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The Freeform Pathogen

Oct 19, 2022 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Music

With Mike Lupica

Freeform radio for creative weirdos and deskbound dreamers. A sonic one-stop for Acid Dub, Beardo Bhangra, Micro-Folk Turntablism, Krautdrone, Cambodian Synthwave, Glam Pop, Art-Damaged Metal, Electro-Stoner Jazz, Proto Soul-Punk, DIY Hip-Hop, Psychedelic EDM, Minimalist Power Violence, Pre-Hipster NYC Weirdcore, and Afro-Hillbilly Futurism. Up and down this goddam dial since 1992.

The Human Jukebox

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Wednesday Night Pitcrew, please rise! And go sift through the debris field you call a home and get your wallets out because it's fundraising time here at WPRB! To tempt your better judgement, we've got a pile of 7" singles racked up for you here in the Starlite Lounge tonight. Peep the ever-changing lineup of picture sleeves (even the boring/plain ones) with the webcam link, while also getting a glimpse (at a new angle!) of the proceedings here in the studio tonight. It's a veritable love-fest of love crackles!

Credit card pledges as low as $10/month are the BEST way to support independent, freeform programming originating from here in the wilds of the Jersey Badlands, so as we stumble through the bins tonight, please hit up our secure pledge site when you hear that one 45 that just sends you over the moon and back. You'll be rewarded with the new WPRB t-shirt, sticker, and bottle opener, PLUS, you'll be in line to automatically receive every piece of new WPRB merch we roll out during future fundraisers. In other words, we'll charge your credit card at your preferred amount every month until you tell us to stop. I call it the "set it and forget it" model for keeping independent radio alive in the 21st century. (Though we also welcome one-time pledges if that's more your speed.)

It's been a crazy three years of pandemic tymez, and these weekly hangs in the Starlite Lounge have been a huge part of what's made it all bearable for me. If you feel the same way, I hope I'll be hearing from you tonight. Thank you!

8:01 PM		Dynastie Crisis Faust 72 7" Pathé 1972
8:08 PM		Run DMC Jam-Master Jammin' (Remix) 7" Profile 1985
8:11 PM		Killdozer Take the Money & Run For Ladies Only 7" Box Set Touch & Go 1989 Steve Miller Band cover
8:14 PM		Public Image Ltd. Public Image 7" Virgin 1978
8:17 PM		The World/Inferno Friendship Society Tattoos Fade 7" Blue Ghost 1994
8:21 PM		The Who Eminence Front 7" Warner Bros. 1982
8:26 PM		William S. Burroughs & Gus Van Sant Millions of Images 7" Singles Only Label 1990
8:29 PM		Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth Fortune Of Fame 7" Pawn Hearts 1984 Re-upped by Easy Action in 2017
8:33 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:38 PM		The Stooges Down on the Street 7" Elekra 2005 Mono single mix from what I assume was a (very) brief period of one of their handlers trying to get them to sound like the Doors.
8:41 PM		Mudhoney You Got It 7" Sub Pop 1989
8:44 PM		Sham 69 Hurry Up Harry 7" Polydor 1978
8:47 PM		The Bug feat. Warrior Queen Hardcore Lover 7" Acid Ragga 2013
8:51 PM		Arrested Development Revolution 7" EMI 1993
8:56 PM		Frankie & The Witch Fingers Tracksuit 7" Greenway 2021
9:01 PM		Slade Run Run Away 7" CBS 1984
9:05 PM		Metallica Breadfan 7" Elektra 1988 Budgie cover
9:11 PM		Fleetwood Mac The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown) 7" Reprise 1970
9:15 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:27 PM		Hoodoo Gurus Bittersweet 7" 7" 1985
9:31 PM		Circus Lupus Pop Man 7" Dischord 1992
9:34 PM		Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth for Christ Choir Like a Ship 7" Numero Group 2021 Orig. 1971
9:38 PM		Big Joanie Cranes in the Sky 7" Third Man Records 2020 Solange cover
9:45 PM		Andy Williams Can't Get Used to Losing You 7" Columbia 1963
9:46 PM		Roy Orbison In Dreams 7" Monument 1963
9:49 PM		Pete Drake Forever 7" Smash 1964
9:52 PM		Brian Eno The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) 7" Island 1975
9:54 PM		Scritti Politti Skank Bloc Bologna 7" St. Pancras 1978
10:00 PM		Alice Cooper I'm Eighteen 7" Warner Bros 1971
10:03 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:11 PM		The Rolling Scabs We're the Scabs! Live at Gilman St. Project 7" Tension Holding Co. 1991
10:15 PM		Richard Hell Another World 7" Ork 1976
10:20 PM		Destroy All Monsters Nobody Knows 7" Radiation 2019 Orig. 1979, IDBI Records
10:24 PM		Soul Patrol Take Back the Night 7" Feel It 2021 Orig. 1979
10:27 PM		Bee Gees Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You 7" Atco 1967
10:30 PM		The Geraldine Fibbers Dragon Lady 7" Sympathy for the Record Industry 1995
10:35 PM		Linda Ronstadt Tumbling Dice 7" Asylum 1977 Stones cover
10:38 PM		The Hellacopters Gimme Shelter 7" Flapping Jet 1999 Stones cover
10:42 PM		Les Thugs As Happy As 7" Sub Pop 1993
10:48 PM		Siouxsie & The Banshees Dear Prudence 7" Polydor 1983 Beatles cover
10:51 PM		The Wipers Romeo 7" Trap 1982
10:55 PM		Captain Sensible Happy Talk 7" A&M 1982

