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RAILWAY CHILDREN - Somewhere South (Recurrence) 1988ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE EGYPTIANS - Another Bubble (Fegmania) 1985THE JAZZ BUTCHER - Rebecca Wants Her Bike Back (Angels b-side) 1986McCARTHY - What Our Boys Are Fighting For (The Enraged Shall Inherit the Earth) 1989DARLING BUDS - The Other Night (Pop Said) 1988THE DANGTRIPPERS - When Time Runs Out (Days Between Stations) 1989R.E.M. - Drive 8 (Fables of the Reconstruction) 1985THE SIDEWINDERS - Cigarette (Witchdoctor) 1988DRIVIN N' CRYIN - Toy Never Played With (Mystery Road) 1989JASON & THE SCORCHERS - Harvest Moon (Fervor EP) 1983THE SMITHEREENS - House We Used Live In (Green Thoughts) 1988 THE PLIMSOULS - How Long Will It Take? (Everywhere at Once) 1983THE LADS - Bostown Girls (Out From the Shadows) 1983fIREHOSE - Brave Captain (Ragin Full On) 1986DIE KREUZEN - Slow (Century Days) 1988

SUGARCUBES - Motorcrash (Life's Too Good) 1988MIDNIGHT OIL - Only The Strong (10-1) 1983LOVE & ROCKETS - So Alive (s/t) 1989CLEANERS FROM VENUS - Julie Profumo (single) 1986MODERN ENGLISH - Hands Across the Sea (Ricochet Days) 1984FLOCK OF SEAGULLS - The More You Live The More You Love (Story of a Young Heart) 1984OMD - So In Love (Crush) 1985 NEW ORDER - Your Silent Face (Power Corruption & Lies) 1983THE MOOD - Is There a Reason (Singles Collection) 1981THE COMATEENS - Resist Her (Deal With It) 1984ALTERED IMAGES - I Could Be Happy (Pinky Blue) 1982ADAM ANT - Playboy (Strip) 1983JAMES - What Fore (Strip Mine) 1988

NOT SHAKESPEARE – Turnaround (s/t EP) 1986LOVE TRACTOR – Chilly Damn Willy (s/t) 1984DUMPTRUCK – Wire (For the Country) 1987YO LA TENGO – The Cone of Silence (Ride The Tiger) 1986GALAXIE 500 – Parking Lot (Today) 1989DOWNY MILDEW – Sally Pt III (Broomtree) 1987THE FEELIES – The High Road (The Good Earth) 1986O POSITIVE – With You (Only Breathing) 1985LEMONHEADS – Mallo Cup (Lick) 1989DINOSAUR JR. – Raisans (You’re Living All Over Me) 1988DAS DAMEN – Noon Daylight (Mousetrap) 1989SPIDER BABY – Twisted (s/t EP) 1988BUCK PETS – A Little Murder (s/t) 1989BUFFALO TOM – Reason Why (s/t) 1989PURE JOY – Turmoil (Unsung) 1988THE DOWNSIDERS – I Wanna Drive (All My Friends Are Fish) 1988THE DARROWS – Cellar Into Eaves (Cellar Into Eaves) 1986THE PRIMITONS – Five Lines (s/t EP) 1985SIDEWINDERS – What Am I Supposed to Do? (Witchdoctor) 1989FIRE TOWN – Where The Shadows Fall (The Good Life) 1989MARSHAL FIELDS – Come a Little Closer (s/t) 1986JET BLACK BERRIES – Fatherly Advice (Desperate Fires) 1986UPS & DOWNS – In The Shadows (single) 1988THE CONNELLS – Try (Boylan Heights) 1987THE BIG PICTURE – Poison Town (The Homeless House) 1987TOAD THE WET SPROCKET – Way Away (Bread & Circus) 1989I-RAILS – Invisible (Unfocused) 1987THE OPPOSUMS – My Thing (Marsupial Eruptus) 1989LIONS & GHOSTS – Love & Kisses From the Gutter (Velvet Kiss Lick of the Lime) 1987GIRLS FROM TAHITI – No Reply (Tower of Love EP) 1984

