...aaand we're online. Eclecticism will abound for the remainder of the hour.

i'm loving this but your timing sucks for me.
You're only playing for roughly another fifteen minutes?

A good half hour I expect, ethylene.

Sigh. This is turning out to be another radio thing where I really like, but have never heard of, at least half the artists. Oh, yay, Elbow - one of the finest groups the UK has. The fact that they're so unknown, is criminal.

I could go on a bit longer if anyone wants. People in IRC seem to be enjoying it.

TheDonF, agreed wholeheartedly.

I keep meaning to bung a zip file of Elbow songs up, but I can never decide what tracks to put on. I'm trying to limit it to 1 track per album.

Yes, please do. i've finally finished my necessary phone schmoozing to a satisfactory end and can fully listen, but i would never call it music to schmooz by, even though it worked wonderfully.

Scattered Arithmetics of Tomorrow. (1:48:32)
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01. The Beatles - Penny Lane (1967)

02. Josh Rouse - Quiet Town (2006)

03. dEUS - Little Arithmetics (1996)
A classic from the chronically underappreciated Belgians. Bonus points if you can tell me what the guy is saying during the breakdown.

04. Carmen Miranda - I Yi Yi Yi Yi (Like You Very Much) (1941)
Latin novelty bubblegum from the lady in the tutti frutti hat, from the film That Night in Rio.

05. Belle & Sebastian - Lord Anthony [Live at Lowlands 2006]
Stuart gets a goth makeover. Stuart kicks a beachball from the stage. It is summer. Everything is nice.

06. Jamie T - Sheila (2006)
07. Lily Allen - LDN [Live on BBC Radio 1]
A London two-fer.

08. Modest Mouse vs. Amerie - One Thing Floats On (2005)
A mash I made a while ago (post).

09. Okkervil River - No Key, No Plan (2005)
Off the Black Sheep Boy Appendix collection of album leftovers. I never earned my soul either, but there is only now, so just breathe it in.

10. Tokyo Police Club - Citizens of Tomorrow (2006)
Clap your hands, puny humans.

11. Spinvis - Bagagedrager (2002)
If I were never to return to Holland and could only take one song with me as a memento, this would be it. An engine runs, a baby cries, a bird screams, the day begins and the highway buzzes. This is what the Netherlands sounds like.

12. Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand (1996)

13. Elbow - Scattered Black and Whites (2001)
First heard, oddly enough, on a Dutch TV ad for a charity for the chronically ill (AskMe). Take this boy by the hand and stroll along with him for a few minutes. Please.

14. Wolkenvelden - Just Like the B-movies (2007)

15. Minus the Bear - Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse (2002)
Americans meet world. Let's get drunk and run through Paris.

16. Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945 (1998)

17. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl (1967)

18. Badly Drawn Boy - You Were Right (2002)

19. Band of Horses - The Great Salt Lake (2006)

20. Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Thunder Road (2006)
Springsteen cover from The Brave & The Bold.

21. Death Cab for Cutie - Dream Scream (2004)
Daniel Johnston cover from The Late Great Daniel Johnston Discovered Covered.

22. Schneider TM - The Light 3000 (2000)
Weird and wonderful Smiths cover.

23. Guillemots - Sao Paulo (2006)
The proudest moment of the ornithologically obsessed Brits' debut album. How sneaky to switch from meandering 6/8 time to the pounding 4/4 crescendo out of nowhere! Give me a person, give me a person, give me a person who isn't me! Indeed.

Thanks for listening, curtm, chrismear, DaShiv (and friend), ethylene, TheDonF, wimpdork, and everyone else who did.

*sigh*
thanks, gnfti.
i love it when i sounds makes me need to look to see who it is, to have to know it even in the midst of something else.

I loved a lot of this. Thanks.

So maybe you could send us over that Okkervil River and the Tortoise and some others...?

Is that ok with guidelines? I guess it is, but just checking. I'd gladly.

That's the best playlist I've seen here yet. I wish I had listened.

Thanks iconomy! I'll be back, I promise.

Per popular request:

04. Carmen Miranda - I Yi Yi Yi Yi (Like You Very Much)
06. Jamie T - Sheila
09. Okkervil River - No Key, No Plan
10. Tokyo Police Club - Citizens of Tomorrow
11. Spinvis - Bagagedrager
15. Minus the Bear - Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse
19. Band of Horses - The Great Salt Lake
20. Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Thunder Road
21. Death Cab for Cutie - Dream Scream

You mean that no one asked for the Elbow or Guillemots tracks? People, puhleaze - they're both fantastic groups and the Guillemots album was one of the best things to come out last year.

Also - woohoo, Deus. As you say, they're chronically under appreciated. Apparently they're in the studio this year - hopefully we'll get a new album in a shorter amount of time than we had to wait between The Ideal Crash and Pocket Revolution.