WFMU: Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from January 19, 2023

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from January 19, 2023

Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.

Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.

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January 19, 2023: Ep. 81 is 1981... Happy 2023!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Sounds of the Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds of the Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016
CBS News Cast 1981	Walkmans Vs Ghettoblasters	CBS News	No Label	1981
The Tom And Marty Band	New Wave Twist	New Wave Twist 7"	Artifacts Records	1981	Formed in 1980, The Tom and Marty Band have always referred to their act as "Electronic Folk Music" and claim to have been inspired by outer space, film, science, myth, love, nature, children and the sounds of the world around them. Their promised return to the stage is always imminent. Mutant Sounds blog said, "The dark-tinged synthy bleep 'n' splut-scapes that The Tom & Marty Band specialize in are cheap, grotty and strangely gripping..." Tom Campagnoli: Vocals, clarinet, Hohner Bass2 keyboard preamped through a Wollensack reel to reel tape machine running in record mode with no tape, then plugged via the Wollensack's 'speaker out' to a Silvertone amp, Pig Nose amp feedback, toy organ, drum machine, flute, bells, large coffee can Marty McCavitt: Vocals, Micromoog synthesizer and acoustic string instruments both plugged into a Crate guitar amp with a 12-inch speaker, Hohner Pianet-T preamped through a Barcus-Berry contact mic, Standard Preamp volume & tone control box Model 1330.	0:01:35 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Joris Verlinde	Shaddap Your Face - Marjolene - Bimble	Accordeon Festival V. 166	D & V	2022	"Shaddap You Face" is a novelty song written and performed by Joe Dolce (released under the name Joe Dolce Music Theatre) about a rebellious Italian boy. Dolce, who is Italian-American, said he wrote "Shaddap You Face" based on memories of his childhood, when his family members would speak in broken English. "Shaddap You Face" went to number one for eight weeks on the Australia Kent Music Report in 1980. It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart on 21 February 1981 and stayed there for three weeks until 8 March 1981, keeping Ultravox's single "Vienna" out of the top spot throughout. The song became the 15th biggest hit of 1981 in the UK. In the US, the song peaked at number 53 in 1981 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 43 on the Cash Box Top 100. In the Canadian province of Quebec, "Shaddap You Face" reached number one for twelve weeks.	0:03:18 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Smooth Jazz All Stars	Super Freak	Rick James Smooth Jazz Tribute			Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song number 153 in its "Best Songs of All Time" poll. James apparently was not particularly excited about the song, but reputedly wanted to have something on the album that "white folks could dance to."	0:06:22 (Pop-up)
Black Flag	Spray Paint "Spray Paint" by "Black Flag"	Damaged	SST	1981	While the album did not gain much attention from the general press on its original release, the album retrospectively has been given critical acclaim and has been cited as one of the most important hardcore punk albums ever released. Rolling Stone in their retrospective review says that "Black Flag lived up to it, defining L.A. hardcore punk with violent guitar and the pissed-off scream of Henry Rollins, especially on "TV Party" and "Rise Above." Punks still listen to Damaged, and parents still hate it."	0:08:11 (Pop-up)
Minor Threat	Straight Edge - Demo	First Demo Tape	Discord Records	1981 / 2003	Along with the fellow Washington, D.C. hardcore band Bad Brains and California band Black Flag, Minor Threat set the standard for many hardcore punk bands in the 1980s and 1990s. All of Minor Threat's recordings were released on MacKaye's and Nelson's own label, Dischord Records. The Minor Threat EP and their only full-length studio album Out of Step have received a number of accolades and are cited as landmarks of the hardcore punk genre. The lyrics of the song relay MacKaye's first-person perspective of his personal choice of abstinence from alcohol and other drugs, a novel ideology for rock musicians which initially found a small but dedicated following. Other prominent groups that subsequently advocated the straight edge stance include SS Decontrol and 7 Seconds. Although the original song was not written as a manifesto or a "set of rules," many later bands inspired by this idea used it as such, and over the years since its release, the song and the term "straight edge" became the zeitgeist for an entire subculture, and indeed the basis for a paradigm shift that has persisted and grown consistently throughout the world.	0:08:48 (Pop-up)
Plasmatics	Fast Food Service "Fast Food Service" by "Plasmatics"	Beyond The Valley of 1984	Stiff America	1981	The Plasmatics were an American punk rock, hardcore punk and heavy metal band formed by Rod Swenson and Wendy O. Williams in New York City in 1977. They were a controversial group known for chaotic, destructive live shows and outrageous theatrics. These included chainsawing guitars, destroying speaker cabinets, sledgehammering television sets and blowing up automobiles live on stage. Williams was arrested in Milwaukee by the Milwaukee Police before being charged with public indecency. n January 1981, Williams' stage performance in Milwaukee led to her arrest on charges of indecency after she reportedly "simulated masturbation with a sledge hammer in front of an audience" On April 6, 1998, Williams shot herself near her home in Storrs, Connecticut. She had attempted to kill herself twice in the years leading up to her death; allegedly she had also been struggling with deep depression. One of Plasmatic's greatest performances is an appearance on SCTV alongside John Candy featuring a skit "The Fishin' Musician" that featured the band hanging out with Gil Fisher at Scuttlebutt lodge, doing some skydiving into the woods, taking down a gorilla, and a black tie dinner in the woods....	0:09:33 (Pop-up)
Suburban Lawns	Unable "Unable" by "Suburban Lawns"	Suburban Lawns	IRS Records	1981	Suburban Lawns: They weren’t really a punk band, nor were they really a new wave band. Most of their songs were a minute and a half long and not particularly compositionally complicated. And when it came to Los Angeles, they wrote about it from the margins, freeways, and from a deep anger towards the superficial quality of Hollywood. They wrote about West Coast disaffection not from the vantage point of punk rock but from something more feral and strange. This record changed my life. From hearing "Janitor" and "Unable" across the airwaves, I saw that music...and women in music could be different. Su Tissue is an inspiration and a mystery...	0:10:58 (Pop-up)
Dow Jones and the Industrials	Ladies With Appliances	Can't Stand The Midwest 1979-1981	Family Vinyard	1981 / 2016	The use of the keyboard, and the band's flirtation with electronic sounds, meant that Dow Jones and the Industrials hinted towards the post-punk sound of bands that would follow them. In 1981, the band's track "Ladies With Appliances" was featured on the Red Snerts compilation released by Gulcher Records. By this time, Chris Clark had left, to be replaced by Jenny Sweeny on bass. Brad Garton had also left the group. He appeared as "Mr. Science" on the compilation, contributing a track entitled "Mr. Science".	0:12:35 (Pop-up)
E-In Brino	Indianapolis "Indianapolis" by "E-In Brino"	Various: Red Snerts The Sound of Gulcher	Gulcher Records	1981	Members: Paul Mahern, Randy Ochsenrider, Rich Ochsenrider, Marvin P. Goldstein. Their name is marvellous. They were from the midwest. Their song is the shit. I wish there was more to say, but they have sadly, disappeared save this Red Snerts comp and one other comp release....	0:14:57 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The New Edition	Bette Davis Eyes "Bette Davis Eyes" by "The New Edition"	Muzak (Music Of The 80's)	Muzak Archives	2017	"Bette Davis Eyes" is a song written and composed by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon in 1974. It was originally recorded by DeShannon in that year for her album New Arrangement but it was made popular by American singer Kim Carnes in 1981 when it spent nine non-consecutive weeks on top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 It won "Song Of The Year" at the Grammys. According to producer Val Garay, the original demo of the tune that was brought to him sounded like "a Leon Russell track, with this beer-barrel polka piano part." Actress Bette Davis was 73 years old when Kim Carnes's version became a hit. She wrote letters to Carnes, Weiss, and DeShannon to thank all three of them for making her "a part of modern times" and stated that her grandson now looked up to her. After their Grammy wins, Davis sent them roses as well.	0:18:15 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The New Edition	Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)	Muzak (Music Of The 80's)	Muzak Archives	2017	This is one of my karaoke go-to songs. Performed by Christopher Cross, the song was written in collaboration between Cross, pop music composer Burt Bacharach, and Bacharach's frequent writing partner and then-wife Carole Bayer Sager. The song won the 1981 Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song...	0:20:40 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Piano Dreamers	Private Eyes "Private Eyes" by "Piano Dreamers"	Piano Dreamers Perform Hall & Oates (Instrumental)	CC Entertainment	2019	"Private Eyes" is a 1981 single by Hall & Oates and the title track from their album of the same name. The song was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for two weeks, from November 7 through November 20, 1981.	0:23:21 (Pop-up)
Yello Magic Orhestra	Key "Key" by "Yello Magic Orhestra"	Technodelic	Alfa	1981	Technodelic is the fifth studio album by Yellow Magic Orchestra, released in 1981. The album is notable for its experimental approach and heavy use of digital samplers which were not commonly used until the mid-to-late 1980s, resulting in a more minimalist and avant-garde sound compared to their previous work. It is considered the first released album to feature mostly samples and loops, influencing the heavy use of sampling and looping in popular music. Most of the sampling was made with an LMD-649, a custom-built digital sampler developed by Toshiba-EMI engineer Kenji Murata. The album also features use of speech through a two-way radio, a prepared piano, a Roland TR-808 drum machine (previously used in BGM), and Prophet-5 synthesizers and featured Gamelan and found factory sounds. Drummer and lead vocalist Yukihiro Takahashi passed away this past week. His contribution to the music of the past half century are formidable in its influence. He will be missed.	0:26:13 (Pop-up)
Kraftwerk	Computer World "Computer World" by "Kraftwerk"	Computerwelt	Kling Klang	1981	Meanwhile...in Germany...Kraftwerk release their eighth studio album. Computerwelt is a futuristic concept album heralding the the presence of computer technology in every day life. Featuring themes such as home computers and digital communication, the album has been seen as both a celebration of computer technology as well as a warning about its potential to exert power on society with social control and digital surveillance. Despite its theme, the production of the album was completely analogue and did not involve any computer technology. This album had a direct influence on the emerging Detroit Electro scene, with Afrika Bambaata and Cybotron taking samples and musical cues....	0:30:48 (Pop-up)
Cybotron	Alleys Of Your Mind "Alleys Of Your Mind" by "Cybotron"	Alleys Of Your Mind single	Deep Space Records	1981	Although generally considered electro, Cybotron was also part of the early evolution of techno music. Cybotron was the first musical outlet of techno co-originator Juan Atkins, and the group's unique combination of musical influences, boldly experimental aesthetic and Afro-futurist philosophy became the underpinnings of Detroit Techno. Cybotron used a synth-dominated sound, paired with a drum machine, whose rhythms were similar to those emerging from New York at the same time. This was reflected in their first single, “Alleys of Your Mind,” which was released on their own Deep Space label and was playlisted by The Electrifyin’ Mojo in 1981. It became a local hit in Detroit, where it sold about 15,000 copies. Their next two singles, “Cosmic Cars” and “Clear” had even more success, which led to them being signed by Fantasy, a label located in Berkeley, California. Cybotron’s music worked to mirror the atmosphere of economic desperation and alienation in Detroit in the 1980s. Songs like “Alleys of Your Mind” and “Techno City” were specifically aimed to mirror the city, using technology to capture this spirit. Cybotron used subliminal funk pulsing amidst their crisp-and-dry programmed beats to truly reflect the dying auto industry in Detroit.	0:33:55 (Pop-up)
Grauzone	Wütendes Glas "Wütendes Glas" by "Grauzone"	Grauzone	Welt-Records	1981	The quality of “coldness” informed many artistic agendas back in 1981. Living up to the obscure nature of their name, Grauzone played their first gig under the equally mauve moniker of XXX, made one album and three singles and played ten gigs in their lifetime. At these shows, they often turned their backs to the audience and used black lights to play in near darkness. They also gave a handful of passive-aggressive interviews to the press. Their artwork revelled in creating a sense of ambiguity and a predilection for leaving semi-obscure visual references. To top it all they split up before ever playing outside of their native country. All “very” 1981.	0:37:33 (Pop-up)
Visage	Frequency 7 "Frequency 7" by "Visage"	Visage	Polydor	1981	Ok, I'm cheating a bit here and not playing the dance version because I enjoy the vocals...but this was a fantastically warped song that disproved the idea the Blitz Kids and New Romantics were all floof and lace trimmed sleeves collars. This version has teeth, with its sawtooth bassline and disaffected vocodered vocals paired with howling exhortations to "face the future" ...this is a night about to skid sideways on a dexedrine fuelled dancefloor covered in smeared makeup.	0:40:55 (Pop-up)
Depeche Mode	Boys Say Go! "Boys Say Go!" by "Depeche Mode"	Speak & Spell	Mute	1981	Depeche Mode, originally formed by the lineup of Gahan, Gore, Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke, released their debut album Speak & Spell in 1981. Of course, this is not the Depeche Mode we have come to know in later years: The songs on this album were written by Vince Clarke, who would shortly after leave the group and find fame with Yaz and Erasure. And these, of course, are the early days of synth-pop: These songs are building-block simple, bleepy and discoid, and the band sounds as gawky and adolescent as Dave Gahan looked. There’s something terrific in hearing this from a distance, not as stylish futurism (not anymore) but as the happy noises of teenagers who believed it to be stylish futurism-- and with a charming earnestness. “Happy” because of, well, Vince Clarke, whose work with Erasure is a testament to both his love of joyous disco-pop and his ability to pack it full to bursting with emotion.	0:44:01 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Mariachis	I Love Rock N' Roll	Mexican Party	Stab Productions	2014	Joan Jett saw the Arrows perform "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" on their weekly UK television series Arrows while she was touring England with the Runaways in 1976. She first recorded the song in 1979 with two of the Sex Pistols, Steve Jones and Paul Cook. This first version was released on vinyl in 1979 on Vertigo records as a B-side to "You Don't Own Me". In 1981, Jett re-recorded the song, this time with her band, the Blackhearts. This recording became a US Billboard Hot 100 number-one single for seven weeks, being the only one for the band.	0:47:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Lost Fingers	Tom Sawyer "Tom Sawyer" by "The Lost Fingers"	Gypsy Kameleon	Tacca Musique	2010	Recorded October–November 1980 Studio Le Studio, Morin-Heights, Quebec Genre Progressive rockhard rock Length 4:33 Label Mercury Songwriter(s) RushPye Dubois Producer(s) RushTerry Brown "Tom Sawyer" is a song by Canadian rock band Rush, originally released on their 1981 album Moving Pictures as its opener. Drummer Neil Peart says of the song "Tom Sawyer was a collaboration between myself and Pye Dubois, an excellent lyricist who wrote the lyrics for Max Webster. His original lyrics were kind of a portrait of a modern day rebel, a free-spirited individualist striding through the world wide-eyed and purposeful. I added the themes of reconciling the boy and man in myself, and the difference between what people are and what others perceive them to be—namely me, I guess."	0:50:26 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Niu Mariachi	Eye Of The Tiger "Eye Of The Tiger" by "Niu Mariachi"	Niu Mariachi Rock-Pop	Multimusic S.A	2015	Though it hit peak popularity in 1982 as the theme for the movie Rocky, Eye Of The Tiger promo 7" were circulating in 1981. I love Survivor because they have sued every Republican candidate who has tried to use it as their campaign song without consent...	0:53:54 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Leave the Capitol "Leave the Capitol" by "The Fall"	Slates	Rough Trade	1981	My favourite song? Probably my favourite. Deceptively simple but layered with detail & surprises. Listen repeatedly through decades. It will reward you in its depth, width & pith. "Slates is an EP by the Fall, released on 27 April 1981 by Rough Trade Records. It was one of singer Mark E. Smith's favourite Fall releases, and he claimed it was aimed at "people who didn't buy records. Slates was released on 27 April 1981. Containing six tracks and pressed onto 10" vinyl, it was eligible for neither the single nor album charts, being too long for the former and too short for the latter. It was, however, included in the UK Independent Singles chart, where it reached No. 3. The six tracks include "Fit and Working Again", in which Smith comments on the working class work-ethic, and compares his state of mind to that of boxer Alan Minter after taking LSD, and "Leave the Capitol", which was seen as summing up Smith's negative view of London. The vinyl has etched on it "Keep shtum. Plagiarism infects the land"" //////// " Mark E. Smith hates London, although in the sleeve notes for Slates the following note appears: "Any capital. Polite no-manners plus barman of the year claimants = quick exit." On the other hand, this song could be taken as a horror tale rather than a straightforward slag on London. As for the spelling, "capitol" originally referred to the temple to Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, or the hill itself, and is probably chosen to highlight the Roman history of London. MartinM writes on the Fall Online Forum, in response to a question about the meaning of the exhortation in the title of the song: Because "capital" means more than London: it's a reference to the head (as in, "capital punishment" - your head is deprived of life). So I always heard the song as both anti-London and anti-logic or anti-habit: get out of the confines of metropolitan thought imposed by our barren time modelled on Roman ideals (straight roads, worship of armed force), and return to older, instinctive ways of thought and imagination. That's why the "London" voice has always laughed at the great god - and the Scot, the Celt, the voice from marginal places "didnae": in those zones "Pan" is a living reality. Follow it, and you will indeed go "straight home." Arthur Machen, the author of "The Great God Pan," seems to be an important influence on this song. Mark E. Smith once declared, “MR James is good, but Machen's fucking brilliant," and at one point he was reportedly a dues-paying member of Friends of Arthur Machen (FOAM). In this connection Joanna Wargen's essay "All Eyes are On the City: Arthur Machen's Ethnographic Vision of London," which MES may have been familiar with, is quite suggestive..." More thoughts on this song on The Annotated Fall (Leave The Capitol	0:58:20 (Pop-up)
R.E.M.	Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone Single)	Radio Free Europe 7"	Hib Tone Records / I.R.S.	1981	"Recorded spring 1981, this is the original track released as Hib Tone 45 in July 1981." ""Radio Free Europe" is the debut single by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1981 on the short-lived independent record label Hib-Tone. The song features "what were to become the trademark unintelligible lyrics which have distinguished R.E.M.'s work ever since." The single received critical acclaim, and its success earned the band a record deal with I.R.S. Records. R.E.M. re-recorded the song for their 1983 debut album Murmur. The re-recording for I.R.S. became the group's first charting single... In 2010, it was added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry for setting "the pattern for later indie rock releases by breaking through on college radio in the face of mainstream radio's general indifference." "The group traveled to Drive-In Studios in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to record some songs with producer Mitch Easter, who was a member of the band Let's Active. The band recorded "Radio Free Europe", "Sitting Still", and the instrumental song "White Tornado", which were placed on a promotional cassette tape. The band sent out 400 copies, one of which was received by Atlanta law student Jonny Hibbert. Hibbert offered to release "Radio Free Europe" and "Sitting Still" as a one-off 7" vinyl single with the understanding that he would own the publishing rights for both songs; the band agreed to his terms. However, Hibbert felt the recording was unsatisfactory, and oversaw a remix. Easter said he found the presence of Hibbert "distracting" and added, "He came into my studio and it was like, now the big city guy is going to do it right. We mixed the song for about 12 hours and really, there wasn't enough equipment to warrant more than 45 minutes." The final mastering of the song disappointed the band. Guitarist Peter Buck, who described the recording years later as "muddy and hi-end", expressed his displeasure by breaking a copy of the finished single and nailing it to his wall. However, Buck admitted that "there's something to be said for the original sort of murky feeling for [the original recording]"."R.E.M. signed to I.R.S. Records in 1982. I.R.S. asked R.E.M. to re-record "Radio Free Europe" in 1983 for their debut album, Murmur.] The band agreed, because they had felt that they'd improved significantly since the original 1981 sessions. The 1983 version has some slightly different lyrics and a slower tempo, and is not as well-liked by the band as the original; indeed, the liner notes for the 1988 compilation album Eponymous (on which the original Hib-Tone version is featured) stated that "Mike and Jefferson think this one [referring to the Hib-Tone version] crushes the other one like a grape." Peter Buck has also stated that he "[didn't] think we captured it the way we did on the single." Original producer Mitch Easter also commented on the re-recording, saying it was "more pro, but a little too sedate""	1:02:37 (Pop-up)
The Clean	Point That Thing Somewhere Else	Boodle Boodle Boodle	Flying Nun / Merge	1981	Seminal label Flying Nun... Chris Knox lends 4-Track, helps record, does the cover art, etc. etc. RIP David Kilgour (d.2022) "Boodle Boodle Boodle is a 12" EP by New Zealand band The Clean. Released by Flying Nun Records in 1981, it is one of the more important releases in the Dunedin sound genre. The EP reached number four in the New Zealand music charts, despite being listed in the singles chart (New Zealand has never had a separate EP chart), and stayed in the top 20 for nearly six months. //////// As Flying Nun's first major success, it was largely responsible for the label's continued survival and the start of its growth into New Zealand's most important independent label. //////// Several of the songs on the EP became very popular parts of The Clean's repertoire, with "Anything Could Happen" in particular becoming one of their trademark songs. //////// Chris Knox drew the EP's cover, which was based on a promotional photo of the three band members in a bathtub."	1:06:23 (Pop-up)
Wipers	When It's Over "When It's Over" by "Wipers"	Youth Of America	Park Avenue Records	1981	"Wipers was a punk rock band formed in Portland, Oregon, in 1977 by guitarist and vocalist Greg Sage, along with drummer Sam Henry and bassist Dave Koupal. The group's tight song structure and use of heavy distortion were hailed as extremely influential by numerous critics and musicians. They are also considered to be the first Pacific Northwest punk band. //////// Sage's intense interest in music began with cutting records at home as an adolescent. "I was very lucky to have my own professional record cutting lathe when I was in 7th grade due to my father being involved in the broadcast industry. I would cut records for friends at school of songs off the radio and learned the art of record making long before learning to play music. //////// Inspired by Jimi Hendrix, Sage soon picked up the guitar, and in 1969, at age 17, he played on an eponymous album by professional wrestler Beauregarde. //////// Sage founded Wipers in Portland in 1977 along with drummer Henry and bassist Koupal, originally just as a recording project. The plan was to record 15 albums in 10 years without touring or promotion. Sage thought that the mystique built from the lack of playing traditional rock 'n' roll would make people listen to their recordings much deeper with only their imagination to go by. He thought it would be easy to avoid press, shows, pictures and interviews. He looked at music as art rather than entertainment; he thought music was personal to the listener rather than a commodity. //////// "With the new rhythm section of bassist Brad Davidson and drummer Brad Naish (ex-Stiphnoyds), Wipers recorded a second album for Park Avenue, the last for that label. Youth of America, released in 1981, contrasted with the short/fast punk songs of the time. According to Sage, this change of pace was a reaction against the punk trend of releasing short songs. The album was, according to Sage, not well received in the United States at the time of its release, though it did fare better in Europe. Along with other Wipers records, Youth of America came to be acknowledged as an important album in the development of American underground and independent rock movements of the early 80s... //////// "Sage later remarked on their initial reception: "We weren't even really a punk band. See, we were even farther out in left field than the punk movement because we didn't even wish to be classified, and that was kind of a new territory. ... When we put out Is This Real? ... it definitely did not fit in; none of our records did. Then nine, ten years later people are saying: 'Yeah, it's the punk classic of the '80s'""	1:11:35 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Clean	Point That Thing Somewhere Else	Boodle Boodle Boodle	Flying Nun / Merge	1981	Let's hear it again under the voice, shall we?	1:18:08 (Pop-up)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark	Georgia	Architecture & Morality	Dindisc	1981	Architecture & Morality is the third studio album by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), released on 6 November 1981 by Dindisc. Inspired by religious music, the group sought to broaden their musical palette by utilising elaborate choral samples, the Mellotron, and other new instruments to create a more naturalistic, emotive sound. ccording to the album's credits, its title was suggested to the band by Martha Ladly (formerly of Martha and the Muffins), who had read the 1977 book Morality and Architecture by David Watkin.McCluskey felt the title Architecture & Morality represented the interplay between the human and mechanical aspects of OMD: "We had the 'architecture', which was the technology, the drum machines, the rigid playing, the attempt to break out of the box by playing specifically crafted sounds, and the 'morality', the organic, the human, the emotional touch, which we brought naturally."	1:28:12 (Pop-up)
