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The Freeform Pathogen

Mar 20, 2021 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

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.

Another Three Mouths to Feed (Fill-in for Hanna)

Surprise edition of the Freeform Pathogen! Mostly setting
aside the rumbling guitars and planet-shattering beats this
morning in favor of a slow burn to start (or finish) your day.
Refresh the page to see the most recently played songs, and
please say hello in the chat box.

7:03 AM		Sun Ra and His Arkestra Ancient Aiethopia Jazz in Silhouette Saturn Records 1959
7:12 AM		The Nels Cline Singers Passed Down N Share The Wealth Blue Note Records 2020
7:16 AM		Arlo Parks Black Dog N Collapsed in Sunbeams Transgressive 2021
7:20 AM		Zachary Cale Blood Rushes On Blue Rider All Hands Electric 2013
7:24 AM		Joan Shelley Long Way to Night Electric Ursa No Quarter 2014
7:28 AM		Yo La Tengo Autumn Sweater I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One Matador 1997
7:33 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:37 AM		The Skatalites You're So Delightful Ska Authentic, Vol. 1 Studio One 1967
7:41 AM		The Raincoats No One's Little Girl 7" Rough Trade 1982
7:45 AM		Gal Costa Negro Amor Caras y Bocas LP Philips 1977 Bob Dylan cover
7:52 AM		Big Blood She Sells Sanctuary Already Gone I Don't Trust the Ruin 2009 Cult cover
7:55 AM		Eli Winter Maroon N Unbecoming American Dreams Records 2020
8:03 AM		Mqonga Sikanise Into Ezimnandi (South Africa) Excavated Shellac: Reeds V/A Dust-to-Digital 2015
8:05 AM		The Brian Jonestown Massacre Pish Mini Album Thingy Wingy 'a' Records 2015
8:10 AM		Bobby Blue Bland Who Will the Next Fool Be? Tav Falco's Wild & Exotic World of Musical Obscurities 2xLP V/A Stag-O-Lee 2014
8:12 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:19 AM		Roxy Music Avalon Avalon Warner 1982
8:23 AM		Toots & The Maytals Got to Be There Funky Kingston Mango 1975
8:26 AM		Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson Pure Love & Pleasure 7" SSS International 1968
8:29 AM		Pernice Brothers Grudge Fuck Live a Little Ashmont Records 2006
8:34 AM		William Parker Lakota Song N Trencadis - a selection from Migration of Silence Into and Out of The Tone World Centering Records 2020
8:40 AM		Hildegard Knef This Girl's in Love With You Die Grossen Erfolge 2 Decca 1969
8:44 AM		Texas L.A. Lights Bell 1973
8:50 AM		Richard Hell & The Voidoids Time N Destiny Street Complete Omnivore Recordings 2021 Orig. 1982
8:57 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:58 AM		Bruce Springsteen Letter To You N Letter To You Columbia 2020
9:03 AM		Social Distortion Down Here (With the Rest of Us) White Light, White Heat, White Trash Epic 1996
9:07 AM		Urge Overkill Wichita Lineman 7" Touch & Go 1987 Glen Campbell cover
9:11 AM		Natural Food See See Rider Natural Food Porter Records 2007 Orig. 1972
9:15 AM		Schwabinggrad Ballett Under Control S/T Staubgold 2005
9:20 AM		Thee Oh Sees Savage Victory Drop Castle Face 2014
9:24 AM		PJ Harvey A Place Called Home N Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - Demos UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2021
9:27 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:35 AM		The Vulgar Boatmen Drive Somewhere You and Your Sister Record Collect 1989
9:41 AM		Jonathan Richman Springtime In New York Her Mystery Not of High Heels and Eye Shadow LP Vapor Records 2001
9:43 AM		The Halo Benders Virginia Reel Around the Fountain The Rebels Not In K Records 1998
9:49 AM		Joe Bataan Es tu Cosa Young, Gifted, and Brown Vampisoul 2004
9:55 AM		Herbie Mann Push Push Push Push Embryo 1971

Chat is archived.

