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Absolute perks of being on radio :D

We were sent this in April 1985 (and Infected in ‘86, which was the big release in North America). I didn’t know Jools Holland played pianos on this album!

Our radio station’s record collection is absolutely massive, it comes from being on air as a functional radio station for exactly 100 years now! Isn’t radio cool.

I’M ON MY WAY TO SEE THE THE

Johnny Marr with The The (1990)

The Mercy Beat

Johnny Marr and The The.

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Okay this is very exciting because the pinned post is getting updated, because guys!!

Absolute perks of being on radio :D

We were sent this in April 1985 (and Infected in ‘86, which was the big release in North America). I didn’t know Jools Holland played pianos on this album!

Our radio station’s record collection is absolutely massive, it comes from being on air as a functional radio station for exactly 100 years now! Isn’t radio cool.

Technically no one asked but I know you’d all like this anyway: our physical music library! Includes submissions all the way from the 1940s and 50s to now. We get less physical post these days, people find it less expensive to email an mp3 and college radio isn’t as important for artists now anyway. Still, we’ve had some classics! Everyone from Dolly Parton to ‘50s Decca Records artists, from Motown records to 80s new wave. We were sent Siouxie and The Banshees albums, and Cure records in the 80s. In the 90s Senseless Things shipped in their CDs. There’s so much of the catalogue I haven’t yet explored. Radio’s a very cool place to be in general, but ours is so so old, it really goes all the way back. That’s music history!

(Also making this post because they’re thinking of doing some spring cleaning and my heart hurts to think of the music history they’re gonna have to let go. There’s no space!)

So many records. There are at least 4 more aisles of records and CDs sitting there.

I hate to say it, but we’ve just got so many records that we’ve got them in the station toilets too. Classic records.

RIP to this installation; the younger broadcasters thought the choice of CDs on display made us look very outdated lol. It’s gone now. Something new will take its place! The station keeps evolving! That’s why 100 years later we still have a license.

Here’s a cool record we received a few years ago: possibly the last time I played a record on air (before Soul Mining today!)

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Listen to the album if you agree

Okay this is very exciting because the pinned post is getting updated, because guys!!

Absolute perks of being on radio :D

We were sent this in April 1985 (and Infected in ‘86, which was the big release in North America). I didn’t know Jools Holland played pianos on this album!

Our radio station’s record collection is absolutely massive, it comes from being on air as a functional radio station for exactly 100 years now! Isn’t radio cool.

Oh shit new music from The The??!

@no-image-to-reclaim A new single! Matt sounds fantastic on it too, which is great news because he’s been recovering from a throat operation during lockdown.

It sounds fantastic too, the artwork was made by his brother Andy.

“The title track features contributions from THE THE stalwarts, Eric Schermerhorn on guitar, Earl Harvin on drums, Barrie Cadogan and Gillian Glover on backing vocals.

Matt says about the A-side ‘$1 ONE VOTE!’, “It is a song that has been percolating – in various versions – for a number of years. For some reason I was always having trouble finding the right words to finish it off. But the nascent dystopia of the last couple of years has certainly opened eyes, sharpened minds and clarified thoughts.”

The B-side, ‘MRS MAC’ was originally released as a download-only single on THE THE’s website back in 2007 and is now being released on physical.

All instruments are played by Matt Johnson himself and the song was recorded and mixed by Bruce Lampcov.

“It was written about my first day at school, in Stratford, East London back in the 1960s”, Matt explains. “Mrs Mac was a sinister dinner lady/enforcer who terrorised the children into eating over-boiled slop that would make them heave in horror.””

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Some days you just have to listen to 'Soul Mining' twice in a row

RPM Weekly, showing the Top 100 albums in Canada for the week of 10 March, 1984.

You can tell the 2nd British Invasion of the charts was in full swing: Culture Club, Pretenders, Eurythmics, UB40, Duran Duran, Billy Idol, Police, The The, Spandau Ballet, Queen, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney... many bands with more than one album in the top 50!

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