Don't Back the Front Fri Aug 7 with Dana K on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

hi again! always on the radio!

hello!

yay

hi richard!

Deja Vú all over again. We're gonna all pitch in and buy you a radio station for Christmas

I'm afraid Christmas is Jon Solomon's domain

Have you heard the Teenage Fan Club-De La Soul collab?

The one that's on the Judgment Night soundtrack?

think I heard it a long time ago

Is that like the Slayer, Wham! Mashup?

Yes. Based on Tom Petty's "fallin'"

Sweet bed music today

Free Fallin

hi steve, hi tandy!

Is it a Rod Stewart cover?

thankfully no

neon dream clown lounge is a great spot. gonna try and see if I can DJ there sometime.

I have a 12" of Delroy Lindo covering "Tonight's the night" and I love it

Delroy Wilson

that i can believe is good!

dj baby berlin would spin on twitch pretty regularly during the pandemic. I tuned in a lot.

It's actually Dr. Hook's "Sharing the night together" - we need a Lover's Rock Reggae show

i did it a couple of times with her on twitch! we did her new wave thing domino dancing.

heck yeah! I wonder if I watched any of those. you'd think i'd remember. there was a couple of djs on twitch who were so good during all that

i think i DJ-ed maybe three times? it was a fun thing to do at a really weird time. it was nice to be able to connect to people a little bit.

Cat burgers

i don't know whether i love or hate this band name

I politely decline 🐾🍔

i want to start calling cat hail balls cat burgers now

lol.. hair balls!

three scottish pop bands in a row 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Cat sliders for all the hipsters

the cold brew i drank about an hour ago is kicking in. I'm all about these peppy pop cuts right now.

why do Scots only enunciate clearly when singing?

it's true. only the proclaimers sound scottish.

I want to hear them sing "Purple burglar alarm"

i just finished my cold brew. hoping it kicks in!

Very fun set DJ, have a nice night

Public Universal Friend for the win!

Thank you Quinn! Hi Chris!

Hi Dana K and everyone!

I'm an Esoteric Order if Dagon follower, but Universal Friend sounds nice.

Hey Rob!

I have a friend who dressed up as the Public Universal Friend for halloween last year

Dana, do you have your new car yet?

Dagon: fish God from the sea has entered the chat

Not yet, Rob. Going down to get it at the end of the month.

Leaving the 24th I think

Great costume choice by yr friend (Friend?), Dana

I just had 500 t-shirts made for work that say, "Quakers are your Friends"

This particular Dagon is just the oldest of the Deep Ones. It's an Innsmouth thing.

I went to Quaker school and Quaker summer camp growing up. I like 'em.

Yay 🎉

i went to meeting on sundays and quaker summer camp too.

Camp Dark Waters. Everyone always thought that was a spooky name.

A religious movement that is against hierarchical structure, believes in the universality of the spiritual experience, and services are mostly silent? Sign me up.

Hi Jay! All of that.

Holy animal and transportation interludes

Wednesday Week is an Undertones song

Come on by! We're still around. (Quick commercial, will delete!) https://pym.org

I would honestly love to stop by a Quaker meeting again!

Someone yelled at me on old Twitter once for being a Quaker and liking The Fall. Hah!

Actually the same friend who dressed up as the Friend started going to meetings recently (to be with the Friends)

A person in a WPRB t-shirt came to my Quaker meeting in Philly once. Turned out to be an on-air personality lol!

This band I'm playing now is from Philadelphia!

🖤📻🎶

nice! bad sports had me returning to my compy to see who it was

i'm not religious on any level but have considered attending meeting recently too. i struggle with getting up early on sundays

And now....Enya with Oronoco Flow....

I love this song (Fixed Grin)

Sail away sail away sail away

Hi again, Dana bash the front! Awesome broadcast on Tuesday metronome night, btw!

DANA K IN D HOUZ !!!!

Jesus. I just fell asleep. Maybe if my boss gets off my #$%^ I'll be awake at the end of the week. I'm going to stare at the TV for a bit then go the &*♤~ to bed. Good night everybody

hiiii a drezner and ossy!

and goodnight steve. you can curse in the chat, you know!

i just can't use swear words on air, but i encourage people to use them in my chat

gn steve. hope you have a restful sleep

You can swear on the internet? Fuck yeah.

fack

the first time i was ever on the radio the whole ride there i was saying over and over in my head. don't curse. don't curse. welp. second sentence i let a f bomb slip.

during the pandemic i MIGHT have dropped my mic and said "shit" but i don't think anyone caught it.