Altered Images	I Could Be Happy "I Could Be Happy" by "Altered Images"	I Could Be Happy 7"	Epic	1981	When Altered Images write a single...THEY WRITE A SINGLE. This bouncy yet melancholic romp is the blueprint for cutesy girlies pining over their hight school crush. And I was one of those girls. From Pinky Blue, their second album. he album reached No. 12 on the UK Albums Chart, while the singles charted well, with "I Could Be Happy" peaking at No. 7	1:31:29 (Pop-up)
Toni Basil	Mickey "Mickey" by "Toni Basil"	Word of Mouth			In part thanks to MTV and largely due to the 50's ish retro vibe and that undeniable beat, Mickey is a tune burned into everyone's minds...like it or not. The song was originally performed by British pop group Racey, with the title "Kitty", and was included on their debut studio album Smash and Grab in 1979. The original Racey song did not include the "Oh Mickey, you're so fine" chant, which Basil added. For years, it was rumored that the name was changed to Mickey because Basil developed a crush on the Monkees' drummer and lead vocalist Micky Dolenz, after meeting him on the set of their movie, Head, for which she was the choreographer. However, that claim has been denied by Basil, who has said that she "didn't really know Micky at all".	1:34:59 (Pop-up)
The Specials	Ghost Town "Ghost Town" by "The Specials"	Ghost Town / Why? / Friday Night, Saturday Morning	Two Tone Records	1981	The final release of the Specials and one that captures the essence of their sound and political leanings. Evoking themes of urban decay, deindustrialisation, unemployment and violence in inner cities, the song is remembered for being a hit at the same time as riots were occurring in British cities. In 2002 Jerry Dammers told The Guardian, "You travelled from town to town and what was happening was terrible. In Liverpool, all the shops were shuttered up, everything was closing down ... We could actually see it by touring around. You could see that frustration and anger in the audience. In Glasgow, there were these little old ladies on the streets selling all their household goods, their cups and saucers. It was unbelievable. It was clear that something was very, very wrong."The song was hailed by the contemporary UK music press as a major piece of popular social commentary, and was named the "Single of the Year" in 1981. One of the greatest swan songs of the ages...	1:39:05 (Pop-up)
Madness	Shut Up "Shut Up" by "Madness"	7	Stiff Records	1981	After laying waste to the charts with two albums of barmy, happy ska, Madness’s third studio album ‘7’ embraced a more wide-ranging pop sound, signalled by the moody disposition of its lead single ‘Grey Day’ and the more orthodox vocal performances from Suggs. Perhaps it was Thatcher’s reign taking full effect, but Seven’s bleak and often bland portrait of the English nation came as quite a shock. After the bright, attractive pop/ska music that had initially made the group’s name, this sudden thirst for grim lyrics with a wishy-washy backdrop made for a very puzzling listen for many fans. But biting social commentary was something Madness didn't shy away from, despite their cheeky delivery. The arrangement on this tune in particular is fantastic, complex and a testament to their prowess as musicians...often overlooked and underrated. One of my favourite Madness tunes ever.	1:42:44 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Steel Drum Island	The Tide Is HIgh	Steel Drum Island Vol. 12 Montego Bay Edition	Tropical Music International	2002	Although released in 1980, The Tide Is High by Blondie hit #1 on the Billboard charts in January 1981. "The Tide Is High" is a 1967 rocksteady song written by John Holt, originally produced by Duke Reid and performed by the Jamaican group the Paragons, with Holt as lead singer.	1:46:50 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Imagining Sound Orchestra	Under Pressure	Instrumentales Maravillosos	Megamusic	2020	Following Bowie's death in 2016, Jack Hamilton of Slate called "Under Pressure" a "masterpiece" and is a reminder to the public that Bowie could be "wonderfully, powerfully human." Jack Whatley wrote for Far Out Magazine "with all the animosity, wine, cocaine, and vocal battles, which helped come together to birth the song, what remains is an incredibly powerful and poignant pop song that we will likely not see matched in our lifetimes. The two juggernauts of Freddie Mercury and David Bowie collide here with perfect and enriching precision." It has one of the most instantly recognizable basslines in history. Vanilla Ice certainly would agree!	1:50:52 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Steel Drum Island	The Tide Is HIgh	Steel Drum Island Vol. 12 Montego Bay Edition	Tropical Music International	2002	Let's hear it again, shall we?	1:54:42 (Pop-up)
To The Finland Station	Domino Theory	Optimism / Reject (UK D-I-Y Punk and Post-Punk 1977-1981) (v/a)	Cherry Red	1981 / 1982 / 2019	Recorded in 1981, the official release spilled into Jan 1982 -- "Home made paper sleeve printed by Islington Community Press? Check. Record stapled inside sleeve? Check. Full and transparent list of costs associated with record? Check. A statement eulogising the independent ethos? Check. Links for information on cooperatives and “Yankee Crimes”? Check. An address for the El Salvador Solidarity campaign? Check. A slagging off of national radio and a list of pirate radio stations where you might get to hear this record? Check. A list of dialectical statements? Check. Grainy photos of the band and cartoons illustrating the political points? Check. If ever there was a record in my collection which sums up the DIY ethic of the early eighties, this is it. But what a record! Everything about this record is political from the name of the band to the method of the record’s production to the content of the song.The band’s name was taken from the book of the same name by Edmund Wilson which traced socialism from the French Revolution to the arrival of Lenin at the Finland Station in St Petersberg. The title of the song refers to the idea that if one country falls to communism then surrounding countries are susceptible and will follow in a domino effect. The central idea behind this song is that America is using this theory to justify their attempts to destabilise the government in El Salvador. From the very first words of the song (“Russian troops on the Polish border”) we realise we are unlikely to be troubled by anybody’s baby leaving them. By the second verse, Julian MacQueen is having such difficulty fitting the words into the structure of the song we wonder whether Richey Manic has had a hand in the lyrics. By the third verse (“The junta and the westernised elite / Is bound together with US forces), we’re left wondering how this was ever replicated on stage. There is both optimism (“I see final victory / Imperialism will be defeated”) and anger (“US interest/ Shoot people like cattle/ Counter insurgency / Euphemism for torture”). The song ends with the then current situation in El Salvador. The US had denied any involvement in trying to destabilise the newly installed Socialist government but the song rightly concludes (and history proved them right) “American arms in El Salvador.” Now all this earnestness in the lyrics may lead you to believe that the song itself is going to be ponderous. Nothing could be further from the truth. The song rattles along at a furious paste with fantastic backing vocals which recall women yodelling in the Appalachians (honestly better than it sounds). Julian MacQueen’s vocal is right out front and gloriously articulated. The tune itself is one which will linger in the memory, much like the atrocities committed by US forces from Vietnam to El Salvador to Afghanistan. All pop is political but some pop is more political than others. Any fan of early Manics should love this. The crime is that hardly anyone was listening then and they’re certainly not listening now. Here’s a link so you can hear it for yourselves: "	1:59:46 (Pop-up)
The Ex	Weapons for El Salvador "Weapons for El Salvador" by "The Ex"	War Is Over (Weapons For El Salvador)	Betaal Niet Meer Dan f 3,50 !!! Records B.V. – EX 006	1981	Recorded 20 February 1981 in Joke's Koeienverhuurbedrijf //////// Released in collaboration with Gramschap //////// With poster and lyric booklet (including english translation insert), with all other info in Dutch. self released by The EX using the one-off label-name "betaal Niet meer dan f 3,50 !!! records b.v." (Pay No More Than F 3,50 Records Inc.). ///////// Bass – Bas // Drums – Willem // Guitar – Terrie Ex // Vocals – GW Sok // Producer – Dolf, The Ex //////// From the liner notes of "Singles Period." -- "...together with five other bands The Ex organize a manifestation in the Amsterdam Paradiso venue, for the benefit of the resistance groups against the repression in El Salvador. The reason being: the refusal of the Dutch national newspapers to place an ad of the Dutch El Salvador Committee called WEAPONS FOR EL SALVADOR, while the just-released disgraceful distasteful tourist-propaganda single 'San Salvador' gets gratuitous and uncritical nationwide airplay: "San Salvador, where the sun is always shining..." As if there isn't a war going on over there at all! Not one newspaper dares to speak out against it, so we decide to counter the crap. Especially for this manifestation The Ex write a theme-song, with the refused advert-slogan as its title. The anarchist pamphlets-series of Gramschap ('Anger') proposes to make it a single for their upcoming 19th issue, which comes with an El Salvador-special and two posters..."	2:02:56 (Pop-up)
Crass	Poison In A Pretty Pill "Poison In A Pretty Pill" by "Crass"	Penis Envy	Crass Records	1981	"Penis Envy is Crass' third album, released in 1981. The albums name is a nod to some of Freud's ideas concerning sexuality. This album marked a departure from the "macho, hardcore" sounds heard on previous Crass albums, featuring more complex musical arrangements, and exclusively female vocals (those of Joy De Vivre and Eve Libertine). The album addressed issues of feminism and attacked institutions of "the system" such as marriage and sexual oppression. The album was banned by the retailer HMV, and The Greater Manchester Police seized copies of it, along with other Crass albums and Dead Kennedys material, from Eastern Bloc record shop. Its owner, Frank Schofield, was charged with "Displaying obscene articles for publication for gain". As well as this, the band Flux Of Pink Indians, Crass' labels, and their publishing company were all charged on the grounds of the Obscene Publications Act. The heavy costs incurred by this would eventually contribute to the band's demise."	2:05:39 (Pop-up)
D.O.A.	D.O.A. "D.O.A." by "D.O.A."	Hardcore '81	Friends Records	1981	"D.O.A. is a Canadian punk rock band from Vancouver. They are often referred to as the "founders" of hardcore punk along with Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Angry Samoans, Germs, and Middle Class. Their second album Hardcore '81 was thought by many to have been the first actual reference to the second wave of the American punk sound as hardcore." The band formed 1978 and continue to this day in 2023.	2:09:18 (Pop-up)
Ceramic Hello	Ringing In The Sane	The Absence Of A Canary	Mannequin Records / Suction Records	1981 / 2012	From Burlington, Ontario; recorded 1980, released 1981. Brett Wickens / Roger Humphreys provide Synthetics, Electronic Drums, Palindronic Guitar, Processed Voice. -- Reissued first on Suction Records in 2012 & later on vinyl in 2020... "Ice Machine keep Ceramic Hello’s synth-pop evergreen in print with a necessary new vinyl pressing for 2020 Arguably up there with the John Foxx’s ‘Metamatic’ classic, coincidentally also produced in 1980, ‘The Absence of a Canary’ is a stone cold classique of Canadian synth-pop whose fame spread far beyond. Produced and written by Brett Wickens with Roger Humphreys, the album remains their sole output and was originally issued in edition of 1000 copies which have since become prized collectors items, leading to a number of interim reissue from the likes of Vinyl-On-Demand, Suction Records, and now Ice Machine to sate demand over the years as original wave music has risen proportional to sea levels. It’s not hard to hear why this album has achieved cult classic status. From the mix of deadpan cyborgian and sweetboy vocals, to its icy drum programming and the naggingly melodic arrangements, it’s all arch early synth-pop, and realised at a time when the style’s make-up was only just settling into place. It’s maybe fair to say that it was never a huge release at the time - only 1000 copies were available worldwide - but the album’s lucid song-writing virtues and all important atmosphere have seen it consistently rise as the cream of its crop."	2:11:00 (Pop-up)
Brian Eno & David Byrne	Help Me Somebody	My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts [Expanded]	Sire / Nonesuch	1981 / 2005	"My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is a studio album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, released in February 1981. It was Byrne's first album without his band Talking Heads. The album integrates sampled vocals and found sounds, African and Middle Eastern rhythms, and electronic music techniques. It was recorded before Eno and Byrne's work on Talking Heads' 1980 album Remain in Light, but problems clearing samples delayed its release by several months." "Eno described My Life as a "vision of a psychedelic Africa". Rather than conventional pop or rock singing, most of the vocals are sampled from other sources, such as commercial recordings of Arabic singers, radio disc jockeys, and an exorcist. Musicians had previously used similar sampling techniques, but, according to Guardian writer Dave Simpson, sampling had never before been used "to such cataclysmic effect".	2:13:52 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Brian Eno & David Byrne	Pitch To Voltage	My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts [Expanded]	Sire / Nonesuch	1981 / 2005	One of the songs intended to be included for the album in the original 1980 sequence, (about a year before the record eventually came out.) "In the intervening year, as the found vocals were being cleared, we recorded some new songs, which replaced some of the tunes on this first version. Hence this version never saw the light of day."	2:18:09 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Brian Eno & David Byrne	Two Against Three	My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts [Expanded]	Sire / Nonesuch	1981 / 2005	One of the songs intended to be included for the album in the original 1980 sequence, (about a year before the record eventually came out.) "In the intervening year, as the found vocals were being cleared, we recorded some new songs, which replaced some of the tunes on this first version. Hence this version never saw the light of day."	2:20:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Brian Eno & David Byrne	Vocal Outtakes	My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts [Expanded]	Sire / Nonesuch	1981 / 2005	"In 2001, Eno cited Holger Czukay's experiments with dictaphones and shortwave radios as earlier examples of sampling. He felt that the "difference was, I suppose, that I decided to make [sampling] the lead vocal". The release was delayed while legal rights were sought for the large number of samples used on the album. A sample of an evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman performing an exorcism intended for "The Jezebel Spirit" was refused by her estate as they objected to the context it was to be used in."	2:22:43 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Brian Eno & David Byrne	New Feet "New Feet" by "Brian Eno & David Byrne"	My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts [Expanded]	Sire / Nonesuch	1981 / 2005	The album title is derived from Amos Tutuola's 1954 novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. According to Byrne's 2006 liner notes, neither he nor Eno had read the novel, but they felt the title "seemed to encapsulate what this record was about".	2:24:20 (Pop-up)
Klaus Nomi	Falling In Love Again "Falling In Love Again" by "Klaus Nomi"	Klaus Nomi	RCA Victor	1981	In 1981, the real space man, Klaus Nomi brought his NYC East Village theatrics, his otherworldly appearance and operatic countertenor voice to the world at large with his self titled full length release. "Falling In Love Again" was originally popularized by Marlene Dietrich, again a sly nod to Nomi's status as a gay man in New York City. Nomi died at the Sloan Kettering Hospital Center in New York City on August 6, 1983, as a result of complications from AIDS. He was one of the earliest known figures from the arts community to die from the illness. He was one of the great innovators, interpreters and artists of this last century.	2:25:00 (Pop-up)
Grace Jones	Pull Up To The Bumper	Nightclubbing	Island Records	1981	Another angular, beautiful alien whose music is synonymous with New York Disco. Combining elements of electro-disco, post-punk, dance-pop and reggae-disco with dub production, "pulsing drums and chic new-wave licks", as well as elements of funk and R&B music,"Bumper" is a key event in the history of dance music, described as "one of those rare records that manages to replicate the sensation of actually being in a club."	2:27:43 (Pop-up)
Duran Duran	Planet Earth "Planet Earth" by "Duran Duran"	Duran Duran	EMI	1981	As if Disco couldn't get any more slick, Duran Duran gave us "Planet Earth" with Chic inspired basslines, new Romantic synths and Simon Le Bon's detached vocals punctuated by a catchy "bop bop bop" to keep it human. This album was initially panned by critics and many of the band's contemporaries, but thanks to a killer video to seal the deal, it is a song that still rocks a dancefloor to this day. I knew the minute I heard it, that Duran Duran was my band and from 1981 to 1984...they were the ONLY band that mattered...to me at least.	2:32:12 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono	Walking on Thin Ice "Walking on Thin Ice" by "Yoko Ono"	Walking On Thin Ice - For John 7"	Geffen	1981	"Walking on Thin Ice" is a song by Yoko Ono, released in 1981. She and John Lennon concluded the recording of the song on December 8, 1980. It was upon their return from the recording studio to The Dakota (their home in New York City) that Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman. Lennon was clutching a tape of a final mix of the song before it was mastered when he was shot. Lennon's lead guitar work on the track, which he recorded on December 4, 1980, was his final creative act. Later that year Ono would release "Season of Glass", with the cover art featuring John's bloodied glasses.	2:36:10 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Bedsit Heroes	Who Can It Be Now?	The Bedsit Heroes Single	Self Released	2013	"Who Can It Be Now?" is a song recorded by Australian band Men at Work. It was released in Australia in 1981, prior to the recording of their 1981 debut album Business as Usual, on which the track was later included. The lyrics were inspired when lead singer Colin Hay was living in an apartment complex in St Kilda, Victoria. He lived next to drug dealers, and people would often confuse Hay's apartment for the dealers'. The number of people that would knock on his door unnerved him to the point where he was scared to open his door, regardless of who was there. This version is recorded by friend and renaissance man Trevor Miller. It slaps.	2:39:41 (Pop-up)
Bauhaus	Of Lilies And Remains "Of Lilies And Remains" by "Bauhaus"	Mask	Beggar's Banquet	1981	By the time of Mask, the band were extending their palette of sound and beginning to wear their influences on their sleeve more openly. It is here that the looming shadow of glam rock era idols such as David Bowie, Brian Eno and Marc Bolan begin to creep into their work. However, the band were not just mere copyists (even though they covered songs by all three artists), but managed to mutate that sound into something very special, and create something old but new for the audiences of 1981.	2:43:32 (Pop-up)
Siouxsie And The Banshees	Arabian Knights	Juju	Polydor	1981	Juju is the fourth studio album by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was recorded at Surrey Sound studio with Nigel Gray as co-producer. For "Arabian Knights", the second single, McGeoch transformed a tune by Siouxsie, initially in waltz rhythm, that she had composed on a Vox Teardrop guitar.Siouxsie later commented on the lyrics: "With 'Arabian Knights' it was quite a thrill to get the word 'orifices' on the radio." Knights is dreamy, otherworldly, chilling, and unsettling and one of their best....	2:46:51 (Pop-up)
The Cure	Charlotte Sometimes "Charlotte Sometimes" by "The Cure"	Charlotte Sometimes 7"	Fiction Records	1981	Charlotte Sometimes was recorded at producer Mike Hedges' Playground Studios and released as a non-album single on 9 October 1981 by Polydor Records, following the band's third studio album Faith. The titles and lyrics to both sides were based on the book Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer. According to Cure frontman Robert Smith: "There have been a lot of literary influences through the years; 'Charlotte Sometimes' was a very straight lift, with many lines in the song reflect lines directly from the book. The cover of the single is a distorted picture of Mary Poole, Smith's then-girlfriend and later wife. Charlotte Sometimes stands as a masterpiece of doomed beauty and ruined elegance...	2:49:58 (Pop-up)
New Order	Ceremony "Ceremony" by "New Order"	Ceremony 7"	Factory Records	1981	New Order's debut single in 1981. The song and its B-side, "In a Lonely Place", were written and recorded as Joy Division prior to the death of Ian Curtis. Both were re-recorded and carried over to Joy Division's re-formation under the name New Order. On this version of “Ceremony,” just like the Joy Division versions before it, the drums punch and echo, the cymbals are high in the mix, and are matched only by Hook’s high bass line. Sumner’s vocals are awash in reverb behind the instrumentation, a tentative foray into singing Curtis’ words. Perhaps the most ghostly single of them all. Never has an artist been so present and so absent at the same time.	2:54:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Moon Talk	Our Lips Are Sealed "Our Lips Are Sealed" by "Moon Talk"	Our Lips Are Sealed Single	Santa Monica Recordings	2015	The Go-Go's supported the Specials on the latter's 1980 Seaside tour of England. According to Jane Wiedlin, she and Terry Hall had a brief affair despite his being in a relationship with another woman at the time. After Wiedlin returned to the United States, Hall mailed her some lyrics, and this led to their co-writing the song. The Go-Go's version is significantly more upbeat than Fun Boy Three's, which Wiedlin describes as "great" but also "gloomier"	2:58:48 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Gregorian	In The Air Tonight "In The Air Tonight" by "Gregorian"	20/2020	Nemo Records	2019	"In the Air Tonight" is the debut solo single by English drummer and singer-songwriter Phil Collins. It was released as the lead single from Collins's debut solo album, Face Value, in January 1981. "In the Air Tonight" remains one of Collins' best-known hits, often cited as his signature song, and is especially famous for its drum break towards the end, which has been described as "the sleekest, most melodramatic drum break in history" and one of the "101 Greatest Drumming Moments".	3:03:37 (Pop-up)
Laurie Anderson	O Superman (for Massenet)	O Superman 12"	Warner Bros Records	1981	Prior to the success of this song, Anderson was little known outside the art world. First released as a single, the song also appeared on her debut album Big Science released the following year. In writing the song, Anderson drew from the aria "Ô Souverain, ô juge, ô père" ("O Sovereign, O Judge, O Father") from Jules Massenet's 1885 opera Le Cid. As part of the larger work United States, the text addresses issues of technology and communication, quoting at various points answering machine messages and the slogan "Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds". It's a song of military arrogance, failure and the price we all pay, recorded for a modest $500 with an NEA grant. O Superman stands today as a timeless and timely piece of art. It is chilling and reminds us of our our negligence, our conceit and ultimately, our fragility.	3:04:24 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	7:52pm DJ Babs: Hello greetings welcome! Are you all ready for a trip to 1981!!???
