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Uneasy Listening

Jul 23, 2022 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Commie Francis

FAME and the pursuit thereof

Songs about what it takes to become a famous hot dog 8-10. and then 10-11 a birthday show for the famous Enriquez twins!

refresh to update the playlist and come say hi in the chat!

8:00 PM		Bay City Rollers Saturday Night Rollin' Arista 1974
8:03 PM		Grace Jones Fame Fame Universal Music Group International 1978
8:08 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over RARE FORMZ - Fame (Instrumental)
8:10 PM		Head Cheese Teenage Idol Jungle Jam 1981
8:12 PM		Alice Donut Mason Reese Donut Comes Alive Howler Records 1988
8:14 PM		Gary Numan Remind Me to Smile Telekon Beggars Banquet 1979
8:18 PM		The Nerves Are You Famous? (Demo) One Way Ticket Alive Records 2008 orig late 70s
8:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over GZA - Fame (instrumental)
8:23 PM		Palast Orchester & Max Raabe Lucky Die Hits des Jahres RCA 2000
8:26 PM		Loretta Lynn Success Loretta Lynn Sings MCA Nashville 1963
8:29 PM		Swamp Dogg Ebony and Jet ??? Greatest Hits ??? (Digtally Remastered) Essential Media Group 2013 orig 1976
8:32 PM		Sisters Of Mercy Emma Emma / Ghost Rider Stampa Alternativa 1988 Hot Chocolate cover!!!!
8:38 PM		Zmiv Fame Banzai! Here's "Zmiv" Beware! self released 1982
8:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over an unidentified instrumental version of "Fame" from the film Fame
8:43 PM		XTC Limelight Drums and Wires Virgin Records 1979
8:45 PM		Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston Chords of Fame R Jad Fair and Daniel Johnston 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Watts Records 1989 requested by Reid in Philly
8:48 PM		De La Soul En Focus Buhloone Mind State Mega Records 1993
8:51 PM		The Magnetic Fields Famous Get Lost Merge Records 1995
8:54 PM		Trash Kit Fame Trash Kit Upset The Rhythm 2010
8:57 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over RARE FORMZ - Fame (Instrumental)
9:00 PM		Twinkle Golden Lights Golden Lights Decca 1965
9:02 PM		Rymz Hédoniste N Quebec This! Vol. 2 V/A Quebec This! 2022
9:06 PM		Mission of Burma Fame and Fortune Signals, Calls and Marches Ace of Hearts 1981
9:09 PM		Government Issue Hall of Fame Boycott Stabb (Complete Session) Dischord Records 2010 orig 1983
9:11 PM		Betty Davis Dedicated To the Press Nasty Gal Island Records 1975
9:14 PM		Ricky Nelson Teenage Idol It's Up to You CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1963
9:17 PM		Soft Drinks Popstars In Their Pyjamas Popstars In Their Pyjamas Outer Himalayan Records 1982
9:19 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over GZA - Fame (instrumental)
9:24 PM		Chumbawamba Rich Pop Stars Make Good Socialists The Police are Wonderful R.E.D. tapes 1988
9:26 PM		France Gall N'écoute Pas Les Idoles France Gall Philips 1964
9:28 PM		Stealers Wheel Star Ferguslie Park UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1973
9:30 PM		Milk 'N' Cookies (Dee, Dee You're) Stuck On a Star Milk 'N' Cookies Island Records 1975
9:33 PM		Blondie Will Anything Happen Parallel Lines Chrysalis\EMI Records (USA) 1978
9:36 PM		Uncle Tupelo We've Been Had R Anodyne Sire/Warner Records 1993 requested by Steven in Johnstown or something
9:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over an unidentified instrumental version of "Fame" from the film Fame
9:41 PM		The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy Famous And Dandy (Like Amos 'N' Andy) Famous And Dandy (Like Amos 'N' Andy) - EP Island Records 1992
9:46 PM		Kirsty MacColl Fifteen Minutes Kite Virgin 1989
9:49 PM		The Dickies Fan Mail Dawn of the Dickies UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1979
9:52 PM		Armed Force Popstar Popstar / Attack AFI 1979
9:55 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over RARE FORMZ - Fame (Instrumental)
9:56 PM		ABBA Super Trouper Super Trouper Polar 1980
10:00 PM		Witch Hunt Take a Stand Witch Hunt Get the Axe 2002 Happy birthday Nicole and Janine!
10:03 PM		The Go-Go's We Got the Beat We Got the Beat / How Much More Stiff 1980
10:05 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:08 PM		Le Tigre Deceptacon Le Tigre Wiiija 1999
10:09 PM		Girlschool Emergency Emergency / Furniture Fire Bronze 1980
10:12 PM		Motorhead Ace of Spades Ace of Spades Bronze 1980
10:15 PM		Hüsker Dü In a Free Land In a Free Land - Single New Alliance 1982
10:18 PM		Wire Ex Lion Tamer Pink Flag Harvest 1977
10:20 PM		Au Pairs Dear John Playing with a Different Sex Human Records 1981
10:23 PM		Killing Joke Eighties Night Time Virgin Catalogue 1985
10:27 PM		U.X.A. Tragedies Illusions of Grandeur Posh Boy Music 1980
10:29 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:31 PM		Born Against Mary and Child The Rebel Sound of Shit and Failure Kill Rock Stars
10:33 PM		Eyes Don't Talk To Me Split EP V/A What Records? 1978
10:35 PM		Flux of Pink Indians Tube Disasters Neu Smell 1981
10:37 PM		Chumbawamba Invasion Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records Agit Prop 1986
10:42 PM		New Model Army I Love the World Thunder and Consolation Parlophone UK 1989
10:47 PM		X-Ray Spex Obsessed With You Germ Free Adolescents X-Ray Spex 1978
10:49 PM		Gang of Four Damaged Goods Entertainment! Matador 1979
10:53 PM		The Damned Love Song Machine Gun Etiquette Chiswick Records 1979
10:55 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:57 PM		Poison Girls Take the Toys Where's the Pleasure? Xntrix 1982

