# You're an FM DJ: 26 songs in alphabetical order by artist - What tracks do you pick?

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**Created:** [September 5, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-fm-dj-26-songs-in-alphabetical-order-by-artist-what-tracks-do-you-pick/199818 "2003-09-05T21:43:36Z")
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### Author: ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)
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Here in NYC (Fordham University in the Bronx to be more exact) WFUV (90.7-FM) Radio is the last station I know of to have a ‘progressive’ format. No, it’s not exactly anything goes programming 24/7-you’re not likely to hear a Mozart/Black Sabbath/Funkadelic/Radiohead sequence-but it’s close enough.

The programming is heavy on contemporary folk (Jayhawks, Belle & Sebastian, Rodney Crowell, etc.) with a spattering of jazz, blues and rock. The on air staff is comprised of a few NYC FM radio legends:

[Dennis Elsas](http://www.wfuv.org/wfuv/dennis.html) – Who’s on the air weekday afternoons  
[Vin Scelsa](http://www.wfuv.org/wfuv/vin.html) – Who hosts a weekly free form show called Idiot’s Delight  
[Pete Fotnatale](http://www.wfuv.org/wfuv/pete.html) – Who hosts a weekly institution entitled Mixed Bag

They occasionally do ‘Under the Covers’ days where you’ll hear Los Straightjackets doing their version of that Titanic song. Today’s program schedule is kind of unique. They’ve revived the old A to Z theme that AOR stations here used to do and put their spin on it. If you want to hear some of their segues, they stream =\> [Here](http://www.wfuv.org/wfuv/stream.html).

Being a ‘frustrated pirate radio host’ got me thinking – What would I play if I were allowed one buzz around the alphabet. It’d probably be something like this:

```auto

AGRANOFF (MIKE) Ballad of the Sandman
BALDRY (JOHN) Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie On The King Of Rock And Roll
COSTELLO (ELVIS) The Beat
DINK Green Mind
E L P Fanfare For The Common Man
FOGERTY (JOHN) Mr. Greed
GABRIEL (PETER) D I Y
HENDRIX Are You Experienced?
IRON BUTTERFLY Termination
JACKSON (JOE) Memphis
KBC BAND America
LUNA Anesthesia
MARK-ALMOND The City
NILSSON (HARRY) Jump Into The Fire
OCEAN COLOR SCENE Hundred Mile High City
PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS	I'm An Adult Now
QUEEN Innuendo
ROLLING STONES Stray Cat Blues
SWEET THURSDAY Gilbert Street
TWELFTH NIGHT The Collector
UTAH SAINTS Something Good
VIOLENT FEMMES Add It Up
WATT (MIKE) Against The 70's
X T C Generals & Majors
YOUNG (PAUL) I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
ZEVON (WARREN) Detox Mansion

```

That wasn’t easy. I purposely avoided the new stuff that gets overplayed on all the other stations I listen to as well as ‘popular standards’ that would make a PD proud. As I look over the songs – I now realize the listening public couldn’t stand me for a period that exceeded 5 minutes. But hey, we can all make believe, can’t we?

Anyone else up for compiling an alphabetic list of tracks you’d play if you were left to your own devices and had full access to a radio studio?

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### Author: ![ralphthemuppet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@ralphthemuppet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralphthemuppet)
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This may be a little 60’s orientated but…

Animals - We gotta get outta this place  
Buffalo Springfield - For what its worth  
Cure - Lovecats  
Doors - Riders on the Storm  
Enya - Sail Away  
Foo Fighters - Big Me  
Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue  
Hollies - He ain’t heavy…  
Ike & Tina Turner - River Deep, Mountain High  
Jimi Hendrix - Angel  
Kinks - Lola  
Led Zeppelin - Bron y’aur Stomp  
Mamas & Papas - Cheque Alley  
Nirvana - Smells like Teen Spirit  
Otis Redding - Sittin’ on a dock of a bay  
Pink Floyd - Great Gig in the Sky  
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody  
Rolling Stones - Paint it black  
Steppenwolf - Born to be Wild  
Troggs - Wild Thing  
Underworld - Born Slippy  
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl  
Who - Pinball Wizard  
Xerxes - Largo  
Yardbirds - For your love  
Zombies - She’s not there

