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Uneasy Listening

Dec 3, 2022 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Music

With Commie Francis

Music from all different genres from the 1910s to the 2020s. On a lyrical theme for the first two hours, FREEFORM MADNESS for the last hour.

Shapes

Illustration by Jules Feiffer

It's songs about shapes! Like Dodecahedrons (above). A wee bit of metaphor allowed such as songs about being SQUARE.

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8:01 PM		Bay City Rollers Saturday Night Rollin' Legacy Recordings 1974
8:03 PM		The Diodes Shape of Things to Come The Diodes Columbia 1977
8:06 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Sandy Nelson - No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)
8:09 PM		The Ex Prism Song Turn The Ex 2004
8:15 PM		Scarecrow Ouroboros Scarecrow Bunker Punk 2018
8:16 PM		The Shitheads Centroszóma Round Lesz még jobb 1995
8:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come - Triangles
8:22 PM		The Clean Circle Canyon Getaway Merge Records 2001
8:27 PM		Patsy Cline Tra Le La Le La Triangle (feat. The Jordanaires) [Single Version] R Leavin' On Your Mind / Tra Le La Le La Triangle Decca 1963 requested by Pethie
8:29 PM		Zero Boys Vicious Circle Vicious Circle Secretly Canadian 1981
8:30 PM		The Waitresses Square Pegs Square Pegs / The Smartest Person I Know Polydor 1982
8:33 PM		Personality Cult Circles New Arrows Dirtnap Records 2020
8:36 PM		The Satans Lines and Squares Makin' Deals / Lines And Squares Manhattan 1966
8:38 PM		Brendan Behan The Old Triangle Sings Songs From "The Hostage" and Irish Ballads With a Commentary Argo 1960
8:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over New Order - Bizarre Dub Triangle
8:43 PM		The Savages The World Ain't Round It's Square The World Ain't Round It's Square / You're on My Mind Duane Records 1966
8:46 PM		Linda Perhacs Parallelograms Parallelograms Kapp Records 1970
8:50 PM		Unseen Square Elastic Jet Mission V/A Slampt 1995
8:51 PM		Einstürzende Neubauten In Circles Silence Is Sexy Potomak 2000
8:54 PM		Anorexia I'm A Square Rapist in the Park Slim Records 1980
8:55 PM		The Staple Singers Will the Circle Be Unbroken R Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Vee Jay Records 1960 requested by Jay in Chicago
8:58 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Village Stompers - Washington Square
9:00 PM		David Bowie The Width of a Circle (Live at Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA, 10/20/72) R Five Years 1969-1973 2015 requested by Jay from Chicago
9:11 PM		Radical Kitten Full Circle Silence is Violence self released 2020
9:12 PM		Eddy Current Suppression Ring It's All Square Eddy Current Suppression Ring Aarght Records 2006
9:15 PM		Celtic Frost Circle of the Tyrants To Mega Therion Noise Records 1985
9:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Ornette Coleman - The Circle with a Hole in the Middle
9:23 PM		Hawkwind Motorhead Kings of Speed / Motorhead United Artists 1975
9:26 PM		The Spaceshits Squarehead Winter Dance Party Sympathy For The Record Industry 1997
9:28 PM		Siam Sur Squared Colour Chart 1 V/A Black & White 1981
9:31 PM		Les Thugs Square of Lights Still Angry, Still Hungry Koowood 1989
9:35 PM		Young Wasteners Stained Circle We Got Ways Kick 'n Punch 2000
9:38 PM		Red Red Krovvy Square Man Red Red Krovvy Helta Skelta 2017
9:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Electric Tomorrow - Sugar Cube
9:42 PM		The Make-Up I Am Pentagon R Save Yourself K Records 1999 requested by Arlene from ????
9:46 PM		Emo Summer Man Sitting in Chair, Staring at Cube R Land of Burning Emotion, Flaming Desire and Plastic Furniture Carlisle Records 1999 requested by Aaron from Baltimore
9:46 PM		The Spiders Walking Around in Circles I Didn't Want to Do It Imperial 1961
9:49 PM		U.X.A. Social Circle Tooth and Nail V/A Upsetter Records 1979
9:52 PM		Devo Blockhead Duty Now for the Future Warner Records 1979
9:55 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Les Baxter - Pyramid of the Sun
9:57 PM		Fucked Up Circling the Drain No Pasaran / Circling the Drain Deranged Records 2002
10:00 PM		Freddy Cannon Transistor Sister Transistor Sister - Single Swan Records 1961
10:02 PM		Raymond Scott "Limbo: The Organized Mind" R Manhattan Research Inc. Basta Music 2000 orig 60s, requested by Ryan
10:07 PM		Tone Spliff & Benny Slumz Taste It N From the Slumz NewClear Mafia 2022
10:10 PM		They Might Be Giants She's an Angel They Might Be Giants Bar/None Records 1986
10:12 PM		Venom Die Hard Die Hard Neat Records 1983
10:15 PM		Delivery No Balconies N Forever Giving Handshakes Feel It Records 2022
10:18 PM		Poodle Boys Pop Party It Happened.. But Nobody Noticed V/A Gustav Records 1982
10:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
10:25 PM		All Hits Blockhead Men and Their Work Iron Lung Records 2020
10:27 PM		Leopardo Hardship Malcantone Feel It Records 2021
10:32 PM		The Sinyx Mark of the Beast Bullshit Detector V/A Crass Records 1980
10:32 PM		Lucrecia Dalt Bochinche N ¡Ay! RVNG Intl. 2022
10:35 PM		The Ex Rock 'n' Roll Stoel All Corpses Smell The Same Hé 1980
10:37 PM		Stockholm Monsters All At Once Alma Mater Factory 1984
10:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
10:44 PM		Chineapple Punx Grateful Bare Faced Hypocrisy Sells Records / The Anti-Chumbawamba EP Ruptured Ambitions 1998
10:48 PM		Patrick Cowley Love Me Hot N Malebox Dark Entries 2022 recorded late 70s/early 80s
10:53 PM		Big Bill Broonzy All by Myself All By Myself / Double Trouble Okeh 1941
10:55 PM		Passion Killers Start Again Bullshit Detector Volume 2 V/A Crass Records 1982
10:57 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
10:58 PM		Chumbawamba The Day the Nazi Died Uneasy Listening

