WFMU: Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from February 3, 2022

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from February 3, 2022

Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.

Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.

Thursday 8 - 10pm (EST) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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February 3, 2022: Castaways & Rescues: Alternates, Demos, what almost was or came to be.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Martha & The Muffins	Echo Beach (Reverend Echo “Mombak” Remix)	Echo Beach (40 Year Anniversary) - New Remixes	Echo Beach	2020	Released December 11, 2020, the label issued the following statement: "Germany's finest (as far as progressive sounds and flows are concerned) dub label, named Echo Beach and inspired by the lyrics and spirit of that track, has set out to pay tribute to this song which is more than a classic. The first remix tribute (30 year anniversary) of Echo Beach, done by a couple of international renowned remixers. and released on the Echo Beach has already enjoyed a strong reputation world wide. Mark Gane, the original composer of Echo Beach and still a member of Martha And The Muffins – and also married to Martha Johnson (lead singer of the band Martha And The Muffins - enthused: `It sounds as if the original ECHO BEACH was shot into outer space, hit a planet and floated back to earth in pieces...!!! NOW – 40 years later - after Echo Beach was written - the Echo Beach label proudly presents the 40th Anniversary Remixes and the full and essentiel: ... it is one of those tunes that on first hearing you like, but can`t exactly place why, and by 30 seconds into the spin you´re close to falling in love. You just have to go with it and this seductively simple number is just that. Don´t try to understand it just accept this as love at first sight."		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach (Pulsinger & IRL Dub Remix)	Echo Beach (40 Year Anniversary) - New Remixes	Echo Beach	2020	The German label Echo Beach seems to specialize in "International Dub Reggae". This track is a prime example. It is also a prime example of the theme of today's show. Martha And The Muffins hails from our hometown of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.		0:05:31 (Pop-up)
PJ Harvey	The Glorious Land "The Glorious Land" by "PJ Harvey"	Let England Shake	Island	2011	An album I dearly loved when it came out, often took out of the library, and have often thought of and returned to over the years. Possibly my favourite "I've never owned this" album.		0:11:40 (Pop-up)
PJ Harvey	The Glorious Land (Demo)	Let England Shake (Demos)	Island	2011 / 2022	These newly released demos are fascinating sketches that occasionally reveal the hidden sources from which the songs drew their inspiration. Listening to her play along with (or against) the backing track, it is a revelation to compare to the studio version.	*	0:14:48 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: PJ Harvey	The Words That Maketh Murder	Let England Shake	Island	2011 / 2022	Another demo that reveals its source. As for the original album: "Written over a two and half year period and recorded in five weeks at a church in Dorset over April and May 2010, Harvey drew on the likes of Harold Pinter, Francisco de Goya, the first world war poets, Ari Folman and the Doors as influences for the album, as well as researching the history of conflict and searching for modern-day testimonies from civilians and soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan."	*	0:18:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ramones	Danny Says "Danny Says" by "Ramones"	End Of The Century	Sire	1980	This is the album that really amped up the rift that was developing between Joey & Johnny. Phil Spector originally approached Joey Ramone with the prospect of making a solo album, believing it would pave his way into the top of the charts. This attempt was turned down, but the producer was hired for their 5th album. Johnny intensely disliked the sessions, the compromise of their sound, and the confidence Joey began show as he learned to find his voice and bring his vocals to a new level. It became & remains The Ramones' biggest selling record & highest placing chart entry, but failed to deliver on its promise. It probably didn't help that Phil Spector held the band at gunpoint at one point during the sessions.		0:22:05 (Pop-up)
Ramones	Danny Says (Demo) "Danny Says (Demo)" by "Ramones"	End Of The Century (Expanded)	Sire / Rhino	1979 / 2002	Recorded at Sire Studio, NYC on April 19, 1979 & produced by longtime Ramone's producer Ed Stasium, this early version reveals what might have happened if Phil Spector never approached the Ramones.		0:25:11 (Pop-up)
The Screamers	Mater Dolores "Mater Dolores" by "The Screamers"	Screamers Demo Hollywood 1977	Superior Viaduct	2021	"These songs were recorded a few months after the Los Angeles punk scene began. These five statements of intent transcend Punk and project forward into the future: to the analog synth wave of the late '70s and beyond, to the present day, four decades later, when they finally receive an official release. Sourced from the original reel-to-reels, they are a revelation compared to the countless copies that have been circulating by multiple generations of tape-traders. Here, for the first time, is the Screamers' initial and legendary manifesto. "The Screamers concept was simple, yet audacious: take the spirit and the look of Punk – the pseudo-psychotic aggression, the spiky hair, vacant stares and barely concealed sadomasochism – and match it to a different configuration than the typical '60s rock template. As launched, the Screamers featured two keyboard players (Tommy Gear and David Brown), a drummer (KK Barrett) and an intensely charismatic singer (Tomata du Plenty). The idea was to be confrontational – to evoke (as Tomata described in an early interview) a state of anxiety.		0:27:31 (Pop-up)
Plastix	Konsumier Mich "Konsumier Mich" by "Plastix"	Plastix 7"	Danger Records	2014	Danger Records was formed in 2013 with the express intent of releasing lost punk and post-punk bands. Plastix is one of them. Originally released in 1981		0:31:18 (Pop-up)
The Cure	Boys Don't Cry (demo) "Boys Don't Cry (demo)" by "The Cure"	World War (Rare Demos)	Swingshift Records	2017	This is considered an unofficial bootleg release and compiles all the early demos. You can only get it in record shops, discogs will not allow you to list it. It is a great comp and highly recommended!		0:33:42 (Pop-up)
N.O.I.A.	Korowa Milk Bar "Korowa Milk Bar" by "N.O.I.A."	N.O.I.A Unreleased Classics '78-'82	Erzatz	2003	N.O.I.A.'s career can be divided into two parts: during the first, the group is formed of five persons; both words and music are absolutely new, repetitive and absurd. When they are on stage they spread a kind of negative vibrations that raises the pressure in the audience so that half of it always ends fighting the other half. All of these tracks were written between 1978 and 1982, in Italy, which might lead one to expect a discful of vintage Italo-disco, packed with dark enveloping swells and ominous grinds. But N.O.I.A., as noted, were under the spell of Kraftwerk, not Giorgio Moroder. So what we get is quite different: The precise, minimal beeping of synths and brittle little drum machines, mapping out gridlike streams of ultra-robotic pop so sterile and simplified that its funkiness can feel like a treasure. It's jerky and twinkly and sometimes adorably groovy: All you need to enjoy this is to be the sort of person who'd find watching a big wall of multicolored LED lights blink in repetitive patterns at least as entertaining as, say, watching grass grow.		0:36:24 (Pop-up)
Videoclips	Roboter Ramona "Roboter Ramona" by "Videoclips"	Roboter Ramona/Husky 7"	Bacillus Records	1982	This song exists only on 7" and did not make the cut for their only full length release. Not much is known about them and they are impossible to google because of their name, I love this song to bits, "Robot Ramon, you are wonderful...instead of a cold heart, you had only batteries"		0:40:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Pet Shop Boys	Domino Dancing "Domino Dancing" by "Pet Shop Boys"	Introspective Further Listening 1988 to 1989	Parlophone	1988 / 2018	This album features demos and remasters of tracks appearing on the Pet Shop Boys album “introspective”. Aside from being a massive hit for the pet shop boys the song Domino Dancing has also been featured in other interesting places…Babs will tell you all about it!		0:42:51 (Pop-up)
Azymuth	Xingó (Version 1) "Xingó (Version 1)" by "Azymuth"	Demos 1973 to 1975 Volume One And Two	Far out recordings	2019	Azymuth were formed in Brazil in 1973 they are a jazz funk trio that will blow your mind.		0:47:34 (Pop-up)
Simply Saucer	Instant Pleasure "Instant Pleasure" by "Simply Saucer"	Cyborgs Revisited	Sonic Unyon Records	1974 / 2002	"Emerging from the industrial city of Hamilton, Ontario in the 1970s, Simply Saucer created a distinct, original sound that was decidedly out of step with the current musical climate. The band played edgy rock & roll that was a combination of early punk pre-cursors (Velvets, Stooges, Modern Lovers), krautrock (Can, Neu, early Kraftwerk), and U.K. prog/psych (Hawkwind, Pink Fairies, Syd Barrett - both with and without Pink Floyd). ///////// Simply Saucer's origins date back to 1972, when band frontman, guitar player/singer-songwriter Edgar Breau hooked up with five other avant-garde, record collecting musicians and began rehearsing in a Hamilton, ON warehouse. The original compositions were long, improvised jams played on empty bottles, audio generators, theremins, keyboards, sax, flute, electric guitars and drums. Besides Breau, bass player Kevin Christoff became the other perennial member of Simply Saucer. ///////// They soon entered brothers Bob and Daniel Lanois's basement studio to record six songs. Alas, the Canadian music industry at the time was mired in mainstream convention that produced steady sales but little artistic vision. None would sign the quartet or release their recordings. By 1976, a nascent punk music scene was beginning to develop in London and New York and Toronto soon followed. A reinvigorated version of Simply Saucer, featuring ex-Teenage Head guitar player Steve Park, emerged and began gigging. They released the "She's A Dog" single on Pig Records in 1977 to great reviews. England's New Music Express awarded it "Pick Hit Single of the Week". ///////// By 1979, Toronto's club scene had begun to dissipate and the individual members of the band began exploring new paths. Breau detuned his guitar ala John Fahey, sold all his electric gear and began a new solo career. Almost thirty years would pass before he would own an electric guitar or appear on stage with Simply Saucer. ///////// It was years later before the general public and music journalists first became aware of the groundbreaking Lanois recording session. The six studio songs, combined with an explosive live set (performed in 1975 atop Hamilton's then new downtown shopping mall), were finally released in 1989 in a limited vinyl edition on Bruce Mowat's Mole Sound Recordings, entitled Cyborgs Revisited. An expanded version of this album was released on compact disc in 2003 by Hamilton's Sonic Unyon. ///////// Critical acclaim for Simply Saucer mounted exponentially over the years, with prestigious publications like London Sunday Times and Pitchforkmedia printing rave reviews. In December 2005, the UK's UNCUT Magazine named Cyborgs Revisited one of the Top 20 re-releases that year, calling Breau a prophetic punk visionary."		0:53:07 (Pop-up)
