THE FIXX - Less Cities More Moving People (Phantoms) 1984

GENERAL PUBLIC - Burning Bright (All The Rage) 1984

THE JAM - Beat Surrender (Beat Surrender EP) 1982

THE CLASH - Hitsville UK (Sandanista!) 1980

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD - Rise (Album) 1985

THE FALL - The Carry Bag Man (The Frenz Experiment) 1988

PETER MURPHY - Indigo Eyes (Love Hysteria) 1988

MAGAZINE - Because You're Frightened (The Correct Use of Soap) 1980

PETE SHELLEY - Homosapien (Homosapien) 1981

KING BLANK - Blind Box (The Real Dirt) 1988

HUNTERS & COLLECTORS - When The River Runs Dry (Ghost Nation) 1989

FLESH FOR LULU - So Strong (s/t) 1984

DRAMARAMA - Scenario (Cinema Verite) 1985

LET'S ACTIVE - Room With a View (Afoot) 1983

FRIENDS AGAIN - State of Art (single) 1983

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Crystal Days (Ocean Rain) 1984

THE SMITHS - Boy With a Thorn in His Side (The Queen Is Dead) 1986

RAILWAY CHILDREN - Somewhere South (Recurrence) 1988

MOEV - Yeah Whatever (single) 1986

WIRE - The Offer (Eardrum Buzz b-side) 1989

DEPECHE MODE - Something To Do (Some Great Reward) 1984

BLANCMANGE - Blind Vision (Mange Tout) 1984

REAL LIFE - Exploding Bullets (Let's Fall In Love) 1989

ICEHOUSE - No Promises (Measure For Measure) 1986

VISAGE - Fade to Grey (s/t) 1980

BAD BRAINS - Pay To Cum (s/t) 1982

ADAM & THE ANTS - Strip (single) 1983

BIG COUNTRY - 1000 Stars (The Crossing) 1983

U2 - Gloria (October) 1981

THE ALARM - Lie of the Land (Marching On EP) 1983

THE CULT - Horse Nation (Dreamtime) 1984

TRUE WEST - Bitter Dream (Hand of Fate) 1986

DREAM SYNDICATE - I Have Faith (Ghost Stories) 1986

ELEVENTH DREAM DAY - Rose of Jericho (single) 1989

THE FEELIES - Let's Go (The Good Earth) 1986

THE DANCING HOODS - Wild and The Lonely (12 Jealous Roses) 1985

BILLY BRAGG - Strange Things Happen (Brewing Up) 1984

ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE EGYPTIANS - Strawberry Mind (Fegmania!) 1985

THE JAM - Pretty Green (Sound Affects) 1980

XTC - Respectable Street (The Black Sea) 1980

SPLIT ENZ - Missing Person (True Colours) 1980

THE SMITHEREENS - Behind the Wall of Sleep (Especially For You) 1986 *request*

THE CHURCH - When You Were Mine (Blurred Crusade) 1982

COMSAT ANGELS - Eye of the Lens (single) 1981

CHAMELEONS UK - Looking Inwardly (What Does Anything...) 1985

LOVE & ROCKETS - Kundalini Express (Express) 1986

THE DAMNED - Thanks for the Night (Anything 12" b-side) 1986

BALAAM & THE ANGEL - The Wave (Greatest Story Ever Told) 1986

DANSE SOCIETY - Red Light Shine (Heaven Is Waiting) 1984

THE FALL - Cab It Up (12" single) 1989

BAD BRAINS - Pay To Cum! (s/t) 1982

THE DICKIES - Nights in White Satin (Dawn of the Dickies) 1980

THE SPECIALS - Stupid Marriage (s/t) 1980

THE POP - Shakeaway (Go) 1980

THE RECORDS - Girl in Golden Disc (Crashes) 1980

GRAPES OF WRATH - And I Know (September Bowl of Green) 1985

THE PRIMITONS - Five Lines (s/t EP) 1985

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - Partys Fall (Tinderbox) 1986

