BDC

The Shape of Things to Come

Show schedule

Thursday 12pm–3pm

Join me for The Shape of Things to Come every Thursday from noon to 3 pm!

About BDC

More than 15 years ago I moved to the Chicago area from Dallas, Texas. I've loved it ever since. Exploring, collecting, and making music are my primary interests. You can check out my ever-growing music collection over on Discogs. I also make mostly instrumental music of my own under the name WALMARTIANS, which you can check out on Bandcamp. The show title "The Shape of Things to Come" is from the 1979 song of the same name by The Headboys, a Scottish power pop band, formed in 1977 in Edinburgh. The song was a minor hit, peaking at #45 in the UK and #67 in the US. Cheers!

Recent Playlists

Thu 06/04 · 2PM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
2:55 PM	Ours is One Soul LOCAL	Aditya Mahadevan	A Redness in the Sky
2:50 PM	Second Movement of Jazz Sonata LOCAL	Charles Joseph Smith	Collected Works and War of the Martian Ghosts
2:47 PM	Shut Us Down	Camper Van Beethoven	Camper Van Beethoven
2:45 PM	This Ain't No Picnic	Minutemen	Double Nickels On the Dime
2:42 PM	Levee Camp Hollers	Bama	Parchman Farm Photographs & Field Recordings 1947–1959
2:39 PM	Your Voice (featuring Ken Pomeroy)	Hrishikesh Hirway	In the Last Hour of Light
2:36 PM	And Then Again	Arcwelder	Pull
2:32 PM	Cooling Pools	Mossy Place	Empty Wall Meadow Green
2:28 PM	The Gypsy Faerie Queen	Marianne Faithfull	Negative Capability
2:25 PM	Trial By Fire	Nora Kelly Band	So Wrong For So Long
2:21 PM	You Keep On Lyin'	Hoods	Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1996
2:18 PM	Actualize LOCAL	No Info	No Info
2:14 PM	Tell Me When It's Over	Dream Syndicate	Children of Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era 1976-1996
2:06 PM	Demonica	Jejune	This Afternoons Malady
2:00 PM	Still In The Kitchen	The Jazz Butcher	Distressed Gentlefolk

Thu 06/04 · 1PM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
1:57 PM	Pity Party	Makthaverskan	Glass and Bones
1:53 PM	When The Machines Rock	Gary Numan & Tubeway Army	Replicas
1:49 PM	I'm A Soldier (previously unreleased)	The Afghan Whigs	Unbreakable: A Retrospective 1990-2006
1:44 PM	Medicine LOCAL	Cloud Houses	Cost of Conscience
1:39 PM	Subway Train Request from Jackie in West Town	New York Dolls	New York Dolls
1:36 PM	1880 or So	Television	Television
1:32 PM	If You Wanna	The Vaccines	What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
1:29 PM	It's Only Money	Thin Lizzy	Nightlife
1:27 PM	56 Me LOCAL	Strapped	Highway Sex Shop
1:21 PM	Streets of Baltimore	Gram Parsons	GP
1:18 PM	Maybe You're to Blame	The Coral Sea	The Beautiful Disappearing
1:15 PM	Wichita Lineman Request from Cindy in North Center	Glen Campbell	Wichita Lineman
1:08 PM	Star Telegram Fourth album released in 1989.	The Reivers	End Of The Day
1:04 PM	In Your Eyes Debut single released in 1987.	The Reivers	In Your Eyes
1:02 PM	Freight Train Rain Second single released in 1985.	Zeitgeist	Freight Train Rain
1:00 PM	Wherehaus Jamb Debut single released in 1984.	Zeitgeist	Zeitgeist

