Thanks again to Courtney for coming up with the vast majority of these! I’m so glad to be able to collaborate with her, even from afar. Since I’m hardly a Broadway expert, I wasn’t at all tempted to break this month’s rule, but it also sent me down a musicological path where I started wondering “what IS a showtune?” Because you could make arguments that certain pop songs that were never technically in stage musicals are still showtunes in the sense that ‘Die Hard’ is a Christmas movie.

Anyway, here is the matrix, for reference, and my list, below:

1. Spinal Tap – “Gimme Some Money”
2. Airiel – “In Your Room”
3. The Coup / Dead Prez – “Get Up”
4. Leadbelly – “The Bourgeois Blues”
5. Richard Marx – “Endless Summer Nights”
6. Carl Douglas – “Dance the Kung Fu” (the little-remembered miiiiilking-it follow-up to his legendary one hit wonder)
7. American Steel – “Maria” (this song is so good, I’ll go out of my way to link it here)
8. The Stone Roses – “I Wanna be Adored”
9. The Field Mice – “Emma’s House”
10. Rob Zombie – “Dragula”
11. ABBA – “Mamma Mia”
12. Scissor Sisters – “Take Your Mama”
13. The Zombies – “Beechwood Park”
14. Steve Martin – “Late for School”
15. The Chicks – “Gaslighter”
16. The Queers – “Everything’s OK”
17. Gang of Four – “Guns or Butter”
18. Red City Radio – “Where We’re Going We Don’t Need Roads”
19. The Pietasters – “Girl Take It Easy”
20. A.C. Newman – “Drink to Me Babe Then”
21. Groovie Ghoulies – “Hair of Gold (and Skin of Blue)”
22. The Hextalls – “I’m the Best (in Bed)”
23. Fountains of Wayne – “Valley Winter Song” (RIP Adam Schlesinger)
24. Jens Lekman – “I Know What Love Isn’t” (feat. Busman’s Holiday!)
25. Jaya the Cat – “Shit Jobs for Rock”
26. The Get Up Kids – “I’m a Loner, Dottie, a Rebel”
27. Lungfish – “Put Your Hand in my Hand” (I had to go with Moss Icon on Instagram, since Dischord’s catalog isn’t on there)
28. New Order – “Touched by the Hand of God”
29. Poison – “Talk Dirty to Me”
30. Jets to Brazil – “Cat Heaven”

Thanks for playing and your continued support, everybody. The December Song Challenge will go up here tomorrow at 8am ET. Here is a clue to your December theme, below. It’s a bad clue, because almost everybody who loves the featured artist will immediately get it, but a clue nonetheless. NO (public) GUESSES.