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Jon Solomon

Feb 23, 2022 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

With Jon Solomon

Every Wednesday night on 103.3 fm WPRB.

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2.23.22

5:00 PM		The Rub The Death Of Pop Bikini Gospel Happy Squid
5:05 PM		Set Break
5:10 PM		Yard Act 100% Endurance The Overload Zen F.C. 2022
5:14 PM		Etran de L'AÏr Tarha Warghey Ichile N Agadez Sahel Sounds 2022 “Best full album I’ve heard this year.” - me
5:17 PM		The Grifters (under an alias) Two Week Vacation 1996 Empty Bottle Prom The Embarrassment cover!
5:22 PM		"Blue" Gene Tyranny A Letter From Home Out Of The Blue Unseen Worlds 2012 Originally released in 1978. Thanks, DSM!
5:47 PM		Fishboy The Best Ever Boom Box Cassette Tape From Durham The Best Ever Boom Box Cassette Tape From Durham 2022 A song about The Mountain Goats' "The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton."
5:50 PM		Bappi Lahiri Meri Jaan Bollywood Bloodbath V/A Finders Keepers RIP.
5:57 PM		Lucy Dacus Kissing Lessons N Kissing Lessons Matador 2022
5:59 PM		Set Break
6:07 PM		Big Supermarket Peter 1800 Tough Love Records 2019
6:10 PM		Sarah Vaughan Inner City Blues (Make Me Want To Holler) Mainstream Funk V/A WeWantSounds 2022 1972 single, written by Marvin Gaye.
6:14 PM		Heavenly Bodies Universal Resurrection Universal Resurrection Petty Bunco Out April 1st. Local.
6:38 PM		Neil Young Crime in the City Bluenote Café Reprise 2015 Recorded at Jones Beach on 8/27/88.
6:45 PM		Cochonne Trop Emergency Sorry State 2021
6:49 PM		What Cheer? Brigade Here Come the Warm Jets You Can't See Inside Of Me Don Giovanni Records 2017 Brian Eno song performed by a marching band.
6:57 PM		Bed Maker Miss Dickens Miss Dickens New band from Jeff Barsky, Amanda MacKaye, Arthur Noll and Vin Novara.
6:59 PM		Set Break
7:08 PM		Pierced Arrows 18:49 Live on WPRB https://piercedarrows.bandcamp.com
7:26 PM		Set Break
7:28 PM		Kurt Vile 18:16 Live on WPRB https://kurtvile.bandcamp.com
7:46 PM		Set Break
7:50 PM		Screaming Trees Transfiguration Even If & Especially When SST Records 1987 RIP Mark Lanegan. This one hits hard.
7:54 PM		Hauras Half-Drawn Blinds (n'ee Graveyard People) Half-Drawn Blinds (n'ee Graveyard People)
7:58 PM		The Academy Blues Project Move Closer to Your World Once Again... Witch Hat 2021

Chat is archived.

CHAT! CHAT! CHAT!

I could not think of a better header image for tonight's show so please enjoy a photograph of some donuts I recently enjoyed.

La Media Docena! Yum

Hello there!

Hello hello!

Hey hey! Literally just woke up in time for the show 😎

Hello! Hello! Hello!

Just paused some Edith Frost vinyl I picked up today to catch the show

Hello! Maple cream flavor?

I saw those donuts, that cinnamon roll looked so good.... Where were they from?

I really need to take a Saturday off to get some sweets from the the Amish market at Columbus

Lidl grand opening in King of Prussia, today. All bakery B1G1, but no doughnuts out front. Settled for some butter croissants instead.

Hartley's Pork Pies is next door to RI (Fall River), yum!

Can't hang out but I'll be tuning in tonight off and on. Have a good chat

Is this the best song that mentions a person named Nathan? Perhaps.

The three songs: Deth Elf, Can I Prepay for My Cremation? The Trashmen, Surfin Bird Phoebe Cates, Son of a Preacher Man

http://facebook.com/AlliesDonutsOfficial

Moving up the list of "yeah really loving this lp lately "each time i hear it

Brian, this song reminds me of a McLusky tune that gets me similarly.

Ooo yeah

Those donuts are official

Etran de L'Air exceeded the high bar I set for it in advance. Such fun.

O ya new release

I believe the photo added next to this song in the playlist comes from the night this was recorded. I'm on the far left.

I thought I recognized that train sound!

Hey Jon!

Hey! Hope you would catch this. Thanks again for recommending.

BGT did some great work with Robert Ashley. "The Bar" as I recall.

Absolutely! Cool you're playing this track too. Arrived just in time.

