WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 21, 2025

Listener comments!
	👻 6:45pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:52pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 8:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:52 Lovely to see you, as always. I hope you like dancing...
	8:58pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:57 I do, but I would rather enjoy the company of the lounge
	8:59pm Aitch: what if we forget to dance?
	8:59pm Mr. X: The owls are not what they seem.
	8:59pm Krys O.: Hi! Do you have any Austex beef stew?
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @8:59 Of course, follow your joy.
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:59 I'll send you a case, immediately!
	👻 9:00pm Arvo Zylo: hi
	9:00pm Aitch: ↳ Austin Rich @8:59 Not sure where I left her?
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @8:59 RIP, Mr. Lynch. A loss to film and culture.
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:00 Arvo! Thanks for poppin' in, of course!
	9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:00 Why do the wrong people keep dying?
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @9:00 She was around her, earlier...
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 That is a very good question with no answer.
	9:02pm Mr. X: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 I like to think they were too good for this world.
	9:02pm Aitch: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 Good die young?
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:02 That is the only thing that makes sense
	9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Aitch @9:02 Too often
	9:04pm Krys O.: This site is fairly good for searching for a song by snippets of lyrics: findmusicbylyrics.com Maybe that will help...
	9:08pm Imaginos: The only rare album curator I can think of is BoyJohn, though he mostly does 60s and 70s kids music.
	9:09pm Imaginos: That would be awesome
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:04 Oooooo! I didn't know about this. Thanks!
	👻 9:12pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Krys O. @9:04 Yes that looks like a good resource! Up to this point, www.secondhandsongs.com was my only refuge outside of discogs for things like this, but with track titles, not lyrics.
	9:12pm Krys O.: Evan Funk Davies who does a show on the Mothership on Wednesdays noon to 3 pm ET is an absolute post-punk aficionado. He started doing radio in the late 70s in Boston and he was a post-punk pioneer on WNYU. He's a very genial chap. Contact Evan about the unknown songs. I'll bet he could help you. www.wfmu.org... I used to listen to his show when I was in high school, by the way.
	9:13pm Mr. X: So it's almost like the long awaited DJ Marshmallow set, but not.
	👻 9:13pm Arvo Zylo: Incidentally, I was listening to Death Cult, Mephisto Walz, and some other goth stuff today, among other things. I like to play stuff like that on the radio, because it is mostly untouched in terms of the freeform radio circles I have traversed...
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:13 We keep talking about doing a show together, but she's a little gun-shy about being on the radio. One of these days.
	9:15pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:14 Tell her we would love to hear her on the show. She'd be among friends.
	👻 9:15pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:14 She doesn't need to talk! I did a set with a romantic interest more than once, and they were fine as long as they didn't have to talk...
	👻 9:16pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Woman's Own" by "The Danse Society" So weird, I listened to them two days ago.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:15 I will! I want her to do a show someday.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:15 I keep telling her she wouldn't need to say anything, but really, she would be very good on the air. She's very funny.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:16 They are pretty great.
	9:21pm Krys O.: Good night, all!
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Out of the Ruins" by "Fra Lippo Lippi" Real time Shazam updates!
	9:21pm Imaginos: Do you n anything from me for Lost Christobel?
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:21 Sleep well, Krys O! Thanks for everything you do!
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:21 No, just time to work on it.
	9:23pm Mr. X: Captain Marvel/Billy Batson would have a tough time using Shazam, constantly going poof and switching identities every time he said it.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:23 Yeah, he would need to come up with some other way to refer to the app. "I need to use the s-word app..."
	9:26pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 Okay
	9:26pm Mr. X: Remember the Rockman effects box that was popular in the 80s? Sometimes I think that was the key to the Goth guitar sound.
	9:26pm AMYGDALA: ↳ Song: "??" by "??" Shazam - nada. SoundHound came up with: The Fusion of Mind and Body by Fly (Pilates - Music for Body in Motion, Aug. 10, 2012)
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ AMYGDALA @9:26 Lovely to see you in the Digital Salon, AMYGDALA! I think that might not be it, though; most of these tunes were supposed to be from the 80's. But who can say? Maybe the source I got it from was wrong...
	9:28pm AMYGDALA: ↳ AMYGDALA @9:26 ...but it's wrong - sorry I jumoed the gun - did not match what I'm now hearing on the Tube.
	9:29pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "??" by "??" quite like this one
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ AMYGDALA @9:28 I do love that you checked your own work! What diligence! I love it.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @9:29 Yeah, I would love to identify this one just so I can get more by this group!
	9:30pm AMYGDALA: * jumped the gun - oops... should have researched further before posting. SoundHound sometimes gets it before Shazam.
	9:30pm Otis: Tuned in to the Mutations from Mid-Montreal, Hi Austin and Folks.
	👻 9:34pm Arvo Zylo: I have bartended many weddings in some fairly exotic hidden places around Chicago. However, I never had the opportunity to DJ a wedding without playing the same 20 songs of every wedding DJ set. I drew the line with Phil Collins... would love the opportunity to DJ for money without playing Phil Collins somehow... So far, I have been paid to do soul or halloween DJ sets, but that was damn lucky...
	9:37pm Imaginos: Oh dear
	9:37pm Mr. X: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:34 Sheena's most resented music: Phil Collins and The Eagles.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: Oh no, the stream got interrupted for a moment! Sorry about that. Hopefully I can get a version of this up on the archive that is complete.
	9:39pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:34 You would have loved my wedding. I had Eyes On Me by Faye Wong as the main dance. I got married because I have a heart and divorced because I have a brain
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:34 Weddings DJ gigs are such a specific thing, because you often have to play very specific music. I asked our wedding DJ to play anything from either of the first two Nuggets boxed sets, and then DJ Marshmallow and I collaborated on another playlist of songs we each wanted to dance to. The DJ we hired - who I knew from the radio station I used to work at - seemed okay with that.
