WFMU: Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from November 17, 2022

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from November 17, 2022

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

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

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November 17, 2022: Keith Levene (in interview), Nik Turner & The 50 Year Old Man...

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Tonight we air a 2014 interview with Keith Levene (R.I.P.), which was originally broadcast by Derek on CIUT's long-standing show No Beat Radio Also, we pay tribute to Nik Turner of Hawkwind, and acknowledge the joy of being a 50-year old man.
Music behind DJ: Sounds Of The Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds Of The Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Inner City Unit	Human Beings "Human Beings" by "Inner City Unit"	Friends & Relations:The Rarities (Rare live and unreleased material from the Hawkwind Clan)	Griffin Records	1982 / 1995	Nik Turner's band in the Punk Rock days.		0:02:37 (Pop-up)
Pigface	Closer to Heaven (Featuring Keith Levene)	Easy Listening...	Underground, Inc., Invisible, Caroline Distribution	2003	"(Featuring Atkins & Levene) This surprise collaboration came about after Martin Atkins decided to contact Keith Levene via email in Autumn 2002 in a bid to try "bury the hatchet and move on". They had not spoken in 20 years. After some cagey initial responses Atkins asked Levene if he would be interested in playing on a track for the forthcoming Pigface album. Atkins then supplied a backing track which Levene played on and sent back. Unfortunately Levene's contribution isn't prominent and he even admitted: "I can't hear the fucking thing!" Atkins later confirmed that he did use the contribution and explained: ""Naaaaaa, it's in there. I liked it so much I had some sitar laid down with it and the result is a combination of the two. I was thinking about using another earlier mix or re-mixing the track so it's more stripped down. It felt great to hear Keith's unique guitars again. Maybe I second guessed myself and heard it in my head louder than it is on the track, know what I mean?" Levene played 12 string guitar on the track, and later stated he based his contribution on the Beatles 'We the Love We Knew' which he "couldn't help" playing when he heard Atkins backing track. Levene later included the original unmixed version on a (commercially unreleased) MurderGlobal pre-release CD; re-titled as the 'The Love We NEW'. Atkins also released several mixes and remixes of the 'Easy Listening For Difficult Fuckheads' album: including variations of 'Closer to Heaven'. One at least must surely feature Levene's contribution? Of course, this wasn't the first (and probably last) time that Atkins had worked with former PiL members; 2002 saw him team up with Wobble for the critically acclaimed Damage Manual. After this Pigface collaboration Levene and Atkins discussed working on an album project (working title 'Titanium Box') however, it never went ahead."		0:04:45 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Public Image Limited	Graveyard /// The Suit	Second Edition / Metal Box	Virgin	1979	"The departure of Jim Walker made way for a series of new drummers. Auditions were later held at Rollerball Studios in Tooley Street, London Bridge. David Humphrey was their second drummer, who went on to record two tracks at Manor Studios in Oxford, "Swan Lake" and "Albatross", for Metal Box. "Death Disco" (a.k.a. "Swan Lake") was released as a single in 1979 and reached No. 20 in the charts. The majority of the drumming on the album was provided by Richard Dudanski (formerly of the 101ers), PiL's drummer from April to September 1979. He was replaced by Karl Burns (formerly and latterly of the Fall). Following sessions took place in which Martin Atkins would show up for an 'audition' and discover himself in the middle of a recording session with the tape rolling. The recording was released on Metal Box as "Bad Baby". Atkins was PiL's drummer from 1979 to 1980 and 1982 to 1985. Metal Box was originally released as three untitled 45-rpm 12-inch (30-cm) records packaged in a metal box resembling a film canister with an embossed PiL logo on the lid (it was later reissued in more conventional packaging as a double LP set, Second Edition), and features the band's trademark hypnotic dub reggae bass lines, glassy, arpeggiated guitar, and bleak, paranoid, stream of consciousness vocals. Metal Box is starker than First Issue, more spread out and uncompromising, and scattered with bits of ambient synthesiser. The design for Metal Box was the brainchild of Dennis Morris."		0:09:55 (Pop-up)
King Richard's Fluegel Nights	Everybody Loves My Baby	Everybody Loves My Baby 7"	MTA Records	1968	Between 1966 and 1969, King Richard’s Fluegel Knights scored six hit singles on the AC chart. This was a golden era for pop instrumentals; the woods were full of orchestras and combos and groups and agglomerations doing light-n-jazzy versions of standards and covering the top hits of the day. That was Richard (Dick) Behrke’s gig; he recorded at least three albums with collaborator Bob Thompson which frequently featured, as you might guess, the flugelhorn. We discovered this catchy tune when we were recommended to watch "Celebrity Bowling". It's a show that aired from 1971 to 1978 and is exactly as described. It is a vintage nerd's dream, with prizes from Broyhill recliners to Rice A Roni and featured guests like Charles Nelson Reilly, Roy Rogers, The Lemon Sisters, and the cast of the Brady Bunch. You can watch it on Youtube and yes it will change your life.		0:16:44 (Pop-up)
The Go! Team feat. The Star Feminine Band	Look Away, Look Away	Look Away, Look Away Single	Memphis Industries	2022	The Go! Team Leader Ian Parton explains how the collaboration with the Star Femimnie Band came about. “They’re a group of girls between the ages of 12 and 19, and were formed by the father of two of the girls in the group who was hoping to inspire change in the way women and girls were treated in Benin.” “I got in touch and a day later we were on Zoom with me in Brighton and the band in Natitingou in Benin. A month later a team travelled from the capital of Benin to their hometown with a mobile sound recording setup to record their vocals, with the lyrics written by the band in French. They gave it a charging, all-out gang vocal that I wasn’t expecting but really love.”	*	0:18:36 (Pop-up)
Inner City Unit	God Disco "God Disco" by "Inner City Unit"	Punkadelic	Flicnife Records	1982	Inner City Unit were a London based popular music group active from 1979 through to 1985, their music style encompassing psychedelia and punk rock. Says the Trouser Press: "If you can accept the notion that Hawkwind was the original punk-psychedelic-heavy-metal-dada fusion band, then it makes perfect sense that saxophonist Nik Turner should lead the humorous Inner City Unit, a devolving London five-piece whose music is so far over the edge that it almost defies comprehension."		0:22:20 (Pop-up)
The Cool Greenhouse	Musicians "Musicians" by "The Cool Greenhouse"	Sod's Toastie	Melodic	2022	TFEB favourites The Cool Greenhouse have released their new full length, and this song features Tom Greenhouse lamenting how hard it is to find bandmates. Greenhouse is a new form of Mark E. Smith, with a similar sense of the absurd, less angry, more world weary. An excellent second LP by the wittily droll wordsmith Tom Greenhouse and band, bringing oodles of hilarious, oddball short stories and killer lines about the absurdity of life, backed by strangely wonderful post-punk and electronica. We love them.	*	0:25:27 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: James Last	Silver Machine/Children Of The Revolution/School's Out	Non Stop Dancing 1973	Universal Music GmbH	1972	The coolest James Last ever was...covering Hawkwind. Yes.		0:30:54 (Pop-up)
The Fall	50 Year Old Man "50 Year Old Man" by "The Fall"	Imperial Wax Solvent [Expanded]	Sanctuary / Cherry Red / Fall Sound Archive	2008 / 2020	Just as Mark E Smith was turning 50, he was busy writing this song. I remember early versions in 2007, thinking at first it was a one-off live lark; then maybe a fun song that they'd kick around for a few shows and drop. Then in 2008 it would be the standout epic from the album that ushered in a new era of The Fall... Imperial Wax Solvent. This album would introduce what would become the most stable lineup The Fall had ever seen. How Steve Albini is in collusion with trains remains to be seen, but the lyrical ramblings and patchwork sonics of this song represented another high-water mark into the belt of The Fall. I could (and will try to) listen to every version of this song that I can find, possibly back-to-back. From The Annotated Fall website: "Steve Albini is a recording engineer (he's often listed as a "producer," but according to Dan "Albini describes himself as an recording engineer, and is very articulate on the question of what a producer is and why he isn't one") who has famouslty worked with NIrvana, the Pixies, Manic Street Preachers, Cheap Trick, PJ Harvey, and many others. MES mentioned Albini in an interview with SLUG Magazine in 2005: /// SLUG: I had to laugh back in the late 80s and early 90s when you were doing more electronic stuff; there was a backlash among the supposedly cool people here, like, 'The Fall sells out.' /// MES: Yeah, [Steve] Albini and all that bull ... you know he wanted to do the new LP? /// SLUG: That might be interesting from a production standpoint. /// MES: Oh, fuck off. /// SLUG: Who produces you now? /// MES: Me." ////////// The Annotated Fall: 50 Year Old Man		0:38:30 (Pop-up)
The Fall	50 Year Old Man [Britannia Row Recording]	Imperial Wax Solvent [Expanded - Britannia Row Recordings 21/9/07 disc]	Sanctuary / Cherry Red / Fall Sound Archive	2008 / 2020	I love it when a demo reveals a plethora of new lyrics, passages & approaches. Yes, "50 Year Old Man" really does need to be 20 minutes long, not just 11+... And now, courtesy our playlist, it is!		0:50:16 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Inferior Product Man [Britannia Row Recording]	Imperial Wax Solvent [Expanded]	Sanctuary / Cherry Red / Fall Sound Archive	2008 / 2020	In its infancy, it seems this stood alone from 50 Year Old Man, later to be integrated into the main take of the studio take. Keen Fall observers will likely notice there is a self-reference to "No Xmas For John Quays" in this version. A fitting fade out.		0:56:16 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene	Prague Country Gent	Commercial Zone 2014 Essentials	Cz2014	2017	Seemingly centred around a loop of the drums from Metal Box/Second Edition's "Chant"... This turns positively jaunty several seconds later. Released as" Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene", a couple years after Keith Levene had (self-)released the "CZ2014" album proper.		0:59:28 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene	TherealTeenReaction1	Commercial Zone 2014 Essentials	Cz2014	2017	Levene's trademark guitar coils its way through the heart of the song. Released as" Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene", a couple years after Keith Levene had (self-)released the "CZ2014" album proper.		1:01:51 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene	PrototypeToo	Commercial Zone 2014 Essentials	Cz2014	2017	Released as" Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene", a couple years after Keith Levene had (self-)released the "CZ2014" album proper. We talk about his time recording and living in Prague in the interview to come, so a fitting way to segue towards the interview.		1:05:18 (Pop-up)
