This is the home page for the Marvin Hamster Music Emporium.
Programming note: as of June 2018 the Hamster stopped broadcasting regularly. You can listen to previous sets and shows on Mixcloud.
MHME was a weekly radio show of alternate music from the 80's and 90's. Marvin Hamster, your rodent of retro, selected two hours of College Rock, Alt Rock, Early Techno and Industrial, or what ever struck his fancy, for your listening pleasure.
Adjust your raspberry beret, move your tri-color rat tail aside, put on your headphones, light up a clove (if you got 'em), and tune in!
Glare with disdain at anyone that doesn't get it.
The Marvin Hamster Music Emporium got started as the "New" Music Emporium around 1982 in Ames, Iowa, at the student run College radio station, KUSR (formerly KPGY). Back then the music was new, and the hamster voice was higher.
On 15-JUL-2020 Marvin removed the podcast from iTunes and AWS.
If you would like to listen to the shows go to Mixcloud.
Want to send Marvin an email? Send it to mhme at marvinhamster.com and soon as his little hamster feet navigate the keyboard he will respond.
You can see all the shows, sets, and playlists below...
| MH255 (airdate 16-MAY-2018) | You can play this show on Mixcloud |
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| Song | Artist |
| Faith Of Pain Set | |
| We Care Alot | Faith No More |
| Give It Away | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| I'm Shipping Up to Boston | Dropkick Murphys |
| Jump Around | House Of Pain |
| Do You Right | 311 |
| Radio Stupid Set | |
| This is Radio Clash | The Clash |
| The Globe | Big Audio Dynamite |
| Infected | The The |
| Addiction | Lecture On Nothing |
| Stupid Girl | Garbage |
| Lucky Culture Set | |
| Lucky Day | Thompson Twins |
| Love Action | Human League |
| Locomotion | Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark |
| Sub-culture | New Order |
| Catepillar Scare Set | |
| The Catepillar | Cure |
| Me and the Wind | XTC |
| The City Sleeps | MC 900 Ft Jesus |
| I Scare Myself | Thomas Dolby |
| Wrapped Jazz Set | |
| L.O.V.E. | United Future Organization |
| Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) | Us3 |
| Jazz Addiction | O.M.U. |
| Perceived Colorblind Set | |
| All That We Perceive | Thievery Corporation |
| What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 1) | DJ Shadow |
| Colorblind | Chroma Key |
| MH254 (airdate 25-APR-2018) | You can play this show on Mixcloud |
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| Song | Artist |
| Killing Cure Set | |
| Private Idaho | The B-52's |
| Just A Gigolo | Barbie And The Kens |
| Eighties | Killing Joke |
| Never Say Never (edit) | Romeo Void |
| Killing An Arab | Cure |
| Turnaround Turn Set | |
| Turnaround | Not Shakespeare |
| With You | O Positive |
| I Want You Back | Hoodoo Gurus |
| Alex Chilton (Remastered Version) | The Replacements |
| My Turn | Claude Pate |
| Cake And Jesus Too Set | |
| Anna Ng | They Might Be Giants |
| Comfort Eagle | Cake |
| Loser | Beck |
| If I Only Had a Brain | MC 900 Ft Jesus |
| Stand Together | Beastie Boys |
| Drum Corps Set | |
| Ten $ Bill | Cop Shoot Cop |
| IMPI | IMPI |
| These Dangerous Machines | Martha & The Muffins |
| Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) | Talking Heads |
| Eye The Swing Set | |
| Virtual Insanity | Jamiroquai |
| Nice Girls | Eye To Eye |
| Happy Sad | Pizzicato Five |
| Notgonnachange | Swing Out Sister |
| Heaven Or Garbage Set | |
| Heaven or Las Vegas | Cocteau Twins |
| Dragonflies | Povi |
| Milk | Garbage with Massive Attack |
| Puzzle Boy | Area |
| MH253 (airdate 11-APR-2018) | You can play this show on Mixcloud |
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| Song | Artist |
| Flock Of Devo Set | |
| Telecommunication | Flock Of Seagulls |
| Dancing In Heaven (Orbital Bebop) | Q Feel |
| Panaorama | Cars |
| Freedom Of Choice | Devo |
| Poison Moscow Set | |