Thu 06/04 · 12PM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
12:58 PM	I Don't Have the Time LOCAL	Jay Bennett	Whatever Happened I Apologize
12:54 PM	This Boy Is Exhausted	The Wrens	The Meadowlands
12:51 PM	Rattle My Cage	The Primitives	Typical Girls Vol. 3 & 4
12:50 PM	So So Sick	Unrest	B.P.M. (1991-1994)
12:43 PM	Angels on the Phone	Cupid & Psyche	Romantic Music
12:40 PM	One Of These Days	Obey Robots	One in a Thousand
12:37 PM	The Wrong Way	Mikaela Davis	Graceland Way
12:34 PM	Back ‘N' Forth	Touch Girl Apple Blossom	Graceful
12:30 PM	Calliope	Future Islands	From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth
12:25 PM	Your Song Request from Greg in North Center	Leo Nocentelli	Another Side
12:21 PM	The Telehealth Shuffle	Telehealth	Green World Image
12:17 PM	Lake Placid Blue	Fleeting Joys	Speeding Away to Someday
12:15 PM	Model Actress	Suitor	Saw You Out with the Weeds
12:10 PM	Don't Let Me Fall	The Deathray Davies	Time Well Wasted
12:07 PM	Taking Turns Released in 2004.	The Figgs	Palais
12:04 PM	Stuck Inside Debut album released in 2005.	The Dials	Flex Time
12:01 PM	The Shape of Things to Come	The Headboys	The Headboys

Thu 05/28 · 2PM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
2:50 PM	Ecstasy Symphony / Transparent Radiation (Flashback)	Spacemen 3	The Perfect Prescription
2:47 PM	Shut Us Down	Camper Van Beethoven	Camper Van Beethoven
2:44 PM	The Man Who Does Nothing	The Resonars	No Exit
2:40 PM	One LOCAL	Rabble Rabble	Brain Hole
2:37 PM	Come Undone LOCAL	Trash Kickers	Way Out, Somehow
2:33 PM	Dog Catchin' Woman LOCAL	Velcro Lewis Group	White Magick Summer
2:30 PM	Javelin Request from Scott in Portage Park	Kevin Morby	Little Wide Open
2:26 PM	You Ain't the Problem Request from Cindy in North Center	Michael Kiwanuka	KIWANUKA
2:21 PM	I Fit in Your Sunshine	The Coral Sea	The Beautiful Disappearing
2:17 PM	Out & Away	Waves Crashing	In the Blur
2:14 PM	Avalanche Request from Chris in Philly	Grace Ives	Girlfriend
2:10 PM	Stupid Tears Debut album released in 2014.	Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott	What Have We Become
2:07 PM	See Thru B-side of the 2000 single "Lollobrigida."	Cinerama	Lollobrigida
2:04 PM	Hot and Bothered	Combustible Edison	The Impossible World
2:00 PM	Bad Dream Lover	The Jazz Butcher	Big Planet Scarey Planet

Thu 05/28 · 1PM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
1:59 PM	Winter Rhombic	Cavern of Anti-Matter	In Fabric OST
1:54 PM	Weekend Wave LOCAL	Stick Season	Stick Season
1:49 PM	One Of Our Submarines	Thomas Dolby	The Golden Age of Wireless
1:44 PM	On Something	Kumail	Mudbrown
1:40 PM	It's All Too Fast	Gift	Illuminator
1:37 PM	Gravity Freeze	Little Barrie	Gravity Freeze
1:33 PM	Lost and Found	Junior Varsity	Ready
1:30 PM	If People Could Fly	lucky break	made it!
1:26 PM	We Are Each Other	The Beautiful South	0898 Beautiful South
1:22 PM	Open My Eyes	The Nazz	Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era - 1965-1968
1:19 PM	VERTICAL WORLDS	Ecca Vandal	LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW
1:15 PM	You're Not Singing Anymore LOCAL	The Mekons	Horror
1:12 PM	You Bought A Tape Bonus track on reissue of the second and final album. Originally released in 1993. Reissued in 2016.	Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet	Sport Fishin' - The Lure Of The Bait, The Luck Of The Hook
1:09 PM	Having An Average Weekend B-side of debut single. Released in 1986.	Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet	Love Without Words
1:07 PM	You Spin Me Round '86 Compilation album originally released in 1988.	Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet	Savvy Show Stoppers
1:05 PM	Popcorn Bonus track included on reissue of 1988's "Savvy Show Stoppers" by Yep Roc Records in 2016.	Shadowy Mean On a Shadowy Planet	Savvy Show Stoppers
1:04 PM	5 American 6 Canadian Debut album released in 1991.	Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet	Dim The Lights, Chill The Ham
1:03 PM	Dim The Lights, Chill The Ham Debut album released in 1991.	Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet	Dim The Lights, Chill The Ham
1:00 PM	Our Weapons Are Useless A-side of debut single. Released in 1985.	Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet	Love Without Words
1:00 PM	Shadowy Countdown B-side of third single. Released in 1987.	Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet	Schlagers!

