WFMU: Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from September 15, 2022

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from September 15, 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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September 15, 2022: Do All 16 Dances!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Sounds Of The Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds Of The Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The B-52's	Dance This Mess Around	The B-52's	Warner Bros.	1979	This is the song from which our loose theme for tonight's show is drawn. "They Do All 16 Dances" Fun fact, the song only lists eight of "all 16 dances". Those would be (in order of appearance) The Shu Ga Loo, The Shy Tuna, The Camel Walk, The Hip O Crit, The Coo Ca Choo, The Aqua Velva, The Dirty Dog, The Escalator. If you want to count The Hippy Shake, then I guess there's 9 dances mentioned. I wonder how many they considered and/or invented while writing the song. I like that they decided to leave some to the listener's imagination. I wonder when they consciously decided to leave some out. These are things I think about sometimes.		0:00:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sounds Of The Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds Of The Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			0:09:41 (Pop-up)
Lamps	Confirmed Frenchman "Confirmed Frenchman" by "Lamps"	People With Faces	In The Red	2020	Creators of cantankerous, chaotic L.A. garage punk, Lamps made their reputation with a noisy, stripped-down sound seasoned with occasional bursts of electronic anarchy as the band pounded out the beat. They are the brainchild of singer and guitarist Monty Buckles and drummer Josh Erkman. Buckles is also a filmaker and video director for bands of note...this last album was produced by Ty Seagall, and it shows!		0:09:44 (Pop-up)
Wine Lips	Kamikaze "Kamikaze" by "Wine Lips"	Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party	Stomp	2021	Wine Lips are from Toronto. This garage rock band wear their pants short and their guitars high. Wine Lips is Cam Hilborn on Guitar and Vocals with Aurora Evans on Drums, Jordan Sosensky on Guitar and Charlie Weare on Bass. They are currently on tour in Quebec and Southern Ontario and head to Europe in November. We wish them well!		0:11:17 (Pop-up)
Smirk	Eyes Conversing "Eyes Conversing" by "Smirk"	LP	Feel It Records	2021	Hailing from Los Angeles and coated in a layer of warbled analog glory comes the debut full length album from Smirk, the solo project helmed by Nick Vicario (Public Eye, Crisis Man). A trebly & wiry punk sound comes into effect straight out of the gate, reminiscent of the early Dangerhouse Records singles as well as the “Bloodstains Across...” comps (to be more precise). But there's far more to Smirk - with great songwriting, precision, and instrumentation that seem to emanate from a past that never was, bursting any preconceived sub-genre bubbles from this reality and those parallel to it.		0:14:07 (Pop-up)
Humour	yeah, mud! "yeah, mud!" by "Humour"	yeah, mud! - Single	So Young Records	2022	Humour are from Glasgow. “This song was one that just came to us,” the band explain. “I think it came together in less than an hour and everything just seemed to fit first time. A lot of the lyrics are inspired by an old book Andreas read. In this book a soldier realises he’s about to die and writes his mother a note. I think it’s interesting to think about what you might have to say if you realised you were going to die in a few minutes, and what you’d then say to your mother. Lots of pressure to come up with something important.”		0:16:29 (Pop-up)
Mush	Drink The Bleach "Drink The Bleach" by "Mush"	Lines Redacted	Memphis Records	2021	mush formed in 2015, its first iteration being as a five-piece noise band with three guitars. Rallying against aggravating, absurd political realities with passion and humor, the Leeds post-punks offer a tongue-in-cheek counterpoint to dourer contemporaries. By acknowledging the aggravating, absurd reality, then rallying against it with passion and humor, Mush’s lyrical themes share more with New York bands like Parquet Courts or BODEGA. Mush first earned attention with their 2017 single “Alternative Facts,” named for the nonsense phrase Kellyanne Conway used to justify former White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s lies about the size of the crowd at Donald Trump’s inauguration. Nearly 10 minutes long, the song became a surprise favorite of BBC Radio 6 DJ Marc Riley, showcasing both the group’s duelling six-string pyrotechnics and topical takes on current events.		0:19:18 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Wael El Nagar	Daret El Ayam "Daret El Ayam" by "Wael El Nagar"	I Love Belly Dance Music	Suna Bar	2009	I definitely love Belly Dance Music!		0:22:28 (Pop-up)
Pere Ubu	The Modern Dance "The Modern Dance" by "Pere Ubu"	The Modern Dance	Rough Trade / DGC	1978	Debut album from Cleveland "Rust Belt" avant-garage/proto-punk band Pere Ubu, whose first single was self-released in 1975. "The song features a repeated refrain of “Merdre, merdre,” which is a sly reference to the inspiration for the band’s name. In the play “Ubu Roi” by Alfred Jerry, the first line uttered by the character Ubu when he enters is “Merdre!” (Usually translated as “Shit!”) It created quite a scandal at the time."		0:30:38 (Pop-up)
Simply Saucer	Dance The Mutation "Dance The Mutation" by "Simply Saucer"	Cyborgs Revisited (Archival recordings from the first wave)	Sonic Unyon Records	1974+5 / 2018	Debut album (originally released 15 years after the fact) from Hamilton's "Rust Belt" Proto-Punk band Simply Saucer. I love songs that encourage the listener to do dances that don't exist. I wanted this whole set to be that, but I eventually got distracted by a "Deadbeat" theme. "Simply Saucer is a Canadian rock band formed during the 1970s. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, the band consisted of guitarist and vocalist Edgar Breau,bass guitarist Kevin Christoff, syth player, Ping Romany and drummer Neil DeMarchant. "The band's style has been described as a hybrid of proto-punk and psychedelia and they form a "Rust-belt punk" style, along with The Stooges, MC5, and Rocket From The Tombs. The group's references also included German Krautrock pioneers, Can, the early Pink Floyd and avante Classical music composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen." - "Though Simply Saucer had the guts to bring together tremendous influences from rock's past, including the Velvet Underground, early Pink Floyd, and the Stooges, the band was hardly noticed outside of its local area." "In 1974 Simply Saucer recorded their posthumously acclaimed cult classic, Cyborgs Revisited." "Jesse Locke, the band's biographer, writes in the liner notes: Simply Saucer’s Cyborgs Revisited is an explosive time capsule from one of the great Canadian cult rock ‘n’ roll groups. Formed on the hardscrabble streets of Hamilton, Ontario, these sci-fried proto-punks created a sound fusing Hawkwind, The Kinks, Pink Fairies, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, and the omnipresent Velvet Underground. Originally recorded from 1974-1975, the album became a critically revered classic when it was finally unearthed in 1989 by Hamilton Ontario Indie label, Mole Sound Recordings, helmed by music journalist, Bruce Mowat."		0:34:09 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Dead Beat Descendant "Dead Beat Descendant" by "The Fall"	Seminal Live	Beggars Banquet	1989	I love that "Seminal Live" is only half-live. The first side of the LP was recorded in a studio. I also love songs that instruct you to do a dance that doesn't really exist. "This dance can be pure hell / Enter at your peril / Take five deadbeat steps / Do a stroll Act like you just got outta jail / You must be repellant / Dance deadbeat descendant... Come back here, Come back here / Turn left side and shout come back here / Then hot-tail it right outta there / You are now descendant... Make out your head is in a bell / And you got a man on your trail / And you are descendent, of a vicious criminal..." Excellent! As always, start your research of The Fall here: thefall.org		0:38:41 (Pop-up)
Clone Your Own	Dead Beat Disco "Dead Beat Disco" by "Clone Your Own"	A House Where I Lived	Human Tourist Records	2020	Here comes the Dead Beat rabbit hole... This project seems to be from our own Toronto-area. Or Vancouver, British Columbia. Or both. Not sure yet. They reportedly have listeners in Barrie, Toronto, Victoria, Los Angeles & Kitchener. It is the solo project started by multi-instrumentalist Gabe Beneteau, in the fall of 2017. With only one demo and a handful of singles since the project's inception, 2020 saw the drop of Clone Your Own's debut EP "A House Where I Lived". Clone Your Own (Bandcamp)		0:41:02 (Pop-up)
Wine Lips	Dead Beat "Dead Beat" by "Wine Lips"	Wine Lips	Self-Released	2017	Play them twice in the same hour? Yes! And in the future, too, I'm sure. "Toronto based garage punk psych rockers, Wine Lips hit the stage for the first time in the fall of 2015. Initially a part time project between songwriter/guitar player, Cam Hilborn and drummer Aurora Evans, the band began playing clubs in Toronto, stretching organically to surrounding cities, and then into Quebec. By mid 2017 it was clear that the band members were ready to make a full-time commitment."		0:43:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Mekons	(A Dancing Master Such As) Mr. Confess	The English Dancing Master EP	CNT	1983	From a limited edition EP that seems not to have been repressed since its release in 1983, though this song has found its way onto bonus tracks and compilations a couple of times. Three (out of 4) songs on the EP have "dance" in the title. "The Last Dance" / "(A Dancing Master Such As) Mr. Confess" & "No Country Dance". That's what brought it to mind & got it pulled off the shelf.		0:46:20 (Pop-up)
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard	Dead-Beat	Willoughby's Beach	Flightless Records	2011 / 2018	Originally self-released. "King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are an Australian rock band formed in 2010 in Melbourne, Victoria. The band's current line-up consists of Stu Mackenzie, Ambrose Kenny-Smith, Cook Craig, Joey Walker, Lucas Harwood and Michael Cavanagh."		0:48:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Mekons	(A Dancing Master Such As) Mr. Confess	The English Dancing Master EP	CNT	1983	From a limited edition EP that seems not to have been repressed since its release in 1983, though this song has found its way onto bonus tracks and compilations a couple of times. Three (out of 4) songs on the EP have "dance" in the title. "The Last Dance" / "(A Dancing Master Such As) Mr. Confess" & "No Country Dance". That's what brought it to mind & got it pulled off the shelf.		0:50:51 (Pop-up)
Chewy She	Mustard "Mustard" by "Chewy She"	Mustard Single	CHEWY SHE	2022	Chewy She is an experimental disco punk pop patriarchy fighting artist based in London. We have played her other single "Je Suis Nue et Il Est Habille" previously and I'm thrilled to say that "Mustard" is just as delightful, though slightly more compact. Chewy She is also known as Garance Louis, who has collaborated in studios with Andy Ramsay (Stereolab), Eddie Stevens (Roisin Murphy). I can't wait to hear more!!!	*	1:00:29 (Pop-up)
The Wibbley Brothers	Der Wawazawa	Go Weird	Rondelay Records	1982	The Wibbley Brothers were formed in 1977 by English twin brothers Ronnie and Terry Wibbley. Their first record release, the "Dark Side Of The Mune" EP, came in 1981. "Der Wawazawa" followed in 1982, recorded at Spaceward Studios for their first Rondelet Records album "Go Weird". The LP was re-released on Trubshaw's Astonishing Records in 2015 and the Wibbley Brothers returned to occasional live performance. They continued to record throughout the decades however, and the "difficult second album" showcasing the best of that material was finally released, some 38 years after its predecessor, in December 2020 under the title "Mornin' Jack". This album is definitely worth a listen, it's QUITE the trip.		1:02:46 (Pop-up)
Christeen	BEAUCOUP MOROCCO "BEAUCOUP MOROCCO" by "Christeen"	BEAUCOUP MOROCCO	Spaceflight Records	2022	Christeene Vale, known mononymously as Christeene, is an American drag queen, performance artist, singer-songwriter and rapper. Christeene is noted for untraditional, "terrorist drag," which features her wearing torn-up clothing, stringy matted black wigs, and heavy and smeared makeup with aims to expose hypocrisy and intolerance. Christeene describes themselves as a genderqueer "drag terrorist," and is influenced by Jayne County and Bruce LaBruce's use of non-heteronormative gender roles and sexuality. Chelsea Weathers of Art Lies compared Christeene's "drag terrorism," sexual and racial commentary to Vaginal Davis: "the reflection Christeene offers includes the necessarily unsanitized underbelly of queer experience—the ambiguity of identifying as queer and the anger and humor that is part and parcel of that experience"		1:06:17 (Pop-up)
