WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 24, 2022

Listener comments!
	👻 8:05pm Austin Rich: Good Hello
	8:47pm Obadiah Baird: Hello
	👻 8:50pm Austin Rich: Good to see you in the chat, Obadiah! I think you'll like this one.
	8:52pm Obadiah Baird: I saw you mention punk rock comps and figured I should check it out.
	👻 8:54pm Austin Rich: Yeah. I had fun pulling stuff for this one. Just had to listen to a lot of these a few times to make choices...
	8:56pm MHLee: Hello
	👻 8:57pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, MHLee!
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: Make yourself comfy. There's some 40s in the fridge in the garage. Just don't block the boom box from the signal, it's super finicky.
	9:01pm Krys O.: Hidey-ho!
	9:01pm Scott67: G'day Austin, you had me at Punk mate! 🍻😎🤙🎶📻☀️🌏
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Hello, @Krys-O!
	9:01pm Obadiah Baird: Punk Rock!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: And @Scott67!
	9:01pm Mr Fab: Whoah! The slam pit has already erupted. Damn, dude, almost spilled my beer...
	9:01pm HyperDose: What's Runk Pock?
	9:02pm Mr X: Yo grumpy punks and punkettes.
	9:03pm Scott67: I just moshed a handfull of potato chips! Washed down with beer! 🍻😎🤙
	9:04pm Don-O: BO! from me for the next few minutes before I hit out for a walk around the top of the hour.....
	9:04pm postconsumer: Hiya!
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: @Don-O! I made a joke about you in the chat of the last show! And @postconsumer! Nice to see you, too! Great show, btw!
	9:05pm postconsumer: I felt your absence, @Don-O Thanks, Austin Rich
	9:06pm Mr Fab: Hey, i saw that CBGB bathroom. That's no joke.
	9:06pm Don-O: Ah, hell. What the hell did I do THIS time?!
	9:06pm postconsumer: 😂
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: I made a Negativland joke, and credited you.
	9:07pm postconsumer: No, I just read above somewhere that you weren't listening. joking.
	9:07pm Don-O: I've been getting ready for the move and preping for it. Plus I got a niece complaning that I have too much "things"
	9:07pm Phlegm Peterson: I'm here to get punk rock'd
	9:07pm postconsumer: Austin filled in for you, in the chat.
	9:08pm ramencity: this inspires me to finally get around to watching that Poly Styrene doc on Kanopy
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: No cut ups this week, but I might learn ya a thing or two about comps at the next VO.
	9:09pm Mr Fab: don't listen to the Essentials, folks! Keep it here on WFMU!
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: @ramencity! You taught me everything I know about good music.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: And that's also good advice: if someone says its "essential," don't trust them.
	9:09pm Mr X: How did that old KWVA bumper sticker go? "Kill your television, just don't turn off your radio?"
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: That's right, Mr. X! I forgot about that.
	9:10pm Don-O: I was nowhere near a punk in high school as I was too nibish for everything back then. I was afraid of disco 'cos it was associated with porn. I wasn't being self-rightgous, I was just scared....mind you, this was JUST before pubity kicked my ass
	9:11pm ramencity: I've felt nauseous all afternoon - that's pretty punk rock I guess
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: I wasn't a punk, either. I was a nerd, and all of my interest in punk sort of comes from the nerdy route. (Reading 'zines and books and borrowing albums / checking them out from the library.) I love the music, but I'm a pretty lame guy.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: I can't tell if it's nausea or the evening news.
	9:13pm Don-O: Oh, I bet Dr. Demento didn't play THIS one in them days!
	9:13pm Obadiah Baird: I appreciate your show distracting me from today's news.
	9:13pm Scott67: Nerd Punk!
	9:14pm Don-O: Party like it's 1979, y'all!!
	9:14pm Mr X: I was so scared to go to my first few punk shows. I was a hippie, and I was sure the punks would beat me up. But my friends talked me into going. It was such a relief when I realized nobody at those shows gave a fuck that I was there.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: Distractions are what radio does best.
	9:15pm Don-O: For me, discovering Monty Python and The Gong Show was punk to me. Seemed I watched too much TV......
	9:15pm MHLee: Always love a keyboard in my punk
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: When I realized that most of the punks were art school weirdos and sort of secret-nerds too, I was WAY more into real punk shows.
	9:16pm Don-O: I dig the keyboard on this one....
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: Monty Python was totally a revolution in my mind. I listened to so much boring, straight laced comedy in the 80's. And then I found Monty Python on PBS in High School... wow!
	9:17pm Mr X: My first punk show with a non-local band was Frightwig at the Cage Ramp in Eugene, around 1988.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: Mine had to be as late as 1993 or 1994.
	9:18pm Mr Fab: Ha, all the anti-star punks songs in a row.
	9:18pm Obadiah Baird: I was a depressed loner who got bullied by literally everyone and then one day I heard punk rock. I still vividly remember the moment I heard my first punk songs and realized other people felt the same way I did and I wasn't some anomaly.
	9:18pm Don-O: Yea, in the late 70's everyone in school was watching 3's Company and its ilk, I was a SubGenius moment with the Python and Gong stuff.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: That story sounds sort of familiar to me. I'm not sure if it was instant, but I do remember eventually coming back to punk songs more than other songs. And then it was all I wanted.
	9:19pm Scott67: You inspired me to swap out my Can-can Koozie for my TRASH CULT Koozie! 🍺😎🤙💀
	9:19pm Obadiah Baird: The kill everybody portion of the set.
	9:21pm Don-O: "Get Drunk and Pass Out" Sounds like Arizona....
	9:21pm ramencity: When Austin says "get drunk and black out" he really means, "pet the cats and have some tea"
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: Well, those cats have been so good, and they just NEED some attention. And I need some bourbon
	9:22pm Don-O: ....which means @Austin will live longer than my neibors.....
	9:22pm Mr X: RCK don't blow his cover.
	9:22pm Obadiah Baird: I'm drinking some bourbon over here.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: Cheers!
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: While more in the "Power Pop" vein, I very much recommend the Teen Line series of comps. And: if you have them, make sure to rip them before the cdrs wear out! I've heard this series is prone to giving out, as the cdrs are crap. But the music is AMAZING!
	9:24pm Don-O: Oh, Austin. I got your latest zine and will get around to review it in a month and a half when the move is done....then it's zine time for me!
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: Glad it arrived safely! The only I sent to Georgy Girl bounced. I need to re-send it. Sending to the UK is fraught with peril.
	9:25pm Obadiah Baird: I have a soft spot for the lo fi power pop end of the punk spectrum.
	9:26pm Krys O.: My friends and I would go out dancing in Manhattan and take the train back to suburban Westchester County. I was sleep deprived, but I still had excellent grades. I was partly geek, partly party kid. My brother-in-law gifted me with a membership to the Devo fan club too. Mom and Dad didn't know what to make of me wearing thrift store clothes and having super short hair. Zoinks!
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: Those Teen Line comps are great, because it's all DIY Power Pop. Really good!
	9:27pm Obadiah Baird: Not so lo fi but I've been on an Undertones kick lately.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: This Sado-Nation song has been comped a million times on a variety of good releases. While I'm partial to the Portland Punk Comp that includes it, since I'm doing a lot of Killed By Death, I went that route.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: Undertones are amazing! I love those guys.
	9:27pm Mr X: Undertones are great. John Peel thought so, too.
	9:27pm Obadiah Baird: My friend John Shirley singing on this track!
	9:27pm MHLee: Thought this was mongoloid
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: (@ramencitykid introduced me to the Undertones.)
	9:28pm Krys O.: FWIW-I graduated high school in 1981 and I was still 17. The drinking age in NY was 18 and we never got carded. The only times I did get carded going into clubs were in my 40s after I got sober.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: @Krys O: I always wondered what life was like in big cities. In rural Oregon, I think a lot of kids wonder about the big cities.
