WFMU: Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from April 25, 2024

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from April 25, 2024

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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April 25, 2024: BIRTHDAY CAKE (for Bulls and B's)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
John Manolesco	Character Study [Excerpt]	Astrology Guide for Taurus	RCA	1970	For all the Tauruses out there, including those born today. Happy Birthday. "The test of an astrologer, John Manolesco says, is the accuracy of his predictions. This is the supreme test, and John Monolesco passes, having accurately forecast the assassinationjs of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy and the resignation of de Gaulle - to the precise week - months before the famous referendum..."		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sounds of the Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds of the Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			0:02:57 (Pop-up)
The Pipes And Drums And The Military Band Of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards	Amazing Grace	Amazing Grace	BMG Music	1972	Apparently, this was #1 on the charts in the U.K. on April 25, 1972. Happy Birthday, Babs!		0:05:48 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Birthday Song (speed x 1.75)	The Marshall Suite	Artful Records	1999	Though I love the languorous languidness of the original track (from The Fall's stunning Phoenix-out-of-the-ashes 1999 album "The Marshall Suite"), there is something truly compelling by what happens when helping it along by a rate of x1.75... Perhaps now my favourite way to listen to it. We've played it before, sure, but not travelling at this speedy clip. "Julia Adamson [AKA Julia Nagle, Fall keyboardist at the time] on the track: "It was initially an instrumental I called it Birthday Song as it was my sister's birthday and I gave it to her on a CD for a present. MES always liked it. On a separate occasion I asked him to write a 'love' poem and after a couple of goes was finished and fabulous I thought. MES decided to put the instrumental and poem together for The Marshall Suite.""		0:09:46 (Pop-up)
The Fabulous Downey Brothers, Fred Schneider	Sex & Chips	VR	Sprix Records	2022	Not sure what this is all about or what to make of it, but it is from 2022 and features Fred Schneider. One thing I could find was that the B-52's and The Fabulous Downey brothers played together at the Oregon Zoo Ampitheatre on June 27, 2015, so it seems this union has been a while in the making... Excerpt from a review at that time... "Master of ceremonies Fred Schneider III, being his usual offbeat, subtly sarcastic self, offered up humorous comments and banter between songs and clearly enjoyed himself and the boisterous crowd." "Opening the evening were Olympia, Washington’s The Fabulous Downey Brothers with their Devo-esque, self-described performance of "zolo, new wave, digi punk, art-ernative" music and performance art."		0:11:11 (Pop-up)
Altin Gün	Vallahi Yok "Vallahi Yok" by "Altin Gün"	Vallahi Yok / Kırık Cam	ATO Records	2024	Released April 9, 2024. Altın Gün, Turkish psych-folk innovators, return with a glimmering new single consisting of two original songs composed by Merve and Jasper. The release is a farewell to Merve and coincides with the band's sold-out show at the legendary L’Olympia in Paris, which is also the first date of their spring European club tour. Merve will leave Altın Gün in May and the band will proceed as a five-piece. More tour dates and music are rumoured to be ahead in 2024. Altin Gün (Bandcamp)	*	0:14:49 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Düde Dürst	Utilisation "Utilisation" by "Düde Dürst"	Krokodil Solo	Sunset Records	1970	Rock drummer and graphic designer from Switzerland, born 1946, Real Name: Kurt Dürst. "Düde Dürst is the drummer of the psych-kraut jazzy collective Krokodil. This solo album is in the kosmische-trancey krautrock vein with long instrumental parts, various moods and colours. This is authenticaly progressive with many arrengements and fabulous percussive drum sets. The two epic compositions are divided into several themes. The magnificant improvisation called Chemical Harvest first starts with soulful-acid jazzy notes before to go into mystical-darkness, including exotic instrumentation, mantra-like atmospheres. The song is mainly built around a vast collection of drums. The ambiences are quiet ritual, cinematic and haunted. The piece ends with a light-sunny jazz rockin' instrumental, including dancing flutes, grand piano melodies...The Sound of Sunshine is a more spacious and druggy stuff with propulsive-dynamic drum improvs, tripped out fuzzy bass lines. The soundscape is absolutely gorgeous and hallucinatory epic. The last minutes of the instrumental features luminous entrance kraut-folkish grooves (reminiscence of Rufus Zuphall). Almost a classic and an obvious recommendation for fans of unconventional-freely improvised music." //// This is the closer of his first solo album, from the "The Sound Of Sunshine" side (side B).		0:19:29 (Pop-up)
Stinky Toys	Birthday Party "Birthday Party" by "Stinky Toys"	Stinky Toys	Sony Music	1979	Stinky Toys were a French punk rock band from Paris which formed in 1976 and featured Elli Medeiros (vocals), Denis Quilliard, alias Jacno, (a.k.a. Jan Colrth) (rhythm guitar), Bruno Carone (lead guitar), Albin Dériat (bass guitar), and Hervé Zénouda (drums). One of the first French new wave bands, in 1976 the band took part in the 100 Club Punk Festival in London, sharing the bill with such bands as Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Buzzcocks. The band split up in 1979, with Elli Medeiros and Jacno then forming the duo, Elli et Jacno. Medeiros went on to a solo career, releasing the Bom Bom... album in 1987...."The concept of a French punk band with a female singer seemed remarkably promising when Stinky Toys first began gigging around London in late 1976. A year later, this record came as a major disappointment, consisting as it does of uninspired sub-Rolling Stones rock’n’boogie with terrible vocals by Elli Medeiros, who went on to a solo career that never brought her any acclaim in the English-speaking world.[Ira Robbins]" OUCH.		0:28:21 (Pop-up)
Cibo Matto	Birthday Cake "Birthday Cake" by "Cibo Matto"	Viva! La Woman	Warner	1996	Listening back to this, I cannot help but feel how much this band was ahead of its time. Al ot of people look for a deeper meaning behind this song...often of a troubled relationship between a mother and her son, and the inability to communicate between generations. Either way, it's drugs and food which is pure Cibo Matto and we love them for it. Formed in 1993/4 and active until 2002, "Crazy Food" will always be cool.		0:31:13 (Pop-up)
Iggy Pop	Tight Pants "Tight Pants" by "Iggy Pop"	I'm Sick of You!	Bomp!	1977	This earlier version of Shake Appeal is I feel...superior. More visceral, more raw, more unhinged...just more Stooges. Why they changed it I'll never know. From the enthusiastic count-off and in, Tight Pants is overloaded gutterpunk blooze straight outta 1972; nagging, insistent, a proper primal scream of snakehip guitars with needles ramped round in the red. There are Supremes handclaps perhaps, or maybe just a heavily slapped snare – it’s hard to tell from the cardboard box production – alongside riff upon riff of juddering guitar, vying for earspace with the Iggy barks and yelps, but far as garage band rockers go, it’s a whole lot of don’t-give-a-damn snarling fun, with a guitar solo in the outro that sounds like a wheezing tramp running over broken glass. It’s oft-considered a sloppy production, out of step with the musical landscape of the era, but it certainly captures a proto-punk spirit that would, within a few years, be omnipresent in the underground. Iggy Pop's birthday is April 21st, 1947...Happy Birthday Poppa Iggy!		0:34:29 (Pop-up)
Brian Eno	Backwater "Backwater" by "Brian Eno"	Before and After Science	Island Records	1977	Unlike Eno's previous albums, which were recorded in a very short time, Before and After Science was two years in the making.During this two-year period, Eno was busy working on his solo ambient music albums Music for Films and Discreet Music. Due to the very positive critical reception accorded his previous rock music-oriented album, Another Green World, Eno was afraid of repeating himself but still wanted to release a high-quality product. As on his previous rock-based recordings, Eno worked with a plethora of guest musicians such as Fred Frith and Jaki Liebeszeit of CAN, who provided drums for this track. Phil Collins and Robert Fripp also appear on the album. Eno referred to the music of Before and After Science as "ocean music", as opposed to Another Green World', which he described as "sky music"...either way it is essential listening, for sure! May 15th, 1948 is when Brian Peter Geoge Eno was born.		0:36:41 (Pop-up)
The Cure	Just Like Heaven "Just Like Heaven" by "The Cure"	Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me	Fiction Records	1987	"Just Like Heaven" is a song by British alternative rock band the Cure. The group wrote most of the song during recording sessions in southern France in 1987. The lyrics were written by their frontman Robert Smith, who drew inspiration from a past trip to the sea shore with his future wife. Smith's memories of the trip formed the basis for the song's accompanying music video. Before Smith had completed the lyrics, an instrumental version of the song was used as the theme for the French television show Les Enfants du Rock. In order to develop material for Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Smith forced himself to write music for 15 days of each month. During this regimen, he developed the chords and melody which form the basis of "Just Like Heaven". According to Smith, "The song is about hyperventilating—kissing and fainting to the floor." The lyrics were inspired by a trip with his then-girlfriend (and later wife) Mary Poole to Beachy Head in southern England. Smith said the opening line of the song ("Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick") refers to his childhood memories of mastering magic tricks, but added "on another [level], it's about a seduction trick, from much later in my life". The lovely and wonderful Robert Smith's birthday is April 21st, 1959		0:40:19 (Pop-up)
Grace Jones	Warm Leatherette "Warm Leatherette" by "Grace Jones"	Warm Leatherette	Island Records	1980	Warm Leatherette, Jones’ career-shifting 1980 release, gives a glimpse of the artist just as her true genius was coming into sharp focus. Having spent the ’70s essentially exploding the fashion world as a model and muse, Jones’ career as a musician was still something of a novelty. Her first three albums—Portfolio, Fame, and Muse—were fun but somewhat facile, cover-filled reflections of the druggy hedonism of the disco era, which itself was already on the wane. So it was that, while stepping into the 1980s, Jones sought about drastic change and creative rebirth. In doing so, her next body of work would also reflect the blossoming radicalism of pop’s new wave—music that would upend the staid conventions of nightlife, feminist politics, and tired ideas about sexuality. Grace Jones was born May 19th, 1948.		0:43:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Subterraneans	Taurus Woman "Taurus Woman" by "Subterraneans"	Taurus Woman	Acid Jazz Records	1993			0:48:23 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Marquis Hill	Taurus I Have Venus "Taurus I Have Venus" by "Marquis Hill"	Soul Sign Instrumental	Black Unlimited Music Group	2021			0:52:21 (Pop-up)
Wine Lips	High On Your Own Supply	Super Mega Ultra	Stomp Records	2024	"The new record “Super Mega Ultra” is an absolute beast. Recorded by Simon Larochette at The Sugar Shack in Ontario, the album is jam-packed with 12 ramped-up supersonic ear-scorching auditory delicacies. SMU is probably Wine Lips’ most ambitious undertaking to date, exploring new thematic territory while firmly maintaining their signature psych garage punk rock panache. You truly need to hear the album to believe it… And if you haven’t already guessed, more endless touring is booked for 2024. The wild ride continues! //// "It's tough writing a new record when you're always on tour. The previous album seemed to be doing really well and at times I felt like I was hitting a wall creatively. Long story short, I think this album turned out great. Simon always brings a good vibe at the Sugar Shack and we were able to try some new ideas and capture the energy without straying too far from our roots. Excited to see where these songs take us in the future." – Cam Hilborn (Wine Lips Frontman) //// “Now that’s what I call music!” – IGGY POP BBC Radio (Iggy Pop Frontman) //// Wine Lips (Bandcamp)	*	0:58:13 (Pop-up)
