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March 30, 1996 | WMFO 91.5 FM

The last two weeks I picked up over 500 followers on Mixcloud. If that’s you, welcome!

Let me explain to you how the show works. Each week I post a digitized recording taken from cassettes of my old shows at WMFO to Mixcloud. The shows are typically freeform and often feature live bands from Boston during the 90s. This week yhe Wayback Machine takes us to March 30, 1996 at WMFO. The Weaklings have just played a rocking live set and are about to join me in the studio for an interview. I hope past me doesn’t prove to be an inane host! Still, lots of freeform music for you to enjoy. Lot’s of punk, rock and indie rock, specifically, as well as a dash of electronica and reggae.

Since I started digitizing cassette of my shows from MOFO and posting them on Mixcloud I’ve been dreading this show. Not this show specifically, but one like it. It’s a show where there’s dead air. Not seconds. But minutes. Long, terrible minutes. I don’t remember what caused the dead air. Some broken equipment, no doubt.But there it is.

I could edit it out and you’d be none the wiser but 1) I’m going to release these shows, warts and all; and 2) I’m lazy. Despite the dead air there’s some moments of brilliance. Segueing from Sepultura’s “Lookaway” to Steve Fisk “Johnny Smoke,” really? That’s just brilliant. Good job, 1996 me. And then, of course, a LIVE SET from MANCY! This is great indie-pop-punk stuff and I know you’re gonna love it.

Before I go, do any radio deejays out there have anxiety dreams that manifest themselves as you in at your station and you caused dead air? Those dreams fill me with dread.

  1. PSA: Vote
  2. Meow Mix Cat Food “Meow Meow Meow Meow”
  3. Vic Mizzy “Green Acres”
  4. Cibo Matto “Beef Jerky”
  5. ID
  6. Marschmellow “Splendid”
  7. Minor Threat “Steppin’ Stone”
  8. The Monkees “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone”
  9. Jim’s Big Ego “Someday Cafe”
  10. Kroker, Kroker & Gibson “Las Vegas Theme Park”
  11. Dead Kennedys “Viva Las Vegas”
  12. ID
  13. Robert Mitchum “Not Me”
  14. Supernatural “Mind tricks”
  15. New Kingdom “Crush Your Enemies (Panama Connection Dub Mix)”
  16. Sepultura “Lookaway”
  17. ID
  18. Steve Fisk “Johnny Smoke”
  19. William Gibson Neuromancer, Excerpt 4
  20. PSA: IRS
  21. ID
  22. The Weaklings LIVE & DIRECT
  23. ID
  24. Jazzadelics “Message from Outer Space”
  25. Alpha & Omega “Dub Is A Principal Thing”
  26. Circle Jerks “Wild in the Streets” REQUEST
  27. Repulsion “The Stench of Burning Death”
  28. Queen “You’re My Best Friend”
  29. War “Low Rider”
  30. PSA: HIV Test
  31. ID
  32. The Weaklings INTERVIEW
  33. Bark Psychosis “Three Girl Rhumba”
  34. Hasa Ali “Al-Naqus Joza Joco”
  35. Marshall McLuhan “Grammars of the Web”
  36. The Orb “Alles Ist Schoen”
  37. Yabby You Meets Mad Professor “Righteous Dublocks”
  38. Supernatural “Buddha Blessed It”
  39. ID/Ticket Giveaways
  40. Aisha Kandisha’s Jarring Effects “A Muey A Muey”
  41. The Chocolate Band “Let’s Talk About Girls”
  42. Powerman 5000 “Organized”
  43. ID
  44. Bud Alzir “Morocco”
  45. PSA: Glaucoma
  46. Revolting Cocks “Get Down”
  47. Killing Joke “Democracy (Right Wing Militia Edit)
  48. Lee Renaldo “Florida Power”
  49. PSA: AIDS
  50. KD Lang “Kundalini Yoga Waltz”
  51. The
  52. Misfits “American Nightmare”
  53. P “Die Anne”