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Uneasy Listening

Jan 1, 2022 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Commie Francis

Year End Wrapup/Best of 2021 part 2!

REMEMBER

8-10 I'll be playing one (new to that topic) song for every topic I did this year!

10-11 I'll be playing even yet still more 2021 favorites!

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8:01 PM		The Coup This Year Sorry to Bother You Anti/Epitaph 2012 THEME SONG
8:05 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over the Shocking Blue - Blue Jean
8:06 PM		Holly and the Italians Tell That Girl to Shut Up Tell That Girl to Shut Up Oval 1979 Shut up!
8:09 PM		Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger The Ballad of Springhill New Briton Gazette, Vol. 1 Folkways Records 1960 Canada
8:13 PM		DOOM Yes They Still Test on Dogs Corrupt Fucking System Black Cloud Records 2013 Yes
8:16 PM		Accessory Elektrik Elektrik Infacted Recordings 2019 Electricity
8:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over the Shocking Blue - Blue Jean
8:21 PM		Jimmy Soul & The Belmonts Everyone's Gone Ape Go 'Way Christina / Everybody's Gone Ape SPQR 1963 Primates
8:24 PM		Gene Marshall Jimmy Carter Says "YES" The American Song-Poem Anthology: Do You Know the Difference Between Big Wood and Brush? Bar/None Records 2003 Presidents
8:26 PM		Scaley Andrew Jersey Snow Nervous Twitch Teenbeat 1987 States
8:30 PM		Shonen Knife Tomato Head Rock Animals MCA 1993 Potatoes and Tomatoes
8:36 PM		Syndrome 81 À feu et à sang Béton nostalgie DESTRUCTURE 2017 Passover
8:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over the Shocking Blue - Blue Jean
8:42 PM		Tarzan 5 Boys Game 7" 021 Records 1981 1981
8:44 PM		Hierophants Change Parallax Error Goner 2015 Change
8:46 PM		Cattanooga Cats How Did I Get So Lucky? Cattanooga Cats Forward Records 1969 Luck
8:49 PM		The Grace Thrillers New Shoes By the Grace of God Showers of Blessings 1978 Shoes
8:51 PM		Run-a-Rounds I Couldn't Care Less I Can't Take You Back / I Couldn't Care Less Manel Records 1966 Caring
8:54 PM		Willful Neglect Good Clean Fun Willful Neglect Neglected Records 1982 Fun
8:55 PM		Tom Paxton The Last Thing On My Mind Ramblin' Boy =Elektra 1964 Apologies
8:58 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over the Shocking Blue - Blue Jean
8:59 PM		Big Sideways Conversation with a Machine Big Sideways Unsung Music 1982 Robots
9:03 PM		Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees Let's Put Out the Lights and Go To Bed Say It Isn't So / Let's Put Out The Lights Columbia 1932 Tired
9:07 PM		Le Bain Didonc Cheveux Dans le Vent Marcelle Riviera 1966 Wind
9:10 PM		Half Japanese I Wish I May The Band That Would Be King 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Watts Records 1989 Wishes
9:11 PM		Liz Phair Dance of the Seven Veils Exile In Guyville Matador 1993 Saints
9:14 PM		Crisis Frustration Hymns of Faith Ardkor 1980 Four words or fewer
9:18 PM		Wall of Voodoo Can't Make Love Wall of Voodoo Index 1980 LA
9:21 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over the Shocking Blue - Blue Jean
9:23 PM		Poly Styrene Shades Translucence United Artists 1980 Colors
9:26 PM		Hanson Brothers It's a Secret Gross Misconduct Alternative Tentacles 1992 Secrets
9:28 PM		The Smithereens Long Way Back Again A Date with the Smithereens RCA/Legacy 1994 Back!
9:32 PM		Vanity 6 Make-Up Vanity 6 Warner Brothers 1982 Make up
9:34 PM		Siouxsie & The Banshees Sin In My Heart Juju Polydor 1981 7 Deadly Sins
9:38 PM		Vain Aims You You / Count We Practise in a Garage Records 1980 You
9:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over the Shocking Blue - Blue Jean
9:42 PM		Wire Once is Enough 154 Harvest 1979 Enough
9:45 PM		The Monkees What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. Rhino 1968 Mike Nesmith
9:48 PM		The Pebbles Seven Horses In the Sky Seven Horses in the Sky / The Verger Barclay 1968 Horses
9:52 PM		Fred Rich and His Orchestra Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine) Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine)/The Rollickers Columbia 1929
9:55 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over the Shocking Blue - Blue Jean
9:58 PM		Blitz New Age New Age / Fatigue Future Records 1983 finale!
10:00 PM		Freddy Cannon Transistor Sister Transistor Sister - Single Swan Records 1961
10:03 PM		Mundo Primitivo Despierto Paisaje Interior Static Shock 2021
10:03 PM		Fugitive Bubble Tornado No Outside Impotent Fetus 2021
10:05 PM		Poison Ruïn Doppelgänger S/T Urge 2021
10:09 PM		Dry Cleaning Scratchcard Lanyard New Long Leg 4AD 2021
10:13 PM		Nervous Triggers Radiation Suit N Radiation Suit - Single Money Toilet Records 2021
10:16 PM		Lasso Rombo Lasso Lasso 2021
10:17 PM		Go_A SHUM SHUM - Single Universal Music Polska Sp. z o.o. 2021
10:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:24 PM		Alien Nosejob Crusader of Coles N Paint It Clear Feel It Records 2021
10:27 PM		Child's Pose Eyes to the Right Eyes to the Right Thrilling Living 2021
10:30 PM		Pinch Points Reasons to Be Anxious N Reasons to Be Anxious - Single Exploding In Sound Records 2021
10:32 PM		Spike In Vain God on Drugs N Disease Is Relative Scat Records 2021 originally 1984
10:34 PM		Civic As Seen On TV N Future Forecast Flightless Records 2021
10:38 PM		Abi Ooze AB A N R.I.P. Ketchup and Mustard Industries 2021 `
10:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:43 PM		The Linda Lindas Racist, Sexist Boy (Live at LA Public Library) Racist, Sexist Boy (Live at LA Public Library) - Single Epitaph 2021
10:45 PM		Generacion Suicida Identidad N Regeneracion Generacion Suicida 2021
10:47 PM		Det Jordiska Vakten Är Död Grisarnas År Lazy Octopus Records 2021
10:50 PM		Rotura Insurrección Estamos fracasando El Lokal 2021
10:52 PM		Wet Leg Chaise Longue Chaise Longue - Single Domino Recording Co 2021
10:56 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:59 PM		Chumbawamba The Day the Nazi Died Uneasy Listening