Good morning. I hope you brought bagels.

What. Day. Is. It. Where. You. Are. Located???

Is this real life???

Good morning, MrM! As usual, I am locked inside the Starlite Lounge (the venue formerly known as the Doomsday Pantry.)

Good morning Mr

M. And Mike*!

Is danish and buttercake ok?

Wake up! @the_

Dude! Welcome! Yes, all baked goods acceptable.

MikeLupica finished the greeting!

Oh! NELS CLINE 💛

Yes! Finally getting to this record a few months late. Really like what I've heard so far.

#Procrastination 💝

That's like church for me.

hi mike & all / quite a surprise to be streaming the star lite lounge on my sunrise hike:)

Hey Mark! Hikers totally welcome!

brilliant spring ☀️ sunrise today !

No doubt!

Even the view out the window of the Starlite Lounge is pretty welcoming.

haha even tho i could smell the cleaning solution the cleaner used to do the floors from last nite / spent many an early morning in dive bars when younger :)

Yeah, it's toxic stuff. Goes great with the part of the sidewalk where someone thoughtfully surrendered the contents of their stomach several hours prior.

YO LA TENGO❣️

Nice selections!

Yeah, even though we're on the cusp of Spring, weather seems appropriate for this song.

I guess i didn't totally miss FFP this week! Bonus!

I misheard this as The Scuttlebutts.

GOOD BAND NAME, THAT WOULD B.

haha i encourage ur pit crew to get out on their trails early today/ it is quite lovely & PRB is the perfect soundtrack!

Whew missing so much already, too busy making those baked goods! And Hannah has been mia for too long but you're an acceptable cover ... ( I actually like you're show a lot but rarely get to catch it)

Mark, I shall be sure to do so! Hoping to get out and about for a bit today myself.

Thanks the_dude! Hanna will be back soon!

Jimbeaux, don't worry about missing Wednesday's show. You only missed the usual yelling, complaining, and crying. I definitely didn't play the Rudimentary Peni record.

Love this cover

Same. I have such specific memories associated with the first time I heard this. Probably told the story on the radio before, but whatever. All shall be revealed in the next break!

Dylan in Portuguese nice

Haha well looking forward to it! Mine was on here of course

Theres like three covers off this today are tied for my favorite

The next song (also a cover) may be a tiebreaker!

Baby blue translated into black love heh. I like that

Hope Hanna is ok. She popped into chat yesterday

Hey Brian! Yeah -- Gal Costa = typically genius.

Heard Gal a few times this week ya. Love her. 1st time I ever heard her was the Beleza Tropical comp on D Byrne's label put out early 90s . Great Brazilian comp

Ohh

THIS COVER RN AF

This is cool! The "Reproduce and Get Dirty" band. Nice

Oh man, Big Blood rules. They have SO MUCH stuff out, and it's all great. Their covers are incredible.

This Al J / Ministry book I'm reading is getting monotonous. Just read a bit where he meds fun of the Cult for wearing Speedos at the beach. Al hates everyone blah blah blah .... getting boring

*Made fun. I don't know much about ministry and don't really want to after reading this

Hahaha! That's too bad, he's been pretty entertaining in the (few) interviews I've read with him. Surprisingly goofy, whereas I'd assume he'd have a well-rehearsed "dark, mysterious tough guy" act to lean on.

They had their day. Their trajectory from synth-pop to harsh techno metal is pretty interesting. Also, at their pea, they were INSANE live.

Oh I complain after being immersed in the world of reading the bio...but yes he is entertaining!

At their peak, rather.

Yeah I did like them at Lolla 92. Maybe the best thing there

The Gibby stories are great as expected

And several people who have crossed trajectories get their own lil interview chapter too. Gibby is one. Stepdad. Some band members (that are alive)

I liked reading about his Burroughs like cut up tape methods of pre pro tools studio work. And his hanging w the actual Burroughs. And living w Tim Leary for a bit partly w Gibby there too.

