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Boston College Radio, Chestnut Hill, MA

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Kick Out the James!

May 3, 2024 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM

ZBC Rock

With James

In these confused times isn't it nice to find some relief? Every week, James will try to bring some sense into this crazy world via the radio waves. Look back. Look forward. Seek the truth. Never dull. Always irreverent. Fight the good fight by just sitting back and listening.

Another 50th Anniversary Classick ZBC/KOTJ celebration

Volume 3 of the Classick KOTJ celebration of WZBC's 50th Anniversary

9:00 AM		The Mekons Where Were You? Where Were You / I'll Have To Dance Then (On My Own) Fast Product 1978 Rock
9:02 AM		The Raincoats In Love The Raincoats Rough Trade 1979
9:05 AM		Destroy All Monsters Bored Bored / You're Gonna Die Cherry Red Records 1979 Rock
9:09 AM		Roky Erickson Don't Slander Me Don't Slander Me Light In The Attic 1986 Rock
9:13 AM		The Soft Boys I Wanna Destroy You I Wanna Destroy You / I'm An Old Pervert (Disco) Armageddon Records 1980 Rock
9:15 AM		The Adverts Gary Gilmore's Eyes Gary Gilmore's Eyes / New Day Dawning / We Who Wait Bright Records 1983 Punk
9:19 AM		Tom Robinson Band Now Martin's Gone Martin's Gone IRS 1982 MP3 Rock
9:21 AM		Chris Spedding Motor Bikin' Chris Spedding RAK 1976 Other Rock
9:24 AM		Glaxo Babies This Is Your Life Dream Interrupted Cherry Red Records 1979 Rock
9:27 AM		The Troggs 66 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 Any Way That You Want Me / 66-5-4-3-2-1 (I Know What You Want) Fontana 1966 Other Rock
9:31 AM		The Cramps TV Set Songs the Lord Taught Us Illegal UK 1980 MP3 Rock
9:40 AM		The dB's Amplifier Stands For Decibels Albion Records 1981 Rock
9:43 AM		The Church The Unguarded Moment The Church Carrerre 1982
9:48 AM		The Stepmothers I Hear a Rumble You Were Never My Age Posh Boy US 1981 Other Rock
9:52 AM		The 101ers Keys to your Heart Keys To Your Heart / 5 Star Rock 'N' Roll Petrol Ace Records 1976 MP3 Punk
9:54 AM		Wreckless Eric Walking On The Surface Of The Moon Greatest Stiffs Stiff Records 1978 Rock
9:58 AM		Translator Un-Alone No Time Like Now Legacy Recordings 1983 MP3 Rock
10:08 AM		Pigbag Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag - 12" Verison Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag / The Backside Y Records 1981
10:15 AM		The Suburbs Music for Boys Music For Boys/Cigarette In Backwards 12" Twin Tone 1982 MP3 Rock
10:17 AM		Haircut One Hundred Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) Pelican West Arista 1982
10:23 AM		The Selecter On My Radio On My Radio / Too Much Pressure Two-Tone Records 1979 Pop
10:26 AM		Romeo Void Myself To Myself Itsacondition 415 Records 1981 Rock
10:32 AM		Adam and the Ants Dog Eat Dog Kings of the Wild Frontier Epic 1980 MP3 Rock
10:35 AM		B-52's 52 Girls Rock Lobster / 52 Girls DB Recs 1978 MP3
10:37 AM		A Certain Ratio Do The Du (Cassee) Do The Du (Casse) - 4 Song EP Factory Records 1981
10:42 AM		Brygada Kryzys The Real One Centrala / The Real One Tonpress 1982 World
10:54 AM		Abecedarians Smiling Monarchs Smiling Monarchs (12" Single) Factory 1985 MP3 Rock
10:58 AM		New Order Everything's Gone Green Procession / Everything's Gone Green Factory Records 1981 Indie Rock
11:03 AM		Cabaret Voltaire Kino (7'' Version) Big Funk / Kino Virgin 1985
11:09 AM		Maximum Joy Let It Take You There Station M.X.J.Y. Superior Songs 1982 MP3 Rock
11:14 AM		Shriekback Lined Up Care Y Records 1983 MP3
11:17 AM		Soft Cell Sex Dwarf - Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version Non Stop Erotic Cabaret Island/Mercury 1981 Pop
11:22 AM		23 Skidoo Vegas El Bandito Seven Songs Fetish Records 1982
11:25 AM		Public Image Ltd. Swan Lake Second Edition Vrigin 1979
11:29 AM		Swans Sensitive Skin Swans Labor Records 1982 Rock
11:45 AM		The Fall The Man Whose Head Expanded Perverted By Language Line Records 1983 Rock
11:50 AM		The Fall Fol De Rol New Facts Emerge Cherry Red Records 2017 Indie Rock

Chat is archived.