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### Author: ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-fm-dj-26-songs-in-alphabetical-order-by-artist-what-tracks-do-you-pick/199818/3 "2003-09-05T23:23:36Z")

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I’ll pick the most obscure stuff I can find:

…And Oceans - Acid Sex And Marble Teeth  
Borknagar - Four Element Synchronicity  
Clare Quilty - Secret Sharer  
Darling Violetta - Candy Jones  
Evergrey - I Lie Here Bleeding  
Falconer - Stand In Veneration  
Grave Digger - Tristan’s Fate  
High On Fire - Eyes & Teeth  
Inkubus Sukkubus - Vampyre Erotica  
Jag Panzer - The Scarlet Letter  
King’s X - Dreams  
Lennon - Thank You  
My Ruin - Horrible Pain (Within My Heart)  
Nicodemus - Harlot  
Onward - Eye Of The Nightmare  
Pagan’s Mind - Dimensions Of Fire  
Queen Adreena - Cold Fish  
Rain Fell Within - In My Dreams  
Spiral Architect - Adaptibility  
Tiamat - The Scapegoat  
Unseen - Greed Is A Disease  
V For Vendetta - This Song Prefers To Not Be Labeled  
Within Temptation - Deceiver Of Fools  
Xero - Cutting Loose  
Yattering - Eyes Can See  
Zao - To Think Of You Is To Treasure An Absent Memory

Whoa, tougher than I thought it would be.

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### Author: ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-fm-dj-26-songs-in-alphabetical-order-by-artist-what-tracks-do-you-pick/199818/4 "2003-09-05T23:31:45Z")