Berlin West	Snakepit "Snakepit" by "Berlin West"	Local Customs: Burned at Boddie	Numero	1981	The Snakepit / Babylon single was manufactured at Boddie Recording Company & released on a label with no name. But the interesting story here is about the husband-wife Boddie team, who were responsible for pressing a staggering amount of records (and later cassettes & 8 tracks) for anyone who would ask. Preachers, soul bands, electronic bands, bootleggers, polka artists, you name it... All in two buildings they built out into their backyard. The full story is on the release on the excellent Numero label, which does a marvelous job of unearthing obscure gems or underlooked releases.		0:54:51 (Pop-up)
Automatic Shock	Mushrooms "Mushrooms" by "Automatic Shock"	All Your Ears Can Hear: Underground music in Victoria, BC 1978 - 1984	All Your Ears Can Hear	1983 / 2007	A small book accompanies this 2 CD / 79 track compilation. Automatic Shock formed in 1980/81 and disbanded in 1986. Recorded in 1983 at Lowe Studio, Victoria by Eric Lowe. Previously released on the Medium Raw compilation tape (B.Y.O. Victoria)		0:57:51 (Pop-up)
Men Without Hats	Ban The Game "Ban The Game" by "Men Without Hats"	Rhythm Of Youth	1981	1981	The album version & opening song from the 'Rhythm Of Youth' album. This is the album that also featured "The Safety Dance", launching Montreal's own Men Without Hats into the psyche of the entire world.		1:01:07 (Pop-up)
Men Without Hats	Ban The Game (previously unreleased version)	The Silver Collection	1981	1981 / 2008	The previously unreleased "rock band" version of the aforementioned song. It finally found its way into the world in 2008.		1:01:51 (Pop-up)
Devo	Hardcore Volume 2 (Vinyl edition w/ extra tracks)	Man From The Past	Boogie Boy Sounds / Superior Viaduct	1974 / 2013	This track was recorded back in 1974. Even though there were two different "Hardcore Devo" collections of their earliest recordings, this track was amongst four that wouldn't be released until even later in 2013 on vinyl.		1:05:41 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Simply Saucer	Mole Machine "Mole Machine" by "Simply Saucer"	Cyborgs Revisited	Sonic Unyon Records	1974 / 2002	The far-out instrumental track from the(now) quintessential Canadian "Proto Punk" album.		1:09:04 (Pop-up)
Adam Ant	Friends Version 2 "Friends Version 2" by "Adam Ant"	B-Side Babies	Epic Records	1994	Adam at his most delightfully unhinged, It is the B-side to UK release of "Ant Rap", 1981		1:17:22 (Pop-up)
The Psychedelic Furs	Flowers - Demo	The Psychedelic Furs - Expanded	Sony Music	2002	exactly what a great demo is and should be, a little more raw and meandering with extra little bits of ear candy, I prefer this version as it has a bit of a Joy Division vibe		1:20:55 (Pop-up)
Richard Hell	I'm Your Man Radar Single Version	Destiny Street Demos	Omnivore Recordings	2021	Destiny Street was the follow-up album to one of the greatest punk albums of all time, 1977’s Blank Generation. The album was originally recorded in 1981 and released in 1982, but not to Richard Hell’s satisfaction. As he says in his new liner notes to Destiny Street Remixed, “The final mix was a morass of trebly multi-guitar blare.” Besides containing the three faithful versions of the album, the 40th anniversary 2-CD deluxe edition of Destiny Street includes not only Hell’s detailed liner notes, but a fourth LP’s worth of demos and prior studio versions of the album’s material—essentially all of Richard’s songwriting output recorded between the release of Blank Generation in 1977 and the recording of Destiny Street in 1981—including some of the best playing and singing in the four-part Complete—called Destiny Street Demos.		1:26:26 (Pop-up)
Monks	We Do Wie Du (1965 demo) "We Do Wie Du (1965 demo)" by "Monks"	Monks Demo Tapes 1965	Munster Records	1965 / 2007	A BAND SO FAR AHEAD OF THEIR TIME!!! - "Karl-Heinz Remy and Walther Niemann were two radical intellectuals, former students at the groundbreaking universities 'Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm' and 'Folkwang Schule Essen'. For quite a while they had been looking for a rock and roll band to work with. With the Monks the intention was to reinvent rock and roll from scratch..." "...In retrospect the Monks demo tapes from September 1965 are the first musical step toward what could be called a search for the new zero point in pop history. It will take the band another few months before they change their outfit (January 1966) and turn finally turn into real monks. The five former soldiers are full of doubts about the strange course their enterprise is taking, some are full of doubts about the strange course their enterprise is taking, some band members wish to quit the band, but also they have caught fire and love the idea of creating new music."		1:29:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: B.E.F.	Wipe The Board Clean "Wipe The Board Clean" by "B.E.F."	B.E.F. - 1981 - 2011	Virgin Records	2011	Great lost songs by a great lost band. BEF or British Electric Foundation was a band and production company formed by former Human League members Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh in the interim time before they became Heaven 17. Long periods of time elapsed between releases and they only performed live in 2007.		1:31:58 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: B.E.F.	The Old At Rest "The Old At Rest" by "B.E.F."	B.E.F. - 1981 - 2011	Virgin Records	2011	Great lost songs by a great lost band. BEF or British Electric Foundation was a band and production company formed by former Human League members Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh in the interim time before they became Heaven 17. Long periods of time elapsed between releases and they only performed live in 2007.		1:35:36 (Pop-up)
Pixies	Ain't That Pretty At All "Ain't That Pretty At All" by "Pixies"	Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs Of Warren Zevon	Artemis Records	2004	To me, this is prime Pixies, unexpectedly covering Warren Zevon for a tribute album. (Another good place to find gems and rarities.) Weirdly, for all the many Pixies deluxe versions and compilations, this song has never seen release in any other form. I have no idea why, as it sounds like a classic to me; though I was surprised to find the tribute was from 2004 & yet this version features original bassist Kim Deal. So either this was recorded in the brief period when she reunited w/ the band, or it had been on the shelf for a very long time.		1:37:23 (Pop-up)
Bauhaus	Some Faces "Some Faces" by "Bauhaus"	The Bela Session	Leaving Records	1979 / 2018	Recorded Jan 26, 1979 at Beck Studios & produced by "Bauhaus 1919" (the original name of the group), this outtake features some of the lyrics that would find their way into 1980's "Dark Entries", but the song is the antithesis of that one. In fact, you could argue that this song is somewhat of an outlier in the Bauhaus discography. Definitely exposes their glam leanings.		1:41:10 (Pop-up)
Wire	Former Airline "Former Airline" by "Wire"	154 Special Edition	Pink Flag	1979 / 2018	"Terse demo of the B-Side 'Former Airline'... it was the subject of dissatisfaction within the band, who came close to abandoning it." -- The studio version radically reworks the song to highly abstract form; but I prefer this version.		1:43:31 (Pop-up)
Pogues	Glued Up And Speeding "Glued Up And Speeding" by "Pogues"	Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say... "Pogue Mahone!!"	Pogue Mahone	1986 / 2008	Yes, that Pogues. This is from soundtrack to the1986 Alex Cox "Sid & Nancy"film, but not released officially until this deluxe 5-disc 100+ song boxset of rarities/unreleases in 2008. Clearly, the Pogues were tasked into making some snotty "Punk Rock" songs; one of which made a B-side of a 12", and this one which did not.		1:44:43 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Pogues	JB 57 "JB 57" by "Pogues"	Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say... "Pogue Mahone!!"	Pogue Mahone	1986 / 2008	Intended for the1986 Sid & Nancy soundtrack but not used. An unreleased "unreleased" track.		1:46:08 (Pop-up)
Tears For Fears	The Hurting (Peel Session)	The Hurting (Super Deluxe Version)	Mercury Records Limited	2013	Well, Peel sessions aren’t exactly rarities, but this is a very special version of a great tune that stays true to the original but keeps it fresh and tight in the radio session setting it’s a little more sparse and somehow a little more effective.		1:48:13 (Pop-up)
The Cars	Drive (demo) "Drive (demo)" by "The Cars"	Heartbeat City (Expanded edition)	Elektra Records	1984 / 2018	1984’s Heartbeat city was one of the biggest records of 1984; you simply could not escape it. Drive was arguably the biggest hit off that record. This is a wonderful example of a demo that uses a cheap Casio/Panasonic pre-programmed drum beat. It adds a weird/cheesy swing that somehow still works with the melancholy of the song I absolutely love this version as it’s own thing. This particular vocal take also has a little more desperation then in the shiny more polished studio version		1:52:04 (Pop-up)
Depeche Mode	Little 15 (demo version)	Sounds of the Universe (Deluxe Version)	Sony	1988 / 2009	Little 15 closest side one of the album music for the masses one of Depeche Mode’s best. This is an example where the demo in my opinion outshines the album version by 1000 times. This version is more creepy more melancholic and has far more vibe than the album version it’s absolutely perfect, And they should’ve just goddamn well left it as it was.		1:58:08 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	7:56pm DJ Babs: helooooooo beachers! welcome!