Keith Levene in Interview with Transmisisons From Echo Beach Pt. 1	Keith Levene in Interview with Transmisisons From Echo Beach Pt. 1	Keith Levene in Interview with Transmisisons From Echo Beach	WFMU	2022		*	1:08:22 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Your DJ Speaks	"Your DJ Speaks"						1:24:49 (Pop-up)
Public Image Limited	Bad Night "Bad Night" by "Public Image Limited"	Commercial Zone	PiL Records Inc.	1984			1:26:37 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Your DJ Speaks	"Your DJ Speaks"						1:29:32 (Pop-up)
Public Image Limited	The Slab "The Slab" by "Public Image Limited"	Commercial Zone	PiL Records Inc.	1984	"The Slab"/"The Order of Death" ///// "John Lydon (1999): “When I went to Italy to make the film 'Order of Death' the producers asked us to do music for it. So me and Keith sort of hummed down the phone, there's me in Rome and him in New York, and we put the tune together like that. But the producers changed their minds and didn't use it.”[ //// Bob Miller (producer, 2006): “I remember talk about soundtrack stuff. 'The Slab' was definitely one of those type of tracks, but really any of the tracks we were working on could have fit that description.""		1:30:25 (Pop-up)
Keith Levene in Interview with Transmisisons From Echo Beach Pt. 2	Keith Levene in Interview with Transmisisons From Echo Beach Pt. 2	Keith Levene in Interview with Transmisisons From Echo Beach	WFMU	2022		*	1:34:04 (Pop-up)
Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene	True Romance Very Ruff	Commercial Zone 2014 Essentials	Cz2014	2017	The prettier neo-classical side of Keith Levene's Guitar playing on display here. Released as" Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene", a couple years after Keith Levene had (self-)released the "CZ2014" album proper.		1:58:27 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene	True Romance Very Ruff	Commercial Zone 2014 Essentials	Cz2014	2017	The prettier neo-classical side of Keith Levene's Guitar playing on display here. Released as" Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene", a couple years after Keith Levene had (self-)released the "CZ2014" album proper.		2:00:33 (Pop-up)
Phil & The Tiles	Elixir "Elixir" by "Phil & The Tiles"	Phil & The Tiles EP	Anti-Fade Records	2022	Phil and the Tiles formed in a Moorabbin shed, late 2019 in Melbourne’s South East; a stripped back glitter-group playing modified pop, stuck together like sticky tape and PVA glue. Phil’s upfront with colourful ramblings, while The Tiles lay the backing down firm. Sound references may include punk staples like Magazine and The Fall, alongside modern day classics such as early UV Race, Institute, even at times, Country Teasers. Whirling, questioning ,trembling, searing and starry eyed, Phil & The Tiles draw their own line by perverse lamentations, friendships lost and found, catholic frustration and factory life repression. BUY THIS ON BANDCAMP	*	2:04:33 (Pop-up)
Pretty Happy	Boots "Boots" by "Pretty Happy"	Boots Single	Foggy Notions	2022	Pretty Happy are back! Their music disappeared from streaming services and not all has returned but this is a musical gift. There's a shift in their sound, still playful but heavier than before. The EP Echo Boy, produced by John 'Spud' Murphy, references the Echo Boy statue in Cork City by sculptor Barry Maloney, which commemorates the paperboy street sellers of the Evening Echo newspaper. The statue can be seen on the cover art. Last summer, Pretty Happy supported the iconic Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth across Europe and the UK, and made various festival appearances including Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Raw Power weekender in London, All Together Now, Electric Picnic, and Other Voices in Cork.	*	2:07:35 (Pop-up)
Dog	The Age of Goat "The Age of Goat" by "Dog"	The Age of Goat Single	My Life Is Big	2022	Goats usually have a lifespan of about 12 years. But never mind that, DOG ARE BACK! We've played all of this UK band's singles and this one is quite a departure into...doom/sludge metal? Ohhhhkay. But they make it work. Of course they do! Check out DOG on your favourite streaming service. They are nearly impossible to find because of their name. Goddamn it.	*	2:11:16 (Pop-up)
Nik Turner	Out Of Control "Out Of Control" by "Nik Turner"	The Final Frontier	Purple Pyramid	2019	In hindsight, it may have been obvious, but when UK Subs’ Nicky Garratt first linked up with cosmic-weirdo Nik Turner (ex-Hawkwind, but somehow, always the spirit of the band) it was unexpected. What was the first wave punk rocker doing with the the hippiest of all space-rockers? Well, as we all know now, pretty much all the first and second wave punkers were mega-Hawk fans- Jello, Captain Sensible, John Lydon, Rollins, etc etc etc. Their first collab record, 2013’s Space Gypsy was one of the great “what ifs” in punkdom come to life- “what if Nik Turner linked up with a punker and they cut an album of Hawkwind music, but with the speed and power of punk rock?” Of course, the results were excellent. This is where Turner thrives. Even when he was a young man, he had a sort of wizened, all-knowing perspective. His voice still has that trademark ghostliness to it, but around the edges, you can hear the wear of a billion warp-trips. It adds to his cosmic proclamations here making him seem sort of like a trans-temporal Odin or prophet from the edge of time. And more importantly, he’s having fun. Where some other Hawk-spinoff bands have either become self-aware regarding the topic of their music, or have even essentially succumbed to self-parody, Turner seems to be ever-exploring his repertoire and is as engaged here as he was on “Master of the Universe.”		2:16:22 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Nik Turner	Anubis "Anubis" by "Nik Turner"	Xitintoday	Cleopatra	2018	Nic Turner recorded this in 1978, and traveled to Giza where he recorded in the chambers of a great pyramid. Steve Hillage joins as well on this psych great....		2:20:19 (Pop-up)
Nik Turner & The Trance Dimensionals	The Enchantress	Synchronicity	Black Widow	2022	In 2016 Steve met with the legendary Nik Turner, a founder member of the space rock group Hawkwind, and they discussed working on an album together. Steve had already written enough material for an album and he decided to form the TRANCE DIMENSIONALS band as a way of presenting the new material with Nik fronting the band. This was Nik's final appearance on record and it is...fantastic.		2:29:12 (Pop-up)
Ladytron	City of Angels "City of Angels" by "Ladytron"	Misery Remember Me/City of Angels	Cooking Vinyl Limited	2022	Ladytron are back with a single that is something that harkens back to the early days. The new album’s first single “City of Angels” is an optimistic, dynamic electronic track with rich, industrial textures and utopian, shoegaze melodies. “It’s about forgetting...how fragile it is…not about one particular place or other, but a merging of them,” Daniel Hunt says of “City of Angels.”	*	2:34:39 (Pop-up)
Egzotikka & Shaknis	Tu Pasakei "Tu Pasakei" by "Egzotikka & Shaknis"	Pries Akis Single	Raw Culture	2022	"Pries Akis" / "In Front of Your Eyes" EP was born between two producers from different backgrounds with similar tastes. Electro producer Shaknis inspired the early ideas of the EP using his analog equipment, creating a solid foundation for Egzotikka. A Cold Wave producer, guitarist, and songwriter formed the identity of this new analog post-punkish-sounding EP. 80's instruments such as classic Roland drums, Polivox, and Fender guitars were used to create the modern Lo-fi sound filled with lyrics about narcissism, toxic relationships, and super-ego driven by a strong belief in a fucked up society. This EP was recorded during the spring of 2022 in London, UK, and Šiauliai, Lithuania.		2:39:21 (Pop-up)
Pan Amsterdam feat. Damu The Fudgemunk	Shimmy	EAT - NYC Sessions	Def Pressé	2022	When Pan Amsterdam washed up on the coast, he was wearing an oversized black velvet jacket with a cigarette burn, black jeans and two different coloured church socks. Further along the coast we found a trumpet case WITH a trumpet inside of it, in the case's side zipper there was a mouthpiece, valve oil for the horn, and a drive with tape on. Written on the tape were the words, "Elevator Music".	*	2:43:24 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Jah Wobble & Keith Levene	Understand Dub	Yin & Yang	Cherry Red Records	2012	"Yin & Yang is a ten-song, 40-minute adventure in loopy, raw, deep dread dub, psychedelia, and post-Miles Davis-esque space jazz that's well worth your time. For starters, Levene is in excellent form. His trademark style has re-emerged as open, nasty, oblique, and sharp. Wobble's chops have been steadily polished over the years. His sense of musical adventure has occasionally proven a detriment, but that only happens once here. The highlights are numerous, beginning with plodding thud of the title track that opens the album. Simply utilizing one repetitive riff with a bridge providing an outro makes it sound like the entry point into a long jam, as Levene wails away under Wobble's dubwise thrum. Jonas Persson's basic drum kit only adds to the aural hypnosis... ...The last two cuts, "Understand and "Understand Dub," can be seen as a single, seven-minute jam of spliff-laden, nocturnal, rippling, edgy dreadwise dub... "		2:47:11 (Pop-up)
The Clash	Midnight To Stevens "Midnight To Stevens" by "The Clash"	Combat Rock / The People's Hall (Reissue)	Epic	1982 /2022	It's amazing that the band all forgot about recording this song. It lay for years, unreleased, until the 1991 "Clash On Broadway" boxset... And now it is gloriously brought to full, vivid life, on this excellent reissue/remastered version of Combat Rock.	*

Listener comments!
	♥ 7:55pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello and welcome to the beach, beachy pals! The show will be starting shortly...we'll be having tons of musical adventures tonight....
	🏝 ♥ 7:56pm Derek Westerholm: Hello all! A bit of an extended one tonight, too! Hurrah!
	🏝 ♥ 7:58pm Scott67: G'day Babs, Derek & Beachcombers!🏖️🌴 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🌻🌻 Feels so strange to be saying goodbye to Keith Levine, so soon after your excellent Martin Atkins Interview Show.🥀
	♥ 7:59pm DJ Babs: agreed Scott...and welcome!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:01pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! RIP KL & NK
	🏝 ♥ 8:03pm ultradamno: And Dan McCafferty of Nazareth...I think you all have been messing with a son of a bitch not paying tribute.
	🏝 ♥ 8:03pm Scott67: On a bright note! Happy Derekday mate! Welcome to the 50's mate. I will be 56 in February. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻❤️
	♥ 8:03pm DJ Babs: Hi Ultradamno! Welcome welcome!!!
	♥ 8:04pm DJ Babs: Lol I admit to not being the biggest of Nazareth fans...but may he rest well UD...
	♥ 8:05pm Kristine: Hi all!
	8:05pm Mr Fab: Frankie! Annette! Hello beach party people.
	♥ 8:05pm DJ Babs: Hi Kristine! I hope you all are doing well tonight...thank you for joining us!
	♥ 8:06pm Zipperhead7: Hi Babs, Derek and Beachers! I was listening to Evan Davies yesterday and he was playing something pretty noisesome but distinctive. "Damn, that guitar player sounds good," I thought. then he back announced it as Keith Levene
	8:06pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Hello Babs…Hello Derek…Hello everyone!
	♥ 8:06pm DJ Babs: Hello HEllo Mr. Fab. Hi Zipperhead...YPB!!! :-)
	8:07pm Mr Fab: ultradamno, my knowledge of Nazareth begins and ends with their cover of "Love Hurts." What do I need to know about 'em?
