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The Kids Just Don't Understand

Jan 12, 2026 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Music

With Commie Francis

Music from all different genres from the 1910s to the 2020s.

GOOD MORNING GET A GRIP

7:02 AM		Carole King Pleasant Valley Sunday (Demo) The Legendary Demos Legacy Recordings 2012
7:04 AM		Gilberto Gil No norte da saudade Refavela WM Brazil 1977
7:08 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae
7:11 AM		The Dentists I Had an Excellent Dream Some People Are On the Pitch They Think It's All Over It Is Now Rev-Ola 1984
7:14 AM		Cult Objects Camellia L N Amulet World Gone Mad 2026 https://worldgonemadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/025-amulet-lp
7:18 AM		Rebby Sharp Hollow Earth Green Street 1982
7:20 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae
7:23 AM		Joachim Witt Goldener Reiter Goldener Reiter - Single Warner Music Central Europe 1981
7:28 AM		mangled gay horse L N bean demon self released 2026 https://mangledpa.bandcamp.com/album/bean-demon
7:30 AM		LÁZ AHONNAN MÁR NINCS VISSZA LASSAN ÁTJÁRÓ ZAVAR Urban Lurk 2025
7:34 AM		Clothilde Fallait pas écraser la queue du chat French Swinging Mademoiselle Legacy Recordings 1967
7:38 AM		The Police Spirits in the Material World Ghost in the Machine A&M 1981
7:40 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae
7:45 AM		Beth Anderson Torero Piece I Can't Stand It Finders Keepers 2024 reprise! orig early 80s
7:53 AM		Manufactured Romance Chameleon Manufactured Romance CD-R 2008 recorded late 70s/early 80s
7:56 AM		Itchy and the Nits Smelly Boys N Greetings from Itchy and the Nits Total Punk & Anti Fade 2026 https://totalpunkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/greetings-from
7:57 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae
8:01 AM		La Peste I Don't Know Right From Wrong N I Don't Know Right From Wrong: Lost La Peste 1976 - 1979 Vol. 1 Wharf Cat Records 2026 https://lapesteband.bandcamp.com/album/i-dont-know-right-from-wrong-lost-la-peste-1976-1979-vol-1
8:04 AM		Red Cross I Hate My School Red Cross Posh Boy 1981
8:05 AM		Hurrah! Around and Around Sweet Sanity Kitchenware 1986
8:10 AM		Young Team Oh Death Demo Billo 2024 https://billotontraeger.bandcamp.com/album/young-team-2
8:15 AM		Urge Teach Yourself Dutch Bobby / Teach Yourself Dutch Cönsumer Disk 1980
8:19 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae
8:21 AM		L-Seven Clear Vision L-Seven EP Touch And Go Special Forces 1982
8:24 AM		Tauchen-Prokopetz Codo Codo (... Düse Im Sauseschritt) WEA 1983
8:28 AM		Ruth Etting Hey! Young Fella Ruth Etting, The Singing Queen Vol 1 Orange Dream 2003 orig 20s
8:31 AM		Stars in the Sky Baby Hold On Baby Hold On / Love (What a Feeling) Stars in the Sky Records 1976
8:36 AM		Bushido High Rise Deliverance Third Mind Records Records 1985
8:40 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae
8:42 AM		Fog Lamp Library Cop N Still Entangled Siltbreeze Records 2026 https://siltbreeze.bandcamp.com/album/fog-lamp-still-entangled-lp
8:46 AM		Monnone Alone Feel It Disappearing Feel It Disappearing - Single Emotional Response 2021 https://monnonealone.bandcamp.com/album/feel-it-disappearing-single
8:49 AM		R.E.M. First We Take Manhattan I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen By... V/A Columbia 1991
8:55 AM		Flower Power The Flower N Raw Power Urticaria Records 2026 https://urticariarecords.bandcamp.com/album/raw-power
8:56 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae
9:01 AM		Tall Dwarfs Dog Dogma - EP Flying Nun Records 1987
9:05 AM		Janet Armstrong Inadequate East of Croydon V/A Nothing Shaking 1981
9:09 AM		Crow Thoughts Crow Music Amaret 1969
9:14 AM		Borden's Shake It Product Music Vol. 1: Industrial Show Tunes In Praise Of Products We Trust Honest Abe-Disc 1996
9:16 AM		Rain Parade Saturday's Asylum Emergency Third Rail Power Trip Ryko/Rhino 1983
9:19 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae
9:23 AM		Zoff Sauerland Zoff JuipterRecords 1981
9:27 AM		Tracey Ullman They Don't Know You Broke My Heart In Seventeen Places Stiff Records 1983
9:30 AM		José Salcy J’En Parlerai À Mon Cheval J’En Parlerai À Mon Cheval Philips 1966
9:33 AM		Collate The Product Generative Systems Domestic Departure 2023 https://collate.bandcamp.com/album/generative-systems
9:36 AM		Viha Painajainen 10-kappaletta self released 2015 https://viha.bandcamp.com/album/10-kappaletta
9:38 AM		Big Flame Why Popstars Can't Dance Why Popstars Can't Dance Ron Johnson Records 1986
9:40 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae
9:44 AM		The Rhythm Methodists The Peanut Gang Compilation N.E. 1 - Sunderland Musicians Collective V/A Guardian Records 'n Tapes 1981
9:48 AM		The Primitives Keep Me In Mind Pure RCA Records Label 1988
9:51 AM		Lime Crush Timewaster Timewaster - Single Fettkakao 2022 https://fettkakao.bandcamp.com/album/timewaster
9:52 AM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae
9:55 AM		Dogma Probe Thirteen Thirteen / A Word Of Warning Arachnid Records 1982

Chat is archived.

good morning. took me most of my life to know she wrote this.

morning! yep! her demos for other bands are some of my favorite things she did.

