This week has been a rough one for a lot of people I know. And on the Mystery Train, I've got a cure for that: more "Love Shack".

Here's what I played on this week's Mystery Train, with the local tracks noted with an asterisk and my notes in italics:

Gen Orange - Thunderstorm
Egyptians - The Party Stomp
They Might Be Giants - Another First Kiss
Marie Laforet - Paint It Black (ed. - only, in French!)
Clem Snide - Action
*Carl Mann - Mona Lisa
David Bowie - Suffragette City
Black Joe Lewis - Booty City
Loretta Lynn - Fist City (ed. - Note that I pulled off the oft-threatened City Trifecta - Sufragette City, Booty City and Fist City, in that order.)
Best Coast - Happy
The Jennifers - Oh Caroline
Dum Dum Girls - September Gurls (Big Star cover)
First Aid Kit - Blue (ed. - This is brand new - came out this week. It's like Neko Case and Emmylou Harris.)
Patty and the Emblems - She Said, He Said (ed. - Stop that smack talk, y'all.)
Belle and Sebastian - Boy with the Arab Strap
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1
New Pornographers - Silver Jenny Dollar
Elvis Costello - 45
Buddy Holly - Everyday

B-52s - Love Shack (ed. - Oh yeah, I went there.)
*Reigning Sound - She's Bored with You
Arrah and the Ferns - Bernadette
*Harlan T. Bobo - Zippers and Jeans
Dolly Parton - Just the Way I Am
Jens Lekman - A Sweet Summer's Night on Hammer Hill (ed. - for my good friends Kristin and Andy. Congrats on the engagement, guys!)
The Chiffons - Nobody Knows What's Going On in My Mind But Me (ed. - And really, no one should.)
Old 97s - Doreen
The Ramones - The KKK Took My Baby Away
Sparks - Mustache
Wanda Jackson - Hard Headed Woman
Jump Little Children - I Can Feel You
Ray Charles - Mess Around
*Scandaliz Vandalistz - Hey Mr. Beifuss (ed. - a love song to Commercial Appeal film writer John Beifuss.)
Conor Oberst - NYC Gone, Gone
Vampire Weekend - Horchata
*Roy Orbison - Go! Go! Go!
Beach Boys - I'm Waiting for the Day
Decemberists - Sons and Daughters

The Memphis Mystery Train airs every Thursday morning from 8 a.m. through 10 a.m. on WEVL, Memphis' only volunteer radio station. If you missed the Mystery Train this morning, you can catch it when it re-airs tomorrow from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. on 89.9 WEVL Memphis or online at wevl.org.