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds	A Beast, A Priest	That Delicious Vice	In the Red Records	2024	Released April 19. “It's a new lineup,” landlord of the avant-garage Kid Congo Powers exclaims of the Pink Monkey Birds edition responsible for the fifth studio full-length of their 19 year recording career, That Delicious Vice. //// “We've gone from a four piece to a three piece,” continues Kid, whose unique guitar style has been at the center of some of the most forward-thinking bands in punk and garage: The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Knoxville Girls, to name a handful. //// “I'm not sure if living in the desert is making me want more space in music or not,” laughs Kid, a Tucson resident for a few years now. “Maybe I’m turning into a desert stoner rocker. But I'm not a stoner, so that's not happening.”	*	0:59:20 (Pop-up)
The Monochrome Set	He's Frank "He's Frank" by "The Monochrome Set"	He's Frank (7")	Rough Trade	1979	Released: Jan 1979, A side of the 7" of the same name. "The Monochrome Set was formed in London in 1978 from the remnants of a college group called The B-Sides, whose members had included Stuart Goddard, later known as Adam Ant. Their first live gig was on 15 Feb 1978, at Westfield College in London. The original line-up consisted of Indian-born lead singer and principal songwriter Bid (real name Ganesh Seshadri), Canadian guitarist Lester Square (real name Thomas W.B. Hardy), drummer John D. Haney (formerly of The Art Attacks) and bass guitarist Charlie X. The band had two more bassists, Jeremy Harrington and Simon Croft, before Andy Warren of the Ants, a childhood friend of Bid, joined in late 1979. Morrissey and Johnny Marr of The Smiths were influenced by the band. //// Experimental filmmaker Tony Potts began collaborating with the band in 1979, designing lighting and stage sets with film projections for their live appearances. The band's early persona was defined by the shadowy, uncertain stage images created by the films to such an extent he is often described as being the band's "fifth member". //// They released several singles for the Rough Trade label before recording their debut studio album, Strange Boutique, produced by Bob Sargeant for Virgin Records' imprint DinDisc in 1980." [After a few lineup changes and albums, they stopped in 1985, later reforming in the 90's & beyond. In fact, they still continue to this day, recording new material & releasing new albums.]		1:03:12 (Pop-up)
The BPA, Fatboy Slim, Iggy Pop	He's Frank (Slight Return)	He's Frank (Slight Return)	Southern Fried Records	2009	I never knew this existed before this week and the fact that Fatboy Slim/BPA & Iggy Pop teamed up to cover The Monochrome Set seems to be one of the more unlikely occurrences I can imagine, of all the unlikely occurrences in the music world at large.		1:05:49 (Pop-up)
Tim Timebomb	I Wanna Be Sedated "I Wanna Be Sedated" by "Tim Timebomb"	I Wanna Be Sedated (Digital Single)	Tim Armstrong	2013	Between the dates of Oct 29 2012 and Oct 28 2013 Tim Armstrong [Rancid, Transplants, Operation Ivy] released 366 digital singles. This is one of the more unlikely occurrences I can imagine in the music world. His vision for this rendition of the Ramones classic is also unlikely, and pleasantly pleasing.		1:09:13 (Pop-up)
"Weird Al" Yankovic	Beat On The Brat	Dr. Demento Covered in Punk	Caf Muzeck	2018	Generally I have avoided making the music of Alfred Matthew Yankovic an active part of my life, but I guess I'm making an exception for this day. Fell into a bit of a "unlikely covers of Ramones songs" rabbit hole here; led into it by (then distracted from) a search for lesser-known Fred Schneider content. (He also appears [elsewhere] on this compilation)		1:11:51 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ayyuka	Küfelik "Küfelik" by "Ayyuka"	Zaman Ziyan	Tantana Records	2024	"Ayyuka was founded in the year 2001.They’ve started to make their own music which was mostly improvisation and influenced by a lot of different styles. Some time later the band had it's name naturally which Is AYYUKA that has two meanings: ''to the highest part of the sky' and 'an idiom to tell that a secret has been revealed'" Ayyuka (Bandcamp)	*	1:14:29 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ayyuka	Ziyan "Ziyan" by "Ayyuka"	Zaman Ziyan	Tantana Records	2024	Ayyuka (Bandcamp)	*	1:18:36 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ayyuka	Bossanadolu "Bossanadolu" by "Ayyuka"	Zaman Ziyan	Tantana Records	2024	Ayyuka (Bandcamp)	*	1:23:03 (Pop-up)
Geo	Big Fire "Big Fire" by "Geo"	Big Fire Single	Self Released	2024	Geo is Gijs Deddens, Michiel Klein, Maud van Maarseveen, Ype Zijlstra & Jorne Visser. They have provided the following hashtags: punk dancepunk no wave post-punk weird funk Netherlands. Looking at their instagram, this band like hats, line drawings and moustaches. Do not confuse this wonderful and angular band with Geo Dijkhuis, the versatile lead singer of Sympathy, Horizon, Backyard and.... GEO. According to his extremely comprehensive website "Older than 40? Good chance you have seen Geo live at many of his concerts in the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties. Geo Dijkhuis - or simply GEO - has been performing live gigs around the Netherlands for decades. From the famous Eksit and Parkzicht in Rotterdam, to the Gigant in Apeldoorn he has performed in allmost all of them. " I gotta say, his songs are not great.	*	1:26:25 (Pop-up)
Fat White Family	Work "Work" by "Fat White Family"	Work Single	Domino	2024	Fat White Family have today released their latest single “Work”, a hurtling electronic triumph that transports the spirit of Moroder to the heart of South London. The track is the latest to be taken from their forthcoming opus, Forgiveness Is Yours, which is released this Friday, 26th of April on Domino.		1:29:29 (Pop-up)
Dr. Sure's Unusual Practice	Last Guy at the Disco	Total Reality	Dougal Shaw	2024	On their third LP Total Reality - a title ripped from the classic sci-fi novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ - Dr Sure's Unusual Practice tackle lofty issues through a hopeful lense, avoiding the often cynical pastiche of modern punk music. Total Reality touches on varied influences - proto-punk to post-punk, new wave to no wave, krautrock to trip-hop - to concieve something fresh and inspired. Shaw refers to Total Reality as a ‘collage album’. There are pieces of pandemic-era demo’s; drum machines coexisting with a live-tracked rhythm section; fresh collaborations; layers of guitars, synths, horns and percussion; collected field recordings and samples - all cut and glued in Shaw’s home studio to realise an expansive and colourful record.	*	1:33:51 (Pop-up)
Fontaines D.C.	Starbuster "Starbuster" by "Fontaines D.C."	Starburster Single	XL Records	2024	Fontaines D.C. have signed to XL for a new album, Romance, set for release on August 23. In a press release, guitarist Conor Deegan said of the album title, “We’ve always had this sense of idealism and romance. Each album gets further away from observing that through the lens of Ireland, as directly as Dogrel. The second album is about that detachment, and the third is about Irishness dislocated in the diaspora. Now we look to where and what else there is to be romantic about...I’m fascinated by that—falling in love at the end of the world,” he says. “The album is about protecting that tiny flame. The bigger Armageddon looms, the more precious it becomes.”	*	1:37:23 (Pop-up)
Belle & Sebastian	What Happened To You, Son?	What Happened To You, Son? [Single]	Matador	2024	Released April 16, 2024. "Belle & Sebastian share new single ‘What Happened To You, Son?’ ahead of their North American tour. //// The jangle-pop track features a retro-sounding guitar riff, a thumping bass line and crisp keys. “Son, you’re a mystery / all your precious words don’t mean so much to me” sings frontman Stuart Murdoch during the opening of the song. The track was originally meant to be on the band’s 2023 LP ‘Late Developers’ but was pulled last minute. //// Speaking of the track in a press release, Murdoch shared: “‘What Happened to You, Son?’ got pulled rather randomly from the last LP because the LP felt one track too long. Out it came. //// “The song is about my youth, and the funny hole I fell into in my late teens. I was failing at my university course, failing in almost everything I tried around then. I was obsessed with the music of the time, I used to hang so much on the lyrics and message and feeling of certain bands of the 80s era – it probably wasn’t healthy.”"		1:41:10 (Pop-up)
Ian Dury & The Blockheads	You'll See Glimpses	Sueperman's Big Sister 7"	Stiff Records	1980	As national treasures go, Ian Dury was one of the unlikeliest. A cantankerous cripple with a penchant for pills and puns, he was a living breathing saucy seaside postcard, a master of the double or even triple entendre; a Cockney caricature with cleverly constructed couplets coming out of his Aris. A forgotten gem is Sueperman’s oh-so-poignant B-side You’ll See Glimpses, with Dury singing from the heart: “All I want for my birthday is another birthday.” Which is just devastating. For all his comedic wordplay and foul-mouthed banter when Dury opened his heart, he could bring tears to your eyes.		1:44:45 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Liberace	Chopsticks "Chopsticks" by "Liberace"	16 Most Requested Songs	Sony	1989	...also a Taurus!		1:48:28 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Giorgio Moroder	Utopia Me Giorgio	From Here To Eternity	Island	1977	...and also a Taurus!		1:51:58 (Pop-up)
Pulp / (All Seeing I's Remix)	Party Hard (I Hardly Part Mix)	Party Hard EP	Universal Records	1998	Pulp are back & touring... ""Party Hard" is a song by British alternative rock band Pulp. Featuring David Bowie-inspired vocals, the song lyrically was inspired by the band's dissatisfaction and exhaustion with clubbing. "Party Hard" was released as the fourth single from This Is Hardcore, reaching number 29 in the UK. The single was accompanied by a music video inspired by kitschy German variety shows." Pulp - Party Hard (Official Video) ++++++++++ "The All Seeing I is an English electronic music group from Sheffield, comprising Dean Honer, Jason Buckle and DJ Parrot (real name Richard Barratt). They released their first single "I Walk / Pickled Eggs & Sherbet" in 1997, but it was not until the year after that they gained mainstream commercial success with the song "Beat Goes On", a remixed cover of the Sonny Bono song, using the all-female vocals from Buddy Rich's version). //// Their work was something of a Sheffield collective, and the trio worked with artists from the city including Tony Christie, Jarvis Cocker, Philip Oakey, Babybird and many others. Their regular live vocalist was Bozz, who later went on to form electronica duo Hiem. //// All Seeing I were asked in November 1998 to produce a cover of "Beat Goes On" for Britney Spears's debut album ...Baby One More Time. They have also remixed a variety of artists, including Pulp. //// Dean Honer also fronts the similarly styled group, I Monster. //// Buckle went on to be a part-time member of Fat Truckers and formed Relaxed Muscle with Jarvis Cocker. He also has a brief cameo as one of the Wyrd Sisters rock band in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, along with Cocker, Pulp's Steve Mackey, Steve Claydon of Add N to (X), and Phil Selway and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead. //// Barratt was part of the duo Sweet Exorcist with Richard H. Kirk (of Cabaret Voltaire fame)."		1:55:04 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	7:46pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	7:48pm ultradamno: It is the anniversary of Poly Styrene's death, byt the way mastodon.social...
	7:57pm DJ Babs: Hello UD! She left on the day I arrived....just years apart...
	7:58pm Derek Westerholm: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABS!!!!!!!
	7:58pm Derek Westerholm: Hello everyone!
	7:58pm ultradamno: So it's your cake...happy birthday Babs!
	🏝 7:58pm Scott_Oz: G'day Babs, Derek & Birthday Beachcombers! HAPPY BABSDAY MATE!! 🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🥂🍾🏖️
	7:59pm DJ Babs: Hello hello Scott!!!
