The PopCulteer
February 28, 2025

Get ready to dance your way out of February as Mel Larch serves up some wild and unexpected Disco music on a new edition of MIRRORBALL and Sydney Fileen returns with a classic episode of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat devoted the New Wave Music of the movies, Friday on The AIR.  The AIR is PopCult‘s sister radio station. You can hear our shows on The AIR website, or just click on the embedded player found elsewhere on this page.

Friday at 2 PM on The AIR, we have a terrific new episode of MIRRORBALL where Mel Larch plunges into her diverse collection of dance music to assemble a show that has everything from attacking Martians to glass hearts, spooky supernatural happenings, a chase scene, a second alien encounter, and epidemic and of course, a Disco Dancer.

It’s a carefully curated collection of captivating curios, calculated to cause you to dance.

Don’t believe us? Check out the playlist…

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Jeff Wayne “The Eve of War (Disco Version)”
Blondie “Heart of Glass”
James Last “Knock On Wood”
The Glitter Band “Makes You Blind”
Cerrone “Supernature (full length version)”
Giorgio Morodor “Chase (From Midnight Express)”
Sarah Brightman “I Lost My Heart To A Starship Trooper”
Rose Royce “Best Love”
Trammps “Love Epidemic”
Frantique “Disco Dancer”

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

In a world, Friday at 3 PM you will believe in mighty movie New Wave goodness. This week we bring you New Wave classics that found their way to the big and small screen. You’ll hear hit songs that were used in movies like The Breakfast Club, Rumblefish, Pretty In Pink, Times Square, The Last American Virgin and more, plus you’ll get to relive New Wave moments from TV shows like CPO Sharkey, Teenage Kicks, Cavegirl and Square Pegs.

This classic episode was specially assembled by Sydney Fileen a few years back, and it’s so good that we just had to bring it to you again.

Some of the songs you’ll hear were only available on soundtrack albums or singles for most of the 1980s. This is a great way to hear some hard-to-find tunes, along with some massive hit songs.

Just check out this epic playlist that Sydney has compiled for you…

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Simple MInds “Don’t You Forget About Me”
The Knack “My Sharona”
Wang Chung “To Live And Die In L.A.”
Bow Wow Wow “Go Wild In The Country”
“The Undertones “Teenage Kicks”
Psychedelic Furs “Pretty In Pink”
New Order “Shell Shock”
Echo and The Bunnymen “Bring On The Dancing Horses”
OMD “If You Leave”
Stan Rideway and Stewart Copeland “Don’t Box Me In”
Oingo Boingo “Weird Science”
The Art of Noise “Dragnet”
The Dickies “Hideous”
DEVO “Peek A Boo”
The Waitresses “Square Pegs”
Elvis Costello and The Attractions “Accidents Will Happen”
Pretenders “Talk of The Town”
Joe Jackson “Pretty Boys”
XTC “Take This Town”
The Ramones “I Wanna Be Sedated”
The Cure “Grinding Halt”
Gary Numan “Down In The Park”
The Human League “Love Action”
The Cars “Since You’ve Gone”
U2 “I Will Follow”
The Gleaming Spires “Are You Ready For The Sex Girls”
Blondie “Call Me”
Frankie Goes To Hollywood “Relax”

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.

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