"Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Heard this on 103.1 The Wave earlier and thought this would be a great song for Halloween.  I love all the videos.  I loved the movie Body Double.

YouTube (movie): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poRM75mb4YQ
YouTube (laser): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCp2h5jslKY
YouTube (uncensored): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtzdP45TG3s

"Something in My House" by Dead Or Alive

This Halloween we are mourning the death of Dead or Alive's Pete Burns.  I think he was Carri's favorite singer.  Last Halloween she even dressed up as him.  (See my post from last Halloween).

Wikipedia (Pete Burns): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Burns
Wikipedia (Dead or Alive): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_or_Alive_(band)

I found this final interview:

YouTube (interview): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SomoJ8R78SM

Anyway, this is one of my favorite Dead or Alive songs and perfect for Halloween:

YouTube (single): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddVKRhoXZ7w
YouTube (12"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3OlyiKf4xk
YouTube (Original VHS): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bNMTgTRfbs
YouTube (live TV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyReGvrgzBw

"Poker Face" by Lady Gaga

I deejayed the Halloween Dance at the Wasatch Mountain Club with my friend Rob tonight.  We have been doing this for around 25 years.

Tonight was the first time I presented female at the dance.  Although I went "full-time" as a woman at the end of March 2015, I still presented male at last years Halloween dance because I had agreed to do the gig before I had decided to go full time as a woman.  I felt funny about showing up at the gig as a woman, without any advance warning.

It was actually a very weird feeling after having been living as a woman all the time for over 6 months and then suddenly looking like a boy again.  It was EXTREMELY WEIRD using the Men's facilities again!!  I had felt out of place in them for a long time before that, but after living as woman for many months, it was downright CREEPY!

Anyway, we have been playing this song "for the kids" at these dances for several years.  The kids seem to love this song and so do I.

Oh and I finally figured out that part of the chorus isn't "cherry pie" but "can't read my".  DUH!!  As I've mentioned before (5-Aug-2016) it is funny how you can confuse lyrics.

I love the intro in the live video where she talks about the song!  An amazing woman!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bESGLojNYSo
YouTube (lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCiZ8pMnLV4
YouTube (lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yODa2bifHs0
YouTube (live acoustic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R_OHpMbQVM
YouTube (live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGbwfvcdvfo

"I Can't Wait" by Nu Shooz

A fun song and the video is fun.  Graphics in the 80's what a trip!

YouTube (official): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ1tBVtYOBc
YouTube (live TV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGBvuaPV5g0
YouTube (live 2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_dg9kXgSxA
YouTube (live 2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIc5oAXYvOc
YouTube (story): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWYcYkoSHOE
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ5d6EXIOHEYouTube (Topic-extended): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNngC1Ea2rA

"Lonely Stranger" by The Looking Glass

I'm not sure if it's the same band as the one that did yesterday's song but they are on the same label, Epic Records.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bvdiHiaNz4&t=1h9m30s

"Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" by Looking Glass

Poster hanging in the office

This song popped into my head and it just stayed there...

YouTube (Vevo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVx8L7a3MuE
YouTube (live TV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6J9f5fML0
YouTube (lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Z80oHUZOw

"Sean" by Everything But the Girl

I was listening to EBTG's "Love Not Money" album this morning and this song struck me.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMZBaxrnrMk
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAjVSGexv7c
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDMkiI93cQc
YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UN43lMgdy8

"No Blue Skies" by Lloyd Cole

Update 7-Mar-2018: added an acoustic version from a live performance in 2017 (with his son?).

I so want the dress the woman in this video is wearing!  Hell, I want to be that woman, she is just beautiful!

Anyway, I was listening to Lloyd Cole's first solo album (on vinyl) this morning and it is so amazing!  Definitely one of my favorite albums of all time.  I mentioned in my post on 21-Aug-2011 how I noticed the single "Downtown" when I was on my way home from work at like 3 or 4 AM.

YouTube (single): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NziGHsz4V34
YouTube (Vevo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH74tgueBJY
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-j9JqHW5Qo
YouTube (live 1990): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjcuLxfgsCQ
YouTube (live 2017): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhtRzN6a6Wg

"The Sounds of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel

When I was posting "Master and Servant" by Depeche Mode a couple of weeks ago (see my post for 11-Oct-2016), I came across one video with that song that gave me kind of a creepy feeling, so I didn't include it in my post.

