The Langdon Auger Show
September 8th 2026
Featured Artists: Default, Tina Turner, Streetheart.
Nothing i love more than sitting here and playing music, it is soooo calming and reassuring. I really have no idea which direction the show is going to go from one day to the next. I hope to get people to feel what music has in it, whether you have heard the song/band before or not. I do believe in the power of music, since i was a small child wishing i could be Dinah Ross or listening to stories from my uncles about who they seen in the mid to late 70’s in the Toronto area or just hiding away from my mother while growing up and avoiding her wrath. Music has always been there. Songs like todays featured artists, Default and their song “Deny” all about abandonment and wondering why they left and what i did wrong to cause it when really it might have had nothing to do with me but, they still left. The track portrays the raw desperation, self-sacrifice, and emotional exhaustion of a crumbling relationship and the emotional turmoil that follows. We are emotional, bruise and bleed in tandem to show how a failing relationship takes a heavy, metaphorically physical toll. Canadian band Streetheart and their song “Action” is another raw emotional song about betrayal, emotional betrayal and retribution. Playing these songs seems to soothe the beast because i can relate to their words, meanings and wish i could express my feelings like a Tina Turner or the other artists played today. People ask me all the time as too why I continue to do the show, I mean no one actually ever listens to the show except my sister so, why do i continue to do it? Good question but i believe it to be therapy for me, am i disappointed that no one listens…of course. Can I make people listen…NO!
This archived September 8 Langdon Auger Show opens with Ward greeting listeners, inviting requests, and setting up a dance portion later in the show. Between songs, he names artists and tracks, recalls seeing Haywire at Massey Hall, and shares what he hears in a few of the songs.
About this episode
Ward recaps songs by Default, Jane's Addiction, The Cars, Barenaked Ladies, and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. He says the three songs before the dance portion follow a wild theme.
After the dance portion, he recalls seeing Haywire at Massey Hall, then asks listeners to relax and hydrate. He says he hates when someone moves his chair. He describes They Might Be Giants' 'Someone Keeps Moving My Chair' as suppressing frustration with the government and corporations, then snapping over something small, like a moved chair. His final recap names tracks by Modern English, The Cure, and Bronski Beat.
Full spoken transcript
Transcribed from the recording and lightly edited for readability. Song lyrics and recorded interludes are omitted. Some audio could not be transcribed; those gaps and unclear words are marked in brackets. Timestamps are approximate. The comments reflect the speakers’ own experiences and views.
Full spoken transcript (click to collapse or expand)
00:04:39
Oh, great song to ease us into this Tuesday, September 8 show, and that is, of course, Eric Clapton, from his 1992 Unplugged album. Um, and, uh, Layla, how are you all doing? Six o'clock exactly, right on the nose. A couple of seconds, actually, but that's cool. Welcome to the Langdon Auger Show. We're here until 8 p.m. Thanks for tuning in, everybody. Appreciate your support. And we're going to be here until 8 o'clock, of course. And we're going to take some requests. If you want to hear a song, let us know. And don't forget, you know, we only got, what, two more shows this week, as we're shutting down this show anyway on Thursday night and then starting it back again next week, although the radio station will still be up and running as we have this Auto DJ thing. So hopefully you enjoy the stuff that's being played during that time. But for right now, time for a little Four Wheel Drive.
00:05:43
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00:29:06
That's from 2001, the album The Fallout. It's Default, of course, and Deny, co-written by Chad Kroeger of Nickelback fame. And if you did get a chance to see the original video, it also had Laila Ali, of course, Muhammad Ali's daughter, also a professional boxer. And it's just a song about somebody that you love and they just leave for no reason, just up and go. Don't tell you anything.
00:29:33
Before that, of course, we had Jane's Addiction, 'Mountain Song,' from the Nothing Shocking album. The Cars were in there with 'Drive' as well. We had Smoother with 'Going to the East Side.' Barenaked Ladies was in there. Great song in 'Enid.' That's from the Gordon album. And Bachman-Turner Overdrive started off with 'Four Wheel Drive.'
00:29:54
25 minutes after 6 right now. Thanks for tuning in, everybody. We still got great music coming your way, as well as our dance portion of the show somewhere around the top of the hour. Back to the music.
