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Uneasy Listening

Aug 13, 2022 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Commie Francis

Neighborhoods and Hometowns

Songs about neighborhoods and where people are from 8-10, then freeform etc 10-11 remembering Lamont Dozier, Mark Astronaut and Gord Lewis.

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8:01 PM		Bay City Rollers Saturday Night Rollin' Arista 1974
8:05 PM		Carole King My Simple Humble Neighborhood Really Rosie Ode/Epic/Legacy 1975
8:07 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Five Harmaniacs - Coney Island Washboard
8:09 PM		The Go Go's This Town Beauty and the Beat IRS Records 1981
8:12 PM		The Cheeraks Ah, Ah, Ah (Dirty Old Town) The Cheeraks Yakisakana Records 2002
8:15 PM		Herman's Hermits It's Nice to Be Out In the Morning Mrs Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) MGM Records 1968
8:18 PM		The American Dream Frankford El R The American Dream Ampex Records 1970 requested by Nic in Philly! But not Frankford
8:19 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over MFSB - Ferry Ave
8:22 PM		Ivy Green Stupid Village Ivy Green Pogo Records 1978
8:26 PM		Crisis No Town Hall (Southwark) No Town Hall (Southwark) Action Group 1978
8:28 PM		Mos Def Habitat Black On Both Sides Rawkus 1999
8:33 PM		Malvina Reynolds Little Boxes Ear to the Ground Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2000 orig 1963, requested by Richard from Kutztown
8:36 PM		The Topplers Flack Town FM-BX Society Tape 001 S-S Records 2010 orig 1981
8:38 PM		Television Personalities Parties In Chelsea And Don't the Kids Just Love It Rough Trade 1981
8:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Tal Henry - My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans
8:42 PM		Roger Sovine Culman Alabama Culman, Alabam / Savannah Georgia Vagrant Imperial 1968
8:45 PM		Clorox Girls Not My Hometown Clorox Girls Smart Guy Records 2004
8:46 PM		Wipers Doom Town Over the Edge Brain Eater 1983 requested by Richard from Portland!
8:49 PM		The Seeds Bad Part of Town Bad Part of Town / Wish Me Up MGM Records 1970
8:53 PM		Human Switchboard In This Town Who's Landing in My Hangar? Faulty Products 1981
8:56 PM		Pianosaurus Center Of The Universe Groovy Neighborhood Rounder 1987
8:58 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over David Bowie - A New Career in a New Town
9:01 PM		Tuscadero Mt. Pleasant The Pink Album Rhino/Elektra 1996
9:03 PM		Steady B The Hill Top R What's My Name Jive/Legacy 1987 requested by Nic from Philly
9:06 PM		Action Pact Stanwell Suicide Bag EP Jungle/Fall Out 1982
9:08 PM		Slim Cessna's Auto Club Cranston The Bloudy Tenent Truth Peace SCACUNINCORPORATED 2004
9:12 PM		David Peel and Death Uptight Manhattan King of Punk Orange Records 1978
9:16 PM		M.I.A. Mango Pickle Down River Kala XL 2007 feat. Wilcannia Mob
9:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Stevie Wonder - Manhattan at 6
9:24 PM		Lou Rawls Dead End Street R Too Much! Capitol Records 1967 requested by Scott from somewhere or other!
9:26 PM		The Loners Neighborhood Kids Inanimate Objects / Neighborhood Kids Double AA 1980
9:29 PM		Jackie Lee The Town I Live In The Town I Live In / You Can Too (Have Heartaches) Columbia 1966
9:31 PM		Hard Skin The Gipsy Hill On the Balls JT Classics 2012
9:34 PM		The Kinks Muswell Hillbilly Muswell Hillbillies RCA Victor 1971
9:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over MFSB - Manhattan Skyline
9:40 PM		Ike & Tina Turner Nutbush City Limits Nutbush City Limits CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1973
9:43 PM		The Restarts N16 Mobocracy V/A No Label Records 2009 split with MDC
9:46 PM		Curtis Mayfield The Other Side of Town Curtis Curtom 1970
9:50 PM		Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson Back Home Winter In America Strata East 1974
9:53 PM		The Cravats Precinct In Toytown Cherry Red Records 1980
9:55 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over MFSB - Ferry Ave
9:57 PM		The Dead Milkmen Punk Rock Girl Beelzebubba Ryko/Rhino 1988 with consultation from legit Philadelphian Nic from Philly on the status of South Street as a neighborhood.
10:00 PM		Freddy Cannon Transistor Sister Transistor Sister - Single Swan Records 1961
10:02 PM		Lamont Dozier Shout About It Lamont M&M Records 1981 RIP Lamont Dozier
10:07 PM		Teenage Head Little Boxes Teenage Head Warner Music Canada 1979 RIP Gord Lewis
10:11 PM		The Astronauts Getting Things Done Restricted Hours Acid Stings 1989 RIP Mark Astronaut
10:14 PM		100 Flowers Our Fallout 100 Flowers Happy Squid Records 1983
10:16 PM		Ohyda Drgawki N Pan Bóg Spełni Wszystkie Pragnienia Lewaków... I Dojdzie Do Katastrofy! La Vida Es Un Mus Discos 2022
10:18 PM		Los Crudos Tomando Los Golpes Discografía La Vida Es Un Mus Discos 2016 orig 1996
10:19 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:23 PM		Linda Jardim Energy in Northampton Energy in Northampton EMI 1980
10:27 PM		The Monkees She More of the Monkees Colgems 1967
10:29 PM		Flash Incontrolable N Flash La Vida Es En Mus Discos 2022
10:31 PM		Sir Lord Baltimore Caesar LXXI Sir Lord Baltimore Cherry Red Records 1971
10:37 PM		Red Dons Too Sick Fake Meets Failure Deranged Records 2010
10:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:42 PM		Ghost:Whale The Other Side N Echo:One Tenzenmen 2022
10:51 PM		Françoise Hardy Lonesome Town En Anglais Disques Vogue 1968
10:53 PM		TV TOY Instant This / Instant That For What It's Worth / Instant This/Instant That Permanent Records 1979
10:55 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:57 PM		Chumbawamba The Day the Nazi Died Uneasy Listening

