Man, this takes me back to growing up in a tiny town in rural Kentucky, with two radio stations both owned by the leaders of the local Baptist church. My only chance to hear music that wasn’t complete crap was the low-watt college station from University of Tennessee-Knoxville, which I could tune in late at night if the weather was just right. They introduced me to Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, Mission of Burma, Bad Brains, Buzzcocks, Minutemen, Wire and many others. Even high weirdness like Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians, Pere Ubu and Husker Du… It only took me over thirty years and the advent of streaming music to rediscover them. Gotta go and listen to the Buzzcocks’ “Boredom” and Pere Ubu’s “Nonalignment Pact” now…
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