Circuits Tue Aug 18 with Mike Lupica on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Gondor calls for aid... AND ROHAN WILL ANSWER.

Apparently.

Greetings, so far so good!

Good morning, Mike and Number 6!

Ahoy, gents

Greetings! & Salutations, even!

MrM! Been a while since you've been around these parts. Glad to see ya here.

@Mike, I might have been interested in that Mott record?

Hi Rob and all!

Rob, go outside after this song and I will throw it really hard to the south!

Hi Mike and pitcrew! How did the cd sale go, except for the Mott one?

Mike, I will. And then I will roll all the way to Memphis!

Ha!

Ah, nice! Thanks! Glad to be here to hear ya, DJ MikeLupica!

Hey Yvang!

THIS rN Af 👣

Never too early for dancefloor bangers.

Goes great with being overcaffeinated.

I’M ON IT… ☕️👣☕️👣☕️👣☕️👣☕️‼️

Empanadas Ilegales, I just fountd out they're from Vancouver, british Columbia. Columbia!

That was quite a surprise for me, too!

EXCITING BEHIND THE SCENES INFO FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY: DURING THE NEXT SONG, I WILL RUN DOWNSTAIRS TO MY OFFICE TO MICROWAVE MY COFFEE WHICH HAS GONE COLD.

Fancy! Zapped Caffeine! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

@Mike- When I was at PREX last Wed., I saw some Mork and Mindy DVDs, as well as Gilligan's Island and others. A real blast out of the past!

LOVE AND ROCKETS 🚀♥️🚀

https://blog.fantagraphics.com/how-to-read-love-and-rockets/

NAH-noo NAH-noo is the proper British pronunciation.

Awww, Love and Rockets! I loved reading that back in the day

Yvang…any empanada not from a South American country should be illegal

LOL Carlos.

Did you know… Salsa was invented when Puerto Ricans took Cuban rhythms to New York Brazilian Jujitsu was born when the Japanese took Judo to Brazil When North African frying traditions met Spanish dough, Spain made the churro. After Jamaicans took their sound systems to the UK, the world got punk. the world is meant to meet

(Drunk voice): That was beautiful, man.

That’s what I’m sayin 😭

good morning. dug that terry reid.

Good morning Mike and pitcrew!

Enjoying the mix this morning (afternoon for me), thanks MIKE :)

I hear that version played more than Donovan's.

Mrmal..appears to me that you were watching the World Cup last month

Yes butttttt it’s never Mrmal. It’s MrM or MrMalcontent, if you’re nasty.

".. but you doesn't has to call me Johnson."

Ha Dave beat me to it!

I’m a vegetarian and can go to a steakhouse and have a delicious meal. 🍽️ FeedMeI’mStarving#

The “don’t be a wedge” rant hit deep, Mike

If you eat a wedge salad today make sure the next couple days are free

Howdy latecomers. (You're not really "late", just latER than I was.

I'm on a see food diet, I see food, I eat it.

new mick harvey is a welcome thingy.

WILL NO ONE IDENTIFY THE SUBJECT ARTIST OF THIS SONG?

Oh no, a quiz!!

I can! I can!

But I looked it up online

Too easy!

Borealis??

This is the part where I disappoint all of you when I say that it was a song about Billy Squier.

@Carlos, that is an explosive take on things

Goreyalice??

Oh

T. REX❣️

Shouldnt songs about billy squier be by jilted pop tarts?

@Mike, "Aurora" is about Mott The Hoople, right?

GAAAHH!!!!

Good morning Mike all others…

Record Labels on Playlist 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤

Still claiming the Honaloochie Boogie Defense.

Howdy Dan. You've walked into a powderkeg of opinions, as usual.

Treading lightly…

Next week I'll hand out grapes to everyone in the chat to throw at me.

Caffeine induced I’ll assume

grapes or gripes?

*ducks*

Both in bunches

Good morning tuesday morning wprb crew. Both Mike and my fellow void screamers

Hey Pengy

@Rob, I will hand out fine point Sharpies with the grapes upon which you will be asked to inscribe a GRIPE (about the world, about me, about the show, etc.) And then you can throw the grape at me.