Asphixiation	The Crush "The Crush" by "Asphixiation"	What is This Thing Called 'Disco'?	Chapter Music	2007	“What Is This Thing Called ‘Disco’?” is a landmark Australian post-punk artefact, originally released in 1981 as an LP with accompanying 12” single. One of the first records from the Australian underground to incor-porate disco elements into the reigning post-punk aesthetic, “What Is This Thing Called ‘Disco’?” sits alongside records by international counterparts Flying Lizards and Yellow Magic Orchestra in its combination of art school formalism and dancefloor hedonism. Asphixiation was a one-off side project for Melbourne provocateur Philip Brophy, whose decade-long investigation into the aesthetics of punk, electronic and dance music began in the late 1970s. “What Is This Thing Called ‘Disco’?” was recorded just days before the exhibition of the same name opened in July 1980. Aged only 20, Brophy wrote all the music in 5 days, with accomplice Ralph Traviato taking care of lyrics.		1:09:05 (Pop-up)
A 3 Dans les WC	Photo Couleur "Photo Couleur" by "A 3 Dans les WC"	A 3 Dans les WC	La Face Cachee	2015	WC3 were a French New Wave band that debuted with a single on F.L.V.M. in 1979, followed by an EP and two albums on CBS between 1981 and 1982. The band’s popular 1982 release Moderne Musique was issued under the name À 3 dans les WC. They formed in 1978, St Quentin, Picardie, France and disbanded by 1984 leaving behind 1 EP and a handful of singles...		1:13:15 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Peliatan Dance Group	Legong Keratong - Court Dance	Indonesia: Gamelan & Dances From Bali	Multicultural Media	2013			1:17:23 (Pop-up)
Bauhaus	St Vitus Dance "St Vitus Dance" by "Bauhaus"	In The Flat Field (Expanded)	Beggar's Banquet Archive	1980 / 2009	It does not seem that there is a consensus on the meaning of the lyrics of this song, but I have an opinion --- "Sydenham’s chorea is also called ‘chorea minor’ or ‘infectious chorea’ or ‘rheumatic chorea’ or ‘St. Vitus’ dance’ The name of the disease originates from its discoverer, the English physician Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689). The eponym ‘St Vitus’ dance refers to the saint of the same name, who was persecuted by the Roman emperors and died a Christian martyr in 303 A.D., the patron saint of dancers. Prolonged dances historically take place in front of his statue during the feast of St. Vitus in Germanic and Latvian cultures. The name of this disease refers to the rapid movements of sufferers, which resemble a dance. In English, Sydenham’s chorea is called ‘sydenham’s chorea’ or ‘St Vitus’ dance’." "Sydenham's chorea, also known as chorea minor and historically and occasionally referred to as St Vitus' dance, is a disorder characterized by rapid, uncoordinated jerking movements primarily affecting the face, hands and feet." -- Lyric excerpts from the song: "Back in the good old dance when dancing meant exploding / The idea was simple for a decent overloading / And for a multiple flash with no cords attached / He came up with a more remote flash trigger / It's connected to an accessory in his hip / Which automatically fires in perfect synchro / But perhaps his most exciting development is his angle / They call it the dance / It's the St. Vitus dance / Such flexibility / What an accessory / See his soft bounce What flexibility... ...And for special effects he has six filters / Three colored red with the others pilfered / And if you really want to know what that means / He could throw a blue flash from eighty-five feet / Of course you might want to check out your own little output / So we devised a few simple and easy to crack contortions / So you can bump and scrape all the day through / With the dance / It's the St. Vitus dance, the St. Vitus dance / Such flexibility... ...Check his hot shoe / Feel his output / He's a light machine, see his angle / He's a light machine" --- Back to my opinion... This song, to me, seems to tie together the involuntary movements & spasms of the medical condition with the idea of someone mounting lighting effects to his body and becoming a lightshow. A bit of macabre humour, inventing a living, dancing lightshow based on a disease. At least this is how I see the song. Then again, I always thought Bauhaus had a sense of humour in their early days.		1:29:47 (Pop-up)
Dance Disaster Movement	I Want Your Sass	We Are From Nowhere	Dim Mak	2003	Sometimes the dance is in the artist name, and not in the song. "One of the many bands combining punk and disco in the early 2000s, Dance Disaster Movement had one of the noisiest, most aggressive takes on the style. A white-clad duo consisting of multi-instrumentalist Kevin Disco and percussionist Matt Howze, the band formed in Long Beach, CA, in 2001. Bored with the repetitiveness and posturing that they saw in the post-punk/hardcore scene around them, the pair wanted to make music that was both visceral and danceable. The mix of guitar and keyboard noise and tribal percussion in Dance Disaster Movement's music attracted Dim Mak Records, who signed the band and released their debut album We Are From Nowhere in early 2003."		1:33:33 (Pop-up)
Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様	Dancing Blue	Kumoyo Island	Guru Guru	2022	Kikagaku Moyo (Japanese: 幾何学模様, Hepburn: Kikagaku Moyō) are a Japanese psychedelic band from Tokyo. The band's name translates to "geometric patterns." They formed in 2012. On 19 Jan 2022, the band announced they would go on an indefinite hiatus after 2022, and that their next record would be their last. Titled Kumoyo Island, the album was released in May 2022. "Kikagaku Moyo have come a long way –both literally and metaphorically– since their humble beginnings busking on the streets of Tokyo back in 2012. A tight-knit group of five friends who bonded over the desire to play freely, and explore music associated with space and psychedelica, their initial ambitions were modest semi-regular slots in the cramped clubs of the city’s insular music scene. Yet the band’s progressive, folk-influenced take on psychedelica marked them out from their peers and re-started Japan’s psych rock scene; it also brought them international acclaim. With a settled line up – Go Kurosawa (drums, vox), Tomo Katsurada (guitar, vox), Kotsuguy (bass), Daoud Popal (guitar), Ryu Kurosawa (sitar), – and a signature sound that blended classical Indian music, Krautrock, traditional folk, 70s rock, and acid-tinged psych, the band sold out shows across Europe and founded their own label, Guruguru Brain, to showcase not just their own work, but the under-represented music scene in East Asia"	*	1:39:23 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Stereolab	Blaue Milch "Blaue Milch" by "Stereolab"	Pulse Of The Early Brain [Switched On Volume 5]	Duophonic / Warp Records	1998 / 2022	The official write up: "‘Blaue Milch’ was recorded for a Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra compilation album – each artist on the album was sent a Peter Thomas audio track and was asked to build it into a new track. Originally released in 1998 by the Bungalow record label." ---- This sounds to me more like the song "Brakhage" from their 1997 album Dots And Loops, if that song was turned inside out, with some progressions surviving & an approximation of the harmonica from "Theme from "Midnight Cowboy"" transposed to keyboard & intermittently floating through the song. "Blaue Milch" translates to Blue Milk. Stereolab would another song called "Blue Milk" on their following 1999 album "Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night." It was an epic 11+ and/or 16+ minute (depending on the version of the album you purchased) epic. That song does not, in my estimation, sound like this one. "Brakhage" kinda does.	*	1:45:06 (Pop-up)
The Drowning Craze	Storage Case "Storage Case" by "The Drowning Craze"	Storage Case 7"	Situation Two	1981	Initially a vehicle for Angela Jaeger, a New York-born vocalist who had moved to London to study voice and musical theater, Drowning Craze was only together from 1980 to 1982. Although its post-punk approach put them on the cutting edge of early-'80s British music, they're best remembered as the breeding ground for musicians who went on to greater things. Jaeger left the band following the release of its debut single, "Storage Case", to return to college and went on to sing with The Monochrome Set, Billy MacKenzie, Disconnection, Bush Tetras, Pigbag and Instinct while bassist Simon Raymonde became an important member of the Cocteau Twins. Drowning Craze released its most promising single after Jaeger's departure. Featuring the vocals of Chicago-born Frankie Nardiello (aka Groovie Mann), "Trance" was named "single of the week" by British music magazines, NME and Melody Maker. The group, however, never had a chance to fulfill their potential, disbanded by late 1982.		1:50:11 (Pop-up)
Drahla	Under The Glass "Under The Glass" by "Drahla"	Under The Glass Single	Captured Tracks	2022	Under the Glass' represents a moment of creative reconnection, almost a sense of euphoria in the darkest moments - an awaited, yet slight, respite from reality. The song is a collage, reworking early ideas from 2020 with newer work - bridging the gap of time, in the literal sense as well as musically. The lyrics are deliberately vague, using metaphor to interpret personal experience and emotion of loss and grief. ‘Under the Glass’ is the first single of an upcoming, mostly unwritten album. lyrics. Drahla are from Leeds. Formed in late 2015, Drahla quickly found their identity in Yorkshire’s fertile music scene with their minimal yet robust bass-heavy sound blending art rock and post-punk...	*	1:53:18 (Pop-up)
Mystery Season	Dust With a Capital D	Too Much, Too Soon, Tomorrow (Special Edition)	Noisy Neighbours	2021	A purveyor of dreamy beats and twinkly treats, Mystery Season is the musical alias of Glasgow based producer and songwriter, Kye Perry. Kye really went to town with his detuned take on all things dreamy during a year living in Utrecht, The Netherlands, where bargain synthesizers from Markplaats (Dutch Ebay) led to an expanding sound palette for Kye's musical solar system. Brought up on a diet of Stevie Wonder and Jamiroqaui,(????HUH???) Mystery Season's sound revolves around dense arrangements and lush harmony. We dislike Jamiroquai but we very much like this.		1:56:35 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sounds Of The Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds Of The Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			2:00:48 (Pop-up)
Zru Vogue	Nakweda Dream "Nakweda Dream" by "Zru Vogue"	Nakweda Dream 7"	Adolescent Records	1981	Zru Vogue is a two man post punk avant-pop group from Palo Alto, California, combining the talents of Andrew Finkle and Rick Cuevas. The band began in 1980 as a four member group: Rick, Andy, Tom Sanders and Nancy Miller. Tom and Nancy left the group shortly after the first single, "Nakweda Dream", was released by independent San Francisco label Adolescent Records in February 1981. Inspired by rave reviews and heavy airplay on alternative radio stations, Andy and Rick went back into the studio, now as a duo, to record some new ZRU tracks. The self-tilted LP was released on the band’s Zero Risk Records in 1982. It contains eight compositions blending African tribal and Middle Eastern rhythms, avant-garde rock, minimal electronics, and funk-rock guitars. The duo’s sound is inspired by the art and anti-art movements of Dada and Surrealism.		2:03:19 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sounds Of The Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds Of The Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			2:08:11 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	7:51pm DJ Babs: Hello lovely Beachers and welcome!!! We'll be starting the show off shortly at 8pm! Grab your towel, dancing shoes, drinks and combustables...it's going to be a fun one!
	7:54pm Derek Westerholm: Yes, it's true, I once again (and eternally) have far too many windows open on my desktop. Hello!
	🏝 8:00pm Scott67: G'day Babs, Derek & Beached as bros!🐋 🌏☀️🏝️🏖️🍻😎🤙🤿🩴🩴🐚🦀🌊🦈
	8:00pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	8:01pm Mr Fab: I have been remanded into the custody of Derek n Babs (as Kitten says)
	8:02pm DJ Babs: hahah! Hello Scott and Damno and Fab! Great to see y'all!!
