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While you can always find an archival FM broadcast up on the Press To Play button, Jukebox Heart periodically features one here in the main page. And this is a classic from 1985. These are among the earliest surviving cassettes. Shows from 1978 through 1982 or so were recorded sporadically on reel to reel, and were always victim to a finicky Otari in the BU AM studio. These early cassettes are spotty and have a lot of drop out, but still sound surprisingly good for 25 year old cassette tapes.

Some features on the show you’ll have to search for:

Heny Cow, The Camberwell Now, early Sonic Youth, WZBC’s own O-Positive (with the final mix of With You which we were playing off a demo for years…finally on Chuck Warner’s Throbbing Lobster label…), Regressive Aid (which turned out to be an important node in indy rock history, whose band members featured three artists before they went to play in popular national acts: Andrew Weiss – bass (pre – Ween, Henry Rollins Band, Butthole Surfers, Yoko Ono, many others) Sim Cain – drums (pre – Rollins Band, Ween, Eliot Sharp, many others) E. William Tucker – guitar (pre – Scornflakes, KMFDM, Ministry, Pigface, Revolting Cocks, Chris Connelly, 16 Volt, Foetus, many others) You probably heard that first on *my* show. Ha! And lots more…

Download it for your very own here

You hardcore types will notice that some of the now very rare records in the table in front of me include records by Pseudocode and Jules Baptiste. Easy question: Can you name the record I’m holding in my hands? Yes, that’s me in the photo…just a kid. *wink* That glazed-over look in my eyes? Notice the clock says it’s almost 4 o’clock — AM. My show ran on WMFO from Sunday mornings from 2AM to 6AM from 1983 through 1988…