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BACK IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD: SONGS TO STICK ON YOUR SKEWER WITH LIZBOT

Sep 5, 2022 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

With Lizbot

BACK IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD: SONGS TO STICK ON YOUR SKEWER

LABORWAVE 2022 WITH LIZBOT

BACK IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD: SONGS TO STICK ON YOUR SKEWER WITH LIZBOT

BACK IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD: SONGS TO STICK ON YOUR SKEWER

LABORWAVE 2022 WITH LIZBOT

1:00 PM		Billie Holiday Back in Your Own Backyard The Very Thought Of You / Back In Your Own Backyard Parlophone 1939
1:03 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- LIZBOT SKEWERS SOME CUKES ON HER SHARPENED APPENDAGES
1:03 PM		Adrian Belew Sky Blue Red Bird Green House Adrian Belew Op Zop Too Wah Passenger 1996
1:06 PM		Modest Mouse It Always Rains On A Picnic Sad Sappy Sucker K Records 2001
1:09 PM		Laura Nyro Stoned Soul Picnic Laura Nyro Eli and the Thirteenth Confession Columbia 1968 "Can you surry, can you picnic?" Written and recorded by Laura Nyro, but covered the same year by The 5th Dimension
1:13 PM		Shonen Knife BBQ Party Super Group P-Vine Records 2008
1:15 PM		Sparks Barbecutie This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Of Us / Barbecutie Island 1974
1:18 PM		20/20 Backyard Guys 20/20 Portrait 1979 American power pop band based in Hollywood, California. Active from 1977 to 1983 and reunited during the mid-1990s to the late 1990s
1:21 PM		The Ventures Cookout Freakout On Lookout Mountain Guitar Freakout Capitol Records (CAP) 1967
1:21 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- LIZBOT MARINATES IN MOTOR OIL
1:23 PM		Future Bible Heroes Living, Loving, Partygoing Partygoing Merge Records 2013
1:26 PM		The Associates Party Fears Two Sulk Beggars Banquet 1982
1:31 PM		Bill Nelson Fellini's Picnic Bill Nelson Map of Dreams Cocteau 1987
1:34 PM		Takako Minekawa Picnic At Loose Rock Takako Minekawa Maxi On! EP Emperor Norton 2000
1:40 PM		Adrian Belew In My Backyard Adrian Belew Op Zop Too Wah Passenger 1996
1:41 PM		Michael Hurley In the Garden Michael Hurley Long Journey Rounder 1976
1:44 PM		The Leatherman Sisters (Lucille And Lillian) Home-Coming Week Just A Little While / Home Coming Week Bluebird 1936
1:46 PM		Jonathan Richman Our Swingin' Pad Jonathan Richman Having a Party With Jonathan Richman Rounder 1991
1:50 PM		The 5.6.7.8's One Potato The 5.6.7.8's Time Bomb Records 1994 From Tokyo, formed in 1986 as a quartet by sisters Sachiko (Drums) and Yoshiko "Ronnie" Fujiyama (Vocals) along with Rico (Guitar), and Yoshie (Bass).
1:52 PM		The Chips Rubber Biscuit Rubber Biscuit / Oh, My Darlin' Josie Records 1956 A short-lived US doo-wop band from Brooklyn, NY, consisting of teenage friends: Charles/Kinrod Johnson (lead vocal), Nathaniel 'Lil John' Epps (baritone), Paul Fulton (bass), Sammy Strain and Shedwick/Shedrick 'Bubbie' Lincoln (tenors).
1:54 PM		Colourbox Hot Doggie Lonely Is an Eyesore V/A 4AD 1987
1:57 PM		Slavic Soul Party! Missy Sa-Sa Bigger Barbès Records 2005
1:57 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- LIZBOT drops her hot dog
1:59 PM		Heatwave Put the Word Out Central Heating GTO 1977
2:06 PM		Haruomi Hosono Party Haruomi Hosono Hosono House Light In The Attic Records 1973
2:08 PM		The Chefs Food Records & Tea: The Best of the Chefs Damaged Goods 2012
2:09 PM		They Might Be Giants Hot Dog! Here Come the 123s 2007
2:11 PM		The Residents Picnic Boy The Commercial Album CRYPTIC CORP 1980 vocals by Lene Lovich!
2:12 PM		Snakefinger Beatnik Party Manual of Errors Ralph Records 1982
2:14 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
2:14 PM		Minutemen This Ain't No Picnic Double Nickels On the Dime SST Records 1984
2:16 PM		The Mommyheads Uncle Joe's B.B.Q (Live) Swiss Army Knife Simple Machines 1992
2:18 PM		The B-52's Party Out of Bounds Wild Planet Rhino/Warner Records 1980
2:21 PM		Dee Dee Sharp Gravy (for My Mashed Potatoes) Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes) / Baby Cakes [EP] Cameo 1962 Philadelphia vocalist born Dion LaRue, her producers created the Dee Dee Sharp stage name due to the fact that everyone called her D and she sang in D-sharp. She later became Dee Dee Sharp Gamble when she married legendary Philly songwriter and producer Kenny Gamble of Philadelphia International Records.
2:23 PM		Mary Louise Wilson, Christine Ebersole & Matt Cavenaugh Jerry Likes My Corn Grey Gardens: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording) PS Classics 2007
2:28 PM		The Evolution Control Committee Iga Giant Pineapple Party Free Speech For Sale V/A Snuggles 2002
2:31 PM		Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Tropical Hot Dog Night Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) Warner 1978 Like two flamingoes in a fruit fight!
2:35 PM		Carl Canida & His Canadians Party Date Party Date / Our Little Park Bench Creole 1960
2:38 PM		Clothilde Fallait pas écraser la queue du chat (Surprise party chez mes voisins) [Version stéréo] Fallait pas écraser la queue du chat Disques Vogue 1967
2:42 PM		Beat Happening Secret Picnic Spot Music to Climb the Apple Tree By K Records 2003
2:44 PM		Snakefinger Picnic in the Jungle Chewing Hides the Sound Ralph Records 1979
2:48 PM		A Certain Ratio Wild Party Wild Party Factory Records 1985
2:52 PM		Raymond Scott At an Arabian House Party At An Arabian House Party 1940
2:52 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- LIZBOT SPILLS THE BEERS ON HER GEARS
2:55 PM		Jonathan Richman Parties in the U.S.A. Jonathan Richman I, Jonathan Rounder 1992 "Well could there be block parties of which I know not? Wild beach parties around some open flame? I know there's got to be parties, I bet there's a lot But the USA has changed somehow that I can't name"

