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Where can I find playlists for KROQ from 82-85?

(Yes, those were MY high school years-- desperately tuning in a scratchy KROQ from behind the Orange Curtain.)

Wow! I found some here:
http://earlhoward.com/kroq_1983.htm

You got 'em. I think the talk here before was that those weren't necessarily their playlists but rather the end-of-year fan-voted countdown. So it's going to be both skewed toward the end of the year songs and prone to some generic normalization via the v

Actually my memory serves me well and these songs were the songs generally played back then. The more obscure songs came from "Rodney on the Roq" show, which Rodney Bingenheimer was the frontman to feature acts like The Ramones, Blondie, Nina Hagen, Buzzc

You know, maybe my memories are over-romaticizing the KROQ past. I pulled up my new wave song list and compared it to the combined Countdown songs from 80-86, and there really isn't a lot missing. Upon review, I stand corrected. But yuck, just the thought

KROQ playlists?????

I have an extensive archive....and would gladly mail even mp3 disks

you can email me at hcp_20sum10@hotmail.com

and uptown_toprankin@yahoo.com

I take music extremly seriously...especially this genre and love to share with t

and.......Rodney was my favorite..... still is

If you want obscure away from all the OMD.......hehehe mail me