What’s it come to? Doc on Rush has multiple talking heads comparing lead singers looks of all things.

I only have one gripe.

If there's a documentary about Rush, please tell me that it's called "All the World's Indeed a Stage" because if it isn't, I quit this planet.

There may be a doc on every band

Timestamp bookmarking this ttune.

Just microwaved my coffee for a second time this morning. Maybe I need a smaller mug.

@Alex, this is a great one!

Blow big man blow

What the science oven was invented for

First ones were as heavy as A/C units

Dub?

This is them right now, Rob!

Broadcast delay seems pretty fierce this morning, so I think there's a lag between what I'm posting and what you're hearing.

Mike, my bad (comment deleted).

No worries.

That Tilaye Gebre track was A+

Agree!

Though Mauskovic Dance Band are no slouches.

It was great with my slowly warming cold brew coffee

Agree, Mauskovic Dance Band are great too

I need a Bongo Joe t shirt

Great Stuffs! 📻🎼🎶🎵🖤💀 Cheers, DJ MikeLupica!

Dan…see if you can get a Bazzoka JOe shirt too..i wonder what he looks like these days

Love that guy! Did he have the turtleneck pulled up over his mouth?

Great fashion statement

Nope! Joe had the eye patch

never streamed porn on my phone. don't know how you can see the bits and bobs.

Porn has a very wide spectrum…LEGO porn one example

Seriously just found a Shriekback Oil and Gold LP in a box of records I bought about five or six years ago

Good morning, everyone. We're all here

Like art, eye of the beholder I guess

@dan - lincoln log porn seems apt.

I nominate this as one of the best ever opening lines in a song: "It was the car on the road that everybody swerved to avoid, 'cause they thought he was driving drunk... But he was only daydreamin' about his new life without his wife... whose body was in the trunk."

Nice score fr1day!

Indeed…all has appeared on various hoarder shows, US, UK

That is M!

https://theonion.com/burned-lower-half-of-morts-face-revealed-in-bazooka-joe-1819570334/

Tinker Toys

mike, sounds like a tom waits story.

Can we get a word from MrsMikeLupica?!? 🤓

I got 2 rare records this week. One is a big 16" record containing ads for Ford Motor Co. that came out in 1963, and the other is a Bhutan talking stamp.

BLONDE REDHEAD ❤️ N❣️

@Dale, truth!

@MrM, worry not. She is just fine. Not an autobiographical reference. Smart Went Crazy frequently paired DEEPLY disturbing lyrics with disarmingly inviting pop sounds.

Perfect! & Wondrous!!

It was, of course, just a bad joke. All the best to the LupicaFamBam!

M, you make it easy to turn down sub teaching assignments

Oh, Dischord 🩶‼️

Using FM radio for the betterment of Young Folks since 1992.

Now I for realz want to hear everything from SMART WENT CRAZY!

Put your hand on the iPad

MrM - check that whole album especially the songs "Con Art" and "DC Will Do That To You".

Will do! Thanks, DJ MikeLupica

And after hearing that last song before Circuits, I also gotta check out more from SOAPKILLS.

Also great.

Have you played them??

First thing I do when I get here on Tuedays is program a bunch of songs that **I** like in the overnight automation that plays before I officially start at 7. So 6:30-7 AM on Tuesdays is sort of like the warmup gig.

Yes, I have played them, though not in a while.

Hey now! Gotta tune even earlier! 😵‍💫😤😭🙃🥸😎🤩🥳

I always thought that the lead in songs sounded interesting, now I lnow.

You learn quickly, never to say, “any requests?” to HS students

*know.

I just watched, “Sweet Sweetbacks…Song”

Ha Im gonna learn this for my retirement speech.

Mmmm, Rum&Coke & 🎠❣️ What a way to go. I’m coming Elizabeth! ☠️

Hahaha! Alex, you will be a viral hit on YouTube.

