | Imitation of Life |
| The Who | Is it in My Head |
| The Teardrop Explodes | Passionate Friend |
| The Monkees | Porpoise Song |
| The Wallflowers | I Started a Joke |
| Rewiring Genesis | The Carpet Crawlers |
| Ben Folds Five | One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces |
| Harvey Danger | Flagpole Sitta |
| Pete Yorn | Strange Condition |
| Josh Joplin Group | Camera One |
| Cheap Star | You Got it All |
| Omri Levy | Falling |
| Sufjan Stevens | Out of Egypt |
| Steve Martin | King Tut |
| The Grass Roots | Midnight Confessions |
| Ringo Star | It Don’t Come Easy |
| Prince | Let’s Go Crazy |
| Deaf School | What a Way to End it All |
| Band | Song |
| Sean Lennon | Dead Meat |
| Josh Pyke | Memories and Dust |
| Death Cab for Cutie | I Will Follow You into the Dark |
| Cyrkle | Red Rubber Ball |
| James Maestro | Dizzy |
| Deaf School | Knock, Knock, Knocking |
| Electric Light Orchestra | Mr. Blue Sky |
| The Who | Slip Kid |
| Romeo Void | Chinatown |
| A Flock of Seagulls | Telecommunication |
| Bloc Party | Banquet (the Disco Edit) |
| Cheyenne | This is the Fashion |
| Auto Escape | Backseat Driver |
| California Snow Story | Suddenly Everything Happens |
| Novi Split | California Skies |
| Adina Thorpe | More Than 17 |
| Steven Wilson | Insurgents |
| Blackfield | The Hole in Me |
| Adam and the Ants | Wonderful |
| The Monkees | She |
| The Dickies | She |
| Chicago | Question 67 and 68 |
| Berlin | Sex |
| Erez Lev-Ari | Tzedek (Justice) |
| Editors | An End Has a Start |
| Julie Moffitt | The End of the World As We Know It |
| REM | Me, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando and I |
| The Wallflowers | I Started a Joke |
| Badfinger | Come and Get It |
| Sonny Rhodes | The Theme Song from “Firefly” |
| J.J. Abrams | The Theme Song from “Fringe” |
| Deaf School | What a Way to End it All |
Last week, I was in Canada where we saw more snow in a week than the average Israeli will see in a lifetime. In honor of the weather, I played the entire first side of Spock’s Beard’s concept album “Snow.”
| Band | Song |
| Spock’s Beard | 01. Made Alive – Overture |
| 02. Stranger in a Strange Land | |
| 03. Long Time Suffering | |
| 04. Welcome to NYC | |
| 05. Love Beyond Words | |
| 06. The 39th Street Blues (I’m Sick) | |
| 07. Devil’s Got My Throat | |
| 08. Open Wide the Flood Gates | |
| 09. Open the Gates Part 2 | |
| 10. Solitary Soul | |
| 11. Wind at My Back |
Following “Snow,” I played a set of all new music that my son Amir recently turned me on to.
| Band | Song |
| Andrew Belle | The Ladder |
| I’ll Be Your Breeze | |
| Said the Whale | The City’s a Mess |
| Howe Sounds | |
| Gomez | Little Pieces |
| Me, You and Everybody |
And before Snow, I played a few other tracks, including two by The Monkees, in commemoration of singer Davey Jones death last week.
| Band | Song |
| The Monkees | Circle Sky |
| You and I | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins | Lily (My One and Only) |
| Band | Song |
| Genesis | Firth of Fifth |
| Pure Prairie League | You’re Between Me |
| Neil Halstead | Seasons |
| The New Pornographers | All For Swinging You Around |
| The Shins | So Said I |
| Stars | Reunion |
| Jeff Buckley | Forget Her |
| The Doobie Brothers | Another Park, Another Sunday |
| Weekend | Summer Days |
| Prince | Raspberry Beret |
| Owl City | Fuzzy Blue Lights |
| Rilo Kiley | With Arms Outstretched |
| Jets Overhead | White Out |
| Will Deynes | Super Wonderful |
| The Left Banke | Pretty Ballerina |
| Strawberry Alarm Clock | Incense and Peppermints |
| Three Dog Night | Family of Man |
| 10cc | Don’t Hang Up |
| The Delgados | Everybody Come Down |
| The Decemberists | Down by the Water |
| REM | Stumble |
| Snow Patrol | Gleaming Auction |
| Spock’s Beard | Love Beyond Words |
| Porcupine Tree | Stars Die |
| TV 21 | On the Run (Who’s Gonna Get Me Now?) |
| Deaf School | What a Way to End it All |
We’re still being plagued by crackly audio when the microphone is on – something with the computer we’re using. But the music is the same great Brainwaves you’ve come to depend on. Here’s this week’s playlist.
