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

Tough and Lovely - More, More, More
The Egyptians - Party Stomp
Belle and Sebastian - You're Just a Baby
Gino Washington - Out of This World
King Khan and BBQ Show - Waddlin' Around
Andrew Bird - Skin Is, My
They Might Be Giants - Yeh Yeh
Army Navy - Last Legs
Bikini Kill - I Wish I Was Him
XTC - Life Begins at the Hop
Billy Bragg - Help Save the Youth of America
New Pornographers - Silver Jenny Dollar
Elvis Costello - Veronica
Ben Folds Five - Kate (ed. - taking it all the way back to eighth grade this morning.)
Langley Schools Music Project - Sweet Caroline (ed. - I can't tell you how much I love the fact that this record of creepy children singing pop songs is called "Lonliness and Despair.)
Detroit Cobras - Right Around the Corner
Ramones - Rockaway Beach
Little Eva - The Trouble with Boys
Magnetic Fields - Underwear
Prince - Crimson and Clover (ed. - Happy birthday to Minneapolis' finest.)

Jens Lekman - A Higher Power
The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love
Little Eva - Tell Him
Devotchka - Venus in Furs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Pin
Pavement - Stereo
Eileen - Ces Bottes Sont Faites Pour Marcher
Wanda Jackson - My Big Iron Skillet
*Harlan T. Bobo - Crazy With Loneliness
*Otis Redding - You Don't Miss Your Water
Best Coast - Happy
Generationals - Goose and Gander
*Subteens - Madison Avalon (ed. - The Antenna? Murphy's? Pho Hoa Binh?)
Velvet Underground - Run Run Run
The Four Preps - 26 Miles
Modest Mouse - Polar Opposites
Thao - Swimming Pools
Okkervil River - No Key, No Plan (ed. - for everyone who's doing what they really like and getting paid for it.)

You can catch the Memphis Mystery Train live every Thursday morning from 8 a.m. until 10 a.m. and on Monday from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. on 89.9 FM in Memphis or online at wevl.org.