Today and all week is my birthday week so I’m going to play, what I believe to be one of the best years in music - songs from 1979 - we saw the release of such albums as London Calling, Cool for Cats, Teenage Head’s debut, the Pretenders , Specials and much more…..so we are going to play some songs from those albums….we could easily fill up two hrs of music with songs from great records release ln 1979….but we are starting with a song off of the Squeeze album Cool for Cats, this is Revue…
| Revue Squeeze - Cool For Cats |
| 52 Girls The B 52’s - The B52’s |
| Paint By Number Heart Martha an The Muffins - Metro Music 
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| Paper Talking Heads - Fear of Music |
| Uneasy Sunny Day Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Do It Yourself |
| Melody Lee The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette |
| Goon Squad Elvis Costello & Attractions - Armed Forces - Columbia |
| American Squirm Nick Lowe - Labour of Lust |
| FM The Slits - Cut |
| Nuclear Device The Stranglers - The Raven |
| The Wait The Pretenders - Pretenders - Sire |
| You’re Tearing Me Apart Teenage Head - Teenage Head - Epic
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| Terminal Rock The Diodes - Released - Epic
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| Life Begins At The Hop XTC - Drums and Wires - Virgin |
| I’m The Man Joe Jackson - I’m The Man |
| Death Or Glory The Clash - London Calling - Epic |
| Satturdays Kids The Jam - Setting Sons - Polydor |
| Monkey Man The Specials - The Specials - 2Tone |
| Sign On The Line Goddo - An Act of Goddo - Polydor
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TAKE ME BACK, Lester ! Had every track on the playlist before my vinyl collection got wiped out. Special thanks for the Joe Jackson. I had, and played regularly every album Joe released. turned on many of my friends to J,J. !!!!!! And they all turned into big fans. THANK YOU !!
2:23 PM, May 19th, 2026