Good morning

Friday!

Hello Good People of the KOTJ ZBC-sphere. More Classicks for all the clasick people out there!!

Morning

Good morning!

haven't heard this Mekons cut - excellent!

Their first single

and morning

Hey Dash and DJS, VTom, Heart and all out there!

Mornin’ kotj, everybody!

B w/extra four-tification

Ha!

Oh yeah... my favorite Roky tune!

Actually my first exposure to Roky before knowing he was in 13th Floor Elevators

Robyn Hitchcock did this live last weekend..wanna destroy you

Hey Bruckner.

Solo acoustic

Ah, this is so fitting right now

Hi Saginaw....missed ya down there in the scroll

Next one's straight up inspired by an for DJ Simon

@KOTJ: is your show from 2 weeks ago today still up on the archive?

I had a feeling that Billy Idol track I played was a cover, and there it is.

On mixcloud

www.mixcloud.com/kotjames

How aah yaaa

Doin' good. What up there DJ W/O. Got the flue??

good morning!

Hey RVH

Early Mekons are still my favorite Mekons

An unrecognized classick - The Stepmothers.

Haven’t played this in 12 years. May need to steal it for next week.

Do!

Much better than Guardian Angel...their "hit:

And Jeff you seriously didn’t know that Mekons song? Huge “hit”.

Joanie... I was shocked, as well.

Joe Strummer's first band?

Keys...a Peter Choyce song fer sher.

I somehow always assumed its a Clash song

Yes, Heart

Crawl in’ outta bed and into your time machine, James. Yes, I ❤️. Joe Strummer sounding voice for sure.

Ahoy James & Co!

RR KY!

Welcome Chris T!

Hi dash!

Jake and SLF did their usual fine Joe Strummer tribute the other night. 'twas a good show, better than i expected at their ages. glad i went, no regrets.

@Elnor - I second that. I debated all week about whether or not to see SLF then went at the last minute. Glad I did, great show.

https://www.facebook.com/1114470430/videos/773086498227422/

@DJ Simon, you spilled a beer on me.... :-) yeah, i was hesitating but glad i saw them again....and the guy from Wizard Security was there....he's getting old. not me though... :-)

Watched it.

T-shirt is sharp.

Another 50th Anniversary memory I haven't seen mentioned was when WBCN was on strike in the late 70s... WZBC lent them the studios to broadcast (as "WZBCN").

I keep forgetting to say....like this tune....25% of these songs are Porky cuts

https://lists.bostonradio.org/bri/v02/msg05782.html

@Elnor - Ha, I probably did spill beer on you if you were nearby when that drunk geezer came barreling through the crowd to get up front.

Yes Chris T. BCN went on strike and went rogue at WZBC. We used to be integral in the rock and radio community. Only somewhat now.

More than most can say.

True, Chris. True

Once again. July 19th 9-2pm. The KOTJ 35th Anniversary Celebration Blood Drive and Live Broadcast with the Red Cross at Big Night. Free parking. Close to Green, Orange and commuter rail lines. Bleed for me!

@Joanie now i'm nervous - what other great songs did I miss 😬 !?

@Verb...I think it's just a deep memory. Couldn't have not known that track

Need the Germs: We Must Bleed

Suburbs... what a great tune.

I needed a haircut. Bad

Chris T...so true. Another total Peter Choyce cut

James, is link to sign up available yet for July 19? not finding it...

hi everyone!

Verb/James: sometimes things slip by even the most “seasoned” of DJs.

It is not. I will supply the link once we are fully organized.

Psyched for the blood drive I added to my calendar. A Negative here!

Simon, Elnor: Jake looked like he never ever had anything to do with rock. Yikes.

Haircut 100!

One of my favorite songs ever is Love's Got Me in Triangles by Haircut 100.

@Jamie_YBN: i have a cassette sitting here w Haircut 100 on one side and ABC on the other...played the heck out of it.

i love this dog bite psa

it's an oldie but goodie

Dog bite PSA "dogs don't like hugs and kisses" is not a universal truth

Some humans don't like hugs and kisses. I've learned that

That is true VerbCrunch!

Hello James, and a Happy WZBC Friday morning to everyone!!

