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Jeff Shelton

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  • 1 hour 55 minutes
    Episode 237: 80s Underground Replay: Oct 16, 2018

    Oingo Boingo “Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me” from Good for Your Soul (Rock, 1983)

    Devo “Gates of Steel (live)” from Live EP 1980 (1980) 

    Spizzenergi “Where's Captain Kirk?” from High Crusade Soundtrack (LP, 1979) 

    Toy Dolls “Nellie the Elephant” from Dig That Groove Baby (1983) 

    Lene Lovich “Lucky Number” from Rhythm On the Radio - Oval Records Singles 1974-1987 (1979)  

    The Flirts “Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime)” from 10 Cents for a Dance (1982) 

    The Polecats “Make a Circuit with Me” from The Best Of Polecats (Rock, 1983)

    The Waitresses “I Know What Boys Like” from Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? (1982) 

    The Members “Working Girl” from Working Girl (Remastered) (1983) 

    Josie Cotton “He Could Be the One” from Convertible Music (1982) 

    A Flock of Seagulls “Telecommúnication” from A Flock of Seagulls (1981) 

    Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark “Radio Waves” from Dazzle Ships (1983)

    Altered Images “Happy Birthday” from Happy Birthday (Single, 1981) 

    The Icicle Works “Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly) [Single Version] (1983) 
    The English Beat “Best Friend” from I Just Can't Stop It (1980)

    Thomas Dolby “Europa and the Pirate Twins” from Golden Age of Wireless (1982) 

    The Tenants “Look the Other Way” from The Tenants (1983)
    U2 “The Three Sunrises” from Under a Blood Red Sky (1985) 

    Horizontal Brian “Practicing First Aid” from Vertical (1983) 

    The Jam “Pretty Green” from Sound Affects (Remastered) (Rock, 1980) 

    The Plimsouls “Zero Hour” from The Plimsouls (1981) 

     Squeeze “In Quintessence” from West Side Story (1981) 

    Nick Lowe “The Rose of England” from The Rose of England (1985) 

    Kirsty MacColl “Terry” from Terry - Single (1983) 

    XTC “Generals and Majors” from Black Sea (Rock, 1980) 

    Gleaming Spires “Big Surprise” from Walk on Well Lighted Streets (1983) 

    Book Of Love “I Touch Roses (Long Stemmed Version)” from Book of Love (Rock, 1986)

    The B-52's “Wig” from Bouncing Off the Satellites (1986) 

    Almost Alone “Dancing to Kill” from Systems of Romance Vol. 8 (1984) 

    Yaz “Nobody's Diary” from You And Me Both (1983)

    Soft Cell “Mr. Self Destruct” from This Last Night In Sodom (1984)