	👻 9:40pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @9:37 I have sold beer at concerts for the both of them. The Eagles were much more tolerable. They play Hotel California about 4 songs in and everyone goes to the bathroom, nobody gives F about the rest of their catalog... Phil Collins produced an album by Frida, and I do like the song "Land of Confusion" too, but other than that, I need to steer clear of a lot of that dumbed down 80s pop. I like plenty of cheesy 80s music, but Phil Collins or Sarah McLachlan, or Enya and things like that are just beyond the pale, I'm afraid.
	9:41pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:40 Journey of the Sorcerer is my favorite
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:39 It's always good to make decisions with both, but often one clouds the other, for the dumbest reasons.
	👻 9:41pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 I even discussed different Rolling Stones songs and ABBA songs. Like blah blah blah "there are so many better songs than Dancing Queen!!!"
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:41 It's the only Eagles song I hear regularly, but not because it's on any Eagles album I own.
	👻 9:42pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:39 I will check out that song, I am not remembering if I have ever heard it.
	9:42pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Because of the Guide
	9:42pm Mr. X: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:40 Ha ha! That's great. I know Mr. Fab has dropped comments in here about how much he hates the Eagles. And then there's the infamous Eagles tape in The Big Lebowski.
	👻 9:42pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @9:39 Imaginos, I am so glad I checked the chat when I did!! Mau I use your line and credit you, of course, as I tell people.i got married because I have a heart and divorced because I have a brain?!
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:41 This I do believe: people always pick the wrong songs by very popular acts. There's often a better song from a different, less known album that would work better.
	9:43pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @9:42 You may
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:42 Heather Z! Thank you for joining the Digital Salon.
	👻 9:44pm Heather Z: Taking a break from the dance floor to catch my breath and say hi in the chat! Loving the DJ Marshmallow tunes tonight!
	👻 9:44pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @9:42 I know most of The Big Lebowski by heart, and have also read the screenplay. It's really a piece of work, just as a drama, regardless of if people think it's funny.
	👻 9:45pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @9:43 Super good stuff. Thank you!
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:44 Not exactly her, but the tunes that backed her up when she needed a break. Her DJ gigs were always better attended than mine, and she got bigger crowds than any show I ever played. (Except when I was opening for Negativland, or Mike Watt.) She was the real entertainment draw in our household.
	9:46pm Imaginos: Journey of the Sorcerer is best known as The theme from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
	👻 9:46pm Arvo Zylo: This is a good mix because it is hitting on the post punk that I like, while also not playing so far the stuff that I don't like somehow... good show.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:44 DJ Marshmallow and I watched Big Lebowski the other day, and I was thinking about how odd and strange it is more than funny. It's like a funny David Lynch movie, more than anything else.
	9:47pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @9:45 I did a YouTube podcast recently about Vulture-Cats.
	👻 9:48pm Arvo Zylo: I honestly am sure there are plenty of Eagles songs that I like, but I remember that they sued some hotel in Mexico for playing a muzak version of their song, and I just can't help but roll my eyes.
	9:48pm Mr. X: So much lostwave.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:46 I get a little picky about post-punk and goth stuff too. A lot of stuff is overplayed, and the stuff I like has a certain flavor that just makes me want to move. At least, that's what drove these selections.
	👻 9:48pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 As close as I'll get to hearing DJ Marshmallow, alas. I have no doubt she totally rocked the house! I wish I'd been on your side of the country at some point to catch one of her nights.
	👻 9:49pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @9:47 Oh wow! I don't know Vulture-Cats at all! But that sounds very cool!
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:48 I suspect the right person would know these tunes. I might hit up Krys O's friend, who would probably be able to solve these mysteries.
	9:51pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:49 I just wanted to use lostwave in a sentence.
	9:51pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @9:49 They're a species I invented
	👻 9:52pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 It is incredible how well they packed in the depth of the characters in a relatively short amount of dialogue, and the plot was genuinely unpredictable, but not implausible. They honestly wrote a perfect drama, created a perfect atmosphere, and it's "high concept" without being pretentious. So many zany movies of the 90s and beyond failed at what they did with that movie. It is truly incredible, but I digress.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: One thing I do love about this era of post-punk are the bands with singers who can't carry a tune. They all sort of sound like they are mumbling or half-singing, and as someone who can't sing, I find that very charming. Sort of aspirational...
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:51 It is a fun word.
	9:53pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:52 Like listening to your ten year old nephew trying to sing
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:52 Do you like their other movies? I think Miller's Crossing is probably my favorite of theirs. It has such excellent dialog, and I like the way different scenes mirror each other. It's very beautiful, in places.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: It's funny how a lot of post-punk and goth songs have bass and drums that are almost like disco songs, and it's really the guitar and lyrics that make them a different genre.
	👻 9:57pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @9:51 Oh, I love that! So cool! I'll make a note to search it on the youtubes!
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:53 I don't know, that nephew knows all the cool songs that have been used in memes. He'll figure out how to sing someday.
	👻 9:59pm Arvo Zylo: I am just marveling at this beautiful diamond painting of a haunted house that some wonderful person sent me today.... :-)
	9:59pm Aitch: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 Great movie.
	10:00pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @9:57 youtube.com...
	👻 10:01pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @10:00 Thank you! 😊
	10:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @10:01 You're welcome
	👻 10:01pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:59 Awww!
	10:02pm Aitch: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 A lot of Lynch vibe in the Coens. Just watched The Old Man, where the Dude is an un-retired spook who keeps killing would-be assassins, but gets his old arse kicked every time.
	👻 10:03pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 I will binge the Coen Brothers eventually, but I'm actually nowhere near a film buff. I go to movie theaters once or twice a week, but it's not as an expert. I just like to see what people get away with. I have been watching Dark Shadows pretty nonstop for months now... One of the Coen Bros did a film where a lesbian couple are driving a car with a stolen treasure in the trunk across the country, and that was not too shabby, but hard not to compare to the greats. I actually went over 10 years where I just hated to watch movies at home. I had so much other stuff to do, and I lived close to a great theater, so watching movies at home was kinda silly...
