WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from August 9, 2022

Listener comments!
	👻 6:57pm Austin Rich: Good Hello!
	9:00pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Meanwhile Mutants! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🎶📻
	9:00pm Krys O.: Hey there!
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Scott67 and Krys O! Time to get mutated!
	9:01pm Kat in Chicago: I got time for a little robotics tonight
	9:01pm Krys O.: I'll be listening while I boil more water.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Then you are in luck, Kat in Chicago! The Human Genome Project was a band that I roadied for, briefly. They were my first live music guest on my show.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: (I have a full set by them, from this same date. They were a lot of fun, live.)
	9:03pm Charles: H-E-L-L-O F-E-L-L-O-W H-U-M-A-N-S.
	9:03pm Mr. X: I hope Slats doesn't blow anything up while his buddy is still connected to the robot brain.
	9:05pm 5-minute lurker∅: greetings Rich, mutants
	9:07pm coelacanth∅: "robot civilization" is an oxymoron ...like "human civilization".
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, coelacanthø. I give the writers of this show a pass because... well, it was 1950. It was like 70+ years ago. They were just... not as bright then.
	9:08pm Feldy: Hey gang! Listening and mowing (I got one of those two-handed lawnmowers)
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: Howdy Feldy!
	9:08pm Charles: The Planet Man's theme is a jam.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: I could send you the source files, Charles.
	9:09pm Feldy: Oh man I’ve been pronouncing Robot wrong my whole life
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: A lot of us were pronouncing things wrong for a long, long time.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: The-Front, from Casper, Wyoming. I'm not sure if they are still together, but they used to tour a lot in the early 2000's.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: Mr. X: there is an Oswald 5-0 song in the line-up tonight!
	9:11pm Charles: Nice, I'll take a note of that and I may send you an email when I'll be able to.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: I remember getting this Fall album when it was new, and listening to it a lot then, thinking I was "maturing" as a young adult.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: (I think I had finally turned 30.)
	9:14pm Mr. X: I wrote a favorable review of a mid-90s Oswald 5-0 show in the WOW Hall's in-house newsletter. I had volunteered as a reviewer to earn free tickets to shows.
	9:15pm Charles: That's pretty clever Xeres.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: Nice! Cathead's "almost" brush with local fame was getting a show booked with Oswald... only to have them cancel, because of a family emergency. We had to get another band for the show... and some people showed up, not happy Oswald was not on the bill.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: Robert's review of Cathead - when I gave him our demo tape so we could sort out the show - was, "It was great. Really sounded like The Germs."
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: On this same "Homework" comp is a song by a band called The Zoomers, who I think about every time I have to make a Zoom Call.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: I realize I have a limited number of shows left for the rest of the year, and I'm trying to fit in all the themes and ideas that I need to get to. On my mind: A Back To School Episode, on offering insight into the NorCal Noisefest happening at the end of Sept / Oct, and possibly a show where I replay all the songs that people have favorited during my show. There's a few others that need a lot more editing, but: any other shows I need to get to?
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: Whoops! That's how you can tell the show is live: weird pauses like that.
	9:24pm Mr. X: I have been sitting on a new idea for a show. I call it "The Problem with Happiness."
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: Ooooooo. I have a feeling we can both get on board with that one.
	9:26pm Mr. X: Cool, I'll get back to you on that, Austin.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: I realize this first set is really "noisy." I mean, they are getting ready to go to war...
	9:27pm coelacanth∅: i'm digging it
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: I hope Heather is listening... it's more Android Sisters!
	9:28pm Mr Fab: yo, someone remembers Yo! Swell '80s college-rock. Good albums if you can find 'em.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: The 2003 Android Sisters album, which I LOVE, is very, VERY dark. But I still love it. Been trying to find albums, Mr. Fab! I only have them on a few comps, but I love that tune.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: Slats is always looking for the Big D.
	9:35pm coelacanth∅: she wants him to press that button again
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: It's just layers and layers of entendre now.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: It's secretly a Dr. Who song, from the Cybermen perspective!
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: (This is the afore-mentioned Oswald Five-O, who used to put on the most amazing shows. The drummer and singer / guitar player have passed, but the bass player / other singer is a novelist now. www.amazon.com...
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: (Diane Rios, whom I haven't read, but I heard is pretty good.)
	9:44pm Mr. X: I presume 2006 is a re-issue date? Or did they keep playing until then?
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: Re-issue. Almost all of their stuff is out of print, but I think you can still get that "Nothing To Prove," comp, which has a lot of stuff. But I still have my 7"s and CDs.
	9:45pm Mr. X: Moose Lodge!
