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The Charlie the Tuna Experience

Oct 4, 2026 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Music

3:02 PM		Chainmale Freakout Can't Stop It! II - Australian Post-Punk 1979-84 (2026 Deluxe Edition) Chapter Music 2026
3:04 PM		Commander Cody Hot Rod Lincoln Lost In the Ozone V/A Geffen 1971
3:06 PM		Judas Priest Painkiller Painkiller Columbia 1990
3:12 PM		Metallica Disposable Heroes Master of Puppets (Remastered) Blackened Recordings 1986
3:21 PM		Robin Trower Bridge of Sighs (2007 Remaster) Bridge of Sighs (2007 Remaster) Chrysalis Records 1974
3:25 PM		The Chambers Brothers Time Has Come Today The Time Has Come Columbia/Legacy 1967
3:37 PM		Eric Burdon & The Animals Sky Pilot The Twain Shall Meet Universal Records 1968
3:44 PM		Deep Purple Space Truckin' (Live) In Concert Deep Purple (Overseas) 1972
3:55 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
3:58 PM		Funkadelic What Is Soul (2025 Remastered) Funkadelic (2025 Remastered) Org Music 1970
4:06 PM		Don Cherry, Collin Walcott, and Leon Thomas Sunrise Sunrise - Live in Ypsilanti, MI, 1977 Wewantsounds 2026
4:28 PM		OOIOO UJA Taiga Thrill Jockey 2006
4:36 PM		Konono N°1 Paradiso Congotronics Crammed Discs 2005
4:43 PM		Booker Stardrum Telluric Future Sounds Of Jazz Vol. 16 - compiled by Michael Reinboth & Michael Rütten Compost Records 2026
4:51 PM		Al Chem Moksha Future Sounds Of Jazz Vol. 16 - compiled by Michael Reinboth & Michael Rütten Compost Records 2026
4:58 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:04 PM		Steve Reich Electric Counterpoint Different Trains Nonesuch 1989
5:19 PM		Electric Weasel Ensemble Music From Time Curve Poems Vol XV Electric Weasel Ensemble Important Records 2026
5:45 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:55 PM		The Operator Sound INC. The Lunar Loop Esoteric Audio for Spaceage Witchcraft Library Of The Occult 2026
5:55 PM		Teodros Makonnen Algebagnim Keto (አልገባኝም ከቶ) Teodros Makonnen With His Organ Muzikawi 2026

Chat is archived.

Aw yeah!

welcome aboard Amy

What’s today’s theme?

hello Bill .... today's theme is music

I was hoping it was cigarettes

Hearing older Metallica is comforting for some reason.

Music! Excellent!

Yes! Robin Trower played at Penn's Peak last week. Great show.

yes, music! ... some with guitars ... some without.

hey Ross ...where's Penns Peak?

Jim Thorpe PA. Believe it or not, I actually listened to this song on the golf course this morning. True story

how was your game? .... besides soggy.

I did miss Eye in Philly as a result of the Trower show though. Golf was great. I'm terrible so it's always fun. Was off the course by 9:30 so it wasn't raining yet.

the EYE show was transportive ... dude always delivers.

Can there be too much cow bell

The first rock star I met in Hollywood was Lester Chambers. I feel cool.

did you ask him what time it was?

Am I hearing “Little Drummer Boy” in this jam?

I'll have what Bill's having.

i heard it too ... it must have been december when they recorded this

Nice.

Beignets?

(I know he sang “bayonets,” but it sounded weird.)

clearly under the influence ...

Hahaha!

Great show. The vibe is quite appropriate for shellacking.

hola Thachmo ... I trust that you are sans mask.

Any chance you’ll follow up this track with Bread’s “Truckin’”?

(jk)

no chance ... sorry bill

Hahaha!

how in the hell have I never heard this version of space truckin before? I was just talking about the purple on Tim show last night.

wow, this smokes made in Japan. Which I think is one of the best live albums ever made.

One of my college roommates joked that The Best of Bread was the album you’d get by mistake from a record club. My older cousin Rich got Kiss Double Platinum.

I tried to sell it to Barry at the Record Exchange. He yelled “No!”

Unbeknownst to me too. Damn.

I missed it. I probably would’ve commented on it. I often comment on shit nobody else does. I often get crickets too.

go check it out ... or maybe i'll play it again

Nothing wrong with crickets. Sometimes better to be the exception than the rule.

i’m cool with crickets. Can’t be who I ain’t.

