March 7, 1998 [Part 1] | WMFO 91.5 FM

One thing I did not anticipate when I began digitizing cassette of my shows from WMFO 91.5 FM crappy recordings. We played the hell out of our cassette players and industrial strength as they were, things begin to wear out and eventually break. In the case of today’s show it’s a clicking sound you can hear in the recording during quieter tracks. It’s frustrating but there was nothing I could do and while I would prefer shows like this not to go out I did make myself a promise to release these show warts and all.

Aside from the warts the rest of today’s show is pretty dynamite! I kicked off the show with some Spaghetti-Western music, slipped seamlessly into the blues to psychedelic to rockabilly to hip hop and beyond. I promise you, today’s show is so dope you’ll overlook the clicking sound. I think you’re gonna love it. Oh, and we got stories!

  1. PSA: Seat Belt Safety
  2. Fields of The Nephilim “Intro (The Harmonica Man)”
  3. Louis L’Amour “The Marshal of Sentinel”
  4. Ennio Morricone “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Main Title)”
  5. The Pogues “The Pistol of Paddy Garcia”
  6. La Muerte “Guilty”
  7. ID
  8. Ry Cooder “Feelin’ Bad Blues”
  9. Cowboy Junkies “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”
  10. Mazzy Star “Mary of Silence”
  11. The Cramps “Love Me”
  12. Billy Childish and Dan Melchior “Trouble No More”
  13. The Reverend Horton Heat “Marijuana”
  14. Shonen Knife “Butterfly Boy (F.I. Mix)”
  15. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion “Skunk”
  16. ID
  17. Climax Golden Twins “Locations”
  18. Cypress Hill “Ultraviolet Dreams”
  19. A Lighter Shade of Brown “Spill the Rhyme”
  20. War “Low Rider”
  21. Santana “Oye Coma Va”
  22. Kid Frost “Mi Vida Loca”
  23. PSA: IRS
  24. William Gibson “Virtual Light, Excerpt 11”
  25. ID
  26. Alec Empire “3 Bullets in the Back”
  27. Goldie “Digital”
  28. Dr. Octagon “3000”
  29. ID/Ticket Giveaways
  30. Orson Scott Card “Ender’s Game, Excerpt 7”
  31. Stardate: March 7, 1998
  32. The Water Boys “Fisherman’s Blues” REQUEST
  33. Deaf Shepherd “Ross Battery”
  34. Dougie Pincock “Douglas Adam’s Fancy”
  35. Dougie Pincock “The Fastest Gasman”
  36. Dougie Pincock “The Video Kid”
  37. Stina Nordenstam “Little Star”
  38. ID
  39. The Sundays “I Can’t Wait”
  40. Patti Smith “Dancing Barefoot” REQUEST
  41. PSA: Glaucoma
  42. Jane’s Addition and Diamanda Galas “Sex is Violent”
  43. ID
  44. Genesis P-Orridge and Psychick TV “Mindfeeled”
  45. Edgar Rive Burroughs “A Princess of Mars, Excerpt 7”
  46. Andre Gurov Units “Credits vs Merits”
  47. Old “Thug”
  48. Tool “Forty Six”
  49. ID
  50. The Cardigans “Lovefool”
  51. Kid Creole and The Coconuts “Endicott”
  52. Towa Tei “Everything We Do Is Music”
  53. Michael Shelley “Baby It’s You”

August 23, 1997 [Part 1] | WMFO 91.5 FM

What’s cool about some of these shows is that my musical selection is a touchstone to what was going on at my life when the show was originally recored. For example, on today’s show I played a track by Entrain, which means I was dating Liz and she was a huge fan. I also played “The History of the Word Fuck.” I knew Cliff from work and he sent me that audio file. You wouldn’t believe the hoops I had to jump through to burn that on to CD to play at the radio station in 1997. Anyway, Cliff and the whole crew from the office were and are very special people. The tracks by McLuhan and Kroker, Kroker & Gibson reminds me how knee-deep I was in media theory and post-modern philosophy back then.

Oh, and the music on today’s show is fantastic. Dig it.

