(Come on !! You get the connection, surely! As usual, there's a link to radio. Answer at the end.)
Following last week's long player special, this week's show went a different route. 28 songs in two hours is a record for the programme, and hopefully you heard lots to like.
I prevaricated over the Tunng track - directly dealing with death is one of the last remaining taboos. I included it mainly because it deals with the subject in an uplifting way and because pop has always had a role in helping people to address subjects that would otherwise not be spoken about. Any thoughts - for or against - would be welcome.
And if you've ever wondered what a producer does, I was two seconds over this week and Darren brought forward the final song by two seconds. It sounded great!
The full list of songs played is:
My Type - Saint Motel
Do It (You Stole The Rhythm) - Iraina Mancini
Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream) - The Icicle Works
Easier To Lie - Aqualung
Best For You and Me - Helado Negro
Tidy Away - Stuart Moxham, Louis Philippe
A Woman On The Verge Of Becoming A Cyclist - The Pearlfishers
...And That's Why - The Christians
True Faith - Teleman
Common Blue - Warpaint
Cristina - Teleman
Hailey - Premix Version - Cassandra Jenkins
All The Best Moves - Smith and Burrows
Some Fantastic Place - Squeeze
Wake Me - Bleachers
Going To A Town - Rufus Wainwright
Sunrise Mtn - Jenny Owen Youngs, John Mark Nelson
I Never Want To Leave - The Luxembourg Signal
Angel Eyes - The Czars
In The Yard, Behind The Church - Eels
Please Don't Send Me Away - Matthew Jay
Gollden Star - Middle Kids
Fatally Human - Tunng
uPVC - Psapp
Spitting Games - Snow Patrol
One More Time - Joe Jackson
Talking Straight - Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
Scarlet (The Killers and Jacques Lu Cont Remix) - The Rolling Stones
Answer to photo quiz : These are the mug shots used to enrol a well known band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - Radiohead