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I Started a Joke

KAFM Grand Junction, 9pm - 12am

Mimi Parker, vocalist and drummer and half of the Minnesota band Low, passed away a couple of weeks ago while I was traveling. It’s a shocking loss and an abrupt end to a musical career that was still unfolding; the band’s last two albums, coming at the tail end of a discography that spans decades, showed a blossoming new direction for an act that was famed for their quiet and glacial approach. We open the show with Low’s rendition of a Bee Gees classic in tribute.

<strong>Mimi Parker</strong>, vocalist and drummer and half of the Minnesota band <strong>Low</strong>, passed away a couple of weeks ago while I was traveling. It’s a shocking loss and an abrupt end to a musical career that was still unfolding; the band’s last two albums, coming at the tail end of a discography that spans decades, showed a blossoming new direction for an act that was famed for their quiet and glacial approach. We open the show with Low’s rendition of a Bee Gees classic in tribute.
Mimi Parker / Low
SongArtistNotes
I Started a Joke
Low
Farewell, Mimi Parker
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I Want Some
The Make-Up
Ooo. Aaa.
Turnip's Big Move
The Greyboy All Stars
A slinky move, no doubt
Move It Girl
Mento Buru
Throwback rocksteady
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Good Morning Coffee
Seth Avett
If you can navigate through the chi
Low Beat
Young Fresh Fellows
Getting way way down
Look Sharp
Joe Jackson
It’s a survival skill
Karaoke
Cass McCombs
Singing along like you mean it
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Never Again
The Zulus
All about your old tricks
The Wild One
Suzi Quatro
The original
I Was On The Moon
Apollo Sunshine
A giant leap
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Saturdays
Broken Bells
It’s Manchester all over again
Night Owl
Delicate Steve
Up all night
Do Not Forsake Me Billy Bremner
Shibboleth
Hard to forget such a sound
a13
Adrian Belew
Rolling at a breakneck pace
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No Blade Of Grass
Bodega
Gritty city committee
Drama Queen
Switches
Very dramatic
Joyride
Bad Breeding
Implacable
ADD
Viagra Boys
Sorry, wasn’t listening
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1000%
Panda Riot
Sweet fuxx
Blank Expression
The Specials
Looking quite confused
Monkey Trick
The Jesus Lizard
Heavy and live
MELT
MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS
Does it doom?
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Orange
Metal Molly
Fuzzed bass FTW
Here Comes Your Man
Heather Nova
Originally from Pixies
Cool
Thou
Waiting for that breakdown
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Compact Flashes
No Age
Bring the drone
Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White
Perez Prado & His Orchestra
Such a lewd trumpet
Memories
Waldeck
For a rainy midnight
As'i Es la Vida
Tayfun Karatekin
Exotic yet familiar
— • BREAK • —
Joysfully
The Mattoid
It’s the way to live
Tiger Rag
1920s Wurlitzer Carousel Organ
Hold that tiger!
My Horse Likes You
Bonaparte
And I like you too
Fuego
Bomba Estereo
Flames about this high
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Second Avenue
Eszter Balint
Fractured memories
Un Día
Juana Molina
You can’t ignore the siren call
One Wild Moment (Stereolab Remix)
The Pastels
Bubbles and slides
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Walk In The Stratosphere
Kim & Buran
Keeping it analog
Or Perhaps You Imagined It All
Kramer
But it was actually real
The North Star
Shen
Dark undercurrents
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Left Hand Free (Johnson Somerset Remix)
Alt-J
Extending the digits
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