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Uneasy Listening

Apr 27, 2022 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Commie Francis

Commie Francis and Dana K Surprise Membership Drive show!!

Wednesday night pit crew, we hope we can prove ourselves worthy to step up to Mike's mic!! here come the hits and you bring the pledges!

Can we hit our goal TODAY? you can help, and keep freeform radio on the air in the Delaware Valley!

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8:01 PM		David Bowie Station to Station Station to Station Parlophone UK 1976
8:10 PM		The Electric Chairs So Many Ways So Many Ways - Single Safari Records 1979
8:14 PM		Crispy Newspaper Манифест Судургу тыллар ЮС 2018 Aykhal Ammonov, singer of the Sakha Republic punk band Crispy Newspaper has just been arrested by Russian police for taking a public stance against the war in Ukraine. Let us share widely and show solidarity with Russian anti war activists and militants for justice! Let us hope he will be released soon.
8:16 PM		Great Plains Letter to a Fanzine Naked At The Buy, Sell, And Trade Homestead 1985
8:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJs speak over Eggs - March of the Triumphant Elephants
8:32 PM		Mujeres Podridas La Muerte Esta Llamando Muerte en Paraíso Beach Impediment Records 2021 dbeat primer
8:33 PM		The Monks Higgle-Dy - Piggle-Dy Black Monk Time Polydor 1966
8:36 PM		The Fall The Aphid Cerebral Caustic Cog Sinister 1995
8:38 PM		Blackalicious 4000 Miles (feat. Chali 2na & Lateef the Truth Speaker) Blazing Arrow Universal-Island Records Ltd. 2002
8:43 PM		Blast Off Country Style Social Firefly I Love Entertainment - EP Teen-Beat 1993
8:46 PM		The Donkeys Wacky Acky I Aye Television Anarchy Detour Records 2008 orig late 70s
8:47 PM		The New Bomb Turks Cryin' in the Beer of a Drunk Man Pissing Out The Poison Crypt Records 1995
8:49 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJs speak over Eggs - March of the Triumphant Elephants
9:00 PM		King Kong Old Man on the Bridge Old Man on the Bridge Homestead Records 1991
9:07 PM		Chumbawamba On eBay Un KOCH RECORDS 2004
9:11 PM		Sleaford Mods B.H.S. English Tapas Rough Trade 2017
9:14 PM		Shopping Long Way Home Consumer Complaints FatCat Records 2015
9:17 PM		Neutral Milk Hotel Everything Is Everything Is - EP Orange Twin 1993
9:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJs speak over Eggs - March of the Triumphant Elephants
9:32 PM		Unrest Yes She Is My Skinhead Girl Yes She Is My Skinhead Girl Teenbeat 1991
9:37 PM		Fuera de Sektor Viejos Trucos Nuevas Trampas N El Mundo Sigue - EP La Vida Es Un Mus Discos 2022
9:39 PM		Virgin Prunes Caucasian Walk ...If I Die, I Die Rough Trade 1982
9:44 PM		Jonathan Richman I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar I, Jonathan New Rounder 1992
9:47 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJs speak over Eggs - March of the Triumphant Elephants
9:58 PM		Credit to the Nation Sowing the Seeds of Hatred Take Dis One Little Independent Records 1994
10:03 PM		Jawbreaker The Boat Dreams From the Hill 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (Remastered) Tupelo 1994
10:05 PM		The Rats Broken Wire Telephone In a Desperate Red Whizeagle 1983
10:08 PM		Cherry Cheeks Two Bugs Cherry Cheeks Total Punk 2021
10:11 PM		Guerilla Toss Happy Me N Famously Alive Sub Pop Records 2022
10:15 PM		Prisonshake 2 Sisters The Roaring Third Scat 1993
10:19 PM		Young Fresh Fellows My Boyfriend Is In Killdozer Young Fresh Fellows / Scruffy the Cat split Cruddy Record Dealership 1989
10:24 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJs speak over Eggs - March of the Triumphant Elephants
10:34 PM		The Ex + Tom Cora Hidegen Fujnak a Szelek Scrabbling At the Lock The Ex + Tom Cora 2008
10:36 PM		Wipers Youth of America Youth of America Zenorecords 1981
10:46 PM		Spoon Nefarious Nefarious EP Fluffer Records 1994
10:49 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJs speak over Eggs - March of the Triumphant Elephants
10:54 PM		Harry Nilsson Jump in the Fire Nilsson Schmilsson RCA Victor 1971

Chat is archived.

Bork Bork Bork!!!!!

let's doodis

Thanks for the bark!

Arf

bORK bOrK BORK!!!