Right on, man.

When I saw P-Funk, George Clinton was wearing a muumuu. Does he always do that?

seen george a thousand times ... dressed in everything from a 3 piece suit to nothing at all

first impression never heard the song before. Sounds like Gary Newman meets Sparks. I find the singer being totally out of time with the rest of the music very… awesome actually. I’m talking about the Chainmale Freakout

Numan. Voice to text don’t know innovative, synthesizer, new wave dudes.

yeah ... oddly out of time

I saw Gary Numan a couple years ago. I don’t dig his newer industrial music, but it was cool to see him.

always liked the Numan ... heard he was a bit of a white power dude though ... i think he's also a pilot

Disposable Heroes! Nice! Hammett wrote that one.

Al Jourgensen was on the bill, too. Withered hippy-looking, but loud and full of piss and vinegar.

I saw a documentary about Gary Numan. It didn’t mention any white power stuff, but the film was meant to be complimentary.

Lost in the sauce again

i may be wrong ... don't wanna slander the dude ... thought i heard that a while back though

yo Stike ... how's it hangin' today?

Check out Android in La La Land. Docu on Numan, comes off like a lost Ozzy. And I'm aware how that sounds.

Says online that Numan voted for Thatcher. Ew.

I'm good

Yes, Ross, that’s the doc I saw.

I dig the wind instrument on this track. Reminds me of Watermelon Man on Headhunters.

Does anyone remember the Sunday morning Indian music show on ‘PRB? Lots of long sitar pieces.

saturday mornings actually ... me thinks it's still happening

Yes, Sat and yes, still on AFAIK

Oh, really? Wow, man, I’ve heard that show in ages! I used to listen when I was driving around town. Going to Wawa to buy milk or getting kerosene at Rosedale Mills.

*I haven’t heard that show in ages

Congotronics, nice!

thought so - I know that kalimba anywhere

I remember getting a close of view of there set up

radical shit

handmade doesn't begin to describe it

Dope shit

Anybody watch Amoeba Records’ web series “What’s In My Bag?” on YouTube? The best episode is with actor Jason Mantzoukas. He has really eclectic tastes, picked out a bunch of obscure, cool international records. https://youtu.be/ecfWVhz-wyc?is=gihUyxyI7Endx3vf

The Melvins episode is good, too. https://youtu.be/CK3O8F_unzg?is=skeTAVE-o9M7VDeF

what's in the Melvins' bag? .... KISS?

I've seen one or two episodes. David Byrne was one. I don't remember who the other was but it was weak. I'll check out the links.

Byrne got a Fela record

shocking!

Which was weird since he ripped him off for RIL

homage he'd say

maybe that was too strong...

that record's pretty dope though .... needless to say.

No doubt. Top 10 for me, really. Given it was 1980 as well.

I think the Fela influence on RIL was introduced by Eno. He talks about it in the Eno doc.

maybe their peak along with Fear of Music

Buildings and Food ain't too shabby either

Yeah, after Speaking it was over for me. Interesting about Eno, I don't remember that in the doc

guess it depends on which of the infinite versions you saw

Ha, right. I saw maybe half of one. On a plane. Never went back to it. Shame on me.

Buildings and Food was one of the two records I bought for my first (and only) stereo in the summer before 9th grade (1982). The other record was The Police’s Reggatta de Blanc.

I got Regatta in one of those Columbia House scams. On 8 Track. Look Sharp was another.

Bought most of my records at the Record Exchange. Some at the Music Cellar under Titles Unlimited in the Princeton Shopping Center.

Look Sharp, nice!

Re: What’s in Melvins’ bag - Buzzo chose Exile On Main Street, among other things.

More random (unsolicited) trivia - I got the Groceries record at a Trinity Church rummage sale in the mid-‘80s. Ethan Hawke was an acolyte at that church when he was a kid.

This band’s name reminds of the Steve Martin bit about buying cool stuff like an electric dog polisher.

*reminds me

Thanks, Charlie! This has become my favorite radio show!

thanks you very much Bill ... and thanks to all y'all for tuning in ... hope it was as good for you as it was for me ... till next week ....

Agreed. I haven't missed one yet! Another great one Charlie.

many thanks Ross