The PopCulteer
August 27, 2021

Friday brings a brand-new 75th episode of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat to The AIR. The AIR is PopCult’s sister radio station. You can hear these shows on The AIR website, or just click on the embedded player at the top right column of this blog.

At 3 PM, Sydney Fileen graces us with a very special mixtape episode of Sydney’s Big Electric Cat that marks 75 episodes with what Sydney calls “The New Waviest of New Wave Music.”

Just check out the playlist to see for yourself…

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Dollar “Mirror Mirror (Mon Amour)”
U2 “New Year’s Day”
Berlin “Sex (I’m A…)”
The Jam “In The City”
Blondie “Hanging On The Telephone”
Skids “The Saints Are Coming”
Dead Kennedys “California Uber Allies”
The Specials “Ghost Town”
Violent Femmes “Blister In The Sun”
The Damned “New Rose”
The Selecter “Three Minute Hero”
Squeeze “Slap and Tickle”
Sex Pistols “Holidays In The Sun”
Kim Wilde “Water On Glass”
R.E.M. “Superman”
The Romantics “Let’s Get Started”
Adam and The Ants “Kings Of The Wild Frontier”
Spandau Ballet “Chant No.1”
Oingo Boingo “Wake Up (It’s 1984”
OMD “Genetic Engineering”
Thompson Twins “Doctor Doctor”
Simple Minds “Glittering Prize”
The Cure “The Walk”
Joe Jackson “Steppin’ Out”
The Fixx “One Thing Leads To Another”
Haysi Fantayzee “Shiny Shiny”
Visage “Visage”
Hazel O’Connor “Eighth Day”
Elvic Costello “Accidents Will Happen”
Kate Bush “Violin”
Depeche Mode “Any Second Now”
Gary Numan “Cars”

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

That’s what’s on The AIR Friday, and that is this week’s PopCulteer. I’m still off somewhere celebrating my anniversary. Check back for fresh content every single freakin’ day anyway. I’m cool like that.