Chat is archived.

DJ MikeLupica! All 45s!? 🧿💙 Webcam! 💻‼️

Hey hey, Mr M! Welcome!

Wait. Gotta read your dissertation… 📖

Woooo! Independent RADIO! Let’s go!!

Hello Mike and MrM

Princetoncolinensinainciusol! Ay ay ay!

Starlite Lounge looks beautiful!!

Brian, yesssss

It does look nice, the Starlite Lounge

Celantano gibberish and pizza.

*Now Playing* feature!!

WPrincetoncolinensinainciusolRB that is

Square records, Triangular film, Trapezoidal pictures.

Evenin' all!

Brian, yes! I used to have a 45 of Adriano Celentano's "Prisencolinensinainciusol"

*that I purchased when I lived in Europe

Tonewood Freshie cracked. The big batch chicken sassidge, kale, white bean, carrot stew is once again Wednesday. Crusy lil roll . Good tunes. Everything is right right

Hey Mike, would you be playing any Government Issue 7 inches?

Rob, I have so many singles pulled out, I can't even remember what's in the bin. But ... "possibly".

Thanks, Mike! I'll try to stay up past 10 pm

RUN DMC❣️

Sounding like the Beastie Boys!

DOZE ME

45s I had as a kid: Tommy James "Three Times in Love". Jaime Buffay "(Wasted away in) Margaretville, NY", William Martin "Attila" Joel "You Maybe Aight", "Still Ra Kin Roleplay to Me", Hoo "You Betcha You Betcha" and a bunch of my sister's

Figured that'd rattle your cage, Jimbeaux.

The DOZE!

I still maintain that the Killdozer tour diary from Your Flesh mag (circa '1994?) is one of the funniest things I've ever read. I almost peed my pants reading it while flying back from San Francisco.

Wow! These 45s! Rn aF!!

Better cover band, Killdozer or The Feelies? (I might have to ask the Internet this question.)

All shall bow to the cover prowess of KILLDOZER

First 45/33 screwup of the night!

Can we get a 45/78 screw up?

The Starlite Lounge is not equipped for 78 screwups, Jimbeaux.

I suppose I could spin the record real fast with my hand, tho.

Heck let's get real wild with 16 speed!