	7:59pm DJ Babs: Thank you Scott!
	8:02pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Character Study [Excerpt]" by "John Manolesco" This sounds like a lot of bull
	8:02pm Kat in the chat: Still working and not signed in but HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABS!!! 🎉
	8:03pm Kat in the chat: Taurus here too, mine’s Sunday
	8:03pm laurapanic: ↳ Kat in the chat @8:02 that happens to me - gotta do math problems to comment?
	8:04pm laurapanic: I sw Derek's gorgeous fbook birthday post for you Babs. Derek, it was LOVELY.
	8:05pm Tyler: Happy Birthday Babs Van Dee & Basha Vee! MeepMoop says it's alright to sing tonight...
	8:06pm Tyler: ↳ laurapanic @8:03 I also have to do the math - I don't mind. Keeps my mental math skills sharp & gives me one last opportunity to reconsider what I'm about to post :)
	8:06pm DJ Babs: HAHA this show is already killing me LOL
	8:07pm Tyler: They're shooting Spock out of the torpedo tube! :)
	8:08pm DJ Babs: ↳ laurapanic @8:04 Derek is my best birthday present. ❤️
	8:08pm DJ Babs: Hello Laura...hello Kat!!! Hello Tyler! Happy almost birthday Kat!!!
	8:08pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Amazing Grace" by "The Pipes And Drums And The Mi... This is begging for an EDM remix
	8:09pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @8:08 Happy Birthday, Babs!
	8:09pm DJ Babs: HAHA! I think we just got one UD
	8:10pm Tyler: Are we being taken over by pirate commercial radio?
	8:10pm DJ Babs: hahaha!
	8:10pm Derek Westerholm: Oops, some trouble jumping between windows there... Damn.
	8:11pm DJ Babs: I agree tho but that was amazing. Derek is remixing on the fly here apparently!!!
	8:11pm ultradamno: The two big birthday songs I can think of are The Residents' Birthday Boy and Birthday Party's Happy Birthday
	8:11pm Tyler: Can we start a petition to get Alexa's voice replaced by Mark E. Smith's?
	8:12pm DJ Babs: OMG THIS IS AMAZING
	8:13pm DJ Babs: ↳ Tyler @8:11 I would 100% get behind that. Also I wish we could get his voice on WAYZ or just any GPS in general.
	8:13pm DJ Babs: Turrrn LEEEEEFTAHHHHHH in TWOOOO HUNDRED METAAAAAHSSSSUHHH...(ya cunt)
	8:13pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in the chat @8:03 Happy almost-birthday Kat!
	8:13pm Mr Fab: Happy Happy Babs!! have an extra glass of wine on me. Unless you've beaten me to it.
	8:14pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Ultra, Scott, Kat, Laura, Tyler, Fab!
	8:14pm ultradamno: Fairuza Balk for the female Alexa voice
	8:15pm DJ Babs: haha!We are on wine glasss #1. A delightful spanish Cab/sauv mix aged in new french oak barrels...
	8:16pm A➡B: Hello Hello Derek & HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABS!!! Gonna serve up a batch of popcorn to celebrate!
	8:17pm ultradamno: Poly would make a great alarm clock tone...I'm using the Twilight Zone theme now, but that might lure me away...
	8:17pm DJ Babs: Hello hello AB! Welcome welcome!
	8:18pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ A➡B @8:16 Hello hello A->B... Mmmmm Popcorn, lovely idea!
	8:19pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Amazing Grace" by "The Pipes And Drums And The Mi... I actually bought this album from a bargain bin years ago. Probaby 50 cents. Weird that it went to #1?!?
	8:21pm ultradamno: When you make popcorn do you ever imagine the increasing agony of the kernals before they literally explode inside out and think of yourself as their cruel god?
	8:25pm DJ Babs: I do but then they get doused in butter and if I was gonna go, doused in butter is on the list.
	8:28pm ultradamno: Yay! Stinky Toys!
	8:30pm DJ Babs: They are so much fun this band!
	8:30pm laurapanic: WE had a big national holiday here yesterday with a parade and I saw more than one bagpipe in marching bands - glory!
	8:30pm DJ Babs: yaaas. I am perfectly happy listening to a bunch of bagpipes.
	8:32pm ultradamno: www.instagram.com...
	8:34pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Birthday Cake" by "Cibo Matto" Oh man,...happy '90s memories
	8:35pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Tyler @8:10 "taken over by pirate commercial radio"... Haha... very annoyed about that. Hit things (twice) from the wrong browser. .. Thought I was playing from the one with the ad-blocker... I don't often play things off the internet for the show, but it was an easy way to play at x1.75
	8:35pm DJ Babs: Honestly the more I revisit the Matto the more I feel like again they were so ahead of their time....
	8:36pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:32 HAHAA thank you for the cake UD!
	8:37pm Derek Westerholm: That version of the Iggy classic definitely does hit pretty damn hard
	8:37pm ultradamno: In the liner notes of the Live At Goose Lake record Iggy is quoted as saying before they brought in Alexander it was Ron on bass and Iggy singing and playing up until he realized he was better off just singing
	8:37pm GavEllis: Yes..... this is amazing xx happy birthday xx
	8:38pm DJ Babs: Heeey GAV!!!! Welcome welcome! So good to see yas!
	8:38pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ GavEllis @8:37 Hello GavEllis, lovely to see you!
	8:39pm GavEllis: Been listening since the start x so good x Love you guys.. counting down the days until I see you again x
	🏝 8:39pm Kat in the chat: whatchoo do in a tiny canoe?
	8:40pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Backwater" by "Brian Eno" Singing along! I think I'd do pretty well at an Eno karaoke night.
	8:40pm DJ Babs: I'm playing the hits this set!!!
	8:41pm DJ Babs: ↳ GavEllis @8:37 Thank you Gav!
	8:41pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @8:25 There probably should be a suspended in a human sized test tube of butter funereal option.
	8:41pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in the chat @8:39 whatchoo do... ha!
	8:41pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kat in the chat @8:39 That lyric has always given me a giggle Kat. Given that Eno had a reputation for having a healthy sex drive back in the day I always wonder what it's about LOL
	8:42pm Bob Barth: ↳ Song: "Just Like Heaven" by "The Cure" I'm such a sucker for this tune. HEY DEREK & BABS!!
	8:42pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @8:40 Mr Fab... Well then, when will we see this happen?
	8:42pm DJ Babs: ↳ Bob Barth @8:42 SAME and Hello Bob!
	8:43pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ GavEllis @8:39 Thanks Gav, indeed! Lovely to hear that! Will be excellent to see you again...
	8:43pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Bob Barth @8:42 Hey Bob! Hope all is well... What's up for you next on Sheena's?
	🏝 8:44pm Kat in the chat: ↳ DJ Babs @8:41 I have speculated similarly as well!
	8:45pm Mr Fab: ↳ DJ Babs @8:41 "There was a senator from Ecuador Who talked about a meteor That crashed on a hill in the south of Peru And was found by a conquistador Who took it to the Emperor And he passed it on to a Turkish guru" Come ON! That is some next-level Cole Porter-type shizzle there.
	8:46pm DJ Babs: That's why Eno is the shizzzzzzzz
	🏝 8:46pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Mr Fab @8:45 I was trying to sing along but stumbled a lot!
	8:47pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "Warm Leatherette" by "Grace Jones" If there is a lady who doesn't want to enjoy listening to Grace Jones with me I DON'T WANT TO NOW
	8:47pm laurapanic: There are some wonderful early 80s TV appearance performances on Youtube of Grace. They are wonderful.
	8:48pm DJ Babs: making up ones own lyrics is perfectly good!
	8:49pm Bob Barth: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:43 If Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons are your jam you are gonna LOVE tonights show. I'm sitting down with Director TJ Dawson about his exciting new production of Jersey Boys as well as some other fun things. Swing in gang!
	🏝 8:50pm Kristine: HEllllllllllooooooooooo!
	8:50pm DJ Nico: Hello hello Birthday gal!
	8:51pm Karl: I love this place
	🏝 8:54pm Kristine: love everything from eno
	🏝 8:54pm Kat in the chat: My holy trinity: Tiger Mountain, AGW, B&AS
	8:54pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Hello Kristine, Nico, Karl, hello hello!!!!
	8:55pm Karl: ↳ Kristine @8:54 At Kim’s Video in NYC, the Eno section was not labeled “Brian Eno,” the card read “GOD”
	🏝 8:55pm Kristine: ↳ Karl @8:55 thats apt!
	8:58pm Mr Fab: ↳ Karl @8:55 Ha!
	8:58pm Bob Barth: HABBY BIRTHDAY BABS!!!!
	8:58pm DJ Babs: Kristine! Karl! Nico! Hellooooooo
	8:59pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kat in the chat @8:54 100% Kat. All the ENO!
	8:59pm Karl: I am obligated to point out that 1) there is still time for a Robert Smith + Brian Eno collab 2) but there isn’t infinite time and 3) someone at WFMU could make this happen.
	9:00pm DJ Babs: ↳ Karl @8:51 Thank you Karl! Welcome to the Beach...it is a fine place indeed!!!
	🏝 9:00pm Kristine: happy birthday! I hope you have made the most of it:)
	9:00pm DJ Babs: ↳ Karl @8:59 I am 100% on board with this.
	9:00pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "A Beast, A Priest" by "Kid Congo & The Pink Monke... KCP's guesting on a recent Mona show is required listening www.wfmu.org...
	9:01pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kristine @9:00 Thank you Kristine! It's been pretty perfect! Sleepin in, nice brunch, an edible, a bike ride, dim sum dinner and radio hangs with my pals and wine? PERFECTION
	🏝 9:01pm Kat in the chat: ↳ ultradamno @9:00 I was just looking up that link, haha
	🏝 9:01pm Will thee SG OCNY: Hi DJ Babs, Derek, and all!!!
	9:02pm DJ Babs: WILLLLLL!
	🏝 9:02pm Kat in the chat: ↳ DJ Babs @9:01 that does sound lovely, glad it's been so nice today for you!
	9:02pm Karl: ↳ Song: "Just Like Heaven" by "The Cure" Correction: the album is Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
	🏝 9:03pm Will thee SG OCNY: Happy Birthday Babs!!!
	9:03pm Karl: And I LOVE Wish
	9:03pm DJ Babs: ↳ Karl @9:02 oh shit! Good catch! THanks Karl!
	🏝 9:03pm Kristine: ↳ DJ Babs @9:01 nice! you took the day off then. love it:)
	9:04pm DJ Babs: In a manner of speaking...YES!
	🏝 9:04pm Kristine: ↳ DJ Babs @9:04 hmmmm
	9:04pm Mr Fab: i highly recommend Kid Congo's book "New kind of Kick." Bonus: WFMU super fan (and designer of the first Sheena's t-shirt) Franco Twinkie is prominently featured.
	9:05pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "A Beast, A Priest" by "Kid Congo & The Pink Monke... From what I heard of the new archival Alan Vega release (on Blumin's show), In The Red is having a good month
	🏝 9:05pm Kristine: love this, and love symphonie des grauens! that song does not get old!
	9:05pm DJ Babs: Long live the Monochrome Set!
	9:06pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @9:05 symphonie des grauens is fantastic! Babs introduced me to that song... It's now one of my favs.
