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Beth brightens up your Saturday with a healthy dose of tunes, laughs and caffeine!

Beth brightens up your Saturday with a healthy dose of tunes, laughs and caffeine! This week, she pays homage to the 'Mother of Hip-Hop' in her Matter of Life and Beth with a track from Mickey & Sylvia. Elsewhere in the show, she plays a listener request for Belle & Sebastian, delivers another energising Caffeine Kick to get you awake and ready for the weekend, and provides another eclectic mix of music with picks from Elvis Costello, Grace Jones, Saweetie, The Cardigans and many more.

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Music Played

  • The Kinks

    A Well Respected Man

    • The Journey - Part 2: Anthology.
    • BMG.
    • 7.

  • Patti LaBelle

    What'cha Doing To Me

    • Sony.

  • The Pharcyde

    Runnin'

    • POLYGRAM TV.

  • Electrelane

    I Want to Be the President

    • Too Pure Records.

  • Steve Lacy

    The Feeling

    • RCA.

  • Gelli Haha

    Bounce House

    • Innovative Leisure.

  • waterbaby

    Memory Be a Blade

    • Sub Pop Records.

  • J Dilla

    Workinonit

    • Donuts.
    • Stones Throw Records.
    • 2.

  • Delta 5

    Anticipation

    • Rough Trade.

  • Mickey & Sylvia

    Love Is Strange

    • Dirty Dancing O.S.T. (Various Artists).
    • RCA.
    • 106.

  • Fat Dog

    Cancel Me (I'm Tired)

    • Domino.

  • Lio

    Amoureux solitaires

    • Arabella.

  • Saweetie

    Tap In

    • Rhino.

  • The Magnetic Fields

    Strange Powers

    • Merge Records.

  • Warren Zevon

    Nighttime in the Switching Yard

    • Warner.

  • James White and the Blacks

    Contort Yourself

    • ZE Records.

  • Black Country, New Road

    Chaos Space Marine

    • Ninja Tune.

  • Snoop Dogg

    Beautiful (feat. Pharrell Williams & Charlie Wilson)

    • Priority Records.

  • Rachel Sweet

    Who Does Lisa Like?

    • Stiff Records.

  • Wipers

    Wait A Minute

    • Zenorecords.

  • Rebles

    Sweetest Taboo

    • Soundway.

  • Cat Power

    Manhattan

    • MATADOR RECORDS.

  • Grace Jones

    My Jamaican Guy

    • Island.

  • Elvis Costello & The Attractions

    Beyond Belief

    • Elvis Costello.

  • The Cardigans

    Been It

    • Stockholm.

  • DESTIN CONRAD

    KISSING IN PUBLIC

    • Above Ground Ent / Destin Conrad / EMPIRE.

  • Ebbb

    Side On

    • Ninja Tune.

  • Jeff Buckley

    Dream Brother

    • Columbia Records.

  • Yo La Tengo

    You Can Have It All

    • Matador Records.

  • Roberta Kelly

    Aie

  • Units

    High Pressure Days (Rory Phillips Remix)

    • Relish Recordings.

  • The B‐52s

    Topaz

    • Reprise Records.

  • Belle and Sebastian

    Step Into My Office Baby

    • Rough Trade Records.

  • Ravyn Lenae

    Candy

    • Atlantic Recording Corporation.

  • beabadoobee

    Sun Has Set

    • Dirty Hit.

  • Buzzcocks

    Everybody's Happy Nowadays

    • EMI.

  • Lucinda Williams

    Side Of The Road

    • Primary Wave Music IV.

  • Digable Planets

    Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat)

    • PENDULUM.

  • Soft Cell

    Bedsitter

    • Vertigo.

  • bassvictim

    Canary Wharf Drift

    • Mad Decent.

  • corto.alto

    GO (feat. Vector)

    • Ninja Tune.

  • Melba Moore

    Standing Right Here

    • Unreleased.

  • Margie Lomax

    God's Greatest Gift To Man Is A Woman

    • Golden Flamingo Records.

  • D’Leesa

    Healer

    • D'Leesa.

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