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Uneasy Listening

Apr 23, 2022 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Commie Francis

PLEASE MAKE A PLEDGE IT'S MY BIRTHDAY

Photo: your DJ's Queen Elizabeth I themed 8th birthday feat. cute little sister

It's my traditional birthday show which means Krista and I are play songs i like A LOT! Maybe also some songs Krista likes.

and it's the traditional spring WPRB Membership Drive which means PLEDGE.WPRB.COM

8:00 PM		Bay City Rollers Saturday Night Rollin' Arista 1974
8:03 PM		Fastbacks It's Your Birthday 7" No Threes Records 1981
8:09 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Do Something
8:10 PM		PLP Bella Ciao Power to the Working Class
8:12 PM		Rata Negra Llorando Una Vida Vulgar La Vida Es Un Mus Discos 2021
8:15 PM		Chumbawamba The Day the Nazi Died (1993 Mix) Enough Is Enough - EP Playbak Records Ltd 2012 Krista's guess #1
8:19 PM		Mistakes 16 Pins Radiation / 16 Pins Twist and Shout Records 1981
8:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Paul Tremaine and His Orchestra - Aristocratic Stomp
8:31 PM		Modernettes Barbra Teen City (Remastered) - EP Sudden Death 2014
8:33 PM		The Turtles Elenore Elenore / Surfer Dan White Whale 1958
8:35 PM		Mujeres Podridas Por Que Muerte en Paraíso Beach Impediment Records 2021 playing TOMORROW at the foto club in Philly!
8:37 PM		Tobe Nwigwe Fye Fye (feat. Fat Nwigwe) Fye Fye (feat. Fat Nwigwe) - Single TOBE NWIGWE LLC 2021 Krista's guess #2
8:41 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJs speak over McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Do Something
8:46 PM		Grauzone Eisbär Grauzone 1981
8:52 PM		Neutrals Gary Borthwick Says N Bus Stop Nights - EP Static Shock 2022
8:54 PM		Skin Disease I'm Thick Back on the Streets Secret Records 1982
8:56 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJs speak over Paul Tremaine and His Orchestra - Aristocratic Stomp
9:02 PM		Silvia Night Congratulations Eurovision Single 2006
9:04 PM		Au Pairs Dear John Playing with a Different Sex Human Records 1981 Krista guess #3
9:08 PM		Yoko Ono Death of Samantha Approximately Infinite Universe Apple 1973
9:14 PM		Unit 4 Rules FM-BX Society Tape 001 The FM-BX Society Label, Belgium 1981
9:16 PM		Chain Cult We're Not Alone We're Not Alone - Single La Vida Es Un Mus Discos 2021
9:19 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJs speak over McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Do Something
9:31 PM		Lila Downs Clandestino Al Chile Columbia 2019
9:34 PM		Manu Chao Bloody Bloody Border Clandestino / Bloody Border Radio Bemba 2019
9:37 PM		Gordon Bok Turning Toward the Morning Turning Toward the Morning Folk-Legacy Records 1975
9:43 PM		Brian Eno Golden Hours Another Green World Island Records 1975
9:46 PM		Mick Ronson Only After Dark Slaughter On 10th Avenue RCA Victor 1974
9:50 PM		Mižerija Izolacija N Demo Doomtown Records 2021
9:53 PM		The Particles Remington Rand Advanced Colouring 1981
9:56 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJs speak over Paul Tremaine and His Orchestra - Aristocratic Stomp
10:04 PM		The Monkees The Door Into Summer Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. Rhino 1968 Krista guess #4!
10:06 PM		Hot Chocolate Every 1's a Winner Every 1's a Winner RAK 1978
10:11 PM		Charol Sin Dinero Héroes de los 80. Charol WM Spain 1980
10:14 PM		Billie and De De and Their Preservation Hall Jazz Band Eh La Bas New Orleans' Billie & De De And Their Preservation Hall Jazz Band Preservation Hall 1966
10:17 PM		France Gall Sacré Charlemagne Sacré Charlemagne Philips 1964
10:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJs speak over McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Do Something
10:30 PM		Patrick Cowley Do You Wanna Funk? (feat. Sylvester) Patrick Cowley: The Ultimate Collection Unidisc Music Inc. 1983
10:39 PM		The Petticoats Allergy Normal Bla-Bla-Bla 1980
10:39 PM		HOMOMILITIA Policja Twoje Ciało - Twój Wybór HOMOMILITIA 1996 Krista guess 5 out of 5!!!
10:50 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJs speak over Paul Tremaine and His Orchestra - Aristocratic Stomp
10:51 PM		Commercials The Heroine Dies 16 Again and Again Commercial Records 1981
10:52 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJs speak over McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Do Something
10:54 PM		Chumbawamba That's How Grateful We Are Slap! Agit Prop 1990

Chat is archived.

