80's Underground Podcasts

THE LUCY SHOW - Land & The Life (Mania) 1986

NEW ORDER - Everything's Gone Green (single) 1981

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - Christine (single) 1980

FIGURES ON A BEACH - Decay (Swimming EP) 1983

THE FOUNTAINHEAD - Sometimes (Burning Touch) 1986

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

TALK TALK - Dum Dum Girl (It's My Life) 1984

BOOM CRASH OPERA - Best Thing (single) 1989

U2 - A Celebration (single) 1982

THAT PETROL MOTION - Fleshprint (Manic Pop Thrill) 1986

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

BILL PRITCHARD - Tommy & Co (single) 1989

WILD SWANS - Worst Year of My Life (Bringing Home the Ashes) 1988

JAMES - Fairground - Strip Mine (1988)

LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS - Lost Weekend (Easy Pieces) 1986

CORN DOLLIES - Nothing (Nocturnal-Best of MM) 1989

CHAMELEONS UK - Up The Down Escalator (Script of the Bridge) 1983

HOUSE OF LOVE - Destroy The Heart (single) 1988

JULIAN COPE - Someone Like Me (My Nation Underground) 1988

MIGHTY LEMON DROPS - Into the Heart of Love (single) 1989

JESUS & MARY CHAIN - Never Understand (Psychocandy) 1985

PURE JOY - New Psychotic Dream (Unsung) 1988

BLUE AEROPLANES - Warhol's 15 (Friendloverplane) 1988

SONIC YOUTH - Teenage Riot (Daydream Nation) 1988

THE PIXIES - Gouge Away (Doolittle) 1989

FUN BOY THREE - The Lunatics (s/t) 1983

THE COLOURFIELD - Colourfied (12" single) 1984

THE SILENCERS - I See Red (A Letter From St. Paul) 1987

THE HOUSEMARTINS - Anxious (London O Hull 4) 1986

RAILWAY CHILDREN - History Burns (Brighter b-side) 1987

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES – Song From the Edge of the World (single) 1987

LOVE & ROCKETS – All in My Mind (Express) 1986

THE OPPOSITION – A Day In The Future (Intimacy) 1983

COCTEAU TWINS – Aloysius (Treasure) 1984

CLAN OF XYMOX – Agonised by Love (Medusa) 1986

LOWLIFE – Reflections of I (Rain) 1985

NEW ORDER – Sunrise (Low Life) 1985

THE CURE – The Hanging Garden (Pornography) 1982

AND ALSO THE TREES – Shaletown (single) 1987

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

THE SMITHS – Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (Queen Is Dead) 1986

