"Women Who Play"

“Women Who Play”

Enya: Pax Deorum
Nico: It Has Not Taken Long
Joni Mitchell: Shadows And Light
Chicken Shack: I’d Rather Go Blind
Björk: Álfur Út Úr Hól
Kim Deal: Are You Mine
Delia Derbyshire: Dr. Who Theme
Anne Müller: Serenade at 2
Julia Holter: Hello Stranger
Kathryn Tickell & The Side: Penguin Notes
Laura Nyro: Up On the Roof
Molly Lewis: Whistling in the Dark
Juana Molina: Sin Dones
Tori Amos: I Don’t Like Mondays
Moe Tucker: Heroin
Victoria Williams: Sweet Jane (w/Lou Reed)
Dean & Britta: Not A Young Man Anymore (My Robot Friend Remix)
Tom Tom Club: Femme Fatale
Angel Corpus Christi: The Day John Kennedy Died
Rickie Lee Jones: Walk On The Wild Side
The Velvet Underground: Foggy Notion
Laurie Anderson: Sharkey’s Day
Josephine Foster: I’m a Dreamer
Dave Alvin & The Guilty Women: Downey Girl
Bridget  St. John: Nice
Bonnie Raitt: Love Has No Pride
The Cramps: Hard Workin' Man
Kate St. John: Don’t They Know You've Gone
Anoushka Shankar: Lasya
Rachelle Garniez: My Sister and I
Bela Fleck & Evelyn Glennie: Presto in G Minor after Bach
Kate Bush: Eat the Music
Frank Zappa & The Mothers: The Dog Breath Variations/Uncle Meat
Sheila E: Leader of the Band (feat. Prince & The E Family) Samantha Fish: Runaway
The Deadly Nightshade: No Chicken Today
Macy Gray: Let You Win
Viv Albertine: If Love
Wet Leg: Don’t Speak
The Slits: Typical Girls
Mary Lattimore: Your Birthday at the Huntington
The Bangles: Bitchen Summer (Speedway)
The She Trinity: He Fought The Law
Sonny & Cher: The Beat Goes On
The Liverbirds: Talking About You
Anna Calvi: Ghost Rider
Lita Ford: Kiss Me Deadly
The B-52’s: Love Shack
The Cramps: Human Fly
Talking Heads: Psycho Killer
The Courettes: Better Without You
The Prissteens: Are You Ready
The 5.6.7.8s: Roadrunner (partial)

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

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howard loves all kinds of music and has collected records ever since his uncle gave him Rock Around The Clock as a 6th birthday present

howard worked in the music biz so he could get more free records and meet wondrous people

howard made records with Adam & the Ants, Alan Vega, Angel Corpus Christi, Aswad, Barb Jungr, Billy Bragg, Danny Gatton, Eddie & the Hot Rods, the Georgia Satellites, Hamell On Trial, Herb Alpert, Ian Hunter, John Campbell, Judy Tenuta, ManBreak, Motörhead, Peter C Johnson, the Prissteens, the Psychedelic Furs, Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3, Roky Erickson & the Aliens, Rubén Blades, Sally Oldfield, Sara Hickman, Scatterbrain, the Screaming Blue Messiahs, the Slits, the Star Spangles, the Sugarcubes, Susan Fassbender, Tulipomania, Victor DeLorenzo, Yellowman and 10,000 Maniacs to name a few. He was the first to release records by MX-80 Sound, the Real Kids and Suicide in Europe and th’ Faith Healers, the Gipsy Kings, Happy Mondays, Paul Young, the Sisters Of Mercy, and Wham! in the USA

howard joined WPKN in May 2010 and is grateful to Steve di Costanzo and Peter Bochan for letting him in. Terry Hopper too, for giving up an hour of The Quest to see if it could work

howard thinks Bob Dylan should be President, and ‘Poison’ Ivy Rorschach should be Vice-President