Experiments in Mass Appeal

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Experiments in Mass Appeal #61

A mix of new and classic prog, some long songs and some hard rock including Magic Pie, Unitopia, Tin Spirits, Pendragon, Haken, Touchstone and more.

(original air date: January 28, 2012)

1. Touchstone - When Shadows Fall (10:01)

2. Spock's Beard - Made Alive/Overture (5:32)
3. Yes - Big Generator (4:33)
4. King's X - Silent Wind (4:34)
5. Transatlantic - Mystery Train (6:52)

6. Darwin's Radio - Erase...Rewind (9:42)
7. Haken - Insomnia (6:06)
8. Dream Theater - Surrounded (5:30)
9. FreddeGredde - Lonely Starlight (5:21)

10. Kevin Gilbert - Kashmir (4:30)
11. 3 - Dregs [live acoustic] (3:28)
12. Sun Domingo - Mad Maze (5:34)
13. Queensryche - I Am I (3:57)
14. Tesla - Edison's Medicine (4:47)

15. Rush - Turn The Page (4:55)
16. Peter Gabriel - No Self Control (3:56)
17. Marillion - Gazpacho (7:28)
18. Saigon Kick - Space Oddity (5:24)

19. echolyn - The Cheese Stands Alone (4:48)
20. Frost* - The Dividing Line (16:43)

21. Electric Light Orchestra - Wild West Hero (4:41)
22. Tin Spirits - Back In NYC (5:42)
23. Genesis - ...In That Quiet Earth (4:54)
24. Magic Pie - Headlines (9:30)

25. Porcupine Tree - Pure Narcotic (5:03)
26. Pendragon - It's Just A Matter Of Not Getting Caught (4:41)
27. Unitopia - Not Human Anymore [live] (5:10)
28. Sean Filkins - Learn How To Learn (7:28)

29. Ruins Alone - Progrock (2:18)
30. Sky Architect - Gyrocopter (2:58)
31. Spandex Ballet - I'm Not Sure (0:46)

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Experiments in Mass Appeal #62

Some looooong songs, Mike Keneally, Toxic Smile, Arena, Big Big Train, requested Dec Burke, new Sylvan and more on Experiment #62.

(original air date: February 4, 2012)

1. Liquid Tension Experiment - When The Water Breaks (16:58)

2. Rush - Roll The Bones (5:30)
3. Porcupine Tree - Trains (5:56)
4. Frost* - Milliontown [live] (27:24)

5. Jellyfish - That Is Why (4:17)
6. Mike Keneally - Pride Is A Sin (4:55)
7. The Flower Kings - Monkey Business (4:22)
8. Steve Hackett - Ace Of Wands [live] (6:48)

9. Arena - The Visitor (6:14)
10. Blackfield - Once [live] (5:12)
11. Big Big Train - Pick Up If You're There (13:40)

12. Dream Theater - Lifting Shadows Off A Dream (6:05)
13. Spock's Beard - The Light (15:33)

14. Pure Reason Revolution - Last Man, Last Round (4:46)
15. Dec Burke - A Price For Life (7:13)
16. Toxic Smile - Pyramid (7:00)

17. Extreme - Flight Of The Wounded Bumble Bee (1:38)
18. District 97 - I Can't Take You With Me (5:37)
19. Jem Godfrey - Bassoon (1:42)
20. Sylvan - Farewell To Old Friends (Pt. 3) (5:10)
21. Yes - Spirit Of Survival (6:02)
22. Genesis - Squonk [live] (6:37)

23. Wobbler - Lucid (1:40)
24. Ghost - Leviathan (4:36)
25. Marillion - Slainte Mhath (4:45)

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Experiments in Mass Appeal #63

This week includes new music from Cross [from Sweden, not Norway (thanks, Ric)] and Colin Tench Project, plus FramePictures, Rupert Lenz, Mars Hollow, Nine Stones Close, Neal Morse, IQ, Touchstone and a mini block of Genesis.

