WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 15, 2025

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:13pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:46pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 8:55pm Arvo Zylo: Hi
	8:56pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @8:55 Ahoy, Arvo Zylo!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Krys O.: Hey!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Lovely to see you in the Digital Salon, Imaginos, Arvo, and Krys O!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm postconsumer: hi hi hi
	9:02pm Mr Fab: People of Earth! We mean you no harm!
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 Lovely to be here, Austin.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Greetings earthlings ✌️👽🖖📡🛰️🛸🌌🪐
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm WR: Listening while eyes occupied elsewhere.
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: postconsumer & Mr. Fab! Thanks for visiting the Digital Salon! And red_door_what_for, and WR! Thank you.
	9:04pm Imaginos: People of the planet Earth. Why are you trying to contact us? You can't even talk to the millions of non-human species that exist on your own world!
	9:07pm Mr. X: Howdy, fellow space travelers.
	9:09pm Imaginos: a three hour tour?
	9:09pm Mr. X: ...A three-hour tour. A three hour tour...
	9:10pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:09 Have you ever heard Stairway to Gilligan's Island?
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm GorillaFella: Hello fellow Mutants and Saturnaliens!
	9:11pm Mr. X: ↳ Imaginos @9:10 Ha ha! Yes! We played it on our last Demento Dimension show, here on MVM.
	♥ 9:11pm Maulydaft: Gosh... I can't believe a whole week has gone by. I've been stuck in my home town, not where I actually live, since Feb 28 and it's like a twilight zone episode. EEEP
	9:11pm Imaginos: the Warlord looks like Ming.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Krys O.: G'night, all! Happy Radio-versary!
	9:13pm Mr. X: ↳ Mr. X @9:11 We played it back-to-back with the Husker Du version of the Gilligan's Island theme.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Its a long way back but worth it 🪐🛣️🚀
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "It Came From Outer Space" by "Т.Б. Трачеи" This is a Macedonian band, I believe.
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "It Came From Outer Space" by "Т.Б. Трачеи" This album is not listed in Discogs, but two of their other albums are. Weird...
	9:18pm Mr. X: If looking for life is your only reason for exploring other planets, you're going to wind up with a very disappointed audience. I wish they would stop emphasizing that aspect.
	9:22pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:18 Especially if one believes that life must be carbon based, bipedal, and land-dwelling. There's plenty of life on other planets, it's just sub-microscopic.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @9:10 That's a classic proto-mashup.
	9:26pm Imaginos: ↳ postconsumer @9:24 Indeed
	9:27pm Mr. X: Is Katy Perry going to start making space music, now that she took her trip on Blue Origin?
	9:36pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:27 She already did some songs in Simlish.
	9:41pm Mr. X: Ted Koppel? Ignorant? Tell me it isn't so!
	9:48pm Mr. X: Nobody says "billions" quite the same way as Carl Sagan.
	9:53pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:48 An eye in a handbag did a passable impression on My Stepmother Is an Alien
	9:55pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mr. X @9:48 Sagan used to claim that he didn't say the word that much, it was Johnny Carson's parody of him. But I dunno, i used to watch "Cosmos" and his other appearances and I seem to remember him saying it fairly frequently...
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: I hope it's all sounding okay. Thanks for sticking around!
	10:00pm Imaginos: Great
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: What a triiiip, vibing and learning on this end of the cosmic salon :~D 🛋️👽🖖📡🌌🛰️🪐
	🎸 ♥ 10:02pm Heather Z: Omg happy 27th Radioversary!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:06pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: perhaps part of the hero's journey, sometimes you walk alone and other times with friends, and plenty in between but CONGRATS man on following the dream and making it happen ^_^📻🎶
	10:10pm Imaginos: You're far from boring
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Austin Rich: I try not to be, anyway.
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "There's a Moon in the Sky (Called the Moon)" by "... Probably one of my favorite albums. This record RULES!
