quicklinks: recordings of previous shows | SHR Extra | blog | facebook page | myspace page playlists: 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002   Self Help Radio - There When You Need It Least! Self Help Radio is a radio show with a fuzzy brain, ill-conceived & overseen by Gary Dickerson. It began its life in Austin on KOOP Austin but don't blame them. It podcasted in loneliness for a while but now airs Mondays on 88.1 WMUL in Huntington, West Virginia. There really is such a state as West Virginia. Look it up. The Theme-O-Matic 3000 by Globochem invents the themes & Self Help Radio tackles them with verve, gusto & alcohol. Attempts are made to record shows & put them up on this website as soon as possible if only to aid the authorities.   You're invited, too, you know: You can send an email. You can read a Blog. You can space my myspace or book my face on Facebook. Sit ye down & make ye comfortable.   Old playlists are linked above. Upcoming themes are here:   020810 Valentine's Day 2010: Girlfriends 021510 Mud 030110 Indiepop A To Z # 25 030810 King (Fill In The Blank) Playlists of shows this year start below. We're thinking of having them framed.   February 1, 2010: Twilight Listen to part one of this show (26 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 46 minutes) Listen to part two of this show (26 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 45 minutes) "The Twilight Zone" CBS Television Orchestra from Brain In A Box "La Hora De Crepusculo (Twilight Time)" Platters from Four Platters & One Lovely Dish "Twilight" Squirrel Nut Zippers from Hot "Twilight In Turkey" Raymond Scott from Reckless Nights & Turkish Twilights "Twilight" Antony & The Johnsons from Antony & The Johnsons "Twilight" Nick Garrie from 49 Arlington Gardens "Twilight" Emma from Trade Winds In A Loft "Twilight" The Raveonettes from Pretty In Black "Twilight" The Shazam from Lynne Me Your Ears: A Tribute To The Music Of Jeff Lynne "Charming Twilight Haze" Algebra Suicide from Swoon "Twilight Zone" Drinking Electricity from Overload "Twilight Cafe" Susan Fassbender from The Edge Of The Eighties "Tokyo Twilight" Names from Spectators Of Life "Raining Twilight Coast" Robyn Hitchcock from Eye "This Twilight Garden" The Cure from Join The Dots: B-Sides & Rarities, 1978-2001 "Ever Falls The Twilight" Gothic Archies from The New Despair "Senior Twilight Stock Replacer" The Fall from Imperial Wax Solvent "Twilight" Mighty Mighty from Built Like A Car EP "Twilight Story" Saturday People from The Saturday People "Twilight View" The Decorators from Twilight View   February 1, 2010: Dickenbock Electronics (Episode 10) Listen to part one of this show (26 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 46 minutes) Listen to part two of this show (26 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 45 minutes) "Circling" Four Tet from There Is Love In You "Coastal Break" Tycho from Coastal Break "Up Down The Steroids" Dadamnphreaknoizphunk from The Cheerleaders Are Smilin' At You "The Bugs Will Bite" Fila Brazillia from A Touch Of Cloth "Telefone 529" B12 from Electro-Soma "The Breakfast Drama" Populous from Queue For Love "Kenkä Joe" Uusi Fantasia from Electronic Helsinki Vol. 1 "Arecibo Message" Boxcutter from Arecibo Message "Autodrive" Frank Bretschneider & Taylor Deupree from Balance "The Brain" Eat Static from Revisitation (The Singles 1993-1998) "Downstairs Somewhere" Bandulu from Antimatters "That's Not Me" Junk Culture from West Coast "We Want But We Can't" The Exaltics from The Arriving   January 27, 2010: Breakfast Listen to part one of this show (26 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 46 minutes) Listen to part two of this show (26 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 45 minutes) "Breakfast!" PBNJ Buchanan from My Brother Would Beat Me During Breakfast "Breakfast Cereal (feat. Biz Markie)" DJ Yoda from The Amazing Adventures Of DJ Yoda "Breakfast Time" Cookie Monster & Ernie from Sesame Street Silver - The Tenth Anniversary Album "Breakfast Time" Orange Juice from The Glasgow School "Spam Sketch" Monty Python from Another Monty Python Record "Cooking Breakfast For The One I Love" Fanny Brice from The History of Pop-Radio (1930-1932) "Toast & Jelly" Poi