RAD 1983 (RAD)

Soooooooooooooooo Friday was the second to last Kitchen before the show slips into the unknown... Wild stuff. As the penultimate broadcast, I wanted to give it a bit of a theme. I settled on doing one particular year. I thought about it for a good seven or eight seconds before it hit me: 1983. The best year in music ever. So, I got to thinking, and I got to Wikipedia-ing, and before I knew it I had an awesome playlist which I shared with the world on April 24, 2009. Word. Also of complete note: Physical comic Patrick Ferri, my extremely funny cousin, came in with his girlfriend Lorie to co-host and brought a few most excellent vinyl cuts and stories from '83 (since I wasn't alive at the time) to add to the show. Rounding the program out was an ultra rare 7" Patrick brought in from an Albany band called The Stomplistics. On the back of the 45 sleeve was even a "Thank-you" column mentioning WCDB!!! Isn't that something?

BUT enough of me babbling, to the photos!


All photos by HELLO BUNNI, thanks Bunni!!!


Nice sepia tones...! haha






DAAAAAA crew

and...

THE PLAYLIST! Glazed with extra 1983.

DURAN DURAN	NEW MOON ON MONDAY
R.E.M.	RADIO FREE EUROPE
BLUE PETER	FALLING
DAVID BOWIE	CAT PEOPLE (PUTTING OUT FIRE)
DAVID BOWIE	LET'S DANCE
DEPECHE MODE	EVERYTHING COUNTS
NEW ORDER	AGE OF CONSENT
THE MOTELS	SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
ENDGAMES	LOVE CARES
DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS	COME ON EILEEN
ADAM ANT	HERE COMES THE GRUMP
THE SMITHS	THIS CHARMING MAN
THE TUBES	SHE'S A BEAUTY
HEAVEN 17	TEMPTATION
FOREIGN PRESS	SET YOUR LOVE IN MOTION
TIC TOC	CRITICAL PATH
EDDIE AND THE CRUISERS	WILD SUMMER NIGHTS
EBN-OZN	AEIOU SOMETIMES Y
RUN DMC	ROCK BOX
3D	NEARER
MOTORHEAD	I'M THE DOCTOR
MOTORHEAD	GO TO HELL
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES	DEAR PRUDENCE
THE STOMPLISTICS	FIFTEEN AND GONE
HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS	HEART AND SOUL

Co-hosts are what's really good, thanks again Pat!!!

AND THEN THERE WAS ONE.

Tune in next week for the conclusion to,
the 80s program that kept Albany educated on what they missed,
since 2005,
It's The Kitchen,
on WCDB.

Good night Albany.
-L

PS - Check out the super awesome cart that I'm grossly misusing my power as my last week as PD and forcing all freshman DJs to play four times an hour:
(Just kidding, it's only three) Thanks Joe!

Wow, I'm going to miss this.