THE MEAT WAGON – APRIL 30, 2025

1988

Air Date: 04.30.25 7PM CST

In this episode, we are still a little all over the place. Radio was still a major part of discovery, but slowly music was becoming a larger topic among my friend circle. 1988 was the year of some concert firsts, including Jane’s Addiction, Death, Testament, Beastie Boys, and a few others. What a time to be alive.

1988 – Reagan was leaving office, making way for Bush. 120 Minutes on MTV was a huge source of music info, and I started transitioning from commercial radio to smaller indie stations. It was the birth of my true appreciation of music, and a lot of these bands I still listen to quite a bit, 35+ years later.

• Nothing’s gonna stop me now (Perfect Strangers Theme) – David Pomeranz
• Up the Beach – Jane’s Addiction
• Ocean Size – Jane’s Addiction
• Tame – Pixies
• Cult of Personality – Living Colour
• There She Goes – The La’s
• Ana Ng – They Might Be Giants
• Orange Crush – R.E.M.
• Mrs. Robinson – Louis Prima
• Terminator X to the Edge of Panic – Public Enemy
• Straight Outta Compton (Radio Edit) – N.W.A
• You Gots to Chill – EPMD
• Mother – Danzig
• Stigmata – Ministry
• This Ain’t Hawaii – Screeching Weasel
• Now We Are Twenty-One – The Mr. T Experience
• When the Walls Come Down – Naked Raygun
• Freddie’s Dead – Fishbone