Thu 05/28 · 12PM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
12:54 PM	Seeland	Neu!	Neu! 75
12:50 PM	You Make It Easy	Air	Moon Safari
12:44 PM	I Always Knew	Shye	The Doves Came Home
12:41 PM	Blue	Whirr	Distressor
12:37 PM	On the train LOCAL	Sunshy	I don't care what comes next
12:32 PM	Nadia	youbet	youbet
12:28 PM	I Came Out of the Wilderness	Pete Molinari	Damaged Goods (1988-2018)
12:25 PM	She's Gone Hollywood	All-Night Newsboys	Buttons: From Champaign to Chicago
12:20 PM	Lying in Wait	Prism Shores	Softest Attack
12:18 PM	Leaves to the Sun	Gawshock	Leaves to the Sun
12:14 PM	Dominoes LOCAL	Cloud Houses	Cost of Conscience
12:10 PM	Big Sister, (It's Probably Better) Second single by this East London group. Released in 1983.	The Gymslips	Big Sister
12:07 PM	Mantovani Only single released by this Coventry-based ska group in 1980.	The Swinging Cats	Mantovani / Away
12:04 PM	Hormones In Action Only single released by this UK new wave/mod band in 1979.	The Neat	Hormones In Action
12:01 PM	The Shape of Things to Come	The Headboys	The Headboys

Thu 05/21 · 2PM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
2:51 PM	Bad Moons LOCAL	American Football	American Football (LP4)
2:50 PM	Knitting Needles LOCAL	Sam Prekop	Old Punch Card
2:49 PM	Shut Us Down	Camper Van Beethoven	Camper Van Beethoven
2:43 PM	Walk a Mile	Holly GoLightly	Damaged Goods (1988-2018)
2:40 PM	9/10	Jeff Rosenstock	POST-
2:37 PM	butterflies	runo plum	Bloom Again
2:33 PM	Peek-A-Boo!	Devo	Greatest Hits
2:30 PM	Total Eclipse	Klaus Nomi	Klaus Nomi
2:26 PM	Pure	The Lightning Seeds	Cloudcuckooland
2:21 PM	God Will Someone Tell Me	Paula Kelley	Blinking As The Starlight Burns Out
2:18 PM	Le Leader Negatif LOCAL	Charles Joseph Smith	Collected Works and War of the Martian Ghosts
2:15 PM	Infinity Ooze	Pictish Trail	Life Slime
2:09 PM	Run For Your Life	Piroshka	Brickbat
2:07 PM	Planet Houston	Pohgoh	Du Und Ich
2:04 PM	Set Me Free (Rosa Lee) 1987 single.	Los Lobos	Set Me Free (Rosa Lee)
2:00 PM	Nothing Special	The Jazz Butcher	Distressed Gentlefolk

