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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 5/19/12

Posted at 10:46 AM on May 21, 2012 by The Current (0 Comments)
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This week's episode features all local music as part of our Minnesota Music Day festivities.

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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 5/12/12

Posted at 1:17 PM on May 14, 2012 by The Current (0 Comments)
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The 5.6.7.8's

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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 5/5/12

Posted at 1:59 PM on May 7, 2012 by The Current (0 Comments)
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Simple Minds

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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 4/28/12

Posted at 11:13 AM on April 30, 2012 by The Current
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Pulp

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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 4/21/12

Posted at 1:57 PM on April 23, 2012 by The Current
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Karl Wallinger of World Party

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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 4/14/12

Posted at 11:05 AM on April 16, 2012 by The Current
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Pixies

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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 4/7/12

Posted at 10:54 AM on April 9, 2012 by The Current
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Nirvana

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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 03/31/12

Posted at 1:28 PM on April 2, 2012 by The Current (1 Comments)
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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 03/24/12

Posted at 9:32 AM on March 26, 2012 by The Current
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The Ramones

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Lou Reed - "New Sensations"
U2 - "Mysterious Ways"
R.E.M. - "Fall On Me"
They Might Be Giants - "Why Does The Sun Shine"
Ramones - "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend"
Paul Westerberg - "First Glimmer"
Television - "Venus"
The Vapors - "Jimmie Jones"
The Police - "Murder By Numbers"
Elvis Costello and The Attractions - "Clubland"
Ramones - "Blitzkrieg Bop"
The Dictators - "(I Live For) Cars and Girls"
Blondie - "Rip Her To Shreds"
Devo - "Jocko Homo"
The Smiths - "Pretty Girls Make Graves"
General Public - "Hot You're Cool"
Depeche Mode - "Never Let Me Down Again"
Talking Heads - "Psycho Killer"
Ramones - "53rd and 3rd"
Sex Pistols - "No Feelings"
The Clash - "I'm So Bored With The U.S.A."
The Flamin' Groovies - "I Can't Hide"
Alex Chilton - "Underclass"
Squirrel Nut Zippers - "Hell"
The Jayhawks - "Blue"
Ramones - "Beat On The Brat"
Joe Jackson - "Is She Really Going Out With Him"
Letters To Cleo - "Awake"
Madness - "Madness (Two-Tone Single Version)"
The Soft Boys - "Underwater Moonlight"

Teenage Kicks Wants to Be Your Joey Ramone

Posted at 6:00 AM on March 24, 2012 by Jacquie Fuller (4 Comments)
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This week on Teenage Kicks, we're celebrating not just a band-of-the-week, but an album - the Ramones' 1976 eponymous debut. Why? Because we wanna.

Teenage Kicks' co-curator (and Program Director for The Current) Jim McGuinn shared this documentary about the 1976 Ramones concert that sparked the U.K.'s prominent punk movement. It features commentary from the late Joe Strummer, Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols, and others influenced by that show, plus some super-cool footage of Ramones playing "Sheena is a Punk Rocker."

Watching this footage got me thinking about shows I wish I could've been at - this one surely makes the list. So, here's my question to you for the week: What were some bands you wish you could've caught live in their heyday, but didn't because you weren't old enough (or weren't even born yet)?

While you're thinking about it, enjoy this handy chart from Dan Gneiding, detailing the wants of the Ramones v. the singular desire of hardcore punk rockers The Misfits. (Local Macalester prof Peter Bognanni, who wrote a fun book in which punk plays a central role, has this poster hanging in his office.)

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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 03/17/12

Posted at 10:12 AM on March 19, 2012 by The Current
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Big Audio Dynamite - C'mon Every Beatbox

The Waterboys - World Party

The Fleshtones - The Girl From Baltimore

Roxy Music - Oh Yeah

Jane's Addiction - Jane Says

Kristin Hersh - Your Ghost

The Police - Man in a Suitcase

U2 - The Unforgettable Fire

Thin Lizzy - Dancin' In The Moonlight (It's Caught Me In Its Spotlight)

My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow

Jane's Addiction - No One's Leaving

The Pretenders - Private Life

Madness - Our House

The Boomtown Rats - Lookin' After No. 1

The Pogues - The Irish Rover

Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen

Aztec Camera - Pillar To Post

Jane's Addiction - Stop

Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker

Electronic - Getting Away With It

The Cranberries - Dreams

Oasis - Cigarettes and Alcohol

David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out The Fire)

The Go-Betweens - Bye Bye Pride

Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song

Depeche Mode - People Are People

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Book Review: Colin Meloy's 'Let It Be'

Posted at 8:52 AM on March 13, 2012 by Jacquie Fuller
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Last spring, while visiting a friend on the west coast, I encountered a veritable spread of the 33 1/3 books at the checkout of a San Francisco bookstore (with their colorful spines and multitude of titles, the 33 1/3 display was definitely this bookstore's answer to the impulse shopper, i.e., me.) With enough cash for only one book, the Minnesotan — and Decemberists fan — in me chose Colin Meloy's take on The Replacement's seminal 1984 release, Let It Be.

