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Uneasy Listening

Nov 29, 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.

The Hits Just Keep on Comin'

if you've been listening to WPRB all day, you know I was on in the morning playing THE HITS. Here are some more hits, old and new.

if you haven't been listening to WPRB all day, why not???

8:02 PM		Freddy Cannon Transistor Sister Transistor Sister - Single Swan Records 1961
8:04 PM		Agent Orange Bloodstains Living in Darkness Posh Boy 1981
8:06 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Dj speaks over the Nutley Brass - Last Caress
8:07 PM		Shonen Knife Ice Cream City Pretty Little Baka Guy Oglio Entertainment 1986
8:10 PM		Rata Negra Reza N Hawai Sonido Muchacho 2025 https://rata-negra.bandcamp.com/track/hawai
8:12 PM		The Cult The Mail Must Go Through The Mail Must Go Through Starburst Records 1975
8:16 PM		Bad Brains Pay to Cum Black Dots Astralwerks 1996
8:18 PM		The Damned Love Song Machine Gun Etiquette Ace Records 1979
8:21 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Ventures - Memphis
8:24 PM		The Fugs Ah, Sunflower Weary of Time First Album Fugs Records 1964
8:26 PM		AUSMUTEANTS Fed Through a Tube Fed Through A Tube Total Punk 2014
8:28 PM		The Fates No Romance Furia Taboo Records, UK 1985
8:31 PM		Billie and De De and Their Preservation Hall Jazz Band Eh La Bas New Orleans' Billie & De De And Their Preservation Hall Jazz Band Preservation Hall 1966
8:35 PM		Crass G's Song (Commoners Choir Remix) Normal Never Was V - Single V/A One Little Independent 2021
8:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over R.E.M. - White Tornado
8:46 PM		R.E.M. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville Reckoning (Deluxe) CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 2009
8:50 PM		Proletariat Options This Is Boston Not LA V/A Modern Method 1982
8:52 PM		Jerry's Kids Spymaster Kill Kill Kill Taang! Records 1982 La Peste cover!
8:55 PM		The Softies Stranger The Best Days K 1996
8:56 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling in Love
9:01 PM		Les Calamités Toutes les nuits Toutes les Nuits / Behind Your Sunglasses New Rose Records 1984
9:04 PM		Mutants Opposite World Fun Terminal White Noise Records 1981
9:07 PM		Elaine Brown The End of Silence Seize the Time Rhino 1968
9:10 PM		Virgin Prunes Baby Turns Blue ...If I Die, I Die BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. 1982
9:14 PM		Cocanha Diuré Samsir N Diuré Samsir - Single Les Disques Bongo Joe 2025 https://cocanha.bandcamp.com/track/diur-samsir
9:17 PM		Bobby Womack Arkansas State Prison My Prescription Capitol Records 1970
9:19 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Mystas - The Cutty Wren
9:22 PM		Jimmy Cliff Vietnam Wonderful World, Beautiful People A&M 1969
9:27 PM		The Rats Broken Wire Telephone In a Desperate Red Whizeagle Records 1983
9:30 PM		Wet Leg Chaise Longue Wet Leg Domino Recording Co 2022
9:34 PM		Mekons Rosanne Punk Rock Quarterstick Records 2004
9:36 PM		Folk Night in Sheffield Sing John Ball Folk Night in Sheffield 2017
9:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- Dj speaks over the Nutley Brass - Last Caress
9:47 PM		King Missile Jesus Was Way Cool Mystical Shit Needlejuice Records 1990
9:50 PM		Optic Sink Lucky Number N Lucky Number Feel It Records 2025 https://opticsink.bandcamp.com/album/lucky-number
9:54 PM		The Shangri-Las Heaven Only Knows Shangri-Las - 65! Red Bird 1965
9:56 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Ventures - Memphis
10:01 PM		John Cale Paris 1919 Paris 1919 Domino Recording Co 1973
10:04 PM		The Clean Whatever I Do Is Right Compilation Merge Records 1986
10:06 PM		The Pains of Being Pure At Heart Young Adult Friction The Pains of Being Pure at Heart The Lost And Lonesome Recording Co 2009
10:10 PM		Tommy James & The Shondells I Am a Tangerine Crimson & Clover Roulette 1969
10:14 PM		The Slits Love Und Romance Cut Island Records 1978
10:16 PM		Françoise Hardy Je n'attends plus personne Mon amie la rose Vogue 1963
10:19 PM		Maraudeur Scorpio (Fast Version Updated) N Flaschenträger Feel It Records 2025 https://maraudeur.bandcamp.com/album/flaschentr-ger
10:21 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over R.E.M. - White Tornado
10:24 PM		Fastbacks Wrong, Wrong, Wrong ...And His Orchestra Popllama Records 1986
10:28 PM		Protex Don't Ring Me Up 7" Good Vibrations 1978
10:31 PM		Dr Sure's Unusual Practice No Pigs N No Pigs / Desksitter Marthouse Records 2025 https://drsuresunusualpractice.bandcamp.com/album/no-pigs-desksitter-7
10:34 PM		The Unchained Mynds Going Back to Miami Going Back To Miami / We Can't Go On This Way Transaction Records 1968
10:36 PM		Dead Moon 54/40 or Fight Unknown Passage Tombstone Records 1989
10:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Mystras - The Cutty Wren
10:42 PM		The Nightingales Private Party Girls in the Garage, Vol. 7 Past & Present 2019
10:43 PM		The Candy Machine The Breathing Song History of a Bourgeois Revolution - EP DeSoto Records 1992
10:45 PM		Sylvester Happiness Can't Stop Dancing 12" Fantasy 1979
10:51 PM		Parsnip Health Health - EP Anti Fade Records 2017 https://parsniphq.bandcamp.com/album/parsnip-7
10:53 PM		Alternative TV Action Time Vision Action Time Vision Deptford Fun City Records 1978
10:56 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling in Love
10:57 PM		Chumbawamba The Day the Nazi Died Uneasy Listening

