WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from February 15, 2024

Listener comments!
	♥ 2:53pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there, Larry, and all other listeners!
	♥ 2:55pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @2:53 Hey Andrew! Welcome aboard!
	♥ 2:57pm Yvang: Some XTC tracks tonight? Where do I sign?
	♥ 2:58pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @2:57 Hey Yvang!
	♥ 2:59pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Yvang @2:57 Hiya, Yvang!
	♥ 3:00pm Yvang: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @2:59 Hi Andrew, hi Larry and testifyers!
	♥ 3:00pm Funky16Corners: Just waiting for David to finish...
	♥ 3:01pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @2:59 I actually went to a YTC fanclub/nerdfest that was held in Barrie, Ontario. XTC were so cool! They even made a Fanclub only greeting video for all in attendence.
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:01 That's cool!
	3:02pm bradford: Hey there Larry & everyone!
	🥁 ♥ 3:03pm Mxter Baba: omx XTC yes! TESTIFY!!!!
	♥ 3:03pm doctorjazz: Oh YEah!!
	3:03pm WLSClark: Come on come all to TESTIFY!
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bradford @3:02 Hi bradford!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mxter Baba @3:03 Hi Baba!
	♥ 3:04pm StringOFperils: Hey, it's Moe Berg. Still see that guy walkin' around now and then.
	3:04pm TDK60: Hi Larry. I haven't stopped by in a while. And, how about this, The Swindon band!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:03 Hi Doc!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:03 Hiya Clark!
	3:04pm Andres: ↳ Song: "I'm an Adult Now" by "Pursuit of Happiness" YES!!! CanCon Gold!!! Hi, Larry and all.
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:04 Hey String!
	3:04pm Erica: Hi Larry
	3:04pm WLSClark: Hi Larry, Andrew, Yvang, bradford, Baba, Dr J, S o P, TDK, Andres and all!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ TDK60 @3:04 Hi TDK60!
	3:04pm WLSClark: ERICA!!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andres @3:04 Hey Andres!
	♥ 3:04pm StringOFperils: Hi, Larry!
	♥ 3:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:04 Hey Erica!
	3:05pm bixa: hello world
	♥ 3:05pm Yvang: ↳ WLSClark @3:04 Hi WLSClark!
	3:05pm bradford: ↳ WLSClark @3:04 Howdy Clark!
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andres @3:04 A numberof tracks from Canuckistan today!
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bixa @3:05 Hi bixa!
	♥ 3:06pm StringOFperils: Howdy ^ up there, Clark....and greets to all.
	♥ 3:06pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:04 This is an incredible series of interviews with Andy. Quite in depth. Andy Partridge of XTC (Part 2) - Episode 27 - The ProgCast
	♥ 3:06pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ WLSClark @3:04 Hi, Clark!
	♥ 3:07pm StringOFperils: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:06 Perfect! It's snowing like a rockstar's sinus passages up here right now.
	♥ 3:07pm Michael 98145: Woo! Hello, Everyone.
	♥ 3:08pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:06 Andy interviews: www.youtube.com...
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:07 Hi Michael!
	♥ 3:08pm doctorjazz: ↳ WLSClark @3:04 Hey, WLSClark!
	3:08pm WLSClark: MOON MARTIN! Great artist. Love this and No Chance!
	♥ 3:08pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "Rolene" by "Moon Martin" Nice!
	♥ 3:08pm doctorjazz: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:06 Hi Andrew!
	3:09pm Andres: Me and my car were just sliding down the hill an hour ago.
	♥ 3:09pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Rolene" by "Moon Martin" The guitar reminds me of T-Rex a bit...
	♥ 3:10pm StringOFperils: Just swept the snow off the front steps, and it came right back and told me to get lost.
	3:10pm Andres: ↳ StringOFperils @3:07 Has stopped here in Wellington County so should let up in GTA soon.
	♥ 3:11pm StringOFperils: The hits just keep on comin'!
	♥ 3:13pm Sem: Hello, Reverend Larry, folks in the pews, those outside sneaking a smoke, and all.
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @3:13 Hi Sem!
	♥ 3:15pm Funky16Corners: OOHHHH CANADA!!!
	3:15pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Underwhelmed" by "Sloan" MASSIVE HIT!!!
	3:15pm Andrew Taylorin Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @3:08 Hiya, doc!
	♥ 3:17pm Sem: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:15 Go, Sloan, go. Lived in Halifax when they got together ( from other bands). Great guys, gave them a piano one time,
	♥ 3:17pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @3:17 That's cool!
	♥ 3:21pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl" Love this so much
	3:21pm Erica: ↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl" Kristy MacColl left us too soon.
	3:22pm bixa: ↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl" <3 one of my fave songs of all time, never heard this version
	♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: I love that Steve Lillywhite production. SO bright, SO MUCH treble!
	♥ 3:23pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bixa @3:22 This is the version I remember from college radio
	♥ 3:23pm Yvang: ↳ bixa @3:22 In the 80's they used to release extented mixes. Maxi singles!
	♥ 3:23pm Yvang: extended*
	♥ 3:23pm StringOFperils: This takes me back, but Billy Bragg's original release a year earlier. Sort of the soundtrack to a bleak and squalid time for me.
	♥ 3:24pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl" Like her a lot!
	♥ 3:24pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:23 I was so shocked when I found out this was a Billy Bragg song!
	♥ 3:25pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl" Sorta sounds like a jangly Roches track...
	♥ 3:26pm Sem: Love this.
	♥ 3:26pm Michael 98145: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:24 I play both versions a lot
	♥ 3:26pm StringOFperils: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:24 Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy was a very powerful and original thing....
	3:27pm Andres: ↳ Yvang @3:23 Some of those maxi singles not so hot but this one is a beaut!
	♥ 3:27pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl" Beach Boys fade out...
	3:30pm bixa: ↳ StringOFperils @3:23 yeah the billy bragg version is perfect for bleak and squalid times, i feel that too
	3:33pm Erica: Oh my
	3:34pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Switching To Glide/The Beat Goes On" by "Kings" I prefer Switchin to Glide--a fave back then!
	3:34pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Switching To Glide/The Beat Goes On" by "Kings" This is a party!!!
	♥ 3:35pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:34 Since, in my world, the two are inseparable, you will hear it shortly!
	♥ 3:36pm Funky16Corners: I wonder if Aryan Zero still uses that name??
	3:36pm bradford: Wow Larry, I listened to WRSU & WPRB as a suburban Central NJ youth as well! WFMU was just a bit too far away to receive clearly on the regular...
	3:36pm Andres: They made it to American Bandstand with this!
	♥ 3:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bradford @3:36 Yeah, WFMU was a harder pull, but I spent so much time north of my native latitudes I managed to hear it sometimes.
	3:37pm Andres: My friend booked The Kings for his 40th about a decade ago. This was the closer. The place exploded!
	♥ 3:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andres @3:37 I can imagine!