	♥ 8:07pm DJ Babs: Honestly revisiting songs for this show...one is truly amazed at how great, important and influential both Nic Turner and Keith Levene were....
	8:08pm TroyD8: Evening all. Looking forward to the show!
	🏝 ♥ 8:08pm ultradamno: Hair Of The Dog man, what life have you been living that you haven't slammed a stein to a table while shouting along with NOW YOU'RE MESSING WITH A (cowbell cowbell) SON OF A BITCH!!
	♥ 8:08pm Krys O.: Hello!
	🏝 ♥ 8:09pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Ultra, Scott, Kristine, Fab, Zipperhead, TroyD8, KrysO, hello hello! Hoping all is wonderful in your world(s)!!!
	8:09pm Mr Fab: i admit i haven't played Levene's (few) solo releases in ages. Can't even really remember what they sounded like... Guess I never really moved past PiL.
	🏝 ♥ 8:09pm Derek Westerholm: Oh, and hello YPB, missed you in there!
	🏝 ♥ 8:09pm ultradamno: Gill and Levene are the Romulus and Remus of postpunk guitar
	8:10pm Mr Fab: haha ultradamno, will have to rectify that situation!
	🏝 ♥ 8:11pm ultradamno: It's a real bonehead cruncher
	8:11pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: @derek It’s easy to miss me lurking here in the shadows. 👤👀
	8:11pm Robm: Now i am in the right room
	♥ 8:12pm DJ Babs: hahaha YPB! Hello Hello Rob!
	🏝 ♥ 8:14pm ultradamno: twitter.com...
	8:15pm Robm: Hey babs was in the mother ship stream not this one:)
	♥ 8:15pm DJ Babs: all WFMU streams are fantastic, it's always hard to choose!!!
	♥ 8:16pm Zipperhead7: Levene played guitars that hardly anyone else used -- a solid aluminum Veleno and a wedge-shaped Travis Bean. Sometimes his playing sounded like he was scraping swords together
	8:17pm Robm: @Babs and the archives are something you can never finish
	🏝 ♥ 8:18pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Robm!
	🏝 ♥ 8:19pm Derek Westerholm: Zipperhead, I did not know that! Certainly, I know the guitar sound of which you speak (my favourite kinda sound!)
	🏝 ♥ 8:19pm ultradamno: Wedge or just a triangle twitter.com...
	8:19pm Robm: Hi derek
	🏝 ♥ 8:20pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, that's a solid picture!
	♥ 8:20pm DJ Babs: Keith never looked uncool. That's for sure!
	♥ 8:23pm DJ Babs: I gotta say I went on a major Inner City Unit bender this week...
	🏝 ♥ 8:25pm ultradamno: Kind of reminds me of those nearly bodyless rectangular Eastwood guitars Devo used on occasion www.adioslounge.com...
	♥ 8:26pm Kristine: TFEB?
	♥ 8:27pm DJ Babs: Transmissions From Echo Beach...
	♥ 8:27pm Kristine: ach! hahahah.
	♥ 8:28pm DJ Babs: lol....yep it's a long name!
	♥ 8:28pm DJ Babs: how's everyone doing tonight? Well I hope!!1
	🏝 ♥ 8:29pm Derek Westerholm: It's our catchy acronym that doesn't just shorten, but also confuses...
	🏝 ♥ 8:29pm ultradamno: I forgot to say hi to the beach bums....Beach Bums!
	8:29pm Robm: Babs have the heat on listening to this strange wonderful station and keeping away from the news
	♥ 8:30pm DJ Babs: Ahh yes, that's the way to be. I've been trying to ignore the news myself. The Beach is a haven away from the daily world weary cares.....
	8:30pm Mr Fab: like a Brit version of King Missile
	🏝 ♥ 8:30pm ultradamno: Sin Sisamouth's granddaughter! twitter.com...
	8:32pm Robm: @Babs still pay attention, just not foom scrolling through it, listen to bbc 4 at 5pm my time otherwise listening to music
	8:34pm Robm: @Babs and derek the only other dj on WFMU who plays james last was fabio
	🏝 ♥ 8:37pm ultradamno: Kitten plays him on Wired Up!
	8:37pm Robm: Happy birthday derek
	8:37pm TroyD8: Happy Birthday Derek! Welcome to the 50’s club.
	8:38pm Mr Fab: Robm: not so!! Sheena's own GeorgyGirl once did a 2-hour James Last tribute. I played him once during an Oktoberfest-themed fill-in.
	8:39pm Andres: Hi, Babs! Hello, Derek, and Happy Birthday, Kid!
	♥ 8:39pm DJ Babs: Hi Andres!!!!
	8:39pm Robm: @Mr fab which shows how often i check the other streams
	♥ 8:40pm DJ Babs: I would play James Last ALL The time....I grew up on that shizz so it's in my DNA...lol
	🏝 ♥ 8:41pm Derek Westerholm: Aww, thanks for the birthday wishes!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:41pm Derek Westerholm: Hi there Andres!
	8:41pm Robm: @Derek your welcome
	♥ 8:41pm DJ Babs: The morning of Derek's birthday I awoke to I believe an hour straight of at least five versions of this song being blasted LOL
	🏝 ♥ 8:42pm Derek Westerholm: It's been a longtime favourite... I was waiting for the day...
	8:42pm Robm: @Babs good way to wake from a sound sleep:)
	8:42pm Andres: Was MES 50 when he wrote this? Voice sounds older actually. :/
	♥ 8:44pm Kristine: @Derek thats hilarious!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:44pm Derek Westerholm: I think he wrote it just as he was turning 50. It kinda started at 49 & continued in earnest as he was 50, if I recall...
	♥ 8:44pm DJ Babs: This song has all you need, lol.
	8:46pm Andres: This should be good for all the 50-plus birthdays.
	8:46pm Mr Fab: yikes, he sounds like an 80-year-old man. Amazing he lived as long as he did.
	♥ 8:46pm DJ Babs: I believe MES started sounding like a 50 year old man at 30 lol
	8:47pm Robm: @Andres sounds good to me:)
	♥ 8:47pm DJ Babs: lol one of our pals just texted us and asked HOW LONG IS THIS SONG?
	♥ 8:48pm DJ Babs: Good thing we're doing a 3 hour show tonight LOL
	8:49pm Robm: @Babs did you tell them it was quite a few versions of this song
	8:49pm Andres: Gonna play this at whoever has a birthday next whatever their age!
	8:50pm Mr Fab: Babs, tell em to get off texting and on to the chat!
	♥ 8:50pm DJ Babs: @ Andres yes! And he then quipped..."he was probably 51 by the time he finished singing it!" LOL
	♥ 8:51pm Zipperhead7: When I turned 50 I had a mescaline-infused poker game that devolved into Doses, Jukers and One-Eyed Pukers wild. Later that night I got into a long and heated argument with a knothole in the door
	🏝 ♥ 8:51pm Derek Westerholm: Doubling down on the Epicness!!! DOUBLE DOWN!!!!!!!
	8:51pm DJ Blush: Hey Babs & Derek! Hey everyone!
	🏝 ♥ 8:52pm Derek Westerholm: I might have had a bit of Mescal on my 50th, but it was only a few drops in the mix of the night...
	8:52pm DJ Blush: This song is perfect. Happy belated, Derek!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:52pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Blush!!!!
	8:53pm Andres: Zipperhead7: Who won the argument? Could’ve gone either way.
	8:53pm Robm: @DJ Blush howdy
	🏝 ♥ 8:54pm Derek Westerholm: Andres: "Gonna play this at whoever has a birthday next whatever their age!" ---- hahaha! As you should. ha!
	🏝 ♥ 8:56pm Derek Westerholm: Bonus lyrics!
	♥ 8:56pm DJ Babs: Zipperhead...that's hilarious. And BLUSH HELOOOOOOOOOO
	♥ 8:57pm DJ Babs: omg Derek. Derek, Derek, Derek.
	🏝 ♥ 8:57pm Derek Westerholm: Who else is going to paste this all together for you? The way it was supposed to be.
	8:58pm DJ Blush: HELLLOOOOOOOOO
	♥ 8:58pm DJ Babs: Thank you for your public service, Derek.
	🏝 ♥ 8:58pm ultradamno: May I also suggest The Clean's Getting Older and Desperate Bicycles' It's Somebody's Birthday Today
	🏝 ♥ 8:59pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, yes! You may!!!
	🏝 ♥ 9:00pm ultradamno: MES wisdom ksassets.timeincuk.net...
	9:00pm DJ Blush: Unhappy Birthday by The Smiths is always a fun one I like to crank on Jesse's special day
	🏝 ♥ 9:00pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, haha!
	🏝 ♥ 9:00pm ultradamno: ..and The Residents' Birthday Boy
	9:02pm Mr Fab: "You're older than you've ever been, and now you're even older And now you're even older And now you're even older" -They Might Be Giants
	♥ 9:10pm DJ Babs: LOL he was so so funny!
	9:14pm Mr Fab: I got "The Commercial Zone" first, so I think of it as the "real" one. I was kinda disappointed when "This Is What You Want" came out. But I should revisit it. haven't heard it in yeeeeears
	♥ 9:17pm DJ Babs: That is very interesting! And definitely worth revisiting with hindsight. I find it fascinating to listen to certain albums that way, when it comes to alternate versions....
	🏝 ♥ 9:19pm Derek Westerholm: I love both albums. And both albums have songs exclusive to the one and not the other. To me, it's more of all the things I love, not less, so I'll happily take different "versions"!
	🏝 ♥ 9:21pm Alli B: Hiiii! Thankfully able to tune in, albeit late!
	♥ 9:21pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Alli! Welcome welcome! You're just in time to catch Keith Levene...speaking to us from the grave!
	🏝 ♥ 9:24pm Alli B: Incredible!
	9:26pm DJ Blush: HeeelllooooooOO
	🏝 ♥ 9:27pm Alli B: Hiiiiiii!
	🏝 ♥ 9:28pm Alli B: Holding strong and listening on the front porch
	♥ 9:28pm DJ Babs: Love it! I've decided to have a few beers tonight myself!
	🏝 ♥ 9:28pm Will thee Sound Guy: I'm going to have to listen to the whole archive, I missed most of the show...
	🏝 ♥ 9:29pm Alli B: Whiskey n weed here
	🏝 ♥ 9:29pm Alli B: Transmissions is the beginning of the weekend!
	9:33pm Mr Fab: this is one of my fave tracks off "Commercial Zone" with the near-subliminal drums under it, I'm actually fine with much of "This Is What You Want" LP, but Johnny shouldn't have messed with this one. Very Morricone, actually.
	🏝 ♥ 9:33pm Derek Westerholm: Totally Morricone!
	9:34pm Mr Fab: the film 'Order of Death'? I don't remember that one at all. Anyone seen it?
	🏝 ♥ 9:36pm Derek Westerholm: No... It would be great to track it down though.
