WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 14, 2023

Listener comments!
	👻 6:20pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:38pm Aitch: 26 reds and a bottle of wine?
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @8:38 Something like that! Thanks for joining the chat!
	9:00pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	9:01pm laurapanic: gents.
	👻 9:01pm ramencity: moo moo buckaroos
	9:01pm Krys O.: You scared me for a minute. Thought it was Martin Newell. Forgot about David McCallum.
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:00 Imaginos! Thanks for popping in!
	👻 9:01pm ramencity: Sorry for the scare there Krys!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:01 Always a pleasure to see you in the chat!
	9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 Happy to be here
	9:01pm Mr Fab: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 haha, me too.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Sorry for the scare everyone!
	9:02pm Mr Fab: you know David McCallum DID make albums.
	👻 9:06pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @9:02 Oh, I didn't know but should have checked!
	9:07pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "Hand Over Fist" by "Drive Like Jehu" I knew this was coming.....Froberg could sing me my shopping list and I'd get huge feelings. I love Froberg.
	9:08pm laurapanic: ↳ laurapanic @9:07 I knew Austin would be bringing the Froberg
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: I do love this band. Thanks to The Ramen City Kid, who first introduced me!
	9:09pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 in my Top 5 all time
	9:09pm laurapanic: ↳ laurapanic @9:09 I/m actually having big feelings I didnt expect right now. Jehu just MOVE ME
	👻 9:10pm ramencity: I remember I was visiting someone in Seattle in the summer of '92 and first heard "Atom Jack" on the radio there, and I was wondering: "What the lovin' heck..."
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: It's a tiny hectic behind the scenes here. But thanks EVERYONE for tuning in, and joining us tonight!
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:09 Hopefully the big feelings are also accompanied by DANCING!
	9:17pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 desk dancing is GO
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Hanging on the Telephone" by "The Nerves" I do love this tune, and this one certainly bummed me out.
	9:18pm Mr Fab: thanks to Jeffrey Lee Pierce for hippin' Blondie to this tune.
	👻 9:19pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @9:18 ooh I didn't know that
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:18 I just found my Jeffrey Lee Pierce solo album, and was wondering how I could fit it into a future show.
	9:20pm Mr Fab: Noooo, Morrisey is on Sheena's! But it's ok, I get it...
	9:20pm Paco_Jones: Hey Austin. Great show thus far.
	9:20pm Imaginos: When was the last inductee to Club 27?
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Paco_Jones @9:20 Howdy Paco! Thanks for joining us.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:20 Thanks for the forgiveness.
	9:23pm Imaginos: Observing a moments of silence?
	9:24pm Androu B.: Hey Austin & Mid-Valley Mutants! You had me at The Nerves version of that classic tune, but The Smith single was quite a surprise! Never heard it before until now! On a related note: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N4G3ERh01Ps
	9:25pm Mr Fab: ha, there's no rules here in freeform-land. Just teasing.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:25 Ha! Thought so.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: Tech issues galore behind the scenes! Oh well... live radio! It is what it is. Thank you for your patience!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Androu B. @9:24 Thanks for joining us, Androu B! I'll have to check out that link in a bit.
	9:29pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 At least the music is playing
	9:30pm Mr Fab: this is the biggest loss for me so far - those first couple Sinéad O'Connor albums were just massive. Really a shame she wasn't able to develop into the important figure she should have been. Really thought she could be one of those Peter Gabriel/Neil Young/Joni Mitchell-type legends with long, idiosyncratic influential careers. Tom Verlaine's death was a gut-punch, too. This (and many of his solo albums) were almost as good as "Marquee Moon."
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:29 That is good. There was that one night when everything died... but, things are working now. Which is good.
	👻 9:32pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @9:30 Yes, my best friend in sr year of high school played that first Sinead album over and over. I am still not used to the UK cover with her screaming on it.. I have the more 'sedate' US cover...
	9:33pm krutzo: ↳ Song: "She Is Beyond Good and Evil" by "Pop Group" god i missed hearing mark stewart's voice
	9:33pm Krys O.: Good night, all! Thanks for some great radio.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:33 Sleep well, Krys O !
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ krutzo @9:33 Thanks for joining the chat, krutzo!
