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Don't Back the Front

Mar 11, 2021 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Dana K

8:01 PM		The Desperate Bicycles Don't Back the Front 7" 1977
8:05 PM		X-Ray Spex I Am a Cliché Germ Free Adolescents Castle Communications 2009 B-side to Oh Bondage Up Yours (1977)
8:09 PM		The Clash 1977 Remote Control EP CBS 1977
8:10 PM		The Wasps Teenage Treats Teenage Treats 4 Play Records 1977
8:13 PM		Boys Life From A To Z 12" Seco Records 1982
8:17 PM		Viletones Screamin' Fist 7" Vile Records 1977
8:18 PM		Modernettes Barbra Teen City (Remastered) - EP Quintessence Records 1980
8:21 PM		Rudi Big Time 7" Good Vibrations 1978
8:24 PM		999 Homicide 7" United Artists 1978
8:29 PM		Floo Flash N'importe quoi Mon époque (Deluxe Edition) - EP Hervé Paul 1982
8:38 PM		The Circles Opening Up 7" Graduate Records 1979
8:40 PM		The Fakes Sylvia Clarke 7" Deep Cuts Records 1979
8:43 PM		The Monochrome Set Alphaville 7" Rough Trade 1979
8:45 PM		Yachts I Can't Stay Long Yachts (Expanded Edition) Radar Records 1979
8:49 PM		Dolly Mixture Been Teen 7" Respond Records 1981
8:52 PM		Tarzan 5 Boys Game R 7" 021 Records 1981
8:54 PM		Speedies Let Me Take Your Photo 7" Golden Disc 1979
8:57 PM		Wire Mannequin Mannequin - Single Harvest 1977
9:05 PM		The Feelies The Boy With the Perpetual Nervousness Crazy Rhythms Stiff 1980
9:09 PM		Au Pairs Repetition Playing with a Different Sex Human Records 1981
9:14 PM		Blam Blam Blam Don't Fight It Marsha, It's Bigger Than Both of Us 7" Propeller 1981
9:17 PM		Faux Depart Brûlé Vie Ordinaire Echo Canyon 2020
9:19 PM		Life In The Fridge Exists Have You Checked The Children? Four Stars (****) Sausage Records 1980
9:21 PM		Wipers Taking Too Long Youth of America Zenorecords 1981
9:25 PM		Smirk Violent Game LP Drunken Sailor 2021
9:28 PM		fIREHOSE Riddle of the Eighties Fromohio SST Records 1989
9:36 PM		The Nils In Betweens Sell Out Young! Psyche Industry Records 1985
9:40 PM		Richard Lloyd & The dB's (I Thought) You Wanted to Know Ork Records: New York, New York Numero Group 2015 covered by the dB's
9:42 PM		The Mice Second Best For Almost Ever / Scooter St. Valentine's Records 2004 From Scooter (1986)
9:45 PM		The Plimsouls Everyday Things The Plimsouls Planet 1981
9:48 PM		Biff Bang Pow! Fifty Years of Fun 7" Creation Records 1984
9:49 PM		Star Party Something to Do Demo 2020 - EP Feel It Records 2020 Cover of Buba and the Shop Assistants
9:52 PM		Salem 66 The Well Frequency and Urgency Homestead 1987
9:55 PM		Miaow Belle Vue 7" Venus Records 1985
9:59 PM		The Student Teachers Christmas Weather 7" Ork Records 1979
10:02 PM		The Reverbs Trusted Woods Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987 V/A Captured Tracks 2020 From the Happy Forest (1984)
10:05 PM		Pointed Sticks Out of Luck 7" Stiff Records 1979
10:12 PM		The Chisel Harry May Enough Said - Single THE CHISEL 2021 Cover of The Business
10:14 PM		Raw Power State Oppression R Screams from the Gutter Toxic Shock 1985
10:16 PM		Hard Skin The Man Who Ran the Town On the Balls JT Classics 2013
10:19 PM		Shapes Chatterboks 7" Sofa Records 1979
10:21 PM		Protex Don't Ring Me Up 7" Good Vibrations
10:25 PM		The Scavengers Mysterex Mysterex - Single
10:27 PM		XO's 'RETTES IN THE CELLAR (prononced hugs and kisses) 2021
10:28 PM		Eyes TAQN TAQN Dangerhouse 1979
10:31 PM		Rich Kids Ghosts Of Princes In Towers Ghosts of Princes in Towers EMI 1978 Midge Ure pre-Ultravox
10:35 PM		Fast Cars The Kids Just Wanna Dance 7" Streets Ahead 1979
10:38 PM		The Avengers Friends of Mine Died for Your Sins
10:40 PM		The English Beat Best Friend I Just Can't Stop It Go-Feet 1980
10:44 PM		The Redskins Lean on Me 7" CNT Productions 1983
10:47 PM		Dexys Midnight Runners Geno Searching For the Young Soul Rebels EMI 1980
10:51 PM		UK Subs Live in a Car C.I.D City Records 1978
10:52 PM		Cockney Rejects Flares 'N' Slippers 7" Small Wonder

Chat is archived.

it's time for the show. i am warm! this is weird!

But you're not a cliche!