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: Moose Lodge is another Eugene band, completing the Eugene "two-fer Tuesday" block on the show. Moose Lodge evolved into a NON-synth based band, called "Billy Jack," who were almost dada-punk.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: I think Moose Lodge actually had one of those "someone in Europe wants to put out a vinyl of their demo tape" situations, if I remember the story correctly.
	9:47pm Mr. X: I lived across the back alley from Billy Jack's practice space.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: Ha! Never saw Moose Lodge, but saw Billy Jack a bunch. I still love that album they put out, and I have a single or two.
	9:48pm Mr Fab: if "Moose Lodge" isn't a Pacific Northwestern band name, i don't know what is!
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: Their album is pretty great: panicon13th.blogspot.com...
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: (And that blog is a great resource for a lot of old, forgotten Eugene bands. Digitized demo tapes and video footage... great stuff.)
	9:50pm Mr. X: Send the robot jet bombers aloft.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: The Mekons... another pulp fiction reference.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: (Named after the villains in the Dan Dare comic strip.)
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: The Bloodtypes evolved out of The Epoxies, who in turn evolved out of The Automatics. (There's probably another band before that, but I don't know what it is.)
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: Another re-issue comp. I could never track down all the classic punk stuff when I was a youth, but fortunately, a lot of stuff was being re-issues throughout the 90's, as the alternative wave became a big deal everywhere. So I could pick up all these songs by bands I'd read about, but couldn't afford the import prices for the original records.
	10:00pm Mr. X: It's tough being a collector.
	10:05pm Mr Fab: Thanks for the Moose Lodge link. I’ll have to send you some Yo.
	10:06pm Mr. X: Mitch is trying to sound unbiased.
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: Please! Moose Lodge has some other odd tunes on that record that are VERY Sheena.
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: Straitjacket were a lot of fun, and later became The Chemicals. Maybe they are still around?
	10:13pm drowsy: Robots are going to do the prostate surgery on my friend. I asked them to tune in so they could be in a good mood when my man goes under. You are doing the Flying Spaghetti Monster's work, sir.
	10:13pm Mr. X: A punk band trading off jazz solos.
	10:13pm Mr Fab: Yaaaaay, the ‘men! One of Watts’ many killer basslines. Whoah, VERY different from the “Double Nickels on the Dime” version.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: Hooray! Medical robots are the only ones I support.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: Yeah. Ballot Result has a few gems on it. We'll hear the other half of that tune soon...
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: There's always more Minutemen than I remember. I spend so much time with Double Nickels, but there are so many other records and they're all pretty damn good. I need to listen to this live one more... it's got a lot of, as Mr. X says, "punk band doing jazz" bits.
	10:19pm Mr. X: How were fan votes solicited and collected for the selections on the Ballot Result album?
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: It people don't know the story behind this late-'90's Avengers record: Penelope found out that live Avengers bootlegs (and a demo tape) were being traded for ridiculous amounts among hardcore fans, so she put together a new band - The Scavengers - and recorded the songs she remember that there were NO copies of, and then officially released better recordings of all the bootlegs. This is well worth tracking down, if you don't have it.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: I think it says in this book I have, "Our Band Could Be Your Life." But it was done just before / after D. Boon died, so admittedly, the band wasn't exactly as "into it" as they were when they laid out the idea. But I think fans sent in their votes.
	10:23pm Mr. X: Okay, found out on Wiki: "The group printed ballots which they passed out to fans during their summer and fall 1985 performances as well as inserted into the first pressing of 3-Way Tie (For Last)"
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: There it is!
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: I think the band was going to have a more elaborate production time on the live album, too, but with D gone... I think it was rushed. Still, I quite love most of it. There's a few cheesy ones because, well, that was the only recording, or whatever... but it's still fun.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: Oh, wow! Someone put this gem on YouTube Our Band Could Be Your Life: A Tribute to D Boon and the Minutemen: youtu.be...
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: This comp was produced in Eugene, and features a lot of amazing covers and tributes to the Minutemen. I quite fell in love with it, but I wonder if it was a time and place thing.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: Looking at the tracks on that Minutemen comp: I think I would still love it today.
	10:31pm Aitch: Robots you say?
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: Hello, Aitch! Nice robot photo!
	10:32pm Mr. X: No one expects etc cliche
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: I almost went there too, Mr. X.
	10:33pm Aitch: Danger!, not surprise and fear...
	10:35pm DJ Babs: hey all!!
	10:35pm DJ Babs: great playlist tonite!!
	10:39pm drowsy: nice!
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: Yeah, I love this weird comp, drowsy. A bunch of crazy Japanese punk. Perfect for a Sunday morning.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: I like how even Slats is sort of confused by the plot.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: The Miss is a "Peace Corps" band. All the members were in the Peace Corps in different roles, and made this record. Later, they sort of re-formed as the Iarvles, who are still sort of mining the same sound.
