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Don't Back the Front

Apr 1, 2021 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Dana K

8:01 PM		The Desperate Bicycles Don't Back the Front 7" 1977
8:06 PM		RICK ROLL
8:11 PM		April and the Fools Baby Watch Out Messthetics 108
8:12 PM		Dolly Mixture Stareaway Demonstration Tapes Spa Green 2010
8:15 PM		The Chefs You Get Everywhere Records & Tea: The Best of the Chefs Damaged Goods 2012 Originally on the Vaultage 1979 compilation
8:17 PM		Itchy Self Here's the Rub Here 's the Rub - EP Spacecase Records 2020
8:21 PM		Vomit Launch Star Trekking Not Even Pretty + Teen-Beat 1994
8:24 PM		Chalk Circle Uneasy Friend Reflection Mississippi Records 2011 Washington DC
8:27 PM		SF Seals S.F. Sorrow (Is Born) Truth Walks In Sleepy Shadows Matador 1995 Pretty Things cover
8:33 PM		Michael Beach Irregardless Dream Violence Goner 2021
8:39 PM		Zodiacs Faraway Friend Faraway Friend Captured Tracks 2011 Kristen from Dum Dum Girls backed by members of Woods, etc
8:41 PM		Cassie Falling The Light Shines On Reminder Records 2020
8:46 PM		Rays Dead Mans Curve RAYS Trouble In Mind Records 2017
8:49 PM		TV21 Playing With Fire 7" Powbeat 1980
8:51 PM		Real Numbers Brighter Then Brighter Then - EP Slumberland Records 2021 San Francisco
8:55 PM		The Clean Twist Top Unknown Country Merge Records 2020 Reissue from 1996
8:58 PM		Rat Columns It's Your Time (To Suffer Now) Pacific Kiss Tough Love Records 2021
9:06 PM		Girls At Our Best! Fast Boyfriends Pleasure Rdeg 1981
9:12 PM		Wurld Series Nap Gate What's Growing 2021
9:15 PM		The Haywains Bythesea Road The Surfin' Trowbridge EP Woosh 1988
9:20 PM		The Bedflowers Madly In Love With 25 People Songs: Summer 1990 Bop Cassettes 1990
9:25 PM		Tracie Young The Boy Hairdresser Give It Some Emotion Respond Records 1983
9:30 PM		Strawberry Switchblade Dark 7 Live, Rehearsals, and Demos
9:37 PM		The Go-Betweens Lee Remick 7" Able Label 1978
9:39 PM		Kicking Giant Weird This Being the Ballad of Kicking Giant, Halo: NYC/Olympia 1989 - 1993 Drawing Room Records 2017 Olympia, WA
9:43 PM		Y Trwynau Coch Byw Ar Arian Fy Rhieni Merched Dan 15 1978 1978
9:44 PM		Chin Chin Never Surrender Sound of the West Way Farmer Records 1985
9:49 PM		Consonant Blissful Consonant Fenway Recordings 2002
9:51 PM		Crippled Pilgrims Dissolving Down Here: Collected Recordings(1983-1985) Reaction Records 2004 From "Head Down - Hand Out" (1984)
9:56 PM		Lake Ruth Extended Leave Extended Leave - Single Slumberland Records 2019
9:59 PM		Dolly Mixture Wave Away Demonstration Tapes Spa Green 2010
10:03 PM		The Liggers Pretty Girl Unzipping The Abstract (Bands of the Manchester Musicians' Collective) MMC Records 1980
10:13 PM		Maraudeur Face/Figure Puissance 4 2021 Leipzig, Germany
10:15 PM		Scapa Flow Somewhere At Home and Abroad - Single 1980
10:18 PM		Modessa Cool Aid Aide S/T 2020 Recorded in 1999 in Portland
10:19 PM		M.A.Z.E. Spread the Germicide II Lumpy Records 2021
10:20 PM		The Royal Family and the Poor Art On 45 We Love the Moon LTM Publishing 1986
10:26 PM		48 Chairs Snap It Around 7" Absurd Records 1979
10:32 PM		Micachu Calculator Jewellery Rough Trade 2009
10:32 PM		Priests Suck Nothing Feels Natural Sister Polygon 2017
10:39 PM		Mary Timony Valley of One Thousand Perfumes (2021 Remaster) Mountains (20th Anniversary Expanded Edition) Matador 2021 Originally released in 2000.
10:42 PM		Ela Orleans Rocket Trip To Nowhere Lost La Station Radar 2009 Reissued in 2020
10:44 PM		Beautify Junkyards Reverie Cosmorama Ghost Box 2021
10:51 PM		Writhing Squares Rogue Moon Chart For the Solution Trouble In Mind Records 2021

Chat is archived.

chatters, please chat!