	8:03pm Cameron Pretendre: Good evening.
	8:04pm DJ Babs: Hi cameron!!!
	8:05pm Mr Fab: I'm here now! Even as we go "far away in time."
	8:05pm Derek Westerholm: Hello one & all! Hello Cameron!
	8:05pm DJ Babs: hi fab!
	8:05pm Kat in Chicago: Hi everybody. I think I need this remix.
	8:05pm Cameron Pretendre: Hey Babs!!!
	8:06pm Cameron Pretendre: Hey Derek!!
	8:06pm Derek Westerholm: Kat, haha... Glad to oblige!
	8:06pm Derek Westerholm: Hi Fab! Happy to see you in any segment of the dimension.
	8:07pm DJ Babs: Hi kat! tere re a ton of echo beach remixes they just released!
	8:13pm Alli B: Hi guys!!
	8:14pm DJ Babs: hi ali!!!!
	8:14pm DJ Nico: Ola!
	8:15pm DJ Babs: hi Nico!!!!
	🏝 8:19pm Scott67: G'day Babs, Derek & Drifters! 👍😎🍻👣🎶📻🌞🌏
	8:19pm DJ Babs: howdy scott!!!
	8:20pm DJ Babs: hope everyone is good tonighy!
	8:20pm Derek Westerholm: Hi Alli, Nico, Scot, hello, hope you are all enjoying this night/day, whichever it is in your part of the world...
	8:22pm DJ Babs: hearing this demo process makes me feel less guilty for ripping off othe songs when I write tunes lol
	🏝 8:23pm Scott67: Just gone midday Friday Summer here mate! 👍😎👣🌞🌏
	8:30pm Mr Fab: Odd hearing Joey minus the usual double-tracking of his voice. Joey naked.
	8:30pm Cameron Pretendre: It’s so interesting hearing these demos.
	8:31pm DJ Babs: agreed! also i will apologize now for my bad typing and cues im your 1 armed dj tonight lol
	8:32pm Derek Westerholm: I know, wild, eh? I know it was just a demo, but it was definitely bouncier, shorter, and more in their original spirit than the Spector ballad. Which isn't necessarily a good or bad thing, just different. I love stuff like that.
	8:32pm Cameron Pretendre: Time to enlist the helper cat. How long does it take to train a cat to type for you?
	8:33pm MHLee: hi
	8:33pm Derek Westerholm: Yes, Babs is quite injured tonight. A few nights ago she slipped on ice and fell on the ice, dislocating & spraining her shoulder & also spraining her wrist.
	8:33pm Derek Westerholm: Hi MHLee & welcome!!!!
	8:34pm MHLee: I see Danny Says was played here.. I also felt like the ramones nearly meet Buddy Holly there
	8:34pm notsoKWYET: helloooo
	8:34pm Derek Westerholm: That's what Phil Spector said about Joey Ramone, MHLee!
	8:34pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Dan!
	8:35pm Alli B: Hi Dan!
	8:35pm Derek Westerholm: Phil Spector believed he could make Joey Ramone the modern-day Buddy Holly
	8:35pm notsoKWYET: hey hey
	8:35pm notsoKWYET: I actually showed up for this show... yesterday night
	8:36pm DJ Babs: lol hi dan!
	8:36pm notsoKWYET: excuse me while I roll a j
	8:36pm Mr Fab: not to be confused with The Plastics, who Ursula1000 played earlier today.
	8:36pm MHLee: Wow, I didn't realize that. I guess I either have a good ear or a proclivity towards murdering women
	8:37pm DJ Babs: hi MHLee!
	8:38pm Derek Westerholm: Yes, murder is problematic.
	8:38pm DJ Babs: very much so
	8:39pm MHLee: Echoes of the 60s here
	🏝 8:40pm Kat in Chicago: Yikes Babs! I fall a lot and have literally felt your pain. Hope you heal up quick!
	8:41pm DJ Babs: lol well its gonna be a bit but fingers crossed it goes fast!
	🏝 8:42pm Kat in Chicago: I managed to tear something in my left foot a week ago Sunday just getting up from the dining room table. Didn't even have to leave the house and slip on something. It's only now starting to feel better!
	8:44pm DJ Nico: Derek, Babs, Alli, Dan, Cameron! 👋🏼
	8:44pm DJ Babs: ouch! yeah my arm isfirmly strapped to me for the next while gonna be fun lol
	8:44pm Cameron Pretendre: Hey DJ Nico.
	🏝 8:45pm Kat in Chicago: you're typing pretty well under the circumstances!
	8:47pm Alli B: Hi T! ❤️
	8:47pm MHLee: This demo would make perfect vaporwave
	8:48pm Alli B: THAT’S HILARIOUS
	🏝 8:48pm Scott67: Kat, I once broke a bone in my foot just walking in my backyard. 👣
	🏝 8:49pm Kat in Chicago: LOLLL what would Neil Tennant think
	🏝 8:49pm Kat in Chicago: Walking can be treacherous, Scott!
	🏝 8:49pm WR: We be listening here while eating.
	🏝 8:50pm Scott67: I wasn't drunk, I think that was the problem! 👍😎🍻
	🏝 8:51pm Scott67: I have tried to avoid all unnecessary walking ever since!
	8:51pm Mr Fab: I've broken toes twice just walking into furniture, or, as I see it - my furniture attacked me.
	🏝 8:53pm Scott67: Same Mr.F, I seem to have a favourite toe, same one everytime. The first time was on a Phillips VCR that I forgot was on the floor! I lead an unusual life.
	8:54pm DJ Babs: theres nothing quite likethe sound of a bone breaking lol
	🏝 8:55pm Kat in Chicago: I've managed to avoid that sound. So far.
	8:56pm DJ Nico: I got to see them live at Stephen on the fields church 10+ years ago
	🏝 8:56pm Scott67: It came right for me! VCR can be vicious bastards! 💥🔫😎
	8:56pm MHLee: I feel like good vaporwave should take a song, slow it, distort it some, then add various bits of spoken audio so the whole album is not only sampled but also has a concrete theme
	8:57pm Mr Fab: YES, Simply Saucer were simply so, so good.
	8:58pm DJ Babs: we played with them!