	10:44pm DJ Babs: Simply Saucer!!!! The pride of Canada!!!
	10:44pm drowsy: That peace corps deal is v cool.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: They are! I saw them once, at a music fest in Portland, and they were STELLAR.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: I know a handful of Peace Corps folks. They are all very cool, and weird, and wonderful people. And they all make music and movies.
	10:45pm b0b0b0b0b Plasticland: @@@ Mister X..yeah you ain't far off ..i talked to the drummer with the Missing Men ..Young guy said he listens to John Coltrane alot..
	10:46pm Derek Westerholm: Always great to hear Simply Saucer... Canadian proto-punk legends! This material dates from '73-'74... So good!
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: I fell in love with this Simply Saucer album in college... it's just so good on so many levels. An HEAVY METALOID MUSIC!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: When I was assembling this playlist, I got to hour two, and I was sort of not quite sure what I'd already picked. So got to this part, where it made sense to play this Fall song in, and I was like, "I feel like I played The Fall on the show recently. Didn't I?" Then I looked back and was like, "Well, who doesn't need more Fall in their lives? Once an hour isn't too much, right?"
	10:48pm DJ Babs: HELL NO IT IS NOT
	10:48pm drowsy: truth
	10:49pm Mr. X: After all, it's two-fer Tuesday.
	10:49pm Derek Westerholm: Definitely not too much.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: I love with Mark E. Smith sings covers. It always sounds like he barely remember the lyrics... unlike when he sings normally, where... well... he MOSTLY remembers?
	10:50pm Derek Westerholm: Haha... "MOSTLY"...Ha!
	10:50pm DJ Babs: LOL
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: I'm glad everyone's on the Fall train with me. I should play them more on the show, anyway. They're almost always appropriate.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: We might go a little over...
	10:51pm Derek Westerholm: There's never a time where The Fall are inappropriate, so far as I'm concerned!
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: I should have cut that Clutch song. It sort of didn't work, anyway.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: Another album I got super into when I was in college. Someone played for me this Savage Resurrection album, and I just fell in love.
	10:53pm coelacanth∅: almost a cover of Love or confusion!
	10:53pm drowsy: well, we won the battle, that's clutch. I'm emotional, so it's all good.
	10:53pm Mr. X: Savage Resurrection is one of the more coherent psych bands.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: I also find it a very beautiful album, Mr. X. Very re-listenable.
	10:54pm Aitch: Saw the Fall early 90s Totally Wired etc, saw him again just before he died, he was looking dreadful. Both wild shows though, nothing like him
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: I'm very jealous, Aitch! I passed up at least one chance, and regret it often.
	10:55pm drowsy: same
	10:56pm Scott67: Thanks Austin, great shit mate!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	10:57pm DJ Babs: I am very much enjoying this Servotron.
	10:57pm Aitch: He'd come in English winter and then complain it was too 'ot down 'ere like fook
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Thanks Scott67! We'll go at least 5 or so minutes over... maybe more?
	10:57pm Aitch: IE our summer^
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: Servotron is one of my fave bands. All their albums / singles are like that... Robot Superiority, human inferiority. SO GOOD.
	10:58pm Scott67: Excellent!!🍻😎🤙
	10:58pm Derek Westerholm: I saw The Fall 3 times, twice here in Toronto '93/'94 (in '94 Brix had just rejoined!), then I traveled to Philly to see them on the infamous '98 tour where Mark E. Smith later ended up in jail & most of the band split. The '94 show was great. The '98 show made me vow to never travel to see them again, and thus, I never did see them again. To my own detriment, really.
	10:58pm DJ Babs: They are super fun!!!
	10:58pm Mr Fab: I tended to shun tribute albums during that ‘90s craze, thinking: why would I want to listen to others playing classics when I could listen to the actual classics? But the artists listed on that Minutemen tribute is pretty damn impressive. And plus, I just miss the ‘men so much that I’m gonna have to find a copy of that album.
	10:58pm coelacanth∅: but, are we really sure that the good robits won? maybe this is all a program!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: This is the most Punk Alice Cooper album, in my opinion.
	10:59pm coelacanth∅: Rich i agree
	10:59pm DJ Babs: I'm still all about Special Forces Alice Cooper, lol. What a glorious mess that record is.
	10:59pm Aitch: I know little of pre Schools Out Alice, been meaning to look
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: There's some REALLY good Alice. And then there's... well... some albums that I tune out for.
	11:01pm Mr. X: A time or two, I tuned into Alice Cooper's radio show when he was a DJ. It was good.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: You are usually right about tribute albums, Mr. Fab. It's got to be some REALLY good bands.
