Playlist May 27, 2006

Track - Artist - Album (if new)
Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
A Different Story - Peter Schilling
Bullets - Editors - The Back Room
Friend or Foe - Adam Ant
Autobahn Music Box - Cut Copy
My Love Paramour - Cocteau Twins
Formed A Band - Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
Still Take You Home - Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am...
Elevation - Television
A Beautiful Life - Monc - TwentyOneNine Knox St
10:15 Saturday Night - The Cure
Missionary Man - The Eurythmics (R)
Jezebel - Piney Gir
Slave - Gary Numan - Jagged
Fade Away and Radiate - Blondie
52 Girls - The B-52s
Public Bath - Shonen Knife
Pristine Beauty Queen - The Pill
Last Monkey - Richard Butler - s/t
Please Don't Leave Me - Fade 13
You Got Me - VHS or Beta
Angel Visit - Thrashing Doves
Little Betty - World Service (Andy Wickett) - World Service
It Takes Time - The Stills - Without Feathers
In The Flat Field - Bauhause (R)
Tourniquet (c. Marilyn Manson) - Rasputina
Smile In The Crowd - Martin L Gore
You Tear Me Up - Buzzcocks
DIY - Pop Noir
PF - Controller.Controller - X-Amounts
Going For Adds - Moving Units
Chant No. 1 (Don't Need This Pressure On) - Spandau Ballet

Random Duo
Stand or Fall (live) - The Fixx
Red Skies (live) - The Fixx

Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain) - INXS
First Base - The Capes
Youth Culture Killed My Dog - They Might Be Giants
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not - She Wants Revenge
Wise Up Sucker! - Pop Will Eat Itself
Rainy Day - APB
Twenty Killer Hurts - Gene Loves Jezebel
(Keep Feeling) Fascination - Human League
Let Me Go - Heaven 17

(R) = Requests

Playlist May 20, 2006

Towards the middle of the show, I realized I hadn't done anything to celebrate Morrissey's birthday, so I decided to dedicate the last half hour to him.

Track - Artist - Album (if new)
Ready, Steady, Go - Generation X
Autoloader - Sister Machine Gun
Hard To Beat - Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV
God Only Knows (c. Beach Boys) - David Bowie
I Confess - The English Beat
Black Cherry - Goldfrapp (R)
Wrong Coat for You Mr. Heart Attack - Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Gravity - The Dresden Dolls (R)
Tiptoe - Goldfrapp
Emily Kane - Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock 'n' Roll
Remind Me To Smile - Gary Numan
Supergirls - The Capes - Hello
Air Miles - John Taylor
Love & Death - The Stills
Musidora - Isidore
Sister Europe - The Psychedelic Furs (R)
Reclamation - Fugazi
Jennifer - The Eurythmics
Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure (R)
Space Girl Blues - Devo
People Power - Cornershop
Blood - Editors - The Back Room
Love Like Blood - Killing Joke
Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured - Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say...
Gold - Spandau Ballet
Kick - Adam Ant
Man Overboard - Blondie (R)
Promise - Violent Femmes
Canary In A Coalmine - The Police
Shipwrecked - The Perfects - Nigel's Dead EP
His Circle & Hers Meet - Peter Murphy
Roam - The B-52s
Lucky Numbers - Lene Lovich
Dream of Me (Based on Love's Theme) - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Morrissey's 47th Birthday Tribute
Life Is A Pigsty - Morrissey (M) - Ringleader of the Tormentors
Unhappy Birthday - The Smiths (S)
Yes, I Am Blind - M
Bigmouth Strikes Again (live @ Earl's Court) - M
Hand In Glove - S
Late Night, Maudlin Street - M

(R) = Requests

Playlist May 13, 2006 (post DM show)

The Depeche Mode show ended early due to (according to Depeche Mode's management) Dave having a bout of laryngitis. Supposedly he lost his voice after the six songs he performed. There were reports that he couldn't hear himself through his in-ear monitors during any of the songs he did, because he was supposedly seen telling the sound guy with hand gestures to turn him up. He kept it together up through the first six songs, getting the audience to sing a lot of the choruses, and when it came time for Martin Gore to sing "Home" and "It Doesn't Matter Two" (a regular break in the schedule). The music for "In Your Room" started which was supposed to bring Dave back on-stage, but when Dave failed to appear, the song was stopped and a sort of on-stage huddle happened. We learned that Dave was too ill to continue the show, and were asked by Andy Fletcher if we'd mind hearing a few more songs from Martin. The crowd cheered and chanted Martin's name. I shouted "Compulson" (geek that I am), which is a single from Martin's first solo effort. Martin announced they'd do one that was easy for them to do under the circumstances, and sang "Leave In Silence" (which hasn't been performed in the US in 20 years apparently). He proceeded on with "Somebody" (a signature song), "A Question of Lust" and "Damaged People" (off the new album). All the last four songs were not on the setlist for that night, and I'm not sure Damaged People was even one they were doing on this tour. I felt it was really brave of Martin and showed such showmanship to keep the show going for as long as he could without much rehearsal. He sounded so amazing as he sweated bullets up there. The worst bit was when Fletcher came back out to announce that the show was over. The look on the man's face as he did the tough part of saying something to a crowd of people that you just never want to have to say was heart breaking. He was visibly broken as his shoulders slumped over and his head went down as he exited the stage amidst a few boos from idiots who didn't know any better, and cheers and chants for more Martin from fans. I swear some people really must have been raised by wolves (re: those who booed).