	10:04pm Imaginos: Its either that or take a Magrathean nap.
	10:04pm Aitch: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:03 that girls / driving movie sooo bad it's kinda good again
	👻 10:06pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:57 My friend who has 13 year old twins has said she's astounded at all the songs her kids know. She has no idea how they can pull out all kinds of tunes from all kinds of eras but those girls are on it!
	👻 10:06pm Arvo Zylo: Recently I learned that they actually did freeze gerbils and resuscitate them with microwaves in the '50s. Like, that wasn't just a sci-fi thing, they tried it with humans, but it only worked with gerbils because gerbils are small... I just like to think about finding a way to stay alive until time travel is possible.
	10:08pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy and ready for bed
	10:08pm Mr. X: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:03 When I was in grade school, my brother and I had a babysitter who watched Dark Shadows religiously. So we were exposed to an inordinate amount of Barnabus Collins. I can't remember much about it, other than one of the female characters psychically invoking Barnabus by saying "Come, Barnabus" over and over, when her face would be superimposed on a scene of whatever Barnabus was doing at the time.
	10:09pm Aitch: ↳ Heather Z @10:06 Soundtracks and Spotify, mine the same but older
	👻 10:12pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:08 Currently, I am around 180 episodes in, and at this point, someone partook in a seance, and was transported to the year 1795 for what is now looking like almost 20 episodes... I am enjoying it, wish I was able to watch it in real time as a wee lad.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:06 Kids always have been smarter than adults. If we could harness the power of kids to learn things that baffle adults, we'd have all energy problems solved.
	👻 10:14pm Heather Z: ↳ Aitch @10:09 That's really cool. I love how so much music is so available now! And I love that the kids are finding it and taking to all kinds of things from all kinds of eras!
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:08 Sleep well, Imaginos!
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:08 I watched some Dark Shadows. I couldn't stick with it, but it was entertaining for a while. I sent all my Dark Shadows discs to my friend Angela, who Heather also knows.
	👻 10:15pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Internal Silence" by "Lung Overcoat" Man, what a great name. I could probably use a lung overcoat, just in case... you just never know.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:03 Watching movies in a theater is the preferred way to see them, for me. But it's not always possible. I went to a masked showing of "Nosferatu" which I loved, but do think was a tad too long.
	👻 10:16pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:15 I tried to watch Dark Shadows with Netflix DVDs when they still did DVDs, and it was just too tedious, so now I am trying to make up for it.
	10:17pm AMYGDALA: I searched for "post-punk youtube channel that Austin Rich greatly admired and that he used to help produce assorted mixtapes in a previous lifetime"... Found it!: www.youtube.com...
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:16 Yeah. It's a LOT of discs, if you go that route. Streaming is better for a show like that.
	👻 10:17pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:16 I was nonplussed by the recent Nosferatu, but aesthetically impressed nonetheless.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ AMYGDALA @10:17 I'll have to look at that after the show! Thanks for your research.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:17 The story wasn't much, but the visuals, I thought, were just fantastic.
	👻 10:20pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:14 When I was a kid before the internet, I didn't live near anything but a mall record store, and so I was just ravenous about music. I dubbed tapes of all my friends records and dubbed stuff off of the radio and from CDs I took out at the library and all that. At that time, I just wished I could listen to whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, and I will be happy. Well, I still try to go on that premise!
	👻 10:21pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 I could have done without the mustache! But yes, better than Tim Burton in some areas, for sure.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:20 The library sort of blew my mind as a kid, because you could check out books and records! It was wild. I was astonished.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:21 I sort of liked all the period costumes and whatnot. And I do love how many live animals where actually used in the film. I heard the animal wrangling was a lot of work on that one. But yeah, if you're there for story, it's not that much.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Ho Ka Hey" by "Psi Com" As I just discovered, this was Perry Farrell's band before Jane's Addiction. I think they are wrongly known, in some circles, as, "Psi Com & Perry Farrell," but I'm sure that was not how they were billed in 1985.
	👻 10:25pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:20 Same. I had the radio and my dad's records which are awesome, he's got good taste. My sister and I had some records and tapes. There was the library and friends and I swapped tapes. But the record stores were expensive so I really had to plan out what used tapes my babysitting money could go for!
	10:25pm Mr. X: Most un-Goth name for a Goth band: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:25 True, but I sort of like them!
	👻 10:26pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:25 I believe it was last March where I played them and someone came to this conclusion, as one does...
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:25 The only benefit I had growing up was that, after my parents divorce, my mom used all her money to open a used record store / bookstore / comic book store, and I could work there for trade in stock. So the only reason I had any records or tapes or anything was because I was at the bookstore every hour that wasn't at school.
	👻 10:30pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:25 Tapes were always my preferred format, and they were always cheaper than any other format. I didn't take to buying CDs on purpose until I worked at a used CD store in 1999 or so... but yeah I still remember when Best Buy sold tapes, often for less than $10, and there were used CD stores around me that sold CDs for $5-$8. Plus, at the time, thrift stores sold great records for $1. One of my first thrift store finds was Scary Monsters by David Bowie for $1. Not to mention Rolling Stones, Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, etc.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:30 I miss $1 thrift store records. That and dinner could provide a full evening of entertainment.
	👻 10:32pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 That is a good way to hear stuff other kids maybe couldn't! I'm lucky my dad had great taste in music and, as I grew older, so did a bunch of my friends. There was a shop called Godiva's that sold vintage clothes and, more excitingly, cheap tapes local bands put out! I got some cool tapes there!
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:30 When my mom's store went out of business, she kept all the stock in a storage unit, and would slowly get rid of them over time. My mom gave me two Kraftwerk records, and two Devo records - which I still have - because she assumed I would, "like that kind of stuff." I don't really know if she ever heard them, but I still love them.
	👻 10:34pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:30 Scary Monsters for a dollar! I think my (used tape) copy was, like, $6? And honestly worth every penny. I started getting CDs in 96 when I joined.... Columbia CD club! Which was also actually worth it for me!