(original air date: February 11, 2012)

1. Simon Collins - The Big Bang (5:54)

2. Frost* - Dear Dead Days (6:51)
3. Dream Theater - War Inside My Head/The Test That Stumped Them All (7:11)
4. Hybrid - Break My Soul (7:48)

5. Rush - Distant Early Warning (4:59)
6. Marillion - Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [live] (4:17)
7. Rupert Lenz - Adoration (2:32)
8. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing (9:47)

9. The Reign of Kindo - Thrill of the Fall (4:08)
10. Meridian Voice - Hacker (5:13)
11. Spock's Beard - Here's A Man (3:28)
12. Tinyfish - Bad Weather Road (6:21)
13. Mr. So & So - Bi-Polar (4:39)

14. Touchstone - The City Sleeps (11:38)
15. A.C.T - Mr. Landlord (4:41)
16. FramePictures - Spiral Ladder (4:56)

17. Colin Tench Project - Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Screwed (7:32)
18. Andres Guazzelli & Colin Tench - Wish You Could Hear (4:04)
19. BunChakeze - Handful of Rice (5:10)

20. Nine Stones Close - Reality Check (4:56)
21. Pink Floyd - Mother (5:35)
22. Robert Svilpa & Paraesthesia - Atonement (6:37)
23. Mars Hollow - Mind Over Matter (2:28)

24. Cross - Racing Spirits (4:38)
25. IQ - Subterranea (5:53)
26. Neal Morse - Chance of a Lifetime (7:02)
27. Kansas - Paradox [live] (4:09)
28. Yes - Tempus Fugit (5:17)

29. Genesis - The Carpet Crawlers 1999 (5:39)
30. Genesis - Ripples (8:06)
31. Genesis - Turn It On Again [live] (5:16)

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Experiments in Mass Appeal #64

Prog epics and mainstream rock make strange bedfellows and really ugly babies. New music from Delusion Squared, Verbosa and The Mars Volta, plus tracks from Spock's Beard's new live album.

(original air date: February 18, 2012)

1. Matt Stevens - Frost (2:47)

2. Dream Theater - Regression/Overture 1928/Strange Deja Vu (10:55)
3. Delusion Squared - Necrogenesis (7:02)
4. Queen - One Vision (6:29)

5. Karmakanic - 1969 (14:13)
6. Yes - The More We Live - Let Go (4:54)

7. Rush - Lock And Key (5:10)
8. GTR - When The Heart Rules The Mind (5:21)
9. Brand X - Soho (3:44)
10. Mike + The Mechanics - Silent Running (6:15)

11. Marillion - Whatever Is Wrong With You (4:12)
12. Genesis - Supper's Ready [live] (24:41)

13. Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun (5:32)
14. Moonbound - Our Day Will Come (4:22)
15. Kevin Gilbert - Goodness Gracious (4:09)
16. It Bites - Fahrenheit (5:17)

17. Verbosa - Forecast (4:20)
18. The Mars Volta - The Malkin Jewel (4:43)
19. Soundgarden - Let Me Drown (3:52)
20. King's X - Move (4:03)
21. Frost* - The Other Me (4:51)

22. Jordan Rudess - Tarkus (22:48)

23. Steve Hackett - Tubehead (3:37)
24. Spock's Beard - On A Perfect Day [live] (7:39)
25. Spock's Beard - June [live] (6:42)

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Experiments in Mass Appeal #65

A bunch of new stuff including Anderson/Wakeman, RWA, Profusion, Motorpsycho, They've Shot Flanigan, Lis Er Stille, requests for Circus Maximus and The Fierce & The Dead, plus a block of Frost* and more.

