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October 18, 2023: Radio Recidivism: January 19, 1983!
Join me as I dig through some old cassettes of my college radio days back in the mid-1980s, and listen as I recreate the playlist of a show from 40 years ago! Will you recognize all the songs?
And it's fundraising time again, as we roll on through the October Hellraiser campaign! Please make a pledge to support freeform radio by clicking on the banner at the top of this page! Make a pledge for 1983 Mary, who never once dreamed that she would be on WFMU in the future!
Want more 1980s music? Check out the Radio Recidivism show from 1985!
And you can listen to all these songs (plus a few more that weren't able to be included due to time constraints) without the cringey mic breaks on the Spotify playlist that I created to record the music for today's show! Be a hit at your next 80s party!
Listen to this show:
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Format | Comments | Approx. start time | |||
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Your DJ from 1983 speaks | Welcome to 12 pm on January 19, 1983 | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
Yello | Bostich | Solid Pleasure | Polydor / Island | 1980 | MP3 | 0:00:27 (Pop-up) | ||||
Fashion | Dressed To Kill | Fabrique | Arista | 1982 | MP3 | 0:02:44 (Pop-up) | ||||
Peter Godwin | Images Of Heaven (Dance Mix) | Dance Emotions | Polydor | 1982 | MP3 | 0:06:58 (Pop-up) | ||||
Your DJ from 1983 speaks | backannouncing | 0:11:55 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
Marianne Faithfull | Sweetheart | Dangerous Acquaintances | Island | 1981 | MP3 | 0:12:29 (Pop-up) | ||||
Payola$ | Eyes Of A Stranger | No Stranger To Danger | A&M | 1982 | MP3 | 0:15:46 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Motels | Danger | Careful | Capitol | 1980 | MP3 | 0:20:36 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Motels | Only The Lonely | All Four One | Capitol | 1982 | MP3 | 0:23:58 (Pop-up) | ||||
Your DJ from 1983 speaks | backannouncing | 0:27:15 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
Grace Jones | Everybody Hold Still | Living My Life | Island | 1982 | MP3 | 0:27:47 (Pop-up) | ||||
O'Jays | Back Stabbers | Back Stabbers | Epic | 1972 | MP3 | 0:31:01 (Pop-up) | ||||
Robert Palmer | Johnny And Mary | Clues | Island | 1980 | MP3 | 0:34:08 (Pop-up) | ||||
Peter Gabriel | Kiss Of Life | Security | Geffen | 1982 | MP3 | 0:38:02 (Pop-up) | ||||
Altered Images | Love And Kisses | Happy Birthday | Portrait | 1981 | MP3 | 0:42:15 (Pop-up) | ||||
Fleshtones | The Girl From Baltimore | Up-Front EP | I.R.S. | 1980 | MP3 | 0:44:34 (Pop-up) | ||||
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Music behind DJ: Low |
Hatchet (Optimimi Version) (Wing edit) |
0:47:02 (Pop-up) |
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Spandau Ballet | She Loved Like Diamond | Diamond | Chrysalis | 1982 | MP3 | 0:53:50 (Pop-up) | ||||
Ultravox | The Thin Wall | Rage In Eden | Chrysalis | 1981 | MP3 | 0:56:30 (Pop-up) | ||||
Duran Duran | Last Chance On The Stairway | Rio | Capitol | 1982 | MP3 | 1:02:10 (Pop-up) | ||||
Duran Duran | Girls On Film | Duran Duran | Harvest | 1981 | MP3 | 1:06:29 (Pop-up) | ||||
Japan | Gentlemen Take Polaroids | Gentlemen Take Polaroids | Virgin | 1980 | MP3 | 1:09:59 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Stranglers | Outside Tokyo | Black And White | A&M | 1978 | MP3 | 1:17:01 (Pop-up) | ||||
Your DJ from 1983 speaks | backannouncing | 1:19:37 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
U2 | Fire | October | Island | 1981 | MP3 | 1:20:34 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Cure | Boys Don't Cry | Boys Don't Cry | PVC / Fiction | 1980 | MP3 | 1:24:28 (Pop-up) | ||||
A.P.B. | Shoot You Down | Something To Believe In | Link | 1985 | MP3 | This song originally released in 1981. | 1:27:04 (Pop-up) | |||