Chat is archived.

Hi, hello :)

hello, hi!

I'm waiting for "The World Ain't Round It's Square" by the Savages.

Hola!

Hey, that's a version of the Max Frost and the Troopers song!

Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote it, Rob.

Hi, Commie. I love Uneasy Listening. I rarely join the chat, but I almost always listen. Florida just elected a congressman named Max Frost.

how old is he?

sorry, wild in the streets reference

He's 25

that's hilarious. this does sound familiar

Thanks, David. I don't know the writers

Marcus & Commie, that is a riot

In the fictional universe of Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (R.I.P.)’s “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”, Max Frost is the 1969 U.S. President rather than Richard Nixon.

man and weil wrote a ton of classic tunes!

They did write a bunch of songs!

Is that Feiffer illustration from Norton Juster's "The Phantom Tollbooth"? There's a documentary film about that book.

https://phantomtollboothdoc.com

yes it is

i didn't know about that, i love that book

Ohh no! I hadn't heard that!

Yeoooooo Commie and Sat-niters!

yeah it's distressing :(

Hamish should be okay. Not a ton of weird kidnappers in New Zealand.

i hope so but kidnapping isn't the only reason people go missing

THIS SONG RN AF

⚠️⚠️⚠️

i love that there's a triangle IN IT

me too as well in addition also

THE WAITRESSES❣️

That Cline tune is right out of double entendre 1960's radio. Heya Commie. Hi guys.

🟥🔴🔻♦️♥️♦️🔺🔴🟥

Shape up, MrM! 😂

hi roffle! and everyone!!