Screaming Jay Hawkins…

this melvin van peebles is wild!

Just read that Handsome Dick didnt take kindly to his name being used and forced a change

@Carlos, yep. Kind of a not-so-handsome Dick move.

¡‘16 Toneladas‘! ¡Me Encanta!

clip-on tie i hope.

Adny Shernoff won't allow Dick Manitoba to call his current band The Dictators.

Fleetwood Roller Rink never got sued by a rock band. Just saying.

I've seen "16 Tons" performed live in New Brunswick by both Destroy All Bands and Hunchback.

Direct drive?

What about the SHINY•TIES!? See them preform it?!

Melvin Van Peebles only appears in the final second of the biopic "Baadasssss!" (in which he's played by his son Mario).

Yes, enjoyed that too

I see something thin and circular sailing overhead. Could it be a UFO?

Is Ian Hunter flying it?

Dwight from the Office was great!

Oh, wait, it's a Mott The Hoople record!

Yes, that is Ian Hunter I spy up in the air

The apple sauce band

CATCH!

Rn THIS aF

🗡️ aWhaAhAhAhh

Got it!

Total chainmail vibes

This Sheer Mag song, especially the beginning, reminded me a cross between Suzi Quatro and ... another band

Well that was a crap segue.

Can you believe they're gonna let me do this in public on Thursday at Records Forever? https://wprb.com/wprb-djs-at-records-forever-on-august-20th/

I just glanced at another open tab and saw the phrase "parasitized by wasps". That would make a good title for an album by a metal band no?

Show em How It’s DONE! @DJMikeLupica!

@Rob, that is 100% \m/

@rob - saw that happen to a tomato hornworm. horrifying.

@Dale, @Rob, that David Attenborough video of the ants getting infected with the mind-control fungus (culminating with a mushroom bursting from their heads) is the stuff of nightmares.

Surf metal! Alexijente approves!

Morton Downey Jr. boasted he wrote "Pipeline".

Only good things happen when I get on a Hanoi Rocks kick.

@Dale, that was part of a discussion on tomato hornworms ...

@Mike, yes, the mind-control fungus thing is amazing and scary

...And the basis for The Last of Us

all we need is a govt. lab to try to create that fungus now. have an agent do your bidding then POOF - mind blown.

@Mike, instead of saying "BRAINS" we'd all be saying "FUNGUS" ... ?

FungusAmongUs

Ah, I see that "The Last of Us" is a tv series based on fungi taking over our brains

geesh, just watched that short clip. a cautionary tale for the kids to stay off psychedelic mushrooms.

Old movie "Scanners" did the exploding head thing quite nicely. Telepathy.

On that note, I'm going to head out. This has been an enjoyable show, Mike, and I've enjoyed chatting with everyone. Byeee

C ya rob

Not often that I hear Hanoi rocks, but when I do, my mind goes back to bitchin camaro

Rick Sanchez manually steers his saucer. https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Space_Cruiser

Wow

I'd like to see Professor X try that "Scanners" trick sometime.

‘Fortunate Son’ ❤️❤️❤️ CCR ❤️❤️❤️

I love Scanners! Not many people know this, but I can do that head exploding thing while also playing a tiny saxophone.

Jeff L. never recovered his Creedence tapes

Or his, “papers” for that matter

If I ever get to sing Fortunate Son at karaoke, this is the version I want to do.

A Reagan era cover of a Nixonian masterpiece AF

Hitchcock & Bradbury addressed the whole "mind-control fungus thing". https://barebonesez.blogspot.com/2012/09/ray-bradbury-on-tv-part-four-alfred.html

Nancy’s on the wall of fame in big Lebowski, as you know I’m sure

@Readie, for sure! And I love it most because they're not trying to sound like Creedence.

Absolutely, Mike absolutely 💯

There's something "Angine de Poitrine" in this Scorpion track.

Nancy acted in a good film Eddie Muller presented on TCM this year called "Talk About a Stranger", about a boy who suspects a neighbor killed his dog.

