WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 30, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 8:06pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:56pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	9:00pm Aitch: Sounds complicated
	9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy, Aitch! Hope you are amazing tonight
	9:01pm Krys O.: Greetings!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:56 Imaginos! Nice to see you!
	9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 Ahoy!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @9:00 Less so than you'd think.
	9:02pm Pauly from Clifton: Hey Austin, folks!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 Howdy! Thanks for joining us!
	9:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 You, too
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Pauly from Clifton @9:02 Pauly! Welcome to The Mid-Valley!
	9:03pm Geoff-U: Hullo! :waves:
	9:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Geoff-U @9:03 :waves back:
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:03 Geoff-U! Now the robot party can begin!
	9:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Awesome
	👻 9:08pm ramencity: :wave: sneaking over from the Work Laptop the the Funzo Laptop
	9:11pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ooh sounds like fun
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:08 It's good to see you. We need to work on your next radio appearance, good sir!
	9:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: So much cool stuff coming in the future.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)" by "The Coasters" As I get older, this is more often becoming my favorite song.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: "Ying-Yang..."
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: "Pheonix AZ, 1949!"
	9:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 Its a cool song, but I'm torn between Three Cool Cats and Along Came Jones.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: This, and "Lydia The Tattooed Lady" might be the greatest songs ever written.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:20 The Coasters, in general, are just the best. Like... all classics.
	9:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 I agree
	👻 9:24pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 I knew the Rudy Vallee version of "Lydia" when I was a kiddo...
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:24 I only discovered it much later. In many ways, I feel like I'm constantly trying to catch up with the stuff I missed out on as a kid.
	👻 9:26pm ramencity: Geez I thought every 13-yr-old had a Rudy Vallee phase, nyuk nyuk!
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:26 I wish!
	9:27pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 I know what you mean. We as a generation were so hyperfocused on finding the songs that expressed us that we missed the rest
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Corpse Flower" by "Skull Vacuum" I was unable to find a good photo of this album online, so I had to take my own photo. Another example of how not everything is online!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:27 I certainly had my mind blown, when I moved to Eugene, and realized that there were other kinds of music other than pop music on the radio, and the stuff my parents liked. I feel like I've been catching up, making sure there weren't other things I missed.
	👻 9:30pm ramencity: Tha audio equivalent of Peruvian beaver cheese?
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: In fact, ramencitykid was responsible for exposing me to so much music, I owe him a lot in that respect.
	9:31pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 I spent my early years listening to Glen Miller and Mitch Miller. With a smattering of Beatles.
	9:32pm Aitch: Catching up on things I missed due to the tyranny of distance
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:31 It was all classic rock and arena rock for me. My parents were hippies who loved all those huge 70's stadium bands. I was just shocked to find out about show tunes... or big band music... or a lot of things really. Popular radio offered such a narrow slice of music in the 80's. It was weird.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:31 I sort of like Glenn Miller. Not so much with Mitch Miller. Though I like Announcer Mitch.
	9:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 I agree. Announcer Mitch is really awesome
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:35 Steve sent me an e-mail, after he heard the interview, to mention that he liked all the intrusions and samples, and the Mitch moments. It was nice to hear, as I have always wondered what people think of that editing style.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Everyone's Coming to New York" by "John Carpenter" Hopefully Heather is listening, as she'll actually get this joke, now.
	9:37pm Mike Rogers: Hi Austin san!!!!
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @9:37 Mike Rogers! Now it really is a party!
	9:38pm Mike Rogers: It's only 10:30 am, but I'm ready to par-tay!
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @9:38 Oh, yeah. I guess it would be that early where you are. Good Morning!
	9:38pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 Cool. You always do that interesting interviews and editing. Speaking of editing, I look forward to seeing your adjustments to the script.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:38 Oh yeah. I had some thoughts about that this morning. Just some small additions.
	9:39pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 Sometimes that's enough
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "I Need You" by "The Rationals" If you think that this song is about your cell phone, it's REALLY funny.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Here Come The Cyborgs, Pt. 1" by "Simply Saucer" I know I played this song on my show last year, but I couldn't help myself. Frankly, I'm shocked I don't play this album every week; Simply Saucer are probably one of my favorite bands.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: Oh yeah... this end jam!
