April 2

1. R.E.M. - Life and How to Live it (Live in Utrecht, 1987) - And I Feel Fine: The Best of the I.R.S. Years
2. Martha and the Muffins - Swimming - This is the Ice Age 1981
3. Martha and the Muffins - Luna Park - Trance and Dance 1980
4. Blondie - Island of Lost Souls - The Hunter 1982
5. Guided by Voices - Barricade - Sandbox 1987
6. Patti Smith Group - Space Monkey - Easter 1978
7. Randy Newman - Mr. Sheep - Born Again 1979
8. Pop Will Eat Itself - Dance of the Mad Bastards - Cure for Sanity 1991
9. Happy Mondays - Dennis and Lois - Pills'N'Thrills'N'Bellyaches 1990
10. Ken Nordine - Beige - Colors 1966
11. Throwing Muses - Juno - House Tornado 1988
12. Throwing Muses - Red Shoes - The Real Ramona 1991
13. Gruppo Sportivo - P.S. 78 - Mistakes 1978
14. King Missile - Martin Scorsese (PG-13) - Happy Hour 1992
15. The Kinks - Hay Fever - Misfits 1978
16. The Kinks - Live Life - Misfits 1978
17. Jane's Addiction - Ocean Size - Nothing's Shocking 1988
18. Killdozer - Seven Thunders - Twelve Point Buck 1989
19. Ken Nordine - Orange - Colors 1966
20. Stump - Eager Bereaver - A Fierce Pancake 1988
21. Soft Boys - He's a Reptile - Invisible Hits 1979
22. The Tell-Tale Hearts - Crawling Back to Me - The Tell-Tale Hearts 1985
23. Grant Hart - 2541 - Intolerance 1989
24. XTC - Love on a Farmboy's Wages - Mummer 1983
25. The Cure - Let's Go To Bed - Japanese Whispers 1983
26. Algebra Suicide - A Slap in the Face - Alpha Cue 1990

- Felt no great need to play anything in particular tonight, except the first 2 songs, so I played a bunch of things I'd never heard before. Finally played Killdozer.

- Got my third request from the insane mumbling person, this time requesting, of all the songs in the universe, "Hatred (A Duet)" from the Kinks' extremely unsuccessful 1993 album Phobia. I did the best I could, as you can see.

March 26

1. Martha and the Muffins - Swimming - This is the Ice Age 1981
2. Laid Back - White Horse - Street Jams: Electric Funk vol. 4 (1983)
3. Jesus and Mary Chain - Who Do You Love - "April Skies" 12" single 1987
4. Jesus and Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking - 12" single 1986
5. Bauhaus - The Sanity Assassin - 1979-1983 (1983)
6. Gang of Four - Paralysed - Solid Gold 1981
7. Blake Babies - Grateful - Earwig 1989
8. Salem 66 - Postcard - Frequency and Urgency 1987
9. Mission of Burma - Weatherbox - Signals, Calls and Marches 1981
10. Beakers - Thinking Postmodern - Four Steps Toward a Cultural Revolution (1980)
11. Delta 5 - Colour - Singles and Sessions 1979-81 (1980)
12. Let's Active - Mr. Fool - Every Dog Has His Day 1988
13. Let's Active - Writing the Book of Last Pages - Big Plans For Everybody 1986
14. New Order - True Faith - Substance 1987
15. New Order - Love Vigilantes - Low-life 1985
16. Michelle Shocked - Anchorage - Short Sharp Shocked 1988
17. The Police - Can't Stand Losing You - Outlandos d'Amour 1978
18. Pere Ubu - Final Solution - The Hearpen Singles (1977)
19. The Teardrop Explodes - Books - Kilimanjaro 1980
20. The Teardrop Explodes - Thief of Baghdad - Kilimanjaro 1980
21. Vōg - Step Ahead - Vōg 1982
22. The Associates - White Car in Germany - Sulk 1982
23. ABC - Poison Arrow - The Lexicon of Love 1982
24. R.E.M. - Life and How to Live it (live in Utrecht, 1987) - And I Feel Fine: The Best of the I.R.S. Years
25. When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water - Watching Scotty Grow - Bobby 1989

- "Weatherbox" was a request.
- There was a request for 1980s Sting, but all we had was Police albums. "Can't Stand Losing You" is a good song, though.
- Both turntables worked again!

March 19

-2. Hot Snakes - If Credit's What Matters I'll Take Credit - Automatic Midnight 2000
-1. Bloc Party - I Still Remember - A Weekend in the City GR-OR
0. Gob Iron - Hills of Mexico - Death Songs for the Living 2006
1. Wire - Surgeon's Girl - Pink Flag 1977
2. Wire - Fragile - Pink Flag 1977
3. Martha and the Muffins - Be Blasé - Trance and Dance 1980
4. Martha and the Muffins - Swimming - This is the Ice Age 1981
5. The Sound - The Fire - From the Lion's Mouth 1981
6. Whooping Cranes - Never Turn Away - That's What I Need 1987
7. Whooping Cranes - That Empty Space - That's What I Need 1987
8. Ride - Like a Daydream - 12" EP 1990
9. Kitchens of Distinction - Railwayed - Strange Free World 1990
10. Young Marble Giants - Wurlitzer Jukebox - Colossal Youth 1980
11. Flying Lizards - Her Story - The Flying Lizards 1980
12. Happy Mondays - Kuff Dam - Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) 1987
13. Yo La Tengo - Barnaby Hardly Working - President Yo La Tengo 1989
14. The Clash - I'm So Bored With the USA - The Clash 1977
15. Patti Smith Group - Space Monkey - Easter 1978
16. Michelle Shocked - Hello Hopeville - Short Sharp Shocked 1988
17. Liliput - Beri-Berti - Liliput (orig. 7" single, 1979)
18. They Might Be Giants - Boat of Car - They Might Be Giants 1986
19. They Might Be Giants - Absolutely Bill's Mood - They Might Be Giants 1986
20. Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Stool Pigeon - Wise Guy 1982
21. Beat Happening - Foggy Eyes - Beat Happening 1985
22. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - The Marshall - Lovelyville 1991
23. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Sinking boats - Lovelyville 1991
24. Pavement - In the Mouth a Desert - Slanted and Enchanted 1991
25. The Pogues - Greenland Whale Fisheries - Red Roses For Me 1984
26. Psychedelic Furs - Mr. Jones - Talk Talk Talk 1981
27. Proclaimers - Sean - Sunshine on Leith 1988
28. Soft Boys - Insanely Jealous - Underwater Moonlight 1980
29. Volcano Suns - Can I Have the Key? - Farced 1988
30. Lou Reed - My Red Joystick - New Sensations 1984

- Both turntables worked this week!
- Played They Might Be Giants for Michael at Wing Zone, if he was listening.
- Came in early, and nobody was here, so I played three new songs before 7 PM.

March 12

1. The Smiths - How Soon is Now? - Hatful of Hollow 1984
2. New Order - Love Vigilantes - Low-life 1985
3. Salem 66 - Desk Clerk - Frequency and Urgency 1987
4. Hagar the Womb - A Song of Deep Hate - Funnery in a Nunnery EP 1984
5. The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - She's on Drugs - Cult of the Basement 1990
6. Ramones - Judy is a Punk - The Ramones 1977
7. Ramones - Everytime I Eat Vegetables It Makes Me Think of You - Subterranean Jungle 1983
8. Young Marble Giants - Eating Noddemix - Colossal Youth 1980
9. Cocteau Twins - Orange Appled - Love's Easy Tears EP 1986
10. The Blue Hearts - Owaranai Uta - The Blue Hearts 1987
11. X - Burning House of Love - Ain't Love Grand 1985
12. Sugarcubes - Traitor - Coldsweat EP 1988
13. R.E.M. - Sitting Still - Murmur 1983
14. Big Black - Kerosene - Atomizer 1986
15. Bad Religion - Into the Night - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 1982
16. Pixies - Dig For Fire - Bossanova 1990
17. Beat Happening - Gravedigger Blues - Black Candy 1989
18. Martha and the Muffins - Boys in the Bushes - Danseparc 1983
19. Bodysnatchers - Ruder Than You - The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past (1980)
20. King Missile - Mr. Johnson - They 1988
21. Essential Logic - Aerosol Burns - Beat Rhythm News 1979
22. The Clash - The Call Up - Sandinista! 1980
23. The Clash - Drug-Stabbing Time - Give 'em Enough Rope 1978
24. Section 25 - Looking From a Hilltop - From the Hip 1984
25. Algebra Suicide - Connoisseurs of Lightning - Alpha Cue 1990
26. The Sundays - Hideous Towns - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic 1990
27. Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage - Fire 2003

- Big Black was a request, more specifically for Rapeman, which I thought we had, but couldn't find.
- Kristin was in the studio for this show, and assisted by figuring out which Blue Hearts song title was "Owaranai Uta".

