BDC

The Shape of Things to Come

Show schedule

Tuesday 9am–12pm

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

Tue 09/15 · 11AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
11:53 AM	Atlas*	Battles	Mirrored
11:50 AM	If I Was a Mekon	Too Much Joy	Son of Sam I Am
11:46 AM	Shut Us Down	Camper Van Beethoven	Camper Van Beethoven
11:43 AM	Chasing Agent Friday	Dorio	Agent Friday & the Perfect Angel
11:39 AM	Oxygen	Bayonne	Filters
11:36 AM	I Am	Anour	Anour
11:31 AM	We Live As We Dream, Alone	Gang of Four	Return The Gift (Disc 1)
11:28 AM	Rapture Or...	Sweeping Promises	You Say I Romanticize
11:25 AM	I'm Happy Just to Dream With You LOCAL	The Handcuffs	Burn the Rails
11:21 AM	Relaxing, Special Interests	Wild Pink	Still Coming Down
11:18 AM	Touch You Back LOCAL	The Claudettes	Garage Glamour
11:15 AM	You Can Make Him Like You Request from Carl in Lakeview.	The Hold Steady	Boys and Girls In America
11:11 AM	Glockelbar	Haiku Salut	Special Gift for Asia EP
11:09 AM	Names For Rain	Hood	The Hood Tapes
11:06 AM	Take Me Away	The Submarines	Telegraph Signals (Recorded Artifacts 1986 - 1989)
11:01 AM	The Long Night Starts Recorded live at Logo, Grindelallee, Freie and Hansestadt, Hamburg 26.Feb.1999.	The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy	Glorious & Idiotic

Tue 09/15 · 10AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
10:54 AM	Yor Zarad	Angine de Poitrine	Vol.II
10:51 AM	Give & Take	Minus the Bear	Voids
10:47 AM	Once Upon A Time	Marvin Gaye & Mary Wells	The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 4: 1964
10:44 AM	You've Got The Love	Dexys Midnight Runners	LOVE
10:41 AM	Love Without Anger	Devo	New Traditionalists
10:39 AM	Eddie's Album	Black Bananas	Bad Bunch
10:33 AM	1982	A Certain Ratio	1982
10:30 AM	The Weight LOCAL	Rotary Connection	Songs
10:27 AM	I Wish I Was an M80	Lex Walton	ULTIMATE LOVE FOREVER
10:24 AM	Films (BBC Peel session)	Gary Numan	The Pleasure Principle - The First Recordings
10:20 AM	Caldera II	Allah-Las	Sirenas
10:17 AM	Treasury of Loved Ones	Yea-Ming and The Rumours	Residue
10:13 AM	Fascists Killed Yer Rock'N' Roll Playing at Sleeping Village on Tuesday 22-September.	Elephant Stone	ASHA
10:06 AM	Don't Let Them Tell You (It's Fair) Second album released in 2025.	The Belair Lip Bombs	Again
10:03 AM	Say My Name Debut album released in 2023.	The Belair Lip Bombs	Lush Life
10:00 AM	Rip It Debut EP released in 2018.	The Belair Lip Bombs	The Belair Lip Bombs

Tue 09/15 · 9AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
9:53 AM	Metropolis	Kraftwerk	Die Mensch-Maschine
9:49 AM	Metropolis For Old Woodfoot in South Carolina.	The Church	Gold Afternoon Fix
9:44 AM	Boots on the Pavement	MESH	No Fun At All
9:41 AM	Tag	Tiberius	Troubadour
9:38 AM	Pure Michigan	Kiwi Jr.	Blowin' Up
9:34 AM	Fact or Fiction LOCAL	Kate Renegade	Could Do!
9:30 AM	Blue Eyes Blue	Bullseye	Bullseye
9:27 AM	Paint by Number Heart	Martha and the Muffins	Metro Music
9:23 AM	The Definitive Map	Getdown Services	Massive Champion
9:20 AM	The Quarry (ft. Kathy Ruestow) LOCAL	The Imperial Sound	The New AM
9:17 AM	Natchez Trace LOCAL	Jon Langford	Four Lost Souls
9:14 AM	Price LOCAL	Nathan Graham	Saint of Second Chances
9:09 AM	Ecstasy Debut single from this Boston-based power pop group. Released in 1977.	The Paley Brothers	Ecstasy
9:07 AM	High Blood Pressure Only single. Released in 1969.	The Factory	High Blood Pressure
9:04 AM	Traffic Drone Third and final album from this Edinburgh-based group. Active from 1985 to 1991.	The Cateran	Ache
9:00 AM	The Shape Of Things To Come	The Headboys	The Headboys