Hey hey hey!

HE'S CIRCLING BACK AGAIN PERCY NO

hi tandy, good morning/good night!

Grey time! I had to endure overtime last night, just got out a few minutes ago.

this is a toe tapper!!

gm commie chat!

welcome michael! what's everyone having for breakfast or in tandy's case dinner?

i'm having cardamom black tea and avocado on a bagel.

Good morning Commie and everyone. I'm about to have a bowl of cereal and then a banana. I have already finished my coffee

Avocado on a bagel sounds yummy

Sup Dale, Mike G, Rob!

Im gonna get a pizza in like 3 hours and continue binging my better call saul rewatch. But first, coffee with my old man.

Hola TAndy

Pizza at 11 am? Nice

That woulda been the plan whether I was at work or not ;)

I've chosen the nuclear option this morning with vegan chikn nuggets. What an entertaining selection of Monday morning food choices, everyone!

Good morning Commie, listeners, etc. Laurie Anderson must have heard this.

i think this was happening kind of concurrently with what laurie anderson was doing but yeah!

Or Henry Higgins, Eliza P. Doolittle

Letters?!? I miss them

Only Santa gets them

me too, i used to have so many penpals from the back of maximum rocknroll

Mornin Larry and Dan

Maybe they’ll come back, even A.I., like cassettes, 8 tracks, well, not 8 tracks.

this reminds me of art linkletter's letter to his daughter.

She sounded like Sissy Spacek’s character in “Badlands” film

she's from kentucky

“Deep in my heart, I knew that Kip would fry soon…”

Have you noticed how the top 10 grossing films, rarely are in top 10 films of the year lists? Why our little theater rarely gets anything worth seeing.

It was great to hear the new Itchy and the Nits song!

Plenty of examples, wrong, lately it seems.

Good morning fellow adults (^_^;)))

Hello Earth

hello mok wherever you are

and good morning jim!

I always confuse this with, “If I Had A Rocket Launcher” Bruce Cockburn. Is Moby doing backing vocal? Seriously.

not that i can tell from the credits

It just sounded similar to Moby’s Bourne movie credits song

Watch “McCabe and Mrs. Miller” film, all L. Cohen music soundtrack.

Funny!

Subbing HS Science, er…kids trying to understand, well, some of them.

i have that i'm your fan cd but don't recall what nick cave did. i know the birthday party did avalanche....did he do another cover for that?

nick cave did tower of song

might be a different comp, some french band did avalanche in french

ah..bithday party did avalanche in the early 80s.

wasn't on a comp, maybe kicking against the pricks.

ah gotcha!

i didn't realize they did that, i will have to check it out

Commie! You're on early!

morning yeah my alarm clock went off early!

Fake whip cream, Krylon, my best guesses.

look for the documentary 'bathtubs over broadway' to see more about industrial show tunes.

yes i was gonna recommend that on air (and still will). really well done doc

Love it

Is “Thoughts” longer than that sound-a-like tune?

taurus?

or stairway to heaven hahah

Bingo

New category. Almost A One Hit Wonder.

“I’d Like To Teach The World (to drink Coke)” I saw the duet who wrote that live. FL hotel lounge. It was their encore!

Thank you @Commieand all the other DJ's filling in during the break. The last hour of Commie is better than no Commie.

@dan - you should listen to the 21 lounge on wfmu wednesday night at 7:00. an hour or private press lounge acts, many of them from florida, presented by don fleming.

....mostly 1970s.

I will, thank you!

Not Jimmy Buffet heavy I’ll assume.

lot of husband and wife duos, guys in powder blue leisure suits....that sort of stuff.

Wow. Late arrival. Stayed up late watching the Golden Globes. But I have just clicked in. Happy to have you in my digiteria. I hope you are having a great show. I will be here all day.

Her monologue killed, as much as I liked Gervais.

morning! i'm about to stop doing radio and go to work in 20 minutes! i would prefer a nap

Great set Commie

thanks Dan!

Great set

Can we make requests?

usually yes but with 14 minutes left i probably won't have time

All good! we rockin

if your song has no swears and is either 2 or 4.5 mintues long and you make it fast, possibly

I heard this yesterday - I think the group is from Trenton: https://open.spotify.com/track/4LIwqCvV7Rd8sKpPrnpch0?si=842d2a11f81a48b3

i didn't realize tracey ullman was on stiff records. if it ain't stiff....

not the right length Tony but I'll check it out for Saturday!

sick! my uncle sent it to me lol. surprised they're from Trenton - at least according to Bandcamp they are

or maybe actually it's just one person? just reminded me of talking heads/b52s

thanks for the well-curated show!

thanks for listening!

sounds cool Tony! i don't know why someone would pretend to be from trenton haha

woulda been kinda cool if this was a big star cover

LOL

great show

Totally didn't overshoot my nap. Thanks for the tunes!!