	11:01pm Aitch: Big bro only had Schools Out and Billion DB
	11:02pm coelacanth∅: billion dollar babies was the last great alice cooper album, in my opinion but i really need to revisit muscle of love to be sure
	11:04pm coelacanth∅: dead dog's eyeball's a good tribute album
	11:04pm Aitch: It's a good show, thanks Austin
	11:04pm drowsy: Thanks for all the effort Austin Rich!
	11:04pm Scott67: 🍻😎🤙
	11:05pm Mr Fab: This was great music-to-do-laundry-by!
	11:05pm Mr. X: Thanks Austin, another good one!
	11:06pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks A.R.!!!
	11:06pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Austin Rich!
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: Thank you, Aitch, coelacanthø, drowsy, Scott67, Mr. Fab, Mr. X, Derek Westerholm, DJ Babs, and anyone else I've forgotten!
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: I guess the Android Sisters should listen to that Johnny Fever tribute show we did on Sheena's a while back...
	11:08pm DJ Babs: Thank you for a great show!!!
	👻 11:09pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from August 9, 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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August 9, 2022: A Robot Civilization! (A Planet Man Saga! 4 of 4)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
(This broadcast contains samples from, "The Planet Man," a Sci-Fi adventure serial that aired in syndication in the 50's, of which only 78 episodes aired. We sampled Episodes 76 - 78: "Can Slats Control Jet," "Death Coming Closer," and, "End of Adventure.")
War Machine "War Machine"
The Human Genome Project	Robot Affliction (Live)	17 September 2004	Mid-Valley Mutations	2004	0:00:55 (Pop-up)
Raymond Scott	Powerhouse "Powerhouse" by "Raymond Scott"	Reckless Nights And Turkish Twilights	Columbia Records	1992	0:03:49 (Pop-up)
The-Front	War Machine "War Machine" by "The-Front"	Riot Agents	Plugged In Records	2001	0:10:18 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Trust In Me "Trust In Me" by "The Fall"	Fall Heads Roll	Narnack Records	2005	0:12:35 (Pop-up)
The Birthday Party	Blast Off! "Blast Off!" by "The Birthday Party"	Junkyard	4AD	1982	0:17:24 (Pop-up)
Yo	I See Beyond "I See Beyond" by "Yo"	Homework #103: American "D.I.Y" & post-punk '79-84	Hyped To Death Records (2004)	2007	0:20:50 (Pop-up)
Part Chimp	War Machine "War Machine" by "Part Chimp"	I Am Come	Monitor Records	2005	0:24:14 (Pop-up)
The Android Sisters	Let's Make A Puppet	Pull No Punches	ZBS Records	2003	0:27:30 (Pop-up)

Running Out of Time "Running Out of Time"
Man... Or Astro-Man?	Man... Or Man-Machine?	Disjointed Parallels EP	Eerie Materials	1995	0:30:48 (Pop-up)
The Von Bondies	Going Down "Going Down" by "The Von Bondies"	Lack of Communication	Sympathy For The Record Industry	2001	0:35:12 (Pop-up)
Servotron	The Power Of Electricity	Electrical Power Sources For The Electrocution And Extinction Of The Human Race...	One Louder Records	1996	0:37:55 (Pop-up)
Oswald Five-0	Waiting "Waiting" by "Oswald Five-0"	Nothing To Prove	Jealous Butcher Records	2006	0:41:53 (Pop-up)
Moose Lodge	I'll Follow You "I'll Follow You" by "Moose Lodge"	New World Babies	Self-Released	1984	0:45:40 (Pop-up)
The Mekons	Alone & Foresaken "Alone & Foresaken" by "The Mekons"	Edge Of The World	Sin Record Company	1986	0:50:13 (Pop-up)
The Bloodtypes	Running Out of Time	The Bloodtypes	Bomp Pop Records	2013	0:52:45 (Pop-up)
Blitz	Attack "Attack" by "Blitz"	Blitz Hits	Cleopatra Records	1994	0:56:22 (Pop-up)
The Android Sisters	Barking Up The Wrong Tree	Songs of Electronic Despair	Vanguard Records	1984	0:58:01 (Pop-up)

Walking Machine "Walking Machine"
Royal Trux	Walking Machine "Walking Machine" by "Royal Trux"	Royal Trux	Royal Records	1988	1:00:27 (Pop-up)
Straitjacket	Tunnel Vision (Live)	14 October 2005	Mid-Valley Mutations	2005	1:07:16 (Pop-up)
Minutemen	Mr. Robot's Holy Orders [Excerpt 1]	Ballot Result	SST Records	1986	1:10:22 (Pop-up)
Not My Son	Been Nice Knowing You "Been Nice Knowing You" by "Not My Son"	American Devil	Atomic Sound	1995	1:15:00 (Pop-up)
The Avengers	The End Of The World	Died For Your Sins	Lookout! Records	1999	1:17:38 (Pop-up)
