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27/08/2010

Start the weekend here on The Best Time of the Day Show. Hilarious conversation and brilliant music to entertain you through the small hours. Album & Record of the Week included.

Let Alex kick-start your weekend with Feelgood Friday on The Best Time of the Day Show. There are more Hollywood classics reduced to low-budget Brit-flicks in Alex's studio, From Hollywood to Holyhead; more ridiculous rating systems in the thread, "Funella Scales"; more radio-friendly pretend expletives in the final day of National Curse Week; more Pause for Thought at 3.20am; more newcomers into the 4.15 One-Off Canteen. It's the show which keeps on giving more.
From Lester's Library there is a track from new band, Pull in Emergency, and one from Creedence Clearwater Revival, while the Listener's Library track is a funky gospel track from Sounds of Blackness. You can also hear one more track from the Album of the Week by Goo Goo Dolls and Record of the Week from KT Tunstall. Nobody else, nowhere else.

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Fri 27 Aug 2010 02:00

Music Played

  • Frankie Goes to Hollywood

    Relax

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
  • Cheap Trick

    I Want You To Want Me

    • At Budokan: The Complete Concert.
    • Epic Legacy.
    • 3.
  • Lady A

    I Run to You

    • Need You Now.
    • Capitol Nashville.
    • 1.
  • Lucie Silvas

    Breathe In

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Jamming

    • Jammin' (Various Artists).
    • Mango.
  • RECORD OF THE WEEK from the forthcoming CD, "TIGER SUIT" (Relentless) Out September 27th

    • KT Tunstall

      (Still a) Weirdo

      • (CD Single).
      • Relentless.
      • 1.
  • The Jam

    Beat Surrender

    • Now 1983 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.
  • Aretha Franklin

    Who's Zoomin' Who?

    • Nightlife II (Various Artists).
    • Solitaire Collection.
  • Manic Street Preachers

    (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 16.
  • Lily Allen

    Not Fair

    • (CD Single).
    • Regal.
    • 1.
  • LESTER'S LIBRARY from the CD, "PULL IN EMERGENCY" (Mute)

    • Pull in Emergency

      Everything is the Same

  • Lenny Kravitz

    It Ain't Over 'til It's Over

    • Awesome 2 - Various Artists.
    • EMI.
  • Boz Scaggs

    What Can I Say

    • Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees.
    • CBS.
  • Billy Ocean

    When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going

    • Billy Ocean - Love Is For Ever (L.I.F.
    • Jive.
  • The Supremes

    The Happening

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Lissie

    Cuckoo

    • Catching A Tiger.
    • Columbia.
    • 8.
  • Black Sabbath

    Paranoid

    • Million Sellers Vol.18 - The Seventie.
    • Disky.
  • Buddy Holly

    Heartbeat

    • B.Holly & The Crickets -20 Golden Gre.
    • MCA.
  • The Script

    For The First Time

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.
    • 1.
  • Nanci Griffith

    I Love This Town (feat. Jimmy Buffett)

    • Nanci Griffith - Hearts In Mind.
    • Universal Music TV.
  • Rose Royce

    I Wanna Get Next To You

    • Loverman (Various Artists).
    • EMI.
  • Roxy Music

    Dance Away

    • Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music - Street Life.
    • Eg.
  • LESTER'S LIBRARY from the CD, "THE BEST OF THE SONGS OF JOHN FOGERTY" (Hip-O)

    • Creedence Clearwater Revival

      Have You Ever Seen the Rain

  • Sophie B. Hawkins

    Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover

    • Woman (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv/Sony Tv.
  • Harper Simon

    Berkeley Girl

    • New York.
    • Tulsi Records.
    • 10.
  • Marvin Gaye

    How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)

    • The Very Best Of Marvin Gaye.
    • Motown.
  • Evelyn 鈥淐hampagne鈥 King

    Love Come Down

    • Essential Works Of Evelyn Champagne K.
    • RCA.
  • Electronic

    Getting Away With It...

  • Seal

    Secret

    • (CD Single).
    • Reprise.
    • 1.
  • The Knack

    My Sharona

    • Fantastic 70's (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.
  • Curiosity Killed the Cat

    Down To Earth

    • Now 1986 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.
  • The Beach Boys

    Little Deuce Coupe

    • The Best Of The Beach Boys (CD 1).
    • EMI.
  • The Goo Goo Dolls

    Still Your Song

    • Something For The Rest Of Us.
  • Amy Winehouse

    Rehab

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
  • KISS

    God Gave Rock 'n' Roll To You II

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.
  • Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

    If You Want It

    • (CD Single).
    • 100% Records.
    • 1.
  • Owl City

    Fireflies

    • (CD Single).
    • Island Records.
    • 1.
  • Gabrielle

    Out Of Reach

    • Now 49 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • LESTER'S LIBRARY from the CD, "THE BEST OF THE SONGS OF JOHN FOGERTY" (Hip-O)

    • Creedence Clearwater Revival

      Have You Ever Seen the Rain

    • Creedence Clearwater Revival

      Have You Ever Seen the Rain

  • Mud

    Tiger Feet

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1974 (Various).
    • Premier.

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  • Fri 27 Aug 2010 02:00

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