WFMU: The Wiggle Room: Playlist from January 28, 2025

Listener comments!
	👻 6:53pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	7:23pm Krys O.: Hi!
	7:32pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	7:38pm postconsumer: Hi guys! Thanks for tuning in. 20minutes to curtain!
	7:41pm postconsumer: Let me prime the pump: KFLM is both a high school radio station, AND a pirate station, so there are two NEW horizons, this week. It’s also the first time I’ve taken such a SMALL amount of source material, to spin out into a full program. This hour of 90’s radio is based around a single, 21-minute episode of TV…
	👻 7:52pm Austin Rich: This is my kind of radio! Looking forward to it.
	7:52pm Imaginos: Gonna be another awesome Tuesday night on Sheena's.
	👻 7:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @7:52 And lovely to see you in the Digital Salon, again! I hope you are well.
	👻 7:53pm Mr Fab: Hey Jon! I appreciate that their logo is based on "The Mighty Met" KMET's: www.deviantart.com...
	7:54pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @7:53 Doing splendidly, thank you. Hope you are also well.
	7:55pm Charles: My curiosity is piqued!
	7:56pm postconsumer: ↳ Mr Fab @7:53 yes! I chose KMET from a few options, because they sounded cool. and because the E and the T were easy to turn into an F and an L. 😂
	7:56pm postconsumer: Welcome, Charles, Imaginos, Mr. Fab, Austin and Krys! Nice to see you all, so early. :)
	👻 7:57pm Austin Rich: I was working on my "Pump Up The Volume" Tribute show not long ago. It's still cool if I take that one on, Jon?
	👻 7:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @7:54 Meh. It's been okay. The good news that I will talk about next hour has been sustaining me...
	8:00pm Imaginos: ↳ postconsumer @7:56 Nice to be here nice and early.
	8:00pm Charles: I said it last time but I'll say it again, your Airman Adrian mix was freaking amazing!
	8:00pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @7:59 Ooh! Something besides the usual awesomeness.
	8:00pm postconsumer: ↳ Charles @8:00 thanks, Charles! :)
	8:01pm postconsumer: This one is suburban high school kids in the early nineties... so quite a different vibe.
	👻 8:01pm Austin Rich: This song was EVERYWHERE in the early 90's.
	8:02pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @7:57 of course! ...I'll probably do one, too. Is that ok, with you?
	8:02pm postconsumer: We couldn't produce the same exact thing from that source material even if we tried...
	👻 8:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:02 Sure. I re-watched it the other day with Marla, and it affected me a little more than I expected. So I started digging up the other parts of the soundtrack not on the official one.
	👻 8:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:02 Certainly, you have a very different style.
	8:04pm postconsumer: I tried putting myself in the DJs shoes... as I always do, on this series... and it was a lot easier this time. I was kind of an amalgam of these three boys, in high school.
	👻 8:06pm Austin Rich: I think I need to finally crack open the "Echo & The Bunnymen" discography. Every time I hear them, I really like them. But I don't have any albums. I think I need to fix that.
	8:08pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:06 I wasn't that into them, when they were new. But lately I've found a few things I dug.
	👻 8:11pm Austin Rich: I was very into the radio in High School, and between 1989 and 1993 - my High School Years - the "Alternative / Grunge" movement sort of swept over the radio pretty hard. I was a sucker for anything different and weird, but I remember that those years were full of a lot of old music tempered with some new music. I think I had as many classic rock albums as I did Nirvana and Guns and Roses. It was a reflection of what I heard on different radio stations, mostly.
	👻 8:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "I’m on Fire" by "Bruce Springsteen" I used to be obsessed with this song when I was a kid. My parents were really into Springsteen, and I heard a lot of it growing up. But this one really struck me, for some reason. I've been thinking about doing a cover, but mangling it in my own way...
	8:13pm Imaginos: I remember listening to 10Th Avenue Freeze-Out and thinking it said "There's a devil in the freezer."
	👻 8:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:13 I don't mind that one. There's some stuff on his first few albums that I don't mind, but I'm very picky. Not everything of his works for me.
	8:15pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:13 I'm that way with most musicians and bands.
	👻 8:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The End of the Innocence" by "Don Henley" Oooof. This one is pretty rough.
