WAPS 1990

During summer and fall of 1990 I sometimes recorded WAPS blindly (deafly?), unattended, for later listening... Akron, Ohio, 89.1 FM in those days (91.3 now), run by high school students but with a better playlist than that offered by most college stations of the time. I kept the best tapes, and these are some of the best songs from those best tapes. Some I purchased, others I didn't, but either way they'd probably be difficult to find today, even if I could remember all the names...

But... yay! Years later, I've been able to find many of them on youtube.

• They Might Be Giants : Racist friend
• Adrian Belew : Looking for a UFO
• Adrian Belew : Men in helicopters
• Mazzy Star : Blue flower
• The Hummingbirds : Alimony
• The Katydids : Heavy weather traffic
• The Aquanettas : Faults
• Times 2 : Sweet Jane's revenge
• Concrete Blonde : Joey
• Concrete Blonde : Caroline
• World Party : Put the message in the box
• Nina Hagen & Lena Lovich : Don't kill the animals
• The Soup Dragons : Mother Universe
• The Lilac Time : All for love and love for all
• Edelweiss : Edelweiss
• Times 2 : Dirty senorita
• The Breeders : Fortunately gone
• David J : I'll be your chauffeur
• Love and Rockets : So alive
• The Strawberry Zots : And you drive your pretty car
• The All : She's my ex
• Aztec Camera : Good morning, Britain
• The Blue Hearts : Linda, Linda
• The Katydids : Wise up read my lips
• The Katydids : Girl in a jigsaw puzzle
• 808 State : Magical dream
• The Heart Throbs : Dreamtime
• The Heart Throbs : Tossed away
• Wire Train : Should she cry
• Too Much Joy : That's a lie
• The Jazz Butcher : Mr. Odd
• The Railway Children : Every beat of the heart
• Falling Joys : You're in a mess
• The Village Idiots : One more time
• Book of Love : Alice every day
• Hex : March
• The Beautiful South : A little time
• Kon Kan : Liberty