1/25/06 Playlist - 1986

It was all-1986, all-Kenny Rogers, all the time. Except it wasn't Kenny Rogers. Maybe a little bit of Kenny Rogers. Actually, no, there wasn't really any.

If you don't believe me, listen to the show at http://velocitygnome.com/tmp/2006.01.25-1986.mp3


Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
Blood and Roses - The Smithereens
Telephone Call - Kraftwerk
Vienna Calling - Falco
But Not Tonight - Depeche Mode
Oh L'Amour - Erasure
Yin and Yang the Flowerpot Man - Love and Rockets
Just Like You - Ministry
Passing Complection - Big Black
Fall on Me - R.E.M.
Digging Your Scene - Blow Monkeys
Cities in Dust - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Get Into It - Alien Sex Fiend
Swamp Thing - The Chameleons
Louise - Clan of Xymox
What's Inside A Girl - The Cramps
Suburbia - Pet Shop Boys
Summer of Love - B52's
Talk Dirty To Me - Poison (my boys!!!)
Panic - The Smiths
Don't Let Start - They Might Be Giants
Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House

1/18/06 Playlist - 1985

It was a wet hot year, 1985. All of these songs are wet and hot too:

Speaking of hot (but not wet), you can hear this whole show on the internet. It's dripping with heat. Which now that I think about it, is kind of wet too: http://velocitygnome.com/tmp/2006.01.18-1985.mp3

A Day - Clan of Xymox
Anything, Anything - Dramarama
Head Over Heels - Tears For Fears
Nine While Nine - The Sisters of Mercy
Europe - Killing Joke
The Sun Always Shines On TV - Aha
Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads
Saudade - Love and Rockets
View to a Kill - Duran Duran
What She Said - The Smiths
Talk About The Weather - Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry
Universal Radio - Nina Hagen
Never Understand - Jesus and the Mary Chain
Perfume Garden - The Chameleons
Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
Left of the Dial - The Replacements
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
Slave To Love - Bryan Ferry
Viva Le Rock - Adam Ant
The Unforgettable Fire - U2
Get the Balance Right - Depeche Mode
Perfect Kiss - New Order

1/11/06 Playlist - 1984

Now it's 1984...knock knock at your front door...I'm not going to keep quoting the Dead Kennedy but here was that playlist, all songs from the year 1984.

And you can listen (to what the flower people say) at: http://velocitygnome.com/tmp/2006.01.11-1984.mp3


Repo Man - Iggy Pop
Happiness - Tones on Tail
Little Rough Rhinestone - Softcell
Still Ill - The Smiths
Highwire Days - Psychedelic Furs
Harborcoat - REM
Fallen Angel - Alphaville
Christian Boy - Robert Seidler
Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream) - The Icicle Works
White China - Ultravox
Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins
Caterpillar Girl - The Cure
Tenderness - General Public
Tesla Girls - OMD
Master and Servent - Depeche Mode
Tall Ships Go - Big Country
Lorelei - Cocteau Twins
Real Men - The Jazz Butcher
A, E, I, O, U, Sometimes Y - Ebn Ozn
Pink Frost - The Chills
Smothered Hopes - Skinny Puppy
The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen
Reel 10 - The Plugz

Special Listening Instructions For 1/11/06

Do you like magic? Then you’ll love this. The normal Pirate Cat Radio site is currently down (should be back next week) but you can still listen to me online via webstream. What’s a webstream? I have no idea. Who cares. All you have to do is:

1.) Open up something like Windows Medial Player. Actually, just open up Windows Media Player.

2.) Once you’ve done that, under the File pulldown menu, select “Open URL”.

3.) Then it will give you a place to put in this URL: http://freeteam.nl:9000/pcr

4.) Paste that shit in!!!!

5.) And you should be listening to Pirate Cat Radio. I come on at 2PM. And then you can just sleep until Monday!

Requests For 1984

So the next show is going to feature songs that were released in 1984. If anyone wants to request anything that came out during that year, post them right up here and I may just play them. Or you can email me directly at alexontheradio@hotmail.com. Or you can call me during the show at 415-401-7393. Or...no, that's it. But hey, 3 options!

1/4/06 Playlist - 1983

Zany, madcap antics all from the year 1983:

Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
Telegraph - OMD
Dazzle - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Work For Love - Ministry
The Cutter - Echo and the Bunnymen
White Lines - Grandmaster Flash
Another Diary - Yaz
7th Stranger - Duran Duran
Everything Counts - Depeche Mode
China Girl - David Bowie
Lovecats - The Cure
Don't Fall - The Chameleons
Mad World - Tears For Fears
The Stand - The Alarm
This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) - Talking Heads
Dance With Me - Lords of the New Church
Numbers - Soft Cell
Let's All Go - Killing Joke
The Movement Of Fear - Tones on Tail
Honeymoon Croon - Bauhaus
Reap the Wild Wind - Ultravox
Inwards - Big Country
Sugar Hiccup - Cocteau Twins
Handsome Devil - The Smiths
Age of Consent - New Order
This is the Day - The The
Doot Doot - Freur