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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

Lizbot is down with the robot ick so here i am!! hello.

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5:02 PM		Carole King Pleasant Valley Sunday (Demo) The Legendary Demos Legacy Recordings 2012
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
5:08 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- 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
5:13 PM		Sparks Scandinavian Design Hippopotamus BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. 2017 for Lizbot, feel better soon! Not just Sparks but 2010s Sparks!!
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
5:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Marisa Anderson - Bella Ciao
5:22 PM		Candy Machine 6 Months of Light Tune International DeSoto Records 1996
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
5:31 PM		Zounds Great White Hunter The Curse of Zounds! Rough Trade 1980
5:34 PM		The Clancy Brothers Johnny's Gone To Hilo (with Tommy Makem) Sing of the Sea (with Tommy Makem) Columbia/Legacy 1968
5:37 PM		Magik Markers Body Rot Boss ECSTATIC PEACE 2007
5:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- 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
5:46 PM		Talking Heads Life During Wartime Stop Making Sense Warner Records 1984
5:53 PM		Blue Orchids Hanging Man The Greatest Hit LTM Publishing 1981
5:58 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- 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
6:05 PM		Poison Girls Whisky Voice Where's the Pleasure? Xntrix 1981
6:06 PM		Winged Wheel Beautiful Holy Jewel Home N Desert So Green 12XU 2026 https://wingedwheel.bandcamp.com/album/desert-so-green
6:11 PM		Keith West On a Saturday On a Saturday / The Kid Was a Killer Parlophone 1968
6:15 PM		Audible Sky Signal Sky Signal Polyvinyl Records 2005
6:19 PM		DBR Cars N Unbearable Phantom 2026 https://phantomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/unbearable
6:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- 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
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
6:29 PM		Heavenly Dumpster Peel Session 5/7/1994 Strange Fruit 1994
6:34 PM		21-645 Red Red Nobody Gets On The Guest-List! V/A Throbbing Lobster 1984
6:38 PM		Draümar Atomvinter 1 N Draümar Static Shock 2026 https://draumar.bandcamp.com/album/dra-mar
6:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- 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
6:45 PM		Go_A Сонце #Ідиназвук BRYNZA MUSIC 2016
6:50 PM		Chumbawamba Farewell to the Crown Tubthumping EMI 1997
6:53 PM		The Magnetic Fields All the Umbrellas in London Get Lost Domino Recording Co 1995
6:56 PM		Landowner Rival Males N Assumption Exploding in Sound 2026 https://landowner.bandcamp.com/album/assumption
7:00 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- 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
7:08 PM		Vanity 6 Bite the Beat Vanity 6 Warner Brothers 1982
7:11 PM		Det Jordiska Överumans Vatten Grisarnas År Lazy Octopus Records 2021 https://lazyoctopus.bandcamp.com/album/det-jordiska
7:15 PM		Nimrod Workman & Phyllis Boyens I am a Traveling Creature Passing Thru the Garden June Appal Recordings 1974
7:19 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Marisa Anderson - Bella Ciao
7:22 PM		한대수 고무신 고무신 Four Season 1975 Hahn Dae-Soo - Rubber Shoes
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
7:29 PM		The Pentangle Pentangling The Pentangle Reprise 1968
7:36 PM		The Goon Sax In the Stone Mirror II Chapter Music 2021 https://thegoonsax.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-ii
7:41 PM		Fauna Estem Conectades N Sequera / Fauna Split V/A Plastic Wound Records 2026
7:42 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Te Taliesen Orchestra - Orinoco Flow (instrumental)
7:44 PM		Angelic Upstarts I'm an Upstart Teenage Warning Rhino 1979
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
7:53 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Te Taliesen Orchestra - Orinoco Flow (instrumental)
7:54 PM		Catherine Jauniaux and Tim Hodgkinson Kebadaya Fluvial Woof Records 1983

Chat is archived.

hello!!!

What a pleasant surprise!!…the Mr T Experience has a killer versi9n of this song

w/u commie!

That song. Again with the smiles.

someone from the chat recommended it ages ago and i can't remember who!

Timeless Americana

I hope

Hello Commie! Aw, Little Bear--haven't seen him in a long while...

i have a 3 year old nephew so i see him a lot!

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

my sister sent me a photo, honestly they looked a lot like dana k

Haha, following in his aunt's footsteps ;)

Maybe not the farmer in the dell part

he also idly sings "hedi's head" by kleenex to himself sometimes so who knows what would happen

one cool little dude!

Oh this is so good.....

baltimore's own!

if htere's requests "general strike" by DOA?

@Chuckles…if we would buy Canada would DOA be an American band?

DOA would likely be fighting in the resistance

I would hope so…Elbows Up!!

A classic classic! General Strike by DOA

Hit Parade had 2 records on Crass

they changed their policy eventually

hey now. had my ears on for the past hour....great stuff!

