Brainwaves airs every Monday at 9 AM Pacific, Noon Eastern and 7 PM in Israel (where the show is broadcast from) on ErrorFM Music. Tune in for 2 hours of eclectic alternative radio. If you missed a show, you can listen to a podcast below. Complete playlists are here too. To make a request or send a comment, write to brainwavesradio@gmail.com.
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Special show with all music I originally played on “Brainwaves” in May, 1983 – 30 years ago – when I was on WOBC.
| Band | Song |
| Tears for Fears | Change |
| Pete Shelley | Homosapien |
| Ultravox | Hymn |
| Heaven 17 | Let Me Go |
| R.E.M. | Wolves Lower |
| Tommy Tutone | 867-5309 (Jenny) |
| Rockpile | Teacher Teacher |
| Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers | Road Runner |
| Nick Lowe | And So it Goes |
| XTC | 10 Feet Tall |
| The Cure | Boys Don’t Cry |
| The Buzzcocks | I Believe |
| Klark Kent | Away From Home |
| Dave Edmunds | Girls Talk |
| A Flock of Seagulls | I Ran |
| Joy Division | Love Will Tear Us Apart |
| New Order | Perfect Kiss |
| Human League | The Sound of the Crowd |
| Soft Cell | Bedsitter |
| Depeche Mode | See You |
| U2 | I Will Follow |
| The Teardrop Explodes | Poppies are in the Field |
| Prince | Let’s Go Crazy |
| The Motors | Soul Redeemer |
| Echo and the Bunnymen | Bring on the Dancing Horses |
| Billy Idol | White Wedding |
| Berlin | Sex (extended version) |
| Deaf School | What a Way to End it All |
| Band | Song |
| Mumford and Sons | The Boxer (Simon and Garfunkel cover) |
| Guster | What You Wish For |
| The Mountain Goats | Sax Rohmer #1 |
| Blitzen Trapper | Pink Padded Slippers |
| The Envelopes | Sister in Love |
| The Posies | Solar Sister |
| Big Star | You and Your Sister |
| Juliana Hatfield | My Sister |
| Tamar Capsouto | I Do |
| Spock’s Beard | Climbing Up That Hill (live version) |
| Ha Ha Tonka | Word Climbing |
| Yes | Time and a Word |
| Auto Escape | Backseat Driver |
| Miss Flag | Let it Show |
| Porcupine Tree | Shesmovedon |
| Radiohead | Nude |
| Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus Three | Adventure Rocketship |
| Bread | Lost Without Your Love |
| Down On My Knees | |
| Bangles | Walk Like an Egyptian (extended dance mix) |
| Pulp | Trees |
| Falco | Rock Me Amadeus |
| New Order | Age of Consent |
| R.E.M. | World Leader Pretend |
| Fountains of Wayne | Yolanda Hayes |
| Katie Maluah | Just Like Heaven (Cure cover) |
| We Ghosts | Tomorrow May Not Come |
| Red Sun Project | All in my Head |
| Katie Perry | One of the Boys |
| Regina Spektor | Jessica |
| Deaf School | What a Way to End it All |
| Band | Song |
| Freebo | She Loves My Dog More Than Me |
| Chicago | Make Me Smile |
| The Pogues | Sally MacLennane |
| Sting | Blood Red Roses (Rogues Gallery) |
| Josh Pyke | Vibrations in the Air |
| Josh Joplin Group | Camera One |
| Editors | Camera |
| The Head and the Heart | Heaven Go Easy on Me |
| Carlie Fairburn | State |
| The Roches | Mr. Sellack |
| Belle and Sebastian | We Are the Sleepyheads |
| The Shirts | Laugh and Walk Away |
| Elvis Costello | Man Out of Time |
| Veronica | |
| Robyn Hitchcock | Queen Elvis |
| America | Horse Without a Name |
| Lobo | Me and You and a Dog Named Boo |
| Love Spit Love | Long Long Time |
| The Smiths | How Soon is Now? |
| Julian Cope | China Doll |
| China Crisis | African and White |
| Simple Minds | Let the Children Speak |
| Nash the Slash | Children of the Night |
| The Stranglers | Nice and Sleazy |
| Gomez | Ballad of Nice and Easy |
| The Buggles | Astroboy and the Proles on Parade |
| Owl City | Fuzzy Blue Lihts |
| Pete Yorn | On Your Side |
| The Shins | Pink Bullets |
| Deaf School | What a Way to End it All |
Jacob’s Ladder music festival preview: Red Sun Project, Tal Cohen Shalev, Erez Singer, The Abrams Brothers
| Band | Song |
| Red Sun Project | Red Sun |
| Tal Cohen Shalev | Bird Inside a Cage |
| Erez Singer | The One I Love |
| The Abrams Brothers | Northern Redemption |
| Viva La Vida (Coldplay cover) | |
| Coldplay | Lovers in Japan |
| Sebastian Teiller | Fantino (Lost in Translation soundtrack) |
| Japan | Quiet Life |
| Harper Simon | Wishes and Stars |
| The Cure | High (from the album Wish) |
| R.E.M. | Summer Turns to High |
| Imitation of Life | |
| Genesis | The Musical Box |
| Supertramp | Bloody Well Right |
| Fleetwood Mac | Sentimental Lady |
| Doobie Brothers | Another Park Another Sunday |
| Lords of the New Church | New Church |
| Public Image Ltd. | Public Image |
| General Public | General Public |
| Blackfield | Blackfield |
| Graham Parker with the Punch Brothers | What Do You Like (This is 40 soundtrack) |
| King Charles | Coco Chitty |
| Ex Cops | Separator |
| Mumford and Sons | I Will Wait |
| Badly Drawn Boy | Once Around the Block |
| Jonathan Coulton | Code Monkey |
| Counting Crows | Monkey |
| The Beatles | Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey |
| The Dickies | Monkey See Monkey Do |
| The Banana Splits | Tralala |
| The Monkees | Theme Song |
| Deaf School | What a Way to End it All |
| Band | Song |
| Fun | All the Pretty Girls |
| The Connels | Something to Say (album: Fun and Games) |
| Barenaked Ladies | Fun & Games |
| Fun with Animals | The Test of Love and Sex |
| Kraftwerk | It’s More Fun to Compute |
| Panic at the Disco | Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off |
| Cindi Lauper | Girls Just Wanna Have Fun |
| Alvin and the Chipmunks | Funky Town |
| The Rosebuds | Cemetery Lawns |
| Death Cab for Cutie | Why’d You Want to Live Here (California) |
| Semisonic | California |
| The Californias | La Di Da |
| The Cure | A Forest |
| No-Man | Photographs in Black and White |
| Free Movement | I’ve Found Someone of my Own |
| Three Dog Night | Family of Man |
| Kaki King | Jessica |
| Amit Erez | Oh My God |
| Fountains of Wayne | Amity Gardens |
| The Beatles | Free as a Bird |
| The Monkees | I Wanna Be Free |
| Arctic Monkeys | Teddy Pickers |
| The Arrogants | Cool Shoes |
| Shawn Colvin | Sunny Came Home |
| R.E.M. | Half a World Away |
| Siouxie and the Banshees | Israel |
| K’s Choice | Everything for Free |
| AC Newman | There are Maybe 10 or 12 |
| Aimee Mann | Charmer |
| The All American Rejects | Stab My Back |
| Deaf School | What a Way to End it All |
