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Jon Solomon

Jan 26, 2022 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

With Jon Solomon

Every Wednesday night on 103.3 fm WPRB.

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"Best of 2021 (part four)!"

Here it is - a fourth (and final) show covering my favorite albums, songs, compilations, reissues and more from the prior year.

5:00 PM		The Rub The Death Of Pop Bikini Gospel Happy Squid
5:04 PM		Set Break
5:08 PM		Upper Wilds Love Song #7 Venus Thrill Jockey 2021
5:10 PM		Robert Cotter Love Rite Missing You WeWantSounds 2021 Originally released (if you want to call it that) in 1976.
5:14 PM		Kurt Vile & The Violators Run Run Run I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico V/A Verve 2021
5:21 PM		Julie Doiron You Gave Me the Key I Thought Of You You've Changed 2021
5:23 PM		FACS Alone Without Present Tense Trouble In Mind 2021
5:32 PM		Etran de L'AÏr Toubouk Ine Chihoussay Toubouk Ine Chihoussay Sahel Sounds 2021
5:36 PM		Mini Skirt DIY Nightmare Split 7" with C.O.F.F.I.N 2021
5:39 PM		Set Break
5:49 PM		Guardian Singles Can't Stop Moving Guardian Singles Trouble In Mind 2021
5:51 PM		L'Orange Durbin Was A Trap House The World is Still Chaos, But I Feel Better Mello Music Group 2021
5:53 PM		Nolan Potter Stubborn Bubble Music Is Dead Castle Face 2021
6:02 PM		Lucy Dacus Triple Dog Dare Home Video Matador 2021
6:10 PM		METZ A Boat to Drown In Live at the Opera House Sub Pop 2021
6:22 PM		Wau Wau Collectif Yaral Sa Doom II Yaral Sa Doom Sahel Sounds 2021
6:25 PM		Pardoner Totally Evil Powers Came Down Different Bar/None 2021
6:27 PM		Set Break
6:34 PM		Power Supply Infinity In the Time of the Sabre-Toothed Tiger Goner 2021 The return of the band once named Ooga Boogas.
6:37 PM		Michel Legrand Run, Brother Rabbit, Run La Piscine OST V/A WeWantSounds 2021 Originally from 1969.
6:39 PM		Melenas Osa Polar Osa Polar Trouble In Mind 2021 Grauzone cover.
6:44 PM		Ryley Walker & Kikagaku Moyo Shrinks the Day Deep Fried Grandeur Husky Pants 2021
7:02 PM		Street Eaters Simple Distractions Simple Distractions EP Nervous Intent 2021
7:05 PM		Natural Information Society with Evan Parker d(OoOc) IV Descension (Out of Constrictions) Eremite 2021
7:25 PM		Styrofoam Winos Stuck In A Museum Styrofoam Winos Sophomore Lounge 2021
7:28 PM		Set Break
7:34 PM		KEG Presidential Walk Assembly BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd 2021
7:36 PM		Rebecca Gates St. Ides Heaven Live at Doug Fir Lounge - August 4, 2013 2021 "Performed as part of "No Name #1: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Elliott Smith”, a week long multi-city, multi-artist honoring of Elliott Smith."
7:41 PM		Mythic Sunship Maelstrom Wildfire Tee Pee 2021
7:51 PM		Vanishing Twin Zuum Ookii Gekkou Fire 2021
7:57 PM		Todd Briefly The Extensive Waterways of the United Kingdom Demos Just Step Sideways 2021

Chat is archived.

Chat is open. Good to see you. Stylish as always!

I woke up like this

Hello, DJ JonSolomon!

Mr. M, outstanding to see you.

Awww, nice! Ditto!

greetings

Hello, Rachel!

Welcome aboard.

Hello Jon!

Hello all

Work is done

I got it!

Hi Rachel, Brian D. Mr.M💀!

Brian! Ambrose!

Let's go! To the top of the mountain! Double time!

also known as Check Yokels

ok this song makes up for Invoice Rubes

Check Yokels is outstanding.

Check Yokels, opry legend

Bill Hicks, Invoice Rubes, Check Yokels...

tally hobo doesn't work but i can't keep it in

Deb "It" Bumpkins, the nation's leading female Bill Hicks tribute act.

Banknote Bumpkins

Hello, instant love of the Love Rite song, being an African-American oldies motown and funk fan!