	9:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Currently working on a story about a tall ship sailing on an alien planet.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: In 2009, I was lucky enough to see one of the few Simply Saucer reunion shows they put on. Before that tour, they had only ever played their hometown...
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:45 Oooooo! I like the sounds of that. My new postcard has two songs from my sci-fi-rock-music project. I do like the sci-fi stuff...
	9:50pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 The planet has 3suns and 2 moons. The crew of the starship Vulturoso landed there 100 years ago and now they've built a tall ship to seek new land
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:50 I like that. A sci-fi period piece.
	9:51pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 Hey Austin! Yeah I wouldn’t blame you if you did play em every week. Canada’s finest. Just too ahead of their time to make it.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:51 That album! Damn! It blows my mind, still!
	9:51pm Geoff-U: I like these spooky interludes
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:51 James Burke does spooky like the best of them.
	9:53pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:52 That he does. Even surpassing some
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Boy Detectives" by "Famous Explorers" I'm OBSESSED with these Hyped 2 Death compilations. I'm sad he doesn't make them anymore, as I have most... but not all! (And only in digital.) I'm sure there's other nerds out there... but finding them... it always takes time.
	👻 10:01pm Heather Z: Shoot, I was tuned in but painting very important skeleton eyes on my grateful dead fan art and I missed the joke!! I'm here for Squeeze, though!!
	10:01pm Aitch: Squeeze is cool (for cats)
	10:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Art of Noise?
	👻 10:02pm Heather Z: Maybe it's Up The Junction so we can all cry!
	10:06pm Geoff-U: Anyone else hear the band Sonic Architecture, they were around during the same early 80's period that Art Of Noise was getting airplay, he were very reminiscent of Art Of Noise but Sonic Architecture was a lot more obscure
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "[210718_1441]" by "Dylan Houser" Dylan Houser inspired my own Musical Postcards, that I have mailed out now for three years, one a month. Dylan did it for about a year or so, and I really enjoyed getting these songs in the mail. So I figured I should do the same, since I enjoyed it so much.
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:06 I'll have to look that up! I don't know them.
	10:07pm Geoff-U: The only song I recall by Sonic Architecture was called "Manhattan"
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:07 I'll have to dig in, and report back. Thanks for the tip!
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:02 It's not!
	10:09pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Some really fun music comes from John Massari's work on Mike Jittlov's the Wizard of Speed and Time
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:09 Yes! I haven't seen that in years. Time for a re-watch.
	10:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The reason the people in my story are using a tall ship instead of the starship is that the starship has been converted into an Academy and also a farm
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:13 Yeah, those are important resources. You don't want to give those up.
	10:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 One passenger, who is apparently a 20 year old girl, has a secret
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: That's right... he said Olives!
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Olive" by "Jad Fair and Jason Willett" I met Jad Fair at a music fest, and had seen him play the night before. He seemed so confused that I would recognize him, and didn't seem to understand at first that I liked his music, and was a fan. He was sweet and it was lovely.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:16 I like that. There's a lot of potential there.
	10:19pm Geoff-U: Is this what the kids call "art rock"? :D
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:19 Ha!
	10:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 She's introduced herself to Lila as Maggie, but that's just a nickname
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "This For That" by "Bob Dorough" I almost didn't play this song, thinking, "Schoolhouse Rock from 1996? Like, wasn't that last week?" I had to remind myself that was almost 30 years ago, now, and that Bob Dorough is pretty good, even in the 90's.
	👻 10:24pm ramencity: I get the links now: the first De La Soul album sampled both "Five Foot High And Rising" and Schoolhouse Rock...
	10:24pm Geoff-U: Wow, my parents loved Bob Dorough's music when I was growing up
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:24 Exactly!