But there were some words in the video that were familiar lyrics from another song:

Hello darkness my old friend
I've come to talk with you again

It took me a few minutes to realized they were from this song.  I remember playing this song over and over in my bedroom, downstairs in the house on Burch Creek.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fWyzwo1xg0

"Catch Us If You Can" by The Dave Clark Five

I was listening to the DC5's "Greatest Hits" vinyl record this morning.  This song jumped out at me.  Love it!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8MCsRXXc8A
YouTube (live TV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJYgNqOFBLk
YouTube (live TV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kk5TJCapg8

"Julie Thru the Blinds" by The Jeremy Days

I was looking through the KCQN database this morning (argh 3 A.M. I hate it) trying to find yesterday's song and happened across this song among my old Obscurity File tracks.  Another great song I had forgotten about.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMn5KqGPN9k

"A Violent Impression" by This Picture

SueZQ and I watched the series finale of "Person of Interest" tonight.  They were talking about life and what it means.  I loved that they had a reel-to-reel tape recorder as the final message!

This song popped into my head during the ending.   I've had some fatigue and I was thinking "what if I don't wake up?".

I recorded the CD-R shown above, almost 20 years ago.  Notice that it is a 74 minute CD-R as was the only size available when CD-R's were first available.  Within the first couple of years the 80 minute CD-R's became the standard and 74 minute blanks quickly became obsolete.

I'm fairly certain I made it before I met SueZQ.  The title was taken from this song.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZcIkSbwEcQ

The tracks on the CD and when I posted them:

Track No.	Title	Artist	Date/Link
1	A Violent Impression	This Picture
2	After Hours	Swing Out Sister	11-Jul-2011
3	Drifter's Sunrise	Bob Lind	3-Nov-2011
4	Walkin' After Midnight	Patsy Cline	29-Nov-2016
5	Walkin' Home Alone	Stan Ridgway
6	The Road	Everything But the Girl
7	Someone to Lay Down Beside Me	Linda Ronstadt	5-Jan-2013
8	My Last Goodbye	Eddy Howard	17-Mar-2015
9	From the Hip	Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
10	Another Song	Carpenters
11	Heart to Heart	Ambrosia
12	Takin' It Back	Toto	15-Nov-2014
13	Alone Again (Naturally)	Gilbert O' Sullivan
14	Elusive Butterfly	Bob Lind
15	Haunting	Carly Simon
16	Going Nowhere Somehow	White Town	30-Mar-2015
17	Alone	Swing Out Sister	8-Dec-2016

"Certain Things Are Likely" by Kissing The Pink

I was looking at my posts from 5 years ago, right after we started KCQN and looking at the New Wave songs I was posting.  (It is so funny that 103.1 The Wave grew out of KCQN exactly 5 years later!)


Anyway, I was looking at my post from exactly 5 years ago today and it was my favorite song from this band.  Here is another favorite by KTP...


I remember Mike Summers making a comment at some point that "Kissing the Pink means exactly what you think it means".  Love you Mike!!


YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAlYP1Ymh-Y
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upItAgehTNY

"Cccan't You See" by Vicious Pink

Building that Canton Village occupied for many years

I was driving down 1st South today and when I passed the building where I worked for many years, I saw that the facade from when it was Canton Village had been removed.  Oh the many nights I worked there...

I was talking to one of the guys that worked there with me, we were standing right behind the counter that was right behind that door.  He was telling me that he believed the lead singer of the band Vicious Pink was...  I can't remember how he phrased it now, but to the effect that she was not a cis-gender woman.  I believed him.

YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L_5s7_cWjw
YouTube (live TV): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAvBF2ZGlH0
YouTube (extended): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K34LlUvzkNI
YouTube (Razormaid): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWAzSm9hZtg 
YouTube (French): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFMw91G--y0
YouTube (French Extended): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dErUjmfSXs

And there is a Vicious Pink channel:

YouTube (Channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtIwe0WnFylpeUmaXbSo_bw

"Lift Me Up" by OneRepublic

 I went out to see if the Camaro would start today and surprisingly it turned over and did start.  But it was so rough, it obviously was missing on at least one cylinder.

I took the valve cover off and, as you can see above, found two of the rocker arms completely off the valves.  My first thought was that this would be an easy fix, but when I tried to put the pushrods back in place on the lifter I discovered the piston in the lifter had a hole punched in it and the pushrod would slide down inside the lifter.  So much for an easy fix.

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How about another "lift me up" song?

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OggQPZNlw30

"Lift Me Up" by The Afters

Inside the KBYU studio before the Misty K. Snow debate

I found another photo from the Misty K. Snow debate with Mike Lee.   See my posts from Oct. 12th and Oct. 14th.


This video popped up on YouTube the other day and I love it!  Both the song and the video...

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBy2D8p5Kpw

"Life During Wartime" by Talking Heads

I logged into my old (before I transitioned) Facebook profile earlier tonight to update the cover and profile photos, so they are the same as my real Facebook profile.  I came across a meme posted by a dear (female) friend that I worked with for years.  It was heartbreaking to see such a nasty pro-Trump, anti-transgender thing being shared by an old friend!

