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WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Don't Back the Front

Oct 15, 2020 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Dana K

Don't Back the Front
8:01 PM
The Desperate Bicycles - Don't Back the Front
The Desperate Bicycles Don't Back the Front
7" 1977
8:05 PM
Naked Raygun - Vanilla Blue
Naked Raygun Vanilla Blue
Jettison Quarterstick Records 1988
RIP Pierre Kezdy.
8:08 PM
The Fatima Mansions - Popemobile to Paraguay
The Fatima Mansions Popemobile to Paraguay
Lost In The Former West Kitchenware Records 1994

Cathal Coughlan is still God.
The Fatima Mansions - “Angel's Delight” | DeLorean | Tiny Mix Tapes

8:12 PM
Band of Susans - You Were an Optimist
Band of Susans You Were an Optimist
Hope Against Hope Blast First 1988
Three entire Susans in the band! (Stenger, Lyall, Tallman)
8:16 PM
fIREHOSE - Another Theory Shot to Shit
fIREHOSE Another Theory Shot to Shit
Ragin', Full-On SST 1986
Ed fROMOHIO reached his Gofundme goal :)
8:18 PM
Lewsberg - Through the Garden
Lewsberg Through the Garden
In This House 12XU 2020
From Rotterdam, NL.
8:23 PM
Human Hands - I Got Mad
Human Hands I Got Mad
Darker Skratcher Los Angeles Free Music Society 1980

Darker Skratcher (1980, Vinyl) | Discogs

8:26 PM
17 Pygmies - Waiting to Arrive
17 Pygmies Waiting to Arrive
Jedda by the Sea + Hatikva LTM Recordings 1984
8:30 PM
Neo Boys - Give Me the Message
Neo Boys Give Me the Message
Sooner or Later K Records 2013
Portland's own. Originally released on their S/T EP in 1980.
8:35 PM
Split Enz - Bold As Brass
Split Enz Bold As Brass
Dizrythmia Chrysalis Records 1977
8:38 PM
The Residents - Picnic Boy
The Residents Picnic Boy
Commercial Album Ralph Records 1980
Lene Lovich on vocals - something your DJ just learned for the first time.
8:39 PM
It's Immaterial - A Gigantic Raft In The Phillippines
It's Immaterial A Gigantic Raft In The Phillippines
7" Inevitable 1981
Single on Liverpool's legendary Inevitable records, which also featured bands like Wah!, China Crisis, Nightmares in Wax, and more.
8:42 PM
Henry Badowski - Baby Sign Here With Me
Henry Badowski Baby Sign Here With Me
Making Love With My Wife - 7" Deptford Fun City Records 1979

Eno-worship from this Captain Sensible collaborator.
Die or D.I.Y.?: Henry Badowski - "Making Love with my Wife" (Deptford Fun  City DFC11) 1979

8:45 PM
XTC - Funk Pop a Roll
XTC Funk Pop a Roll
Mummer Virgin 1983
8:49 PM
Romeo Void - Myself to Myself
Romeo Void Myself to Myself
It's a Condition Columbia/Legacy 1981
8:53 PM
Klark Kent - Don't Care
Klark Kent Don't Care
S/T 1980 1980
Single released in 1978. Alias of none other than Stewart Copeland.
8:55 PM
Captain Sensible - The Russians Are Coming
Captain Sensible The Russians Are Coming
This Is Your Captain Speaking - 7" Crass Records 1981

Dolly Mixture on backing vocals. Wot!
CAPTAIN SENSIBLE This is your Captain speaking |

9:04 PM
Au Pairs - Armagh
Au Pairs Armagh
Playing with a Different Sex Human Records 1981
WE DON'T TORTURE / WE'RE A CIVILIZED NATION
9:07 PM
Manicured Noise - Faith
Manicured Noise Faith
Northern Stories 1978/80 Caroline True Records 2006
Single from 1980.
9:11 PM
Fire Engines - Discord
Fire Engines Discord
Lubricate Your Living Room Pop Aural 1981