(original air date: February 25, 2012)

1. Gordian Knot - Code/Anticode (6:47)

2. Gotye ft. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know (4:05)
3. Peter Gabriel - That Voice Again (4:53)
4. Virgos Merlot - Beautiful Lie (5:00)
5. Lis Er Stille - Epitome (5:54)
6. Styx - Pieces of Eight (4:44)

7. Foreigner - Starrider [acoustic] (4:29)
8. Fish - Openwater (5:11)
9. They've Shot Flanigan - The Searchers (4:32)
10. Porcupine Tree - Octane Twisted (5:03)
11. Tinyfish - The Big Red Spark [live] (5:10)
12. Anderson/Wakeman - Long Distance Runaround [live] (2:50)

13. Genesis - It's Yourself [vinyl version] (5:42)
14. Profusion - Ghost House (4:14)
15. Spock's Beard - At The End Of The Day (16:28)

16. David Gilmour - Murder (4:59)
17. Rush - The Trees (4:41)
18. The Fierce And The Dead - Flint (5:29)
19. RPWL - This Is Not A Prog Song (5:35)
20. Torche - Kicking (2:35)

21. Circus Maximus - Glory Of The Empire (10:27)
22. Dream Theater - As I Am (7:48)
23. Motorpsycho - Mutiny! (8:33)

24. Walk Off The Earth - Somebody That I Used To Know (4:09)
25. Marillion - If My Heart Were A Ball It Would Roll Uphill (9:30)
26. RWA - D-Works (8:10)

27. Frost* - The Forget You Song (2:26)
28. Frost* - Snowman [live] (6:26)
29. Frost* - 1976 [DVD menu edit] (2:07)
30. Frost* - You/I (1:07)
31. Frost* - Raining In My Heart (2:20)
32. Frost* - No Me No You (6:06)

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Experiments in Mass Appeal #66

New music from RPWL, Steve Hogarth & Richard Barbieri, 4Front, The Third Ending, Mindwalk Blvd, Chimp Spanner, Gavin Harrison & 05Ric and Druckfarben, plus requests for Kino, Riverside, Porcupine Tree and Pure Reason Revolution.

(original air date: March 10, 2012)

1. 4Front - Big Scary Monster (5:15)
2. Platypus - Willie Brown (5:04)
3. The Third Ending - Frame By Frame (4:23)

4. Mindwalk Blvd - Calculate (3:54)
5. Jem Godfrey - Thunderfrog! (1:21)
6. Thomas Giles - Hamilton Anxiety Scale (4:09)
7. Dec Burke - March of the Androids (5:15)
8. Chimp Spanner - Dark Age of Technology (4:16)
9. Dream Theater - Just Let Me Breathe (5:29)

10. Frost* - Here is the News (3:53)
11. Yes - Changes (6:20)
12. Spock's Beard - The Doorway [live] (10:50)

13. Druckfarben - Influenza (5:26)
14. Genesis - Dodo/Lurker (7:30)
15. IQ - No Love Lost (6:03)
16. Steve Hogarth & Richard Barbieri (6:24)

17. Jeavestone - Furute Shock (5:37)
18. Kino - Leave a Light On (6:17)
19. Marillion - Tumble Down the Years (4:34)
20. Supertramp - Bloody Well Right (4:32)

21. Porcupine Tree - Nine Cats (3:51)
22. The Pineapple Thief - 3000 Days (6:10)
23. Pure Reason Revolution - Goshen's Remains (5:45)
24. Touchstone - Being Hannah (5:12)

25. Riverside - Hyperactive (5:46)
26. RPWL - The Road of Creation (6:27)
27. Rush - Caravan (5:41)

28. King's X - Dogman (4:02)
29. King's X - We Were Born To Be Loved (4:52)
30. King's X - Groove Machine (3:43)
31. King's X - Over My Head [live] (10:03)

32. Gavin Harrison & 05Ric - Prize (4:06)
33. Steve Hackett - Tubehead (3:37)

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Experiments in Mass Appeal #67

New music from The Fierce & The Dead and DeeExpus, classic Rush and the usual mix of crossover prog.

