Composer's name is listed where notable (i.e. Classical Performance, Jazz Performance).
For more information on any of the rock, pop and Jazz music featured on this program, I frequently utilize AllMusic , an excellent free database holding a huge plethora of information about music and the artists that make it.
| Composer | Performer | Title | Genre | Label | Notes |
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Bad Brains |
Give Thanks and Praises |
Rock, punk, hardcore |
Megaforce, 2006 |
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Caroline, 1987 |
Recorded live in Amsterdam, 1987 | |||
Rock for Light |
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Right Brigade |
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House of Suffering |
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Lennon/McCartney, Richards/Jagger |
Day Tripper/She's A Rainbow |
Reggae |
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Living Colour |
Time's Up |
Rock, Metal, Alternative Metal |
Epic, 1990 |
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History Lesson |
a spoken-word sound collage | ||||
Desperate People |
Epic, 1988 |
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Cult of Personality |
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The Cure |
Lullaby |
Rock, Alternative |
Fiction, 1989 |
Spiderman invited me to dinner tonight, but I'd already had Tuna Helper..... | |
Fear of Ghosts |
b-side to Lovesong | ||||
Homesick |
Live cut released as b-side to American single release of Lullaby. "Inspire in me the desire in me to never go home...." | ||||
Untitled |
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Johann Ernst von Sachsen Weimar |
Mathias Schmutzler (trumpet), Felix Friedrich (pipe organ) |
Sonata in D Major for Trumpet and Organ |
Classical, Baroque, chamber music, music for pipe organ |
A musical prodigy who died at the age of 19 (he was born a few years after J.S. Bach), but was obviously quite gifted, as evidenced by this lovely composition for trumpet and organ. | |
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Cab Calloway |
Minnie the Moocher |
Jazz, big band, pre-swing |
Brunswick, 1931 |
She was a real hootchie cootchie! | |
The Man From Harlem |
Banner, 1932 |
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Harlem Camp Meeting |
Victor, 1933 |
What's this going on here? A camp meeting! | |||
| Sigur Rós |
popplagið (the pop song) |
Rock, experimental |
MCA, 2002 |
"það besta sem guð hefur skapað er nýr dagur" = "the best thing god has created is a new day" | |
hljómalind |
Geffen, 2007 |
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Interpol |
Evil |
Rock, modern |
Maverick, 2004 |
Hey who's on trial? | |
The Scale |
Capitol, 2007 |
I made you.... and now I take you back! | |||
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