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DoublePlusGood

Oct 15, 2026 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Music

With Lizbot

A tangy mélange of modern classical composition, rock in opposition, and songs of petition on a free-form mission

Bright Autumn!

5:03 PM		Eskimeaux Sleeping Bear Gabrielle Smith Year of the Rabbit Double Double Whammy 2016
5:07 PM		Grizzly Bear Alligator (Choir Version) Friend Warp Records 2007
5:12 PM		Allison Graves the leaves and you (change) Allison Graves N i still look for the mountains Allison Graves 2024
5:13 PM		Jens Lekman Maple Leaves Jens Lekman Maple Leaves - EP Secretly Canadian 2004
5:17 PM		Bear Claw Needle and Thorn One Sider Monofonus 2011
5:20 PM		Shovel Dance Collective The Foxhunter's Reel N Everything in Readiness tak:til 2026 Nine headed patchwork folk music from London
5:22 PM		Fleet Foxes Thymia Shore Anti/Epitaph 2020
5:24 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:29 PM		Robyn Hitchcock September Cones Robyn Hitchcock You and Oblivion Rhino 1995
5:34 PM		Nick Drake Black Eyed Dog Time of No Reply Hannibal Records 1986
5:38 PM		Robyn Hitchcock Autumn Is Your Last Chance Robyn Hitchcock I Often Dream of Trains Midnight Music 1984
5:41 PM		Modest Mouse Autumn Beds No One's First, and You're Next Epic 2009
5:45 PM		Marianne Segal, Dave Waite, Rod Edwards & John Wetton September Song Fly On Strangewings DJM Records 1970 a fleshed-out version of the English folk band Jade, who began as the duo of Marianne Segal & David Waite
5:48 PM		The Vines Autumn Shade Highly Evolved Capitol Records 2002
5:50 PM		Animal Collective Leaf House Sung Tongs Fat Cat Records 2004
5:53 PM		The Flaming Lips My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion At War With the Mystics Warner Records 2006
5:58 PM		Magnet Corn Rigs Paul Giovanni The Wicker Man Silva Screen America 1973 Main theme song/opening credits song for the BEST folk horror movie EVER, the ORIGINAL 1973 "Wicker Man"!
6:00 PM		Alec Holowka Possum Springs Alec Holowka Night in the Woods (Original Soundtrack, Vol. 1) [At the End of Everything] Alec Holowka 2017
6:00 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:08 PM		Fiona Apple Pale September Fiona Apple Tidal Clean Slate/Work 1996
6:14 PM		Madeline Kenney Gone Sugaring Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn You Think It's Like This, But Really It's Like This - 20th Anniversary Covers Album V/A Double Double Whammy 2020
6:15 PM		Robert Wyatt Biko Peter Gabriel Work In Progress Rough Trade 1984
6:20 PM		Laurie Anderson Big Science Laurie Anderson Big Science 1982
6:26 PM		Clinic Goodnight Georgie Internal Wrangler Domino Recording Co 2000
6:28 PM		The Chameleons View from a Hill Script of the Bridge Statik Records 1983
6:35 PM		Felt Templeroy Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty Cherry Red Records 1982
6:41 PM		Peter Hammill Summer Song (In the Autumn) Peter Hammill Fool's Mate Charisma 1971
6:43 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:50 PM		Nico The Fairest of the Seasons Jackson Browne / Greg Copeland Chelsea Girl Verve 1967
6:55 PM		Nick Drake Which Will Nick Drake Pink Moon Island 1972
6:57 PM		Molly Drake Breakfast at Bradenham Woods Molly Drake Molly Drake Squirrel Thing Recordings 2013
6:59 PM		Alasdair Roberts Autumn Alasdair Roberts The Songs of My Boyhood Drag City Records 2020
7:02 PM		Joni Mitchell Urge for Going Joni Mitchell You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio / Urge for Going Asylum 1972
7:08 PM		Clinic Distortions Internal Wrangler Domino Recording Co 2000
7:11 PM		Nick Drake Harvest Breed Nick Drake Pink Moon Island 1972
7:13 PM		Neil Young Harvest Moon Harvest Moon Reprise 1992
7:18 PM		The Shins The Past and Pending Oh, Inverted World Sub Pop 2001
7:23 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:27 PM		Yo La Tengo Autumn Sweater I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One Matador 1997
7:33 PM		Archer Prewitt Last Summer Days Archer Prewitt White Sky Carrot Top 1999
7:36 PM		Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company Theme from After the Fall Like a Duck to Water Cuneiform Records 1975
7:41 PM		Julie Tippetts Autumn Lullaby Julie Tippetts Shadow Puppeteer La Cooka Ratcha Records 1999
7:44 PM		Fleet Foxes Sun It Rises Fleet Foxes Sub Pop Records 2008
7:47 PM		Nat "King" Cole Autumn Leaves Nat "King" Cole Nat "King" Cole Capitol 1955
7:50 PM		Erroll Garner September Song Kurt Weill / Maxwell Anderson Erroll Garner Playing Piano Solos Savoy 1950
7:54 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:57 PM		John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman Autumn Serenade John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman Impulse! 1963

