If you start at the very beginning (which is a very good place to start) with these Snap Crackle POP! shows/podcasts, you'll notice I am mainly doing fill-ins, many of them in the wee hours. At the time, I was working a low-self esteem job where the hours were very... well, lets call them variable. So I was frequently doing overnight shifts there, and my sleep hours were all fakakta, and plus... the "romantic" ideal I had of the lonely overnight DJ really appealed to me (cf. the cover of Donald Fagen's The Nightfly).
A lot of this music is what I'd call - for myself - "comfort-food music". For better or worse, many of these songs are regulars on my shows to this day...
(What Does It Take) To Win Your Love - Jr. Walker & the All-Stars
Let's Go - The Cars
Street Life - Roxy Music
The Captain of Her Heart - Double
Old Town - Phil Lynott
Another Tricky Day - The Who
Teenerama - The Records
Warm Self Sacrifice - Emitt Rhodes
Deadbeat Club - The B52s
London Bridge - Bread
Baby Blue - The Beach Boys
You Might As Well Smile - Glen Campbell
Amateur - Aimee Mann
The World Is a Circle - Burt Bacharach
Brandy - Looking Glass
Jackie Blue - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Sweet Music - Lon & Derek Van Eaton
Skinny Man - The 5th Dimension
Save Me - kd lang
I Must Be in a Good Place Now - Bobby Charles
Drowning In a Sea of Love - Joe Simon
New Sensations - Lou Reed
Jesus Was a Cross-Maker - Judee Sill
Don't Make Promises - Helen Reddy
Don't Go To Strangers - JJ Cale
Every Night (live) - Paul McCartney & Wings
The World Is Turning On - The Pooh Sticks
Hey Julie - Fountains of Wayne
I've Got a Secret - Richard Barone & James Mastro
That's the Story of My Life - The Velvet Underground
You Ain't Going Nowhere - Bob Dylan
Speak Your Mind - Marc Benno
No Wonder Love's a Wonder - Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Secret Smile - Semisonic
Emma Blowgun's Last Stand - Beulah
I've Been Loving You Too Long (live) - Otis Redding
Power of God - Jaimeo Brown Transcendence
Station Approach - Elbow
We All Remember Wes (live) - George Benson