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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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Music Played

  • Thin Lizzy

    Waiting For An Alibi

    • Thin Lizzy - Greatest Hits.
    • Universal Music.

  • Toto

    Rosanna

    • Walk On - Hits From The Last 2 Decade.
    • Columbia.

  • Pixie Lott

    Boys & Girls

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • The Kinks

    Waterloo Sunset

    • The Journey - Part 1.
    • BMG.
    • 13.

  • Dire Straits

    Twisting By The Pool

    • Sultans Of Swing - Best Of Dire Straits.
    • Vertigo.

  • Shelby Lynne

    Leavin'

    • (CD Single).

  • Jon Allen

    Down By The River

    • (CD Single).
    • Monologue Records.
    • 1.

  • Space

    Female Of The Species

    • Crush (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Mark Ronson

    Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse)

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony BMG.

  • Daniel Merriweather

    Change (feat. Wale)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • Lester's Library - taken from the album 'Popular Songs' on Matador Records

    • Yo La Tengo

      If It's True

  • Heart

    All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You

    • Absolute Gold (Various Artists).
    • Capitol.

  • Franz Ferdinand

    Take Me Out

    • Now That's What I Call Music 57.
    • Now.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Heart

    • Pet Shop Boys - Discography.
    • EMI.

  • Paloma Faith

    New York

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
    • 1.

  • Aerosmith

    Love In An Elevator

    • Aerosmith - Big Ones.
    • Geffen.

  • Jennifer Hudson

    Spotlight

    • Now That's What I Call Music! 71 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
    • 1.

  • Jimmy Cliff

    The Harder They Come

    • BR Music.

  • Whitney Houston

    Million Dollar Bill

    • (CD Single).
    • Arista.
    • 1.

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Your Love Alone Is Not Enough (feat. Nina Persson)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • Gary β€œU.S.” Bonds

    This Little Girl

    • Rock Of America (Various Artists).
    • Trax Label.

  • Listener's Library - suggested by Tanja Glittenberg and taken from the album 'Hunky Dory' on EMI

    • David Bowie

      Life On Mars?

  • Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson

    Relator

    • (CD Single).
    • ATCO Records.
    • 2.

  • Scott McKenzie

    San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)

    • Fifty Number Ones Of The 60's (Variou.
    • Global Television.

  • The Staple Singers

    I'll Take You There

    • Afrodisiac (Various Artists).
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Queen

    A Kind Of Magic

    • Queen - Greatest Hits II.
    • Parlophone.

  • Paul Simon

    The Obvious Child

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 2).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 6.

  • MIKA

    We Are Golden

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

  • Amy Macdonald

    Mr. Rock & Roll

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.

  • John Waite

    Missing You

    • The Love Album III (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Cass Elliot

    Dream A Little Dream Of Me

    • Delilah - Jukebox 60's Hits.
    • Old Gold.

  • The Dandy Warhols

    Bohemian Like You

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 7.

  • The Style Council

    Walls Come Tumbling Down

    • Billy Elliot O.S.T. - Various Artists.
    • Polydor.
    • 13.

  • a-ha - Nothing Is Keeping You Here

  • Odyssey

    Going Back To My Roots

    • Odyssey - Greatest Hits.

  • Lester's Library - taken from the album 'Fugees Greatest Hits' on Columbia

    • Fugees

      A Change Is Gonna Come

  • McGuinness Flint

    When I'm Dead & Gone

    • Heart On My Sleeve.
    • A&M.

  • Bruce Hornsby & The Range

    The Valley Road

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

Broadcast

  • Fri 18 Sep 2009 03:00
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