	9:29pm Obadiah Baird: John Shirley, maybe the only actual punk to write cyberpunk fiction.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: @Obadiah: I was thinking about the times you introduced me to John Shirley when I picked that song.
	9:30pm Scott67: Beer here! & a nerd, dagg outsider. Early adopter of 'aberrant' culture & DIY expression. Angry with the system. That's a real fucken Punk! Cheers Brothers & Sisters! 🍻😎🤙💀❤️
	9:30pm Krys O.: We missed the last train home one night and had to sleep on the benches in Grand Central Terminal. If the weather was nice, we'd walk around for hours or go to the Oyster Bar.
	9:31pm Scott67: It ain't all Mohawks & leather jackets!
	9:31pm Obadiah Baird: I definitely need to track down more of these Killed By Death comps.
	9:31pm Mr X: I marvel at how these obscure punk bands managed to make these recordings on a shoestring, and never got acclaim or wealth for their efforts.
	9:32pm Mr Fab: You’re right about what most punk kids were like, Austin. If you look at pictures of the LA punk scene, you don’t see many giant Mohawks or studs and spikes. They were expensive! And our schools and parents wouldn’t have allowed it. We would take t-shirts or white dress shirts, a magic marker, and make our own shirts with band logos, the anarchy sign, etc.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: A lot of them aren't as good as others. But there's a gem or two on each of them. There's one that is actually just one band, making up different names for all their own songs on their first "album." Been trying to track that one down.
	9:32pm ramencity: Undertones + Stiff Little Fingers: the 'good bit' of Northern Ireland!
	9:33pm Scott67: Blank Tape & Xerox Generation!
	9:33pm Obadiah Baird: Love that first SLF album. Barbed Wire Love was always my favorite.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: I still listen to those Stiff Little Fingers CDs I copied from you, like, all the time, @ramencitykid.
	9:34pm Krys O.: Gosh, I miss filling a paper shopping bag at the local thrift shop for $5.
	9:34pm Mr Fab: Youre lucky you had a better public transportation system then we did in LA, Krys. But at least we had the same lax attitude to checking drink IDs!
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: I miss going to Thrift Stores a lot. It's been years since I've been.
	9:35pm ramencity: Yeah -- I found a copy of SLF's live "Hanx!" lp at Music Millennium right before covid -- I'd had it on cassette for years but happy to find a 'real' copy in the 'new used arrivals'
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: I was in a small town in Oregon. It was harder to get beer underage than it was to get drugs. Most kids just did drugs.
	9:35pm Mr X: When I was am exchange student in France, assigned to a homestay family, the family's kid fancied himself a punk rocker. So he made his mom buy him a leather jacket. I remember sitting around the dinner table while he bullied his mom into sewing studs onto it. What a punk.
	9:36pm Obadiah Baird: I love this song. The entire Penis Envy album is amazing.
	9:36pm Charles: Is this where I can stick it to the Man?
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: Yeah. Penis Envy is unbeatable.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: Join us, @Charles!
	9:37pm ramencity: That _that_ The Man!
	9:37pm Obadiah Baird: I had the crass logo painted on the back of my leather jacket. I was that guy.
	9:37pm Krys O.: My hometown is between Greenwich, CT and Rye, NY. Two of the most affluent towns in the country. We had some great vintage clothes from those burghs.
	9:38pm Mr Fab: New show on the Sheena schedule! wfmu.org...
	9:38pm HyperDose: Whoa no way. Cool announcement, Fab!
	9:38pm Mr X: Obadiah, as long as your mom didn't paint it.
	9:39pm MHLee: Hey that's me!
	9:39pm Scott67: Old Punks never die, they just get to buy a leather jacket. To compensate for no hair for a Mohawk.
	9:39pm Obadiah Baird: Nah. I do my own punk crafts.
	9:40pm Krys O.: Great news! Congrats!
	9:41pm Scott67: All my leather comes from a lifetime of trawling Op-shops!(Thrift Stores)
	9:42pm ramencity: My favorite punk clothing memory: early into the first Iraq War, and Robert Christie playing an early Oswald Five-O with a homemade t-shirt: "Victory to Iraq!"
	9:42pm Mr Fab: MHLee, your show starts at 5am my time. I’ll try and be there…
	9:42pm Scott67: Have several sick Biker Jackets, but feel pretentious in them.
	9:44pm Obadiah Baird: Speaking of nerds who were punks. Lenny Kaye contributed to a bunch of Sci Fi zines as a teenager and had a massive collection of early SF zines.
	9:44pm Scott67: I feel more at home in Military Surplus stuff.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: Robert Christie was the best. He complimented my first band - Cathead - when he said that one of our songs sounded like the Germs. And we totally took it as a compliment; that's sort of what we were going for.
	9:44pm Mr Fab: Couple years ago i bought a “Star Wars” t shirt at a thrift for a few bucks and painted “I hate” over it.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: Have I mentioned "I (Heart) Mr. Fab" this chat, yet?
	9:45pm Scott67: Fucked up enough not to look like a MAGA Preper that is!
	9:45pm MHLee: @Mr Fab I ran it early to force me to (a) go to bed (b) eat breakfast.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: The Neo Boys. Another PDX band.
	9:47pm Scott67: I made my own Burger King T-shirt from scratch. Exact except it read Burger Kill.🍔☠️
	9:47pm Mr X: Frightwig would fit into this set. "Work it Baby, Work it Hard, Work it like a VISA card."
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: The bartender at the Shanghai Tunnel in PDX (in the early 2000s) would brag about having seen / knowing this band, and I was always in awe.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: I'm going through that phase in my 40's where I just want to listen to Bow Wow Wow and watch Max Headroom. That's normal, right?
	9:49pm Krys O.: One of the oldest t-shirts I have is from a Beyond Vaudeville show at NYU hosted by Danny Bonaduce. The woman who mimed to the Underdog theme was the star of the show. John Holmstrom was also in the audience. I was at a friend's party when John Holmstrom started throwing food at people. Needless to say, the party broke up. It was a going away party for Ken Weiner who also was part of Punk Magazine. Weiner was the art director at Screw when I worked there.
	9:50pm Krys O.: This was my theme song as a teen. I was too poor to buy albums. I taped things off the radio.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: You know the coolest people @Krys O. Both Punk and Screw are very excellent.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: I taped EVERYTHING for YEARS. I couldn't afford real albums!
	9:51pm ramencity: I misremember things - I'd thought C30... was by Rip Rig + Panic
	9:51pm Krys O.: @Austin: I'm pushing 60 and re-watching the Rockford Files to mostly look at the sets and location shoots.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: Did we talk about Rockford Files already Krys O? That's my comfort TV. I have a couple of random files that are labeled, "Silly Rockford Files Ideas." Maybe someday I'll actually write that script...
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: More Crass-adjacent material for you, @Obadiah.
	9:54pm Krys O.: In retrospect, I'm in awe of that dumb luck that I had. At the time I just felt like a loser who never finished college. That's another story. The grants dried up under Reagan and my parents buying a house. I didn't want to incur a boatload of debt and quit college in my junior year. Oh, well.
	9:54pm ramencity: James Garner and C. Thomas Howell were in a movie about stealing a tank. It was called... Tank. It is not even the worst C. Thomas Howell movie (cough Soul Man cough)
	9:55pm Obadiah Baird: Honey Bane is so great! I've been exploring the broader crass records catalog and Honey Bane and Poison Girls are both standouts.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: I've seen Tank. When I was a kid. More than once. I loved that movie, for some dumb reason.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: Honey Bane rules. The next show we do, Obadiah, we should nerd out about the Crass family of bands.