| Poison Arrow | ABC |
| Play To Win | Heaven 17 |
| Don't Tell Me | Blancmange |
| Goodbye Seventies | Yaz |
| Moon Over Moscow | Visage |
| Kiss It's Alright Set | |
| The Perfect Kiss | New Order |
| Sound Of The Crowd | Human League |
| Devil Inside | INXS |
| It's Alright | Fashion |
| Dirty Snowman Set | |
| Dirty Creature | Split Enz |
| Snowman | XTC |
| All Come True | World Party |
| Goodbye Girl | Squeeze |
| Pulp And Peppers Set | |
| Pulp Culture | Thomas Dolby |
| Dancing Barefoot | MC 900 Ft Jesus |
| Mellowship Slinky In B Major | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Everyone's A Winner | Bootsauce |
| Violet Burnout Set | |
| Violet | Seal |
| The Awakening Of A Woman (Burnout) | Cinematic Orchestra |
| For the week of 04-APR-2017 Jen decided to replay MH198. See the playlist by clicking here. |
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| MH252 (airdate 28-MAR-2018) | You can play this show on Mixcloud |
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| Song | Artist |
| Clampdown Down Set | |
| Clampdown | Clash |
| Message Of Love | Pretenders |
| The Walls Came Down | The Call |
| I Wanna Live | Ramones |
| What People Do for Fun | Martha & The Muffins |
| Crackpot Guns Set | |
| Crackpot History And The Right To Lie | Adam Ant |
| And She Was | Talking Heads |
| I'm Afraid Of Americans | David Bowie |
| Melt The Guns | XTC |
| The Bomb Set | |
| Let's All Make A Bomb (New Version) | Heaven 17 |
| The Violence Of Truth | The The from the Mind Bomb album |
| Time Bomb | Rancid |
| Bombs Away | The Police |
| Bomber's Bay | Echo & The Bunnymen |
| Glad For Heaven Set | |
| Glad To Know You | Chas Jankel |
| They Only Come Out At Night | Peter Brown |
| We Close Our Eyes | Go West |
| Images Of Heaven | Peter Godwin |
| Beautiful Years Set | |
| As Years Go By | Level 42 |
| Everybody Wants To Rule The World | Tears For Fears |
| It's My Life | Talk Talk |
| Beautiful Day | U2 |
| Princely Sum Set | |
| America | Prince |
| Skeleton Key | Wendy & Lisa |
| Yes | Family |
| Gaslight | fDeluxe |
| Little Mama | Ingrid Chavez |
| For the week of 21-MAR-2017 the Hamster decided to replay MH185, because it had Soft Cell's Muggs Game in it and he had not heard that one in a while. See the playlist by clicking here. |
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| For the week of 14-MAR-2017 the Hamster decided to replay MH199, because tonight he wants to party like it's episode 199! See the playlist by clicking here. |
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| MH251 (airdate 28-FEB-2018) | You can play this show on Mixcloud |
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| Song | Artist |
| Love And Sex Set | |
| Look Of Love | ABC |
| Don't Go | Yaz |
| The Metro | Berlin |
| Freedom Of Choice | Devo |
| Wild Sex (In The Working Class) | Oingo Boingo |
| Love And Kicks Set | |
| Love Is The Law | Suburbs |
| Friend Or Foe | Adam Ant |
| Chant #1 (Extended Mix) | Spandau Ballet |
| Kick | INXS |
| Love And Lips Set | |
| Love Songs | Simple Minds |
| Heaven | The Psychedelic Furs |
| (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) | The Stranglers |
| Lips Like Sugar | Echo & The Bunnymen |
| Kissing Heaven Set | |
| Key To The World | Heaven 17 |
| Blind Vision | Blancmange |
| Do Or Die | Human League |
| No One's On The Same Side | Kissing The Pink |
| Help Yourself | APB |
| Smoke And Matchsticks Set | |
| Under The Bridge | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Smoke | Pell Mell |
| Martians | Moonpools & Caterpillars |
| Pictures of Matchstick Men | Camper Van Beethoven |
| Jazzy Endings Set | |
| On Est Ensemble Sans Se Parler | United Future Organization |
| Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) | Us3 |
| Get A Move On | Mr. Scruff |
| MH250 (airdate 14-FEB-2018) | You can play this show on Mixcloud |
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| Song | Artist |