Chat is archived.

Woo the original Bloodstains!

And good evening, Commie

Hello Commie, hello Rob!

hi Rob and Marcus!

see any cool birds today Rob?

Howdy Marcus

ayyyyy commie!

Commie, yes. I drove to Fort McHenry in Baltimore to see this Brant (https://ebird.org/checklist/S286689426), a goose that is normally seen on the Atlantic coast and is pretty uncommon this far inland. I kind of got lost but I figured it all out soon enough

DC BANDS RULE!!!

From the "After Hours" soundtrack

D.C. in the hizzouse!

haha not this version but after hours was for sure my intro to bad brains

Hiya michael

sup rob!

I'm actually from D.C. Rob if i didn't mention that, grew up in N.J.

I hadn't seen a Brant anywhere in a decade, so it was nice to see one and to go to Baltimore

Yay Marcus! I'm a lifelong DC area resident, didn't even go too far away for college

I went to college with a lot of D.C. people. Had a friend Stevie who I ran into outside of C.B.G.B.'s outside an all-ages show back in the 80's asked him what he was doing there, He was there with his brother whose band was playing, the Teen Idles. I stayed outside because me and my boys were trying to sell hand painted t-shirts on the street and what do kids know?

I didn’t know Commie broadcasted on Thanksgiving: https://playlists.wprb.com/WPRB/pl/21592240

Or this morning: https://playlists.wprb.com/WPRB/pl/21600327

Vacaville = "Cow Town" literally

New Zealand’s got some rocking bands too. I saw Labretta Suede & the Motel 6 last night at Wild Air, though they had resided in New York for years before recently settling in Asbury Park.

Commie! Nice to hear you on the radio again. Funny how you had your morning show when I was just finishing up my shift, now you're on your evening show while I'm back at work.

i wish i had slept in between as i'm assuming you did!

Les Calamités! Tres bon!

I think it's been a quarter century since I saw the Softies at the Woman's Club of Manasquan.

Marcus, what a story :-)

Mutants!!

The Mutants

I got my 5 hours of sleep :)

Oiiiiiiii

I bought that Mutants album, but was disappointed it didn’t have my favorite songs “New Dark Ages” and “Insect Lounge”.

Rob, there was a diner in N.W. we would go late nights in the 80's my D.C. buddies called it "P.L.O" because so many mid-easterners hung out there. Does it ring a bell?

Re: Fugs. https://docnyc.net/film/fugs-film

David, I bought the album for "Perfect Target"

there's a pretty neat french documentary i saw recently about the time the fugs tried to levitate the pentagon

my dad was there!

Marcus, that's not ringing a bell for either me or my wife, sorry.

I bought that Mutants album because someone at a record fair was telling me I had to buy it because it was so so so good. I knew that it did have a good rep so I happily complied and I never looked back

i had been looking for it and this guy posted free records on buy nothing and then was like "but you COULD pay me for them" when i showed up. anyway he had it and i did pay him something but not really what the records were worth. i mean you posted them for free dude

Commie, wow!

