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The Freeform Pathogen

Mar 1, 2023 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Music

With Mike Lupica

Freeform radio for creative weirdos and deskbound dreamers. A sonic one-stop for Acid Dub, Beardo Bhangra, Micro-Folk Turntablism, Krautdrone, Cambodian Synthwave, Glam Pop, Art-Damaged Metal, Electro-Stoner Jazz, Proto Soul-Punk, DIY Hip-Hop, Psychedelic EDM, Minimalist Power Violence, Pre-Hipster NYC Weirdcore, and Afro-Hillbilly Futurism. Up and down this goddam dial since 1992.

A Spit in the Hand is Worth Two in the Loading Dock

Good evening, friends. Thanks for swinging through the doors of the Starlite Lounge.

You know the drill. Three hours of freeform radio. You, the night, and the music.

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We're here until 11 PM.

8:01 PM		Kids Indestructible Trans-Pennine Express Trans-Pennine Express EP Gooom 2003
8:10 PM		!!! Except Death Thr!!!er Warp Records 2012
8:14 PM		Catalogue Houseplant N Modern Delusion Hell Vice i Vicious Records 2023
8:17 PM		Homeboy Sandman Fresh Air Fund N Still Champion Mello Music Group 2022
8:20 PM		Mickey Jupp You'll Never Get Me On One of Those Juppanese Stiff 1978
8:23 PM		Shalom Lighter N Sublimation Saddle Creek 2022
8:27 PM		Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek Darildum Darıldım N Dost 2 Bongo Joe 2022
8:30 PM		Richard Hell & The Voidoids Down At the Rock and Roll Club Blank Generation Sire 1977 Ivan Julian of Richard Hell and the Voidoids interviewed on Esoterica's show NEXT week (not tomorrow). Woof, woof!
8:33 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:39 PM		Nick Lowe Heart of the City Hits Greatest Stiffs Stiff 1977
8:41 PM		The Drin Mozart on the Wing N Today My Friend You Drunk the Venom Feel It Records 2023
8:47 PM		My Bloody Valentine No Place to Go Geek EP Fever 1986
8:50 PM		Special Interest LA Blues N Endure Rough Trade 2022
8:58 PM		Depeche Mode Never Let Me Down Again Music for the Masses Mute 1987
9:02 PM		Baba Commandant and the Mandingo Band Semayala N Sonbonbela Sublime Frequencies 2022
9:07 PM		Bill Fox Let's Be Buried Together Shelter from the Smoke Scat 2009
9:10 PM		Billy Nomates Fawner N Cacti Invada 2023
9:13 PM		Roger McGuinn Lost My Drivin' Wheel Roger McGuinn Columbia 1973
9:17 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:26 PM		Run DMC Rock Box Run DMC Profile 1984
9:31 PM		Langendorf United Vieux N Yeahno Yowouw Land Sing a Song Fighter 2023
9:38 PM		Moritz Bohemian Rhapsody MP3 [Possibly the greatest Queen cover ever recorded. Random 2000s MP3 blog detritus. And for our purposes here tonight, "drunkenly executed karaoke" qualifies as a "cover".]
9:44 PM		King Tuff Smalltown Stardust N Smalltown Stardust Sub Pop Records 2023
9:47 PM		Johnny Mathis Chances Are 7" Columbia 1957
9:50 PM		The Winston Brothers Drift N Drift Colemine Records 2022
9:53 PM		Hans Platzgumer Sunshine A Portion of Genuine HP Sauce Spaice 1989
9:57 PM		Bhajan Bhoy Raga Shanti N To Love is to Love (Vol. 1) Feeding Tube 2023
10:03 PM		Richard Dawson Thicker Than Water N The Ruby Cord Weird World 2022
10:09 PM		Hawkwind Kings of Speed Warrior on the Edge of Time Atco 1975
10:12 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:22 PM		Marlena Shaw Last Tango in Paris 7" Blue Note 1973
10:25 PM		John Morrison SWP Hellfire Swp: Southwest Psychedelphia Deadverse Recordings 2016
10:30 PM		Roland P. Young Generative N Spontaneous Bounce EM Records 2022
10:37 PM		Jane It's A Fine Day Make More Noise! Women In Independent Music UK 1977-1987 V/A Cherry Red Records 2020 Orig. 1983
10:40 PM		Jerry Orbach Try to Remember The Fantasticks MGM 1968
10:42 PM		Johnny Darrell These Days California Stop-Over United Artists 1970 Nico/Jackson Browne cover.
10:45 PM		Bob Seger Night Moves 7" Capitol 1976
10:49 PM		Meg Baird Star Hill Song N Furling Drag City 2023
10:55 PM		BADBADNOTGOOD Can't Leave the Night III Innovative Leisure 2014

Chat is archived.

