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.