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What the hell.

```auto

Alizée : Moi...Lolita
Badly Drawn Boy : Another Pearl (*Broadcast Remix*)
The Charlatans : Then
The Doves : There Goes The Fear
The Eels : Mr E's Beautiful Blues
Furniture : Brilliant Mind
Goldfrapp : Lovely Head
The Herbaliser : Battle of Bongo Hill
Inspiral Carpets : This Is How It Feels
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion : Bellbottoms
Kristin Hersh : Your Ghost
Lemon Jelly : The Staunton Lick
MC Solaar : Nouveau Western (or, if you want a "proper" M, then 'Kid, You'll Move Mountains' by Manitoba, or 'Bliss' by Muse, or 'Last of the Famous International Playboys' by Morrissey)
Nico Gomez : Caballo Negro
The Only Ones : Another Girl, Another Planet
Pierre Henry : Psyche Rock (Fatboy Slim Malpaso Mix)
Queens of the Stone Age : Go With The Flow
Royksopp : Remind Me (Someone Else's Radio Remix)
The Stone Roses : Going Down
Tindersticks : Plus De Liaisons
Unsung Heroes : Daily Intake
The Verve : The Drugs Don't Work
The Wedding Present : Take Me!
Xavier Cugat : Jamay
Young MC : Know How
Zongamin : Serious Trouble
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### Author: ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)
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Oh, bugger.

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### Author: ![Skerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Skerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skerri)
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I made this list from cds that I own.  
(No coding, I’m not cool enough for that.)

Adam Ant - Wonderful  
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication  
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting  
Del Amitri - Tell Her This  
Eve 6 - Promise  
Faith No More - Easy Like Sunday Morning  
G-Love and Special Sauce - Baby’s Got Sauce  
Huey Lewis & The News - If This Is It  
Indigo Girls - Galileo  
Jump, Little Children - Cathedrals  
K’s Choice - Not an Addict  
Luscious Jackson - Life of Leisure  
Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved  
No One is Innocent - Ne reste-t-il que la guerre pour tuer le silence  
Our Lady Peace - 4 AM  
Phantom Planet - California  
Queen - Under Pressure  
Ryan Adams - New York, New York  
Save Ferris - Mistaken  
Tenacious D - Wonderboy  
Uncle Kracker - In A Little While  
Vertical Horizon - Best I Ever Had  
Weezer - Don’t Let Go  
X - Soul Kitchen  
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mystery Girl  
Zwan - Honestly

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### Author: ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)
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AC/DC- Whole Lotta Rosie  
Beatles- Hey Bulldog  
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Ramble Tamble  
Bob Dylan- Isis  
Enya- Caribbean Blue  
The Fixx- One THing Leads to Another  
Genesis- Dancing With the Moonlit Knight  
House of Pain- Shamrocks and Shenanigans  
INXS- What You Need  
Billy Joel- Leningrad  
King Crimson- The Great Deceiver  
Led Zeppelin- How Many More Times?  
Paul McCartney- Junior’s Farm  
Nazareth- Love Hurts  
Ohio Players- Fire  
Pink Floyd- Sheep  
Queen- Tie Your Mother Down  
Rush- Cut to the Chase  
Sting- Little Wing  
Temptations- Get Ready  
U2- Gloria  
Van Halen- Beautiful Girls  
The Who-  
X- nothing worth playing. I REFUSE to play X or XTC  
Yes- Wondrous Stories  
Zebra- Tell Me What You Want

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### Author: ![Husker\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)
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At The Drive-In - Pickpocket  
Built To Spill - Kicked It In The Sun  
Cat Power - Nude As The News  
Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene  
Echo And The Bunnymen - Killing Moon  
Fugazi - Smallpox Champion  
Guided By Voices - Official Ironman Rally Song  
Husker Du - Eight Miles High  
Interpol - Leif Erikson  
Jesus And The Mary Chain - Upside Down  
Kraftwerk - The Model  
Lightning Bolt - Thirteen Monsters  
Mission of Burma - That’s When I Reach For My Revolver  
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland, 1945  
Of Montreal - Everything Disapears When You Come Around  
Pavement - In The Mouth Of A Desert  
Queers, The - Ursula Finally Has Tits  
Replacements, The - Left Of The Dial  
Smiths, The - Hand In Glove  
Talking Heads - Crosseyed And Painless  
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression  
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat  
Wilco - Pot Kettle Black  
Xiu Xiu - Sad Pony Guerilla Girl  
Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater  
Zombies, The - Tell her No

Whew, this was way easier than I thought it would be.

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### Author: ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)