Ossy, check out the WeWantSounds label. They've been reissuing all sorts of great stuff like Robert Cotter.

Can't wait to share selections from their Mainstream Funk comp - https://wewantsounds.bandcamp.com/album/mainstream-funk

Proposal Hillbillies. Posting Countryfolk

Cuenta Campesinos... that's it for me

Excellent work, Brian.

Awesome Jon, love it!

Noah Leger from FACS is on my "would pay to watch them play the drums" list.

Etran de 🔥🔥🔥

Sahel Sounds! Another great record label

Jimbeaux! I think this single will be on a 2022 album but all that means is you might hear it again in a year...

Heya folks! Just in time to not understand a word of the song, but love the tune. Gotta love it!

All the live clips i see of them are smokin', Jon!

Roffle, hello!

Hopefully they make it to the states someday.

Hopefully after the post COVID apocalypse many oversea bands will make the rounds again. 🤞

punks are an upbeat agreeable lot, so it should be smooth sailing

Ornate manholes?

I saw Ornate Manholes at the Firenze

but yes, that would be amazing

and dangerous when they're stolen

Manholes. Wow.

I think we definitely need a Punk Rock plaque @Kensington Avenue and Lehigh.Site of the great Blag Flag .Punks.Neighbors riot.

nolan goshdang potter deserves a manhole somewhere

Nolan Potter pals with John Dwyer no doubt

Hi Jon, Skull, all you hump day listeners, etc. Catalytic converters replaced stealing manhole covers quite awhile ago. Really bad here in south central IL.

I also think Jerry Gordon's old record shop on 3rd street merits a plaque for his weekly Top 10 list and punkzines.

This fat guitar sound is superb!

Nolan Potter's record is on Castle Face, so yep.

@dan Cochrane, 💀 bad here in PA too.

I’m not involved!

Where do they cash in the precious metal in them?

Yes, apparently you are Mr.M💀😜

@dan, that would be tellin'!

My great grandfather was in the scrap metal business. I wonder if that means he was a manhole thief...?

I have a giant headache, yet I cannot turn off this excellent radio show! Cheers, DJ JonSolomon!

Solomonhole covers

Sorry you're not feeling well, Mr. M.

You can take the metal to any one of thecdisreputable scrap yards in Southwest Philly.If your lucky you will meet Randall tex Cobb.

AH, are you in Philly? If so have you watched Fran Lab YT videos? Fran Blanche, she’s very cool, makes guitar affects pedals, plays a mean tele she made herself, and more.

@Patrick LMAO!

Fran has made several WPRB station IDs!

Nice Jon! She’s moving the lab for second time. Fran Lab 3.0.

@dan, in the burbs, the local paper police reports have stories of somebody stealing cats almost weekly.

Cats?!?

I thought cat jugglers were bad enough!

Catalytic converters Mr.M💀

ohhh

i guess that

is better

(pardon my hard returns)

🥳🤣🤡

i just discovered the fran Blanche yt channel due to her numbers station prb ID. it’s fantastic!

Oh very nice.

🐕🐕🐕

It's honestly a lot of dog-dares

The same time I discovered Fran, I also found a cool trans woman doing vintage hi fi receivers, very big collection, on YT. I forgot her name. Very knowledgeable, helpful.

Oh oh!!!

Bobbi or Patti perhaps.

Uh oh it's the OHSHITMUSIC

@Dan - Did Wendy Carlos find a new gig?

ruh roh

Ack.

No!

fm glitch

Thump!

Man this groovy track is popular on wprb

And back

@dan Speaking of Fran, you may also like VWestlife on YouTube. Similar content and he also seems to be an NJ native 🙂

Well that ended abruptly

First time that has happened to me.

No idea the cause, connection strong here.

What an odd song

Jon, you are so lucky!

And hi everyone

Thank you for that!

@Tyler B, you are good luck.

Good "morning" everyone! 😎

Good "morning" AndrewT

If you hear any other drops, let me know as my "monitor" is in the other room! Thanks, team.

"Good" morning!

Hi Rob!

Hi Ambrose/Bo

Were we off the rails for about a minute? Trying to document...

Yes, roughly a minute

Yeah about 45 seconds I think?

Thank you. I'm going to guess it was, as it were, at the source.

VWestlife on turntables, terrific!

But I have sent all the requisite emergency texts.

Hi all, still working, just checking in. Just in time to catch all the drama!

It died as soon as I joined the chat :(

Hope work lets up for you soon.

