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Is it just me or do we always seem to do a science show around Nobel week?

  • Drink Me Hot – Chriss Joss
  • Flight of the Bumblebee – Linda Maxey
  • Goodbye Pork Pie Hat – Charles Mingus
  • Flight of the Bumblebee – Olga Kern
  • Bumble Bee Bolero – Harry Breuer
  • Flight of the Bumblebee – Jean Jacques Perrey
  • Flight of the Bumblebee – Slovenia Radio Symphony Orchestra

Would you believe that tonight's show is Dyn-O-MITE!?

  • Haitian Fight Song – Charles Mingus
  • Welcome to the Working Week – Elvis Costello
  • African Ripples – Fats Waller
  • Red Right Hand – Nick Cave
  • Penguin Pakiston – Orrin Tucker
  • Always Look on The Bright Side of Life – Monty Python

 

  • Yellow Rose of Texas - Kirk Sutphin
  • Camera II – Thomas Dempster
  • Money – The Easy Dub All Stars

Goodnight Sweet Clown

 

Tonight's show is dedicated to anyone who has ever tried to teach a robot to love.

  • Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game In New York – Bing Crosby, Dean Martin & Frank Sinatra
  • Pickpocket Venus – Telemetry Orchestra
  • One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21 – The Flaming Lips
  • Pico & Sepulveda – Felix Figueroa

Do you want to wear a frown? Turn that smile upside down!

  • Cinnamon Park – Jill Sobule
  • Heavy Metal Drummer - Wilco
  • Spectres: I – Thomas Dempster
  • Weapon of Prayer – Notting Hillbillies
  • Shutterspeed - Telemetry Orchestra

Tonight's show goes from Italian food to guns to poetry and back again.

  • Vito’s Waltz – the 101 String Orchestra
  • Angelina/Zooma Zooma – Louis Prima
  • Happiness is a warm gun – The Beatles
  • For all we know – Stan Getz & Cal Tjader
  • Everything you can Think – Tom Waits
  • End of the Street – The Bees

Tonight's show went from bad to more bad.

  • Sexx Laws – Beck
  • This Here – Richard Groove Holmes
  • Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart – Johnny Cash
  • Bad Attorney General –Gilbert, Sullivan, and Bullen
  • Canon – The Swingle Singers
  • Tequila – The Champs

Tonight's show starts with a camel and ends with a... bang?

  • Java Jive – The Ink Spots
  • Camel – Caleb Bullen
  • Maboanin’ Bernie’s Lounge
  • Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (UtopiaPlanitia) – Flaming Lips
  • Spiderman – Moxy Fruvous
  • Kit – Hugo Montenegro
  • Je T’aime… Mais Non Plus – Serge Gainsbourg

The Martians are coming! The Martians are coming... The Martians are here!

  • Tormentress – Elvis Costello
  • Everybody eats when they come to my house – Cab Calloway
  • You Took Advantage Of Me – Buddy Cole
  • Make Music, But Not Trash – Messer Chups
  • Cannibal Twist – Messer Chups
  • Life on Mars – Seo George

Tonight's show is... uh... I don't know what to say.

  • Lust for Life – Iggy Pop
  • That’s Amore – Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
  • Tarantella Grottesca (Grotesque Tarantella) – Nino Rota
  • I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself – Isaac Hayes
  • Back To School Special
  • Francis' Bacon, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, Schroedinger's Cat, and Morrison's Math Homework!
  • The Lady in Cement – Hugo Montenegro
  • Entropy – Moxy Fruvous
  • Bossa Rossa – Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra
  • Math Homework – Caleb Bullen
  • School Days – Louis Jordan

Does this podcast make my ass look fat?

  • Misty- Lenny Dee
  • Life on Mars – David Bowie
  • Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo - Massimo Faraò Trio
  • Question – The Moody Blues
  • Theme from Cyrano/Mr. Tamborine Man – William Shatner

Tonight we get down to the bottom of things!

  • Emo Emu Girl – Caleb Bullen & the all kazoo orchestra
  • Theme from Landing - Yoshinori Sunahara
  • Asshole from El Paso – Kinky Friedman
  • My Old Flame - Charlie Parker
  • Broken Hearts Are for Assholes – Frank Zappa

Yellow, It's Me!

