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Transistor Sister

Jul 25, 2026 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Music

With Commie Francis

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

Grief show

On a sad anniversary week, a sad show.

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8:01 PM		Freddy Cannon Transistor Sister Transistor Sister - Single Swan Records 1961 RIP to the pride of Revere Massachusetts
8:03 PM		Black Sabbath Into the Void Master of Reality Rhino/Warner Records 1971
8:09 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Brian Eno - The Big Ship
8:14 PM		Freddy Cannon Maverick's Flat Maverick's Flat / Run To The Poet Man Warner Bros 1967
8:17 PM		Shannon & The Clams Oh So Close, Yet So Far The Moon Is In The Wrong Place Easy Eye Sound 2024 https://shannonandtheclams.bandcamp.com/album/the-moon-is-in-the-wrong-place
8:19 PM		The Weeds I'm Gonna Be There Aka the Lollipop Shoppe Tombstone Records 1968
8:22 PM		Leonard Cohen The Old Revolution Songs from a Room Columbia Nashville 1969
8:27 PM		The Kinks Strangers Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One Sanctuary Records 1970
8:30 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Brian Eno - The Big Ship
8:38 PM		Shakti Koh - I - Noor Shakti La Vida Es Un Mus Discos 2025 https://shaktibcn.bandcamp.com/album/s-t
8:40 PM		Rat Cage Steady on Now N Not Asking for Much La Vida es un Mus Discos 2026 https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/not-asking-for-much
8:42 PM		Mesh Sign L N No Fun At All Feel It Records 2026 https://meshphilly.bandcamp.com/album/no-fun-at-all-2
8:45 PM		Modey Lemon Coffin Talk Modey Lemon A-F Records 2002
8:51 PM		Pete Ham Without You (Demo Version) Golders Green 5177903 Records DK2 1999
8:53 PM		Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds Four Strong Winds Vanguard Records 1963
8:56 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Brian Eno - The Big Ship
9:02 PM		Motörhead 1916 1916 WTG 1991
9:05 PM		Vashti Bunyan Winter Is Blue (Acetate Demo, 1966) Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind - Singles and Demos 1964-1967 FatCat Records 2007
9:08 PM		Chumbawamba By & By A Singsong And A Scrap Universal Records 2005
9:13 PM		Burning Kitchen Lost Confirmation Communichaos 1998
9:17 PM		Pixies I Can't Forget I'm Your Fan V/A Columbia 1991
9:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Brian Eno - The Big Ship
9:25 PM		Flower Travellin' Band Satori Part IV N Satori Start Entertainments Limited 1971 new reissue out now on Munster Records
9:36 PM		Curt Boettcher Rest In Peace Chicken Little Was Right Cherry Red Records 1973
9:38 PM		The Stones Throw Singers Rain of Earth Dimension Mix (A Tribute to Dimension 5 Records) V/A eenie meenie records 2005
9:44 PM		Toy Love Green Walls Toy Love Blue Pie 1979
9:47 PM		Statuesque Meltdown Disney Angleterre Cassiel Records 1996
9:52 PM		Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir & Ed Trickett Turning Toward the Morning Turning Toward the Morning Folk-Legacy Records 1975
9:57 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Brian Eno - The Big Ship
10:02 PM		Queen All Dead, All Dead News of the World Hollywood Records 1977
10:05 PM		The Klezmorim Mayn Rue Plats Streets of Gold Arhoolie Records 1978
10:08 PM		Sister Rosetta Tharpe Cain't No Grave Hold My Body Down Cain't No Grave Hold My Body Down / Ain't No Room In Church For Liars Decca 1950
10:11 PM		The Bats Made up in Blue Compiletely Bats Flying Nun Records 1986
10:15 PM		Pierced Arrows The Wait Straight to the Heart Tombstone Records 2008
10:19 PM		Tres and Kitsy It's a Long Way to Heaven Dandelions KBK Records 1971
10:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Brian Eno - The Big Ship
10:24 PM		The Kinks Days Days / She's Got Everything Pye 1966
10:27 PM		Lou Reed Cremation (Ashes to Ashes) Magic and Loss Warner Bros 1992
10:30 PM		X Come Back to Me Under the Big Black Sun Slash 1982
10:33 PM		No Hope For The Kids Rainy Day No Hope For the Kids 1667 HJERNESPIND RECORDS via DiGiDi.org 2004
10:36 PM		Norma Tanega I'm Dreamin' a Dream Walkin' My Cat Named Dog Rhino 1966
10:38 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Brian Eno - The Big Ship
10:41 PM		Leonard Cohen One of Us Cannot Be Wrong Songs of Leonard Cohen Columbia 1967
10:46 PM		Derribos Arias Aprenda Aleman en 7 Dias N En La Guia, En El Listin Munster Records 2026 orig 1983
10:49 PM		Yoko Ono Turn of the Wheel Season of Glass Geffen 1981
10:52 PM		Shannon & The Clams Bean Fields The Moon Is In The Wrong Place Easy Eye Sound 2024
10:55 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Brian Eno - The Big Ship
10:58 PM		Bastard Misery Wind of Pain Bastard Records 1992 love you Bill

