The Eighties at Seven on WPTS

April 2

2007-04-05T16:15:00.000-07:00

1. 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
2. Martha and the Muffins - Swimming - This is the Ice Age 1981
3. Martha and the Muffins - Luna Park - Trance and Dance 1980
4. Blondie - Island of Lost Souls - The Hunter 1982
5. Guided by Voices - Barricade - Sandbox 1987
6. Patti Smith Group - Space Monkey - Easter 1978
7. Randy Newman - Mr. Sheep - Born Again 1979
8. Pop Will Eat Itself - Dance of the Mad Bastards - Cure for Sanity 1991
9. Happy Mondays - Dennis and Lois - Pills'N'Thrills'N'Bellyaches 1990
10. Ken Nordine - Beige - Colors 1966
11. Throwing Muses - Juno - House Tornado 1988
12. Throwing Muses - Red Shoes - The Real Ramona 1991
13. Gruppo Sportivo - P.S. 78 - Mistakes 1978
14. King Missile - Martin Scorsese (PG-13) - Happy Hour 1992
15. The Kinks - Hay Fever - Misfits 1978
16. The Kinks - Live Life - Misfits 1978
17. Jane's Addiction - Ocean Size - Nothing's Shocking 1988
18. Killdozer - Seven Thunders - Twelve Point Buck 1989
19. Ken Nordine - Orange - Colors 1966
20. Stump - Eager Bereaver - A Fierce Pancake 1988
21. Soft Boys - He's a Reptile - Invisible Hits 1979
22. The Tell-Tale Hearts - Crawling Back to Me - The Tell-Tale Hearts 1985
23. Grant Hart - 2541 - Intolerance 1989
24. XTC - Love on a Farmboy's Wages - Mummer 1983
25. The Cure - Let's Go To Bed - Japanese Whispers 1983
26. Algebra Suicide - A Slap in the Face - Alpha Cue 1990

- Felt no great need to play anything in particular tonight, except the first 2 songs, so I played a bunch of things I'd never heard before. Finally played Killdozer.

- Got my third request from the insane mumbling person, this time requesting, of all the songs in the universe, "Hatred (A Duet)" from the Kinks' extremely unsuccessful 1993 album Phobia. I did the best I could, as you can see.

March 26

2007-03-28T15:39:00.001-07:00

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

2007-03-28T15:27:00.000-07:00

-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

2007-03-28T15:12:00.000-07:00

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".

March 5

2007-03-06T11:26:00.000-08:00

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.

February 26

2007-02-28T21:23:00.000-08:00

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

2007-02-28T21:07:00.000-08:00

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

2007-02-28T21:05:00.000-08:00

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

2007-02-28T20:46:00.000-08:00

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

2007-02-28T20:30:00.000-08:00

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.

January 22

2007-01-22T18:11:00.000-08:00

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

2007-01-17T00:16:00.000-08:00

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

2007-01-08T18:37:00.000-08:00

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

2007-01-08T18:36:00.000-08:00

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.

December 11, 2006

2006-12-11T21:46:00.000-08:00

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. Pere Ubu - Humor Me - The Modern Dance 1978
3. The Pop Group - We Are Time - Y 1979
4. The English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom - I Just Can't Stop It 1980
5. Chameleons UK - Mad Jack - Strange Times 1988
6. Echo and the Bunnymen - Read It In Books - Crocodiles 1980
7. Echo and the Bunnymen - All That Jazz - Crocodiles 1980
8. New Model Army - Vengeance - Vengeance 1984
9. They Might Be Giants - Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head - They Might Be Giants 1986
10. They Might Be Giants - Number Three - They Might Be Giants 1986
11. Beat Happening - Bewitched - Jamboree 1988
12. Beat Happening - Red Head Walking - Dreamy 1991
13. Human Sexual Response - Land of the Glass Pinecones - In a Roman Mood 1981
14. Bright Light Fever - Broken Hands - Bright Light Fever Presents the Evening Owl 2006
15. The Cure - Six Different Ways - The Head on the Door 1985
16. Martha and the Muffins - World Without Borders - Danseparc 1983
17. Essential Logic - Brute Fury - Pedigree Charm 1982
18. Breaking Circus - Took a Hammering - The Ice Machine 1986
19. Volcano Suns - White Elephant - All-Night Lotus Party 1986
20. Bad Religion - Land of Competition - Suffer 1988
21. Railroad Jerk - From the Pavement - New York Eye and Ear Control 1990
22. Comsat Angels - (Do The) Empty House - Fiction 1982
23. Guided by Voices - Postal Blowfish - Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy OST 1996
24. Deerhoof - Dummy Discards a Heart - Apple O' 2003
25. ABC - Date Stamp - The Lexicon of Love 1982
26. Ramones - Bonzo Goes to Bitburg - 12" single 1985
27. The Blue Hearts - Hammer - Super Best (orig. 1988)
28. When People Were Shorter And Lived Near The Water - Watching Scotty Grow - Bobby 1989
29. Replacements - Left of the Dial - Tim 1985
30. Superchunk - Tie a Rope to the Back of the Bus - No Pocky For Kitty 1993
31. Swimming Pool Q's - The Knave - The Swimming Pool Q's 1984
32. Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist - Since I Left You 2000

- Bright Light Fever and Deerhoof were requests.
- TMBG went out from Stephanie to Michael.
- #28 certainly is weird, isn't it?
- discovered Breaking Circus who seem to be quite excellent.
- "Six Different Ways" is suddenly one of my favorite Cure songs.
- I don't know how this got to 31 songs (#32 was after 9 PM because the DJ after me didn't come in), after it started off with the 7-minute "We Are Time".
- Bright Light Fever is probably in rotation - I have to see what sort of rotation it's in.

December 4

2006-12-05T08:07:00.000-08:00

1. Pere Ubu - Misery Goats - The Art of Walking 1980
2. Julian Cope - Screaming Secrets - Saint Julian 1987
3. Vōg - In the Crowd - Vōg 1982
4. The Sound - The Fire - From the Lion's Mouth 1981
5. Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again - Music for the Masses 1987
6. Liliput - Outburst - Liliput 1982
7. Delta 5 - Innocenti - Singles and Sessions (orig. 1981)
8. Belle and Sebastian - Judy and the Dream of Horses - If You're Feeling Sinister 1996
9. The Smiths - Sheila Take a Bow - Louder Than Bombs 1987
10. B-52's - Rock Lobster - The B-52's 1979
11. Bad Religion - Automatic Man - No Control 1989
12. Jazzawhaki - Don't Panic - British Airwaves (Abstract Records rarities sampler)
13. Iggy Pop - Plastic & Concrete - American Caesar 1993
14. Benton & the Bentonites - She's on Drugs - Meet the Bentonites 1987
15. Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - She's on Drugs - Cult of the Basement 1987
16. Shinehead - Chain Gang Rap - Unity 1988
17. ESG - Moody (Spaced Out) - A South Bronx Story (orig. 1983)
18. Martha and the Muffins - Primal Weekend - Trance and Dance 1980
19. Coheed and Cambria - A Favor House Atlantic - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 2003
20. The Fall - Wrong Place, Right Time - 458489 A Sides (orig. 1988)
21. The Fall - Clasp Hands - Fall Heads Roll 2005
22. Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane - Loaded 1970
23. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon - Ocean Rain 1984
24. The Blue Hearts - Linda Linda - The Blue Hearts 1987
25. Pixies - Here Comes Your Man - Doolittle 1989
26. Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna - Goodnight Vienna 1974
27. Ringo Starr - Occapella - Goodnight Vienna 1974
28. Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol - Definitely Maybe 1994
29. The Renees - Drink Problem - British Airwaves (Abstract Records rarities sampler)

This show was influenced by our trainees Kelly and Kaitlyn (#8, 10, 22, 25). Bad Religion, The Fall, and Iggy Pop were requests.

November 27

2006-12-05T08:06:00.000-08:00

Couldn't do the show today because my car broke down and I couldn't get back to Pittsburgh in time. It needed a new idle air control valve and a new motor mount.

I guess getting it fixed there was probably cheaper than getting it fixed in Pgh would have been.

November 20

2006-11-21T07:23:00.000-08:00

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. Missing Persons - Walking in L.A. - Spring Session M 1982
3. Depeche Mode - Master and Servant - Some Great Reward 1984
4. Beck - Paper Tiger - Sea Change 2002
5. Grateful Dead - All New Minglewood Blues - Shakedown Street 1978
6. The Stooges - Fun House - Fun House 1970
7. David Bowie - Subterraneans - Low 1977
8. Frida Hyvönen - Come Another Night - Until Death Comes GR-RD
9. Chavez - Top Pocket Man - Better Days Will Haunt You GR-OR
10. The Dears - Fear Made the World Go Round - Gang of Losers GR-RD
11. The Fall - Pacifying Joint - Fall Heads Roll 2005
12. Bad Religion - Progress - No Control 1989
13. Bad Religion - I Want Something More - No Control 1989
14. Pennywise - Homesick - Unknown Road 1993
15. Pennywise - Nothing - Unknown Road 1993
16. The Birthday Party - Blundertown - Prayers on Fire 1981
17. The Blue Hearts - Linda Linda - The Blue Hearts 1987
18. The Blue Hearts - Owaranai Uta - The Blue Hearts 1987
19. The Sound - Winning - From the Lion's Mouth 1981
20. Comsat Angels - Now I Know - Fiction 1982
21. Tarnation - Tell Me It's Not So - Gentle Creatures 1995
22. The Cure - Friday I'm In Love - Wish 1992
23. The String Cheese Incident - Mountain Girl - Untying the Not 2003
24. Blogurt - Squishyman - We Like To Eat 1995
25. The Modey Lemon - Crows - Thunder + Lightning 2003
26. The Clash - Complete Control - The Clash 1977
27. Fifty Tons of Black Terror - Creeper's Reef - My Idle Hands 2000
28. Beat Happening - Bewitched - Jamboree 1988

This show was influenced by our trainee Kelly and my birthday presents.

Tarnation was a request from Mr. McWade.

November 13

2006-11-13T18:21:00.000-08:00

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. Pere Ubu - Final Solution - Terminal Tower 1985 (single 1976)
3. Television - Venus - Marquee Moon 1977
4. The Clash - The Call Up - Sandinista! 1980
5. The Clash - Junkie Slip - Sandinista! 1980
6. X - Breathless - More Fun in the New World 1983
7. X - I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts - More Fun in the New World 1983
8. Hagar the Womb - A Song of Deep Hate - Funnery in a Nunnery EP 1984
9. Global Infantilists - Passing - Global Infantilists 1981
10. The Exploited - Death Before Dishonour - Death Before Dishonour 1987
11. Naked Raygun - Soldiers Requiem - Jettison 1988
12. Blue Aeroplanes - World View Blue - Swagger 1990
13. It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home - Life's Hard and Then You Die 1987
14. They Might Be Giants - The World's Address - Lincoln 1988
15. XTC - Ten Feet Tall - Drums and Wires 1979
16. ABC - Tears are Not Enough - The Lexicon of Love 1982
17. It's Immaterial - Space - Life's Hard and Then You Die 1987
18. Eurhythmics - Right By Your Side - Touch 1983
19. TAD - Cyanide Bath - God's Balls 1989
20. Wee Papa Girl Rappers - Faith - WORD 2 1988
21. The Ophelias - Turn Into a Berry - Oriental Head 1988
22. Felt - The Day The Rain Came Down - Goldmine Trash 1987
23. New Small Appliances - Twirling Bodies - They Pelted Us With Rocks and Garbage 1985
24. R.E.M. - Catapult - Murmur 1983
25. Human Sexual Response - Land of the Glass Pinecones - In a Roman Mood 1981
26. The Smiths - Is It Really So Strange? - Louder Than Bombs 1987
27. The Adverts - One Chord Wonders - The Peel Session (25th April 1977)
28. The Feelies - Slipping (Into Something) - The Good Earth 1986

- 17 was a request after Mr. McWade heard 13.

- This show was all good songs, but maybe too eclectic. And yet, I didn't perform the ultimate act of ridiculousness, going directly from TAD to the Wee Papa Girl Rappers. There was a bunch of talk and promos between those two.

- 22, 23 and 24 was a set of bands I had never heard of at all.

- Heard the Feelies for the first time.

November 6

2006-11-08T22:16:00.000-08:00

1. Pere Ubu - Non-alignment Pact - The Modern Dance 1978
2. Gang of Four - A Hole in the Wallet - Solid Gold 1981
3. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon - Ocean Rain 1984
4. Fugazi - Blueprint - Repeater 1990
5. Fugazi - Give Me The Cure - Fugazi EP 1988
6. Hagar the Womb - A Song of Deep Hate - Funnery in a Nunnery EP 1984
7. Global Infantilists - Passing - Global Infantilists 1981
8. The Fall - The Man Whose Head Expanded - Palace of Swords Reversed 1987
9. Game Theory - The World's Easiest Job - Lolita Nation 1987
10. Game Theory - Look Away - Lolita Nation 1987
11. Blake Babies - Look Away - Sunburn 1990
12. The Smiths - Sheila Take a Bow - Louder Than Bombs 1987
13. The Ex - Brickbat - Joggers and Smoggers 1989
14. The Ex - Hieronymous - Joggers and Smoggers 1989
15. Dog Faced Hermans - Suppressa - Mental Blocks for All Ages 1989
16. Sugarcubes - Speed is the Key - Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! 1989
17. Reptile - Candyflos War - Fame and Fossils 1990
18. Michelle Shocked - Sleep Keeps Me Awake - Captain Swing 1989
19. Suzanne Vega - Neighborhood Girls - Suzanne Vega 1985
20. Replacements - Color Me Impressed - Hootenanny 1983
21. War on the Saints - Rainy Day - War on the Saints EP 1988
22. Hüsker Dü - Ice Cold Ice - Warehouse: Songs and Stories 1987
23. The Cure - The Walk - Japanese Whispers 1983
24. Camper Van Beethoven - Sometimes - Camper Van Beethoven II & III 1986
25. Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures of Matchstick Men - Key Lime Pie 1989
26. Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne Is Big Leggy - Battle Hymns For Children Singing 1983
27. Sex Clark Five - The Wehrmacht's Lament - Battle of Sex Clark Five 1989
28. The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - She's on Drugs - Cult of the Basement 1990
29. Lime Spiders - Blood From a Stone - The Cave Comes Alive! 1987
30. Pere Ubu - Misery Goats - The Art of Walking 1980

#3 was a request.
#6 and #7 were played on a CD player that turned out to be faulty (actually from an Abstract Records CD sampler). Play them again next week.

Errata

2006-10-31T08:50:00.000-08:00

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

2006-10-30T18:32:00.000-08:00

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

2006-10-23T18:50:00.000-07:00

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

2006-10-16T19:01:00.000-07:00

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

2006-10-09T18:14:00.000-07:00

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

2006-10-02T18:57:00.000-07:00

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

September 25

2006-09-26T14:26:00.000-07:00

1. Martha and the Muffins - Echo Beach - Metro Music 1980
2. Talking Heads - Life During Wartime - Fear of Music 1979
3. The Cucumbers - Tiger - The Cucumbers 1987
4. About 9 Times - Trench Coat Swing - Play Jacks 1985
5. The Cure - Friday I'm In Love - Wish 1992
6. Sundays - Skin & Bones - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic 1990
7. Stranglers - Peaches - Rattus Norvegicus 1977
8. Talking Heads - Girlfriend is Better (live) - Stop Making Sense 1984
9. Reptile - Allah - Fame and Fossils 1990
10. Bad Religion - Voice of God is Government - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 1982
11. Gang of Four - Contract - Entertainment! 1979
12. Kid Creole and the Coconuts - I'm a Wonderful Thing, Baby - Wise Guy 1982
13. The Kinks - Misfits - Misfits 1978
14. Minutemen - Tour-Spiel - Project: Mersh EP 1985
15. The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? - Meat is Murder 1984
16. The Stooges - Loose - Fun House 1970
17. Blake Babies - Loose - Earwig 1989
18. The Swimming Pool Q's - She's Bringing Down the Poison - The Swimming Pool Q's 1984
19. Ne-Yo - Sexy Love - In My Own Words 2006
20. Aztec Camera - Jump - Backwards and Forwards EP 1985
21. Echo and the Bunnymen - Villiers Terrace - Crocodiles 1980
22. The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt - The Body, The Blood, The Machine GR-OR
23. Braille Party - Welcome to Maryland - Welcome to Maryland 1984
24. Julian Cope - Saint Julian - Saint Julian 1987
25. Jay-Z - Change the Game - CD single 2006
26. Hector Bambino "El Father" - Here We Go Yo - CD single 2006
27. Beat Happening - Collide - Dreamy 1991
28. Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon - The Real Ramona 1991
29. The dB's - A Spy In The House Of Love - Like This 1984

- 19 and 25 were chosen by Hip Hop Trainee Brian. I tried to make them fit in as little as possible for enhanced interestingness. Also I brought out what I believe is our only 80's hip hop, the M/A/R/R/S "Pump Up The Volume" 12", but it turned out to be warped.

- The Kinks and "Friday I'm In Love" were requests.

- I always enjoy playing "Not Too Soon" partially because it's the last song Tanya Donnelly recorded with the band, released on an album that I think came out after she left the Throwing Muses to form Belly, which is why it sounds exactly like a Belly song. It questions the notion of ownership yada yada yada authorship of whatever. Also, it rules.

September 18

2006-09-18T18:17:00.000-07:00

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.

September 11

2006-09-11T18:32:00.000-07:00

1. The dB's - A Spy in the House of Love - Like This 1984
2. The Cure - Why Can't I Be You? - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 1987
3. The Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing - Hatful of Hollow 1984
4. Prince & the Revolution - When Doves Cry - Purple Rain 1984
5. The Pop Group - Thief of Fire - Y 1979
6. The Silos - She Lives Up The Street - Cuba 1987
7. Liliput - Eisiger Wind - Liliput (orig. Rough Trade single 1981)
8. Delta 5 - Try - Singles & Sessions (orig. Rough Trade single 1980)
9. Soft Cell - Down in the Subway - This Last Night In Sodom 1984
10. Queen - You're My Best Friend - Queen Live Killers 1979
11. Talking Heads - Life During Wartime - Fear of Music 1979
12. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Pump It Up - This Year's Model 1978
13. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Posession - Get Happy!! 1980
14. R.E.M. - (All I Have To Do Is) Dream - Athens, GA.-Inside Out 1987
15. M.I.A. - Bucky Done Gun - Arular 2005
16. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Stool Pigeon - Wise Guy 1982
17. Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus - In a Priest Driven Ambulance 1990
18. The B-52's - Private Idaho - Wild Planet 1980
19. The Fall - Fit and Working Again - Slates EP 1981
20. Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach - Metro Music 1980
21. Men at Work - Dr. Heckyll and Mr. Jive - Cargo 1983
22. Alexi Murdoch - Orange Sky - Four Songs EP 2002
23. Vōg - In the Crowd - Vōg 1982
24. Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You - Underwater Moonlight 1980
25. Men Without Hats - Where Do The Boys Go? - Folk of the '80s (Part III) 1984
26. Alice Cooper - I Never Cry - The Alice Cooper Show 1977
27. The Clash - The Right Profile - London Calling 1979
28. Hüsker Dü - Games - Flip Your Wig 1985
29. Jamiroquai - Seven Days in Sunny June - Dynamite 2005

Good but weird show today. Trainee Dan picked 4, 10, 15, 21, 22, 26, and the decision to end with Jamiroquai. "Rock Lobster" was requested, but it wasn't on any of our three B-52's albums, so we played "Private Idaho". "Everyday I Write The Book" (or something by Oxo) was requested, but it wasn't on any of our eleven Elvis Costello albums, so I played two songs which should add up to be roughly as good. Also, I'd never heard of an R.E.M. version of that song before.