  • Workaday World – Jack Beaver
  • Yellow – Ken Nordine
  • Whipped Cream – Herb Alpert
  • Bus to Beelzebub – Soul Coughing
  • Chase That Car – Laurie Johnson
  • Anya – Richard R. Bennett
  • I’m Not Angry – Elvis Costello

Finally, some wholesome Family Entertainment!

  • Birks Works – Dizzy Gillespie
  • When the Shit Hits the Fan – The Circle Jerks
  • Get Happy – Milt Jackson
  • Oliver’s Army – Elvis Costello
  • Samba Dees Days 0 Charlie Byrd
  • Careless Hands – Mel Torme

Let's all give a big thank you to Laurence Simon for filling in this week. See y'all next week!

  • Czardas – Golem!
  • The Rump – The Black Keys
  • Twisted Nerve (Third Phaze Edit) – Bernard Hermann
  • Screenwriter’s Blues – Soul Coughing
  • Louise - Lloyd Mumm and His Starlight Roof Orchestra
  • Nobody’s Baby Now – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  • Music to Buy Toasters By - Richard and Robert Sherman
  • Here Comes Your Man – The Pixies

I blame Mitt Romney for this show. Not sure why exactly but since most Americans fear Mormons, he seems like a safe scapegoat.

  • The Squirrel Song – Caleb Bullen
  • Give Me The Simple Life – Hugo Montenegro
  • desafinado - charlie byrd
  • Kid’s Song – Moxy Fruvous
  • Wiggly’s Way – Medeski Martin and Wood
  • God’s Away on Business – Tom Waits
  • A Profound Gass – Henry Mancini
  • Ham & Egg – The Acoustic Dub Messengers
  • Stand – Sly and the Family Stone
  • Chicken and Biscuits – Otis Grove
  • Quella Donna (From "Forza G") – Ennio Morricone
  • Slip it In - Inside Deep Note: Music Of 1970's Adult Cinema
  • Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting – Charles Mingus
  • The Restaurant (You've Got to Say the Number) – Michael Kamen

Who knew it could be so much fun?

 

  • I Love Paris – Frank Sinatra
  • St. Thomas - Sonny Rollins
  • Get Up Stand Up – Bob Marley
  • Whole Lot of BS - Funkadelic
  • Bossa Em Nova York – Lalo Schifrin
  • Take Five – Tito Puente
  • Concorde - Burnie Whilbley
  • Take The Skinheads Bowling – Camper Van Beethoven
  • Danke Schoen – Guy Lombardo

Charlatans, Salesmen, Preachers, Attorney Generals and Me

  • Bad Attorney General – Caleb Bullen
  • Lydia the Tattooed Lady – Groucho Marx
  • Lucky Day (overture) – Tom Waits
  • Little Egypt – The Coasters
  • Ave Maria - All Star Percussion Ensemble
  • Big Balls in Cowtown – Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
  • Anghingò – Ennio Morricone

Rather than assault your senses with politics and bad news, tonight I assault your senses with Musical Oddities!

  • Bali Hai – Tak Shindo
  • Bali Hai – Peggy Lee
  • The Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin
  • The Poor People of Paris - Lloyd Mumm and His Starlight Roof Orchestra
  • Soul Sauce – Cal Tjader
  • ‘Taint No Sin – Tom Waits
  • Downtown – Caleb Bullen (as William S. Burroughs)
  • Night on Witches Mountain – Johnny Puleo and his Harmonica Gang
  • Bali Hai – 101 Strings Orchestra

It's the one year anniversary of The Black Tie Martini Club Oddcast and we celebrate by asking, "Is it too soon?"

