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DoublePlusGood

Nov 19, 2020 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

With Lizbot

4:59 PM		Winston Samuels Give to Get From Matador’s Arena Jamaican Gold AKA Winston McInnis from Kingston, Jamaica, who was a member of the vocal group The Four Aces. In 1967, Samuels and Four Aces member Barry Howard provided the backing vocals on Desmond Dekker’s famous track “Israelites”.
5:03 PM		King Missile I'm Open They Shimmy Disc 1988
5:05 PM		Krakatoa The Messenger Is Sleeping Togetherness Etherdrag 2001
5:14 PM		The Gothic Archies The World Is a Very Scary Place The Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events Nonesuch 2006
5:16 PM		Sparks Susie Safety Ron Mael Whomp That Sucker RCA 1981
5:20 PM		The Specials Pressure Drop Today's Specials Virgin Catalogue 1996 Toots & the Maytals cover, originally recorded in 1969
5:26 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
5:26 PM		Mixel Pixel Coney Island Bound Trash Train Mappy Land Mental Monkey 2001 a music/video project based in Brooklyn that existed from the mid-90s to 2009
5:28 PM		Krakatoa Modern #4 Togetherness Etherdrag 2001
5:29 PM		John Lurie End Titles John Lurie Down By Law & Variety Strange and Beautiful 2006 Soundtrack to the 1986 Jim Jarmusch film Down By Law, starring Tom Waits, John Lurie & Roberto Benigni
5:32 PM		Strapping Fieldhands Cold Rock Chameleon The Third Kingdom Omphalos 2002 The Strapping Fieldhands are an American indie rock band based in Pennsylvania, and are associated with the Siltbreeze label and American lo-fi psych scene. The band's first live incarnation was a three-piece opening for The Frogs. During the 1990s the Fieldhands would tour extensively with The Grifters, Guided by Voices, Pavement, and Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, playing shows with The Fall, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Royal Trux and others.
5:35 PM		Lyres Stacey Lyres Lyres Munster 1986
5:38 PM		Boys Blue You Got What I Want You Got What I Want / Take a Heart ABC Probe 1965
5:40 PM		Betty Davis Game Is My Middle Name Betty Davis Just Sunshine Records 1973 Debut
5:45 PM		Michael Nyman Prospero’s Curse Michael Nyman N Prospero's Books - Music From The Film Decca Music Group Ltd. 1991 soundtrack to the Peter Greenaway film based on The Tempest, with John Giulgud as Prospero.
5:47 PM		Judas Priest Diamonds and Rust Sin After Sin (Bonus Track Version) Columbia 1977 Joan Baez cover
5:50 PM		Chemicals Made From Dirt Air Raid Drill Doug Milman Ike Hyped2Death 2000 originally released on the Biro Mino label in the early 80s no wave/post-punk group.
5:53 PM		Eliot Klein Archeopteryx - Phoenix Anomalous Animals 2011 Philadelphia-based musician playing keyboards and vibes
6:00 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:03 PM		Chemicals Made From Dirt Chemicals Made From Dirt Ike Hyped2Death 2000
6:05 PM		Broadcast Message from Home The Book Lovers EP Duophonic 1996
6:10 PM		The Deejays Striped Dreams Checked Fear Haze Hep House 1967
6:16 PM		Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes La parole est à la victime Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes La déboussole Philips 1980 Alpes was a French experimental progressive group that existed 1970-1980 led by Portuguese born female singer Catherine Ribeiro, Alpes was the multi-instrumental backing group led by Patrice Moullet and a roster of other musicians that changed over the years. Their music cross-bred folk and psychedelic musics, with avant-garde and space-rock elements, and often featured special home-made instruments like the Cosmophone (a guitar/lyre hybrid), Percuphone (a mechanical rhythm machine), Orgolia (a large metallic violin) and other inventions.
6:20 PM		Cheer-Accident Arise and Shine What Sequel? Pravda Records 2006
6:22 PM		Six Minute War Madness 33.3 Messthetics #1: UK 77-82 DIY Bands V/A Hyped2Death
6:23 PM		Paola Rainbow In the Dark Ronnie James Dio Who Will Buy These Wonderful Evils Dolores Ronnie James Dio cover
6:26 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
6:29 PM		The Monks Oh, How to Do Now Black Monk Time 1966
6:32 PM		LiLiPUT Yours Is Mine Some Songs Rough Trade 1983 Swiss punk band from Zurich- Originally called "Kleenex", this Swiss band had to change their name in order to avoid legal trouble with the tissue manufacturers. This all-girl-band (mostly) with a very energetic and original sound was considered by some as a sort of "the new Slits". After a few records and various personnel and musical changes they split in the early 80's.
6:36 PM		Roky Erickson Mine Mine Mind Roky Erickson The Evil One Light In The Attic 2013
6:38 PM		MC5 I Can Only Give You Everything ‘66 Breakout
6:40 PM		Slapp Happy & Henry Cow Strayed Slapp Happy & Henry Cow Desperate Straights Virgin 1975
6:42 PM		The Clash Rudie Can't Fail London Calling CBS Records 1979
6:45 PM		The Desperate Bicycles Smokescreen Smokescreen / Handlebars Refill Records 1977 first single, recorded March of ’77. They booked a studio in Dalston for three hours and with a lot of courage and a little rehearsal they recorded 'Smokescreen' and 'Handlebars' "It was easy, it was cheap, go and do it" (the complete cost of "Smokescreen" was £153) In total, they released 5 singles and one album, plus one single as The Evening Outs
6:48 PM		Cherokees Little Lover Oh Monah Go! Records 1967
6:49 PM		Elite My Confusion I'll Come To You / My Confusion Charay 1966 From Fort Worth
6:52 PM		The Cherokees Uprisin' Uprisin' - Single Challenge Records 1961
6:54 PM		Shonen Knife Till The End Of The Day Ray Davies Brown Mushrooms and Other Delights Virgin 1993 Kinks cover
6:56 PM		Los Fabulosos Cadillacs Vasos Vacíos Vasos Vacíos (Remastered) Epic 1993 Argentinian rock & ska band founded in Buenos Aires in 1983 by Gabriel Fernández ('Vicentico', vocals), Mario Siperman ('Spiker', keyboards), Aníbal Rigozzi (guitar), Flavio Cianciarulo (bass, vocals) and Fernando Ricciardi (drums).
7:01 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:01 PM		Books on Tape Republic Of Sings the Blues Greyday Records 2003 California-based artist/electronica producer Todd Drootin
7:06 PM		Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Hobo Chang Ba Don Van Vliet Trout Mask Replica Keyhole 2017
7:08 PM		Pere Ubu Street Waves The Modern Dance Blank 1978
7:11 PM		The Dynatones Fender Rock Kicksville!, Vol. 2 V/A Norton Records 2002
7:13 PM		The Clash The Guns of Brixton London Calling CBS 1979
7:16 PM		Magma Nono (1978, Phase II) - Original Attahk 1978
7:23 PM		Scout Niblett Hot to Death Scout Niblett Kidnapped by Neptune Too Pure 2005
7:27 PM		Scott Walker The Seventh Seal Scott Walker Scott 4 UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 1969
7:32 PM		Genie Brown I Can’t Stop Talking A Woman Alone Dunhill 1973
7:34 PM		Feast of the Epiphany Practising Loss II Nick Podgurski Practising Loss NYC-based musician Nick Podgurski
7:47 PM		Red Setter Human Zener_19
7:52 PM		Ormb Thorastiuss Mick Barr Milanthriust, The Graths of Mersh Mick Barr of Orthrelm
7:55 PM		Oneohtrix Point Never Monody The Station - EP Warp Records 2018
7:56 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:58 PM		Van Halen Cathedral Diver Down Rhino/Warner Records 1982

