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Don't Back the Front: DANA K'S PARTY: HE'S HIP, HE'S COOL, HE'S 45: 2022 PLEDGE DRIVE SHOW FT. ESOTERICA

Apr 22, 2022 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Dana K

it's a dana k party
who could ask for more
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Don't Back the Front: DANA K'S PARTY: HE'S HIP, HE'S COOL, HE'S 45: 2022 PLEDGE DRIVE SHOW FT. ESOTERICA

8:02 PM		The Desperate Bicycles Don't Back the Front 7" 1977
8:03 PM		Brian Eno Needles In the Camel's Eye (2004 Remaster) Here Come the Warm Jets EMI Marketing 1974
8:14 PM		R.E.M. Wolves, Lower Chronic Town - EP CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 2014
8:19 PM		The Fall It's the New Thing Live at the Witch Trials Cherry Red Records 2016
8:22 PM		Family Fodder Savoir Faire Savoire Faire: Best Of Jungle Records 1980
8:24 PM		Glaxo Babies Christine Keeler Dream Interrupted Cherry Red Records 1979
8:33 PM		Game Theory Erica's Word The Big Shot Chronicles Omnivore Recordings 1986
8:37 PM		The Jam Strange Town Setting Sons (Deluxe Edition) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2014
8:40 PM		The Freshies I'm In Love With The Girl On The Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk 7" Razz Records 1980
8:43 PM		McCarthy Monetaries I Am a Wallet Right Honourable Records 1987
8:46 PM		Dolly Mixture Welcome To the Perfect Day Demonstration Tapes Spa Green 2010
8:59 PM		The Verlaines Death and the Maiden Juvenilia Flying Nun Records 1993
9:03 PM		Death of Samantha Harlequin Tragedy Where The Women Wear The Glory And The Men Wear The Pants Homestead 1988
9:09 PM		Crippled Pilgrims Undone Down Here:Collected Recordings(1983-1985) Reaction Records
9:22 PM		Lloyd Cole & The Commotions Rattlesnakes Rattlesnakes (Deluxe Edition) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2004
9:25 PM		100 Flowers Without Limbs 100 Years Of Pulchritude 1983
9:28 PM		Big Boys Sound On Sound The Fat Elvis Touch and Go Records 1993
9:31 PM		The Fatima Mansions Only Losers Take the Bus Against Nature (Deluxe Edition) Beneath Music 2021
9:45 PM		The Desperate Bicycles Smokescreen Smokescreen / Handlebars Refill Records 1977
9:47 PM		The Eyes TAQN TAQN Dangerhouse 1979
9:48 PM		The Chefs 24 Hours 24 Hours - Single Graduate 1981
9:52 PM		The Carpettes Radio Wunderbar 7" Small Wonder Records 1977
9:55 PM		Sema 4 Up Down Around Up Down Around EP Pollen Records 1979
9:58 PM		Fire Engines Meat Whiplash Hungry Beat Acute 2007
10:10 PM		The Flesh Eaters Digging My Grave A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die London Records 1981
10:14 PM		Magazine A Song from Under the Floorboards The Correct Use of Soap Virgin Catalogue 2007
10:18 PM		Wire Map Ref 41 Degrees N 93 Degrees W Map Ref 41 Degrees N 93 Degrees W - Single The state51 Conspiracy 1979
10:22 PM		Able Tasmans Little Hearts A Cuppa Tea and a Lie Down Flying Nun Records 2015
10:31 PM		Buzzcocks I Believe A Different Kind of Tension (2019 Remastered Version) Domino Recording Co 1979
10:43 PM		Minutemen It's Expected I'm Gone Double Nickels On the Dime SST Records NO HOPE - SEE, THAT'S WHAT GIVES ME GUTS
10:45 PM		The Embarrassment (I'm A) Don Juan heyday 1979-83 Bar/None Records 1995
10:47 PM		Garage Class Terminal Tokyo Terminal Tokyo - Single Outer Reaches 2018
10:51 PM		Robyn Hitchcock I Often Dream of Trains I Often Dream of Trains Yep Roc Records 1984
10:58 PM		Sham 69 Hurry Up Harry That's Life Castle Communications 2001

Chat is archived.

PLEDGE

Don't Back The Front / Do Pledge The WPRB

YES! Love kicking off with Brian after Desperate Bicycles!

Don't Back the Front, BACK WPRB!

yo!

ahhhh Mr Eno...

Dana K & Esoterica dream-team!