March 5

1. Depeche Mode - Master and Servant - Some Great Reward 1984
2. Psychedelic Furs - Mr. Jones - Talk Talk Talk 1981
3. Essential Logic - Brute Fury - Pedigree Charm 1982
4. The Fall - How I Wrote "Elastic Man" - Palace of Swords Reversed (1982)
5. The Fall - Totally Wired - Palace of Swords Reversed (1982)
6. XTC - Melt the Guns - English Settlement 1982
7. R.E.M. - Feeling Gravity's Pull - Fables of the Reconstruction 1985
8. R.E.M. - Gardening at Night - Chronic Town EP 1982
9. Biff Bang Pow! - Ice Cream Machine - Love Is Forever 1988
10. Blue Aeroplanes - Gunning the Works - Friendloverplane 1988
11. Naked Raygun - Home of the Brave - All Rise 1985
12. The Clash - The Call Up - Sandinista! 1980
13. The Clash - Washington Bullets - Sandinista! 1980
14. Young Marble Giants - Eating Noddemix - Colossal Youth 1980
15. A Flock of Seagulls - Transfer Affection - Listen 1983
16. Comsat Angels - (Do the) Empty House - Fiction 1982
17. Nirvana - Negative Creep - Bleach 1989
18. Happy Mondays - God's Cop - Pills'N'Thrills'N'Bellyaches 1990
19. Lemonheads - Different Drum - Favorite Spanish Dishes EP 1990
20. Michelle Shocked - Down on Thomas St. - The Texas Campfire Tapes 1986
21. Michelle Shocked - Fogtown - The Texas Campfire Tapes 1986
22. Cocteau Twins - Orange Appled - Love's Easy Tears EP 1986
23. The Teardrop Explodes - Ha, Ha, I'm Drowning - Kilimanjaro 1980
24. Section 25 - Prepare to Live - From the Hip 1984
25. The Pogues - Bottle of Smoke - If I Should Fall From Grace With God 1988
26. Gang of Four - I Found That Essence Rare - Entertainment! 1979
27. The Flying Lizards - Summertime Blues - The Flying Lizards 1980
28. The Glands - Mutants on Motorcycles - 7" single 1980
29. The Glands - Don't Call Me - 7" single 1980
30. Let's Active - Every Dog Has His Day - Every Dog Has His Day 1988
31. The Swimming Pool Q's - The Knave - The Swimming Pool Q's 1984
32. Bloc Party - I Still Remember - A Weekend in the City GR-OR
33. The Pogues - The Broad Majestic Shannon - If I Should Fall From Grace With God 1988

- No human DJ was there either before or after my show, thanks to the Union closing at 5:30 for spring break, so I stayed until 9:30. This would ordinarily be a cause for sadness, since when you're coming on to follow up dead air you can have absolute certainty that nobody could possibly be listening to the first half hour of your show. But now that we have the automator it's not so bad.

- Both record players now have the slightly less severe problem that the left channel sometimes fades in and out. This made the Blue Aeroplanes song sound terrible, so I'll have to repeat it next week.

- "Bottle of Smoke" turned out to have about 20 cuss words in it, so maybe it's good that practically nobody but me was on the Pitt campus at the time to hear it.

- Last 3 songs are all good "last songs". Last.fm told me that #2 and #15 would be good choices.

- I liked the contrast between #15 and #16 as the light and serious sides of "new wave".

- #28 and #29 were recorded in the studio of Bobby DiMonte of Vōg fame.

February 26

1. Laid Back - White Horse - Street Jams: Electric Funk vol. 4 (1983)
2. Lemonheads - Different Drum - Favorite Spanish Dishes EP 1990
3. Toad the Wet Sprocket - Unquiet - Bread and Circus 1989
4. Big Dipper - Meet the Witch - Craps 1988
5. Salem 66 - Desk Clerk - Frequency and Urgency 1987
6. Echo and the Bunnymen - Heads Will Roll - Porcupine 1983
7. Vōg - In the Crowd - Vōg 1982
8. Martha and the Muffins - Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing - Danseparc 1983
9. Squirrel Bait - Sun God - Squirrel Bait 1985
10. A Flock of Seagulls - The Traveller - Listen 1983
11. Squeeze - Up the Junction - Cool for Cats 1979
12. The Cure - The Drowning Man - Faith 1981
13. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Candyman - Tinderbox 1986
14. Stranglers - Duchess - The Raven 1979
15. Flying Lizards - The Window - The Flying Lizards 1980
16. Liliput - A silver key can open an iron lock somewhere - Some Songs 1983
17. Algebra Suicide - A Slap in the Face (for the Season is Ending) - Alpha Cue 1990
18. Talking Heads - Life During Wartime - Fear of Music 1979
19. The Bats - Made Up In Blue - 12" single 1986
20. Bauhaus - She's In Parties - 1979-83 (1983)
21. The Bomb Party - Harry Was a Babysitter - British Airwaves ????
22. The Gun Club - Sex Beat - Fire of Love 1981
23. The Gun Club - Preaching the Blues - Fire of Love 1981
24. Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - She's on Drugs - Cult of the Basement 1990

- At least four regular listeners listening today! Three of whom requested something (7; 12; and 13, although what was actually requested was "Stargazer").

- This was a very good show, which is odd for a show that begins with three songs I'd never played before and contains 10 songs I'd never heard before. The Algebra Suicide song is absolutely great and much more accessible than anything else on that album or on the two EPs that are known to me.

- "Preaching the Blues" was much better than "Sex Beat", in my opinion.

February 19

1. The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make? - Hatful of Hollow 1984
2. Joy Division - She's Lost Control - Unknown Pleasures 1979
3. Depeche Mode - Master and Servant - Some Great Reward 1984
4. Shudder to Think - Shake Your Halo Down - Get Your Goat 1992
5. Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (live) - Stop Making Sense 1984
6. Specials - Too Much Too Young - The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past (1980)
7. ESG - Moody (Spaced Out) - A South Bronx Story (1981)
8. Liliput - Eisiger Wind - Liliput (1981)
9. Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business - Singles and Sessions (1979)
10. Throwing Muses - Tar Kissers - Limbo 1996
11. Tyro - Lonely - Audiocards 2000
12. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Upon this Tidal Wave of Young Blood - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 2005
13. The Cure - The Funeral Party - Faith 1981
14. The Cure - Why Can't I Be You? - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 1987
15. Beat Happening - Bewitched - Jamboree 1988
16. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden - Marie Antoinette OST (1979)
17. Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick (live) - Hype! OST 1991?
18. Tad - Giant Killer (live) - Hype! OST 1991?
19. Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane - Dirty 1992
20. Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf - Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing EP 1981
21. Lindsay Lohan - Frankie and Johnny - A Prairie Home Companion OST 2006
22. Frank Crumit - Frankie and Johnny - A Gay Caballero (1927)
23. The Soft Boys - Have a Heart Betty (I'm Not Fireproof) - Invisible Hits 1983
24. R.E.M. - Feeling Gravity's Pull - Fables of the Reconstruction 1985
25. Essential Logic - Moontown - Fanfare in the Garden (1980)
26. Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - Cheater's Heaven - Bait and Switch 1995

Turntables not working again! Intense disgust with the situation leading to a relaxing of the rules and the playing of songs from not one but THREE decades other than the eighties, given that about 95% of the things I wanted to play were on vinyl and thus unplayable. The other two things were the two versions of "Frankie and Johnny" recorded 78 years apart by a fellow born in the 1880s and a lass born in the 1980s. This emergency situation necessitated the use of the Kill Rock Stars anthologies for Liliput, Essential Logic, and Delta 5.

The other saving grace was the discovery of "Sugar Kane" which is now probably my favorite Sonic Youth song. Also, I hadn't heard "Lonely" in forever.

Talking Heads and Joy Division songs were at the request of Melissa who wanted to know what they sounded like. Somehow this is the first time I've ever played Joy Division.

February 12

This week a basketball game preempted my show, which was lucky because I was on a plane back from Banff and couldn't have done the show anyway. Now that I think about it, that really is lucky. Somehow it hasn't been preempted by a basketball game all semester, except at the time when I couldn't do it anyway.

SERENDIPITY

February 5

1. Smiths - Rusholme Ruffians - Meat is Murder 1984
2. Smiths - Vicar in a Tutu (live) - Rank 1988
3. Wygals - Eat a Horse - Honyocks in the Whithersoever 1989
4. Blake Babies - Sanctify - Sunburn 1990
5. Pete Shelley - Homosapien - Homosapien 1981
6. Psychedelic Furs - Into You Like A Train - Talk Talk Talk 1981
7. The Moodists - Hey Little Gary - British Airwaves ????
8. Crime and the City Solution - Free World - The Bride Ship 1989
9. The Makers of 'The Dead Travel Fast' - The Dumbwaiters - Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 (1980)
10. The B-52's - Private Idaho - Wild Planet 1980
11. The Blue Hearts - Linda Linda - The Blue Hearts 1987
12. ABC - Poison Arrow - The Lexicon of Love 1981
13. Sisters of Mercy - Marian - First and Last and Always 1985
14. Mission of Burma - Mica - Vs. 1982
15. Hüsker Dü - Ice Cold Ice - Warehouse: Songs and Stores 1987
16. Talking Heads - Swamp (live) - Stop Making Sense 1984
17. Flying Lizards - Her Story - The Flying Lizards 1980
18. Section 25 - Looking From a Hilltop - From the Hip 1984
19. The Classic Brown - Proud Private, Give Leave - Down With Fun 2006
20. Throwing Muses - Colder - House Tornado 1988
21. The Fall - Shoulder Pads version 1 - The Domesday Pay-Off 1987
22. Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction - Stranger Than Fiction 1993
23. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God - If I Should Fall From Grace With God 1989
24. Bright Eyes - Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh - Fevers and Mirrors 2002
25. Soft Cell - Down in the Subway - This Last Night In Sodom 1984

Melissa wanted to hear some Smiths songs.

Bright Eyes and "Marian" were requests. Somehow I never thought to look for Sisters of Mercy albums before, but we have one early one. Someone requested "Tainted Love", but I was forced to play "Down in the Subway" instead, which is a very similar song in many ways but is faster and therefore probably better objectively though less singalongable.

The Classic Brown was a request by someone who appeared to be a member of The Classic Brown. I played it because it's actually in our automator and was in our rotation, and thus it's not a CD that came to us unsolicited and was placed in the discard bin after a hearty "LOL WTF THIS SUX" from our music director. It turned out to be really good, actually, resembling the Throwing Muses song I was then inspired to play.

Finally got to play the Flying Lizards.

Played the Bad Religion song mainly because it provided a great lead-in to the Pogues song.

