Wednesday, March 28, 2007

March 26

1. Martha and the Muffins - Swimming - This is the Ice Age 1981
2. Laid Back - White Horse - Street Jams: Electric Funk vol. 4 (1983)
3. Jesus and Mary Chain - Who Do You Love - "April Skies" 12" single 1987
4. Jesus and Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking - 12" single 1986
5. Bauhaus - The Sanity Assassin - 1979-1983 (1983)
6. Gang of Four - Paralysed - Solid Gold 1981
7. Blake Babies - Grateful - Earwig 1989
8. Salem 66 - Postcard - Frequency and Urgency 1987
9. Mission of Burma - Weatherbox - Signals, Calls and Marches 1981
10. Beakers - Thinking Postmodern - Four Steps Toward a Cultural Revolution (1980)
11. Delta 5 - Colour - Singles and Sessions 1979-81 (1980)
12. Let's Active - Mr. Fool - Every Dog Has His Day 1988
13. Let's Active - Writing the Book of Last Pages - Big Plans For Everybody 1986
14. New Order - True Faith - Substance 1987
15. New Order - Love Vigilantes - Low-life 1985
16. Michelle Shocked - Anchorage - Short Sharp Shocked 1988
17. The Police - Can't Stand Losing You - Outlandos d'Amour 1978
18. Pere Ubu - Final Solution - The Hearpen Singles (1977)
19. The Teardrop Explodes - Books - Kilimanjaro 1980
20. The Teardrop Explodes - Thief of Baghdad - Kilimanjaro 1980
21. Vōg - Step Ahead - Vōg 1982
22. The Associates - White Car in Germany - Sulk 1982
23. ABC - Poison Arrow - The Lexicon of Love 1982
24. R.E.M. - Life and How to Live it (live in Utrecht, 1987) - And I Feel Fine: The Best of the I.R.S. Years
25. When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water - Watching Scotty Grow - Bobby 1989

- "Weatherbox" was a request.
- There was a request for 1980s Sting, but all we had was Police albums. "Can't Stand Losing You" is a good song, though.
- Both turntables worked again!

March 19

-2. Hot Snakes - If Credit's What Matters I'll Take Credit - Automatic Midnight 2000
-1. Bloc Party - I Still Remember - A Weekend in the City GR-OR
0. Gob Iron - Hills of Mexico - Death Songs for the Living 2006
1. Wire - Surgeon's Girl - Pink Flag 1977
2. Wire - Fragile - Pink Flag 1977
3. Martha and the Muffins - Be Blasé - Trance and Dance 1980
4. Martha and the Muffins - Swimming - This is the Ice Age 1981
5. The Sound - The Fire - From the Lion's Mouth 1981
6. Whooping Cranes - Never Turn Away - That's What I Need 1987
7. Whooping Cranes - That Empty Space - That's What I Need 1987
8. Ride - Like a Daydream - 12" EP 1990
9. Kitchens of Distinction - Railwayed - Strange Free World 1990
10. Young Marble Giants - Wurlitzer Jukebox - Colossal Youth 1980
11. Flying Lizards - Her Story - The Flying Lizards 1980
12. Happy Mondays - Kuff Dam - Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) 1987
13. Yo La Tengo - Barnaby Hardly Working - President Yo La Tengo 1989
14. The Clash - I'm So Bored With the USA - The Clash 1977
15. Patti Smith Group - Space Monkey - Easter 1978
16. Michelle Shocked - Hello Hopeville - Short Sharp Shocked 1988
17. Liliput - Beri-Berti - Liliput (orig. 7" single, 1979)
18. They Might Be Giants - Boat of Car - They Might Be Giants 1986
19. They Might Be Giants - Absolutely Bill's Mood - They Might Be Giants 1986
20. Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Stool Pigeon - Wise Guy 1982
21. Beat Happening - Foggy Eyes - Beat Happening 1985
22. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - The Marshall - Lovelyville 1991
23. Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Sinking boats - Lovelyville 1991
24. Pavement - In the Mouth a Desert - Slanted and Enchanted 1991
25. The Pogues - Greenland Whale Fisheries - Red Roses For Me 1984
26. Psychedelic Furs - Mr. Jones - Talk Talk Talk 1981
27. Proclaimers - Sean - Sunshine on Leith 1988
28. Soft Boys - Insanely Jealous - Underwater Moonlight 1980
29. Volcano Suns - Can I Have the Key? - Farced 1988
30. Lou Reed - My Red Joystick - New Sensations 1984

- Both turntables worked this week!
- Played They Might Be Giants for Michael at Wing Zone, if he was listening.
- Came in early, and nobody was here, so I played three new songs before 7 PM.

