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December 28, 1996 [Part 1] | WMFO 91.5 FM

Today the Wayback Machine takes us back to December 28, 1996. I’m spinning an epic mix of psychedelic tunes from The Beatles to Mazzy Star, and then some mournful rock by the likes of Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley and then a melange of electronica, dub, experimental music and close with the banshee wailing of Diamanda Galas.

And that’s only part one! It’s shows like today’s show that is the reason I’ve been digitizing my old cassettes from deejaying at WMFO 91.5 FM. Now stream this mix and kiss the sky!

  1. PSA: US Savings Bonds
  2. ID
  3. Marshall McLuhan “Everything’s Disappeared”
  4. The Beatles “Rain”
  5. The Dukes of The Stratosphear “What In the World”
  6. Fever Tree “San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native)’
  7. Donovan “Nirvana”
  8. R.E.M. “I Remember California”
  9. ID
  10. The Trodds “The Stalk”
  11. Mazzy Star “Take Everything”
  12. Johnny Cash “Spirited”
  13. P “Die Ann”
  14. Elvis Presley “Blue Moon”
  15. El Vez “Frida’s Life of Pain”
  16. Dread Zeppelin “Stairway to Heaven”
  17. Primal Scream “Higher than the Sun (A Dub Symphony In Two Parts)”
  18. ID/Ticket Giveaways
  19. Meat Beat Manifesto “It’s Just the Music”
  20. Loop Guru “The Fine Line Between Passion and Fear”
  21. A One “Up There”
  22. Templeroy “Dubometer”
  23. Future Sound of London “Little Brother”
  24. Boredoms “Track 12”
  25. Diamanda Galas “O.P.M.”
  26. Diamanda Galas “Abusement”
  27. Diamanda Galas “Headbox”
  28. Runaelstirn and Gergelsteck/Schimpfluch-Gruppe “Aktion 910512 (Zurich) Unk Aktionen 050910, 960203 (Tripei)”
  29. Psychotica “The Worship”
  30. Slim Whitman “Indian Love Call”
  31. Varttina “Emoni Ennem”
  32. Love !Que VIda!
  33. The Byrds “Eight Miles High”
  34. ID
  35. Kingston Toughie “Cut Them Down”
  36. Hukune Zawore “Chilumi”
  37. Chuck D “Niggativity… Do I Dare Disturb the Universe”
  38. Luscious Jackson “Electric”
  39. Sam Phillips “Gompu Silve Gambler”
  40. Black Grape “Reverend Black Grape”
  41. The Screaming Blue Messiahs “Twin Cadillac Valentine”
  42. PSA: Recycle
  43. Bad Influence “‘Tain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do”
  44. Robert Blackwood, Jr. “Lockwood’s Boogie”
  45. Thomas Demenga/J.S. Bach “Suite No. 2-D-Moll/Allemande”
  46. Crawling with Tarts “Motors, Excerpt”
  47. PSA: Glaucoma
  48. Marti Jones “Champagne and Wine”
  49. Katrina and The Waves “Walking on Sunshine”
  50. Docotor and The Medics “Spirit in the Sky”
  51. Pram “Slideshow”
  52. PSA: HIV Test

November 30, 1996 Part 2 | WMFO 91.5 FM

It’s a Saturday afternoon and I’m about to head out to Radio Pulso del Barrio’s launch party here in San Diego but before I do I’m going to share another show from the vault. This one is from November 30, 1996. As usual, it’s a freeform show and this one encompasses everything from the Beatles psychedelia to some meaning dub to some lovely reggae to some sweet rockabilly (from El Vez to Elvis!) to some comedy to some industrial and some oud and ragas and hip hop. Whew! But that’s freeform for you.

Okay, I’m out.