Gibby makes EVERYTHING better.

Hell yeah bjm

Gibby quote from book "...wasn't really my fault. I was like, 'Dude, your entire kitchen is white. That screams toilet to me. ' " - On getting kicked out of Tim Leary's house.

Yes that Tav Falco comp is on the list. Thanks for recommend

Haha yeahhh thingy wingy isn't their best album name, satanic majesties second request was one of my favorite

Electric Landlady

One day I was just pedaling my bike down highway 1 and these people took me into their chat....

After yknow the job, the whole material trip...

Love Avalon. Darn near perfect. Sounds like he is imitating a drunk foreign accent

LOL Electric Landlady!

Agree on Avalon!

Those Frippian guitar twiddly bits that creep in and soar

YES! The solo on "Moe than This" especially!

Err, "More than This", rather.

"Moe Than This" = Three Stooges deepcut.

Ohhh we are having fun now! So glad I got to see Toots. He came to Pa/NJ area like 2x a year in 90s 2000s. Such a performer. 5 ft ball o energy. Held the mic like 3 ft away from his face and still belted it out. Knew how to work a mic. Showman!

Moe ha! 5 Guys Named Bryan Ferry

NYUK NYUK NYUK

Larry Fein Betta Blues

Five Guys Named Bryan Ferry = code for "We should probably go to another party"

Standing in the Shadows of Curlyjoebessertown

Can we switch over to Marx Bros? I showed my kid "Duck Soup" last night and she loved it.

https://youtu.be/-EwwJnJPs8A

Can you show your kid some Three Stooges gems so we can stay on topic?? I mean... 🙈🙉🙊

Gilbert Gottfried imitating elder Groucho on Dick Cavett still makes me crack up. "Well you see... when we were young we would get what is called 'hungry' ... and we would sometimes eat ' food ' because that's what we did in those days..."

All in good time, MrM!

🥸

LIGHTERS OUT FOR THIS ONE.

mobile phone flashlight

#acceptable

actual L.A. Lights! Haha

Hildegard...High Point of Broadcast Radio for the Day.

She is seriously the greatest.

All her songs are delivered in the spirit of someone who just blew cigarette smoke in your face.

With luscious reverb...

Yea... sorry, can't help myself sometimes.

Was wondering if that was extra DJ frosting !

Ha!

Yeah, just realized my mixer has a suite of mostly shitty FX.

...really, really real." God i love that.

So great!

The boss was actually my first concert, at the vet, my dad won tickets on the radio

Only saw him once, on the "Magic" tour, and it was pretty much godhead.

Right after Danny Federici died, so pretty poignant.

hmmm just got in my car / wondering if my 103.3 & 88.5 presets got mixed up :)

Right on sounds fun all things considered, I've been to a few tribute shows and the mood can get odd, it's a party! But also not

And how bout him being targeted by new jersey police 🧐

Diplomatic immunity must've expired. I love how they turned on him over on White GrievanceFM.

YOU KNOW which station I'm talking about.

I like this group of tunes too! Good on ya, DJ MikeLupica!

Lolol

Thanks!

Love this electric piano

Yes! Lots of great tracks on that Natural Foods re-up.

YESSS!!!

Oh-Sees-inspired outburst?

Yeah that was fun

Although I admit I thought it was another song at first... then I stuck with my YESSS!!! I got into it. No need to delete. Look at me making my own coffee too like a big boy

Their overly-athletic release schedule makes me feel like I should be bugged by them... or at least more critical. But they are consistently great.

Hahaha

Yes ToS and KG&tLW (aka King Ghizz) are making Pollard look lazy.

I heart PJ HARVEY

But I think I thought it was Television song from Adventure . Maybe Aint That Nothin

Did Social D ever cover Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" I wonder? They would do well with that.

