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Uneasy Listening

Jan 14, 2023 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.

Boats!

Ships, boats, submarines, just a boy and a girl in a little canoe

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8:00 PM		Bay City Rollers Saturday Night Rollin' Arista 1974
8:03 PM		Vashti Bunyan Where I Like to Stand Just Another Diamond Day Dicristina 1970
8:06 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over 101 Strings - Skye Boat Song
8:07 PM		Rare Breed Come and Take a Ride in My Boat R Come And Take A Ride In My Boat / Take Me To This World Attack Records 1967 requested by John in Pittsburgh, sort of
8:10 PM		Heino Wir lagen vor Madagaskar Halli, Hallo wir fahren Electrola 1970
8:12 PM		Go Sailor The Boy Who Sailed Around the World Long Distance Slumberland Records 1995
8:15 PM		The Wrecks Slow Boat to Yuba Teenage Jive self released 1982
8:16 PM		Tin Tin Ships On The Starboard Astral Taxi UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1971
8:19 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Uncle Bunt Stephens - Sail Away Lady
8:23 PM		Woody Guthrie The Sinking of the Reuben James The Asch Recordings, Vols. 1-4 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1999
8:26 PM		The X-Seamen's Institute Grimsby Town R Heart of Oak! Folkways Records 1976 requested by my dad!
8:29 PM		Stan Rogers The Mary Ellen Carter R Between the Breaks Live! Borealis Records 1979 requested by Aaron from Baltimore and also going out to Vito from Philly!
8:34 PM		Brian Eno & John Cale Empty Frame Wrong Way Up All Saints Records 1990
8:39 PM		The Clancy Brothers Irish Rover Hearty & Hellish (Live) Legacy Recordings 1962
8:41 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Zeb - My Own Boat
8:47 PM		Deidre Brenner and Sophie Junker Les Berceaux from youtube - music by Gabriel Fauré, lyrics by René François Armand "Sully" Prudhomme https://www.oxfordlieder.co.uk/song/83
8:49 PM		The Fear Merchants U-Boat Captain Mental Emotional Response 2019
8:52 PM		Madness Night Boat to Cairo R One Step Beyond Rhino/Warner Records 1979 requested by Justin from Northampton MA and also Bo!
8:55 PM		Wire Marooned Chairs Missing Harvest 1978
8:58 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Stevie Wonder - Red Sails in the Sunset
9:00 PM		Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir and Ed Trickett The Sea Wife Minneapolis Concert Folk-Legacy Records 1987
9:03 PM		Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich The Wreck of the "Antoinette" The Wreck of the "Antoinette" / Still Life Fontana 1968
9:06 PM		Mekons Shanty R The Edge of the World Quarterstick Records 1996 requested by Chris from Boston
9:09 PM		Dick Dale & His Del-Tones Sloop John B R Surfer's Choice Deltone Records 1962 requested by Gordon from San Francisco
9:12 PM		William and Versey Smith When That Great Ship Went Down Anthology of American Folk Music V/A Folkways 1952 orig 1927
9:15 PM		Diskonto Sink the Dept (Not the Ships) Diskonto / Abuse V/A Consume, Be Silent, Die 1997
9:15 PM		Boney M. Homeland Africa (Ship Ahoi) Boonoonoonoos MCI 1981
9:19 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
9:21 PM		Swell Maps Midget Submarines R A Trip To Marineville Rather Records 1979 requested by Steven from the Western middle of PA
9:26 PM		The Carter Family I Have No One to Love Me (But the Sailor On the Deep Blue Sea) I Have No One To Love Me / Anchored In Love Victor 1929
9:29 PM		Gentle Giant Wreck R Acquiring The Taste UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1971 requested by Michael in thee chat
9:33 PM		Jimmy Jukebox Motor Boat Motor Boat / 25 Hours a Day Chattahoochee Records 1973
9:35 PM		Itsuroh Shimoda ふたつの舟 Love Songs and Lamentations Polydor 1973
9:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Bear McCreary - Theme from Black Sails
9:42 PM		Duran Duran Night Boat Duran Duran Parlophone UK 1983 requested by Charles from Northampton MA and John from Pittsburgh (different one from before)
9:47 PM		Maddy Prior & June Tabor The Grey Funnel Line Silly Sisters Chrysalis Records 1976 requested by Yuri from Philly
9:50 PM		Voivod The Prow R Angel Rat Geffen* 1991 requested by John from Pittsburgh (same John as the most recent one!)
9:54 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Carolina Eyck - Les Berceaux (theremin and piano)
9:56 PM		Brian Eno Backwater Before and After Science Island 1977
10:00 PM		Freddy Cannon Transistor Sister Transistor Sister - Single Swan Records 1961
10:02 PM		Split System Ringing In My Head N Vol.1 Legless Records 2022
10:06 PM		ICD-10 Progress of Man N Faith in Institutions Sorry State 2022
10:08 PM		Flux of Pink Indians Sick Butchers Neu Smell Crass Records 1981
10:10 PM		The Lines Dance for a Drop of Blood On the Air Red Records 1979
10:12 PM		Pylon Reenactment Society Precaution Part Time Punks Session - EP Pylon Reenactment Society 2017
10:15 PM		The Tubs Dead Meat N Dead Meat Trouble in Mind 2023
10:17 PM		Trenchmouth Sea of Serenity (Swing Version) split with Circus Lupus Skene Records 1992
10:19 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
10:24 PM		The Damned Looking at You Machine Gun Etiquette Chiswick 1979
10:29 PM		Boyake Ethno Groove N Ethno Groove Emotional Rescue 2023 orig 1990
10:34 PM		Destroy All Monsters You're Gonna Die Bored b/w You're Gonna Die IDBI Records, Detroit 1978
10:37 PM		The Goodsons Long Way Home N Better Late Than Never - EP self released 2022 https://goodsons.bandcamp.com/album/better-late-than-never
10:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
10:42 PM		Ray Columbus & the Art Collection Kick Me (I Think I'm Dreaming) Kick Me (I Think I'm Dreaming) / She's a Mod Colstar 1967
10:45 PM		Delivery Born Second N Forever Giving Handshakes Feel It Records 2022
10:49 PM		Radio Birdman What Gives? Radios Appear Trafalgar 1977
10:51 PM		Mini Skirt With Your Hands Casino Independent Release 2020
10:55 PM		The Morloch Every Night Before the Birdmen Flew Vol 1 V/A orig 1965
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.