Commie and Krista! Woo!

Commie time

YAY!

Was just singing this song earlier today

hiiii!

hay

Everybody on the floor11

!!!

Hello!!

staying awake is a struggle right now, but i must persist for at least the next half an hour

personal trivia about this show... i kept thinking it was called "unpleasant listening" and was all like waah! when I couldn't find it

TAndy, do what I do... just "rest your eyes" while sitting upright

Time to roll up the rug and do the Charleston

happy bday.

a few decades ago, i invented what i call the "birthday week celebration bash"

7 days of your choosing adjacent to your birthday during which you get to tell everybody what to do

happy birthday!!

I also celebrate an extended birthday, sometimes even the whole month

Happy birthday!!!

Now you've got me thinking of the series "Money Heist" with this song

bella ciao? my dad has been telling me to watch that show

and thanks everyone!

Put the money in the bag...for WPRB

Yes they sing Bella Ciao in Money Heist

Yes! Casa de Papel

it's a spanish civil war song! well sorta, i will expound next break

house of paper is such a better name

It's an okay show though it occasionally makes some leaps in logic

this song kicks ass

I agree since House of Paper has multiple meanings

Great lyrics in this one

Yay! Hello Commie! Hello Krista! You wonderful wimmin ! Happy early birthday, Commie!

lord, alright i really think i am going now. keeping my eyes open is a huge struggle now; good night everyone! gonna keep my radio on so i can sleep easy to uneasy listening

Sleep well, sweet prince

thank you for trying TAndy!

No worries though, next week I'll be waking up around this time so I can enjoy the show proper :)

TAndy, don't you have any curare in your medicine cabinet? I use that to keep my eyes open during boring meetings

funny >:)

Speaking of princes, Danosaur, memory for singer Prince💜🔮🎵☔

Happy Birthday, Commie! 🎉🎈🎂 B-day pledge incoming...

Hi Hanna! It's nice to hear you on the radio at night! 🌔 Hanna & Commie is a DJ dream team.

Proud to support! LOL I don't listen to every show.

Not Hanna!! Krista!!

Aack, sorry about that! @Krista

I'm so flattered to sound like the wonderful Hanna!!

Hi Pethie!

Didn't realize I needed to hear that classic song

hi pethie i'm wearing mitsouko tonight!

i'm wearing holey dockers shorts

Tobe Nwigwe, I think I heard him on BET Hip Hop Awards 2021

Dope

Yes, I saw that performance on BET!

Oooh, I love the Mitsouko bottle!

I’m wearing Halston and a sunburn.

I want a pretzel now 🥨

Hearing 2 dj’s laughing is some of the best

Omg pethie I got my first blistering burn in years

Eisbär!!!

Guelo, yeah

happy bday, commie! hi krista!

ima bouta get into laffing mode myself

Osa polar!!

Happy birthday Commie!

krista: "i just got this out of my head"

SUMMONED.

I didn’t think it would be too bad because it’s early spring and I was in a shady area. Argh!

Hi Jon!

Hi Krista!

Eating end of Passover pizza with my family / parents as the show plays in the background. Pretty good!

🧊 🐻‍❄️ What a night that was.

Hi Jon, hi Rob 👋

dayenu pizza

Same Pethie, mine happened in March!!!

Hi Christine

What pizza did you choose, Jon

We got a crispy tomato pie and a Brooklyn with tree peppers.

Red!

what are tree peppers?

I've been dreaming of a Detroit style. Want to find a correct one in Central Jersey, haven't yet.

what's detroit style

Crispy rectangle pan pizza with lots of cheese and spicy sauce

Keep me in the loop there Krista!

i like spicy sauce.

Krista, it ain’t central Jersey but circles & squares/pizza plus in Philly has an excellent Detroit style

Readie's Boots Olympiad was a beautiful thing. And interactive!

Seconded, @Pat

It's my favorite style!! Grew up eating versions of it all over Wisconsin and Minnesota. I hope they don't let me down!!

Oh and when I lived in Ypsilanti Michigan too, of course

only 1 more donation to get to a slightly late 10!

Krista I do know a former Michigander who approves of pizza plus so there’s that

Yoko Ono 🇯🇵 🌸

Yoko 💜

my gal

Looking through the chat around the 8 range, I did have a feeling of Hanna and Commie teaming up one of these days!

Noooo pizza plus is gonna be closed on my way home 😭😭 their pics look so good

i would love to do a show with hanna!

we have similar red diaper heritage

Pizza Hut is where the cheesy goodness is at, Krista!

