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February 27, 20121. Cross Over the Bridge – Patti Page
2. Bridge Over Troubled Waters – Simon and Garfunkel
3. Bridges – Dispatch
4. London Bridge – Fergie
5. Holding 60 Dollars on a Burning Bridge – Death by Stereo
6. London Bridge is Falling Down – Traditional
7. Under the Bridge – Red Hot Chili Peppers
8. The 59th Street Bridge (Feeling Groovy) – Simon and Garfunkel
Okay okay, I admit defeat. There are a lot of bridge songs. This was not a good Short List topic.
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February 26, 20121. Can’t Buy Me Love – The Beatles
2. Can’t Stop – Love Arcade
3. Can’t Get Along Without You – Hard-Fi
4. He’s the Kind of Boy You Can’t Forget – The Raindrops
5. Can’t Keep Johnny Down – They Might Be Giants
6. You Can’t Always Get What You Want – The Rolling Stones
7. Alas, I Cannot Swim – Laura Marling
8. Got It All (This Can’t Be Living Now) – Portugal, The Man
9. Can’t Tell Me Nothing – Kanye West
10. Can’t Touch This – MC Hammer
11. Itch U Can’t Scratch – Junior Senior
12. You’ve Got To See Mama Ev’ry Night (Or You Can’t See Mama At All) – Kay Starr
13. Can’t Let Go – Lucinda Williams
14. Can’t Resist It – Lyle Lovett
15. Can’t Get You Out of My Head – Kylie Minogue
16. I Just Can’t Seem To Get It Right Today – Joe Purdy
16. I Can’t Stop Loving You – Ray Charles
aired on URY 2/25/2012
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February 26, 20121. Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
2. Bohemian Rhapsody – Vocal Adrenaline (Glee)
3. Bohemian Rhapsody – The Octets (many covers, never Rockapella)
4. Bohemian Rhapsody – The Braids
5. Bohemian Rhapsody – The Muppets
5. Hibernian Rhapsody – DeDannan
6. Nothing Really Matters – The Evolution Control Committee
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February 24, 20121. I Will Follow You Into the Dark – Death Cab for Cutie
2. I’ll Follow the Sun – The Beatles
3. Follow Your Heart – Urinetown
4. Follow the Spiders – Harry and the Potters
5. I Will Follow Him – Little Peggy March
6. Following the Leader – Disney’s Peter Pan
7. Follow Through – Gavin DeGraw
8. Follow the Cops Back Home – Placebo
9. I Follow Rivers – Lykke Li
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February 22, 2012
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February 20, 20121. Stranger – Presidents of the United States of America
2. Strangers – The Kinks
3. Strangers – Portishead
4. Beautiful Stranger – Madonna
5. Strangers in the Night – Cake (cover)
6. Strangers on a Train – Lovage
7. Spit on a Stranger – Pavement
8. Return Of The Phantom Stranger (Tuesday Night At The Chop Shop Mix) – Rob Zombie
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February 19, 20121. Take Me Out – Franz Ferdinand
2. Take Out the Trash – They Might Be Giants
3. Take a Walk on the Wild Side – Velvet Underground
4. Take Me or Leave Me – Rent
5. Klaymen takes the “A” Train – Neverhood Soundtrack
6. Take It Off – The Donnas
7. Take Five – Dave Brubeck Orchestra
8. Take Your Time (Coming Home) – Fun.
9. How to Take a Fall – Elliott Smith
10. Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town – Cake (cover)
11. Every Breath You Take – The Police
12. Take Your Mama Out – Scissor Sisters
13. Take Me To Your Leader – The Newsboys
14. Take Me Away – Plain White T’s
originally aired on 2/19/2012 on URY
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February 19, 2012Linguists in academia don’t seem very fond of word origins. They like to focus on the tiny phonological bits of languages [p,t,k] or the grand syntactic structure that binds sentences together. Somehow, the very juicy goodness of language, the words, are either too big or too small to care about. BOO. I love word origins. I don’t know how important they are, but I want to spend all my time paying attention to them. But! Before we have fun, there are some ground rules that we need to agree on before we can safely and happily play together in the sandbox of word origins. This is our first negotiation on this subject, this should continue as a dialogue (probably in the comments). I’ll start: Here are 3 rules to counteract misconceptions I often encounter.
1. The origin of a word is not the true or right meaning, just the literal one.
- WRONG: “The true meaning of hippopotamus is river horse.”
- RIGHT: “The literal meaning of hippopotamus is river horse, how cute is that? You can see these word-parts in other words you already know. Mesopotamia is the land between rivers, and a hippogriff is made of a horse and an eagle.” (See Best Monday Comic Ever)
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February 15, 2012