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Uneasy Listening

Jul 31, 2021 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Commie Francis

Los Angeles

A while back I did a show about California and there were SO MANY LA SONGS that i decided to give LA its own show and here it is! Dedicated to Dana K who is currently traipsing around on the West Coast.

Refresh the page to update the playlist and starting at 10pm there's no theme anymore!

8:00 PM		Bay City Rollers Saturday Night Rollin' Arista 1974
8:03 PM		Frank Black Los Angeles R Frank Black 4AD 1993 requested by Bill in Chicago
8:07 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Wang Chung - City of Angels
8:09 PM		The Simpletones Dead Meat (Killer Smog) R Kirsty Q/Dead Meat (Killer Smog) Posh Boy Records 1978 requested by Sam in Philly
8:13 PM		Spirit Topanga Windows Spirit Ode/Epic/Legacy 1968
8:15 PM		The Monkees Hollywood Missing Links, Vol. 3 Rhino 1996 originally from the 60s duh
8:17 PM		Art Brut Moving to L.A. R Bang Bang Rock & Roll Alcopop! // Fierce Panda 2005 requested by Matt from Boston
8:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Wang Chung - City of Angels
8:23 PM		Palast Orchester & Max Raabe Miss California Super Hits Nummer 2 RCA 2002
8:26 PM		The Runaways Hollywood Queens of Noise Mercury 1977
8:29 PM		The Hollywood Squares Hillside Strangler Hillside Strangler! Square Records 1978
8:32 PM		Blue Steele and His Orchestra There's a Tear for Every Smile in Hollywood You Darlin' / There's A Tear For Every Smile In Hollywood ‎ Victor 1930
8:34 PM		The Jackofficers L.A. Mama Peanut Butter R Digital Dump Rough Trade 1990 requested by Charles in Northampton MA
8:37 PM		The Gotobeds Cold Gold (LA's Alright) Blood // Sugar // Secs // Traffic Sub Pop Records 2016
8:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Wang Chung - City of Angels
8:43 PM		Big Boys Hollywood Swinging Fun Fun Fun Moment Productions 1982
8:47 PM		Arlo Guthrie Coming into Los Angeles R Running Down the Road (Remastered 2004) Rising Son Records 1969 Requested by Dana K
8:49 PM		The Freeze This Is Boston Not LA This is Boston Not LA V/A Modern Method 1982
8:50 PM		Eyes Disneyland R Yes LA V/A Dangerhouse 1979 requested by Gordon from San Francisco
8:52 PM		The Miracles Ain't Nobody Straight In L.A. R City of Angels Hip-O Select 1975 requested by Darcy from Indiana
8:56 PM		The Circle Jerks Beverly Hills Group Sex Frontier Records 1980
8:56 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Wang Chung - City of Angels
9:00 PM		Spoon The Agony of Laffitte The Agony of Laffitte - Single Saddle Creek 1999
9:04 PM		Black Flag Revenge R Decline of Western Civilization Slash 1980 requested by Ted in Pittsburgh
9:05 PM		Gramma Hash Brown L.A.P.D. R Live in LA 10/25/86 1986 requested by Steve in Philly
9:08 PM		The Cheifs Holly-West Crisis R Holly-West Crisis Dr. Strange Records 2004 from the early 80s sometime requested by Bill in Philly
9:10 PM		Regulations Hollywood Smile Electric Guitar Havoc Records 2005
9:12 PM		St. John Green Canyon Woman St. John Green Flick-Disc 1968
9:15 PM		Translator L.A., L.A. R No Time Like Now Legacy Recordings 1983 requested by Ed in Barnesville GA
9:17 PM		Kasenetz-Katz-Super-Circus N.Y. Woman Quick Joey Small - I'm In Love With You Legacy Recordings 1968
9:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Wang Chung - City of Angels
9:24 PM		War L.A. Sunshine R Platinum Funk Island Records 1977 requested by Steve in Philly
9:33 PM		Red Cross Standing in Front of Poseur Red Cross Posh Boy 1981
9:35 PM		Public Enemy Burn Hollywood Burn (feat. Ice Cube & Big Daddy Kane) Fear of a Black Planet Def Jam Recordings 1990
9:37 PM		The Lewd (Go to Hell In) Hollywood Kill Yourself...Again The Lewd 1999 orig. early 80s
9:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Wang Chung - City of Angels
9:42 PM		Missing Persons Walking In L.A. R Spring Session M Capitol Records 1982 requested by Charles and Wendy who are both from Northampton MA!
9:45 PM		Naughty Sweeties Tower of Babble R Naughty Sweeties Live Rhino 1981 requested by Gordon in San Francisco
9:49 PM		Loli & The Chones The Kids from Boyle Heights R P.S. We Hate You Rip Off Records 1997 requested by Sam in Philly
9:50 PM		All-Night Newsboys She's Gone Hollywood She's Gone Hollywood Moda Music 1982
9:54 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Wang Chung - City of Angels
9:56 PM		The Fall L.A. R This Nation's Saving Grace Beggars Banquet 1985 requested by Andrew from ??? and Lauren from Hillsborough NJ
10:00 PM		Freddy Cannon Transistor Sister Transistor Sister - Single Swan Records 1961
10:03 PM		Can Yoo Doo Right Monster Movie Liberty 1969
10:23 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworth (demo)
10:25 PM		Thatcher On Acid Clock Watching Frank Agit Prop 1990
10:27 PM		Brenso Listen N Brenso Brenso 2021
10:34 PM		Toxic Waste Dear Little Dinosaur N Belfast Sealed Records 2021 originally mid 80s
10:38 PM		Dirt Democracy Object Refuse Reject Abuse Crass Records 1981
10:39 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworth (demo)
10:42 PM		Les Filles de Illighadad Irriganan N At Pioneer Works Sahel Sounds 2021
10:48 PM		Bruce Haack Super Nova The Electric Lucifer Columbia 1970
10:53 PM		Mercenarias Além Acima Cadê as Armas? Baratos Afins 1986
10:56 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworth (demo)
10:58 PM		Chumbawamba The Day the Nazi Died Uneasy Listening
10:59 PM		The Plugz Reel Ten Repo Man (Music From the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Geffen* 2015

