(Special Music Released on 9/11/2001 Episode) Curiously, several of my most eagerly anticipated and favorite records of 2001 were released that year's most famous day: 9/11. On this weeks show, we listen to music I bought on 9/11/2001. First up, California's fantastic ex-band Beulah does "Cruel Minor Change" from their stellar album The Coast if Never Clear (iTunes, Amazon). Then my favorite band Brooklyn's own They Might Be Giants did their lovely cover of Georgie Fame's "Yeah! Yeah!" from their album Mink Car (Amazon). Followed by the great UK electronic group Groove Armada who's "Super Stylin'" was found on their Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub) (iTunes, Amazon). Tho we heard the "radio edit" which can be found on the Single (Amazon). Then Ben Folds, who's solo career launched on 9/11, did "Annie Waits" from his quality record Rockin' the Suburbs (iTunes, Amazon) Ben Folds also, by the way, has a new collection of recent work coming out soon. And finally Austin's The American Analog Set did the title-track from their album Know by Heart (iTunes, Amazon). This week's episode features the poem called "For the Falling Man" by Annie Farnsworth read by Garrison Keillor for The Writers Almanac, as well as a notorious clip from the American Taliban's own Jerry Falwell about who was responsible for the attacks of that day. Also, it was The Beatles' album With the Beatles that was released November 22nd, 1963.

First up New York City's Ratatat did "Wildcat" from their brand new album Classics (iTunes, Amazon) which I think is a notably better album than their previous one. Next London-based Frenchie Fabienne Delsol (known more commonly as 'the lead singer for The Bristols') did "When My Mind is Not Live" from her album No Time for Sorrows (iTunes, Amazon) which despite how it sounds came out in 2004 not the mid-60's. Then the Brazilian phenomenon that is CSS (not 'Cascading Style Sheets', but 'Cansei de Ser Sexy' which is Portuguese for 'I'm Tired of Being Sexy') did their superb hit "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above" from their self-titled debut album (iTunes, Amazon). And finally Sweden's Peter, Bjorn and John did "Young Folks" which features former lead singer for The Concretes, Victoria Bergsman (who has a new project called Taken By Trees) from their new album Writer's Block (iTunes, Amazon). iTunes has a new, silly, set of playlists for "back to school" so you youngin's can know what clique you belong in. Apparently TSiMH is in the "hipster" clique (as two songs from this week's very show are in said playlist, along with many songs I've played in the past), tho I seriously doubt that label myself. For instance, I don't own any white belts at all. This week's episode features a clip of Geogre W. Bush being retarded. Watch it.

(Note: Kelli "Heartily Approves" of this episode of TSiMH.) First up, Brooklyn's unique One Ring Zero did a fairly non-representative track called "This Ain't No Love Song" from their brand new record Wake Them Up (Amazon, iTunes). Then SiMH favorite Norway's Erlend Øye has a new release, the band this time round is The Whitest Boy Alive, we heard "Fireworks" from the new record Dreams (iTunes, Amazon). Next Sweden's Teddybears have reinvented themselves with a new record coming out in a couple of weeks called Soft Machine (Amazon) which features guest appearances by a wide variety of peeps, including Iggy Pop who performs the song "Punkrocker" which is one of two tracks available now in iTunes. Then France's Nouvelle Vague did a great cover of Echo and the Bunnymen's "The Killing Moon" from their brand new, purchase-worthy album Bande a Part (iTunes, Amazon). And finally, another song from the new One Ring Zero album, this one more representative of their sound, and also very good: "Here Come the Mannequins." This week's episode features a clip from Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, about Bush's summer (watch the whole un-edited clip at One Good Move), as well as a clip from the August 22nd episode of The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America Radio about the firing of an 81 year old Sunday School teacher.

