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Powerclashing

Jul 2, 2021 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Pethie

Episode 21!

8:02 PM		Ian Dury & The Blockheads Reasons to Be Cheerful, Pt. 3 Ian Dury & The Blockheads Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. 2007 1979
8:06 PM		The Meters Tippi-Toes Struttin' Rhino 2004
8:09 PM		Polyrock The New U.S. Changing Hearts BMG Special Products 1981
8:13 PM		XTC Scissor Man Drums and Wires (Bonus Track Version) Virgin Records 2001
8:17 PM		Battles The Yabba La Di Da Di Warp Records 2015
8:26 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:27 PM		Chrome You've Been Duplicated Half Machine Lip Moves / Alien Soundtracks Cleopatra 2007
8:29 PM		Orgone Sophisticated Honky The Killion Floor Handcuts Records 2007
8:34 PM		This Heat Paper Hats Deceit This Heat 1981
8:40 PM		Sault Bitter Streets SAULT Nine Forever Living Originals 2021 Just Released
8:44 PM		Plaid Do Matter The Digging Remedy Warp Records 2016
8:48 PM		Pram The Way of the Mongoose Somniloquy Domino Recording Co 2001
8:53 PM		Gudrun Gut Garten Wildlife Monika Enterprise 2012
8:57 PM		Ruth Brown 5-10-15 Hours Ruth Brown Rhino Atlantic 1957
9:00 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:05 PM		Los Piranas Dragones Chinos N Infame Golpazo En Keroxen Keroxen 2021
9:08 PM		Norma Tanega You're Dead Walkin' My Cat Named Dog Rhino 1966
9:11 PM		Medeski, Martin & Wood The Lover Last Chance to Dance Trance Ryko/WEA 2006
9:17 PM		Moondog Theme Moondog Moondog Caribou 1969
9:20 PM		Procol Harum She Wandered Through the Garden Fence Procol Harum Procol Harum (2009 remaster) Fly Records 2018
9:25 PM		The Lounge Lizards The First and Royal Queen Queen of All Ears Strange and Beautiful 2006
9:27 PM		Sneaks Pbnj It's a Myth Merge Records 2017
9:30 PM		Donna Summer Can't Get to Sleep at Night Bad Girls Island Def Jam 2013
9:35 PM		Bohannon Happiness Stop & Go Brunswick Records 1973
9:39 PM		Concretism Fair by the Sea Wyrd Kalendar Mega Dodo 2018
9:42 PM		The Damned Neat Neat Neat Damned Damned Damned Union Square Music 1977
9:45 PM		Jealous Blackeye Lover / What's Your Damage? Dedstrange 2021
9:54 PM		White Noise Love Without Sound An Electric Storm UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2007
9:54 PM		Carla dal Forno We Shouldn't Have to Wait The Garden - EP Blackest Ever Black 2017
9:58 PM		The Notwist Exit Strategy To Myself Vertigo Days Morr Music 2021
10:00 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:06 PM		James Francies Transfiguration N Purest Form Blue Note Records 2021
10:09 PM		Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Becoming Ferromagnetic Becoming Ferromagnetic - Single 2021
10:14 PM		Jon Hassell Blues Nile Jon Hassell Vernal Equinox Ndeya 1978
10:26 PM		Miles Davis Honky Tonk Get Up With It Columbia/Legacy 1974
10:30 PM		Rebecca Vasmant Timing's End Rebecca Vasmant With Love, from Glasgow Rebecca's Records 2021
10:36 PM		Ogoya Nengo And The Dodo Women’s Group Dala Ma Siaya African Acid is the Future
10:39 PM		Le Orme Ad Gloriam Le Orme Ad Gloriam Akarma 1999
10:45 PM		Jean-Michel Jarre Ethnicolor II Jean-Michel Jarre Zoolook Sony Music Catalog 2015
10:49 PM		John Wright La Salle Street After Hours John Wright South Side Soul / Nice 'N' Tasty Universe Remasterings 2012
10:57 PM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:58 PM		Boards of Canada An Eagle In Your Mind Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children Warp Records 1998

Chat is archived.

Hello Powerclashers!