Chat is archived.

did something.... weird just happen

I dunno, did it?

well yes but i'm not sure if it was audible

I didn't hear anything odd

cool! i had the mic open and was listening to the online stream and i wasn't sure if that came through on air

The station has been streaming fine since I 'tuned in' at 7:59

yeah you might have heard the station ID playing again over saturday night or something but i think the rollers were loud enough to hold their own

I only heard the rollers

this song goes out to the SCARY SMOKE last week

I should have turned them up louder though

yes they can always go louder, always

Was the smoke bad up your way? I can't remember if it was down here, but then I often only go out in the morning for a 30 minute walk

Some of the lyrics to Dead Meat were hilarious

it was very bad! the whole city was shrouded in smoke and my eyes hurt when i was outside

Yikes!! I know it wasn't anywhere near that bad around DC

Were the tornados anywhere near you the other night? I was wondering if the New Hope to Trenton tornado might wander over to Princeton and damage the transmitter and knock the station off the air yet again

no, it went north of us, we didn't even have much of a storm

i know someone who lives right by princeton who got tornadoed (They are fine)

Songs for the apocalypse

Phew and phew

Good evening Comie, Rob

*Commie

Good evening, DSM

you may call me by my full name, Comus

and hello!

Comus, that little bit of Wang Chung made me crave a watch of To Live And Die In LA

haha it's a not to my friend who requested the title song but i don't think i will have time

i mean i've got like 30 red hot chili peps songs to get to

Priorities are priorities!

Did somebody say 🌶 🌶 🌶 🌶?

Hey Christine! 👋

Hey gang! !

Hello Christine

I’m hoping to hear Randy Newman with the old Dodgers “win” song

Hi Christine!

Hi Commie! Really energetic show so far. I bet playing RedHotChiliPeppers will summon MrMalcontent 💀.

I love how tonight's show is dedicated to Dana K. I hope she's out there on the Left Coast, having way too much fun.

WestSiiidddeee!!

I’m a HollyWeird Square! 😝🤓

There he is!

just MENTIONING chipeps was enough

mr malcontent kept me company in my lonely hip hop fill in last week!

only MrM will check for a chat even on shows that never have one

What do I win?!? 🏆

lifetime supply of tube socks

MrMalcontent, your prize is this ENTIRE playlist! It's 💯% California!

Pass. My socks are FancyAF

And a WPRB beer koozie.

ok i agree socks should have heels

CommieFrancis was the on air DJ when I discovered WPRB had joined Spinitron! It was a fill in afternoon show. The music was a perf match for me. CommieFrancis is to blame for me being here! Or praised and thanked - All Hail The DJ CommieFrancis!! 🖤💀

you're welcome/sorry!