Nah all good on my end heheh

Just coincidence that the station played the "oshit" music as soon as I logged in haha

Well you better not log out then AndrewT!!!!

As long as Facebook auth doesn't break again!

Andrew, you're the only thing holding this together!

this song rn af

I bet I think this song is about me 😈

@Jon, this works!

@Mr.M💀thought just that!😃

"That guy"?... "THAT GUY!!!???" I'll have you know, this friend and accomplice is presently sending you an invoice for stealing my line.

Hahahaha

whoops i seem to have tuned into Condor Talk

#FAIR

😌

DJ THAT GUY

Mike!!!

New DJ on the schedule "Mork?"

Hahahah

The Far-flung Parable with Mork Luipta? It is right on the tip of my tongue!

NICE RADIO SHOW YOU GOT THERE, SOLOMON. BE A SHAME IF YOUR INTERNET DROPPED AGAIN.

♾️

Luipta?!

ICE BEAR

I'm not crying, you are

So many great "oh yeah that group/ album/ song moments". AND THIS ONE !

I would like to be a polar bear

Ice bear...... 😳

🐻‍❄️

Quisiera ser un oso polar.... dit dit dit dittit dit

😍 this song!

Polar bears don't cry....

First heard DJ Pup play this one!

It’s a goody

Aha Pup... does sound familler from 21

His is of the WPRB shows I am in the car for the most often.

@Jon, is this the "dinner time" track for tonight?

Ambrose, dinner is running comically late tonight so this is just "a song of a longer than usual length playing towards the end of hour two."

Some sort of root vegetable stew is underway one room over.

Lmao!😝

Akin to this - https://www.innatthecrossroads.com/star-wars-rootleaf-stew/

I sense a Parsnip song approaching!

@Jon, thanks for the link, I'm no Star Wars fan but that sounds like a decent stew.

Kid loves the cookbook. I'm all for it.

👍

Street Eaters ❤

Nice arcadic sounds

Behind the scenes peak: This was a last-minute replacement when I realized the track I had slotted was from MAY 2020! How embarrassing!

I do like this record a bunch, so doubly good I caught the "error."

This Evan Parker music sounds like it belongs on John Luries TV show

Anyone else go see Natural Information Society when they played outdoors at the Moon Viewing Platform?

Not I but that conjures up a nice image.

It was pretty cool. Big projection of the moon behind them.

Nice!

https://sitesoundphl.org/installations/moon-viewing-platform/

@Jon, hope that make a return visit post 'rona'.

Yeah, it is connected to a site I hope will be completed. Check this out!

https://www.therailpark.org

Seems like only 2-3 blocks are complete so far but...

@Jon, LOVE that!😍

https://kikagakumoyoggb.bandcamp.com/album/deep-fried-grandeur

Just tuning in, Ice Bear 2.0!?

I worked near there at 12 and buttonwood.Back then it was a very David.Lynchesque.area

I could see another Evening of the Ice Bear, for sure!!

The Farflung Parable?? Hosted by OctoPAX?

Eight PAXes? Oh Lord.......

UNLEASH THE OCTOPAX.

RIP Elliot Smith

Khan Jamal, too.

When the crowd sings along, I get serious chills.

Dinner update: The stew was excellent! Just like Yoda makes on Dagobah, apparently.

Another delectable show, Jon!

It’s completely unbelievable it’s almost time for Le FreezeFrame Photog with DJ Mitch LuPone

Thanks, Jimbeaux. Onward to the year we're actually in.

Don't you mean DJ MitchLuPone?

Ha! And… YES!

YODA 💚

This awesome show cured my giant headache! Thanks, DJ JonSolomon! Kind regards to you!

Free From Pants Again with My Glue Piqued

Glad you're on the mend.

FFPA!

This is all getting written down in the big Trapper Keeper with the scary face on it.

Hi, DJ MitchieLuPone!

Hope it has Lisa Frank stickers?

According to the exceedingly stern email I've received from WPRB's corporate office, the show up at the top of the hour is THE FREEFORM PATHOGEN WITH MIKE LUPICA. They wrote it in all caps, so I relay it in all caps.

All caps with a scary face emoji, right? 💀

Ohhhh. Welp. Guess we’ll tune in ANYWAY.

Hey, wait a few mins…! ☠️

Great show Jon, thanks!

Cheers, DJ JonSolomon!!

Thanks Jon!