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The Freeform Pathogen

Feb 24, 2021 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Mike Lupica

Freeform radio for creative weirdos and deskbound dreamers. A sonic one-stop for Acid Dub, Beardo Bhangra, Micro-Folk Turntablism, Krautdrone, Cambodian Synthwave, Glam Pop, Art-Damaged Metal, Electro-Stoner Jazz, Proto Soul-Punk, DIY Hip-Hop, Psychedelic EDM, Minimalist Power Violence, Pre-Hipster NYC Weirdcore, and Afro-Hillbilly Futurism. Up and down this goddam dial since 1992.

Fantasy League

8:03 PM		The Starlite Desperation Go Kill Mice Go Kill Mice Flapping Jet Records 1999
8:12 PM		TV Priest Decoration N Uppers Sub Pop Records 2021
8:17 PM		Frankie and the Witch Fingers Sweet Freak / Where's Your Reality? N Monsters Eating People Eating Monsters... Greenway 2020
8:26 PM		Chance High Test In Search Paradise of Bachelors 2013
8:29 PM		Fat Boys Jailhouse Rap 12" Sutra 1984 RIP Prince Markie Dee. He was 52.
8:36 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:46 PM		Nilüfer Yanya In Your Head Miss Universe ATO Records 2019
8:50 PM		Richard Hell Destiny Street N Destiny Street Complete Omnivore Recordings 2021
8:54 PM		LEENALCHI Catch a Rabbit N Sugungga HIKE 2020
8:56 PM		The Disturbed Dying of Boredom The WPRB Sessions 1984
8:58 PM		Pop-O-Pies I Love New York Joe's 2nd Record Subterannean 1984
9:00 PM		Iggy Pop Lust for Life Lust for Life Virgin Records 1977
9:06 PM		Heatloaf Fireman N Sweet Stroke heatloaf 2020 Featuring WPRB's own Pax!
9:09 PM		Ben & Spence Long Ago This Is Fame 1964-1968 V/A Ace Records 2018
9:11 PM		Arlo Parks Hurt N Collapsed in Sunbeams Transgressive 2021
9:15 PM		Brian Eno Mother Whale Eyeless Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy Island 1974
9:31 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:32 PM		The Scientists When Fate Deals Its Mortal Blow Weird Love Big Time 1987
9:35 PM		Hallelujah Chicken Run Band Manheru Changamire N Take One: Hallelujah Chicken Run Band Analog Africa 2021
9:36 PM		Snatch Tapes Down a Denny Lane N Passionate Particles 2021
9:42 PM		Githead My LCA (Little Box of Magic) Profile Swim 2005
9:46 PM		Voice Imitator A Small Cauliflower N Plaza 12XU 2020
9:49 PM		Word of Mouth King Kut (feat. DJ Cheese) Coast to Coast (feat. DJ Cheese) Profile 1985
9:58 PM		Run DMC Jam-Master Jammin' (Remix) 7" Profile 1985
10:12 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:13 PM		The Pretty Things S.F. Sorrow Is Born S.F. Sorrow Madfish Music 1968
10:16 PM		The Saints Private Affair Eternally Yours Sire 1978
10:18 PM		The Waitresses The Comb The Akron Compilation V/A
10:20 PM		Michael Rother Feuerland N Cafe Exil - New Adventures In European Music 1972-1980 V/A Ace 2021
10:27 PM		Buck Curran Ghost on the Hill N No Love Is Sorrow ESP-DISK 2020
10:31 PM		Zachary Cale Blood Rushes On Blue Rider All Hands Electric 2013
10:35 PM		Jackie DeShannon Only Love Can Break Your Heart Jackie Atlantic 1972
10:38 PM		Robert Plant In the Mood The Principle of Moments Atlantic 1983
10:43 PM		Orville Peck Nothing Fades Like the Light Pony Sub Pop 2019
10:47 PM		Reigning Sound You're Not as Pretty Time Bomb High School In the Red 2002
10:50 PM		Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys The Waltz You Saved for Me The Bob Wills Anthology 2xLP Columbia 1973
10:52 PM		Charlie Rich Behind Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors Epic 1972

Chat is archived.

YAY! I found the day you moved to

Awesome, welcome Alia!