Chat is archived.

Big love Saturday crew at WPRB

how many times have i heard this song in the last 8 years. i should have a contest like how many jellybeans in the jar

416? Hi Commie F!

Hi Commie! This jellybean here listens mostly on FM !

it's tricky cause i relisten to my shows and i number them but not the recurring ones plus i had a period when i wasn't on saturdays and didn't play it

Evening! I showed the Really Rosie at Burning Man years ago. Some of the boomers there had there memories jarred by "I don't care" and "chicken soup". Most other people didn't know what to make of it.

Hey hey Uneasy Listeners!!

Hi Commie :)

Yo richard!

hi richard alan bo andy tandy!!

@Commie, I was thinking of The Pogues Dirty Old Town ...sadly we lost Daryll Hunt a few days ago!

This show is too much, I'm rocking out.

Rocking aggressively in my chair watching another episode of Hank Hill till it's time for work

Remember Peter Noon VJing on VH!?

i DO remember that

i didn't hear about Darryl Hunt, that's sad

too many people dying!

@Commie, yep!😣

I rode the 'L' every week for a year!

*El*

i rode it every weekday for 4 years!

Just throwing this out there. Loretta Lynn and Jack White, "Portland, Oregon"

@Commie, bless you, you win!

but neither of them are from portland?

@richard, that's a great song!

yeah thank you for the suggestion but it doesn't mention any neighborhoods and it happens in portland but it's not about being from there!

This is always the first track I play when I get home from a long trip

appropriate!

Aura vibes of What's The 411 (Mary J Blige)!

Frank Sinatra was the first to record Lee Hazelwood’s “This Town”, but his daughter sang it for her NBC TV special!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RnxLSZZfV0M

PETE!

...and Malvina!

The Wipers, "Doom Town" :)

deal, i dunno if that's about a hometown but it definitely seems like it

also greg sage is from portland and lived there when he wrote that so....

