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Every Job Is Out To Get Me: An Exploration of Subterranean Records

Sep 4, 2023 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Music

With Dana K

Songs from the 80s San Francisco label Subterranean.

Every Job Is Out To Get Me: An Exploration of Subterranean Records

7:01 PM		Arkansaw Man Every Job Single Subterranean 1983
7:09 PM		VKTMS The Ballad of Pincushion Smith SF Underground V/A Subterranean 1979
7:13 PM		Code of Honor What Price Would You Pay? What Are We Gonna Do? Subterranean 1982
7:14 PM		Tools Hard Wark Hard Wark - Single Subterranean 1980
7:17 PM		Pop-O-Pies A Political Song Joe's Second Record Subterranean 1984
7:20 PM		The Lewd Mobile Home SF Underground 2 V/A Subterranean 1980
7:21 PM		Society Dog Working Class People Working Class People - Single Subterranean 1980
7:24 PM		The Jars Electric Third Rail Start Rite Now Subterranean 1980
7:27 PM		Frightwig A Man's Gotta Do What a Man's Gotta Do Cat Farm Faboo Subterranean 1984
7:36 PM		Wilma Fast Fascist Pornography Lies Subterranean 1981
7:39 PM		Ultrasheen Alive Alive Ultrasheen Subterranean 1981
7:41 PM		Psyclones Gift of Noise Gift of Noise Subterranean 1985
7:45 PM		Nervous Gender Cardinal Newman Music from Hell Subterranean 1981
7:46 PM		Jr. Chemists Spooky Cooties Arizona Disease V/A Subterranean 1981
7:50 PM		Longshoremen Locomotive Walk the Plank Subterranean 1986
7:53 PM		Inflatable Boy Clams Boystown Inflatable Boy Clams Subterranean 1981
7:58 PM		Bay of Pigs Addiction Addiction - Single Subterranean 1980
7:59 PM		Research Library Alien Love Red Spot V/A Subterranean 1981
8:02 PM		Naked City Atomic Age Club Foot V/A Subterranean NOT the John Zorn group!
8:13 PM		Flipper Ha Ha Ha Love Canal - Single Subterranean 1981
8:15 PM		The Leather Nun Primemover Primemover - Single Subterranean 1983
8:20 PM		Helios Creed Sex Voodoo Venus X-Rated Fairy Tales Subterranean 1985
8:24 PM		The Witch Trials Humanoids from the Deep The Witch Trials - EP Subterranean 1981
8:38 PM		Minimal Man She Was a Visitor She Was A Visitor - Single Subterranean 1980
8:39 PM		Controlled Bleeding Boiling Eggs Pt. 1 Core Subterranean 1986
8:43 PM		Pre Fix Underneathica Underneathica - Single Subterranean 1981
8:47 PM		Monte Cazazza Stairway to Hell Stairway to Hell - Single Subterranean 1982
8:52 PM		Stefan Weisser Indefensible Position Editeditions Contexts Subterranean 1983 aka Z'EV
8:57 PM		Tana-Emmolo Smith Prescient Dreams Prescient Dreams/Zanoni Subterranean 1983

Chat is archived.

Friday night came early

Hello! My wife and I are both really looking forward to this show

hey folks! happy labor day!

Happy Labor Day to everyone!

And happy Labor Wave!

Happy Laborwave 💙

Quiet chat today. Hope folks are out enjoying their day off (I didn't have a day off)

Personally I'm still sleepy from my traveling, and also busy hugging a kitty

Oh man. Wish the Barge had a ship's cat. You know, to catch all the rats we have here.

Oh hell yeah

Frightwig!!!

I am just getting into this band now, I can't believe it's taken me this long

I have their Subterranean album and their next one Faster Frightwig Kill Kill and they are both quite excellent!!

You missed when they played KFN a few years ago!

What!!

Maybe seven years ago?

@Dana, would you be playing anything by the Longshoremen?

Maaaaaybe :)

so glad I happened to tune in! hello!

Really enjoying the show, Dana K! I

Hi, all 👋

Hi Christine! Thank you!

Happy Labor Day, Comrade Workers!

I would have dropped into the chat earlier, but I was driving home.