As always, follow me at https://twitter.com/josephaleo

  1. The Beatles “Blue Jay Way”
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  2. Mark Tindle “Circular Ruins”
  3. Wordsound I-Powa “Dungeon of Dub”
    Apple Music | Spotify
  4. Bosey D “Deportee”
  5. Tappa Zukie “Yagga Yagga”
    Apple Music | Spotify
  6. The Smiths “This Night Has Opened My Eyes”
    Apple Music | Spotify
  7. El Vez “Misery Train”
  8. Elvis Presley “Mystery Train”
    Apple Music | Spotify
  9. Tarheel Slim “Number Nine Train”
    Apple Music | Spotify
  10. Danny Gatton “Thirteen Women”
    Apple Music | Spotify
  11. ID
  12. The Firesign Theatre “Happy Hour News”
    Apple Music | Spotify
  13. PSA: Breast Cancer
  14. Madball “Colossal Man Is A Skinhead”
  15. KMFDM “Son of A Gun”
    Apple Music | Spotify
  16. Marilyn Manson “Cryptorchid”
    Apple Music | Spotify
  17. Either/Orchestra “The Jeep is Jumpin’”
    Apple Music | Spotify
  18. John Seden and Fritz Welch “To the Left of Footprints”
  19. Soul-Junk “Junca De Sol Andromeda”
  20. Suzanne Vega “My Favorite Plum”
    Apple Music | Spotify
  21. ID
  22. Marcel Khalife “Oud Duo” Except
  23. Lakshminarayana Subramaniam “Ragan and Tanam”
  24. Pram “Slideshow”
  25. The Firesign Theatre “Ralph Spoilsport Motors”
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  26. Chuck D “Generation Wrekkked”
    Apple Music | Spotify
  27. Cop Shoot Cop “Corporate Protopop”
    Apple Music | Spotify
  28. Italian String Virtuosi “Une Notte A Catania”
  29. The Soul of Cape Verde/Humber Tone and Piuna “Miss Perfumado”

November 9, 1996 [Part 1] | WMFO 91.5 FM

The Wayback Machine drops us smack in the middle of WMFO’s fall fundraiser of 1996. Fellow DJ Steve Howard and I asked for your contributions and I had a meager goal of raising $20 during my first hour. Twenty bucks! Were things really so inexpensive at the end of the century? Anyway, Steve and I played some great music to entice listeners to donate to the cause of freeform music from a freeform station.

Speaking of Steve check his show on Mixcloud at MentalNotesFreeform Steve now spins at Asheville FM via internet radio. Steve’s station is fundraising to become a terrestrial radio station as well! Asheville FM is hyper local and has a lot of heart. Learn more at http://www.ashevillefm.org

Thanks for listening to today’s show. Follow me at https://twitter.com/josephaleo if you are so inclined. It’s my stream of retweets, Instagram photos and the musings of a digital boy living in a digital world.

  1. PSA: HIV Test
  2. Marshall McLuhan “Inner Tripping”
  3. Echo and The Bunneymen “Do It Clean, Live”
  4. Public Image Ltd. “This Is Not A Love Song”
  5. The Smiths “How Soon Is Now”
  6. Mazzy Star “Rose Blood”
  7. PSA: Glaucoma
  8. Qaballah Steppers “Majesty Dub”
  9. Material “Mantra (Praying Mantis Mix Edit)”
  10. ID/Fundraiser
  11. Esquivel “Cherokee”
  12. Billy Joel “Just the Way You Are”
  13. Boogie Down Productions “The Real Holy Place”
  14. Coil “Windowpane (Astral Paddington Mix)”
  15. Jim Infantino and Jim’s Big Ego “Cut Off You Head”
  16. PSA: Child Abuse
  17. Prince Far I “Plant Up”
  18. ID/Ticket Giveaways/Fundraiser
  19. We featuring DJ Olive, Loop and Onrell “Illbient”
  20. William Gibson “Neuromancer, Excerpt 28”
  21. Ministry “TV Song III”
  22. Motörhead “Shine”
  23. The Firesign Theatre “The Golden Hind”
  24. Ice Cube “What Can I Do?”
  25. PSA: Toxic Waste
  26. ID/Fundraiser
  27. Automaton “Beta One/Assyrian Dub”
  28. August Pablo “Frozen Dub”
  29. MSBR “1,000 Pulses in Bosnia”
  30. Urban Ambiance “Live (October 29, 1004)”
  31. Robert Pinsky “Readings from The Inferno of Dante, Canto XXXIV (1-140)”
  32. Barry Adamson “It’s Business As Usual”
  33. Templeroy “Dubometer”
  34. Hoscho “The Tribe”
  35. PSA” Health