Not a screw up! 🚫 FunWithVinyl ❤️

I believe they call that "Turntablism."

How about those wax-wrecking players that handle a whole stack of LPs or singles and drop them automatically? LOVE.

I tried that with a hotel fan recently. Stood on bed, tried to "rev it up real fast like pushing a stalled car down the hill maybe this will make the fan kick into gear but..." nope

First record I ever bought was the 45 (I can't get no) Satisfaction. 1965. I was nine.

Roger Daltrey played that little 2 note guitar part live

Great track. Especially Entwistle. Turn the sub up.

My favorite Who song, by about a zillion miles. Was a massive dancefloor hit in the disco era.

Big time memory of watching the Toronto 82 concert on HBO over and over. The shiny gold sparkly imitation Telecasters. Good show.

I don't think I realized this was what Eminence Front sounded like before tonight.

Have to ignore the chat for a couple minutes. Next song requires fancy FCC editing. PLEASE SPEAK AMONGST YOURSELVES FOR A FEW MOMENTS.

The mix on this 45 REALLY has those Entwistle taster riffs hot hot up in there. Love it

45s are PUNCHY! That's why I love 'em.

That BRIDGE!!!!! fun to teach one o my students at School or Rock few years back. The Who secret little hidden guitar parts... so many fun rabbit holes for me that I did not know

THIS ONE!!

SENSITIVE EARS WERE SPARED.

Great going from Em. Front to this one! You might wanna give this DJ thing a real go! Yer pretty durn good at it eh?

Haha, thanks Brian!

There's totally a guitar riff common thread there

d'ja ever see a hot shot kid? I saw the gimp take one in...

s m o o t h

LIVE EDITS❣️

I bought Face Dances couple years afore. The cassette. Had a diff cover than the lp (squashed tube of paint)

🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣🟤⚪⚫ Starlight flashing lights!

Knuckles the Dog wants you all to pledge (who was a very good dog they were).

The fuck is up wit dat organ???

7 inch of Seventh Heaven by Heaven 17 on Seventh Son records played on the Seventh day of the seventh year.... hey here's more of that PUNCH on a 45. Those keys! And RON trebly snarl tone!

yikes! that keyboard is hilarious

Someone soiled the stooges!

Never heard this 'Down...' before. Speaking of The Doors, the first 45 in Stereo I bought was Touch Me.

Brother JT "Things I Like" has a great shout out to Ron Asheton (his wah wah pedal specifically)

Stooges into Mudhoney. DJ SCOOORES again!

Brian D, I’m liking 👍 all your posts. Where applicable I agree and concur too also in addition as well. E.g RE: DJ MikeLupica!

<---loved the keyboard on the Stooges 45. It was perfect. Added much. Like when they break out the sax

Webcam is fun tonight.

THE STOOGES❣️

MUDHONEY 💟

'ARRY 'URRY~

Ooh, Sham 69

'immy 'ursey!

'Alf and 'Alf ! (not that alienmuppet... the black and the tan)

The "Sham 69" that played the Brighton Bar several years ago was a sham.

This show needs a rebroadcast! I’d watch the webcam again for all the stuffs I’m missing!

David, I assume they were Pursey-less?

this JAM❣️

LOVE THE BUG

LOVE WARRIOR QUEEN

LOVE THE ACID RAGGA TRYPTICH

Or however you spell that

There was a fake Zombies in the early / mid 1980s playing the club / dive bar circuit. No original members. They tried to pretend some bass or guitar player (with a similar name) was a former drummer but they just "moved him up front so the audience could see him yeah..". A local music writer from the Bucks Co paper helped to warn others and bring down the scam. I think it may have been related to the same company that booked the fake Deep Purple

Great Show, Mike! Arrested developement!

Thanks Richard! Amazing what you can find on 7" vinyl in the dollar bin!

Isn't Fake Deep Purple just Blackmore's Knight?