	8:58pm MHLee: I love some Pink Fairies... it really is like nothing else... everyone had stopped being so heavy in drugland and they keep going
	8:59pm DJ Babs: ahhh yes!
	8:59pm DJ Babs: same!
	9:01pm DJ Babs: oh this song!!! derek isfull of surprises tonite!
	9:02pm DJ Babs: we have all been there
	🏝 9:02pm Kat in Chicago: haha I like this one
	9:02pm MHLee: I feel like 1980 must have been a fever dream.... how can so many completely different music scenes co-exist
	9:02pm DJ Babs: right!?
	9:03pm DJ Babs: 79/80/81 were THE best years for music
	9:03pm Derek Westerholm: 100%
	🏝 9:04pm Kat in Chicago: that was a cool time to be getting out of college and discovering everything
	9:04pm Mr Fab: I know, like how could The Screamers have been playing just down the street from the Starland Vocal Band.
	9:05pm DJ Babs: born too late!!!!!
	9:05pm DJ Babs: so many shows i missed!
	🏝 9:05pm Kat in Chicago: Everything was happening so much, as Horse ebooks would have said if there were ebooks then
	9:07pm DJ Babs: lol troooooo
	9:07pm MHLee: "I've had a long-standing theory about American pop music, which goes like this: there were two years that had a wide open, anything-can-happen aspect to them, musically speaking--1957 and 1966. Regarding 1957—first, rock and roll hit the mainstream all across the country in 1956, and by 1957 it was a vast, new, and ubiquitous force. Nobody had any idea just what it was, what it meant, or what to do about it, besides jump on the bandwagon or damn it as a force for evil. As a form, no one knew what the limits, if any, were. When the mighty spirit of "I don't know" manifests, weird and wild possibilities tend to run rampant. I often think, what if 1957 could have gone on and on, growing in said weirdness and wildness? What stopped it, of course, was 1958—specifically, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis being arrested, Elvis getting drafted, Little Richard renouncing rock and roll for the church, The Buddy Holly/Richie Valens/Big Bopper plane crash, along with the record industry's introduction of a deluge of rockin' teen twerps, most of who were named Bobby. One of the few alpha rockers to escape said carnage was Ray Charles, who even rock haters had to acknowledge as a genius. The label "soul music" was originally coined so the music of Ray Charles could have another label besides rock and roll, which to most people back then meant trash." Peter Stampfel says this, but I like to think these moments happen about once a decade
	9:08pm DJ Babs: this ^^^^
	9:09pm notsoKWYET: oooo
	9:09pm DJ Babs: early devo really is everything
	9:10pm Alli B: I love early Devo so much
	9:10pm laurapanic: 1974? wow
	9:11pm DJ Babs: so many good tunes in the early canon. I am very partial to them
	9:11pm MHLee: It's wild to think that DEVO is almost a direct descendant of flower power via the events of Kent State
	9:11pm DJ Babs: theyre so dirty
	9:14pm MHLee: Oh shoot, there's a great chapter of Rust Belt music in www.amazon.com...
	9:14pm MHLee: Specifically it focuses on the MC5
	9:20pm MHLee: "The Rust Belt counterculture was sort of acid-Marxist, by which I mean that along with the demands for rock and roll, dope, and fucking in the streets, there was the nerve of hard political sense, maybe the ghost of old union struggle, that was foreign to the sensibility of the Haight or Swining London"
	9:21pm MHLee: *swinging
	9:21pm DJ Babs: I love adam ant when hes at his most unhinged lol
	9:25pm MHLee: I love the jazz elements
	9:25pm notsoKWYET: been too stoned to chat... but have to go to bed now... thanks for the tunes!
	9:26pm Alli B: Hahaha! Good night, Dan!
	🏝 9:26pm Scott67: G'night Notso ✌😎
	9:27pm DJ Babs: bye dan!!!! thank u for hanging!!!!
	9:29pm Bri: Bye bye not so Kwyet! Long time no see!
	9:30pm DJ Babs: hello bri didnt see ya there! welcome!
	9:31pm MHLee: You know what's wild is I only know of Richard Hell from Blank Generation which I had heard the Beat Generation via the Beat Farmers... but like this was the type of music my dad was/is deep into... why didn't he have Richard Hell?
	9:32pm Mr Fab: saw Adam Ant few years ago doing a show focused on his singles, and he did all that early crazy stuff. So great.
	9:32pm Alli B: Such a good tune
	9:32pm Bri: Hey Babs!
	9:33pm Bri: Love Adam Ant! 💗 Went through a huge Ant phase last year
	🏝 9:34pm Scott67: G'day Bri, how are you doing mate. I saw you speak up for Always1st last night. & get shutdown by the Narcissist known as.. you know who I mean. Now you see how he treated me when I gave him feedback. ✌😎🌷
	9:34pm Sonderangebot: Meow! Good evening!
	🏝 9:35pm Scott67: Adam Ant was my fave back in the day Bri.
	🏝 9:35pm Kat in Chicago: Sondy!
	🏝 9:35pm Scott67: Waff Sondy! 👍😎🐾
	9:37pm Bri: I’m doing feeling kinda weird lately. But thank you Scott! Yeah, I rarely ever go on that show. But yes Adam Ant! 💗
	9:37pm shellioh: late to the party again! but so happy to join in ❤️
	9:37pm Bri: Was listening to a bit of Heaven 17 earlier
	9:37pm Bri: Hey Shellioh!
	9:38pm shellioh: ❤️❤️❤️
	9:39pm Mr Fab: ZEE-vohn
	9:39pm MHLee: I need to dig into Zevon, his stuff I hear covered is wild.
	9:39pm Alli B: Hey Shelli! ❤️
	9:40pm MHLee: "My Shit's Fucked Up" is covered perfectly by kinky Friedman
	9:41pm DJ Babs: hi shelli!! hi soderang!
	9:43pm laurapanic: tribute albums ARE a good source of random things. Nice find!
	9:45pm Bri: Got my assortment of Naan, cornbread and orange cranberry bread
	🏝 9:47pm Scott67: Echo Beach, the longest Track List scroll in FMU. But the knowledge shared along the way is worth it. 🍻😎🤙🍁❤❤
	9:47pm DJ Babs: mmmmmm naaaaaaaaaaaaan
	9:47pm DJ Babs: hahahaha!
	9:48pm MHLee: this is punk at it's purest form
	9:49pm laurapanic: Indeed Scott, I love this format. A few other shows give rich info, and links. This one is by far the best. I feel sad when they only give me song title and artist, cuz I'm a nerd.
	9:49pm Bri: Yes!
	9:52pm Bri: I try and tell my dad that John Peel was the most important Dj of all time, he likes to argue “He’s no Dick Clarke.”
	9:52pm DJ Babs: HA!
	9:52pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks Laura & hi!
	9:53pm DJ Babs: thats very dad!
	9:53pm Derek Westerholm: Bri, that meal sounds lovely... and yes, you're right, John Peel for me, haha.
	🏝 9:55pm Scott67: Laura, when we get TRASH CULT Show up finally?? There won't be anything much to read. I will be driving the ACCU, & I'm musically challenged 🍻😎🤙
	9:55pm Derek Westerholm: Hi Shelli, btw! Hello!
	9:55pm DJ Babs: I am a bit obsessed by this version
	9:56pm Derek Westerholm: Hello there, Sonderangebot... Sorry for the late greeting!
	9:56pm laurapanic: well Bri, I think John Peel would like this
	9:57pm Sonderangebot: Been listening in the background while doing tasks! Very nice.
	9:58pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks, glad to see you here!
	9:58pm MHLee: Wow this is so smooth..
	🏝 10:00pm Scott67: Thanks B&D!✌😎🤙🍁❤❤
	10:00pm Alli B: Thank you so much!
	10:00pm Cameron Pretendre: Great show - very enjoyable. Thank you lovely hosts.
	🏝 10:00pm WR: Thank you!
	10:00pm shellioh: thanks for the great tunes!
	🏝 10:01pm Kat in Chicago: Thank you Babs 'n' Derek!
	10:01pm MHLee: Very cool, never been here for some reason, but great program
	10:01pm DJ Babs: thank you alll!!!!! itssuch a pleasure to hang with you guys!
	10:02pm DJ Babs: <3 <3 <3
	10:02pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks to you all & you're all most welcome! It is truly a pleasure to share this time with you all & we appreciate your chats & listening ears sincerely & truly.
	10:03pm DJ Babs: we are lookin forward to hangin with yas next week!