January 29

1. Guided by Voices - Slopes of Big Ugly - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia 1989
2. The Wedding Present - My Favorite Dress - George Best 1987
3. Game Theory - Nothing New - Lolita Nation 1987
4. The Cure - Six Different Ways - The Head on the Door 1985
5. The Feelies - The Good Earth - The Good Earth 1986
6. Throwing Muses - Honeychain - The Real Ramona 1991
7. Madness - The Prince - The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past (1979)
8. The Higsons - Tear the Whole Thing Down - The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past (1982)
9. Section 25 - Looking From a Hilltop - From the Hip 1984
10. Soft Boys - I Got the Hots - Underwater Moonlight 1980
11. Thin Yoghurts - Girl on the Bus - Messthetics Greatest Hits (1980)
12. Sonic Youth - The Burning Spear - Sonic Youth EP 1982
13. Sonic Youth - Brother James - Kill Yr. Idols 1983
14. Talking Heads - Cities - Fear of Music 1979
15. The Bats - Sighting the Sound - Silverbeet 1993
16. The Wedding Present - Brassneck - Bizarro 1989
17. Dog Faced Hermans - Suppressa - Mental Blocks For All Ages 1989
18. Beat Happening - Gravedigger Blues - Black Candy 1989
19. Scratch Acid - Damned For All Time - Just Keep Eating 1986
20. Scritti Politti - Skank Bloc Bologna - Early (1978)
21. Pete Shelley - Homosapien - Homosapien 1981
22. Gang of Four - Ether - Entertainment! 1979
23. Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again - Music for the Masses 1987
24. R.E.M. - Gardening at Night - Chronic Town EP 1982
25. R.E.M. - I Believe - Lifes Rich Pageant 1986
26. Surgery - Your Beautiful Smile - Trim, 9th Ward High Roller EP 1993

Turntables not working today for two different reasons, making the Game Theory song sound bad and the Feelies song sound absolutely awful. Hence, a few songs from the early 1990s. Good that we have all those Sonic Youth and Wedding Present CDs, and that we just got a 2-CD R.E.M. set called "And I Feel Fine: The I.R.S. Years".

Not a great show, and I don't think anyone was listening. High point was playing Scritti Politti's incredibly original début single.

January 22

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. Ultra Vivid Scene - The Mercy Seat - Ultra Vivid Scene 1988
3. Bauhaus - She's in Parties - 1979-1983 (1983)
4. The Pogues - Streams of Whiskey - Red Roses For Me 1984
5. The Blue Hearts - Linda Linda - The Blue Hearts 1987
6. Guided by Voices - White Whale - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia 1989
7. Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf - Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing 1982
8. Silos - She Lives up the Street - Cuba 1987
9. Hüsker Dü - Turn on the News - Zen Arcade 1984
10. Gang of Four - I Found That Essence Rare - Entertainment! 1979
11. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Cities in Dust - Tinderbox 1986
12. Global Infantilists - Passing - Global Infantilists 1981
13. R.E.M. - King of Birds - Document 1987
14. The Cure - The Lovecats - Japanese Whispers 1984
15. XTC - Rocket From a Bottle - Black Sea 1980
16. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Love in a Void - The Peel Session (29th November 1977)
17. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Mirage - The Peel Session (29th November 1977)
18. Section 25 - Looking From a Hilltop - From the Hip 1984
19. The Sundays - Hideous Towns - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic 1990
20. Vōg - Playmate - Vōg 1982
21. Big Black - Colombian Necktie - Songs About Fucking 1987
22. Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne is Big Leggy - Battle Hymns for Children Singing 1983
23. Primitive Calculators - Pumping Ugly Muscle - Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 (1979)
24. The Ramones - Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? - End of the Century 1980
25. The Clash - Complete Control - The Clash 1977
26. X - You - See How We Are 1987
27. Paul Giovanni/Lesley Mackie - Willow's Song - The Wicker Man OST 1973


Good show today. Brewed with a sense of purpose. Some darkness.

The Cure and Siouxsie et al. were requests.

January 15

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. Guided by Voices - A Visit to the Creep Doctor - Sandbox 1987
3. Guided by Voices - The Future is in Eggs - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia 1989
4. Tin Huey - The Revelations of Dr. Modesto - Contents Dislodged During Shipment 1979
5. Bedful of Metaphysicians - Gravity Pulls the Trousers Down, Morality Pulls the Trousers Up - Bedful of Metaphysicians 1986
6. Black Flag - Drinking and Driving - In My Head 1985
7. Black Flag - The Crazy Girl - In My Head 1985
8. Wire - I Feel Mysterious Today - Chairs Missing 1978
9. Wire - Map Ref. 41°N 93°W - 154 1979
10. Thrashing Doves - Angel Visit - Trouble in the Home 1989
11. The Associates - Club Country - Sulk 1982
12. The Sound - Winning - From the Lion's Mouth 1981
13. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (live) - Bless Its Pointed Little Head 1968
14. Kim Wilde - Kids In America - Just Can't Get Enough! New Wave Hits of the 80's (1981)
15. Jason and the Scorchers - Six Feet Underground - Thunder and Fire 1989
16. Blake Babies - Grateful - Earwig 1989
17. Blake Babies - Cesspool - Earwig 1989
18. R.E.M. - Finest Worksong - Document 1987
19. R.E.M. - Turn You Inside-Out - Green 1989
20. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God - If I Should Fall From Grace With God 1988
21. The Pogues - Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go - Red Roses For Me 1984
22. Section 25 - Looking From a Hilltop - From the Hip 1984
23. Pixies - Here Comes Your Man - Doolittle 1989
24. Essential Logic - Rat Alley - Pedigree Charm 1982
25. Bad Religion - It Must Look Pretty Appealing - No Control 1989
26. Bad Religion - 1000 More Fools - Suffer 1988
27. The F.U.'s - Young Fast Iranians - Do We Really Want To Hurt You? 1984
28. The Men They Couldn't Hang - Diamonds, Gold and Fur - Silvertown 1989
29. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead - 1979-1983 (1982)
30. Gob Iron - Silicosis Blues - Death Songs for the Living GR-OR
31. Hot Chip - Over and Over - The Warning 2006


- Hunter didn't come in to do the metal show after mine, so I played a couple new songs before telling the metal robot to do the metal show.

- More Tin Huey - that band was really something interesting.

- #5 speaks for itself. Perhaps the best Wilkes-Barre-based comedic prog-rock band of the mid-80s.

- "Angel Visit" is a song I liked as a little kid. Yes, I watched 120 Minutes as a little kid. My dad went through a phase of being fascinated by the art form of the independent music video.

- Good combo of intensely rocking R.E.M. songs, although I screwed up the attempt to segue between them. Next week play "King of Birds" (had completely forgotten about that song until today).

- 20 and 21 are equally rocking but the juxtaposition shows you how much the Pogues evolved from their improperly punky beginnings.

- 23 was a request by Kelly.

- Two people requested Jefferson Airplane, both in annoying ways. The second guy then requested Poison, followed by Pat Benatar. I decided "Kids In America" was the closest thing to Pat Benatar I could find.

- Saw no need to play Ken Nordine because we'd listened to the entire Colors album on a trip back from Michigan on Sunday. He will be back next show.

January 8

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. Specials - A Message To You Rudy - The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past (orig. 1979)
3. Bodysnatchers - Ruder Than You - The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past (orig. 1980)
4. ABC - Date Stamp - The Lexicon of Love 1982
5. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God - If I Should Fall From Grace With God 1988
6. The Pogues - Turkish Song of the Damned - If I Should Fall From Grace With God 1988
7. Flogging Molly - Death Valley Queen - Drunken Lullabies 2002
8. Young Marble Giants - Include Me Out - Colossal Youth 1979
9. Depeche Mode - Master and Servant - Some Great Reward 1984
10. The Cure - Six Different Ways - The Head on the Door 1985
11. The Smiths - Handsome Devil - Hatful of Hollow 1984
12. Section 25 - Up To You - Always Now 1980
13. Section 25 - Looking From a Hilltop - From the Hip 1984
14. Broadcast - America's Boy - Tender Buttons 2005
15. Soul Asylum - Beggars and Choosers - Hang Time 1988
16. New Creatures - Icon in the Fields - Rafter Tag 1987
17. Rudements - Imagination - :30 Over DC - Here Comes the New Wave! 1979
18. The Take - Summer - Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 (orig. 1979)
19. Young Fresh Fellows - Get Outta My Cave - The Men Who Loved Music 1987
20. R.E.M. - Orange Crush - Green 1989
21. Sham 69 - Angels With Dirty Faces (live) - Live and Loud sampler 1988
22. Cock Sparrer - Working (live) - Live and Loud sampler 1988
23. Specials - Maggie's Farm - The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past (orig. 1980)
24. Tom Waits - What Keeps Mankind Alive? - Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill 1985
25. Soft Boys - Leppo and the Jooves - A Can of Bees 1979
26. Ken Nordine - Burgundy - Colors 1966
27. Ophelias - Turn Into A Berry - Oriental Head 1988
28. Breaking Circus - Took a Hammering - The Ice Machine 1986
29. Flour - Red - Flour 1988
30. Hüsker Dü - Flexible Flyer - Flip Your Wig 1985

Annoying development today. We are now required to type everything in all caps with underscores between words instead of spaces.

Good show though. Mostly rocking. Ken Nordine.

Show is now preceded by Melissa's post-rock show. It used to be preceded by Melissa's formatless show, but now she has a format.

When Melissa heard the Pogues she told me to play the Flogging Molly song. Then when she heard "Looking From a Hilltop" she told me to play the Broadcast song. "Looking From a Hilltop" is really amazingly un-dated for an electro-pop song from 1984.

21 and 22 were actually recorded in 1980 or 1983 or something.

End of year

December 18 I was very busy and the union wasn't open anyway. I suppose I could have taken a daytime slot, since everyone else had finals.

December 25 I wasn't here; w00t and so forth.

January 1 I had gotten back in time for my show but the union wasn't open.