	8:16pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:13 i love this song. terms of endearment have evolved since it was written. But it's not about a girl. It's about a married woman, and Bruce is fighting the urge to steal her from her partner. It's a beautiful song about LUST. period.
	8:16pm postconsumer: These songs would never get played on any of my usual playlists, but the truth is I love them all. Since i was in high school.
	👻 8:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:16 The Don Henley was EVERYWHERE back then, for sure. But I never bonded with his stuff. I was certainly more of the Mojo Nixon camp when it came to Henley's music...
	8:22pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:18 Those three songs are literally name checked, so I had to play them, but like I said, I loved them, as a kid. I couldn't get enough sad, slow songs. And I didn't start really exploring music until a few years later. I was a very late bloomer, re: the world. very sheltered. but once I started, I never stopped!
	👻 8:22pm Austin Rich: I love that still image of the radio booth. I could look at photos or radio / TV station control rooms forevaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
	8:23pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:18 Yeah, that's the radio set from the show I was sourcing. ...Henley played with Mojo Nixon?
	👻 8:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:22 I was probably very similar. (Late Bloomer and not really interested in things most kids cared about.) But the radio was sort of way I could have a sort of one-sided conversation with pop-culture, and I sort of listened and absorbed everything I could hear. But I didn't really go out to meet people very often until I was out of High School.
	👻 8:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:23 Mojo Nixon wrote a song about Don Henley that was popular on College Radio in the late 80's / early 90's, called, "Don Henley Must Die."
	8:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:22 nostalgia?
	👻 8:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Pets" by "Porno For Pyros" This song was on near endless rotation when it came out. Every radio station, MTV, everywhere. I think I even owned this album at one point. I wonder what happened to it?
	8:26pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:24 I wasn't ALLOWED to listen to the radio. Very religious household. Kind, but conservative... It must have been 1987 when I started rebelling, and within a year or two they didn't even blink at what I was listening to. Unless I tried to play it FOR them... ha. Some good stories, there... :)
	👻 8:26pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @8:25 I think I remember Henley showing up at a Mojo Nixon gig and getting onstage. Or was it another person that Mojo dissed. Egad, the brain cells just can't retain for long.
	8:27pm laurapanic: just tuning in, and what a cool idea
	👻 8:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:25 I think it's why I like Sci-Fi movies with weird control panels, lights, switches, etc. They remind me of TV / Radio booths.
	👻 8:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @8:26 I think you're right, WR: bestclassicbands.com...
	8:28pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:27 Like the interocitor in This Island Earth?
	8:28pm postconsumer: ↳ laurapanic @8:27 thanks laurapanic! :) I've done this now with WKRP in Cincinnati, KBHR (Northern Exposure) and AFVN (Good Morning, Vietnam).
	8:29pm laurapanic: ↳ postconsumer @8:28 I'm a radio nerd and this is super cool...
	👻 8:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:26 My parents weren't really conservative at all, but certainly, when I started showing interest and tastes of my own, they were NOT interested. The radio was a pretty solitary endeavor when I was growing up (for me, anway).
	8:30pm postconsumer: ↳ laurapanic @8:29 well, hello! YOU are the Target Audience. :) You can find them all here, in the Wiggle Room archives. And at my website: awphooey.com/retrofit
	👻 8:31pm Austin Rich: I'm sort of a sucker for this song. I don't think I could name a single other song by him, but this song certainly takes me right back to a time and place when it was on the radio, almost all the time, and I couldn't stop thinking of girls.
	👻 8:32pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @8:27 here's a better link about Henley with MJ. www.austinchronicle.com...
	👻 8:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @8:32 That is a better link! Thanks.
	👻 8:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Los Angeles" by "Frank Black" Oh, shit! Yeah, this album takes me right back to that year, for sure!
	8:34pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:29 I got into the radio very heavily, too. lots of radio tapes. Remember that famous weatherman... maybe nbc? can't believe his name is escaping me, now... anyway. he was the voice over talent used on the national spots that were airing around that time, celebrating a significant radio anniversary. I think the catch phrase was "Radio - The Soundtrack of Your Life" :)
	👻 8:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:34 Hmmmmm.... it's not ringing a bell. But I'm sure it'll come to me at 3 AM tonight.