	10:05pm DJ Babs: gniiiiiiiiiiite! be well everyone!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Martha & The Muffins	Echo Beach (Reverend Echo “Mombak” Remix)	Echo Beach (40 Year Anniversary) - New Remixes	Echo Beach	2020	Released December 11, 2020, the label issued the following statement: "Germany's finest (as far as progressive sounds and flows are concerned) dub label, named Echo Beach and inspired by the lyrics and spirit of that track, has set out to pay tribute to this song which is more than a classic. The first remix tribute (30 year anniversary) of Echo Beach, done by a couple of international renowned remixers. and released on the Echo Beach has already enjoyed a strong reputation world wide. Mark Gane, the original composer of Echo Beach and still a member of Martha And The Muffins – and also married to Martha Johnson (lead singer of the band Martha And The Muffins - enthused: `It sounds as if the original ECHO BEACH was shot into outer space, hit a planet and floated back to earth in pieces...!!! NOW – 40 years later - after Echo Beach was written - the Echo Beach label proudly presents the 40th Anniversary Remixes and the full and essentiel: ... it is one of those tunes that on first hearing you like, but can`t exactly place why, and by 30 seconds into the spin you´re close to falling in love. You just have to go with it and this seductively simple number is just that. Don´t try to understand it just accept this as love at first sight."		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Martha And The Muffins	Echo Beach (Pulsinger & IRL Dub Remix)	Echo Beach (40 Year Anniversary) - New Remixes	Echo Beach	2020	The German label Echo Beach seems to specialize in "International Dub Reggae". This track is a prime example. It is also a prime example of the theme of today's show. Martha And The Muffins hails from our hometown of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.		0:05:31 (Pop-up)
PJ Harvey	The Glorious Land "The Glorious Land" by "PJ Harvey"	Let England Shake	Island	2011	An album I dearly loved when it came out, often took out of the library, and have often thought of and returned to over the years. Possibly my favourite "I've never owned this" album.		0:11:40 (Pop-up)
PJ Harvey	The Glorious Land (Demo)	Let England Shake (Demos)	Island	2011 / 2022	These newly released demos are fascinating sketches that occasionally reveal the hidden sources from which the songs drew their inspiration. Listening to her play along with (or against) the backing track, it is a revelation to compare to the studio version.	*	0:14:48 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: PJ Harvey	The Words That Maketh Murder	Let England Shake	Island	2011 / 2022	Another demo that reveals its source. As for the original album: "Written over a two and half year period and recorded in five weeks at a church in Dorset over April and May 2010, Harvey drew on the likes of Harold Pinter, Francisco de Goya, the first world war poets, Ari Folman and the Doors as influences for the album, as well as researching the history of conflict and searching for modern-day testimonies from civilians and soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan."	*	0:18:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ramones	Danny Says "Danny Says" by "Ramones"	End Of The Century	Sire	1980	This is the album that really amped up the rift that was developing between Joey & Johnny. Phil Spector originally approached Joey Ramone with the prospect of making a solo album, believing it would pave his way into the top of the charts. This attempt was turned down, but the producer was hired for their 5th album. Johnny intensely disliked the sessions, the compromise of their sound, and the confidence Joey began show as he learned to find his voice and bring his vocals to a new level. It became & remains The Ramones' biggest selling record & highest placing chart entry, but failed to deliver on its promise. It probably didn't help that Phil Spector held the band at gunpoint at one point during the sessions.		0:22:05 (Pop-up)
Ramones	Danny Says (Demo) "Danny Says (Demo)" by "Ramones"	End Of The Century (Expanded)	Sire / Rhino	1979 / 2002	Recorded at Sire Studio, NYC on April 19, 1979 & produced by longtime Ramone's producer Ed Stasium, this early version reveals what might have happened if Phil Spector never approached the Ramones.		0:25:11 (Pop-up)
The Screamers	Mater Dolores "Mater Dolores" by "The Screamers"	Screamers Demo Hollywood 1977	Superior Viaduct	2021	"These songs were recorded a few months after the Los Angeles punk scene began. These five statements of intent transcend Punk and project forward into the future: to the analog synth wave of the late '70s and beyond, to the present day, four decades later, when they finally receive an official release. Sourced from the original reel-to-reels, they are a revelation compared to the countless copies that have been circulating by multiple generations of tape-traders. Here, for the first time, is the Screamers' initial and legendary manifesto. "The Screamers concept was simple, yet audacious: take the spirit and the look of Punk – the pseudo-psychotic aggression, the spiky hair, vacant stares and barely concealed sadomasochism – and match it to a different configuration than the typical '60s rock template. As launched, the Screamers featured two keyboard players (Tommy Gear and David Brown), a drummer (KK Barrett) and an intensely charismatic singer (Tomata du Plenty). The idea was to be confrontational – to evoke (as Tomata described in an early interview) a state of anxiety.		0:27:31 (Pop-up)
Plastix	Konsumier Mich "Konsumier Mich" by "Plastix"	Plastix 7"	Danger Records	2014	Danger Records was formed in 2013 with the express intent of releasing lost punk and post-punk bands. Plastix is one of them. Originally released in 1981		0:31:18 (Pop-up)
The Cure	Boys Don't Cry (demo) "Boys Don't Cry (demo)" by "The Cure"	World War (Rare Demos)	Swingshift Records	2017	This is considered an unofficial bootleg release and compiles all the early demos. You can only get it in record shops, discogs will not allow you to list it. It is a great comp and highly recommended!		0:33:42 (Pop-up)
N.O.I.A.	Korowa Milk Bar "Korowa Milk Bar" by "N.O.I.A."	N.O.I.A Unreleased Classics '78-'82	Erzatz	2003	N.O.I.A.'s career can be divided into two parts: during the first, the group is formed of five persons; both words and music are absolutely new, repetitive and absurd. When they are on stage they spread a kind of negative vibrations that raises the pressure in the audience so that half of it always ends fighting the other half. All of these tracks were written between 1978 and 1982, in Italy, which might lead one to expect a discful of vintage Italo-disco, packed with dark enveloping swells and ominous grinds. But N.O.I.A., as noted, were under the spell of Kraftwerk, not Giorgio Moroder. So what we get is quite different: The precise, minimal beeping of synths and brittle little drum machines, mapping out gridlike streams of ultra-robotic pop so sterile and simplified that its funkiness can feel like a treasure. It's jerky and twinkly and sometimes adorably groovy: All you need to enjoy this is to be the sort of person who'd find watching a big wall of multicolored LED lights blink in repetitive patterns at least as entertaining as, say, watching grass grow.		0:36:24 (Pop-up)
Videoclips	Roboter Ramona "Roboter Ramona" by "Videoclips"	Roboter Ramona/Husky 7"	Bacillus Records	1982	This song exists only on 7" and did not make the cut for their only full length release. Not much is known about them and they are impossible to google because of their name, I love this song to bits, "Robot Ramon, you are wonderful...instead of a cold heart, you had only batteries"		0:40:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Pet Shop Boys	Domino Dancing "Domino Dancing" by "Pet Shop Boys"	Introspective Further Listening 1988 to 1989	Parlophone	1988 / 2018	This album features demos and remasters of tracks appearing on the Pet Shop Boys album “introspective”. Aside from being a massive hit for the pet shop boys the song Domino Dancing has also been featured in other interesting places…Babs will tell you all about it!		0:42:51 (Pop-up)
Azymuth	Xingó (Version 1) "Xingó (Version 1)" by "Azymuth"	Demos 1973 to 1975 Volume One And Two	Far out recordings	2019	Azymuth were formed in Brazil in 1973 they are a jazz funk trio that will blow your mind.		0:47:34 (Pop-up)
Simply Saucer	Instant Pleasure "Instant Pleasure" by "Simply Saucer"	Cyborgs Revisited	Sonic Unyon Records	1974 / 2002	"Emerging from the industrial city of Hamilton, Ontario in the 1970s, Simply Saucer created a distinct, original sound that was decidedly out of step with the current musical climate. The band played edgy rock & roll that was a combination of early punk pre-cursors (Velvets, Stooges, Modern Lovers), krautrock (Can, Neu, early Kraftwerk), and U.K. prog/psych (Hawkwind, Pink Fairies, Syd Barrett - both with and without Pink Floyd). ///////// Simply Saucer's origins date back to 1972, when band frontman, guitar player/singer-songwriter Edgar Breau hooked up with five other avant-garde, record collecting musicians and began rehearsing in a Hamilton, ON warehouse. The original compositions were long, improvised jams played on empty bottles, audio generators, theremins, keyboards, sax, flute, electric guitars and drums. Besides Breau, bass player Kevin Christoff became the other perennial member of Simply Saucer. ///////// They soon entered brothers Bob and Daniel Lanois's basement studio to record six songs. Alas, the Canadian music industry at the time was mired in mainstream convention that produced steady sales but little artistic vision. None would sign the quartet or release their recordings. By 1976, a nascent punk music scene was beginning to develop in London and New York and Toronto soon followed. A reinvigorated version of Simply Saucer, featuring ex-Teenage Head guitar player Steve Park, emerged and began gigging. They released the "She's A Dog" single on Pig Records in 1977 to great reviews. England's New Music Express awarded it "Pick Hit Single of the Week". ///////// By 1979, Toronto's club scene had begun to dissipate and the individual members of the band began exploring new paths. Breau detuned his guitar ala John Fahey, sold all his electric gear and began a new solo career. Almost thirty years would pass before he would own an electric guitar or appear on stage with Simply Saucer. ///////// It was years later before the general public and music journalists first became aware of the groundbreaking Lanois recording session. The six studio songs, combined with an explosive live set (performed in 1975 atop Hamilton's then new downtown shopping mall), were finally released in 1989 in a limited vinyl edition on Bruce Mowat's Mole Sound Recordings, entitled Cyborgs Revisited. An expanded version of this album was released on compact disc in 2003 by Hamilton's Sonic Unyon. ///////// Critical acclaim for Simply Saucer mounted exponentially over the years, with prestigious publications like London Sunday Times and Pitchforkmedia printing rave reviews. In December 2005, the UK's UNCUT Magazine named Cyborgs Revisited one of the Top 20 re-releases that year, calling Breau a prophetic punk visionary."		0:53:07 (Pop-up)
