PURE with Howard Thompson

"Wreckless & Amy" (broadcast 3/2/18)

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet: Old Motors and Helicopters
Laurie Anderson: In Our Sleep (feat. Lou Reed): In Our Sleep 
Lou Reed: I Remember You
The Velvet Underground: Run Run Run 
Alex McMurray: Gluestick Situation
Nolatet: Black Sheep 
Amy Rigby: 20 Questions 
Amy Rigby: Dancing With Joey Ramone 
Ronnie Spector: All I Want (feat. Keith Richards) 
Amy Rigby: Slow Burner 
Amy Rigby: Back from Amarillo 
Amy Rigby: Leslie 
Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby: Genovese Bag
Wreckless Eric: Joe Meek 
Wreckless Eric: Take The Cash (K.A.S.H.)
Wreckless Eric: Crying, Waiting, Hoping
The Prissteens: (I'd Go The) Whole Wide World 
Wreckless Eric: The Two Of Us
Wreckless Eric: Wow & Flutter 
Wreckless Eric: Gateway To Europe 
The Hempolics: High & Gritty 
The Hempolics: Armed & Dangerous 
Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez: The Grown Up Thing (live) 
Paul Thorn: Love Train 
Gene Casey & the Lone Sharks: It's A Free Country 
The Allergies: Entitled To That 
Jimi Hendrix: Lover Man 
Janelle Monáe: Make Me Feel
The Red Propellers: atrocities on demand
The Red Propellers: pink knives sharpened 
Bilk: Give Up 
L7: I Came Back To Bitch
Professor and the Madman: Faces 
Imperial State Electric: This Is Rock ‘n Roll
Go-Kart Mozart: Big Ship
Albert Hammond Jr: Far Away Truths
Flowered Up: Weekender 
Happy Mondays: Judge Fudge 
Angel Corpus Christi: Been There, Done That (Angel's sugar mix)
PSAs…
Lou Reed: Tell It To Your Heart
The Mammals: Make It True
The Weather Station: Thirty 

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