Haha, I almost played this tonight!

It was between I’m a Cliche and Oh Bondage Up Yours

Germ Free Adolescents is my favorite X Ray Spex song

Read an article about the doc. Looking forward to it!

sick! love a punk set

But the whole album is good

hi everyone! thanks for joining me tonight - i too am stoked for the poly styrene documentary

I like to think you played The Clash for me

actually, i played it for timbo

(meag!!)

T I M B O

timbeaux

Hell yeah

YAS Barbra

B A RBRA BARBRA

you know im talking about barbra

get it barbra

999

If you're not singing along you're a poser. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

@yoni, I sure wouldn't be singing along in my car, that's for sure

true fact, they were actually singing about the show "homicide: life on the street" specifically the character of det. john munch as played by richard belzer

Timeline checks out. I believe it.

I had tickets to that Wire show and decided at the last minute not I go. It was probably still safe then, but things were getting weird. Bummed I missed it, though

Boys... house?

i remember, i was looking forward to seeing you there, and a couple of other friends who dropped out last minute.

colin newman made it a point to give me an elbow bump instead of a handshake!

I was in full on cassandra mode at this point

Is this Monochrome Set song based on the boring Godard movie?

Dana could you play tarzan 5 "boys game"

And David yes i think so

yeah! and yeah!

Hooray!

“Alphaville” is also the title of a NYPD memoir published in 2010 that I’ve been meaning to read. It deals a bit with the Lower East Side rock scene--and is cowritten by A-Bones guitarist Bruce Bennett!

not the best quality MP3 but we can pretend it's a real record!

Hey Dana, great show tonight!

In May 2013, I went on a whim to see the Monochrome Set at Asbury Park’s Saint, where I was ridiculed for having never heard of them!

thank you, christine! hope you're well!

david, i saw them around that time too - at the record collector in bordentown

I was driving for the first 45 mins of your show; fantastic energy. ⚡ You best believe I was blasting & singing along to 999's Homicide!

yessssss!

I saw 999 at the Village Underground in 2003. I was a bit miffed when the bassist kicked my backpack across the stage.

@David, I would not be best pleased either.

Boys ... house?

Boyz House

The Boyz With The Perpetual Nervousness

Dana, if you're still taking requests, how about State Oppression by the Italian band Raw Power?

sure! i might not get to it in a bit, it goes better with stuff i have planned for later

I don’t think I’ve heard Raw Power since I saw them open for Dead Kennedys at City Gardens 35 years ago.

I didn't know this song was a cover for a VERY long time.

Hi Dana K.!

@David, that must have been quite the evening!

Hi everybody!

hi bo!

Hi Bo! And hi Christine! Raw power!!

and yeah, same! i heard this before the original!

Hey Bo! What's the craic?

I see I missed Rudi :!

Hi, Commie Francis!

I like this version better

Christine, I am knackered tbh!

lesley made this song tbh

Yeooo Don'tBacktheFronters!

ahoy hoy!

Yo jimbreaux

hey is there a problem with the internet feed tonight?

not that i know of? what's wrong with your end?

well on the little link with the pic of the fox, that I usually hit the play button, it says

"there was an error decoding the media"

and no sound

ooooh. it seems to be working on my phone, maybe try from a different browser?

You could also try listening through tunein

good idea

Looks ok in chrome on my phone as well

Mike watt interview is in fact up

https://www.mixcloud.com/esotericawprb/mike-watt-31121/

Don't listen to it now though, listen to dana

oh sick! she's fast

Yeaux Jimbreaux!

@Commie, thanks for the update! I missed Esoterica's show today

This is the good stuff!

A Mice song that isn't Not Proud of the USA!

Everything he's done is golden. It's just that he also wrote a perfect protest song.

Sooo great to hear The Plimsoles again!

Err, Plimsouls.

Wanna play some Cub and keep that Vancouver going?

i would, but it's punk time!

Oh! I suppose it is. Haven't looked at my watch in a minute but the big hand is pointed at Punk and the little guy is squarely at Time!

@Dana K. Got any Protex or Moondogs?

Skinabix!

WOO! 💚🇮🇹

got anything by the exile (from scotland)?

ooh, i actually played the exile last week!

YAY DANA K. :))

ThanX!

Punk energy ⚡ Raw Power! 🔋 Thanks for charging up our batteries, Dana!

yay the EYES 👁👁

you're so welcome! i had to throw this set on at the end cos of the naughty words, but it's working for me!

TAQN is my favorite LA punk single. i have the EP reissue from ten years ago, but i wish i owned an original

What naughty words?! ;)

How about some FOD?

what song?

The Beat :)

Love this song!

I bought that Avengers comp in the LP format, so I missed out on some tracks that the CD had (like their cover of the Ventures' "The Joker is Wild").

"Under My Dumb" from the most recent album?

My absolute favourite Dexy's song, never gets old :)

mine too!

WOW! :) THAT was some great stuff Dana K. Really enjoyed tonight's playlist, I bid you goodnight, see ya next week, stay healthy.

goodnight bo, always a pleasure!

BTW, Isn't Harry May Owka Buster Blood vessel?

good night! that was fun!