December 11, 2006

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. Pere Ubu - Humor Me - The Modern Dance 1978
3. The Pop Group - We Are Time - Y 1979
4. The English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom - I Just Can't Stop It 1980
5. Chameleons UK - Mad Jack - Strange Times 1988
6. Echo and the Bunnymen - Read It In Books - Crocodiles 1980
7. Echo and the Bunnymen - All That Jazz - Crocodiles 1980
8. New Model Army - Vengeance - Vengeance 1984
9. They Might Be Giants - Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head - They Might Be Giants 1986
10. They Might Be Giants - Number Three - They Might Be Giants 1986
11. Beat Happening - Bewitched - Jamboree 1988
12. Beat Happening - Red Head Walking - Dreamy 1991
13. Human Sexual Response - Land of the Glass Pinecones - In a Roman Mood 1981
14. Bright Light Fever - Broken Hands - Bright Light Fever Presents the Evening Owl 2006
15. The Cure - Six Different Ways - The Head on the Door 1985
16. Martha and the Muffins - World Without Borders - Danseparc 1983
17. Essential Logic - Brute Fury - Pedigree Charm 1982
18. Breaking Circus - Took a Hammering - The Ice Machine 1986
19. Volcano Suns - White Elephant - All-Night Lotus Party 1986
20. Bad Religion - Land of Competition - Suffer 1988
21. Railroad Jerk - From the Pavement - New York Eye and Ear Control 1990
22. Comsat Angels - (Do The) Empty House - Fiction 1982
23. Guided by Voices - Postal Blowfish - Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy OST 1996
24. Deerhoof - Dummy Discards a Heart - Apple O' 2003
25. ABC - Date Stamp - The Lexicon of Love 1982
26. Ramones - Bonzo Goes to Bitburg - 12" single 1985
27. The Blue Hearts - Hammer - Super Best (orig. 1988)
28. When People Were Shorter And Lived Near The Water - Watching Scotty Grow - Bobby 1989
29. Replacements - Left of the Dial - Tim 1985
30. Superchunk - Tie a Rope to the Back of the Bus - No Pocky For Kitty 1993
31. Swimming Pool Q's - The Knave - The Swimming Pool Q's 1984
32. Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist - Since I Left You 2000

- Bright Light Fever and Deerhoof were requests.
- TMBG went out from Stephanie to Michael.
- #28 certainly is weird, isn't it?
- discovered Breaking Circus who seem to be quite excellent.
- "Six Different Ways" is suddenly one of my favorite Cure songs.
- I don't know how this got to 31 songs (#32 was after 9 PM because the DJ after me didn't come in), after it started off with the 7-minute "We Are Time".
- Bright Light Fever is probably in rotation - I have to see what sort of rotation it's in.

December 4

1. Pere Ubu - Misery Goats - The Art of Walking 1980
2. Julian Cope - Screaming Secrets - Saint Julian 1987
3. Vōg - In the Crowd - Vōg 1982
4. The Sound - The Fire - From the Lion's Mouth 1981
5. Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again - Music for the Masses 1987
6. Liliput - Outburst - Liliput 1982
7. Delta 5 - Innocenti - Singles and Sessions (orig. 1981)
8. Belle and Sebastian - Judy and the Dream of Horses - If You're Feeling Sinister 1996
9. The Smiths - Sheila Take a Bow - Louder Than Bombs 1987
10. B-52's - Rock Lobster - The B-52's 1979
11. Bad Religion - Automatic Man - No Control 1989
12. Jazzawhaki - Don't Panic - British Airwaves (Abstract Records rarities sampler)
13. Iggy Pop - Plastic & Concrete - American Caesar 1993
14. Benton & the Bentonites - She's on Drugs - Meet the Bentonites 1987
15. Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - She's on Drugs - Cult of the Basement 1987
16. Shinehead - Chain Gang Rap - Unity 1988
17. ESG - Moody (Spaced Out) - A South Bronx Story (orig. 1983)
18. Martha and the Muffins - Primal Weekend - Trance and Dance 1980
19. Coheed and Cambria - A Favor House Atlantic - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 2003
20. The Fall - Wrong Place, Right Time - 458489 A Sides (orig. 1988)
21. The Fall - Clasp Hands - Fall Heads Roll 2005
22. Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane - Loaded 1970
23. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon - Ocean Rain 1984
24. The Blue Hearts - Linda Linda - The Blue Hearts 1987
25. Pixies - Here Comes Your Man - Doolittle 1989
26. Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna - Goodnight Vienna 1974
27. Ringo Starr - Occapella - Goodnight Vienna 1974
28. Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol - Definitely Maybe 1994
29. The Renees - Drink Problem - British Airwaves (Abstract Records rarities sampler)

This show was influenced by our trainees Kelly and Kaitlyn (#8, 10, 22, 25). Bad Religion, The Fall, and Iggy Pop were requests.

November 27

Couldn't do the show today because my car broke down and I couldn't get back to Pittsburgh in time. It needed a new idle air control valve and a new motor mount.

I guess getting it fixed there was probably cheaper than getting it fixed in Pgh would have been.

November 20

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. Missing Persons - Walking in L.A. - Spring Session M 1982
3. Depeche Mode - Master and Servant - Some Great Reward 1984
4. Beck - Paper Tiger - Sea Change 2002
5. Grateful Dead - All New Minglewood Blues - Shakedown Street 1978
6. The Stooges - Fun House - Fun House 1970
7. David Bowie - Subterraneans - Low 1977
8. Frida Hyvönen - Come Another Night - Until Death Comes GR-RD
9. Chavez - Top Pocket Man - Better Days Will Haunt You GR-OR
10. The Dears - Fear Made the World Go Round - Gang of Losers GR-RD
11. The Fall - Pacifying Joint - Fall Heads Roll 2005
12. Bad Religion - Progress - No Control 1989
13. Bad Religion - I Want Something More - No Control 1989
14. Pennywise - Homesick - Unknown Road 1993
15. Pennywise - Nothing - Unknown Road 1993
16. The Birthday Party - Blundertown - Prayers on Fire 1981
17. The Blue Hearts - Linda Linda - The Blue Hearts 1987
18. The Blue Hearts - Owaranai Uta - The Blue Hearts 1987
19. The Sound - Winning - From the Lion's Mouth 1981
20. Comsat Angels - Now I Know - Fiction 1982
21. Tarnation - Tell Me It's Not So - Gentle Creatures 1995
22. The Cure - Friday I'm In Love - Wish 1992
23. The String Cheese Incident - Mountain Girl - Untying the Not 2003
24. Blogurt - Squishyman - We Like To Eat 1995
25. The Modey Lemon - Crows - Thunder + Lightning 2003
26. The Clash - Complete Control - The Clash 1977
27. Fifty Tons of Black Terror - Creeper's Reef - My Idle Hands 2000
28. Beat Happening - Bewitched - Jamboree 1988

This show was influenced by our trainee Kelly and my birthday presents.

Tarnation was a request from Mr. McWade.

November 13

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. Pere Ubu - Final Solution - Terminal Tower 1985 (single 1976)
3. Television - Venus - Marquee Moon 1977
4. The Clash - The Call Up - Sandinista! 1980
5. The Clash - Junkie Slip - Sandinista! 1980
6. X - Breathless - More Fun in the New World 1983
7. X - I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts - More Fun in the New World 1983
8. Hagar the Womb - A Song of Deep Hate - Funnery in a Nunnery EP 1984
9. Global Infantilists - Passing - Global Infantilists 1981
10. The Exploited - Death Before Dishonour - Death Before Dishonour 1987
11. Naked Raygun - Soldiers Requiem - Jettison 1988
12. Blue Aeroplanes - World View Blue - Swagger 1990
13. It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home - Life's Hard and Then You Die 1987
14. They Might Be Giants - The World's Address - Lincoln 1988
15. XTC - Ten Feet Tall - Drums and Wires 1979
16. ABC - Tears are Not Enough - The Lexicon of Love 1982
17. It's Immaterial - Space - Life's Hard and Then You Die 1987
18. Eurhythmics - Right By Your Side - Touch 1983
19. TAD - Cyanide Bath - God's Balls 1989
20. Wee Papa Girl Rappers - Faith - WORD 2 1988
21. The Ophelias - Turn Into a Berry - Oriental Head 1988
22. Felt - The Day The Rain Came Down - Goldmine Trash 1987
23. New Small Appliances - Twirling Bodies - They Pelted Us With Rocks and Garbage 1985
24. R.E.M. - Catapult - Murmur 1983
25. Human Sexual Response - Land of the Glass Pinecones - In a Roman Mood 1981
26. The Smiths - Is It Really So Strange? - Louder Than Bombs 1987
27. The Adverts - One Chord Wonders - The Peel Session (25th April 1977)
28. The Feelies - Slipping (Into Something) - The Good Earth 1986

- 17 was a request after Mr. McWade heard 13.

- This show was all good songs, but maybe too eclectic. And yet, I didn't perform the ultimate act of ridiculousness, going directly from TAD to the Wee Papa Girl Rappers. There was a bunch of talk and promos between those two.

- 22, 23 and 24 was a set of bands I had never heard of at all.

- Heard the Feelies for the first time.

