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Episode: FM Mutations #8 with Allyson McCabe: Misfits and the Bowie Show
FM Mutations #8 Misfits
Set 1: Misfits
Frenchette by David Johansen
Five Foot One by Iggy Pop
You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me by the Zombies (Mash-up cover of Smokey Robinson and Sam Cooke)
Our Drummer Always Plays in the Nude by the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
I’m Not Like Everybody Else by the Chocolate Watch Band
Misfit (Alternative Version) by Marc Bolan
Phenomenal Cat by the Kinks
Couldn’t I Just Tell You by Todd Rundgren (Bearsville comp version)
Here Today Gone Tomorrow by Ronnie Spector (written by the Ramones, released on Siren produced by Genya Ravan)
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) by the Beatles
First Time by the Boys
You Never Came Back by Tacocat
Then He Kissed Me by Hollywood Brats (cover of the Crystals)
Honey by the Marine Girls (Tracey Thorn’s pre- Everything But the Girl band)
Meaningless by the Magnetic Fields
I Wanna Destroy You by the Soft Boys
Jumpin’ Jack Flash by Ananda Shankar (Rolling Stones cover)
Set 2: Bowie’s 1979 BBC Radio One list (abridged)
Love Street by the Doors
TV Eye by Iggy Pop
Remember by John Lennon
96 Tears by ? and the Mysterians
Nursery Suite I. Aubade by Edward Elgar
Trial-Prison from Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass
Sweet Jane by the Velvet Underground
Warning Sign by Talking Heads
Beck’s Bolero by Jeff Beck
Try Some, Buy Some by Ronnie Spector (written originally by George Harrison during the sessions for All Things Must Pass, co-produced by Phil Spector—Bowie eventually recorded it for 2003’s Reality)
We Love You by the Rolling Stones
2HB by Roxy Music
Rip Her to Shreds by Blondie
The Book I Read by Talking Heads
Set 3: Bowie’s collaborations
All the Young Dudes by Mott the Hoople
China Girl by Iggy Pop
Satellite of Love by Lou Reed
Reflektor by Arcade Fire
Without You I’m Nothing by Placebo
Sad and Lonely by Secret Machines
Province by TV on the Radio
Saviour by Kristeen Young
I Can’t Explain by David Bowie (Who cover from Pinups)
Let’s Spend the Night Together by David Bowie (Rolling Stones cover from Aladdin Sane)
Here Today Gone Tomorrow (Ohio Players cover)
Starman by David Bowie (live at the Beeb)
Heroes by Philip Glass
Show: FM Mutations
Rock, punk and indie music, mostly featuring demos, covers, outtakes, and other rarities. With occassional guests.
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