Chat is archived.

0110100001110001 🤖 📻 is at the ready

Yes! Love when you play Krakatoa. These are my frenz.

Hi jimbeaux! Yay!

Hi lizbot 🤖 post election euphoria giving way to a little bit of scary vibes?!

Hi Liz Bot! Hi, fine people in the chat *waves*

Used to perform with them as part of Lost Art of Puppet Theater in Philly.

Can’t get enuf sparks on double plus !

Thanks for playing Sparks ✨

Hi christine & mark!

Hey Mark!

Hey Christine!

Sparks = one of my all-time favorite bands, so no problem!

Hi jimbeaux & Mark!

Hi C&J : C beat ya to the sparks ❤️

RIP Toots / very nice version !

💗 Toots Hibbert.

Yeah, met The Specials around the time of the album with this cover. Album came out in ‘96. In ‘97 I

Liz / last post election note : hoping to get down this weekend to get pictures of 4 season landscape / crematorium and adult bookstore which is still doing boffo biz ! :)

In ‘97 I didn’t want to go home for Thanksgiving, so I went with my friend to the Electric Factory on Thanksgiving night for a woefully-named mini-festival called “Skanksgiving”! It had The Specials, The Pie-Tasters, and I don’t remember who else, but afterwards The Specials invited us to their tour bus. We hung out for a bit, but we didn’t want to go drinking with them.

