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Composer's name is listed where notable (i.e. Classical Performance, Jazz Performance).

For more information on any of the rock, pop and Jazz music featured on this program, I frequently utilize AllMusic , an excellent free database holding a huge plethora of information about music and the artists that make it.

Composer Performer Title Genre Label Notes
New Order
Age of Consent
Pop, New Wave
Factory/Qwest, 1983
 
The Cure
At Night
Pop, Goth, New Wave
Fiction/Elektra, 1980
 
Gary Numan
Cars
Pop, New Wave, early Techno
Beggars Banquet, 1979
 
OMD
Promise
Pop, New Wave
Virgin, 1980
 
Yello
I Love You
Early Techno
Mercury, 1983
Best known for the song "Oh Yeah", this duo (comprised of the voice of Dieter Meier and instrumentalist Boris Blank), was really instrumental in the development of what we now know as techno (along with the aforementioned Gary Numan and New Order)
A Flock of Seagulls
I Ran (So Far Away)
Pop, New Wave
Jive, 1982
 
The Art of Noise
Moments in Love
Rock, New Wave, Experimental
Island, 1983
 
Bob Dylan
Like A Rolling Stone
Folk, Rock
Columbia, 1965
 
Maggie's Farm
Columbia, 2005
Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival, 7/25/1965, the legendary one where Pete Seeger was ready to cut the power with an axe. Mike Bloomfield is scintilating on guitar, and Al Kooper is on organ as well.
Rainy Day Women #12 and 35
Columbia, 1966
 
Leopard Skin Pill-box Hat
Columbia, 1966, 2995
Alternate take of the song that was issued on Blonde on Blonde
Sergei Prokofiev
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, cond
Peter and the Wolf
Classical, 20th Century, suite for orchestra
Columbia, 1960
There seems to be none of the lovely spoken-word text, commonly included with performances of this fine piece of music. I have heard versions where Bernstein did the reading himself (quite lovely, as I recall), and I could have sworn that this was such a recording.. Oh well. But musically it is an excellent recording, and was remastered in 1990.
Chicago
Questions 67 and 68
Pop, Rock, Jazz, hybrid
Columbia, 1969
 
Moving On
Columbia, 1970
 
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
Columbia, 1969
Interrupted due to operator error (I hit the eject button on the wrong cd player). Bummer!
Poem for the People
Columbia, 1970
 

 

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