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Uneasy Listening

Feb 27, 2021 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Commie Francis

Black History Month special!!

It's a vague theme for Black History Month! Music by Black people, some of it about The Struggle but some of it is just music about other stuff because Black people do other stuff too.

In a fun twist I cannot speak this week so I am using a robot substitute. Let's see how it goes!

Also it's a three hour theme cause Black people deserve it!!

www.uneasylistening.org to check out old shows

www.tinyletter.com/uneasylistening to join the newsletter

www.facebook.com/groups/uneasylisteningfm is yknow a fb group

annnnnd wwww.mixcloud.com/uneasy-listening

8:02 PM		Bay City Rollers Saturday Night Bay City Rollers San Juan Music 1974
8:05 PM		Brother Ali Uncle Sam Goddamn R The Undisputed Truth Rhymesavers 2007 requested by Chris from Atlanta
8:10 PM		Set Break: -- Robot DJ speaks over Shuggie Otis - XL-30--
8:11 PM		Elaine Brown The End of Silence Seize the Time Rhino 1969
8:14 PM		KRS-One Higher Level Return of the Boom Bap
8:19 PM		Slim Gaillard Boogin' At Berg's Blues Boogie Stardust Records 2011
8:24 PM		Set Break: --Robot DJ speaks over Shuggie Otis - XL-30--
8:24 PM		The Last Poets Black Is Chant This Is Madness Charly Records 1999
8:25 PM		The Last Poets Black Is This Is Madness Charly Records 1999
8:31 PM		Elder Curry Memphis Flu Okeh 1930
8:31 PM		Ronnie Spector Don't Worry Baby She Talks to Rainbows - EP Greenspec Properties, LLC 2004
8:33 PM		Lizzo My Skin Big GRRRL Small World
8:38 PM		Credit to the Nation Ole Him Selector Take Dis One Little Independent Records 2017
8:41 PM		Set Break: --Robot DJ speaks over Shuggie Otis - XL-30--
8:42 PM		Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson Angel Dust R Secrets
8:47 PM		Pure Hell Lame Brain Noise Addiction Pure Hell 2010 recorded 1978
8:54 PM		Peace Black Power R Black Power 2016
8:54 PM		The Lumpen Free Bobby Now R Free Bobby Now Seize the Time 1970
8:58 PM		Rev. Sister Mary Nelson Judgment Anthology of American Folk Music
8:58 PM		Set Break: --Robot DJ speaks over Shuggie Otis - XL-30--
8:59 PM		The Impressions We're a Winner R We're a Winner Geffen 1968
9:02 PM		Parliament Children Of Production Clones of Dr. Funkenstein Mercury Records 1976
9:06 PM		Lead Belly Bourgeois Blues R Bourgeois Blues: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 2 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1997
9:12 PM		Paris Break the Grip of Shame The Devil Made Me Do It Guerrilla Funk Recordings 2003
9:13 PM		Bobby Womack It's Gonna Rain My Prescription
9:13 PM		Wally Coco Message To Society R Carolina Funk 2007
9:21 PM		Set Break: --Robot DJ speaks over Shuggie Otis - XL-30--
9:24 PM		Nina Simone Backlash Blues Sings the Blues RCA/Legacy 1966
9:26 PM		Public Enemy Show 'em Whatcha Got It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Def Jam Recordings 1988
9:29 PM		Common A Song for Assata Like Water for Chocolate
9:35 PM		Lee Dorsey Give It Up Give It Up - Single GCM 2018
9:38 PM		Little Hat Jones Bye Bye Baby Blues Don't Leave Me Here: The Blues of Texas, Arkansas & Louisiana (1927-1932) V/A Yazoo 1991 late 20s
9:41 PM		Set Break: --Robot DJ speaks over Shuggie Otis - XL-30--
9:44 PM		John Handcox We're Going to Roll the Union On
9:45 PM		Death Where Do We Go from Here??? ...For the Whole World to See
9:49 PM		Paul Robeson Freedom Train (Welsh Transatlantic Concert) Words Like Freedom Pm Press 2008
9:53 PM		Donna Summer Rumour Has It Once Upon a Time... Island Mercury 1977
9:56 PM		Son House John the Revelator Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions Legacy/Columbia 1992
10:00 PM		Set Break: --Robot DJ speaks over Shuggie Otis - XL-30--
10:03 PM		Shuggie Otis Inspiration/Information Inspiration Information
10:07 PM		Syl Johnson Is It Because I'm Black Is It Because I'm Black Numero Group 1970
10:15 PM		The Isley Brothers Fight the Power, Pt. 1 The Heat Is On (Bonus Track Version) Epic/Legacy 1975
10:18 PM		Jerry Jones Compared to What Feel Like Jumping: The Best of Studio One Women 2015
10:21 PM		Set Break: --Robot DJ speaks over Shuggie Otis - XL-30--
10:24 PM		A Tribe Called Quest Push It Along People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (25th Anniversary Edition)
10:32 PM		Donna Hightower This World Today Is a Mess Donna Hightower
10:35 PM		The Golden Gate Quartet The Valley of Time Gospel Train (Original Recordings 1937-1942)
10:37 PM		King Solomon Political Rag Energy Crisis Celestial Records 1978
10:40 PM		Set Break: --Robot DJ speaks over Shuggie Otis - XL-30--
10:41 PM		Dr. Octagon No Awareness Dr. Octagonecologyst
10:45 PM		Marvin Gaye Time to Get It Together Here, My Dear UNI/MOTOWN 1978
10:49 PM		Bobby Byrd Sayin' It and Doin' It Are Two Different Things Never Get Enough Glinka Records/Auvi Net 2010
10:52 PM		Set Break: --Robot DJ speaks over Shuggie Otis - XL-30--
10:54 PM		The Coup The Guillotine Sorry to Bother You Anti/Epitaph 2013

Chat is archived.