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:24 I never heard him, except on Schoolhouse Rock... until I lived on my own. Now I love him.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:24 I really should do a whole show, unpacking all the different De La Soul samples.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Accidents on Purpose" by "Unwound" The ramencitykid took me to seen one of the recent unwound shows, when they played in PDX. It might be because it was one of the few shows I've seen in the last few years... or the fact that I know those albums back and forth... but it was one of the best shows I've ever seen. I loved seeing them back in the day. It was really fun to see them again.
	10:29pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Some of tonight's music reminds me of Lexx.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:29 dAs & Ninah & I were talking about that, after our radio show on Sunday! They were big fans, and I had actually forgotten about that show. I probably haven't seen it since it was actually on.
	10:32pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Worth a watch
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:32 The one I was obsessed with for a while was Farscape. But it was hard to see, and then sort of hard to find after it was gone. I think you can find it easily now... but for a while... like Max... it was sort of rare.
	10:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 I was obsessed with G80
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Gold" by "Ken Nordine" Ken was so ahead of his time.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:35 Hmmmm. I don't know that one.
	10:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 Short for Galactica 1980
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:37 Oh! Yes, of course.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Alexander The Great" by "Iron Maiden" I was shocked that, when it came to Alexander The Great, there weren't more songs about him. Thankfully, Iron Maiden saves the day again....
	10:39pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 I had a theory that Max Headroom was a sequel and took place after Earth suffered a Cylon attack. And Bryce is the son of Dr Zee.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "..taos" by "New Red Sun" This instrumental music - which we will return to again, throughout the rest of the show - was a live recording I made when New Red Sun performed on the radio. They were kind enough to include it on this CD, which... unfortunately... I couldn't find a good photo of online, either. So... again... more things that still haven't made the leap to the internet.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:39 I love that idea! I would have to re-watch, to see if it actually tracks. But I'm sure it does... I haven't seen that era of Galactica in years. And I watched a bunch of the new one, sort of muddling everything I remember.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Alexander The Great" by "Iron Maiden" This cover of this album is sort of the "cyberpunk" take on Eddie... I actually haven't heard enough of this album recently to speak to the rest of the content... maybe this was a concept album, and I forgot?
	10:42pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 trade was about 11 in 1980 so he would have been 19, old enough to become a father when Bryce was born in 1988
	10:42pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 Dr Zee
	10:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Plus a planet wide trauma would explain why so many people forgot so much like movies in a 20 year period
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Alexander The Great" by "Iron Maiden" While I don't mind a fair amount of Iron Maiden, I have to admit that I don't really remember this album very well, and this is very much not like typical Iron Maiden. In a way that is sort of funny and great.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:45 Yeah, the world of Max would need a little more time, or a VERY rapid collapse, for people to have forgotten what movie theaters even were in that short of time.
	👻 10:49pm Heather Z: And I'm back in time for Squeeze! Had to check out for a sec there.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: My first girlfriend was the daughter of the Cottage Grove Library librarian. That woman put my High School 'zines in the collection, for some dumb reason.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:49 And what a Squeeze it is!
	👻 10:50pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 Not for a dumb reason! Cause they were awesome is why!
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:50 I'm not sure anyone's High School 'zine is "awesome."
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: I think that's just science.
	10:51pm Mike Rogers: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 My first girlfriend was the daughter of the lady who ran the school cafeteria. One day, all the cafeteria ladies were so nice to me. I thought it was weird.... Then I figured it out!....
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @10:51 Ha! High School girlfriends, and the power of their moms!
	👻 10:51pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 I mean, we very much like the local zine Virgins in Traction but we also had crushes on the boys who did that one so....
	👻 10:52pm Heather Z: ↳ Heather Z @10:51 *liked
	10:52pm Mike Rogers: ↳ Heather Z @10:51 I made a high school zine... But I was 23 or so...
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: I mean, there were certainly some great 'zines by High School kids. Buy I'm not sure mine was one of them.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: but I'm not sure...
	👻 10:53pm Heather Z: ↳ Mike Rogers @10:52 I bet we would have liked that one, too!! I still have some of the from the early 90s in my files!
	10:54pm Mike Rogers: ↳ Heather Z @10:53 I think the entire series is coming out in a book someday soon.