	9:34pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "She Is Beyond Good and Evil" by "Pop Group" still sounds like nothing else
	9:36pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Caca Boudin Popo Pipi" by "SPOT" Spot, from SST? He made records under his own name?
	👻 9:36pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @9:36 some weird folk records I gather!
	9:37pm Aitch: ↳ Mr Fab @9:30 Sinead's song Troy off the first one just extraordinary, but that first album generally
	9:38pm Androu B.: ↳ Song: "She Is Beyond Good and Evil" by "Pop Group" I first got to know Stewart only through his solo albums and collabs with On-U Sound artists in the late 80's before I ever knew about the earlier part of his career with The Pop Group.
	👻 9:38pm ramencity: ↳ Aitch @9:37 It was a coin-flip whether I'd play Jackie or Troy, really
	9:38pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Human Cannonball" by "The Butthole Surfers" The cover art for this! and again, what an album
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @9:38 Yeah. I'm REALLY into this early era of the Surfers. I saw them, one of the earliest shows I paid for with my own money, and they really blew my mind.
	9:39pm Mr Fab: Was so glad I got to see the BH Surfers (as the LA Times called them) as many times as I did. Theresa Nervosa (RIP) was a total bad-ass on the stand-up drum kit.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:39 I wish I'd seen them more. They were Brill.
	9:40pm Mr Fab: ↳ Aitch @9:38 oh yeah one of THE albums of the '80s for me.
	9:42pm Aitch: ↳ Mr Fab @9:40 resetting what was possible
	9:42pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 I saw em 5 or 6 times, but I ran into someone I went to high school with at a college party who said he hadn't been attending classes lately cuz he was following the Surfers on tour. Like a Dead-head. Only of course we called him a Butt-head.
	9:42pm Androu B.: ↳ Song: "Human Cannonball" by "The Butthole Surfers" So which other [ex-]members of the group (that I hadn't heard about) are gone besides Teresa Nervosa?
	👻 9:43pm ramencity: ↳ Androu B. @9:42 this one is for Teresa
	9:43pm Mr Fab: ↳ Androu B. @9:42 Hmm, think the rest are alive? So far as I know...
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:42 I'm not sure I could handle following the Surfers. That sounds exhausting. But occasionally would have been nice.
	👻 9:46pm Heather Z: I saw a meme the other day that your NPR host name is your favorite pattern as the first name and your favorite deceased music star as the last name. I, of course, was Houndstooth Bowie.
	9:47pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 Its hard not to be suspicious of people who have not had their mind infiltrated by the Butthole Surfers. How do they LIVE like that?
	9:49pm Aitch: I read about Al Jorgensen moving in to Dr Learys place and Gibby was there too. Gibby said Leary used them as a test bed. dangerousminds.net...
	9:51pm Imaginos: Hoopla might have it
	9:57pm Aitch: Joy Division and The Who also often bass as melody, a sound I love
	👻 9:59pm ramencity: ↳ Aitch @9:57 oh yeah Joy Division for sure!
	10:00pm Mr Fab: "De La Soul Is Dead" is even better than their first. Huge album in the Golden Age.
	10:00pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	10:01pm Mr Fab: Trugoy = "yogurt" backwards. Cuz he liked eating yogurt. As well he should.
	👻 10:01pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:00 I agree! One of my fave "anti-sophomore slump" examples
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:46 That totally tracks.
	👻 10:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:47 Yeah. It seems important to have your mind broken from time to time.
	👻 10:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @9:49 Ooooo! I'll need to read that.
	👻 10:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @9:57 YAS.
	👻 10:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:00 It's pretty fantastic. I'm impressed at how great is remains.
	10:08pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Bury Me Dead (Deep In My Grave)" by "Huey Smith &... As huge fan of New Orleans stuff, I'm shocked that a)Huey "Piano" Smith was still alive, and b) I didnt know that he had died.
	👻 10:09pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:08 I am a big NOLA rekkid fan, and I was a bit surprised it was just this year that he passed
	👻 10:09pm ramencity: We're gonna make Austin play Huey's Christmas album soon! :0
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: You two need to do a New Orleans show one of these days! I'm sure you two would go nuts over that.
	👻 10:12pm ramencity: I will say.. I went a little crazy when I saw a copy of White Cliffs records #201 for sale on ebay the other day - 45cat didn't even have an entry for it! It was a bit rich for my blood in the end. (end record nerd emission)
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:12 I had a realization that I could just buy records online the other day in a moment of low will-power, and I almost ordered a bunch of stuff. I need a breathalyzer on my credit card.
