Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Couples Day

August 18 is National Couples Day. Or maybe it's written National Couple's Day? That seems incorrect. Anyway, it appears to be a holiday scheduled halfway between Valentine's Days. For those who need more pressure to buy things for their beloved.

We will talk about & listen to musical reports about famous couples in honor of the day tomorrow on The Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM. You can listen in town from noon to 1pm at 91.1+107.1fm & online everywhere at xray dot fm. Listen to the show with someone with whom you form a couple!

On second thought, maybe that would be a terrible idea. Maybe buy flowers & chocolates instead.

This Week In Self Help (August 11 + 13 2024)

That image - which I downloaded from somewhere in 2015 - came up when I typed "chaos" into the search bar. It looks like I got it from the photos of the week in the Atlantic from 2015. It does seem chaotic! Here's the chaos on the radio this week.

On The Dickenbock Report on Sunday the 11th, I played a lot of music from folks who had birthdays on that day in history. I don't think I got to folks born after 1920. I know, I'm a weirdo. You can listen to the show at XRAY dot fm. You can also listen to the show at Self Help Radio dot net. If you choose the latter, you will need to know the login (SHR) & the password (selfhelp).

Self Help Radio this week had the theme "chaos." You can listen to that show on the KBOO website. You can also listen to that show at the Self Help Radio website. If you choose the latter, you will need to know the login (SHR) & the password (selfhelp).

That KBOO link contains this week's episode of Corporate Standardized Programming, which was another morbid hour where I played some music by folks we lost this year. I have made it to the middle of May! Death is dreadful. If you like to listen to it separate from Self Help Radio, you can just listen to that show on the Self Help Radio website. Remember username SHR password selfhelp.

Hopefully less chaos in your life from now on!

Self Help Radio 081324: Chaos

What a chaotic show! In content & subject matter mostly. I was especially conscientious about making sure there were smooth transitions & the like. Couldn't let a chaos show get too chaotic!

One thing I am aware of - the chaos will descend soon enough whether we like it or not. We have forces in our world today who love chaos & who use it for their own duplicitous & often nefarious ends. Being aware of the chaos may be helpful in preparation. My radio show today for me at least was a reminder of that. Plus I played songs I liked & had fun talking to weirdos.

Listen for yourself! The show is now over on the KBOO web site. It's also on the Self Help Radio web site where you can download it if you want. Just remember to use the login SHR & the password selfhelp to access. Everything that happened on the show is below.

It's like organized chaos!

Self Help Radio Chaos Show

"Chaos Waltz" Web Of Sunsets _Chaos Waltz_

"Chaotic Shampoo & Strange Rock & Roll" Peter Sellers & The Hollywood Party _50,000 Glass Fans Can't Be Wrong_

"Chaos Heart" OSees _Intercepted Message_

introduction & definitions

"Ab (Chaos Is Bliss)" Strangelily _A Strange Film, Featuring You & I_

"The Chaos" The Futureheads _The Chaos_

"Soliloquy Of Chaos" Gang Starr _Daily Operation_

"Fear & Chaos" The Black Creatures _Wild Echoes_

interview with Chaos Princess actor Diane Faulkner

"We Are The Chaos Bros." The Lurkers _Fulham Fallout_

"Chaos Bros." Die Toten Hosen _Love, Peace, & Money_

"Chaos Engine" Pinback _Pinback_

"Chaos Panic" Yellow Magic Orchestra _Kyoretsu Na Rhythm - Characters: The Best Of YMO_

interview with KAOS Fans creator Dave Ferguson

"Chaos & Disorder" Prince _Chaos & Disorder_

"Chaos" The Sylvers _The Sylvers_

"Chaos" Minuit Machine _Infrarouge_

interview with former god of chaos Doug Fisher

"Involved In Local Chaos" The 49 Americans _E Pluribus Unum_

"Elegant Chaos" Julian Cope _World Shut Your Mouth_

"Chaos" Louisahhh _The Practice Of Freedom_

"Chaos" New Young Pony Club _The Optimist_

interview with chaos magician Dean Fishburn

"Chaos" Stump _A Fierce Pancake_

"You're A Reflection Of Infinite Chaos" Outrageous Cherry _Our Love Will Change The World_

"Chaos" The Erics _Chaos Made Pretty_

conclusion & goodbye

"Chaos Arpeggiating" Of Montreal _Innocence Reaches_

Whither Chaos?

