WFMU: Dark Night of the Soul with Julie: Playlist from April 15, 2025

Listener comments!
	2:46pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: Hi Julie, all! (Julie, I pm’d you, thought I’d let you know as not all spam filters like my address…)
	🦇 ♥ 2:56pm Julie: oh thanks for letting me know! I had to hunt for it. Thank you! 🖤
	🦇 ♥ 3:00pm listener james from westwood: Afternoon, Julie and all!
	♥ 3:00pm TDK60: Ho Julie deejay.
	🦇 ♥ 3:01pm bradford: Hey there Julie & all!
	🦇 ♥ 3:01pm Julie: hi Cha Cha Hi James Hi TDK Hi Brandford!
	🦇 ♥ 3:02pm PMD: Hey I'm actually live with you!
	🦇 ♥ 3:02pm Asheville Jon: ↳ Song: "Play For Today" by "The Cure" YAY!!!!
	🦇 ♥ 3:02pm chris in the redwoods: hi, Julie, birds, bats and all other souls. one of my fav Cure tracks, i think.
	🦇 ♥ 3:02pm Asheville Jon: julie birds hello
	🦇 ♥ 3:02pm Julie: hi PMD! yay! hi asheville jon! Hi Chris!
	🦇 ♥ 3:03pm Yvang: Hi Julie and darks souls and curists!
	♥ 3:04pm spodiodi: Hi Julie and all!
	🦇 ♥ 3:04pm Julie: hiya yvang!
	🦇 ♥ 3:04pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello from the dentist's office! Piece of of a wisdom tooth broke off. 🦷
	🦇 ♥ 3:05pm Julie: hiya Ken! oh no! OWW
	♥ 3:08pm TDK60: ↳ Song: "Melody Experiment (radio edit)" by "Blonde Redhead" Groovy Julie; I've been diggin' this latest B.R. slab.
	3:09pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @3:04 My condolences - same situation here except I haven’t been to a dentist…
	🦇 ♥ 3:13pm egould: Hello Julie! Tell the birds I said hello. Hi everybody. I hope it's dark wherever you are.
	♥ 3:14pm Roberto: Duh kittehz Rusty: ibb.co... Zara: ibb.co...
	🦇 ♥ 3:14pm Julie: hi egould! Hi Roberto!
	🦇 ♥ 3:14pm Bas NL: Hi Julie! Hi birdies and friends!
	🦇 ♥ 3:15pm Julie: ↳ Roberto @3:14 yay kittehz!
	🦇 ♥ 3:15pm Julie: hiya Bas!
	♥ 3:16pm Ike: Hi there!
	🦇 ♥ 3:16pm Julie: heya Ike!
	♥ 3:16pm TDK60: Fear of Dolls' cover painting was by a classic Surrealist, Dorothea Tanning.
	🦇 ♥ 3:17pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @3:09 Thanks! Not terribly painful, but jaw was getting tired being open for so long.
	🦇 ♥ 3:18pm Julie: ↳ TDK60 @3:16 oh cool!
	♥ 3:27pm TDK60: Love the 'lab.
	♥ 3:34pm TDK60: I'm in full souldark feels for the unmentioned dastardly sorts.
	🦇 ♥ 3:34pm audiolab1: Good day, Julie, birdies, dark souls!
	🦇 ♥ 3:36pm Julie: hiya audiolab!
	🦇 ♥ 3:41pm egould: ↳ audiolab1 @3:34 Hey audiolab1!
	🦇 ♥ 3:43pm audiolab1: Hello, egould!
	🦇 ♥ 3:44pm Julie: ↳ Song: "Redeemer" by "Tuxedo Gleam" these folks are way too cool to be from California
	🦇 ♥ 3:45pm egould: ↳ Song: "No Matter How" by "Torrey" I need to listen to more of Torrey. Also from California.
	🦇 ♥ 3:46pm Julie: lots of great bands from there, but unexpected to hear new minimal from there
	🦇 ♥ 3:49pm Bas NL: ↳ Julie @3:44 Maybe their iceberg gave out near California?
	🦇 ♥ 3:51pm egould: ↳ Bas NL @3:49 Ha!
	♥ 3:53pm Ike: NYC folks, did you hear about Cuomo using ChatGPT to write his error-filled mayoral housing plan? I wonder if Mark Hurst knows about this. Remember, don't rank Cuomo on June 24!
	🦇 ♥ 3:54pm Julie: ↳ Ike @3:53 ugh i had not heard but not surprised. I fear he will win only because of name recognition. Could he be worse than Adams? Do we really need more predatory men in office?
	♥ 3:57pm Ike: ↳ Julie @3:54 Unfortunately it's not just name recognition -- a lot of working-class people are still fans of his! Especially in Harlem for some reason. Some are open to listening to reason, but only if a lot of us volunteers get out there and talk to them... it might be an uphill battle...
	🦇 ♥ 3:59pm Julie: this city seems incapable of electing a decent person
	🦇 ♥ 4:00pm egould: ↳ Song: "Mr. Dragonfly" by "Léanie Kaleido" I imagine you could weigh the whale by measuring the displacement of the water in the tank where you place the whale? Or you could politely ask the whale what it weighs?
	🦇 ♥ 4:01pm Julie: whales are famous for fudging about their weight
	🦇 ♥ 4:04pm Bas NL: Or they would all say they weigh one whale?
	🦇 ♥ 4:08pm A.J. MACHETE: Good Darkternoon, Julie and all. Slowly reassembling my audio setup, hopefully the first of two, now that I have the space.
	🦇 ♥ 4:09pm Julie: hiya AJ!
	🦇 ♥ 4:09pm chris in the redwoods: ↳ Song: "Death (Dido's Lament)" by "Klaus Nomi" amazing. <3
	🦇 ♥ 4:11pm egould: That was a hell of a set, Julie.
	🦇 ♥ 4:14pm A.J. MACHETE: I had a "best ever friend" whom I wish had stayed around in time for YouTube.
	4:18pm Midge: Hi Julie and dark friendos! Been listening at a respectable level
	🦇 ♥ 4:19pm Julie: ↳ egould @4:11 thank you!
	🦇 ♥ 4:19pm Julie: hiya Midge!
	4:20pm Curtis: Hiya Julie! There’s that early Elton that I always appreciate hearing!!
	🦇 ♥ 4:21pm Julie: hiya Curtis!
	🦇 ♥ 4:26pm A.J. MACHETE: ↳ A.J. MACHETE @4:14 She must know I was just talking (or typing) about her; I just found her copy of "One to Grow On" by Jean Little, a childhood fave of hers, as I was unboxing some items from the move.
	🦇 ♥ 4:26pm Crafty: hi Julie! hi everyone! no need to be afraid of the dark here
	🦇 ♥ 4:27pm Julie: hi Crafty!
	4:31pm laurapanic: Good morning, have been listening in the car on the way to work, and I look forward to darkening my soul at my desk for the rest of the show. Every week, I really enjoy my dose of pre-80s Elton.
	🦇 ♥ 4:31pm Julie: hi Laura!
	4:39pm kuriousornj: ↳ Song: "Siamese Trap" by "Opal" love Opal, thnx
	🦇 ♥ 4:39pm Matt from Springfield: HI Julie and Endarkened Ones!
	🦇 ♥ 4:44pm Julie: hi kuriousornj! Hi Matt!
