CRC Retro Mix #29

1. Tears are Not Enough (Extended Version) - ABC
2. White Boy - Culture Club
3. Some Distant Memory - Electronic
4. Desire - T42
5. Adonde (Razormaid! Mix) - Cetu Javu
6. Drama (Act 2) - Erasure
7. Gas Stop (High Octane Mix) - Boxcar
8. People are People (Different Mix) - Depeche Mode
9. A Letter From Afar (Big Mix) - B-Movie
10. Lose Him (Original 12" Version) - I Start Counting
11. Play to Win (Disco Mix) - Heaven 17
12. Lifestyle - Elektric Music
13. Round & Round (Merry Go Mix) - New Order
14. Your Love Takes Me Higher (The Pod Went Pop Mix) - The Beloved
15. Falling Rain - Celebrate the Nun
 
Notes and other random things:
You might be wondering what's up with the cake pic. Well, considering it says Happy Birthday it should be pretty obvious: it's almost Memorial Day here in the U.S. That has nothing to do with the cake, but I just thought I'd point that out. Really, it occurred to me this week that at the time of my last podcast it was almost exactly one year ago that I began CRC.
One year ... hard to believe that much time has elapsed. It seems like just yesterday that today was called tomorrow. You know what they say about time ... that's it's lost a pretty big market share to Newsweek over the past decade. Really though, it apparently sprouts wings and floats about when you're having fun. And doing this show has been a blast thus far. Sure, it took awhile to get the recording process down. And it takes effort to try to come up with totally fresh episodes each week. And sometimes my joints ache when the weather is bad. That last one has nothing to do with the podcast, but it shows you my dedication and the lengths I'll go to get some great music to you, my listeners.
And speaking of listeners, had anyone told me when I started this thing that a guy with a cheap mixer, sizeable retro music collection, faulty joints, inability to do short write-ups and a dream could record a retro mix 'cast from his media room in Charlotte, NC and be listened to in 71 countries around the globe, I would have told them I'm hungry. But after I got some food, I would have said that he or she was crazy.
I want to personally thank each and every one of you for sticking with me this far, but that would take an awfully long time, so I'll just have to do it in this mass message. I hope you'll continue to come along for the ride for as long as I'm willing and able to do this podcast. How long will that be? Well, I admit I can't see into the future ... at least not very far. I do know I will be having a bowl of Lucky Charms at some point in the next half-hour, but other than that, my powers of saying sooth are not all that good. But, with a little luck, some effort on my part to shirk my other responsibilities, and a good comb I hope I'll be celebrating a second anniversary with you all around this time next year.
I think I'm going to skip the band write-ups for this week, though I may cover one or two of these bands over the weekend, since they are making their first appearances on CRC. I just had so much else to write and the pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, green clovers and blue diamonds are calling my name. Oh, and I'm about to go get a bowl of Lucky Charms too. 
Cheers to all of you and thank you so much for listening! You all are the best!    
 
Addendum:
I mentioned that I would probably write a bit about some of the bands in this episode because they made their first appearances in CRC. Well, here it is!
I'll start with Culture Club. Now, you'd have to be very, very young or living in a very remote cave not to know or have heard about Boy George. Granted, those of you who are very young may only remember images of George O'Dowd in an orange jumpsuit sweeping up rubbish on the streets of New York as part of a community service arrangement in regard to drug charges and a false burglary charge. Many of you will remember the crazy outfits and androgynous appearanc(continued)