TAndy
8:08:20 PM
A theme about uppers is a sign that I should have a red bull for work tonight
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Uneasy Listening
Mar 2, 2024 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.
Tonight on Uneasy Listening, songs about uppers! Aka drugs that give you pep!
these are the ways you can follow the show:
there are other ways but that way lies madness.... (well more like inactivity)
| 8:01 PM |
| Bay City Rollers Saturday Night Rollin' Arista 1974
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| 8:04 PM |
| Gianna Cocaina R Cocaina / Tango Svizzero - Single Peer Southern Productions 1965 requested by Candice in Western Mass
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| 8:06 PM |
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DJ speaks over Ralph Williams and His Rainbo Orchestra - Cocaine Dance | |
| 8:08 PM |
| ISS (I Want a) Amphetamine Prescription ISS Drunken Sailor Records 2015
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| 8:11 PM |
| Eileen Rodgers I Get a Kick Out of You Anything Goes (1962 Broadway Revival Cast) Masterworks Broadway 1962
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| 8:13 PM |
| Raekwon Glaciers of Ice (feat. Ghostface Killah & Masta Killa) Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... RCA Records Label 1995
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| 8:17 PM |
| The Fall Stay Away (Old White Train) The Light User Syndrome Jet Records 1996
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| 8:20 PM |
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DJ speaks over Ralph Williams and His Rainbo Orchestra - Cocaine Dance | |
| 8:23 PM |
| Motorhead Speedfreak Iron Fist Bronze 1982
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| 8:26 PM |
| Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton Mendy Never Sleeps Porter Wayne and Dolly Rebecca RCA/Legacy 1970
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| 8:28 PM |
| The Crack Emcee KKKrack RocKKK R The Big Lowensky: Crackhouse Hits From The Clinton Era self released 1999 requested by Steve in Philly
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| 8:32 PM |
| White Cross Too Much Caffeine What's Going On? Zero Degree Records 1983
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| 8:34 PM |
| Rondos We Don't Need no Speed Red Attack King Kong Records 1980
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| 8:34 PM |
| Curtis Mayfield No Thing On Me (Cocaine Song) Super Fly Charly Records 1972
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| 8:39 PM |
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DJ speaks over Ralph Williams and His Rainbo Orchestra - Cocaine Dance | |
| 8:42 PM |
| Abner Jay Cocaine Blues Swaunee Water and Cocaine Blues Brandie Records 1970 requested by Mark from Philly and DSM from the chat
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| 8:49 PM |
| girlSperm Hippies on Cocaine gSp Thrilling Living 2017
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| 8:50 PM |
| The Hangmen of Fairfield County Stacey Stacey / I Don't Want You Around High Castle Records 1966
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| 8:53 PM |
| Pato Banton Don't Sniff Coke Never Give In Greensleeves Records 1987
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| 8:56 PM |
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DJ speaks over Ralph Williams and His Rainbo Orchestra - Cocaine Dance | |
| 9:01 PM |
| Blatz Homemade Speed Shit Split V/A Lookout Records 1991 split with Filth.
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| 9:03 PM |
| The Fugs Coming Down R Second Album Fugs Records 1967 requested by Shaina from Philly
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| 9:07 PM |
| Memphis Jug Band Cocaine Habit Blues Cocaine Habit Blues / It Won't Act Right Victor 1930
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| 9:10 PM |
| De La Soul Rock Co. Kane Flow (feat. MF Doom) R The Grind Date Castle Communications 2004 requested by Charles and/or Candice from Northampton MA
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| 9:13 PM |
| Gary Stewart Caffeine, Nicotine and Benzedrine You're Not the Woman You Used to Be MCA 1975
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| 9:16 PM |
| Mink DeVille Let Me Dream If I Want To (Amphetamine Blues) Love and Emotion 1981
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| 9:18 PM |
| Sick Pleasure Speed Rules Sick Pleasure Subterranean Records 1983
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| 9:19 PM |
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DJ speaks over Ralph Williams and His Rainbo Orchestra - Cocaine Dance | |
| 9:22 PM |
| Luke Jordan Cocaine Blues Church Bells Blues / Cocaine Blues Victor 1928
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| 9:25 PM |
| Joël Daydé Cocaine Daydé Riviera 1971
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| 9:34 PM |
| Zero Boys Amphetamine Addiction Vicious Circle Secretly Canadian 1981
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| 9:36 PM |
| Dick Justice Cocaine R Cocaine / Old Black Dog Brunswick 1930 requested by Jason from the West Bay. It's the Gary Davis cocaine blues again!
