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Uneasy Listening

Sep 6, 2025 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.

Teenage Commie College Radio adventure

Hello here I am BACK on Saturday nights with a journey into a formative radio experience that literally changed my life!

Back in the mid 90s I used to listen most weeks to the New Afternoon show with Laure. The New Afternoon Show is a WNYU show that is still around to this day; every day a rotating crew of DJs play new music in the afternoon, pretty simple. I think it was on Tuesdays that Laure was on. I listened to a fair amount of college radio but Laure's show was the only one where I'd sit and write down every song, marking the ones I really liked with stars. She was playing music that really spoke to me and that I wasn't hearing anywhere else. I was already dialed in to punk but she was playing indie rock, post hardcore, noise rock etc and I had no idea how to break into that world. I feel like I have a shared lexicon with a lot of 90s college radio listeners and DJs because of what I learned from her show. And my desire to do my own radio show very much came from listening to hers.

Decades later, when someone called in to WPRB and told me that they were writing down all the songs, I felt like I had truly Made It as a DJ!

Anyway I recently found some of the playlists I transcribed so to celebrate my return to this medium I love so much, here is a show of some of the songs I head back then!

Then on Transistor Sister, CAN, FLIPPER, and some new music.

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8:02 PM		Bay City Rollers Saturday Night Rollin' Arista 1974
8:04 PM		Zip Code Rapists Cut Your Hair Sing and Play the Matador Records Catalog Ecstatic Piss 1993
8:06 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Chris Heazlewood - No Fear of Falling/Skronk
8:12 PM		Blast Off Country Style Social Firefly I Love Entertainment - EP Teen-Beat 1993
8:13 PM		Some Velvet Sidewalk I Blame You Whirlpool K 1993
8:15 PM		Crawling With Tarts Noche Gatto III Mayten's Throw ASP 1994
8:18 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Chris Heazlewood - No Fear of Falling/Skronk
8:21 PM		Jessamine I'm Not Afraid of Electricity The New Atlantis Space Age Recordings 1995
8:24 PM		Ass Ponys It's Summer Here The Known Universe A&M 1996
8:27 PM		Silkworm Pilot In the West C/Z 1994
8:31 PM		Archers of Loaf Power Walker A Day In The Park... A Compilation Of Now Sounds V/A The Now Sound 1993
8:34 PM		Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 Heavy Head The Funeral Pudding Ajax / Brinkman 1994
8:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Chris Heazlewood - No Fear of Falling/Skronk
8:43 PM		Vomit Launch Block of Wood Teenbeat 50 V/A Teenbeat 1993
8:46 PM		Flower Spiral Concrete Sky (1987-1990) Simple Machines 1994
8:50 PM		3Ds Beautiful Things The Venus Trail Merge Records 1992
8:53 PM		Grifters Bronze Cast Crappin' You Negative Fat Possum 1994
8:57 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Chris Heazlewood - No Fear of Falling/Skronk
9:01 PM		Neutral Milk Hotel Everything Is Everything Is Cher Doll Records 1993
9:04 PM		Spoon Nefarious Nefarious EP Fluffer Records 1994
9:07 PM		Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos All of This River Falling Love Ajax Records 1993
9:10 PM		Bratmobile And I Live In a Townwhere the Boys Amputate Their Hearts The Real Janelle EP Kill Rock Stars 1994
9:13 PM		Chris Heazlewood Surf's Up In Malibu Ca$h Guitar Flying Nun Records 1995
9:15 PM		Supersuckers Seventeen Poles La Mano Cornuda Sub Pop Records 1994
9:17 PM		Rodan Shiner Rusty Quarterstick Records 1994
9:19 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Chris Heazlewood - No Fear of Falling/Skronk
9:24 PM		Pufftube Boys of Summer Boys of Summer 1994
9:30 PM		Envelope About Summer The Street They're Trying To Kill Peepland 1993
9:33 PM		SF Seals Day 12 Nowhere Matador 1994
9:36 PM		Pony Michael Cosmovalidator Pony 1993
9:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Chris Heazlewood - No Fear of Falling/Skronk
9:42 PM		Labradford Sliding Glass Prazision Kranky 1993
9:48 PM		Strapping Fieldhands He's Right In The Pineys Siltbreeze 1994
9:50 PM		Eggs Evanston, Il Eggs Teenbeat 96 Exploder Teen-Beat 1994
9:54 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Chris Heazlewood - No Fear of Falling/Skronk
9:59 PM		The Bats Sighting the Sound (live) Live at WFMU 1993
10:01 PM		Freddy Cannon Transistor Sister Transistor Sister - Single Swan Records 1961
10:03 PM		Flipper Sacrifice Gone Fishin' Public Flipper Limited LLC 1983 RIP Bruce Loose
10:08 PM		Can Mother Sky Soundtracks Liberty 1970
10:22 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
10:26 PM		Th' Faith Healers Sparklingly Chime Imaginary Friend Too Pure 1993 left over from the wnyu in the 90s part of the show, playing it cause Rob from MD was curious
10:31 PM		People Mover Habit N Habit - Single Little Lunch Records 2025
10:33 PM		Tee Vee Pop Rhythm Go to Work I Karma Irmgardz 1982
10:35 PM		DeBörds French Anthem N Pay for the Bürds U-Bahn 2025
10:37 PM		DIRT Hiroshima Object Refuse Reject Abuse Crass Records 1981
10:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
10:42 PM		The Beat Walking Out On Love The Beat CBS 1979
10:44 PM		Venom Die Hard Die Hard Neat Records 1983
10:46 PM		Death Side Fool, Fool, Fool N The Will Never Die La Vida Es Un Mus Discos 2025 orig 1994
10:48 PM		Versus Crazy Dead Leaves Teen-Beat 1995
10:53 PM		Gutter Oil Over the Hill N IX Helta Skelta 2025 orig 2022
10:54 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
10:58 PM		Chumbawamba The Day the Nazi Died Uneasy Listening

Chat is archived.