How fun!

Mark- Ha! Yeah, Commie Francis went down there! They now have loads of Biden supporters posing in front of their business on a regular basis!😂

But not as fun a “skansgiving” celebration @ Rlectric factory

Lotta typo there / and what’s it call now Franklin concert hall

I said earlier what a great Thursday PRB lineup from pangeo to ameena/ must listen look forward to next 2+ hours

Ha!

I agree: Thursdays on PRB is one of my favorites!

Yeah, I love all the DJs on Thursdays this season!

Where did the lyres come from and how did i miss them in the 80s ?!

I do miss pethie follow Liz as great as Dana is

Boston!

Boston’s Ace of Hearts label had a lot of great bands

If ANYONE has a copy of the Peter Greenaway film “Prospero’s Books,” from which this song is taken, PLEASE sell it to me! I can only find it as a region 2 dvd these days

I’m always looking for movies that are in the wrong damn region!

Not unless I beat u too it / I’ve been looking since u mention a few weeks ago !!

If I find I’ll trade for a couple of other lizbot rabbit holes I’m looking for !

Never thought I’d hear rob halford do Joan Baez!

Mark! Nice! ONE of these days I will find it. I saw some Greenaway bootlegs on a website that was kinda shady, so I didn’t want to give them my cc! If they had PayPal, then maaaybe.

I wish I did; I saw Prospero's Books on cable years ago. Peter Greenaway is absolutely one-of-a-kind, isn't he? Drowning By Numbers is my favorite of his.

Ha I’ve been looking at local bargain bins that carry obscure plus a few web sites !

@C I wanna see that one as a liz recommendation

Christine- YES! Cissie Colpits x 3! I love that movie and I love its Nyman soundtrack

Plus still need to read turtle 🐢 diaries / watch picnic hanging rock etc etc damn u double plus good and ur rabbit 🐇 holes

Mark, I used to find all these rare VHS at the Pennsauken Mart back in the 90s and early 2000s at Movie Mania. R.I.P. the Mart!

@Mark, this is why we love Liz Bot! Which reminds me, I should re-read Turtle Diary. 🐢

I’m kinda afraid to read turtle as I still remember the playlist it inspired / I’m afraid it won’t resonate like that :)

I bought so many movies there and I always had a list of other movies I was looking for for them to set aside for me if they came in. It was all used VHS pre-DVD days. I was such a frequent customer, they had a special list mounted prominently behind the register on the wall labeled “The Liz List”. I can’t bring myself to get rid of those rare and heavily-searched for VHS tapes now, so they collect dust on my shelves

Hahaha the Liz list/ ❤️ that !

Thanks Christine! Mark, you should read it! It’s so good! It’s also short, so won’t take that much time. Read before seeing the movie of it. The movie is pretty good, but very different from the book

Lizbot, thank you again for that one doubleplusgood show that was entirely inspired by or connected to Turtle Diary. That must have been a couple years ago now.

Didn’t realize there’s a movie : hovan (author?} from Philly right ?

@C it was probably my most memorable liz show / was scared too get book afterwards

Christine, thanks! Oh yeah, that was several years ago at this point. Russell Hoban was from Philly originally and he and his first wife, Lillian, made those Frances the badger picture books, like Bread and Jam for Frances that I absolutely LOVED when I was a little kid! They both went what is now U Arts

There’s a Russell Hoban line I LOVE in “Best Friends for Frances” where the title badger and her best friend have a fight, and then he announces he needs to go off to the woods alone because he needs to do his “frog and snake work”. I love a good children’s book, and it’s no surprise he turned out to be a great novelist too! He also wrote some pretty out-there plays!

Just got both Alice books recently from my indie book store/ maybe we should all revisit our childhood faves / looking for some comfort

One of my favorite Broadcast songs, or any songs for that matter!

Did any of you hear the bizarre soundtrack to [author of Turtle Diary] Russell Hoban’s play, The Carrier Frequency? It was performed by some avant theatre co-op in London in the early 80s standing in dark cold water for hours! It involves a post-apocalyptic radio signal that offers hints to survivors about the past civilization. It was an underground hit. The soundtrack was never released until this summer! I played it a few times back in August or September

Hi Steve! Yeah, I love this song. R.I.P. Trish Keenan

I need to read more Russell Hogan. I read that one book that he wrote in an invented dialect. Ridley Walker. It was tough going, partly because it was taking place in might have been a dystopian England. The language was like a puzzle you had to solve.