Chat is archived.

Happy LABORWAVE, y’all! 📻 🌊

Woo!

Hi TAndy! Happy LABORWAVE!

Hope yours is going as well and chill as it should.be 💙

@TAndy - Are you surreying or picnicking? 🧺 🍗

@TAndy - Yes! Chill vibe in the house, sunny out here right now!as my daughter gets ready for her first day of 8th grade tomorrow!

I've been sleepy and lazy all day, I accidentally napped for the rest of Sara's show :(

@TAndy- Same. I thought I’d be down in Cape May today, but my kid was anxious to get home to get her school supplies ready, so I drove home late last night (also partially to avoid the return traffic from the shore on Labor Day!) and couldn’t fall asleep for a while after the drive. I’m on 3 hours of sleep, but having an orange seltzer and kicking back. Just a little delirious!

BBQT!!!!

😭 I hope you have a good sleep tonight lizbot!!

Hi Dominique! I can’t not play Sparks! 🌶🍢🫑🍗

Lizbot! Happy Laborwave! Thanks for these jams, tho I'm not bbqing, I can see how this would be a great playlist for doing so.

@TAndy - I hope so too! The kid is so anxious about the first day of 8th grade, she will probably keep me up late, and then I gotta get up at 6 am sharp to get her to school. Fuuuuun! I did NOT miss those early AM school drives.

