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Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Self Help Radio 012026: 1990

A collage of album/single covers of music featured on the show: Ed's Redeeming Qualities, Pixies, The Breeders, Kyle MacLachlan, Momus, Nick Cave, Morrissey, The Cure, The Sundays, The Wedding Present, The Darling Buds, My Bloody Valentine, Heavenly, Lou Reed/John Cale, Brian Eno/John Cale, The Fall, Julian Cope, The Siddeleys, Lloyd Cole, Robert Forster, The House Of Love, Cocteau Twins, Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues, The Blue Aeroplanes, Lush, & The Jazz Butcher.
(images found at Discogs)

The time in that book when Proust ate a cookie & it made him remember his life? If that book were about me, it would be me hearing a song & its associations carrying me into the past. I have memories related to so many of the releases I played on this show. I guess the songs themselves become memories. & maybe they become over time as untrustworthy as memories.

Anyway. Here's this week's show, my birthday show, my favorite music from 1990. Some of it, anyway. There was way too much. You might know a little more about me knowing these are things I love. More than likely though if we both like them, we'll know we might have more in common.

You can listen to the show at the KBOO website or at the Self Help Radio website. At the latter, you may need a username+password to access. Try SHR + selfhelp. Everything I played on the show is listed below. Everything I said on the show, well, you have to listen for that.

Today I start year 58!

Self Help Radio 1990 Show
"Spoken Word" Ed's Redeeming Qualities _More Bad Times_
"Down To The Well" Pixies _Bossanova_
"Oh!" The Breeders _Pod_

"Diane (Excerpt)" Kyle MacLachlan _"Diane..." The Twin Peaks Tapes Of Agent Cooper_1990 cassette)
"Morality Is Vanity" Momus _Monsters Of Love: Singles 1985-90_
"The Weeping Song" Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds _The Good Son_
"November Spawned A Monster" Morrissey _November Spawned A Monster_
"Never Enough" The Cure _Never Enough_

"My Finest Hour" The Sundays _Reading, Writing, & Arithmetic_
"Crawl" The Wedding Present _3 Songs_
"Do You Have To Break My Heart" The Darling Buds _Crawdaddy_
"Don't Ask Why" My Bloody Valentine _Glider_
"I Fell In Love Last Night" Heavenly _I Fell In Love Last Night_

"Forever Changed" Lou Reed & John Cale _Songs For Drella_
"One Word" Brian Eno & John Cale _Wrong Way Up_
"Telephone Thing" The Fall _Extricate_
"Out Of My Mind On Dope & Speed" Julian Cope _Skellington_
"Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" The Siddeleys _Alvin Lives (In Leeds): Anti Poll Tax Trax_

"No Blue Skies" Lloyd Cole _Lloyd Cole_
"Baby Stones" Robert Forster _Danger In The Past_
"Beatles & The Stones" The House Of Love _The House Of Love_
"Fifty-Fifty Clown" Cocteau Twins _Heaven Or Las Vegas_
"Miss Otis Regrets/Just One Of Those Things" Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues _Red Hot + Blue_

"Sweet Jane" The Blue Aeroplanes _World View Blue_
"De-Luxe" Lush _Mad Love EP_
"She's On Drugs" The Jazz Butcher _Cult Of The Basement_

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