John Tobias (host)
12:04:54 PM
Yes, the chat is on. Hello one and all.
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Total Tobias
Jan 31, 2026 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Music
With John Tobias
Total Tobias is mostly newish indie rock in many of its’ forms while genre hopping, decade hopping and language hopping sometimes all in one song
One of these statements is true. Find out which one at noon.
At the top each hour we will start in 2026 and jump back one decade with each new song at least for the first 30 minutes.
Like or follow John Tobias on Radio Host to find out when I'll be on again.
| 12:03 PM |
| Cam Kahin read the room N CHUG Dine Alone Music Inc. 2026
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| 12:07 PM |
| Mitski Your Best American Girl Puberty 2 Dead Oceans 2016
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| 12:10 PM |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs Gold Lion Show Your Bones Interscope 2006
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| 12:13 PM |
| Weezer Getchoo Pinkerton Geffen 1996
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| 12:16 PM |
| Love and Rockets Kundalini Express Express Beggars Banquet 1986
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| 12:22 PM |
| Ramones I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend Ramones (Deluxe Edition) Rhino/Warner Records 1976
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| 12:24 PM |
| Love My Little Red Book Love (Bonus Track Version) Rhino/Elektra 1966
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| 12:26 PM |
| Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps Race With the Devil Dance To the Bop Parlophone Catalogue 1956
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| 12:30 PM |
| illuminati hotties Skateboard Tattoo Nickel on the Fountain Floor - EP Snack Shack Tracks / Hopeless Records 2025
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| 12:32 PM |
| Dream Nails This Is Water This Is Water - Single Marshall Records 2025
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| 12:35 PM |
| Twisted Teens Is It Real? N Is It Real? - Single Jazz Life 2026
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| 12:38 PM |
| Fog Lamp Hallway of Mirrors N Still Entangled Siltbreeze Records 2026
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| 12:43 PM |
| Fairground Attraction Perfect The First of a Million Kisses RCA Records Label 1988
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| 12:46 PM |
| Eddy Current Suppression Ring Shapes and Forms Shapes And Forms - Single Cool Death Records 2025
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| 12:50 PM |
| R.M.F.C. Ecstatic Strife Ecstatic Strife - Single Anti Fade Records 2025
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| 12:52 PM |
| Two Feet Lost Your Ghost N Lost Your Ghost - Single 2026
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| 12:57 PM |
| Softcult Not Sorry N When A Flower Doesn't Grow Easy Life Records 2026
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| 1:01 PM |
| King Solomon Hicks Driftin' and Driftin' N How Did I Ever Get This Blue Provogue 2026
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| 1:05 PM |
| Jeff Rosenstock Wave Goodnight to Me WORRY. SideOneDummy Records 2016
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| 1:08 PM |
| The Long Blondes Once & Never Again Once & Never Again / Five Ways to End It - Single Rough Trade 2006
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| 1:11 PM |
| Sammy Neptune Ave. (Ortho Hi Rise) Tales of Great Neck Glory Interscope 1996
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| 1:15 PM |
| The Feelies The High Road L The Good Earth Bar/None Records 1986
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| 1:19 PM |
| The Runaways Cherry Bomb The Runaways Island Def Jam 1976
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| 1:21 PM |
| The Bobby Fuller Four I Fought the Law I Fought the Law: The Best of the Bobby Fuller Four Rhino 1966
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| 1:24 PM |
| Shirley and Lee Let the Good Times Roll Blowing the Fuse - 30 R&B Classics that Rocked the Jukebox in 1956 Bear Family Records GmbH 1956
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| 1:29 PM |
| Quick Romance Brian Jones's Hair N Brian Jones's Hair - Single Damaged Goods Records 2025
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| 1:31 PM |
