Improvements on the domestic front

This week’s playlist:

1. 1. Fad Gadget, State of the Nation
   2. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The New Stone Age
   3. Basement 5, Ball Games
   4. The Undertones, Hypnotised
   5. The Fall, Rebellious Jukebox
   6. Liquid Liquid, Scraper
   7. The Cure, The Hanging Garden
   8. The Pretenders, Time the Avenger
   9. Cabaret Voltaire, Animation
   10. Chrome, Meet You in the Subway
   11. A Certain Ratio, The Fox
   12. The Snivelling Shits, Bring Me the Head of Yukio Mishima
   13. Material, Conform to the Rhythm
   14. The B-52’s, Lava
   15. Yello, Bostich (12” version)
   16. Middle Class, Mosque
   17. Alan Vega, Wipeout Beat
   18. Devo, Love Without Anger
   19. Dead Can Dance, A Passage in Time
   20. Public Image Limited, Go Back
   21. Killing Joke, Primitive
   22. Snake Corps, Another Monday
   23. The Wall, Ceremony
   24. Gang of Four, Love Like Anthrax (Fast Product version)
   25. The Mighty Lemon Drops, Pass You By (C86 version)
   26. Psyche, The Crawler
   27. Jacno, Triangle
   28. Joy Division, Glass
   29. Tubeway Army, Bombers
   30. The The, Giant

So let’s be honest, I am disappointed in the response, or lack thereof to be more accurate, to these mixes I’ve been making… thus far, the most listeners any of them has been 29, several of the others have barely made it into double figures, and some haven’t even made it that far. It’s hard not to feel like I’m wasting my time and effort a bit… so, obviously, the logical thing to do was really waste my time and effort by making a two-hour extravaganza… but the thing is, I’m particularly happy with the result, rather more so than many of the other episodes I’ve done so far, and I’m particularly happy with next week’s too which is in pretty much the same vein. I possibly should’ve been doing two-hour mixes all along, even though they do take more effort… anyway, for the three people who are likely to be interested, here’s this week’s episode.