	8:02pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Hello hello - Rip Van Winkle made it this week. :)
	8:02pm Mr Fab: those notes: haha, Fact-Checking B-52's Lyrics!
	8:02pm DJ Babs: We're just talkin it out here. Oh hello YPB! Your alarm worked this time I see LOL
	8:02pm Derek Westerholm: Fab, you have! He does! I love it!
	8:03pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Ultra, Hello YPB.
	8:04pm Rich in Washington: Hi Babs N' Derek! Hi everyone!
	8:04pm Alli B: Hiiiiii!
	🏝 8:04pm Scott67: Beached as Bro;🐋 youtu.be...
	8:05pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: I actually did set my ‘Wake up, it’s time to hit the beach!’ alarm. It’s quite effective.
	8:05pm ultradamno: I just saw an article that King Khan & BBQ now have a hit because of a TikTok video. Take that Kate Bush!
	8:05pm Derek Westerholm: Mr. Fab, I am so happy you noticed that... these really are the sorts of things I think about. Also, coincidentally, we also just had tuna for dinner. Not sure if it was a "shy tuna" seeing as it was, uh, no longer showing much of its personality.
	🏝 8:05pm Kat in Chicago: I haven't heard this in a while and I had forgotten how exquisite it is
	8:05pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Rich! Hello Alli! (Congrats!) Hello Kat!
	🏝 8:06pm Kat in Chicago: can't hear yoooouuuu
	🏝 8:06pm Kat in Chicago: well just barely
	8:07pm Mr Fab: NOW we hear ya
	🏝 8:07pm Kat in Chicago: there ya go :)
	8:07pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: There are those amazing voices!!!! Oh hello, Hello Babs and Derek.
	8:08pm ultradamno: I thought it was a condition, shaken hippie syndrome
	8:09pm Mr Fab: Usula1000 knows Fred. he's guested on U1k's albums.
	🏝 8:11pm WR: Hi folks, glad to be listening tonight.
	8:11pm laurapanic: I made it, hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
	8:12pm Feldy: Okay let's dance. Hi guys!
	8:12pm DJ Babs: Hi Laura, WR, Kat! Everyone!
	8:12pm ultradamno: The Cool Jerk was originally called Cool Pimp, it was written about pimps who would go to dances when The Jerk was a big dance and wanted to be out on the floor with the girls but wouldn't do this stupid popular dance everyone else was doing and would just hang out there. The Capitols were, I think wisely, talked out of using the title because it might have interfered with it becoming the hit that it did.
	8:12pm DJ Babs: Sorry for the technical difficulties! Please let us know if there are any more mic issues...
	8:15pm Derek Westerholm: Hello there WR, Laura, Feldy, hello hello hello!!!
	8:15pm DJ Babs: Hi Feldy!!!!
	8:16pm DJ Babs: Great to have you with us tonight as well Kat! :-)
	8:17pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Ohhhh love this.
	8:17pm Mr Fab: Now i wanna hear a remake as "Cool Pimp"
	8:17pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: …and this one too.
	8:18pm DJ Babs: Yes, this track has been in my ears for a couple of weeks and have been meaning to play it for ages!
	8:18pm DJ Babs: Also yes I want to hear cool pimp as well! That totally makes sense UD!
	8:18pm ultradamno: Since this is Godard week, the dance to do is The Madison
	8:19pm DJ Babs: That's right. He will be missed for sure!
	8:20pm Feldy: The missing dances are The Clambake, The Curly Shuffle, The Whole Buncha Lotta, The Bunt Cake Butt, The Gravy Train, The Oogie Booger, The Southern Gentleman, The Ham Bone, and The Lazy Christine
	8:21pm DJ Babs: I love the whole buncha lotta!!!!
	8:21pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Mush are so cool…
	8:21pm DJ Babs: also does the southern gentleman include drinking a mint julep and yelling out "I DOOO DECLAIIIIRAH"
	8:22pm ultradamno: My favorite is "Do The Standing Still" by The Table. Anyone can do that dance
	8:22pm Dave Rout: Heyyyyyy Allll
	8:22pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra... "I thought it was a condition, shaken hippie syndrome"... I'll be getting to that later, haha.
	8:23pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Dave!!
	8:24pm Dave Rout: All good on the sound !
	8:24pm Cp304: All good now babs
	8:25pm Mr Fab: Feldy, th B52s absolutely have to get in the studio to record "Dance This Mess Around Again." And you get co-songwriting credit.
	8:25pm Feldy: I rather like Mush
	8:27pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Dave Rout! Hello Cp304!
	8:30pm Feldy: You had me at Ty Segall produced
	8:31pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Hey Dave R.
	8:32pm Dave Rout: Hey Cameron 👋
	8:32pm DJ Babs: Hi CP304!!
	8:32pm DJ Babs: how's everyone doing tonight? I hope you're all faring well!!!
	8:32pm Derek Westerholm: Feldy, excellent list of the missing dances, haha. Now I am falling down the wormhole... Please, everyone create a list of the 8 dances missing from "Dance This Mess Around"...!!!
	🏝 8:33pm Scott67: G'day Laura!🍻😎🤙💨☕🌻
	8:34pm Derek Westerholm: Interesting facts about the "Cool Pimp / Cool Jerk", Ultra! Thanks!
	8:34pm Mr Fab: Right on, Pere Ubu! "Dub Housing" is their [Alastair Cooke voice:] MAHsterpiece, but "Modern Dance" is damn god.
	8:34pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: All is well here and I’m still awake.
	8:34pm ultradamno: There must be a thousand, to fill up that dance land I've heard so much about.
	8:35pm ultradamno: I agree about Dub Housing, but I'm a horror guy and that's kind of their horror record
	8:37pm Mr Fab: Yeah imagine if Fred sang "They do all thousand dances." Dang, that'd be a long record.
	8:38pm Mr Fab: Simply Saucer = my fave Canadian band there I said it.
	8:38pm DJ Babs: My dances so far are the "silent Stingray" the "knotty pole", "the stagnant muffin" and the "herringbone"
	🏝 8:39pm Kat in Chicago: I'm rather impressed by "Stagnant Muffin"
	8:40pm DJ Babs: lol...yes. you just kinda stand in one place and expand...
	8:40pm Feldy: Let's dance The stagnant muffin :)
	8:41pm Derek Westerholm: Mr. Fab... "Simply Saucer = my fave Canadian band there I said it." Awesome! And Edgar Breau is a sweetheart. I have interviewed him and shared a gig/stage with him more than once!
	8:43pm Derek Westerholm: "Stagnant Muffin" truly is superlative!
	🏝 8:46pm Scott67: I fucken love you 2 awesome bastards!🍁❤️❤️ 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍷🍺🍷
	8:48pm ultradamno: No Deadbeats On Parade by The Deadbeats? That's as deadbeat as it gets
	8:52pm DJ Babs: lol we're pretty loose tonight! It's a comedy of misadventure here
	8:58pm ultradamno: Speaking of Mekons, Quality Of Mercy, underrated in my opinion, is another for the 79 evidence file
	9:00pm Tyler: Good Even-ning!
	9:01pm Tyler: Rising Muffin!
	9:01pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Tyler.
	9:02pm DJ Babs: I'm SO EXCITED to share this tune, it's so much fun!!!
	🏝 9:02pm Scott67: Loose is the only way to flow Babs! 🍻😎🤙
	9:02pm Tyler: @ultradammo <3 Mekons! Have many of their records and saw them live at The Horseshoe & Jon Langford and the Sadies another time. Both awesome shows!
	9:03pm Tyler: Hi Babs! This song is fantastique!
	9:04pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Hey Tyler.
	🏝 9:04pm Scott67: This rips!🍻😎🤙
	9:04pm Tyler: Hi Cameron!
	9:04pm Alli B: Great song!
	9:04pm DJ Babs: omg yes! this whole album is a fucking TRIP
	9:05pm DJ Babs: heya ALLI!!!!! Nice to see you!!!
	9:05pm Tyler: Der Wawazawa - they need this for the next Food basics ad :)
	9:05pm Tyler: Hi Alli B!
	9:06pm Cp304: I'm gonna werk on this dance
	9:06pm ultradamno: @Tyler Only saw them once, in Columbus Ohio late 80s/early 90s super fun show
	9:08pm DJ Babs: lol Tyler!! Yes, I also too want to dance the wawazawa!!!
	🏝 9:09pm Kat in Chicago: Do you have to do it in a Wawa?
	9:09pm Derek Westerholm: The Quality Of Mercy Is Not Strnen is a fantastic album, Ultra. I love the cover art, I love the album, if you have the CD, the bonus tracks are essential. Everything about it is shambolic, wiry, astute, flippant and wonderful. They recorded it with Gang Of Four's equipment. They also were one of the punk bands that truly couldn't play their own instruments. Still active to this day, having accomplished an impressive discography & touching on many varied genres while sounding like themselves. This is the true meaning of the punk movement, in my estimation. Find out how to do it yourself, get as good at it as you can, go wherever you want, say interesting things and pander to no-one. Love them!
	9:10pm DJ Babs: This one goes out to Scott and Laura down under!!!
	9:10pm Alli B: 🔥🔥🔥
	9:11pm DJ Babs: This song is shitdisco perfection!
	9:11pm laurapanic: oh wow, I feel like I know the name Phil Brophy but maybe more research is required.
	9:11pm Tyler: @ultradamno they used to get plastered back in the 80's. I have live album that is quite a smear of drunken entendres. Very entertaining. Fortunately when I saw them they had sobered up some.
	9:11pm Alli B: Let’s take a lap around the club before we commit to a location
	9:12pm DJ Babs: RIGHT! I love doin the club stroll.
	9:13pm Tyler: Clean that SAX!
	9:15pm DJ Babs: all week in my head it's been PHOTO COULEUR PHOTO COULEUR PHOTO COULEUR!!! (just that)
	9:16pm Derek Westerholm: Speaking of The Mekons, Jon Langford is another person who has agreed to an interview (again). He's also wonderful. Prolific, talented, warm, funny, smart, down-to-earth. Always great when someone you have listened to forever also ends up being someone you meet & someone you like. Amongst his many other projects, he recorded with Toronto's "The Sadies" (R.I.P. Dallas Good.) I love it when worlds collide!
	🏝 9:16pm Kat in Chicago: One of my dances is the Crush on Jon Langford
	9:17pm Tyler: @Derek some touchstone Mekons records for me: Devils, Rats & Piggies, Rock 'n Roll, OOOH! (Out of Our Heads). The Mekons Story, Fast Product Mutant Pop, and They Shall Not Pass - CNT Records are also great compilations that contain classic material.
	9:18pm Tyler: Jon Langford was also in the Three John$ who are also fantastic. 'Pink-Headed Bug' may be one of the finest pop songs to come out Leeds.
	9:18pm coelacanth∅: hello Derek & Babs and all
	9:19pm Tyler: @Derek would love to hear you interview Jon Langford.
	9:19pm Alli B: We have an Indonesian friend over who just stopped dead in his tracks 😂
	9:19pm MHLee: hi folks
	🏝 9:20pm Kat in Chicago: That's cool Alli B!
	9:20pm ultradamno: I love a lot of Langford's solo stuff, particularly Old Devils and Four Lost Souls also though Katjonband!!! Being a one-off I think it's gotten lost, but one of the best of the gtr/drm duos. Mekons in recent years I have to say have done some of my favorite records by them Ancient & Modern and Deserted in particular are spectacular. Exquisite is very good too.
	9:21pm Derek Westerholm: Laura... re: Phil Brophy, it's Wikipedia, but I found this as a starting point: en.wikipedia.org...