	3:40pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:35 Great to hear this again. I pretty much quit current music about 1985. BUT Donnie Iris also was a fave artist then. "Love is Like a Rock" was like an anthem for me to blast in my car.
	♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: Where's Doug? Donnie was from his back yard!
	♥ 3:41pm Funky16Corners: Iris was a pretty big deal in the early days of MTV. I remember them broadcasting a concert of his.
	3:41pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Ah Leah" by "Donnie Iris" This song and Rolene by Moon Martin were featured on a Rhino CD series called Radio Daze Pop Hits of the 80s, which has a lot of yacht rock and some alternative and country music too.
	♥ 3:43pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "Gangsters" by "Specials" Yes, sir!!
	3:43pm Erica: Sad Rhino only made 5 volumes of that compilation series.
	♥ 3:43pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:41 It was a pretty big hit in a bunch of regional markets
	♥ 3:43pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:43 This album is incredible
	♥ 3:43pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "Ah Leah" by "Donnie Iris" The breakout of nerdy teen-angst power-pop was pretty exhilarating: a real feeling of joyous release from about 10 years of pompous, swaggering, ridiculous arena-rock excess
	♥ 3:44pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Gangsters" by "Specials" Great track!
	3:44pm WLSClark: This period was so odd for me. Started my 60s radio show in 1980 yet loved songs like Mexican Radio, Obsessed by 999, and many "out there" new wave songs.
	♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:43 Very well described!
	♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:44 So much of it had a 60s vibe
	3:45pm Erica: Going two tone now.
	3:45pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Gangsters" by "Specials" I heard something interesting coming out of a buddy’s headphones in history class. I asked for a listen. Hooked on the Specials ever since.
	♥ 3:45pm Funky16Corners: I mean this is a cover of a 1964 Prince Buster record called 'Al Capone'
	♥ 3:45pm StringOFperils: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:44 Thank you. Here, have your own show back. Ha ha ha. :)
	3:46pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:44 Endlessly by John Foxx, Generals & majors.....
	♥ 3:47pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:45 I meant that sincerely! The feeling of these sounds coming after years of thud rock
	3:49pm Erica: More ska!
	♥ 3:50pm Yvang: The rockiest XTC album with the Lilliwhite drum touch.
	♥ 3:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:49 I would not describe Any Trouble as ska. More like power pop-adjacent
	3:50pm Erica: Jangle ska that is.
	♥ 3:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:50 That'll do!
	♥ 3:50pm StringOFperils: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:47 Oh, I know. But I should leave the editorializing to the host, really. Enthusiasm aside...providing context is partly why you're doing this in the first place. Lucky us.
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:50 Nah, this is a DISCUSSION! I welcome input!
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: I LOVE Clive Gregson's voice
	3:52pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:50 But seriously though. The verses sound like ska but the refrain sounds like jangle pop.
	3:52pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:51 Your songs from that era bring up so many memories of MY faves too, so it's cool to hear yours!
	♥ 3:53pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:52 I'm experienced a self-induced pop overdose right now!
	3:53pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "There Must Be a Better Life" by "Biff Bang Pow" I never heard of them. How apropos that they recorded on a label called Creation.
	♥ 3:54pm Yvang: ↳ Song: "There Must Be a Better Life" by "Biff Bang Pow" I loved this song so much...without even knowing the name of the band!
	3:54pm WLSClark: Gonna have to leave this fun soon, but gonna hang on till the WORKER comes home. haha
	♥ 3:54pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:54 Early days Creation stuff!
	♥ 3:54pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @3:53 Hi David!
	3:55pm Andres: ↳ Song: "There Must Be a Better Life" by "Biff Bang Pow" Never heard this but that warped guitar break is right on point for Creation.
	♥ 3:56pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andres @3:55 Alan McGee, the founder of Creation Records was in Biff Bang Pow
	♥ 3:56pm Yvang: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:54 This McGee guy sure had good taste!
	3:56pm Andres: ↳ Song: "I'm Not the Devil" by "Dentists" Did somebody say Jangle? Digging!
	♥ 3:57pm StringOFperils: Alan McGee's CREATION label was pretty crazy.
	3:57pm Andres: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:56 Well that explains it. :)
	♥ 3:58pm Michael 98145: Jeez. Cool time machine.
	3:59pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Just walked in the door with my late pass... good afternoon everybody.
	♥ 3:59pm Funky16Corners: Let's Active were HUGE for my brothers and I at the time.
	♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @3:59 Vincent!
	♥ 4:00pm StringOFperils: Mitch Easter's work and the first two dB's lps were total ecstasy for me back then too...re. above power-pop remarks
	4:00pm Andres: I was decades late to Let’s Active. Still fresh!
	♥ 4:01pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "24" by "Game Theory" ...I was just gonna add this...
	♥ 4:01pm Funky16Corners: This is a Mitch Easter production, as is the next one
	♥ 4:02pm doctorjazz: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:51 I only know of him from when he was part of the Richard Thompson band, with Christine Collister. While I thought they were both talented, I couldn't figure out what they were doing there...
	♥ 4:02pm doctorjazz: ↳ StringOFperils @4:00 Those 2 albums are just the best!
	♥ 4:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:02 I remember that period
	4:03pm Fred R: Afternoon Larry and all! Just tuned in
	4:03pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Best REM track ever... this one.
	♥ 4:04pm StringOFperils: Heartbreaking
	♥ 4:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Fred R @4:03 Hey Fred!
	♥ 4:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @4:03 Man, when I tell you my brothers and I were MAD for REM, hooboy. Got to see them a bunch of times early on.
	4:04pm Andres: First time I heard this REM was on Entertainment Tonight. Really.
	4:04pm WLSClark: I remember going into dance bars and dancing by hopping up and down mostly to this type of music and thinking, I am too old for this dancing! I was late 20's only!
	4:05pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Every Word Means No" by "Let's Active" I saw them at City Gardens in 1984. When I saw the Dex Romweber Duo a few times nearly three decades later, I didn't realize it was the same drummer. She died of cancer in 2019. The other woman in Let's Active also suffered a tragic fate.
	♥ 4:05pm StringOFperils: Saw REM on this tour. when Michael had super long hair that he hid behind while mumbling everything. Really good show.
	♥ 4:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @4:05 I might have been at that show!
	4:07pm Vincent The Soul Chef: YASSSSSSSS!
	♥ 4:07pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @4:05 All the times I saw them were on the tours for Reckoning and Life's Rich Pageant
	4:07pm Andres: ↳ StringOFperils @4:05 Larry’s Hideaway? Stories of bootlegs from early Toronto appearances.
	♥ 4:08pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @4:07 These guys were from Hershey, PA!
	4:08pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:08 Nice one! So underrated. I've had this record for decades :)
	4:09pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Between Something and Nothing" by "Ocean Blue" has that "layered"sound of aforementioned "Endlessly" by John Foxx fave. Just cool thinking about such songs again.
	♥ 4:09pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @4:08 I think the next one is right up your alley...