ABC | Poison Arrow | The Lexicon Of Love | Mercury | 1982 | MP3 | 1:30:42 (Pop-up) | ||||
Thompson Twins | Make Believe | In The Name Of Love | Arista | 1982 | MP3 | 1:34:01 (Pop-up) | ||||
The B-52's | Dirty Back Road | Wild Planet | Warner Bros. | 1980 | MP3 | 1:37:28 (Pop-up) | ||||
Your DJ from 1983 speaks | backannouncing | 1:40:50 (Pop-up) | ||||||||
The Members | The Model | Uprhythm, Downbeat | Arista | 1982 | MP3 | A Kraftwerk cover. | 1:42:13 (Pop-up) | |||
Bad Manners | Lip Up Fatty | Ska 'N' B | Magnet | 1980 | MP3 | 1:47:32 (Pop-up) | ||||
Madness | My Girl | One Step Beyond... | Sire | 1979 | MP3 | 1:50:36 (Pop-up) | ||||
The English Beat | Walk Away | Wha'ppen? | Sire | 1981 | MP3 | 1:53:00 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Bodysnatchers | Easy Life | Easy Life / Too Experienced 7" | Two-Tone | 1980 | MP3 | 1:56:06 (Pop-up) | ||||
XTC | Snowman | English Settlement | Epic | 1982 | MP3 | 1:59:16 (Pop-up) | ||||
Haircut One Hundred | Snow Girl | Pelican West | Arista | 1982 | MP3 | 2:04:13 (Pop-up) | ||||
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Music behind DJ: Low |
Hatchet (Optimimi Version) (Wing edit) |
2:07:12 (Pop-up) |
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Falco | Der Kommissar | Einzelhaft | A&M | 1982 | MP3 | 2:13:44 (Pop-up) | ||||
Thomas Dolby | Commercial Breakup | The Golden Age Of Wireless | Harvest | 1982 | MP3 | 2:17:28 (Pop-up) | ||||
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark | Messages | Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark | Virgin | 1980 | MP3 | 2:21:45 (Pop-up) | ||||
Daryl Hall & John Oates | Maneater | H₂O | RCA | 1982 | MP3 | 2:25:49 (Pop-up) | ||||
Stevie Wonder | Master Blaster (Jammin') | Hotter Than July | Tamla | 1980 | MP3 | 2:30:17 (Pop-up) | ||||
Echo and The Bunnymen | Stars Are Stars | Crocodiles | Sire | 1980 | MP3 | 2:35:27 (Pop-up) | ||||
X | Blue Spark | Under The Big Black Sun | Elektra | 1982 | MP3 | This was the last song for the January 19th show; next are some songs from a show from November 22, 1982, which was on side A of the second cassette for some reason. | 2:38:11 (Pop-up) | |||
Comateens | Nightmare | 1980-1985 | Tricatel | 2019 | MP3 | This song originally released in 1981. | 2:40:20 (Pop-up) | |||
The Psychedelic Furs | Danger | Forever Now | Columbia | 1982 | MP3 | 2:43:17 (Pop-up) | ||||
Sex Pistols | Pretty Vacant | Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols | Virgin | 1977 | MP3 | 2:45:53 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Waitresses | Square Pegs | The Best Of The Waitresses | Polydor | 1990 | MP3 | This song originally released in 1982. | 2:49:09 (Pop-up) | |||
Gruppo Sportivo | Beep Beep Love | 10 Mistakes | Epic | 1977 | MP3 | 2:52:20 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Romantics | What I Like About You | The Romantics | Nemperor | 1980 | MP3 | 2:55:13 (Pop-up) | ||||
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Music behind DJ: Low |
Hatchet (Optimimi Version) (Wing edit) |
2:58:18 (Pop-up) |
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Listener comments!
βrian:
Phillippe:
Ken From Hyde Park:
Handy Haversack:
Webhamster Henry:
Onion:
Handy Haversack:
David (in London):
Afternoon groovers.
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Sylvia:
David (in London):
Mary Wing:
βrian:
Mary Wing:
Summer and Michael and Sylvia:
adamdoesit:
Ken From Hyde Park:
David (in London):
Mary Wing:
Yay for more bells!
βrian:
chris in the redwoods:
hello, Mary and 100%ers!
Hubig Pie:
Mary Wing:
βrian:
David (in London):
Phillippe:
Ken From Hyde Park:
Mary Wing:
Big square shoulders for the win, I say!
David (in London):
David (in London):
Hubig Pie:
Mary Wing:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Laura Nyro (born Laura Nigro)
October 18, 1947 – April 8, 1997
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Listener Bryan (the Professor):
Phillippe:
Mary Wing:
Mary Wing:
David (in London):
chris in the redwoods:
hey, Phillippe!