Lovin' these old English punk songs!

richard are you from philly? i forgot

portland:D

I know you already have a full playlist but just trying to get the hang of this: The Decemberists, "On the Bus Mall" about portland homeless youth

note sky saxon worked in a coal mine in PHILLY

I met Sky Saxon!

did you ask him about his coal mining years?

...very likeable character.

he seemed like a real weirdo and i mean that in the best way

HA! No, he'd erased them from memory!

But of course!

Saw the Seeds in Asbury Park, that was special!

Nice Ambrose!

The weather outside as cool as a desert at night!

That Pianosaurus song was really good and I never considered listening to that band because an all toy instrument band sounded like it would be annoying. I love the Human Switchboard.

pianosaurus is super good!

btw pax and i made that id on pax's laptop while waiting for people to call during a pledge drive.

It's such a lovely neighborhood (?) My Mt. Pleasant

hahah i was waiting for rob to show up

I was throwing out my Nancy Drew books, sorry I'm late

not your model horses from massachusetts though!!

NEVER

oh bo when you said you were liking the old english punk i meant to tell you i was messaging the singer of the boys on fb to figure out if brickfield nights is about a park or a neighborhood! (it's a park)

@Commie, aw that's so cool!

@Commie, just thought of this, Hope Street by The Levellers?

hm maybe. sometimes a street can be a neighborhood, i have one song like that coming up

i will see what i can do!

Sweet if you can, thanks!

HOLY SHITE! Haven't heard this since I had my first pair of DM's!👀

S.L.F. did Hope Street too I just remembered!

Yeeoooo Comrades!

hey jimbeaux!

MIA-MAZING

Yeoooo richard!

MIA classy like take your money and paper planes!

Yeaux jimbeaux!

hiya jimbeaux!

YeoooooBooooooo!

also thanks for the weather report ossy, i put the ac back on this afternoon but i opened the windows again now!

listen out for atvs!!

Kinks have a Dead End Street

i love that song but it's not on theme!

i do have a kinks song coming up

they have quite a few

Lou Rawls KILLS!😍

@Commie, oooohh!

in fact i will play it this set

SCHWEEEET!

Nice one Commie!😍

i was hoping to hear this one! thanks commie

happy to play it!

My fav Tina Turner!😀

so good and about her actual hometown!

Twofer!

@Commie, you could probably do another show on this theme, I keep remembering more songs ha!

i definitely could. i'm also going to do a parks one which is surprisingly related haha

Ahh!

Love Curtis!

Two more greats here!

i heard a new (or newly released?) brian jackson song recently and it was EXCELLENT

Curtis Mayfield like Selecta played a cover of him today!

cravats!

@Commie, I read a piece in Mojo Mag about that.

i forgot to mention philly-est video (with the possible exception of "summertime")

i bumped into an angel (scuse me baby)

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

80s best ❤🔥💥

tragic about the teenage head guitar player this week.

so sad!

so crazy too

probably not going to go into details on the air :(

we know how to google

Didn't hear about this!😒

have a google of it boo

A big bright moon is rising in the east.

Super Sturgeon Moon it be known as, apparently.

nice! that's a good moon to be

THIS

hell yeah my faves

I was totally unaware of that! 👀

haha it's my secret

imagines what sir lord baltimore's pre-show rituals were like🤔

probably included the encyclopedia britanica i'm sure.

hahah for sure

old school googling

He should get together with Screaming Lord Sutch!

og googling be like, let me google that, *hails cab to the public library, returns 3 hours later, yup it's called a sparrow.

hot tip if you ever time travel or the internet breaks - you can call the reference librarian

I might have to make that a habit now.

something set off the neighborhood skunk.

Thankyouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

That stinks!😷

Thanks for the show! Wasn't in chat much but I was locked.

Slim Cessna's Auto Club, that whole set before TS, Teenage Head, Thr Monkees, SLB... Too many jams tonight

I can't listen where I am. Is Francois Hardy's "Lonesome Town" a different song than Ricky Nelson's?

thanks for broadcasting!

😊💛⚡☀️

it was a cover david!

Fab show Commie F. Thank you!

As some would say the show was a rip snortin' good time

hooray! refresh for cj.... NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!