    16 October 2024, 12:52 am
  • 1 hour 56 minutes
    Episode 236: 80s Underground Replay: Sep 24, 2014

    XTC - Dear God (Skylarking) 1986

    THE BONGOS - Roman Circus (Phantom Train) 1986

    LET'S ACTIVE - Room With a View (Afoot) 1983

    INXS - Golden Playpen (Shabooh Shoobah) 1982

    SPLIT ENZ - I Got You (True Colours) 1980

    THE PLIMSOULS - How Long Will It Take (Everywhere at Once) 1983

    THE LUCY SHOW - Land and the Life (Mania) 1986

    DRAGON - Rain (single) 1983

    PETE SHELLEY - XL-1 (XL-1) 1983

    SPARKS - All You Ever Think About is Sex (In Outer Space) 1983

    YAZ - Sweet Thing (You & Me Both) 1983

    NEW ORDER - 1963-1994 (single) 1986

    SPOONS - Nova Heart (Arias & Symphonies) 1982

    OMD - Messages (10" single) 1980

    KRAFTWERK - Computer World (Computer World) 1981

    NEW MODEL ARMY - White Coats (single) 1987

    UNDER TWO FLAGS - The Day After Dub (10" single) 1984

    JESUS & MARY CHAIN - Down on Me (Darklands) 1987

    XYMOX - Stranger (Clan of Xymox) 1985

    THE CURE - Primary (single) 1981

    LONDON COWBOYS - Dance Crazy (Relapse) 1988

    THE CULT - Judith (Revolution EP) 1985

    GENE LOVES JEZEBEL - Upstairs (Promise) 1983

    DANCING HOODS - Wild & The Lonely (12 Jealous Roses) 1985

    SCRUFFY THE CAT - My Baby She's Alright (Tiny Days) 1987

    THE YANKS - We Call Each Other Mine (Made in The States) 1983

    SWING SET - Blackout (Life Speeds Up) 1986

    25 September 2024, 1:13 am
  • 1 hour 59 minutes
    Episode 235: 80s Underground Replay: Sep 10, 2019

    LOVE & ROCKETS "Ball of Confusion" from Express 1986

    PLAY DEAD "Isabel" from From The Promise Land 1985

    CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE "Soldier" from This Can't Be Heaven EP

    FOR AGAINST "Shine" from Echelons 1987

    ULTRAVOX "Reap the Wild Wind" from Hymn 1982

    XYMOX "Evelyn" from Twist Of Shadows 1989

    GENE LOVES JEZEBEL "Heartache" from Discover 1986

    PINK INDUSTRY "Don't Let Go" from Low Technology 1983

    LITTLE HEROES "Whose Turn to Cry" from Watch the World 1983

    COMSAT ANGELS "After the Rain" from Fiction 1982

    RED ROCKERS "Just Like You" from Schizophrenic Circus 1984

    THE ALARM "Strength" from Strength 1985

    LIONS & GHOSTS "Wild Garden" from Wild Garden 1989

    DREAMS SO REAL "Rough Night In Jericho" from Rough Night In Jericho 1988

    ARMS AKIMBO "Dominique" from Arms Akimbo 1984

    GUADALCANAL DIARY "Litany (Life Goes On)" from 2X4 1987

    HOODOO GURUS "What's My Scene?" from Blow Your Cool 1987

    GREEN "Curry Your Favor" from Green 1986

    RAIN PARADE "You Are My Friend" from Explosions in the Glass Palace 1984

    R.E.M. "Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)" from Chronic Town - EP 1982

    RANK AND FILE "Rank & File" from Sundown 1982

    JASON & THE SCORCHERS "Absolutely Sweet Marie" from Fervor 1983

    THE GOLDEN PALOMINOS "Work Was New" from Blast Of Silence 1986

    SONIC YOUTH "Candle" from Daydream Nation 1988

    DAS DAMEN "Noon Daylight" from Mousetrap 1989

    JANE'S ADDICTION "Had a Dad" from Nothing's Shocking 1988

    10 September 2024, 11:53 pm
  • 1 hour 52 minutes
    Episode 234: 80s Underground Replay: Sep 30, 2015

    COMSAT ANGELS - On The Beach (Waiting for a Miracle) 1980

    NEW ORDER - Way of Life (Brotherhood) 1986

    ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - The Game (s/t)

    THE CHURCH - Dropping Names (Seance) 1983

    MOEV - Yeah, Whatever (Yeah, Whatever) 1988

    DANSE SOCIETY - Heaven Is Waiting (Heaven Is Waiting) 1984

    VISAGE - Blocks on Blocks (s/t EP) 1981

    THE MOOD - Watching Time (Singles) 1982

    ROXY MUSIC - Same Old Scene (Flesh+Blood) 1980 *request*

    FURNITURE - Brilliant Mind (single) 1986 *request*

    RE-FLEX - Something About You (Politics of Dancing) 1983

    PSYCHEDELIC FURS - Like a Stranger (1984)