	4:09pm TDK60: ↳ Song: "24" by "Game Theory" I played in band that got to open for Game Theory. '87?
	♥ 4:10pm StringOFperils: ↳ Andres @4:07 O right, I forgot about that....must have been their second appearance when they bounced back to the old Masonic Temple...I think they warmed up for UB40. I did see some astounding things at Larry's though. (I live really near where that was)
	♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:09 I wish the Sirius alt/80s station would play a more diverse selection
	♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: ↳ TDK60 @4:09 No kidding!?
	4:12pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:09 I haven't heard this one in ages! I need to get a copy of "Deep" back in the crate stat.
	♥ 4:12pm StringOFperils: Still regret not going to see Bauhaus at Larry's Hideaway...some punks I was working with in a kitchen were going....who knew?
	4:12pm bradford: ↳ Song: "Indigo Eyes" by "Peter Murphy" This was in heavy rotation when I started doing college radio. Haven't heard it in years!
	4:12pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:10 I only listen to FMU basically if internet radio. Otherwise just my own music.
	♥ 4:13pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bradford @4:12 Another great album all the way through
	4:17pm David Shortell: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:13 I saw "The Hunger" at the Middletown multiplex when I was in high school. Only years later did I learn who the band in it was, or that Ann Magnuson was in the film!
	♥ 4:17pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry. Saw Clive Gregson at WOMAD one year in Nanci Griffith's band. Good quality pop.
	4:17pm Andres: ↳ StringOFperils @4:10 Masonic Temple was the best. Many shows there burned into my memory.
	♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:17 Hey Brian!
	♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @4:17 Oh man, Ann Magnuson...
	♥ 4:19pm Candy-O'67: Hey Larry and all! Diggin' the '80's show today! Bringing back memories!
	♥ 4:19pm StringOFperils: ↳ Andres @4:17 Forgotten Rebels? Bunch of Fucking Goofs. The Cramps. So much fun. Ah, what larks.
	♥ 4:19pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Candy-O'67 @4:19 Hey Candy-O!
	♥ 4:19pm Brian in UK: ↳ doctorjazz @4:02 Agree doc, think that Christine Collister was torn twixt pop & folk. Great voice.
	♥ 4:20pm doctorjazz: ↳ WLSClark @4:12 I listen to too much WFMU-as I've posted before, I buy music I hear and like on the station, but I listen so much to the station, I don't have a chance to play the albums...
	♥ 4:22pm Funky16Corners: Michael Stipe on backing vocals
	♥ 4:23pm Brian in UK: Just put a new stylus in & then the CD player goes dit dit dit.
	♥ 4:23pm Funky16Corners: Amazing supporting cast on this album, Marshall Crenshaw, the dBs, Richard Thompson, Van Dyke Parks, Dave Alvin, Daniel Lanois etc
	4:24pm Andres: Out Of Time was the first CD I bought maybe. Still in their drawers in this mess somewhere.
	4:24pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Yeah, this is more or less an eight hour shift at Sam Goody as a 19 year old. We used to beg the boss to let us play the promo tapes that I got from reps, but all he wanted to hear was George Strait and the Beatles lol. Remind me to tell you about the morning I played Swans so loud that all three wings of the mall were appalled :)
	♥ 4:24pm Candy-O'67: ↳ doctorjazz @4:20 Same, doc!🤣
	♥ 4:24pm WR: ↳ TDK60 @4:09 That's cool, what was the name of the band you played with?
	4:27pm David Shortell: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:18 I heard that it was fellow Northamptonian Alan Moore who hipped Peter Murphy to the Hernandez Brothers' "Love and Rockets", and he then took the name for his new group.
	♥ 4:27pm StringOFperils: Donnie Iris. The Jaggerz? Really? Did not know that.
	4:28pm bixa: ↳ doctorjazz @4:20 it is a vicious cycle 𖦹
	♥ 4:29pm StringOFperils: Saw Peter Case touring 'Sings Like Hell'. Totally great. Nearly no one there. In a bar.
	♥ 4:30pm Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "I'm Not the Devil" by "Dentists" Larry, that comment comes from the 1966 World Cup at Wembley. www.youtube.com...
	♥ 4:31pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:30 Thank you Brian!
	♥ 4:31pm Discotech Underground: Hey Larry, and thanks for the flashback to my 20's with today's show! I had almost all of these records!
	♥ 4:31pm StringOFperils: Marek's still on bass here. Really popping.
	♥ 4:32pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @4:31 This single packs as much punch as some band's entire discographies
	4:33pm TDK60: ↳ WR @4:24 It was an unknown local band, Octopus Typewriter. We did a demo, never a record proper. I think audio of the demo used to be found on a site of another band's stuff, Gene Pool. I haven't looked in ages. (Morgantown, West Virginia bands around the club Underground Railroad.)
	4:33pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Satellite Beach" by "Peter Case" I saw the Plimsouls and Josie Cotton play in Belmar last December.
	4:33pm Tim in TN: Larry, Agree a thousand percent on Syd Straw's Surprise. I trust you've heard her cover of Harper Valley PTA (with the Skeletons) on the Tom T. Hall tribute album.
	♥ 4:33pm suzyhotrod: Hi Larry! Suzy here from Mothership. Wanted to drop a line to say I'm really enjoying the show while I do my photo editing for work. thanks!
	♥ 4:34pm Funky16Corners: ↳ suzyhotrod @4:33 Hi Suzy! Thanks!
	♥ 4:34pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @4:33 No shit? Where in Belmar?
	♥ 4:34pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Tim in TN @4:33 Hey Tim! I have not heard that. I'll look for it.
	♥ 4:35pm Funky16Corners: God, I love these guys!
	4:38pm David Shortell: Salty's, which used to be Paul's Tavern. Hip shows started happening there last summer in a little room--while cover and jam bands play in the bar's other spaces!
	♥ 4:38pm Brian in UK: Good pop is priceless.
	♥ 4:38pm Funky16Corners: I remember seeing these guys on the Merv Griffin Show and being shocked that they looked like a bunch of middle school teachers.
	4:39pm Tim in TN: It's called Real - The Tom T. Hall project (1998). Calexico, Kelly Willis, Ralph Stanley, etc. and an unbelievable version of Spokane Motel Blues by Joel RL Phelps.
	♥ 4:40pm Funky16Corners: When I was in college, circa 80-82, my friends and I used to go see a New Wave bar band called The Watch that played stuff like this
	4:40pm Erica: This is really good. I need to check out more by the Monroes.
	4:41pm hopey: Oh, love this Tommy Keene! Excellent choice, Larry.
	♥ 4:42pm Funky16Corners: ↳ hopey @4:41 Hey hopey! Thanks!
	4:42pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "What Do All the People Know" by "Monroes" That song was a great song back then for me too.
	♥ 4:43pm patrick321: ↳ David Shortell @4:38 Damn I was living over on Pitney in spring lake for some years taking care of my dad I would have loved that.
	♥ 4:46pm Power Papi: ↳ Song: "Going Down To Liverpool" by "Bangles" Surprised you didn't play the Katrina And the Waves version.