The Gotobed's album name is cracking me up: Blood // Sugar // Secs // Traffic 🌶 😄

This almost sounds like early RHCP 🌶

i guess that's cause rhcp started out as one big kool and the gang cover

confession i enjoy their cover of love rollercoaster

(by the ohio players before anyone corrects me haha)

Hi all, awesome cover of Kool And The Gang.

DISNEYLAND 💖

Driving around South Jersey pretending I’m in SoCal.

driving is a very authentic way to experience this show!

@John Tobias, if you get stuck in traffic, even better to feel like you're in Cali

Let’s hope not - for traffic

Drive as if in a video game

Punk rock and speeding

THE CIRCLE JERKS 💟

Hello Commie F.

@MrMalcontent, do you drive like you're trying to qualify for Pole Position? 🏁 😱

CJ’s were one of my first concerts

Hello Pitsters!

I’m dum butttt I’m not stoopid @Christine

Hi, AmbroseHughes!

hiya Bo!

Greetings and Salutations to One and All!

Biggest CHEERS to DJ CommieFrancis!!

Hey, Ambrose!

Also, delayed reactions for: THE MONKEES 🤎

and BLACK FRANCIS 🖤

Seeing an earlier chat about socks, I love tube and knee high socks.

Haha! That’s awesome, Ossy Hyouka! More deets please. Solid colour only? With stripes at the top?

I like them white in plain, sometimes stripes at the top like American Apparel and the 80s - 90s classic slouch socks.

Sock talk in the chat! 🧦

🧦 ➕ 🎻 🎻

LA is my hometown, it's a knee socks town

we get high off the sock stripes

My older siblings got that Kasenetz-Katz album when it came out (They had actually asked our parents to buy some other record but they goofed!). It eventually wound up in the “family pile” of records that none of them wanted to claim for their personal record collections (like several Partridge Family albums). The illustrations on the jacket fascinated me as a kid.

it's such a weird cover, like a weird mad magazine cover

it's one of my favorite records of all time, definitely one of the best bubblegum lps. usually they're full of weird filler and maybe this is too but the filler is great if that's the case!

i mean weird mad magazine RIPOFF

plus it has up in the air which is the first song i know of to dis ronald reagan!

@David, did you end up with the Kasenetz-Katz Super Circus lbum?

I rarely see people in those monster size length thigh high socks, preferably from American Apparel and Thunda Thighs.

Public Enemy fighting the power on Saturday night 🔥

No! I don't know what happened to it! When my brother went off to college, he took the Partridge Family albums to display for their camp value.

not to be weird but i have an extra and your address

MISSING PERSONS ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

I will say I used to walk quite a lot in LA

@Commie F. Did Celluloid Heroes make the cut?

i have a soft spot for that song but no!

i think i would like to walk in LA but i have never been there so i could be wrong

I drove a ton when I was in LA

I never like Missing Persons songs but I’m enjoying the heck out of this Missing Persons song

bill informs me that we do have that record

i played something or other off of it recently that i really liked

windows i think

David Shortell is/was a WPRB DJ??

Thanks, but don't trouble yourself, Commie. However, I think I'll ask my siblings if they remember what happened to it. I suspect they won't know what I'm talking about!

david won a contest i held once and i mailed him a record

That’s fun! So I guess that’s a No.

I wonder what Bette Davis thought about the Kinks’ “Celluloid Heroes”, where Ray Davis sung “...stand close by Bette Davis, because hers was such a lonely life.” It seemed as if Ray thought she was dead! (Years later, Bette wrote a thank you note to Kim Carnes for her song “Bette Davis Eyes”.)

A perfect song to end the theme with, Commie

Yay, L.A.! THX DJ COMMIEFRANCIS!

@Commie F. No worries.

you are welcome!! i was thinking about starting with this but i decided it was better for ending

coming up next is transistor sister by freddy boom boom cannon after that but then i am going to play a 20 minute long wprb greatest hit

yay! i am from parts unknown!

MYSTERY ANDREW

annoyingly i am getting a guest bed in this room TOMORROW but tonight i will have to lie on the floor

@Commie, I hope you can sleep OK.

Did anyone see the ISS fly-over tonight? 🛰 I missed it.

i saw it!

I must have forgotten until now that the band Mooney Suzuki derived their name from members of Can.

I just noticed the depiction of Galactus on that Can album!

