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The Lights Are On But Everyone's Home

Apr 20, 2022 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

With deirdre dionysiac

"hot adult content." Trying my best to make 1/56th of your week a bit better.

THE LIGHTS ARE ON, BECAUSE EVERYONE DONATES (TO PLEDGE.WPRB.COM)

Fund M-U-S-I-C (and watery monologuing) that is Ornery and Overthought, Unctuous and Unkempt, Anosmic and Addictive at PLEDGE.WPRB.COM !!!!!!!! Do it for noted Octo-Dad Dan Ruccia !

12:01 PM		ALAN SPLET, DAVID LYNCH, ANN KROEBER Machine, Rhythmic Sounds of a Different Realm Sound Mountain, L.A. 2000
12:01 PM		Set Break: ▲▼▲▼▲▼ BUBBLEGUM GROVEL ▲▼▲▼▲▼
12:01 PM		DAVE VORHAUS The DIY Machine Mind Games KPM Music, UK 1989
12:02 PM		FRED WEINBERG Money Talks The Weinberg Method of Non-Synthetic Electronic Rock Anvil Records, US 1970 ( ( ( under mic ) ) )
12:04 PM		LES LEVINE Hereditary Language Artsounds Collection Philips, Dublin 1986
12:07 PM		TOMMY MANDEL Ain't Got No $ Starlight / Watusi / Mellomagic id, US 2002
12:12 PM		RIGHEIRA No Tengo Dinero Righeira CGD, Italy 1983
12:15 PM		MCGRUFF THE CRIME DOG Marijuana McGruff's Smart Kids Album The Advertising Council, US 1986
12:18 PM		DISCO INFERNO Footprints in Snow (Outtro) D. I. Go Pop Rough Trade, UK 1994
12:19 PM		ROCCO NOTTE & RICHARD BUSH Wake Up in Baby's Room Elysian Fields Mu-Psych, Bensalem (PA) 1985 ( ( ( under mic ) ) )
12:26 PM		Set Break: /\/\/\/\ CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE /\/\/\/\
12:26 PM		PHILIP SANDERSON This Is Not a Game On One of These Bends Séance Centre, UK 2018
12:29 PM		MASAMI TSUCHIYA Alone Alone CBS/Sony, Japan 1983
12:32 PM		CHRIS WIND I Am Eve The Art of Juxtaposition self-released, Canada 1987
12:36 PM		LARRY POLANSKY 4-Voice Canon No.14 Four Voice Canons Cold Blue Music, Hanover (NH) 2002
12:37 PM		NETTY SIMONS, BARBARA BRITTON, LOU GILBERT My Shadow Music For Young Listeners: The Pied Piper, Puddintame and Set of Poems for Children Composers Recordings Inc., US 1973
12:39 PM		ORQUESTA DE LAS NUBES Cadaver Exquisito El Orden del Azar Linterna Música, Spain 1985
12:40 PM		COLMAN Forest of Axes Daedalus Sfinks Animatie vzw, Belgium 1986
12:43 PM		OFFICER! Hid It ('Cos I Wanted You to Find It) Yes Yes No No Yes No Yes Klanggalerie, UK 1988
12:45 PM		ADAM BOHMAN Animal Biology (Spoiled by Mum) Bunhill Row Paradigm Discs, UK 2006
12:46 PM		ERNEST HOOD The Secret Place Neighborhoods Freedom to Spend, Portland (OR) 1975 ( ( ( under bridge, under mic ) ) )
12:54 PM		Set Break: ▲▼▲▼▲▼ ONE-SIDED LOVE SONGS ▲▼▲▼▲▼
12:55 PM		MAYBE MENTAL Memories of My Birth To Cease Burning self-released, Arizona 1975
12:59 PM		GARY WILSON When You Walk Into My Dreams You Think You Really Know Me MCM, US 1977
1:02 PM		HALF JAPANESE Secret We Are They Who Ache With Amorous Love Psycho Acoustic Sounds, Uniontown (MD) 1990
1:04 PM		JACKIE CHAN, HOLLY LOVE Dear Jackie Dear Jackie Elektra, Japan 1982
1:12 PM		SIS Q LINT Chapel of Memories Pre-Need E.P. Lint Trap Productions, Los Angeles 1984
1:15 PM		MICHELE MERCURE Proteus and the Marlin Eye Chant Quick Shower Music, PA 1986 ( ( ( under mic ) ) )
1:30 PM		Set Break: /\/\/\/\ DINNER MUSIC FOR A PACK OF HUNGRY CANNIBALS /\/\/\/\
1:30 PM		INSIEMEMUSICADIVERSA Untitled Insiememusicadiversa PATEAN Records, Italy 1980
1:30 PM		THE RAYMOND SCOTT QUINTETTE Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals Microphone Music Basta, NYC 2010 rec. 1937
1:34 PM		JANET SHERBOURNE & MARK LOCKETT All You Can Eat Slower Than Molasses Practical Music, UK 1986
1:38 PM		LIX Eat Her Lix Fat Records & Tapes, Sweden 1984
1:42 PM		SANDII Eating Pleasure Eating Pleasure Alfa, Japan 1980
1:45 PM		THE PALACE AT 4 A.M. Kiss of a Fish Untamed World Collective Ego, Canada 1982
1:49 PM		PTÔSE Eat Your Fish Ignobles Limaces Ayaa, France 1984
1:51 PM		UN DÉPARTEMENT Seafood de Suzy Au Menu Halte aux Records!, France 2005
1:54 PM		THE ART OF PRIMITIVE SOUND Flying Rhombs Musical Instruments From Prehistory - The Paleolithic Hic Sunt Leones, Italy 1993 ( ( ( under mic ) ) )
1:54 PM		Set Break: ▲▼▲▼▲▼ DEVONIAN DRUM & BASS ▲▼▲▼▲▼
2:04 PM		STRAFE FR Devonian: Upper - 375 to 360 Million Years Ago Lufthunger Touch/Soleilmoon Recordings, Germany 1991
2:09 PM		EMMANUELLE PARRENIN Topaze Maison Rose Ballon noir, France 1977
2:13 PM		ELLEN FULLMAN & KONRAD SPRENGER Simple Words Ort Choose Records, Germany 2004
2:19 PM		DAPHNE ORAM Snow Oramics Paradigm Discs, UK 2007
2:27 PM		DAWN OF MIDI Algol Dysnomia Erased Tapes, Brooklyn 2013
2:30 PM		STEPHAN WITTWER Der rechte weg - End Title, Extended Version, Parts 1 & 2 Der rechte weg Electric Unicorn, Switzerland 1983 ( ( ( under mic ) ) )
2:40 PM		Set Break: /\/\/\/\ DEEP FRIED RADIO /\/\/\/\
2:40 PM		RICHARD PRINCE Loud Song Loud Song Fulton Ryder, Panama Canal Zone 2013
2:46 PM		HANATARASH My Dad Is Car 2 Alchemy Records, Japan 1988
2:52 PM		DAVID BENJAMIN Dancing on the Wire Dancing on the Wire ShockRock, US 1986 ( ( ( under spiked mic ) ) )
3:01 PM		MICHAEL KAROLI & POLLY ELTES You're the Driver Deluge Spoon Records, Germany 1984

