Month: April 2025

Featuring INXS and Jimmy Barnes, Matchbox and Kirsty MacColl, Aztec Camera & Mick Jones, Damon Albarn & Matt Sharp, and more.

If you listened to the last show (sorry for the delay), then you knew what the theme for this one would be. I tried not to play anything I’ve already played (I violated that many, many times), but the more surprising thing was how many of these songs I haven’t played yet! Have I really not played [redacted] or [redacted]? I am shocked. SHOCKED.

Finding the sequencing was a challenge, though. There weren’t a lot of tracks that clearly belonged together. Also a challenge? My microphone. I had to rerecord some of these talkie bits four times, so if I sound annoyed and ready to get to the end, that’s why. (I bought a new one. It’s not much better.)

Thank you, as always, for listening.

Features David Bowie, Pugwash, Fine Young Cannibals, Robbie Willilams, and more

You should know, it pained me to shut the show down four episodes away from Show #100. I WAS SO CLOSE.

And then it took another year after moving before I was properly motivated. Well, that’s not entirely true. Getting used to the new routines, the kids going to different high schools, it was a LOT of change. I basically sacrificed my time to be available for them. And I think it was the right move at the time.

At the time. After a while, I was ready to start it back up. And now my youngest is only a month away from getting her driver’s license. I’m so close to retiring from my part-time job as a chauffeur that I can taste it. I only hope that with more free time comes more good show ideas.

Speaking of which, this show is a callback to a column we did in ye olden days. There is no doubt that I play several songs here that were highlighted in those columns, but I don’t know that for a fact – I was too scared to look. I didn’t want to be accused of peeking at someone else’s test.

Boom! There’s a cannon for the first hundred shows. Boom! There’s a cannon for the next.

Thank you, as always, for listening.

Features The Human League, Le Flex, Howard Jones, Climie Fisher, The Pixies, and more

Lots of songs, oodles and bunches and tons of songs to choose from when the subject is love. Too many, really, which means that I have almost certainly not played any of the first five songs that popped into your head just now. But maybe there’s something here that you will enjoy anyway. A master of the sales pitch, that is me. “Yeah, you might like this, I dunno, whatever.”

Thank you, as always, for listening anyway.