	4:45pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "The Observation (mono)" by "Donovan" I’m in the dark with this - Julie, you were talking about deluxe editions and mono/stereo versions. I have always thought Sunshine Superman was given a contemporary release only in mono, but I could be very wrong here. My copy is in “stereo” (fake that is), a twofer with In Concert.
	4:46pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "April" by "Spotlight Kid" oh I like this....but looks like they are no more, their website is now an ad farm.
	🦇 ♥ 4:50pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @4:45 There's also the "long" and "short" versions of "Sunshine Superman" - I suppose the single has the shorter version?
	♥ 4:50pm leshwatt: Hi darklings and Julie! Excellent show as always. Turn it up.
	4:50pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "Death (Dido's Lament)" by "Klaus Nomi" Oh after a rather oossom (Finglish for awesome, heh) Klaus Nomi opera song it was really cool to hear your sister had performed the whole opera… in high school. Hopefully music makes the anniversaries of your loved ones less painful. Is this a false memory or did you once play a tape where your sister was duetting with herself?
	4:52pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:50 I didn’t even know that! I only have the album on that aforementioned twofer.
	🦇 ♥ 4:55pm Julie: hi leshwatt!
	🦇 ♥ 4:55pm Julie: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @4:50 I didn't play it but I did tell a story about it. Wish I had that tape!
	🦇 ♥ 4:55pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Windows (live 1981)" by "Missing Persons" Oooh! LIVE Missing Persons!
	🦇 ♥ 4:56pm A.J. MACHETE: ↳ Song: "Windows (live 1981)" by "Missing Persons" Pre-Cyndi Lauper?
	♥ 4:57pm leshwatt: I haven’t heard Missing Persons since I was a pup.
	🦇 ♥ 4:58pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @4:52 Then there are so many variations on albums/releases by region with Donovan, presumably the UK albums were mostly mono then, with a stereo mix more likely on US albums, and a stereo 45 short version will likely be rare.
	🦇 ♥ 5:00pm Matt from Springfield: The really interesting (but trivial) collections are the variations on master recordings in different releases - some single versions of "Mellow Yellow" and "I Am The Walrus" have longer instrumental sections with a few additional bars in the mix.
	🦇 ♥ 5:07pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Final Abyss" by "Your Funeral" It's "Your Funeral"!!...
	🦇 ♥ 5:08pm Julie: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:00 there's a whole Donovan album with newer recordings of his songs. It confused me for a long time.
	🦇 ♥ 5:09pm Julie: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:07 all female "death rock" alas just the one single
	🦇 ♥ 5:12pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Julie @5:08 I don't know which one that is, but I've heard the re-recording of "Sunshine Superman" - too obvious, lacks the psych layering and sounds like it belongs in a commercial! Probably the ones they have on streaming services. Even if it is a (Donovan's Version), I prefer to hear the original recordings - about 80% of the time.
	🦇 ♥ 5:13pm Julie: it's called the wonderful world of donovan I think. It looks like a hits collection but it's very different recordings.
	🦇 ♥ 5:13pm Julie: I don't think it was his preference I think it was just for a different label
	5:16pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:58 I just checked. There’s only a mono one released at the time in USA, the stereo mix is newly made (amazingly the multitracks were still available). And yes, different versions for different countries, even if Donovan was from UK, the UK album Sunshine Superman simply combines tracks from that album and Mellow Yellow. At least mine doesn’t, it’s the original version - if only it wasn’t ‘stereo enhanced’. Actually The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds is a similar case - in mono initially with no contemporary stereo mix, only for many a later edition to appear in horrible fake stereo..,
	🦇 ♥ 5:16pm Matt from Springfield: The original recording of ? and the Mysterians "96 Tears" is hard to find - I rely on an MP3 someone ripped from the More American Graffiti soundtrack LP. Years ago at least, it was extraordinarily difficult to locate The English Beat's "March of the Swivelheads" (the Ferris Bueller "chase music") - it might be digital now but was only a vinyl B-side (and perhaps some EP's additional track).
	🦇 ♥ 5:16pm Julie: how do you tell if it's "fake" stereo?
	🦇 ♥ 5:18pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @5:16 I know the Pet Sounds box sets have remastered multi-track "real" stereo mixes, but I suppose they came out with a "false stereo" mix years before then to market for pure $$ reasons.
	🦇 ♥ 5:19pm Julie: there is a mono version of empty sky too
	🦇 ♥ 5:20pm Julie: not that you can find it anywhere
	🦇 ♥ 5:20pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Julie @5:16 "I Am The Walrus" is a good example of the "false stereo" effect. Midway through the song, it switches to a more "vast" sound, but it's not stereo - it's merely the same mix with a slight delay to mimic the fullness of stereo sound.
	5:20pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Julie @5:16 It often sounds like you are hearing only the other channel ( because the other channel is eq’d differently), or there’s reverb or echo to make it sound it was in stereo. A dreadful invention. Then again, original mono pressings are always either in bad condition or very pricey :(
	🦇 ♥ 5:21pm audiolab1: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @5:16 If you have a mono switch on your phono pre-amp/pre-amp/receiver, try turning it on when playing fake stereo albums. It can do wonders in some cases!
	🦇 ♥ 5:22pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ audiolab1 @5:21 Ah, good hack! Thanks!
	🦇 ♥ 5:24pm audiolab1: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:22 It's really, really good for fake stereo versions where all the bass is in one channel and treble in the other, or heavy reverb in one channel..it makes it somewhat whole again.
	🦇 ♥ 5:27pm egould: ↳ Song: "Earthquake" by "RAYS" Really nice jangle.
	🦇 ♥ 5:32pm Bas NL: Will listen to your Friday fill-in!
	5:46pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ audiolab1 @5:21 I wish I still had that 70s Bang & Olufsen amp/receiver with a mono switch I kinda stole from my dad when I moved to my own place. Both the amp and my dad are long gone :(
	5:51pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "How I Wish" by "Dorian Gräe" This band is news to me, a more conventionally named band, Dorian Gray was around at the same time (198?-1987ish), two 7” ep’s of rather minimalistic goth punk from Finland (just vocals, bass and drums with occasional synths).
	🦇 ♥ 5:51pm Dan S: Hi Julie, fellow Dark Knight Souls. I'm coming in late today, but better late than never.
	🦇 ♥ 5:52pm Julie: hiya Dan!
	♥ 5:52pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Mr. Blue Sky" by "Electric Light Orchestra" Remember when hit radio tunes were bangers?
	♥ 5:52pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @5:52 Also, GIT OFF MAH LAWN
	🦇 ♥ 5:52pm Matt from Springfield: Hi there Dan S! Blue Sky in a Dark Night!
	🦇 ♥ 5:52pm Julie: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @5:51 ooh that sounds good... I feel like I should have that but maybe not
	♥ 5:53pm Roberto: Rusty and Mo just had a bit of a showdown. Mo's tail got all big and bushy and Rusty's face look's like he's seen some shit.
	🦇 ♥ 5:53pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Mr. Blue Sky" by "Electric Light Orchestra" Encore/closing song on Jeff Lynne's Over and Out Tour last year.
	♥ 5:54pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @5:53 *looks
	🦇 ♥ 5:54pm Julie: stone cold classic
	🦇 ♥ 5:54pm egould: ↳ Roberto @5:52 Remember when hit album cover art depicted the band as some sort of spaceship?
	🦇 ♥ 5:54pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Roberto @5:53 Coincidentally (?!) there is an ELO song for them: en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 5:55pm Roberto: ↳ egould @5:54 Well, there was ELO, Boston, and J-Starship. Am I forgetting anyone?