Chat is archived.

On the back of an awesome 80s set by Breezy and Flex, the time is nigh! Hello everyone!!

Here we go!

Oh yes...great kick-off DJ Deirdre!

Heavy audio unctousity expected

pledge.wprb.com y'all!!

DJ Dan Ruccia 🐙, from the bathysphere!

Here for the triple Ds - Deirdre + Dan + Donors

Hey Brian, Christine, fellow lurking allegiants! Come on and, yes, do the bathysphere

The Lights Are On... is one of my favorite shows on WPRB, so I am so beyond delighted to be here with all my suction cups!

Ha! Sounded like a Negativland member when your vocal came on the air Dan R! Heloooooo

I just pre ordered that Smile lp as soon as I got the alert from the bandycamps...

New negativland that is?

Guess now is the time I should admit this: I am and have always been Negativland. Anyone claiming otherwise is lying to you

DJ Dan and DJ deirdre dionysiac disco dancing in the diving bell🪩

You got money so cough it up! 🤑🤑🤑

O sorry... no. I did not clarify... The Smile is Radiohead members. I wish there was new Negativland!

WPRB gives me the strength of Sting (as seen above) each and every day

After the drive is over we will all be like, "no tengo dinero" 💸 💸 💸

Ruff.

Ha ha! McGruff! The CRIME DOG!