    THE CALL - There's a Heart Here (s/t) 1982

    RED ROCKERS - Come on in to My House (Good As Gold) 1983

    THE DRONGOS - Ghost Ship (s/t) 1984

    XTC - Love on a Farm Boy's Wages (Mummer) 1983

    SQUEEZE - Another Nail for the Heart (Argybargy) 1980

    THE REAL IMPOSSIBLES - Turn My World (4x4 EP) 1986

    THE REPLACEMENTS - Color Me Impressed (Hootenanny) 1983

    HUSKER DU - Pink Turns to Blue (Zen Arcade) 1984

    R.E.M. - Sitting Still (Murmur) 1983

    THE REIVERS - In Your Eyes (Saturday) 1987

    NOT SHAKESPEARE - Turnaround (s/t EP) 1986

    BUFFALO TOM - Sunflower Suit (s/t) 1988

    THE SILOS - Mary's Getting Married (Cuba) 1987

    THE REDUCERS - Fashion of the Times (Let's Go) 1984

    THE SILVER TEARS - High Life (s/t EP) 1984

    THE SIDEWINDERS - Solitary Man (Witchdoctor) 1989

    4 September 2024, 1:42 am
  • 2 hours 37 seconds
    Episode 233: 80s Underground Replay: Aug 20, 2019

    SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES "Song from the Edge of the World" from 12" single 1987

    DANSE SOCIETY "Red Light (Shine)" from Heaven Is Waiting 1984

    KILLING JOKE "Sanity" from Brighter Than a Thousand Suns 1986

    WIRE "A Serious of Snakes" from The Ideal Copy 1987

    GIRLS FROM TAHITI "No Reply" from Tower Of Love 1984

    CABARET VOLTAIRE "Don't Argue" from Code 1987

    HEAVEN SEVENTEEN "Let Me Go" from Heaven Seventeen 1982

    TALK TALK "Serious" from The Party's Over 1982

    CLAN OF XYMOX "A Day" from Clan of Xymox 1985

    THE DAMNED "In Dulce Decorum" from Anything 1986

    THE BOLSHOI "Someone's Daughter" from Friends 1986

    YAZ "Walk Away From Love" from You And Me Both 1983

    BONE SYMPHONY "It's a Jungle Out There" from Bone Symphony 1983

    BRONSKI BEAT "Why?" from The Age of Consent 1984

    IT BITES "Calling All the Heroes" from The Big Lad In the Windmill 1986

    THOMAS DOLBY "Dissidents" from The Flat Earth 1984

    YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA "Key" from Technodelic 1981

    THE PASSAGE "Drugface" from Enflame 1983

    PETER MURPHY "Crystal Wrists" from Deep 1989

    THE SMITHS "Half A Person" from Louder Than Bombs 1986

    ULTRA VIVID SCENE "Crash" from Ultra Vivid Scene 1988

    THE FIELD MICE "Sensitive" from Single 1989

    EASTERHOUSE "Whistling In the Dark" from Contenders 1986

    McCARTHY "Red Sleeping Beauty" from That's All Very Well But? 1986

    JASMINE MINKS "Cut Me Deep" from Another Age 1988

    JAMES "What For" from Strip-Mine 1988

    20 August 2024, 11:50 pm
  • 1 hour 55 minutes
    Episode 232: 80s Underground Replay: August 20, 2014

    NEW ORDER - Leave Me Alone (Power Corruption & Lies) 1983

    COMSAT ANGELS - Be Brave (Sleep No More) 1981

    SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - The Passenger (Through the Looking Glass) 1987