July 20, 1996 | WMFO 91.5 FM

We talk to Mancy and too be honest, I’m terrified to listen to the interview because I was young and dumb. Even more terrifying, I wasn’t that young. I’m some time I had had a few drinks in me. Even so, I’m posting this show, warts and all. Who knows, maybe I can muster up the courage to listen to the interview. And even if the interview is terrible, the music on today’s show is awesome! Dead Can Dance, Big Black, Judy Garland and, for some reason, a lot of Cure. And lots of other stuff, of course.

  1. PSA: AIDS
  2. Frederic Chopin “Berceuse in D Flat, Op. 57”
  3. B. Lodygowski “Na Wawel, na Wawel”
  4. B. Lodygowski “Plynie Wista, Plynje”
  5. ID
  6. James Brown “Soul Pride”
  7. Max Romeo “Natty Dread Take Over”
  8. Lalo Schifrin “Mission Impossible”
  9. Butthole Surfers “Birds”
  10. Screaming Trees “Look At You”
  11. ID
  12. Single Cell Orchestra “Divinity”
  13. Meat Beat Manifesto “Hallucination Generation”
  14. Meat Beat Manifesto “Lucid Dream”
  15. Stevan Pasero “Gymnopedie No. 1/E. Satie”
  16. Beethoven “Moonlight Sonata, Adagio”
  17. Sonic Youth Star Power” Request
  18. Sonic Youth “Little Trouble Girl”
  19. ID
  20. Voice of Authority “Stopping and Starting”
  21. Iggy Pop “Sister Midnight”
  22. ID
  23. MANCY LIVE & DIRECT
  24. PSA: Child Abuse
  25. ID
  26. Kiss “Firehose”
  27. Dead Can Dance “Song of the Nile”
  28. ID
  29. MANCY INTERVIEW
  30. Annabouboula “I’d Rather Set Myself on Fire”
  31. U96 “Der Kommanchatt”
  32. Big Black “Bad Penny”
  33. Laibach “I’ve Got A Feeling”
  34. ID
  35. Blur “Sing”
  36. Swirlies “Tall Ships”
  37. Klink Toxio “Noise Unit”
  38. The Animals “It’s My Life”
  39. The Cure “World War”
  40. Marina Lima “O Meu Sim”
  41. ID
  42. William Gibson Neuromancer, Excerpt 16
  43. Homenaje Pour “Le Tombeau De Claude Debussy for Guitar, G 56″
  44. Carl Perkins “Lend Me Your Comb”
  45. ID
  46. The Cure “Pictures of You”
  47. Judy Garland “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
  48. KC and The Sunshine Band “I’m Your Boogie Man”
  49. Slayer “Desintegration/Free Money”
  50. Soul Syndicate “Jerusalem Dub Extended (Original Mix)”
  51. The Cure “Three Imaginary Boys”

July 20, 1996 | WMFO 91.5FM

Mancy, Live from Studio B!

In part two we talk to Mancy and too be honest, I’m terrified to listen to the interview because I was young and dumb. Even more terrifying, I wasn’t that young. I’m some time I had had a few drinks in me. Even so, I’m posting this show, warts and all. Who knows, maybe I can muster up the courage to listen to the interview. And even if the interview is terrible, the music on today’s show is awesome! Dead Can Dance, Big Black, Judy Garland and, for some reason, a lot of Cure. And lots of other stuff, of course.