I saw this awesome video this morning and Michelle Obama really sums up how I feel.  Do we really want someone that brags about sexually assaulting women to be the leader of our country?

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7e3QKKOp50

And it made me think about Mike Lee and how he was one of two senators that voted against the Violence Against Women Act (also see Utahans Against Mike Lee 2016).

We need to send Mike Lee back home and get someone that supports women to represent us!  We need somebody that supports equal rights. 

Before Mike Lee was elected to the Senate he was making $700,000 a year!  He has no clue what it is like for normal people.  We need somebody that knows what it is like for working class people, living paycheck to paycheck.  We need Misty K. Snow!!!

I heard this song on 103.1 The Wave earlier and remembered what a great song this is.  Definitely one of my favorite Talking Heads songs.
And kind of appropriate for this period of time! 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DblvhECdws0
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQMAGT-3wx4
YouTube (live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obAtn6I5rbY
YouTube (lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTp-ETm7WZM

"Shake the Disease" by Depeche Mode

At the Misty K. Snow vs. Mike Lee debate at KBYU

I was thinking tonight how I need to fight this MS disease and it brought this song to mind.  I really, really, really need to shake this disease...

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_0sL_SQYvw
YouTube (karaoke): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIxaeRnK6ho

"Master And Servant" by Nouvelle Vague

Well some bad shit went down last night, on the way to the debate (see yesterday's post).  That was the nastiest trip to Utah County I've ever had.  It was stop and go all the way from about 48th South to somewhere around Pleasant Grove.

Stop and Go traffic is no fun in a car with a stick shift anyway.  It's downright brutal when the 2nd gear syncro is bad and the shifter is crotchety!

The Camaro didn't sound quite right when I left home, but since I was running late I didn't have time to check it out.   By The Point of the Mountain I could tell it was not happy.  In Utah County it felt like it was struggling more and more.

A little past Pleasant Grove it really felt like it was losing power.  I told it that "you will get me to that debate".  We we got off the freeway and had to deal with stop lights, I didn't dare let off the gas all the way.  I was afraid that there was too much drag on the engine, that if the engine was at idle, it wouldn't have enough power to keep turning.

When I got on the BYU campus, I had no idea where the KBYU studios were.  I pulled over into a parking lot to try to get my bearings.  (I later found out that parking lot was where I SHOULD have parked.)

I thought I had missed the street and needed to go back and go further south.  I pulled out of the parking lot and had to flip a U-turn.  I completely smoked the clutch trying to hold it on a slight uphill, waiting for the traffic to clear.

By the time I got to the (wrong) parking lot the Camaro was just barely running.  Smoke was pouring out, I think mostly from the clutch.  It was a pretty long walk to the KBYU studios, in heels no less.

After the debate, we all went to a little place in downtown Provo to eat.  Afterwards my friends took me back to the Camaro and I called AAA to tow the Camaro back to Salt Lake.  It was around Midnight when they got the Camaro loaded and we were on the road home.

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This cover version popped up on YouTube the other day when I was posting the original Depeche Mode version.  I've played it many times and I love it.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tjWQ7ZP894

"Union of the Snake" by Duran Duran

Tonight is the big debate between Mike Lee and Misty K. Snow at the KBYU Studios.  It should be interesting!!  Trudy and some others have been prepping Misty so hopefully it will be good!

Yet another new wave track to celebrate KCQN being reborn as 103.1 The Wave!


YouTube (Vevo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6p5Q6_JBes
YouTube (lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyC3b_WG7N0
YouTube (live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0OaRZj-Nj8

"Master and Servant" by Depeche Mode

Continuing the New Wave music celebrating KCQN being reborn as 103.1 The Wave!

This another song that I can't believe I haven't posted before.  This was definitely one of my favorites back in the KCGL days.  I have it on several 12" singles if I remember correctly.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsvfofcIE1Q
YouTube (live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVGyaaibz_4

"Rain" by The Cult

I'm still posting songs to celebrate KCQN being reborn as 103.1 The Wave!

The Cult is another band I discovered on KCGL.  I posted my favorite Cult song ("She Sells Sanctuary") on my old blog back on 8-Oct-2012.  Over 4 years ago.  This is another song I love!

The licking the microphone kinda weirds me out though...  LOL

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD5b_0QB0wI

"Mother Stands For Comfort" by Kate Bush

More New Wave to celebrate KCQN being reborn as 103.1 The Wave!

And speaking of New Wave, my friend Carri who also did the
Newer New Wave" for KCQN and played a huge part in putting together stuff for 103.1 The Wave.  Her son gave me the beautiful roses above.  So wonderful!! I think this is the first time anyone ever gave me roses!

