Here's the playlist for Part 3 of Unfinished Business (1980s Post-Punk), which was broadcast on Thursday, July 17, 2014:
Blurt - "My Mother Was a Friend of an Enemy of the People"
The Contortions - "I Don't Want to Be Happy"
Liquid Liquid - "Out"
Ike Yard - "Night After Night"
The Flying Lizards - "TV"
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - "It's You Sort Of"
The Nightingales - "Joking Apart"
The Pop Group - "Thief of Fire"
Biting Tongues - "Compressor"
Abwarts - "Computerstaat"
Cabaret Voltaire - "Nag Nag Nag"
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "Messages"
Eyeless In Gaza - "Voice From the Tracks"
The Cleaners From Venus - "Urban Jungle"
Fad Gadget - "Collapsing New People"
Delta 5 - "Final Scene"
The Slits - "Newtown"
The Raincoats - "In Love"
Girls At Our Best - "Warm Girls"
Au Pairs - "We're So Cool" Specimen - "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang"
Alien Sex Fiend - "I Walk the Line"
Sexbeat - "Sexbeat"
Sex Gang Children - "Sebastiane"
Howard Devoto - "Way Out of Shape"
Pete Shelley - "If You Ask Me (I Won't Say No)"
Flag of Convenience (Steve Diggle) - "Change"
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Here's the playlist for Part 2 of Unfinished Business (1980s Post-Punk), which was broadcast on Thursday, July 10, 2014:
This Heat - "A New Kind of Water"
Diagram Brothers - "Bricks"
World Domination Enterprises - "Asbestos Lead Asbestos"
Urinals - "I'm A Bug"
MX-80 Sound - "Man On the Move"
Half Man Half Biscuit - "The Len Ganley Stance"
John Cooper Clarke - "Evidently Chickentown"
45 Grave - "Evil"
Christian Death - "Electra Descending"
Modern English - "Gathering Dust"
The Durutti Column - "A Silence"
The Lines - "Flood Bank"
Foetus (Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel) - "Clothes Hoist"
Chrome - "Firebomb"
Swans - "Half Life"
Scratch Acid - "Cannibal"
Sonic Youth + Lydia Lunch - "Death Valley '69"
Josef K - "Crazy to Exist"
Blue Orchids - "Bad Education"
XTC - "Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!)"
Talking Heads - "Cities"
Happy Mondays - "Tart Tart"
Buzzcocks - "I Believe"
Magazine - "A Song From Under the Floorboards"
Fire Engines - "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang"
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Over the past year or so, we've dedicated different series of Way Out broadcasts to the musical genres/movements of 1980s and early 1990s U.K. indie-pop, 1980s U.S. punk and hardcore, and shoegaze and its roots (among other topics). It seemed about time that we devoted an extensive series to one of our other favorite genres, and one that we constantly seemed to be skirting around with those other series: 1980s post-punk. Surely, we play post-punk music often within various other shows, but it's been awhile since we've delved deeply into the genre. And "post-punk" is an incredibly broad and diverse topic - not really a single genre so much as a category that includes a variety of genres and styles, from art punk, no wave, and dance punk to goth rock, industrial, darkwave, and synth-pop and new wave. So, we knew it was going to take quite a bit of time to provide an in-depth (although hardly comprehensive) survey of the genre.
Luckily, we have a 2-hour weekly slot throughout the summer. We decided to dedicate the entire month of July to the series: that's 5 shows, or 10 hours of radio, covering (mostly U.K.) post-punk music from the late 1970s and 1980s. Believe it or not, July is already over and there's still lots of great post-punk music that we didn't have a chance to play - so we'll likely continue this series for a couple more broadcasts in August. As is usual for us, the emphasis has been placed on more obscure artists, or lesser-known songs from more popular artists.