	9:56pm ramencity: BECAUSE JAMES GARNER
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: I think I thought that James Garner and / or Harrison Ford was my real dad as a kid, since I saw them more than I saw my dad.
	9:56pm Krys O.: James Garner was consistently stoned on that show. Had no clue about that until recently. Oof, I need to get some sleep. Sorry for yammering. Had loads of fun tonight with y'all! Take care!
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: Night, @Krys O!
	9:57pm Obadiah Baird: So much great stuff on Crass records. Flux of Pink Indians is also killer. Plus the random Captain Sensible single they inexplicably put out.
	9:58pm Mr Fab: Love your stories, Krys!
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: Also: when I'm not listening to Bow Wow Wow, I seem to be obsessed with Essential Logic.
	9:59pm Scott67: Sleep well Krys!😎🤙
	10:00pm Obadiah Baird: Thanks for the stories Krys!
	10:00pm Don-O: Solid and noisy show, Austin!
	10:00pm Scott67: Works for me mate!!🍻💀🤙
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: Geza X, tongue firmly placed in cheek.
	10:05pm HyperDose: Very cheeky, Austin
	10:05pm Obadiah Baird: First time hearing this song. love it.
	10:06pm Don-O: "I Wanna Hate Punks!"
	👻 10:07pm Austin Rich: There was a trend in early 80's to name-check punk, even if your band wasn't particularly "punk." Been thinking about assembling a whole show of songs like that.
	10:08pm Mr X: That trend is still happening.
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: It's got a little bit of a Patti Smith vibe, with a couple riffs that sound like the Sex Pistols... I wonder what Cherry Vanilla sounded like outside this song?
	10:09pm StringOFperils: Piano in punk. Discuss.
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: VOM is Richard Meltzer singing for what would become The Angry Samoans. And: Richard also lives in PDX.
	10:10pm Obadiah Baird: Are we in the randomly name dropping punk portion of the set?
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: I don't mind Piano when it's done well. But... it's not often done well.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: The set is titled "Destroy All Music." So...?
	10:11pm Mr X: It's too hard to say "I'm with the band," and walk off with their piano. So I'm against them.
	10:12pm StringOFperils: Ha ha. Yeh. That makes sense. It only really works when it's one note...maybe Bowie pioneered that in Iggy's band.
	10:13pm Obadiah Baird: It took me a while to come to terms with the fact that The Damned have a keyboard player and kick ass.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: This is the only selection not from a comp. But... I had to use this song, so...
	10:14pm Obadiah Baird: I love everything the Weirdos have ever done.
	10:14pm ramencity: Piano in punk: Saints' "I Got No Time" (at least at the end). Perfecto.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: Agreed. Weirdos are perfect.
	10:15pm Mr X: There's some nice piano work in Zen Arcade.
	10:15pm Obadiah Baird: I also am obsessed with Radio Birdman. Maybe I just love keyboards and punk rock.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: I appreciate that every song I've heard by The Kids sounds like it couldn't have been sung / written / played by anyone that wasn't a seasoned adult.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: Radio Birdman are VERY good, so that's a good obsession.
	10:16pm ramencity: Maybe you have to be Australian to pull off punk piano?
	10:17pm Obadiah Baird: The Radio Birdman logo is my only band tattoo.
	10:18pm StringOFperils: Maybe you just have to play it like the percussion instrument that it is, i.e. pound the shit out of it, in time with the drums
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: I have a tattoo of a band I was in. And a tattoo of a religious symbol for a religion I helped make up. But do those count?
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: You might be onto something, @StringOfPerils. If it's percussion: good. If it's melodic: bad.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: I was thinking of @Scott67 when I made this selection. In that I think both he and I would love it.
	10:19pm Mr X: Sort of like the way Jerry Lee Lewis played it...
	10:20pm Obadiah Baird: This song is way too accurate.
	10:26pm ramencity: bumpersticker: Keep Austin Rich!
	10:27pm Mr X: Thanks for the background lineage info, Austin. Always nice to have some education mixed in with the entertainment.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: I had a girlfriend, many years ago, that loved Mucky Pup, as they were the band that backed Billy & The Boingers on the Bloom County Flexi-Disc.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: This is what they sound like when Opus isn't playing Tuba all over their songs.
	10:29pm Mr Fab: John Cale’s one-note piano on “Waiting For The Man” pioneered punk piano. Which he then applied to “I Wanna Be Your Dog.” I always loved the idea of classicaly-trained Cale playing just one note.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: Cale was really game to take all of his training and toss it out.
	10:30pm Mr X: "Mucky Pup" reminds me of Splodgenessabounds.
	10:30pm StringOFperils: Right....I was thinking of Fear, but of course that already happened on Waiting For My Man. College of musical knowledge, Mr. Fab
	10:30pm Scott67: Best to learn what it is, before your pull it apart.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: The Messthetics series of comps focuses on UK DIY bands with a sort of "messy" aesthetic, and each one sort of features a different region.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: (Although, there is one line of Messthetics comps that are in alphabetical order, for some reason.)
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: I think there's a little overlap, @Mr. X.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: The Homework series of comps focuses on DIY releases from the US, often with a "post-punk" sort of vibe. (Keys / synths were often present, as were other instruments.) But still more in the "punk" than "post."
	10:34pm Mr X: And then there's the role of saxophones in punk rock...
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: I think Fear had something to say about saxophones, didn't they?
	10:35pm ramencity: some snazzy keyboards at the end of that Readymades track
	10:35pm Mr X: New York's Alright, If You Like Saxophones
	10:35pm StringOFperils: You don't wanna be near the mosh pit with a sax stuck in your face.
	10:35pm Obadiah Baird: I'm 90% anti saxophones in punk rock. But that 10%!!!!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: While The Controllers had been playing a song called "Neutron Bomb" at their shows for a while, The Weirdos were the first to cut their single with, "(We've Got The) Neutron Bomb" on it. So The Controllers called their song on their single, "(The Original) Neutron Bomb." At least, that's the story I heard.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: I thought @Scott67 would love this one.
	10:37pm Scott67: Glowin' in the dark over this one!
	10:37pm Obadiah Baird: X-Ray Spex make a strong argument that sax can be great in punk.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: That's true, @Obadiah!
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: James Chance & The Contortions.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: Maybe the most inappropriate song I'll play tonight.
	10:40pm Mr Fab: This is great!
	10:40pm ramencity: I love the misspelling of Idi Amin's name.
	10:40pm Obadiah Baird: I love this!
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: Yeah, I really love this song.
	10:41pm StringOFperils: Toronto had a similar band to James Chance, Rent Boys Inc., that drew less on destroying standards...pretty original...consumed many beers watching those guys tear it up
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: That's how it's spelled on the rekkid.
	10:42pm StringOFperils: ...'til Brat X, the bass player OD'd, that is
	10:42pm Mr Fab: The Flesh Eaters feature some ace sax blowin from Steve Berlin, on loan from the Blasters and Los Lobos.
	10:43pm Mr X: So what exactly is Blank Reg going on about there?
	10:45pm Scott67: Hey what!!???
	10:45pm ramencity: whoa you got mambo'd
	10:45pm Obadiah Baird: That was a lot.
	10:45pm Mr X: Harry Belefonte trying to get you to shut up?
	10:45pm Mr Fab: Harry Belefonte jumped in there for a sec
	10:46pm ramencity: Belafonte - the O.G. punk
	10:46pm Scott67: Fuck jobs!! 🍻😎🤙
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: Hmmmm. Connection probably dropped. Am I good now?
	10:47pm ramencity: yarp
	10:47pm StringOFperils: Had enuff jobs that have fucked me.
	10:48pm Mr Fab: Yeah was just for a moment
	10:48pm Scott67: Fucken luvit!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: Can't control if the interweb drops. I can't send a pristine copy to post to the archive, if that makes sense.