Greetings and Salutations!

Well if this song doesn't say "ML on WPRB," I don't know what does!

S'up, Malc? Get any sleep?

@Jon, ha! Yeah, starting out with popular favorites from the great American songbook.

Hi all...Doom Pantry Pit Crew *waves*

Christine, I regret to inform you that finally busted into the Doom Pantry Banana Peppers you claimed a few weeks back.

Please turn to page 31 in the book of Hip Transistor and join us in song.

Jon's shelf-stable tofu is all that remains, but I really want to try eating it in 30 years.

Set a calendar reminder for 2051.

ha! here early

Charlie! Great to have you back, pal!

The best songs on this record really are the best songs.

In my limited explorations thusfar, that would be all of them.

Ditto for this record!

Having now heard sparkly numbers from you and JM in as many weeks, I will investigate more!

Captain Ahab is on the Frankie Fix as well@

By the way, I have no idea where all this energy is coming from. I had a fairly crap day, and a crappier night's sleep. I'm just playing everything REALLY LOUD and that seems like the right move.

Hi Mike!

Hi Doomsday Pantriots!

Maybe the energy is just flowing directly from the turntables. ⚡

Hi, Bo! What's the craic?

Bo, I think you just won the t-shirt slogan contest I just decided to have.

@Christine, worthy theory!

Hi Christine, mighty MIGHTY craic this!

Indeed.

@Mike I am not worthy!

Nice watching you in action at the Starlite Lounge.

I mean "pantry"

Charlie, that's actually a way better name. This whole LLC might need a re-think.

Rockin' devotional candles...!

Is today Doomsday? I thought it was Twin Peaks Day

Cliff, it's *always* Doomsday up in here.

@Christine, can you smell frankincense?

@Christine, one of them was handmade for me by Jetty on the Rocks. Wanted to show it off!

Well it's Margarita Night just about every night at my house...

#fair

Partaaaay in the Pantraaaaaaay!

RIP. Someday I'll find the Fat Boys Swatch ad that only aired once...

R.I.P. :(

Fat Boys were utterly essential 8th grade morning busride to school listening for me.

Also, @Jon, don't forget their cameo on Miami Vice.

The Fat Boys loomed large in your legend. I feel for you.

This was an ad telling SNL viewers it was time to turn watches either forward or back one hour. Was just for that moment in time. No luck on YouTube over the years...

Dang. A cultural artifact lost somewhere...

Rest in Peace, Prince Markie Dee. 52 is too young.

WHOOOP WHOOp

Hahaha

Hi, Factorial, hey MrM! 💀

I envy you growing up listening to hip hop in 8th grade (not that you didn't have to fight for that right). What did I have at that age? Uncle Albert; Maggie May; Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves; American fuckin' pie; and a Horse w no Name

Factorrrrrrrrrrial! Factorrrrrrrrrrial! Factorial, Factorial.

Hi, Christine Duffy 💿❣️

but also Shaft; Family Affair; I'll Take You There...

oooh Jon i dig that. i usually get FACT-or-ial like the duran duran song "NO-tor-ious"

@Charlie Lewis, that doesn't sound too awful bad.

thanks for the shout out!

@Charlie, I was still a major IDIOT when I was in 8th grade, despite the luck of blundering into cool music. Revel in your own time!

Well I too was an idiot! But at that age, I was an actual fat boy:)

So say we all.

Play something by Sillie Eyelash!!! Pretty sure that’s her name.

@MrM, LOL! And yet I know who you mean.

@Mike, this isn't Voidoid Richard Hell is it?

@Bo, sure is!

2nd LP. Or, "The One No One Ever Listens To But Which is Actually Pretty Great"

lol

WHUT?! :0

Factorial! How utterly top shelf of you to appear!

howdy! this is the soundtrack to oodles of homework tonight! perfectly distracting! good evening everyone!

is this some of that contempo music yr daughter was advocating for?

Hi Factorial!

@Mike, this fantastic!!!

Awesome!

Even better. Go Joe!

Hey Mike!

BOOGIE

Heard there are some good extras on the upcoming Pop O Pies reissue.

My husband and I are always trying to figure out how old you are based on your references to your age when you listened to certain things. Can’t figure it out.