@Andrew, cool!

yeah that's a later reissue, still cool though!

i did sleep/had weird hypnotic can dreams for a few minutes

It is cloudy here so I couldn't see the space station

And it's time to head out. Goodnight all. I loved the show, Commie.

good night Rob, thanks!

Andrew, cool that you saw the space station!

Are you aloud to mention WFMU here?!

i am!

i mean i don't know where that station is, certainly not new jersey!

Is that station on the Spinitrons???

@Rob, good night

they have their own playlist and chat that they made themselves!

Oh they Extra

Cheers, RobFromMaryland!

They got a fancy app and everything!

when i was temping in nyc in the late 90s i was astounded that i could listen to past shows (and live shows) online!

The chat scene aint nuthin like wprb’s tho

definitely the first station i knew about who was doing that

G'night Rob.

Blessed with so many good radio stations in this region

I wanna hear that show CommieFrancis. Will it be achieved somewheres?

Yeah, like others such as WDAS, Classix Philly and The Breeze, 100.2 and etc

What show will air on WPRB at that time??

Put a long sock in it, OssyHyouka! You can’t mention every station here! 😂 🤡

Mr Malcontent it will be archived on the WFMU site

Very good! Thanks!

I'll put it on my mixcloud if I can but i'm not sure what their policy is on tht

@Commie F. 8)))

What is their chat sign in requirements?? The Google??

i think you can chat totally anonymously!

I’m doin that now 💀

wfmu's online archives helped me survive living in alabama during most of the 00s!

THIS SONG RN AF 🦖

https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/106280

I will warn the wfmu chat you are coming Mr.Mal

it's just a comment thingie, you enter a name and optional email

I’ll use CommieFrancis email address 🤪

sneaky!!

DSM, it’s MrMalcontent or MrM. And don’t give them a warning or heads up. Let them be dazzled as it all unfolds naturally!! ☠️

Les Filles! 💜

@Commie, thanks for the heads-up about your upcoming WFMU show.

It's too late, MM. They've been warned.

things sounding ok on the online stream? and on the radio?

MrMacontent or whatever how you say your username 🤣🤣🤣. Is there something wrong of mentioning various stations here? P.s eat smelly tube socks 🤣

Terrestrial radio sounds perfect

Grooving to Las Filles de Illighadad at top volume here.

cool, someone just told me the online stream was glitching but i think it was just them

It’s MrMac&CheeseFilledTent, get right with yoSelf OzzieHarriet. Plus eat socks and kick rocks. 🤣🤓

Streaming is GOLD

Lmao, how in world am I'm supposed to understand get that right, Cheesy Mac, when it looks so hieroglyphics like? 🤣🤣🤣. Also, are you allowed to mention stations here or you're just freaking around lol.

i make the rules and i say mentioning stations is aok

mr mac content is just messing with you

CommieFrancis knows ❤️‍🔥

i love radio stations. i mean except ones that suck

@MrMalcontent, final eight minutes...?

I’m cry!!

Glad I could tune in for the entire excellent show!

it's always nice to have you here!

We good now, OssyHyouka! Cheers!

Alright, just checking and thanks(since I mentioned other stations before on SOTC and here sometimes), since Cheesy made it sound so scary 🤣. People spoke about Philly stations and just added my experience on the conservation earlier lol.

Cheers Christine!

And back to my actual name now, OssyHyouka! 🤬

I love this crew. Thank you, Commie! Another stellar show. Goodnight, Uneasy Listeners 🌛

night Christine, thanks for listening! And you too Ossy, don't worry!!!

Yeah Cheesy we fine and cool. Now wrap your self up in thigh white socks to look like a mummy! 😆

Night night Christine.

Cheers to all the Dears especially those with Big Ears!

'Night, AmBrOse!

Bruce Haack? When I saw that album in used record stores, I thought The Electric Lucifer was the name of the band, not the title of the album!

good night everyone, thank you for giving me purpose!

DJ CommieFrancis, many thanks and kind regards to you!

Good night Commie F.

david someone bought it from our record store thinking it was a metal record! they returned it

All cool and thanks Commie and have a nice night and week til. Good night all and see all next Saturday. Cheesy, stay out of mischief LMAO

Ugh

fantastic show commie! 'night to all!

Good night Pitsters.

Sleep tight in socks of all pairs! 🌟 🌙

Commie, those customers would have likely been less pleased by records from the Electric Prunes or the Electric Flag!