February 26

1. Laid Back - White Horse - Street Jams: Electric Funk vol. 4 (1983)
2. Lemonheads - Different Drum - Favorite Spanish Dishes EP 1990
3. Toad the Wet Sprocket - Unquiet - Bread and Circus 1989
4. Big Dipper - Meet the Witch - Craps 1988
5. Salem 66 - Desk Clerk - Frequency and Urgency 1987
6. Echo and the Bunnymen - Heads Will Roll - Porcupine 1983
7. Vōg - In the Crowd - Vōg 1982
8. Martha and the Muffins - Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing - Danseparc 1983
9. Squirrel Bait - Sun God - Squirrel Bait 1985
10. A Flock of Seagulls - The Traveller - Listen 1983
11. Squeeze - Up the Junction - Cool for Cats 1979
12. The Cure - The Drowning Man - Faith 1981
13. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Candyman - Tinderbox 1986
14. Stranglers - Duchess - The Raven 1979
15. Flying Lizards - The Window - The Flying Lizards 1980
16. Liliput - A silver key can open an iron lock somewhere - Some Songs 1983
17. Algebra Suicide - A Slap in the Face (for the Season is Ending) - Alpha Cue 1990
18. Talking Heads - Life During Wartime - Fear of Music 1979
19. The Bats - Made Up In Blue - 12" single 1986
20. Bauhaus - She's In Parties - 1979-83 (1983)
21. The Bomb Party - Harry Was a Babysitter - British Airwaves ????
22. The Gun Club - Sex Beat - Fire of Love 1981
23. The Gun Club - Preaching the Blues - Fire of Love 1981
24. Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - She's on Drugs - Cult of the Basement 1990

- At least four regular listeners listening today! Three of whom requested something (7; 12; and 13, although what was actually requested was "Stargazer").

- This was a very good show, which is odd for a show that begins with three songs I'd never played before and contains 10 songs I'd never heard before. The Algebra Suicide song is absolutely great and much more accessible than anything else on that album or on the two EPs that are known to me.

- "Preaching the Blues" was much better than "Sex Beat", in my opinion.

February 19

1. The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make? - Hatful of Hollow 1984
2. Joy Division - She's Lost Control - Unknown Pleasures 1979
3. Depeche Mode - Master and Servant - Some Great Reward 1984
4. Shudder to Think - Shake Your Halo Down - Get Your Goat 1992
5. Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) (live) - Stop Making Sense 1984
6. Specials - Too Much Too Young - The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past (1980)
7. ESG - Moody (Spaced Out) - A South Bronx Story (1981)
8. Liliput - Eisiger Wind - Liliput (1981)
9. Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business - Singles and Sessions (1979)
10. Throwing Muses - Tar Kissers - Limbo 1996
11. Tyro - Lonely - Audiocards 2000
12. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Upon this Tidal Wave of Young Blood - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 2005
13. The Cure - The Funeral Party - Faith 1981
14. The Cure - Why Can't I Be You? - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 1987
15. Beat Happening - Bewitched - Jamboree 1988
16. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden - Marie Antoinette OST (1979)
17. Mudhoney - Touch Me I'm Sick (live) - Hype! OST 1991?
18. Tad - Giant Killer (live) - Hype! OST 1991?
19. Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane - Dirty 1992
20. Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf - Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing EP 1981
21. Lindsay Lohan - Frankie and Johnny - A Prairie Home Companion OST 2006
22. Frank Crumit - Frankie and Johnny - A Gay Caballero (1927)
23. The Soft Boys - Have a Heart Betty (I'm Not Fireproof) - Invisible Hits 1983
24. R.E.M. - Feeling Gravity's Pull - Fables of the Reconstruction 1985
25. Essential Logic - Moontown - Fanfare in the Garden (1980)
26. Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - Cheater's Heaven - Bait and Switch 1995

Turntables not working again! Intense disgust with the situation leading to a relaxing of the rules and the playing of songs from not one but THREE decades other than the eighties, given that about 95% of the things I wanted to play were on vinyl and thus unplayable. The other two things were the two versions of "Frankie and Johnny" recorded 78 years apart by a fellow born in the 1880s and a lass born in the 1980s. This emergency situation necessitated the use of the Kill Rock Stars anthologies for Liliput, Essential Logic, and Delta 5.

The other saving grace was the discovery of "Sugar Kane" which is now probably my favorite Sonic Youth song. Also, I hadn't heard "Lonely" in forever.

Talking Heads and Joy Division songs were at the request of Melissa who wanted to know what they sounded like. Somehow this is the first time I've ever played Joy Division.

February 12

This week a basketball game preempted my show, which was lucky because I was on a plane back from Banff and couldn't have done the show anyway. Now that I think about it, that really is lucky. Somehow it hasn't been preempted by a basketball game all semester, except at the time when I couldn't do it anyway.

