| 1 | Alice | winter sports |
| 2 | Chocolate Jesus | chocolate |
| 3 | Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis | pathos |
| 4 | Diamonds on My Windshield | road trips |
| 5 | Dirt in the Ground | stairs & elevators |
| 6 | Earth Died Screaming | end of the world |
| 7 | Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson) | restaurants & cafes |
| 8 | Filipino Box Spring Hog | recipe songs |
| 9 | First Kiss | first love |
| 10 | Frank’s Wild Years | short songs |
| 11 | Georgia Lee | lost and found |
| 12 | Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza House) | Friday & Saturday |
| 13 | God’s Away on Business | chaos |
| 14 | Hell Broke Luce | army |
| 15 | I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love with You | pubs & bars |
| 16 | I Never Talk to Strangers (with Bette Midler) | dialogue |
| 17 | Ice Cream Man | ice cream |
| 18 | In the Neighborhood | boring & mundane |
| 19 | Innocent When You Dream | promises & choices |
| 20 | Jersey Girl | na-na-hey-hey songs |
| 21 | Jockey Full of Bourbon | incidental music |
| 22 | Just the Right Bullets | shooting |
| 23 | (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night | sound effects |
| 24 | Martha | songs that make you cry |
| 25 | On the Nickel | crisis |
| 26 | The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) | drinking |
| 27 | Picture in a Frame | photographs |
| 28 | Shiver Me Timbers | itinerants & migration |
| 29 | Singapore | adventure |
| 30 | Soldier’s Things | memorabilia & souvenirs |
| 31 | Spidey’s Wild Ride | superheroes |
| 32 | Starving in the Belly of a Whale | cetaceans |
| 33 | Step Right Up | sales, selling & bargains |
| 34 | Step Right Up | volume |
| 35 | Swordfishtrombone | tall tales |
| 36 | Tango Till They’re Sore | falling |
| 37 | Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) | national anthems |
| 38 | Underground | basements & underground |
| 39 | Watch Her Disappear | surveillance |
| 40 | Way Down in the Hole | TV theme songs |
| 41 | What’s He Building? | questions for titles |
| 42 | Yesterday Is Here | regressing & reversing |