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| 9:38 PM |
| Lonnie Irving Gooseball Brown Gooseball Brown / An Old Fashioned Love Starday Records 1960
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| 9:40 PM |
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DJ speaks over Ralph Williams and His Rainbo Orchestra - Cocaine Dance | |
| 9:43 PM |
| Hawkwind Motorhead Kings of Speed / Motorhead United Artists 1975
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| 9:46 PM |
| Gray Matter Caffeine Blues Food For Thought R&B Records 1985
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| 9:50 PM |
| Mel Moore and the Sparklers Speed The Power of Love / Speed Sterling Records 1978
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| 9:52 PM |
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DJ speaks over Ralph Williams and His Rainbo Orchestra - Cocaine Dance | |
| 9:55 PM |
| The Freeze Powder, Rock & Pills Misery Loves Company Taang! Records 1991
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| 10:00 PM |
| Freddy Cannon Transistor Sister Transistor Sister - Single Swan Records 1961
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| 10:02 PM |
| Onyon Window Shopper Onyon Trouble In Mind Records 2022
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| 10:04 PM |
| Hooper Crescent Electric Stove N Essential Tremors Spoilsport 2024
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| 10:07 PM |
| Unrest Isabel Imperial f.f.r.r. 4AD 1992
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| 10:10 PM |
| Pylon Reenactment Society K Part Time Punks Session - EP Pylon Reenactment Society 2017
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| 10:14 PM |
| Koridor Sekvence Straha N Kroz Pukotine Doomtown Records 2024
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| 10:17 PM |
| Voice Actor Done Sent From My Telephone Stroom 2022
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| 10:17 PM |
| ARGH Ya Lo Entendí Todo N Se pudrió todo… Adiós Discos Enfermos 2024
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| 10:20 PM |
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DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental) | |
| 10:27 PM |
| Imago Tomorrow Never Knows N Tomorrow Never Knows Emotional Rescue 2024 orig early 80s
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| 10:36 PM |
| Miss España La Dejadez Niebla Mental La Vida Es Un Mus Discos 2023
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| 10:39 PM |
| Pandemix The First Crisis Love is Obliteration Dirt Cult Records 2023
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| 10:41 PM |
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DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental) | |
| 10:44 PM |
| Split System Temporary Freeze N Vol.2 Goner 2024
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| 10:46 PM |
| NO TIME Automation Generation N Suffer No Fool No Time 2023
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| 10:49 PM |
| Dean Dirg Everyone Back Off ...The Last Kid on the Block Stereodrive! records 2004
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| 10:50 PM |
| Christian Death Stairs - Uncertain Journey Only Theatre of Pain Frontier Records 1982
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| 10:53 PM |
| Uranium Club Abandoned by the Narrator N Infants Under the Bulb Static Shock 2024
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| 10:55 PM |
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DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental) | |
| 10:57 PM |
| Chumbawamba The Day the Nazi Died Uneasy Listening
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Chat is archived.
Commie Francis (host)
8:08:45 PM
RIP SPARKS (the drink)
DSM
8:09:46 PM
When you're railing lines, turn on Wprb and they got what you need
DSM
8:10:25 PM
Sparks was a wild ride. Then they were like, here's Sparks + !
Rob from Maryland 🦅
8:10:38 PM
Commie, are there any songs you are playing that appeared on the Amphetamie Reptile label?
Rob from Maryland 🦅
8:11:08 PM
*Amphetamine Reptile
DSM
8:11:14 PM
Abner Jay's "Cocaine" is a good one
Commie Francis (host)
8:11:34 PM
wow what is going on here
DSM
8:12:20 PM
lol howdy Commie, Rob and TAndy
Rob from Maryland 🦅
8:12:49 PM
Hola DSM, Commie, TAndy
Commie Francis (host)
8:14:07 PM
hi everyone! and rob i don't THINK so although i bet there are songs that qualify
David Shortell
8:14:22 PM
That last song dates back to 1874, if "Blazing Saddles" can be believed.
DubNP
8:15:07 PM
CHEF!🔥
Rob from Maryland 🦅
8:15:22 PM
Blazing Saddles is great!
Commie Francis (host)
8:16:01 PM
noted documentary blazing saddles
TAndy
8:17:52 PM
Sup yall
David Shortell
8:20:15 PM
That seriously doesn't sound like Mark E. Smith singing.