	10:15pm Mr Fab: " I need a breathalyzer on my credit card." I really did LOL at that!
	👻 10:15pm ramencity: +1
	10:17pm Mr Fab: I did an hour of Belafonte on "The Wiggle Room" after he died, but didn't play this one. Another guy with a MASSIVE discography.
	👻 10:17pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:17 Austin was just telling me that - I will look it up in the archives!
	👻 10:18pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr Fab @10:15 I'll credit Austin every time I use that line from now on. And I will use it frequently!
	10:21pm Androu B.: ↳ Aitch @9:49 Are we going to hear any Spooky Tooth tonight, in honor of Gary Wright's passing?
	👻 10:28pm ramencity: ↳ Androu B. @10:21 sorry no Spookytooth - we could've done four of these shows. No Carla Bley (she passed away after the playlist was finalized) or Isley Bros. or... it's a long list!
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:18 I think our old roommate Josh used to suggest that he needed a breathalyzer on his e-mail, as he would send the worst e-mail at night. That phrase always stuck with me. And... I think Google has a feature where you have to solve equations to send e-mail if it's between certain hours? So... it sort of exists?
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: Also: here's Mr. Fab's Belafonte set: wfmu.org...
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Jordan River Song" by "Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou" It's a long story, but I got in trouble at a job once for playing a bunch of "Éthiopiques" songs. My boss didn't know what to make of the music, and asked me not to play it at work anymore. It was... dumb.
	👻 10:35pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 It's such a good line!! I wonder if I need that app... I don't usually send unhinged things late at night.. I just kind of send them all the time. And I am bad at math.
	10:35pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Bodybag" by "Effigies" I heard the daughter of one of the Effigies joined some underground bands. I forget the details.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:35 Thanks for joining us, David!
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:35 You could turn it on, and then you would just not be able to use your e-mail anymore. Which... in some cases... is a good thing?
	10:39pm Androu B.: Thanks for answering my question, Austin! Maybe it was just me, but I heard a member of The Soup Dragons (or one of those other "Madchester" bands) had passed away this year, iirc.
	👻 10:40pm ramencity: ↳ Androu B. @10:39 Maybe John Mackey out of Pulp? I hadn't heard about a lost Soupdragon at least... :eyes:
	👻 10:40pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 I'm already bad enough at managing returning important messages tho so.... (As you well know)
	👻 10:42pm ramencity: ↳ ramencity @10:40 Steve not "John" Mackey :grimace:
	10:42pm Androu B.: ↳ ramencity @10:40 Yeah, don't bother. I already did a check on Discogs and it looks like all ex-members are still present and accounted for. And, yes, that must be who I was recalling, John Mackey.
	10:45pm Androu B.: ↳ Song: "Winners" by "Scott Johnson" This one sounded like something off The Sirsiks' album "I Didn't Know I Was Singing".
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Androu B. @10:45 I really liked that Scott Johnson song, so I'll have to look up this recommendation, too.
	10:46pm Mr Fab: ↳ Androu B. @10:45 Yep, only Scott Johnson was doing stuff like that back in the '70s
	👻 10:47pm ramencity: ↳ Androu B. @10:45 I am not familiar w/ them (and Discogs is timing out on me). I wonder if there is a connection!
	10:47pm Androu B.: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 Refer to Rich in Washington for that one. He's played it before on his previous show, Cratedigger's Lung.
	👻 10:51pm Heather Z: Thank you, Ramen City Kid and Austin for an excellent show tonight!! See yall next week!
	10:53pm Mr Fab: you all should ABSOLUTELY check out Scott Johnson's "John Somebody" and his "Involuntary Music" tracks. Crucial pioneering tape-loop tracks.
	10:56pm Androu B.: ↳ Mr Fab @10:53 Y'know, now that it's been mentioned & played here, I believe I recall Scott Williams playing Scott Johnson often on his show.
	10:57pm Mr Fab: napoloean XIV died around the same time as one of the members of Barnes and Barnes.
	10:57pm laurapanic: top show, both of you
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:57 Thanks! It was a ton of fun.