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm GorillaFella: The B52s spacey sample combo is sending me directly into the Roger Corman Realm
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @10:12 That's a good place to be!
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Kat in the chat: Dropping in to say Good Hello and Happy Anniversary! I like this Saturn stuff. Listened last week too.
	🎸 ♥ 10:14pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @10:10 If I'm hanging out with someone during Austin's shows, we might chat over some of the music but I find I have the very rude habit of shushing them during mic breaks because I want to hear every word! So yes. Not at all boring.
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Arvo Zylo: I remember terrestrial radio at night where it was only the occasional drunk calling in, and you had no idea how many people were listening. The outer space vibe would be good for the late night drift. Chat is a nice component, though.
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Kat in the chat @10:13 Hello!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:14 Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ GorillaFella @10:12 I was on a Ramones kicked recently, and watched Rock N Roll High School. Also read two books and had no idea that The Ramones collaborated with the B-52s on "Chop Suey".
	♥ 10:26pm Johnny Walsh: Greetings from the Red Spot....
	♥ 10:27pm Johnny Walsh: The one on Jupiter
	♥ 10:27pm coelacanth∅))): greetings Austin, mutants
	10:28pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @8:56 Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Kat in the chat: Hi Arvo!
	♥ 10:29pm coelacanth∅))): Hola Imaginos!
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Get Lost" by "Tom Waits" There was a while where I needed like a 20 year break from Tom Waits, but that break is over now, and I am enjoying Tom Waits again.
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:25 Hi Arvo!
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ coelacanth∅))) @10:29 Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Heather Z: ↳ coelacanth∅))) @10:27 Hi!
	♥ 10:32pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:30 Hallo Arvo and Heather Z!
	10:43pm Imaginos: Tonight's show is awesome
	10:51pm Mr. X: Robot emissaries.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "I Could Be Lost" by "Eleventh Dream Day" One of the best albums of the early 90's, but a band that is often to easily forgotten.
	10:53pm wenzo: What it dew
	10:55pm Imaginos: Starting to doze off. Interesting and fun show though
	10:56pm Imaginos: Good night
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 I knew Rick and Janet in Chicago, right after they moved there in the early 80s. I was living with some other people in a storefront up the street from Wrigley Field. One of my roommates met them at the restaurant they worked at. Janet had her drum kit at our place for a while.
	♥ 10:58pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Imaginos @10:56 'night, Imaginos
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Kat in the chat: Not window opening weather here yet. Soon.
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Heather Z: ↳ Kat in the chat @11:00 Nor here! It's hailing right now here. I've turned up the volume so I can't hear it hit the windows!
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Kat in the chat: Great band and, I agree, under appreciated.
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Heather Z @11:01 Yikes! Hail freaks me out.
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Heather Z: ↳ Kat in the chat @11:02 Me too! It doesn't seem right! Too crunchy.
	🎸 ♥ 11:05pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Lonely Planet Boy" by "New York Dolls" I was going to play this on your show last month, before David J. died, but decided against it, because I had a feeling... RIP...
	🎸 ♥ 11:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:05 I was late to the party with New York Dolls, but damn if they don't hold up excellently, in 2025. Maybe that's just where my mind is at these days...
	♥ 11:06pm coelacanth∅))): Tom Waits can be divisive in various ways... i personally like Tom Waits; but i can't stand most of his "mellow" (not really), "crooning" (!) or narrative stuff (which i think is what most Tom Waits fans like the most. ...but i'm all about his "weird stuff" (as if it isn't ALL weird - even if just by his delivery) ...the clanking percussion stuff. there are exceptions though. (like i Love "a soldier's things", and "small change got rained on"...)
	🎸 ♥ 11:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅))) @11:06 I like a lot of his stuff, but I think a good rule of thumb: when he is weirder, he is better.
	🎸 ♥ 11:09pm GorillaFella: Ive had some Saturn documentaries going in the background for the past couple hours and the visual pairing has been incredible! The rivers of Titan showed up while one of the Titan samples was playing lol so cool
	🎸 ♥ 11:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @11:09 I love that! Very cool!