September 4

2006-09-04T19:14:00.000-07:00

1. The Silos - Tennessee Fire - Cuba 1987
2. The Fall - Deer Park (live) - A Part of America Therein, 1981
3. Aztec Camera - Jump - Backwards and Forwards EP 1985
4. Delta 5 - Anticipation - Singles and Sessions (orig. Rough Trade single, 1980)
5. Delta 5 - You - Singles and Sessions (orig. Rough Trade single, 1980)
6. Husker Du - Ice Cold Ice - Warehouse: Songs and Stories 1987
7. Thelonious Monster - Michael Jordan - Next Saturday Afternoon 1987
8. Martha and the Muffins - Swimming - This is the Ice Age 1981
9. Beat Happening - I Spy - Beat Happening 1985
10. Braille Party – Seven - Welcome to Maryland 1984
11. Braille Party - Free Enterprise For Ya - Welcome to Maryland 1984
12. Public Image Ltd. - Memories - Metal Box/Second Edition 1979
13. Vōg - Step Ahead - Vōg 1982
14. Chameleons UK - Swamp Thing - Strange Times 1986
15. Kitchens of Distinction - Quick As Rainbows - Strange Free World 1990
16. Kitchens of Distinction - He Holds Her, He Needs Her - Strange Free World 1990
17. Flaming Lips - Shine On Sweet Jesus - In a Priest Driven Ambulance 1990
18. Close Lobsters - Loopholes - What Is There to Smile About? EP 1988
19. The Swimming Pool Q's - The Knave - The Swimming Pool Q's 1984
20. Close Lobsters - I Take Bribes - Foxheads Stalk This Land 1987
21. Talking Heads - Paper - Fear of Music 1979
22. Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love (live) - Bless Its Pointed Little Head 1969
23. Suzanne Vega - Cracking - Suzanne Vega 1985
24. Jesus and Mary Chain - Sowing Seeds - Psychocandy 1985
25. The Cult - Fire Woman - Sonic Temple 1989
26. The Vapors - Bunkers - New Clear Days 1980
27. Section 25 - Crazy Wisdom - 12" single 1985

- #22 was a request from an obviously insane person who mumbled into the phone nonstop for a couple minutes...I deciphered the phrases "Jefferson Airplane", "Woodstock", "West Homestead", and "Appreciate it", and told him I didn't think we had anything by the Jefferson Airplane because thanks to decades of theft we basically have the bizarro music collection (we have about five times as many albums by the Tubes as we have by the Rolling Stones, for example. And that's considering that we actually have more than one album by the Rolling Stones. The only thing we have by the Beatles is a burned copy of that "Number Ones Collection" album that came out about five years ago.) Anyway, I noticed this bootleg-looking Jefferson Airplane thing that had clearly been in the vinyl stacks for the full 37 years since it was released, and it turned out to be a cool live album.

- Finally played Braille Party, who I'd been meaning to play forever. The same is true for the Vapors album track.
- Also, got to see what Thelonious Monster was like. And the Aztec Camera Van Halen cover was tremendous. So was the Chameleons song.

August 28!

2006-08-28T19:30:00.000-07:00

1. The Fall - U.S. 80's -- 90's - The Domesday Pay-off 1987
2. Delta 5 - Try - Singles & Sessions (orig. Rough Trade single 1980)
3. Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business - Singles & Sessions (orig. Rough Trade single 1979)
4. Echo and the Bunnymen - Ripeness - Porcupine 1983
5. Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt - EVOL 1986
6. Algebra Suicide - A Flock of Crows - 7" EP 1985
7. Human League - Don't You Know I Want You - Hysteria 1984
8. Bad Religion - Into the Night - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 1982
9. Scratch Acid - Damned For All Time - Just Keep Eating 1986
10. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian - Ice Cream For Crow 1982
11. Drivin' n' Cryin' - You Don't Know Me - Mystery Road 1989
12. Soft Boys - Queen of Eyes - Underwater Moonlight 1980
13. Cocteau Twins - Iceblink Luck - Heaven or Las Vegas 1990
14. Hüsker Dü - Ice Cold Ice - Warehouse: Songs and Stories 1987
15. Hüsker Dü - The Baby Song / Flexible Flyer - Flip Your Wig 1985
16. DNA - Size - No New York 1978
17. Dead Milkmen - Bitchin' Camaro - Big Lizard In My Back Yard 1985
18. The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make? - Hatful of Hollow 1984
19. Dead Milkmen - Takin' Retards To The Zoo - Big Lizard In My Back Yard 1985
20. Camper Van Beethoven - O Death – Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart 1988
21. Killing Joke - Love of the Masses - Brighter Than a Thousand Suns 1987
22. The Clarks - Perfection Not Required - I'll Tell You What Man... 1988
23. Throwing Muses - Marriage Tree - House Tornado 1988
24. A Flock of Seagulls - The Traveller - Listen 1983
25. A Flock of Seagulls - (It's Not Me) Talking - Listen 1983
26. Devo - Beautiful World - New Traditionalists 1981
27. The Clash - Guns On The Roof - Give 'em Enough Rope 1978
28. Blake Babies - Loose - Earwig 1989
29. Judas Priest - Breaking the Law - The Essential... (orig. British Steel 1980)
30. Microdisney - Genius - The Clock Comes Down the Stairs 1986
31. The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - She's on Drugs - Cult of the Basement 1990

Back to the eighties format!

Also, to a new day. Mondays. Since the schedule was just announced today I didn't have time to bring in any of my own stuff to play.

Found out what Drivin' n' Cryin' sound like -- and investigated Delta 5, Killing Joke, and A Flock of Seagulls after reading Rip it Up and Start Again.

Dead Milkmen was a request (his first choice was "Pleasure and Pain" by the Divinyls which we do not have).

Devo was a request from Mrs. Fino.

August 10 - back to eighties, mostly

2006-08-28T19:26:00.000-07:00

1. Volcano Suns - White Elephant - All-Night Lotus Party 1986
2. Queen - Mustapha - Jazz 1978
3. Volcano Suns - Dot on the Map - All-Night Lotus Party 1986
4. Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon - The Real Ramona 1991
5. Replacements - Kids Don't Follow - Stink EP 1982
6. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Hong Kong Garden - The Scream 1978
7. The Cure - Kyoto Song - The Head on the Door 1985
8. The Fall - Carry Bag Man - The Frenz Experiment 1988
9. Thom Yorke - Harrowdownhill - The Eraser GR-RD
10. Duran Duran - Girls on Film - Duran Duran 1981
11. Cocteau Twins - Feet-Like Fins - Victorialand 1986
12. The New Creatures - Icon In The Fields - Rafter Tag 1987
13. The New Creatures - Lie In Her Head - Rafter Tag 1987
14. Blake Babies - Loose - Earwig 1989
15. Girl Talk - Warm It Up - Night Ripper GR-OR
16. Jurassic 5 - Canto De Ossanha - Feedback GR-RD
17. Shriekback - Fish Below the Ice - Oil and Gold 1985
18. Girl Talk - That's My DJ - Night Ripper GR-OR
19. Robyn Hitchcock - Trams of Old London 1986
20. Pere Ubu - Misery Goats - The Art of Walking 1980
21. Black Girls - Procedure - Procedure 1989
22. Black Girls - A Visit to the Behaviorist - Procedure 1989
23.The Smiths - These Things Take Time - Hatful of Hollow 1984
24. Nirvana - Mr. Moustache - Bleach 1989
25. Julian Cope - Saint Julian - Saint Julian 1987
26. Nilsson - Subterranean Homesick Blues - Pussy Cats 1974
27. Ringo Starr - Oo-Wee - Goodnight Vienna 1974
28. The Jai-Alai Savant - Scarlett Johansson Why Don't You Love Me – Thunderstatement 2005
29. The Neon Judgement - Wand'rin' Star - A Man Ain't No Man When A Man Ain’t Got No Horse, Man EP 1987
30. The Sundays - Hideous Towns - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic 1990
31. Depeche Mode - A Question of Lust - Black Celebration 1986
32. Say Hi To Your Mom - She Just Happens to Date the Prince of Darkness - Impeccable Blahs GR-OR
33. Pere Ubu - Hell - St. Arkansas 2002
34. P.O.S. - Living Slightly Larger – Audition GR-RD

Jurassic 5 and Girl Talk were requested by the same guy. I had already played Girl Talk, but played it again.
#30 would be a great song to end

The next two weeks the WPU will be closed at my time. Then maybe it will be on a different day.

July 20 - not eighties

2006-08-28T19:22:00.000-07:00

1. Soul Coughing - Bus to Beelzebub - Ruby Vroom 1994
2. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - The Barafundle Bumbler - Barafundle 1997
3. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Pen Gwag Glas - Barafundle 1997
4. Magnetic Fields - All My Little Words – 69 Love Songs 1999
5. A Band of Bees - These Are the Ghosts - Free the Bees 2005
6. The World/Inferno Friendship Society - Brother of the Mayor of Bridgewater - Red-Eyed Soul - GR-RD
7. The World/Inferno Friendship Society - Let's Steal Everything - Red-Eyed Soul GR-RD
8. Psapp - Hi - The Only Thing I Ever Wanted GR-OR
9. Lansing-Dreiden - Part of the Promise - The Dividing Island GR-RD
10. Thee Headcoats - No Escape - Earls of Suavedom 1990
11. Simple Minds - Carnival (Shelter in a Suitcase) - Real to Real Cacophony 1982
12. Throwing Muses - Ruthie's Knocking - Limbo 1996
13. Heavenly - Sperm Meets Egg, So What? - The Decline and Fall of Heavenly 1997
14. Yoko Ono - Why - Plastic Ono Band 1970
15. Ringo Starr - Snookeroo - Goodnight Vienna 1974
16. Les Georges Leningrad - Georges V - Deux Hot Dogs Moutarde Chou 2004
17. Stereo Total - Automatic Music - Musique Automatique 2002
18. Q and Not U - Wet Work – Power 2004
19. The Fall - Carry Bag Man - The Frenz Experiment 1988
20. The Silos - Tennessee Fire - Cuba 1987
21. Replacements - Kiss Me On The Bus - Tim 1985
22. Test Icicles - Circle.Square.Triangle - For Screening Purposes Only 2006
23. Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex - On Avery Island 1995
24. Strawberry Alarm Clock - Sit With the Guru - Best of 1985 (orig. 1968)
25. Balkan Beat Box - Adir Adirim - Balkan Beat Box 2005
26. The Clash - The Call Up - Sandinista! 1980
27. Shudder To Think - White Page - Get Your Goat 1992

- Started off with one of the best possible set-starting songs
- A new World/Inferno album! Hurrah!
- Psapp is a great new find.
- So now I finally know what the Plastic Ono Band sounds like.
- Les Georges Leningrad was a request, believe it or not. A request made when I was playing the Yoko Ono song. Some people love screeching.

July 6 - not eighties

2006-08-28T19:18:00.000-07:00

1. Polysics - I'm a Worker - Neu! 2000
2. Polysics - MS-17 - Neu! 2000
3. K-Os - Crabbuckit – Joyful Rebellion 2004
4. The Cure - The Love Cats – Japanese Whispers 1984
5. Gang of Four - Outside the Trains Don't Run On Time – Solid Gold 1981
6. Scratch Acid - Damned For All Time - Just Keep Eating 1986
7. Jesus Lizard - South Mouth - Goat 1991
8. Coheed and Cambria - Blood Red Summer - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 2003
9. Porcupine Tree - Shallow - Deadwing 2005
10. The Stooges - Fun House - Fun House 1970
11. Guided by Voices - Much Better Mr. Buckles – Do the Collapse 1999
12. Spoon - Something To Look Forward To - Kill the Moonlight 2002
13. Spoon - All the Pretty Girls Go to the City - Kill the Moonlight 2002
14. Hot Chip - A-B-C – Coming On Strong 2005
15. Camper Van Beethoven - O Death - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart 1988
16. Camper Van Beethoven - She Divines Water - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart 1988
17. Jesus and Mary Chain - Blues From a Gun - Automatic 1989
18. Robyn Hitchcock 'n' the Egyptians - Madonna of the Wasps - Queen Elvis 1989
19. Soft Boys - I Got The Hots - Underwater Moonlight 1980
20. Lindsay Lohan - Frankie and Johnny – A Prairie Home Companion OST GR-RD
21. Pavement - Hit the Plane Down – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 1994
22. Rancid - Leicester Square – Life Won’t Wait 1998
23. Mission of Burma - Birthday – The Obliterati GR-OR
24. Soviettes - Channel X - LP II 2004
25. Soviettes - Pass the Flashlight - LP II 2004
26. Mr. T Experience - Hell of Dumb - Revenge is Sweet and So Are You 1997
27. Mr. T Experience - Mr. Ramones - The Miracle of Shame EP 2000
28. Psychedelic Furs - Into You Like a Train - Talk Talk Talk 1981
29. Julian Cope - Saint Julian - Saint Julian 1987
30. PJ Harvey - The River - Is This Desire? 1998
31. Heiruspecs - I'm Behind You - A Tiger Dancing 2004

Getting back to the format...about 40% eighties, and mostly songs I'd heard before. My curiosity has been sated. The PJ Harvey song is one that Greg told me I should play over a year ago and I kept forgetting to play.

June 15 - not eighties

2006-08-28T18:39:00.000-07:00

1. Gumball - Gettysburg - Special Kiss 1991
2. The Gravel Pit - When Will Our Bucket Come Up Dry - Silver Gorilla 1999
3. The Working Poor - Upstart Organ - New Wealth 2004
4. AFI - Love Like Winter – Decemberunderground GR-RD
5. The Negro Problem - Sea of Heat - Joys and Concerns 1999
6. Creeper Lagoon - Dead Man Saloon - Take Back the Universe and Give Me Yesterday 2001
7. Cornershop - Born Disco, Died Heavy Metal - Hold On It Hurts 1993
8. Dead Moon - Ricochet - Trash and Burn 2000
9. Waxwing - G - Nobody Can Take What Everybody Owns 2002
10. Thundering Lizards - Roast Penguin - Eyeball Sandwich 1995
11. Thrush Hermit - From the Back of the Film - Clayton Park 1998
12. John Doe - Let's Be Mad - Meet John Doe 1990
13. Voodoo Glow Skulls - Used to Love Her - Addicción, Tradición, Revolución 2004
14. Voodoo Glow Skulls - Smile Now, Cry Later - Addicción, Tradición, Revolución 2004
15. The Coup - We are the Ones - Pick a Bigger Weapon GR-OR
16. Pitchblende - Penny for the Guy - November singles series 7" 1993
17. Mudhoney - In 'n' Out of Grace - Superfuzz Bigmuff EP 1988
18. His Name is Alive - Why People Disappear - Home Is In Your Head 1991
19. The Go! Team - Panther Dash – Thunder, Lightning, Strike! 2004
20. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Gimme Some Salt – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 2005
21. Ninja High School - Nap - Young Adults Against Suicide 2005
22. Ninja High School - Positive Laser – Young Adults Against Suicide 2005
23. Jason and the Scorchers - My Kingdom For a Car - Thunder and Fire 1989
24. Hot Snakes - Our Work Fills the Pews – Automatic Midnight 2000
25. Rose Melberg - Irene - Cast Away the Clouds GR-OR
26. Heavenly - Sperm Meets Egg, So What? - The Decline and Fall of Heavenly 1994
27. Hefner - The Sweetness Lies Within - Breaking God's Heart 1998
28. Conner - I'm a Balloon - Hello Graphic Missile GR-RD
29. Avail - Sanctuary 13 - Over the James 1998
30. Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia - Hot Rats 1969
31. Frank Zappa - Weasels Ripped My Flesh - Weasels Ripped My Flesh 1970

Once again this week's format was "I am curious about what these songs sound like". A lot of them weren't very good (#1, #9, #11, #17). But #13, #4, #22, #23, #29, #25, and #17 were good finds. Also, the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah song wasn't nearly as good as "Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood".

June 1 - not eighties

2006-07-22T16:06:00.000-07:00

1. Psychedelic Furs - Into You Like a Train - Talk Talk Talk 1981
2. Psychedelic Furs - It Goes On - Talk Talk Talk 1981
3. Supreme Beings of Leisure - Freezer - Divine Operating System 2002
4. Spain - Hoped and Prayed - She Haunts My Dreams 1989
5. My Bloody Valentine - Glider - Glider EP 1990
6. My Bloody Valentine - Don't Ask Why - Glider EP 1990
7. David Bowie - Always Crashing in the Same Car - Low 1977
8. CRAVE - College Girl
9. Bratmobile - Do You Like Me Like That? - Ladies, Women and Girls 2000
10. New Creatures - Icon in the Fields - Rafter Tag 1987
11. Fiel Garvie - Reeling As You Come Around Again - Leave Me Out of This 2003
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mommy Where's Daddy - The Red Hot Chili Peppers 1984
13. The Walkmen - Emma, Get Me a Lemon - A Hundred Miles Off GR-OR
14. Wolfmother - Vagabond - Wolfmother 2006
15. The Tubes - Pimp - Young and Rich 1976
16. The Faint - Cars Pass in Cold Blood - Blank-Wave Arcade 1999
17. Flat Duo Jets - Man With the Golden Arm - Flat Duo Jets 1989
18. Flat Duo Jets - Pink Gardenia - Flat Duo Jets 1989
19. Thursday - Counting 5-4-3-2-1 - City by the Light Divided GR-RD
20. Flogging Molly - Cruel Mistress - Drunken Lullabies 2002
21. His Name Is Alive - We Hold The Land In Great Esteem - Home Is In Your Head 1991
22. Idaho - To Be the One - Hearts of Palm 2000
23. Lightning Bolt - Captain Caveman - Hypermagic Mountain 2005
24. Už Jsme Doma - Telefón - In the Middle of Words 1998
25. Mission of Burma - Spider's Web - The Obliterati GR-OR
26. Mission of Burma - Birthday - The Obliterati GR-OR
27. Stars - What I'm Trying To Say - Set Yourself on Fire 2004
28. REO Speedealer - Screamer - REO Speedealer 1998
29. Salty the Pocketknife - Shiny Lies - Salty the Pocketknife 2003
30. John Cale - Hello, There - Vintage Violence 1970
31. Jimmy Fallon - Hammertime - The Bathroom Wall 2002
32. They Might Be Giants - Older - Mink Car 2001
33. Rock*A*Teens - I Could've Just Died - Baby, A Little Rain Must Fall 1998

May 25 - not eighties

2006-05-26T07:15:00.000-07:00

1. Dead Boys - Catholic Boy - Night of the Living Dead Boys 1981
2. Magnetic Fields - The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side - 69 Love Songs 1999
3. Nick Lowe - Dose of You - Labour of Lust 1979
4. Old Time Relijun - Tigers in the Temple - Lost Light 2004
5. Delta 72 - Rich Girls Like to Steal - The R&B of Membership 1996
6. Against Me! - We Laugh at Danger (and Break All the Rules) - Against Me! is Reinventing Axl Rose 2002
7. Handsome Family - Fallen Peaches - Singing Bones 2003
8. Handsome Family - Water Into Wine - Odessa 1994
9. Refused - Summerholidays Vs. Punkroutine - The Shape of Punk to Come 1998
10. Jets to Brazil - Resistance is Futile - Orange Rhyming Dictionary 1998
11. My Dad is Dead - Force Feed - Peace, Love & Murder 1987
12. My Dad is Dead - Babe in the Woods - Peace, Love & Murder 1987
13. Prisonshake - Cigarette Day - The Roaring Third 1993
14. Cobra Verde - Was It Good - Viva la Muerte 1994
15. Queen - Mustapha - Jazz 1978
16. Shellac - Rush Job - Terraform 1997
17. Tapes 'n Tapes - Buckle - The Loon 2005
18. Dead Kennedys - Well Paid Scientist - Plastic Surgery Disasters 1982
19. Jane Siberry - Half Angel Half Eagle - Bound by the Beauty 1989
20. People in Planes - Token Trapped Woman - As Far as the Eye Can See... GR-OR
21. Roger Miller - The Nature Army - Groping Hands EP 1986
22. Eagles of Death Metal - I Want You So Hard - Death By Sexy 2006
23. Matisyahu - Chop 'em Down - Live at Stubb's 2005
24. Nice Strong Arm - Cloud Machine - Cloud Machine EP 1989
25. The Like Young - Writhe Like You Mean It - Last Secrets GR-RD
26. Ladybug Transistor - Meadowpoint Arch - Albemarle Sound 1999
27. Scratch Acid - Damned For All Time - Just Keep Eating 1986
28. The Style Council - Life at a Top Peoples Health Farm - Confessions of a Pop Group 1988
29. Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist - Since I Left You 2000
30. Guided by Voices - Lord of Overstock - Under the Bushes Under the Stars 1996
31. Guided by Voices - Strumpet Eye - Do the Collapse 1999

Nobody showed up at 9, so I was able to tack on a couple of my favorite GBV songs at the end while setting up the automator.

May 18

2006-05-26T07:14:00.000-07:00

Couldn't do the show today because of
A) packing for trip to the parents'
B) going to see the amazing Chinese movie "Grain In Ear".

