Alternative 80s

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Alternative 80s episodes

February 02, 2020 Episode #197 - February 2020
It's February, and this happens to be published on Palindrome Day, a rather unique day in and of itself. More "easy" Alt tunes this podcast - it seems to have been very popular last time around. Enjoy!
Track Listing:
1) Damaged Goods (EP Version) - Gang Of Four
2) Belly Of The Whale - Burning Sensations
3) A Girl In Trouble (Is A Temporary Thing) [Dance Mix] - Romeo Void
4) Pump Up The Volume (UK 12" Mix) - MARRS
5) I'm In Love With A German Film Star - The Passions
6) Rise (12" Version) - PiL
7) The Lebanon (Extended Version) - Human League
8) The World Is As Soft As Lace - The Felt
9) Whisper To A Scream (Birds Fly)[Extended Club Mix] - Icicle Works
10) Jane's Getting Serious - Jon Astley
11) White Horse (Extended Mix) - Laid Back
12) White Lines (Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash and Mele Mel
13) Work For Love (Extended Version) - Ministry
14) I Ran (Long Version '82) - Flock Of Seagulls
15) Let Me Go! (Extended Mix) - Heaven 17
16) Johnny Come Home (Extended Mix) - Fine Young Cannibals
17) Doctorin' The Tardid - The KLF/Timelords
1 hr 33 min
January 12, 2020 Episode #196 - For Your Uber Pleasure
Welcome back from the holidays, and welcome to 2020! After the holidays we like to relax and go with an "easy" podcast, which works out well since we got a request from Diego, who is a good friend of the show. So he we go Diego - a less deep track podcast for your passengers, as well as for those who want to introduce some great 80's New Wave to your friends.
Track Listing:
1) Close (To the Edit) - Art Of Noise
2) Cars - Gary Numan
3) Black Cars [Special Dance Mix] - Gino Vanelli
4) The Safety Dance [Special Club Mix] - Men Without Hats
5) Pop Music - M
6) Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung
7) Dance This Mess Around - B52's
8) Doctor! Doctor! [Extended Mix] - Thompson Twins
9) What Difference Does It Make? - The Smiths
10) Love Missile F-111 [Extended Version] - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
11) I Love You - Yello
12) Everything Counts [Original 1983 Mix] - Depeche Mode
13) Situation (1982 U.S. Remix by Francois Kevorkian) - Yazoo
14) Let's Go To Bed - The Cure
15) Obsession - Animotion
16) Puttin' On The Ritz [Extended Version] - Taco
17) Relax [The Last 7 Inches] - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
1 hr 31 min
December 30, 2019 Episode #195 - Top 25 of 1989
It's the end of the year, and the end of yet another decade. Welcome to our annual top 25 countdown! This year we jump back 30 years to 1989 and enjoy the best of the best that year had to offer. Enjoy the countdown - we'll include everything except for the top 5 in the track listing...gotta leave some sort of surprise, right?
Track List:
25) Kingdom Of Rain - The The
24) Channel Z - B52s
23) Way Of The World - Max Q
22) The Last Of The Famous Int'l Playboys - Morrissey
21) Don't Crash The Car Tonight - Mary's Danish
20) Compulsion - Martin Gore
19) Fascination Street - The Cure
18) I'll Be You - The Replacements
17) Veronica - Elvis Costello
16) Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers
15) Between Something And Nothing - The Ocean Blue
14) Mayor Of Simpleton - XTC
13) Round And Round - New Order
12) Proud To Fall - Ian McCulloch
11) Last Cigarette - Dramarama
10) Here Comes Your Man - The Pixies
9) Stand - R.E.M.