Chat is archived.

We Here?

HERE WE ARE

Hey, where did you find that photo of Lisa and me?

Open for business!

I Play with genius online, but why can't WPRB do this live? Used to have insanely stuff happen! Who dropped that ball?

Man that photo of me and Sharon looking at the playlist is perfect.

Sounded a bit like Tina Turner for a sec

hi, commie. agree re: moe tucker. was struck by the anger in her discussion of hippies in the VU doc... reactionary rant...

agree, ossy, re: tina turner sound

💖⭐

The Holly + Italians song has also been stuck in my head for a month or two in my lifetime.

Mojo Jojo to Bubbles - Oh, Shut Up!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

lol

love old ballads

When the dark was the sky and the faries did play

sad tale of nova scotia mine

nothing like a good old dead miner song!

yup

Nice to hear the late great Ewan McColl, Luke Kelly did a powerful version of this.

It's Electric- Marcia Griffiths ⚡💛⭐

300 shows? Wowza.

i know right???

You could a 300-song marathon to celebrate your 300th show. (Just kidding!)

hmmm...300. Songs about bowling a perfect game?

300 shows is a lot

haaa maybe for my 500th show rob, i'll start planning now

my 100th show i added up how many times i played each band and counted down my top most played bands. chumbawamba won obvs although i didn't count each instance of "saturday night for the bay city rollers

i had played 1550 bands at that time

thank you jimmy carter for making homebrewing legal!

oh man missed opportunity to play the i'm from new jersey station ID

@Jimbeaux, Amen to that!

yeaux bo!

As the flurry turns to a storm. Nice weenish guitar solo.

that song is very jon solomon christmas marathon

i'd guess it has been played on that a time or two

This set is 💥💥💥

these sets are constructed pretty much by chance which i am pretty into

they're in sequential order by when the shows were

did everyone hear that probably a METEOR exploded above pittsburgh today? happy new year!

I hadn't, Commie, but I have found a couple of accounts about it

Le Bain Didonc was meteoric ☄☄☄

i would just like to say i forgot the lyrics of this til i was already playing it and this bleeping is on the fly you're welcome i got skills

a testament to how many times i listened to this record in high school

quality bleepin

DËFT BLËËPIN

stone cold bleepin

Bloop bleep

😍Poly Styrene

So mellow

not anymore sorry

ossy i think a song i'm playing in a couple of minutes may make you happy

next one after smithereens

Oh yes oh yes Vanity 6

this was another HUGE oversight in the original show!!

I love Prince’s rendition of this too!

And the cover by Soft Pink Truth

soft pink truth did it too but they could barely make it any hipper!

The last song that played gave me a flashback of Dana K's disco show on Laborwave. Splendid holiday ever!

Yes, but Drew Daniel is dreamy, so three’s that.

appropriately i just had to go scrub off some perfume i didn't like (not the pizza perfume)

the songs drew daniel chose to cover for that crust punk soft pink truth album made me think i must KNOW him

I WISH I knew him (swoon)

What an explosive start, can it get anymore better? Actress Halle Berry married to singer, Van Hunt! 🔥⭐. Just found out now!

aw that's nice!

And I love Van's "Dust" song. What a forgotten rnb classic!

i wonder if there are enough dust songs for a dust show theme

Umlauts are röllin 🚛🚛🚛

Lots of dust! You can do it.

🎶 I am Dust, Over the edge, over the edge 🎶 jimbeaux

*wonders if radiation suits are available on amamzon...

Hang on, kids!

Nite nite everyone! Thanks for a wonderful show, Commie

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night rob!

Ha!

*takes a quick look to see if there any amazon gift cards laying about.

gift card radiation suit. good album title.

GCRS = Gift Card Robert Smith?

god cursed robert smith

Oh my gosh! I remember loving this song way back when!

(God on Drugs)

scat records reissued this and put out their unreleased second album this year!

That was super crunchy

Like a Crunchie bar!

Very cool!

It’s strange to hear a song that you haven’t listened to in 35 or so years

NEVER heard it...so goooooooood!

popped back in to say love everything you have been playing...and good night!

thanks, rest well esoterica!

thanks, commie:)

sending you oxygenated vibes

digging this det jodiska

jordiska

this record is fantastic, hard to get in the states though

Thank you for keeping global punk on wprb 🌌🌌🌌

i do it because i must!

WET LEG😄

This song is STILL funny...and good.

Yo I got to see generacion suicida in Chicago once, they ruled! Only got to catch tail end of the show but it's been great, happy new year!

Did the big D last all day long as well? Confused...

@jimbeaux 😝😝😝

Yeooo dude!

Thank you Commie!

Happy Start!! To the 2022⭐🎊🎇☀️

Sup 2022beaux

i saw them in pittsburgh in summer 2019 the_dude, SO GOOD

good night everyone, thanks for listening! Will CJ be next, we will see