By paulisded@yahoo.com (theledge) on October 31, 2025
As a rule I generally don’t go to class reunions. They’re just too weird for me, and I’m not great at the “what are you doing these days” types of conversations. But a few weeks ago was my 40th year college reunion, and a handful of great old friends convinced me to attend some of the festivities. Truthfully, I have to thank those old pals, as I ended up having a great time. Sure, my old man memory caused me to not remember some of these folks but I did my best. It also caused me to reminsce on the music of that era. I was the music director of KAUR my senior year, and it was such a great period in my life. Some of my favorite bands were putting out their greatest music, and almost every week there seemed to be potnetial new faves. The combo of this sort of reminiscing and the upcoming release of a live Husker Du box set, 1985: The Miracle Year, made the decision to honor that year on a Ledge episode an easy one. Here are quite a few of the great songs from that year. Yes, at times it does get […]
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By paulisded@yahoo.com on May 29, 2015
Hudson takes a trip back 30 years to night with a show featuring nothing but music from 1985.
Posted in 1985, 7 seconds, beat farmers, camper van beethoven, church, circle jerks, cult, dead kennedys, del fuegos, descendents, dinosaur jr, fear, gan green, georgia satellites, guadalcanal diary, hickoids, hoodoo gurus, husker du, ill bill, indie, inxs, jason and the scorchers, jesus and mary chain, joe strummer, lloyd cole, lyres, mekons, minutemen, music, no direction, Podcast, r.e.m., realpunkradio, replacements, Scott Hudson, talk, x
By paulisded@yahoo.com on January 31, 2014
A trip down memory lane – nothing but tunes from that magical year of 1979.
Posted in ac/dc, alex chilton, beat, boomtown rats, buzzcocks, cheap trick, clash, cramps, curtiss a, damned, dave edmunds, devo, dickies, dils, elvis costello, fear, generation x, germs, graham parker, hypstruz, joe jackson, kinks, motorhead, music, nick lowe, patti smith, PIL, Podcast, ramones, realpunkradio, ruts, Scott Hudson, soft boys, stiff little fingers, suburbs, suicide commandos, undertones, wire
By paulisded@yahoo.com on April 12, 2013
Another examination of the great music that came out in 1982!
Posted in adicts, angry samoans, bad religion, bauhaus, crash street kids, crass, cure, dead kennedys, descendents, elvis costello, english beat, fear, fleshtones, inxs, lords of the new church, mission of burma, music, plimsouls, Podcast, psychedelic furs, realpunkradio, replacements, Scott Hudson, suburbs, translator, zero boys
By paulisded@yahoo.com on November 9, 2012
Lots and lots of new releases and blog finds, plus Siri co-hosts a segment and picks a song.
Posted in bad religion, bent back tuplips, biters, cars, chris bell, crash street kids, david bowie, descendents, devo, Face to Face, fear, four year beard, garage, gigolo aunts, graveyard school, heart attacks, indie, jello biafra, l'assassins, legendary wings, lyres, mallard, millions, music, new releases, newtown neurotics, Podcast, punk, purrbox, realpunkradio, rolling stones, Scott Hudson, sex pistols, soul asylum, stairs, strutter motherfuckers, supersuckers, swingin utters, talk, velvet underground