	🏝 9:21pm Scott67: AAAW! ta luv! 🍻😎🤙💨🍷
	9:23pm laurapanic: Got it!! Brophy made a classic Ozploitation movie called Body Melt. WATCH IT
	9:23pm Tyler: Sally Timms' (I believe) voice is beautiful and very evocative. Hate Is The New Love gives me goosebumps.
	🏝 9:23pm Kat in Chicago: Ozploitation is a thing?
	9:24pm Tyler: The Disc-Charge! @Babs
	9:24pm Derek Westerholm: Tyler, agreed with all Mekons/Three Johns... I played Three Johns at least once on the show, but it will happen again in the future, I'm sure. Their records stare at me from the shelf.
	🏝 9:24pm Kat in Chicago: I love Sally Timms too
	9:24pm laurapanic: Kat it is glorious There is a doco about it: Not Quite Hollywood
	9:25pm laurapanic: I love them: primer here: en.wikipedia.org...
	9:25pm Derek Westerholm: Tyler, I interviewed Jon Langford (twice?) for No Beat Radio on CIUT. I might have them archived somewhere, but he's up for another, we just have to nail down the time & so forth.
	9:26pm Derek Westerholm: Hi MHLee, hi coelacanth∅!
	9:26pm Tyler: I believe one of the times I saw the Mekons a local band called 'Precious Little' opened for them who were just fantastic. I bought their CD. They do a song 'I Don't Want To Go To School I Just Want To Go To Sleep' which is like a morning anthem for me :)
	🏝 9:27pm Kat in Chicago: Quite a list of titles there, laurapanic. Do the Ozploitation!
	9:30pm Tyler: I think it's a Bass fed through a Fuzz pedal and phaser - Eno-style!
	9:31pm MHLee: They call that beauty
	9:31pm DJ Babs: Paging Dave Rout, we're trying to figure out what that synthy ring modulated sound is...I say it's a synth. Derek says it's a guitar.
	9:32pm coelacanth∅: i think it's a guitar w/effects
	9:32pm DJ Babs: A guitar played through a synth?
	9:34pm Tyler: Sounds like a Bass Guitar to me given the thick pluckyness of the notes.
	9:34pm coelacanth∅: there's a filter i forget what it's called makes it sound like an am signal coming out of a little transistor radio
	9:34pm Alli B: Ooooooof
	9:34pm Alli B: FUCK ME UP
	9:35pm DJ Babs: Yes...I'll have to look it up but I'm guessing some combination of pedals
	9:35pm DJ Babs: LOL we are so ooof tonight I SWEAR we have jumbies!!!
	9:35pm coelacanth∅: yes could be a bass with the low end turned down with eq
	9:35pm Derek Westerholm: Bass would make sense, since Daniel Ash is clearly playing guitar & David J is the bassist. But that doesn't mean he "has" to play bass, haha.
	9:36pm laurapanic: Kat: Patrick, and Fair Game are on Youtube and a re fun to watch. A good start.
	🏝 9:36pm Kat in Chicago: Thanks laura! I'm keeping the wiki tab open
	🏝 9:37pm Kat in Chicago: Wait, Walkabout is on this list? I love Walkabout.
	9:37pm laurapanic: The Time Guardian is another cool/terrible film Aussie sci fi that they somehow got Carrie Fisher to come to Australia and film. It is on the Internet Archive.
	9:38pm laurapanic: Walkabout was a pretty serious film, but they have it on the list...I try to find the more terrible films cuz I love them. And the doco Not Quite Hollywood is supercool.
	9:38pm coelacanth∅: Babs, i lived with someone in the early 90s and i had balanese gamelan on one day and she loved it, but not for the reasons i love it or probably most people do... she said it sounded like children banging pots and pans!
	9:39pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra... "KatJonBand"... I do love any collaboration with any member of The Ex. Jon Langford produced The Ex on an EP from 1990. In fact, they collaborated with each other here and there over the years. (inc. on a Mekons track or two.)
	9:39pm ultradamno: Walkabout is a classic
	9:39pm DJ Babs: Re: David J's bass sound...this bunch of music nerds posit that his sound may have come from the EHX Bassballs pedal... www.basschat.co.uk...
	🏝 9:40pm Scott67: Gotta love a bit a Oz Schlock aye Laura! Must check out Razorback again one day.
	9:40pm DJ Babs: Also Daniel Ash did play a baritone guitar quite frequently. In fact, I tried very hard to buy one that previously belonged to him from a friend but they would not sell it to me.
	9:41pm MHLee: I've heard good things about Walkabout but I think the only Aussie film I've seen is BabaKiueria
	🏝 9:42pm Kat in Chicago: This Kikagaku Moyo is cool!
	9:42pm MHLee: Seen quite a few Kiwi ones
	9:42pm laurapanic: Oh my people need to get more Aussie genre movies in them. The ones I recommend if you like the terrible/shocking/so bad its good kinda vibes.
	9:43pm laurapanic: Turkey Shoot is a classic and its on YouTube. The Man from Hong Kong also. IT HAS HANG GLIDERS
	9:43pm DJ Babs: Yes! Kikagu Moyo are so great...and they just released their final album...such a bummer!
	9:43pm MHLee: Oh I saw the Crocodile Hunter movie if that counts
	9:43pm ultradamno: Walkabout made it but The Proposition didn't?
	9:44pm MHLee: The one where George Bush is trying to hunt steve irwin
	9:44pm Derek Westerholm: I didn't know anything about Kikagaku Moyo before last week... They are very interesting. Seems they are played often on WFMU. Yes, it's a shame they're calling it quits after this year.
	9:44pm Tyler: This song is lovely!
	🏝 9:44pm Scott67: There are some 'interesting' inclusions in that Ozploitation List Laura? Some classic films have been chucked in too.
	9:44pm Tyler: Like if Lush did an album with Bow Wow Wow
	9:45pm Alli B: It really is lovely!
	9:45pm ultradamno: I mean The Proposition is pretty dour, but it is more of a genre exercise
	9:45pm Tyler: I love Nick Cave & Warren Ellis' soundtrack work.
	9:47pm Tyler: @utradamno for 'The Proposition' I think Nick Cave was making a commentary on the romanticization of westerns and the frontier - trying to show a more realistic perspective on the conditions.
	🏝 9:47pm Kat in Chicago: I am FINALLY going to see Stereolab at the end of this month. Had tickets twice before, for one show the venue got changed and I couldn't go, the other show was canceled because pandemic
	9:49pm Tyler: @Kat in Chicago - nice! That was my last concert before the Pandemic. They were great, though obviously missing Mary Hansen, but they still have many tricks up their collective sleaves.
	🏝 9:50pm Kat in Chicago: I could have gone any number of times when Mary Hansen was still with us, I don't know what my problem was but I never went.
	9:50pm laurapanic: Scotty I totally agree, its a bit too broad for sure
	9:51pm laurapanic: Ultradamo: my area of expertise is 70s and early 80s I've not seen Cave's fillum
	9:51pm Tyler: I saw them back in the 90's when she was still with us. It was great and I definitely miss the sublime vocal & farfisa interplay that she & Laetitia would do.
	🏝 9:51pm Scott67: Laura, the Wiki Effect; Anyone can put shit up.
	9:53pm Alli B: This song is incredible. It’s wiggling around in my chest.
	9:53pm Cp304: This rocks
	🏝 9:53pm Scott67: 'Ghosts Of The Civil Dead'; has Nick Cave in it as a Psycho Prisoner.
	9:54pm Tyler: Gotta love a song called 'Storage Case'
	9:54pm DJ Babs: Yes, it's like a young shirley bassey singing with bauhaus lol...
	9:54pm Derek Westerholm: Saw Stereolab with The Fall & Mouse And Mars in 1994. Never expected that Mouse And Mars would collaborate with BOTH acts in the following years. Certainly never would have predicted a full album+ of material from Mouse On Mars & Mark E Smith.
	9:55pm Derek Westerholm: Kat, I am sure the Stereolab concert will be wonderful! Enjoy!
	9:55pm Feldy: What a most excellent show!
	9:55pm Tyler: @Derek Wow - that must have been some show. Love Mouse On Mars but have never seen them live.
	9:55pm laurapanic: Scott: I saw that movie when it came out and it fucked me up #ghostsofthecivildead
	🏝 9:55pm Kat in Chicago: Yeah that's one heck of a bill, Derek
	9:56pm Tyler: Mouse On Mars is great driving music (when I still had a car)
	9:56pm Derek Westerholm: I have a bit of the Nick Cave / Warren Ellis soundtrack work in my collection for years, but weirdly I have barely ever listened to it.
	9:56pm ultradamno: Kind of like when that Coldcut record came out, at that time I was not anticipating a house record with MES on it and Mark Beyer cover art
	9:57pm DJ Babs: Thank you Feldy! We really love doing this show...and we are so grateful to share this time with you all!!!
	9:57pm Tyler: Now Drahla is just fucking with us on the dancefloor :)
	🏝 9:57pm Scott67: Laura, I saw it in my Art School days, so it was all grist for my practice then. It's not in the list that I can see? Fucken should be!
	9:58pm Tyler: @ultradamno It took me ages to separate in my mind 'Coldcut' from 'Coldplay'. Like in the early 00's when all of those bands had Wolf in their name. I still am not sure who is who :)
	9:59pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, 100%
	10:00pm ultradamno: There was also a Detroit punk band called Coldcock, to confuse matters further (since that's what I always want to say when I think of Coldcut)
	10:00pm Tyler: @ultradamno ' BINGO!
	10:00pm Derek Westerholm: All this OzFilm info is fascinating... Must put on the watchlist.
	10:01pm Feldy: Sixty three already!
	10:01pm Tyler: @ultradamno it would be great if 'Coldcock' did hardcore versions of Coldplay songs :)
	10:02pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Fantastic show!
	10:02pm Alli B: Thank you thank you thank you!
	10:03pm ultradamno: There times didn't really overlap, but everyone reunites. An obscure 79 release www.discogs.com...
	10:03pm Tyler: Thanks Babs, Derek and Producer ShmeepShmoop!
	10:03pm Feldy: Thank you guys! Dances with Echoes
	🏝 10:03pm Kat in Chicago: Thank you for this most excellent music
	10:03pm Tyler: Nice spending time with you all...
	🏝 10:04pm Scott67: Thanks Babs & Derek! 🍻😎🤙🍁❤️❤️
	10:04pm ultradamno: *Their times...grrr
	10:04pm Tyler: Love the light-touch drumming
	10:05pm DJ Babs: Thank you all! You're AMAZING!!!!!!! Take good care of yourselves, everyone! Sending big sheena hugz out to the best crew!!!
	10:05pm Tyler: Like a Timex watch
	10:05pm Derek Westerholm: Mouse On Mars were excellent when I saw them live. Very collaborative. Rare to see an electronic duo behind their mixing gear & computers being so dynamic, collaborative, upbeat and creative... They were far from boring, actually exciting & infectious!
	10:06pm Tyler: @Derek definitely have to check MoM out should they tour again.
	10:07pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra... Thank-you... Another for the '79 list!
	🏝 10:07pm WR: Have been absent in comments but my ears were happily attentive for the whole episode. Thank you!
	10:08pm DJ Babs: Thank you thank you WR!!!!
	10:08pm Derek Westerholm: Thank-you all! So happy to be with each & every one of you!
	10:08pm Mr Fab: What’s Canadian for “thanks, great show”?
	10:08pm Derek Westerholm: Mr. Fab... Beats me, haha.
	10:09pm Derek Westerholm: "Thanks, great shoe"??
	10:09pm Tyler: "Beauty, eh..."