  • Baby Elephant Walk – Henry Mancini
  • Chega de Saudade – Lalo Schifrin
  • I Don’t Like Mondays – The Boomtown Rats
  • Ballad of Charles Joseph Whitman – Kinky Friedman
  • Tony’s Theme – Hugo Montenegro

Excitment with the Inevitable

  • Sack 0’ Woe – Cannonball Adderly
  • In The Morning I’ll Be Gone – Tom Waits
  • Jubilesta – Dan Barrett Trio and Quartet
  • Who’s Sorry Now - Esquivel
  • Scary Children – Lounge Lizards
  • Fugue No.2 In C Minor [The Well-Tempered Clavier - Book 2 BWV 871] – The Swingle Singers

The thru line here could be economics or drinking. You be the judge

  • Blue Horizon – Sidney Bechet
  • You Will Go To The Moon – Moxy Fruvous
  • What’s The Use of Getting Sober – Louis Jordan
  • Ford Mustang – Serge Gainsbourg
  • Samba de Uma Nota So – Lalo Schifrin

Hey! There's no political content in this show! YAY!

  • Mauve – Ken Nordine
  • Con Alma – Dizzy Gillespie
  • You’re the Cream in my Coffee - Mel Tormé
  • Bitty Ditty – Miles Davis & Milt Jackson
  • Everyday People – Sly & The Family Stone
  • Buenos Aires Paris -Che Camerata

Guess who just turned four?

  • Battle Hymn of the Republic - Massimo Faraò
  • Pure Imagination / Candy Man – Harry Connick Jr.
  • 17 West – Eric Dolphy
  • If I Should Fall From Grace With God - The Pogues
  • The Play – Elvis Costello
  • Smoke Smoke Smoke, (That Cigarette) – Caleb Bullen
  • Favourite Hour (Church Studios Version) – Elvis Costello

If Nancy Sinatra was your lord and savior, your priests would wear go-go boots.

  • The Savers – Perrey & Kingsley
  • Sex Bomb – Tom Jones
  • Respect Yourself – The Staple Singers

Sing Hallelujah Come On Get Happy We're Heading For The Judgment Day!

  • Pussy Cat Dues – Charles Mingus
  • Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive – Bing Crosby
  • Theme For Ernie – John Coltrane
  • Smile – Elvis Costello & The Imposters
  • Nica’s Dream – Richard Groove Holmes

Tonight we're taking the 'Big Bowl of Wrong' concept and expanding it out into a full all you can eat smörgåsbord of wrong.

  • Air Mail Special – Oscar Peterson
  • Luck Be a Lady – Frank Sinatra
  • Jazz Trippin – The Lords of Acid
  • We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You – Kinky Friedman
  • Spanish Flea – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
  • Steeling The Blues = Leddie Jackson and his Western Swingsters
  • Down With the Ship – Scatterbrain
  • Magnificent Seven – Tito Rodriguez

This week's show is much sillier than the last one but we do manage to skewer religion, sexuality, politics and Matt Lauer.

  • Fire – Don Kelly Band
  • Be A Clown – Verne Langdon
  • Nugget – Cake
  • Mexican Shuffle – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
  • Bach (JS): Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D, BWV 050 - 2. Affettuoso
  • Rins An' Chips - Johnny "Hammond" Smith
  • Ooh La La – The Faces
  • Baby It's Cold Outside – Dean Martin
  • Cha Cha Chavela – Fiesta Latina Series
  • Early In The Mornin’ – Louis Jordan
  • Jesus Etc. - Wilco
  • Well You Needn’t – Cannonball Adderly
  • Tramp the Dirt Down (demo) – Elvis Costello
  • Music to Watch Space Girls By – Leonard Nimoy

Its the end of the year and the end of the second season of The Black Tie Martini Club Oddcast

  • Bulletin – Sonogram
  • So Far I have not found the science – Soul Coughing
  • Do You Realize – The Flaming Lips
  • Yaina – Pucho and his Latin Soul Brothers
  • I’ll Take New York – Tom Waits
  • Per Un Pugno Di Dollari - Massimo Faraò Trio

Finally, the real holiday season has started

  • White Christmas – Royce Campbell
  • Black Jesus - Everlast
  • Christmas Time Is Here – Vince Guaraldi
  • I’m Black and I’m Proud – James Brown
  • Electric Beard – Let’s Go Bowling

Tonight we go looong!

