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Uneasy Listening

Apr 16, 2022 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Commie Francis

One Is Silver and the Other Gold

Songs about gold and silver!

8:01 PM		Bay City Rollers Saturday Night Rollin' Arista 1974
8:04 PM		Richard Lloyd Alchemy R Alchemy Rhino/Elektra 1979 requested by Mark in Philly
8:07 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Klezmorim - Die Zilberne Khasene
8:09 PM		Le Tigre The The Empty Le Tigre Mr. Lady Records, Le Tigre Records 1999
8:11 PM		Fanny Solid Gold Mothers Pride Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 1973
8:14 PM		The Soft Boys Each of Her Silver Wands Nextdoorland Matador 2002
8:16 PM		Manu Chao Lágrimas de oro Clandestino Virgin 1998
8:19 PM		The Clean Golden Crown Getaway Merge Records 2001
8:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Winifred Atwell - Golden Tango
8:23 PM		Gordon Bok The Golden Vanity The Ways of Man Folk-Legacy Records 1978 feat. Ann Mayo Muir & Ed Trickett
8:29 PM		Pixies Silver Doolittle 4AD 1989
8:31 PM		Rudimentary Peni Black on Gold Cacophony Outer Himalayan 1988
8:32 PM		At Night Fake Gold demo tracks 2022 brand new band from Philly! See em April 24 at the Foto Club in Philly!
8:35 PM		Joachim Witt Goldener Reiter Silberblick WM Germany 1981
8:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Fucked Up - Looking for Gold (Part 2)
8:42 PM		Lead Belly Mama, Did You Bring Any Silver? Gwine Dig a Hole to Put the Devil In: The Library of Congress Recordings, Vol. 2 (Recorded by Alan Lomax) New Rounder 1991 aka Gallis Pole
8:49 PM		Beacon Street Union Green Destroys The Gold The Eyes Of The Beacon Street Union MGM 1968
8:52 PM		Electrified-Fukuko Golden Gate Gamble '86 Telegraph Records 1985
8:55 PM		Fugitive Bubble Silver Spoon Fugitive Bubble Impotent Fetus 2020
8:56 PM		Penny Wise Silver Girl Silver Girl / Jacky's S.S.S. Imperial 1967
8:58 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Organisation - Silver Forest
9:00 PM		Radio Birdman Man With Golden Helmet Radios Appear Trafalgar 1977
9:05 PM		Tammy Wynette and George Jones Golden Ring Golden Ring Columbia/Legacy 1976
9:08 PM		Progressive Labor Party Smash the Banks of Marble R Power to the Working Class PLP-LP 1971 requested by my dad!
9:11 PM		Fifth Column Golden Girl Decadent Disco! 1985
9:14 PM		Pugh Rogefeldt Silver-Lona Bolla och Rulla WM Sweden 1974
9:18 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Moondog - Golden Fleece
9:21 PM		Clorox Girls Golden Boy Clorox Girls Smartguy Records 2004
9:22 PM		Wipers Silver Sail Silver Sail Zenorecords 1993
9:26 PM		Girls At Our Best! Go for Gold Pleasure Rdeg 1981
9:29 PM		The Creation No Silver Bird No Silver Bird / The Warmth of Love Centurion 1968
9:31 PM		AHEADS Solid Gold Promises AHEADS Mad Butcher Classic 1981
9:33 PM		Zowiso Zilvere Bagagedrager At a Jogtrot to Death Atoomaatje Records 1982
9:34 PM		The Dukes of Stratosphear Your Gold Dress 25 O'Clock Virgin 1985
9:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Ennio Morricone - The Ecstasy of Gold
9:40 PM		The Delmore Brothers Silver Dollar Silver Dollar / There's Trouble On My Mind Today Decca 1940
9:43 PM		Chimera Silver Man Holy Grail (Deluxe Version) Morgan Blue Town 2017 recorded late 60s
9:46 PM		Stone Creations Hands on a Golden Key The "It" Song / Hands On A Golden Key Fly-by-Nite Records 1973
9:49 PM		The Boy Hairdressers Golden Shower Golden Shower 53rd & 3rd 1987
9:52 PM		The Cups Good As Gold Good As Gold / My Life And Times Tetragrammaton Records 1969
9:54 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Golden Stars - Tela de los Golden Stars
9:57 PM		Michael Nesmith & The First National Band Silver Moon Loose Salute RCA Victor 1970
10:00 PM		Freddy Cannon Transistor Sister Transistor Sister - Single Swan Records 1961
10:03 PM		Bad Breeding Human Capital N Human Capital Iron Lung 2022
10:07 PM		Intentions Dig It (Shovel) Dig It (Shovel) / Blowing With The Wind Tiki 1971
10:10 PM		Elli & Jacno Main dans la Main Main dans la Main Vogue 1980 `
10:14 PM		Nuha Ruby Ra My Voice N My Voice - Single Brace Yourself Records 2022
10:17 PM		Red Beret Look Behind When Men Were Men... And Sheep Were Scared V/A Bemisbrain Records 1985
10:19 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:22 PM		Eddy Current Suppression Ring Demon's Demands Demon's Demands / I'm Guilty Iron Lung 2008
10:28 PM		Egoslavia Right For Pictures S/T 9½ x 16" Records 1982
10:31 PM		Double Cheese Hiyw N Thee Black Album Dirty Water 2022
10:33 PM		Tubeway Army Listen to the Sirens Tubeway Army Beggars Banquet 1978
10:36 PM		Joey Pastrana My Victrola (Mi Victrola) Hot Pastrana Fania 1968
10:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:41 PM		Freestyle Fellowship Inner City Boundaries / Bomb Zombies Innercity Griots Island Records 1993
10:47 PM		Reanna Coleman You're in My Pocket N You're in My Pocket - Single Emotional Rescue 2022 orig 1984
10:52 PM		La Neve Work to Rule N History Solved - EP La Neve 2022
10:55 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:57 PM		Chumbawamba The Day the Nazi Died Uneasy Listening

