Saturday, February 08, 2025

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Pizza Day


It's actually surprising that there's a National Pizza Day because quite frankly every day is Pizza Day in my world. However, The Dickenbock Report will report on pizzas on their official national day & what the hell we'll throw in some musical reports about pizza as well.

Happening Sunday noon to 1pm on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland & online everywhere at xray dot fm.

Sending pizza to the XRAY studios while the show is airing is strongly encouraged.

Friday, February 07, 2025

This Week In Self Help (January 31 & February 2, 3, + 4)

(image from the Wikipedia)

Whew that was a busy week. I am still writing apology letters! Can I mention at the outset that if you listen to a show on the Self Help Radio website, you might have to - at least once - enter the username SHR & the password selfhelp to access the file? So I don't have to mention it again? Cool. Thank you.

Friday January 31st I subbed the Songcircle on KBOO. Played lots of new releases.
Listen at the KBOO website. Or! Listen at the Self Help Radio website.

Sunday February 2 on the Dickenbock Report I played lots of songs about sneezing because it was The Record Of A Sneeze Day for reals.
Listen at the XRAY website. Or! Listen at the Self Help Radio website.

Monday February 3 on KBOO I subbed a show & played lots of electronica from 2005.
KBOO doesn't archive some subbed shows but you can listen at the Self Help Radio website.
The playlist is here.

Tuesday February 4 on KBOO there was an episode of Self Help Radio with the theme Nickels.
Listen at the KBOO website. Or! Listen at the Self Help Radio website.

Finally! After Self Help Radio, there was an episode of Corporate Standardized Programming in which I played music by artists we lost in October & November of last year.
It's on the KBOO file with Self Help Radio above. Or! Listen to the show alone at the Self Help Radio website.

That's that. It was too much I know. But that is that.

Tuesday, February 04, 2025

Self Help Radio 020425: Nickels


Just to let you know: there were very few nickels harmed in the making of this radio show. Just the one above, marred by the Self Help Radio logo. The show has the utmost respect for nickels. Nothing like the scorn the world has for pennies.

At this point, I have nothing else to say about nickels. Two hours of music & talk did it. You can listen & find out. The show is currently at the KBOO website. It's also at the Self Help Radio website. Remember you need to use SHR as a username & selfhelp as a password to access that latter file. Anyway, everything that happened on the show (more or less) is noted below.

Nickel nickel nickel!

Self Help Radio Nickel Show
"Nickel Wine" Dave Bartholomew _Gettin' Funky: The Birth Of New Orleans R & B_
"Once Upon A Nickel (with Ray Bolger)" Ethel Merman _The World Is Your Balloon_
"(Put Another Nickel In) Music! Music! Music!" Teresa Brewer _The Best Of Teresa Brewer_

introductions & definitions - featuring the Definition-O-Tron 3000

"Nickel Song" Melanie _The Good Book_
"A Nickel For The Fiddler" Guy Clark _Old No. 1_
"Buffalo Nickel" Shovels & Rope _Little Seeds_
"The Seven-Cent Nickel" Groucho Marx _Horse Feathers/Animal Crackers_
"A Nickel & A Nail" O.V. Wright _A Nickel & A Nail & Ace Of Spades_

interview with animator Xenia Fillmore

"Nickel's Worth Of Liver Blues: No. 2" Edith North Johnson _Charley Patton: Complete Recordings 1929-1934_
"No Woman No Nickel" Bumble Bee Slim _1931-1937_
"Jimmy Had A Nickel (vocal, Dick Robertson)" Clarence Williams & His Orchestra _1933-1934_
"'Taint That Good (Like A Nickel Made Of Wood)" Fats Waller _The Cream Of Fats Waller II_
"Drop A Nickel In The Slot" Three Bits Of Rhythm _Even More Mellow Cats 'N' Kittens (Hot R&B & Cool Blues 1945-1951)_ 
"Nickel Plated Baby" Amos Milburn _The Complete Aladdin Recordings Of Amos Milburn_

interview with activist Tyler Polk

"Nickels & Dimes" Scott Fagan _South Atlantic Blues_
"Nickel-Dime Mind" The People's Victory Orchestra & Chorus _Victory Gardens_
"(I Love) Nickels & Dimes" Robbie Fulks _Country Love Songs_
"Nickels & Dimes" The Wedding Present _Search For Paradise: Singles 2004-2005_
"Nickels & Dimes" Dougie Poole _The Rainbow Wheel Of Death_