	10:48pm Scott67: I was Killed By Math!☠️
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: Styphnoids, also from PDX. Also heavily comped, but this was how I first heard it.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: Whoops: I CAN send a pristine copy, I mean.
	10:50pm StringOFperils: Faved in advance!
	10:50pm HyperDose: This DJ is WILD 🐯
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: I'm totally obsessed with this Railbirds song.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: The quality of the recording, the weird drum solos... all of it!
	10:51pm Scott67: Starred the Show an hour ago! 🍻😎👉⭐
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: Probably gonna go a little over, to get the full set in. Hope no one minds?
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: Not to be confused with the FIVE MILLION OTHER BANDS also named Filth.
	10:52pm Scott67: You MUST go over mate!⚡💥🔥
	10:53pm StringOFperils: No one's gonna pull the plug here.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: Got four more, plus a little closing spiel.
	10:53pm Scott67: This is the clean Filth!
	10:53pm Mr X: I plead the Filth.
	10:54pm ramencity: Fred Flith
	10:54pm HyperDose: This smells like my hamper!
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: I also like how this guy sounds like he's about 36 when he sings this song.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: I would buy that Fred Filth album.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: I also thought @Scott67 would appreciate this one.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: I get this song stuck in my head CONSTANTLY.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: "Where are my Hormones?"
	10:58pm Mr X: Great show, Asutin. Just like a Modern Mono show.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: About to wrap things up here. Thanks everyone for sticking around, and enjoying the show!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Oh, my friend Colin had a bunch of Modern Mono on tape, that he would play for me. GREAT STUFF!
	10:59pm Mr X: Nothing like punk rock to clear the cobwebs out of your head.
	10:59pm StringOFperils: Thanks! Definitely going back to hear it from the top. Great show!
	10:59pm HyperDose: No way I'm sleeping now. You got me all wired up, Austin! Thanks! :p
	10:59pm ramencity: does he still? the panic on 13th blog has like one episode but that's all...
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Thanks @StringOfperils! listening from the top is a great compliment!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: I think I asked him, and he might have some...
	11:00pm Scott67: I am not a depraved as I would like to be!
	11:01pm StringOFperils: Depravity's a work in progress, Scott. Give it time.
	11:03pm Scott67: only the wealthy can be truly depraved!
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: I can change my mind... about what kind of show I'm going to do at the last minute.
	11:04pm Scott67: Thanks Austin! Fanfuckentastic Show mate! 🍻😎🤙💥☠️
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: Thanks @Scott67. This was was fun to prep for, cause I had to listen to a bunch of punk songs to pick the ones to play.
	11:05pm Scott67: Not hard to do!🍻
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! Nighty Night!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 24, 2022

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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 24, 2022: The Grumpy Punk Rides Again

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
This Is Punk Rock "This Is Punk Rock"
Plain Wrap	Punk Rock "Punk Rock" by "Plain Wrap"	Killed By 7" Vol. 1 - 5	Redrum Records	1988
Music behind DJ: The Eleven-SixtyFours	An Open Grave (Instrumental)	Sack The Sacklers EP	WTBC Records	2021	0:01:59 (Pop-up)
Birth Ward '82	Idiot's Power "Idiot's Power" by "Birth Ward '82"	Killed by Death #40	Not On A Label	1998	0:04:21 (Pop-up)
Eat	Communist Radio "Communist Radio" by "Eat"	Killed By Death Vol. 2	Redrum Records	1989	0:06:28 (Pop-up)
Essentials	Turn Off Your... "Turn Off Your..." by "Essentials"	Killed By Florida (Florida Punk Rock 1978-85) (v/a)	La Republica Libertariano De Florida	1998	0:07:51 (Pop-up)
Wild Youth	Radio Youth "Radio Youth" by "Wild Youth"	Killed by Death #40	Not On A Label	1998	0:09:55 (Pop-up)
Accident	Kill the Bee Gees "Kill the Bee Gees" by "Accident"	Killed by Death #9	Redrum Records	1995	0:12:12 (Pop-up)
The Maggots	Tammy Wynet "Tammy Wynet" by "The Maggots"	Killed by Death #5	Redrum Records	1993	0:14:59 (Pop-up)
Ivan & the Executioners	I Wanna Kill James Taylor	Killed by Death #999	Redrum Records	1999	0:16:50 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ: The Eleven-SixtyFours	Fashion At The End of The World (Instrumental)	Sack The Sacklers EP	WTBC Records	2021	0:21:19 (Pop-up)
Johnny Paranoid "Johnny Paranoid"
Gizmos	Amerika First "Amerika First" by "Gizmos"	Killed by Death #9	Redrum Records	1995	0:21:22 (Pop-up)
U.S. Mods	Government "Government" by "U.S. Mods"	Teen Line No. 2: Powerpop & Poprock 45s: S to U	Hyped To Death Records		0:23:05 (Pop-up)
The Lullabies	Cop In The Street "Cop In The Street" by "The Lullabies"	Killed by Death #41	Not On A Label	1998	0:24:37 (Pop-up)
Menstrual Cycles	Kill The President	Killed By Florida (Florida Punk Rock 1978-85) (v/a)	La Republica Libertariano De Florida	1998	0:25:46 (Pop-up)
Sado-Nation	Johnny Paranoid "Johnny Paranoid" by "Sado-Nation"	Killed by Death #15 1/2 (Raw Rare Punk Rock 78-81)	Not On A Label	1998	0:26:46 (Pop-up)
Cold Cock	I Wanna Be Rich "I Wanna Be Rich" by "Cold Cock"	Killed By Death: Rare Punk 77-82	Redrum Records	1988	0:29:17 (Pop-up)
Guilty Razors	I Don't Wanna Be Rich	Killed by Death #7	Redrum Records	1993	0:32:35 (Pop-up)
Crass	Where Next, Columbus? "Where Next, Columbus?" by "Crass"	A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89	Not On A Label	2010	0:35:14 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ: The Eleven-SixtyFours	Fashion At The End of The World (Instrumental)	Sack The Sacklers EP	WTBC Records	2021	0:38:20 (Pop-up)
Bored Housewives "Bored Housewives"
Vital Disorders	Let's Talk About Prams	Messthetics # 4: UK '78-81 "D.I.Y." Punk / Postpunk: V-To-Z	Hyped To Death Records		0:42:46 (Pop-up)
Androids of Mu	Bored Housewives "Bored Housewives" by "Androids of Mu"	A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89	Not On A Label	2010	0:44:54 (Pop-up)
The Neo Boys	Never Comes Down "Never Comes Down" by "The Neo Boys"	A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89	Not On A Label	2010	0:47:09 (Pop-up)
Bow Wow Wow	C30, C60, C90 Go! "C30, C60, C90 Go!" by "Bow Wow Wow"	A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89	Not On A Label	2010	0:48:49 (Pop-up)
Tragics (a.k.a. Misfits)	Mommi I'm A Misfit	A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89	Not On A Label	2010	0:51:46 (Pop-up)
Honey Bane	Girls On The Run "Girls On The Run" by "Honey Bane"	A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89	Not On A Label	2010	0:54:13 (Pop-up)
Essential Logic	Aerosol Burns "Aerosol Burns" by "Essential Logic"	Killed by Death #22	Redrum Records	1998	0:57:58 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ: The Eleven-SixtyFours	Now Is The Time (Instrumental)	Smothered, Covered, Chunked & Capped EP	WTBC Records	2021	0:59:54 (Pop-up)
Destroy All Music! "Destroy All Music!"