	👻 10:58pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:53 I just grabbed a copy of John Somebody recently - I don't know Involuntary Music though!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:57 It was a bad year for novelty music, this year.
	👻 10:59pm ramencity: Kicking myself that we couldn't squeeze some Ahmad Jamal in either. Aigh! The list goes on
	10:59pm laurapanic: Did I miss something? Shatner isn't dead, I guess you said something to explain this...missed it
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:59 Steve Mackey from Pulp passed.
	11:01pm Androu B.: Thanks Austin & RCK!
	👻 11:01pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:57 Oh, you're right Mr Fab. The Barnes & Barnes guy was not on The List... he died the same day as SPOT even
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha! (Re-Mix)" b... Semi-Colin plays in this hardcore band, /root_DIR. But occasionally he did stuff like this.
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @11:03 rootdir.bandcamp.com
	11:04pm Androu B.: ↳ ramencity @11:01 Please tell me it's Bill Mumy's partner and not Bill himself!
	👻 11:05pm ramencity: ↳ Androu B. @11:04 Yes, it was "the other guy" en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: Thanks for joining us, everyone! See ya next time!
	11:07pm Androu B.: ↳ ramencity @11:05 Whew! What a relief! (Not to diminish the memory of his partner, may he RIP.)
	11:08pm Mr Fab: thank YOU guys!
	👻 11:09pm Austin Rich: Any time!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 14, 2023

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

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
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Cleaners From Venus	Illya Kuryakin Looked At Me	Living With Victoria Grey	Self-Released	1985	0:00:09 (Pop-up)

Drive Like Jehu	Hand Over Fist "Hand Over Fist" by "Drive Like Jehu"	Yank Crime	Interscope Records	1994	0:06:26 (Pop-up)
Effigies	Bodybag "Bodybag" by "Effigies"	"Bodybag" b/w "Security"	Ruthless Records	1982	0:10:09 (Pop-up)
G.I.S.M.	Death Agonies and Screams	Detestation	Dogma Records	1983	0:12:55 (Pop-up)
Screaming Trees	Walk Through To This Side	Invisible Lantern	SST Records	1988	0:14:46 (Pop-up)
The Nerves	Hanging on the Telephone	The Nerves	The Nerves	1976	0:17:16 (Pop-up)
The Smiths	London "London" by "The Smiths"	London	The Catalogue	1988	0:19:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Yellow Magic Orchestra	Solid State Survivor	Solid State Survivor	Alfa Records	1979	0:21:12 (Pop-up)
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Sinéad O'Connor	Jackie "Jackie" by "Sinéad O'Connor"	The Lion and the Cobra	Chrysalis Records	1987	0:25:20 (Pop-up)
Tom Verlaine	Red Leaves "Red Leaves" by "Tom Verlaine"	Tom Verlaine	Elektra Records	1979	0:27:35 (Pop-up)
Pop Group	She Is Beyond Good and Evil	"She Is Beyond Good and Evil" b/w "3'38"	Radar Records	1979	0:30:16 (Pop-up)
SPOT	Caca Boudin Popo Pipi "Caca Boudin Popo Pipi" by "SPOT"	"Yo! Marry Me!" b/w "Caca Boudin Popo Pipi"	No Auditions	1992	0:33:35 (Pop-up)
The Butthole Surfers	Human Cannonball	Locust Abortion Technician	Touch And Go	1987	0:36:43 (Pop-up)
Pavement	Gold Sounds "Gold Sounds" by "Pavement"	Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain	Matador Records	1994	0:40:29 (Pop-up)
Os Mutantes	Quem Tem Medo de Brincar de Amor	A Divina Comédia Ou Ando Meio Desligado	Polydor Records	1970	0:43:04 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Young-Holt Unlimited	Soulful Strut	Soulful Strut	Brunswick	1968	0:46:55 (Pop-up)
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De La Soul	Oodles of O's "Oodles of O's" by "De La Soul"	De La Soul Is Dead	Tommy Boy	1991	0:59:07 (Pop-up)
Fuzzy Haskins	I Can See Myself In You	A Whole Mother Thang	Westbound Records	1976	1:02:19 (Pop-up)
Huey Smith & the Pitter Pats	Bury Me Dead (Deep In My Grave)	Pitta Pattin'	Charly R&B	1990	1:05:59 (Pop-up)
Barrett Strong	Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right	"Misery" b/w "Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right"	Tamla	1961	1:07:59 (Pop-up)