We, as a station, subjected ourself to this with the deeply suspect decision to start the drive on 4/20

WPRB: Where we promise all our listeners the strength of Sting

Take a bite out of...that edible. 🍪

Exactly the song to hear when that edible kicks in

Guess I'm banging my head against the wall

😂😂

This Mcgruff guy is full a lies

This is the lesser song than "Crack & Cocaine" on the cassette, but unfortunately we don't have national crack and cocaine day...

Not yet anyway

I think my favorite track from that is 'glad I'm me'

I remember the Rock Against Drugs (RAD) ads/psa's on MTV.... Gene Simmons had an extremely cringey one so bad=good. David Crosby had one too which was great fodder for stand up comedians & late night tv

Happy 4/20 all!

The story of the voice actor is wild too , guess whay he got arrested for?

That McGruff looks pretty sketchy with that raincoat...

Tax evaping?

didn't they find McGruff in an alley in Trenton with a needle in his paw in the 90's ? he had soiled his raincoat .. tragic .

The chorus was fire though

Octofather!

My one octokid will maybe show up on Saturday

NOT the assistant dj!

Isn't everyday Crack&Cocaine Day?

The ad agency responsible for McGruff was named "Dancer Fitzgerald Sample".. can't write this stuff... wprb DJ name? Show name? Grab it!

@the_dude, I'm afraid to ask. I played McGruff on drive day in good faith and moral repute

I found the rucksack they mentioned, but strangely it's red, not blue. 🎒 This might mean I'm in an alternate universe.

PRB is not on its own! And it's not bad https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mcgruff-the-crime-dog-actor-gets-16-years-in-prison/

The grenade launcer is unexpected though

Christine, I see you've been in that red rucksack? Thanks for the pledge!!

Ahhh the arrested guy was a McGruff "live" costume wearer. I think the voice over guy was clean. Lived a long life the voice actor

Next thing, Brian, you're gonna tell me that shopping mall santa wasn't the real santa, either

Like Santa Claus kids, McGruff has "many helpers" ha

1000 marijuana plants 😢

Beat me to it Dan ha!

voice actor guy was part of that ad agency

Looks like picture from Solebury Orchards...

Great place to walk around during past few years off season. A deserted apple orchard. Clears the head. Smells good too!

Mmmm, I see you have chosen your adventure

This show right here... right now is why you donate to wprb!

Now feels like a good moment to request one of Ligeti's nonsense madrigals, but I"ll save that for another day

But frankly, these selections are just as fun

Ooo i choose hedge maze as my next adventure (turns to page 72...)

I'm dog-earing that one for you, Dan

Oh nice catch! Always missed that... but great encouragement to pledge today, and stoked for the week ahead

👏Way to go Christine!

I GOT THE JOOKY SEA CAPTAIN!

Bag 👀

LOVING the show so far.

Kids if you aren't quiet in the car I'm going to put on the Maybe Mental cassette on infinite loop..

and the psychopathy kicks in ! that's PRB to me ..

Your stokedness stokes me, all of you!

Arizona energy 🤝 WPRB energy

Maybe with all your donations, we can start a WPRB Arizona bureau to more directly channel its energy?

pledge.wprb.com

Our favorite stalker strides in..

WPaRizonaB?

As soon as you posted that Deirdre! I was thinking earlier.. Wow i hope Gary Wilson makes an appearance! Thank you!

And especially from this lp. One of the tiny percent of artists i actually know on TLAOBEH show

6.4 = wprb

Half Japanese 💘

Wow.. McGruff, Gary Wilson, Half Japanese... going all mainstream ha ha

3 that i know now

Lol, it's sell out season. I know you guys know this fella

JACKIE

YES! BREAK OUT ALL THE FAVES! PLEDGE DRIVE!

My room is full of 100 pictures of WPRB

Ha the obi on the cover here looks like Reynolds Wrap aluminium foil box!

And of course... 80s sax solo

Haha, it does! These are the important cross-cultural connections WPRB creates

A question for everyone: have our mics sounded good and non-echoey for you all so far?

I said before i think that this just needs Max Headroom to make an appearance for 80s perfection

🎙 Microphones sounding good @deridre @dan

I would prefer more echo, distortion, creepy effects, harmonizers on the vocal mics... one can dream. That's the adventure i choose

If I had the time right now, I'd do a quick photoshop to replace all the flowers on the cover with Max Headroom

Dan, speaking the language, speaking the language!

