1. Ep. 040 · · 36 tracks

    Mood Music for Protein Purification

    Mood music for the lab bench: 36 tracks to run a column by. Lou Reed's great adventure and a sedated Ramones up front, Scarlet Begonias and an acoustic Watching the Wheels in the middle stretch, Patti Smith doing Teen Spirit and Warren Zevon's Life'll Kill Ya on the way out, and Joe's Garage to close. Appendix: Barfly, Bukowski, Just Kids, and four beers.

    1 song by Counting Crows on this show

    • Big Yellow Taxi
  2. Ep. 031 · · 42 tracks

    ROY G. BIV

    Coloring outside the lines: 42 tracks in every shade of the spectrum. Reds, golds, pinks, blues, purples, and blacks -- from Purple Rain to Paint It Black to Tangled Up in Blue, ending somewhere over the rainbow with Judy Garland.

    1 song by Counting Crows on this show

    • Perfect Blue Buildings
  3. Ep. 030 · · 35 tracks

    Sensation(al)

    35 tracks working the five senses overtime. Touch, sight, sound, smell, and every flavor of feeling -- opening with Rocky Horror's invitation to touch and traveling through the numb, the blind, and the hurt before closing colorblind with Counting Crows.

    1 song by Counting Crows on this show

    • Colorblind
  4. Ep. 029 · · 41 tracks

    Weird Science

    41 tracks for the lab coat crowd. Robots, rockets, chemistry, lobotomies, and DNA -- from Carl Sagan's glorious dawn through a live 1968 Dark Star, ending with Thomas Dolby blinded by science itself.

    1 song by Counting Crows on this show

    • Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)
  5. Ep. 025 · · 34 tracks

    'Merica 250 (This Flag Is Not Orange)

    A bipartisan Fourth of July salute for America's 250th birthday. 34 tracks from Elvis to Sam Cooke that argue, celebrate, mourn, and dance their way through the American experiment. Democracy's collapsin' but these wieners be slappin'.

    1 song by Counting Crows on this show

    • American Girls
  6. Ep. 020 · · 25 tracks

    I See Dead People (Freaky Friday Pt. II)

    Other artists cover the Grateful Dead. 25 tracks of Dead songs filtered through Los Lobos, Bob Dylan, Midnight Oil, Molly Tuttle, and more -- plus a time machine back to 1982 and a birthday surprise. The second installment of the Freaky Friday series.

    1 song by Counting Crows on this show

    • Friend of the Devil

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