Episode 18: Welcome to the Boomtown Episode 18 (You're Listening to KWSC-FM)

Welcome to the Boomtown

Welcome back to the 80s! Benny Banzai here. In my opinion, the best time for college radio was in the 80s. From January 1984 to May 1988, I was on air at KWSC-FM at Wayne State College in Wayne, NE. We were Pixies, The Ramones, The Replacements, The Smiths, Echo and the Bunnymen, R.E.M. and so many great bands that weren't getting much play on commercial radio stations. This episode features these bands and more.
A shout out to those of you who have been with us since the beginning and welcome to our new listeners. As always, thanks to Team Boomtown: Alan (artwork), DJ Phil B (technical advice) and David Baerwald and David Ricketts, also known as David + David, for their amazing album which inspired the title of our podcast.
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Songs chosen by both of us.
Group or artist - song title (album and release date)
1. Killing Joke – Eighties (Night Time 1984)

2. BoDeans - Say About Love (Outside Looking In 1987)

3. Flesh for Lulu - I Go Crazy (Long Live the New Flesh 1987)

4. Husker Du - Sorry Somehow (Candy Apple Grey 1986)

5. Echo and the Bunnymen – The Killing Moon (Ocean Rain 1984)

6. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Happy When It Rains (Darklands 1987)

7. REM - Can't Get Here There From Here (Fables of the Reconstruction 1985)

8. Hoodoo Gurus - Come Anytime (Magnum Cum Louder 1989)

9. The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait (Pleased to Meet Me 1987)

10. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Balloon Man (Globe of Frogs 1988)

11. The Smithereens - Only a Memory (Green Thoughts 1988)

12. Pixies - Wave of Mutilation (Doolittle 1989)

13. Love and Rockets - So Alive (Love and Rockets 1989)

14. Dead Milkmen - Bitchin' Camaro (Big Lizard in My Backyard 1985)

15. Ramones - Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio? (End of the Century 1980)

16. Happy Mondays - Wrote for Luck (Bummed 1988)

17. The Stone Roses - Made of Stone (The Stone Roses 1989)

18. The Sugarcubes – Motorcrash (Life’s Too Good 1988)

19. Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun (Violent Femmes 1983)

20. Siouxie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust (Tinderbox 1986, single release 1985)

21. The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again (The Queen is Dead 1986)

22. 10,000 Maniacs - Don't Talk (In My Tribe 1987)

23. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (non-album single 1980)

Listen, enjoy, share, follow, and thanks for keeping 80s music alive!
BB & DD