March 30

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. The dB's - A Spy in the House of Love - Like This 1984
3. Swimming Pool Q's - The Knave - The Swimming Pool Q's 1984
4. Tommy Keene - My Mother Looked Like Marilyn Monroe - Songs From the Film 1986
5. Mission of Burma - This Is Not a Photograph - Signals, Calls and Marches 1981
6. Mission of Burma - Learn How - Vs. 1982
7. The Fall - Shoulder Pads (version 1) - The Domesday Pay-Off 1987
8. Hüsker Dü - Divide and Conquer - Flip Your Wig 1985
9. Hüsker Dü - Games - Flip Your Wig 1985
10. Liliput - Like or lump it - Liliput 1982
11. Blake Babies - Sanctify - Sunburn 1990
12. Big Dipper - She's Fetching - Heavens 1987
13. Too Much Joy - Good Kill - Cereal Killers 1991
14. Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven - Doolittle 1989
15. Martha and the Muffins - Walking Into Walls - Danseparc 1983
16. XTC - Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me) - Black Sea 1980
17. Camper Van Beethoven - O Death - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart 1988
18. Camper Van Beethoven - She Divines Water - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart 1988
19. Guided by Voices - The Tumblers - Devil Between My Toes 1987
20. Vōg - Don't Wanna Hear It - Vōg 1982
21. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus - Violator 1989
22. Big Black - Kerosene - Atomizer 1986
23. R.E.M. - Pop Song 89 - Green 1989
24. Julian Cope - Saint Julian - Saint Julian 1987
25. The Fall - Totally Wired - Palace of Swords Reversed (song 1980)
26. Algebra Suicide - Little Dead Bodies - 7" single 1986
27. Rats of Unusual Size - February - Ratzilla 1989
28. Das Damen - Ruby Woodpecker - Triskaidekaphobe 1988

"Totally Wired" was a Kristin request. "Personal Jesus" was a Tyler for Mara.

Today's show was pretty good - great Swimming Pool Q's song - but the last song was the weakest. I was hoping to follow Das Damen with PIL's "Public Image" but Mark showed up at the last possible moment. Just had to hear what a song called "Ruby Woodpecker" sounded like. Didn't sound like much.

Rats of Unusual Size are much more interesting than they sound from the album title.

March 23

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. The dB's - A Spy in the House of Love - Like This 1982
3. Lindsey Buckingham - Bwana - Law and Order 1981
4. Bad Religion - Into the Night - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 1982
5. Au Pairs - Come Again - Playing With a Different Sex 1981
6. Big Dipper - She's Fetching - Heavens 1987
7. Miles Dethmuffen - In Clover - Nine-Volt Grape 1990
8. Salem 66 - Desk Clerk - Frequency and Urgency 1987
9. Christmas - Punch and Judy - Ultraprophets of the Psykick Revolution 1989
10. Vōg - Step Ahead - Vōg 1982
11. Vōg - Playmate - Vōg 1982
12. Replacements - Color Me Impressed - Hootenanny 1983
13. Replacements - I Will Dare - Let It Be 1984
14. Wolfgang Press - Kansas (flood mix) - Bird Wood Cage 1988
15. Martha and the Muffins - Casualties of Glass - This is the Ice Age 1981
16. Depeche Mode - A Question of Time - Black Celebration 1984
17. Cocteau Twins - Fotzepolitic - Heaven or Las Vegas 1990
18. Guided by Voices - A Visit to the Creep Doctor - Sandbox 1987
19. Guided by Voices - Navigating Flood Regions - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia 1989
20. Billy Bragg - The Marriage - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry 1986
21. X - I'm Lost - See How We Are 1987
22. APB - Missing You Already - Missing You Already EP 1986
23. Close Lobsters - Just Too Bloody Stupid - Foxheads Stalk This Land 1987
24. Wire - Sand in My Joints - Chairs Missing 1978
25. XTC - Burning With Optimism's Flames - Black Sea 1980
26. XTC - Respectable Street - Black Sea 1980
27. The Wedding Present - Everyone Thinks That He Looks Daft - George Best 1987
28. Game Theory - Make Any Vows - The Big Shot Chronicles 1986
29. Essential Logic - Wake Up - Beat Rhythm News 1979

Cocteau Twins were a Ross request. X was an Alyssa request.

