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XPN Local Artist Lists - 885 Desert Island Songs 2009 Countdown
Brooke Blair
XPN Artist To Watch
East Hundred
1. Doves - "There Goes the Fear"
2. Bon Iver - "Stacks"
3. Magnet - "where Happiness Lives"
4. Sigur Ros - "Untitled 1"
5. The Drifters - "Up on the Roof"
6. The Pogues - "A Pair of Brown Eyes"
7. the National - "Mistaken for Strangers"
8. Depeche Mode - "Policy of Truth"
9. The Cure - "Plainsong"
10 Duran Duran - "Save A Prayer"
Carsie Blanton
1. Leonard Cohen - "Suzanne"
2. Dusty Springfield - "Son of a
Preacher Man"
3. Ray Charles - "Makin' Whoopee"
(Live in Concert 1965 version!)
4. The Beatles - "Because"
5. Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five -
"West End Blues"
6. Jackson Browne - "Jamaica Say You Will"
7. Joni Mitchell - "Chelsea Morning"
8. Billie Holiday - "Tell Me More and
Then Some"
9. Patty Griffin - "Poor Man's House"
10.Nina Simone - "Buck"
Birdie Busch
1. Joni Mitchell - "All I Want"
2. Neil Young - "Old Man"
3. Paul Simon - "Graceland"
4. Gillian Welch - "Elvis Presley Blues"
5. John Fahey - "Sunflower Blues"
6. John Prine - "Donald and Lydia"
7. Bob Dylan - "Mellow Mood"
8. Elizabeth Cotton - "Freight Train"
9. John Lennon - "Instant Karma"
10. Daniel Lanois - "Sometimes"
Steve Brown
The Rigbees
In no particular order
i>
Lennon/McCartney - "Let It Be"
Bob Dylan - "Up To Me"
Joni Mitchell - "Cactus Tree"
Jackson Browne - "Sing My Songs To Me into For Everyman"
Patty Griffin - "Nobody's Crying"
Freedy Johnston - "The Farthest Lights"
Ryan Adams - "Friends"
Counting Crows "If I Could Give All My Love or Richard Manuel Is Dead"
Matthew Sweet - "What Do You Know?"
Marshall Crenshaw - "Whenever You're On My Mind"
Zach Djanikian
The Brakes
Joni Mitchell - "Amelia"
Paul Simon - "St. Judy's Comet"
Wilco - "Poor Places"
Judee Sill - "Lady-O"
Peter Gabriel - "Mercy Street"
Miles Davis - "My Funny Valentine"
The Band - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (live version from
Rock of Ages
)
Rufus Wainwright - "Hometown Waltz"
Stevie Wonder - "Summer Soft"
Chuck Berry - "Havana Moon"
Matt Duke
1. Ani Difranco - "Little Plastic Castle"
2. ELO - "Livin' Thing"
3. Peter Gabriel- "Sledgehammer"
4. Sunny Day Real Estate - "One"
5. Silverchair - "Without You"
6. Deftones - "Pink Maggit"
7. Dave Mathews Band - "Grey Street"
8. Bush - "Letting the Cables Sleep"
9. Doves - "The Man Who Told Everything"
10. Cursive - "Staying Alive"
Farewell Flight
1. The Smiths - "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want"
2. Freedy Johnston - "Bad Reputation"
3. Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You"
4. Weezer - "No Other One"
5. Rod Stewart - "Young Turks"
6. Phil Collins - "Another Day In Paradise"
7. Radiohead - "Let Down"
8. The Cure - "Pictures of You"
9. Queen - "Somebody to Love"
10. Duran Duran - "Come Undone"
Barbara Gettes
Spinning Leaves
1. Van Morrison - "Sweet Thing"
2. The Pixies - "Hey"
3. Birdie Busch - "Gigi"
4. Nick Drake - "Northern Sky"
5. Otis Redding - "Try a Little Tenderness"
(Live,
Monterey Pop Festival
)
6. Hezekiah Jones - "Iowa Alligator"
7. The Grateful Dead - "Althea"
8. Gillian Welch - "Revelator"
9. Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"
(or sung by Michael Baker of
The Spinning Leaves!)
