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Tis a Fine Old Conflict: Songs of Labor and Struggle

Sep 5, 2022 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM

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With Commie Francis

Songs about work from all different genres, lots of internationale and old school labor songs from around the world etc etc.

HAPPY LABOR DAY EVERYBODY

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Tis a Fine Old Conflict: Songs of Labor and Struggle

7:00 AM		Pete Seeger The Internationale (Live) Singalong Demonstration Concert (Live) Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1992 recorded 1980
7:06 AM		The Coctails Working Holiday March V/A Simple Machines 1993 Working Holiday 7" series - split with Codeine
7:10 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Coco Briaval - I'Internationale
7:13 AM		Gang of Four Return the Gift Peel Session January 1979 1979
7:17 AM		The Shifters Work/Life, Gym Etc (demo) Open Vault Adagio 830 2022
7:19 AM		Naked Spots Dance Crescendo Four Stars (****) V/A Sausage Records 1980
7:20 AM		Almanac Singers Union Train The Original Talking Union With The Almanac Singers & Other Union Songs With Pete Seeger And Chorus Folkways 1955
7:22 AM		Chelsea Right To Work Right To Work - Single Step-Forward Records 1977
7:26 AM		The Go-Betweens Draining the Pool for You Spring Hill Fair Sire 1984
7:30 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over David Perkins - The Internationale
7:33 AM		The Proletariat Scab Move Radiobeat 2019
7:36 AM		Electric Guitars Work Work - Single Bristol Archive Records 1981
7:40 AM		Girlsperm Good Job N The Muse Ascends Thrilling Living 2022
7:41 AM		Huun-Huur-Tu Tuvan Internationale Sixty Horses In My Herd Shanachie 1994 About the 3rd International, this was the Tuvan national anthem in the 20s-40s
7:44 AM		Parliament Children Of Production Clones of Dr. Funkenstein Mercury Records 1976 Tune in for more Parliament/Funkadelic/George Clinton with Dan Buskirk at 3pm!
7:48 AM		Trees While the Iron Is Hot On the Shore Earth Recordings 1970
7:51 AM		Qlowski Lotta Continua Quale Futuro? Feel It Records 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Administration_of_North_and_East_Syria
7:54 AM		infesto Obligacion Laboral Infesto Sin Temores Records 2010
7:55 AM		Ted Wallace and his Orchestra Gotta Go to Work Again Brother Can You Spare a Dime: Songs of the Depression Jazz Records 1993 orig 1936
7:58 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Harmonie Orchester - Die Internationale
8:02 AM		X Revolution X-Aspirations X Records 1980
8:04 AM		Dead Kennedys Take This Job and Shove It R Bedtime for Democracy Manifesto Records 1986 requested by non evil WPRB boss Mike Lupica with an assist from Jimbo
8:05 AM		De Cylinders Looking for Work I Wanna Get Married / Looking for Work De Cylinders 1980
8:08 AM		Carolina Twins A Change in Business All Around A Change In Business All Around / Gal Of Mine Took My Licker From Me Victor 1930
8:11 AM		Sweet Honey In the Rock More Than a Paycheck We All...Everyone Of Us Spindrift Records 1983
8:15 AM		The Chisel Class Oppression Deconstructive Surgery - EP La Vida Es Un Mus Discos 2020
8:17 AM		Swan Arcade Coal not Dole Circle Dance V/A Hokey Pokey 1990
8:20 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Hanns Eisler - Die Internationale
8:25 AM		Chumbawamba Fitzwilliam Dig This: A Tribute to the Great Strike V/A Forward Sounds International 1985
8:28 AM		The Apostles Workers' Autonomy, Pt. 1 Punk Obituary Cherry Red Records 1986 for jimbeaux
8:29 AM		Black Flag I've Had It The First Four Years SST Records 1983
8:30 AM		Woody Guthrie Miner's Song Poor Boy Folkways Records 1968
8:32 AM		PLP Power to the Working Class Power to the Working Class PLP-LP 1971
8:36 AM		Articles of Faith What We Want Is Free What We Want Is Free Wasteland Records 1982
8:39 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Area - L'Internazionale
8:43 AM		Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers Government Center Roadrunner: The Beserkley Collection Castle Communications 2004 orig 1978
8:44 AM		Tom Paxton A Job of Work Ramblin' Boy Elektra 1964
8:47 AM		Nape Neck Job Club Nape Neck Gringo Records 2020
8:50 AM		Florence Reece Which Side Are You On? Harlan County USA: Songs Of The Coal Miner's Struggle Rounder 2006 written 1931, recorded early 70s
8:51 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Työväen Lauluja Kokoelma - Internationale
8:54 AM		Victor Jara Manifiesto Manifiesto Sucesión Victor Jara 2016 recorded 1973
8:59 AM		The New Singers The Internationale

Chat is archived.