Ike & Tina Turner And The Ikettes	Unlucky Creature	Come Together	Liberty	1970	1:10:32 (Pop-up)
The Association	Babe I'm Gonna Leave You	"Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" b/w "Baby Can't You Hear Me Call Your Name"	Jubilee	1965	1:12:52 (Pop-up)
Harry Belafonte	Jerry (This Timber Gotta Roll)	"Man Smart (Woman Smarter)" b/w "Jerry (This Timber Got To Roll)"	RCA Victor	1957	1:15:33 (Pop-up)
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Music behind DJ: Elvin Jones & Richard Davis	Summertime	Heavy Sounds	Impulse! Records	1968	1:17:57 (Pop-up)
Wayne Shorter	Adventures Aboard the Golden Mean	Emanon	Blue Note	2018	1:28:11 (Pop-up)
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou	Jordan River Song	Éthiopiques 21: Piano Solo	Buda Musique	2006	1:32:23 (Pop-up)
Sheldon Harnick & Jerry Bock	In My Own Lifetime	The Rothschilds - Original Broadway Cast	Columbia Masterworks	1970	1:34:56 (Pop-up)
Scott Johnson	Winners "Winners" by "Scott Johnson"	Mind Out Of Matter	Tzadik	2018	1:36:36 (Pop-up)
Kaija Saariaho	Pt 2 - On Fire "Pt 2 - On Fire" by "Kaija Saariaho"	Notes on Light	Ondine	2008	1:40:15 (Pop-up)
Gloria Coates	Symphony #1 - mvmt 4 - Refracted Mirror Canon For Fourteen Lines	Symphonies 1, 4 & 7	CPO	1996	1:44:43 (Pop-up)
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Music behind DJ: The Associates	The Associate "The Associate" by "The Associates"	Fourth Drawer Down	Situation Two	1981	1:47:57 (Pop-up)
William Shatner	Common People "Common People" by "William Shatner"	Has Been	Shout Factory	2004	1:57:50 (Pop-up)
Semi-Colin	They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha! (Re-Mix)	They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha! (Re-Mix)	Self-Released	1995	2:02:09 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 6:20pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:38pm Aitch: 26 reds and a bottle of wine?
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @8:38 Something like that! Thanks for joining the chat!
	9:00pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	9:01pm laurapanic: gents.
	👻 9:01pm ramencity: moo moo buckaroos
	9:01pm Krys O.: You scared me for a minute. Thought it was Martin Newell. Forgot about David McCallum.
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:00 Imaginos! Thanks for popping in!
	👻 9:01pm ramencity: Sorry for the scare there Krys!
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:01 Always a pleasure to see you in the chat!
	9:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:01 Happy to be here
	9:01pm Mr Fab: ↳ Krys O. @9:01 haha, me too.
	👻 9:02pm Austin Rich: Sorry for the scare everyone!
	9:02pm Mr Fab: you know David McCallum DID make albums.
	👻 9:06pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @9:02 Oh, I didn't know but should have checked!
	9:07pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "Hand Over Fist" by "Drive Like Jehu" I knew this was coming.....Froberg could sing me my shopping list and I'd get huge feelings. I love Froberg.
	9:08pm laurapanic: ↳ laurapanic @9:07 I knew Austin would be bringing the Froberg
	👻 9:08pm Austin Rich: I do love this band. Thanks to The Ramen City Kid, who first introduced me!
	9:09pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:08 in my Top 5 all time
	9:09pm laurapanic: ↳ laurapanic @9:09 I/m actually having big feelings I didnt expect right now. Jehu just MOVE ME
	👻 9:10pm ramencity: I remember I was visiting someone in Seattle in the summer of '92 and first heard "Atom Jack" on the radio there, and I was wondering: "What the lovin' heck..."
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: It's a tiny hectic behind the scenes here. But thanks EVERYONE for tuning in, and joining us tonight!
	👻 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:09 Hopefully the big feelings are also accompanied by DANCING!
	9:17pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:15 desk dancing is GO
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Hanging on the Telephone" by "The Nerves" I do love this tune, and this one certainly bummed me out.
	9:18pm Mr Fab: thanks to Jeffrey Lee Pierce for hippin' Blondie to this tune.