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So I’m the DJ for the late night underground ROCK show

Anti Nowhere League-Streets Of London  
Bauhaus-Stigmata Martyr  
The Cramps-Elvis Fuckin Christ  
Dead Boys-Hey Little Girl  
Electric Frankenstein-Its All Moving Faster  
The Fleshtones-Do You Swing  
Generation X-King Rocker  
Hawkwind-Hassan I Sabha  
Iggy and The Stooges-I Got A Right  
Jello Biafra and Nomeansno-Jesus Was A Terrorist  
Killing Joke-The Gathering  
Love-7 and 7 Is  
Mission of Burma-Thats When I Reach For My Revolver  
Nomeansno-Dad  
Oblivions-Alone Again Or  
The Pist-Great American Sportsman  
The Queers-Ursula Finally Has Tits  
Radio Birdman-Aloha Steve and Danno  
Sloppy Seconds-Janie Is A Nazi  
Turbonegro-Armed And Fairly Well Equiped  
The Undead-We Don’t Want The Poor In NY City  
Richard Hell and the VoiDoids-Blank Generation  
Weirdos- We Got the Neutron Bomb  
X-Soul Kitchen  
Frank Zappa-It Just Might Be A One Shot Deal

My show would kick ass.

Jon

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Adam Ant-Stripped  
Bjork-Human Behavior  
Cocteau Twins- Pearly Dew Drops  
Dead or Alive-I would do anything  
Erasure-Breath of Life  
Fiona Apple-Criminal  
Garbage-Cherry Lips (Go, Baby Go)  
The Hives-Hate to say I told you so  
INXS-the One Thing  
Journey-Lovin, Touchin, Ssqueezin  
The Kinks-You really got me  
Labelle-Lady Marmalade  
Ministry-I wanted to tell her  
Norah Jones-Come away with me  
Otis Day and the Knights-Shout  
Pet Shop Boys-Absolutely Fabulous  
Queen-Love of my life  
Roxy Music-More than this  
Sean Paul-Get Busy  
T-Rex-Ride a white Swan  
U2-Dancing Barefoot  
Van Morrison-Jackie Wilson Says  
White Stripes- Fell in love with a girl  
X- Wild Thing  
Yaz- Goodbye Seventies  
Zap Mama-Iko Iko

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### Author: ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
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AC/DC - Back in Black  
Beastie Boys - So Whatcha Want  
Cracker - Low  
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing  
ELO - Don’t Bring Me Down  
The Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another (sorry astorian, I love that song)  
Arlo Guthrie - Alice’s Restaurant  
Haddaway - What Is Love  
INXS - Need You Tonight  
Michael Jackson - Beat It  
The KLF - 3 AM Eternal  
Level 42 - Something About You  
Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now?  
Nine Inch Nails - The Day the World Went Away  
Odds - Love of Minds  
Peter Gabriel (yes, that’s a cheat) - Digging in the Dirt  
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter  
Sam Roberts - Brother Down  
The Tragically Hip - Cordelia  
U2 - Discotheque  
Violent Femmes - Any one of a bunch of songs  
Travelling Wilburys - Tweeter and the Monkey Man  
X - Wild Thing (had to be)  
Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart  
Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns and Money

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### Author: ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
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I missed Q. Quiet Riot, that one hit song they had.

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### Author: ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)
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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by astorian \*  
> \*\*  
> X- nothing worth playing. I REFUSE to play X or XTC  
> t \*\*

I have to ask…What wrong with X or XTC?

Jon

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### Author: ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)
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Here goes:

Autour de Lucie-Le Dernier Mot  
Badu, Erykah-2000 AD  
Coppola, Imani-All About Me  
DiFranco, Ani-Shy  
Echobelly-King of the Kerb  
Furtado, Nelly-Shit On the Radio  
Gabriel, Peter-Mercy Street  
Husker Du-Hardly Getting Over It  
Ivy-You Don’t Know Anything  
Judybats-Convalescing in Spain  
King, B.B.-Caledonia  
Lush-Thoughtforms  
Morcheeba-The Sea  
Naked Mile-Epiphany  
Outkast-B.O.B.  
Phair, Liz-Mesmerizing  
Quarterflash-Williams Avenue  
RES-How I Do  
Siberry, Jane-Love Is Everything  
Ten Thousand Maniacs-Poor De Chirico  
U2-Numb  
Vega, Suzanne-Headshots  
White, Jim-Christmas Day  
X-A Drunk in My Past  
Yankovic, Weird Al-One More Minute  
Zevon, Warren-Accidently Like a Martyr

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### Author: ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)
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Hey Husker Dude…I didn’t look at the lists before I posted. It seems we like the same Burma and Queers songs (actually, I would have posted "Kicked Out Of The Weblos had I thought of it).

Jon