Not yet, but working on it.

I woke up like this

Stop yelling already!

Thoughts on sardines?

Love tinned fishies!

I’M NOT SHOUTING! ALRIGHT, I AM! I’M SHOUTING, I’M SHOUTING! I’M… (thump) *candlestick falls on skull 💀

well, all that is true now that im here

Isn’t this Santa Claus by The Sonics?

Into the sardines. Love the way the little tinned filets ... just melt when you cook 'em up in olive oil.

This also sounds like it could be a Spiritualized song

Agree, when they're in full-out-rock mode!

Hi DSM! That’s exactly what I was thinking

This is my go-to "FISTS ALOFT" jam.

Transporting me back to ladies and gentleman we are floating in space era spiritualized

So hopefully y'all have something to aloft your fists about tonight.

Lizbot!

YO LIZBOT

Could you just loop this until 11?

Hi Mike!

While we all jog in place.

Alofting my fists and my fishes now 🐟

Sardines flipping rhythmically in Mike’s pan to this song

Jon, I'm picturing Owen Wilson in a sweatband.

Or Bill Murray at the factory in Rushmore.

Kikkoman soy sauce logoman, fists aloft, jogging alongside Owen Wilson in a sweatband, only Kikkoman sweats soy sauce

I WOULD LIKE TO BUY A COPY OF YOUR FANZINE.

Is Kikkoman's sweat collected for retail sale?

Oh! Maura was raving about this one!

[Beastie Boys Sample Voice]: YO SHUT THE FUCK UP, KIKKOMAN.

You can't afford Kikkoman-man's sweat.

DSM, yes. Yes it is. It’s science.

fascinating process!

Homeboy Sandman! We play him nonstop in this house, esp his many songs about food

I love that Catalogue song

👋 jimboo! Goes well with a bottle of Pocari Sweat

Homeboy Sandman is awesome. Totally in love with this latest one. Workin' hard to make it a "hit".

Is that an….Earles and Jensen sample?!

Hey all y’all! Good to see you up and typing, LizBot!

Ha... lifted from a Prisonshake record, Jon.

Hi Dennisons! I hope live action shorts weren’t rife with child soldiers and hospital clowns

Child molestation, child brides, beating up trans people, fascist Catholics, and dead mums. The usual oscar fare.

I think context is in order here.

Dennisons, maybe you can draw moleboy or make a mole boy response video to The Boy the Mole the Fox and the Horse. Or just redux the whole thing with growls n snarls

I'm far from fashionable but I am fashionably late if that counts for much

It counts for EVERYTHING, TAndy!

Haha, sorry Mike, we’re talking about the Oscar-Nominatee short films

Hi TANdy!

Ahh, OK. Was gonna say, this chat got real dark, real fast.

well hello there

Hey Andrew, welcome back!

Went to see the Oscar Live Short Films and it was the usual grim parade.

Sweet

Sorry Mike!

Damn this goooooood

@Dennisons - Sounds like it some light fare! Like Mary said, wouldn’t kill them to throw in a couple comedy shorts!

Word, Jimbo. Whole record seems rad.

Hi Andrew!

Dennis, wouldn’t be Oscar Nom live action shorts without at least two child soldiers.

Hello, Wednesday night pit crew.

Ahab calling...wants her Turk-Rock back!

This song rules

She just emailed me. COSMIC, RIGHT?

Hey Marcus, welcome!

you bought that for a dollar

Oh man, I love Turkish rock but I just butcher the pronunciation so badly

mike pretty much nailed the pronunciation. but ahab sent him the cheat codes

I got a bunch of Anatolian rock records from Bob Dickie at the old 9th St Records near the Italian Market in the early 2000s and I love them but I have no more of an idea how to pronounce the song names now than I did then. I need Ahab’s help!

banger ALERT

Think there's a country-fried version of this...

Most of me wants to think you are talking about the noisy krautrock jam I just started playing, Jimbo.

And when I say krautrock, I of course mean some spooky punk band from Cincinnati.

*wonders what the percentage of punk bands from cicinnati could be called spooky. i bet it's high.

What better way to spend the Wednesday night, than in the Starlight Sparkling Rainbow Lounge?

Colin, I've only ever been to Cleveland, but all available evidence points positively at your theory.

Cincy is extremely haunted

By the ghost of .... Dr. Johnny Fever?

i had a show trade situation with with bands from about 40minutes outside of Cincinnati (bonafide ohio county side). They were more spooky space punk, but def spooky

Well now yeah

Commie, glad you are here. Need your take on the next band. They have a song which I think sounds RIDICULOUSLY like Crass. It's not the one I'm playing , but still...

