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The Kids Just Don't Understand
Jan 29, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Music
With Commie Francis
Music from all different genres from the 1910s to the 2020s.
Coming out of hibernation
| 5:02 PM |
| Carole King Pleasant Valley Sunday (Demo) The Legendary Demos Legacy Recordings 2012
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| 5:04 PM |
| Cerrone & The Flints Dancing Back To Life N Dancing Back To Life (The Reflex Revision) - Single Because Music 2025 https://cerroneofficial.bandcamp.com/album/dancing-back-to-life-the-reflex-revision
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| 5:08 PM |
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DJ speaks over Marisa Anderson - Bella Ciao | |
| 5:10 PM |
| Abi Ooze The Plumber and The Dancer (demo) R.I.P. 8750655 Records DK 2021 https://abiooze.bandcamp.com/album/r-i-p
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| 5:13 PM |
| Sparks Scandinavian Design Hippopotamus BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. 2017 for Lizbot, feel better soon! Not just Sparks but 2010s Sparks!!
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| 5:18 PM |
| Current Affairs Draw the Line https://currentaffairs.bandcamp.com/album/breeding-feeling-draw-the-line Not Unloved 2018 https://currentaffairs.bandcamp.com/album/breeding-feeling-draw-the-line
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| 5:20 PM |
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DJ speaks over Marisa Anderson - Bella Ciao | |
| 5:22 PM |
| Candy Machine 6 Months of Light Tune International DeSoto Records 1996
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| 5:27 PM |
| Sequera Els Moments Viscuts N Sequera / Fauna split Plastic Wound Records 2026 https://plasticwoundrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sequera-fauna-split-pw-023
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| 5:31 PM |
| Zounds Great White Hunter The Curse of Zounds! Rough Trade 1980
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| 5:34 PM |
| The Clancy Brothers Johnny's Gone To Hilo (with Tommy Makem) Sing of the Sea (with Tommy Makem) Columbia/Legacy 1968
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| 5:37 PM |
| Magik Markers Body Rot Boss ECSTATIC PEACE 2007
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| 5:39 PM |
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DJ speaks over Marisa Anderson - Bella Ciao | |
| 5:43 PM |
| DOA General Strike R We Won't Take No More V/A Mortarhate 1995 tomorrow. requested by Steve in Philly
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| 5:46 PM |
| Talking Heads Life During Wartime Stop Making Sense Warner Records 1984
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| 5:53 PM |
| Blue Orchids Hanging Man The Greatest Hit LTM Publishing 1981
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| 5:58 PM |
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DJ speaks over Marisa Anderson - Bella Ciao | |
| 6:01 PM |
| Caravan In the Land of Grey & Pink In the Land of Grey and Pink Decca Music Group Ltd. 1971
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| 6:05 PM |
| Poison Girls Whisky Voice Where's the Pleasure? Xntrix 1981
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| 6:06 PM |
| Winged Wheel Beautiful Holy Jewel Home N Desert So Green 12XU 2026 https://wingedwheel.bandcamp.com/album/desert-so-green
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| 6:11 PM |
| Keith West On a Saturday On a Saturday / The Kid Was a Killer Parlophone 1968
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| 6:15 PM |
| Audible Sky Signal Sky Signal Polyvinyl Records 2005
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| 6:19 PM |
| DBR Cars N Unbearable Phantom 2026 https://phantomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/unbearable
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| 6:20 PM |
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DJ speaks over Marisa Anderson - Bella Ciao | |
| 6:23 PM |
