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Transistor Sister

Nov 7, 2026 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Music

With Commie Francis

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

COMMIE FRANCIS TEEN HITS

happy fall membership drive! tonight i am playing the HITS from my YOUTH. they may or may not be from the era of my youth (the 90s) but they are the songs i listened to nonstop, put on mixtapes and received on mixtapes!

did wprb supply you with the hits of your youth? are we doing it right now? how about the hits of your middle or old age? I BET WE DID SO PLEASE LET US KEEP DOING IT. and get a sick unicorn hoodie while you're at it.

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8:01 PM		Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon Transistor Sister Transistor Sister - Single Swan Records 1961
8:04 PM		Trusty Wicked / Honey Mustard Goodbye, Dr. Fate Dischord 1995
8:10 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Fugazi - Sweet and Low
8:16 PM		Flux of Pink Indians Poem / Tube Disaster Neu Smell Crass Records 1981
8:20 PM		Shonen Knife Riding on the Rocket Riding on the Rocket August Records 1992
8:23 PM		Adam & The Ants Ants Invastion Kings of the Wild Frontier CBS 1980
8:27 PM		Helium Superball Superball + Matador 1995
8:29 PM		Naked Raygun Jettison Jettison Caroline Records 1988
8:31 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Fugazi - Sweet and Low
8:36 PM		Kraftwerk Pocket Calculator Computer World (Remastered) Rhino/Elektra 1981
8:41 PM		Brian Eno Back In Judy's Jungle Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy EMI Marketing 1974
8:46 PM		Blast Off Country Style Why I Oughta Pretty Sneaky Sis' - EP Teen-Beat 1993
8:47 PM		KRS-One Free Mumia KRS-One Jive 1995
8:51 PM		The Sonics The Witch The Witch / Psycho Etiquette 1965
8:54 PM		Mo-Dettes White Mice White Mice / Masochistic Opposite Mode 1979
8:58 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Fugazi - Sweet and Low
9:03 PM		X Adult Books Wild Gift Slash 1981
9:06 PM		Born Against Riding With Mary 7" Eulogy 1990
9:09 PM		The Exploited Down Below Horror Epics Combat 1985
9:12 PM		Nation of Ulysses N.O.U.S.P.T.D.A. Plays Pretty for Baby Dischord 1992
9:15 PM		R.E.M. What If We Give It Away Lifes Rich Pageant I.R.S. Records 1986
9:18 PM		Jack Acid Jaywalking Come... We'll Move To A Quieter Fire Vandal Children Records 1991
9:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Fugazi - Sweet and Low
9:32 PM		Wire Surgeon's Girl Pink Flag Warner Bros 1977
9:33 PM		Flipper Someday Someday / Distant Illusion Subterranean Records 1991
9:36 PM		Candy Machine Spotlight A Modest Proposal East West Records 1994
9:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Fugazi - Sweet and Low
9:46 PM		Eggs In State Sexual Tension Jade Tree 1992
9:48 PM		Las Mordidas Surrounded Surrounded / K.I.T.A. Compulsiv / Dischord 1994
9:51 PM		Bikini Kill Jigsaw Youth Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah / Our Troubled Youth V/A Kill Rock Stars 1992 split with Huggy Bear
9:53 PM		Unrest Deaf A Factory Record Sub Pop 1991 Crispy Ambulance cover
9:57 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Fugazi - Sweet and Low
10:02 PM		Smog Bathysphere Wild Love Drag City Records 1995
10:05 PM		Radio Birdman New Race Radios Appear Trafalgar 1978
10:09 PM		Heavenly Trophy Girlfriend split with Bis V/A K 1996
10:11 PM		Drake Tungsten Chicago @ Night Six Pence for the Sauces - EP Peek-A-Boo 1996
10:14 PM		Chumbawamba Misbehave (Brittle Mix) (Someone's Always Telling You How to) Behave Agit Prop 1992
10:18 PM		Fugazi Rend It In On the Kill Taker Dischord 1993
10:22 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Fugazi - Sweet and Low
10:27 PM		The Zombies Leave Me Be Leave Me Be / Woman Decca 1964
10:29 PM		7 Seconds We’re Gonna Fight Cleanse the Bacteria V/A Pusmort 1985
10:32 PM		Man or Astro-Man? Point Blank Return to Chaos Homo Habilus 1995
10:35 PM		Blatz California The Shit Split V/A Lookout Recorrds 1991 split with Filth
10:37 PM		Filth Today's Lesson Live the Chaos Lookout! Records 1990
10:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Fugazi - Sweet and Low
10:42 PM		Brief Weeds (Its So Hard Not To) Say Hello A Very Generous Portrait K Records 1991
10:44 PM		Jawbox Static Novelty Dischord 1992
10:48 PM		Slant 6 Thirty-Thirty Vision What Kind of Monster Are You Dischord 1993
10:52 PM		Yo La Tengo Speeding Motorcycle Fakebook Bar/None Records 1989
10:55 PM		Zounds Can't Cheat Karma Can't Cheat Karma / War / Subvert Crass 1980
10:58 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Fugazi - Sweet and Low
11:00 PM		Chumbawamba The Day the Nazi Died Uneasy Listening

Chat is archived.

