PART 1: American Beat ’84 – The Fleshtones; Pool Hoppin’ – The Swingin’ Neckbreakers; Endless Night – Graham Parker w/Bruce Springsteen; Ooh! My Soul – Little Richard; She’s So Strange – Sour Ops; Atmosphere – Velvet Crush; Do Something to Me – ? and the Mysterians; I Lost on Jeopardy! – “Weird Al” Yankovic; Crawling From the Wreckage – Dave Edmunds; I Was Just a Piece of Frozen Sky Anyway – Jonathan Richman; She Didn’t Lie – Garland Jeffreys; More Than Beautiful – Keith Streng; Genius of Love – Tom Tom Club; Stand by the Jams (12” Version) – The KLF feat. Tammy Wynette; Rapture – Jalen Ngonda
PART 2: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Gil Scott-Heron; The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – Brian Jackson feat. Black Thought; Move Now – Marshall Crenshaw; Grab the Next Train – Marshall Crenshaw; Bad Bad Boy – The Coolies; Over You – The Coolies; Hey Now Sunshine – The Vibeke Saugestad Band; You’ve Got What I Want – The Dogmatics; Rainy Nights – The Dogmatics; I Can’t Get Over You – The Dogmatics; Nothing to Be Learned – The Dogmatics; Library Girl – The Dogmatics; Radio Wam Bam Boom – The Peppermint Kicks; Too Sweet (Oh Yeah) – The Peppermint Kicks; Number One Record – The Peppermint Kicks; Little Doll (Picolla Pupa) – The Peppermint Kicks; Gigantor – The Peppermint Kicks; Speed Racer – The Peppermint Kicks; Go Fuck Yourself – Jon Stewart
PART 3: Fight Fiercely, Harvard – Tom Lehrer; The Elements (Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan) – Tom Lehrer; The Old Dope Dealer – Tom Lehrer; The Masochism Tango – Tom Lehrer; A Christmas Carol – Tom Lehrer; (I’m Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica – Tom Lehrer; Lobachevsky – Tom Lehrer; New Math – Tom Lehrer; Pollution – Tom Lehrer; Wernher Von Braun – Tom Lehrer; So Long, Mom (A Song for World War III) – Tom Lehrer; The Vatican Rag (Live in Copenhagen) – Tom Lehrer; Poisoning Pigeons in the Park (Live, 1998) – Tom Lehrer (Introduction by Stephen Sondheim); We Will All Go Together When We Go – Tom Lehrer
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