	♥ 5:55pm Roberto: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:54 Spot on!
	🦇 ♥ 5:56pm egould: ↳ Roberto @5:55 Alan Parsons Project. Journey. Probably Styx at some point. :-)
	♥ 5:56pm Roberto: ↳ egould @5:56 Right, of course.
	♥ 5:59pm spodiodi: YES
	🦇 ♥ 6:01pm Julie: hi spodi!
	6:01pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @5:51 It seems there’s many bands called Dorian Gray, for instance one from Yugoslavia/Croatia, the Finnish Dorian Gray’s discography cd-r is on YouTube should you want to check it out youtu.be...
	♥ 6:02pm spodiodi: Hi Julie! Enjoying the show
	🦇 ♥ 6:03pm kwatts: Hello hello. I hope everyone is doing well.
	🦇 ♥ 6:03pm Julie: thanks!
	🦇 ♥ 6:03pm Julie: hi kwatts!
	🦇 ♥ 6:03pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "You Really Got Me" by "Oingo Boingo" A pretty off the wall cover.
	🦇 ♥ 6:04pm chris in the redwoods: ↳ Song: "You Really Got Me" by "Oingo Boingo" love this version. :)
	🦇 ♥ 6:06pm Bas NL: Numan!
	🦇 ♥ 6:07pm Matt from Springfield: A shame you didn't get to see Jeff Lynne! My Mom saw him in 2019 and said that he wasn't as sharp now, so he really might be "Over and Out", as I presumed.
	♥ 6:07pm Roberto: Rusty contemplates the void: ibb.co...
	🦇 ♥ 6:08pm Julie: yeah I think it was billed as the last tour
	🦇 ♥ 6:08pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Dream Killer" by "Gary Numan" I think I see the theme here. Happy Tax Day from I.R.S. Records!
	6:09pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "Dream Killer" by "Gary Numan" I have never heard stuff like this from Gary Numan, but this does sound mighty good.
	🦇 ♥ 6:09pm Matt from Springfield: And while ELO had to "share" their "Xanadu" song with Olivia, it seems that Olivia "shared" her own side with Cliff Richard, The Tubes and Gene Kelly! (RIP, ELO friend - if he was here in 2001 or so, he'd be pleased that the ELO hits CD had an ELO-only version of "Xanadu".)
	♥ 6:12pm spodiodi: another big YES
	♥ 6:12pm spodiodi: Love that unmistakable sound
	🦇 ♥ 6:13pm Julie: most predictable theme ever but hey, 80s music
	♥ 6:14pm spodiodi: Absolutely fine with me. Love most things from IRS
	🦇 ♥ 6:17pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Julie @6:13 Interesting 'toid: "From 1983 to 1987, I.R.S. Records sponsored a monthly MTV show called I.R.S. Records Presents The Cutting Edge, hosted by Peter Zaremba of The Fleshtones. The series concentrated on bands that recorded for the label. The show concept would later evolve into the alternative rock program 120 Minutes, which was launched in 1986 and co-existed with Cutting Edge for about a year and a half." A forerunner of the popular 120 Minutes show!
	🦇 ♥ 6:18pm Julie: ↳ Matt from Springfield @6:17 I was just reading the same thing. Had no idea.
	6:18pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "My Kingdom Come" by "The Lords Of The New Church" Why was I born too late I didn’t get to see The Lords of the New Church on their legendary 1983 of Finland :(
	6:19pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @6:18 Tour
	🦇 ♥ 6:19pm Julie: ↳ Song: "My Kingdom Come" by "The Lords Of The New Church" this is kinda metal I guess?
	🦇 ♥ 6:19pm egould: Thanks Julie. Stellar show.
	🦇 ♥ 6:20pm Julie: thanks for listening egould!
	🦇 ♥ 6:20pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Julie @6:19 "Goth metal" probably, the "metal edge of Goth" - hey, that's a more Goth way to put it!
	♥ 6:25pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Fever" by "The Cramps" when i worked at the library in uni, the director gifted me this album....
	♥ 6:26pm spodiodi: I'd better say thank you as well, Julie! Great show!Another Big Fat YES
	🦇 ♥ 6:26pm Julie: hiya NGH!
	🦇 ♥ 6:26pm Julie: thanks for listening Spodi!
	♥ 6:26pm northguineahills: for some reason, i still associate IRS w/ REM and similar bands, even though i know different....
	6:27pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "Fever" by "The Cramps" On the long list of bands I didn’t make the effort to see live in spite of many a chance to do so, missing The Cramps just hurts… as well as Big Star and X-Ray Spex and aarrrgghh
	6:28pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ northguineahills @6:25 Now that is a great gift!
	6:30pm P-90: “Fever” originally recorded by Little Willie John in 1956, later covered by Peggy Lee and many others.
	🦇 ♥ 6:31pm Matt from Springfield: Hey NGH! I know IRS mainly as the REM label - probably their best known artist. But they also had The Bangles, The Go-Gos, The Fall, and the US distributor of many other UK groups - including the whole English Beat/General Public/Fine Young Cannibals family. I know they distributed at least a couple comedy albums as well?
	🦇 ♥ 6:32pm Asheville Jon: ↳ Song: "Green Eyes" by "Suburban Lawns" hooray!!
	🦇 ♥ 6:32pm Julie: hi P-90! yeah I think Peggy Lee had the biggest hit with it.
	♥ 6:32pm northguineahills: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @6:28 He was leaving for library job in Chicago, and was trying to lighten his record collection. he knew i was a record geek, so it worked out.
	♥ 6:33pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Green Eyes" by "Suburban Lawns" if handy was here, he'd scream "SUBURBAN LAWNS!"
	🦇 ♥ 6:34pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ northguineahills @6:33 Oh dear, is that another "DRINK!" cue? All I have here are some Keurig pods...
	🦇 ♥ 6:35pm Bas NL: Owww.. a round of the I.R.S. (Records)?
	🦇 ♥ 6:36pm Julie: ↳ Song: "I'm Sorry" by "Payola$" their albums have never been released on CD...SIGH
	♥ 6:37pm northguineahills: ↳ Matt from Springfield @6:34 i'll drink for us both!
	🦇 ♥ 6:37pm Julie: ↳ Song: "Cold, Cold Shoes" by "The Fleshtones" more cowbell!
	♥ 6:37pm northguineahills: ↳ Julie @6:36 weird....
	🦇 ♥ 6:38pm Julie: ↳ northguineahills @6:37 yeah there's a couple of comps and that's it. They need a nice Cherry Red box
	🦇 ♥ 6:38pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Matt from Springfield @6:31 At least Barry Diamond's album - a comedian who had a role in Bachelor Party, and consequently the soundtrack album was released on IRS. (With Oingo Boingo! The Fleshtones! Even The Alarm!)
	🦇 ♥ 6:39pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ northguineahills @6:37 Thanks! Down the hatch!
	6:39pm Gary: Thanks. This is awesome
	🦇 ♥ 6:39pm Julie: hi Gary! Thank you!
	♥ 6:40pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Co-star" by "Let's Active" love this album...