  • Eggs & Sausage – Tom Waits
  • Creamed By A Bus – Caleb Bullen
  • The Venezuelan Rain Dance – The Smothers Brothers
  • The Pause of Mr. Claus - Caleb Bullen (imitating Arlo Guthrie)
  • Folk Song – Bongwater

Happy whatever the hell you celebrate! Tonight's show explores what happens when Holidays go bad.

  • Trim Yo’ Tree – Mojo Nixon and the Toad Liquers
  • Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin’ – Mack Davis
  • I’ll Be Your Santa Baby – Rufus Thomas
  • Yakety Axe – Chet Atkins

I bought an espresso machine last weekend and proceeded to go insane.

  • Swinging Safari – Burt Kampferer
  • I Wanna Know If It’s Good To You (instrumental) – Funkadelic
  • Psychotic Reaction – The Count Five
  • Brazilian Flower – Jean Jacques Perrey

I was thinking about famine relief and it made me so hungry!

  • Tango Pizzicato – 101 Strings Orchestra
  • You’re My Meat – Louis Jordan and his Tympani Five
  • Driving South – Jimi Hendrix
  • Ricky’s Theme – The Beastie Boys
  • Shortening Bread – The Cramps
  • Powerhouse – Rick Fink and his Gashouse Gorillas

Wind up your wallets for the Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!

  • It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year – Pete Jolly
  • 11 MPH – Was (Not) Was
  • The Observer – Flaming Lips
  • April, 29, 1992 – Sublime
  • Car Chase At Margellina - Guido E Maurizio De Angelis

Tonight... We Sing!

You know

Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Cumberland

  • Computer Jam – Caleb Bullen
  • Cold In Here – Caleb Bullen
  • Starsky And Hutch – The James Taylor Quartet
  • I Fought The Law – The Clash
  • Presents – Tom Waits

Once again we fool with knowledge that mankind was not meant to know

  • Interstellar Overdrive – Pink Floyd
  • Long Walk Home – John Lurie

Was it good for you?

  • The Sheik Yerbouti Tango – Frank Zappa
  • That’s Life – Frank Sinatra
  • Buena Vista Social Club – Buena Vista Social Club
  • Glad To Be Gay – TRB
  • Sunny – Arthur Lyman

If you hate America, don't listen to this show!

  • The Ox – The Who
  • Road to Peace – Tom Waits
  • Chant Of The Night – Esquivel
  • From Sea To Shining Sea – Johnny Cash

Being un-PC to make a PC point

  • The Uncle Meat Variations – Frank Zappa
  • Father and Son – Cat Stevens
  • Frenesi - Nulle And Verdensorkestret
  • Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine – James Brown
  • Get Smart – James Taylor Quartet
  • Killing an Arab – The Cure

Tonight's show featuring guest voice, The Great, Laurence Simon!

  • I Can't Give You Anything But Love - Mandino & Note Manouche
  • Hurry Down Doomsday (The Bugs Are Taking Over) - Elvis Costello
  • Promised Land (instrumental) – Chuck Berry
  • Ankara - Guido E Maurizio De Angelis

It's the second biggest holiday in the country and we celebrate it hardcore here in the Martni Club. Enjoy!

The songs here are too scary to list... BOO!

Tonight's show brings your basest instincts to their illogical conclusion. That is to say, it's another Happy Ending here on the Black Tie Martini Club Oddcast.

  • Fractious Fingering – Fats Waller
  • Better Off Without A Wife – Tom Waits
  • Gubelye - Mulatu Astatké´
  • A Drunken Man's Praise Of Sobriety – Elvis Costello
  • Mah Nà Mah Nà (Original Album Version) - Piero Umiliani

One last blast at the defrocked former congressman.

  • One Eyed Monkey – Combustible Edison
  • My Back Pages – Bob Dylan
  • Sei Ottavi in Blues (Six-Eights in Blues) – Piero Umiliani
  • Sweet Little Sixteen – Chuck Berry
  • Yakety Axe – Chet Atkins

Save this one for a rainy day

  • You Will Be Shot – John Zorn
  • Sail Away – Randy Newman
  • I Just Wasn't Made For These Times – The Beach Boys
  • I Want to Vanish – Elvis Costello
  • Broken Bicycles – Tom Waits

Or do you call it Reproductive Health, Pharmaceutical Medications and The American Folk Idiom of the Latter Half of The 20th Century

  • People Can You Feel It – Allman Brothers
  • Fuck Her Gently – Tenacious D
  • One note samba – Brasil 66
  • Doctor Robert – The Beatles
  • Super Stuff – Satelliters
  • Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll – Ian Drury and the Blockheads

Bring your therapists kids! Tonight, we're going through THE CHANGE.

