Hello, partygoers! As we head into the final stretch of the Listening Party, we thought we’d take some time to read and comment on your own comments that have been sent into the show over the last few months.

It goes without saying – but we’re going to say it anyway – that the party wouldn’t have been half as fun without your contributions. Your thoughts, opinions, stories, alternate song choices, and jokes have made this podcast a real joy to do.

Of course, it wouldn’t really be the Listening Party without music, and Dave has stepped up big time to offer us four fun Top 5 categories and some truly great songs. We think you’re really going to enjoy it!

Top 5 Hair Songs:1) The Cowsills – “Hair” – MGM single b/w “What Is Happy?”, 1968 – 06:412) Pearly Gates Music – “Gossamer Hair” – Pearly Gates Music, 2010 – 21:243) Wimple Witch – “Marmalade Hair” – Tales from the Sinking Ship, 2009 – 29:504) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – “Almost Cut My Hair (Full Version)” – CSN, 1991[1970] – 35:595) White Denim – “Mess Your Hair Up” – Workout Holiday, 2008 – 58:09Bonus Hair Song:6) Chimera – “The Lady with Bullets in Her Hair” – Holy Grail, 2002 – 1:05:36

Top 5 Train Songs:1) Five Man Electrical Band – “Private Train” – Five Man Electrical Band, 1969 – 1:14:332) Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio – “Train Kept A-Rollin’” – Coral Records single b/w “Honey Hush”, 1956 – 1:22:153) Cindy and the Playmates – “Don’t Stop This Train” – Kemp Records single b/w “A Portrait of God’s Love”, 1972 – 1:29:444) Michael Hurley – “Water Train” – Hi-Fi Snock Uptown, 1972 – 1:40:205) The Monkees – “Steam Engine” – Listen to the Band, 1991 [1969] – 1:52:46Bonus Train Song:6) The Rising Sons – “2:10 Train” – Rising Sons featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder, 1992 – 1:57:12

Top 5 Rodent Songs:1) No Fun – “Rodents Fair” – Snivel, 1984 – 2:04:152) The Kinks – “Rats” – Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One [also b-side to “Apeman” from the same album], 1970 – 2:09:333) The Monochrome Set – “Mousetrap” – Trinity Square, 1995 – 2:16:234) Junior Wells – “When the Cat’s Gone the Mice Play” – USA Records single b-side to “She’s a Sweet One”, 1963 – 2:23:345) The Modettes – “White Mice” – The Story So Far, 1982 – 2:27:24

Top 5 Tack Piano Songs (for Ed Draganski):1) The Mojo Men – “Sit Down, I Think I Love You” – Reprise single b/w “Don’t Leave Me Crying Like Before”, 1967 – 2:43:102) The Hollies – “Ye Olde Toffee Shoppe” – Evolution, 1967 – 2:52:393) Mike D’Abo – “(See the Little People) Gulliver Travels” – Immediate single b/w “An Anthology of Gulliver’s Travels – Part Two”, 1969 – 2:57:024) The Bunch – “Spare a Shilling” – CBS Records single b/w “Looking Glass Alice”, 1967 – 3:04:195) The Beach Boys – “Heroes and Villains [Alternate version]”, Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys, 1993[1966} – 3:11:26Bonus Tack Piano Song:6) Freddie and the Dreamers – “I Want to Go to the Overworld” – Oliver in the Overworld, 1970 – 3:22:32

Also spinning on the old Victrola:

Tori Amos – “Mr. Zebra” – Boys for Pele, 1996 – 2:39:01Gary Usher – “Scorpio” – The Astrology Album, 1967 – 3:16:17

Thanks for listening.

Dept. of Corections:The word David was looking for was “spindle” – a record sits on a spindle on a turntable.The original singer for Manfred Mann was Paul Jones,