The Way Out

Here's the playlist for Part 4 of our Sunday Mornings series, which was broadcast on Sunday, October 11, 2015.

Spiritualized - "Step Into the Breeze"
Loop - "Aphelion"
Love and Rockets - "Haunted When the Minutes Drag"
Wooden Shjips - "Home"
The Warlocks - "So Paranoid"
Galaxie 500 - "When Will You Come Home"
The Cure - "In Your House"
Big Star - "Kangaroo"
Syd Barrett - "Terrapin"
Television Personalities - "I Know Where Syd Barret Lives"
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - "Telegram"
The Black Angels - "Sunday Afternoon"

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Here's the playlist for Part 3 of our Sunday Mornings series, which was broadcast on Sunday, October 4, 2015.

Sonic Youth - "Sunday"
Love - "The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This"
Van Dyke Parks - "Occapella"
John Cale - "Andulucia"
Jonathan Richman - "My Love is a Flower (Just Beginning to Bloom)"
Felt - "There's No Such Thing as Victory"
R.E.M. - "Catapult"
Bedhead - "Haywire"
The Warmers - "Poked it With a Stick"
Swirlies - "Pancake"
The Jesus and Mary Chain - "Down On Me"
Television Personalities - "The Painted Word (Part Two)"
Teenage Fanclub - "Pet Rock"
The Pastels - "Nothing to Be Done"
Pentangle - "A Maid That's Deep in Love"

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Here's the playlist for Part 2 of our Sunday Mornings series, which was broadcast on Sunday, September 27, 2015.

Bert Jansch - "Fresh as a Sweet Sunday Morning"
Soft Machine - "Why Are We Sleeping?"
Television Personalities - "My Very First Nervous Breakdown"
Mercury Rev - "Something for Joey"
Tim Buckley - "Once I Was"
The Byrds - "Everybody's Been Burned"
The Rain Parade - "What's She Done to Your Mind?"
Beachwood Sparks - "Old Manatee"
Serge Gainsbourg - "Sous Le Soleil Exactement"
Pulp - "Babies"
The Church - "Reptile"
The Chameleons - "One Flesh"
Lou Reed - "Turn to Me"

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As we noted last week, the show has moved to Sunday mornings for the Fall 2015 semester. This week we kicked off a new series (if you can even call it that) which will continue for at least the next few weeks. In it, we're mixing together 1960s-70s folk and psych rock with 1980s indie-pop and college rock and 1990s shoegaze, post-rock, and slowcore. We'll surely slip in some other genres and eras from time to time, too. In other words, these'll be much more loosely themed shows than you may expect from us here at The Way Out. Nevertheless, it's all music that we think will make for a nice Sunday morning soundtrack, whether you're just rolling out of bed late, cooking up some breakfast, getting ready for an idle day of football watching, running errands around town, or catching up on email and other work for the week ahead.

Here's the playlist for our Part 1 of our Sunday Mornings series, which was broadcast on Sunday, September 20, 2015.

The Velvet Underground & Nico - "Sunday Morning"
Ride - "Here and Now"
Unwound - "Lifetime Achievement Award"
Fugazi - "Strangelight"
Codeine - "Second Chance"
Scott Walker - "30 Century Man"
Brian Eno - "I'll Come Running"
Can - "Sing Swan Song"
Television - "Glory"
The Verve - "Gravity Grave (Edit)"
The Telescopes - "In Every Sense"
Nick Drake - "One of These Things First"

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The Way Out has moved to Sunday mornings, 9-10 AM CT, for the Fall 2015 semester. Ostensibly, not much about the program will change, except we'll probably focus more heavily on lighter fare. (We're also losing the language protections of the late-night safe harbor hours. So, you know, don't expect any hardcore punk sets any time soon.)

Our first official show in the new time slot was a loosely themed indie-pop set that Diana put together. Here's the playlist for our Sunday, September 13, 2015, broadcast.

Lilys - "Ginger"
Heavenly - "Pet Monkey"
Beat Happening - "Hot Chocolate Boy"
The Pastels - "I Wonder Why"
Television Personalities - "The Painted Word"
Scott & Charlene's Wedding - "Fakin' NYC"
The Loft - "Your Door Shines Like Gold"
McCarthy - "Red Sleeping Beauty"
Close Lobsters - "Just Too Bloody Stupid"
The Field Mice - "Sensitive"
14 Iced Bears - "Falling Backwards"
Echo & The Bunnymen - "Silver"
The Wedding Present - "Corduroy"
Meat Whiplash - "Don't Slip Up"
Comet Gain - "Hideaway"

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Here's the playlist for Part 5 of The Synth Show, which was broadcast on Sunday, September 6, 2015. 

