January 22

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. Ultra Vivid Scene - The Mercy Seat - Ultra Vivid Scene 1988
3. Bauhaus - She's in Parties - 1979-1983 (1983)
4. The Pogues - Streams of Whiskey - Red Roses For Me 1984
5. The Blue Hearts - Linda Linda - The Blue Hearts 1987
6. Guided by Voices - White Whale - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia 1989
7. Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf - Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing 1982
8. Silos - She Lives up the Street - Cuba 1987
9. Hüsker Dü - Turn on the News - Zen Arcade 1984
10. Gang of Four - I Found That Essence Rare - Entertainment! 1979
11. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Cities in Dust - Tinderbox 1986
12. Global Infantilists - Passing - Global Infantilists 1981
13. R.E.M. - King of Birds - Document 1987
14. The Cure - The Lovecats - Japanese Whispers 1984
15. XTC - Rocket From a Bottle - Black Sea 1980
16. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Love in a Void - The Peel Session (29th November 1977)
17. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Mirage - The Peel Session (29th November 1977)
18. Section 25 - Looking From a Hilltop - From the Hip 1984
19. The Sundays - Hideous Towns - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic 1990
20. Vōg - Playmate - Vōg 1982
21. Big Black - Colombian Necktie - Songs About Fucking 1987
22. Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne is Big Leggy - Battle Hymns for Children Singing 1983
23. Primitive Calculators - Pumping Ugly Muscle - Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 (1979)
24. The Ramones - Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? - End of the Century 1980
25. The Clash - Complete Control - The Clash 1977
26. X - You - See How We Are 1987
27. Paul Giovanni/Lesley Mackie - Willow's Song - The Wicker Man OST 1973


Good show today. Brewed with a sense of purpose. Some darkness.

The Cure and Siouxsie et al. were requests.

January 15

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. Guided by Voices - A Visit to the Creep Doctor - Sandbox 1987
3. Guided by Voices - The Future is in Eggs - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia 1989
4. Tin Huey - The Revelations of Dr. Modesto - Contents Dislodged During Shipment 1979
5. Bedful of Metaphysicians - Gravity Pulls the Trousers Down, Morality Pulls the Trousers Up - Bedful of Metaphysicians 1986
6. Black Flag - Drinking and Driving - In My Head 1985
7. Black Flag - The Crazy Girl - In My Head 1985
8. Wire - I Feel Mysterious Today - Chairs Missing 1978
9. Wire - Map Ref. 41°N 93°W - 154 1979
10. Thrashing Doves - Angel Visit - Trouble in the Home 1989
11. The Associates - Club Country - Sulk 1982
12. The Sound - Winning - From the Lion's Mouth 1981
13. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (live) - Bless Its Pointed Little Head 1968
14. Kim Wilde - Kids In America - Just Can't Get Enough! New Wave Hits of the 80's (1981)
15. Jason and the Scorchers - Six Feet Underground - Thunder and Fire 1989
16. Blake Babies - Grateful - Earwig 1989
17. Blake Babies - Cesspool - Earwig 1989
18. R.E.M. - Finest Worksong - Document 1987
19. R.E.M. - Turn You Inside-Out - Green 1989
20. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God - If I Should Fall From Grace With God 1988
21. The Pogues - Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go - Red Roses For Me 1984
22. Section 25 - Looking From a Hilltop - From the Hip 1984
23. Pixies - Here Comes Your Man - Doolittle 1989
24. Essential Logic - Rat Alley - Pedigree Charm 1982
25. Bad Religion - It Must Look Pretty Appealing - No Control 1989
26. Bad Religion - 1000 More Fools - Suffer 1988
27. The F.U.'s - Young Fast Iranians - Do We Really Want To Hurt You? 1984
28. The Men They Couldn't Hang - Diamonds, Gold and Fur - Silvertown 1989
29. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead - 1979-1983 (1982)
30. Gob Iron - Silicosis Blues - Death Songs for the Living GR-OR
31. Hot Chip - Over and Over - The Warning 2006


- Hunter didn't come in to do the metal show after mine, so I played a couple new songs before telling the metal robot to do the metal show.

