For the DJ's:First song you ever played on air

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"Kerosene" by Big Black back in good'ol 1987

― brg30, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't remember from local radio, but on national radio it was "Torn" by Omni Trio. October 2, 1995, 9.04 pm.

― JoB, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pere Ubu's "Non-Alignment Pact," circa 1986 or '87.

― Lee G, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

as noted elsewhere = "turn on the news" by husker du.

if there's one thing that i can't explain is why the world has to have so much pain with all the ways of communicating we can't get in touch with who we're hating so turn on turn on turn on the news i hear it every day on the radio somebody shoots a guy he don't even know airplanes falling out of the sky a baby is born and another one dies highways fill with reugees doctors finding out about disease with all this uptight pushing & shoving that keeps us away from who we're loving

― gygax! (i forgot my blog password), Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn good question -- I have no idea. Something at KLA in new play in spring 1989.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Stolen Car" Beth Orton

I've dug up the complete tracklisting, and it's a little embarrassing (no actually, surprisingly unembarassing, just boring and unexplainable).

― Graham, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The closest I can get to remembering is that I put Foetus's Bedrock on my practice tape during training.

― bnw, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Michael Jackson's "Wanna be Startin' Somethin'" or something off of Faxed Head's first album, I forget.

― Ryan McKay, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it was recently and it was pram 'bewitched(plone remix)'

― keith, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't remember the first song I played, but of the first three or four, there was a Sesame Street song.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't remember. I do remember that the first time I had to do an intro, I forgot it was my turn (we did the show with two djs). So there was a very long silence and suddenly "Oh it's my turn... uh..."

― nathalie, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

doh, I don't know if I can dredge this up. I do have record of playing a Beta Band song that night though, and not liking it.

― Josh, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rock Music by the Pixies. My show was called Subbacultcha. Oh, how clever that seemed at the time...

― Joris, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mission of Burma "That's When I Reached For My Revolver" OR "Academy Fight Song" (I can't remember, I guested on a friends show the one and only time I was on the radio).

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Almost certainly 'Age Of The Sun' by The Sunshine Fix.

― Mr Swygart, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pigs in zen, dean college radio station, 12am alternative show on wednesday night in the the lovely year of 1993 in the month of september.

― Chris, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Galaxie 500 - "Tell Me"

― John S., Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

louie louie

― ddd, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"It's About Time" by the Pandoras. WRSU-FM, June 1985, 2 am. I'd previously done some DJing on Rutgers' carrier current station, WLBS, but the first song is lost to history. Probably something produced by Mitch Easter, considering my taste at that time.

― mike, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

La Monte Young - A Well Tuned Piano

― Kris, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"What'd I Say", the Hound Dog Taylor version. CFRC-FM, 1984. Kinda proud of that one.

― pauls00, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One of the sides of Symphony #3 by Glenn Branca. So young, so pretentious....

― Vic Funk, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

All 5 hours, Kris?

― Mark, Tuesday, 25 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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