Exploring the legacy of ’80s college rock, the Slicing Up Eyeballs Music Hour airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Pacific on Strangeways Radio. If you caught this week’s episode, pop over to the Strangeways message board to leave comments or requests for future shows.
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The Replacements, “Bastards of Young”
Kate Bush, “Hounds of Love”
INXS, “Listen Like Thieves”
The Cult, “Rain”
The Waterboys, “The Whole of the Moon”
New Order, “The Perfect Kiss”
The Fall, “Rollin Dany”
Big Audio Dynamite, “The Bottom Line”
The Cure, “Sinking”
Simple Minds, “I Wish You Were Here”
The Dead Milkmen, “Big Lizzard”
The Smiths, “Headmaster Ritual”
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “The Living End”
The Sisters of Mercy, “Amphetamine Logic”
Propaganda, “Dr. Mabuse”
Killer show, Matt. Alive in ’85 all over again!
“Sinking” segued perfectly into “I Wish You Were Here.” And funny to hear that we share the same amazement about “Cut the Crap” making the, ahem, cut. Still waiting for someone to defend that pick.
And “Bastards of Young”…to think that the good people of Toronto and beyond will almost certainly be hearing it live this weekend–and then lucky you in Denver next month–is beyond awesome!
One surprise from your show for me, though, was that sax near the end of “The Whole of the Moon”! I had totally forgotten about that, which shows how long it had been since I last heard it. Seems like there were a fair number of ’80s songs that had those “Where the hell did that come from?!” sax moments! Wouldn’t consider “…Moon” one of those offenders, though, because it is truly a gem of a song. And then INXS, the Furs, the Beat (of course), and others (Duran Duran “Rio” is an obvious one)knew how to use the sax–and use it well.
Hey, glad you liked it. And yes, very much looking forward to the ‘Mats next month.
As for the sax… well, yeah, kind of dates stuff like that, but it works. Sometimes…