Way to go Couch Flambeau!

Congrats to Milwaukee's own Couch Flambeau for being named to Spin magazine's top 8 "essentials" for the precursor of grunge, which Spin refers to as Pigf--k. The 1985 Flambeau album The Day the Music Died made the list, along with albums by Scratch Acid, Killdozer, Sonic Youth, the Butthole Surfers and Big Black. See this week's '80s at 8:30 playlist for the tracks I played from The Day the Music Died. Article is in the December issue of Spin.

Whew -- Back2Normal Playlist 11-11-09

The pledge drive is over and done, now we will get back to our regular fun. Here for your entertainment pleasure are this week's new trax and 80's @ 8:30 lineup...

6 pm hour

Drivin n Cryin -- Detroit City
Julian Plenti -- Fly As You Might
The Ettes -- I Can't Be True
King Khan and the BBQ Show -- Animal Parts
Chuck Prophet -- Where the Hell is Henry?
Sea Wolf -- Oh Maria
The Slits -- Peer Pressure

7 pm hour

Girls -- Morning Light
Gossip -- Dime Store Diamond
Fiery Furnaces -- Charmaine Champagne
Yo La Tengo -- Periodically Double or Triple
Har Mar Superstar -- Don't Ask Don't Tell
Raveonettes -- D.R.U.G.S.
Gordon Gano and the Ryans -- Way that I Creep
BLK JKS (Black Jacks) -- Lakeside

Recurrent track
Dinosaur Jr. -- Pieces

8 pm hour
new tracks

Black Heart Procession -- Rats
Flaming Lips -- Trembling Hands
Dirty Projectors -- Stillness is the Move (Radio Edit)
Mission of Burma -- Good Cheer

The '80s At 8:30

The Brains -- In the Night
Dinosaur Jr. (in town soon, had to play 'em twice tonight) -- Just Like Heaven
Soul Asylum -- Freaks
Spanic Boys -- Spark of Love
Del Fuegos -- Don't Run Wild
The Three O'Clock -- Sorry
Dag Nasty -- Trouble Is

Thanx and 80s at 8:30 for 11-4-09

Thanks again to those who helped us hit the minimum goal I set for this week's showgram of $500 so we helped (with Direct Supply) send 5 turkeys to the Hunger Task Force for families in need.

I believe I played only one "new" track due to my pledge drive hit parade. That was the Fiery Furnaces "I'm Going Away."

80s at 8:30
Bonemen of Barumba -- Walking with the Dead Men
Replacements -- We're Coming Out
Agent Orange -- Bloodstains

Spoken word from English as a Second Language (1983)
Jeffrey Lee Pierce - Blacks
Clayton Clark -- Visions of Muhammad Ali
Scott Goddard -- Nikita Krushchev
Bill Inglot -- Retirement of the Badge
Luis Campos -- Fruit Cocktail
Dennis Cooper -- 7 Poests Chosen By John Ashbery

Laurie Anderson -- Sweaters
Plasticland -- Processes of the Silverness
Siouxsie and the Banshees -- Arabian Nights

Pledge Drive Take 2 w/ Turkey

We're talking Turkey now on the WMSE fall pledge drive -- as in when you give, one of our underwriters will donate turkey dinners to the Hunger Task Force. That underwriter is Direct Supply of Milwaukee. Depending on the show, Direct Supply is providing turkeys to hungry Milwaukee-area families to the tune of five for every $500 raised or 10 for every $1,000 raised. I'd like to raise $1k on my showgram this week -- and I'll start with my own pledge of $100. So we need another $400 to $900. Please give a call Wednesday night from 6 to 9 at 414-799-1917.
Also, thanks to Friends of Rich Mars who called with pledges last week -- Ketch Jr., Bro Dan, Uncle Paul, Lady S and others.
Rich Mars

Yee-hah! Pledge time

Please give a call during my showgram Wednesday night from 6 to 9 -- or any of the other fine shows on WMSE 91.7 / wmse.org -- during our fall pledge / membership drive. Lots of cool 'thank you' gifts, led by the Blank Generation calendar of black-and-white photos of the Milwaukee music scene back in the day (Mars remembers, more or less). Call 414-799-1917 or go to wmse.org to do your thang.