	6:47pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "TV Operator" by "Alternative TV" I’m more familiar with Alex Fergusson’s work with Psychic TV than that of Alternative TV, but what surprised me that Alternative TV still plays gigs on occasion. Cafe Oto in London last year for instance (no I didn’t get to see it)
	♥ 6:49pm northguineahills: i was just enjoying some rapid eye movements a few hours earlier (literally, as i had a siesta)
	6:50pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "Automatic" by "Go-Gos" Not a single album in my collection from the Go-Go’s. What a miserable life, what a miserable household I have.
	6:52pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "West of the Fields" by "R.E.M." As much as I dislike R.E.M. of 1990’s, this early stuff kills.
	🦇 ♥ 6:53pm Julie: oh yeah the early stuff is SO much better.
	🦇 ♥ 6:53pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Where Were You Hiding When the Storm Broke?" by "... "80s Celtic"!! And the Welsh variety, a bit less common!
	🦇 ♥ 6:54pm Julie: I have a friend who is a hardcore alarm fan. always seems like she's going to an alarm event of some kind
	🦇 ♥ 6:55pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" by "... Good ol' Timbuk 3!
	🦇 ♥ 6:56pm PMD: OMG I haven't heard Timbuk 3 in so long
	🦇 ♥ 6:56pm Asheville Jon: thanks julie and birds
	🦇 ♥ 6:56pm Julie: thanks for listening everyone! see you next tuesday!
	🦇 ♥ 6:57pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Julie @6:56 THANKS Julie! A fun spin through IRS territory! Have a good evening, everyone!
	6:57pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Julie @6:54 That’s great! I have never seen them, sadly, I’m only familiar with the early stuff but it is soooo good! Thanks for playing that song
	🦇 ♥ 6:58pm Crafty: Thank you! Great show!😎
	♥ 6:58pm northguineahills: ahhh, it's almost 7! thank you so much julie!
	🦇 ♥ 6:59pm Bas NL: Thanks Julie! Loving tunes! Great I.R.S. Records set!
	🦇 ♥ 6:59pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Julie. I want to live in a bright future. Let's vote the bums out and make it so.
	🦇 ♥ 7:00pm Midge: Thank you Julie!
	7:00pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: Oh nooooo! This I.R.S. set was perfect. Thanks for company everyone, thank you so much Julie for all your efforts, again another amazing show
	🦇 ♥ 7:00pm Yvang: Thanks Julie!
	🦇 ♥ 7:00pm chris in the redwoods: thanks, Julie!
	🦇 ♥ 7:01pm Matt from Springfield: The Go-Gos started out punk, like many groups. They remained on that spectrum in their early albums. They used to sing the Shangri-Las "Remember (Walkin On The Sand)" live back in their more punk days!
	4:39pm Lenny: Great Great show!.....on fire!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
The Cure	Play For Today "Play For Today" by "The Cure"	Seventeen Seconds	Fiction Records	1980
Lunar Heart	Nova 1 "Nova 1" by "Lunar Heart"	Nova 1 (single)	Lunar Heart	2025		*	0:04:57 (Pop-up)
Blonde Redhead	Melody Experiment (radio edit)	Sit Down for Dinner	section 1	2023			0:08:40 (Pop-up)
Fear of Dolls	Fragile Toy "Fragile Toy" by "Fear of Dolls"	When the Organ Played at Twilight	Fear of Dolls	1999			0:12:03 (Pop-up)
Supergloom	Bleed Me Out "Bleed Me Out" by "Supergloom"	Bleed Me Out (single)	Supergloom	2024			0:15:35 (Pop-up)
Orange Hell	Die, Die My Darling "Die, Die My Darling" by "Orange Hell"	Die, Die My Darling b/w Angelfuck	Funeral Party Records	2019			0:20:27 (Pop-up)
Zomes	Cave Mountain Stream "Cave Mountain Stream" by "Zomes"	Time Was	Thrill Jockey	2013			0:23:04 (Pop-up)
Charles Long & Stereolab	Melochord Seventy-Five	Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center	Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks	1995			0:29:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Susan and the Surftones	Transmission						0:31:15 (Pop-up)
Noir	Breath and Taxes "Breath and Taxes" by "Noir"	Live on Dark Night of the Soul	WFMU	2013	Spahn Ranch song		0:35:23 (Pop-up)
Torrey	No Matter How "No Matter How" by "Torrey"	Torrey	Slumberland Records	2024			0:39:16 (Pop-up)
Tuxedo Gleam	Redeemer "Redeemer" by "Tuxedo Gleam"	Subtleties	Popgang Records	2017			0:43:05 (Pop-up)
Night Flowers	Fortune Teller "Fortune Teller" by "Night Flowers"	Fortune Teller	Dirty Bingo Records	2019			0:46:29 (Pop-up)
Camel	Breathless "Breathless" by "Camel"	Breathless	Decca	1978			0:49:47 (Pop-up)
'Igginbottom	Is She Just a Dream "Is She Just a Dream" by "'Igginbottom"	'Igginbottom's Wrench	Deram	1969			0:53:59 (Pop-up)
Léanie Kaleido	Mr. Dragonfly "Mr. Dragonfly" by "Léanie Kaleido"	How to Weigh A Whale Without A Scale	Léanie Kaleido	2021			0:58:55 (Pop-up)
Donovan	The Observation (mono) "The Observation (mono)" by "Donovan"	Sunshine Superman (Deluxe)	EMI	2011			1:00:56 (Pop-up)
Erika Angell	Open Eyes "Open Eyes" by "Erika Angell"	The Obsession With Her Voice	Constellation	2024			1:03:53 (Pop-up)
Klaus Nomi	Death (Dido's Lament) "Death (Dido's Lament)" by "Klaus Nomi"	Simple Man	RCA Victor	1982			1:07:24 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Gary Numan	Down in the Park (piano instrumental)						1:11:27 (Pop-up)
Elton John	Planes "Planes" by "Elton John"	Rock of the Westies	DJM Records	1996	bonus track from 1975		1:17:26 (Pop-up)
Cranes	Pale Blue Sky "Pale Blue Sky" by "Cranes"	Loved	Arista	1994			1:22:04 (Pop-up)
Plastic Girl in Closet	Vampire "Vampire" by "Plastic Girl in Closet"	Eye Cue Rew See	Only Feedback	2014			1:25:15 (Pop-up)
Lowsunday	Letter from the Moonbase	Elesgiem	Projekt	1999			1:28:42 (Pop-up)
Vein Blue	Find Me "Find Me" by "Vein Blue"	Far Away EP	Vein Blue	2025			1:32:41 (Pop-up)
The Nightblooms	Butterfly Girl "Butterfly Girl" by "The Nightblooms"	The Nightblooms	Fierce Recordings	1992			1:35:26 (Pop-up)
Opal	Siamese Trap "Siamese Trap" by "Opal"	Happy Nightmare Baby	SST Records	1987			1:38:29 (Pop-up)
Spotlight Kid	April "April" by "Spotlight Kid"	Disaster Tourist	Tri-Tone	2011			1:45:19 (Pop-up)