I've been a huge fan of Kate Bush ever since I first heard her on KCGL.  This is one of my favorites from the Hound of Love album.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_hpZSkQ30Y

"Love Is All Around" by Troggs

Went to the Logan Pride Festival today and then drove around the Cache County area putting up Misty K. Snow signs in the Camaro.  That car has been to more cities in Utah than any other car I've ever owned.

Anyway, I was thinking about all the beautiful and wonderful people at the festival and how there was love all around.

I could've sworn I took some pictures, but there are none on my cell phone.  There are some great photos by Jesse Walker Photography on the Facebook Page!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut5uC91FcbI

"Roll Over" by Thompson Twins

Another track to celebrate KCQN being reborn as 103.1 The Wave! 

This was my favorite Thompson Twins song during that era.  A weird thing was that I found two different editions of the "Here's to Future Days" album on CD and one of them didn't have this song on it.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxhtp7n86SM
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlhmWVK8PrA
YouTube (unreleased 12"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn-A4jNGbok

I found this from groovedigger00 in the comments of the "unreleased 12-inch" video.  Apparently the CD's I found without this track were the UK release.

@aramanth It was to be the 2nd single after "Lay Your Hands On Me", but Tom collapsed from exhaustion right before its release, and Alannah saw that as bad luck, since the song was called "Roll Over", so she had them pull the UK single .... however, she couldn't convince them not to put it on the US version of the album. I talked to Alannah that year and she said "the record company in the US said that our album just wouldn't sell at all without that song, so they ignored me and included it."

"Girl Come Running" by The 4 Seasons

Looking back at the Misty K..Snow sign I put up

Update 15-Apr-2020: I changed the name of the band in the title, I had it as "Four Seasons" but this is the correct way.  Plus added the photo above from when I was driving back from St. George putting up Misty K. Snow signs.  You can see the Camaro's spoiler in the photo.

I was thinking how the cats come running when I open a can of tuna and this song popped into my head.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMlD-bfW2So
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skto7GZ2A4M
YouTube (alternate take): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE3kn-uVH-c

"The Sweetest Chill" by Siouxsie & the Banshees

In honor of the new station in town, 103.1 The Wave , I'm picking some favorites from the artists I first heard on KCGL.  Hard to believe that was around 3 decades ago!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssDtcmwDKW0
YouTube (lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSK2Upjci9EYouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua4PNKhaQyk

"Let's Go to Bed" by The Cure

I had a wonderful time in Cedar City and put up some more Misty K. Snow signs.

I also had one of those weird things happen that makes me go "huh!".  I was standing in Home Depot talking to one of the clerks and one of my friends, Elsa, walked by.  What are the odds?!?

She was one of the first people I met and talked to at the Millcreek Rec. Center, when I very first came out as Rachel.

Anyway, this is another old New Wave song to celibrate KCQN becoming 103.1 The Wave! 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-JK2xyJnYQ
YouTube (lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVdfTtEMqL4
YouTube (extended): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Y6fyNalXY


Some of the Misty signs I put up:

"Everything Counts" by Depeche Mode

It is absolutely crazy to think about this!  KCQN has turned into 103.1 The Wave this morning!  Almost exactly 5 years to the day that KCQN went on the air for the first time.  It is so COOL to have been involved in the creation of a radio station in Salt Lake City!!  Chet has said several times that The Wave wouldn't exist if it hadn't been for my help.

Unfortunately, I wasn't in Salt Lake for the first airing because I was returning from my trip to St. George with Misty K. Snow and the rest of her team.  I stayed the night in Cedar City.

Anyway, I thought to honor the new station, I would pick some songs I first heard on KCGL, lo those many years ago.  Like KCGL is what turned me on to New Wave in the first place and that led to my meeting Chet and the others involved with the various stations that grew out of it: KRP, KJQ, X96 and KCQN.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t-gK-9EIq4
YouTube (extended): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxau5e9BHuI
YouTube (live 1983): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92miz4lIo4E
YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1cTFk69ayw

"Between Strangers" by Swing Out Sister

Another song I love from the "Kaleidoscope World" album.  Maybe I've mentioned this before, but I remember playing with a kaleidoscope when I was a kid.

I've decided I should start including more information about the tracks I post, like what album and release it is:

Album: Kaleidoscope World
Label: Fontana
Year released: 1989

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuEzav6MNqYYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIuuD_w5DXU
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE-0Cy3HTwo
YouTube (Topic): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWJsMtxXdMA

"Come as You Are" by Nirvana

I saw one of those karaoke tracks that shows the pitch for this song yesterday and decided I should post this song...

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vabnZ9-ex7o
YouTube (karaoke): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2zCPjrxYdw