This Monday (June 3rd) Listen Up! is turning back the clock to the mid to late 80’s and revisiting some records that came out during that time. Hear musical items put out by labels like SST, Enigma, Pink Dust, Coyote, Homestead, Rough Trade, 4AD and more that clutter the record shelves at the Listen Up! Music Library.
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Playlist (Artist -Title – Album – Year Of Song Release )
Opening Theme
Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – 1996
Background Music
Gone – Gone II, But Not Too Gone -1986
Great Plains – Letter To A Fanzine – Naked At The Buy, Sell, And Trade -1985
The Flaming Lips – Everything’s Explodin’ – Oh My Gawd…The Flaming Lips – 1987
Half Japanese – Firecracker Firecracker – Sing No Evil -1984
Velvet Monkeys – Creeper – Rotting Corpse Au-Go-Go -1982
Beat Happening – Bewitched – Jamboree – 1988
Big Dipper – She’s Fetching – Heavens – 1987
Pixies – Waves of Mutilation – Doolittle – 1989
Mudhoney – Sweet Young Thing Ain’t Sweet No More – Superfuzz Bigmuff – 1988
Ultra Vivid Scene – Guilty Pleasure – Joy 1967-1990 -1990
The Church – Tantalized -Heyday – 1985
The Stone Roses – I am The Resurrection – The Stone Roses – 1989
Robyn Hitchcock – I Often Dream of Trains – I Often Dream of Trains -1984
Nikki Sudden & The Jacobites – Jangle Town – Jangle Town -1986
Chameleons UK – Tears – Strange Times -1986
Butthole Surfers – I Saw An X-Ray Of Girl Passing Gas – Hairway To Steven – 1988
Death of Samantha – Coca Cola and Licorice -Strungout on Jargon -1985
Rat At Rat R – Big Rock Joke Doll – Amer$ide / Rock & Roll Is Dead Long Live / Rat At Rat R -1985
The Original Sins – Like An Animal – Move – 1992
Leaving Trains – Temporal Slut – Fuck – 1987
Yard Trauma – Eyes – Eyes EP -1990
Sonic Youth – Star Power – EVOL – 1986
Vasalines – Molly’s Lips – Enter The Vaselines -1986
The Pastels – I’m Alright With You – I’m Alright With You -1985
The Feelies – Slipping (Into Something) – No One Knows EP -1986
Galaxie 500 – Blue Thunder -On Fire – 1989
The Mekons – Ghost of American Astronauts – So Good It Hurts -1987
The Wedding Present – My Favorite Dress – George Best -1987
Redd Kross – Janus, Jeanie and George Harrison – Neurotica – 1987