WFMU: The Wiggle Room: Playlist from June 4, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 6:52pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	7:46pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	7:48pm Krys O.: Hello!
	👻 7:50pm BC Sterrett: Hello hello :)
	👻 7:57pm BC Sterrett: Just setting up
	👻 7:59pm Mr Fab: hey hey BC!
	7:59pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @6:52 Nice c see you. Got your email
	👻 8:01pm Austin Rich: Okay, I am here! Hello everyone.
	👻 8:01pm BC Sterrett: Welcome :)
	👻 8:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @7:59 Nice to see you! Yes, I'm catching up. It's been weird lately.
	👻 8:04pm BC Sterrett: Audio coming through?
	8:04pm Imaginos: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:04 Yes
	👻 8:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:04 sounds pretty good. A little quiet, but otherwise: fine.
	👻 8:07pm Austin Rich: I have often found that the "pop" 80's tunes never really landed with me. Nearly every time someone says, "I DJ an 80's night," it's often so milquetoast as to be boring and not worth listening to. This is a very good start, BC! Thanks.
	👻 8:07pm Mr Fab: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:04 sounds great!
	👻 8:08pm BC Sterrett: ↳ Austin Rich @8:07 I get tired of the same old same old with 80's music. Love me some deep cuts :)
	👻 8:09pm BC Sterrett: ↳ Mr Fab @8:07 Thanks Mr. Fab :)
	👻 8:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:08 There's so much out there! There's no reason to play the same six songs at every show and gig.
	👻 8:11pm WR: Hello BC Sterrett and folks. Interested to hear some of your foundational listens.
	8:11pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:09 The Soundtrack to American Pop and Heavy Metal comes to mind
	👻 8:13pm BC Sterrett: Thanks WR :) This may be the only working cassette for tonight. lol
	👻 8:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:11 I have a soft spot for "Heavy Metal," but I like that movie quite a bit.
	👻 8:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:13 I've been meaning to do an all-cassette show. I have a ton of tapes that never get any play.
	8:14pm egould: ↳ Austin Rich @8:09 But the same six songs are familiar and comforting, and I simply must not be made to learn or be uncomfortable.
	👻 8:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ egould @8:14 "Everyone likes what they like." Oh no, I have to give into this point! Enjoy shamelessly, I guess.
	👻 8:17pm Mr Fab: BC, how did your brother find out about this stuff? Icicle Works is the only band i'm familiar with so far.
	👻 8:18pm BC Sterrett: ↳ Mr Fab @8:17 He had friends in the know I think, they did a lot of trading and dubbing off each other.
	👻 8:20pm Austin Rich: I was always sad that I didn't have an older sister or cousin to clue me into the cool stuff. I was left to my own devices. I came to hear, decades later at a Thanksgiving, that my younger siblings saw me that way. I was the older brother... to them!
	👻 8:24pm BC Sterrett: ↳ Austin Rich @8:20 You were it!!!
	8:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:20 My older siblings were pretty much out of the house when I was adopted and my parents didn't believe in rock so I had my introduction to it by accident when Alice Cooper was on the Muppet Show
	👻 8:25pm Austin Rich: Any Heaven 17 coming in the mix? I feel like they have a few tunes that would fit this mix.
	👻 8:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:25 Man, that Alice Cooper appearance was IMPORTANT. I think I asked my mom if I could listen to hear Alice Cooper records because of that.
	👻 8:26pm BC Sterrett: I wasn't familiar with them growing up. Please recommend me some tracks! I'll do a sequel to this show sometime :)
	👻 8:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:26 "Crushed by The Wheels of Industry" is the tune me and my roommate would dance too when we were drunk and feeling like having fun.
	8:27pm egould: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:13 I dig that you're playing stuff from a cassette mix that your brother made. My cousin John gave me a couple of mixtapes in 1982 with the Clash, Echo & Bunnymen, Bowie, The Fixx, PIL, U2, etc. and it just blew my mind. As a kid in Central Indiana, I grew up listening to the same Zeppelin/Aerosmith/Stones album rock FM station. But those tapes completely changed my music tastes and my thinking in general. It revealed possibilities.
	👻 8:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ egould @8:27 I love stories like this! Do you still have the tape?
	👻 8:28pm BC Sterrett: That Alice Cooper episode is amazing
	👻 8:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "You're Ok, Im OK" by "The Crazy 8's" The only reason I know of this band is that they are from Corvallis, Oregon, right here in the Mid-Valley! You can find their albums CHEAP, everywhere, all over this region.
