WFMU: Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from August 4, 2022

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from August 4, 2022

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

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

Thursday 8 - 10pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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August 4, 2022: Garden Party!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Tiny Tim	Tip Toe Through The Tulips	God Bless Tiny Tim	Reprise	1968	"Crooning Troubadour" Nick Lucas topped the US charts with "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" in 1929, after introducing the song in the musical "talkie" film Gold Diggers of Broadway. Tiny Tim's version made him a pop icon of the 60's...enough said		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ambrose & his Orchestra	Tip Toe Through The Tulips	Legendary 1929 Sessions	Halcyon	1980			0:01:46 (Pop-up)
The Damned	New Rose "New Rose" by "The Damned"	Damned Damned Damned	Union Square Music	1977	The Damned were the first UK punk band to release a record, the first UK punk band to tour America, the first to split up (in 1978), and the first to reform, six months later (when the Clash were only on their second album). They’ve had more line-up changes than Marlon Brando had hot dinners (with both Motorhead’s Lemmy and Culture Club’s Jon Moss joining briefly). They did a lot of speed. New Rose is one of the best punk songs ever written. Dave Vanian was a grave digger before joining the band. He is legit Goth.		0:04:22 (Pop-up)
The Mickey Finn	Garden Of My Mind	Garden Of My Mind 7"	Direction	1967	They started life as Mickey Finn And The Blue Men on ska label Blue Beat, coinciding with the craze for Jamaican music which exploded in 1964. A shift to Oriole saw them gravitate to an R&B/beat sound, with help on occasion from a guitarist named Jimmy Page. This single is one of the best psych/garage tunes ever put to wax,		0:07:04 (Pop-up)
Blue Orchids	The Flood "The Flood" by "Blue Orchids"	The Greatest Hit (Money Mountain) [Expanded Version]	Rough Trade / LTM Recordings	1980 / 2003	The Blue Orchids, formed by ex-Fallistas Martin Bramah and Una Baines come off sounding a bit like a more psychedelic early Fall; replacing the tense anger and wit of Mark E Smith with the starry-eyed hallucinogenic wonder of Martin Bramah. Baine's keyboards are almost as dinky as those used in her previous band, yet evoke a more complex, swirling headtrip here. Bramah's jagged guitar is still present but lower in the mix and a bit more subdued. This album is definitely psychedelic; evoking the mushroom trip the band took while recording it. You'll also notice fairly quickly that this album sounds like a product of the the late70's/ early 80's post-punk/new wave movement. Yet at the same time it sounds neither like a 60's throwback nor like any of their post-punk counterparts. This song wasn't actually on the original 1982 full-length album, but, rather, was from their debut 1980 seven-inch single.		0:09:30 (Pop-up)
Shannon & The Clams	You Will Always Bring Me Flowers	Sleep Talk	1-2-3-4 Go!	2011	"Oakland's Shannon & The Clams are too good at this early 60s dark prom night stuff. They know their way around twang." Chicago Reader's Jessica Hopper described Shannon and the Clams as "something from a John Waters lucid dream... complete with horny teenage anthems that walk the line between greasy, frantic 50s rock 'n' roll and innocent, hip-swinging 60s pop." They're comfortable in reverb. They can rock you gently to sleep and can cut like a switchblade to the face.		0:13:49 (Pop-up)
Rushnychok	Chervona Ruta "Chervona Ruta" by "Rushnychok"	Rushnychok Vol. 1	Sage Promotions	1973	Ukrainian-Canadian band from Lachine (Quebec) active from 1969 to 1980. Four male singers, accompanied by electric guitars, percussion and accordion, they were one of the first "Beatle-esque" groups from Canada. The accordion has a special place and preserves a traditional flavour in dance pieces such as waltzes, tangos, rhumbas, fox-trots, hopaks and other Ukrainian dances. The more contemporary pieces in the Anglo-American style are dominated by guitars and percussion. The tonality of the voices is anglicized, yet the harmony remains traditional and the tempos, dynamic and rapid. Finally, the rhythmic effects are emphasized by accentuated off-beat rhythms. "Chervona" is translated from Ukrainian as red. The ruta flower has yellow blooms, but according to legend, on the eve of Ivan Kupala Day, the flower turns red for a very short time on the eve of the summer solstice (celebrated on June 23 or sometimes July 7). The flower brings fortune to the person who finds it. In various versions of the tale, the fern flower brings luck, wealth, or the ability to understand animal speech. However, the flower is closely guarded by evil spirits and anyone who finds the flower will have access to earthly riches, which have never benefited anyone, so the decision to pick the flower or leave it alone is left up to the individual...		0:16:48 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sven Wunder	Tulips "Tulips" by "Sven Wunder"	Eastern Flowers	Light In The Attic	2020			0:20:01 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sven Wunder	Magnolia "Magnolia" by "Sven Wunder"	Eastern Flowers	Light In The Attic	2020			0:22:42 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sven Wunder	Hibiscus "Hibiscus" by "Sven Wunder"	Eastern Flowers	Light In The Attic	2020			0:25:29 (Pop-up)
The Cool Greenhouse	The End Of The World	Alexa! Single	Melodic	2020	The voice and mastermind behind the band, the delightfully monikered Tom Greenhouse, explodes on the scene with a spectacularly poetic, post-punk, psychedelic narration style. Inspired by magazine articles and conversations, each song in the collection delights in drolly digging at the gamin classes, scoffing at the stupidity of society, and popping punches at female harassment. "At school I wrote a story about a whale that fell in love with a submarine and tried to have sex with it which almost caused a serious nuclear meltdown; it won a prize. As a teenager I thought I was Arthur Rimbaud so I moved to Paris and wrote terrible poetry.”		0:29:21 (Pop-up)
The Garden	Call This # Now "Call This # Now" by "The Garden"	Call This # Now	Epitaph Records	2016	Twins Wyatt and Fletcher Shears formed The Garden in 2011 aged 17 as a side project of their band M.H.V (Ms. Hannah's Victims), but eventually they departed in order to pursue The Garden full time. Their name The Garden is intended as a metaphor for their music "growing" and evolving. They hail from Orange County, CA. Babs is musically smitten with them. Their newest release features them done up in corpsepaint, which is hilarious.		0:32:15 (Pop-up)
100 Flowers	All Sexed Up "All Sexed Up" by "100 Flowers"	100 Flowers	Happy Squid Records	1983	100 FLOWERS is the post-punk version of the URINALS. The name change was made to signal a departure from its initial punk sound into something that incorporated psychedelia, funk, industrial, and pop. Their only album album is an enduring document of the Southern California underground. Based in crime-ridden '80s Los Angeles against the backdrop of juvenile hardcore and vapid hard rock, 100 Flowers crafted a sound that rests between the inspired bursts of The Minutemen and the pastoral jangle of The Dream Syndicate with similarities to the equally oblique Monitor and The Gun Club. The trio wielded a gripping visual aesthetic and hyper-literate lyrical content that reflected their art-school backgrounds, while a ferocity and frustration borne out of their bleak urban environment permeates their songs.		0:34:36 (Pop-up)
Death In June	Fields "Fields" by "Death In June"	Burial	Soleilmoon Recordings	1984	Death in June are a neofolk group led by English musician Douglas P. (Douglas Pearce). The band was originally formed in the United Kingdom in 1981 as a trio, but after the other members left in 1984 and 1985 to work on other projects, the group became the work of Douglas P. and various collaborators. Over the band's four decades of existence, they have made numerous shifts in style and presentation, resulting in an overall shift from initial post-punk and Industrial music influence to a more acoustic and folk music-oriented approach. d had been members of the political punk band Crisis, which formed in 1977. Crisis had gained a substantial following in the UK punk subculture. Crisis performed at rallies for The Right to Work, Rock Against Racism, and the Anti-Nazi League. For 1984's Burial LP, Death in June began to adopt a more traditional European folk sound, using more acoustic guitars, references to ancient and contemporary European history, and combining heavy percussion with electronic soundscapes and post-industrial experimentation.		0:37:23 (Pop-up)
Public Image Limited	Flowers Of Romance	The Flowers Of Romance	Warner	1981	Recorded after Jah Wobble left the band and was not formally replaced. The resulting album was notable for its almost complete lack of bass parts. Martin Atkins, who had initially joined at the tail end of the Metal Box sessions, was re-recruited to drum on The Flowers of Romance. Levene had by then largely abandoned guitar in favour of synthesiser, picking up a new technique although owing a debt to Allen Ravenstine of Pere Ubu. Atkins' propulsive marching band-style drumming, the lack of bass and guitar, and Lydon's increasing lyrical abstraction made this LP a difficult listen for rock fans, and contemporary reviews expressed great confusion. The record consists mostly of drums, vocals, musique concrète, and tape loops, with only gestures toward bass (played by Levene) and keyboards. The title "Flowers of Romance" was the name of a short-lived band featuring Keith Levene, Viv Albertine, and Sid Vicious in 1976.		0:40:06 (Pop-up)
Siouxsie and the Banshees	Cannibal Roses	Slowdive 7"	Polydor	1982	I feel that PJ Harvey owes much to this tune. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong. It was re-released on the Downside Up comp in 2004 and is a bit of a lost gem...		0:43:15 (Pop-up)
Blitz	Flowers & Fire "Flowers & Fire" by "Blitz"	Second Empire Justice	Future Records	1983	Blitz were founded in 1980 in New Mills, Derbyshire, England. They were No Future Records' first signing. Their early releases, the All Out Attack E.P. (1981) and the Voice Of A Generation LP (1982), are widely recognized classics of Oi!/street punk. With their second album, 1983's Second Empire Justice, the band moved into new wave/post-punk territory. The album was a commercial failure and the band split up shortly thereafter. Guitarist Nidge Miller resurrected the Blitz name with the 1990 album The Killing Dream and 1992's New Breed EP. On these recordings, Miller played all instruments and Gary Basnett of Attak provided the vocals. Miller later toured under the Blitz name with new members, before dying after being struck by a car in 2007.		0:47:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Party Dozen	Fruits Of Labour "Fruits Of Labour" by "Party Dozen"	The Real Work	Grupo Records	2022	Sydney Australia based amazing band, known for hard heavy and mostly insrumental grooves. Recently collaborated with Nick Cave on the track Macca The Mutt which we featured on an earlier episode!	*	0:51:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Music For Plants	Marijuana Growth Plant Stimulus 528 Hz	Growing Cannabis Vegetation Cycle Node Explosion	Apex Discoveries	2021	I could say so much about this...but I won't.		1:00:23 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Garden (Peel Session Version)	Perverted By Language (Expanded Edition) / The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004	Sanctuary Records	1983 / 2004	Recorded for John Peel on March 21st 1983 (and broadcast two days later) this was the first session after Marc Riley's departure, and found the band stripped down to 5 members, with Craig Scanlon as sole guitarist. By the end of the same year, they would record another Peel Session with the lineup expanded back to six members, including Brix E Smith on guitar and vocals. Craig Scanlon wouldn't be the sole guitarist again until 1991. This song is cryptic, lengthy and hypnotic. If you wish to delve deep into various notions of what it may all mean, I refer you to this page: The Annotated Fall / The Annotated Lyrics - Garden		1:03:22 (Pop-up)
