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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I mean, there could not have been a more perfect ending to your wonderful year of programming than Matt Farley’s live performance of "People Like Raina Douris Because She's Great!" Thanks for bringing us so much great music in 2025, @rahrahraina.bsky.social, and best wishes for the year ahead!

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Ha! Thank you—I used the break to run one final errand. Hope you enjoyed your lunch, @djrobertdrake.bsky.social . Thank you for all you give to the world through the #NightBefore. Dinner’s almost ready here. Merry Merry! @wxpnfm.bsky.social

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

*Just* made my goal of getting dinner in the crock pot before @djrobertdrake.bsky.social starts playing that Groove Lily performance at noon (the only part of his otherwise amazing “Night Before” broadcast that I don’t like). Merry Christmas, @wxpnfm.bsky.social !

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Always look forward to the MEGA LIST reveal!

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Again, to clarify: Kristen Kurtis played One-Vote Wonders on the Morning Show 6-10 a.m. Mike Vasilikos played Patti Smith to start his show at 10 a.m. “People Have the Power” was neither a cover nor a One-Vote Wonder.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

That Patti Smith song was the first one Mike V played on the midday show, right? That's a Patti Smith original, not a cover.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Appreciate your efforts this morning — that was fun!

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Oh, wow -- I've never seen this video. It's fantastic!

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Loved hearing bluegrass in today’s One Vote Wonders with the Greensky Bluegrass song. Any folks who like this cover of “Atlantic City” should check out the Infamous Stringdusters’ Undercover albums; I had their version of The Cure’s “Just Like Heaven” on my Top 10 for the #XPNCountdown.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The two kids in this photo are now music-loving high schoolers who submitted Top 10 lists for this year’s #XPNCountdown. I just confirmed that “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” was *not* on their lists, but I still like to think their love of music was born when they saw They Might Be Giants in 2010.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

In high school in the mid 90s, I was one of the cool kids who had The Lemonheads It’s a Shame About Ray CD before it was re-issued with the “Mrs. Robinson” bonus track. #XPNCountdown

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I enjoy the #XPNCountdown every year for so many reasons, but most of all I love that it allows us to hear @rahrahraina.bsky.social and @kallao.bsky.social as live @wxpnfm.bsky.social DJs. (To be clear, I love @worldcafe.bsky.social too, but it's fun to hear them just spinning records on our local.)

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Just got out of my last on-campus meeting of the semester to find that I missed two more songs from my Top 10 appear back-to-back on the #XPNCountdown: The White Stripes' "Jolene" and Toots & the Maytals' "Take Me Home, Country Roads." Those final day appearances bump my grade to a C for my Top 10.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

*Aaaaand* here we are -- on the final day of the #XPNCountdown, no less!

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Final class of the semester means by my final commute of the semester. I’m always grateful for the @wxpnfm.bsky.social Morning Show with Kristen & Bob to keep me company on the long drives, but I’m also thankful for the next 6 weeks of watching the sun rise at home instead of the highway.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I greatly prefer the Cap’n Jazz cover of “Take on Me” — had it at #3 on my Top 10 list, in fact. #XPNCountdown youtu.be/O9aHYMJmXo4

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Take On Me

YouTube video by Cap'n Jazz - Topic

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Your post brings to mind the Langley Schools Music Project. Does anyone else out there listening to the #XPNCountdown own this album? It was made in the late ‘70s at four different elementary schools in British Columbia. Actually some great covers on there, including several Beach Boys songs.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

And then a few years later, they gave the same treatment to Public Enemy and the Bomb Squad's work on It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back. www.kexp.org/read/2018/5/...

kexp.org

Announcing the Public Enemy Album Breakdown

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

@kallao.bsky.social Such a great question. I don't have an answer, but I wanted to draw attention to KEXP's phenomenal programming a decade ago: first, a day dedicated to playing every song from Paul's Boutique *plus* every song the Beastie Boys & Dust Brothers sampled. www.kexp.org/breakdown/pa...

kexp.org

2015: Beastie Boys

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

So many amazing DJs on @wxpnfm.bsky.social , but John Morrison is my favorite.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

John Morrison tracing some of the sampling history of that drumbeat.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I went to John Morrison and Josh Leidy's lecture two years ago on the History of Hip Hop Sampling -- so freaking good.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I saw them when the tour came to Pittsburgh my sophomore year of college. I had lawn seats and was muddy head-to-toe. A *great* show!

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

YES!!! My #1 pick makes it onto the #XPNCountdown. Gets me to 5 songs from my Top 10 with two days to go.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Just finished teaching my next-to-last class of the semester and checked in to see I missed the 3rd song from my Top 10 to make the #XPNCountdown: Nina Simone's cover of the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody."

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

@courtneybamboo.bsky.social I stand by my belief that Christmas songs shouldn’t be defined as covers. #XPNCountdown

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

No complaints about this run of music for my afternoon run. #XPNCountdown

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Off to a good start with Phil Collins! #XPNCountdown

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Heading outside for a run — hoping the next hour of the #XPNCountdown delivers plenty of fast-paced tunes.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I listen to @wxpnfm.bsky.social Monday through Friday but tune into eight hours of bluegrass every Saturday on WNCW out of Spindale, North Carolina. Thankful to them for introducing me to the Infamous Stringdusters several years ago.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Only a 20% for my Top 10 list at the midway point of the #XPNCountdown. Fortunately, most of the student writing projects I've been grading have scored much, much better.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I put The Bad Plus cover of "Flim" on my Top 10 list but have lost any hope at this point of hearing their music anywhere on the #XPNCountdown.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

YES!!! RATM's cover of "Renegades of Funk" appearing on the #XPNCountdown. Afrika Bambaataa's Planet Rock was one of the first cassette tapes I ever owned as a kid!

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

YES!!! Loved hearing Minor Threat's "Steppin' Stone" on the #XPNCountdown. It pained me to do it, but that song was *the* last one I cut from my list before getting to my Top 10.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

When I started writing for the entertainment section of my college newspaper, the first CD and the first concert I was assigned to review were both forgettable nü-metal bands (I can't even remember the bands), and hearing the opening notes of Limp Bizkit took me back to that awful first week.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I listen to *a lot* of classic country but decided not to put any country songs in there if the artists were just staying within the same genre because that happened so much back then. I mean, I *love* Ring of Fire, but I just thought this #XPNCountdown should be more for genre-crossing covers.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Ok, ok, thank you to everyone who voted for Limp Bizkit -- you've given me a reason to check out of the #XPNCountdown for a few minutes to do this grading.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I, for one, thought Art Garfunkel was covering The Flamingo's original.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I need to turn off the #XPNCountdown for 12 minutes to listen to a student's podcast submission, but the run of songs this past hour has been too good to miss.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Johnny Cash is my absolute favorite artist of all-time, but I didn't include any of his songs in my Top 10 list of covers because I knew so many other people would be voting for him that he'd still be well represented in the #XPNCountdown -- and you all certainly did not disappoint.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

And the second—and #2 ranked—song from my Top 10 list comes in at #524 on the #XPNCountdown: Al Green, “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I had to wait until Day 4 and Song #577, but I’ve finally heard one of my Top 10 choices in the #XPNCountdown: The Breeders, “Happiness is a Warm Gun.”

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Brief but dynamite set from The Budos Band. And now, back to the #XPNCountdown.

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Scott Wible @scottwible.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Taking a break from the #XPNCountdown to see some live music: The Budos Band playing @wxpnfm.bsky.social Free at Noon in Ardmore. Support your local public radio station, and support your local public transit!

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