I’m here! I’m spacey! I will chat nonsensically due to medications!!!

Hi Dana! Be careful what you ask for, it's April fools day

DANG

here's an extra obscure 80s track for you all

I don't think I've heard this song from the beginning before/in a long long time

Yes! We've been Rick rolled!

My son is terribly impressed that you just rickrolled me

Paging Mr Nick Lowe... your rusty tyres are ready....

Well played Dana K. Well played

my eyes are peeled, lips are sealed

who's pretending to be me???

what is this april foolery

who is pretending??? STOP IT.

Hmmm I've seen that tomato before

Impostahs the lot

I recognize that pumpkin/tomato/vegetable...JimBEAUX

Malkovich Malkovich?

'lo folks

good lord

i feel like i'm in that spiderman meme

Oh yes.

I'm gonna try this again

can one of you do this show for me?

it's against the terms of service :/

Team Dana got this!

I just checked

I would but I am not in New Jersey

This is a lot of spidermans

am i TOS compliant now?

there's a small fee for accreditation

but it's not optional

I recognize that potato/tomato/rusted root vegetable

knock yourself out, danas

Chicken Italian sausage, kasha w onions/mushrooms, green beans. Ready. Step up. Plate up

Beers are down at bottom of the steps. Where it's colder

Help selves

Sláinte! 🍺

@ pethie I’m terribly impressed that your son found that so funny :)) !

i'm glad someone did!

hi, dj dana (yoni?)

There are Guinii down there. Let the craic begin innit

Oh, Aye!

i am grateful these guys did not pull this crazy april fool stuff on me!

esoterica chat is already wild 'n' wooly enough!

i don't know what i did to deserve this. maybe the rick roll.

haha E maybe they thought u didn’t have the sense of humor to handle :)

haha! my middle name is chuckles

I think it's a carryover from the last show

I, Dana K, did appreciate Esoterica playing Pere Ubu while I (Dana K) unloaded a truckfull of cement blocks

but of course we guessed that !

love this song! and i do what I can!

oh god what i wouldn't do for that guinii.

Love this tune. That droney dulcimer like guitar bazooki thingee . PRETTY THINGEES. Great cover

The real Dana K would NEVER go for manual labor!

yes, bri! i play that song (this!)

I missed the rick roll too!

Got to see PTs in late 90s early 00s. Highlight was the SF Sorrow segment of the show. Especially Dick Taylor on the low "BARON SATURDAY" backing vocals

HER JAZZ!

Got my 1st stab 2 days ago.

My next one is on the 12th and I'm hoping it's not too painful

I am embiggened by that perfectly cromulent word.

Yay Dana congrats

ir·re·gard·less·ness·ly

Yay Dana! Good luck. And hooray Brian! I get my first jab tomorrow

Ice pack all day on the arm. Or thereabouts.

haha the bane of many talk radio hosts over the ages: callers using the “word” irregardless:)

but Dana K*, we are scheduled for our 2nd shot tomorrow! we even took off a half-day of banal work!

This songs rips so I can forgive Michael Beach for it

I'm very happy we're all getting our jabs

yeah this title is an annoying non word but the song is great sound! thanks for playing!

Great sets Dana K. Thanks for bearing with the alt names! You rock!

I like the possible non-word "copacetic"

it's allll copacetic

Copacetic-arooni

g'night ye chaters

excellent tunes! you guys get ready, danak and esoterica are gonna light it up! haha

light up the airwaves, that is

hahaha

I can't wait! Nighty, BrianD

love this Cassie song

it will be wonderful!

bye, bri! you taking off? i need to step out but hope to resume this cool chat-erooni.

i heard that cassie song on jen's show last weekend and fell instantly in love

yeah, I think it's having a chain-reaction! I gotta go get that album!

loooove the clean. did you see them at Johnny Brenda's?

like 2007ish

no :( unfortunately i was underage and out of the loop

yeah I realized right after sent that that you wouldn't be able to go to a bar show then

any show pre-2011 at johnny brenda's caused me a lot of emotional pain

d kilgour played at the first unitarian church with yo la tengo a little after that, so I saw one of his solo shows.

oof, sorry dude! George and I discovered that we were both "at" an Oxes / Isis/ Dalek show at the Khyber before we knew. each other, but he was sitting outside dejected because he got turned away for being 20. he thought he'd be okay because he was supposed to be on someone's guestlist, but it didn't fly! so I passed a sad George, as yet unknown to me

This Gates of Steel is so baroque and triumphant

Haha, Yoni and I were both at the same Atom and His Package show in 2003

Which was the first DIY show I ever went to!