ML is timeless

You don’t need to find new music because your “old” music rocks

@Alia, I am 237 years old.

and has maintained boyish charm by living in a human sized record sleeve from Kim's

ML, you is a vampire, no?

😄

Bwah, Factorial!

Ah, so your a wizard

I got kicked off the listening decks at Kim's like a CHAMP. You hear me? Like a fuckin' CHAMP.

@Alia, of a sort, yes.

i once bought a stack of records at kim's i could not afford just because i was too ashamed to try and put them back in the right places

i gave up and just paid and walked out better for it

I would've just faked a sunstroke and run out.

Hands up, who loves Heatloaf?

*raises hand*

WPRB luminaries fer sure!!

One of the top five Loaf bands, easy.

Both hands raised like I'm under arrest!

🤟✌️

Heat, Meat, Renaldo and the, Archers of...?

Lust for loaf

Unsubscribe.

Archers of This Heatloaf.

Contacting the admin.

@Charlie LMIAO!!!

Time for me to exit for the night, but great to "see" you all. Unless I've been banned from the chat in which case only the admins can see this...

I love when the chat goes off the rails

night, jon!

Thanks for hangin' out, Jon!

Will need to hear more about The Disturbed session tapes tomorrow, please...

Goodnight, Jon! Thanks for your show tonight 🌟

See ya Jon!

Jon, if you can pound another espresso and stay awake, the details will be revealed after the next song.

@Mike, battin' a thousand tonight dude!

Thanks Bo! I know you were feelin' this one last week. I am OVER THE MOON with this Arlo Parks record.

yeah, i gotta seek it out

she's def the best of the female recording artists named arlo

Arloaf. Wait, is Jon still here?

lol arloaf

@Mike, Ron Ashton's little sister has a new single out BTW!

Bo, how long have I been sleeping?

Where's my giant fork?!

not a band (that I know of), but don't forget Sweat Loaf by the *hole Surfers

Aw, shucks, now you got me crying, Mike

Arlo Parks is a young, tremendous talent, no lie. Her music packs an emotional punch!

yeah, i thought that mention of the pop o pies reissue was someone being funny

Who is Joe?

Just tuned in. Can't believe I missed "Dying of Boredom"!

I was still in high school when that came out. VEEERRY popular on WPRB of that era!

1984

i'm on the edge of my seat

Go Ken Katkin!

ok im cating up 1. did a fat boys guy die? 2.wait what is kims is it a record store I havwen been to?

re-mix-mastered

catching

@space cowboy - yah, Kim's was an epic record store in nyc

Accomplishes!

sadly no more :(

welp i guessed i missed that one

I’m asleep 💤

ugh man i love this album

whaddya mean judgment free zone im judgey just in a good way

Hi, Space Cowboy! 1.) Yes, and 2.) I'm unsure, never having been there,

@ factorial - did you really just go f it I'm just gonna buy these records

@ christine in reagrds to number one --- nooooooooooo! ( falls to knees and looks at the sky )

i guess you have to expect " fat boys" to die young

hey you. be almost all you can be...as much as possible. if you can. or not, no worries.

@space cowboy -yes. i was like 20? too intimidated by the vibe to re-file the ones i couldn't afford. too many esoteric record subdivisions and such. so i just spent all my money and didn't eat for the rest of the weekend i was there

@ factoral jesus--thats so funny dam intimidating hipsters

Yeah! Chicken Run! 🇿🇼

hostile record store tactic...jam so many records in a bin that you can't browse and when you manage to pull one out you have to buy it because you can't jam it in place

@ jim a much more mellow version of the army ? recruitment saying

@ jim hipster bastards and thier marketing tricks

@Christine, they instantly improve everything, amirite?

this is a low-key aspirational pantry

also who the hell named frankie and the witch fingers - great band but ..

Damn, just realized I forgot to do this week's fanzine letter section reading. Next mic break.

@Space Cowboy, I know. It takes everything I'm made of not to call them Frankie & the Witch FYNDERS, which is a nod to a NWOBHM band name.

'Zine letter-reading is getting to be one of my favorite parts of the show.

I agree and concur

You will be PLEASED with tonight's selection.

