Playlist 2/20/08

Theme: Catch the Clap! Twice! (Songs featuring the double handclap)

If You're Happy and You Know It - Barney & Friends - I Love to Sing With Barney
Rock the Casbah - The Clash - Combat Rock
Private Eyes - Hall & Oates - Private Eyes
It's 5! - Architecture in Helsinki - In Case We Die
Chicks and Dicks - Junior Senior - D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat
Please Mr. Postman - Carpenters - (cover)
My Boyfriend's Back - The Angels - My Boyfriend's Back
Make it Clap - Busta Rhymes (feat. Spliff Star) - It Ain't Safe No More
The First Single - The Format - Interventions and Lullabies
No Fun - The Stooges - The Stooges
We Used to Be Friends - The Dandy Warhols - Welcome to the Monkey House
You're So Damn Hot - Ok Go - Ok Go
Close to Me - The Cure - The Head on the Door

Theme for Wednesday

Catch the Clap! Twice!

Songs featuring double handclaps.

With guest DJ Jules Simon.

Requests to pickacategory at gmail. Songs must have DOUBLE handclaps. Synthesized handclaps OK.

Playlist 2/13/08

Theme: No Reason to Cry - Songs to Play Before Valentine's Day, 2008

My Funny Valentine – Miles Davis – My Funny Valentine
Don’t Get Me Down – The Walkmen – A Hundred Miles Off
I Like It (I Wanna Be Where You Are) – Grand Puba – 2000
I’m Leaving You Because I Don’t Love You – Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala
Crown of Love – Arcade Fire – Funeral
I Put a Spell On You – Nina Simone
Young, Gifted & Black – Bob & Marcia (cover)
Young Girl Bluez – Biz Markie – Weekend Warrior
Hey Boy – The Blow – Poor Aim
Les Lumieres Pt.2 – Bell Orchestre – Recording a Tape The Color of Light
Street Lady – Donald Byrd
Debra – Beck – Midnite Vultures

Theme for 2/13/08

No Reason To Cry: Songs to Play on the Day Before Valentine's Day, 2008.

Requests to pickacategory at gmail.

Playlist 2/6/08

Theme: "Put a Little English On It"

I’m Afraid of Americans – David Bowie – Earthling
No Lucifer – British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
Village Green Preservation Society – The Kinks – Village Green Preservation Society
Has it Come to This – The Streets – Original Pirate Material
Just a Rascal – Dizzee Rascal – Boy in Da Corner
Random – Lady Sovereign – Vertically Challenged EP
Pull up the People – MIA – Arular
Move It – Cliff Richard – (single)
Sun Drums And Soil – Four Tet – Everything Ecstatic
Close To Me – The Cure – The Head on the Door
Disorder – Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Falling Down – Muse - Showbiz
Numb – Portishead – Dummy
Witness – Roots Manuva – Run Come Save Me
Unfinished Sympathy – Massive Attack – Blue Lines
Idioteque – Radiohead – Kid A

Theme for 2/6/08

"Put a Little English On It." Songs by English artists.

Nice and general this week.

Send requests and Branston pickle to pickacategory at gmail.

TIME CHANGE: Pick a Category will start at 11:00 p.m. (EST).