	👻 9:19pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @9:18 ooh I didn't know that
	👻 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:18 I just found my Jeffrey Lee Pierce solo album, and was wondering how I could fit it into a future show.
	9:20pm Mr Fab: Noooo, Morrisey is on Sheena's! But it's ok, I get it...
	9:20pm Paco_Jones: Hey Austin. Great show thus far.
	9:20pm Imaginos: When was the last inductee to Club 27?
	👻 9:20pm Austin Rich: ↳ Paco_Jones @9:20 Howdy Paco! Thanks for joining us.
	👻 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:20 Thanks for the forgiveness.
	9:23pm Imaginos: Observing a moments of silence?
	9:24pm Androu B.: Hey Austin & Mid-Valley Mutants! You had me at The Nerves version of that classic tune, but The Smith single was quite a surprise! Never heard it before until now! On a related note: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N4G3ERh01Ps
	9:25pm Mr Fab: ha, there's no rules here in freeform-land. Just teasing.
	👻 9:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:25 Ha! Thought so.
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: Tech issues galore behind the scenes! Oh well... live radio! It is what it is. Thank you for your patience!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Androu B. @9:24 Thanks for joining us, Androu B! I'll have to check out that link in a bit.
	9:29pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:28 At least the music is playing
	9:30pm Mr Fab: this is the biggest loss for me so far - those first couple Sinéad O'Connor albums were just massive. Really a shame she wasn't able to develop into the important figure she should have been. Really thought she could be one of those Peter Gabriel/Neil Young/Joni Mitchell-type legends with long, idiosyncratic influential careers. Tom Verlaine's death was a gut-punch, too. This (and many of his solo albums) were almost as good as "Marquee Moon."
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:29 That is good. There was that one night when everything died... but, things are working now. Which is good.
	👻 9:32pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @9:30 Yes, my best friend in sr year of high school played that first Sinead album over and over. I am still not used to the UK cover with her screaming on it.. I have the more 'sedate' US cover...
	9:33pm krutzo: ↳ Song: "She Is Beyond Good and Evil" by "Pop Group" god i missed hearing mark stewart's voice
	9:33pm Krys O.: Good night, all! Thanks for some great radio.
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:33 Sleep well, Krys O !
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ krutzo @9:33 Thanks for joining the chat, krutzo!
	9:34pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "She Is Beyond Good and Evil" by "Pop Group" still sounds like nothing else
	9:36pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Caca Boudin Popo Pipi" by "SPOT" Spot, from SST? He made records under his own name?
	👻 9:36pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @9:36 some weird folk records I gather!
	9:37pm Aitch: ↳ Mr Fab @9:30 Sinead's song Troy off the first one just extraordinary, but that first album generally
	9:38pm Androu B.: ↳ Song: "She Is Beyond Good and Evil" by "Pop Group" I first got to know Stewart only through his solo albums and collabs with On-U Sound artists in the late 80's before I ever knew about the earlier part of his career with The Pop Group.
	👻 9:38pm ramencity: ↳ Aitch @9:37 It was a coin-flip whether I'd play Jackie or Troy, really
	9:38pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Human Cannonball" by "The Butthole Surfers" The cover art for this! and again, what an album
	👻 9:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @9:38 Yeah. I'm REALLY into this early era of the Surfers. I saw them, one of the earliest shows I paid for with my own money, and they really blew my mind.
	9:39pm Mr Fab: Was so glad I got to see the BH Surfers (as the LA Times called them) as many times as I did. Theresa Nervosa (RIP) was a total bad-ass on the stand-up drum kit.
	👻 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:39 I wish I'd seen them more. They were Brill.
	9:40pm Mr Fab: ↳ Aitch @9:38 oh yeah one of THE albums of the '80s for me.
	9:42pm Aitch: ↳ Mr Fab @9:40 resetting what was possible
	9:42pm Mr Fab: ↳ Austin Rich @9:40 I saw em 5 or 6 times, but I ran into someone I went to high school with at a college party who said he hadn't been attending classes lately cuz he was following the Surfers on tour. Like a Dead-head. Only of course we called him a Butt-head.
	9:42pm Androu B.: ↳ Song: "Human Cannonball" by "The Butthole Surfers" So which other [ex-]members of the group (that I hadn't heard about) are gone besides Teresa Nervosa?
