Featuring songs from various artists who are 'the daddy'. Father's Day was launched in 1910, and also On This Day the Heimlich Manoeuvre saved its first life and the Garfield comic strip appeared. Jarvis interviews critic Simon Reynolds about his book Retromania - Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past. He believes that pop's past is overly influencing and even stifling its future, in an endless, meaningless feedback loop. They wonder about the generation who've been able to hear everything from the broad sweep of music history, freely available and decontexualised. But is wallowing in nostalgia a thing of the 00s, a phenomenon that's settling down now? Or are we doomed to repeat ourselves forever? Finally, we punch our way out of the retroscape with some innovative new music. Birthdays: Kathleen Turner (who buys her own roses), Wallis Simpson, Louis Jourdan, Sadie Frost, Paula Abdul, Nick Drake and Charlie Drake.
Big Daddy - Money for Nothing
Leonard Cohen - One of Us Cannot Be Wrong (live at Isle of Wight Festival 1970)
Iggy Pop - She Called Me Daddy
Scala and Kolacny Brothers - Creep
Nick Drake - Sunday
Charlie Drake - You Never Know
Kraftwerk - Hall of Mirrors
Zero Mostel - Father's Day
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Reminiscences
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
The XX - Infinity
Belbury Poly - Caermaen
J Dilla - Lightworks
Vampire Weekend - Diplomat's Son
Rory MacBeth - Yesterday Once More
Colourmusic - Yes
Animal Magic Tricks - Heavenly Bodies
Dengue Fever - Uku
Thurston Moore - Circulation
Rutman's Steel Cello Ensemble - All Over
Gablé - Unbeatable
Paul Simon - Rewrite
Battles - Ice Cream