βrian:
Phillippe:
βrian:
Handy Haversack:
Hubig Pie:
Listener Bryan (the Professor):
adamdoesit:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...but I sure wasn't into pointy shoulders - then or ever.
Put it that way...
βrian:
Handy Haversack:
Mary Wing:
Hubig Pie:
Handy Haversack:
Fairport Convention, Liege & Lief
Pentangle, The Pentangle
Richard & Linda Thompson, Pour Down Like Silver
Jeff Wayne, Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds*
Sportsman's Paradise, Welcome to Paradise*
Quiet Sun, Mainstream
The Pogues, If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Stevie Wonder, Innervisions
Tom Waits, Blue Valentine
Marissa Nadler, Strangers*
Focus (2), Moving Waves*
Siouxsie & The Banshees, Tinderbox
Siouxsie & The Banshees, Juju
Tuxedomoon, No Tears
The Sisters Of Mercy, The Reptile House E.P.
The Motels, All Four One*
Roberta Flack, Killing Me Softly*
Guerilla Toss, What Would The Odd Do?*
Heart, Little Queen*
Gil Scott-Heron, The Mind Of Gil Scott-Heron
*WFMU bins.
Phillippe:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
spodiodi:
, Mary Wing and Whateverers!
Handy Haversack:
Mary Wing:
βrian:
Phillippe:
Handy Haversack:
βrian:
David (in London):
Mary Wing:
rw:
Listener Bryan (the Professor):
βrian:
Handy Haversack:
Bought the Heart LP from efd!
rw:
Hubig Pie:
Mary Wing:
Phillippe:
rw:
Mary Wing:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...yeah. No I didn't...
βrian:
Mary Wing:
Handy Haversack:
Phillippe:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...wuzzit ? ! ?...
Listener Bryan (the Professor):
Mary Wing:
βrian:
Mary Wing:
βrian:
Phillippe:
Phillippe:
βrian:
Phillippe:
David (in London):
Phillippe:
Mary Wing:
Phillippe:
Phillippe:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
I mean C'mon.
Phillippe:
David (in London):
listener 126464:
Handy Haversack:
Phillippe:
Mary Wing:
Hubig Pie:
Well, actually it was Glen Burnie but close enough.
spodiodi:
Phillippe:
Hubig Pie:
Phillippe:
chresti:
I listened to Yellowman in 83 (and reggae, dancehall, funk, hip hop ..)
Phillippe:
northguineahills:
Mary Wing:
Hubig Pie:
Phillippe:
chresti:
Mary Wing:
βrian:
Phillippe:
βrian:
Phillippe:
Did you do radio when you were at Michigan? If so, we may have a mutual friend
spodiodi:
spodiodi:
Handy Haversack:
Mary Wing:
βrian:
Phillippe:
spodiodi:
~1983 too
Phillippe:
chris in the redwoods:
βrian:
Mary Wing:
Phillippe:
We have a son named Edward. He hates it when I call him Special Ed
David (in London):
Mary Wing:
spodiodi:
coelacanth∅:
David (in London):
spodiodi:
Mary Wing:
chris in the redwoods:
coelacanth∅:
spodiodi:
coelacanth∅:
spodiodi:
Phillippe:
coelacanth∅:
Mary Wing:
spodiodi:
βrian:
Webhamster Henry:
Phillippe:
Webhamster Henry:
spodiodi:
chris in the redwoods:
coelacanth∅:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...it would be things I might hear sometime in any episode of the Whatever...
Mary Wing:
spodiodi:
Handy Haversack:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Beatlesque.
With maybe some sadder early Townshend...
chris in the redwoods:
Handy Haversack:
adamdoesit:
Mary Wing:
coelacanth∅:
just listened to "war" recently, for the first time in>3 decades.
very good album.
i supposedly have "october" but it's mia
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
spodiodi:
βrian:
Erik:
spodiodi:
coelacanth∅:
Mary Wing:
Ken From Hyde Park:
Mary Wing:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Mary Wing:
coelacanth∅:
...proceeded to turn on everyone i knew to the cure for the next few years.
(and soon after wrote off wnew-fm completely)
coelacanth∅:
Mary Wing:
Phillippe:
Tape hiss and the modern man
Cold war and card catalogs
To come join us if they can"
coelacanth∅:
Ken From Hyde Park:
coelacanth∅:
(but i greatly prefer vinyl crackle)
...what's that verse from?
coelacanth∅:
spodiodi:
coelacanth∅:
Erik:
spodiodi:
Handy Haversack:
Phillippe:
adamdoesit:
chris in the redwoods:
Mary Wing:
Phillippe:
Webhamster Henry:
βrian:
Mary Wing:
David (in London):
βrian:
coelacanth∅:
Mary Wing:
chris in the redwoods:
βrian:
Mary Wing:
spodiodi:
Phillippe:
βrian:
chris in the redwoods:
coelacanth∅:
...never *before* anything, always only counting the time that's past.
i still hate it.
spodiodi:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Round clockface (Analog) clock recently gave out ...surprised how much I subconsciously relied on it to orient me still
...a 24-hour clockface clock also displaying Digits might be the thing...