Tonight's program is another show conceived in those dark days of June after the first debate when it seemed like we might have to have another four years of a presidency that I don't think I could have survived. I was miserable with the administration that led this country from 2017 to 2021 & almost had a nervous breakdown on election night 2020 when the outcome was in doubt.

Things have changed since June & while I am not so naïve that everything will be perfect if the new contender wins, I know I won't be utterly destroyed by the return of someone I believe would cause irreparable harm to the country in which I live & in which I was born & grew up. You may disagree with me & that's fine. I am sorry if this causes you the misery I will avoid. But it's my radio show & my perception of the future became quite dark - catastrophe, loneliness, chaos. I think the theme next week continues in this bleak vein.

But the show I think will be kinda fun because I am doing better thank you. So tune in to a radio show about chaos tonight on KBOO - 90.7fm in Portland & online at kboo dot fm. The chaos lasts from midnight to 2am. & if we're lucky goes no further!

Preface To Chaos: Another Failed Attempt At A Regular Feature

(all images from the IMDb)

No, this isn't a preview of our resident cinephile Chuck coming on the show this week to talk about films involving this week's theme, chaos. Chuck previews his films over on his Twitter account, but he doesn't preview them on this blog ever. Also, I'm way too literal. Chuck will watch a film for a show about, I don't know, racecars & there'll be one scene in the movie that has a racecar in a pile of kids' toys, but he won't review "Racecar Story" because it wasn't tagged with "racecar" on the IMDb even though it's obviously about racecars. Not that I'm complaining! Except about me!

What I'm pointing out is that a couple of weeks ago, I recommended a movie based on the week's theme. I thought, hey, maybe I can do that this week. So I looked for films with chaos in the title. The pictures above were the first six I found on the IMDb. It's not that I've never seen any of these movies - I haven't - it's also that I've never even heard of any of them.

So. It seems. I'm not going to be recommending a film this week. Or in this space in the future. Because. I'm bad at it. Like, really really bad at it.

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: August 11 Birthdays

We're at that point in the news cycle, called "the doldrums," where nothing of excitement is happening with the news. Yes, there's an election going on. Yes, we had sports things. Yes, there were hurricanes & stuff. But it's just so hot outside.

As a salve for this, on The Dickenbock Report tomorrow, we'll celebrate some notable people born on August 11. Mainly people no longer here to celebrate birthdays. Lots of them, in fact, friends of Dick Dickenbock he misses a great deal. We'll have cake at the XRAY studios, but it's just for staff - you'll need to supply your own for the occasion.

Noon to 1pm on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, xray dot fm everywhere. Happy birthday to you!

This Week In Self Help (August 4, 5, + 6 2024)

That image above was downloaded by me from the Internets over eight years ago. I have no idea from where & I have no idea who created it. It's brilliant & I'm sad I can't tell you anything about its creator(s).

What I can tell you about is what I did on the radio this week. The usual stuff plus I subbed a show. Let's do it in chronological order.

The Dickenbock Report aired on Sunday on XRAY. It was International Owl Awareness Day so I played songs & talked about owls. Who? Owls! If you give a hoot, you can listen to the show on its XRAY web page. You can also listen + download the show at the Self Help Radio website. Please remember that you'll need a username (SHR) & password (selfhelp) to access that file from the SHR website.

