PURE with Howard Thompson

“ 1984” 

Cocteau Twins: Lorelei
Kirsty MacColl: A New England 
T-Bone Burnett: The Law Of Average
John Lennon: Grow Old With Me 
Billy Bragg: The Saturday Boy 
Leonard Cohen: If It Be Your Will 
The Cars: Drive 
Tom Verlaine: Five Miles of You 
Cristina: Smile
Scott Walker: Rawhide 
Robyn Hitchcock: Trams Of Old London
The Long Ryders: Ivory Tower 
Sade: Smooth Operator 
Elvis Costello & The Attractions: Inch By Inch 2:29
Nick Lowe: Half A Boy And Half A Man 2:53
Lou Reed: Endlessly Jealous 3:56
The Psychedelic Furs: The Ghost In You 4:17
Talk Talk: It's My Life
Yellowman: Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt 
Daniel Johnston: True Love Will Find You In the End 
Aswad: Roots Rocking 
Public Image Ltd.: The Order Of Death 
George Michael: Careless Whisper 
The Fall: 2 X 4
The Pretenders: Middle Of The Road 
Minutemen: D.'s Car Jam/Anxious Mo-Fo
Captain Beefheart: Here I Am I Always Am 
Jandek: Starless 
The Sisters Of Mercy: Walk Away 
Run-DMC: Hard Times 
The Screaming Blue Messiahs: Tracking The Dog 
David Johansen: The Stinkin Rich 
Guadalcanal Diary: Watusi Rodeo 
The Replacements: Sixteen Blue 
Jet Black Berries: Shakin' All Over 
Ramones: Planet Earth 1988 
The Everly Brothers: On the Wings of a Nightingale 
Motörhead: Killed By Death

What is PURE with Howard Thompson?

Airing twice a month on WPKN 89.5FM Bridgeport!

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