	8:35pm Imaginos: I didn't listen to much local radio in the 90s. I had a shortwave and used to play around with that just seeing what I could bring it.
	8:36pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @8:29 My family listened to the radio together often. There was the Polish language show on WLIB from the late 50s to early 70s, then we listened to WOR in the 70s. There was Top 40 AM stations that we listened to in the car on trips to the beach or elsewhere. Of course my older siblings would listen to album-oriented FM stations in the 60s. We listened on the Grundig that my parents brought with them to the U.S. Even though we listened at home mostly together, we each had our own tastes and favorites.
	8:36pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:35 Willard Scott!
	👻 8:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:36 My family didn't do much like that. It seems as if everyone had their own music and culture, and we would share it with each other, but never seemed to enjoy it together. My mom got me a radio for me room, and i think as a way of getting me to stop messing with her's.
	8:37pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @8:35 You could probably hear the big AM stations that cover the whole continent, right?
	👻 8:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:36 That's the one!
	👻 8:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:35 My shortwave had a pretty good range! I loved that thing.
	8:39pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:38 I got BBC7 a few times when it was around.
	8:40pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:36 Krys, do you ever talk about stuff like this on your programs? I find your family history pretty fascinating. You should tell the stories, if you aren't already. :)
	👻 8:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:40 I second this.
	8:40pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @8:37 I felt really grown up when my parents gave me my own radio when I was about 7 years old. I also listened to my transistor radio outdoors around that same time. My father would find broken radios and TVs and fix them. That's how I got my first TV. It had a 9" screen and was B&W with rabbit ears.
	👻 8:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:39 I remember tuning in TV stations on my shortwave. When I would get "grounded from watching TV," I would just listen to shows in my room, wondering what they looked like.
	👻 8:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:40 I used to have a 5" b/w TV in my room, that was a hand-me-down from some family member. That was how I saw most TV in the late 80's / early 90's.
	8:43pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:40 I've talked about it a bit when I reminisced about my parents. Dad and I listened to shortwave on the Grundig exploring it like a roulette wheel. Mom loved her Easy Listening station. We ALL loved listening to Bob & Ray. We would repeat lines from their shows decades later and crack each other up.
	👻 8:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:43 I <heart> Bob & Ray.
	8:44pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:41 that's awesome. when i was in the first grade, I got in big trouble for something and the punishment was i didn't get to watch gilligan's island in the afternoons for a WEEK. Quite the punishment for six year old me. I would dash back and forth from my room and the tv, which was on for some reason, and tried to "sneak watch." Quickly realized the anxiety over getting caught was completely ruining any enjoyment I might have been having...
	8:45pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:43 aw, Bob and Ray. Found them, much later. i love the roulette radio wheel. I'm assuming that means you would spin the dial and wherever it landed... ?
	👻 8:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:44 It's funny how easy it was to punish through the TV, or music, or fill in the blank. Certainly not being allowed to watch the Dukes of Hazzard for some dumb reason left an impact on me, and when I did finally watch that show, was disappointed in how dumb it really was. Like, I wanted to see that, so badly, for years? Sigh.
	8:47pm postconsumer: This I chose, as it was the first thing I heard on my friend's car radio, after the last day of school, leaving the parking lot, upon completing my senior year. 1992.
	8:47pm Imaginos: The first time I heard The Soup Dragons was "Divine Thing" playing in one of the Hellraiser movies.
	8:48pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:45 This is very similar to the Grundig model we had: i.etsystatic.com...
	👻 8:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:48 That's a very cool radio!
	8:48pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @8:47 I was surprised to learn a lot of people associate that chris isaak song from before from a david lynch movie.
	👻 8:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:48 Oh yeah, doesn't it turn up in Wild At Heart? That movie is VERY good.
	8:50pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:48 Lynch directed the original music video for Wicked Game.
	8:50pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @8:49 Yes, it did.
	👻 8:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Come Undone" by "Duran Duran" Another song that was ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE when this album came out.
	8:50pm postconsumer: I've seen only one David Lynch movie, the one with Hopper - Blue Velvet? It was sold to me as an art movie so I was not prepared for the psychological horror...
	👻 8:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:50 I didn't realize he did the video! I just remembered it from the movie. I should have realized.