	👻 8:30pm BC Sterrett: ↳ Austin Rich @8:28 Ha so cool! The first 8 album was a regular listen in my room. I'm not as familiar with their later work.
	8:30pm Imaginos: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:28 It was/is indeed.
	8:31pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "You're Ok, Im OK" by "The Crazy 8's" One of my web development clients when I lived in Portland was the ex-wife of Danny Schauffler, sax player in the Crazy 8s.
	👻 8:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:30 I never saw them, but they are legends in the area. I guess they were a party band, known for getting drunk and wild at their shows. I don't know their music, but I see their albums all the time.
	8:32pm egould: ↳ Austin Rich @8:28 Ha! No those tapes didn't survive the "Stolen Toyota Joyride and Crash of 1993". Unfortunately. The Long Beach Police Department wouldn't let me get anything out of my car at the police impound lot.
	👻 8:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @8:31 Mr. X! Nice to see you.
	8:32pm Dan S: I still have a cassette player and once in a blue moon I do play a cassette tape. I haven't had a working turntable for years and don't plan to get one. I know, I'm out of step with most people on this, as I'm out of step on so many things.
	8:32pm Imaginos: Actually Dennis Dunaway teamed up with Albert and Joe Bouchard to form Blue Coupe
	👻 8:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ egould @8:32 Bummer... and sounds very shady, on the part of the cops. (No surprises there.) Still... bummer.
	8:35pm Dan S: I'm enjoying these tunes, from whatever medium they come.
	👻 8:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Paris Match (Tracy Thorn Version)" by "Style Coun... Yeah, Style Council are under-represented on radio. Thanks for helping fix that.
	8:35pm egould: ↳ Austin Rich @8:33 Oh yeah, the cops were fucking douchebags. They thought I crashed the vehicle and abandoned it. Until I pointed out the blood and the chunk of scalp with hair embedded in the shattered windshield, and that my scalp was clean and perfectly intact.
	👻 8:36pm BC Sterrett: I guess you can say this is a mix tape of my childhood. It was a little odd though that I wasn't into the same music my contemporary kids at school were into as much.
	👻 8:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Only For You" by "The Essence" Yeah. I would have guessed this was The Cure, too. Or someone who REALLY wants to be the Cure.
	👻 8:39pm BC Sterrett: I think I found out yesterday that this band is from The Netherlands
	8:40pm egould: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:39 I found out 30 seconds ago that they are not The Cure.
	👻 8:41pm BC Sterrett: ↳ egould @8:40 ha ha
	👻 8:42pm Mr Fab: Heaven 17? "Fascist Groove Thang" was the radio hit. (Well, KROQ-LA radio...)
	👻 8:42pm BC Sterrett: I'll be playing a couple more well known bands here in a sec
	👻 8:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @8:42 That's right! I was trying to remember that title.
	👻 8:43pm Mr Fab: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:42 yeah, you've played a few well known bands now, but not the radio hits. So, still all new to me.
	8:43pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Turn Me 'Round" by "A Drop in the Gray" Great song. Too bad it never got any airplay.
	👻 8:43pm Austin Rich: Yeah, I've really enjoyed the variety. Thanks a million, BC!
	👻 8:44pm BC Sterrett: My brother didn't know I was stealing his tapes, until my mom got upset me me and through a pile of them away that I had on my bedroom floor. I had to break the bad news to him.
	👻 8:44pm Mr Fab: The closest thing to a common element in all these songs is: Roxy Music.
	8:45pm Mr. X: There was always a certain seriousness to those big hair new wave bands which exceeded their youthfulness. perhaps to counter the irresponsible and haphazard approach of their punk contemporaries? In any case, I get big nostalgic feels from the synthpop blend and the booming snare drums of the 80s sound.
	👻 8:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @8:44 Ooo, good observation!
	👻 8:46pm BC Sterrett: ↳ Mr Fab @8:44 Tell me about it Mr. Fab, I'd like to learn more.
	👻 8:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Dead Girls" by "Orchestral Manoeuvres in the ... I have a book with an essay in it, written by one of the gents in OMD. He has a bit where he claims, "Every so often, I wake up in the middle of the night and say to myself, Orchestral Maneuverers In The Dark? What The Fuck what I thinking?"
