The Ledge, Episode 56: 1981
This week's episode celebrates that anniversary with music from 1981. The vast majority of the selections come from releases that were discovered in the massive library at that radio station, but also included are also bands, albums, and songs from that year that has been discovered since then. Besides some mainstream alt-rock hits, the year also was noteworthy for the rise of American hardcore and independent record labels.
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Here's the tunes:
1. R.E.M., Gardening at Night
2. The Church, The Unguarded Moment
3. The Psychedelic Furs, I wanna Sleep With You
4. Squeeze, In Quintessence
5. Elvis Costello (with Glen Tilbrook) - From a Whisper to a Scream
6. Elvis Costello, Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down
7. Dave Edmunds, Almost Saturday Night
8. The Blasters, Marie Marie
9 The Plimsouls, Hush Hush
10. db's, Bad Reputation
11. The Vertebrats, Hang On To Your Man
12. The Vertebrats, Diamonds in the Rough
13. The Suburbs, Cigarette in Backwards
14. The Fleshtones, Right Side of a Good Thing
15. The Cramps, New Kind of Kick
16. Tav Falco's Panther Burns, Come On Little Mama
17. The Replacements, Something to Du
18. Husker Du, Data Control
19. The Ramones, THe KKK Took My Baby Away
20. X, White Girl
21. Gun Club, Sex Beat
22. Redd Kross, Linda Blair
23. Flesh Eaters, See You in the Boneyard
24. Flipper, Sex Bomb
25. Agent Orange, Everything Turns Grey
26. Dead Kennedys, Dog Bite
27. Saccharine Trust, Community Lie
28. Black Flag, Six Pack
29. The Adolescents, L.A. Girl
30. Government Issue, Religious Ripoff
31. Minor Threat, Stepping Stone
32. TSOL, Abolish the Government/Silent Majority
33. The Exploited, I Believe in Anarchy
34. Crass, Bata Motel
35. The Wipers, Born With a Curse
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