- More Tin Huey - that band was really something interesting.

- #5 speaks for itself. Perhaps the best Wilkes-Barre-based comedic prog-rock band of the mid-80s.

- "Angel Visit" is a song I liked as a little kid. Yes, I watched 120 Minutes as a little kid. My dad went through a phase of being fascinated by the art form of the independent music video.

- Good combo of intensely rocking R.E.M. songs, although I screwed up the attempt to segue between them. Next week play "King of Birds" (had completely forgotten about that song until today).

- 20 and 21 are equally rocking but the juxtaposition shows you how much the Pogues evolved from their improperly punky beginnings.

- 23 was a request by Kelly.

- Two people requested Jefferson Airplane, both in annoying ways. The second guy then requested Poison, followed by Pat Benatar. I decided "Kids In America" was the closest thing to Pat Benatar I could find.

- Saw no need to play Ken Nordine because we'd listened to the entire Colors album on a trip back from Michigan on Sunday. He will be back next show.

January 8

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. Specials - A Message To You Rudy - The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past (orig. 1979)
3. Bodysnatchers - Ruder Than You - The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past (orig. 1980)
4. ABC - Date Stamp - The Lexicon of Love 1982
5. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God - If I Should Fall From Grace With God 1988
6. The Pogues - Turkish Song of the Damned - If I Should Fall From Grace With God 1988
7. Flogging Molly - Death Valley Queen - Drunken Lullabies 2002
8. Young Marble Giants - Include Me Out - Colossal Youth 1979
9. Depeche Mode - Master and Servant - Some Great Reward 1984
10. The Cure - Six Different Ways - The Head on the Door 1985
11. The Smiths - Handsome Devil - Hatful of Hollow 1984
12. Section 25 - Up To You - Always Now 1980
13. Section 25 - Looking From a Hilltop - From the Hip 1984
14. Broadcast - America's Boy - Tender Buttons 2005
15. Soul Asylum - Beggars and Choosers - Hang Time 1988
16. New Creatures - Icon in the Fields - Rafter Tag 1987
17. Rudements - Imagination - :30 Over DC - Here Comes the New Wave! 1979
18. The Take - Summer - Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 (orig. 1979)
19. Young Fresh Fellows - Get Outta My Cave - The Men Who Loved Music 1987
20. R.E.M. - Orange Crush - Green 1989
21. Sham 69 - Angels With Dirty Faces (live) - Live and Loud sampler 1988
22. Cock Sparrer - Working (live) - Live and Loud sampler 1988
23. Specials - Maggie's Farm - The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past (orig. 1980)
24. Tom Waits - What Keeps Mankind Alive? - Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill 1985
25. Soft Boys - Leppo and the Jooves - A Can of Bees 1979
26. Ken Nordine - Burgundy - Colors 1966
27. Ophelias - Turn Into A Berry - Oriental Head 1988
28. Breaking Circus - Took a Hammering - The Ice Machine 1986
29. Flour - Red - Flour 1988
30. Hüsker Dü - Flexible Flyer - Flip Your Wig 1985

Annoying development today. We are now required to type everything in all caps with underscores between words instead of spaces.

Good show though. Mostly rocking. Ken Nordine.

Show is now preceded by Melissa's post-rock show. It used to be preceded by Melissa's formatless show, but now she has a format.

When Melissa heard the Pogues she told me to play the Flogging Molly song. Then when she heard "Looking From a Hilltop" she told me to play the Broadcast song. "Looking From a Hilltop" is really amazingly un-dated for an electro-pop song from 1984.

21 and 22 were actually recorded in 1980 or 1983 or something.

End of year

December 18 I was very busy and the union wasn't open anyway. I suppose I could have taken a daytime slot, since everyone else had finals.

December 25 I wasn't here; w00t and so forth.

January 1 I had gotten back in time for my show but the union wasn't open.