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The Kids Just Don't Understand

Feb 14, 2026 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Commie Francis

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

The Kids Speak in Complete Sentences

Sentence diagram by my dad

Kicking off a surprise fill-in show with an EPIC THEME. It's themes all the way down folks.

Last Wednesday my friend DJ Slack Kerouac from Valley Free Radio challenged me to do a theme of songs with full sentences for titles. EASY. Doing 5 hours of that now. With the return of Uneasy Listening at 8.

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6:09 PM		Husker Du Reoccurring Dreams Zen Arcade SST Records 1984
6:16 PM		Carole King Pleasant Valley Sunday (Demo) The Legendary Demos Legacy Recordings 2012
6:18 PM		Book of Love You Make Me Feel So Good L Book of Love Sire/Warner Records 1988
6:22 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Panpipes Play ABBA - The Winner Takes It All
6:26 PM		Huggy Bear February 14th Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah / Our Troubled Youth V/A Kill Rock Stars / Wiiiija 1993
6:28 PM		The Nosebleeds Ain't Bin to No Music School Ain't Bin to No Music School - Single Sanctuary Records 1977
6:31 PM		Primitive Calculators and Friends I Can't Stop It Primitive Calculators self released 1982
6:33 PM		D.B.R Hold Me Tight N Unbearable Phantom 2026 https://phantomrecords.bandcamp.com/album/unbearable
6:35 PM		Twelve Cubic Feet Mary's Got the Bug Straight out the Fridge Sealed Records 2024 orig 1982
6:37 PM		Hanna Hirsch Jag är inget borde vara allt Tala svart Release the Bats/Diskret Förlag/ADAGIO830 2008 https://adagio830-records.bandcamp.com/album/tala-svart
6:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Panpipes play ABBA - Take a Chance on Me
6:43 PM		The World I Fell in Love With a Slumlord First World Record Upset The Rhythm 2017 https://theworldband.bandcamp.com/album/first-world-record
6:46 PM		Mark Lane Love Is So Aggravating Love Is So Aggravating Artwerk Records 1981
6:49 PM		The Freshies I'm In Love With the Girl On the Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk 7" Razz Records 1980 i'm doing a theme within a theme!!
6:52 PM		Faits Divers (This Is a) Romance Nuit Blanche V/A KP Records 1984
6:56 PM		MELUSAASTE Poliisi on Korruptioo Manifesti Kuolevaisille Hätäapu records 2012 https://melusaaste82.bandcamp.com/album/manifesti-kuolevaisille-7
6:56 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Mefistos - I Am Coming Home Baby
7:00 PM		Magazine The Light Pours Out of Me Real Life Virgin Records 1978
7:05 PM		Sofa Head It Does Not Work What a Predicament Meantime Records 1990
7:07 PM		Barbara Dane I Don't Want Your Millions, Mr. I Hate the Capitalist System Paredon Records/Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1973
7:10 PM		Cult Objects Drag My Body L N Amulet World Gone Mad 2026 https://cultobjects.bandcamp.com/album/amulet
7:12 PM		Ely As Turbinas Estao Ligadas As Turbinas Estão Ligadas / Eclipse Total Polydor 1971
7:16 PM		The Red Squares The Russians Are Coming Vaultage 80 V/A Cherry Red Records 1980
7:17 PM		X-Ray Spex I Can't Do Anything Germ Free Adolescents EMI 1978
7:23 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Panpipes Play ABBA - Thank You for the Music
7:26 PM		Buzzcocks Why She's a Girl from the Chainstore R Are Everything / Why She's A Girl From The Chainstore IRS 1980 requested by Brian in the chat
7:27 PM		Pulsallama The Devil Lives in My Husband's Body Pulsallama Modern Harmonic 2020 orig 1982
7:30 PM		Yoko Ono I Felt Like Smashing My Face in a Clear Glass Window Approximately Infinite Universe Secretly Canadian / Chimera Music 1973
7:34 PM		C Punk Is Destroy-System Dear Fuckin' Shit All The Fascists +2 Hardcore Survives 2015
7:37 PM		Hans-A-Plast Ich zünd mich an 2 Tapete Records 2023 orig 1981
7:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Panpipes Play ABBA - The Winner Takes It All
7:42 PM		Fawcett's Design For Living Is Somebody There? Is Somebody There? Boys Own Label 1981
7:44 PM		NO SIDE We Just Like Hardcore Band Demo self released 1995
7:46 PM		Dandelion Adventure All the World's a Lounge Peel Session Strange Fruit 1990
7:51 PM		Michaele Jordana I'm Eighteen Romance at the Roxy Attic 1980
7:54 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over The Liberation Orchestra - We Shall Overcome
7:56 PM		100 Flowers California's Falling Into the Ocean 100 Flowers Happy Squid Records 1982

Chat is archived.

....surprise!

Hello Commie Francis! Great start to the evening with Husker Du.

a classic "i need time" track.

a nice surprise !

full sentence core! Love it

heart fulla napalm

for vday!

Buzzcocks "Why She's a Girl from the Chainstore" almost fits I believe. There's a verb hidden in that "she's" contraction there

yeah that's a sentence!

oh wait maybe not with the why

👏🦶👏🦶👏🦶

Yeah it's a declaration" why" but not sure if it's just a thought / answer or... that poetic dandyish way of starting with "why'.. but it's a fine tune

Ooh! Double Commie feature tonight? 😃

Thanks! I think this is a Diggle vocal. Always fun to hear them

For a compound sentence of two independent clauses, consider "It Takes a Lot to Laugh; It Takes a Train to Cry". (Dylan mistakenly used a comma instead of a semicolon).

I only knew about that Buzzcocks song thanks to one of the re releases of the Singles Going Steady comps that threw it on as one of the bonuses

The crux of the biscuit... is the apostrophe

Pulsallama The Devil Lives in My Husband's Body and Moon Zappa Valley Girl both from 1982. A great year for songs

The Commie takes it all.... ABBA smooth

commie takes it all and redistributes it!

Aye!

Great sets as always Commie! Best to you

Pulsallama's Jean Caffeine gave a rare NJ performance in May:

https://www.facebook.com/david.shortell.1/posts/pfbid0DsBjZdd4jyudVpg2NcErGnY61unf6EuAAw613qCJ3aJH5v5YtKT6UFAeoVHcTuysl

What about a track with two sentences in the title? George Clinton's Help Scottie, Help (I'm tweaking and I can't beam up)

I love this

I would accept that!

gotta check it for cussing though

ok after this song everyone REFRESH for a new chat/playlist!