Ahh! This is nice.

thanks it's my theme song!

nice job of fuzzing ;) / can i post what he said ?!

Hello Dear Leader Commie Francis and your robot voice 🤖

sure!

@Mark, what did he say?

the first time i ever did "internet radio" i used robot voice cause i didn't have a mic

The robot voice is soothing!

Hahaha Christine I’ll have to direct u to the lyric sheet / some would make me blush:)

Domo Arigato, Commie Roboto!

time really is a flat.. uhh....

@Mark, I looked up the lyrics. Truth

yes i miss when pat / clamour club would have the robot narrate passages ... hope ur voice gets better :)

thanks, it's an annoying thing that happens basically every winter

this year i got a covid test just in case it wasn't just that cough but it's just that cough

@chris haha wasn’t sure if the fcc would let me post / amazing what can’t air but there so much profanity around everywhere :(

the fcc only cares about what goes out over broadcast airwabes

as far as swearin goes

Maybe its because I just watched AI, but the robot voice talking about Black History Month feels like being a far future alien. :)

i know - just crazy !!

let's see if i can get the robot to pronounce slim gaillard correctly

You led off with my song! I am honored.

it rules!

Hmmm, a little trouble with "cehved"

yeah oh well i won't say it again

i got "guy yard" though

Heh. I get super exited about this. I beta tested Macintalk - millions of years ago.

I was thinking of how to spell it phonetically.

cauvid, might do it.

ok, Im done.

I remember the joy of playing around with Macintalk. 🍎

possibly most out of character song i've ever played? oh well don't care!

What, Lizzo? She's not half bad, tbh.

And yes, most of my comrades are in their 20s.

i think she's great, it's just funny to hear that modern production on my show

black island hahahaha

That is true

*beep beep*

🤖 Gil Scot-Heron is the best. Affirmative! *beep beep*

"Better get ready...

That song by the Lumpen must be about Black Panther cofounder Bobby Seale, who was literally gagged at the Chicago 8 trial, then removed from the trial and ultimately convicted for contempt of court (thus turning the Chicago 8 Trial into the Chicago 7 Trial). I read a book of transcripts from said trial illustrated by Jules Feiffer, who was present.

yes correct it is

also playing a song about assata shakur later

this robot involves way too much typing!

I regret missing Pure Hell (who once shared a bill with Sid Vicious!) when they played at Long Branch’s Brighton Bar eight years ago. I did get to see Gil Scot-Heron play at South Amboy’s Club Bene on the Fourth of July three decades ago.

jealous!

That is awesome, David!

That picture of Angie Davis is pretty much the way nearly everybody envisions her, but when is the last time most people saw her? For me, it was when a news program invited her commentary on the fall of the Berlin Wall; I saw her in long cornrows and marveled at how different she looked from the heyday of her celebrity. And that news report was in 1989! How different does she look now?

i've seen pretty recent pictures of her, she doesn't have the perfect round fro anymore but she has natural grey curly hair

pretty much like picture a professor at berkeley

er uc santa cruz close enough

I won two free passes to the 2013 Death reunion at Le Poisson Rouge. I got to the venue and sought someone in line I could give my extra free ticket to. When I found such an individual, it turned out to be the very same WFMU staffer that granted me the free passes over the phone! He otherwise would’ve had to pay his way in, but accidentally benefitted from his own volunteer work at the station! (‘Twas Pat Byrne, the frontman for They Live! who eventually got his own WFMU program for a time.)

I must confess that the first time I heard “John the Revelator” was when Thee Headcoats sang it (sans instrumentation) at their last American show in 1999.

i had son house father of folk blues as a child (well my parents did) and was obsessd with that particular song

Awesome show robo-Commie! 💥💥💥

thanks!

i think it;s very interesting that you all show up when i'm live but last week when i had to play a rerun only my most loyal fan showed up

it's like you all KNOW

I didn't know. 😄 (What was I doing last Saturday? I can't even recall now)

that was a much older show! I was feeling some deja vu trying to figure out why it felt familiar yet new...

as soon as i went live i got a lot more people chatting too. you don't know that you know but you do

it can be hard to tell if DJs are live/memorex unless they disclose it. can be easy to pass it off by saying "sorry no requests". Also probably easier to engage in chat if you've recorded it already!

Time to get it together, indeed. 💜

a byrd rule i can get down with

yeah doing the show live and chatting is kind of a juggle but so is doing a show and answering the phone

i am finding managing playlist and chat and robo dj almost impossible

so hopefully i can talk next week!

I'm forever impressed by you & other DJs playing, posting, and chatting simultaneously.

Thanks DJ Commie. I hope you feel better soon!

killer show

thanks christine, thanks for listening!

feel better!

beware the goolatine! sez the robot...

why couldn't it say gynecologist is what i want to know

also it said les mccann like french "the" so why can't it say guillotine

dag robot

thanks for listening everyone!!

Highly illogical. *Spock voice*