	👻 9:43pm ramencity: ↳ Androu B. @9:42 this one is for Teresa
	9:43pm Mr Fab: ↳ Androu B. @9:42 Hmm, think the rest are alive? So far as I know...
	👻 9:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @9:42 I'm not sure I could handle following the Surfers. That sounds exhausting. But occasionally would have been nice.
	👻 9:46pm Heather Z: I saw a meme the other day that your NPR host name is your favorite pattern as the first name and your favorite deceased music star as the last name. I, of course, was Houndstooth Bowie.
	9:47pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:39 Its hard not to be suspicious of people who have not had their mind infiltrated by the Butthole Surfers. How do they LIVE like that?
	9:49pm Aitch: I read about Al Jorgensen moving in to Dr Learys place and Gibby was there too. Gibby said Leary used them as a test bed. dangerousminds.net...
	9:51pm Imaginos: Hoopla might have it
	9:57pm Aitch: Joy Division and The Who also often bass as melody, a sound I love
	👻 9:59pm ramencity: ↳ Aitch @9:57 oh yeah Joy Division for sure!
	10:00pm Mr Fab: "De La Soul Is Dead" is even better than their first. Huge album in the Golden Age.
	10:00pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy
	10:01pm Mr Fab: Trugoy = "yogurt" backwards. Cuz he liked eating yogurt. As well he should.
	👻 10:01pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:00 I agree! One of my fave "anti-sophomore slump" examples
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:46 That totally tracks.
	👻 10:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:47 Yeah. It seems important to have your mind broken from time to time.
	👻 10:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @9:49 Ooooo! I'll need to read that.
	👻 10:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Aitch @9:57 YAS.
	👻 10:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:00 It's pretty fantastic. I'm impressed at how great is remains.
	10:08pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Bury Me Dead (Deep In My Grave)" by "Huey Smith &... As huge fan of New Orleans stuff, I'm shocked that a)Huey "Piano" Smith was still alive, and b) I didnt know that he had died.
	👻 10:09pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:08 I am a big NOLA rekkid fan, and I was a bit surprised it was just this year that he passed
	👻 10:09pm ramencity: We're gonna make Austin play Huey's Christmas album soon! :0
	👻 10:10pm Austin Rich: You two need to do a New Orleans show one of these days! I'm sure you two would go nuts over that.
	👻 10:12pm ramencity: I will say.. I went a little crazy when I saw a copy of White Cliffs records #201 for sale on ebay the other day - 45cat didn't even have an entry for it! It was a bit rich for my blood in the end. (end record nerd emission)
	👻 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:12 I had a realization that I could just buy records online the other day in a moment of low will-power, and I almost ordered a bunch of stuff. I need a breathalyzer on my credit card.
	10:15pm Mr Fab: " I need a breathalyzer on my credit card." I really did LOL at that!
	👻 10:15pm ramencity: +1
	10:17pm Mr Fab: I did an hour of Belafonte on "The Wiggle Room" after he died, but didn't play this one. Another guy with a MASSIVE discography.
	👻 10:17pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:17 Austin was just telling me that - I will look it up in the archives!
	👻 10:18pm Heather Z: ↳ Mr Fab @10:15 I'll credit Austin every time I use that line from now on. And I will use it frequently!
	10:21pm Androu B.: ↳ Aitch @9:49 Are we going to hear any Spooky Tooth tonight, in honor of Gary Wright's passing?
	👻 10:28pm ramencity: ↳ Androu B. @10:21 sorry no Spookytooth - we could've done four of these shows. No Carla Bley (she passed away after the playlist was finalized) or Isley Bros. or... it's a long list!
	👻 10:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:18 I think our old roommate Josh used to suggest that he needed a breathalyzer on his e-mail, as he would send the worst e-mail at night. That phrase always stuck with me. And... I think Google has a feature where you have to solve equations to send e-mail if it's between certain hours? So... it sort of exists?
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: Also: here's Mr. Fab's Belafonte set: wfmu.org...
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Jordan River Song" by "Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou" It's a long story, but I got in trouble at a job once for playing a bunch of "Éthiopiques" songs. My boss didn't know what to make of the music, and asked me not to play it at work anymore. It was... dumb.