I also had tickets to see Hamish Kilgour with Chook Race (one of my favorite recent Aussie bands) in NYC but he had to cancel..and I had one of my very first graveyard WPRB shifts in the middle of the night anyway. .

shhhhhh

Ha! We also discovered we were both at that Andy Warhol’s Flesh for Frankenstein on a special old-school 3D screen at the Prince before we knew each other!

Haha, Adam Goren teaches math in NW Philly these days!

I met one of his students once!

Haha, Hattie could’ve ended up having him as a teacher I suppose, but that’s a preppy school! A few of the kids she did pre-K with went there, including a girl whose mom teaches with Adam

I and a buncha friends, some of whom I didn’t know yet, who went to that epic final Atom & His Package show! That was a great night!

It's a very good memory for me...one of the first times I ever went into the city on my own, and I went with a friend who sadly passed away when he was only 17.

He wrote me at summer camp (Dark Waters!) a month earlier to tell me he had bought us tickets.

Oh wow, that’s so sad. Good thing you had that memory with him.

I sigh about Dark Waters cuz that was supposed to be H’s first big sleepaway camp (other than a Girl Scouts camp a few years ago that was practically in our backyard it was so close and was only 5 days,) but of course it has to be cancelled last summer

We didn’t want Dark Waters to fall into financial ruin, so we didn’t ask for a refund and they gave us a credit for this summer, but I’m nervous to make plans until the vaccine is available to kids. Hattie has pretty severe asthma

Aw. I'm glad you didn't ask for a refund - I saw that they had a fire recently as well. I don't think I'd feel comfortable sending a kid this summer myself. Everything that's fun about summer camp involves being close to people. Poor Hattie :(

Bedflowers & Haywains tracks were *just* perfect! And a camp named Dark Waters conjures up a horror movie :)

Haha, the was a legal thriller called "Dark Waters" that came out a couple of years ago. The camp itself is actually tiny and run by Quakers, so not scary at all.

BUT, it’s in the Pineys, so Mother Leeds’ 13th child might snatch the kiddos!

A Quaker camp should be "Silent, Introspective, Non-Threatening Waters"

(Both summer camps I grew up attending were in the Pineys too, so we had truly exhausted the Jersey Devil Stories)

Jimbeaux, Ha! Run Silent, Run Deep

Re: Dark Waters Fire- Yeah, I got the email that said their shed burned down with a buncha their equipment in it😞

I feel so bad for Hattie that this entire school year and the last fourth of last year’s, and now yet another summer after last year’s complete bummer of a bummer, is going to be camp-less and trip-less yet again. But we WILL head down the shore as often as humanly possible

I loved that Bedflowers track!

Been a rough time for kids in school. Some are adapting, some are really hurting. Can't imagine having to deal with the pandemic at that age when you thrive on proximity with others and learn to be a human.

I didn’t realize that GAOB’s “Pleasure” was just reissued again. I feel like that’s the explanation for the sudden uptick in my hearing them this past few weeks!

Kids are missing out on so many formative experiences, I know folks are trying their best but it's devastating to think about.

One of my kids really crashed out and is just going to repeat a year at school. He's doing better...mostly playing guitar and drums all day, which is probably a dream. :)

I think about it 24/7. I’m so sad for Hattie and her peers. It’s been truly awful for them. At least she has retreated into art and music even more than before. They’re the only things that ever kept me sane too

And I’ve been watching a lot more movies with her. Taking some deep dives. We REALLY need a normal school year next year, but if they aren’t even beginning to vaccinate kids until the fall, then I dunno.

Same here...was often isolated as a rural kid, but still had school, sports, music as a break from home life. He's digging my vinyl collection!

kids can't go to City Gardens anymore. So sad

Yeah, my kid is digging further into my music, and also recording her own but with a friend over Zoom. At least she has grown prolific is sound-editing on Logic!

this sounds like what Broadcast might have grown into. cool

Jimbeaux, it’s almost like this year is a gap-year of music study for your son! I don’t really count last year as a full school year, and then this year’s been utter poop Zoom school, which is hated by kids, parents and teachers alike! I want everyone to be safe, though, so zoom it is for 90% of this year

Nice! I get my 2nd dose of Dolly Mixture this coming weekend!

At first I thought I would have LOVED to have stayed home for a year when I was in middle school (I was bullied)...but there was a lot of good stuff that happened to me out in the world then too that it would have been terrible to miss out on.

I feel bad for my college aged friends as well

Yeah, this is H’s 6th grade year. Middle school is still full of bullies, but she hates Zoom so much. She wants to be with her friends. At first last spring, she and her classmates were giddy, but that got old quickly, and this school year has been such a bummer. H is a theatre kid and sorely misses performing

Good haircut, by the way!

"mullet of my dreams"

Chopped half the pandemic hair off, but vertically! Is Ashley Tini still at Talking Headz?

