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Uneasy Listening

Jan 1, 2022 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

With Commie Francis

New Beginnings and Starting Over

Songs about STARTING stuff. Illustration by George Cruikshank (1838) who thought New Year's Eve was in January.

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6:01 PM		Bay City Rollers Saturday Night Rollin' Legacy Recordings 1974
6:04 PM		A Tribe Called Quest Start It Up The Love Movement (Deluxe Edition) Jive 1998
6:07 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jack Teagarden's Big Eight - The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
6:09 PM		Bert Jansch The Bright New Year Birthday Blues Transatlantic 1969
6:11 PM		NoMeansNo Now 0+2=1 Alternative Tentacles 1991
6:16 PM		Bucks Fizz New Beginning (Mamba Seyra) New Beginning / In Your Eyes Polydor 1986
6:21 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jack Teagarden's Big Eight - The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
6:22 PM		The Litter Here I Go Again $100 Fine Purple Pyramid Records 1968
6:25 PM		The Fall It's the New Thing 7" Step Forward Records 1978
6:28 PM		Oi Boys Sur la Place N Oi Boys Les Disques De La Face Cachée 2021
6:32 PM		Depeche Mode New Life Speak & Spell Rhino 1981
6:36 PM		Ted Lewis and His Orchestra There's a New Day Coming There's A New Day Comin' / Have You Ever Been Lonely? Columbia 1933
6:38 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jack Teagarden's Big Eight - The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
6:41 PM		R.E.M. Begin the Begin Lifes Rich Pageant I.R.S. Records 1986
6:45 PM		Passion Killers Start Again Bullshit Detector Volume 2 V/A Crass Records 1982
6:46 PM		Square Force New Dimension Media Blitz Sharkskin Records 1986
6:49 PM		Blackalicious Green Light: Now Begin Blazing Arrow Universal-Island Records Ltd. 2002
6:53 PM		The Breeders New Year Last Splash 4AD 1993
6:55 PM		Peppy Pep Pepper Dawn Chorus Forced Distance Modern Tapes 2021
6:57 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jack Teagarden's Big Eight - The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
7:00 PM		The Ex People Again 1936 The Spanish Revolution The Ex 1986
7:05 PM		Chumbawamba An Interlude: Beginning to Take It Back Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records Agit Prop 1986
7:07 PM		Nina Simone Tomorrow Is My Turn Nina Simone N°2 Philips 1965
7:10 PM		Nation of Ulysses Hot Chocolate City 13 Point Program to Destroy America Dischord 1991
7:11 PM		The Monkees Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day The Monkees Rhino 1966
7:14 PM		John Foxx A New Kind of Man (Alternative Version) The Virgin Years 1980-1985 Metamatic Records 2014 orig 1980
7:18 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jack Teagarden's Big Eight - The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
7:21 PM		Judee Sill Things Are Lookin' Up Dreams Come True - Hi, I Love You Right Heartily Here: New Songs Water 2006 recorded early 70s for unreleased 3rd album
7:25 PM		Mel & Tim Starting All Over Again Starting All Over Again Stax 1972
7:28 PM		The Adverts New Day Dawning No Time to be 21/New Day Dawning Bright Records 1978
7:30 PM		Girlschool Back to Start Hit and Run Bronze 1981
7:34 PM		The Jam But I'm Different Now Sound Affects (Remastered) Polydor Records 1980
7:36 PM		Talib Kweli Get By Quality Rawkus Entertainment 2002
7:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jack Teagarden's Big Eight - The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
7:42 PM		Johnnie Taylor I've Been Born Again Super Taylor Stax 1974
7:45 PM		Thorinshield Brave New World Thorinshield Philips 1967
7:48 PM		Fake Fruit Old Skin Fake Fruit Rocks In Your Head 2021
7:49 PM		Thatcher On Acid New Thing Curdled All the Madmen Records 1987
7:51 PM		Zero Boys New Generation Vicious Circle Nimrod Records 1981
7:52 PM		Animals and Men Don't Misbehave in the New Age Don't Misbehave in the New Age TW Records 1979
7:54 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jack Teagarden's Big Eight - The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
7:56 PM		The Velvet Underground I'm Set Free The Velvet Underground MGM 1969

Chat is archived.

LET'S START

321 Go!

Greetings commie wish

Wish i knew you were filling in for dylan lol

Nobody tells me anything round here 😂🤣

I had that side wind, but it's all good!

Yeah dylan again nailed it !

Ya think? lol

that happens to me all the time jerry! i'm like HERE COMES CJ and then it's freddie AGAIN

Haha happy new year commie all the best to you and yours

happy new year Jerry!

when we were in the studio at least you'd have an idea because the actual person would show up eventually. usually

True

Happy new year!

Requests? Like those concept album side songs? Could be a whole marathon show in and of itself.

I've had no shows at every job. lol

yeah but when you're telling the whole delaware valley "up next is DJ joe schmoe" and then they don't show up, or last second someone else shows up....

oops!

Hey Joe!

my dog is walking around my "studio" carrying an enormous stuffed pig

Dylan is not built for 6 on saturdays me thinks

What does the Pig think about that?

hi commie!

HNY!

Diggin the jamz

hiya esoterica! and happy new year gboss!

hi! better than bucks naked! wait i am getting my sense of humor back

ABBA was a stuffed pig!

buck wild loves bucks fizz!

@esoterica! That's important! Like a sense of smell, but more worthy to have.

totally! sorry, wasn't making fun of buck wild! great name btw

wow this rocks

oh i was just punning, not saying anything to you erica!

