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Don't Back the Front

Feb 18, 2021 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Dana K

8:00 PM		The Desperate Bicycles Don't Back the Front 7" 1977
8:03 PM		Stereo Total C'est la mort Oh Ah ! Stereo Total 1995
8:09 PM		PLASTICS I Love You Oh No ! Welcome Plastics Invitation 1980 Covered by Stereo Total in 1999
8:12 PM		Edith Nylon Femmes Sous Cellophane Femmes Sous Cellophane - Single Catalog 1979
8:17 PM		Duro Double Life Get in the Box Psyched for the Yin-Yang Haord Records 2020
8:21 PM		Jean-Jacques Perrey E.V.A. Moog Indigo Vanguard Records 1970
8:25 PM		Kleenex In a Mess Liliput Rough Trade 1982
8:28 PM		Seely Exploring the Planets Julie Only Too Pure 1996 Atlanta, GA - first American band on Too Pure.
8:31 PM		Broadcast The Book Lovers Work and Non Work Warp Records 1996
8:40 PM		Emerald Web Flight of the Raven Dragon Wings and Wizard Tales Stargate 1979 From Trish Keenan's Mindbending Motorway Mix
8:43 PM		Kate Bush The Big Sky Hounds of Love (Remastered) EMI 1985
8:48 PM		Bill Nelson Flaming Desire The Love That Whirls Mercury 1982
8:53 PM		Emak Tanz in Dem Himmel Deutsche Elektronische Musik 4 Soul Jazz 2020
8:56 PM		Soft Machine Dada Was Here The Soft Machine, Vol. 2 UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2009 (1969)
8:59 PM		OOIOO I'm a Song Gold & Green POLYSTAR SONGS 2001
9:08 PM		Moonshake Coward First Creation Records 1991
9:14 PM		Yellow Magic Orchestra Rydeen Solid State Survivor ALFA MUSIC, INC. 1979
9:21 PM		Manuel Göttsching Ruhige Nervosität E2-E4 Inteam GmbH 1984
9:31 PM		Hiroshi Sato Say Goodbye Awakening (Special Edition) Sony Music Direct (Japan) Inc. 1982
9:37 PM		Moev Cracked Mirror Rotting Geraniums Go! Records 1982
9:40 PM		Chris & Cosey This Is Me Heartbeat Conspiracy International 1981
9:44 PM		Fall of Saigon Blue Eyes Untitled - EP Dark Entries Records 2013 (1982)
9:45 PM		Drinking Electricity Good Times Good Times (Dance Mix) - Single Cherry Red Records 1982
9:55 PM		Larry Lewis Blaylock Dance African By-Pass Numero Group 1985
10:01 PM		Francis Bebey Wuma Te African Electronic Music (1975-1982) Born Bad Records 2012 Cameroon, originally from 1974
10:06 PM		Cymande Bra Cymande Janus Records 1972
10:10 PM		Gruff Rhys Pang! Pang! Rough Trade 2019
10:14 PM		Agitation Free Laila II Last Barclay 1976
10:19 PM		Brian Eno Golden Hours Another Green World EMI Marketing 2004
10:22 PM		Stereolab Super-Electric Switched On Too Pure 1992
10:28 PM		Harmonia Dino Musik von Harmonia Groenland 1974
10:33 PM		Nine Circles I'm Deeply Touched Nine Circles 1996
10:38 PM		Was (Not Was) Zaz Turned Blue R Born To Laugh At Tornadoes Geffen 1983
10:41 PM		Mort Garson Concerto for Philodendron & Pothos Mother Earth's Plantasia Sacred Bones Records 2019 (1976)
10:43 PM		Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith In the World, but Not of the World The Kid Western Vinyl 2017
10:53 PM		Ulrich Schnauss Knuddelmaus Far Away Trains Passing By City Centre Offices 2001

Chat is archived.

good evening - tonight's another night where i'm happy to be broadcasting from home

given that i didn't have to drive an hour in shitty weather to get to the studio!