Einstürzende Neubauten (feat. Anita Lane)	Blume	Tabula Rasa (+ Dirty Pearl)	Mute Records	1993	Originally from Einstürzende Neubauten's 6th full-length album, Tabula Rasa. It featured the guest vocals of Anita Lane, and subsequently found its way to her own 1993 album "Dirty Pearl", a collection "recorded from 1982 to that year. It consists of her work with The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Einstürzende Neubauten and Die Haut, as well as exclusive album tracks. The album was co-produced by Bargeld, Cave, Harvey, Johannes Beck, John Cafferty, Die Haut, Einstürzende Neubaten, Sven Röhrig, and The Birthday Party." Anita Lane had been in an intermittent relationship with Nick Cave from 1977 to the 80's. She co-wrote songs for both The Birthday Party and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, the latter band of which she was briefly a member before embarking on a career of collaborations and occasional solo releases.		1:13:04 (Pop-up)
Sonic Youth	Flower "Flower" by "Sonic Youth"	Bad Moon Rising	Blast First / Homestead / Geffen	1985	""Flower" is a song by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was originally released as a 12" single (listed as "Flower (Use the Word)") in 1985 by UK record label Blast First, with "Satan Is Boring" as the B-side. This version was quickly withdrawn at the band's request. In January 1986, Blast First and the band's American label, Homestead Records, both released "Flower" as a 12" backed by "Halloween"; the first run of the UK edition was on yellow/orange vinyl. Blast First also issued the song as a 7" single in edited form, retitled "Flower (Anti-Fuckword Radio Edit)"), with a backwards version, "Rewolf (Special Natas Mix)", on the flipside. "Flower", "Halloween" and "Satan Is Boring" were all later included on the Geffen Records CD reissue of Sonic Youth's 1985 album Bad Moon Rising."		1:17:45 (Pop-up)
The Chrysanthemums	The Danger of Bat Faeces	Decoy For A Dognapper	The Chrysanthemums	2022	New as of July 2022. The title for this album is taken from a Scooby Doo episode, and features many songs that reference Scooby Doo, so, there's that, just to start. Stewart Mason [AllMusic] explains: "The very definition of "cult favorites," the Chrysanthemums (known since the mid-'90s as Chrys&themums) are the sort of group who inspire loyalty among a small band of admirers while remaining entirely below the radar of the public at large. Their music, a mixture of British Invasion-inspired pop, experimental eccentricity, and psychedelic flourishes, is just slightly too odd for wide mainstream acceptance, but few bands walk the knife's edge between accessibility and impenetrability so well. The Chrysanthemums started in 1986, when the British fanzine Outlet printed articles on guitarist/songwriter Alan Jenkins' lo-fi psychedelic pop band the Deep Freeze Mice and classically-trained keyboardist/indie label owner Terry Burrows in the same issue. Jenkins and Burrows swapped records and quickly found themselves in the studio together. Over two weekends, the duo recorded enough material for a single, "Another Sacred Day," and a debut album, Is That a Fish on Your Shoulder or Are You Just Happy to See Me? Although Jenkins and Burrows recorded all the instruments themselves, the pair made up three other members for the credits. (Burrows also adopted the name Yukio Yung around this time; like the band name, the pseudonym came from Burrows' fondness for Japanese culture.) Released on their own Eggplant label, both the single and the album did well enough for the Chrysanthemums to become a full-time venture. Adding Burrows' friend Martin Howells (who adopted the identity of one of the first album's imaginary musicians, Vladimir Zajkowiecz) on bass, the Chrysanthemums quickly recorded an EP..." in 1988 & followed up with material until; during a 1991 five-week tour of Germany, Burrows and Jenkins had a falling out, and the group broke up upon their return to England. Jenkins formed the Creams with ex-members of his side project Ruth's Refrigerator, and Burrows released a number of albums and singles both as Yukio Yung and under a variety of other group names... ...In the mid-'90s, Burrows and Howells reunited, resurrecting their old band name with a clever new visual pun, Chrys&themums, to differentiate the new material from releases by the Jenkins/Burrows/Howells lineup. With Andy Ward (Camel, Hawkwind, the Bevis Frond) on drums, the duo released 1996's The Baby's Head. Less overtly bizarre and with a much greater emphasis on catchy, Brit-pop-style melodies, the new incarnation is poppier but no less satisfying than the original." -- Now they are releasing material again in the 2020's under their original name "The Chrysanthemums". I'm not entirely sure if this means that Jenkins and Burrows have patched things up and reunited, but it kind of seems so. Researching this band, even with a new album out, seems to be difficult at best.	*	1:21:38 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mort Garson	Plantasia "Plantasia" by "Mort Garson"	Mother Earth's Plantasia	Homewood Records	1976	The album had a very limited distribution upon release, only being available to people who bought a houseplant from a store called Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles or those who purchased a Simmons mattress from a Sears outlet, both of which came with the record. As a result, the album failed to attain widespread popularity around the time of its release. However, it has since gained a cult following of Moog fans as an early work of electronic music.		1:26:04 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mort Garson	Symphony for a Spider Plant	Mother Earth's Plantasia	Homewood Records	1976			1:29:32 (Pop-up)
Mort Garson	Ode To An African Violet	Mother Earth's Plantasia	Homewood Records	1976			1:32:59 (Pop-up)
Book Of Love	I Touch Roses "I Touch Roses" by "Book Of Love"	I Touch Roses 7"	Sire	1985	Book of Love was officially formed in May 1983 by Susan and Ted Ottaviano (not related). During 1984 and 1985, the band recorded various demos at the recording studio Noise in midtown Manhattan, which had a large selection of bells and chimes, which defined their distinctive sound. While doing promotion for the single "Boy" , the band met Depeche Mode at a party hosted by Rockpool (modern rock promotion company). Subsequently, the band was offered the opening slot on the North American leg of Depeche Mode's Some Great Reward Tour, they also were openers on the Black Celebration tour. BOL disbanded in 1993, with the rise of grunge and feeling disenfranchised from the shift to the rise of a different type of new electronic music...decided to call it a day, "It felt like the synth pop songs that we were doing didn't feel like they had a place at that moment, in a strange way, even for us. You could feel the tide change. We could've continued going on if we wanted to, we just basically felt we had sort of done our thing at that point."		1:36:09 (Pop-up)
Talking Heads	(Nothing But) Flowers	Naked	Sire	1988	This song appears on the band's final album Naked, released in 1988. It was released as the album's second single. In addition to the band, the song features Kirsty MacColl on backup vocals and Johnny Marr, formerly of The Smiths, on lead guitar. Three African musicians played on this track: percussionists Brice Wassy and Abdou M'Boup, and guitarist Yves N'Djock. Wassy and N'Djock are from Cameroon; M'Boup is from Senegal. The connection was keyboard player Wally Badarou, a session musician who played on some other tracks from the album. Tina Weymouth said this song was a "complete phantasm of what would happen if the predictions of Nostradamus are true and in the year 2000 it's all over."		1:39:36 (Pop-up)
Marty Robbins With Ray Conniff & His Orchestra	A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)	A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)	Columbia	1957	Born into poverty with his twin sister Mamie, he quit school in his teens and served in the United States Navy during 1943–1945. Robbins’ career started in 1947, and he soon had his own radio and television shows on KPHO in Phoenix. His big break came in 1951 when Jimmy Dickens guested on his TV show. Dickens was so impressed that he encouraged his record company, Columbia, to give Robbins a contract. Robbins was able to handle a wide variety of musical styles with his versatile baritone. He recorded country, western, rockabilly, Hawaiian music, gospel, and his specialty, which was pop ballads. Over the course of his career, Robbins had a total of 94 charting records, with 16 going to the #1 position.		1:45:11 (Pop-up)
Iggy Pop	Gardenia "Gardenia" by "Iggy Pop"	Post Pop Depression	Caroline	2016	PPD is Iggy's 17th studio album. Produced by Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, the album was recorded in secrecy and features contributions from Queens of the Stone Age keyboardist and guitarist Dean Fertita, and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders. Pop described the album as "discussing issues of what happens when your utility is at an end, and dealing with your legacy." In December 2016, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Alternative Music Album category, losing to David Bowie's Blackstar.		1:47:40 (Pop-up)
Stereolab	The Flower Called Nowhere	Dots and Loops	Duophonic	1997	Dots and Loops is the fifth studio album by English-French rock band Stereolab. It was released on 22 September 1997 and was issued by Duophonic Records and Elektra Records. The band co-produced the album with John McEntire and Andi Toma, and recording took place in Chicago and Düsseldorf. The album explores jazz and electronic sounds, and is influenced by bossa nova and 1960s pop music. Its lyrics address matters such as consumerism, the "spectacle", materialism, and human interaction.		1:51:58 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Baroque Bouquet	Ode To A Philodendron	Plant Music	Transcontinental Record Sales Inc.	1975	A perhaps slightly hip version of Plantasia, this album too, promises to stimulate your plants' growth cycle...		1:56:45 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Baroque Bouquet	Baby Tears "Baby Tears" by "The Baroque Bouquet"	Plant Music	Transcontinental Record Sales Inc.	1975			1:59:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Baroque Bouquet	Swedish Ivy "Swedish Ivy" by "The Baroque Bouquet"	Plant Music	Transcontinental Record Sales Inc.	1975			2:01:45 (Pop-up)
I Monster	Daydream In Blue "Daydream In Blue" by "I Monster"	Neveroddoreven	Dharma Records	2004	I Monster are an English electronic music duo, composed of the Sheffield based record producers Dean Honer and Jarrod Gosling. "Daydream in Blue" is a remix of The Gunter Kallmann Choir's version of The Wallace Collection's "Daydream". The song was originally released on 7" on Honer's own record label Cercle Records, which he founded with Add N to (X)'s Barry Seven.		2:03:13 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	7:49pm DJ Babs: Good evening lovely beacher friends! We'll be starting shortly...so glad to have you here with us! :-)
	🏝 8:00pm Scott67: G'day Babs, Derek & Beach Buddies! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🍺🌊🏖️
	8:00pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	8:00pm Derek Westerholm: Hurrah! Hello from a distant part of the beach...
	8:03pm Derek Westerholm: Tonight Babs sets up on the beach solo-style
	🏝 8:03pm WR: Tippy on toes here.
	🏝 8:04pm Kat in Chicago: Yay flowers
	8:04pm DJ Blush: Yaaaaay!
	8:06pm DJ Babs: Hi Scott! Hiiiiiii Derek!!! HIII WR...Hellooo Kat and lovely Blush!!! So great to see you all!!!
	8:06pm DJ Blush: 🌹🌹🌹
	8:07pm MagneticallyStripedMeme: Good evening, all! 😻
	8:07pm ultradamno: First flower song thoughts: Pictures Of Lily, Veteran's Day Poppy, Slow Moon's Rose...I got no geranium songs.
	8:07pm DJ Babs: Hello Magnetically Striped!! Welcome!!
	8:08pm MagneticallyStripedMeme: Thanks! Sounding great! 😻
	8:08pm DJ Babs: Hi Ultradamno! There will have to be a follow up show there are just so so many great flower tunes!!! Hopefully some familiar faves and new surprises tonight!!!