    THE DAMNED - Shadow Of Love (Phantasmagoria) 1985

    DANIELLE DAX - Big Hollow Man (Dark Adapted Eye) 1988 *request*

    KILLING JOKE - Fire Dances (Fire Dances) 1983

    EASTERHOUSE - To Live Like This (Contenders) 1986

    WALL OF VOODOO - Big City (Seven Days in Sammystown) 1985

    ADAM ANT - Stand & Deliver (Prince Charming) 1981

    THE JAM - Funeral Pyre (single) 1981

    ENGLISH BEAT - Get a Job (Wha'ppen) 1981

    PETER SCHILLING - Major Tom (single) 1983

    OINGO BOINGO - Wake Up It's 1984 (Good For Your Soul) 1983

    B-52s - Strobe Light (Wild Planet) 1980

    MIDNIGHT OIL - Dreamworld (Diesel & Dust) 1988

    THE EURYTHMICS - Belinda (In The Garden) 1981

    THE FIXX - Built For The Future (Walkabout) 1986

    SQUARE ROOT OF NOW - Between the Light (Bent Around the Corners) 1984

    YAZ - Sweet Thing (You and Me Both) 1983

    COLOUR SCREAM - Across the Sky (Dance No More EP) 1989

    THE SMITHS - Ask (Singles) 1987

    THE PRIMITIVES - Sick of It (12" single) 1989

    BALAAM & THE ANGEL - Love Me (Sun Family) 1986

    SAD LOVERS & GIANTS - In Flux (Feeding the Flame) 1983

    ROSE OF AVALANCHE - Goddess (12" single) 1985

    SCREAMING BLUE MESSIAHS - Sweet Water Pools (Bikini Red) 1987

    13 August 2024, 10:51 pm
  • 2 hours 1 minute
    Episode 231: 80s Underground Replay: TRIBUTE TO 1981!

    SIMPLE MINDS "Love Song" from Sons and Fascination

    SPANDAU BALLET "The Freeze" from Singles Collection

    JAPAN "Ghosts" from Tin Drum

    THE HUMAN LEAGUE "Open Your Heart" from Dare

    GARY NUMAN "Crash" from Dance

    KRAFTWERK "It's More Fun To Compute" from Computer World

    CRASH COURSE IN SCIENCE "Cardboard Lamb" from Signals From Pier Thirteen - EP

    O.M.D. "Georgia" from Architecture & Morality

    POLYROCK "Love Song" from Changing Hearts

    DEVO "Through Being Cool" from New Traditionalists

    SOFT CELL "Bedsitter" from Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

    ICEHOUSE "We Can Get Together" from Icehouse

    SLOW CHILDREN "President I Am" from Slow Children

    LENE LOVICH "New Toy" from New Toy EP

    SCARS "All About You" from Author! Author!

    TV21 "Something's Wrong" from A Thin Red Line

    THE STRANGLERS "Two Sunspots" from (The Gospel According To) The Meninblack

    TELEX "Exercise Is Good For You" from Sex!

    HUMANS "Get You Tonight" from Happy Hour

    THE VAPORS "Spiders" from Magnets

    THE JAM "Funeral Pyre" from Greatest Hits

    NINE NINE NINE "So Greedy" from Concrete

    THE GUN CLUB "She's Like Heroin to Me" from Fire of Love

    X "The Once Over Twice" from Wild Gift

    MISSION OF BURMA "This Is Not a Photograph" from Signals, Calls and Marches

    ADOLESCENTS "I Hate Children" from Adolescents

    BLACK FLAG "TV Party" from Damaged

    THE REPLACEMENTS "Shiftless When Idle" from Sorry Ma! Forgot to Take Out the Trash!

    AGENT ORANGE "Living in Darkness" from Living In Darkness

    8 August 2024, 2:40 am
  • 1 hour 58 minutes
    Episode 230: 80s Underground Replay: Aug 7, 2018

    THE FIXX - Less Cities More Moving People (Phantoms) 1984

    GENERAL PUBLIC - Burning Bright (All The Rage) 1984

    THE JAM - Beat Surrender (Beat Surrender EP) 1982

    THE CLASH - Hitsville UK (Sandanista!) 1980

    PUBLIC IMAGE LTD - Rise (Album) 1985

    THE FALL - The Carry Bag Man (The Frenz Experiment) 1988

    PETER MURPHY - Indigo Eyes (Love Hysteria) 1988

    MAGAZINE - Because You're Frightened (The Correct Use of Soap) 1980

    PETE SHELLEY - Homosapien (Homosapien) 1981

    KING BLANK - Blind Box (The Real Dirt) 1988

    HUNTERS & COLLECTORS - When The River Runs Dry (Ghost Nation) 1989

    FLESH FOR LULU - So Strong (s/t) 1984

    DRAMARAMA - Scenario (Cinema Verite) 1985

    LET'S ACTIVE - Room With a View (Afoot) 1983

    FRIENDS AGAIN - State of Art (single) 1983

    ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Crystal Days (Ocean Rain) 1984