	👻 10:35pm Heather Z: ↳ Heather Z @10:34 Time is an abstract concept. Late 92, not 96!
	10:36pm Mr. X: Growing up in Coos Bay, we had a business that supplied all the jukeboxes in town, called Sunset Automatic Music Co., or SAMCO. Every week they would cull the jukebox inventories, and sell the reject 45s for a quarter apiece. My friend and I would go down there after school and pick up tons of 7" singles for cheap.
	👻 10:37pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 It is hard for me to imagine people going out of business selling records, but I know it happens. I have friends who had a record store on a wing and a prayer, actually basically homeless and living in the bathroom, but their landlord kicked them out because they were metalheads and had pentagrams around, I guess. They may still have their collection in storage, confiscated in some way and held as collateral now.
	👻 10:38pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:34 I did Columbia House and BMG, but didn't go too far after the initial 11 CDs for $1 deal, because I didn't like a lot of it.
	👻 10:39pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @10:36 Omg did you leave with stacks of em? That must have been so exciting!
	👻 10:39pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:36 For a while, I was buying boxes of used 45s, taking what I wanted, and selling the rest on Ebay for a good amount, because I was the only one willing to ship to Japan at the time. It was a good racket for a bit...
	👻 10:40pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:38 I think I did similarly but got, like REM and Morrissey CD, I think? It really helped build up my tiny tiny collection!
	👻 10:41pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:40 I got the gangsta rap they had a available and that was about it. I was not into Alanis Morrisette or the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but I tried...
	10:43pm Mr. X: ↳ Heather Z @10:39 Oh yes, stacks. We were avid listeners of Casey Kasem's American Top 40. So the records were usually stuff that had been on his show about 6 months prior.
	👻 10:43pm Arvo Zylo: WZRD had a standalone burner, and so I would stay there as long as they would allow me, just burning spools of discs while I wasn't DJing. I sure do wish they could automate my shows so that no one else has to run them from home!
	👻 10:45pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @10:43 Yes! My sister and I also listened to Casey Kasem weekly! That show was iconic!
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:36 That's amazing! What a great story.
	👻 10:47pm Arvo Zylo: I listened to lots of radio, including Casey Kasem, Dr. Demento, and various rap stations... I am on my second cup of coffee, IDGAF!
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:43 That was me a KWVA in Eugene, but instead of CDRs, just with boxes of tapes. Sitting in the station lobby, drinking coffee, eating sandwiches, and reading books on music.
	👻 10:48pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:47 Dr. Demento was a treat for us because he was on at, like 10pm, I think? So we could only listen during summers and when we had Monday off from school.
	10:49pm Mr. X: @Austin: The graphic you are using for Post-Punk Jukebox reminds me of an apartment complex used as a setting for a 2008 movie called Gomorrah, set in Naples. (I guess there was later a tv series based on the movie, but I have only seen the movie.)
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: I always appreciated the stories that Richard Meltzer would tell, about how he would get free copies of albums from record labels, hoping that he would review them for Rolling Stone. He would write reviews of the albums un-opened, so he could get a higher re-sale on the record when he would take it to the store after he wrote his review. He, Nick Tosches and Lester Bangs would do stuff like that, as poor record nerds who were published but needed money to buy more records with.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:49 That image was what came up when I searched for, "80's Brutalist Architecture."
	10:53pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 Definitely brutal.
	👻 10:54pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Her Longing" by "Taugadeildin" This cover art is by William Mortenson, a legendary photographer, FYI. I believe the title of this piece is something like "This Is What We Do To Eachother".
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:53 It sort of reminds me of the architecture at LCC.
	10:55pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 Ha ha, yes. Fun with angular slabs of concrete.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Like Dust" by "Sixtieth Parallel" Damn! That hair! I sort of wish I was in some 80's post-punk band just for the hair...
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:54 Very cool! Yeah, that cover is very striking. I love it.
	👻 11:00pm Heather Z: It's about that time so I'll wish yall a good night! Thanks for a fun show and a fun chat! Tuesday nights are good because they're MVM nights.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Like Dust" by "Sixtieth Parallel" I guess this is the outlier that proves I wasn't quite right when I said, "Early / Mid 80's." Still, I really liked that Sixtieth Parallel tune, and I can see why I would pick it anyway. I'm a sucker for that kind of band. It's a little like some of the Red Rockers albums.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @11:00 Take care. We've got a bit more before we wrap up here...
	11:02pm Aitch: Thanks for show
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @11:02 Of course! It's one of the few things I actually look forward to these days.
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "??" by "??" I really like this one.
	11:05pm Mr. X: Some great tunes tonight, Austin. Too bad we don't know what most of them are. But they still sound good. Thanks for sharing them with us!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 21, 2025

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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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January 21, 2025: A Post Punk Jukebox: Musical Mysteries To Help You Dance & Forget...

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Today's Show consists of a playlist of songs that was assembled in late 2017, for use at live DJ gigs that I was helping out at, and seven years later, any playlist that might have existed is missing. Some of the songs are coming up on Shazam. Some are not. Can we track them down? Leave your thoughts in the Digital Salon...