Yeah, that’s why I didn’t share any Limbaugh-related content- there was enough already! We know!

i'm glad he's dead - don't need to see his face all over my social media

This is why I stay off Facebook when something like that happens- because suddenly my entire feed is the same thing and it’s tiring. Glad, he’s dead of course, but now moving onward

I agree- I miss the studio. I do NOT miss snowstorm drives! I had to stop and get a motel once for that short drive, the road conditions were so bad. I was particularly broke right then, so it really sucked. Woke up and he motel’s parking lot wasn’t plowed. Dug my car out in my dirty clothes from the day before, drove home and sleeeeept

oh god, that's a nightmare! i never had to do anything like that, but i always called out if the weather was bad - bless readie and mike hunter, they'd cover for me.

and i don't miss that walk from the parking lot to the station either

Yeah, KPC bailed me out a few times. My car straight up skidded out on the snow once, and I just can’t drive in those bad storms.

That particular night was terrifying. It wasn’t great on the way there, but it had gotten really bad during my show and it was the kind of snow that’s wet and heavy and sticks to your windshield no matter how hard the wipers work. I couldn’t see a damn thing and was sliding. I was really scared. I called a few motels before I found a vacancy, so many other ppl did the same thing.

The parking lot walk was only good when enhanced by a fox or black squirrel sighting

oh, i miss those black squirrels

Yeah! I never see those anywhere else

The foxes were out in droves on nights when the campus was more or less abandoned, like NYE/winter break. I hate being out/driving around drunk drivers on NYE, but my show fell on NYE a few times and man, I swear I’ve never seen so many foxes there as then. Campus abandoned for a few weeks by that point. Fox Takeover

i don't think i've ever seen a fox on campus before, but i saw one running across baltimore pike the other night

A couple nights ago, poor Nuala actually broke her toe and had to go to the vet and get pain meds the next day because she saw a fox and gave chase! She goes nuts when she sees them. The only other time she hurt her paw was another fox-related incident where she saw one and lost her shit

nuala! baby no!

Hi Dana K.!

Lizbot!

howdy!

Wasn't sure who to expect at this time slot

it's still me

every thursday 8-11

That it is :)

French kinda feel I feel tonight

@lizbot : stitching pink just told story on air yesterday how her puppy suffered soft tissue strain chasing a fox That was outside her invisible fence / story caused me to look up what male / female & child foxes r called

@Mark - I thought the kids were called kits

@Mark, young fox's are called cub's.

Foxes! Scourge of all dogs!

Mature male's/dogs, female's/vixen's.

Young - usually kits / females - vixens / males - Reynard / tod :)

male foxes are called tods, i remember this from the fox and the hound

Yep, Reynard is the Latin I believe.

Fox and the Hound?

disney movie from the 80s i think?

Ah, OK.

got to love Kate Bush :D

And a group called a skulk :) btw more kate Bush please !

I know the females are vixens cuz of the “vixen’s scream,” their insane mating call. We hear it every March. The foxes all come to our yard. One was on our front porch! The first time I heard that, I thought it was a human scream

This is the song I played over and over while driving across New Mexico

Scream like a banshee, ahem.

@lizbot : not unlike a kate Bush high note :)

oh a kate bush road trip sounds really nice right now

Haha. KB takes her socks off and throws them on a fox

Kate Bush reading Fox In Socks. I could get behind that. But only if she also acts it out in dance

Heathcliff it’s me .., :)

Yeah. I wanna drive through the desert again one day. Visited my friend in the Sonoran desert in AZ a couple years later. She still lives in Tucson and there’s nothing like star-gazing there. Anti-might pollution laws make for a perfectly dark big sky

“I found a fox Caught by dogs He let me take him in my hands“

it's coming up on the 10 year anniversary of the time i drove across the country, philadelphia to los angeles, two weeks after my grandmother died.