Edinburgh, Scotland.
The Fire Engines - New Songs, Playlists & Latest News - BBC Music

9:18 PM
A Certain Ratio - Do the Du
A Certain Ratio Do the Du
The Graveyard and the Ballroom Factory 1980
I flayed your flesh with my thoughts
9:20 PM
The Higsons - The Lost and the Lonely
The Higsons The Lost and the Lonely
Attack of the Cannibal Zombie Businessmen Sartorial Records 2003
7" from 1981 on Waap Records.
9:24 PM
APB - Shoot You Down
APB Shoot You Down
Something to Believe In Some Records 1985
Single from 1981.
9:30 PM
The Slits - I Heard It Through the Grapevine
The Slits I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Typical Girls - 7" Island Records 1979
9:34 PM
Sweeping Promises - Safe Now
Sweeping Promises Safe Now N
Hunger for a Way Out Feel It Records 2020
9:37 PM
Weave! - Weave Say Leave
Weave! Weave Say Leave
Weave! - EP Pacific Reasons 2008
From Los Angeles. Broke up in 2010.
9:39 PM
ESG - My Love for You
ESG My Love for You
Come Away With Esg 99 Records 1983
9:42 PM
Send No Flowers - Playing For Time
Send No Flowers Playing For Time
7" Praxis 1983

Only single this Liverpool band ever released.
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9:47 PM
23 Skidoo - Last Words
23 Skidoo Last Words
7" Fetish 1981
9:49 PM
Naked Roommate - (Re) P.R.O.D.U.C.E.
Naked Roommate (Re) P.R.O.D.U.C.E. N
Do the Duvet Trouble In Mind Records 2020
9:54 PM
Electrelane - I Want to Be the President
Electrelane I Want to Be the President
I Want to Be the President - EP Too Pure 2005
I don't.
10:01 PM
Love of Diagrams - Double Negative
Love of Diagrams Double Negative
Blast Bedroom Suck Records 2015
10:06 PM
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - The Piston and the Shaft
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 The Piston and the Shaft
Strangers from the Universe Matador 1994
10:10 PM
Polvo - Vibracobra
Polvo Vibracobra
Cor-Crane Secret Merge Records 1992
10:15 PM
Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death
Fontaines D.C. A Hero's Death
A Hero's Death Partisan Records / Fontana North 2020
From Dublin, Ireland.
10:19 PM
Melkbelly - LCR
Melkbelly LCR
Pith Wax Nine 2020
From Chicago.
10:22 PM
The Rebel - Kneel, Mulholland: Drive!
The Rebel Kneel, Mulholland: Drive!
Northern Rocks Bear Weird Vegetable Sacred Bones Records 2008
Marry me, Ben Wallers.
10:25 PM
The Flesh Eaters - See You In the Boneyard
The Flesh Eaters See You In the Boneyard
A Minute to Pray, A Second to Die London Records 1981
Best show I saw in 2019. Remember shows?
10:30 PM
Death of Samantha - Harlequin Tragedy
Death of Samantha Harlequin Tragedy
Where The Women Wear The Glory And The Men Wear The Pants Homestead 1988

John Petkovic teased a comeback on his Instagram...
Death Of Samantha | Discography | Discogs

10:36 PM
Mini Skirt - Pressure
Mini Skirt Pressure N
Casino Self-released 2020
Australian, mixed by Mikey Young.
10:39 PM
Throwing Muses - Shimmer
Throwing Muses Shimmer
University 4AD 1994

One of the first videos I ever remember bookmarking on YouTube is of a performance of this song on the Jon Stewart Show in the 90s.

