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.