Thu 05/21 · 1PM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
1:54 PM	Dreamboat LOCAL	Hum	Downward is Heavenward
1:51 PM	Bad Santa	Sleaford Mods	The Demise of Planet X
1:45 PM	Upstate	Beatrix	We Swallowed The Sky
1:42 PM	Wherever You Are Tonight LOCAL	Accessory	Dust
1:38 PM	We Don't Care About That	The Bug Club	On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System
1:34 PM	Waltz One Million	Toys That Kill	Fambly 42
1:30 PM	All Sinners Request for Scott in Portage Park.	Kevin Morby	Little Wide Open
1:27 PM	Thursday Request for Cindy in North Center.	Morphine	Cure For Pain
1:22 PM	Boy	Book of Love	Book Of Love
1:19 PM	Much of a Muchness	Cola	Cost of Living Adjustment
1:15 PM	Precarity	Prism Shores	Softest Attack
1:09 PM	Voodoo Idol Third album released in 1987. Originally by the Cramps.	Divine Horsemen	Middle Of The Night
1:04 PM	Tenderest Kiss Second album released in 1986.	Divine Horsemen	Devil's River
1:01 PM	Mother's Worry (Alternate Version) Alternate version of debut single, which was originally released in 1986.	Divine Horsemen	Border Radio (Original Soundtrack Recording)

Thu 05/21 · 12PM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
12:58 PM	Straight To Bed LOCAL	David Singer & The Sweet Science	Arrows
12:54 PM	Carmen Request for Steve in Uptown.	Paula Cole	This Fire
12:50 PM	Rainbow in the Dark	Dio	Holy Diver
12:46 PM	The Ocean Gratitude Cylinder Peace Necklace Lemonade Flying Free LOCAL	Fire-Toolz	Lavender Networks
12:44 PM	Make It Right	The Coathangers	Nosebleed Weekend
12:40 PM	Choo Choo LOCAL	Friko	Something Worth Waiting For
12:37 PM	Trip Out	British Sea Power	Do You Like Rock Music?
12:32 PM	Candy	El Perro Del Mar	El Perro Del Mar - Deluxe Edition
12:30 PM	Face Down	Conscious Pilot	Human Poultry
12:26 PM	Crystal Breath	Kim Deal	Nobody Loves You More
12:23 PM	Raw-Hide	Link Wray & The Wraymen	Walkin' With The Link
12:19 PM	All The People (所有人)	Chinese American Bear	Dim Sum & Then Some
12:16 PM	In The Streets	ESG	A South Bronx Story 2
12:10 PM	I Saw You (Demo) Home demo recorded in 1994.	Chapterhouse	Chronology
12:06 PM	Flying Third album released in 1992.	The Telescopes	The Telescopes
12:04 PM	Turn The Light	Night Beats	Who Sold My Generation
12:01 PM	The Shape of Things to Come	The Headboys	The Headboys

Thu 05/14 · 2PM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
2:52 PM	Metronomic Underground	Stereolab	Emperor Tomato Ketchup
2:49 PM	Up in the Air	Hooton Tennis Club	Highest Point in Cliff Town
2:46 PM	Shut Us Down	Camper Van Beethoven	Camper Van Beethoven
2:43 PM	Big Man	Pastel Blank	Unmade In Minutes
2:40 PM	Reality Cheque	TV Star	Music For Heads
2:37 PM	I Didn't Mean to Change My Mind	Prism Shores	Softest Attack
2:31 PM	Peace Bomb	Status/Non-Status	Big Changes
2:28 PM	The Secret Life Of Arabia	David Bowie	"Heroes"
2:27 PM	Not My Leader	Modern English	1 2 3 4
2:20 PM	Love Theme LOCAL	Charles Joseph Smith	Collected Works and War of the Martian Ghosts
2:14 PM	Bad In The Sun Request from Mason.	Water from Your Eyes	Somebody Else's Song
2:08 PM	Dana Katherine Scully	Tacocat	Lost Time
2:06 PM	Cocktails In Space	Dana Countryman	Two Zombies Later (Strange And Unusual Music From The Exotica Mailinglist)
2:02 PM	No More Swamp	Bas Jan	Back To The Swamp