@Readie, I would be interested in hearing a trip-hop cover of "Ramble Tamble" for similar reasons.

@Yvang, I have long wished that Circle would cover that Scorpions song.

Also, I was recently unseated by Charlie the Tuna as WPRB's biggest and most unapologetic fan of old Scorpions records.

I saw Dicks at City Gardens in 1985, then 21 years later at Maxwell's.

I endorse that commission wholeheartedly, Mike (ramble tamble)

Henry Rollins was interviewed Saturday about the Cramps collection "Gravest Gravy" he and Ian Mackaye just put out. https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/167306

Comes out on 8/21

Delirium Death of the Cramps by Scorpions Dicks eh just Jesters

Yahtzee!

Looking over this set I could see a sentence/story

Yee & Haw

Also too much caffeine

HubbaBubba

Discogs lied that it came out Sunday! https://discogs.com/release/38167581

Gotta check out. Thanks Mike! Some great music as usual.

I heard a great Laurice song Sunday called "Diamonds Are Forever", but it's unrelated to the James Bond movie.

1️⃣9️⃣8️⃣7️⃣❣️ Totally Tubular❣️

Next record's from 1978. Whatchoo got, MrM?

It must have been November 1988 when I saw Volcano Suns because they were complaining about George H.W. Bush's election.

That complaint has no expiration date.

Don’t want to be nice? Have It Your Way 🍔👑

Symphony For Battery Operated Instruments ❤️

Hey mike! That was nice to hear John Cooper Clark, thanks for the show.

Awesome to see AmbroseHughes!

Ambrose! Good to see ya here, pal! Been a long time, hope you are well! And JCC forever!

I missed JCC at LPR 2 years ago. https://lpr.com/lpr_events/jcc24

Final Fifteen Mins?! Outrageous!

DJ MikeLupica! SuperDuper Show again this week! Big cheers! Always nice to chat with you! Be well & stay happy! Kind regards!

Cheers, MrM. Good hang today.

thanks for the racket mike!

Big hello Mr M💀 and bike never far away from the radio I just don't always have time to chat.

I meant Mike!

Bike never far from Mike?! 😜🤓😎

Understood, my friend. Hope to see you around these parts again.

THE WAITRESSES ❤️

As I think we discussed here earlier this summer, the Waitresses' Chris Butler bought and now lives in the house once owned by... Jeffery Dahmer. Look it up.

I mainly know Peter Jefferies from the Mick Travis and Dr. Phibes movies. — No, wait. That's Peter Jeffrey!

I don't know about tomorrow, but today was! Thanks Mike!

Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas 🎶🎁🎵

I thought I was gonna go all day without a Jeffrey Dahmer reference thanks. I have seen T-shirts that say, Jeff boy RD being a knock off of chef boy, RD

When he was a student at Kent State, Chris Butler dove behind a car to avoid the gunfire on May 4, 1970.

This gives a new meaning to "I know what boys like"

‘Close To You’ ❤️💔♥️❤️‍🩹❤️

Ohio native John Backderf wrote/drew books on both Kent State and Jeffrey Dahmer (his high school classmate).

Thanks, until next time, BCNU!

Dahmer moved out..rent was costing him an arm and aa leg..or he needed more elbow room

Too soon, Carlos!

