Sometimes you forget how much great music there was in a particular year until you start diving into it. ’89? Dayam, what a year.

Grateful Dead – Foolish Heart
Kate Bush – Love & Anger
Ziggy Marley – Problems

Don Henley – I Will Not Go Quietly
Big Audio Dynamite – James Brown
Peter Gabriel – Shaking the Tree

Melissa Etheridge – No Souvenirs
Chris Isaak – Wicked Game

Belle Stars – Iko Iko
Roy Orbison – You Got It
Pixies – Monkey Gone to Heaven

Bob Mould – See a Little Light
John Mellencamp – Pop Singer
Indigo Girls – Kid Fears

Alannah Myles – Black Velvet
Pink Floyd – Time (live)
Creatures – Standing There

XTC – King For a Day
Jackson Browne – Chasing You Into the Light
Crowded House – Sister Madly
Joe Jackson – 19 Forever

U2 – All I Want Is You
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians – What I Am

Peter Murphy – Cuts You Up
Eric Clapton – Pretending
Camper Van Beethoven – All Her Favorite Fruit

Adrian Belew – Oh Daddy
Webb Wilder – Human Cannonball
Maura O’Connell – Helpless Heart

Love & Rockets – So Alive
Bob Dylan – Everything Is Broken
Neville Brothers – Yellow Moon

Harry Connick Jr – It Had to Be You
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Higher Ground
The Smithereens – Yesterday Girl

Neil Young – Rockin’ In the Free World
Michael Penn – No Myth
Replacements – We’ll Inherit the Earth

Bonnie Raitt – Nick of Time
Bonnie Raitt (now) – Right Down the Line

Mighty Lemon Drops – Where Do We Go From Heaven
R.E.M. – World Leader Pretend
Alarm – Devolution Working Man Blues

Elvis Costello – Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
The Cure – Lullabye
Stevie Ray Vaughan – Crossfire
Fine Young Cannibals – She Drives Me Crazy

Traveling Wilburys – Handle With Care

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Here’s the playlist for February 4th:
   
Air w/ Victoria Legrand – Seven Stars (Le Voyage Dans La Lune, Astralwerks) Goldfrapp – Ooh La La (The Singles, Mute/Astralwerks)
Mark Lanegan Band – The Gravedigger’s Song (Blues Funeral, 4AD)
Dr. Dog – Warrior Man (Be The Void, Anti-)
Moon Taxi – Cabaret (Cabaret, Moon Taxi)
Bahamas – Caught Me Thinking (Barchords, Brushfire/Universal)
Leonard Cohen – Different Sides (Old Ideas, Columbia)
Sharon Van Etten – Leonard (Tramp, Jagjaguwar)
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass (All Things Must Pass, Capitol)
Paul McCartney – My Valentine (Kisses On The Bottom, Hear Music)
First Aid Kit – Blue (The Lion’s Roar, Wichita Recordings)
Hospitality – Friends Of Friends (Hospitality, Merge)
Van Halen – Stay Frosty (A Different Kind Of Truth, Interscope)
Guided By Voices – God Loves Us (Let’s Go Eat The Factory, GBV Inc)

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Radiohead | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Phish | Bon Iver
The Beach Boys (featuring Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks)
The Avett Brothers | The Shins | Foster the People | Skrillex | Aziz Ansari | Dispatch | Feist
The Roots | Alice Cooper | SuperJam | Black Star | Ben Folds Five | Ludacris | St. Vincent
The Word (featuring John Medeski, Robert Randolph and North Mississippi Allstars)
Spectrum Road (featuring Cindy Blackman Santana, Jack Bruce, John Medeski, and Vernon Reid)
Flogging Molly | Mac Miller | Childish Gambino | Major Lazer | tUnE-yArDs | Afrocubism
Flying Lotus | Umphrey’s McGee | Little Dragon |City and Colour | The Civil Wars
Young the Giant | Two Door Cinema Club | Punch Brothers | NEEDTOBREATHE | Fitz & the Tantrums
Bad Brains | Yelawolf | Dawes | Battles | Danny Brown | The Black Lips | SBTRKT | Phantogram | Kendrick Lamar | The Kooks
Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires | The Joy FormidableThe Antlers | Kathleen Edwards | Mimosa |Grouplove
Kurt Vile & the Violators | Alabama Shakes  | Das Racist | Delta Spirit | Gary Clark Jr. | Blind Pilot | Ben Howard
Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk | Laura Marling | Trampled by Turtles | Mogwai | The War on Drugs
ALO | The Devil Makes Three | White Denim | EMA | Here We Go Magic | K-FlayThe Lonely Forest | Mariachi El Bronx
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. | The Soul Rebels | Kvelertak | Steven Bernstein’s MTO All-Stars Play Sly | Big Gigantic
Sarah Jarosz | Orgone | Darondo | Fruit Bats | Moon Taxi | Big Freedia | SOJA
More to be announced

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(Show #954; aired 02-11-2012)

Today’s “Retro Lightning” is dedicated to the memory of David Hall, who was sharing this music with me.  And we both presented it to you together on 103-KDF back in 1979.  — Fred

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