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Uneasy Listening

Jul 17, 2021 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Commie Francis

Saints and Martyrs!

Songs about Catholic saints and various martyrs including the lefties and anarchists and anti-fascists and victims of state violence who are a bit like saints to me, a big old Commie.

This was such a crowded topic and I am very excited for the results but I did have to eliminate some big deal martyrs such as Jesus so try to imagine an extra 4 minutes where I play BAUHAUS - STIGMATA MARTYR

Then 10-11 lots of new exciting music and a new chapter in me and Pethie's polar bear saga!

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8:01 PM		Bay City Rollers Saturday Night Rollin' Arista 1974
8:04 PM		Siouxsie & The Banshees Icon Join Hands (Remastered) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2006 orig 1979
8:09 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Del Huff and His Cordovox - Dominique
8:11 PM		Gothic Voices Columba aspexit Hildegard of Bingen: A Feather On the Breath of God Hyperion 2010
8:16 PM		Sister Irene O'Connor Messe du Saint Esprit Fire of God's Love Philips 1973
8:19 PM		Gil Scott-Heron No Knock Free Will Ace Records 2014 orig 1972
8:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Malcolm X - No Sell Out (instrumental)
8:22 PM		Fairport Convention Wat Tyler A Lasting Spirit - The Collection Sanctuary Midline 2005
8:27 PM		Paul Robeson Joe Hill R Songs of Free Men Sony Classical 1942 requested by Nic from Philly
8:30 PM		Veronica Lake Saints Above Working Holiday - May V/A Simple Machines 1993 split with Bratmobile
8:34 PM		John's Children Remember Thomas À Becket A Strange Affair Grapefruit Records 2013 orig 1967
8:36 PM		The Proletariat The Murder Of Alton Sterling R The Murder Of Alton Sterling - Single Bridge 9 Records 2018 requested by Ted from Philly
8:38 PM		Woody Guthrie I Just Want to Sing Your Name R Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 1960 requested by MY DAD
8:41 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Del Huff and His Cordovox - Dominique
8:43 PM		Nancy Dupree Bulletholes R Letter to Young Sisters and Other Poems By Nancy Dupree Folkways Records 1979 requested by Krista of Habitat Enrichment
8:47 PM		Battlefield Band The Dear Green Place On the Rise Temple Records 1986
8:51 PM		Momus Lucky Like St. Sebastian R Circus Maximus El Records 1989 requested by Lizbot
8:55 PM		Bruce Haack Saint Basil The Electronic Record for Children Dimension 5 1965
8:57 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Malcolm X - No Sell Out (instrumental)
9:00 PM		Nina Simone Why? (The King of Love Is Dead) 'Nuff Said RCA/Legacy 1968
9:06 PM		Chumbawamba Ulrike Slap! Agit Prop 1990
9:12 PM		Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Christina the Astonishing R Henry's Dream (2010 - Remaster) Mute, a BMG Company 2010 orig 1992 requested also by MY DAD
9:20 PM		Camille Tout dit Ilo Lympia Because Music 2013
9:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Del Huff and His Cordovox - Dominique
9:23 PM		Leonard Cohen Joan of Arc Songs of Love and Hate Columbia 1970
9:29 PM		Malcolm X No Sell Out R No Sell Out Tommy Boy 1983 aka Keith LeBlanc requested by Jaz in Bloomington IN
9:33 PM		The Ex Aye Carmela R 1936 The Spanish Revolution Ex Records 1986 requested by Tommy in SF and Chris in Boston
9:36 PM		Barbara Mason Sunday Saint (Weekday Sinner) Transition Buddah/Legacy 1974
9:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Malcolm X - No Sell Out (instrumental)
9:42 PM		Sex Gang Children Sebastiane The Singles 1982-1984 Cleopatra Records 2018 orig. 1983 requested by David from Wigan UK
9:45 PM		Pete Seeger John Brown's Body R Dangerous Songs!? Columbia/Legacy 1966 requested by Anna in Philly
9:48 PM		Goran Bregovic La Nuit de la Saint Barthélémy La Reigne Margot Music Star 1994
9:54 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Del Huff and His Cordovox - Dominique
9:57 PM		IAM Remember (feat. Femi Kuti) R Yasuke Universal Music Division Virgin Records 2019 requested by Nic in Philly
10:01 PM		Freddy Cannon Transistor Sister Transistor Sister - Single Swan Records 1961
10:04 PM		Huggy Bear Herjazz Taking the Rough With the Smooch Wiiija 1993
10:06 PM		Taqbir Al-zuki Akbar N Taqbir - EP Taqbir 2021
10:08 PM		Status Quo Elizabeth Dreams Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo Castle Music 1968
10:11 PM		Delivery Floored N Yes We Do - EP Spoilsport Records 2021
10:13 PM		下田逸郎帰ろう Love Songs and Lamentations Polydor 1973
10:19 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:24 PM		Prisonshake Eisbär 2 Sisters Scat Records 1993
10:27 PM		Roy Bailey Tolpuddle Man Business as Usual Fuse Records 1994
10:31 PM		Alien Nosejob Fatal Collision N Hc45-2 - EP Iron Lung Records 2021
10:33 PM		Leopardo I Belong to You N Malcantone Feel It Records 2021
10:35 PM		The Student Teachers Channel 13 Channel 13/Christmas Weather Ork Records 1979
10:38 PM		Galore Henry Galore Rocks In Your Head 2020
10:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:45 PM		Shoes Curiosity Boomerang Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 1982
10:49 PM		Smokey Strong Love Strong Love/DTNA S&M Records 1976
10:53 PM		Exil Dear Landlord N Warning Armageddon Label 2021
10:55 PM		Angry Samoans Lights Out Back from Samoa Nickel and Dime / Triple X Records 1982
10:56 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths (demo)
10:58 PM		Chumbawamba The Day the Nazi Died Uneasy Listening