Wow. That was so much fun. I have no idea when our show ended and this show began but we are...

102 pledges away from the WPRB Membership Drive goal.

Børk børk børk

CF HAD to start with my all time favorite Bowie song

it felt like jon's show got taken over by mellow, upbeat supervillains

I've been 100% addicted to "Never Get Old" lately, myself

thank you patrick that's very kind

OH WHAT WILL I BE BELIEVING AND WHO WILL CONNECT ME WITH LOVE

WONDERFUL WONDERFUL WONDER WHEN

BoRK BoRK Björk!

yo!

its not too late to donate, right? to this station?

esoterica!!

hi @kristin! we'd love it if you could donate now, but the pledge goes on until friday (and we accept donations all year round of course)

100 PLEDGES FROM THE DRIVE GOAL.

THANK YOU WALTER GOOD BOY

just gave during cusp between jon's show and commie/dana k. sorry i missed my fave earlier, those jersey folks Feelies and their crazy rhythms. love PRB forever.

i knew its nver too late to donate, @boz!

i love the feelies too!

haha i get the joke now

it's (not) too late to be grateful (for our donors)

thank you kristen! this was maybe a weird opener track choice

whoa what's this? Like a crazy remixed ESG, love it!

💥COMMMMIIIEEE💥DANAK💥

it's the electric chairs minus jayne county!

...this is intense...

99 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈 and pledges remain?

produced by david cunningham of flying lizards!

Sounding great, Commie & Dana K

@Boz Scaggs what is ur fav Boz Scaggs song and why is it Lido Shuffle?

next stop, chi-town, WPRB donors put the money down

This is the marvelousness—electric chairs! And I love that Bowie too, Dana. Hi Dana, hi Commie!

I mean, Hi Boz.

✊ Crispy Newspaper

Oh heck yes.

Oh my god, this song

@Boz Scaggs lol noted thanks

Just once I’d like someone to call my haircut intense. Is that too much to ask?!

@Pat G if ir here ur cut is likely killer just saying

Can you hear me?

yes!

yes

YES!

i hear u

I can hear you, Jon

yes indeed the ubiquitous ken katkin was an illustrious prb dj and ran good ol' homestead back in the...

Yes

Yes!

Yes

Bork! Bork!

Yippers

Yes and YES!

Whooohooooooo

so nice i donate twice...

Bill

You are filling shoes. A bit stinky though

Gosh, this rules. I love WPRB.

The Mighty Fall!

Frickin' Fall!!! YAY!

the fall the fall the fall the fall the fall the fall the fall

Xmas marathon memories... the fall the fall the fall

"The Aphid" is a deep cut!

Shiz...took my dog outside and missed MONKS

well the fall is very similar to the monks

YAY!!! Left coast!

What Monks song did THE FALL cover?

they covered a bunch of them! on the album with the aphid they covered shut up

i hear you, left coast!

Blast Off!!!

WPRB is a journey through music

hello hello

aye aye captain

hi captain!

Cap!

I just tuned in, did we hit our goal??

GO GO GO WPRB!!

oh we're close, i scrolled down in the chat

hype train initiating

C.H.U.D.s?

Rally the Cruisers, Cap.

SCREAMS IN TO THE VOID: CRUISERS, ASSEMBLE!

PLEDGE

Dessert Cruising ⛴⛴⛴🍰🍰🍰

about how many seconds of Flex and I chanting pledge pledge pledge made it on the end of our show last night?

because we were chanting for a while just to be safe

Quite a bit, Ahab!

PERFECT

A fair bit. Jen and I did like an extra minute of show tonight before she checked to confirm we were in fact clear.

I felt bad b/c Rina was mid-sentence when their show faded and I didn't want listeners to think it was my doing!

If Jen and I had been in the WPRB studios without a hard out I might have tried for 2-3 "overtime" pledges.

The WPRB Megazord

deeejaay voltron. Mind blown ⚡⚡⚡

Good Voltron list, @pledgebeaux - https://rateyourmusic.com/list/Revolution666/hip_hop_songs_with_the_line_form_like_voltron___/

Oh no. I'm too tired to dance. But here we go.

Heyba.

Heeba

hoba hooba haba

old man on the bridge!

Whoa jon..

I went to see King Kong play at the Kentucky Derby many moons ago and we left during hour three.

Voltron hiphop legend!

Another band connected to Ken Katkin!

I believe that set was titled The Kingdom Of Kong. It was very late at that point.

so much homestead in the indie novelty genre

if folks go my instagram (@dana_katharine) stories you will see the old man on the bridge (walter the dog) dancing

see the river flow and the mountains grow

well, when it uploads

haha

Old Man on the Bridge is almost like cheating as a DJ on WPRB.