Ha! That was much better than this 80s travesty believe it or not. It had Rod Evans on vocals but it was totally illegal to use the name. The crowds expected a reunion with Ritchie etc but nope (pre internet era, duped fans etc)

Earlier in the morning, BET showed Naughty by Nature's classic Hip Hop Hooray!

I love watching glam-era Rainbow videos with Richie. He seems so bored... like "all I wanna do is go to the Ren Faire and eat a giant turkey leg right now"

Nice, Ossy. A Jersey classic!

And others like Method Man and Redman!

Satan Island represent!

one of my old bands was upstairs at John & Peter's in New Hope "getting ready" to go on circa 2000-2001. We missed a strange wizard like long curly haired guy and his wife who ducked in to see if any jamming w/the band was a possibility maybe maybe... he got some stares I heard... and then... they went down the street to Martine's and ... ended up jamming all night. Just set up a little amp and away he went. (psst it was Ritchie Blackmore, not a fake). Oh well.

This Frankie track is FIRE!

Flipside of "Cookin'" -- Instant jukebox classic!

Yes, Mike. There are two different groups claiming the Sham 69 name now. One features Pursey, Parsons and Tregunna from the classic line-up; but the group that played the Brighton had NO classic members! Their only claim to authenticity is a guitarist who was with the band in their early pre-recording days.

"all I wanna do is go to the Ren Faire and eat a giant turkey leg right now" hahahahahahah... totally. The solo for "Since You Been Gone" (an I don't care I ain't guilty pleasure).

THIS ONE TOO!!!! MTV!!!

Aye bring out the pipes lad!

Loved this song when I was a kid. The video, too -- they were so dorky and good-natured-seeming, loved everything about it.

See chameleon lying there in the sun... all things to everyone... great great ... where you gon' hear lyrics like that.. and then the pipes

In subsequent years, I have seen this song start fuckin' FIRES on a dancefloor for a crowd that's not expecting it.

I had no idea how huge they were. Loved that video too. Played along on guitar.

O ya I can see that. Get outta the way. This is a dance floor bomb I bet

I totally forgot about this song! It was more fun than My Oh My

FISTS UP

HA! The calm one after to drink (what didn't spill) yer beer

YESSSSSS!!!!!!

Midlands and Wales getting their ups!

RIP Burke Shelley

Yeah!! I definitely still have a copy of this that I got at Sam Goody

Another fun one to teach to the kids (the Budgie version).

"I have a little budgie He is my very pal I take him walks in Britain I hope I always shall. I call my budgie Jeffrey My grandads name's the same I call him after grandad Who had a feathered brain."

How do you put a budgie down? (Python reference)

HA!

Well ... I am feeling a bit peckish

GREEN MANALISHI!!!!!!!

This set Mike.... fire upon fire. Riffs upon riffs of the mightiest riffage that ever riffed.

I saw Mac with Bob Welch do this.

Daughter is on it. MASTER MASTER MASTERRRRRRRR

Great memory of that coming out in 86. High school someone sneaks in a lil boombox w./the brand new cassette of MoP. Wow. Way to go. Thankfully got to see that tour before Cliff left us.

Lol i just turned on and already heard Mike reference Shut Up A Your Face lol

Theis is Nice

Whatus A Mater Univeristatus

It's auto-magic. They just sent stuff to yer mailbox people. They hand stuff the envelopes. Multiple times a year. AND put on all these shows too!

Traction? Do they still do that?

Traction Park

Rob, you still out there? DC sounds to astound here.

This one is the jam!

Motown African American aesthetic!

Nothing more beautiful

Mike, I've wandered away. I'll come back in a couple of minutes

this one SLAPS 👋

Cool. Wasn't expecting this, in light of the fact that I'd never heard of it.

Little delayed, but: FRANKIEEEEEEE!!!

Greetings, Mike & Pitcrew 👋

Christi!!!

Hey, Boo! 👻

Hey Christine!

My wife saw Circus Lupus a couple of times. Dang, we missed them just now

Hiya Christine

Hey Christine!