Berlin West	Snakepit "Snakepit" by "Berlin West"	Local Customs: Burned at Boddie	Numero	1981	The Snakepit / Babylon single was manufactured at Boddie Recording Company & released on a label with no name. But the interesting story here is about the husband-wife Boddie team, who were responsible for pressing a staggering amount of records (and later cassettes & 8 tracks) for anyone who would ask. Preachers, soul bands, electronic bands, bootleggers, polka artists, you name it... All in two buildings they built out into their backyard. The full story is on the release on the excellent Numero label, which does a marvelous job of unearthing obscure gems or underlooked releases.		0:54:51 (Pop-up)
Automatic Shock	Mushrooms "Mushrooms" by "Automatic Shock"	All Your Ears Can Hear: Underground music in Victoria, BC 1978 - 1984	All Your Ears Can Hear	1983 / 2007	A small book accompanies this 2 CD / 79 track compilation. Automatic Shock formed in 1980/81 and disbanded in 1986. Recorded in 1983 at Lowe Studio, Victoria by Eric Lowe. Previously released on the Medium Raw compilation tape (B.Y.O. Victoria)		0:57:51 (Pop-up)
Men Without Hats	Ban The Game "Ban The Game" by "Men Without Hats"	Rhythm Of Youth	1981	1981	The album version & opening song from the 'Rhythm Of Youth' album. This is the album that also featured "The Safety Dance", launching Montreal's own Men Without Hats into the psyche of the entire world.		1:01:07 (Pop-up)
Men Without Hats	Ban The Game (previously unreleased version)	The Silver Collection	1981	1981 / 2008	The previously unreleased "rock band" version of the aforementioned song. It finally found its way into the world in 2008.		1:01:51 (Pop-up)
Devo	Hardcore Volume 2 (Vinyl edition w/ extra tracks)	Man From The Past	Boogie Boy Sounds / Superior Viaduct	1974 / 2013	This track was recorded back in 1974. Even though there were two different "Hardcore Devo" collections of their earliest recordings, this track was amongst four that wouldn't be released until even later in 2013 on vinyl.		1:05:41 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Simply Saucer	Mole Machine "Mole Machine" by "Simply Saucer"	Cyborgs Revisited	Sonic Unyon Records	1974 / 2002	The far-out instrumental track from the(now) quintessential Canadian "Proto Punk" album.		1:09:04 (Pop-up)
Adam Ant	Friends Version 2 "Friends Version 2" by "Adam Ant"	B-Side Babies	Epic Records	1994	Adam at his most delightfully unhinged, It is the B-side to UK release of "Ant Rap", 1981		1:17:22 (Pop-up)
The Psychedelic Furs	Flowers - Demo	The Psychedelic Furs - Expanded	Sony Music	2002	exactly what a great demo is and should be, a little more raw and meandering with extra little bits of ear candy, I prefer this version as it has a bit of a Joy Division vibe		1:20:55 (Pop-up)
Richard Hell	I'm Your Man Radar Single Version	Destiny Street Demos	Omnivore Recordings	2021	Destiny Street was the follow-up album to one of the greatest punk albums of all time, 1977’s Blank Generation. The album was originally recorded in 1981 and released in 1982, but not to Richard Hell’s satisfaction. As he says in his new liner notes to Destiny Street Remixed, “The final mix was a morass of trebly multi-guitar blare.” Besides containing the three faithful versions of the album, the 40th anniversary 2-CD deluxe edition of Destiny Street includes not only Hell’s detailed liner notes, but a fourth LP’s worth of demos and prior studio versions of the album’s material—essentially all of Richard’s songwriting output recorded between the release of Blank Generation in 1977 and the recording of Destiny Street in 1981—including some of the best playing and singing in the four-part Complete—called Destiny Street Demos.		1:26:26 (Pop-up)
Monks	We Do Wie Du (1965 demo) "We Do Wie Du (1965 demo)" by "Monks"	Monks Demo Tapes 1965	Munster Records	1965 / 2007	A BAND SO FAR AHEAD OF THEIR TIME!!! - "Karl-Heinz Remy and Walther Niemann were two radical intellectuals, former students at the groundbreaking universities 'Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm' and 'Folkwang Schule Essen'. For quite a while they had been looking for a rock and roll band to work with. With the Monks the intention was to reinvent rock and roll from scratch..." "...In retrospect the Monks demo tapes from September 1965 are the first musical step toward what could be called a search for the new zero point in pop history. It will take the band another few months before they change their outfit (January 1966) and turn finally turn into real monks. The five former soldiers are full of doubts about the strange course their enterprise is taking, some are full of doubts about the strange course their enterprise is taking, some band members wish to quit the band, but also they have caught fire and love the idea of creating new music."		1:29:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: B.E.F.	Wipe The Board Clean "Wipe The Board Clean" by "B.E.F."	B.E.F. - 1981 - 2011	Virgin Records	2011	Great lost songs by a great lost band. BEF or British Electric Foundation was a band and production company formed by former Human League members Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh in the interim time before they became Heaven 17. Long periods of time elapsed between releases and they only performed live in 2007.		1:31:58 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: B.E.F.	The Old At Rest "The Old At Rest" by "B.E.F."	B.E.F. - 1981 - 2011	Virgin Records	2011	Great lost songs by a great lost band. BEF or British Electric Foundation was a band and production company formed by former Human League members Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh in the interim time before they became Heaven 17. Long periods of time elapsed between releases and they only performed live in 2007.		1:35:36 (Pop-up)
Pixies	Ain't That Pretty At All "Ain't That Pretty At All" by "Pixies"	Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs Of Warren Zevon	Artemis Records	2004	To me, this is prime Pixies, unexpectedly covering Warren Zevon for a tribute album. (Another good place to find gems and rarities.) Weirdly, for all the many Pixies deluxe versions and compilations, this song has never seen release in any other form. I have no idea why, as it sounds like a classic to me; though I was surprised to find the tribute was from 2004 & yet this version features original bassist Kim Deal. So either this was recorded in the brief period when she reunited w/ the band, or it had been on the shelf for a very long time.		1:37:23 (Pop-up)
Bauhaus	Some Faces "Some Faces" by "Bauhaus"	The Bela Session	Leaving Records	1979 / 2018	Recorded Jan 26, 1979 at Beck Studios & produced by "Bauhaus 1919" (the original name of the group), this outtake features some of the lyrics that would find their way into 1980's "Dark Entries", but the song is the antithesis of that one. In fact, you could argue that this song is somewhat of an outlier in the Bauhaus discography. Definitely exposes their glam leanings.		1:41:10 (Pop-up)
Wire	Former Airline "Former Airline" by "Wire"	154 Special Edition	Pink Flag	1979 / 2018	"Terse demo of the B-Side 'Former Airline'... it was the subject of dissatisfaction within the band, who came close to abandoning it." -- The studio version radically reworks the song to highly abstract form; but I prefer this version.		1:43:31 (Pop-up)
Pogues	Glued Up And Speeding "Glued Up And Speeding" by "Pogues"	Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say... "Pogue Mahone!!"	Pogue Mahone	1986 / 2008	Yes, that Pogues. This is from soundtrack to the1986 Alex Cox "Sid & Nancy"film, but not released officially until this deluxe 5-disc 100+ song boxset of rarities/unreleases in 2008. Clearly, the Pogues were tasked into making some snotty "Punk Rock" songs; one of which made a B-side of a 12", and this one which did not.		1:44:43 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Pogues	JB 57 "JB 57" by "Pogues"	Just Look Them Straight In The Eye And Say... "Pogue Mahone!!"	Pogue Mahone	1986 / 2008	Intended for the1986 Sid & Nancy soundtrack but not used. An unreleased "unreleased" track.		1:46:08 (Pop-up)
Tears For Fears	The Hurting (Peel Session)	The Hurting (Super Deluxe Version)	Mercury Records Limited	2013	Well, Peel sessions aren’t exactly rarities, but this is a very special version of a great tune that stays true to the original but keeps it fresh and tight in the radio session setting it’s a little more sparse and somehow a little more effective.		1:48:13 (Pop-up)
The Cars	Drive (demo) "Drive (demo)" by "The Cars"	Heartbeat City (Expanded edition)	Elektra Records	1984 / 2018	1984’s Heartbeat city was one of the biggest records of 1984; you simply could not escape it. Drive was arguably the biggest hit off that record. This is a wonderful example of a demo that uses a cheap Casio/Panasonic pre-programmed drum beat. It adds a weird/cheesy swing that somehow still works with the melancholy of the song I absolutely love this version as it’s own thing. This particular vocal take also has a little more desperation then in the shiny more polished studio version		1:52:04 (Pop-up)
Depeche Mode	Little 15 (demo version)	Sounds of the Universe (Deluxe Version)	Sony	1988 / 2009	Little 15 closest side one of the album music for the masses one of Depeche Mode’s best. This is an example where the demo in my opinion outshines the album version by 1000 times. This version is more creepy more melancholic and has far more vibe than the album version it’s absolutely perfect, And they should’ve just goddamn well left it as it was.		1:58:08 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:56pm DJ Babs: helooooooo beachers! welcome!
