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As follow-up to the WLIR/WDRE NTT, are there any songs that you automatically associate with LIR? B-52s - "Party Out of Bounds" (Pa-pa-pa-paaaarrr-tttyyyy) and The The - "Uncertain Smile" (xylophone) were used for station intros and always remind me of LIR. Psychedelic Furs - "Heartbeat" was used in a commercial for a club of the same name. Any others?

BTW 2Nu, please don't exercise your Kommissarial powers to sabotage this post again!

For some reason, I associate the beginning of The Cure's "Why Can't I Be You?" with WLIR/WDRE. I think maybe it was used for a promo or something. "Party Out Of Bounds" is a good choice. Whenever I think of the old Energizer commercial I think of The Maximizer (Oi! Too roight!) and there are just some bands, like The B-52's and The Ramones who I will always associate with that station. [:D]

[:I][:I]No Sabotage Intended Dave, at least I owned up to it!! [:I][:I]

That being said...

DM's 'Route 66' (Beatmasters mix) was played Ad Nauseum back its heyday, right after the LIR>DRE changeover. For a while I was convinced it was the unofficial station promo song.

Yello's 'Vicious Games' was used for many a nightclub spot ad.

As pointed out already, snippets of Nik Kershaw's 'When a Heart Beats' and Psych Furs 'Heartbeat' were used for promos for what else? 'Heartbeat' night club of Oyster Bay!

I'm sure more will come to mind. [|)]

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Cult Hero's (The Cure) I Dig You, for the traffic reports.

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<br>Cult Hero's (The Cure) I Dig You, for the traffic reports.
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OMG dude, I used to still hear that right up to when the north fork LIR went off air this year. Had no idea it was from back in the day too. Always thought that was pretty cool.

Here's another,
The sampled line: "So I Got into Camouflage..." (from GoF's 'I Love a Man In a Uniform') was used to plug for 'Camouflage' night club in Bayside back in the day.[8D]

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Help me out here. I remember a spot with a female singing "Happ-Y Birthday, Happ-Y Birthday. Just can't place it.[B)]

Come on, you're not talking about Altered Images are you?!

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<br>Come on, you're not talking about Altered Images are you?!
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OK, it is, but give me a break, I never liked the song and I'm working on minimal sleep.[|)]

Hey abs we all have our NW 'Senior Moments' [:I]

Here's another,

Pete Gotwin's 'Baby's In The Mountains' was often used to plug various ski resorts in the area.[;)]

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In the late 80s, early 90s, the Talking Heads "I Zimbra" was often playing in the background when the djs were yapping.

Fishbone, Party at Ground Zero along with Party Out of Bounds.

Afraid of the Russians for Spize...'spies everywhere'...

Left of Center, Suzanne Vega

oh...didn't DiBella always sign off with 'Always look on the bright Side of Life' that he and larry the Duck would then comment over? He was funny til he got smarmy...