The Long Circle

Charlie Maxton

Monday 2AM-4AM

The Long Circle is a love letter to the college radio scene of the 1980s. A deep dive into the classic bands of that era and many forgotten indie bands and labels.

  • June 14, 2021

    • Guided By Voices "Little Whirl" [Alien Lanes]
    • Pernice Brothers "Flaming Wreck" [Australia Tour EP 2002]
    • Nikki Sudden "Bethlehem Castle - Remastered" [The Bible Belt]
    • The Springfields "Wonder" [Singles 1986-1991]
    • The Three O'Clock "Upside Down" [Befour Three O'Clock]
    • The Wedding Present "Box Elder" [Bizarro]
    • The Heats "Remember Me" [Have an Idea (Bonus Tracks)]
    • The Exploding Hearts "I'm a Pretender" [Guitar Romantic]
    • Greg Erken "She's a Queen" [cassette]
    • The Replacements "Hitchin' A Ride - Live at Maxwell's, Hoboken, NJ, 2/4/86" [For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986]
    • Wayne Raney "We Need A Lot More Of Jesus (And A Lot Less Rock 'N Roll" [16 Radio Gospel Favorites]
    • Rusty Kershaw "Love City" [Cajun In The Blues County]
    • Thin White Rope "Thing - Remastered" [Moonhead]
    • Judee Sill "The Pearl - Solo Demo; Remastered Version" [Songs of Rapture and Redemption: Rarities & Live]
    • The Family Circle "It Doesn’t Make Sense" [Family Circle]
    • Elvis Costello & The Attractions "Possession" [Get Happy]
    • Kirsty MacColl "They Don’t Know" [The Stiff Years]
    • Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band "Sunshower" [Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band]
    • Curtis Mayfield "Another Fool in Love" [Short Eyes - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
    • The Impressions "I'm a Changed Man (Finally Got Myself Together)" [Finally Got Myself Together]
    • T. Rex "Rip Off - 2003 Remaster" [Electric Warrior [Expanded & Remastered]]
    • Secret Hate "Latin Chongo (Live)" [Vegetables Dancing]
    • Dave Edmunds "Trouble Boys" [Trax on Wax 4]
    • The Stepford Husbands "Losin' Touch" [New Ways of Seeing]
    • Yo "Charm World" [Charm World]
    • The Sitting Ducks "She Tells Me" [untitled cassette]
    • Unrest "Suki" [Imperial F.F.R.R.]
    • The Frogs "I Don't Care If U Disrespect Me (Just so You Love Me)" [It's Only Right and Natural]
    • The Jean Paul Sartre Experience "Shadows" [I Like Rain: The Story of The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience]
    • Jawbreaker "You Don't Know" [Bivouac (Remastered)]
    • Barry Walker Jr. "Derr Of The Schwann (Break Of The Dawn)" [Shoulda Zenith]
    • The Donner Party "Before Too Long" [The Donner Party]
    • Dillard & Clark "Don't Let Me Down" [Through The Morning, Through The Night]
    • The Magnetic Fields "All My Little Words" [69 Love Songs]
    • Spokansas "Lady From Cheney" [untitled]
    • The Raincoats "Lola" [The Raincoats]
    • Kameleoni "Too Much on My Mind" [The Ultimate Collection]
    • The Ophelias "Wicked Annabella" [The Night of Halloween]
    • Lost Balloons "Hey Summer" [Hey Summer]
  • May 31, 2021

    • Panbers "Haai" [Those Shocking Shaking Days: Indonesia Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk 1970-1978]
    • Game Theory "What's the Matter" [Blaze of Glory]
    • Jacobites "Pin Your Heart To Me - 2019 Remaster" [Robespierre's Velvet Basement]
    • Compulsive Gamblers "Two Thieves" [Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing]
    • Reigning Sound "A Little More Time" [A Little More Time with Reigning Sound]
    • Doug Orton "Fit as a Fiddle" [Richard Brautigan's Body]
    • Doug Orton "Last Song" [Richard Brautigan's Body]
    • Death of Samantha "Blood and Shaving Cream" [If Memory Serves Us Well]
    • American Music Club "Keep Me Around" [Mercury]
    • Slickaphonic "I Shot Him Down" [Slickaphonic]
    • Johnnie Frierson "Have You Been Good to Yourself" [Have You Been Good to Yourself]
    • Eddie and Ernie "Bullets Don't Have Eyes" [Time Waits for No One]
    • Johnny Western "Have Gun Will Travel" [Have Gun Will Travel]
    • Sanford Clark "Go On Home" [Rockabilly Classics]
    • Mekons "Chivalry" [Fear and Whiskey]
    • The Fall "Pinball Machine" [Seminal Live]
    • Big Dipper "Meet the Witch" [Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology]
    • Big Dipper "She’s Fetching" [Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology]
    • Kill Creek "Todd Newman" [The Will To Strike]
    • Todd Newman "Elizabeth Montgomery's Face" [The Boy With the Tambourine Heart]
    • The Mumbles "Shoo-de-Hoo-Bang-Bang" [Devil Box of the Gods]
    • Sixth Station "I See" [Deep Night]
    • Jeff Cowell "Can't Make Nothin'" [Lucky Strikes and Liquid Gold]
    • Tele Novella "Wishing Shrine" [Merlynn Belle]
    • Bobbie Gentry "Courtyard" [The Delta Sweete]
    • Richard & Linda Thompson "I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight" [I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight]
    • The Cowsills "Heather Says" [On My Side (Bonus Tracks Edition)]
    • The Gun Club "Brother and Sister - Remastered 2020" [Miami (Remastered 2020)]
    • Pontiac Brothers "Be Married Song (Electric)" [Doll Hut / Fiesta en la biblioteca]
    • Liquor Giants "Here" [Liquor Giants]
    • Grant Hart "2541" [2541]
  • May 17, 2021

