WFMU: 100% Whatever with Mary Wing: Playlist from February 27, 2019

Listener comments!
	🛎 12:06pm βrian: Well, here we are!
	12:09pm rw: Morning! I'm ready.
	12:14pm Roberto: Beek-a-poo!
	12:15pm Mary Wing: OOops messed up already, this is from 1988!
	12:17pm Boomer: This is the best Wing tbqh >>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kqa-HYihaZo
	12:17pm Rich in Washington: I've been commenting on the wrong show, wondering why the accuplaylist isn't accu.
	12:18pm Rich in Washington: Hello Mary Wing! Hello 100%ers!
	12:18pm crateslinger: @Rich - I do that all the time.
	12:18pm rw: Well... I guess it could have been on the radio in 89. The accuplaylist says 89. I'm going with that.
	12:19pm Rich in Washington: It's kind of embarrassing, especially if I'm making comments related to the music.
	12:19pm rw: Rich, we understand.
	12:20pm Rich in Washington: Typically, what happens with me, is I'm listening to WFMU streams via an iTunes playlist. If the stream hiccups, it can sometimes skip down to the next stream. It's nutty.
	12:20pm rw: If that's the most embarrassing thing you do today you're way ahead of me.
	12:20pm Rich in Washington: My drug regime hasn't fully kicked in this morning.
	12:22pm crateslinger: Embarrassing? I once had spotify on and commented on Irwin’s show about how cool it was he would play Taylor Swift.
	12:22pm Mark R: I actually own the 2" of the Batdance! lol
	12:22pm crateslinger: Because when she can’t cry anymore, she writes...
	12:24pm Mary Wing: Bah, crateslinger! Tooo funny! Did Irwin respond to that?
	12:24pm Rich in Washington: THat's awesomely hilarious crateslinger! Sounds like something I'd do!
	12:26pm Mark R: 12", not 2" of course! BTW that Wing version of AC/DC is the greatest thing I've ever heard!
	12:27pm crateslinger: No - I think I stumped him.
	12:29pm rw: So... will we be having 3oaK today? Keeping it all to '89 seems like a fun challenge.
	12:29pm Mary Wing: Heh, Mark, I wondered how you could even play a 2" record?
	12:30pm Mark R: I'm sensing a 1988/9 theme here. Trying to remember what I was listening to in them days. That "New York" album was one of them, for sure. "Doolittle" by the Pixies, which came out earlier, but I was still listening to it in the late 80s early 90s. I think a lot of good jazz albums came out around then, Tony Williams-type stuff. Larry Coryell. A lot of fusion-y type guys were returning to more straight-ahead jazz and I was digging it. Also, mainstream stuff like INXS believe it or not, I was digging. Oh yes, The The, my god did I love this album!
	12:30pm Mark R: Oh you could move the needle over, Mary--no biggie. It would be over in like 10 seconds, though!
	12:31pm Mary Wing: No, rw, 3oak will be on hiatus until after the marathon; got to focus on fundraising!
	12:31pm crateslinger: In 1989 I was working at Planet Records in Boston and listening to the Crucifucks and the Colors Soundtrack.
	🛎 12:32pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thirty years ago, "Lost In Your Eyes" by Debbie Gibson was number one. Neat!
	12:33pm crateslinger: Also I think BDP’s My Philosophy came out round that time.
	12:36pm Mark R: Oh hello--if I'd just read the darn synopsis at the top of the playlist I would see that the theme I'm "sensing" has been totally spelled out by the disc jockey individual. I always talk first, read later!
	12:36pm rw: I don't remember '89. I was just out of grad school and going through major crisis. So far I've only recognized the Siouxsie and the Stone Roses tracks.
	12:38pm Mark R: Seriously, I think if I went through my CD collection, the year 1989 would be well-represented. I was just starting to work at grown-up jobs but did not yet have children draining away all my music money, so I was probably adding about 50 albums a year to my collection. "Let Love Rule" was another one. Lenny's later stuff put a lot of people off of him, but I still think "Let Love Rule" is top-notch, start to finish!
	12:38pm crateslinger: In 1989 I saw Bad Brains and the Cro Mags open for Motorhead at the Channel. Best show I ever saw. Everybody almost died.
	12:41pm Mary Wing: How the heck do you remember that it was in 1989, crateslinger? I can remember lots of concerts in the 80s, but not the exact year.
	12:42pm rw: Actually, not just out of school but finishing school and then back into the real world. Even worse! crateslinger, I'm jealous.
	12:43pm rw: And recently married! It's all coming back to me...