I was surprised Meloy would write about Let it Be. I knew him to be a fan of R.E.M. and the fantastical leanings of Robyn Hitchcock, but I never took him to be a fan of such straight-up, snarky, grizzled rock as The 'Mats. I wasn't sure what to expect from Meloy's writing, either. Would it be painfully florid? Would there be pirates?

There were neither pirates nor prostitutes, and Meloy's writing was delightfully straightforward, modestly comic, and completely heartfelt (I suspect he may have received a little guidance from his sister, the novelist, Maile Meloy.) While Pernice chose to go the fictitious route for his take on Meat is Murder, Meloy went memoir for Let It Be, which essentially documents the album's role as a gateway into indie music for the young lad. But Let it Be (the book) is about more than The Replacements. Meloy's memoir is a musical coming-of-age.

Meloy and I are just a few months apart in age, and I grew up in something of a musical backwater in Texas, so a lot of the details of this book resonated with me. We see young Colin struggling to fit in despite his developing quirkiness, and attaching to the world of modern rock, provided to him via mix tapes from an older uncle. It's the pre-Pitchfork '80s in Montana — a place devoid of hip, college radio and skipped over by bands on tour — which is partly why Meloy attached to The Replacements, in particular, out of the constellation of indie and punk bands introduced to him:

What I knew of Minnesota I had gleaned from my parents' much beloved Prairie Home Companion broadcasts on NPR ... I envisioned a Minnesota very similar to Montana — small-town mentality, community-minded individuals, and plenty of snow in the winter. In my mind's eye, I imagined The Replacements, the four miscreants from the cover of Let it Be, practicing in a garage while the variegated characters from Lake Wobegon spouted time-honored Midwestern Lutheran wisdom in kitchens and cafes beyond ... The fact that the Replacements had to endure that sort of environment while trying to keep up a hard-case punk-rock image really appealed to my predicament. That they had to live through 40 below winters and frozen pipes, while surrounded by what I perceived as being a wholesome cultural backwater, brought the Replacements closer to me, closer to Helena, Montana.

(I related to Meloy's imaginings of the band, and of Minnesota, too. I remember listening to The Replacements in Texas, pre-Internet, wracking my brain for an image of a skyway. I didn't see my first one until I moved here in '05.) The book holds tight to memoir most of the way, but culminates in beautifully imagined, surprising vignettes of the band — this book doesn't end, rather, it lifts off into forever, perfectly emulating the hold that Let It Be will forever have on this book's author. Colin Meloy's Let It Be is a quick, tender, satisfying read.

— Jacquie Fuller, Host of "Teenage Kicks"

See the complete list of 33 1/3 titles here. Are you a writer? 33 1/3 is accepting proposals for forthcoming titles in the series.

Teenage Kicks Playlist: 3/10/12

Posted at 11:02 AM on March 12, 2012 by The Current
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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 3/3/12

Posted at 10:14 AM on March 5, 2012 by The Current
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Teenage Kicks: Keeping the Hearth Fires Burning

Posted at 7:40 AM on March 3, 2012 by Jacquie Fuller
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All the magazines say that trying new things keeps the romance alive, so we're switching it up a bit this week on Teenage Kicks. Instead of an Artist of the Week, we're shining the spotlight on an album.

Kicks co-curator Jim McGuinn picked this week's album. Today on Teenage Kicks, we'll head back to 1982 and celebrate the pastoral post-punk that is XTC's English Settlement. Whlie Jim and I are both big fans of this album and of XTC, I'm pretty sure no one at The Current is as rabid an XTC fan as Steve Seel of The Current's Morning Show. I invited Steve to share a few words about what makes English Settlement such a special album for him.

If you've never devled into XTC's catalogue, Steve says this is a great place to start. It's "the encapsulation of everything they're about," he said. "It's right there at the crossroads between their earlier records, which were solidly post punk and much more muscular, and the really Beatles-esque, studio-informed explorations and flights of fancy that they would go on and do later in their career."

Here's a promo video of the band explaining the cover image (the Uffington White Horse - a Bronze-age chalk "drawing" in the English countryside), and playing my favorite song on the album, "All of a Sudden."

Teenage Kicks Playlist: 2/25/12

Posted at 9:30 AM on February 27, 2012 by The Current
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Cocteau Twins

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Teenage Kicks is in a Cherry-Coloured Funk

Posted at 7:50 AM on February 25, 2012 by Jacquie Fuller
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Jac's back after a two-week sabbatical, with Cocteau Twins as the band of the week. Today on the show, tracks from them plus The Smiths, The Smithereens, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Clash, The Pixes, Hum (remember them?) and more from the days of our effervescent youth.

Here are the Cocteau Twins (who took their name from a Simple Minds' song), performing "Heaven or Las Vegas."

Also, when you watch House, you can hear Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser on lead vocals with Massive Attack during the opening credits.

Will I see you and your little ones at Rock the Cradle tomorrow? It's such a great time, I actually put real effort into deciding what to wear. (I'm serious! I wear high-contrast colors so the babies can see me!)

I'll be kicking off the Kids' Disco with some Kicks-era tunes from 11am-noon. Come dancing!