Minutemen	Mr. Robot's Holy Orders [Excerpt 2]	Ballot Result	SST Records	1986	1:22:52 (Pop-up)
Clutch	Never Be Moved "Never Be Moved" by "Clutch"	Robot Hive: Exodus	DRT Entertainment	2005	1:27:06 (Pop-up)
The Android Sisters	The Christian Inquisition	Pull No Punches	ZBS Records	2003	1:31:04 (Pop-up)

Here Come The Cyborgs "Here Come The Cyborgs"
John Barry	Six Robots "Six Robots" by "John Barry"	he Black Hole (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	Buena Vista Records	1979	1:34:15 (Pop-up)
Delta	War Machine "War Machine" by "Delta"	Abstruct Madness	Diwphalanx Records	2001	1:39:04 (Pop-up)
The Miss	Closer Still "Closer Still" by "The Miss"	No Radio	Morphius Records	2002	1:41:12 (Pop-up)
Simply Saucer	Here Come The Cyborgs, Pt. 1	Cyborgs Revisited	Mole Sound Recordings	1989	1:43:51 (Pop-up)
The Fall	I Can Hear The Grass Grow	Fall Heads Roll	Narnack Records	2005	1:48:19 (Pop-up)
The Savage Resurrection	Talking To You	The Savage Resurrection	Mercury Records	1968	1:51:23 (Pop-up)
Servotron	The Image Created "The Image Created" by "Servotron"	No Room For Humans	One Louder Records	1996	1:54:52 (Pop-up)
Alice Cooper	Long Way to Go "Long Way to Go" by "Alice Cooper"	Love It To Death	Warner Bros. Records	1971	1:58:35 (Pop-up)
George & Caplin	Finale: Endcredits	Electronic Eulogy From Morse Code Infinity	Beta-Lactam Ring‎	2005	2:02:44 (Pop-up)
The Android Sisters	Ray-Dee-Oh "Ray-Dee-Oh" by "The Android Sisters"	Songs of Electronic Despair	Vanguard Records	1984	2:05:33 (Pop-up)
Servotron	All Robots (Report To The Dance Floor)	Space Parts	Amphetamine Reptile Records	1997	2:08:32 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:57pm Austin Rich: Good Hello!
	9:00pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Meanwhile Mutants! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🎶📻
	9:00pm Krys O.: Hey there!
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, Scott67 and Krys O! Time to get mutated!
	9:01pm Kat in Chicago: I got time for a little robotics tonight
	9:01pm Krys O.: I'll be listening while I boil more water.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Then you are in luck, Kat in Chicago! The Human Genome Project was a band that I roadied for, briefly. They were my first live music guest on my show.
	👻 9:03pm Austin Rich: (I have a full set by them, from this same date. They were a lot of fun, live.)
	9:03pm Charles: H-E-L-L-O F-E-L-L-O-W H-U-M-A-N-S.
	9:03pm Mr. X: I hope Slats doesn't blow anything up while his buddy is still connected to the robot brain.
	9:05pm 5-minute lurker∅: greetings Rich, mutants
	9:07pm coelacanth∅: "robot civilization" is an oxymoron ...like "human civilization".
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: Good Hello, coelacanthø. I give the writers of this show a pass because... well, it was 1950. It was like 70+ years ago. They were just... not as bright then.
	9:08pm Feldy: Hey gang! Listening and mowing (I got one of those two-handed lawnmowers)
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: Howdy Feldy!
	9:08pm Charles: The Planet Man's theme is a jam.
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: I could send you the source files, Charles.
	9:09pm Feldy: Oh man I’ve been pronouncing Robot wrong my whole life
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: A lot of us were pronouncing things wrong for a long, long time.
	👻 9:10pm Austin Rich: The-Front, from Casper, Wyoming. I'm not sure if they are still together, but they used to tour a lot in the early 2000's.
	👻 9:11pm Austin Rich: Mr. X: there is an Oswald 5-0 song in the line-up tonight!
	9:11pm Charles: Nice, I'll take a note of that and I may send you an email when I'll be able to.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: I remember getting this Fall album when it was new, and listening to it a lot then, thinking I was "maturing" as a young adult.
	👻 9:13pm Austin Rich: (I think I had finally turned 30.)
	9:14pm Mr. X: I wrote a favorable review of a mid-90s Oswald 5-0 show in the WOW Hall's in-house newsletter. I had volunteered as a reviewer to earn free tickets to shows.