Geza X	I Hate Punks "I Hate Punks" by "Geza X"	Killed By 7" Vol. 1 - 5	Redrum Records	1988	1:04:09 (Pop-up)
Cherry Vanilla	The Punk "The Punk" by "Cherry Vanilla"	A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89	Not On A Label	2010	1:06:44 (Pop-up)
Vom	Punkmobile "Punkmobile" by "Vom"	Killed by Death #14	Redrum Records	1998	1:09:20 (Pop-up)
Mad	I Hate Music "I Hate Music" by "Mad"	Killed By Death: Rare Punk 77-82	Redrum Records	1988	1:11:01 (Pop-up)
The Weirdos	Destroy All Music "Destroy All Music" by "The Weirdos"	Destroy All Music	Bomp! Records	1977	1:13:09 (Pop-up)
The Kids	This Is Rock 'n' Roll "This Is Rock 'n' Roll" by "The Kids"	Killed By Death #6 (Great Punk Shits)	Redrum Records	1993	1:14:42 (Pop-up)
Suburban Reptiles	45 Single "45 Single" by "Suburban Reptiles"	A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock: 1977-89	Not On A Label	2010	1:17:11 (Pop-up)
Vomit Visions	Punks Are The Old Farts of Today	Killed by Death #14	Redrum Records	1998	1:18:59 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ: The Eleven-SixtyFours	Turning My Back On (Instrumental)	Sack The Sacklers EP	WTBC Records	2021	1:20:14 (Pop-up)
Let's Get Weird "Let's Get Weird"
Naked Lady Wrestlers	William Tell Overture	Killed by Death #13	Redrum Records	1993	1:25:52 (Pop-up)
Puncture	Mucky Pup "Mucky Pup" by "Puncture"	Killed by Death #14	Redrum Records	1998	1:28:10 (Pop-up)
The Shapes	(I Saw) Batman (In The Launderette)	Messthetics #103: D.I.Y. 77-81 Midlands 1 (various artists)	Hyped To Death Records	2007	1:30:15 (Pop-up)
The Readymades	Supergirl "Supergirl" by "The Readymades"	Homework # 2: U.S. D.I.Y. Punk & Punkwave 45s: R To T	Hyped To Death Records		1:32:50 (Pop-up)
The Controllers	(The Original) Neutron Bomb	Killed By Death: Rare Punk 77-82	Redrum Records	1988	1:34:33 (Pop-up)
The Authorities	Radiation Masturbation	Killed By Death: Rare Punk 77-82	Redrum Records	1988	1:36:35 (Pop-up)
Snot Puppies	Towel Song "Towel Song" by "Snot Puppies"	Killed by Death #13	Redrum Records	1993	1:37:25 (Pop-up)
Helen Keller	Surfing With Steve and E.D. Amin	Killed by Death #999	Redrum Records	1999	1:39:35 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ: The Eleven-SixtyFours	I Hate The Rich (Instrumental)	Smothered, Covered, Chunked & Capped EP	WTBC Records	2021	1:42:14 (Pop-up)
Teenage Lifestyle "Teenage Lifestyle"
The Nubs	Job "Job" by "The Nubs"	Killed by Death #5	Redrum Records	1993	1:46:27 (Pop-up)
Styphnoids	Mom's A Fake "Mom's A Fake" by "Styphnoids"	Killed by Death #8½	Redrum Records	1995	1:48:06 (Pop-up)
Railbirds	Go To Hell "Go To Hell" by "Railbirds"	Killed by Death #14	Redrum Records	1998	1:50:05 (Pop-up)
Filth	Don't Hide Your Hate "Don't Hide Your Hate" by "Filth"	Killed by Death #4: Raw Rare Punk Rock 77-82	Redrum Records	1989	1:52:23 (Pop-up)
Penetrators	Teenage Lifestyle "Teenage Lifestyle" by "Penetrators"	Killed By Death #19	Redrum Records	1998	1:53:53 (Pop-up)
Teenage Phd's	Eat, Sleep & Fuck "Eat, Sleep & Fuck" by "Teenage Phd's"	Killed by Death #18	Redrum Records	1998	1:56:22 (Pop-up)
Avant Gardeners	Where Are My Hormones?	Messthetics # 6: UK '78-82 "D.I.Y." Bands A & B	Hyped To Death Records		1:57:01 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Eleven-SixtyFours	History Lesson Part 3 (Instrumental)	Smothered, Covered, Chunked & Capped EP	WTBC Records	2021	2:00:44 (Pop-up)
Simply Saucer	Change "Change" by "Simply Saucer"	Homework # 2: U.S. D.I.Y. Punk & Punkwave 45s: R To T	Hyped To Death Records		2:03:20 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 8:05pm Austin Rich: Good Hello
	8:47pm Obadiah Baird: Hello
	👻 8:50pm Austin Rich: Good to see you in the chat, Obadiah! I think you'll like this one.
	8:52pm Obadiah Baird: I saw you mention punk rock comps and figured I should check it out.
	👻 8:54pm Austin Rich: Yeah. I had fun pulling stuff for this one. Just had to listen to a lot of these a few times to make choices...
	8:56pm MHLee: Hello
	👻 8:57pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, MHLee!
	👻 8:59pm Austin Rich: Make yourself comfy. There's some 40s in the fridge in the garage. Just don't block the boom box from the signal, it's super finicky.
	9:01pm Krys O.: Hidey-ho!
	9:01pm Scott67: G'day Austin, you had me at Punk mate! 🍻😎🤙🎶📻☀️🌏
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: Hello, @Krys-O!
	9:01pm Obadiah Baird: Punk Rock!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: And @Scott67!
	9:01pm Mr Fab: Whoah! The slam pit has already erupted. Damn, dude, almost spilled my beer...
	9:01pm HyperDose: What's Runk Pock?
	9:02pm Mr X: Yo grumpy punks and punkettes.
	9:03pm Scott67: I just moshed a handfull of potato chips! Washed down with beer! 🍻😎🤙
	9:04pm Don-O: BO! from me for the next few minutes before I hit out for a walk around the top of the hour.....
	9:04pm postconsumer: Hiya!
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: @Don-O! I made a joke about you in the chat of the last show! And @postconsumer! Nice to see you, too! Great show, btw!
	9:05pm postconsumer: I felt your absence, @Don-O Thanks, Austin Rich
	9:06pm Mr Fab: Hey, i saw that CBGB bathroom. That's no joke.
	9:06pm Don-O: Ah, hell. What the hell did I do THIS time?!
	9:06pm postconsumer: 😂
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: I made a Negativland joke, and credited you.
	9:07pm postconsumer: No, I just read above somewhere that you weren't listening. joking.
	9:07pm Don-O: I've been getting ready for the move and preping for it. Plus I got a niece complaning that I have too much "things"
	9:07pm Phlegm Peterson: I'm here to get punk rock'd
	9:07pm postconsumer: Austin filled in for you, in the chat.
	9:08pm ramencity: this inspires me to finally get around to watching that Poly Styrene doc on Kanopy
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: No cut ups this week, but I might learn ya a thing or two about comps at the next VO.
	9:09pm Mr Fab: don't listen to the Essentials, folks! Keep it here on WFMU!
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: @ramencity! You taught me everything I know about good music.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: And that's also good advice: if someone says its "essential," don't trust them.
	9:09pm Mr X: How did that old KWVA bumper sticker go? "Kill your television, just don't turn off your radio?"
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: That's right, Mr. X! I forgot about that.
	9:10pm Don-O: I was nowhere near a punk in high school as I was too nibish for everything back then. I was afraid of disco 'cos it was associated with porn. I wasn't being self-rightgous, I was just scared....mind you, this was JUST before pubity kicked my ass
	9:11pm ramencity: I've felt nauseous all afternoon - that's pretty punk rock I guess
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: I wasn't a punk, either. I was a nerd, and all of my interest in punk sort of comes from the nerdy route. (Reading 'zines and books and borrowing albums / checking them out from the library.) I love the music, but I'm a pretty lame guy.
