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The Bosses Just Don't Understand

Dec 25, 2022 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Commie Francis

Songs about wealth redistribution and inequality as we do one more of these Jesus birthdays!

Eugene Debs campaign button

If you like this kind of thing, listen Saturdays 8-11pm (not next Saturday though!) or visit www.uneasylistening.org

Also listen to my best of 2022 show while Jon recuperates this Wednesday, December 28 5-8pm est

6:01 PM		The Threat High Cost of Living Lullaby in C / High Cost of Living One Web Records 1980
6:05 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Stan Kenton - The Great Come-and-Get-It Day
6:10 PM		Joe Glazer The Commonwealth of Toil Songs of the Wobblies Collector Records 1977
6:13 PM		People's Labor Party Workers Get Ready Power to the Working Class PLP 1971
6:15 PM		Woody Guthrie Pretty Boy Floyd Documentary # 1: Struggle Asch Records 1945
6:18 PM		Billy Bragg To Have and to Have Not Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy Utility 1983
6:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Stan Kenton - The Great Come-and-Get-It Day
6:23 PM		Maureen Tucker Spam Again Life in Exile After Abdication 1989
6:28 PM		Saul Williams List of Demands (Reparations) Saul Williams Wichita Recordings 2004
6:32 PM		Quilapayún Las Obreras Quilapayún Odeon 1967
6:35 PM		Gang of Four I Found That Essence Rare Entertainment! Matador 1979
6:38 PM		Tom Glazer Money in the Pocket Songs for Political Action Bear Family Records 1996 1940s originally?
6:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Stan Kenton - The Great Come-and-Get-It Day
6:43 PM		Brenda Lee I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus (Single Version) R I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus / Christy Christmas Decca 1956 requested by Dean from Australia
6:45 PM		The New Singers Forward! We've Not Forgotten The Internationale / Forward! We've Not Forgotten Timely Records 1936
6:47 PM		The Coup Takin' These Genocide & Juice The Coup 1994
6:52 PM		Chumbawamba An Interlude: Beginning to Take It Back Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records Agit Prop 1986
6:55 PM		T.S.O.L. Property Is Theft T. S. O. L. Posh Boy 1981
6:57 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Stan Kenton - The Great Come-and-Get-It Day
7:00 PM		Hazel Dickens They'll Never Keep Us Down Hard Hitting Songs For Hard Hit People Rounder 1980
7:03 PM		Pete Seeger Banks of Marble R Gazette, Vol. 1 Folkways 1956 requested by both my dad and my coworker Jon (not that Jon)
7:06 PM		Christy Moore James Larkin R Paddy On The Road Mercury 1969 requested by Jon Solob0t! The Jon Solomon robot
7:08 PM		Bob Miller The Rich Man and the Poor Man I Can't Go To The Poorhouse / The Rich Man And The Poor Man RCA Victor 1932
7:11 PM		The Clash Bankrobber Bankrobber CBS 1980
7:16 PM		Utah Phillips We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years R We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years Philo/Rounder Records 1983 requested by Justin in Northampton MA
7:18 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Stan Kenton - The Great Come-and-Get-It Day
7:21 PM		Victor Jara Plegaria a un Labrador El Derecho de Vivir en Paz Sucesión Víctor Jara 2016 orig 1970
7:24 PM		The Tyneside People's Choir Resolution Which Side Are You On : Music For The Miners, From The North V/A Which Side Records 1985
7:26 PM		Various Artists Mene Mene Tekel Pins and Needles (Original Cast Recording) Masterworks Broadway 1962
7:30 PM		Stringbean 20 Cent Cotton & 90 Cent Meat R Old Time Banjo Pickin' & Singin' Starday Records 1961 requested by Justin in Northampton MA
7:32 PM		The Fall Gut of the Quantifier R This Nation's Saving Grace Beggars Banquet 1985 requested by Ben in London
7:37 PM		Dave & Howard Serves 'Em Fine My Bone's Gonna Rise Again / Serves 'Em Fine Victor 1931
7:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Stan Kenton - The Great Come-and-Get-It Day
7:44 PM		E.Y. "Yip" Harburg & Burton Lane The Great Come and Get It Day (From "Finian's Rainbow") R Brigadoon / Finian's Rainbow Naxos 2006 orig 1947
7:47 PM		They Might Be Giants Minimum Wage Flood Rhino 1990
7:48 PM		Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Ronnie Gilbert, Hally Wood The Preacher and the Slave Songs For Political Action - Folkmusic, Topical Songs And The American Left 1926 - 1953 V/A Bear Family Records 1996 orig 40s
7:51 PM		Joe Glazer Dump the Bosses Off Your Back Songs Of The Wobblies Collector Records 1977
7:52 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Stan Kenton - The Great Come-and-Get-It Day
7:55 PM		The Coup The Guillotine Sorry to Bother You Anti/Epitaph 2013 Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Chat is archived.