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Yooooo Commie! Looking forward to the nostalgia blast tonight

hello!

richard! hello!! and Tandy as well!

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Good evening

this is actually the exact same drum pattern as blitzkrieg bop, i learned when i briefly learned to play drums

those discord tapes were priced perfectly, 5 or 6 dollars? I would scan the tape bins looking for that discord logo

i'm a bad punk. this may be my first time hearing this song

it's never too late!

Good evening, Commie and everyone

I could only join this chat with my phone. When I tried on my desktop, an alert read “JSSDK Unknown Host domain[.] The Domain you are hosting the Facebook Javascript SDK is not in your app's Javascript SDK host domain list. Please specify your host domain in App dashboard login settings.” I have no idea what any of that means.

weird David! I can see if someone can pass that on to our playlist/chat platform

and hi Rob!

Madam, I'm Adam (Ant)

Hi Commie, I'm enjoying tonights theme and even though I'll zone out by 9 I'm already looking forward to your eventual upload of the show.

hi commiee

i love this theme

And I'm 67 now so my "youth" went well into the 90's!

I love this theme

it was very easy to put together! cause i felt no pressure to not pick whatever the most obvious song is to me

ha! good one beer place guy

another fun thing about this theme is i am going to have lots of leftovers for future shows!

being a teenage music nerd has its perks!

when life is no longer amusement!

sorry deep "another state of mind" reference

Free Mumia!

i found many tape traders in the MRR classifieds in the early 90s

Awwwww X ♥️

best X cover

Never knew there was a cover of this!

From “Space Seed” (broadcast February 16, 1967)--- KIRK: “...a group of people dating back into the 1990s. A discovery of some importance, Mr. Spock.” SPOCK: “There are a great many unanswered questions about those years. A strange, violent period in your history.”

amazing version! 🤩

david, great quote

Did we ever find out if Wattie and the boys found a new guitarist? Is it too late for me to learn how to play guitar, move to the UK, and try out?

it probably isn't too late!!! do it!!!

as long as you know the song "beat the bastard"

For some reason I never wrote to any one out of MRR, but I did have several pen pals I got from a zine called punk pals that I ordered out of the zine reviews in MRR.

i sent away for and received a combat records catalog once. now next time i'm at my parents house i want to root around in my old stuff and see if it is still there.

i have mrr penpal friends to this day!! quite a few actually

MRR penpals... adorable!

NOU was the first DIY punk show I ever went to, except the cops shut the show down before they played. I did get to see Circus Lupus (ruled!) and met many punks from the Lehigh Valley who would be my friend group for the second half of my teen years.

i might get to a chris thomson project this evening but not circus lupus

although i certainly could have brought something by them! one of my favorite dischord bands from that era

Hi c o m m i e!! I didn't forget about you.

hellllloooooooo commmmmmiiiieeeeee - word UP! ✌ !!

my 10th grade art class each student got a day to control the boom box. radio or tape. we went in alphabetical order so each student got the aux couple times during the semester.

*** prb BRIEFS ae FAB ****

C Mashed - what a COOL school !!!

yesss

cheltenham public schools. 1990

hi bo! and that is fair but i'm kinda glad i could hog it

I discovered X from Time Magazine. "Wild Gift" and "More Fun in the New World" made its “best rock albums of the year” lists.

I didn't see "Flipper" at Randy Now's Man Cave on Wednesday.

me neither! i dunno about the new lineup, seems weird

Numero should do a Candy Machine box set

💯

here's a song for you for that brilliant idea

sick station id harmonies

they did a bunch of IDs like that for my show and wprb and my old station too.

brittle mix 😎

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i probably won't get to play it this show but this song/era of the zombies sounds a LOT like guy's band brief weeds

@Commie, this has been an awesome show! We are heading off to sleep now, so thx for all these songs

night Rob and Lisa!

thanks for listening!

this is one of the tapes i played till it was dust

then i went out got another and played that till it was dust too

my absolute favorite 7 seconds song. this version specifically

This song makes me so nostalgic about the 1980’s that I might attend tonight’s screening of “The Secret of Nimh” in Red Bank:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DfSbdnxo8YM

i loved secret of nimh too!

still got my crew tape. i don't own a tape player. but i got some tapes.

steve youth may have just reentered my top 5 fav bass players

filth were so badass

It’s been 33 years since the night I discovered Man or Astro-Man? and the Woggles at Maxwell’s. (The Woggles headlined.) I also liked the opening band Date Bait, but I’ve heard nothing of them since.

I love the two Brief Weeds 7"s.