	👻 9:12pm Austin Rich: I can't tell if it's nausea or the evening news.
	9:13pm Don-O: Oh, I bet Dr. Demento didn't play THIS one in them days!
	9:13pm Obadiah Baird: I appreciate your show distracting me from today's news.
	9:13pm Scott67: Nerd Punk!
	9:14pm Don-O: Party like it's 1979, y'all!!
	9:14pm Mr X: I was so scared to go to my first few punk shows. I was a hippie, and I was sure the punks would beat me up. But my friends talked me into going. It was such a relief when I realized nobody at those shows gave a fuck that I was there.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: Distractions are what radio does best.
	9:15pm Don-O: For me, discovering Monty Python and The Gong Show was punk to me. Seemed I watched too much TV......
	9:15pm MHLee: Always love a keyboard in my punk
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: When I realized that most of the punks were art school weirdos and sort of secret-nerds too, I was WAY more into real punk shows.
	9:16pm Don-O: I dig the keyboard on this one....
	👻 9:16pm Austin Rich: Monty Python was totally a revolution in my mind. I listened to so much boring, straight laced comedy in the 80's. And then I found Monty Python on PBS in High School... wow!
	9:17pm Mr X: My first punk show with a non-local band was Frightwig at the Cage Ramp in Eugene, around 1988.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: Mine had to be as late as 1993 or 1994.
	9:18pm Mr Fab: Ha, all the anti-star punks songs in a row.
	9:18pm Obadiah Baird: I was a depressed loner who got bullied by literally everyone and then one day I heard punk rock. I still vividly remember the moment I heard my first punk songs and realized other people felt the same way I did and I wasn't some anomaly.
	9:18pm Don-O: Yea, in the late 70's everyone in school was watching 3's Company and its ilk, I was a SubGenius moment with the Python and Gong stuff.
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: That story sounds sort of familiar to me. I'm not sure if it was instant, but I do remember eventually coming back to punk songs more than other songs. And then it was all I wanted.
	9:19pm Scott67: You inspired me to swap out my Can-can Koozie for my TRASH CULT Koozie! 🍺😎🤙💀
	9:19pm Obadiah Baird: The kill everybody portion of the set.
	9:21pm Don-O: "Get Drunk and Pass Out" Sounds like Arizona....
	9:21pm ramencity: When Austin says "get drunk and black out" he really means, "pet the cats and have some tea"
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: Well, those cats have been so good, and they just NEED some attention. And I need some bourbon
	9:22pm Don-O: ....which means @Austin will live longer than my neibors.....
	9:22pm Mr X: RCK don't blow his cover.
	9:22pm Obadiah Baird: I'm drinking some bourbon over here.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: Cheers!
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: While more in the "Power Pop" vein, I very much recommend the Teen Line series of comps. And: if you have them, make sure to rip them before the cdrs wear out! I've heard this series is prone to giving out, as the cdrs are crap. But the music is AMAZING!
	9:24pm Don-O: Oh, Austin. I got your latest zine and will get around to review it in a month and a half when the move is done....then it's zine time for me!
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: Glad it arrived safely! The only I sent to Georgy Girl bounced. I need to re-send it. Sending to the UK is fraught with peril.
	9:25pm Obadiah Baird: I have a soft spot for the lo fi power pop end of the punk spectrum.
	9:26pm Krys O.: My friends and I would go out dancing in Manhattan and take the train back to suburban Westchester County. I was sleep deprived, but I still had excellent grades. I was partly geek, partly party kid. My brother-in-law gifted me with a membership to the Devo fan club too. Mom and Dad didn't know what to make of me wearing thrift store clothes and having super short hair. Zoinks!
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: Those Teen Line comps are great, because it's all DIY Power Pop. Really good!
	9:27pm Obadiah Baird: Not so lo fi but I've been on an Undertones kick lately.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: This Sado-Nation song has been comped a million times on a variety of good releases. While I'm partial to the Portland Punk Comp that includes it, since I'm doing a lot of Killed By Death, I went that route.
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: Undertones are amazing! I love those guys.
	9:27pm Mr X: Undertones are great. John Peel thought so, too.
	9:27pm Obadiah Baird: My friend John Shirley singing on this track!
	9:27pm MHLee: Thought this was mongoloid
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: (@ramencitykid introduced me to the Undertones.)
	9:28pm Krys O.: FWIW-I graduated high school in 1981 and I was still 17. The drinking age in NY was 18 and we never got carded. The only times I did get carded going into clubs were in my 40s after I got sober.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: @Krys O: I always wondered what life was like in big cities. In rural Oregon, I think a lot of kids wonder about the big cities.
	9:29pm Obadiah Baird: John Shirley, maybe the only actual punk to write cyberpunk fiction.
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: @Obadiah: I was thinking about the times you introduced me to John Shirley when I picked that song.
	9:30pm Scott67: Beer here! & a nerd, dagg outsider. Early adopter of 'aberrant' culture & DIY expression. Angry with the system. That's a real fucken Punk! Cheers Brothers & Sisters! 🍻😎🤙💀❤️
	9:30pm Krys O.: We missed the last train home one night and had to sleep on the benches in Grand Central Terminal. If the weather was nice, we'd walk around for hours or go to the Oyster Bar.
	9:31pm Scott67: It ain't all Mohawks & leather jackets!
	9:31pm Obadiah Baird: I definitely need to track down more of these Killed By Death comps.
	9:31pm Mr X: I marvel at how these obscure punk bands managed to make these recordings on a shoestring, and never got acclaim or wealth for their efforts.
	9:32pm Mr Fab: You’re right about what most punk kids were like, Austin. If you look at pictures of the LA punk scene, you don’t see many giant Mohawks or studs and spikes. They were expensive! And our schools and parents wouldn’t have allowed it. We would take t-shirts or white dress shirts, a magic marker, and make our own shirts with band logos, the anarchy sign, etc.
	👻 9:32pm Austin Rich: A lot of them aren't as good as others. But there's a gem or two on each of them. There's one that is actually just one band, making up different names for all their own songs on their first "album." Been trying to track that one down.
	9:32pm ramencity: Undertones + Stiff Little Fingers: the 'good bit' of Northern Ireland!
	9:33pm Scott67: Blank Tape & Xerox Generation!
	9:33pm Obadiah Baird: Love that first SLF album. Barbed Wire Love was always my favorite.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: I still listen to those Stiff Little Fingers CDs I copied from you, like, all the time, @ramencitykid.
	9:34pm Krys O.: Gosh, I miss filling a paper shopping bag at the local thrift shop for $5.
	9:34pm Mr Fab: Youre lucky you had a better public transportation system then we did in LA, Krys. But at least we had the same lax attitude to checking drink IDs!
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: I miss going to Thrift Stores a lot. It's been years since I've been.
	9:35pm ramencity: Yeah -- I found a copy of SLF's live "Hanx!" lp at Music Millennium right before covid -- I'd had it on cassette for years but happy to find a 'real' copy in the 'new used arrivals'
	👻 9:35pm Austin Rich: I was in a small town in Oregon. It was harder to get beer underage than it was to get drugs. Most kids just did drugs.
	9:35pm Mr X: When I was am exchange student in France, assigned to a homestay family, the family's kid fancied himself a punk rocker. So he made his mom buy him a leather jacket. I remember sitting around the dinner table while he bullied his mom into sewing studs onto it. What a punk.
	9:36pm Obadiah Baird: I love this song. The entire Penis Envy album is amazing.
	9:36pm Charles: Is this where I can stick it to the Man?
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: Yeah. Penis Envy is unbeatable.
	👻 9:37pm Austin Rich: Join us, @Charles!