MARCH VIOLETS - Walk Into The Sun (single) 1986

BAUHAUS - Kick in the Eye (Mask) 1981

SAD LOVERS & GIANTS - Echo Play (Epic Garden Music) 1982

MODERN EON - Waiting For The Cavalry (Fiction Tales) 1981

THE CURE - Primary (Singles) 1981

CLAN OF XYMOX - 7th Time (s/t) 1985

SOFT CELL - Torch (single) 1984

ADAM & THE ANTS - Dog Eat Dog (Kings of the Wild Frontier) 1980

LENE LOVICH - New Toy (single) 1981

BOW WOW WOW - Mario (single) 1983

ROMEO VOID - Say No (Instincts) 1984

HAIRCUT 100 - So Tired (single) 1984

THE CALL - Oklahoma (Reconciled) 1986

TOM TOM CLUB - On, On, On, On (s/t) 1981

ALTERED IMAGES - Idols (Happy Birthday) 1981

CHROME - In a Dream (Inworlds) 1981

RUTS DC - Despondency (Animal Now) 1981

THE LUCY SHOW - Remains (Undone) 1985

WIRE TRAIN - Everything Is Turning Up Down Again (In a Chamber) 1983

WHITE CHINA - Real World (single) 1984

U2 - A Celebration (single) 1982

CLEANERS FROM VENUS - Julie Profumo (Going To England) 1987

XTC - Senses Working Overtime (English Settlement) 1982

SQUEEZE - Annie Get Your Gun (single) 1982

JOE JACKSON - Right & Wrong (Big World) 1986

BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE - The Bottom Line (This Is B.A.D.) 1985

This week's Podcast replay features an interview with Program Director DENIS McNAMARA (Executive Producer of the film "New Wave: Dare To Be Different"... a fantastic documentary on how WLIR-FM transformed American airwaves in the early 80s!)
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Plus, music from....
THE CHURCH - As You Will (Heyday) 1985
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - New Direction (s/t) 1987
THE LUCY SHOW - A Million Things (Mania) 1986
JESUS & MARY CHAIN - April Skies (Darklands) 1987
RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY - Hand On Heart (Talk About The Weather) 1985
DEATH IN JUNE - The Calling (Nada!) 1985
LOVE & ROCKETS - Motorcycle (s/t) 1989
**Interview w/ Denis McNamara**
U2 - Stories For Boys (Boy) 1980
THE CURE - A Night Like This (Singles: Starting at the Sea) 1985
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - Belladonna (Hyaena) 1984
NEW ORDER - Everything's Gone Green (single) 1981
SNAKE CORPS - Look East For Eden (Flesh On Flesh) 1985
PETER MURPHY - The Answer Is Clear (Final Solution 12" b-side) 1985
MISSING PERSONS - If Only For The Moment (Rhyme & Reason) 1984
GRAUZONE - Eisbaer (single) 1981
THE WAITRESSES - Square Pegs (single)
DEVO - That's Good (Oh No, It's Devo) 1982
YAZ - Situation (Upstairs at Eric's) 1982