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	0:02:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Eleven-SixtyFours	An Open Grave (Instrumental)	Sack The Sacklers EP	WTBC Records	2021	0:04:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	0:10:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Danse Society	Woman's Own "Woman's Own" by "The Danse Society"	Woman's Own	Pax Records	1982	0:14:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	0:17:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Fra Lippo Lippi	Out of the Ruins "Out of the Ruins" by "Fra Lippo Lippi"	Fra Lippo Lippi	Divine Records	1986	0:19:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	0:23:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	0:27:44 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Eleven-SixtyFours	An Open Grave (Instrumental)	Sack The Sacklers EP	WTBC Records	2021	0:31:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	0:37:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	0:41:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	0:44:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	0:48:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	0:51:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	0:54:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	0:59:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Eleven-SixtyFours	An Open Grave (Instrumental)	Sack The Sacklers EP	WTBC Records	2021	1:03:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Lung Overcoat	Internal Silence "Internal Silence" by "Lung Overcoat"	Internal Silence	Scolex	1983	1:12:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	1:15:46 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Psi Com	Ho Ka Hey "Ho Ka Hey" by "Psi Com"	Psi Com	Moline Records	1985	1:19:18 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	1:23:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Red Zebra	I'm Falling Apart "I'm Falling Apart" by "Red Zebra"	I'm Falling Apart	Zebra Records	1981	1:26:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	1:31:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Eleven-SixtyFours	An Open Grave (Instrumental)	Sack The Sacklers EP	WTBC Records	2021	1:36:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	1:46:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Taugadeildin	Her Longing "Her Longing" by "Taugadeildin"	Taugadeildin	Fálkinn	1981	1:50:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sixtieth Parallel	Like Dust "Like Dust" by "Sixtieth Parallel"	Into Bliss	Doctor Dream Records	1988	1:54:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	1:58:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	2:01:53 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Eleven-SixtyFours	An Open Grave (Instrumental)	Sack The Sacklers EP	WTBC Records	2021	2:05:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
??	?? "??" by "??"	??	??	??	2:09:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	2:12:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:45pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:52pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	👻 8:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:52 Lovely to see you, as always. I hope you like dancing...
	8:58pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:57 I do, but I would rather enjoy the company of the lounge
	8:59pm Aitch: what if we forget to dance?
	8:59pm Mr. X: The owls are not what they seem.
	8:59pm Krys O.: Hi! Do you have any Austex beef stew?
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @8:59 Of course, follow your joy.
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:59 I'll send you a case, immediately!
	👻 9:00pm Arvo Zylo: hi
	9:00pm Aitch: ↳ Austin Rich @8:59 Not sure where I left her?
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @8:59 RIP, Mr. Lynch. A loss to film and culture.
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:00 Arvo! Thanks for poppin' in, of course!
	9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:00 Why do the wrong people keep dying?
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @9:00 She was around her, earlier...
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 That is a very good question with no answer.
	9:02pm Mr. X: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 I like to think they were too good for this world.
	9:02pm Aitch: ↳ Imaginos @9:01 Good die young?
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:02 That is the only thing that makes sense
	9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Aitch @9:02 Too often
	9:04pm Krys O.: This site is fairly good for searching for a song by snippets of lyrics: findmusicbylyrics.com Maybe that will help...
	9:08pm Imaginos: The only rare album curator I can think of is BoyJohn, though he mostly does 60s and 70s kids music.
	9:09pm Imaginos: That would be awesome
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:04 Oooooo! I didn't know about this. Thanks!
	👻 9:12pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Krys O. @9:04 Yes that looks like a good resource! Up to this point, www.secondhandsongs.com was my only refuge outside of discogs for things like this, but with track titles, not lyrics.
	9:12pm Krys O.: Evan Funk Davies who does a show on the Mothership on Wednesdays noon to 3 pm ET is an absolute post-punk aficionado. He started doing radio in the late 70s in Boston and he was a post-punk pioneer on WNYU. He's a very genial chap. Contact Evan about the unknown songs. I'll bet he could help you. www.wfmu.org... I used to listen to his show when I was in high school, by the way.
	9:13pm Mr. X: So it's almost like the long awaited DJ Marshmallow set, but not.
	👻 9:13pm Arvo Zylo: Incidentally, I was listening to Death Cult, Mephisto Walz, and some other goth stuff today, among other things. I like to play stuff like that on the radio, because it is mostly untouched in terms of the freeform radio circles I have traversed...
	👻 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:13 We keep talking about doing a show together, but she's a little gun-shy about being on the radio. One of these days.
	9:15pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @9:14 Tell her we would love to hear her on the show. She'd be among friends.
	👻 9:15pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:14 She doesn't need to talk! I did a set with a romantic interest more than once, and they were fine as long as they didn't have to talk...
	👻 9:16pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Woman's Own" by "The Danse Society" So weird, I listened to them two days ago.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:15 I will! I want her to do a show someday.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:15 I keep telling her she wouldn't need to say anything, but really, she would be very good on the air. She's very funny.
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:16 They are pretty great.
	9:21pm Krys O.: Good night, all!
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Out of the Ruins" by "Fra Lippo Lippi" Real time Shazam updates!
	9:21pm Imaginos: Do you n anything from me for Lost Christobel?
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:21 Sleep well, Krys O! Thanks for everything you do!
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:21 No, just time to work on it.
	9:23pm Mr. X: Captain Marvel/Billy Batson would have a tough time using Shazam, constantly going poof and switching identities every time he said it.
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:23 Yeah, he would need to come up with some other way to refer to the app. "I need to use the s-word app..."
	9:26pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 Okay
	9:26pm Mr. X: Remember the Rockman effects box that was popular in the 80s? Sometimes I think that was the key to the Goth guitar sound.
	9:26pm AMYGDALA: ↳ Song: "??" by "??" Shazam - nada. SoundHound came up with: The Fusion of Mind and Body by Fly (Pilates - Music for Body in Motion, Aug. 10, 2012)
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ AMYGDALA @9:26 Lovely to see you in the Digital Salon, AMYGDALA! I think that might not be it, though; most of these tunes were supposed to be from the 80's. But who can say? Maybe the source I got it from was wrong...
	9:28pm AMYGDALA: ↳ AMYGDALA @9:26 ...but it's wrong - sorry I jumoed the gun - did not match what I'm now hearing on the Tube.
	9:29pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "??" by "??" quite like this one
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ AMYGDALA @9:28 I do love that you checked your own work! What diligence! I love it.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @9:29 Yeah, I would love to identify this one just so I can get more by this group!
	9:30pm AMYGDALA: * jumped the gun - oops... should have researched further before posting. SoundHound sometimes gets it before Shazam.
	9:30pm Otis: Tuned in to the Mutations from Mid-Montreal, Hi Austin and Folks.