Is there a statute of limitations for that egregious if understandable mistake?

i have never ever heard a wprb dj curse on accidentally play one in a song. ever. they are the most professional.

that's right, colin.

LOOOOL

if I was a dj on wprb, I one of those thag would accidentally swear instinctively lol

i'm gonna need to check out more of this collection. i've never dug deep on velocity girl.

https://velocitygirl.bandcamp.com/album/1989-1992 very excited for this

I swore a LOT yesterday .. &^%&*^%&^%&*^&^%!!!! [its very cathartic] // // &()*&(*&()^*&^*&^$%$$$&*&^%!! 😊

N▪️J▪️O▪️K

I've experienced a lot of NJ darkness

Noice!

Haven't we all

Made better by listening to WPRB in the dark under the covers

Nashville Ramblers!

I remember bringing my boombox to bed with me to listen to WPRB at night

i love that Dana K!!

Do you remember lying in bed with the covers over your head the radio blaring?

did you grow up in nj ?

this is good stuff

The Ramones said it and we all did it

yup, i'm from burlington county

It was an off brand Walkman and headphones for my late WPRB listening... hi all

hi jim!

i would listen to wprb late in headphones back when i lived home

Driving down RT 1 to see my mom in Hightstown we'd pick up WPRB at the South Brunswick water tower

then, later, a 70s receiver in the 90s, one of the silver colored ones with wood sides

there was always staticy interference under the signal. in head phones you could really hear the patterns. later learned that those patterns actually were particles hitting the atmosphere and have been cataloged.

I had a GE clock radio, worked great under the cover. Then woke up to Bach the next morning when classical started the day

Kenwood or Panasonic possibly

Thanks IV sharin' yr memories, chat friends

i had this sony dual tape deck boom box that was my life.

I think Fisher or Pioneer, Marcus

in college i would go visit my firend who lived in egg harbor area. we would put little square pieces of paper in our mouths and go wander around the pine barrens. nj darkness

never put little pieces of paper in my mouth in the pine barrens but my high school best friend had a huge backyard full of trees and classic cars her dad had hoarded

many nights sitting on those cars and peering into the nj darkness

OMYG the pine barrens .. used to FREAK me out!!!! .. when I was a kid 1st being able to drive to the shore .. the pine barrens seemed to go on + on + it seemed like it was infinite .. + I think I had a bad experience vry HI + watching deliverance .. ..

Greetings from Santa Fe

was the nj devile fr the pine barrens ????

Glad to be able to tune into the show tonight!

big boss! hi gabe!

devil

Ya, the Devil in the Pines

hi chris b.!

the NJ devil was specifically from Leeds Point

pine barrens abandoned car sit could be an album name.

hi marcus /// yeah Pine barrens scary !!! .. so scruffy too

Fun NJ Fact: there is no correct way to pronounce Willingboro

and Leeds Point is in Galloway Township iirc

is leeds point IN the pine barrens !?

widely considered the legendary birthplace of the Jersey Devil. According to 18th-century folklore, a local resident known as Mother Leeds gave birth to her 13th child in 1735 and cursed the infant, shouting that it would be the devil

The Birth: The child was allegedly born deformed or mutated with a horse's head, bat wings, a kangaroo-like body, horns, and a serpent tail

OOO cool: The Leeds Family Connection: The area was named after the prominent Leeds family, including Daniel Leeds, whose family crest featured a chimerical creature that some researchers believe contributed to the myth's visual description

hello gabe! santa fe was the first time i experienced the effects of high altitude low o2. even though it felt flat to me. my sea level ass got winded on the slightest of inclines.

Didn't it jump on the roof and fly away?

yes

my ex boyfriend filmed a short film about the jersey devil killing members of a band after they got lost in the pine barrens. i was a "consultant"

im reading now - I NEVER looked into the nj devil really GOOOOD + spooky ! theres a pic o the house in wikipedia .. ..

is the film availible ??!! youtube !!!!

did you film it in Leeds?

The Jersey Devil and the Jackson Whites we gots culture

not to mention hoagies.

lol end credits of the movie, Senior NJ Darkness Consultant: DJ Dana K

i don't think it's on streaming anywhere but it did get screened at the jersey devil festival in asbury park! https://letterboxd.com/film/shriek-of-the-devil/

ooo NEAT TNX !

is this it?!

also, this whole time i've been imagining a Jersey based Darkness tribute band call NJ Darkness.

https://youtu.be/--KyTXSsN3A?si=soUvBtww71GG2s3t

yeah that's it!