Definitely Commie, since her show used to be right before yours on Saturdays in 2020

Uneasy Listening to the Rolling Dice 🎲 🎲

Pizza Hut was my first pan pizza love!!!

That bookit program brainwashed Baby Krista

I LOVE their pure cheese, mushroom and vegetable pizzas, along with breadsticks of cheese, brownies and cinnabon!!!

Happy Birthday!! Sounds like you all are having fun.

Love that squishy baby.

Cinnabon has a vice grip on me. Good ol Animorphs

Commie, that was a perfect imposition of the authority granted by the Birthday Week Celebration Bash.

Happy birthday, fellow Taurus! it's my birthday today, too :) great day for great tunes

go bulls

Bad news: Bulls lost yesterday

Also, hi everyone!

hi dan

Commie and Krista rock! Pledge WPRB!

Hey Dan!

Lovely "smelly good" delicious cinnabon , indeed Krista

Ossy, you're giving me the munchies

Gordon Bok, I haven't heard this song for years (unless I heard it on WPRB this month). This is such a poignant song.

Uh oh, what's happening to the Gordon Bok song, it's skipping?

It's cutting in and out for me

hm, anyone else hearing that? it sounds ok on this end

Definitely stuttering

we heard it here but it's gone now~

seems ok now, though?

💚 🌎 Love this album

@Christine ditto

Rawr, Eno and this fabulous Ronson track! *swoon*

I've heard nothing untoward since the Gordon Bok song ended

This Particles tune is fantastic

Would love to see the plot of the basic/weird spectrum of WPRB DJs

In the car today Selecta Pink mentioned “French Ye Ye” and I realized I know nothing about that.

Someday, Jon, when you can get back into the studio, do I have the compilation for you....

(provided it hasn't vanished in the past 17 years)

Maybe I do know then!

Me, desperate: is it cake time yet

it's time to cut the trotsky cake!!!

@Jon: https://www.discogs.com/release/918357-Various-Swinging-Mademoiselles

NEZ

I’m parked in front of my house because I just got off from work and I can’t go inside yet

In the car listening to radio is GOOD TIME

😭😭😭

@Dan, I have two of those comps and play them whenever I do a 60s show!

I'm parked in front of my house too and cannot leave my car because wprb is on!

Okay Commie you just played two of my top songs from my California road trip last summer

Guys I’m all goofed up today was a lot

They're so good! Which reminds me that I haven't listened to them in forever

looooooooove hot chocolate obvs

happy birthday commie! and the gooderest of evenings to the chats.

YeYe is a genre tres cool. Lizbot has delved into the YeYe yes!

bri, i just got home and i do this mad dash to fire up the stereo as soon as i get through the door.

Ty Segall version has nothing on the original

We can always expect Colin rolling into the chat ~10pm

lol, i was telling my friend today even my weekends have been routine lately.

Hello Colin!

hi krista. i was at the smithvile artwalk all afternoon. a lot of talented ambitious folks there.

yay wprb! yay uneasy listening!

hi peppa!

and colin and everyone sorry i'm a little distracted!

maybe i should play the distractions but here comes some ye-ye

well in a minute

hi commie francis!!

Nice! It's Shadfest in Lambertville, catching a little of that tomorrow.

We learned Sacré Charlemagne in grade school in the 60s! In northern Virginia!

scuttlebutt is that shad jump right out of the water into nets when wprb is played on shoreline boomboxes

Heyo fwendz and birthday celebrity Commmmieeee and Habitatatatat Kristaaaaaa!

I'm not sure why we had to learn this in c. 1968...

Speaking of Ye Ye, I once saw a screening of Anna, which is essentially one long Serge Gainsbourg music video

Clothilde "Saperlipopette" my favorite ye ye song probably

great word. means "golly gosh" in French

YES

I had no idea that's what it means. Amazing

I guess I need to change my name again

ask boz where my naugahyde wallet is

chef and i are wondering

my favorite thing about last year's drive is that i couldn't figure out how to change my name back from Boz Scaggs

omg, i'm spending the day with my french born friend tomorrow. i can't wait to use saperlipopette

can't have boz here without chef bam

Peanut butter jelly…

princeton u: running dog capitalist bastardos

Made it for the last half hour!

PBJ with cheese, Guelph!

bumbel stickel too big for my laptop

need laptop stickel

Guelo* I hate this autocorrect!!!! GRRR AAAAAAAHHHHHHH......LOL

hi scooter!

Ossy, I was tyring to decipher Guelph in context

this is dana (k)atharine by the way. i had to change my name

WORMS

THE WORMS!!!!

🪱 🐛

woims

hello!