1. Coverdale/Page - Absolution Blues (6:00)

2. Trevor Rabin - Something To Hold On To (5:07)
3. Extreme - Midnight Express [live] (4:10)
4. Touchstone - These Walls (3:39)
5. Spock's Beard - Surfing Down The Avalanche (3:44)
6. Queensryche - Liquid Sky (4:53)

7. Steven Wilson - Fluid Tap (5:46)
8. Porcupine Tree - The Creator Has A Mastertape (5:22)
9. The Fierce & The Dead - 666...6 (4:43)
10. Karmakanic - Can't Take It With You (5:43)

11. Big Big Train - Big Empty Skies (4:23)
12. Neal Morse - Colder In The Sun (6:20)
13. Frost* - Pocket Sun [alternate version] (4:31)

14. The Reasoning - The Nobody Effect (7:05)
15. Kevin Gilbert - Water Under The Bridge (5:30)
16. DeeExpus - Memo (7:29)

17. Marillion - Don't Hurt Yourself [live] (5:52)
18. IQ - The Seventh House (14:27)

19. Manning - Revelation Road (5:11)
20. Rush - A Farewell To Kings (5:53)
21. Dream Theater - Wither (5:26)

22. Asia - Sole Survivor (4:48)
23. Lisa LaRue 2KX - Recurring Dream (7:17)
24. Mars Hollow - Midnight (5:07)
25. Moon Safari - Southern Belle (3:46)

26. Moth Vellum - Whalehead (7:13)
27. Yes - Roundabout [acoustic] (4:19)
28. Jellyfish - Worthless Heart (3:07)
29. Dynamo Bliss - Fear Of Clouds (8:32)

30. Genesis - Fading Lights [live] (10:55)
31. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Tijuana Taxi (2:05)

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Experiment #68 - Experiments in Marillion Appeal

A 4 hour retrospective of Marillion, a band just as big as Genesis and U2 in every universe except this one.

(original air date: March 24, 2012)

The Fish Era

1. He Knows, You Know [from Script for a Jester's Tear, 1983] (5:07)
2. Chelsea Monday [live, from The Thieving Magpie, 1988] (8:01)

3. Assassing [from Fugazi, 1984] (7:41)
4. Jigsaw [from Fugazi, 1984] (6:50)

5. Pseudo Silk Kimono [from Misplaced Childhood, 1985] (2:15)
6. Kayleigh [from Misplaced Childhood, 1985] (4:04)
7. Lavender [from Misplaced Childhood, 1985] (3:41)

8. Hotel Hobbies [from Clutching At Straws, 1987] (3:35)
9. Warm Wet Circles [from Clutching At Straws, 1987] (4:25)
10. That Time Of The Night [from Clutching At Straws, 1987] (6:00)
11. Incommunicado [live, from Live from Loreley, 2009] (6:14)


The h Era

12. Easter [acoustic from RTL2 Acoustic Session/studio version from Seasons End, 1989] (7:28)
13. The King of Sunset Town [from Seasons End, 1989] (8:05)
14. The Uninvited Guest [from Seasons End, 1989] (3:52)
15. Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [from Holidays in Eden, 1991] (3:56)
16. A Collection [from Holidays in Eden, 1991] (3:00)

17. Bridge [from Brave, 1994] (2:52)
18. Living With The Big Lie [from Brave, 1994] (6:46)
19. The Great Escape/The Last of You/Falling With The Moon [live, from The Official Bootleg Boxset, Vol. 2, 2010] (8:24)
20. Gazpacho [from Afraid of Sunlight, 1995] (7:28)
21. Afraid of Sunlight [from Afraid of Sunlight, 1995] (6:50)

22. Man of a Thousand Faces [from This Strange Engine, 1997] (7:33)
23. Estonia [live, from Marbles Live, 2005] (7:30)
24. Costa Del Slough [from Radiation, 1998] (1:27)
25. Under the Sun [from Radiation, 1998] (4:10)
26. Three Minute Boy [from Radiation, 1998] (5:59)

27. A Legacy [from marillion.com, 1999] (6:16)
28. Between You and Me [from Anoraknophobia, 2001] (6:28)
29. This Is the 21st Century [from Less is More, 2009] (5:30)
30. When I Meet God [from Anoraknophobia, 2001] (9:18)

31. The Invisible Man [from Marbles, 2004] (13:38)
32. The Damage [from Marbles, 2004] (4:35)
33. You're Gone [from Marbles, 2004] (6:26)

