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Coffee Break: (Parenthetic titles)

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?Sam Trewick | MPR

by Anna Weggel

October 25, 2018

Let's keep it easy this morning. We want you to put together a list of song titles that meet this criteria: words in parentheses.

For today's 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs do you want to hear that include parentheses in their titles?

Thanks to Loran, as always, for today's theme idea!

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

Have an idea for a Coffee Break topic? Submit your idea for a future theme and browse past Coffee Breaks in our archive. Or, when you register for a Minnesota Public Radio account, you can send requests via Alexa, too Just say "Alexa, ask The Current to play Song by Artist" e.g. "Alexa, ask The Current to play Left of the Dial by The Replacements."

Songs played

Ryan Adams - To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)
The Doors - Break On Through (To the Other Side)
Thao and The Get Down Stay Down - We The Common (For Valerie Bolden)
A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (I Had a Photograph of You)
R.E.M. - So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
Clinic - Harvest (Within You)
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)