Greetings and Salutations!

Hi, DJ JonSolomon!

Originally on Hat Art or maybe Hat Hut?

Hey, Mr. M and Andy too!

I didn't know much of anything about BGT before DSM recommended.

this one’s great ! i remember mickey playing on his show

I'm in fine company then.

Instrumental/narration performance done very well.

Heyyy y’all. Just popping in to humbly request reconsideration of playing a band that uses the “R” word as their name.

Addie I would never say that band name on the air.

I hear what you're saying and I debated changing the name of the band in the playlist but that's also the name they used that evening.

Want you to know I gave it a fair amount of thought today. It is an unfortunate alias.

Disappointing as a parent of an autistic kid to hear that you considered it and still played it.

Point taken. I'll change it to something else in the playlist. Happy to continue this conversation back channel if you prefer.

No worries. It makes me feel better that you’re changing it in the playlist. Thanks for your attention to this.

I'm glad you said something. Much appreciated.

@Andy, I'll have to find those, don't think I've heard them.

Hey Addie!

@DSM Ashley's Perfect Lives/Private Parts is on Youtube. I also have an old VHS documentary featuring his descriptions of his work and an appearance with Jill Kroesen.

Looking forward to viewing that!

OK, those doughnut pics have made me really hungry, dinner time!

Hey DSM!

this track slaps

Sadly, playing this one for the recently-passed Disco King of Bollywood.

O no!

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/feb/19/bappi-lahiri-disco-king-of-bollywood-gave-indian-film-a-youthful-injection

Too soon.

And as for me, not soon enough… as in I just found out about his music after his passing

That Bollywood Bloodbath comp I played the song from is quite recommended.

https://www.finderskeepersrecords.com/shop/bollywood-bloodbath/

Shepherd's Pie coming out of the oven in 5 minutes

I made Chana masala last week, super easy.

First time I made it.

Also, hello!

Hello! Good work, both of ya!

Speaking of butter. I'm having leftover Tetrazzini. I'd never had it, so I made it. Now I have A LOT of it, and tbh it's kinda bland

Add some red pepper flakes? That's my answer to most things, however.

It's surprising how often it's the right answer tho!

Nice, was introduced to Big Supermarket a couple years back. Particularly like their song SuperHwy

I had no idea about them until Lily played a song of theirs a couple Thursdays ago. Appreciate that there's little information about them (no band photo for example).

Hello all. We're having pasta e fagiole for dinner

Lovely, Rob!

Hi Jon, would it be possible for you to play another song from Bollywood Bloodbath?

Hello from Oregon! Great show. Love The Fall-like sounds Yard Act/Big Supermarket tip. Has The Cool Greenhouse feel. Chicken Tagine here for dinner.

Tonight, unlikely. A future Wednesday? 100%!

The name is quite intriguing, and my wife at one time was a bit of a Bollywood fan.

Understood! I'll look forward to it

Hello, Richard. The Cool Greenhouse are another good one.

Jon, thx for the Bollywood bloodbath link.

Is that photo them? It kinda looks like Eddie Van Halen

Impossible burgers striped up w griddle pan on brioche buns w green salads . Today We went to the groc store for fake meat AND the local farm for a big bag of frozen real meat. Freezer is stocked.

@Jon Indeed. I knew very little about Big Supermarket, but just discovered they're from Australia and an offshoot of The Stevens, another band I like

I only knew they were from Australia.

Stir fry is ready!

This Heavenly Bodies track is so good. I can't get out of bed because of it

I can't figure out if this track is the entire album or half the album. I had been told it was double the length of this recording.

But it is indeed a slow simmer.

I look it up on band camp and there's an 8 minute radio edit along with the same track not listed as a radio edit but unavailable for listening

Catching up on the dinner scene report. Our stir fry was nice. Lots of ginger.

Either way it'll be mine the day it releases now

Let me see if I can find the email from the person at their label...

"The tune "Universal Resurrection" takes up both sides of the LP."

It would seem like you got the exclusive scoop on the full track 😉

So, I think I concluded from that it was 2x the actual running time...

Cool thought this was the 'zone' song tonight.

Brian, the burgers sound ace.

DSM, yes I believe that's the band in action.

Are there any other outstanding questions I may have missed?

The brown plastic lid from the large Talenti gelatos makes a great burger mold. Plastic wrap liner, bang em out

Stir fry good. Lots of ginger.

We use those gelato containers for dried fruit storage.

Yeah!

My NY kick continues. I had never heard this live collection prior to a discussion of it on a podcast. I did not love it as much as one of the hosts but 2-3 track really stood out to me.