	8:03pm Cameron Pretendre: Good evening.
	8:04pm DJ Babs: Hi cameron!!!
	8:05pm Mr Fab: I'm here now! Even as we go "far away in time."
	8:05pm Derek Westerholm: Hello one & all! Hello Cameron!
	8:05pm DJ Babs: hi fab!
	8:05pm Kat in Chicago: Hi everybody. I think I need this remix.
	8:05pm Cameron Pretendre: Hey Babs!!!
	8:06pm Cameron Pretendre: Hey Derek!!
	8:06pm Derek Westerholm: Kat, haha... Glad to oblige!
	8:06pm Derek Westerholm: Hi Fab! Happy to see you in any segment of the dimension.
	8:07pm DJ Babs: Hi kat! tere re a ton of echo beach remixes they just released!
	8:13pm Alli B: Hi guys!!
	8:14pm DJ Babs: hi ali!!!!
	8:14pm DJ Nico: Ola!
	8:15pm DJ Babs: hi Nico!!!!
	🏝 8:19pm Scott67: G'day Babs, Derek & Drifters! 👍😎🍻👣🎶📻🌞🌏
	8:19pm DJ Babs: howdy scott!!!
	8:20pm DJ Babs: hope everyone is good tonighy!
	8:20pm Derek Westerholm: Hi Alli, Nico, Scot, hello, hope you are all enjoying this night/day, whichever it is in your part of the world...
	8:22pm DJ Babs: hearing this demo process makes me feel less guilty for ripping off othe songs when I write tunes lol
	🏝 8:23pm Scott67: Just gone midday Friday Summer here mate! 👍😎👣🌞🌏
	8:30pm Mr Fab: Odd hearing Joey minus the usual double-tracking of his voice. Joey naked.
	8:30pm Cameron Pretendre: It’s so interesting hearing these demos.
	8:31pm DJ Babs: agreed! also i will apologize now for my bad typing and cues im your 1 armed dj tonight lol
	8:32pm Derek Westerholm: I know, wild, eh? I know it was just a demo, but it was definitely bouncier, shorter, and more in their original spirit than the Spector ballad. Which isn't necessarily a good or bad thing, just different. I love stuff like that.
	8:32pm Cameron Pretendre: Time to enlist the helper cat. How long does it take to train a cat to type for you?
	8:33pm MHLee: hi
	8:33pm Derek Westerholm: Yes, Babs is quite injured tonight. A few nights ago she slipped on ice and fell on the ice, dislocating & spraining her shoulder & also spraining her wrist.
	8:33pm Derek Westerholm: Hi MHLee & welcome!!!!
	8:34pm MHLee: I see Danny Says was played here.. I also felt like the ramones nearly meet Buddy Holly there
	8:34pm notsoKWYET: helloooo
	8:34pm Derek Westerholm: That's what Phil Spector said about Joey Ramone, MHLee!
	8:34pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Dan!
	8:35pm Alli B: Hi Dan!
	8:35pm Derek Westerholm: Phil Spector believed he could make Joey Ramone the modern-day Buddy Holly
	8:35pm notsoKWYET: hey hey
	8:35pm notsoKWYET: I actually showed up for this show... yesterday night
	8:36pm DJ Babs: lol hi dan!
	8:36pm notsoKWYET: excuse me while I roll a j
	8:36pm Mr Fab: not to be confused with The Plastics, who Ursula1000 played earlier today.
	8:36pm MHLee: Wow, I didn't realize that. I guess I either have a good ear or a proclivity towards murdering women
	8:37pm DJ Babs: hi MHLee!
	8:38pm Derek Westerholm: Yes, murder is problematic.
	8:38pm DJ Babs: very much so
	8:39pm MHLee: Echoes of the 60s here
	🏝 8:40pm Kat in Chicago: Yikes Babs! I fall a lot and have literally felt your pain. Hope you heal up quick!
	8:41pm DJ Babs: lol well its gonna be a bit but fingers crossed it goes fast!
	🏝 8:42pm Kat in Chicago: I managed to tear something in my left foot a week ago Sunday just getting up from the dining room table. Didn't even have to leave the house and slip on something. It's only now starting to feel better!
	8:44pm DJ Nico: Derek, Babs, Alli, Dan, Cameron! 👋🏼
	8:44pm DJ Babs: ouch! yeah my arm isfirmly strapped to me for the next while gonna be fun lol
	8:44pm Cameron Pretendre: Hey DJ Nico.
	🏝 8:45pm Kat in Chicago: you're typing pretty well under the circumstances!
	8:47pm Alli B: Hi T! ❤️
	8:47pm MHLee: This demo would make perfect vaporwave
	8:48pm Alli B: THAT’S HILARIOUS
	🏝 8:48pm Scott67: Kat, I once broke a bone in my foot just walking in my backyard. 👣
	🏝 8:49pm Kat in Chicago: LOLLL what would Neil Tennant think
	🏝 8:49pm Kat in Chicago: Walking can be treacherous, Scott!
	🏝 8:49pm WR: We be listening here while eating.
	🏝 8:50pm Scott67: I wasn't drunk, I think that was the problem! 👍😎🍻
	🏝 8:51pm Scott67: I have tried to avoid all unnecessary walking ever since!
	8:51pm Mr Fab: I've broken toes twice just walking into furniture, or, as I see it - my furniture attacked me.
	🏝 8:53pm Scott67: Same Mr.F, I seem to have a favourite toe, same one everytime. The first time was on a Phillips VCR that I forgot was on the floor! I lead an unusual life.
	8:54pm DJ Babs: theres nothing quite likethe sound of a bone breaking lol
	🏝 8:55pm Kat in Chicago: I've managed to avoid that sound. So far.
	8:56pm DJ Nico: I got to see them live at Stephen on the fields church 10+ years ago
	🏝 8:56pm Scott67: It came right for me! VCR can be vicious bastards! 💥🔫😎
	8:56pm MHLee: I feel like good vaporwave should take a song, slow it, distort it some, then add various bits of spoken audio so the whole album is not only sampled but also has a concrete theme
	8:57pm Mr Fab: YES, Simply Saucer were simply so, so good.
	8:58pm DJ Babs: we played with them!