Chat is archived.

🎶🎶 Saturday night 🎶🎶

gonna rock it up roll it up do it all have a ball

Hello everyone

Hi ya Commie! Gonna have to think about this ...

Hi Rob!

Hi Ambrose!

Let's gooooo

What a great opener!

Hi TAndy!

Great song!

Hey Rob and Ambrose and DJ Commie Francis!

Hi ya Tandy!

hi tandy rob bo!

Ready for the music to Inject me with energy to get my night started

@Commie, once again you have dealt me a bad hand, all I can come up with is Bad Company.

haha bill suggested that as a joke and then a friend of mine suggested it for real.

don't worry, leave it to the pros! the unpaid pros

Dadgumit. Soft Boys!!!

Hello COMIE!

@Commie, I worry not.

hello RICARD!

Hi! Shite! I've been singing BCR all day and then I miss it :(

Soft spot in my heart for Manu Chao!

me too!

Never enough Clean you Boddlers

Boodlers :)

haha love it

This man has a voice to be reckoned with.

who knew the low land brought so much peril?

it's the treachery of men when it comes down to it

Reminds me of Tommy Makem.

i think he did a nice version with the clancy brothers! bok also does a great version of "three score and ten" which they also did

@Commie👍

That Gordon Bok song took me back to when I listened to a lot of folk music

did you listen to him? or just the general vibe

@ Rob from Maryland Yes, Gordon Bok is one of the New England folk greats. I wish he were better known. Thanks, Commie Francis, for playing his classic rendition of "Golden Vanity."

...thought they were singing about The Golden Manatee.

@ Commie Francis (host) Bok performed at my college a longgggg time ago. Loved his way of gently swaying the low notes. l used to have him on vinyl. Time for me to restock Gordon Bok in CD and/or digital.

@ Commie Francis (host) There's heavy metal but I love your theme tonight of precious metal!

i ordered some $3 lps off of discogs after listening to like 20 songs the other day! then found out bill has some in the basement

@Commie, iirc I had a friend who liked Gordon Bok and I may have taped an album from her, maybe even seen him. It was about 40 years ago though.

@jimbeaux, me too. What was the word that wasn't "Manatee"?

@ Commie Francis (host) You're a true alchemist: You've turned lead(belly) into silver! :-))

@Commie, any Stranglers in the box?

@ Rob from Maryland 🌻 🇺🇦 It was "Vanity", not "Manatee."

@Richard From Rockie Hill, LMIAO!😝

@Commie, I also did some general vibe listening, and bought a few albums, like a Stan Rogers live album with his awesome Barrett's Privateers song (Between the Breaks ... Live!). In the end though, punk and indiepop won out.

@Richard, of course! It was in the song title.

@ Rob from Maryland 🌻 🇺🇦 Hey, I've got one! I know that Lead Belly is singing about "Save me from the gallows pole," but it sounds like "Save me from the Gallup Poll." ;-))

@ Rob from Maryland 🌻 🇺🇦 Maybe it's really about a politician who's not doing well going into the mid-term elections ...

THIS!

