22 May - 12:30 pm NZ
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with Simon Morris & Phil O'Brien
12.35pm - 1pm
Title: I Smoke Two Joints
Artist: Richard Cheese
Title: I Got Stoned and I Missed It
Artist: Dr. Hook
Title: Johnny Got a Boom Boom
Artist: Emelda May
Title: Guitar Pill
Artist: Henry Phillips
Title: Gin House
Artist: Amen Corner
1pm - 2pm
Title: Here Comes the Nice
Artist: The Small Faces
Title: Chug-A-Lug
Artist: Roger Miller
Title: An American Trilogy
Artist: Mickey Newbury
Title: Jilted John
Artist: Jilted John
Title: Who Needs the Peace Corps?
Artist: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Title: Bring Back the Trains
Artist: Jimmy LaFave
Title: I'm Straight
Artist: Jonathan Richman
Title: Alabamy Bound
Artist: Jonathan and Darlene Edwards
Title: Who Needs the Peace Corps?
Artist: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Title: Bring Back the Trains
Artist: Jimmy LaFave
Title: I'm Straight
Artist: jonathan Richman
Title: Tell Me Tomorrow
Artist: Sierra Hull
Title: Cigareetes, Whusky and Wild Wild Women
Artist: Red Ingles and The Natural Seven
Title: Oh Well
Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Title: What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
Artist: Colin Blunstone and Dave Stewart
2pm - 3pm
Title: Love is the Drug
Artist: Kylie Minogue
Title: The Old Dope Peddlar
Artist: Tom Lehrer
Title: Poontang
Artist: The Treniers
Title: Nowhere Man
Artist: Natalie Merchant
Title: Teenage Immigrant Welfare Mothers on Drugs
Artist: Austin Lounge Lizards
Title: Asprin
Artist: Seka Aleksic
Title: Surf City
Artist: Dunny Lida
Title: Legend of A Mind
Artist: The Moody Blues
Title: Cocaine Habit
Artist: Old Crow Medician Show
Title: The Complete Banker
Artist: The Divine Comedy
Title: Sam Stone
Artist: Swamp Dogg
3pm - 4pm
Title: Who Put the Benzadrine in Mrs Murphy's Ovaltine?
Artist: Harry the Hipster Gibson
Title: Papa Oom Mow Mow
Artist: The Rivingtons
Title: Pretty Vacant
Artist: Flores
Title: You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks
Artist: Seasick Steve
Title: The Hobo and the Rose
Artist: Webb Pierce
4pm - 5pm
Title: Angelina
Artist: Neil Innes
Title: Let It Be Me
Artist: George Harrison
Title: When I Get Low I Get High
Artist: Ella Fitzgerald
Title: I'll Get Along
Artist: Michael Kiwanuka
Title: I Can't Think Straight
Artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan and Peggy Lee
Title: Lithium
Artist: Polyphonic Spree
Title: Nothing Rhymed
Artist: Burton Cummings
Title: So Long Cruel World
Artist: Blanche
Title: My Girl Lollipop
Artist: Bad Manners
Title: Georgia on My Mind
Artist: Ian Moss
Email: phil@radionz.co.nz
Text: 2101 (texts cost 20c)
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'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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