| The Dispossessed Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite Dionysus Records 1988
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| 6:27 PM |
| Wilfried* Help N Le Sieste / La Silence self released 2026 https://wilfried.bandcamp.com/album/la-sieste-le-silence-1993 orig 1993
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| 6:29 PM |
| Heavenly Dumpster Peel Session 5/7/1994 Strange Fruit 1994
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| 6:34 PM |
| 21-645 Red Red Nobody Gets On The Guest-List! V/A Throbbing Lobster 1984
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| 6:38 PM |
| Draümar Atomvinter 1 N Draümar Static Shock 2026 https://draumar.bandcamp.com/album/dra-mar
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| 6:39 PM |
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DJ speaks over Marisa Anderson - Bella Ciao | |
| 6:43 PM |
| Bagdagyul Ramazanova Perizada N Music from the Caucasus – The Archive of ORED Recordings, 2013–2023 V/A TAL 2026 https://tal-label.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-the-caucasus-the-archive-of-ored-recordings-2013-2023
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| 6:45 PM |
| Go_A Сонце #Ідиназвук BRYNZA MUSIC 2016
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| 6:50 PM |
| Chumbawamba Farewell to the Crown Tubthumping EMI 1997
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| 6:53 PM |
| The Magnetic Fields All the Umbrellas in London Get Lost Domino Recording Co 1995
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| 6:56 PM |
| Landowner Rival Males N Assumption Exploding in Sound 2026 https://landowner.bandcamp.com/album/assumption
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| 7:00 PM |
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DJ speaks over Marisa Anderson - Bella Ciao | |
| 7:02 PM |
| The Instigators The Blood Is on Your Hands / Free N The Sanctus Propaganda Sessions Vol. 5 Sanctus Propaganda 2026
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| 7:08 PM |
| Vanity 6 Bite the Beat Vanity 6 Warner Brothers 1982
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| 7:11 PM |
| Det Jordiska Överumans Vatten Grisarnas År Lazy Octopus Records 2021 https://lazyoctopus.bandcamp.com/album/det-jordiska
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| 7:15 PM |
| Nimrod Workman & Phyllis Boyens I am a Traveling Creature Passing Thru the Garden June Appal Recordings 1974
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| 7:19 PM |
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DJ speaks over Marisa Anderson - Bella Ciao | |
| 7:22 PM |
| 한대수 고무신 고무신 Four Season 1975 Hahn Dae-Soo - Rubber Shoes
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| 7:27 PM |
| Algara M - 1937 Absortos En El Tedio Eterno La Vida Es Un Mus Discos 2021 https://algara.bandcamp.com/album/absortos-en-el-tedio
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| 7:29 PM |
| The Pentangle Pentangling The Pentangle Reprise 1968
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| 7:36 PM |
| The Goon Sax In the Stone Mirror II Chapter Music 2021 https://thegoonsax.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-ii
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| 7:41 PM |
| Fauna Estem Conectades N Sequera / Fauna Split V/A Plastic Wound Records 2026
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| 7:42 PM |
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DJ speaks over Te Taliesen Orchestra - Orinoco Flow (instrumental) | |
| 7:44 PM |
| Angelic Upstarts I'm an Upstart Teenage Warning Rhino 1979
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| 7:46 PM |
| Oi Boys Le film est mauvais Oi Boys Les Disques de La Face Cachée 2022 https://oiboys.bandcamp.com/album/oi-boys
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| 7:53 PM |
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DJ speaks over Te Taliesen Orchestra - Orinoco Flow (instrumental) | |
| 7:54 PM |
| Catherine Jauniaux and Tim Hodgkinson Kebadaya Fluvial Woof Records 1983
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Chat is archived.