I just hope that Depeche Mode don't wait another 12 years to come back to our fair city.

Here's what was played on tonight's show:
Track - Artist - Album (if new)
Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb
Cars (extended version) - Gary Numan (R)
A Place In The Country - Adam Ant (R)
Our Lips Are Sealed - Fun Boy Three
Modern Art - Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll
Venus - Television
It Takes Time - The Stills - Without Feathers
Look Sharp! - Joe Jackson
Electricity - OMD
To Look At You - INXS
Middle Eastern Holiday - Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV
Lost In The Supermarket - The Clash
For Your Entertainment - The Charlatans UK - Sympatico
That Way - The Go-Betweens (for loss of Grant McLennon)
Slender Fungus - Tones On Tail (R)
Strict Machine - Goldfrapp
No One Lives Forever - Oingo Boingo
Pop Trash Movie - Blondie
Hyperactive - Thomas Dolby
Flickering Wall - Ian McCulloch (for his birthday)
Momma Was An Opium Smoker (live) - Rasputina
Killer/Lover - Moving Units
Totally Wired - The Fall
Camera - Editors - The Back Room
Damaged People - Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel (R)
Like No Other Man - The Countdown
Tigers Not Daughters - Controller.Controller
We're The Pet Shop Boys - My Robot Friend
Two Tribes (Annihilation mix) - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Funk Pop A Roll - XTC (R)
Following Waves - French Kicks
Change - Tears For Fears
Refused on Temple St - Isidore
Big Store - The Devils
Just Let Go - Pepe Deluxe (D)
How Could I Forget - The Faint
Out Of Control - She Wants Revenge - s/t
Satellites* - Richard Butler - s/t

(R) = Requests
(D) = Dedications
* - accidentally falsely announced as "Broken Aeroplanes"

Upcoming Live Shows mentioned on-air:
May 27 - The Fall @ The Record Bar
June 20 - The Stills @ The Bottleneck (Lawrence)
July 8 - She Wants Revenge @ The Granada (Lawrence)

Playlist May 6, 2006 (Depeche Mode Special)

I cannot tell you how much I adore this band! I have never done as extensive a tribute to my other favorite band, Duran Duran. Perhaps someday, huh? I think you may all be burnt out on Depeche after this, so I will probably give it a rest for a few weeks. I did something I don't often do in announcing all the album titles that the Depeche Mode songs were from, so I'm typing them up on the playlist as well. Unfortunately, in doing all that talking, I didn't fit nearly as much music in as I would have liked.

Here's tonight's playlist:

Track - Artist - Album
It Doesn't Matter - Depeche Mode (DM) - Some Great Reward (SGR) (1984)
Das Lied Vom Einsamen Mädchen - Martin L. Gore (of DM) - Counterfeit 2 (2003)
True Faith (c. New Order) - Flunk
Mrs. O - Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia
Strangelove - DM - Music For The Masses (MFTM) (1987)
A Pain That I'm Used To - DM - Playing The Angel (PTA) (2005)
Are "Friends" Electric (live) - Gary Numan (R)
Motherless Child - Martin L. Gore - Counterfeit EP (1989)
Everything Counts - DM - Construction Time Again (1983)
Easy Tiger - DM - Exciter (2001) (R)
Please Don't Leave Me - Fade 13 - s/t EP
Last Monkey - Richard Butler - s/t
Nobody's Diary - Yazoo (DM offshoot)
Fly On The Windscreen - DM - Black Celebration (BC) (1986)
Clean (acoustic) - DM - PTA Dual Disc (2005)
Photographic - DM - Speak & Spell (S&S) (1981)
So Many Broken Hearts - APB
She's In Parties - Bauhaus
Things You Said - DM - MFTM (1987)
Something In My House - Dead or Alive
Leave Me To Bleed - Erasure (DM off-shoot)
Nemesis - Shriekback (R)
Black & Blue Again - Dave Gahan (of DM) - Paper Monsters (2003)
I Want It All - DM - PTA (2005)
Dream On - DM - Exciter (2001)
Sea of Sin (Tonal Mix) - DM - b-side to "World In My Eyes" (from Violator (1990))
Puppets - DM - S&S (1981)
Who Needs Love Like That - Erasure
(Set Me Free) Remotivate Me - DM - b-side to Master & Servant (from SGR (1984))
Any Second Now (Voices) - DM - S&S (1981)
Halo - DM - Violator (1990)
Leave In Silence - DM - A Broken Frame (ABF) (1982)
World In My Eyes - DM - Violator (1990) (R)
My Secret Garden - DM - ABF (1982)
Behind The Wheel (Shep Pettibone Remix) - DM - original is from MFTM (1987)

