The PopCulteer
September 27, 2024

The clarion call to dance has gone out, so  Mel Larch returns with a brand-new MIRRORBALL! You can hear this and more cool music Friday on The AIR.

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Friday at 2 PM on The AIR, Mel Larch devotes her hour of Disco to a delightful and funky random assortment of classic dance tracks from the golden age of Disco. Just like last time, the focus this week is on extended mixes of some of the grooviest tunes ever created.  The show starts off with Quincy Jones and comes to an electrifying end with 5000 Volts.

It’s yet another tasty collection of Disco treats in the grand MIRRORBALL tradition. Check out the playlist…

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Quincy Jones “Ai No Corrida”
Boney M “Sunny”
Chic “Everybody Dance”
Jackie Moore “This Time Baby”
Yarborough & Peoples “Don’t Stop The Music”
The Crusaders featuring Randy Crawford “Street Life”
Tavares “More Than A Woman”
5000 Volts featuring Tina Charles “I’m On Fire”

You can hear MIRRORBALL every Friday at 2 PM, with replays Sunday night at 11 PM and throughout the following week Monday at 9 AM and Tuesday at 1 PM plus there’s a mini-marathon that includes the latest episode Saturday nights at 9 PM

At 3 PM, it’s Big Electric Cat time as Sydney Fileen delivers a special NEW mixtape edition of her show that pays tribute to one of my favorite bands, Oingo Boingo. Truth be told, Sydney called on me to recommend a few tunes for this playlist.

Before Danny Elfman was an Oscar and Bafta nominated and Emmy Winning soundtrack composer, he helped mutate the theatrical troupe, The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, into the trailblazing New Wave band, Oingo Boingo, and before his career as a film composer became his main creative outlet, his band was one of the definitive examples of West Coast New Wave Music.

You will hear the New Wave era hits, misses and deep album cuts from Oingo Boingo, and some tracks from Danny Elfman’s “So-Lo” album, in this fast-moving and mind-blowing mixtape special. I even tipped off Sydney to a few pre-fame rarities by the band.

Check out this killer playlist…

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Oingo Boingo
“Violent Love”
“Forbidden Zone”
“Ain’t This The Life”
“You Got Your Baby Back”
“Ballad of The Caveman”
“Only A Lad”
“Little Girls”
“On The Outside”
“Controller”
“Private Life”
“Nothing To Fear”
“Grey Matter”
“Who Do You Want To Be”
“No Spill Blood”
“Nothing Bad Ever Happens To Me”
“Good For Your Soul”

Elfman on stage with Oingo Boingo, circa 1985

Danny Elfman
“Gratitude”
“It Only Makes Me Laugh”
“Everybody Needs”

Oingo Boingo
“Just Another Day”
“Dead Man’s Party”
“No One Lives Forever”
“Stay”
“Weird Science”
“Not My Slave”
“Cinderella Undercover”
“Wild Sex (In The Working Class)”
“California Girls”
“Goodbye, Goodbye”

Sydney’s Big Electric Cat is produced at Haversham Recording Institute in London, and can be heard every Friday at 3 PM, with replays Saturday afternoon,  Monday at 7 AM, Tuesday at 8 PM, Wednesday at Noon and Thursday at 10 AM, exclusively on The AIR.

That’s it for this week’s PopCulteer, check back for all our regular feature, with fresh content, every day, even when I’m on the road doing vacationing.