I only remember only from u play / kinda sounded like short wave radio signals ?

I never read any of Russell's plays, or heard the soundtracks. I need to!

Speaking of post apocalyptic could u play some of music from last jette some nite / that was my favorite rewatch last year

*la

Christine, I have The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz and then a The Hoban Omnibus, which my father-in-law’s friend kindly dropped off on my porch for me one day

That's fantastic. 📚 Adding to the list!

I remember when I was about 10 seeing John Irvin’s film adaptation of Turtle Diary with my mom. I didn’t really understand it then. Glad I waited to rewatch the film until after reading the book. My mom took me to a lot of movies that were not exactly inappropriate for kids, but we’re definitely not very relatable to kids! I’m glad she did though, she introduced me to a lot of great filmmakers!

It's just not a Lizbot show without a little Cheer-Accident!

Bud, true!

Cheer-Accident needs more recognition!

And maybe some Sparks is required too, but you already took care of that.

Yup! Sparks & Cheer-Accident are most likely my two most-played bands

We had a Toots & The Maytals cover, a Joan Baez cover by Judas Priest, and now Paola doing Ronnie James Dio

I was trying to figure out why I knew this song :)

This may come as no surprise, but LizBot, you playing Cheer-Accident was my first exposure to them! 📻 🎶

Ha and Adrian Belew & Kate Bush & ... as lizbot faves

Definitely! Would be cool to have the meta-data! Belew and Kate Bush are def way up there!

Don't forget Laurie Anderson 😄

Ha and we only know this cause it’s all the listener faves too

Oh course! How could forget Laurie!

When I hear this Monks song, I realize The Fall were doing their homage with "Black Monk Theme."

@Christine- Oh yeah, good point!

Got any theme shows coming up before year end / esoterica announced her always great glam show today

Hi Lizbot, how great to hear Kleenex, they were special!

Mark- TBA. Not sure what weeks I’m doing themes yet

Hi Bo! Yes, LiLiPuT/Kleenex were great! I have a lot of the 7” singles

Found a bunch of their singles at the FMU record fair many years ago

LUUUCKEEY!

Followed by the GREAT Rocky Ericson and The MC5... hitting all the right notes, NICE.

Fantastic show tonight!

Thanks, Bo!

don't slander me

Hi Christine, Agreed!

That last song, Smokescreen, was by a band with the greatest DIY ethos slogan ever “IT WAS EASY! IT WAS CHEAP! GO AND DO IT!”- Desperate Bicycles

LUV IT!

never heard this and I love it

the elite wow

@Bryon Mollica- Glad you like it!

How do you find all of this amazing music, blowing my mind dude?!

@Bo- Decades of collecting!

I come from record & book-collecting parents...hoarders of lesser known pop culture!

Now it’s Shonen Knife covering The Kinks

I'm a HUGE Kinks fan, AND Shonen Knife, BIG up's to your folks!

so much to learn at the school of Lizbot

YAS!

@Bo- I’ll be sure to let them know!

@Bryon, haha, my daughter SOMETIMES feels that way, but now that she’s in middle school, she spends a good deal of time rolling her eyes at my suggestions...but I win because later I hear her listening to the same songs in her room! Bwahaha

Mom knows best 😄

Christine- YES! Tell her that!

How cool: we get to hear Desperate Bicycles again at 8:00 pm when Dana K plays "Don't Back The Front!"

I don’t think I took my parents’ musical tastes for granted! I was always taking their records! They’re ooooold though, older than most of my peers’ parents, so they had collections very different from my friends’ parents, both in terms of time period and types of music.

@Christine - Yeah, I always get that song that in my head!

What an education that must have been. 💡

I don’t play “Don’t Back the Front” even though I love that song cuz I know I’m about to hear it on Dana’s show! Great way to start the show

And to follow up that lizbot daughter comment / ill never forget Liz dramatizing the PRB psa about kids and not wanting to hear what did u do all day and hear in retur : nothing !! Lizbot stretched it out and it’s my favorite psa of all time :) !

@Christine- My parents had some overlap in their collections, but you could ALWAYS tell my mom’s copies from my dad’s because my dad’s were pristine and my mom’s looked like they were used as coasters!

No kiddin' Christine, if it were a school I'd never miss a day!

Haha. Thanks, Mark! I MISS that PSA. It was my favorite to read, as you can plainly tell!