	7:58pm Derek Westerholm: Hello all! Welcome, whatever your year...!
	8:00pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	8:01pm Robm: Hello babs and derek
	8:02pm MHLee: Howdy
	8:03pm Robm: I was a sophomore in highschool in 81
	8:03pm DJ Blush: Hieeeee!
	🏝 8:04pm Kat in Chicago: I was finally old enough to hang out in bars without having to sneak in
	🏝 8:06pm Kat in Chicago: I was confused when i heard accordions, I thought it was the stream!
	8:06pm ultradamno: twitter.com...
	8:06pm Alli B: Hiiiiiii
	8:07pm laurapanic: back after a few weeks off, I'm ready!
	8:07pm ultradamno: The year of The Evil One, the single best record Roky Erickson ever played on.
	8:07pm DJ Babs: Hey all! SO HAPPY TO HAVE YOU ALL HERE TONIGHT!
	8:08pm Derek Westerholm: Hello hello! Ultra, Robm, MHLee, Blush, Kat, Alli, Laura, hello hello hello... So glad to see you & chat with you!
	8:08pm Alli B: Comin’ in HARD
	8:08pm ultradamno: Also, the Red Spot compilation
	8:09pm DJ Babs: ↳ Alli B @8:08 U KNOW IT!!!
	8:09pm Robm: ↳ Kat in Chicago @8:06 Do you one better, thinking your on the right stream and you start to chat on the wrong show
	8:09pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in Chicago @8:06 You're not the only one confused by accordians on the beach, Kat, right with you... haha.
	8:10pm DJ Babs: I love the accordion...it's true!
	8:10pm Aitch: Checking in, great start!
	8:10pm Alli B: I’m bidding on an accordion in an auction
	8:11pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Unable" by "Suburban Lawns" My favorite SL tune.
	8:11pm DJ Babs: Hi Aitch Hi Rob Hi Kat Hi Laura Hi UD Hi Blush Hi MH!!
	8:11pm DJ Blush: Guyyyssss! Alli! GET IT
	8:11pm DJ Babs: YES YOU MUST
	8:11pm ultradamno: Indiana represent!!!
	8:12pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Aitch @8:10 Hello Aitch!
	8:12pm ultradamno: dowjonesandtheindustrials.bandcamp.com...
	8:12pm Shineman: I used to live in Laporte Indiana
	8:13pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Alli B @8:10 Alli, that's awesome. I have a soft spot for accordions in non-beach settings...
	8:13pm Alli B: Babs, remember when Callum and I would play the mini accordion on the front stoop on Pape? 🤣🤣🤣 Eventually I drunk played it at 3am and got in shit with my neighbours
	8:13pm DJ Babs: Hi Shineman!!! Alli YES I DO!!! That was a sweet moment!!!
	8:13pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Shineman @8:12 Hello Shineman, awesome! Did interesting music come through?
	8:14pm Shineman: Hi Babs
	8:14pm ultradamno: The Dancing Cigarettes track on that was my fav though www.discogs.com...
	8:16pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Indianapolis" by "E-In Brino" A couple more things to say, Paul Z Mahern of Zero Boys singing here, Marvin Goldstein managed them and ran the Hoosier Ballroom venue. I don't think E-In Brino were ever a functioning band, Zero Boys did the song live on occasion.
	8:17pm Shineman: We had garage band I have heard here The End Yardbirds played there and Kiss
	8:17pm Shineman: Endd
	🏝 8:18pm Kat in Chicago: Classy on Bette Davis' part there
	8:18pm ultradamno: I also always liked the Bay Root song on that, another I'm pretty sure one-off studio event.
	8:18pm DJ Nico: Written by Jackie DeShannon!
	8:22pm Shineman: And that blew up real good
	8:23pm ultradamno: It's kind of funny, I just watched an odd you tube video of a guy investigating Su Tissue's 'disappearance' (she just wants to be left alone), he seemed intent on tying them to Talking Heads, which I don't especially hear...I guess just for the deadpan
	8:23pm DJ Blush: :)
	8:24pm ultradamno: Another coincidence, I re-wrote Rich Girl to serve as an imaginary TV series adaptation of the Argento movie Phenomena this week twitter.com...
	8:24pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Nico! Hey there!
	8:25pm DJ Babs: Hi Nico!!!!
	8:27pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:23 Yeah I don't hear that either UD. Maybe her detached style and approach but that's about it...she's her own thing!
	8:28pm DJ Babs: ↳ DJ Nico @8:18 YES! Jackie DeShannon was the original writer on that absolutely!!
	8:29pm ultradamno: X's Wild Gift and Crass' Penis Envy owned 81 HC for me. Unless The Punch Line counts.
	8:30pm Alli B: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
	8:30pm MHLee: I see Kraftwerk, i clicky star
	8:30pm DJ Babs: I love Crass so much. I have the same problem with X that I have with Nina Hagen. Exene is just out of her goddamn mind....
	8:31pm DJ Babs: She's a Sandy Hook denier...so bad.
	8:31pm DJ Babs: But yes, had to get Kraftwerk in there MH!!!
	8:32pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @8:31 I offer no defense of that, but the band cannot be denied...
	8:32pm DJ Blush: Love it
	8:32pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ MHLee @8:30 A good policy, MHLee, haha.
	8:32pm DJ Nico: Babs & Derek ♥️
	8:33pm Alli B: Dancing in the kitchen
	8:33pm DJ Babs: Right back atcha Nico!!!
	8:33pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:29 There might be one of those two things in the future of this show, UD.
	8:34pm DJ Babs: I'm having a wee dance party here! How's everyone doin tonight? 2023 comin' in ok?
	8:35pm gsdoubleu: hi! did not know Cybotron existed till now. love it!
	8:35pm DJ Babs: hello GHdoubleu!!! Hells yeah they are the big uncles of techno!
	8:38pm DJ Babs: This is an international electronic music voyage from Japan to Germany to US to Germany again and then...where to????? ;-)
	8:40pm Derek Westerholm: Hello there GSdoubleu!!!
	8:40pm Aitch: Some scary stuff in the top 100 singles in Australia for 1981. www.top100singles.net... The Stroke and Turn me Loose!
	8:41pm laurapanic: ↳ DJ Babs @8:30 oh what's the go with Nina? I haven't researched....
	8:41pm DJ Babs: I secretly love both those..we'll have some Australian hits coming up later lol
	8:41pm DJ Babs: ↳ laurapanic @8:41 She's an AIDS and COVID and Trans denier....
	8:42pm DJ Babs: I find it interesting that everyone thinks New Romantic was so pouffy but this has TEEF
	8:42pm laurapanic: ↳ Aitch @8:40 why are you attacking our people? wink
	8:42pm laurapanic: ↳ DJ Babs @8:41 oh just tops
	8:42pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Frequency 7" by "Visage" This track not on the original vinyl, great track, never heard it before
	8:42pm DJ Babs: Turn me Loose was a canadian band..LOVERBOY!
	8:43pm Aitch: ↳ laurapanic @8:42 Air Supply says it all, and Billy Field..
	8:43pm ultradamno: ↳ Aitch @8:40 I may still have a Piper album around here (Bill Aucoin managed pre-Stroke Squier band)
	8:43pm Derek Westerholm: I enjoyed that Visage track immensely. Keep forgetting to delve deeper into them.
	🏝 8:44pm Kat in Chicago: Vince Clarke Depeche Mode is my favorite
	8:44pm DJ Babs: They had their moments! I admit icheated a bit the version I played is nott he extended versio which was the 81 release. I AM SORRY
	8:44pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Boys Say Go!" by "Depeche Mode" It was NOT cool to like this record at the time, but I loved it.
	8:45pm DJ Babs: It's true this album was somewhat panned here and there...but I love Vince Clarke Depeche Mode...
	8:45pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Boys Say Go!" by "Depeche Mode" Boys need to stop doing that.
	8:45pm DJ Babs: I'm so excited about what's about to happen
	8:46pm laurapanic: you dag, Babs
	8:46pm Alli B: 🔥🔥🔥
	8:47pm Alli B: Nor should you!!!!
	8:49pm ultradamno: I got to see Joan Jett blow The Police off the stage back in the day...
	8:50pm ultradamno: I also saw Rush, who were nearly as boring as The Police.
	8:51pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @8:50 Ayn Rand fan rock
	🏝 8:51pm Kat in Chicago: I love electro (and techno of course)
	8:51pm SuperJen: Hi all!
	8:53pm SuperJen: Loving all of these off-beat covers so far!
	8:54pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Eye Of The Tiger" by "Niu Mariachi" Good on them for suing those guys....your move, Village People!
	8:54pm Derek Westerholm: Hello SuperJen! Glad you are enjoying!! Babs dug up some super-playful stuff!
	8:55pm Tyler: 'Allo Beachors!
	8:55pm Derek Westerholm: Hello there Tyler!
	8:56pm Tyler: Hi Derek!
	🏝 8:57pm Kat in Chicago: Survivor is a Chicago band, still active I think?
	8:57pm Mr Fab: Hey gang, glistening while cooking. But not until I get lots of Lost Fingers albums. If a slew of their tracks end up on the Sheena stream, blame Babs n Derek!
	8:57pm gsdoubleu: leave the capitol! this show is nothing but high gears!
	8:58pm DJ Babs: Hi Jen! Hi Tyler!!!
	8:58pm DJ Babs: Hi Fab! I tried to get in I Love Rock and Roll for you MARIACHI STYLES
	8:58pm Tyler: Hi Babs!
	8:59pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Leave the Capitol" by "The Fall" I think my favorite is Wings or Frightened, but solid choice
	8:59pm Tyler: This song gives me the mental image of Mark E. Smith ordering drive-thru late at night :)
	8:59pm DJ Babs: ↳ gsdoubleu @8:57 Glad you're enjoying GS!
	8:59pm DJ Babs: UD it makes me very happy to know that Joan Jett served the Police lol
	8:59pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @8:57 Fab, fantastic that you are looking for a new treasure!
	9:00pm SuperJen: Hi Babs! Great selection so far! As always
	9:00pm Derek Westerholm: "Hotel maids smile in unison Then you know in your brain You know in your brain Leave the capitol! Exit this Roman shell! Then you know you must leave the capitol" Haha.
	9:00pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ SuperJen @9:00 SuperJen, how is your show going?
	9:02pm coelacanth∅: hey Derek & Babs and all
	9:02pm DJ Babs: Hi Coelacanth!! Welcome!
	🏝 9:02pm Kat in Chicago: Radio Free Europe still slaps
	9:03pm DJ Babs: This is one of two REM songs I can handle lol
	9:03pm Tyler: Calling out in transit!
	9:03pm coelacanth∅: who's this though?
	🏝 9:03pm Will thee Sound Guy: Hi DJ Babs, Derek, and all!!!
	9:03pm gsdoubleu: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:02 it sure does!
	🏝 9:03pm Kat in Chicago: Waiting to read about this version
	9:03pm SuperJen: Derek, Good! Still forcing people to listen to whatever noisy stuff I feel like on Wednesdays! I am starting to have guests, so if either or both of you wanna do that some time let me know!
	9:03pm coelacanth: is this an early demo?
	9:03pm DJ Babs: Whoops there you go guys Late publish!!!
	🏝 9:03pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ DJ Babs @9:03 I like older REM quite a bit. They lost me when the lyrics started getting intelligible
	9:04pm DJ Babs: Hi Will!!!
	🏝 9:04pm Scott67: G'day Babs, Derek & Beach Bums! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	9:04pm coelacanth∅: wow, it IS rem... he sounds so not like him!
	9:04pm DJ Babs: ↳ SuperJen @9:03 oohhh that would be fun Jen your show is a blast! It's so noisy and I LOVE IT!
	🏝 9:04pm Kat in Chicago: I'm a big Mitch Easter fan too
	9:04pm DJ Babs: Heya Scott!!!
	9:05pm doctorjazz: Hello all!
	9:05pm Aitch: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:03 Life's Rich Pageant very good, only one I ever still play
	9:05pm coelacanth∅: hey Scott! dr.j!
	9:05pm DJ Babs: Howdy Dr. Jazz! Welcome! Is there a doctor in the house! There is now!!!
	🏝 9:06pm Kat in Chicago: awwww David Kilgour
	🏝 9:06pm Scott67: Was out working on my Land Rover, lost track of the time.
	9:06pm SuperJen: Babs that would be awesome! And thank you! So glad you like it!
	9:06pm coelacanth∅: i love rem -first 4 albums nearly perfect but yeah life's rich pageant was and still is my favorite by far
	9:07pm Tyler: The Clean - Yay!
	🏝 9:07pm Scott67: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:05 .G'day mate!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	9:07pm coelacanth∅: (i was very late coming around to them too...c.1993)
	9:08pm Tyler: I was initially resistant to R.E.M. mainly due to the video for 'Can't Get There From Here' - figured they were another 80's novelty band. But when I heard 'Feeling Gravity's Pull' I changed my mind.
	9:09pm DJ Babs: The first record I loved. I think I just found michael stipe just so precious...and I was a Smiths fan LOL
	9:09pm doctorjazz: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:05 Hey Coela!
	🏝 9:09pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Point That Thing Somewhere Else" by "The Clean" God I'm a sucker for a hypnotic groove like this
	9:10pm coelacanth∅: rem was very different than anything else when they started. and a million miles from the extreme self-indulgence that defines most 80s music
	9:11pm coelacanth∅: Babs (@909) well, he did get that way didn't he!
	9:11pm Aitch: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:10 as soon as he went baldy it was all over...
	9:12pm laurapanic: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:10 needs to be one of those 10hr you tube loops
	🏝 9:12pm Will thee Sound Guy: Love the Wipers, I wish I had some
	9:12pm coelacanth∅: Aitch it's true! what happened there?!
	9:13pm DJ Babs: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:11 He sure did! I think he's better now LOL. It's an affliction that can come and go.....
	9:13pm gsdoubleu: This Wipers track kicks ass
	9:13pm Tyler: The beard helped Michael Stipe to course-correct :)
	9:14pm coelacanth∅: hahaha
	9:15pm Tyler: Love songs where the vocals start 8 minutes in
	9:15pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ coelacanth @9:03 Hi Coelacanth! Not an R.E.M. demo, but the earliest single by the band, the A-side (Radio Free Europe) of which they would later re-record on their first full-length.