	👻 9:34pm Arvo Zylo: I have bartended many weddings in some fairly exotic hidden places around Chicago. However, I never had the opportunity to DJ a wedding without playing the same 20 songs of every wedding DJ set. I drew the line with Phil Collins... would love the opportunity to DJ for money without playing Phil Collins somehow... So far, I have been paid to do soul or halloween DJ sets, but that was damn lucky...
	9:37pm Imaginos: Oh dear
	9:37pm Mr. X: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:34 Sheena's most resented music: Phil Collins and The Eagles.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: Oh no, the stream got interrupted for a moment! Sorry about that. Hopefully I can get a version of this up on the archive that is complete.
	9:39pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:34 You would have loved my wedding. I had Eyes On Me by Faye Wong as the main dance. I got married because I have a heart and divorced because I have a brain
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:34 Weddings DJ gigs are such a specific thing, because you often have to play very specific music. I asked our wedding DJ to play anything from either of the first two Nuggets boxed sets, and then DJ Marshmallow and I collaborated on another playlist of songs we each wanted to dance to. The DJ we hired - who I knew from the radio station I used to work at - seemed okay with that.
	👻 9:40pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @9:37 I have sold beer at concerts for the both of them. The Eagles were much more tolerable. They play Hotel California about 4 songs in and everyone goes to the bathroom, nobody gives F about the rest of their catalog... Phil Collins produced an album by Frida, and I do like the song "Land of Confusion" too, but other than that, I need to steer clear of a lot of that dumbed down 80s pop. I like plenty of cheesy 80s music, but Phil Collins or Sarah McLachlan, or Enya and things like that are just beyond the pale, I'm afraid.
	9:41pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:40 Journey of the Sorcerer is my favorite
	👻 9:41pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:39 It's always good to make decisions with both, but often one clouds the other, for the dumbest reasons.
	👻 9:41pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 I even discussed different Rolling Stones songs and ABBA songs. Like blah blah blah "there are so many better songs than Dancing Queen!!!"
	👻 9:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:41 It's the only Eagles song I hear regularly, but not because it's on any Eagles album I own.
	👻 9:42pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @9:39 I will check out that song, I am not remembering if I have ever heard it.
	9:42pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:42 Because of the Guide
	9:42pm Mr. X: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:40 Ha ha! That's great. I know Mr. Fab has dropped comments in here about how much he hates the Eagles. And then there's the infamous Eagles tape in The Big Lebowski.
	👻 9:42pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @9:39 Imaginos, I am so glad I checked the chat when I did!! Mau I use your line and credit you, of course, as I tell people.i got married because I have a heart and divorced because I have a brain?!
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:41 This I do believe: people always pick the wrong songs by very popular acts. There's often a better song from a different, less known album that would work better.
	9:43pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @9:42 You may
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:42 Heather Z! Thank you for joining the Digital Salon.
	👻 9:44pm Heather Z: Taking a break from the dance floor to catch my breath and say hi in the chat! Loving the DJ Marshmallow tunes tonight!
	👻 9:44pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @9:42 I know most of The Big Lebowski by heart, and have also read the screenplay. It's really a piece of work, just as a drama, regardless of if people think it's funny.
	👻 9:45pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @9:43 Super good stuff. Thank you!
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:44 Not exactly her, but the tunes that backed her up when she needed a break. Her DJ gigs were always better attended than mine, and she got bigger crowds than any show I ever played. (Except when I was opening for Negativland, or Mike Watt.) She was the real entertainment draw in our household.
	9:46pm Imaginos: Journey of the Sorcerer is best known as The theme from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
	👻 9:46pm Arvo Zylo: This is a good mix because it is hitting on the post punk that I like, while also not playing so far the stuff that I don't like somehow... good show.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:44 DJ Marshmallow and I watched Big Lebowski the other day, and I was thinking about how odd and strange it is more than funny. It's like a funny David Lynch movie, more than anything else.
	9:47pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @9:45 I did a YouTube podcast recently about Vulture-Cats.
	👻 9:48pm Arvo Zylo: I honestly am sure there are plenty of Eagles songs that I like, but I remember that they sued some hotel in Mexico for playing a muzak version of their song, and I just can't help but roll my eyes.
	9:48pm Mr. X: So much lostwave.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:46 I get a little picky about post-punk and goth stuff too. A lot of stuff is overplayed, and the stuff I like has a certain flavor that just makes me want to move. At least, that's what drove these selections.
	👻 9:48pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:45 As close as I'll get to hearing DJ Marshmallow, alas. I have no doubt she totally rocked the house! I wish I'd been on your side of the country at some point to catch one of her nights.
	👻 9:49pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @9:47 Oh wow! I don't know Vulture-Cats at all! But that sounds very cool!
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:48 I suspect the right person would know these tunes. I might hit up Krys O's friend, who would probably be able to solve these mysteries.
	9:51pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:49 I just wanted to use lostwave in a sentence.
	9:51pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @9:49 They're a species I invented
	👻 9:52pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 It is incredible how well they packed in the depth of the characters in a relatively short amount of dialogue, and the plot was genuinely unpredictable, but not implausible. They honestly wrote a perfect drama, created a perfect atmosphere, and it's "high concept" without being pretentious. So many zany movies of the 90s and beyond failed at what they did with that movie. It is truly incredible, but I digress.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: One thing I do love about this era of post-punk are the bands with singers who can't carry a tune. They all sort of sound like they are mumbling or half-singing, and as someone who can't sing, I find that very charming. Sort of aspirational...
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:51 It is a fun word.
	9:53pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:52 Like listening to your ten year old nephew trying to sing
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:52 Do you like their other movies? I think Miller's Crossing is probably my favorite of theirs. It has such excellent dialog, and I like the way different scenes mirror each other. It's very beautiful, in places.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: It's funny how a lot of post-punk and goth songs have bass and drums that are almost like disco songs, and it's really the guitar and lyrics that make them a different genre.
	👻 9:57pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @9:51 Oh, I love that! So cool! I'll make a note to search it on the youtubes!
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:53 I don't know, that nephew knows all the cool songs that have been used in memes. He'll figure out how to sing someday.