May 11 - not eighties

2006-05-12T10:34:00.000-07:00

1. Metric - Glass Ceiling - Live it Out 2005
2. Didjits - Mexican Death Horse - Fizzjob 1986
3. Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - Gris-Gris - Thrills 1998
4. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Pyrite Pedestal - Élan Vital GR-OR
5. Velocity Girl - Nothing - Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts 1996
6. Alien Sex Fiend - Bun Ho! - Another Planet 1988
7. Alien Sex Fiend - Everybody's Dream - Another Planet 1988
8. Radiohead - My Iron Lung - The Bends 1995
9. Sun Kil Moon - Grey Ice Water - Tiny Cities 2005
10. Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin II 1969
11. Cibo Matto - White Pepper Ice Cream - Viva! La Woman 1995
12. Pavement - Heaven is a Truck - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain 1994
13. Arcwelder - Cranberry Sauce - Pull 1993
14. Arcwelder - Criminal - Pull 1993
15. Ashley Stove - Briney Drink - Four Finger Moon 1995
16. Judas Priest - Breaking the Law - The Essential Judas Priest GR-OR
17. The Ex - Gonna Rob the Spermbank - Singles.Period. (song 1983)
18. The Ex - Weapons For El Salvador - Singles.Period. (song 1981)
19. Current 93 - Time Tryeth Truth - Earth Covers Earth 1988
20. Hellogoodbye - Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn - Hellogoodbye EP 2004
21. Cleftones - For Sentimental Reasons - Heart and Soul 1961
22. Silverstein - My Sword Vs. Your Dagger - Discovering the Waterfront 2005
23. Happy Mondays - Kuff Dam - Squirrel & G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) 1987
24. Sonic Youth - Schizophrenia - Sister 1987
25. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - We're All In Love - Take Them On On Your Own 2003
26. U.S. Maple - Whoopee Invader - Purple on Time 2003
27. Polvo - The Purple Bear - Exploded Drawing 1996
28. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy - St. Elsewhere 2006
29. The Philistines Jr. - I am Stupid...Hear Me Roar - Greenwich, CT 1991

Today's show was devoted to songs I'd never heard before and wondered what they sounded like, with three exceptions (5, 16, 20).

May 4 - not eighties

2006-05-05T05:27:00.000-07:00

1. Man Man - 10 lb. Moustache - Man Man 2004
2. Fuzzy - Flashlight - 7" 1994
3. The Streets - Can't Con an Honest John - The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living GR-OR
4. The Streets - When You Wasn't Famous - The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living GR-OR
5. Fuzzy - Thurber - "Flashlight" 7" 1994
6. Fuzzy - Country Song - "Flashlight" 7" 1994
7. Sonic Youth - Swimsuit Issue - Dirty 1992
8. Gang of Four - Ether - Entertainment! 1979
9. The Dishes - Flim Flam - 3 2003
10. Electric Six - Rock and Roll Evacuation - Señor Smoke 2006
11. AC/DC - Rock and Roll Damnation - Powerage 1978
12. Ringo Starr - Snookeroo - Goodnight Vienna 1974

What an annoying day today.

Decided to come in late to do the show and stay late. Then found out there was no reason to come in late because the gym was closed. Then found that I couldn't stay late because Mark decided to bring in some girl at 9 to do a show. So this was 8 to 9 pm.

Finals

2006-04-23T17:44:00.000-07:00

And with that the 2006 school year comes to a close.
Next week is finals week. During the summer I think I'll have a normal show composed of whatever random stuff I think of on the spur of the moment. I think Mark's idea of going from A to Z every week is a good one, to keep it from being completely free-form.

Summer show should start with:

ABC
Bad Plus
Coheed and Cambria
Drive-By Truckers

And continue with the same level of horripilatingly strange juxtapositions throughout the summer.

April 20: Year-End Countdown

2006-04-20T20:10:00.000-07:00

1. (25) Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. (21) R.E.M. - These Days - Lifes Rich Pageant 1986
3. (19) The Fall - Pacifying Joint - Fall Heads Roll 2005
4. (13) Liliput - A silver key can open an iron lock somewhere - Some Songs 1983
5. (13) The Cure - In Between Days - The Head on the Door 1985
6. (12) Depeche Mode - A Question of Time - Black Celebration 1984
7. (12) Bad Religion - Automatic Man - No Control 1989
8. (12) Guided by Voices - A Visit to the Creep Doctor - Sandbox 1987
9. (11) Throwing Muses - Cry Baby Cry - Chains Changed EP 1987
10. (11) Volcano Suns - Soft Hit - Thing of Beauty 1989
11. (10) XTC - All You Pretty Girls - The Big Express 1984
12. (9) X - Burning House of Love - Ain't Love Grand 1985
13. (9) They Might Be Giants - Shoehorn With Teeth - Lincoln 1988
14. (9) Pixies - Levitate Me - Come on Pilgrim EP 1987
15. (9) Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You - Underwater Moonlight 1980
16. (8) Dead Milkmen - Violent School - Big Lizard in My Back Yard 1985
17. (8) Martha and the Muffins - Boys in the Bushes - Danseparc 1983
18. (8) Blake Babies - Loose - Earwig 1989
19. (7) Echo and the Bunnymen - The Cutter - Ocean Rain 1983
20. (7) Big Black - Kerosene - Atomizer 1986
21. (7) Big Dipper - Hey! Mr. Lincoln - Craps 1988
22. (7) The Clash - Guns on the Roof - Give 'em Enough Rope 1978
23. (7) Naked Raygun - Rat Patrol - Throb Throb 1985
24. (6) Mission of Burma - That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate - Vs. 1982
25. (6) Camper Van Beethoven - O Death - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart 1988
26. (6) Love and Rockets - Mirror People - Earth Sun Moon 1987
27. (6) Pop Art - Really Blind Faith - Long Walk to Nowhere 1986
28. (6) Cindy Lee Berryhill - Whatever Works - Who's Gonna Save the World? 1987

Using the magic of Microsoft Word, and the lesser magic of Microsoft Excel, I made a spreadsheet of all 798 songs played in all 28 shows this year, organized by artist. There were 31 played more than 5 times, and I devoted this week's show to a reverse countdown, starting with the band played the most often (because they were played at the beginning of every show, unless the turntables were down). All songs I'd heard or played before, all songs proven to be the best available, for the last show of the semester.

Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of times played this year (starting August 29, 2005). Most were tied.

Also tied for 24th were the Blue Aeroplanes, Gruppo Sportivo, and King Missile, whom I deemed slightly less worthy.

April 13

2006-04-13T19:51:00.000-07:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Close Lobsters - Just Too Bloody Stupid - Foxheads Stalk This Land 1987
3. Swimming Pool Q's - The Knave - The Swimming Pool Q's 1984
4. Smiths - Barbarism Begins at Home - Meat is Murder 1985
5. Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon - The Real Ramona 1991
6. Blake Babies - Grateful - Earwig 1989
7. Blake Babies - Loose - Earwig 1989
8. The Stranglers - Peaches - Rattus Norvegicus 1977
9. The Clash - Guns on the Roof - Give 'em Enough Rope 1978
10. Blue Aeroplanes - The Applicant - Swagger 1990
11. Blue Aeroplanes - What It Is - Swagger 1990
12. Vōg - In the Crowd - Vōg 1982
13. Pixies - Wave of Mutilation - Doolittle 1989
14. Pixies - Crackity Jones - Doolittle 1989
15. Pop Art - Bullets - Snap Crackle Pop Art 1987
16. Descendents - Hope - Milo Goes to College 1982
17. Bad Religion - Damned to be Free - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 1982
18. Volcano Suns - Soft Hit - Thing of Beauty 1989
19. The Wygals - Eat a Horse - Honyocks in the Whithersoever 1989
20. Guided by Voices - Trampoline - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia 1989
21. Soft Boys - Leppo and the Jooves - A Can of Bees 1979
22. Pixies - Isla de Encanta - Come on Pilgrim 1987
23. Mekons - Memphis, Egypt - The Mekons Rock N Roll 1989
24. The Cure - Primary - Faith 1981
25. Martha and the Muffins - Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing - Danseparc 1983
26. Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies 1983
27. R.E.M. - Second Guessing - Reckoning 1984
28. The Pop Group - Thief of Fire - Y 1979

Pixies were requested by Monica. The stream wasn't working the first time so I had to play them again shortly thereafter.

I thought this was a good show. Good variety, good combination of famous bands and obscure bands, good overlap between things I had planned to play and things I felt like playing...and all the songs were the kind of song that doesn't make me annoyed or sad.

April 6

2006-04-07T05:50:00.000-07:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Swimming Pool Q's - The Knave - The Swimming Pool Q's 1984
3. Human Sexual Response - Andy Fell - In a Roman Mood 1981
4. Volcano Suns - Belly Full of Lead - Farced 1988
5. Michelle Shocked - When I Grow Up - Short Sharp Shocked 1988
6. Cindy Lee Berryhill - What's Wrong With Me - Naked Movie Star 1989
7. Richard Thompson - Valerie - Daring Adventures 1986
8. Billy Bragg - Accident Waiting to Happen - Don't Try This at Thome 1991
9. Nirvana - Negative Creep - Bleach 1989
10. Slovenly - Cartwheels of Glory - Thinking of Empire 1986
11. They Might Be Giants - Santa's Beard - Lincoln 1988
12. Rachael Cantu - Saturday - Run All Night 2006
13. Essential Logic - Quality Crayon Wax O.K. - Beat Rhythm News 1979
14. Pop Art - No Fire - Snap Crackle Pop Art 1987
15. Slovenly - Inattention - Thinking of Empire 1986
16. Virgin Prunes - "Let's All Sing Of The Tortured Heart" (Don't Look Back) - 12" 1986
17. Special Guests - Paul Cezanne - 7" 1984
18. The Philtres - Silence - 7" 1986
19. Mercyland - John D. White - 7" 1991
20. Volcano Suns - Sea Cruise - 7" 1986
21. Jonathan X and Black Heat - Might is Right - 7" 1987
22. The Farewell Party - 32 Views of Emma - 7" 1988
23. Elastica - Stutter - 7" 1993
24. Elastica - Pussycat - "Stutter" 7" 1993
25. Fudge - Astronaut - 7" 1991
26. Courtney Love - Uncrushworthy - 7" 1990
27. Martha and the Muffins - Obedience - Danseparc 1983

Showed up 10 minutes late, left 5 minutes late.

Roughly the last half was devoted to the 7" singles we have, of which there are a lot, and which are much more rarely played even than the LPs. Maybe because the great majority of them are by bands whom literally nobody has ever heard of.

The first Slovenly song turned out to be an instrumental (in other words, not a song at all), so I had to play another one. I think this happened once before.

Rachael Cantu was a request. I was very impressed.

March 30

2006-03-30T19:45:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. The dB's - A Spy in the House of Love - Like This 1984
3. Swimming Pool Q's - The Knave - The Swimming Pool Q's 1984
4. Tommy Keene - My Mother Looked Like Marilyn Monroe - Songs From the Film 1986
5. Mission of Burma - This Is Not a Photograph - Signals, Calls and Marches 1981
6. Mission of Burma - Learn How - Vs. 1982
7. The Fall - Shoulder Pads (version 1) - The Domesday Pay-Off 1987
8. Hüsker Dü - Divide and Conquer - Flip Your Wig 1985
9. Hüsker Dü - Games - Flip Your Wig 1985
10. Liliput - Like or lump it - Liliput 1982
11. Blake Babies - Sanctify - Sunburn 1990
12. Big Dipper - She's Fetching - Heavens 1987
13. Too Much Joy - Good Kill - Cereal Killers 1991
14. Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven - Doolittle 1989
15. Martha and the Muffins - Walking Into Walls - Danseparc 1983
16. XTC - Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me) - Black Sea 1980
17. Camper Van Beethoven - O Death - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart 1988
18. Camper Van Beethoven - She Divines Water - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart 1988
19. Guided by Voices - The Tumblers - Devil Between My Toes 1987
20. Vōg - Don't Wanna Hear It - Vōg 1982
21. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus - Violator 1989
22. Big Black - Kerosene - Atomizer 1986
23. R.E.M. - Pop Song 89 - Green 1989
24. Julian Cope - Saint Julian - Saint Julian 1987
25. The Fall - Totally Wired - Palace of Swords Reversed (song 1980)
26. Algebra Suicide - Little Dead Bodies - 7" single 1986
27. Rats of Unusual Size - February - Ratzilla 1989
28. Das Damen - Ruby Woodpecker - Triskaidekaphobe 1988

"Totally Wired" was a Kristin request. "Personal Jesus" was a Tyler for Mara.

Today's show was pretty good - great Swimming Pool Q's song - but the last song was the weakest. I was hoping to follow Das Damen with PIL's "Public Image" but Mark showed up at the last possible moment. Just had to hear what a song called "Ruby Woodpecker" sounded like. Didn't sound like much.

Rats of Unusual Size are much more interesting than they sound from the album title.

March 23

2006-03-24T05:57:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. The dB's - A Spy in the House of Love - Like This 1982
3. Lindsey Buckingham - Bwana - Law and Order 1981
4. Bad Religion - Into the Night - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 1982
5. Au Pairs - Come Again - Playing With a Different Sex 1981
6. Big Dipper - She's Fetching - Heavens 1987
7. Miles Dethmuffen - In Clover - Nine-Volt Grape 1990
8. Salem 66 - Desk Clerk - Frequency and Urgency 1987
9. Christmas - Punch and Judy - Ultraprophets of the Psykick Revolution 1989
10. Vōg - Step Ahead - Vōg 1982
11. Vōg - Playmate - Vōg 1982
12. Replacements - Color Me Impressed - Hootenanny 1983
13. Replacements - I Will Dare - Let It Be 1984
14. Wolfgang Press - Kansas (flood mix) - Bird Wood Cage 1988
15. Martha and the Muffins - Casualties of Glass - This is the Ice Age 1981
16. Depeche Mode - A Question of Time - Black Celebration 1984
17. Cocteau Twins - Fotzepolitic - Heaven or Las Vegas 1990
18. Guided by Voices - A Visit to the Creep Doctor - Sandbox 1987
19. Guided by Voices - Navigating Flood Regions - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia 1989
20. Billy Bragg - The Marriage - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry 1986
21. X - I'm Lost - See How We Are 1987
22. APB - Missing You Already - Missing You Already EP 1986
23. Close Lobsters - Just Too Bloody Stupid - Foxheads Stalk This Land 1987
24. Wire - Sand in My Joints - Chairs Missing 1978
25. XTC - Burning With Optimism's Flames - Black Sea 1980
26. XTC - Respectable Street - Black Sea 1980
27. The Wedding Present - Everyone Thinks That He Looks Daft - George Best 1987
28. Game Theory - Make Any Vows - The Big Shot Chronicles 1986
29. Essential Logic - Wake Up - Beat Rhythm News 1979

Cocteau Twins were a Ross request. X was an Alyssa request.

For some reason, the Replacements' Let It Be would only play through the right channel.

#6-9 are from late-eighties Boston.

March 20

2006-03-21T05:57:00.001-08:00

1. Mission of Burma - Wounded World - ONoffON 2004
2. Polysics - Baby BIAS - Now is the Time! GR-OR
3. Polysics - Coelacanth is Android - Now is the Time! GR-OR
4. Electric Six - Rock and Roll Evacuation - Señor Smoke GR-RD
5. Morrissey - Glamorous Glue - Your Arsenal 1992
6. Karp - Spelling Trouble - Self Titled LP 1997
7. Thermals - A Stare Like Yours - Fuckin' A 2004
8. Between the Two - These Broken Dreams - Not what you expected... GR-BL
9. Death From Above 1979 - Go Home, Get Down - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine 2004
10. Replacements - Color Me Impressed - Hootenanny 1983
11. Replacements - Bastards of Young - Tim 1985
12. Les Savy Fav - I.C. Timer - Rome EP 2000
13. Guided by Voices - Lord of Overstock - Under the Bushes Under the Stars 1996
14. cLOUDDEAD - Dead Dogs Two - Ten 2o03
15. Deerhoof - Siriustar - The Runners Four 2005
16. Deerhoof - Dummy Discards a Heart - Apple O' 2003
17. Morphine - Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer - The Night 2000
18. Meat Puppets - Sam - Forbidden Places 1991
19. The Fall - Put Away - The Peel Session (27th November 1978)
20. The Fall - Pacifying Joint - Fall Heads Roll 2005
21. Happy Mondays - God's Cop - Pills'N'Thrills'N'Bellyaches 1990
22. Volcano Suns - White Elephant - All Night Lotus Party 1986
23. Volcano Suns - How to Breathe - Thing of Beauty 1989
24. Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction - Stranger Than Fiction 1994
25. Superchunk - On the Mouth - Incidental Music 1991-95 (song 1992)
26. Superchunk - Hyper Enough - Here's Where the Strings Come In 1995
27. Heros Severum - A Sick Dog - Plague Dogs GR-RD
28. R.E.M. - 9-9 - Murmur 1983
29. Drive-By Truckers - Feb. 14 - A Blessing and a Curse GR-OR

This was a substitution for Braque, 11PM-1AM, after Hunter's metal show. Finally, a break from the eighties format. Played mostly songs I remember playing before, plus the four great albums I put in rotation recently.

Note the contrast between songs by the Fall from 1978 and 2005.

March 16

2006-03-16T18:59:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Bananarama - He Was Really Sayin' Somethin' - Deep Sea Skiving 1983
3. XTC - Crowded Room - Go 2 1978
4. The Cure - The Lovecats - Japanese Whispers 1983
5. Blondie - Dreaming - Eat to the Beat 1979
6. Blondie - Union City Blue - Eat to the Beat 1979
7. Soft Boys - Leppo and the Jooves - A Can of Bees 1979
8. Echo and the Bunnymen - Ripeness - Porcupine 1983
9. Devo - Uncontrollable Urge - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! 1978
10. Devo - Beautiful World - New Traditionalists 1981
11. Gang of Four - Natural's Not In It - Entertainment! 1979
12. Gang of Four - Not Great Men - Entertainment! 1979
13. Squeeze - Cool For Cats - Cool For Cats 1979
14. Martha and the Muffins - Boys in the Bushes - Danseparc 1983
15. Martha and the Muffins - Women Around the World at Work - This is the Ice Age 1981
16. About 9 Times - There Is No... - There Is No... 1986
17. Soft Cell - Little Rough Rhinestone - This Last Night in Sodom 1984
18. Depeche Mode - Stripped - Black Celebration 1986
19. The dB's - Espionage - Stands for Decibels 1981
20. Mission of Burma - Wounded World - ONoffON 2004
21. ABC - Poison Arrow - The Lexicon of Love 1982
22. Human League - The Lebanon - Hysteria 1984
23. Gruppo Sportivo - Mission à Paris - Mistakes 1979
24. Yaz - Situation - Upstairs at Eric's 1982
25. Throwing Muses - Not the Same - The Real Ramona 1991
26. Guided by Voices - Slopes of Big Ugly - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia 1989
27. Guided by Voices - White Whale - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia 1989

Today's show was supposed to be devoted to a "New Wave" theme - songs sounding much more "eighties" than the guitar rock I usually play. I think it succeeded, although Gang of Four didn't really fit. It turns out that the music we associate with the "eighties" is actually the music of circa 1978-1984. Much like the music of the sixties is the music of 1965 to 1973.

The Throwing Muses song was one I heard David McWade play, so I played it. The GBV at the end was because I finally got the box set of their '80s albums!

Keith had the good idea to play Devo.

I finally figured out what dB's song from Stands for Decibels I had heard on WYEP a couple months ago. "Spy in the House of Love", which is actually on a different album. I swear they said it was on Stands for Decibels. Play that next week.

History

2006-03-07T12:31:00.000-08:00

Last week was spring break. I didn't have a break, but the WPU wasn't open during non-business hours, so no show.

I just realized that I've had four different show titles.

Fall 2004: The Post-Jazz Odyssey, when my show was after Zack's jazz show. This name came from the song "Jazz Odyssey" on an Audio Adrenaline album. The phrase "Jazz Odyssey" is more famous for other reasons, but I forget what they are.
Spring 2005: The Corpselike Sleep of Stupidity, because the show was no longer post-jazz. This name came from the title of a Guided By Voices rarities mix tape that someone made around 1998 or so. I don't know where he came up with the name.
Fall 2005: The Eighties at Nine.
Spring 2006: The Eighties at Seven.

Who knows what will come next? The Eighties at Nine again? Perhaps The Eighties at Eight? Oh, the ambiguity.

