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Uneasy Listening

Jan 15, 2023 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Music

With Commie Francis

Music from all different genres from the 1910s to the 2020s.

The Kids Just Don't Understand! EXTRA BOATS EDITION

Happy Sunday and happy birthday Dr. Martin Luther King Jr! I'm just playing music, a lot of leftover boat songs from last night.

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3:08 PM		The Undertones When Saturday Comes Positive Touch Ardeck 1981
3:08 PM		The Gas Company Blow Your Mind Blow Your Mind / Your Time's Up Mirwood 1965
3:10 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Adventurers - Little Genie
3:12 PM		Mojo Nixon Elvis is Everywhere (feat. Skid Roper) R The Mojo Manifesto Manifesto Records 1985 requested by Gordon from San Francisco
3:16 PM		The Rabbits ヤサイ = Yasai The Rabbits Mesh-Key 2022 orig early 80s
3:21 PM		The D-Coys You're Against Bad Times / You're Against Columbia Records 1966
3:23 PM		Eight I Wanna B a Boat R Delight in Eight Eight 2022 https://themusicofeight.bandcamp.com/album/delight-in-eight-2
3:26 PM		Mike Seeger & Peggy Seeger Fire Down Below American Folk Songs For Children Rounder 1977
3:27 PM		C.K.C. 20h25 20h25 / Tous les 7 ans Ponce Pilate 1981
3:30 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Adventurers - Little Genie
3:34 PM		Jawbreaker The Boat Dreams From the Hill 24 Hour Revenge Therapy Tupelo Recording Company 1994
3:36 PM		Bow Wow Wow Love Me When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going RCA Victor 1983
3:40 PM		Tacocat Dry Land is a Myth Shame Spiral Don't Stop Believin' Records 2010
3:41 PM		Innovations Put a Little Away N Seabird - Single MAG 2022
3:45 PM		Jimmie Rodgers Let Me Be Your Side Track Let Me Be Your Side Track / Rodgers' Puzzle Record Victor 1931
3:48 PM		XTC Wait Till Your Boat Goes Down Wait Till Your Boat Goes Down / Ten Feet Tall Virgin 1980
3:52 PM		Smog Bathysphere Wild Love Drag City Records 1995
3:57 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Adventurers - Little Genie
4:00 PM		Spiritual Mafia Bath Boy Al Fresco Ever/Never Records LLC 2021
4:10 PM		The Union Thump The End / Thump Trend 1965
4:13 PM		Liliput Boatsong Liliput Kill Rock Stars 1993 originally 1981 or similar
4:17 PM		Jez Lowe and Jake Walton the Bergen Two a Roue Tantobie Records 2001
4:20 PM		Guerre Froide Ersatz Guerre Froide - EP Born Bad Records 2015 orig 1981
4:23 PM		Body Double Critter N Typical Girls, Vol. 6 Emotional Response 2022
4:26 PM		Tom Robinson Not Ready Sector 27 I. R. S. 1980
4:30 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Adventurers - Little Genie
4:34 PM		Slint Good Morning, Captain Spiderland Touch and Go Records 1991
4:41 PM		Spoon Loss Leaders Soft Effects - EP Matador 1997
4:45 PM		Brian Eno Julie With... Before and After Science Polydor 1977
4:51 PM		Diane Renay Kiss Me Sailor Kiss Me Sailor / Soft Spoken Guy 20th Century Fox 1954
4:54 PM		Tropical Fish Captain Man Purple Heart Surgery Vol. 2 Modern Records 1996 late 60s
4:56 PM		Progressive Labor Party When the Ship Comes In Power to the Working Class PLP-LP 1971
4:59 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Adventurers - Little Genie
5:02 PM		Chuck Armstrong Something Got a Hold on Me N Something Got a Hold on Me Emotional Rescue 2023 orig 1979
5:12 PM		Zounds True Love Dancing / True Love Rough Trade 1982
5:14 PM		Los York's Hanky Panky 67' Munster 2023 originally 1967 (of course)
5:17 PM		Rikk Agnew Falling Out All By Myself Frontier Records 1982
5:20 PM		Rotten Mind Empty Generation Unflavored Lövely Records 2022
5:23 PM		Red Zebra I Can't Live In a Living Room Innocent People Zebra Records 1980
5:26 PM		Der künftige Musikant Es Is Kalt Veitstanz Bubu Musikverbreitung 1982
5:29 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Adventurers - Little Genie
5:32 PM		Grand Funk Railroad I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home) [Live] Caught In the Act (Live) Capitol Records 2003 live 1971
5:37 PM		Crank Call Love Affair What's Wrong Yvette What's Wrong Yvette / Celluloid self released 1982
5:43 PM		R. Stevie Moore What Are You Looking At? 16 Dance Party Smash Hits! V/A Recommended Records 1985
5:45 PM		Nick Cave The Ship Song The Good Son Mute 1990
5:50 PM		Blue Sound Berlin Nouvelle Creature SDH 1983
5:53 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Adventurers - Little Genie
5:55 PM		The Levellers The Boatman Levelling the Land Elektra Records 1992

Chat is archived.

cool

Hellooooo!