	👻 9:59pm Arvo Zylo: I am just marveling at this beautiful diamond painting of a haunted house that some wonderful person sent me today.... :-)
	9:59pm Aitch: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 Great movie.
	10:00pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @9:57 youtube.com...
	👻 10:01pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @10:00 Thank you! 😊
	10:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Heather Z @10:01 You're welcome
	👻 10:01pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @9:59 Awww!
	10:02pm Aitch: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 A lot of Lynch vibe in the Coens. Just watched The Old Man, where the Dude is an un-retired spook who keeps killing would-be assassins, but gets his old arse kicked every time.
	👻 10:03pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 I will binge the Coen Brothers eventually, but I'm actually nowhere near a film buff. I go to movie theaters once or twice a week, but it's not as an expert. I just like to see what people get away with. I have been watching Dark Shadows pretty nonstop for months now... One of the Coen Bros did a film where a lesbian couple are driving a car with a stolen treasure in the trunk across the country, and that was not too shabby, but hard not to compare to the greats. I actually went over 10 years where I just hated to watch movies at home. I had so much other stuff to do, and I lived close to a great theater, so watching movies at home was kinda silly...
	10:04pm Imaginos: Its either that or take a Magrathean nap.
	10:04pm Aitch: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:03 that girls / driving movie sooo bad it's kinda good again
	👻 10:06pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @9:57 My friend who has 13 year old twins has said she's astounded at all the songs her kids know. She has no idea how they can pull out all kinds of tunes from all kinds of eras but those girls are on it!
	👻 10:06pm Arvo Zylo: Recently I learned that they actually did freeze gerbils and resuscitate them with microwaves in the '50s. Like, that wasn't just a sci-fi thing, they tried it with humans, but it only worked with gerbils because gerbils are small... I just like to think about finding a way to stay alive until time travel is possible.
	10:08pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy and ready for bed
	10:08pm Mr. X: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:03 When I was in grade school, my brother and I had a babysitter who watched Dark Shadows religiously. So we were exposed to an inordinate amount of Barnabus Collins. I can't remember much about it, other than one of the female characters psychically invoking Barnabus by saying "Come, Barnabus" over and over, when her face would be superimposed on a scene of whatever Barnabus was doing at the time.
	10:09pm Aitch: ↳ Heather Z @10:06 Soundtracks and Spotify, mine the same but older
	👻 10:12pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:08 Currently, I am around 180 episodes in, and at this point, someone partook in a seance, and was transported to the year 1795 for what is now looking like almost 20 episodes... I am enjoying it, wish I was able to watch it in real time as a wee lad.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:06 Kids always have been smarter than adults. If we could harness the power of kids to learn things that baffle adults, we'd have all energy problems solved.
	👻 10:14pm Heather Z: ↳ Aitch @10:09 That's really cool. I love how so much music is so available now! And I love that the kids are finding it and taking to all kinds of things from all kinds of eras!
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:08 Sleep well, Imaginos!
	👻 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:08 I watched some Dark Shadows. I couldn't stick with it, but it was entertaining for a while. I sent all my Dark Shadows discs to my friend Angela, who Heather also knows.
	👻 10:15pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Internal Silence" by "Lung Overcoat" Man, what a great name. I could probably use a lung overcoat, just in case... you just never know.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:03 Watching movies in a theater is the preferred way to see them, for me. But it's not always possible. I went to a masked showing of "Nosferatu" which I loved, but do think was a tad too long.
	👻 10:16pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:15 I tried to watch Dark Shadows with Netflix DVDs when they still did DVDs, and it was just too tedious, so now I am trying to make up for it.
	10:17pm AMYGDALA: I searched for "post-punk youtube channel that Austin Rich greatly admired and that he used to help produce assorted mixtapes in a previous lifetime"... Found it!: www.youtube.com...
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:16 Yeah. It's a LOT of discs, if you go that route. Streaming is better for a show like that.
	👻 10:17pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:16 I was nonplussed by the recent Nosferatu, but aesthetically impressed nonetheless.
	👻 10:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ AMYGDALA @10:17 I'll have to look at that after the show! Thanks for your research.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:17 The story wasn't much, but the visuals, I thought, were just fantastic.
	👻 10:20pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:14 When I was a kid before the internet, I didn't live near anything but a mall record store, and so I was just ravenous about music. I dubbed tapes of all my friends records and dubbed stuff off of the radio and from CDs I took out at the library and all that. At that time, I just wished I could listen to whatever I wanted whenever I wanted, and I will be happy. Well, I still try to go on that premise!
	👻 10:21pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:18 I could have done without the mustache! But yes, better than Tim Burton in some areas, for sure.
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:20 The library sort of blew my mind as a kid, because you could check out books and records! It was wild. I was astonished.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:21 I sort of liked all the period costumes and whatnot. And I do love how many live animals where actually used in the film. I heard the animal wrangling was a lot of work on that one. But yeah, if you're there for story, it's not that much.
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Ho Ka Hey" by "Psi Com" As I just discovered, this was Perry Farrell's band before Jane's Addiction. I think they are wrongly known, in some circles, as, "Psi Com & Perry Farrell," but I'm sure that was not how they were billed in 1985.
	👻 10:25pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:20 Same. I had the radio and my dad's records which are awesome, he's got good taste. My sister and I had some records and tapes. There was the library and friends and I swapped tapes. But the record stores were expensive so I really had to plan out what used tapes my babysitting money could go for!
	10:25pm Mr. X: Most un-Goth name for a Goth band: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:25 True, but I sort of like them!
	👻 10:26pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:25 I believe it was last March where I played them and someone came to this conclusion, as one does...
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:25 The only benefit I had growing up was that, after my parents divorce, my mom used all her money to open a used record store / bookstore / comic book store, and I could work there for trade in stock. So the only reason I had any records or tapes or anything was because I was at the bookstore every hour that wasn't at school.