10. Bob Dylan - "Father of Night Father of Day"
Karen & Amy Jones
Participants in the
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program
1. Dave Matthews Band - "Crash Into Me"
2. Live - "Pillar of Davidson"
3. Tori Amos - "Little Earthquakes"
4. Stevie Nicks - "Too Far From Texas"
5. Paramore - "Decode"
6. Band of Horses - "The Funeral"
7. Tool - "Sober"
8. U2 - "Red Hill Mining Town"
9. Flyleaf - "I'm So Sick"
10.Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
Seth Kallen
In no particular order
The Velvet Underground - "Rock and Roll"
Oasis - "Don't Look Back in Anger"
Wilco - "Pot Kettle Black"
The Avett Brothers - "Tear Down
the House"
The Faces - "Ooh La La"
Bob Dylan - "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go"
David Bowie - "Oh You Pretty Things"
Jeff Buckley - "Lover You Should've
Come Over"
Ryan Adams - "Firecracker"
The Beatles - "The Fool on the Hill"
**BONUS, #11!! ** The Killers - "Human"
(seriously... so bad... that its good!)
Jason Karaban
1. B.J. Thomas - "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head"
2. Elvis Presley - "Suspicious Minds"
3. Bob Dylan - "Idiot Wind"
4. The Beach Boys - "God Only Knows"
5. Cracker - "Big Dipper"
6. Gram Parsons - "A Song For You"
7. The Innocence Mission - "The Brotherhood of Men"
8. John Lennon - "Oh My Love"
9. The Rolling Stones - "Shine a Light"
10. Mason Jennings - "Be Here Now"
Chris Kasper
1.Van Morrison - "Astral Weeks"
2.John Scofield - "Jeep on 35"
3.Tom Waits - "(Lookin For) The Heart Of Saturday Night"
4.Bob Dylan - "Buckets of Rain"
5.Otis Redding - "Pain in my Heart"
6.Van Morrison - "The Way Young Lovers Do"
7.The Grateful Dead - "Scarlet Begonias"
8.Cowmuddy - "8 Track"
9.Miles Davis - "Kind Of Blue"
10.The Band - "The Night They Drove Ol'
Dixie Down"
Reed Kendall
Amos Lee - "What's Been Going On"
Hezekiah Jones - "Nothing's Bound"
Chris Kasper - "Old Smoke"
Bright Eyes - "Let's Not S__t Ourselves
(To Love and to Be Loved)"
Dave Matthews - "The Stone"
The Beatles - "Don't Let Me Down"
Bob Dylan - "It's Alright, Ma"
Jack Johnson - "F-Stop Blues"
CAKE - "Stickshifts and Safetybelts"
Devil's Workshop Big Band -
"Mushroom Tattoos"
Larry Kennedy
The Jellybricks
The Beatles - "There's a Place"
The Beach Boys - "God Only Knows"
Split Enz - "Six Months in a Leaky Boat"
Crowded House - "Four Seasons
in One Day"
Simon & Garfunkel - "The Only Living Boy in New York"
The Kinks - "Waterloo Sunset"
The Mamas & The Papas - "Dedicated to the One I Love"
The Replacements - "Here Comes
a Regular"
The Raspberries - "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)"
The Byrds - "My Back Pages"
Lance
Latebloom
1. Radiohead W- "Weird Fishes"
2. Bowie - "Waiting for the Man"
3. The Cure - "From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea"
4. Bob Dylan - "Most of the Time"
5. Bjork - "Pagan Poetry"
6. Dead can Dance - "Cantara" (live)
7. Morrisey - "I am hated for loving"
8. Johnny Cash - "Boy Named Sue"
9. Greg Brown - "Waiting on You"
10.Brian Eno - "Always Returning
Cynthia Mason
1. Gillian Welch - "Revelator"
2. Nick Drake- "Northern Sky"
3. Sonic Youth - "Teenage Riot"
4. Lauryn Hill - "Every Ghetto, Every City"
5. Joni Mitchell - "A Case of You"
6. Radiohead - "Let Down"
7. Nina Simone - "Wild is the Wind"
8. Richard Buckner - "Song of 27"
9. Grey Reverend - "Heavy Heart"
10.Bob Dylan - "Like a Rolling Stone"
Dan May
1. Steely Dan - "Deacon Blues"
2. Bruce Springsteen - "Jungleland"
3. The Temptations - "Papa Was a