So nice playing it twice

This tune! Thanks. lol

Most spins on WPRB hands down.

Very boaty

OK fingers crossed everyone

this song is great anyway

I still get a bit tizzy seasick wise, but I get my legs. Bowline hold-on. Return to ground.

music is playing right?

YES

Yeppers Commie.

OMG, MOJO!

Perhaps you’d like to play the song “I wanna b a boat” by Eight

'Autie Elvis'

My friend from KCPR, 91.3 FM, San Luis Obispo used to love to play this.

College radio of course.

Just got done with a beautiful hike and now I get to hear this on the ride home. I'm in heaven

hi krista, hi krista's family!

bill is at band practice so i can do super loud headphones singing and not bother anyone!

JAWBREAKER🖤🤍🖤🤍

i remember hearing that song on wnyu and being like WOW i gotta get jawbreaker's new album!

Bow Wow Wow being rather good. Nice. Thanks.

This is a great Smog song!

it is one of my favorite songs!

💕

A bathysphere is a good idea while driving across The Pulaski Skyway.

BATHYSPHERE BOY

🤪

BATH BOY

and good afternoon everyone

Hi Rob!

Calling Mr. M

Hi Commie!

Calling Christine too

Holy shit BB!

I consider myself to be the BATHBOY

So filthy

Hi MrM

Hi Richard Lyons L0LZ

Whilst bleaching bones -ᎷяM?

hahaha batboy still wprb's #1 batsignal

This is the second time on WPRB in the past week we've heard Bath Boy. We are in heaven!

Hello, DJ CommieFrancis! Big cheers for playing BATHBOY during another great show!

Greetings and Salutations, Everyone!

hello!

did ANYONE do a bathboy song for the christmas marathon?

Mike played it twice on one show a year or two ago due to popular demand. Quite funny.

Fun timez

@Commie, I just checked Jon Solomon's playlists for his 2022 & his 2021 Christmas marathon shows and there was no Bath Boy submission.

maybe this will be my project for this year

Yes, do it!!

For realz! Please and thank you!

It's such an inside joke. Play away.

I's the B’y That Builds the Boat and I’s the B’y That Sails ‘er

I MISSED Bath Boy :(

oh no TAndy!!!

Bummer TAndy! But it is surely playing in your head right now

SLINT 🖤

I was busy being hibachi'd. I got sake liquor all over my shirt because I wasn't expecting the guy to spray it at me LOL

so is this still slint's hit?

[He has never been to Hibachi before]

Yes?

omg i cannot deal with that kind of participatory eating. i don't want anyone feeding me and especially not throwing food at me

@Commie, my Slint fan wife says that THIS SONG is their hit. And I agree, as I recognize this as Slint immediately whenever I hear it.

ok i just realized i have no idea how slint is perceived in 2023. i remember there was a documentary a few years ago!

as well as a waste of Sake, TAndy😁

i listened to this album a lot on cassette when i had an unlimited greyhound pass for a month

it's pretty good for looking out a bus window in west texas

that’s excellent, DJ CommieFrancis!

also, WarmSAKE! Yum! 🔥🍶

Indeed it was Richard 😂

Unlimited Greyhound pass? You can go anywhre if you don't need to use those scary buss bathrooms.

@Commie - I used to take a lot of greyhounds and Chinatown buses, but I had a friend who got the most outta her greyhound pass by taking it cross-country, at which point her feet had swollen so badly, she had to cut her boots off

roffle i don't think they do it anymore, it was called ameripass and it was like $200!

liz i only went about halfway across the country! lubbock tx

Least favorite Greyhound memory (other than a few bus breakdowns): Missing the last bus to Philly from Baltimore and having to drowse on top of my bag in the bus station til 4:45 am.

oof

Sounds cool. I would get that for the lols for sure.

Ohi Lizbot

@Commie - Did you say hi to the ghost of Buddy Holly?

i did a lot of that and encountered some extremely sketchy characters. houston was probably the sketchiest bus station

liz i MET peggy sue!!!!

LIZBOT! HI!

i did go to buddy's grave and there's a statue too

Hi TAndy! 👋 Hey all. I’m in Old City staring at Camden at the moment

@Commie - wwwot?!

yep, she lived in lubbock her whole life, i think she died 10ish years ago

and i mean... lubbock is small

i was visiting friends there

I Drive to the middle of the Ben Franklin Bridge on my ebike at 3am and look about. Good stuff. Too cold now though.

@Commie - I had just gotten my friend’s parents to drop me off there late at night and then I missed the bus anyway and I felt way too guilty to call them and ask them to pick me up so I could crash at their house, so I wrapped my backpack around my arms and curled up on a plastic chair and semi-drowsed while giving myself a really nice neck cramp

@Rofflestomp - Funny you should mention that! Part of the reason I’m down here right now is because my kid is really into filmmaking and has been scouting locations all day and she insists she needs to shoot a scene on the Ben Franklin Bridge in January and all I can say about it is WINDYYY

The other boat song by Brian Eno

there are a bunch!