That's what every girl wants, right, a Max Headroom Bouquet?

Maybe we can have that as a future fund drive premium?

That actor was on Orphan Black (Max H) and i just could not get Max out of my head

That actor Matt Frewer i should say

Jooky Sea Captain, Max Headroom Bouquet, tote bag... i gotta collect them all!

That was a wild and unsettling set of unrequited love songs

Gary Wilson has a board in his studio with a Stalker Knob and a Creepy Knob turned way up. In a good way!

Raymond Scott!

This one came from a pact of weird Jersey radio solidarity via Irwin Chusid of WFMU, who wrote the liner notes to this album!

WPRB: All time music for a pack of hungry cannibals

I'm getting hungry, but not quite to the point of eyeing the flesh of my comrades. There's still time..

Day one of the Membership Drive and the DJs have already started trending towards cannibalism. Uh oh.

We're going to eat people LATER Jon. I think we're safe for now?

Phew.

Saw a meme about "death metal band involved in tour van crash resorts to cannibalism before help arrives.. etc" the other day

😳

Although this does make we want to watch What We Do in the Shadows again....

@brian: Gives a new meaning to Cannibal Corpse

Good lawd, what band are they???

It's not political, it's not perverse. Pucker up to the fish.

Oh just a meme no real band but .. maybe not a far cry from some stories about Scandinavian death metal bands..

Now I feel like we're in the abandoned foodhall part of Spirited Away

And now for the fun game.... Is it a meme caption? Or is it an Onion headline? Or both... more after these words...

Is that Bath Boy on the PTÔSE album art?! 🛀🏼

Bath boy looking rough these days...

I'd offer "is it a Hard Times screenshot" into game consideration.

nice sounds as always! happy drive:)

WPRB truly is Freaky People Joined Together by the Music (thank you Al Doum & The Faryds)

true, c!

Hey DJ Deirdre and DJ Dan! Happy Pledge Drive kick off!

also happy bday dj dan's daughter if I heard that correctly

Yes Hard Times as well!

Hey DSM! Her birthday is on the last day of the fund drive!

Hi Esoteria, Jon, DSM, and any other new chat faces that I havent mentioned be name!

I will also take this moment to once again mention pledge.wprb.com

Emmanuelle Perrenin just put out a new album and it's just as weird and delightful as this one

I love a good return from retirement after 50 years off recording, personally

This one is fun. Drum and bass literally!

You get it. I just love the slow build, and watching my feet tap faster and faster each time

Now we know where John Oswald (Pluderphonics) got his ideas!

Reading about this now. Snow a short film for the British Railways .... so cool

Link please!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_(1963_film)

Very cool. Gonna have to track that down!

So it takes the cover of the Sandy Nelson song Teen Beat by Johnny Hawksworth and f's with the tempo.. and Daphne Oram added effects to the soundtrack. Many stamps on the suitcase of that audio ha a

Hawksworth has written many pieces of stock music for the De Wolfe Music library... (from wiki)

Wow great rabbit hole material there Deidre and Dan. That library music is right up the wprb alley and TLAOBEH as well

I knew the tune sounded familiar... old roommate had some Sandy Nelson lps.

Thought we murdered spinitron for a sec there. This is great info Brian, can't wait to explore that article and the original material more after the show

I'm glad my dad isn't car.

Acid Dad is car, I believe.

JG Ballard's dad is definitely car

And maybe David Cronenberg's too

Look into the visually humming album cover...

I took my boat for a car....

Sounds like Dad needs a new transmission

when you scroll that lp cover up and down on the page.... trip toy central

Great NJ band Screaming Females appearing at Neshaminy Creek Brewing 10th Anniv party in Croydon PA Sat June 11. Other bands too. That site hosted a "Trenton" Punk Rock Flea Mkt event a few years back.... good time

Wild ride today, octo-dad and deirdre!

Such a fun show today y'all

Good info @Brian, a favored local brewery.

Thanks DJ's!

Yes good to have things to look forward to as the weather warms

Thanks for listening, y'all!

Thanks everyone!!! This has been fun as always. My first appearance on PRB will be posted here for those interested: https://www.mixcloud.com/deirdre_dionysiac/

And let me plug pledge.wprb.com one more time for good measure

BAM

BAM ! PLEDGE.WPRB.COM !!!!!!!