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:

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)

Halloween Special

Have a terror-ific Halloween every body. Here's some titillating tunes for all you groovy ghouls:
Scream or Drownload

Siouxsie & the Banshees - Spellbound (Juju - 1981)
David Vanian & the Phantom Chords - Voodoo Doll (S/T - 2004)
Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk the Line (I Walk the Line 12" - 1986)
45 Grave - Evil (Sleep in Safety - 1983)
Misfits - Ghouls Night Out (3 Hits from Hell - 1981)
The Cramps - GooGoo Muck (Psychedelic Jungle - 1981)
The Frantics - Werewolf (Werewolf 7" - 1960)
Round Robin - I'm the Wolf Man (I'm the Wolf Man 7" - 1965)
Bobby Bare - Vampira (Tender Years - 1965)
The Meteors - Corpse Grinder (Don't Touch the Bang Bang Fruit - 1987)
TSOL - Silent Scream (Dance With Me - 1981)
13th Chime - Coffin Maker (Cuts of Love 7" - 1981)
Bauhaus - Of Lilies and Remains (Mask - 1981)
Tones on Tail - Burning Skies (S/T - 1985)
Dancing Did - Wolves of Worcestershire (And Did Those Feet - 1982)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Curse of Millhaven (Murder Ballads - 1996)

Rhymes of an Hour

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David Bowie - Some Are (Low - 1977)
Iggy Pop - Mass Production (The Idiot - 1977)
Joy Division - Exercise One (Still - 1981)
Ultravox! - Distant Smile (Ha! Ha! Ha! - 1977)
Gary Numan - Films (The Pleasure Principle - 1979)
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys (Three Imaginary Boys - 1979)
The Sisters of Mercy - Watch (Damage Done - 1891)
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Disease (Heaven Up Here - 1981)
Bauhaus - Hope (Burning From the Inside - 1983)

Station Break - Dirty Three - Hope

Morrissey - Ordinary Boys (Viva Hate - 1988)
Galaxie 500 = Strange (On Fire - 1989)
Mazzy Star - Rhymes of an Hour (Among My Swan - 1996)
Slowdive - Losing Today (Morningrise - 1991)
Low - Medicine and Magazines (Things We Lost in the Fire - 2001)

Outro - Robin Guthrie - Monument

Everything is absurd - may as well dance.

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Warsaw - The Drawback (Warsaw - 1978)
The Damned - Anti-Pope (Machine Gun Etiquette - 1979)
Alien Sex Fiend - Nightmare Zone (Another Planet - 1988)
Christian Death - Deathwish (Only Theatre of Pain - 1982)
Sexbeat - Sexbeat (Batcave: Young Limbs, Numb Hymns - 1983)
The Boys Next Door - Dive Position (Door, Door - 1979)
Depeche Mode - Something to Do (Some Great Reward - 1984)

Station Break - 45 Grave - Surfbat

Tones on Tail - Go! (Club Mix) (Go! - 1984)
Danielle Dax - Big Hollow Man (Inky Bloaters - 1987)
Skinny Puppy - Cage (Chainsaw EP - 1985)
The Cramps - The Way I Walk (Gravest Hits - 1979)
Love and Rockets - No Big Deal (Love and Rockets - 1989)
Ramones - I Don't Wanna Grow Up (Tom Waits cover) (Adios Amigos! - 1995)
The Misfits - Some Kinda Hate (Legacy of Brutality - 1985)
The Cure - Killing an Arab (Three Imaginary Boys - 1979)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling (The Scream - 1979)
Joy Division - I Remember Nothing (Unknown Pleasures - 1979)

Antivalentines Special

Because love isn't always wine and roses. Stream or Download

Joy Division - Isolation (Closer - 1980)
Depeche Mode - Love, In Itself (Construction Time Again - 1983)
Ministry - Revenge (With Sympahty - 1983)
The Smiths - Girlfriend in a Coma (Strangeways, Here We Come - 1987)

Station Break - cEvin Key - Ambient Fruit (Chapter 2)

The Sisters of Mercy - Valentine (Some Girls Wander By Mistake - 1992)
The Damned - Stab Your Back (Damned, Damned, Damned -1977)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Suburban Relapse (Peel Session - 1977)
Bauhaus - The Passion of Lovers (Mask - 1981)

Nightfall - "The Undertaker" (Orig. Air Mar. 11, 1983)

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 05-04-11

Apologies for the late post. I had, erm, lost the jump drive with this show and just found it yesterday when Blogger was down. So anyway, here it is in all its dreamy, noisy glory. Stream or Download