@Commie, your nephew is adorable

The stream on Apple Music/iTunes on my laptop has gone silent twice in the past 3 minutes

yep it's ne

i thought i fixed a problem but i didn't. thanks for being vigilant though!

Just got on an immediately recognized this as Stop Making Sense, regardless of what Spinotron says

The way DB did it at The Met was amazing!!!

oh yeah i'll fix that, def stop making sense

Don't kill yer self over it

it's not hard to fix!

yesss i've been loving this album

it's great!

oh noooo I'm late to the party! helloooooo

at least you made it!

whew! glad PRB is always on in the house!

Prog is not one of my go-to genres, but every time I hear Caravan I like iit

yeah it's prog for people who don't like prog

I must admit - I do like tracks that sample an announcer somehow "good morning London - good morning sinners" - Big Audio Dynamite

Damn, missing SPARKS (my favorite band of all time) is wild. This means I've got to return literally all the time

yessssssssss

Zounds and Heavenly too...This rocks, to put it extremely lightly

enya should do a techno album

When I worked at the ad agency, our owner would play that damn Enya CD all the time - I came to hate it

I can't imagine that she thought our clients liked hearing it, but there it was

enya doing techno is one of my favorite styles of eurovision entry

Lastnight Jon played something that I thought had one of the singers from Chumbawamba in it. But now actual Chumbawamba!

hm i wonder what it was!

It was Lambrini Girls

there's a great chumbawamba song about amnesia.

there is, i believe it's called amnesia!

@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

i think you're right, but i wish i could remember

unfortunately you can't, you can't remember

Do you suffer from long term memory loss?

i can't remember

On the other hand --- Memories can't wait

This has been the most Chumbawamba conversation I've had in like 25 years lmao

guess i suffer from long-term memory loss

omg it would be so cool if someone played the dancing cigarettes soon.

There should be a Long-term memory lost & found

staffed only by postal workers

I'm shocked that was his response! I figured a band full of anarchists were always trying to make people mad lol

or maybe not mad but def trying to get other people's attention

he was like "people don't really like the royal family in the uk" which i mean... i think SOME people do

I'm sure the family likes themselves!

lol -- there has to be at least two of them

what was the event at the shoe?

it was a book talk/musical performance

it was great!

god bless the wooden shoe <3

you should play enya next

@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

"Anger is an energy" John Lyndon

i'm gonna play enya just you watch

@Randy: I believe it!

"Fury can be power - let Anger have the Hour" Joe Strummer/ The Clash

how am i also adding this vanity 6 album into the database

God Bless Minneapolis

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!

lol

lmao

I literaelly just watched that commercial a week ago

that wasn't exactly enya

ok that wasn't really enya but close enough

you don't have the cojones to play sail away

Do you have any Clannad when Enya was a member?

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?

hi liz! i hope you feel better fast! no i missed tickets before they sold out

Oh no! I Hope you're not stuck with the flu

if you hear of anyone with extras lmk

Hi Steven - My dad made a point when Enya got huge of reminding everyone that she was in Clannad.

i did see amelia and cathy sing joke oi songs with hard skin last month

your dad sounds like a cool guy

@Commie Francis - Oh rats! But I actually have an extra ticket. Hit me up later about it or just remind me

@alan c - he was an Irish trad OG

yes i will text you when you're no longer sick! awesome

liz's dad definitely sounds like he was super cool. probably would have liked my dad

it would be so cool to play some Enya to honor this fact

🎵sail away, sail away🎵

@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

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.

and later earned a nickname that endures to this day with some folks.

@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

is it true that Bono and Enya are neighbours?

seems like everyone in ireland are neighbors

bo from the chat was neighbors with incredible badass MP bernadette devlin.

Yeah - you gotta define "neighbors"

I'm from Philly "what neighborhood" well, south jersey ... Go Birds?!!!

this is as close as i'm getting to enya tonight i fear. besides one thing i'm gonna try

oh jeez -- enya would go soooooo good after this

just slip in a 'lil sail away

Enya? En ... no, thanks

Enya? More like En-yah, no thanks.

Enya? I hardly Know-yah

yeah my enya idea is not gonna work, i thought i found an instrumental version of sail away but it's not actually instrumental

The ol' Enya & out-ya

A little of the Ol' Ultra-Ambiance

What if Enya was Australian?

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

thank you <3 <3 <3 <3

hahaha

@alan "What if Enya was Australian?" then she'd be VhU3? --- that took some work

@Randy -- i don't get it. is that an obscure reference in orinoco flow that i've never recognized or...?

Enya upside down?

A bloody good show Commie.

I second that

third.

@alan "Enya upside down?" Best I could do, yeah

I have a friend in Oz named Ella who I call V773

Australia should be illegal

Great fill-in show--thanks, Commie!

great show commie catch ya soon!

thanks all!

i ordered this record from discogs, it almost never shows up in the US. and they mailed it to the wrong address

noooooooo!

did it all work out in the end?

no!

booo.