	9:15pm DJ Babs: This song is truloy fantastic!
	9:15pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:04 Mitch Easter did great stuff!
	9:16pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ doctorjazz @9:05 Hello Doctorjazz!
	🏝 9:16pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:15 EFD did a great interview with him on the mothership some months ago
	9:16pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Scott, it's a longer show, so you're going to catch pretty much the same amount as always!
	9:16pm Tyler: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:15 That 'Dead Letter Office' compilation is pretty choice.
	9:18pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "When It's Over" by "Wipers" That was really good
	🏝 9:19pm Will thee Sound Guy: i think this was efd's Mitch Easter show... www.wfmu.org...
	🏝 9:21pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @9:19 wow was it 2021? I think he did something more recent as well, but that looks like the more extensive one if so. dang, it's all a blur
	9:22pm DJ Babs: I agree...everything is a blur the older I get!!!!
	🏝 9:23pm Will thee Sound Guy: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:21 I thought he did too, I combed through his playlist descriptions... I feel like he would have written it if it was on another one.
	9:27pm Tyler: O.M.D. were great until Michael Stipe went baldy :)
	9:28pm DJ Babs: LOL.. that whistling sound you hear is a kettle in their studio apparently!!!
	9:29pm Tyler: Tea-time FOREVR!
	🏝 9:29pm Will thee Sound Guy: some of the odd places I've provided sound for bands was in a bowling alley and in a tattoo shop... Obviously, garages, basements, bars, venues, outdoors, etc are pretty 'standard' places
	9:29pm DJ Babs: Fun fact I can't drink earl grey tea anymore because I'm allergic to bergamot!
	9:30pm Aitch: ↳ DJ Babs @9:29 that it's disgusting is also a good reason
	🏝 9:30pm Will thee Sound Guy: I tried earl grey once, did not like it... not even once
	9:31pm Tyler: I once had a box of the Earl Grey that the Queen drinks. I'm not a big tea-drinker (coffaholic) but I think my favourite is Darjeeling.
	9:31pm DJ Babs: oh I love earl grey it's like drinking perfume. However I do not enjoy projectile barfing loll
	9:32pm DJ Babs: Seriously if you can't bop to this tune you can't bop.
	🏝 9:32pm Will thee Sound Guy: I'm a coffee drinker too... I do like Darjeeling, Oolong, black teas. There are a few other ones...
	9:33pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @9:29 Will, alternate venues are so much fun, though I imagine it can be a sonic challenge, if not a sonic nightmare, in terms of being a soundperson. Has an unusual venue ever surprised you in terms of sound?
	9:34pm Tyler: This song has a lot of gears - all pure candy
	9:34pm DJ Babs: This is the candy set! For sure. And I have a reason for these choices which I shall explain!!!
	9:35pm squidbeak: OMG
	9:35pm Tyler: I'd like to hear Elvis Costello cover this :)
	9:36pm DJ Blush: I’m deep cleaning while listening tonight and it’s sooooo good so far. Cheersing a joint to you all everyone
	9:36pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Mickey" by "Toni Basil" She is an uncredited "Daddy's Song" dancer in Head
	9:36pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Blush @9:36 Toke on, Britt!
	9:36pm DJ Babs: lol squidbeak. I KNOW But it's a hugely transitional tune for me..in 81 I was 9...just when you're growing out of kids music and this was the perfect way for pre teens to get into pop. Also that chat and organ especially is what got me into ska!
	9:37pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Tyler @9:27 hahaha
	9:37pm DJ Babs: love it Britt! Cheersing a VERY nice red wine I'm drinking tonight!
	9:37pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ squidbeak @9:35 Hello Squidbeak, welcome!
	9:37pm Aitch: Choreographed Once in a Lifetime
	9:37pm SuperJen: Every halloween i watch Rockula starring many but including Toni Basil and Thomas Dolby. haha
	🏝 9:37pm Will thee Sound Guy: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:33 places that have weird geometry can be tricky. also places with lots of tin and of concrete... sometimes the only solution is more bodies... or reflecting tge mains off tte walls instead of going straight or crossed... some places have a stage, but the audience back wall is just too close.. dunno every place has a story
	9:37pm ultradamno: Also, in Five Easy Pieces
	9:38pm squidbeak: ↳ DJ Babs @9:36 Same, utterly heartbreaking, the girls used to sing it and do a dance routine the playground
	9:38pm SuperJen: yesssss love this one. RIP Terry
	9:39pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Ghost Town" by "The Specials" Love this!
	9:39pm Tyler: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @9:37 Unfortunately, the only time I saw the Pixies live was in a tin hangar by the airport. The sound reflected horribly. It was almost unlistenable.
	9:39pm DJ Babs: Honestly I get goose bumps EVERY time I hear this song. I will NEVER EVER EVER get tired of it EVER
	9:39pm squidbeak: Hi Derek and all!
	🏝 9:39pm Will thee Sound Guy: you guys are killin it tonight, solid tunes all in a row! Yes RIP Terry
	9:39pm coelacanth∅: my favorite specials song
	9:39pm DJ Babs: Aww thanks Will! And yes hello hello Squidbeak!!!
	9:40pm DJ Babs: We're barely halfway there SO much more to come!!!!
	9:40pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Aitch @9:37 Ah, "Choreographed Once in a Lifetime", so it's that Toni Basil, one in the same... I love finding out new connections! Thanks Aitch!
	9:40pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Ghost Town" by "The Specials" Wasn't a fan of Ska at the time, but always loved this track. The Beat's Too Nice to Talk To about then as well
	9:40pm Tyler: This song is such a haunting hybrid of styles. Very unusual for the time...
	9:41pm squidbeak: Oh Lordy, right in the feels, it really broke me when Terry died
	9:41pm DJ Babs: plus the politics around it as well..what a statement!
	9:41pm Derek Westerholm: Agree with you all... Ghost Town is a truly exceptional track.
	9:41pm DJ Babs: It's a fuggin masterpiece
	9:42pm coelacanth∅: earl grey... fine line between not enough bergimot (sp?) and too much. that's my story and i'm ....
	9:43pm squidbeak: Brixton riots, right wing press saying shit
	9:44pm DJ Babs: precisely!
	9:44pm squidbeak: ↳ Aitch @9:40 Tears of a clown, top ten covers?!
	🏝 9:44pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:42 bergamot. I started my day with a cuppa Earl Grey
	9:46pm squidbeak: DJ Babs!!!
	9:49pm SuperJen: I had a similar experience, having an older sister that had Blondie records. For show and tell in Grade 1 I brought in the lyrics to Rapture which some of my classmates accused me of making up haha. Like how can that be a real song they said.
	9:49pm squidbeak: Bedsit man by madness
	9:50pm squidbeak: My name is Micheal Cane is about a IRA informer
	9:54pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ squidbeak @9:50 Squid, I love Madness' Michael Caine... That's excellent to learn this, thanks for that!
	🏝 9:56pm Scott67: Yeah! Go long! Loving it! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺
	9:56pm squidbeak: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:54 Hi Derek, Suggs mum ran the French house in Soho
	9:58pm squidbeak: Scott❤️
	🏝 9:59pm Kat in Chicago: Have to dash, thank you Babs'n'Derek!
	9:59pm DJ Babs: ↳ squidbeak @9:50 I thought Michael Caine was about how he'd lend his name to anything for a buck during the 80's!
	10:00pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:59 Thank you thank you Kat!!!
	10:00pm DJ Babs: ↳ SuperJen @9:49 Thank goodness for older musical influences!!!
	10:01pm Tyler: Like the trippy B-52's on acid vocals
	10:03pm squidbeak: ↳ DJ Babs @9:59 Maybee...or...who can tell the story? Cracking show Babs, happy Friday everyone🍻
	10:06pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:59 Thanks Kat, have a wonderful night & onwards!
	10:08pm DJ Babs: Happy Friday to those in Friday and Happy Almost Friday!! SO CLOSE!
	10:08pm DJ Babs: I definitely have a warm fuzzy glow lol
	10:10pm coelacanth∅: 'night Kat
	10:10pm SuperJen: Love this!
	10:12pm DJ Babs: Minimal wave from Burlington ON baby!!!
	10:14pm DJ Babs: Glad Derek is playing this because it's a great segueway into my next set!
	10:15pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @9:41 I guess The Boiler by Special AKA was 82...now that gets the awards for most grim ska track ever.
	10:20pm DJ Babs: Agreed that is depressing....but important! That track is fucking HARROWING
	10:22pm ultradamno: Steve Ignorant is still out there performing Crass material... www.steveignorant.com
	10:24pm wenzo: Thanks for driving the train conductor!
	10:24pm SuperJen: I love Klaus!
	10:24pm DJ Babs: awesome thank you wenzo! And welcome!!!
	10:24pm DJ Babs: Same! I ADORE KLAUS!
	10:26pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks Wenzo! Glad to see you!
	10:26pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "D.O.A." by "D.O.A." One of the first live punk bands I ever saw. I saw them a few times. I don't think any of their recordings really capture how good they were.
	10:27pm Tyler: Pull Up To My Bumper, Baby :)
	10:27pm DJ Babs: Seriously Grace Jones is the fucking SHIZZ. I love her more and more every time I hear her...
	10:28pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @10:27 She freaked me out when I was a kid, but now I LOVE her!
	10:28pm DJ Blush: Saaaaaame
	10:28pm SuperJen: I feel the same about her!
	10:28pm DJ Blush: Love her
	10:31pm DJ Babs: I had to. I CANNOT have a 1981 set without Duran Duran!
	10:32pm gsdoubleu: of course!!
	10:32pm SuperJen: This song rules! Always loved it since 5th grade haha
	10:33pm DJ Babs: EXACTLY
	10:33pm ultradamno: If any of you have Shudder, the docu-mini series Queer For Fear discusses the impact of Grace Jones in Vamp extensively
	10:33pm DJ Babs: I was SO into John. SO INTO JOHN.
	10:34pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @10:26 Damno, interesting... I've never seen them live, but I believe it... That's excellent they were one of the first punk bands you saw.
	10:35pm Tyler: I only own one Duran Duran record - the two versions of their debut on two different labels with different songs, different covers and (to my ears) different mixing and mastering.
	10:35pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @10:33 The Grace Jones doc 'Bloodlight & Bami' is highly recommended.
	10:36pm wenzo: Love this yoko track.
	10:36pm DJ Babs: I have ALL the albums up to Notorious and ALL the 12 inches. They were some of the first records I bought...
	10:36pm Tyler: Yoko!
	10:36pm wenzo: I heard JL was carrying the tape of this when he died?
	10:36pm ultradamno: As bands named after a character in Barbarella go, they are one
	10:37pm DJ Babs: Yes Wenzo. It is the last song he ever played on. And apparently he played his main Beatles guitar on it....
	10:38pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @10:36 I have a bootleg copy of that concert film David Lynch made with Duran Duran if you're interested.
	🏝 10:39pm Scott67: Fanfuckentastic Show! I've gotten zits again just listening, you gotta keep goin now until I get through puberty!
	10:41pm gsdoubleu: love this cover! nice work Trevor!
	10:41pm SuperJen: Love this cover too! Sorry what was the IG handle?
	🏝 10:41pm Scott67: Time is relative! Keep going! Perfection is a state of mind, & I'm approaching perfection! Never stop doing what you do Babs & Derek! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺❤️❤️
	10:43pm Alli B: 🖤
	10:43pm Tyler: I guess the Bauhaus North American tour is dead (not undead)
	10:43pm DJ Babs: thriftartremix he redoes old cheesy paintings and inserts pop culture characters in theml His work is super cool!!!
	10:43pm wenzo: I was playing pool I a bar last week and I played Bella Legosi’s Dead on the jukebox and this lady came up to me and thanked me profusely apparently it’s been her favorite song for 40 years and she couldn’t get over the fact that a younger person played it. She was so jazzed. Not really doing the story justice. You had to be there I guess.
	10:44pm Tyler: Hope Peter Murphy is getting better.
	10:44pm DJ Babs: There were rumours of a Love and Rockets tour and those got quashed pretty fast this week!
	10:44pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @10:44 I'd be glad for either.
	10:44pm wenzo: Next time I’m in that bar I’m gonna have to see if they have mask on ye olde digital jukebox
	10:45pm DJ Babs: ↳ wenzo @10:43 No that is an excellent story Wenzo! I love it when I hear unexpected treats in unexpected places! That happened to me this week. I heard Whitey, one of my favourite artists at the grocery store! LOLZ
	10:45pm Derek Westerholm: Mask is definitely my favourite Bauhaus album.
	10:45pm wenzo: Nice!
	10:46pm Tyler: My favourite Banshees record!
	10:47pm Derek Westerholm: Wenzo, I love that story!
	10:47pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Tyler @10:46 Tyler, I definitely concur
	10:47pm Tyler: Steve Severin is really helping to drive this song.
	10:48pm DJ Babs: Juju is the shit...I LOVED and still LOVE this tune.
	10:48pm coelacanth∅always with a popular opinion!: juju's very good, but no comparison to the first 2, before the 2 creative lights left the band!
	10:49pm DJ Babs: Oh this set is SO GODDAMN SATISFYIHNG TO ME lol
	10:49pm coelacanth∅always with a popular opinion!: (and i like in the flat field the best)
	10:49pm Tyler: ↳ coelacanth∅always with a popular opinion! @10:48 Agree to disagree. The Scream is great but 'Join Hands' is patchy at best.
	🏝 10:49pm Scott67: ↳ Song: "Charlotte Sometimes" by "The Cure" FUCK!! ❤️
	10:49pm DJ Babs: I like Mask because they take some risks on it!
	10:50pm SuperJen: This album was my jam at age 13
	10:51pm DJ Babs: oh HELLS yes.
	10:51pm DJ Babs: I went to highschool with a gal named Ramona and she had the PERFECT robert smith hair. It was the envy of all the kids in the smoking goth area.
	10:52pm coelacanth∅always with a popular opinion!: well, i think join hands is 100% Brilliant, except for about 25% of it being that pointless crap that dominates side 2! but all the real songs are their best. the scream, yeah maybe a little immature
	10:53pm Alli B: 💃💃💃
	10:53pm DJ Babs: Join hands was TERRIBLY panned when it came out!
	10:54pm ultradamno: I swear, not looking at the playlist, I assumed this was Simple Minds
	10:54pm Tyler: ↳ coelacanth∅always with a popular opinion! @10:52 I like Playground Twist. The rest I could take or leave. I like the McGeoch era best. IMO 'Juju' and 'Kiss In The Dreamhouse' are their pinnacle. But to each their own...
	10:54pm DJ Babs: ha! who did not make the cut sadly!
	🏝 10:56pm Scott67: Music, just like sent sends us back there. In our minds and in our hearts.🌻
	10:56pm Tyler: ↳ Tyler @10:54 Ironically, 'Join Hands' is the Banshees album I paid the most for. I believe I spent like $30 for the import on cassette! :)
	10:56pm coelacanth∅: Babs, that's a good sign! but even so, that pathetic attempt at a sister ray would leave a bad taste in a critic's mouth. i just ignore it and listen to the rest. as a perfect but very short album.
	10:56pm DJ Babs: We've got one more after this...the only song I could think that could follow this one....
	10:56pm ultradamno: Makes me want to thrust my fingerless glove to the sky because...Molly Ringwald
	10:58pm coelacanth∅: i appreciate all the McGeoch Love. but that band wouldn't have been what they were without the groundbreaking sensibilities of Kenny Morris and John McKay having pointed them in that direction.
	🏝 10:59pm Scott67: VERSION!!!❤️
	11:00pm Tyler: This version gives 'Our Lips Are Sealed' a sinister undertone. Very nice.
	🏝 11:01pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you DJ Babs and Derek, awesome show!!!
	🏝 11:01pm Scott67: You guys! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌻
	11:02pm Alli B: THANK YOU!!
	11:02pm wenzo: My neighbor claims to be Lori Anderson’s nephew
	11:02pm SuperJen: Thank you for the tunes and all the neat information that accompanied them!
	🏝 11:02pm Scott67: Breathless with joy!
	11:02pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Babs! Thanks Derek!
	11:03pm Tyler: This also gives 'In The Air Tonight' an unintended religious overtone. Haha!
	11:03pm coelacanth∅: 1980 things were definitely already going to shit! (despite many great albums in '81)
	11:03pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ wenzo @11:02 "My neighbor claims to be Lori Anderson’s nephew" would be a great title for a song.
	11:04pm DJ Babs: lol thank you all! And I still think there was good stuff from 81 to 84!!!
	11:04pm DJ Babs: Lol don't tempt me into an 1984 episode!!!
	11:04pm Derek Westerholm: Thank-you all for being here, listening, chatting & making our time here so much more special!
	11:05pm Tyler: ↳ Derek Westerholm @11:03 "Who can it be knocking at my door?" " "It's Laurie Anderson's nephew..." :)
	11:05pm coelacanth∅: DO IT!
	11:06pm coelacanth∅: 'much as i loathe 80s music overall every year has at least a show's worth of great tracks
	11:06pm DJ Babs: lol. I migtht just! It's just knowing where to look. I have huge problems from 87 on...
	11:07pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @11:06 "87 And Cry" - David Bowie :)
	11:08pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @11:06 But that's when the Sun City Girls really start cooking
	🏝 11:09pm Scott67: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:06 Evolution is like the mate. Don't hold on to the shit. But grow from the greatness. 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	11:09pm DJ Babs: Derek and I are now having a heated argument on the significance of O Superman LOL
	11:09pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @11:09 No such thing, the significance is not up for debate!
	11:10pm DJ Babs: i can't tell you guys how many times I have ugly cried to this song lol
	11:10pm coelacanth∅: haha... i don't wanna know who doesn't think it's a miracle of audio!
	11:10pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @11:09 It's indelible, I'll admit, but so mockable.
	11:10pm coelacanth∅: that whole album. what a genius.
	11:11pm DJ Babs: It's on the shortlist to be played at my funeral take note everyone! LOL
	11:11pm ultradamno: Uh, no.
	11:11pm coelacanth∅: (and this coming from someone that despises autotune, vocoder, most rapping, the majority of synthesizer music...)
	11:12pm wenzo: 🙏thanks!
	11:12pm DJ Babs: goodnight kids! Have a wonderful week! We'll see ya with new and old stuff next thursday! <3
	11:12pm Tyler: Can definitely here Laurie Anderson's influence on 'Art Of Noise'.
	11:12pm Derek Westerholm: Goodnight again, all (if it's night for you), good day, otherwise!
	11:12pm ultradamno: 16 TONS...now the 80s are gettin' it!
	11:12pm coelacanth∅: ultra, you are WRONG
	11:12pm Tyler: Thanks Derek, Babs, Meepmoop and those in the chat. Nice spending time with you.
	11:12pm coelacanth∅: Thanks again y'all tchau
	11:12pm DJ Babs: lol so I guess Coelacanth an all vocoder show is out?
	11:12pm ultradamno: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:12 I will fight you with KNIVES!
	11:13pm coelacanth∅: haha... go for it Babs! you don't need me!
	11:13pm wenzo: Fight with pool noodles
	11:14pm coelacanth∅: oh man...more knives!
	11:14pm DJ Babs: LOL NO! I can change your mind! There is something beautiful about the uncanny and unhuman of the vocoder...but that's another episode....lol Thank you all for being with us this week and every week. You guys are the funnest!
	11:15pm coelacanth∅: i like Sam Segal's show and Love him... be he knows if he entertains autotune i'm leaving! it's okay.
	11:15pm coelacanth∅: vocoder's not always bad
	11:16pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @11:06 Iggy with clear plastic pants twitter.com...

