with Simon Morris & Phil O'Brien
12.35pm - 1pm
Title: Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
Artist: Vince Gill and Gladys Knight
Title: Wicked as it Seems
Artist: Keith Richards
Title: You've Got Your Troubles
Artist: Lou Christie
Title: Hip Shake Jerk
Artist: The Quick
Title: Nothing Rhymed
Artist: Burton Cummings
1pm - 2pm
Title: Riding My Thumb to Mexico
Artist: Johnny Rodriguez
Title Journey of the Sorcerer
Artist: The Eagles
Title: Hitch Hike
Artist: Marvin Gaye
Title: Hitching A Ride
Artist: Vanity Fare
Title: Hitchhike to Heartbreak Road
Artist: Bobo Mr. Soul
Title: Hitchin' a Ride
Artist: Green Day
Title: Hitch Hiker
Artist: Bobby & Laurie
Title: Bow Hitch Hiker
Artist: Rollerskate Skinny
Title: The Ride
Artist: David Allan Coe
Title: Hitch Hiker's Hero
Artist: The Atlanta Rhythm Section
Title: Hitch Hike Part 1
Artist: Russell Bird
Title: Hobo's Lullaby
Artist: Woody Guthrie
Title: Sweet Hitch-Hiker
Artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival
Title: Hitch Hike
Artist: The Rolling Stones
2pm - 3pm
Title: (I Always Kill) The Things I Love
Artist: The Real Tuesday Weld
Title: The Film of My Love
Artist: 10cc
Title: Stop
Artist: Sam Brown
Title: Helplessness Blues
Artist: Fleet Foxes
Title: The Final Countdown
Artist: Unknown Cambodian Lady
Title: A Lady of A Certain Age
Artist: The Divine Comedy
Title: Where You Going?
Artist: Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Title: Wups
Aritst: Dr. Hook
Title: Laura
Artist: Scissor Sisters
Title: Cluck Old Hen
Artist: Alison Krauss and Uniion Station (Ft. Sierra Hull)
Title: Honest Work
Artist: Todd Rundgren
3pm - 4pm
Feature: Bob Dylan, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Part II
Title: Love Has Left the Room
Artist: A Camp
Title: Funky Broadway
Artist: Wilson Pickett
Title: Love is the Drug
Artist: Kylie Minogue
Title: Modern Man
Artist: Arcade Fire
Title: Me and My Life
Artist: The Tremeloes
4pm - 5pm
Title: My Generation
Artist: The Bards
Title: Neptune City
Artist: Nicole Atkins
Title: When I Get Home
Artist: The Beatles
Title: Skinny Love
Artist: Bon Iver
Title: Nut Rocker
Artist: Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Title: Paper Cup
Artist: The 5th Dimension
Title: I Love You
Artist: The Zombies
Title: Rope Ladder to The Moon
Artist: Jack Bruce
Title: How Great Thou Art
Artist: Eilert Pilarm
Title: Wise Up
Artist: Aimee Mann
Title: Pussy, Pussy, Pussy
Artist: The Light Crust Doughboys
Title: Summertime
Artist: MFSB
Email: phil@radionz.co.nz
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Facebook: I (heart) Matinee Idle
'Matinee Idle is Radio New Zealand's Mufti Day. They let me and Simon "loose in the asylum". We get to be the guys testing the outer limits of listener patience and we benignly abuse this privilege.' says O'Brien. 'They let us play whatever we want! It's every radio presenter's dream.'
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