Tori Amos	She's Your Cocaine "She's Your Cocaine" by "Tori Amos"	From The Choirgirl Hotel	Atlantic	1998			1:50:24 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Knight Instrumental	Killer Queen (instrumental)						1:51:59 (Pop-up)
Missing Persons	Windows (live 1981)	Rhyme and Reason (reissue)	One Way Records	2000			1:55:56 (Pop-up)
Figure Study	Answers "Answers" by "Figure Study"	Figure Study	Dark Entries	2013			2:00:38 (Pop-up)
Ghostlights	Drift "Drift" by "Ghostlights"	Forest of Lights	Ghostlights	2015			2:05:22 (Pop-up)
Your Funeral	Final Abyss "Final Abyss" by "Your Funeral"	I Want To Be You 7"	Local Anesthetic Records	1982			2:08:24 (Pop-up)
Dorian Gräe	How I Wish "How I Wish" by "Dorian Gräe"	Dorian Gräe	Dorian Gräe	2022	from 1987		2:11:02 (Pop-up)
Vita Noctis	This Is Not The Life "This Is Not The Life" by "Vita Noctis"	Against the Rule	Dark Entries	2011	from 1986		2:15:59 (Pop-up)
Ether Feels	She's Wanderlust "She's Wanderlust" by "Ether Feels"	When The First Time We Met	Ether Feels	2016			2:18:16 (Pop-up)
Clustersun	Don't Let The Weight of Your Soul Drag You Down	Surfacing To Breathe	Seahorse Recordings	2017			2:23:22 (Pop-up)
RAYS	Earthquake "Earthquake" by "RAYS"	You Can Get There From Here	Trouble in Mind	2018			2:26:13 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Big Jim Sullivan	Sunshine Superman (instrumental)						2:28:32 (Pop-up)
Under a Purple Sky	The Perfect One	Embrace	Under a Purple Sky	2005			2:33:29 (Pop-up)
Westkust	Summer 3D "Summer 3D" by "Westkust"	Last Forever	Luxury	2015			2:36:59 (Pop-up)
Quell	Michael "Michael" by "Quell"	Quell	Quell	2019			2:40:53 (Pop-up)
Dotsun Moon	Give Up The Tears "Give Up The Tears" by "Dotsun Moon"	Tiger	Dotsun Moon	2025		*	2:44:43 (Pop-up)
800 Cherries	Bye-Bye Earth "Bye-Bye Earth" by "800 Cherries"	800 Cherries	Comp@ss! Records	1996			2:48:03 (Pop-up)
Electric Light Orchestra	Mr. Blue Sky	Out of the Blue	Jet Records	1977			2:51:33 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Drama	Electronic Pink Panther "Electronic Pink Panther" by "Drama"						2:56:33 (Pop-up)
Oingo Boingo	You Really Got Me "You Really Got Me" by "Oingo Boingo"	Only a Lad	I.R.S. Records	1981			3:01:02 (Pop-up)
Gary Numan	Dream Killer "Dream Killer" by "Gary Numan"	Outland	I.R.S. Records	1991			3:05:34 (Pop-up)
Tom Robinson	In The Cold "In The Cold" by "Tom Robinson"	North by Northwest	I.R.S. Records	1982			3:09:57 (Pop-up)
Wall of Voodoo	Me and My Dad "Me and My Dad" by "Wall of Voodoo"	Dark Continent	I.R.S. Records	1981			3:13:39 (Pop-up)
The Lords Of The New Church	My Kingdom Come	The Method to Our Madness	I.R.S. Records	1984			3:16:43 (Pop-up)
Concrete Blonde	Days and Days "Days and Days" by "Concrete Blonde"	Bloodletting	I.R.S. Records	1990			3:20:51 (Pop-up)
The Cramps	Fever "Fever" by "The Cramps"	Songs The Lord Taught Us	I.R.S. Records	1980			3:24:04 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Unknown	Mexican Radio (ochestral cover)						3:28:09 (Pop-up)
Suburban Lawns	Green Eyes "Green Eyes" by "Suburban Lawns"	Suburban Lawns	I.R.S. Records	1981			3:32:32 (Pop-up)
Payola$	I'm Sorry "I'm Sorry" by "Payola$"	In A Place Like This	I.R.S. Records	1981			3:35:10 (Pop-up)
The Fleshtones	Cold, Cold Shoes "Cold, Cold Shoes" by "The Fleshtones"	Up-Front EP	I.R.S. Records	1980			3:38:04 (Pop-up)
Let's Active	Co-star "Co-star" by "Let's Active"	Cypress	I.R.S. Records	1984			3:40:42 (Pop-up)
Alternative TV	TV Operator "TV Operator" by "Alternative TV"	Strange Kicks	I.R.S. Records	1981			3:43:57 (Pop-up)
Go-Gos	Automatic "Automatic" by "Go-Gos"	Beauty and the Beat	I.R.S. Records	1981			3:47:14 (Pop-up)
R.E.M.	West of the Fields "West of the Fields" by "R.E.M."	Murmur	I.R.S. Records	1983			3:50:06 (Pop-up)
The Alarm	Where Were You Hiding When the Storm Broke?	Declaration	I.R.S. Records	1984			3:53:21 (Pop-up)
Timbuk 3	The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades	Greetings From Timbuk 3	I.R.S. Records	1986			3:56:25 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Syd Barrett	Gigolo Aunt (loop) "Gigolo Aunt (loop)" by "Syd Barrett"						3:59:29 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	2:46pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: Hi Julie, all! (Julie, I pm’d you, thought I’d let you know as not all spam filters like my address…)
	🦇 ♥ 2:56pm Julie: oh thanks for letting me know! I had to hunt for it. Thank you! 🖤
	🦇 ♥ 3:00pm listener james from westwood: Afternoon, Julie and all!
	♥ 3:00pm TDK60: Ho Julie deejay.
	🦇 ♥ 3:01pm bradford: Hey there Julie & all!
	🦇 ♥ 3:01pm Julie: hi Cha Cha Hi James Hi TDK Hi Brandford!
	🦇 ♥ 3:02pm PMD: Hey I'm actually live with you!
	🦇 ♥ 3:02pm Asheville Jon: ↳ Song: "Play For Today" by "The Cure" YAY!!!!
	🦇 ♥ 3:02pm chris in the redwoods: hi, Julie, birds, bats and all other souls. one of my fav Cure tracks, i think.
	🦇 ♥ 3:02pm Asheville Jon: julie birds hello
	🦇 ♥ 3:02pm Julie: hi PMD! yay! hi asheville jon! Hi Chris!
	🦇 ♥ 3:03pm Yvang: Hi Julie and darks souls and curists!
	♥ 3:04pm spodiodi: Hi Julie and all!
	🦇 ♥ 3:04pm Julie: hiya yvang!
	🦇 ♥ 3:04pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello from the dentist's office! Piece of of a wisdom tooth broke off. 🦷
	🦇 ♥ 3:05pm Julie: hiya Ken! oh no! OWW
	♥ 3:08pm TDK60: ↳ Song: "Melody Experiment (radio edit)" by "Blonde Redhead" Groovy Julie; I've been diggin' this latest B.R. slab.
	3:09pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @3:04 My condolences - same situation here except I haven’t been to a dentist…
	🦇 ♥ 3:13pm egould: Hello Julie! Tell the birds I said hello. Hi everybody. I hope it's dark wherever you are.
	♥ 3:14pm Roberto: Duh kittehz Rusty: ibb.co... Zara: ibb.co...
	🦇 ♥ 3:14pm Julie: hi egould! Hi Roberto!
	🦇 ♥ 3:14pm Bas NL: Hi Julie! Hi birdies and friends!
	🦇 ♥ 3:15pm Julie: ↳ Roberto @3:14 yay kittehz!
	🦇 ♥ 3:15pm Julie: hiya Bas!
	♥ 3:16pm Ike: Hi there!
	🦇 ♥ 3:16pm Julie: heya Ike!
	♥ 3:16pm TDK60: Fear of Dolls' cover painting was by a classic Surrealist, Dorothea Tanning.