Dog Pondering from Poi Dog Pondering "Nice Girls Don't Stay For Breakfast" Julie London from Wild, Cool & Swingin' "Breakfast In Bed" Dusty Springfield from Dusty In Memphis "Doc Clock (The Breakfast Time Friend)" Sylvia & Murray Winant from It's Fun To Eat "Breakfast Time" Lightnin' Hopkins from Fishing Clothes - The Jewel Recordings 1965 - 1969 "Kisses For Breakfast" Fifth Estate from Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead "Cold Pizza For Breakfast" Christine Lavin & Mark Dann from CooP - Fast Folk Musical Magazine (Vol. 2, No. 3) Humor In Song "Bed & Breakfast" Bitesize from Sophomore Slump "Imhavingbreakfastaseverymorningldo" Burbuja from Burbuja Album "Another Breakfast With You" Ladytron from 604 "Breakfast In Bed (feat. Conor Oberst)" Dntel from Dumb Luck "Breakfast With the Brunts" Firesign Theatre from Pink Hotel Burns Down "St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast" Frank Zappa from Apostrophe "Egg Sandwich" Splodgenessabounds from The Artful Splodger "Sunday Morning Breakfast" Seashells from Looking After Your Flowers "Breakfast Of Champions" The Hepburns from Trojan Hearse "Jessica Pancakes" The Parcels from Hit Music Only "Breakfast In NYC" Oppenheimer from Oppenheimer   January 27, 2010: Sugar Substitute (Episode 16) Listen to part one of this show (26 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 46 minutes) Listen to part two of this show (26 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 45 minutes) "Making Love With My Wife" Henry Badowski from 7" Up (Singles Only UK 1978 To 1982) "This Is Not A Love Song" Mélanie Pain from Mélanie Pain "Take The Bit Between Your Teeth" Electrelane from The Power Out Indie "Hullaballabalú" Múm from Sing Along To Songs You Don't Know "The Prince Of Plati" Lisa Germano from Magic Neighbor "Things That We Do" Rose Melberg from Homemade Ship "Tonight" Sibylle Baier from Colour Green "Don't Know Till You Try" The Postmarks from Memoirs At The End Of The World "Love Comes Close" Cold Cave from Love Comes Close "Roxxy" Brooks from Red Tape "Your World Is Eternally Complete" Sweet Trip from You Will Never Know Why "The Secret Life Of Arabia (Feat. Billy Mackenzie)" British Electric Foundation from Music Of Quality & Distinction Vol. 1 "Self-Preservation" The Lucksmiths from Why That Doesn't Surprise Me "You're Only Crying For Yourself" Butcher Boy from React Or Die "Falling Over" The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart from Higher Than The Stars EP "God Save The Man, Who Isn't All That Super" BOAT from Setting The Paces "Short Sleeves At Night" Brilliant Colors from Introducing "The Girls In This Town" The Broken Family Band from Please & Thank You "Cello Song" Walkabouts from Brittle Days: A Tribute To Nick Drake   January 27, 2010: Midday Cafe Sub Show: Synthpop 1981 "It's More To Compute" Kraftwerk from Computerwelt "The Art Of Parties" Japan from Tin Drum "White Car In Germany" Associates from Fourth Drawer Down "Joan Of Arc" Orchestral Maneuvres In The Dark from Architecture & Morality "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" Soft Cell from Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret "Love Action (I Believe In Love)" Human League from Dare! "The Thin Wall" Ultravox from Rage In Eden "Living In My Limosine" Bill Nelson from Quit Dreaming & Get On The Beam "We Don't Need That Fascist Groove Thing" Heaven 17 from Penthouse & Pavement "Beautiful World" Devo from New Traditionalists "Homosapien" Pete Shelley from Homosapien "King Of The Flies" Fad Gadget from Incontinent   January 20, 2010: 1974 Listen to part one of this show (26 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 46 minutes) Listen to part two of this show (25 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 48 minutes) "September Gurls" Big Star from Radio City "Walk On" Neil Young from On The Beach "On A Night Like This" Bob Dylan from Planet Waves "Needles In A Camel's Eye" Brian Eno from Here Come The Warm Jets "Amateur Hour" Sparks from Kimono My House "All I Want Is You" Roxy Music from Country Life "Big Brother/Chant Of The Ever Circling Skeletal Family" David Bowie from Diamond Dogs "Cat's In The Cradle" Harry Chapin from Verities & Balderdash "Oh Very Young" Cat Stevens from