	♥ 11:10pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Austin Rich @11:08 Yes! ...he's either weird, or he's stifling his weirdness
	🎸 ♥ 11:14pm Heather Z: Yessss the after-party! This is exciting!!
	♥ 11:15pm Maulydaft: Thanks for the show tonight! Brings me some lovely art in my current mundane existence! I will listen to the rest in archive :) :)
	🎸 ♥ 11:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @11:15 Thanks for listening! I hope you are well. I owe you some e-mail!
	🎸 ♥ 11:17pm Austin Rich: This was recorded on my show before I had a digital camera of any kind, so there are no photos of the band playing! Which is a bummer. Here's a link to more information about Amoree Lovell's music: www.discogs.com...
	🎸 ♥ 11:17pm Kat in the chat: ↳ coelacanth∅))) @11:06 The clanking percussion stuff is about the only Waits I still like.
	🎸 ♥ 11:20pm Austin Rich: I was impressed that this performance held up pretty well, for being over 20 years old. I listen to some bands I used to listen to from 20 years ago, and they were... not so good. I would go see a band like this see any day of the week! It has every thing I love: keyboards, guitars, emo lyrics...
	🎸 ♥ 11:21pm Heather Z: ↳ Kat in the chat @11:17 I'm a sucker for anything that sounds like maybe a circus or a parade so that stuff really resonates with me.
	♥ 11:21pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Austin Rich @11:20 sounds Excellent!
	🎸 ♥ 11:22pm Kat in the chat: I like these Human Genomes. I’m toddling off to bed but will have this on for a bit. Thanks, Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 11:22pm Austin Rich: If I recall correctly: this was engineered by either Brandon Arends or Myron Kingsbury, both gents who did that kind of thing for the radio station I was at then. I did the final mix during the live broadcast, and then re-mastered it recently for this broadcast.
	🎸 ♥ 11:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in the chat @11:22 Thanks Kat! Sleep well.
	♥ 11:24pm coelacanth∅))): i knew someone years ago who lived with me for a little while. she heard me playing balanese gamelan and said she likes it...reminded her of children hitting pots and pans! ...i wonder what she thought of, or would've thought of Tom Waits' weird clanking stuff!
	🎸 ♥ 11:24pm Austin Rich: Listening to this performance takes me right back to that studio, where we hosted bands and recorded these things. I was at that station for 10 years, and we did a lot of radio there. Talk about late, lonely radio nights. I used to be on 10 - Midnight then, PST.
	♥ 11:25pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Kat in the chat @11:22 'night Kat
	🎸 ♥ 11:27pm JM in Texas: Howdy from Lake Charles, Louisiana. Totally forgot it was Tuesday night. Just wanted to say hello and I hope everyone is well. Cya next week!
	🎸 ♥ 11:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @11:27 JM! Thanks for poppin' in! Yes, join us next week!
	🎸 ♥ 11:30pm Austin Rich: This was 20 years ago, before I met Marla, so I don't mind saying: I made every effort to court this gal in this band, and failed. I even roadied for a few out-of-town gigs, recorded the shows for the bands, and went to a number of her shows. She was always nice, but didn't seem interested. #TalesFromThePast
	🎸 ♥ 11:34pm Arvo Zylo: I am still here
	🎸 ♥ 11:36pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ JM in Texas @11:27 Hi JM!
	🎸 ♥ 11:36pm Heather Z: I'm here, too, but winding down for chat time!! I'll keep tuned in, though! Thanks for a great show, Austin, and a fun chat, everyone!! Have a great rest of your days or nights!
	🎸 ♥ 11:39pm Austin Rich: I believe I have played songs from this performance on various shows over the years, when the tune matches up with the theme. And I can think of at least twice where I re-ran this show, over the years. But as I mentioned: it is a shame when good performances like this get lost in the ether. Re-listening, not every song has stuck with me, so it was great to remember the gems I'd forgotten. I hope to highlight more stuff like this from the MVM archives in this slot.