	🦇 ♥ 3:17pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @3:09 Thanks! Not terribly painful, but jaw was getting tired being open for so long.
	🦇 ♥ 3:18pm Julie: ↳ TDK60 @3:16 oh cool!
	♥ 3:27pm TDK60: Love the 'lab.
	♥ 3:34pm TDK60: I'm in full souldark feels for the unmentioned dastardly sorts.
	🦇 ♥ 3:34pm audiolab1: Good day, Julie, birdies, dark souls!
	🦇 ♥ 3:36pm Julie: hiya audiolab!
	🦇 ♥ 3:41pm egould: ↳ audiolab1 @3:34 Hey audiolab1!
	🦇 ♥ 3:43pm audiolab1: Hello, egould!
	🦇 ♥ 3:44pm Julie: ↳ Song: "Redeemer" by "Tuxedo Gleam" these folks are way too cool to be from California
	🦇 ♥ 3:45pm egould: ↳ Song: "No Matter How" by "Torrey" I need to listen to more of Torrey. Also from California.
	🦇 ♥ 3:46pm Julie: lots of great bands from there, but unexpected to hear new minimal from there
	🦇 ♥ 3:49pm Bas NL: ↳ Julie @3:44 Maybe their iceberg gave out near California?
	🦇 ♥ 3:51pm egould: ↳ Bas NL @3:49 Ha!
	♥ 3:53pm Ike: NYC folks, did you hear about Cuomo using ChatGPT to write his error-filled mayoral housing plan? I wonder if Mark Hurst knows about this. Remember, don't rank Cuomo on June 24!
	🦇 ♥ 3:54pm Julie: ↳ Ike @3:53 ugh i had not heard but not surprised. I fear he will win only because of name recognition. Could he be worse than Adams? Do we really need more predatory men in office?
	♥ 3:57pm Ike: ↳ Julie @3:54 Unfortunately it's not just name recognition -- a lot of working-class people are still fans of his! Especially in Harlem for some reason. Some are open to listening to reason, but only if a lot of us volunteers get out there and talk to them... it might be an uphill battle...
	🦇 ♥ 3:59pm Julie: this city seems incapable of electing a decent person
	🦇 ♥ 4:00pm egould: ↳ Song: "Mr. Dragonfly" by "Léanie Kaleido" I imagine you could weigh the whale by measuring the displacement of the water in the tank where you place the whale? Or you could politely ask the whale what it weighs?
	🦇 ♥ 4:01pm Julie: whales are famous for fudging about their weight
	🦇 ♥ 4:04pm Bas NL: Or they would all say they weigh one whale?
	🦇 ♥ 4:08pm A.J. MACHETE: Good Darkternoon, Julie and all. Slowly reassembling my audio setup, hopefully the first of two, now that I have the space.
	🦇 ♥ 4:09pm Julie: hiya AJ!
	🦇 ♥ 4:09pm chris in the redwoods: ↳ Song: "Death (Dido's Lament)" by "Klaus Nomi" amazing. <3
	🦇 ♥ 4:11pm egould: That was a hell of a set, Julie.
	🦇 ♥ 4:14pm A.J. MACHETE: I had a "best ever friend" whom I wish had stayed around in time for YouTube.
	4:18pm Midge: Hi Julie and dark friendos! Been listening at a respectable level
	🦇 ♥ 4:19pm Julie: ↳ egould @4:11 thank you!
	🦇 ♥ 4:19pm Julie: hiya Midge!
	4:20pm Curtis: Hiya Julie! There’s that early Elton that I always appreciate hearing!!
	🦇 ♥ 4:21pm Julie: hiya Curtis!
	🦇 ♥ 4:26pm A.J. MACHETE: ↳ A.J. MACHETE @4:14 She must know I was just talking (or typing) about her; I just found her copy of "One to Grow On" by Jean Little, a childhood fave of hers, as I was unboxing some items from the move.
	🦇 ♥ 4:26pm Crafty: hi Julie! hi everyone! no need to be afraid of the dark here
	🦇 ♥ 4:27pm Julie: hi Crafty!
	4:31pm laurapanic: Good morning, have been listening in the car on the way to work, and I look forward to darkening my soul at my desk for the rest of the show. Every week, I really enjoy my dose of pre-80s Elton.
	🦇 ♥ 4:31pm Julie: hi Laura!
	4:39pm kuriousornj: ↳ Song: "Siamese Trap" by "Opal" love Opal, thnx
	🦇 ♥ 4:39pm Matt from Springfield: HI Julie and Endarkened Ones!
	🦇 ♥ 4:44pm Julie: hi kuriousornj! Hi Matt!
	4:45pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "The Observation (mono)" by "Donovan" I’m in the dark with this - Julie, you were talking about deluxe editions and mono/stereo versions. I have always thought Sunshine Superman was given a contemporary release only in mono, but I could be very wrong here. My copy is in “stereo” (fake that is), a twofer with In Concert.
	4:46pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "April" by "Spotlight Kid" oh I like this....but looks like they are no more, their website is now an ad farm.
	🦇 ♥ 4:50pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @4:45 There's also the "long" and "short" versions of "Sunshine Superman" - I suppose the single has the shorter version?
	♥ 4:50pm leshwatt: Hi darklings and Julie! Excellent show as always. Turn it up.
	4:50pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "Death (Dido's Lament)" by "Klaus Nomi" Oh after a rather oossom (Finglish for awesome, heh) Klaus Nomi opera song it was really cool to hear your sister had performed the whole opera… in high school. Hopefully music makes the anniversaries of your loved ones less painful. Is this a false memory or did you once play a tape where your sister was duetting with herself?
	4:52pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:50 I didn’t even know that! I only have the album on that aforementioned twofer.
	🦇 ♥ 4:55pm Julie: hi leshwatt!
	🦇 ♥ 4:55pm Julie: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @4:50 I didn't play it but I did tell a story about it. Wish I had that tape!
	🦇 ♥ 4:55pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Windows (live 1981)" by "Missing Persons" Oooh! LIVE Missing Persons!
	🦇 ♥ 4:56pm A.J. MACHETE: ↳ Song: "Windows (live 1981)" by "Missing Persons" Pre-Cyndi Lauper?
	♥ 4:57pm leshwatt: I haven’t heard Missing Persons since I was a pup.
	🦇 ♥ 4:58pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @4:52 Then there are so many variations on albums/releases by region with Donovan, presumably the UK albums were mostly mono then, with a stereo mix more likely on US albums, and a stereo 45 short version will likely be rare.
	🦇 ♥ 5:00pm Matt from Springfield: The really interesting (but trivial) collections are the variations on master recordings in different releases - some single versions of "Mellow Yellow" and "I Am The Walrus" have longer instrumental sections with a few additional bars in the mix.
	🦇 ♥ 5:07pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Final Abyss" by "Your Funeral" It's "Your Funeral"!!...
	🦇 ♥ 5:08pm Julie: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:00 there's a whole Donovan album with newer recordings of his songs. It confused me for a long time.
	🦇 ♥ 5:09pm Julie: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:07 all female "death rock" alas just the one single
	🦇 ♥ 5:12pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Julie @5:08 I don't know which one that is, but I've heard the re-recording of "Sunshine Superman" - too obvious, lacks the psych layering and sounds like it belongs in a commercial! Probably the ones they have on streaming services. Even if it is a (Donovan's Version), I prefer to hear the original recordings - about 80% of the time.