Haha if I recall u were back from a trip in sleep 💤 deprived mode and your extended rendition was fantastic !

Dynotones YAYYY!!!

DynAtones, whoops.

Haha, Mark- Sometimes my SLEEPIEST mentals states yield the best shows! But also, my hyper modes!

Another amazing cover version, damn I miss this band.

Ha I think I read recently about travelers doing transatlantics and back in short time frames just to get away/ not that I’m recommending :)

Great show and we STILL have dana and ameenas distinct sounds to come !

And as psa when is lizbot rebroadcast for us pandemic insomniacs?

@Mark- Yeah, I’m not getting on any flights any time soon! I’m basically holed up for the duration

@Mark- I think it’s 3 am Saturdays...lemme confirm that though

Ok thanks!

Monday 3AM Mark

@Mark- ah! NEVERMIND! It’s MONDAY 3am-6am

Jinx

Jinxed

you turned me onto Scout a couple years ago BTW Laura viers has a new out

I actually unintentionally woke up for the rebroadcast last week about 5 minutes before it started and then realized it was on and left it on as I tried to fall back asleep, but I couldn’t, so I heard most of it. It was all a blur! Felt like the weekend!

@Bryon- Nice! I love her “I Conjure Series” too. Rimsky to the Rescue is one of my favorite Scout Niblett songs

@Bryon- Yeah, I gotta check out that My Echo album

ALSO, EVERYONE: It ONLY occurred to me THIS WEEK that I will actually be on THANKSGIVING NIGHT for the first time in ??????? years! I always manage to get a sub, but there’s no need this year!

So that brings me to: WHAT should I do for the Thanksgiving show?!? I’m still mulling it over. Not sure if I’m gonna do a theme or not...

Just do 'yo thang', forget about TD.

Thanks, Bo!

A Skanksgiving show, maybe?

GOOD ONE C.D. LMAO!

And why not!

Ha with the rules against commingled dinners/ double plus good might be the highlight for some of us between 5/8 pm !

Or Bobby Zanksgiving - All Bobby Zankel with the warriors of the wonderful sound.... Isle of Manxgiving- only Manx bands...

@CD lol except it won’t be at electric factory haha 😆

Umm ...

@Mark- Good! The challenge will be attempting to eat dinner and live-list simultaneously!

@Christine- HA!

Tony Banksgiving

Mayor Kenney May have every one in separate rooms anyway / wow it’s going to be a weird one no matter how everyone “celebrates”

@Bo- Don’t worry, I’m just messing. I swear I won’t do an all Manx, Tony Banks and Bobby Zankel show next week!

Yeah, Mark. This may be the one year everyone’s home alone with their radios on Thanksgiving. I don’t think there’s even a parade...At least there shouldn’t be!

Don't let me stop ya Lizbot, I'd be all ears!

thanks, Bo!

I think there's gonna be a MAGA Parade

Can u play old John facenda recordings / various incantation of the autumn wind is a pirate

I’ll be getting gravy all over my phone as I respond to listener chat next week! Looking forward to the challenge! This will make this year’s weird no-relatives Thanksgiving about a hundred times better cuz I’ll be busy on here instead of dwelling on missed traditions!

Oooh, Mark- I think that MIGHT just happen! Good call

And that reminds me- I wonder if the Wanamaker’s (it’ll

And that reminds me- I wonder if the Wanamaker’s (it’ll NEVER be Macy’s to me,) light show will even be happening this year. They always packed in a huge crowd. No Facenda there any more anyway!

Now I think we’re all starting to show signs of sleep 💤 deprivation haha

Mark, ha! This dude has nothing but loooong songs. I feel

I feel like he has an Ian Anderson voice

Nick Podgurski

Ok let’s all meet back here on Thanksgiving/ in my younger days we celebrated a “misfit” thanksgiving early as all the friends were bar / restaurant workers who had to work that night

I resemble that, great idea!

I second that emotion.

Thanks Christine

Im in

This bombastic thing that just ended is Ormb, which is Mick Barr of the band Orthrelm. I like his ridiculous song/album titles

Orthrelmying stuff.

Looking forward to seeing you all here next week!

This show has been so much fun and illuminating! Like usual. ✨ Thanks, Lizbot!

@Bryon- Great! 🥘 🎶

Amen to that!

Slainte Lizbot!

🙌

Oh yeah, and I forgot to announce this is a Van Halen “Cathedral”- R.I.P. Eddie

Wait to see what I coom

COOK up next week...