gts021 “quartersh” Who needs ’em, juke boxes are tap-to-pay and there’s no payphones left anyway. 01-01 Led Zeppelin – Studio Sessions 410 – No Quarter 01-02 Led Zeppelin – 1973-07-17 – Seattle WA – No Quarter 01-03a Led Zeppelin – Studio Sessions 522 – No Quarter 01-03b Led Zeppelin – Studio Sessions 525 – No…

gts020 “sunshine” Soak ’em if you got ’em! 01-01 Des Tooley & Frank Coughlan Orchestra – Parlophone A2960 – I’m Sailing On A Sunbeam (1930) 01-02 Johnny Nash – I Can See Clearly Now 01 – I Can See Clearly Now (1972) 01-03 Violent Femmes – Violent Femmes 01 – Blister In The Sun (1983)…

gts019 “religish” Tiptoe a tightrope, how not to offend anybody but still ensure that each ep of this show has something for everyone to hate? Humor, be thy crutch. 01-01 Carmen Lombardo & Guy Lombardo Orchestra – Victor 25357 – When Did You Leave Heaven (1936) 01-02 Neil Diamond – BLTSS 01 – Brother Love’s…

gts018 “ships” If you’re gonna take a long walk on a short pier, have something parked at the end! 01-01 Lebert Lombardo & Guy Lombardo Orchestra – Victor 25435 – When My Dreamboat Comes Home (1937) — just like the Marx Brothers, there were several Lombardos, most now forgotten, just like Gummo. 01-02 Beach Boys…

gts017 “economish” 01-01 Nat King Cole & Johnny Mercer – You Can’t Make Money Dreamin’ — 01-02 Regina Spektor – Eleven Eleven – 2.99c Blues (2001) — 01-03 Coasters – What About Us — 01-04 D.R.I. – Dirty Rotten Imbeciles 08 – Money Stinks (1983) — 01-05 Tom Morello – 01 – Black Spartacus Heart…

gts016 “shky” A bird! a plane! Oh no, it’s not that at all. How does that thing fly, it ain’t got wings. Rebecca, c’mere and take a look at this thing. 01-01 Vaughn Monroe – Victor 3411 – Riders In The Sky (1949) 01-02 Alan Parsons Project – Eye In The Sky 01 – Sirius…

gts015 “natshural” Odd timing, the World Health Organization just announced they will be renaming monkeypox to eliminate stigma. Of course, offending chickens is just fine. Gilda Radner was onto chickens 50 years ago. 01-01 Danny Kaye & Andrews Sisters – Decca 23940 – Civilization (Bongo Bongo Bongo) (1947) 01-02 Kinks – Apeman (demo) — another…

gts014 “shpace” Looking up from here or looking out from up there, it sorta draws you. Oh duh, that’s what a vacuum does. 01-01 Joey Nash & Richard Himber Orchestra – Victor 24745 – Stars Fell On Alabama (1934) — that can happen when you let a jug of cane squeezins set a spell. 01-02…

gts013 “utopish” 01-01 Nat Shilkret – Victor 22444 – Get Happy (1930) — after Black Friday in 1929, record sales slumped hard. Tunes like this were the music biz trying to save their own ass. 01-02 Joey Ramone – Don’t Worry About Me 01 – What A Wonderful World (2002) — released after his death,…

gts012 “endish” Nothing to see here folks, move along, it’s only the crumbling of time itself. Not that we’d miss it. Look at all the equations in cosmology and particle physics which have time as a variable. They work just fine if time is negative, if time runs backwards. So in theory, nothing really ends,…