	🦇 ♥ 5:13pm Julie: it's called the wonderful world of donovan I think. It looks like a hits collection but it's very different recordings.
	🦇 ♥ 5:13pm Julie: I don't think it was his preference I think it was just for a different label
	5:16pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:58 I just checked. There’s only a mono one released at the time in USA, the stereo mix is newly made (amazingly the multitracks were still available). And yes, different versions for different countries, even if Donovan was from UK, the UK album Sunshine Superman simply combines tracks from that album and Mellow Yellow. At least mine doesn’t, it’s the original version - if only it wasn’t ‘stereo enhanced’. Actually The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds is a similar case - in mono initially with no contemporary stereo mix, only for many a later edition to appear in horrible fake stereo..,
	🦇 ♥ 5:16pm Matt from Springfield: The original recording of ? and the Mysterians "96 Tears" is hard to find - I rely on an MP3 someone ripped from the More American Graffiti soundtrack LP. Years ago at least, it was extraordinarily difficult to locate The English Beat's "March of the Swivelheads" (the Ferris Bueller "chase music") - it might be digital now but was only a vinyl B-side (and perhaps some EP's additional track).
	🦇 ♥ 5:16pm Julie: how do you tell if it's "fake" stereo?
	🦇 ♥ 5:18pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @5:16 I know the Pet Sounds box sets have remastered multi-track "real" stereo mixes, but I suppose they came out with a "false stereo" mix years before then to market for pure $$ reasons.
	🦇 ♥ 5:19pm Julie: there is a mono version of empty sky too
	🦇 ♥ 5:20pm Julie: not that you can find it anywhere
	🦇 ♥ 5:20pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Julie @5:16 "I Am The Walrus" is a good example of the "false stereo" effect. Midway through the song, it switches to a more "vast" sound, but it's not stereo - it's merely the same mix with a slight delay to mimic the fullness of stereo sound.
	5:20pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Julie @5:16 It often sounds like you are hearing only the other channel ( because the other channel is eq’d differently), or there’s reverb or echo to make it sound it was in stereo. A dreadful invention. Then again, original mono pressings are always either in bad condition or very pricey :(
	🦇 ♥ 5:21pm audiolab1: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @5:16 If you have a mono switch on your phono pre-amp/pre-amp/receiver, try turning it on when playing fake stereo albums. It can do wonders in some cases!
	🦇 ♥ 5:22pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ audiolab1 @5:21 Ah, good hack! Thanks!
	🦇 ♥ 5:24pm audiolab1: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:22 It's really, really good for fake stereo versions where all the bass is in one channel and treble in the other, or heavy reverb in one channel..it makes it somewhat whole again.
	🦇 ♥ 5:27pm egould: ↳ Song: "Earthquake" by "RAYS" Really nice jangle.
	🦇 ♥ 5:32pm Bas NL: Will listen to your Friday fill-in!
	5:46pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ audiolab1 @5:21 I wish I still had that 70s Bang & Olufsen amp/receiver with a mono switch I kinda stole from my dad when I moved to my own place. Both the amp and my dad are long gone :(
	5:51pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "How I Wish" by "Dorian Gräe" This band is news to me, a more conventionally named band, Dorian Gray was around at the same time (198?-1987ish), two 7” ep’s of rather minimalistic goth punk from Finland (just vocals, bass and drums with occasional synths).
	🦇 ♥ 5:51pm Dan S: Hi Julie, fellow Dark Knight Souls. I'm coming in late today, but better late than never.
	🦇 ♥ 5:52pm Julie: hiya Dan!
	♥ 5:52pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Mr. Blue Sky" by "Electric Light Orchestra" Remember when hit radio tunes were bangers?
	♥ 5:52pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @5:52 Also, GIT OFF MAH LAWN
	🦇 ♥ 5:52pm Matt from Springfield: Hi there Dan S! Blue Sky in a Dark Night!
	🦇 ♥ 5:52pm Julie: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @5:51 ooh that sounds good... I feel like I should have that but maybe not
	♥ 5:53pm Roberto: Rusty and Mo just had a bit of a showdown. Mo's tail got all big and bushy and Rusty's face look's like he's seen some shit.
	🦇 ♥ 5:53pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Mr. Blue Sky" by "Electric Light Orchestra" Encore/closing song on Jeff Lynne's Over and Out Tour last year.
	♥ 5:54pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @5:53 *looks
	🦇 ♥ 5:54pm Julie: stone cold classic
	🦇 ♥ 5:54pm egould: ↳ Roberto @5:52 Remember when hit album cover art depicted the band as some sort of spaceship?
	🦇 ♥ 5:54pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Roberto @5:53 Coincidentally (?!) there is an ELO song for them: en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 5:55pm Roberto: ↳ egould @5:54 Well, there was ELO, Boston, and J-Starship. Am I forgetting anyone?
	♥ 5:55pm Roberto: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:54 Spot on!
	🦇 ♥ 5:56pm egould: ↳ Roberto @5:55 Alan Parsons Project. Journey. Probably Styx at some point. :-)
	♥ 5:56pm Roberto: ↳ egould @5:56 Right, of course.
	♥ 5:59pm spodiodi: YES
	🦇 ♥ 6:01pm Julie: hi spodi!
	6:01pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @5:51 It seems there’s many bands called Dorian Gray, for instance one from Yugoslavia/Croatia, the Finnish Dorian Gray’s discography cd-r is on YouTube should you want to check it out youtu.be...
	♥ 6:02pm spodiodi: Hi Julie! Enjoying the show
	🦇 ♥ 6:03pm kwatts: Hello hello. I hope everyone is doing well.
	🦇 ♥ 6:03pm Julie: thanks!
	🦇 ♥ 6:03pm Julie: hi kwatts!
	🦇 ♥ 6:03pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "You Really Got Me" by "Oingo Boingo" A pretty off the wall cover.
	🦇 ♥ 6:04pm chris in the redwoods: ↳ Song: "You Really Got Me" by "Oingo Boingo" love this version. :)
	🦇 ♥ 6:06pm Bas NL: Numan!
	🦇 ♥ 6:07pm Matt from Springfield: A shame you didn't get to see Jeff Lynne! My Mom saw him in 2019 and said that he wasn't as sharp now, so he really might be "Over and Out", as I presumed.
	♥ 6:07pm Roberto: Rusty contemplates the void: ibb.co...
	🦇 ♥ 6:08pm Julie: yeah I think it was billed as the last tour
	🦇 ♥ 6:08pm Dan S: ↳ Song: "Dream Killer" by "Gary Numan" I think I see the theme here. Happy Tax Day from I.R.S. Records!
	6:09pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "Dream Killer" by "Gary Numan" I have never heard stuff like this from Gary Numan, but this does sound mighty good.
	🦇 ♥ 6:09pm Matt from Springfield: And while ELO had to "share" their "Xanadu" song with Olivia, it seems that Olivia "shared" her own side with Cliff Richard, The Tubes and Gene Kelly! (RIP, ELO friend - if he was here in 2001 or so, he'd be pleased that the ELO hits CD had an ELO-only version of "Xanadu".)
