We have really been enjoying programming our little live stream these last few weeks.

Although we have continued to have some less than optimal outcomes with the archiving function of Mixcloud, I have been extremely please with the live show.

Mixcloud Live's live stream platform allows for us to send out a high fidelity (320kps) broadcast that captures the essence and impact of what we are hearing in our dark basement as we perform the show.

We have continued to scour the World Wide Web to find more great 80s bands and their songs that harmoniously join the large grouping of artists that have been essential to our DJ work and internet endeavors for decades. We have also deepened the song inventory for many of the groups we have held dear since this all started, to keep the show fresh.

The group of folks that listen have always been a delight, with the chat area a wonderful and active place for quite a few thoughtful discussions, as well as some hilarious off-topic sidebars. Above all, the common love of music always comes through. Thanks to all of the regular listeners for adding a whole new dimension to the proceedings, and making it much better than it could ever be otherwise!

One other thing that has evolved about the show in the last few weeks is the last hour or so... The final segment or two of the program have taken on lives of their own, going off into interesting directions that we have no way of anticipating, and more often than not ending up with content that is very enjoyable, and both completely unique and compelling.

It has been energizing to try and respond to, and keep up with, the rapid-fire discussions and requests that have yielded these terrific tangents!

In closing, we love the weekly Mixcloud Live live stream show, and we think you will too. If you haven't had the chance, please join us on Fridays at 3 PM ET (We usually do a thematic preshow starting in the 2 PM hour if you are early), and meet the gang! It will all be going on right here! - www.mixcloud.com/live/genericmaledjs

- Kelly (Generic Male DJ #1)

Just for the record, here is the listing of everything we played during the show on 6-18-2021:

​Agent Orange - Tearing Me Apart
Echo & The Bunnymen - Back Of Love
Oingo Boingo - Only A Lad
Naked Eyes - When The Lights Go Out
Simple Minds - Someone Somewhere In Summer
Great Buildings - Hold Onto Something
The Smiths - Barbarism Begins At Home
The Sugarcubes - Motorcrash
Duran Duran - Girls On Film
Gene Love Jezebel - Gorgeous
The Police - Next To You
The Specials - On Your Radio
Living Colour - The Cult Of Personality
Ian Dury - Sex & Drugs & Rock 'N Roll
Joe Jackson - (Do The) Instant Mash
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
Foghat - That's What Love Can Do
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again
R.E.M. - Sitting Still
Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again
Flesh For Lulu - Postcards From Paradise
Flowers - Icehouse
Howard Jones - New Song
INXS - This Time
Sting - Russians
Midnight Oil - Power And The Passion
Devo - Cold War
The Cars - You're All I've Got Tonight
Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heavy
The Clash - I Fought The Law
The Fixx - Built For The Future
The Pretenders - Show Me
Stray Cats - (She's) Sexy & 17
The Smithereens - Blood And Roses
The Romantics - She's Got Everything
Squeeze - Hourglass
The Expression - With Closed Eyes
Book Of Love - Modigliani (Lost In Your Eyes)
The Sound - Counting The Days
Dave Edmunds - Slipping Away
Information Society - Land Of The Blind
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
U2 - Helter Skelter
Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
The Cult - Love Removal Machine
Rainbow - Since You Been Gone
Robert Plant - Pink And Black
Modern English - Melt With You
New Order - Blue Monday
X - True Love, Part 2
King Crimson - Frame By Frame
P.M. Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss
Bauhaus - Telegram Sam
Billy Idol - Dead On Arrival
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
Depeche Mode - Fly On The Windscreen
The The - Infected
The Blue Nile - Stay
Huey Lewis And The News - Perfect World
Blondie - Rapture
Romeo Void - A Girl In Trouble (Is A Temporary Thing)
Echo And The Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar

It is hard to believe that we started doing our Friday live stream episodes one year ago this week!

While it was a humble beginning, with a daunting learning curve at first, and fledgling platform that was in Beta for a LONG time, the show has now grown into something I take a bit of pride in.

More importantly, I have made many new friends during that year, and I thank every one of you for giving me good reasons to stay with this, even when the tech let us all down (Let's not talk about the Halloween Special more than we have to...)

Although the current situation with the archiving has got me a bit miffed, I know too that Mixcloud has made a pledge to continue to work on providing us all the best platform possible for feeling the joy of music.

I am making a similar pledge to you all, with the intention that I will continue to make the show even better in 2021!

​Thanks again!

After many rounds played and thousands of votes cast by our many friends, this year's Music Madness Tournament (unlike its real-life counterpart) has managed to deliver a final game that was highly competitive.

So competitive, in fact, that when to polls closed last night, the two opponents had the exact same number of votes!

The polling software we use automatically selected a random winner, but we have elected to go with a solution that was a bit more scientific.

To break the tie, we have decided to go back and tabulate the total number of votes each band received in all rounds, and add those scores together to determine a winner. this process favored one band over the other, by just 6 votes!

Congratulations to Depeche Mode, our 2021 Music Madness Champs!

​We want to thank all of you who took the time to place your votes during this year's contest, we hope that next year's event will be even bigger and better than this one!

Enjoy your day!

The competition has been intense! We are down to the Final Four - You can affect which bands move on to the Final game by placing your votes now! Click the red button below to get started!