	8:51pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:50 You need to watch Eraserhead.
	8:52pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @8:51 There was another video that was super-slick.
	8:52pm postconsumer: I made some efforts to spice up the playlist a LITTLE, but at the end of the day, this is definitely three high school kids in 1993. 😂
	8:52pm Imaginos: ↳ Krys O. @8:51 Or Wild Palms if you can find it.
	8:52pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:51 I've been meaning to, since falling in love with Bruce McCullough's Shame Based Man CD in 1994 or 5. He loves that movie.
	👻 8:53pm Austin Rich: I should probably re-watch the Lynch movies. He just passed, and his films are usually very good.
	8:53pm postconsumer: 30 years long enough to prepare myself? 😂
	👻 8:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:52 That album rules! I played that album a lot when I first got on the air.
	👻 8:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Baba O’Riley" by "The Who" This song gets better the older you get.
	8:55pm postconsumer: The idea, if you haven't seen the show, is that in order to avoid any consequences, they set up a separate radio station, in order to throw authorities off the scent of the actual broadcast booth.
	8:55pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:54 agreed.
	8:55pm AMYGDALA: Great show, really enjoyed - many thanks! I like hearing some of mainstream stuff I've not heard since I was a YUTE!
	8:55pm Krys O.: Thanks, Jon!
	8:55pm postconsumer: IDK how the show holds up, in the three decades since it airs, really. But I can tell you this episode was really well produced. Whoever was editing the tv program was very good.
	8:56pm Charles: Good show, thanks!
	8:56pm postconsumer: ↳ AMYGDALA @8:55 thank you!!
	👻 8:56pm Austin Rich: This was great postconsumer! Thanks for the trip down radio memory lane...
	👻 8:57pm WR: Thank you! Jon! Interesting excursion.
	8:58pm Krys O.: Elastica!
	8:59pm postconsumer: Thanks to Charles, Imaginos, Mr. Fab, Austin, WR, laurapanic, AMYGDALA, and especially KRYS!! Find the other Radio Retrofits here in the archive, and at awphooey.com :)
	9:00pm AMYGDALA: ↳ postconsumer @8:59 Cool! More stuff to check out - love it - gracie mille!
	9:01pm AMYGDALA: * grazie!

The Wiggle Room: Playlist from January 28, 2025

A different show every week! Rotating DJs include Jon Nelson's "Sheena 'ssembly Required" (Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations),
MarkTime (vintage radio airchecks), and Krys O (aka Sister Krys - WFMU alumna 1985-1991, longtime Church of the Subgenius monk. Playing cinematic ephemera, schizoid weirdos, all styles served here). Plus: surprise guests galore. (illustration courtesy of https://www.jimflora.com/)

Tuesday 8 - 9pm (EST) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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January 28, 2025: Radio Retrofit: KFLM - "Santo Domingo High" (one hour)

KFLM (Santo Domingo, CA)

Hosted by Doctor Retro (with The Iceman and The Freshman)

Doctor Retro, The Iceman and The Freshman are Parker Lewis, Mike Randall and Jerry Steiner (as played by Corin Nemec, Billy Jayne and Troy Slaten), on teen sitcom, “Parker Lewis Can’t Lose,” from 1990-1993.

