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Uneasy Listening

Apr 30, 2022 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Commie Francis

PILLS

Songs about pills! And the pill.

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Thanks so much to everyone who pledged during our membership drive, and all of you who were already donating monthly! We truly could not do it without you.

Starting at 10pm EST there is no more theme but there is one hour of SAD SONGS.

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8:01 PM		Bay City Rollers Saturday Night Rollin' Arista 1974
8:04 PM		Hank Williams III Pills I Took Straight to Hell Curb Records 2006
8:07 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over the Upsetters - Drugs and Poison
8:09 PM		Bee Vamp Valium Girl R Valium Girls Monsters in Orbit 1981 requested by Dana K
8:13 PM		ISS (MET) FORMING Spikes Sorry State 2021
8:16 PM		Quincy Punx Young and Dumb We're Not Punks...but We Play Them on TV Recess Records 1994
8:17 PM		Hoyt Axton The Pusher Joy to the World Capitol Records 1971
8:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Skream - Tek-a-Pill
8:22 PM		Gang of Four Glass Entertainment! Warner Records 1979
8:25 PM		The Druids of Stonehenge Speed Creation Uni Records 1968
8:27 PM		Macy "Skip" Skipper Bop Pills R Bop Pills 1956 requested by Charles from Northampton MA
8:30 PM		Eyes TAQN TAQN Dangerhouse 1979
8:32 PM		Hence the Name The Stuff in the Medicine Cabinet Is Not Candy 'Til Someone Loses An Eye - The Safety Tips Compilation Superpickle Music Arts 1999
8:32 PM		Crass Poison in a Pretty Pill Penis Envy Crass Records 1981
8:36 PM		Canned Heat Amphetamine Annie Boogie With Canned Heat Liberty Records 1968
8:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Inter-Circle - The Pusher
8:43 PM		The Fall Totally Wired (A capella live 1981) R Totally Wired Live requested by Doug in Chicago
8:46 PM		Bo Diddley Pills R Call Me / Pills Chess 1961 for David from Monmouth Beach THERE YA GO
8:49 PM		Ffa Coffi Pawb Valium R Dalec Peilon Casetiau Huw 1988 requested by Dana K
8:51 PM		BGK Pill-Party Jonestown Aloha! Vögelspin Records 1983
8:53 PM		Double Cheese Pills and Wine N Thee Black Album Dirty Water Records 2022
8:55 PM		Polyphonic Size Mother's Little Helper R Mother's Little Helper EP Enigma 1982 requested by Pethie!
8:58 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over the Upsetters - Drugs and Poison
9:00 PM		20/20 Yellow Pills 20/20 Rdeg 1979 for Bill xoxoxoxox
9:05 PM		Loretta Lynn The Pill Back To The Country MCA Nashville 1975
9:07 PM		Laurice Black Beauty R Bad Boy requested by Esoterica
9:10 PM		Total Control Meds II R Henge Beat Iron Lung Records 2011 requested by Pat from Clamour Club
9:15 PM		28th Day 25 Pills R 28th Day Enigma 1985 requested by Dana K and Andrew in West Philly
9:18 PM		Big Star Downs (Demo) Complete Third Omnivore Recordings 2016
9:19 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Skream - Tek-a-Pill
9:22 PM		Au Pairs Diet Playing with a Different Sex Human Music 1981
9:26 PM		Dody Goodman Tranquilizers Dody Goodman Sings? Coral 1958
9:28 PM		They Might Be Giants Lie Still, Little Bottle R Lincoln Idlewild Recordings 1988 requested by Mary in Lansdale
9:30 PM		ISS (I Want a) Amphetamine Prescription ISS Drunken Sailor Records 2015
9:33 PM		Gary Stewart Caffeine, Nicotine and Benzedrine You're Not the Woman You Used to Be MCA 1975
9:35 PM		Rudimentary Peni Pills, Popes and Potions Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric Southern Records 2013
9:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Inter-Circle - The Pusher
9:42 PM		The Other Half Mr. Pharmacist R The Other Half Acta Records 1968 sort of requested by Courtney in Durham NC
9:45 PM		Uncurbed Valium Holiday Keeps the Banner High IndigoBoom 2000
9:48 PM		Blue Arkey and the Blue Cowboys Too Many Pills Living On Credit / Too Many Pills Tonka Records 1970
9:52 PM		Constant Mongrel Perks and the Thrills (Pills) R Heavy Breathing Siltbreeze 2013 requested by Doug in Chicago
9:54 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over the Upsetters - Drugs and Poison
9:56 PM		The Freeze Powder, Rock & Pills Misery Loves Company Taang! Records 1991
10:01 PM		Freddy Cannon Transistor Sister Transistor Sister - Single Swan Records 1961 BOOM BOOM
10:04 PM		Peter Laughner & Friends Amphetamine Take the Guitar Player for a Ride Tim/Kerr 1993 recorded 1975
10:11 PM		The Poppy Family Winter Milk Poppy Seeds London 1971 RIP Susan Jacks
10:15 PM		Portastatic A Bear That Chokes Scrapbook - EP Merge Records 1995
10:19 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:22 PM		Cat Stevens Trouble Mona Bone Jakon Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1970
10:24 PM		Smog Bathysphere Wild Love Drag City Records 1995
10:29 PM		Gordon Bok Bay of Fundy Bay of Fundy Folk-Legacy Records 1975
10:33 PM		The Pogues The Band Played Waltzing Matilda R Rum Sodomy & the Lash Warner Strategic Marketing 1985
10:41 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:43 PM		Emmylou Harris Boulder to Birmingham Pieces of the Sky Reprise 1974
10:46 PM		Silkworm On the Road, One More Time Quicksand My Pal God 1996
10:49 PM		Michael Nesmith Harmony Constant And the Hits Just Keep on Comin' RCA Victor 1972
10:53 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Brian Eno - Sombre Reptiles
10:55 PM		Chumbawamba By & By A Singsong and a Scrap AK Press 2005