March 2

2006-03-03T06:54:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Angry Samoans - Lights Out - Back From Samoa 1982
3. Angry Samoans - My Old Man's a Fatso - Back From Samoa 1982
4. The Damned - Plan 9 Channel 7 - Machine Gun Etiquette 1979
5. R.E.M. - These Days - Lifes Rich Pageant 1986
6. Essential Logic - Moontown - "Music is a Better Noise" single 1980
7. Martha and the Muffins - Boys in the Bushes - Danseparc 1983
8. Gruppo Sportivo - Beep Beep Love - Mistakes 1978
9. The Fall - Cruiser's Creek - This Nation's Saving Grace 1985
10. King Missile - At Dave's - Fluting on the Hump 1987
11. King Missile - Take Stuff From Work - Fluting on the Hump 1987
12. Pogues - Turkish Song of the Damned - If I Should Fall From Grace With God 1988
13. XTC - Earn Enough For Us - Skylarking 1986
14. The dB's - Black and White - Stands for Decibels 1981
15. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon - Ocean Rain 1984
16. The Cure - A Forest - Seventeen Seconds 1980
17. Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth - Saint Julian 1987
18. Julian Cope - Screaming Secrets - Saint Julian 1987
19. Soft Cell - Down in the Subway - This Last Night in Sodom 1984
20. The F.U.'s - Warlords (live) - Flipside Vinyl Fanzine vol. 1 1984
21. Ramones - You're Gonna Kill That Girl - Ramones Leave Home 1977
22. Eclectics - Big Tough Dreams - 7" 1987
23. Throwing Muses - Cry Baby Cry - Chains Changed EP 1987
24. Boris Grebenshikov - Radio Silence - Radio Silence 1989
25. Annie - Chewing Gum - Anniemal 2005
26. Happy Mondays - God's Cop - Pills'N'Thrills'N'Bellyaches 1990
27. Volcano Suns - Soft Hit - Thing of Beauty 1989
28. Big Black - Cables - Bulldozer EP 1983
29. Soft Boys - Sandra's Having Her Brain Out - A Can of Bees 1979

King Missile and The Pogues were requests. Someone liked the Martha and the Muffins song.

I've played a lot of Volcano Suns songs, but this one was the best. Same with the Throwing Muses song.

February 23

2006-02-23T19:39:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Short Dogs Grow - White Toast, No Butter - Matt Dillon 1988
3. The dB's - The Fight - Stands for Decibels 1981
4. Throwing Muses - Shimmer - University 1995
5. Sex Pistols - No Feelings - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols 1977
6. Martha and the Muffins - Obedience - Danceparc 1983
7. Swimming Pool Q's - Pull Back My Spring - The Swimming Pool Q's 1984
8. The Cure - The Walk - Japanese Whispers 1983
9. They Might Be Giants - Shoehorn With Teeth - Lincoln 1988
10. Au Pairs - Armagh - Playing With a Different Sex 1981
11. Lungfish - Nothing Is Easy (live) - The Pre-Moon Syndrome Post-Summer (of Noise) Celebration Week! 1989
12. Great Plains - Time to Name the Dog - Naked at the Buy, Sell & Trade 1986
13. Dead Milkmen - Bitchin' Camaro - Big Lizard in My Back Yard 1985
14. Phantom Planet - California 2005 - Music from The O.C.: Mix 5 2005
15. The Fall - C.R.E.E.P. - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall 1984
16. The Fall - Powder Keg - The Light User Syndrome 1996
17. The Chills - Doledrums - Kaleidoscope World 1986
18. Stump - Eager Bereaver - A Fierce Pancake 1988
19. Beastie Boys - Rhymin' & Stealin' - Licensed to Ill 1986
20. Effigies - I, Fugitive - Ink 1986
21. Naked Raygun - Walk in Cold - Jettison 1988
22. House of Large Sizes - What If There's A Fire - One Big Cake 1988
23. The Jesus Lizard - South Mouth - Goat 1991
24. Pop Art - Really Blind Faith - Long Walk to Nowhere 1986
25. XTC - Grass - Skylarking 1986
26. Big Black - Pavement Saw - Songs About Fucking 1987
27. Microdisney - Give Me All of Your Clothes - Crooked Mile 1987
28. Depeche Mode - A Question of Time - Black Celebration 1986
29. House of Large Sizes - 40 Orange Cookies - One Big Cake 1988

Phantom Planet was a request.

Enthusiastic about several actual new records bought from Jerry's this week. Martha & the Muffins, House of Large Sizes, Swimming Pool Q's...and some I didn't play yet, like APB.

February 16

2006-02-16T18:04:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Diamanda Galas - Double-Barrelled Prayer - You Must Be Certain of the Devil 1988
3. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Tropical Hot Dog Night - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) 1978
4. Treat Her Right - I Think She Likes Me - Treat Her Right 1986
5. The Fall - Words of Expectation - Kimble EP (12th Dec. 1983)
6. Straight Dope Cherry - Juniper - Bell Bottom Baby 2005
7. Depeche Mode - Master and Servant - Some Great Reward 1984
8. XTC - Tissue Tigers (The Arguers) - Beeswax: Some B-Sides 1977-82 1983
9. The Ramones - Beat on the Brat - The Ramones 1976
10. The Ramones - 53rd and 3rd - The Ramones 1976
11. T.S.O.L. - Suppose They Gave a War and No One Comes? - Flipside Vinyl Fanzine vol.1 1984
12. Cindy Lee Berryhill - Steve on H - Who's Gonna Save the World? 1987
13. The Smiths - Sweet and Tender Hooligan - Louder Than Bombs 1987
14. Essential Logic - Brute Fury - Pedigree Charm 1982
15. Dog Faced Hermans - The Running Man - Mental Blocks For All Ages 1989
16. Dexy's Midnight Runners - The Celtic Soul Brothers - Too-Rye-Ay 1982
17. The Sundays - Hideous Towns - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic 1990
18. Close Lobsters - Sewer Pipe Dreams - Foxheads Stalk This Land 1987
19. Black Flag - Drinking and Driving - In My Head 1985
20. Black Flag - T.V. Party - Damaged 1981
21. Between The Two - A Breath Lost to Circumstance - Not what you expected... 2005
22. Fugazi - Waiting Room - Fugazi 1988
23. Liliput - Like it or Lump it - Liliput 1982
24. The Fall - Solicitor in Studio - Room to Live 1982
25. Gruppo Sportivo - Life In Tokyo - Copy-Copy 1980

Straight Dope Cherry was a suspicious request. The Ramones were definitely a request.

I tried to play long songs today because I have a headache and sore throat and everything else.

February 9

2006-02-16T13:45:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Skeeters - Long Dark Tresses - Wine, Women and Walleye 1988
3. XTC - Beating of Hearts - Mummer 1983
4. Blake Babies - Severed Lips - Rosy Jack World EP 1991
5. Dinosaur Jr. - Severed Lips - Dinosaur 1985
6. They Might Be Giants - Cowtown - Lincoln 1988
7. They Might Be Giants - Lie Still, Little Bottle - Lincoln 1988
8. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Candyman - Tinderbox 1986
9. To Damascus - Half Man Half Hallucination - Come To Your Senses 1987
10. Game Theory - Nothing New - Lolita Nation 1987
11. Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Love Comes in Spurts - Blank Generation 1977
12. T. Rex - The Slider - The Slider 1972
13. T. Rex - Metal Guru - The Slider 1972
14. Lush - Baby Talk - Scar EP 1989
15. Bad Religion - Into the Night - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 1982
16. World of Pooh - I'm on the Wrong Side - The Land of Thirst 1989
17. Big Dipper - Hey! Mr. Lincoln - Craps 1988
18. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Enola Gay - Organisation 1987
19. Fugazi - Waiting Room - Fugazi 1988
20. NOFX - The Moron Brothers - Ribbed 1990
21. Happy Mondays - God's Cop - Pills'N'Thrills'N'Bellyaches 1990
22. X - The New World - More Fun in the New World 1983
23. X - Country At War - Hey Zeus! 1993
24. Superchunk - Train From Kansas City - Tossing Seeds - Singles 89-91 (1989)
25. Waitresses - No Guilt - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? 1980
26. Sugarcubes - Deus - 12" single 1988

February 2

2006-02-16T13:33:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Dog Faced Hermans - Suppressa - Mental Blocks For All Ages 1989
3. Dog Faced Hermans - The Running Man - Mental Blocks For All Ages 1989
4. Cocteau Twins - Oomingmak - Victorialand 1986
5. Cocteau Twins - Little Spacey - Victorialand 1986
6. ABC - Poison Arrow - The Lexicon of Love 1982
7. Big Dipper - The Insane Girl - Craps 1988
8. Bad Religion - Into the Night - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 1982
9. Mudhoney - If I Think - Superfuzz Bigmuff EP 1988
10. King Kong - The Man - Old Man on the Bridge 1991
11. Squirrel Bait - Mixed Blessing - Squirrel Bait 1985
12. Squirrel Bait - Thursday - Squirrel Bait 1985
13. Love and Rockets - Mirror People - Earth Sun Moon 1987
14. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Egyptian Cream - Fegmania! 1985
15. The Woodentops - It Will Come - 12" single 1985
16. Sweet Baby Jesus - This Talk About the Girl - It's a Girl! 1989
17. The Cure - Play For Today - Seventeen Seconds 1980
18. Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Passenger - Through the Looking Glass 1987
19. Negativland - Backstage Pass - Escape From Noise 1987
20. Negativland - Christianity is Stupid - Escape From Noise 1987
21. Cowboy Junkies - Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning - The Caution Horses 1990
22. The Magnolias - Glory Hop - For Rent 1988
23. The Ruts - Your'e Just A... - The Peel Session (14th May 1979)
24. The Adverts - Quickstep - The Peel Session (25th April 1977)
25. The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes - The Peel Session (25th April 1977)
26. Thin Lizzy - Get Out of Here - Black Rose 1979
27. Liliput - Ring-a-ding-dong - Some Songs 1983
28. Echo and the Bunnymen - My White Devil - Porcupine 1983
29. R.E.M. - Life and How to Live It - Fables of the Reconstruction 1985

"Little Spacey" is not a very good song. I played it by mistake.

#16 was by an early pop-punk band who actually released the album that we have under the name "Sweet Baby". Why? That's a stupid name.

January 26

2006-02-16T13:19:00.000-08:00

1. Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You - Underwater Moonlight 1980
2. X - Country at War - Hey Zeus! 1993
3. Guided by Voices - Captain's Dead - Devil Between My Toes 1986
4. Helium - Superball - The Dirt of Luck 1995
5. Heavenly - C is the Heavenly Option - Le Jardin de Heavenly 1992
6. Heavenly - Space Manatee - Operation Heavenly 1996
7. Happy Mondays - God's Cop - Pills'N'Thrills'N'Bellyaches 1990
8. Dog Faced Hermans - Suppressa - Mental Blocks For All Ages 1989
9. Sun City Girls - Fly By Night - Midnight Cowboys From Ipanema 1986
10. Mission of Burma - Learn How - Vs. 1982
11. Public Image Ltd. - Seattle - Happy? 1987
12. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet - The Peel Sessions (4th May, 1978)
13. Bad Religion - Into the Night - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 1982
14. R.E.M. - Harborcoat - Reckoning 1984
15. The Wedding Present - What Have I Said Now? - Bizarro 1989
16. X - 4th of July (demo) - Beyond and Back: The X Anthology 1997 (original song 1987)
17. The Wolfgang Press - Kansas (Flood mix) - Bird Wood Cage 1988
18. The Cure - Six Different Ways - The Head on the Door 1985
19. Stone Roses - Waterfall - The Stone Roses 1989
20. Public Image Ltd. - Disappointed - 9 1989
21. Liz Phair - 6'1" - Exile in Guyville 1993
22. We're Wolves - Conversationist - Welcome to the Childhood Home of Dan Marino and Andy Warhol 2005
23. Black Tie Revue - Absent Radio - Introducing Black Tie Revue 2005
24. Throwing Muses - Downtown - House Tornado 1988
25. Afghan Whigs - Turn on the Water - Congregation 1992
26. Stereo Total - Automatic Music - Musique Automatique 2002

Once again, no turntables. There's a new mixer, but I think it's only there to fill space.
However, after the show, Mark came in and brought in an even newer mixer. It will be there next week.

Played "Seattle" by mistake when trying to play "Disappointed". This explains the reappearance of PIL's greatest hits album 9 songs later.

"4th of July" was a request.

January 19

2006-02-16T13:04:00.000-08:00

1. Drive-By Truckers - Where the Devil Don't Stay - The Dirty South 2004
2. Gang of Four - Damaged Goods - Entertainment! 1980
3. Gang of Four - I Found That Essence Rare - Entertainment! 1980
4. Mecca Normal - Throw Silver - Dovetail 1992
5. Meat Puppets - Sam - Forbidden Places 1991
6. Superchunk - Binding - Super Chunk 1990
7. Beat Happening - Bewitched - Jamboree 1988
8. Jesus and Mary Chain - Blues From a Gun - Automatic 1989
9. Depeche Mode - A Question of Time - Black Celebration 1986
10. Ffa Coffi Pawb - Lluchia Dyfflachlwch Drosta I - Am Byth: A Selection of Lost Songs 86-92
11. Dog Faced Hermans - Suppressa - Mental Blocks For All Ages 1989
12. Beakers - Red Towel - 4 Steps Toward a Cultural Revolution 1980
13. Talking Heads - Swamp - Stop Making Sense 1984
14. David Bowie - Jean Genie - Aladdin Sane 1973
15. The Birthday Party - Wildworld - The Bad Seed EP 1983
16. Swans - New Mind - Children of God 1987
17. Soft Boys - Have a Heart Betty (I'm Not Fireproof) - Invisible Hits 1983
18. Throwing Muses - Golden Thing - The Real Ramona 1991
19. Fugazi - Repeater - Repeater 1990
20. Antiseen - I've Aged 20 Years In 5 - Eat More Possum 1992
21. Nirvana - Curmudgeon - "Lithium" CD5 1992
22. De La Soul and Teenage Fanclub - Fallin' - Judgement Night OST 1994
23. Unrest - Cherry Cream On - Imperial f.f.r.r. 1991
24. Lilys - It Does Nothing For Me - In the Presence of Nothing 1992
25. Tsunami - Genius of Crack - Deep End 1992
26. Sonic Youth - Madonna, Sean and Me (Expressway to Yr. Skull) - EVOL 1986

And now, we have no turntables at all, because the mixer has been deemed beyond repair, even though one of the turntables still works. I tried to start the show with the 2005 equivalent of what the Snatches of Pink were to 1987. Drive-By Truckers actually led someone to call in and ask who they were.

Good opportunity to find which CDs are sources of 80's material.

January 12

2006-02-16T12:50:00.000-08:00

1. Big Black - Pavement Saw - Songs About Fucking 1987
2. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
3. Sinead O'Connor - Black Boys on Mopeds - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got 1989
4. Depeche Mode - A Question of Time - Black Celebration 1986
5. Cocteau Twins - Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops - The Spangle Maker EP 1984
6. Trotsky Icepick - Cornfield - El Kabong 1989
7. His Name is Alive - Cornfield - Mouth By Mouth 1993
8. Volcano Suns - Cornfield - The Bright Orange Years 1985
9. The English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom - I Just Can't Stop It 1980
10. Wire - French Film Blurred - Chairs Missing 1978
11. Bob Dylan - Big Yellow Taxi - Dylan 1973
12. Cowboy Junkies - Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning - The Caution Horses 1990
13. Throwing Muses - Downtown - House Tornado 1988
14. Diamanda Galas - Double-Barrelled Prayer - You Must Be Certain of the Devil 1988
15. Unrest - Christina - Malcolm X Park 1988
16. Big Dipper - The Insane Girl - Craps 1988
17. Superchunk - Sick to Move - Super Chunk 1990
18. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Hollow Eyes - Smashed Hits 1986
19. Sonic Youth - Tuff Gnarl - Sister 1987
20. Elvis Costello and the Attractions - King Horse - Get Happy!! 1980
21. Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From the Shell) - Argybargy 1980
22. Julian Cope - Easter Everywhere - My Nation Underground 1988
23. Annie - Chewing Gum - Anniemal 2005
24. Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark - Genetic Engineering - Dazzle Ships 1983
25. Soft Boys - Have a Heart Betty (I'm Not Fireproof) - Invisible Hits 1983
26. Game Theory - Mammoth Gardens - Lolita Nation 1987
27. R.E.M. - Little America - Reckoning 1984

The Big Black song to open the show was supposed to fit in with what Keith had been playing, but by 7:00 he was no longer playing loud annoying music.

The Diamanda Galas song was amazing. One of her less bizarre ones, but still bizarre.

January 5

2006-02-16T12:23:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Clementine - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
3. R.E.M. - Turn You Inside Out - Green 1989
4. Buzzcocks - Nostalgia - Love Bites 1978
5. Black Flag - Drinking and Driving - In My Head 1985
6. Morrissey - The National Front Disco - Your Arsenal 1992
7. Blake Babies - Look Away -Sunburn 1990
8. Suicide - Cheree - Suicide 1978
9. Hollow Heyday - Malt Criminal - Abandoned 1989
10. The Cure - Primary - Faith 1981
11. Game Theory - The Waist and the Knees - Lolita Nation 1987
12. It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home - Life's Hard and Then You Die 1987
13. Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives - My Aim Is True 1977
14. Volcano Suns - Cornfield - The Bright Orange Years 1985
15. His Name Is Alive - Cornfield - Mouth By Mouth 1993
16. Trotsky Icepick - Cornfield - El Kabong 1989
17. Liliput - Ichor - Liliput 1982
18. Hugo Largo - Fancy - Drum 1988
19. Lemonheads - Mallo Cup - Lick 1988
20. Lemonheads - Glad I Don't Know - Lick 1988
21. Descendents - Bikeage - Milo Goes to College 1982
22. Throwing Muses - Counting Backwards - The Real Ramona 1991
23. Gaye Bykers on Acid - Don't Be Human Eric, Let's Be Frank - The Janice Long Radio One Session (3rd May 1987)
24. Blur - She's So High - single 1990
25. Robyn Hitchcock 'n' the Egyptians - Madonna of the Wasps - Queen Elvis 1989
26. Coheed and Cambria - The Suffering - Good Apollo I'm Burning Star Four Volume One From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness 2005
27. Grand Buffet - Cool As Hell - Five Years of Fireworks GR-OR
28. R.E.M. - Catapult - Murmur 1983

Starting now, we only have one working turntable, and no easy way to switch to the non-working one anyway. Scrambled to find CD's that fit the format.

Someone requested "Suedehead" by Morrissey, but we didn't have any of his earliest stuff.

The rest of the year

2006-02-16T12:00:00.000-08:00

December 12 was finals week. Nobody was required to do a show.

December 19 I was here, but the Union was closed at the time of my show.

December 26 I wasn't even here.

December 5

2005-12-05T20:23:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Echo and the Bunnymen - Villers Terrace - The Peel Session EP (15 August 1979)
3. Big Dipper - All Going Out Together - Heavens 1987
4. Camper Van Beethoven - Cowboys From Hollywood - II & III 1986
5. Camper Van Beethoven - Sad Lovers Waltz - II & III 1986
6. King Missile - Take Stuff From Work - Fluting on the Hump 1987
7. King Missile - I'm Open - They 1988
8. The Police - Peanuts - Outlandos d'Amour 1978
9. The Cure - Push - The Head on the Door 1985
10. Close Lobsters - Loopholes - What is There to Smile About? EP 1988
11. The Eclectics - Big Tough Dreams - 7" 1987
12. Descendents - Hope - Milo Goes to College 1982
13. Descendents - Bikeage - Milo Goes to College 1982
14. Ramones - Judy is a Punk - The Ramones 1976
15. Ramones - I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You - The Ramones 1976
16. Sugarcubes - Eat the Menu - Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! 1989
17. Sugarcubes - Water - Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! 1989
18. Microdisney - Genius - The Clock Comes Down the Stairs 1986
19. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York - If I Should Fall From Grace With God 1988
20. About 9 Times - Trench Coat Swing - Play Jacks 1985
21. Mudhoney - This Gift - Mudhoney 1989
22. Big Black - Jordan, Minnesota - Atomizer 1986
23. The English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom - I Just Can't Stop It 1980
24. The Fall - Totally Wired - Grotesque 1980
25. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus - Violator 1990
26. Destiny Quibble - Face of the Clock - "She Told Me" 7" 1985
27. The Smiths - Vicar in a Tutu - Rank 1988 (recorded 1986)
28. Pavement - Forklift - Demolition Plot J-7 EP 1990
29. Guided by Voices - Hunter Complex - Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer EP 1993
30. Guided by Voices - Spring Tiger - Get Out of My Stations EP 1993
31. Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink - Talk Talk Talk 1981
32. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet - The Peel Sessions 1989 (recorded 1978)

The Fall was a Kristin request. Depeche Mode was a Mara request. Ah...