interview with musician James Pierce

"I Wish I Had A Nickel" Red Foley _Old Shep (The Red Foley Recordings 1933-1950)_
"A Nickel Piece Of Candy" Jim Reeves _The Jim Reeves Way_
"Give Me Another Roll Of Nickels" Rod Creagh _Give Me Another Roll Of Nickels_
"If I Had A Nose Full Of Nickels" Lou Carter _Louie's Love Songs_
"On The Nickel" Tom Waits _Heartattack & Vine_

conclusion & goodbye

"Nickel Bags" Digable Planets _Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time & Space)_
"Tape A Nickel To The Tonearm" The Ben Vaughn Quintet _Pièce De Résistance_
"Nickel Romeo" Bangles _Doll Revolution_
"Wooden Nickels" Eels _Daisies Of The Galaxy_
"Nickel Bag Of Blue" Blue Sandelwood Soap _Loring Park Love-Ins_

Monday, February 03, 2025

Whither Nickels?

(image from here)

Hm, a radio show about nickels. I'm certain there's been a Self Help Radio episode about pennies. & I've done a radio show about dollars. No quarters? No dimes? I suppose then it's fair to have a show about nickels.

The truth is, I have no idea why I am doing a show about nickels. Money shows are usually saved for pledge drives. But maybe nickels are too small a number? Thought to be too trifling? When you're asking for the big bucks? In any event, I think tonight's show is about nickels.

You heard me! Midnight to 2am on 90.7fm here in Portland, kboo dot fm everywhere.

Sunday, February 02, 2025

Preface To Nickel: Nickel Factz

(image from the Wikipedia)

Fuck yeah the Nickel Institute tells us:
Nickel is a metallic element with a silvery-white, shiny appearance. It is the fifth-most common element on earth & occurs extensively in the earth's crust & core. Nickel, along with iron, is also a common element in meteorites. Nickel occurs naturally in soil & water. It is also an essential nutrient for plants. 
It continues:
While the concentration of nickel in the earth's crust is 80 parts per million, the earth's core consists mainly of a nickel-iron alloy.
Then it adds in all caps:
NICKEL IS THE FIFTH-MOST COMMON ELEMENT ON EARTH

Holy shit. Okay, I'll do a radio show about it all right?

Damn.

Saturday, February 01, 2025

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: The Record Of A Sneeze Day

(an early Winsor McCay comic strip - found here)

February 2 is The Record Of A Sneeze day. It has something to do with the first time a sneeze was filmed. We haven't finished our research yet. We haven't really started, really. Ironically, while we were looking into sneezes, we got a cold. It's been pretty sneezy around here.

Please tune in to XRAY tomorrow, Sunday, February 2, from 12-1pm for reporting on sneezes. That's on 91.1+107.1fm in town, & online at xray dot fm. We prefer "gesundheit" to "bless you" thanx.

Friday, January 31, 2025

This Week In Self Help (January 26 + 28)

("Evolution Of A Tornado" from the Wikipedia)

Now, I did sub a show today but I will count that towards next week. This week I just did my regular programs. Nothing extra. They were:

The Dickenbock Report. A report on World Leprosy Day. Really. It's on the XRAY website. It's on the Self Help Radio website.

Self Help Radio. A show about tornados. It's on the KBOO website. It's on the Self Help Radio website.

Corporate Standardized Programming. An hour of new electronica & jazz. It's part of the KBOO show linked above or a stand-alone program on the Self Help Radio website.

Oh! I forgot to mention! If you can't access the files on the Self Help Radio website - if it asks you for a username & password - the username is SHR & the password is selfhelp.

& that was the week where I did shows about leprosy & tornados.

Thursday, January 30, 2025

A Tornado In The Movies

(image from the IMDb)

This past week, Self Help Radio had a show about tornados. Our resident cinephile Chuck stopped by to talk about films featuring tornados, like the one above. You can listen to the show at the KBOO website or at the Self Help Radio website & once you've done that, please check out the helpful links Chuck has shared:

(Chuck notes: Some of the animated shorts that were available are not on the list because they are designated as YouTube for Kids. Their links can be found on the Letterboxd list & are denoted with YTK.)