For some reason, the Replacements' Let It Be would only play through the right channel.

#6-9 are from late-eighties Boston.

March 20

1. Mission of Burma - Wounded World - ONoffON 2004
2. Polysics - Baby BIAS - Now is the Time! GR-OR
3. Polysics - Coelacanth is Android - Now is the Time! GR-OR
4. Electric Six - Rock and Roll Evacuation - Señor Smoke GR-RD
5. Morrissey - Glamorous Glue - Your Arsenal 1992
6. Karp - Spelling Trouble - Self Titled LP 1997
7. Thermals - A Stare Like Yours - Fuckin' A 2004
8. Between the Two - These Broken Dreams - Not what you expected... GR-BL
9. Death From Above 1979 - Go Home, Get Down - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine 2004
10. Replacements - Color Me Impressed - Hootenanny 1983
11. Replacements - Bastards of Young - Tim 1985
12. Les Savy Fav - I.C. Timer - Rome EP 2000
13. Guided by Voices - Lord of Overstock - Under the Bushes Under the Stars 1996
14. cLOUDDEAD - Dead Dogs Two - Ten 2o03
15. Deerhoof - Siriustar - The Runners Four 2005
16. Deerhoof - Dummy Discards a Heart - Apple O' 2003
17. Morphine - Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer - The Night 2000
18. Meat Puppets - Sam - Forbidden Places 1991
19. The Fall - Put Away - The Peel Session (27th November 1978)
20. The Fall - Pacifying Joint - Fall Heads Roll 2005
21. Happy Mondays - God's Cop - Pills'N'Thrills'N'Bellyaches 1990
22. Volcano Suns - White Elephant - All Night Lotus Party 1986
23. Volcano Suns - How to Breathe - Thing of Beauty 1989
24. Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction - Stranger Than Fiction 1994
25. Superchunk - On the Mouth - Incidental Music 1991-95 (song 1992)
26. Superchunk - Hyper Enough - Here's Where the Strings Come In 1995
27. Heros Severum - A Sick Dog - Plague Dogs GR-RD
28. R.E.M. - 9-9 - Murmur 1983
29. Drive-By Truckers - Feb. 14 - A Blessing and a Curse GR-OR

This was a substitution for Braque, 11PM-1AM, after Hunter's metal show. Finally, a break from the eighties format. Played mostly songs I remember playing before, plus the four great albums I put in rotation recently.

Note the contrast between songs by the Fall from 1978 and 2005.

March 16

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Bananarama - He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' - Deep Sea Skiving 1983
3. XTC - Crowded Room - Go 2 1978
4. The Cure - The Lovecats - Japanese Whispers 1983
5. Blondie - Dreaming - Eat to the Beat 1979
6. Blondie - Union City Blue - Eat to the Beat 1979
7. Soft Boys - Leppo and the Jooves - A Can of Bees 1979
8. Echo and the Bunnymen - Ripeness - Porcupine 1983
9. Devo - Uncontrollable Urge - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! 1978
10. Devo - Beautiful World - New Traditionalists 1981
11. Gang of Four - Natural's Not In It - Entertainment! 1979
12. Gang of Four - Not Great Men - Entertainment! 1979
13. Squeeze - Cool For Cats - Cool For Cats 1979
14. Martha and the Muffins - Boys in the Bushes - Danseparc 1983
15. Martha and the Muffins - Women Around the World at Work - This is the Ice Age 1981
16. About 9 Times - There Is No... - There Is No... 1986
17. Soft Cell - Little Rough Rhinestone - This Last Night in Sodom 1984
18. Depeche Mode - Stripped - Black Celebration 1986
19. The dB's - Espionage - Stands for Decibels 1981
20. Mission of Burma - Wounded World - ONoffON 2004
21. ABC - Poison Arrow - The Lexicon of Love 1982
22. Human League - The Lebanon - Hysteria 1984
23. Gruppo Sportivo - Mission à Paris - Mistakes 1979
24. Yaz - Situation - Upstairs at Eric's 1982
25. Throwing Muses - Not the Same - The Real Ramona 1991
26. Guided by Voices - Slopes of Big Ugly - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia 1989
27. Guided by Voices - White Whale - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia 1989