	12:43pm Rich in Washington: I've been remembering dates of shows only because I've been tracking down either bootlegs of certain show or flyers from specific shows. It's always surprising to recall the date because they're often much later than I remember.
	12:44pm crateslinger: @Mary - I turned 21 in 1989 and met my wife the following year.
	12:44pm crateslinger: and I moved around a lot so judging by who I was hanging out with and where I was living - I can pretty much know the year.
	12:45pm crateslinger: Now that I’ve been in NYC for 30 years, THAT is all jumbled together. I measure the year by how many kids I had.
	12:46pm crateslinger: Feels like that was the last show I went to!
	12:46pm Mary Wing: You've had 30 kids??!?!?!? ;-)
	12:47pm rw: I'm terrible with remembering specific years. Sometime between the mid '90s and now I had at least two children.
	12:53pm Mark R: Mary, you're proving my long-held belief, that in spite of people's opinions that music of this era or that era was "lousy," it only reflects what they were hearing on mainstream radio, and that if you pick any year, I could name you 10 or 20 or 30 stone-cold killer records, and you're proving it right here!
	12:55pm Mary Wing: Thanks, Mark, let's hope my premium can also prove it!
	12:55pm Mark R: Ha, to show you what a square I was, I liked Bonnie Raitt's stuff from this era, too!
	12:56pm Mark R: I saw Jane Siberry around this time, too! At St. Andrew's Hall in Detroit, where that awful-sounding Morphine live album was recorded.
	1:03pm Carmichael: Big Siberry fan here too. Saw her at Harlow's in Sacramento, a small intimate theatre.
	1:06pm rw: Late for work. Will be taking the crazy boat ride down the long slow freeway. Thanks Mary! Take care all!
	1:07pm Roberto: Yeah they be married.
	1:10pm ike: For just a sec there, I thought you said Pigeons of Distinction. Ha.
	1:15pm steveo: hello! today i'm gonna listen like it's 1989!
	1:18pm crateslinger: Ha! 30 kids - feels like it....
	1:18pm Mary Wing: Those are Wake & Bake Glisteners, Ike!
	1:26pm Michael 98145: 1989 - when ADD meant something different
	1:32pm Parq: This FYC was one of my favorite singles from anytime.
	1:33pm Mark R: I remember thinking it was really cool when they used "She Drives Me Crazy" on an episode of "thirtysomething"!
	1:33pm rw: This was 89?? I’d have guessed much earlier
	1:36pm Mary Wing: Oh god, thirtysomething! I should watch that show again, heh.
	1:36pm Carmichael: Yikes, I'd hate to tell you how old I was in '89.
	🛎 1:39pm Ken From Hyde Park: 1989 was merely twenty years after Woodstock.
	1:40pm Michael 98145: some of us just got a head start, @carm
	1:41pm steveo: this is the only foreigner song i can bear to listen to anymore :)
	1:41pm Michael 98145: twenty-two years after the summer of love
	1:43pm ike: Eek! This song plays a lot different to modern ears than it did back in the day!
	1:44pm Rich in Washington: In 1989, I found myself working on an assembly line in a sweatshop. The guy up the line from me was this obnoxious illiterate hillbilly dude who jibber jabbered constantly. When this song came out, he would use the phrase Funky Cold Medina for everything. I have no idea why. I think he thought it made him hipper, or something. The whole place was full of these goofuses who were freeze dried in the late 70s, with feathered hairdos, 70s looking clothes and everything.
	1:44pm Roberto: Paging Goat Scream. Mr. Scream, please report to Mary Wing's playlist.
	🛎 1:45pm βrian: Goat ice cream?
	1:46pm Carmichael: All goats scream for goat ice cream.
	1:48pm Parq: Oy, it's so humid, it's like a sauna in here! (At the moment, I wish.)
	1:48pm Roberto: Apparently they wanna be quite nasty.
	1:48pm Rich in Washington: I didn't know that was a goat scream! Delightful!
	1:48pm steveo: yeah wow not sure i ever heard that version
	1:49pm Roberto: Thanks, Mary.
	1:49pm ike: From this era: One time I was in the video arcade in a hotel playing Donkey Kong or something, and some BAD KIDS came in playing 2 Live Crew on a boombox LOUD. I didn’t say anything but I was kinda scandalized.
	1:49pm Rich in Washington: This is a fun set, Mary! I have blacked out huge chunks of 1989, so this is quite a blast for me.
	1:50pm Mark R: I have a hunch thirtysomething would not stand the test of time. There's a reason why it never shows up on TVLand.