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




Chuck tells us his did not make his usual IMDb list of films available to stream for free elsewhere. But, he says, check the drop down list above under 'Service' for the various free & pay streaming services. (You need to set up your favorite services first.)

Be safe out there!

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Self Help Radio 012825: Tornados


One would think a show about tornados would be scary. But this one is not. One might think a show about tornados could be educational. Maybe this one is. There sure were lots of songs about tornados. Some learning might have sneaked by.

Listen to this show if you'd like at either the KBOO website or at the Self Help Radio website. If you choose the latter, remember you might need the username SHR & the password selfhelp. Everything that happened on the show - well, okay, most of what happened on the show - is listed below.

Unlike with a tornado, it is perfectly safe to listen to this show under a bridge.

Self Help Radio Tornados Show
"T.O.R.N.A.D.O." The Go! Team _Rolling Blackouts_
"My Tornado" The Raveonettes _Whip It On_
"Tornado Love" Blacktop _Up All Night_

introduction & definitions

"Dancing With The Tornado" The Veils _Time Stays, We Go_
"This Tornado Loves You" Neko Case _Middle Cyclone_
"Tornado" Dale Hawkins _The Chess Story 1957-1964_
"That Mean Old Twister (Backwater Blues)" Lightnin' Hopkins _The Acoustic Years 1959-1960_
"Tornadoes" Seana Carmody _Struts & Shocks_

interview with storm chaser Martin Andrews

"Tornado Time In Texas" Guy Clark _Workbench Songs_
"Tornadoes" Drive-By Truckers _It's Great To Be Alive!_
"Texas Tornado" Buck Owens _The Warner Brothers Recordings_
"Tornadoland" Regina Spektor _Remember Us To Life_
"Tornado" Sharon Van Etten _Because I Was In Love_

interview with meteorologist Terrence Harrison

"Tornado Alley" Graham Parker _Your Country_
"Tornado Alley" Carrie Newcomer _The Age Of Possibility_
"Fearing A Tornado" The Jags _No Tie Like A Present_
"Tornado" Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments _Career Interruption Code_
"Tornado" Faire Osciller _Drifting_

our resident cinephile Chuck stops by!

"Black Tornado" Dan Bern _New American Language_
"Tornado Head" Sean Rowe _The Darkness Dressed In Colored Lights_
"Tornado '87" The Rural Alberta Advantage _Departing_
"Gov. Bill Williams Tornado Preserve" The Firesign Theatre _Boom Dot Bust_
"Baby Tornado" Melys _Kamikaze_

conclusion & goodbye

"The Human Tornado (45 Version)" Rudy Ray Moore _The Human Tornado (Original Soundtrack)_
"Twister" James Keelaghan _House Of Cards_
"Tornado Longing For Freedom" The Music Tapes _Music Tapes For Clouds & Tornadoes_

Monday, January 27, 2025

Whither Tornados?

(Gertrude Abercrombie, "Owl & Tornado" {1956} from here)

One might imagine that growing up in Tornado Alley as I did, that might have been the inspiration for the show. Or perhaps the recent remake or sequel to the 1990s film Twister could have been a catalyst - but I never saw it. Maybe that recurring dream I have about The Wizard Of Oz? Nope.

The truth is, I have no idea what inspired me to make a show about tornados. We don't have a lot of tornados in Oregon. Wait. Is there a Newhart episode about a tornado? There is! It's the one where Tom Poston's character wants to fix the bell tower but he's afraid of wind. Bob Newhart's character shows him The Wizard Of Oz. Holy shit I think because we were watching Newhart late last year & earlier this year that episode may have inspired me to do a show about tornados. Altho I apparently have never done a show about wind.

Howsoever it began, it turns into a radio show at last tonight from midnight to 2am on 90.7fm here in Portland & online everywhere at kboo dot fm.

It was indirectly about The Wizard Of Oz then. Maybe.

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Preface To Tornados: Living In A Place With Very Few Tornados

("Tornado crossing Interstate 30 in Garland, Texas illuminated by a power flash" from here)

Where I grew up, in Garland, Texas, tornados were a pretty common threat. This website says that historically, Garland averages three tornados a year, altho I'm sure there are more these days thanks to climate change. I can attest that they felt like a very real threat in my childhood & adolescence.

