The Music of the Cold War ’80′s – Thursday, November 12th at 6 & 9pm Pacific Time

Join me this Thursday to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the cold war. Enjoy cold war inspired music by The Sound, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Roger Waters, Alphaville, The Adolescents, Violent Femmes, Dead Kennedys, Circle Jerks, Randy Newman, Prince, Queen, Tina Turner, Oingo Boingo, Talking Heads, OMD and Tears for Fears.

Tune in at Flashback Alternatives and join me on the chat board during the shows too.

Learn more about the Cold War ’80′s episode of Doug Lynner’s World of Noise radio show, and stream my past shows on-demand, at neatnetnoise.com.

Thanks for listening!

Thanks everyone for the warm reception of the World of Noise show. Here is what we heard:

Doug Lynner’s World of Noise – Show #1

Playlist
Forbidden Planet – Main Title Theme – Louis and Bebe Barron
Oscillations – Silver Apples
Electrical Language – Bebop Deluxe
Wireless Fantasy – Vladimir Ussachevsky
Leisure World – Joe Byrd and the Filed Hippies
Mexican Radio – Wall of Voodoo
Tokyo Nights – Bandzai
Speed Racer – Devo
Big in Japan (7″ mix) – Alphaville
One Night in Bangkok (Club mix) – Murray Head
She Was a Visitor – LEM
Telecommunications – Tic Tok Men
Goodbye – John Ruth

For detailed information on the featured songs in the show, go to http://neatnetnoise.com/radio-show/2008/10/welcome-to-doug-lynners-world-of-noise-blog/.

Show #2 will air on http://www.FlashbackAlternatives.com at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific time on 11/13/08.

Contact me at worldofnoise@flashbackalternatives.com and leave comments here about the show and the music. What do you think?

Doug Lynner

Show #1 of Doug Lynner’s World of Noise (WON) is airing this evening on Flashback Alternatives so this would be a good time for the first post to the blog. The full playlist of today’s will be published here and at Flashback Alternatives next week. But meanwhile here is some information on the four artists/bands featured in the show.

Vladimir_Ussachevsky
From: OHM: the early gurus of electronic music: 1948-1980 – Elipsis Art… CD3670
Learn more about Vladimir Ussachevsky at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Ussachevsky
Note: Synth players out there will be interested to know that Ussachevsky specified the ADSR envelope.
Additional sounds: http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/composer.pl?comp=107

Louis and Bebe Barron
From: OHM: the early gurus of electronic music: 1948-1980 – Elipsis Art… CD3670
Learn more about Louis and Bebe Barron at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_and_Bebe_Barron http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4486840
Note: Composed first entierly electronic film score

Silver Apples
From: Silver Apples/Silver Apples Kapp Records KS3562 1968
Learn more about Silver Apples at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Apples
http://www.silverapples.com/

Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies
From: The American Metaphysical Circus/Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies Columbia Records MS 7317 1969
Learn More about Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Metaphysical_Circus