252: Pretty Ugly

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252: Pretty Ugly

I host a monthly DJ gig at Baltimore’s Idle Hour called Pretty Ugly, and for the December night I invited fellow ’80s enthusiast and DC-area DJ John Foster to spin with me. John produces his own podcast, titled Play Something Good, for the Vinyl District, which you should definitely check out. This four-hour podcast — almost entirely focused on the UK — is our all-vinyl set from the night recorded live from the mixer. You’ll hear lots of New Order, plus Fun Boy Three (pictured), The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Shriekback, The Verve, Orange Juice, Tones On Tail, The Gadgets, Cocteau Twins, The Soup Dragons, New Fast Automatic Daffodils, Suede, XTC, The Slits, Public Image Ltd., Killing Joke, & Depeche Mode.

Playlist

—–DOUG on the Tables—–

  • Medicine — The Pink
  • Cocteau Twins — Iceblink Luck
  • Swervedriver — Duel
  • Verve — Make It Till Monday
  • Spacemen 3 — Take Me To The Other Side
  • My Bloody Valentine — Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)
  • The Monochrome Set — Love Goes Down The Drain
  • Trio — Sunday You Need Love Monday Be Alone
  • Gang Of Four — Producer
  • The Fall — U.S. 80’s – 90’s
  • The Gadgets — Discuss The Sofa
  • The Cure — Jumping Someone Else’s Train
  • The Three Johns — Teenage Nightingales To Wax
  • Shriekback — Lined Up*

—–JOHN on the Tables—–

  • Fun Boy Three & Bananarama — It Ain’t What You Do It’s The Way That You Do It
  • The Creatures — Standing There
  • New Fast Automatic Daffodils — Fishes Eyes
  • The Wolfgang Press — Hang On Me
  • New Order — Every Little Counts
  • The Telescopes — Never Learn Not To Love
  • The Woodentops — Well Well Well (live)
  • The Mighty Lemon Drops — Like An Angel
  • The Soup Dragons — Girl In The World
  • Echo & The Bunnymen — Do It Clean
  • Len Bright Combo — Someone Must’ve Nailed Us Together
  • The Jesus & Mary Chain — Sidewalking
  • Joy Division — Transmission
  • ESG — Dance
  • Liquid Liquid — Optimo
  • ESG — Tiny Sticks
  • Liquid Liquid — Cavern
  • Tones On Tail — Go!

—–DOUG on the Tables—–

  • Spandau Ballet — To Cut A Long Story Short
  • Pete Shelley — I Don’t Know What It Is
  • Magazine — Because You’re Frightened
  • Tones On Tail — Lions
  • The Smiths — Reel Around The Fountain
  • Pulp — I Spy*
  • Orange Juice — I Guess I’m Just A Little Too Sensitive
  • Suede — So Young*
  • The Charlatans — Sproston Green

—–JOHN on the Tables—–

  • The Stone Roses — She Bangs The Drums
  • The Colourfield — Pushing Up The Daisies
  • New Order — Love Vigilantes
  • XTC — Earn Enough For Us
  • Modern English — I Melt With You

—–DOUG on the Tables—–

  • The Boo Radleys — Upon 9th And Fairchild
  • The Clash — The Guns Of Brixton
  • The Slits — I Heard It Through The Grapevine
  • Bow Wow Wow — Baby, Oh No
  • Public Image Ltd. — The Order Of Death
  • Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft — Sato-Sato
  • Nitzer Ebb — Murderous
  • Killing Joke — Primitive

—–JOHN on the Tables—–

  • Lemonheads — Luka
  • Mission Of Burma — That’s When I Reach For My Revolver
  • Half Japanese — Charmed Life
  • Wire — Outdoor Miner
  • Wire — Champs
  • A Certain Ratio — Touch
  • Liquid Liquid — Groupmegroup
  • A Certain Ratio — Saturn
  • New Order — Fine Time

—–DOUG on the Tables—–

  • Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark — Electricity
  • Depeche Mode — Dreaming Of Me
  • The Smiths — This Charming Man*
  • Blur — There’s No Other Way
  • New Order — Temptation (alt. mix)*

* Requests

John‘s killer flier for the gig:

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