| Yo La Tengo Tom Courtenay L Electr-O-Pura Matador 1995
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| 1:35 PM |
| Shintaro Sakamoto Numb N Yoo-hoo Zelone Records 2026
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| 1:42 PM |
| Lewis OfMan Electronicity N 50KWTTS
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| 1:46 PM |
| Obongjayar Not In Surrender Paradise Now September Recordings 2025
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| 1:50 PM |
| Brown Horse Twisters N Total Dive 2026
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| 1:54 PM |
| Hop Along Powerful Man L Painted Shut Saddle Creek 2015
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| 2:00 PM |
| Coach Party Nurse Depression N Nurse Depression - Single 2026
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| 2:02 PM |
| Parquet Courts Human Performance Human Performance Rough Trade 2016
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| 2:06 PM |
| TV on the Radio Wolf Like Me Return to Cookie Mountain Touch and Go Records 2006
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| 2:11 PM |
| Belle and Sebastian Seeing Other People If You're Feeling Sinister Jeepster Recordings Ltd 1996
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| 2:15 PM |
| The Go-Betweens Spring Rain (Remastered) Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express (Remastered) Beggars Banquet 1986
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| 2:18 PM |
| David Bowie Stay Station to Station (2016 Remaster) Parlophone UK 1976
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| 2:24 PM |
| 13th Floor Elevators You're Gonna Miss Me The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators Oldays Records 1966
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| 2:28 PM |
| Ratboys The World, So Madly N Singin’ to an Empty Chair New West Records, LLC 2026
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| 2:32 PM |
| Tinariwen & Solafa Elyas Sagherat Assani (feat. Sulafa Elyas) N Hoggar 2026
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| 2:35 PM |
| The B-52's Dance This Mess Around The B-52's Rhino/Warner Records 1979
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| 2:40 PM |
| Gigi Message N Thank You Sam - Single PhD ETC. Jr. 2025
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| 2:44 PM |
| Spiritualized Shine a Light Lazer Guided Melodies Fat Possum 1992
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| 2:52 PM |
| Interpol Untitled (2012 Remaster) Turn On the Bright Lights (The Tenth Anniversary Edition - 2012 Remaster) Matador 2002
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| 2:56 PM |
| Fatboy Slim, The Rolling Stones & High Contrast Satisfaction Skank (High Contrast Remix) N Satisfaction Skank (High Contrast Remix) - Single 2026
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Chat is archived.
Richard Mitnick
12:11:29 PM
I have been clicked in. Happy to have you in my digiteria. I hope you have a great show.
John Tobias (1)
12:12:37 PM
Thanks Richard. It’s gonna be a quick 3 hours.
Amy Lee
12:13:56 PM
Happy to get to listen to your show!
John Tobias (1)
12:14:40 PM
Thanks Amy, I know you have excellent taste.
Rob from snow-encrusted Maryland 🦀
12:23:53 PM
Hi John and everyone. I love the idea of decade-hopping
John Tobias (1)
12:26:53 PM
Thanks Rob, I’ve been thinking about it for awhile.
Amy Lee
12:27:25 PM
Oh yeah!
John Tobias (1)
12:30:53 PM
I know, right
Amy Lee
12:33:42 PM
Your show makes me want to bust out a cassette & hit record on the boom box.
John Tobias (1)
12:35:39 PM
I’m radio blushing
John Tobias (host)
12:38:42 PM
Thanks, I'm not messing around today.
Ears
12:41:45 PM
Good afternoon everybody ☺️ I missed the song, but Illuminati hotties made me smile
John Tobias (host)
12:43:34 PM
you can always catch snippet of it on the playlist.
John Tobias (host)
1:08:53 PM
I love this song for it's message to young ladies.
John Tobias (host)
1:09:27 PM
I know how it feels to be your age
Amy Lee
1:16:33 PM
Your show is pure joy.
John Tobias (host)
1:16:58 PM
Thanks Amy, that was the plan.
Ears
1:20:58 PM
🍒 💣
John Tobias (host)
1:21:17 PM
A classic
Ears
1:23:55 PM
Seeing her play at Mann this summer was a 🪣 list event
John Tobias (host)
1:25:04 PM
Nice, I haven't yet.
Roffle 0x7EA
1:30:19 PM
Everybody knows, nobody understands...
John Tobias (host)
1:30:30 PM
you got it
Roffle 0x7EA
1:30:50 PM
I like the going back in time theme Toby
Roffle 0x7EA
1:31:06 PM
Sorry...