DSM
8:29:59 PM
David, I thought it was Shawn Cripps of Limes tbh
David Shortell
8:35:23 PM
I saw White Cross at the Saint, not realizing who they were until they closed their set with "Live For Now" from the "Flex Your Head" anthology.
Ossy
8:35:40 PM
Evening Commy
Rob from Maryland 🦅
8:36:46 PM
I remember "Live For Now". I never saw White Cross though
Rob from Maryland 🦅
8:37:31 PM
Iron Cross, that is
Commie Francis (host)
8:38:26 PM
yeah live for now is iron cross. white cross was from richmond va
Commie Francis (host)
8:39:09 PM
and hi Ossy!
DSM
8:43:40 PM
noice!
DSM
8:44:32 PM
reminds me, and this isn't a request, but there's a Cocaine Blues by The Warlocks as well.
Commie Francis (host)
8:45:59 PM
yeah i think that's probably one of the two canonical cocaine blueses
Commie Francis (host)
8:46:10 PM
i didn't listen to that one but i listened to like 10 of them
DSM
8:46:53 PM
wow that's a lot of em to listen to!
Commie Francis (host)
8:50:58 PM
i'm very dedicated
Ossy
8:54:12 PM
SOTC spirit
DSM
8:54:50 PM
dedication much appreciated
DSM
8:54:57 PM
Hey Ossy
jimbooooooo
9:06:40 PM
Killing me softly with speed 🚗
Commie Francis (host)
9:16:38 PM
so romantic
jimbooooooo
9:16:54 PM
Mad props for rhyming bennies so well
Ossy
9:19:08 PM
Evening DSM, lively Saturday as always
DSM
9:21:10 PM
yooo jimbo
DSM
9:21:33 PM
lol, indeed Ossy
DSM
9:21:45 PM
That Fugs was great
jimbooooooo
9:26:19 PM
Why do horses get all the good drugs?
Commie Francis (host)
9:28:03 PM
they deserve it tbf
jimbooooooo
9:28:22 PM
C'mon horses 🎠💊
Commie Francis (host)
9:28:31 PM
good horsies
jimbooooooo
9:28:55 PM
This song is something special
jimbooooooo
9:29:47 PM
Is that an elementary school classroom on percussion?
Commie Francis (host)
9:30:41 PM
i think it's just adults on DRUGS
jimbooooooo
9:30:43 PM
What in the holy flute???
Commie Francis (host)
9:30:47 PM
just say no
Commie Francis (host)
9:31:10 PM
then again the coked up version of hocus pocus by focus is much less noodly than this and frankly amazing
jimbooooooo
9:32:15 PM
Oh yeah 💥💥💥
DSM
9:32:30 PM
yeah this is great. kinda reminds me of that last long song on Love's Da Capo
jimbooooooo
9:32:58 PM
song just scared me straight
Commie Francis (host)
9:33:29 PM
friends don't let friends flute irresponsibly
DSM
9:34:03 PM
flute around and find out
jimbooooooo
9:35:00 PM
😂 oh you two
jimbooooooo
9:36:31 PM
FLAFO 🪈✊🏻
Rob from Maryland 🦅
9:42:45 PM
@Commie, when I was in the kitchen washing dishes, my wife heard you mention a band you played as being influential, but she didn't catch the band's name. I'm kind of curious as to which one it was
Commie Francis (host)
9:43:51 PM
it was blatz!
jimbooooooo
9:44:54 PM
whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop
Commie Francis (host)
9:45:41 PM
now THAT is how you violin
Ambrose Hughes (1)
9:45:44 PM
Evenin' Commie F! Hello all!
Commie Francis (host)
9:45:44 PM
on speed
Commie Francis (host)
9:46:01 PM
hi bo!
jimbooooooo
9:46:55 PM
Yeooooo BO 💥
Ambrose Hughes (1)
9:48:08 PM
JimbOOOOO!👋
Rob from Maryland 🦅
9:48:18 PM
@ Commie, cool, thanks! Jesse Townley from Blatz was a dj on KALX (as Jesse Luscious) for many years. I used to listen to his Joe Strummer tribute show which he did around the date of Strummer's passing.
Commie Francis (host)
9:48:50 PM
yeah he lives in the UK now and has an online show! he is from philly!
Rob from Maryland 🦅
9:48:52 PM
Ooh Gray Matter!