Phillippe:
spodiodi:
Mary Wing:
adamdoesit:
chris in the redwoods:
Phillippe:
Webhamster Henry:
"Program discs must be destroyed or returned after use"
spodiodi:
Mary Wing:
coelacanth∅:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
horoscopes.astro-seek.com...
...outside Temperature both Fahrenheit & Celsius
...with a Headline News crawl...
Phillippe:
adamdoesit:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- but 3 A.M. & 3 P.M. are just not the same. & it's a 24 Hour Day.
Handy Haversack:
Ken From Hyde Park:
coelacanth∅:
adamdoesit:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Black Cat:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Phillippe:
spodiodi:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Whole TwoTone movement kept to a real high standard - seems to me.
Mary Wing:
LadyChanticleer:
Phillippe:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
coelacanth∅:
Mary Wing:
spodiodi:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Mary Wing:
spodiodi:
LadyChanticleer:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Phillippe:
spodiodi:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Mary Wing:
Phillippe:
coelacanth∅:
so one day after gym class i guess my teacher was tired of me having un-tied laces the whole 2nd 1/2 of the day and she asked a classmate (Amy Fisher, not *that* Amy Fisher!) to teach me.
i like Amy and i learned immediately.
Handy Haversack:
Webhamster Henry:
Phillippe:
coelacanth∅:
spodiodi:
coelacanth∅:
but you can splice that basf together to make a copy, no?
Phillippe:
Ken From Hyde Park:
spodiodi:
love Falco
spodiodi:
Mary Wing:
chresti:
Mary Wing:
unpopularfred:
βrian:
spodiodi:
hi chresti!\\// give me convenience or give me death
Mary Wing:
coelacanth∅:
there was only a tiny one and and my tall older sister's one that she rarely used. my feet were far from the ground so when i had to stop i had to dump the bike and jump.
good times.
βrian:
spodiodi:
Phillippe:
chresti:
Mary Wing:
spodiodi:
βrian:
Phillippe:
unpopularfred:
spodiodi:
Mary Wing:
Phillippe:
Andrew in Toronto:
Andrew in Toronto:
Mary Wing:
Mary Wing:
Andrew in Toronto:
spodiodi:
Andrew in Toronto:
spodiodi:
coelacanth∅:
i almost vaguely remember the feeling when it clicked.
unpopularfred:
chris in the redwoods:
coelacanth∅:
Handy Haversack:
spodiodi:
Phillippe:
patrick321:
Had to sign on just to say that "the woman is wild – woo ooo" cracks me up every time.
Handy Haversack:
Mary Wing:
Handy Haversack:
chris in the redwoods:
Phillippe:
Phillippe:
chresti:
chris in the redwoods:
patrick321:
patrick321:
I loved your Ferrari story tho!
βrian:
Handy Haversack:
spodiodi:
loved my bikes like nothing else mcs and and cars came along
Phillippe:
spodiodi:
patrick321:
chris in the redwoods:
βrian:
chresti:
Mary Wing:
chris in the redwoods:
coelacanth∅:
Thanks Mary(s)!
later on, racers
βrian:
chris in the redwoods:
Listener Bryan (the Professor):
Phillippe:
Handy Haversack:
spodiodi:
spodiodi:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Turned out that was Julian Cope.
But the Bunnymen never steered me wrong Artistically.
Listener Bryan (the Professor):
Erik:
northguineahills:
Phillippe:
spodiodi:
Ken From Hyde Park:
spodiodi:
Phillippe:
chris in the redwoods:
chris in the redwoods:
patrick321:
unpopularfred:
Andrew in Toronto:
Thanks Mary.
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Mary Wing:
Handy Haversack:
Thanks, Mary! Great stuff!
Phillippe:
Phillippe:
David (in London):
chris in the redwoods:
spodiodi:
listener 126464:
Phillippe:
chresti:
The Slits-I listened to!
chresti:
patrick321:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Listener Bryan (the Professor):
chris in the redwoods:
see ya around, whateveristas!
Mary Wing:
Erik: