From the Middle Room

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A Flock of Seagulls - Messages (A Flock of Seagulls - 1982)
Modern English - Someone's Calling (After the Snow - 1982)
Visage - Visage (Visage - 1982)
Talk Talk - Another World (The Colour of Spring - 1986)

DEVO - Gates of Steel (Freedom of Choice - 1980)
Berlin - The Masquerade (Pleasure Victim - 1982)
Ultravox - I Remember (Death in the Afternoon) (Rage in Eden - 1981)
Duran Duran - Night Boat (Duran Duran - 1981)

John Foxx - Night Suit (The Garden - 1981)
Gary Numan - The Image Is (We Take Mystery to Bed 7" - 1982)
Yaz - In My Room (Upstairs at Eric's - 1982)
Tears for Fears - The Prisoner (The Hurting - 1983)

Billy Idol - Don't Need A Gun (Whiplash Smile - 1986)
The Tourists - From the Middle Room (Into the Future 7" - 1980)

As an apology for the horrible Duran Duran pun I made in the show, hear a song from the new record!
Duran Duran - Pressure Off featuring Janelle Monáe and Nile Rogers (Paper Gods - Out 9/11)

Future Nostalgia

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Kraftwerk - Metropolis (The Man Machine - 1978)
John Foxx - Underpass (Metamatic - 1980)
Eurythmics - This City Never Sleeps (Sweet Dreams - 1983)
Gary Numan - My Dying Machine (Berzerker - 1984)

Chromatics - In Films (Dear Tommy - Pending)
Blouse - Videotapes (Blouse - 2011)
I Break Horses (Chiaroscuro - 2014)

Goblin Rebirth - Requiem for X (Goblin Rebirth - 2015)
John Carpenter - Fallen (Lost Themes - 2015)
Lazerhawk - Lawless (Skull + Shark - 2013)
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Miami Lawmaker (Drokk - 2012)

Gunship - Tech Noir (Gunship - 2015)
M83 - Highway of Endless Dreams (Saturdays = Youth - 2008)

Bonus Video Time(s)! Check out these love-letters to the 1980s by London synth worshippers Gunship.

Post finals exaltation and inclement weather commiseration

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The Smiths - Sheila Take A Bow (Louder Than Bombs - 1987)
The Cure - Fascination Street (Extended Mix - 12" - 1989)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Party's Fall (Tinderbox - 1986)
Echo and the Bunnymen - In Bluer Skies (Porcupine - 1983)

Galaxie 500 - Temperature's Rising (Today - 1988)
Jesus and Mary Chain - Nine Million Rainy Days (Darklands - 1987)
Cocteau Twins - Throughout the Dark Months of April & May (Victorialand - 1986)
Cranes - Rainbows (Forever - 1993)
Love and Rockets - Waiting for the Flood (Earth, Sun, Moon - 1987)

Curve - Coming Up Roses (Come Clean - 1998)
Depeche Mode - Heaven (Delta Machine - 2013)
SPC ECO - Hear Me Now (Art of Pop - 2014)
Slowdive - Country Rain (5 EP - 1993)

Outro - Massive Attack - Weather Storm (Protection - 1994)

Flexipop Retrospective

This week we take a look at the brief history of Flexipop magazine and the colorful 7" singles folded in its pages.

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The Jam - Boy About Town (Issue 02)
Madness - My Girl (Issue 19)
Hazel O'Connor - D. Days (Issue 09)
Bow Wow Wow - Elimination Dancing (Issue 18)

Depeche Mode - Sometimes I Wish I Was Dead (Issue 11)
Fad Gadget - King of the Flies (Issue 11)
Soft Cell - Metro MRX (Issue 12)
B. Movie - Remembrance Day (Issue 12)

Adam and the Ants - A.N.T.S. (Issue 04)
XTC - Looking for Footprints (Issue 16)
Haircut 100 - Nobody's Fool (Issue 17)
The Associates - Even Dogs in the Wild (Issue 20)

Bauhaus - God in an Alcove (Isssue 23)
The Cure - Lament (Issue 22)
Toya - Sphinx (Issue 08)

Marc Almond and Friends - Discipline (Throbbing Gristle cover - Issue 24)

Read an article about the magazine's history written by Flexipop co-founder Tim Lott here.

A colorful, glossy Adam Ant feature from Flexipop No. 4, March 1981:

Friday the 13th!

Happy Friday the 13th. Unlucky you, I'm uploading this one early.

Scream or Drownload

Harry Manfredini - Theme from Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Pseudo Echo - His Eyes (Autumnal Park - 1984)
A Flock of Seagulls - Nightmares (Listen - 1983)
Alice Cooper - He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask) (Constrictor - 1986)

The Damned - Born to Kill (Damned Damned Damned - 1977)
Oingo Boingo - Nothing to Fear (Nothing to Fear - 1982)
The Ramones - Makin' Monsters for my Friends (Adios Amigos - 1995)
The Misfits - Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight (Walk Among Us - 1982)

The Cramps - Eyeball in My Martini (Look Mom No Head! - 1991)
Adam and the Ants - Killer in the Home (Kings of the Wild Frontier - 1980)
Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses (Goodbye Horses - 1988)

John Carpenter - Night (Zola Jesus and Dean Hurley Remix) (Lost Themes - 2015)
Mogwai - Re-Remurdered (Blanck Mass Remix) (Music Industry 3. Fitness Industry 1. - 2014)
Golden Boy feat. Miss Kittin - Rippin Kittin (Or - 2002)

I love this interview (it's probably the best thing about Jason Takes Manhattan). I asked Kane Hodder last summer about it and he said before the interview, Arsenio was visibly spooked so Kane just had to mess with him. The sheer terror is especially evident near the end during the handshake. Watch and you'll see what I mean.

Waiting for Winter's End

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The Clash - Red Angel Dragnet (Combat Rock - 1982)
Soft Cell - Chips On My Shoulder (Non Stop Erotic Cabaret - 1981)
Adam Ant - Here Comes the Grump (Friend or Foe - 1982)

For Against - Stranded in Greenland (December - 1988)
Ultravox - Vienna (Vienna - 1980)
Duran Duran - Mediterranean (All You Need is Now - 2010)
The Smiths - Suffer Little Children (The Smiths - 1984)

Comsat Angels - After the Rain (Fiction - 1982)
Psychedelic Furs - Shine (Book of Days - 1989)
Talk Talk - Such A Shame (It's My Life - 1984)
Tears for Fears - Memories Fade (The Hurting - 1983)

Bryan Ferry feat. Todd Terje - Johnny and Mary (Avonmore - 2014)

Postcard from a Small Town

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Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (Age of Consent - 1984)
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again (Touch - 1983)
Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! (Into the Gap - 1984)
Tears for Fears - Watch Me Bleed (The Hurting - 1983)

Soft Cell - Frustration (Non Stop Erotic Cabaret - 1981)
Depeche Mode - Something to Do (Some Great Reward - 1984)
Ramones - I Just Want to Have Something to Do (Road to Ruin - 1978)
Echo & the Bunnymen - Rescue (Crocodiles - 1980)
The Smiths - Nowhere Fast (Meat is Murder - 1985)

Psychedelic Furs - Book of Days (Book of Days - 1989)
New Order - Elegia (Low-Life - 1985)
Japan - Burning Bridges (Gentlemen Take Polaroids - 1980)
Duran Duran - Edge of America (Big Thing - 1988)
Yaz - Winter Kills (Upstairs at Eric's - 1982)

Bonus video time!
Jimmy Somerville performs a stripped-down, acoustic piano version of "Smalltown Boy" in 2014:

Cigarette Traces

A (very) brief Roxy retrospective. Contemporaries, influences, solo projects.

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Roxy Music - Ladytron (Roxy Music - 1971)
Brian Eno - Mother Whale Eyeless (Taking Tiger Mountain - 1974)
Mott the Hoople - Sweet Jane (Velvet Underground Cover) (All the Young Dudes - 1972)
David Bowie - Look Back in Anger (Lodger - 1979)

Roxy Music - While My Heart is Still Beating (Avalon - 1982)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Sea Breezes (Roxy Music cover) (Through the Looking Glass - 1987)
Japan - Despair (Quiet Life - 1979)
Duran Duran - Tiger Tiger (Seven and the Ragged Tiger - 1983)

Rozz Williams & Gitane Demone - In Every Dream Home A Heartache (Roxy Music cover) (Dream Home Heartache - 1995)
Ultravox - Hiroshima Mon Amour (Ha! Ha! Ha! - 1977)
Bryan Ferry - Loop De Li (Avonmore - 2014)
Bryan Ferry - Avonmore (Avonmore - 2014)

Bonus Link Time!
Learn about Antony Price, the designer who tailored for Roxy Music, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Annie Lennox, Duran Duran, and more!

Remembering the Future

This episode features songs dealing primarily with technology, simulation, and authenticity. It's co-hosted by Heather, a text-to-speech program.

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David Bowie - Saviour Machine (The Man Who Sold the World - 1970)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Metal Postcard (Scream - 1978)
Joy Division - Isolation (Closer - 1980)
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine (The Man Machine - 1978)

Depeche Mode - Photographic (Speak & Spell - 1981)
Ultravox - Mr. X (Vienna - 1980)
John Foxx - A New Kind of Man (Metamatic - 1980)
Gary Numan & Tubeway Army - We Have a Technical (Replicas - 1979)

Orchestral Manoevres in the Dark - The Future Will Be Silent (English Electric - 2013)
Pet Shop Boys - Minimal (Fundamental - 2006)
Visage - Lost in Static (Hearts & Knives - 2013)
Duran Duran - Blame the Machines (All You Need is Now - 2011)

Image by Hideaki Kodama, 1987.

BtWoS 9-19-2014

Apologies for the uber late upload.

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Bauhaus - Double Dare (In the Flat Field - 1980)
The Damned - Lively Arts (The Black Album - 1980)
Warsaw - They Walked in Line (Warsaw - 1978)
The Cure - World War (Boys Don't Cry - 1980)
Depeche Mode - People Are People (Some Great Reward - 1984)

The Clash - Know Your Rights (Combat Rock - 1982)
Patti Smith - Free Money (Horses - 1975)
The Slits - Typical Girls (Cut - 1979)
X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage, Up Yours (Oh Bondage, Up Yours 7" - 1977)
Poison Girls - Price of Grain (The Price of Grain & the Price of Blood 10" - 1985)

Break - Massive Attack - Exchange (Mezzanine - 1998)

Tricky - Somebody's Sins (Patti Smith Cover) (False Idols - 2013)
Horace Andy - Rasta Dub (In the Light Dub - 1977)
Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves (Police and Thieves - 1977)

Richard & Linda Thompson - Did She Jump or Was She Pushed? (Shoot Out the Lights - 1982)
David Bowie - Life on Mars? (Hunky Dory - 1971)
Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (Strange Fruit - 1944)

Bonus Video Time!
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five - The Message (The Message - 1982)

Synthpop and new wave, mostly focusing on motion, travel and distance. Stream or Download

Visage - Fade to Grey (Visage - 1980)
Duran Duran - The Chauffeur (Rio - 1982)
John Foxx - No One Driving (Metamatic - 1980)
Berlin - The Metro (Pleasure Victim - 1983)
Station Break - Kraftwerk - Metal on Metal
Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe (Electric Cafe - 1986)
Oppenheimer Analysis - Men in White Coats (New Mexico - 1982)
David Bowie - V2 Schneider ("Heroes" - 1977)
Silver Apples - Dust (Silver Apples - 1968)
Station Break - Gary Numan and Tubeway Army - We Have A Technical
Soft Cell - Memorabilia (Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing - 1982)
New Order - Mesh (Movement - 1981)
Tones on Tail - Performance (Pop - 1984)
Brian Eno - Energy Fools the Magician (Before and After Science - 1978)
Gary Numan - Tracks (The Pleasure Principle - 1979)
Pet Shop Boys - Integral (Fundamental - 2006)

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 08-17-2011 - Living in the 80s

80s Extravaganza, here. Stream or Download.

The Cure - The Kiss
Comsat Angels - We Were
Psychedelic Furs - Torch
The Field Mice - End of the Affair
Violent Femmes - Good Feeling
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Puppet
Book of Love - Still Angry
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - I Let Love In (live)
Joy Division - Means to an End (live)
Depeche Mode - It's Called A Heart
ABC - Tears Are Not Enough
Tubeway Army - Every Day I Die
Oingo Boingo - Skin
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Rhapsody

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 08-18-10

Again, only an hour with my apologies. I've been working on time consuming life stuff. Stream or Download


Brian Eno - Third Uncle
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Sea Breezes (Roxy Music Cover)
Ultravox - Dangerous Rhythm
Gary Numan - The Rhythm of the Evening
Station Break - Goblin - Profondo Rosso
Warsaw - Transmission
The Soft Boys - I Got the Hots
Buzzcocks - You Tear Me Up
The Gun Club - She's Like Heroin to Me
The Cramps - Love Me (The Phantom cover)
The Damned - Love Song
Station Break - Ronnie Cell's Continentals - Chicken
The Colourfield - Pushing Up Daisies
The Comsat Angels - Sleep No More
Flesh for Lulu - Postcards from Paradise
All About Eve - Paradise
Depeche Mode - To Have and to Hold

BtWoS 06-18-10

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Ladytron - Paco!
Spalding Rockwell - Vicious
CSS - Music Is My Hot Hot Sex
Jamie Summers - Sex Fiend
Marsheaux - Destroy Me
Station Break - Nightmares on Wax - Night's Interlude
New Young Pony Club - Get Lucky
Barcelona - Stuido Hair Gel
Soviet - Candy Girl
The Presets - I Go Hard, I Go Home
WIT - Hold Me, Touch Me
Station Break - Craig Armstrong - Rise
Goldfrapp - Rocket
Client - 6 in the Morning
Felix da Housecat - Silver Screen Shower Scene
Golden Boy feat. Miss Kittin - Rippin' Kittin (Glove Radio Mix)
Station Break - Glass Candy - Last Nite I Met A Costume
ABC - Look of Love
John Foxx - Systems of Romance
Depeche Mode - Photographic
Gary Numan - Observer
Martin Gore - Tiny Girls (Iggy Pop cover)
Station Break - Add (n) to (x) - Anne's Eveready Equestrian
Robots In Disguise - Cycle Song
Handsome Boy Modeling School feat. Julee Cruise & Pharrell - Class System
Pati Yang - Soul For Me
Lovage - Pit Stop (Take Me Home)
Station Break - Massive Attack - Exchange
M83 - Skin of the Night
Cut Copy - Hearts on Fire
Junior Boys - The Equalizer
Crystal Castles - Tell Me What to Swallow
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Down Boy

Superfantastic Bonus Video Time - Goldfrapp - Alive

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 05-12-10

"If your goal of the night was to make anyone who listens to your show depressed as f**k, you succeeded." - Aimee R.

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Low - When I Go Deaf
The Raveonettes - Here Comes the End
Mazzy Star - Wasted
Martin Gore - In My Other World (Julee Cruise cover)
Station Break - Depeche Mode - Esque
Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours
The Damned - I Just Can't Be Happy Today
TSOL - I'm Tired of Life
Love and Rockets - The Dog-End of A Day Gone By
Station Break - This Mortal Coil - Acid, Bitter and Sad
The Psychedelic Furs - Book of Days
Sisters of Mercy - Emma (Hot Chocolate cover)
The Cure - Prayers for Rain
The Smiths - Asleep
Station Break - Gary Numan - Down in the Park (Piano Version)
Lush - Undertow
Placebo - My Sweet Prince
The Magnetic Fields - Meaningless
Junior Boys - When No One Cares (iTunes Session)
Station Break - Gary Numan - Trois Gymnopedies (Erik Satie cover)
Dave Gahan - Down
Depeche Mode - It Doesn't Matter Two
Carissa's Wierd - So You Wanna' Be A Superhero?
Slowdive - So Tired
Garbage - Sleep
Station Break - David Bowie - Warszawa
Iggy Pop - Dum Dum Boys
The Velvet Underground - Candy Says
Nico - You Forgot to Answer
The Witches (featuring Nick Cave) - Shivers

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 03-10-10

This one's a regular musical gumbo. Stream or Download

Brian Eno - Blank Frank
The Velvet Underground - I Can't Stand It
The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
Crispin "Hellion" Glover - The New Clean Song
Danielle Dax - The Living and Their Stillborn
Depeche Mode - If You Want
Pet Shop Boys - The Sodom and Gomorrah Show
Station Break - Ladytron - CMYK
Gary Numan - My Dying Machine (Remix)
The 6ths (feat. Gary Numan) - The Sailor in Love With the Sea
Gothic Archies - The Abandoned Castle of My Soul
The Magnetic Fields - No One Will Ever Love You
Station Break - Glass Candy - Last Nite I Met A Costume
The Chameleons UK - Swamp Thing
Colourfield - Castles in the Air
The Field Mice - End of the Affair
Sinead O'Connor - I Am Stretched on Your Grave
Love Spirals Downwards - Promises
Cocteau Twins - The Thinner the Air (Massive Attack Remix)
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Dream Baby
Station Break - DJ Shadow & Automator - Fists of Curry
Lush - Blackout
Tones on Tail - Happiness
The Secret Meeting - Shiver X
Station Break - Kruder & Dorfmeister - Original Bedroom Rockers
Massive Attack (feat. Sinead O'Connor) - What Your Soul Sings
Portishead - Magic Doors
Skinny Puppy - Convulsion
Front 242 - Aggresiva
cEvin Key (feat Edward Ka-Spel) - A Certain Stuuckey

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 01-13-09

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Iggy and the Stooges - Search and Destroy
David Bowie - Saviour Machine
13th Floor Elevators - Fire Engine
Echo and the Bunnymen - Villiers Terrace
Station Break - 45 Grave - Surf Bat
Modern English - Life in the Gladhouse
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Happy House
Alien Sex Fiend - E.S.T. (Trip to the Moon)
Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth
Station Break - David Bowie - Subterraneans
Warsaw - The Drawback
Crass - Major General Despair
TSOL - I'm Tired of Life
Depeche Mode - Two Minute Warning
The Soft Boys - Only the Stones Remain
Sisters of Mercy - Gimme Shelter (Rolling Stones cover)
Station Break - Skinny Puppy - Brap
New Order - Cries and Whispers
Comsat Angels - Goat of the West
The Buzzcocks - Nostalgia
Flesh for Lulu - Siamese Twist
Station Break - Brian Eno - Energy Fools the Magician
John Foxx - Blurred Girl
Gary Numan - Stormtrooper in Drag
Clan of Xymox - Imagination
Book of Love - Lost Souls
Yaz - Winter Kills
Station Break - Depeche Mode - Further Excerpts from My Secret Garden
Skinny Puppy - Anger
Christian Death - Spiritual Cramp
Sex Gang Children - The Crack Up
Swans - God Loves America
Danielle Dax - The Id Parade

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 12-09-09

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The Boo Radleys - Upon 9th & Fairchild
Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
Verve - She's A Superstar
Red House Painters - Mistress
Station Break - Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Musical Interlude
Mary Onettes - The Laughter
Galaxie 500 - Blue Thunder
The Cure - Chain of Flowers
Tones on Tail - Happiness
Station Break - David Bowie - All Saints
Cocteau Twins - Pandora
Slint - Nosferatu Man
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Slowdive (live)
Slowdive - Dagger
Low - Dark
Station Break - Brian Eno - Energy Fools the Magician
Pale Saints - Sight of You
Comsat Angels - "Baby"
Ultra Vivid Scene - She Screamed
Primal Scream - May the Sun Shine Bright for You
Ultravox - My Sex
Tubeway Army - Every Day I Die
Station Break - Tones on Tail - Instrumental
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Loverman
Recoil - Luscious Apparatus
Depeche Mode - Corrupt
Station Break - Tindersticks - Ventrauen II
Engineers - Clean Coloured Wire
Airiel - Mermaid in a Manhole
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Ride - Paralyzed

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 10-04-09

Happy October everybody! Time for jack-o-lanterns, spiderwebs, dead leaves and spooooky sounds. Well, at least a tad spookier than usual. This week's episode is only an hour, but expect a return to the two-hour format for the rest of the month. Possibly with some real surprises.
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Gothic Archies - In A Cave
Alien Sex Fiend - Here Cum Germs
Bone Orchard - Tongue
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Pictures on My Wall
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Jack the Ripper
Station Break - The Royal Jokers - Vibrations
Switchblade Symphony - Dissolve (Rat Scabies Mix)
Collide - Beneath the Skin
Oingo Boingo - Skin
The Cars - Dangerous Type
Station Break - The Swanks - Ghost Train
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Lucifer's Flowers
Butthole Surfers - Graveyard
Einstürzende Neubauten - Der Tod Ist Ein Dandy
Skinny Puppy - Grave Wisdom