Brainwaves – Sept. 29, 2020 – Monkeying around
Written by Brian Blum on 28/09/2020
Brainwaves throws a few monkey wrenches in your direction this week, with a “monkey” set featuring Two Loons for Tea, Counting Crows and Balkan Beat Box. Plus two songs with the same name from R.E.M. and Taxi Taxi. (Hint: have you found your way yet?) Pirates, tractors and giants, too. All on this week’s show.
| Band | Song |
| The Tubes | White Punks on Dope |
| The Lemonheads | Confetti |
| Lene Lovich | Lucky Number One |
| Aimee Man | One (cover: Three Dog Night) |
| Two Loons for Tea | Monkey |
| Counting Crows | Monkey |
| Balkan Beat Box | Digital Monkey |
| Arctic Monkeys | Crying Lightning |
| Adrina Thorpe | More than 17 |
| Castledoor | Burn the Maps |
| Taxi Taxi | Maps and Legends |
| R.E.M. | Maps and Legends |
| Pickin’ on R.E.M. | Driver 8 (cover: R.E.M.) |
| We Were Pirates | Civilized Man |
| Young the Giant | I Got |
| They Might be Giants | Istanbul (not Constantinople) |
| Steve Hacket | Last Train to Istanbul |
| Stampeders | Sweet City Woman |
| The Guess Who | American Woman |
| The American Music Club | Rise |
| American Football | Honestly |
| American Breed | Bend Me Shape Me |
| The American Analog Set | The Only One |
| America | Tin Man |
| Snow Patrol | Open Your Eyes |
| Arcade Fire | Deep Blue |
| Ultravox | Rockwrok |
| Ben Folds | Rockin’ the Suburbs |
| The Tractor’s Revenge | Game of Tears |
| The Names | Why Can’t it Be? |
| Pete Shelley | Qu’est-ce que c’est que ca |
| Deaf School | What a Way to End it All |
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