New stuff 10-14-09 + Eighties @ 8:30

Weather is crappy at the moment but supposed to hit 60 next week! Musically speaking, there are a ton of good new tracks at the station (and a couple in my possession) to play. Special thing this week was the compilation CDs (by the station, I guess) of late 70s/ early 80s punk/ new wave -- mostly from Milwaukee -- to go with our Milwaukee's Blank Generation 2010 wall calendar fundraiser.

New stuff

6 pm hour
Recent releases
Viva Voce -- Rose City
The Ettes -- Blood Red Blood
Shaky Hands -- You're the Light
Cave Singers -- At the Cut
Yo La Tengo -- Nothing to Hide
Fiery Furnaces -- I'm Going Away

Recurrent (4-12 months old)
Handsome Family -- Wild Wood

7 pm hour
Recent releases
Gogol Bordello -- Immigrant Punk (demo)
Slits -- Peer Pressure
Gossip -- Spare Me the Mold
Box Elders -- Ronald Dean
Yacht -- Psychic City (Voodoo City)
Vivan Girls -- I'm Not Asleep

Recurrent
Heartless Bastards -- The Mountain
King Khan and the Shrines -- Land of the Freak

8 pm hour
Flaming Lips -- The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine
Har Mar Superstar -- Don't Ask Don't Tell
High Strung -- Out of Charactre
Girls -- Morning Light
Raveonettes -- Oh I Buried You Today
Lou Barlow -- The Right

Recurrent
Eels -- Tremendous Dynamite
Sonic Youth -- Thunderclap for Bobby Pyn

'80s at 8:30
Lubricants -- Activated Energy
Gang War (Wayne Kramer/ Johnny Thunders) -- Like a Rolling Stone (live)
Ama Dots -- Hit Girls
Tense Experts -- Cemetary Secrets
Pretenders (request) -- Waste Not Want Not
Gun Club -- She's Like Heroin to Me
GBH (request) -- Womb with a View
Channel 3 -- True West

Last showgram before Harvest Moon playlist

I did play "Harvest Moon" by Jason and the (Nashville) Scorchers and it wasn't even during the '80s at 8 segment.

Here's the new stuff:
6 pm hour

New trax
Gordon Gano and the Ryans -- Way That I Creep
High Strung -- Guilt Is How I'm Built
Raveonettes -- Bang!
Julian Plenti -- Fly As You Might
Rev. Horton Heat -- Rural POV
War Tapes -- The Night Unfolds
Pat MacDonald/ Purgatory Hill -- Count to Ten

7 pm hour
New trax
Oh My God -- I Dare You to Love Me
Rural Alberta Advantage -- The Dethbridge in Lethbridge
Girls -- Morning Light
Lou Barlow -- The Right
Dinosaur Jr. -- Over It
BLK JKS -- Lakeside
Starlight Mints -- Gazeretti
Fiery Furnaces -- Staring at the Steeple

Recurrent track (4-12 months vintage)
Super Drag -- Filthy & Afraid

8 pm hour
New trax
Yacht -- Summer Song
Yo La Tengo -- Nothing to Hide
Jay Reatard -- Wounded
Shaky Hands -- You're the Light

Recurrent tracks
Say Hi -- One, Two ... One
Eleni Mandell -- Artificial Fire

The '80s at 8 freakin' 30

Buzzcocks -- You Say You Don't Love Me
Buzzcocks -- Mad Mad Judy
X Cleavers -- Mondo Commando
Special AKA -- Racist Friend
Greg Sage -- Straight Ahead
Effigies -- Blue Funk
Fleshtones -- The Dreg (live in Paris)