The 10-21-1967 Pentagon exorcism: https://soundcloud.com/thefugs-sc/exorcising-the-evil-spirits

(wow was about the Pentagon; good for you for paying him)

my dad was in a group that randomly came across an open door at the pentagon and ran in. but got kicked back out immediately

some of them are in that french doc

I heard music by the Bad Brains (as well as by Death, and by Sun Ra) used two weekends ago in a Trenton revival of Amiri Baraka’s 1964 double play “Dutchman & The Slave”.

my dad has a crazy amiri baraka story too but i dunno if i can say it in detail in here

short version is he went to see him at yale and it got uncomfortable and then MUHAMMED ALI came in and was like hi everyone i'm against the war and everyone was chill again

readie played it@

"The Mutants joined together to perform at the San Francisco Poetry Festival in 1977." -- wiki

"They were also noted for being one of the few pop bands to ever perform live at Napa State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital." -- also wiki

Evening commy

hi ossy!

rob that is a cool thing to do! also reminds me of when crime played san quentin dressed as cops

i mean they always dressed as cops

I read about Crime playing San Quentin :-)

Toooooooooooooooodyyyyy

Hi CF and crew! Post holiday hosting exhaustion, gonna sit quietly and bask in the show.

Back when Vintage Vinyl lent VHS tapes, I borrowed the 17-minute 1978 documentary “Louder, Faster, Shorter”. It featured the Mutants, the Avengers, the Dils, the Sleepers and UXA.

Hi Ossy and jimboooo and everyone I may have missed

Which Rats did we hear? Fred Cole's? Mick Ronson's?

fred cole! and toody

Fuck yeah

this certainly set me on a path

Detachable Penis.

their legit hit!!

but this was for sure a college radio hit-o-rama

Kiev diner, 2nd ave, that's where they liked to hang out

this guy also told me about mojo nixon who i was somewhat aware of due to elvis is everywhere

hahah i used to hang out at kiev diner too. it's a vegan restaurant these days i think. or is that odessa

Goddamn, another magnificent broadcast, and you've already been on the radio all day. Hi from Portland, OR.

I’m missing Pissed Jeans in Toms River as I stay home listening to this program, but that’s okay. I didn’t feel like freezing in that 175-year-old log cabin. I’ll probably go there tomorrow afternoon to see the Nervous Triggers at the Log Cabin’s final punk show after twenty-something years.

hey there portland! that's too bad about the log cabin david

Ugh this so goooooooood

i used to see pissed jeans a lot in pittsburgh like 20 years ago but i haven't seen them for years now

Pissin' in Toms River...a Patti Smith outtake

Being a south Jersey gal that she is

hello dj, jimbooooooo, and the chat. wishes i had some tangerines right now.

well tommy james doesn't live far!

cut is such a great record. said everybody always, and i'll say it again!

Hope you find you some citrus, colin

it really is, when i did this slits tribute night thing it made me appreciate them anymore. it's insane any of their songs work

yet they work incredibly well

As the R. Crumb character on the Cheap Thrills album jacket says, that Tommy James song was “sike-ay-delic!” Too bad they declined the offer to play Woodstock.

tommy james could perfectly execute whatever was cool at that moment

I bought the Slits documentary at a Shellshag show. Jennifer Shagawat was one of the film's producers.

fastbacks!!! 💚💚💚

Yep!! Love this Fastbacks song

thank you commie! fastbacks = the most comforting of comfort foods for my ears

same! first song i heard was "in the summer" on a mix tape my cousin made me, then i found very very powerful motor on cd at the local head shop and the rest is history

kurt bloch station ID is from when he came into my husband's. record store and my husband ttexted me like the guy from young fresh fellows is here!! and i was like you mean the GUY FROM FASTBACKS???

that's pretty awesome. kurt seems so wholesome

he was apparently very nice. he certainly was nice to record a station id!

i'm gonna be checking out more of dr sure, for sure?

I once bought a non-refundable ticket to see the Fastbacks at Maxwell’s, then couldn’t go. I saw Kim Warnick in some band there years later though. I forget their name.

they're great, lots of really good related bands too!

Protex played in Asbury Park twice in recent years. I missed them both times.

Yesssssssssss 🌘

yeah i had tickets for them in the US more than once and i think once they canceled and once i didn't go. i did see them in the UK this summer. they were great!

i'm with ya jimboo, yyyyeeeeeeessss!

this was a super wonderful show tonight, Commie, thank you!!

That reminds me. I've got a ticket for TAGABOW at the First Unitarian Church in Philly on Dec. 13 (Sat), but I can't go. If anyone's interested it's all yours when the ticket is emailed to me on the 10th.

i'll be seeing hard skin in london!

and if i wasn't, well, i would be busy

💜 Sylvesterrrrrrrr💜

Thanks Commie Francis for another great show!

That's Rose Royce Car Wash

They Are Grabbing A Bucket of Worcesterhire

P A R S N I P

TY commmmmmmiiiiiieeeeeeeeee

thank YOU! all of you xoxo see you in 3 weeks