| I Love A Mystery Set | |
| Mystery Achievement | The Pretenders |
| Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) | Squeeze |
| Message In A Bottle (New Classic Rock Mix) | The Police |
| I Love Lucy | Producers |
| Die Talking Set | |
| People Who Died | The Jim Carroll Band |
| End Of The World | REM |
| Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth... | Primitive Radio Gods |
| Tom's Diner (7" A) | DNA & Suzanne Vega |
| Gladhouse Chameleons Set | |
| Life In The Gladhouse | Modern English |
| This Time Of Night | New Order |
| Revenge | Ministry |
| Don't Fall | The Chameleons UK |
| Summer Rain In LA Set | |
| Someone Somewhere In Summertime | Simple Minds |
| Tinseltown in the Rain | The Blue Nile |
| To Live And Die In L.A. | Wang Chung |
| Sweet Harmony | The Beloved |
| Bela In The Hospital Set | |
| Bela Lugosi's Dead | Bauhaus |
| Money | The Flying Lizards |
| Hospital Food | Eels |
| Garden Leaf Set | |
| One Day In My Garden | Amon Tobin |
| Water From A Vine Leaf | William Orbit |
| Star 6 & 7 8 9 (Phase II) | The Orb |
| MH249 (airdate 31-JAN-2018) | You can play this show on Mixcloud |
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| Song | Artist |
| Spandau Wow Set | |
| Chant #1 (Extended Mix) | Spandau Ballet |
| Go! | Tones On Tail |
| I Want Candy | Bow Wow Wow |
| Eighties | Killing Joke |
| Lemony Pumpkin Set | |
| It's A Shame About Ray | The Lemonheads |
| My Sister | Juliana Hatfield |
| God Is A Bullet | Concrete Blonde |
| Bullet With Butterfly Wings | Smashing Pumpkins |
| Onion Skin | Boom Crash Opera |
| Crawl And Hop Set | |
| Video Killed The Radio Star | Buggles |
| Fashion | David Bowie |
| Johnny And Mary | Robert Palmer |
| Twist & Crawl | English Beat |
| Life Begins at the Hop | XTC |
| Happy Christmas Killing Set | |
| I Could Be Happy | Altered Images |
| Big Plans | Christmas |
| Koo Koo Koo | Moonpools & Caterpillars |
| The Killing Jar | Siouxsie and the Banshees |
| Love Plus One | Nick Heyward & Haircut 100 |
| Lullaby Soon Set | |
| How Soon Is Now? | The Smiths |
| Head Over Heels | Tears For Fears |
| Lullaby | The Cure |
| Wouldn't It Be Good | Nik Kershaw |
| The Exit Lounge Set | |
| The Millionaire's Holiday | Combustible Edison |
| Fooling Myself (Easy Access Orchestra Mix) | King Kooba |
| The Girl From Ipanema | Pizzicato Five |
| Sutro Heights | Jaywalkers |
| Black Hole Sun | Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormie |
For the week of 24-JAN-2018 there were technical diffculties at the main station, KTHO, so Darrell picked a show at random to play from his remote Knuckleheads show that night. He chose to play MH248.
| MH248 (airdate 10-JAN-2018) | You can play this show on Mixcloud |
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| Song | Artist |
| The Devil You Know Set | |
| Heartbeat | The Psychedelic Furs |
| Devil Inside | INXS |
| Dream World | Midnight Oil |
| Come Anytime | The Hoodoo Gurus |
| Missing Miracle Set | |
| Missing Person | Split Enz |
| Windows | Missing Persons |
| Promised You A Miracle | Simple Minds |
| Blinded Me With Science | Thomas Dolby |
| 52 Lies Set | |
| Temptation | Heaven 17 |
| Lies (Extended Version) | Thompson Twins |
| Song For A Future Generation | The B-52's |
| Frightened In France | Kissing The Pink |
| Blind In The Dark Set | |
| Leave Me Alone | New Order |
| Blind Vision | Blancmange |
| Locomotion | Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark |
| Wishing (If I Had A Photograph) | A Flock Of Seagulls |
| Mexico And Oklahoma Set | |
| Mexican Radio | Wall of Voodoo |
| Ambush | Figurines |
| Skinny Hotrod | The Sugarplastic |
| The High Party | Ted Leo & The Pharmacists |
| Oklahoma | Bishop Allen |
| Passion With U Set | |
| The Screams Of Passion | Family |
| A Love Bizarre | Sheila E |
| Crack In The Pavement | Wendy & Lisa |
| Take Me With U | Prince |
| MH247 (airdate 27-DEC-2017) | You can play this show on Mixcloud |
