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The BEST of Off-Beat 2005

With Rich Kaminsky

WPKN - FM =-= WPKM-FM

Saturday, December 31, 2005 ... 2:00 - 6:00 am

They Might Be Giants

Best Medical Song

The Darelicks
Lederhosen Lucil
Kacey Jones
My Dad is Dead
Imaginary Freds
The Volunteers

Austin Lounge Lizards

Best Song about

The Street Dogs
Reel Big Fish
The Real McKenzies

Reel Big Fish

Best New Artist

The Juliet Dagger
The Capes
The Mittens
The Blind Robins

Heap

The Best Cover Song

Saucy Monkey
Richard Taylor
Soul Asylum
The Knitters
Keller Williams
Avail
The Reducers
The Waco Brothers
Shanghai 5
Clem Snide
Rock 'n' Roll Soldiers
Reel Big Fish

Eddie Spaghetti

Stupidest Song

Parry Gripp
Chixdiggit!
New Maximum Donkey
Barbez
Rat Cat Hogan
Adam Green
Hypnotic Clambake
Caesars
The Crayons
Sons of Emperor Norton
The Sharking
People in Planes

Gogol Bordello

Rudest Song

Hot Chip
Morningwood
The Bugs
Eternal Infidels

The Plaintiffs

Best Pissed Off Song

NOFX
The Vendetta Red
The Randies
Drastic Actions
Altered State
Bag

The Bones

Best Album

Robbers on High Street
Hot Hot Heat
Nightmare of You
The Decemberists
Leslie Nuss
Magic Numbers
The Waco Brothers
British Sea Power

Heap

Best Song

Solving for X
The 88
Bedouin Soundclash
The Fray

Payola Reserve

Voodoo Martini
Toots and the Maytals

No One Knows My Plan (theme song)

of the Year

Inside
Doin' the Ganglion
The Vasectomy Song
Novacaine
Alter My Genes
Trazadone and Adderall

Drugs I Need

Being in a Band

Strike a Blow
One Hit Wonderful
I Hate My Band

Don't Start a Band

of the Year

Waiting
Regional Heats
Skip It
That Goddamn Herbert Hoover

Stabbing Pain

of the Year

I Touch Myself
King of the Road
I Can See Clearly Now
Born to be Wild
Under Pressure
Santeria
Mack the Knife
I Fought the Law
Just What I Needed
Tears on my Pillow
Everybody's Gotta Live
We Hate it When Our Friends Become Successful

I Don't Wanna Grow Up

of the Year

One Donut a Day
J Crew
Live Bait
Pirate Jenny
Uncle Tim's Departed
He's the Brat
Psychotic Polka
Don't Fear the Reaper
Ghostly Jack
Ol' E's Comin' Back
Ocean
If You Talk Too Much (My Head will Explode)

Start Wearing Purple

of the Year

Bad Luck
Babysitter
Fuckin' a, Right
Gutter Glam

Happy New Year

of the Year

No Fun in Fundamentalism
Silhouette Serenade
Good for You
Fuck You
War
I Can't Stand Your Face

Not A Love Song

of the Year

Tree City (Bring on the Terror)
Elevator (Running Out of Time)
Nightmare of You (The Days Go By Oh So Slow)
Picaresque (16 Military Wives)
Leslie Nuss (Give it Up Baby)
The Magic Numbers (Forever Lost)
Freedom and Weap (Nothing at All)
Open Season (Please Stand Up)

On the Cheap (Women)

of the Year

Hey Darwin
Haunt You
Gyasi Went Home
All at Once

Brave New Radio

Ticket to Havana
Sailin' On

Thanks to everyone who appeared on Off-Beat TV and Radio during 2005:

Chip Thomas, Jack Koch, Patrick Moloney, Teresa Chaisiri (PaperDoll)
Leslie Nuss
John Densmore (The Doors)
Melissa Haberfeld
Eric Roberts (The Juliet Dagger)
Simon Hunter
Aaron Barrett (Reel Big Fish)
Gary and the Psychic Experience
Ron Heathman (Supersuckers)
JC and Anphibius (JC)
Kris Barratt, Richard Gladman, Rupert Cresswell, Nick Cresswell, Rupert Phelps (The Capes)
Preston Clarke
George 'the Animal' McCauley
"How Ya Doin'?" Fred
Irena Makarchuk
John Valiant

Thanks the WPKN/WPKM Volunteers who make the Off-Beat New Music Review possible:

Jonathan Parsons
Phil Bowler
Dave Zinovenko


This show is dedicated to the memory of Laurie