I dump on Buck's County all the time. :)

i get you, commie!:) thx

and yes, haha roffle, on your first comment, humor key always

love all these great selections

thanks!

Happy New Year WPRB-universe!!

you haven't played DM since last year. so you good

happy new year colin!

and speaking of DM, DM and Nitzer Ebb is still one of my most favorite concert experiences.

Thanks Eso!

New World Coming by Mama Cass Elliot

I've had a hankering for some REM for a few weeks now and this is a great remedy song!

Me too!

love rem!

totally high fives corage

and Eso!

haha yes! high fives

i got lifes rich pageant when it was discarded from the library and it might be my favorite rem record

i loved them live back in the 80s and 90s

Takes you back!

which one of us is a good bullshit detector. i tend to be too trusting ha!

I'm a novenber baby so everybody is sus.

another band on that compilation were CHUMBAWAMBA who wrote to all the other bands saying they should keep working together and passion killers are the only ones who wrote back. they ended up moving in with chumbawamba and getting absorbed into the band

Ha! just refreshed my playlist and ohhhh a comp.

With a name like that, absorbing sounds tame.

Wowwww...5 hr Commie-thon? Yes pleeazzzze!

my breeders cover band the breathers did this song

hi jimbo, happy new year!

Hi Commie, Happy New Year!

Of to a good START.

happy new year bo!

don

derg my tmb joke ruined. don't don't don't let's start

tmbg. what is typing

jim, and everybody thought the NYE party over last night. Dateline round 2!

Happy New Year all in the chat!

pethie's show last night made hanging around the house eating dinner into an EVENT

agree, commie! peth rocked it

Typing? Stephen King did that I think.

hi ambrose! HNY

was checking my oxygen levels lol

Altitude knows no oxygen levels.

The Ex!!

YOU KNOW IT

Did they just sing Washington State? Holy shit, I don't understand the brough

yes chasing the contras to washington state

Huh! Fuck me! Cool!

i'm honestly not sure what they mean and they may be mixing up state and dc haha

but they're pretty smart people so maybe not

Love the smart, make us think. Then there are dummies. Fuck me some more! lol

I am looking at those folks, so thanks for that.

Good evening and happy new year everyone!!

oh always happy to evangelize about chumbawamba! they are a candidate for my favorite band.

Heya Rob!

happy new year rob and rob's wife!

@Commie, are you taking requests?

what is your wife's name rob?

bo MAYBE. i'm a little strapped for time and want to play everything i have. but i might swap out for a particularly great request

Hi Esoterica! How are you?

Hi Commie and Roffle!

And hi Esoterica, how are you this evening?

hi ambrose. i am weak but hanging in there. oxygen was just at 97%, tin y bit worried about NY fatigue and breathing. but i think i am just panicking. good music = healing for sure

and thanks!

hi rob! thanks. you guys are all so nice:) HNY

@Commie Lisa

@Commie, no worries, you have the wheel, I was thinking The Specials Dawning Of A New Era.

*my fatigue

@esoterica, hang in there!!

will do!

We Love you esoterica! You bring us musical joy. We need you well and feeling so good. You good guys take us with you. Love it! Your a nice place, get well and set the next playlist please!

aw i missed that you're sick, i'm so sorry to hear that esoterica!

@Esoterica, we're all rootin' for ya, baby steps.💪

hm i might be able to fit that in bo, i will see

I’m straightening up around the pad and stopped to read the Luxury Space Transmissions…so I JUST read your 200th episode memories minutes before you just doubled down on your Chumbawumba recommendation. Happy New Year!

here comes one i left out of the bell show

on account of only one bell

at this point i'm like whatever the 50 times version of doubling down is

I simply love bells!

happy new year Nathan!

So good!

OMG this song came out right as my family was moving from Virginia to Italy. It used to make me cry. Starting all over again indeed

lol i'm glad i checked that specials song for swears. i never expect them to be swearing but they swear a lot!!

aw rob

Virginia to Italy? Just broke my mind Rob!

It was and to me still is so poignant

Evening New Years, All! 🎊💙⭐🔥

For way earlier, nice kickoff of A Tribe Called Quest!

Roffle, my father was in the military. While there I eventually discovered Radio Luxembourg broadcasting in English after sundown the now sounds of England from 1973/4. All the glam. Hearing the station changed my life

Hey Rob, I love you're regard for this station. I really get it man! So cool!

I love the smart guys and gals!

@Commie, I was wondering that too, I'm not offended either way.😁

thanks, ambrose, commie and roffle!

bo this one is for you for consolation

i LOVE the jam!

then it's also for you for cynical healing energy!

Yeoo Eso...hope you are feeling better!

@Commie, Ha! I've had The Jam's Start in my head for days, thanks for playing them, never heard that version before!

hi jimbeaux:) i am in bed checking oxygen levels... glad i just found an inhaler rummaging around. how are you?

Cynical healing energy? That's the wicked Witch I want... lol

this song has me swaying. thanks, commie

haha yeah roffle

it's paul weller, it's always gonna be at least a little arch

true, and thank you, commie!

just read that weller caught covid and canceled dates in early december

@Esoterica, jaysus!

Still feeling that Get By track, and did feel an early 2000s vibe, which it is! The golden days, where music is more than music!

i love that one!

it is definitely very of its time

My guitar plugeg! Thanks Commie

what

Amped... lol

oh haha

keep that beat going!

Excuse my French.

Enjoying this set😊

one of my fave songs

i can't abide her politics but dear lord moe tucker is my drumming idol

ok everyone refresh in a minute!!!! new playlist!