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College listeners will find themselves Googling lyric phrases to discover the artists and song titles of all the oddities they hear; older listeners will just go giddily searching for the hash pipe. Below are 50 of the better mind-benders heard on 103.1 recently.
In no particular order, which is just the way the station plays them:
The Band — “Life Is a Carnival”
Nilsson — “Gotta Get Up”
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Procol Harum — “Simple Sister”
Steppenwolf — “Monster”
The Beatles — “Wild Honey Pie”
Blind Faith — “Well All Right”
The Guess Who — “Share the Land”
James Taylor — “Suite for 20G”
Boz Scaggs — “Dinah Flo”
Spirit — “Animal Zoo”
Chicago — “Questions 67 and 68”
Joe Cocker — “Delta Lady”
Heart — “Magazine”
Status Quo — “Pictures of Matchstick Men”
Brewer & Shipley — “Wichi Tai To”
Lee Michaels — “Heighty Hi”
Men at Work — “Dr. Heckle & Mr. Jive”
Cream — “World of Pain”
Elton John — “Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy”
Savoy Brown — “Street Corner Talking”
Steve Miller Band — “My Dark Hour”
Buffalo Springfield — “Rock & Roll Woman”
Cars — “Good Times Roll”
Sly & the Family Stone — “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)”
Elton John — “Take Me to the Pilot”
Neil Diamond — “Thank the Lord for the Night Time”
Warren Zevon — “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner”
Pat Benatar — “All Fired Up”
Ringo Starr — “Back Off Boogaloo”
Grand Funk Railroad — “Mean Mistreater”
Steely Dan — “Black Friday”
Peter Frampton — “(I’ll Give You) Money”
Led Zeppelin — “Bring It On Home”
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young — “Déjà Vu”
Jimi Hendrix — “Stone Free”
Billy Joel — “Allentown”
Linda Ronstadt — “Silver Threads and Golden Needles”
Mountain — “Mississippi Queen”
Eric Clapton — “Presence of the Lord”
Pete Townshend — “Let’s See Action”
Traffic — “Heaven Is In Your Mind”
Blondie — “The Tide Is High”
Cat Stevens — “Hard Headed Woman”
Blood, Sweat & Tears — “Go Down Gambling”
The Doors — “When the Music’s Over”
Blue Cheer — “Summertime Blues”
The Band — “The Shape I’m In”
Moody Blues — “Isn’t Life Strange”
Graham Nash — “We Can Change the World”
Sugarloaf — “Green Eyed Lady” (long version)
— Jimmy Magahern