The Hounds of Love are Nuala and Stitching Pink’s dog, and the song is about them finally catching a fox but suffering paw wounds while Kate Bush revives said fox

the southwest is an incredible place. my mom lives out in arizona now, but i haven't been able to get out to see her in a few years

Nothing like country-country drives. That’s an incredible drive. I miss roadtrips.

Where in AZ?

Prescott, about an hour south of Sedona

so, northern AZ

The only rough spot I drove there was Flagstaff and Williams during a ridiculous blizzard.

And visit vortex @ Sedona for the paranormal effect ;)

Damn, I love Sedona. Stayed near Cathedral Rock

Yo Thurzday pals!

I don’t buy the whole vortices thing, but I enjoyed the pamphlets and signs about it! Lots of ppl buying crystals out there

👋 jimbeaux!

heyo!

Haha I just started my crystal buying journey : hey Jumbotron:)

Autocorrect to that obv

Jumbotron!

Thumbs up on AZ stargazing! Usually spend time in southeastern AZ every winter hiking, wandering.

Esoterica gave me a name extension :)

Ahhhh. Was wondering about the name change

i'm long overdue for a trip out to AZ, as soon as it's safe to do so! i quite loved new mexico as well

When jimbeax got redubbed that recently I always think of Lost & sawyer called hurley that :)

I want to get farther south, like to Bisbee, some time

Chiricahuas...fave spot! https://www.nps.gov/chir/index.htm

The light and the oranges and purples on the canyons are amazing out there. I think I couldn’t live there yearround because I need the ocean, but it’s one of my favorite places in the world.

Wow both look amazing/ ironically i was just looking up az weather temps today as it sleeted outside

I come from a family of fox hunters, (not the English red coat on horseback, Landrover Ranger over driving kind but maybe I'll just leave that topic be.

Do tell / did u ever participate ?!

mark, I didn’t think I’d encounter a ton of snow out by the Grand Canyon in mid-March but boy was I wrong! Couldn’t see more than a couple feet in front of my face- pure white blank. Snowed so hard, the inns near the canyon lost power. We stayed farther out, in Williams

Oh man I was just reading a nat geographic travel issue yesterday and got so envious of the exotic trips they posted / one being Grand Canyon

Isn’t that a big thing in the U.K. now, old rock stars fighting over whether or not fox hunting is cool

I have been to the Grand Canyon, and yet I can’t say I’ve actually SEEN the Grand Canyon! Barely, anyway. It was so cold and they closed the trails for safety

Also they had an Ireland trip @ lizbot still owe us an Irish trip music show :) did u see sligo giants causeway etc

The giant’s Causeway was lousy with tourists! Couldn’t get a photo without a buncha randos in it.

Man! My speaker cut out right after “my car came up to me...” I need to know what the cat did!

*cat. Not car. Not car-driving cat.

Haha magazine said they limit visitors per day

@Lizbot, the cat swiped DanaK's feet iirc

Yes, I was only a lad, fox's are considered vermin in Ireland and cause a.lot of distraction to livestock, sheep and fowl, local farmer's used to call on my Da after a fox had raided the chicken coupe or slaughtered the geese.

Leonard!

Woot! wprb chat is the best

Woot ! Agreed:)

Oh yay. This and 1000 Knives are my fav YMO tracks

i love providing the soundtrack to a conversation all about foxes

Thanks for the Leonard update. Cats are dicks. Good thing they’re cute

Yes nothing says foxes like YMO :)

The logo of this fox convo is, naturally, the WPRB record-swiping

Posted too soon! The logo to this convo is the WPRB record-swipin’ fox!

Haha on fox wprb logo

This is a prancing fox. It’s celebrating its victorious escape from Nuala and Bo’s family

i just watched an incredible (and very awkward) video of YMO on soul train recently, gotta dig that one up

I can pull up the WPRB dunce cap logo for stream in a secret way :)

Oh yeah, I was just thinking about their Soul Train appearance! I think Deidre brought it up this week

yeah! it must have been some mutual friend of ours who posted it

and now i'm playing 13 minutes of manuel gottsching so i can make myself some noodles

Yes the inimitable dierdre did play a crazy soul train of them !

