Uneasy Listening Sat Jan 10 with Commie Francis on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

gooooooooddd evennningggggg!!!

Commie, what is the photograph of?

And hi everyone

Hello Commie!! 🫶🤘

I am newly divorced and I'm inquiring in the Princeton area where there are establishments that are more cocktails with 80 punk music centered, I'm from the city Garden days and it doesn't seem like there's anywhere around

hi Debbie! Rob it's a still from the movie Until the End of the World. it's been a zillion years since i saw it so i don't even remember what is going on in the still but i was obsessed with the soundtrack when it came out. very formative for me.

ya got me, housewifesoirees! i don't really hang out in princeton except when i'm doing my show! but maybe someone else in here knows

@housewives If you're from City Garden days, we (speaking for me) usually do house chores and listen to WPRB. Good luck!

Thanks anyway :)

Thanks Commie. I may have seen that film in a theater when it came out?

I remember hearing the soundtrack on WHFS and I think WMUC

Wow, heard this Ultavox song when It came out on WKDU. Shame it doesn't get more radio plays.

Chat is acting wonky.

hm really, what's it doing? it seems normal to me

The chat seems fine to me

@robMD Fond memories of hearing Phiily bands telling me about getting airplay on WHFS.

All is fine with chat... possible operator error as the they say in tech support jargon.

@John Coffey, WHFS was a great station.

The wonderful Slits! :)

Heya

such a charming band. hello!

Very much :)

Wow, no Grateful Dead yet?

a true mystery

True.

Amazing Connie!!!

<3 andrea

liz phair was a slow burn for me. at first it just didn't interest me. now decades later i'm like oh yay liz phair!

i'm pretty sure i got exile in guyville from columbia house cd club and as is traditional never paid for it and went into collections

i was very into it and the "stuck on an island" song from what's up matador as a teen

omg, i joined columbia house at least 4x and never paid. so many double disc anthologies in my cd books..

If they wanted to send me those tapes as a 13 year old, that was on them. lol

'allooo peepz 🐥🐥🐥

Ruh roh

argh hold pls

Fu*ky drummer music

Barge unmoored

hi COMMIE !!!!!

Is this the remastered version?

@Commie, it was great to hear the Liz Phair song

ok pls let me know when metal commences

😆roffle "remastered"

fingers crosssedddd

We baaaack

hearing metal now, significantly less ancient, cold and dismal

don't even know what happened there but uh i fixed it

very yes to nightfeeded!

THIS IS THE METALEST I GET PLEASE ENJOY

💀 ⚔️ 💀

i just looked out the window, it's all foggy out and it wasn't a moment ago. i blame the metal

You know what's metal? I baked cranberry muffins, empanadas, and sourdough bread today.

Jimbo did you use a metal pan? And Commie I just meant nothing is more EEEEEVIL scary than tuning into WPRB and hearing the "hold music"

Yes, metal, metal, METAL

Pentangle, Pentangle, Pentangle!

"The" Pentangle? C'mon concert announcer.

From metal to The Pentagle in two songs? Woo

has this happened to you

oh geez i just saw why you mentioned the dead roffle

Mystery solved

i've never attempted to make a proper sourdough, i did have one of those bread maker machines in the early 00s. i used the h e 🏒s outta that thing

i was just watching a video of peter schumann from bread and puppet making bread, it's the most amazing bread i have ever had

i want it now in fact. ursa bread's all rye bread comes close

Killer Dave's multi-grain is my personal fave.

oh man i wish that was my favorite rather than some hippie bread that is only ever given out for free at puppet shows in vermont

Totally different class to be sure.

This is my go-to, sub in a cup of rye or buckwheat https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/no-knead-sourdough-bread-recipe

great show tonight

Free loaves is a fine tradition.

I don't listen to them very often, but I do really like a lot of the Dead's studio records, especially Anthem of the Sun. I can't find any live Dead that I vibe with, which Deadheads tend to think is their best stuff.