  1. PSA: U.S. Savings Bonds
  2. John Zorn “Spillane, Excerpt”
  3. Ennio Morricone “As A Judgement”
  4. The Pogues “A Pistol for Paddy Garcia”
  5. William S. Burroughs “Naked Lunch/The Algebra of Need”
  6. Walter Haynes “High Boots”
  7. Entrain “North Shore Drift”
  8. PSA: Seat Belt Safety
  9. History of the Word Fuck
  10. Chucklehead “Bozack”
  11. Trouble Funk “E Flat Boogie”
  12. ID
  13. Medeski, Martin and Wood “Kenny”
  14. De La Soul “Dinninit”
  15. United Future Organization “Waltz (Le Serpent Rouge)”
  16. Jungle Brothers “Changes”
  17. Marshall McLuhan “Through the Vanishing Point”
  18. The Simpsons “Send in the Clowns”
  19. Bob Marley “Interview”
  20. Bob Marley and The Wailers “Slave Driver”
  21. The Heptones “Be A Man”
  22. Don Byron “Voliner”
  23. ID
  24. Tarika “Sonegaly”
  25. PSA: Eco-Nashville
  26. Eric Dolphy “Alone”
  27. Rye Cooder and Robin Williams “Pecos Bill, Excerpt”
  28. The Beatles “Let It Be”
  29. Jerry Lee Lewis “The Hole He Said He’d Dig for Me”
  30. Kroker, Kroker and Gibson “Suicide Drive”
  31. Cheap Trick “If You Want My Love”
  32. Electric Light Orchestra “Telephone Line”

April 12, 1997 [Part 2] | WMFO 91.5 FM

This is definitely one of my more freeform shows. It kicks off with William Gibson reading from his classic cyberpunk novel, Neuromancer, and then very quickly devolves into a hot mess of punk and hardcore. Things get switched up with a request for Galaxy 500 and morphs from indie pop to Gaelic music to dub (and one of my all time fave dub tracks) to some Icelandic music (I think) and beyond. Ph, and some Pat Boone and Billy Joel, too boot!

Today’s show finds me in Chicago. Tweet or follow me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/josephaleo to tell me what record stores to check out and whatever else I should know what’s going on in that toddling’ town.

  1. PSA: Seat Belt Safety
  2. Gene Kelley “Singin’ In the Rain”
  3. Nina Simone “Spring is Here”
  4. Meat Beat Manifesto “Radio Mellotron”
  5. Pop Will Eat Itself “Psychosexual”
  6. Adrian Belew “Ballet for A Blue Whale”
  7. ID
  8. The Orb “Ubiquity”
  9. Kroker, Kroker and Gibson “Slash and Burn”
  10. Huun-Huur-Tu “Daglarim”
  11. Björk “You’ve Been Flirting Again”
  12. Download “Sidewinder (Remix)” REQUEST
  13. William S. Burroughs “Naked Lunch, Excerpt 4”
  14. Muggs Presents “The Time Has Come”
  15. ID
  16. African Dub “Echo” REQUEST
  17. Peter Frampton “Show Me the Way, Live” REQUEST
  18. ID
  19. The Beastie Boys “Something’s Got To Give, Live”
  20. Funkadelic “Mommy, What’s A Funkadelic?”
  21. PSA: Peace Corps
  22. Hunter S. Thompson “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas/A Terrible Experience with Extremely Dangerous Drugs”
  23. King Tubby and Santic Allstars “Shooter Dub”
  24. King Chubby “Maira”
  25. Future Sound of London “Her Face Forms In Summertime”
  26. William Gibson “Neuromancer, Excerpt 48”
  27. PSA: Child Abuse
  28. The Misfits “Night of the Living Dead, Live”
  29. Fugazi “Joe Number One/Song Number One, Live”
  30. Angry Samoans “Carson Girls”
  31. Declino “Inutile Trionfo”
  32. Christ On A Crutch “Paranoid World Vision”
  33. The Proletariat “Religion is the Opiate of the Masses”
  34. ID
  35. Galaxy 500 “Isn’t It A Pity” REQUEST
  36. Trader Horne “Morning Way”
  37. Blur “Country Sad Ballad Man”
  38. Talitha Mackenzie “Théid Mi Dhachaigh (The Mackenzie Lullabye)”
  39. I Roy “Superfly (Extended Mix)”
  40. ID
  41. John Lee Hooker “The Healing Game”
  42. Pat Boone “Love Hurts”
  43. Billy Joel “New York State of Mind”
  44. Sneaker Pimps “Tesko Suicide”
  45. Foetus “Verklemmt (Queer Mix)”
  46. Powerman 5000 “Tokyo Vigilante #1”
  47. Alice in Chains “Down In A Hole”
  48. ID
  49. R.E.M. “How the West was Won and Where It Got Us”
  50. Spælimenninir “Uppi Á Einum Kási-1”
  51. Tiriltunga “The Twenty Dollar Bill”
  52. Prince Jimmy and The Aggrovators “Drums of Africa”
  53. Don Byron “Siberian Sleighride”
  54. Porcupine Tree “The Sky Moves Sideways Phase 1”

March 8, 1997 | WMFO 91.5 FM

Today’s show from the crypt features a live set from Winterboy (http://www.winterboy.net)!