	9:15pm Charles: That's pretty clever Xeres.
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: Nice! Cathead's "almost" brush with local fame was getting a show booked with Oswald... only to have them cancel, because of a family emergency. We had to get another band for the show... and some people showed up, not happy Oswald was not on the bill.
	👻 9:17pm Austin Rich: Robert's review of Cathead - when I gave him our demo tape so we could sort out the show - was, "It was great. Really sounded like The Germs."
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: On this same "Homework" comp is a song by a band called The Zoomers, who I think about every time I have to make a Zoom Call.
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: I realize I have a limited number of shows left for the rest of the year, and I'm trying to fit in all the themes and ideas that I need to get to. On my mind: A Back To School Episode, on offering insight into the NorCal Noisefest happening at the end of Sept / Oct, and possibly a show where I replay all the songs that people have favorited during my show. There's a few others that need a lot more editing, but: any other shows I need to get to?
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: Whoops! That's how you can tell the show is live: weird pauses like that.
	9:24pm Mr. X: I have been sitting on a new idea for a show. I call it "The Problem with Happiness."
	👻 9:25pm Austin Rich: Ooooooo. I have a feeling we can both get on board with that one.
	9:26pm Mr. X: Cool, I'll get back to you on that, Austin.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: I realize this first set is really "noisy." I mean, they are getting ready to go to war...
	9:27pm coelacanth∅: i'm digging it
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: I hope Heather is listening... it's more Android Sisters!
	9:28pm Mr Fab: yo, someone remembers Yo! Swell '80s college-rock. Good albums if you can find 'em.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: The 2003 Android Sisters album, which I LOVE, is very, VERY dark. But I still love it. Been trying to find albums, Mr. Fab! I only have them on a few comps, but I love that tune.
	👻 9:34pm Austin Rich: Slats is always looking for the Big D.
	9:35pm coelacanth∅: she wants him to press that button again
	👻 9:36pm Austin Rich: It's just layers and layers of entendre now.
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: It's secretly a Dr. Who song, from the Cybermen perspective!
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: (This is the afore-mentioned Oswald Five-O, who used to put on the most amazing shows. The drummer and singer / guitar player have passed, but the bass player / other singer is a novelist now. www.amazon.com...
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: (Diane Rios, whom I haven't read, but I heard is pretty good.)
	9:44pm Mr. X: I presume 2006 is a re-issue date? Or did they keep playing until then?
	👻 9:45pm Austin Rich: Re-issue. Almost all of their stuff is out of print, but I think you can still get that "Nothing To Prove," comp, which has a lot of stuff. But I still have my 7"s and CDs.
	9:45pm Mr. X: Moose Lodge!
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: Moose Lodge is another Eugene band, completing the Eugene "two-fer Tuesday" block on the show. Moose Lodge evolved into a NON-synth based band, called "Billy Jack," who were almost dada-punk.
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: I think Moose Lodge actually had one of those "someone in Europe wants to put out a vinyl of their demo tape" situations, if I remember the story correctly.
	9:47pm Mr. X: I lived across the back alley from Billy Jack's practice space.
	👻 9:48pm Austin Rich: Ha! Never saw Moose Lodge, but saw Billy Jack a bunch. I still love that album they put out, and I have a single or two.
	9:48pm Mr Fab: if "Moose Lodge" isn't a Pacific Northwestern band name, i don't know what is!
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: Their album is pretty great: panicon13th.blogspot.com...
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: (And that blog is a great resource for a lot of old, forgotten Eugene bands. Digitized demo tapes and video footage... great stuff.)
	9:50pm Mr. X: Send the robot jet bombers aloft.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: The Mekons... another pulp fiction reference.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: (Named after the villains in the Dan Dare comic strip.)
	👻 9:53pm Austin Rich: The Bloodtypes evolved out of The Epoxies, who in turn evolved out of The Automatics. (There's probably another band before that, but I don't know what it is.)
	👻 9:57pm Austin Rich: Another re-issue comp. I could never track down all the classic punk stuff when I was a youth, but fortunately, a lot of stuff was being re-issues throughout the 90's, as the alternative wave became a big deal everywhere. So I could pick up all these songs by bands I'd read about, but couldn't afford the import prices for the original records.
	10:00pm Mr. X: It's tough being a collector.
	10:05pm Mr Fab: Thanks for the Moose Lodge link. I’ll have to send you some Yo.
	10:06pm Mr. X: Mitch is trying to sound unbiased.
	👻 10:06pm Austin Rich: Please! Moose Lodge has some other odd tunes on that record that are VERY Sheena.
	👻 10:09pm Austin Rich: Straitjacket were a lot of fun, and later became The Chemicals. Maybe they are still around?