	1:51pm Parq: I was still kind of paying attention to this stuff in '89. My kid was born in '90. Like all new parents, I lost all contact with pop culture for a couple of years, and somehow never got back around to mainstream music.
	1:51pm Rich in Washington: 1989 I had just married and became a father. My wife and I had vastly divergent musical tastes (in that I had some - snark!), so music and I had a weird relationship for years.
	1:52pm Carmichael: When my kids were born, I got seriously into The Wiggles.
	1:52pm Andrew Waterloo: good afternoon
	1:53pm david w: Well, ain't this somethin'!!! Hello Mary and all!
	1:53pm ike: @Mark, I never watched that, but was it serialized? Serialized stuff gets terrible rerun ratings so that might be why. Or maybe it has aged badly, who knows?
	1:55pm Rich in Washington: When my kids were a bit older, we got into They Might Be Giants. My sons also really loved the sped up voices in The Mothers' We're Only In It For The Money.
	1:55pm ike: I liked ALF back then and that’s pretty much one of the worst shows ever made. Also, Night Court, which isn’t so bad, but very very silly.
	1:55pm Rich in Washington: Hi david w!
	1:56pm steveo: hi david -- don't forget it's Wednesday!
	1:58pm Rich in Washington: Wasn't it around this time that Danzig happened? That was a surreal moment. I never thought I'd live to see someone from The Misfits become somewhat mainstream. Maybe trivial now, but was pretty strange BitD.
	2:00pm Rich in Washington: Ah. Danzig was 1988. Also, Living Colour's Vivid, which I thought might be '89. See? My recall of '89 is totally off.
	2:03pm Andrew Waterloo: Vivid is '88 as well
	2:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hi there , Whatevers!
	2:05pm Webhamster Henry: 1989 - a fuzzy distant past!
	2:06pm Roberto: I saw Faith No More along with Soundgarden in 1990 at L'amour or the Ritz or whatever that place was in Brooklyn. This is significant because in my entire life I've been to about 10 shows.
	2:06pm Roberto: And of course, the only reason I went was because "she" was going...
	2:06pm Andrew Waterloo: Alice Cooper's Trash is '89
	2:07pm Andrew Waterloo: Young MC's Stone Cold Rhythm was a fav back then
	2:08pm Roberto: Yes! The eye in the palm!
	2:08pm Webhamster Henry: I was hacking away at the Amiga, writing synthesizer apps and my animation program.
	2:12pm ike: Yeah, Young MC was much more my speed back then than 2 Live Crew.
	2:14pm ike: Isn’t that 3 p.m.?
	2:16pm Parq: I bought this Laurie album very late in '89. It's my personal soundtrack for the end of the 80s -- the end of an era for me in several ways, Babyloves.
	2:21pm Michael 98145: - good to hear this track again -
	2:22pm Andrew Waterloo: Young MC was sort of the last positive rapper.
	2:22pm steveo: "reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, a feat no Bauhaus-related band or artist has achieved before or since"
	2:22pm steveo: (so alive)
	2:23pm Michael 98145: and ... ah .... :)
	2:24pm Roberto: Kate BOOOOOOOOOOsh
	2:25pm Roberto: (That's what the crowd roars when she comes in from the bullpen)
	2:25pm Michael 98145: { why 'pick up' the phone, when everyone is walking around with it in their hand?? }
	2:26pm Mary Wing: Cellphones were still big and clunky in '89, no?
	2:27pm Mary Wing: Or had they even been invented???
	2:27pm Roberto: As I used to say back in the day of wired receivers -- "Pick up the phone. Now put it down and pick up only the receiver."
	2:28pm Michael 98145: they surely had an antenna ...
	2:28pm steveo: we had a cell phone in 1989 but it took up the entire basement
	2:28pm Roberto: Yes, they existed in '89. The first time I remember seeing a car phone was in '79 but that one couldn't leave the car.
	2:29pm Andrew Waterloo: www.youtube.com... apparently the first Cell Phone ad from 1989
	2:29pm Mary Wing: Ah yes, the phone built into the car; because why should you only concentrate on driving?
	2:30pm Roberto: You had to pull over to use it. You also had to dial a mobile operator to make the calls for you.
	2:32pm Mary Wing: Such simpler times...
	2:33pm Roberto: I had a shortwave radio that picked up mobile calls. Sadly, the most exciting call I ever intercepted was some guy calling a shoe store looking for alligator boots or something.
	2:35pm Roberto: Dang, there are lyrics to this?
