Thanksgiving Eve '11 playlist

Hope you all are having/ have had a nice Thanksgiving. Phones were quiet last night (except a ticket giveaway) so I'm guessing people were busy with Thanksgiving prep or festivities. Thanks to DJ Muckraker for guesting on the '80s at 8:30.

New tracks

6 pm hour

Tom Waits -- Chicago
Lydia Loveless -- Can't Change Me
Twin Sister -- Spain
Blood Orange -- Complete Failure
Gauntlet Hair -- Mop It Up
St. Vincent -- Chloe in the Afternoon

Recurrent (4-12 months old)

Gang of Four -- I Party All the Time

7 pm hour

Crooked Fingers -- Black Candles
Mekons -- Space in Your Face
Limes -- Merrilly
The Big Scary -- All That You've Got
Tom Waits -- Bad As Me
Blitzen Trapper -- Street Fighting Son
The Pack A.D. -- Rid of Me
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah -- Hysterical
Yuck -- A Base of a Dream is Empty

8 pm hour

Wild Flag -- Black Tiles
The Black Belles -- Honky Tonk Horror
Deer Tick -- The Bump
Jacuzzi Boys -- Glazin
Tuneyards -- Gangsta

The 80s at 8:30

DJ Muckraker selected 80s acts covering 60s music -- except a stray BB King '80s track at the end.

Art of Noise -- Peter Gunn
Soft Cell -- Purple Haze
Grandmaster Flash -- Magic Carpet Ride
Erasure -- The Good The Bad and The Ugly
Wierd Al Yankovic -- The Brady Bunch
David Bowie -- Louie Louie Go Home (Paul Revere and the Raiders cover)
B.B. King -- Sell My Monkey

Video link: Plasmatics blow up a Chevy Nova on "Tomorrow"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hha6TH2R7w

Fun(d) Drive week 2 playlist

Great fun in the studio -- but not too much fun -- last night with the entire crew. We raised $980 during the Showgram, which was a bit less than last week but an excellent response. Thanks to any of you who donated. I did the WZMF Tapes Part II special during the 7 p.m. hour and special Tomorrow Show '80s at 8:30.

I know I am missing a few tracks here, but this is what I have

6 pm hour
Mark Lanegan and PJ Harvey -- Hit the City
Yo La Tengo -- Autumn Sweater
XTC -- Runaway
The Flaming Lips -- Free Radicals
Bryan Ferry -- Let's Work Together
Byrne and Eno -- Help Me Somebody
The Goodnight Loving -- Earworm
Black Uhuru -- Chill Out
The Eels --Fresh Blood
The Kills -- No Wow
Dum Dum Girls -- Bhang Bhang I'm A Burnout

7 pm hour

WZMF... segments from the last four hours March 23, 1979

DJs Downstairs Dan, Dr. Metal, Jim Roberts and Steve Amann

The Clash -- Last Gang in Town
Beatles -- Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Phil Ochs -- Small Circle of Friends

The Who -- My Generation
The Who -- Tommy (extended jam)
Savoy Brown -- Leavin Again

8pm hour

The Stranglers -- (Get a)Grip (on Yourself)
The Feelies -- Waiting
Brian Jonestown Massacre -- Going To Hell
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Took Out A Loan
Sex Pistols -- Pretty Vacant

The 80s at 8:30

Live performances on "The Tomorrow Show" with Tom Snyder in 1981. Taped -- yes taped -- from the DVD "The Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder: Punk & New Wave."

Elvis Costello and the Attractions -- Watch Your Step
Iggy Pop Band -- Dog Food, Five Foot One, TV Eye
The Plasmatics -- Master Plan
The Jam -- Pretty Green and Funeral Pyre
The Ramones -- I Wanna Be Sedated

WZMF/ Tomorrow show specials pledge show tonight

In keeping with the "best show ever" theme of WMSE's fall fun(d) drive, tonight I will feature two special things. During the 7 p.m. hour, it will be the WZMF tapes part II from the last hours of the late, lamented WZMF radio in 1979. During the 80s at 8:30, I will feature live in-studio performances from Tom Snyder's "Tomorrow" in 1981. Please call in and pledge. Thanks.

Video link: Elvis Costello/ Attractions live '79 Watching the Detectives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwRvNIurhjc&feature=related

Playlist for Fun(d) Drive week one

Big fun Wednesday night on the first day of the MSE Fall Fun(d) Drive. Thanks to Brian Jay and Dori for playing along with my pledge drive zaniness. It was an all-retro playlist including three tracks with "swears" bleeped out.

Dave Edmunds and Rockpile -- Heart of the City
Elvis Costello and the Attractions -- Watching the Detectives (live '78)
Wreckless Eric -- Semaphore Signals
Mink DeVille -- Cadillac Walk
Talking Heads -- Uh-Oh Love Comes to Town
Television -- Glory
Ian Dury and the Blockheads -- Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
The Beat -- Best Friend
Fleshtones -- The Dreg/ I've Gotta Change My Life
Lou Reed -- Vicious
Velvet Underground -- Cool It Down
Modern Lovers -- Pablo Picasso (radio edit)
Roxy Music -- Re-make/ Re-model
Undertones -- Wrong Way/ Jump Boys
Link Wray -- Switchblade
The Specials -- Nite Klub
The Stooges -- No -- Fun
Neil Young and Crazy Horse -- F***in Up (radio edit)
Pretenders -- Up the Neck
Ramones -- We're A Happy Family
Echo and the Bunnymen -- Going Up
The Clash -- I'm So Bored with the USA
Gang of Four -- At Home He's a Tourist
Marianne Faithfull -- Why'd Ya Do It (radio edit)

The '80s at 8:30
Featuring DJ Uncle Rich in July 1987

Clayton Clark -- Visions of Muhammad Ali
Scott Goddard -- Nikita Khrushcev
The Fuzztones -- Hwy 69
Couch Flambeau -- Hwy 100
Volcano Suns -- White Elephant
Fleshtones -- On Our Own Time
The Lucy Show -- View from the Outside
James Brown and Afrika Bambaata -- Unity