	👻 10:30pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:25 Tapes were always my preferred format, and they were always cheaper than any other format. I didn't take to buying CDs on purpose until I worked at a used CD store in 1999 or so... but yeah I still remember when Best Buy sold tapes, often for less than $10, and there were used CD stores around me that sold CDs for $5-$8. Plus, at the time, thrift stores sold great records for $1. One of my first thrift store finds was Scary Monsters by David Bowie for $1. Not to mention Rolling Stones, Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, etc.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:30 I miss $1 thrift store records. That and dinner could provide a full evening of entertainment.
	👻 10:32pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 That is a good way to hear stuff other kids maybe couldn't! I'm lucky my dad had great taste in music and, as I grew older, so did a bunch of my friends. There was a shop called Godiva's that sold vintage clothes and, more excitingly, cheap tapes local bands put out! I got some cool tapes there!
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:30 When my mom's store went out of business, she kept all the stock in a storage unit, and would slowly get rid of them over time. My mom gave me two Kraftwerk records, and two Devo records - which I still have - because she assumed I would, "like that kind of stuff." I don't really know if she ever heard them, but I still love them.
	👻 10:34pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:30 Scary Monsters for a dollar! I think my (used tape) copy was, like, $6? And honestly worth every penny. I started getting CDs in 96 when I joined.... Columbia CD club! Which was also actually worth it for me!
	👻 10:35pm Heather Z: ↳ Heather Z @10:34 Time is an abstract concept. Late 92, not 96!
	10:36pm Mr. X: Growing up in Coos Bay, we had a business that supplied all the jukeboxes in town, called Sunset Automatic Music Co., or SAMCO. Every week they would cull the jukebox inventories, and sell the reject 45s for a quarter apiece. My friend and I would go down there after school and pick up tons of 7" singles for cheap.
	👻 10:37pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @10:33 It is hard for me to imagine people going out of business selling records, but I know it happens. I have friends who had a record store on a wing and a prayer, actually basically homeless and living in the bathroom, but their landlord kicked them out because they were metalheads and had pentagrams around, I guess. They may still have their collection in storage, confiscated in some way and held as collateral now.
	👻 10:38pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:34 I did Columbia House and BMG, but didn't go too far after the initial 11 CDs for $1 deal, because I didn't like a lot of it.
	👻 10:39pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @10:36 Omg did you leave with stacks of em? That must have been so exciting!
	👻 10:39pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr. X @10:36 For a while, I was buying boxes of used 45s, taking what I wanted, and selling the rest on Ebay for a good amount, because I was the only one willing to ship to Japan at the time. It was a good racket for a bit...
	👻 10:40pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:38 I think I did similarly but got, like REM and Morrissey CD, I think? It really helped build up my tiny tiny collection!
	👻 10:41pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:40 I got the gangsta rap they had a available and that was about it. I was not into Alanis Morrisette or the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but I tried...
	10:43pm Mr. X: ↳ Heather Z @10:39 Oh yes, stacks. We were avid listeners of Casey Kasem's American Top 40. So the records were usually stuff that had been on his show about 6 months prior.
	👻 10:43pm Arvo Zylo: WZRD had a standalone burner, and so I would stay there as long as they would allow me, just burning spools of discs while I wasn't DJing. I sure do wish they could automate my shows so that no one else has to run them from home!
	👻 10:45pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr. X @10:43 Yes! My sister and I also listened to Casey Kasem weekly! That show was iconic!
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:36 That's amazing! What a great story.
	👻 10:47pm Arvo Zylo: I listened to lots of radio, including Casey Kasem, Dr. Demento, and various rap stations... I am on my second cup of coffee, IDGAF!
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:43 That was me a KWVA in Eugene, but instead of CDRs, just with boxes of tapes. Sitting in the station lobby, drinking coffee, eating sandwiches, and reading books on music.
	👻 10:48pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:47 Dr. Demento was a treat for us because he was on at, like 10pm, I think? So we could only listen during summers and when we had Monday off from school.
	10:49pm Mr. X: @Austin: The graphic you are using for Post-Punk Jukebox reminds me of an apartment complex used as a setting for a 2008 movie called Gomorrah, set in Naples. (I guess there was later a tv series based on the movie, but I have only seen the movie.)
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: I always appreciated the stories that Richard Meltzer would tell, about how he would get free copies of albums from record labels, hoping that he would review them for Rolling Stone. He would write reviews of the albums un-opened, so he could get a higher re-sale on the record when he would take it to the store after he wrote his review. He, Nick Tosches and Lester Bangs would do stuff like that, as poor record nerds who were published but needed money to buy more records with.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:49 That image was what came up when I searched for, "80's Brutalist Architecture."
	10:53pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 Definitely brutal.
	👻 10:54pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Her Longing" by "Taugadeildin" This cover art is by William Mortenson, a legendary photographer, FYI. I believe the title of this piece is something like "This Is What We Do To Eachother".
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:53 It sort of reminds me of the architecture at LCC.
	10:55pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:54 Ha ha, yes. Fun with angular slabs of concrete.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Like Dust" by "Sixtieth Parallel" Damn! That hair! I sort of wish I was in some 80's post-punk band just for the hair...
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:54 Very cool! Yeah, that cover is very striking. I love it.
	👻 11:00pm Heather Z: It's about that time so I'll wish yall a good night! Thanks for a fun show and a fun chat! Tuesday nights are good because they're MVM nights.
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Like Dust" by "Sixtieth Parallel" I guess this is the outlier that proves I wasn't quite right when I said, "Early / Mid 80's." Still, I really liked that Sixtieth Parallel tune, and I can see why I would pick it anyway. I'm a sucker for that kind of band. It's a little like some of the Red Rockers albums.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @11:00 Take care. We've got a bit more before we wrap up here...
	11:02pm Aitch: Thanks for show
	👻 11:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @11:02 Of course! It's one of the few things I actually look forward to these days.
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "??" by "??" I really like this one.
	11:05pm Mr. X: Some great tunes tonight, Austin. Too bad we don't know what most of them are. But they still sound good. Thanks for sharing them with us!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 21, 2025

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