This week, Listen Up! is going to "Release The Bats!" by dusting off  those dark post punk sounds from the 80's that some called goth and various other names.  Streaming live from 2pm - 4pm EST. 

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song) 

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman  -  Maximum Radiation Level  – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

Funerary music of Charles Sandbury

The Birthday Party – Release The Bats – Junkyard -1981
Killing Joke – Tomorrow’s World – Killing Joke -1980
Test Dept. – Shock Work – Shoulder To Shoulder -1985
Virgin Prunes – Pagan Love Song – If I Die, I Die -1982
Flesh For Lulu – Subterranean – Flesh For Lulu – 1984
Joy Division – Dead Souls – Still – 1981
Bauhaus – She’s In Parties – Burning From The Inside – 1983
Dalis Car – His Box – The Waking Hour – 1984
Tones On Tail – Christian Says – Everything! -1984
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry – Walking On Your Hands – Paint Your Wagon – 1986
Specimen – Dead Man’s Autochop – The Bat Cave, Young Limbs & Numb Hymns – 1983
Christian Death – Romeo’s Distress – Only Theater of Pain – 1990
Rat At Rat R – Plague – Amer$ide / Rock & Roll is Dead, Long Live Rat at Rat R -1985
Fields of Nephilim – Power – Dawnrazor -1987
The Mission UK – Wasteland – God’s Own Medicine -1986
The March Violets – Snake Dance – Botanic Verses -1986
Sisters of Mercy – Dominion – Return of The Batcave Vol 2 – 1987
Miranda Sex Garden – Ardera Sempre – Suspiria -1993
Clan of Xymox – Muscoviet Mosquito – promotional 7″ – 1986
Dead Can Dance – The Arcane – Garden of the Arcane Delights -1984
Siouxsie & The Banshees – Christine – Kaleidoscope -1980
The Cure – The Hanging Garden – Pornography – 1982
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – The Weeping Song – The Good Son -1990
The Venomettes – Dance of The Death -Batcave – Young Limbs and Numb Hymns -1983