Ascending guitar solo wondefullness... and STOP!

🔥

howdy liz! bri, tandy!

This place is a great hang. Thanks to all the DJs and everyone out there!

Love this song so much. This was the first Eno I ever heard as a young bot

Thanks for your wild punning energy, Brian!

DANA K and ESO-T!!! YAY!!

Good evening everyone 😁

Someone made a mix tape with Baby's On Fire. And it had solo Gilmour. Meat Puppets. Fripp solo gentleman stuff... so many oddities. good tape!

It's it's called called the Sonic Sonic Bloom Bloom

I look forward to Echo-terica's experimental album

Ah yes, the lost art of the mix tape!

I think it had the band Plan 9 on there too.

whoa sounds like a cool comp

bri

W PPPPPPPPPPPPPost-Punk R B - R We

hi readie and andy!

Evenin' all!

lizzzbbboot readie you killed it on your earthday show

Thx, Eso-T! And thx for your pledge!!!

Thank you for your pledge, Esoterica! Have a great show tonight!

Greetings and Salutations!

Hello, DJ Dana K!! Hi, DJ Esoterica!!

independent radio means you can play whatever you damn well choose because WPRB trusts the taste of our DJs!!

thx!! i love r.e.m.

greetings, mr. m!!!

Hey, you can play The Cure from "Faith". That's the only Cure LP I own, lol.

R.E.M. 💛💛💛

hi Andy! hi Malcontent! Brian! Tandy!

sure thing, liz and readie!!

Hi, DJ LizBot!

hello friends!!! welcome!!!

You can play THIS rem song!

that's what i'm saying

i'm not going to play shiny happy people...or maybe i am?

better LISTEN and FIND OUT

That 8 bit intro was sick

you know you are talking to the girl who has played mountain and zz top on my show lol

Yeah, the FALL! smash something!!!!!!!

Hi, DJ Readie Righteous! Only caught the Final Fifteen Mins of your show with DJ LizBot and they were fun fifteen mins!! Glad you reached your goal!

And as for me - Chumbawamba!!!

Chumbawamba is the best though

DJ Dana K! Great selections to start the show!!

Hi MrM! Yes, it was a nailbiter!

I've played Alice Deejay on my show. famously at the end of the last drive. Someone donated to tell me to stop.

haha

Yes, Dana K - and that's why I love you! (only one reason) LOL

i played air supply to punish my listeners, lovingly lol

i'm all out of love

And I know Commie agrees!!

with Chumbawamba that is

AIR SUPPLY! lol I'm still waiting to here Bread (DIARY)! @ESO-T

i have played diary before by bread, i think i will this week, too! just because...

WHOA...whatta FALL song.

hey jimbeaux!

hi jimbeaux!

OH YEAH ESO-T- DO IT!

love glaxo babies

TOTALLY, readie!!:)

My intro to Glaxo Babies- LOVE!

Yeooo DanaK and EsO 💥💥💥

who killed bruce lee is one of their hits

glaxo babies got me suspended from the air (shhhhhh) but i still love them

...SO GOOD

nick lowe did for me once

Oh, Dana K! oh you got knocked down, but you got up again!!! That Bruce Lee sounds so good...I will dive in to GBs

📢📢📢

WOOOOOOOOO AIRHORN!!!!

So SAY I!!

YEAH LIZBOT

Wooooo! DJ LizBot 🤖📢🎉

Wake up DJ DanaDad with air horn!!

Oh thank you guys you’re the best! 🤖 ❤️

Thx for the shout-out, Eso-T!

Hey MrM! Missed you this morning 😥

absolutely! i have learned alot from you two and commie!

LOVE!

thanks fr playing erica's word, dana k!!

Hey, TAndy! Let’s get DJ DaveTheObscure to open the chat for the Rebroadcast! 📢🎉📢🎉🐼

this is another one for Esoterica, as we both share a love of The Jam!

yes! when i was in high school i cut my hair in a smart bob, short bangs and wore a parka with a mod target, went to the midnight showings of quadrophenia

a true SoCal mod!

oh yeah and smoked djarums (cloves)

the COOLEST 😎❣️

I think he may be asleep for it MrM, since it's at 3am :(

Mr. M, I will not be opening the chat at 3:00 a.m.,

The JAM <3 !!! Hello DJ Dana K and DJ Eso!

hi li maria!!