10:42 PM
My Dad Is Dead - Whirlpool
My Dad Is Dead Whirlpool
The Taller You Are, The Shorter You Get Homestead 1989
10:46 PM
Shellac - Song Against Itself
Shellac Song Against Itself
1000 Hurts Touch and Go Records 2000
The rare Albini song I can play unedited on the radio.
10:50 PM
Osees - Canopenr '74
Osees Canopenr '74 N
Protean Threat Castle Face 2020
10:55 PM
Naked Raygun - Home
Naked Raygun Home
Raygun...Naked Raygun Quarterstick Records 1990
Chat is archived.
Dana K (host) 8:00:57 PM
Chat is open. Sudden sleepiness has overtaken me but I will try to struggle through my own radio show.
Dana K (host) 8:10:50 PM
"CIA-bred necrophile" - Cathal Coughlan had a way with words.
yoni191 9:18:55 PM
That Captain needs more parrot!
Casey Dougherty 9:28:39 PM
really dug that APB song
Dana K (host) 9:32:51 PM
Yes! Might have been neat to see them when they came by a couple years ago.
Dana K (host) 9:34:00 PM
listen to me saying "ulster county" instead of "county ulster" like an american :/
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 9:53:42 PM
Hi
Dana K (host) 9:54:51 PM
hi! thanks for tuning in tonight!
yoni191 9:57:22 PM
I can't be president. Someone needs to change the rules.
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 10:02:45 PM
I love this station. I've listened since the late 80s and it has always been playing something different.
Dana K (host) 10:09:12 PM
it's so great being a part of a station with such a rich history! thanks for continuing to tune in!
Julian Chehirian 10:11:24 PM
omg thanks for the polvo!
Julian Chehirian 10:12:01 PM
such a haunting cascade here ... light and earthy and wistful and ... active?
Julian Chehirian 10:12:09 PM
(today's active lifestyles lol)
jimbeaux 10:12:27 PM
Thank you for thinking of the Thinking Fellers!
Dana K (host) 10:12:44 PM
the pleasure is all mine, folks!
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 10:13:00 PM
It is fun. I love hearing all these different bands and all the diverse programming.
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 10:16:07 PM
I love this song by Fontaines DC
Dana K (host) 10:18:21 PM
I like them a lot. I only started listening to them very recently after hearing them on WKDU in Philadelphia.
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 10:19:45 PM
I heard this on WXPN 88.5 a few times over the last few weeks.
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 10:20:13 PM
WKDU from Drexel U?
Dana K (host) 10:20:01 PM
Yep, Drexel's station!
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 10:22:20 PM
I'm not able to get it on my stereo unfortunately. I can only get XPN and PRB and RTI if I want strictly Jazz or Classical. Now & again I can get WDVR from Seargentsville Nj.
Dana K (host) 10:23:37 PM
I live in Philadelphia so I get KDU loud and clear - it's actually WPRB that's a bit spotty out where I am.
Dana K (host) 10:24:46 PM
But really, we're spoiled for choice as far as radio goes in this area.
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 10:25:33 PM
I'm in Montgomery County in Pa. I could years ago get Cabrini and Villanova now & again in the car.
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 10:27:02 PM
I can't lift too many stations on FM where I live that are playing anything different.
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 10:28:08 PM
Lots of commercial stations that play the same songs over and over which makes me bored.
Dana K (host) 10:28:14 PM
Yeah, I don't know what I'd do without WPRB and WKDU and to a lesser extent WXPN.
Dana K (host) 10:28:34 PM
WXPN has some really great programming depending on the DJ I should say
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 10:30:18 PM
WXPN comes in clear while driving. I can't get WPRB while driving because 2 other stations mix in.
Dana K (host) 10:30:21 PM
Oh yeah, that's annoying whenever I have to go out into the suburbs
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 10:31:16 PM
Of course sometimes WAMU Washington DC comes in with WXPN
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 10:32:31 PM
Funny that it only happens when I drive though not at home. Lol!
Vaughn Skywatcher Heintz 10:55:56 PM
Have a great week. Catch you later.
Dana K (host) 10:56:13 PM
Last song (besides a little nonsense I tacked on the end). Thanks everyone for listening!!
Dana K (host) 10:56:21 PM
Thanks Vaughn, take care!
Dana K (host) 10:56:30 PM
Ameena's next!
jimbeaux 10:57:53 PM
Thx for the naked raygun bookends!
jimbeaux 10:59:24 PM
OMG PURE MOODS!
Dana K (host) 11:00:04 PM
PURE MOODS FOREVER