	9:36pm Andres: Mr Fab: Not seen it but aka Copkiller (1983).
	🏝 ♥ 9:37pm Derek Westerholm: Hi Alli!!!!
	♥ 9:37pm DJ Babs: Hi Will...welcome welcome! We're going to 11 tonight...just like Spinal Tap Amps LOL
	♥ 9:37pm DJ Babs: Yeah, that's a great track for sure. Also would not have been out of place on the Sid and Nancy soundtrack....
	9:40pm Andres: Score composed by Morricone!
	♥ 9:40pm DJ Babs: I do get the feeling that Keith did certainly love his Rye lol.....
	9:41pm Mr Fab: looks like it's public domain, on the youtubes.
	🏝 ♥ 9:41pm Will thee Sound Guy: Yea, I'm going to have to toss this episode on my listen to list...
	🏝 ♥ 9:41pm ultradamno: I know I saw it, I don't recall that much about it, it wasn't an exceptional movie. I more remember Rotten doing interviews where he seemed annoyed that it was made in the way a movie is (ie. other people were participating)
	9:42pm Mr Fab: i keep thinking they're talking about "prog," haha.
	🏝 ♥ 9:43pm Derek Westerholm: Should have said Prah-ha
	♥ 9:43pm DJ Babs: Man I would live in Prague in a second....
	♥ 9:43pm Zipperhead7: The Kafka Museum in Prague is a must-see
	♥ 9:44pm DJ Babs: ^^^ooooooohhhh
	🏝 ♥ 9:45pm Derek Westerholm: OMG, I wish I had known about the Kafka museum.. I got to see the Blake exhibit in the Tate in London... So I've been lucky once.
	9:48pm Mr Fab: Afraid I don't know much about Prague, but sounds cool. When you live in Southern California, everything is sooooo far away and expensive. I think Crispin Glover lives in Prague. That's all I need to know.
	♥ 9:50pm DJ Babs: He does...I know someone who befriended Crispin and was invited to stay with him for a time there...she ssaid it was very....interesting. He has a flock of peacocks that scream constantly. It's apparently very unsettling, lol.
	♥ 9:51pm DJ Babs: Side note: Crispin Glover appears in the new Guillermo Del Toro series in an episode and he is fantastic....as always. So creepy.
	♥ 9:53pm Zipperhead7: Here's a tape of the Clash's fifth gig, when Keith was in the band: www.youtube.com...
	9:53pm TroyD8: Was lucky enough to see Crispin’s live slideshow in a very small bar back in the 90’s.
	🏝 ♥ 9:54pm ultradamno: Did he say Tone Loc? Is Funky Cold Medina a PiL offshoot track? I just started that Del Toro show, I'm a big fan of the horror anthology format. Have you ever seen Channel Zero?
	🏝 ♥ 9:54pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, I don't know about FCM, but he did say Tone Loc!
	♥ 9:54pm DJ Babs: I've heard of Channel Zero but I haven't seen it! Yes, getting very much into the Horror Anthologies....
	🏝 ♥ 9:55pm Derek Westerholm: TroyD8, I bet that was fantastic!
	♥ 9:55pm DJ Babs: Ah Zipperhead must file that for later watchings!!!
	9:55pm TroyD8: It was very surreal Derek!
	🏝 ♥ 9:55pm Derek Westerholm: Zipperhead, thanks so much! Been wanting to track that period down!!!
	🏝 ♥ 9:56pm ultradamno: It's extraordinary. It's a different story for each season, but really short compact seasons (six eps or something), all great. I think they're all on Shudder now.
	🏝 ♥ 9:56pm Derek Westerholm: Mr. Fab, Prague was one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. I would love to go back. Definitely recommend the visit.
	♥ 9:57pm Cp304: Good listening what I could catch tonight
	9:57pm Mr Fab: Yes, somehow Levene worked with sampling for the likes of Ice T and Tone Loc. Didn't even know that he was living here in LA til a friend of mine who worked at Bleeker Bob's records on Melrose told me that Levene came in and he spoke with him a bit.
	♥ 9:58pm DJ Babs: Thanks CP304! We're going late this is an extended show!!!
	9:58pm TroyD8: LOL! Punk rock sucks. Great interview Derek
	♥ 9:58pm DJ Babs: Mr. Fab that is crazy! I love it!
	🏝 ♥ 10:00pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks Troy8! It was an honour! Punk rock sucks! lol.
	10:00pm TroyD8: Channel Zero Is amazing. Still think about the kids TV show that appeared in the 1st season from time to time.
	10:01pm Andres: Was worth the wait from 2014.
	🏝 ♥ 10:02pm ultradamno: The screaming episode! When I was a kid there was a show called Time For Timothy that Candle Cove reminded me of www.youtube.com...
	10:05pm TroyD8: Going to have to check out Time For Timothy before bed tonight. Looks creepy 😬
	🏝 ♥ 10:06pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks Andres! Glad to have unearthed it! That is a very special interview for me!
	10:07pm Mr Fab: what a treat! Great job, Derek. Damn, I miss the dude already...
	♥ 10:09pm DJ Babs: Agreed I'd have loved to have sat with him in prague with a rye and coke!
	🏝 ♥ 10:12pm Scott67: Fucken great insight to an awesome bloke! Thanks guys! P.S. 3 hour Shows every fucken week!! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺
	♥ 10:12pm DJ Babs: Hahaha thank you!!! That first band in the set is from Melbourne by the way!!!
	🏝 ♥ 10:14pm Scott67: Hah! At TRASH CULT Saturday night I saw the debut gig of a local Band called DOG. 🍻😎🤙
	10:15pm DJ Blush: Great show guys.
	🏝 ♥ 10:15pm Scott67: Couldn't have been from anywhere else Babs! Cheers mate! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	🏝 ♥ 10:15pm ultradamno: Well, dog is life
	♥ 10:15pm DJ Babs: Yes I saw that but I don't think it's the same DOG. I am OBSESSED by this band. Every single they have put out is completely different...it's fucking crazy!
	🏝 ♥ 10:16pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks Fab/Scott... Was so happy to be able to revive an old laptop & uncover the interview... Maybe this will be the archeology of the future... Unearthing lost treasures from near-dead laptops. Our histories written impermanent...
	🏝 ♥ 10:17pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra... I'm catching your wry Fall ref. there...
	🏝 ♥ 10:17pm Scott67: Nah I know these these guys. They are doing a reverse take on the Aussie Band, GOD. Plus there is no god but Dog!
	♥ 10:18pm DJ Babs: excellent. You should tell them that if they call their band Dog they will be next to impossible to find on the internet LOL
	🏝 ♥ 10:19pm Scott67: Especially cos Google ignores all caps DOG!
	🏝 ♥ 10:21pm Scott67: Cue Dog noises!
	🏝 ♥ 10:21pm Derek Westerholm: Speaking of God/Dog... John Lydon -> Religion: "Stained glass windows keep the cold outside While the hypocrites hide inside With the lies of statues in their minds Where the Christian religion made them blind Where they hide And prey to the God of a bitch spelled backwards is dog Not for one race, one creed, one world But for money Effective Absurd"
	10:21pm TroyD8: Cleopatra Sure released a ton of cool stuff
	🏝 ♥ 10:22pm Derek Westerholm: Cleopatra is a great label!
	🏝 ♥ 10:23pm Scott67: Spot on Derek! Fuck all religion!
	🏝 ♥ 10:24pm ultradamno: Cleopatra is awesome. Love that Eater album this year and the Chrome stuff
	🏝 ♥ 10:28pm ultradamno: There was a Chicago new wave band called Phil N The Blanks
	♥ 10:32pm DJ Babs: yes, that band I definitely do remember!!!
	10:38pm TroyD8: Nice! Didn’t know Ladytron was still around.
	♥ 10:39pm DJ Babs: Yes, they have a new album coming out and I VERY much like this single!!!
	♥ 10:40pm DJ Babs: I am also OBSESSED with this tune...
	♥ 10:40pm DJ Babs: This band is from Lithuania!
	🏝 ♥ 10:40pm Scott67: I see why, so am I know!🍻
	10:41pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Love it!!!
	♥ 10:41pm DJ Babs: I knew you would YPB. Those CHIMEY BELLS
	🏝 ♥ 10:42pm Scott67: So many iconic elements amalgamated anew & still fresh.
	♥ 10:42pm DJ Babs: Agreed and I love that it's in Lithuanian!
	10:42pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: You can’t beat chimey bells and pchewww noises.
	♥ 10:45pm DJ Babs: no ya can't! I literally RAN to bandcamp to order that single!
	10:46pm TroyD8: pchewww noises are like catnip
	🏝 ♥ 10:46pm Derek Westerholm: Why did I read "chimney bells" at first scan?
	🏝 ♥ 10:46pm Derek Westerholm: I was imagining chimney bells
	🏝 ♥ 10:46pm Scott67: Digital running??
	♥ 10:47pm Cp304: Donald Byrd esq
	🏝 ♥ 10:48pm ultradamno: Terry Chimey Bells?
	🏝 ♥ 10:48pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, hahahaha
	♥ 10:54pm Zipperhead7: Thanks B&D for a great show!
	🏝 ♥ 10:55pm Scott67: Thanks Babs & Derek, bloody brilliant Show my mates! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺❤️❤️
	♥ 10:55pm Cp304: Always great listening yal, babs, I hope that wasn't your last beer you knocked over
	🏝 ♥ 10:56pm ultradamno: Well, sharif don't like it
	♥ 10:56pm DJ Babs: lol no it was my tablet......
	10:57pm TroyD8: Thanks for another amazing show!
	♥ 10:59pm DJ Babs: Thank you thank you ALL! I hope you all have a great week! :-)
	♥ 10:59pm Zipperhead7: Classic Stratocaster tone here
	🏝 ♥ 11:00pm Will thee Sound Guy: thank you DJ Babs and Derek!!! I'll have to check the first hour+ in the archive .... Great stuff!!! 🔥🔥🔥
	♥ 11:00pm Barno in Akron: Thank you! Fun show!
	🏝 ♥ 11:00pm ultradamno: Wasn't Strummer a telecaster guy?
	🏝 ♥ 11:01pm Derek Westerholm: Thank-you all! Your wonderful comments & fantastic support is always appreciated, more deeply than I can express.
	🏝 ♥ 11:02pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, that sounds right to me, but I have no idea, off the top of my head. Personally, Telecasters are my fav.
	♥ 11:03pm Zipperhead7: Mick Jones definitely playing a Strat here
	♥ 11:03pm Cp304: Derek yal are a blast
	🏝 ♥ 11:03pm Derek Westerholm: Zipper, ah, see, you know! Joe = Tele, Mick = Strat?
	🏝 ♥ 11:04pm ultradamno: Really? Most pics I see of him he has a Les Paul
	🏝 ♥ 11:04pm Derek Westerholm: Cp304, Barno, Will Thee, hello hello!!!