	👻 8:50pm BC Sterrett: ↳ Austin Rich @8:49 Ha ha!!! They are still one of my favorite bands. I hope to see them in SLC this Fall.
	👻 8:50pm Mr Fab: Roxy Music were hugely influential to this kind of New Wave. Really only Bowie or Kraftwerk rival their influence. Bryan Ferry's romantic croon, Eno's futuristic synth, tough danceable rock that owed nothing to blues-based "classic rock"...believe me, all these bands had Roxy Music albums in their collection.
	👻 8:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:50 I think his concern was airplay, and he blamed the band name for cutting into it. Maybe he's right? I don't know. They still had good songs, but the ways of radio in those days were complicated and weird.
	8:51pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:49 The only band with a weirder name was Toad The Wet Sprocket
	👻 8:51pm BC Sterrett: I love it Mr. Fab, I'm definitely going to look into this.
	👻 8:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:51 I believe: named after a Monty Python skit.
	👻 8:53pm Mr Fab: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:51 Unfortunately, you just missed their farewell tour!
	👻 8:54pm BC Sterrett: This is a Smiths cover of course. The lead singer of Dream Academy got fried on drugs leading to their breakup. He did go on to write music for Pink Floyd's Division Bell album I believe?
	8:54pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:52 Yes. And Eric Idle almost crashed when he heard them on the radio
	8:55pm egould: Thank you, BC Sterrett. I've enjoyed the music and your written comments for each song presented.
	👻 8:56pm Austin Rich: Always a pleasure to follow you, BC! Any time that you are wigglin', you'll find me jigglin'...
	👻 8:56pm BC Sterrett: ↳ egould @8:55 Thanks egould and everyone for showing up :) I may do a similar show like this in the future. Stay tuned for Austin Rich!
	👻 8:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:56 You should!
	👻 9:00pm Mr Fab: BCing ya!

The Wiggle Room: Playlist from June 4, 2024

A different show every week! Rotating DJs include Jon Nelson's "Sheena 'ssembly Required" (Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations),
MarkTime (vintage radio airchecks), and Krys O (aka Sister Krys - WFMU alumna 1985-1991, longtime Church of the Subgenius monk. Playing cinematic ephemera, schizoid weirdos, all styles served here). Plus: surprise guests galore. (illustration courtesy of https://www.jimflora.com/)

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June 4, 2024: The Wiggle Room w/ BC Sterrett: An hour of dreamy and obscure 80's New Wave and Alternative Rock from his childhood, that he wishes people would play on the radio.
So many songs I have memories getting lost in, wearing walkman headphones as a kid. These were mostly "secretly" borrowed from my older brother's room, as I raided his amazing cassette tape collection. I wish the new wave station here in Salt Lake City would play these, I've never heard the majority of them on the air.

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Artist	Track	Album	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Iam Siam	Prologue/In the Common Toungue	She Went Pop	Cassette	Still one of my favorite songs of the 80's, that I can't listen to without the prologue to complete it. This song would absolutely send me wearing headphones as a kid as I got lost in the exotic audio fantasy. I still can't believe this wasn't chosen as the main single to promote this album. Something I wish would get airplay till this day. My cassette lost the felt square so I'm playing the LP instead.	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Icicle Works	Out of Season "Out of Season" by "The Icicle Works"	The Icicle Works	LP	I still can't get over how beautiful this song is and always made me dream about who I was going to marry some day and the type of girl she would be. Another album track that I feel should have been a single.	0:05:47 (Pop-up)
Trans-X	Eyes of Desire (Cassette mix)	Living On Video	Cassette	This is the mix I grew up with and can only find it on this cassette release for some reason. Superior to the regular album version IMO.	0:10:35 (Pop-up)
The Adventures	Send My Heart (Across The Sea Mix)	12" single	12"	This mix was filler on the end of one of my brother's tape dubs. To me this is the only version of this song. I'd listen to it over and over. Since the mix is a bit long, the tape ran out before the end of the song. It's a bit odd hearing the full length version till the end as an adult.	0:13:54 (Pop-up)
