"I'm standing in the middle of life with my plans behind me..."

7 May, 1986

K U2 – “Gloria”
PWR Art of Noise – Camilla
#1 (blank)
H Soul Asylum – “Never Really Been”
DC Joan Armatrading – “I Love it When You Call me Names”
M Translator – “Stony Gates of Time”
PWR Siouxsie & the Banshees – “Cannons”
REC Robyn Hitchcock – “I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl”
H The Pogues – “Body of an American”
L Lords of the New Church – “Like a Virgin”
K Dead Milkmen – “Bitchin’ Camaro”
PWR Elvis Costello – “Eisenhower Blues”
DC INXS – “Dancing on the Jetty”
H The Bolshoi – Fly
M Lou Reed – “No Money Down”
#2 (blank)
PWR Depeche Mode – “Sometimes”
REC Simple Minds – “Kick Inside of Me”
H Violent Femmes – “Breakin’ Hearts”
DC Lloyd Cole & the Commotions – “Cut Me Down”
K Talking Heads – “Stay Up Late”
PWR Camper Van Beethoven – “Don’t You Go to Goleta”
L Zeit Geist – “Atlantic City”
H The Highwaymen – “The Highwaymen”
M EIEIO – “Go West Young Man”
DC Nomen Klature - ?
PWR The Smiths – “Please Please Please”
REC The Jesus & Mary Chain – “The Hardest Walk”
H Tommy Keene – “In Our Lives”
DC The Shoes – “Summer Rain”
PWR The Pandoras – “Stop Pretending”
K The Raisins – “Fear is Never Boring”
H Latin Quarter – “America for Beginners”
M Book of Love – “Boy”
L The Libertines – “Voices From the Past”
PWR Let’s Active – “Writing the Book of Last Pages”
DC The Ramones – “I Wanna Be Sedated”
H Stan Ridgway – “Can’t Stop the Show”
REC Dead Kennedys – “MTV Get Off the Air”
PWR The BoDeans – “Angels”
M Swimming Pool Q's – “She’s Looking”
K The Pretenders – “Middle of the Road”
PWR Pet Shop Boys – “Why Don’t We Live Together?”
#1 (blank)
H Richard Lloyd – “Back Track”
DC Strawberry Switchblade – “Let Her Go”
M Green on Red – “No Free Lunch”
PWR The Neighborhoods – “Real Stories”
REC Cocteau Twins – “Aikea-Guinea”

I managed to fit in quite a few songs during this three-hour shift. It seems we didn't have any big singles to push this week, so they were skipped over on the playsheet.

"I don't wanna work, I want to bang on the drum all day..."

4/30/1986

K Todd Rundgren – “Bang the Drum All Day”
PWR Camper Van Beethoven – “Down & Out”
#1 The Alarm – “Reason 36”
H Tommy Keene – “Places That Are Gone”
DC Marshall Crenshaw – “Right Now
M Brian Setzer – Blvd of Broken Dreams
PWR The Cramps – “What’s Inside a Girl?”
REC Armoury Show – Castles in Spain
H Latin Quarter – “Modern Times”
L Zeitgeist – “Atlantic City”
K Modern English – “Melt With You”
PWR The BoDeans – “Fadeaway”
DC INXS – “Burn For You”
H Get Smart – “Room with a View”
M Lou Reed – “No Money Down”
#2 Jane Siberry – “One More Colour”
PWR Let’s Active – “Fell”
REC Lloyd Cole & the Commotions – “Lost Weekend”
H The Pogues – “London Girl”
DC Dead Milkmen – “Bitchin’ Camaro”
K Sting – “Fortress Around Your Heart”
PWR Suzanne Vega – “Left of Center”
L The Cure – “Man Inside My Mouth”
H Death of Samantha – “Grapeland”
M Laurie Anderson – “Late Show”
DC Pleasure’s Pale – “Lovely, Lovely”
PWR Pet Shop Boys – “Two Divided by Zero”
REC Fine Young Cannibals – “Suspicious Minds”
H The Highwaymen – “Burn Down”
#3 Cactus World News – “Years Later”
DC Shriekback – “Nemesis”
PWR Joe Jackson – “Survival”
K The Raisins – “Fear Is Never Boring”
H Stan Ridgway – “The Big Heat”
M The Bolshoi – “Happy Boy”
L Falco – “Vienna Calling”
PWR Depeche Mode – “It Doesn’t Matter Two”
DC Alison Moyet – “Invisible”
H Eubie Hayue – “Bad Imitation”
REC Underachievers – “You’re Not for Me”
PWR Elvis Costello – “Lovable”
M Swimming Pool Q's – “Now I’m Talking ‘Bout Now”
K REM – “Pretty Persuasion”
PWR Dumptruck – “Ethics”

"You're a hard act to follow, a hard act to follow..."

I only did the first hour of this show, which aired Wednesday at 6 a.m. I had an early morning aerobic class M-W-F, so I’m assuming I agreed to do someone’s first hour so that they could sleep in or something. I’ve added the labeling for each cut; hopefully it will make sense to non-radio folk.

2 April 1986

K Nick Lowe – “I Knew the Bride”
PWR 9353 – “Born to be Wild”
#1 Blow Monkeys – “Diggin’ Your Scene”
H Death of Samantha – “Coca-Cola & Licorice”
DC Split Enz – “Hard Act to Follow”
M Swimming Pool Q's – “Now I’m Talking ‘Bout Now”
PWR Moev – “Alibis”
REC Cocteau Twins – “Pearly Dewdrops Drop”
H The Church – “Tantalized”
L Peter Murphy – “Final Solution”
K Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark (OMD) – “If You Leave”
PWR Minutemen – “No One”
DC Fear – “More Beer”
H Kommunity FK – “Something Inside Me Has Died”

I’m amused that one of my DJ choices this hour was Fear’s “More Beer,” which followed The Minutemen. I was either trying to wake myself up, or wake up the entire campus.