On Monday I spent a couple of hours on the radio playing sounds by new releases that are outside my usual indie world. Sadly, because it was a sub show, it's not archived at the KBOO website, but you can see the playlist here & you can listen + download the show here. Please remember that you'll need a username (SHR) & password (selfhelp) to access that file from the SHR website.

Self Help Radio this week, as you probably know because of the image at the top of this page, had the theme "loneliness." You can listen to that on its KBOO web page. Or you can listen + download the show at the Self Help Radio website. Please remember that you'll need a username (SHR) & password (selfhelp) to access that file from the SHR website.

The show on the KBOO website contains this week's episode of Corporate Standardized Programming, in which I played lots of cool new indie releases. If you'd like to listen to that show all by itself, you can do so at the Self Help Radio website. Please remember that you'll need a username (SHR) & password (selfhelp) to access that file from the SHR website.

& that was the week that was on the radio.

Loneliness In The Movies

(image from the IMDb)

Our resident cinephile Chuck stopped by the show this week, which had the theme loneliness, & chatted with us about films tagged with loneliness on the IMDb. You can listen to that show at selfhelpradio dot net if you haven't already & once you've heard Chuck talk, please make use of these handy links (as he says, there are lots of them this week) to supplement his visit:

Here are the YouTube playlists of films & trailers:

Part 1 (1914-1969) | Part 2 (1970-1985) | Part 3 (1986-1999)

Part 4 (2000-2006) | Part 5 (2007-2012) | Part 6 (2013-2017) | Part 7 (2018-2024)

Here is Chuck's Letterboxd list. Here are his Letterboxd reviews.

(Chuck tells us put the links to available videos in the notes for the films plus where they are available to stream for free.)

Here is the IMDb keyword search list. Here is his IMDb list of films free to stream (many are also on YouTube).

Chuck has a Twitter account & a Bluesky account where he has posted about some of the films. If you like what you see, follow him! He usually follows you back.

So farewell loneliness! You have lots of movies to watch now!

Self Help Radio 080624: Loneliness

Loneliness is part & parcel of radio. While you might have many people listening, you are in general alone in a room with lots of humming equipment & very rarely with other humans. Okay, that's kind of the old-style deejay way. Some people do radio with friends. Some have talk shows. Some take callers. But the sort of the radio I do has always been tinged with a kind of loneliness. I remember a volunteer at Freeform Portland telling me she didn't think being on the radio would be so lonely.

It seems natural therefore to have a radio show about loneliness, yes? & that's what happened this morning on Self Help Radio. Songs about loneliness - not necessarily songs about being lonely - plus a discussion of movies featuring loneliness & three callers who shared with us their situation with loneliness.

Listen to the show now either at the KBOO website or at the Self Help Radio website. If you choose the latter, please remember the username & password to access/download the files. Those are SHR & selfhelp respectively.

Did the show make anyone feel less lonely? Oh dear me no.

Self Help Radio Loneliness Show

"All Is Loneliness" Moondog _More Moondog_

"Loneliness Is A Well" Anita O'Day _The Complete Anita O'Day Verve/Clef Sessions_

"Loneliness Hurts" Bobby Bland _Ain't Nothing You Can Do_

introduction & definitions

"Miss Loneliness" Mitty Collier _Shades Of Mitty Collier: The Chess Singles 1961-1968_

"What's With This Loneliness" Chuck Jackson _Good Things_

"Pit Of Loneliness" Gene Chandler _The Brunswick Years 1966-1969_

"Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive" Merle Haggard _Untamed Hawk: The Early Recordings Of Merle Haggard_

"Bad Fog Of Loneliness" Neil Young _Live At The Cellar Door_

our resident cinephile Chuck stops by!