	4:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Going Down To Liverpool" by "Bangles" Leonard Nimoy is in the video. I think Susanna's mom knew him.
	♥ 4:47pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Song: "Going Down To Liverpool" by "Bangles" Love the video for this with Leonard Nimoy as their chauffer.
	♥ 4:47pm Yvang: ↳ Song: "Going Down To Liverpool" by "Bangles" Same vibe as « walking on sunshine »
	♥ 4:47pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:47 Hey Kip! One of his kids was on the Paisley Underground scene
	♥ 4:48pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:47 Thanks for the trip back to my 20's on the show today! I had almost all of these records back then.
	♥ 4:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Power Papi @4:46 Hey Power Papi! I know it but don't have it on hand.
	♥ 4:49pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:48 Yeah, right? This is a goddamned Fountain of Youth. I'm rocking out here!
	♥ 4:49pm Beantown Doug: Except for being somewhat familiar with XTC, REM and the Bangles, all heretofore unknown to me. Looking forward to more of the same next week. Thanks, Larry!
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Beantown Doug @4:49 Hi Doug! Lots of cool stuff coming next week.
	♥ 4:50pm Power Papi: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:48 That whole album is filled with great songs.
	♥ 4:50pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:49 I was living in New Orleans for most of this period. Peter Buck from REM used to drop into the hole in the wall record shop I worked at in the French Quarter. Heady times...
	4:51pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Going Nowhere" by "Dumptruck" Spike Priggen was in Dump truck but left before 1987.
	4:51pm David Shortell: ↳ patrick321 @4:43 The Plimsouls will return to Salty's Beach Bar (1705 Main Street, Lake Como, NJ) with Dead Boys and Richard Lloyd on May 19.
	4:51pm TDK60: ↳ Song: "Going Nowhere" by "Dumptruck" I got to see Dumptruck back then. Another one of those next-R.E.M. bands, we thought. Boston I think. Oh, Larry I found that Game Theory gig I was at: Jan. 23, 1988.
	♥ 4:51pm Sem: Fun 2 hours, LG. Much obliged, and see you and all here next time.
	♥ 4:52pm Funky16Corners: ↳ TDK60 @4:51 That date makes more sense
	4:52pm WLSClark: Gotta go to a retirement party. Been going to a few of them lately. Seems NO ONE wants to work since I retired. haha
	♥ 4:52pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Song: "A Million Things" by "The Lucy Show" Like a lot of the tracks you're playing, I first heard this on MTV's "120 Minutes". That show was like a Godsend as far as finding new tunes.
	♥ 4:52pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:51 I've known Spike online for a long time. I may have seen him play with them!
	♥ 4:52pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @4:51 Thanks Sem!
	♥ 4:53pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:52 Yes!
	♥ 4:53pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry, fun show! (I'm constantly thinking I'm hearing Marshall Crenshaw during the show, but he wasn't anywhere...)
	♥ 4:53pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:53 Thanks Doc! Maybe next week!
	4:53pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:52 Awesome!
	4:54pm bradford: Many thanks Larry, had a blast!
	4:54pm Andres: Tons here that I missed before discovering the FM dial on my clock radio and lots that didn’t get on the radio here. Great stuff, Larry!!
	♥ 4:54pm Discotech Underground: Stick around for Discotech Underground next! wfmu.org...
	4:55pm Vincent The Soul Chef: I can't wait for the archive so I can hear the whole thing, and I'm off to dig the walls for more. Many thanks, sir :)
	♥ 4:55pm Yvang: Thanks Larry for this hits-packed show!
	♥ 4:56pm StringOFperils: Thanks Larry. That was a fun time-trip. I hurt my little guitar a lot for the last 90 minutes. Ha ha.
	4:56pm TDK60: Thanks Larry.
	4:57pm Erica: I dug this show this week. Can't wait for next week. Thanks Larry!
	♥ 4:57pm Funky16Corners: Thank you everyone for listening!
	♥ 4:57pm Michael 98145: Thanks again ! Fun trip.
	♥ 4:58pm WR: Thank you! Larry, have been busy with work so I could not properly focus and keep up with the comment action, but enjoyed what I heard. Thank you!
	♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WR @4:58 Thanks WR!
	♥ 5:01pm Candy-O'67: Thx, Larry! Awesome show! Fleshtones rule! I've seen them a ton! Always a superb show!
	♥ 5:16pm Andrew in Toronto: What a fabulous episode! Thanks, Larry!
	♥ 5:33pm Funky16Corners: Thanks, Candy-O and Andrew!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from February 15, 2024

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A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Approx. start time
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Pursuit of Happiness	I'm an Adult Now	Love Junk	Chrysalis	1988	CD	0:01:26 (Pop-up)
Moon Martin	Rolene "Rolene" by "Moon Martin"	Escape From Domination	Capitol	1979	LP	0:05:51 (Pop-up)
Dream Syndicate	Tell Me When It's Over	Day of Wine and Roses	Slash	1982	LP	0:09:26 (Pop-up)
Sloan	Underwhelmed "Underwhelmed" by "Sloan"	Smeared	DGC	1992	CD	0:12:58 (Pop-up)
Kirsty MacColl	A New England "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl"	12" Single	Stiff	1984	12"	0:17:39 (Pop-up)

Kings	Switching To Glide/The Beat Goes On	Are Here	Elektra	1980	LP	0:31:50 (Pop-up)
Donnie Iris	Ah Leah "Ah Leah" by "Donnie Iris"	45RPM Single	MCA	1980	45	0:37:25 (Pop-up)
Specials	Gangsters "Gangsters" by "Specials"	Specials	Chrysalis	1979	LP	0:41:08 (Pop-up)
XTC	Respectable Street "Respectable Street" by "XTC"	45RPM Single	Virgin	1981	45	0:43:51 (Pop-up)
Any Trouble	Second Choice "Second Choice" by "Any Trouble"	45RPM Single	Stiff	1980	45	0:47:24 (Pop-up)
Biff Bang Pow	There Must Be a Better Life	Pass the Paintbrush Honey	Creation	1985	CD	0:50:22 (Pop-up)
Dentists	I'm Not the Devil "I'm Not the Devil" by "Dentists"	Some People Are on the Pitch They Think It's All Over It Is Now	Spruck	1985	LP	0:53:16 (Pop-up)
Let's Active	Every Word Means No "Every Word Means No" by "Let's Active"	Afoot	IRS	1983	EP	0:56:08 (Pop-up)
Game Theory	24 "24" by "Game Theory"	Real Nighttime	Enigma	1985	LP	0:58:57 (Pop-up)
R.E.M.	South Central Rain "South Central Rain" by "R.E.M."	Reckoning	IRS	1984	LP	1:01:39 (Pop-up)
Ocean Blue	Between Something and Nothing	Ocean Blue	Sire	1989	LP	1:04:44 (Pop-up)
Peter Murphy	Indigo Eyes "Indigo Eyes" by "Peter Murphy"	12" Single	RCA	1988	12"	1:08:46 (Pop-up)
Peter Case	Satellite Beach "Satellite Beach" by "Peter Case"	Peter Case	Geffen	1986	LP	1:14:35 (Pop-up)
Syd Straw	Future 40s (String of Pearls)	Surprise	Virgin	1989	CD	1:18:31 (Pop-up)

Fleshtones	The World Has Changed "The World Has Changed" by "Fleshtones"	45RPM Single	IRS	1981	45	1:29:38 (Pop-up)
Neats	Do the Thing "Do the Thing" by "Neats"	Neats	Ace of Hearts	1983	LP	1:31:23 (Pop-up)
Monroes	What Do All the People Know	Monroes	Alfa	1982	LP	1:35:14 (Pop-up)
Tommy Keene	Back Again (Try) "Back Again (Try)" by "Tommy Keene"	Back Again (Try)	Dolphin	1984	EP	1:38:39 (Pop-up)
Bangles	Going Down To Liverpool "Going Down To Liverpool" by "Bangles"	All Over the Place	Columbia	1984	LP	1:42:32 (Pop-up)
Dumptruck	Going Nowhere "Going Nowhere" by "Dumptruck"	For the Country	Big Time	1987	LP	1:46:05 (Pop-up)
The Lucy Show	A Million Things "A Million Things" by "The Lucy Show"	45RPM Single	Big Time	1986	45	1:49:08 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	1:55:24 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 2:53pm Andrew in Toronto: Hi there, Larry, and all other listeners!