Commie Francis (1) (host)
5:02:27 PM
hello!!!
Carlos Ramone
5:04:23 PM
What a pleasant surprise!!…the Mr T Experience has a killer versi9n of this song
michael gudgeon
5:04:31 PM
w/u commie!
Roffle 0x7EA
5:04:53 PM
That song. Again with the smiles.

Commie Francis (1) (host)
5:05:14 PM
someone from the chat recommended it ages ago and i can't remember who!
Roffle 0x7EA
5:06:18 PM
Timeless Americana
Roffle 0x7EA
5:06:42 PM
I hope
Li Maria
5:15:54 PM
Hello Commie! Aw, Little Bear--haven't seen him in a long while...

Commie Francis (1) (host)
5:16:18 PM
i have a 3 year old nephew so i see him a lot!

Commie Francis (1) (host)
5:16:56 PM
speaking of which yesterday my nephew put on headphones and reading glasses and said they were a dj and they were going to play farmer on the dell on their radio show

Commie Francis (1) (host)
5:17:13 PM
my sister sent me a photo, honestly they looked a lot like dana k
Li Maria
5:18:45 PM
Haha, following in his aunt's footsteps ;)
Li Maria
5:19:08 PM
Maybe not the farmer in the dell part

Commie Francis (1) (host)
5:20:02 PM
he also idly sings "hedi's head" by kleenex to himself sometimes so who knows what would happen
Li Maria
5:20:50 PM
one cool little dude!
Roffle 0x7EA
5:27:04 PM
Oh this is so good.....

Commie Francis (1) (host)
5:27:37 PM
baltimore's own!
Chuckles MacPherson
5:29:01 PM
if htere's requests "general strike" by DOA?
Carlos Ramone
5:30:26 PM
@Chuckles…if we would buy Canada would DOA be an American band?

Commie Francis (1) (host)
5:32:17 PM
DOA would likely be fighting in the resistance
Carlos Ramone
5:35:13 PM
I would hope so…Elbows Up!!
Rob from snow-encrusted Maryland 🦀
5:44:24 PM
A classic classic! General Strike by DOA
Chuckles MacPherson
5:47:02 PM
Hit Parade had 2 records on Crass

Commie Francis (1) (host)
5:47:36 PM
they changed their policy eventually
Dale Hazelton
5:48:30 PM
hey now. had my ears on for the past hour....great stuff!
Rob from snow-encrusted Maryland 🦀
5:48:38 PM
@Commie, your nephew is adorable
Rob from snow-encrusted Maryland 🦀
5:49:59 PM
The stream on Apple Music/iTunes on my laptop has gone silent twice in the past 3 minutes

Commie Francis (1) (host)
5:50:08 PM
yep it's ne

Commie Francis (1) (host)
5:50:47 PM
i thought i fixed a problem but i didn't. thanks for being vigilant though!
Randy Marthins
5:52:10 PM
Just got on an immediately recognized this as Stop Making Sense, regardless of what Spinotron says
Randy Marthins
5:52:57 PM
The way DB did it at The Met was amazing!!!

Commie Francis (1) (host)
5:53:38 PM
oh yeah i'll fix that, def stop making sense
Randy Marthins
5:54:21 PM
Don't kill yer self over it

Commie Francis (1) (host)
5:54:45 PM
it's not hard to fix!
p4tti (chef)
6:08:02 PM
yesss i've been loving this album

Commie Francis (1) (host)
6:09:10 PM
it's great!
Richard Lyons
6:23:20 PM
oh noooo I'm late to the party! helloooooo

Commie Francis (1) (host)
6:23:43 PM
at least you made it!
Richard Lyons
6:25:44 PM
whew! glad PRB is always on in the house!
Amy Lee
6:32:32 PM
Prog is not one of my go-to genres, but every time I hear Caravan I like iit

Commie Francis (1) (host)
6:35:37 PM
yeah it's prog for people who don't like prog
Randy Marthins
6:36:44 PM
I must admit - I do like tracks that sample an announcer somehow "good morning London - good morning sinners" - Big Audio Dynamite
Peach En Regalia
6:42:34 PM
Damn, missing SPARKS (my favorite band of all time) is wild. This means I've got to return literally all the time
Alan Chelak
6:43:29 PM
yessssssssss
Peach En Regalia
6:44:15 PM
Zounds and Heavenly too...This rocks, to put it extremely lightly
Alan Chelak
6:45:56 PM
enya should do a techno album
Randy Marthins
6:48:02 PM
When I worked at the ad agency, our owner would play that damn Enya CD all the time - I came to hate it
Randy Marthins
6:49:29 PM
I can't imagine that she thought our clients liked hearing it, but there it was

Commie Francis (1) (host)
6:49:58 PM
enya doing techno is one of my favorite styles of eurovision entry
Ross Dickinson
6:52:44 PM
Lastnight Jon played something that I thought had one of the singers from Chumbawamba in it. But now actual Chumbawamba!

Commie Francis (1) (host)
6:53:15 PM
hm i wonder what it was!
Ross Dickinson
6:53:42 PM
It was Lambrini Girls
Alan Chelak
6:54:19 PM
there's a great chumbawamba song about amnesia.