"Loneliness" Tuxedomoon _Half-Mute_

"The Well Of Loneliness" McCarthy _The Well Of Loneliness EP_

"Loneliness Is A Gun" The House Of Love _The House Of Love 1986-88: The Creation Recordings_

"Please Help The Cause Against Loneliness" Sandie Shaw _Hello Angel_

"Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness" John Prine _Great Days: The John Prine Anthology_

first caller to talk about loneliness: Chris

"Loneliness Finds Her Own Way" Clem Snide _Your Favorite Music_

"Loneliness" Robert Forster _Warm Nights_

"If Loneliness Was Art" Allo Darlin' _Allo Darlin'_

"Loneliness Is Better When You're Not Alone" Hello Saferide _Introducing..._

"Loneliness Kills" Boat _Tread Lightly_

second caller to talk about loneliness: Benny

"Love Or Loneliness" Math & Physics Club _I Shouldn't Look As Good As I Do_

"Loneliness" Nouvelle Vague _I Could Be Happy_

"Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets" Morrissey _California Son_

"Loneliness Is Power" Sallie Ford _Soul Sick_

third caller to talk about loneliness: Ariel

"Loneliness Is Cruel" Willernie _Betty_

"Loneliness Has No Home" Parkington Sisters _Collide_

"Loneliness & Sweet Romance" The Frank & Walters _Greenwich Mean Time_

"The Loneliness Of A Middle-Distance Runner" Belle & Sebastian _Sing... Jonathan David_

conclusion & goodbye

"Loneliness" Motorama _Dialogues_

"Loneliness On The Run" Metronomy _Small World_

Whither Loneliness?

(Image by Beth Scupham from here.)

First off, I want to say that I'm amazed it's taken me this long to do a show about loneliness. I did a cursory search of my list of explored themes on the website but not a thorough one so I might have done this before.

Second off, I thought initially this would be an easy show. I thought I'd just play songs in which people talked about how lonely they were. But I discovered there were lots of songs in which people mentioned loneliness. The word, separate of "lonely." So I decided to focus on that. Which still means lots of people singing about being lonely, but also making poetic pronouncements about loneliness.

Third off, this was a show I had been thinking about a long time. It was finally decided that I do it - & then I completely changed the whole thing! It actually became about loneliness not just being lonely. What a goof I am.

The Self Help Radio show about loneliness happens tonight from midnight to 2am on 90.7fm in Portland & online at kboo dot fm everywhere. Yes, I'll be doing it alone. Radio had a great deal of loneliness all around.

Preface To Loneliness: Let's Hear From An Expert

That Peanuts comic is from May 19. 1959. I scanned it myself from the Complete Peanuts. It's almost like an introduction to this week's show. I have really nothing else to add.

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: International Owl Awareness Day

August 4 is International Owl Awareness Day. If there's one thing Dick Dickenbock is aware of, it's owls. They seem to follow him around. He is happy to support owl propagation & rehabilitation initiatives. To that end, tomorrow on the Dickenbock Report on XRAY fm, we'll report on owls, including of course musical reports. We have heard from various sources that the owls are not what they seem.

That's noon to 1pm on 91.1+107.1fm here in Portland & at xray dot fm everywhere. The owls themselves would have appreciated an evening or late-night broadcast, but we are an afternoon newsmagazine!

This Week In Self Help (July 26 28 + 30 2024)

That's my cat Bluto sitting in my chair. He's mad that this week's Self Help Radio - which had the theme "catastrophe" - didn't feature a single cat. He reminded me that you can't have a catastrophe without a cat. So I'll feature him right now.

We have to go back an entire week to encapsulate my week in radio. I subbed the Songcircle on KBOO last Friday & I played a bunch of songs that all mentioned each day of the week at least once. You can listen to that show on the KBOO website. Or you can listen to it/download it from the Self Help Radio website directly by clicking right here. As always, you'll need a username (SHR) & a password (selfhelp) to access any file from the Self Help Radio website.

On Sunday, there was an episode of The Dickenbock Report which had songs about Miami since it was the anniversary of that city's incorporation. You can listen to that show on the XRAY website. Or you can listen to it/download it from the Self Help Radio website by clicking right here. Remember! Username SHR + password selfhelp!