In school, in elementary school, in the 1970s - I guess I was in first through fifth grade from 1974 to 1979 - we didn't have atomic bomb drills but we did have tornado drills. We'd sit in the hallways. I seem to remember leaning against lockers so perhaps there were similar drills in middle school. & when I moved back to Texas, to Fort Worth, in 2016, there were regular reports of tornados to the west.

But there's not a personal tornado encounter I can share. Except. A vague memory. It would've been before I even started school. On a road like Northwest Highway, which now is very developed, but which, in the early 1970s was not, nor were there lots of business lining its every mile. I seem to recall me & some members of my family - mother? brothers? sisters? - pulling over to the side of the road because of the threat of a tornado, getting out of the car, & going down into some kind of ditch, maybe even getting underneath something. That's all - a fragment of a recollection of something scary. I didn't see a funnel cloud. I didn't experience the horrors of being trapped in the path of a tornado.

Which isn't to say I don't find tornados terrifying. Or that I'm not grateful to be living in a place where tornados are rare. Not counting the one tornado that showed up about two months after we moved here...

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: World Leprosy Day

(image from here)

Oh, so we're really going to do this? A radio show about leprosy? Holy smokes. Okay.

Tomorrow, January 26, is World Leprosy Day. It may sound unbelievable but what the hell the Dickenbock Report will report on leprosy, including musical reports because... I mean, that's what we do. Are there even musical reports about leprosy?

So yeah. Sunday. Noon to 1pm. On 91.1+107.1fm in town, xray dot fm everywhere. It's just. Really?

Friday, January 24, 2025

This Week In Self Help (January 19 21 + 23)


This week was set to be pretty quiet but I ended up doing an extra show because I can't help myself & no one is trying to stop me, the fools.

The Dickenbock Report reported on National Popcorn Day. That show is here on the XRAY website. You can also listen here on the Self Help Radio website (where you might need the username SHR & password selfhelp). Warning: that show has five versions of the song "Popcorn."

Self Help Radio was a show about talent (not, alas, Talent, Oregon). That show is here on the KBOO website. You can also listen here on the Self Help Radio website (where you might need the username SHR & password selfhelp).

The last hour of that show on the KBOO website is my program Corporate Standardized Programming which consisted of lots of new releases. If you'd like to listen to that show on its own, you can do that here on the Self Help Radio website (where you might need the username SHR & password selfhelp).

Finally, I played much more of my favorite music on KBOO on Thursday morning. KBOO doesn't archive its sub shows, but you can see the playlist here & listen to the show here on the Self Help Radio website.

Gosh I wish I coulda driven down to Talent, Oregon, to get a picture of the sign myself. Sadly, it's 320 miles away. But I have driven past it!

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Self Help Radio 012125: Talent

(Original image here*)

Self Help Radio this week was a show about talent. Not a talent show! Though there were lots of songs about talent shows. For the record I've never been in a talent show. Nor have I performed at an open mic. But that's neither here nor there. The talent involved in this show is not its host. But you knew that.

The show can be listened to either at the KBOO website or at the Self Help Radio website. If you choose the latter, please use the username SHR & password selfhelp to access. All the stuff that happened on the show is below.

You talented listener you.

Self Help Radio Talent Show
"A Little Brains, A Little Talent" Gwen Verdon _Damn Yankees (An Original Cast Recording)_
"Talent For Lovin'" Yellow Hair _Somewhere_
"The Downtown Talent Scout" Frank Zappa _You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol. 5_

introduction & definitions

"Talent Is An Asset" Sparks _Kimono My House_
"New Talent Needed All The Time" R. Stevie Moore _Swing & A Miss/R. Stevie Moore '77_
"Talent Night At The Nashville Inn" Commander Cody _Flying Dreams_
"Your Wasted Is A Talent Here" The Capstan Shafts _Revelation Skirts_
"The Talent Contest" The Legendary Pink Dots _The Golden Age_

interview with George Adams, who claims he's talentless

"Tale Of A Talentless Boy" Oliver Marson _Why Did I Choose This?_
"Talent" Pixies _Head Carrier_
"International Bulletproof Talent" Bauhaus _Go Away White_
"Talent" Heavenly Beat _Talent_
"Tyranny Of The Talentless" David Holmes & Raven Violet _Blind On A Galloping Horse_