A wave o’ labor!

Good luck to Hattie tomorrow. Hope it goes better than Z’s first day!

Hi DSM! Happy Laborwave!! It’s a good day to bring a portable speaker to a backyard or park!

Happy Laborwave, Addie! 📻 🌊

It’s all weird and chilly in VT today, so I don’t feel too bad about chillin on the couch just listening to prb.

@Addie - Oof, so sorry Z’s experience was so rotten. Kids can be such jerks. Hattie is pretty nervous about starting 8th tomorrow. The academic advisor she was assigned is her gym teacher, whom she has never gotten along with!

Hey Addie

Drat! Is there no way to ask for a swap of advisors?

@Addie - Pretty warm here in Philly, but was so gorgeous and breezy down the shore yesterday! I had to drive home late last night cuz the kid just wanted to get a head start on prepping for tomorrow. She’s sitting across from me, collaging the covers of a pile of binders at the moment!

Hiya DSM! Happy laborwave!

@Addie - We did. Carefully-worded email and all. The middle school principal said they couldn’t accommodate changes. 😞

@lizbot grrrrr…

Lovely sounds to scents of backyard or indoor holiday parties

@Addie - At the same time, having been raised by two school teachers, I know they spend a long time in the weeks leading up to school starting again making these advisories and schedules and letting people switch can be too chaotic. But really, of ALL the people, this one REALLY doesn’t understand my kid. Most of the teachers love her

Isn't school just grand :)

Hello Ossy!! Happy Laborwave! Yeah, this is chill music to marinate yr mushrooms to!

@TAndy - Middle School in particular! 😒

and make so much melted stinky cheese on macaroni and spaghetti

@Ossy - haha, watch out for raccoons! Don’t let ‘em take your 🍝 🦝

What kinda stinky cheese, Ossy?

I hated middle school myself, the hard transition from ak easygoing elementary school to a corporate and uncaring feeling middle school staff was jarring lol

I’m super happy that middle school here is still in the building with elementary AND they have no homework.

@TAndy that sounds terrible!

@TAndy - same. I really hated Middle. It’s a tough age in the first place, then when you have less than ideal teachers, it’s all the worse. To top that off, her school lost so many good teachers during the pandemic and has been short-staffed for the past two years, which makes everyone suffer and that much more stressed

@Addie - Oooh, NO HOMEWORK sounds GREAT! I WISH Hattie’s school did that! I dread the homework stress, the last-minute rush before bedtime. It’s so uneven. Some nights there’s nothing and the next it’s like 5 hours of work after a full day of school. These kids need SOME sleep!

Homework is the devil >:) I frequently did mine the morning of class or just didn't do it at all, my grades were not impressive lol

Addie - Hmmm, maybe yellow cheese adding some garlic to be classic smelly, hihihi! Blue cheese is a top option though, lol

Yeeeooo Lizbot! Leatherman sisters...so sweeeeeeet<3

Happy Laborwave! This is perfect on a boombox on the back deck. Cheers!

It'll be indoors Liz, no raccoons will try to steal stuff. If only my little infant cousins or nephew/niece had powers like Jack Jack from Incredibles to fight that one raccoon.

Jonathan track three for the day!

@Addie @TAndy - I loved my elementary school and I loved my high school. Middle felt like it was where my town sent all the worst teachers in the district. My mom was a teacher (not my teacher) and then the reading specialist at the elementary school I attended, and I confirm that at least one teacher from that school was reassigned to middle school as a disciplinary action!

@lizbot 😮😮😮

Hi jimbeaux!! Happy Laborwave! Having a party with Jonathan all day long!

@jimbeaux - Glad you liked the Leatherman sisters track!

I actually didn’t hate middle school at Collingswood. We had a bunch of really cool teachers and perhaps a statistically unlikely lack of bullying.