	10:13pm drowsy: Robots are going to do the prostate surgery on my friend. I asked them to tune in so they could be in a good mood when my man goes under. You are doing the Flying Spaghetti Monster's work, sir.
	10:13pm Mr. X: A punk band trading off jazz solos.
	10:13pm Mr Fab: Yaaaaay, the ‘men! One of Watts’ many killer basslines. Whoah, VERY different from the “Double Nickels on the Dime” version.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: Hooray! Medical robots are the only ones I support.
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: Yeah. Ballot Result has a few gems on it. We'll hear the other half of that tune soon...
	👻 10:16pm Austin Rich: There's always more Minutemen than I remember. I spend so much time with Double Nickels, but there are so many other records and they're all pretty damn good. I need to listen to this live one more... it's got a lot of, as Mr. X says, "punk band doing jazz" bits.
	10:19pm Mr. X: How were fan votes solicited and collected for the selections on the Ballot Result album?
	👻 10:19pm Austin Rich: It people don't know the story behind this late-'90's Avengers record: Penelope found out that live Avengers bootlegs (and a demo tape) were being traded for ridiculous amounts among hardcore fans, so she put together a new band - The Scavengers - and recorded the songs she remember that there were NO copies of, and then officially released better recordings of all the bootlegs. This is well worth tracking down, if you don't have it.
	👻 10:20pm Austin Rich: I think it says in this book I have, "Our Band Could Be Your Life." But it was done just before / after D. Boon died, so admittedly, the band wasn't exactly as "into it" as they were when they laid out the idea. But I think fans sent in their votes.
	10:23pm Mr. X: Okay, found out on Wiki: "The group printed ballots which they passed out to fans during their summer and fall 1985 performances as well as inserted into the first pressing of 3-Way Tie (For Last)"
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: There it is!
	👻 10:24pm Austin Rich: I think the band was going to have a more elaborate production time on the live album, too, but with D gone... I think it was rushed. Still, I quite love most of it. There's a few cheesy ones because, well, that was the only recording, or whatever... but it's still fun.
	👻 10:25pm Austin Rich: Oh, wow! Someone put this gem on YouTube Our Band Could Be Your Life: A Tribute to D Boon and the Minutemen: youtu.be...
	👻 10:26pm Austin Rich: This comp was produced in Eugene, and features a lot of amazing covers and tributes to the Minutemen. I quite fell in love with it, but I wonder if it was a time and place thing.
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: Looking at the tracks on that Minutemen comp: I think I would still love it today.
	10:31pm Aitch: Robots you say?
	👻 10:32pm Austin Rich: Hello, Aitch! Nice robot photo!
	10:32pm Mr. X: No one expects etc cliche
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: I almost went there too, Mr. X.
	10:33pm Aitch: Danger!, not surprise and fear...
	10:35pm DJ Babs: hey all!!
	10:35pm DJ Babs: great playlist tonite!!
	10:39pm drowsy: nice!
	👻 10:40pm Austin Rich: Yeah, I love this weird comp, drowsy. A bunch of crazy Japanese punk. Perfect for a Sunday morning.
	👻 10:41pm Austin Rich: I like how even Slats is sort of confused by the plot.
	👻 10:42pm Austin Rich: The Miss is a "Peace Corps" band. All the members were in the Peace Corps in different roles, and made this record. Later, they sort of re-formed as the Iarvles, who are still sort of mining the same sound.
	10:44pm DJ Babs: Simply Saucer!!!! The pride of Canada!!!
	10:44pm drowsy: That peace corps deal is v cool.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: They are! I saw them once, at a music fest in Portland, and they were STELLAR.
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: I know a handful of Peace Corps folks. They are all very cool, and weird, and wonderful people. And they all make music and movies.
	10:45pm b0b0b0b0b Plasticland: @@@ Mister X..yeah you ain't far off ..i talked to the drummer with the Missing Men ..Young guy said he listens to John Coltrane alot..
	10:46pm Derek Westerholm: Always great to hear Simply Saucer... Canadian proto-punk legends! This material dates from '73-'74... So good!
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: I fell in love with this Simply Saucer album in college... it's just so good on so many levels. An HEAVY METALOID MUSIC!
	👻 10:48pm Austin Rich: When I was assembling this playlist, I got to hour two, and I was sort of not quite sure what I'd already picked. So got to this part, where it made sense to play this Fall song in, and I was like, "I feel like I played The Fall on the show recently. Didn't I?" Then I looked back and was like, "Well, who doesn't need more Fall in their lives? Once an hour isn't too much, right?"