Hi Commie! Saturdaynite proper. :)

S-s-s-saturday niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Is there a bit of room for some flipper this evening?

oh yeah there is

It sounds so much better coming through the radio when I know I am not the only one enjoying it thanks

Hi Commie Francis! Hi all! Excited about the show!

Teenage mix tapes your friends send you are simply the best. This is that zone across time me thinks. Cool!

Good Evening Commie & fellow Uneasy Listeners! Saturday nights from 8-11 p.m. are restored, are BACK! Oh how I've missed you, Commie/UL/TS!

yeah so many important bands came to me on mixtapes. including flipper as a matter of fact

I would have been a musical stooge if not not for the devine grace and love of people who just love to share music. A special magic here for sure.

just got word that the czar is doing a whole flipper tribute show after this!

same same roffle!

I am only sorry I ducked out for a second to help with some furniture assembly and missed Jessamine. Otherwise, no complaints!

Ha.

I was watching a live performance my friend Braden videotaped in 2001 of Joel Phelps playing this song solo just this morning!

jon, their hit!

Videotape!

A thing archeologist will have a really hard time with.

Giving this one a star.

this is one that definitely stuck! and that i could find at the record store!

I bought a Grifters 45 for $1 just this week!

Do I already own it? Who knows!

i'm not gonna pretend i was buying records much at this time though. i was thrifty and got tapes

The cutoff bin was where dreams were made true.

I dare you to get an import vinyl for less than 2 bucks now. :)

S.A.T. UR. DAY! yay! i know i'm late but what evs

it's still saturday, it's always saturday

i wish i had a better memory of which prb, and kdu djs i listened too mid 90's there was no web and only staticy fm

i lived in west philly mid 90's so lots of kdu.

i would never remember most of this stuff if i didn't write it down and save it!

oh, and speaking of old new york things, we got the blackout shoppers playing philly in october.

oh neato! when my band played with them they namedropped you

that audio collage at the end of the pufftube track triggered some memories.... heavily effected 90's audio collage memories.

Hello Commie Francis, my wife and I are very much enjoying this show, it is bringing back good memories

Just one data point, but KTRU definitely went hard on Pony in the ’90s.

jon solomon if you are there please tell your evanston il story cause i only half remember it

great set commie francis!

thanks!

i wanna sacrifice the mosquito that managed to find its way inside and slowly start to eat me.

Oh man, RIP Bruce Loose :-(

I bought a second copy of gone fishing just so I could do the cut outs on the cover and on the sleeve and proudly display them

sorry, i didn't know about bruce, and i'm making jokes about being itchy. rip loose

i had a copy with the van cut out for a long time!

Did someone from Can also pass away?

not recently

phew, ty

i just got really hyped on this song this week so i knew i was gonna play it

That's cool. I know of it through Th' Faith Healers cover of it

ha i had th' faith healers on the list for this week but they didn't make it in. not that song though

Man, now I really wish I could stay up and catch the next show :-(

I'm curious as to which Faith Healers song

if you can hold out til next set i will play it

this song has me hyped on this song rn. 🫠

i am hyped all over again

i even own this record but have not listened in a minute.

I'll hold out

i recently sorted a bunch of records i have not listened too much into a listen to these first, create. apparently i need to to do another pass and add can

isn't it sinister she swallowed a minister

She swallowed a minister To catch the goat And she swallowed a goat To catch the dog And she swallowed a dog To catch the cat She swallowed the cat To catch the bird

and so on

someone gave my nephew a really pretty bad kids book called there was a scientist who swallowed a dinosaur

same general format but deviating from it in ways that were weird and didn't work and were inconsistent. DID NOT LIKE

Thank you, Commie, this is one of my favorite Faith Healers songs!!

Yikes Commie

And in case you were wondering, the lyrics I posted were from Flipper's version of The Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly which Commie had just mentioned on air

my first time hearing this song and i love it!

lol, i was going through it in my head asking myself, how could i forget about the just how sinister that old lady was with the minister in that childhoos song.

Colin, I don't even really remember the version I learned as a child. The Flipper version is The Version for me now

Listening to you over here driving home in South philly, bring some Rage or some punk had a pretty infuriating day, good show so far.

band name. the childhoos

i've got a couple of pretty punk songs coming up in a few!

Yay

hang in there uno. wprb always finds a way to sooth what ales ya

the czar's show should be pretty cathartic tonight as well

it may the season of da birds 🦅! but we also roll with debords 😎

all the heck yes! 🖤

versus <3

This Versus song was great, Commie. We're turning in now because of things tomorrow (birds and family) This was a wonderful show tonight, bringing the 90s back into our house, thank you!

Just caught the last 30 - great show Commie! Agree as a dyed in the wood metal kid about Venom

thanks everyone <3