YESSSSSSSSSS

yes yes yes

I wanted to play this during my show, but I chickened out

yes i wanna funk

Or the worms from TREMORS with the illustrious Kevin Bacon!

come on worms, save this planet

was getting sleepy but patrick / sylvester give me my second wind

f0nky w0rm

i hate caterpillars. they always give me butterflies

Ha!

to go back to a previous mic break, i too think i am further along on the basic spectrum compared to other DJs

what it comes down to is that i love 2:30 min long pop songs

those wrath of khan worms left this young viewer with some post cinematic fear syndrome.

khan!!! bloodsucker!!!

Khan doesn't want to funk with you

i was definitely traumatized by those trek worms

Don't open that Khan of worms, Colin.

i like songs with a beat

heck. who doesn't?

Truth

two minute pop songs rule! i tend go back and replay a bunch.

i was traumatized by an episode of "untold stories of the ER" where a woman came in with worms growing in her arms

jim,🤣

my friends and i used to quote "i've got worms in me" to each other

not buyin it

discussing whether a maggot is a worm in the studio rn

yes and no

very true

i don't believe so

so.. maybe

Decidedly NOT.

or maybe not

heard "maggot" by amyl and the sniffers on jen's show yesterday

WormPRB

dana... that was FIRE

as the kids today say

fire AF

So if you found a pile of maggots you wouldn't say EWWW WORMS

that show changed my outlook on life

i no longer even slow down for redlights

Botflies, Box, I used to have to pull em out of cattle

Boz*

Bozflies

yikes

this convo giving me the itches

Not grindcore

Petticoats!! I brought that 7" to the DJ event today but did not play it

grindcore? not sure what that is

i know i don't play it!

*currently has a mild case of worm related heebie jeebies

Mr.M. to beat the itch, you must become the itch

Be the itch

I’m that ITCH

Hardcore Polish Earworms

i am back!

eso! terica

damb. full house now

you called me

you can hear my thoughts?

I was all like Ess O Terica!

in my mind

krista you need some ivermectin

i was here earlier then went to get a snack, caught a teensy bit of willow pill the queen and returned for this amazing finale!

Maggots are so EWWWWW

did someone mention aleister crowley haha?

Would be down for some occult disco from Patrick Crowley

totes ewwww

lol stevie p

did crowley make some disco jams?

beyond the usual chanting bs

play the Maggots - Let's Get, Let's Get Tammy Wynette

transplendent is more like it

you know?

pizza butter jelly...

love it dj hot stuff, what else you got up your sleeve?

Hot dish?

Hawt Worm Pizza

Shrimp and noodle pizza

lmao huel

gruel is good eats

i bought huel in bulk a couple of years ago

groatcakes too

🍕🔥🍕

it's alright with fruit but i got sick of it

MEOW

I'll never also forget a classmate from 2nd grade putting mustard on his pizza. He had stinky ash breath 🤣

tuxedo here

also purple tee

one more pledge let's goooooo

Hot dish recipes for sure, Dan

And LOL Dana you hueler

krista i forget, are you minnesotan or wisconsinan

got my huel nightcap

18 years Wisconsin, 12 in Minnesota

Happy Birthday, DJ CommieFrancis! DJ Krista! To the two of youz: Many thanks for the fun show! Big cheers! Kind regards!

thx all! special thx to commie and krista

thanks MrM!

Minnesotan/Wisconsinite is the parlance I believe

Nice Chumbawamba Francis and happy birthday!!

Nice show. Thanks Commie and Krista

Thank you everyone, this is a lot of fun

You too Krista!

One of the openers at the Mirah show I went to tonight talked about how Chumbawamba was the best band of all time.

we may have talked about this before but i have dated two minnesotans now and i have a soft spot for that part of the country

Cheers Dears!

Thank you all the DJ luminaries on the house!

Happy almost birthday, Commie! Totally enjoyed this!

there were like 6 people at the show i played the other day and one was all gaga over my chumbawamba shirt

great show, great songs and bants!

thanks so much everyone!

They covered the Chumbawamba arrangement of "Bella Ciao"

(In the house)

happy birthday Commie!

Suppose this is a moment to drop this Chumbawamba deep dive into the chat: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/chumbawamba-interview

Sleep tight, 'purb earworms.

You didn't tell me that Boz, it's a good place. Gotta travel to Duluth sometime.

DanaBoz... do you ever say doncha know?

'purb earworms is the winner for good band name of the day

krista stayed awake congrats krista

my ex's mom talked like the characters in fargo

or am I stereotyping?

o hey dere

there i go again

i'm from new jersey so no midwestern accent here

i've been living in philly so long, people smile when i talk on zoom meetings