November 6

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. Gang of Four - A Hole in the Wallet - Solid Gold 1981
3. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon - Ocean Rain 1984
4. Fugazi - Blueprint - Repeater 1990
5. Fugazi - Give Me The Cure - Fugazi EP 1988
6. Hagar the Womb - A Song of Deep Hate - Funnery in a Nunnery EP 1984
7. Global Infantilists - Passing - Global Infantilists 1981
8. The Fall - The Man Whose Head Expanded - Palace of Swords Reversed 1987
9. Game Theory - The World's Easiest Job - Lolita Nation 1987
10. Game Theory - Look Away - Lolita Nation 1987
11. Blake Babies - Look Away - Sunburn 1990
12. The Smiths - Sheila Take a Bow - Louder Than Bombs 1987
13. The Ex - Brickbat - Joggers and Smoggers 1989
14. The Ex - Hieronymous - Joggers and Smoggers 1989
15. Dog Faced Hermans - Suppressa - Mental Blocks for All Ages 1989
16. Sugarcubes - Speed is the Key - Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! 1989
17. Reptile - Candyflos War - Fame and Fossils 1990
18. Michelle Shocked - Sleep Keeps Me Awake - Captain Swing 1989
19. Suzanne Vega - Neighborhood Girls - Suzanne Vega 1985
20. Replacements - Color Me Impressed - Hootenanny 1983
21. War on the Saints - Rainy Day - War on the Saints EP 1988
22. Hüsker Dü - Ice Cold Ice - Warehouse: Songs and Stories 1987
23. The Cure - The Walk - Japanese Whispers 1983
24. Camper Van Beethoven - Sometimes - Camper Van Beethoven II & III 1986
25. Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures of Matchstick Men - Key Lime Pie 1989
26. Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne Is Big Leggy - Battle Hymns For Children Singing 1983
27. Sex Clark Five - The Wehrmacht's Lament - Battle of Sex Clark Five 1989
28. The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - She's on Drugs - Cult of the Basement 1990
29. Lime Spiders - Blood From a Stone - The Cave Comes Alive! 1987
30. Pere Ubu - Misery Goats - The Art of Walking 1980

#3 was a request.
#6 and #7 were played on a CD player that turned out to be faulty (actually from an Abstract Records CD sampler). Play them again next week.

Errata

In the August 10 show, song #19 should actually be:

19. Robyn Hitchcock - Trams of Old London - I Often Dream of Trains 1986

October 30

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. David Bowie - Loving the Alien - Tonight 1984
3. Throwing Muses - Mexican Women - House Tornado 1988
4. Pere Ubu - Final Solution - Terminal Tower: An Archival Collection 1985 (orig. a 1976 single)
5. The Swimming Pool Q's - The Knave - The Swimming Pool Q's 1984
6. Young Fresh Fellows - Teenage Dogs In Trouble - The Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest 1984
7. Young Fresh Fellows - The New John Agar - Topsy-Turvy 1985
8. Julian Cope - Saint Julian - Saint Julian 1987
9. The Jazz Butcher - The Human Jungle - Bloody Nonsense 1986
10. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Radio, Radio - This Year's Model 1978
11. Elvis Costello - Clowntime is Over - Get Happy!! 1980
12. Human Sexual Response - Keep a Southern Exposure - In a Roman Mood 1981
13. Human Sexual Response - Land of the Glass Pinecones - In a Roman Mood 1981
14. Sex Clark Five - Liberate Tibet - Battle of Sex Clark Five 1989
15. Sex Clark Five - Girl I Like - Battle of Sex Clark Five 1989
16. Lou Reed - Something Happened - Permanent Record OST 1988
17. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Arabian Knights - Once Upon a Time: The Singles 1981
18. Beat Happening - I Let Him Get To Me - Beat Happening 1985
19. Beat Happening - Bewitched - Jamboree 1988
20. Camper Van Beethoven - The Humid Press of Days - Key Lime Pie 1989
21. Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures of Matchstick Men - Key Lime Pie 1989
22. Delta 5 - Innocenti - Singles and Sessions (orig. 1981)
23. Shriekback - Gunning For the Buddha - Big Night Music 1986
24. Sugarcubes - Delicious Demon - Life's Too Good 1988
25. Billy Bragg - Train Train - Talking with the Taxman about Poetry 1986
26. TAD - Wood Goblins - Salt Lick 1990
27. Martha and the Muffins - Suburban Dream - Trance and Dance 1980
28. Guided by Voices - Navigating Flood Regions - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia 1989
29. Guided by Voices - Adverse Wind - Sandbox 1987
30. The Smiths - Sheila Take a Bow - Louder Than Bombs 1987

- "Radio, Radio" was a request. Actually his first request was the Shaggs' "My Pal Foot Foot" but we did not have that.
- Found the Guided by Voices BOX of early albums! So played two songs.
- 12.5 songs in the first hour, 17.5 songs in the second hour.
- Songs I had never heard before: 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
- Those Human Sexual Response songs are both very good and weird.

October 23

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. Cocteau Twins - Orange Appled - Love's Easy Tears EP 1986
3. Martha and the Muffins - Monotone - Metro Music 1980
4. Pete Shelley - Homosapien - Homosapien 1981
5. Beat Happening - Fortune Cookie Prize - Dreamy 1991
6. Liz Phair - Divorce Song - Exile in Guyville 1993
7. The Cure - Kyoto Song - The Head on the Door 1984
8. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration (Black Tulip Mix) - "A Question of Time" remix EP 1986
9. Bauhaus - St. Vitus Dance - In the Flat Field 1980
10. T.S.O.L. - Colors (Take Me Away) - Revenge 1986
11. Dead Milkmen - Stupid Maryann - The Enigma Variations 1987
12. The Effigies - The Flock - Ink 1986
13. Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - The Man With the Lightbulb Head - Fegmania! 1985
14. Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - Airscape - Element of Light 1986
15. Close Lobsters - I Kiss The Flower in Bloom - Foxheads Stalk This Land 1987
16. Gang of Four - Paralysed - Solid Gold 1981
17. Gang of Four - What We All Want - Solid Gold 1981
18. Soft Cell - Little Rough Rhinestone - This Last Night in Sodom 1984
19. Simple Minds - Changeling - Real to Real Cacophony 1980
20. War on the Saints - Rainy Day - War on the Saints EP 1988
21. Slint - Nosferatu Man - Spiderland 1991
22. Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne Is Big Leggy - Battle Hymns for Children Singing 1982
23. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - I Need To Know - You're Gonna Get It 1978
24. The Swimming Pool Q's - The Knave - The Swimming Pool Q's 1984
25. Sugarcubes - Bee - Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! 1989
26. The Smiths - Nowhere Fast - Meat is Murder 1984
27. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Stool Pigeon - Wise Guy 1982

"Little Rough Rhinestone" is really a fascinatingly weird song.

Also, I think "Non-alignment Pact" will be the theme song from now on.
Points in its favor:
- It is short
- I own it on CD, more convenient than vinyl
- It is at the beginning of its album, suggesting that it was intended to begin things such as albums and radio shows
- It begins with a gradual accumulation of noise, which I can talk over, sounding better than just talking over silence
- It is by a famous band
- It is not boring
- It is from the beginning of the eighties/post-punk era

October 16

1. Martha and the Muffins - Boys in the Bushes - Danseparc 1983
2. Blake Babies - Don't Suck My Breath - Earwig 1989
3. Cucumbers - Don't Drop The Baby - The Cucumbers 1987
4. Christmas - Loved Ones - In Excelsior Dayglo 1986
5. Gang of Four - It's Her Factory - Yellow EP 1980
6. Gang of Four - I Found That Essence Rare - Entertainment! 1979
7. Talking Heads - Stay Hungry - More Songs About Buildings and Food 1978
8. Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers - Naked 1988
9. Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne is Big Leggy - Battle Hymns for Children Singing 1982
10. Squirrel Bait - Sun God - Squirrel Bait 1985
11. Pixies - Is She Weird - Bossanova 1990
12. Liliput - Outburst - Liliput 1982
13. Liliput - Tong Tong - Liliput 1982
14. Billy Bragg - Help Save the Youth of America - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry 1986
15. Roger Miller - The Nature Army - Groping Hands EP 1986
16. The Cure - The Upstairs Room - Japanese Whispers 1983
17. The Cure - The Walk - Japanese Whispers 1983
18. TAD - Helot - God's Balls 1989
19. Black Girls - Moonflower - Procedure 1989
20. David Bowie - Up the Hill Backwards - Scary Monsters 1980
21. About 9 Times - Walking Through Elephants - Play Jacks 1985
22. The Clash - Janie Jones - The Clash 1977
23. Joe Jackson - It's Different For Girls - I'm The Man 1979
24. Joe Jackson - I'm The Man - I'm The Man 1979
25. Braille Party - Welcome to Maryland - Welcome to Maryland 1984
26. Matt Pond PA - Lily Two - Emblems 2004
27. West, Bruce & Laing - Pollution Woman - Why Dontcha 1972
28. Echo and the Bunnymen - Read it in Books - The Peel Session (15th August 1979)
29. Devo - Through Being Cool - New Traditionalists 1981

The request for Oxo's "Whirly Girl" came in again. I can understand how one would be nostalgic about it, after seeing this. His second choice was Talking Heads, so I played two songs spanning their career.

Matt Pond PA was a request too.

Finally played "Pollution Woman"!

Songs 9 and 10 are the best attempt I've made so far to discover the two least compatible songs in music history.

