Today's show had something for everybody, from Irishmen to teenage girls. But there was definitely no Christmas music.

Here's what I played on this week's Memphis Mystery Train. As always, the local tracks are marked with an asterisk and my notes are in italics:

The Cramps - The Way I Walk
Egyptians - Party Stomp
The Tough and Lovely - Right Under Your Nose
Billy Bragg and Wilco - She Came Along to Me
The Animals - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Be Good Tanyas - In My Time of Dying
Velvet Underground - Who Loves the Sun
Belle and Sebastian - Dirty Dream Number Two
She and Him - Fools Rush In (Yes, the Elvis song.)
Elvis Costello - (What's So Funny About) Peace, Love and Understanding (Nothing, that's what.)
Black Kids - I'm Not Going to Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You
Little Richard - Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On (Possibly my favorite version of this classic.)
Pleasure Seekers - Good Kind of Hurt
They Might Be Giants - Don't Let's Start (Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful.)
Clem Snide - Jews for Jesus Blues
Magnetic Fields - Absolutely Cuckoo
Pavement - Zurich is Stained (It's not my fault.)
Love - Alone Again Or
Detroit Cobras - Break Away
Everthus the Deadbeats - Set My Demons Free
Titus Andronicus - Titus Andronicus Forever

No Doubt - Spiderwebs (For everyone who is or ever was a teenage girl.)
Tennis - Baltimore
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
Of Montreal - Women's Studies Victims
*Warren Smith - Red Cadillac and a Black Mustache
*Two Way Radio - Run Away
John Lennon - Oh Yoko (on the anniversary of his death)
The Jewels - Opportunity
*Reigning Sound - Everything I Do is Wrong (from this free Scion EP)
Best Coast - The End
Andrew Bird - Heretics
Yo La Tengo - Sugar Cube
*Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs - Banned in Boston (Can anyone tell me what a "doctored up thunder chicken is?)
The Ramones - Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
Those Darlins - It's Hard
Kimya Dawson - Tire Swing
Thao - Swimming Pools
*River City Tanlines - Black Knight
The Pogues - Body of an American

If you missed today's show, you can catch it when it re-airs tomorrow (Friday) from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. on WEVL 89.9 FM in Memphis, or online at WEVL.org.