I will now show off the cover for the webcam.

uh oh this is the trip out part of the show --ii,,, i,, i,, can see into the future

Not quite yet... I'm still running on ill-advised mid-afternoon coffee.

nighttime freeform radio runs on ill-advised mid-afternoon coffee

Just catching up to Hallelujah Chicken Run Band. New to me but the internet tells me Thomas Mapfumo was a member!

Also I don't know You.Kids.Today can be on the radio AND post your play list AND be in the chat. Makes me nervous just thinking of it. Bad enough to get phone calls right when you were about to do a mic break.

@Chris, I am also on a hoverboard right now.

I can see that via the Pantry Cam!

Andy Warhol's movies foretold webcams by 50 years. Discuss.

Charlie, I had to watch "Empire" for the film class I took in college. Fell asleep. So you may be on to something...

Is that a WPRB 75th anniversary poster on your wall, Mike?

Yep!

DJ CHEESE 🧀!!!

Malc, more 8th grade schoolbus jamz.

Classy! (Poster, that is.) (And DJ CHEESE, too.)

haha. those films are soporifics. and there was no dj.

No love for the AOD, Yuppicide, Jonathan Richman Ween, and Big Nurse flyers that adorn the same wall??!

It's ALL good. It was just a question of clarification.

It's a bit dark in the Doomsday Pantry, so it's difficult to appreciate the décor.

That's right, it's dark! And I'm an old and my eyes aren't what they used to be.

I blasted the first Run DMC album on my cassette walkman while walking and riding the subway in nyc many many times

this is giving me flashbacks to so many bar mitzvahs

ahh the big taco truck payoff

15 miles south?? From where, Hillsborough?

That's some radio fan dedication there.

especially if that is a crew of skater girls from philly

sk8tr gurlz rule

DIRGE\

wear a helmet when skateboarding 🛹 and roller skating 🛼🛼

Any Cyanamid reviews?

Protect your skeleton & skull, right MrM? 💀

No, really, I was there! I was there!

this is the perfect wheelhouse of everything i love

what was that little magazine out of Jenkintown? -- also great song

radar?

@Mike, I am sooo proud of you for saying Butt Hole Surfers! :)

Gotta hit the sack. Thank you for your service, Mike!

Pretty Things kick ass!!!

Or they did!

i had a whole thing to talk about your last reading you're playn the pretty things

Great Show!

Classic!

@Space Cowboy, this may be the cue you were anticipating earlier.

pretty things > saints > waitresses sequence is the stuff of legends

Hahaha!

@jimbeaudelaire Totally!

Fun show, Mike -- gotta dash -- have a good night!

Thanks Chris, don't be a stranger!

Robert Plant consistently surprises me

oh wait

i misread that as Robert Palmer

who is who i meant by being consistently surprised by

No apologies. I have always loved this record.

Those Roberts are always surprising me, too. Late night, walking the dog...who but ROBERT pops out of the bushes.

sneaking sally through the alley, asitwere

Yes, tho always impeccably coiffed.

This guy's a piss!

Orville is fascinating!

Agree. He's great. The only guy on earth who could get me jamming to Shania Twain.

well pit crew, it's been real

oh wait

reigning sound can't go

Hahaha

Damn Skippy you can't!

Factorial, I assume you will have a similar sentiment for Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys.

This band didn't get their just dues!

But... but... but!!!!

I heart ORVILLE PECK

2nd time today hearing Bob Wills :)

We have now gone FULL SHMALTZ.

This has been another EXCELLENT show by DJ MikeLupica even though he never remembers to only refer to me as MrMalcontent or MrM. Who is “Malc”?!? Kind regards to you, Sir!!!

That's Rich!

Did you steal my parents' rekkids???

wow the mood whiplash is gonna be real tonight

Echo, echo!

😄

MAX schmaltz

@Mike that's the best, wish I'd bore witness %-)

@Mike thank you for a great evening! Since you moved to Wednesday night I haven’t gotten to tune in, but tonight’s been awesome!

Sweet dreams everyone

Cheers Dears!! 🖤💀

Thanks Mike, brilliant show as per ...!

thanks for the meandering journey tonight

Slainte everybody!

Thx!

Fuck fascist!

Facshits!

Fashionistas!

Thanks everyone! See ya next week!