Chat is archived.

Greetings!

Hello Hello!

Autumnal show today!

A robot doing bad things: “Berlin— German police have seized a robot after it allegedly touched a 16-year-old girls buttocks in an indecent manner and made sexually suggestive gestures toward her. Investigators were trying to determine Wednesday whether the robot's actions were deliberately controlled by two young men who apparently livestreamed the incident in the western city of Cologne on social media”

Hi Number 6!

Those robots can be sneaky sometimes. :)

@Number 6 - Robots are out of control!

Hi RofflelecticDyslexia!

He is not a number! He is a man!

I am not a number, I am a free agent!

My skills of typing need and AI assistant.

AI Agent

Vintage mid-20th-century robots/B-movie robots are welcome! Boston Dynamics bots and AI bots can GTFO!

There's that typing shit again.

@RofflelecticDyslexia - Don't tell Killbot about AI assistants! Killbot smash keys with rusty clamps for hands

She will kill us all.

@RofflelecticDyslexia - Most likely.

Just one kiss before it's over is all we need. Then we get another data center!

@RofflelecticDyslexia - Data Centers/AI will crush us before Killbot ever does!

It's okay to worry

IKR? Just at least kiss me a bit AI!

@RofflelecticDyslexia - Killbot is very analog. Her voice is made up of dozens of magnetic tapes of differing tones, kinda like a mellotron.

Last week you again referred to the Cardiacs documentary. I fancy myself a bit knowledgeable on the topic but I’m unaware of this film. Do you have any details? Concert/rehearsal films yes, but no doc.

Hi Ted!

Nope, Straight to fuckin! Also my good friend has two mellotrons. for the exrta tape deck and parts! lol

@Ted - I have only heard talk of this doc, I have not been able to find it! I was hoping someone here in the chat, like you for instance!, would have a lead!

Hello everyone

@Ted - I don't think I dreamed it! I heard about it years ago from a couple different people, but maybe it was still in the works and never got released/stuck in post-production? I first heard about it when Tim was still alive and the doc was supposed to delve into his dystonia

Hi Rob from Maryland 🦀!

If I didn’t read about it on Cardiacs Discord, I bet it doesn’t exist. Cardiacs Discord is an immersive experience - many experts inhabit it.

@ Rob from Maryland 🦀 - I heard my catbird yesterday in the muggy 78 degree Philly weather!

@Ted - Hrmmm. I could be mistaken, but I remember distinctly hearing about this doc. This was over 7 years ago, but I think my friend Ayesha in London is the one who told me about it, and I assumed it was just not available online but maybe screened only in the UK so far, so I occasionally google it to see if there are any updates but turn up nothing. I guess this was all a fever-dream??