00:30:06
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00:57:43
One of Canada's best bands of all time there. They were brought together in 1977 out of Regina and have had such a massive career and so many great songs growing up to them. Of course, it's not the original members anymore. I think there's only one left, you know, Spiders left after the loss of Kenny Shields. But it's still, it's a great show. If you get a chance to go out and see it, [Paul McNair?] does such a great job of the vocals on that. And they've had so many amazing songs.
00:58:18
Who do we have in before that? Of course, we had The Police and 'Message in a Bottle.' Paul Young in there as well with 'Every Time You Go Away.' And from their [Gurr?] live album in 2012, The Rolling Stones, 'I Can't Get No Satisfaction.' And, of course, Bon Jovi in there as well with 'You Give Love a Bad Name.' Tina Turner started it all off, the Queen of Rock and Roll, if you will. She broke down so many barriers, including racial and everything else. Just such an amazing woman. She redid the 1973 song that she did with Ike Turner, 'Nutbush City Limits.' And that's the 90s version we heard. Well, we don't have much more time left. I got time for three more songs before our dance portion of the show. So I kind of wanted to make it a little bit of a theme. So we made it a wild theme. I hope you enjoy it.
00:59:10
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01:10:00
What a great song that is. One of the best songs of the 60s. And that is, of course, 'Wild Thing.' Steve Miller Band in before that with 'Wild Mountain Honey.' Had a little sitar sound in there. Great sound. And started it off with a band that was only around for a couple of years, probably 71 to 73. Donny Gerrard was on vocals. He also did background vocals for Elton John. And also Canadian keyboardist, piano player, Mr. David Foster. That is his very first band. And, of course, we heard 'Wildflower.'
01:10:52
Well, that means it's time for our dance portion of the show. I hope you're ready for it. I hope you're hydrated. I hope you're all stretched out and ready to go, because we're going to do some dancing. Here it is.
01:11:03
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01:21:35
Another one of those great Canadian bands, and that’s Haywire, and that's 'Dance Desire.' I did manage to see them in the late 80s at Massey Hall in Toronto. They were there with Helix and another band that slips my mind, but I'll tell you, being a live show, they sounded almost exactly like the album. Maybe it was Massey Hall and all the great sound out of that, but nonetheless, they were incredible. David Bowie in before that with “Let’s Dance”. King Harvest started off the dance portion of our show with 'Dancing in the Moonlight.'
01:22:12
Hope you had a good dance there. Now time to just relax a bit, calm down, get self-hydrated, recover all that you lost here in the dance portion. One thing I really do hate was when someone keeps moving my chair. They Might Be Giants.
01:22:29
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01:45:04
One of the great songs from the Michael Hutchence solo album, of course, that Bono and Daniel Lanois finished off after Michael's death. It just tells you all about, like, 'Slide Away.' He just wanted away from the fame and the glory and all that kind of stuff. He just wanted to go back and have a normal life. And Bono did such a great job. He even added an extra verse in there to add to the song. And also Bono released a song with U2, 'Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of,' which was a bit of frustration about, you know, Michael committing suicide and all that. And a bit of a scolding, and he missed his friend very much. Great song and great album. Michael Hutchence's only album, I believe, as a solo artist.
01:45:52
Eddy Grant in there as well with 'Electric Avenue,' Electric Light Orchestra and 'Don't Bring Me Down,' Age of Electric, 'Remote Control,' Tom Petty in there as well with 'Running Down a Dream.' And we started off with a song, They Might Be Giants, 'Someone Keeps Moving My Chair.' And that is just about suppressing all the bad things that are going on and all this kind of stuff, what the government's doing to people, what the corporations are doing to people. And then snapping about something silly, like someone losing or moving your chair. We all do it, right? All right. We've only got about 20 minutes left in the show, so let's get to some more music.
01:46:31
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02:02:17
Their 1982 album After the Snow. That is Modern English and 'I Melt with You.' Before that, The Cure. Great vocalist Robert Smith in there. What an amazing… He just… I love his voice, can't help it. And 'Friday I'm in Love.' Bronski Beat in there as well with 'Small Town Boy.' We started off that set with 'West End Girls,' of course, from the Pet Shop Boys. That's it for me. I'm out of here. Thanks for tuning in today. I got time for one more song. We want to… Don't forget tomorrow night, uh, tomorrow we're here at 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., and we're gonna say happy mental health to you. We're gonna end the show with R.E.M. and 'Man on the Moon.'
02:02:58
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