    • Television Personalities "Look Back In Anger" [And Don't The Kids Just Love It]
    • Television Personalities "A Picture Of Dorian Gray" [And Don't The Kids Just Love It]
    • The Whiffs "Baby Tonight" [Take a Whiff]
    • Tommy James & The Shondells "Moses & Me" [Travelin']
    • Buck Owens "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass - 2006 Remastered Version" [21 #1 Hits: The Ultimate Collection]
    • Bob Fryfogle "Six Foot Under" [Monster Party! Vol. 2]
    • The Tough Shits "She's A Loner" [The Tough Shits]
    • The Shivvers "No Substitute (Remastered)" [The Shivvers (Remixed and Remastered 2014)]
    • The Isley Brothers "You Walk Your Way" [3+3]
    • Continental Drifters "The Rain Song" [Vermillion]
    • The Rain Parade "You Are My Friend" [Emergency Third Rail Power Trip]
    • Al Green "Listen - Take #1" [Rare & Unissued Hi Recordings]
    • Ann Peebles "Until You Came into My Life" [I Can't Stand the Rain]
    • O.V. Wright "Monkey Dog" [The Soul Of O.V. Wright]
    • Lee Dorsey "Ride Your Pony" [Ride Your Pony]
    • The Troggs "I Can't Control Myself" [From Nowhere]
    • Alex Chilton "Hey! Little Child" [Like Flies On Sherbert]
    • Big Star "Hot Burrito #2 - Live at Lafayette's Music Room" [Live at Lafayette's Music Room]
    • Chris Stamey "Something Came over Me - Acoustic Version" [It's a Wonderful Life]
    • Lee Jung Hwa "I Don't Like" [Beautiful Rivers and Mountains: The Psychedelic Rock Sound of South Korea's Shin Joong Hyun 1958-1974]
    • The Shades "Tell Me Not to Hurt" [Tell Me Not to Hurt]
    • Mary Weiss "Stop And Think It Over" [Dangerous Game]
    • The Grifters "Last Man Alive" [Ain't My Lookout]
    • Granfaloon Bus "Beggar Fatigue" [Lucky Curtains]
    • The Space Lady "Ballroom Blitz" [The Space Lady's Greatest Hits]
    • WITCH "I've Been Away" [Witch: We Intend to Cause Havoc!]
    • The Lovely Lads "Where Did You Go?" [Vs the World]
    • Built To Spill "Big Dipper" [There's Nothing Wrong With Love]
    • Built To Spill "Honey I Sure Miss You" [Built to Spill Plays the Songs of Daniel Johnston]
    • A.A. Bondy "The Heart Is Willing" [Believers]
    • Haruomi Hosono "Party" [Hosono House]
    • Jackie Moore "Time" [Sweet Charlie Babe]
    • Squirrel Bait "Sun God" [Squirrel Bait]
    • The Frost "Stand In The Shadows" [Poppies: Assorted Finery From The First Psychedelic Age]
    • Yo La Tengo "Alyda" [President Yo La Tengo / New Wave Hot Dogs]
    • Quasi "Two Hounds" [Early Recordings]
    • Johnny Thunders "Sad Vacation" [Hurt me]
  • April 19, 2021