	♥ 2:55pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @2:53 Hey Andrew! Welcome aboard!
	♥ 2:57pm Yvang: Some XTC tracks tonight? Where do I sign?
	♥ 2:58pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @2:57 Hey Yvang!
	♥ 2:59pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Yvang @2:57 Hiya, Yvang!
	♥ 3:00pm Yvang: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @2:59 Hi Andrew, hi Larry and testifyers!
	♥ 3:00pm Funky16Corners: Just waiting for David to finish...
	♥ 3:01pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @2:59 I actually went to a YTC fanclub/nerdfest that was held in Barrie, Ontario. XTC were so cool! They even made a Fanclub only greeting video for all in attendence.
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:01 That's cool!
	3:02pm bradford: Hey there Larry & everyone!
	🥁 ♥ 3:03pm Mxter Baba: omx XTC yes! TESTIFY!!!!
	♥ 3:03pm doctorjazz: Oh YEah!!
	3:03pm WLSClark: Come on come all to TESTIFY!
	♥ 3:03pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bradford @3:02 Hi bradford!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Mxter Baba @3:03 Hi Baba!
	♥ 3:04pm StringOFperils: Hey, it's Moe Berg. Still see that guy walkin' around now and then.
	3:04pm TDK60: Hi Larry. I haven't stopped by in a while. And, how about this, The Swindon band!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @3:03 Hi Doc!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:03 Hiya Clark!
	3:04pm Andres: ↳ Song: "I'm an Adult Now" by "Pursuit of Happiness" YES!!! CanCon Gold!!! Hi, Larry and all.
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:04 Hey String!
	3:04pm Erica: Hi Larry
	3:04pm WLSClark: Hi Larry, Andrew, Yvang, bradford, Baba, Dr J, S o P, TDK, Andres and all!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ TDK60 @3:04 Hi TDK60!
	3:04pm WLSClark: ERICA!!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andres @3:04 Hey Andres!
	♥ 3:04pm StringOFperils: Hi, Larry!
	♥ 3:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:04 Hey Erica!
	3:05pm bixa: hello world
	♥ 3:05pm Yvang: ↳ WLSClark @3:04 Hi WLSClark!
	3:05pm bradford: ↳ WLSClark @3:04 Howdy Clark!
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andres @3:04 A numberof tracks from Canuckistan today!
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bixa @3:05 Hi bixa!
	♥ 3:06pm StringOFperils: Howdy ^ up there, Clark....and greets to all.
	♥ 3:06pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:04 This is an incredible series of interviews with Andy. Quite in depth. Andy Partridge of XTC (Part 2) - Episode 27 - The ProgCast
	♥ 3:06pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ WLSClark @3:04 Hi, Clark!
	♥ 3:07pm StringOFperils: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:06 Perfect! It's snowing like a rockstar's sinus passages up here right now.
	♥ 3:07pm Michael 98145: Woo! Hello, Everyone.
	♥ 3:08pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:06 Andy interviews: www.youtube.com...
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:07 Hi Michael!
	♥ 3:08pm doctorjazz: ↳ WLSClark @3:04 Hey, WLSClark!
	3:08pm WLSClark: MOON MARTIN! Great artist. Love this and No Chance!
	♥ 3:08pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "Rolene" by "Moon Martin" Nice!
	♥ 3:08pm doctorjazz: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @3:06 Hi Andrew!
	3:09pm Andres: Me and my car were just sliding down the hill an hour ago.
	♥ 3:09pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Rolene" by "Moon Martin" The guitar reminds me of T-Rex a bit...
	♥ 3:10pm StringOFperils: Just swept the snow off the front steps, and it came right back and told me to get lost.
	3:10pm Andres: ↳ StringOFperils @3:07 Has stopped here in Wellington County so should let up in GTA soon.
	♥ 3:11pm StringOFperils: The hits just keep on comin'!
	♥ 3:13pm Sem: Hello, Reverend Larry, folks in the pews, those outside sneaking a smoke, and all.
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @3:13 Hi Sem!
	♥ 3:15pm Funky16Corners: OOHHHH CANADA!!!
	3:15pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Underwhelmed" by "Sloan" MASSIVE HIT!!!
	3:15pm Andrew Taylorin Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @3:08 Hiya, doc!
	♥ 3:17pm Sem: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:15 Go, Sloan, go. Lived in Halifax when they got together ( from other bands). Great guys, gave them a piano one time,
	♥ 3:17pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @3:17 That's cool!
	♥ 3:21pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl" Love this so much
	3:21pm Erica: ↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl" Kristy MacColl left us too soon.
	3:22pm bixa: ↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl" <3 one of my fave songs of all time, never heard this version
	♥ 3:22pm Funky16Corners: I love that Steve Lillywhite production. SO bright, SO MUCH treble!
	♥ 3:23pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bixa @3:22 This is the version I remember from college radio
	♥ 3:23pm Yvang: ↳ bixa @3:22 In the 80's they used to release extented mixes. Maxi singles!
	♥ 3:23pm Yvang: extended*
	♥ 3:23pm StringOFperils: This takes me back, but Billy Bragg's original release a year earlier. Sort of the soundtrack to a bleak and squalid time for me.
	♥ 3:24pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl" Like her a lot!
	♥ 3:24pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:23 I was so shocked when I found out this was a Billy Bragg song!
	♥ 3:25pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl" Sorta sounds like a jangly Roches track...
	♥ 3:26pm Sem: Love this.