Chat is archived.

Hey commmmmmmiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

hiya jimbo!

Awww another amazing Freddie

Hi COMMIE 💥💥💥👍👍👍

hi amy!

👋👋

Good evening Commie and everyone

Howdeeee Rob & Amy

hey rob!

Good grief!

Mesh is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

love them!

Thank you, Commie, for being so open with your love and pain and sharing your sweet stories

Wow this demo version is truly awesome

isn't it beautiful? that pete ham collection of home recordings/demos is really great

It is beautiful. I didn’t like the Badfinger’s version as much as Nilsson but Pete Ham’s demo is something else. I didn’t know there was a collection out of his home recordings/ demos. I will certainly check that out. Tragic dude.

i forgot to mention that bill encouraged me to look deeper into badfinger and bought "straight up" for me

Badfinger was a great band. Love Lemmy too. My wife met him at Castle Donington festival. 88 I thinjk. It was a year Motörhead didn’t play he was just hanging out with the bands. He was a total sweetheart

I feel like I only know this Vashti song as solo vocal

yeah i'm honestly not sure if i have the version right but that vashti is the version from the comp "gather in the mushriooms". i like it better than the one on just another diamond day

that comp came out on vinyl but they changed the songs and took that one off

g jax i only saw motorhead once and it was one of the last shows before lemmy died

bill saw them a bunch in their prime

That's the version I know, thanks for the new one!

I only saw them twice late 80s maybe early 90s

Robbery is afoot!

Stand ready!

Shit like that that.

Inexustable supply of "that, that"

Hi! forgive my tangents.

Never mind.

Chumbawamba is a nice side of silly serious.

Oh I thought this sounded like bruce haack

sure does!

The rest of this song is so, so but the guitar is boss.

There's a drive in movie joint across the river from me and the sound drifts over, so I'm trying to figure out what's showing

bossy geetars

drive in movie joint? Seriously?

Hey Commie. 'Evening chatters. Just saying Hi. Hi. ♥️

Ya betcha roffle

Hiya deejay 'loin

'Evening Jimbooooo

Do you have to drive thru time to Jimbooooo?

bill and i had our first date at a drive in!

synchronicity

Old folks have their stories.

there's a drive in in Baltimore I used to frequent - https://bengies.com/

I love the passing of time. I loved drive-inns. But, not an easy find Tenderloin.

Another graveyard? Those litter the earth.

Tonight's double feature: moana and sheep detectives

Sister Rosetta is SMOKIN

Ugh this is the best

Love to you Commie - this isn't a Bill our you song perhaps but it's the one that comes to my mind. pearls before swine translucent carriages

I loved that song by the dandelion tweens ✨✨✨💚

Thx Commie ♥️

This sad song is hitting during my late night drive to get snacks at Wawa 😩

wawa of sadness

when i was a teenager i was friends with the town librarian and she said she used to request "famous blue raincoat" by leonard cohen all the time from the one station she knew had it and they finally told her to stop because it was too depressing

LOL

thank youuuuuu commmmmmmiiiiiieeeeeeeeee

Hi Commie. Thank you for this show tonight.

Going to Wawa now. Thanks. Good nights

My deepest condolences for your loss, Commie. Wishing you peace and comfort this week and always