	🏝 9:07pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "He's Frank (Slight Return)" by "The BPA, Fatboy S... Velvets-y swing to this version
	🏝 9:07pm Kristine: oh this is so SO random
	9:07pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "He's Frank (Slight Return)" by "The BPA, Fatboy S... I really liked the song they did with Emmy The Great around this time...("Seattle")
	🏝 9:07pm Kristine: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:06 yeah, i discovered it through Babs posting it on FB. Babs! *chefs kiss taste
	9:09pm ultradamno: There was a Cinti band called BPA (By Products of America) not to be confused with The BPA (Brighton Port Authority)...if anyone starts a band called Butt Plug Aggravation, there's going to be confusion
	9:10pm DJ Babs: ITS A BIRTHDAY HOEDOWN!
	🏝 9:10pm Kristine: ↳ ultradamno @9:09 LOL. Also, isnt that toxic substance in plastic also BPA?
	9:10pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "I Wanna Be Sedated" by "Tim Timebomb" I need to know more about that project!!
	9:12pm ultradamno: ↳ Kristine @9:10 Yep, not to be confused with PCBs
	9:12pm DJ Babs: WOW Derek pulling out ALL the birthday party stops....
	9:14pm DJ Babs: I never thought I'd ever see the day where Derek indulges my secret Weird Al appreciation, lol.
	9:14pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Beat On The Brat" by ""Weird Al" Yankovic" He's not even making it into a brawurst song. I am disappointed
	9:14pm Tyler: Weird Al was on After Midnight this week :)
	🏝 9:15pm Kristine: Ohhhh is this what i think it is?
	9:15pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @9:14 *bratwurst Eat On The Brat...IT'S RIGHT THERE!
	9:15pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @9:14 Beat on the Braht with a Dijon Bat!
	9:16pm ultradamno: ↳ Tyler @9:14 I saw that...he's pretty limber for his age
	9:16pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Beat On The Brat" by ""Weird Al" Yankovic" Derek, your homework is to listen to this hour of uttery Weird Al genius: wfmu.org... If you think he's just the food-parody guy, you are oh so wrong. Babs, I'm holding you to this!
	9:18pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @9:16 He can still flex those accordion muscles! :)
	9:20pm Tyler: RAMONES ROMANCE <3
	9:21pm ultradamno: Tom Waits did Ramones (Judy Is A Punk...I think) on Orphans
	9:22pm DJ Babs: Nice!!!!
	9:23pm Tyler: I bought for my friends when they had their first kid the lullaby versions of the Ramones, which (of course) included a music box version of 'Beat On The Brat' :)
	9:23pm DJ Babs: ↳ Mr Fab @9:16 Oh no, he is a fucking Mozart...his gift for arrangement is insane...and he is a MONSTER on the keys. Truly amazing. I believe you! Thank you for the link!
	9:23pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @9:21 The Return Of Jackie And Judy, rather...and Danny Says
	9:24pm Tyler: Kid Congo is the Secret Weapon...
	9:25pm Tyler: HAHAHA! Iggy GRAND Pop! :)
	9:25pm A➡B: ↳ Mr Fab @9:16 Of particular interest to Derek and Babs: one of those tunes is a take on The B-52's!
	9:26pm Tyler: Gior-GIO?
	🏝 9:27pm Kristine: same guitar style as the contortions. i like this lots!
	9:27pm DJ Babs: ↳ A➡B @9:25 Love it! The B-52s are seriously one of the greatest and most underrated bands ever.
	9:27pm DJ Babs: Oh this is SO Contortions!
	9:27pm A➡B: ↳ Song: "Big Fire" by "Geo" Reminding me of 70's Talking Heads!
	9:28pm DJ Babs: Totes!
	9:28pm Tyler: The guitar reminds me of The Raincoats or Liliput/Kleenex
	9:29pm Tyler: YOU GOT IT! AHHHHHHHHHH...
	9:29pm DJ Babs: www.shootthemoonmusic.nl... This is the other GEO...please do feel free to enjoy this
	9:29pm ultradamno: ↳ Tyler @9:28 My first thought off the opening notes was Pat Place
	🏝 9:29pm Kristine: Did derek write "I gotta say his songs are not great"?? lol
	9:30pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @9:29 (possibly Au Pairs or Romeo Void)
	🏝 9:30pm Kristine: derek, what were the turkish tracks you played after Weird Al
	9:30pm Tyler: Is this Shriekback?
	9:31pm DJ Babs: No....it's Fat White Family doing Shriekback?
	9:32pm Tyler: Sorry my Playlist Notes froze again. Singer sounds like Barry Andrews.
	9:32pm northguineahills: whoops, got distracted by cumbia. if you have a non-paneled white van, instead of candy, just play cumbia, i'll be zombified....
	9:32pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @9:31 ME LIKEY!
	9:33pm DJ Babs: ↳ northguineahills @9:32 I understand completely. Cumbia happens. That shit is hypnotic.
	9:33pm Mr Fab: ↳ Kristine @9:29 Yeah, I disagree! That was smokin.
	🏝 9:34pm Kristine: what the fuck is this?? :))
	🏝 9:35pm Kristine: I am in love with whatever the hell this is
	9:37pm DJ Babs: Dr. Sure's unusual practice! We play them often and they are SOOO GOOOD. One of Derek's finds....
	9:37pm northguineahills: ↳ DJ Babs @9:33 feliz cumpleanos, baberina!
	9:37pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @9:16 Thanks Fab, ok then... I will make sure I educate myself forthwith, via the suggested route...
	9:37pm A➡B: ↳ Kristine @9:35 Is it reminding you of The Fall, too?
	9:37pm DJ Babs: oh hold on to your pants kids..this trakc is AMAZING.
	9:38pm Tyler: Love the drum sound!
	🏝 9:38pm Kristine: ↳ A➡B @9:37 yes somewhat, also Aught from Montreal. but also not quite easily to categorize, a real headscratcher!
	9:40pm DJ Babs: oooh Aught from Montreal are soo good and yes! I do hear that too. Wonder what they are up to?
	9:40pm DJ Babs: This is the music I just wanna let wash over me....
	🏝 9:40pm Kristine: ↳ DJ Babs @9:40 not too sure...
	9:42pm Tyler: This sounds like Belle & Sebastian covering Bowie.
	9:43pm DJ Babs: This bassline is sOOO Rio by Duran Duran!
	9:43pm DJ Babs: ↳ Tyler @9:42 Funny you mention that because I WAS going to play Bowie after this but we are running out of time!
	9:44pm Tyler: ↳ Tyler @9:42 OK - the notes confused me. This IS Belle & Sebastian - my mistake. I saw B&S live for the first time & last concert I attended before COVID shut-downs...
	9:45pm Tyler: I think they're playing here again this year...
	9:46pm Tyler: <3 Ian Dury - he's like your cool uncle that was once a rocker but still cool enough to have a foot in punk, jazz & new wave...
	9:47pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "What Happened To You, Son?" by "Belle & Sebastian" You know what, Stuart (Murdoch), I LIKE YOU. You're not like the other People, here, in the trailer park.
	9:48pm ultradamno: If he's your cool uncle, I think your dad has a book for you to read.
	9:51pm northguineahills: derek is correct, 94!
	9:52pm Tyler: Gio-GIO! <3
	9:53pm northguineahills: taurus, the ford, or the swedish/german cruise missle...
	9:53pm northguineahills: geo, not to be confused w/ the geologist (from animal collective)
	🏝 9:54pm Scott_Oz: Thanks Babs & Derek for sharing the Beach Babs Birthday Party with us all. Here's cheers to many many more my mates. 🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍷🍷🎂🥂🍾❤
	9:54pm Tyler: NOT SLOPPY ENOUGH, BABS & DEREK! :)
	9:54pm northguineahills: ↳ northguineahills @9:51 belle and sebastian formed in 94, tigermilk came out in 96...
	9:54pm Tyler: Happy BABSday!
	9:54pm Bob Barth: Thanks for the props Babs.. Follow me into the next hour gang! www.wfmu.org...
	9:55pm northguineahills: i was listening to pulp earlier today!
	🏝 9:55pm Kat in the chat: Cheers Babs!
	9:55pm Tyler: THIS IS HARDCORE is my favourite PULP! Can't wait to see them in September for the 1st time...
	9:55pm DJ Babs: YAAAAS. Are you night 1 or 2 Tyler?
	🏝 9:55pm Kat in the chat: And thanks Derek, not to be forgotten!
	9:56pm Tyler: If you didn't COME to party, why did you COME? :)
	9:56pm northguineahills: banks, Babs and Derek, enjoy your day!
	9:56pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @9:30 Kristine, the Turkish stuff after Weird Al was a recent Turkish band, Ayyuka, though you may have figured that out by now... catching up on comments!
	9:56pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @9:55 Night 1 (I think)
	9:56pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ northguineahills @9:32 Hello there North Guinea Hills!
	9:56pm DJ Babs: ↳ A➡B @9:37 oh EVERYTHING here is usually Fall-adjacent somehow!!!!
	9:57pm Derek Westerholm: Hello there also Will Thee SG, I think I might have missed a hello to you...
	9:57pm DJ Babs: ↳ Tyler @9:56 We are night 2!
	9:57pm Mr Fab: and you didn't play The Birthday Party!
	9:57pm Tyler: I've never heard this mix b4... It's great!
	9:57pm DJ Nico: Thanks for the tunes B & D xx
	9:57pm A➡B: ALRIGHT! Fun little party we've had here! Thanks Derek! Have a great rest-of-your-birthday, Babs! Will be tuning in again next week (even if not commenting), as always!
	9:58pm DJ Babs: This is SOOOOO a)Sheffield 2000's b)I Monster c)Excellent.
	9:58pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @9:57 d'OH! At least they added another night so more of us could go...
	9:58pm DJ Babs: ↳ DJ Nico @9:57 Thank you darling! Also everyone should please check out Dj Nico's archived shows and FB links because they are 🔥
	9:59pm DJ Babs: ↳ Mr Fab @9:57 lol after almost 3 years now here we are progressing!
	9:59pm DJ Babs: It's a sleazy dance party! Thank you BEACH BUMS YOU ARE THE BEEEEEEEESSSSST!!!!!! ❤️
	9:59pm Derek Westerholm: Thank-you, all! Truly excellent sharing this time with you!
	🏝 9:59pm Kristine: would have liked to go see pulp but i could not get a single ticket :(
	9:59pm Tyler: Thanks Babs & Derek for another fantastic episode & for spending your birthday with us punters... Hope you enjoy the rest of the day!
	10:00pm northguineahills: ↳ DJ Babs @9:58 and it's not even wednesday (footie joke)
	10:00pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @9:59 Regress!
	10:00pm Tyler: ↳ Kristine @9:59 Getting tickets was kind of a shit-show with Ticketmaster, Stubhub, et al...
	10:01pm DJ Babs: Cheerio Frenz!!!!
	🏝 10:01pm Kristine: yeah, its garbage! oh well. BYE BABS!
	10:01pm Derek Westerholm: Good night/day/week!
	10:02pm Tyler: ↳ Kristine @10:01 I only got a ticket through the generosity of one of my friends. The Ticketmaster app kept booting me out or not letting me complete the transaction when I selected tickets.
	10:02pm ultradamno: Night, day, doesn't mean shit. In the words of Mr. Stanton
	🏝 10:02pm Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you DJ Babs and Derek!!!
	10:03pm Tyler: ↳ Derek Westerholm @10:01 Good evenin' Derek!