October 9

1. The Cure - A Forest - Seventeen Seconds 1980
2. Martha and the Muffins - Boys in the Bushes - Danseparc 1983
3. Squeeze - Cool For Cats - Cool For Cats 1979
4. Squeeze - Up the Junction - Cool For Cats 1979
5. B-52's - Private Idaho - Wild Planet 1980
6. B-52's - Party Out of Bounds - Wild Planet 1980
7. Happy Mondays - God's Cop - Pills'N'Thrills'N'Bellyaches 1990
8. Big Black - Stinking Drunk - Atomizer 1985
9. Game Theory - Slip - Lolita Nation 1987
10. Young Fresh Fellows - Unimaginable Zero Summer - "The Men Who Loved Music" 1987
11. Young Fresh Fellows - When The Girls Get Here - "The Men Who Loved Music" 1987
12. Slint - Breadcrumb Trail - Spiderland 1991
13. Liliput - Feel like snakes, twisting through the fog - Liliput 1982
14. Benton & the Bentonites - Burning Heads In My Woodstove - Meet the Bentonites 1987
15. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Stool Pigeon - Wise Guy 1982
16. Sugarcubes - Regina - Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! 1989
17. Blue Aeroplanes - Severn Beach - Friendloverplane 1988
18. Bauhaus - She's in Parties - 1979-1983 (1983)
19. Bauhaus - Lagartija Nick - 1979-1983 (1983)
20. Love and Rockets - Motorcycle - Motorcycle EP 1989
21. Peter Murphy - The Line Between the Devil's Teeth - Deep 1989
22. Mudhoney - In 'n' Out of Grace - Superfuzz Bigmuff 1988
23. W.A.S.P. - Hellion - W.A.S.P. 1984
24. Sunny Day Real Estate - Red Elephant - LP2 1995
25. The Cucumbers - My Boyfriend - The Cucumbers 1987
26. The Waitresses - No Guilt - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? 1982
27. Megadeth - These Boots Were Made For Walkin' - Dudes OST 1987

Pretty great show today. Just about every kind of music, including several songs I'd never heard before, and a couple that weren't that good but context made them great.

Decided to play "Red Elephant", the most sincere song ever recorded, as penance for playing W.A.S.P.

Cucumbers and Blue Aeroplanes got positive responses.

A request came in for "Electric Dreams", by Giorgio Moroder and P.P. Arnold. At least I think it's by P.P. Arnold - David said that didn't sound right. At any rate, we don't have the soundtrack to the film Electric Dreams, and I don't know where else to find it. But while looking for the Electric Dreams soundtrack, I found the soundtrack to another movie I'd never heard of, which contained Megadeth's particularly Megadesque cover of "These Boots". Excellent, I must look through those compilations more often.

October 2

1. Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach - Metro Music 1980
2. Martha and the Muffins - You Sold The Cottage - This is the Ice Age 1981
3. Dinosaur Jr. - Raisans - You're Living All Over Me 1987
4. Dinosaur Jr. - Sludgefeast - You're Living All Over Me 1987
5. The Clarks - Perfection Not Required - I'll Tell You What Man... 1988
6. Liliput - A silver key can open an iron lock somewhere - Some Songs 1981
7. Pop Art - Subsiding - Snap Crackle Pop Art 1987
8. Pop Art - Flying and Falling - Snap Crackle Pop Art 1987
9. Mission of Burma - Trem Two - Vs. 1982
10. X - Burning House of Love - Ain't Love Grand 198
11. Naked Raygun - Blight - Jettison 1988
12. Bad Religion - Big Bang - No Control 1989
13. The Cure - Close To Me - The Head On The Door 1985
14. The Associates - White Car In Germany - Sulk 1982
15. The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses 1989
16. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - The Man With The Lightbulb Head - Fegmania! 1985
17. The Clouds - Get Out Of My Dream - Tranquil EP 1987
18. The Fall - Vixen - Rollin' Dany EP 1986
19. The Damned - Disco Man - The Light at the End of the Tunnel 1987
20. Tin Huey - I'm a Believer - Contents Dislodged During Shipment 1979
21. Tin Huey - I Could Rule the World if I Could Only Get the Parts - Contents Dislodged During Shipment 1979
22. Bauhaus - Terror Couple Kill Colonel - 1979-1983 (1980)
23. Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene - Bug 1989
24. Reptile - Boys Will Be Boys - Fame and Fossils 1990
25. Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt - EVOL 1986
26. Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket - Daydream Nation 1988
27. Undertones - Wednesday Week - Hypnotised 1980
28. The Sundays - Hideous Towns - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic 1990

Good show today --
- Pretty rocking and unboring
- Got to hear "White Car in Germany"
- Got to find out which song "Close To You" is - I couldn't recognize the title
- Discovered a great Robyn Hitchcock song
- Got to explain Tin Huey and find out what they sound like
- Got to say the word "Blight" a few times
- Trainee didn't show up
- Got a phone request that I was actually able to fulfill ("I Wanna Be Adored").
- Varun was enthusiastic about the Dinosaur Jr. and requested "Freak Scene"
- Left turntable was fixed halfway through the show

September 25

1. Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach - Metro Music 1980
2. Talking Heads - Life During Wartime - Fear of Music 1979
3. The Cucumbers - Tiger - The Cucumbers 1987
4. About 9 Times - Trench Coat Swing - Play Jacks 1985
5. The Cure - Friday I'm In Love - Wish 1992
6. Sundays - Skin & Bones - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic 1990
7. Stranglers - Peaches - Rattus Norvegicus 1977
8. Talking Heads - Girlfriend is Better (live) - Stop Making Sense 1984
9. Reptile - Allah - Fame and Fossils 1990
10. Bad Religion - Voice of God is Government - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 1982
11. Gang of Four - Contract - Entertainment! 1979
12. Kid Creole and the Coconuts - I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby - Wise Guy 1982
13. The Kinks - Misfits - Misfits 1978
14. Minutemen - Tour-Spiel - Project: Mersh EP 1985
15. The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? - Meat is Murder 1984
16. The Stooges - Loose - Fun House 1970
17. Blake Babies - Loose - Earwig 1989
18. The Swimming Pool Q's - She's Bringing Down the Poison - The Swimming Pool Q's 1984
19. Ne-Yo - Sexy Love - In My Own Words 2006
20. Aztec Camera - Jump - Backwards and Forwards EP 1985
21. Echo and the Bunnymen - Villiers Terrace - Crocodiles 1980
22. The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt - The Body, The Blood, The Machine GR-OR
23. Braille Party - Welcome to Maryland - Welcome to Maryland 1984
24. Julian Cope - Saint Julian - Saint Julian 1987
25. Jay-Z - Change the Game - CD single 2006
26. Hector Bambino "El Father" - Here We Go Yo - CD single 2006
27. Beat Happening - Collide - Dreamy 1991
28. Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon - The Real Ramona 1991
29. The dB's - A Spy In The House Of Love - Like This 1984

- 19 and 25 were chosen by Hip Hop Trainee Brian. I tried to make them fit in as little as possible for enhanced interestingness. Also I brought out what I believe is our only 80's hip hop, the M/A/R/R/S "Pump Up The Volume" 12", but it turned out to be warped.

- The Kinks and "Friday I'm In Love" were requests.

- I always enjoy playing "Not Too Soon" partially because it's the last song Tanya Donnelly recorded with the band, released on an album that I think came out after she left the Throwing Muses to form Belly, which is why it sounds exactly like a Belly song. It questions the notion of ownership yada yada yada authorship of whatever. Also, it rules.

September 18

1. Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach - Metro Music 1980
2. The Smiths - Barbarism Begins at Home - Meat is Murder 1984
3. Essential Logic - Quality Crayon Wax OK - Beat Rhythm News 1979
4. Dog Faced Hermans - Suppressa - Mental Blocks For All Ages 1989
5. The Cure - Boys Don't Cry - Boys Don't Cry 1980
6. Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny - Battle Hymns for Children Singing 1983
7. Arctic Monkeys - Still Take You Home - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 2006
8. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet - The Peel Session (4 May 1978)
9. The Vapors - Turning Japanese - New Clear Days 1980
10. Hot Hot Heat - Middle of Nowhere - Elevator 2005
11. Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Stool Pigeon - Wise Guy 1982
12. The English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom - I Just Can't Stop It 1980
13. Kaiser Chiefs - Time-Honoured Tradition - Employment 2005
14. They Might Be Giants - Cowtown - Lincoln 1989
15. Red Hot Chili Peppers - True Men Don't Kill Coyotes - The Red Hot Chili Peppers 1984
16. About 9 Times - Trench Coat Swing - Play Jacks 1985
17. Pixies - Gouge Away - Doolittle 1989
18. R.E.M. - Little America - Reckoning 1984
19. Reptile - Boys Will Be Boys - Fame and Fossils 1990
20. Devo - Jerkin' Back and Forth - New Traditionalists 1981
21. Test Icicles - Snowball - For Screening Purposes Only 2006
22. The Cure - The Lovecats - Japanese Whispers 1984
23. Soft Cell - Down in the Subway - This Last Night In Sodom 1984
24. The Associates - 18 Karat Love Affair - Sulk 1982
25. The Faint - Let the Poison Spill From Your Throat - Danse Macabre 2001
26. Private Spongebob Squarepants - The Best Day Ever - The Spongebob Squarepants Movie OST 2005
27. Falling Joys - You're In A Mess - Wish List 1990

Trainee Kyle picked 7, 10, 13 and 20. Zerbe requested 17, although I didn't realize until later that it was a request for a specific song (not "Gouge Away") instead of the entire album. A caller requested "Tainted Love", but I thought she would like "Down in the Subway" just as well, which she did. Also, she requested Chicago, which somehow we don't have, despite our many Styx and Nazareth and Ringo Starr and Suzi Quatro and Asia albums.

Also, I plan to play "Stool Pigeon" at least once a show for the next two and a half years. I hope you're prepared.

