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Don't Back the Front

Jul 28, 2023 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Music

With Dana K

Filling in for Freddie!

10:02 AM		The Desperate Bicycles The Medium Was Tedium 7" 1977
10:04 AM		Sinéad O'Connor Troy Lion and the Cobra Chrysalis Records 1987
10:17 AM		The Would Be's I'm Hardly Ever Wrong I'm Hardly Ever Wrong - Single Decoy 1990
10:18 AM		The Sugarcubes I Want... Life's Too Good Rhino/Elektra 1988
10:21 AM		Galore Jackpot Blush - EP Paisley Shirt Records 2022
10:24 AM		Kate Bush Suspended In Gaffa The Dreaming Fish People 1982
10:28 AM		Lush Thoughtforms Gala 4AD 1990
10:31 AM		Look Blue Go Purple 100 Times Look Blue Go Purple Compilation Flying Nun Records 1991
10:42 AM		The Velvet Underground I'm Set Free The Velvet Underground Polydor 1969
10:48 AM		Galaxie 500 Final Day Uncollected 20/20/20 2009 Young Marble Giants cover
10:50 AM		The Magnetic Fields Papa Was a Rodeo 69 Love Songs Merge Records 1999
10:55 AM		Vomit Launch Stillness Dogeared Teen-Beat 1992
10:58 AM		Shop Assistants It's Up To You NME C86 NME 1986
11:07 AM		Lida Husik Bozo Bozo Shimmy Disc 1991
11:09 AM		Linda Smith I So Liked Spring Till Another Time: 1988-1996 Captured Tracks 2021
11:15 AM		Veronica Lake This Is My World (You Can Have It) The Man Who Was Not With It The Bus Stop Label 1992
11:21 AM		Maxine Funke Willow White River Said Disciples 2023
11:25 AM		Opal Fell from the Sun Early Recordings Rough Trade Records 1989
11:28 AM		Cindy Why Not Now Why Not Now? Tough Love Records 2023
11:35 AM		The Durutti Column A Silence Short Stories for Pauline Factory Benelux 2012
11:40 AM		Pram Milky The Stars Are So Big the Earth Is So Small... Stay As You Are Too Pure 1993
11:44 AM		Arthur Russell The Boy With a Smile Picture of Bunny Rabbit Audika Records 2023
11:49 AM		Brigid Mae Power I Know Who Is Sick Dream From The Deep Well Fire Records 2023
11:51 AM		Vacant Gardens Crimson Crush Obscene Tough Love Records 2022
11:58 AM		Sinéad O'Connor Just Call Me Joe Lion and the Cobra Chrysalis Records 1987

Chat is archived.

Double Dana K Friday 😤

it's real!

HYPE

hello guys, dana just started to really listen to this station

Easy. Cheap. Ahead went. It done.

welcome, john!

and hi, Brian!

Desperate bicycles week on wprb

(I posted the medium was tedium on my show this week!)

thanks dana glad to be here

Er played, I played it

i felt like i couldn't get away with playing DBTF twice in one day

Maybe I'll play advice on arrest tomorrow, just keep going with it

I love the practical advice of the desperate bicycles

and then play the shark toys cover. and maybe erik nervous has a cover too?

haven't heard this in years. amazing vocal performance.

Good morning Commie Francis!

Montclair! Thank You Scientist's town of formation :)

home of Almost Ready Records, as I learned

My first time there! Not the part of Jersey I'm from

My daughter went to MSU. We loved hanging out there

rob f msu is montclair right?

Yes, Montclair State Univ

I have also been nowhere near Montclair ever in my life (I think).

@Rob f thanks, i was thinking michigan state university

it had a record store and a theater showing independent movies and a lot of charming victorian architecture - i liked it. but the hike up the NJ turnpike was not fun in 90 degree weather with car AC that only sort of works

My great aunt lived in Montclair and we went there every Christmas afternoon til she moved south

And I went to a super weird show there the other weekend in an absolutely disgusting basement venue

Like disgusting in a very punk way

In Montclair? What did you see?

It was a weird goth show the brood got added to

i love kate bush music

There was a band of teenagers who were charmingly inept, I don't know what they were going for but it was almost Anarcho punk. A nice synth pop band. A Christian goth band trying to Make It Big who are from TN but contractually obligated to say they are from Philly. And a solo with pre-recorded tracks NIN style young dude. The audience was 75% high schoolers

The audience also absolutely loved every band. I don't regret going!

Kids need to learn that you can be punk for your entire life!

There was a kid who sang along with one of the brood's songs and told me after that he had heard that one. But it hasn't been released so... He hasn't. It just has a very repetitive chorus. It was cute. The whole thing was very cute.

Also some child goth danced with me

You are playing all my favorite bands! Just what I needed today!

aw, i love to hear that, kenneth!

speaking of childs, and i wrote about this on facebook, but i was surprised by how young the Swirlies audience was last weekend

it's a 21+ venue so they weren't actual children, but for a 30+ year old band the majority of the audience were in their 20s. Not usually my experience!

