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Uneasy Listening

Aug 14, 2021 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

With Commie Francis

Colors

Songs about COLORS 8pm-10pm!

Songs about lots of things featuring songs by all the band in this photo 10-11

8:01 PM		Bay City Rollers Saturday Night Rollin' Arista 1974
8:04 PM		Donovan Wear Your Love Like Heaven A Gift from a Flower to a Garden Legacy Recordings 1967
8:06 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Alternative TV - Red
8:08 PM		The Cowsills Beautiful Beige We Can Fly Mercury Records 1967
8:11 PM		Fuzzy Haskins Tangerine Green A Whole Nother Thang Westbound 1976
8:15 PM		7 Seconds Red and Black R The Crew Better Youth Organization 1984 requested by Spaz in Pittsburgh
8:16 PM		The Equals Green Light Supreme President Records 1968
8:19 PM		The Bees Voices Green and Purple R Voices Green and Purple - Single Liverpool Records 1966 requested by Chad from Coral Gables FL
8:20 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Pharoah Sanders - Colors
8:24 PM		Brandy Christmas Colors The Gift of Repetition Total Punk 2020
8:28 PM		Colors of Night C-O-L-O-R-S R There She Goes / C-O-L-O-R-S Regime 1969 requested by Steve in Western PA
8:30 PM		Post Regiment Kolory R Czarzły Post Regiment 1996 requested by DHD in Quebec
8:33 PM		Curt Boettcher I Call You My Rainbow Chicken Little Was Right Cherry Red Records 1973
8:35 PM		Caravan In the Land of Grey & Pink In the Land of Grey and Pink Decca Music Group Ltd. 1971
8:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Gong Gong Gong - 夜色（重慶）Night's Colour (Chongqing)
8:44 PM		Roky Erickson Colors R recorded 1988 requested by Charles in Northampton MA
8:45 PM		Minor Threat Seeing Red First Demo Tape Dischord 2003 recorded 1981 requested by Jeff in Flemington
8:46 PM		The Wolfe Tones Broad Black Brimmer R Live Alive-Oh Celtic Collections 1999 requested by Bo
8:49 PM		Outpatients Light Blue Basement Tape self released 1983
8:51 PM		Slant 6 Semi-Blue Tile Soda Pop * Rip Off Dischord 1994
8:52 PM		Palast Orchester & Max Raabe Blue (Da Ba Dee) Die Hits des Jahres RCA Records Label 2000
8:56 PM		Rondos Colour TV & Kontrast A Black & White Statement Pm Press 2009 orig 1980
8:58 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Alternative TV - Red
9:00 PM		Devo Pink Pussycat Duty Now for the Future Warner Records 1979
9:03 PM		dBs Black and White Stands For Decibels Albion Records 1981
9:06 PM		The West Coast Branch Colors of My Life R Where Is The Door? / Colors Of My Life A&M 1967 requested by Charles in Northampton MA
9:08 PM		The Very Things The Colours Are Speaking to Me R The Gong Man Corpus Christi 1983 requested by Steve in Philly
9:12 PM		Love Coloured Balls Falling Love Elektra 1966 requested by David from Monmouth Beach
9:14 PM		Death Valley Girls Red Glare N Street Venom (Deluxe Edition) Suicide Squeeze Records 2021 orig 2014
9:16 PM		The Honeycombs Colour Slide The Honeycombs Pye Records 1964
9:19 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Gong Gong Gong - 夜色（重慶）Night's Colour (Chongqing)
9:23 PM		Ice-T Colors R Colors (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Warner Records 1988 requested by Frank in Philly
9:28 PM		Bonnie Guitar Candy Apple Red Candy Apple Red Dolton Records 1959
9:30 PM		Eddy Current Suppression Ring Colour Television Primary Colours Melodic 2009
9:35 PM		The Painted Faces Anxious Color R Anxious Color / Things We See Manhattan 1967 requested by Justin in Philly
9:37 PM		Big Boys Red / Green Recorded Live At Raul's Club V/A Rat Race Records 1980
9:40 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Alternative TV - Red
9:43 PM		Delta 5 Colour Try / Colour Rough Trade 1980
9:45 PM		The Snaps Polka Dotted Eyes R The Voice / Polka Dotted Eyes East Coast Records 1966 requested by Tom in Philly
9:47 PM		The Boys Turning Grey The Boys (Deluxe Edition) Fire Records 2013 orig 1977
9:50 PM		Altered Images Pinky Blue R Pinky Blue Epic 1982 requested by Matt in Boston
9:53 PM		First National Nothing Purple Song Purple Song/I Got the Answer CBS 1970
9:55 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over Gong Gong Gong - 夜色（重慶）Night's Colour (Chongqing)
9:58 PM		Nino Tempo & April Stevens Deep Purple R Deep Purple ATCO 1963 requested by my dad!
10:00 PM		Freddy Cannon Transistor Sister Transistor Sister - Single Swan Records 1961
10:02 PM		Table Sugar Straight Shooter Introductory Material 911450 Records DK 2018
10:04 PM		Spllit Planet Spllit N Spllit Sides Feel It Records 2021
10:05 PM		Harum-Scarum The Outsider Mental Health Tribal War Records 1999 Academy 23 cover
10:09 PM		下田逸郎 All This Time Love Songs and Lamentations Polydor 1973 Vicki Sue Robinson on vocals
10:12 PM		Zowiso Profits Race At a Jogtrot to Death Atoomaatje Records 1982
10:15 PM		Anika Freedom N Change Sacred Bones Records 2021
10:17 PM		Sedition Key to Co-Existence Earthbeat Flat Earth 1993
10:19 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths
10:24 PM		Girlschool C'mon Let's Go Hit and Run Bronze 1981
10:27 PM		Delta 5 Mind Your Own Business Mind Your Own Business Rough Trade 1979
10:30 PM		The Passions Pedal Fury Michael & Miranda Polydor Records 1980
10:32 PM		The Raincoats No Looking The Raincoats Rough Trade 1979
10:35 PM		Mo-Dettes Norman (He's No Rebel) The Story So Far Deram 1980
10:38 PM		Au Pairs Love Song Playing with a Different Sex Human Records 1981
10:41 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths
10:44 PM		Martha & The Muffins Saigon Metro Music Dindisc 1980
10:48 PM		Yellow Pills This is What We Call a Texas N Machines That Go Beep Mint 400 Records 2021
10:49 PM		The Brills Gang of One Scottish Kultchur: The Barclay Towers Compilation Album V/A Supermusic Record Co. 1982
10:52 PM		Appliances-SFB Nothing N SFB Rockhaus 2021 orig. 1984
10:54 PM		Set Break: ---------------------------------------------------- DJ speaks over X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths
10:58 PM		Chumbawamba The Day the Nazi Died Uneasy Listening