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Sounds of the Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds of the Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016
CBS News Cast 1981	Walkmans Vs Ghettoblasters	CBS News	No Label	1981
The Tom And Marty Band	New Wave Twist	New Wave Twist 7"	Artifacts Records	1981	Formed in 1980, The Tom and Marty Band have always referred to their act as "Electronic Folk Music" and claim to have been inspired by outer space, film, science, myth, love, nature, children and the sounds of the world around them. Their promised return to the stage is always imminent. Mutant Sounds blog said, "The dark-tinged synthy bleep 'n' splut-scapes that The Tom & Marty Band specialize in are cheap, grotty and strangely gripping..." Tom Campagnoli: Vocals, clarinet, Hohner Bass2 keyboard preamped through a Wollensack reel to reel tape machine running in record mode with no tape, then plugged via the Wollensack's 'speaker out' to a Silvertone amp, Pig Nose amp feedback, toy organ, drum machine, flute, bells, large coffee can Marty McCavitt: Vocals, Micromoog synthesizer and acoustic string instruments both plugged into a Crate guitar amp with a 12-inch speaker, Hohner Pianet-T preamped through a Barcus-Berry contact mic, Standard Preamp volume & tone control box Model 1330.	0:01:35 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Joris Verlinde	Shaddap Your Face - Marjolene - Bimble	Accordeon Festival V. 166	D & V	2022	"Shaddap You Face" is a novelty song written and performed by Joe Dolce (released under the name Joe Dolce Music Theatre) about a rebellious Italian boy. Dolce, who is Italian-American, said he wrote "Shaddap You Face" based on memories of his childhood, when his family members would speak in broken English. "Shaddap You Face" went to number one for eight weeks on the Australia Kent Music Report in 1980. It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart on 21 February 1981 and stayed there for three weeks until 8 March 1981, keeping Ultravox's single "Vienna" out of the top spot throughout. The song became the 15th biggest hit of 1981 in the UK. In the US, the song peaked at number 53 in 1981 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 43 on the Cash Box Top 100. In the Canadian province of Quebec, "Shaddap You Face" reached number one for twelve weeks.	0:03:18 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Smooth Jazz All Stars	Super Freak	Rick James Smooth Jazz Tribute			Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song number 153 in its "Best Songs of All Time" poll. James apparently was not particularly excited about the song, but reputedly wanted to have something on the album that "white folks could dance to."	0:06:22 (Pop-up)
Black Flag	Spray Paint "Spray Paint" by "Black Flag"	Damaged	SST	1981	While the album did not gain much attention from the general press on its original release, the album retrospectively has been given critical acclaim and has been cited as one of the most important hardcore punk albums ever released. Rolling Stone in their retrospective review says that "Black Flag lived up to it, defining L.A. hardcore punk with violent guitar and the pissed-off scream of Henry Rollins, especially on "TV Party" and "Rise Above." Punks still listen to Damaged, and parents still hate it."	0:08:11 (Pop-up)
Minor Threat	Straight Edge - Demo	First Demo Tape	Discord Records	1981 / 2003	Along with the fellow Washington, D.C. hardcore band Bad Brains and California band Black Flag, Minor Threat set the standard for many hardcore punk bands in the 1980s and 1990s. All of Minor Threat's recordings were released on MacKaye's and Nelson's own label, Dischord Records. The Minor Threat EP and their only full-length studio album Out of Step have received a number of accolades and are cited as landmarks of the hardcore punk genre. The lyrics of the song relay MacKaye's first-person perspective of his personal choice of abstinence from alcohol and other drugs, a novel ideology for rock musicians which initially found a small but dedicated following. Other prominent groups that subsequently advocated the straight edge stance include SS Decontrol and 7 Seconds. Although the original song was not written as a manifesto or a "set of rules," many later bands inspired by this idea used it as such, and over the years since its release, the song and the term "straight edge" became the zeitgeist for an entire subculture, and indeed the basis for a paradigm shift that has persisted and grown consistently throughout the world.	0:08:48 (Pop-up)
Plasmatics	Fast Food Service "Fast Food Service" by "Plasmatics"	Beyond The Valley of 1984	Stiff America	1981	The Plasmatics were an American punk rock, hardcore punk and heavy metal band formed by Rod Swenson and Wendy O. Williams in New York City in 1977. They were a controversial group known for chaotic, destructive live shows and outrageous theatrics. These included chainsawing guitars, destroying speaker cabinets, sledgehammering television sets and blowing up automobiles live on stage. Williams was arrested in Milwaukee by the Milwaukee Police before being charged with public indecency. n January 1981, Williams' stage performance in Milwaukee led to her arrest on charges of indecency after she reportedly "simulated masturbation with a sledge hammer in front of an audience" On April 6, 1998, Williams shot herself near her home in Storrs, Connecticut. She had attempted to kill herself twice in the years leading up to her death; allegedly she had also been struggling with deep depression. One of Plasmatic's greatest performances is an appearance on SCTV alongside John Candy featuring a skit "The Fishin' Musician" that featured the band hanging out with Gil Fisher at Scuttlebutt lodge, doing some skydiving into the woods, taking down a gorilla, and a black tie dinner in the woods....	0:09:33 (Pop-up)
Suburban Lawns	Unable "Unable" by "Suburban Lawns"	Suburban Lawns	IRS Records	1981	Suburban Lawns: They weren’t really a punk band, nor were they really a new wave band. Most of their songs were a minute and a half long and not particularly compositionally complicated. And when it came to Los Angeles, they wrote about it from the margins, freeways, and from a deep anger towards the superficial quality of Hollywood. They wrote about West Coast disaffection not from the vantage point of punk rock but from something more feral and strange. This record changed my life. From hearing "Janitor" and "Unable" across the airwaves, I saw that music...and women in music could be different. Su Tissue is an inspiration and a mystery...	0:10:58 (Pop-up)
Dow Jones and the Industrials	Ladies With Appliances	Can't Stand The Midwest 1979-1981	Family Vinyard	1981 / 2016	The use of the keyboard, and the band's flirtation with electronic sounds, meant that Dow Jones and the Industrials hinted towards the post-punk sound of bands that would follow them. In 1981, the band's track "Ladies With Appliances" was featured on the Red Snerts compilation released by Gulcher Records. By this time, Chris Clark had left, to be replaced by Jenny Sweeny on bass. Brad Garton had also left the group. He appeared as "Mr. Science" on the compilation, contributing a track entitled "Mr. Science".	0:12:35 (Pop-up)
E-In Brino	Indianapolis "Indianapolis" by "E-In Brino"	Various: Red Snerts The Sound of Gulcher	Gulcher Records	1981	Members: Paul Mahern, Randy Ochsenrider, Rich Ochsenrider, Marvin P. Goldstein. Their name is marvellous. They were from the midwest. Their song is the shit. I wish there was more to say, but they have sadly, disappeared save this Red Snerts comp and one other comp release....	0:14:57 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The New Edition	Bette Davis Eyes "Bette Davis Eyes" by "The New Edition"	Muzak (Music Of The 80's)	Muzak Archives	2017	"Bette Davis Eyes" is a song written and composed by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon in 1974. It was originally recorded by DeShannon in that year for her album New Arrangement but it was made popular by American singer Kim Carnes in 1981 when it spent nine non-consecutive weeks on top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 It won "Song Of The Year" at the Grammys. According to producer Val Garay, the original demo of the tune that was brought to him sounded like "a Leon Russell track, with this beer-barrel polka piano part." Actress Bette Davis was 73 years old when Kim Carnes's version became a hit. She wrote letters to Carnes, Weiss, and DeShannon to thank all three of them for making her "a part of modern times" and stated that her grandson now looked up to her. After their Grammy wins, Davis sent them roses as well.	0:18:15 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The New Edition	Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)	Muzak (Music Of The 80's)	Muzak Archives	2017	This is one of my karaoke go-to songs. Performed by Christopher Cross, the song was written in collaboration between Cross, pop music composer Burt Bacharach, and Bacharach's frequent writing partner and then-wife Carole Bayer Sager. The song won the 1981 Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song...	0:20:40 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Piano Dreamers	Private Eyes "Private Eyes" by "Piano Dreamers"	Piano Dreamers Perform Hall & Oates (Instrumental)	CC Entertainment	2019	"Private Eyes" is a 1981 single by Hall & Oates and the title track from their album of the same name. The song was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for two weeks, from November 7 through November 20, 1981.	0:23:21 (Pop-up)
Yello Magic Orhestra	Key "Key" by "Yello Magic Orhestra"	Technodelic	Alfa	1981	Technodelic is the fifth studio album by Yellow Magic Orchestra, released in 1981. The album is notable for its experimental approach and heavy use of digital samplers which were not commonly used until the mid-to-late 1980s, resulting in a more minimalist and avant-garde sound compared to their previous work. It is considered the first released album to feature mostly samples and loops, influencing the heavy use of sampling and looping in popular music. Most of the sampling was made with an LMD-649, a custom-built digital sampler developed by Toshiba-EMI engineer Kenji Murata. The album also features use of speech through a two-way radio, a prepared piano, a Roland TR-808 drum machine (previously used in BGM), and Prophet-5 synthesizers and featured Gamelan and found factory sounds. Drummer and lead vocalist Yukihiro Takahashi passed away this past week. His contribution to the music of the past half century are formidable in its influence. He will be missed.	0:26:13 (Pop-up)
Kraftwerk	Computer World "Computer World" by "Kraftwerk"	Computerwelt	Kling Klang	1981	Meanwhile...in Germany...Kraftwerk release their eighth studio album. Computerwelt is a futuristic concept album heralding the the presence of computer technology in every day life. Featuring themes such as home computers and digital communication, the album has been seen as both a celebration of computer technology as well as a warning about its potential to exert power on society with social control and digital surveillance. Despite its theme, the production of the album was completely analogue and did not involve any computer technology. This album had a direct influence on the emerging Detroit Electro scene, with Afrika Bambaata and Cybotron taking samples and musical cues....	0:30:48 (Pop-up)
Cybotron	Alleys Of Your Mind "Alleys Of Your Mind" by "Cybotron"	Alleys Of Your Mind single	Deep Space Records	1981	Although generally considered electro, Cybotron was also part of the early evolution of techno music. Cybotron was the first musical outlet of techno co-originator Juan Atkins, and the group's unique combination of musical influences, boldly experimental aesthetic and Afro-futurist philosophy became the underpinnings of Detroit Techno. Cybotron used a synth-dominated sound, paired with a drum machine, whose rhythms were similar to those emerging from New York at the same time. This was reflected in their first single, “Alleys of Your Mind,” which was released on their own Deep Space label and was playlisted by The Electrifyin’ Mojo in 1981. It became a local hit in Detroit, where it sold about 15,000 copies. Their next two singles, “Cosmic Cars” and “Clear” had even more success, which led to them being signed by Fantasy, a label located in Berkeley, California. Cybotron’s music worked to mirror the atmosphere of economic desperation and alienation in Detroit in the 1980s. Songs like “Alleys of Your Mind” and “Techno City” were specifically aimed to mirror the city, using technology to capture this spirit. Cybotron used subliminal funk pulsing amidst their crisp-and-dry programmed beats to truly reflect the dying auto industry in Detroit.	0:33:55 (Pop-up)
Grauzone	Wütendes Glas "Wütendes Glas" by "Grauzone"	Grauzone	Welt-Records	1981	The quality of “coldness” informed many artistic agendas back in 1981. Living up to the obscure nature of their name, Grauzone played their first gig under the equally mauve moniker of XXX, made one album and three singles and played ten gigs in their lifetime. At these shows, they often turned their backs to the audience and used black lights to play in near darkness. They also gave a handful of passive-aggressive interviews to the press. Their artwork revelled in creating a sense of ambiguity and a predilection for leaving semi-obscure visual references. To top it all they split up before ever playing outside of their native country. All “very” 1981.	0:37:33 (Pop-up)
Visage	Frequency 7 "Frequency 7" by "Visage"	Visage	Polydor	1981	Ok, I'm cheating a bit here and not playing the dance version because I enjoy the vocals...but this was a fantastically warped song that disproved the idea the Blitz Kids and New Romantics were all floof and lace trimmed sleeves collars. This version has teeth, with its sawtooth bassline and disaffected vocodered vocals paired with howling exhortations to "face the future" ...this is a night about to skid sideways on a dexedrine fuelled dancefloor covered in smeared makeup.	0:40:55 (Pop-up)
Depeche Mode	Boys Say Go! "Boys Say Go!" by "Depeche Mode"	Speak & Spell	Mute	1981	Depeche Mode, originally formed by the lineup of Gahan, Gore, Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke, released their debut album Speak & Spell in 1981. Of course, this is not the Depeche Mode we have come to know in later years: The songs on this album were written by Vince Clarke, who would shortly after leave the group and find fame with Yaz and Erasure. And these, of course, are the early days of synth-pop: These songs are building-block simple, bleepy and discoid, and the band sounds as gawky and adolescent as Dave Gahan looked. There’s something terrific in hearing this from a distance, not as stylish futurism (not anymore) but as the happy noises of teenagers who believed it to be stylish futurism-- and with a charming earnestness. “Happy” because of, well, Vince Clarke, whose work with Erasure is a testament to both his love of joyous disco-pop and his ability to pack it full to bursting with emotion.	0:44:01 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Mariachis	I Love Rock N' Roll	Mexican Party	Stab Productions	2014	Joan Jett saw the Arrows perform "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" on their weekly UK television series Arrows while she was touring England with the Runaways in 1976. She first recorded the song in 1979 with two of the Sex Pistols, Steve Jones and Paul Cook. This first version was released on vinyl in 1979 on Vertigo records as a B-side to "You Don't Own Me". In 1981, Jett re-recorded the song, this time with her band, the Blackhearts. This recording became a US Billboard Hot 100 number-one single for seven weeks, being the only one for the band.	0:47:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Lost Fingers	Tom Sawyer "Tom Sawyer" by "The Lost Fingers"	Gypsy Kameleon	Tacca Musique	2010	Recorded October–November 1980 Studio Le Studio, Morin-Heights, Quebec Genre Progressive rockhard rock Length 4:33 Label Mercury Songwriter(s) RushPye Dubois Producer(s) RushTerry Brown "Tom Sawyer" is a song by Canadian rock band Rush, originally released on their 1981 album Moving Pictures as its opener. Drummer Neil Peart says of the song "Tom Sawyer was a collaboration between myself and Pye Dubois, an excellent lyricist who wrote the lyrics for Max Webster. His original lyrics were kind of a portrait of a modern day rebel, a free-spirited individualist striding through the world wide-eyed and purposeful. I added the themes of reconciling the boy and man in myself, and the difference between what people are and what others perceive them to be—namely me, I guess."	0:50:26 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Niu Mariachi	Eye Of The Tiger "Eye Of The Tiger" by "Niu Mariachi"	Niu Mariachi Rock-Pop	Multimusic S.A	2015	Though it hit peak popularity in 1982 as the theme for the movie Rocky, Eye Of The Tiger promo 7" were circulating in 1981. I love Survivor because they have sued every Republican candidate who has tried to use it as their campaign song without consent...	0:53:54 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Leave the Capitol "Leave the Capitol" by "The Fall"	Slates	Rough Trade	1981	My favourite song? Probably my favourite. Deceptively simple but layered with detail & surprises. Listen repeatedly through decades. It will reward you in its depth, width & pith. "Slates is an EP by the Fall, released on 27 April 1981 by Rough Trade Records. It was one of singer Mark E. Smith's favourite Fall releases, and he claimed it was aimed at "people who didn't buy records. Slates was released on 27 April 1981. Containing six tracks and pressed onto 10" vinyl, it was eligible for neither the single nor album charts, being too long for the former and too short for the latter. It was, however, included in the UK Independent Singles chart, where it reached No. 3. The six tracks include "Fit and Working Again", in which Smith comments on the working class work-ethic, and compares his state of mind to that of boxer Alan Minter after taking LSD, and "Leave the Capitol", which was seen as summing up Smith's negative view of London. The vinyl has etched on it "Keep shtum. Plagiarism infects the land"" //////// " Mark E. Smith hates London, although in the sleeve notes for Slates the following note appears: "Any capital. Polite no-manners plus barman of the year claimants = quick exit." On the other hand, this song could be taken as a horror tale rather than a straightforward slag on London. As for the spelling, "capitol" originally referred to the temple to Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill in Rome, or the hill itself, and is probably chosen to highlight the Roman history of London. MartinM writes on the Fall Online Forum, in response to a question about the meaning of the exhortation in the title of the song: Because "capital" means more than London: it's a reference to the head (as in, "capital punishment" - your head is deprived of life). So I always heard the song as both anti-London and anti-logic or anti-habit: get out of the confines of metropolitan thought imposed by our barren time modelled on Roman ideals (straight roads, worship of armed force), and return to older, instinctive ways of thought and imagination. That's why the "London" voice has always laughed at the great god - and the Scot, the Celt, the voice from marginal places "didnae": in those zones "Pan" is a living reality. Follow it, and you will indeed go "straight home." Arthur Machen, the author of "The Great God Pan," seems to be an important influence on this song. Mark E. Smith once declared, “MR James is good, but Machen's fucking brilliant," and at one point he was reportedly a dues-paying member of Friends of Arthur Machen (FOAM). In this connection Joanna Wargen's essay "All Eyes are On the City: Arthur Machen's Ethnographic Vision of London," which MES may have been familiar with, is quite suggestive..." More thoughts on this song on The Annotated Fall (Leave The Capitol	0:58:20 (Pop-up)
R.E.M.	Radio Free Europe (Original Hib-Tone Single)	Radio Free Europe 7"	Hib Tone Records / I.R.S.	1981	"Recorded spring 1981, this is the original track released as Hib Tone 45 in July 1981." ""Radio Free Europe" is the debut single by American alternative rock band R.E.M., released in 1981 on the short-lived independent record label Hib-Tone. The song features "what were to become the trademark unintelligible lyrics which have distinguished R.E.M.'s work ever since." The single received critical acclaim, and its success earned the band a record deal with I.R.S. Records. R.E.M. re-recorded the song for their 1983 debut album Murmur. The re-recording for I.R.S. became the group's first charting single... In 2010, it was added to the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry for setting "the pattern for later indie rock releases by breaking through on college radio in the face of mainstream radio's general indifference." "The group traveled to Drive-In Studios in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to record some songs with producer Mitch Easter, who was a member of the band Let's Active. The band recorded "Radio Free Europe", "Sitting Still", and the instrumental song "White Tornado", which were placed on a promotional cassette tape. The band sent out 400 copies, one of which was received by Atlanta law student Jonny Hibbert. Hibbert offered to release "Radio Free Europe" and "Sitting Still" as a one-off 7" vinyl single with the understanding that he would own the publishing rights for both songs; the band agreed to his terms. However, Hibbert felt the recording was unsatisfactory, and oversaw a remix. Easter said he found the presence of Hibbert "distracting" and added, "He came into my studio and it was like, now the big city guy is going to do it right. We mixed the song for about 12 hours and really, there wasn't enough equipment to warrant more than 45 minutes." The final mastering of the song disappointed the band. Guitarist Peter Buck, who described the recording years later as "muddy and hi-end", expressed his displeasure by breaking a copy of the finished single and nailing it to his wall. However, Buck admitted that "there's something to be said for the original sort of murky feeling for [the original recording]"."R.E.M. signed to I.R.S. Records in 1982. I.R.S. asked R.E.M. to re-record "Radio Free Europe" in 1983 for their debut album, Murmur.] The band agreed, because they had felt that they'd improved significantly since the original 1981 sessions. The 1983 version has some slightly different lyrics and a slower tempo, and is not as well-liked by the band as the original; indeed, the liner notes for the 1988 compilation album Eponymous (on which the original Hib-Tone version is featured) stated that "Mike and Jefferson think this one [referring to the Hib-Tone version] crushes the other one like a grape." Peter Buck has also stated that he "[didn't] think we captured it the way we did on the single." Original producer Mitch Easter also commented on the re-recording, saying it was "more pro, but a little too sedate""	1:02:37 (Pop-up)
The Clean	Point That Thing Somewhere Else	Boodle Boodle Boodle	Flying Nun / Merge	1981	Seminal label Flying Nun... Chris Knox lends 4-Track, helps record, does the cover art, etc. etc. RIP David Kilgour (d.2022) "Boodle Boodle Boodle is a 12" EP by New Zealand band The Clean. Released by Flying Nun Records in 1981, it is one of the more important releases in the Dunedin sound genre. The EP reached number four in the New Zealand music charts, despite being listed in the singles chart (New Zealand has never had a separate EP chart), and stayed in the top 20 for nearly six months. //////// As Flying Nun's first major success, it was largely responsible for the label's continued survival and the start of its growth into New Zealand's most important independent label. //////// Several of the songs on the EP became very popular parts of The Clean's repertoire, with "Anything Could Happen" in particular becoming one of their trademark songs. //////// Chris Knox drew the EP's cover, which was based on a promotional photo of the three band members in a bathtub."	1:06:23 (Pop-up)
Wipers	When It's Over "When It's Over" by "Wipers"	Youth Of America	Park Avenue Records	1981	"Wipers was a punk rock band formed in Portland, Oregon, in 1977 by guitarist and vocalist Greg Sage, along with drummer Sam Henry and bassist Dave Koupal. The group's tight song structure and use of heavy distortion were hailed as extremely influential by numerous critics and musicians. They are also considered to be the first Pacific Northwest punk band. //////// Sage's intense interest in music began with cutting records at home as an adolescent. "I was very lucky to have my own professional record cutting lathe when I was in 7th grade due to my father being involved in the broadcast industry. I would cut records for friends at school of songs off the radio and learned the art of record making long before learning to play music. //////// Inspired by Jimi Hendrix, Sage soon picked up the guitar, and in 1969, at age 17, he played on an eponymous album by professional wrestler Beauregarde. //////// Sage founded Wipers in Portland in 1977 along with drummer Henry and bassist Koupal, originally just as a recording project. The plan was to record 15 albums in 10 years without touring or promotion. Sage thought that the mystique built from the lack of playing traditional rock 'n' roll would make people listen to their recordings much deeper with only their imagination to go by. He thought it would be easy to avoid press, shows, pictures and interviews. He looked at music as art rather than entertainment; he thought music was personal to the listener rather than a commodity. //////// "With the new rhythm section of bassist Brad Davidson and drummer Brad Naish (ex-Stiphnoyds), Wipers recorded a second album for Park Avenue, the last for that label. Youth of America, released in 1981, contrasted with the short/fast punk songs of the time. According to Sage, this change of pace was a reaction against the punk trend of releasing short songs. The album was, according to Sage, not well received in the United States at the time of its release, though it did fare better in Europe. Along with other Wipers records, Youth of America came to be acknowledged as an important album in the development of American underground and independent rock movements of the early 80s... //////// "Sage later remarked on their initial reception: "We weren't even really a punk band. See, we were even farther out in left field than the punk movement because we didn't even wish to be classified, and that was kind of a new territory. ... When we put out Is This Real? ... it definitely did not fit in; none of our records did. Then nine, ten years later people are saying: 'Yeah, it's the punk classic of the '80s'""	1:11:35 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Clean	Point That Thing Somewhere Else	Boodle Boodle Boodle	Flying Nun / Merge	1981	Let's hear it again under the voice, shall we?	1:18:08 (Pop-up)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark	Georgia	Architecture & Morality	Dindisc	1981	Architecture & Morality is the third studio album by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), released on 6 November 1981 by Dindisc. Inspired by religious music, the group sought to broaden their musical palette by utilising elaborate choral samples, the Mellotron, and other new instruments to create a more naturalistic, emotive sound. ccording to the album's credits, its title was suggested to the band by Martha Ladly (formerly of Martha and the Muffins), who had read the 1977 book Morality and Architecture by David Watkin.McCluskey felt the title Architecture & Morality represented the interplay between the human and mechanical aspects of OMD: "We had the 'architecture', which was the technology, the drum machines, the rigid playing, the attempt to break out of the box by playing specifically crafted sounds, and the 'morality', the organic, the human, the emotional touch, which we brought naturally."	1:28:12 (Pop-up)