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Air - Kelly Watch the Stars  
Bush, Kate - Babooshka  
Concrete Blonde - Joey  
Doves - The Cedar Room  
Eskimo Joe - Planet Earth  
Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon  
Grandaddy - He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s the Pilot  
Harvey, PJ - A Place Called Home  
INXS - Never Tear Us Apart  
Janis Joplin - Piece of My Heart  
King, Carole - It’s Too Late  
Lambchop - Up With People!  
Muse - Feelin’ Good  
No Doubt - Sunday Morning  
Oasis - Force of Nature  
Pretty & Twisted - Souvenir  
Queens of the Stoneage - The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret  
Radiohead - Just  
Split Enz - Message to My Girl  
The Tea Party - Correspondences  
Underworld - Underneath the Radar  
Voice of the Beehive - I Think I Love You  
Whitlams - No Aphrodisiac  
XTC - Harvest Festival  
Yorn, Pete - For Nancy (Cos It Already Is)  
Zombies - She’s Not There

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…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Relative Ways  
Blackalicious - Sky Is Falling  
The Clash - Safe European Home  
Drive-By Truckers - Zip City  
Steve Earle - Jerusalem  
Flaming Lips - Be My Head  
Guided By Voices - Motor Away  
Hayden - Bad As They Seem  
Interpol - Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down  
J-Live - Satisfied?  
Robert Earl Keen - Hall Of Fame  
Less Than Jake - Liquor Store  
Bob Marley - Smile Jamaica  
New Pornographers - The Slow Decent Into Alcoholism  
OutKast - Spaghetti Junction  
Pixies - Vamos  
Queens of the Stone Age - Better Living Through Chemisty  
Radiohead - Myxomatosis  
Superchunk - Water Wings  
Teenage Fanclub - The Concept  
Uncle Tupelo - Grindstone  
Velocity Girl - Pop Loser  
Wilco - Dreamer In My Dreams  
X - Sex and Dying In High Society  
Neil Young - Like a Hurricane  
Zen Guerilla - Ghetto City Version

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### Author: ![Liakela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/58f4c7/32.png) [@Liakela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liakela)
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Afro Celt Sound System, The - When You’re Falling (Featuring Peter Gabriel)  
Big Audio Dynamite - The Globe  
Elvis Costello - Less Than Zero  
Dubliners, The - Finnegan’s Wake  
Elastica - Vaseline  
Fleetwood Mac - Song Bird  
Peter Gabriel - Biko  
PJ Harvey - Down By The Water  
Janis Ian - At Seventeen  
Gary Jules - Mad World  
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow  
Love and Rockets - No Big Deal  
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - I Am A Rock  
Nirvana - Something in the Way  
Sinead O’Conner - The Last Day of Our Acquaintance  
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation  
Queen - Under Pressure  
Otis Redding - I’ve Been Loving You Too Long  
Steel Pulse - Worth His Weight in Gold (Rally Round)  
Tegan & Sara - My Number  
U2 - Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of  
Venus Hum - The Bells  
Roger Waters - Watching TV  
XTC - Dear God  
Neil Young - The Needle and the Damage Done  
ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man

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### Author: ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2003, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-fm-dj-26-songs-in-alphabetical-order-by-artist-what-tracks-do-you-pick/199818/19 "2003-09-06T11:40:43Z")

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I’d do an all Zappa set:

A: Artificial Rhonda  
B: Brown Moses  
C: Cheepnis  
D: Doreen  
E: Electric Aunt Jemima  
F: Frogs With Dirty Little Lips  
G: G-Spot Tornado  
H: Harder Than Your Husband  
I: I’m The Slime  
J: Joe’s Garage  
K: King Kong I  
L: Little House I Used to Live In  
M: Muffin Man  
N: Nig Biz  
O: The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution  
P: Pygmy Twylyte  
R: RDNZL  
S: Son of Mr. Green Genes  
T: Tell Me You Love Me  
U: Uncle Remus  
V: Village of the Sun  
W: WPLJ  
Y: You Are What You Is  
Z: Zomby Woof

Those being my favorite “radio friendly” Zappa songs. Though I might get thrown out of the studio when “Nig biz” came one…

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### Author: ![Husker\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-an-fm-dj-26-songs-in-alphabetical-order-by-artist-what-tracks-do-you-pick/199818/20 "2003-09-06T13:11:18Z")

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> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by nitroglycerine \*  
> \*\*Hey Husker Dude…I didn’t look at the lists before I posted. It seems we like the same Burma and Queers songs (actually, I would have posted "Kicked Out Of The Weblos had I thought of it).  
> \*\*

That’s okay, it just means that we both have cool taste in music.

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