I watched a big fucking bird fly over my part of Philly today. Yesterday I watched a military helicopter roll down the Delaware with a magnetometer boom. I feel so safe these days.

Take my chances with the bird.

@RofflelecticDyslexia - Hrmmm, yeah I have seen some hawks lately, but no crazy copters, just the usual police copters

On YouTube). It’s a very weird cramped rehearsal with some mockumentary segments.

@Ted - I mean it's possible she was talking about that and I thought it was gonna be an earnest doc and not a mockumentary

Usual police copters! Understood!

@RofflelecticDyslexia - Occasionally I see those freaky white drone planes, but mostly over NYC. Heading there tomorrow

My white whale is the Dolly Mixture documentary Take Three Girls. Shown only at festivals i believe.

I will never not love little black dog

I was born in the Bronx. I'm not keen on going back yet. They can go film themselves running.

Black eyed dog. Whatever lol

Driving in [what hopefully turns out to be relatively light] rain tomorrow to see Fred Armisen doing some kind of "comedy for musicians" show at the Beacon Theater

Hi Norman Burnosky!

Armisen? I like him!

@Ted - Oh wow, I'd love to see a Dolly Mixture doc! I also can't stand when I can only find DVDs in the wrong region format, which is the case with a lot of Peter Greenaway films, the ones that aren't on Criterion

I also lived just north of Portland when that show happened. This life so fucking weird!

@RofflelecticDyslexia - I've seen Armisen live twice before. Once on that not-so-great first (and only?) Portlandia Live show that happened near the beginning of that TV show's run. And once in a Simon Rich comedy

@Norman Burnosky - Glad you enjoyed Black-Eyed Dog!

You don't get much more autumnal than Robyn Hitchcock in this song.

This is hitting the spot with a hint of fall in the air and an Oktoberfest ale.

@RofflelecticDyslexia - I liked the TV series. It did NOT work well live! People in the audience were annoyed.

Hi sean burns!

Hi Steve Volaric!

Portlandia was a bit. That is what they did!

Hi Lizbot! This one’s the perfect autumn album.

@sean burns - True! I think the whole I Often Dream of Trains album feels very autumnal!

I guess Van Morrison's "Autumn Song" would be a bit less bleak take on the season

Yeah it does doesn't it very brooding man he can do anything his latest album kicks

@Steve Volaric - Yes! Glad you're enjoying with some ale, as it should be!

I came in late and I wish I didn't. Looking at the playlist..."Eskimeaux" look like they took their name from HP Lovecraft, as that's how he referred to Eskimos

@Lizbot, that catbird needs to go to a more southern muggy 78 degree place!

@RofflelecticDyslexia - Speaking of Fred Armisen, did you ever see the show Los Espookys? Fred plays a parking attendant and you get to hear his fluent Spanish occasionally! Great show, I wish it had gotten more than a couple seasons. It was on HBO

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - I was delighted to hear my old bird friend this late in the season, despite its annoying yowls!

There was a Dolly screening in February in London. Lot of good that does me. I experienced a strange Greenaway outdoor exhibit in Geneva around 1993. He put little booths around town. Visitors would climb a couple stairs and look through a preset telescope. Very Yoko!

I've been watching the flick Serendipity AND listening to the soundtrack for 25 years and never got that the little scene transition riff was from Black Eyed Dog.

I want to be a parking attendant.

@sean burns - Eskimeaux (Gabrielle Smith) has since changed her stage name a couple times since that album's release: Gabby's World and "Ó"

Hi Bone Stones!

@Bone Stones - Ah! I am aware of that movie, but never saw it, even though I like Cusack, so I guess I should watch it some time! The Black-Eyed Dog transition music will definitely stick out to me!

