miTunes: THE CURRENT, SEPTEMBER '06

By: B -- 9/14/06

A monthly series with a simple premise: one CD’s worth of the best songs played on 89.3 The Current throughout the month. Two criteria: (1) the songs have to be obscure, underground and/or mostly forgotten, and (2) they must be pop friendly. I wade through The Current’s deep catalog of music (listening to it nearly all day, every day at work) to discover the hidden pop gems. I like to think I have an ear for quality pop music; this series is my supposed evidence.

1. “Breathe Me” – Sia

2. “I Never” – Rilo Kiley

3. “Three More Days” – Ray LaMontagne

4. “Stop, I’m Already Dead” – Deadboy & The Elephant Men

5. “Cursed Sleep” – Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy

6. “All Kinds” – Dan Wilson

7. “California” – Rufus Wainwright

8. “Is She The One?” – Small Sins

9. “The Charging Sky” – Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins

10. “Goods” – Mates of State

11. “On A Freezing Chicago Street” – Margot & the Nuclear So & Sos

12. “Hello! Let’s Go to a Disco” – Ursula 1000

13. “Put Your Records On” – Corinne Bailey Rae

14. “On the Radio” – The Concretes

15. “Can’t Get You Out of My Mind” – Sonya Kitchell

16. “Glory Glory” – Charlatans UK

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