	♥ 3:26pm Michael 98145: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:24 I play both versions a lot
	♥ 3:26pm StringOFperils: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:24 Life's A Riot With Spy Vs Spy was a very powerful and original thing....
	3:27pm Andres: ↳ Yvang @3:23 Some of those maxi singles not so hot but this one is a beaut!
	♥ 3:27pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "A New England" by "Kirsty MacColl" Beach Boys fade out...
	3:30pm bixa: ↳ StringOFperils @3:23 yeah the billy bragg version is perfect for bleak and squalid times, i feel that too
	3:33pm Erica: Oh my
	3:34pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Switching To Glide/The Beat Goes On" by "Kings" I prefer Switchin to Glide--a fave back then!
	3:34pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Switching To Glide/The Beat Goes On" by "Kings" This is a party!!!
	♥ 3:35pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:34 Since, in my world, the two are inseparable, you will hear it shortly!
	♥ 3:36pm Funky16Corners: I wonder if Aryan Zero still uses that name??
	3:36pm bradford: Wow Larry, I listened to WRSU & WPRB as a suburban Central NJ youth as well! WFMU was just a bit too far away to receive clearly on the regular...
	3:36pm Andres: They made it to American Bandstand with this!
	♥ 3:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bradford @3:36 Yeah, WFMU was a harder pull, but I spent so much time north of my native latitudes I managed to hear it sometimes.
	3:37pm Andres: My friend booked The Kings for his 40th about a decade ago. This was the closer. The place exploded!
	♥ 3:37pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andres @3:37 I can imagine!
	3:40pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:35 Great to hear this again. I pretty much quit current music about 1985. BUT Donnie Iris also was a fave artist then. "Love is Like a Rock" was like an anthem for me to blast in my car.
	♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: Where's Doug? Donnie was from his back yard!
	♥ 3:41pm Funky16Corners: Iris was a pretty big deal in the early days of MTV. I remember them broadcasting a concert of his.
	3:41pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Ah Leah" by "Donnie Iris" This song and Rolene by Moon Martin were featured on a Rhino CD series called Radio Daze Pop Hits of the 80s, which has a lot of yacht rock and some alternative and country music too.
	♥ 3:43pm Michael 98145: ↳ Song: "Gangsters" by "Specials" Yes, sir!!
	3:43pm Erica: Sad Rhino only made 5 volumes of that compilation series.
	♥ 3:43pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:41 It was a pretty big hit in a bunch of regional markets
	♥ 3:43pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Michael 98145 @3:43 This album is incredible
	♥ 3:43pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "Ah Leah" by "Donnie Iris" The breakout of nerdy teen-angst power-pop was pretty exhilarating: a real feeling of joyous release from about 10 years of pompous, swaggering, ridiculous arena-rock excess
	♥ 3:44pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Gangsters" by "Specials" Great track!
	3:44pm WLSClark: This period was so odd for me. Started my 60s radio show in 1980 yet loved songs like Mexican Radio, Obsessed by 999, and many "out there" new wave songs.
	♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:43 Very well described!
	♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:44 So much of it had a 60s vibe
	3:45pm Erica: Going two tone now.
	3:45pm Andres: ↳ Song: "Gangsters" by "Specials" I heard something interesting coming out of a buddy’s headphones in history class. I asked for a listen. Hooked on the Specials ever since.
	♥ 3:45pm Funky16Corners: I mean this is a cover of a 1964 Prince Buster record called 'Al Capone'
	♥ 3:45pm StringOFperils: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:44 Thank you. Here, have your own show back. Ha ha ha. :)
	3:46pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:44 Endlessly by John Foxx, Generals & majors.....
	♥ 3:47pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:45 I meant that sincerely! The feeling of these sounds coming after years of thud rock
	3:49pm Erica: More ska!
	♥ 3:50pm Yvang: The rockiest XTC album with the Lilliwhite drum touch.
	♥ 3:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:49 I would not describe Any Trouble as ska. More like power pop-adjacent
	3:50pm Erica: Jangle ska that is.
	♥ 3:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @3:50 That'll do!
	♥ 3:50pm StringOFperils: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:47 Oh, I know. But I should leave the editorializing to the host, really. Enthusiasm aside...providing context is partly why you're doing this in the first place. Lucky us.
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @3:50 Nah, this is a DISCUSSION! I welcome input!
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: I LOVE Clive Gregson's voice
	3:52pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:50 But seriously though. The verses sound like ska but the refrain sounds like jangle pop.
	3:52pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:51 Your songs from that era bring up so many memories of MY faves too, so it's cool to hear yours!
	♥ 3:53pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @3:52 I'm experienced a self-induced pop overdose right now!
	3:53pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "There Must Be a Better Life" by "Biff Bang Pow" I never heard of them. How apropos that they recorded on a label called Creation.
	♥ 3:54pm Yvang: ↳ Song: "There Must Be a Better Life" by "Biff Bang Pow" I loved this song so much...without even knowing the name of the band!
	3:54pm WLSClark: Gonna have to leave this fun soon, but gonna hang on till the WORKER comes home. haha
	♥ 3:54pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Yvang @3:54 Early days Creation stuff!
	♥ 3:54pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @3:53 Hi David!
	3:55pm Andres: ↳ Song: "There Must Be a Better Life" by "Biff Bang Pow" Never heard this but that warped guitar break is right on point for Creation.
	♥ 3:56pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Andres @3:55 Alan McGee, the founder of Creation Records was in Biff Bang Pow
	♥ 3:56pm Yvang: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:54 This McGee guy sure had good taste!
	3:56pm Andres: ↳ Song: "I'm Not the Devil" by "Dentists" Did somebody say Jangle? Digging!
	♥ 3:57pm StringOFperils: Alan McGee's CREATION label was pretty crazy.
	3:57pm Andres: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:56 Well that explains it. :)
	♥ 3:58pm Michael 98145: Jeez. Cool time machine.
	3:59pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Just walked in the door with my late pass... good afternoon everybody.
	♥ 3:59pm Funky16Corners: Let's Active were HUGE for my brothers and I at the time.
	♥ 4:00pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @3:59 Vincent!
	♥ 4:00pm StringOFperils: Mitch Easter's work and the first two dB's lps were total ecstasy for me back then too...re. above power-pop remarks
	4:00pm Andres: I was decades late to Let’s Active. Still fresh!
	♥ 4:01pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "24" by "Game Theory" ...I was just gonna add this...
	♥ 4:01pm Funky16Corners: This is a Mitch Easter production, as is the next one
	♥ 4:02pm doctorjazz: ↳ Funky16Corners @3:51 I only know of him from when he was part of the Richard Thompson band, with Christine Collister. While I thought they were both talented, I couldn't figure out what they were doing there...
	♥ 4:02pm doctorjazz: ↳ StringOFperils @4:00 Those 2 albums are just the best!
	♥ 4:02pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:02 I remember that period
	4:03pm Fred R: Afternoon Larry and all! Just tuned in
	4:03pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Best REM track ever... this one.