First up, Australia's Treetops did their single "Gospel" from the EP by the same name (Amazon). Next was Albany's The Gazetteers doing "Bedroom Community" from their debut album Territory Songs (iTunes, Amazon). (Note: you can download this song for free from their label's site.) Then Minnesota's indie pop/folk band The Owls did "Air" from their album Our Hopes and Dreams (iTunes, Amazon). Next Portland's Boy Crazy did "Stark Street" from their 2001 album Foreign Words (iTunes, Amazon). And finally, since I have a soft-spot in my heart for the Muppets, I thought I should let you know about something pretty amazing that my friend Jodi alerted me to. An online Muppet music archive! They have TONS of Muppet music which has been out of print for decades, that has never been released on CD at all, and more. And all of it is just free to download, for as long as they don't get shut down I guess. Much of it is cheesy and doesn't really hold up to the test of time, but other stuff is pure genius. We heard a favorite of mine, a cover of Billy Joel's classic "New York State of Mind" performed by Rolf the Dog on Ol' Brown Ears is Back (go to download).

(SPECIAL SOUTHEAST-ASIAN EPISODE!) First up, essential Bollywood classic "Jann Pehechaan Ho" by Mohammed Rafi as featured in the movie and on the soundtrack for Ghost World (iTunes, Amazon), which makes getting your hands on that quality cut simple. Next Los Angeles' faux-Cambodian awesomeness Dengue Fever did "Tip My Canoe" from their album Escape from Dragon House (iTunes, Amazon). Next another great Bollywood track, remixed to be even better, "Gur Nalon Ishk Mitha (Remix)" by the UK's The Bollywood Brass Band from a compilation album called Funkadelica - Dancing to a Different Drum (iTunes, Amazon), which is surprisingly good. Then we heard a great cover of The Beatles' "Lady Madonna" by Sodsai Chaengkij which is my favorite song on Thai Beat a Go-Go Vol. 2 (iTunes, Amazon) which features Thai bands from the 60's doing Go-Go music. Yes, it's greatness. Then Deng Bai Ying did "Shuang Shuang Yan" from the soundtrack to In the Mood for Love (Amazon). And finally we heard "Chaiyya Chaiyya Bollywood Joint" from the soundtrack to the Spike Lee Joint Inside Man (iTunes, Amazon). The song is a remix by Panjabi MC featuring Sukhwinder Singh and Sapna Awasthi performing the classic song "Chaiyya Chaiyya" by A. R. Rahman for the film Dil Se.

First up, Everything But the Girl's Tracey Thorn's first band, the UK's Marine Girls did "In Love" from a collection of their early-80's-but-non-early-80's-sounding songs called Lazy Ways / Beach Party (iTunes, Amazon). Next we heard two fabulous tracks from the new fabulous The Pipettes album We are the Pipettes (iTunes, Amazon). We heard "Because It's Not Love (But It's Still a Feeling)" and "One Night Stand". Then New Hampshire's The Juan Maclean did "Give Me Every Little Thing" from his 2005 album Less Than Human (iTunes, Amazon). And finally she may have new music out, but Kirsty Hawkshaw's old band Opus III (also from the UK) was pretty quality too. We heard take-me-back-to-the-early-90s hit "It's a Fine Day" from the album Mind Fruit (Amazon). There are several remixes in iTunes, as well as a vocals only version, which is kinda cool, on a compilation called Pillows and Prayers vol. 2 (iTunes), which also happens to feature the Marine Girls. Go figure. This episode features a clip from the August 4th episode of The Rachel Maddow Show on Air America Radio about Pat Robertson.

First up, Sweden's indie pop Komeda did "Happyment" from their 1998 album What Makes it Go? (iTunes, Amazon) which is their best. Next we heard two short songs by UK pop duo Pipas' best album A Cat Escaped (iTunes, Amazon), 2002 "Rock and-or Roll" and "Barbapapa". Then for something completely different, perhaps the best, certainly one of the most prolific, Brazilian samba pioneer Nelson Cavaquinho did "Nao Vem" from his acustic bossa nova record from 1977 called Quatro Grandes Do Samba (Amazon). And finally a couple of songs from Athens, Georgia' Casper & the Cookies' new album The Optimist's Club (HHBTM, Stick Figure). We heard "Barking in the Garden of Ill Repute" and "Duchamp's Camera". To finish out this episode of TSiMH, another track from Komeda's What Makes it Go? (iTunes), we heard "It's Alright, Baby". This week's episode features two clips featuring the evil, crazy bitch Ann Coulter. The first from the Late Show with David Letterman (watch), the second from the CBC's program The Fifth Estate hosted by veteran journalist Bob McKeown (watch the whole special).