@Ted - OOOh, I would LOVE to stumble upon a Peter Greenaway exhibit! Did you see that doc about him featuring his wife and daughter? Now THAT'S a doc that DOES exist! The Greenaway Alphabet from 2017. I watched a couple years ago and he is exactly how I pictured him, at least that's how he's presenting himself in that doc. Fascinating guy

@RofflelecticDyslexia - Well then you would like Fred's character. He prides himself on being the fastest parker

How long could Cusack hold that box up for?

Fastest peter Parker.

@sean burns - Sadly, I have a disdain for Van the Man! I just could never get into his music. Once in a blue moon I'll play a Them song, but very rarely. And Brown-Eyed Girl plagues me at every bar and restaurant down the shore in summertime!

Howdeeeeee frenz 🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁

Hi jimbooooo!

@jimbooooo - 🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁vibes in sunny Jersey/Philly!

♥️♥️♥️

Peak leaf peepin' up here!

I will put the Greenaway Alphabet on my list!

Peak levels!

@jimbooooo - Nice! I remember being very impressed with Smith's campus foliage!

@Ted - It's so good! Especially because I stumbled upon it while scrolling for something to watch one night, completely unaware of its existence, and it really hit the spot. Imagine Peter Greenaway being your dad!

Don Giovani is a boss!

@ Lizbot (host) I'd totally forgotten that the gentle "Corn Rigs" was the opening soundtrack music for the folk horror masterpiece :-0

... masterpiece "The Wicker Man."

Hi Richard of Rocky Hill!

@Richard of Rocky Hill - Yes! And excellently-preserved Spanish Colonial Revival The Ambler Theater, built in the 1920s, is screening Wicker Man on Oct 27th!

Kissed my first black girl in Glassboro. She was my neighbor. I have always been cool with kissing people smarter than me.;

She was that

@RofflelecticDyslexia - Paul Giovanni was who I was talking about, but I guess Paul Giovanni, were he alive, could theoretically make his own version of that opera and Don Giovanni Records could release it!

If you look out the windows now, there are colors!

Trust me!

@RofflelecticDyslexia - Sun's getting lower here in Princeton, but still some light on the trees. Gorgeous earlier when driving in at 3!

Biko because

Good evening

good evening from me too.

Hi Carlos Ramone!

Hi Dale Hazelton!

Thanks for the soundtrack for my dinner prep and a meal later on

@Carlos Ramone - Glad to do it!

Do you know the Laurie Anderson piece with Belew.

i saw big science come on the alexa screen and thought she was gonna cover weird science.

@RofflelecticDyslexia - I play a few Laurie Anderson songs Belew plays guitar on, especially Sharkey's Day and Excellent Birds from Mister Heartbreak. He also plays on her excellent concert film, Home of the Brave

@Dale Hazelton - Ha! Well that would be something!

@Dale Hazelton - Or if she covered Thomas Dolby's Blinded Me with Science!

That is why I love you Iizbot!

Hello Lizbot and chatroom denizens!

@RofflelecticDyslexia - Geez, thanks!

Hi Danosaur🦖!

This song sounds spooky

lizbot, she would do a good version no doubt.

@Danosaur🦖 - Fitting! A lot of songs on that Clinic album are vaguely spooky-sounding! And then there's song titles like Voodoo Wop, The Return of Evil Bill and Hippy Death Suite! It's one of those albums I've associated with fall since its release 26 years ago, so it pops into my head this time of year and for autumn playlists!

@Danosaur🦖 - Same thing with The Chameleons, which is also vaguely gothy

I like two Dolby songs. The best is still about a missing submarine.

@Dale Hazelton - Big Science II - Laurie Blinds Us All with Science! Hrmmm, yeah, I'd listen to anything she does!

@RofflelecticDyslexia - I really like Dolby's Europa and the Pirate Twins

Brilliant board IQ

@Lizbot - Vaguely gothy when you want just a hint of ennui

@Lizbot - Oh, yeah! Europa and the Pirate Twins is one of my fave Dolby songs

Gothy is out my window right now.

good dj I see yer Wicker Man 1973 and raise you an Ogroff https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/9160+f0xKAL.jpg

@Danosaur🦖 - Yes! When you don't want full Peter Murphy, but a hint of the existential dread and unease at the coming darkness!

