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Coffee Break: Spiders and creepy crawlies

by Anna Reed

February 01, 2017

What songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?
What songs do you want to hear for today's 9:30 Coffee Break?Courtesy of Emily Falkenberg

Today Jay Gabler stopped by to tell us about the latest Rock and Roll Book Club pick -- Woody Woodmansey's 'Spider from Mars: My Life with Bowie'.

Jay says: "With Mick Ronson on guitar and Trevor Bolder on bass, the Spiders from Mars would play a critical role in Bowie's evolution from a whimsical folk artist to a hard-hitting rock and pop force. Woodmansey doesn't bring a strong agenda to his book, but he does politely argue that the Spiders contributed significantly to Bowie's evolution during this period."

So for today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs about spiders and creepy crawlies do you want to hear?

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Songs played

The Flaming Lips - The Spiderbite Song
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito
Lightnin' Hopkins - I'm A Crawling Black Snake
Rebbie Jackson - Centipede
The Cramps - Human Fly
Elf Power - The Spider And The Fly
Veruca Salt - Centipede
Ramones - Spider-Man

Coffee Break: Spiders and creepy crawlies