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Sounds Of The Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds Of The Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The B-52's	Dance This Mess Around	The B-52's	Warner Bros.	1979	This is the song from which our loose theme for tonight's show is drawn. "They Do All 16 Dances" Fun fact, the song only lists eight of "all 16 dances". Those would be (in order of appearance) The Shu Ga Loo, The Shy Tuna, The Camel Walk, The Hip O Crit, The Coo Ca Choo, The Aqua Velva, The Dirty Dog, The Escalator. If you want to count The Hippy Shake, then I guess there's 9 dances mentioned. I wonder how many they considered and/or invented while writing the song. I like that they decided to leave some to the listener's imagination. I wonder when they consciously decided to leave some out. These are things I think about sometimes.		0:00:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sounds Of The Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds Of The Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			0:09:41 (Pop-up)
Lamps	Confirmed Frenchman "Confirmed Frenchman" by "Lamps"	People With Faces	In The Red	2020	Creators of cantankerous, chaotic L.A. garage punk, Lamps made their reputation with a noisy, stripped-down sound seasoned with occasional bursts of electronic anarchy as the band pounded out the beat. They are the brainchild of singer and guitarist Monty Buckles and drummer Josh Erkman. Buckles is also a filmaker and video director for bands of note...this last album was produced by Ty Seagall, and it shows!		0:09:44 (Pop-up)
Wine Lips	Kamikaze "Kamikaze" by "Wine Lips"	Mushroom Death Sex Bummer Party	Stomp	2021	Wine Lips are from Toronto. This garage rock band wear their pants short and their guitars high. Wine Lips is Cam Hilborn on Guitar and Vocals with Aurora Evans on Drums, Jordan Sosensky on Guitar and Charlie Weare on Bass. They are currently on tour in Quebec and Southern Ontario and head to Europe in November. We wish them well!		0:11:17 (Pop-up)
Smirk	Eyes Conversing "Eyes Conversing" by "Smirk"	LP	Feel It Records	2021	Hailing from Los Angeles and coated in a layer of warbled analog glory comes the debut full length album from Smirk, the solo project helmed by Nick Vicario (Public Eye, Crisis Man). A trebly & wiry punk sound comes into effect straight out of the gate, reminiscent of the early Dangerhouse Records singles as well as the “Bloodstains Across...” comps (to be more precise). But there's far more to Smirk - with great songwriting, precision, and instrumentation that seem to emanate from a past that never was, bursting any preconceived sub-genre bubbles from this reality and those parallel to it.		0:14:07 (Pop-up)
Humour	yeah, mud! "yeah, mud!" by "Humour"	yeah, mud! - Single	So Young Records	2022	Humour are from Glasgow. “This song was one that just came to us,” the band explain. “I think it came together in less than an hour and everything just seemed to fit first time. A lot of the lyrics are inspired by an old book Andreas read. In this book a soldier realises he’s about to die and writes his mother a note. I think it’s interesting to think about what you might have to say if you realised you were going to die in a few minutes, and what you’d then say to your mother. Lots of pressure to come up with something important.”		0:16:29 (Pop-up)
Mush	Drink The Bleach "Drink The Bleach" by "Mush"	Lines Redacted	Memphis Records	2021	mush formed in 2015, its first iteration being as a five-piece noise band with three guitars. Rallying against aggravating, absurd political realities with passion and humor, the Leeds post-punks offer a tongue-in-cheek counterpoint to dourer contemporaries. By acknowledging the aggravating, absurd reality, then rallying against it with passion and humor, Mush’s lyrical themes share more with New York bands like Parquet Courts or BODEGA. Mush first earned attention with their 2017 single “Alternative Facts,” named for the nonsense phrase Kellyanne Conway used to justify former White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s lies about the size of the crowd at Donald Trump’s inauguration. Nearly 10 minutes long, the song became a surprise favorite of BBC Radio 6 DJ Marc Riley, showcasing both the group’s duelling six-string pyrotechnics and topical takes on current events.		0:19:18 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Wael El Nagar	Daret El Ayam "Daret El Ayam" by "Wael El Nagar"	I Love Belly Dance Music	Suna Bar	2009	I definitely love Belly Dance Music!		0:22:28 (Pop-up)
Pere Ubu	The Modern Dance "The Modern Dance" by "Pere Ubu"	The Modern Dance	Rough Trade / DGC	1978	Debut album from Cleveland "Rust Belt" avant-garage/proto-punk band Pere Ubu, whose first single was self-released in 1975. "The song features a repeated refrain of “Merdre, merdre,” which is a sly reference to the inspiration for the band’s name. In the play “Ubu Roi” by Alfred Jerry, the first line uttered by the character Ubu when he enters is “Merdre!” (Usually translated as “Shit!”) It created quite a scandal at the time."		0:30:38 (Pop-up)
Simply Saucer	Dance The Mutation "Dance The Mutation" by "Simply Saucer"	Cyborgs Revisited (Archival recordings from the first wave)	Sonic Unyon Records	1974+5 / 2018	Debut album (originally released 15 years after the fact) from Hamilton's "Rust Belt" Proto-Punk band Simply Saucer. I love songs that encourage the listener to do dances that don't exist. I wanted this whole set to be that, but I eventually got distracted by a "Deadbeat" theme. "Simply Saucer is a Canadian rock band formed during the 1970s. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, the band consisted of guitarist and vocalist Edgar Breau,bass guitarist Kevin Christoff, syth player, Ping Romany and drummer Neil DeMarchant. "The band's style has been described as a hybrid of proto-punk and psychedelia and they form a "Rust-belt punk" style, along with The Stooges, MC5, and Rocket From The Tombs. The group's references also included German Krautrock pioneers, Can, the early Pink Floyd and avante Classical music composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen." - "Though Simply Saucer had the guts to bring together tremendous influences from rock's past, including the Velvet Underground, early Pink Floyd, and the Stooges, the band was hardly noticed outside of its local area." "In 1974 Simply Saucer recorded their posthumously acclaimed cult classic, Cyborgs Revisited." "Jesse Locke, the band's biographer, writes in the liner notes: Simply Saucer’s Cyborgs Revisited is an explosive time capsule from one of the great Canadian cult rock ‘n’ roll groups. Formed on the hardscrabble streets of Hamilton, Ontario, these sci-fried proto-punks created a sound fusing Hawkwind, The Kinks, Pink Fairies, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, and the omnipresent Velvet Underground. Originally recorded from 1974-1975, the album became a critically revered classic when it was finally unearthed in 1989 by Hamilton Ontario Indie label, Mole Sound Recordings, helmed by music journalist, Bruce Mowat."		0:34:09 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Dead Beat Descendant "Dead Beat Descendant" by "The Fall"	Seminal Live	Beggars Banquet	1989	I love that "Seminal Live" is only half-live. The first side of the LP was recorded in a studio. I also love songs that instruct you to do a dance that doesn't really exist. "This dance can be pure hell / Enter at your peril / Take five deadbeat steps / Do a stroll Act like you just got outta jail / You must be repellant / Dance deadbeat descendant... Come back here, Come back here / Turn left side and shout come back here / Then hot-tail it right outta there / You are now descendant... Make out your head is in a bell / And you got a man on your trail / And you are descendent, of a vicious criminal..." Excellent! As always, start your research of The Fall here: thefall.org		0:38:41 (Pop-up)
Clone Your Own	Dead Beat Disco "Dead Beat Disco" by "Clone Your Own"	A House Where I Lived	Human Tourist Records	2020	Here comes the Dead Beat rabbit hole... This project seems to be from our own Toronto-area. Or Vancouver, British Columbia. Or both. Not sure yet. They reportedly have listeners in Barrie, Toronto, Victoria, Los Angeles & Kitchener. It is the solo project started by multi-instrumentalist Gabe Beneteau, in the fall of 2017. With only one demo and a handful of singles since the project's inception, 2020 saw the drop of Clone Your Own's debut EP "A House Where I Lived". Clone Your Own (Bandcamp)		0:41:02 (Pop-up)
Wine Lips	Dead Beat "Dead Beat" by "Wine Lips"	Wine Lips	Self-Released	2017	Play them twice in the same hour? Yes! And in the future, too, I'm sure. "Toronto based garage punk psych rockers, Wine Lips hit the stage for the first time in the fall of 2015. Initially a part time project between songwriter/guitar player, Cam Hilborn and drummer Aurora Evans, the band began playing clubs in Toronto, stretching organically to surrounding cities, and then into Quebec. By mid 2017 it was clear that the band members were ready to make a full-time commitment."		0:43:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Mekons	(A Dancing Master Such As) Mr. Confess	The English Dancing Master EP	CNT	1983	From a limited edition EP that seems not to have been repressed since its release in 1983, though this song has found its way onto bonus tracks and compilations a couple of times. Three (out of 4) songs on the EP have "dance" in the title. "The Last Dance" / "(A Dancing Master Such As) Mr. Confess" & "No Country Dance". That's what brought it to mind & got it pulled off the shelf.		0:46:20 (Pop-up)
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard	Dead-Beat	Willoughby's Beach	Flightless Records	2011 / 2018	Originally self-released. "King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are an Australian rock band formed in 2010 in Melbourne, Victoria. The band's current line-up consists of Stu Mackenzie, Ambrose Kenny-Smith, Cook Craig, Joey Walker, Lucas Harwood and Michael Cavanagh."		0:48:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Mekons	(A Dancing Master Such As) Mr. Confess	The English Dancing Master EP	CNT	1983	From a limited edition EP that seems not to have been repressed since its release in 1983, though this song has found its way onto bonus tracks and compilations a couple of times. Three (out of 4) songs on the EP have "dance" in the title. "The Last Dance" / "(A Dancing Master Such As) Mr. Confess" & "No Country Dance". That's what brought it to mind & got it pulled off the shelf.		0:50:51 (Pop-up)
Chewy She	Mustard "Mustard" by "Chewy She"	Mustard Single	CHEWY SHE	2022	Chewy She is an experimental disco punk pop patriarchy fighting artist based in London. We have played her other single "Je Suis Nue et Il Est Habille" previously and I'm thrilled to say that "Mustard" is just as delightful, though slightly more compact. Chewy She is also known as Garance Louis, who has collaborated in studios with Andy Ramsay (Stereolab), Eddie Stevens (Roisin Murphy). I can't wait to hear more!!!	*	1:00:29 (Pop-up)
The Wibbley Brothers	Der Wawazawa	Go Weird	Rondelay Records	1982	The Wibbley Brothers were formed in 1977 by English twin brothers Ronnie and Terry Wibbley. Their first record release, the "Dark Side Of The Mune" EP, came in 1981. "Der Wawazawa" followed in 1982, recorded at Spaceward Studios for their first Rondelet Records album "Go Weird". The LP was re-released on Trubshaw's Astonishing Records in 2015 and the Wibbley Brothers returned to occasional live performance. They continued to record throughout the decades however, and the "difficult second album" showcasing the best of that material was finally released, some 38 years after its predecessor, in December 2020 under the title "Mornin' Jack". This album is definitely worth a listen, it's QUITE the trip.		1:02:46 (Pop-up)
Christeen	BEAUCOUP MOROCCO "BEAUCOUP MOROCCO" by "Christeen"	BEAUCOUP MOROCCO	Spaceflight Records	2022	Christeene Vale, known mononymously as Christeene, is an American drag queen, performance artist, singer-songwriter and rapper. Christeene is noted for untraditional, "terrorist drag," which features her wearing torn-up clothing, stringy matted black wigs, and heavy and smeared makeup with aims to expose hypocrisy and intolerance. Christeene describes themselves as a genderqueer "drag terrorist," and is influenced by Jayne County and Bruce LaBruce's use of non-heteronormative gender roles and sexuality. Chelsea Weathers of Art Lies compared Christeene's "drag terrorism," sexual and racial commentary to Vaginal Davis: "the reflection Christeene offers includes the necessarily unsanitized underbelly of queer experience—the ambiguity of identifying as queer and the anger and humor that is part and parcel of that experience"		1:06:17 (Pop-up)