(R) = Requests

Playlist April 29, 2006

Track - Artist - Album (if new)
What You Need (Disco Remix) - InXs
Make-up Sex - Clear Static - Make-Up Sex single
NYC (There's No Need To Stop) - The Charlatans UK - Sympatico
Visions of Charles - Andy Wickett & World Service - World Service
Androgyne - Faux Fox
Together Alone - Mount Sims
The Last Time - Fade13
Friction - Television
Broken Aeroplanes - Richard Butler - s/t
Sound & Vision - David Bowie
The Youngest Was The Most Loved - Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
Monsieur Control - Roman Numerals
Red Flags & Long Nights - She Wants Revenge - s/t
Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt - We Are Scientists
Fingers In The Factories - Editors - The Back Room
Virginia Plain - Roxy Music
Kundalini Express - Love & Rockets (R)
Disorder - Joy Division - (R)
The Darkest Star - Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
Bring On The Night - The Police (R)
Ghost Train - The Stranglers (R)
River (Depot Song) - Longwave
True Mathematics - Ladytron
To Say (Artrock version) - Kaito UK
Driving Through the Rain - Veronica Lipgloss & The Evil Eyes
Andy Warhol (c. Bowie) - Tubalcain
Messages - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Straight A's - Ambulance Ltd - New English EP (R)
Don't Care - Klark Kent
You Tear Me Up - The Buzzcocks
Don't Go Disco - Romance - When Things Are Better
First Base - The Capes - Hello
Same Man I was Before - Oingo Boingo
Going Nowhere - Cut Copy
Nighttime Ride - Big Audio Dynamite
Shoot You Down - APB
Julie Geisha - John Taylor
Lie Down In Darkness - A-Ha (R)
Dancing Barefoot (c. Patti Smith) - Simple Minds (R)
I'll Save You All My Kisses - Dead or Alive
Pinhead - Ramones
I Beg Your Pardon - Kon Kan

(R) = Requests

Playlist April 22, 2006

Track - Artist - Album (if new)
All Stood Still - Ultravox
Generals & Majors - XTC
Suffer Well - Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
President Gas - The Psychedelic Furs
Never Stop - Echo & The Bunnymen
Kinda I Want To - Nine Inch Nails
Out of Control - She Wants Revenge - s/t
She's Lost Control - Joy Division
Life Is A Pigsty - Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
Sugar Hiccup - Cocteau Twins (R)
Tied Up Too Tight - Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV
Neighborhood #2 (Laika) - Arcade Fire
Das Modell - Kraftwerk
Love Tragedy - I Am The World Trade Center
Someone Says - Editors - The Back Room
Paris is Burning - Romance - When Things Are Better
I Grieve - Peter Gabriel
Start Again - Ian McCulloch
Einstein, Albert - Artichoke
The World's Address - They Might Be Giants
The Marchers Are Coming - Dead Heart Bloom - s/t
Destroy Everything You Touch - Ladytron - The Witching Hour
Tiptoe - Goldfrapp
Once In A Lifetime - Wolfsheim
Genius of Love (12") - Tom Tom Club
Love Is A Stranger - The Eurythmics
Barbarism Begins At Home - The Smiths
Power Crisis - APB - Something To Believe In (reissue)
I Wanna Eat Chocobars - Shonen Knife
Shinjuku Hi-5 - The Capes - Hello
I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor - Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am...
Night On Fire - VHS or Beta
What Is Love? - Deee-Lite
Wake Up Time To Die - Pop Will Eat Itself
Of Crime & Passion - Duran Duran
One More Time - Joe Jackson
Go About Your Day - Three Alarm Fire
Men In Belted Sweaters - Mink Lungs (R)
Real Wild Child - Iggy Pop (R)
A Forest - The Cure
Ants Invasion - Adam & The Ants