November 28

2005-11-28T20:16:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Hüsker Dü - Eiffel Tower High - Candy Apple Grey 1986
3. R.E.M. - Finest Worksong - Document 1987
4. X - The New World - More Fun in the New World 1983
5. The Wygals - Slap Me Like a Wave - Honyocks in the Whithersoever 1989
6. The Cure - All Cats Are Grey - Faith 1981
7. The Soft Boys - Sandra's Having Her Brain Out - A Can of Bees 1979
8. Love and Rockets - Mirror People - Earth Sun Moon 1987
9. They Might Be Giants - Nightgown of the Sullen Moon - "They'll Need a Crane" 12" 1989
10. Pop Art - Light Blue Pictures - Snap Crackle Pop Art 1987
11. Pop Art - Really Blind Faith - Long Walk to Nowhere 1986
12. Camper Van Beethoven - She Divines Water - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart 1988
13. Vomit Launch - Pay Your Rent - Mr. Spench 1990
14. Happy Family - Cavemen in Neckties - Lucky 1990
15. Pennywise - Come Out Fighting - Pennywise 1991
16. Bad Religion - Frogger - Back to the Known EP 1984
17. Funeral Oration - Burning Desire - Funeral Oration 1995
18. Primal Scream - Sonic Sister Love - Sonic Flower Groove 1987
19. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary (live) - "Li'l Devil" 12" 1987
20. Innocence Mission - Black Sheep Wall - The Innocence Mission 1989
21. The Clash - Atom Tan - Combat Rock 1982
22. The Human League - The Lebanon - Hysteria 1984
23. Depeche Mode - Strangelove - Music for the Masses 1987
24. Nirvana - Curmudgeon - "Lithium" CDEP 1992
25. Crime & The City Solution - The Sly Persuaders - Paradise Discotheque 1990
26. The Reivers - Star Telegram - End of the Day 1989
27. The Silos - Tennessee Fire - Cuba 1987
28. Reptile - Boys Will Be Boys - Fame and Fossils 1990
29. Zapp - More Bounce to the Ounce - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City OST vol. 5 - Wildstyle 2002 (song: 1980)

November 21

2005-11-28T20:15:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With The Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Game Theory - The Waist and the Knees - Lolita Nation 1987
3. The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet - The Peel Sessions (May 4, 1978)
4. Gang of Four - Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time - Solid Gold 1981
5. Daniel Johnston - Big Business Monkey - Hi, How Are You 1983
6. Daniel Johnston - Walking the Cow - Hi, How Are You 1983
7. Michelle Shocked - Anchorage - Short Sharp Shocked 1988
8. The Silos - Tennessee Fire - Cuba 1987
9. King Missile - Take Stuff From Work - Fluting on the Hump 1987
10. King Missile - Sensitive Artist - Fluting on the Hump 1987
11. Lounge Lizards - My Clown's On Fire - No Pain For Cakes 1987
12. David Bowie - Neighborhood Threat - Tonight 1984
13. R.E.M. - Turn You Inside Out - Green 1989
14. Afghan Whigs - White Trash Party - Up In It 1990
15. Big Black - Fish Fry - Songs About Fucking 1987
16. Big Black - Pavement Saw - Songs About Fucking 1987
17. Volcano Suns - Cornfield - The Bright Orange Years 1985
18. Squeeze - The Prisoner - Babylon & On 1987
19. Urge Overkill - Faroutski - Americruiser 1990
20. Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 - 12" single 1984
21. The Anti-Nowhere League - Atomic Harvest - The Perfect Crime 1987
22. Pale Saints - Sight of You - Barging Into the Presence of God EP 1989
23. Cocteau Twins - Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops - The Spangle Maker EP 1984
24. They Might Be Giants - Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head - They Might Be Giants 1986
25. Trotsky Icepick - Astronomer - El Kabong 1989
26. Reptile - Boys Will Be Boys - Fame and Fossils 1990
27. Silver Jews - The Poor, the Fair and the Good - Tanglewood Numbers GR-OR

The Urge Overkill song may have been the worst song I've ever played on this show. You live, you learn.

November 14

2005-11-16T13:50:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You - Underwater Moonlight 1980
3. Echo and the Bunnymen - Paint it Black - "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo" 12" 1988
4. The Fall - Living Too Late - Bend Sinister 1986
5. Silos - She Lives Up The Street - Cuba 1988
6. Naked Raygun - Soldiers Requiem - Jettison 1988
7. Jones Very - Yesterday in the Western World - Words and Days 1989
8. Nirvana - Curmudgeon - "Lithium" CD single 1992
9. Rocket From the Crypt - Ditch Digger - Circa: Now! 1992
10. Volcano Suns - Curse of the Name - Bumper Crop 1987
11. Dexys Midnight Runners - The Celtic Soul Brothers - Too-Rye-Ay 1982
12. Shigeru Matsuzaki - Katamari on the Swing - We Love Katamari OST 2005
13. Alisa - Everlasting Love - We Love Katamari OST 2005
14. We Are Going To Eat You - Glory - Everywhen 1989
15. Liliput - Hitch-hike - EP 1979
16. Liliput - Türk - EP 1979
17. Dead Milkmen - Violent School - Big Lizard in My Back Yard 1985
18. Dead Milkmen - Takin' Retards to the Zoo - Big Lizard in My Back Yard 1985
19. Public Image Ltd. - Careering - Second Edition 1980
20. Ultra Vivid Scene - Mercy Seat - Ultra Vivid Scene 1988
21. Billy Bragg - Greetings to the New Brunette - Talking to the Taxman About Poetry 1986
22. Beastie Boys - What Goes Around Comes Around - Paul's Boutique 1989
23. Lady Sovereign - Random - Vertically Challenged GR-RD
24. R.E.M. - Orange Crush - Green 1989
25. R.E.M. - Turn You Inside Out - Green 1989
26. Uncle Green - Terrified - You 1989
27. X - Surprise Surprise - See How We Are 1987
28. X - Burning House of Love - Ain't Love Grand 1985
29. Archers of Loaf - Wrong - The Speed of Cattle 1996 (song: 1992)

Today one turntable had had its needle mysteriously removed, so we were biased toward playing songs from CDs and playing lots of promos between songs from records.

November 7

2005-11-16T13:45:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Squirrel Bait - Sun God - Squirrel Bait 1985
3. The Fall - Shoulder Pads version 1 - The Domesday Pay-Off 1986
4. Love and Rockets - Mirror People - Earth Sun Moon 1987
5. The Mekons - Memphis, Egypt - The Mekons Rock n Roll 1989
6. Slovenly - Myers's Dark - Riposte / A Little Resolve 1987
7. Slovenly - Distended - Thinking of Empire 1986
8. Oasis - Lyla - Don't Believe the Truth 2005
9. Ado Mizumori & Asuka Sasai - A Crimson Rose & A Gin Tonic - Katamari Fortissimo Damacy OST 2004
10. Kenji Nimura & Akitaka Tohyama - The Moon and the Prince - Katamari Fortissimo Damacy OST 2004
11. Dead Milkmen - Violent School - Big Lizard in My Backyard 1985
12. Dead Milkmen - Takin' Retards to the Zoo - Big Lizard in My Backyard 1985
13. Ultra Vivid Scene - Lynn-Marie #2 - Ultra Vivid Scene 1988
14. Throwing Muses - Marriage Tree - House Tornado 1988
15. The Clash - Atom Tan - Combat Rock 1982
16. The Clash - Safe European Home - Give 'em Enough Rope 1978
17. Dinosaur Jr. - Raisans - You're Living All Over Me 1987
18. Volcano Suns - Courageous Stunts - Thing of Beauty 1989
19. X - Burning House of Love - Ain't Love Grand 1985
20. The Wygals - Creature Comforts - Honyocks in the Whithersoever 1989
21. Sugarcubes - Eat the Menu - Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week! 1989
22. It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home - Life's Hard and Then You Die 1987
23. Blue Aeroplanes - Veils of Colour - Friendloverplane 1988
24. Blue Aeroplanes - Who Built This Station in the Midwest - Friendloverplane 1988
25. Lungfish - Put Your Halo On - Necklace of Heads 1990
26. Flipper - Sex Bomb - Sex Bomb Baby! 1981
27. Nico - All Tomorrow's Parties - Live Heroes 1986
28. Liliput - Thumblerdoll - Liliput 1993 (song 1980)
29. R.E.M. - Harborcoat - Reckoning 1984

The Clash and Oasis were requests. Nico was a request, but the person didn't want to hear anything except Chelsea Girl.

October 31

2005-11-14T21:15:00.000-08:00

1. Guided by Voices - Useless Inventions - Earthquake Glue 2003
2. Smog - Dress Sexy at My Funeral - Dongs of Sevotion 2000
*3. Blur - Parklife - Parklife 1994
*4. They Might Be Giants - The Bells Are Ringing - Factory Showroom 199
*5. The Decemberists - 16 Military Wives - Picaresque 2005
6. Liliput - Nighttoad - EP 1978
7. Liliput - Hitch-hike - EP 1979
8. Tommy Keene - Good Thing Going - Ten Years After 1996
9. Heavens to Betsy - Calculated - Calculated 1994
10. Heavens to Betsy - Donating My Body to Science - Calculated 1994
11. The Thermals - No Culture Icons - The Thermals EP 2003
12. Archers of Loaf - Web In Front - Icky Mettle 1994
13. Chalk Outline Party - Cobra Youth House - A Plan Lost in Dreams 2005
14. Lorelei - Black Cat Bone - The West Coast of the East Coast compilation 2004
15. Takako Minekawa - Fantastic Cat - Roomic Cube 1997
**16. Ani DiFranco - Knuckle Down - Knuckle Down 2005
17. Fifty Tons of Black Terror - Creeper's Reef - My Idle Hands 2000
18. Party of Helicopters - Mt. Forever - Mt. Forever 2000
19. Karp - Bacon Industry - Self Titled LP 1997
20. The Fall - I Can Hear The Grass Grow - Fall Heads Roll GR-RD
**21. The Pixies - Wave of Mutilation - Doolittle 1989
22. Lemonheads - Don't Wanna - Hate Your Friends 1987
23. Naked Raygun - Walk In Cold - Jettison 1988
24. Naked Raygun - Potential Rapist - Basement Screams EP 1983
25. Naked Raygun - Treason - Understand? 1989
26. Leaving Trains - She's Looking at You - Kill Tunes 1986
27. Guided by Voices - Captain's Dead - Devil Between My Toes 1987
28. Smiths - These Things Take Time - Hatful of Hollow 1984
29. Placebo - Every You Every Me - Without You I'm Nothing 1998
30. Ugly Duckling - Meatshake - Taste the Secret 2003

*request
**request from Mara
So, this year I dressed up as Matthew Lesko. The sewing was the hard part.

Also, this week the turntables didn't work, so...it was no more than half 80's music. I used that as an excuse to play some of my favorite recent songs that had been overwhelming my head wanting to be heard again.

October 24

2005-11-14T21:14:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Social Distortion - Another State of Mind - Mommy's Little Monster 1983
3. Cows - Whitey in the Woodpile - Effete and Impudent Snobs 1990
4. Pixies - Vamos - Come on Pilgrim 1987
5. The Eclectics - Big Tough Dreams - 7" 1987
6. The Fall - Athlete Cured - The Frenz Experiment 1988
7. Ultra Vivid Scene - Mercy Seat - Ultra Vivid Scene 1988
8. Dave Frishberg - Van Lingle Mungo - Baseball's Greatest Hits 1989 (song: 1968)
9. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Balloon Man - Globe of Frogs 1988
10. The Clash - Clash City Rockers - From Here to Eternity Live 1999 (recorded 1978)
11. Blake Babies - Look Away - Sunburn 1990
12. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting - Hounds of Love 1985
13. Smashing Pumpkins - I Am One - 7" 1990
14. Yo La Tengo - Blue Line Swinger - Electr-O-Pura 1995
15. Yo La Tengo - Drug Test - President Yo La Tengo 1988
16. Mekons - Hole in the Ground - 12" 1987
17. Algebra Suicide - Little Dead Bodies - Big Science 1986
18. Cleaners From Venus - Black and White - "Ilya Kuryakin Look at Me" 12" 1987
19. It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home - Life's Hard and Then You Die 1987
20. Elvis Costello - Blue Chair - 12" 1987
21. Waitresses - No Guilt - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? 1982
22. Gruppo Sportivo - Life in Tokyo - Copy-Copy 1980
23. Pere Ubu - Final Solution - Terminal Tower 1985 (recorded 1975)
24. Dead Milkmen - Right Wing Pigeons - Big Lizard in My Backyard 1985
25. Effigies - The Sound That Moves - Ink 1986
26. Pylon - Crunch - Chain 1990
27. Verlaines - Lying in State - Hallelujah All the Way Home 1989
28. R.E.M. - Harborcoat - Reckoning 1984

The Clash and Yo La Tengo were requests. Except that Yo La Tengo was someone's second choice, after Winter Hours, a band that may not exist.

October 17

2005-11-14T20:55:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey - Psychocandy 1985
3. Jesus and Mary Chain - Taste the Floor - Psychocandy 1985
4. Jasmine Minks - Follow Me Away - Another Age 1988
5. Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - She's On Drugs - Cult of the Basement 1990
6. Tommy Keene - Places That Are Gone - Songs From the Film 1986
7. Stump Wizards - Mr. Cool - Smokestack 1988
8. Gaye Bykers on Acid - Don't Be Human Eric -- Let's Be Frank - The Janice Long Session EP 1988
9. Gaye Bykers on Acid - Ruby Red Lips - The Janice Long Session EP 1988
10. Camper Van Beethoven - She Divines Water - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart 1988
11. To Damascus - Police State Nightmare Jam - Come To Your Senses 1987
12. Pylon - B-Complex - Chain 1990
13. Pylon - Sugarpop - Chain 1990
14. Pop Art - Really Blind Faith - Long Walk to Nowhere 1986
15. Depeche Mode - Walking in My Shoes - Songs of Faith and Devotion 1993
16. XTC - Outside World - Drums and Wires 1979
17. It's Immaterial - Driving Away From Home - Life's Hard and Then You Die 1987
18. Blue Aeroplanes - Severn Beach - Friendloverplane 1988
19. Clivillés and Cole - Pride (In the Name of Love) - 12" 1989
20. Fastbacks - Better Than Before - Very, Very Powerful Motor 1990
21. Liliput - Tschik-Mo - Liliput 1982
22. Liliput - Ichor - Liliput 1982
23. The Cure - Blood - The Head on the Door 1985
24. Love and Rockets - Mirror People - Earth Sun Moon 1987
25. Monochrome Bleu - What is a Linz? - Taucher 1988
26. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Genetic Engineering - Dazzle Ships 1983
27. French Kicks - Close to Modern - One Time Bells 2002
28. R.E.M. - Low Desert - New Adventures in Hi-Fi 1996
29. Reverend Glasseye - God Help You Dumb Boy - Our Lady of the Broken Spine GR-RD

October 10

2005-11-14T20:53:00.000-08:00

Wasn't able to do the show today because I had promised to take Luke Anderson to see John Cassavetes's "Husbands". Amazing movie. Very odd that it was screened here now.

October 3

2005-11-14T20:20:00.000-08:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Stranglers - No More Heroes - No More Heroes 1978
3. English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom - I Just Can't Stop It 1980
4. Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver - Signals, Calls and Marches 1981
5. Soft Boys - (I Want To Be An) Anglepoise Lamp - A Can of Bees 1979
6. Squeeze - The Prisoner - Babylon and On 1987
*7. New Order - Crystal - Get Ready 2001
8. Peter Murphy - Blind Sublime - Love Hysteria 1988
9. The Cure - Why Can't I Be You? - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 1988
10. Beat Happening - Cast a Shadow - Black Candy 1989
11. Beat Happening - Otherside - Black Candy 1989
12. Soul Asylum - Marionette - Hang Time 1988
13. Cindy Lee Berryhill - She Had Everything - Who's Gonna Save the World? 1987
14. Ringo Starr - Snookeroo - Goodnight Vienna 1974
15. Microdisney - Horse Overboard - The Clock Comes Down the Stairs 1985
*16. The Cure - Just Like Heaven - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me 1988
17. Mighty Lemon Drops - Like an Angel - Happy Head 1988
18. The Church - Myrrh - Heyday 1986
19. The Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes - The Peel Session 25 April 1977
*20. Dead Milkmen - Instant Club Hit (You'll Dance to Anything) - 12" 1987
**21. Bright Eyes - Going For the Gold - Don't Be Afraid of Turning the Page EP 2004
**22. Okkervil River - For Real - Black Sheep Boy 2005
23. The Clash - Junco Partner - ¡Sandinista! 1980
**24. The Faint - Agenda Suicide (Jagz Kooner remix) - Danse Macabre Remixes 2003
**25. Ben Folds - Late - Songs For Silverman 2005
26. Stump - Eager Bereaver - A Fierce Pancake 1988
27. Stump Wizards - Mr. Cool - Smokestack 1988
28. Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again - Music for the Masses 1987

Had a trainee today! Very helpful. Also, she discovered our hidden Joy Division and Depeche Mode albums.

*Selected by Mysterious Trainee
**Requests. The Ben Folds request was actually a request for Elliott Smith, which like all the many other Elliott Smith requests I've gotten over the past year had to be denied because all our Elliott Smith records were stolen some time in 2004.

September 26

2005-09-26T21:05:00.000-07:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - Sweetwater - Waiting for the Love Bus 1993
3. The Smiths - These Things Take Time - Hatful of Hollow 1984
4. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Love in a Void - Peel Sessions 1977
5. Mecca Normal - Man Thinks Woman - Jarred Up 1993
6. Mecca Normal - Forlorn - Jarred Up 1993
7. Jesus and Mary Chain - April Skies - Darklands 1987
8. Gruppo Sportivo - Life in Tokyo - Copy-Copy 1980
9. Gruppo Sportivo - Police-Dog - Copy-Copy 1980
10. The Cure - The Walk - Japanese Whispers 1984
11. The Fall - Sing! Harpy - Extricate 1990
12. Blake Babies - Look Away - Sunburn 1990
13. Kitchens of Distinction - Railwayed - Strange Free World 1990
14. The Neighborhoods - WUSA - ...the high hard one... 1986
15. Slovenly - Myers's Dark - Riposte/A Little Resolve 1987
16. Killing Joke - Sanity - Brighter than a Thousand Suns 1987
17. Orchestra Manoeuvres in the Dark - Genetic Engineering - Dazzle Ships 1983
18. Mekons - Memphis, Egypt - The Mekons Rock 'N' Roll 1989
19. Pixies - Vamos - Come on Pilgrim 1987
20. Sex Clark Five - The Norman Shuttle - Battle of Sex Clark Five 1989
21. Sex Clark Five - Ireland - Battle of Sex Clark Five 1989
22. Bad Religion - Pity - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 1982
23. Bad Religion - Politics - Bad Religion EP 1981
24. Public Image Ltd. - FFF - album 1985
25. Nine Inch Nails - Terrible Lie - Pretty Hate Machine 1989
26. Salem 66 - Desk Clerk - Frequency & Urgency 1987
27. Didjits - Top Fuel - Full Nelson Reilly 1991
28. Dead Milkmen - Instant Club Hit (You'll Dance to Anything) - 12" 1987
29. The English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom - I Just Can't Stop It 1980
30. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus - Violator 1990
31. R.E.M. - These Days - Lifes Rich Pageant 1986

This week I tried to play more of the archetypal "eighties" music - with the synths and whatnot. That wasn't really what college radio played at the time, but I'm glad to discover Killing Joke and that OMD song nonetheless.

September 19

2005-09-26T20:37:00.000-07:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Love and Rockets - Mirror People - Earth Sun Moon 1987
3. Buzzcocks - Love Battery - Another Music in a Different Kitchen 1978
4. Buzzcocks - Nostalgia - Love Bites 1978
5. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Balloon Man - Globe of Frogs 1988
6. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Legalized Murder - "Flesh Number One (Beatle Denis)" 12" EP 1988
7. Mercyland - Proceed with Discretion - No Feet on the Cowling 1989
8. Stranglers - (Get a) Grip (on Yourself) - Rattus Norvegicus 1977
9. Stranglers - Duchess - Raven 1979
*10. The Beef People - Fragile - 7" 1986
11. Thee Headcoatees - Don't Try and Tell Me - Have Love, Will Travel 1992
12. The Fall - Fit and Working Again - Palace of Swords Reversed 1987
13. The Fall - Look, Know - Hip Priest and Kamerads 1985
14. Cindy Lee Berryhill - Looking Through Portholes - Who's Gonna Save the World? 1987
15. Cindy Lee Berryhill - Whatever Works - Who's Gonna Save the World? 1987
16. Big Dipper - Meet the Witch - Craps 1988
17. Public Image Ltd. - FFF - album 1985
18. Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl - "New Radio" 7" - 1992
**19. System of a Down - Cigaro - Mezmerize 2005
20. The Clash - Junco Partner - ¡Sandinista! 1980
21. Eat - Things I Need - Sell Me a God 1989
22. The Birthday Party - Six Inch Gold Blade - Peel Sessions 1981
23. The Clean - Tally Ho! - Compilation 1986
24. About 9 Times - Touch Time - Play Jacks 1985
25. Idlewild - Let Me Sleep (Next to the Mirror) - 100 Broken Windows 2000
26. Idlewild - Actually it's Darkness - 100 Broken Windows 2000
27. The The - This is the Day - Soul Mining 1983
28. Liliput - Split - Liliput 2001
29. Liliput - Wig-Wam - Liliput 2001
30. R.E.M. - Little America - Reckoning 1984

*This week's really, really obscure 7" from the crates
**This week's episode of Yesterday's Future Today!
Idlewild was a request.

