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Playlist for Friday, November 22, 2002

Tonight's show was devoted to the local bands of Minneapolis' oft-celebrated "Longhorn Bar scene" of 1978-1980. A 500-person capacity club that barely concealed its origins as a downtown steakhouse, Jay's Longhorn on 14 S. 5th Street was also where all the punk and New Wave bands of the day came to play. These artists included the likes of Elvis Costello, Blondie, the Dead Boys, the Talking Heads, the B-52s, Iggy Pop, the Only Ones, the Police and many others -- but it was the local guitar heros like the Suicide Commandos, Curtiss A, and the Suburbs that we honored tonight. Honestly, we barely made a dent, and could have used another couple hours to do it up right!

Suburbs -- Don't Do Like Me (alt. live version off "Night Times" KTCA-TV simulcast, Minneapolis, c.1982)
Wilma & The Wilbers -- Chronic Alkie (self-titled EP, Break'er 1980)
The Jets -- Paper Girl (Big Hits of Mid-America Vol. 3 double-LP; Twin/Tone 1979)
Fingerprints -- Made In The Shade (self-titled 7" EP; Twin/Tone 1978)
Pistons -- Chocolate (Flight 581 LP; Twin/Tone 1981)

NNB -- Slack ("Slack" 7", Wave Seven 1978)
The Twin City Terrors -- That's What I Said (Songwriter LP, SW/Twin/Tone 1980)
The Hypstrz -- Action Woman (self-titled 7" EP, Bogus 1979)
The Hypstrz -- Hey Joe (self-titled 7" EP, Bogus 1979)

Robert Ivers & Ice Stars -- The Great New York Subway Tragedy (7", New Age 1980)
Suburbs -- Urban Guerilla (Big Hits of Mid-America Vol. 3 double-LP, Twin/Tone 1979)
The Phones -- Kids Today (Suspended Animation 7"; no label,1980)
Suicide Commandos -- Complicated Fun (Suicide Commandos Commit Suicide Dance Concert LP: Twin/Tone 1979)

The Overtones (Danny Amis) -- Red Checker Wagon (Red Checker Wagon 7" EP; Twin/Tone 1980)
Safety Last -- Zimbabwe Bop (self-titled 12" EP; Twin/Tone 1981)
Spooks -- 1980-1990/Fun Is Everything (Science Fiction World) (1980-1990 7" EP; Twin-Tone 1978)

Pistons -- Ain't No Use (Flight 581 LP; Twin/Tone 1981)
Curtiss A & The Originals -- Somethin' Else (Dave Ahl vocal) [cassette tape, live at Jay's Longhorn, 4/5/79]
Curtiss A & The Originals -- C'mon Everybody (Curt vocal) [cassette tape, live at Jay's Longhorn, 4/5/79]
Flamingo -- I Remember Romance (self-titled EP; Bigger Than Life 1979)

NNB -- Here Comes A Creep (live at M-80 , "a punk new/now/no wave festival," U of M Fieldhouse, Minneapolis, fall 1979)

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