Chat is archived.

hi everyone i gave in and moved to the 2nd floor!!

Hi Commie/Dunston!

Hello Commie! Is it cooler on the second floor?

Hi Bo! Maybe I shouldn't tell you this but i ALMOST was gonna play rudi. lost em in the final cut

yes much, i even have ac sort of, leaking from the bedroom

i mean there's ac in the attic but weeks like this it can only do so much

AC is good during weeks like this week *bucket of sweat emoji*

Ah, you moved down to the second floor, not up to the second floor

oh yeah i was on the 3rd floor

Hi Commie, Hey Bo 👋 I am ready for all the COLORS tonight 🌈

Hello Christine and Bo/Ambrose

@Commie, you are forgiven about Rudi😜

Hi Christine#

Hi Rob#

Hi Rob! Maybe this happy, sweating emoji fits: 😅

Thanks Christine! 😅

@Rob, here's an anxious, sweaty emoji: 😰 (cold sweat?)

Oh noooooo 😰

Thanks again, Christine. Maybe I should think about getting an account with Spinitron

Hiya Christine! and Rob of course

I was outside painting a house all week, did somebody mention sweating?!

if Fuzzy sounds familiar it's cause he sang a lot of the time in PARLIAMENT

oof i hope you hydrated extensively!

I copy & paste most of these from Emojipedia 📙 🔮

@Ambrose, I'm glad you survived the week! What are your survival strategies?

@Commie, I did but it beat the Shiite out of me!

emojipedia is how i can do this ☭

@Christine, Guinness and ham sandwiches

although i did program it into my phone keyboard

EQUALS 😊

love them, this was my intro to them

🗣️ 💜💚💜💚💜💚

RAINBOW

🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 v

i have a rainbow song coming up! :)

BRANDY is delicious

❤🧡💛💚💙💜

THIS!

🏳️‍🌈 ◽ 🏳️‍🌈 ◽ 🏳️‍🌈

💯 for DJCommieFrancis🚨🔥🌟🧑‍🎤🦋💟🎶

that's so nice after i gave dan that 99.7!

Oh… you actually only gave him 9.7 and 9.8 oops

Big difference that you meant 99.8 ! Plus DJ Points are way more important!!

yes i gave him one extra point in the end

And I gave DJ DanRuccia 💯 also! 💃

i was doing out of 10

That’s what I thought.

oh wait now i've confused myself. so i gave him 98

@Commie, have you The Broad Black Brimmer by the Wolf Tones?

Ooohhh. I’m beyond confused.

R O K Y ! Yeooooo Commie!

hi jimbo!

You sweet thing!

Nice request!

i forgot where you live again Bo

Bo-hemia...

the bo-nny isle

OMG Blue...this is going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the weekend! 💠 Da Ba Dee....Da Bah Dah...

yeah this is FUN!

just realized i can fit another song before the hour ends haha

@Commie, I think I see a member of Girlschool in that photo?

yep that's one of the bands!

@Commie, I forget where I live too, THANK YOU for playing Broad Black Brimmer! 😊

Evening all

This is the very thing I needed!