Altered Images	I Could Be Happy "I Could Be Happy" by "Altered Images"	I Could Be Happy 7"	Epic	1981	When Altered Images write a single...THEY WRITE A SINGLE. This bouncy yet melancholic romp is the blueprint for cutesy girlies pining over their hight school crush. And I was one of those girls. From Pinky Blue, their second album. he album reached No. 12 on the UK Albums Chart, while the singles charted well, with "I Could Be Happy" peaking at No. 7	1:31:29 (Pop-up)
Toni Basil	Mickey "Mickey" by "Toni Basil"	Word of Mouth			In part thanks to MTV and largely due to the 50's ish retro vibe and that undeniable beat, Mickey is a tune burned into everyone's minds...like it or not. The song was originally performed by British pop group Racey, with the title "Kitty", and was included on their debut studio album Smash and Grab in 1979. The original Racey song did not include the "Oh Mickey, you're so fine" chant, which Basil added. For years, it was rumored that the name was changed to Mickey because Basil developed a crush on the Monkees' drummer and lead vocalist Micky Dolenz, after meeting him on the set of their movie, Head, for which she was the choreographer. However, that claim has been denied by Basil, who has said that she "didn't really know Micky at all".	1:34:59 (Pop-up)
The Specials	Ghost Town "Ghost Town" by "The Specials"	Ghost Town / Why? / Friday Night, Saturday Morning	Two Tone Records	1981	The final release of the Specials and one that captures the essence of their sound and political leanings. Evoking themes of urban decay, deindustrialisation, unemployment and violence in inner cities, the song is remembered for being a hit at the same time as riots were occurring in British cities. In 2002 Jerry Dammers told The Guardian, "You travelled from town to town and what was happening was terrible. In Liverpool, all the shops were shuttered up, everything was closing down ... We could actually see it by touring around. You could see that frustration and anger in the audience. In Glasgow, there were these little old ladies on the streets selling all their household goods, their cups and saucers. It was unbelievable. It was clear that something was very, very wrong."The song was hailed by the contemporary UK music press as a major piece of popular social commentary, and was named the "Single of the Year" in 1981. One of the greatest swan songs of the ages...	1:39:05 (Pop-up)
Madness	Shut Up "Shut Up" by "Madness"	7	Stiff Records	1981	After laying waste to the charts with two albums of barmy, happy ska, Madness’s third studio album ‘7’ embraced a more wide-ranging pop sound, signalled by the moody disposition of its lead single ‘Grey Day’ and the more orthodox vocal performances from Suggs. Perhaps it was Thatcher’s reign taking full effect, but Seven’s bleak and often bland portrait of the English nation came as quite a shock. After the bright, attractive pop/ska music that had initially made the group’s name, this sudden thirst for grim lyrics with a wishy-washy backdrop made for a very puzzling listen for many fans. But biting social commentary was something Madness didn't shy away from, despite their cheeky delivery. The arrangement on this tune in particular is fantastic, complex and a testament to their prowess as musicians...often overlooked and underrated. One of my favourite Madness tunes ever.	1:42:44 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Steel Drum Island	The Tide Is HIgh	Steel Drum Island Vol. 12 Montego Bay Edition	Tropical Music International	2002	Although released in 1980, The Tide Is High by Blondie hit #1 on the Billboard charts in January 1981. "The Tide Is High" is a 1967 rocksteady song written by John Holt, originally produced by Duke Reid and performed by the Jamaican group the Paragons, with Holt as lead singer.	1:46:50 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Imagining Sound Orchestra	Under Pressure	Instrumentales Maravillosos	Megamusic	2020	Following Bowie's death in 2016, Jack Hamilton of Slate called "Under Pressure" a "masterpiece" and is a reminder to the public that Bowie could be "wonderfully, powerfully human." Jack Whatley wrote for Far Out Magazine "with all the animosity, wine, cocaine, and vocal battles, which helped come together to birth the song, what remains is an incredibly powerful and poignant pop song that we will likely not see matched in our lifetimes. The two juggernauts of Freddie Mercury and David Bowie collide here with perfect and enriching precision." It has one of the most instantly recognizable basslines in history. Vanilla Ice certainly would agree!	1:50:52 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Steel Drum Island	The Tide Is HIgh	Steel Drum Island Vol. 12 Montego Bay Edition	Tropical Music International	2002	Let's hear it again, shall we?	1:54:42 (Pop-up)
To The Finland Station	Domino Theory	Optimism / Reject (UK D-I-Y Punk and Post-Punk 1977-1981) (v/a)	Cherry Red	1981 / 1982 / 2019	Recorded in 1981, the official release spilled into Jan 1982 -- "Home made paper sleeve printed by Islington Community Press? Check. Record stapled inside sleeve? Check. Full and transparent list of costs associated with record? Check. A statement eulogising the independent ethos? Check. Links for information on cooperatives and “Yankee Crimes”? Check. An address for the El Salvador Solidarity campaign? Check. A slagging off of national radio and a list of pirate radio stations where you might get to hear this record? Check. A list of dialectical statements? Check. Grainy photos of the band and cartoons illustrating the political points? Check. If ever there was a record in my collection which sums up the DIY ethic of the early eighties, this is it. But what a record! Everything about this record is political from the name of the band to the method of the record’s production to the content of the song.The band’s name was taken from the book of the same name by Edmund Wilson which traced socialism from the French Revolution to the arrival of Lenin at the Finland Station in St Petersberg. The title of the song refers to the idea that if one country falls to communism then surrounding countries are susceptible and will follow in a domino effect. The central idea behind this song is that America is using this theory to justify their attempts to destabilise the government in El Salvador. From the very first words of the song (“Russian troops on the Polish border”) we realise we are unlikely to be troubled by anybody’s baby leaving them. By the second verse, Julian MacQueen is having such difficulty fitting the words into the structure of the song we wonder whether Richey Manic has had a hand in the lyrics. By the third verse (“The junta and the westernised elite / Is bound together with US forces), we’re left wondering how this was ever replicated on stage. There is both optimism (“I see final victory / Imperialism will be defeated”) and anger (“US interest/ Shoot people like cattle/ Counter insurgency / Euphemism for torture”). The song ends with the then current situation in El Salvador. The US had denied any involvement in trying to destabilise the newly installed Socialist government but the song rightly concludes (and history proved them right) “American arms in El Salvador.” Now all this earnestness in the lyrics may lead you to believe that the song itself is going to be ponderous. Nothing could be further from the truth. The song rattles along at a furious paste with fantastic backing vocals which recall women yodelling in the Appalachians (honestly better than it sounds). Julian MacQueen’s vocal is right out front and gloriously articulated. The tune itself is one which will linger in the memory, much like the atrocities committed by US forces from Vietnam to El Salvador to Afghanistan. All pop is political but some pop is more political than others. Any fan of early Manics should love this. The crime is that hardly anyone was listening then and they’re certainly not listening now. Here’s a link so you can hear it for yourselves: "	1:59:46 (Pop-up)
The Ex	Weapons for El Salvador "Weapons for El Salvador" by "The Ex"	War Is Over (Weapons For El Salvador)	Betaal Niet Meer Dan f 3,50 !!! Records B.V. – EX 006	1981	Recorded 20 February 1981 in Joke's Koeienverhuurbedrijf //////// Released in collaboration with Gramschap //////// With poster and lyric booklet (including english translation insert), with all other info in Dutch. self released by The EX using the one-off label-name "betaal Niet meer dan f 3,50 !!! records b.v." (Pay No More Than F 3,50 Records Inc.). ///////// Bass – Bas // Drums – Willem // Guitar – Terrie Ex // Vocals – GW Sok // Producer – Dolf, The Ex //////// From the liner notes of "Singles Period." -- "...together with five other bands The Ex organize a manifestation in the Amsterdam Paradiso venue, for the benefit of the resistance groups against the repression in El Salvador. The reason being: the refusal of the Dutch national newspapers to place an ad of the Dutch El Salvador Committee called WEAPONS FOR EL SALVADOR, while the just-released disgraceful distasteful tourist-propaganda single 'San Salvador' gets gratuitous and uncritical nationwide airplay: "San Salvador, where the sun is always shining..." As if there isn't a war going on over there at all! Not one newspaper dares to speak out against it, so we decide to counter the crap. Especially for this manifestation The Ex write a theme-song, with the refused advert-slogan as its title. The anarchist pamphlets-series of Gramschap ('Anger') proposes to make it a single for their upcoming 19th issue, which comes with an El Salvador-special and two posters..."	2:02:56 (Pop-up)
Crass	Poison In A Pretty Pill "Poison In A Pretty Pill" by "Crass"	Penis Envy	Crass Records	1981	"Penis Envy is Crass' third album, released in 1981. The albums name is a nod to some of Freud's ideas concerning sexuality. This album marked a departure from the "macho, hardcore" sounds heard on previous Crass albums, featuring more complex musical arrangements, and exclusively female vocals (those of Joy De Vivre and Eve Libertine). The album addressed issues of feminism and attacked institutions of "the system" such as marriage and sexual oppression. The album was banned by the retailer HMV, and The Greater Manchester Police seized copies of it, along with other Crass albums and Dead Kennedys material, from Eastern Bloc record shop. Its owner, Frank Schofield, was charged with "Displaying obscene articles for publication for gain". As well as this, the band Flux Of Pink Indians, Crass' labels, and their publishing company were all charged on the grounds of the Obscene Publications Act. The heavy costs incurred by this would eventually contribute to the band's demise."	2:05:39 (Pop-up)
D.O.A.	D.O.A. "D.O.A." by "D.O.A."	Hardcore '81	Friends Records	1981	"D.O.A. is a Canadian punk rock band from Vancouver. They are often referred to as the "founders" of hardcore punk along with Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Angry Samoans, Germs, and Middle Class. Their second album Hardcore '81 was thought by many to have been the first actual reference to the second wave of the American punk sound as hardcore." The band formed 1978 and continue to this day in 2023.	2:09:18 (Pop-up)
Ceramic Hello	Ringing In The Sane	The Absence Of A Canary	Mannequin Records / Suction Records	1981 / 2012	From Burlington, Ontario; recorded 1980, released 1981. Brett Wickens / Roger Humphreys provide Synthetics, Electronic Drums, Palindronic Guitar, Processed Voice. -- Reissued first on Suction Records in 2012 & later on vinyl in 2020... "Ice Machine keep Ceramic Hello’s synth-pop evergreen in print with a necessary new vinyl pressing for 2020 Arguably up there with the John Foxx’s ‘Metamatic’ classic, coincidentally also produced in 1980, ‘The Absence of a Canary’ is a stone cold classique of Canadian synth-pop whose fame spread far beyond. Produced and written by Brett Wickens with Roger Humphreys, the album remains their sole output and was originally issued in edition of 1000 copies which have since become prized collectors items, leading to a number of interim reissue from the likes of Vinyl-On-Demand, Suction Records, and now Ice Machine to sate demand over the years as original wave music has risen proportional to sea levels. It’s not hard to hear why this album has achieved cult classic status. From the mix of deadpan cyborgian and sweetboy vocals, to its icy drum programming and the naggingly melodic arrangements, it’s all arch early synth-pop, and realised at a time when the style’s make-up was only just settling into place. It’s maybe fair to say that it was never a huge release at the time - only 1000 copies were available worldwide - but the album’s lucid song-writing virtues and all important atmosphere have seen it consistently rise as the cream of its crop."	2:11:00 (Pop-up)
Brian Eno & David Byrne	Help Me Somebody	My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts [Expanded]	Sire / Nonesuch	1981 / 2005	"My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is a studio album by Brian Eno and David Byrne, released in February 1981. It was Byrne's first album without his band Talking Heads. The album integrates sampled vocals and found sounds, African and Middle Eastern rhythms, and electronic music techniques. It was recorded before Eno and Byrne's work on Talking Heads' 1980 album Remain in Light, but problems clearing samples delayed its release by several months." "Eno described My Life as a "vision of a psychedelic Africa". Rather than conventional pop or rock singing, most of the vocals are sampled from other sources, such as commercial recordings of Arabic singers, radio disc jockeys, and an exorcist. Musicians had previously used similar sampling techniques, but, according to Guardian writer Dave Simpson, sampling had never before been used "to such cataclysmic effect".	2:13:52 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Brian Eno & David Byrne	Pitch To Voltage	My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts [Expanded]	Sire / Nonesuch	1981 / 2005	One of the songs intended to be included for the album in the original 1980 sequence, (about a year before the record eventually came out.) "In the intervening year, as the found vocals were being cleared, we recorded some new songs, which replaced some of the tunes on this first version. Hence this version never saw the light of day."	2:18:09 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Brian Eno & David Byrne	Two Against Three	My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts [Expanded]	Sire / Nonesuch	1981 / 2005	One of the songs intended to be included for the album in the original 1980 sequence, (about a year before the record eventually came out.) "In the intervening year, as the found vocals were being cleared, we recorded some new songs, which replaced some of the tunes on this first version. Hence this version never saw the light of day."	2:20:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Brian Eno & David Byrne	Vocal Outtakes	My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts [Expanded]	Sire / Nonesuch	1981 / 2005	"In 2001, Eno cited Holger Czukay's experiments with dictaphones and shortwave radios as earlier examples of sampling. He felt that the "difference was, I suppose, that I decided to make [sampling] the lead vocal". The release was delayed while legal rights were sought for the large number of samples used on the album. A sample of an evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman performing an exorcism intended for "The Jezebel Spirit" was refused by her estate as they objected to the context it was to be used in."	2:22:43 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Brian Eno & David Byrne	New Feet "New Feet" by "Brian Eno & David Byrne"	My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts [Expanded]	Sire / Nonesuch	1981 / 2005	The album title is derived from Amos Tutuola's 1954 novel My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. According to Byrne's 2006 liner notes, neither he nor Eno had read the novel, but they felt the title "seemed to encapsulate what this record was about".	2:24:20 (Pop-up)
Klaus Nomi	Falling In Love Again "Falling In Love Again" by "Klaus Nomi"	Klaus Nomi	RCA Victor	1981	In 1981, the real space man, Klaus Nomi brought his NYC East Village theatrics, his otherworldly appearance and operatic countertenor voice to the world at large with his self titled full length release. "Falling In Love Again" was originally popularized by Marlene Dietrich, again a sly nod to Nomi's status as a gay man in New York City. Nomi died at the Sloan Kettering Hospital Center in New York City on August 6, 1983, as a result of complications from AIDS. He was one of the earliest known figures from the arts community to die from the illness. He was one of the great innovators, interpreters and artists of this last century.	2:25:00 (Pop-up)
Grace Jones	Pull Up To The Bumper	Nightclubbing	Island Records	1981	Another angular, beautiful alien whose music is synonymous with New York Disco. Combining elements of electro-disco, post-punk, dance-pop and reggae-disco with dub production, "pulsing drums and chic new-wave licks", as well as elements of funk and R&B music,"Bumper" is a key event in the history of dance music, described as "one of those rare records that manages to replicate the sensation of actually being in a club."	2:27:43 (Pop-up)
Duran Duran	Planet Earth "Planet Earth" by "Duran Duran"	Duran Duran	EMI	1981	As if Disco couldn't get any more slick, Duran Duran gave us "Planet Earth" with Chic inspired basslines, new Romantic synths and Simon Le Bon's detached vocals punctuated by a catchy "bop bop bop" to keep it human. This album was initially panned by critics and many of the band's contemporaries, but thanks to a killer video to seal the deal, it is a song that still rocks a dancefloor to this day. I knew the minute I heard it, that Duran Duran was my band and from 1981 to 1984...they were the ONLY band that mattered...to me at least.	2:32:12 (Pop-up)
Yoko Ono	Walking on Thin Ice "Walking on Thin Ice" by "Yoko Ono"	Walking On Thin Ice - For John 7"	Geffen	1981	"Walking on Thin Ice" is a song by Yoko Ono, released in 1981. She and John Lennon concluded the recording of the song on December 8, 1980. It was upon their return from the recording studio to The Dakota (their home in New York City) that Lennon was murdered by Mark David Chapman. Lennon was clutching a tape of a final mix of the song before it was mastered when he was shot. Lennon's lead guitar work on the track, which he recorded on December 4, 1980, was his final creative act. Later that year Ono would release "Season of Glass", with the cover art featuring John's bloodied glasses.	2:36:10 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Bedsit Heroes	Who Can It Be Now?	The Bedsit Heroes Single	Self Released	2013	"Who Can It Be Now?" is a song recorded by Australian band Men at Work. It was released in Australia in 1981, prior to the recording of their 1981 debut album Business as Usual, on which the track was later included. The lyrics were inspired when lead singer Colin Hay was living in an apartment complex in St Kilda, Victoria. He lived next to drug dealers, and people would often confuse Hay's apartment for the dealers'. The number of people that would knock on his door unnerved him to the point where he was scared to open his door, regardless of who was there. This version is recorded by friend and renaissance man Trevor Miller. It slaps.	2:39:41 (Pop-up)
Bauhaus	Of Lilies And Remains "Of Lilies And Remains" by "Bauhaus"	Mask	Beggar's Banquet	1981	By the time of Mask, the band were extending their palette of sound and beginning to wear their influences on their sleeve more openly. It is here that the looming shadow of glam rock era idols such as David Bowie, Brian Eno and Marc Bolan begin to creep into their work. However, the band were not just mere copyists (even though they covered songs by all three artists), but managed to mutate that sound into something very special, and create something old but new for the audiences of 1981.	2:43:32 (Pop-up)
Siouxsie And The Banshees	Arabian Knights	Juju	Polydor	1981	Juju is the fourth studio album by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was recorded at Surrey Sound studio with Nigel Gray as co-producer. For "Arabian Knights", the second single, McGeoch transformed a tune by Siouxsie, initially in waltz rhythm, that she had composed on a Vox Teardrop guitar.Siouxsie later commented on the lyrics: "With 'Arabian Knights' it was quite a thrill to get the word 'orifices' on the radio." Knights is dreamy, otherworldly, chilling, and unsettling and one of their best....	2:46:51 (Pop-up)
The Cure	Charlotte Sometimes "Charlotte Sometimes" by "The Cure"	Charlotte Sometimes 7"	Fiction Records	1981	Charlotte Sometimes was recorded at producer Mike Hedges' Playground Studios and released as a non-album single on 9 October 1981 by Polydor Records, following the band's third studio album Faith. The titles and lyrics to both sides were based on the book Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer. According to Cure frontman Robert Smith: "There have been a lot of literary influences through the years; 'Charlotte Sometimes' was a very straight lift, with many lines in the song reflect lines directly from the book. The cover of the single is a distorted picture of Mary Poole, Smith's then-girlfriend and later wife. Charlotte Sometimes stands as a masterpiece of doomed beauty and ruined elegance...	2:49:58 (Pop-up)
New Order	Ceremony "Ceremony" by "New Order"	Ceremony 7"	Factory Records	1981	New Order's debut single in 1981. The song and its B-side, "In a Lonely Place", were written and recorded as Joy Division prior to the death of Ian Curtis. Both were re-recorded and carried over to Joy Division's re-formation under the name New Order. On this version of “Ceremony,” just like the Joy Division versions before it, the drums punch and echo, the cymbals are high in the mix, and are matched only by Hook’s high bass line. Sumner’s vocals are awash in reverb behind the instrumentation, a tentative foray into singing Curtis’ words. Perhaps the most ghostly single of them all. Never has an artist been so present and so absent at the same time.	2:54:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Moon Talk	Our Lips Are Sealed "Our Lips Are Sealed" by "Moon Talk"	Our Lips Are Sealed Single	Santa Monica Recordings	2015	The Go-Go's supported the Specials on the latter's 1980 Seaside tour of England. According to Jane Wiedlin, she and Terry Hall had a brief affair despite his being in a relationship with another woman at the time. After Wiedlin returned to the United States, Hall mailed her some lyrics, and this led to their co-writing the song. The Go-Go's version is significantly more upbeat than Fun Boy Three's, which Wiedlin describes as "great" but also "gloomier"	2:58:48 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Gregorian	In The Air Tonight "In The Air Tonight" by "Gregorian"	20/2020	Nemo Records	2019	"In the Air Tonight" is the debut solo single by English drummer and singer-songwriter Phil Collins. It was released as the lead single from Collins's debut solo album, Face Value, in January 1981. "In the Air Tonight" remains one of Collins' best-known hits, often cited as his signature song, and is especially famous for its drum break towards the end, which has been described as "the sleekest, most melodramatic drum break in history" and one of the "101 Greatest Drumming Moments".	3:03:37 (Pop-up)
Laurie Anderson	O Superman (for Massenet)	O Superman 12"	Warner Bros Records	1981	Prior to the success of this song, Anderson was little known outside the art world. First released as a single, the song also appeared on her debut album Big Science released the following year. In writing the song, Anderson drew from the aria "Ô Souverain, ô juge, ô père" ("O Sovereign, O Judge, O Father") from Jules Massenet's 1885 opera Le Cid. As part of the larger work United States, the text addresses issues of technology and communication, quoting at various points answering machine messages and the slogan "Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds". It's a song of military arrogance, failure and the price we all pay, recorded for a modest $500 with an NEA grant. O Superman stands today as a timeless and timely piece of art. It is chilling and reminds us of our our negligence, our conceit and ultimately, our fragility.	3:04:24 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:52pm DJ Babs: Hello greetings welcome! Are you all ready for a trip to 1981!!???