March 12

1. The Smiths - How Soon is Now? - Hatful of Hollow 1984
2. New Order - Love Vigilantes - Low-life 1985
3. Salem 66 - Desk Clerk - Frequency and Urgency 1987
4. Hagar the Womb - A Song of Deep Hate - Funnery in a Nunnery EP 1984
5. The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - She's on Drugs - Cult of the Basement 1990
6. Ramones - Judy is a Punk - The Ramones 1977
7. Ramones - Everytime I Eat Vegetables It Makes Me Think of You - Subterranean Jungle 1983
8. Young Marble Giants - Eating Noddemix - Colossal Youth 1980
9. Cocteau Twins - Orange Appled - Love's Easy Tears EP 1986
10. The Blue Hearts - Owaranai Uta - The Blue Hearts 1987
11. X - Burning House of Love - Ain't Love Grand 1985
12. Sugarcubes - Traitor - Coldsweat EP 1988
13. R.E.M. - Sitting Still - Murmur 1983
14. Big Black - Kerosene - Atomizer 1986
15. Bad Religion - Into the Night - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 1982
16. Pixies - Dig For Fire - Bossanova 1990
17. Beat Happening - Gravedigger Blues - Black Candy 1989
18. Martha and the Muffins - Boys in the Bushes - Danseparc 1983
19. Bodysnatchers - Ruder Than You - The 2 Tone Collection: A Checkered Past (1980)
20. King Missile - Mr. Johnson - They 1988
21. Essential Logic - Aerosol Burns - Beat Rhythm News 1979
22. The Clash - The Call Up - Sandinista! 1980
23. The Clash - Drug-Stabbing Time - Give 'em Enough Rope 1978
24. Section 25 - Looking From a Hilltop - From the Hip 1984
25. Algebra Suicide - Connoisseurs of Lightning - Alpha Cue 1990
26. The Sundays - Hideous Towns - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic 1990
27. Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage - Fire 2003

- Big Black was a request, more specifically for Rapeman, which I thought we had, but couldn't find.
- Kristin was in the studio for this show, and assisted by figuring out which Blue Hearts song title was "Owaranai Uta".

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

March 5

1. Depeche Mode - Master and Servant - Some Great Reward 1984
2. Psychedelic Furs - Mr. Jones - Talk Talk Talk 1981
3. Essential Logic - Brute Fury - Pedigree Charm 1982
4. The Fall - How I Wrote "Elastic Man" - Palace of Swords Reversed (1982)
5. The Fall - Totally Wired - Palace of Swords Reversed (1982)
6. XTC - Melt the Guns - English Settlement 1982
7. R.E.M. - Feeling Gravity's Pull - Fables of the Reconstruction 1985
8. R.E.M. - Gardening at Night - Chronic Town EP 1982
9. Biff Bang Pow! - Ice Cream Machine - Love Is Forever 1988
10. Blue Aeroplanes - Gunning the Works - Friendloverplane 1988
11. Naked Raygun - Home of the Brave - All Rise 1985
12. The Clash - The Call Up - Sandinista! 1980
13. The Clash - Washington Bullets - Sandinista! 1980
14. Young Marble Giants - Eating Noddemix - Colossal Youth 1980
15. A Flock of Seagulls - Transfer Affection - Listen 1983
16. Comsat Angels - (Do the) Empty House - Fiction 1982
17. Nirvana - Negative Creep - Bleach 1989
18. Happy Mondays - God's Cop - Pills'N'Thrills'N'Bellyaches 1990
19. Lemonheads - Different Drum - Favorite Spanish Dishes EP 1990
20. Michelle Shocked - Down on Thomas St. - The Texas Campfire Tapes 1986
21. Michelle Shocked - Fogtown - The Texas Campfire Tapes 1986
22. Cocteau Twins - Orange Appled - Love's Easy Tears EP 1986
23. The Teardrop Explodes - Ha, Ha, I'm Drowning - Kilimanjaro 1980
24. Section 25 - Prepare to Live - From the Hip 1984
25. The Pogues - Bottle of Smoke - If I Should Fall From Grace With God 1988
26. Gang of Four - I Found That Essence Rare - Entertainment! 1979
27. The Flying Lizards - Summertime Blues - The Flying Lizards 1980
28. The Glands - Mutants on Motorcycles - 7" single 1980
29. The Glands - Don't Call Me - 7" single 1980
30. Let's Active - Every Dog Has His Day - Every Dog Has His Day 1988
31. The Swimming Pool Q's - The Knave - The Swimming Pool Q's 1984
32. Bloc Party - I Still Remember - A Weekend in the City GR-OR
33. The Pogues - The Broad Majestic Shannon - If I Should Fall From Grace With God 1988

- No human DJ was there either before or after my show, thanks to the Union closing at 5:30 for spring break, so I stayed until 9:30. This would ordinarily be a cause for sadness, since when you're coming on to follow up dead air you can have absolute certainty that nobody could possibly be listening to the first half hour of your show. But now that we have the automator it's not so bad.

- Both record players now have the slightly less severe problem that the left channel sometimes fades in and out. This made the Blue Aeroplanes song sound terrible, so I'll have to repeat it next week.

- "Bottle of Smoke" turned out to have about 20 cuss words in it, so maybe it's good that practically nobody but me was on the Pitt campus at the time to hear it.

- Last 3 songs are all good "last songs". Last.fm told me that #2 and #15 would be good choices.

- I liked the contrast between #15 and #16 as the light and serious sides of "new wave".

- #28 and #29 were recorded in the studio of Bobby DiMonte of Vōg fame.