Happy Labor Day! 🌹

no worries, driving is the best way to listen to WPRB!

and hello COMRADE STEVE

Hi Dana!

hi ossy! happy laborwave day!

ultrasheen! Shout out to the dearly departed Jed Speare, who is kind of the godfather of the experimental music scene, who lived in SF in the early 80s and played in Ultrasheen and EZ Teeth.

No worries if you can't Dana. I won't walk the plank or anything

Hi Christine!

@Scooter, Yoni did some research on them recently and found that another member played a Ferengi in Star Trek. Which of course I love.

oh I missed a word, I meant Jed Speare was kind of the godfather of the Boston experimental music scene

I didn't know about the Boston connection!

He once told me that one of the EZ Teeth tracks on the Red Spot comp was constructed out of recordings of between song feedback he recorded at a Flipper rehearsal.

Oh hell yeah. That checks out.

Longshoremen!! :-D

the Ultrasheen/farengi connection rules

Haha, yeah, I had them in the queue this entire time

I love this

I figured that was the case, Dana K. I saw them in DC touring on this album in the 80s

That's so cool!

I think I played Inflatable Boy Clams a few weeks ago, but I couldn't leave them off this show

I think you did! I acquired this also back in the 80s. I'm Sorry is my/our favorite song by them

I love that one, it's so deranged

lol, I like how the not john zorn naked city still has saxophone. they like we don't care.

@Dana K, would it be possible to hear "I'm Writing It Down" by Bay of Pigs from the Club Foot comp?

Already played "Addiction," but if I have room at the end of the show I might be able to

Flipperrrrrrrrrrr

Thanks Dana! No biggie if you can't

1st Flipper song I ever heard. Probably on WKDU, though. Sorry.

wkdu may have even played that song last night. I definitely heard it yesterday, just can't remember if it was at work or later back home.

@Dana K, I just found I'm Writing It Down on Y****** so I'll listen to it there after your show is over 😇. It's a pretty long song

Cool!

during the first hour i labored and made some ground turkey rice a roni. as i was cooking i was like san francisco treats on the radio and in the pan!

wow.

i should play the jingle

i'm already story boarding in my head a tv spot for subterranean records with a re-worded jingle.

trolly door opens and punks with arm loads records spill out all over the street....

i went wild with the record buying when i was last in SF/the bay

actually bought the SF Underground EP and the Wilma LP, but I didn't have time to grab them before my show, so nothing analog tonight

The Witch Trials ep is definitely one of the creepiest records ever. Also, what a line up of people to be in a band together.

trying to check a 75 pound carry on bag stuffed with record purchases on the return flight home = a good vacation anywhere.

It's wild that Adrian Borland is on the record. But it's very comparable to the Second Layer stuff.

I usually find Jello's voice silly but it's genuinely unsettling on this one

the Mott the Hoople connection is the boggles my mind about the Witch Trials. It isn't too far from Second Layer, you're right.

Morgan Fisher was doing all kinds of weird shit at the time too

there is a lot of synth and odd backing vocals that reveal the normally hidden unsettling vocal quirks of jello?

also true

Great set Dana K. Hey can you please point me to where I can read your music reviews?

@Gautham, https://www.maximumrocknroll.com/dj/dana-katharine/

Only wrote for them for a few months last year

and thank you!

i actually forgot to boil some eggs, thanks for reminding me!!! wprb, helping the community finish their tasks!

damn i'd love a hard-boiled egg right now

i'm currently working my way through a TJ's chillie lime seasoning. hard boiled eggs rolled in a little of that make for an amazing breakfast

that is a hot tip!

Dana, 🥚 🍳 is as close as I can get

thank you Rob for the eggmojis

Yw Dana. Thank *you* for this stupendous Labourwave show!!!!!!!

yes, this show was great!

thanks lads!

Been fantastic!

I've actually wanted to do this one for a long time

Thanks for the great show!

two hour shows seem so short!

and now I'm driving back to Philadelphia to finish my shift at the record store...gonna grab an egg first

that really did fly by. great show. thanks for putting it together.

egss rolled in old bay for the win too.

also, crap, I bet those are are cooked af by now!