	9:37pm ramencity: That _that_ The Man!
	9:37pm Obadiah Baird: I had the crass logo painted on the back of my leather jacket. I was that guy.
	9:37pm Krys O.: My hometown is between Greenwich, CT and Rye, NY. Two of the most affluent towns in the country. We had some great vintage clothes from those burghs.
	9:38pm Mr Fab: New show on the Sheena schedule! wfmu.org...
	9:38pm HyperDose: Whoa no way. Cool announcement, Fab!
	9:38pm Mr X: Obadiah, as long as your mom didn't paint it.
	9:39pm MHLee: Hey that's me!
	9:39pm Scott67: Old Punks never die, they just get to buy a leather jacket. To compensate for no hair for a Mohawk.
	9:39pm Obadiah Baird: Nah. I do my own punk crafts.
	9:40pm Krys O.: Great news! Congrats!
	9:41pm Scott67: All my leather comes from a lifetime of trawling Op-shops!(Thrift Stores)
	9:42pm ramencity: My favorite punk clothing memory: early into the first Iraq War, and Robert Christie playing an early Oswald Five-O with a homemade t-shirt: "Victory to Iraq!"
	9:42pm Mr Fab: MHLee, your show starts at 5am my time. I’ll try and be there…
	9:42pm Scott67: Have several sick Biker Jackets, but feel pretentious in them.
	9:44pm Obadiah Baird: Speaking of nerds who were punks. Lenny Kaye contributed to a bunch of Sci Fi zines as a teenager and had a massive collection of early SF zines.
	9:44pm Scott67: I feel more at home in Military Surplus stuff.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: Robert Christie was the best. He complimented my first band - Cathead - when he said that one of our songs sounded like the Germs. And we totally took it as a compliment; that's sort of what we were going for.
	9:44pm Mr Fab: Couple years ago i bought a “Star Wars” t shirt at a thrift for a few bucks and painted “I hate” over it.
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: Have I mentioned "I (Heart) Mr. Fab" this chat, yet?
	9:45pm Scott67: Fucked up enough not to look like a MAGA Preper that is!
	9:45pm MHLee: @Mr Fab I ran it early to force me to (a) go to bed (b) eat breakfast.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: The Neo Boys. Another PDX band.
	9:47pm Scott67: I made my own Burger King T-shirt from scratch. Exact except it read Burger Kill.🍔☠️
	9:47pm Mr X: Frightwig would fit into this set. "Work it Baby, Work it Hard, Work it like a VISA card."
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: The bartender at the Shanghai Tunnel in PDX (in the early 2000s) would brag about having seen / knowing this band, and I was always in awe.
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: I'm going through that phase in my 40's where I just want to listen to Bow Wow Wow and watch Max Headroom. That's normal, right?
	9:49pm Krys O.: One of the oldest t-shirts I have is from a Beyond Vaudeville show at NYU hosted by Danny Bonaduce. The woman who mimed to the Underdog theme was the star of the show. John Holmstrom was also in the audience. I was at a friend's party when John Holmstrom started throwing food at people. Needless to say, the party broke up. It was a going away party for Ken Weiner who also was part of Punk Magazine. Weiner was the art director at Screw when I worked there.
	9:50pm Krys O.: This was my theme song as a teen. I was too poor to buy albums. I taped things off the radio.
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: You know the coolest people @Krys O. Both Punk and Screw are very excellent.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: I taped EVERYTHING for YEARS. I couldn't afford real albums!
	9:51pm ramencity: I misremember things - I'd thought C30... was by Rip Rig + Panic
	9:51pm Krys O.: @Austin: I'm pushing 60 and re-watching the Rockford Files to mostly look at the sets and location shoots.
	👻 9:52pm Austin Rich: Did we talk about Rockford Files already Krys O? That's my comfort TV. I have a couple of random files that are labeled, "Silly Rockford Files Ideas." Maybe someday I'll actually write that script...
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: More Crass-adjacent material for you, @Obadiah.
	9:54pm Krys O.: In retrospect, I'm in awe of that dumb luck that I had. At the time I just felt like a loser who never finished college. That's another story. The grants dried up under Reagan and my parents buying a house. I didn't want to incur a boatload of debt and quit college in my junior year. Oh, well.
	9:54pm ramencity: James Garner and C. Thomas Howell were in a movie about stealing a tank. It was called... Tank. It is not even the worst C. Thomas Howell movie (cough Soul Man cough)
	9:55pm Obadiah Baird: Honey Bane is so great! I've been exploring the broader crass records catalog and Honey Bane and Poison Girls are both standouts.
	👻 9:55pm Austin Rich: I've seen Tank. When I was a kid. More than once. I loved that movie, for some dumb reason.
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: Honey Bane rules. The next show we do, Obadiah, we should nerd out about the Crass family of bands.
	9:56pm ramencity: BECAUSE JAMES GARNER
	👻 9:56pm Austin Rich: I think I thought that James Garner and / or Harrison Ford was my real dad as a kid, since I saw them more than I saw my dad.
	9:56pm Krys O.: James Garner was consistently stoned on that show. Had no clue about that until recently. Oof, I need to get some sleep. Sorry for yammering. Had loads of fun tonight with y'all! Take care!
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: Night, @Krys O!
	9:57pm Obadiah Baird: So much great stuff on Crass records. Flux of Pink Indians is also killer. Plus the random Captain Sensible single they inexplicably put out.
	9:58pm Mr Fab: Love your stories, Krys!
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: Also: when I'm not listening to Bow Wow Wow, I seem to be obsessed with Essential Logic.
	9:59pm Scott67: Sleep well Krys!😎🤙
	10:00pm Obadiah Baird: Thanks for the stories Krys!
	10:00pm Don-O: Solid and noisy show, Austin!
	10:00pm Scott67: Works for me mate!!🍻💀🤙
	👻 10:04pm Austin Rich: Geza X, tongue firmly placed in cheek.
	10:05pm HyperDose: Very cheeky, Austin
	10:05pm Obadiah Baird: First time hearing this song. love it.
	10:06pm Don-O: "I Wanna Hate Punks!"
	👻 10:07pm Austin Rich: There was a trend in early 80's to name-check punk, even if your band wasn't particularly "punk." Been thinking about assembling a whole show of songs like that.
	10:08pm Mr X: That trend is still happening.
	👻 10:08pm Austin Rich: It's got a little bit of a Patti Smith vibe, with a couple riffs that sound like the Sex Pistols... I wonder what Cherry Vanilla sounded like outside this song?
	10:09pm StringOFperils: Piano in punk. Discuss.
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: VOM is Richard Meltzer singing for what would become The Angry Samoans. And: Richard also lives in PDX.
	10:10pm Obadiah Baird: Are we in the randomly name dropping punk portion of the set?
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: I don't mind Piano when it's done well. But... it's not often done well.
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: The set is titled "Destroy All Music." So...?
	10:11pm Mr X: It's too hard to say "I'm with the band," and walk off with their piano. So I'm against them.
	10:12pm StringOFperils: Ha ha. Yeh. That makes sense. It only really works when it's one note...maybe Bowie pioneered that in Iggy's band.
	10:13pm Obadiah Baird: It took me a while to come to terms with the fact that The Damned have a keyboard player and kick ass.
	👻 10:13pm Austin Rich: This is the only selection not from a comp. But... I had to use this song, so...
	10:14pm Obadiah Baird: I love everything the Weirdos have ever done.
	10:14pm ramencity: Piano in punk: Saints' "I Got No Time" (at least at the end). Perfecto.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: Agreed. Weirdos are perfect.
	10:15pm Mr X: There's some nice piano work in Zen Arcade.
	10:15pm Obadiah Baird: I also am obsessed with Radio Birdman. Maybe I just love keyboards and punk rock.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: I appreciate that every song I've heard by The Kids sounds like it couldn't have been sung / written / played by anyone that wasn't a seasoned adult.