	👻 10:55pm Heather Z: We have a kid here in town (kid. He's, like, 38) who was doing a very cool cut n paste zine called National Teen Set Outsider. I submitted a few pieces for it, even! It was always neat to pick up a copy.
	👻 10:55pm Heather Z: ↳ Mike Rogers @10:54 Yessss drop a link if that's allowed?! I'd like to check that out!!
	11:00pm Mike Rogers: ↳ Heather Z @10:55 OK. I think it is coming out soon (but I thought that last year!)
	👻 11:01pm Heather Z: ↳ Mike Rogers @11:00 I know how that goes, too! I'll keep an eye out!
	11:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Awww... Thanks
	👻 11:01pm Heather Z: Thanks for an awesome show, Austin, and everyone for a great chat! Good night, all!!
	11:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Heather Z @11:01 Good night
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @11:01 Thanks again, Heather. You are always fun to have in the chat, even for a little while.
	👻 11:04pm ramencity: Still here, just lurking - eating spaghetti and scanning WW1 photos of Macedonia (speakin' of Alex the Great)
	👻 11:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @11:04 A favorite pastime of the old ramencitykid. Well done; at ease, sir.
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: Time to go off and find some grub myself. Thanks everyone, for listening!
	11:07pm WR: Thank you! Austin!
	👻 11:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:07 Thanks WR! Nice to know you were lurking.
	11:12pm Mike Rogers: Thanks Austin san!
	11:13pm Mr Fab: Nice to hear classic Bad Religion! You’re right, you don’t hear them mentioned alongside the other hardcore pioneers. But that’s the era of theirs I know

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 30, 2023

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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May 30, 2023: Connections 2

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Part 1 Can Be Found Here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/123716
This episode contains sample from James Burke's, "Connections," TV Program, S1 E1 & S1E2.
"How High's The Water, Momma?" ""How High's The Water, Momma?""
noisepoetnobody & Vance Galloway	The Process of Enlightenment	Uranium 238	Lens Records	2011	0:00:12 (Pop-up)
Johnny Cash	Five Feet High And Rising	Songs of Our Soil	Columbia	1959	0:05:28 (Pop-up)
Mortal Engines	Harmonium, Harmonium (Live)	Sugar Skull	Self-Released	2008	0:07:31 (Pop-up)
Pyramid Stomp "Pyramid Stomp"
Owls Are Not	Broadcast From Nowhere	Radio Tree	1000hz & Atypeek Music	2018	0:13:15 (Pop-up)
Iarvles	English Empire "English Empire" by "Iarvles"	Iarvles	Pecho Grande	2011	0:14:27 (Pop-up)
The Coasters	Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)	"Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)" b/w "Keep On Rolling"	ATCO Records	1961	0:18:23 (Pop-up)
The Pyramids	Pyramid Stomp "Pyramid Stomp" by "The Pyramids"	Penetration! The Best Of The Pyramids	Sundazed	1995	0:24:45 (Pop-up)
Skull Vacuum	Corpse Flower "Corpse Flower" by "Skull Vacuum"	Burn Sees Dark	Exoteque Music / Harsh Reality	2020	0:26:58 (Pop-up)
Dead Moon	Times Are A Changing "Times Are A Changing" by "Dead Moon"	Crack In The System	Tombstone Records	1994	0:31:14 (Pop-up)
John Carpenter	Everyone's Coming to New York	Escape From New York (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	Varèse Sarabande	1981	0:35:54 (Pop-up)
The Rationals	I Need You "I Need You" by "The Rationals"	"I Need You" b/w "Out In The Streets"	A Squared Records	1967	0:39:15 (Pop-up)
Soriah with Askelon Sain	Borbak "Borbak" by "Soriah with Askelon Sain"	Atlan	Projekt Records	2009	0:41:27 (Pop-up)
Simply Saucer	Here Come The Cyborgs, Pt. 1	Cyborgs Revisited	Mole Sound Recordings	1989	0:42:25 (Pop-up)
Famous Explorers	Boy Detectives "Boy Detectives" by "Famous Explorers"	Messthetics #103: D.I.Y. 77 - 81 Midlands 1	Messthetics/Hyped2Death	2007	0:54:52 (Pop-up)
MX-80	O-Type "O-Type" by "MX-80"	Das Love Boat: Instrumentals 1975-1990	a&r/ENT Records	1990	0:57:52 (Pop-up)
Accidents On Purpose. "Accidents On Purpose."
