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Ride On

KAFM Grand Junction, 9pm - 12am

As it happens, if yours truly has a Valentine’s gig, it’ll be followed by one on Pi Day. Except on leap years. But the point here is that I thought about doing a show themed on circles, spheres, and other such expressions of the number and decided against it, but keep your ears peeled for some future incarnation of a “Round and Round” playlist. Instead, tonight we kick things off with the sort-of eponymous track from The Nude Party’s latest release, and wrap things up with about 30 seconds of Railroad Jerk, because technical difficulties.

As it happens, if yours truly has a Valentine’s gig, it’ll be followed by one on Pi Day. Except on leap years. But the point here is that I thought about doing a show themed on circles, spheres, and other such expressions of the number and decided against it, but keep your ears peeled for some future incarnation of a “Round and Round” playlist. Instead, tonight we kick things off with the sort-of eponymous track from <strong>The Nude Party</strong>’s latest release, and wrap things up with about 30 seconds of Railroad Jerk, because technical difficulties.
The Nude Party
SongArtistNotes
Starry Starry Night
Spot 1019
Gogh Van Gogh!
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Ride On
The Nude Party
The one and the four
All Your Friends Are Dying
The Bad Ends
The truth hurts
Dynomite!
The Vicious Cycles
High octane
R.I.P.
Dearly Beloved
Commence the punishing
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Even It Out
Fever Ray
Unsettlement
Love is Selfish
Jack White
Strains of Bron-Yr-Aur
I Held Her In My Arms
Violent Femmes
A forgotten highlight
Lovely Hula Hands
Junior Brown
Time for a sunset
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Tell Me
King Tuff
Gimme them keys
Ska Trek
Tack>>Head
Over before you know it
Hennepin Crawler
Primus
The laboratory bubbles over
My Nicolette
Sex Clark Five
It’s a date
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Pollen Song
Tennis
How appropriate
Mango Tree
Aden
A brief summer nap
Mabeline The Disco Queen
Johnny Sangster And Robb Benson
The Bowiest
I Loved London
The Real Tuesday Weld
Taking it easy
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Where's Me Jumper?
Sultans Of Ping F.C.
Put it to the testo
Late Developers
Belle + Sebastian
Worth the wait
Load on Your Mind
Fickle Friends
It’s a big big sound
All I’ve Ever Known
Madison Cunningham
Tumbling towards the unknown
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Junk Man
Jon Spencer & the HITmakers
Flames this high
Beyond The Void
Screaming Females
Suitable for chanting
Thomas Doubter
Scruffy The Cat
Beantown boogie
Stinky Boogie
Zoobombs
A million miles an hour
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Always Sad
The Jesus + Mary Chain
Still feels psychocandy
Mooney Tunes
Veps
Nordic chimes
I Can't Put My Finger On It
Ween
What is it?
To Love Like The Father & Son Love Each Other
Half-Handed Cloud
Eight years in two minutes
Planetarium
2nd Grade
Flashing before my eyes
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How To Feel
Romantica
Distant trains
Redemption Song
Bob Marley
The gold standard
Squeezy Breezy
The California Honeydrops
Uh huh
Come Back To Me
Chang Siao Ying
Spy movie time
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Do Rainbows Have Ends
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Not at all
Closed Eyes
Woody + Jeremy
Slowing down
Bam Bam
Toots + the Maytals
The evening come
Old Man
Neil Young
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Miles Away
Yo La Tengo
Drifting across the lanes
The Great Gig in the Sky
The Sursiks
An engaging translation
Souvlaki #3
Boom Pam
Odd meters and tuba gymnastics
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding
Los Straitjackets
Nick Lowe’s finest
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Super
Neu!
Flying Guillotine time
Man Of The House
dEUS
The signal controls you
Gameshow Rag/Cannon Ball Rag
Tommy Emmanuel
Everyone’s a winner
Whispering Light
Jesca Hoop
Walking through the spooky forest
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It's My Life
Railroad Jerk
The best 30 seconds
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