I have a DVD of that movie Downtown ‘81 with a YMO cameo + Arto Lindsay, Kid Creole, Jean-Michel Basquiat, et.al. YMO’s cameo was the most fun.

Deidre played their cover of Archie Bell & The Drells Tighten Up

Japanese Gentlemen, stand up please! I play that some time. the soul train thing- Ryuichi felt they were being condescended to, so he played down how much English he knew.

Ha haven’t seen that downtown 81 in ages / jean Michel is amazing - they had one at the Barnes b4 it closed

Ryuichi Sakamoto is kind of my hero for doing something I dare not do- He asked his favorite restaurant in NYC if he could make a playlist for them because he hated the music they played there! They said sure!

Vincent Gallo is in that 81 film / familiar w him ?

Enjoy your noodles, Dana! 🍜

Extremely obnoxious but quite talented individual

Yeah. Not the biggest Vincent Gallo fan. He’s uncredited in that

an extremely odious character

He actually was in basquiat band / has cameo in basquiat movie that i do like

Srsly

Speaking of Vincent Gallo and Arizona...There was that movie Arizona Dream he was in with Lili Taylor

See, now work a fox into that and we have connected all threads

Hahaha

Plus Bo’s Irish fox 🦊 hunting :)

For Arizona a coyote might have to suffice

Haha I’m on record I’m supposed to b reading an analog paper book but these chats r too entertaining:)

@Lizbot, have you seen Vincent Gallo's band Ricci Ricci Ricci ?

Or his movies: buffalo 66 or the infamous brown bunny

YEah, Mark. Slacker! What will become of our nascent book club and review site?

Christina Ricci hates him from 66

No to brown bunny. I remember it. Wish I didn’t.

@Mark, yes, Buffalo 66 was OK, Brown Bunny not do much.

@lizbot : do like I’m sure you did too - all nighter the night b4 due :)

So the foxes and coyotes join forces and corner Vincent Gallo until he teeters and falls over the edge of the Grand Canyon. Done. All threads connect!

Mark, I used to be the queen of procrastination all-nighters. I can’t do that shit anymore!

@bo never saw bunny / he got into huge fight w roger ebert over it

Haha and now we all tell our children not to procrastinate

Moev!

Yeah, and then Nick Cage appears outta nowhere in a rocket backpack and hauls him away to safety.

Haha in the remake of course of an original that was actually good

good call, rob!

Or they place a cage of bees over nick’s head

Then Bo’s family shows up and the record-thievin’ WPRB fox whips records at them, throwing-star style, while the other fox escape down into the canyon and feast upon Vincent Gallo and Nick Cage with their new coyote friends. And WPRB fox flies away, triumphant, on a spinning copying of Fox on the Run by Sweet

That was my screen play!

Too late. It’s mine now! And the foxes’

@Lizbot, you've read the script?! ;-)

more brilliant than anything vincent gallo could come up with

@DanaK I think I have Rotting Geraniums in the basement on vinyl. But our stereo isn't hooked up. It is so nice to hear that blast from the past.

Crowd sourcing at its finest / can we turn this chat into a zoom?

Nick Cage has suffered enough. The bees and the inferiority of that wicker man remake will forever haunt him

On second thought i bet we all can’t stand zooms

WHUT?! He did Wickerman?

i actually heard that moev song for the first time on WPRB when aida played it, 5 or 6 years ago? i remember sitting in the parking lot at the collingswood PATCO at night just listening...

Haha don’t even look for remake if u haven’t seen it

Corn rigs and barley rigs

Unless u like hate watching :)

Nope!

No. I’ll just the real Wicker Man for the 100th time

the remake is where you get the famous nick cage line "NOT THE BEES"

Bo, forget that you heard about the remake. You don’t wanna know. It is only good for the bee cage

Can’t get enuf either / what a soundtrack/ willow / corn Riggs / maypole

Nick Cage/Bee cage

Hahaha

Pretty great sample in this song

Some of this chat would fit in with the Jim Carrey book. I was really entertained by that book. Just what i needed at the end of 2020. He skewers himself &all his Hollywood friends n not so acquaintances in an apocalyptic frenzy.

good night Francoise Cactus. Thank you WPRB for turning me onto Stereo Total about 20 yrs ago

I have to thank Nick Currie for getting me into Stereo Total

That was in the late 90s

nick currie aka momus?