September 12

2005-09-26T20:15:00.000-07:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. Close Lobsters - Loopholes - What is There to Smile About? 1988
3. Algebra Suicide - Little Dead Bodies - "Little Dead Bodies" 7" EP 1986
4. Hüsker Dü - Pink Turns to Blue - Zen Arcade 1984
5. Concrete Blonde - God is a Bullet - Free 1989
6. Jesus and Mary Chain - Blues From a Gun - Automatic 1989
7. XTC - Gold - "Great Fire" 12" EP 1983
8. Microdisney - Loftholdingswood - The Clock Comes Down the Stairs 1985
9. Microdisney - Genius - The Clock Comes Down the Stairs 1985
10. The Fall - Hotel Bloedel - Perverted By Language 1983
11. Stranglers - Peaches - Rattus Norvegicus 1977
12. Love and Rockets - Mirror People - Earth Sun Moon 1987
13. Naked Raygun - Rat Patrol - Throb Throb 1985
14. Naked Raygun - Roller Queen - Throb Throb 1985
15. Bad Religion - Frogger - Back to the Known 1984
*16. L'Arc-en-Ciel - Ready Steady Go - Japan for Sale vol. 4 2005
17. Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - She's on Drugs - Cult of the Basement 1990
18. Pixies - Dig For Fire - Bossanova 1990
19. Pixies - Down to the Well - Bossanova 1990
20. The Three O'Clock - With a Cantaloupe Girlfriend - Baroque Hoedown 1982
21. Echo and the Bunnymen - Pride - Crocodiles 1980
22. Echo and the Bunnymen - Monkeys - Crocodiles 1980
23. Cindy Lee Berryhill - Whatever Works - Who's Gonna Save the World? 1987
24. Throwing Muses - Finished - Chains Changed EP 1987
25. Mighty Lemon Drops - Like an Angel - Happy Head 1986
26. About 9 Times - There Is No... - There Is No... 1986
27. About 9 Times - Trench Coat Swing - Play Jacks 1985
**28. The Hangman's Beautiful Daughters - They Fell For Words Like Love - 7" 1987
29. The The - This is the Day - Soul Mining 1983
30. R.E.M. - Burning Hell - Dead Letter Office 1987

*This week's episode of Yesterday's Future Today!
**This week's really, really obscure 7" from the crates

September 5

2005-09-26T20:12:00.000-07:00

Labor Day - WPU closed at 9 PM I think.

Aren't we supposed to be on 24 hrs/7 dy?

August 29

2005-08-30T12:16:00.000-07:00

1. Snatches of Pink - Ones With the Black - Send in the Clowns 1987
2. The Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight - Snap! 1983
3. Julian Cope - Screaming Secrets - Saint Julian 1987
4. They Might Be Giants - Chess Piece Face - They Might Be Giants 1986
5. They Might Be Giants - I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die - They Might Be Giants 1986
6. The Fall - U.S. 80's-90's - The Domesday Pay-Off 1987
7. Blondie - Union City Blue - Eat to the Beat 1979
8. Sharky's Machine - Red Goose Shoes - Let's Be Friends! 1987
9. The Chills - The Oncoming Day - Submarine Bells 1990
10. Mighty Lemon Drops - Count Me Out - Out of Hand 1987
11. Bad Religion - Latch Key Kids - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 1982
12. Bad Religion - Frogger - Back to the Known EP 1984
13. Crime and the City Solution - Stone - The Bride Ship 1989
14. The Waterboys - The Thrill is Gone - A Pagan Place 1984
15. Throwing Muses - Call Me - Throwing Muses 1986
16. Blake Babies - Look Away - Sunburn 1990
17. Blue Aeroplanes - Your Ages - Swagger 1990
18. The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - She's on Drugs - Cult of the Basement 1990
19. Christmas - Dig We Must! - In Excelsior Dayglo 1986
20. Biff Bang Pow! - Ice Cream Machine - Love is Forever 1988
21. Laughing Hyenas - Hitman - Life of Crime 1990
22. The Freeze - Talking Bombs - Misery Loves Company 1993
23. Kitchens of Distinction - Railwayed - Strange Free World 1991
24. Kitchens of Distinction - Quick as Rainbows - Strange Free World 1991
25. Beat Happening - Knick Knack - Black Candy 1989
26. Cynics - Creepin' - Twelve Flights Üp 1988
27. World of Pooh - Mr. Coffee-Nerves - The Land of Thirst 1989
28. World of Pooh - Laughing at the Ground - The Land of Thirst 1989
29. Hüsker Dü - Makes No Sense At All - Flip Your Wig 1985
30. The Saints - Music Goes Round My Head - Prodigal Son 1988
31. The Clean - Wake Up in the Morning - Modern Rock 1995
32. R.E.M. - Auctioneer (Another Engine) - Fables of the Reconstruction 1985
33. R.E.M. - Good Advices - Fables of the Reconstruction 1985

Short notice today - didn't bring my own records. Frantic search for records in the record room; some are more recent than I thought they were. The lake a lilac cube.

Good heavens! What kind of radiola show is this, anyway?

2005-08-30T12:12:00.000-07:00

In the words of Sideshow Mel, "The show has undergone a re-formatting!" (thunderous applause)

And now, all the best college radio music of the 1980's in one amazing collection.

April 26

2005-04-27T13:41:00.000-07:00

1. Scuffy Dogs - Proud Mary - Scuffy Dogs 1997
2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - True Men Don't Kill Coyotes - The Red Hot Chili Peppers 1984
3. Fred Eaglesmith - Blue Tick Hound - 50 Odd Dollars 1999
4. Soviettes - Channel X - LP II 2004
5. Petra Haden - I Can See For Miles - Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out GR-OR
6. Sunny Day Real Estate - Red Elephant - LP2 1995
7. Scrawl - Love's Insecticide - Bloodsucker EP 1991
8. Scrawl - Cold Hearted Snake - Bloodsucker EP 1991
9. World/Inferno Friendship Society - Our Candidate - East Coast Super Sound Punk of Today! 2000
10. F.Y.P. - I Egged the President - My Man Grumpy 1999
11. PeeChees - The Right Reasons - Games People Play 1997
12. Nimbus - Superimposed - Discobolus 1999
13. Morrissey - How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel? - You Are The Quarry 2004
14. The Chills - Dead Web - Submarine Bells 1990
15. The Chills - Familiarity Breeds Contempt - Submarine Bells 1990
16. Bad Religion - Atheist Peace - The Empire Strikes First 2004
17. The Decemberists - 16 Military Wives - Picaresque GR-OR
18. Les Wampas - Liste de Droite - Never Trust a Guy Who, After Having Been a Punk, is Now Playing Electro 2004
19. Fifty Tons of Black Terror - Creeper's Reef - My Idle Hands 2000
20. Blake Babies - Look Away - Sunburn 1990
21. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Bring It On Golden Pond - Good Health 2002
22. Pretty Girls Make Graves - Chemical, Chemical - The New Romance 2003
23. Tobin Sprout - Digging Up Wooden Teeth - Let's Welcome the Circus People 1999
24. The Evens - If It's Water - The Evens GR-OR
25. Robyn Hitchcock 'n' The Egyptians - Madonna of the Wasps - Queen Elvis 1999
26. Mr. T Experience - The Weather is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful - Revenge is Sweet and So Are You 1997
27. Sicko - You Are An Alien - Chef Boy R U Dum 1995
28. Vandals - Join Us For Pong - Fear of a Punk Planet 1991
29. Sweep the Leg Johnny - The Blizzard of '99 (live) - Sweep the Leg Johnny & Rumah Sakit, Live 2003
30. Monday's Hero - The Engraver - Love Carries an Axe GR-RD
31. Weston - Mrs. Perfect Girl - Matinee 1997
32. Sleater-Kinney - All Hands on the Bad One - All Hands on the Bad One 2000
33. Xiu Xiu - I Luv the Valley OH! - Fabulous Muscles 2004
34. Liliput - Hitch-hike - Liliput 1979
35. Liliput - Ain't You - Liliput 1980
36. Chalk Outline Party - Cobra Youth House - A Plan Lost in Dreams 2004
37. Camera - White on White - EP 3 2004
38. The Modey Lemon - You Bug Me - 7" 2001

I went until 11:30 tonight because Ting and Kate didn't show up, but couldn't stay the whole time.

More pop-punk today, which drew actual AIM messages.

April 19

2005-04-19T22:13:00.000-07:00

1. Scuffy Dogs - Proud Mary - Scuffy Dogs 1997
2. The Cyanide Valentine - Freaks - Let It Rot GR-RD
3. Rocket From the Crypt - Fat Lip - Scream, Dracula, Scream! 1995
4. Rocket From the Crypt - Suit City - Scream, Dracula, Scream! 1995
5. Millencollin - Farewell My Hell - Kingwood GR-BR
6. Billy Bragg + Wilco - Walt Whitman's Niece - Mermaid Avenue 1998
7. The Wedding Present - Brassneck - Bizarro 1989
8. Close Lobsters - Loopholes - What Is There To Smile About? EP 1988
9. Doris Henson - The Day is Done - Give Me All Your Money GR-OR
10. God Is My Co-Pilot - List - I Am Not This Body 1992
11. God Is My Co-Pilot - Kissing Frenzy - I Am Not This Body 1992
12. Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire - 50 Pieces - Thrills 1998
13. R.E.M. - Pop Song 89 - Green 1988
14. The Dwarves - One Time Only - The Dwarves Are Young and Good Looking 1997
15. Les Wampas - Toulouse - Never Trust a Guy Who, After Having Been a Punk, is Now Playing Electro 2004
16. Robyn Hitchcock - Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl - I Often Dream of Trains 1986
17. Robyn Hitchcock - Cathedral - I Often Dream of Trains 1986
18. Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Lounger - Please Describe Yourself 2004
19. The Bravery - No Brakes - The Bravery GR-RD
20. The Posies - Solar Sister - Frosting on the Beater 1993
21. The Posies - Flavor of the Month - Frosting on the Beater 1993
22. Snuff - Chocs Away - Disposable Income 2003
23. Guided by Voices - The Who vs. Porky Pig - Plantations of Pale Pink EP 1996
24. Carol Bui - I Don't Call Him By Name - This Is How I Recover GR-RD
25. 50 Foot Wave - Long Painting - Golden Ocean 2005
26. Smugglers - Suntans - Mutiny in Stereo 2004
27. Dead Meadow - Such Hawks Such Hounds - Feathers GR-OR
28. Mary's Danish - Yellow Creep Around - Circa 1991
29. Deerhoof - Dummy Discards a Heart - Apple O' 2003
30. Melt-Banana - If It Is The Deep Sea, I Can See You There - Cell-Scape 2003
31. British Sea Power - Fear of Drowning - The Decline of British Sea Power 2003

April 5/12

2005-04-19T22:11:00.000-07:00

April 5 I had to finish Project #3 for Infectious Disease Epidemiology which I couldn't finish on Monday because I had a cold.

April 12 I went home and got my record bag but showed up and there were about 40 people in the studio because of the semesterly "showcase" of 8 local bands on the air.

March 29

2005-03-29T20:41:00.000-08:00

1. Polysics - Kaja Kaja Goo - Japan for Sale, vol. 4 2004
2. Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Part of Town - J.U.F. 2004
3. The Bad Plus - Heart of Glass - Blunt Object Live in Japan GR-OR
4. Metric - Combat Baby - Metric 2003
5. Selby Tigers - Tell It to the Judge - The Curse of the Selby Tigers 2002
6. The Life and Times - Tools and Chrome - Until the Shaking Stops: A Tribute to Jawbox GR-RD
7. Mission of Burma - Wounded World - ONoffON 2004
8. Call Me Lightning - Pizza Party - The Trouble We're In 2004
9. Eyes Like Knives - Walk With Me - Slow Distractions 2004
10. Stereo Total - Automatic Music - Musique Automatique 2002
11. Man Man - 10 lb. Moustache - Man Man 2004
12. Working Poor - Door to Door - New Wealth 2004
13. The Modey Lemon - Crows - Thunder + Lightning 2003
14. Doris Henson - The Day is Done - Give Me All Your Money GR-OR
15. Violettes - Blue Hearted Fool - The Violettes 2004
16. Telepathic Butterflies - Love (is) For Hire - Songs from a Second Wave 2004
17. Bollweevils - About You - History of the Bollweevils Part 1 1994
18. Cindy Lee Berryhill - Looking Through Portholes - Who's Gonna Save the World? 1987
19. Soviettes - Channel X - LP II 2004
20. The Fall - Sparta #2 - The Real New Fall LP 2004
21. Butthole Surfers - The Hurdy Gurdy Man - 12" 1990
22. Morrissey - The National Front Disco - Your Arsenal 1992
23. Morrissey - How Can Anybody Possibly Know How I Feel? - You Are The Quarry 2004
24. Two Gallants - Fail Hard to Regain - The Throes 2004
25. Teddy Duchamp's Army - Loki - Teddy Duchamp's Army EP 2002
26. The Wedding Present - Brassneck - Bizarro 1989
27. Silkworm - The Devil is Beating His Wife - Developer 1997
28. Hey Mercedes - Everybody's Working For the Weak - The Weekend EP 2002
29. Blake Babies - Look Away - Sunburn 1990
30. Blake Babies - Sanctify - Sunburn 1990
31. Northern State - Time to Rhyme - All City 2004
32. The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez - Frances the Mute GR-OR

For 1.5 hours everything was from the past three years, but I just had to play the Bollweevils and the "Hurdy Gurdy Man" cover because I just remembered them. Although I think I was thinking of some other band's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" cover, a more noisy one.

Ting and Kate were 15 minutes late today; just before they showed up I started the 12-minute Mars Volta song, giving them ample time to settle in luxuriously.

March 22

2005-03-22T21:12:00.000-08:00

1. Pram - The Owl Service - The Museum of Imaginary Animals 2000
2. Dambuilders - Shrine - Encendedor 1994
3. Bad Religion - Los Angeles is Burning - The Empire Strikes First 2004
4. Green Day - Stuart and the Ave. - Insomniac 1995
5. The Books - An Owl With Knees - Lost and Safe GR-OR
6. Sahara Hotnights - Quite a Feeling - C'mon Let's Pretend 2004
7. Rocket From The Crypt - Ball Lightning - Scream, Dracula, Scream! 1995
8. Laura Nyro - Sweet Blindness - Eli and the Thirteenth Confession 1968
9. The PeeChees - To Be Counted - Games People Play 1997
10. Anne Summers - Uh-huh, Oh-no - Very Classy 2000
11. Tilt - Die of Shame - Viewers Like You 1999
12. Coachwhips - Letter 2 London - Peanut Butter and Jelly Live at the Ginger Minge GR-OR
13. M.I.A. - 10$ - Arular GR-OR
14. M.I.A. - Bingo - Arular GR-OR
15. Our American Cousins - One Wish Too Many - 7" 1991
16. Bouncing Souls - No Security - split CD with Anti-Flag 2002
17. Dead Meadow - At Her Open Door - Feathers GR-OR
18. Deerhoof - Dummy Discards a Heart - Apple O' 2003
19. Ugly Duckling - MeatShake - Taste the Secret 2003
20. Gerty Farish - Laser Command - Bulks Up 1997
21. Smog - Dress Sexy At My Funeral - Dongs of Sevotion 2000
22. Guided by Voices - June Salutes You! - The Official Ironmen Rally Song EP 1996
23. Archers of Loaf - Web in Front - Icky Mettle 1993
24. Run Away From The Humans - Lost My Way - We Exist GR-RD
25. Sunny Day Real Estate - Snibe - The Rising Tide 2000
26. Drive-By Truckers - Where the Devil Don't Stay - The Dirty South 2004
27. World/Inferno Friendship Society - Glamour Ghouls - 7" 1996
28. Mardo - Here She Comes - Mardo GR-RD
29. Jesus and Mary Chain - Rollercoaster - Honey's Dead 1992
30. The Real Tuesday Weld - Bathtime in Clerkenwell - I, Lucifer 2004
31. The Bad Plus - Heart of Glass - Blunt Object Live in Japan GR-OR
32. Les Wampas - Little Daewoo - Never Trust a Guy Who, After Having Been a Punk, is Now Playing Electro 2004
33. Polysics - I'm a Worker - Neu! 2002
34. Coheed and Cambria - The Velourium Camper III: Al The Killer - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 2003
35. Fifty Tons of Black Terror - Giant Haystacks - My Idle Hands 2000
36. Guided by Voices - June Salutes You! - The Official Ironmen Rally Song EP 1996
37. The Prodigy - Girls - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned RPM
38. Clinic - August - Winchester Cathedral 2004
39. Sam Prekop - C+F - Who's Your New Professor GR-RD
40. Robert Pollard with Doug Gillard - Frequent Weaver Who Burns - Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department 1999
41. Archer Prewitt - O, KY - Wilderness GR-OR
42. Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Heart of Kentucky - Amber Gambler EP 1997
43. Pollen - Caramel - Chip 1999
44. The Fall - No Bulbs - The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall 1984

Bouncing Souls and The Prodigy were requests.

March 15

2005-03-15T20:28:00.000-08:00

1 Prolapse - Killing the Bland - The Italian Flag 1998
2 Preston School of Industry - Whalebones - All This Sounds Gas 2001
3 Pram - The Owl Service - The Museum of Imaginary Animals 2000
4 M.I.A. - Sunshowers - Arular GR-OR
5 The Roots - Don't Say Nuthin' - The Tipping Point 2004
6 Dizzee Rascal - Flyin' - Showtime 2004
7 Royal Crown Revue - Zip Gun Bop (Reloaded) - The Contender 1998
8 Louis XIV - Finding Out True Love is Blind - Illegal Tender EP GR-OR
9 Super Furry Animals - The International Language of Screaming - Songbook: The Singles volume 1 GR-OR
10 Gatsby - Pretty to Think So - Floods + Fires GR-RD
11 Nightwish - Wish I Had an Angel - Once 2004
12 The Octopus Project - Hold the Ladder - One Ten Hundred Thousand Million GR-RD
13 Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes - The Mysterious Production of Eggs GR-OR
14 Sainte Catherines - I Can't Have Sex All the Time - The Art of Arrogance 2003
15 Petra Haden - Our Love Was - Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out GR-OR
16 The Birthday Party - Six Inch Gold Blade - The Peel Session 1981
17 Karp - Bacon Industry - Self Titled LP 1997
18 Party of Helicopters - Mt. Forever - Mt. Forever 2000
19 Joni Mitchell - You Turn Me On I'm a Radio - For the Roses 1972
20 Loud Family - Good, There Are No Lions In The Street - Days for Days 1998
21 Rilo Kiley - Portions for Foxes - More Adventurous 2004
22 Blake Babies - Look Away - Sunburn 1990
23 M.I.A. - Galang - Arular GR-OR
24 Game Theory - The World's Easiest Job - Lolita Nation 1987
25 Game Theory - Look Away - Lolita Nation 1987
26 World/Inferno Friendship Society - Just the Best Party - Just the Best Party 2002
27 Classical Ass - Neutrino - After Lunch We Kill Tony GR-OR
28 Quasi - The Golden Egg - Field Studies 1999
29 The Cribs - The Lights Went Out - The Cribs GR-RD
30 Aterciopelados - El Álbum - Gozo Poderoso 2000

March 10

2005-03-10T16:15:00.000-08:00

1 Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat - Blueberry Boat 2004
2 Neighborhoods - WUSA - "...the high hard one..." 1986
3 Neighborhoods - Uniforms and Insignia - "...the high hard one..." 1986
4 The Wedding Present - What Have I Said Now? - Bizarro 1989
5 Alec K. Redfearn & the Eyesores - Portuguese Man O' War - The Quiet Room GR-OR
6 Guided by Voices - The Best of Jill Hives - Earthquake Glue 2003
7 The Bevis Frond - Virus - Vavona Burr 1999
8 Beat Happening - Bewitched - Jamboree 1988
9 Curve - Horror Head - Doppelgänger 1992
10 Guided by Voices - Blimps Go 90 - Alien Lanes 1995
11 Black Box Recorder - Being Number One - Passionoia 2003
12 Moaners - Elizabeth Cotten's Song - Dark Snack GR-RD
13 Hot Hot Heat - Goodnight Goodnight - Goodnight Goodnight EP GR-RD
14 Sam Prekop - C+F - Who's Your New Professor GR-RD
15 Thermals - No Culture Icons - The Thermals EP 2003
16 Side 1 of Pardon My Blooper! Radio and Television's Most Hilarious Boners, vol. 2 10" 1958
17 Archers of Loaf - Vocal Shrapnel - All the Nation's Airports 1996
18 Les Wampas - C.R.S. - Never Trust a Guy Who, After Having Been a Punk, is Now Playing Electro 2004
19 Les Wampas - Country en Croatie - Never Trust a Guy Who, After Having Been a Punk, is Now Playing Electro 2004
20 Sage Francis - The Buzzkill - A Healthy Distrust GR-OR
21 Superchunk - Hyper Enough - Here's Where the Strings Come In 1995
22 The Wedding Present - Convertible - Mini 1996
23 The Evens - If It's Water - The Evens GR-OR
24 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Lucy's Hamper - Amber Gambler EP 1997
25 Jesus and Mary Chain - Blues From a Gun - Automatic 1989
26 Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes - The Mysterious Production of Eggs GR-OR
27 Dead Meadow - At Her Open Door - Feathers GR-OR

This was a fill-in from 9-11 AM, as we aren't on our regular schedule during spring break, as the WPU is closed after 6 PM.