	2:35pm Mary Wing: heh, nice.
	2:36pm Andrew Waterloo: Love this Julee Cruise album
	2:36pm Michael 98145: loverly
	2:36pm Andrew Waterloo: Was watching Twin Peaks last night and realized I should have everything I need to recreate this bass tone.
	2:45pm Michael 98145: Thank you for this program, Mary W. I never ever expected anyone could make me think about 1989. Ever.
	2:48pm Mary Wing: Seems like yesterday, to me.
	2:48pm Roberto: WHOA
	2:49pm Mary Wing: Sweet jesus, this computer is fucked. Sorry to those who are listening with headphones!
	2:49pm Michael 98145: :)
	2:50pm Roberto: It's ok, I just jumped about a foot straight up in my chair at the office.
	2:51pm Mary Wing: Never know what the sound levels are going to be, sheesh. One week it is too low, the next it's fine, the next it is UP AND DOWN. Argh.
	2:52pm Parq: Well, that woke me up.
	2:53pm Mary Wing: I damn near wet my pants!
	2:53pm Michael 98145: good thing i wasn't operating heavy equipment :)
	2:56pm Mary Wing: Won't have time to backannounce; still have so many songs ready to play!
	2:56pm maestroso: Oh man, having cover band flashbacks.
	🛎 2:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks for the retro sounds. I think they stand the test of time quite well.
	2:58pm Webhamster Henry: You need one of those medical disclaimer speed up effects for back announcing!
	2:58pm Mary Wing: Heh! Maybe for the archive.
	2:59pm maestroso: I quite enjoyed playing this song.
	3:01pm Michael 98145: thank you again, Mary W
	3:02pm Mary Wing: Thanks for listening, let's get back to 2019!

100% Whatever with Mary Wing: Playlist from February 27, 2019

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February 27, 2019: Radio Recidivism - The 1989 Edition!
A celebration of the music of 1989 and an aural harbinger for my 2019 WFMU fundraising marathon premium CD, which will feature all songs from that year!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Lou Reed	Beginning Of A Great Adventure	New York	Sire	1989	MP3		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Pixies	Wave Of Mutilation "Wave Of Mutilation" by "Pixies"	Doolittle	4ad / Elektra	1989	MP3		0:04:57 (Pop-up)
Siouxsie & The Banshees	Peek-A-Boo	Peepshow	Geffen / Wonderland	1988	MP3		0:07:02 (Pop-up)
Prince	Batdance "Batdance" by "Prince"	Batman (Motion Picture Soundtrack)	Warner Bros.	1989	MP3		0:10:11 (Pop-up)
The Stone Roses	I Wanna Be Adored	The Stone Roses	Silvertone	1989	MP3		0:16:26 (Pop-up)
The The	Gravitate To Me "Gravitate To Me" by "The The"	Mind Bomb	Epic	1989	MP3		0:21:28 (Pop-up)
Lenny Kravitz	Let Love Rule "Let Love Rule" by "Lenny Kravitz"	Let Love Rule	Virgin	1989	MP3		0:29:27 (Pop-up)
Tears For Fears	Sowing The Seeds Of Love	The Seeds Of Love	Fontana	1989	MP3		0:35:09 (Pop-up)
Kitchens Of Distinction	Hammer "Hammer" by "Kitchens Of Distinction"	Love is Hell	One Little Indian	1989	MP3		0:41:24 (Pop-up)
Jane Siberry	Bound By The Beauty "Bound By The Beauty" by "Jane Siberry"	Bound By The Beauty	Reprise	1989	MP3		0:47:26 (Pop-up)
Michael Penn	No Myth "No Myth" by "Michael Penn"	March	RCA	1989	MP3		0:52:06 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Low	Hatchet (Optimimi Version) (Wing edit)						0:56:15 (Pop-up)
Neneh Cherry	Buffalo Stance "Buffalo Stance" by "Neneh Cherry"	Raw Like Sushi	Virgin	1989	MP3		1:07:24 (Pop-up)
Debbie Gibson	Electric Youth "Electric Youth" by "Debbie Gibson"	Electric Youth	Atlantic	1989	MP3		1:13:06 (Pop-up)
Janet Jackson	Love Will Never Do (Without You)	Rhythm Nation 1814	A&M	1989	MP3		1:18:02 (Pop-up)
Fine Young Cannibals	She Drives Me Crazy	The Raw & The Cooked	I.R.S.	1989	MP3		1:23:52 (Pop-up)