	8:09pm DJ Blush: Love tonight's concept
	8:09pm DJ Babs: How's everyone doing tonight! It's very steamy and hot here tonite! Just like a greenhjouse lol
	8:10pm DJ Blush: It's a sticky one over here!
	8:10pm ultradamno: Oh, god! Stinking Corpse Lily by Tragic Mulatto! That's a big one...the plant, anywya
	8:10pm Alli B: Suuuuup
	8:10pm MagneticallyStripedMeme: Same! Summer of my fave too!
	8:10pm laurapanic: bit late to the beach today but here for the first time in a coupl e of weeks....been doing the archives, though!
	8:10pm DJ Blush: Hieeeee!
	8:10pm shellioh: salut mes amies!
	8:11pm Derek Westerholm: Fall-offshoot alert! haha
	8:11pm ultradamno: Blue Rosebuds by Residents and Okie Dokey ("why'd you bring me orchids?") by Girls
	8:11pm DJ Blush: I'm a fall girl, what can I say. But love August.
	8:11pm DJ Babs: Alli! Laura!! Shelli!! Hello lovlies! All the beach flower ladies are here tonight!!!
	8:11pm Alli B: My grrrrrls 💙💙💙
	8:12pm shellioh: ❤️❤️❤️
	8:12pm DJ Blush: 🌷🌷🌷 Hello ladies 🌷🌷🌷
	🏝 8:12pm Scott67: No steam here this Winter's Friday morning Babs! But there is beer still anyway mate. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	8:13pm Alli B: It’s 86% humidity in Toronto!
	8:13pm DJ Babs: nice scott!! I'm enjoying a chilean merlot this evening and it's deeeeelightful!!!
	8:13pm DJ Babs: and yes it's goddamn swampy here and I LOOOOOOVE it
	8:13pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: I made it!!! Phew.
	8:14pm Alli B: Sí swampy
	🏝 8:14pm Scott67: G'day Laura! How's the Gigs goin mate? 🍻😎🤙💨☕🌻
	8:15pm shellioh: it’s sweaty alright. i haven’t put in my air conditioner yet
	8:15pm DJ Babs: hello hello YPB!!! So great to see you here tonite!!!
	8:16pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Hey Babs and Derek and all of you Beachers. I missed you all.
	8:17pm DJ Babs: We're all together now and that's all that matters!!! :-) I look so forward to this every week!
	8:18pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Work almost sucked me into the deep, dark abyss but I broke free of its grip due to the power of your amazing tunes!
	8:18pm DJ Babs: oh god...work....it's horrible. Nobody should have to work! I'm glad you could extricate yourself for some beach fun!!!
	8:20pm DJ Blush: I know the feeling Your Pretend Boyfriend, its always good to be back on the Beach. And hello!
	8:20pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Where do I apply to become an official full-time Beacher? You can pay me with amazing music.
	8:22pm DJ Nico: Hola!
	8:23pm DJ Blush: Hello!
	8:23pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Hey DJ Blush. How are you?
	8:23pm DJ Blush: I'm alright! Happy to have a night at home off with all you fine people.
	8:23pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Hey DJ Nico. Good evening.
	8:24pm Derek Westerholm: Fabulous to see so many friends on the beach! Hi Scott, Ultra, WR, Kat, Blush, Magnetically, Allison, Laura, Shelli. YPB. Nico, hello hello hello!!! Today there are flowers and gardens dotted throughout the beach!
	8:25pm DJ Blush: Sup Derek! Sending my love!
	8:27pm Derek Westerholm: With the amount of info the cat shares daily, you might regret wishing to understand animal speech.
	8:27pm laurapanic: Hey Scott, at my office job, waiting to knock off and head straight to a gig. Double header this weekend with Magic Dirt.
	8:27pm DJ Nico: Derek ❤️
	8:27pm DJ Blush: looool
	8:28pm DJ Blush: Awesome Laura!
	8:28pm DJ Nico: Meep Meep is the brains behind Echo Beach!
	8:28pm ultradamno: No one is more legit goth than this bird, though twitter.com...
	8:30pm DJ Nico: Hey YPB, Alli, Shelli, Britt, Babs 👋🏽
	8:30pm ultradamno: I tried to find a red bar over a flower emoji and couldn't...no call for it.
	8:30pm DJ Blush: Nicooooooooo
	8:31pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, seriously? That is crazy goth!
	8:31pm DJ Babs: Hi Nico hello hello hello love!!
	8:31pm DJ Blush: 🌿 🌳 🌴🌵🌱
	8:31pm DJ Nico: 🌼🌼🌼
	8:31pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Love this!!! Lol
	8:31pm DJ Babs: omg that fuckin black chicken ultradamno SO GOTH even ITS BONES ARE BLACK
	8:32pm Derek Westerholm: All good here, thanks, sorry to be missing the broadcast action, but glad to be here in the chat!
	8:32pm DJ Babs: YPB the cool greenhouse are so so so good. We've played them at least three times lol
	8:33pm DJ Babs: this is the song I've been driving derek nuts with lol
	8:36pm ultradamno: 100 FLOWERS!! I love this album! (Urinals too)
	8:36pm DJ Blush: This is awesome
	8:37pm DJ Babs: We were watching a nature doc about an island in the pacific that has cacti that grow 6 stories tall and their flowers are pollinated by bats that also eat scorpions.
	8:37pm ultradamno: (though, really, the change in sound from one to the other is pretty much a natural progression)
	8:37pm DJ Babs: and yes! 100 Flowers are sooo good I had a hard time picking a song they are all so grand!
	8:38pm DJ Babs: This tune is also a BANGER
	🏝 8:38pm Scott67: Rock out with ya frock out Laura! Give my undying love to Adalita. 🤘😎🤙🌹
	8:38pm DJ Blush: This set is fire so far B
	8:39pm laurapanic: Scott, we need to line up for that. She has to be one of the most beloved musos in the nation
	8:39pm DJ Blush: 🌸🌸🌸
	8:39pm Dave Dirt: oh. I thought it 'd be 100 Flowers by 100 Flowers. off Warfrat Tales I think.8
	8:40pm DJ Babs: thank you Blush!!! I had a lot of fun putting it together!
	8:40pm DJ Babs: hello and greetings Dave!!
	🏝 8:41pm Scott67: Can't imagine why Laura! 😎🤙
	8:41pm DJ Babs: I couldn't leave this one out of the set!
	🏝 8:42pm Scott67: PiL!!!
	8:43pm DJ Babs: We will eventually air our Martin Atkins interview...we promise! I think we've been holding on to it because it's so goddamn epic!!!
	8:43pm DJ Blush: That's insane B!!
	8:44pm Derek Westerholm: Speaking of gothy flowers...
	8:45pm DJ Babs: the gothiest of ALL THE FLOWERS
	8:46pm Derek Westerholm: It's not all fun & sun in the garden.
	8:46pm DJ Babs: I would very much love to have a garden of all black flowers but it's harder than one would think...but perhaps next year we shall try again....
	8:47pm ultradamno: Well....black dahlia, for Ms. Short, would be some competition there.
	8:47pm DJ Babs: this is the moody midnight garden....
	8:47pm DJ Babs: I'm so bummed I planted a black dahlia but it's actually a rather bright vibrant purple...still gorgeous though!!!
	8:47pm ultradamno: Plus, wouldn't a cannibal flower just eat other flowers?
	8:49pm ultradamno: Who had that song about 'why be a wallflower when you could be a venus flytrap'? I always thought 'how is that better, sitting around all day eating bugs like a stationary Renfield'
	8:50pm DJ Babs: that is an excellent lyric!!!
	8:50pm DJ Nico 🌼: Love. Love will tear up apart.
	8:50pm DJ Babs: and you're right ultra...a cannibal flower would definitely only eat other flowers...right!?
	8:50pm DJ Blush: Lol good lyric though for sure I remember I had my Mom buy me a Venus Flytrap when I was young.
	8:51pm DJ Babs: oh yes Nico a DEFINITE nod to joy division here!!!!
	8:51pm DJ Nico 🌼: Us apart. Can't type. I link this but they definitely follow that LWTUA riff.
	8:51pm DJ Babs: omg blush YES I had one too and it did not thrive, lol. I was obsessed!
	8:51pm DJ Babs: I was singing LWTUA along with it when I was programming the show, lol
	8:52pm DJ Nico 🌼: OMG so many typos! Sorry. I'm sober, I promise.
	8:52pm DJ Nico 🌼: I liked Blitz
	8:53pm MagneticallyStripedMeme: Lovin this one babs!
	8:54pm MagneticallyStripedMeme: The sax is killer! 😻
	9:01pm ultradamno: And 100 Flowers gave way to Trotsky Icepick
	9:02pm ultradamno: ...and Danny & The Doorknobs and Radwaste and some other stuff...
	9:04pm DJ Blush: 🍁🍁🍁
	9:04pm ultradamno: There's some great footage on one of those Flipside Video Fanzines of them doing Surfing With The Shah with D. Boon and Keith Morris dancing around on stage and sometimes singing
	9:04pm MagneticallyStripedMeme: ♥️
	9:04pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Virtual Derek.
	9:05pm MagneticallyStripedMeme: I haven’t listened to The Fall in ages! Awesome stuff! 💐
	9:05pm DJ Babs: ultradamno you are an encyclopedia of all things musical!
	9:05pm Alli B: Just came out to the porch to listen and it’s really cooled off! Not cool out, but less humid.
	9:06pm Derek Westerholm: Yup, couldn't hit play, but still stuffed a dour Fall epic into the mix
	9:06pm DJ Babs: Magneto...that song with the sax is party dozen...do check them out...they are a duo and she does all sorts of super cool things with it..she sings and shouts into the bell and makes all kinds of neato effects!!!
	9:07pm ultradamno: Perverted is my fav of the Brix era, certainly top five worthy of all Fall for me
	9:08pm laurapanic: Hi, I'm Laura Panic and it just took me an hour to realise the theme for the show. derrrrrrpppppppp
	9:08pm DJ Babs: Hard to pick a favourite for sure, it's ever and always rotating...
	9:09pm DJ Babs: LOL Laura it's a subtle one for sure!! (a bit?) lol
	9:10pm ultradamno: Presumption is one of the better things to be sodomized by, a cactus would be among the worst
	9:10pm Derek Westerholm: One thing about it, you can't say there's a lot of songs that sound like this, haha
	🏝 9:11pm Scott67: That's okay Laura, too cold for Garden Parties down here mate. 🍻😎🤙💨☕
	9:12pm Alli B: Hahahaha Derek! Very true.
	9:15pm DJ Babs: goddamn this is a gorgeous tune. I would rather have Blixa Bargeld whispering in my ear than yelling, lol.
	9:16pm Derek Westerholm: This is a haunting song, for sure
	9:17pm DJ Babs: I'm quite excited for the next two tunes as well!
	9:17pm Derek Westerholm: My corner of the garden got a little abstract tonight
	9:18pm ultradamno: I love how distractedly MES would play the keyboard in the footage on Perverted. He was like a cat that would forget about it until he walked past it and remembered to swat at it a few times.
	9:19pm laurapanic: OK this song is a terrific SY track.