"Cincy is extremely haunted" is totally gonna be a hardtimes headline

LOL

Do you mean special interest or whatever is next?

Special Interest

Hmmm trying to think of what song you mean

Concerning Peace. Gave me crazy Crass vibez.

I'm familiar with them but not THAT familiar

Yeah i don't think i know that one, will investigate

I feel like I'm late as hell to them, but I dig this record lots.

Vaguely tempted to go to that Depeche Mode show in the fall but it’s a stadium show…eh

Ok yes that is very crass-ish, it's reminding me of some other peace punk too but the vocals are very Steve ignorant

DEPECHE MODE ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Love the workin' on it AM radio gif. Dad had limited opportunities for sure.

fyi robyn hitchcock turns 70 on friday 😯

Yikes!

AM "preset" buttons in cars were fun...KA-CHUNK! Even more so when the station display secretly tilted back to accept an 8-track. I'm not old...YOU'RE old!

yikes in the fact that 70 don't seem that far off anymore🤣

You know, this song sounds a lot like a The Who’s How Many Friends Have I Really Got from Who By Numbers and predates it by 2 years. At least the whole intro really reminds me of that song

Hello Pitcrew!! Late to the party, but I'll be stickin' around rest of tonite...

70 better stay the fuck back or imma gone stab it

8 tracks were the birth of bootlegs on the Jersey shore.

definitely, colin

Hi Alan! Hi Commie!

Hi Liz!

Lizbot! 1010100011000!!!!

this Roger McGuinn hitting right right now

this one is for the byrds

I wore my fringe like Roger McGuinn’s

Hi Ossy!

Not like any MBV. Best part about that album.

That said, I love MBV. Loveless is priceless.

Oh my god, my daughter dressed as JOHNNY from The Outsiders for Halloween this year because her middle school English class read it this fall!!!

I’m confused, is she Kevin Nash or Scott Hall?!

Kevin Shields has a bunch of guitars tuned to each song and switches for each song. lol

Mike, I really liked your story about your family and The Outsiders.

Marcus, I suspect it is a Tale As Old As Time Itself.

The Rev Run reality show was pretty fantastic actually

This is a great record, thank you again for introducing it to me.

@ Mike: BTW I never thought that you shout, just that you are very excitable about being a DJ at New Jersey's...no, the Universe's... ONLY radio station!

Right on, Jon. Liking it more with every listen. Some great montages of them performing live on YerTerb.

You are 100% on to something, Alan!

NJ is going to be North and South now with new legislation? Lovely

WTF?

North Jersey starts on Route 1 above Edison and South Jersey starts on the turnpike just past Trenton. Fight me IRL.

An extra state?? Boy will that really mess up the flag...

joining the party late! just finished dinner

51 stars???

nice playlist

Nah, always knew it, but it does not need dopey stuff.

Richard Lyons, you are JUST IN TIME (for the best Queen cover ever recorded.)

Um, this is quite a cover

The part where he really lets go and goes OFF is one of the best things I've ever heard.

You'll know it when you hear it.

GET READY.

Dying here in the SL Lounge.

This is a water boarded version?

Hahahahaa

Here it comes...

Imagine tuning in to PRB for the very first time now!

LOLZ when the little harmony singers got added behind MORITZ

BOOM

Alan, really! :-O

I prefer this version

I still like the original

Them's that do be the lucky ones.

oh my lord

But you know, nothing really matters, any one can see

this is amazing

"that was painful" -- my wife

This is the best thing I've heard all day

and I tend to agree with her

Fun. And I saw Queen in 1977. Thin Lizzy opened.

Clearly, German karaoke bars re way better than what we have in NYC.

*are way better

song of the night. Sorry MBV but carry oaky always wins

Marcus, that must have been quite a show!

reminds me of when my brohter and i discovered we could hook a toy microphone to the VCR and do this weird primitive VO stuff. the lols

OMG, that was recorded in an undisclosed cia LOCATION.

I Shazamd this and it came back with California guitar trio 🤣

LOL

Hahahaa, fantastic

Mike, please tell us all that we can find this somewhere in the intertubes. We must know the source!

this set is rather disorienting

in a good way

@h1ro-Protagonist, don't wind up on a watch list for knowing.

@ Andrew: This set is designed to confuse the alien's tuning in...

We are glad you played that version, Mike

That haunted J Mathis 7" was rad

The Bohemian Rhapsody cover: http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/singalong/27_-_Moritz_-_Bohemian_Rhapsody.mp3

You're welcome.