THE CHAMELEONS – On The Beach (What Does Anything…) 1985THE CURE – The Baby Screams (Head on the Door ) 1985 *request*THE ESSENCE – Only For You (single) 1987WILD SWANS – Bringing Home the Ashes (Bringing Home the Ashes) 1988IDIOT SAVANT – Throw It Away (The Rest On Down EP) 1984SUSSMAN LAWRENCE – Naturally, You’re Artificial (Pop City) 1984 *request*PYLON – Dub (Gyrate) 1980GANG OF FOUR – Why Theory? (Solid Gold) 1981LAVVI EBBEL – Much Ado About Nothing (7” single) 1982ROMEO VOID – Myself to Myself (It’s a Condition) 1981FRENCH FILMS – Special Shades (White Orchid) 2013ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN – Bring on the Dancing Horses (Songs to Learn & Sing) 1986THE CHURCH – As You Will (Heyday) 1985THE SMITHS – Shakespeare’s Sister (Singles) 1985

XTC - Seagulls Screaming, Kiss Her (Mummer) 1983BILL NELSON - The Hidden Flame (On a Blue Wing) 1983JAPAN - Life In Tokyo (Assemblage) 1981ICEHOUSE - One By One (Primitive Man) 1982ULTRAVOX - Hymn (single) 1982THE STRANGLERS - Paradise (Feline) 1982JULIAN COPE - Trampolene (St. Julian) 1987MIDNIGHT OIL - Bullroarer (Diesel and Dust) 1988THE DIVINYLS - Only Lonely (Desperate) 1982THE DRONGOS - Ghost Ship (s/t) 1984DEEP SIX - Sunny Day (Garage D'Or) 1986THE SKIDS - Blood & Soil (Joy) 1981 *request*ROBYN HITCHCOCK - Egyptian Cream (Fegmania) 1985COMSAT ANGELS - You Move Me (single) 1984

WIRE – Ahead (The Ideal Copy) 1987BALAAM & THE ANGEL – Love Me (Sun Family) 1985THE MISSION – Bridges Burning (God’s Own Medicine) 1986THE CHURCH – Dropping Names (Séance) 1984VISAGE – Night Train (The Anvil) 1982FAD GADGET – Ricky’s Hand (single) 1980BUSH TETRAS – Too Many Creeps (single) 1980DEVO – Planet Earth (Freedom of Choice) 1980ART OBJECTS – Showing Off to Impress the Girls (Bagpipe Music) 1981HAIRCUT ONE HUNDRED – Prime Time (Paint & Paint) 1984JULIAN COPE – St. Julian (St. Julian) 1987XTC – Earn Enough For Us (Skylarking) 1987SPLIT ENZ – One Step Ahead (Waiata) 1981CLEANERS FROM VENUS – Girl on a Swing (Going to England) 1987THE GO-BETWEENS – Streets of Your Town (16 Lovers Lane) 1988LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS – Grace (Easy Pieces) 1985SOMETHING HAPPENS – Beach (Been There, Seen That, Done That) 1988THROWING MUSES – No Parachutes (Hunkpapa) 1989REM – Little America (Reckoning) 1984THE THREE O’CLOCK – I Go Wild (Baroque Hoedown EP) 1982GRAPES OF WRATH – Do You Want to Tell Me? (Now & Again) 1989BIG DIPPER – All Going Out Together (Supercluster comp) 1987TRANSLATOR – Friends of the Future (s/t) 1985THE LONG RYDERS - Still Get By (Native Sons) 1984CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN – Turquoise Jewelry (Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart) 1988MOJO NIXON & SKID ROPER – Stuffin’ Martha’s Muffin (Frenzy) 1986X – The World’s a Mess, It’s in My Kiss (Los Angeles) 1980fIREHOSE – Sometimes (If’n) 1987MEAT PUPPETS - She's Hot (Out My Way) 1986BUTTHOLE SURFERS - Sea Ferring (Rembrandt Pussyhorse) 1986

** Original Broadcast: Dec 9, 2015 **  THE THOUGHT - Eight Miles High (The Byrds) 1985THE THREE O'CLOCK - In My Own Time (Bee Gees) 1983THE DICKIES - Nights in White Satin (Moody Blues) 1980CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN - Photograph (Ringo Starr) 1986THE SMITHEREENS - The Seeker (The Who) 1987R.E.M. - Toys In The Attic (Aerosmith) 1987THE REPLACEMENTS - Black Diamond (KISS) 1984HUSKER DU - Love Is All Around (Mary Tyler Moore theme) 1985X - Soul Kitchen (The Doors) 1980THE PRIMITONS - Something On My Mind (The Left Banke) 1985GUADALCANAL DIARY - And Your Bird Can Sing (The Beatles) 1987THE FEELIES - She Said, She Said (The Beatles) 1986COUNTRY DICK MONTANA - Karma Chameleon (Culture Club) 1987MOJO NIXON & SKID ROPER - Ina Gadda Davida (Iron Butterfly)WALL OF VOODOO - Ring Of Fire (Johnny Cash) 1982AZTEC CAMERA - Jump (Van Halen) 1985KIRSTY MacCOLL - You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby (The Smiths) 1989

