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What was played: A wide selection of holiday musical treats including Richard Cheese, Wesley Willis, Speedy Gonzales and King Diamond!
Dennis’s Nickname: The Red-Nosed Reindeer
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What was discussed: Our second part in a multi-part series exclusively featuring the music of the late Frank Zappa. Songs played include “Why does it Hurt When I Pee?” “The Illinois Enema Bandit” and many selections from the debut album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, “Freak Out!”
Dennis’s Nickname: The Man who wishes he could showboat half as much as Mike Portnoy
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What was discussed: Due to a news drought in the anticipation of E3, the music of Frank Zappa was discussed, and how you should be excited for Zappa Plays Zappa’s return to Winnipeg in August. Songs played included most of the “Apostrophe(‘)” album, “Let Me Take You To The Beach”, Captain Tortilla’s NES arrangement of “Peaches En Regalia” & the classic “I am the Slime”.
Dennis’s Nickname: The man who wants to know if that is a real poncho or a Sears poncho?
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What was played: We bring you some Christmas music cheer with help from our friends Richard Cheese, Stephen Colbert, The Ventures, Reverend Horton Heat, F***ing Lemmy, “Weird Al” Yankovic. Even Joe Pesci stops by to treat us with a song!
Dennis’s Nickname: The Cliched Christmas Special
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What was discussed: For the first time ever, we get in the “spirit” of Halloween with some dark and spooky sounds. To celebrate the occasion, we bring you music from Devin Townsend, Bruce Dickinson, Bobby Pickett, Blind Guardian, XTC, and “Macho Man” Randy Savage just to name a few!
Dennis’ Nickname: The Man Who’s Playing At The Albert Tonight
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What was played: This week, we forgo our standard format in favour of bringing you some choice musical selections. Featured on the show are cuts from Arnocorps, Nobuo Uematsu, XOC, Shnabubula, and the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain!
Dennis’s Nickname: The Staff Appreciation Day BBQ
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What was discussed: This week, we forgo our standard format in favour of bringing you some choice musical selections. Featured on the show are cuts from XOC, Braincells, and Jake “Virt” Kaufman!
Dennis’s Nickname: The Fan of Ben ‘Yahtzee’ Croshaw
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What was played: After recently discovering the awesome power of the video game metal band Powerglove, we thought it only right to share their awesomeness with you. So much so, in fact, that we decided to dedicate an entire show just to them and their music!
Dennis’s Nickname: The Risk Jockey
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What was played: For the first time ever, The Arcade does away with all that jibber-jabber about video games, and gets in the holiday mood by doing an entire show of underappreciated Christmas music. We didn’t just prove that it could be done, we proved that it could be awesome! Tune in to hear tracks from “Weird Al” Yankovic, Wesley Willis, King Diamond, Tenacious D, Barenaked Ladies, plus a spine-tingling rendition of ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas performed by Henry Rollins!
Dennis’s Nickname: The Muppet Family Christmas
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