It happens once every few years, broadcasting live on my birthday ... 2024 is one of those years ....
Last summer I was asked for my top 5 7" B-Sides from the years spanning 1978 to 1983. It was for some Internet / social media thang I was not part of )... it's strange the fun I can miss out on by not being part of the Facebook, twitter, Instagram etc .. ah well). This all got me thinking though, I could build a radio programme around singles from 1978 - 1983 that include my top 5 and more ... and there could be no better day to broadcast it on than my birthday.
Playlist :
01: The Instant Automatons : "People Laugh At Me ('Cos I Like Weird Music)" (Deleted Records) 1980.
02: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark : "Almost" (Factory Records) 1979.
03: Eyeless In Gaza : "Kodak Ghost Runs Amok" (Ambivalent Scale Recordings) 1980.
04: Eyeless In Gaza : "Invisibility" (Cherry Red Records) 1981.
05: The Pop Group : "She Is Beyond Good And Evil" (Radar) 1979.
06: The Units : "High Pressure Days" (Not On Label-Self Released) 1979.
07: New Order : "Everything's Gone Green" (Factory Benelux) 1981.
08: Fad Gadget : "The Box" (Mute Records) 1979.
09: Gang of Four : "Love Like Anthrax" (Fast Product) 1978.
10: Throbbing Gristle : Five Knuckle Shuffle" (Sordide Sentimental) 1979.
11: Cabaret Voltaire : "Raising The Count" (Rough Tapes/NME) 1981.
12: Portion Control : "He Is A Barbarian" (In Phaze Records) 1982.
13: Bron Area : "The Unfortunate Reply/System" (Ambivalent Scale Recordings) 1981.
14: Plain Characters : "I Am A" (Rouge) 1977.
15: Dif Juz : "Mi" (4AD Records) 1981.
16: Dif Juz : "Cs" (4AD Records) 1981.
17: Au Pairs : "It's Obvious" (Human Records/021 Records) 1980.
18: Pere Ubu : "My Dark Ages" (Rough Trade Records) 1980.
19: Robert Rental : "On Location" (Mute Records) 1980.
20: Section 25 : "Oyo Achel Ada" (Factory Benelux) 1981.
21: My Captains : "History" (4AD Records) 1981.
22: Murder The Disturbed : "Ultimate System" (Small Wonder Records) 1979.
23: Cabaret Voltaire : "Gut Level" (Les Disques Du Crépuscule) 1983.
24: The Normal : "Warm Leatherette" (Mute Records) 1978.
25: Monte Cazazza : "Stairway To Hell" (Sordide Sentimental) 1982.
26: Die Neue Prächtigkeit : "Du" (Rondo) 1980.
27: Essential Logic : "World Friction" (Cells Records) 1978.
28: Five Or Six : "The Trial" (Cherry Red Records) 1981.
29: The Visitors : "Electric Heat" (Deep Cuts Records) 1979.
30: Scars : "The Psychomodo" (PRE Records) 1980.
31: Scars : "Horrorshow" (Fast Product) 1979.
32: The Human League : "Circus Of Death" (Fast Product) 1978.
33: They Must Be Russians : "Circus" (Not On Label-Self Released) 1979.
34: Clock DVA : "Black Angel's Death Song" (Polydor Records) 1983.
35: A Certain Ratio : "Flight" (Factory Records) 1980.
36: Crispy Ambulance : "Not What I Expected" (Factory Records) 1980.
37: 400 Blows : "Beat The Devil" (Concrete Productions) 1982.
38: Cabaret Voltaire : "Yashar" (Factory Records) 1983.
39: Buzzcocks : "Moving Away From The Pulsebeat" (United Artists Records) 1978.
40: Joy Division : "These Days" (Factory Records) 1980.
41: Shy Tots : "English Industrial Estate" (Not On Label-Self Released) 1982.
42: In Camera : "Apocalypse" (4AD Records) 1982.
43: Public Image Limited : "Another" (Virgin Records) 1979.
44: The Vincent Units : "Carnival Song" (Y Records) 1981.
45: The Slits : "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" (Island Records) 1979.
46: A Certain Ratio : "Thin Boys" (Factory Records) 1979.
47: Artery : "Life And Death" (Aardvark) 1981.
48: Artery : "Cars In Motion" (Aardvark) 1981.
49: Mass : "Cabbage" (4AD Records) 1980.
50: Sort Sol : "Marble Station" (4AD Records) 1981.
51: The Cure : "Charlotte Sometimes" (Fiction Records) 1981.
52: Alternative TV : "Lost In Room" (Deptford Fun City Records) 1979.
53: The Transmitters : "0.5 Alive" (Ebony) 1978.
54: S.P.K. : "Germanik" (Side Effekts Records) 1979.
The archive has been split into two 2 hour programmes for easy aural digestion. Part Two begins with the second part of the Essential Logic track "World Friction"
Part One :
https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-8-december-2024/
Part Two :
https://www.mixcloud.com/muhsteve/muhmur-radio-broadcast-8-december-2024-part-two/
As ever thanks to Chris and Tamsin who aided and abetted and supplied the beers and cake. Next broadcast will be on January 5th 2025 ... see you on the other side.
*I know I say the records are all from 1978 to 1983 but I honestly thought the Plain Characters "I Am A" was released in 1978. My mistake .. sorry ... and the Cabs "Raising The Count" was never a 7" single but appeared on the "C81" compilation cassette. Great track though!