Dylan Houser	[210718_1441] "[210718_1441]" by "Dylan Houser"	[wededemonrnr]	Self-Released	2021	1:03:56 (Pop-up)
Accident (a.k.a. Accidents)	True Detective	A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89	Self-Released	2010	1:08:48 (Pop-up)
Wanda Jackson	Money Honey "Money Honey" by "Wanda Jackson"	Queen of Rockabilly	Ace Records	2000	1:12:21 (Pop-up)
Jad Fair and Jason Willett	Olive "Olive" by "Jad Fair and Jason Willett"	Enjoyable Songs	Alternative Tentacles	1999	1:15:46 (Pop-up)
Bob Dorough	This For That "This For That" by "Bob Dorough"	Schoolhouse Rock!	ABC Television	1996	1:22:14 (Pop-up)
Replikants	[track 13] "[track 13]" by "Replikants"	This Is Our Message	5 Rue Christine Records	1997	1:25:18 (Pop-up)
Unwound	Accidents on Purpose "Accidents on Purpose" by "Unwound"	The Future of What	Kill Rock Stars	1995	1:26:34 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine	Gold "Gold" by "Ken Nordine"	Colors	Philips	1966	1:34:21 (Pop-up)
New Red Sun	..taos "..taos" by "New Red Sun"	Book of Sand and Moss	Marzec Records	2009	1:36:33 (Pop-up)
Iron Maiden	Alexander The Great "Alexander The Great" by "Iron Maiden"	Somewhere in Time	Capitol Records	1986	1:37:41 (Pop-up)
Squeeze	Library Girl "Library Girl" by "Squeeze"	Essential Squeeze	Universal Music	2007	1:47:44 (Pop-up)
Bad Religion	Bad Religion "Bad Religion" by "Bad Religion"	Bad Religion	Epitaph Records	1981	1:52:02 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 8:06pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:56pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy!
	9:00pm Aitch: Sounds complicated
	9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ahoy, Aitch! Hope you are amazing tonight
	9:01pm Krys O.: Greetings!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:56 Imaginos! Nice to see you!
	9:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 Ahoy!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @9:00 Less so than you'd think.
	9:02pm Pauly from Clifton: Hey Austin, folks!
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 Howdy! Thanks for joining us!
	9:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 You, too
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Pauly from Clifton @9:02 Pauly! Welcome to The Mid-Valley!
	9:03pm Geoff-U: Hullo! :waves:
	9:03pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Geoff-U @9:03 :waves back:
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:03 Geoff-U! Now the robot party can begin!
	9:08pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Awesome
	👻 9:08pm ramencity: :wave: sneaking over from the Work Laptop the the Funzo Laptop
	9:11pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Ooh sounds like fun
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:08 It's good to see you. We need to work on your next radio appearance, good sir!
	9:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: So much cool stuff coming in the future.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)" by "The Coasters" As I get older, this is more often becoming my favorite song.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: "Ying-Yang..."
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: "Pheonix AZ, 1949!"
	9:20pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 Its a cool song, but I'm torn between Three Cool Cats and Along Came Jones.
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: This, and "Lydia The Tattooed Lady" might be the greatest songs ever written.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:20 The Coasters, in general, are just the best. Like... all classics.
	9:21pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 I agree
	👻 9:24pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @9:20 I knew the Rudy Vallee version of "Lydia" when I was a kiddo...
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:24 I only discovered it much later. In many ways, I feel like I'm constantly trying to catch up with the stuff I missed out on as a kid.
	👻 9:26pm ramencity: Geez I thought every 13-yr-old had a Rudy Vallee phase, nyuk nyuk!
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:26 I wish!