NEW ORDER - Perfect Kiss (Low Life) 1985

PETE SHELLEY - You Can't Take That Away (Heaven and The Sea) 1986

KILLING JOKE - Love of the Masses (Brighter Than 1000 Suns) 1986

PETER MURPHY - All Night Long (Love Hysteria) 1988

THE LUCY SHOW - Lap of the Gods (Remembrances) 1986

BERLIN - Pleasure Victim (Pleasure Victim) 1982

NAKED EYES - Burning Bridges (s/t) 1983

MARC ALMOND - Love Letter (single) 1985

GLEAMING SPIRES - Funk For Children (Party EP) 1984

SPARKS - Moustache (Angst in My Pants) 1982

OINGO BOINGO - Little Guns (Good For Your Soul) 1983

THE WAITRESSES - I Know What Boys Like (single) 1981

ENGLISH BEAT - Best Friend (I Just Can't Stop It) 1980

THE JO-BOXERS - Boxerbeat (Like Gangbusters) 1983

THE MEMBERS - Working Girl (s/t) 1982

FLESH FOR LULU - Baby Hurricane (Big Fun City) 1985

HURRAH! - Gloria (single) 1985

THE SUGARCUBES - Blue Eyed Pop (Life's Too Good) 1988

THE ONLY ONES - Why Don't You Kill Yourself (Baby's Got a Gun) 1981

999 - Obsessed (Concrete) 1981

POP WILL EAT ITSELF - Love Missile F1-11 (Box Frenzy) 1987

THE FALL - Barmy (This Nation's Saving Grace) 1985

SUN AND THE MOON - Peace In Our Time (12" single) 1988

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Lost And Found (s/t) 1987

UPS & DOWNS - The Perfect Crime (single) 1986

GRAPES OF WRATH - Not The Way It Is (Now And Again) 1989

THE SMITHEREENS - Beauty & Sadness (Beauty & Sadness EP) 1983

R.E.M. - Ages Of You (Dead Letter Office) 1987

THE NEIGHBORHOODS - W.U.S.A. (The High Hard One) 1986

THE CHURCH - Myrrh (Heyday) 1986

SISTERS OF MERCY - Marian (First Last & Always) 1985

WIRE - In Vivo (Single) 1987

THE STRANGLERS - Always The Sun (Dreamtime) 1986 *request*

DEPECHE MODE - In Your Memory (People Are People b-side) 1984

MIDGE URE - If I Was (single) 1985

UNTIL DECEMBER - Call Me (s/t) 1986

THE CURE - The Baby Screams (Head on the Door) 1985

TONES ON TAIL - War (The Album Pop) 1985

JOY DIVISION - Dead Souls (Still) 1981

DANSE SOCIETY - Institution (Looking Through) 1986

ABECEDARIANS - Smiling Monarchs (single) 1985

GENE LOVES JEZEBEL - Suspicion (House of Dolls) 1987

THE SMITHS - Big Mouth Strikes Again (Queen Is Dead) 1986

KIRSTY MacCOLL- Terry (single) 1983

JULIAN COPE - Charlotte Anne (My Nation Underground) 1988

PSYCHEDELIC FURS - Love My Way (Forever Now) 1982

THE JO-BOXERS - Just Got Lucky (Like Gangbusters) 1983

ALTERED IMAGES - Don't Talk to Me About Love (Bite) 1983

B-52s - Detour Through Your Mind (Bouncing Off the Satellites) 1986

CABARET VOLTAIRE - White Car (C.O.D.E.) 1987

JAPAN - Quiet Life (Quiet Life) 1979

TEARDROP EXPLODES - Treason (Kilmanjaro) 1980

PETE SHELLEY - Yesterday's Not Here (Homosapien) 1981

HOUSE OF LOVE - Shine On (single) 1987

ABECEDARIANS - Misery of Cities (Eureka EP) 1986

THE CHURCH "Volumes" from Remote Luxury 1984

CLEANERS FROM VENUS "Julie Profumo" from Going to England 1987

SPOONS "Arias & Symphonies" from Arias & Symphonies 1982

THE BUGGLES "Clean, Clean" from The Age of Plastic 1999

PETER SCHILLING "Lone Survivor" from Things To Come 1985

A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS "The Traveller" from Listen 1983

MODERN ENGLISH "Breaking Away" from Stop Start 1986

WIRE TRAIN "Everything Is Turning Up Down Again" from In a Chamber 1983

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES "Partys Fall" from Tinderbox 1986

SNAKE CORPS "Victory Parade" from Single 1986

CLAN OF XYMOX "Agonised By Love" from Medusa 1986

VISAGE "The Damned Don't Cry" from Single 1982

PAUL HARDCASTLE "Nineteen" from Single 1985

AFTER THIS "Fields" from 7" single 1986

O.M.D. "Radio Waves" from Dazzle Ships 1983

THE TOURISTS "All Life's Tragedies" from Reality Effect 1979

COWBOY MOUTH "Long Hot Ride" from Cowboys and Indians 1986

THE RAVE-UPS "Right Now" from Class Tramp EP 1983

SWIMMING POOL Qs "The Bells Ring" from Swimming Pool Qs 1984

THE DB'S "Dynamite" from Stands for Decibels 1981

LOVE TRACTOR "Chilly Damn Willy" from Love Tractor 1982

THE PRIMITONS "Happy All the Time" from Don't Go Away: Collected Works 1987

THE FURLONGS "Bed She Made" from 2300 Ward 1988

GAME THEORY "Shark Pretty" from Distortion - EP 1984

THE THREE O'CLOCK "Stupid Einstein" from Sixteen Tambourines 1983

SPLIT ENZ "Missing Person" from True Colours 1980

XTC "No Thugs in Our House" from English Settlement 1982

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - Bring Me The Head of the Preacher Man (Hyaena) 1984

