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The BEST of Off-Beat 2002

With Rich Kaminsky

WPKN - FM

Saturday, December 28, 2002 ... 2:00 - 6:00 am

They Might Be Giants

Best Medical Song

Balsa Gliders
The Chicken Hawks
Slant 6 & the Jump Stars

Best Live Album

Paul Weller
The Tom Tom Club
The Stranglers
Bob Dylan
The Blasters

Oddest Song

Hefner
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Happy Schnapps Combo
The Vandals
Pope John Paul the Third
Of Montreal
Colin Clary
The Ziggens

Debut Artist

The Pasties
Midget Jesus
Simple Plan
The Plus Ones
Le Nombre
The Flipsides

Best International Song

Peste E Sida
Puffy Amiyumi
Les Sequelles
The Vines
The Flaming Sideburns

Stupidest Song

DaVinci's Notebook
The Kicks
Little Charlie and the Nightcats
The Dickies
Richard Perlmutter

Best Political/Historical Song

Nerf Herder
Slant 6 & the Jumpstarts
The Warm Guns
Darryl Cherney & the Chernobles

Best Cover Song

Farrah
The Bottle Rockets
Cracker
Little Richard
The Great Kat
Lava Baby
Joe Louis Walker
The Kickbacks
Slant 6 & the Jumpstarts
The Waco Brothers
Brave Combo
They Might Be Giants
The Lounge Brigade

Comeback

Sam Moore

Best Rude Song

Bowling for Soup
The Donnas
Andrew W.K.
Goldfinger
Polkacide

Song of the Year

Old 97s

2002 Best Song

Joey Ramone

Voodoo Martini
Toots and the Maytals

No One Knows My Plan

of the Year

Antihistamine
Should Have Stayed Home (& did LSD)
Viagra

of the Year

That's Entertainment
Genius of Love
Peaches
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
So Long Baby Goodbye

of the Year

Peppermint Taste
Play My Guitar
You Can't Teach the Japanese to Polka
Soccer Mom
Datsun 510
Isn't It Nice?
When the Chorus Hits the Verse
I Get Yelled At A Lot

of the Year

Shameless
8 Feet High
My Alien
I Stand Corrected
Marianne
I Like You

of the Year

Vamos Ao Trabalho
Atarashii Hibi
Un Train
Sunshinin
Stripped Down

of the Year

Three Little Words
MIR
That's Big
Donut Man
Beethoven's Wig

of the Year

Jenna Bush Army
Senator Kennedy
My Twenties Through Sixties
Bush It!

of the Year

I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
Mendacino
Victoria
Get Rhythm
Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2
I Got You
Who Do You Love?
Almost Saturday Night
Hellen Keller
The Harder They Come
Purple Haze
In the Middle
Without Me (Eminem)

of the Year

Keep On Sockin' It To Me

of the Year

Girl All the Bad Guys Want
Take It Off
We Want Fun
Spokesman
Weiner Dog Polka

(Honorable Mention)

Murder (or a Heart Attack)

of the Year

What A Wonderful World

Ticket to Havana
Sailin' On

> Thanks to everyone who appeared on Off-Beat TV and Radio during 2002:

George "the Animal" McCauley and 'How Ya Doin'' Fred
Pearse Doherty (The Saw Doctors)
Alejandro Escovedo
"E" (Eels)
Urmas Voolpriit, Joel Berg, Andres Ohu, Mallar Prandi (Totally Blind Drunk Drivers)
Joel Reader (The Plus Ones)
Sabrina Stewart and Mark Bradin (The Flipsides)
Neko Case
Jon Langford (The Mekons, The Waco Brothers)
Michael Shelley
William Weis, Suran Song, Brad Yablonsky (Suran Song in Stag)
Chris Rael and Deep Singh (Church of Betty)
Altogether Steve, Alex Morales, Brian Elliot, Neil Thomas, Brian Haarer (The Mercenaries)
JC and Anphibius (JC)
Jenn London
Kenny Charters
Dave Vernick, Mr B Erenberg, Ron Cohen, Ed Marshall (Atomsmasher)
Derek Reese, Mark Lineberry, Asaf Shor, Gary Nieves (Head Cleaner)