	🏝 ♥ 11:06pm Derek Westerholm: Ahh, now we're getting into it. I have to confess I don't much notice gear half the time... So when someone sounds like they have authority on the matter, I just go with that, haha.
	🏝 ♥ 11:06pm Derek Westerholm: I'm sure there's a fair amount of switching through the years of musicianship
	🏝 ♥ 11:07pm Derek Westerholm: Cycling through gear, I mean.
	🏝 ♥ 11:07pm ultradamno: Sure, it's not impossible he had one wild, sloppy indiscretion with a stratocaster
	🏝 ♥ 11:08pm Derek Westerholm: lololol

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Tonight we air a 2014 interview with Keith Levene (R.I.P.), which was originally broadcast by Derek on CIUT's long-standing show No Beat Radio Also, we pay tribute to Nik Turner of Hawkwind, and acknowledge the joy of being a 50-year old man.
Music behind DJ: Sounds Of The Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds Of The Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Inner City Unit	Human Beings "Human Beings" by "Inner City Unit"	Friends & Relations:The Rarities (Rare live and unreleased material from the Hawkwind Clan)	Griffin Records	1982 / 1995	Nik Turner's band in the Punk Rock days.		0:02:37 (Pop-up)
Pigface	Closer to Heaven (Featuring Keith Levene)	Easy Listening...	Underground, Inc., Invisible, Caroline Distribution	2003	"(Featuring Atkins & Levene) This surprise collaboration came about after Martin Atkins decided to contact Keith Levene via email in Autumn 2002 in a bid to try "bury the hatchet and move on". They had not spoken in 20 years. After some cagey initial responses Atkins asked Levene if he would be interested in playing on a track for the forthcoming Pigface album. Atkins then supplied a backing track which Levene played on and sent back. Unfortunately Levene's contribution isn't prominent and he even admitted: "I can't hear the fucking thing!" Atkins later confirmed that he did use the contribution and explained: ""Naaaaaa, it's in there. I liked it so much I had some sitar laid down with it and the result is a combination of the two. I was thinking about using another earlier mix or re-mixing the track so it's more stripped down. It felt great to hear Keith's unique guitars again. Maybe I second guessed myself and heard it in my head louder than it is on the track, know what I mean?" Levene played 12 string guitar on the track, and later stated he based his contribution on the Beatles 'We the Love We Knew' which he "couldn't help" playing when he heard Atkins backing track. Levene later included the original unmixed version on a (commercially unreleased) MurderGlobal pre-release CD; re-titled as the 'The Love We NEW'. Atkins also released several mixes and remixes of the 'Easy Listening For Difficult Fuckheads' album: including variations of 'Closer to Heaven'. One at least must surely feature Levene's contribution? Of course, this wasn't the first (and probably last) time that Atkins had worked with former PiL members; 2002 saw him team up with Wobble for the critically acclaimed Damage Manual. After this Pigface collaboration Levene and Atkins discussed working on an album project (working title 'Titanium Box') however, it never went ahead."		0:04:45 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Public Image Limited	Graveyard /// The Suit	Second Edition / Metal Box	Virgin	1979	"The departure of Jim Walker made way for a series of new drummers. Auditions were later held at Rollerball Studios in Tooley Street, London Bridge. David Humphrey was their second drummer, who went on to record two tracks at Manor Studios in Oxford, "Swan Lake" and "Albatross", for Metal Box. "Death Disco" (a.k.a. "Swan Lake") was released as a single in 1979 and reached No. 20 in the charts. The majority of the drumming on the album was provided by Richard Dudanski (formerly of the 101ers), PiL's drummer from April to September 1979. He was replaced by Karl Burns (formerly and latterly of the Fall). Following sessions took place in which Martin Atkins would show up for an 'audition' and discover himself in the middle of a recording session with the tape rolling. The recording was released on Metal Box as "Bad Baby". Atkins was PiL's drummer from 1979 to 1980 and 1982 to 1985. Metal Box was originally released as three untitled 45-rpm 12-inch (30-cm) records packaged in a metal box resembling a film canister with an embossed PiL logo on the lid (it was later reissued in more conventional packaging as a double LP set, Second Edition), and features the band's trademark hypnotic dub reggae bass lines, glassy, arpeggiated guitar, and bleak, paranoid, stream of consciousness vocals. Metal Box is starker than First Issue, more spread out and uncompromising, and scattered with bits of ambient synthesiser. The design for Metal Box was the brainchild of Dennis Morris."		0:09:55 (Pop-up)
King Richard's Fluegel Nights	Everybody Loves My Baby	Everybody Loves My Baby 7"	MTA Records	1968	Between 1966 and 1969, King Richard’s Fluegel Knights scored six hit singles on the AC chart. This was a golden era for pop instrumentals; the woods were full of orchestras and combos and groups and agglomerations doing light-n-jazzy versions of standards and covering the top hits of the day. That was Richard (Dick) Behrke’s gig; he recorded at least three albums with collaborator Bob Thompson which frequently featured, as you might guess, the flugelhorn. We discovered this catchy tune when we were recommended to watch "Celebrity Bowling". It's a show that aired from 1971 to 1978 and is exactly as described. It is a vintage nerd's dream, with prizes from Broyhill recliners to Rice A Roni and featured guests like Charles Nelson Reilly, Roy Rogers, The Lemon Sisters, and the cast of the Brady Bunch. You can watch it on Youtube and yes it will change your life.		0:16:44 (Pop-up)
The Go! Team feat. The Star Feminine Band	Look Away, Look Away	Look Away, Look Away Single	Memphis Industries	2022	The Go! Team Leader Ian Parton explains how the collaboration with the Star Femimnie Band came about. “They’re a group of girls between the ages of 12 and 19, and were formed by the father of two of the girls in the group who was hoping to inspire change in the way women and girls were treated in Benin.” “I got in touch and a day later we were on Zoom with me in Brighton and the band in Natitingou in Benin. A month later a team travelled from the capital of Benin to their hometown with a mobile sound recording setup to record their vocals, with the lyrics written by the band in French. They gave it a charging, all-out gang vocal that I wasn’t expecting but really love.”	*	0:18:36 (Pop-up)
Inner City Unit	God Disco "God Disco" by "Inner City Unit"	Punkadelic	Flicnife Records	1982	Inner City Unit were a London based popular music group active from 1979 through to 1985, their music style encompassing psychedelia and punk rock. Says the Trouser Press: "If you can accept the notion that Hawkwind was the original punk-psychedelic-heavy-metal-dada fusion band, then it makes perfect sense that saxophonist Nik Turner should lead the humorous Inner City Unit, a devolving London five-piece whose music is so far over the edge that it almost defies comprehension."		0:22:20 (Pop-up)
The Cool Greenhouse	Musicians "Musicians" by "The Cool Greenhouse"	Sod's Toastie	Melodic	2022	TFEB favourites The Cool Greenhouse have released their new full length, and this song features Tom Greenhouse lamenting how hard it is to find bandmates. Greenhouse is a new form of Mark E. Smith, with a similar sense of the absurd, less angry, more world weary. An excellent second LP by the wittily droll wordsmith Tom Greenhouse and band, bringing oodles of hilarious, oddball short stories and killer lines about the absurdity of life, backed by strangely wonderful post-punk and electronica. We love them.	*	0:25:27 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: James Last	Silver Machine/Children Of The Revolution/School's Out	Non Stop Dancing 1973	Universal Music GmbH	1972	The coolest James Last ever was...covering Hawkwind. Yes.		0:30:54 (Pop-up)
The Fall	50 Year Old Man "50 Year Old Man" by "The Fall"	Imperial Wax Solvent [Expanded]	Sanctuary / Cherry Red / Fall Sound Archive	2008 / 2020	Just as Mark E Smith was turning 50, he was busy writing this song. I remember early versions in 2007, thinking at first it was a one-off live lark; then maybe a fun song that they'd kick around for a few shows and drop. Then in 2008 it would be the standout epic from the album that ushered in a new era of The Fall... Imperial Wax Solvent. This album would introduce what would become the most stable lineup The Fall had ever seen. How Steve Albini is in collusion with trains remains to be seen, but the lyrical ramblings and patchwork sonics of this song represented another high-water mark into the belt of The Fall. I could (and will try to) listen to every version of this song that I can find, possibly back-to-back. From The Annotated Fall website: "Steve Albini is a recording engineer (he's often listed as a "producer," but according to Dan "Albini describes himself as an recording engineer, and is very articulate on the question of what a producer is and why he isn't one") who has famouslty worked with NIrvana, the Pixies, Manic Street Preachers, Cheap Trick, PJ Harvey, and many others. MES mentioned Albini in an interview with SLUG Magazine in 2005: /// SLUG: I had to laugh back in the late 80s and early 90s when you were doing more electronic stuff; there was a backlash among the supposedly cool people here, like, 'The Fall sells out.' /// MES: Yeah, [Steve] Albini and all that bull ... you know he wanted to do the new LP? /// SLUG: That might be interesting from a production standpoint. /// MES: Oh, fuck off. /// SLUG: Who produces you now? /// MES: Me." ////////// The Annotated Fall: 50 Year Old Man		0:38:30 (Pop-up)
The Fall	50 Year Old Man [Britannia Row Recording]	Imperial Wax Solvent [Expanded - Britannia Row Recordings 21/9/07 disc]	Sanctuary / Cherry Red / Fall Sound Archive	2008 / 2020	I love it when a demo reveals a plethora of new lyrics, passages & approaches. Yes, "50 Year Old Man" really does need to be 20 minutes long, not just 11+... And now, courtesy our playlist, it is!		0:50:16 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Inferior Product Man [Britannia Row Recording]	Imperial Wax Solvent [Expanded]	Sanctuary / Cherry Red / Fall Sound Archive	2008 / 2020	In its infancy, it seems this stood alone from 50 Year Old Man, later to be integrated into the main take of the studio take. Keen Fall observers will likely notice there is a self-reference to "No Xmas For John Quays" in this version. A fitting fade out.		0:56:16 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene	Prague Country Gent	Commercial Zone 2014 Essentials	Cz2014	2017	Seemingly centred around a loop of the drums from Metal Box/Second Edition's "Chant"... This turns positively jaunty several seconds later. Released as" Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene", a couple years after Keith Levene had (self-)released the "CZ2014" album proper.		0:59:28 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene	TherealTeenReaction1	Commercial Zone 2014 Essentials	Cz2014	2017	Levene's trademark guitar coils its way through the heart of the song. Released as" Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene", a couple years after Keith Levene had (self-)released the "CZ2014" album proper.		1:01:51 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene	PrototypeToo	Commercial Zone 2014 Essentials	Cz2014	2017	Released as" Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene", a couple years after Keith Levene had (self-)released the "CZ2014" album proper. We talk about his time recording and living in Prague in the interview to come, so a fitting way to segue towards the interview.		1:05:18 (Pop-up)
