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Diving into the Wreck

Jan 6, 2023 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Music

With Lizbot

DIVING INTO THE VOID WITH LIZBOT (SUBBING FOR ISABEL)

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3:02 PM		Laurice Dark Side of Your Face Best of Laurice, Vol. 2 Mighty Mouth Music 2015 Welsh-Canadian recording artist, composer, writer and singer. He was voted Male Dance Music Artist of the year for two consecutive years in Canada. He records in both the disco and smooth jazz genres.
3:06 PM		Rare Bird Beautiful Scarlet Rare Bird Charisma 1970
3:12 PM		The Kinks A Well Respected Man Well Respected Kinks Pye 1966
3:15 PM		Sparks Music That You Can Dance To Music That You Can Dance To MCA 1986
3:19 PM		King Missile When She Closed Her Eyes John S. Hall They Shimmy Disc 1990
3:21 PM		Ween I'll Be Your Jonny On the Spot The Mollusk Elektra Records 1997 Recorded in Holgate, Long Beach Island, NJ!
3:23 PM		Sudan Archives Selfish Soul Selfish Soul - Single Stones Throw Records 2022
3:25 PM		OCDJ guess what? Hooray! Wildfire Wildfire Records 2007 Baltimore
3:28 PM		Tones On Tail Go! (Club Mix) Everything! Beggars Banquet 1984
3:32 PM		Tones On Tail Slender Fungus Pop Beggars Banquet 1984
3:36 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Lizbot roves aimlessly in the hills of Burbank, and all appears speckled
3:41 PM		King Missile Cheesecake Truck Mystical Shit Shimmydisc 1990
3:42 PM		The Pointer Sisters Neutron Dance Break Out RCA Records Label 1982 R.I.P. Anita Pointer
3:47 PM		The 5.6.7.8's Sho-Jo-Ji (The Hungry Raccoon) Sho-Jo-Ji (The Hungry Raccoon) - Single Third Man Records 2011 Garage rock'n'roll band from Tokyo, Japan. Initially formed in 1986 as a quartet by sisters Sachiko (Drums) and Yoshiko "Ronnie" Fujiyama (Vocals) along with Rico (Guitar), and Yoshie (Bass).
3:49 PM		The Frogs She Was a Mortal The Frogs Mokai 1988
3:51 PM		King Missile As I Walked Thru Queens They Shimmy Disc 1990
3:55 PM		Silver Jews Sometimes a Pony Gets Depressed David Berman Tanglewood Numbers Drag City Records 2005 Even ponies get depressed. Grass in the pasture is sharper than a bayonet.
3:58 PM		The Feelies Raised Eyebrows Crazy Rhythms Stiff 1980
4:00 PM		Chemicals Made From Dirt Chemicals Made From Dirt Ike Hyped2Death 2000
4:02 PM		The Frogs And So You're the King The Frogs Mokai Records 1988
4:04 PM		Sema 4 Up Down Around Up Down Around EP Pollen Records 1979
4:08 PM		Karel Fialka The Eyes Have It Karel Fialka Still Life Sanctuary Records 1980 Electro artist and poet, born in Bengal, India to a Czech father & Scottish mother.
4:13 PM		Sparks Change Music That You Can Dance To MCA 1986
4:17 PM		Cristina Drive My Car (Single Version) Drive My Car Ze Records 1980 B-side: Don't Be Greedy . A Harvard drop-out and daughter of a French psychoanalyst and an American illustrator-novelist-playwright
4:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- lizbot speaks
4:25 PM		Zeehas; 12 Wait Digital d'Artagnan To the Maxxxxxxx
4:28 PM		The Scrotum Poles Pick the Cat's Eyes Out Revelation 7" One Tone 1980
4:31 PM		The Frogs Funhouse The Frogs Mokai 1988
4:33 PM		The Beach Boys Do You Wanna Dance? The Beach Boys Today! Capitol Records 1965
4:35 PM		The Aislers Set Languor In the Balcony How I Learned to Write Backwards Suicide Squeeze Records 2003
4:37 PM		The Fall Why Are People Grudgeful? The Infotainment Scan Permanent Records 1993
4:42 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
4:45 PM		Magazine A Song from Under the Floorboards Play Virgin 1980
4:49 PM		Cheer-Accident Like Something to Resemble Chicago XX Cuneiform Records 2020
4:53 PM		Acid Coco Mundo de Mentira Camino Al Mar El Palmas 2022 with El Dragón Criollo, Paulo Olarte
4:56 PM		Rats Rats Revenge Part 1 The Rat's Revenge Black Cat 1965 Watch out, there's RETS!
4:59 PM		Dr. John Right Place Wrong Time In the Right Place ATCO 1973