Chat is archived.

it's me i'm alive i'm here my power is on PRAY FOR ME

Hi Commie! More power to you.

Hiya Bo!

Night!

Hi Commie! I'm glad you're feeling better

me too!!

and thank you!

tyler i am always tempted to do that myself

@Commie, sorry to hear you were I'll, you sound well now though :)

is this sounding ok, not clipping for anyone? it's a little tricky to manage the levels.

Praying to St.Aligius the power stays on.

haha thank you

st isidore of seville is the patron saint of internet apparently

Sounds great on my Thrift store Sony Dream machine :-)

Got very pumped hearing your intro come on tonight. We were on the fence about a party 30 mins away and now we're gonna go bc we wanna listen to wprb for the drive

Good ol' St. Isidore

St. Gil Scott

-Heron

Sound sounds good. No clipping. No clipping. either

Did Cracker's St.Cajetan make the cut?

no, i had to eliminate a bunch of things i really wanted to play unfortunately. i had to eliminate the chumbawamba song that inspired me to do this topic!

but there's still chumbawamba don't worry!

i was thinking of playing the smashing of the van also but i just played it!

Yay chumbawamba is coming

never fear!

Hey Commie, for your edification, the Swedish folk-rock band did an album called Hildegard von Bingen. "The tracks in this album are based on the compositions of 12th century German abbess [Saint] Hildegard of Bingen, with the lyrics to each song being sung entirely in Latin." https://www.discogs.com/Garmarna-Hildegard-Von-Bingen/release/864918

oh neat!

i have another song about her that is very neato

Garmana is the band's name ...

joe hill, a hymn of my people

chumbawamba have a LOVELY song about joe hill but i couldn't play like 6 chumbawamba songs. i guess.

Sure you can play 6 chumbawamba songs ;-))

All in a row even :-)

Hi Bo and Tyler

Hi Rob!

btw if you want to learn lots about weird saints i suggest reading robertson davies

@Commie, thanks for the tip.

ChumbaPresley

haha the chumbawamba elvis is one of their dads going by the pseudonym jimmy echo

@Commie, your dad has good taste in music.

i think he just googled songs about st christina the astonishing for that one

but he does, he influenced my taste a lot! but more in the folk, country and blues vein

Hey, Saint Peter by Sniff and the Tears

I mean by Flash and the Pan

ooh i just came THIS CLOSE to singing on the radio

Good weekend evening, all!

@Commie, one I heard a lot as a wee lad, Orange's and Lemon's said the Bells Of St. Clemons.

hi Ossy!

Bo i have heard that song! but i can pretty much never take a request in the last 10 minutes of my show haha

Hello Ossy!

@Commie, LOL!

eee it's getting very dramatic here! big lightning!