(R) = Requests

Playlist Apr 15, 2006

Track - Artist - Album (if new)
The Beat(en) Generation - The The
New Song - Howard Jones
SuperGirls - The Capes - Hello
Lillian - Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
Runaway Boys - Stray Cats (Dave Edmunds' birthday)
Warakurna - Midight Oil
Nagel Baby - John Taylor
Every Day Should Be A Holiday - The Dandy Warhols
In Every DreamHome A Heartache (c. Roxy Music) - Xan
In The Future When All's Well - Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
Nifty - Monc - TwentyOneNine Knox St
Ring of Fire (c. Johnny Cash) - Wall of Voodoo
Gotta Reason - Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV
Lights - Editors - The Back Room
The Girls What To Be With The Girls - Talking Heads
Waiting For Mommie - My Life w/ The Thrill Kill Kult
Price of Love (ext. ) - Client

Random Duo
Lonesome Tonight (from Peel Session) - New Order
Blue Monday - New Order (R)

The Wrong Coat For YOu Mr. Heart Attack - Liars - Drum's Not Dead
Biting My Nails - Renegade Soundwave
Hard Day - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Torch - Marc Almond/Soft Cell
Metal - Gary Numan (R)
Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight - Dominatrix
Alice's House - Psychedelic Furs
Guns of Brixton - The Clash
Changes - The Perfects - Nigel's Dead EP
Sweetness - Fischerspooner
Darkening of the Light - Concrete Blonde
Shine Like It Does - INXS
Europa & The Pirate Twins - Thomas Dolby
Life Begins At The Hop - XTC
Fame (c. Bowie) - Duran Duran
Making Plans for Nigel - XTC (oops)
A Night Like This (live) - The Cure
Never Destroy Us - The Dears
Strung Out - Dot Allison (R)
Masquerade - Berlin

(R) = Requests

This Tuesday Night @ Record Bar!

Also, this week's issue of The Pitch has a little blurb in the Night & Day section for Tuesday night! I gave 'em a photo too.

Here's the text:
Rocking On, Sunshine
By Rebecca Braverman

Music critics may use older bands Joy Division, Gang of Four, Echo & the Bunnymen to describe newer ones (particularly those that rip off the music of the early 80s), but what good does it do for listeners who have never heard the originals? Forever Young had a life before Youth Group and The O.C. but does anyone remember Alphaville?

Sunshine does. The host of Retro Red-Eye Express on KKFI 90.1 spins a mix of bands such as Devo and Bauhaus on Saturday nights from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. while blending in new tunes from up-and-comers like the Arctic Monkeys and We Are Scientists. Tonight she moves the music to the Record Bar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207), where shell take the decks around 10 p.m. Old-school new-wave types: Sunshine encourages you to bust out your vintage gear. Tue., April 18, 10 p.m. Record Bar, 1020 Westport Rd. , Kansas City
Reference (link to the blurb online w/ photo)

Playlist April 8, 2006 (Fundraiser wk2)

I have to say thank you to those who did contribute to KKFI during my show the past couple of weeks. All of you helped Retro Red-Eye Express raise a total of $390 for the station this time around!

Track - Artist - Album (if new)
Circuit - Marbles - Expo
Talk Talk - Talk Talk
What Do All The People Know - The Monroes
Money Changes Everything - Cyndi Lauper
Shiny Shiny - Haysi Fantayzee
I Don't Want To Fall In Love - She Wants Revenge - s/t
Munich - Editors - The Back Room
Get A Grip On Yourself - The Stranglers
Lay All Your Love On Me (c. Abba) - Information Society
Overflow - Conner
Say You're Sorry - Ministry
Hyperactive - Thomas Dolby
Now - Meatbeat Manifesto (R)
A Dream - Cut Copy
Romanticide - Combo Audio
Man Overboard - Blondie
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) - The Arcade Fire
Broken Heart - Red Flag (R)
You (Automator Remix) - Tokyo Marine Fire
A Forest - The Cure
Stigmata Martyr (Dance Mix) - Bauhaus
Victim Is Another Name For Lover - Sunshine
Living For The Weekend - Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV
Dress - PJ Harvey
Textbook - We Are Scientists
Scary Monsters - David Bowie
A Certain Romance - Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am...
Ascension Day - The Tear Garden
I Can't Get Behind That - William Shatner (feat. Henry Rollins)
Shipwrecked - The Perfects - Nigel Is Dead EP
Anarchy In The UK - Sex Pistols
Hollow Inside - The Buzzcocks
God Tonight - Real Life
Kool Thing - Sonic Youth
Blue Dress - Depeche Mode