	♥ 4:04pm StringOFperils: Heartbreaking
	♥ 4:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Fred R @4:03 Hey Fred!
	♥ 4:04pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @4:03 Man, when I tell you my brothers and I were MAD for REM, hooboy. Got to see them a bunch of times early on.
	4:04pm Andres: First time I heard this REM was on Entertainment Tonight. Really.
	4:04pm WLSClark: I remember going into dance bars and dancing by hopping up and down mostly to this type of music and thinking, I am too old for this dancing! I was late 20's only!
	4:05pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Every Word Means No" by "Let's Active" I saw them at City Gardens in 1984. When I saw the Dex Romweber Duo a few times nearly three decades later, I didn't realize it was the same drummer. She died of cancer in 2019. The other woman in Let's Active also suffered a tragic fate.
	♥ 4:05pm StringOFperils: Saw REM on this tour. when Michael had super long hair that he hid behind while mumbling everything. Really good show.
	♥ 4:05pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @4:05 I might have been at that show!
	4:07pm Vincent The Soul Chef: YASSSSSSSS!
	♥ 4:07pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @4:05 All the times I saw them were on the tours for Reckoning and Life's Rich Pageant
	4:07pm Andres: ↳ StringOFperils @4:05 Larry’s Hideaway? Stories of bootlegs from early Toronto appearances.
	♥ 4:08pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @4:07 These guys were from Hershey, PA!
	4:08pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:08 Nice one! So underrated. I've had this record for decades :)
	4:09pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "Between Something and Nothing" by "Ocean Blue" has that "layered"sound of aforementioned "Endlessly" by John Foxx fave. Just cool thinking about such songs again.
	♥ 4:09pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Vincent The Soul Chef @4:08 I think the next one is right up your alley...
	4:09pm TDK60: ↳ Song: "24" by "Game Theory" I played in band that got to open for Game Theory. '87?
	♥ 4:10pm StringOFperils: ↳ Andres @4:07 O right, I forgot about that....must have been their second appearance when they bounced back to the old Masonic Temple...I think they warmed up for UB40. I did see some astounding things at Larry's though. (I live really near where that was)
	♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WLSClark @4:09 I wish the Sirius alt/80s station would play a more diverse selection
	♥ 4:10pm Funky16Corners: ↳ TDK60 @4:09 No kidding!?
	4:12pm Vincent The Soul Chef: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:09 I haven't heard this one in ages! I need to get a copy of "Deep" back in the crate stat.
	♥ 4:12pm StringOFperils: Still regret not going to see Bauhaus at Larry's Hideaway...some punks I was working with in a kitchen were going....who knew?
	4:12pm bradford: ↳ Song: "Indigo Eyes" by "Peter Murphy" This was in heavy rotation when I started doing college radio. Haven't heard it in years!
	4:12pm WLSClark: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:10 I only listen to FMU basically if internet radio. Otherwise just my own music.
	♥ 4:13pm Funky16Corners: ↳ bradford @4:12 Another great album all the way through
	4:17pm David Shortell: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:13 I saw "The Hunger" at the Middletown multiplex when I was in high school. Only years later did I learn who the band in it was, or that Ann Magnuson was in the film!
	♥ 4:17pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry. Saw Clive Gregson at WOMAD one year in Nanci Griffith's band. Good quality pop.
	4:17pm Andres: ↳ StringOFperils @4:10 Masonic Temple was the best. Many shows there burned into my memory.
	♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:17 Hey Brian!
	♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @4:17 Oh man, Ann Magnuson...
	♥ 4:19pm Candy-O'67: Hey Larry and all! Diggin' the '80's show today! Bringing back memories!
	♥ 4:19pm StringOFperils: ↳ Andres @4:17 Forgotten Rebels? Bunch of Fucking Goofs. The Cramps. So much fun. Ah, what larks.
	♥ 4:19pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Candy-O'67 @4:19 Hey Candy-O!
	♥ 4:19pm Brian in UK: ↳ doctorjazz @4:02 Agree doc, think that Christine Collister was torn twixt pop & folk. Great voice.
	♥ 4:20pm doctorjazz: ↳ WLSClark @4:12 I listen to too much WFMU-as I've posted before, I buy music I hear and like on the station, but I listen so much to the station, I don't have a chance to play the albums...
	♥ 4:22pm Funky16Corners: Michael Stipe on backing vocals
	♥ 4:23pm Brian in UK: Just put a new stylus in & then the CD player goes dit dit dit.
	♥ 4:23pm Funky16Corners: Amazing supporting cast on this album, Marshall Crenshaw, the dBs, Richard Thompson, Van Dyke Parks, Dave Alvin, Daniel Lanois etc
	4:24pm Andres: Out Of Time was the first CD I bought maybe. Still in their drawers in this mess somewhere.
	4:24pm Vincent The Soul Chef: Yeah, this is more or less an eight hour shift at Sam Goody as a 19 year old. We used to beg the boss to let us play the promo tapes that I got from reps, but all he wanted to hear was George Strait and the Beatles lol. Remind me to tell you about the morning I played Swans so loud that all three wings of the mall were appalled :)
	♥ 4:24pm Candy-O'67: ↳ doctorjazz @4:20 Same, doc!🤣
	♥ 4:24pm WR: ↳ TDK60 @4:09 That's cool, what was the name of the band you played with?
	4:27pm David Shortell: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:18 I heard that it was fellow Northamptonian Alan Moore who hipped Peter Murphy to the Hernandez Brothers' "Love and Rockets", and he then took the name for his new group.
	♥ 4:27pm StringOFperils: Donnie Iris. The Jaggerz? Really? Did not know that.
	4:28pm bixa: ↳ doctorjazz @4:20 it is a vicious cycle 𖦹
	♥ 4:29pm StringOFperils: Saw Peter Case touring 'Sings Like Hell'. Totally great. Nearly no one there. In a bar.
	♥ 4:30pm Brian in UK: ↳ Song: "I'm Not the Devil" by "Dentists" Larry, that comment comes from the 1966 World Cup at Wembley. www.youtube.com...
	♥ 4:31pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Brian in UK @4:30 Thank you Brian!
	♥ 4:31pm Discotech Underground: Hey Larry, and thanks for the flashback to my 20's with today's show! I had almost all of these records!
	♥ 4:31pm StringOFperils: Marek's still on bass here. Really popping.
	♥ 4:32pm Funky16Corners: ↳ StringOFperils @4:31 This single packs as much punch as some band's entire discographies
	4:33pm TDK60: ↳ WR @4:24 It was an unknown local band, Octopus Typewriter. We did a demo, never a record proper. I think audio of the demo used to be found on a site of another band's stuff, Gene Pool. I haven't looked in ages. (Morgantown, West Virginia bands around the club Underground Railroad.)
	4:33pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Satellite Beach" by "Peter Case" I saw the Plimsouls and Josie Cotton play in Belmar last December.