Tue 09/08 · 11AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
11:52 AM	Eluvial LOCAL	Russian Circles	Nine
11:50 AM	Years Ago	black midi	Schlagenheim
11:50 AM	Shut Us Down	Camper Van Beethoven	Camper Van Beethoven
11:45 AM	Wrong	Beatnik Filmstars	In Hospitalable
11:42 AM	Something Deep Inside	Alex Chilton	1970
11:39 AM	Come Over	Chain & The Gang	Best of Crime Rock
11:36 AM	Disco	Death Valley Girls	Glow in the Dark
11:32 AM	Blue Eyes Blue	Bullseye	Bullseye
11:29 AM	Johnny Cash	Sons & Daughters	Love The Cup
11:26 AM	Straight Line to Love	Graham Hunt	American Pyramid
11:21 AM	Dobro	Westside Cowboy	It Goes On
11:18 AM	Where Do You Run To	Vivian Girls	Vivian Girls
11:15 AM	Turn It Up	André Cymone	The Resurrection of Funk
11:09 AM	Make It Mine	The Shamen	Make It Mine
11:05 AM	All Together Now	The Farm	All Together Now
11:01 AM	Destroy All Monsters Pat Fish side project that released only this album in 1998.	Sumosonic	This Is Sumo

Tue 09/08 · 10AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
10:59 AM	So Solid Crew - Dilemma	Four Tet	DJ Kicks
10:55 AM	Kill All Hippies Request from Mimi.	Primal Scream	XTRMNTR
10:51 AM	Who Do You Love	Mojave 3	Out Of Tune
10:49 AM	Don't Drop Out	Dolly Parton	One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found
10:43 AM	A Fine Vintage	Radiator Hospital	Distorting Time
10:40 AM	In a City Without Seasons	The One AM Radio	Heaven Is Attached by a Slender Thread
10:37 AM	Downtown LOCAL	venturing	Nowhere EP
10:33 AM	soulless cycle	L'Rain	fata morgana
10:30 AM	Restless	Sparkle Blood	ZIP ZAP
10:27 AM	Hippies LOCAL	Sick Gazelle	Veld
10:21 AM	Hourglass	Squeeze	Babylon and On
10:18 AM	Beat My Guest	Adam Ant	B-Side Babies
10:15 AM	Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)	Haircut One Hundred	Pelican West
10:10 AM	Only Moments Away B-side of their final single. Released in 1988.	The Lucy Show	Wherever Your Heart Will Go
10:07 AM	A Million Things Eighth single. Released in 1986.	The Lucy Show	A Million Things
10:04 AM	Electric Dreams Third single. Released in 1983.	The Lucy Show	Electric Dreams
10:00 AM	Leonardo Da Vinci Debut single released in 1983.	The Lucy Show	Leonardo Da Vinci

Tue 09/08 · 9AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
9:55 AM	The Lure of Lore LOCAL	The Poison Arrows	Casual Wave
9:51 AM	Staples	Buffalo Tom	Let Me Come Over
9:49 AM	Three Persons	Dwight Twilley Band	Sincerely
9:44 AM	Million Young	The American Analog Set	Know by Heart
9:41 AM	No Show	Shopping	Why Choose
9:38 AM	Let's Pretend We're Not in Love	The Reds, Pinks and Purples	Summer at Land's End
9:33 AM	g.a.l.s.	Slow Fiction	dollhouse
9:30 AM	I Want to Know	Smokescreens	A Strange Dream
9:27 AM	Memphis, Texas	The Afghan Whigs	Soft Control
9:21 AM	Only Girl	Man/Woman/Chainsaw	Cannonball
9:18 AM	Still	Blums	Sunk Cost Fantasy
9:15 AM	Cut My Garden Bare LOCAL	Neptune's Core	Pivot
9:09 AM	A Song From Under The Floorboards B-side of the " I Am Not Going To Fall In Love With You" single. Released in 2022.	The Wedding Present	I Am Not Going To Fall In Love With You
9:06 AM	Hopak From their debut album. Released in 1991.	The Ukrainians	The Ukrainians
9:03 AM	Dancing The Night Away Debut single released in 1977. Number 42 on the UK charts. Later covered by Cheap Trick as the lead single from their 1983 album "Next Position Please."	The Motors	Dancing The Night Away
9:00 AM	The Shape Of Things To Come	The Headboys	The Headboys