	9:27pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:25 I know what you mean. We as a generation were so hyperfocused on finding the songs that expressed us that we missed the rest
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Corpse Flower" by "Skull Vacuum" I was unable to find a good photo of this album online, so I had to take my own photo. Another example of how not everything is online!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:27 I certainly had my mind blown, when I moved to Eugene, and realized that there were other kinds of music other than pop music on the radio, and the stuff my parents liked. I feel like I've been catching up, making sure there weren't other things I missed.
	👻 9:30pm ramencity: Tha audio equivalent of Peruvian beaver cheese?
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: In fact, ramencitykid was responsible for exposing me to so much music, I owe him a lot in that respect.
	9:31pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:29 I spent my early years listening to Glen Miller and Mitch Miller. With a smattering of Beatles.
	9:32pm Aitch: Catching up on things I missed due to the tyranny of distance
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:31 It was all classic rock and arena rock for me. My parents were hippies who loved all those huge 70's stadium bands. I was just shocked to find out about show tunes... or big band music... or a lot of things really. Popular radio offered such a narrow slice of music in the 80's. It was weird.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:31 I sort of like Glenn Miller. Not so much with Mitch Miller. Though I like Announcer Mitch.
	9:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:34 I agree. Announcer Mitch is really awesome
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:35 Steve sent me an e-mail, after he heard the interview, to mention that he liked all the intrusions and samples, and the Mitch moments. It was nice to hear, as I have always wondered what people think of that editing style.
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Everyone's Coming to New York" by "John Carpenter" Hopefully Heather is listening, as she'll actually get this joke, now.
	9:37pm Mike Rogers: Hi Austin san!!!!
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @9:37 Mike Rogers! Now it really is a party!
	9:38pm Mike Rogers: It's only 10:30 am, but I'm ready to par-tay!
	👻 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @9:38 Oh, yeah. I guess it would be that early where you are. Good Morning!
	9:38pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:36 Cool. You always do that interesting interviews and editing. Speaking of editing, I look forward to seeing your adjustments to the script.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:38 Oh yeah. I had some thoughts about that this morning. Just some small additions.
	9:39pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 Sometimes that's enough
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "I Need You" by "The Rationals" If you think that this song is about your cell phone, it's REALLY funny.
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Here Come The Cyborgs, Pt. 1" by "Simply Saucer" I know I played this song on my show last year, but I couldn't help myself. Frankly, I'm shocked I don't play this album every week; Simply Saucer are probably one of my favorite bands.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: Oh yeah... this end jam!
	9:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Currently working on a story about a tall ship sailing on an alien planet.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: In 2009, I was lucky enough to see one of the few Simply Saucer reunion shows they put on. Before that tour, they had only ever played their hometown...
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:45 Oooooo! I like the sounds of that. My new postcard has two songs from my sci-fi-rock-music project. I do like the sci-fi stuff...
	9:50pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 The planet has 3suns and 2 moons. The crew of the starship Vulturoso landed there 100 years ago and now they've built a tall ship to seek new land
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @9:50 I like that. A sci-fi period piece.
	9:51pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:43 Hey Austin! Yeah I wouldn’t blame you if you did play em every week. Canada’s finest. Just too ahead of their time to make it.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:51 That album! Damn! It blows my mind, still!
	9:51pm Geoff-U: I like these spooky interludes
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:51 James Burke does spooky like the best of them.
	9:53pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @9:52 That he does. Even surpassing some
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Boy Detectives" by "Famous Explorers" I'm OBSESSED with these Hyped 2 Death compilations. I'm sad he doesn't make them anymore, as I have most... but not all! (And only in digital.) I'm sure there's other nerds out there... but finding them... it always takes time.
	👻 10:01pm Heather Z: Shoot, I was tuned in but painting very important skeleton eyes on my grateful dead fan art and I missed the joke!! I'm here for Squeeze, though!!
	10:01pm Aitch: Squeeze is cool (for cats)
	10:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Art of Noise?
	👻 10:02pm Heather Z: Maybe it's Up The Junction so we can all cry!