Chat is archived.

hello again!

Diving wreck ain't no dreck.

Lizbot, what are youuuuu doing here? (my best Californians voice)

Hi Brian D! Truth. I am diving into shipwrecks and making sonic reefs of them, sorta

Hi DSM! hahah, I love those Californians sketches. Immediate Fred Armisen voice and blonde wig memories

they make me lol everytime

Howdy!

@DSM - I agreed to sub a bunch this week cuz this week is kinda slow for me. I was on Monday, Thursday on my usual time, and today. Robot Invasion

THE. SONG. OF. SONGS.

Hi Liz, nice to hear your voice on a Friday afternoon.

I still say that Adele could top the charts again if she covered this Laurice song,

Hi Mike! Ha. Yeah, I think of you for this song and for Jim Pepper's Witchi Tia To, amongst others.

Hi Stephen Higgins!

I am flattered by the associations!

@Mike - I believe you saw the same record fair Laurice performance as I!

@Mike - That'd be an instant hit, I bet!

Okay like to get to diving into the wreck, yer gonna wanna take Sepulveda to the 10 to the 110 to the 101....

@Mike - I am contemplating playing another Mike track...maybe some Orville Peck or Sudan Archives...

@Brian D - I am having driving in L.A. PTSD! I got so incredibly lost in the valley when dropping George off at a recording session pre-GPS in 2005 and NO ONE was on the sidewalk to give directions. Ghost town

@Brian D - God, now I remember...It was in Burbank and no humans apparently walk there

@Stephen Higgins - Let's see if I accidentally start saying "You're listening to Doubleplusgood...". So far so good.

A well bespectacled man about town

we are getting older...

Well, well well! what a nice surprise! Greetings, Lizbot! I'm stoked you're passing the baton to me today at 5 pm!! Wooo!

@Brian D - A well-speckled egg--man

Hello Mike Constantine! everything looks speckled to me

I think I've been listening to Doubleplusgood for something like 15 years!

Hello!

Dag! Missed Laurice!

Hi Readie! Friday Sisters today! I was just wondering earlier if it was gonna be you or News & Culture at 5

For January it's me at 5! Great to see you, my radio sister! 💛

@Stephen Higgins - Nice! I'm glad you've stuck around! It's my 21st year here, and I went to 21 Nights Sparks Fest in London in 2008...see, everything can be tied to Sparks by one connection!

Wow...21 years,,,seems like yesterday

@Readie - I'm glad you came here to tell me that so I can announce you just before 5!

Loving the BIG DRUM SOUND on this song

@Lizbot - thanks - you are so kind! 🤗

@Lizbot- Plus - the tunes are choice!

@Mike Constantine / Brian D - I may be in denial about needing glasses full-time!

Shimmy Disc to Elektra. Chevy w a Mopar cam

@Readie - Thanks! I am looking forward to listening to Recherche as I tidy up the loose ends of saving my files and whatnot post-show, and then listening as long as the teen will permit me to in the kitchen during dinner! She is pro-WPRB a lot of of the time, but she is a teen and one can never predict her tempestuous whims

@Mike - Here we go.

Scott Thompson paraphrased "I got big drums cuz I drum, right? "

@Brian D - And it was 1986, so reverb got real gated and big!

Hi Lizbot! What a killer set!!!!