I remember seeing Winterboy busking in Cambridge and Somerville and that’s probably how I invited him to come on the show and play some of his music for us. In fact, I think he performed in the same room with me rather than the usual studio b. Which means I probably dimmed the lights for ambience, the mixing board’s buttons and sliders casting a glow. Maybe burned some incense by the window. So imagine that when you listen to today’s show.

We also get a to hear a couple minutes of Tufts sports radio. I had forgotten that was on this tape. Very cool! Too bad the time delay between the game and the station caused some on-air hiccups.

Oh, and we also hear the radio theatre version of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, who sumsup the end of the 60s so eloquently.

Last week’s show was a blast! The cassette player I use to digitize my shows from WMFO finally died. I had to order a replacement cassette player online and in the interim I dusted off my mic and did the first Bazooka Joe Show in something like 12 years. The show got a lot of listens, which gratifies. But my new cassette player has arrived so it’s time to step into the Wayback Machine and travel to March 8, 1997.

Today’s show is a doozy. Freeform, of course, but with a psychedelic-pop-punk-electronica-dub vibe. Oh, and we also get to hear William Gibson read from his cyberpunk novel, Neuromancer.

  1. PSA: U.S. Savings Bonds
  2. Hunter S. Thompson “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas/Paranoid Terror… A Flashing of Knives and Green Water”
  3. The Montanas “That’s When Hapiness Begins”
  4. Björk “It’s Oh So Quiet”
  5. ID
  6. Winterboy “Live and Direct”
  7. Opal “Magick Power”
  8. The Beatles “Blue Jay Way”
  9. Churchical Chants of the Nyabingi “Weeping and Moaning”
  10. Count Ossie and The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari “So Long”
  11. Ras Michael and The Sons of Negus “New Name”
  12. ID
  13. Entrain “Hear My Prayer”
  14. U2 “Wake Up Dead Man”
  15. Sons of Selima “Of the First Water”
  16. ID
  17. Laibach “I’ve Got A Feeling”
  18. Hilt “Orange Pony”
  19. Asia Beat and Friends “Code of The Ninja Warriors”
  20. Ryuichi Sakamato “Bibo No Azura”
  21. Beck “Jack-Ass”
  22. Liberation Through Healing “The Root Verses of the Six Bardos”
  23. ID
  24. King Tubby and The Aggrovators “Blessed Dub”
  25. The Music of Bali/Swara Cupta Priyanti-Jegog “Pentup (Ending)” EXCERPT
  26. Peter Gabriel “Digging in the Dirt”
  27. Blur “Song 2”
  28. Helmet “Exactly What You Wanted”
  29. D.R.I. “Snap”
  30. Reagen Youth “Reagen Youth”
  31. Jerry’s Kids “Uncontrollable”
  32. PSA: Breast Cancer
  33. ID
  34. Stardate March 9, 1997
  35. William Gibson “Neuromancer, Excerpt 43″
  36. Pitch Shifter “(We’re Behaving Like) Insects”
  37. Killing Joke “Age of Greed”
  38. Underworld “Born Slippy”
  39. Banco De Gaia “White Paint, Live”
  40. Fila Brazillia “Low Ceiling”
  41. Ray Gillette “Mobius II”

March 1, 1997 | WMFO 91.5 FM

Wow. I had forgotten how great some of my old shows from WMFO were and today’s set is from March 1, 1997. It’s killer. Not only do we get to hear a track from one of my favorite hardcore bands, Agnostic, but we also get to hear my favorite hardcore band from Boston, Wrecking Crew! Keith Bennett, where are you?

But it doesn’t stop there because I follow it up with some Negative Approach and the Misfits! But it’s a freeform show so naturally to dips into psychedelic music, world music, hip hop, pop and even some spoken word. Oh, and a PSA from Carl Sagan! How cool is that?