Thank you Mr. DJ!

I LIVE TO SERVE

That cover was EPIC!

The FEDs are so gonna have agents in the stacks now. Was nice though. Thanks.

this right here

I'm with you on that Tandy!

agree as well

Fourthed!

fiftheded

richard dawson can do no wrong

It took me a while to figure this record out, but this song swells in a truly godlike manner.

Math? Sixth is that next step undiminished onto stuff.

Hi Mike! Made it in the nick of time, evenin' all.

the length of that first track definitely makes it a challenge

Not math. lol

i am seeing richard perform on the day i turn 50

LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT AMBROSE WALKED IN JUST AS THE HAWKWIND RECORD STARTED PLAYING.

Andrew, wow! A fine birthday present! I didn't see any bands when I turned 50. I saw Helmet and the Jesus Lizard on my 21st birthday, but I have no real fondness for that memory. It's just kinda... there.

Feel the breaking wind of spaaaaaaaace 🪐

Jimbo, you say that like someone who once let Hawkwind sleep at his house...

It was a gas.

...and a blast jimboo!

The best part of being alive is all these things. In our faces. Some choices for sure, But we sure do chose that fork.

Lemmy did okay. Also I inherited his wart when he died.

You should be known as Marcus Wart then

I must ask Marcus. Which one?

Gotta change the subject. No AI could ever replace Mike, or any PRB DJs

I couldn't agree more, Mike

@Marcus, I second that!

ZUT ALORS! 🕺💃

Thanks, Ambrose. Liked the wart joke. Sadly Marcus Watt is only my internet name

@Marcus. If this is ever AI, I am out! Period! I love the commitment of these guys and their wonderful choices they set up and research into form every week. for sure.

Relax Mike...remember Marshall McLuhan said that the New Technology always renders the former version into an "Art Form" you will only be more appreciated and revered...Slava DJ's

I thought Spotify was bad enough without making it even worse with AI...

Here's the Spotify promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok-aNnc0Dko

It's... gross.

Obviously someone else's idea of what "Intelligence' really is..

Yikes, Mike! Can't imagine opting for that. Love your frenetic energy--no AI can replace you or other PRB DJs!

I don't even think people who would want that, want that

There will always be listeners who appreciate real people choosing music that they expect we'd like.

John Oliver did a good story about AI recently

deadverse hellscape for us r o b o t s 😈🤖🧛🏻‍♂️🧟🦇💀

I remember when Spotify rolled out its "Tastebuds" feature, which it touted as a way to let users discover new music through their friends and I was like, wait, discovering new music through friends? What kind of fucking sorcery is that?

Might help

Might help. Most of my friends are idiots.

Just calling something "AI" doesn't mean it really is Intelligence, it's just a marketing ploy...

1️⃣9️⃣8️⃣3️⃣❗️ Totally Tubular❗️

...."we will have salad"

JERRY ORBACH!?!

Aye. I love him.

Me too! Singer! 💔❤️♥️

I liked that line, too @richard lyons

So swell, Detective Lennie Briscoe!

‘These Days’❣️

I am an idiot Marcus. I am sorta tolerated. I am so glad to be with these brilliant folks. I am honored to be here for sure.

And right about now, I'm compelled to pour some out for Richard Belzer.

For realz 🥃 🚬

🥃

To Richard! Didn't realize that was the same Jerry Orbach

Belzer, I mean

No one puts JERRY ORBACH in the corner!

I would pour beer into Belzer's coffin if I could.

@Mike, Here, here!

Takin' up back a ways...nice...

What?! BOB SEGER ❤️‍🔥 this gem 💎

I read that his final words were something to the effect of "Fuck you, motherfucker".

Yes!

his = Richard Belzer

Mines too

I’m dead ☠️

What the flip of this 45 🧿⁉️

I love funny folks!

MrM, I'll tell you when I take it off

"Ship of Fools"

Oh!

Stay awesome, DJ MikeLupica!

Shit Lupica! You burned another night off. Thanks.

Good hang tonight, Pitcrew. Thanks for being here!

Mike: Time went by like a flash! Thanks for the show Especially the Bohemian..Take care..bcnu

Dang! Teaches me to be late! R O C K O N

good night and thanks for the jams

Thanks, Mike!

😍Meg Baird. Thanks Mike, never change, AI can take a run and jump! Good night good people🙏

As always, loved the show and your human touch ; ) Thanks DJ Mike

AI Meg Baird. You know these assholes would try it.

Thanks Li Maria!

Great show tonight, Thanks Mike!

Duh!

LOL

Thanks Mike!

Really, thanks man. I need smart shit and you deliver always. Appreciated.