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The BEST of Off-Beat 2008

With Rich Kaminsky

WPKN - FM =-= WPKM - FM

Saturday, December 27, 2008 ... 2:00 - 6:00 am

They Might Be Giants

The Best Medical Song

The Architects
Bizi Gara
ElephantBear
Straddle Daddy
Low vs Diamond
New Duncan Imperials
Zebrahead

Rudest Song

Rafter
-itis
Pucifer
Southside Stalkers
Victor Bravo
Kimya Dawson
Jesus H Christ & the 4 Hornsmen of the Apocalypse
The Yummy Cakes

The Oddest Song

Bruce Aubrey
The Floating Men
A Big Yes and a small no
Logs in the Mainstream
Jill Sobule
Lazy Magnet
The Dresden Dolls

The Stupidest Song

Classic Ruins
Brian Dewan
Those Darn Accordians
Less Than Jake
Doctor Sparkles
Devotchka
Rod Mitchell
They Might Be Giants
Skerlak Dead

The Best Political Song

Alan Cohen Experience
Black 47
Anti-Flag
Blacklisted & the Banned (Sonny Meadows)
Middle States
Noodle Muffin

The Best Cover Song

NOFX
The Whipsaws
Veruca Salt
Army Navy
Rachid Taha
The Passive Aggressives
David Arvedon and the Psychopaths

The Best Song with 'Attitude'

Joe Coffee
Presidents of the US of A
American Gun
New Found Glory
Drive By
The Revisionists
What Made Milwaukee Famous
Eef Barzelay
The Ropes

The Best New Artist

Saint Alvia Cartel
Julie Ocean
Gran Ronde
The Hoosiers
Billy the Kid

The Best Album

The Cute Lepers (Can't Stand Modern Music)
The Gaslight Anthem (The '59 Sound)
Heap (Oddball)
Your 33 Black Angels (Tales of my PopRock LoveLife)
House of Heroes (The End is Not the End)
The Breakup Society (Nobody Likes a Winner)
The Kooks (Konk)
Frank Carillo (Someday)
Old 97s (Blame it on Gravity)
Alejandro Escovedo (Real Animal)

The BEST SONG

Everest
The Reducers

Voodoo Martini
Toots and the Maytals

No One Knows My Plan (theme song)

of the Year

Pills
Anxious
Eternally Incomplete
My Supply
Heart Attack
The Mother Ship
Mental Health

of the Year

Breathing Room
Jerkin' Off
Cuntry Boner
Wholesome as Fucking
Motherfucker
We're All Animals
Rita the Hot Receptionist
Abortion for Christmas

of the Year

Seven Days
Pleasurado
I'm Always Manic (When I'm Around You)
Tequila and Power Tools
Talkin' Platy
Awesome Colors
Lonesome Organist Rapes Page-Turner

of the Year

I'm a Wimp
Horse Named Bill
This Song
Soundcheck
There's a Special Place in Hell
Head Honcho
The Dying Squirrel
We Live in a Dump
Just Askin'

of the Year

Castro
Stars and Stripes
The Modern Rome Burning
Devil's on the Throne
Thought Control
Cuntservative

of the Year

What Now My Love
Mr. Soul
Burned
Get Right Back
Rock the Casbah
Happy Together
There's a Kind of Hush

of the Year

Baby's Coming Home Today
Mixed Up S.O.B.
Picture
No Reason Why
Boring
Mr. Stupid
The Right Place
Could Be Worse
I Don't Like to Get Dirty

of the Year

Dead and Gone
There's a Place (in the Back of my Mind)
Come Together
Worst Case Scenario
English Girl

of the Year

So Screwed Up
Meet Me by the River's Edge
Oddball
She's My Photograph
Leave You Now
Nobody Likes a Winner
Mr. Maker
Roll the Bones
The One
Always a Friend

OF THE YEAR

Reloader
Don't Ya Wanna

Ticket to Havana
Sailin' On

Thanks to everyone who appeared on Off-Beat during 2008:

Jed Davis, Mike Keaney, Alex Dubovoy - The Hanslick Rebellion

Hannah Kaminsky

John Gambino - The Yummy Cakes

Simon Hunter

Tim Heap - Heap

Murry Hammond - Old 97s

Bobby D



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

Jonathan Parsons
Phil Bowler
Dave Zinovenko