September 11

1. The dB's - A Spy in the House of Love - Like This 1984
2. The Cure - Why Can't I Be You? - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 1987
3. The Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing - Hatful of Hollow 1984
4. Prince & the Revolution - When Doves Cry - Purple Rain 1984
5. The Pop Group - Thief of Fire - Y 1979
6. The Silos - She Lives Up The Street - Cuba 1987
7. Liliput - Eisiger Wind - Liliput (orig. Rough Trade single 1981)
8. Delta 5 - Try - Singles & Sessions (orig. Rough Trade single 1980)
9. Soft Cell - Down in the Subway - This Last Night In Sodom 1984
10. Queen - You're My Best Friend - Queen Live Killers 1979
11. Talking Heads - Life During Wartime - Fear of Music 1979
12. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Pump It Up - This Year's Model 1978
13. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Posession - Get Happy!! 1980
14. R.E.M. - (All I Have To Do Is) Dream - Athens, GA.-Inside Out 1987
15. M.I.A. - Bucky Done Gun - Arular 2005
16. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Stool Pigeon - Wise Guy 1982
17. Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus - In a Priest Driven Ambulance 1990
18. The B-52's - Private Idaho - Wild Planet 1980
19. The Fall - Fit and Working Again - Slates EP 1981
20. Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach - Metro Music 1980
21. Men at Work - Dr. Heckyll and Mr. Jive - Cargo 1983
22. Alexi Murdoch - Orange Sky - Four Songs EP 2002
23. Vōg - In the Crowd - Vōg 1982
24. Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You - Underwater Moonlight 1980
25. Men Without Hats - Where Do The Boys Go? - Folk of the '80s (Part III) 1984
26. Alice Cooper - I Never Cry - The Alice Cooper Show 1977
27. The Clash - The Right Profile - London Calling 1979
28. Hüsker Dü - Games - Flip Your Wig 1985
29. Jamiroquai - Seven Days in Sunny June - Dynamite 2005

Good but weird show today. Trainee Dan picked 4, 10, 15, 21, 22, 26, and the decision to end with Jamiroquai. "Rock Lobster" was requested, but it wasn't on any of our three B-52's albums, so we played "Private Idaho". "Everyday I Write The Book" (or something by Oxo) was requested, but it wasn't on any of our eleven Elvis Costello albums, so I played two songs which should add up to be roughly as good. Also, I'd never heard of an R.E.M. version of that song before.

September 4

1. The Silos - Tennessee Fire - Cuba 1987
2. The Fall - Deer Park (live) - A Part of America Therein, 1981
3. Aztec Camera - Jump - Backwards and Forwards EP 1985
4. Delta 5 - Anticipation - Singles and Sessions (orig. Rough Trade single, 1980)
5. Delta 5 - You - Singles and Sessions (orig. Rough Trade single, 1980)
6. Husker Du - Ice Cold Ice - Warehouse: Songs and Stories 1987
7. Thelonious Monster - Michael Jordan - Next Saturday Afternoon 1987
8. Martha and the Muffins - Swimming - This is the Ice Age 1981
9. Beat Happening - I Spy - Beat Happening 1985
10. Braille Party – Seven - Welcome to Maryland 1984
11. Braille Party - Free Enterprise For Ya - Welcome to Maryland 1984
12. Public Image Ltd. - Memories - Metal Box/Second Edition 1979
13. Vōg - Step Ahead - Vōg 1982
14. Chameleons UK - Swamp Thing - Strange Times 1986
15. Kitchens of Distinction - Quick As Rainbows - Strange Free World 1990
16. Kitchens of Distinction - He Holds Her, He Needs Her - Strange Free World 1990
17. Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus - In a Priest Driven Ambulance 1990
18. Close Lobsters - Loopholes - What Is There to Smile About? EP 1988
19. The Swimming Pool Q's - The Knave - The Swimming Pool Q's 1984
20. Close Lobsters - I Take Bribes - Foxheads Stalk This Land 1987
21. Talking Heads - Paper - Fear of Music 1979
22. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (live) - Bless Its Pointed Little Head 1969
23. Suzanne Vega - Cracking - Suzanne Vega 1985
24. Jesus and Mary Chain - Sowing Seeds - Psychocandy 1985
25. The Cult - Fire Woman - Sonic Temple 1989
26. The Vapors - Bunkers - New Clear Days 1980
27. Section 25 - Crazy Wisdom - 12" single 1985

- #22 was a request from an obviously insane person who mumbled into the phone nonstop for a couple minutes...I deciphered the phrases "Jefferson Airplane", "Woodstock", "West Homestead", and "Appreciate it", and told him I didn't think we had anything by the Jefferson Airplane because thanks to decades of theft we basically have the bizarro music collection (we have about five times as many albums by the Tubes as we have by the Rolling Stones, for example. And that's considering that we actually have more than one album by the Rolling Stones. The only thing we have by the Beatles is a burned copy of that "Number Ones Collection" album that came out about five years ago.) Anyway, I noticed this bootleg-looking Jefferson Airplane thing that had clearly been in the vinyl stacks for the full 37 years since it was released, and it turned out to be a cool live album.

- Finally played Braille Party, who I'd been meaning to play forever. The same is true for the Vapors album track.
- Also, got to see what Thelonious Monster was like. And the Aztec Camera Van Halen cover was tremendous. So was the Chameleons song.

August 28!

1. The Fall - U.S. 80's -- 90's - The Domesday Pay-off 1987
2. Delta 5 - Try - Singles & Sessions (orig. Rough Trade single 1980)
3. Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business - Singles & Sessions (orig. Rough Trade single 1979)
4. Echo and the Bunnymen - Ripeness - Porcupine 1983
5. Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt - EVOL 1986
6. Algebra Suicide - A Flock of Crows - 7" EP 1985
7. Human League - Don't You Know I Want You - Hysteria 1984
8. Bad Religion - Into the Night - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 1982
9. Scratch Acid - Damned For All Time - Just Keep Eating 1986
10. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian - Ice Cream For Crow 1982
11. Drivin' n' Cryin' - You Don't Know Me - Mystery Road 1989
12. Soft Boys - Queen of Eyes - Underwater Moonlight 1980
13. Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck - Heaven or Las Vegas 1990
14. Hüsker Dü - Ice Cold Ice - Warehouse: Songs and Stories 1987
15. Hüsker Dü - The Baby Song / Flexible Flyer - Flip Your Wig 1985
16. DNA - Size - No New York 1978
17. Dead Milkmen - Bitchin' Camaro - Big Lizard In My Back Yard 1985
18. The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make? - Hatful of Hollow 1984
19. Dead Milkmen - Takin' Retards To The Zoo - Big Lizard In My Back Yard 1985
20. Camper Van Beethoven - O Death – Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart 1988
21. Killing Joke - Love of the Masses - Brighter Than a Thousand Suns 1987
22. The Clarks - Perfection Not Required - I'll Tell You What Man... 1988
23. Throwing Muses - Marriage Tree - House Tornado 1988
24. A Flock of Seagulls - The Traveller - Listen 1983
25. A Flock of Seagulls - (It's Not Me) Talking - Listen 1983
26. Devo - Beautiful World - New Traditionalists 1981
27. The Clash - Guns On The Roof - Give 'em Enough Rope 1978
28. Blake Babies - Loose - Earwig 1989
29. Judas Priest - Breaking the Law - The Essential... (orig. British Steel 1980)
30. Microdisney - Genius - The Clock Comes Down the Stairs 1986
31. The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - She's on Drugs - Cult of the Basement 1990

Back to the eighties format!

Also, to a new day. Mondays. Since the schedule was just announced today I didn't have time to bring in any of my own stuff to play.

Found out what Drivin' n' Cryin' sound like -- and investigated Delta 5, Killing Joke, and A Flock of Seagulls after reading Rip it Up and Start Again.

Dead Milkmen was a request (his first choice was "Pleasure and Pain" by the Divinyls which we do not have).

Devo was a request from Mrs. Fino.

August 10 - back to eighties, mostly

1. Volcano Suns - White Elephant - All-Night Lotus Party 1986
2. Queen - Mustapha - Jazz 1978
3. Volcano Suns - Dot on the Map - All-Night Lotus Party 1986
4. Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon - The Real Ramona 1991
5. Replacements - Kids Don't Follow - Stink EP 1982
6. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden - The Scream 1978
7. The Cure - Kyoto Song - The Head on the Door 1985
8. The Fall - Carry Bag Man - The Frenz Experiment 1988
9. Thom Yorke - Harrowdownhill - The Eraser GR-RD
10. Duran Duran - Girls on Film - Duran Duran 1981
11. Cocteau Twins - Feet-Like Fins - Victorialand 1986
12. The New Creatures - Icon In The Fields - Rafter Tag 1987
13. The New Creatures - Lie In Her Head - Rafter Tag 1987
14. Blake Babies - Loose - Earwig 1989
15. Girl Talk - Warm It Up - Night Ripper GR-OR
16. Jurassic 5 - Canto De Ossanha - Feedback GR-RD
17. Shriekback - Fish Below the Ice - Oil and Gold 1985
18. Girl Talk - That's My DJ - Night Ripper GR-OR
19. Robyn Hitchcock - Trams of Old London 1986
20. Pere Ubu - Misery Goats - The Art of Walking 1980
21. Black Girls - Procedure - Procedure 1989
22. Black Girls - A Visit to the Behaviorist - Procedure 1989
23.The Smiths - These Things Take Time - Hatful of Hollow 1984
24. Nirvana - Mr. Moustache - Bleach 1989
25. Julian Cope - Saint Julian - Saint Julian 1987
26. Nilsson - Subterranean Homesick Blues - Pussy Cats 1974
27. Ringo Starr - Oo-Wee - Goodnight Vienna 1974
28. The Jai-Alai Savant - Scarlett Johansson Why Don't You Love Me – Thunderstatement 2005
29. The Neon Judgement - Wand'rin' Star - A Man Ain't No Man When A Man Ain’t Got No Horse, Man EP 1987
30. The Sundays - Hideous Towns - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic 1990
31. Depeche Mode - A Question of Lust - Black Celebration 1986
32. Say Hi To Your Mom - She Just Happens to Date the Prince of Darkness - Impeccable Blahs GR-OR
33. Pere Ubu - Hell - St. Arkansas 2002
34. P.O.S. - Living Slightly Larger – Audition GR-RD

Jurassic 5 and Girl Talk were requested by the same guy. I had already played Girl Talk, but played it again.
#30 would be a great song to end

The next two weeks the WPU will be closed at my time. Then maybe it will be on a different day.

