This is a fun one! This 2-hour episode features songs w/mallet instruments (xylophone, vibraphone, marimba, steel drums, etc.), of which there are surprisingly a lot of in the Little Records library. The mallets were popular with the post-punks and new-/no-wave weirdos. We’ll hear from Jazz Butcher, Nick Cave, Tortoise, The Triffids, Stereolab, Violent Femmes, Cleaners From Venus, Girls Against Boys, The Creatures, English Beat, The Psychedelic Furs, Helium, The Method Actors, and many more. And, maybe a first in the history of DJ-ing: Liquid Liquid spun into Cardinal.

Playlist

1. Jane’s Addiction — Jane Says
2. The Jazz Butcher — Real Men
3. V-Effect — Feet First
4. R.E.M. — Tighten Up
5. The Auteurs — I’m A Rich Man’s Toy
6. Rig Veeda — I’m All Messed Up
7. Sneaky Feelings — Better Than Before
8. Luna — This Time Around
9. The Creatures — Gecko
10. Eyeless In Gaza — Out from the Day to Day
11. Liquid Liquid — Scraper
12. Cardinal — Angel Darling
13. The Psychedelic Furs — Love My Way
14. The Triffids — Holy Water
15. The Scene Is Now — Yellow Sarong
16. Pavement — Chesley’s Little Wrists
17. Husker Du — The Baby Song
18. Fad Gadget — King Of The Flies
19. The Wolfgang Press — Ghost
20. Tortoise — Ry Cooder
21. Cleaners From Venus — Living On Nerve Ends
22. Girls Against Boys — Glazed-Eye
23. Mo-Dettes — Foolish Girl
24. The English Beat — Hands Off … She’s Mine
25. The Smiths — A Rush And A Push And The Land Is Ours
26. The The — Perfect
27. Bob — The Things That You Do
28. Violent Femmes — Gone Daddy Gone
29. The Method Actors — Halloween
30. Stereolab — Fiery Yellow
31. Echo & The Bunnymen — My White Devil
32. Tears For Fears — Change
33. Colin Newman — Indians!
34. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — The Six Strings That Drew Blood
35. Helium — Baby’s Going Underground
36. The Coctails — In A Tub