(R) = Requests

Playlist April 1, 2006

Track - Artist - Album (if new)
Kiss That Frog - Peter Gabriel
Fingers In The Factories - Editors - The Back Room
Common People - Pulp (R)
What You Want - The Capes - Hello
Gone Daddy Gone - Violent Femmes
Movement - LCD Soundsystem
We Care A Lot - Faith No More
Future - Cut Copy
Reptile - The Church
Black Cat - Broadcast
Let's Never Go To Sleep - Action Action
When The Pigs Drugged Alice - Polarized Mind
Social Fools - Devo
Static - The Countdown
Russian Radio - Red Flag
Red Red Sun - INXS
The Promise - When In Rome
Love Me Madly - Human League
Sleep By Windows - Gary Numan
Vienna - Ultravox
Blues From A Gun - Jesus & Mary Chain (R)
I Wanna Be A Cowboy - Boys Don't Cry
Loving The Alien - David Bowie
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (c. B. Dylan) - Bryan Ferry
London Calling - The Clash
Johnny & Mary - Robert Palmer
Always Crashing The Same Car (c. Bowie) - Silent Order
My Ever Changing Moods - Style Council
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division (R)


(R) = Requests

Thank You & Some Music News

First of all, many thanks to all who contributed during Retro Red-Eye Express last week and all throughout the week during our other programs. R2E2 managed to raise a respectable $220 last week. Your contributions help KKFI's independent voice continue to be heard! Let's try to up the ante tonight, shall we? I'm not entirely sure that my playlist for last week is complete, but I was kind of preoccupied, so I hope you will forgive me. Whatever I have will be posted a little bit later.

In Music News (Some of which is stolen borrowed from RememberTheEighties.com.):
Two members of Editors did an acoustic session during the "Rolling Stone Original" show during SXSW festival in Austin, TX recently. Here's a link to the over 15 minute peformance. It's in a format that only RealPlayer will read, so you will need to open RealPlayer and copy/paste the link address into the "Open Location" blank. It's definitely worth a listen. I think it's quite lovely.

Thomas Dolby is performing 20 dates in the US starting next week and going through May. Apparently he has a new album in the works as well and is warming himself up for something bigger. What has he been doing all this time? Apparently he founded a company called Beatnik that specializes in cell-phone ringtone software.

Psychedelic Furs and Love Spit Love frontman Richard Butler's first solo album is due out on April 18th (in the US), and he plays the last night of his US promotion tour tonight in Solana Beach, CA. (I can't tell you how much I wished he'd have visited us here in KC, but perhaps there's hope he'll add us to the upcoming Psych Furs tour rumored to take place this Summer.)

For those who haven't heard yet (I'm sure there's someone who hasn't yet), Bauhaus are playing US tour dates in support of Nine Inch Nails.

Duran Duran has been working on a new album and the latest I've heard is that they hope the first single will see a pre-Summer 2006 release. (One can only hope. Those guys are notorious perfectionists.)

I'm all kinds of excited for the May 10 Depeche Mode/She Wants Revenge show at Starlight in KC, MO! You're all going too, right?

Erasure are set to do an acoustic tour of the US and Europe, and have a new album due out on April 18th called Union St. It's comprised of reworkings of tracks from their back-catalogue, and they've released a new single called "Boy."

When In Rome, best known for their hit single "The Promise" (revisited recently on the Napoleon Dynamite soundtrack) have scheduled some US tour dates. Most notably is a gig on May 5th in Chicago, IL. Further info is forthcoming and should be available on their official myspace page.

90.1 FM & Retro Red-Eye need your support!

Spring has sprung, and you know what that means...

It's time for KKFI's Spring 2006 on-air fund drive! Please pledge your support for Kansas City's only listener supported, independent community radio station! Our fund drive runs for only 9 days, starting on Friday March 31st (yesterday) through Saturday April 8th.

There are a couple of different ways you can donate to KKFI.
1.) Local Phone: If you're local, call (816) 931-3122 during your favorite shows
2.) Toll-Free Phone: If you're from outside the Greater Kansas City area, you may call our special Toll-Free number (866) 745-6336
3) Website: you may donate via the web --- go to http://www.kkfi.org and submit your donation online.

Tune in tonight to Retro Red-eye Express for your weekly fix of New Wave/Alternative/Industrial/Punk, and help keep KKFI on the air!

Retro Red-eye spins @ The Record Bar!

