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Am I the Drama?

May 23, 2024 11:00 PM – 1:00 AM

Music

With wired academic

Join me each week as I attempt to create a perfect playlist for the most dramatic of cartoon villains. I will be blasting one song after another like the tired student that I am, finding ways to stay awake without fueling their coffee addiction.

11:01 PM		Darth Vegas Music for a Haitian Voodoo Priestess Darth Vegas Brainwashing for Dirty Minds Romero Records 2012
11:09 PM		Manowar Kings of Metal Manowar Black Wind, Fire And Steel: The Atlantic Albums 1987-1992 HNE 2020
11:10 PM		Iron Maiden Hallowed Be Thy Name Iron Maiden A Real Live Dead One (Live) [Remastered] Parlophone UK 1998
11:18 PM		Black Sabbath Iron Man Black Sabbath Paranoid Rhino/Warner Records 2013
11:23 PM		Slash Wicked Stone (feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators) World On Fire (feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators) DIK HAYD RECORDS (DHI) 2014
11:29 PM		Powerwolf Kreuzfeuer Powerwolf Best of the Blessed Napalm Records Handels GmbH 2020
11:36 PM		Shinedown Devil Shinedown ATTENTION ATTENTION Atlantic Records 2018
11:42 PM		Wig Wam Never Say Die Wig Wam Never Say Die Frontiers Records s.r.l. 2021
11:46 PM		Four Year Strong We All Float Down Here Four Year Strong Four Year Strong Pure Noise Records 2015
11:49 PM		Polyphia Ego Death (feat. Steve Vai) Remember That You Will Die Rise Records 2022
11:59 PM		Dialith Undertow Dialith Atrophy - EP Scofflaw Records 2021
12:04 AM		Xaon In Pyrrhic Seas Xaon The Lethean iMD-Xaon 2022
12:10 AM		Eluveitie Luxtos Eluveitie Helvetios Nuclear Blast 2012
12:13 AM		Saturnian Shadow of Prophecy Saturnian Dimensions Indie Recordings 2012
12:19 AM		Equilibrium Blut Im Auge Equilibrium Sagas Nuclear Blast 2008
12:27 AM		Sum 41 Heads Will Roll Sum 41 Order in Decline Hopeless Records, Inc. 2019
12:30 AM		Turbowolf The Free Life Turbowolf The Free Life So Recordings 2018
12:36 AM		Reliqa The Bearer of Bad News Reliqa I Don't Know What I Am - EP Reliqa 2022
12:39 AM		Of Mice & Men Second & Sebring Of Mice & Men Rise Records 2010
12:43 AM		Kamelot The Great Divide Kamelot The Awakening KING RECORDS 2023
12:52 AM		Aephanemer Antigone A Dream of Wilderness Napalm Records Handels GmbH 2021
12:55 AM		Manowar The Crown and the Ring (Lament of the Kings) Kings of Metal Atlantic Records 1988

Chat is archived.

let's goooooooooo

Hello Hello Hello for the last foreseeable time!

SUP

🤡 music

🤘

Thrash is always welcome ⚠️Thrash Zone⚠️ MANOWAR!! Loud.

Losing two of the best metal shows on the local airwaves 3 wishing you lots of love and luck for your future endeavors!!

Hello Matt! I love Manowar way too much lmao

Thank you TAndy!!

Papa Inci sounds like a cool dad

He is very cool I agree ;)

Didnt Manowar have like a barbarian/Cimmerian look? Loincloths & axes & such?

Oh yeah their album covers are full of them and they use a good chunk of Norse mythology in their songs like `Sons of Odin`!

classic alert 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Yep yep yep 🚨🚨🚨

Up the Irons! Maiden! 🇬🇧🍺listen how long he holds this note

Clive Burr on the drums, pre-Nicko McBrain

Yesss

After all these years, we can conclude that you are indeed ‘the drama’, and we thank you for that. Best wishes for the future

oh boy here we go

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Thank you so much for the best wishes Dave!! I'll miss this place for sure

Also TRUE

This song is lyrically brilliant. Geezer Butler!

HAAAAAAAA TAndy-- with the egg too 😂😂😂

Inci, Tandy is throwin couches to yer show-- high honors! Tandy has excellent taste.

B^]

I agree, though I am very biased ;D

Omg I laugh so hard at the couch pic from a Crom show I need my inhaler

Let loose the wolves!

German is super hard to speak, dont beat yerself up. One of the wackier languages in ways.

That's fair thanks hahaha, my brother does speak a lot of German though so he might make fun of me a little

Impressive of yer bro!

Took me decades to realize all nouns in German are capitalized 😂

honestly same 😂 I didn't study German at all and it shows hahaha

Never Say Die is also an underrated Black Sab album. People pan it but I think it's worthwhile, a band coming apart at the seams.

Oh yeah, I don't think I listened to any of the songs from that album -- I'll get to listening some songs from it!

It's unfocused and scattered, but still the OG Black Sabbath.

INCI

HANAKO

!!!

!!!!! last show!!!! ur so cool

awww ty ty!!

polyphia <33333

Crazyfingers on the bass!

this song makes my day every time I hear it I swear

Steve Vai cut his chops playing w/ Zappa. That kinda rigor will make anyone a better player.

This is a wonderful song.