Teenage Kicks Playlist: 2/18/2012

Posted at 7:58 AM on February 20, 2012 by The Current
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Television

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World Party - Is It Like Today

The Lemonheads - Down About It

ABC - Poison Arrow

Television - See No Evil

The Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong

The B-52s - Quiche Lorraine

Beastie Boys - Egg Man

Public Enemy - Don't Believe The Hype

Prince - I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

Television - Little Johnny Jewel

James - Laid

Peter Murphy - Final Solution

Blur - Country House

Morphine - Cure For Pain

The Alarm - Sixty Eight Guns

The Clash - Career Opportunities

U2 - Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

Television - Friction

Luna - California All The Way

Sebadoh - Ocean

David Bowie - Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere

Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together

Mink Deville - Spanish Stroll

Television - Marquee Moon

Teenage Kicks Playlist: 2/11/12

Posted at 11:11 AM on February 13, 2012 by The Current
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The Velvet Underground with Andy Warhol

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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 2/4/12

Posted at 10:21 AM on February 6, 2012 by The Current
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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 1/28/12

Posted at 9:46 AM on January 30, 2012 by The Current (1 Comments)
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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 1/21/12

Posted at 9:45 AM on January 23, 2012 by The Current
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Teenage Kicks: Cops v. Krauts

Posted at 9:45 AM on January 21, 2012 by Jacquie Fuller (2 Comments)
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I promised I'd post this, and I'm a girl of my word. Today while playing Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express" (1977) on the show, I was struck by the nagging feeling that I'd heard that riff before ... somewhere ... on television! Was it Knight Rider? No - that wasn't it. My second You Tube search yielded what I was looking for: CHiPs. You remember! The zany adventures of California highway patrolmen Ponch and Jon! Well, endure the zippy disco of the CHiPs theme, then pay a listen to "Trans-Europe Express" and tell me - TELL ME! - there's no resemblance. I did a little research on the show's composer, John Parker - who also composed themes for The Love Boat and Dallas - but, alas, could find no evidence of Parker's love for German electronic music. To further compound the mystery: both songs were released in 1977. Who's zooming who?

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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 1/14/12

Posted at 1:44 PM on January 17, 2012 by The Current
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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 1/7/12

Posted at 10:13 AM on January 9, 2012 by The Current (1 Comments)
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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 12/31/2011

Posted at 12:03 PM on January 3, 2012 by The Current
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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 12/24/2011

Posted at 10:30 AM on December 24, 2011 by The Current
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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 12/17/2011

Posted at 9:42 AM on December 19, 2011 by The Current
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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 12/10/2011

Posted at 9:29 AM on December 12, 2011 by The Current
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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 12/03/2011

Posted at 9:08 AM on December 5, 2011 by The Current
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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 11/26/2011

Posted at 2:34 PM on November 28, 2011 by The Current
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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 11/19/2011

Posted at 8:21 AM on November 20, 2011 by The Current
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Cocteau Twins - Carolyn's Fingers

Adam Ant - Desperate But Not Serious

The Fixx - Stand Or Fall

The Jam - Start!

Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights

XTC - Earn Enough For Us

The Church - Under The Milky Way

Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers - New England

Zuzu's Petals - Cinderella's Daydream

The Jam - Boy About Town

The Pretenders - Cuban Slide

Talking Heads - Memories Can't Wait

The Damned - Alone Again Or

INXS - Kick

X Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescence

The Alarm - Rain in the Summertime

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

The Avengers - We Are The One

The Jam - All Around the World

Dramarama - Anything, Anything I'll Give You

Elvis Costello - Almost Blue

Nick Lowe - Marie Provost

Devo - That's Good

Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over

Cornershop - Brimful of Asha

The Jam - That's Entertainment

Squeeze - Tempted

A Flock Of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song

Luna - Tiger Lily

Teenage Kicks Playlist: 11/12/2011

Posted at 10:00 AM on November 12, 2011 by The Current
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Happy Mondays - Kinky Afro

Devo - Girl U Want

Peter Gabriel - Intruder

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon

Sex Pistols - Holidays in the Sun

David Bowie - Rock 'N' Roll Suicide

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Sometimes Always

U2 - Wire

Run DMC - Rock Box

Afghan Whigs - Debonair

The Cars - Got A Lot On My Head

Sex Pistols - No Feelings

The Stooges - No Fun

Ramones - California Sun

ABC - Poison Arrow

Roxy Music - In the Midnight Hour

Everything But The Girl - Missing

Luscious Jackson - Deep Shag

M - Pop Muzik

Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant

The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail

Hoodoo Gurus - Like Wow - Wipeout

Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere

The Pogues - A Pair Of Brown Eyes

The Police - Message in a Bottle

The Church - Too Fast For You

Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen

Jane's Addiction - No One's Leaving

The B-52s - Channel Z

Blondie - In The Flesh

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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 11/05/2011

Posted at 6:46 AM on November 6, 2011 by The Current
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Social Distortion - Ring of Fire

The Lambrettas - Poison Ivy

Blake Babies - Temptation Eyes

Pixies - Where Is My Mind

The Clash - Pressure Drop

R.E.M. - Can't Get There From Here

The Go-Betweens - The Wrong Road

The Cranberries - Free To Decide

A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)

Pixies - Velouria

Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver

Alice Cooper - Clones (We're All)

Weezer - Surf Wax America

XTC - No Thugs In Our House

Prince - U Got The Look

The Suburbs - Love Is The Law

The Magnolias - Hello Or Goodbye

Pixies - Gouge Away

Public Enemy - Timebomb

Soul Asylum - Cartoon

General Public - General Public

Paul Weller - Peacock Suit

The Charlatans UK - The Only One I Know

Garbage - Special

Pixies - There Goes My Gun

Devo - Jerkin' Back 'N' Forth

Buzzcocks - Sixteen Again

Roxy Music - Avalon

Heartless Bastards - The Mountain

Teenage Kicks La La Loves You. (And Pixies!)