interview with Teaching Talent author Tom James

"Talent Show" The Replacements _Don't Tell A Soul_
"Talent To Follow" Vic Godard _The End Of The Surrey People_
"She's Got Talent" Martin Newell _Martin Newell's Jumble Sale_
"Molly's Got A Talent" Sasha Bell _Love Is Alright_
"You Have Ugly Talents, Martha" Jessamine _Jessamine_

interview with talent show planner Quincy Monroe

"Impatient Talent Show" Jonathan Fire*Eater _Wolf Songs For Lambs_
"Talent" Echobelly _Insomniac_
"Tickets For The Talent Search" Smattering _Fig. 428 Racket To Stardom_
"Talent Is A Crime" The No-Talents _Talent Is A Crime_
"Aliens With Extraordinary Talent" Tuomo & Markus _Game Changing_ 

conclusion & goodbye

"Drum Solo" Various Artists _The Talent Show_
"Have A Talent" Inna Vision _Music On My Mind_
"Talento En Television" The University Of Texas Afro-Caribbean Ensemble _KVRX Local Live 3rd Edition, Revised: Educational Programming_

* This image, which has been changed by adding the Self Help Radio logo, is "The Talent In Neon" by Maryalena Salman. The original is here. It is used under the Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 Generic license.

Monday, January 20, 2025

Whither Talent?

(image from here)

The image above is from an article entitled "So Why Not Have A Talent Show?" It amused me that if the theme for Self Help Radio were talent, it would in fact be a "talent show." But goofy idears for naming my shows is not why I pick a theme. I picked this theme because of this CD:

(image from Discogs)

It's a recording of an actual talent show at a nursing home featuring the residents & what sounds like their grandchildren, recorded in I think 1979. I bought it many years ago & happened to listen to it again late last year. It made me want to play songs about talent. I will play some of the interstitial dialogue from the CD above during tonight's show - not the actual performances except maybe one - but I do wish I had recorded my senior year talent show. I was up in a room running the spotlights. I was one of the untalented ones.

Talent on display tho tonight! From midnight to 2am on 90.7fm in Portland & online at kboo dot fm. No talent required - you know, like at most talent shows.

Sunday, January 19, 2025

Preface To Talent: The Talentless Mr. Me

(holy shit I've seen this film! image from IMDb)

In thinking about a show about talent, I have been wondering if anyone has ever called me talented. Not whether I have talents - I don't think I do - but have I been called talented at anything?

Probably not. Talent is a word that seems to be reserved for a particular skill, like at sports or with me. "He's a talented quarterback." "He's a talented guitarist." I'm neither - not am I particularly talented at anything, really. My wife might say, "He's an adequate cook," which means I follow recipes faithfully. I don't sing or play music or sports.

The thing I guess I do is deejay, but even then, I'm not what most people think of as a deejay, which is a person who spins records (or whatever) at a club. The word "deejay" - or D.J. - means "disc jockey" & certainly many club deejays do that as well as many radio deejays. But club deejays - especially those who play a continuous mix of music - actually need some skill to beat match. A radio deejay like myself - & yes, some club deejays have radio shows too - but a radio deejay like myself just plays one song after the other. In general, I just play stuff I like, so it's not too hard for me to pick a song that follows a song I like. I don't think any talent is involved & indeed I train people to do it all the time.

This week's show then is a show about talent from someone who has never been called talented. Not to say I am not talented in something - who am I to say? - just that no one's ever said I was talented in anything.

PS the only thing I remember about the movie above is that thing CinemaSins is always referring to: "How's the peeping, Tommy?"

Saturday, January 18, 2025

Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Popcorn Day

(image from here)

January 19 is National Popcorn Day. We'll talk about & play musical reports about popcorn & what the hell even special popcorn commentary. What we won't be doing is eating popcorn because no food or drink allowed in the deejay booth! Those rules even apply to Dick Dickenbock!

Sunday noon to 1pm on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, xray dot fm everywhere. Note: we ran out of toothpicks early last year so please bring your own.

Friday, January 17, 2025

This Week In Self Help (January 10 12 13 14 + 16)


The picture above has nothing to do with me on the radio this week. It just happened to be number 1,989 in a series of photos from my digital camera & it kept me from posting yet another picture of myself in 1989. Anyway, here's the nonsense I got up to on the radio this week. It was a lot. I'm sorry about that.