Commie Francis (1) (host)
6:54:47 PM
there is, i believe it's called amnesia!
Randy Marthins
6:54:58 PM
@commie "enya doing techno is one of my favorite styles of eurovision entry" I'm sure there's an AI way of making that happen
Alan Chelak
6:55:10 PM
i think you're right, but i wish i could remember

Commie Francis (1) (host)
6:55:30 PM
unfortunately you can't, you can't remember
Ross Dickinson
6:55:42 PM
Do you suffer from long term memory loss?

Commie Francis (1) (host)
6:55:48 PM
i can't remember
Randy Marthins
6:56:04 PM
On the other hand --- Memories can't wait
Ross Dickinson
6:56:29 PM
This has been the most Chumbawamba conversation I've had in like 25 years lmao
Alan Chelak
6:56:37 PM
guess i suffer from long-term memory loss
Alan Chelak
6:57:23 PM
omg it would be so cool if someone played the dancing cigarettes soon.
Randy Marthins
6:57:39 PM
There should be a Long-term memory lost & found
Alan Chelak
7:00:24 PM
staffed only by postal workers
Ross Dickinson
7:01:30 PM
I'm shocked that was his response! I figured a band full of anarchists were always trying to make people mad lol
Ross Dickinson
7:02:08 PM
or maybe not mad but def trying to get other people's attention

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:03:20 PM
he was like "people don't really like the royal family in the uk" which i mean... i think SOME people do
Ross Dickinson
7:03:43 PM
I'm sure the family likes themselves!
Alan Chelak
7:04:02 PM
lol -- there has to be at least two of them
Alan Chelak
7:04:16 PM
what was the event at the shoe?

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:04:28 PM
it was a book talk/musical performance

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:04:37 PM
it was great!
Alan Chelak
7:04:57 PM
god bless the wooden shoe <3
Alan Chelak
7:05:28 PM
you should play enya next
Randy Marthins
7:06:28 PM
@ross "maybe not mad but def trying to get other people's attention" as someone who was in a few punk bands in the 80s, that was the goal - although we were certainly PISSED at Reagan & Co
Randy Marthins
7:07:08 PM
"Anger is an energy" John Lyndon

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:07:10 PM
i'm gonna play enya just you watch
Ross Dickinson
7:07:30 PM
@Randy: I believe it!
Randy Marthins
7:07:52 PM
"Fury can be power - let Anger have the Hour" Joe Strummer/ The Clash

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:08:13 PM
how am i also adding this vanity 6 album into the database
Randy Marthins
7:09:05 PM
God Bless Minneapolis
Liz Bot
7:11:12 PM
Hey Commie et. al.! Thank you for covering! Today I can barely speak, so it was, in the words of Salt n’ Pepa, very necessary!
Alan Chelak
7:11:26 PM
lol
Ross Dickinson
7:11:28 PM
lmao
Ross Dickinson
7:11:40 PM
I literaelly just watched that commercial a week ago
Alan Chelak
7:11:42 PM
that wasn't exactly enya

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:11:44 PM
ok that wasn't really enya but close enough
Alan Chelak
7:12:28 PM
you don't have the cojones to play sail away
Chuckles MacPherson
7:13:00 PM
Do you have any Clannad when Enya was a member?
Liz Bot
7:13:23 PM
I am going to go back into my sickness cocoon in a moment and drowse some more, but Sparks, Heavenly, Caravan and The Clancy Brothers really touch on a few heavily-featured areas of interest in ++good!! Are you seeing Heavenly when they come to Philly this spring?

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:14:06 PM
hi liz! i hope you feel better fast! no i missed tickets before they sold out
Ross Dickinson
7:14:14 PM
Oh no! I Hope you're not stuck with the flu

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:14:20 PM
if you hear of anyone with extras lmk
Liz Bot
7:14:21 PM
Hi Steven - My dad made a point when Enya got huge of reminding everyone that she was in Clannad.

