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.