    • The Wind "Something's Gonna Happen" [Where It's At With the Wind (EP)]
    • The Balancing Act "Whiskered Wife" [Three Squares And A Roof]
    • Stephen Malkmus "The Hook" [Stephen Malkmus]
    • Damien Jurado "Big Deal" [I Break Chairs]
    • The Verlaines "Death And The Maiden" [Juvenilia]
    • Darrell Banks "Open the Door to Your Heart" [Darrell Banks Is Here!]
    • Bobby Charles "Small Town Talk" [Bobby Charles [w/ Bonus Tracks]]
    • Arthur Russell "Nobody Wants A Lonely Heart" [Love Is Overtaking Me]
    • Andre Gibson "Don't It Feel Good" [Apart: Demos 1980-1984]
    • Beat Happening "Godsend" [You Turn Me On]
    • Donner Party "Birthday Suit" [Complete Recordings 1987-1989]
    • Spectrals "Heartbeat Behind" [Sob Story]
    • Ron Sexsmith "This Is Where I Belong" [This Is Where I Belong: The Songs of Ray Davies & The Kinks]
    • Sebadoh "Magnet's Coil" [Bakesale]
    • Great Plains "Appetite" [Length of Growth 1981-89]
    • Jay Reatard "There Is No Sun" [Watch Me Fall]
    • The 6ths "All Dressed Up In Dreams" [Wasps' Nests]
    • The Ventures "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)" [Play Guitar With the Ventures Vol. 3]
    • Eugene McDaniels "Cherrystones" [Outlaw]
    • Chubby Checker "Stoned in the Bathroom" [Chequered]
    • Lost Balloons "Liquor Store" [Liquore Store / Dirty Sandy]
    • Lost Balloons "Dirty Sandy" [Liquore Store / Dirty Sandy]
    • Donnie & Joe Emerson "Baby" [Dreamin' Wild]
    • Green "Gotta Getta Record Out (EP Version)" [Green]
    • Green "Radio Caroline" [Elaine MacKenzie]
    • Green "My Sister Jane" [White Soul & Bittersweet]
    • Jeff Lescher "Can't Do Without You" [All is Grace]
    • Lions and Dogs "Be My Something" [Fresh Sounds From Middle America Vol. 3]
    • Homestead Grays "Rev. Cross" [Fresh Sounds From Middle America Vol. 3]
    • The Jayhawks "Falling Star" [The Jayhawks]
    • Reigning Sound "Falling Rain" [Shattered]
    • Nikki Sudden "In Your Room" [The Music to "The Pacific and Eddy"]
    • Otis Redding "You Left the Water Running" [Southern Soul #1: True Love Travels On A Gravel Road]
    • Rick Danko "Lay Down" [Cryin' Heart Blues]
    • Bobby Womack "Don't Make This The Last Date For You And Me" [B.W. Goes C.W.]
    • Fuck "Hide Face (Mercury Lounge, 8/95) [Bonus Track]" [Pretty...Slow (Remastered)]
  • April 05, 2021

    Long Circle, 4/5/21

    • Full Time Men "One More Time" [EP]
    • The Bats "Straight Through My Heart" [The Bats: Volume 1]
    • The Chills "Look For the Good In Others" [Brave Words]
    • The Marked Men "All in Your Head" [Ghosts]
    • Brad Long "Tell Me" [Battle of the Garages Vol. 1]
    • Nashville Ramblers "The Trains" [7"]
    • Irma Thomas "Two Winters Long" [This Is On My Side: The Best Of Irma Thomas (Vol.1)]
    • Hundreds and Thousands "Girl in Little Rock" [Fresh Sounds From Middle America Vol. 3]
    • The Liquor Giants "Over the Hill" [America's #1 Recording Artist]
    • The Mekons "Last Dance" [Fear and Whiskey]
    • Unrest "Suki" [Imperial F.F.R.R.]
    • The dBs "She's Not Worried" [Stands for Decibels]
    • Arthur Russell "Oh Fernanda Why" [Love Is Overtaking Me]
    • The Amps "Pacer" [Pacer]
    • Walter Jackson "Welcome Home" [Welcome Home / The Okeh Years]
    • Robert Gordon with Danny Gatton "There Stands the Glass" [The Humbler]
    • Klyde Konnor "From Over Hear" [Hypnopotamus]
    • D.C.3 "Party For One" [You're Only as Blind as Your Mind Can Be]
    • The Embarrassment "Drive Me To The Park" [Heyday 1979-83]
    • The Stepmothers "Let Her Dance" [Battle of the Garages Vol. 1]
    • Revolver "Where You Are Going" [Radio Tokyo Tapes Vol. 3]
    • 20/20 "Jetlag" [20/20]
    • NRBQ "That's Alirght" [All Hopped Up]
    • Volcano Suns "White Elephant" [All Night Lotus Party]
    • Al Green "Georgia Boy" [The Belle Album]
    • Joyful Souls "Country People" [Live! Country People]
    • The Consolers "Bring Them Home" [The Soul of the Consolers]
    • American Music Club "Outside This Bar" [Johnny Mathis' Feet EP]
    • The Outnumbered "I Feel So Sorry Now" [Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987]
    • Colin Blunstone "She Loves the Way They Love Her" [One Year]
    • Primitons "All My Friends" [Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987]
    • The Reactions "Tomorrow's Time Today" [Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987]
    • Salem 66 "Seven Steps Down" [Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987]
    • Bangtails "Patron Of The Arts" [Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987]
    • Thelonious Monster "Low Boy (Butterflies Are Free)" [Next Saturday Afternoon]