	10:06pm Geoff-U: Anyone else hear the band Sonic Architecture, they were around during the same early 80's period that Art Of Noise was getting airplay, he were very reminiscent of Art Of Noise but Sonic Architecture was a lot more obscure
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "[210718_1441]" by "Dylan Houser" Dylan Houser inspired my own Musical Postcards, that I have mailed out now for three years, one a month. Dylan did it for about a year or so, and I really enjoyed getting these songs in the mail. So I figured I should do the same, since I enjoyed it so much.
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:06 I'll have to look that up! I don't know them.
	10:07pm Geoff-U: The only song I recall by Sonic Architecture was called "Manhattan"
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:07 I'll have to dig in, and report back. Thanks for the tip!
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:02 It's not!
	10:09pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Some really fun music comes from John Massari's work on Mike Jittlov's the Wizard of Speed and Time
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:09 Yes! I haven't seen that in years. Time for a re-watch.
	10:13pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: The reason the people in my story are using a tall ship instead of the starship is that the starship has been converted into an Academy and also a farm
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:13 Yeah, those are important resources. You don't want to give those up.
	10:16pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 One passenger, who is apparently a 20 year old girl, has a secret
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: That's right... he said Olives!
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Olive" by "Jad Fair and Jason Willett" I met Jad Fair at a music fest, and had seen him play the night before. He seemed so confused that I would recognize him, and didn't seem to understand at first that I liked his music, and was a fan. He was sweet and it was lovely.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:16 I like that. There's a lot of potential there.
	10:19pm Geoff-U: Is this what the kids call "art rock"? :D
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:19 Ha!
	10:19pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 She's introduced herself to Lila as Maggie, but that's just a nickname
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "This For That" by "Bob Dorough" I almost didn't play this song, thinking, "Schoolhouse Rock from 1996? Like, wasn't that last week?" I had to remind myself that was almost 30 years ago, now, and that Bob Dorough is pretty good, even in the 90's.
	👻 10:24pm ramencity: I get the links now: the first De La Soul album sampled both "Five Foot High And Rising" and Schoolhouse Rock...
	10:24pm Geoff-U: Wow, my parents loved Bob Dorough's music when I was growing up
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:24 Exactly!
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @10:24 I never heard him, except on Schoolhouse Rock... until I lived on my own. Now I love him.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:24 I really should do a whole show, unpacking all the different De La Soul samples.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Accidents on Purpose" by "Unwound" The ramencitykid took me to seen one of the recent unwound shows, when they played in PDX. It might be because it was one of the few shows I've seen in the last few years... or the fact that I know those albums back and forth... but it was one of the best shows I've ever seen. I loved seeing them back in the day. It was really fun to see them again.
	10:29pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Some of tonight's music reminds me of Lexx.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:29 dAs & Ninah & I were talking about that, after our radio show on Sunday! They were big fans, and I had actually forgotten about that show. I probably haven't seen it since it was actually on.
	10:32pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 Worth a watch
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:32 The one I was obsessed with for a while was Farscape. But it was hard to see, and then sort of hard to find after it was gone. I think you can find it easily now... but for a while... like Max... it was sort of rare.
	10:35pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 I was obsessed with G80
	👻 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Gold" by "Ken Nordine" Ken was so ahead of his time.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:35 Hmmmm. I don't know that one.
	10:37pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:36 Short for Galactica 1980
	👻 10:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:37 Oh! Yes, of course.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Alexander The Great" by "Iron Maiden" I was shocked that, when it came to Alexander The Great, there weren't more songs about him. Thankfully, Iron Maiden saves the day again....
	10:39pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:37 I had a theory that Max Headroom was a sequel and took place after Earth suffered a Cylon attack. And Bryce is the son of Dr Zee.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "..taos" by "New Red Sun" This instrumental music - which we will return to again, throughout the rest of the show - was a live recording I made when New Red Sun performed on the radio. They were kind enough to include it on this CD, which... unfortunately... I couldn't find a good photo of online, either. So... again... more things that still haven't made the leap to the internet.
