This two-hour episode features our usual “greatest hits” & “biggest misses” curation of underground rock, circa the late ’70s through the early ’90s. We’ll hear from The Jam (pictured), The Cure, The Triffids, Mojo Nixon, The Birthday Party, The Smiths, The Pooh Sticks, Guided By Voices, Bauhaus, James, Bad Religion, Joy Division, The Coctails, Madness, The Godfathers, Captain Sensible, Half Japanese, and a couple dozen more bands.

Playlist

1. The Smiths — Barbarism Begins At Home
2. The Soft Boys — Underwater Moonlight
3. Bauhaus — Ziggy Stardust
4. The Birthday Party — Nick The Stripper
5. The Pogues — Boat Train
6. Mekons — Poxy Lips
7. Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper — We Gotta Have More Soul!
8. The Gories — I Think I’ve Had It
9. Meat Puppets — Good Golly Miss Molly
10. Didjits — Lucille
11. Bad Religion — What Can You Do?
12. The Dead Milkmen — I Walk The Thinnest Line
13. Camper Van Beethoven — Cowboys From Hollywood
14. Half Japanese — Daytona Beach
15. Liz Phair — Cinco De Mayo
16. Guided By Voices — My Valuable Hunting Knife
17. Madness — Bed & Breakfast
18. The Stranglers — Nice ‘N’ Sleazy
19. The Jam — The Place I Love
20. The Undertones — Family Entertainment
21. The Weirdos — We Got The Neutron Bomb
22. The Pooh Sticks — Let The Good Times Roll
23. Small Factory — Friends
24. The Spinanes — Sunday
25. Yo La Tengo — From A Motel 6
26. The Godfathers — The Strangest Boy
27. The Loft — Time
28. Nikki Sudden And Dave Kusworth: Jacobites — Cavaliers
29. The Triffids — Wide Open Road
30. The La’s — Timeless Melody
31. James — Charlie Dance
32. The Clean — Beatnik
33. The Coctails — 2000
34. Unrest — Hi-Tec Theme
35. Joy Division — Digital
36. Captain Sensible — Martha The Mouth
37. Visage — Fade To Grey
38. Momus — The Angels Are Voyeurs
39. The Cure — Push
40. XTC — Life Begins At The Hop
41. R.E.M. — Catapult