Here's the playlist for Part 1 of Unfinished Business (1980s Post-Punk), which was broadcast on Thursday, July 3, 2014:
Wire - "Two People in a Room"
Gang Of Four - "Natural's Not In It"
Public Image Ltd. - "Careering"
Crispy Ambulance - "Deaf"
Joy Division - "New Dawn Fades"
New Order - "Ceremony"
Killing Joke - "Change"
Virgin Prunes - "Pagan Lovesong"
Inca Babies - "The Interior"
Executive Slacks - "The Bus"
Ski Patrol - "Agent Orange"
Rema Rema - "Rema Rema"
Glaxo Babies - "Christine Keeler"
Manicured Noise - "Metronome"
Medium Medium - "Hungry, So Angry"
Theatre of Hate - "Do You Believe in Westworld?"
The Danse Society - "Woman's Own"
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - "Monkey's On Juice"
Opposition - "Moving Targets"
The Stranglers - "Peaches"
Spherical Objects - "The Kill"
Minny Pops - "Dolphin's Spurt"
Spizzenergi - "Soldier Soldier"
Malaria - "Zarah"
Kleenex (LiLiPUT) - "Hedi's Head"
Disturbed - "I Don't Believe"
Family Fodder - "Savoir Faire"
Heaven 17 - "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang"
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Here's the playlist for Part 2 of Nick Cave - Man or Myth?, which was broadcast on Thursday, June 26, 2014:
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - "Well of Misery"
Teenage Jesus and The Jerks - "Baby Doll"
The Triffids - "Lonely Stretch"
Dirty Three - "The Restless Waves"
The Wreckery - "Hometown Exile"
Conway Savage - "The Ones You Love"
Barry Adamson - "The Sweetest Embrace"
Mick Harvey (with Anita Lane & Nick Cave) - "I Love You... Nor Do I"
Lydia Lunch - "Done Dun"
Neko Case & Nick Cave - "She's Not There"
Perla Batalla, Julie Christensen & Nick Cave - "Suzanne"
Marianne Faithfull - "The Crane Wife"
The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project (Debbie Harry & Nick Cave) - "Free to Walk"
Johnny Cash - "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
Current 93 - "All the Pretty Little Horses"
UNKLE - "Money and Run"
The Flaming Lips - "You, Man? Human???"
Dane Zanes & Friends - "Sweet Rosyanne"
Pulp - "Disco 2000 (Pub Rock Version)"
Shane MacGowan & Friends - "I Put a Spell On You"
Chris Coco - "Sunday Morning"
Gary Lucas - "And the Ass Saw the Angel"
The Ship Song Project - "The Ship Song"
The Boys Next Door - "These Boots Are Made for Walking"
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2014 is shaping up to be a landmark year for Nick Cave. His latest studio album, The Bad Seeds' Push the Sky Away - probably his best-received record in a decade - was actually released back in 2013. Nevertheless, the momentum behind the album continues to build. This summer Cave and The Bad Seeds embarked on a North American tour that has produced rave reviews. And an impressionistic documentary of Cave's life and work, 20,000 Days On Earth, has been making the rounds - special screenings even accompanied by solo performances from Cave in select cities.
Cave isn't really the type for nostalgic, sentimental reminiscence. After all, he's only 56-years-old, he's seemingly in good health, and he has remained steadily prolific over the course of his nearly 40-year career. If anything, he's only become more productive and versatile in the past decade. Nevertheless, there seems to be something of a Cave-aissance afoot, with the wider underground music world suddenly waking up and remembering Cave's brilliance and showering him with much-deserved love and appreciation.
We've been rabid Nick Cave fans here at The Way Out for more than two decades (well, Andrew has at least, Diana's slowly but steadily been coming around to his post-Birthday Party stuff). We always knew we were going to do a Cave-themed show in the lead-up to The Bad Seeds' June 20th concert in Milwaukee (for which we bought pre-sale tickets way back in November). We just didn't quite realize how expansive it was going to be become. In the end, we ended up spreading the show out across two weeks and four hours of radio. It was our goal to dig out some real rarities and obscurities, including lots of guest appearances, collaborations, and non-album tracks. In addition, we explored the Birthday Party and Bad Seeds family trees, tracing out some of the other music that Cave's bandmates have made over the years.
