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Something Else

Sep 27, 2026 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

With Robin

1986!

the Challenger explodes, Chernobyl explodes....and then I'm born. Coincidence?

3 hours of music released 40 years ago... It's 1986 BABY!

12:00 PM		Jon Hassell Miracle Steps Power Spot 1986
12:04 PM		Kraftwerk Musique Non Stop Electric Cafe 1986
12:10 PM		Prince & The Revolution Kiss Parade 1986
12:14 PM		Violent Femmes Children Of The Revolution The Blind Leading The Naked 1986
12:18 PM		Lyres How Do You Know? Lyres Lyres 1986
12:21 PM		Love and Rockets Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man) Express 1986
12:27 PM		Mecca Normal I Walk Alone Mecca Normal 1986
12:30 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
12:37 PM		Janet Jackson What Have You Done for Me Lately Control 1986
12:42 PM		The Cleaners From Venus Clara Bow Living With Victoria Grey 1986
12:47 PM		The Fall Living Too Late Bend Sinister 1986
12:51 PM		Pussy Galore Hip Shake Exile On Main St. 1986
12:55 PM		Sonic Youth Starpower EVOL 1986
1:00 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:06 PM		Big Black Kerosene Atomizer 1986
1:12 PM		The Flaming Lips Charlie Manson Blues Hear It Is 1986
1:15 PM		The Cramps Aloha from Hell A Date With Elvis 1986
1:17 PM		The The Heartland Infected 1986
1:23 PM		Talking Heads Radio Head True Stories 1986
1:26 PM		Meat Puppets Out My Way Out My Way 1986
1:31 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
1:38 PM		The Feelies Let's Go The Good Earth 1986
1:40 PM		XTC Dear God Skylarking 1986
1:44 PM		Kate Bush Experiment IV The Whole Story 1986 previously unreleased
1:49 PM		The Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy Some Candy Talking EP 1986
1:52 PM		New Order As It Is When it Was Brotherhood 1986
1:55 PM		Concrete Blonde (You're The Only One) Can Make Me Cry Concrete Blonde 1986
1:58 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:03 PM		Run-DMC You Be Illin' Raising Hell 1986
2:06 PM		Stump Buffalo NME C86 V/A 1986
2:11 PM		Beastie Boys Brass Monkey Licensed to Ill 1986
2:14 PM		Peter Gabriel Sledgehammer So 1986
2:19 PM		Public Image Ltd. Rise Album 1986
2:25 PM		Dead Kennedys Cesspools In Eden Bedtime for Democracy 1986
2:31 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:37 PM		Mekons Hello Cruel World The Edge of the World 1986
2:40 PM		R.E.M. Swan Swan H Lifes Rich Pageant 1986
2:42 PM		The Smiths Bigmouth Strikes Again The Queen Is Dead 1986
2:46 PM		The Bangles Walk Like an Egyptian Different Light 1986
2:49 PM		Shop Assistants What a Way to Die Shop Assistants 1986
2:51 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:56 PM		This Mortal Coil Meniscus Filigree & Shadow 1986
2:58 PM		Felt Viking Dress The Seventeenth Century 1986

Chat is archived.

get ready for some 1-9-8-6!

Miss jackson.. if you're nasty

Love & Rockets !! yesssssssss

whooooop!

Mecca Normal!! And happy 40th, Robin!!!

(and I'm just passing through in between things that I'm doing)

Master of Puppets, '86!

hey rob!!! thanks, it was earlier this year but finally getting around to my 1986 tribute show :)

@Mats my mom requested that too!!!

HB dj!

Robin yesssssssssss Mama DJ!

i actually have a copy of it on vinyl. my mom and i went and saw metallica last year :)

That Janet song reminds me of riding the Music Express at the Fireman's Fair :)

dj nice! I had it on the Elektra pressing. Orion!

From Beyond! Released '86 https://letterboxd.com/film/from-beyond/

YESSS @pickled eggs!

great one Mats

Greetings & Salutations, folks!

Hello Robin! Hello everybody!

hey Marcus!

1986 was out with the old and in with the new in so many alt geners

sure was. so much happened that year.

2 Live Crew and Schooly-D (from Philly) would change hip-hop

Licensed to Ill

we've got some licensed to ill on deck!

Oh my god that's the funky shit!

Hey TAndy!!! missed ya down there!

SUNDAY INNIT DEN LAD TAndy

Pussy Galore! The JSBX!

Plastic Fanggggggggggggg

yessss jon spencer. i love that album was a DARE

Just turned on the stream. FIIIIIIIIIIRE!

hey mike!!!!

GAUNTLET THROWN! 1986 IN DA HAUUUUUSSSSSSSS

Hello!

yes the mighty Big Black , RIP Albini.

In the car, volume all the way up, pedal to the floor.

YOU'RE JUST A BAD PENNY

PERFECT but careful out there!!!

STOP FER NOTHIN TROPIANO

Orgasmatron! Motörhead! '86!