Good good, stuff! love Ian!

I'm cheerful right now

Hey Readie! You make me cheerful!

Hello Rob, I'm so glad your cheerful self is here.

hi pethie/ opening w something from my fav music year : 1979 :)

What a good year it was!

Aw, cool, Pethie!

haha & when i need a fix of 79 i relisten to a certain PRB drive show !

Aw, Mark, you make me blush!

haha it’s Wilbo I listen for:) jk !

Dang, I miss Wilbo.

we all do !

Remember when that stiff records BP came out with all those guys on it Elvis and Ian etc? We loved it we couldn't wait till we went to see them on their stiff tour

What a great label.

This show has got my mooooooooooooood ⚡⚡⚡

This pleases me so, Jimbeaux!

A couple extra effects and some strange vocals and these guys would remind me of the residents

I can see (hear) that!

Simple musically but strange

Hey Pethie & sean!

hellooooo

Jimbeaux, old co commenter by now!

I thought i saw that the Residents are are touring?

But you're the man that's always there, even when I'm just lurking... The man that keeps the threads alive

They are unstoppable.

I try to be positive...love wprb!🎹🌌🎶💥

That is great news if it is true I will have to look that up. I always wanted to see them live, because musically to be truthful they are not as adept as a Frank Zappa. It is more the total effect

I saw them when they toured for an album with a religious theme, and I was sorta disappointed. They mostly played the religious-themed stuff.

I can see them as being totally mind-blowing and totally the opposite. I can't listen to the mole tapes, but then they do the album mushroom which is music made for a dance troop and I f

Find it to be excellent

I don't think any of the residents had any musical training, so they use gimmicks and effects to achieve a level of strangeness

I suppose strangeness needs no training.

Well this was a 180° turn and not an unpleasant one

I'm fond of twists and turns, though my knees complain

A lot of people don't know that taking lessons and being adept on the saxophone wasa requisite in grammar school in the early '60s

Every kid received a saxophone in third grade, and intensive lessons followed. I remember being part of a saxophone combo playing for the PTA meetings in 1967

They struck gold with Norma tanega

You're dead, you're dead You're, come on play it

I will! I have to now!

Nobody ever gave me a saxophone!

I'm mad now.

You're probably a little young to remember, but back around 1964-65 every street corner had kids hanging out playing saxophones

The saxophone sound was even more plaintive if it was in an urban area with four or more story buildings

I was born too late.

Yeah you missed a lot of fun. We used to regularly go to Washington DC and overthrow the government, but I mean for the right reasons.

And we had festivals with hundreds of bands playing and everybody was full of love and brotherhood but that was then

Oh yes, I definitely missed all that but I got to be around for Pop Rocks.

One of the first great media scams they did not kill you when you drank them with coke we tried it

If you like what we do in the shadows I'm sure you must have seen flight of the Conchords

No, I have only seen bits of FotC

And Murray, their manager, who is the best character in flight of the Conchords other than the two Concords and the strange girl and her husband actually marries better than him has his own show too which was on New Zealand TV

Norma just slays me...

Oh my God I'm telling you you have to immediately see flight of the Conchords it is one of the greatest shows ever! Like ever and meaning forever!

Someday I will see Conchords. And yes, Norma is delightful! Don't take my word for it, just ask Dusty Springfield.

awww... rats! I missed Norma

I will! I am slow to grab onto these cool shows. Takes me a while.

BRUUUUUUNO

If you don't watch any other episode watch the flight of the Conchords episode where the swim team from New Jersey State University seduces the guys, gets them to cover their hotel bills and everything, and there is a great video called mermaids

I miss you, Bruno!

hey hey, peth

yay, I am missed!

yup

Just Google flight of the Conchords mermaids watch that 4-minute video and tell me I'm not wrong

I mean tell me I'm not right

Okay! I do know that song "It's Business Time"

My parents are from that saxophone-era, and they used to see Moondog on the streets of NYC

No not business time mermaids Business times is sexist

OH!

I mean funny ironic sex is the kind that is acceptable but still mermaids is much better

okay

I will check mermaids out!