	9:19pm ultradamno: The cover pic that upset Rough Trade
	9:20pm DJ Babs: RIGHT?!
	9:20pm DJ Babs: I hate being that person but man I do love me some early sonic youth
	9:21pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, my brother saw them live here in Toronto that tour & hated the random piercing keyboard squiggles. Ruined the show for him. On the album it sounds deliberate, despite the seeming randomness of it
	9:21pm Derek Westerholm: This Sonic Youth song goes through my head sometimes, guess that's how my head works
	9:23pm DJ Babs: ok hold on to your pants everyone and prepare to learn about the danger of bat faeces lol..this tune is NUTS lol
	9:23pm DJ Babs: side note bat poo is a good fertilizer for your garden....
	9:23pm Mr Fab: Kim Gordon told me she didn't like "Bad Moon Rising " because of the murky production. I think of it as "atmospheric" and I love it. I wish they made more albums like it.
	9:24pm MagneticallyStripedMeme: Have to depart. This has been lovely! Thank you, Babs! Have great evening, all! 😻
	9:24pm DJ Babs: Hello greetings Mr. Fab!!!!
	9:24pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Is it good luck if a bat poops on you during a full moon?
	9:24pm Derek Westerholm: I knew nothing about this band until preparing for this show...
	9:25pm DJ Babs: Thank you for joining us tonight Magnetic....so great to have you here! :-)
	9:25pm DJ Babs: I think it's always good luck when a bat poops on you....
	9:26pm ultradamno: Wow. BMR is my favorite SY. I saw The Fall not that long after that, touring on This Nations, but that was gone by then...they were pretty professional, I guess having onstage brawls recently out of the system
	9:27pm Derek Westerholm: SY's Bad Moon Rising is another album that doesn't really sound like anything else. It's a difficult entry point, but a fascinating place to stay
	9:27pm ultradamno: I saw Sonic Youth about four times, people always acted like it was so far out, but the shows always seemed like a dance party to me...
	9:27pm Alli B: I HOPED SO MUCH THAT YOU WOULD PLAY PLANTASIA
	9:27pm Alli B: Hibiscus love this album
	9:28pm Derek Westerholm: Alli haha
	9:29pm Tyler: Good evening, Beacheroni's!
	9:29pm Derek Westerholm: Hi Tyler!
	9:29pm Tyler: Mort Garson - I have this one. Neurotica also has 2 other of Mr. Garson's records.
	9:30pm Tyler: Hi Derek!
	9:30pm Tyler: Hi Babs!
	9:30pm Alli B: Tyler! Yo, you own an original? It’s So hard to find.
	9:30pm Tyler: Hi Alli McB!
	9:32pm Tyler: @Alli - I got mine at Play De Record. They had a few copies there about a year ago. Scott @ Neurotica Records posted a pic of 3 Mort Garson albums he had in stock about a week or so ago.
	9:32pm Tyler: Hello @ultradamno!
	9:33pm Tyler: Damn, I missed Neubaten! I had tickets to their concert that became cancelled due to the 'vid...
	9:33pm ultradamno: Hiya Tyler!
	9:36pm Alli B: Tyler OMG! I just messaged them to see if Plantasia is still for sale. Fingers crossed!
	9:37pm Tyler: If I come across it again, I'll be sure to let you know.
	9:38pm DJ Babs: Heyooo tyler!!!!
	9:38pm Tyler: Such a great song!
	9:38pm VinylVillainSean: Hola!
	9:39pm Derek Westerholm: Hi Sean!!!
	9:40pm ultradamno: He did like to poke at band members lyrically. There's a funny passage in The Big Midweek where Hanley recounts being offered some chocolate by Smith and then a line about laying off chocolate, you should eat a salad ends up on the record
	9:40pm Alli B: Love love love this song
	9:40pm Tyler: Buenos Tardes, Sean!
	9:40pm Alli B: Hi Sean!
	9:41pm Tyler: Love this song & the video for it. Long past time for a TH reunion!
	9:41pm ultradamno: And I'm pretty sure "it takes grace to play second fiddle well" was a shot at Riley...certainly Hey! Luciani (which was performed as Hey! Marc Riley) was...
	9:41pm DJ Babs: Hi Sean!! Thank you for joining us tonight!!!!
	9:41pm DJ Babs: Honestly the David Byrne show was fucking so so so sooooo goood.
	9:42pm Tyler: BTW - if you like this era of Talking Heads, I recommend the Brian Eno/John Cale collaboration 'This Way Up' which was just recently reissued.
	9:43pm Tyler: I really wished I had gone to that David Byrne show - I couldn't find anyone interested at the time. I watched the Broadway version directed by Spike Lee on TV and it is INCREDIBLE!
	9:44pm DJ Babs: oooooh that sounds very interesting...
	9:44pm DJ Babs: honestly it was so good I freakin' cried, lol.
	9:44pm Tyler: I really loved the album DB did with St. Vincent and his cameo on a recent De La Soul album.
	9:45pm DJ Babs: I keep trying really hard with St. Vincent and I just can't get there. I find her...too clinical. Now Anna Calvi..that's a whole other story!!!
	9:45pm Tyler: Yes, the 'American Utopia' performance was very moving at times.
	9:46pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, I saw Sonic Youth a few times, too... One of the earliest all-ages shows I went to, sometime around 1987. The venue oversold tickets, so the power cut mid-gig (during Catholic Block, it sounded really cool suddenly going all unplugged clicky-clacky acoustic for several seconds, actually.) As the power stayed out, they stayed onstage and Thurston Moore chatted with the audience asking questions and sharing thoughts about Toronto. When it became clear the club was to be cleared and the show was over he said "it's the cops fault it's always the cops fault." Hahaha
	9:46pm Alli B: 🌸🌸🌸
	9:46pm Tyler: @Babs - St. Vincent is hit or miss for me, but when she hits it's great. Her collaborating with DB helped to soften some of her knee-jerk angularity.
	9:47pm Alli B: I love Marty
	9:47pm Tyler: Let's All Go To The Drive-In!
	9:47pm DJ Babs: For sure I can absolutely see that. Also this tune makes me very happy... and also sad. Alli singing along with you!!!!
	9:48pm DJ Babs: Derek that is such a good Sonic Youth story!!! I had no idea!!
	9:48pm Alli B: Yay! Aww!
	9:48pm DJ Nico 🌼: Thanks for the flowery tunes tonight
	9:49pm Tyler: Iguana-Time!
	9:50pm DJ Babs: This fuckin' tune tho. It's SO, SO good.
	9:50pm DJ Babs: My pleasure Nico!!! WHO DOESN'T LOVE FLOWERS!?!?!?
	9:50pm ultradamno: Now I just thought of Birthday Party's Sonny's Burning with the demon flower...
	9:51pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, that sounds very likely about the second fiddle lyric. Hey! Luciani! and Hey! Marc Riley were different songs, though. They've included Hey! Marc Riley on some reissues and it's a bo-diddley inspired song with lyrics hurling various insults his way. Hey! Luciani is leaps ahead of it in both musical & lyrical heft
	9:53pm Derek Westerholm: Hey! Luciani also was staged as a play. Mark E Smith's cryptic and obstinate foray into the theatric world.
	9:53pm Tyler: @Derek - I could see Mark E. Smith being a character in a Harold Pinter play :)
	9:54pm DJ Babs: oh absolutely! And Derek I had NO idea that happened!! How much fun would that have been to have seen!?
	9:54pm Derek Westerholm: Tyler... Good call!
	9:55pm Tyler: I finally cracked open my 'Slates' 10" this week & listened to it. GEAR!
	9:55pm ultradamno: Was that from the same people who did The Classical ballet? Wasn't there something like that around Kurious Orange too?
	9:56pm ultradamno: Wings could have been a movie. Harper Valley PTA style, but by Philip K Dick
	9:57pm Tyler: Mine's a Superior Viaduct reissue.
	🏝 9:57pm Scott67: Thanks for a fanfuckentastic Show Babs! Take care uptown Derek, & seeya both next week! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍷🍁❤️❤️
	9:57pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, Michael Clarke brought the Fall into the ballet world
	9:57pm VinylVillainSean: Hi Derek, Tyler, Ali, Babs! Oh i totally have this plant record too!
	9:58pm VinylVillainSean: This is my fave song on it
	9:58pm Derek Westerholm: The Hey! Luciani play was a totally separate Mark E Smith venture
	9:58pm Tyler: I'm trying to remember if the reissue came with the seed packs :)
	9:59pm ultradamno: So the secret life of plants is that they're damn music snobs?
	9:59pm Tyler: Bruce Gilbert from Wire was also commissioned to score some ballets.
	9:59pm Derek Westerholm: en.m.wikipedia.org...
	10:00pm Tyler: For those that like their Tutu's dissonant :)
	10:00pm Derek Westerholm: ^ Hey! Luciani info
	10:01pm Derek Westerholm: Kurious Oranj was a full collaborative effort, with the Fall providing the entire score for a Michael Clarke ballet
	10:02pm Derek Westerholm: Tyler, ah, yes, that's right! I know less about those works, though.
	10:02pm ultradamno: There's a line, I think from Newman in one of those Wire deluxe reissues about Peel preferring bands like The Fall to them...rather derisively
	10:03pm Derek Westerholm: "The script for the play was supposedly written by Smith on beer mats and delivered to the play's director in a shoe box." hahahahaha
	10:03pm VinylVillainSean: Love this song!
	10:03pm Derek Westerholm: Regards!
	10:03pm Tyler: A lot of Electronic & Synth groups were faced with either going industrial or picking up guitars in the 90's. Even Men Without Hats put out a rock album :)
	10:03pm Alli B: Really loved tonight’s theme! Thank you so much!
	10:04pm Tyler: Now is the time on Transmissions when the big hand is on the 12 and the little hand is on the 10 and it's time to hang up our cardigans for another day...
	10:04pm DJ Babs: Thank you all so much! It was so lovely to spend this time with you!!
	10:04pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, haha. Ah, yes, well Peel really did live The Fall dearly, so it's pretty tough to compete
	10:04pm Mr Fab: THAAAAAANKS you for this garden of earthly delights!
	10:05pm VinylVillainSean: Stay good everyone
	10:05pm Tyler: Beta Band either heavily sampled this or did an outright cover
	10:05pm DJ Babs: Thank you Mr. Fab! We would'nt be here without ya!
	10:05pm Derek Westerholm: Tyler, yes, Sideways... An awful album & era, really
	10:05pm DJ Babs: You guys are all truly the best! And yes! We've played the Beta Band version as well. I'll someday do a show with all the samples and covers of this tune! I feel like I Monster do it best tho!!
	10:06pm Tyler: Beta Band were better at EPs than albums, but it brings me back to a time...
	10:06pm Derek Westerholm: Fab, yes, x2 what Babs says!
	10:07pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks all! Thanks Babs, for such a solid night of error-free radio, haha
	10:07pm Tyler: Thanks Derek & Babs for a very verdure set. Have a great night all!
	10:08pm DJ Babs: Thank you all! You are the beeeeest! See you next week! Big hugs and warm thoughts!!!