Loved loved loved Circus Lupus. Mabe my favorite band of that era's scene.

Hi, Christine. When Big Joanie Sets Up. I miss Don.

This Big Joanie song will forever be my #1Covid lockdown jam.

Jay-Z's sister-in-law, gotta cover!? 🔥💟

Sounding great, Mike. I was driving and your last mic break was very entertaining but also moving.

Hey, Boo! 👻 💀 Hey Ossy, Rob, Marcus, TAndy & all

Cranes, one of my on repeat songs if Solange, along with You Could Be The One

Heard this on the am radio all the time at an old job. first job (after paper delivery)

"I didn't think he was gonna do 'Moon River' and then, wham, second encore!" -Nelson Muntz

A slightly garage adjacent approach to rhythm gtr on an Andy Williams record. So long since I heard this

PBR!!!!!!!

Brian, you are catchin' 'em all tonight!

ROY ORBISON ❤️‍🔥

lol Brian D

I caught a moonbeam,.... wove it into a rainbow...

"I didn't think he was gonna do 'Moon River' and then, wham, second encore!" -Nelson Muntz hahahahha nice! I thought of that as soon as I heard Andy W as well. Brought tears to Nelson's eyes. Heart o stone melted....

If you've never seen the video for this Pete Drake song... definitely make it a point.

That effect... wow. Psyched out

ENO!!

Ha! this one! so cool

And I just played Seven Deadly Finns today.

By Eno and Burma.

Scritti!

This is a WPRB moment. Never would have known about this song if not for WPRB

OK, I did pay more than a dollar for this one.

Must have been a reissue in the 00s. WPRB was playing it a bunch for a couple weeks there. Maybe it was a 45 tho and several djs were just really into it. I know I heard it first in the 00s here

I never knew that scritti politti was so catchy

There was definitely an SP re-up that happened around then, yeah.

It is such a crazy well put together layer of guitar and bass.

And an amazing story behind how they pressed/packaged it. It's covered in that Rough Trade documentary from 10-15 years ago. Really brilliant.

Wow thanks for playing that. I often think of this song when it comes to classic prb. Have not heard it in ages

Alice Cooper!!

LINES FORM....

and I like it

Alice Cooper's stab at making the greatest 45 of all time

This is a total friend's older brother's smoky room in the attic kinda record

I hear that

"Cool" Uncle Jeff

Mike, what's the b side on this one?

It's been such a long time since I've heard "I'm Eighteen"

I think it's "School's Out"?

"Ugliest woman I have ever seen" --Barnabas Collins.

I love it to... I forget.

Nice outro

Wiki says the B side to I'm Eighteen is "Is It My Body"

Go ask Alice...how old he is.

That whole album is pretty great

Thanks Rob!

That was one heck of an eclectic set. 💯

Don't Back The Front! 🚲 🚴‍♀️

Alice "Black Juju" = spooky Halloween jam in the aforementioned friend's brothers room in the attic with black light posters and strobes!

fixed

the 9 minute madness Alice track

Philadelphia's own Calvin shenkel brought Frank Zappa to see Alice Cooper which resulted in Frank producing their first album pretties for You

Cooper sang that on the Tonight Show in 1997 without changing the words. I recall him saying to Jay Leno afterwards “It wouldn’t sound right if I sang ‘I’m 49 and I don’t know what I want’”.

https://vimeo.com/429048848

Funny thing about titles, proper names, all caps etc in Spanish, they sometimes eliminate the accent mark. The word "número" is really NOO-meh-roe. But the record company's name eliminates that accent so it makes it confusing. But it should be NOO-meh-roe

The Rolling Scabs Discogs page links to something you wrote, Mike! - https://www.discogs.com/artist/2547823-The-Rolling-Scabs

Also, I first typed the Rollins Scabs but at least I got a Halloween costume out of that error.

#proud

The Rolling Scabs We're the Scabs! = yet another all time WPRB moment classic

This was a great show. Thanks, Mike! 😴 for us so goodnight all.