song makes me want a smoke

7:02 AM		Toots & The Maytals Funky Kingston Funky Kingston Island Records 1975
7:07 AM		Empanadas Ilegales ¿Lágrimas? N Laboratorio Tropical We Are Time 2026
7:10 AM		Dewey Terry Do On My Feet (What I Did On the Street) Chief Tumbleweed 1972
7:14 AM		Terry Reid Superlungs My Supergirl Terry Reid Epic 1969
7:17 AM		Love and Rockets Welcome Tomorrow Earth Sun Moon Beggars Banquet 1986
7:20 AM		José James Tokyo Daydream (feat. Taali) 1978: Revenge of The Dragon Rainbow Blonde Records 2025
7:24 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:32 AM		Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo Song for Aurora N Psychedelia in White Mute 2026
7:38 AM		T. Rex The Slider The Slider Reprise 1972
7:41 AM		Stylianos Ou & The Cortisol Cows Death Will Come Fucked Forever Ever/Never Records 2024
7:45 AM		Tilaye Gebre Ānichī Keto Gidi Yeleshimi (አንቺ ከቶ ግድ የለሽም) N Tilaye's Saxophone With The Dahlak Band Muzikawi 2026 Originally 197?
7:51 AM		The Mauskovic Dance Band People in the Hall Bukaroo Bank Les Disques Bongo Joe 2022
7:55 AM		Shriekback All the Greek Boys (Do the Handwalk) Tench Y Records 1982
7:59 AM		Tom Robinson Band Martin Power In the Darkness Harvest 1978
8:01 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:06 AM		Smart Went Crazy A Brief Conversation Ending In Divorce Con Art Dischord 1997
8:10 AM		Blonde Redhead Blood Spilled N 7" Section 1 2026
8:15 AM		Lee Ranaldo Tajikistan (Nice To Meet You) N The System (Original Film Music) Riva Media Records 2026
8:18 AM		Aja Monet Say it With Your Chest N The Color of Rain Drink Sum Wtr 2026
8:22 AM		Manitoba T&A: The Great Canadian Weekend Give'r 12" Leaf 2001
8:26 AM		Melvin Van Peebles Put a Curse on You Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death A&M 1970
8:30 AM		Los Cuatros Soles 16 Toneladas N Greasy Mike Goes South of the Border Jazzman 2026 Merle Travis cover, this version from 1956
8:33 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:39 AM		Mott the Hoople Honaloochie Boogie Mott Columbia/Legacy 1973
8:42 AM		Sheer Mag Steel Sharpens Steel A Distant Call Wilsuns 2019
8:46 AM		Los Bitchos (feat. Adrian Quesada & Sinkane) Hang up (Pt 2) N Hang up (Pt 2) Great! 2026
8:49 AM		Tijuana Hercules Chilanta Mudslod and the Singles Skin Graft 2021
8:52 AM		Hanoi Rocks Pipeline + 2 All Those Wasted Years (Live at the Marquee) Cleopatra 2020
9:01 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:07 AM		Jesters of Destiny Fortunate Son In a Nostalgic Mood Metal Blade 1987 Creedence cover
9:12 AM		Scorpions The Sails of Charon Taken by Force RCA Victor 1977
9:16 AM		Dicks Dead in a Motel Room These People Alternative Tentacles 1984
9:19 AM		The Cramps New Kind of Kick Bad Music For Bad People I.R.S. Records 1984
9:22 AM		Death Valley Girls Message From the Venus Flower N Welcome to Earth Suicide Squeeze 2026
9:25 AM		Francis of Delirium Little Black Dress N Run, Run Pure Beauty Dalliance Recordings 2026
9:28 AM		Laurice Not Responsible for Loss or Damage N Dorothy Almost Ready 2026
9:30 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:35 AM		Volcano Suns Magic Sky Bumper Crop Homestead 1987
9:38 AM		John Cooper Clarke I Don't Want to Be Nice Disguise In Love Epic 1978
9:41 AM		The Batteries Included Ensemble Haunted Bunk on a Submarine N In the Cards: A Symphony For Battery Operated Instruments in 13 Parts Fuzzy Warbles 2026
9:43 AM		Peter Jefferies Speed Only (Excerpt) N The Day they Let You Out is the Day they Might Not Let You Come Back Grapefruit 2026
9:47 AM		Jim Nollman Rattle and Conk N Orcas' Greatest Hits Smithsonian Folkways 2026
9:49 AM		The Waitresses No Guilt Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? Ze Records 1982
9:53 AM		Birgit Lystager Close To You Birgit Lystager RCA Victor 1970
9:58 AM		Paula and Carole See Ya The Magic Garden CAP 1978

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Circuits

The Honaloochie Boogie Defense