OCEAN BLUE – Myron (s/t) 1989

FOR AGAINST – Get On With it (Echelons) 1987

THE DARROWS – is It You (Cellar Into Eaves) 1986

SGT ARMS – Walking on the Roof (single) 1982

RED ROCKERS – Til it All Falls Down (Good As Gold) 1983

ROMEO VOID – Say No (Instincts) 1984

CONCRETE BLONDE – True (s/t) 1986

THE RAVE-UPS – These Wishes (Book of Your Regrets) 1988

SCRUFFY THE CAT – My Baby She’s Alright (Tiny Days) 1987

R.E.M. – Pretty persuasion (Reckoning) 1984

X – Surprise Surprise (See How We Are) 1987

THE REPLACEMENTS – Color Me Impressed (Hootenanny) 1983

THE DICKIES – Rosemary (Stukas Over Disneyland) 1988

BIG DRILL CAR – 5 Year Itch (Small Block EP) 1987

DIE KREUZEN – Slow (Century Days) 1988

MEAT PUPPETS – Mirage (Mirage) 1987

THELONIOUS MONSTER – So What if I Did (single) 1989

fIREHOSE – For the Singer of R.E.M. (Sometimes, Almost Always) 1988

ULTRAVOX - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes (Lament) 1984

VISAGE - Blocks on Blocks (s/t) 1980

MOEV - In Your Head (Zimmerkampf) 1982

NEW ORDER - Round & Round (Technique) 1989

XYMOX - Evelyn - (Twist Of Shadows) 1989

ALMOST ALONE - Dancing To Kill (single) 1984

KILLING JOKE - Sanity (Brighter Than a Thousand Suns) 1986

GENE LOVES JEZEBEL - Desire (12" single) 1986

FREUR - Riders In The Night (single) 1984

PAYOLA$ - Soldier (single) 1982

THE FIXX - Walkabout (Walkabout) 1986

OINGO BOINGO - Not My Salve (Boingo) 1987

ADAM ANT - Strip (Strip) 1983

THOMAS DOLBY - Europa & The Pirate Twins (Golden Age of Wireless) 1983

B-52s - Song For a Future Generation (Whammy!) 1983

HAIRCUT 100 - Fantastic Day (Pelican West) 1982

BURNING SENSATIONS - Belly Of The Whale (s/t) 1983

THE POLECATS - Rockabilly Guy (Make a Circuit EP) 1983

VOICE OF THE BEEHIVE - I Say Nothing (Let It Bee) 1988

KIDS IN THE KITCHEN - Change In Mood (single) 1983

THE CARDIACS - Is This The Life (A Little Man...) 1988

THE GODFATHERS - Love Is Dead (Birth.School.Work.Death) 1988

GUADALCANAL DIARY - Always Saturday (Flip Flop) 1989

DREAMS SO REAL - Everywhere Girl (single) 1985

THE CHILLS - Wet Blanket (Brave Words) 1987

THE MEKONS - Ghosts of American Astronauts (So Good It Hurts) 1988

BILLY BRAGG - She's Got a New Spell (Worker's Playtime) 1988

54-40 - I Go Blind (s/t) 1985

NEW ORDER - Leave Me Alone (Power Corruption & Lies) 1983

COMSAT ANGELS - Be Brave (Sleep No More) 1981

SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - The Passenger (Through the Looking Glass) 1987

THE DAMNED - Shadow Of Love (Phantasmagoria) 1985

DANIELLE DAX - Big Hollow Man (Dark Adapted Eye) 1988

KILLING JOKE - Fire Dances (Fire Dances) 1983

EASTERHOUSE - To Live Like This (Contenders) 1986

WALL OF VOODOO - Big City (Seven Days in Sammystown) 1985

ADAM ANT - Stand & Deliver (Prince Charming) 1981

THE JAM - Funeral Pyre (single) 1981

ENGLISH BEAT - Get a Job (Wha'ppen) 1981

PETER SCHILLING - Major Tom (single) 1983

OINGO BOINGO - Wake Up It's 1984 (Good For Your Soul) 1983

B-52s - Strobe Light (Wild Planet) 1980

MIDNIGHT OIL - Dreamworld (Diesel & Dust) 1988

THE EURYTHMICS - Belinda (In The Garden) 1981

THE FIXX - Built For The Future (Walkabout) 1986

SQUARE ROOT OF NOW - Between the Light (Bent Around the Corners) 1984

YAZ - Sweet Thing (You and Me Both) 1983

COLOUR SCREAM - Across the Sky (Dance No More EP) 1989

THE SMITHS - Ask (Singles) 1987

THE PRIMITIVES - Sick of It (12" single) 1989

BALAAM & THE ANGEL - Love Me (Sun Family) 1986

SAD LOVERS & GIANTS - In Flux (Feeding the Flame) 1983

ROSE OF AVALANCHE - Goddess (12" single) 1985

SCREAMING BLUE MESSIAHS - Sweet Water Pools (Bikini Red) 1987

PETE SHELLEY - Telephone Operator (XL-1) 1983

THE SCARS - All About You (Author! Author!) 1981

THE LUCY SHOW - View From The Outside (Mania) 1986

MODERN ENGLISH - Blue Waves (Ricochet Days) 1984

BIG COUNTRY - Wonderland (12" single) 1984

THE ALARM - Absolute Reality (Strength) 1985

LOVE & ROCKETS - No New Tale To Tell (Earth.Sun.Moon) 1987

THE STRANGLERS - Two Sunspots (Meninblack) 1981

SPARKS - I Predict (Angst In My Pants) 1982

MISSING PERSONS - Here & Now (Spring Session M) 1982

THE ADVENTURES - Send My Heart (Theodore & Friends) 1985

TRANSLATOR - Un-Alone (No Time Like Now) 1983

THE THREE O'CLOCK - Her Head's Revolving (Arrive Without Traveling) 1985

FLESH FOR LULU - Sleeping Dogs (single) 1986

SIMPLE MINDS - Sweat In Bullet (Sons & Fascination) 1981

GRAUZONE - Eisbaer (single) 1981

VICIOUS PINK - Cccan't You See (single) 1984

TELEX - Exercise is Good For You (Sex) 1981

CCCP - American Soviets (single) 1986

INSULIN REACTION - Secrets (What's The Point?) 1988

THE CURE - Primary (Singles) 1981

BREEDING GROUND - Reunion (single) 1982

SECTION 25 - Reflection (From The Hip) 1984

CHRIS & COSEY - Misunderstandings (Techno Primitiv) 1985

TRISOMIE 21 - The Last Song (Chapter IV) 1986

COCTEAU TWINS - Garlands (Garlands) 1983

QUITE SIMPLE - Victims (7" single) 1987

KILLING JOKE - Fire Dances (single) 1983

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