Vai is taking Fripp

taking over for Fripp

Frippertronics

Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Danny Carey and Vai are touring performing 80's Crimson.

What!! Nice, Mike T! Starless is such a spooky jam.

I think they coming through this area in September.

Got any venue or ticket info?

Agreed Matt. Love Crimson.

Mike T, I saw Primus & Mastodon do an early Genesis song and that was a cool nod to prog.

Ooooh I love Crimson as well and I didn't know that Vai was touring, that's awesome!

I would have liked to see/hear that Love them all.

Inci, they'll be in Chicago on November 1

Back in the day 👴Sam Goody music store had this machine that made mixtapes from digital, and I remember my dad made a tape with Vai on it. You plugged in songs, got an Orange Julius, and came back and yer mixtape was ready LOL

Wait that's excellent timing!!!

Oh I'll definitely look for tickets now

Great!

They'll be at the Keswick Theater on October 6

👁

Pyrrhic is a great word.

Related to Punic!

Ah, makes total sense.

How did they get pyrrhic from punic?

Inci have you heard Employed to Serve? UK band w/ female growler-singer. She also owns a cool record label w/ the mighty Tuskar on it.

I must say, PRB is about to suffer from a dearth of metal!

Mike T, Idk! Good question. Words get warped over time.

@Matt, oh I have not!!

This sounds kinda Irish but the name looks Greek.

Totally

Eleuveitie is Swiss

Folk metal!

I had a great viking folk metal comp once that I lost and I still think about that damn thing

I wonder if there's such a thing as polka-metal.

Hmmmm early Mr. Bungle kinda?

Folk metal must be a Scandinavian thing, a great breeding ground for many metal subgenres.

There is folk metal so I assume so but probably much less in amount @Mike

Really?

Accordions are weird instruments

I can't recal ever hearing an accordion in metal, but I don't wann say never...

I remember learning about viking folk metal around 2009, felt resonance

obligatory https://imgur.com/K6Qs7xZ

Beirut the band should have a couple of songs with accordion

There really are

My cousin plays accordion and I play heavy shit so maybe we can birth it

It's an interesting mix that I must delve into more.

I think you have a project!

I think I've heard accordion in Beirut.

Lol Tandy the mememaster strikes again 😂

yesssss this song rules

Looks like it could be Gene Simmons son

One could argue Black Sab's Master of Reality combined doom w/ folk moments (Orchid, etc) back in 1971

Yes, I could see that.

I'm just so used to encountering people who are into folk disliking heavier stuff.

But hybridization is a good thing. Mix everything.

Folk metal is such an underrated genre!! These ones I played just now including Equilibrium are all folk metal!!

Inci, have you heard Sailing Before the Wind? Japanese metal band w/ insane precision and rhythm section.

i'm a sucker for heavy instumentation and high tempo melodies

Inci, I've missed your Saturday morning show, and will miss your spin on the genre each week.

This so wild hot

Me too TAndy.

absolutes bops tbh

You'll have to somehow let the PRB metal heads know your radio whereabouts.

Alert the hessians

Thank you Ossy and Hana!!

And will do Mike! Probably WHPK at Chicago if they let me in hahaha

Thanks!

I'm always streaming radio (mostly PRB) while I'm at work. Just gonna have to follow my favorite DJ's virtually.

Turbowolf vs Cocaine Bear

Oh nice @Mike! And who knows? if I return to the East Coast in a couple of years, I would definitely want to do a show in WPRB again

That's so Darth Vegas

Right hahahaha!! Switching back and forth constantly

Lol Ozzy

Would love to hear more!

It's only my opinion, but the metal DJ's who

have been on PRB the past couple years are better than I hear anywhere else.

Thank you so much for the high praise!! Honestly I'm learning as I go along

As all of us who remain alive are.

And wprb offers many flavors of metal, which is awesome

Pity that so many feel they have no need to learn and grow.

That's the secret Matt.

https://youtu.be/VI67bymwris?si=zuRkr-u81jwHwDsa

I was never a big radio person until hearing wprb and being like Whoa, these folks are next-level.

Lool - That switching kookiness 50s silly sitcom sounding and unpleasant hard metal a new in repeat for me, everytime Sabbath, Darth Vegas

Thank you so much for the show tonight, and the show over the years!! Best of luck again <3

Manowar bookends! 📚 💪

I discovered KDU and XPN as a teen, and only listened to college radio since. Streaming has been a treasure.

Inci, thank you so much for sharing your time and taste with us. You are a Dark Lord!

College radio is crucial to culture.

Thank you so much for listening and writing to this chat! I am really grateful that you have enjoyed Am I The Drama and all the shenanigans that came with it!! Thanks yall!

"You are the Dark Lord" might be the best compliment I have ever gotten

And best wishes for success and fulfillment in your future.

TY!

Thank you so much for everything!

Thanks Inci! Good luck in Chicago- - they are still reeling from the loss of Steve Albini, but the show goes on.

Fun to hear Manowar, takes me back to listening to them down the Shore in mid 1980s

Have a great hot metal summer, Inci, filled with mixes of sitcom happy silly music and unpeaceful heavy loud metal like Darth Vegas!!

Well said Ozzy

Thank you Ossy, have a hot metal summer as well!

Sabbath- 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Closing the chat for the final time...have a great night all!