  • The Penguin – Raymond Scott
  • When The Shit Hits The Fan – Circle Jerks
  • Guys And Dolls – Terry Snyder
  • Bathwater Blues – Rev. Horton Heat

The Confessions of a Psycho Cat... to say the least.

  • Cubano Chant – Cal Tjader
  • Confessions of a psycho cat – The Cramps
  • Tipsy Gypsy – Martin Taylor

In which the party of the first part and the party of the second part talk about their parties in two parts.

  • New Orleans- Galactic
  • Trumpet Blues – Dizzy Gillespie
  • The Party Broke Up – Was (not Was)
  • Hello Dolly – Jean Jacques Perrey

A Brave New Word

 

  • Taste of Honey – Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
  • Backdoor Man – Howlin Wolf
  • Little Grass Shack – Billy Vaughn

Herpes, Homosexuality, Hedgehogs and Helium

  • The Good The Bad and The Ugly – Ennio Morricone
  • Caress Me Down - Sublime
  • The Haitian Fight Song – Charles Mingus and Max Roach
  • Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other – Willie Nelson
  • Viper’s Drag – Fats Waller

Tonight's show goes out to all the republicans out there.

  • Glory Glory/Jesus on the mainline – rebirth brass band
  • When The Man Comes Around – Johnny Cash
  • In The News – Kris Kristofferson

An innocent walk down the street turns sinister... Or does it?

  • National Anthem – Thomas Dempster
  • Who are the brain police – Frank Zappa
  • Hawaii 5-0 – The Ventures

It's like a musical but uh... not.

 

No clue what to say on this one

  • The Penguin – Raymond Scott
  • I’m Going to Buy Me A Dog – The Monkees
  • The Reefer Song – Fats Waller
  • Mister Kiss Kiss Bang Bang – Elliot Fisher

Experience the 9/11 tribute that is unlike any other!

What's your five year plan?

Tonight's show is a docudrama based on true events but expanded upon for dramatic effect.

The Batman Movie Theme – Skavoovie and the Epitones

Meet Ben, you'll love him!

  • Spinning Wheel – Peter Cincotti
  • Bedazzled - Bongwater
  • Pateck cebola - trio Madeira brasil
  • Hate & War – The Clash
  • Tarantella Grottesca (Grotesque Tarantella) 0 Nino Rota

Low Brow Humor with High Brow References!

 

Tonight's show is based on a true story.

  • 1974- Young Frankenstein - John Morrison
  • Mussolini Ultimo Atto – Ennio Morricone

If this show doesn't give Rick Santorum a thobber, nothing will.

  • Forza G (Psichedelico Jazzistico) – Ennio Morricone
  • Cowboy Love – Revcrend Horton Heat
  • Forsa G (L'Aliente)
  • El Llorón - Juan Cambareri

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to hang out with Caleb when he's drinking, this is it. Except normally he talks in a terrible Irish accent about politics.

  • Au Privave - Jimmy Smith

Here's a little tribute to the 100 word stories at podcasting.isfullofcrap.com

It's like a Birthday Party! But not really.

Maybe next year will go smoother.

Saw him twice over the weekend on his current tour, got a nap in and recorded this.

"Don't forget to check out www.blacktiemartiniclub.com to fill out the survey and get your episodes fresh and hot!" Is what I wrote elsewhere but you're already here. YAY!

Don't forget that no matter what the post-future brings, stay tuned to blacktiemartiniclub.com

Oddly enough, there's no Beach Boys on this show.

Red, White and Oh So Blue!

I could've been a preacher, right?

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Tonight we solve the whole middle east issue.

 

Oh the places you'll go while looking for pornography!

The second season begins now