34. The Wound [from Somewhere Else, 2007] (7:18)
35. Faith [from Somewhere Else, 2007] (4:12)
36. Whatever Is Wrong With You [from Happiness Is The Road, 2008] (4:12)
37. The Man from Planet Marzipan [from Happiness Is The Road, 2008] (7:51)
38. Thunder Fly [from Happiness Is The Road, 2008] (6:20)


The Most Requested

39. Sugar Mice [from Clutching At Straws, 1987] (5:47)
40. Neverland [live, from Marbles Live, 2005] (10:12)

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Experiments in Mass Appeal #69

New stuff from Flying Colors, It Bites and The Third Ending, a block of pop, a mystery instrumental and two from each of the usual suspects on this week's Experiment.

(original air date: April 7, 2012)

1. Genesis - Mama (6:48)

2. The Third Ending - Sunsets & Silhouettes (5:09)
3. Nick D'Virgilio - Beautiful (5:33)
4. Spock's Beard - Kamikaze (4:15)
5. Spock's Beard - The 39th Street Blues (I'm Sick) (4:06)
6. Frost* - Toys (3:06)

7. Flying Colors - Kayla (5:12)
8. Jeavestone - The Tip Reader (3:56)
9. Tin Spirits - ...And Go (8:35)
10. Marillion - Blind Curve (9:29)

11. Dream Theater - Wait For Sleep (2:32)
12. Rush - The Pass (4:51)
13. Porcupine Tree - Lazarus (4:19)
14. Peter Gabriel - The Drop (2:59)
15. Genesis - The Return Of The Giant Hogweed [live] (8:18)

16. Queen - Killer Queen (3:01)
17. Jellyfish - New Mistake (4:03)
18. The Beatles - Paperback Writer (2:19)
19. Owsley - Oh No The Radio (5:01)
20. Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky (5:04)

21. It Bites - Cartoon Graveyard (5:03)
22. Yes - Love Will Find A Way (4:50)
23. Yes - I've Seen All Good People (6:55)
24. Kip Winger - Free (3:44)

25. Various Artists - Working Man/By-Tor And The Snow Dog (8:05)
26. Rush - A Passage To Bangkok (3:34)
27. Spiraling - Borrowed Time (4:11)
28. Dream Theater - Through Her Eyes (5:29)

29. Ghost - Breakdown On Memory Lane (5:06)
30. Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight (5:36)
31. Porcupine Tree - Even Less (7:11)
32. Marillion - Easter [live] (4:58)

33. Frost* - Black Light Machine [live] (10:39)
34. Van Halen - Stay Frosty (4:08)

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Experiments in Mass Appeal #70

Lots of new stuff including Galahad, OSI, Ian Anderson, more from Flying Colors and It Bites, some long songs, instrumentals that don't suck, requested XTC and more.

(original air date: April 21, 2012)

1. Sanguine Hum - No More Than We Deserve (5:09)
2. Spock's Beard - Jaws of Heaven [live] (17:14)

3. OHMphrey - Tom Bombadil (4:42)
4. Frost* - Wonderland [live] (4:56)
5. Marillion - Garden Party (7:17)
6. Barock Project - Back To You (7:17)

7. Flying Colors - Infinite Fire (12:00)

8. It Bites - Wallflower (4:51)
9. Rush - Test For Echo (5:56)
10. Aeon Zen - Natural Selection (4:50)
11. Galahad - Suspended Animation (4:05)
12. OSI - Enemy Prayer (4:54)

13. Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize (17:43)

14. Kevin Gilbert - The Ballad of Jenny Ledge (acoustic) (4:45)
15. XTC - Wake Up (3:41)
16. Big Big Train - A Giddy Thing (5:17)
17. Genesis - Man On The Corner (4:25)

18. Styx - The Grand Illusion (4:36)
19. Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace (9:41)
20. Ian Anderson - Kismet in Suburbia (4:!7)

21. Marillion - This Is The 21st Century (11:07)
22. Gazpacho - Hell Freezes Over IV (6:11)
23. Crowded House - Hole In The River (4:00)

24. Aerosmith - Big Ten Inch Record (2:14)
25. Pelican - Parasite Colony (4:42)
26. Dream Theater - The Best Of Times (13:09)

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Experiments in Mass Appeal #71

Brand new IZZ, Rush, InVertigo, Peter Gabriel, Hasse Fröberg, Skylar Gray, AnATHema & Flying Colors, plus classic Kansas, Floyd, a request for The Semantics and lots more of the best in crossover prog.