😭😭😭

We cry, DJ DaveTheObscure!

sadly i couldn't afford a vespa.

li maria!

howdy

Hey Maria!

dave!

dave is here!

you were summoned by mr. m

Hey guys.

hey alfred! true ture

Mr. M and I share a wavelength.

I am DaveTheObscure

haha

In your nightmares

that explans alot

haha dave

Freshies!! I got this on my last trip to London

Welcome to my Nightmare! 😈

I actually shopped at the London Megastore in 1983. Mike Oldfield's "Crises" was all over Europe that summer.

I think there's a version where they had to cut out "virgin"

MrNightmare

wow commie

yeah, "a certain manchester record store checkout desk"

and i was so jealous of your london record haul!

Things in Philly are simpler, the Dead Milkmen simply go to Zipperhead.

I still think about things i wish I'd gotten that i left behind because there was just too much

but don't you dare serve them hot tea instead of iced

oiced tea

hi dana. currently into wet leg,fontaines dc & horsegirl not much current kiwi stuff to get excited abt, but troy kingi's pretty good,

hi grant! i've got some old kiwis coming up next...

hi grant!

okay. hello erica

sorry this is esoterica below, wrong handle haha

erica = esoterica

⚙️🔻⚙️

IN THE CITY

WestSiiidddeee!

Wait no this is the modern world

you know it, mr. m

good ones, commie

setting sons fr me

Hello Dana K!

yo bo!

Hello esoterica!

★🖤 DAVID BOWIE 🖤★

hi bo!!

While that Freshies song played, it was perhaps the best song in the world.

perfect song for the moment!

Not to get all tmi but I'm now listening to the radio in the bath and you know what that means

i'm sorry but i don't

Bath boy is with us

BATH BOY

Great Show! Love Flying Nun Records!!

thank you richard!

So filthy!!

hi jon! hi richard!

haha i am not sure what that means, commie

pure moods

but not judging lol

Hi everyone!!

I’m here for the Pure Moods❣️

we are at 8 pledges! let's get to 10!

come on let's do it!

Esoterica if you haven't heard bath boy yet you probably will by the end of the drive

SPIRITUAL MAFIA ‘Bath Boy’! 💟

ooohhh what is my problem, i am behind the times. no i ahven't heard it

thanks! i will lull myself to sleep with spiritual mafia.

best to be in the bath when you first hear it

OOOOOH CRIPPLED PILGRIMS

Play it on Thursday!! Wooo!

It's a Jon Solomon patented long jammer

yes!! i'm so glad someone knows this band

Eso, you HAVE to hear Bath Boy

Hi DJ esoterica!

hey rob!

hi richard!

@DJ Esoterica!

Hi Eso & Dana.

shit! mr. m! how do you work this thing??

I love Crippled Pilgrims "Black and White", the version that's on the Strum And Thrum compilation

can't wait to hear bath boy

Eso, you've love it

man, this is a party!

they had some really great songs, a bit of an outlier in the DC time of the time

good thing they were not l.a. or i would be ashamed

@Dana K, yup, they were a bit of an outlier

Sounds great !

Rob knows every punk and related band from DC in 1980-83 roughly

DJ Esoterica was more clear/loud earlier tho.

how is that

Commie, guilty as charged (sort of) :-)

Sound gooder!

Eso, you sound better right now

thx, mr. m

perfect, rob, thx

BATH BOY

Post your dad's phone #!!!

📢 THERE ARE NO OTHER STATIONS 📢

lol

Wake up, DAD! Gosh.

Sneak preview i am playing death of Samantha's namesake song tomorrow

because you are cool, commie:)

john petkovic follows me on social media (but i think he follows everyone) so he should donate

❤️

lloyd cole should also donate

Yeah pony up John

Open up your Google wallet Lloyd

heyyyy! we hit our goal of 10! thanks BO!!!

Bo!!!

wooooooo! thx bo

Everyone post on social media right now with a link to tune into DJ Dana K and a link to donate!

This is my only social media! L0LZ. SRSLY.

it's social, and it's media

You see me.

i see you

🖤🖤💀

Omg where did you find mc ice t ID???

it was in one of the original collections of IDs they sent out to us in the early days of the pandy, i'll send it to you if you can't find it

B I G B O Y S

does anyone remember the video of the paul green school of rock teenagers covering this song, maybe a couple of years ago

made me cry a bit

i don't, but i do have a negative paul green story lol

i believe it!

Oh no.

was in the vip section of a ween concert at house of blues and he came up to my pals and me and grilled us about who we were haha. we met him where he was, with snark

😂🤣😎

he wasn't the nicest.

