"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.)

"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.