First Week of December, 2009 - Happy Holidays!

After gorging on turkey & all the trimmings, Alternative 80's is back! No stale leftovers here - lots of tasty tracks from the 80's, with a a sprinkle of Alternative Christmas music to whet your appetite for our Christmas podcast, which is coming up next week in time for the holidays.

We start this week's podcast with a crankin' tune by Tim Scott, who said this on his website: "This was my young and confused record...I wrote the songs over a couple of weeks on a little Casio keyboard...Sire heard it and offered me a deal...no use apologizing for such a thing...my mistake... the good part of it was working with Richard Gottehrer ...really took me under his wing...shame we were working on the wrong kind of music....."

If you listen really close, you can hear the Go-Go's Jane Wiedlin singing background vocals.

Enjoy!


1. Tim Scott - Swear

2. Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Success

3. Christina - Things Fall Apart

4. Space Monkey - Can't Stop Running

5. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - War (Hide Yourself)

6. Call It Heaven - Step On Board

7. Thompson Twins - Day After Day

8. Wire Train - Chamber of Hellos

9. The Wild Swans -

10. Human League - Love Action (I Believe in Love) -

11. Social Distortion - Prison Bound

12. Yello - Jingle Bells


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Week of 10/25/2009 - Meet Jonka!

Welcome to the Week of October 25th, 2009! Quite a loud, cranking podcast this week - just check out the playlist! We've tried expanding a bit, including more alternative selections, introducing you to some bands you may have missed back in the 80's, but really shouldn't have. This week includes selections from Canada's "Blue Peter" and Berlin's "Picnic at The Whitehouse."

Also this week, we get the chance to meet a new band from Brooklyn, New York - Jonka. They explain their sound the best - "Jonka is a love story. The grandson of a blind subway musician. A Kindergarten teacher from Brooklyn. They found love and they found a voice. Jonka grew up in the 1980's at a time when music and production emanated a larger than life sound. This permeates the music. Together they've created a marriage of pop, synthesizers, dance and rock." Their track' "The Nana Song" is featured this week. Be sure to check them out at www.myspace.com/jonkamusic , as well as on Facebook. Their new CD, "Slow and Steady Wins the Race" is available on iTunes and CD Baby.com

Be sure to crank up this week's podcast - it's made that way!

Track Listing:

1) All Your Time - Blue Peter
2) Mission of Mercy - The Motels
3) The Waterfront - Simple Minds
4) Mother's Talk - Tears For Fears
5) Apollo 9 - Adam Ant
6) The Nana Song - Jonka
7) Wire - U2
8) We Need Protection - Picnic at the Whitehouse
9) Unlikely remix
10) The Cutter - Echo & The Bunnymen
11) Lost Plane - The Fixx
12) Get It On (Bang A Gong) - Power Station
13) Under The Milky Way - The Church

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Week of 10/18/2009 - The Halloween Edition!

Welcome to the FIRST official blog meant to accompany my podcast, Alternative80's!

This week's podcast is, obviously, a special Halloween edition. Now, while there are some obvious songs on this week's podcast, I did try and add a few unique tunes and stay away from some tired ones (sorry, Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party" is NOT on here). So, put on your best costume, turn down the lights, fire up your cauldron, and enjoy the Halloween edition of Alternative 80's!

Track Listing:
1) Everyday is Halloween - Ministry
2) A Time to Fear (Who's Afraid?) - Art of Noise
3) Halloween - Dream Syndicate
4) Nightmares - A Flock of Seagulls
5) People Who Have Died - Jim Carrol
6) Halloween II - The Misfits
7) Devil in My Car - The B52s
8) Pet Sematary - The Ramones
9) Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) - David Bowie
10) Witchcraft - Book of Love
11) Ghost Town - The Specials
12) A Nightmare on My Street - Dj Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
13) No One Lives Forever - Oingo Boingo
14) Dead Pop Stars - Altered Images
15) Spellbound - Siouxsie & The Banshees
16) Fear of Ghosts - The Cure

Where's the podcast?? Why it's here - of course! Alternative 80's - Halloween Edition

Enjoy the show? Be sure to let me know by sending your comments or requests to barry@surfingtrucker.com You can also call in a request! Call my SayNow line at 508-809-4192, and you just may be featured on a future podcast!