On Friday night - last Friday, the 10th - I subbed a show on KBOO in which I played lots of new releases. Sadly, it's not archived on the KBOO website, but you can listen to it on the Self Help Radio website. (username: SHR, password: selfhelp)

On Sunday, there was an episode of The Dickenbock Report on XRAY for National Pharmacist Day. You can listen to it on the XRAY website, or on the Self Help Radio website(username: SHR, password: selfhelp)

Early Monday morning I played the rest of the songs I collected for my Superman show last week on KBOO. (Initially the show was to be two hours long, but when I found out it was two & a half hours long, I added some of the songs I played on the XRAY show.) Of course KBOO doesn't archive sub shows, so if you want to listen to lots more Superman songs, you have to do it on the Self Help Radio website.

Self Help Radio featured lots of my favorite music from 1989. You can listen to it on the KBOO website or on the Self Help Radio website(username: SHR, password: selfhelp)

The last hour of the KBOO show was an episode of Corporate Standardized Programming featuring lots of artists who died in October of this year. If you'd like to listen to that all by its lonesome, which is how we experience death anyway, you can do on the Self Help Radio website(username: SHR, password: selfhelp)

Finally! Oh dear god finally! I played lots of two-tone/second wave ska on KBOO on Thursday afternoon. It's not archived on the KBOO web site, alas, but you can listen to it on the Self Help Radio website.

You have my word I won't waste so much of your time on the radio like this next week.

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Obscure Films Of 1989

(image from the IMDb)

This week's show featured some of my favorite music of 1989. In-between some of the songs, our resident cinephile Chuck highlighted a few movies from 1989 he enjoyed which he felt were overlooked or needlessly obscure. Hey! Go listen to the show now if you haven't. His bits appear in-between the songs.

Once you've done that, have a look at these helpful links:

YouTube playlists of films & trailers

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



Chuck adds: I posted* about some of the films on Bluesky.
(*It's just the same links that are here for now, but go ahead and give me a follow. I usually follow back.)

Get to it! There are lots of films made in 1989!

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Self Help Radio 011425: 1989

(all album/single covers from Discogs)

Here's a selection of music I enjoyed from 1989. As discussed too many times on this blog, I don't really think in terms of "best of." Ultimately what let me to pick these over the dozens of other releases I liked from this year is that I listened to these a lot. Like, I can recite the words to all the songs I played on this show. Just get me drunk first & dare me to do so.

You can listen to this show whenever. It's at the KBOO website. It's at the Self Help Radio website. For the latter, use the username SHR & password selfhelp. Please. The songs I played are below. Sorry you have to wallow in my past for a while. Feel free to share with me your favorite releases of 1989!

Self Help Radio 1989 Show
"I Wanna Be Adored" The Stone Roses _The Stone Roses_
"Most Of The Time" Bob Dylan _Oh Mercy_

"Debaser" The Pixies _Doolittle_
"Interesting Drug" Morrissey _Interesting Drug_
"Brassneck" The Wedding Present _Bizarro_
"Radio Ass Kiss" The Wonder Stuff _Hup_
"Devil's Roof" Throwing Muses _Hunkpapa_

"Amazing" Tin Machine _Tin Machine_
"God's Comic" Elvis Costello _Spike_
"House" The Psychedelic Furs _Book Of Days_
"Empire Of The Senseless" The Mekons _Rock & Roll_
"Falling" Julee Cruise _Floating Into The Night_

"Secrets" The Primitives _Pure_
"She Knows" The Hummingbirds _LoveBuzz_
"Bitter" Lush _Scar_
"Monsterpussy" The Vaselines _Dum-Dum_
"Got Apprehension" Close Lobsters _Headache Rhetoric_

"Blues From A Gun" The Jesus & Mary Chain _Automatic_
"You Keep It All In" The Beautiful South _Welcome To The Beautiful South_
"The End Of A Perfect Day" Kirsty MacColl _Kite_
"Love & Anger" Kate Bush _The Sensual World_
"I Can't Make Love To You Anymore" Felt _Me & A Monkey On The Moon_

"Shaftesbury Avenue" Momus _Don't Stop The Night_