	7:58pm Derek Westerholm: Hello all! Welcome, whatever your year...!
	8:00pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	8:01pm Robm: Hello babs and derek
	8:02pm MHLee: Howdy
	8:03pm Robm: I was a sophomore in highschool in 81
	8:03pm DJ Blush: Hieeeee!
	🏝 8:04pm Kat in Chicago: I was finally old enough to hang out in bars without having to sneak in
	🏝 8:06pm Kat in Chicago: I was confused when i heard accordions, I thought it was the stream!
	8:06pm ultradamno: twitter.com...
	8:06pm Alli B: Hiiiiiii
	8:07pm laurapanic: back after a few weeks off, I'm ready!
	8:07pm ultradamno: The year of The Evil One, the single best record Roky Erickson ever played on.
	8:07pm DJ Babs: Hey all! SO HAPPY TO HAVE YOU ALL HERE TONIGHT!
	8:08pm Derek Westerholm: Hello hello! Ultra, Robm, MHLee, Blush, Kat, Alli, Laura, hello hello hello... So glad to see you & chat with you!
	8:08pm Alli B: Comin’ in HARD
	8:08pm ultradamno: Also, the Red Spot compilation
	8:09pm DJ Babs: ↳ Alli B @8:08 U KNOW IT!!!
	8:09pm Robm: ↳ Kat in Chicago @8:06 Do you one better, thinking your on the right stream and you start to chat on the wrong show
	8:09pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in Chicago @8:06 You're not the only one confused by accordians on the beach, Kat, right with you... haha.
	8:10pm DJ Babs: I love the accordion...it's true!
	8:10pm Aitch: Checking in, great start!
	8:10pm Alli B: I’m bidding on an accordion in an auction
	8:11pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Unable" by "Suburban Lawns" My favorite SL tune.
	8:11pm DJ Babs: Hi Aitch Hi Rob Hi Kat Hi Laura Hi UD Hi Blush Hi MH!!
	8:11pm DJ Blush: Guyyyssss! Alli! GET IT
	8:11pm DJ Babs: YES YOU MUST
	8:11pm ultradamno: Indiana represent!!!
	8:12pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Aitch @8:10 Hello Aitch!
	8:12pm ultradamno: dowjonesandtheindustrials.bandcamp.com...
	8:12pm Shineman: I used to live in Laporte Indiana
	8:13pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Alli B @8:10 Alli, that's awesome. I have a soft spot for accordions in non-beach settings...
	8:13pm Alli B: Babs, remember when Callum and I would play the mini accordion on the front stoop on Pape? 🤣🤣🤣 Eventually I drunk played it at 3am and got in shit with my neighbours
	8:13pm DJ Babs: Hi Shineman!!! Alli YES I DO!!! That was a sweet moment!!!
	8:13pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Shineman @8:12 Hello Shineman, awesome! Did interesting music come through?
	8:14pm Shineman: Hi Babs
	8:14pm ultradamno: The Dancing Cigarettes track on that was my fav though www.discogs.com...
	8:16pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Indianapolis" by "E-In Brino" A couple more things to say, Paul Z Mahern of Zero Boys singing here, Marvin Goldstein managed them and ran the Hoosier Ballroom venue. I don't think E-In Brino were ever a functioning band, Zero Boys did the song live on occasion.
	8:17pm Shineman: We had garage band I have heard here The End Yardbirds played there and Kiss
	8:17pm Shineman: Endd
	🏝 8:18pm Kat in Chicago: Classy on Bette Davis' part there
	8:18pm ultradamno: I also always liked the Bay Root song on that, another I'm pretty sure one-off studio event.
	8:18pm DJ Nico: Written by Jackie DeShannon!
	8:22pm Shineman: And that blew up real good
	8:23pm ultradamno: It's kind of funny, I just watched an odd you tube video of a guy investigating Su Tissue's 'disappearance' (she just wants to be left alone), he seemed intent on tying them to Talking Heads, which I don't especially hear...I guess just for the deadpan
	8:23pm DJ Blush: :)
	8:24pm ultradamno: Another coincidence, I re-wrote Rich Girl to serve as an imaginary TV series adaptation of the Argento movie Phenomena this week twitter.com...
	8:24pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Nico! Hey there!
	8:25pm DJ Babs: Hi Nico!!!!
	8:27pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:23 Yeah I don't hear that either UD. Maybe her detached style and approach but that's about it...she's her own thing!
	8:28pm DJ Babs: ↳ DJ Nico @8:18 YES! Jackie DeShannon was the original writer on that absolutely!!
	8:29pm ultradamno: X's Wild Gift and Crass' Penis Envy owned 81 HC for me. Unless The Punch Line counts.
	8:30pm Alli B: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
	8:30pm MHLee: I see Kraftwerk, i clicky star
	8:30pm DJ Babs: I love Crass so much. I have the same problem with X that I have with Nina Hagen. Exene is just out of her goddamn mind....
	8:31pm DJ Babs: She's a Sandy Hook denier...so bad.
	8:31pm DJ Babs: But yes, had to get Kraftwerk in there MH!!!
	8:32pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @8:31 I offer no defense of that, but the band cannot be denied...
	8:32pm DJ Blush: Love it
	8:32pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ MHLee @8:30 A good policy, MHLee, haha.
	8:32pm DJ Nico: Babs & Derek ♥️
	8:33pm Alli B: Dancing in the kitchen
	8:33pm DJ Babs: Right back atcha Nico!!!
	8:33pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:29 There might be one of those two things in the future of this show, UD.
	8:34pm DJ Babs: I'm having a wee dance party here! How's everyone doin tonight? 2023 comin' in ok?
	8:35pm gsdoubleu: hi! did not know Cybotron existed till now. love it!
	8:35pm DJ Babs: hello GHdoubleu!!! Hells yeah they are the big uncles of techno!
	8:38pm DJ Babs: This is an international electronic music voyage from Japan to Germany to US to Germany again and then...where to????? ;-)
	8:40pm Derek Westerholm: Hello there GSdoubleu!!!
	8:40pm Aitch: Some scary stuff in the top 100 singles in Australia for 1981. www.top100singles.net... The Stroke and Turn me Loose!
	8:41pm laurapanic: ↳ DJ Babs @8:30 oh what's the go with Nina? I haven't researched....
	8:41pm DJ Babs: I secretly love both those..we'll have some Australian hits coming up later lol
	8:41pm DJ Babs: ↳ laurapanic @8:41 She's an AIDS and COVID and Trans denier....
	8:42pm DJ Babs: I find it interesting that everyone thinks New Romantic was so pouffy but this has TEEF
	8:42pm laurapanic: ↳ Aitch @8:40 why are you attacking our people? wink
	8:42pm laurapanic: ↳ DJ Babs @8:41 oh just tops
	8:42pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Frequency 7" by "Visage" This track not on the original vinyl, great track, never heard it before
	8:42pm DJ Babs: Turn me Loose was a canadian band..LOVERBOY!
	8:43pm Aitch: ↳ laurapanic @8:42 Air Supply says it all, and Billy Field..
	8:43pm ultradamno: ↳ Aitch @8:40 I may still have a Piper album around here (Bill Aucoin managed pre-Stroke Squier band)
	8:43pm Derek Westerholm: I enjoyed that Visage track immensely. Keep forgetting to delve deeper into them.
	🏝 8:44pm Kat in Chicago: Vince Clarke Depeche Mode is my favorite
	8:44pm DJ Babs: They had their moments! I admit icheated a bit the version I played is nott he extended versio which was the 81 release. I AM SORRY
	8:44pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Boys Say Go!" by "Depeche Mode" It was NOT cool to like this record at the time, but I loved it.
	8:45pm DJ Babs: It's true this album was somewhat panned here and there...but I love Vince Clarke Depeche Mode...
	8:45pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Boys Say Go!" by "Depeche Mode" Boys need to stop doing that.
	8:45pm DJ Babs: I'm so excited about what's about to happen
	8:46pm laurapanic: you dag, Babs
	8:46pm Alli B: 🔥🔥🔥
	8:47pm Alli B: Nor should you!!!!
	8:49pm ultradamno: I got to see Joan Jett blow The Police off the stage back in the day...
	8:50pm ultradamno: I also saw Rush, who were nearly as boring as The Police.
	8:51pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @8:50 Ayn Rand fan rock
	🏝 8:51pm Kat in Chicago: I love electro (and techno of course)
	8:51pm SuperJen: Hi all!
	8:53pm SuperJen: Loving all of these off-beat covers so far!
	8:54pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Eye Of The Tiger" by "Niu Mariachi" Good on them for suing those guys....your move, Village People!
	8:54pm Derek Westerholm: Hello SuperJen! Glad you are enjoying!! Babs dug up some super-playful stuff!
	8:55pm Tyler: 'Allo Beachors!
	8:55pm Derek Westerholm: Hello there Tyler!
	8:56pm Tyler: Hi Derek!
	🏝 8:57pm Kat in Chicago: Survivor is a Chicago band, still active I think?
	8:57pm Mr Fab: Hey gang, glistening while cooking. But not until I get lots of Lost Fingers albums. If a slew of their tracks end up on the Sheena stream, blame Babs n Derek!
	8:57pm gsdoubleu: leave the capitol! this show is nothing but high gears!
	8:58pm DJ Babs: Hi Jen! Hi Tyler!!!
	8:58pm DJ Babs: Hi Fab! I tried to get in I Love Rock and Roll for you MARIACHI STYLES
	8:58pm Tyler: Hi Babs!
	8:59pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Leave the Capitol" by "The Fall" I think my favorite is Wings or Frightened, but solid choice
	8:59pm Tyler: This song gives me the mental image of Mark E. Smith ordering drive-thru late at night :)
	8:59pm DJ Babs: ↳ gsdoubleu @8:57 Glad you're enjoying GS!
	8:59pm DJ Babs: UD it makes me very happy to know that Joan Jett served the Police lol
	8:59pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @8:57 Fab, fantastic that you are looking for a new treasure!
	9:00pm SuperJen: Hi Babs! Great selection so far! As always
	9:00pm Derek Westerholm: "Hotel maids smile in unison Then you know in your brain You know in your brain Leave the capitol! Exit this Roman shell! Then you know you must leave the capitol" Haha.
	9:00pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ SuperJen @9:00 SuperJen, how is your show going?
	9:02pm coelacanth∅: hey Derek & Babs and all
	9:02pm DJ Babs: Hi Coelacanth!! Welcome!
	🏝 9:02pm Kat in Chicago: Radio Free Europe still slaps
	9:03pm DJ Babs: This is one of two REM songs I can handle lol
	9:03pm Tyler: Calling out in transit!
	9:03pm coelacanth∅: who's this though?
	🏝 9:03pm Will thee Sound Guy: Hi DJ Babs, Derek, and all!!!
	9:03pm gsdoubleu: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:02 it sure does!
	🏝 9:03pm Kat in Chicago: Waiting to read about this version
	9:03pm SuperJen: Derek, Good! Still forcing people to listen to whatever noisy stuff I feel like on Wednesdays! I am starting to have guests, so if either or both of you wanna do that some time let me know!
	9:03pm coelacanth: is this an early demo?
	9:03pm DJ Babs: Whoops there you go guys Late publish!!!
	🏝 9:03pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ DJ Babs @9:03 I like older REM quite a bit. They lost me when the lyrics started getting intelligible
	9:04pm DJ Babs: Hi Will!!!
	🏝 9:04pm Scott67: G'day Babs, Derek & Beach Bums! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	9:04pm coelacanth∅: wow, it IS rem... he sounds so not like him!
	9:04pm DJ Babs: ↳ SuperJen @9:03 oohhh that would be fun Jen your show is a blast! It's so noisy and I LOVE IT!
	🏝 9:04pm Kat in Chicago: I'm a big Mitch Easter fan too
	9:04pm DJ Babs: Heya Scott!!!
	9:05pm doctorjazz: Hello all!
	9:05pm Aitch: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:03 Life's Rich Pageant very good, only one I ever still play
	9:05pm coelacanth∅: hey Scott! dr.j!
	9:05pm DJ Babs: Howdy Dr. Jazz! Welcome! Is there a doctor in the house! There is now!!!
	🏝 9:06pm Kat in Chicago: awwww David Kilgour
	🏝 9:06pm Scott67: Was out working on my Land Rover, lost track of the time.
	9:06pm SuperJen: Babs that would be awesome! And thank you! So glad you like it!
	9:06pm coelacanth∅: i love rem -first 4 albums nearly perfect but yeah life's rich pageant was and still is my favorite by far
	9:07pm Tyler: The Clean - Yay!
	🏝 9:07pm Scott67: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:05 .G'day mate!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	9:07pm coelacanth∅: (i was very late coming around to them too...c.1993)
	9:08pm Tyler: I was initially resistant to R.E.M. mainly due to the video for 'Can't Get There From Here' - figured they were another 80's novelty band. But when I heard 'Feeling Gravity's Pull' I changed my mind.
	9:09pm DJ Babs: The first record I loved. I think I just found michael stipe just so precious...and I was a Smiths fan LOL
	9:09pm doctorjazz: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:05 Hey Coela!
	🏝 9:09pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ Song: "Point That Thing Somewhere Else" by "The Clean" God I'm a sucker for a hypnotic groove like this
	9:10pm coelacanth∅: rem was very different than anything else when they started. and a million miles from the extreme self-indulgence that defines most 80s music
	9:11pm coelacanth∅: Babs (@909) well, he did get that way didn't he!
	9:11pm Aitch: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:10 as soon as he went baldy it was all over...
	9:12pm laurapanic: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:10 needs to be one of those 10hr you tube loops
	🏝 9:12pm Will thee Sound Guy: Love the Wipers, I wish I had some
	9:12pm coelacanth∅: Aitch it's true! what happened there?!
	9:13pm DJ Babs: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:11 He sure did! I think he's better now LOL. It's an affliction that can come and go.....
	9:13pm gsdoubleu: This Wipers track kicks ass
	9:13pm Tyler: The beard helped Michael Stipe to course-correct :)
	9:14pm coelacanth∅: hahaha
	9:15pm Tyler: Love songs where the vocals start 8 minutes in
	9:15pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ coelacanth @9:03 Hi Coelacanth! Not an R.E.M. demo, but the earliest single by the band, the A-side (Radio Free Europe) of which they would later re-record on their first full-length.