	10:48pm DJ Babs: HELL NO IT IS NOT
	10:48pm drowsy: truth
	10:49pm Mr. X: After all, it's two-fer Tuesday.
	10:49pm Derek Westerholm: Definitely not too much.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: I love with Mark E. Smith sings covers. It always sounds like he barely remember the lyrics... unlike when he sings normally, where... well... he MOSTLY remembers?
	10:50pm Derek Westerholm: Haha... "MOSTLY"...Ha!
	10:50pm DJ Babs: LOL
	👻 10:50pm Austin Rich: I'm glad everyone's on the Fall train with me. I should play them more on the show, anyway. They're almost always appropriate.
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: We might go a little over...
	10:51pm Derek Westerholm: There's never a time where The Fall are inappropriate, so far as I'm concerned!
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: I should have cut that Clutch song. It sort of didn't work, anyway.
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: Another album I got super into when I was in college. Someone played for me this Savage Resurrection album, and I just fell in love.
	10:53pm coelacanth∅: almost a cover of Love or confusion!
	10:53pm drowsy: well, we won the battle, that's clutch. I'm emotional, so it's all good.
	10:53pm Mr. X: Savage Resurrection is one of the more coherent psych bands.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: I also find it a very beautiful album, Mr. X. Very re-listenable.
	10:54pm Aitch: Saw the Fall early 90s Totally Wired etc, saw him again just before he died, he was looking dreadful. Both wild shows though, nothing like him
	👻 10:55pm Austin Rich: I'm very jealous, Aitch! I passed up at least one chance, and regret it often.
	10:55pm drowsy: same
	10:56pm Scott67: Thanks Austin, great shit mate!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	10:57pm DJ Babs: I am very much enjoying this Servotron.
	10:57pm Aitch: He'd come in English winter and then complain it was too 'ot down 'ere like fook
	👻 10:57pm Austin Rich: Thanks Scott67! We'll go at least 5 or so minutes over... maybe more?
	10:57pm Aitch: IE our summer^
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: Servotron is one of my fave bands. All their albums / singles are like that... Robot Superiority, human inferiority. SO GOOD.
	10:58pm Scott67: Excellent!!🍻😎🤙
	10:58pm Derek Westerholm: I saw The Fall 3 times, twice here in Toronto '93/'94 (in '94 Brix had just rejoined!), then I traveled to Philly to see them on the infamous '98 tour where Mark E. Smith later ended up in jail & most of the band split. The '94 show was great. The '98 show made me vow to never travel to see them again, and thus, I never did see them again. To my own detriment, really.
	10:58pm DJ Babs: They are super fun!!!
	10:58pm Mr Fab: I tended to shun tribute albums during that ‘90s craze, thinking: why would I want to listen to others playing classics when I could listen to the actual classics? But the artists listed on that Minutemen tribute is pretty damn impressive. And plus, I just miss the ‘men so much that I’m gonna have to find a copy of that album.
	10:58pm coelacanth∅: but, are we really sure that the good robits won? maybe this is all a program!
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: This is the most Punk Alice Cooper album, in my opinion.
	10:59pm coelacanth∅: Rich i agree
	10:59pm DJ Babs: I'm still all about Special Forces Alice Cooper, lol. What a glorious mess that record is.
	10:59pm Aitch: I know little of pre Schools Out Alice, been meaning to look
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: There's some REALLY good Alice. And then there's... well... some albums that I tune out for.
	11:01pm Mr. X: A time or two, I tuned into Alice Cooper's radio show when he was a DJ. It was good.
	👻 11:01pm Austin Rich: You are usually right about tribute albums, Mr. Fab. It's got to be some REALLY good bands.
	11:01pm Aitch: Big bro only had Schools Out and Billion DB
	11:02pm coelacanth∅: billion dollar babies was the last great alice cooper album, in my opinion but i really need to revisit muscle of love to be sure
	11:04pm coelacanth∅: dead dog's eyeball's a good tribute album
	11:04pm Aitch: It's a good show, thanks Austin
	11:04pm drowsy: Thanks for all the effort Austin Rich!
	11:04pm Scott67: 🍻😎🤙
	11:05pm Mr Fab: This was great music-to-do-laundry-by!
	11:05pm Mr. X: Thanks Austin, another good one!
	11:06pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks A.R.!!!
	11:06pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Austin Rich!
	👻 11:06pm Austin Rich: Thank you, Aitch, coelacanthø, drowsy, Scott67, Mr. Fab, Mr. X, Derek Westerholm, DJ Babs, and anyone else I've forgotten!
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: I guess the Android Sisters should listen to that Johnny Fever tribute show we did on Sheena's a while back...
	11:08pm DJ Babs: Thank you for a great show!!!
	👻 11:09pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from August 9, 2022

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