Speaking of Self Help Radio - the show about catastrophe aired Tuesday morning. You can listen to that show on KBOO website. Or you can listen to it/download it from the Self Help Radio website by clicking right here. I'm not repeating the username/password. Nope. I'll only do it twice.

Speaking of repetition - the KBOO show is three hours long because the hour after Self Help Radio is a show called Corporate Standardized Programming. This week I played music by artists who died in early May of this year. If you'd like to listen to that show separate from Self Help Radio, you can do so by clicking right here.

Okay, that's all. I need to go now, Bluto is being pretty cat-a-strophic to my chair! Bluto! Bad kitty!

Self Help Radio 073024: Catastrophe

A caller tonight: isn't a Self Help Radio episode about catastrophe redundant ha ha ha? No, sir, that would be a show with the theme what a mess.

Truly your average episode of Self Help Radio doesn't rise to the level of catastrophe. But we managed some songs about catastrophe as well as some nice interviews. See those details below.

You can listen to the show in two different places: on the KBOO website & on the Self Help Radio website. If you choose the latter, make sure you use the username SHR & the password selfhelp to listen/download. Otherwise it might be - well, not a catastrophe. Maybe just a relief.

Self Help Radio Catastrophe Show

"Major Catastrophe" Katch 22 _Major Catastrophe (The Katch 22 Story 1966-1969)_

"Catastrophe Kids" The Brooklyn What _Hot Wine_

"Romanticized Catastrophe" Sallie Ford _Soul Sick_

introduction & definitions

"Catastrophe" Maow _The Unforgiving Sounds Of... Maow_

"Catastrophe" The Rondelles _Fiction, Romance, Fast Machines_

"Catastrophe" Moviola _The Year You Were Born_

"Catastrophe" Rainer Maria _Catastrophe Keeps Us Together_

interview with journalist Thomas Veller

"Dear Catastrophe Waitress" Belle & Sebastian _Dear Catastrophe Waitress_

"All Out Of Catastrophes" Marissa Nadler _For My Crimes_

"Catastrofuk" John Cale _EP: Extra Playful_

"Catastrophe" Swingin' Utters _Drowning In The Sea, Rising With The Sun_

interview with philosophy professor Dr Tim Vought

"My Last Catastrophe" The Smoking Trees _The Archer & The Bull_

"Catástrofe No. 17" Le Mans _Modapop: Fantasías Veraniegas - Colección Elefant (2003-2004)_

"Catastrophe" Helado Negro _Invisible Life_

"The Full Catastrophe" Anthony Quinn/Mikis Theodorakis _Zorba The Greek (Original Soundtrack)_

"Eco-Catastrophe Blues" Brewer & Shipley _ST11261_

interview with writer Todd Vale

"Pop Catastrophe" Boss Hog _Cold Hands_

"Triple Catastrophe" Beezus _Lives Of The Saints_

"Candy Colored Catastrophe" Redd Kross _Redd Kross_

"Gong Of Catastrophe" Osees _Protean Threat_

interview with self-help writer Tanya Vicks

"The Catastrophists" Parlour Steps _The Hidden Names_

"Carol's Catastrophe" Ed Hale & The Transcendence _The Great Mistake_

"The Pop Catastrophe (feat. Brede Rorstad)" Worm Is Green _Push Play_ 

"Catastrophe" Nous Non Plus _Menagerie_

conclusion & goodbye

"O.D. Catastrophe" Spaceman 3 _Sound Of Confusion_

Whither Catastrophe?

(image by Paul Davis from here)

Most of the time I'm not entirely sure where the ideas for my radio shows come from. Usually it's something I notice in songs I've been listening to - a strange, unexpected repetition of an idea, a word, a phrase. Lots of times it's something more direct - I wanna do a show about this. Rarely - too rarely - it's something someone suggested. I wish I got more suggestions. But lots of times I just can't remember. I write down (or create a folder on my computer) the word or phrase that's the idea for the theme & can't recall why I did that.

