Our 1/22 Show Podcast Edit is Up: With a Tribute to Michael Hutchence - Revenge of the 80s Radio – Hour 2

Summary: (http://www.blurtit.com/var/question/q/q6/q63/q631/q6314/q6314465_1109622_michael-hutchence-inxs-1986.jpeg) The podcast edit of our 1/22/10 Revenge of the 80s Radio show is up and available at the end of this post. This week, we played some of Michael Hutchence (http://www.michaelhutchenceinfo.com/)'s classic tracks with INXS (http://www.amazon.com/Shabooh-Shoobah-INXS/dp/B000002JJY/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1264267734&sr=8-8) in tribute to what would have been his 50th birthday. We also featured a track from Boston-are musician Digney Fignus (http://www.digney.com/), whose 1984 video for "The Girl With the Curious Hand" not only won an MTV Basement Tapes contest, he cast model Gail Huff (http://www.thebostonchannel.com/station/282828/detail.html) -- now a newscaster who is married to Massachusetts newly-elected Senator Scott Brown (http://www.brownforussenate.com/) -- as the central character in the entry. Fans and friends mourned the death of Michael Hutchence in 1997 when he was found dead in what was called a suicide. As frontman for INXS, he became the face of Australian New Wave in America, opening a wider audience to the likes of Mental As Anything (http://www.amazon.com/Essential-As-Anything-Anniversary-Eition/dp/B0026IZUHM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1264267957&sr=1-1), Pseudo Echo (http://www.amazon.com/Long-Plays-83-87-Pseudo-Echo/dp/B00000733I/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1264267979&sr=1-1), Icehouse (http://www.amazon.com/Singles-Icehouse/dp/B00000711C/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1264268001&sr=1-10), Midnight Oil (http://www.amazon.com/20-000-Watts-R-S-L-Greatest/dp/B000002C4D/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1264268037&sr=1-1) and others. This week, three fans (Jim Guest, Michelle McFerran and Matt Marsland) created and coordinated a campaign to give Michael Hutchence a #1 download song for his 50th birthday (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=232609958138&ref=ts). There is also a brilliantly-done Michael Hutchence Tribute Website here (http://www.michaelhutchence.org/). In memory of Hutchence and his contribution to new wave history, we played a full set of some of his greatest work with INXS during part of the second hour of the show. (http://mtv.mtvnimages.com/uri/mgid:file:gsp:alias:/mva/MV/M11/295/0295M11/MVA_IM_0295M11_35369_050.PNG) One of the songs featured in the first hour is "The Girl With the Curious Hand," by Digney Fignus, a Boston-area new waver who is now an alt-country/Americana music star. The video for his 1984 single won him a record contract, new equipment and other perks in MTV's "Basement Tapes" contest. The piece is experiencing a new level of fame thanks to the lead woman in the video, Gail Huff. While she is already a well-known TV news anchor, she is also married to Scott Brown, who won the U.S. Senate seat belonging to the People of Massachusetts in a special election on January 19, 2010. While neither the song nor Fignus found much airplay or record sales as a result of the MTV exposure, a few uninterrupted listens to the track reveal its brilliance and the reason why Fignus still has a strong following today in the northeastern U.S. We also featured a new track, "Come Back To Me," form The Little Girls (http://www.amazon.com/Thank-Heaven-Valleypop-Little-Girls/dp/B0025XWHD8/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1264268205&sr=1-4) and classic cuts from Aneka (http://www.amazon.com/Aneka-Track-Full-Hansa-1981/dp/B002YBONXI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1264268226&sr=1-2), Wall of Voodoo (http://www.amazon.com/Index-Masters-Wall-Voodoo/dp/B000AY9ORG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1264268254&sr=1-4), the Hoodoo Gurus (http://www.amazon.com/Magnum-Cum-Louder-Hoodoo-Gurus/dp/B000008GMH/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1264268284&sr=1-5), Kirsty McColl (http://www.amazon.com/Best-Kirsty-MacColl/dp/B0009WXGDM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1264268324&sr=1-1), Nik Kershaw