(original air date: April 28, 2012)

1. DeeExpus - Marty and the Magic Moose (5:01)

2. IZZ - Words and Miracles (7:18)
3. RWA - Eleven (6:50)
4. Tinyfish - The Sarcasm Never Stops (5:18)
5. The Police - Driven to Tears [live] (3:29)

6. The Semantics - Jenny Won't Play Fair (2:39)
7. Yes - Leave It (4:14)
8. Spock's Beard - Gibberish (4:19)
9. Genesis - Man of Our Times (5:36)
10. IQ - You Never Will (4:54)

11. Marillion - Cannibal Surf Babe (5:45)
12. Frost* - Hyperventilate [live] (8:16)
13. Kino - Losers Day Parade (9:04)

14. Dream Theater - Erotomania (6:44)
15. InVertigo - Darkness (8:29)

16. Anathema - The Beginning and the End (4:53)
17. Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here [live] (12:55)

18. Skylar Gray - Rings, Rays, Red Shifts (4:04)
19. Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell (4:24)
20. Rush - Headlong Flight (7:20)
21. Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie [live] (4:58)

22. Toto - Better World (7:51)
23. Kansas - Portrait (He Knew) (4:32)
24. Hasse Fröberg and the Musical Companion - Is It Ever Gonna Happen (7:58)

25. Dixie Dregs - Assembly Line [live] (3:47)
26. Flying Colors - Blue Ocean (7:04)
27. Jordan Rudess - Just The Same (8:23)

28. Blackfield - Oxygen (3:05)
29. Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes [live] (8:30)

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Experiments in Mass Appeal #72

New Lo-Fi Resistance, The Third Ending, IZZ, It Bites, Hawkwind and Corvus Stone, plus Grey Lady Down, Unitopia and a block of Matt Stevens and The Fierce & The Dead on this week's Experiment.

(original air date: May 5, 2012)

1. Touchstone - Strange Days (4:06)

2. Spock's Beard - The Bottom Line (7:33)
3. FreddeGredde - Lonely Starlight (5:21)
4. FramePictures - Spiral Ladder (4:56)
5. Dream Theater - Peruvian Skies (6:43)

6. Corvus Stone - Corvus Stone (8:20)
7. Pure Reason Revolution - Arrival/The Intention Craft (8:53)
8. Frost* - The Dividing Line (16:43)

9. Marillion - Drilling Holes (5:12)
10. RPWL ft. Ray Wilson - Roses [live] (6:50)
11. Genesis - Firth of Fifth (9:35)

12. Lo-Fi Resistance - Chalk Lines (4:03)
13. King's X - Out of the Silent Planet (5:44)
14. Rush - Nobody's Hero (4:56)
15. Porcupine Tree - Time Flies [live] (5:23)

16. The Third Ending - Belong to Me (5:20)
17. Yes - We Can Fly [edit] (4:15)
18. Brother Ape - Ultramarathon (7:49)
19. IZZ - Almost Over (4:20)

20. Hawkwind - Seasons (5:41)
21. Unitopia - Gone in the Blink of an Eye (5:49)
22. It Bites - Map of the Past (4:37)
23. Grey Lady Down - Paper Chains (The Crime Part Three) (8:43)

24. Matt Stevens - Draw (3:40)
25. The Fierce & The Dead - 10x10 (4:19)
26. The Fierce & The Dead - On VHS (4:53)
27. Matt Stevens - Snow (2:57)
28. Matt Stevens - Rushden Fair (3:36)

29. Squeeze - Black Coffee In Bed [live] (8:12)