The Soft Moon - Breathe the Fire (The Soft Moon - 2010)
Crystal Stilts - Shake the Shackles (In Love With Oblivion - 2011)
Frankie Rose and the Outs - Must Be Nice (Frankie Rose and the Outs - 2010)
Craft Spells - Beauty Above All (Idle Labor - 2011)
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Heart in Your Heartbeat (Belong - 2011)
Station Break
Tashaki Miyaki - All I Have to Do Is Dream [Everly Bros. cover] (Tashak It To Me - 2011)
Dum Dum Girls - Wrong Feels Right (He Gets Me High - 2011)
The Raveonettes - Apparitions (Raven in the Grave - 2011)
Ceremony - Dreams Stripped Away (Not Tonight - 2011)
Quiet Lights - Simple Mechanics (The Big Fear - 2011)
Station Break
Vivian Girls - I Heard You Say (Share the Joy - 2011)
The Art Museums - So Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore (Rough Frame - 2010)
Weekend - Youth Haunts (Sports - 2010)
Moon Duo - Seer (Mazes - 2011)

Wanting the World to Pass - BtWoS 04-20-11

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Pale Saints - Sight of You (Mrs. Dolphin - 1989)
This Mortal Coil - Not Me [Colin Newman cover](It'll End in Tears - 1987)
The Damned - Drinking About My Baby (The Black Album - 1980)
The Cramps - All Women Are Bad (Stay Stick! - 1990)
Station Break - This Mortal Coil - The Last Ray
The Magnetic Fields - I Can't Touch You Anymore (69 Love Songs - 1999)
The Smiths - Pretty Girls Make Graves (The Smiths - 1984)
Joy Division - Heart and Soul (Closer - 1980)
The Cure - Disintegration (Disintigration - 1989)
Station Break - Team Ghost - Only You Can Break My Heart
Slowdive - Catch the Breeze (Just for a Day - 1991)
Ride - Vapour Trail (Nowhere - 1990)
Low - Like A Forest (Things We Lost in the Fire - 2001)
Carissa's Wierd - Low Budget Slow Motion Soundtrack for the Leaving Scene (Songs About Leaving - 2002)

The Last Broadcast

The final show. Thanks to everyone who has tuned in over the last two years. Stream or Download

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

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 07-21-10

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Buzzcocks - Fiction Romance
The Dancing Did - Charnel Boy
Tubeway Army - Every Day I Die
Ultravox! - The Man Who Dies Every Day
Station Break - Tones on Tail - You, the Night and the Music
The Soft Boys - I Wanna' Destroy You
The Cultural Decay - Song of Joy
Corpus Delicti - Poisoned Dead Flowers
Virgin Prunes - Decline and Fall
Station Break - Bauhaus - Satori
Cinema Strange - 'Ere the Flowers Unfold
Klauds Nomi - You Don't Own Me
Rasputina - If Your Kisses Don't Hold the Man You Love
The Chameleons - The Fan and the Bellows
Station Break - Dead Can Dance - Dedicace Duto
Tones on Tail - Performance
Diva Destruction - Cruelty Games
The Church - Reptile
Clan of Xymox - Craving
Station Break - Faith & Disease - Space Song II
Skeletal Family - She Cries Alone
Cocteau Twins - Bland Dumb Deaf (BBC Session)
Bel Canto - Intravenous
Rhea's Obsession - Mahakala
Station Break - Robin Guthrie - Some Sort of Paradise
Autumn's Grey Solace - Waning Faithful
Lycia - Bare
Cranes - Sixth of May
Love Spirals Downwards - Sound of Waves
Soul Whirling Somewhere - Wish

Finally - 06-09-10

Apologies for the delay. Stream or Download

For Against - Stranded in Greenland
Gary Numan - Remember I Was Vapour
Darker My Love - She Lives
Sky Parade - I Should Be Coming Up (But I Keep Coming Down)
Station Break - Broadcast - Minus One
Screen Vinyl Image - Chaser (Hypefactor "Blood On Your Hands" Remix)
School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep (Alternate Version)
Ms. John Soda - Hiding/Fading
Lali Puna - B-Movie
Station Break - Cluster and Eno - Ho Renomo
Love Culture - Future Halos
Miranda Sex Garden - Cut
Lycia - Drifting
Dead Can Dance - Severance
Love and Rockets - Holiday on the Moon
Bel Canto - Picnic on the Moon
Claire Voyant - Eventide
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Sick Child
Station Break - Kevin Shields - Zither
Jesus and Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains
Cocteau Twins - Perhaps Some Other Aeon
The Smiths - Cemetery Gates
Station Break - Sisters of Mercy - Sandstorm
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - People Ain't No Good
Blue Foundation - Shine
Julee Cruise - I Float Alone
David Bowie - Wild is the Wind
Nina Simone - Lilac Wine

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

04-07-10

Better late than never? Anyway, Stream or Download

The Cramps - Fever
Tom Waits - Gin Soaked Boy
Nick Cave - Rye Whisky
The Growlers - Swallowed Whole
Station Break - Spindrift - The New West
The Church - Ripple
Bauhaus - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Bring Me the Head of the Preacher Man
The Smiths - Still Ill
Station Break - Book of Love - Late Show
The Tear Garden - The Double Spades Effect
Dead Can Dance - Carnival of Light
Julee Cruise - Into the Night
Jesus and Mary Chain - In the Black
HTRK - Fascinator
Placebo - Holocaust (Big Star cover)

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