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Options October 2, 2016: I'll roll with the flow, wherever it goes.

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Artist Track Album Label New Approx. start time
R.E.M.  Superman   Options Life's Rich Pageant  I.R.S. Records     0:00:00 (Pop‑up)
Michael Nesmith  Roll with the Flow   Options And the Hits Just Keep on Comin'  RCA Victor    0:02:32 (Pop‑up)
Heavenly  And the Birds Aren't Singing   Options Le Jardin de Heavenly  K    0:06:58 (Pop‑up)
Allah Las  Could Be You   Options Calico Review  Mexican Summer  *   0:11:10 (Pop‑up)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah  The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth   Options Clap Your Hands Say Yeah  Clap Your Hands Say Yeah    0:14:17 (Pop‑up)
 
Velvet Crush  My Blank Pages   Options Pre-Teen Symphonies  Omnivore Recordings  *   0:25:29 (Pop‑up)
The Move  Vote for Me   Options Move  Esoteric Recordings  *   0:28:56 (Pop‑up)
The Wrong Society  Don't Know Why   Options Dark Clouds 7"  13 O'Clock Records  *   0:31:35 (Pop‑up)
The Ramones  Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World   Options Ramones - 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition  Sire/Rhino  *   0:34:42 (Pop‑up)
Future Kind  Simon Says   Options Afterschool Special: The 123s of Kid Soul  Numero Group  *   0:37:18 (Pop‑up)
Lee "Scratch" Perry  Rat Race   Options Must Be Free  Megawave  *   0:40:23 (Pop‑up)
The Specials  Ghost Town (12" Version)   Options The Singles Collection  Chrysalis     0:46:45 (Pop‑up)
Johnnie Frierson  Have You Been Good to Yourself   Options Have You Been Good to Yourself  Light in the Attic    0:52:30 (Pop‑up)
 
Soft Gang  Book of Magic and Stars   Options Soft Gang  Sophomore Lounge  *   1:07:19 (Pop‑up)
Death Valley Girls  Disco   Options Glow in the Dark  Burger Records  *   1:09:50 (Pop‑up)
Claudio  Raphael Zougadeur   Options Soul Sega Sa! Indian Ocean Segas from the 70s (V/A)  Folk Welt / Bongo Joe  *   1:12:54 (Pop‑up)
The Snails  Tight Side of Life   Options Songs from the Shoebox  Ideas for Housecrafts  *   1:16:46 (Pop‑up)
 
Gruff Rhys  Tremble to the Light   Options Set Fire To the Stars OST  Finders Keepers Records  *   1:24:56 (Pop‑up)
Rod Stewart  Handbags and Gladrags   Options The Rod Stewart Album  Mercury    1:27:52 (Pop‑up)
Mistress Mary  And I Didn't Want You   Options Housewife  Companion Records  *   1:31:45 (Pop‑up)
Hiss Golden Messenger  Tell Her I'm Just Dancing   Options Heart Like a Levee  Merge  *   1:35:46 (Pop‑up)
Mordecai  Want to Be   Options Want to Be 7"  Richie Records  *   1:39:26 (Pop‑up)
Tim Presley  ER   Options The Wink  Drag City  *   1:42:41 (Pop‑up)
 
Hyperculte  Le Feu   Options Hyperculte      1:54:54 (Pop‑up)

Listener comments!

Avatar 🎃 Sun. 10/2/16 10:02pm Marc Francis:

<3 <3 <3
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:03pm Matt from Springfield:

Great song! Not to be *too* geeky, but this was originally by The Clique in '69, the same Texas band that did "Sugar On Sunday". In case, you didn't already know...