The Stars of Heaven

@Commie, aye t'is!

St Aligius has the power!

God seems to paint with dots

i think eligius is the patron saint of ELECTRICIANS, close enough though!

@Commie, do you think he knows the difference? ;-)

@Rofflestomp, Hello!

I live a few blocks from Malcome X Park. This crazy lightning and thunder is so on right now.

he's dead so no, bo!

yeah i'm up on a hill on the 3rd floor in nw and my view is one big sky and wowee

now that i'm done with all my saint notes i might turn the lights out to see it better

Very dead, so beat us there.

@Rofflestomp, NICE!

Heya Bo!

Ah, the son of legendary afrobeats Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti!

@Rofflestomp, where is Malcolm X Park?

west philly!

@Commie, thank you!

Commiie Totally hit it.

I live on Spruce.

my sister lived at 49th and baltimore for a long time

@Rofflestomp, Spruce and?, I used to go to Abyssinia?

I am so nudt with Baltamore. Clark Park makes my day.

I want to hug Biggy Bear

I saw Huggybear at Brownies years ago at what I'm certain was their last New York show. Maybe it was their final show anywhere.

*Huggy

Stupid Spell check

Her Jazz is the name of a discontinued WPRB program I miss.

yeah i hope Maria will come back again some time!

WOW Commie ... Where the fuck did you find this?!

Robertson Davies? The only thing I read by him was "Fifth Business", the first part of the Deptford trilogy.

he has a great short story about all the decomissioned saints from the new vatican coming to live at his college

in a book of ghost stories called high spirits

there are a few different books where he just goes off on a tangent about some saint or another though

Delivery delivering the goods!

Damn, it's a sure real tsunami out there, that exceeds SWV's Rain 🌧

my neighbors are sitting on their porch and i wannna be like HEY TUNE TO 103.3 but i don't think they will be able to hear me out the window

mAKINGdreams just fine.

@Commie, give it yer damnedest!

Lightning and shit!!

WHOAH BIG BOLT

i said WOOOO out loud involuntarily

I eagerly await this set's end so I can hear you back-announce "帰ろ" by 下田逸郎.

i probably should not stick my head out my 3rd floor window, probably

i'm gonna do it david!!

@Commie, they might think you're an owl

3rd floor! Same Here! Fuck all this Shit! Did you that last crazy?

I am so glad I got back home in time to hear the last hour of ya show!! Yay

was there thunder audible in that mic break haha

OR THE FEAR IN MY HEART WAS THAT AUDIBLE THE FEAR AND EXCITEMENT

oh yay pethie!

I hear both thunder and the fear in your heart.

how many more covers of eisbar ARE there???

Monkeys are fucking dancing on clouds..

We need to start a band and cover it now.

YES

@Commie, you flinched not an inch!

Elspeth I think I love you.

this is a saint show castoff, the tolpuddle martyrs did not die they just got exiled to australia but then later pardoned

We all perish..

@Commie, just like so many Irish for "stealing" a loaf of bread so they could stave starvation.

that's true they did eventually die

so true Bo!

I could use a good Alien Nosejob concert

I love you too Rofflestomp.

Backed or fronted by these guys!

as long as they don't back the front! HO HO HO

Hah!

Hardy had had!

*Had har

Spell check DIE ALREADY!!!

So purty!

As punishment? OMG that so Okay.

I never heard of the Student Teachers till now. I can't figure out what that song "Channel 13" has to do with WNET.

no idea, that was my pbs station too!

i think channel 13 is often pbs

because no one else wants it

@Commie, good one :-))

man it feels so nice to be back on the radio, missing a week sucks!!! thanks for being here for it!

I'm officially a Shoes gazzer now thanks to you!

I remember a Smokie on TOTP's but not

Smokey

yeah this is not them!

SMOKEY🔥

Nopey

they were stonewall rioters/john waters buddies

from LA by way of baltimore

Aaahhh... A song befitting my landlord!

Oh no!

Oh yes!

Coincidental coincidence

I do love a coincidence

@Elpseth, there is no such thing.

Thanks Commie, great show as always!

See ya all next weekend! Enjoy the scary and smelly thunderous booming rain

good night i am returning downstairs to my scared dog and listen to CJ with him!

Dang, 20 jazz funk greats almost fits the bill for next week

thanks everyone for listening!

oh so close pethie!

XOXO