Allison Cogen '08 and Abhishek Sharma '07

DJ of the Week: Dave Wilkinson '67 and LC Van Savage

What is the best album ever created? DW: Of albums produced during my student years, "Freak Out" by the Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. During my student years, this was something completely different. It was the one that said we were living in different times. LVS: All the albums with the music of George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jules Stein, Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, early Barbara Streisand and all the great duet albums of the '90s. And any albums or single made by the great Ray Charles.

DJ of the Week: Rachel Levene '06

What is the best album ever created? RL: I am going to stick with hip-hop here, and I have to give at least four: Nas's "Illmatic," Notorious B.I.G's "Ready to Die," Jay-Z-'s "Reasonable Doubt," and A Tribe Called Quest's "The Low-End Theory." Also, I know I said hip-hop, but you MUST own Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue" and John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme."

DJ of the Week

Allison Cogen '08 and Abhishek Sharma '07

April 14, 2006

What is the best album ever created?

AC: Neutral Milk Hotel's "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea," Modest Mouse's "The Lonesome Crowded West," and The Magnetic Fields' "69 Love Songs" are all great albums, though.

AS: Any album from Lucky Ali has to be the best one. The soundtrack of "Rang De Basanti" is also awesome.

What's the best band to see live?

AC: Limiting it to bands I've actually seen perform, I'd have to say Phish.

AS: Bollywood Dance Group from ANOKHA!

What song pumps you up?

AC: Volcano, I'm Still Excited!!'s "In Green" always gives me a strong desire to go do something violent and awesome.

AS: Right now, Roobaroo from the movie "Rang De Basanti" is warming my ears.

What song brings you down?

AC: DeVotchKa's "How It Ends" and Iron and Wine's "Upward Over the Mountain." They're both gorgeous and sad..

AS: "Kabhi Aisa Lagta Hai" by Lucky Ali.

If you were the dictator of a small country, what would be your national anthem?

AC: Soul Coughing's "Casiotone Nation." The lyrics change every time you sing it! It would make me laugh, and drive everyone else crazy.

AS: Mwah...just "DJ Abhishek" pasted million times...

If you were on stage with a mic in front of thousands of screaming fans, what would you say?

AC: That's a scary situation! I'd hand the mic to Abhishek and run away.

AS: First they will need to shut up (so I can talk), and then I will say "Wuzzzzzzup...any brown people in the house?!"

Cogen and Sharman can be heard on "Namaste Bowdoin!" from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Sundays on WBOR 91.1 FM.

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