    THE SMITHS - Boy With a Thorn in His Side (The Queen Is Dead) 1986

    RAILWAY CHILDREN - Somewhere South (Recurrence) 1988

    MOEV - Yeah Whatever (single) 1986

    WIRE - The Offer (Eardrum Buzz b-side) 1989

    DEPECHE MODE - Something To Do (Some Great Reward) 1984

    BLANCMANGE - Blind Vision (Mange Tout) 1984

    REAL LIFE - Exploding Bullets (Let's Fall In Love) 1989

    ICEHOUSE - No Promises (Measure For Measure) 1986

    VISAGE - Fade to Grey (s/t) 1980

    BAD BRAINS - Pay To Cum (s/t) 1982

    ADAM & THE ANTS - Strip (single) 1983

    30 July 2024, 10:42 pm
  • 1 hour 58 minutes
    Episode 229: 80s Underground Replay: July 22, 2015

    CHAMELEONS UK - Swamp Thing (Strange Times) 1986

    RED LORRY YELLOW LORRY - Monkey's On Juice (single) 1985

    SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES - Belladonna (Hyaena) 1984

    SAD LOVERS & GIANTS - Sex Without Gravity (single) 984

    THE THE - Perfect (Soul Mining) 1983

    AZTEC CAMERA - Still On Fire (Knife) 1984

    CLEANERS FROM VENUS - Julie Profumo (single) 1986

    RE-FLEX - Cut It (Breakin' Soundtrack) 1984

    U2 - Two Hearts Beat As One (War) 1983

    THE CULT - Dreamtime (Dreamtime) 1985

    BUSH TETRAS - Too Many Creeps (Single) 1980

    THE WAITRESSES - No Guilt (Greatest Hits) 1981

    OINGO BOINGO - Not My Slave (Boi-ngo) 1987

    HUXTON CREEPERS - Time Heals All Wounds (12 Days to Paris) 1986

    THE SMITHEREENS - Strangers When We Meet (Especially For You) 1986

    TRANSLATOR - These Old Days (Evening of the Harvest) 1986

    SCRUFFY THE CAT - Land of 1000 Girls (High Octane Revival EP) 1987

    CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN - Take the Skinheads Bowling (12" single) 1986

    fIREHOSE - Brave Captain (Ragin' Full On) 1986

    THE PIXIES - Bone Machine (Surferosa) 1988

    HUSKER DU - Green Eyes (Flip Your Wig) 1985

    THE RAMONES - My Head is Hanging Upside Down (Animal Boy) 1986

    999 - So Greedy (Concrete) 1981

    ANTI-NOWHERE LEAGUE - For You (single) 1982

    SUBHUMANS - Pigman (Worlds Apart) 1985

    SUICIDAL TENDENCIES - Institutionalized (s/t) 1983

    THE VANDALS - Lady Killer (When In Rome...) 1984

    MOJO NIXON & SKID ROPER - Jesus at McDonalds (s/t) 1985

    BILLY BRAGG - Strange Things Happen (Brewing Up) 1984

    23 July 2024, 10:35 pm
  • 1 hour 56 minutes
    Episode 228: 80s Underground Replay: July 16, 2014

    GENE LOVES JEZEBEL - The Cow (Desire 12") 1986

    THE CHAMELEONS - As High as You Can Go (Script of the Bridge) 1983

    THE LUCY SHOW - Undone (Undone...) 1983

    THE OCEAN BLUE - Ask Me Jon (s/t) 1989

    ICEHOUSE - Icehouse (s/t) 1981

    SPANDAU BALLET - The Freeze (Singles Collection) 1981

    FLESH FOR LULU - Postcards From Paradise (Long Live the New Flesh) 1987 *request*