Chat is archived.

S A T U R D A Y Night!!!!

STILL never get tired of this song!

Hellloooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

S A T U R D A Y ---NIGHT!!!! Hey Commie, now I'm back in synch...

---- You really threw me off at 6 :)

what do you mean, i just started my show

2 Commie's ??

Welcome Uneasy chatters :D

wprb is rife with commies

HA. Commies come in

Grace "pearly whites" Jones, BIG UP 🇯🇲

And from Boomerang movie with Eartha Kitt and Eddie Murphy!

Grace is da s***!

i have loved her since i first espied her in that conan movie

and pee-wee's playhouse christmas special

I WAS LISTENIN good evening peeps

also best thing in that james bond movie!

hi tandy!

this has been a treat thanks for the tunes and most of all essay on rd

Yo TAndy!

Howdy TAndy.

bye bye

night, thanks for tuning in!

See ya Kaleb :)

DJ Readie played a James Bond theme last night, then later that night Roger Moore was on Alfred Hitchcock, now it's JB again ??? Weird...

famous bond girl grace jones

i was actually listening to a song earlier today that sounded like the bond theme, i forget what it was or if i'm playing it

Yeah, Conan with Arnold Terminator!

I forget what movie it was that they were filming, but Grace J. was being hoisted by invisible wires to about 10 feet off the ground, when her entire dress fell off, she just hung there laughing like hell...

Woke up too late and missed Ameena:s show :( at least I'm here to ear-witness this

Oh wait two Commie Francises tonight! Commie Francii? Plural nouns.

@ Tandy: Commie subbed for Ameena..