Hi Steve Volaric!! HLW! 📻 🌳

Tandy - Homework is hell and still is. One Labor Day in the intermediate schools, I was watching cartoon network movie marathon and the 1st movie of Pokemon with Mewtwo came on. Just when I was about to see the clone battle and ending, I was called to go over homework and I whined, especially annoying a maintenance worker LOOOL

@Ossy - Oh yeah, the baby Vs raccoon battle! 🦝

Know how every tween movie in the mid 00s made fun of how miserable middle school was? True. Oldest teachers in my district at the time and contradictory rules. No gum allowed but high school which was across the street didn't care about gum.

I used to sub in the middle school at GFS and it was kind of a nightmare, to give another perspective. The kids were something else.

Liz - Rumors say that raccoon became Rocket from Guardians of The Galaxy

Lots of good ones but a few really obnoxious kids who made it hard for everyone else to learn.

@Addie - Wow, lucky! I liked almost all my elementary teachers. I was just a couple towns over from you!

Aah yes the kids. Middle school kids were a damn trip but my nephew made it through fine. He starts high school this year!

We had one princetonian sub who had a very thick regal accent, almost British. Another sub who would tell us about his drug experiences as a younger man. And another sub who had a certain mustache, which caused everyone to call him Mr. [Redacted] when he wasn't around

Subbing is a weird world. I also subbed a lot in the woodshop and once the middle schoolers turned some, uh, inappropriate objects.

@Addie - Oh wow! I wanna hear those stories! Before my dad ended up at Clayton High in South Jersey, which had its share of problems, he subbed in Philly, but mostly in North Philly publics, so very different vibe from GFS!

@Ossy - 😆 I like that theory! 🌌 🦝

@Ossy @TAndy - Yeah, a LOT of this homework is busy work! Some is legit, but one of her teachers gives mountains of time-consuming busy work and she has her again this year 😖

I thought "Move Ya Body" by Nina Sky was playing at first, from a distance away lol

I thought for a sec this was a roller coaster of love remix

@Addie - Yeah, there’s so often a few kids who are a distraction to everyone!

@TAndy - Oh yeah, I guess that intro is similar! I was gonna play Party Poops by Heatwave and then I was just like, I like Put the Word Out so much more!

@Ossy - ah! I gotta do a side by side comparison of those two songs!

This 🌭 song is for mom because she is obsessed with Tommy’s hot dogs in Cape May and she accidentally whomped my dad in the while waving around their menu yesterday!

I had a truly bonkers Spanish teacher in middle school who CUT a classmate’s hair in class without her consent…just walked up behind her and cut a chunk of her long hair off! She used to just talk about fights with her husband all class long. She did eventually get fired!

That sounds like it's out of bounds

Just got back from a lovely day trip to northeast Philly

This is not a request but the best bbq song i know is Wendy Rene bar b que

I just drove out to mammas but she's out 😭 too hot for a walk today so I dunno what else to do

Hi hir0-protagonist!! Happy Laborwave outta bounds!

This sounds like Mrs. Costanza singing about Jerry Seinfeld LOL

Hi Commie!! Where’s you go?

@Commie - I gotta check it out! Thx!

Went for a walk in pennypack park then got banh mi and bubble tea

That sounds most excellent

Oh my, I love the banter between Little Edie and Big Edie

Come drive out to LA TAndy… it’s only like 100 degrees here…

@TAndy - That’s basically the vibe! A song about corn on the cob and aging bickering shut-ins 🌽 , ONLY for LABORWAVE!! 😂

I was aware of grey gardens the musical but i think this is the first time I've actually heard it

Yeah Guelo I heard about the heat wave from MrM. Saw a video of some town in Southern California that got sudden huge storms today

@Commie - Oh my god, I want BOTH of those things so badly right now! I need bubble tea - got 3 hours of sleep after driving home from Cape May late last night and I need sugar and caffeine in delicious creamy tea form

Hi LA Guelo!! Happy Laborwave!

@Commie - I saw it in previews because my friend’s sister worked on it. It was fun. I don’t think I would’ve seen it otherwise. Love the doc, the HBO movie of the doc was okay…

Calling in stations gives you shivers, from what I heard in the last time LOL

I love when I hear something I can’t believe is a song on this station. It’s so magical.