But I suspect I know when I thought I should do a show about catastrophe. The show isn't political, though I obviously have my political leanings. I think I thought "catastrophe" might be a good theme when I finally saw clips of Joe Biden in the June debate with the other guy. The four years that other guy was President were not happy years for me. I saw Biden's performance as the prelude to an electoral catastrophe. One the country might not survive. & most probably my brain said, "Wallow in this, you fool. Make a show about it."

It does not matter that the likelihood of such a catastrophe has been reduced. I don't mind when my negative predictions don't come true. But I am stuck with a show about catastrophe. & don't worry! says my sadistic brain. Something sufficiently catastrophic will happen soon enough!

It could be tonight's show! Midnight to 2am on 90.7fm in town & online at kboo dot fm. Be safe. Sleep through it.

Preface To Catastrophe: A Movie Recommendation

(image from the IMDb)

No, this is not a recommendation from Self Help Radio's resident cinephile Chuck. Yes, this might be the first time I've explicitly recommended a movie on this blog. Maybe I should do that for every one of these prefaces. I'll think about it. Meanwhile.

Here's a sweet Australian rom-com from the mid-90s. It had a couple of firsts for me - it was the first time I saw actors Radha Mitchell & Frances O'Connor. & it may have been the first rom-com I saw in which there were gay characters who were part of the romantic element (I think it's about two couples but I'm not entirely sure at this point) of the film & not relegated to supporting characters (or part of a gay movie). I found it charming & ridiculous & probably put it on my recommended movie shelf when I worked at a video store in the late 90s.

It's funny, I actually found the movie in its entirety online a few months ago but it seems to have since disappeared. Rats. Chuck is better at this than I am! But if you see it around & you like movies like this, maybe think of my recommendation. As far as data goes, it has a 6.4 on the IMDb & a 71% on Rotten Tomatoes (though 51% for critics yikes). But this review of the film from the Guardian has a nice take: "Two decades on it’s a wonderfully spritzy dialogue-driven work to revisit, full of oomph & chutzpah."

It's almost thirty years old now however. But I watched some of it online a few months ago & remember it fondly. & it features some small catastrophes!

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: A Show About Miami

(vintage postcard of Miami, found here)

On July 28, 1896, the city of Miami, Florida, was incorporated. To mark that day, the Dickenbock Report (128 years later) will report on the city of Miami.

Sadly, I was not sent there on assignment. Or gladly? It's probably a little warm there at the moment. Instead, I'll be in the also unusually warm XRAY studios from 12-1pm tomorrow playing songs & talking about Miami. That's on the air in town at 91.1 & 107.1fm & online everywhere (presumably even in Miami) at xray dot fm.

Dick Dickenbock may not show up - he thinks we're trying to get him to retire there!

This Week In Self Help (July 21 + 23 2024)

(found here)

That's an image of Austin's newsweekly the Austin Chronicle from 1988 which I almost certainly picked up at a record store & read at that time but I have no memory of it whatsoever. I kinda want to read (reread?) the article about Austin's "alternative radio" - there was no community or college station in Austin at that time. I don't think their archives go back that far tho.

Meanwhile! I returned to Portland after a week in California to make these radio shows this week:

On the Dickenbock Report on Sunday, I celebrated Belgian artists on National Belgian Day. You can listen to that musical survey either on the XRAY web site or downloading the show from the Self Help Radio website. If you do the latter, please use the username SHR & the password selfhelp to access.

On Self Help Radio on Tuesday, I played more of my favorite music from 1988. You can listen to that show on the KBOO website here, or download the show directly from the Self Help Radio website & please remember SHR + selfhelp to access.

The KBOO show includes this week's episode of Corporate Standardized Programming which featured an hour of my favorite hip hop from 1988 but if you'd prefer to listen to that as a separate file, you can download it directly from the Self Help Radio website. See username/password info above.

