The Way Out

Here's the playlist for our annual Halloween show, which was broadcast on Sunday, October 25, 2015.

The Walker Brothers - "The Electrician"
The Cure - "Cold"
The Damned - "The Eighth Day"
Bauhaus - "The Sanity Assassin"
Joy Division - "Day of the Lords"
Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Spellbound"
The Mission - "Serpent's Kiss"
The Sisters of Mercy - "Possession"
Echo & The Bunnymen - "Nocturnal Me"
The Kinks - "Wicked Annabella (Stereo Version)"
X - "Devil Doll"
The Cramps - "What's Behind the Mask"
Rocket From the Crypt - "I Drink Blood"

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Here's the playlist for Part 5 of our Sunday Mornings series, which was broadcast on Sunday, October 18, 2015.

Blur - "Sunday Sunday"
Swell Maps - "Border Country"
Magazine - "Sweetheart Contract"
Josef K - "Heart of Song"
Happy Mondays - "Performance"
The Go-Betweens - "The Sound of Rain"
Tall Dwarfs - "Bob's Yer Uncle"
Television Personalities - "Someone to Share My Life With"
Aztec Camera - "The Boy Wonders"
Devo - "Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy)"
The Modern Lovers - "Modern World"
Mission of Burma - "Einstein's Day"
Liquid Liquid - "Push"
The Au Pairs - "Set-Up"
Lou Reed - "Lady Day"

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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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