@TAndy 😝

👂

8hrs🤗

hell i'll just stay on, to hell with cj

HA! Commie 24/7

@Commie, yeah!😜

the benefit of bill being out is i can sing along without worrying that i'm being absurdly loud in my headphones

Drive up to the studio and eject CJ from the mic hahahahaha

This Palast Orchester & Max Raabe is awesome!

my niece calls my radio setup my singing table, might as well take advantage. just pray i don't accidentally leave the mic on

@Commie, sounds like heaven!

That's too cute omg

Yippeee! Loretta!!!!

@Commie, I think you and CJ could work well together!

This song!! I swear I've heard this somewhere recently

Was this in a movie?

What a voice!😍

We all might have secret "singing tables"

SWAMP DOG!!!😃

I don't believe that I've ever heard a song with 5 string and brass...SD!

@Commie ...SO this is what you were referring to earlier!

YES

WOW!

Now this is a night driving song

this was basically a night driving double a side single with ghost rider (suicide) on the other side!

😳

GOOSE BUMPS

I'm old enough to remember seeing Hot Chocolate perform this on TOTP🙄

Dang! Sooo Good

I am at the Cate Le Bon / Yo La Tengo / Japanese Breakfast show (for the first two bands, don’t care much about JP) at The Dell right now and I couldn’t message this earlier cuz I was driving, but just as I pulled out of the Wawa parking lot in Gtown Ave, a dude with a huge nazi Iron Cross tattoo on his arm walked past my car and that you started playing The Day the Nazi Died!

That MOMENT

@Lizbot, well, YOU are in Germantown!

... JK, that's effed!

@Ambrose - TRUE

man it would only be better if it was bash the fash

@Ambrose - yeah, this guy was a real prize. 😞

seeems like a good way to get beaten up in germantown

Yikes Lizbot!

@Commie - Srsly! I got a BAD vibe from him while he was getting out of his car next to me, and THEN the huge iron cross. Good times.

You mentioned Rush and I thought, "I thought that was XTC" hehe

go go go Daniel Johnston

@Commie - I’m glad you were on early today subbing cuz I got to listen to a chonk on the way here. Now it’s between Cate Le Bon and Yo La Tengo. I might leave before JP or I might not.

it was a funny prank!

i wish i was seeing cate le bon!

the other bands i can take or leave

yell speeding motorcycle at ylt

@Commie - re: getting beaten up in Germantown- Dude was very ripped and tall and projecting extremely intimidating vibe. I felt bad for the Wawa employees who were about to deal with him, and anyone else he comes across who isn’t a literal fascist

Ahhhh yeah...De La

@Commie - 😆 I’ve seen YLT a lotta times, but it’s been a while

You got me C C C Commie:D

@Lizbot, maybe he was a Lemmy impersonator ...enjoy the Show!🤗

text from my mom "i loved the out of tune banjo"

@Commie😝

Hi Commie and everyone. Was that the Una Baines that just gave a station ID?

yep! THE una baines!

Wow! *Bows deeply*

i had a couple of fall songs on my list but tabled them for future show about the music industry

I'm sure those Fall songs would be top-notch for that topic

she's pretty accessible on fb honestly. she friended me after i asked her for it!

Cool cool

By the way, the Twinkle song was really nice!

i love her! i got into her through her teen death song terry

morrissey covered golden lights i believe

I had never heard of her before. My loss

never too late to learn!

Yup! I've made a note to myself to play those two songs

The last song felt like Burna Boy

Government Issue!!!!!!!!!

rob you missed me playing candy machine during my fill-in. although they're not really your era

Daaaang

you know them? i love them!

Maybe, maybe not. I'll have to listen to them when I listen to Twinkle. I certainly recognize the name, might have seen them, never had any of their records

Betty 💛

@Commie, having trouble with this theme tbh, prob doesn't matter but, this may be a stretch, Shout To The Top by the Style Council?

they were the kind of band that would have been on dischord in the early/mid 90s but they were from baltimore not dc

Yes indeed. Also I was mostly listening to indiepop at that time

All time great Album!

for sure!