	10:04pm Tyler: In the immortal words of every Toronto Bouncer: "YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO HOME, BUT YOU CAN'T STAY HERE!" :)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
John Manolesco	Character Study [Excerpt]	Astrology Guide for Taurus	RCA	1970	For all the Tauruses out there, including those born today. Happy Birthday. "The test of an astrologer, John Manolesco says, is the accuracy of his predictions. This is the supreme test, and John Monolesco passes, having accurately forecast the assassinationjs of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy and the resignation of de Gaulle - to the precise week - months before the famous referendum..."		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sounds of the Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds of the Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			0:02:57 (Pop-up)
The Pipes And Drums And The Military Band Of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards	Amazing Grace	Amazing Grace	BMG Music	1972	Apparently, this was #1 on the charts in the U.K. on April 25, 1972. Happy Birthday, Babs!		0:05:48 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Birthday Song (speed x 1.75)	The Marshall Suite	Artful Records	1999	Though I love the languorous languidness of the original track (from The Fall's stunning Phoenix-out-of-the-ashes 1999 album "The Marshall Suite"), there is something truly compelling by what happens when helping it along by a rate of x1.75... Perhaps now my favourite way to listen to it. We've played it before, sure, but not travelling at this speedy clip. "Julia Adamson [AKA Julia Nagle, Fall keyboardist at the time] on the track: "It was initially an instrumental I called it Birthday Song as it was my sister's birthday and I gave it to her on a CD for a present. MES always liked it. On a separate occasion I asked him to write a 'love' poem and after a couple of goes was finished and fabulous I thought. MES decided to put the instrumental and poem together for The Marshall Suite.""		0:09:46 (Pop-up)
The Fabulous Downey Brothers, Fred Schneider	Sex & Chips	VR	Sprix Records	2022	Not sure what this is all about or what to make of it, but it is from 2022 and features Fred Schneider. One thing I could find was that the B-52's and The Fabulous Downey brothers played together at the Oregon Zoo Ampitheatre on June 27, 2015, so it seems this union has been a while in the making... Excerpt from a review at that time... "Master of ceremonies Fred Schneider III, being his usual offbeat, subtly sarcastic self, offered up humorous comments and banter between songs and clearly enjoyed himself and the boisterous crowd." "Opening the evening were Olympia, Washington’s The Fabulous Downey Brothers with their Devo-esque, self-described performance of "zolo, new wave, digi punk, art-ernative" music and performance art."		0:11:11 (Pop-up)
Altin Gün	Vallahi Yok "Vallahi Yok" by "Altin Gün"	Vallahi Yok / Kırık Cam	ATO Records	2024	Released April 9, 2024. Altın Gün, Turkish psych-folk innovators, return with a glimmering new single consisting of two original songs composed by Merve and Jasper. The release is a farewell to Merve and coincides with the band's sold-out show at the legendary L’Olympia in Paris, which is also the first date of their spring European club tour. Merve will leave Altın Gün in May and the band will proceed as a five-piece. More tour dates and music are rumoured to be ahead in 2024. Altin Gün (Bandcamp)	*	0:14:49 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Düde Dürst	Utilisation "Utilisation" by "Düde Dürst"	Krokodil Solo	Sunset Records	1970	Rock drummer and graphic designer from Switzerland, born 1946, Real Name: Kurt Dürst. "Düde Dürst is the drummer of the psych-kraut jazzy collective Krokodil. This solo album is in the kosmische-trancey krautrock vein with long instrumental parts, various moods and colours. This is authenticaly progressive with many arrengements and fabulous percussive drum sets. The two epic compositions are divided into several themes. The magnificant improvisation called Chemical Harvest first starts with soulful-acid jazzy notes before to go into mystical-darkness, including exotic instrumentation, mantra-like atmospheres. The song is mainly built around a vast collection of drums. The ambiences are quiet ritual, cinematic and haunted. The piece ends with a light-sunny jazz rockin' instrumental, including dancing flutes, grand piano melodies...The Sound of Sunshine is a more spacious and druggy stuff with propulsive-dynamic drum improvs, tripped out fuzzy bass lines. The soundscape is absolutely gorgeous and hallucinatory epic. The last minutes of the instrumental features luminous entrance kraut-folkish grooves (reminiscence of Rufus Zuphall). Almost a classic and an obvious recommendation for fans of unconventional-freely improvised music." //// This is the closer of his first solo album, from the "The Sound Of Sunshine" side (side B).		0:19:29 (Pop-up)
Stinky Toys	Birthday Party "Birthday Party" by "Stinky Toys"	Stinky Toys	Sony Music	1979	Stinky Toys were a French punk rock band from Paris which formed in 1976 and featured Elli Medeiros (vocals), Denis Quilliard, alias Jacno, (a.k.a. Jan Colrth) (rhythm guitar), Bruno Carone (lead guitar), Albin Dériat (bass guitar), and Hervé Zénouda (drums). One of the first French new wave bands, in 1976 the band took part in the 100 Club Punk Festival in London, sharing the bill with such bands as Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Buzzcocks. The band split up in 1979, with Elli Medeiros and Jacno then forming the duo, Elli et Jacno. Medeiros went on to a solo career, releasing the Bom Bom... album in 1987...."The concept of a French punk band with a female singer seemed remarkably promising when Stinky Toys first began gigging around London in late 1976. A year later, this record came as a major disappointment, consisting as it does of uninspired sub-Rolling Stones rock’n’boogie with terrible vocals by Elli Medeiros, who went on to a solo career that never brought her any acclaim in the English-speaking world.[Ira Robbins]" OUCH.		0:28:21 (Pop-up)
Cibo Matto	Birthday Cake "Birthday Cake" by "Cibo Matto"	Viva! La Woman	Warner	1996	Listening back to this, I cannot help but feel how much this band was ahead of its time. Al ot of people look for a deeper meaning behind this song...often of a troubled relationship between a mother and her son, and the inability to communicate between generations. Either way, it's drugs and food which is pure Cibo Matto and we love them for it. Formed in 1993/4 and active until 2002, "Crazy Food" will always be cool.		0:31:13 (Pop-up)
Iggy Pop	Tight Pants "Tight Pants" by "Iggy Pop"	I'm Sick of You!	Bomp!	1977	This earlier version of Shake Appeal is I feel...superior. More visceral, more raw, more unhinged...just more Stooges. Why they changed it I'll never know. From the enthusiastic count-off and in, Tight Pants is overloaded gutterpunk blooze straight outta 1972; nagging, insistent, a proper primal scream of snakehip guitars with needles ramped round in the red. There are Supremes handclaps perhaps, or maybe just a heavily slapped snare – it’s hard to tell from the cardboard box production – alongside riff upon riff of juddering guitar, vying for earspace with the Iggy barks and yelps, but far as garage band rockers go, it’s a whole lot of don’t-give-a-damn snarling fun, with a guitar solo in the outro that sounds like a wheezing tramp running over broken glass. It’s oft-considered a sloppy production, out of step with the musical landscape of the era, but it certainly captures a proto-punk spirit that would, within a few years, be omnipresent in the underground. Iggy Pop's birthday is April 21st, 1947...Happy Birthday Poppa Iggy!		0:34:29 (Pop-up)
Brian Eno	Backwater "Backwater" by "Brian Eno"	Before and After Science	Island Records	1977	Unlike Eno's previous albums, which were recorded in a very short time, Before and After Science was two years in the making.During this two-year period, Eno was busy working on his solo ambient music albums Music for Films and Discreet Music. Due to the very positive critical reception accorded his previous rock music-oriented album, Another Green World, Eno was afraid of repeating himself but still wanted to release a high-quality product. As on his previous rock-based recordings, Eno worked with a plethora of guest musicians such as Fred Frith and Jaki Liebeszeit of CAN, who provided drums for this track. Phil Collins and Robert Fripp also appear on the album. Eno referred to the music of Before and After Science as "ocean music", as opposed to Another Green World', which he described as "sky music"...either way it is essential listening, for sure! May 15th, 1948 is when Brian Peter Geoge Eno was born.		0:36:41 (Pop-up)
The Cure	Just Like Heaven "Just Like Heaven" by "The Cure"	Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me	Fiction Records	1987	"Just Like Heaven" is a song by British alternative rock band the Cure. The group wrote most of the song during recording sessions in southern France in 1987. The lyrics were written by their frontman Robert Smith, who drew inspiration from a past trip to the sea shore with his future wife. Smith's memories of the trip formed the basis for the song's accompanying music video. Before Smith had completed the lyrics, an instrumental version of the song was used as the theme for the French television show Les Enfants du Rock. In order to develop material for Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Smith forced himself to write music for 15 days of each month. During this regimen, he developed the chords and melody which form the basis of "Just Like Heaven". According to Smith, "The song is about hyperventilating—kissing and fainting to the floor." The lyrics were inspired by a trip with his then-girlfriend (and later wife) Mary Poole to Beachy Head in southern England. Smith said the opening line of the song ("Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick") refers to his childhood memories of mastering magic tricks, but added "on another [level], it's about a seduction trick, from much later in my life". The lovely and wonderful Robert Smith's birthday is April 21st, 1959		0:40:19 (Pop-up)
Grace Jones	Warm Leatherette "Warm Leatherette" by "Grace Jones"	Warm Leatherette	Island Records	1980	Warm Leatherette, Jones’ career-shifting 1980 release, gives a glimpse of the artist just as her true genius was coming into sharp focus. Having spent the ’70s essentially exploding the fashion world as a model and muse, Jones’ career as a musician was still something of a novelty. Her first three albums—Portfolio, Fame, and Muse—were fun but somewhat facile, cover-filled reflections of the druggy hedonism of the disco era, which itself was already on the wane. So it was that, while stepping into the 1980s, Jones sought about drastic change and creative rebirth. In doing so, her next body of work would also reflect the blossoming radicalism of pop’s new wave—music that would upend the staid conventions of nightlife, feminist politics, and tired ideas about sexuality. Grace Jones was born May 19th, 1948.		0:43:47 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Subterraneans	Taurus Woman "Taurus Woman" by "Subterraneans"	Taurus Woman	Acid Jazz Records	1993			0:48:23 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Marquis Hill	Taurus I Have Venus "Taurus I Have Venus" by "Marquis Hill"	Soul Sign Instrumental	Black Unlimited Music Group	2021			0:52:21 (Pop-up)
Wine Lips	High On Your Own Supply	Super Mega Ultra	Stomp Records	2024	"The new record “Super Mega Ultra” is an absolute beast. Recorded by Simon Larochette at The Sugar Shack in Ontario, the album is jam-packed with 12 ramped-up supersonic ear-scorching auditory delicacies. SMU is probably Wine Lips’ most ambitious undertaking to date, exploring new thematic territory while firmly maintaining their signature psych garage punk rock panache. You truly need to hear the album to believe it… And if you haven’t already guessed, more endless touring is booked for 2024. The wild ride continues! //// "It's tough writing a new record when you're always on tour. The previous album seemed to be doing really well and at times I felt like I was hitting a wall creatively. Long story short, I think this album turned out great. Simon always brings a good vibe at the Sugar Shack and we were able to try some new ideas and capture the energy without straying too far from our roots. Excited to see where these songs take us in the future." – Cam Hilborn (Wine Lips Frontman) //// “Now that’s what I call music!” – IGGY POP BBC Radio (Iggy Pop Frontman) //// Wine Lips (Bandcamp)	*	0:58:13 (Pop-up)