Great lyrics, right up there with Bob Dylan.

Are you the answer to a drunken sailor's lonely wish?

Or are you a woman, sitting on a rock, holding half a fish? (A sexy fish)

A nice upbeat procol harum song, nobody dies at sea

It's a jaunty one.

the disco is back!

It's always at the ready when needed!

excellent

This one is dedicated to my insomnia

NOW I remember why we blew up those disco records at the baseball stadium

This kind of bogs down in the middle and leaves you limping to the restroom to do a line

This track is raging.

That is the most petered out disco ending I've ever heard!

It was a mellow end, yes.

Don't worry, song after this will wake you up.

Kind of like they each got tired and went to bed

Too much melatonin

Well this is really cool if it's actually from 2018, it sounds like it could be from 1918 and I mean that only in a good way

I am hand-grinding coffee to this music...

The harmonium guy is definitely keeping his foot on the pedal

mmmmm, coffeeeeeee

Here is the damned showing they are perfectly competent when it comes to playing regular old rock and roll music.

I guess it was the name that scared people off

Perhaps

That's some nice guitar work there

Nice drum and guitar outro. And this sounds interesting

Where do you PRB DJs find your material???? Whether I like it or not I am always amazed at how eclectic and obscure the tracks I hear are

I just roam around dusty corners. And Bandcamp.

The thing that is surprising to me is how uniformly excellent the things are that you DJs turn up. Even if there's a track now and then I don't like I am always surprised by the next thing. I've been listening to music for 55 years and I'm always surprised with new stuff so thank you

Thank you for saying so! I think that PRB DJs are pretty amazing. I discover a lot of new to me music from listening to other shows.

Yes, back when I was a teenager into all kinds of new music WPRB introduced me to tons of things that still are important to me to this day. And I'm talking back in the early '70s, 50 years later

I never heard Miles Davis until I heard him on PRB, and then I got to see him in 1973 in New York. Probably never would have happened without PRB

Ah man, I thought I had been listening to WPRB for a long time, but you have me beat

I started around 1981

I wasn't in the area around that time. But the early and mid-70s were a seminal period of my musical development. Weather report, Chick corea, pool winter consort, McCoy tyner, Alice Coltrane... All of those were featured on PRB

I saw the talking heads at MacArthur theater or whatever that little place is in Princeton in 1977

Fabulous!

Jonathan Richman in Princeton

There is in at least half century long musical legacy there that you and the other people that are DJs keep alive

It's an honor and a lot of responsibility!

You guys do well, always introducing some new stuff. And featuring the best of the old. Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only person 65 years plus in age who listens to PRB

I've listened to several too many Norma tanega songs but none of them touch your dead... A one-hit wonder, 40 years on?

Oh no, I think we have plenty of folks your age listening!

I meant several to many, not too many

Probably in a box, your dead your dead your dead

Okay here's a challenge anyone over 66 pipe up

After transfigurations, too pretty to interrupt

My parents sometimes are listening, but they might have fallen asleep

They do too much gardening. It wears them out.

Best track of the evening

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith?

Yeah this truck is entrancing

Too bad your mom and dad are asleep they don't know what they're missing

I've been quite taken by much of her work. She's reallyy great

Has an oriental feel although I don't know if I'm supposed to use that word anymore. I think it applies to the music anyway

I see what you mean, Asian elements

I'm curious as to how you become ferro magnetic. I can't see how humans could achieve that state, there is not enough iron in our composition to actually become magnetic.

I guess it's more of a philosophical thing

Mayhaps you must put on some sort of special costume.

Magnets! I know there are magnets for your feet, and your arms, and probably your head. Maybe if you finally buy enough of them you can become ferromagnetic

I'm sure some have tried.

Heard a lot of Jen hassle in the last day. This is a unique one, thanks

When I look back at the dialog I'm wondering where did everybody go like Jimbo and other commenters, I feel guilty for hogging the airwaves but anybody else could but in right?

I'm a sucker for that kind of breathy horn sound.

Everyone else is free to add to the conversation!!

Maybe I put them all to sleep

Kind of reminds me of tubing throat singing tubing t u v a n

oh yes!