Posted at 8:00 AM on November 5, 2011 by Jacquie Fuller
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Pixies are this week's band-of-the-week on Teenage Kicks. In addition to Pixies, you'll hear goodies from R.E.M, General Public, Public Enemy, a set of Minnesota bands ... and these guys, who pay homage to Brian Eno and Robert Fripp with a video that combines the cover of Eno/Fripp's (No Pussyfooting) with a couple of trashbag-clad future escapees from a Robert Palmer video:

(Also: I would pay good money to own a shirt like AFoS's frontman Michael Score's. I'm very serious.)

Seems like a good time to revisit this gem from back in 2009, too. "She was kinda covered in fur, you know what I mean?"

If you missed Teenage Kicks - if you ever miss it, in fact - you can always find it archived here.

You. Are the best.

Teenage Kicks Playlist: 10/29/11

Posted at 11:39 AM on October 31, 2011 by The Current
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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 10/22/11

Posted at 12:12 PM on October 24, 2011 by The Current
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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 10/15/11

Posted at 12:14 PM on October 17, 2011 by The Current
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Teenage Kicks Playlist: 10/08/11

Posted at 12:03 PM on October 10, 2011 by The Current
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M. Ward - Never Had Nobody Like You

The Clash - (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais

Cardigans - My Favourite Game

Joe Jackson - The Harder They Come

The Alarm - Sold Me Down the River

Robyn Hitchcock 'N' The Egyptians - Madonna Of The Wasps

Pixies - Allison

Beastie Boys - Gratitude

Ride - Chelsea Girl

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Blues From A Gun

Green Day - When I Come Around

The Replacements - Alex Chilton

The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight

Thompson Twins - Lies

U2 - Like a Song...

English Beat - Rankin Full Stop

Fishbone - Skankin' to the Beat

The Jazz Butcher - Partytime

INXS - Mystify

Deee-Lite - Groove Is In The Heart

Public Enemy - Bring the Noise

Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians - Heaven

Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device

Ramones - We Want The Airwaves

Talking Heads - I Zimbra

King Sunny Ade and His African Beats - Ja Funmi

Mission of Burma - This is Not A Photograph

The Lemonheads - Being Around

Robyn Hitchcock - Balloon Man

Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

Teenage Kicks Playlist: 10/01/11

Posted at 11:52 AM on October 1, 2011 by Brett Baldwin
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A special Teenage Kicks tribute to "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and the many musical connections to Nirvana.

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Teenage Kicks - 09/24/2011

Posted at 12:23 PM on September 26, 2011 by The Current
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Hour One:
Mike Doughty - 27 Jennifers
Lene Lovich - New Toy
The Pretenders - Mystery Achievement
Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
The Rezillos - My Baby Does Good Sculptures
R.E.M. - Begin the Begin
The B-52s - Private Idaho
Pylon - Beep
Screaming Trees - Nearly Lost You
Nirvana - Polly
Patti Smith - Frederick
R.E.M. - Strange
Wire - Three Girl Rhumba
Sex Pistols - No Feelings
The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
Nick Lowe - Cruel to be Kind

Hour Two:
Meat Puppets - Plateau
The Clash - Car Jamming
Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
The Smiths - Still Ill
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe (Original Hib Tone Single)
Billy Bragg - You Woke Up My Neighbourhood
The Replacements - I Will Dare
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Eurythmics - Love is a Stranger
Beastie Boys - Pass The Mic
R.E.M. - Pretty Persuasion
Pavement - Unseen Power Of The Picket Fence
fIREHOSE - For The Singer Of R.E.M.
R.E.M. - The One I Love
R.E.M. - King Of Birds

Teenage Kicks - 09/17/2011

Posted at 12:07 PM on September 19, 2011 by The Current
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Hour One:
Stray Cats - Rev It Up and Go
Dinosaur Jr. - Start Choppin
Buzzcocks - Real World
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours
The Waterboys - This is the Sea
Devo - Secret Agent Man
Billy Bragg and Wilco - The Unwelcome Guest
David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out The Fire)
Public Enemy - Can't Truss It
Depeche Mode - Behind the Wheel
Husker Du - Green Eyes

Hour Two:
General Public - Hot You're Cool
The Vapors - Jimmie Jones
the The - Dogs of Lust
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again
Aztec Camera - Oblivious
The Specials - You're Wondering Now
The Pogues - Thousands Are Sailing
Peter Gabriel - And Through the Wire
Madness - It Must Be Love
Depeche Mode - People Are People
Erasure - Who Needs Love (Like That)
The Posies - Solar Sister
Ride - Leave Them All Behind

Teenage Kicks is on a Heartbreak Beat

Posted at 8:00 AM on September 10, 2011 by Jacquie Fuller (1 Comments)
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This week on Teenage Kicks, music from XTC, New Order, The Motels, Frente!, and more. Plus, we'll listen to some tracks from our band of the week, The Psychedelic Furs. Richard Butler's voice seriously has enough gravel to pave a small-town runway. (I mean that as a compliment.)