  1. PSA: AIDS
  2. Frederic Chopin “Berceuse in D Flat, Op. 57”
  3. B. Lodygowski “Na Wawel, na Wawel”
  4. B. Lodygowski “Plynie Wista, Plynje”
  5. ID
  6. James Brown “Soul Pride”
  7. Max Romeo “Natty Dread Take Over”
  8. Lalo Schifrin “Mission Impossible”
  9. Butthole Surfers “Birds”
  10. Screaming Trees “Look At You”
  11. ID
  12. Single Cell Orchestra “Divinity”
  13. Meat Beat Manifesto “Hallucination Generation”
  14. Meat Beat Manifesto “Lucid Dream”
  15. Stevan Pasero “Gymnopedie No. 1/E. Satie”
  16. Beethoven “Moonlight Sonata, Adagio”
  17. Sonic Youth Star Power” Request
  18. Sonic Youth “Little Trouble Girl”
  19. ID
  20. Voice of Authority “Stopping and Starting”
  21. Iggy Pop “Sister Midnight”
  22. ID
  23. MANCY LIVE & DIRECT
  24. PSA: Child Abuse
  25. ID
  26. Kiss “Firehose”
  27. Dead Can Dance “Song of the Nile”
  28. ID
  29. MANCY INTERVIEW
  30. Annabouboula “I’d Rather Set Myself on Fire”
  31. U96 “Der Kommanchatt”
  32. Big Black “Bad Penny”
  33. Laibach “I’ve Got A Feeling”
  34. ID
  35. Blur “Sing”
  36. Swirlies “Tall Ships”
  37. Klink Toxio “Noise Unit”
  38. The Animals “It’s My Life”
  39. The Cure “World War”
  40. Marina Lima “O Meu Sim”
  41. ID
  42. William Gibson Neuromancer, Excerpt 16
  43. Homenaje Pour “Le Tombeau De Claude Debussy for Guitar, G 56″
  44. Carl Perkins “Lend Me Your Comb”
  45. ID
  46. The Cure “Pictures of You”
  47. Judy Garland “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
  48. KC and The Sunshine Band “I’m Your Boogie Man”
  49. Slayer “Desintegration/Free Money”
  50. Soul Syndicate “Jerusalem Dub Extended (Original Mix)”
  51. The Cure “Three Imaginary Boys”

July 6, 1996 [Part 2] | WMFO 91.5 FM

Another fantastic freeform show for you this weekend, although this one leans on the heavier side of things. Heavier, as in heavy metal! I’ve got some Soundgarden, Metallica, Slayer, Biohazard and Voïvod to punish your ears.

I’ve also got a special treat for you: The Impotent Seasnakes! The late, great Mikey Dee (http://onthetownwithmikeydee.com) turned me on to these guys right about the time I started spinning at Mofo when he played “I Wanna Fuck Your Dad.” The song was so offensive and being knee-deep in punk I fell in love. It was some years later that I got to see them perform at a nightclub on Lansdowne Street that I discovered that they were actually a punk rock glam band. They dressed the part (wigs, boas, fishnet stockings, etc) and burnt effigies of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley on stage, which they then attacked with a chainsaw. So awesome!

Turn up the volume and kick out the mutherfucking jams!

  1. PSA: Drunk Driving
  2. Cypress Hill “Boom Biddy Bye Bye (King Tech Remix Radio Edit)”
  3. Ice Cube “Really Doe”
  4. ID
  5. Poppyseed “Am I (Ambient Reconstruction)”
  6. Higher Intelligence Agency “Elapse”
  7. Meat Beat Manifesto “1979”
  8. Yabby You “Judgement time”
  9. Crying Woman Singers “Northern Lights”
  10. ID
  11. Single Cell Orchestra “Letters from Nowhere”
  12. Spice Lab “Spice Like Us”
  13. Marshall McLuhan “Tetrad Management”
  14. Public Enemy Neuromancer, Excerpt 14
  15. Skinny Puppy “Uranus Cancelled”
  16. ID
  17. Shadow Music of Java “Genchig ‘Bondheft’ Icektuk 2 Kerep, Minggah & Coomposition)”
  18. Jah Wobble “Hit Me”
  19. Wu Tang Clan “America”
  20. Mykal Rose “Money”
  21. ID
  22. Transambient Communication “They Shoot Geese, Don’t They?”
  23. Alan Pelley “Parasitic Machine”
  24. Sonic Youth “Little Trouble Girl”
  25. Lenny Kravitz “Flowers for Zoë”
  26. Ani DiFranco “Untouchable Face”
  27. ID
  28. PSA: Angel Dust
  29. Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys “Dusty Skies”
  30. Jimmy Waley “The Touch of God’s Hand”
  31. Screaming Trees “Gospel Plow”
  32. J. Mascis “Thumb, Live”
  33. ID
  34. Beck “Where It’s At”
  35. De La Soul & De Beatminerz “The Hustle”
  36. Sister Carol “Blackman Time (Street Mix)”
  37. Abiodun Oyeuole “When the Revolution Comes”
  38. ID
  39. The Frogs “Where’s Jerry Lewis”
  40. Soundgarden “Pretty Noose”
  41. Metallica “Crash Course In Brain Surgery”
  42. Slayer “Gemini”
  43. Voïvod “Nanoware”
  44. ID
  45. PSA: Recycle
  46. Biohazard “Down for Life”
  47. Impotent Sea Snakes “I Wanna Fuck Your Dad”
  48. Iggy Pop “Lust for Life”
  49. KMDM “Power”
  50. ID
  51. The Nields “I Need A Doctor”
  52. TranceMission “Monkfish”
  53. Rocking Horse People “Working Wheel”