	11:41pm Mr Fab: Back to listening after having to do stuff. Don't know this band, but me likee.
	🎸 ♥ 11:41pm Austin Rich: Every so often I have considered assembling a "best of" collection for release, and I have included some stuff I've recorded for the show on some releases here and there. But never one that focuses on the best work of other artists that have appeared on the show.
	🎸 ♥ 11:42pm Austin Rich: Jaris! That was the other gents name, who is playing guitar. Christopher is the other Keyboard player. All three sing.
	🎸 ♥ 11:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @11:41 I think they were only around for a handful of years, out of PDX. Amoree still plays and sings, probably will forever. I'm remembering: Jaris had a synth-pop band called Bats From The Pyramids of Eqypt, and Christopher had a band called The Bugs of Lightning, which appeared on my show a couple times, later on.
	♥ 11:43pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Heather Z @11:36 take care Heather
	🎸 ♥ 11:45pm Austin Rich: If I recall correctly, all three were big fans of the "Civilization" video game, and one of the science achievements in that game was "The Human Genome Project." Which became the band name.
	11:53pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:45 I should have guessed that!
	🎸 ♥ 11:54pm Austin Rich: One of our cats destroyed the most irreplaceable vintage glass ornament that Marla had out in the living room, which caused her to start cursing and whatnot while I was doing my last voice over. So, if you heard any of that... that's why...
	🎸 ♥ 11:55pm Austin Rich: I should end almost on time tonight! Three hours is the key, apparently...
	🎸 ♥ 11:56pm Austin Rich: Thanks for listening, everyone. Hopefully this new format works out for people. Let me know what you think!
	🎸 ♥ 11:59pm Austin Rich: This last one - Robot Affliction - has made it into a number of shows over the years. I just love this tune!
	11:59pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:56 I think it makes sense for you, and it needed to happen.
	12:00am Mr. X: Great show tonight, Austin! Thanks again!
	♥ 12:02am coelacanth∅))): Thanks Austin! 'night

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 15, 2025

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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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April 15, 2025: Saturn Returns (Part 2) (MVM 401 / 27th Anniversary Broadcast)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
Previously On... "Previously On..."
Patrick Chapman	Dan Dare: Operation Saturn (Part 1)	Dan Dare: Operation Saturn	B7 Media	2018	0:00:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Richard Smith	A Traveler's Guide To The Planets: Saturn	Series 1, Episode 2	National Geographic	2010	0:00:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Eleanor Arnason	The Warlords of Saturns Moons	Gremlin Time	KBOO	2018	0:00:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson	Clip "Clip" by "Neil DeGrasse Tyson"	Clip	YouTube.com		0:01:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Carl Sagan & Ted Koppel	Discuss Voyager II	Carl Sagan & Ted Koppel Discuss Voyager II	ABC TV	1981	0:00:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	0:05:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Voyager Space Probe	Saturn / The Rings of Saturn [Excerpt 1]	NASA Recordings	NASA	1981	0:13:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Set 1 "Set 1"
Т.Б. Трачеи	It Came From Outer Space	Kyпи Me	Tpaч Pekopдc	2000	0:13:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations	Saturn Returns Set 1	Saturn Returns	Mid-Valley Mutations	2025	0:17:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Inbetweens	Saturn's Return "Saturn's Return" by "The Inbetweens"	Out On A Limb	Layered Music	2013	0:29:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations	Saturn Returns Set 2	Saturn Returns	Mid-Valley Mutations	2025	0:33:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Gang of Four	Return the Gift "Return the Gift" by "Gang of Four"	Entertainment!	Warner Bros	1979	0:57:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Voyager Space Probe	Saturn / The Rings of Saturn [Excerpt 2]	NASA Recordings	NASA	1981	1:00:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Hour 2 "Hour 2"
Set 2 "Set 2"