RIP Bob Weir

this song is ok haha. there were a couple of songs i really liked when chad was trying to convert me but i can't remember what they were now

i always liked "ripple", probably should have just played that

i'm assuming this one was a bit of a hit because there's a movie named after it

The first deadhead I ever met was from Brattleboro, VT. and he lived in a barn.

that all tracks!

when bill was quite young he went to the record store and just bought 2 records he thought looked cool, black sabbath i think the first one? or master of reality. and a grateful dead record because it had skeletons on it

The world likes to rhyme

one of those records changed his life guess which

Both are gateway music

yeah for sure but for bill it was sabbath. grateful dead was not skeleton-y in the way he expected

lol

the Velvet Underound are my Grateful Dead since I own about a dozen live bootlegs of the VU.

Masters of Reality was one of my Columbia House picks. :)

Everyone's perfectly outta sync

bought so many velvet underground live boots at jerry's records!!

$4!!! man i wish i could time travel

I remember being a kid and seeing Grateful Dead shirts and thinking that they must sound like Metallica or something. I was very surprised at what they sounded like when "Touch of Grey" became a hit.

i was very shocked at what kiss sounded like after only seeing them in mad magazine

i think i was always a bit aware of the grateful dead because my parents were hippies. my mom lived in the same neighborhood as their mansion/commune

she also lived really near sly stone

and santana practiced in the basement of another place she lived

Semi Valley is a great place to live

these were all different places i think. sly stone was in the very quiet and suburban-ish neighborhood where she grew up and really stood out with all the limos and whatnot

The smell of orange blossoms there is insane.

Thank youuuuuuu commmmmmmiiiiiieeeeeeeeee

you've been commie'd again!

s a t u r day night!

love dancin' on a party

party goers holding up dancers be like, f this!

also, me every time i see a crowd surfer now this song may pop in my head.

THANK YOU

big 💪s

dope set caught the whole thing!!!

jrlp see you in may

thank you thank you

great show!

THX Commie!

why did they all come out of the woodwork on the day they all joined ICE

EXCELLENT

very pleased to hear it!

Has a neat moment this week listening to Jen, thought hold the phone that HAS to be (and was) CF!

oh did she play the dissidents? or just one of my station ids?

(singing!)

