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Episode Four — Track Listing

(All music in this episode can be found at the Podsafe Music Network — music.podshow.com)

Caution: some songs in this episode contain explicit lyrics and are not work- or kid-safe

1.  "Crazy on You" by Heart

2.  "Woman of Mass Distraction" by Alice Cooper

3.  "What's On Your Radio?" by The Living End

4.  "Supersonic" by Bad Religion

5.  "Somebody to Love" by Jefferson Airplane

6.  "Back to New York" by the Stone Coyotes

7.  "Rock and Roll Queen" by The Subways

8.  "Wind and Fire" by Gene Loves Jezebel

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Episode Five — Track Listing

(All music in this episode can be found at the Podsafe Music Network — music.podshow.com)

1. "Walk a Thousand Miles" by Matthew Ebel

2. "Santa Will Find You" by Mindy Smith

3. "Christmas in the Moonlight" by The Hot Rods

4. "Blue Christmas" by Tom Keiffer

5. "Give Me a Second Chance for Christmas" by The Candy Butchers

6. "Silent Night" by Ben Vega

7. "What Child is This?" by Allison Crowe

8.  "Do You Hear What I Hear?" by Jill Parr

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Episode Four — Track Listing

(All music in this episode can be found at the Podsafe Music Network — music.podshow.com)

1. "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" by Dokken

2. "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" by Twisted Sister

3.  "Must Be Santa" by The Boogie Kings

4. "Funky Santa" by The Sassy Astronauts

5. "Jingle Bell Rock" by Nelson

6. "Just Stockings On" by Munk

7. "Christmas Here on Mars" by Bubble

8.  "Christmas Wish" by Gidget's Ga-Ga

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Episode Three — Track Listing

(All music in this episode can be found at the Podsafe Music Network.)

Caution: some songs in this episode contain explicit lyrics and are not work- or kid-safe

1. "Summer's Over" by Spoilsport

2. "Write Off Summer" by Yuma House

3.  "Ain't No Love in the Club" by the Wylde Bunch

4. "Shake It" by Metro Station

5. "Party Down the Hall" by The Stone Coyotes

6. "Ich Freu' Mich" by the Kitchen Cowboys

7. "All I Am is Breath" by Jessie Kilguss

8. "Good Feeling" by the Flamingoes

Don't forget to vote for your favourite song in each episode for an upcoming episode of listener's choice!

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Episode Two — Track Listing

(All music in this episode can be found at the Podsafe Music Network.)

Caution: some songs in this episode contain explicit lyrics and are not work- or kid-safe

1. "Am I Awake?" by They Might Be Giants

2. "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" by Panic at the Disco

3. "Pleasure Unit" by the Gore Gore Girls

4. "Look at Me" by the Raygun Girls

5. "Get Up" by Helix

6. "Moon Over Marin" by the Dead Kennedys

7. "Let's Go" by Ministry

8. "Sound of Summer" by (Norwegian) Lovebugs

I absolutely adore the French rap collective Saïan Supa Crew.  Now, I wrote "rap", but Saïan Supa Crew produces something that combines rap, hip-hop, reggae and dance hall, and is really pretty infectious stuff.

I also love the group Seeed, a German reggae/dance hall group from Berlin (do you see a theme here?)

And when they play together, it's doubly great.  For an idea, they made an appearance on the French show Taratata -- Taratata is a great show.  They feature live performances and interviews, and the neatest thing about the show is that they often present unlikely or surprising duets, things you'll never see elsewhere.

So, although I can't play them on the podcast,  here's a YouTube clip of a Taratata performance -- Seeed and Saïan Supa Crew together with Sean Paul's "Get Busy" -- (followed by "Waterpumpee", featuring Seeed on their own):

Fabulous!

And you can find albums by both Seeed and Saïan Supa Crew on iTunes.  In fact, Saïan Supa Crew is featured on the Seeed song "Ding (Thing)" on the "Next!" album.  As for Saïan Supa Crew, my favourite album is their last one, "Hold Up!", and my favourite cut from it is "La Patte", featuring Will.i.am from the Black Eyed Peas.

p.s. -- don't forget to vote in the poll (see the sidebar)

Hey, everyone -- I've decided that from time to time I'd like to put together a kind of "Listener's Choice" episode, so to that end, I'm going to set up polls for each episode -- please take a moment to vote for your favourite song!

At the end of a few more episodes, I'll put all the number one choices for each episode together in a playlist, selected by you!

Thanks for taking the time to listen, and to vote.

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Episode One — Track Listing

(All music in this episode can be found at the Podsafe Music Network.)

1. "Fire" by The Young Punx

2. "Gimme Shelter" by Angelique Kidjo (featuring Joss Stone)

3.  "Maybe I'm Amazed" (Authorized Cover) by Blake Morgan

4.  "Keith Richards" by Edmund's Crown

5.  "It's Over" by The Fire Apes

6.  "The Music" by David Usher

7.  "Life Less Ordinary" by Carbon Leaf

8.  "Where to Now St. Peter?" by Ann Wilson (featuring Elton John)

Hello everyone, I'm Katherine Matthews, the host of this newly launched music podcast: Funky Eclectic.

Here's a bit of background:

I started podcasting with a couple of podcasts — Cinéfolle, about movies, and Purl Diving, a knitting podcast — whose episodes mix talk with a piece or two of music selected to fit the theme of the episode.  Some of you may have arrived here knowing me from those podcasts, or perhaps through my wabi sabi knitting (mostly) blog.  If you found my podcast through other paths, welcome.  Regardless of how you arrived at the shownotes for Funky Eclectic, I hope you'll enjoy listening to the podsafe music I've assembled for each episode.

In the process of selecting just the right pieces of podsafe music to complement each episode, I came across many wonderful songs that never quite found a place in either of my podcasts.  I felt it was a shame that I couldn't find a way, apart from an occasional  "music only" holiday special episode, to share more of these musical finds with my listeners.

The final push for me to launch a music podcast came when I offered to help out a fellow podcaster, Bob Goyetche, in his attempt to reach 50 episodes of his Mostly Tunes music podcast in time for Podcasters Across Borders 2007.  He accepted my offer and I put together an episode for him; he didn't quite make it to 50 in time for PAB2007 but it did give me the confidence to launch my own music podcast.

All that was left was to find an appropriate name.  Nothing was suggesting itself, or if it did, it had already been taken, either for a podcast or as a domain name.  I asked my husband to sum up my musical tastes in two words and he said "Funky and eclectic!" — I quickly checked and found the domain name funkyeclectic.com was available, which I took as sign that this was meant to be.

The domain was registered and I set about putting together the first few episodes culminating with the launch of the podcast.

I hope you enjoy the podsafe music showcased in each episode and I encourage you to visit the websites of the artists and on-line music services that you will find listed in each episode's shownotes.  Please support the artists and labels, who have generously made their works freely available for use in podcasts, by purchasing tracks from them.

You can download individual episodes from the shownotes; just follow the instructions you'll find in the notes.  You can also subscribe to the podcast's RSS feed by clicking on the button in the sidebar.  If you need a little more explanation, please see the "Subscribing to the Podcast" Page (link in the sidebar).