Hi Ossy!

Bossy Hi!

Ossy

@Commie, got any White Lightnin' in the box?

@Commie, kick ass band right here!

Hi, Ossy!

yeah this just got reissued! dan actually played them in his show before mine but I DON'T CARE!

Great minds...

bill usually listens on the radio but now i'm one room over. having him listen to my monitors isn't working great, we will have to reconfigure next week

Commie, hopefully next Saturday will not be as volcanically hot 🌋

yeah i'm keeping stuff down here for a bit though. i'm having surgery at some point soon that will make it easier to get back to doing radio!

SO that will make it easier. the surgery won't make it easier it will make it harder

there's a lot more cat action down here on the 2nd floor but so far none of it has been audible on air

I should be able to tell the American artists from the British Commonwealth artists on this playlist by the way they spell "color" (or "colour").

it's funny that roky covering colours by donovan spelled it colors

YEAH Delta 5 💜

Altered Images!

when i was narrowing down i accidentally played this and the very things song at the same time and i didn't notice til the altered image song ended. it actually sounded very cool

@Commie, LUV this!

i was like i don't remember the very things having a woman singing!

That 80s aura 🔥♥️

A Commie Francis mash-up!

i thought about playing them like that but i'd never get them synched up right again

That would have been so cool if you could have synched them

@Commie, I've Got Pocket Full Of Pretty Green???

i had that on my list bo but it got cut too!

only time for one schmaltz fest after this then transistor sister!

No worries!

@Commie, you have a very cool Dad!

i definitely heard a lot of cool music from both my parents!

my dad makes more requests though

This Rules!

this is actually a song that didn't make it into my wfmu show! harum-scarum that is

Not all of the 7 spectral colors have been specified tonight. Like most people, I rarely make a distinction between indigo and blue--but what about yellow and orange songs? Maybe Donovan’s “Mellow Yellow” is too obvious; but I should’ve suggested Nat King Cole’s “Orange Colored Sky”, Love’s “Orange Skies” and Eric Burdon & the Animals’ “Orange and Red Beams”.

it's not really typical of their sound, they were usually heavier. but i love it!

yeah i wasn't really going for completism, i was concentrating more on songs with multiple colors/about colors

i could do like, 10 other colors shows that are more focused and i may!

Table Sugar's "Straight Shooter" sure ain't the Mamas & the Papas song!

nope although i would love to hear them cover the mamas and the papas

This set: 🔥 💯🔋⚡

thanks christine!

I second Christine! 😍

thanks also Bo!

another wfmu leftover

Come on let's go!

i love this song, girlschool was SUCH A GOOD BAND AND SO DAMN COOL SO COOL

I love this song too. They were a good awesome band.

I love their version of 20th Century Boy too, and also the 'yeah, right' song

haha with the mom

"and don't drink too much"

GIRLSCHOOL!!!

i am not in the slightest bit surprised that they were hanging with the other bands who are bit of a different scene

Do I see Raincoats in picture?

Can I interfere in your crisis?

no! mind your own business!

jimbo you will find out soon!

I am loving this photo. And the badass women pictured! ♀️ 👩🏽‍🎤🎸🎶👩‍🎤 🎹🎷 🎛️

Never heard of Girlschool, but feeling the intense 80s like Pinky Blues!

girlschool are probably best known for doing a split record with motorhead where they covered each others' songs and did a song together

That split record is quite good

Here's a song they did together, on Top Of The Pops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYFwN-l46r8

I really love The Passions "I'm In Love With A German Film Star"

that is a good one!

"No Looking" is one of my fave Raincoats songs

HOLY SHITE, The Mo-Dettes!

Saigon, an evocative song

There were two different Marthas in Martha and the Muffins: Johnson and Ladly, iirc. Ladly left after the second album

@Rob, agreed!

i know weirdly NOTHING about martha and the muffins so thank you!

i really love this record and need to get the first one

Echo Beach was my introduction and is still one of my all time favorite New Wave songs.

@MrM 💀, final ten minutes...

@Commie, Saigon is on the first album. The second album is similar enough. The third one had a major lineup change, with one Daniel Lanois producing it.

i thought there was one before metro music?

*and the band had a different sound

according to discogs they both came out in 1980 so maybe they have them backwards

I almost bought Metro Music because of the cover, without having heard any of it.

Yes, Metro Music then Trance and Dance

When I heard the song "Indecision" from Metro Music on the radio, I made a bee-line to the nearest indy record store and bought the album

What a trip tonight's show has been. Colorful! And post-punk/New Wave women: all icons.

Thank you, Commie! ☭

Thanks Commie! This was an excellent show tonight, especially Transistor Sister

thank you Christine and Rob! good night everyone, thanks for listening!

Slainte Commie and all y'all!

Colorful, colorfully, color fun party and weekend ♥️🧡💛💚💙💜💖🤎🖤🤍 See all next!