More than you ever need to know:

https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/thegoldenvanity.html

(But fascinating)

@jimbeaux, Damn... Thanks!

@Commie Francis, maybe some Silver Jews?

band names don't count sorry!

Oooh...how about Scarlet & Gold by 13th Fl Elevators?

Arghhhh!

😍 Radio Birdman!

this song reminds me a lot of long black veil, i'm not sure if that's intentional

@Commie, now that you say it!🤔

I love Mie Ness' version of Long Black Veil btw.

*Mike*

@Richard, you're on to something with your Gallup Poll!

Evening all, from qn unexpected shower in the rain on errands 🌧

DAMN THIS IS GOOD!😍

toronto punx on cassette!

@ Commie Francis (host) Wow! May Day in April! The Progressive Labor Party singers really bring it on that one, especially with their version of the verses ("We will smash those banks of marble/ And kick the bosses out the door!"

FUCKIN' THE SHIT!

yeah the plp doesn't want to own the banks

The Fifth Column song was quite good.

WIPERS!

Go For Gold!

Golden like Jill Scott 💛

THIS!

@ Commie Francis (host) Girls At Our Best ... yet another awesome band I would be sooooo clueless about if it wasn't for WPRB hosts like you. "Go for Gold" wins a Gold from me tonight. So does this edition of Uneasy Listening (as ever).

hooray! they are definitely a wprb all-star

Ugh this SO goooooooooood

chimera was not signed to apple due to george harrison's veto! and they never got their record out til the 2000s

Why Geo hatin? C'mon.

Um. G.H. Veto?!?

This is fanTAStic

I'm SOOO down with this song!😍

i uploaded a picture of the stone creations but that's all the info i can find about them

Red Rhodes on lap pedal steel guitar ladies and gentlemen

bad breeding GOOD.

good bad breeding

Only the best bad breeding

i booted up the lappy just to sign on say good bad breeding! and it appears the chat agrees!

and happy saturday night to you all.

hi colin!

i'm a little surprised no one was flipping over the intentions like i was haha. well at least not verbally

Hi ya Colin!

Goooooood Intentions! :)

Yeooo Colin!

This band kicks arse!

Garrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

he has the most charming social media

yeesh what nasty rain outside, the drive to work thru the backroads was fun though

perfect soundtrack from the show tonight for these spring deluges

excellent!

I walked from the supermarket lively center in the rain!

a roommate of mine once said it's ok to get wet, all it does is lower your social status

Were it not for my glasses I'd love to go for rain walks

Reanna Coleman <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

I loved it, getting wet, less smelly, blahaha

i still think about the time i was up in the attic playing diamanda galas and there was a wild thunderstorm

Never heard of this, but feels intensely of hits off from Classix Philly Friday nights 🔥❤...and love 80s songs

his jokes were funny and his taking points were interesting af, so unfortunate he got caught in the rain. reducing his social status to that of some muddy boots.

tonight i barely noticed the rain

i was listening to classix philly last friday and i forgot there's a long segment of planet rock that is purely kraftwerk and i got very confused

thinking they were just straight up playing kraftwerk. i was like ok i guess maybe r&b dance djs just play kraftwerk for people to dance to, seems logical

this song should've been a hit but i don't think it was

my buddy is an rnb dj. I have to ask if he sneaks kraftwork into his sets.

right after you sent that i heard the pouring rain on the warehouse roof again. i think mother nature agrees with u commie francis

i've definitely heard him play that reanna coleman song before.

it's now pretty legendary and collectible but that's because it's great and flopped at the time

Awesome Commie, I heard a lot of great remixes and random songs from DJ Bedrock. The most I love are Alicia Myers's You Get The Best Of Me and I Want To Thank You. Sometimes he also plays Marcia Griffiths "Electric"

Kicker song!!!!!

Thank you Commmmmmmiieeee🏁🏁🏁

Also yeah, Planet Rock uses the same 808 pattern as Numbers by Kraftwerk. Kraftwerk's impact on electronic music reachign far beyond their initial popularity, it's insane.

Thanks for the show by the way Commie Francis <3

The Basment Party by Touchetone and Lady B, they play songs I also love, like Radiance by Micstro and Rhythm by Kwame. I interacted with Lady B vocally a twice times, it was awesome and she's fiery energetic like on air.

great show! i was cooking and eating veggie pancakes during the first part of the show.

Chill Saturday get together as always Commie, great classix convo!

thanks everyone!

Thank you Commie for a great Show!

ooh we'll get to hear a decent amount of plugz tonight

>:)

this song rules my heart