B-52's	There's a Moon in the Sky (Called the Moon)	B-52s	Warner Bros		1:10:55 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations	Saturn Returns Set 3	Saturn Returns	Mid-Valley Mutations	2025	1:15:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Get Lost "Get Lost" by "Tom Waits"	Bad As Me	Anti-	2011	1:28:22 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Mini-Mutations	Saturn Returns Set 4	Saturn Returns	Mid-Valley Mutations	2025	1:31:23 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Eleventh Dream Day	I Could Be Lost	Lived to Tell	Atlantic Records	1991	1:51:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Voyager Space Probe	Saturn / The Rings of Saturn [Excerpt 3]	NASA Recordings	NASA	1981	2:00:54 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Hour 3 "Hour 3"
New York Dolls	Lonely Planet Boy "Lonely Planet Boy" by "New York Dolls"	New York Dolls	Mercury Records	1973	2:04:24 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Ending Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations Ending Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	2:08:21 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Afterparty "The Afterparty"
The Human Genome Project	Live Set 1	17 September 2004	Mid-Valley Mutations	2004	2:15:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Human Genome Project	Live Set 2	17 September 2004	Mid-Valley Mutations	2004	2:35:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Human Genome Project	Live Set 3	17 September 2004	Mid-Valley Mutations	2004	2:52:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 7:13pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	8:46pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 8:55pm Arvo Zylo: Hi
	8:56pm Imaginos: ↳ Arvo Zylo @8:55 Ahoy, Arvo Zylo!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Krys O.: Hey!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm Austin Rich: Lovely to see you in the Digital Salon, Imaginos, Arvo, and Krys O!
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm postconsumer: hi hi hi
	9:02pm Mr Fab: People of Earth! We mean you no harm!
	9:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 Lovely to be here, Austin.
	🎸 ♥ 9:02pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Greetings earthlings ✌️👽🖖📡🛰️🛸🌌🪐
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm WR: Listening while eyes occupied elsewhere.
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: postconsumer & Mr. Fab! Thanks for visiting the Digital Salon! And red_door_what_for, and WR! Thank you.
	9:04pm Imaginos: People of the planet Earth. Why are you trying to contact us? You can't even talk to the millions of non-human species that exist on your own world!
	9:07pm Mr. X: Howdy, fellow space travelers.
	9:09pm Imaginos: a three hour tour?
	9:09pm Mr. X: ...A three-hour tour. A three hour tour...
	9:10pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:09 Have you ever heard Stairway to Gilligan's Island?
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm GorillaFella: Hello fellow Mutants and Saturnaliens!
	9:11pm Mr. X: ↳ Imaginos @9:10 Ha ha! Yes! We played it on our last Demento Dimension show, here on MVM.
	♥ 9:11pm Maulydaft: Gosh... I can't believe a whole week has gone by. I've been stuck in my home town, not where I actually live, since Feb 28 and it's like a twilight zone episode. EEEP
	9:11pm Imaginos: the Warlord looks like Ming.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Krys O.: G'night, all! Happy Radio-versary!
	9:13pm Mr. X: ↳ Mr. X @9:11 We played it back-to-back with the Husker Du version of the Gilligan's Island theme.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Its a long way back but worth it 🪐🛣️🚀
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "It Came From Outer Space" by "Т.Б. Трачеи" This is a Macedonian band, I believe.
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "It Came From Outer Space" by "Т.Б. Трачеи" This album is not listed in Discogs, but two of their other albums are. Weird...
	9:18pm Mr. X: If looking for life is your only reason for exploring other planets, you're going to wind up with a very disappointed audience. I wish they would stop emphasizing that aspect.
	9:22pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:18 Especially if one believes that life must be carbon based, bipedal, and land-dwelling. There's plenty of life on other planets, it's just sub-microscopic.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @9:10 That's a classic proto-mashup.
	9:26pm Imaginos: ↳ postconsumer @9:24 Indeed
	9:27pm Mr. X: Is Katy Perry going to start making space music, now that she took her trip on Blue Origin?