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: Radio Birdman are VERY good, so that's a good obsession.
	10:16pm ramencity: Maybe you have to be Australian to pull off punk piano?
	10:17pm Obadiah Baird: The Radio Birdman logo is my only band tattoo.
	10:18pm StringOFperils: Maybe you just have to play it like the percussion instrument that it is, i.e. pound the shit out of it, in time with the drums
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: I have a tattoo of a band I was in. And a tattoo of a religious symbol for a religion I helped make up. But do those count?
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: You might be onto something, @StringOfPerils. If it's percussion: good. If it's melodic: bad.
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: I was thinking of @Scott67 when I made this selection. In that I think both he and I would love it.
	10:19pm Mr X: Sort of like the way Jerry Lee Lewis played it...
	10:20pm Obadiah Baird: This song is way too accurate.
	10:26pm ramencity: bumpersticker: Keep Austin Rich!
	10:27pm Mr X: Thanks for the background lineage info, Austin. Always nice to have some education mixed in with the entertainment.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: I had a girlfriend, many years ago, that loved Mucky Pup, as they were the band that backed Billy & The Boingers on the Bloom County Flexi-Disc.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: This is what they sound like when Opus isn't playing Tuba all over their songs.
	10:29pm Mr Fab: John Cale’s one-note piano on “Waiting For The Man” pioneered punk piano. Which he then applied to “I Wanna Be Your Dog.” I always loved the idea of classicaly-trained Cale playing just one note.
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: Cale was really game to take all of his training and toss it out.
	10:30pm Mr X: "Mucky Pup" reminds me of Splodgenessabounds.
	10:30pm StringOFperils: Right....I was thinking of Fear, but of course that already happened on Waiting For My Man. College of musical knowledge, Mr. Fab
	10:30pm Scott67: Best to learn what it is, before your pull it apart.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: The Messthetics series of comps focuses on UK DIY bands with a sort of "messy" aesthetic, and each one sort of features a different region.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: (Although, there is one line of Messthetics comps that are in alphabetical order, for some reason.)
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: I think there's a little overlap, @Mr. X.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: The Homework series of comps focuses on DIY releases from the US, often with a "post-punk" sort of vibe. (Keys / synths were often present, as were other instruments.) But still more in the "punk" than "post."
	10:34pm Mr X: And then there's the role of saxophones in punk rock...
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: I think Fear had something to say about saxophones, didn't they?
	10:35pm ramencity: some snazzy keyboards at the end of that Readymades track
	10:35pm Mr X: New York's Alright, If You Like Saxophones
	10:35pm StringOFperils: You don't wanna be near the mosh pit with a sax stuck in your face.
	10:35pm Obadiah Baird: I'm 90% anti saxophones in punk rock. But that 10%!!!!
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: While The Controllers had been playing a song called "Neutron Bomb" at their shows for a while, The Weirdos were the first to cut their single with, "(We've Got The) Neutron Bomb" on it. So The Controllers called their song on their single, "(The Original) Neutron Bomb." At least, that's the story I heard.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: I thought @Scott67 would love this one.
	10:37pm Scott67: Glowin' in the dark over this one!
	10:37pm Obadiah Baird: X-Ray Spex make a strong argument that sax can be great in punk.
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: That's true, @Obadiah!
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: James Chance & The Contortions.
	👻 10:39pm Austin Rich: Maybe the most inappropriate song I'll play tonight.
	10:40pm Mr Fab: This is great!
	10:40pm ramencity: I love the misspelling of Idi Amin's name.
	10:40pm Obadiah Baird: I love this!
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: Yeah, I really love this song.
	10:41pm StringOFperils: Toronto had a similar band to James Chance, Rent Boys Inc., that drew less on destroying standards...pretty original...consumed many beers watching those guys tear it up
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: That's how it's spelled on the rekkid.
	10:42pm StringOFperils: ...'til Brat X, the bass player OD'd, that is
	10:42pm Mr Fab: The Flesh Eaters feature some ace sax blowin from Steve Berlin, on loan from the Blasters and Los Lobos.
	10:43pm Mr X: So what exactly is Blank Reg going on about there?
	10:45pm Scott67: Hey what!!???
	10:45pm ramencity: whoa you got mambo'd
	10:45pm Obadiah Baird: That was a lot.
	10:45pm Mr X: Harry Belefonte trying to get you to shut up?
	10:45pm Mr Fab: Harry Belefonte jumped in there for a sec
	10:46pm ramencity: Belafonte - the O.G. punk
	10:46pm Scott67: Fuck jobs!! 🍻😎🤙
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: Hmmmm. Connection probably dropped. Am I good now?
	10:47pm ramencity: yarp
	10:47pm StringOFperils: Had enuff jobs that have fucked me.
	10:48pm Mr Fab: Yeah was just for a moment
	10:48pm Scott67: Fucken luvit!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: Can't control if the interweb drops. I can't send a pristine copy to post to the archive, if that makes sense.
	10:48pm Scott67: I was Killed By Math!☠️
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: Styphnoids, also from PDX. Also heavily comped, but this was how I first heard it.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: Whoops: I CAN send a pristine copy, I mean.
	10:50pm StringOFperils: Faved in advance!
	10:50pm HyperDose: This DJ is WILD 🐯
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: I'm totally obsessed with this Railbirds song.
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: The quality of the recording, the weird drum solos... all of it!
	10:51pm Scott67: Starred the Show an hour ago! 🍻😎👉⭐
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: Probably gonna go a little over, to get the full set in. Hope no one minds?
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: Not to be confused with the FIVE MILLION OTHER BANDS also named Filth.
	10:52pm Scott67: You MUST go over mate!⚡💥🔥
	10:53pm StringOFperils: No one's gonna pull the plug here.
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: Got four more, plus a little closing spiel.
	10:53pm Scott67: This is the clean Filth!
	10:53pm Mr X: I plead the Filth.
	10:54pm ramencity: Fred Flith
	10:54pm HyperDose: This smells like my hamper!
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: I also like how this guy sounds like he's about 36 when he sings this song.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: I would buy that Fred Filth album.
	👻 10:56pm Austin Rich: I also thought @Scott67 would appreciate this one.
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: I get this song stuck in my head CONSTANTLY.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: "Where are my Hormones?"
	10:58pm Mr X: Great show, Asutin. Just like a Modern Mono show.
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: About to wrap things up here. Thanks everyone for sticking around, and enjoying the show!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Oh, my friend Colin had a bunch of Modern Mono on tape, that he would play for me. GREAT STUFF!
	10:59pm Mr X: Nothing like punk rock to clear the cobwebs out of your head.
	10:59pm StringOFperils: Thanks! Definitely going back to hear it from the top. Great show!
	10:59pm HyperDose: No way I'm sleeping now. You got me all wired up, Austin! Thanks! :p
	10:59pm ramencity: does he still? the panic on 13th blog has like one episode but that's all...
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: Thanks @StringOfperils! listening from the top is a great compliment!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: I think I asked him, and he might have some...
	11:00pm Scott67: I am not a depraved as I would like to be!
	11:01pm StringOFperils: Depravity's a work in progress, Scott. Give it time.
	11:03pm Scott67: only the wealthy can be truly depraved!
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: I can change my mind... about what kind of show I'm going to do at the last minute.
	11:04pm Scott67: Thanks Austin! Fanfuckentastic Show mate! 🍻😎🤙💥☠️
	👻 11:04pm Austin Rich: Thanks @Scott67. This was was fun to prep for, cause I had to listen to a bunch of punk songs to pick the ones to play.
	11:05pm Scott67: Not hard to do!🍻
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! Nighty Night!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from May 24, 2022

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