Hi Richard Lyons! Thanks!

@Lizbot- sending greetings to the teenbot... today - tribute to some we lost in late 2022 - and a Terry Hall/Specials set!

Sudan Archives AND Mister Softee 🖤 🤍!

This song's lyrics could generate its own playlist: French vanilla (the band), Honey by Ohio Players, and Syrup by Dry Rib

Goody Gumdrops by 1910 Fruitgum Company

lol!

@Readie - The founder of Mr. Softie is from my hometown! There used to be a fleet of Mr. Softee trucks a few minutes from my parents' house

@Lizbot- cool! Softee was prominent in Scranton too on my street all summer!

Sorry! I wandered away from the chat, but I am lovin' this set, and holy shit, Tones on Tail!

Was thinking of this song cuz I am considering showing the kid Grosse Pointe Blank. She is fond of Cusack

@Mike - Thanks! I might indulge in more Tones on Tail today!

Hi Mike, richard, Brian D, et alia!

@Readie - The Mr. Softee jingle was supreme. Some knock-off trucks played Turkey In the Straw and to that I say FIE!

@Lizbot - totally AGREE!

@Mike - Also some indirect Holgate, LBI content today, by way of Ween/The Mollusk

It just occurred to me that this song's lyrics are extremely Robyn Hitchcock in writing style, and subject matter. The delivery is of course very un-Hitchcock

Mayor Rizzo, eh?

Ya i could see Robyn doing that in his solo acoustic shows. And the Rizzo crumb bum speech too

Oh, crumb-bunnies... I've dropped me knitting again

Career advice from King Missile

@Brian D - John S. Hall is still performing live around NYC and almost came to Philly shortly before the pandemic. I want him to come to Philly already

@Mike Constantine / Brian D - Rizzo also breaks the cameraman's camera during that interview!

Why am I hearing Neutron dance?

Hi Carlos Ramone - Because I'm just burning, doing the Neutron dance. And also Anita Pointer died this week

Ohhh yeah....I've seen the video.....I'll never forgive him for closing the Electric Factory

I am also just burning, doing the neutron dance,

Where was the original Electric Factory location again?

I'm so happy

When I woke up this morning, I did not expect to be burning, doing the neutron dance. And yet, here we are.

Ok. King missile was over by time I left car and got hooked up inside

Arch st

Aha. Thanks. Read some about that incarnation. Went to the opening of the other one in 97 or so.

Sho-Jo-Ji/The Hungry raccoon desires shiny disks of meat and John S. Hall's cheesecakes

It was a converted tire warehouse

And shimmy discs

@Carlos Ramone - Ah!

@Brian D - Shiny shimmying discs of meat! Yum!

@Mike Lupica - haha, I was reminded of the Neutron Dance back in mid-September when I saw a Giggle the Ozone performance at a bird sanctuary in Fairmount Park and they played a truly demented cover of Neutron Dance!

@Mike Constantine - haha, yeah I will never forgive Rizzo for a lot of things, but man, that video is just...you couldn't make that stuff up! Whenever anyone moves to Philly from another part of the country and isn't familiar with Rizzo, I just refer them to that video!

Required watching

It's the WAY Berman sings "dePRESSED" with almost cheerful relish that gets me every time I hear this song

that bmore club track was so so good! any other old bmore tracks you recommend?? also didnt know the mr softee song was banned but i knew they were in legal trouble about the rights lolol

the way he hits that final "d" in depresseD

@Mike Constantine - I will never get used to calling The Electric Factory "Franklin Music Hall". Boooooring! As if there aren't enough things named after Ben Franklin in Philly! Electric Factory was already an homage to him

Hi Dale Alice! I was sit talking about how my hometown banned the Mr Softee trucks banned them playing the jingle under a noise pollution ordinance

@Readie - For real! David Berman had a way of being deeply earnest and deeply funny at the same time

The 2nd Electric Factory is the one that's called Franklin Music Hall now aha

@Lizbot-I appreciate that...I'll have to dive deeper into the Silver Jews canon...