8) Fire Woman - The Cult
7) So Alive - Love And Rockets
6) Good Thing - Fine Young Cannibals
5) SSL - TFF
4) PJ - DM
3) EL - UT
2) LS - BFT
1) LS - C
2 hr 10 min
December 23, 2019 Episode #194 - Merry Christmas 2019
It's that time again! Eggnog, mistletoe, crowded malls & maxed out credit cards. Take time to relax this Christmas season with our gift to you - our annual Christmas podcast. Merry Christmas! Track Listing: 1) You Trashed My Christmas - The Primitives 2) Christmas Time Again - Bad Manners 3) Santa Claus - They Might Be Giants 4) We Wish You A Protein Christmas - The Fall 5) The Snow Miser Song - 45 Grave 6) Merry Christmas Everybody (Live) - The Cure 7) 867-5309 / Jenny (Christmas Version) - Tommy Tutone 8) Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacCall 9) A Change At Christmas - The Flaming Lips 10) It's Always Christmastime - Al Jourgenson 11) White Christmas - Bad Religion 12) She Won't Be Home - Erasure 13) Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - R.E.M. 14) Jingle Bells (Diversion 1) - Art Of Noise 15) Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses 16) Always Winter Never Christmas - XTC 17) Christmas In Vegas - Marc Almond 18) Stuff The Turkey - Alien Sex Fiend 19) We Three Kings - Book Of Love 20) Black Christmas - Poly Styrene 21) Christmas Griping - R.E.M. 22) Things Fall Apart - Cristina 23) Santa Claus - Throwing Muses 24) Mrs Clause Has Menopause - The Steriles 25) Bells Of Christmas - Gentlemen League 26) Silent Night - The Dickies 27) Christmas Time - The dBs 28) Do They Know It's Christmas (Feed The World) - Band Aid Download Christmas_2019.mp3
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November 28, 2019 Episode #193 - November 2019
Welcome to November! No special themes or dedications this month - just great music y'all know and love, or will after listening to this month's podcast! Track List: 1) The Edge - The Cars 2) Don't Go To Pieces - The Cars 3) Genetic Engineering - OMD 4) I Love You [Extended Mix] - Yello 5) Like An Animal [12" Club? What Club? Mix] - The Glove 6) Sowing The seeds Of Love - Tears For Fears 7) A Promise - Echo And the Bunnymen 8) Blind Vision [12" Version] - Blancmange 9) Mary Of The 4th Form - Boomtown Rats 10) Seconds - Human League 11) Too Much Too Young - The Specials 12) Between Planets - The Jesus And Mary Chain 13) Legacy [7' Mix] - Art Of Noise 14) A Feeling - Throwing Muses 15) Galbi [The Emilio Pasquez Mix] - Ofra Haza 16) Watching (You Watching Me) - Thompson Twins 17) My City Was Gone - The Pretenders 18) Smart Patrol / Mr DNA - Devo 19) Kung Fu Girls - Blondie 20) Wild Ways - Nasa Download November_2019.mp3
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October 18, 2019 Episode #192 - Halloween 2019
It's October, which of course brings us the annual Halloween podcast. Do you have what it takes to listen to the end? Track Listing 1) Something In My House (Mortevicar Mix) - Dead Or Alive 2) Bloodletting [The Vampire Song] - Concrete Blonde 3) Full Moon Dirty Hearts - INXS with Chrissie Hynde 4) Swamp Thing - The Chameleons 5) I'm A Werewolf, Baby - The Tragically Hip 6) Magic - Mick Smiley 7) Weird Science [Extended Dance Mix] - Oingo Boingo 8) Ghost Dancing - Simple Minds 9) Spirits In The Material World - The Police 10) Devil In My Car - B-52s 11) Lucretia My Reflection - The Sisters Of Mercy 12) Dead Souls - Joy Division 13) Haunted When The Minutes Drag - Love And Rockets 14) Everyday Is Halloween - Ministry 15) Black Celebration [Black Tulip Mix] - Depeche Mode 16) Killing Game - Skinny Puppy 17) Nightmares [12" Extended Mix] - A Flock Of Seagulls 18) Christine [Rare 12" Version] - John Carpenter Download Halloween_2019.mp3
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September 27, 2019 Episode #191 - Take off, You Hoser!