Tue 09/01 · 11AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
11:37 AM	Too Much Sunlight LOCAL	Plum	Bodies in Motion
11:33 AM	Marble Arch	bar italia	Some Like It Hot
11:29 AM	Get Up and Dance	Man/Woman/Chainsaw	Cannonball
11:21 AM	PURE UNFILTERED ALTRUISM	Amélie Farren	Infanescence
11:18 AM	I'm a Lonely Night Driver	The Gonks	Five Things You Didn't Know About The Gonks
11:14 AM	Well Done Kid, You Did It	Westside Cowboy	It Goes On
11:09 AM	Tired Of Being Tired	Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet	Dim The Lights, Chill The Ham
11:07 AM	Dubbing The Psycho Thriller	Dub Syndicate (featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry)	Echomania
11:05 AM	What A Lonely Way To Start The Summertime Only single. Released in 1965.	The Bitter Sweets	What A Lonely Way To Start The Summertime
11:00 AM	Time	The Jazz Butcher	The Highest In The Land

Tue 09/01 · 10AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
10:58 AM	The Dress Perspective (Demonstration)	Cavern of Anti-Matter	In Fabric OST
10:53 AM	The New World Wave	Lambchop	Punching the Clown
10:44 AM	Fly Into The Mystery	Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers	Rock 'n' Roll with The Modern Lovers
10:38 AM	Call Me (Come Back Home)	Al Green	Call Me
10:34 AM	Leveled Out LOCAL	Alec Harryhausen	Noon Island
10:26 AM	Fighting Type A LOCAL	Consensus Madness	Endeavors
10:21 AM	Love for the Sake of Dub	Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band	BRSB
10:17 AM	Onenon (featuring Tom Misch)	Nu Genea	People of the Moon
10:14 AM	It Takes A Muscle To Fall In Love Request from Mason.	Spectral Display	Spectral Display
10:07 AM	Lust Fifth album. Released in 1983.	Michael Rother	Lust
10:00 AM	Flammende Herzen Debut album released in 1977.	Michael Rother	Flammende Herzen

Tue 09/01 · 9AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
9:56 AM	I Believe She's Lying	Jon Brion	Meaningless
9:53 AM	Paradise LOCAL	Brian Case	Plays Paradise Artificial
9:48 AM	The Stations	The Gutter Twins	Saturnalia
9:44 AM	Gloria Love	Bad Bad Hats	Walkman
9:41 AM	Now You Know	Ebbb	Shallow Hits
9:38 AM	At the Beach LOCAL	Cowboy Jane	Infinite Chest
9:33 AM	BANSHEES	Absolute Lilt	Criostal
9:30 AM	Bail Eternal	Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains	E Volo Love
9:27 AM	Runnin' Around	The B-52's	Wild Planet
9:21 AM	Life Without	Black Marble	Life in Small Spaces
9:18 AM	Make It Right	The Coathangers	Nosebleed Weekend
9:15 AM	Heart Is A Bomb LOCAL	Reserver	Reverser
9:09 AM	All Or Nothing Girl Second single. Released in 1982.	The Larks	All Or Nothing Girl
9:06 AM	Make Love To Somebody Released in 2001. Only album by this Spanish group.	The Milestones	El Trepidante Ritmo De...... Y Muchas Mas
9:04 AM	4 Countries Only single released by this parallel group of Alternative TV members. From 1982.	The Reflections	4 Countries
9:01 AM	The Shape Of Things To Come	The Headboys	The Headboys

Tue 08/25 · 11AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
11:54 AM	Flamenco Sketches	Nicholas Payton & Butcher Brown	A Supreme Blue
11:50 AM	Lean on Me LOCAL	Terry Callier	First Light: Chicago 1969-71
11:48 AM	Shut Us Down	Camper Van Beethoven	Camper Van Beethoven
11:45 AM	Human Factor LOCAL	Milemarker	Non Plus Ultra
11:42 AM	Erase/Rewind	The Cardigans	Gran Turismo
11:39 AM	And What Else?	Body Type	Tally
11:36 AM	Levania	Jacco Gardner	Somnium
11:30 AM	Fake It	Leila Henley	How to Let Go
11:25 AM	Special	Babe Rainbow	Acid and Honey
11:20 AM	Summer Apathy Request from Emma.	Parakeet	KASA
11:17 AM	Sympathy For Life	Parquet Courts	Sympathy for Life
11:15 AM	Another Shot of Whiskey	The Gits	Frenching the Bully
11:09 AM	Divisadero	Reverends	The Disappearing Dreams Of Yesterday
11:05 AM	Submarine	Black Grape	It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah
11:03 AM	Feels Alright	Spoon Vs On-U Sound	Lucifer On The Moon (Spoon Vs On-U Sound)
11:00 AM	Swell	The Jazz Butcher	Fishcotheque