	9:15pm DJ Babs: This song is truloy fantastic!
	9:15pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:04 Mitch Easter did great stuff!
	9:16pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ doctorjazz @9:05 Hello Doctorjazz!
	🏝 9:16pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:15 EFD did a great interview with him on the mothership some months ago
	9:16pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Scott, it's a longer show, so you're going to catch pretty much the same amount as always!
	9:16pm Tyler: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:15 That 'Dead Letter Office' compilation is pretty choice.
	9:18pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "When It's Over" by "Wipers" That was really good
	🏝 9:19pm Will thee Sound Guy: i think this was efd's Mitch Easter show... www.wfmu.org...
	🏝 9:21pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @9:19 wow was it 2021? I think he did something more recent as well, but that looks like the more extensive one if so. dang, it's all a blur
	9:22pm DJ Babs: I agree...everything is a blur the older I get!!!!
	🏝 9:23pm Will thee Sound Guy: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:21 I thought he did too, I combed through his playlist descriptions... I feel like he would have written it if it was on another one.
	9:27pm Tyler: O.M.D. were great until Michael Stipe went baldy :)
	9:28pm DJ Babs: LOL.. that whistling sound you hear is a kettle in their studio apparently!!!
	9:29pm Tyler: Tea-time FOREVR!
	🏝 9:29pm Will thee Sound Guy: some of the odd places I've provided sound for bands was in a bowling alley and in a tattoo shop... Obviously, garages, basements, bars, venues, outdoors, etc are pretty 'standard' places
	9:29pm DJ Babs: Fun fact I can't drink earl grey tea anymore because I'm allergic to bergamot!
	9:30pm Aitch: ↳ DJ Babs @9:29 that it's disgusting is also a good reason
	🏝 9:30pm Will thee Sound Guy: I tried earl grey once, did not like it... not even once
	9:31pm Tyler: I once had a box of the Earl Grey that the Queen drinks. I'm not a big tea-drinker (coffaholic) but I think my favourite is Darjeeling.
	9:31pm DJ Babs: oh I love earl grey it's like drinking perfume. However I do not enjoy projectile barfing loll
	9:32pm DJ Babs: Seriously if you can't bop to this tune you can't bop.
	🏝 9:32pm Will thee Sound Guy: I'm a coffee drinker too... I do like Darjeeling, Oolong, black teas. There are a few other ones...
	9:33pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @9:29 Will, alternate venues are so much fun, though I imagine it can be a sonic challenge, if not a sonic nightmare, in terms of being a soundperson. Has an unusual venue ever surprised you in terms of sound?
	9:34pm Tyler: This song has a lot of gears - all pure candy
	9:34pm DJ Babs: This is the candy set! For sure. And I have a reason for these choices which I shall explain!!!
	9:35pm squidbeak: OMG
	9:35pm Tyler: I'd like to hear Elvis Costello cover this :)
	9:36pm DJ Blush: I’m deep cleaning while listening tonight and it’s sooooo good so far. Cheersing a joint to you all everyone
	9:36pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Mickey" by "Toni Basil" She is an uncredited "Daddy's Song" dancer in Head
	9:36pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Blush @9:36 Toke on, Britt!
	9:36pm DJ Babs: lol squidbeak. I KNOW But it's a hugely transitional tune for me..in 81 I was 9...just when you're growing out of kids music and this was the perfect way for pre teens to get into pop. Also that chat and organ especially is what got me into ska!
	9:37pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Tyler @9:27 hahaha
	9:37pm DJ Babs: love it Britt! Cheersing a VERY nice red wine I'm drinking tonight!
	9:37pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ squidbeak @9:35 Hello Squidbeak, welcome!
	9:37pm Aitch: Choreographed Once in a Lifetime
	9:37pm SuperJen: Every halloween i watch Rockula starring many but including Toni Basil and Thomas Dolby. haha
	🏝 9:37pm Will thee Sound Guy: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:33 places that have weird geometry can be tricky. also places with lots of tin and of concrete... sometimes the only solution is more bodies... or reflecting tge mains off tte walls instead of going straight or crossed... some places have a stage, but the audience back wall is just too close.. dunno every place has a story
	9:37pm ultradamno: Also, in Five Easy Pieces
	9:38pm squidbeak: ↳ DJ Babs @9:36 Same, utterly heartbreaking, the girls used to sing it and do a dance routine the playground
	9:38pm SuperJen: yesssss love this one. RIP Terry
	9:39pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Ghost Town" by "The Specials" Love this!
	9:39pm Tyler: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @9:37 Unfortunately, the only time I saw the Pixies live was in a tin hangar by the airport. The sound reflected horribly. It was almost unlistenable.
	9:39pm DJ Babs: Honestly I get goose bumps EVERY time I hear this song. I will NEVER EVER EVER get tired of it EVER
	9:39pm squidbeak: Hi Derek and all!
	🏝 9:39pm Will thee Sound Guy: you guys are killin it tonight, solid tunes all in a row! Yes RIP Terry
	9:39pm coelacanth∅: my favorite specials song
	9:39pm DJ Babs: Aww thanks Will! And yes hello hello Squidbeak!!!
	9:40pm DJ Babs: We're barely halfway there SO much more to come!!!!
	9:40pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Aitch @9:37 Ah, "Choreographed Once in a Lifetime", so it's that Toni Basil, one in the same... I love finding out new connections! Thanks Aitch!
	9:40pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Ghost Town" by "The Specials" Wasn't a fan of Ska at the time, but always loved this track. The Beat's Too Nice to Talk To about then as well
	9:40pm Tyler: This song is such a haunting hybrid of styles. Very unusual for the time...
	9:41pm squidbeak: Oh Lordy, right in the feels, it really broke me when Terry died
	9:41pm DJ Babs: plus the politics around it as well..what a statement!
	9:41pm Derek Westerholm: Agree with you all... Ghost Town is a truly exceptional track.
	9:41pm DJ Babs: It's a fuggin masterpiece
	9:42pm coelacanth∅: earl grey... fine line between not enough bergimot (sp?) and too much. that's my story and i'm ....
	9:43pm squidbeak: Brixton riots, right wing press saying shit
	9:44pm DJ Babs: precisely!
	9:44pm squidbeak: ↳ Aitch @9:40 Tears of a clown, top ten covers?!
	🏝 9:44pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:42 bergamot. I started my day with a cuppa Earl Grey
	9:46pm squidbeak: DJ Babs!!!
	9:49pm SuperJen: I had a similar experience, having an older sister that had Blondie records. For show and tell in Grade 1 I brought in the lyrics to Rapture which some of my classmates accused me of making up haha. Like how can that be a real song they said.
	9:49pm squidbeak: Bedsit man by madness
	9:50pm squidbeak: My name is Micheal Cane is about a IRA informer
	9:54pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ squidbeak @9:50 Squid, I love Madness' Michael Caine... That's excellent to learn this, thanks for that!
	🏝 9:56pm Scott67: Yeah! Go long! Loving it! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺
	9:56pm squidbeak: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:54 Hi Derek, Suggs mum ran the French house in Soho
	9:58pm squidbeak: Scott❤️
	🏝 9:59pm Kat in Chicago: Have to dash, thank you Babs'n'Derek!
	9:59pm DJ Babs: ↳ squidbeak @9:50 I thought Michael Caine was about how he'd lend his name to anything for a buck during the 80's!
	10:00pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:59 Thank you thank you Kat!!!
	10:00pm DJ Babs: ↳ SuperJen @9:49 Thank goodness for older musical influences!!!
	10:01pm Tyler: Like the trippy B-52's on acid vocals
	10:03pm squidbeak: ↳ DJ Babs @9:59 Maybee...or...who can tell the story? Cracking show Babs, happy Friday everyone🍻
	10:06pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:59 Thanks Kat, have a wonderful night & onwards!
	10:08pm DJ Babs: Happy Friday to those in Friday and Happy Almost Friday!! SO CLOSE!
	10:08pm DJ Babs: I definitely have a warm fuzzy glow lol
	10:10pm coelacanth∅: 'night Kat
	10:10pm SuperJen: Love this!
	10:12pm DJ Babs: Minimal wave from Burlington ON baby!!!
	10:14pm DJ Babs: Glad Derek is playing this because it's a great segueway into my next set!
	10:15pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @9:41 I guess The Boiler by Special AKA was 82...now that gets the awards for most grim ska track ever.
	10:20pm DJ Babs: Agreed that is depressing....but important! That track is fucking HARROWING
	10:22pm ultradamno: Steve Ignorant is still out there performing Crass material... www.steveignorant.com
	10:24pm wenzo: Thanks for driving the train conductor!
	10:24pm SuperJen: I love Klaus!
	10:24pm DJ Babs: awesome thank you wenzo! And welcome!!!
	10:24pm DJ Babs: Same! I ADORE KLAUS!
	10:26pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks Wenzo! Glad to see you!
	10:26pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "D.O.A." by "D.O.A." One of the first live punk bands I ever saw. I saw them a few times. I don't think any of their recordings really capture how good they were.
	10:27pm Tyler: Pull Up To My Bumper, Baby :)
	10:27pm DJ Babs: Seriously Grace Jones is the fucking SHIZZ. I love her more and more every time I hear her...
	10:28pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @10:27 She freaked me out when I was a kid, but now I LOVE her!
	10:28pm DJ Blush: Saaaaaame
	10:28pm SuperJen: I feel the same about her!
	10:28pm DJ Blush: Love her
	10:31pm DJ Babs: I had to. I CANNOT have a 1981 set without Duran Duran!
	10:32pm gsdoubleu: of course!!
	10:32pm SuperJen: This song rules! Always loved it since 5th grade haha
	10:33pm DJ Babs: EXACTLY
	10:33pm ultradamno: If any of you have Shudder, the docu-mini series Queer For Fear discusses the impact of Grace Jones in Vamp extensively
	10:33pm DJ Babs: I was SO into John. SO INTO JOHN.
	10:34pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @10:26 Damno, interesting... I've never seen them live, but I believe it... That's excellent they were one of the first punk bands you saw.
	10:35pm Tyler: I only own one Duran Duran record - the two versions of their debut on two different labels with different songs, different covers and (to my ears) different mixing and mastering.
	10:35pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @10:33 The Grace Jones doc 'Bloodlight & Bami' is highly recommended.
	10:36pm wenzo: Love this yoko track.
	10:36pm DJ Babs: I have ALL the albums up to Notorious and ALL the 12 inches. They were some of the first records I bought...
	10:36pm Tyler: Yoko!
	10:36pm wenzo: I heard JL was carrying the tape of this when he died?
	10:36pm ultradamno: As bands named after a character in Barbarella go, they are one
	10:37pm DJ Babs: Yes Wenzo. It is the last song he ever played on. And apparently he played his main Beatles guitar on it....
	10:38pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @10:36 I have a bootleg copy of that concert film David Lynch made with Duran Duran if you're interested.
	🏝 10:39pm Scott67: Fanfuckentastic Show! I've gotten zits again just listening, you gotta keep goin now until I get through puberty!
	10:41pm gsdoubleu: love this cover! nice work Trevor!
	10:41pm SuperJen: Love this cover too! Sorry what was the IG handle?
	🏝 10:41pm Scott67: Time is relative! Keep going! Perfection is a state of mind, & I'm approaching perfection! Never stop doing what you do Babs & Derek! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺❤️❤️
	10:43pm Alli B: 🖤
	10:43pm Tyler: I guess the Bauhaus North American tour is dead (not undead)
	10:43pm DJ Babs: thriftartremix he redoes old cheesy paintings and inserts pop culture characters in theml His work is super cool!!!
	10:43pm wenzo: I was playing pool I a bar last week and I played Bella Legosi’s Dead on the jukebox and this lady came up to me and thanked me profusely apparently it’s been her favorite song for 40 years and she couldn’t get over the fact that a younger person played it. She was so jazzed. Not really doing the story justice. You had to be there I guess.
	10:44pm Tyler: Hope Peter Murphy is getting better.
	10:44pm DJ Babs: There were rumours of a Love and Rockets tour and those got quashed pretty fast this week!
	10:44pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @10:44 I'd be glad for either.
	10:44pm wenzo: Next time I’m in that bar I’m gonna have to see if they have mask on ye olde digital jukebox
	10:45pm DJ Babs: ↳ wenzo @10:43 No that is an excellent story Wenzo! I love it when I hear unexpected treats in unexpected places! That happened to me this week. I heard Whitey, one of my favourite artists at the grocery store! LOLZ
	10:45pm Derek Westerholm: Mask is definitely my favourite Bauhaus album.
	10:45pm wenzo: Nice!
	10:46pm Tyler: My favourite Banshees record!
	10:47pm Derek Westerholm: Wenzo, I love that story!
	10:47pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Tyler @10:46 Tyler, I definitely concur
	10:47pm Tyler: Steve Severin is really helping to drive this song.
	10:48pm DJ Babs: Juju is the shit...I LOVED and still LOVE this tune.
	10:48pm coelacanth∅always with a popular opinion!: juju's very good, but no comparison to the first 2, before the 2 creative lights left the band!
	10:49pm DJ Babs: Oh this set is SO GODDAMN SATISFYIHNG TO ME lol
	10:49pm coelacanth∅always with a popular opinion!: (and i like in the flat field the best)
	10:49pm Tyler: ↳ coelacanth∅always with a popular opinion! @10:48 Agree to disagree. The Scream is great but 'Join Hands' is patchy at best.
	🏝 10:49pm Scott67: ↳ Song: "Charlotte Sometimes" by "The Cure" FUCK!! ❤️
	10:49pm DJ Babs: I like Mask because they take some risks on it!
	10:50pm SuperJen: This album was my jam at age 13
	10:51pm DJ Babs: oh HELLS yes.
	10:51pm DJ Babs: I went to highschool with a gal named Ramona and she had the PERFECT robert smith hair. It was the envy of all the kids in the smoking goth area.
	10:52pm coelacanth∅always with a popular opinion!: well, i think join hands is 100% Brilliant, except for about 25% of it being that pointless crap that dominates side 2! but all the real songs are their best. the scream, yeah maybe a little immature
	10:53pm Alli B: 💃💃💃
	10:53pm DJ Babs: Join hands was TERRIBLY panned when it came out!
	10:54pm ultradamno: I swear, not looking at the playlist, I assumed this was Simple Minds
	10:54pm Tyler: ↳ coelacanth∅always with a popular opinion! @10:52 I like Playground Twist. The rest I could take or leave. I like the McGeoch era best. IMO 'Juju' and 'Kiss In The Dreamhouse' are their pinnacle. But to each their own...
	10:54pm DJ Babs: ha! who did not make the cut sadly!
	🏝 10:56pm Scott67: Music, just like sent sends us back there. In our minds and in our hearts.🌻
	10:56pm Tyler: ↳ Tyler @10:54 Ironically, 'Join Hands' is the Banshees album I paid the most for. I believe I spent like $30 for the import on cassette! :)
	10:56pm coelacanth∅: Babs, that's a good sign! but even so, that pathetic attempt at a sister ray would leave a bad taste in a critic's mouth. i just ignore it and listen to the rest. as a perfect but very short album.
	10:56pm DJ Babs: We've got one more after this...the only song I could think that could follow this one....
	10:56pm ultradamno: Makes me want to thrust my fingerless glove to the sky because...Molly Ringwald
	10:58pm coelacanth∅: i appreciate all the McGeoch Love. but that band wouldn't have been what they were without the groundbreaking sensibilities of Kenny Morris and John McKay having pointed them in that direction.
	🏝 10:59pm Scott67: VERSION!!!❤️
	11:00pm Tyler: This version gives 'Our Lips Are Sealed' a sinister undertone. Very nice.
	🏝 11:01pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you DJ Babs and Derek, awesome show!!!
	🏝 11:01pm Scott67: You guys! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🌻
	11:02pm Alli B: THANK YOU!!
	11:02pm wenzo: My neighbor claims to be Lori Anderson’s nephew
	11:02pm SuperJen: Thank you for the tunes and all the neat information that accompanied them!
	🏝 11:02pm Scott67: Breathless with joy!
	11:02pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Babs! Thanks Derek!
	11:03pm Tyler: This also gives 'In The Air Tonight' an unintended religious overtone. Haha!
	11:03pm coelacanth∅: 1980 things were definitely already going to shit! (despite many great albums in '81)
	11:03pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ wenzo @11:02 "My neighbor claims to be Lori Anderson’s nephew" would be a great title for a song.
	11:04pm DJ Babs: lol thank you all! And I still think there was good stuff from 81 to 84!!!
	11:04pm DJ Babs: Lol don't tempt me into an 1984 episode!!!
	11:04pm Derek Westerholm: Thank-you all for being here, listening, chatting & making our time here so much more special!
	11:05pm Tyler: ↳ Derek Westerholm @11:03 "Who can it be knocking at my door?" " "It's Laurie Anderson's nephew..." :)
	11:05pm coelacanth∅: DO IT!
	11:06pm coelacanth∅: 'much as i loathe 80s music overall every year has at least a show's worth of great tracks
	11:06pm DJ Babs: lol. I migtht just! It's just knowing where to look. I have huge problems from 87 on...
	11:07pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @11:06 "87 And Cry" - David Bowie :)
	11:08pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @11:06 But that's when the Sun City Girls really start cooking
	🏝 11:09pm Scott67: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:06 Evolution is like the mate. Don't hold on to the shit. But grow from the greatness. 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	11:09pm DJ Babs: Derek and I are now having a heated argument on the significance of O Superman LOL
	11:09pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @11:09 No such thing, the significance is not up for debate!
	11:10pm DJ Babs: i can't tell you guys how many times I have ugly cried to this song lol
	11:10pm coelacanth∅: haha... i don't wanna know who doesn't think it's a miracle of audio!
	11:10pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @11:09 It's indelible, I'll admit, but so mockable.
	11:10pm coelacanth∅: that whole album. what a genius.
	11:11pm DJ Babs: It's on the shortlist to be played at my funeral take note everyone! LOL
	11:11pm ultradamno: Uh, no.
	11:11pm coelacanth∅: (and this coming from someone that despises autotune, vocoder, most rapping, the majority of synthesizer music...)
	11:12pm wenzo: 🙏thanks!
	11:12pm DJ Babs: goodnight kids! Have a wonderful week! We'll see ya with new and old stuff next thursday! <3
	11:12pm Tyler: Can definitely here Laurie Anderson's influence on 'Art Of Noise'.
	11:12pm Derek Westerholm: Goodnight again, all (if it's night for you), good day, otherwise!
	11:12pm ultradamno: 16 TONS...now the 80s are gettin' it!
	11:12pm coelacanth∅: ultra, you are WRONG
	11:12pm Tyler: Thanks Derek, Babs, Meepmoop and those in the chat. Nice spending time with you.
	11:12pm coelacanth∅: Thanks again y'all tchau
	11:12pm DJ Babs: lol so I guess Coelacanth an all vocoder show is out?
	11:12pm ultradamno: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:12 I will fight you with KNIVES!
	11:13pm coelacanth∅: haha... go for it Babs! you don't need me!
	11:13pm wenzo: Fight with pool noodles
	11:14pm coelacanth∅: oh man...more knives!
	11:14pm DJ Babs: LOL NO! I can change your mind! There is something beautiful about the uncanny and unhuman of the vocoder...but that's another episode....lol Thank you all for being with us this week and every week. You guys are the funnest!
	11:15pm coelacanth∅: i like Sam Segal's show and Love him... be he knows if he entertains autotune i'm leaving! it's okay.
	11:15pm coelacanth∅: vocoder's not always bad
	11:16pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @11:06 Iggy with clear plastic pants twitter.com...

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from January 19, 2023

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