	♥ 6:12pm spodiodi: another big YES
	♥ 6:12pm spodiodi: Love that unmistakable sound
	🦇 ♥ 6:13pm Julie: most predictable theme ever but hey, 80s music
	♥ 6:14pm spodiodi: Absolutely fine with me. Love most things from IRS
	🦇 ♥ 6:17pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Julie @6:13 Interesting 'toid: "From 1983 to 1987, I.R.S. Records sponsored a monthly MTV show called I.R.S. Records Presents The Cutting Edge, hosted by Peter Zaremba of The Fleshtones. The series concentrated on bands that recorded for the label. The show concept would later evolve into the alternative rock program 120 Minutes, which was launched in 1986 and co-existed with Cutting Edge for about a year and a half." A forerunner of the popular 120 Minutes show!
	🦇 ♥ 6:18pm Julie: ↳ Matt from Springfield @6:17 I was just reading the same thing. Had no idea.
	6:18pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "My Kingdom Come" by "The Lords Of The New Church" Why was I born too late I didn’t get to see The Lords of the New Church on their legendary 1983 of Finland :(
	6:19pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @6:18 Tour
	🦇 ♥ 6:19pm Julie: ↳ Song: "My Kingdom Come" by "The Lords Of The New Church" this is kinda metal I guess?
	🦇 ♥ 6:19pm egould: Thanks Julie. Stellar show.
	🦇 ♥ 6:20pm Julie: thanks for listening egould!
	🦇 ♥ 6:20pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Julie @6:19 "Goth metal" probably, the "metal edge of Goth" - hey, that's a more Goth way to put it!
	♥ 6:25pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Fever" by "The Cramps" when i worked at the library in uni, the director gifted me this album....
	♥ 6:26pm spodiodi: I'd better say thank you as well, Julie! Great show!Another Big Fat YES
	🦇 ♥ 6:26pm Julie: hiya NGH!
	🦇 ♥ 6:26pm Julie: thanks for listening Spodi!
	♥ 6:26pm northguineahills: for some reason, i still associate IRS w/ REM and similar bands, even though i know different....
	6:27pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "Fever" by "The Cramps" On the long list of bands I didn’t make the effort to see live in spite of many a chance to do so, missing The Cramps just hurts… as well as Big Star and X-Ray Spex and aarrrgghh
	6:28pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ northguineahills @6:25 Now that is a great gift!
	6:30pm P-90: “Fever” originally recorded by Little Willie John in 1956, later covered by Peggy Lee and many others.
	🦇 ♥ 6:31pm Matt from Springfield: Hey NGH! I know IRS mainly as the REM label - probably their best known artist. But they also had The Bangles, The Go-Gos, The Fall, and the US distributor of many other UK groups - including the whole English Beat/General Public/Fine Young Cannibals family. I know they distributed at least a couple comedy albums as well?
	🦇 ♥ 6:32pm Asheville Jon: ↳ Song: "Green Eyes" by "Suburban Lawns" hooray!!
	🦇 ♥ 6:32pm Julie: hi P-90! yeah I think Peggy Lee had the biggest hit with it.
	♥ 6:32pm northguineahills: ↳ Honski de Boiski Cha Cha @6:28 He was leaving for library job in Chicago, and was trying to lighten his record collection. he knew i was a record geek, so it worked out.
	♥ 6:33pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Green Eyes" by "Suburban Lawns" if handy was here, he'd scream "SUBURBAN LAWNS!"
	🦇 ♥ 6:34pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ northguineahills @6:33 Oh dear, is that another "DRINK!" cue? All I have here are some Keurig pods...
	🦇 ♥ 6:35pm Bas NL: Owww.. a round of the I.R.S. (Records)?
	🦇 ♥ 6:36pm Julie: ↳ Song: "I'm Sorry" by "Payola$" their albums have never been released on CD...SIGH
	♥ 6:37pm northguineahills: ↳ Matt from Springfield @6:34 i'll drink for us both!
	🦇 ♥ 6:37pm Julie: ↳ Song: "Cold, Cold Shoes" by "The Fleshtones" more cowbell!
	♥ 6:37pm northguineahills: ↳ Julie @6:36 weird....
	🦇 ♥ 6:38pm Julie: ↳ northguineahills @6:37 yeah there's a couple of comps and that's it. They need a nice Cherry Red box
	🦇 ♥ 6:38pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Matt from Springfield @6:31 At least Barry Diamond's album - a comedian who had a role in Bachelor Party, and consequently the soundtrack album was released on IRS. (With Oingo Boingo! The Fleshtones! Even The Alarm!)
	🦇 ♥ 6:39pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ northguineahills @6:37 Thanks! Down the hatch!
	6:39pm Gary: Thanks. This is awesome
	🦇 ♥ 6:39pm Julie: hi Gary! Thank you!
	♥ 6:40pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Co-star" by "Let's Active" love this album...
	6:47pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "TV Operator" by "Alternative TV" I’m more familiar with Alex Fergusson’s work with Psychic TV than that of Alternative TV, but what surprised me that Alternative TV still plays gigs on occasion. Cafe Oto in London last year for instance (no I didn’t get to see it)
	♥ 6:49pm northguineahills: i was just enjoying some rapid eye movements a few hours earlier (literally, as i had a siesta)
	6:50pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "Automatic" by "Go-Gos" Not a single album in my collection from the Go-Go’s. What a miserable life, what a miserable household I have.
	6:52pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Song: "West of the Fields" by "R.E.M." As much as I dislike R.E.M. of 1990’s, this early stuff kills.
	🦇 ♥ 6:53pm Julie: oh yeah the early stuff is SO much better.
	🦇 ♥ 6:53pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Where Were You Hiding When the Storm Broke?" by "... "80s Celtic"!! And the Welsh variety, a bit less common!
	🦇 ♥ 6:54pm Julie: I have a friend who is a hardcore alarm fan. always seems like she's going to an alarm event of some kind
	🦇 ♥ 6:55pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades" by "... Good ol' Timbuk 3!
	🦇 ♥ 6:56pm PMD: OMG I haven't heard Timbuk 3 in so long
	🦇 ♥ 6:56pm Asheville Jon: thanks julie and birds
	🦇 ♥ 6:56pm Julie: thanks for listening everyone! see you next tuesday!
	🦇 ♥ 6:57pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Julie @6:56 THANKS Julie! A fun spin through IRS territory! Have a good evening, everyone!
	6:57pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: ↳ Julie @6:54 That’s great! I have never seen them, sadly, I’m only familiar with the early stuff but it is soooo good! Thanks for playing that song
	🦇 ♥ 6:58pm Crafty: Thank you! Great show!😎
	♥ 6:58pm northguineahills: ahhh, it's almost 7! thank you so much julie!
	🦇 ♥ 6:59pm Bas NL: Thanks Julie! Loving tunes! Great I.R.S. Records set!
	🦇 ♥ 6:59pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Julie. I want to live in a bright future. Let's vote the bums out and make it so.
	🦇 ♥ 7:00pm Midge: Thank you Julie!
	7:00pm Honski de Boiski Cha Cha: Oh nooooo! This I.R.S. set was perfect. Thanks for company everyone, thank you so much Julie for all your efforts, again another amazing show
	🦇 ♥ 7:00pm Yvang: Thanks Julie!
	🦇 ♥ 7:00pm chris in the redwoods: thanks, Julie!
	🦇 ♥ 7:01pm Matt from Springfield: The Go-Gos started out punk, like many groups. They remained on that spectrum in their early albums. They used to sing the Shangri-Las "Remember (Walkin On The Sand)" live back in their more punk days!
	4:39pm Lenny: Great Great show!.....on fire!

Dark Night of the Soul with Julie: Playlist from April 15, 2025

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