playlist courtesy of The Dr. Demento Show

The Best Of Dr. Demento #XM-55

June 12, 2004 - 9p ET (XM channel 6, Saturday night); June 13, 2004 - 12m ET (XM channel 40, Sunday night)

originally broadcast as The Dr. Demento Show #04-21 - May 23, 2004

Special Topic: the bar is open once again (the pleasures and perils of John Barleycorn)

The Crusher - The Novas
The Eggplant That Ate Chicago - Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band
Gitarzan - Ray Stevens
The Bertha Butt Boogie - Part 1 - The Jimmy Castor Bunch
Hey Ya! - Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine

My Brother's A Butthead - Barry & The Bookbinders
Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart - Johnny Cash
Gas Station Washroom (new version) - The Frantics
Demented News With Whimsical Will

An Agnostic Gospel Song - Actual Size
Let's Go After The Buddhists - Roy Zimmerman
No Nose Jobs - Hip Hop Hoodios

I Like Beer - Tom T. Hall
Save The Beer - Faust & Lewis
Delicious! - Jim Backus & Friend

The Irish Drinking Song - Man Bites God
Another Irish Drinking Song - DaVinci's Notebook
Clink, Clink, Another Drink - Spike Jones & His City Slickers
Glorious (edit) - Polkacide
The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) - Tom Waits

Wasn't That A Party - The Rovers
Hangover - Krypton
Little Bits And Pieces - Jim Stafford

#5 My Dead Dog Rover - Hank, Stu, Dave & Hank
#4 Morris The Moose - Lorne Elliott

#3 Stealing Like A Hobbit - the great Luke Ski
#2 Great Idea For A Song - Worm Quartet

#1 Sirius Black - Tony Goldmark
next week: a little taste of the space-ace bachelor pad music that was all the rage in 1994