July 20 - not eighties

1. Soul Coughing - Bus to Beelzebub - Ruby Vroom 1994
2. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - The Barafundle Bumbler - Barafundle 1997
3. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Pen Gwag Glas - Barafundle 1997
4. Magnetic Fields - All My Little Words – 69 Love Songs 1999
5. A Band of Bees - These Are the Ghosts - Free the Bees 2005
6. The World/Inferno Friendship Society - Brother of the Mayor of Bridgewater - Red-Eyed Soul - GR-RD
7. The World/Inferno Friendship Society - Let's Steal Everything - Red-Eyed Soul GR-RD
8. Psapp - Hi - The Only Thing I Ever Wanted GR-OR
9. Lansing-Dreiden - Part of the Promise - The Dividing Island GR-RD
10. Thee Headcoats - No Escape - Earls of Suavedom 1990
11. Simple Minds - Carnival (Shelter in a Suitcase) - Real to Real Cacophony 1982
12. Throwing Muses - Ruthie's Knocking - Limbo 1996
13. Heavenly - Sperm Meets Egg, So What? - The Decline and Fall of Heavenly 1997
14. Yoko Ono - Why - Plastic Ono Band 1970
15. Ringo Starr - Snookeroo - Goodnight Vienna 1974
16. Les Georges Leningrad - Georges V - Deux Hot Dogs Moutarde Chou 2004
17. Stereo Total - Automatic Music - Musique Automatique 2002
18. Q and Not U - Wet Work – Power 2004
19. The Fall - Carry Bag Man - The Frenz Experiment 1988
20. The Silos - Tennessee Fire - Cuba 1987
21. Replacements - Kiss Me On The Bus - Tim 1985
22. Test Icicles - Circle.Square.Triangle - For Screening Purposes Only 2006
23. Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex - On Avery Island 1995
24. Strawberry Alarm Clock - Sit With the Guru - Best of 1985 (orig. 1968)
25. Balkan Beat Box - Adir Adirim - Balkan Beat Box 2005
26. The Clash - The Call Up - Sandinista! 1980
27. Shudder To Think - White Page - Get Your Goat 1992

- Started off with one of the best possible set-starting songs
- A new World/Inferno album! Hurrah!
- Psapp is a great new find.
- So now I finally know what the Plastic Ono Band sounds like.
- Les Georges Leningrad was a request, believe it or not. A request made when I was playing the Yoko Ono song. Some people love screeching.

July 6 - not eighties

1. Polysics - I'm a Worker - Neu! 2000
2. Polysics - MS-17 - Neu! 2000
3. K-Os - Crabbuckit – Joyful Rebellion 2004
4. The Cure - The Love Cats – Japanese Whispers 1984
5. Gang of Four - Outside the Trains Don't Run On Time – Solid Gold 1981
6. Scratch Acid - Damned For All Time - Just Keep Eating 1986
7. Jesus Lizard - South Mouth - Goat 1991
8. Coheed and Cambria - Blood Red Summer - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 2003
9. Porcupine Tree - Shallow - Deadwing 2005
10. The Stooges - Fun House - Fun House 1970
11. Guided by Voices - Much Better Mr. Buckles – Do the Collapse 1999
12. Spoon - Something To Look Forward To - Kill the Moonlight 2002
13. Spoon - All the Pretty Girls Go to the City - Kill the Moonlight 2002
14. Hot Chip - A-B-C – Coming On Strong 2005
15. Camper Van Beethoven - O Death - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart 1988
16. Camper Van Beethoven - She Divines Water - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart 1988
17. Jesus and Mary Chain - Blues From a Gun - Automatic 1989
18. Robyn Hitchcock 'n' the Egyptians - Madonna of the Wasps - Queen Elvis 1989
19. Soft Boys - I Got The Hots - Underwater Moonlight 1980
20. Lindsay Lohan - Frankie and Johnny – A Prairie Home Companion OST GR-RD
21. Pavement - Hit the Plane Down – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 1994
22. Rancid - Leicester Square – Life Won’t Wait 1998
23. Mission of Burma - Birthday – The Obliterati GR-OR
24. Soviettes - Channel X - LP II 2004
25. Soviettes - Pass the Flashlight - LP II 2004
26. Mr. T Experience - Hell of Dumb - Revenge is Sweet and So Are You 1997
27. Mr. T Experience - Mr. Ramones - The Miracle of Shame EP 2000
28. Psychedelic Furs - Into You Like a Train - Talk Talk Talk 1981
29. Julian Cope - Saint Julian - Saint Julian 1987
30. PJ Harvey - The River - Is This Desire? 1998
31. Heiruspecs - I'm Behind You - A Tiger Dancing 2004

Getting back to the format...about 40% eighties, and mostly songs I'd heard before. My curiosity has been sated. The PJ Harvey song is one that Greg told me I should play over a year ago and I kept forgetting to play.

June 15 - not eighties

1. Gumball - Gettysburg - Special Kiss 1991
2. The Gravel Pit - When Will Our Bucket Come Up Dry - Silver Gorilla 1999
3. The Working Poor - Upstart Organ - New Wealth 2004
4. AFI - Love Like Winter – Decemberunderground GR-RD
5. The Negro Problem - Sea of Heat - Joys and Concerns 1999
6. Creeper Lagoon - Dead Man Saloon - Take Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday 2001
7. Cornershop - Born Disco, Died Heavy Metal - Hold On It Hurts 1993
8. Dead Moon - Ricochet - Trash and Burn 2000
9. Waxwing - G - Nobody Can Take What Everybody Owns 2002
10. Thundering Lizards - Roast Penguin - Eyeball Sandwich 1995
11. Thrush Hermit - From the Back of the Film - Clayton Park 1998
12. John Doe - Let's Be Mad - Meet John Doe 1990
13. Voodoo Glow Skulls - Used to Love Her - Addicción, Tradición, Revolución 2004
14. Voodoo Glow Skulls - Smile Now, Cry Later - Addicción, Tradición, Revolución 2004
15. The Coup - We are the Ones - Pick a Bigger Weapon GR-OR
16. Pitchblende - Penny for the Guy - November singles series 7" 1993
17. Mudhoney - In 'n' Out of Grace - Superfuzz Bigmuff EP 1988
18. His Name is Alive - Why People Disappear - Home Is In Your Head 1991
19. The Go! Team - Panther Dash – Thunder, Lightning, Strike! 2004
20. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Gimme Some Salt – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 2005
21. Ninja High School - Nap - Young Adults Against Suicide 2005
22. Ninja High School - Positive Laser – Young Adults Against Suicide 2005
23. Jason and the Scorchers - My Kingdom For a Car - Thunder and Fire 1989
24. Hot Snakes - Our Work Fills the Pews – Automatic Midnight 2000
25. Rose Melberg - Irene - Cast Away the Clouds GR-OR
26. Heavenly - Sperm Meets Egg, So What? - The Decline and Fall of Heavenly 1994
27. Hefner - The Sweetness Lies Within - Breaking God's Heart 1998
28. Conner - I'm a Balloon - Hello Graphic Missile GR-RD
29. Avail - Sanctuary 13 - Over the James 1998
30. Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia - Hot Rats 1969
31. Frank Zappa - Weasels Ripped My Flesh - Weasels Ripped My Flesh 1970

Once again this week's format was "I am curious about what these songs sound like". A lot of them weren't very good (#1, #9, #11, #17). But #13, #4, #22, #23, #29, #25, and #17 were good finds. Also, the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah song wasn't nearly as good as "Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood".

June 1 - not eighties

1. Psychedelic Furs - Into You Like a Train - Talk Talk Talk 1981
2. Psychedelic Furs - It Goes On - Talk Talk Talk 1981
3. Supreme Beings of Leisure - Freezer - Divine Operating System 2002
4. Spain - Hoped and Prayed - She Haunts My Dreams 1989
5. My Bloody Valentine - Glider - Glider EP 1990
6. My Bloody Valentine - Don't Ask Why - Glider EP 1990
7. David Bowie - Always Crashing in the Same Car - Low 1977
8. CRAVE - College Girl
9. Bratmobile - Do You Like Me Like That? - Ladies, Women and Girls 2000
10. New Creatures - Icon in the Fields - Rafter Tag 1987
11. Fiel Garvie - Reeling As You Come Around Again - Leave Me Out of This 2003
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mommy Where's Daddy - The Red Hot Chili Peppers 1984
13. The Walkmen - Emma, Get Me a Lemon - A Hundred Miles Off GR-OR
14. Wolfmother - Vagabond - Wolfmother 2006
15. The Tubes - Pimp - Young and Rich 1976
16. The Faint - Cars Pass in Cold Blood - Blank-Wave Arcade 1999
17. Flat Duo Jets - Man With the Golden Arm - Flat Duo Jets 1989
18. Flat Duo Jets - Pink Gardenia - Flat Duo Jets 1989
19. Thursday - Counting 5-4-3-2-1 - City by the Light Divided GR-RD
20. Flogging Molly - Cruel Mistress - Drunken Lullabies 2002
21. His Name Is Alive - We Hold The Land In Great Esteem - Home Is In Your Head 1991
22. Idaho - To Be the One - Hearts of Palm 2000
23. Lightning Bolt - Captain Caveman - Hypermagic Mountain 2005
24. Už Jsme Doma - Telefón - In the Middle of Words 1998
25. Mission of Burma - Spider's Web - The Obliterati GR-OR
26. Mission of Burma - Birthday - The Obliterati GR-OR
27. Stars - What I'm Trying To Say - Set Yourself on Fire 2004
28. REO Speedealer - Screamer - REO Speedealer 1998
29. Salty the Pocketknife - Shiny Lies - Salty the Pocketknife 2003
30. John Cale - Hello, There - Vintage Violence 1970
31. Jimmy Fallon - Hammertime - The Bathroom Wall 2002
32. They Might Be Giants - Older - Mink Car 2001
33. Rock*A*Teens - I Could've Just Died - Baby, A Little Rain Must Fall 1998