	10:08pm Derek Westerholm: I hope to be back next week to push the wrong buttons
	10:08pm Tyler: Captain Beefheart has taken over the airwaves :)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Tiny Tim	Tip Toe Through The Tulips	God Bless Tiny Tim	Reprise	1968	"Crooning Troubadour" Nick Lucas topped the US charts with "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" in 1929, after introducing the song in the musical "talkie" film Gold Diggers of Broadway. Tiny Tim's version made him a pop icon of the 60's...enough said		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ambrose & his Orchestra	Tip Toe Through The Tulips	Legendary 1929 Sessions	Halcyon	1980			0:01:46 (Pop-up)
The Damned	New Rose "New Rose" by "The Damned"	Damned Damned Damned	Union Square Music	1977	The Damned were the first UK punk band to release a record, the first UK punk band to tour America, the first to split up (in 1978), and the first to reform, six months later (when the Clash were only on their second album). They’ve had more line-up changes than Marlon Brando had hot dinners (with both Motorhead’s Lemmy and Culture Club’s Jon Moss joining briefly). They did a lot of speed. New Rose is one of the best punk songs ever written. Dave Vanian was a grave digger before joining the band. He is legit Goth.		0:04:22 (Pop-up)
The Mickey Finn	Garden Of My Mind	Garden Of My Mind 7"	Direction	1967	They started life as Mickey Finn And The Blue Men on ska label Blue Beat, coinciding with the craze for Jamaican music which exploded in 1964. A shift to Oriole saw them gravitate to an R&B/beat sound, with help on occasion from a guitarist named Jimmy Page. This single is one of the best psych/garage tunes ever put to wax,		0:07:04 (Pop-up)
Blue Orchids	The Flood "The Flood" by "Blue Orchids"	The Greatest Hit (Money Mountain) [Expanded Version]	Rough Trade / LTM Recordings	1980 / 2003	The Blue Orchids, formed by ex-Fallistas Martin Bramah and Una Baines come off sounding a bit like a more psychedelic early Fall; replacing the tense anger and wit of Mark E Smith with the starry-eyed hallucinogenic wonder of Martin Bramah. Baine's keyboards are almost as dinky as those used in her previous band, yet evoke a more complex, swirling headtrip here. Bramah's jagged guitar is still present but lower in the mix and a bit more subdued. This album is definitely psychedelic; evoking the mushroom trip the band took while recording it. You'll also notice fairly quickly that this album sounds like a product of the the late70's/ early 80's post-punk/new wave movement. Yet at the same time it sounds neither like a 60's throwback nor like any of their post-punk counterparts. This song wasn't actually on the original 1982 full-length album, but, rather, was from their debut 1980 seven-inch single.		0:09:30 (Pop-up)
Shannon & The Clams	You Will Always Bring Me Flowers	Sleep Talk	1-2-3-4 Go!	2011	"Oakland's Shannon & The Clams are too good at this early 60s dark prom night stuff. They know their way around twang." Chicago Reader's Jessica Hopper described Shannon and the Clams as "something from a John Waters lucid dream... complete with horny teenage anthems that walk the line between greasy, frantic 50s rock 'n' roll and innocent, hip-swinging 60s pop." They're comfortable in reverb. They can rock you gently to sleep and can cut like a switchblade to the face.		0:13:49 (Pop-up)
Rushnychok	Chervona Ruta "Chervona Ruta" by "Rushnychok"	Rushnychok Vol. 1	Sage Promotions	1973	Ukrainian-Canadian band from Lachine (Quebec) active from 1969 to 1980. Four male singers, accompanied by electric guitars, percussion and accordion, they were one of the first "Beatle-esque" groups from Canada. The accordion has a special place and preserves a traditional flavour in dance pieces such as waltzes, tangos, rhumbas, fox-trots, hopaks and other Ukrainian dances. The more contemporary pieces in the Anglo-American style are dominated by guitars and percussion. The tonality of the voices is anglicized, yet the harmony remains traditional and the tempos, dynamic and rapid. Finally, the rhythmic effects are emphasized by accentuated off-beat rhythms. "Chervona" is translated from Ukrainian as red. The ruta flower has yellow blooms, but according to legend, on the eve of Ivan Kupala Day, the flower turns red for a very short time on the eve of the summer solstice (celebrated on June 23 or sometimes July 7). The flower brings fortune to the person who finds it. In various versions of the tale, the fern flower brings luck, wealth, or the ability to understand animal speech. However, the flower is closely guarded by evil spirits and anyone who finds the flower will have access to earthly riches, which have never benefited anyone, so the decision to pick the flower or leave it alone is left up to the individual...		0:16:48 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sven Wunder	Tulips "Tulips" by "Sven Wunder"	Eastern Flowers	Light In The Attic	2020			0:20:01 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sven Wunder	Magnolia "Magnolia" by "Sven Wunder"	Eastern Flowers	Light In The Attic	2020			0:22:42 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sven Wunder	Hibiscus "Hibiscus" by "Sven Wunder"	Eastern Flowers	Light In The Attic	2020			0:25:29 (Pop-up)
The Cool Greenhouse	The End Of The World	Alexa! Single	Melodic	2020	The voice and mastermind behind the band, the delightfully monikered Tom Greenhouse, explodes on the scene with a spectacularly poetic, post-punk, psychedelic narration style. Inspired by magazine articles and conversations, each song in the collection delights in drolly digging at the gamin classes, scoffing at the stupidity of society, and popping punches at female harassment. "At school I wrote a story about a whale that fell in love with a submarine and tried to have sex with it which almost caused a serious nuclear meltdown; it won a prize. As a teenager I thought I was Arthur Rimbaud so I moved to Paris and wrote terrible poetry.”		0:29:21 (Pop-up)
The Garden	Call This # Now "Call This # Now" by "The Garden"	Call This # Now	Epitaph Records	2016	Twins Wyatt and Fletcher Shears formed The Garden in 2011 aged 17 as a side project of their band M.H.V (Ms. Hannah's Victims), but eventually they departed in order to pursue The Garden full time. Their name The Garden is intended as a metaphor for their music "growing" and evolving. They hail from Orange County, CA. Babs is musically smitten with them. Their newest release features them done up in corpsepaint, which is hilarious.		0:32:15 (Pop-up)
100 Flowers	All Sexed Up "All Sexed Up" by "100 Flowers"	100 Flowers	Happy Squid Records	1983	100 FLOWERS is the post-punk version of the URINALS. The name change was made to signal a departure from its initial punk sound into something that incorporated psychedelia, funk, industrial, and pop. Their only album album is an enduring document of the Southern California underground. Based in crime-ridden '80s Los Angeles against the backdrop of juvenile hardcore and vapid hard rock, 100 Flowers crafted a sound that rests between the inspired bursts of The Minutemen and the pastoral jangle of The Dream Syndicate with similarities to the equally oblique Monitor and The Gun Club. The trio wielded a gripping visual aesthetic and hyper-literate lyrical content that reflected their art-school backgrounds, while a ferocity and frustration borne out of their bleak urban environment permeates their songs.		0:34:36 (Pop-up)
Death In June	Fields "Fields" by "Death In June"	Burial	Soleilmoon Recordings	1984	Death in June are a neofolk group led by English musician Douglas P. (Douglas Pearce). The band was originally formed in the United Kingdom in 1981 as a trio, but after the other members left in 1984 and 1985 to work on other projects, the group became the work of Douglas P. and various collaborators. Over the band's four decades of existence, they have made numerous shifts in style and presentation, resulting in an overall shift from initial post-punk and Industrial music influence to a more acoustic and folk music-oriented approach. d had been members of the political punk band Crisis, which formed in 1977. Crisis had gained a substantial following in the UK punk subculture. Crisis performed at rallies for The Right to Work, Rock Against Racism, and the Anti-Nazi League. For 1984's Burial LP, Death in June began to adopt a more traditional European folk sound, using more acoustic guitars, references to ancient and contemporary European history, and combining heavy percussion with electronic soundscapes and post-industrial experimentation.		0:37:23 (Pop-up)
Public Image Limited	Flowers Of Romance	The Flowers Of Romance	Warner	1981	Recorded after Jah Wobble left the band and was not formally replaced. The resulting album was notable for its almost complete lack of bass parts. Martin Atkins, who had initially joined at the tail end of the Metal Box sessions, was re-recruited to drum on The Flowers of Romance. Levene had by then largely abandoned guitar in favour of synthesiser, picking up a new technique although owing a debt to Allen Ravenstine of Pere Ubu. Atkins' propulsive marching band-style drumming, the lack of bass and guitar, and Lydon's increasing lyrical abstraction made this LP a difficult listen for rock fans, and contemporary reviews expressed great confusion. The record consists mostly of drums, vocals, musique concrète, and tape loops, with only gestures toward bass (played by Levene) and keyboards. The title "Flowers of Romance" was the name of a short-lived band featuring Keith Levene, Viv Albertine, and Sid Vicious in 1976.		0:40:06 (Pop-up)
Siouxsie and the Banshees	Cannibal Roses	Slowdive 7"	Polydor	1982	I feel that PJ Harvey owes much to this tune. Maybe I'm right, maybe I'm wrong. It was re-released on the Downside Up comp in 2004 and is a bit of a lost gem...		0:43:15 (Pop-up)
Blitz	Flowers & Fire "Flowers & Fire" by "Blitz"	Second Empire Justice	Future Records	1983	Blitz were founded in 1980 in New Mills, Derbyshire, England. They were No Future Records' first signing. Their early releases, the All Out Attack E.P. (1981) and the Voice Of A Generation LP (1982), are widely recognized classics of Oi!/street punk. With their second album, 1983's Second Empire Justice, the band moved into new wave/post-punk territory. The album was a commercial failure and the band split up shortly thereafter. Guitarist Nidge Miller resurrected the Blitz name with the 1990 album The Killing Dream and 1992's New Breed EP. On these recordings, Miller played all instruments and Gary Basnett of Attak provided the vocals. Miller later toured under the Blitz name with new members, before dying after being struck by a car in 2007.		0:47:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Party Dozen	Fruits Of Labour "Fruits Of Labour" by "Party Dozen"	The Real Work	Grupo Records	2022	Sydney Australia based amazing band, known for hard heavy and mostly insrumental grooves. Recently collaborated with Nick Cave on the track Macca The Mutt which we featured on an earlier episode!	*	0:51:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Music For Plants	Marijuana Growth Plant Stimulus 528 Hz	Growing Cannabis Vegetation Cycle Node Explosion	Apex Discoveries	2021	I could say so much about this...but I won't.		1:00:23 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Garden (Peel Session Version)	Perverted By Language (Expanded Edition) / The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004	Sanctuary Records	1983 / 2004	Recorded for John Peel on March 21st 1983 (and broadcast two days later) this was the first session after Marc Riley's departure, and found the band stripped down to 5 members, with Craig Scanlon as sole guitarist. By the end of the same year, they would record another Peel Session with the lineup expanded back to six members, including Brix E Smith on guitar and vocals. Craig Scanlon wouldn't be the sole guitarist again until 1991. This song is cryptic, lengthy and hypnotic. If you wish to delve deep into various notions of what it may all mean, I refer you to this page: The Annotated Fall / The Annotated Lyrics - Garden		1:03:22 (Pop-up)