Shoutout!! 🖤💀

You're playing my record collection tonight! (said any number of your nerd friends) True story: 1979 - I was supposed to meet a girlfriend at a bar in Austin called The Hole in the Wall but ended up at Rauls a few doors down instead. I kept waiting for my gfd to show up (and she kept waiting for me at the correct bar). Big Boys were playing that night. I became a Rauls regular after that.

REDD FOXX ❤️

Don’t wanna hear anymore about DJ SelectaJerry… tell us more about meeting REDD FOXX!!

Haha you guys got me cracking up

Dana you can borrow my record

HAHA

Dana K was the first dj I met on air before my newbie midnight shift

yes! i remember that!

It was all down hill after that 😂

we summoned you, seeldcta jerry! sweeeettt

SELECTA

hi eleanor!

Holding down music with space with Mike following you gals

oh yes! music with space awesome

aw, I miss seeing Mike every Friday too!

Definitely miss the dj changeover in general

Hey commie !

Hi jerry!

Hello, DJ SelectaJerry!! 😃

i agree, commie

i often had wilbo before me

one semester i had readie after me

Mr Malcontent what you doing?

readie was always before me, always got me in a good mood

I remember once when i was subbing wilbo was like "wow, you're really organized" in a very disapproving way

lol love wilbo

deidre was on before me during my first season on air...they had the 1-3 am slot, i had 3-5 am

wooo late nights

You were on 3-5 all semester? Yowch

Tryin to stay outta trouble! Whatchu got goin on, DJ SelectaJerry?!?

I did one 3-5 and it was brutal

commie, he came in after me and said he thought sir elton had died bc i indulgently played three elton john songs haha

Hahah

Haha

i think they realized after that that it was a bit cruel to have community DJs from philadelphia do the 3-5 am slot

hahaha

Wow, I haven't heard the 24 Hours song in eons. Thanks, Dana K & Esoterica!

omg that is true, dana

I got the chefs record London trip before last

all thx go to dana k! that is true for me too, rob! haven't heard is so long

CHEFS ARE COOKIN"!

whoops faked out

Trying to listen very quietly to phone speaker as bb snoozes nearby

D’oh!

...whdyaknow

howdy Krista...shhhh

Sunshine in the moon glow!

@Dana K, on account of it being Iggy Pops' Birthday (yesterday) maybe some Stooges?

love stooges, happy bday ig!

...turned 75 btw!

good for him!

best way to get all green lights driving home is when your dj tells you not to log in the chat on the road.

no running red lights here. that's a different show.

@esoterica, I'm a big admirer.

you got it, colin!

where we are going there are no lights....

me, too, bo!

@Colin 🙈

and a boisterous hello to all the chat

Pie recipe IDs rule!!!!

Oh! DJ CommieFrancis! Cheers!

i'll take pie in all it's forms.

Commie who is your cohost tomorrow!

Got my pb&js made for my road-trip to Princeton

nice jerry

Early shift gotta get out of prex by 1230 or so

Jerry it's Krista! Live in my radio garret!

road pb&j's are boss dj moves

Awesome I can talk it up

Colin!!!!

Colin you know it

Hope our paths cross Dana

same!!

this flesh eaters album has real "cartoon skeleton playing its own bones" vibes

westside!

WestSiiidddeee Skeletons!!

the amount of saxophone that dbtf gives us quite refreshing.

you know it!

we're at 11 donations, need 4 more to get to our goal!!

yeeesss! let's do it!

i appreciate the comment about the saxophone

love this song! great job, dana k

Another blast from my past (Magazine)

rob didn't you live in denmark or something when you were young? am i making that up?

one of our listeners talks about radio free europe and cool music they heard

Maybe this is well known but this song is based on notes from Dostoyevsky's notes from the underground

might be andrew gruen

Oops typed it weird but you get the idea

cool fact, commie!

hey btw was nicky who donated, nicky steidel, prb dj???

I believe so! though when i met him he had teal hair

he was so great, so funny

DIY big blast!

map reference time

did we give him a hout out?

shout out

Yeah map ref!

Nicky is definitely a redhead and loves the cro mags

right you are, commie!

i remember i was always thrilled to catch diy big blast.

Esoterica, I lived in Italy and listened to Radio Luxemburg's post 8 or 9 pm broadcasts on my AM radio during the glam rock era

And that was before punk, new wave, or Magazine

Commie, I didn't know that about the Magazine song

yes, yes, rob!