P.I.L. - FFF (Album) 1985

COMSAT ANGELS - Waiting For a Miracle (Waiting For a Miracle) 1980

LIQUID LIQUID - Cavern (single) 1983

TOM TOM CLUB - Man With the 4-Way Hips (12" single) 1983

PREFAB SPROUT - Cue Fanfare (Swoon) 1984

FIGURES ON A BEACH - Breathless (single) 1984

PRIVATE SECTOR - Tame The Young & The Wild (Darkness Burning Bright) 1987

ULTRAVOX - Loves Great Adventure (Lament) 1984

VISAGE - Only The Good Die Young (Beat Boy) 1984

KRAFTWERK - It's More Fun to Compute (Computer World) 1981

POESIE NOIRE - Timber (Tetra) 1988

GIRLS FROM TAHITI - No Reply (Tower of Love EP) 1984

JOY DIVISION - Dead Souls (Still) 1980

THE CURE - Play For Today (Singles) 1980

XTC - No Thugs in Our House (English Settlement) 1982

THE WILD FLOWERS - A Kind of Kingdom (Dust) 1987

HOUSE OF LOVE - Shine On (single) 1987

JESUS & MARY CHAIN - A Taste of Cindy (Psycho Candy) 1985

ANOTHER SUNNY DAY - Anorak City (CD-86 comp) 1986

MIGHTY LEMON DROPS - Happy Head (Happy Head) 1987

THE SMITHS - Nowhere Fast (Meat Is Murder) 1985

RAILWAY CHILDREN - Brighter (Reunion Wilderness) 1987

UPS & DOWNS - Lit By The Fuse (Underneath the Watchful Eye) 1988

THE SPLIFFS - 4 Seasons (House of Seven) 1987

R.E.M. - Fall On Me (Life's Rich Pageant) 1986

GUADALCANAL DIARY - Litany (2x4) 1987

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - Belladonna (Hyaena) 1984

LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH - New Church (s/t) 1982

INSULIN REACTION - Lonely Lady (What's The Point) 1988

LOVE & ROCKETS - If There's a Heaven Above (12" single) 1985

CLAN OF XYMOX - A Day (s/t) 1985

DANSE SOCIETY - Runaway (Institution) 1986

THE PUPPETS - Way Of Life (single) 1983

MARC ALMOND - Love Letter (single) 1985

GARY NUMAN - Me, I Disconnect From You (Replicas) 1979

THE SOUND - Words Fail Me (Jeopardy) 1980

MAGAZINE - Because You're Frightened (The Correct Use of Soap) 1980

OINGO BOINGO - Violent Love (s/t EP) 1980

PSYCHEDELIC FURS - Sister Europe (s/t) 1980

WIRE TRAIN - Chamber of Hellos (In a Chamber) 1983

CARDIACS - Is This The Life? (single) 1988

SHRIEKBACK - Malaria (Oil & Gold) 1985

UV PROM - Mobile Home Murder (Field of Vision EP) 1985

KILLING JOKE - Fire Dance (Fire Dance) 1983

LONDON COWBOYS - Dance Crazy (single) 1987

DANIELLE DAX - Cat-House (Dark Adapted Eye) 1988

THE PRIMITIVES - Spacehead (Lovely) 1988

MY BLOODY VALENTINE - Never Say Goodbye (Strawberry Wine b-side) 1987

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT - Dukla Prague Away Kit (single) 1986

THE HIT PARADE - You Didn't Love Me Then (single) 1985

SPLIT ENZ - Take a Walk (Time & Tide) 1982

CLEANERS FROM VENUS - Julie Profumo (Made In England) 1986

XTC - Dear God (Skylarking) 1986

HUNTERS & COLLECTORS - Living Daylight (Living Daylight EP) 1987

LOVE & ROCKETS - If There's  Heaven Above (Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven) 1985

JESUS & MARY CHAIN - Taste of Cindy (Psycho Candy)1985

THE CHURCH - When You Were Mine (Blurred Crusade) 1982 *request*

KILLING JOKE - Birds of a Feather (12" single) 1986

LIVE SKULL - Safe From Me (Positraction) 1987

RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY - Do You Understand (Nothing Wrong single) 1987

THE SMITHS - Some Girls are Bigger Than Others (The Queen Is Dead) 1986

CHINA CRISIS - Wishful Thinking (Working With fire & Steel) 1983

THE BLUEBELLS - Young at Heart (Sisters) 1984

THE WOODENTOPS - Travelling Man (Giant) 1988

GLEAMING SPIRES - A Christian Girl's Problems (Walk on Well Lighted Streets) 1983

SPARKS - Fingertips (Music to Dance To) 1986

THE CLASH - Overpowered By Funk (Combat Rock) 1982 *request*

TALKING HEADS - Crosseyed & Painless (Remain in Light) 1980

THE FIXX - Changing (Reach The Beach) 1983

SPANDAU BALLET - Instinction (Singles Collection) 1982

THOMAS DOLBY - Europe and the Pirate Twins (Golden Age of Wireless) 1983

BOW WOW WOW - Louis Quatorze (I Want Candy) 1982

POP WILL EAT ITSELF - Love Missile F1-11 (Now For a Feast) 1988

LEAVING TRAINS - Temporal Slut (Fuck) 1987

HUSKER DU - Standing in the Rain (Warehouse Songs & Stories) 1987

GUADALCANAL DIARY - Lips of Steel (2x4) 1987

BIG DIPPER - She's Fetching (Heavens) 1987

DINOSAUR JR. - Freak Scene (Bug) 1988

SCREAMING TRIBESMEN - Move a Little Closer (EP) 1986

THE SMITHEREENS - I Don't Want to Lose You (Especially For You) 1986

R.E.M. - I Believe (Life's Rich Pageant) 1986

THE WOODS - What About Me (It's Like This) 1987

THE REIVERS - In Your Eyes (Saturday) 1987