Keith Levene in Interview with Transmisisons From Echo Beach Pt. 1	Keith Levene in Interview with Transmisisons From Echo Beach Pt. 1	Keith Levene in Interview with Transmisisons From Echo Beach	WFMU	2022		*	1:08:22 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Your DJ Speaks	"Your DJ Speaks"						1:24:49 (Pop-up)
Public Image Limited	Bad Night "Bad Night" by "Public Image Limited"	Commercial Zone	PiL Records Inc.	1984			1:26:37 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Your DJ Speaks	"Your DJ Speaks"						1:29:32 (Pop-up)
Public Image Limited	The Slab "The Slab" by "Public Image Limited"	Commercial Zone	PiL Records Inc.	1984	"The Slab"/"The Order of Death" ///// "John Lydon (1999): “When I went to Italy to make the film 'Order of Death' the producers asked us to do music for it. So me and Keith sort of hummed down the phone, there's me in Rome and him in New York, and we put the tune together like that. But the producers changed their minds and didn't use it.”[ //// Bob Miller (producer, 2006): “I remember talk about soundtrack stuff. 'The Slab' was definitely one of those type of tracks, but really any of the tracks we were working on could have fit that description.""		1:30:25 (Pop-up)
Keith Levene in Interview with Transmisisons From Echo Beach Pt. 2	Keith Levene in Interview with Transmisisons From Echo Beach Pt. 2	Keith Levene in Interview with Transmisisons From Echo Beach	WFMU	2022		*	1:34:04 (Pop-up)
Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene	True Romance Very Ruff	Commercial Zone 2014 Essentials	Cz2014	2017	The prettier neo-classical side of Keith Levene's Guitar playing on display here. Released as" Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene", a couple years after Keith Levene had (self-)released the "CZ2014" album proper.		1:58:27 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene	True Romance Very Ruff	Commercial Zone 2014 Essentials	Cz2014	2017	The prettier neo-classical side of Keith Levene's Guitar playing on display here. Released as" Kathy DiTondo & Keith Levene", a couple years after Keith Levene had (self-)released the "CZ2014" album proper.		2:00:33 (Pop-up)
Phil & The Tiles	Elixir "Elixir" by "Phil & The Tiles"	Phil & The Tiles EP	Anti-Fade Records	2022	Phil and the Tiles formed in a Moorabbin shed, late 2019 in Melbourne’s South East; a stripped back glitter-group playing modified pop, stuck together like sticky tape and PVA glue. Phil’s upfront with colourful ramblings, while The Tiles lay the backing down firm. Sound references may include punk staples like Magazine and The Fall, alongside modern day classics such as early UV Race, Institute, even at times, Country Teasers. Whirling, questioning ,trembling, searing and starry eyed, Phil & The Tiles draw their own line by perverse lamentations, friendships lost and found, catholic frustration and factory life repression. BUY THIS ON BANDCAMP	*	2:04:33 (Pop-up)
Pretty Happy	Boots "Boots" by "Pretty Happy"	Boots Single	Foggy Notions	2022	Pretty Happy are back! Their music disappeared from streaming services and not all has returned but this is a musical gift. There's a shift in their sound, still playful but heavier than before. The EP Echo Boy, produced by John 'Spud' Murphy, references the Echo Boy statue in Cork City by sculptor Barry Maloney, which commemorates the paperboy street sellers of the Evening Echo newspaper. The statue can be seen on the cover art. Last summer, Pretty Happy supported the iconic Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth across Europe and the UK, and made various festival appearances including Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Raw Power weekender in London, All Together Now, Electric Picnic, and Other Voices in Cork.	*	2:07:35 (Pop-up)
Dog	The Age of Goat "The Age of Goat" by "Dog"	The Age of Goat Single	My Life Is Big	2022	Goats usually have a lifespan of about 12 years. But never mind that, DOG ARE BACK! We've played all of this UK band's singles and this one is quite a departure into...doom/sludge metal? Ohhhhkay. But they make it work. Of course they do! Check out DOG on your favourite streaming service. They are nearly impossible to find because of their name. Goddamn it.	*	2:11:16 (Pop-up)
Nik Turner	Out Of Control "Out Of Control" by "Nik Turner"	The Final Frontier	Purple Pyramid	2019	In hindsight, it may have been obvious, but when UK Subs’ Nicky Garratt first linked up with cosmic-weirdo Nik Turner (ex-Hawkwind, but somehow, always the spirit of the band) it was unexpected. What was the first wave punk rocker doing with the the hippiest of all space-rockers? Well, as we all know now, pretty much all the first and second wave punkers were mega-Hawk fans- Jello, Captain Sensible, John Lydon, Rollins, etc etc etc. Their first collab record, 2013’s Space Gypsy was one of the great “what ifs” in punkdom come to life- “what if Nik Turner linked up with a punker and they cut an album of Hawkwind music, but with the speed and power of punk rock?” Of course, the results were excellent. This is where Turner thrives. Even when he was a young man, he had a sort of wizened, all-knowing perspective. His voice still has that trademark ghostliness to it, but around the edges, you can hear the wear of a billion warp-trips. It adds to his cosmic proclamations here making him seem sort of like a trans-temporal Odin or prophet from the edge of time. And more importantly, he’s having fun. Where some other Hawk-spinoff bands have either become self-aware regarding the topic of their music, or have even essentially succumbed to self-parody, Turner seems to be ever-exploring his repertoire and is as engaged here as he was on “Master of the Universe.”		2:16:22 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Nik Turner	Anubis "Anubis" by "Nik Turner"	Xitintoday	Cleopatra	2018	Nic Turner recorded this in 1978, and traveled to Giza where he recorded in the chambers of a great pyramid. Steve Hillage joins as well on this psych great....		2:20:19 (Pop-up)
Nik Turner & The Trance Dimensionals	The Enchantress	Synchronicity	Black Widow	2022	In 2016 Steve met with the legendary Nik Turner, a founder member of the space rock group Hawkwind, and they discussed working on an album together. Steve had already written enough material for an album and he decided to form the TRANCE DIMENSIONALS band as a way of presenting the new material with Nik fronting the band. This was Nik's final appearance on record and it is...fantastic.		2:29:12 (Pop-up)
Ladytron	City of Angels "City of Angels" by "Ladytron"	Misery Remember Me/City of Angels	Cooking Vinyl Limited	2022	Ladytron are back with a single that is something that harkens back to the early days. The new album’s first single “City of Angels” is an optimistic, dynamic electronic track with rich, industrial textures and utopian, shoegaze melodies. “It’s about forgetting...how fragile it is…not about one particular place or other, but a merging of them,” Daniel Hunt says of “City of Angels.”	*	2:34:39 (Pop-up)
Egzotikka & Shaknis	Tu Pasakei "Tu Pasakei" by "Egzotikka & Shaknis"	Pries Akis Single	Raw Culture	2022	"Pries Akis" / "In Front of Your Eyes" EP was born between two producers from different backgrounds with similar tastes. Electro producer Shaknis inspired the early ideas of the EP using his analog equipment, creating a solid foundation for Egzotikka. A Cold Wave producer, guitarist, and songwriter formed the identity of this new analog post-punkish-sounding EP. 80's instruments such as classic Roland drums, Polivox, and Fender guitars were used to create the modern Lo-fi sound filled with lyrics about narcissism, toxic relationships, and super-ego driven by a strong belief in a fucked up society. This EP was recorded during the spring of 2022 in London, UK, and Šiauliai, Lithuania.		2:39:21 (Pop-up)
Pan Amsterdam feat. Damu The Fudgemunk	Shimmy	EAT - NYC Sessions	Def Pressé	2022	When Pan Amsterdam washed up on the coast, he was wearing an oversized black velvet jacket with a cigarette burn, black jeans and two different coloured church socks. Further along the coast we found a trumpet case WITH a trumpet inside of it, in the case's side zipper there was a mouthpiece, valve oil for the horn, and a drive with tape on. Written on the tape were the words, "Elevator Music".	*	2:43:24 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Jah Wobble & Keith Levene	Understand Dub	Yin & Yang	Cherry Red Records	2012	"Yin & Yang is a ten-song, 40-minute adventure in loopy, raw, deep dread dub, psychedelia, and post-Miles Davis-esque space jazz that's well worth your time. For starters, Levene is in excellent form. His trademark style has re-emerged as open, nasty, oblique, and sharp. Wobble's chops have been steadily polished over the years. His sense of musical adventure has occasionally proven a detriment, but that only happens once here. The highlights are numerous, beginning with plodding thud of the title track that opens the album. Simply utilizing one repetitive riff with a bridge providing an outro makes it sound like the entry point into a long jam, as Levene wails away under Wobble's dubwise thrum. Jonas Persson's basic drum kit only adds to the aural hypnosis... ...The last two cuts, "Understand and "Understand Dub," can be seen as a single, seven-minute jam of spliff-laden, nocturnal, rippling, edgy dreadwise dub... "		2:47:11 (Pop-up)
The Clash	Midnight To Stevens "Midnight To Stevens" by "The Clash"	Combat Rock / The People's Hall (Reissue)	Epic	1982 /2022	It's amazing that the band all forgot about recording this song. It lay for years, unreleased, until the 1991 "Clash On Broadway" boxset... And now it is gloriously brought to full, vivid life, on this excellent reissue/remastered version of Combat Rock.	*

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Listener comments!
	♥ 7:55pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello and welcome to the beach, beachy pals! The show will be starting shortly...we'll be having tons of musical adventures tonight....
	🏝 ♥ 7:56pm Derek Westerholm: Hello all! A bit of an extended one tonight, too! Hurrah!
	🏝 ♥ 7:58pm Scott67: G'day Babs, Derek & Beachcombers!🏖️🌴 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺🌻🌻 Feels so strange to be saying goodbye to Keith Levine, so soon after your excellent Martin Atkins Interview Show.🥀
	♥ 7:59pm DJ Babs: agreed Scott...and welcome!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:01pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! RIP KL & NK
	🏝 ♥ 8:03pm ultradamno: And Dan McCafferty of Nazareth...I think you all have been messing with a son of a bitch not paying tribute.
	🏝 ♥ 8:03pm Scott67: On a bright note! Happy Derekday mate! Welcome to the 50's mate. I will be 56 in February. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻❤️
	♥ 8:03pm DJ Babs: Hi Ultradamno! Welcome welcome!!!
	♥ 8:04pm DJ Babs: Lol I admit to not being the biggest of Nazareth fans...but may he rest well UD...
	♥ 8:05pm Kristine: Hi all!
	8:05pm Mr Fab: Frankie! Annette! Hello beach party people.
	♥ 8:05pm DJ Babs: Hi Kristine! I hope you all are doing well tonight...thank you for joining us!