The B-52's	Deadbeat Club "Deadbeat Club" by "The B-52's"	Cosmic Thing	Reprise	1989	MP3		1:27:27 (Pop-up)
Tone-Loc	Funky Cold Medina "Funky Cold Medina" by "Tone-Loc"	Lōc-ed After Dark	Delicious Vinyl	1989	MP3		1:32:22 (Pop-up)
2 Live Crew	Me So Horny "Me So Horny" by "2 Live Crew"	As Nasty As They Wanna Be	Luke Skyywalker	1989	MP3		1:36:29 (Pop-up)
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Higher Ground	Mother’s Milk	EMI	1989	MP3	A Stevie Wonder cover.	1:41:22 (Pop-up)
The Cult	Fire Woman "Fire Woman" by "The Cult"	Sonic Temple	Sire / Reprise	1989	MP3		1:44:44 (Pop-up)
Motley Crue	Dr. Feelgood "Dr. Feelgood" by "Motley Crue"	Dr. Feelgood	Elektra	1989	MP3		1:49:55 (Pop-up)
Faith No More	Epic "Epic" by "Faith No More"	The Real Thing	Slash / Reprise	1989	MP3		1:54:45 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Low	Hatchet (Optimimi Version) (Wing edit)						1:59:36 (Pop-up)
Laurie Anderson	Babydoll "Babydoll" by "Laurie Anderson"	Strange Angels	Warner Bros.	1989	MP3		2:07:26 (Pop-up)
Love And Rockets	So Alive "So Alive" by "Love And Rockets"	Love And Rockets	RCA	1989	MP3		2:11:04 (Pop-up)
Kate Bush	Deeper Understanding "Deeper Understanding" by "Kate Bush"	The Sensual World	Columbia	1989	MP3	Additional vocals by Trio Bulgarka.	2:15:18 (Pop-up)
The Blue Nile	The Downtown Lights	Hats	A&M	1989	MP3		2:20:02 (Pop-up)
Julee Cruise	Falling "Falling" by "Julee Cruise"	Floating Into The Night	Warner Bros.	1989	MP3		2:26:28 (Pop-up)
Eurythmics	Don't Ask Me Why "Don't Ask Me Why" by "Eurythmics"	We Too Are One	Arista	1989	MP3		2:31:47 (Pop-up)
Shawn Colvin	Steady On "Steady On" by "Shawn Colvin"	Steady On	Columbia	1989	MP3		2:36:08 (Pop-up)
Joe Jackson	Nineteen Forever "Nineteen Forever" by "Joe Jackson"	Blaze Of Glory	A&M	1989	MP3		2:41:07 (Pop-up)
Lisa Stansfield	All Around The World	Affection	Arista	1989	MP3		2:46:56 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Low	Hatchet (Optimimi Version) (Wing edit)						2:51:22 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🛎 12:06pm βrian: Well, here we are!
	12:09pm rw: Morning! I'm ready.
	12:14pm Roberto: Beek-a-poo!
	12:15pm Mary Wing: OOops messed up already, this is from 1988!
	12:17pm Boomer: This is the best Wing tbqh >>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kqa-HYihaZo
	12:17pm Rich in Washington: I've been commenting on the wrong show, wondering why the accuplaylist isn't accu.
	12:18pm Rich in Washington: Hello Mary Wing! Hello 100%ers!
	12:18pm crateslinger: @Rich - I do that all the time.
	12:18pm rw: Well... I guess it could have been on the radio in 89. The accuplaylist says 89. I'm going with that.
	12:19pm Rich in Washington: It's kind of embarrassing, especially if I'm making comments related to the music.
	12:19pm rw: Rich, we understand.
	12:20pm Rich in Washington: Typically, what happens with me, is I'm listening to WFMU streams via an iTunes playlist. If the stream hiccups, it can sometimes skip down to the next stream. It's nutty.
	12:20pm rw: If that's the most embarrassing thing you do today you're way ahead of me.
	12:20pm Rich in Washington: My drug regime hasn't fully kicked in this morning.
	12:22pm crateslinger: Embarrassing? I once had spotify on and commented on Irwin’s show about how cool it was he would play Taylor Swift.
	12:22pm Mark R: I actually own the 2" of the Batdance! lol
	12:22pm crateslinger: Because when she can’t cry anymore, she writes...
	12:24pm Mary Wing: Bah, crateslinger! Tooo funny! Did Irwin respond to that?
	12:24pm Rich in Washington: THat's awesomely hilarious crateslinger! Sounds like something I'd do!