There's a Far Side comic that has a prehistoric caveman pointing at the "Prehistoric Periodic Table". It has only one entry, "De" - Dert.

The dude who sings that last song, Chemicals Made from Dirt, from the band of the same name, Doug Milman, called my show many years ago and it turns out he is a scientist now, befitting the lyrics of that song!

Hi Mike Tropiano! Ha!

There is a metal level drum fill in there!

@Readie - And don't forget Purple Mountains.

Hi Lizbot. Been enjoying your show for many years. I found the panel, if this works.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b8/f3/7b/b8f37bef8cd8b4db37be57c57debf858.jpg

Ah yes @Lizbot! TY!

and MEAT! Slender fungus-y discs of shimmery shiny meat

@Mike Tropiano - Thanks for listening all those years!

@Mike Tropiano - ah, nice! I have a 14 year-old and as is tradition, we have the Far Side collections sitting out for her to peruse like I did growing up, along with Calvin and Hobbes and I buncha other comics. Always fun to return to the Far Side. Did you ever hear about the "Cow Tools" controversy?

Another poet here with impeccable diction!

I'd love to replace my B. Kliban books. He was the greatest. The crazy uncle of the Far Side

@ Liz..daughter and son in law visiting over holidays .came home from work and found them with all the Calvin and Hobbes books out and having beers. Great way to pass the day

And the author of the "won't get far on foot..." etc comics. Those were great too. The subject of the Joaqin P movie

Hi, Lizbot! Enjoying the show

Hi Danosaur! Thanks for listening!

No what are the Cow Tools? Calvin and Hobbes was my favorite (with Far Side and Bloom County) I miss them.

Nothing to read but a big fan of Sergio Aragones from MAD fame

Mad was great. I subscribed when I was still in grade school.

And I guess never grew out of a childish sense of hu,or.

This vibraphone solo makes me happy!

Does anyone else find it a bit strange that one of The Frogs died by drowning?

I thought it..wasn’t going to say it

Oh man, forgot to mention on mic that one of the members of Zeehas 12: wait, Dylan Sparrow, was responsible for that oddball cover of Pointer Sisters' Neutron Dance I saw live in September with his band Giggle the Ozone!

@Danosaur - never thought about it...but I guess they weren't so amphibious after all. When I think of that tragedy, I think of how folk singer and daughter of Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger, Kristie MacColl, also drowned

@Mike Tropiano - I have a friend who still has all her old copies on MAD in her bathroom! My husband occasionally refers to movie titles spoofs he saw in MAD Magazine 30 years ago

Still have some of those old Mad movie parody titles in my head too.

I'm making this show extra amphibious

@Danosaur - Yeah, I think those are what stuck in everyone's collective memory more than anything else in that magazine!

@Carlos Ramone - My kid is into a singer named Lemon Demon who had a good song about Bill Watterson's stalker, just called "Bill Watterson"

Will look it up after show!!

Greetings and salutations, everyone!

@Carlos - He's got some other fun songs too. I have played him a couple times

Greetings, Number 6!

Who is number 1????????

Be seeing you, Number 6

This one always makes me pump up the volume!

@Mike Constantine - The Prisoner is on my list of shows I wanna revisit with my teen!

@DSM - YES! I am glad I saw these guys open for Belle & Sebastian a million years ago

Wise...it's brill

It's a unique show for sure

Lol i meant the beach boys but

@Brian D - Oh yeah, I remember seeing ads for He won't get far on foot. I like J Phoenix, but never saw that one

Why? Why? was Mark grudgeful?

Best to watch some episodes of Secret Agent Man (DangerMan) first

Real Friday vibes, like some Mark E. Smith is about to happen to us all

@Mike Constantine - The real issue is getting my Gen Z teen to not simply look up the friggin ending of the show online!

@Brian D - I gotta check out more B. Kliban!