Go ahead, now ... relive the days when you wore your shirts buttoned all the way to the top button:

Also of note, NPR's story from last week on Prince and his effect on the Minneapolis music scene. You can listen to it here.

I think I'll go to the thrift store today and try to find some vests and brooches.

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Teenage Kicks - 09/03/2011

Posted at 1:36 PM on September 6, 2011 by The Current
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The Jam 
- Town Called Malice

The Jam 
- The Dreams of Children

The Jam 
- In The City

The Church - 
The Unguarded Moment

The Church 
- Metropolis

The Church 
- Reptile

R.E.M. 
- Talk About The Passion

R.E.M. 
- (Don't Go Back To) Rockville

The Sundays - 
Here's Where the Story Ends

The Sundays 
- Summertime

The Sundays 
- Love

Depeche Mode - 
Just Can't Get Enough

Depeche Mode 
- Personal Jesus

Depeche Mode 
- I Feel You

The Undertones 
- Teenage Kicks

The Undertones 
- Get Over You

The Undertones 
- My Perfect Cousin

Blur 
- Girls and Boys

Blur 
- Parklife

Blur 
- Stereotypes

Ramones - 
Do You Remember Rock 'n Roll Radio

Ramones 
- Pet Sematary

Ramones 
- I Want You Around

The Stone Roses - 
I Wanna Be Adored

The Stone Roses 
- Waterfall

The Stone Roses 
- Love Spreads

The Smiths 
- William, It Was Really Nothing

The Smiths 
- Bigmouth Strikes Again

The Smiths 
- Shoplifters Of The World

Teenage Kicks - 08/20/2011

Posted at 11:57 AM on August 22, 2011 by The Current
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The Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe
Art of Noise - Peter Gunn
The Smiths - Nowhere Fast
The Jam - Strange Town
Billy Bragg - Greetings To The New Brunette
Kraftwerk - Radioactivity
Belly - Gepetto
Joe Jackson - Breaking Us In Two
Paul Westerberg - Love Untold
The Specials - Monkey Man
The Lambrettas - Poison Ivy
Billy Bragg - Help Save The Youth Of America
The Police - Spirits in the Material World
Bettie Serveert - Something So Wild
fIREHOSE - Brave Captain
U2 - Stories For Boys
Crowded House - Better Be Home Soon
Squeeze - Annie Get Your Gun
The Go-Betweens - Bye Bye Pride
Billy Bragg - Sexuality
Beth Orton - Someone's Daughter
Garbage - Special
The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights
Husker Du - Could You Be the One?
The Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died
Billy Bragg - A New England
X - The New World
Prince - Cream
Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up

Teenage Kicks: 08/13/2011

Posted at 12:53 PM on August 15, 2011 by The Current
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Playlist:
Red Hot Chili Peppers - True Men Don't Kill Coyotes
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
Soul Coughing - True Dreams of Wichita
Matthew Sweet - Devil with the Green Eyes
Blondie - Denis
The Police - Demolition Man
Cardigans - Lovefool
Spizzenergi - Where's Captain Kirk
David Bowie - China Girl
LL Cool J - Going Back To Cali
Blondie - Rip Her To Shreds
The Pretenders - Show Me
Dinosaur Jr. - Feel The Pain
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
Syd Straw - Future 40's (String of Pearls)
Peter Gabriel - No Self Control
Prince - Computer Blue
They Might Be Giants - Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head
Blondie - Heart Of Glass
The Heartbreakers - Born To Lose
Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
The Three O'Clock - Jet Fighter
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Back of Love
Tori Amos - Crucify
Blondie - Atomic
Republica - Ready To Go
Nirvana - Been A Son
Amadou and Mariam - Sabali

Teenage Kicks: Poetry and Post Punk? Yes.

Posted at 8:00 AM on July 30, 2011 by Jacquie Fuller (1 Comments)
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This week on Teenage Kicks, our band of the week is Joy Division. Below is a poem about the band's front man, Ian Curtis, written by the poet Craig Arnold. When you're done reading, you can check out this video of the band performing "Love Will Tear Us Apart."

Leader of Men

Ian Curtis, 1956-1980

In all the photographs your eyes
are pale and pupil-less and look
too big for your head, your head
likewise for body. Because you're dead

we read into the frail frame
the ardor of a Bonaparte,
a Führer - the desire to stand
out, to be looked at. But art

and not the state took you in hand
and crushed you, the grim fame
you've massed not of a demagogue
but a scapegoat. On the first tour

the skinheads wearing National Front
T-shirts turned up. Who is this c---?
they muttered at you, catching the hint,
something not altogether pure

in the way you brought the microphone
up to your mouth, the way the crowd
did not stomp or clap or brawl but stared,
the way you stared back, eyes wide

open to any suggestion. How hard
they were to penetrate, their shut
bodies, stiff fabric, asphyxiate
leather of laced-up black jackboot,

the uniform aggressive gray
- gunmetal, Prussian, mole, charcoal -
zipped, snapped, hooked, buttoned knee to throat,
faces the only spots of skin

left open, extras in a war
movie whose maker can't decide
which is more victim, whose soundtrack
is your thick voice, the epilept-

ic's rapture swallowing his tongue,
mouth a sad black hole, the young
bodies kept from each other, kept
from touching, kept from falling in.