And again posts that contain WPRB turned me onto... Dan Buskirk about a year ago with OOIOO. The Gamel lp. Fun

Headphones needed

Who comprises this music dept u speak of ?! Never ceases to amaze how u dj’s discover all this which i have no idea who is !!!

Dana, yop.

Jim Carrey kept all the stars names the same in his book except he re named Tom Cruise as "Laser Jack Lightning". That made me love the book even more

Mark, the Music Dept is ever-changing as far as who’s in charge, but has long-standing relationships with lots of great little labels

Haha that aka reminds me how depp kept calling Elon musk : mollusk :)

Larry Lewis lp is wonderful. Never knew about that until this week

The music u gals/guys come up w is beyond amazing :)

yes, it was new to me as well!

I would b a pure nostalgia junkie wo discovering this station!

This is from 85 & has the grand total of 21 shazam!

Yeah, I played his so wet instrumental tonight on my show. Really been enjoying this album this week

Re: Momus, Dana. I don’t know him well. We have a mutual friend and I’ve met him a handful of times. We used to email back and forth back during his Click Opera days. He sent me a card when I was really sick in hospital in ‘09. That’s about the extent of my Momus interactions. He was supposed to send me a handmade doll of himself and he never mailed it, come to think of it

that's so nice! i know he was a big presence on livejournal back in the day.

Oh yeah, he really was.

I think Thomas talked to him a few times too.

I remember at his Folktronica show at the Khyber, his laptop died mid-show and he just went to the bar and had some drinks. He didn’t get pissed, just waited til it charged.

Lovely to hear Gruff Rhys! :)

i'm a big gruff rhys fan. saw him live in front of maybe five people back in 2011. then saw him again with SFA in glasgow at the 02 academy, one of the biggest venues in the city.

I'm a tad jealous, that's a great venue from what I hear!

STEREO LAB :)

Lititia ...can't think of her last name? Has some solo stuff of late

Laetitia Sadier! Come to think of it, Stereolab in 2019 was one of the last live shows I saw...seems like forever ago

Monade is one of her solo acts.

any requests, folks?

Dana, George & I were at that Stereolab show too- I think that was the most WPRB DJs/former DJs I’ve run into at one show. Ran into some longtime listeners there too

@Dana K. Thank you.

I remember seeing George!

Requests? Don’t know how these shows can b any better !

I request “Zaz Turned Blue” by Was Not Was

Or “Knocked Down, Made Small”

Any Terry Callier at hand?

What’s the dj policy on spinitron release date on playlist / obv alit r reissue

Haha who’s this troll on this chat ? :)

Ran into Maria T., Robert Drake, John from Spaceboy Music, who I hadn’t seen in a while (Nuala was originally gonna be Nomi, after Klaus, but Robert & John named their dog that, so I went with Nuala. Glad I did! I did my show that night and drove straight to Union Transfer and brought Pat Ganley his PRB Wawa hat!

pardon?

Thank you Dana you rule!!!!!!!

😨

you're welcome!

He already made me listen to this this week!

i appreciate a good request, i had some songs cued up but none of them were doing it for me

The VELVET FOG

Portrait of Zaz: 😨

Zaz how could you

POOR Z A Z

and this has been dana k's own personal pure mood

Which one of the cats is the orinoco flow?

Thanks Dana K for the excellent tunes tonight, see ya next week, take care!

Too Pure Moods

PERFECT

Now we can sail away to sleep on far away trains passing by

i was hoping for enough time at the end to play crab rave. next time!

You would turn blue if it happened to you

Can’t rush the crab rave

Blue crab wave!

*Rave