"If you want me, you can find me left of center, off of the strip..."

21 May, 1986

K Bow Wow Wow – “I Want Candy”
PWR Camper Van Beethoven – “Sometimes”
#1 Big Country – “Look Away”
H The Bolshoi – “Happy Boy”
DC Wall of Voodoo – “Back in Flesh”
M Book of Love – “I Touch Roses”
PWR Art of Noise – “Paranomia”
REC Armoury Show – “Castles in Spain”
H Robert Wyatt – “The Age of Self”
L The Hit Squad – “Libyan Hit Squad”
K The Members – “Working Girl”
PWR Husker Du – “Hardly Getting Over It”
DC OMD – “Enola Gay”
H Get Smart – “Looking Out for #3”
M Suzanne Vega – “Left of Center”
#2 Pete Shelley – “On Your Own”
PWR Let’s Active – “In Little Ways”
REC The Smiths – “The Boy With the Thorn in his Side”
H Highwaymen – “Highwaymen”
DC Devo – “Uncontrollable Urge”
K Phil Seymour – “Precious To Me”
PWR The BoDeans – “Fadeaway”
L Bryan Ferry – “Is Your Love Strong Enough”
H Jonathan Richman – “Let’s Take a Trip”
M Swimming Pool Q's – “She’s Looking”
DC Oingo Boingo – “Heard Somebody Cry”
PWR Siouxsie & the Banshees – “Candyman”
REC The Jesus & Mary Chain – “The Hardest Walk”
H Richard Lloyd – “Losin’ Anna”
#3 Alex Chilton – “No Sex”
DC Fleshtones – “Shadowline”
PWR The Pandoras – “Stop Pretending”
K INXS – “Listen Like Thieves – live version”
H The Pogues – “London Girl”
M The Style Council – “My Ever Changing Mood”
L The Alarm – “Majority”
PWR Neighborhoods – “Yeah You”
DC Echo & the Bunnymen – “The Puppet”
H Fuzztones – “Cinderella”
REC APB – “Shoot You Down”
PWR Joe Jackson – “It’s a Big World”
M Kommunity FK – “Something Inside Me Has Died”
K Roman Holiday – “Stand By”
PWR The Jazz Butcher – “The Jazz Butcher vs The Prime Minister”
#4 Belinda Carlisle – “Mad About You”

By this time I think I was really starting to hate the Swimming Pool Q's. I know that the album was played so much at the station that I started to feel ill whenever I saw the album cover. Enough time has passed, however, that I think I'd enjoy hearing it again, even if I do still think the sleeve is a bit creepy.

"These rivers of suggestion are driving me away..."

14 May, 1986

K Beastie Boys – “Fight For Your Right”
PWR The Pandoras – “Stop Pretending”
#1 Big Country – “Look Away”
H The Windbreakers – “I’ll Be Back”
DC Marshall Crenshaw – “Right Now”
M EIEIO – “Hello Heartache”
PWR Depeche Mode – “It Doesn’t Matter Two”
REC The Smiths – “The Boy w/ The Thorn in his Side”
H Roky Erikson – “Don’t Slander Me”
L Cactus World News – “Years Later”
K OMD – “So In Love”
PWR Art of Noise – “Peter Gunn Theme”
DC Rank & File – “Amanda Ruth”
H Richard Lloyd – “Watch Yourself”
M Swimming Pool Q's – “Now I’m Talking ‘bout Now”
#2 That Hope – “Spaceboys In Love”
PWR Elvis Costello – “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”
REC Lou Reed – “My Love is Chemical”
H The Pogues – “London Girl”
DC The Cars – “The Dangerous Type”
K Falco – “Der Kommisar”
PWR Let’s Active – “Last Chance Town”
L Lords of the New Church – “Like a Virgin”
H Great Plains – “Dick Clark”
M Brian Setzer – “Radiation Ranch”
DC The Shoes – “Double Talk”
PWR The Cramps – “Chicken”
REC The Jesus & Mary Chain – “Cut Dead”
H Soul Asylum – “Never Really Been”
#3 Alex Chilton – “No Sex”
DC The Ramones – “Rock & Roll High School”
PWR Husker Du – “Sorry Somehow”
K Jim Carroll – “People Who Died”
H Death of Samantha – “Bed of Fire”
M Translator – “Stony Gates of Time”
L Zeit Geist – “Atlantic City”
PWR The BoDeans – “Angels”
DC Violent Femmes – “Please Do Not Go”
H Highwaymen – “Burndown”
REC The Armoury Show – “Castles in Spain”
PWR Dumptruck – “Alone”
M Book of Love – “Boy”
K REM – “So. Central Rain”
PWR Pet Shop Boys – “Two Divided by Zero”
H Get Smart – “See Who’s Laughing”
DC The Psychedelic Furs – “Dumb Waiters”
M Cocteau Twins – “Great Spangled Fritillary”

"I am a DJ, I am what I play..."

This is Brian, a DJ-in-training at the station. Trainees had to take a course called (I think) COM130 before they could begin working at the station. COM130/Introduction to Radio was a communicaton class that was needed to earn a radio license. The latter part of the quarter included hands-on experience in the air studio. Trainees had to sit in with the "regular" jocks to learn how to work the boards. Brian, the poor bugger, had to sit in on my shifts - it's a wonder he learned anything at all with me as a mentor.

Three WWSU DJ's - Don, Kevin (seated) and Gary - in the "lounge." Lounge is a bit of a grand word really for what was actually just the front corner of the record library - consisting of a couple of desks, chairs, a typewriter, a couple of file cabinets and one smelly old moth-eaten sofa.
Don is Don Thrasher, the guy who turned me onto GBV. Not only did he introduce me to the band, but ended up a member in one of GBV's later incarnations. He's a contributing writer for the Dayton Daily News these days.

(As an aside and to add perspective, the earlier photo of some DJs in the record library with a case of beer was taken standing on the top of the desk Kevin is sitting at to type up the station newsletter.)