| Band | Song |
| Rewiring Genesis | In the Cage |
| Steven Wilson | Harmony Korine |
| Blackfield | 1,000 People |
| Snow Patrol | Shut Your Eyes |
| Pete Shelley | Guess I Must Have Been in Love with Myself |
| String Theory | Birthday |
| Ra Ra Riot | Can You Tell? |
| Splinter | Costafine Town |
| The Raspberries | Go All the Way |
| The Undertones | Teenage Kicks |
| Magazine | Touch and Go |
| The Beat (Paul Collins) | You Won’t Be Happy |
| The Barenaked Ladies | Who Needs Sleep? |
| A.C. Newman | Secretarial |
| The New Pornographers | My Rights vs. Yours |
| Theme from Fringe | |
| I Hate Kate | Major Tom |
| Good Old War | No Time |
| The Guess Who | No Time |
| Avenue Q Soundtrack | I Wish I Could Go Back to College |
| Porcupine Tree | Lazarus |
| Neutral Milk Hotel | Oh Comely |
| The Jam | Going Underground |
| The Psychadelic Furs | Love My Way |
| Radiohead | No Surprises |
| Sean Lennon | Headlights |
| The Move | Tonight |
| The Applejacks | Like Dreamers Do |
| Wolfy | House on a Hill |
| Deaf School | Where’s the Weekend? |
| Band | Song |
| REM | Sing for the Submarine |
| The Black Keys | Sister |
| Music Go Music | Light of Love |
| Mates of State | Get Better |
| Genesis | Afterglow (Live) |
| Pink Floyd | Have a Cigar |
| PJ Harvey (feat: Thom Yorke) | This Mess We’re In |
| Radiohead | Paranoid Android |
| Polyrock | Call of the Wild |
| Tuxedomoon | Desire |
| Angelo Badalamenti/Julie Cruise | Falling (Twin Peaks soundtrack) |
| Banana Splits | Wait |
| Supertramp | If Everyone was Listening |
| Tomihira | Pillbox |
| Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Filian, Felicia Day | A Man’s Gotta Do (Dr. Horrible soundtrack) |
| Jellyfish | Now She Knows She’s Wrong |
| Yes | Long Distance Runaround |
| Death Cab for Cutie | Marching Bands of Manhattan |
| Jeff Buckley | Grace |
| Orange Juice | Rip it Up |
| Depeche Mode | Just Can’t Get Enough |
| Counting Crows | I’m Not Sleeping |
| Eels | My Beloved Monster |
| Hole | Petals |
| Deaf School | What a Way to End it All |
Well, the audio on my voice was messed up but the music was great. Here’s what I played:
| Band | Song |
| The Dickies | Nights in White Satin |
| Stuck in a Pagoda with Tricia Toyota | |
| The Vapors | Turning Japanese |
| Polyrock | Romantic Me |
| Ultravox | Sleepwalk |
| Men Without Hats | The Safety Dance |
| Avtipus | There Goes My Humor |
| Idan Raichel Project | From the Depths |
| REM | Uberlin |
| Seals and Crofts | We May Never Pass This Way Again |
| Doctor Horrible Soundtrack (Neil Patrick Harris and Felicia Day) | My Eyes |
| The Guild Soundtrack (Felicia Day) | Do You Want to Date My Avatar? |
| Rebecca Black | Friday |
| Joan Osborne | (What if God was) One of Us |
| Presidents of the United States | Peaches |
| New Musik | Straight Lines |
| Magazine | The Light Pours Out of Me |
| Japan | Quiet Life |
| The Teardrop Explodes | The Poppies are in the Field |
| Lisa Loeb | It’s Over |
| Lobo | Me and You and a Dog Named Boo |
| The Left Banke | Walk Away Renee |
| Spock’s Beard | Follow Me to Sleep |
| Matchbox 20 | Push |
| Harvey Danger | Flagpole Sitta |
| The Sundays | My Finest Hour |
| Deaf School | What a Way to End it All |
It’s back to a regular show – no themes or special guests this week, just great music. Here’s what I played:
| Band | Song |
| Radiohead | 2+2=5 |
| Human Sexual Response | What Does Sex Mean to Me? |
| The Know | I Like Girls |
| Badfinger | No Matter What |
| Green Day | Holiday |
| The Human League | The Lebanon |
| They Might be Giants | Nothing’s Gonna Change My Clothes |
| Now That I Have Everything | |
| Tin Tin | Toast and Marmelade for Tea |
| Ringo Starr | It Don’t Come Easy |
| Todd Rundgren | We Gotta Get You a Woman |
| The Left Banke | She May Call You Up Tonight |
| Orange Juice | Felicity |
| Avtipus | Boker Tov Olam (Good Morning World) |
| Mary Fahl | Breathe (cover from Dark Side of the Moon) |
| Bono | I am the Walrus (cover from Across the Universe) |
| Genesis | Turn it On Again |
| Bromsheads Jacket | Turn Me On |
| REM | Oh My Heart |
| Vertical Horizon | Everythign You Want |
| Lili Frost | All I Ever Wanted (theme song from Being Erica) |
| Bear McCreary | All Along the Watchtower (cover from Battlestar Galactica) |
| Thunderclap Newman | Something in the Air |
| Stroke 9 | Letters |
| Modern English | After the Snow |
| Electric Light Orchestra | Boy Blue |
| Spock’s Beard | Wind at my Back |
| XTC | Ten Feet Tall |
| Strawberry Alarm Clock | Incense and Peppermints |
| The Stranglers | No More Heroes |
| New Order | Dreams Never End |
| The Beat | You Won’t Be Happy |
| Deaf School | What a Way to End it All |