FANTASTIKKK !!!

Cryptid Consultant: Dana Katherine

Katharine

I want my DUKLA PRAGUE AWAY KIT!

To go with my PINE BARRENS ABANDONED CAR SIT!

hmhb 🖤

lmao

im in suspense .. the film is grt .. .. they just accepted the gig in the barrens .......................🤦‍♂️!!

Excuse you, go flyers

my bad! i'm a bad philadelphian

I listen to Tom Dash's show every Tuesday. I didn't know he had his own label.

Set break music, I think it may be Wii lobby music or something

hi david! his label is great!

ossy, it's the wii shop channel music!

ok! one last reminder since i can't mention this on air: mike lupica and robin will be DJing records forever (2036 fairmount ave, philadelphia) on thursday, august 20th! hope to see some listeners there!

dana - I knew it and awesome friday choice!! Also brings me back to the gamecube golden days!

I suppose the Triffids take their name from the John Wyndham book. I've been reading his "Consider Her Ways", a sci-fi novella adapted into an Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode that starred Barbara Barrie.

you're playing some good ones tonight

🤘🤘🤘

@Dana, this has been another great show tonight. I've already purchased one album and I'm thinking about another one

yes! which one did you get, rob? i should have announced that it was bandcamp friday today!

I ordered the Velocity Girl one. And I'm thinking about This And That

*Paper Jam This And That

Devil flew up the chimney

Shriek of the Devil (2024) - 👍👍👍

I heard this song in WPRB in 86

Bought the record

i will make sure to let josh know you liked it!

and yes! this band was from lyndhurst

PLSE do

I actually liked the band too

the music

+the car ceiling interior

I also bought the Groceries album

I probably played this song on WPRB in 1986!

i wouldn't be surprised!

Chris I may have asked but did you know WPRB DJ Maitland Stewart?

Princeton '88

I have some air checks on cassette but the 4 tape players I own all chew up the media so I cant listen to them 😔

Knew him, not really, but know of him, yep! Classmate of mine.

My ex brother-in-law

we're training new community DJs tomorrow! my friend evan got accepted and i am every excited for him

you guys will love his show (if he gets on the schedule). highly recommended.

every excited? very excited

i love what new djs bring to the table.

What's his lane?

i'll copy what it says on his website

"freeform, underground, psych, experimental, lofi rocknroll, punk, postpunk, kraut, artrock, improv, diy, kbd, american primitive, garage, blown out basement jams, minimalist, spiritual jazz, free jazz, protopunk, fuzz, kosmiche, ambient synths, delta blues, electronic drone, outsider, afrobeat, ragas, traditional global folk, gospel blues, desert blues, loner folk, english folk, no wave, new wave, new age, noise, ramshackle"

plus a bunch more that i couldn't paste in full

he is a very natural fit for WPRB

I see "frautrock" but I have yet to hear the Toten Hosen in WPRB so let's see

krautrock

i like frautrock

fraught rock

frau rock or frock rock

DANA K GRT show [as always tnx for ALl the weeks tunage] + this is FASCINATING: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Devil

thank youu!!! glad to spread the gospel of the jersey devil

👍 - so jersey .. ❤

Tuned in for the last 20 minutes after leaving the Body show at PhilaMOCA. This is a nice balm after that.

South Jersey Quaker community retaliated against Leeds's anti-Quaker tracts with their own tract, Satan’s Harbinger Encountered … Being Something by Way of Answer to Daniel Leeds, which publicly accused Leeds of working for the devil.

Leeds almanas used astrological content .. tabooooooo

Thanks for the show Dana!

Another great show Dana! Have fun at the Folk Fest and go get that car!

Sweet socks dreams dana and catch folk fest fun!!

I too found this program a nice balm as my car stood virtually still for an hour when some crash deterred me from getting on the Pulaski Skyway on my way to see the Fleshtones tonight. By the time I extricated myself from that, I cut my losses and went home. I ain’t paying $30 to see the end of a show.

bye tnXXX

oof, david! i'm sorry that happened!

thanks for being a great chat tonight everyone!

😎

I also bought Roman Gods when it came out

😎

Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Napoleon, is also claimed to have seen the Jersey Devil while hunting on his Bordentown estate about 1820

I attended the JD's traveling show last year: https://thedevilanddaisydirt.blogspot.com/p/media.html

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