Music, this playlist: 1958-1993

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: KFLM	"KFLM"		1993	0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: KFLM's Doctor Retro, The Ice Man and The Freshman			1993	0:00:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Wreckx-n-Effect	Rump Shaker "Rump Shaker" by "Wreckx-n-Effect"	Hard Or Smooth	1992	0:00:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: KFLM's Doctor Retro	"Radio Retrofit: KFLM's Doctor Retro"		1993	0:04:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Echo & The Bunnymen	All You Need is Love (live)	New Live And Rare	1988	0:04:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
U2	Desire "Desire" by "U2"	Rattle and Hum	1988	0:07:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bruce Springsteen	I’m on Fire "I’m on Fire" by "Bruce Springsteen"	Born In The U.S.A.	1984	0:11:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: KFLM's The Ice Man	"Radio Retrofit: KFLM's The Ice Man"		1993	0:14:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Don Henley	The End of the Innocence	The End of the Innocence	1989	0:14:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: KFLM's The Ice Man	"Radio Retrofit: KFLM's The Ice Man"		1993	0:19:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Mama’s & The Papas	Dedicated to the One I Love	Deliver	1967	0:19:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: KFLM's The Ice Man	"Radio Retrofit: KFLM's The Ice Man"		1993	0:21:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Louis Prima and Keely Smith	That Old Black Magic		1958	0:21:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Porno For Pyros	Pets "Pets" by "Porno For Pyros"	Porno For Pyros	1993	0:24:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: KFLM's Doctor Retro, The Ice Man and The Freshman			1993	0:27:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Chris Isaak	Wicked Game "Wicked Game" by "Chris Isaak"	Heart Shaped World	1989	0:31:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: KFLM'sThe Freshman	"Radio Retrofit: KFLM'sThe Freshman"		1993	0:33:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Frank Black	Los Angeles "Los Angeles" by "Frank Black"	Frank Black	1993	0:33:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: KFLM's The Ice Man	"Radio Retrofit: KFLM's The Ice Man"		1993	0:37:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix	Foxy Lady "Foxy Lady" by "Jimi Hendrix"		1967	0:38:11 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: KFLM's The Ice Man	"Radio Retrofit: KFLM's The Ice Man"		1993	0:41:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Pop Will Eat Itself	X Y and Zee "X Y and Zee" by "Pop Will Eat Itself"	Cure For Sanity	1990	0:41:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Soup Dragons	I'm Free "I'm Free" by "The Soup Dragons"		1990	0:45:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: KFLM's Doctor Retro	"Radio Retrofit: KFLM's Doctor Retro"		1993	0:49:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Duran Duran	Come Undone "Come Undone" by "Duran Duran"	Duran Duran	1993	0:49:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Radio Retrofit: KFLM's Doctor Retro, The Ice Man and The Freshman			1993	0:53:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Who	Baba O’Riley "Baba O’Riley" by "The Who"	Who's Next	1971	0:53:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:53pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	7:23pm Krys O.: Hi!
	7:32pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	7:38pm postconsumer: Hi guys! Thanks for tuning in. 20minutes to curtain!
	7:41pm postconsumer: Let me prime the pump: KFLM is both a high school radio station, AND a pirate station, so there are two NEW horizons, this week. It’s also the first time I’ve taken such a SMALL amount of source material, to spin out into a full program. This hour of 90’s radio is based around a single, 21-minute episode of TV…
	👻 7:52pm Austin Rich: This is my kind of radio! Looking forward to it.
	7:52pm Imaginos: Gonna be another awesome Tuesday night on Sheena's.
	👻 7:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @7:52 And lovely to see you in the Digital Salon, again! I hope you are well.
	👻 7:53pm Mr Fab: Hey Jon! I appreciate that their logo is based on "The Mighty Met" KMET's: www.deviantart.com...
	7:54pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @7:53 Doing splendidly, thank you. Hope you are also well.
	7:55pm Charles: My curiosity is piqued!
	7:56pm postconsumer: ↳ Mr Fab @7:53 yes! I chose KMET from a few options, because they sounded cool. and because the E and the T were easy to turn into an F and an L. 😂
	7:56pm postconsumer: Welcome, Charles, Imaginos, Mr. Fab, Austin and Krys! Nice to see you all, so early. :)
	👻 7:57pm Austin Rich: I was working on my "Pump Up The Volume" Tribute show not long ago. It's still cool if I take that one on, Jon?
	👻 7:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @7:54 Meh. It's been okay. The good news that I will talk about next hour has been sustaining me...
	8:00pm Imaginos: ↳ postconsumer @7:56 Nice to be here nice and early.
	8:00pm Charles: I said it last time but I'll say it again, your Airman Adrian mix was freaking amazing!
	8:00pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @7:59 Ooh! Something besides the usual awesomeness.
	8:00pm postconsumer: ↳ Charles @8:00 thanks, Charles! :)
	8:01pm postconsumer: This one is suburban high school kids in the early nineties... so quite a different vibe.
	👻 8:01pm Austin Rich: This song was EVERYWHERE in the early 90's.
	8:02pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @7:57 of course! ...I'll probably do one, too. Is that ok, with you?