I played a track from Graham Central Station because my buddy Paul was so enamored with their sound. I also played a guilty pleasure—Color Me Badd’s “I Wanna Sex You Up.” And not their album version, which sucks, but the track that was featured in the New Jack City soundtrack. Also, some wonderful r&b hip hop from The Family Stand with “Ghetto Heaven.” There’s also a disco version of the Star Wars theme. And then a weird folk/cajun/psychedelic jam. Hey, I told you it was a freeform show.

Bonus: we get to hear a medley of weirdness from he beginning of the Mental Notes show!

  1. PSA: U.S. Savings Bonds
  2. Agnostic Front “One Voice, Live”
  3. ID
  4. Wrecking Crew “Why Must They, Live”
  5. Negative Approach “Tied Down, Live”
  6. Misfits “Astro Zombies, Live”
  7. Pitch Shifter “Hangar 84”
  8. Björk “I Miss You (Dobie Mix)”
  9. Opal “Magick Power”
  10. The Beatles “Blue Jay Way”
  11. Suicidal Flowers “Eve II”
  12. Shu-De “Kham (Shaman Ritual)”
  13. Voices of Tuva “Funeral Lament”
  14. ID
  15. Praise Space Electric “A) Ornithology B) Can You Play… C) Ornithology”
  16. Funkadelic “What is Soul”
  17. PSA: Recording for the Blind
  18. Hunter S. Thompson “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas/A Night on the Town… Drug Frenzy at The Circus Circus”
  19. Malcolm McLaren “Madama Butterfly/Aria from the Opera from Madam Butterfly” REQUEST
  20. Chris Trapper “Silvertown”
  21. Cibo Matto “Sugar Water (Acoustic)”
  22. Delinquent Habits “Tres Delinquents”
  23. Cypress Hill “Make A Move”
  24. Ray Charles “How Long Blues”
  25. ID/Ticket Giveaways
  26. James Brown “Out of Sight”
  27. Graham Central Station “Release Yourself”
  28. Color Me Badd “I Wanna Sex You Up”
  29. The Family Stand “Ghetto Heaven”
  30. Scientist “Third Generation”
  31. ID
  32. Churchical Chants of the Nyabingi “I, I, I, I”
  33. Al Green “Let’s Stay Together”
  34. Parliament :The Landing (of The Holy Mothership)”
  35. Boris Midney “Star Wars (Main Theme)”
  36. Pamela Z “Geekspeak”
  37. The Bystanders “Cave of Clean Light”
  38. Beausoleil “Chairai”
  39. The Incredible String Band “Log Cabin More”
  40. Jazz Mandolin Project “The Country Open”
  41. Barry Adamson “It’s Business As Usual”
  42. William Gibson “Neuromancer, Excerpt 42″
  43. Powerman 5000 “Public Menace, Freak, Human Fly”
  44. PSA: HIV
  45. Beck “Feather In Your Cap”
  46. Rosemary Clooney “Mambo Mambo”
  47. Vale of Atholl Pipe Band “Il Paco Grande”
  48. Mazaruni “Dub In A Di Jungle (Original Mix)”
  49. Shawn Colvin “Sunny Came Home”
  50. Mental Notes “Mental Notes Medley”

January 25, 1997 | WMFO 91.5 FM

The last two months I’ve picked up over 1,000 new followers on Mixcloud. If that’s you, welcome!

I’ve got a special show for you today. The Wayback Machine takes us to January 25, 1997 with an awesome set by me on WMFO 91.5 FM! I was in rare form that night with a seamless freeform mix inspired by the night’s live guests, The Down Low Connection! You can hear more music from them at the Internet Archive at http://bit.ly/1t6Lck8

Special thanks to Aaron Shadwell, wherever you are, for mixing the band that night.

