Listen Up! will dig up those post-punk/power-pop/punk rock/new wave tunes from the late 70s through the early ’80s and free them from the nostalgic binds of time.
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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)
Opening Theme
Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996
Background Music
Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty -196
Crime – Hot Wire My Heart – Hot Wire My Heart / Baby You’re So Repulsive – 1976
Weirdos – Why Do You Exist? – Destroy All Music -1977
The Zeros – Don’t Push Me Around – Don’t Push Me Around -1978
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers – All By Myself – L.A.M.F. – 1977
The Idols – Girl That I Love – You/Girl That I Love – 1979
The Sneakers – Be My Ambulance – Be My Ambulance – 1979
Kimberly Rew – My Baby Does Her Hairdo Long – Bible Of Bop – 1982
The Db’s – Cycles Per Second – Stands for deciBels – 1981
Lyres – How Do You Know? – How Do You Know? b/w Don’t Give It Up Now – 1979
The Cramps – Garbage Man – Songs the Lord Taught Us – 1980
The Nerves – Hanging On The Telephone – The Nerves – 1976
Blondie – In The Sun – X Offender / In The Sun – 1976
Tina Peel – Knocking Down Guard Rails – Various: :30 Over D.C.Here Comes The New Wave!- 1978
The Ramones – We’re A Happy Family – Rocket To Russia – 1977
The Dickies – Manny, Moe and Jack – Rocket To Russia
The Shirts – Lonely Android – The Shirts – 1978
The Cichlids – 14 or Fight – Be True To Your School – 1980
Trixy and The Testones – Then She Kissed Me – Various: The Best Of Baltimore’s Buried – 1978
Stickmen – Crash My Dome – Insatiable – 1981
James Chance and The Contortions – Contort Yourself – Buy – 1979
Model Citzens – Animal Instincts – Various: Singles: The Great New York Singles Scene – 1979
Come On – Disneyland – Various: Singles: The Great New York Singles Scene – 1978
Le Peste – Better Off Dead – Better Off Dead – 1978
Spizzenergi – Soldier Soldier – Soldier Soldier – 1979
Swell Maps – Ripped and Torn -Collision Time – 1978
Dead Kennedys – Let”s Lynch The Landlord – Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables – 1980
Pure Hell – No Rule – Noise Addiction – 1978
Devo – Gates of Steel – Freedom Of Choice – 1980
Department S – Is Vic There?- Various: The Stiff Records Box Set – 1980
Willie Alexander – Dirty Eddie -Various: Hyped To Death #5: U.S./Canadian Punks – 1978
The Bizarros – Lady Doubonette – Bizarros – 1979
Budguzzlers – Weak and Strong Man – Go Surfin’ – 1978
Pere Ubu – Final Solution – Final Solution/Cloud 149 – 1978
Closing Theme
Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections – 1997
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