Einstürzende Neubauten (feat. Anita Lane)	Blume	Tabula Rasa (+ Dirty Pearl)	Mute Records	1993	Originally from Einstürzende Neubauten's 6th full-length album, Tabula Rasa. It featured the guest vocals of Anita Lane, and subsequently found its way to her own 1993 album "Dirty Pearl", a collection "recorded from 1982 to that year. It consists of her work with The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Einstürzende Neubauten and Die Haut, as well as exclusive album tracks. The album was co-produced by Bargeld, Cave, Harvey, Johannes Beck, John Cafferty, Die Haut, Einstürzende Neubaten, Sven Röhrig, and The Birthday Party." Anita Lane had been in an intermittent relationship with Nick Cave from 1977 to the 80's. She co-wrote songs for both The Birthday Party and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, the latter band of which she was briefly a member before embarking on a career of collaborations and occasional solo releases.		1:13:04 (Pop-up)
Sonic Youth	Flower "Flower" by "Sonic Youth"	Bad Moon Rising	Blast First / Homestead / Geffen	1985	""Flower" is a song by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was originally released as a 12" single (listed as "Flower (Use the Word)") in 1985 by UK record label Blast First, with "Satan Is Boring" as the B-side. This version was quickly withdrawn at the band's request. In January 1986, Blast First and the band's American label, Homestead Records, both released "Flower" as a 12" backed by "Halloween"; the first run of the UK edition was on yellow/orange vinyl. Blast First also issued the song as a 7" single in edited form, retitled "Flower (Anti-Fuckword Radio Edit)"), with a backwards version, "Rewolf (Special Natas Mix)", on the flipside. "Flower", "Halloween" and "Satan Is Boring" were all later included on the Geffen Records CD reissue of Sonic Youth's 1985 album Bad Moon Rising."		1:17:45 (Pop-up)
The Chrysanthemums	The Danger of Bat Faeces	Decoy For A Dognapper	The Chrysanthemums	2022	New as of July 2022. The title for this album is taken from a Scooby Doo episode, and features many songs that reference Scooby Doo, so, there's that, just to start. Stewart Mason [AllMusic] explains: "The very definition of "cult favorites," the Chrysanthemums (known since the mid-'90s as Chrys&themums) are the sort of group who inspire loyalty among a small band of admirers while remaining entirely below the radar of the public at large. Their music, a mixture of British Invasion-inspired pop, experimental eccentricity, and psychedelic flourishes, is just slightly too odd for wide mainstream acceptance, but few bands walk the knife's edge between accessibility and impenetrability so well. The Chrysanthemums started in 1986, when the British fanzine Outlet printed articles on guitarist/songwriter Alan Jenkins' lo-fi psychedelic pop band the Deep Freeze Mice and classically-trained keyboardist/indie label owner Terry Burrows in the same issue. Jenkins and Burrows swapped records and quickly found themselves in the studio together. Over two weekends, the duo recorded enough material for a single, "Another Sacred Day," and a debut album, Is That a Fish on Your Shoulder or Are You Just Happy to See Me? Although Jenkins and Burrows recorded all the instruments themselves, the pair made up three other members for the credits. (Burrows also adopted the name Yukio Yung around this time; like the band name, the pseudonym came from Burrows' fondness for Japanese culture.) Released on their own Eggplant label, both the single and the album did well enough for the Chrysanthemums to become a full-time venture. Adding Burrows' friend Martin Howells (who adopted the identity of one of the first album's imaginary musicians, Vladimir Zajkowiecz) on bass, the Chrysanthemums quickly recorded an EP..." in 1988 & followed up with material until; during a 1991 five-week tour of Germany, Burrows and Jenkins had a falling out, and the group broke up upon their return to England. Jenkins formed the Creams with ex-members of his side project Ruth's Refrigerator, and Burrows released a number of albums and singles both as Yukio Yung and under a variety of other group names... ...In the mid-'90s, Burrows and Howells reunited, resurrecting their old band name with a clever new visual pun, Chrys&themums, to differentiate the new material from releases by the Jenkins/Burrows/Howells lineup. With Andy Ward (Camel, Hawkwind, the Bevis Frond) on drums, the duo released 1996's The Baby's Head. Less overtly bizarre and with a much greater emphasis on catchy, Brit-pop-style melodies, the new incarnation is poppier but no less satisfying than the original." -- Now they are releasing material again in the 2020's under their original name "The Chrysanthemums". I'm not entirely sure if this means that Jenkins and Burrows have patched things up and reunited, but it kind of seems so. Researching this band, even with a new album out, seems to be difficult at best.	*	1:21:38 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mort Garson	Plantasia "Plantasia" by "Mort Garson"	Mother Earth's Plantasia	Homewood Records	1976	The album had a very limited distribution upon release, only being available to people who bought a houseplant from a store called Mother Earth on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles or those who purchased a Simmons mattress from a Sears outlet, both of which came with the record. As a result, the album failed to attain widespread popularity around the time of its release. However, it has since gained a cult following of Moog fans as an early work of electronic music.		1:26:04 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mort Garson	Symphony for a Spider Plant	Mother Earth's Plantasia	Homewood Records	1976			1:29:32 (Pop-up)
Mort Garson	Ode To An African Violet	Mother Earth's Plantasia	Homewood Records	1976			1:32:59 (Pop-up)
Book Of Love	I Touch Roses "I Touch Roses" by "Book Of Love"	I Touch Roses 7"	Sire	1985	Book of Love was officially formed in May 1983 by Susan and Ted Ottaviano (not related). During 1984 and 1985, the band recorded various demos at the recording studio Noise in midtown Manhattan, which had a large selection of bells and chimes, which defined their distinctive sound. While doing promotion for the single "Boy" , the band met Depeche Mode at a party hosted by Rockpool (modern rock promotion company). Subsequently, the band was offered the opening slot on the North American leg of Depeche Mode's Some Great Reward Tour, they also were openers on the Black Celebration tour. BOL disbanded in 1993, with the rise of grunge and feeling disenfranchised from the shift to the rise of a different type of new electronic music...decided to call it a day, "It felt like the synth pop songs that we were doing didn't feel like they had a place at that moment, in a strange way, even for us. You could feel the tide change. We could've continued going on if we wanted to, we just basically felt we had sort of done our thing at that point."		1:36:09 (Pop-up)
Talking Heads	(Nothing But) Flowers	Naked	Sire	1988	This song appears on the band's final album Naked, released in 1988. It was released as the album's second single. In addition to the band, the song features Kirsty MacColl on backup vocals and Johnny Marr, formerly of The Smiths, on lead guitar. Three African musicians played on this track: percussionists Brice Wassy and Abdou M'Boup, and guitarist Yves N'Djock. Wassy and N'Djock are from Cameroon; M'Boup is from Senegal. The connection was keyboard player Wally Badarou, a session musician who played on some other tracks from the album. Tina Weymouth said this song was a "complete phantasm of what would happen if the predictions of Nostradamus are true and in the year 2000 it's all over."		1:39:36 (Pop-up)
Marty Robbins With Ray Conniff & His Orchestra	A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)	A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)	Columbia	1957	Born into poverty with his twin sister Mamie, he quit school in his teens and served in the United States Navy during 1943–1945. Robbins’ career started in 1947, and he soon had his own radio and television shows on KPHO in Phoenix. His big break came in 1951 when Jimmy Dickens guested on his TV show. Dickens was so impressed that he encouraged his record company, Columbia, to give Robbins a contract. Robbins was able to handle a wide variety of musical styles with his versatile baritone. He recorded country, western, rockabilly, Hawaiian music, gospel, and his specialty, which was pop ballads. Over the course of his career, Robbins had a total of 94 charting records, with 16 going to the #1 position.		1:45:11 (Pop-up)
Iggy Pop	Gardenia "Gardenia" by "Iggy Pop"	Post Pop Depression	Caroline	2016	PPD is Iggy's 17th studio album. Produced by Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, the album was recorded in secrecy and features contributions from Queens of the Stone Age keyboardist and guitarist Dean Fertita, and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders. Pop described the album as "discussing issues of what happens when your utility is at an end, and dealing with your legacy." In December 2016, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Alternative Music Album category, losing to David Bowie's Blackstar.		1:47:40 (Pop-up)
Stereolab	The Flower Called Nowhere	Dots and Loops	Duophonic	1997	Dots and Loops is the fifth studio album by English-French rock band Stereolab. It was released on 22 September 1997 and was issued by Duophonic Records and Elektra Records. The band co-produced the album with John McEntire and Andi Toma, and recording took place in Chicago and Düsseldorf. The album explores jazz and electronic sounds, and is influenced by bossa nova and 1960s pop music. Its lyrics address matters such as consumerism, the "spectacle", materialism, and human interaction.		1:51:58 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Baroque Bouquet	Ode To A Philodendron	Plant Music	Transcontinental Record Sales Inc.	1975	A perhaps slightly hip version of Plantasia, this album too, promises to stimulate your plants' growth cycle...		1:56:45 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Baroque Bouquet	Baby Tears "Baby Tears" by "The Baroque Bouquet"	Plant Music	Transcontinental Record Sales Inc.	1975			1:59:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Baroque Bouquet	Swedish Ivy "Swedish Ivy" by "The Baroque Bouquet"	Plant Music	Transcontinental Record Sales Inc.	1975			2:01:45 (Pop-up)
I Monster	Daydream In Blue "Daydream In Blue" by "I Monster"	Neveroddoreven	Dharma Records	2004	I Monster are an English electronic music duo, composed of the Sheffield based record producers Dean Honer and Jarrod Gosling. "Daydream in Blue" is a remix of The Gunter Kallmann Choir's version of The Wallace Collection's "Daydream". The song was originally released on 7" on Honer's own record label Cercle Records, which he founded with Add N to (X)'s Barry Seven.		2:03:13 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:49pm DJ Babs: Good evening lovely beacher friends! We'll be starting shortly...so glad to have you here with us! :-)
	🏝 8:00pm Scott67: G'day Babs, Derek & Beach Buddies! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🍺🌊🏖️
	8:00pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	8:00pm Derek Westerholm: Hurrah! Hello from a distant part of the beach...
	8:03pm Derek Westerholm: Tonight Babs sets up on the beach solo-style
	🏝 8:03pm WR: Tippy on toes here.
	🏝 8:04pm Kat in Chicago: Yay flowers
	8:04pm DJ Blush: Yaaaaay!
	8:06pm DJ Babs: Hi Scott! Hiiiiiii Derek!!! HIII WR...Hellooo Kat and lovely Blush!!! So great to see you all!!!
	8:06pm DJ Blush: 🌹🌹🌹
	8:07pm MagneticallyStripedMeme: Good evening, all! 😻
	8:07pm ultradamno: First flower song thoughts: Pictures Of Lily, Veteran's Day Poppy, Slow Moon's Rose...I got no geranium songs.
	8:07pm DJ Babs: Hello Magnetically Striped!! Welcome!!
	8:08pm MagneticallyStripedMeme: Thanks! Sounding great! 😻
	8:08pm DJ Babs: Hi Ultradamno! There will have to be a follow up show there are just so so many great flower tunes!!! Hopefully some familiar faves and new surprises tonight!!!