Nah, she's not there anymore

Okay, this band is definitely German. But you can't blame me for thinking they were French.

Haven’t been there in a long time!

I haven’t been in anywhere in a long time!

I bought George a flowbee at the beginning of the pandemic. He’s been clunkily buzzing his hair with that thing

Getting a haircut there is like therapy. My hairdresser and I always have great chats, and now there's a fat orange cat...

All hair salons should feature big orange cats

they can roll up the shorn hair

I'm glad they got him because Keri from Common Beat had to take their big orange shop cat Foxy home

So now I have another cat I can visit on Baltimore Ave.

I am someone who waits entirely too long to get a haircut under normal circumstances, so this year hasn’t been weird for me, hairwise. George, on the other hand, is kinda going insane. Hattie has taken this year, coupled with the fact she’s now an angsty tween, to chop her hair in a million creative configurations

Yoni has the benefit of being bald, all it takes is a few swipes of the trimmer.

Awww, Foxy! 🐈 My orange tabby died this year. He was a big mental bolster for Hattie during boring zoom days, so that was hard

Yeah, I guess that’s easy!

Bald privilege.

But maybe you have a higher sunblock budget, so there’s that

Only at the beach. Otherwise I keep it bundled up.

Aw, you lost Pangur Ban? I'm so sorry to hear that.

Hi Dana K.!

Yeah. He actually got out and got hit by a car

He normally only went outside with our supervision and went on nightly walks with George & Nuala.

I'm so sorry, for you and Hattie and George.

But he slipped out the door in the daytime and a woman hit him right after, right in front of our house. It was rough.

Yeah, I really miss having a cat, but I can’t handle getting another one just yet after that. I never lost a young pet like that before. All our dogs and cats lived long lives

Oh no! That's so terrible. I'm so sorry.

That's so tough. I completely understand wanting to wait a little bit. But eventually you'll be able open your heart up to another cat who needs a home.

Thanks, yoni. Yeah, I didn’t have the heart to talk about it much on social media. Couldn’t believe it, really. It happened so fast

Dana, I’m sure eventually. My friend found Pangur and his brothers as day-old strays in her basement window well the day before our old cat, Puss Puss, died. So it felt meant to be. This Membership Drive is extra weird for me because Puss Puss died while I was at the station co-hosting Readie’s show last Drive in April 2019. At least he was an old man

Dana K, Thank you for the great songs!!

Puss was one of those strays who was super streetsmart but also extremely people-oriented and friendly. He had lived in the street at least a yesr

Sorry to hear...especially tough with kids. Took us a while after losing our last old doggo, but here we are with 2 adopted brother cats and and a shelter dog.

I can't imagine how painful that must be. Though I still feel a lot of guilt for letting my cat escape about 10 years ago, we never found her. I'd like to imagine she found another loving family.

Jordan, thank you so much for listening!

Yeah, jimbeaux, I’m sure we’ll get there eventually. We still have our beloved dog and I’m sure there will be more stray kitties coming our way. It’s basically litter season.

I bet your cat was found and cared for, Dana. Otherwise, she’d probably have eventually come back.

can you one day play one of my songs please? https://dykeritz.bandcamp.com/ xoxoxo

great set !!!

I had a childhood friend whose family took in a cat that they discovered had wandered off from a different family, but only discovered years later. They talked to them, and the family was like, it’s fine, he’s your cat now. Not knowing is hard, though. I feel so bad about what happened to Pangur.

Liz Bot you rock too!!! Love your show. Thanks for all the awesome tunes, all the time!!!!

I hope that pain becomes easier for you to live with :(

I think Puss Puss had gained street smarts from living as a stray for a year before we adopted him that Pangur never gained because he was fostered as a kitten by my friend and then adopted by us. But it couldve happened to any cat, really. His foster mom kept him and his brothers in an outdoor pen, so he was pretty obsessed with getting outside

Thanks, Dana

Yay! I sent in Beautify Junkyards- it’s Helena Espvall from Espers band

It's a gorgeous album!

Helena lives in Portugal now and met up with a bunch of Portuguese musicians. She & George did an album together waaaay back, like 2005/2006. Nimix & Arx

Good chats, everyone. And to all you pranksters - I forgive you. Join me for next week's DRIVE SHOW with Esoterica!

Weirdly, Helena is now married to my best friend’s ex-boyfriend! Haha

Great show tonight!

Oof, small world again! And thank you!

Yeah! It’s cool, everyone parted amicably! They had actually broken up years before she & he started dating. This is a dude I’ve known since he was a teen living in Bucks and have had some funny nights going to shows with! Helena is great!

Whoa, music is literally winding down as show winds down. Cool track

Thx danaK!