Buddha & The Chocolate Box "Love Hurts" Gram Parsons from Grievous Angel "Withered & Died" Richard & Linda Thompson from I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight "Take This Longing" Leonard Cohen from New Skin For The Old Ceremony "Fear Is A Man's Best Friend" John Cale from Fear "The Sad Skinhead" Faust from Faust IV "Autobahn" Kraftwerk from Autobahn "# 9 Dream" John Lennon from Walls & Bridges "Cosmik Debris" Frank Zappa from Apostrophe "Happy Hour News" Firesign Theatre from Everything You Know is Wrong "God (edit)" George Carlin from Toledo Window Box   January 20, 2010: Dickenbock Electronics (Episode 9) Listen to part one of this show (28 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 44 minutes) Listen to part two of this show (25 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 46 minutes) "Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix)" New Order from Blade OST "Happy Birdie! Sad Birdie!" Vulva from The Braindance Coincidence "Bad Science" Rustie from Bad Science "Ulla 1" Thomas Brinkmann from Rosa "Linja" Blamstrain from Ensi "By the Riverside (Appleblim & Komonazmuk Remix)" Harmonia & Eno from '76 Remixes "A Mobile Over Your Head" Lullatone from Songs That Spin In Circles "Endless White" Flying Lotus from L.A. EP 3 X 3 "In" Brothomstates from Claro "Dirt" Phil Kieran from Shh "Star Crackout" Hudson Mohawke from Butter   January 20, 2010: Midday Cafe Sub Show: Wimpy 1970 "Bridge Over Troubled Water" Simon & Garfunkel from Bridge Over Troubled Water "(They Long To Be) Close To You" The Carpenters from Close To You "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" BJ Thomas from Greatest Hitsd "Everything Is Beautiful" Ray Stevens from Box Set "Make It With You" Bread from On The Waters "Cracklin' Rosie" Neil Diamond from Tap Root Manuscript "Hitchin' A Ride" Vanity Fare from The Sun, The Wind & Other Things "Ooh Child" The 5 Stairsteps from The Stairsteps "Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)" Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins' Singers from Candles In The Rain "Spirit In The Sky" Norman Greenbaum from Spirit In The Sky "In The Summertime" Mungo Jerry from In The Summertime "Green-Eyed Lady" Sugarloaf from Sugarloaf "Julie, Do Ya Love Me" Bobby Sherman from Bobby Sherman   January 13, 2010: A Million Miles Listen to part one of this show (26 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 46 minutes) Listen to part two of this show (25 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 44 minutes) "A Million Miles Away" The Like Young from Six At Midnight "One Million Miles From Here" Grant McLennan from Fireboy "A Million Miles" Wedding Present from George Best "Million Miles" Mirah from You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This "Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles" Captain Beefheart from Clear Spot "A Million Miles Away" John Bryant from A Million Miles Away "A Million Miles Away" Eric Donaldson from Freedom Street "A Million Miles Away" David Byrne from Uh-Oh "I'd Wait A Million Years" The Grass Roots from Anthology "Another Million Miles" Brian Brain from Unexpected Noises "A Million Miles Away" Stiv Bators from Disconnected "A Million Miles Away" Plimsouls from Poptopia! "Normal (Is A Million Miles Away)" Groovie Ghoulies from Go! Stories "A Million Miles Away" That Petrol Emotion from Manic Pop Thrill "A Million Miles" Brian from Understand "Go This Way" Flat Duo Jets from Lucky Eye "From A Million Miles" Single Gun Theory from Like Stars In My Hands "It's A Million Miles To Paradise" Superbs from Anthology "One Million Miles From The Ground" Dexter Wansel from Life On Mars "A Million Miles" Wolfsheim from Dreaming Apes   January 13, 2010: Sugar Substitute (Episode 15) Listen to part one of this show (28 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 50 minutes) Listen to part two of this show (25 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 43 minutes) "Taste Of Cindy" Jesus & Mary Chain from Psychocandy "I Spilled Your Drink So You Broke My Heart" Cutaways from Earth & Earthly Things... "Dream On Daisy" The Parallelograms from Dream On Daisy 7" "The First Time You Saw Snow" Shirley Lee from Shirley Lee "Seaside Holiday" The Orange Peels from 2020 "Rueben" Brave Captain from Go With Yourself "Fabric" Cats On Fire from Our Temperance Movement "Fables" The Dodos from Time To Die "Blister In The Sun" Nouvelle Vague from 3 "Rule My World" Kings Of Convenience from Declaration Of Dependence "One Way Traffic" Skint & Demoralised from Love, & Other Catastrophes "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!" Tracey Thorn & Jens Lekman from Score! 