Sad Sack Serenade

Tracklisting for today’s show. Remember to check out the new Rae Spoon album “I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets” on Bandcamp.

• Of Monsters and Men - Sloom
• Jon Bryant - Ontario Once in a While
• Ceti Alpha - The Followup
• Xiu Xiu - Honeysuckle
• The XX - Heart Skipped a Beat
• The Silversun Pickups - Here We Are (Chancer)
• Ben Sollee - A Few Honest Words
• Cowboy Junkies - The Selfish Ones
• Nick Drake - Way to Blue
• The Beatles - Junk
• Bob Marley & the Wailers - Jah Live
• Rae Spoon - Ghost of a Boy
• The Magnetic Fields - The Saddest Story Ever Told

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Great music galore on the show today! Busted out the turntables again.

• The Box Tops - The Letter
• Deer Tick - Make Believe
• The Beta Band - To You Alone
• Shearwater - Star of the Age
• David Bowie - Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide
• Jo Schornikow - Heartbeat
• Julia Stone - I Want to Live Here
• Tennis - My Better Self
• Mates of State - Parachutes (The Funeral Song)
• PS I Love You - Saskatoon
• Clinton St John - On This Cold Lake
• David Newberry - To Hope
• Bedhead - Crushing

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Nick Lagasse from Monday night’s Wandering Rhythms was my guest today.

• Apollo Ghost - So Much Better When You’re Gone
• Super Furry Animals - Download
• James Blackshaw - Echo and Abyss
• Mew - New Terrain
• Rah Rah - Breaking Hearts (DJ Co-op Remix)
• Chrissy Zebby - Gone Forever
• Merono Veloso - Sertao
• Samantha Martin and the Haggard - Where I Went Wrong
• The Secret Machines - Alone, Jealous, and Stoned

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May the 4th be with you! Thanks to my friend Jeremy Cox for joining me on the program this morning, even though he isn’t much of a sad sack. A difference in emotional understandings of the world shouldn’t preclude the making of a good pal.

• El Guincho - Bombay
• Arkells - Whistleblower
• Lucero - Kiss the Bottle
• Baron - Stand by Me (John Lennon cover)
• No River - I Just Called to Say Goodbye
• The Decemberists - June Hymn (live)
• Quasimoto - Come on Feet
• The Strumbellas - Left for Dead
• Chad VanGaalen - Sara
• Attack in Black - Northern Towns
• The Go! Team - Ready to Go Steady
• Death Cab For Cutie - You Are a Tourist (2 Bears Remix)

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Good news! Even though my guest on today’s program, Anna Howlett, was only on for a little while, she promised to come back for a whole broadcast another time. Stay tuned for that.

• Sunparlour Players - Damn All of You
• The Dears - The Death of All Romance
• The Sea and Cake - Monday
• Reverie Sound Revue - Off Rooftops
• Yukon Blonde - Guns
• Woodpigeon - One To Many
• German Error Message - “Song”
• Phono D’Enfant - This is a Painting
• Ryan Adams - Save Me
• Little Dragon - Never Never
• Xiu Xiu - I Luv the Valley, Oh!
• TV on the Radio - Blind

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• Gotye - Giving Me a Chance
• Lydia - Sleep Well
• Graydon James & the Young - Long, Long, Long
• Jukebox the Ghost - The Popular Thing
• Adaline - The Cost is Too High (Not to Love)
• Yo La Tengo - By the Time It Gets Dark
• Alanna Gurr - Little One
• Martha Wainwright - Bloody Motherfucking Asshole
• 1977 - I’m Okay (There Will Come a Day)
• Wild Nothing - Drifter
• Red Hot Chilli Peppers - I Could Die For You
• Lake Forest - Autumn Skies
• Wilco - In a Future Age

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Songs played today on Friday the 13th:

• fun. - Carry On
• Dr Dog - From
• Great Lake Swimmers - The Knife
• Nick Rosen - See You Again
• Okkervil River - Song of Your So-Called Friend
• The Shins - The Past and the Pending
• Will Currie and the Country French - Barrows for the Goldrush
• Wil - Oak Tree
• The Kinks - Nothing in This World Can Stop Me Worryin’ About That Girl
• Zachary Lucky - Back in the Fall
• Conor Oberst - Milk Thistle
• Lost in the Trees - This Dead Bird is Beautiful

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Condolences to all christians out there. Really sorry to hear that your saviour, jesus, died today. Major bummer.

• Good Old War - Calling Me Names
• Feist - Bittersweet Melodies
• Sun Kil Moon - Track 8
• Stan Rogers - Make and Break Harbour
• Gold Bears - Someone You’d Admire
• White Rabbits - Are You Free
• Aimee Mann - True Believer
• Neko Case - Porchlight
• Jim Cuddy - Ready to Fall
• Iron & Wine - Love Vigilantes
• Jackson C. Frank - Goodbye to My Loving You
• Jordan Klassen - Call and Answer

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I can’t talk about Mark Linkous without crying…

• The Holiday Crowd - Never Speak of It Again
• Sister Vanilla - Kissaround
• Jason Bajada - The Woman You Love But Hurt
• Kiersten Holine - God Only Knows (What I’d Do Without You)
• Danger Mouse - December 4th
• Wintercoast - Home
• Oasis - Stand By Me
• Dinner Belles - Homewrecking Girl
• Grizzly Bear - Don’t Ask (Final Fantasy remix)
• Plants and Animals - Before
• All-Time Quarterback - Send Packing
• Ghost Cousin - Endeavours

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So this show didn’t go too well, but it was nice having my friend Ashley on the program.

• Bryan Webb - Big Smoke
• Islands - No Crying
• Herman Dune - Good For No one
• Elizabeth - These Lines Are Drawn
• Sinéad O’Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
• Jets Overhead - Bystander (acoustic)
• Robin Pecknold - Silver Dagger
• Handsome Furs - No Feelings
• Daniel, Fred, and Julie - Runner
• Zeus - With Eyes Closed
• Elton John - Sad Songs (Say So Much)

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