June 21, 1996 | WMFO 91.5FM

From the vault. Filling in for Putney.

  1. PSA: Recycle
  2. Beck “Devils Haircut”
  3. Butthole Surfers “TV Star”
  4. Merle Haggard “Truck Drivers Blues”
  5. Lucinda Williams “Maria”
  6. The Flying Burrito Brothers “Sin City”
  7. ID
  8. Ry Cooder “Walkin’ Away Blues”
  9. Marshall Crenshaw “Like A Vague Memory”
  10. Don Henley “Talking to the Moon”
  11. Grateful Dead “Playing in the Band, Live”
  12. Carl Perkins “Lend Me Your Comb”
  13. PSA: Recycle
  14. ID
  15. Bruce Springsteen “Seeds/The River, Live”
  16. J Mascis “Repulsion”
  17. Steve Martin “You Can Be A Millionaire”
  18. Cheech & Chong “Cruising with Pedro Pacer and Man”
  19. Cypress Hill “Ultraviolet Dreams”
  20. Spirit “Fresh Garbage”
  21. Bahia Sunsets “Somewhere Not Here”
  22. Feleciano “Light My Fire”
  23. Yma Sumac “Mambo”
  24. Tito Puente “El Cayuco”
  25. The Everly Brothers “All I Have To Do Is Dream”
  26. The Frogs “These Are the Finest Queen Boys (I’ve Ever Seen)”
  27. The Frogs “Children Run Away (the Man With the Candy)”

June 15, 1996 [Part 1] | WMFO 91.5 FM

Step into the Wayback Machine and hear my set from June 15, 1996 🙂 1996 me complains a lot about technical problems with the turntables and CD players but 2014 me is impressed with the music 1996 me was playing. Freeform, as always, and always the very best of it. Who doesn’t love Johnny Clarke’s “Creation Rebel?” And some sage words from Marshall McLuhan?! Are you kidding me? And Slayer and Metallica do covers of punk rock classics. And I adore Bahia Sunsets “Somewhere Not Here.”There’s too much not to love. So make sure you have a solid connection to the Bluetooth in your car stereo or your EarPods firmly socketed in, because it’s about to go all over the place!