John Tobias (host)
1:31:46 PM
thanks, I like to throw a curveball every so often
Roffle 0x7EA
1:31:47 PM
Sir Tobias I meant to say... :)
John Tobias (host)
1:32:05 PM
I figured as much
Roffle 0x7EA
1:33:13 PM
I can see taking that concept full on WPRB style. I mean this is the pop version sorta. I like the idea nonetheless.
Roffle 0x7EA
1:33:37 PM
Time is pretty long
Roffle 0x7EA
1:34:28 PM
For now
John Tobias (host)
1:35:14 PM
I'm no philosopher but music brings it all together for me - universal
Roffle 0x7EA
1:36:21 PM
Philosophers dance too
John Tobias (host)
1:38:00 PM
There's probably songs about that
Roffle 0x7EA
1:38:24 PM
Lets write it if not. :)
John Tobias (host)
1:39:26 PM
I only spin
Roffle 0x7EA
1:39:58 PM
Sophi's dervishes got there first I guess.
John Tobias (host)
1:43:04 PM
I'll have to check it out
David Shortell
1:44:19 PM
Why is Eleanor Bron referenced in a song called "Tom Courtenay"? What's the connection?
Fran Blanche
1:44:20 PM
I love me some surprise Tobias!
Roffle 0x7EA
1:44:51 PM
Whirling dervishes, 1300's religious entertainment industry output.
John Tobias (host)
1:45:23 PM
Roffle, I'm waiting on the reissue
John Tobias (host)
1:46:03 PM
Thanks Fran. I kicked it off with the Swanky promo
John Tobias (host)
1:47:05 PM
David, how could you not know the answer? This is shocking
Roffle 0x7EA
1:47:11 PM
Old label, bought by Nonesuch I think.. :)
Rob from snow-encrusted Maryland 🦀
2:03:20 PM
John et al., I'm heading out, have enjoyed the show a lot. Until the next time!
John Tobias (host)
2:04:01 PM
Thanks Rob
Roffle 0x7EA
2:04:16 PM
You landed my favorite Parquet Courts piece. Well done.
Roffle 0x7EA
2:05:26 PM
Be safe Rob. Frozen feathers can be sharp.
John Tobias (host)
2:05:51 PM
Good to know, Roffle
Roffle 0x7EA
2:06:25 PM
I have too much time on my hands...
John Tobias (host)
2:07:48 PM
spending that time listening toWPRB seems like a great use of said time.
michael gudgeon
2:08:41 PM
aww ya!
Roffle 0x7EA
2:09:49 PM
I have three screens and two computers going constantly And one of those screens is WPRB dedicated to scooping up all this insanely good music here that comes along. I am no fool. This is science.
John Tobias (host)
2:11:33 PM
Reminds me of Charlie in IASIP trying to figure out the case on a board. Can't pull up the meme at this moment.
John Tobias (host)
2:12:45 PM
This song reminds me of Clifford the Bid Red Dog intro.
Roffle 0x7EA
2:12:53 PM
I get your point. lol Method to a madness.
Roffle 0x7EA
2:14:38 PM
Belle and Sebastian has a nice way of finding a catchy groove that is rather pleasant.
John Tobias (host)
2:14:59 PM
yup
David Shortell
2:29:09 PM
I don't think I've ever read "Clifford the Big Red Dog". Who wrote the intro?
John Tobias (host)
2:30:40 PM
Not sure, but it's piano-driven with a similar vibe. It'sprobably just me.
John Tobias (host)
2:54:36 PM
I decided to go with a lot of big hitters on this sunny but frigid day.
John Tobias (host)
2:59:33 PM
Thanks for all the comments today.
Roffle 0x7EA
2:59:44 PM
Thank you Sit Tobias, Hop Along was a get takeaway for me. Did not know of them. Have a great week.
Tyler B.
2:59:57 PM
Hahaha this is hot as hell
michael gudgeon
2:59:59 PM
sick mashup
John Tobias (host)
3:00:14 PM
I know, right, it's fun, what can I say
John Tobias (host)
3:00:38 PM
sure thing, roffle