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The BEST of Off-Beat 2001

With Rich Kaminsky

WPKN - FM

Saturday, December 29, 2001 ... 2:00 - 6:00 am

They Might Be Giants

Best Medical Songs

Housewives on Prozac
Sugargrass
Flickerstick
Motorized By Goh
James Kochalka Superstar
B Loud

Best Pissed Off Songs

The Bell Rays
Propagandhi
Anti-Flag
The Trouble With Larry
Paddlefoot
Mike Brown and the Sneakies

Best Sex Songs

The Groobees
Semisonic
The Strokes
The Prisoners

The Mercenaries
The Mercenaries
The Decibels

Best Cover Songs

The Suicide Machines
Brave Combo
The Prisoners
Freedy Johnston
H2O
Lounge Brigade
Hi-Standard
The Cogs
Bill Kirchen
The Pinheads
Stereophonics
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Karel Marik

The Ramones
The Swaggerts

Best Dumb Songs

Three Normal Humans
The Martini Brothers
Dogpiss
The Gourds
James Kochalka Superstar
Ouch!

Oddest Songs

Crelm
Brian Dewan
Drunk Stuntmen
Keep Left
Big In Japan
The Philistines Jr.
Ken Nordine

The Velvet Mafia

Newcomer

Leslie Nuss
Leslie Nuss

Rudest Songs

The Reverend Billy C. Wirtz
The Sway Machinery
Spacehog
The Infinitely Indexed Memory Bank
Countess
Afroman

Albums

Cockeyed Ghost
They Might Be Giants
Michael Shelley
The Minus 5 / Young Fresh Fellows
Old 97s
Alejandro Escovedo
Weezer

Song

Totally Blind Drunk Drivers

Voodoo Martini
Toots and the Maytals

No One Knows My Plan

of the Year

Two Little Pills
Everybody's On Something
Chloroform the One You Love
I Lost My Senses
Even The Clouds Get High
Drugs

of the Year

Stupid Fuckin' People
Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes
Watch the Right
Hat Act
Better
Fuck You

of the Year

My Best Feature
Get A Grip
Barely Legal
Masturbation Machine

Done Days (live)
Feeling Guilty
Poor Sidney

of the Year

It's The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Chopsticks
Imagine
Love Grows
Like A Prayer
Santeria
Can't help Falling In Love
Turning Japanese
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
La Bamba
Heart of Gold
Wild World
Rape Me

Yeah, Yeah
Bonnie (live)

of the Year

I Don't Want to Look Like Anyone
Spinning on an Axis
The Smoking Song
I Ate the Haggis
Frog On Top of a Skyscraper
Unemployment (It's A Bitch!)

of the Year

A German Lesson
Cadavers
2nd Gear
Public Service Announcement
New Dead Boyfirend
Analog vs Digital
Cliche Heaven

Mona Lisa

of the Year

Scarlet Letter (live)
Time Capsule

of the Year

Partyin' Motherfucker
Cocktease
This Is America
Mr. Blue
Celebrity Slut
Because I Got High

of the Year

Bumming Me Out (of the Record Store)
Mink Car
I Blame You
Let the War Against Music Begin / Because We Hate You
Satellite Rides
Castanets
Don't Let Go

of the Year

What The Hell

Ticket to Havana
Sailin' On

> Thanks to everyone who appeared on Off-Beat during 2001:

Jon Landford (Waco Brothers, The Mekons)
George "the Animal" McCauley
Michael Shelley
Mike Belitsky (The Sadies)
Alex Morales, Altogether Steve, Brian Elliot (The Mercenaries) + Trish
Nervous Chet Purvis, Bill "Catdog" Collins, Kerry Miller (The Swaggerts)
Rex Hobart (Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys)
Alejandro Escovedo
Kent the Copier Guy
Eddie Lawrence
Kenny Charters (The Uncle Chick Band) + Mary and Tim
Leslie Nuss
Melissa Swingle (Trailer Bride)
Leonard Kaminsky
Ashley Laufer and Rachel Kaminsky
Jenn London
"How Ya Doin'" Fred