WPRB is the benign king kong

Pledges must be pouring in

i assume everyone is dancing and can't make it to their computers to donate

Dark evening all

Dancing

OH YES YES YES

donated all I can

batsignaled readie!

we appreciate you, richard

seriously you have donated a bunch!

Seriously, thank you Richard.

Seriously jinx!

You know it, Commie!!! I know those voices / harmonies ANYWHERE!

thank you deirdre!!

thank you readie!

My great pleasure!!

Ya know what. This is the first time I'd ever heard NMH on WPRB

I'm surprised I hadn't before!

I played this once - https://skanktralskahotel.bandcamp.com

From my playlist notes at the time: "Of all the dumb things I’ve played on the radio, this might be the dumbest (and that’s saying something)."

Ken lives in Cincinnati and DJs at a station in northern Kentucky, I do believe

ken at the world famous WAIF

Ken does Trash Flow Radio at WAIF in Cincinnati

https://m.mixcloud.com/ken-katkin/

with his Trash Flow Radio show, named after his old radio label and first apartment out of college in Hoboken~

1981 mixes (made in 2008) from the Musicophilia blog: https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/post-punk-1981-complete-collection-including-the-briefcase/

Not sure if links are still active

I think I went something like 19/19 with my live edits. It was exhilarating and terrifying. (This was not on WPRB.)

19 more pledges is their goal

coincidence?!

i think not

We're i to recall any WPRB DHS, it would be Louis of Pop Rocks, Jon solomon, Abbie from Mars, Rosaslosis dream, whoever does desert cruising, Angie (not sure the show), Commie Francis, i should probably stop lest i forget or offend anyone

whoah 1981! thanks for those links!

Man, and I thought I was a badass for live-editing the one bad word in a Cannibal Ox song... Jon putting us all to shame

When Mark Robinson says "ran races" I always think he's saying "Rand Race's" like the early Love & Rockets character.

@Aaron Desert Cruising DJ is in the chat ;)

captain ahab of desert cruising is in the chat!

And now I feel 😞

you remembered rosasolis dream though, more than makes up for it :))

haha hello Aaron, it is I of Desert Cruising indeed

Captain Ahab, keep up the awesome work!

the money katamari needs to pick up more dollars

na naaaa na na na na na naa naa na naaaa naaaaa na na naaaaaaaaa

Ahab, i honestly apologize, I donate but don't listen as much as I could

I heard this on WPRB on Monday coming back from ballet and I swore this was the wrong speed but it ain't!

Nothing to apologize for!! I'm honored you mentioned Desert Cruising

WPRB is like a crazy singer in a band that's lost the words

another pledge! 18 left!

17 left!

for lesbian visibility week!

100% in the 1990s.

lol, i remember the super skillful manual dj edits

NOT FOR SHARING ON AIR BUT...I once heard a fill-in WPRB DJ playing the un-edited version of that Negativland track in the middle of the day and I believe I made a u-turn and drove right to the station to ask this guy what the heck he was doing.

omg, I hope you used a stronger word than "heck" with him!

There have definitely been DJs at WPRB who have been cavalier about these sorts of things. I remember someone brazenly playing a bunch of Minor Threat unedited during the day once. They were pretty quickly exiled.....

(Also not for the air)

Listening from doylestown

I had no standing of any power but I remember trying to act as angrily authoritative as possible. What a dope.

BAM

BAM!

Colin!!!

bam! 15 more!

Buff!!

Family has returned to the Ice Station with leftover eggplant pizza. This is truly a blessed evening.

A few years back i was on the air at wprb and it took my uncouth mouth less than three sentences to accidentally drop an f bomb.

That wdas/classix throwback hip hop

#don'tlethelistenersontheair

credit to the nation...hell yeah!

@jon is it EGGSELENT? 🥚🥚🥚🥚BAM

It is an unexpected delight, @Chef.

@jon amazing. Bam to u.

@BOZ SCAGGS IS HERE???????? I GOT UR WALLET

once i played just to get away by poison idea on my show and was like there's no swears in this right.... OH and slammed the slider down just perfectly before "sick of this motherfucking goddamn shit"

LMAO

That's intense.

Can I request Egg Cream by Lou Reed?

Casual pledge.wprb.com mention.

Tooooooody sings!

we have hit a MILESTONE only 10 pledges left to our goal!