	8:02pm postconsumer: We couldn't produce the same exact thing from that source material even if we tried...
	👻 8:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:02 Sure. I re-watched it the other day with Marla, and it affected me a little more than I expected. So I started digging up the other parts of the soundtrack not on the official one.
	👻 8:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:02 Certainly, you have a very different style.
	8:04pm postconsumer: I tried putting myself in the DJs shoes... as I always do, on this series... and it was a lot easier this time. I was kind of an amalgam of these three boys, in high school.
	👻 8:06pm Austin Rich: I think I need to finally crack open the "Echo & The Bunnymen" discography. Every time I hear them, I really like them. But I don't have any albums. I think I need to fix that.
	8:08pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:06 I wasn't that into them, when they were new. But lately I've found a few things I dug.
	👻 8:11pm Austin Rich: I was very into the radio in High School, and between 1989 and 1993 - my High School Years - the "Alternative / Grunge" movement sort of swept over the radio pretty hard. I was a sucker for anything different and weird, but I remember that those years were full of a lot of old music tempered with some new music. I think I had as many classic rock albums as I did Nirvana and Guns and Roses. It was a reflection of what I heard on different radio stations, mostly.
	👻 8:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "I’m on Fire" by "Bruce Springsteen" I used to be obsessed with this song when I was a kid. My parents were really into Springsteen, and I heard a lot of it growing up. But this one really struck me, for some reason. I've been thinking about doing a cover, but mangling it in my own way...
	8:13pm Imaginos: I remember listening to 10Th Avenue Freeze-Out and thinking it said "There's a devil in the freezer."
	👻 8:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:13 I don't mind that one. There's some stuff on his first few albums that I don't mind, but I'm very picky. Not everything of his works for me.
	8:15pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:13 I'm that way with most musicians and bands.
	👻 8:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The End of the Innocence" by "Don Henley" Oooof. This one is pretty rough.
	8:16pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:13 i love this song. terms of endearment have evolved since it was written. But it's not about a girl. It's about a married woman, and Bruce is fighting the urge to steal her from her partner. It's a beautiful song about LUST. period.
	8:16pm postconsumer: These songs would never get played on any of my usual playlists, but the truth is I love them all. Since i was in high school.
	👻 8:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:16 The Don Henley was EVERYWHERE back then, for sure. But I never bonded with his stuff. I was certainly more of the Mojo Nixon camp when it came to Henley's music...
	8:22pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:18 Those three songs are literally name checked, so I had to play them, but like I said, I loved them, as a kid. I couldn't get enough sad, slow songs. And I didn't start really exploring music until a few years later. I was a very late bloomer, re: the world. very sheltered. but once I started, I never stopped!
	👻 8:22pm Austin Rich: I love that still image of the radio booth. I could look at photos or radio / TV station control rooms forevaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
	8:23pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:18 Yeah, that's the radio set from the show I was sourcing. ...Henley played with Mojo Nixon?
	👻 8:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:22 I was probably very similar. (Late Bloomer and not really interested in things most kids cared about.) But the radio was sort of way I could have a sort of one-sided conversation with pop-culture, and I sort of listened and absorbed everything I could hear. But I didn't really go out to meet people very often until I was out of High School.
	👻 8:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:23 Mojo Nixon wrote a song about Don Henley that was popular on College Radio in the late 80's / early 90's, called, "Don Henley Must Die."
	8:25pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:22 nostalgia?
	👻 8:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Pets" by "Porno For Pyros" This song was on near endless rotation when it came out. Every radio station, MTV, everywhere. I think I even owned this album at one point. I wonder what happened to it?
	8:26pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:24 I wasn't ALLOWED to listen to the radio. Very religious household. Kind, but conservative... It must have been 1987 when I started rebelling, and within a year or two they didn't even blink at what I was listening to. Unless I tried to play it FOR them... ha. Some good stories, there... :)
	👻 8:26pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @8:25 I think I remember Henley showing up at a Mojo Nixon gig and getting onstage. Or was it another person that Mojo dissed. Egad, the brain cells just can't retain for long.
	8:27pm laurapanic: just tuning in, and what a cool idea
	👻 8:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:25 I think it's why I like Sci-Fi movies with weird control panels, lights, switches, etc. They remind me of TV / Radio booths.