I've got the 19-episode series on DVD, but that is the first time I heard anything but the televised truncation of that theme song.

it came out as a single!

I'm sure you can squeeze in Circle in the Round by Miles Davis... it's just under 30 minutes :)

oh yeah i was wondering how i was gonna fill 9:30-10

I woke up all bent outta shape like this

That's just your handsomely angular skully face!

no matter what shape (mrm is in)

🖤💀

batsignaling bo

Hail Satans!

this BANGER ❤️‍🔥

"Circle gets the square." "Ricardo Montalbon to block, Peter." Sorry, part of my childhood was watching dreadful game shows on TV.

-ᎷяM has an indefatigable smile if ever there was one. :)

this GEM 💎

ohh

I’m tryin to listen to NEW ORDER 💜

Johnny Slash! I remember Square Pegs.

Solved the square peg in a round hole delema with a very large hammer.

Here’s something I wish I thought of earlier; it would’ve been perfect for this episode. New Jersey’s Black Wine (who arose from the ashes of Hunchback and the Ergs) had a song called “Flatland”, about the geometrically themed novella by Edwin Abbott Abbott!

oh dang i was googling around for something audio to do with that but didn't see there was a song!

Geometry on the golden rectangle ratio station. WPBR. :)

yes, swampy!

yes, Slampt! I meant to say slampt but got autocorrected to swampy.

In circles was extra sick

that ez album is SUPER SICK

famous wprb story, blixa bargeld once called in to tell mike lupica that he pronounced einsturzende neubauten correctly but had spelled it wrong on the playlist

i've been meaning to check with him to see if i'm saying it right

will be listening to

Nice...was just reading about this song

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/30/662203468/will-the-circle-be-unbroken-connects-musicians-generation-american-anthem

Soul Coughing's "Circles" is really good too btw.

‘Will The Circle Be Unbroken’ ❤️❤️❤️

confession i kinda like sunny day real estate in circles. i used to play it when i was actually in college on college radio

i mean maybe it is cool to like sdre

but i generally don't

Loving the show and the theme!!! Thank you! I thought of this one, which is such a good tune: the Makeup, Pentagon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB49u38BWow

i support sdre

There was an Unseen 7

I mean, there was an Unseen 7" on Slampt.

oh ok! i was trying to visualize their discogs

ooh arlene i was thinking about that one, it's so full of shapes! let me see if i can fit it in

Yay! Got to see the Makeup a couple years ago (here in san diego where I live now, grew up in NJ and with wprb)....and they were fantastic! I love all his projects, that Escape-ism album is so good too, and Chain and the Gang. So fun.

Never heard this live version before.

This is HAAAWWWT 🔥

this whole concert is SO GOOD. i used to listen to it constantly when i was working doign data entry at the post office

santa monica 72, it was a famous bootleg that was eventually officially released

you know it's good when i'm willing to play a version that is 3 minutes longer than the already long album version

arlene, spiv is a hell of a performer!

The song commonly known as "diameter"

haha yes G E O M E T R Y

🚫◀️

★🖤 DAVID BOWIE 🖤★

m e o w

Feeling the Frost🏔️🏔️🏔️

oh i would like to alert everyone that DANA K will be on tomorrow morning and you know what that means... pop sike pipe dreams!

i'm waking up at 7 if i possibly can

album cover 😈

very spooky band!

❄️💀❄️💀❄️💀❄️💀❄️💀❄️💀❄️💀❄️

i'm terrible at metal, i basically only will play venom and bands that sound a bit like venom

you are SO metal!

it's hawkwind! it's also motorhead!

🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌

RIP nik turner

extra prominent nik sax on this version!

hawkmotorwindhead

I'm watching a recent Who concert on Philadelphia's PBS station right now. I doubt very much they'll play "Circles".

Sympathy for the Record Industry 💝

oh man i was meaning to put that on my playlist and forgot!

the who that is. i don't think i'll be able to fit it now though

this track Af rN

Les thug life

helta skelta

this show is unstoppable

I agree and concur

this JAM

totally...you're killin it, comfran!