The Dream Academy	Heaven Pt. 1 "Heaven Pt. 1" by "The Dream Academy"	Indian Summer 12" single	12"	The non-album B-side of record singles of "Indian Summer." Originally written I believe for a documentary about the after life. Absolutley beautiful. Having had a crossover to the afterlife experience myself, this song speaks to me.	0:20:06 (Pop-up)
The Bronski Beat	We Know How it Feels	TruthDare Doubledare	Other	I forgot all about this track but remembered it while trying to conjure up memories of dreamy childhood favorites. Wonderful to hear this again.	0:23:24 (Pop-up)
The Crazy 8's	You're Ok, Im OK "You're Ok, Im OK" by "The Crazy 8's"	Law and Order	Other	The cassette of this broke while I was trying to cue it up for the show, so sadly I'm playing this off youtube. lol. I was able to see The Crazy 8's live once, which was great until they decided to get drunk in the middle of their set. Still love the vocals.	0:27:41 (Pop-up)
Style Council	Paris Match (Tracy Thorn Version)	Cafe Bleu	Vinyl	One of the first cassette tapes that I fell in love with as a kid from my brother's collection. This entire album made me dream about what it was like to be an adult, go to college and have adult problems. "I'm only sad in a natural way and I enjoy sometimes feeling this way."	0:32:37 (Pop-up)
The Essence	Only For You "Only For You" by "The Essence"	Ecstasy	LP	Had I discovered this when I was young, I would have been in love with it. I didn't discover this until about 11 years ago in a thrift store. I'm in love with it now. I never would have guessed that this wasn't The Cure.	0:36:56 (Pop-up)
A Drop in the Gray	Turn Me 'Round	Certain Sculptures	Other	Another tape often "borrowed" from my brother's tape collection that I would get lost in, and another band that I have never heard on the airwaves. Sad that they only made one album.	0:40:22 (Pop-up)
Depeche Mode	Any Second Now (Voices)	Speak and Spell	Other	Another dreamy childhood favorite track that I would get lost in and could listen to on repeat.	0:44:41 (Pop-up)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark	The Dead Girls	Pacific Age	LP	Another song from a favorite band that I never hear on the radio, which brings back lonely memories of middle school.	0:47:18 (Pop-up)
The Dream Academy	Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want	12" single	12"	Loved the instrumental of this on Ferris Beuller's Day Off, sad when I found an import copy in a record store in high school for like $98 bucks. Overjoyed the day I found this copy at a thrift store. Now we have the internet, and things are much easier to find. This used to be my favorite song for many many years.	0:52:03 (Pop-up)
Iam Siam	I Am Siam "I Am Siam" by "Iam Siam"	She Went Pop	LP	Lets bookend this show with another favorite childhood fantasy track from this album. I'd listen to these tracks over and over, probably why my cassette is worn out. Thanks for listening :)	0:55:00 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:52pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	7:46pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	7:48pm Krys O.: Hello!
	👻 7:50pm BC Sterrett: Hello hello :)
	👻 7:57pm BC Sterrett: Just setting up
	👻 7:59pm Mr Fab: hey hey BC!
	7:59pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @6:52 Nice c see you. Got your email
	👻 8:01pm Austin Rich: Okay, I am here! Hello everyone.
	👻 8:01pm BC Sterrett: Welcome :)
	👻 8:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @7:59 Nice to see you! Yes, I'm catching up. It's been weird lately.
	👻 8:04pm BC Sterrett: Audio coming through?
	8:04pm Imaginos: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:04 Yes
	👻 8:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:04 sounds pretty good. A little quiet, but otherwise: fine.
	👻 8:07pm Austin Rich: I have often found that the "pop" 80's tunes never really landed with me. Nearly every time someone says, "I DJ an 80's night," it's often so milquetoast as to be boring and not worth listening to. This is a very good start, BC! Thanks.
	👻 8:07pm Mr Fab: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:04 sounds great!
	👻 8:08pm BC Sterrett: ↳ Austin Rich @8:07 I get tired of the same old same old with 80's music. Love me some deep cuts :)
	👻 8:09pm BC Sterrett: ↳ Mr Fab @8:07 Thanks Mr. Fab :)
	👻 8:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:08 There's so much out there! There's no reason to play the same six songs at every show and gig.
	👻 8:11pm WR: Hello BC Sterrett and folks. Interested to hear some of your foundational listens.
	8:11pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:09 The Soundtrack to American Pop and Heavy Metal comes to mind
	👻 8:13pm BC Sterrett: Thanks WR :) This may be the only working cassette for tonight. lol
	👻 8:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:11 I have a soft spot for "Heavy Metal," but I like that movie quite a bit.