	12:26pm Mark R: 12", not 2" of course! BTW that Wing version of AC/DC is the greatest thing I've ever heard!
	12:27pm crateslinger: No - I think I stumped him.
	12:29pm rw: So... will we be having 3oaK today? Keeping it all to '89 seems like a fun challenge.
	12:29pm Mary Wing: Heh, Mark, I wondered how you could even play a 2" record?
	12:30pm Mark R: I'm sensing a 1988/9 theme here. Trying to remember what I was listening to in them days. That "New York" album was one of them, for sure. "Doolittle" by the Pixies, which came out earlier, but I was still listening to it in the late 80s early 90s. I think a lot of good jazz albums came out around then, Tony Williams-type stuff. Larry Coryell. A lot of fusion-y type guys were returning to more straight-ahead jazz and I was digging it. Also, mainstream stuff like INXS believe it or not, I was digging. Oh yes, The The, my god did I love this album!
	12:30pm Mark R: Oh you could move the needle over, Mary--no biggie. It would be over in like 10 seconds, though!
	12:31pm Mary Wing: No, rw, 3oak will be on hiatus until after the marathon; got to focus on fundraising!
	12:31pm crateslinger: In 1989 I was working at Planet Records in Boston and listening to the Crucifucks and the Colors Soundtrack.
	🛎 12:32pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thirty years ago, "Lost In Your Eyes" by Debbie Gibson was number one. Neat!
	12:33pm crateslinger: Also I think BDP’s My Philosophy came out round that time.
	12:36pm Mark R: Oh hello--if I'd just read the darn synopsis at the top of the playlist I would see that the theme I'm "sensing" has been totally spelled out by the disc jockey individual. I always talk first, read later!
	12:36pm rw: I don't remember '89. I was just out of grad school and going through major crisis. So far I've only recognized the Siouxsie and the Stone Roses tracks.
	12:38pm Mark R: Seriously, I think if I went through my CD collection, the year 1989 would be well-represented. I was just starting to work at grown-up jobs but did not yet have children draining away all my music money, so I was probably adding about 50 albums a year to my collection. "Let Love Rule" was another one. Lenny's later stuff put a lot of people off of him, but I still think "Let Love Rule" is top-notch, start to finish!
	12:38pm crateslinger: In 1989 I saw Bad Brains and the Cro Mags open for Motorhead at the Channel. Best show I ever saw. Everybody almost died.
	12:41pm Mary Wing: How the heck do you remember that it was in 1989, crateslinger? I can remember lots of concerts in the 80s, but not the exact year.
	12:42pm rw: Actually, not just out of school but finishing school and then back into the real world. Even worse! crateslinger, I'm jealous.
	12:43pm rw: And recently married! It's all coming back to me...
	12:43pm Rich in Washington: I've been remembering dates of shows only because I've been tracking down either bootlegs of certain show or flyers from specific shows. It's always surprising to recall the date because they're often much later than I remember.
	12:44pm crateslinger: @Mary - I turned 21 in 1989 and met my wife the following year.
	12:44pm crateslinger: and I moved around a lot so judging by who I was hanging out with and where I was living - I can pretty much know the year.
	12:45pm crateslinger: Now that I’ve been in NYC for 30 years, THAT is all jumbled together. I measure the year by how many kids I had.
	12:46pm crateslinger: Feels like that was the last show I went to!
	12:46pm Mary Wing: You've had 30 kids??!?!?!? ;-)
	12:47pm rw: I'm terrible with remembering specific years. Sometime between the mid '90s and now I had at least two children.
	12:53pm Mark R: Mary, you're proving my long-held belief, that in spite of people's opinions that music of this era or that era was "lousy," it only reflects what they were hearing on mainstream radio, and that if you pick any year, I could name you 10 or 20 or 30 stone-cold killer records, and you're proving it right here!
	12:55pm Mary Wing: Thanks, Mark, let's hope my premium can also prove it!
	12:55pm Mark R: Ha, to show you what a square I was, I liked Bonnie Raitt's stuff from this era, too!
	12:56pm Mark R: I saw Jane Siberry around this time, too! At St. Andrew's Hall in Detroit, where that awful-sounding Morphine live album was recorded.
	1:03pm Carmichael: Big Siberry fan here too. Saw her at Harlow's in Sacramento, a small intimate theatre.
	1:06pm rw: Late for work. Will be taking the crazy boat ride down the long slow freeway. Thanks Mary! Take care all!
	1:07pm Roberto: Yeah they be married.
	1:10pm ike: For just a sec there, I thought you said Pigeons of Distinction. Ha.