How's it going, eh? Beauty. So, like, this is by request. Ok - so a listener asked if we had enough Canadian artists to make a podcast. Of course we do - more than enough! So put on your toque, fire up some back bacon, grab a cold one and listen to this podcast full of tunes from our friends in the Great White North. Track Listing: 1) Eyes Of A Stranger - Payola$ 2) Gonna Get Close To You - Dalbello 3) Mimi On The Beach - Jane Silberry 4) Not In Love - Platinum Blonde 5) Out Of Luck - Pointed Sticks 6) Teenland - Northern Pikes 7) Living On Video [Original 1983 Version] - Trans-X 8) I'm An Adult Now - The Pursuit Of Happiness 9) Sunglasses At Night [Extended Version] - Corey Hart 10) Apple Strudel Man - Jolly Tambourine Man 11) Hawaii - Young Canadians 12) Disco Sucks - D.O.A. 13) Where Do The Boys Go? [Extended Version] - Men Without Hats 14) Lust For Love - Images In Vogue 15) Echo Beach - Martha And The Muffins 16) City Of Night - Rational Youth 17) The Beat Goes On / Switchin' To Glide - The Kings 18) Nova Heart - The Spoons 19) Tired Of Waking Up Tired - The Diodes 20) Runaway With My Love - Tapps 21) I Want You Back - Sherry Kean 22) Take Off - Bob and Doug McKenzie (with Geddy Lee) Download Canadian_August_2019.mp3
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August 24, 2019 Episode #189 - The Podcast Has Landed
This week marks the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 and the first time a man set foot on the moon. In honor of that, we decided to take a trip into space with a selection of space tunes event the pickiest of astronauts could appreciate! Track Listing: 1) Holiday On The Moon - Love and Rockets 2) There's A Moon In The Sky (Called the Moon) - B-52s 3) Girl In The Moon - Icehouse 4) Supersonic Rocket Ship - The Kinks 5) Space Invaders - The Pretenders 6) Spacelab - Kraftwerk 7) Walking On The Moon - The Police 8) Valentina - Komputer 9) Earth Sun Moon - Love and Rockets 10) New Moon On Monday - Duran Duran 11) Space Junk - Devo 12) Moon Rocks - Talking Heads 13) Under The Cherry Moon - Prince 14) Sister Moon - Sting 15) The Whole Of The Moon - Waterboys 16) Super Rocket Rumble - Man or Astro-Man 17) Jupiter Crash - The Cure 18) Space Oddity - David Bowie 19) Under The Milky Way [Version 1] - The Church 20) Moon On Ice - Yello 21) Dancing In the Moonlight - Mew Without Hats 22) The Killing Moon - Echo And the Bunnymen 23) Major Tom [Coming Home] - Pete Schilling 24) Moon 83 - B52s 25) I'm Here...Another Planet - Juno Reactor and The Creatures Download Apollo_11_Special.mp3
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August 21, 2019 Episode #190 - Now With New Protein Boost!
Welcome to August, 2019. As we we slowly start heading into pumpkin spice season, we refuse to let go of summer! This month we bring you some hot hits and shiny tunes, guaranteed to keep you warm without the fear of awkward tan lines. Track Listing: 1.) Not One Of Us - Peter Gabirel 2.) Big Hollow Man - Danielle Dax 3.) Follow The Leaders - Killing Joke 4.) I Beg Your Pardon [Club Mix] - Kon Kan 5.) Alone Again Or - The Damned 6.) Low Life - The Police 7.) Mercury Blues - Dave Lindley 8.) Temporary Secretary - Paul McCartney 9.) Chihuahua [12" version] - Bow Wow Wow 10.) Burn - The Cure 11.) Houses In Motion - Talking Heads 12.) A Dream Away - The Cars 13.) Run Like A Villain - Iggy Pop 14.) Big In America - The Stranglers 15.) Nice N Neat - Boomtown Rats 16.) Treason (It's Just A Story) - The Teardrop Explodes 17.) Everything's Gone Green [Original 12" Version] - New Order 18.) Original Sin [Dance Version] - INXS 19.) Rage Hard [Young Person's Guide To The 12 Inch Mix] - Frankie Goes To Hollywood Download August_2019.mp3
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July 25, 2019 Episode #188 - My World, But There She Goes.
Welcome to July 2019. Hot weather and hot music to go along with it. Got us a podcast going, and this one is great if you're poolside, in traffic, or whatever you're doing. Enjoy! Track List: 1) Secret Affair - My World 2) Sham 69 - If The Kids Are United 3) Kim Wilde - Cambodia 4) Eddie and The Hotrods - Do Anything You Wanna Do 5) Falco - Vienna Calling 6) Siouxsie and The Banshees - Staring Back / Return 7) Joy Division - She's Lost Control 8) Plastic Bertrand - Sha La La La Lee 9) Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums 10) Then Jerico - Big Area (12" Mix) 11) Flock Of Seagulls - Modern Love Is Automatic 12) Orange Juice - Rip It Up 13) Kraftwerk - Musique Non Stop 14) Flying Lizards - Money (Extended Rework Mischief Brew Re Edit) 15) The Farm - Groovy Train 16) Joe Jackson - Got The Time 17) Pig Bag - Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag (12") 18) Sparks - Beat The Clock 19) The La's - There She Goes 20) Bauhaus - She's In Parties 21) Pet Shop Boys - Love Comes Quickly Download July_2019.mp3
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