	4:33pm Tim in TN: Larry, Agree a thousand percent on Syd Straw's Surprise. I trust you've heard her cover of Harper Valley PTA (with the Skeletons) on the Tom T. Hall tribute album.
	♥ 4:33pm suzyhotrod: Hi Larry! Suzy here from Mothership. Wanted to drop a line to say I'm really enjoying the show while I do my photo editing for work. thanks!
	♥ 4:34pm Funky16Corners: ↳ suzyhotrod @4:33 Hi Suzy! Thanks!
	♥ 4:34pm Funky16Corners: ↳ David Shortell @4:33 No shit? Where in Belmar?
	♥ 4:34pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Tim in TN @4:33 Hey Tim! I have not heard that. I'll look for it.
	♥ 4:35pm Funky16Corners: God, I love these guys!
	4:38pm David Shortell: Salty's, which used to be Paul's Tavern. Hip shows started happening there last summer in a little room--while cover and jam bands play in the bar's other spaces!
	♥ 4:38pm Brian in UK: Good pop is priceless.
	♥ 4:38pm Funky16Corners: I remember seeing these guys on the Merv Griffin Show and being shocked that they looked like a bunch of middle school teachers.
	4:39pm Tim in TN: It's called Real - The Tom T. Hall project (1998). Calexico, Kelly Willis, Ralph Stanley, etc. and an unbelievable version of Spokane Motel Blues by Joel RL Phelps.
	♥ 4:40pm Funky16Corners: When I was in college, circa 80-82, my friends and I used to go see a New Wave bar band called The Watch that played stuff like this
	4:40pm Erica: This is really good. I need to check out more by the Monroes.
	4:41pm hopey: Oh, love this Tommy Keene! Excellent choice, Larry.
	♥ 4:42pm Funky16Corners: ↳ hopey @4:41 Hey hopey! Thanks!
	4:42pm WLSClark: ↳ Song: "What Do All the People Know" by "Monroes" That song was a great song back then for me too.
	♥ 4:43pm patrick321: ↳ David Shortell @4:38 Damn I was living over on Pitney in spring lake for some years taking care of my dad I would have loved that.
	♥ 4:46pm Power Papi: ↳ Song: "Going Down To Liverpool" by "Bangles" Surprised you didn't play the Katrina And the Waves version.
	4:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Going Down To Liverpool" by "Bangles" Leonard Nimoy is in the video. I think Susanna's mom knew him.
	♥ 4:47pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Song: "Going Down To Liverpool" by "Bangles" Love the video for this with Leonard Nimoy as their chauffer.
	♥ 4:47pm Yvang: ↳ Song: "Going Down To Liverpool" by "Bangles" Same vibe as « walking on sunshine »
	♥ 4:47pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:47 Hey Kip! One of his kids was on the Paisley Underground scene
	♥ 4:48pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:47 Thanks for the trip back to my 20's on the show today! I had almost all of these records back then.
	♥ 4:48pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Power Papi @4:46 Hey Power Papi! I know it but don't have it on hand.
	♥ 4:49pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:48 Yeah, right? This is a goddamned Fountain of Youth. I'm rocking out here!
	♥ 4:49pm Beantown Doug: Except for being somewhat familiar with XTC, REM and the Bangles, all heretofore unknown to me. Looking forward to more of the same next week. Thanks, Larry!
	♥ 4:50pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Beantown Doug @4:49 Hi Doug! Lots of cool stuff coming next week.
	♥ 4:50pm Power Papi: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:48 That whole album is filled with great songs.
	♥ 4:50pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:49 I was living in New Orleans for most of this period. Peter Buck from REM used to drop into the hole in the wall record shop I worked at in the French Quarter. Heady times...
	4:51pm Erica: ↳ Song: "Going Nowhere" by "Dumptruck" Spike Priggen was in Dump truck but left before 1987.
	4:51pm David Shortell: ↳ patrick321 @4:43 The Plimsouls will return to Salty's Beach Bar (1705 Main Street, Lake Como, NJ) with Dead Boys and Richard Lloyd on May 19.
	4:51pm TDK60: ↳ Song: "Going Nowhere" by "Dumptruck" I got to see Dumptruck back then. Another one of those next-R.E.M. bands, we thought. Boston I think. Oh, Larry I found that Game Theory gig I was at: Jan. 23, 1988.
	♥ 4:51pm Sem: Fun 2 hours, LG. Much obliged, and see you and all here next time.
	♥ 4:52pm Funky16Corners: ↳ TDK60 @4:51 That date makes more sense
	4:52pm WLSClark: Gotta go to a retirement party. Been going to a few of them lately. Seems NO ONE wants to work since I retired. haha
	♥ 4:52pm Discotech Underground: ↳ Song: "A Million Things" by "The Lucy Show" Like a lot of the tracks you're playing, I first heard this on MTV's "120 Minutes". That show was like a Godsend as far as finding new tunes.
	♥ 4:52pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Erica @4:51 I've known Spike online for a long time. I may have seen him play with them!
	♥ 4:52pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Sem @4:51 Thanks Sem!
	♥ 4:53pm Funky16Corners: ↳ Discotech Underground @4:52 Yes!
	♥ 4:53pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Larry, fun show! (I'm constantly thinking I'm hearing Marshall Crenshaw during the show, but he wasn't anywhere...)
	♥ 4:53pm Funky16Corners: ↳ doctorjazz @4:53 Thanks Doc! Maybe next week!
	4:53pm Erica: ↳ Funky16Corners @4:52 Awesome!
	4:54pm bradford: Many thanks Larry, had a blast!
	4:54pm Andres: Tons here that I missed before discovering the FM dial on my clock radio and lots that didn’t get on the radio here. Great stuff, Larry!!
	♥ 4:54pm Discotech Underground: Stick around for Discotech Underground next! wfmu.org...
	4:55pm Vincent The Soul Chef: I can't wait for the archive so I can hear the whole thing, and I'm off to dig the walls for more. Many thanks, sir :)
	♥ 4:55pm Yvang: Thanks Larry for this hits-packed show!
	♥ 4:56pm StringOFperils: Thanks Larry. That was a fun time-trip. I hurt my little guitar a lot for the last 90 minutes. Ha ha.
	4:56pm TDK60: Thanks Larry.
	4:57pm Erica: I dug this show this week. Can't wait for next week. Thanks Larry!
	♥ 4:57pm Funky16Corners: Thank you everyone for listening!
	♥ 4:57pm Michael 98145: Thanks again ! Fun trip.
	♥ 4:58pm WR: Thank you! Larry, have been busy with work so I could not properly focus and keep up with the comment action, but enjoyed what I heard. Thank you!
	♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: ↳ WR @4:58 Thanks WR!
	♥ 5:01pm Candy-O'67: Thx, Larry! Awesome show! Fleshtones rule! I've seen them a ton! Always a superb show!
	♥ 5:16pm Andrew in Toronto: What a fabulous episode! Thanks, Larry!
	♥ 5:33pm Funky16Corners: Thanks, Candy-O and Andrew!

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