  1. PSA: Vote
  2. Pepsi Cola “Come Alive”
  3. J. Livingston & R. Evans “Mr. Ed”
  4. Ice Cube “Wicked”
  5. The Frogs “I’m Evil, Jack”
  6. Pete Seger “Sacco’s Letter to His Son”
  7. The Auteurs “Unsolved Child Murder”
  8. ID
  9. Johnny Clarke “Creation Rebel Dub”
  10. Johnny Clarke “Creation Rebel”
  11. Elmer Bernstein “Thinking of Baby”
  12. Meat Beat Manifesto “Nuclear Bomb”
  13. Marshall McLuhan “Sociological Algorithms”
  14. Killing Joke “War Dance”
  15. aMiniature “A Serious of Snakes”
  16. Metallica “The Wait”
  17. Slayer “Filler/I Don’t Wanna Hear It”
  18. ID
  19. Word Up “We Wanna Go Back”
  20. Bahia Sunsets “Somewhere Not Here”
  21. Atom Heart, Tetsuo Idous & Bill Laswell “Synthetic Forest” Excerpt
  22. William Gibson Neuromancer, Excerpt 12
  23. Tuby “Caronoelt”
  24. ID/Ticket Giveaways
  25. The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever (Remix 26)
  26. The Firesign Theater “Nick Danger/The Case of the Mission Shoe, Episode 3”
  27. Skinny Puppy “Reclamation”
  28. PSA: AIDS
  29. ID
  30. DJ Spooky “Hologrammic Dub”
  31. Zion Train w/ Afrikan Simba “The Healing of the Nation”
  32. Kirwani “Folk Tune from Assam”
  33. Vernon Reid “Mistaken Identity”
  34. The Zydeco Blazers ‘Pop That Thang”
  35. Abiddun Oyewole “Dread Brother”
  36. ID
  37. Singer and Brothers “Alla La Dreadlocks Soldier”
  38. Mykal Rose “Money”
  39. Frankie Paul “Watch the Dub”
  40. PSA: Toxic Waste
  41. Horace Andy “Leave Rasta”
  42. ID
  43. Black Note “The Core”
  44. Bo Diddley “I Can’t Stand It”
  45. PSA: Heroin
  46. Willie Nelson “Your Mother Woni’t Die In My Grave”
  47. Merle Haggard “Truck Driver’s Blues”
  48. The Pushstars “Silvertown”
  49. Calude King “Wolverton Mountain”
  50. PSA: Blindness
  51. Tori Amos “Talula”
  52. Van Halen “Human Beings”
  53. ID
  54. J. Mascis “Thumb”

June 10, 1996 [Part 1] | WMFO 91.5 FM

Today the Wayback Machine delivers us to June 10, 1999. Typical freeform set, which is to say it’s footloose and fancy free. Our guests this week are James Daniel Band, Live and Direct! If memory serves, Perri was the sound engineer. Enjoy!

  1. PSA: Glaucoma
  2. Firesign Theatre “Happy Hour News (from Everything You Know is Wrong)”
  3. The Beatles “Flying (Early Version w/ Extra Ending)”
  4. The Beatles “The Fool on the Hill”
  5. ID
  6. Vampyros Lesbos Soundtrack “The Lions and the Cucumber”
  7. Keola Beamer “He Punahele No De”
  8. Bahia Sunsets “Somewhere Not Here”
  9. Creedence Clearwater Revival “Effigy”
  10. Tom Zé “Val (Menina, Amanqa De Manha)”
  11. Sonic Youth “Little Trouble Girl”
  12. PSA: Glaucoma
  13. The Frogs “Reelin’ and Rockin’ #1”
  14. The Misfits “Last Caress”
  15. The Misfits “Green Hell”
  16. Metallica “Last Caress”
  17. Metallica “Green Hell”
  18. Minor Threat “Filler”
  19. Minor Threat “I Don’t Wanna Here It”
  20. Slayer “Filler”
  21. Slayer  “I Don’t Wanna Here It”
  22. PSA: Glaucoma
  23. Meat Beat Manifesto “Assasinator”
  24. ID
  25. Mouse On Mars “Stereo Mission”
  26. Ministry “Dream Song”
  27. William Gibson Neuromancer, Excerpt 11
  28. 1000 Homo DJS “Hey, Asshole”
  29. ID
  30. Alien Faktor “Ego Death”
  31. PSA: Vote
  32. Kustomized “A Question of Degree”
  33. Los Pinkys “Sugar Bee”
  34. Iguanas “I Molev Too Aubu”
  35. Claudia Gomez “Musica Das Nuven E Do Chao”
  36. ID
  37. James Daniel Band LIVE & DIRECT
  38. Marshall Crenshaw “Lesson Number One”
  39. Zion Train “Love the Earth”
  40. Creation Rebel & New Age Steppers “Painstaker”
  41. Color Me Bad “I Wanna Sex You Up”
  42. The Brady Bunch “Time to Change”
  43. Marshall McLuhan “Eyecon/Earcon”
  44. PSA: AIDS
  45. ID
  46. Daniel James Interview
  47. Derek Baile & Henry Kaiser “Snoake in the Grass”
  48. Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia “Kraak (Plasticman Abstract Mix)”
  49. DB5 “Driven By cMetric”
  50. Firesign Theatre “Nick Danger/The Case of the Missing Shoe episode 2”
  51. Mark Knopfler “Darling Pretty”
  52. Grotus “Hand to Mouth”
  53. Bunny Clarke & The Aggrovators “Don’t Cut Off Your Dreadlocks (Version)”
  54. Bunny Clarke & The Aggrovators “A Crying Dub”
  55. John Cale “Scene X”
  56. Spahn Ranch “Heretic’s Fork”
  57. Off & Gone “Everest”