SERENDIPITY

February 5

1. Smiths - Rusholme Ruffians - Meat is Murder 1984
2. Smiths - Vicar in a Tutu (live) - Rank 1988
3. Wygals - Eat a Horse - Honyocks in the Whithersoever 1989
4. Blake Babies - Sanctify - Sunburn 1990
5. Pete Shelley - Homosapien - Homosapien 1981
6. Psychedelic Furs - Into You Like A Train - Talk Talk Talk 1981
7. The Moodists - Hey Little Gary - British Airwaves ????
8. Crime and the City Solution - Free World - The Bride Ship 1989
9. The Makers of 'The Dead Travel Fast' - The Dumbwaiters - Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 (1980)
10. The B-52's - Private Idaho - Wild Planet 1980
11. The Blue Hearts - Linda Linda - The Blue Hearts 1987
12. ABC - Poison Arrow - The Lexicon of Love 1981
13. Sisters of Mercy - Marian - First and Last and Always 1985
14. Mission of Burma - Mica - Vs. 1982
15. Hüsker Dü - Ice Cold Ice - Warehouse: Songs and Stores 1987
16. Talking Heads - Swamp (live) - Stop Making Sense 1984
17. Flying Lizards - Her Story - The Flying Lizards 1980
18. Section 25 - Looking From a Hilltop - From the Hip 1984
19. The Classic Brown - Proud Private, Give Leave - Down With Fun 2006
20. Throwing Muses - Colder - House Tornado 1988
21. The Fall - Shoulder Pads version 1 - The Domesday Pay-Off 1987
22. Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction - Stranger Than Fiction 1993
23. The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God - If I Should Fall From Grace With God 1989
24. Bright Eyes - Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh - Fevers and Mirrors 2002
25. Soft Cell - Down in the Subway - This Last Night In Sodom 1984

Melissa wanted to hear some Smiths songs.

Bright Eyes and "Marian" were requests. Somehow I never thought to look for Sisters of Mercy albums before, but we have one early one. Someone requested "Tainted Love", but I was forced to play "Down in the Subway" instead, which is a very similar song in many ways but is faster and therefore probably better objectively though less singalongable.

The Classic Brown was a request by someone who appeared to be a member of The Classic Brown. I played it because it's actually in our automator and was in our rotation, and thus it's not a CD that came to us unsolicited and was placed in the discard bin after a hearty "LOL WTF THIS SUX" from our music director. It turned out to be really good, actually, resembling the Throwing Muses song I was then inspired to play.

Finally got to play the Flying Lizards.

Played the Bad Religion song mainly because it provided a great lead-in to the Pogues song.

January 29

1. Guided by Voices - Slopes of Big Ugly - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia 1989
2. The Wedding Present - My Favorite Dress - George Best 1987
3. Game Theory - Nothing New - Lolita Nation 1987
4. The Cure - Six Different Ways - The Head on the Door 1985
5. The Feelies - The Good Earth - The Good Earth 1986
6. Throwing Muses - Honeychain - The Real Ramona 1991
7. Madness - The Prince - The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past (1979)
8. The Higsons - Tear the Whole Thing Down - The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past (1982)
9. Section 25 - Looking From a Hilltop - From the Hip 1984
10. Soft Boys - I Got the Hots - Underwater Moonlight 1980
11. Thin Yoghurts - Girl on the Bus - Messthetics Greatest Hits (1980)
12. Sonic Youth - The Burning Spear - Sonic Youth EP 1982
13. Sonic Youth - Brother James - Kill Yr. Idols 1983
14. Talking Heads - Cities - Fear of Music 1979
15. The Bats - Sighting the Sound - Silverbeet 1993
16. The Wedding Present - Brassneck - Bizarro 1989
17. Dog Faced Hermans - Suppressa - Mental Blocks For All Ages 1989
18. Beat Happening - Gravedigger Blues - Black Candy 1989
19. Scratch Acid - Damned For All Time - Just Keep Eating 1986
20. Scritti Politti - Skank Bloc Bologna - Early (1978)
21. Pete Shelley - Homosapien - Homosapien 1981
22. Gang of Four - Ether - Entertainment! 1979
23. Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again - Music for the Masses 1987
24. R.E.M. - Gardening at Night - Chronic Town EP 1982
25. R.E.M. - I Believe - Lifes Rich Pageant 1986
26. Surgery - Your Beautiful Smile - Trim, 9th Ward High Roller EP 1993

Turntables not working today for two different reasons, making the Game Theory song sound bad and the Feelies song sound absolutely awful. Hence, a few songs from the early 1990s. Good that we have all those Sonic Youth and Wedding Present CDs, and that we just got a 2-CD R.E.M. set called "And I Feel Fine: The I.R.S. Years".

Not a great show, and I don't think anyone was listening. High point was playing Scritti Politti's incredibly original début single.