    TEARDROP EXPLODES - Ha Ha, I'm Drowning (Kilmanjaro) 1980

    INXS - Here Comes (Shabooh Shoobah) 1982

    THE MEMBERS - Working Girl (s/t) 1982

    ADAM & THE ANTS - Scorpios (Prince Charming) 1981

    LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH - Black Girl White Girl (Is Nothing Sacred?) 1983

    SPARKS - Love Scenes (Pulling Rabbits From a Hat) 1984

    BLANCMANGE - Feel Me (Happy Families) 1982

    MARY GOES ROUND - The Promised Land (Sunset) 1989

    FAD GADGET - Stand Up (Gag) 1984

    WIRE - Eardrum Buzz (IBTABA) 1989

    SPOONS - Radio Heaven (Bridge Over Borders) 1986

    RED ROCKERS - Home Is Where The War Is (Good As Gold) 1983

    WIRE TRAIN - Certainly No One (Ten Women) 1987

    HOODOO GURUS - All The Way (Magna Cum Louder) 1989

    R.E.M. - Disturbance at the Heron House (Document) 1987

    DRAMARAMA - Scenario (Cinema Verite) 1985

    LET'S ACTIVE - Flags For Everything (Cypress) 1984

    GAME THEORY - Too Late For Tears (Dead Center) 1984

    AGENT ORANGE - Tearing Me Apart (This Is The Voice) 1986

    RUTS DC - Despondency (Animal Now) 1981

    THE SOUND - Kinetic (Thunder Up) 1987

    16 July 2024, 11:20 pm
  • 1 hour 57 minutes
    Episode 227: 80s Underground Replay: July 9, 2019

    MISSION UK "Sacrilege" from God's Own Medicine 1986

    CHAT SHOW "Kings of Confusion" from Single 1987

    GENE LOVES JEZEBEL "Gorgeous" from The House of Dolls 1987

    FAD GADGET "Lady Shave" from The Fad Gadget Singles 1981

    PINK INDUSTRY "Don't Let Go" from Low Technology 1983

    FRONT 242 "Headhunter" from Single 1988

    A CERTAIN RATIO "Flight" from The Graveyard and the Ballroom 1980

    OUR DAUGHTER'S WEDDING "Red Alert" from Digital Cowboy 1981

    STRANGE ADVANCE "We Run" from 2WO 1985

    ULTRAVOX "One Small Day" from Lament 1984

    COCTEAU TWINS "Orange Appled" from Love's Easy Tears - EP 1986

    THE CHURCH "Disenchanted" from Heyday 1985

    BIG COUNTRY "Wonderland" from Single 1984

    THAT PETROL EMOTION "It's a Good Thing" from Manic Pop Thrill 1986

    GENTLEMEN AFTERDARK "Open the Door" from Open the Door - EP 1983

    SPLIT ENZ "I Don't Wanna Dance" from Waiata 1981

    EUROPEANS "The Animal Song" from Vocabulary 1983

    TALK TALK "Dum Dum Girl" from It's My Life 1984

    ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN "New Direction" from Echo & the Bunnymen 1987

    CATERWAUL "Not Today" from Pin and Web 1989

    BIG DIPPER "Ron Klaus Wrecked His House" from Supercluster  1987

    SCRUFFY THE CAT "Tiger Tiger" from High Octane Revival 1986

    THE PRIMITONS "All My Friends" from Don't Go Away: Collected Works 1985

    JET BLACK BERRIES "Judas Tree" from Animal Necessity 1988

    SCREAMING TRIBESMEN "Move a Little Closer" from Move a Little Closer 1984

    DEL FUEGOS "It's Alright" from Boston, Mass. 1985

    THE REPLACEMENTS "I'll Be You" from Don't Tell a Soul 1989

    10 July 2024, 3:44 am
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