Oh yeah....gotta build up to that

I too have all my old Mads in a box somewhere, along with some Mad paperbacks. Just the drawings of the movie/tv parodies were hilarious. An early parody that I alwayts remember was 'Basebrawl", altering the game to make it more exciting. Baserunners keep their bats to trash the opposing team as they ran the bases, land mines in the outfield.

@ Liz…just listened to Bill Watterson song..sounds like it could have been done by Atom + His Package

Just a fun time!

In my mind, it’s 2x➕Good 🤫

@ mike…I always thought that a “ battle of the bands” with baseball bats would be more fun

mmm, goooooey fretless bass

Hi Lee Chandler!

@Carlos Ramone - Yeah, a lot of Lemon Demon's songs have an Atom & His Package humor and vibe, but definitely slicker production. I love A&HP but haven't managed to get the kid into it. Adam Goren actually teaches math to kids my kids age at a school not far from me!

@DSM - in mine too, evidently!

@DSM - Ah, Yes, both Beach Boys' and Ramones' version of Do You Wanna Dance instigate a volume pumping in this household

Also, i had just collected some weekend beer and got back in the car to “Sometimes a Pony” and that made me pump the volume and the gas as well

Thought that was the Nazz for a second

@ Lizbot (host) Thanks for a super sub. I checked out the Cristina album Doll in the Box Station. She's a subversive HOOT! Listen to her beyond crazy great cover of "Is That All There Is?"

That whole album is such a banger which is weird to say for a Silver Jews album.

Do you wanna dance? ascend is a highlight of R R High School

Hello Lizbot, the world can always use more Lizbot and more Cheer-Accident!

Hi Richard from Rocky Hill! Yeah, Cristina is awesome! Love the peeps on late 70s ZE Records!

Hi Bud Burroughs! Truth! Not enough Cheer-Accident in the world AT ALL. Most underrated band and they've been around for nearly 40 years!

@Carlos Ramone - ANOTHER movie I wanna show the kid! I just revisited Rock and Roll High School this summer. God, what fun! I am gonna play a song in the next 8 minutes that calls to mind the scene with the test subject mice!

Wow this is great, like The Who meets New Pornographers

Wolf moon rising...

I can't decide which side of Cheer-Ax I like best, the avant-prog, or the perfect power pop songs.

Range is not a bad thing!

Hi Michael Y - Yeah, Cheer-Accident is a gem! Half their music is pop and half is prog. They stay at my house when they come to Philly! They are always up to ridiculous shenanigans live, including a stunt they've pulled annually in their hometown of Chicago for many years where they played a "locked groove" with deadpan expressions for HOURS outside in a traffic circle

Indeed, Michael Y

@ Liz..my niece works in a HS lunchroom. I always ask her about Tuesday Surprise and Brown Apple Betty

Thanks for a great show, Lizbot!

Hi @LizBot! Forgot you were subbing today. Hope everything is fine in your Yellow Submarine! I see you got your minimum requirement of SPARKS in today. Speaking of MAD - Schklitza! Floppa-Dap! Sproinnggg! Tika-tika-tika-tika…

The Chicago twenty lp title prank is great shenans too

Thanks for all the fun music!

I love that little "boink" muttered in this song!

Good time LizBot. Happy weekend to all! Readie approaches... in the sights...

Hilarious, need to catch them next time they come around

You will dislike us...VEHEMENTLY!

Hi Wes!

Thanks, Readie!

@Brian D - the Chicago 20 title is EPIC

Thanx for another good show. BCNU!

HOT RETS?

Thanks for listening, all!

Thanks Lizbot. Lotsa fun today!

YAY! Thanks for the baton, Lizbot!

Great show..nice surprise on a dreary Friday pm

@Wesley - I got in a good dose of Sparks for the weekend!

@Carlos Ramone - That was my aim! I was fed up with the rainy weather! Glad it worked!

I demand to see Dr John’s medical certification.

And OZ too!!

@Wesley - Ha! I wandered into a public park as a teenaged, Cooper River Park, and stumbled upon a free Dr. John show! So I saw him the one time