20 Years Of Merge Records: The Covers! "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" The Smiths from Hatful Of Hollow "Joy To The World" Three Dog Night from Naturally_ "Genesis 3:23" The Mountain Goats from The Life Of The World To Come "Zombies" Frost Faire from Mean Little Girls "If You Take Away The Make-Up (Then The Vampires They Will Die)" Tullycraft from Every Scene Needs A Center "...And The Horse You Rode In On" The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir from ...And The Horse You Rode In On "Maybe Pile" Summer Cats from Songs For Tuesdays "Lughnasad" Brain Donor from Love Peace & Fuck   January 6, 2010: Biting Listen to part one of this show (26 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 46 minutes) Listen to part two of this show (25 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 44 minutes) "Bug Bite" Teen Titans from More Songs, Less Music! EP "Bite" Chills from Kaleidoscope World "Bite The Apple" Shine! from I Might Walk Home Alone "Bite The Bullet" The Transmitters from And We Call That Leisure Time "Release The Bats" The Birthday Party from Junkyard "Once Bitten, Twice Shy" Ian Hunter from Ian Hunter "Biting My Nails" Tim Curry from The Rocky Horror Show "Love Bite" New Estate from Considering... "Bite" Fire Party from Fire Party "Another One Bites The Dust" Clint Eastwood & General Saint from Two Bad D.J. "Bulldog Don't Bite Me" Timothy from London Is The Place For Me - Trinidadian Calypso In London, 1950-1956 "Bed Bug" Lloyd Thomas from Favorite Calypso Songs "Granny, Will Your Dog Bite" Compton Jones from Afro-American Folk Music From Tate & Panola Counties, Mississippi "The Love Bug Will Bite You" Louis Prima from Louis Prima 1937-1939 "Spiderbite Song" Flaming Lips from The Soft Bulletin "Dogbite (A1 Peoples Freaky Deaky Mix)" Black Dog & Black Sifichi from Genetically Modified "Magpie Bites" Tunng from Magpie Bites "Back Biting Bee Blues" Blind Blake from All The Published Sides "Biting Bug Blues" Memphis Minnie from Queen Of Country Blues 1929-1937 "Rattlesnake Bite" Jimmie Gordon from Jimmie Gordon Vol. 2 (1936-1938)   January 6, 2010: Dickenbock Electronics (Episode 8) Listen to part one of this show (28 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 50 minutes) Listen to part two of this show (25 megabyte mp3 file, mono, 80 kbps, 43 minutes) "Dymaxian Oceanic World" Christ. from Distance Lends Enchantment To The View "Shpongolese Spoken Here" Shpongle from Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland "Pachinko" Cheju from Broken Waves "Easy Muffin" Amon Tobin from Bricolage "Transat" Melodium from Lullabies For Adults "Predator Mode" Ghosts On Tape from Predator Mode "Without A Saddle" The Boy Lucas from Out Of The Wires "Blind Army Parade" Stendeck from Sonnambula "So... Embrace The Minimum" King Cannibal from Let The Night Roar "Cop Phobia" Pushy! from Avantgardism "Template=Instrument" Kero from Kerologistics "Surf (Hedfunk Remix)" Hex from Silicon.Summer.2004   January 6, 2010: Midday Cafe Sub Show: Disco 1974 "Bertha Butt Boogie" Jimmy Castor Bunch from Butt Of Course "Rock The Boat" Hues Corporation from Freedom For The Stallion "Crystal World" Crystal Grass from Crystal World "Honey Bee" Gloria Gaynor from Never Can Say Goodbye "Dancing Machine" Jackson 5 from The Ultimate Collection "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Babe" Barry White from Can't Get Enough "Queen Of Clubs" KC & The Sunshine Band from The Best Of KC & The Sunshine Band "Ask Me" Ecstasy, Passion & Pain from Ecstasy, Passion & Pain "Kung Fu Fighting" Carl Douglas from The Best Of Carl Douglas: Kung Fu Fighting "Lady Marmalade" Labelle from Nightbirds "Rock Your Baby" George McCrae from Rock Your Baby "Love's Theme" Love Unlimited Orchestra from Rhapsody In White "Love Is The Message" MFSB from Love Is The Message