That trip to the roof probably spared you from nerve barfing on PJ's very pointy, very stylish shoes.

DEFINITELY would have barfed.

I quit trying to keep up with Pollard years ago. At a certain point all the breaking up and then immediate re-forming just got old. Also, utterly insufferable fanbase. Glad I saw them when I did!

Yeah I loved the early 2000s shows with Gillard, Tobias, Farley lineup. And I loved the reunion 2 shows I saw in Philly about 10 yrs ago. I have not seen him in a while. But I really liked the GBV albums from about 2015-2019

I remember being on a small GBV fan site about 1999-2000 and yeah not a fun bunch of people. But I heard there was an even larger site with all the really too cool for school people. Glad I never looked into that. Great stage patter that Pollard.

Cool. PRB classic.

Finally remembered to be seasonably appropriate.

Lots of strings in this one.

Halo Benders nice

I saw GBV four times. First time was at CBs in '93 which was alleged to be their first ever show outside of Ohio. They were... drunk. And forgettable. 2nd and 3rd time was in Princeton and both shows were great, especially #2 which was with the Cobra Verde lineup. Last time was Maxwell's, maybe just a hair before that Ric Ocasek-produced LP came out and they were... fine. More of a well-oiled machine, but seemingly a band with a boss (Pollard) a trusted sideman (Gillard) and some hired hands.

There was an LP in last 5 years when all members contributed songs & sang lead on them and it was good. Gillard has been back for a while. And Kevin March on drums too I think. So there is some connectivity to a past lineup. And Bobby Bare Jr on rhy gtr I think.

Nice way to kick off the first day of Spring!

Nice! I will check that out... I *want* to like them, but the whole business of doing so seems like too much to keep up with.

Thanks Kate!

there was a meltdown drunk Bob show at Conduit in Trenton NJ the day before he announced the breakup of the 2000s. That was nuts. Yeah I can't keep up with the solo and offshoots. But I do like that recent Cub Scouts whatever that was funny. Dan Buskirk called it Pollard at his "most 1910 Fruitgum Company"

Hahaha!

DJ MikeLupica, many thanks for another TopNotch show! I appreciate all you do at the station to keep it spinning the hits!! Kind regards to you, Sir!

Thanks MrM! Thanks everyone for hanging out this morning!

Thanks Mike this has been so much fun listening and chatting. The humor/wit is high in the Pathogenic Chat

Cheers Dears! Stay nifty!

Hey all..damn, I had known! Freeform Pathogen?!

Hey Christine!

Oh yeah...Happy Spring! 🌸🌼

Yo Kate! Jim from TCR. 🚴‍♂️

We were sending out Christine come join us vibes... next tim

time

Thx mike!!!

Hi and bye, Christine Duffy!

Fresh brewed coffee and a shirtless flautist. Can't get better than that on a Saturday a.m.

Hope to se y'all on Wednesday night at 8!

Oh god, this album cover....

HOT BUTTERED MANJAZZ

A nice sunny day... good time for a listen to Herbie Mann at the Village Gate. I'm comin home baby...

Google at your own risk.

Thx and see you on the radio!

Too sexy !

And youtube his song Body Oil when he went disco

or not

LOL

Duane Allman on the guitar here

Session man extraordinaire in a short time

Guitar solos that is. David Spinozza on the funky rhythm gtr

WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

New Jersey's Only Radio Station

The Freeform Pathogen

Another Three Mouths to Feed (Fill-in for Hanna)

Surprise edition of the Freeform Pathogen! Mostly settingaside the rumbling guitars and planet-shattering beats this morning in favor of a slow burn to start (or finish) your day. Refresh the page to see the most recently played songs, and please say hello in the chat box.

Surprise edition of the Freeform Pathogen! Mostly setting
aside the rumbling guitars and planet-shattering beats this
morning in favor of a slow burn to start (or finish) your day.
Refresh the page to see the most recently played songs, and
please say hello in the chat box.