Brian Eno 🥰

i played 2 last night (counting the one with john cale) and the big ship on my ocean show

and there are for sure more

Ahhhh, I was wondering when one of Eno’s many boat songs would sail into this playlist

I was thinking of this one, but of course you had already played one Eno song near the beginning and one in the end.

Ha! Nice Lizbot! Coat and a fog cloth for sure. Too cool!

Oh cool. Off the top of my head I only know last night's non-Cale song and this. Glad to hear there are more

@Commie - I have slipped The Big Ship into a couple ocean themed shows, or Little Fishes…there are a lot of options cuz dude loves his boats! I always think of Eno staring out into the sea while writing his songs

@Commie - A friend I grew up with has relatives in Lubbock and I was surprised to discover there is a relatively large Jewish population there!

yeah there are even more songs just about bodies of water

Yakutsk is gonna be -69 F. 🥶🧊⛄️❄️ Go for that bike ride, Rofflestomp

Lubbock is also the first place I ever saw a black dude with his pants down over his but. Go figure.

True -ᎷяM. Like 15 years ago.

@Rofflestomp - I’ve walked across the Ben Frank in spring and the problem then wasn’t so much the wind as the sun burn and car fumes!

I was lucky to meet the real Peggy Sue as well go to Buddy Holly's Grave. I was shooting a rockabilly doc for the guy who replaced Buddy, Jerry Naylor.

Sometimes the walkway UNDER the bridge is open to pedestrians but it is kinda scary in there

what the hell is anybody talking about here today 😭🤣😳

Also got to go to Johnny Cash's cabin and Sun Studios.

Geez yea Lizbot, I like that they made the Camden side bike freindly now. I just cruz by now, no hard inhales to get me past these days.

Hi Richard and all! I drove to Detroit last summer and was excited to see MoTown Studios, only to find it closed for renovation 😞

Hi Liz!

Darn!

@Rofflestomp - I haven’t biked the BFB but I like to walk it when the sun isn’t crazy bright. I walked the Williamsburg Bridge in November cuz it was so mild out Thanksgiving weekend and the kid wanted to meet her friend at Essex Market and Economy Candy

This is a great song!

@-ᎷяM, I think this is where winging it is akin to free flight.

I thought Jerry Naylor replaced Earl Sinks, Richard.

@LizBot, I love walking across bridges. So, so cool!

I climbed on the construction fence to get a photo with me with the “Hitsville USA” sign and that’s all I got, but I found a really good West African restaurant nearby and had an awesome lunch, so still worth the trek

That might be correct, David. He started two years after Buddy's death.

I agree, Rofflestomp! I walked the Golden Gate with my kid when she was little but she needed to pee halfway through and barely made it to the other side in time!

LizBot, criminal pleasures! Fence climbing! Too good. Nice!

@Commie - These boat songs are hitting the spot when hanging by the Delaware! I am staring at that tall ship near the independence Seaport right now

go have a hot chocolate on the deck of the moshulu!

i don't know about the food there but i like to get drinks and hang out

liz in that situation just hold her over the rail and let her pee in the bay! simple

you definitely would not get arrested for child endangerment

@ Commie, I was worried about child endangerment every moment my kid was awake. True story.

@Commie - 😂

@Commie - I believe that’s called a “Michael Jackson balcony baby dangle”

oh yeah maybe little blanket just needed to pee!

Kid proof the whole planet was my thing.

@Commie - I have never wandered into Moshulu, largely cuz I intensely dislike their mermaid sign!

roffle i can see that, being responsible for a helpless little human is intense!

Moshulu is on the list, but only as a reservation on the 4th of July. I like walking around Penn Landing just fine.

@Commie, I was perpetually terrified. Still am sorta.

Now I’m playing this show out my open car window while standing 10 feet from my car , watching the sunset over the river from the roof of the Ritz East garage

here comes a song by sean agnew's cousin

@Lizbot, time and a place. Cool!

some philly folks did a cover band of songs from this rikk agnew solo album and all wore shirts like he has on the cover

Ise Bar, lol. Chilling reference.

bill just texted me "i'm getting closer to my home"

Y you like this, Yvette?? Yvette, what’s your Glitch?!

don’t go givin me evils! 👀

On my way to pick up Vietnam Cafe dinner now, so can’t type in here again much before end of show, but I just posted my sunset on the Delaware boat pics on FB, commie. Thx for the boat tunez accompaniment to my Sunday shenanigans!

thanks for listening and for narrating your listening experience!

Swell Selections! Many thanks, DJ CommieFrancis!

Thanks a lot, CF!!!

i would like some food from vietnam, please drop it on your way home!

@Commie, we really enjoyed this afternoon's show (and last night's too)! ¡Muchas gracias!

thanks everyone!

😂 Commie. Will do! 🍲