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Taking its cue from a historical musical alphabet, with music from the 1940's up to the present day. At the end of each show we challenge listeners to guess the song/artist/release year of a mystery song.

 

Radar: Musical Alphabet

Playlists

Playlist 2012-01-30

1: Louis Jordan - What's The Use Of Getting Sober (1942)
2: Etta James - Good Rockin' Daddy (1955)
3: Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind (1968)
4: Billy Joel - Piano Man (1973)
5: Chaz Jankel - Glad To Know You (1982)
6: Daniel Johnston - Some Things Last A Long Time (1990)
7: [IR]JJ72 - Snow (2000)
8: Joakim - I Wish You Were Gone (2006)
9: [IR]Jape - Nothing Lasts Forever (2008)
10: Nicolas Jaar - And I Say ft. Scout Larue and Will Epstein (2012)

Playlist 2012-01-23

1: Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love (1967)
2: Janis Joplin - Down On Me (1967)
3: Elton John - Tiny Dancer (1972)
4: Joy Division - Transmission (1979)
5: The Jam - Town Called Malice (1982)
6: Michael Jackson - Want To Be Starting Something (1983)
7: The Jesus and Mary Chain - Head On (1990)
8: James - Sit Down (1989/91/98)
9: Jamiroquai - Canned Heat (1999)
10: [IR] Junior85 - RaymondScott (2009)
11: [IR] Junior Boys - Banana Ripple (SiSi Game of 2 Halves Edit) (2011)

Playlist 2012-01-16

1: Ink Spots - Jave Jive (1940)
2: It's A Beautiful Day - White bird (1969)
3: The Isley Brothers - it's your thing (1969)
4: Instant Funk - I got my mind made up (1977)
5: Iggy Pop - The Passenger (1977)
6: Inner City - Good life (1988)
7: INXS - Need you tonight (1990)
8: Ice Cube - You know how we do it (1993)
9: Interpol - The heinrich maneuver (2007)
10: In Flagranti - Business acumen (2007)
11: Iron Horse - Immigrant song (2008)
12: I Break Horses - Wired (2011)

Playlist 2012-01-09

1: Billie Holiday - When you're smiling
2: Bill Haley - Rock around the clock
3: Buddy Holly - Not fade away
4: Justin Hinds - Carry go bring come
5: Hot Chocolate - You sexy thing
6: Human League - Things that dreams are made of
7: The Housemarting - Caravan of love
8: Happy Mondays - Step on
9: House of Pain - On point
10: Lauryn Hill - Cant take my eyes off you
11: Happy Clappers - I believe
12: Hot Chip - And I was a boy from school
13: Hercules & Love Affair - My House

Playlist 2011-12-05

1: Benny Goodman - Goody Goody (1936)
2: Vince Guaraldi - Linus & Lucy (1964)
3: Marvin Gaye - I Heard it through the grapevine (1968)
4: Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the sky (1970)
5: Grauzone - Eisbar (1981)
6: Grandmaster Flash - White Lines (1984)
7: Gipsy Kings - Hotel California (1988)
8: Garbage - Stupid Girl (1995)
9: Gomez - Whippin Piccadilly (1998)
10: Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc (2005)
11: Goldfrapp - Ride a White Horse (2006)
12: Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple (2006)
13: Gold Panda - Marriage (2011)

Playlist 2011-11-28

1: Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime (1958)
2: Marianne Faithfull - As tears go by (1965)
3: The Fantastic Four - On the brighter side of a blue world (1969)
4: Fleetwood Mac - The Chain (1977)
5: Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax (1983)
6: The Frank & Walters - After All (1992)
7: The Frames - Rent day blues (1999)
8: Fatboy Slim - Praise you (1999)
9: Felix da Housecat - Silverscreen (2001)
10: Flaming Lips - Yoshimi battles the pink robots (2003)
11: Florence & the Machine - My boy builds coffins (2009)
12: Fred Falke - Aurora (2011)

Playlist 2011-11-21

1: Ruth Etting - You're the cream in my coffee (1929)
2: Duke Ellington - Take the A Train (1941)
3: The Everly Brothers - Wake up little Susie (1957)
4: Shirley Ellis - The Clapping Song (1965)
5: Yvonne Elliman - If I cant have you (1978)
6: Earth, Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland (1979)
7: Eurythmics - Love is a Stranger (1982)
8: Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (1984)
9: Erasure - Blue Savannah (1990)
10: Everything but the Girl - Missing (1994)
11: Elbow - Independant Woman (2004)
12: Electric Penguins - Transatlantic (2006)
13: Errors - Supertribe (2010)

Playlist 2011-11-18

1: Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune (1905)
2: Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea (1959)
3: Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965)
4: Donovan - Sunshine Superman (1966)
5: The Doobie Brothers - Listen to the Music (1972)
6: Duran Duran - Girls on Film (1981)
7: De La Soul - Eye Know (1989)
8: Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence (1990)
9: Deee-Lite - Groove is in the Heart (1990)
10: Daft Punk - Revolution 909 (1998)
11: Doves - Catch the Sun (2000)
12: Delorean - Stay Close (2010)

Playlist 2011-11-11

1: Ray Charles - I Got a Woman (1954)
2: Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (1955/1968)
3: Cream - I Feel Free (1969)
4: Alice Cooper - Schools Out (1972)
5: Kim Carnes - Betty Davis Eyes (1981)
6: The Clash - Rock the Kasbah (1982)
7: The Cure - Just Like Heaven (1987)
8: The Commitments - Chain of Fools (1991)
9: Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (1991)
10: The Cardigans - My Favourite Game (1998)
11: The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be (1999)
12: Charis - The Answer (2001)
13: Cut Copy - Going Nowhere (2006)
14: Caribou - Odessa (2010)

Playlist 2011-11-04

1: Blind Boys of Alabama - Run On (1948)
2: James Brown - Please (1956)
3: Fontella Bass - Rescue Me (1965)
4: The Beach Boys - God Only Knows (1966)
5: The Band - I Shall Be Released (1967)
6: David Bowie - Starman (1972)
7: Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (1978)
8: Blondie - Heart of Glass (1980)
9: Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right (1986)
10: Blur - There's No Other Way (1991)
11: The Breeders - Cannonball (1993)
12: Bjork - Army of me (1995)
13: Bassment Jaxx - Red Alert (2001)
14: Beirut - Elephant Gun (2007)
15: Burial/Fourtet/Thom Yorke - Mirrors (2011)

Playlist 2011-10-28

1: Louis Armstrong - Heebie Jeebies
2: Ray Anthony & his Orchestra - Dragnet
3: Jeff Alexander - Come wander with me
4: Animals - I Put a Spell on you
5: America - A Horse With No Name
6: Adam & the Ants - Stand and Deliver
7: A House - Endless Art (IRL)
8: A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It
9: The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
10: Animal Collective - My Girls
11: And So I Watch You From Afar - Set Guitars To Kill (IRL)
12: Art of Noise - Beat Box