	1:15pm steveo: hello! today i'm gonna listen like it's 1989!
	1:18pm crateslinger: Ha! 30 kids - feels like it....
	1:18pm Mary Wing: Those are Wake & Bake Glisteners, Ike!
	1:26pm Michael 98145: 1989 - when ADD meant something different
	1:32pm Parq: This FYC was one of my favorite singles from anytime.
	1:33pm Mark R: I remember thinking it was really cool when they used "She Drives Me Crazy" on an episode of "thirtysomething"!
	1:33pm rw: This was 89?? I’d have guessed much earlier
	1:36pm Mary Wing: Oh god, thirtysomething! I should watch that show again, heh.
	1:36pm Carmichael: Yikes, I'd hate to tell you how old I was in '89.
	🛎 1:39pm Ken From Hyde Park: 1989 was merely twenty years after Woodstock.
	1:40pm Michael 98145: some of us just got a head start, @carm
	1:41pm steveo: this is the only foreigner song i can bear to listen to anymore :)
	1:41pm Michael 98145: twenty-two years after the summer of love
	1:43pm ike: Eek! This song plays a lot different to modern ears than it did back in the day!
	1:44pm Rich in Washington: In 1989, I found myself working on an assembly line in a sweatshop. The guy up the line from me was this obnoxious illiterate hillbilly dude who jibber jabbered constantly. When this song came out, he would use the phrase Funky Cold Medina for everything. I have no idea why. I think he thought it made him hipper, or something. The whole place was full of these goofuses who were freeze dried in the late 70s, with feathered hairdos, 70s looking clothes and everything.
	1:44pm Roberto: Paging Goat Scream. Mr. Scream, please report to Mary Wing's playlist.
	🛎 1:45pm βrian: Goat ice cream?
	1:46pm Carmichael: All goats scream for goat ice cream.
	1:48pm Parq: Oy, it's so humid, it's like a sauna in here! (At the moment, I wish.)
	1:48pm Roberto: Apparently they wanna be quite nasty.
	1:48pm Rich in Washington: I didn't know that was a goat scream! Delightful!
	1:48pm steveo: yeah wow not sure i ever heard that version
	1:49pm Roberto: Thanks, Mary.
	1:49pm ike: From this era: One time I was in the video arcade in a hotel playing Donkey Kong or something, and some BAD KIDS came in playing 2 Live Crew on a boombox LOUD. I didn’t say anything but I was kinda scandalized.
	1:49pm Rich in Washington: This is a fun set, Mary! I have blacked out huge chunks of 1989, so this is quite a blast for me.
	1:50pm Mark R: I have a hunch thirtysomething would not stand the test of time. There's a reason why it never shows up on TVLand.
	1:51pm Parq: I was still kind of paying attention to this stuff in '89. My kid was born in '90. Like all new parents, I lost all contact with pop culture for a couple of years, and somehow never got back around to mainstream music.
	1:51pm Rich in Washington: 1989 I had just married and became a father. My wife and I had vastly divergent musical tastes (in that I had some - snark!), so music and I had a weird relationship for years.
	1:52pm Carmichael: When my kids were born, I got seriously into The Wiggles.
	1:52pm Andrew Waterloo: good afternoon
	1:53pm david w: Well, ain't this somethin'!!! Hello Mary and all!
	1:53pm ike: @Mark, I never watched that, but was it serialized? Serialized stuff gets terrible rerun ratings so that might be why. Or maybe it has aged badly, who knows?
	1:55pm Rich in Washington: When my kids were a bit older, we got into They Might Be Giants. My sons also really loved the sped up voices in The Mothers' We're Only In It For The Money.
	1:55pm ike: I liked ALF back then and that’s pretty much one of the worst shows ever made. Also, Night Court, which isn’t so bad, but very very silly.
	1:55pm Rich in Washington: Hi david w!
	1:56pm steveo: hi david -- don't forget it's Wednesday!
	1:58pm Rich in Washington: Wasn't it around this time that Danzig happened? That was a surreal moment. I never thought I'd live to see someone from The Misfits become somewhat mainstream. Maybe trivial now, but was pretty strange BitD.
	2:00pm Rich in Washington: Ah. Danzig was 1988. Also, Living Colour's Vivid, which I thought might be '89. See? My recall of '89 is totally off.
	2:03pm Andrew Waterloo: Vivid is '88 as well
	2:03pm Webhamster Henry: Hi there , Whatevers!
	2:05pm Webhamster Henry: 1989 - a fuzzy distant past!