	9:36pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:27 She already did some songs in Simlish.
	9:41pm Mr. X: Ted Koppel? Ignorant? Tell me it isn't so!
	9:48pm Mr. X: Nobody says "billions" quite the same way as Carl Sagan.
	9:53pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:48 An eye in a handbag did a passable impression on My Stepmother Is an Alien
	9:55pm Mr Fab: ↳ Mr. X @9:48 Sagan used to claim that he didn't say the word that much, it was Johnny Carson's parody of him. But I dunno, i used to watch "Cosmos" and his other appearances and I seem to remember him saying it fairly frequently...
	🎸 ♥ 9:58pm Austin Rich: I hope it's all sounding okay. Thanks for sticking around!
	10:00pm Imaginos: Great
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: What a triiiip, vibing and learning on this end of the cosmic salon :~D 🛋️👽🖖📡🌌🛰️🪐
	🎸 ♥ 10:02pm Heather Z: Omg happy 27th Radioversary!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:06pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: perhaps part of the hero's journey, sometimes you walk alone and other times with friends, and plenty in between but CONGRATS man on following the dream and making it happen ^_^📻🎶
	10:10pm Imaginos: You're far from boring
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Austin Rich: I try not to be, anyway.
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "There's a Moon in the Sky (Called the Moon)" by "... Probably one of my favorite albums. This record RULES!
	🎸 ♥ 10:12pm GorillaFella: The B52s spacey sample combo is sending me directly into the Roger Corman Realm
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @10:12 That's a good place to be!
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Kat in the chat: Dropping in to say Good Hello and Happy Anniversary! I like this Saturn stuff. Listened last week too.
	🎸 ♥ 10:14pm Heather Z: ↳ Imaginos @10:10 If I'm hanging out with someone during Austin's shows, we might chat over some of the music but I find I have the very rude habit of shushing them during mic breaks because I want to hear every word! So yes. Not at all boring.
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Arvo Zylo: I remember terrestrial radio at night where it was only the occasional drunk calling in, and you had no idea how many people were listening. The outer space vibe would be good for the late night drift. Chat is a nice component, though.
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Kat in the chat @10:13 Hello!!
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Heather Z @10:14 Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ GorillaFella @10:12 I was on a Ramones kicked recently, and watched Rock N Roll High School. Also read two books and had no idea that The Ramones collaborated with the B-52s on "Chop Suey".
	♥ 10:26pm Johnny Walsh: Greetings from the Red Spot....
	♥ 10:27pm Johnny Walsh: The one on Jupiter
	♥ 10:27pm coelacanth∅))): greetings Austin, mutants
	10:28pm Imaginos: Ahoy!
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Imaginos @8:56 Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Kat in the chat: Hi Arvo!
	♥ 10:29pm coelacanth∅))): Hola Imaginos!
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Get Lost" by "Tom Waits" There was a while where I needed like a 20 year break from Tom Waits, but that break is over now, and I am enjoying Tom Waits again.
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Heather Z: ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:25 Hi Arvo!
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ coelacanth∅))) @10:29 Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Heather Z: ↳ coelacanth∅))) @10:27 Hi!
	♥ 10:32pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Arvo Zylo @10:30 Hallo Arvo and Heather Z!
	10:43pm Imaginos: Tonight's show is awesome
	10:51pm Mr. X: Robot emissaries.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "I Could Be Lost" by "Eleventh Dream Day" One of the best albums of the early 90's, but a band that is often to easily forgotten.
	10:53pm wenzo: What it dew
	10:55pm Imaginos: Starting to doze off. Interesting and fun show though
	10:56pm Imaginos: Good night
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Austin Rich @10:53 I knew Rick and Janet in Chicago, right after they moved there in the early 80s. I was living with some other people in a storefront up the street from Wrigley Field. One of my roommates met them at the restaurant they worked at. Janet had her drum kit at our place for a while.