Here's the playlist for Part 1 of Nick Cave - Man or Myth?, which was broadcast on Thursday, June 19, 2014:
Boys Next Door - "After a Fashion"
The Birthday Party - "Hamlet"
Tuff Monks - "After the Fireworks"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Loverman"
Shane MacGowan & Nick Cave - "What a Wonderful World"
Nick Cave & Dirty Three - "Time Jesum Transeuntum et Non Riverentum"
Grinderman - "Honey Bee (Let's Fly to Mars)"
Nick Cave (as Freak Storm) - "Mama's Boy" (from Johnny Suede)
Nick Cave - "To Be By Your Side"
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - "The Proposition #1"
Anita Lane - "The World's a Girl"
The Witches (Ha-Mechashefot) - "Shivers"
Johnny Cash - "The Mercy Seat"
The Birthday Party - "Zoo-Music Girl"
These Immortal Souls - "Hey! Little Child"
Nikki Sudden - "Glass Eye"
Crime & The City Solution - "Six Bells Chime"
Rowland S. Howard - "The Golden Age of Bloodshed"
Mick Harvey - "October Boy"
Blue Ruin - "What a Hell'uva Woman"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "The Weeping Song"
Einsturzende Neubauten - "13 Loecher"
Magazine - "The Light Pours Out of Me"
Die Haut - "Truck Love"
The Gun Club - "Walkin' With the Beast"
The Cramps - "The Natives Are Restless"
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For our first two broadcasts in June, we decided to turn our attention to the country of Scotland and its rich heritage of underground rock music.
Here's the playlist for Part 1 of Scot Rock, which was broadcast on Thursday, June 5, 2014:
The Jesus and Mary Chain - "The Hardest Walk"
Orange Juice - "Wan Light"
The Pastels - "Truck Train Tractor"
Teenage Fanclub - "Alcoholiday"
This Poison! - "The Great Divide"
APB - "Shoot You Down"
Mogwai - "Summer"
Arab Strap - "Kate Moss"
The Twilight Sad - "Talking With Fireworks / Here, It Never Snowed"
The Beta Band - "Needles In My Eyes"
Django Django - "Storm"
The Vaselines - "Sex Sux (Amen)"
Captain America (Eugenius) - "Flame On"
BMX Bandits - "E102"
The Delgados - "4th Channel"
The Soup Dragons - "Head Gone Astray"
Primal Scream - "All Fall Down"
Close Lobsters - "A Prophecy"
Fire Engines - "Get Up and Use Me"
Biff Bang Pow! - "Love's Going Out of Fashion"
Meat Whiplash - "Don't Slip Up"
The Happy Family - "Puritans"
The Rezillos - "Top of the Pops"
Altered Images - "Dead Pop Stars"
Skids - "Into the Valley"
Shop Assistants - "All Day Long"
Dog Faced Hermans - "Les Femme et Les Filles Vont Danser"
Lung Leg - "Maid to Minx"
Idlewild - "Satan Polaroid"
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As we were doing some literal spring cleaning around the house recently (an accumulated couple springs's worth of cleaning, to be perfectly honest), it occurred to us that The Way Out's metaphorical house could use a bit of tidying up too. That is, for every show we broadcast, there are almost always at least a few songs we selected but weren't able play, usually due to time constraints. We really belabor our playlists. For every hour of music you hear on the radio, we probably pulled at least another hour's worth of music that had to get cut. Over the course of any given week, we keep whittling the playlist down until we have exactly an hour's worth come Thursday night. But often, there are still a few extra songs we just can't bear to part with completely. They're not the dregs; they're great songs that, in a perfect world, belong in the regular broadcast. We cling to them, somehow hoping that 60-minutes will miraculously turn into 65-, or 70-, or 75-minutes. Alas, that never happens. The end result is that we have all these great songs saved up, most of which never make it onto the air.
