Playlist for July 5, 2019

The Rocket Morton Show, WRFI-FM Ithaca

Feature on the short-lived, hilarious, ridiculous and usually great genre of “synth punk” with early forerunner influences like the Residents, Bowie and Suicide to the main purveyors 1978-1983 like the Screamers, Nervous Gender and a lot of other truly obscure oddballs.


  • S.M. Dorsey High School Jazz Workshop - Frankenstein

  • Devo - Mechanical Man

  • Silver Apples - A Pox On You

  • Kraftwerk - The Robots

  • Snakefinger - The Model

  • Suicide - Ghost Rider

  • David Bowie - Breaking Glass (2017 Remastered Version)

  • The Residents - Satisfaction

  • The B-52's - Planet Claire

  • Throbbing Gristle - Six Six Sixties

  • Yello - Bimbo

  • The Fall - Lie Dream of a Casino Soul

  • Units - High Pressure Days

  • Tuxedomoon - No Tears

  • Art Bears - Rats And Monkeys

  • Girls - Pedestrian Walk

  • The Screamers - Punish or Be Damned

  • Red Asphalt - Red Asphalt

  • Baby Buddha - All Shook Up

  • Minimal Man - She Was A Visitor

  • Shox Lumania - Signals

  • The Last Four (4) Digits - City Streets

  • DNA - Lionel

  • Trio - Ja Ja Ja

  • Nervous Gender - Nothing to Hide

  • Bob - Thomas Edison

  • Asbestos Rockpyle - Police State

  • Cardboards - Electrical Generator

  • Algebra Mothers - Modern Noise

  • Klaus Nomi - Sampson and Delilah