Tue 08/25 · 10AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
10:58 AM	The Dress Persective (Muzak)	Cavern of Anti-Matter	In Fabric OST
10:55 AM	Always Greener	Graham Parker	Imaginary Television
10:52 AM	Waikiki	The Essex Green	Hardly Electronic
10:50 AM	I Go to Sleep	The Pretenders	Pretenders II
10:46 AM	"I Can Almost See Them"	Tomahawk	Oddfellows
10:43 AM	Domingou	Gilberto Gil	The Sound Of Revolution (= Frevo Rasgado 68 + Cerebro Electronico 69)
10:40 AM	Stop the Music	Tempters	GS I Love You Too: Japanese Garage Bands of the 1960's
10:38 AM	If I Was Ever Lonely LOCAL	Sharp Pins	Radio DDR
10:34 AM	In Between Days - The Cure Request from Mason.	The Cure	Staring At the Sea: the Singles
10:30 AM	Halfway	Swapmeet	Mount Zero
10:27 AM	Hippies LOCAL	Sick Gazelle	Veld
10:25 AM	Teenage Rebel	Avengers	Died For Your Sins
10:20 AM	Circles	Artificial Go	Musical Chairs
10:15 AM	Primal Thread LOCAL	REZN	Cycles in the Infinite Dream
10:10 AM	Mayonaka No Bossa Nova (Midnight Bossa Nova) Collaboration with Japanese singer Saori Yuki. Released in 2011. Charted at number 4 in Japan.	Pink Martini & Saori Yuki	1969
10:07 AM	But Now I'm Back Fifth album released in 2009.	Pink Martini	Splendor In The Grass
10:04 AM	Hey Eugene Fourth album released in 2007.	Pink Martini	Hey Eugene
10:01 AM	Sympathique Debut album from 1997. Later released as a single in Europe. Charted at number 3 in Belgium.	Pink Martini	Sympathique

Tue 08/25 · 9AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
9:59 AM	Telegram Sam	Bauhaus	1979-1983, Vol. 1
9:55 AM	This Is Music	The Verve	A Northern Soul
9:52 AM	Scenic Pastures	Archers Of Loaf	All The Nation's Airports
9:49 AM	Calvary King LOCAL	Neptune's Core	Pivot
9:43 AM	Oceania	Björk	Medúlla
9:40 AM	I've Got A Friend	Maggie Rogers	Surrender
9:38 AM	One in a Million	Virginia Creeper	Girl, You'll Be a Giant Soon
9:33 AM	Elevator	John Carpenter	Cathedral
9:29 AM	All You Need To Know	Medicine	To The Happy Few
9:26 AM	Little Things	The Black Drumset	Friends in Dark Places
9:21 AM	Don't Look Back	Luscious Jackson	Fever In Fever Out
9:18 AM	Ways To Be Wicked	Lone Justice	Left Of The Dial: Dispatches From The '80s Underground
9:14 AM	My Anchoress	Sweeping Promises	You Say I Romanticize
9:10 AM	Well...All Right From Belfast, Northern Ireland.	The People	A Slight Disturbance In My Mind (The British Proto-Psychedelic Sounds of 1966)
9:08 AM	Wishing On A Star Three sisters from Albuquerque, New Mexico. From their third album released in 2001.	The Eyeliners	Sealed With A Kiss!
9:06 AM	Demolition Girl B-side of debut single. Released in 1977.	The Saints	One Two Three Four
9:04 AM	Let's Go From Longview, Washington. Released two albums - one in 2001 and this follow up in 2017.	The Wanna-Bes	Out Went The Lights
9:01 AM	The Shape Of Things To Come	The Headboys	The Headboys

Tue 08/18 · 11AM

Time	Track	Artist	Album
11:53 AM	Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!	Horse Lords	Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!
11:50 AM	Wabi-Sabi	tricot	3
11:47 AM	Shut Us Down	Camper Van Beethoven	Camper Van Beethoven
11:43 AM	Buffeted by Wind	Arbouretum	Let it All In
11:38 AM	Moonlight	anaiis	Devotion & The Black Divine
11:33 AM	Cappuccino Bar	Jonathan Richman	Action Packed: The Best Of Jonathan Richman
11:30 AM	Horses Warriors	Radar Bros.	The Illustrated Garden
11:28 AM	I Tried (featuring Mitch Sanders)	Tricky	Different When It's Silent
11:25 AM	In Dreams	Roy Orbison	For The Lonely: 18 Greatest Hits
11:21 AM	I Smell Winter	The Housemartins	Now That's What I Call Quite Good
11:18 AM	Another Nail in My Heart	Squeeze	Singles: 45's and Under
11:15 AM	Spitting The Pips Out	The Heavenly Bodes	Green Hills
11:11 AM	Ai No Kizuna	Takeshi Terauchi & Blue Jeans	Nippon Guitars (Instrumental Surf, Eleki & Tsugaru Rock 1966-1974)
11:08 AM	Throw It Away	Stan Ridgway	Snakebite (Blacktop Ballads & Fugitive Songs)