Absotootly Ambrose!

@Commie, did you see my earlier text, re: Style Council?

@richard, 🤗

i don't think i will be able to fit it in unfortunately

No worries!

i dunno if it's on theme either, i don't think "the top" means like celebrity fame, more like power

Sooo Good. They are great!

Yeah, I suck at this.

i had a jam song on my list but i forget what it was haha

oh to be someone

That works!

i'd play it but it has a swear i'm not confident i can edit out live!

How about Five O'Clock Hero ...Oh wait, it has "shit" in it.🙄

those guys swore a lot! dammit guys

They're from Blighty ...it's in their DNA😜

Who sang Fan Club, The Damned?

scrolling back - love The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

oh this is the james bond theme song i mentioned earlier!

yes they were great! i didn't put together the michael franti connection for a long time

@richard, they kicked ass!

Loads of swearing like The Boondocks and Black Lagoon!

This is a great ABBA song, for sure

🔥🔥🔥

i love that an entire punk rock birthday party is currently listening to this waiting for the punk part to start

We got the beat, a tbt like the hit "That's Not My Name"

nice! A birthday mix! I got home at the right moment.

you sure did, this is going to be fun

Woo!!!

This guitar is too fucking sick 🔥🔥🔥🔥

girlschool = THE BEST

Motorhead LETS GOOOO

made my own motorhead/girlschool split (they did a split record covering each others' songs)

Mr. Kilmister & Co!

I need to check that record out that sounds amazing

emergency is the girlschool song motorhead covered

and girlschool did bomber

Ay yo

I'm also glad i remembered I left the sudz in the car before they were completely warm.

This needs to stop I'm about to go goblin mode with these JAMS

it's not stopping til 11

@Colin, that is not aloud.

operation save the sudz was mission accomplished so back to this party mix!

Nah knowing CJ he's gonna keep the vibes going till 1! >:)

Spare a thought for Greg Norton, he has a battle to win!

true true!

THIS!

😳

Aaagh I wish I was taping this show rn this is excellent

it will go up on mixcloud in the next few days!

Siiiick

Killing Joke ain't no joke!

Wh. Is that the Nirvana thing? Did Kurt feel inspired when he heard this I wonder? ;)

haha it is pretty similar then again smells like teen spirit

is a lot like more than a feeling

Whether it was an intentional riff or a subconscious "meeting of the minds" moment when songwriting. Either way it's cool as heck

Ok let's get a pit going NOW.

i can't say it on the air but if you want to see me and janine cover that song, next saturday at foto club

Already got plans up in ny next saturday :(

Haven't heard this lot in an age!😃

😍😍😍

I am 58 years old, and this punk set rules! Chris from Wayne.

hi Chris! thanks!

i am 44 and i agree it rules

Child!! LOL

@Commie, Namen Namen?

I'm less than 2 months to 29 and this still rules

maybe next show! no one but janine and nicole can make requests for this one

Going to try and remember to expose my teenage nephew to some of this music next time i visit to see what he thinks

hell yeah recruit recruit!

HEAR THAT Janine and Nicole?!?😜

@TAndy, you are still in nappies!😝

OMFG!!!

LOL

THIS

in love with hos fuzzy that track was

...AND THIS!

SuPRB show, Commie!

thanks jimbo! and yeah lo fi spex

Damn!😍

Thanks for the show!! The last hour especially >:)

glad i got to catch the birthday mix!

it's fun to allow myself play the hits (from my perspective at least)

⭐💛🌠💫 and the classic hip hop

Great show as always Commie F. See ye in a fortnight!🙏

pour one out for epmd it's not me it's the fame which was too long to fit in

if anyone else wants a birthday mix, merely become friends with me for 20 years and then have your birthday fall on a saturday!

thanks for listening everyone, good night!