This week's playlist ... alphabet soup!

The Jesus & Mary Chain: Taste the Floor

Adorable: Sunshine Smile

The Beach Boys: Don’t Worry Baby

Catherine Wheel: Balloon

DEVO: Gates of Steel

Electrafixion: Loose (live)

Feist: 1234

Gary Numan: We Are Glass

Heart: These Dreams

Isaac Hayes: Good Love

Jefferson Airplane: Embryonic Journey

Killjoy: Between Us

Let’s Active: Co-Star

Madder Rose: Swim

Neil Young: Cry, Cry, Cry

OMD: This Is Helena

Some old, some new, some skin, but no blues ...

Pixies: Tony’s Theme

The Waterboy’s: Destinies Entwined

The Waterboy’s: December

Translator: Everything You See

Billy Idol: Eyes Without a Face

Wire Train: Crashing Back to You

Bryan Ferry: Midnight Train

The Lilac Time: She Writes a Symphony

Torres: New Skin

Duran Duran: Skin Trade

The Cardigans: Your New Cuckoo

The Ting Tings: Wrong Club

Echo & the Bunnymen: All That Jazz

Three of my favorite long songs

Plus, two others: 

Pixies: Tony’s Theme

The Dandy’s Warhols: It's a Fast-Driving Rave-Up With the Dandy Warhols Sixteen Minutes

Isaac Hayes: By the Time I Get to Phoenix

Wilco: Spiders (Kidsmoke)

Echo & the Bunnymen: Seven Seas

Random songs for Spring

Pixies: Tony’s Theme

Prefab Sprout: Cars and Girls

REM: Pretty Persuasion

Oasis: Supersonic

The Posies: Flavor of the Month

The Knack: Oh Tara

Cheap Trick: Southern Girls

The Smiths: Big Mouth Strikes Again

The Bangles: In Your Room

The Psychedelic Furs: Shadow in My Heart

INXS: Don’t Lose Your Head

The Runaways: Cherry Bomb

New Order: Age of Consent

The Doors: Touch Me

Kate Pierson: Guitars and Microphones

The Monkees: She Hangs Out

More tracks from 1995

The Jesus & Mary Chain: Taste the Floor

The Jesus & Mary Chain: Never Understand

Oasis: Some Might Say

Blur: Mr. Robinson’s Quango

Ride: Magical Spring (live)

The Pretenders: Private Life (live)

Pulp: Common People

Radiohead: Bones

Blondie: Fade Away and Radiate (108 BPM Mix)

The Curtain Society: Ferris Wheel

The Dandy Warhols: Ride

Sleeper: Inbetweener

The Mamas & the Papas: Sing for Your Supper