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds	A Beast, A Priest	That Delicious Vice	In the Red Records	2024	Released April 19. “It's a new lineup,” landlord of the avant-garage Kid Congo Powers exclaims of the Pink Monkey Birds edition responsible for the fifth studio full-length of their 19 year recording career, That Delicious Vice. //// “We've gone from a four piece to a three piece,” continues Kid, whose unique guitar style has been at the center of some of the most forward-thinking bands in punk and garage: The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Knoxville Girls, to name a handful. //// “I'm not sure if living in the desert is making me want more space in music or not,” laughs Kid, a Tucson resident for a few years now. “Maybe I’m turning into a desert stoner rocker. But I'm not a stoner, so that's not happening.”	*	0:59:20 (Pop-up)
The Monochrome Set	He's Frank "He's Frank" by "The Monochrome Set"	He's Frank (7")	Rough Trade	1979	Released: Jan 1979, A side of the 7" of the same name. "The Monochrome Set was formed in London in 1978 from the remnants of a college group called The B-Sides, whose members had included Stuart Goddard, later known as Adam Ant. Their first live gig was on 15 Feb 1978, at Westfield College in London. The original line-up consisted of Indian-born lead singer and principal songwriter Bid (real name Ganesh Seshadri), Canadian guitarist Lester Square (real name Thomas W.B. Hardy), drummer John D. Haney (formerly of The Art Attacks) and bass guitarist Charlie X. The band had two more bassists, Jeremy Harrington and Simon Croft, before Andy Warren of the Ants, a childhood friend of Bid, joined in late 1979. Morrissey and Johnny Marr of The Smiths were influenced by the band. //// Experimental filmmaker Tony Potts began collaborating with the band in 1979, designing lighting and stage sets with film projections for their live appearances. The band's early persona was defined by the shadowy, uncertain stage images created by the films to such an extent he is often described as being the band's "fifth member". //// They released several singles for the Rough Trade label before recording their debut studio album, Strange Boutique, produced by Bob Sargeant for Virgin Records' imprint DinDisc in 1980." [After a few lineup changes and albums, they stopped in 1985, later reforming in the 90's & beyond. In fact, they still continue to this day, recording new material & releasing new albums.]		1:03:12 (Pop-up)
The BPA, Fatboy Slim, Iggy Pop	He's Frank (Slight Return)	He's Frank (Slight Return)	Southern Fried Records	2009	I never knew this existed before this week and the fact that Fatboy Slim/BPA & Iggy Pop teamed up to cover The Monochrome Set seems to be one of the more unlikely occurrences I can imagine, of all the unlikely occurrences in the music world at large.		1:05:49 (Pop-up)
Tim Timebomb	I Wanna Be Sedated "I Wanna Be Sedated" by "Tim Timebomb"	I Wanna Be Sedated (Digital Single)	Tim Armstrong	2013	Between the dates of Oct 29 2012 and Oct 28 2013 Tim Armstrong [Rancid, Transplants, Operation Ivy] released 366 digital singles. This is one of the more unlikely occurrences I can imagine in the music world. His vision for this rendition of the Ramones classic is also unlikely, and pleasantly pleasing.		1:09:13 (Pop-up)
"Weird Al" Yankovic	Beat On The Brat	Dr. Demento Covered in Punk	Caf Muzeck	2018	Generally I have avoided making the music of Alfred Matthew Yankovic an active part of my life, but I guess I'm making an exception for this day. Fell into a bit of a "unlikely covers of Ramones songs" rabbit hole here; led into it by (then distracted from) a search for lesser-known Fred Schneider content. (He also appears [elsewhere] on this compilation)		1:11:51 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ayyuka	Küfelik "Küfelik" by "Ayyuka"	Zaman Ziyan	Tantana Records	2024	"Ayyuka was founded in the year 2001.They’ve started to make their own music which was mostly improvisation and influenced by a lot of different styles. Some time later the band had it's name naturally which Is AYYUKA that has two meanings: ''to the highest part of the sky' and 'an idiom to tell that a secret has been revealed'" Ayyuka (Bandcamp)	*	1:14:29 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ayyuka	Ziyan "Ziyan" by "Ayyuka"	Zaman Ziyan	Tantana Records	2024	Ayyuka (Bandcamp)	*	1:18:36 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ayyuka	Bossanadolu "Bossanadolu" by "Ayyuka"	Zaman Ziyan	Tantana Records	2024	Ayyuka (Bandcamp)	*	1:23:03 (Pop-up)
Geo	Big Fire "Big Fire" by "Geo"	Big Fire Single	Self Released	2024	Geo is Gijs Deddens, Michiel Klein, Maud van Maarseveen, Ype Zijlstra & Jorne Visser. They have provided the following hashtags: punk dancepunk no wave post-punk weird funk Netherlands. Looking at their instagram, this band like hats, line drawings and moustaches. Do not confuse this wonderful and angular band with Geo Dijkhuis, the versatile lead singer of Sympathy, Horizon, Backyard and.... GEO. According to his extremely comprehensive website "Older than 40? Good chance you have seen Geo live at many of his concerts in the sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties. Geo Dijkhuis - or simply GEO - has been performing live gigs around the Netherlands for decades. From the famous Eksit and Parkzicht in Rotterdam, to the Gigant in Apeldoorn he has performed in allmost all of them. " I gotta say, his songs are not great.	*	1:26:25 (Pop-up)
Fat White Family	Work "Work" by "Fat White Family"	Work Single	Domino	2024	Fat White Family have today released their latest single “Work”, a hurtling electronic triumph that transports the spirit of Moroder to the heart of South London. The track is the latest to be taken from their forthcoming opus, Forgiveness Is Yours, which is released this Friday, 26th of April on Domino.		1:29:29 (Pop-up)
Dr. Sure's Unusual Practice	Last Guy at the Disco	Total Reality	Dougal Shaw	2024	On their third LP Total Reality - a title ripped from the classic sci-fi novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ - Dr Sure's Unusual Practice tackle lofty issues through a hopeful lense, avoiding the often cynical pastiche of modern punk music. Total Reality touches on varied influences - proto-punk to post-punk, new wave to no wave, krautrock to trip-hop - to concieve something fresh and inspired. Shaw refers to Total Reality as a ‘collage album’. There are pieces of pandemic-era demo’s; drum machines coexisting with a live-tracked rhythm section; fresh collaborations; layers of guitars, synths, horns and percussion; collected field recordings and samples - all cut and glued in Shaw’s home studio to realise an expansive and colourful record.	*	1:33:51 (Pop-up)
Fontaines D.C.	Starbuster "Starbuster" by "Fontaines D.C."	Starburster Single	XL Records	2024	Fontaines D.C. have signed to XL for a new album, Romance, set for release on August 23. In a press release, guitarist Conor Deegan said of the album title, “We’ve always had this sense of idealism and romance. Each album gets further away from observing that through the lens of Ireland, as directly as Dogrel. The second album is about that detachment, and the third is about Irishness dislocated in the diaspora. Now we look to where and what else there is to be romantic about...I’m fascinated by that—falling in love at the end of the world,” he says. “The album is about protecting that tiny flame. The bigger Armageddon looms, the more precious it becomes.”	*	1:37:23 (Pop-up)
Belle & Sebastian	What Happened To You, Son?	What Happened To You, Son? [Single]	Matador	2024	Released April 16, 2024. "Belle & Sebastian share new single ‘What Happened To You, Son?’ ahead of their North American tour. //// The jangle-pop track features a retro-sounding guitar riff, a thumping bass line and crisp keys. “Son, you’re a mystery / all your precious words don’t mean so much to me” sings frontman Stuart Murdoch during the opening of the song. The track was originally meant to be on the band’s 2023 LP ‘Late Developers’ but was pulled last minute. //// Speaking of the track in a press release, Murdoch shared: “‘What Happened to You, Son?’ got pulled rather randomly from the last LP because the LP felt one track too long. Out it came. //// “The song is about my youth, and the funny hole I fell into in my late teens. I was failing at my university course, failing in almost everything I tried around then. I was obsessed with the music of the time, I used to hang so much on the lyrics and message and feeling of certain bands of the 80s era – it probably wasn’t healthy.”"		1:41:10 (Pop-up)
Ian Dury & The Blockheads	You'll See Glimpses	Sueperman's Big Sister 7"	Stiff Records	1980	As national treasures go, Ian Dury was one of the unlikeliest. A cantankerous cripple with a penchant for pills and puns, he was a living breathing saucy seaside postcard, a master of the double or even triple entendre; a Cockney caricature with cleverly constructed couplets coming out of his Aris. A forgotten gem is Sueperman’s oh-so-poignant B-side You’ll See Glimpses, with Dury singing from the heart: “All I want for my birthday is another birthday.” Which is just devastating. For all his comedic wordplay and foul-mouthed banter when Dury opened his heart, he could bring tears to your eyes.		1:44:45 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Liberace	Chopsticks "Chopsticks" by "Liberace"	16 Most Requested Songs	Sony	1989	...also a Taurus!		1:48:28 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Giorgio Moroder	Utopia Me Giorgio	From Here To Eternity	Island	1977	...and also a Taurus!		1:51:58 (Pop-up)
Pulp / (All Seeing I's Remix)	Party Hard (I Hardly Part Mix)	Party Hard EP	Universal Records	1998	Pulp are back & touring... ""Party Hard" is a song by British alternative rock band Pulp. Featuring David Bowie-inspired vocals, the song lyrically was inspired by the band's dissatisfaction and exhaustion with clubbing. "Party Hard" was released as the fourth single from This Is Hardcore, reaching number 29 in the UK. The single was accompanied by a music video inspired by kitschy German variety shows." Pulp - Party Hard (Official Video) ++++++++++ "The All Seeing I is an English electronic music group from Sheffield, comprising Dean Honer, Jason Buckle and DJ Parrot (real name Richard Barratt). They released their first single "I Walk / Pickled Eggs & Sherbet" in 1997, but it was not until the year after that they gained mainstream commercial success with the song "Beat Goes On", a remixed cover of the Sonny Bono song, using the all-female vocals from Buddy Rich's version). //// Their work was something of a Sheffield collective, and the trio worked with artists from the city including Tony Christie, Jarvis Cocker, Philip Oakey, Babybird and many others. Their regular live vocalist was Bozz, who later went on to form electronica duo Hiem. //// All Seeing I were asked in November 1998 to produce a cover of "Beat Goes On" for Britney Spears's debut album ...Baby One More Time. They have also remixed a variety of artists, including Pulp. //// Dean Honer also fronts the similarly styled group, I Monster. //// Buckle went on to be a part-time member of Fat Truckers and formed Relaxed Muscle with Jarvis Cocker. He also has a brief cameo as one of the Wyrd Sisters rock band in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, along with Cocker, Pulp's Steve Mackey, Steve Claydon of Add N to (X), and Phil Selway and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead. //// Barratt was part of the duo Sweet Exorcist with Richard H. Kirk (of Cabaret Voltaire fame)."		1:55:04 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:46pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	7:48pm ultradamno: It is the anniversary of Poly Styrene's death, byt the way mastodon.social...
	7:57pm DJ Babs: Hello UD! She left on the day I arrived....just years apart...
	7:58pm Derek Westerholm: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABS!!!!!!!
	7:58pm Derek Westerholm: Hello everyone!
	7:58pm ultradamno: So it's your cake...happy birthday Babs!
	🏝 7:58pm Scott_Oz: G'day Babs, Derek & Birthday Beachcombers! HAPPY BABSDAY MATE!! 🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🥂🍾🏖️
	7:59pm DJ Babs: Hello hello Scott!!!
	7:59pm DJ Babs: Thank you Scott!