LOL Jon

Smoky Turtle as well in the same kinda window of memory for me

Goodnight, Rob 🦀 💤

https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/02/the_rolling_sca.html

So glad to be The Guy Who Put That On The Internet.

The comments from the member who died's family / friends are heartbreaking!

Yes, I got emails from random family members of his for years after posting that.

Funny to remember when the internet didn't suck.

Thanks for the link; that is quite the acticle, Mike. You're linked forever with the Rolling Scabs! You should be rightfully chuffed.

I am similarly proud of being The Guy Who Put The Venom Stage Banter Thing on the internet.

The world of pre-social media blog/ger comments and message boards looks even better in retrospect.

Yup.

this PLAYLIST 🔥🔥🔥

Thanks MrM!

Lotta Detroit sleaze in the mix tonight. Wish I had some Gories 45s!

All the thanks goes to you, DJ MikeLupica!

NIAGARA

I saw Dark Carnival at Maxwell's in 1996, knowing nothing about Destroy All Monsters. I knew of Ron Asheton but had no idea who Niagara was.

The coolest!

noice

Has any band ever done such a 180 as the Bee gees, going from chamber Rock/pop to disco white suit kings?

I seriously love all eras of the Bee Gees. So versatile, so talented.

Odessa has to be one of the most underrated albums ever.

Agree~!

Have been known to (over)play Martley Purt Drive.

Marley, not marTley

15 kids and a family on the skids

Gotta go for a Sunday drive

They were so excellent from the first releases, No real growing pains obvious

Melody Fair... Achingly beautiful

THE GERALDINE FIBBERS 💟

And first of May...

Sympathy For The Record Industry ❤️

I remember going to see the Gories at the Bank in the summer of ‘93. It was just on a whim, because the Flipper/Dwarves show at the Grand (formerly the Cat Club) ended early. I only found out much later that it was the Gories’ farewell show (though they reformed years later). Opening for the Gories was Lorette Velvette & Otha Turner's Rising Star Fife & Drum Band. Othar was 90 at the time. He died in 2003.

Need to hear geraldine fibbers five more times to fully appreciate, thanks for that one.

Right on, Matt! Very much worth the investment.

🎲 🎲 💥

Hellz Yeeaahh! LINDA RONSTADT ❤️♥️❤️‍🔥

Wow, time to put some more quarters in the jukebox full of 45's. During Linda Ronstadt, was pushing it a bit for me lovely a she is, but this one burns a hole in my pocket.

Here we go!

The B-side to the Hellacopters’ last single before their 2008 breakup was a cover of “Baby Come” by New Jersey’s own Insomniacs.

That is super bizarre, David!

this GEM 💎💜

𓂀 💜 🖤

Prudence Farrow teaches Transcendental Meditation. Andy Kaufman was once her student!

Julieeeeeeeeeete!

It only struck me tonight that Romeo sounds like Suicide covering George Thorogood & The Destroyers.

Haha, that is perfect!

This SHOW! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Well done, DJ MikeLupica!

Hard agree, Jon.

Thank you for these 7" wonders Miiiiike!

Krista played a really good Thorogood song last week. Must be somethin' in the water.

Much obliged, Jimbeaux!

Jon, lol. Definitely the Alan Vega vocal screaming and reveb...

DJ MikeLupica, big cheers and kind regards to you!

An abundance of love crackles tonight ✨️ Thanks, DJ Mike Lupica!

Thanks Mike!!

Was a fun listen again Mike. Thanks. Later folks.

Thanks for the show, Mike

Good night, good show!

🤣

HA!

Damn, too slow

Congratulations! 🎊🎉

Kon graj yew lay shunnnsdss

WELL I GOT CUT OFF SO I WILL SAY IT HERE: IT'S NOT YOUR JOB TO COMPROMISE WITH FASCISTS. SO NEVER DO THAT.

hi hi