	👻 8:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:13 I've been meaning to do an all-cassette show. I have a ton of tapes that never get any play.
	8:14pm egould: ↳ Austin Rich @8:09 But the same six songs are familiar and comforting, and I simply must not be made to learn or be uncomfortable.
	👻 8:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ egould @8:14 "Everyone likes what they like." Oh no, I have to give into this point! Enjoy shamelessly, I guess.
	👻 8:17pm Mr Fab: BC, how did your brother find out about this stuff? Icicle Works is the only band i'm familiar with so far.
	👻 8:18pm BC Sterrett: ↳ Mr Fab @8:17 He had friends in the know I think, they did a lot of trading and dubbing off each other.
	👻 8:20pm Austin Rich: I was always sad that I didn't have an older sister or cousin to clue me into the cool stuff. I was left to my own devices. I came to hear, decades later at a Thanksgiving, that my younger siblings saw me that way. I was the older brother... to them!
	👻 8:24pm BC Sterrett: ↳ Austin Rich @8:20 You were it!!!
	8:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:20 My older siblings were pretty much out of the house when I was adopted and my parents didn't believe in rock so I had my introduction to it by accident when Alice Cooper was on the Muppet Show
	👻 8:25pm Austin Rich: Any Heaven 17 coming in the mix? I feel like they have a few tunes that would fit this mix.
	👻 8:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:25 Man, that Alice Cooper appearance was IMPORTANT. I think I asked my mom if I could listen to hear Alice Cooper records because of that.
	👻 8:26pm BC Sterrett: I wasn't familiar with them growing up. Please recommend me some tracks! I'll do a sequel to this show sometime :)
	👻 8:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:26 "Crushed by The Wheels of Industry" is the tune me and my roommate would dance too when we were drunk and feeling like having fun.
	8:27pm egould: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:13 I dig that you're playing stuff from a cassette mix that your brother made. My cousin John gave me a couple of mixtapes in 1982 with the Clash, Echo & Bunnymen, Bowie, The Fixx, PIL, U2, etc. and it just blew my mind. As a kid in Central Indiana, I grew up listening to the same Zeppelin/Aerosmith/Stones album rock FM station. But those tapes completely changed my music tastes and my thinking in general. It revealed possibilities.
	👻 8:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ egould @8:27 I love stories like this! Do you still have the tape?
	👻 8:28pm BC Sterrett: That Alice Cooper episode is amazing
	👻 8:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "You're Ok, Im OK" by "The Crazy 8's" The only reason I know of this band is that they are from Corvallis, Oregon, right here in the Mid-Valley! You can find their albums CHEAP, everywhere, all over this region.
	👻 8:30pm BC Sterrett: ↳ Austin Rich @8:28 Ha so cool! The first 8 album was a regular listen in my room. I'm not as familiar with their later work.
	8:30pm Imaginos: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:28 It was/is indeed.
	8:31pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "You're Ok, Im OK" by "The Crazy 8's" One of my web development clients when I lived in Portland was the ex-wife of Danny Schauffler, sax player in the Crazy 8s.
	👻 8:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:30 I never saw them, but they are legends in the area. I guess they were a party band, known for getting drunk and wild at their shows. I don't know their music, but I see their albums all the time.
	8:32pm egould: ↳ Austin Rich @8:28 Ha! No those tapes didn't survive the "Stolen Toyota Joyride and Crash of 1993". Unfortunately. The Long Beach Police Department wouldn't let me get anything out of my car at the police impound lot.
	👻 8:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @8:31 Mr. X! Nice to see you.
	8:32pm Dan S: I still have a cassette player and once in a blue moon I do play a cassette tape. I haven't had a working turntable for years and don't plan to get one. I know, I'm out of step with most people on this, as I'm out of step on so many things.
	8:32pm Imaginos: Actually Dennis Dunaway teamed up with Albert and Joe Bouchard to form Blue Coupe
	👻 8:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ egould @8:32 Bummer... and sounds very shady, on the part of the cops. (No surprises there.) Still... bummer.
	8:35pm Dan S: I'm enjoying these tunes, from whatever medium they come.
	👻 8:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Paris Match (Tracy Thorn Version)" by "Style Coun... Yeah, Style Council are under-represented on radio. Thanks for helping fix that.