Love how this tune played out live. This tour. And The Horse 91 Ragged Glory tour. The power chords on elec gtrs make it pop when they break after verses

Much of the collection was a little too "blues rock" for me but it was worth the ride.

Rick "Rick The Bass Player" Rosas in this era i think (RIP)

Yes indeed.

Ha! Nice!

This is the best Eno cover ever!

Omg what is this magic

i wish the princeton marching band would play this at some game...

THANKS I LOVE IT

Inspired by something Mike opened his show with and something Dana K. said last week...

@brian - those talenti containers are also great for storing leftover soups or sourdough starter...!

https://whatcheerbrigade.bandcamp.com/track/here-come-the-warm-jets

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-j-novara-4910724/

co-shone. it means pig

Ciccone. Ci-ci-ciccone.

is that a medical term/

I think about that scene at least once a week now.

i used to tell people I'm a medical doctor, i own a mansion and a yacht

Thanks for the sleuthing, Patrick.

My french, it is NOT GREAT!

It's better than my French, and probably my Spanish!

My English is pretty sketchy, too.

Uh, did anyone else get some weird interference? Or is that the track?

The music dropped out and I heard what was like a walkie-talkie for a second. Not long.

I'm listening through an FM radio, BTW.

i have not noticed any sound weirdness

except toody and fred keepin it loose

Mary, I briefly heard a tiny sound when I was on-mic that I thought was some hidden track audio. Maybe it was not. Ack!

Or as the French say, dios mio!

this is correct.

Keep an ear on it. I have my headphones on again. After that weird taxi / police scanner / radio interference a few weeks ago anything is possible.

Thanks for reporting.

I don't think I heard it, on FM as well

I love Toody's voice

Just enjoyed a refreshing salad with poppy seed dressing. Wow, that Eno interpretation was a beauty.

Lovely, Brian.

Toody was very, very nice when Pierced Arrows came through. Fred was kinda a lovable crank but I remember her giving Factorial a big hug.

fred & toody my heroooooooooeeees!

Thee. best.

Any further sonic interruptions? The drop-out last week oddly was c/o my computer not the broadcast chain!

Wow this is pretty early KV!

The other session is five years older!

I really love this take on The Hunchback.

The other three songs, no online matches! - "Painfully In Love," The Getaway" and "Mutation." Do your sleuthing!

Noice! Some unkown early stuff, excited to hear.

jon, is the pierced arrows set on the KSAT archive?

Jimbeaux, all the recent sets will be gathered in a single post...soon. Hold me to this. Have to update some code.

A treat hearing this KV, hadn't heard his earlier stuff

thx jon! BTW, the blue gene tyranny track earlier was amazing beyond description

I continue to thank DSM for emailing me about that one. Took a few weeks to find the room, well worth the wait.

made me think of killah priest epic metaphysical voyage of a song from a year or so back

A fine comparison.

I have a ridiculous Wu Tang mash-up I need to make a clean edit of in the next 6+ days.

This one is def a version of Red Apples off God is saying this...

need to check out that killah priest song, never even heard of them

Thanks! I cross-referenced some lyrics. Must have been an early title.

@dsm "in secret anticipation"

Found it!

thanks @jimbeaux!

Avalanches tune he guests on.

Hell of a show, Jon!

Interesting! Gotta check that too. David Berman on Avalanches 'A Cowboy Overflow of the Heart' is fantastic.

i agree. good show

DSM, I got lucky with a turn of phrase hitting on Genius.

https://genius.com/The-avalanches-gold-sky-lyrics

I'm was unaware of Genius, this will help me a lot in tracking down songs based on fragments of lyrics bouncing around the ol' memory box

Hey, thanks to everyone for the kind words.

Thanks, Jon. I remember when Transfiguration was new--a pretty big hit on WPRB!

DSM, Genius is really key for me when I hear something in passing I want to ID.

Chris, I can see Ethan's handwriting on it in my mind.

There you go!

I need to get more in to Screaming Trees, even if it is too late now.

so. goooooooooooood. sst could do no wrong.

teenage me: on SST? Good enough for me.

Mary, I think there's worth in every ML-related record I've heard (have not heard them all). The record(s) he did with Isobel Campbell are a very nice Nancy & Lee update.

The three record run of Even If & Especially When / Invisible Lantern / Buzz Factory? Holy smoke.

The Conner brothers were Mark Lanegan's boss's sons!

mebbe why they hated each other!

Awesome—I will check those records out!

Your local news with Pethie is next!

6 action news!

Omg

Whoa

love this!

Thanks for another one Jon! Have a lovely night everyone!

Aw cut off right before the end