	♥ 10:58pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Imaginos @10:56 'night, Imaginos
	🎸 ♥ 11:00pm Kat in the chat: Not window opening weather here yet. Soon.
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Heather Z: ↳ Kat in the chat @11:00 Nor here! It's hailing right now here. I've turned up the volume so I can't hear it hit the windows!
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Kat in the chat: Great band and, I agree, under appreciated.
	🎸 ♥ 11:02pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Heather Z @11:01 Yikes! Hail freaks me out.
	🎸 ♥ 11:03pm Heather Z: ↳ Kat in the chat @11:02 Me too! It doesn't seem right! Too crunchy.
	🎸 ♥ 11:05pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Lonely Planet Boy" by "New York Dolls" I was going to play this on your show last month, before David J. died, but decided against it, because I had a feeling... RIP...
	🎸 ♥ 11:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @11:05 I was late to the party with New York Dolls, but damn if they don't hold up excellently, in 2025. Maybe that's just where my mind is at these days...
	♥ 11:06pm coelacanth∅))): Tom Waits can be divisive in various ways... i personally like Tom Waits; but i can't stand most of his "mellow" (not really), "crooning" (!) or narrative stuff (which i think is what most Tom Waits fans like the most. ...but i'm all about his "weird stuff" (as if it isn't ALL weird - even if just by his delivery) ...the clanking percussion stuff. there are exceptions though. (like i Love "a soldier's things", and "small change got rained on"...)
	🎸 ♥ 11:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅))) @11:06 I like a lot of his stuff, but I think a good rule of thumb: when he is weirder, he is better.
	🎸 ♥ 11:09pm GorillaFella: Ive had some Saturn documentaries going in the background for the past couple hours and the visual pairing has been incredible! The rivers of Titan showed up while one of the Titan samples was playing lol so cool
	🎸 ♥ 11:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ GorillaFella @11:09 I love that! Very cool!
	♥ 11:10pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Austin Rich @11:08 Yes! ...he's either weird, or he's stifling his weirdness
	🎸 ♥ 11:14pm Heather Z: Yessss the after-party! This is exciting!!
	♥ 11:15pm Maulydaft: Thanks for the show tonight! Brings me some lovely art in my current mundane existence! I will listen to the rest in archive :) :)
	🎸 ♥ 11:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Maulydaft @11:15 Thanks for listening! I hope you are well. I owe you some e-mail!
	🎸 ♥ 11:17pm Austin Rich: This was recorded on my show before I had a digital camera of any kind, so there are no photos of the band playing! Which is a bummer. Here's a link to more information about Amoree Lovell's music: www.discogs.com...
	🎸 ♥ 11:17pm Kat in the chat: ↳ coelacanth∅))) @11:06 The clanking percussion stuff is about the only Waits I still like.
	🎸 ♥ 11:20pm Austin Rich: I was impressed that this performance held up pretty well, for being over 20 years old. I listen to some bands I used to listen to from 20 years ago, and they were... not so good. I would go see a band like this see any day of the week! It has every thing I love: keyboards, guitars, emo lyrics...
	🎸 ♥ 11:21pm Heather Z: ↳ Kat in the chat @11:17 I'm a sucker for anything that sounds like maybe a circus or a parade so that stuff really resonates with me.
	♥ 11:21pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Austin Rich @11:20 sounds Excellent!
	🎸 ♥ 11:22pm Kat in the chat: I like these Human Genomes. I’m toddling off to bed but will have this on for a bit. Thanks, Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 11:22pm Austin Rich: If I recall correctly: this was engineered by either Brandon Arends or Myron Kingsbury, both gents who did that kind of thing for the radio station I was at then. I did the final mix during the live broadcast, and then re-mastered it recently for this broadcast.
	🎸 ♥ 11:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Kat in the chat @11:22 Thanks Kat! Sleep well.