June 1, 1996 | WMFO 91.5 FM

The Wayback Machine is set for June 1, 1996. The format? Freeform. This is a lovely show chock full of reggae and dub, a rare demo of The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever”, some exotica from Lalo Schifrin and the Vampyros Lesbos soundtrack, some punk, metal and rock for good measure. We also pay our respects to Timothy Leary, who passed the day before. Come on in, the water’s fine!

Freeform as usual but here are a few highlights. I played a track from Alice Coopers foray into new wave rom their Flush the Fashion LP. You heard me. Alice Cooper. New wave. We’ll also hear Tom Zé deconstructing Tropicália. John Cage doesn’t play 4′33″ of silence. Keola Beamer plays some mournfully beautiful Hawaiian slack-key guitar. And some how I manage to play Enya and Pantera on the same show. Yeah, I did that.

  1. PSA: Vote
  2. Rice-A-Roni “The San Francisco Treat”
  3. H. Vars & B. Dunham “Flipper”
  4. Deee-Light “Deee-Light Theme”
  5. The Firesign Theater “Nick Danger: The Case of the MIssing Shoe, Pt. 1”
  6. Xavier Cugat ” Brazil (Aquarela Do Brasil)”
  7. Bob Marley & the Wailers “Hypocrites”
  8. Bob Marley & the Wailers “Mellow Mood (Dub)”
  9. ID
  10. Vampyros Lesbos Soundtrack “Necromania”
  11. P “Die Anne”
  12. Timothy Leary “You Can Be Anyone This Time Around”
  13. Moody Blues “Legend of a Mind”
  14. Marshall McLuhan “Men Without Art”
  15. ID
  16. Claude Young “Chamber of Dreams”
  17. The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever (Demo 4)”
  18. Band of Susans “Ahead”
  19. Ruby “Hoops”
  20. Meat Beat Manifesto “Mad Bomber/The Woods”
  21. ID/Ticket Giveaways
  22. Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia “Kraak (Coil Remix)
  23. ID
  24. William Gibson Neuromancer, Excerpt 10
  25. Minor Threat “Out of Step”
  26. Slayer “Guilty of Being White”
  27. Kid Creole & the Coconuts “Yolanda”
  28. Toots & the Maytals “Don’t Trouble Trouble”
  29. Roots Radics “Informer Dub”
  30. Lalo Schifrin “Mission Impossible”
  31. PSA: Child Abuse
  32. ID
  33. Resevoir “Geite 21”
  34. Prong “Slicing”
  35. Alice Cooper “Aspirin Damage”
  36. Tom Zé “Toc”
  37. David Byrne “Ade”
  38. Sons of Agula “Asian Rebel”
  39. Keola Beamer “He Ponahele No De”
  40. ID
  41. John Cage “Four Walls, Scene 12”
  42. Underworld “To Dream of Love”
  43. God Within “Raincry”
  44. Sounds from the Ground “Drawn to the Woman”
  45. PSA: Toxic Waste
  46. The Congos “Open Up the Gate”
  47. Jah Stitch “African People”
  48. Conjunto De Clave Y Guaguancó “Nosotros Tenemos Por Norma”
  49. Carl Perkins “Lend Me Your Comb”
  50. Nóirín Ní Riain “Suantraithe (Lullabies)”
  51. Enya “Caribbean Blue”
  52. ID
  53. Push Stars “Can’t Shake It”
  54. Gone “Bicycle Riding Assassin”
  55. Metallica “Until It Sleeps”
  56. ID
  57. Pantera “Floods”