	8:02pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Character Study [Excerpt]" by "John Manolesco" This sounds like a lot of bull
	8:02pm Kat in the chat: Still working and not signed in but HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABS!!! 🎉
	8:03pm Kat in the chat: Taurus here too, mine’s Sunday
	8:03pm laurapanic: ↳ Kat in the chat @8:02 that happens to me - gotta do math problems to comment?
	8:04pm laurapanic: I sw Derek's gorgeous fbook birthday post for you Babs. Derek, it was LOVELY.
	8:05pm Tyler: Happy Birthday Babs Van Dee & Basha Vee! MeepMoop says it's alright to sing tonight...
	8:06pm Tyler: ↳ laurapanic @8:03 I also have to do the math - I don't mind. Keeps my mental math skills sharp & gives me one last opportunity to reconsider what I'm about to post :)
	8:06pm DJ Babs: HAHA this show is already killing me LOL
	8:07pm Tyler: They're shooting Spock out of the torpedo tube! :)
	8:08pm DJ Babs: ↳ laurapanic @8:04 Derek is my best birthday present. ❤️
	8:08pm DJ Babs: Hello Laura...hello Kat!!! Hello Tyler! Happy almost birthday Kat!!!
	8:08pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Amazing Grace" by "The Pipes And Drums And The Mi... This is begging for an EDM remix
	8:09pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @8:08 Happy Birthday, Babs!
	8:09pm DJ Babs: HAHA! I think we just got one UD
	8:10pm Tyler: Are we being taken over by pirate commercial radio?
	8:10pm DJ Babs: hahaha!
	8:10pm Derek Westerholm: Oops, some trouble jumping between windows there... Damn.
	8:11pm DJ Babs: I agree tho but that was amazing. Derek is remixing on the fly here apparently!!!
	8:11pm ultradamno: The two big birthday songs I can think of are The Residents' Birthday Boy and Birthday Party's Happy Birthday
	8:11pm Tyler: Can we start a petition to get Alexa's voice replaced by Mark E. Smith's?
	8:12pm DJ Babs: OMG THIS IS AMAZING
	8:13pm DJ Babs: ↳ Tyler @8:11 I would 100% get behind that. Also I wish we could get his voice on WAYZ or just any GPS in general.
	8:13pm DJ Babs: Turrrn LEEEEEFTAHHHHHH in TWOOOO HUNDRED METAAAAAHSSSSUHHH...(ya cunt)
	8:13pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in the chat @8:03 Happy almost-birthday Kat!
	8:13pm Mr Fab: Happy Happy Babs!! have an extra glass of wine on me. Unless you've beaten me to it.
	8:14pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Ultra, Scott, Kat, Laura, Tyler, Fab!
	8:14pm ultradamno: Fairuza Balk for the female Alexa voice
	8:15pm DJ Babs: haha!We are on wine glasss #1. A delightful spanish Cab/sauv mix aged in new french oak barrels...
	8:16pm A➡B: Hello Hello Derek & HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABS!!! Gonna serve up a batch of popcorn to celebrate!
	8:17pm ultradamno: Poly would make a great alarm clock tone...I'm using the Twilight Zone theme now, but that might lure me away...
	8:17pm DJ Babs: Hello hello AB! Welcome welcome!
	8:18pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ A➡B @8:16 Hello hello A->B... Mmmmm Popcorn, lovely idea!
	8:19pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Amazing Grace" by "The Pipes And Drums And The Mi... I actually bought this album from a bargain bin years ago. Probaby 50 cents. Weird that it went to #1?!?
	8:21pm ultradamno: When you make popcorn do you ever imagine the increasing agony of the kernals before they literally explode inside out and think of yourself as their cruel god?
	8:25pm DJ Babs: I do but then they get doused in butter and if I was gonna go, doused in butter is on the list.
	8:28pm ultradamno: Yay! Stinky Toys!
	8:30pm DJ Babs: They are so much fun this band!
	8:30pm laurapanic: WE had a big national holiday here yesterday with a parade and I saw more than one bagpipe in marching bands - glory!
	8:30pm DJ Babs: yaaas. I am perfectly happy listening to a bunch of bagpipes.
	8:32pm ultradamno: www.instagram.com...
	8:34pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Birthday Cake" by "Cibo Matto" Oh man,...happy '90s memories
	8:35pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Tyler @8:10 "taken over by pirate commercial radio"... Haha... very annoyed about that. Hit things (twice) from the wrong browser. .. Thought I was playing from the one with the ad-blocker... I don't often play things off the internet for the show, but it was an easy way to play at x1.75
	8:35pm DJ Babs: Honestly the more I revisit the Matto the more I feel like again they were so ahead of their time....
	8:36pm DJ Babs: ↳ ultradamno @8:32 HAHAA thank you for the cake UD!
	8:37pm Derek Westerholm: That version of the Iggy classic definitely does hit pretty damn hard
	8:37pm ultradamno: In the liner notes of the Live At Goose Lake record Iggy is quoted as saying before they brought in Alexander it was Ron on bass and Iggy singing and playing up until he realized he was better off just singing
	8:37pm GavEllis: Yes..... this is amazing xx happy birthday xx
	8:38pm DJ Babs: Heeey GAV!!!! Welcome welcome! So good to see yas!
	8:38pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ GavEllis @8:37 Hello GavEllis, lovely to see you!
	8:39pm GavEllis: Been listening since the start x so good x Love you guys.. counting down the days until I see you again x
	🏝 8:39pm Kat in the chat: whatchoo do in a tiny canoe?
	8:40pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Backwater" by "Brian Eno" Singing along! I think I'd do pretty well at an Eno karaoke night.
	8:40pm DJ Babs: I'm playing the hits this set!!!
	8:41pm DJ Babs: ↳ GavEllis @8:37 Thank you Gav!
	8:41pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @8:25 There probably should be a suspended in a human sized test tube of butter funereal option.
	8:41pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in the chat @8:39 whatchoo do... ha!
	8:41pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kat in the chat @8:39 That lyric has always given me a giggle Kat. Given that Eno had a reputation for having a healthy sex drive back in the day I always wonder what it's about LOL
	8:42pm Bob Barth: ↳ Song: "Just Like Heaven" by "The Cure" I'm such a sucker for this tune. HEY DEREK & BABS!!
	8:42pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @8:40 Mr Fab... Well then, when will we see this happen?
	8:42pm DJ Babs: ↳ Bob Barth @8:42 SAME and Hello Bob!
	8:43pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ GavEllis @8:39 Thanks Gav, indeed! Lovely to hear that! Will be excellent to see you again...
	8:43pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Bob Barth @8:42 Hey Bob! Hope all is well... What's up for you next on Sheena's?
	🏝 8:44pm Kat in the chat: ↳ DJ Babs @8:41 I have speculated similarly as well!
	8:45pm Mr Fab: ↳ DJ Babs @8:41 "There was a senator from Ecuador Who talked about a meteor That crashed on a hill in the south of Peru And was found by a conquistador Who took it to the Emperor And he passed it on to a Turkish guru" Come ON! That is some next-level Cole Porter-type shizzle there.
	8:46pm DJ Babs: That's why Eno is the shizzzzzzzz
	🏝 8:46pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Mr Fab @8:45 I was trying to sing along but stumbled a lot!
	8:47pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "Warm Leatherette" by "Grace Jones" If there is a lady who doesn't want to enjoy listening to Grace Jones with me I DON'T WANT TO NOW
	8:47pm laurapanic: There are some wonderful early 80s TV appearance performances on Youtube of Grace. They are wonderful.
	8:48pm DJ Babs: making up ones own lyrics is perfectly good!
	8:49pm Bob Barth: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:43 If Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons are your jam you are gonna LOVE tonights show. I'm sitting down with Director TJ Dawson about his exciting new production of Jersey Boys as well as some other fun things. Swing in gang!
	🏝 8:50pm Kristine: HEllllllllllooooooooooo!
	8:50pm DJ Nico: Hello hello Birthday gal!
	8:51pm Karl: I love this place
	🏝 8:54pm Kristine: love everything from eno
	🏝 8:54pm Kat in the chat: My holy trinity: Tiger Mountain, AGW, B&AS
	8:54pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Hello Kristine, Nico, Karl, hello hello!!!!
	8:55pm Karl: ↳ Kristine @8:54 At Kim’s Video in NYC, the Eno section was not labeled “Brian Eno,” the card read “GOD”
	🏝 8:55pm Kristine: ↳ Karl @8:55 thats apt!
	8:58pm Mr Fab: ↳ Karl @8:55 Ha!
	8:58pm Bob Barth: HABBY BIRTHDAY BABS!!!!
	8:58pm DJ Babs: Kristine! Karl! Nico! Hellooooooo
	8:59pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kat in the chat @8:54 100% Kat. All the ENO!
	8:59pm Karl: I am obligated to point out that 1) there is still time for a Robert Smith + Brian Eno collab 2) but there isn’t infinite time and 3) someone at WFMU could make this happen.
	9:00pm DJ Babs: ↳ Karl @8:51 Thank you Karl! Welcome to the Beach...it is a fine place indeed!!!
	🏝 9:00pm Kristine: happy birthday! I hope you have made the most of it:)
	9:00pm DJ Babs: ↳ Karl @8:59 I am 100% on board with this.
	9:00pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "A Beast, A Priest" by "Kid Congo & The Pink Monke... KCP's guesting on a recent Mona show is required listening www.wfmu.org...
	9:01pm DJ Babs: ↳ Kristine @9:00 Thank you Kristine! It's been pretty perfect! Sleepin in, nice brunch, an edible, a bike ride, dim sum dinner and radio hangs with my pals and wine? PERFECTION
	🏝 9:01pm Kat in the chat: ↳ ultradamno @9:00 I was just looking up that link, haha
	🏝 9:01pm Will thee SG OCNY: Hi DJ Babs, Derek, and all!!!
	9:02pm DJ Babs: WILLLLLL!
	🏝 9:02pm Kat in the chat: ↳ DJ Babs @9:01 that does sound lovely, glad it's been so nice today for you!
	9:02pm Karl: ↳ Song: "Just Like Heaven" by "The Cure" Correction: the album is Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
	🏝 9:03pm Will thee SG OCNY: Happy Birthday Babs!!!
	9:03pm Karl: And I LOVE Wish
	9:03pm DJ Babs: ↳ Karl @9:02 oh shit! Good catch! THanks Karl!
	🏝 9:03pm Kristine: ↳ DJ Babs @9:01 nice! you took the day off then. love it:)
	9:04pm DJ Babs: In a manner of speaking...YES!
	🏝 9:04pm Kristine: ↳ DJ Babs @9:04 hmmmm
	9:04pm Mr Fab: i highly recommend Kid Congo's book "New kind of Kick." Bonus: WFMU super fan (and designer of the first Sheena's t-shirt) Franco Twinkie is prominently featured.
	9:05pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "A Beast, A Priest" by "Kid Congo & The Pink Monke... From what I heard of the new archival Alan Vega release (on Blumin's show), In The Red is having a good month
	🏝 9:05pm Kristine: love this, and love symphonie des grauens! that song does not get old!
	9:05pm DJ Babs: Long live the Monochrome Set!
	9:06pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @9:05 symphonie des grauens is fantastic! Babs introduced me to that song... It's now one of my favs.