	♥ 11:24pm coelacanth∅))): i knew someone years ago who lived with me for a little while. she heard me playing balanese gamelan and said she likes it...reminded her of children hitting pots and pans! ...i wonder what she thought of, or would've thought of Tom Waits' weird clanking stuff!
	🎸 ♥ 11:24pm Austin Rich: Listening to this performance takes me right back to that studio, where we hosted bands and recorded these things. I was at that station for 10 years, and we did a lot of radio there. Talk about late, lonely radio nights. I used to be on 10 - Midnight then, PST.
	♥ 11:25pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Kat in the chat @11:22 'night Kat
	🎸 ♥ 11:27pm JM in Texas: Howdy from Lake Charles, Louisiana. Totally forgot it was Tuesday night. Just wanted to say hello and I hope everyone is well. Cya next week!
	🎸 ♥ 11:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ JM in Texas @11:27 JM! Thanks for poppin' in! Yes, join us next week!
	🎸 ♥ 11:30pm Austin Rich: This was 20 years ago, before I met Marla, so I don't mind saying: I made every effort to court this gal in this band, and failed. I even roadied for a few out-of-town gigs, recorded the shows for the bands, and went to a number of her shows. She was always nice, but didn't seem interested. #TalesFromThePast
	🎸 ♥ 11:34pm Arvo Zylo: I am still here
	🎸 ♥ 11:36pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ JM in Texas @11:27 Hi JM!
	🎸 ♥ 11:36pm Heather Z: I'm here, too, but winding down for chat time!! I'll keep tuned in, though! Thanks for a great show, Austin, and a fun chat, everyone!! Have a great rest of your days or nights!
	🎸 ♥ 11:39pm Austin Rich: I believe I have played songs from this performance on various shows over the years, when the tune matches up with the theme. And I can think of at least twice where I re-ran this show, over the years. But as I mentioned: it is a shame when good performances like this get lost in the ether. Re-listening, not every song has stuck with me, so it was great to remember the gems I'd forgotten. I hope to highlight more stuff like this from the MVM archives in this slot.
	11:41pm Mr Fab: Back to listening after having to do stuff. Don't know this band, but me likee.
	🎸 ♥ 11:41pm Austin Rich: Every so often I have considered assembling a "best of" collection for release, and I have included some stuff I've recorded for the show on some releases here and there. But never one that focuses on the best work of other artists that have appeared on the show.
	🎸 ♥ 11:42pm Austin Rich: Jaris! That was the other gents name, who is playing guitar. Christopher is the other Keyboard player. All three sing.
	🎸 ♥ 11:43pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @11:41 I think they were only around for a handful of years, out of PDX. Amoree still plays and sings, probably will forever. I'm remembering: Jaris had a synth-pop band called Bats From The Pyramids of Eqypt, and Christopher had a band called The Bugs of Lightning, which appeared on my show a couple times, later on.
	♥ 11:43pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Heather Z @11:36 take care Heather
	🎸 ♥ 11:45pm Austin Rich: If I recall correctly, all three were big fans of the "Civilization" video game, and one of the science achievements in that game was "The Human Genome Project." Which became the band name.
	11:53pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:45 I should have guessed that!
	🎸 ♥ 11:54pm Austin Rich: One of our cats destroyed the most irreplaceable vintage glass ornament that Marla had out in the living room, which caused her to start cursing and whatnot while I was doing my last voice over. So, if you heard any of that... that's why...
	🎸 ♥ 11:55pm Austin Rich: I should end almost on time tonight! Three hours is the key, apparently...
	🎸 ♥ 11:56pm Austin Rich: Thanks for listening, everyone. Hopefully this new format works out for people. Let me know what you think!
	🎸 ♥ 11:59pm Austin Rich: This last one - Robot Affliction - has made it into a number of shows over the years. I just love this tune!
	11:59pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @11:56 I think it makes sense for you, and it needed to happen.
	12:00am Mr. X: Great show tonight, Austin! Thanks again!
	♥ 12:02am coelacanth∅))): Thanks Austin! 'night

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 15, 2025

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