Commie Francis (host)
9:49:13 PM
i forgot THIS is the johnny cash cocaine blues kinda
Rob from Maryland 🦅
9:50:54 PM
Yeah, I was bummed when he moved to England
Rob from Maryland 🦅
9:51:24 PM
*but I didn't know about his online show
jimbooooooo
9:51:42 PM
don't space me, speed
Commie Francis (host)
9:51:49 PM
https://mmhradio.co.uk/podcasts/losin-it-with-luscious/
Commie Francis (host)
9:52:20 PM
not to namedrop but he is a friend now, he stayed at my house when he was touring with a band called american standard and i was a bit starstruck
Commie Francis (host)
9:52:33 PM
but that was like 20 years ago, i'm over it now haha
Rob from Maryland 🦅
9:53:15 PM
Thanks, Commie! I was just about to ask about his show. And cool that you and he are friends
Commie Francis (host)
9:56:53 PM
i just almost sang along on air readie style
jimbooooooo
9:58:03 PM
fucking anthem here
Commie Francis (host)
9:59:08 PM
of all the punk bands who moved on to something a bit less punk with time, the freeze is by far one of the most successful at it. this album RULES
Colin
10:06:05 PM
i think my lappy is so old it predates the onion emoji. there is on onyon emoji right?
Rob from Maryland 🦅
10:06:13 PM
We enjoyed your show tonight Commie, thanks! We're turning in shortly b/c we're going on a birdwalk tomorrow morning fairly early
Colin
10:06:45 PM
should be a great morning for birds rob. sounds like fun
Commie Francis (host)
10:07:03 PM
night rob, hope you see lots of cool birds!
Commie Francis (host)
10:07:25 PM
🧅
Colin
10:07:28 PM
all warm and post storm with worms near the surface. good hunting!
Rob from Maryland 🦅
10:07:50 PM
Thanks, Colin. We were supposed to lead a field trip this morning but postponed it b/c of the rain. 🧅🧅🧅🧅
Colin
10:07:57 PM
lol, that shows up as black stack of bars. old compy for sure.
Commie Francis (host)
10:08:48 PM
oops this is the wrong side of the record haha
Rob from Maryland 🦅
10:08:54 PM
Thanks, Commie! We had a wonderful time there the last time we went
Commie Francis (host)
10:09:06 PM
what is up with me today
Rob from Maryland 🦅
10:09:11 PM
Oooh Unrest!
Commie Francis (host)
10:09:25 PM
yeah i meant to play suki but i played isabel
Colin
10:10:10 PM
i take pride in keeping my computer alive and running well past their intended use life. planed obsolescence can go onion it self.
Rob from Maryland 🦅
10:10:23 PM
I'm glad you played Isabel!
Rob from Maryland 🦅
10:20:27 PM
okay, adiós a todos
Ossy
10:23:59 PM
Later Rob
Commie Francis (host)
10:28:17 PM
i should probably go to bed too
Commie Francis (host)
10:28:33 PM
i love the barge but i do miss finishing my show and going immediately to bed
Colin
10:28:51 PM
i just peeped that argh album art😍
jimbooooooo
10:29:23 PM
This is hotttttttt 🔥
Colin
10:29:26 PM
was it readie who played a whole block of bands playing this song recently?
Commie Francis (host)
10:29:41 PM
yep i just talked about that for like 100 hours
Commie Francis (host)
10:29:49 PM
i'm ragging on myself not you haha
Commie Francis (host)
10:30:13 PM
she was doing a competition of best cover of (whatever song) each week for a few weeks
richard lyons:)
10:30:20 PM
50 hours. Hi everyone!
Colin
10:30:31 PM
lol i was in my kitchen away from the radio. sorry🤣
richard lyons:)
10:30:34 PM
great show, CF!
jimbooooooo
10:30:47 PM
Nite peeps 🐥
Commie Francis (host)
10:30:50 PM
this just came out like 2 weeks too late to run away with the gold
Commie Francis (host)
10:31:06 PM
night jimbo, say hi to the deer and the hoot owls and puffers pond
Colin
10:35:32 PM
this extended sax jam rules!
Commie Francis (host)
10:38:06 PM
also hi richard, nice to see you! and you too colin
Colin
10:42:22 PM
belated good evening to everybody. i had tacos from my favorite food truck tonight. still basking in the flavors.
Ambrose Hughes (1)
10:46:36 PM
S'up Colin!
Ambrose Hughes (1)
10:47:07 PM
Proper Rock 'n roll here!
Colin
10:47:45 PM
rock out ambrose!!
Colin
10:58:05 PM
oh snap it's over! thanks commie
Ossy
10:58:32 PM
Great broadcast Commy, good night!
Ambrose Hughes (1)
10:58:35 PM
Great stuff Commie F. Many thanks!