	👻 8:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @8:26 I think you're right, WR: bestclassicbands.com...
	8:28pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:27 Like the interocitor in This Island Earth?
	8:28pm postconsumer: ↳ laurapanic @8:27 thanks laurapanic! :) I've done this now with WKRP in Cincinnati, KBHR (Northern Exposure) and AFVN (Good Morning, Vietnam).
	8:29pm laurapanic: ↳ postconsumer @8:28 I'm a radio nerd and this is super cool...
	👻 8:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:26 My parents weren't really conservative at all, but certainly, when I started showing interest and tastes of my own, they were NOT interested. The radio was a pretty solitary endeavor when I was growing up (for me, anway).
	8:30pm postconsumer: ↳ laurapanic @8:29 well, hello! YOU are the Target Audience. :) You can find them all here, in the Wiggle Room archives. And at my website: awphooey.com/retrofit
	👻 8:31pm Austin Rich: I'm sort of a sucker for this song. I don't think I could name a single other song by him, but this song certainly takes me right back to a time and place when it was on the radio, almost all the time, and I couldn't stop thinking of girls.
	👻 8:32pm WR: ↳ Austin Rich @8:27 here's a better link about Henley with MJ. www.austinchronicle.com...
	👻 8:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @8:32 That is a better link! Thanks.
	👻 8:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Los Angeles" by "Frank Black" Oh, shit! Yeah, this album takes me right back to that year, for sure!
	8:34pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:29 I got into the radio very heavily, too. lots of radio tapes. Remember that famous weatherman... maybe nbc? can't believe his name is escaping me, now... anyway. he was the voice over talent used on the national spots that were airing around that time, celebrating a significant radio anniversary. I think the catch phrase was "Radio - The Soundtrack of Your Life" :)
	👻 8:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:34 Hmmmmm.... it's not ringing a bell. But I'm sure it'll come to me at 3 AM tonight.
	8:35pm Imaginos: I didn't listen to much local radio in the 90s. I had a shortwave and used to play around with that just seeing what I could bring it.
	8:36pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @8:29 My family listened to the radio together often. There was the Polish language show on WLIB from the late 50s to early 70s, then we listened to WOR in the 70s. There was Top 40 AM stations that we listened to in the car on trips to the beach or elsewhere. Of course my older siblings would listen to album-oriented FM stations in the 60s. We listened on the Grundig that my parents brought with them to the U.S. Even though we listened at home mostly together, we each had our own tastes and favorites.
	8:36pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:35 Willard Scott!
	👻 8:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:36 My family didn't do much like that. It seems as if everyone had their own music and culture, and we would share it with each other, but never seemed to enjoy it together. My mom got me a radio for me room, and i think as a way of getting me to stop messing with her's.
	8:37pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @8:35 You could probably hear the big AM stations that cover the whole continent, right?
	👻 8:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:36 That's the one!
	👻 8:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:35 My shortwave had a pretty good range! I loved that thing.
	8:39pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:38 I got BBC7 a few times when it was around.
	8:40pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:36 Krys, do you ever talk about stuff like this on your programs? I find your family history pretty fascinating. You should tell the stories, if you aren't already. :)
	👻 8:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:40 I second this.
	8:40pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @8:37 I felt really grown up when my parents gave me my own radio when I was about 7 years old. I also listened to my transistor radio outdoors around that same time. My father would find broken radios and TVs and fix them. That's how I got my first TV. It had a 9" screen and was B&W with rabbit ears.
	👻 8:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:39 I remember tuning in TV stations on my shortwave. When I would get "grounded from watching TV," I would just listen to shows in my room, wondering what they looked like.
	👻 8:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:40 I used to have a 5" b/w TV in my room, that was a hand-me-down from some family member. That was how I saw most TV in the late 80's / early 90's.
	8:43pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:40 I've talked about it a bit when I reminisced about my parents. Dad and I listened to shortwave on the Grundig exploring it like a roulette wheel. Mom loved her Easy Listening station. We ALL loved listening to Bob & Ray. We would repeat lines from their shows decades later and crack each other up.
	👻 8:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:43 I <heart> Bob & Ray.