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good morning!

Good morning!

pls stand

Labor-WAVE! Labor-WAVE! Labor-WAVE! (Sing it with me now.)

put the bosses on the bbq!

I'm singing the labuh day song as we speak

I've been marking Laborwave's growth chart with a pencil and ruler on my garage door.

Good morning everyone! Working holiday!

Hey Rob! Yep, same as it ever is here.

mike is definitely working today

Good morning Rob and Mike.

6-10 AM tends to be the busiest part of my professional life, so .... yeah.

Morning Mike!

Howdy TAndy

Hail, Fearless Comrades!

Hey jimbeaux

Question for the floor: Who's the worst boss you've ever had?

The one who snatched my walkie talkie and smashed it on a wall in front of a customer because I was pissed about having to push carts for a dollar over minimum during a sleet storm on thanksgiving and gave him an attitude while everyone else made $3-4 more than me and got to work inside 🥰

Got fired/quit a couple of months later and got unemployment until I submitted to the Bezos mines, best decision to get booted from retail

Good one!

Also, LOL at "Bezos Mines"

Must remember that term

I call him Jeff Bozos all the time, glad I left his watchful eye too. Jobs suck now but we gotta eat

I've been really lucky. My worst boss was merely a pompous *hole

probably my boss at hmv who quizzed me about third eye blind in my interview, snapped his fingers at his girlfriend when he wanted her attention, and fired people for things like their grandpa dying or needing to have a religious holiday off

can i give a shoutout to the practice of saying some statistics in the breakdown part

especially when you cite your source

Had some horrid farm labor bosses, but then some amazing ones!

I had some horrible supervisors when I was slinging packages for UPS / murdering myelf in nightschool (an era that included the '97 strike), but I think my worst ever boss was a draconian demon who ran the local movie theater I worked at during the summer after high school. The (glass enclosed) box office had no AC and she *insisted* that the door be kept shut for ... reasons ... thusly enclosing me in a coffin-sized greenhouse where the temp soared above 90 in no time.

Mike: "I'm meltttttttttiingggggggggg"

After a few weeks of that, the (similarly mistreated) projectionist, popcorn counter sales guy, girl who tore ticket stubs, and I all organized and quit on the same Friday afternoon of a big opening movie night, essentially leaving her trying to do all of that herself. That was a good day.

I wonder how she's doing now 🤭

What was the movie? 9 to 5? 🤣

Ha!

Take This Job and Shove It

Yes, please play someone's version of that, Commie!

Commie Paycheck

Ooooh Dead Kennedy's version!

my thoughts exactly

But oh this is only a two-hour cruise today

If this is a cruise, sign me up for ten more of them

Commie could do a 22hr labor show no prob, Rob!

Oooohhh, love this OZ X song!

i forget exactly how many labor day shows i've done but it's probably at least 10 hours so far

Yesssssssssssssssssss

Yee-harrr!!!!

Thank youuuuuuuuuuuu

Keep it up, maybe I'll start paying you guys this year. (Chomps cigar, retreats into back room filled with sausage and cocaine...)

Cocaine sausage❄ 🌭

i will say one of the worst bosses/work cultures i ever experienced was at a nonprofit!

a lot of "you're doing good things for the world so you must accept these substandard conditions"

LABO(U)RWAVE!!

we'll be getting to obligatory 1984 yorkshire miner's strike songs shortly

Yeoo Comrade Solomon!

Bedtime for Democracy was on heavy rotation the summer we locked our boss Cranky Cowboy Keith in a hot outhouse when i worked in a stable.

hahah i think you just added another song to my playlist jimbo

This Apostles song is wonderful!

*Aggressively makes coffee

just doing my part to help everyone wake up!

M'landlord wants me to pull some weeds but dammit I don't feel like it. The grass is all dead just let the weeds grow you don't even live here bro

Thanks Commie! Appreciate it.

Which version of Working in a coal mine will be played first today?

Thank you Commie!💪🏻

Thanks for the tunes this morning 💙

thanks everyone for listening!

Thank you for djing!!