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| Song | Artist |
| Sunday Cats Set | |
| Cool For Cats | Squeeze |
| Love Cats | Cure |
| Blister In the Sun | Violent Femmes |
| Making Plans for Nigel | XTC |
| Sunday Papers | Joe Jackson |
| Positive Maniacs Set | |
| With You | O Positive |
| Someone Is Calling | Modern English |
| Turnaround | Not Shakespeare |
| Ren | Moonpools & Caterpillars |
| These Are Days | 10,000 Maniacs |
| Ministry Of Propaganda Set | |
| All Day | Ministry |
| Hurt | New Order |
| The Murder Of Love | Propaganda |
| Chili Cake Set | |
| Midlife Crisis | Faith No More |
| Mellowship Slinky In B Major | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| All Mixed Up | 311 |
| What I Got (edit) | Sublime |
| When You Sleep | Cake |
| Red, Gold And Blue Set | |
| Heartbreak Beat | The Psychedelic Furs |
| Red Skies | Fixx |
| New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) | Simple Minds |
| Tinseltown in the Rain | The Blue Nile |
| Sleeping In The Rain Set | |
| Waves | Blancmange |
| This City Never Sleeps | Eurythmics |
| Kingdom Of Rain | The The |
| MH246 (airdate 13-DEC-2017) | You can play this show on Mixcloud |
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| Song | Artist |
| Billy Cats Set | |
| (She's) Sexy + 17 | Stray Cats |
| Stand By | Roman Holliday |
| Make A Circuit With Me | Polecats |
| Jam Up | Four Piece Suit |
| American Music | Blasters |
| Long White Cadillac | The Tone Popes |
| Violent Gurus Set | |
| Add It Up | Violent Femmes |
| Primary | Cure |
| I Will Dare | The Replacements |
| Rattle My Bones | Suburbs |
| (Let's All) Turn On | Hoodoo Gurus |
| New Joy Front Set | |
| Temptation | New Order |
| She's Lost Control | Joy Division |
| Lovely Day | Front 242 |
| Certain Uncertainty Set | |
| Uncertain Smile | The The |
| Lifes A Scream | A Certain Ratio |
| Certain Things Are Likely | Kissing The Pink |
| Shy Ghost Set | |
| Like A Ghost | Ignatius Jones |
| Under the Milky Way | The Church |
| Open Your Heart | Human League |
| Too Shy | Kajagoogoo |
| Ultramarine Nightmare Set | |
| Bird and Flag | Sea and Cake |
| Happy Land | Ultramarine |
| Dreddoverboard | Nightmares On Wax |
| Due to some scheduling issues there were no new shows from November 22 through December 6th. |
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| MH245 (airdate 15-NOV-2017) | You can play this show on Mixcloud |
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| Song | Artist |
| Janitor Love Set | |
| All Time Low | 2.3 |
| Janitor | Suburban Lawns |
| Sky Blue Pink | Exene Cervenka & The Original Sinners |
| Just A Gigolo | Barbie And The Kens |
| Private Idaho | The B-52s |
| Beep Beep Love | Gruppo Sportivo |
| Mental Clampdown Set | |
| Mental Hopscotch | Missing Persons |
| Tattooded Love Boys | The Pretenders |
| I Wanna Live | Ramones |
| What People Do for Fun | Martha & The Muffins |
| Clampdown | Clash |
| Tomato Cake Set | |
| Comfort Eagle | Cake |
| Tomato Kid | Moonpools & Caterpillars |
| Don't Look Down | Sugarplastic |
| Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into the Water | Mountain Goats |
| XIY | Pinback |
| Pop Talk Set | |
| Pop Life | Prince |
| Sowing the Seeds of Love | Tears For Fears |
| King for a Day | XTC |
| Life's What You Make It | Talk Talk |
| Slave Away Set | |
| Slave To The Rhythm (Hot Blooded Version) | Grace Jones |
| Slave To Love | Bryan Ferry |
| So Far Away | Dire Straits |
| Lullaby Sea Set | |
| Sweet Lullaby (Ambient mix) | Deep Forest |
| Need You Right Now (Ambient Mix) | Trumpet Thing |
| Sea Of Vapours | Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan |
| Nocturne No. 3 | Joe Jackson |
| For the week of 08-NOV-2017 the Hamster decided to replay MH170, because all the recycled bits are still as fresh as decades old alternate music. See the playlist by clicking here. |
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