Get ready to dance to your favorite tunes and mine on Tuesday, April 18th, because Retro Red-Eye Express will be spinning live at The Record Bar (after Rex Hobart) from around 10pm - 1:30am. If you're 21 or over, dust off your New Romantic/Dark Wave gear and come on down!

Venue: The Record Bar
Location: 1020 Westport Rd,Kansas City, MO 64111
Date: Tues., April 18th from
Time: 10pm(ish) - 1:30am (after Rex Hobart)

Still confused? The Record Bar is located next to First Watch inside the covered wagon shopping center on the North-West corner of Southwest Traffickway and Westport Rd.

Playlist Mar. 25, 2006

Track - Artist - Album (if new)
Mardy Bum - Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am...
Here Comes Your Man - Pixies
First Base - The Capes - Hello
Desire On Repeat - Vedera
Video Killed The Radio Star (c. The Buggles) - Erasure (R)
Come Alive - The Devils
Macrovision - Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
Digging Your Scene - The Blow Monkeys

Celebratory Nick Lowe Birthday Block
So It Goes - Nick Lowe
Radio, Radio - Elvis Costello
Middle of the Road - The Pretenders

Church of the Poison Mind - Culture Club
Shine - The Psychedelic Furs
Lessons Learned from Rocky I to Rocky III - Cornershop (R)
Tears Are Not Enough - ABC
In A Big Country (live) - Big Country
Unlovable - The Smiths
Dong Eat Dog - Adam Ant
Birth, School, Work, Death - The Godfathers
Jumping Someone Else's Train - The Cure
Stars of CCTV - Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV

Cheesetastic Song of the Week
I Go Crazy - Flesh For Lulu

Far Gone & Out - Jesus & Mary Chain
I Don't Remember - Peter Gabriel
For Miles Around (Scratch to Void) - People In Planes - EP
Lips Like Sugar - Echo & The Bunnymen
Nifty - Monc - TwentyOneNine Knox St
Vienna - Ultravox
Munich - Editors - The Back Room
Atmosphere - Joy Division
I'll Be Your Mirror (c. Velvet Underground) - The Primitives
Real Toys - Altered Images
John, I'm Only Dancing - David Bowie
Guns of Brixton - The Clash
Ever Fallen In Love - The Buzzcocks
That's Enhtertainment - The Jam
Blue Highway - Billy Idol
Lucky Number - Lene Lovich (R)
Heart of Glass - Blondie
Only A Memory - The Smithereens
Rock 'n' Roll High School - Ramones (R)
I Want Candy (live) - Bow Wow Wow
Someone's Lookin' At You - The Boomtown Rats
No Cabaret! - VHS or Beta

(R) = Requests

Playlist Mar. 18, 2006

Track - Artist - Album (if new)
Weekend - Ladytron - Witching Hour
We're Only Science - Dot-Allison
Mirror In The Bathroom - The English Beat (R)
Tightly Wound - The Capes - Hello
Antonio Baka Guy - Shonen Knife
Moi. - Kaito UK
Pluto Drive - The Creatures
Make Me Yours - Halovox
Red Flags & Lonely Nights - She Wants Revenge - s/t
Marelene Dietrich's Favourite Poem - Peter Murphy
It's A Hit - We Are Scientists - With Love & Squalor
Power Crisis - APB - Something To Believe In (reissue)
Tropical Flesh Mandala - Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
Jezebel - Piney Gir
Walking In Silence - Veldt - The Cause: The Effect
Lovely 2 C U - Goldfrapp - Supernature
Lost In Time - Stellastar*
Violent Heart - Three Alarm Fire
All Sparks - Editors - The Back Room
Sanctified - Nine Inch Nails
Oh Fine - French Kicks
The Twilight - Cut Copy
Dream Attack - New Order
Day Sleeper - Longwave
She Is Mine - The Psychedelic Furs
How We Do - Mount Sims
I Know You Well - Ian McCulloch
Revenge - Ministry
Runaway Boys (live) - The Stray Cats
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before - The Smiths
This & That - Michael Penn
Sometimes - Midnight Oil
Space Girl Blues - Devo
Forever Live & Die - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Promise - Violent Femmes
Making Plans for Nigel - XTC
Monkey's Gone To Heaven - Pixies (R)