Hi Mats Sabbath!

@Danosaur🦖 - Yeaj, Europa is a good one! I had a cassette of The Golden Age of Wireless as a kid and rewound to that song a lot!

@RofflelecticDyslexia - Everything's outside yer window: Copters, crazy colors, Gothy! Gothy in crazy colors piloting a copter.

@Lizbot - I always associate that Thomas Dolby song with The Gap by Thompson Twins must have been popular at the same time

Lizbot Lol!

band name: gothcopter

@Mats Sabbath - Whoa. Ogroff appears to be the OG Leatherface, but with analog axe, no high-tech chainsaw for Ogroff!

Lol

@Mats Sabbath - I feel like goths and helicopters are at odds.

@Mats Sabbath - Copters are loud and very visible, goths are hiding in their rooms.

Gothcopter only flies at night

enjoying the felt.

@Danosaur🦖 - That I can accept. Gothcopter is to bats what helicopter is to birds

the entire extent of a convo with a rando today: ME: the mighty bad brains! great shirt! BAD BRAINS SHIRT WEARER RANDO: they're the best brah

You have to stay where the coffin an home soil is

@Dale Hazelton - Glad you dug the Felt! Feels like an instrumental but then Lawrence hops up 3 minutes in with surprise vocals!

@Lizbot, catbirds are cool

Gothcopter vs Xyloprawn (summoning TAndy)

That Peter Hammil song reminded me of scarves, spider webs and dead leaves

Hi Danosaur, Mats, Dale, everyone

Hey, Rob!

@Mats Sabbath - I'll take yr Ogroof and raise you a J.Groff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Groff

@Mats Sabbath - Works better if I spell "Ogroff" correctly! But I also welcome his dopier little brother, Ogroof

Or O'Groff his Irish cousin

@Mats Sabbath - At least they were familiar with the band on their shirt! You never know!

@Danosaur🦖 - Home soil sweet home soil.

@Rob from Maryland 🦀 - Catbirds FTW

@Mats Sabbath - I would watch Gothcopter vs Xyloprawn! I hope Xyloprawn is a xylophone-playing crawfish!

Nico has an endearing naivete to her singing

Two nick drakes tonight - feels like my birthday!

@Danosaur🦖 - Ha, Cookie O'Puss was O'Groff's roommate in college

@Norman Burnosky - It's a Drake-y sort of night. But wait...there's more Drakes, The Two Drakes. The OG Drake is next!

@Lizbot - Isn't there a Cookiepuss song?

@Norman Burnosky - Here's Molly, Nick's mom! He got it from somewhere!

@Danosaur🦖 - I believe there is in old Carvel commercials, probably sung by Tom Carvel the ice cream man himself! That guy was a big personality! I miss those ads!

Runs in the family. This sounds like a Noel Coward song

Nick Drake, a marvelous talent who left this world much too soon. Thanks for playing the poignant "Which Will," his songwriting, vocal and guitar talents on full display.

@Richard of Rocky Hill - He was an incredible talent and a tragic loss

@Lizbot - I used to like Carvel ice cream but there are no stores here anymore

@Richard of Rocky Hill - I read a lot about his last few years. He shut himself in, became more insular. Some of his former collaborators were disturbed by the starkness of the songs on Pink Moon, but its so beautiful. Very sadly short life

@Danosaur🦖 - I don't think I've had Carvel since I lived in South Jersey as a kid and there was a Carvel store within 10 minutes of my house, I think in or near Cherry Hill. We passed it all the time. Very nostalgic for the inside of the store because was a summer birthday kid and loved an ice cream cake!

@Danosaur🦖 - Tom Carvel was a real character! He kinda had a cartoonish kindly face, which worked well with his kid-focused ice cream ads! I have to look up some of those old commercials online after my show!