- Craig Arnold
(1967-2009)

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Teenage Kicks: Manuevering in the Dark

Posted at 9:54 AM on August 21, 2010 by Jacquie Fuller
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Our band of the week on Teenage Kicks this week is Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark, so I thought I'd share one of my favorite OMD songs. Brilliant pop song, totally befuddling 80s video. Synopsis: Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys go chasing ghosts in the Chihuahuan Desert during Day of the Dead. See McCluskey walk with a cane for no apparent reason (something to do with the bomber jacket? Flying accident? Perhaps he just came back from piloting the Enola Gay?) Humphreys drives around looking pensive, mullet blowing in the wind.

More sugar skulls, please.

Teenage Kicks' Uncorrected Personality Traits

Posted at 9:01 AM on July 10, 2010 by Jacquie Fuller
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Our featured artist this week on Teenage Kicks is Robyn Hitchcock. We'll hear some of my favorite picks from his time with The Soft Boys and his solo career. Robyn was in our studios when he came through town last year--listen to his great in-studio chat with Mary Lucia here, and his terrific and totally illuminating Theft of the Dial here.

Teenage Kicks: Now with Feedback!

Posted at 5:37 PM on March 5, 2010 by Jacquie Fuller (2 Comments)
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This weekend on Teenage Kicks, we're totally fuzzed out over the Jesus and Mary Chain.

What makes the Jesus and Mary Chain so cool?

A. Distortion
B. Bedhead
C. Leather pants
D. All of the above

If you answered D, you're correct!

They're so cool, the Magentic Fields made an album inspired by them. They're also apparently so cool, we can't embed a video of them, so you'll just have to check them out here.

Since they're our featured artist, we'll be playing a handful of songs by them on Teenage Kicks. We don't encourage the consumption of alcoholic beverages before noon, but the Jesus and Mary Chain aren't exactly known for good behavior. That said, here's a little Jesus and Mary Chain Drinking Game you can play while listening. Take a swig of OJ, or a bite of pancake, every time you hear a reference to one of the following:

- Candy
- Honey
- Cherry
- Pain or trauma to the head

I'll be playing along from home. Jim McGuinn is filling in for me this weekend so that I can take a much-needed, post-member-drive "mental health" day. 'Cause, you know, nothing encourages good mental health like listening to a bunch of Jesus and Mary Chain songs.

Tune in to Teenage Kicks Saturday mornings from 8 to 10. And tell us why you love JAMC below!

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Teenage Kicks is a Slave to Love

Posted at 1:45 PM on February 12, 2010 by Jacquie Fuller (4 Comments)
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This week on Teenage Kicks, we're exploring love in all its pain and glory.

What are your favorite indie/alternative love songs from the late 70s, 80s, and early 90s? Share them here!

On that note: were the 80s' the most romantic decade ever, or what? I mean, with all the cherubic statues, and milk-covered drum kits, and rose-filled vases shattering to the floor? C'mon. What's up with all the grit of the 90s and the hard-boiled realism of the aughts? Bring back soft focus!

Here's some soft focus: Bryan Ferry's "Slave to Love." It was featured in the scandalous erotic film 9 1/2 Weeks (I never saw it, and shudder to even think of Mickey Rourke sans-clothing.) In this quintessential 80s video, Ferry is pursued by the paparazzi (albeit a rather small group of them, by today's standards.) Beyond that, I'm not really sure what's happening here. But I love to listen to this song while wearing an evening gown and chillin' in my rotating chair.

And if you really loved Robert Smith, you'd get him out of this cave.

Happy Valentine's Day from Teenage Kicks! Whether you're happily hooked-up, on the make, or just looking to make out, we can all agree that love is what makes the world go 'round. Tomorrow morning from 8 to 10, it's the theme of our show!

xoxo,
Jacquie

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Teenage Kicks: Our Aim is True

Posted at 2:38 PM on February 5, 2010 by Jacquie Fuller (2 Comments)
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This week on Teenage Kicks, we're celbrating Elvis Costello's recent appearance on A Prairie Home Companion by crowning him Artist of the Week.

In his 33-year career making music under the moniker Elvis Costello (real name: Declan Patrick MacManus), Costello has proven himself as one of the most prolific and erudite songwriters in popular music.

Irish blood, English heart aside--in my heart, Costello is a great American songwriter. With their gleeful appropriations of country, blues, and even Tex-Mex (Costello's organ-driven sound was inspired by Texas' 60s psychedelic outfit, the Sir Douglas Quintet) Costello's narrative songs explore the darker side of banal, suburban landscapes. Costello is to pop music what Raymond Carver was to literature, or Edward Hopper to art.