	♥ 8:06pm Zipperhead7: Hi Babs, Derek and Beachers! I was listening to Evan Davies yesterday and he was playing something pretty noisesome but distinctive. "Damn, that guitar player sounds good," I thought. then he back announced it as Keith Levene
	8:06pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Hello Babs…Hello Derek…Hello everyone!
	♥ 8:06pm DJ Babs: Hello HEllo Mr. Fab. Hi Zipperhead...YPB!!! :-)
	8:07pm Mr Fab: ultradamno, my knowledge of Nazareth begins and ends with their cover of "Love Hurts." What do I need to know about 'em?
	♥ 8:07pm DJ Babs: Honestly revisiting songs for this show...one is truly amazed at how great, important and influential both Nic Turner and Keith Levene were....
	8:08pm TroyD8: Evening all. Looking forward to the show!
	🏝 ♥ 8:08pm ultradamno: Hair Of The Dog man, what life have you been living that you haven't slammed a stein to a table while shouting along with NOW YOU'RE MESSING WITH A (cowbell cowbell) SON OF A BITCH!!
	♥ 8:08pm Krys O.: Hello!
	🏝 ♥ 8:09pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Ultra, Scott, Kristine, Fab, Zipperhead, TroyD8, KrysO, hello hello! Hoping all is wonderful in your world(s)!!!
	8:09pm Mr Fab: i admit i haven't played Levene's (few) solo releases in ages. Can't even really remember what they sounded like... Guess I never really moved past PiL.
	🏝 ♥ 8:09pm Derek Westerholm: Oh, and hello YPB, missed you in there!
	🏝 ♥ 8:09pm ultradamno: Gill and Levene are the Romulus and Remus of postpunk guitar
	8:10pm Mr Fab: haha ultradamno, will have to rectify that situation!
	🏝 ♥ 8:11pm ultradamno: It's a real bonehead cruncher
	8:11pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: @derek It’s easy to miss me lurking here in the shadows. 👤👀
	8:11pm Robm: Now i am in the right room
	♥ 8:12pm DJ Babs: hahaha YPB! Hello Hello Rob!
	🏝 ♥ 8:14pm ultradamno: twitter.com...
	8:15pm Robm: Hey babs was in the mother ship stream not this one:)
	♥ 8:15pm DJ Babs: all WFMU streams are fantastic, it's always hard to choose!!!
	♥ 8:16pm Zipperhead7: Levene played guitars that hardly anyone else used -- a solid aluminum Veleno and a wedge-shaped Travis Bean. Sometimes his playing sounded like he was scraping swords together
	8:17pm Robm: @Babs and the archives are something you can never finish
	🏝 ♥ 8:18pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Robm!
	🏝 ♥ 8:19pm Derek Westerholm: Zipperhead, I did not know that! Certainly, I know the guitar sound of which you speak (my favourite kinda sound!)
	🏝 ♥ 8:19pm ultradamno: Wedge or just a triangle twitter.com...
	8:19pm Robm: Hi derek
	🏝 ♥ 8:20pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, that's a solid picture!
	♥ 8:20pm DJ Babs: Keith never looked uncool. That's for sure!
	♥ 8:23pm DJ Babs: I gotta say I went on a major Inner City Unit bender this week...
	🏝 ♥ 8:25pm ultradamno: Kind of reminds me of those nearly bodyless rectangular Eastwood guitars Devo used on occasion www.adioslounge.com...
	♥ 8:26pm Kristine: TFEB?
	♥ 8:27pm DJ Babs: Transmissions From Echo Beach...
	♥ 8:27pm Kristine: ach! hahahah.
	♥ 8:28pm DJ Babs: lol....yep it's a long name!
	♥ 8:28pm DJ Babs: how's everyone doing tonight? Well I hope!!1
	🏝 ♥ 8:29pm Derek Westerholm: It's our catchy acronym that doesn't just shorten, but also confuses...
	🏝 ♥ 8:29pm ultradamno: I forgot to say hi to the beach bums....Beach Bums!
	8:29pm Robm: Babs have the heat on listening to this strange wonderful station and keeping away from the news
	♥ 8:30pm DJ Babs: Ahh yes, that's the way to be. I've been trying to ignore the news myself. The Beach is a haven away from the daily world weary cares.....
	8:30pm Mr Fab: like a Brit version of King Missile
	🏝 ♥ 8:30pm ultradamno: Sin Sisamouth's granddaughter! twitter.com...
	8:32pm Robm: @Babs still pay attention, just not foom scrolling through it, listen to bbc 4 at 5pm my time otherwise listening to music
	8:34pm Robm: @Babs and derek the only other dj on WFMU who plays james last was fabio
	🏝 ♥ 8:37pm ultradamno: Kitten plays him on Wired Up!
	8:37pm Robm: Happy birthday derek
	8:37pm TroyD8: Happy Birthday Derek! Welcome to the 50’s club.
	8:38pm Mr Fab: Robm: not so!! Sheena's own GeorgyGirl once did a 2-hour James Last tribute. I played him once during an Oktoberfest-themed fill-in.
	8:39pm Andres: Hi, Babs! Hello, Derek, and Happy Birthday, Kid!
	♥ 8:39pm DJ Babs: Hi Andres!!!!
	8:39pm Robm: @Mr fab which shows how often i check the other streams
	♥ 8:40pm DJ Babs: I would play James Last ALL The time....I grew up on that shizz so it's in my DNA...lol
	🏝 ♥ 8:41pm Derek Westerholm: Aww, thanks for the birthday wishes!!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:41pm Derek Westerholm: Hi there Andres!
	8:41pm Robm: @Derek your welcome
	♥ 8:41pm DJ Babs: The morning of Derek's birthday I awoke to I believe an hour straight of at least five versions of this song being blasted LOL
	🏝 ♥ 8:42pm Derek Westerholm: It's been a longtime favourite... I was waiting for the day...
	8:42pm Robm: @Babs good way to wake from a sound sleep:)
	8:42pm Andres: Was MES 50 when he wrote this? Voice sounds older actually. :/
	♥ 8:44pm Kristine: @Derek thats hilarious!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:44pm Derek Westerholm: I think he wrote it just as he was turning 50. It kinda started at 49 & continued in earnest as he was 50, if I recall...
	♥ 8:44pm DJ Babs: This song has all you need, lol.
	8:46pm Andres: This should be good for all the 50-plus birthdays.
	8:46pm Mr Fab: yikes, he sounds like an 80-year-old man. Amazing he lived as long as he did.
	♥ 8:46pm DJ Babs: I believe MES started sounding like a 50 year old man at 30 lol
	8:47pm Robm: @Andres sounds good to me:)
	♥ 8:47pm DJ Babs: lol one of our pals just texted us and asked HOW LONG IS THIS SONG?
	♥ 8:48pm DJ Babs: Good thing we're doing a 3 hour show tonight LOL
	8:49pm Robm: @Babs did you tell them it was quite a few versions of this song
	8:49pm Andres: Gonna play this at whoever has a birthday next whatever their age!
	8:50pm Mr Fab: Babs, tell em to get off texting and on to the chat!
	♥ 8:50pm DJ Babs: @ Andres yes! And he then quipped..."he was probably 51 by the time he finished singing it!" LOL
	♥ 8:51pm Zipperhead7: When I turned 50 I had a mescaline-infused poker game that devolved into Doses, Jukers and One-Eyed Pukers wild. Later that night I got into a long and heated argument with a knothole in the door
	🏝 ♥ 8:51pm Derek Westerholm: Doubling down on the Epicness!!! DOUBLE DOWN!!!!!!!
	8:51pm DJ Blush: Hey Babs & Derek! Hey everyone!
	🏝 ♥ 8:52pm Derek Westerholm: I might have had a bit of Mescal on my 50th, but it was only a few drops in the mix of the night...
	8:52pm DJ Blush: This song is perfect. Happy belated, Derek!!
	🏝 ♥ 8:52pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Blush!!!!
	8:53pm Andres: Zipperhead7: Who won the argument? Could’ve gone either way.
	8:53pm Robm: @DJ Blush howdy
	🏝 ♥ 8:54pm Derek Westerholm: Andres: "Gonna play this at whoever has a birthday next whatever their age!" ---- hahaha! As you should. ha!
	🏝 ♥ 8:56pm Derek Westerholm: Bonus lyrics!
	♥ 8:56pm DJ Babs: Zipperhead...that's hilarious. And BLUSH HELOOOOOOOOOO
	♥ 8:57pm DJ Babs: omg Derek. Derek, Derek, Derek.
	🏝 ♥ 8:57pm Derek Westerholm: Who else is going to paste this all together for you? The way it was supposed to be.
	8:58pm DJ Blush: HELLLOOOOOOOOO
	♥ 8:58pm DJ Babs: Thank you for your public service, Derek.
	🏝 ♥ 8:58pm ultradamno: May I also suggest The Clean's Getting Older and Desperate Bicycles' It's Somebody's Birthday Today
	🏝 ♥ 8:59pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, yes! You may!!!
	🏝 ♥ 9:00pm ultradamno: MES wisdom ksassets.timeincuk.net...
	9:00pm DJ Blush: Unhappy Birthday by The Smiths is always a fun one I like to crank on Jesse's special day
	🏝 ♥ 9:00pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, haha!
	🏝 ♥ 9:00pm ultradamno: ..and The Residents' Birthday Boy
	9:02pm Mr Fab: "You're older than you've ever been, and now you're even older And now you're even older And now you're even older" -They Might Be Giants
	♥ 9:10pm DJ Babs: LOL he was so so funny!
	9:14pm Mr Fab: I got "The Commercial Zone" first, so I think of it as the "real" one. I was kinda disappointed when "This Is What You Want" came out. But I should revisit it. haven't heard it in yeeeeears
	♥ 9:17pm DJ Babs: That is very interesting! And definitely worth revisiting with hindsight. I find it fascinating to listen to certain albums that way, when it comes to alternate versions....
	🏝 ♥ 9:19pm Derek Westerholm: I love both albums. And both albums have songs exclusive to the one and not the other. To me, it's more of all the things I love, not less, so I'll happily take different "versions"!
	🏝 ♥ 9:21pm Alli B: Hiiii! Thankfully able to tune in, albeit late!
	♥ 9:21pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Alli! Welcome welcome! You're just in time to catch Keith Levene...speaking to us from the grave!
	🏝 ♥ 9:24pm Alli B: Incredible!
	9:26pm DJ Blush: HeeelllooooooOO
	🏝 ♥ 9:27pm Alli B: Hiiiiiii!
	🏝 ♥ 9:28pm Alli B: Holding strong and listening on the front porch
	♥ 9:28pm DJ Babs: Love it! I've decided to have a few beers tonight myself!
	🏝 ♥ 9:28pm Will thee Sound Guy: I'm going to have to listen to the whole archive, I missed most of the show...
	🏝 ♥ 9:29pm Alli B: Whiskey n weed here
	🏝 ♥ 9:29pm Alli B: Transmissions is the beginning of the weekend!