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:14:39 PM
i did see amelia and cathy sing joke oi songs with hard skin last month
Alan Chelak
7:15:45 PM
your dad sounds like a cool guy
Liz Bot
7:15:53 PM
@Commie Francis - Oh rats! But I actually have an extra ticket. Hit me up later about it or just remind me
Liz Bot
7:17:00 PM
@alan c - he was an Irish trad OG

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:17:23 PM
yes i will text you when you're no longer sick! awesome

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:17:54 PM
liz's dad definitely sounds like he was super cool. probably would have liked my dad
Alan Chelak
7:18:30 PM
it would be so cool to play some Enya to honor this fact
Alan Chelak
7:19:33 PM
🎵sail away, sail away🎵
Liz Bot
7:20:16 PM
@Commie Francis - Yeah, I think your dad & my dad’s record collection probably had some significant overlap. I also grew up on Ewan MacColl records
jrlp
7:20:54 PM
I fondly recall getting all bent out of shape about their Theme from Harry's Game when I watched the HBO U2 Red Rocks special at a pal's house in 83.
jrlp
7:23:48 PM
and later earned a nickname that endures to this day with some folks.
Randy Marthins
7:24:39 PM
@lizbot "Hi Steven - My dad made a point when Enya got huge of reminding everyone that she was in Clannad." yeah something ELSE (or arse?) that we can hang on Bono --- although, I read his "Stories of Surrender" memoir, and saw his one-man show on HBO, and I must say - he's a fantastic storyteller
Alan Chelak
7:26:44 PM
is it true that Bono and Enya are neighbours?

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:27:27 PM
seems like everyone in ireland are neighbors

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:27:57 PM
bo from the chat was neighbors with incredible badass MP bernadette devlin.
Randy Marthins
7:28:00 PM
Yeah - you gotta define "neighbors"
Randy Marthins
7:29:17 PM
I'm from Philly "what neighborhood" well, south jersey ... Go Birds?!!!

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:29:34 PM
this is as close as i'm getting to enya tonight i fear. besides one thing i'm gonna try
Alan Chelak
7:30:13 PM
oh jeez -- enya would go soooooo good after this
Alan Chelak
7:30:49 PM
just slip in a 'lil sail away
Randy Marthins
7:31:26 PM
Enya? En ... no, thanks
Alan Chelak
7:32:30 PM
Enya? More like En-yah, no thanks.
Alan Chelak
7:32:39 PM
Enya? I hardly Know-yah

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:33:43 PM
yeah my enya idea is not gonna work, i thought i found an instrumental version of sail away but it's not actually instrumental
Alan Chelak
7:34:06 PM
:(
Randy Marthins
7:37:03 PM
The ol' Enya & out-ya
Randy Marthins
7:38:46 PM
A little of the Ol' Ultra-Ambiance
Alan Chelak
7:40:22 PM
What if Enya was Australian?
Alan Chelak
7:42:55 PM
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Alan Chelak
7:43:10 PM
thank you <3 <3 <3 <3
Kelly Nielsen
7:43:20 PM
hahaha
Randy Marthins
7:46:26 PM
@alan "What if Enya was Australian?" then she'd be VhU3? --- that took some work
Alan Chelak
7:48:44 PM
@Randy -- i don't get it. is that an obscure reference in orinoco flow that i've never recognized or...?
Alan Chelak
7:48:57 PM
Enya upside down?
Roffle 0x7EA
7:52:42 PM
A bloody good show Commie.
Richard Lyons
7:53:48 PM
I second that
Alan Chelak
7:54:03 PM
third.
Randy Marthins
7:55:21 PM
@alan "Enya upside down?" Best I could do, yeah
Randy Marthins
7:56:27 PM
I have a friend in Oz named Ella who I call V773
Alan Chelak
7:57:34 PM
Australia should be illegal
Li Maria
7:57:48 PM
Great fill-in show--thanks, Commie!
michael gudgeon
7:58:54 PM
great show commie catch ya soon!

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:58:59 PM
thanks all!

Commie Francis (1) (host)
7:59:25 PM
i ordered this record from discogs, it almost never shows up in the US. and they mailed it to the wrong address
Alan Chelak
8:00:01 PM
noooooooo!
Alan Chelak
8:00:20 PM
did it all work out in the end?

Commie Francis (1) (host)
8:00:23 PM
no!
Alan Chelak
8:00:53 PM
:(
jrlp
8:01:05 PM
booo.