playlist courtesy of The Dr. Demento Show

The Best Of Dr. Demento #XM-50

scheduled for May 8, 2004 - 9p ET (XM channel 6, Saturday night), but XM-45 played instead; actually played May 9, 2004 - 12m ET (XM channel 40, Sunday night); most of "Edna" plus Demented News from original broadcast omitted for no known reason

originally broadcast as The Dr. Demento Show #02-19 - May 12, 2002

Special Topic: motherly dementia

Boris The Spider - The Who
Peter Parker - the great Luke Ski f/ Sudden Death
Silent "e" - Tom Lehrer
Dear God - Worm Quartet

Crayfish - Scurvy Pirates
Whips And Chains - Clyde Brown
Edna (brief excerpt) - Strapped

The Wiener Dog Polka (edit) - Polkacide
Rover (The Shaggy Dog Song) - Tony Hendra & Nic Ullett
Food Of Choice - Seán Cullen

Bungalow Bill Ad Nauseum - Cab City Combo
Hey, Mr. Postman! (uncensored) - Henry Phillips
You Don't Love Me Anymore - "Weird Al" Yankovic

Mother - Madre - Mommy - Dick Price
Happy Mother's Day (early fade) - David Peel & The Lower East Side
My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama - The Mothers Of Invention
My Mother Is A Space Cadet - Dweezil
I'm Just Your Mom - Bill Larkin

Mad At My Mother (uncensored) - Steve Martin
Everybody Has To Have A Mother - Alice Stone
Quennel's Mom - The Frantics
Oedipus Rex (live) - Tom Lehrer
I Took My Mother To A Cockfight - Mike Toomey
Mother's Day Medley - edited by Blair Freeman

#5 Me Like Hockey - The Arrogant Worms
#4 I Like - Heathen Dan

#3 Ballad Of The Big Buffet - Mylo Hatzenbuhler
#2 Reinstalling Windows - Les Barker

#1 Charliesomething - Eric Schwartz
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