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