  1. PSA: Seatblets
  2. Delinquent Habits “Tres Delinquents”
  3. ID
  4. Public Enemy “Powersaxx”
  5. John Zorn “Word for Bird”
  6. Bitter “Freedom Envy”
  7. Swans “Seal It Over, Live”
  8. Swans “Other Side of the World, Live”
  9. Beck “Devil’s Haircut”
  10. The Cardigans “Lovefool”
  11. ID
  12. We (The Umix) “You”
  13. Templeroy “Dubometer”
  14. The Future Sounds of London “Little Brother”
  15. Public Imange Ltd. “Tie Me to the Length of That”
  16. Soul Coughing “Super Bon Bon”
  17. Ice Cube “It’s a Man’s World”
  18. James Brown “It’s A Man’s, Man’s Man’s World, Live”
  19. PSA: IRS
  20. ID/Ticket Giveaways
  21. El Vez “Misery Train”
  22. ID
  23. Red Hot Chili Peppers “Behind the Sun”
  24. Jah Stitch “King of the Arena”
  25. Scientist “Love You Dub”
  26. The Beastie Boys “Groove Holmes”
  27. ID
  28. Medeski, Martin and Wood “Kenny”
  29. This Mortal Coil “Several Times”
  30. Geggy Tah “Whoever You Are”
  31. God Street Wine “Into the Sea”
  32. Cypress Hill “Boom Biddy Bye Bye”
  33. William Gibson “Neuromancer, Excerpt 37″
  34. Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy “INS Greencard A-19 191 500”
  35. ID
  36. Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy “Language of Violence”
  37. Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy “Music and Politics”
  38. Chuck D “Underdog”
  39. ID
  40. Down Low Connection “Live and Direct”
  41. ID
  42. Mad Cobra “Sexperience”

January 18, 1997 [Part 2] | WMFO 91.5 FM

WMFO broadcasts under a freeform format, which sours you on traditional radio’s narrow and crushingly predictable programming. After hearing today’s mix from January 18, 1887 featuring everyone from Bauhaus to Peter tosh to My Bloody Valentine to White Zombie to Don Byron why would you ever want to listen to traditional radio ever again? Oh, bonus, an excerpt from William Gibson’s seminal cyberpunk novel, Neuromancer!

  1. PSA: Seat Belts
  2. The Bobs “White Room”
  3. Color Me Badd “I Wanna Sex You Up”
  4. ID
  5. Public Image Ltd. “Tie Me to the Length of That”
  6. God Street Wine “Which Way Will She Go?”
  7. Primus “Sea of Cheese”
  8. Jarboe “Vomit Veritas”
  9. ID
  10. Swans “God Loves America, Live”
  11. Swans “I’ll Cry for You”
  12. PSA: Toxic Waste
  13. ID
  14. Diamanda Galas “Cunt”
  15. Martin Zellar and The Hardways “Brown-Eyed Boy”
  16. PSA: AIDS
  17. George Jones “She Thinks I Still Care”
  18. Don Henley “Talking to the Moon”
  19. ID
  20. Giacomo Puccini “Madama Butterfly/Un Bel Di”
  21. Vartina “Emoni Ennon”
  22. Ensemble Project Ars Nova/Johannes Ciconia “Le Ray Au Soleyl, Canon”
  23. Henry Hall and The Glenneagles Hotel Band “Home”
  24. Bushfire “Darwin Cyclone”
  25. Future Sounds of London “Among Myselves”
  26. ID
  27. Scientist “King Tubby’s Answer”
  28. Sam Phillips “Compulsive Gambler”
  29. Dubtribe “Intro”
  30. Micro and Vicious Vic “Impact (Pub Mix)”
  31. Bauhaus “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” REQUEST
  32. Peter Tosh “Stepping Razor” REQUEST
  33. The Paragons “Tide is High”
  34. PSA: U.S. Savings Bonds
  35. PSA: Breast Cancer
  36. ID
  37. Meridian Dream “Universe”
  38. William Gibson “Neuromancer, Excerpt 36″
  39. ID
  40. Toledo “Beat Up Thunderbird”
  41. Soul Coughing “Soft Serve”
  42. Luscious Jackson “Naked Eye”
  43. Stereolab “One Small Step”
  44. My Bloody Valentine “Soon”
  45. ID
  46. Pablo’s Eye “Amb 7 Video Edit”
  47. Crass “It’s Only You”
  48. Kroker, Kroker and Gibson “From Silicon Illusions to Dead Dreamlands/Treasure ISland at The Mirage”
  49. White Zombie “I, Zombie (Europe in the Ree Mix)”
  50. My Psychotic Motor “Let Your Mind Drain (Mind Drain Mix)”
  51. Tommy’s Darkling Thrush “Undone In Your Hands”
  52. The Tear Garden “Psycho 9”
  53. The Jazzhole “Put A Groove On”
  54. Don Byron “The Ducky Glide”
  55. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion “Skunk”
  56. PSA: Breast Cancer
  57. ID
  58. Mental Notes

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.

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  1. The Beatles “Blue Jay Way”
    Apple Music | Spotify
  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”
    Apple Music | Spotify
  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