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Going back through some 2018 episodes before placing my best-of votes. I feel this one needs to be #1 this year. It was pure manic-laughter-inducing gold.

Album representation: Chronic Town - 6 Murmur - 10 Reckoning - 10 Fables of the Reconstruction - 6 Lifes Rich Pageant - 11 Document - 7 Green - 4 Out Of Time - 4 Automatic For The People - 9 Monster - 4 New Adventures In Hi-Fi - 5 Up - 1 Reveal - 0 Around The Sun - 0 Accelerate - 0 Collapse Into Now - 1

Songs with multiple appearances In 4 guests' lists: So. Central Rain (Reckoning) Nightswimming (Automatic For The People) In 3: Talk About The Passion (Murmur) (Don't Go Back To) Rockville (Reckoning) Fall On Me (Lifes Rich Pageant) Electrolite (New Adventures in Hi-Fi) In 2: Wolves, Lower (Chronic Town) Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars) (Chronic Town) Pilgrimage (Murmur) Shaking Through (Murmur) Pretty Persuasion (Reckoning) Life And How To Live It (Fables of the Reconstruction) Cant Get There From Here (Fables of the Reconstruction) Begin The Begin (Lifes Rich Pageant) These Days (Lifes Rich Pageant) Exhuming McCarthy (Document) Finest Worksong (Document) Near Wild Heaven (Out Of Time) Me In Honey (Out Of Time) Crush With Eyeliner (Monster) E-Bow The Letter (New Adventures In Hi-Fi) also in 2, albeit two different versions: Radio Free Europe

In anticipation of Scott and Scott's lists / to keep in the one place, for comparison, etc. ---- David Wain (ep #36 - Slowing It Down) 10 - Talk About The Passion (Murmur) 9 - Wolves, Lower (Chronic Town) 8 - I Believe (Lifes Rich Pageant) 7 - Swan Swan H (Lifes Rich Pageant) 6 - Radio Free Europe (Murmur) 5 - Stumble (Chronic Town) 4 - Catapult (Murmur) 3 - So. Central Rain (Reckoning) 2 - Cant Get There From Here (Fables of the Reconstruction) 1 - Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars) (Chronic Town) ---- April Richardson (ep #37 - The Scary One) 10 - All The Best (Collapse Into Now) 9 - Electrolite (New Adventures in Hi-Fi) 8 - World Leader Pretend (Green) 7 - Crush With Eyeliner (Monster) 6 - Nightswimming (Automatic For The People) 5 - Wolves, Lower (Chronic Town) 4 - Exhuming McCarthy (Document) 3 - Life And How To Live It (Fables of the Reconstruction) 2 - So. Central Rain (Reckoning) 1 - Fall On Me (Lifes Rich Pageant) ---- Edgar Wright (ep #41 - Man on the Moon Soundtrack) chronological, Superman was in top 11, dropped from top 10 due to being a cover Radio Free Europe (Hib-Tone single) (Don't Go Back To) Rockville (Reckoning) Begin The Begin (Lifes Rich Pageant) These Days (Lifes Rich Pageant) Underneath The Bunker (Lifes Rich Pageant) The One I Love (Document) It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Document) - Edgar's #1 Stand (Green) New Orleans Instrumental No.1 (Automatic For The People) Nightswimming (Automatic For The People) ---- Todd Barry (ep #44 - Around the Sun) more than 10, "semi-chronological" Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars) (Chronic Town) Shaking Through (Murmur) Pilgrimage (Murmur) Harborcoat (Reckoning) Good Advices (Fables of the Reconstruction) What's The Frequency, Kenneth? (Monster) Finest Worksong (Document) Me In Honey (Out Of Time) Electrolite (New Adventures In Hi-Fi) Find The River (Automatic For The People) Begin The Begin (Lifes Rich Pageant) Fall On Me (Lifes Rich Pageant) The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite (Automatic For The People) ---- Dave Holmes (ep #47 - Accelerate) accidental (?) top eleven 10 - Me In Honey (Out Of Time) 9 - E-Bow The Letter (New Adventures In Hi-Fi) 8 - (Don't Go Back To) Rockville (Reckoning) 7 - Alive and Living Now (The Golden Palominos featuring Michael Stipe) 6 - Nightswimming (Automatic For The People) 5 - Shaking Through (Murmur) 4 - These Days (Lifes Rich Pageant) 4 - Near Wild Heaven (Out Of Time) 3 - You Are The Everything (Green) 2 - Pretty Persuasion (Reckoning) 1 - Life And How To Live It (Fables of the Reconstruction) ---- Haley Joel Osment (ep #49 - Collapse Into Now) 10 - Tongue (Monster) 9 - Sad Professor (Up) 8 - Talk About The Passion (Murmur) 7 - So. Central Rain (Reckoning) 6 - Near Wild Heaven (Out Of Time) 5 - Man On The Moon (Automatic For The People) 4 - E-Bow The Letter (New Adventures In Hi-Fi) 3 - Crush With Eyeliner (Monster) 2 - Try Not To Breathe (Automatic For The People) 1 - Electrolite (New Adventures In Hi-Fi) ---- Jason Mantzoukas (ep #50 - Covers of R.E.M.) chronological, songs that "provoked nostalgia", retroactively says he "probably should have put" Gardening At Night in the list. Pilgrimage (Murmur) Talk About The Passion (Murmur) Catapult (Murmur) So. Central Rain (Reckoning) Pretty Persuasion (Reckoning) (Don't Go Back To) Rockville (Reckoning) Driver 8 (Fables of the Reconstruction) Cant Get There From Here (Fables of the Reconstruction) Fall On Me (Lifes Rich Pageant) Superman (The Clique cover/Lifes Rich Pageant) Finest Worksong (Document) Exhuming McCarthy (Document) King Of Birds (Document) Orange Crush (Green) Belong (Out Of Time) Nightswimming (Automatic For The People)

Michael's sister, Lynda Stipend, is credited on 'Bandwagon'

Carl Tart is a(n inter)national treasure. I was convulsing with laughter for the opening. Part of it was just because the singing was so funny - but also, laughing at the fact that he was going to have to sustain it for the duration of the episode. Scott's blatant setups later on were gold. Especially when Carl didn't seem to get them quite so immediately.

I'm surprised Orange Crush didn't elicit a "FUNKY!" response. That bass line - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_2RZzxr2J4 Also - is this the first/only episode of this podcast not to feature any sub-podcasts?! (actually, I can't remember how soon into UTU2TM - episode 2 or 3?)

I think 'Get In The Dolphin Tank' has been the most enduring Off Book number in my head so far - I still keep find myself singing it, weeks later.

That single, one-line harmony is already one of my all-time great CBB moments. It was incredible.

As soon as I saw the announcement/heard the teaser last week, I was giddy with anticipation. Jessica McKenna has been a standout for me on CBB and I4H over the last year or so. Listening to this first ep, my high expectations have been met and then exceeded. Bravo all round.

The Old Gray Lady?

This charac - http://comedybangban.../Frasier_Fonzie ? This ep . http://www.earwolf.c...e-best-of-2010/ ? This part - https://soundcloud.c...-2010#t=1:16:02 ?

I noticed this seemed to slip by unannounced...(?) on Howl

I declare Mike Hanford the winner of this particular show. He was truly and utterly magnificent.

Don't be a Carlos!