18/09/2009
With music, chat and features, including Lester's Library and the Listeners' Library.
The week's final instalment of random daftness and planned oddities from the Dark Lord. Includes two hourly visits to the extensive music archive known as Lester's Library, and your musical contribution in the Listeners' Library.
Submit your own choices by going to Alex's pages at bbc.co.uk/radio2. Also, get the best bits of the week to take away on your MP3 player by signing up to Alex's "oddcast" at bbc.co.uk/radio2.
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Thin Lizzy
Waiting For An Alibi
- Thin Lizzy - Greatest Hits.
- Universal Music.
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Toto
Rosanna
- Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
- Columbia.
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Pixie Lott
Boys & Girls
- (CD Single).
- Mercury.
- 1.
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The Kinks
Waterloo Sunset
- The Journey - Part 1.
- BMG.
- 13.
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Dire Straits
Twisting By The Pool
- Sultans Of Swing - Best Of Dire Straits.
- Vertigo.
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Shelby Lynne
Leavin'
- (CD Single).
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Jon Allen
Down By The River
- (CD Single).
- Monologue Records.
- 1.
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Space
Female Of The Species
- Crush (Various Artists).
- Polygram Tv.
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Mark Ronson
Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse)
- (CD Single).
- Sony BMG.
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Daniel Merriweather
Change (feat. Wale)
- (CD Single).
- Columbia.
- 1.
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Lester's Library - taken from the album 'Popular Songs' on Matador Records
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Yo La Tengo
If It's True
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Heart
All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You
- Absolute Gold (Various Artists).
- Capitol.
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Franz Ferdinand
Take Me Out
- Now That's What I Call Music 57.
- Now.
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Pet Shop Boys
Heart
- Pet Shop Boys - Discography.
- EMI.
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Paloma Faith
New York
- (CD Single).
- Epic.
- 1.
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Aerosmith
Love In An Elevator
- Aerosmith - Big Ones.
- Geffen.
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Jennifer Hudson
Spotlight
- Now That's What I Call Music! 71 (Various Artists).
- Now.
- 1.
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Jimmy Cliff
The Harder They Come
- BR Music.
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Whitney Houston
Million Dollar Bill
- (CD Single).
- Arista.
- 1.
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Manic Street Preachers
Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (feat. Nina Persson)
- (CD Single).
- Columbia.
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Gary 鈥淯.S.鈥� Bonds
This Little Girl
- Rock Of America (Various Artists).
- Trax Label.
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Listener's Library - suggested by Tanja Glittenberg and taken from the album 'Hunky Dory' on EMI
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David Bowie
Life On Mars?
- David Bowie - Best Of Bowie.
- EMI.
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Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson
Relator
- (CD Single).
- ATCO Records.
- 2.
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Scott McKenzie
San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
- Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
- Global Television.
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The Staple Singers
I'll Take You There
- Afrodisiac (Various Artists).
- Universal Music Tv.
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Queen
A Kind Of Magic
- Queen - Greatest Hits II.
- Parlophone.
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Paul Simon
The Obvious Child
- The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 2).
- Warner Bros.
- 6.
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MIKA
We Are Golden
- (CD Single).
- Island.
- 1.
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Amy Macdonald
Mr. Rock & Roll
- (CD Single).
- Vertigo.
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John Waite
Missing You
- The Love Album III (Various Artists).
- Virgin.
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Cass Elliot
Dream A Little Dream Of Me
- Delilah - Jukebox 60's Hits.
- Old Gold.
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The Dandy Warhols
Bohemian Like You
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The Style Council
Walls Come Tumbling Down
- Billy Elliot O.S.T. - Various Artists.
- Polydor.
- 13.
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a-ha - Nothing Is Keeping You Here
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Odyssey
Going Back To My Roots
- Odyssey - Greatest Hits.
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Lester's Library - taken from the album 'Fugees Greatest Hits' on Columbia
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Fugees
A Change Is Gonna Come
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McGuinness Flint
When I'm Dead & Gone
- Heart On My Sleeve.
- A&M.
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Bruce Hornsby & The Range
The Valley Road
- (CD Single).
- RCA.
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