<3

hm! well welcome to bonus transistor sister

8:01 PM		Freddy Cannon Transistor Sister Transistor Sister - Single Swan Records 1961
8:03 PM		Mary Monday I Gave My Punk Jacket To Rickie I Gave My Punk Jacket To Rickie / Popgun Malicious Productions 1977
8:05 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
8:08 PM		Kitchen & The Plastic Spoons Filmen 37 minuter i Stockholm City Universal Music AB 1982
8:12 PM		Winged Wheel Bird Spells N Desert So Green 12XU 2026 https://wingedwheel.bandcamp.com/album/desert-so-green
8:17 PM		Ultravox Saturday Night In the City of the Dead Ultravox! Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1977
8:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
8:22 PM		Tee Vee Pop Double Acting Tee Vee Pop Irmgardz 1982
8:25 PM		The Plastic Cloud Bridge Under the Sky The Plastic Cloud Lion Productions 1967
8:29 PM		KÜKEN Palermo N Palermo Alien Snatch Records 2026 https://aliensnatch.bandcamp.com/album/k-ken-palermo
8:31 PM		The Photographs Here I Go Again Second Best Do Not Bend 1979
8:33 PM		The Slits Typical Girls Cut Island Records 1978
8:37 PM		Eartha Kitt Under the Bridges of Paris That Bad Eartha RCA Records Label 1953
8:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
8:43 PM		Chapuseaux Y Damirón Con Su Conjunto Ropa, Zapato, Casa y Comido N Vol. 2 Ansonia 2026 orig 60s?
8:46 PM		Boskops Alptraum Non Plus Ultra Snake Records 1991
8:51 PM		Rotten Mind Damaged State of Mind I'm Alone Even with You Lövely Records 2015
8:53 PM		The Humblebums Saturday Round About Sunday The Humblebums Transatlantic Records 1969
8:55 PM		I.L.L.O. Alien Element 10 ILL Songs Spared Flesh 2024 https://illo-music.bandcamp.com/album/10-ill-songs
8:57 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
9:00 PM		The Five Techniques Resistance in the Dark - Arvenee Meets The Five Techniques in No Town N Resistance in the Dark Remixes Heavenly Recordings 2026 https://thefivetechniques.bandcamp.com/album/resistance-in-the-dark-remixes
9:07 PM		The Downbeats You Gotta Tell Me It Won't Be Easy / You Gotta Tell Me Diamond 1966
9:09 PM		Suburban Lawns Flying Saucer Safari Suburban Lawns I.R.S. Records 1981
9:11 PM		Liz Phair Stratford-On-Guy Exile In Guyville Matador 1993
9:16 PM		Lou Barlow's Acoustic Sentridoh Mellow, Cool and Painfully Aware Winning Losers (A Collection Of Home Recordings 89-93) Smells Like Records 1994
9:17 PM		The Handsome Family In the Air In the Air Milk & Scissors 2000
9:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
9:24 PM		Nightfeeder Life's Foul Pit N Död Åt Tyranner V/A Children of the Grave 2026 split with Verdict
9:33 PM		Skeletal Family Promised Land (12" Version) The Singles Plus, 1983-85 Anagram 1994
9:39 PM		PLEASANTS Private Mind Rocanrol In Mono Under The Gun Records 2024 https://pleasants77.bandcamp.com/album/rocanrol-in-mono
9:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
9:41 PM		Sarcófago Nightmare I.N.R.I. Greyhaze Records 1987
9:47 PM		Cemento The Other Side Of Sleep N Bad Dream Songs Iron Lung Records 2025 https://ironlungrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bad-dream-songs-lungs-301
9:51 PM		Pentangle Market Song Sweet Child Reprise 1968
9:56 PM		Sweet Reaper Motion N Still Nothing Alien Snatch 2026 https://aliensnatch.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-reaper-still-nothing
9:57 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
10:00 PM		The Crucifucks Oh Where, Oh Where? Crucifucks Alternative Tentacles 1984
10:01 PM		Freestyle Fellowship Pure Thought Innercity Griots Island Records 1993
10:04 PM		Louisa Bénâtre & Barbara Bessac Fine N Two Heavy Hearts Hidden Bay 2026 https://hiddenbayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/two-heavy-hearts
10:08 PM		The Piranhas I Don't Want My Body Vaultage 78: Two Sides Of Brighton V/A Cherry Red Records 1978
10:12 PM		The Brain Nightmares In Red Kick The Donkey / Nightmares In Red Parlophone 1967
10:15 PM		Black Boiler Pilot (feat. BLOOM) N Pilot - Single Black Boiler 2025 https://blackboiler.bandcamp.com/album/pilot-ep
10:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
10:23 PM		Grateful Dead Brokedown Palace American Beauty Rhino/Warner Records 1970 RIP Bob Weir
10:27 PM		The Velvet Underground Hey Mr. Rain (Version 2) Another View Polydor 1986
10:32 PM		Wire French Film Blurred Chairs Missing 1978
10:35 PM		The Glass Family Once Again Electric Band ODL 1966
10:38 PM		Susanna Leppänen Odotuksen aika Odotuksen aika - Single Humu Records 2026 https://humurecords.bandcamp.com/track/odotuksen-aika
10:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
10:42 PM		Date-X Information Date-X Undefined Sounds 1981
10:48 PM		The Looters Conned Again Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains Soundtrack Rhino 2008
10:51 PM		Sqeezer Saturday Night Saturday Night - Single Hitpool (104pro Media) 1996
10:54 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (instrumental)
10:57 PM		Chumbawamba The Day the Nazi Died (1993 Mix) Enough Is Enough - EP One Little Indian 1993
11:03 PM		The Plugz Reel Ten Repo Man (Music From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Geffen* 1984
11:04 PM		Elektrik Cokernut Jeepster
11:07 PM		One Thousand Violins My Beautiful Shirt Halcyon Days (Complete Recordings 1985-1987) Cherry Red Records 2014
11:12 PM		Beth Anderson Torero Piece I Can't Stand It Finders Keepers

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