Who was it that bumped into Adam & The Ants at Logan and brought them directly to ZBC for an on air interview?

Oh right....I remember Pete C mentioned on the alumni takeover when played this song.

Hey Greg!

@bloodguy - Will the big blood drive include apheresis?

you are slaying it with the classics today James!

Awwwwwr

Anyone else hearing dropouts on the live over air broadcast?

Love that remixed emergency sound in 52 girls!

I'm doing show from home so probably a CleanFeed interface problem

Apheresis is typically a longer session done at specialized blood centers. I don't have enough cells for it.

@Greg - got some stream drops here, but thought it was the flaky hotel internet

mmmmmmm- ACR

It's CleanFeed. I should have gone to the station. Just have a meeting immediately after show then off to Big Night to meet and see the facility. Blood drive going on right now.

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/25/shocking-truth-money-bands-make-on-tour-taylor-swift

Knowing about DeepL has nothing to do with being cool and hip. Someone who needs to do a lot of translation will research the tools in order to find the best !

Could've told you about it a long time ago, but it was entertaining hearing you interact with Google translate.

Hey James, great show! I will say if you ever do get back to your website I am one person that will be even more thankful for the bounty that this life has offered! I loved the download feature and the track listings. It was always super easy for me to send a link to people that absolutely needed to listen!! Thanks for the music as always

Well when I discovered it seemed I was late to the party. It's grea

Has anyone played The Human Scab?

Hey Matt....yeah it's on me...

Nice Scab promo!

I left out the part where he sings "Dead. Dead. Everybody's dead. Because terrorists came and killed everybody."

Good morning,James and KOTJ devotees,hope you’re all doing well.Thank you,James,for the outstanding Classick show.

Hey Barry. Truly a pleasure to go down memory lane with all that gather here.

morning all!

Howdy Fred.

Maximum Joy...how quaint

It’s funny how while I’m working The music will Fade out and then for some strange reason, I’ll find myself dancing and realize that music is back.

Dancing

Re: cost of touring - I still regret not hosting The Courtneys after their show a few years ago. It would have been a nice payback for a great show at Great Scott (RIP).

Hmmmmmm. Fade outs.

Loving this. All of this. Thanks again James!

In past when I had a home and my art studio I thought about housing bands....glad I didn't. Could have gone so wrong

Awwwwwr Luke. Much appreciate the appreciation

Yeah, probably for the best.

Inadvertent Dance mix version of Sex Dwarf....only human.

Morning KOTJ and the Classic Kickers. Very much enjoyed the funky set on the drive in. During the Suburbs I thought Haircut 100 would be great in the set but never thought you'd go there James.

I almost offered Quinton and Miss Pussycat to stay at our place once when they needed a crash pad. What could go wrong?

Jonathan A, I was also at that Courtneys show and almost went up to them to ask if they needed a place to stay! My wife an I are empty nesters w/3 vacant bedrooms. At the last minute I realized how creepy I'd sound, so I wisely backed off. Did they break up?

back when they weren't wealthy, pretty sure REM, Psych Furs and many others stayed at ZBC DJ place at 1682 Comm Ave.

https://tinyurl.com/29qr8o28

Great show, as usual! Thanks KOTJ

The Courtneys at one point asked during their set about some place to crash, so too bad you didn't ask them! Sadly, Courtney Garvin has had Long COVID for several years and still isn't back on her feet. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-15/long-covid-symptoms-impact-california-couple

https://lists.bostonradio.org/bri/v02/msg05782.html

"This Video Isn't Available Anymore"

https://www.facebook.com/1114470430/videos/773086498227422/

casiotone nostalgia

Thanks again James.

Always my great pleasure.

Good times

Never can express enough appreciation for the generous multi-level support and dedication bestowed on someone such as me. Better than medicine.

First fall song I ever heard...on a mix tape from my buddy Radar, also a ZBC fan. He's a doctor now, used to crank all these sounds while studying.

HA. That's great

Hey forgot to mention. RIP Duane Eddy!! One of the greats

Thanks for the 🪨 Mr. J. I don’t know where you find the time I’m also hoping to hear more about the USB memory card music thing.

Another fine classic Friday morning!

All I have is time.

Yes. The show thumb drive project is on the list!

Praise be to Jeff B for making it possible to do the show from home today. Pardon the drop outs that occur. I probably should have gone to the station today.

Good show, Sir. Have a great week.

Backatcha Sag'naw

Fun show, great memories!

Nothing wrong with the oldies! Memories abound

great show!

awesome show uncanny mix !

Awwwwwwwr