	2:06pm Roberto: I saw Faith No More along with Soundgarden in 1990 at L'amour or the Ritz or whatever that place was in Brooklyn. This is significant because in my entire life I've been to about 10 shows.
	2:06pm Roberto: And of course, the only reason I went was because "she" was going...
	2:06pm Andrew Waterloo: Alice Cooper's Trash is '89
	2:07pm Andrew Waterloo: Young MC's Stone Cold Rhythm was a fav back then
	2:08pm Roberto: Yes! The eye in the palm!
	2:08pm Webhamster Henry: I was hacking away at the Amiga, writing synthesizer apps and my animation program.
	2:12pm ike: Yeah, Young MC was much more my speed back then than 2 Live Crew.
	2:14pm ike: Isn’t that 3 p.m.?
	2:16pm Parq: I bought this Laurie album very late in '89. It's my personal soundtrack for the end of the 80s -- the end of an era for me in several ways, Babyloves.
	2:21pm Michael 98145: - good to hear this track again -
	2:22pm Andrew Waterloo: Young MC was sort of the last positive rapper.
	2:22pm steveo: "reaching No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, a feat no Bauhaus-related band or artist has achieved before or since"
	2:22pm steveo: (so alive)
	2:23pm Michael 98145: and ... ah .... :)
	2:24pm Roberto: Kate BOOOOOOOOOOsh
	2:25pm Roberto: (That's what the crowd roars when she comes in from the bullpen)
	2:25pm Michael 98145: { why 'pick up' the phone, when everyone is walking around with it in their hand?? }
	2:26pm Mary Wing: Cellphones were still big and clunky in '89, no?
	2:27pm Mary Wing: Or had they even been invented???
	2:27pm Roberto: As I used to say back in the day of wired receivers -- "Pick up the phone. Now put it down and pick up only the receiver."
	2:28pm Michael 98145: they surely had an antenna ...
	2:28pm steveo: we had a cell phone in 1989 but it took up the entire basement
	2:28pm Roberto: Yes, they existed in '89. The first time I remember seeing a car phone was in '79 but that one couldn't leave the car.
	2:29pm Andrew Waterloo: www.youtube.com... apparently the first Cell Phone ad from 1989
	2:29pm Mary Wing: Ah yes, the phone built into the car; because why should you only concentrate on driving?
	2:30pm Roberto: You had to pull over to use it. You also had to dial a mobile operator to make the calls for you.
	2:32pm Mary Wing: Such simpler times...
	2:33pm Roberto: I had a shortwave radio that picked up mobile calls. Sadly, the most exciting call I ever intercepted was some guy calling a shoe store looking for alligator boots or something.
	2:35pm Roberto: Dang, there are lyrics to this?
	2:35pm Mary Wing: heh, nice.
	2:36pm Andrew Waterloo: Love this Julee Cruise album
	2:36pm Michael 98145: loverly
	2:36pm Andrew Waterloo: Was watching Twin Peaks last night and realized I should have everything I need to recreate this bass tone.
	2:45pm Michael 98145: Thank you for this program, Mary W. I never ever expected anyone could make me think about 1989. Ever.
	2:48pm Mary Wing: Seems like yesterday, to me.
	2:48pm Roberto: WHOA
	2:49pm Mary Wing: Sweet jesus, this computer is fucked. Sorry to those who are listening with headphones!
	2:49pm Michael 98145: :)
	2:50pm Roberto: It's ok, I just jumped about a foot straight up in my chair at the office.
	2:51pm Mary Wing: Never know what the sound levels are going to be, sheesh. One week it is too low, the next it's fine, the next it is UP AND DOWN. Argh.
	2:52pm Parq: Well, that woke me up.
	2:53pm Mary Wing: I damn near wet my pants!
	2:53pm Michael 98145: good thing i wasn't operating heavy equipment :)
	2:56pm Mary Wing: Won't have time to backannounce; still have so many songs ready to play!
	2:56pm maestroso: Oh man, having cover band flashbacks.
	🛎 2:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks for the retro sounds. I think they stand the test of time quite well.
	2:58pm Webhamster Henry: You need one of those medical disclaimer speed up effects for back announcing!
	2:58pm Mary Wing: Heh! Maybe for the archive.
	2:59pm maestroso: I quite enjoyed playing this song.
	3:01pm Michael 98145: thank you again, Mary W
	3:02pm Mary Wing: Thanks for listening, let's get back to 2019!

100% Whatever with Mary Wing: Playlist from February 27, 2019

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