	8:44pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:41 that's awesome. when i was in the first grade, I got in big trouble for something and the punishment was i didn't get to watch gilligan's island in the afternoons for a WEEK. Quite the punishment for six year old me. I would dash back and forth from my room and the tv, which was on for some reason, and tried to "sneak watch." Quickly realized the anxiety over getting caught was completely ruining any enjoyment I might have been having...
	8:45pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:43 aw, Bob and Ray. Found them, much later. i love the roulette radio wheel. I'm assuming that means you would spin the dial and wherever it landed... ?
	👻 8:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:44 It's funny how easy it was to punish through the TV, or music, or fill in the blank. Certainly not being allowed to watch the Dukes of Hazzard for some dumb reason left an impact on me, and when I did finally watch that show, was disappointed in how dumb it really was. Like, I wanted to see that, so badly, for years? Sigh.
	8:47pm postconsumer: This I chose, as it was the first thing I heard on my friend's car radio, after the last day of school, leaving the parking lot, upon completing my senior year. 1992.
	8:47pm Imaginos: The first time I heard The Soup Dragons was "Divine Thing" playing in one of the Hellraiser movies.
	8:48pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:45 This is very similar to the Grundig model we had: i.etsystatic.com...
	👻 8:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:48 That's a very cool radio!
	8:48pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @8:47 I was surprised to learn a lot of people associate that chris isaak song from before from a david lynch movie.
	👻 8:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:48 Oh yeah, doesn't it turn up in Wild At Heart? That movie is VERY good.
	8:50pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:48 Lynch directed the original music video for Wicked Game.
	8:50pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @8:49 Yes, it did.
	👻 8:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Come Undone" by "Duran Duran" Another song that was ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE when this album came out.
	8:50pm postconsumer: I've seen only one David Lynch movie, the one with Hopper - Blue Velvet? It was sold to me as an art movie so I was not prepared for the psychological horror...
	👻 8:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:50 I didn't realize he did the video! I just remembered it from the movie. I should have realized.
	8:51pm Krys O.: ↳ postconsumer @8:50 You need to watch Eraserhead.
	8:52pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @8:51 There was another video that was super-slick.
	8:52pm postconsumer: I made some efforts to spice up the playlist a LITTLE, but at the end of the day, this is definitely three high school kids in 1993. 😂
	8:52pm Imaginos: ↳ Krys O. @8:51 Or Wild Palms if you can find it.
	8:52pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:51 I've been meaning to, since falling in love with Bruce McCullough's Shame Based Man CD in 1994 or 5. He loves that movie.
	👻 8:53pm Austin Rich: I should probably re-watch the Lynch movies. He just passed, and his films are usually very good.
	8:53pm postconsumer: 30 years long enough to prepare myself? 😂
	👻 8:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:52 That album rules! I played that album a lot when I first got on the air.
	👻 8:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Baba O’Riley" by "The Who" This song gets better the older you get.
	8:55pm postconsumer: The idea, if you haven't seen the show, is that in order to avoid any consequences, they set up a separate radio station, in order to throw authorities off the scent of the actual broadcast booth.
	8:55pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:54 agreed.
	8:55pm AMYGDALA: Great show, really enjoyed - many thanks! I like hearing some of mainstream stuff I've not heard since I was a YUTE!
	8:55pm Krys O.: Thanks, Jon!
	8:55pm postconsumer: IDK how the show holds up, in the three decades since it airs, really. But I can tell you this episode was really well produced. Whoever was editing the tv program was very good.
	8:56pm Charles: Good show, thanks!
	8:56pm postconsumer: ↳ AMYGDALA @8:55 thank you!!
	👻 8:56pm Austin Rich: This was great postconsumer! Thanks for the trip down radio memory lane...
	👻 8:57pm WR: Thank you! Jon! Interesting excursion.
	8:58pm Krys O.: Elastica!
	8:59pm postconsumer: Thanks to Charles, Imaginos, Mr. Fab, Austin, WR, laurapanic, AMYGDALA, and especially KRYS!! Find the other Radio Retrofits here in the archive, and at awphooey.com :)
	9:00pm AMYGDALA: ↳ postconsumer @8:59 Cool! More stuff to check out - love it - gracie mille!
	9:01pm AMYGDALA: * grazie!

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