Chat is archived.

neely!!

hi! what?

neely o'hara form valley of the dolls, my fav

from

and hi!

SATURDAY NIGHT!!!!

ohhhhh i forgot i put that picture on the playlist haha it's been a weird day

love the theme, commie!

haha

Aw, that Fleetwood kid was adorable. "Nasty, nasty drugs"

Hi Commie, Eso, Richard & all!

hi christine, richard, esoterica!

hi :)

hi richard, christine!

will we hear up with people?

just say whaaa?

Their tongue was firmly in cheek (along with a couple pills)

Yay Dana K!

Woo! Dana K!

i actually got this record last time i was in portland and forgot all about it so thank heavens for dana k

:) As Mr M would say,"Westsiiiiiiiide"

Producer Robert Evans had to produce a community announcement, get high on yourself, after he got popped with $19,000 of cocaine, here it is: https://youtu.be/y5xBwOSVYfg

was that 2nd ave records commie?

it was little axe. i also got malaria weisse wasser!

i can't watch it but does it have the south bronx movement song of the same name?

i almost played that tonight but i'm saving it for general drugs

My uncle drove Hoyt's bus in the mid 80's. I interviewed Hoyt as a college radio doc project for "Disorganized Crime" in Hamilton, MT.

that

bread bags of weed. haha

oops

that's cool! i'm a fan! yeah i've heard he was quite into drugs

just recalled laurice's black beauty (which btw in high school was being pushed left and right in the suburbs of san diego in the early 80s)

ooh good one. no swears?

let me relisten.

richard, wild about your uncle.

yay i love having a dj available to screen tracks, thank you esoterica!

I wonder if amphetamine Annie is related to polk salad Annie?

Yes CF! I will send some Hoyt A audio :)

well, to my ears, i do not hear anything and i listened twice.

apparently it is a cautionary song due to him kicking a habit

Everybody's waiting for the Bo Diddley song.

what about the ny dolls song

This one should be for DJ Chester.

I'll never forget his on-air delivery!

i just pulled johnny vomit and the dry heaves chokin on a lude for this, i hope you appreciate it! ;)

Such good choices about drugs :) haha

*pills

Is this Welsh? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Nice!

it is!

dana k request natch

put it in a bag behind the dumpster

ahhhhhhh

A request: Band: 27th Day. Song: “25 Pills”

28th Day. My bad.

hey andrew:) good request!

Haha Commie!!

i can accomodate that request

young barbara manning!

💊 💊 💊✨

I heart Barbara.

Hello from my driveway. What I have heard tonight was amazing!

that's weird i'm in your driveway too!

Can you pull up a bit? Want to make sure I’m not blocking the sideway. Thanks!

i am very happy with this topic and also very happy with my unofficial topic for transistor sister which is, ironically, "sad"

great Loretta Lynn song!!!!

wooo!

thx, commie

thank YOU for a great request!

how can one not love laurice

Love BM! My wife and I saw her in Portland OR when she was 5 months pregnant :) Great show! (1997)

My wife that is :)

For you general drugs show:

Titanics - “ High on Drugs”

noted! hey what is your general location so i can correctly cite these requests?

Great tunes! Do I really luv songs about Pills or should I take my Uppers d0wN a notch?!? 🤪😵🤑💊💊💊🥔🥔🥔🟠🟠🟠🌐🌐🌐

i've got some downs coming up for you

HeyOoo!!

West Philly!

MrMalcontent 💀, greetings! You're got some potatoes mixed in among your pills.

Haha! I’m super high. I mean, funny.

These old folks will just think it’s a vitamin D

i am probably not going to get to who put the benzedrine in mrs murphy's ovaltine

plus i already played that for drinks

👃👆 not it!

i'm suspicious

Giggles

Seriously, I was busy that day

this BANGER rn af!

I’ll have what she’s having

MrK

Don’t have a conniption, get a new prescription!