Asphixiation	The Crush "The Crush" by "Asphixiation"	What is This Thing Called 'Disco'?	Chapter Music	2007	“What Is This Thing Called ‘Disco’?” is a landmark Australian post-punk artefact, originally released in 1981 as an LP with accompanying 12” single. One of the first records from the Australian underground to incor-porate disco elements into the reigning post-punk aesthetic, “What Is This Thing Called ‘Disco’?” sits alongside records by international counterparts Flying Lizards and Yellow Magic Orchestra in its combination of art school formalism and dancefloor hedonism. Asphixiation was a one-off side project for Melbourne provocateur Philip Brophy, whose decade-long investigation into the aesthetics of punk, electronic and dance music began in the late 1970s. “What Is This Thing Called ‘Disco’?” was recorded just days before the exhibition of the same name opened in July 1980. Aged only 20, Brophy wrote all the music in 5 days, with accomplice Ralph Traviato taking care of lyrics.		1:09:05 (Pop-up)
A 3 Dans les WC	Photo Couleur "Photo Couleur" by "A 3 Dans les WC"	A 3 Dans les WC	La Face Cachee	2015	WC3 were a French New Wave band that debuted with a single on F.L.V.M. in 1979, followed by an EP and two albums on CBS between 1981 and 1982. The band’s popular 1982 release Moderne Musique was issued under the name À 3 dans les WC. They formed in 1978, St Quentin, Picardie, France and disbanded by 1984 leaving behind 1 EP and a handful of singles...		1:13:15 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Peliatan Dance Group	Legong Keratong - Court Dance	Indonesia: Gamelan & Dances From Bali	Multicultural Media	2013			1:17:23 (Pop-up)
Bauhaus	St Vitus Dance "St Vitus Dance" by "Bauhaus"	In The Flat Field (Expanded)	Beggar's Banquet Archive	1980 / 2009	It does not seem that there is a consensus on the meaning of the lyrics of this song, but I have an opinion --- "Sydenham’s chorea is also called ‘chorea minor’ or ‘infectious chorea’ or ‘rheumatic chorea’ or ‘St. Vitus’ dance’ The name of the disease originates from its discoverer, the English physician Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689). The eponym ‘St Vitus’ dance refers to the saint of the same name, who was persecuted by the Roman emperors and died a Christian martyr in 303 A.D., the patron saint of dancers. Prolonged dances historically take place in front of his statue during the feast of St. Vitus in Germanic and Latvian cultures. The name of this disease refers to the rapid movements of sufferers, which resemble a dance. In English, Sydenham’s chorea is called ‘sydenham’s chorea’ or ‘St Vitus’ dance’." "Sydenham's chorea, also known as chorea minor and historically and occasionally referred to as St Vitus' dance, is a disorder characterized by rapid, uncoordinated jerking movements primarily affecting the face, hands and feet." -- Lyric excerpts from the song: "Back in the good old dance when dancing meant exploding / The idea was simple for a decent overloading / And for a multiple flash with no cords attached / He came up with a more remote flash trigger / It's connected to an accessory in his hip / Which automatically fires in perfect synchro / But perhaps his most exciting development is his angle / They call it the dance / It's the St. Vitus dance / Such flexibility / What an accessory / See his soft bounce What flexibility... ...And for special effects he has six filters / Three colored red with the others pilfered / And if you really want to know what that means / He could throw a blue flash from eighty-five feet / Of course you might want to check out your own little output / So we devised a few simple and easy to crack contortions / So you can bump and scrape all the day through / With the dance / It's the St. Vitus dance, the St. Vitus dance / Such flexibility... ...Check his hot shoe / Feel his output / He's a light machine, see his angle / He's a light machine" --- Back to my opinion... This song, to me, seems to tie together the involuntary movements & spasms of the medical condition with the idea of someone mounting lighting effects to his body and becoming a lightshow. A bit of macabre humour, inventing a living, dancing lightshow based on a disease. At least this is how I see the song. Then again, I always thought Bauhaus had a sense of humour in their early days.		1:29:47 (Pop-up)
Dance Disaster Movement	I Want Your Sass	We Are From Nowhere	Dim Mak	2003	Sometimes the dance is in the artist name, and not in the song. "One of the many bands combining punk and disco in the early 2000s, Dance Disaster Movement had one of the noisiest, most aggressive takes on the style. A white-clad duo consisting of multi-instrumentalist Kevin Disco and percussionist Matt Howze, the band formed in Long Beach, CA, in 2001. Bored with the repetitiveness and posturing that they saw in the post-punk/hardcore scene around them, the pair wanted to make music that was both visceral and danceable. The mix of guitar and keyboard noise and tribal percussion in Dance Disaster Movement's music attracted Dim Mak Records, who signed the band and released their debut album We Are From Nowhere in early 2003."		1:33:33 (Pop-up)
Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様	Dancing Blue	Kumoyo Island	Guru Guru	2022	Kikagaku Moyo (Japanese: 幾何学模様, Hepburn: Kikagaku Moyō) are a Japanese psychedelic band from Tokyo. The band's name translates to "geometric patterns." They formed in 2012. On 19 Jan 2022, the band announced they would go on an indefinite hiatus after 2022, and that their next record would be their last. Titled Kumoyo Island, the album was released in May 2022. "Kikagaku Moyo have come a long way –both literally and metaphorically– since their humble beginnings busking on the streets of Tokyo back in 2012. A tight-knit group of five friends who bonded over the desire to play freely, and explore music associated with space and psychedelica, their initial ambitions were modest semi-regular slots in the cramped clubs of the city’s insular music scene. Yet the band’s progressive, folk-influenced take on psychedelica marked them out from their peers and re-started Japan’s psych rock scene; it also brought them international acclaim. With a settled line up – Go Kurosawa (drums, vox), Tomo Katsurada (guitar, vox), Kotsuguy (bass), Daoud Popal (guitar), Ryu Kurosawa (sitar), – and a signature sound that blended classical Indian music, Krautrock, traditional folk, 70s rock, and acid-tinged psych, the band sold out shows across Europe and founded their own label, Guruguru Brain, to showcase not just their own work, but the under-represented music scene in East Asia"	*	1:39:23 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Stereolab	Blaue Milch "Blaue Milch" by "Stereolab"	Pulse Of The Early Brain [Switched On Volume 5]	Duophonic / Warp Records	1998 / 2022	The official write up: "‘Blaue Milch’ was recorded for a Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra compilation album – each artist on the album was sent a Peter Thomas audio track and was asked to build it into a new track. Originally released in 1998 by the Bungalow record label." ---- This sounds to me more like the song "Brakhage" from their 1997 album Dots And Loops, if that song was turned inside out, with some progressions surviving & an approximation of the harmonica from "Theme from "Midnight Cowboy"" transposed to keyboard & intermittently floating through the song. "Blaue Milch" translates to Blue Milk. Stereolab would another song called "Blue Milk" on their following 1999 album "Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night." It was an epic 11+ and/or 16+ minute (depending on the version of the album you purchased) epic. That song does not, in my estimation, sound like this one. "Brakhage" kinda does.	*	1:45:06 (Pop-up)
The Drowning Craze	Storage Case "Storage Case" by "The Drowning Craze"	Storage Case 7"	Situation Two	1981	Initially a vehicle for Angela Jaeger, a New York-born vocalist who had moved to London to study voice and musical theater, Drowning Craze was only together from 1980 to 1982. Although its post-punk approach put them on the cutting edge of early-'80s British music, they're best remembered as the breeding ground for musicians who went on to greater things. Jaeger left the band following the release of its debut single, "Storage Case", to return to college and went on to sing with The Monochrome Set, Billy MacKenzie, Disconnection, Bush Tetras, Pigbag and Instinct while bassist Simon Raymonde became an important member of the Cocteau Twins. Drowning Craze released its most promising single after Jaeger's departure. Featuring the vocals of Chicago-born Frankie Nardiello (aka Groovie Mann), "Trance" was named "single of the week" by British music magazines, NME and Melody Maker. The group, however, never had a chance to fulfill their potential, disbanded by late 1982.		1:50:11 (Pop-up)
Drahla	Under The Glass "Under The Glass" by "Drahla"	Under The Glass Single	Captured Tracks	2022	Under the Glass' represents a moment of creative reconnection, almost a sense of euphoria in the darkest moments - an awaited, yet slight, respite from reality. The song is a collage, reworking early ideas from 2020 with newer work - bridging the gap of time, in the literal sense as well as musically. The lyrics are deliberately vague, using metaphor to interpret personal experience and emotion of loss and grief. ‘Under the Glass’ is the first single of an upcoming, mostly unwritten album. lyrics. Drahla are from Leeds. Formed in late 2015, Drahla quickly found their identity in Yorkshire’s fertile music scene with their minimal yet robust bass-heavy sound blending art rock and post-punk...	*	1:53:18 (Pop-up)
Mystery Season	Dust With a Capital D	Too Much, Too Soon, Tomorrow (Special Edition)	Noisy Neighbours	2021	A purveyor of dreamy beats and twinkly treats, Mystery Season is the musical alias of Glasgow based producer and songwriter, Kye Perry. Kye really went to town with his detuned take on all things dreamy during a year living in Utrecht, The Netherlands, where bargain synthesizers from Markplaats (Dutch Ebay) led to an expanding sound palette for Kye's musical solar system. Brought up on a diet of Stevie Wonder and Jamiroqaui,(????HUH???) Mystery Season's sound revolves around dense arrangements and lush harmony. We dislike Jamiroquai but we very much like this.		1:56:35 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sounds Of The Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds Of The Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			2:00:48 (Pop-up)
Zru Vogue	Nakweda Dream "Nakweda Dream" by "Zru Vogue"	Nakweda Dream 7"	Adolescent Records	1981	Zru Vogue is a two man post punk avant-pop group from Palo Alto, California, combining the talents of Andrew Finkle and Rick Cuevas. The band began in 1980 as a four member group: Rick, Andy, Tom Sanders and Nancy Miller. Tom and Nancy left the group shortly after the first single, "Nakweda Dream", was released by independent San Francisco label Adolescent Records in February 1981. Inspired by rave reviews and heavy airplay on alternative radio stations, Andy and Rick went back into the studio, now as a duo, to record some new ZRU tracks. The self-tilted LP was released on the band’s Zero Risk Records in 1982. It contains eight compositions blending African tribal and Middle Eastern rhythms, avant-garde rock, minimal electronics, and funk-rock guitars. The duo’s sound is inspired by the art and anti-art movements of Dada and Surrealism.		2:03:19 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sounds Of The Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds Of The Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			2:08:11 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:51pm DJ Babs: Hello lovely Beachers and welcome!!! We'll be starting the show off shortly at 8pm! Grab your towel, dancing shoes, drinks and combustables...it's going to be a fun one!
	7:54pm Derek Westerholm: Yes, it's true, I once again (and eternally) have far too many windows open on my desktop. Hello!
	🏝 8:00pm Scott67: G'day Babs, Derek & Beached as bros!🐋 🌏☀️🏝️🏖️🍻😎🤙🤿🩴🩴🐚🦀🌊🦈
	8:00pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	8:01pm Mr Fab: I have been remanded into the custody of Derek n Babs (as Kitten says)
	8:02pm DJ Babs: hahah! Hello Scott and Damno and Fab! Great to see y'all!!