Hi Therese! Hi everyone in this almost-prime time slot!
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:03pm famous original italianicewolf:

Helllllo
Avatar Sun. 10/2/16 10:04pm BadGuyZero:

Good evening, Therese!
Avatar Sun. 10/2/16 10:04pm JakeGould:

Oh, hello Therese!
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Therese! I'm up way too late!...Oh - no, nevermind...It's good !
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Sun. 10/2/16 10:08pm Faye:

wow Heavenly!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:08pm Matt from Springfield:

"And Your Bird Aren't Sing"
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:09pm SeanG:

roll with the flow--good advice
Avatar Sun. 10/2/16 10:09pm Therese:

Hello everyone!!!
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:10pm Carmichael:

Well hiya, Therese!
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:10pm Matt from Springfield:

Helllllloo there, Therese!
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:14pm Matt from Springfield:

Hiya, Wexford Carm!

I saw the movie "Brooklyn", where Saoirse's character emigrated from Wexford to Brooklyn post WWII. If you've seen it, I got to ask, was Ireland/Wexford really like *that* in the mid 20th century?
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:15pm P-90:

Hello Therese! Still getting that time-warpy vibe, I'm so used to you being a "Midnight DJ", which you may always be in spirit
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:16pm Matt from Springfield:

Hi P-90! Midnight is still associated with this time slot, fortunately.
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:18pm Carmichael:

@matt, yes generally. I was born in County Wexford in the 50s. Quite rural and a bit tough.
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:18pm P-90:

@Matt:Hi! Missed you on Goddamn Dave's show the last few weeks. Curious: which '*that*" surprised you about the depiction of Wexford in "Brooklyn"?
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:22pm Matt from Springfield:

Thanks Carm, the writer was also born in that area and time, was wondering how accurate that was.

@P-90: Mostly the *that* was the busybody inconsiderate shop owner :) though the low economic prospects and lack of heat in the winter were also kind of stereotypical of old Irish villages. Just wanted the opinion of someone from there how that depicted the reality of that time.
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:24pm Carmichael:

Great bed music, Therese.
Avatar Sun. 10/2/16 10:25pm JakeGould:

@P-90: You’re from Ireland?

FWIW, friends of mine who went to school with me in the 1970s lived in what were essentially bungalows in Brooklyn. No hot water or even central heating if I recall as well. And that only ended sometime in the 1980s.
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:25pm Matt from Springfield:

I love The Clique, *BUT*...I wouldn't have known about their version if not for REM's. Thus, proving your point!
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:26pm Matt from Springfield:

@Jake: I don't believe P-90 is, but Carm has said before that he was.
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:28pm Carmichael:

The only reason I know the Clique is from their cover of Tommy James' Sugar on Sunday.
Avatar Sun. 10/2/16 10:28pm JakeGould:

@MattFromSprinfield: Oh, okay… But have you ever seen these photos of what life was like in Birmingham in the 1960s? Pretty sobering. www.dailymail.co.uk...
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:32pm Carmichael:

This sounds a lot like Roy Wood. Because it is ..
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:33pm Matt from Springfield:

Wow, great photostudy, thanks Jake.

From my love of British public information films PIFs/PSAs, I once found 2 from the 70s about this type of "modern squalor"; how to get funds for an interior bathroom and hot running water for urban houses without it.
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:34pm P-90:

I remember them Dynaflex records. The elder audiophiles held them in generally low regard, as I recall. They felt the sound reproduction quality was actually a little poorer that the conventional LPs that weighed more, and they picked up more "rumble" noise because of their lower mass. Generally, dismissed as an excuse to use less material, produce records that could be shipped more cheaply because they weighed less, and didn't suffer as much breakage in transit because they were so flexible. But: Dynaflex was a real cool name, and the font was real Mod
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:36pm SeanG:

gabba gabba hey
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:36pm KP:

Hey, ho
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Keen Pop sensibilities - Metal guitar sound - The Ramones just took the best of everything w/out having too very much of anything...
Avatar Sun. 10/2/16 10:40pm JakeGould:

I think at the end of the day, I really get sad about Dee Dee not being around anymore. He always seemed to be the Ramone who would be most likely to help you move.
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:40pm P-90:

@ Matt: we tend to not be so conscious here in the States of just how hard things were in Europe and the UK in the postwar years. They had sugar shortages, meat shortages, shortages of fabrics, building materials, you name it. The West was in a Depression even before WWII, and the war left another economic disaster, took decades to recover. The Liverpool the Fabs grew up in, for example, was still climbing out of that hole
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...DeeDee & PostWar UK not having too very much of anything...Why Pete smashing guitars was so nihilistic to them...
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:43pm Matt from Springfield:

True P-90: "oranges and nylons" just barely scratch the surface.
Avatar Sun. 10/2/16 10:43pm northguineahills:

I guess Lee Scratch Perry has replaced his studio equipment after his last fire....
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

George Harrison: 'You couldn't get a cup of sugar - much less a Rock'n'Roll record.' & Dylan in the MidWest stealing a friend's Guthrie LPS: 'They were scarce as hen's teeth.' Donovan saying his lot learned Blues off 78s - &tc.
Avatar Sun. 10/2/16 10:45pm northguineahills:

...studio fire....
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:47pm Matt from Springfield:

@RRN63: Not to mention in Dylan's early days, the old blues and folk records usually weren't in the catalogue or on comps - once the limited run was pressed decades ago, that was it. If you wanted that record, you had to put in shoe leather and find it yourself.
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

You could listen to records in the shops then. Dylan said he could learn a song hearing it once, maybe twice. 'I had an agile mind.' No kidding.
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:48pm Matt from Springfield:

"Ghost Town"!! (Speaking of poverty/slums/and now the racism resided there)...
Avatar Sun. 10/2/16 10:50pm Veronica (OG):

Hi all...Great show tonight Therese! And speaking of The Specials, that reminded me Prince Buster passed away on Sept. 8th. Where would Two Tone have been without that influence??
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 10:52pm Matt from Springfield:

Oh dear, I hadn't heard Veronica!
RIP Prince Buster - he was quite influential on ska, he did the original "One Step Beyond".
Avatar Sun. 10/2/16 10:52pm Veronica (OG):

One Step Beeeeyooooondddd....
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:52pm tuner fish:

ghosty trombone
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Sun. 10/2/16 10:54pm SeanG:

i like this
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:55pm KP:

Dig new time frame, Therese!
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:58pm P-90:

@Matt: Colin Macinnes' 1958 novel "Absolute Beginners" vividly depicts the economics of life in the UK in those years. So yeah, "low prospects" and lack of heating oil in the Irish countryside, etc. were the reality. Young people were fleeing places like that for London and Brooklyn looking to escape that bleakness
  Sun. 10/2/16 10:59pm Marc15:

I guess I'll never love anybody else
  Sun. 10/2/16 11:01pm SeanG:

those new t-shirts look great
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Sun. 10/2/16 11:03pm melinda:

hello Therese & people
Avatar Sun. 10/2/16 11:04pm BadGuyZero:

I don't have a pet, so I'm going to try entering my plant.
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 11:05pm Matt from Springfield:

Well what's so dystopian about that?..
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 11:12pm Matt from Springfield:

Death Valley Girls - first time hearing of them!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Sun. 10/2/16 11:13pm melinda:

Me too, I like them.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 🎃 Sun. 10/2/16 11:14pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, all. They're calling Faye & Gaylord the One-Two Punch now, so Therese can be the Knockout Blow.
  Sun. 10/2/16 11:19pm tuner fish:

great to hear some super snail-core!
Avatar Sun. 10/2/16 11:39pm JakeGould:

I’m thrilled to enjoy this show now and realize it’s not tomorrow yet.
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 11:39pm Matt from Springfield:

It's like time travel, Jake!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 11:44pm common:

enjoying
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 11:53pm Matt from Springfield:

I want an absence note from Springsteen :(
Avatar Swag For Life Member Sun. 10/2/16 11:54pm Matt from Springfield:

In NJ at least Springsteen's signature should be legal tender. The Boss' word is as good as money.
  Sun. 10/2/16 11:56pm P-90:

I should go to a book signing and get Bruce to co-sign my next round of student loans
  Sun. 10/2/16 11:57pm JakeGould:

This Hyperculte is great!
Avatar Mon. 10/3/16 12:00am BadGuyZero:

Thank you, Therese, for another Sunday evening of new tunes and old favorites.
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