	8:09pm DJ Blush: Love tonight's concept
	8:09pm DJ Babs: How's everyone doing tonight! It's very steamy and hot here tonite! Just like a greenhjouse lol
	8:10pm DJ Blush: It's a sticky one over here!
	8:10pm ultradamno: Oh, god! Stinking Corpse Lily by Tragic Mulatto! That's a big one...the plant, anywya
	8:10pm Alli B: Suuuuup
	8:10pm MagneticallyStripedMeme: Same! Summer of my fave too!
	8:10pm laurapanic: bit late to the beach today but here for the first time in a coupl e of weeks....been doing the archives, though!
	8:10pm DJ Blush: Hieeeee!
	8:10pm shellioh: salut mes amies!
	8:11pm Derek Westerholm: Fall-offshoot alert! haha
	8:11pm ultradamno: Blue Rosebuds by Residents and Okie Dokey ("why'd you bring me orchids?") by Girls
	8:11pm DJ Blush: I'm a fall girl, what can I say. But love August.
	8:11pm DJ Babs: Alli! Laura!! Shelli!! Hello lovlies! All the beach flower ladies are here tonight!!!
	8:11pm Alli B: My grrrrrls 💙💙💙
	8:12pm shellioh: ❤️❤️❤️
	8:12pm DJ Blush: 🌷🌷🌷 Hello ladies 🌷🌷🌷
	🏝 8:12pm Scott67: No steam here this Winter's Friday morning Babs! But there is beer still anyway mate. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	8:13pm Alli B: It’s 86% humidity in Toronto!
	8:13pm DJ Babs: nice scott!! I'm enjoying a chilean merlot this evening and it's deeeeelightful!!!
	8:13pm DJ Babs: and yes it's goddamn swampy here and I LOOOOOOVE it
	8:13pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: I made it!!! Phew.
	8:14pm Alli B: Sí swampy
	🏝 8:14pm Scott67: G'day Laura! How's the Gigs goin mate? 🍻😎🤙💨☕🌻
	8:15pm shellioh: it’s sweaty alright. i haven’t put in my air conditioner yet
	8:15pm DJ Babs: hello hello YPB!!! So great to see you here tonite!!!
	8:16pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Hey Babs and Derek and all of you Beachers. I missed you all.
	8:17pm DJ Babs: We're all together now and that's all that matters!!! :-) I look so forward to this every week!
	8:18pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Work almost sucked me into the deep, dark abyss but I broke free of its grip due to the power of your amazing tunes!
	8:18pm DJ Babs: oh god...work....it's horrible. Nobody should have to work! I'm glad you could extricate yourself for some beach fun!!!
	8:20pm DJ Blush: I know the feeling Your Pretend Boyfriend, its always good to be back on the Beach. And hello!
	8:20pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Where do I apply to become an official full-time Beacher? You can pay me with amazing music.
	8:22pm DJ Nico: Hola!
	8:23pm DJ Blush: Hello!
	8:23pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Hey DJ Blush. How are you?
	8:23pm DJ Blush: I'm alright! Happy to have a night at home off with all you fine people.
	8:23pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Hey DJ Nico. Good evening.
	8:24pm Derek Westerholm: Fabulous to see so many friends on the beach! Hi Scott, Ultra, WR, Kat, Blush, Magnetically, Allison, Laura, Shelli. YPB. Nico, hello hello hello!!! Today there are flowers and gardens dotted throughout the beach!
	8:25pm DJ Blush: Sup Derek! Sending my love!
	8:27pm Derek Westerholm: With the amount of info the cat shares daily, you might regret wishing to understand animal speech.
	8:27pm laurapanic: Hey Scott, at my office job, waiting to knock off and head straight to a gig. Double header this weekend with Magic Dirt.
	8:27pm DJ Nico: Derek ❤️
	8:27pm DJ Blush: looool
	8:28pm DJ Blush: Awesome Laura!
	8:28pm DJ Nico: Meep Meep is the brains behind Echo Beach!
	8:28pm ultradamno: No one is more legit goth than this bird, though twitter.com...
	8:30pm DJ Nico: Hey YPB, Alli, Shelli, Britt, Babs 👋🏽
	8:30pm ultradamno: I tried to find a red bar over a flower emoji and couldn't...no call for it.
	8:30pm DJ Blush: Nicooooooooo
	8:31pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, seriously? That is crazy goth!
	8:31pm DJ Babs: Hi Nico hello hello hello love!!
	8:31pm DJ Blush: 🌿 🌳 🌴🌵🌱
	8:31pm DJ Nico: 🌼🌼🌼
	8:31pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Love this!!! Lol
	8:31pm DJ Babs: omg that fuckin black chicken ultradamno SO GOTH even ITS BONES ARE BLACK
	8:32pm Derek Westerholm: All good here, thanks, sorry to be missing the broadcast action, but glad to be here in the chat!
	8:32pm DJ Babs: YPB the cool greenhouse are so so so good. We've played them at least three times lol
	8:33pm DJ Babs: this is the song I've been driving derek nuts with lol
	8:36pm ultradamno: 100 FLOWERS!! I love this album! (Urinals too)
	8:36pm DJ Blush: This is awesome
	8:37pm DJ Babs: We were watching a nature doc about an island in the pacific that has cacti that grow 6 stories tall and their flowers are pollinated by bats that also eat scorpions.
	8:37pm ultradamno: (though, really, the change in sound from one to the other is pretty much a natural progression)
	8:37pm DJ Babs: and yes! 100 Flowers are sooo good I had a hard time picking a song they are all so grand!
	8:38pm DJ Babs: This tune is also a BANGER
	🏝 8:38pm Scott67: Rock out with ya frock out Laura! Give my undying love to Adalita. 🤘😎🤙🌹
	8:38pm DJ Blush: This set is fire so far B
	8:39pm laurapanic: Scott, we need to line up for that. She has to be one of the most beloved musos in the nation
	8:39pm DJ Blush: 🌸🌸🌸
	8:39pm Dave Dirt: oh. I thought it 'd be 100 Flowers by 100 Flowers. off Warfrat Tales I think.8
	8:40pm DJ Babs: thank you Blush!!! I had a lot of fun putting it together!
	8:40pm DJ Babs: hello and greetings Dave!!
	🏝 8:41pm Scott67: Can't imagine why Laura! 😎🤙
	8:41pm DJ Babs: I couldn't leave this one out of the set!
	🏝 8:42pm Scott67: PiL!!!
	8:43pm DJ Babs: We will eventually air our Martin Atkins interview...we promise! I think we've been holding on to it because it's so goddamn epic!!!
	8:43pm DJ Blush: That's insane B!!
	8:44pm Derek Westerholm: Speaking of gothy flowers...
	8:45pm DJ Babs: the gothiest of ALL THE FLOWERS
	8:46pm Derek Westerholm: It's not all fun & sun in the garden.
	8:46pm DJ Babs: I would very much love to have a garden of all black flowers but it's harder than one would think...but perhaps next year we shall try again....
	8:47pm ultradamno: Well....black dahlia, for Ms. Short, would be some competition there.
	8:47pm DJ Babs: this is the moody midnight garden....
	8:47pm DJ Babs: I'm so bummed I planted a black dahlia but it's actually a rather bright vibrant purple...still gorgeous though!!!
	8:47pm ultradamno: Plus, wouldn't a cannibal flower just eat other flowers?
	8:49pm ultradamno: Who had that song about 'why be a wallflower when you could be a venus flytrap'? I always thought 'how is that better, sitting around all day eating bugs like a stationary Renfield'
	8:50pm DJ Babs: that is an excellent lyric!!!
	8:50pm DJ Nico 🌼: Love. Love will tear up apart.
	8:50pm DJ Babs: and you're right ultra...a cannibal flower would definitely only eat other flowers...right!?
	8:50pm DJ Blush: Lol good lyric though for sure I remember I had my Mom buy me a Venus Flytrap when I was young.
	8:51pm DJ Babs: oh yes Nico a DEFINITE nod to joy division here!!!!
	8:51pm DJ Nico 🌼: Us apart. Can't type. I link this but they definitely follow that LWTUA riff.
	8:51pm DJ Babs: omg blush YES I had one too and it did not thrive, lol. I was obsessed!
	8:51pm DJ Babs: I was singing LWTUA along with it when I was programming the show, lol
	8:52pm DJ Nico 🌼: OMG so many typos! Sorry. I'm sober, I promise.
	8:52pm DJ Nico 🌼: I liked Blitz
	8:53pm MagneticallyStripedMeme: Lovin this one babs!
	8:54pm MagneticallyStripedMeme: The sax is killer! 😻
	9:01pm ultradamno: And 100 Flowers gave way to Trotsky Icepick
	9:02pm ultradamno: ...and Danny & The Doorknobs and Radwaste and some other stuff...
	9:04pm DJ Blush: 🍁🍁🍁
	9:04pm ultradamno: There's some great footage on one of those Flipside Video Fanzines of them doing Surfing With The Shah with D. Boon and Keith Morris dancing around on stage and sometimes singing
	9:04pm MagneticallyStripedMeme: ♥️
	9:04pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Virtual Derek.
	9:05pm MagneticallyStripedMeme: I haven’t listened to The Fall in ages! Awesome stuff! 💐
	9:05pm DJ Babs: ultradamno you are an encyclopedia of all things musical!
	9:05pm Alli B: Just came out to the porch to listen and it’s really cooled off! Not cool out, but less humid.
	9:06pm Derek Westerholm: Yup, couldn't hit play, but still stuffed a dour Fall epic into the mix
	9:06pm DJ Babs: Magneto...that song with the sax is party dozen...do check them out...they are a duo and she does all sorts of super cool things with it..she sings and shouts into the bell and makes all kinds of neato effects!!!
	9:07pm ultradamno: Perverted is my fav of the Brix era, certainly top five worthy of all Fall for me
	9:08pm laurapanic: Hi, I'm Laura Panic and it just took me an hour to realise the theme for the show. derrrrrrpppppppp
	9:08pm DJ Babs: Hard to pick a favourite for sure, it's ever and always rotating...
	9:09pm DJ Babs: LOL Laura it's a subtle one for sure!! (a bit?) lol
	9:10pm ultradamno: Presumption is one of the better things to be sodomized by, a cactus would be among the worst
	9:10pm Derek Westerholm: One thing about it, you can't say there's a lot of songs that sound like this, haha
	🏝 9:11pm Scott67: That's okay Laura, too cold for Garden Parties down here mate. 🍻😎🤙💨☕
	9:12pm Alli B: Hahahaha Derek! Very true.
	9:15pm DJ Babs: goddamn this is a gorgeous tune. I would rather have Blixa Bargeld whispering in my ear than yelling, lol.
	9:16pm Derek Westerholm: This is a haunting song, for sure
	9:17pm DJ Babs: I'm quite excited for the next two tunes as well!
	9:17pm Derek Westerholm: My corner of the garden got a little abstract tonight
	9:18pm ultradamno: I love how distractedly MES would play the keyboard in the footage on Perverted. He was like a cat that would forget about it until he walked past it and remembered to swat at it a few times.
	9:19pm laurapanic: OK this song is a terrific SY track.
	9:19pm ultradamno: The cover pic that upset Rough Trade
	9:20pm DJ Babs: RIGHT?!