(R) = Requests

Playlist Mar. 11, 2006

Track - Artist - Album (if new)
Can't Lose - We Are Scientists - With Love & Squalor
Stigmata Martyr (Dance mix) - Bauhaus
Auto Mowdown - Devo
When Darkness Calls - Barry Adamson
Sugar Hooker - Jerra
She's Lost Control - Joy Division
The Falling Kind - Vedera
My Mind Ain't So Open - Magazine
New York, NY (German) - Nina Hagen (R) It was her 51st birthday!
Roy (Back from the offworld) - Happy Rhodes
Subbacultcha - Frank Black
Indigo Eyes - Peter Murphy (R)
Hollywood Boulevard - Big Audio Dynamite
Insanity Lurks Nearby - Frontline Assembly
At Home He's A Tourist - Gang of Four
Straight A's - Ambulance Ltd - New English EP
Dreamtime - The Stranglers (R)
Oblivious - Aztec Camera
Golden Playpen - INXS
Master & Servant - Depeche Mode (R)
Greasy Spoon - Ak-Momo
Balloon Man - Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
Youth Culture Killed My Dog - They Might Be Giants
All The Things She Said - Simple Minds (R)
Vodiak - Stereolab - Fab Four Suture
You Tear Me Up - The Buzzcocks
Going Nowhere - Cut Copy
Anyone Out There - Duran Duran
Rip Her To Shreds (live) - Blondie
Trouble Ahead - The Grabs
Wishing (If I Had a Photograph) - A Flock of Seagulls

Random Morrissey Duo
Bigmouth Strikes Again (live) (Smiths song) - Morrissey
November Spawned A Monster (live) - "

The Last High - The Dandy Warhols (R)
I Wanna Eat Choco Bars - Shonen Knife
Jennifer - The Eurythmics
Cash Machine - Hard-Fi
Blue Day - Mount Sims
Ring of Fire (c. J. Cash) - Wall of Voodoo

(R) = Requests

Playlist Mar. 4, 2006

Wow... I'm terribly sorry that I set up these last two posts with "Watch This Space" last Sunday and never got to them until now. I had good intentions, but I didn't know then that I would be working a six day week. Last week I played a Depeche Mode song per hour to express my excitement about their upcoming show and the fact that tickets went on sale that Friday. At any rate... here is last week's list:

Track - Artist - Album (if new)
Strobe Light - The B-52s
Public Bath - Shonen Knife
KungFu Girls - Blondie
Textbook - We Are Scientists - With Love & Squalor
Pictures of You (live) - The Cure (to compare with the above song)
Walking In Silence - Veldt - The Cause: The Effect
Mongoloid - Devo
Out of Control - She Wants Revenge - s/t
The Darkest Star - Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel
Of Crime & Passion - Duran Duran
After All (c. Bowie) - The Mission UK
One Day - APB
Little Fluffy Clouds - The Orb (R)
Hand In Glove - The Smiths (R)
Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo (R)
Another Way - Swayzak
I Am The Light - Del Rey & The Sun Kings
Munich - Editors - The Back Room
Pyjamarama - Roxy Music
A Certain Romance - Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am...
Close To The Edit - The Art of Noise
Halo (Goldfrapp mix) - Depeche Mode
Seven Seas - Echo & The Bunnymen
Effigy (I'm Not An) - Ministry (R)
Changes - David Bowie
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) - The Arcade Fire
Half Harvest - Michael Penn
Mayor of Simpleton - XTC
Living For The Weekend - Hard-Fi - Stars of CCTV
Living On The Ceiling - Blancmange
Circling Overland - Front242
Time Stands Still - Cut Copy
Enola Gay - OMD
The Sun & The Rainfall - Depeche Mode
Promises Promises - Naked Eyes
Immortal - John Taylor
Momma Was An Opium Smoker (live) - Rasputina
Magnificent Seven - The Clash
The Diver - Stellastar*

(R) = Requests

Playlist Feb 25, 2006

Track - Artist - Album (if new)

Apollo - OMD
Modern Love is Automatic - A Flock of Seagulls
Fractured Beauty - Autohypnosis
Sooner Or Later - Flesh For LuLu
Shinjuku Hi-5 - The Capes - Hello
The Stand - The Alarm
If I Didn't Love You - Squeeze
Red Skies - The Fixx (R)
Totally Wired - The Fall (R)
Bizarre Love Triangle (D)
Victims - Culture Club (R)
I Hate it That I Got What I Wanted - Clearlake
Tigers Not Daugthers - Controller.Controller - X-Amounts
How Could I Forget - The Faint
Tied Up Too Tight - Hard-Fi
Autobahn Music Box - Cut Copy
Studio City (Misery Loves Company) - John Taylor
Shipwrecked - The Perfects
Legal Tender - The B-52s
Talk To Me - APB
I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am...
Following Waves - French Kicks
Yes, I Am Blind - Morrissey
Twenty Killer Hurts - Gene Loves Jezebel
Creature - Piney Gir
Number 1 - Goldfrapp - Supernature
Mental Powers - Autonomadic
King Rocker - Generation X
Sheena Is A Punk Rocker - Ramones
Love In A Void - Siouxsie & The Banshees
Burning - Fugazi
Circuit - Marbles
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not - She Wants Revenge - s/t
Goody Two Shoes (ext.) - Adam Ant (R)
Das Modell - Kraftwerk
Told You So - Depeche Mode
Tribulations - LCD Soundsystem
Destroy Everything You Touch - Ladytron - Witching Hour
In Bloom - Ian McCulloch
Sister Europe - Psychedelic Furs
Problems - Sex Pistols
My Antarctica - Duran Duran