Yo is this the Afters?

yes welcome to my after party where we take from the rich and give to the poor like jesus said to. happy birthday jesus!

This where we go from setting goats on fire to setting the system on fire.

exactly!

My sub-routines all agree. This is gonna be a great post-WPRBXmas show.

Just don't set the ecosystem on fire, please

Did you ever consider that the elves control the means of production and the reindeer control the delivery of goods to market?

Eat the rich! Hello Commie, merry merry, happy happy, joy joy!

Ooooh, this is good too!

Big love to John Weingart!

I'm probably revealing too much, but all of my encrypted keys are mathematical permutations of 1871.

He hath put down the mighty from their seat: and hath exalted the humble and meek. He hath filled the hungry with good things: and the rich he hath sent empty away. He remembering his mercy hath holpen his servant Israel: As he promised to our forefathers, Abraham and his seed for ever.

Luke 1:51-54

I honestly luv to eat cake with the sweet frost.

Hi CommieDad!

My dad was wondering why he hasn’t been asked on my show and I had to explain to him that there’s been Dad shows on WPRB several times and all he needs to do is ask

Mary Jones with the Marian quotes! Yes! Magnificatish!

My soul doth magnify Mary Jones.

Thank you, my robot friend!

Yea Dad!

Hell yeah dad

I honestly luv to count my bags of money 💰

Can’t believe your dad forgot your name

@Commie, I'd like to shake your Dad's hand!👍

@Mr.M💀👀

WOODY😍

Billy! 🤩

Love Billy Bragg! Cheers to everybody!

Hi Dana K, Commie and the gang!

hiya Richard! and everyone. so chatty today!

I don't usually get a chance to chat on the Saturday show, though I often catch some of it, so this is a fun novelty.

Hi Richard and all in chat!

Commie Francis...are you open to requests? This robot would like to give a tip of the hat to the great Séamas Ó Conghaile who said it first and said it best, all the way back in 1915: "To all slaves in Revolt we wish a Merry Christmas!"

yes if someone will help me not totally butcher that name! i know the last name is sort of like connelly

Green Street Quaker meeting in Germantown, Philly (where I'm a member), has made a 10-year commitment to reparations https://www.pym.org/a-letter-from-green-streets-reparations-committee/

"Shaymus Oh Connelly"

Gang of Four!

It's pretty close

Lol! You can Anglicize it. It's OK. James Connolly.

thanks mary, that was my guess

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Connolly

yeah i wanted to say it in irish haha

(which you probably already know)

This is the song I'd like to request: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzmiHcTMRfg

can you tell me artist and name? i can't click youtube links in the chat

Sure! That song is Christy Moore, “The Ballad of James Larkin”

Hello

Howdy Ossy! Merry Christmas!

Your show = good!

thanks! both human and robot solomon approvals!

hi Ossy!

CHUMBAWAMBA! Merry merry Commie!

yay hi Readie!

Lovin' the show...right ON!

Jon Solomon may sleep for a week...but of what does he dream?

YES! GRMA Commie.

Ah yes, good call!

Nollaig shona dhuit, Solob0t!

Nollaig shona dhuit, a Mháire! Fill arís! Buail is osclófar / D’intinn féin is do chló ceart.

CLASH😍

Steve...

I feel obligated to point out there's a small army of Irish robots that would love to bend their elbows with you.

And you of course Commie, but I feel like Dads need the gentle nudge in these situations.

ooops hi everyone

💥COMMIEEEEEEEEEE💥

jimbo!!!

We were comrades together. Life was good for us. It is Good to be brave - nothing is Better. Food tastes better. Wine Is more brilliant. Girls are more Beautiful. The sky is bluer . . . . If the good days never come, We will not know. We will not care. Our lives were the best. We were the Happiest men alive in our day.

Jon... excellent marathon!

Well that formatting is very disappointing. Generalize the sentiment, of course. My programming just wanted to drop Kenneth Rexroth into the listener chat. He doesn't get enough love.

Thank you, Jimboo! But, to be clear, I am not Jon Solomon. Jon Solomon is a human. I am his robot counterpart.

Erps...SolobOt! 🤖❄️

Happy holidays Commie & everyone, and have a great week!

Thank you so much for the afterparty, Commie Francis! Much love and appreciation to ys

GRMA arís Commie. This has been the best WPRBXmas post show ever. Appreciate you playing my request!

Thanks Comrade Francis! ✊🏻

This has been great listening, thank you Commie, will be listening Wednesday🙏

thanks everyone, you know this is my jam theme-wise

What was the last track?

The Coup, "The Guillotine" @Ambrose.

Thanks Mr. Solob0t