'86 was wild

Another fallen star.

Them wet leaves be slippery.

My leaves be burning

Just saw the show title...BDAY?

not my birthday....but i was born in 1986!

Lotta good punk outta '86

Mats: Dag Nasty "Can I Say" is from '86

if in France, La La.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS_BARXSjZWeknwfU0tLAy1z-T7ksLCOmxg1ODSWL6jeA&s=10

the stains on the heartland can never be removed from this country that's sick, sad, and confused

Cramps!! Love 'em.

oooh i've been involved in a couch-throwing in my day....

Marcus D.I. album as well

Husker Du's Candy Apple Grey

I was just looking for that pic lol

Haven't been hit by a couch in a while... feels right.

Candy Apple Grey!

@mattster it was on deck but i might need to do an '86 part 2 to fit everything in!!!

I have "Don't Want to Know..." on 12" vinyl

The great Philly band Ruin dropped (we called it "released" back then) Fiat Lux in 86.

Marcus nice

Yes, to part deux.

'86 was off the chain

oh chit Exodus' Pleasures of the Flesh

'86 WAS off the chain

Eric B. is President

Gone, Greg Ginn's band released their album in '86. I saw them at the Channel in Boston same year

The Boston band Christmas released their debut album in 1986 and it contains the song Peewee, about Peewee Herman's playhouse

nice!!! love pee wee. i still have my pee wee doll!

I still have my In Excelsior Dayglo

In Excelsior Dayglo is the album name and it is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmbsUU_oRTU

i was peewee herman for hallooween 4 years ago, i refused to break character and i'm sure i annoyed people 🤣

thx rob!!

@Marcus, I still have mine too

This song was a scandal when released

@Robin, your playlist is awesome and now that I'm listening, I'm not going to anything else out of the house until your show is over

i read about that Marcus!!

@Robin, I misread 4 years ago for 4 years old, so I briefly had a vision of little kid dress up as Peewee Herma

*going to do anything else

haha unfortunately my parents didnt't dress me up as pee wee

*Herman

@Robin, bummer

Happy Sunday WPRB

hey Pengy!

@Robin "Pee Wee Dance" - Joeski Love, 1986

i'm saving all of these for my obviously-necessary 1986 Part II

The show fantastic, hitting all the marks

thank you marcus!!!

I love me some Run-DMC

gotta!! my mom requested some Run DMC :)

Stump/Buffalo!!! :-DDD

FISHY FISH

the weather is perfect except for the rain!

love love this one

@Robin..been driving a listening to show since the start..many musical memories for me..reading the chat and saw that you dressed as PW Herman for Halloween..if you would have shown up at my home , i would have dumped my whole candy supply into you bag and turned off the light..my adult kids had Ben after me to get a family tattoo with them..we choose PW about 6 years ago..still have the doll with the pull string out in my house

The 80s certainly were a time.

Appreciate that you can just drop an "all 86" show on us because you wanted to.

86 47

@Jon, yes, that is WPRB at its best!

hey @jon! had a completely different show planned and then said....eff it! i want to do 86!

Love it. Stay dry!

@carlos love that you have a PW tattoo!! the pull string on my doll doesn't work too well anymore, but i can still get it to say "i know you are but what am i?"

@marcus be careful, you could end up like Comey

This show today has really just proved that the 80s was one of the best times for modern music. Even the pop music from the time had a charm to it.

@robin..i cant have a 5 minute conversation with my kids without somebody quoting BIG ADVENTURE..when i go to my garage to get my bike for a ride the line is ..”good morning..I’m here”

@carlos i got my partner this shirt for xmas last year hahaha

https://sandw1tch.bigcartel.com/product/best-bike-in-the-whole-world

right @tandy? pop musicians need to take NOTES

anger is an energy

Since the opening scene was dream sequence of PW at the Tour de France we would try to watch it together on a friday night before the tour would start the following day

love that!!!

In Your Face was released in '86 which occupied most of thoughts for the year

Had to go take care of some administrative duties and leave the stream....I always thought the "Hi there" at the start of Sledgehammer sounded like Frank Zappa. It'd be cool if it were.

Just came out this week the east bay ray from the DK has Parkinson’s

@Carlos 🥲

DH Peligro gone in '22

Jello had stroke earlier this year

now im looking into that mike beacause you are right

oh no! DK dropping like flies.

I really don't think he knows what Joan of Arc felt, unless he's a bit crispy on the edges. But then again, maybe he is.

he might be a lil crispy...

if you wanna find all the cops they're hanging out in the donut shop

SHOPPIESSSSS

Strohs!

as in Quentin?

Strohs beer, she's drinking

The 86 sounds are great. While Robin was busy gettin birthed, I probably was pickin my nose and wastin time.

Thank you for this totally wonderful show, @Robin!!

Great job, Robin! I'm an old fool from the old school so this hit just right

love to hear it @marcus!!!

What Marcus said!!!

thanks yall see you next week!!!