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:39 I love that idea! I would have to re-watch, to see if it actually tracks. But I'm sure it does... I haven't seen that era of Galactica in years. And I watched a bunch of the new one, sort of muddling everything I remember.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Alexander The Great" by "Iron Maiden" This cover of this album is sort of the "cyberpunk" take on Eddie... I actually haven't heard enough of this album recently to speak to the rest of the content... maybe this was a concept album, and I forgot?
	10:42pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 trade was about 11 in 1980 so he would have been 19, old enough to become a father when Bryce was born in 1988
	10:42pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Austin Rich @10:40 Dr Zee
	10:45pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Plus a planet wide trauma would explain why so many people forgot so much like movies in a 20 year period
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Alexander The Great" by "Iron Maiden" While I don't mind a fair amount of Iron Maiden, I have to admit that I don't really remember this album very well, and this is very much not like typical Iron Maiden. In a way that is sort of funny and great.
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @10:45 Yeah, the world of Max would need a little more time, or a VERY rapid collapse, for people to have forgotten what movie theaters even were in that short of time.
	👻 10:49pm Heather Z: And I'm back in time for Squeeze! Had to check out for a sec there.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: My first girlfriend was the daughter of the Cottage Grove Library librarian. That woman put my High School 'zines in the collection, for some dumb reason.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:49 And what a Squeeze it is!
	👻 10:50pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 Not for a dumb reason! Cause they were awesome is why!
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:50 I'm not sure anyone's High School 'zine is "awesome."
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: I think that's just science.
	10:51pm Mike Rogers: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 My first girlfriend was the daughter of the lady who ran the school cafeteria. One day, all the cafeteria ladies were so nice to me. I thought it was weird.... Then I figured it out!....
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mike Rogers @10:51 Ha! High School girlfriends, and the power of their moms!
	👻 10:51pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:50 I mean, we very much like the local zine Virgins in Traction but we also had crushes on the boys who did that one so....
	👻 10:52pm Heather Z: ↳ Heather Z @10:51 *liked
	10:52pm Mike Rogers: ↳ Heather Z @10:51 I made a high school zine... But I was 23 or so...
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: I mean, there were certainly some great 'zines by High School kids. Buy I'm not sure mine was one of them.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: but I'm not sure...
	👻 10:53pm Heather Z: ↳ Mike Rogers @10:52 I bet we would have liked that one, too!! I still have some of the from the early 90s in my files!
	10:54pm Mike Rogers: ↳ Heather Z @10:53 I think the entire series is coming out in a book someday soon.
	👻 10:55pm Heather Z: We have a kid here in town (kid. He's, like, 38) who was doing a very cool cut n paste zine called National Teen Set Outsider. I submitted a few pieces for it, even! It was always neat to pick up a copy.
	👻 10:55pm Heather Z: ↳ Mike Rogers @10:54 Yessss drop a link if that's allowed?! I'd like to check that out!!
	11:00pm Mike Rogers: ↳ Heather Z @10:55 OK. I think it is coming out soon (but I thought that last year!)
	👻 11:01pm Heather Z: ↳ Mike Rogers @11:00 I know how that goes, too! I'll keep an eye out!
	11:01pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: Awww... Thanks
	👻 11:01pm Heather Z: Thanks for an awesome show, Austin, and everyone for a great chat! Good night, all!!
	11:02pm ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova: ↳ Heather Z @11:01 Good night
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @11:01 Thanks again, Heather. You are always fun to have in the chat, even for a little while.
	👻 11:04pm ramencity: Still here, just lurking - eating spaghetti and scanning WW1 photos of Macedonia (speakin' of Alex the Great)
	👻 11:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @11:04 A favorite pastime of the old ramencitykid. Well done; at ease, sir.
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: Time to go off and find some grub myself. Thanks everyone, for listening!
	11:07pm WR: Thank you! Austin!
	👻 11:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ WR @11:07 Thanks WR! Nice to know you were lurking.
	11:12pm Mike Rogers: Thanks Austin san!
	11:13pm Mr Fab: Nice to hear classic Bad Religion! You’re right, you don’t hear them mentioned alongside the other hardcore pioneers. But that’s the era of theirs I know

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 30, 2023

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