And he's also got some serious moves:

I'd be hard pressed to tell you my favorite Elvis Costello song, but I think "Accidents Will Happen," and "A Kinder Murder" are high-up on the list. What's your favorite Costello song, and what do you love about it?

Tune in to Teenage Kicks for more Elvis!

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Teenage Kicks Shows Some Leg

Posted at 1:00 PM on January 29, 2010 by Jacquie Fuller (1 Comments)
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This week on Teenage Kicks, we've got Love and Rockets in the spotlight. Formed in 1985 by the remaining members of Bauhaus (after Prince of Darkness Peter Murphy split to go solo), Love and Rockets took their name from the series of comic books by Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez (hear also: Lucero's "The Devil and Maggie Chascarrillo.")

Love and Rockets made eight albums in the fourteeen years they were together. Their biggest hit, "So Alive," made it to #3 on the American singles charts. Check out the video for "So Alive" ...

Then tell me if you see an homage here ...

Let's hope you're not too destroyed from The Current's 5th Birthday party to tune in to Teenage Kicks tomorrow from 8-10am. You'll hear more Love & Rockets, plus tracks from Dramarama, Josie Cotton, The Smiths, and more!

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Teenage Kicks Goes Underground

Posted at 3:00 PM on December 11, 2009 by Jacquie Fuller (1 Comments)
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In 10th grade, my friend Heather loaned me a cassette tape with a banana on it. Given that The Velvet Underground were never commercially successful, I like to think that this is how most people first experienced the band: here, listen to this. It'll blow your mind. And blow my mind it did. From the gloomy tenderness of "I'll Be Your Mirror," to "Venus in Furs," which made me feel like I needed to go straight to confession.

The Velvet Underground formed in 1965 when Lou Reed and John Cale began making music together. They were a great pair when they could keep their contributions in balance--Reed's folksy, almost spiritual lyricism and pop tendencies, and Cale's love of avant-garde noise and drone and fuzz. Add to the mix the buttery, disaffected vocals of one German chanteuse, Nico, and you've got a sound to stand the test of time.

This week on Teenage Kicks, we're honoring the Velvets and their enduring contribution to rock and roll. Chime in if you've got a great Velvet Underground story, favorite song, or just something to share. And tune in tomorrow morning from 8-10, for music from The Velvet Underground, New Order, Squeeze, and more.

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Golly, Jeepers! Teenage Kicks with Siouxsie & the Banshees.

Posted at 3:30 PM on December 4, 2009 by Jacquie Fuller
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In the mid-70s a group of kids from Bromley, a town near London, started following the latest band to make a splash in the UK: The Sex Pistols. Among this gaggle (tagged by a journalist as The Bromley Contingent) were Billy Idol and one Susan Ballion, a.k.a. Siouxsie Sioux.

Inspired by the band she followed, the 18-year-old Siouxsie teamed up with Steven Severin (who she met at a Roxy Music show) to make some music of their own. They played their first gig in 1976, when they filled in for a dropped-out band at a London punk festival. On drums: a pre-Pistols Sid Vicious.

Over two decades, Siouxsie and the Banshees developed their distinct brand of dark, atmospheric pop, and saw lineup changes that included The Cure's Robert Smith, and the sole XY-chromosome of all-girl punk band, The Slits - Budgie - who would later marry Siouxsie.

In 1995, the band called it quits, then reunited for a tour in 2003. In 2008, Siouxsie released a solo album, Mantaray.

But let's go back, for a moment, to 1987, when your humble Teenage Kicks host (that would be me) worshipped Siouxsie Sioux as her fashion icon. As you can imagine, this caused great discord with said host's parents, especially on the occasion of family photo shoots. Ugh.

I didn't know it at the time, but I was in good company. Beth Ditto of The Gossip, Shirley Manson of Garbage, and PJ Harvey all cite Siouxsie's music and style as a major influence.

Tune in to Teenage Kicks tomorrow from 8-10am, to hear tracks from our artists-of-the-week, Siouxsie and the Banshees. And to erase the above photograph from your mind, here's Siouxsie looking a bit like a Man Ray model:

Teenage Kicks ... with lots to Bragg about.

Posted at 2:48 PM on November 27, 2009 by Jacquie Fuller (2 Comments)
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If you haven't caught Teenage Kicks yet, tune in Saturday (tomorrow) morning from 8-10am, for the best of modern rock ... then.

This week, our featured artist is Billy Bragg. You might know him from his 1998 collaboration with Wilco--Mermaid Avenue. But by then, this prolific, politically-outspoken Brit had nine albums under his belt. You'll hear some tracks from those albums on this week's show.

In the meantime, here's Billy performing "A New England" in 1988.

Tune in to Teenage Kicks tomorrow morning, for vintage tracks from Billy Bragg, Kirstie Maccoll, Elvis Costello, The Waitresses, R.E.M., and more. (And share your thoughts about the show and requests here!)

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Teenage Kicks ... High on XTC

Posted at 3:04 PM on November 18, 2009 by Jacquie Fuller (1 Comments)
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In 1986, I was a surly, Siouxsie-Sioux-haired teenager, fresh out of a six-month stint in a half-way house. I was misunderstood, man! But then I heard a song on the radio (I was lucky to have a station back then that played this stuff) and it spoke to my tortured soul. (It also seriously freaked my mom out, which earned it vital bonus points.)