	🏝 9:07pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "He's Frank (Slight Return)" by "The BPA, Fatboy S... Velvets-y swing to this version
	🏝 9:07pm Kristine: oh this is so SO random
	9:07pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "He's Frank (Slight Return)" by "The BPA, Fatboy S... I really liked the song they did with Emmy The Great around this time...("Seattle")
	🏝 9:07pm Kristine: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:06 yeah, i discovered it through Babs posting it on FB. Babs! *chefs kiss taste
	9:09pm ultradamno: There was a Cinti band called BPA (By Products of America) not to be confused with The BPA (Brighton Port Authority)...if anyone starts a band called Butt Plug Aggravation, there's going to be confusion
	9:10pm DJ Babs: ITS A BIRTHDAY HOEDOWN!
	🏝 9:10pm Kristine: ↳ ultradamno @9:09 LOL. Also, isnt that toxic substance in plastic also BPA?
	9:10pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "I Wanna Be Sedated" by "Tim Timebomb" I need to know more about that project!!
	9:12pm ultradamno: ↳ Kristine @9:10 Yep, not to be confused with PCBs
	9:12pm DJ Babs: WOW Derek pulling out ALL the birthday party stops....
	9:14pm DJ Babs: I never thought I'd ever see the day where Derek indulges my secret Weird Al appreciation, lol.
	9:14pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Beat On The Brat" by ""Weird Al" Yankovic" He's not even making it into a brawurst song. I am disappointed
	9:14pm Tyler: Weird Al was on After Midnight this week :)
	🏝 9:15pm Kristine: Ohhhh is this what i think it is?
	9:15pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @9:14 *bratwurst Eat On The Brat...IT'S RIGHT THERE!
	9:15pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @9:14 Beat on the Braht with a Dijon Bat!
	9:16pm ultradamno: ↳ Tyler @9:14 I saw that...he's pretty limber for his age
	9:16pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "Beat On The Brat" by ""Weird Al" Yankovic" Derek, your homework is to listen to this hour of uttery Weird Al genius: wfmu.org... If you think he's just the food-parody guy, you are oh so wrong. Babs, I'm holding you to this!
	9:18pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @9:16 He can still flex those accordion muscles! :)
	9:20pm Tyler: RAMONES ROMANCE <3
	9:21pm ultradamno: Tom Waits did Ramones (Judy Is A Punk...I think) on Orphans
	9:22pm DJ Babs: Nice!!!!
	9:23pm Tyler: I bought for my friends when they had their first kid the lullaby versions of the Ramones, which (of course) included a music box version of 'Beat On The Brat' :)
	9:23pm DJ Babs: ↳ Mr Fab @9:16 Oh no, he is a fucking Mozart...his gift for arrangement is insane...and he is a MONSTER on the keys. Truly amazing. I believe you! Thank you for the link!
	9:23pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @9:21 The Return Of Jackie And Judy, rather...and Danny Says
	9:24pm Tyler: Kid Congo is the Secret Weapon...
	9:25pm Tyler: HAHAHA! Iggy GRAND Pop! :)
	9:25pm A➡B: ↳ Mr Fab @9:16 Of particular interest to Derek and Babs: one of those tunes is a take on The B-52's!
	9:26pm Tyler: Gior-GIO?
	🏝 9:27pm Kristine: same guitar style as the contortions. i like this lots!
	9:27pm DJ Babs: ↳ A➡B @9:25 Love it! The B-52s are seriously one of the greatest and most underrated bands ever.
	9:27pm DJ Babs: Oh this is SO Contortions!
	9:27pm A➡B: ↳ Song: "Big Fire" by "Geo" Reminding me of 70's Talking Heads!
	9:28pm DJ Babs: Totes!
	9:28pm Tyler: The guitar reminds me of The Raincoats or Liliput/Kleenex
	9:29pm Tyler: YOU GOT IT! AHHHHHHHHHH...
	9:29pm DJ Babs: www.shootthemoonmusic.nl... This is the other GEO...please do feel free to enjoy this
	9:29pm ultradamno: ↳ Tyler @9:28 My first thought off the opening notes was Pat Place
	🏝 9:29pm Kristine: Did derek write "I gotta say his songs are not great"?? lol
	9:30pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @9:29 (possibly Au Pairs or Romeo Void)
	🏝 9:30pm Kristine: derek, what were the turkish tracks you played after Weird Al
	9:30pm Tyler: Is this Shriekback?
	9:31pm DJ Babs: No....it's Fat White Family doing Shriekback?
	9:32pm Tyler: Sorry my Playlist Notes froze again. Singer sounds like Barry Andrews.
	9:32pm northguineahills: whoops, got distracted by cumbia. if you have a non-paneled white van, instead of candy, just play cumbia, i'll be zombified....
	9:32pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @9:31 ME LIKEY!
	9:33pm DJ Babs: ↳ northguineahills @9:32 I understand completely. Cumbia happens. That shit is hypnotic.
	9:33pm Mr Fab: ↳ Kristine @9:29 Yeah, I disagree! That was smokin.
	🏝 9:34pm Kristine: what the fuck is this?? :))
	🏝 9:35pm Kristine: I am in love with whatever the hell this is
	9:37pm DJ Babs: Dr. Sure's unusual practice! We play them often and they are SOOO GOOOD. One of Derek's finds....
	9:37pm northguineahills: ↳ DJ Babs @9:33 feliz cumpleanos, baberina!
	9:37pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @9:16 Thanks Fab, ok then... I will make sure I educate myself forthwith, via the suggested route...
	9:37pm A➡B: ↳ Kristine @9:35 Is it reminding you of The Fall, too?
	9:37pm DJ Babs: oh hold on to your pants kids..this trakc is AMAZING.
	9:38pm Tyler: Love the drum sound!
	🏝 9:38pm Kristine: ↳ A➡B @9:37 yes somewhat, also Aught from Montreal. but also not quite easily to categorize, a real headscratcher!
	9:40pm DJ Babs: oooh Aught from Montreal are soo good and yes! I do hear that too. Wonder what they are up to?
	9:40pm DJ Babs: This is the music I just wanna let wash over me....
	🏝 9:40pm Kristine: ↳ DJ Babs @9:40 not too sure...
	9:42pm Tyler: This sounds like Belle & Sebastian covering Bowie.
	9:43pm DJ Babs: This bassline is sOOO Rio by Duran Duran!
	9:43pm DJ Babs: ↳ Tyler @9:42 Funny you mention that because I WAS going to play Bowie after this but we are running out of time!
	9:44pm Tyler: ↳ Tyler @9:42 OK - the notes confused me. This IS Belle & Sebastian - my mistake. I saw B&S live for the first time & last concert I attended before COVID shut-downs...
	9:45pm Tyler: I think they're playing here again this year...
	9:46pm Tyler: <3 Ian Dury - he's like your cool uncle that was once a rocker but still cool enough to have a foot in punk, jazz & new wave...
	9:47pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "What Happened To You, Son?" by "Belle & Sebastian" You know what, Stuart (Murdoch), I LIKE YOU. You're not like the other People, here, in the trailer park.
	9:48pm ultradamno: If he's your cool uncle, I think your dad has a book for you to read.
	9:51pm northguineahills: derek is correct, 94!
	9:52pm Tyler: Gio-GIO! <3
	9:53pm northguineahills: taurus, the ford, or the swedish/german cruise missle...
	9:53pm northguineahills: geo, not to be confused w/ the geologist (from animal collective)
	🏝 9:54pm Scott_Oz: Thanks Babs & Derek for sharing the Beach Babs Birthday Party with us all. Here's cheers to many many more my mates. 🌏🌞🍻😎🤙💨🍷🍷🎂🥂🍾❤
	9:54pm Tyler: NOT SLOPPY ENOUGH, BABS & DEREK! :)
	9:54pm northguineahills: ↳ northguineahills @9:51 belle and sebastian formed in 94, tigermilk came out in 96...
	9:54pm Tyler: Happy BABSday!
	9:54pm Bob Barth: Thanks for the props Babs.. Follow me into the next hour gang! www.wfmu.org...
	9:55pm northguineahills: i was listening to pulp earlier today!
	🏝 9:55pm Kat in the chat: Cheers Babs!
	9:55pm Tyler: THIS IS HARDCORE is my favourite PULP! Can't wait to see them in September for the 1st time...
	9:55pm DJ Babs: YAAAAS. Are you night 1 or 2 Tyler?
	🏝 9:55pm Kat in the chat: And thanks Derek, not to be forgotten!
	9:56pm Tyler: If you didn't COME to party, why did you COME? :)
	9:56pm northguineahills: banks, Babs and Derek, enjoy your day!
	9:56pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @9:30 Kristine, the Turkish stuff after Weird Al was a recent Turkish band, Ayyuka, though you may have figured that out by now... catching up on comments!
	9:56pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @9:55 Night 1 (I think)
	9:56pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ northguineahills @9:32 Hello there North Guinea Hills!
	9:56pm DJ Babs: ↳ A➡B @9:37 oh EVERYTHING here is usually Fall-adjacent somehow!!!!
	9:57pm Derek Westerholm: Hello there also Will Thee SG, I think I might have missed a hello to you...
	9:57pm DJ Babs: ↳ Tyler @9:56 We are night 2!
	9:57pm Mr Fab: and you didn't play The Birthday Party!
	9:57pm Tyler: I've never heard this mix b4... It's great!
	9:57pm DJ Nico: Thanks for the tunes B & D xx
	9:57pm A➡B: ALRIGHT! Fun little party we've had here! Thanks Derek! Have a great rest-of-your-birthday, Babs! Will be tuning in again next week (even if not commenting), as always!
	9:58pm DJ Babs: This is SOOOOO a)Sheffield 2000's b)I Monster c)Excellent.
	9:58pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @9:57 d'OH! At least they added another night so more of us could go...
	9:58pm DJ Babs: ↳ DJ Nico @9:57 Thank you darling! Also everyone should please check out Dj Nico's archived shows and FB links because they are 🔥
	9:59pm DJ Babs: ↳ Mr Fab @9:57 lol after almost 3 years now here we are progressing!
	9:59pm DJ Babs: It's a sleazy dance party! Thank you BEACH BUMS YOU ARE THE BEEEEEEEESSSSST!!!!!! ❤️
	9:59pm Derek Westerholm: Thank-you, all! Truly excellent sharing this time with you!
	🏝 9:59pm Kristine: would have liked to go see pulp but i could not get a single ticket :(
	9:59pm Tyler: Thanks Babs & Derek for another fantastic episode & for spending your birthday with us punters... Hope you enjoy the rest of the day!
	10:00pm northguineahills: ↳ DJ Babs @9:58 and it's not even wednesday (footie joke)
	10:00pm ultradamno: ↳ DJ Babs @9:59 Regress!
	10:00pm Tyler: ↳ Kristine @9:59 Getting tickets was kind of a shit-show with Ticketmaster, Stubhub, et al...
	10:01pm DJ Babs: Cheerio Frenz!!!!
	🏝 10:01pm Kristine: yeah, its garbage! oh well. BYE BABS!
	10:01pm Derek Westerholm: Good night/day/week!
	10:02pm Tyler: ↳ Kristine @10:01 I only got a ticket through the generosity of one of my friends. The Ticketmaster app kept booting me out or not letting me complete the transaction when I selected tickets.
	10:02pm ultradamno: Night, day, doesn't mean shit. In the words of Mr. Stanton
	🏝 10:02pm Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you DJ Babs and Derek!!!
	10:03pm Tyler: ↳ Derek Westerholm @10:01 Good evenin' Derek!
	10:04pm Tyler: In the immortal words of every Toronto Bouncer: "YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO HOME, BUT YOU CAN'T STAY HERE!" :)

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from April 25, 2024

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