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Don't Back the Front

Jan 21, 2021 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Dana K

DANA K'S BIRTHDAY SHOW FOR FRIENDS

8:03 PM		The Desperate Bicycles Don't Back the Front 7" 1977
8:05 PM		Brian Eno Needles In the Camel's Eye (2004 Remaster) Here Come the Warm Jets EMI Marketing 1973
8:11 PM		Game Theory Sleeping Through Heaven Blaze of Glory Omnivore Recordings 1982
8:15 PM		Sneaky Feelings The Strange and Conflicting Feelings of Separation and Betrayal Send You Flying Nun Records 1984
8:18 PM		This Poison! Workout Magazine Egg Records 2004 Unreleased demo.
8:20 PM		Cud Only (A Prawn in Whitby) When in Rome Kill Me CUD 1989
8:23 PM		McCarthy Should the Bible Be Banned That's All Very Well But? Cherry Red Records 1986
8:27 PM		The Dentists Tony Bastable vs. John Noakes Some People Are On the Pitch They Think It's All Over It Is Now Rev-Ola 2005 Originally released in 1985
8:28 PM		The Bluebells No One Ever Waves Goodbye Exile on Twee Street - Songs from Glasgow 1980-1982 Cherry Red Records 2014
8:36 PM		Subway Sect Ambition 7" Rough Trade 1978
8:38 PM		The Freshies I'm In Love With The Girl On The Manchester Virgin Megastore Checkout Desk 7" Razz Records 1980
8:44 PM		The Dukes of Stratosphear Vanishing Girl Psonic Psunspot Virgin 1987
8:47 PM		The Cleaners From Venus A Song for Syd Barrett Under Wartime Conditions Mr Mule 2019 Several reissues of this one - most recently on Captured Tracks.
8:50 PM		The Out Who Is Innocent? 7" Virgin 1979
8:53 PM		The Lines We Don't Need Surgery Memory Span Acute 2008 Originally released in 1980 on the Cool Snap EP
8:55 PM		Rote Kapelle San Francisco Again San Francisco Again - EP In Tape Music 1988
9:00 PM		The Flys Love & a Molotov Cocktail 7" EMI 1978
9:07 PM		Swell Maps Spitfire Parade A Trip to Marineville Mute 1989
9:10 PM		Naked Raygun Home of the Brave All Rise Quarterstick Records 1985
9:12 PM		Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 My Pal the Tortoise Strangers from the Universe Matador 1994
9:17 PM		Th' Faith Healers A Word of Advice Lido Too Pure 1992
9:22 PM		Bogshed Oily Stack Step On IT Shelfish Records 1986
9:24 PM		Unrest Cath Carroll Perfect Teeth 4AD 1993
9:27 PM		Screaming Sneakers Violent Days Marching Orders 1982
9:29 PM		King Missile Margaret's Eyes They Shimmy Disc 1990
9:37 PM		Elvis Costello & The Attractions Opportunity Get Happy!! UMe/Elvis Costello 1980
9:40 PM		The Jam Ghosts The Gift (Remastered) Polydor Records 1982
9:42 PM		Microdisney Loftholdingwood Love Your Enemies Cherry Red Records 2013
9:49 PM		The Loud Family Inverness Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things Alias 1992 I'm not above cliches tonight
9:54 PM		The Suburbs Spring Came Credit in Heaven Twin/Tone 1981
9:55 PM		The Cannanes Sound of the City A Love Affair with Nature Chapter Music 1990
10:03 PM		Shriekback Nemesis Oil & Gold Island Records 1985 We need to talk about justice for Tuvix
10:07 PM		Devo Snowball Freedom of Choice Warner Records 1980
10:10 PM		The Associates Message Oblique Speech Fourth Drawer Down Situation Two 1981 ALL IMPORTANT RUBBISH / MADE TO PUBLISH / MADE TO LAST
10:16 PM		Cabaret Voltaire Silent Command 7" Rough Trade 1979
10:20 PM		David Bowie Stay (2016 Remastered Version) Station to Station (2016 Remastered Version) Parlophone UK 1976
10:26 PM		The The Uncertain Smile (7" Version) 7" Epic 1982
10:30 PM		Colin Newman & Jury (Remastered) A-Z (Remastered) Beggars Banquet 1980
10:33 PM		Magazine My Tulpa Real Life Virgin Catalogue 1978
10:43 PM		The Desperate Bicycles I Make the - Product New Cross, New Cross Refill Records 1978
10:46 PM		The Chills The Oncoming Day Submarine Bells Rhino/Slash 1989
10:49 PM		Jesse Garon and the Desperadoes Splashing Along 7" Narodnik 1986 In Glasgow town / I've got stars in my eyes
10:52 PM		Lush Scarlet Scar 4AD 1989
10:56 PM		Roxy Music Avalon Avalon EG Records 1982