Ikr, Addie? So many songs you won't hear on most other stations!

This is such a good show right now omg

I can't wait for Dan Buskirk's show too!! I told my bud to listen in since he's a big Bootsy Collins guy

Even playing the classics, mainstream radio plays like Patrice Rushen and The Emotions!

@Addie - Fun Fact: Tropical Hot Dog Night’s line “meet the monster tonight” was PJ Harvey’s inspiration for her song “Meet Ze Monster” from To Bring You My Love!

Thanks, TAndy!

LOVE shiny beast album!

@jimbeaux - my rounded loafy silver car is named Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)

Niiiiiice🦇🚙

@jimbeaux - I’m very happy with my car and its name! Sadly, it might not be much longer for this world (as non-scrap, anyway!) It started having a lot of problems near the end of my long Midwest roadtrip in June

@Ossy - Re: Patrice Rushen- I was hanging on the roof of the City Museum in St. Louis, riding the foot-pump operated Ferris wheel, last week, and they played Forget Me Nots over the PA!

A foot pump operated ferris wheel. Need

Sheesh I’m down for some storms. Some rain would be nice to dance in. Guess me and brother and finishing the roof today then… WPRB jamming at the construction site :)

@TAndy - City Museum is a bonkers place I cannot begin to recommend enough and it’s full of stuff like that, no corporate sponsors, no rules, no maps, just 600,000 square feet and 10 stories of fun ridiculous stuff laid out like a maze

Liz - NICE! A dj the other day on wprb, played Forget Me Nots and months earlier, DJ Mc Sweeden(i think that's his name) played Havent You Heard!

This song is so damn good

Patrice liked some responses of mine on IG, even wishing her happy birthday. She seems sweet and she runs a music class at a Los Angeles University!

@LA Guelo - Yikes. Isn’t LA summer like August-October? An old acquaintance there just contacted me telling me he’s gonna sell his house in Silver Lake. I wish I could live there but I don’t think I could deal with the wild fire smoke haze

@TAndy - Glad you’re enjoying it! 😊

@Ossy - Patrice rules!

BUTCHERING FRENCH like it’s my specialty. I’m tired, okay?!

@LA Guelo - I’m glad PRB Laborwave is being played on a construction site! I hope you get some rain soon!

@jimbeaux - And JoJo finishing it out at #5?

I think this is at least the 4th appearance of Jonathan on laborwave today

@Commie - I think it’s the 5th, according to jimbeaux

I actually thought of this song when i saw you played him earlier!

I would trust jimbeaux's count

Thanks for the show Lizbot 💙💙

@Commie - Everybody wants to have a party with Jonathan!

I went to work with Jonathan at the government center

Thanks for hanging, TAndy! Happy Laborwave!

Great show, i wish i caught more of it!

@Commie - Nice! Sadly your show this morning was during the only sleep I got in the last 24 hours!

Hi Lizbot! I missed your show :-(

I was watching birds

Great show Lizbot!!

Lots of haze here… pretty clear last 2 days tho. Thnx for show!

@Commie - Then I gotta get up at 6 am to begin Day 1 of…hundreds…of the morning slog school drop-off for 8th grade. I think I won’t sleep much tonight!

Thank you, Addie!!

Hi Rob!! I hope you found good birdage! 🐦

@Rob - I saw some cool egrets in Cape May yesterday

Lizbot, nope. 4th try for a Tricolored Heron, I missed it again

Lizbot, nice! I saw 5 Great Egrets and 2 Great Blue Herons but no Tricolor. :-((

@Guelo - I’m glad you have some clean air at the moment!

We might go to Cape May in October

@Rob - Dang! Great Blues are cool, though, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tri-colored!

@Rob - Cape May in October should be gorgeous!

Buskirk P-FUNK time! See you Thursday, everyone! Thanks for hanging and keep riding that Laborwave!