I still think "Dear God" is a great song. But as I came to know XTC better, I came to appreciate the parts of them that appealed to my sunnier side (yes, I had one.) XTC is a pop band, and I am a shameless and unabashed lover of pop. This band gave us sweet, jangly gems like "Generals and Majors," "Senses Working Overtime," "Making Plans for Nigel," and "Earn Enough for Us."

This is the point where I'd go into a little history of the band, but why not let them tell you? With puppets.

Tune in to Teenage Kicks, this Saturday from 8-10am, for more of our featured artist--XTC--plus other vintage goodies from OMD, Wire, The Jam, Iggy Pop, and more. And while you're here--why not share your thoughts about XTC (ahem ... Seel?)

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Teenage Kicks ... brought to you by the letter X.

Posted at 3:00 PM on November 4, 2009 by Jacquie Fuller (1 Comments)
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I hosted a "retro" radio show in college with the unfortunate name of "Blue Eyeliner," and it's long been a dream of mine to have a similar show on The Current. I pitched it to our Program Director, Jim McGuinn, and found out he had a similar dream. A few weeks ago, Jim gave it the green light and put the training wheels on by getting the show started while I was busy putting on The Current's member drive.

This weekend, the wheels come off! I'm super-excited to be hosting Teenage Kicks, and hope you'll give me lots of feedback, suggestions, and requests. (And don't worry--Jim will still be around from time to time, filling in, especially when there's a member drive going on.)

If you haven't caught Teenage Kicks yet, it airs Saturday mornings from 8-10 am. Remember when the term "alternative," with regard to music, entered the collective consciousness? Well, Teenage Kicks is all about the music that came before "alternative." Back then it was "college radio," "modern radio," call it what you will. But you get the gist!

This week's featured artist is X. Frontwoman Exene Cervenka has a new album out, so it seemed timely to take a look back at the band. Formed in Los Angeles in 1977, X forged a sound all their own: a combination of punk, blues, rockabilly and country, sugared on the edges by the crooning duo of Exene and John Doe. When you hear an X song, you recognize it right away as an X song. Few bands have managed to hit the same register.

I had trouble finding early footage of the band, but here they are playing "The New World," from their 1983 album, More Fun in the New World, at a recent SXSW.

I remember one SXSW--I think it was '99--I was watching the free show at Waterloo Park. Who did I see there, fire-engine red hair blazing, chilling out on a blanket like it was Easter Sunday? Yep--Exene. (I still want to be her.)

What are your memories of X? Seen 'em live? Got an X song that's close to your heart? Share your X story below, and tune in on Saturday morning for Teenage Kicks!

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Boo! Teenage Kicks this Saturday 8-10am

Posted at 4:42 PM on October 29, 2009 by Jim McGuinn (3 Comments)
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Happy Halloween - we'll drop in some spooky retro this Saturday morning on Teenage Kicks. Got a suggestion? Leave a comment below - and dig a little Bauhaus video to get you in the mood...

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Teenage Kicks this Saturday morning with featured artist The The

Posted at 2:25 PM on October 22, 2009 by Jim McGuinn (2 Comments)
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Have you heard Teenage Kicks yet? Saturday mornings from 8-10am we dig deep into the alt vault to bring you a look back at our musical life before nirvana. Included in the show each week is a Featured Artist - that you will hear tracks from at 8:15, 8:45, 9:15, and 9:45. Last week we launched the show with the Clash as the featured artist, this week we'll shine a spotlight on The The.

As the band's wiki entry says, The The is a British musical and multimedia group that has been active in various forms since 1979, with singer/songwriter/frontman Matt Johnson being the only constant band member. Releases are fairly few and far between for the band, but over the years The The have sold several million albums internationally and achieved critical acclaim -- their 1983 album Soul Mining was voted the third best album of the year by British music magazine Melody Maker.

So here's the new weekly question for you - please leave a comment if have a The The request - or if you've got a memory of a live show or if The The meant something special to you in your life.

This is the Day (Saturday, that is) to hear some The The on Teenage Kicks -

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New Sat morning radio show needs a name... help!

Posted at 8:51 AM on October 15, 2009 by Jim McGuinn (43 Comments)
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If we were writing a personal about the headlined topic, it might look like this -

Desperating seeking retro show name. Email or leave a comment below. Music from late 70s to early 90s. Life before Nirvana. Help!

This Saturday morning we're launching a new show from 8am-10am on the Current - the show will delve into the history of Alternative music - from punk to grunge, with an emphasis on the late '70s to the late '80s era when post-punk or indie or modern or college rock (or whatever you want to call it) was first emerging as an alternative culture to the mainstream - think bands like Talking Heads, Smiths, INXS, Specials, R.E.M., and thousands more... and after several brainstorming sessions, we still feel like we haven't found the right name yet.

So here's where you can help - let's have a virtual brainstorm - chip in your ideas here, leave comments on other folks', and maybe you'll be the person who names our new show.

AND as an incentive, if we use your idea, we'll hook you up with a couple of CDs - recent reissues from Radiohead (Kid A) and Beastie Boys (Ill Communication).

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