Ahoy!

yarr!

Happy Saturday!

VASHTI!!!!!!

Evenin' Commie F!

Hello richard!

Hi Ambrose!

Hello everyone!

ahoy kamaraden!!

Hi Rob!

Hi richard!

@Commie Francis, I was on your FB page a wee while ago, had two songs in mind, did you see

i did!

Hi Rob!

@Commie, ah!

Hi Ambrose!

Liked that Rare Breed song, rarely heard!

The Rare Breed song was nice. And Heino too

i had a ball listening to like 10 different versions of come on down to my boat (which weirdly often has slightly varying titles)

love that song!

You are probably full up but just thought of The Saints 'Ghost Ships"

My band practice was cancelled at the last minute, but at least I can listen to Uneasy Listening in real time.

Hi Scooter :)

nice to have you here!

Hi Commie!! ....I can't help but wonder if "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot is on tonoght's menu...so many ship/boat songs...

there are tons! i did a show about the ocean a few years ago and played a bunch of my favorite boat songs but there are tons more!

@ Commie: I always enjoy theme based shows...Carry On!!!

ok ONE more sad shipwreck song for now

I know of a pub called The Heart Of Oak.

Maybe somebody should write a song about that "Duck" that went down in the Delaware just a few years back.....I was on it only a few months earlier..Whew!

omg there were multiple ducky tour accidents, that was so wild

my only experience with that duck is being part of a group of punks waiting for vegan cheesesteaks at gianna's and getting heckled by the duck

@Commie: That darn thing was so unstable that It even gave me the Willies!

i remember there kept being terrible accidents and they just kept duckin' for years

"Heckled by the Duck" that's a new one for even me!

the duck driver was just like "never know what you're gonna see on south street!" or something. there was a big punk fest happening so there were a LOT of punks on the sidewalk

Fuck those particular ducks!😠

TOMMY

the AAs at the beginnings of lines just kill me. this rips so hard

@Commie: Write a song: "I was heckled by the Duck before she went dowwwwn, Arrrr"

i've probably told this story before but once as a teen i was making my dad listen to the pogues in the car and he was like "this is just the clancy brothers with swears"

he was NOT WRONG

Duck down ...good pillow stufffing!

@Commie, your Dad's funny!😝

I was heckled by the Duck, Before she went down, But I neverr went on board, 'cause I didn't want to drowwwn...

I was an unaware tourist when I went out on one. Luckily, it stayed afloat.

kudos to Marvin!

Hi Commie..Gentle Giant: Wreck

I think that after this show you'd have to pay me good money to go on a cruise :)

My grandfather was a POW on the Prison Ship Argenta during the Irish Civil War, 1921-22!

Michael I will see what I can do!

Thanks Commie!😍

Thanks Commie! And Happy New Year!

Wow, Ambrose!

Feels like halloween ish

@richard, yes, there's a book about it!

What is that book title?

@richard, Republican Internment and The Prison Ship Argenta.

Well shiver me timbers. Five 'ish years on a fishing boat out of Alaska. Mixed feeling fer shure. A prison boat though. Eeegads!

Dang! Thanks for that, Ambrose!!

a friend of mine worked on a fishing boat for a long time too, it sounded terrible. he has wild stories though

M E K O N S !

yay!

YAY, INDEED!

Mekons yes

Your friend is right Commie, not a fun gig, but great paydays. Mixed bag. Oh, ahoy Ye'all landlubbers!

@richard, you bet, he got out alive though!🤗

ahoy Rofflestomp, Ossy and Michael!

That's great!

❤ Jon Langford!

That book is a bit of a collector's item too. Checking my libraries.

@Ambrose, man I can't imagine being in that situation. It's not like your getting to a life raft in an emergency. That's crazytown.

Love Versey's voice!