Reading your story Colin McMonthly, I had one kinda Friday awkward crazy story, on this station named Classix Philly 107.9. They were doing shout outs to have callers shout out whoever they have in mind(well almost anyone, they didn't clarify what or who shouldn't be said) I attempted to shout out a famous radio personality named Patty Jackson from another station and they didn't accept my request, because shes from another station, even though it literally says Freestyle shout out Friday, LOL

GTOSS🌬🌬🌬

oh wow, I saw Guerilla Toss probably 20 times when they still lived in Boston and just played around town constantly, but I haven't kept up with them in the past 5-6 years and they sound really different now. Really lovely people. I tended to like their side/solo projects more than G Toss proper, but I'm digging this song.

There it is, the song that gets me to pledge during this show.

I seent them once at Knockdown Center in NYC

ahh, the knockdown center...

also accepting donations of pizza sent directly to me

I went to a Techno party in their basement vanue named BASEMENT. Like a damn dungeon in there lol took forever to get there. Getting back to Penn wasn't a fun experience lol

As the young people say...BAM.

What's on the b-side of this single...?

9 MORE

thanks Jon!

EISBAR

Young Fresh Fellows+Killdozer=donation

was it the young fresh fellows who did the concert calendar music? or am i completely wrong. I can hear the song in my head

Stiff Little Fingers did the Con Cal theme at one point. Pitchblende another.

👨‍🍳♥️📻❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️YES YES YES YES YES

ok. I used to live for the concert calendar.

Critic Anton Ego, Chef!

JS may be in an eggplant pizza coma.

That's my precious python!

Six!

I am comedically exhausted. It feels like 4 am to me right now.

The song that would send me over the edge:Christmas Shoes by Newsound

Jon I don’t know how you are even awake right now! Yay endorphins!

donate so jon can sleep!

Sadly, my daughter told me I had to leave her two slices of eggplant pizza for her lunch tomorrow. Otherwise I would have housed the entirety of that leftover pie.

donates a coffee

and i can eat!

If i hear the christmas shoes I promise to not have an argument with my girlfriend in the chat

Oh and pledge, too ofc

thems fightin' words

The Ex and Tom Cora? Now that's a first song to play on WPRB

I have some sensational iced coffee in the fridge for when I get up.

get ready for some WOOPS

Whoop whoop!

I'd be curious to collect all the covers of this song. I think I have three?

Melvins? Mission of Burma? Someone else?

imagine playing bass on this

I've been thru many drives but this one really big ups the game. Might need to take a week off next spring

from wor so i can listen 24-7

bass player and drummer are locked in!

not a bad idea to take some vacation time for next year's drive.

FOUR MORE!

Damn you Colin, making me drink another beer.

fieri has answered the challenge!

i would love to stay up for the rosasolis tb set later on but I can't

lol, mike, i cracked my first beer just about ten minutes ago.

pit crew life!!

Final Fifteen Mins?!?

BAM! wprb, the original flavor town.

folks we need four more donations

DJ CommieFrancis! DJ DanaK! Great tunes! Fun mic breaks! Thanks and Cheers to each of you!

Mr. M! A pleasant evening to YOU!

thanks Mr M! we're both so sleepy but it's a good kind of sleepy!

dana needs pledges for her drive home!!

DJ JonSolomon! Cheers to you and DJ Jen for a Hoot of a Show!

Jon you gotta make it to at least the start of Dopesmoker tomorrow night

I guess you can sleep a bit in the meantime

RoboDJ will understand

I'm going to set an alarm for tomorrow night, Cap.

CommieFrancis, hope you’ve been enjoying Happy Birthday CAKE or dessert Every Darn Day!!

Just doing my part.

Hi, DJ Captain Ahab! Hope you fixed the radiator so you can keep kicking it!?! I may not understand radiators from the WestSiiidddeee where those are silly and nonexistent. 🤪🥸😎

Yes it has been gloriously fixed! Ready for a new kicking

THREE

pledge.wprb.com

Getting fancy Commie.

Dad Rock!

So close.

Ohhhh I don't know.. ;-)

Ok, I was gonna go to bed, but damn, no, can’t turn this off, not while the helicopters are circling.

Ty Segall does a mean version of this one

I’m so sleepy but need to stay awake for this moment!

Thanks for the show Commie Francis and Dana K!

3! 3! 3!

:) ⭐

thanks so much everyone!! you are the best!

we're just about done! i trust that pax and mcsweden can get us the rest of the way there!!

you all are amazing

this BASS though

Thank you Commie! Thank you Dana! Thank you listeners! Thank you WPRB!

TWO

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oh man too late for an air horn thanks chef!!

BAM!

📣📣📣🤘🤘🤘🤘

BOZ!!!

wadizit adult swim in 'ere??