** Original Broadcast: Dec. 9, 2015 **  SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - Dear Prudence (The Beatles) 1984LOVE & ROCKETS - Lucifer Sam (Syd Barrett) 1986DANSE SOCIETY - 2000 Light Years From Home (Rolling Stones) 1984CHAMELEONS UK - John I'm Only Dancing (David Bowie) 1986THE CHURCH - I Am a Rock (Simon & Garfunkel) 1982THE DAMNED - Alone Again Or (Love) 1986MISSION UK - Tomorrow Never Knows (The Beatles) 1987UNTIL DECEMBER - Call Me (Blondie) 1986LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH - Like a Virgin (Madonna) 1986BAUHAUS - Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie) 1982THE STRANGLERS - All Day and All Of The Night (The Kinks) 1988THE FALL - Victoria (The Kinks) 1987FUN BOY THREE - Our Lips Are Sealed (Go Gos) 1983GLEAMING SPIRES - Does Your Mother Know (ABBA) 1984RED ROCKERS - Eve Of Destruction (PF Sloan) 1984ROBYN HITCHCOCK - Bells of Rhymney (The Byrds) 1984

ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Crystal Days (Ocean Rain) 1984GENE LOVES JEZEBEL - Always a Flame (Immigrant) 1985SAD LOVERS & GIANTS - Colourless Dream (Epic Garden Music) 1982SKELETAL FAMILY - Streetlight (Futile Combat) 1985DANSE SOCIETY - Hide (Seduction) 1982THE DAMNED - Grimly Fiendish (Phantasmagoria) 1985THE MARCH VIOLETS – Deep (Electric Shades) 1985COCTEAU TWINS - Carolyn's Fingers (Blue Bell Knoll) 1988MARY GOES ROUND - The Night (Sunset) 1989THE ESSENCE – Only For You (single) 1988 *request*WIRE TRAIN - Everything is Turning Up Down Again (In a Chamber) 1983PSYCHEDELIC FURS - Like a Stranger (Mirror Moves) 1984RED ROCKERS - Fanfare for Metropolis (Good as Gold) 1983THE CALL - Everywhere I Go (Reconciled) 1986THE FIXX - Less Cities More Moving People (Phantoms) 1984NERVUS REX - Go Go Girl (s/t) 1980THE JAM - Absolute Beginners (single) 1981THE CLASH - Hitsville UK (Sandanista!) 1980THE NAILS - Voices (Dangerous Dreams) 1986CATERWAUL – Dizzy Delirium (Pin & Web) 1989 *request*THE PIXIES - Here Comes Your Man (Doolittle) 1989X – Breathless (single) 1983HUSKER DU - Games (Flip Your Wig) 1985THE RAMONES - My Brain is Hanging Upside Down (Animal Boy) 1986THE REPLACEMENTS - Black Diamond (Let It Be) 1984LAZY COWGIRLS - I'm Talking to You (s/t) 1985THE MINUTEMEN - Viet-Nam (Double Nickels on the Dime) 1984DRIVIN N' CRYIN - Another Scarlet Butterfly (Scarred But Smarter) 1986LET'S ACTIVE – Easy Does (Cypress) 1984THE REIVERS – In Your Eyes (Saturday) 1987THE THREE O'CLOCK - Susie's on the Ball (Ever After) 1987

THOMAS DOLBY - Europa & The Pirate Twins (Golden Age of Wireless) 1983B-52s - Song For a Future Generation (Whammy!) 1983HAIRCUT 100 - Fantastic Day (Pelican West) 1982BURNING SENSATIONS - Belly Of The Whale (s/t) 1983THE POLECATS - Rockabilly Guy (Make a Circuit EP) 1983VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE - I Say Nothing (Let It Bee) 1988KIDS IN THE KITCHEN - Change In Mood (single) 1983THE CARDIACS - Is This The Life (A Little Man...) 1988THE GODFATHERS - Love Is Dead (Birth.School.Work.Death) 1988GUADALCANAL DIARY - Always Saturday (Flip Flop) 1989DREAMS SO REAL - Everywhere Girl (single) 1985THE CHILLS - Wet Blanket (Brave Words) 1987THE MEKONS - Ghosts of American Astronauts (So Good It Hurts) 1988BILLY BRAGG - She's Got a New Spell (Worker's Playtime) 198854-40 - I Go Blind (s/t) 1985