	8:02pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Hello hello - Rip Van Winkle made it this week. :)
	8:02pm Mr Fab: those notes: haha, Fact-Checking B-52's Lyrics!
	8:02pm DJ Babs: We're just talkin it out here. Oh hello YPB! Your alarm worked this time I see LOL
	8:02pm Derek Westerholm: Fab, you have! He does! I love it!
	8:03pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Ultra, Hello YPB.
	8:04pm Rich in Washington: Hi Babs N' Derek! Hi everyone!
	8:04pm Alli B: Hiiiiii!
	🏝 8:04pm Scott67: Beached as Bro;🐋 youtu.be...
	8:05pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: I actually did set my ‘Wake up, it’s time to hit the beach!’ alarm. It’s quite effective.
	8:05pm ultradamno: I just saw an article that King Khan & BBQ now have a hit because of a TikTok video. Take that Kate Bush!
	8:05pm Derek Westerholm: Mr. Fab, I am so happy you noticed that... these really are the sorts of things I think about. Also, coincidentally, we also just had tuna for dinner. Not sure if it was a "shy tuna" seeing as it was, uh, no longer showing much of its personality.
	🏝 8:05pm Kat in Chicago: I haven't heard this in a while and I had forgotten how exquisite it is
	8:05pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Rich! Hello Alli! (Congrats!) Hello Kat!
	🏝 8:06pm Kat in Chicago: can't hear yoooouuuu
	🏝 8:06pm Kat in Chicago: well just barely
	8:07pm Mr Fab: NOW we hear ya
	🏝 8:07pm Kat in Chicago: there ya go :)
	8:07pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: There are those amazing voices!!!! Oh hello, Hello Babs and Derek.
	8:08pm ultradamno: I thought it was a condition, shaken hippie syndrome
	8:09pm Mr Fab: Usula1000 knows Fred. he's guested on U1k's albums.
	🏝 8:11pm WR: Hi folks, glad to be listening tonight.
	8:11pm laurapanic: I made it, hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
	8:12pm Feldy: Okay let's dance. Hi guys!
	8:12pm DJ Babs: Hi Laura, WR, Kat! Everyone!
	8:12pm ultradamno: The Cool Jerk was originally called Cool Pimp, it was written about pimps who would go to dances when The Jerk was a big dance and wanted to be out on the floor with the girls but wouldn't do this stupid popular dance everyone else was doing and would just hang out there. The Capitols were, I think wisely, talked out of using the title because it might have interfered with it becoming the hit that it did.
	8:12pm DJ Babs: Sorry for the technical difficulties! Please let us know if there are any more mic issues...
	8:15pm Derek Westerholm: Hello there WR, Laura, Feldy, hello hello hello!!!
	8:15pm DJ Babs: Hi Feldy!!!!
	8:16pm DJ Babs: Great to have you with us tonight as well Kat! :-)
	8:17pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Ohhhh love this.
	8:17pm Mr Fab: Now i wanna hear a remake as "Cool Pimp"
	8:17pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: …and this one too.
	8:18pm DJ Babs: Yes, this track has been in my ears for a couple of weeks and have been meaning to play it for ages!
	8:18pm DJ Babs: Also yes I want to hear cool pimp as well! That totally makes sense UD!
	8:18pm ultradamno: Since this is Godard week, the dance to do is The Madison
	8:19pm DJ Babs: That's right. He will be missed for sure!
	8:20pm Feldy: The missing dances are The Clambake, The Curly Shuffle, The Whole Buncha Lotta, The Bunt Cake Butt, The Gravy Train, The Oogie Booger, The Southern Gentleman, The Ham Bone, and The Lazy Christine
	8:21pm DJ Babs: I love the whole buncha lotta!!!!
	8:21pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Mush are so cool…
	8:21pm DJ Babs: also does the southern gentleman include drinking a mint julep and yelling out "I DOOO DECLAIIIIRAH"
	8:22pm ultradamno: My favorite is "Do The Standing Still" by The Table. Anyone can do that dance
	8:22pm Dave Rout: Heyyyyyy Allll
	8:22pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra... "I thought it was a condition, shaken hippie syndrome"... I'll be getting to that later, haha.
	8:23pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Dave!!
	8:24pm Dave Rout: All good on the sound !
	8:24pm Cp304: All good now babs
	8:25pm Mr Fab: Feldy, th B52s absolutely have to get in the studio to record "Dance This Mess Around Again." And you get co-songwriting credit.
	8:25pm Feldy: I rather like Mush
	8:27pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Dave Rout! Hello Cp304!
	8:30pm Feldy: You had me at Ty Segall produced
	8:31pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Hey Dave R.
	8:32pm Dave Rout: Hey Cameron 👋
	8:32pm DJ Babs: Hi CP304!!
	8:32pm DJ Babs: how's everyone doing tonight? I hope you're all faring well!!!
	8:32pm Derek Westerholm: Feldy, excellent list of the missing dances, haha. Now I am falling down the wormhole... Please, everyone create a list of the 8 dances missing from "Dance This Mess Around"...!!!
	🏝 8:33pm Scott67: G'day Laura!🍻😎🤙💨☕🌻
	8:34pm Derek Westerholm: Interesting facts about the "Cool Pimp / Cool Jerk", Ultra! Thanks!
	8:34pm Mr Fab: Right on, Pere Ubu! "Dub Housing" is their [Alastair Cooke voice:] MAHsterpiece, but "Modern Dance" is damn god.
	8:34pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: All is well here and I’m still awake.
	8:34pm ultradamno: There must be a thousand, to fill up that dance land I've heard so much about.
	8:35pm ultradamno: I agree about Dub Housing, but I'm a horror guy and that's kind of their horror record
	8:37pm Mr Fab: Yeah imagine if Fred sang "They do all thousand dances." Dang, that'd be a long record.
	8:38pm Mr Fab: Simply Saucer = my fave Canadian band there I said it.
	8:38pm DJ Babs: My dances so far are the "silent Stingray" the "knotty pole", "the stagnant muffin" and the "herringbone"
	🏝 8:39pm Kat in Chicago: I'm rather impressed by "Stagnant Muffin"
	8:40pm DJ Babs: lol...yes. you just kinda stand in one place and expand...
	8:40pm Feldy: Let's dance The stagnant muffin :)
	8:41pm Derek Westerholm: Mr. Fab... "Simply Saucer = my fave Canadian band there I said it." Awesome! And Edgar Breau is a sweetheart. I have interviewed him and shared a gig/stage with him more than once!
	8:43pm Derek Westerholm: "Stagnant Muffin" truly is superlative!
	🏝 8:46pm Scott67: I fucken love you 2 awesome bastards!🍁❤️❤️ 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍷🍺🍷
	8:48pm ultradamno: No Deadbeats On Parade by The Deadbeats? That's as deadbeat as it gets
	8:52pm DJ Babs: lol we're pretty loose tonight! It's a comedy of misadventure here
	8:58pm ultradamno: Speaking of Mekons, Quality Of Mercy, underrated in my opinion, is another for the 79 evidence file
	9:00pm Tyler: Good Even-ning!
	9:01pm Tyler: Rising Muffin!
	9:01pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Tyler.
	9:02pm DJ Babs: I'm SO EXCITED to share this tune, it's so much fun!!!
	🏝 9:02pm Scott67: Loose is the only way to flow Babs! 🍻😎🤙
	9:02pm Tyler: @ultradammo <3 Mekons! Have many of their records and saw them live at The Horseshoe & Jon Langford and the Sadies another time. Both awesome shows!
	9:03pm Tyler: Hi Babs! This song is fantastique!
	9:04pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Hey Tyler.
	🏝 9:04pm Scott67: This rips!🍻😎🤙
	9:04pm Tyler: Hi Cameron!
	9:04pm Alli B: Great song!
	9:04pm DJ Babs: omg yes! this whole album is a fucking TRIP
	9:05pm DJ Babs: heya ALLI!!!!! Nice to see you!!!
	9:05pm Tyler: Der Wawazawa - they need this for the next Food basics ad :)
	9:05pm Tyler: Hi Alli B!
	9:06pm Cp304: I'm gonna werk on this dance
	9:06pm ultradamno: @Tyler Only saw them once, in Columbus Ohio late 80s/early 90s super fun show
	9:08pm DJ Babs: lol Tyler!! Yes, I also too want to dance the wawazawa!!!
	🏝 9:09pm Kat in Chicago: Do you have to do it in a Wawa?
	9:09pm Derek Westerholm: The Quality Of Mercy Is Not Strnen is a fantastic album, Ultra. I love the cover art, I love the album, if you have the CD, the bonus tracks are essential. Everything about it is shambolic, wiry, astute, flippant and wonderful. They recorded it with Gang Of Four's equipment. They also were one of the punk bands that truly couldn't play their own instruments. Still active to this day, having accomplished an impressive discography & touching on many varied genres while sounding like themselves. This is the true meaning of the punk movement, in my estimation. Find out how to do it yourself, get as good at it as you can, go wherever you want, say interesting things and pander to no-one. Love them!
	9:10pm DJ Babs: This one goes out to Scott and Laura down under!!!
	9:10pm Alli B: 🔥🔥🔥
	9:11pm DJ Babs: This song is shitdisco perfection!
	9:11pm laurapanic: oh wow, I feel like I know the name Phil Brophy but maybe more research is required.
	9:11pm Tyler: @ultradamno they used to get plastered back in the 80's. I have live album that is quite a smear of drunken entendres. Very entertaining. Fortunately when I saw them they had sobered up some.
	9:11pm Alli B: Let’s take a lap around the club before we commit to a location
	9:12pm DJ Babs: RIGHT! I love doin the club stroll.
	9:13pm Tyler: Clean that SAX!
	9:15pm DJ Babs: all week in my head it's been PHOTO COULEUR PHOTO COULEUR PHOTO COULEUR!!! (just that)
	9:16pm Derek Westerholm: Speaking of The Mekons, Jon Langford is another person who has agreed to an interview (again). He's also wonderful. Prolific, talented, warm, funny, smart, down-to-earth. Always great when someone you have listened to forever also ends up being someone you meet & someone you like. Amongst his many other projects, he recorded with Toronto's "The Sadies" (R.I.P. Dallas Good.) I love it when worlds collide!
	🏝 9:16pm Kat in Chicago: One of my dances is the Crush on Jon Langford
	9:17pm Tyler: @Derek some touchstone Mekons records for me: Devils, Rats & Piggies, Rock 'n Roll, OOOH! (Out of Our Heads). The Mekons Story, Fast Product Mutant Pop, and They Shall Not Pass - CNT Records are also great compilations that contain classic material.
	9:18pm Tyler: Jon Langford was also in the Three John$ who are also fantastic. 'Pink-Headed Bug' may be one of the finest pop songs to come out Leeds.
	9:18pm coelacanth∅: hello Derek & Babs and all
	9:19pm Tyler: @Derek would love to hear you interview Jon Langford.
	9:19pm Alli B: We have an Indonesian friend over who just stopped dead in his tracks 😂
	9:19pm MHLee: hi folks
	🏝 9:20pm Kat in Chicago: That's cool Alli B!
	9:20pm ultradamno: I love a lot of Langford's solo stuff, particularly Old Devils and Four Lost Souls also though Katjonband!!! Being a one-off I think it's gotten lost, but one of the best of the gtr/drm duos. Mekons in recent years I have to say have done some of my favorite records by them Ancient & Modern and Deserted in particular are spectacular. Exquisite is very good too.
	9:21pm Derek Westerholm: Laura... re: Phil Brophy, it's Wikipedia, but I found this as a starting point: en.wikipedia.org...