Thu 05/14 · 1PM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
1:59 PM	Elwood Jazz Butcher side project from 1991 composed of Pat Fish, Richard Formby (In Embrace and Spectrum), and Sumishta Brahm (13 Frightened Girls).	The Vaguely Familiar	The First One Thousand Years
1:55 PM	Dead Silence	Frankie and the Witch Fingers	Trash Classic
1:52 PM	Tenderness	Parquet Courts	Wide Awake!
1:50 PM	Dirty Tech	Kim Gordon	PLAY ME
1:44 PM	Golddigger Request from Cindy.	Supreme Beings Of Leisure	Supreme Beings Of Leisure
1:44 PM	Occasional Brushes Against the Guardrails LOCAL	BassKase	Soul Moisturizer
1:34 PM	See Thru	youbet	youbet
1:31 PM	Everyone Around Me Dancing LOCAL	Gia Margaret	Singing
1:28 PM	Call To Love	Crooked Fingers	Dignity & Shame
1:22 PM	One Stop	Aldous Harding	Train on the Island
1:19 PM	The Authority Song	Jimmy Eat World	Bleed American
1:15 PM	2 or 3	The Lemon Twigs	Look For Your Mind!
1:08 PM	A View To A Kill Single released in 2021. Also included on the The Wedding Present & Friends compilation "Not From Where I'm Standing."	Terry De Castro	A View To A Kill
1:05 PM	See Jane Run EP released in 2015.	Terry De Castro	You Can't Separate Light
1:00 PM	Dalliance Debut solo album. Released in 2009.	Terry De Castro	A Casa Verde

Thu 05/14 · 12PM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
12:59 PM	An Ambiguous Shopfloor Manoeuvre	Cavern of Anti-Matter	In Fabric OST
12:57 PM	Ocean of Love	The King Khan and BBQ Show	Bad News Boys
12:53 PM	Ballad Of The Last Payphone	The New Pornographers	The Former Site Of
12:49 PM	Inverness	Marie/Lepanto	Tenkiller
12:45 PM	One On One LOCAL	Cheap Trick	One On One
12:41 PM	New Sensation	Conscious Pilot	Human Poultry
12:37 PM	That's When I Reach for My Revolver Request from Pete.	Mission of Burma	Signals, Calls & Marches
12:33 PM	Sunlight To My Soul (featuring The Soweto Gospel Choir)	Angelique Kidjo	Hope
12:30 PM	Who Do You Love?	Brother Wallace	Electric Love
12:26 PM	God In Disguise	Sault	UNTITLED (God)
12:21 PM	Knock it Off LOCAL	A.M. Slingers	To the Nines
12:18 PM	Oh Father (Who Art in Hell)	The William Loveday Intention	They Wanted the Devil But I Sang of God
12:15 PM	1000	Spoils	Mile Wide Inch Deep
12:10 PM	I Think I'm Down From Fremont, California. Debut single released in 1966.	The Harbinger Complex	I Think I'm Down
12:07 PM	Leave The Past Behind From Seattle, Washington. Debut album released in 1979.	The Moberlys	The Moberlys
12:05 PM	Get Up Debut album released in 2004.	The Ugly Beats	Bring On The Beats!
12:01 PM	The Shape of Things to Come	The Headboys	The Headboys

Thu 05/07 · 2PM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
2:51 PM	For A King LOCAL	Eleventh Dream Day	Eighth
2:49 PM	Letting Go	Torche	Harmonicraft
2:46 PM	Shut Us Down	Camper Van Beethoven	Camper Van Beethoven
2:43 PM	I Wanna Destroy You	Uncle Tupelo	Still Feel Gone
2:40 PM	Higher & Higher	Jackie Wilson	The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter... Ever!
2:37 PM	Wilderness LOCAL	Archer Prewitt	Wilderness
2:33 PM	Trouble	Dida Pelled	I Wish You Would
2:29 PM	Cinnamon Baby LOCAL	Dr. Goldfoot & The Bikini Machine	Semantics
2:26 PM	Future Country	Pigeon	OUTTANATIONAL