	8:58pm MHLee: I love some Pink Fairies... it really is like nothing else... everyone had stopped being so heavy in drugland and they keep going
	8:59pm DJ Babs: ahhh yes!
	8:59pm DJ Babs: same!
	9:01pm DJ Babs: oh this song!!! derek isfull of surprises tonite!
	9:02pm DJ Babs: we have all been there
	🏝 9:02pm Kat in Chicago: haha I like this one
	9:02pm MHLee: I feel like 1980 must have been a fever dream.... how can so many completely different music scenes co-exist
	9:02pm DJ Babs: right!?
	9:03pm DJ Babs: 79/80/81 were THE best years for music
	9:03pm Derek Westerholm: 100%
	🏝 9:04pm Kat in Chicago: that was a cool time to be getting out of college and discovering everything
	9:04pm Mr Fab: I know, like how could The Screamers have been playing just down the street from the Starland Vocal Band.
	9:05pm DJ Babs: born too late!!!!!
	9:05pm DJ Babs: so many shows i missed!
	🏝 9:05pm Kat in Chicago: Everything was happening so much, as Horse ebooks would have said if there were ebooks then
	9:07pm DJ Babs: lol troooooo
	9:07pm MHLee: "I've had a long-standing theory about American pop music, which goes like this: there were two years that had a wide open, anything-can-happen aspect to them, musically speaking--1957 and 1966. Regarding 1957—first, rock and roll hit the mainstream all across the country in 1956, and by 1957 it was a vast, new, and ubiquitous force. Nobody had any idea just what it was, what it meant, or what to do about it, besides jump on the bandwagon or damn it as a force for evil. As a form, no one knew what the limits, if any, were. When the mighty spirit of "I don't know" manifests, weird and wild possibilities tend to run rampant. I often think, what if 1957 could have gone on and on, growing in said weirdness and wildness? What stopped it, of course, was 1958—specifically, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis being arrested, Elvis getting drafted, Little Richard renouncing rock and roll for the church, The Buddy Holly/Richie Valens/Big Bopper plane crash, along with the record industry's introduction of a deluge of rockin' teen twerps, most of who were named Bobby. One of the few alpha rockers to escape said carnage was Ray Charles, who even rock haters had to acknowledge as a genius. The label "soul music" was originally coined so the music of Ray Charles could have another label besides rock and roll, which to most people back then meant trash." Peter Stampfel says this, but I like to think these moments happen about once a decade
	9:08pm DJ Babs: this ^^^^
	9:09pm notsoKWYET: oooo
	9:09pm DJ Babs: early devo really is everything
	9:10pm Alli B: I love early Devo so much
	9:10pm laurapanic: 1974? wow
	9:11pm DJ Babs: so many good tunes in the early canon. I am very partial to them
	9:11pm MHLee: It's wild to think that DEVO is almost a direct descendant of flower power via the events of Kent State
	9:11pm DJ Babs: theyre so dirty
	9:14pm MHLee: Oh shoot, there's a great chapter of Rust Belt music in www.amazon.com...
	9:14pm MHLee: Specifically it focuses on the MC5
	9:20pm MHLee: "The Rust Belt counterculture was sort of acid-Marxist, by which I mean that along with the demands for rock and roll, dope, and fucking in the streets, there was the nerve of hard political sense, maybe the ghost of old union struggle, that was foreign to the sensibility of the Haight or Swining London"
	9:21pm MHLee: *swinging
	9:21pm DJ Babs: I love adam ant when hes at his most unhinged lol
	9:25pm MHLee: I love the jazz elements
	9:25pm notsoKWYET: been too stoned to chat... but have to go to bed now... thanks for the tunes!
	9:26pm Alli B: Hahaha! Good night, Dan!
	🏝 9:26pm Scott67: G'night Notso ✌😎
	9:27pm DJ Babs: bye dan!!!! thank u for hanging!!!!
	9:29pm Bri: Bye bye not so Kwyet! Long time no see!
	9:30pm DJ Babs: hello bri didnt see ya there! welcome!
	9:31pm MHLee: You know what's wild is I only know of Richard Hell from Blank Generation which I had heard the Beat Generation via the Beat Farmers... but like this was the type of music my dad was/is deep into... why didn't he have Richard Hell?
	9:32pm Mr Fab: saw Adam Ant few years ago doing a show focused on his singles, and he did all that early crazy stuff. So great.
	9:32pm Alli B: Such a good tune
	9:32pm Bri: Hey Babs!
	9:33pm Bri: Love Adam Ant! 💗 Went through a huge Ant phase last year
	🏝 9:34pm Scott67: G'day Bri, how are you doing mate. I saw you speak up for Always1st last night. & get shutdown by the Narcissist known as.. you know who I mean. Now you see how he treated me when I gave him feedback. ✌😎🌷
	9:34pm Sonderangebot: Meow! Good evening!
	🏝 9:35pm Scott67: Adam Ant was my fave back in the day Bri.
	🏝 9:35pm Kat in Chicago: Sondy!
	🏝 9:35pm Scott67: Waff Sondy! 👍😎🐾
	9:37pm Bri: I’m doing feeling kinda weird lately. But thank you Scott! Yeah, I rarely ever go on that show. But yes Adam Ant! 💗
	9:37pm shellioh: late to the party again! but so happy to join in ❤️
	9:37pm Bri: Was listening to a bit of Heaven 17 earlier
	9:37pm Bri: Hey Shellioh!
	9:38pm shellioh: ❤️❤️❤️
	9:39pm Mr Fab: ZEE-vohn
	9:39pm MHLee: I need to dig into Zevon, his stuff I hear covered is wild.
	9:39pm Alli B: Hey Shelli! ❤️
	9:40pm MHLee: "My Shit's Fucked Up" is covered perfectly by kinky Friedman
	9:41pm DJ Babs: hi shelli!! hi soderang!
	9:43pm laurapanic: tribute albums ARE a good source of random things. Nice find!
	9:45pm Bri: Got my assortment of Naan, cornbread and orange cranberry bread
	🏝 9:47pm Scott67: Echo Beach, the longest Track List scroll in FMU. But the knowledge shared along the way is worth it. 🍻😎🤙🍁❤❤
	9:47pm DJ Babs: mmmmmm naaaaaaaaaaaaan
	9:47pm DJ Babs: hahahaha!
	9:48pm MHLee: this is punk at it's purest form
	9:49pm laurapanic: Indeed Scott, I love this format. A few other shows give rich info, and links. This one is by far the best. I feel sad when they only give me song title and artist, cuz I'm a nerd.
	9:49pm Bri: Yes!
	9:52pm Bri: I try and tell my dad that John Peel was the most important Dj of all time, he likes to argue “He’s no Dick Clarke.”
	9:52pm DJ Babs: HA!
	9:52pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks Laura & hi!
	9:53pm DJ Babs: thats very dad!
	9:53pm Derek Westerholm: Bri, that meal sounds lovely... and yes, you're right, John Peel for me, haha.
	🏝 9:55pm Scott67: Laura, when we get TRASH CULT Show up finally?? There won't be anything much to read. I will be driving the ACCU, & I'm musically challenged 🍻😎🤙
	9:55pm Derek Westerholm: Hi Shelli, btw! Hello!
	9:55pm DJ Babs: I am a bit obsessed by this version
	9:56pm Derek Westerholm: Hello there, Sonderangebot... Sorry for the late greeting!
	9:56pm laurapanic: well Bri, I think John Peel would like this
	9:57pm Sonderangebot: Been listening in the background while doing tasks! Very nice.
	9:58pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks, glad to see you here!
	9:58pm MHLee: Wow this is so smooth..
	🏝 10:00pm Scott67: Thanks B&D!✌😎🤙🍁❤❤
	10:00pm Alli B: Thank you so much!
	10:00pm Cameron Pretendre: Great show - very enjoyable. Thank you lovely hosts.
	🏝 10:00pm WR: Thank you!
	10:00pm shellioh: thanks for the great tunes!
	🏝 10:01pm Kat in Chicago: Thank you Babs 'n' Derek!
	10:01pm MHLee: Very cool, never been here for some reason, but great program
	10:01pm DJ Babs: thank you alll!!!!! itssuch a pleasure to hang with you guys!
	10:02pm DJ Babs: <3 <3 <3
	10:02pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks to you all & you're all most welcome! It is truly a pleasure to share this time with you all & we appreciate your chats & listening ears sincerely & truly.
	10:03pm DJ Babs: we are lookin forward to hangin with yas next week!
	10:05pm DJ Babs: gniiiiiiiiiiite! be well everyone!

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from February 3, 2022

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