Chat is archived.

chat is OPEN. hello.

happy early birthday to me, the DJ, who hurtles ever further into her 30s tomorrow

Hi Dana, Happy Birthday! I'm doing my listening hours for WPRB's DJ training, nice to join you tonight :)

thank you! that's awesome - welcome aboard! if you have any questions feel free to ask! (though i'm pretty new to live broadcasting from home)

Esoterica played great game theory version of this last week!

Hi Dana, Happy Birthday!!

thanks Ryan!

Esoterica and I must be on the same wavelength. I've got Game Theory cued up for later.

I always say can’t believe how late I am to the game theory party :)

Happy birthday!

And your voice sounds perfect, no glitches like last week

HB / play all ur faves !

Hahaha

Brian eno has a weird number of songs about needles

As can be expected from someone turning 51

Happy Birthday!!!!! 🎁

Oh and happy birthday!

Enophile cover band maybe ?

@Krista- Eno has a lot of songs about boats too. We should compile data of Eno’s most frequent subjects and words

Ahh I'm so glad my mic sounds good. Thanks everyone!!

Sounds really good!

Everything is 👌

Third time's the charm!

Dana should have been born in 60s / you would loved late 70s kid / instead a millennial:)

I think WPRB needs to refine the music library by subject matter. Eno is filed under “Boats ‘n’ Needles”

@lizbot : mother whale eyeless, big ship , hmmm gotta keep thinking

i feel like there's boats in "Backwater"

That one works too !

where's my prawn? yoni?

🦐

I agree, Lizbot.

Mountain of needles, calcium needles

Oi yes what

@DanaK: https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/119158 lists cover versions of Eno's Needles. Two were released before c. 2004: One by Suicide Romeo and the other by Volcano Suns

Hey Dana K, Happy Birthday! 🎂

it wasn't either of those - it was an obscure local band i believe. i'd have to search through the old playlists again.

thank you christine!

A search for "brian eno" "prawn" turned up these results: "authentic prawn pad thai recipe ... Aldi Dopiaza Curry Sauce, Endocrine System Hormones, Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon, Bad Adjectives In Spanish, She's ..."

Checks out

thank you yoni

Happy to help with the crossover content

Hey, chat peeps. 👋 DJ Liz Bot, your show was great and full of gems. I was driving and couldn't pip into the chat.

Was hoping there was a song about 'em. Or maybe a recipe. "Eno's Prawn Cocktail" sounds like a great name for a mixtape.

Eno's Prawn Cocktail put the poker in the fire, it will come, it will come, it will surely come

Nailed it.

Hi Christine! Was opening mail (Bernie-style) and couldn’t check chat last 10 minutes, but thanks!

Here come the prawns - an Eno/Robyn Hitchcock Collaboration 🌊 🦐

@Lizbot, did you have your handmade mittens on? 😄

@Christine- I wish! I have one sad glove

Mountains of Needles in a Camel’s Calcium

I love this Freshies song

in an alternate universe this might be my theme song

Happiest Birthday, Dana!!!💐🍷🧁🎈🎁 "On January 21, 1990, the Croydon, England space rock band Loop recorded a 3 song session with BBC DJ John Peel. The session took place one day before the release of the bands third full-length LP A Gilded Eternity. Loop played two new tracks from the record and the track 'Sunburst', which was the b-side to the Arc-Lite 12″ released the previous year." https://youtu.be/GfDxvn1_HzE

Ooooh!

My birthday is technically tomorrow, I share it with Malcolm McLaren.

And thank you!

The jig’s up! I was told Dana was a 51 year-old!

I've been told I am an honorary Gen X-er. Perhaps even older than a Gen X-er.

Haha about the age / your music faves aren’t millennial typical :)

It's true. But I've found my people at WPRB, where we're all detached from time!

Malcolm mclaren was a sh** His partner vivien Westbrook was magnificent woman & brains if the operation

Semi-longtime listener, first time chat-ter. Is it too late to say something about oenophile Enophiles?

And we love all you WPRB people who are detached from time!

*weatwood / she was behind the clothing designs of the punk era

Never too late, Chris

@Chris it's never too late. thanks and welcome!