I remember when I saw rahsaan Roland Kirk he had some type of flute that he held up to his nose and played through his nostrils. Besides playing three saxophones at one time.

Amazing. That's an artist that my step father is very fond of.

I will say this is one of the most interesting John Hassel pieces I have heard over the last couple days of DJ's playing memorials. I was not too familiar with him, but this is the first piece that would make me want to explore his work further thanks

I'm glad to have piqued your interest! I must admit I'm not all that familiar with him, and was just starting to get into listening to him.

I am very impressed that you actually spelled peaked correctly instead of p e a k e d

Good old Google voice recognition I meant peaked with the q

It surprises me how much grammar and literacy has devolved in the last 30 or 50 years.

I was always a decent speller, though a crummy typist and I also happen to have deplorable handwriting

Great Miles Davis., Right after Chick Korea - John McLaughlin - Wayne shorter left the band

New funk group... Show him at the village East at 73 or 74, it was the old Fillmore East after it reopened. They had several good shows there but the neighborhood was so overrun with junkies another problems at the venue didn't survive

Phew lady your taste is commendable

Thank you!

Miles does not even try to get a sound that is considered a trumpet sound out of his instrument for that whole track

He takes the trumpet to another universe, even far beyond sun ra

You have me boggled it down

Supposed to say you have me boggled now

oh?

How is someone not from the era familiar with some of Miles Davis's more obscure early funk stuff and then finding this track from 2021 That is a perfect compliment

Pure luck.

Were you familiar with the Miles Davis before you played it?

This music is a beautiful peaceful segue from his jagged edges

I'm new to that era of Miles Davis. I knew his earlier stuff a little bit. But I admit my knowledge of jazz is very limited. I enjoy listening to it, but I don't know much

I have found when it comes to jazz, if you focus on Miles Davis from 1959 through 75 or 78. Coltrane from 62 through 70, and then instillary artists like Alice Coltrane, McCoy tyner, Wayne shorter, that whole ilk you get a really good picture of progressive jazz

Sorry Coltrane died around 1966

I'm fond of Alice Coltrane.

Try to listen to the John Coltrane ballads LP. McCoy tyner Jimmy Garrison Elvin Jones, The band practiced each song two or three times and then just did perfect takes of some of the most romantic and beautiful songs in the American song book

Will do!

McCoy tyner is worth hearing after he left John Coltrane also... As is of course all his other sideman Wayne shorter John McLaughlin Chick corea

Alice Coltrane is great and beautiful, hermid 70s albums are classics. Journey to such an Honda etc please don't mind Google voice recognition that says Saturday Nanda is such a Honda

I saw her five or six times back in the '70s and it was always an uplifting wonderful experience

Haha! I know what you mean. Journey in my Satchel Honda!

Ah, that must have been cool.

Mello, her with her harp and a great band surrounding her playing peaceful head music

Quite different from John Coltrane's last furious a tonal recordings

Super show Pethie! New 3 hr block is epic 💥💥💥

Thank you very much, jimbeaux! It's a challenge, but I like trying to get the last hour into a mellower groove.

So I just want to remind you, find the John Coltrane album "ballads" and play it for your step dad and yourself. You will find some of the most beautiful music ever put down on vinyl there

I will definitely listen to it!

Jimbeaux I was hoping you would show up so I wouldn't feel like such a radio hog

It's been a pleasure. Thank you everyone for tuning in tonight! Stay tuned for Music With Space and Michael Hunter!

Thanks for a pleasurable couple hours

Boy they flew by and now wondering what the hell am I doing with my life

You are listening to good music!

Well if there were ramparts out there facing an existential threat and I was combating it with all my power I would feel more fulfilled

But in the meantime, good music will suffice

Being fulfilled is overrated.

Plus I have a Saturday New York times crossword puzzle to do. That should give you all the fulfillment a human needs

Ooh! Crossword puzzles are indeed fulfilling.

Give me, not you Google anticipating my thoughts stupid robot idiot come and kill me if you can and take over my human society I will fight you from the gutters and the hills

thank yahweh for context

Who he?

hahaha, good night!