	8:35pm egould: ↳ Austin Rich @8:33 Oh yeah, the cops were fucking douchebags. They thought I crashed the vehicle and abandoned it. Until I pointed out the blood and the chunk of scalp with hair embedded in the shattered windshield, and that my scalp was clean and perfectly intact.
	👻 8:36pm BC Sterrett: I guess you can say this is a mix tape of my childhood. It was a little odd though that I wasn't into the same music my contemporary kids at school were into as much.
	👻 8:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Only For You" by "The Essence" Yeah. I would have guessed this was The Cure, too. Or someone who REALLY wants to be the Cure.
	👻 8:39pm BC Sterrett: I think I found out yesterday that this band is from The Netherlands
	8:40pm egould: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:39 I found out 30 seconds ago that they are not The Cure.
	👻 8:41pm BC Sterrett: ↳ egould @8:40 ha ha
	👻 8:42pm Mr Fab: Heaven 17? "Fascist Groove Thang" was the radio hit. (Well, KROQ-LA radio...)
	👻 8:42pm BC Sterrett: I'll be playing a couple more well known bands here in a sec
	👻 8:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @8:42 That's right! I was trying to remember that title.
	👻 8:43pm Mr Fab: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:42 yeah, you've played a few well known bands now, but not the radio hits. So, still all new to me.
	8:43pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Turn Me 'Round" by "A Drop in the Gray" Great song. Too bad it never got any airplay.
	👻 8:43pm Austin Rich: Yeah, I've really enjoyed the variety. Thanks a million, BC!
	👻 8:44pm BC Sterrett: My brother didn't know I was stealing his tapes, until my mom got upset me me and through a pile of them away that I had on my bedroom floor. I had to break the bad news to him.
	👻 8:44pm Mr Fab: The closest thing to a common element in all these songs is: Roxy Music.
	8:45pm Mr. X: There was always a certain seriousness to those big hair new wave bands which exceeded their youthfulness. perhaps to counter the irresponsible and haphazard approach of their punk contemporaries? In any case, I get big nostalgic feels from the synthpop blend and the booming snare drums of the 80s sound.
	👻 8:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @8:44 Ooo, good observation!
	👻 8:46pm BC Sterrett: ↳ Mr Fab @8:44 Tell me about it Mr. Fab, I'd like to learn more.
	👻 8:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Dead Girls" by "Orchestral Manoeuvres in the ... I have a book with an essay in it, written by one of the gents in OMD. He has a bit where he claims, "Every so often, I wake up in the middle of the night and say to myself, Orchestral Maneuverers In The Dark? What The Fuck what I thinking?"
	👻 8:50pm BC Sterrett: ↳ Austin Rich @8:49 Ha ha!!! They are still one of my favorite bands. I hope to see them in SLC this Fall.
	👻 8:50pm Mr Fab: Roxy Music were hugely influential to this kind of New Wave. Really only Bowie or Kraftwerk rival their influence. Bryan Ferry's romantic croon, Eno's futuristic synth, tough danceable rock that owed nothing to blues-based "classic rock"...believe me, all these bands had Roxy Music albums in their collection.
	👻 8:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:50 I think his concern was airplay, and he blamed the band name for cutting into it. Maybe he's right? I don't know. They still had good songs, but the ways of radio in those days were complicated and weird.
	8:51pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:49 The only band with a weirder name was Toad The Wet Sprocket
	👻 8:51pm BC Sterrett: I love it Mr. Fab, I'm definitely going to look into this.
	👻 8:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:51 I believe: named after a Monty Python skit.
	👻 8:53pm Mr Fab: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:51 Unfortunately, you just missed their farewell tour!
	👻 8:54pm BC Sterrett: This is a Smiths cover of course. The lead singer of Dream Academy got fried on drugs leading to their breakup. He did go on to write music for Pink Floyd's Division Bell album I believe?
	8:54pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:52 Yes. And Eric Idle almost crashed when he heard them on the radio
	8:55pm egould: Thank you, BC Sterrett. I've enjoyed the music and your written comments for each song presented.
	👻 8:56pm Austin Rich: Always a pleasure to follow you, BC! Any time that you are wigglin', you'll find me jigglin'...
	👻 8:56pm BC Sterrett: ↳ egould @8:55 Thanks egould and everyone for showing up :) I may do a similar show like this in the future. Stay tuned for Austin Rich!
	👻 8:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ BC Sterrett @8:56 You should!
	👻 9:00pm Mr Fab: BCing ya!

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