& that was the week that was.

Self Help Radio 072324: 1988 (Continued)

(All images from Discogs)

Here it is, another couple of hours of my favorite music from 1988. It may not surprise you I have another hour's worth of songs that I could've played. & maybe I'll play them! But probably not on Self Help Radio.

Of course I haven't started planning for the 1989 show but I do wonder if there is another year of music as important to me as 1988. As I have discussed here & on the show, the year changed a lot of what my life was like. I went from a lonely fellow who pined over girls to one starting a relationship that would last for a time. Though I read a lot, it was the music that informed my life. I would walk through the empty streets of Garland, Texas, in the dead of night in the summer of 1988, listening to music on a Walkman. It may be the way I still see myself thirty-six years later.

Which leads me to say: I should warn you that I reminisce a lot on the show. Maybe in the small chance you do listen you can zip past those parts.

Listen? But how? Either at the KBOO web site or at the Self Help Radio website. Should you choose to listen at the latter, make sure you have the username SHR & the password selfhelp handy. The KBOO file includes an hour of my favorite hip hop from 1988; it's a different show on the SHR website.

Back to the regular goofiness next week.

Self Help Radio 1988 (Continued) Show

"Ghosts Of American Astronauts" The Mekons _So Good It Hurts_

"When Harpo Played His Harp" Jonathan Richman _Modern Lovers 88_

"Turning Of The Tide" Richard Thompson _Amnesia_

"Turkish Song Of The Damned" The Pogues _If I Should Fall From Grace With God_

"Chant Of The Paladin" Dead Can Dance _The Serpent's Egg_

"King Of Soul" The Wolfgang Press _Bird Wood Cage_

"Peek-A-Boo" Siouxsie & The Banshees _Peepshow_

"Why Do You Have To Go Out With Him When You Could Go Out With Me" The Brilliant Corners _Why Do You Have To Go Out With Him When You Could Go Out With Me_

"Shimmer" The Flatmates _Shimmer_

"I'm In Love With A Girl Who Doesn't Know I Exist" Another Sunny Day _I'm In Love With A Girl Who Doesn't Know I Exist_

"Sunshine Thuggery" The Siddeleys _Sunshine Thuggery_

"Looking For Lot 49" The Jazz Butcher _Fishcotheque_

"Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste" Galaxie 500 _Today_

"You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby" Kirsty MacColl _You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby_

"It's Only Life" The Feelies _Only Life_

"You Will Be Loved Again" Mary Margaret O'Hara _Miss America_

"Charlotte Anne" Julian Cope _My Nation Underground_

"Martha's Harbour" All About Eve _All About Eve_

"The Camera Loves Me" Would-Be-Goods _The Camera Loves Me_

"Balloon Man" Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians _Globe Of Frogs_

"Indian Summer" Beat Happening _Jamboree_

"Burst" The Darling Buds _Burst_

"Bitter End" Felt _The Pictorial Jackson Review_

"Surfaround" The Fizzbombs _The Surfin' Winter EP_

"Christine" The House Of Love _The House Of Love_

"She Paints" Biff Bang Pow! _Love Is Forever_

"The Train" The Nits _Hat_

"Return To Yesterday" The Lilac Time _The Lilac Time_

Whither 1988 (Continued)?

Hey! That's an embarrassing picture of me with blonde hair in the summer of 1988! I really am grateful taking pictures was so expensive back then - there would be so many more humiliating selfies of me than I could handle if I were twenty in 2024.

Anyway... 1988 was a very important year for music for me. So much great music was released then that I needed a whole other radio show to continue to play what I loved. (The first installment, which I played six months ago around the time of my birthday, you can listen to here if you want.) I think I found over six hours of songs to play. But I won't continue with this theme after this. I better make it count!

It's tonight. Midnight to 2am. On 90.7fm in Portland & online at kboo dot fm. There's no way that doofus up there knew he'd ever be on the radio!