Today's show was supposed to be devoted to a "New Wave" theme - songs sounding much more "eighties" than the guitar rock I usually play. I think it succeeded, although Gang of Four didn't really fit. It turns out that the music we associate with the "eighties" is actually the music of circa 1978-1984. Much like the music of the sixties is the music of 1965 to 1973.

The Throwing Muses song was one I heard David McWade play, so I played it. The GBV at the end was because I finally got the box set of their '80s albums!

Keith had the good idea to play Devo.

I finally figured out what dB's song from Stands for Decibels I had heard on WYEP a couple months ago. "Spy in the House of Love", which is actually on a different album. I swear they said it was on Stands for Decibels. Play that next week.

History

Last week was spring break. I didn't have a break, but the WPU wasn't open during non-business hours, so no show.

I just realized that I've had four different show titles.

• Fall 2004: The Post-Jazz Odyssey, when my show was after Zack's jazz show. This name came from the song "Jazz Odyssey" on an Audio Adrenaline album. The phrase "Jazz Odyssey" is more famous for other reasons, but I forget what they are.
• Spring 2005: The Corpselike Sleep of Stupidity, because the show was no longer post-jazz. This name came from the title of a Guided By Voices rarities mix tape that someone made around 1998 or so. I don't know where he came up with the name.
• Fall 2005: The Eighties at Nine.
• Spring 2006: The Eighties at Seven.

Who knows what will come next? The Eighties at Nine again? Perhaps The Eighties at Eight? Oh, the ambiguity.

March 2

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Angry Samoans - Lights Out - Back From Samoa 1982
3. Angry Samoans - My Old Man's a Fatso - Back From Samoa 1982
4. The Damned - Plan 9 Channel 7 - Machine Gun Etiquette 1979
5. R.E.M. - These Days - Lifes Rich Pageant 1986
6. Essential Logic - Moontown - "Music is a Better Noise" single 1980
7. Martha and the Muffins - Boys in the Bushes - Danseparc 1983
8. Gruppo Sportivo - Beep Beep Love - Mistakes 1978
9. The Fall - Cruiser's Creek - This Nation's Saving Grace 1985
10. King Missile - At Dave's - Fluting on the Hump 1987
11. King Missile - Take Stuff From Work - Fluting on the Hump 1987
12. Pogues - Turkish Song of the Damned - If I Should Fall From Grace With God 1988
13. XTC - Earn Enough For Us - Skylarking 1986
14. The dB's - Black and White - Stands for Decibels 1981
15. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon - Ocean Rain 1984
16. The Cure - A Forest - Seventeen Seconds 1980
17. Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth - Saint Julian 1987
18. Julian Cope - Screaming Secrets - Saint Julian 1987
19. Soft Cell - Down in the Subway - This Last Night in Sodom 1984
20. The F.U.'s - Warlords (live) - Flipside Vinyl Fanzine vol. 1 1984
21. Ramones - You're Gonna Kill That Girl - Ramones Leave Home 1977
22. Eclectics - Big Tough Dreams - 7" 1987
23. Throwing Muses - Cry Baby Cry - Chains Changed EP 1987
24. Boris Grebenshikov - Radio Silence - Radio Silence 1989
25. Annie - Chewing Gum - Anniemal 2005
26. Happy Mondays - God's Cop - Pills'N'Thrills'N'Bellyaches 1990
27. Volcano Suns - Soft Hit - Thing of Beauty 1989
28. Big Black - Cables - Bulldozer EP 1983
29. Soft Boys - Sandra's Having Her Brain Out - A Can of Bees 1979

King Missile and The Pogues were requests. Someone liked the Martha and the Muffins song.

I've played a lot of Volcano Suns songs, but this one was the best. Same with the Throwing Muses song.