So, to christen the start of our weekly 2-hour-long summer slot (every Thursday 10pm-midnight), we figured why not begin by looking back at the recent past? For this week's show, then, we threw together a set full of the odds-and-ends which were leftover from some of our spring shows: An Arty Punky Sort of Pop, Also On Dischord, The Dan Deacon Show, 1990s Garage Punk, The Roots of Shoegaze.
Here's the playlist for our 2-hour Thursday, May 29, 2014, broadcast:
Jonathan Richman - "That Summer Feeling"
French Toast - "The Letter"
Edie Sedgwick - "Anthony Perkins"
Title Tracks - "Every Little Bit Hurts"
Soccer Team - "Traffic Patterns"
Holy Rollers - "Perfect Sleeper"
Candy Machine - "Macrobat"
Cabaret Voltaire - "The Operative"
Talking Heads - "Don't Worry About the Government"
Brian Eno - "King's Lead Hat"
Volcano Suns - "Jak"
Bongwater - "What's Big in England Now?"
Momus - "Lucky Like St. Sebastian"
Daniel Johnston - "Devil Town"
Trans Am - "Arcadia"
Need New Body - "Hot Shot"
Dan Deacon - "Red F"
Supersuckers - "She's My Bitch"
The Go - "Keep On Trash"
Holly Golightly - "Run Cold"
Supercharger - "Cindy Lou"
The Humpers - "Up Yer Heart"
Impala - "The Scratch"
Bauhaus - "Kingdom's Coming"
Love and Rockets - "The Dog-end of a Day Gone By"
Echo & The Bunnymen - "Seven Seas"
Ultra Vivid Scene - "Mercy Seat"
Husker Du - "59 Times the Pain"
Dinosaur Jr. - "Little Fury Things"
The Rain Parade - "I Look Around"
The Church - "Tantalized"
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We were in Texas a couple weeks back for the Austin Psych Fest, which put us on a psych music listening bent recently. For this week's broadcast, we decided to revisit some of the artists who gave our favorite performances of the festival (Bo Ningen, Kikagaku Moyo, White Hills, Destruction Unit, Pink Mountaintops, Dead Meadow, Moon Duo, Earthless, The Brian Jonestown Massacre), along with a few of our perennial favorites of the genre (Clinic, The Warlocks, Oneida, Comets On Fire, Spacemen 3, Swans) and a few other notables (Hookworms, White Noise Sound, Dungen, Goat).
This is only a loosely themed playlist. Some of these tracks veer into post-rock and noise rock terrain, but they all fit together well enough. And it being the end of the semester at WSUM, we were able to pick up an extra hour, enabling us to add in a few extended jams. (By the way, The Way Out will be taking the Thursday 10pm-midnight slot all summer.)
Here's the playlist for our 2-hour long Thursday, May 15, 2014, broadcast:
Pink Mountaintops - "New Teenage Mutilation" The Brian Jonestown Massacre - "Memory Camp" The Brian Jonestown Massacre - "Wisdom"
The Warlocks - "We Need Starpower"
Clinic - "See-Saw"
Spacemen 3 - "Revolution"
Bo Ningen - "Chitei Ningen Mogura"
White Noise Sound - "There Is No Tomorrow"
Hookworms - "I Have Some Business Out West"
Destruction Unit - "The Holy Ghost"
Comets On Fire - "The Swallow's Eye"
Kikagaku Moyo - "Kodama"
Goat - "Disco Fever"
Dungen - "Gor Det Nu"
Oneida - "Black Chamber"
Dead Meadow - "Rains in the Desert"
Swans - "A Little God in My Hands"
Moon Duo - "Rolling Out"
Gnod & White Hills - "Run-A-Round"
Earthless - "Equus October" [segment]
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