Lesser-known Carvel ice cream cake characters that are seasonally appropriate: Nutty the Ghost & Dumpy the Pumpkin!

@Lizbot - apparently they used the same mold for all their cakes so Fudgey the Whale and Santa were all the same shape just different decoration

@Danosaur🦖 - Oh yeah, they just rotated it and decorated i differently! I think they had a few characters using the CookiePuss mold too!

@Lizbot - I remember the store had a very specific smell - like cake batter and vanilla

@Danosaur🦖 - Very specific color/flavor memory: That blue icing/softserve hybrid they used to write on the cakes with! I can see that store so clearly in my head! I requested from a place in Delco a custom shark ice cream cake because I'm still that summer kid!

@Danosaur🦖 - They probably pumped that sweet smell into the vents of the store to keep us coming back! Ben & Jerry's does something similar. I haven't been in one of those since I worked across the street from one and they gave away free cones on National Ice Cream Day!

@Lizbot - I remember going to a local beach ice cream shop where they used to make the waffle cones fresh. I can still smell that in my mind

@Lizbot - Yeah, Disneyland does that with the smells in their food shops to entice you in too

@Danosaur🦖 - Oh yeah, fresh warm waffle cones are the best! Kinda similar to my grandmom's pizzelles, which were more or less the same thing, only flat. She had a special waffle iron pizzelle maker for them. She grew up in a bakery!

@Lizbot - Ooh, I love pizzelles! I had a boss that would bring them in at Christmas

#ogroffcore

Pumpkin Muscles - Diesel Dudes

@Danosaur🦖 - My absolute favorite shore ice cream, Carmella's in Beach Haven, Long Beach Island, in the Schooner's Wharf / Bay Village area near the giant wooden ship, presses fresh waffle cones all day. I love that smell so much!

forgot how good this Shins song is, and now it's old enough for lower auto insurance premiums :S

O'Groff LOLOLOLOL

@Danosaur🦖 - My mom still has her mom's old pizzelle maker. Much be 100 years old!

@Mats Sabbath - Diesel Pumpkins! Ripped pumpkins pump to failure!

Hi bravedelay!

@bravedelay - ha! Glad you're enjoying it! I love this album so much

hi Lizbot! particularly enjoyed the Jens EP track earlier and all the sounds here in cool and rainy MN

O'Groff Shake

i love tom rush's version of urge for going too.

Don't forget the Booty undies!

@bravedelay - Glad you enjoyed Jens! Minnesota is a state I still have to cross off my list! I'd like to get to all 50 states hopefully! Don't know what kind of temperatures you get there this time of year, but in Jersey/Philly, it's been hovering around the 60s and low 70s for the most part, with some occasional dips and spikes

@Mats Sabbath - O'Groff Shake N' Bake Carvel crumbles!

@Number 6 - Oh yes, mentioned them earlier in the program, 2nd mic break or so! We're really branching out into creative territory with the premiums!

@Dale Hazelton - oooh, I need to check out Tom Rush's version!

Apparently, it's okay to say "Booty" on the air, as long as it's a benign Booty, and not a toxic malignant Booty.

No talking about what goes into or comes out of the Booty.

@Number 6 - Nobody wants a toxic booty!

this is pretty cool....gonna look mother mallard up.

@Dale Hazelton - They were an early synth ensemble formed by David Borden, a Boston-area Eastman School of Music grad in 1969

This Nat King Cole "Autumn Leaves" always makes me think of Mr. Boats from the Harvey Pekar biopic "American Splendor". Boats is an old guy who relishes Nat King Cole "with STRINGS"!

autumn is fallin' on the land

@George Korein - Tis true!

Saving the Kinks til the end?

@Ted - Running outta time!

Thanks for the autumnal show, BCNU!

The ne plus ultra of autumn songs!

@Ted - True true! Peut-être une seconde émission!

@Number 6 - THanks for tuning in!