(R) = Requests
(D) = Dedication

APB News! "Something To Believe In" for Sure!

Last week I was ranting and raving again about how my APB "Something To Believe In" CD (which was "printed" in 1985) has been worse for wear these past couple of years. It had scuffs on it that, at first, started to make the sound of the first four tracks fuzzy, then eliminated them altogether. I had it buffed at a music store, but all it did was bring back the first two tracks (Shoot You Down and Talk To Me) in their fuzzy state.

As it is one of my most prized possessions, I have been all torn up about it, and those who were listening when I first bemoaned its demise a year ago heard me talk about how in looking to replace it, I found it was going for upwards of $100! Who buys a CD for $100?! Needless to say, I was gutted! If you look for it now, you'll find that a "slightly scuffed" copy goes for nearly $100, and a "new" one goes for nearly $250! Outrageous!

So, imagine my delight at learning via an old WDRE/WLIR DiscJockey (Love to you, DJ Bird!) that Young American Recordings is reissuing my beloved "Something To Believe In" in an expanded two-disc version (Feb 21, 2006), PLUS a Live At The BBC recording (March 14, 2006) as well! Not only that, the band has been in the studio and are looking to release some brand new music soon!

As of this moment I've just ordered my new copy of "Something To Believe In" from Young American Recordings, and I simply cannot wait for its arrival so I can again share with you my love of scottish funk band APB on-air! I just wonder if the price gouging will continue once the new reissue is out.

~Sunshine

PS - Look! They even did a gig with Soul legend James Brown!

Playlist Feb 11, 2006 (unValentine's Show) + Moving Units Interview

It's sort of become a tradition that I do a Valentine's show with a healthy dose of cynicism. In some ways this show was successful, and in some ways it failed. Then... there were all the requests I received for cheesy-upbeat singles that I honored. I suppose it became whatever it was, you know? My only hope (each time I do the show, in fact) is that those who listened in had fun doing so.

In other news:
Last night's Nine Inch Nails show was nothing short of phenomenal! I unfortunately missed Moving Units' opening set, because as always, flippin' Kansas City fails to mention if the time posted on the ticket is the door time or the show time, and Moving Units mustn't have played more than a 20 minute set. Sometimes there are things that this city truly needs to work on, I swear. "Disappointed" doesn't scratch the surface. I am way beyond upset.

Here was last week's playlist:
Track - Artist - Album (if new)
Inject Me - Pop Will Eat Itself
Phantom Bride - Erasure
Love Action (I believe in love) - The Human League
Fashion - David Bowie
Standing In The Way of Control - The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control
Cold Enough to Snow - The Grabs
Eighties - Killing Joke (R)
Mardy Bum - Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
First Base - The Capes - Hello
Apollo 9 - Adam & The Ants
Sheila Take A Bow - The Smiths (R)
Poison Arrow - ABC
I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend - Ramones (R)
Analogue (All I Know) - A-Ha - Analogue
Head Over Heels - Tears For Fears (R)

Moving Units Interview segment
Going For Adds
--Interview--
Anyone

Love You More - The Buzzcocks
I Beg Your Pardon (12" mix) - Kon Kan
Saturdays - Cut Copy
Sex & Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll - Ian Dury & The Blockheads (R)
International Dateline - Ladytron - Witching Hour
Waiting Room - Fugazi
Out of Control - She Wants Revenge - s/t
Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush (R)
A Message - Coldplay
Work For Love - Ministry
Together Alone - Mount Sims
Let Me Go - Heaven 17 (R)
The Sound of Single Girls - Three Alarm Fire
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys (R)
Too Much Love - LCD Soundsystem
I Like You (live) - Morrissey
Shoot You Down - APB
Overflow - Conner - Hello Graphic Missile*
Just Let Go - Pepe Deluxe (R)
Don't Change - INXS
Electric Barbarella - Duran Duran

(R) = Requests
(s/t) = Self-titled
* - Conner are a local band out of Lawrence, KS (connermusic.com)