March 8

2005-03-10T16:05:00.000-08:00

1 Eyesores - Dashboard Lazarus - Bent at the Waist 2003
2 Alec K. Redfearn & the Eyesores - The Night it Rained Glass on Union Street - The Quiet Room GR-OR
3 Sam Prekop - C+F - Who's Your New Professor GR-RD
4 Kasabian - Processed Beats - Kasabian GR-OR
5 Hot Hot Heat - Eyes Ears Mouth (demo) - Goodnight Goodnight EP GR-RD
6 Julian Cope - Screaming Secrets - Saint Julian 1986
7 Bad Religion - Broken - The Process of Belief 2002
8 The Fall - Glam-Racket - Live at the Phoenix Festival 1995
9 World/Inferno Friendship Society - Just the Best Party - Just the Best Party 2002
10 Bad Religion - Latch Key Kids - How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 1982
11 Pee Chees - Antarcticists - Games People Play 1997
12 The Cribs - The Lights Went Out - The Cribs GR-RD
13 Chavez - Repeat the Ending - 7" 1994
14 Essential Logic - Quality Crayon Wax O.K. - Beat Rhythm News 1979
15 Riddle of Steel - U-Trau - Until the Shaking Stops: A Tribute to Jawbox GR-RD
16 Ffa Coffi Pawb - Lluchia Dy Fflachlwch Drosta I - Am Byth: A Selection of Lost Songs '86-'92 GR-BR
17 Some Velvet Sidewalk - Pumpkin Patch - 7" 1991
18 Tilt - Gun Play - 7" 1998
19 Dead Meadow - Such Hawks Such Hounds - Feathers GR-OR
20 Bangs - Lend Me Crumpets - Tiger Beat 1998
21 Destroyer - New Ways of Living - Notorious Lightning and Other Works EP GR-OR
22 Destroyer - The Music Lovers - Notorious Lightning and Other Works EP GR-OR
23 Drive-By Truckers - Where the Devil Don't Stay - The Dirty South 2004
24 Affluente - L'Italia ai Negri - Moltitudine Suina EP 1995
25 Affluente - Bocche Incolte - Moltitudine Suina EP 1995
26 Archer Prewitt - Judy, Judy - Wilderness GR-OR
27 Crooked Fingers - Sleep All Summer - Dignity and Shame GR-OR
28 The Fall - Protein Protection - The Real New Fall LP 2004
29 Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ride the Lightning 1984
30 Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage - Danger! High Voltage EP 2003

This was a fill-in from 10 AM to noon, as we aren't on our regular schedule during spring break, as the WPU is closed after 6 PM.

March 3 - St. David's Day

2005-03-03T13:21:00.000-08:00

Immediately after my two tests were done, Dr. DeLuca told us he was sick again and cancelled class. We're kind of worried about him. This class won't meet again for 2 weeks.

Anyway, there was a meeting at the station and I was able to play Welsh bands for a limited time. Unfortunately we only have the worst and most recent album by both the Stereophonics and Manic Street Preachers.

1 Super Furry Animals (Cardiff) - Sidewalk Surfer Girl - Rings Around the World 2001
2 Stereophonics (Cwmaman, Mid Glamorgan) - High as the Ceiling - You Gotta Go There To Come Back 2003
3 Manic Street Preachers (Blackpool, Gwent) - Ready For Drowning - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours 1998
4 Julian Cope (Deri, South Glamorgan) - Screaming Secrets - Saint Julian 1986
5 Ffa Coffi Pawb - Lluchia Dy Fflachlwch Drosta I - Am Byth: Casgliad on Ganeuon Coll '86-'92 GR-BR
6 Funeral For a Friend (Bridgend) - She Drove Me To Daytime Television - Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation 2004
7 Julian Cope - Trampoline - Saint Julian 1986
8 Gorky's Zygotic Mynci (Carmarthen) - Miniature Kingdoms - Barafundle 1997
9 Super Furry Animals - Ysbeidiau Heulog - Songbook: The Singles, Volume 1 GR-OR
10 The Crimea (Welsh people who formed the band in London) - Bombay Sapphire Coma - Lottery Winners on Acid EP 2004

Other bands I could have played, if we had CDs by them, are 60 Foot Dolls, Catatonia, and the Lost Prophets. Also World Party, but our vinyl "W" section is hard to get to. And John Cale, as Ross told me. And of course Tom Jones, Charlotte Church and Shirley Bassey. And all these people I've never heard of.

March 1

2005-03-03T13:15:00.000-08:00

I couldn't do today's show because I have a midterm at 10 AM Thursday and another mid-term - take-home, due 1 PM Thursday, on which at least one of the six questions asks for an infinite amount of writing. "Thoroughly describe as many virus-specific mechanisms as you can which enable RNA viruses to express their gene products"? You do realize that we aren't working with a time limit here, Dr. DeLuca.

This is especially tragic because today was St. David's Day; if you remember your SAT analogy format, St. David : Wales :: St. Patrick : Ireland. I was going to play all sorts of Welsh bands. Well, there aren't really that many Welsh bands.

February 22

2005-02-23T08:11:00.000-08:00

1 Deerhoof - Dummy Discards a Heart - Apple O' 2003
2 Isobel Campbell - The Cat's Pyjamas - Amorino 2003
3 Pink Grease - Fever - This is For Real 2004
4 Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments - Petty Thief - Straight to Video 1997
5 Libraness - Face on Backwards - Yesterday and Tomorrow's Shells 2000
6 Joss Stone - Fell in Love With a Boy - The Soul Sessions 2003
7 Fat Day - Fawn - Unf! Unf! GR-OR
8 Fat Day - Childers - Unf! Unf! GR-OR
9 Moaners - Elizabeth Cotten's Song - Dark Snack GR-RD
10 Loud Family - Deee-Pression - Days for Days 1998
11 Brice - Sticks Franklin - Cabin Capers GR-BR
12 Mommy and Daddy - Street Cleaner - Fighting Style Killer Panda EP GR-RD
13 Gang of Four - I Found That Essence Rare - The Peel Sessions EP 1979
14 Cribs - The Lights Went Out - The Cribs GR-RD
15 Strokes - Hard to Explain - Is This It 2001
16 Northern State - Last Night - All City 2004
17 No Knife - The Red Bedroom - Riot for Romance! 2002
18 We're Wolves - The Cigarette Basement - The Cigarette Basement EP GR-OR
19 Echo and the Bunnymen - Silver - Ocean Rain 1984
20 Street Dogs - Tale of Mass Deception - Back to the World GR-RD
21 Pixies - Wave of Mutilation - Doolittle 1989
22 The Fall - U.S. 80's-90's - The Domesday Pay-off 1987
23 Full White Drag - Her Name is Montreal - Everything Will Fall on One Night GR-RD
24 Sarge - Dear Josie, Love Robyn - Distant 2000
25 The Bravery - An Honest Mistake - The Bravery 2005
26 Minus the Bear - Hey! Is That a Ninja Up There? - They Make Beer Commercials Like This EP 2004
27 Papas Fritas - Sing About Me - Helioself 1997
28 Classical Ass - Crab Racer - After Lunch We Kill Tony 2005
29 The The - This is the Day - Soul Mining 1983
30 Flogging Molly - The Kilburn High Road - Drunken Lullabies 2002
31 Uncle Tupelo - Graveyard Shift - No Depression 1990
32 Super Furry Animals - Ysbeidiau Heulog - Songbook: The Singles Volume One GR-OR
33 Aterciopelados - Luz Azul - Gozo Poderoso 2000

Played several bands I've never heard anything by today. (5, 11, 12, 17, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 31)
Last week's show was too much of a repeat of previous shows.

Flogging Molly and Uncle Tupelo were requests.

February 15

2005-02-15T20:43:00.000-08:00

1 Curve - Horror Head - Doppelgänger 1992
2 Jesse Camp - See You Around - Jesse & the 8th Street Kidz 1999
3 Essential Logic - Aerosol Burns - Beat Rhythm News 1979
4 Riverboat Gamblers - What's What - Something to Crow About 2003
5 Super Furry Animals - Ysbeidiau Heulog - Songbook: The Singles Volume One GR-OR
6 Beatings - Bloated and Disabled - Italiano 2002
7 Wesley Willis - I Broke Out Your Windshield - Greatest Hits Volume Two 1999
8 Decemberists - A Cautionary Song - Castaways & Cutouts 2002
9 Hot Hot Heat - No, Not Now - Make Up the Breakdown 2002
10 The Fall - Spinetrak - The Light User Syndrome 1996
11 Veruca Salt - Shimmer Like A Girl - Blow it Out Your Ass...It's Veruca Salt EP 1996
12 Shivaree - I Close My Eyes - Who's Got Trouble? GR-OR
13 Les Wampas - Little Daewoo - Never Trust a Guy Who, After Having Been a Punk, is Now Playing Electro 2004
14 50 Foot Wave - Dog Days - 50 Foot Wave EP 2004
15 Coheed and Cambria - A Favor House Atlantic - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 2003
16 Deerhoof - Dummy Discards a Heart - Apple O' 2003
17 Andrew Bird - Banking on a Myth - The Mysterious Production of Eggs GR-OR
18 Beck - E-Pro - CD single GR-OR
19 Guided by Voices - Back to the Lake - Vniversal Trvths and Cycles 2002
20 Kasabian - Processed Beats - Kasabian GR-OR
21 Gay Dad - Joy! - Leisure Noise 1999
22 Red Elvises - Happy That I'm Straight - Bedroom Boogie 2001
23 Concretes - You Can't Hurry Love - The Concretes 2004
24 Warren G & Nate Dogg - Regulate - Above the Rim OST 1994
25 Bloc Party - Tulips (club version) - CD single GR-RD
26 Pixies - Vamos - Come On Pilgrim 1987
27 The Information - I Love Trouble - Mistakes We Knew We Were Making GR-RD
28 The Clash - Complete Control - The Clash 1977
29 Karp - Bacon Industry - Self Titled LP 1997
30 Impossible Shapes - Putrefaction - Horus GR-RD
31 Fiery Furnaces - Straight Street - Blueberry Boat 2004
32 Hood - The Lost You - Outside Closer GR-OR

Wesley Willis and Warren G were chosen by Ryan. Hot Hot Heat was chosen by Katrin. Coheed, Cambria, Bloc Party, and the Red Elvises were requests.

February 8

2005-02-08T21:18:00.000-08:00

1 Dumbwaiters - Wow - Musick 2005
2 Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes - The Mysterious Production of Eggs GR-OR
3 Coachwhips - PB+J - Peanut Butter and Jelly Live at the Ginger Minge GR-OR
4 R.E.M. - Finest Worksong - Eponymous 1988
5 Shade - Only One Wish - Fedra EP 2004
6 L'arc-en-Ciel - Ready Steady Go - Japan for Sale vol. 4 2004
7 Surgery - Your Beautiful Smile - Trim, 9th Ward High Roller EP 1993
8 Loud Family - Sodium Laureth Sulfate - Interbabe Concern 1996
9 Cursive - Some Red-Handed Sleight of Hand - The Ugly Organ 2003
10 Sunny Day Real Estate - Snibe - The Rising Tide 2000
11 Jesus Lizard - Fly on the Wall - Bang 2000
12 Super Furry Animals - Juxtapozed With U - Songbook: The Singles Volume One GR-OR
13 ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - The Rest Will Follow - Worlds Apart GR-RD
14 Sahara Hotnights - Who Do You Dance For? - Kiss & Tell 2004
15 Franz Ferdinand - Michael - Franz Ferdinand 2004
16 Smiths - Handsome Devil - Hatful of Hollow 1984
17 Q and not U - Tag-Tag - Power 2004
18 Superchunk - Detroit Has a Skyline - Here's Where the Strings Come In 1995
19 Valient Thorr - Time Zone - Stranded on Earth 2004
20 The Fall - Sparta #2 - Narnack Records is...A Fist-First Sampler of New Music GR-OR
21 Curve - Ice That Melts the Tips - Doppelgänger 1992
22 The Faint - Posed to Death - Danse Macabre 2001
23 Hood - The Lost You - Outside Closer GR-OR
24 Kool Keith - The Orchestrators - Diesel Truckers 2004
25 Rahzel - All I Know - Make the Music 2000 1999
26 Shivaree - It Got All Black - Who's Got Trouble? GR-OR
27 Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead - Hearts of Oak 2003
28 Green Day - 86 - Insomniac 1995
29 Throwing Muses - Call Me - Throwing Muses 1986
30 Chalk Outline Party - Cobra Youth House - A Plan Lost In Dreams GR-RD

Cursive, Ted Leo, and ...AYWKUBTTOD were requests. Franz Ferdinand was chosen by Katrin.

February 1

2005-02-02T13:54:00.000-08:00

1 The Fall - Green-Eyed Loco-Man - The Real New Fall LP 2004
2 Joni Mitchell - You Turn Me On I'm a Radio - For the Roses 1972
3 Mission of Burma - Wounded World - ONoffON 2004
4 Andrew Bird - Fake Palindromes - The Mysterious Production of Eggs 2005
5 Andrew Bird - Skin Is, My - The Mysterious Production of Eggs 2005
6 Regina Hexaphone - 40 Days - The Beautiful World 2004
7 Party of Helicopters - Pounding For Vipers - Mt. Forever 2000
8 Killers - Somebody Told Me - Hot Fuss 2004
9 Hood - The Lost You - Outside Closer GR-OR
10 Jesus Lizard - Cold Water - Blue 1998
11 J Church - At the Cannery - Analysis: Yes, Very Nice EP 1995
12 Hellogoodbye - Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn - Hellogoodbye EP GR-RD
13 Zoobombs - Parkin' Rock - Welcome Back, Zoobombs! GR-OR
14 Coachwhips - Letter 2 London - Peanut Butter and Jelly Live at the Ginger Minge GR-OR
15 Shivaree - It Got All Black - Who's Got Trouble? GR-OR
16 Knapsack - Courage Was Confused - Day Three of My New Life 1998
17 Superchunk - On the Mouth - Incidental Music 1991-95 1992
18 This Moment In Black History - Pity the Back Seat - TMIBH/Fatal Flying Guilloteens split EP GR-BL
19 Chemical People - The Last One - Arpeggio Motorcade 1998
20 Magnapop - We're Faded - Mouthfeel GR-RD
21 Chalk Outline Party - Cobra Youth House - A Plan Lost In Dreams GR-RD
22 Solex - Dork at 12 O'Clock - Pick Up 1999
23 Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Apples & Oranges - Please Describe Yourself 2004
24 Super Furry Animals - Hermann Loves Pauline - Songbook: The Singles Volume One GR-OR
25 World/Inferno Friendship Society - Secret Service Freedom Fighting U.S.A. - Just the Best Party 2002
26 Bis - Sweet Shop Avengers - The New Transistor Heroes 1997
27 Destroyer - New Ways of Living - Notorious Lightning and Other Works EP GR-OR
28 Coheed and Cambria - A Favor House Atlantic - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 2003
29 3 Kisses - Yellow - Wings GR-RD
30 Superchunk - Lying in State - Incidental Music 1991-95 1993
31 Smoosh - It's Cold - She Like Electric 2004
32 Boy Sets Fire - Bathory's Sainthood - Live For Today EP 2002
33 Koufax - Break it Off - Social Life 2002
34 Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up to Boston - Give 'em the Boot vol. 4 GR-OR

January 25

2005-01-25T20:15:00.000-08:00

1 The Fall - Touch Sensitive - The Marshall Suite 1999
2 Mission of Burma - Wounded World - ONoffON 2004
3 Fur Cups For Teeth - Mystery Train - Allergic 2 Fur GR-OR
4 The Modey Lemon - Crows - Thunder + Lightning 2003
5 Nagg - Endless Sleep - Nagg GR-BL
6 Flat Earth Society - Zonk - ISMS GR-OR
7 Kopaz - Friend of Gwen - Future Radiant Shine GR-OR
8 Metric - IOU - Metric 2003
9 Bad Religion - Broken - The Process of Belief 2002
10 Party of Helicopters - Never Ending Cycle - Please Believe It 2003
11 Kenny Brown - Cocaine Bill - Not the Same Old Blues Crap 3 GR-OR
12 R.E.M. - Life and How To Live It - Fables of the Reconstruction 1985
13 R.E.M. - Catapult - Murmur 1983
14 World/Inferno Friendship Society - Peter Lorre - Just the Best Party 2002
15 Driver of the Year - Even the Devil Has Friends - Statik GR-OR
16 Ramones - Bonzo Goes To Bitburg - 12" 1985
17 K-Os - Crabbuckit - Joyful Rebellion 2004
18 Hair & Skin Trading Company - Elevenate - Jo In Nine G Hell 1993
19 Thermals - Capture With A Magnet - The Thermals EP 2003
20 Robert Pollard - Maggie Turns To Flies - Not In My Airforce 1996
21 Lotion - Juggernaut - Nobody's Cool 1995
22 Blueprint Car Crash - Grave Of Fireflies - Rhetoric of a Marionette GR-RD
23 Les Wampas - Manu Chao - Never Trust a Guy Who, After Having Been a Punk, is Now Playing Electro 2004
24 Close Lobsters - Loopholes - What Is There To Smile About? EP 1998
25 Jimmy Fallon - Hammertime - The Bathroom Wall 2002
26 A.R. Rahman (singers: Karthik, Dimmi & Tippu) - Girlfriend - Boys 2003
27 Keren Ann - Road Bin - Not Going Anywhere GR-OR
28 Drive-By Truckers - Where The Devil Don't Stay - The Dirty South 2004
29 Coheed and Cambria - Blood Red Summer - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 2003
30 Thermals - A Stare Like Yours - Fuckin' A 2004
31 French Kicks - Close To Modern - One Time Bells 2002

32 degrees today!

January 24

2005-01-24T17:56:00.000-08:00

1. Mates of State - Starman - All Day EP GR-RD
2. Magnapop - California - Mouthfeel GR-RD
3. Lungleg - Maid to Minx - Maid to Minx 1999
4. Fifty Tons of Black Terror - Creeper's Reef - My Idle Hands 2000
5. The Jesus Lizard - Cold Water - Blue 1998
6. Coachwhips - What Do They Eat? - Peanut Butter and Jelly Live at the Ginger Minge 2005
7. Wonderful Smith - Make a Man (To Feel Alive) - Hello, It's Wonderful GR-OR
8. The Fall - Blindness - Narnack Records is...A Fist-First Sampler of New Music GR-OR
9. An Angle - Off to School - ...And Take It With a Grain of Salt GR-RD

This was a fill-in from 11:20 to noon. It was 9 degrees again, but forecast for warmer tomorrrrrow...