	9:20pm DJ Babs: I hate being that person but man I do love me some early sonic youth
	9:21pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, my brother saw them live here in Toronto that tour & hated the random piercing keyboard squiggles. Ruined the show for him. On the album it sounds deliberate, despite the seeming randomness of it
	9:21pm Derek Westerholm: This Sonic Youth song goes through my head sometimes, guess that's how my head works
	9:23pm DJ Babs: ok hold on to your pants everyone and prepare to learn about the danger of bat faeces lol..this tune is NUTS lol
	9:23pm DJ Babs: side note bat poo is a good fertilizer for your garden....
	9:23pm Mr Fab: Kim Gordon told me she didn't like "Bad Moon Rising " because of the murky production. I think of it as "atmospheric" and I love it. I wish they made more albums like it.
	9:24pm MagneticallyStripedMeme: Have to depart. This has been lovely! Thank you, Babs! Have great evening, all! 😻
	9:24pm DJ Babs: Hello greetings Mr. Fab!!!!
	9:24pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Is it good luck if a bat poops on you during a full moon?
	9:24pm Derek Westerholm: I knew nothing about this band until preparing for this show...
	9:25pm DJ Babs: Thank you for joining us tonight Magnetic....so great to have you here! :-)
	9:25pm DJ Babs: I think it's always good luck when a bat poops on you....
	9:26pm ultradamno: Wow. BMR is my favorite SY. I saw The Fall not that long after that, touring on This Nations, but that was gone by then...they were pretty professional, I guess having onstage brawls recently out of the system
	9:27pm Derek Westerholm: SY's Bad Moon Rising is another album that doesn't really sound like anything else. It's a difficult entry point, but a fascinating place to stay
	9:27pm ultradamno: I saw Sonic Youth about four times, people always acted like it was so far out, but the shows always seemed like a dance party to me...
	9:27pm Alli B: I HOPED SO MUCH THAT YOU WOULD PLAY PLANTASIA
	9:27pm Alli B: Hibiscus love this album
	9:28pm Derek Westerholm: Alli haha
	9:29pm Tyler: Good evening, Beacheroni's!
	9:29pm Derek Westerholm: Hi Tyler!
	9:29pm Tyler: Mort Garson - I have this one. Neurotica also has 2 other of Mr. Garson's records.
	9:30pm Tyler: Hi Derek!
	9:30pm Tyler: Hi Babs!
	9:30pm Alli B: Tyler! Yo, you own an original? It’s So hard to find.
	9:30pm Tyler: Hi Alli McB!
	9:32pm Tyler: @Alli - I got mine at Play De Record. They had a few copies there about a year ago. Scott @ Neurotica Records posted a pic of 3 Mort Garson albums he had in stock about a week or so ago.
	9:32pm Tyler: Hello @ultradamno!
	9:33pm Tyler: Damn, I missed Neubaten! I had tickets to their concert that became cancelled due to the 'vid...
	9:33pm ultradamno: Hiya Tyler!
	9:36pm Alli B: Tyler OMG! I just messaged them to see if Plantasia is still for sale. Fingers crossed!
	9:37pm Tyler: If I come across it again, I'll be sure to let you know.
	9:38pm DJ Babs: Heyooo tyler!!!!
	9:38pm Tyler: Such a great song!
	9:38pm VinylVillainSean: Hola!
	9:39pm Derek Westerholm: Hi Sean!!!
	9:40pm ultradamno: He did like to poke at band members lyrically. There's a funny passage in The Big Midweek where Hanley recounts being offered some chocolate by Smith and then a line about laying off chocolate, you should eat a salad ends up on the record
	9:40pm Alli B: Love love love this song
	9:40pm Tyler: Buenos Tardes, Sean!
	9:40pm Alli B: Hi Sean!
	9:41pm Tyler: Love this song & the video for it. Long past time for a TH reunion!
	9:41pm ultradamno: And I'm pretty sure "it takes grace to play second fiddle well" was a shot at Riley...certainly Hey! Luciani (which was performed as Hey! Marc Riley) was...
	9:41pm DJ Babs: Hi Sean!! Thank you for joining us tonight!!!!
	9:41pm DJ Babs: Honestly the David Byrne show was fucking so so so sooooo goood.
	9:42pm Tyler: BTW - if you like this era of Talking Heads, I recommend the Brian Eno/John Cale collaboration 'This Way Up' which was just recently reissued.
	9:43pm Tyler: I really wished I had gone to that David Byrne show - I couldn't find anyone interested at the time. I watched the Broadway version directed by Spike Lee on TV and it is INCREDIBLE!
	9:44pm DJ Babs: oooooh that sounds very interesting...
	9:44pm DJ Babs: honestly it was so good I freakin' cried, lol.
	9:44pm Tyler: I really loved the album DB did with St. Vincent and his cameo on a recent De La Soul album.
	9:45pm DJ Babs: I keep trying really hard with St. Vincent and I just can't get there. I find her...too clinical. Now Anna Calvi..that's a whole other story!!!
	9:45pm Tyler: Yes, the 'American Utopia' performance was very moving at times.
	9:46pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, I saw Sonic Youth a few times, too... One of the earliest all-ages shows I went to, sometime around 1987. The venue oversold tickets, so the power cut mid-gig (during Catholic Block, it sounded really cool suddenly going all unplugged clicky-clacky acoustic for several seconds, actually.) As the power stayed out, they stayed onstage and Thurston Moore chatted with the audience asking questions and sharing thoughts about Toronto. When it became clear the club was to be cleared and the show was over he said "it's the cops fault it's always the cops fault." Hahaha
	9:46pm Alli B: 🌸🌸🌸
	9:46pm Tyler: @Babs - St. Vincent is hit or miss for me, but when she hits it's great. Her collaborating with DB helped to soften some of her knee-jerk angularity.
	9:47pm Alli B: I love Marty
	9:47pm Tyler: Let's All Go To The Drive-In!
	9:47pm DJ Babs: For sure I can absolutely see that. Also this tune makes me very happy... and also sad. Alli singing along with you!!!!
	9:48pm DJ Babs: Derek that is such a good Sonic Youth story!!! I had no idea!!
	9:48pm Alli B: Yay! Aww!
	9:48pm DJ Nico 🌼: Thanks for the flowery tunes tonight
	9:49pm Tyler: Iguana-Time!
	9:50pm DJ Babs: This fuckin' tune tho. It's SO, SO good.
	9:50pm DJ Babs: My pleasure Nico!!! WHO DOESN'T LOVE FLOWERS!?!?!?
	9:50pm ultradamno: Now I just thought of Birthday Party's Sonny's Burning with the demon flower...
	9:51pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, that sounds very likely about the second fiddle lyric. Hey! Luciani! and Hey! Marc Riley were different songs, though. They've included Hey! Marc Riley on some reissues and it's a bo-diddley inspired song with lyrics hurling various insults his way. Hey! Luciani is leaps ahead of it in both musical & lyrical heft
	9:53pm Derek Westerholm: Hey! Luciani also was staged as a play. Mark E Smith's cryptic and obstinate foray into the theatric world.
	9:53pm Tyler: @Derek - I could see Mark E. Smith being a character in a Harold Pinter play :)
	9:54pm DJ Babs: oh absolutely! And Derek I had NO idea that happened!! How much fun would that have been to have seen!?
	9:54pm Derek Westerholm: Tyler... Good call!
	9:55pm Tyler: I finally cracked open my 'Slates' 10" this week & listened to it. GEAR!
	9:55pm ultradamno: Was that from the same people who did The Classical ballet? Wasn't there something like that around Kurious Orange too?
	9:56pm ultradamno: Wings could have been a movie. Harper Valley PTA style, but by Philip K Dick
	9:57pm Tyler: Mine's a Superior Viaduct reissue.
	🏝 9:57pm Scott67: Thanks for a fanfuckentastic Show Babs! Take care uptown Derek, & seeya both next week! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍷🍁❤️❤️
	9:57pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, Michael Clarke brought the Fall into the ballet world
	9:57pm VinylVillainSean: Hi Derek, Tyler, Ali, Babs! Oh i totally have this plant record too!
	9:58pm VinylVillainSean: This is my fave song on it
	9:58pm Derek Westerholm: The Hey! Luciani play was a totally separate Mark E Smith venture
	9:58pm Tyler: I'm trying to remember if the reissue came with the seed packs :)
	9:59pm ultradamno: So the secret life of plants is that they're damn music snobs?
	9:59pm Tyler: Bruce Gilbert from Wire was also commissioned to score some ballets.
	9:59pm Derek Westerholm: en.m.wikipedia.org...
	10:00pm Tyler: For those that like their Tutu's dissonant :)
	10:00pm Derek Westerholm: ^ Hey! Luciani info
	10:01pm Derek Westerholm: Kurious Oranj was a full collaborative effort, with the Fall providing the entire score for a Michael Clarke ballet
	10:02pm Derek Westerholm: Tyler, ah, yes, that's right! I know less about those works, though.
	10:02pm ultradamno: There's a line, I think from Newman in one of those Wire deluxe reissues about Peel preferring bands like The Fall to them...rather derisively
	10:03pm Derek Westerholm: "The script for the play was supposedly written by Smith on beer mats and delivered to the play's director in a shoe box." hahahahaha
	10:03pm VinylVillainSean: Love this song!
	10:03pm Derek Westerholm: Regards!
	10:03pm Tyler: A lot of Electronic & Synth groups were faced with either going industrial or picking up guitars in the 90's. Even Men Without Hats put out a rock album :)
	10:03pm Alli B: Really loved tonight’s theme! Thank you so much!
	10:04pm Tyler: Now is the time on Transmissions when the big hand is on the 12 and the little hand is on the 10 and it's time to hang up our cardigans for another day...
	10:04pm DJ Babs: Thank you all so much! It was so lovely to spend this time with you!!
	10:04pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, haha. Ah, yes, well Peel really did live The Fall dearly, so it's pretty tough to compete
	10:04pm Mr Fab: THAAAAAANKS you for this garden of earthly delights!
	10:05pm VinylVillainSean: Stay good everyone
	10:05pm Tyler: Beta Band either heavily sampled this or did an outright cover
	10:05pm DJ Babs: Thank you Mr. Fab! We would'nt be here without ya!
	10:05pm Derek Westerholm: Tyler, yes, Sideways... An awful album & era, really
	10:05pm DJ Babs: You guys are all truly the best! And yes! We've played the Beta Band version as well. I'll someday do a show with all the samples and covers of this tune! I feel like I Monster do it best tho!!
	10:06pm Tyler: Beta Band were better at EPs than albums, but it brings me back to a time...
	10:06pm Derek Westerholm: Fab, yes, x2 what Babs says!
	10:07pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks all! Thanks Babs, for such a solid night of error-free radio, haha
	10:07pm Tyler: Thanks Derek & Babs for a very verdure set. Have a great night all!
	10:08pm DJ Babs: Thank you all! You are the beeeeest! See you next week! Big hugs and warm thoughts!!!
	10:08pm Derek Westerholm: I hope to be back next week to push the wrong buttons
	10:08pm Tyler: Captain Beefheart has taken over the airwaves :)

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from August 4, 2022

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