Shoegaze is really catching on with Gen Z and late Millennials, it really makes me happy seeing it continue.

I would bet that some younger people got into it through the route of Vaporwave/adjacent to Cocteau Twins, then further exploration.

tandy or exploring their parents music

Yep! Parental osmosis and likely just because 90s and early 00s music is the cool retro thing to a lot of younger people too. My teenage nephew reportedly likes MF DOOM, which put a smile on my face.

Louuuuuuu

tandy nice about your nephew, also hanging with you has to do it too

😎

my parents absolutely have no interest in the music i'm into, though my dad and i share a love of folk and some new wave power pop bands (elvis costello, squeeze, dave edmunds)

Hey, it's Dana K! Thanks for covering for Freddie 🎧

ohh velvet underground love it

Just keeps getting better!!!!

Back when my daughter was in high school, I used to rotate a box with CDs in the car. My daughter loved checking them out

my dad did get me into the velvets by sending me a lou reed CD box set while i was away at summer camp in middle school

His mother is a huge hip hop head compared to me so it's likely that her taste rubbed off on him. I'm the weird guy who loves repetitive electronic dance music

but he does not like any of the more "difficult" music i listen to, or punk

dana i love lou reed, have you ever listened to the cowboy junkies version of sweet jane?

repetitive electronic dance music. I like that too

no! cowboy junkies are my stepmom's favorite band, i wonder if she knows it

My dad has a very "classic rock radio hits" taste in music so it's really hard to get him into anything else. Whenever I'm in the car with him I change it to PRB. I caught him tapping his foot to PBR a few times, and I think he would like this current set rn.

Apologies for the tech issues, all

My mom usually just likes when I play Burl Ives or things like that but one time she texted me that she loved the credit to the nation song I was playing (chumbawamba-adjacent UK Anarcho hip hop)

dana i was goiing to suggest the trinity sessions by the cowboy junkies

dana no worries about the tech issues

my mom has no real interest in music (at least not like we do) and never really listened to my show. she's been listening to the same chris cornell album for the last 20 years or whatever.

dana too bad for your mom

Nice! A morning edition of DBTF! I got a thing tonight so i won't be able to tune in then.

you're gonna miss the ROCK show, colin! but glad you can tune in now

yeah, it is sad, but i'll survive.

I'm gonna head off chat now so I can relax and try to get myself to sleep without much struggle. Hoping I'm in a chatty mood to pop back in later, have a good day all :)

rest up keep cool 😎 tandy!

yeah i have to step out too, got things to do and people to see

enjoy your days!

/sleeps

I haven't heard Lida Husik in a long while...that was great!

Christine, she was a WPRB library discovery for me

hello! happy friday!

@Dana, I probably first heard her on WPRB, at some point down the years!

hi andrew!

BORN TO BE WIIIIIILD! I ate up those Steve Martin stand up lps

I should be getting up off the couch and doing things but Walter (my dog for people who are not Dana) is curled against my legs sleep barking so.....

I am technically working. This show has been very pleasant Dana!!

This may not be the rock show but the vibe is just right for me to focus (and still play in the chata little) to get through the work tasks so I don't have to stay late tonight.

Good morning Dana, this show has been wonderful, the part that I have caught (since the end of the Mag Fields song).

brian, when I was a kid my friends parents had a good collection of stand up lps and when we couldn't get outside we often dug into those. the Steve Martin ones were favorites.

Been listening while doing this taste test thing for $$$. Perfect vibes for trying to decide between SWEET and NOT SWEET!

so glad the vibe is working for y'all. too bad i'm about to launch straight into cannibal corpse

My favorite vegan band!

cannibal corpse for the win

*checks notes*, uh, sorry, no, Opal

yoni, sweet and not sweet is better than sweet or sweat

That's the next taste test, actually

lol, round three, sweat or the ocean

Belated "it was nice to hear Troy as I was parking my cat" message.

Mom and i were at Woolworth or Woolco one day back in early 80s looking at the $1 discount lps. Grabbed up Steve Martin "A Wild and Crazy Guy" . Devoured it and went out and bought up all the other comedy lps of his. George Carlin "Class Clown " too.

I had a science teacher my 8th and 9th grade years and she had taste in music, we would trade records from time to time. I remember seeing that opal cover in her at work records.

How does one park a cat, Jon?

That's a weird auto-correct, laptop!

Uh......meowever you can find a spot downtown?

Tiny boxes in tiny parking spots. I'm into it.

My cat does love to park herself on my lap

that brigid track was short and very sweet

apparently she has a cover of angel from montgomery which i am going to listen to as soon as this show is over

What a great surprise edition of DBTF...thanks, Dana K! ✨️🚲

This tracks feeling very therapeutic

oh my gosh end of show! keep cool and hydrated today frenz.

my favorite part of this song was cut off, please find the time to go listen to the Lion and the Cobra (and all of her music) if you haven't already

See some of you later tonight!