January 18

2005-01-18T20:42:00.000-08:00

1. Shivaree - I Close My Eyes - Who's Got Trouble? 2005
2. Essential Logic - Quality Crayon Wax O.K. - Beat Rhythm News 1979
3. Prince Paul & The Waikikis - Prince Paul's Bubble Party - The Spongebob SquarePants Movie OST GR-OR
4. Strokes - Hard to Explain - Is This It 2001
5. Lou Barlow - Monkey Begun - EMOH GR-OR
6. Shrinking Islands - Big Nature Comes Back - In the Black Carpet Version One 2004
7. Futureheads - Alms - The Futureheads GR-OR
8. Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Godhopping - Please Describe Yourself 2004
9. Dogs Die In Hot Cars - Lounger - Please Describe Yourself 2004
10. Eyes Like Knives - Like a Ghost - Slow Distractions GR-OR
11. Unwound - Petals Like Bricks - The Future of What 1995
12. Les Wampas - Little Daewoo - Never Trust a Guy Who, After Having Been a Punk, is Now Playing Electro 2004
13. Rance Allen Group - Lying on the Truth - Wattstax: Highlights from the Soundtrack GR-OR
14. Guided by Voices - Shocker in Gloomtown - The Grand Hour EP 1992
15. Takako Minekawa - Fantastic Cat - Roomic Cube 1997
16. Mission of Burma - Wounded World - ONoffON 2004
17. The Bad Plus - Street Woman - Give 2004
18. Univers Zero - Bonjour Chez Vous - Ceux du Dehors 1981
19. Tsunami Bomb - Dawn on a Funeral Day - The Definitive Act GR-RD
20. TV on the Radio - Bomb Yourself - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes 2004
21. Close Lobsters - Violently Pretty Face - What is There to Smile About? 1988
22. Breeders - Saints - Last Splash 1993
23. Kopaz - Friend of Gwen - Future Radiant Shine GR-OR
24. AQUI - Eye of the Battle - The First Trip Out GR-RD
25. Cindy Lee Berryhill - Whatever Works - Who's Gonna Save the World? 1987
26. Chin Up Chin Up - We Should Never Have Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers - We Should Never Have Lived Like We Were Skyscrapers GR-OR
27. Christmas - Loved Ones - In Excelsior Dayglo 1986
28. Chalk Outline Party - Cobra Youth House - A Plan Lost in Dreams GR-RD
29. The Waikikis & Prince Paul - Prince Paul's Bubble Party - The Spongebob SquarePants Movie OST GR-OR
30. Langhorne Slim - I Wanna Take You Home - Narnack Records is...A Fist-First Sampler of New Music GR-OR
31. Portastatic - Useless Switch - Speed Kills issue #7 10" 1995

Mission of Burma was a request. Becky requested that I play The Bad Plus, from whose album I played Disk 2, Track 3 instead of Disk 1, Track 3. Yes, that's two appearances by the Prince Paul Spongebob song. It was 9 degrees outside during this show.

January 11

2005-01-11T20:50:00.000-08:00

1. Chalk Outline Party - Cobra Youth House - A Plan Lost In Dreams GR-RD
2. Guided by Voices - Hunter Complex - Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer EP 1993
3. Guided by Voices - Beg For a Wheelbarrow - The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet 2002
4. Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston - Give 'em the Boot vol. 4 GR-OR
5. Breeders - Saints - Last Splash 1993
6. Shesus - In the France - Ruined it For You GR-RD
7. Idlewild - Mistake Pageant - 100 Broken Windows 2001
8. Rammstein - Engel - Sehnsucht 1998
9. April March - Charlatan - Chrominance Decoder 1999
10. Prince Paul & The Waikikis - Prince Paul's Bubble Party - The Spongebub Squarepants Movie OST GR-OR
11. Karp - Forget the Minions - Self Titled LP 1997
12. Letters to Cleo - Pizza Cutter - Wholesale Meats & Fish 1995
13. The Fall - Put Away - The Peel Session (27th November 1978) 1987
14. Driver Of The Year - Even The Devil Has Friends - Statik GR-OR
15. Cindy Lee Berryhill - Damn, I Wish I Was A Man - Who's Gonna Save the World? 1987
16. Nagg - Endless Sleep - Nagg GR-BR
17. Billy Bragg - Accident Waiting to Happen - Don't Try This At Home 1991
18. Coheed and Cambria - A Favor House Atlantic - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 2003
19. Futureheads - Alms - The Futureheads GR-OR
20. The Blacks - Call - Just Like Home 2000
21. The Cramps - Two Headed Sex Change - Look Mom No Head! 1991
22. Eyes Like Knives - Walk With Me - Slow Distractions GR-OR
23. Superchunk - Her Royal Fisticuffs - The Laughter Guns EP 1996
24. The Mars Volta - Intiatic ESP - De-loused in the Comatorium 2003
25. Handsome Boy Modeling School - The World's Gone Mad - White People GR-RD
26. Wiley - Pies - Treddin' on Thin Ice 2004
27. Coach Z - These People Try to Fade Me - Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits 2003
28. Dinosaur Jr. - Start Choppin - Where You Been 1990
29. Meat Puppets - Whirlpool - Forbidden Places 1991
30. The Gin Palace - Fragment - Kill-Grief EP 2004
31. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Phthisis - Of Natural History GR-RD

The Cramps and The Mars Volta were requested by people calling in to win the free Aqua Teen Hunger Force season 3 DVD. Julia told me to play April March, which turned out to be excellent. This was the debut of the "Corpselike Sleep of Stupidity", as it's no longer immediately post-jazz. It could still be the "Post-Post-Jazz Odyssey".

January 4

2005-01-04T10:14:00.000-08:00

1. The Fall - Words of Expectation - Kimble EP 1993
2. The Fall - Elves - The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall 1984
3. The Fall - 2 X 4 - The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall 1984
4. World/Inferno Friendship Society - Secret Service Freedom Fighting U.S.A. - Just the Best Party 2002
5. World/Inferno Friendship Society - Just the Best Party - Just the Best Party 2002
6. The Close - Diane Don't Dive - It's a Secret to Everybody GR-OR
7. Karp - Forget the Minions - Self Titled LP 1997
8. Heatmiser - Busted Lip - Cop and Speeder 1994
9. Carrier - Finally Over Water - Carrier GR-BL
10. Heavenly - Nous ne sommes pas des anges - Operation Heavenly 1996
11. Conelrad - Unite & Accessorize - A Final Dissolution GR-OR
12. Tsunami Bomb - Dawn on a Funeral Day - The Definitive Act GR-RD
13. Fur Cups For Teeth - Happy For, Proud Of - Allergic 2 Fur GR-OR
14. Cinemechanica - I'm Tired of Paul McCartney - 3-band split EP GR-RD
15. Treat Her Right - I Think She Likes Me - Treat Her Right 1986
16. The Trouble With Sweeney - The City Let Me - Fishtown Briefcase GR-OR
17. Futureheads - Decent Days and Nights - The Futureheads GR-OR
18. Public Image Ltd. - Fishing - Album 1986
19. K-Os - Man I Used To Be - Joyful Rebellion GR-OR
20. I Fichissimi - Let's Begin Again - Un Mondo Fichissimo 1995
21. Guided by Voices - Sheetkickers - Under the Bushes Under the Stars 1996
22. Leaving Trains - How Can I Explode? - Fuck 1987
23. Lost Sounds - Destructo Comet - Lost Sounds GR-RD
24. Vapors - Turning Japanese - New Clear Days 1980
25. Sunny Day Real Estate - Pillars - How it Feels to Be Something On 1998
26. Sea Monkeys - Time To Change - Pizza Face 1995
27. Morrissey - We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful - Your Arsenal 1992
28. Death From Above 1979 - Blood On Our Hands - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine GR-OR
29. Driver of the Year - Even the Devil Has Friends - Statik GR-OR
30. Dears - Lost in the Plot - No Cities Left GR-OR
31. Throwing Muses - Cry Baby Cry - Chains Changed EP 1987
32. Fiel Garvie - Outdoor Miner - A Houseguest's Wish: translations of Wire's "Outdoor Miner" GR-RD
33. Drive-By Truckers - Where the Devil Don't Stay - The Dirty South 2004
34. Snatches of Pink - Ones With The Black - Send in the Clowns 1988
35. A.R. Rahman (singers: Plassi & Vasundhara Das) - Dating - Boys 2003
36. Tobin Sprout - E's Navy Blue - Carnival Boy 1996
37. TV on the Radio - Dreams - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes 2004
38. Strokes - Hard To Explain - Is This It 2001
39. French Kicks - Close To Modern - One Time Bells 2002
40. Coach Z - These People Try To Fade Me - Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits 2003
41. Strong Bad - TROGDOR - Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits 2003
42. Squirrel Bait - The Final Chapter - Squirrel Bait 1985
43. Squirrel Bait - Hammering So Hard - Squirrel Bait 1985

This was a fill-in from 10 AM to 1 PM; the spring schedule hasn't started yet.

December 14

2004-12-17T11:00:00.000-08:00

1. Chalk Outline Party - Cobra Youth House - A Plan Lost In Dreams GR-RD
2. The Immortals - Theme from Mortal Kombat - Mortal Kombat: Annihilation OST 1998
3. Futureheads - The City is Here For You To Use - The Futureheads GR-OR
4. Mission of Burma - This is Not a Photograph - Signals, Calls, and Marches 1981
5. Wolfie - They Call Me Leaves - Wolfie, and the Coat and Hat 2000
6. Guided by Voices - Surgical Focus - Do the Collapse 1999
7. Lost Sounds - I Sit I Watch I Wait - Lost Sounds GR-RD
8. Tsunami Bomb - Dawn on a Funeral Day - The Definitive Act GR-RD
9. Funeral For a Friend - Rookie of the Year - Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation 2004
10. Distillers - The Young Crazed Peeling - Sing Sing Death House 2002
11. Brand New - I Will Play My Game Beneath the Spin Light - Deja Entendu 2003
12. Fifty Tons of Black Terror - Creeper's Reef - My Idle Hands 2000
13. The WPP - Let's See a Little Less Standing Around and a Little More Jumping Outta Cakes - He Has The Technology GR-RD
14. K-Os - Man I Used To Be - Joyful Rebellion GR-OR
15. Ultra Vivid Scene - The Mercy Seat - Ultra Vivid Scene 1988
16. Silver Jews - How to Rent a Room - The Natural Bridge 1996
17. Mecca Normal - Crimson Dragnet - Sitting on Snaps 1995
18. Thermals - No Culture Icons - The Thermals EP 2003
19. Small - B is For Bridge - Silver Gleaming Death Machine 1995
20. Archers of Loaf - Underdogs of Nipomo - Vee Vee 1995
21. Dealership - Endless Affair - Action/Adventure GR-BL
22. Cindy Lee Berryhill - Whatever Works - Who's Gonna Save the World? 1987
23. Shelter Belt - The Beeps - Rain Home GR-RD
24. AQUI - As the Blade Dips Down - The First Trip Out GR-RD
25. Flat Earth Society - O.P.E.N.E.R. - ISMS 2004
26. Guv'ner - Almond Roca - Hard For Me, Easy For You 1994
27. Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - She's On Drugs - Cult of the Basement 1990
28. Meat Puppets - No Longer Gone - Forbidden Places 1991
29. Hellogoodbye - Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn - Hellogoodbye EP 2004
30. They Might Be Giants - The Bells Are Ringing - Factory Showroom 1996

This week I tried to play more songs in rotation that weren't reviewed by me, particularly because it was finals week and I didn't bring in a bag of my own CDs and records. The Tsunami Bomb and Dealership songs were really good.

I tried to end the show with the first song I played this semester, but couldn't find the Too Much Joy album anywhere. It's probably in the big bin by Corey's computer. I also tried to nearly-finish the show by playing the Meat Puppets' "Whirlpool", but the back of Forbidden Places lists the songs in the wrong order. Oh well.

Brand New was a request from someone who originally requested Kissing Tigers. Mission of Burma, the Distillers, and the Mortal Kombat song were requested by Alyssa, who happened to be hanging around.

December 7

2004-12-13T08:14:00.000-08:00

Today's show was pre-empted by the big Pitt-Duquesne women's basketball game, which Pitt lost. Go Pitt!

Chart

2004-11-30T20:26:00.000-08:00

I thought after almost a semester the "chart" of most frequently played bands would reflect my actual musical preferences, but such is not the case. Also, I should play more local bands. I thought the Modey Lemon would be on here, but I've only played them once, and it wasn't even a song from their amazing new album.

1 Guided by Voices (16)
2 Smoosh (12)
3 Les Wampas (9)
4 The Fall (7)
4 The Faint
4 Clinic
7 Grand Buffet (6)
7 Smog
9 The Polysics (5)
9 Sahara Hotnights
9 Sunny Day Real Estate
9 Telepathic Butterflies
9 The Violettes
9 Gogol Bordello vs. Tamir Muskat
15 Death From Above 1979 (4)
15 Coheed and Cambria
15 Lyrics Born
15 50 Tons of Black Terror
15 The Real Tuesday Weld
15 Karp
15 The Ramones
15 The PeeChees

November 30

2004-11-30T19:38:00.000-08:00

1. Guided by Voices - Back to the Lake - Vniversal Trvths and Cycles 2002
2. Heidi Saperstein - Rhythm - Zara 2004
3. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - For Kate I Wait - The Doldrums GR-OR
4. The Fall - Theme From Sparta F.C. #2 - The Real New Fall LP 2004
5. Bikini Machine - Monkey Bum Bum Boogie - An Introduction to Bikini Machine GR-RD
6. Veruca Salt - Bodies - "Number One Blind" 10" 1995
7. The Beakers - Red Towel - Four Steps Toward a Cultural Revolution GR-OR
*8. Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand 2004
9. Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine GR-OR
10. Gang of Four - I Found That Essence Rare - Peel Sessions 1979
11. Polysics - Kaja Kaja Goo - Japan for Sale vol. 4 GR-RD
12. Beck - Satan Gave Me A Taco - Stereopathetic Soulmanure 1994
13. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Phthisis - Of Natural History GR-RD
14. Les Wampas - C.R.S. - Never Trust a Guy Who, After Having Been a Punk, is Now Playing Electro 2004
15. Fur Cups For Teeth - Mystery Train - Allergic 2 Fur 2004
16. Coheed and Cambria - Blood Red Summer - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 2003
17. Siberia - Virus - Harm's Way GR-??
18. Sahara Hotnights - Mind Over Matter - Kiss & Tell 2004
*19. Kill Hannah - Is Anyone Here Alive? - For Never & Ever 2003
**20. Salt N Pepa - Whatta Man - Very Necessary 1993
**21. The Winks - Snakes! - Slippers & Parasol 2004
22. Endless Mike and the Beagle Club - You're Watching a Lifetime Movie - Pieces of String Too Small to Use GR-OR
23. Hot Snakes - Lovebirds - Audit in Progress 2004
**24. Epoxies - Synthesised - "Clones" 7" 2002
**25. Snake River Conspiracy - Breed - Sonic Jihad 2000
26. Velocity Girl - Crazy Town - Copacetic 1992
**27. Danielson Famile - We Don't Say Shut Up - Fetch the Compass, Kids 2001
28. Les Georges Leningrad - Nebraska's Valentine - Sur les traces de Black Eskimo GR-RD
29. Guided by Voices - Strumpet Eye - Do the Collapse 1999
30. Shade - Only One Wish - Fedra GR-OR
**31. Asobi Seksu - Stay - Asobi Seksu 2004

Asterisked songs were chosen by Gabe. Doubly asterisked songs were chosen by Steff.

November 16

2004-11-16T19:29:00.000-08:00

1. Idlewild - Let Me Sleep (Next To The Mirror) - 100 Broken Windows 2000
2. Rocket From The Crypt - Young Livers - Scream, Dracula, Scream! 1995
3. Robert Pollard - Maggie Turns To Flies - Not In My Airforce 1996
4. Choo Choo La Rouge - Try Using Science - I'll Be Out All Night GR-RD
5. The Thermals - A Stare Like Yours - Fuckin' A 2004
6. Shade - Swervebaby - Fedra GR-OR
7. L'Arc-en-Ciel - Ready Steady Go - Japan for Sale vol. 4 GR-RD
8. Death From Above 1979 - Go Home, Get Down - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine GR-OR
9. A.M. Sixty - Bus - Big as the Sky GR-RD
"The Apparition" - by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
10. Futureheads - Decent Days and Nights - The Futureheads GR-OR
11. Franz Ferdinanrd - Jacqueline - Franz Ferdinand 2004
12. Cindy Lee Berryhill - She Had Everything - Who's Gonna Save the World? 1987
13. Saint Etienne - Lose That Girl - Travel Edition 1990-2005 GR-OR
14. Grand Buffet - The Old Folk Smashers - Cigarette Beach 2002
15. Grand Buffet - Oh My God You're Weird - Cigarette Beach 2002
16. Les Wampas - Vol à Voile - Never Trust a Guy Who, After Having Been a Punk, is Now Playing Electro 2004
17. God is My Co-Pilot - Thunder, Perfect Mind - I Am Not This Body 1992
18. God is My Co-Pilot - Invisible Rocket - I Am Not This Body 1992
19. Coheed and Cambria - Cuts Marked in the March of Men - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 2003
20. Ulysses - Glacier - .010 GR-RD
21. A.R. Rahman (singers: Plassi & Vasundhara Das) - Dating - Boys 2003
22. Mates of State - Starman - All Day GR-RD
"Breadfruit" - by Philip Larkin
23. Party of Helicopters - Mt. Forever - Mt. Forever 2000
24. The Mae Shi - Takona the Dolphin is AWOL - Terrorbird 2004
25. Sons and Daughters - Broken Bones - Love the Cup GR-RD
26. Anti-Flag - When You Don't Control Your Government, People Want To Kill You - The Terror State 2003
27. Nightwish - Planet Hell - Once METAL
28. Impious - Infernique - Hellucination METAL
29. DD Smash - Whaling - Nature's Best: New Zealand's Top 30 Songs of All-Time 1984
30. Victory at Sea - Games - Memories Fade GR-OR
31. Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - She's On Drugs - Cult of the Basement 1990
32. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Phthisis - Of Natural History GR-RD
33. Conelrad - Moulage - A Final Dissolution METAL
34. Menomena - The Late Great Libido - I Am The Fun Blame Monster 2003
35. Aloha - You've Escaped - Here Comes Everyone GR-OR
36. The Fucking Am - Powerpoint - Gold GR-BL
37. God is My Co-Pilot - Steal Yr GF - The Best Of 1997
38. K-Os - Crabbuckit - Joyful Rebellion GR-OR
39. The Shins - They'll Soon Discover - The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: Original Soundtrack GR-OR
40. Smoosh - Bottlenose - She Like Electric GR-OR
41. Smoosh - It's Not Your Day To Shine - She Like Electric GR-OR
42. Au Pairs - Love Song - Playing With a Different Sex 1981
43. Milwaukees - Angel With a Knife - Angel With a Knife GR-RD
44. Roma - Chalk Dust - Surrender On Demand 2001
45. Carrier - Finally Over Water - Carrier GR-BL
46. Radiohead - You and Whose Army? - Amnesiac 2001
47. Dismal Euphony - Plasma Pool - Python Zero 2001

Steph was sick today so I stayed until 10 PM. Aloha was a request (from Steph).

This show went very well, all upbeat songs mostly.

November 9

2004-11-09T18:33:00.000-08:00

1. Scuffy Dogs - Proud Mary - Scuffy Dogs 1997
2. Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Part of Town - J.U.F. 2004
3. Endless Mike and the Beagle Club - Cara Sera Sera - Pieces of String Too Small to Use GR-OR
4. J Church - Overconfident - Society is a Carnivorous Flower GR-OR
5. Patti Smith - Stride of the Mind - Trampin' 2004
6. Polysics - Kaja Kaja Goo - Japan for Sale vol. 4 GR-RD
7. Smog - Real Live Dress - The Manta Rays of Time 2000
8. Fat Day - Cosas Buenas Baratas - Unf! Unf! 2004
9. Fat Day - Great Satan - Unf! Unf! 2004
10. Kimya Dawson - Lullaby for the Taken - Hidden Vagenda GR-BL
11. Superchunk - Water Wings - Foolish 1994
12. Death From Above 1979 - Blood On Our Hands - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine GR-OR
13. Sea Monkeys - Oh No, I'm Sammy Petrillo! - "Nipseyland" 7" 1991
14. Sunny Day Real Estate - Snibe - The Rising Tide 2000
15. Nirvana - Floyd the Barber - Bleach 1989
16. Enon - Rubber Car - Believo! 2000
17. Split Enz - I See Red - Nature's Best: New Zealand's Top 30 Songs of All-Time 1979
18. Aberfeldy - Love is an Arrow - Young Forever GR-RD
19. Smoosh - It's Cold - She Like Electric GR-OR
20. Billy Bragg - Accident Waiting To Happen - Don't Try This At Home 1991
21. Wiley - Pies - Treddin' on Thin Ice GR-OR
22. The Faint - Agenda Suicide - Danse Macabre 2001
23. Blonde Redhead - Magic Mountain - Misery is a Butterfly 2004
24. Reverend Glasseye and His Wooden Legs! - Midnight Cabaret - Black River Falls 2002
25. The Fall - Shoulder Pads version 1 - The Domesday Pay-Off 1987
26. Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage - Danger! High Voltage 2003
27. AC/DC - Shake Your Foundations - Who Made Who 1976
28. Q and Not U - Wet Work - Power GR-OR
29. Lyrics Born - Love Me So Bad - Later That Day GR-RD
30. Sons and Daughters - Johnny Cash - Love the Cup GR-RD
31. The Modey Lemon - Coffin Talk - House on the Hill 2000
32. Les Savy Fav - Hide Me From Next February - Rome 2000
33. Green Day - Holiday - American Idiot GR-BL
34. Kool Keith - The Orchestrators - Diesel Truckers GR-RD

Blonde Redhead was a request. Endless Mike and the Beagle Club, Kimya Dawson, Aberfeldy, Reverend Glasseye, Electric Six, AC/DC, Les Savy Fav, and Green Day were chosen by Steff and Allison the Trainee.