	🏝 9:21pm Scott67: AAAW! ta luv! 🍻😎🤙💨🍷
	9:23pm laurapanic: Got it!! Brophy made a classic Ozploitation movie called Body Melt. WATCH IT
	9:23pm Tyler: Sally Timms' (I believe) voice is beautiful and very evocative. Hate Is The New Love gives me goosebumps.
	🏝 9:23pm Kat in Chicago: Ozploitation is a thing?
	9:24pm Tyler: The Disc-Charge! @Babs
	9:24pm Derek Westerholm: Tyler, agreed with all Mekons/Three Johns... I played Three Johns at least once on the show, but it will happen again in the future, I'm sure. Their records stare at me from the shelf.
	🏝 9:24pm Kat in Chicago: I love Sally Timms too
	9:24pm laurapanic: Kat it is glorious There is a doco about it: Not Quite Hollywood
	9:25pm laurapanic: I love them: primer here: en.wikipedia.org...
	9:25pm Derek Westerholm: Tyler, I interviewed Jon Langford (twice?) for No Beat Radio on CIUT. I might have them archived somewhere, but he's up for another, we just have to nail down the time & so forth.
	9:26pm Derek Westerholm: Hi MHLee, hi coelacanth∅!
	9:26pm Tyler: I believe one of the times I saw the Mekons a local band called 'Precious Little' opened for them who were just fantastic. I bought their CD. They do a song 'I Don't Want To Go To School I Just Want To Go To Sleep' which is like a morning anthem for me :)
	🏝 9:27pm Kat in Chicago: Quite a list of titles there, laurapanic. Do the Ozploitation!
	9:30pm Tyler: I think it's a Bass fed through a Fuzz pedal and phaser - Eno-style!
	9:31pm MHLee: They call that beauty
	9:31pm DJ Babs: Paging Dave Rout, we're trying to figure out what that synthy ring modulated sound is...I say it's a synth. Derek says it's a guitar.
	9:32pm coelacanth∅: i think it's a guitar w/effects
	9:32pm DJ Babs: A guitar played through a synth?
	9:34pm Tyler: Sounds like a Bass Guitar to me given the thick pluckyness of the notes.
	9:34pm coelacanth∅: there's a filter i forget what it's called makes it sound like an am signal coming out of a little transistor radio
	9:34pm Alli B: Ooooooof
	9:34pm Alli B: FUCK ME UP
	9:35pm DJ Babs: Yes...I'll have to look it up but I'm guessing some combination of pedals
	9:35pm DJ Babs: LOL we are so ooof tonight I SWEAR we have jumbies!!!
	9:35pm coelacanth∅: yes could be a bass with the low end turned down with eq
	9:35pm Derek Westerholm: Bass would make sense, since Daniel Ash is clearly playing guitar & David J is the bassist. But that doesn't mean he "has" to play bass, haha.
	9:36pm laurapanic: Kat: Patrick, and Fair Game are on Youtube and a re fun to watch. A good start.
	🏝 9:36pm Kat in Chicago: Thanks laura! I'm keeping the wiki tab open
	🏝 9:37pm Kat in Chicago: Wait, Walkabout is on this list? I love Walkabout.
	9:37pm laurapanic: The Time Guardian is another cool/terrible film Aussie sci fi that they somehow got Carrie Fisher to come to Australia and film. It is on the Internet Archive.
	9:38pm laurapanic: Walkabout was a pretty serious film, but they have it on the list...I try to find the more terrible films cuz I love them. And the doco Not Quite Hollywood is supercool.
	9:38pm coelacanth∅: Babs, i lived with someone in the early 90s and i had balanese gamelan on one day and she loved it, but not for the reasons i love it or probably most people do... she said it sounded like children banging pots and pans!
	9:39pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra... "KatJonBand"... I do love any collaboration with any member of The Ex. Jon Langford produced The Ex on an EP from 1990. In fact, they collaborated with each other here and there over the years. (inc. on a Mekons track or two.)
	9:39pm ultradamno: Walkabout is a classic
	9:39pm DJ Babs: Re: David J's bass sound...this bunch of music nerds posit that his sound may have come from the EHX Bassballs pedal... www.basschat.co.uk...
	🏝 9:40pm Scott67: Gotta love a bit a Oz Schlock aye Laura! Must check out Razorback again one day.
	9:40pm DJ Babs: Also Daniel Ash did play a baritone guitar quite frequently. In fact, I tried very hard to buy one that previously belonged to him from a friend but they would not sell it to me.
	9:41pm MHLee: I've heard good things about Walkabout but I think the only Aussie film I've seen is BabaKiueria
	🏝 9:42pm Kat in Chicago: This Kikagaku Moyo is cool!
	9:42pm MHLee: Seen quite a few Kiwi ones
	9:42pm laurapanic: Oh my people need to get more Aussie genre movies in them. The ones I recommend if you like the terrible/shocking/so bad its good kinda vibes.
	9:43pm laurapanic: Turkey Shoot is a classic and its on YouTube. The Man from Hong Kong also. IT HAS HANG GLIDERS
	9:43pm DJ Babs: Yes! Kikagu Moyo are so great...and they just released their final album...such a bummer!
	9:43pm MHLee: Oh I saw the Crocodile Hunter movie if that counts
	9:43pm ultradamno: Walkabout made it but The Proposition didn't?
	9:44pm MHLee: The one where George Bush is trying to hunt steve irwin
	9:44pm Derek Westerholm: I didn't know anything about Kikagaku Moyo before last week... They are very interesting. Seems they are played often on WFMU. Yes, it's a shame they're calling it quits after this year.
	9:44pm Tyler: This song is lovely!
	🏝 9:44pm Scott67: There are some 'interesting' inclusions in that Ozploitation List Laura? Some classic films have been chucked in too.
	9:44pm Tyler: Like if Lush did an album with Bow Wow Wow
	9:45pm Alli B: It really is lovely!
	9:45pm ultradamno: I mean The Proposition is pretty dour, but it is more of a genre exercise
	9:45pm Tyler: I love Nick Cave & Warren Ellis' soundtrack work.
	9:47pm Tyler: @utradamno for 'The Proposition' I think Nick Cave was making a commentary on the romanticization of westerns and the frontier - trying to show a more realistic perspective on the conditions.
	🏝 9:47pm Kat in Chicago: I am FINALLY going to see Stereolab at the end of this month. Had tickets twice before, for one show the venue got changed and I couldn't go, the other show was canceled because pandemic
	9:49pm Tyler: @Kat in Chicago - nice! That was my last concert before the Pandemic. They were great, though obviously missing Mary Hansen, but they still have many tricks up their collective sleaves.
	🏝 9:50pm Kat in Chicago: I could have gone any number of times when Mary Hansen was still with us, I don't know what my problem was but I never went.
	9:50pm laurapanic: Scotty I totally agree, its a bit too broad for sure
	9:51pm laurapanic: Ultradamo: my area of expertise is 70s and early 80s I've not seen Cave's fillum
	9:51pm Tyler: I saw them back in the 90's when she was still with us. It was great and I definitely miss the sublime vocal & farfisa interplay that she & Laetitia would do.
	🏝 9:51pm Scott67: Laura, the Wiki Effect; Anyone can put shit up.
	9:53pm Alli B: This song is incredible. It’s wiggling around in my chest.
	9:53pm Cp304: This rocks
	🏝 9:53pm Scott67: 'Ghosts Of The Civil Dead'; has Nick Cave in it as a Psycho Prisoner.
	9:54pm Tyler: Gotta love a song called 'Storage Case'
	9:54pm DJ Babs: Yes, it's like a young shirley bassey singing with bauhaus lol...
	9:54pm Derek Westerholm: Saw Stereolab with The Fall & Mouse And Mars in 1994. Never expected that Mouse And Mars would collaborate with BOTH acts in the following years. Certainly never would have predicted a full album+ of material from Mouse On Mars & Mark E Smith.
	9:55pm Derek Westerholm: Kat, I am sure the Stereolab concert will be wonderful! Enjoy!
	9:55pm Feldy: What a most excellent show!
	9:55pm Tyler: @Derek Wow - that must have been some show. Love Mouse On Mars but have never seen them live.
	9:55pm laurapanic: Scott: I saw that movie when it came out and it fucked me up #ghostsofthecivildead
	🏝 9:55pm Kat in Chicago: Yeah that's one heck of a bill, Derek
	9:56pm Tyler: Mouse On Mars is great driving music (when I still had a car)
	9:56pm Derek Westerholm: I have a bit of the Nick Cave / Warren Ellis soundtrack work in my collection for years, but weirdly I have barely ever listened to it.
	9:56pm ultradamno: Kind of like when that Coldcut record came out, at that time I was not anticipating a house record with MES on it and Mark Beyer cover art
	9:57pm DJ Babs: Thank you Feldy! We really love doing this show...and we are so grateful to share this time with you all!!!
	9:57pm Tyler: Now Drahla is just fucking with us on the dancefloor :)
	🏝 9:57pm Scott67: Laura, I saw it in my Art School days, so it was all grist for my practice then. It's not in the list that I can see? Fucken should be!
	9:58pm Tyler: @ultradamno It took me ages to separate in my mind 'Coldcut' from 'Coldplay'. Like in the early 00's when all of those bands had Wolf in their name. I still am not sure who is who :)
	9:59pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, 100%
	10:00pm ultradamno: There was also a Detroit punk band called Coldcock, to confuse matters further (since that's what I always want to say when I think of Coldcut)
	10:00pm Tyler: @ultradamno ' BINGO!
	10:00pm Derek Westerholm: All this OzFilm info is fascinating... Must put on the watchlist.
	10:01pm Feldy: Sixty three already!
	10:01pm Tyler: @ultradamno it would be great if 'Coldcock' did hardcore versions of Coldplay songs :)
	10:02pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Fantastic show!
	10:02pm Alli B: Thank you thank you thank you!
	10:03pm ultradamno: There times didn't really overlap, but everyone reunites. An obscure 79 release www.discogs.com...
	10:03pm Tyler: Thanks Babs, Derek and Producer ShmeepShmoop!
	10:03pm Feldy: Thank you guys! Dances with Echoes
	🏝 10:03pm Kat in Chicago: Thank you for this most excellent music
	10:03pm Tyler: Nice spending time with you all...
	🏝 10:04pm Scott67: Thanks Babs & Derek! 🍻😎🤙🍁❤️❤️
	10:04pm ultradamno: *Their times...grrr
	10:04pm Tyler: Love the light-touch drumming
	10:05pm DJ Babs: Thank you all! You're AMAZING!!!!!!! Take good care of yourselves, everyone! Sending big sheena hugz out to the best crew!!!
	10:05pm Tyler: Like a Timex watch
	10:05pm Derek Westerholm: Mouse On Mars were excellent when I saw them live. Very collaborative. Rare to see an electronic duo behind their mixing gear & computers being so dynamic, collaborative, upbeat and creative... They were far from boring, actually exciting & infectious!
	10:06pm Tyler: @Derek definitely have to check MoM out should they tour again.
	10:07pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra... Thank-you... Another for the '79 list!
	🏝 10:07pm WR: Have been absent in comments but my ears were happily attentive for the whole episode. Thank you!
	10:08pm DJ Babs: Thank you thank you WR!!!!
	10:08pm Derek Westerholm: Thank-you all! So happy to be with each & every one of you!
	10:08pm Mr Fab: What’s Canadian for “thanks, great show”?
	10:08pm Derek Westerholm: Mr. Fab... Beats me, haha.
	10:09pm Derek Westerholm: "Thanks, great shoe"??
	10:09pm Tyler: "Beauty, eh..."

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from September 15, 2022

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