Depeche Mode - "See You"
The Human League - "WXJL Tonight"
Soft Cell - "Soul Inside"
Cabaret Voltaire - "Talking Time"
Tuxedomoon - "59 to 1"
Visage - "Blocks On Blocks"
Fad Gadget - "Luxury"
Ministry - "I Wanted to Tell Her"
Devo - "Red Eye"
The Metronomes - "The World is My Oyster"
Ruins - "Short Wave"
Telex - "Dance to the Music"

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Here's the playlist for the 2-hour set Ambient 2: Music for Studying, which was broadcast on Tuesday, May 12, 2015:

Steve Reich - "Pulses" (Music for 18 Musicians, 1996 revisited version)
Brian Eno - "An Ending (Ascent)"
Tony Scott - "Satori (Enlightenment)"
Paul Horn - "Agra"
Cluster - "Im Suden"
J.D. Emmanuel - "Part I: Attaining Peace"
Don Slepian - "Awakening" (excerpt)
Peter Maunu - "Out of the Red Mist"
Aeoliah - "Tien Fu: Heaven's Gate" (excerpt)
Deuter - "Call of the Unknown"
Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny & Michael Stearns - "Cloud of Promise"
Richard Souther - "The Long Riders"
David Lanz - "Cristofori's Dream"
Constance Demby - "Part II" (Novus Magnificat)
Weather Report - "Morning Lake"

Check out Ambient 1 here.

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It's final exam week here at UW-Madison. Technically, this show fell on "study day"; the university gives students an entire day off between the last day of classes and the first day of exams. Can you believe that, one whole day to prepare for your exams?! Whatever the case, we figured we'd offer the students some soothing sounds for their study sessions (holy alliteration, Batman!). What started off mostly as a joke - I (Andrew) thought it'd be funny to do a whole set of super chill new-age music - turned into a fairly serious set of classic ambient music from the 1960s-1980s.

Most of this music (though maybe not all of it... I'm looking at you, Michael Jones) is actually very good and well worth your listening attention. I'll spare you my "in defense of new-age" lecture for another time, in part because this set ended up leaning a bit more heavily on electronic, progressive, minimalist, and other ambient music styles that evade the "new-age" tag. (We've got plenty more of this music set aside, so expect an Ambient 2 set in the very near future - that one will likely delve more deeply into the heart of the 1980s new-age music genre/movement.)

By the way, this was our last show of the Spring semester and our last show for awhile in our regular Saturday night slot. We're not able to keep to a normal schedule this summer. But we'll still host some broadcasts over the next few months, they'll just be a bit sporadic - follow our Twitter for announcements about future appearances.

Here's the playlist for the 2-hour set Ambient 1: Music for Studying, which was broadcast on Saturday, May 9, 2015:

Vangelis - "Hymne"
Iasos - "Formentera Sunset Clouds"
Steven Halpern - "3rd Chakra: E"
Patrick O'Hearn - "Malevolent Landscape"
Kitaro - "Silk Road Theme (Shichu No Michi)"
Steve Roach - "Towards the Dream"
Popol Vuh - "Ah!"
Ashra - "Deep Distance"
Tangerine Dream - "Phaedra"
Terry Riley - "Across the Lake of the Ancient Word"
Andreas Vollenweider - "Hall of the Stairs/Hall of the Mosaics (Meeting You)"
Harold Budd & Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois - "Late October"
John Fahey - "View (East from the Top of the Riggs Road B&O Trestle)"
William Ackerman - "The Impending Death of the Virgin Spirit"
Michael Hedges - "Spare Change"
George Winston - "Sea"
Michael Jones - "Morning Mist"
Mark Isham - "Raffles in Rio"
Jean Michel Jarre - "Oxygene (Part II)"

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Here's the playlist for Part 4 of The Synth Show, which was broadcast on Saturday, April 25, 2015. 

The Cure - "The Walk"
Silver Apples - "Oscillations"
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "Joan of Arc"
Depeche Mode - "Shake the Disease"
Japan - "Quiet Life"
The Human League - "Only After Dark"
Heaven 17 - "The Height of the Fighting"
Cabaret Voltaire - "The Operative"
Soft Cell - "Chips On My Shoulder"
Tom Verlaine - "The Scientist Writes a Letter"
Martin Rev - "Mari"
Wire - "In Vivo"
New Order - "Your Silent Face"

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