Lie still little bottle

Hank 3 and Bo Diddley! Was hoping they'd make it in here. Got in the car a little late for Hank. But heard a lot of great songs on the drive home. Cheers. What a week + of prb.

Hi yo Commie F!

hi Bo! and Brian!

Don’t say hi to TAndy. He needs to keep it on brand “MrM”. Try even harder.

"Drink your school, stay in sleep, don't do milk, and get eight hours of drugs."

Can we quote you on that, Christine!!! 🤣

@Mr.M💀I just had a Conniption at my local brewery and it was damn good!🍻

Ooh! That’s awesome, Ambrose Hughes! 🍺

HI TANDY

🤬😡🤬

☕ 🚬 💊 💊

o this is just right. that steel

>:)

@Commie, too late in asking prob but, how about Bitterest Pill by The Jam?

i don't think i will have time unfortunately

No worries!

lyrics to this song: the depixal dance of death the stelazine stomp modecate meander haloperidol hop lithium leap largactyl lunge clozaril clomp carbumazapine kick procycladine pep up wo a wow (heavy mental)

plus obviously papas adrianus which runs through this whole album

I'm high from just reading all that!🙈

pep up wo a wow

It's like an alphabet pairing of drugs plus alliterative verbs, and I love it.

nick blinko has to go off his meds to write music and do art

he's on a LOT

Starlight night Commie and all!

hiya Ossy!

Hi Ossy!

@Commie, Waltzing Matilda by The Pogues is up there for me.

that is definitely a saddie

🎵 Sweet sadie 🎵

if this was a pledge drive show jon solomon would pledge during this show

bo that pogues song is very long but i MAY get to it

A saddie 😢 but a goodie

@Commie, I'd say theirs an element of truth to that.

@Christine, aye lassie😥

Oh! Jim Carroll!

haha my original concept for my radio show was people died and i would only play dead artists but i gave up on that fast

H & M *always* does it to me. 💔 Beauty and loss.

@Commie, understood.

i love that song but it's weirdly joyful to me

Yes, happy sad kinda!

Love Smog and Bill Callaghan has some quite maybe not sad but melancholic songs.

yeah when i was in my early 20s i made my roommate a depressing mix tape and it had two smog songs on it and neither was this one

if anyone can't tell i've been obsessed with gordon bok lately

Couldn't tell.

i think i've played him 3 weeks in a row

now you know!

To tell you the truth if it wasn't for you I'd be none the wiser, I thank you, his voice is hipnotic.

Uh OH!😲

I'M ALREADY CRYING

incidentally i cannot believe that shane macgowan is still alive

bill will be happy because i think this hour is mostly not to his taste but he LOVES this song

Pass that DJ a hanky!

he'll be happy and also sad because it's so sad

give the damn dj a hanky

SHANE LIVES!🍻

*passes tissues & tp around* 🧻

I’m has emo

I BELIEVE I AM HAVING A MOMENT HEARING THIS SONG RIGHT NOW.

Just thought of Willie McBride by The Fureys on hearing this.

who isn't mike

(comma)

@Mike, have another😥

😞

it's gonna get sadder, at least for me

Three deep, already Ambrose.

Good job, Bo. You made us all cry.

:(..

Its6 over, droy yer oyes 😃

i need sadder bed music

Sad songs RULE!😝

Makes me tune in to Missing You by Brandy, Tamia, Gladys Knight and etc:(..

I do love and look forward to everyone's "Big Comedown" shows in the days following the end of the fundraiser...

Ambrose - Don't get me started with sad songs and moments from Disney and Pixar movies 😢 😭

@Ossy, Umm, Okay, I'll spare you ...this time!

Dang Commie...been listening thru the fog of a food induced nap coma. Sad sad sad sad sad sad.

Ambrose - Ooooo, sooo scary, immensely horrified, LOL

@Ossy, be afraid ...be VERY afraid.😝

DJ CommieFrancis! Thanks for the Uppers 💊 and the Downers 😭!! Big cheers and kind regards to you!

As we get closer to 11 PM, I am beginning to suspect you labored intensely over which sad song you're gonna wrap up with tonight.

AND I AM HERE FOR IT, DAMNIT.

I'm so am, shivering in my highly comfy knee high socks, Ambrose, 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Its like me being afraid of Megan from Drake and Josh, who ain't shit, LMAO

I think that lady is just reaching for a jar of Hot Tamales

We are totally invested. Thanks, Commie for two hours of pills, followed by an hour of sadness.

"labored" indeed

@Jimbeaux, lol!

Interesting for your sorrow segment show, Commie, WDAS just playing Tony Terry's When I'm With You sorrow song

Nice pipes on this Commie ???

Jimbeaux, looks like fish oil to me.

John Jones from Oysterband doing guest vocals on this

Thank you for this lovely show btw!😍

thanks for listening!

Thank for the show CF, have a good night/weekend <3

Great song to end the show. Great show..