Rolling Stone"
4. Fleetwood Mac - "Never Going
Back Again"
5. Tom Waits - "Martha"
6. Al Green - "Let's Stay Together"
7. Cat Stevens - "The Wind"
8. Rufus Wainwright - "Grey Gardens"
9. Billy Joel - "I've Loved These Days"
10. Citizen Cope - "Sideways"
Brian McTear
Miner Street Recordings
1. REM – "Fall on Me"
2. The Bigger Lovers – "Bought your Ghost"
3. U2 - "Elvis Presley and America"
4. Bitter Bitter Weeks – "Danger in the Halls"
5. The Novenas – "Bounce"
6. Mazarin – "Wheats"
7. Matt Pond PA – "Fairlee"
8. The Smiths – "Stop Me if
You Think That You’ve Heard this One Before"
9. Pavement – "Range Life"
10. Polvo – "Thermal Treasure"
Adrien Reju
1. Paul Simon - "Everything About it is a Love Song"
2. Led Zeppelin - "The Rain Song"
3. Feist - "Let It Die"
4. The Bird and the Bee - "I'm a
Broken Heart"
5. Bach - "Cello Suite No. 1"
6. Duke Ellington - "Sophisticated Lady"
(Sarah Vaughan's version)
7. Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye"
8. Joni Mitchell - "Hissing of Summer Lawns"
9. The Beach Boys - "God Only Knows"
10. Zach Djanikian - "Love of My Life (unreleased)
Phil Roy
1. Stevie Wonder - "I Don't Know Why I Love You"
2. John Coltrane - "Body and Soul"
3. The Beatles - "The Long and Winding Road"
4. Greg Allman - "Queen of Hearts"
5. Joni Mitchell - "Don't Interrupt The Sorrow"
6. Jimmy Cliff - "Many Rivers to Cross"
7. Jeff Buckley - "Last Goodbye"
8. Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"
9. Steely Dan - "Deacon Blues"
10.Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - "Your All I Need to Get By"
Jesse Ruben
In no particular order
Nick Drake - "Pink Moon"
Paul Simon - "American Tune"
Jimi Hendrix - "Spanish Castle Magic"
Bob Dylan - "Tombstone Blues"
Frank Sinatra - "Fly Me To The Moon"
Ani Difranco - "School Night"
Ben Folds - "Evaporated"
The Beatles - "She Said She Said"
The Beatles - "For No One"
Ben Smith
Missing Palmer West
1. Auld Lang Syne (traditional)
2. Roy Orbison - "In Dreams"
3. Talking Heads - "This Must Be the Place
(Naive Melody)"
4. The Kinks - "Waterloo Sunset"
5. The Band - "It Makes No Difference"
6. Wilco/Bragg/Guthrie - "California Stars"
7. The Beatles - "Two of Us"
8. Richard Hawley - "The Ocean"
9. Sufjan Stevens - "Sister Winter"
10. Righteous Brothers - You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling
Jacob Snider
1. Fastball - "Out of My Head"
2. John Lennon - "Imagine"
3. Joni Mitchell - "The Circle Game"
4. Horace Silver - "Song for My Father"
5. Simon and Garfunkel - "The Only Living Boy in New York"
6. Ray Charles and Nina Simone - "Baby It's Cold Outside"
7. Johnnie Taylor - "Just the One"
8. Third Eye Blind - "Semi-Charmed Life"
9. Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah"
10. Traffic - "Empty Pages"
The Once Was
1. Marvin Gaye - "What's goin on/ What's happenin brother"
2. Pink Floyd - "Any Colour You Like" (instrumental)
3. Miles Davis - So What"
4. The Beatles - Dear Prudence"
5. Radiohead - Let Down"
6. The Beatles - "And Your Bird Can Sing"
7. Neil Young - "Harvest Moon"
8. Bruce Springsteen - "I'm on Fire"
9. Pink Floyd - "Breathe"
10.Wilco - Jesus Etc"
Tin Bird Choir
1. Paul Simon - "Obvious Child"
2. Bright Eyes - "Another Traveling Song"
3. Beck - "Tropicalia"
4. M Ward - "Helicopter"
5. Jayhawks - "Blue"
6. Feist - "Mushaboom"
7. Taj Mahal - "Cakewalk"
8. Marah - "Baby Love"
9. The Shins - "Gone for Good"
10. Hezekiah Jones - "Cupcakes for the Army"
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