	👻 10:35pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:29 It's such a good line!! I wonder if I need that app... I don't usually send unhinged things late at night.. I just kind of send them all the time. And I am bad at math.
	10:35pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Bodybag" by "Effigies" I heard the daughter of one of the Effigies joined some underground bands. I forget the details.
	👻 10:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:35 Thanks for joining us, David!
	👻 10:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @10:35 You could turn it on, and then you would just not be able to use your e-mail anymore. Which... in some cases... is a good thing?
	10:39pm Androu B.: Thanks for answering my question, Austin! Maybe it was just me, but I heard a member of The Soup Dragons (or one of those other "Madchester" bands) had passed away this year, iirc.
	👻 10:40pm ramencity: ↳ Androu B. @10:39 Maybe John Mackey out of Pulp? I hadn't heard about a lost Soupdragon at least... :eyes:
	👻 10:40pm Heather Z: ↳ Austin Rich @10:38 I'm already bad enough at managing returning important messages tho so.... (As you well know)
	👻 10:42pm ramencity: ↳ ramencity @10:40 Steve not "John" Mackey :grimace:
	10:42pm Androu B.: ↳ ramencity @10:40 Yeah, don't bother. I already did a check on Discogs and it looks like all ex-members are still present and accounted for. And, yes, that must be who I was recalling, John Mackey.
	10:45pm Androu B.: ↳ Song: "Winners" by "Scott Johnson" This one sounded like something off The Sirsiks' album "I Didn't Know I Was Singing".
	👻 10:45pm Austin Rich: ↳ Androu B. @10:45 I really liked that Scott Johnson song, so I'll have to look up this recommendation, too.
	10:46pm Mr Fab: ↳ Androu B. @10:45 Yep, only Scott Johnson was doing stuff like that back in the '70s
	👻 10:47pm ramencity: ↳ Androu B. @10:45 I am not familiar w/ them (and Discogs is timing out on me). I wonder if there is a connection!
	10:47pm Androu B.: ↳ Austin Rich @10:45 Refer to Rich in Washington for that one. He's played it before on his previous show, Cratedigger's Lung.
	👻 10:51pm Heather Z: Thank you, Ramen City Kid and Austin for an excellent show tonight!! See yall next week!
	10:53pm Mr Fab: you all should ABSOLUTELY check out Scott Johnson's "John Somebody" and his "Involuntary Music" tracks. Crucial pioneering tape-loop tracks.
	10:56pm Androu B.: ↳ Mr Fab @10:53 Y'know, now that it's been mentioned & played here, I believe I recall Scott Williams playing Scott Johnson often on his show.
	10:57pm Mr Fab: napoloean XIV died around the same time as one of the members of Barnes and Barnes.
	10:57pm laurapanic: top show, both of you
	👻 10:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:57 Thanks! It was a ton of fun.
	👻 10:58pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:53 I just grabbed a copy of John Somebody recently - I don't know Involuntary Music though!
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @10:57 It was a bad year for novelty music, this year.
	👻 10:59pm ramencity: Kicking myself that we couldn't squeeze some Ahmad Jamal in either. Aigh! The list goes on
	10:59pm laurapanic: Did I miss something? Shatner isn't dead, I guess you said something to explain this...missed it
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @10:59 Steve Mackey from Pulp passed.
	11:01pm Androu B.: Thanks Austin & RCK!
	👻 11:01pm ramencity: ↳ Mr Fab @10:57 Oh, you're right Mr Fab. The Barnes & Barnes guy was not on The List... he died the same day as SPOT even
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha! (Re-Mix)" b... Semi-Colin plays in this hardcore band, /root_DIR. But occasionally he did stuff like this.
	👻 11:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @11:03 rootdir.bandcamp.com
	11:04pm Androu B.: ↳ ramencity @11:01 Please tell me it's Bill Mumy's partner and not Bill himself!
	👻 11:05pm ramencity: ↳ Androu B. @11:04 Yes, it was "the other guy" en.wikipedia.org...
	👻 11:07pm Austin Rich: Thanks for joining us, everyone! See ya next time!
	11:07pm Androu B.: ↳ ramencity @11:05 Whew! What a relief! (Not to diminish the memory of his partner, may he RIP.)
	11:08pm Mr Fab: thank YOU guys!
	👻 11:09pm Austin Rich: Any time!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from November 14, 2023

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