Having read Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange", I know that krovvy is nadsat slang for blood.

I AM PENTAGON

Howdy Commie F!

Hey can I request Limbo: The Organized Mind by Raymond Scott

ryan yes, i will play it after 10!

Thank you:)

Which Bugs Bunny cartoon can that be heard in, Ryan?

What’s up, Doc? 🥕🐰

The one where bugs got really tired after he decided to light his carrot.

😝🤣

Been listening for the last half hour, hell of a party going on tonight here!

U X A 💥💥💥

I bet! I wish I could stay but I gotta get back to work in 5 mins. I which I could hear limbo with y’all :(

I just hope y’all like it :)

Go on vacation starting now??

Maybe I’ll listen on the way back to the work area.

aw sorry you won't be able to hear it! i'm excited to play it

Walk s l o w

i will play it at approximately 10:02:30

I’ll keep my phone playing it. Battery almost dead tho

Quit typing

Turn down brightness

Don’t read chat. Wait

Ok imma ghost here gn guys

Cheers Ryan! Great Request!

Don’t open that ACME box 📦💥

What is DJ CommieFrancis on about!?! L0LZ

I discovered U.X.A. when I rented the VHS cassette of the mini-documentary “Louder, Faster, Shorter“ from Vintage Vinyl Records, which closed last year.

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

If I click on one more link mah phone gonna explode

RAYMOND SCOTT 💗🧠🫀🫁

This is so cool

this is my first raymond scott experience.

That little tune in the background just a few seconds ago was in a station ID wasn't it?

it probably actually isn't, he's been sampled a ton and his music has been used in a whole lot of cartoons

I see!

yall (wprb) have now gone and created another deep rabbit hole for me to go down with this raymond scott

oh yeah that's a good rabbit hole

Have fun Colin! LOVE Raymond Scott

Digging that illustration by Jules Feiffer up there, they schmovin!

it's from the phantom tollbooth!

tbh, almost 100% percent of the time when i hear a TMBG tune, I think, This is right on time.

🔥👺🔥

whenever i hear tmbg i'm like you know what would be good to follow this? SATAN

\m/ \m/

Always trust your chef and your dj

I bought Delivery. Liking it.

it's an excellent record!

THIS

is over :(

it sort of sounds like they're saying "hat shape under my crown"

How's that pronounced--leopard dough?

well you will hear how i pronounce it in about 10 minutes

lay-o-par-dough

speaking of which i can't believe blixa didn't come tell me how my pronunciation was

Wow the sinyx . That was on the very first mix tape I ever got . Never thought I'd ever hear that song on a local radio THANK YOU

you're welcome, love them!! i've played the plague more than once in the last few years

Now if you hit me with some AD Nauseam I'll go through the roof! Cheers!

i will see what i can do!

The All Hits lp really is that good.

Did you just say that Leopardo played in New Brunswick?!

i did say that!!!

Himme wit dat accordion

I have serious issues with Metallica. Music is fine, but they killed Napser for a few bucks so they could flush their golden toilets with champane. I'll never buy one of their albums

metallica are enormous douches through and through. at least they made a top comedy movie

i do like some of their music as i mentioned earlier!

nothing says saturday night like accordion solos!

you know it!!!

re: you know it's saturday night, .... as well as synth jams!

I just noticed OC Rippers is on the chat. They’re the finest band in Ocean County now. https://ocrippers.bandcamp.com

ooh i thought the name sounded familiar

planetariumcore

😂Colin!

Added them to my listen list, David B)

My cat is getting kooky along with this barrelhouse piano

warning, dj set may trigger zommies!

Thanks for the jams tonight!

gn!!

Thank you for the show, communist frank!

Thank uuuuuiuiiuu Commieeeeee!

you're welcome girlboss!

ooh i think we'll get a good dose of reel 10 tonight!