@richard, I'm not too surprised!

@Rofflestomp, yes and they had rats for company!🤔

Yikes! I'll take the SS COVID Cruse Ship anyday compaired to that.

My next door neighbours played a lot of Boney M late '70's, I could hear it reverberating through the walls, dont6 recall this one though!

@Rofflestomp, are you sure!?!😜

I'm healthy, I'd wing it. And I have no fear of a mask as long as I'm wearing it.

Wow! I actually have this Carter recording..

the 78?

@ Commie: It's on a vinyl compilation, buried in the deep blue sea of dust in the cold cold storage room...

JJ perfect!

@Alan, in that storage space no one can hear ya screaming along. Wire it fer sound! :)

@ Roffelstomp: A few weeks ago it went down to 40 deg. in that storage room, can hardly wait for spring to dig out me vinyl..

soon Alan!!

i had to pack up most of my records for a few months when we moved last, it was brutal

@Alan, I left my prized Van Wilks vinyl in an attic in Texas and the poor thing will never be right again. LOL Cruel sneaky world.

THIS

Best to store vinyl upright on it's side, far from heat and free from silverfish, sadly I have learned the hard way...

Bo, I agree!

Yes, this Maddy is Beautiful!!!

I loved that Isuroh Shimoda song. I the name didn't ring a bell, but I googled his name and he was in Tokyo Kid Brothers. I have a grey area reissue/boot of the TKB album Throw Away the Books, We're Going into the Streets, which I love. I also see his solo album just got reissued, but all copies appear to be in Japan, which makes it really expensive.

that record is great and yeah, very difficult to find here even on reissue

i think it actually just autoplayed on youtube one time and that's how i learned about it

@Alan, yea, my trust in random accommodations have definitely been shattered, Learning curves want that pound O'flesh.

🔥💥

🛟🛟

Commie double shot!

not a sausage to do!

OMG, I would think XTC in a heartbeat on first listen.

i never thought of that but i can totally see it!

...Great song...

all this record talk is making me miss my scratchy record of transistor sister

i mean i have it but i can't play it on the air

yipee

i used to let some of the dead wax play at the beginning on purpose :(

love crackle cackle

same here, better with age..

....but not on new stuff!

Some fingernail filings could breing back the vibe, the precise pops and skips are a much higher level of retro-production for sure.

Repeat skips are definitely out, got a linear drive turntable...

there is a skip on my copy of pink flag by wire, i kinda got used to it. it is in a spot that works

Yea Commie, those type of skips are just kinda the song now. Quite personalized for sure. :)

the word underrated is super overused, but I think the Lines are really underrated. Like, deep post punk heads really like them, but they have so many awesome songs, they should be famous on a Wire kind of level, and some of their best songs like "On the Air" and "Nerve Pylon" are like top of the heap post punk songs.

yeah dana grabbed that record for me for shockingly cheap! i think it was $10?

i may have only turned up for the 3rd hour but this third hour is fantastic!!

first 2 hours were chiller and full of DEATh

2 out of three stereos in the apartment are tuned in! and kinda cranked. i'm the only one in the triplex at the moment

Silverfish don't harm the vinyl itself, do they, Alan Pasnyk?

🤍🔥

dang man, i just looked at what tonights theme was. I love boats! and yeah, when songs are written about boats, they usually are about them sinkin.

*note to self, write song about the floatiest boast ever.

@ David: Hi! No, not directly, but they chew up the paper and cardboard sleeves, and leave droppings on the vinyl which can be brushed off...

best of friends - sailing is just about having a nice time on a boat but i played it on my ocean show!

omg i just realized i missed a VERY IMPORTANT SONG in my show!! i think it was a file type problem

i guess i'll save it for end of the year show

Least we forget, vinyl geeks have needle problems. File problems are Fentanyl? Dunno...

Yecch. I wish I bought more polyethylene sleeves.

“Ever notice how much the MC5 sound like Foreigner?” ad-libbed Mark Sultan at an Almighty Defenders (King Khan & BBQ plus the Black Lips) show I attended in 2009.

🎷🎷🎷

I liked the Stooges but knew nothing about Destroy All Monsters when I went to see Dark Carnival at Maxwell’s in 1997. I wondered who the lady singing was.

This Goodsons= 🎸🎶

alert i'm going to play THREE australian bands!!!

Alan I know their... drummer I think. from when he was in crust bands.

@ Commie: Yeah, great drums on that one..

I do like this one a bunch Commie. I am right back to XTC'ish in the vocal ear. LOL. Nice.

top shelf. thanks CF!

I never knew that Rare Breed single was mistitled “Come AND TAKE A RIDE IN My Boat” instead of “Come ON DOWN TO My Boat”. There may be no authentic concert footage of the song, but Every Mother’s Son mime to it in a “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” episode.

Hey thanks for the show. Nice chat there folks. Interesting stuff. Set the main jib for that darn star, and on till dawn.

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich were amazingly huge in Britain–yet if most Americans know them at all, it’s from Quentin Tarantino’s “Death Proof”.

Fab show Commie, thank you!🙏

thanks for your suggestions Bo! Thanks everyone for listening!