@Eso, there is another listener who grew up in Northern Ireland and in the late 70s listened to Radio Luxembourg at night like I did earlier

magazine is newer to me. not he first time i heard them, and said, they rule! but now they i've added them to my deep dive list.

so cool, rob!

Funny stuff, DJ DanaK! Thoroughly enjoying all these nice selections too!! 📢🎉📢🎉

go, ed!

@esoterica, that Radio Luxembourg experience was pivotal in my musical journey

i didn't know rutgers had a station! super excited to check that out as well.

rob i can tell, so fortunate, those formative years

yeah! there's been some cross pollination with WPRB over the years

WPRB/WRSU

in my early teens, i would listen the heck to wtsr (trenton state univ) 91.3 they used to play a bunch of punk.

WLFR from Stockton has some interesting things once in a while too

i had three pen slashes on my mid 80's sony boom box fm dial, prb, kdu and tsr.

PRB gets a little staticky just outside of Atlantic City so I check for wlfr

love it, colin! yeah i know a bunch of folks who djed at wtsr

including jeff feuerzeig who is a great director

rob coming thru!!! lucky number 13!!!

feuerzeig directed the devil and daniel johnston but also djed at wprb

i did a bit of googling two points of bonus, wlfr; it's 91.7 as well, and it's called lake fred radio. that is just precious.

Caught a pickerel or two in my day in lake Fred

(embracing my inner mr💀) rob rules rn af.

There is so much love in this world any more ....

🖤💀

thx rob!

Big up Rob

i think the show i loved was called the chris and scott show on wtsr. i would record to cassettes i probably had like 15 volumes on staticy cassettes.

Colin you listen to antnee’s cripsia on tsr?

Aww shucks

One more!!

Man that opening drum was almost funky drummer

I mildly freaked

Listened during my drive to the rotunda to see LV Bengs Africa and now I’m back in the car in time for Minutemen!

selecta, omg yes! often

lol commie

I wasn't gonna say it Commie but yah LMAO

Loved when he got furious at the equipment

welcome back liz bot! seemed like a cool show!

haha triggered by the funky drummre

drummer, even

I love that you played Sema 4 “Up down around”! I love that track so much! And The Chefs! And Smokescreen by DB!

Thanks, Dana! Was a fun show! Glad to have DBTF as company on way there and back!

it really warms my heart when the youth of the day listen to Minutemen

Great show Dana and esoterica have a peaceful night

Time for us to go. Thanks for the show & good words, Dana and esoterica!

Have a good night Rob!

aw you too, jerry, thx for hanging

heh, i agree, curtis! been listening to them since i was 13

Chris from Boston rules

thanks rob, jerry, everyone!

bye rob, thx for stoppingby

thx for your donation, rob:)

hi curtis!

hey curtis, agreed...

we need just one more donation for tonight! just one!

this garage class is tasty nuggets!

come one, folks! dnaa k can smell the wafting aroma of pad Thai

i can't type but you get it

so agree, colin

i want those shrimps!

i totally would have eaten at least three shrimps by now...

love this song

robyn was a treat when i had interviewed him:)

There you go!

Curtis kicks ASS

🥅 !!!!!

I was 13 when the album came out...ha! great show folk!

thanks curtis!

🍤🍤🍤

gnar show mangs!

Shoutouts to WKDU!

whoooo! thanks so much everyone!!! LOVE

Thanks for the show Dana K and Esoterica!! You two were Excellent tonight! <3

thx so much TAndy

Keep it going!

lots of love coming your way fomr US

BAMMMMMMMMM

Urry Up Arry!😃

yo chef!

Ending on oi always appropriate

Biggest cheers to DJ DanaK!! And DJ Esoterica!! Many thanks for the great show! Kind regards to you BOTH!!

BAM!

JOEL EMBIID #1

OI!!!

cheers to you, mr. m!

OI OI OI

oi!

Cheers to all the Dears, especially those with Big Shrimp Ears!!??!!

fantastic!

Thanks Dana K and Esoterica!👏😍

Chris from Boston turned the radio back on to hear sham

thought for sure they were playing primal scream ha

haha. right ean

good night folks!!!

good night!

thanks bo, you're welcome

everybody did such a great job, you helped us so much

i can see the primal scream similarity, ean

byyyeeee

👨‍🍳♥️📻

I don't think there's a live chat for the next show, but I hope everyone enjoys!