A Perth radio station called 6UVS-FM played alternative music, and had this request show. People who grew up in the age of music-on-tap won’t be able to fully appreciate the lure of those erstwhile request shows – back then, you were so much at the mercy of what people happened to play on the radio, and what you could afford to buy with your meagre kid budget. So request shows gave you a chance to hear again what you couldn’t afford. But 6UVS-FM also had a twist to their request show: You could call in and request that they destroy a particular record on air. This was in the dying days of vinyl, which makes such a pleasing, visceral crunch when destroyed. CDs just can’t compete here! There were a lot of requests for the destruction of Wham! records…
Exploring “Join The Dots” – Series Intro, CD-3, Light My Bloody Fire & Shakespeare
I’ve long meant to properly curate the accidental prequel that started the whole Exploring the Back Catalogue thing for me.
I was on an alternative music forum when we acquired Join The Dots and was participating in a Currently Listening thread. Suddenly I was mostly currently listening to Join The Dots, which there is rather a lot of – and as usual when I’m listening to music that gets me thinking, I wanted to write about it and, eternal optimist that I am, perhaps even be able to engage in comparing notes with other listeners…