Thanks! Also, do you have Crass's "Do They Owe Us a Living?" Seems timely...

I can definitely cue it up!

Cool! Also I'm so old I played Dukes of Stratosphear on WPRB when it was new

that's great! then we've played the same record, 30 years apart!

When it was new we were pretty sure it was XTC but it wasn't immediately confirmed, so it had an air of mystery to it

PS: I can't play Crass until 10pm - too many naughty words

Oh yeah. That's the stuff.

Play maybe one folk song; still remember that special in studio folk show u did :)

So actually you were born on a Monday! That's great too! I've got something planned for your FB page tomorrow...🙂

Hard to forget it, it was my last show in the studio!

Ah, you're too sweet, Teresa!

Understood re Crass. I thought about looking up the lyrics first but got lazy

If only you could play the Kidz Bop version!

OMG Rote Kapelle! Thought they sounded familiar.. i have one single by them, Fire Escape

Don't Back the Covid!

I love that single too!

Holy cow! Subway Sect. No reason to go out on Thursday night anymore. This show tonight is my HS and College soundtrack. LOL

i'm so glad to hear it, commander!

Thanks for the Naked Raygun. Classic.

Whoa-ho-ho!

Y'all best be whoa-ing along!

Whoa along at home! 📻

Please whoa-ho safely

I'm pretty sure I saw Naked Raygun at City Gardens

Spellcheck is murder on the whoa's though

madman ---> 🐢

So now we know your favorite songs / what’s the favorite aquarious crystal / gemstone ...

Faith Healers? wow

this faith healers song is special to me because i think it was one of the very first songs i ever played on WPRB?

And is alcohol allowed at this birthday chat ?

i'm not much into crystals...i do wear a smoky quartz necklace though

Special to me too becuase the week I moved to NYCthis was one of the only CD's I had and I played it over and over in my tiny studio apt trying to figure out how to get to Hoboken on the Path becuase they still had an ATM where I could take out my l;ast five dollars before pay day. Good times

Haha it’s alll about crystals these days :)

❤️!

as for alcohol, not sure if it's verboten or not for me to discuss drinking over the air...but you listeners are allowed to get up to whatever you want

The worlds last $5 ATM in 1992 was in Hoboken right by the train station.

Ha fcc & station rules but it is ur birthday (week)

@cmdr there was one on park and franklin in minneapolis in 2005

wow 2005??? Thats awesome

The best!

i am singing along

let me make sure my mic is off

Another perfect track. I mean, it's no "Cheesecake Truck" but ...

the complete sarcastic vitriol with which this irishman sings "aren't you glad you were born in england? aren't you glad you were born an angel?"

This is great!

Suburbs are a Minneapolis band? I assume? We do love Minneapolis in 1981.

Yes. Excellent double LP called Credit In Heaven

That was their most gentle moment

Double LP in 1981! On Twin/Tone! That's wild.

see? i told you you'd learn something if you kept hanging out with me

"The label was headquartered at 2541 Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, which had previously been home to Kay Bank Studios, where garage-rock hits such as the Castaways' "Liar, Liar" and the Trashmen's "Surfin' Bird" had been recorded in the 1960s. For a time, Hüsker Dü had an office space next door to Twin/Tone at 2539. Hüsker Dü's Grant Hart would later name his first solo work, 2541, after the location." Thank you Wikipedia

Surfin' Cow > Surfin' Bird > Surfjan Stevens

Surfjan Stevens? Thanks I hate it

Any song that mentions parthenogenesis is aiight with me. Go Shreikback!

i love these lyrics so much

This whole album is etched into my brain; loved it from its release.

Shriekback? Or Devo?

Shreikback's Oil and Gold.

ah! yes, it's great!

This has that great groove!

Happy burfday 2 morrow DANA K!

thanks jimbeaux!!

Magazine!! This was big on WPRB when I first discovered it as a Central Jersey teen in the early 80s

Ah ah ah oh!

@Dana, your NYE show was air horn-tactic!

📣📣📣

Air Horn throughout "Orinoco Flow." I have not laughed that much during a radio show in forever.

hahaha i'm so glad someone else found it as amusing as we did

It was hilariously absurd. So much fun!

Fantastic show! We enjoyed it a whole lot over here at Wando's

thank you all for listening and for the birthday wishes! see you next week!

Have a great birthday! 🎊

thanks! we ordered fish and chips takeout from stargazy, the british pie shop in south philly, which i'll be sharing with brian (my co-host from NYE) and yoni from KDU. very much looking forward to it.