	9:33pm Mr Fab: this is one of my fave tracks off "Commercial Zone" with the near-subliminal drums under it, I'm actually fine with much of "This Is What You Want" LP, but Johnny shouldn't have messed with this one. Very Morricone, actually.
	🏝 ♥ 9:33pm Derek Westerholm: Totally Morricone!
	9:34pm Mr Fab: the film 'Order of Death'? I don't remember that one at all. Anyone seen it?
	🏝 ♥ 9:36pm Derek Westerholm: No... It would be great to track it down though.
	9:36pm Andres: Mr Fab: Not seen it but aka Copkiller (1983).
	🏝 ♥ 9:37pm Derek Westerholm: Hi Alli!!!!
	♥ 9:37pm DJ Babs: Hi Will...welcome welcome! We're going to 11 tonight...just like Spinal Tap Amps LOL
	♥ 9:37pm DJ Babs: Yeah, that's a great track for sure. Also would not have been out of place on the Sid and Nancy soundtrack....
	9:40pm Andres: Score composed by Morricone!
	♥ 9:40pm DJ Babs: I do get the feeling that Keith did certainly love his Rye lol.....
	9:41pm Mr Fab: looks like it's public domain, on the youtubes.
	🏝 ♥ 9:41pm Will thee Sound Guy: Yea, I'm going to have to toss this episode on my listen to list...
	🏝 ♥ 9:41pm ultradamno: I know I saw it, I don't recall that much about it, it wasn't an exceptional movie. I more remember Rotten doing interviews where he seemed annoyed that it was made in the way a movie is (ie. other people were participating)
	9:42pm Mr Fab: i keep thinking they're talking about "prog," haha.
	🏝 ♥ 9:43pm Derek Westerholm: Should have said Prah-ha
	♥ 9:43pm DJ Babs: Man I would live in Prague in a second....
	♥ 9:43pm Zipperhead7: The Kafka Museum in Prague is a must-see
	♥ 9:44pm DJ Babs: ^^^ooooooohhhh
	🏝 ♥ 9:45pm Derek Westerholm: OMG, I wish I had known about the Kafka museum.. I got to see the Blake exhibit in the Tate in London... So I've been lucky once.
	9:48pm Mr Fab: Afraid I don't know much about Prague, but sounds cool. When you live in Southern California, everything is sooooo far away and expensive. I think Crispin Glover lives in Prague. That's all I need to know.
	♥ 9:50pm DJ Babs: He does...I know someone who befriended Crispin and was invited to stay with him for a time there...she ssaid it was very....interesting. He has a flock of peacocks that scream constantly. It's apparently very unsettling, lol.
	♥ 9:51pm DJ Babs: Side note: Crispin Glover appears in the new Guillermo Del Toro series in an episode and he is fantastic....as always. So creepy.
	♥ 9:53pm Zipperhead7: Here's a tape of the Clash's fifth gig, when Keith was in the band: www.youtube.com...
	9:53pm TroyD8: Was lucky enough to see Crispin’s live slideshow in a very small bar back in the 90’s.
	🏝 ♥ 9:54pm ultradamno: Did he say Tone Loc? Is Funky Cold Medina a PiL offshoot track? I just started that Del Toro show, I'm a big fan of the horror anthology format. Have you ever seen Channel Zero?
	🏝 ♥ 9:54pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, I don't know about FCM, but he did say Tone Loc!
	♥ 9:54pm DJ Babs: I've heard of Channel Zero but I haven't seen it! Yes, getting very much into the Horror Anthologies....
	🏝 ♥ 9:55pm Derek Westerholm: TroyD8, I bet that was fantastic!
	♥ 9:55pm DJ Babs: Ah Zipperhead must file that for later watchings!!!
	9:55pm TroyD8: It was very surreal Derek!
	🏝 ♥ 9:55pm Derek Westerholm: Zipperhead, thanks so much! Been wanting to track that period down!!!
	🏝 ♥ 9:56pm ultradamno: It's extraordinary. It's a different story for each season, but really short compact seasons (six eps or something), all great. I think they're all on Shudder now.
	🏝 ♥ 9:56pm Derek Westerholm: Mr. Fab, Prague was one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. I would love to go back. Definitely recommend the visit.
	♥ 9:57pm Cp304: Good listening what I could catch tonight
	9:57pm Mr Fab: Yes, somehow Levene worked with sampling for the likes of Ice T and Tone Loc. Didn't even know that he was living here in LA til a friend of mine who worked at Bleeker Bob's records on Melrose told me that Levene came in and he spoke with him a bit.
	♥ 9:58pm DJ Babs: Thanks CP304! We're going late this is an extended show!!!
	9:58pm TroyD8: LOL! Punk rock sucks. Great interview Derek
	♥ 9:58pm DJ Babs: Mr. Fab that is crazy! I love it!
	🏝 ♥ 10:00pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks Troy8! It was an honour! Punk rock sucks! lol.
	10:00pm TroyD8: Channel Zero Is amazing. Still think about the kids TV show that appeared in the 1st season from time to time.
	10:01pm Andres: Was worth the wait from 2014.
	🏝 ♥ 10:02pm ultradamno: The screaming episode! When I was a kid there was a show called Time For Timothy that Candle Cove reminded me of www.youtube.com...
	10:05pm TroyD8: Going to have to check out Time For Timothy before bed tonight. Looks creepy 😬
	🏝 ♥ 10:06pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks Andres! Glad to have unearthed it! That is a very special interview for me!
	10:07pm Mr Fab: what a treat! Great job, Derek. Damn, I miss the dude already...
	♥ 10:09pm DJ Babs: Agreed I'd have loved to have sat with him in prague with a rye and coke!
	🏝 ♥ 10:12pm Scott67: Fucken great insight to an awesome bloke! Thanks guys! P.S. 3 hour Shows every fucken week!! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺
	♥ 10:12pm DJ Babs: Hahaha thank you!!! That first band in the set is from Melbourne by the way!!!
	🏝 ♥ 10:14pm Scott67: Hah! At TRASH CULT Saturday night I saw the debut gig of a local Band called DOG. 🍻😎🤙
	10:15pm DJ Blush: Great show guys.
	🏝 ♥ 10:15pm Scott67: Couldn't have been from anywhere else Babs! Cheers mate! 🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	🏝 ♥ 10:15pm ultradamno: Well, dog is life
	♥ 10:15pm DJ Babs: Yes I saw that but I don't think it's the same DOG. I am OBSESSED by this band. Every single they have put out is completely different...it's fucking crazy!
	🏝 ♥ 10:16pm Derek Westerholm: Thanks Fab/Scott... Was so happy to be able to revive an old laptop & uncover the interview... Maybe this will be the archeology of the future... Unearthing lost treasures from near-dead laptops. Our histories written impermanent...
	🏝 ♥ 10:17pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra... I'm catching your wry Fall ref. there...
	🏝 ♥ 10:17pm Scott67: Nah I know these these guys. They are doing a reverse take on the Aussie Band, GOD. Plus there is no god but Dog!
	♥ 10:18pm DJ Babs: excellent. You should tell them that if they call their band Dog they will be next to impossible to find on the internet LOL
	🏝 ♥ 10:19pm Scott67: Especially cos Google ignores all caps DOG!
	🏝 ♥ 10:21pm Scott67: Cue Dog noises!
	🏝 ♥ 10:21pm Derek Westerholm: Speaking of God/Dog... John Lydon -> Religion: "Stained glass windows keep the cold outside While the hypocrites hide inside With the lies of statues in their minds Where the Christian religion made them blind Where they hide And prey to the God of a bitch spelled backwards is dog Not for one race, one creed, one world But for money Effective Absurd"
	10:21pm TroyD8: Cleopatra Sure released a ton of cool stuff
	🏝 ♥ 10:22pm Derek Westerholm: Cleopatra is a great label!
	🏝 ♥ 10:23pm Scott67: Spot on Derek! Fuck all religion!
	🏝 ♥ 10:24pm ultradamno: Cleopatra is awesome. Love that Eater album this year and the Chrome stuff
	🏝 ♥ 10:28pm ultradamno: There was a Chicago new wave band called Phil N The Blanks
	♥ 10:32pm DJ Babs: yes, that band I definitely do remember!!!
	10:38pm TroyD8: Nice! Didn’t know Ladytron was still around.
	♥ 10:39pm DJ Babs: Yes, they have a new album coming out and I VERY much like this single!!!
	♥ 10:40pm DJ Babs: I am also OBSESSED with this tune...
	♥ 10:40pm DJ Babs: This band is from Lithuania!
	🏝 ♥ 10:40pm Scott67: I see why, so am I know!🍻
	10:41pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: Love it!!!
	♥ 10:41pm DJ Babs: I knew you would YPB. Those CHIMEY BELLS
	🏝 ♥ 10:42pm Scott67: So many iconic elements amalgamated anew & still fresh.
	♥ 10:42pm DJ Babs: Agreed and I love that it's in Lithuanian!
	10:42pm Your Pretend Boyfriend: You can’t beat chimey bells and pchewww noises.
	♥ 10:45pm DJ Babs: no ya can't! I literally RAN to bandcamp to order that single!
	10:46pm TroyD8: pchewww noises are like catnip
	🏝 ♥ 10:46pm Derek Westerholm: Why did I read "chimney bells" at first scan?
	🏝 ♥ 10:46pm Derek Westerholm: I was imagining chimney bells
	🏝 ♥ 10:46pm Scott67: Digital running??
	♥ 10:47pm Cp304: Donald Byrd esq
	🏝 ♥ 10:48pm ultradamno: Terry Chimey Bells?
	🏝 ♥ 10:48pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, hahahaha
	♥ 10:54pm Zipperhead7: Thanks B&D for a great show!
	🏝 ♥ 10:55pm Scott67: Thanks Babs & Derek, bloody brilliant Show my mates! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍺❤️❤️
	♥ 10:55pm Cp304: Always great listening yal, babs, I hope that wasn't your last beer you knocked over
	🏝 ♥ 10:56pm ultradamno: Well, sharif don't like it
	♥ 10:56pm DJ Babs: lol no it was my tablet......
	10:57pm TroyD8: Thanks for another amazing show!
	♥ 10:59pm DJ Babs: Thank you thank you ALL! I hope you all have a great week! :-)
	♥ 10:59pm Zipperhead7: Classic Stratocaster tone here
	🏝 ♥ 11:00pm Will thee Sound Guy: thank you DJ Babs and Derek!!! I'll have to check the first hour+ in the archive .... Great stuff!!! 🔥🔥🔥
	♥ 11:00pm Barno in Akron: Thank you! Fun show!
	🏝 ♥ 11:00pm ultradamno: Wasn't Strummer a telecaster guy?
	🏝 ♥ 11:01pm Derek Westerholm: Thank-you all! Your wonderful comments & fantastic support is always appreciated, more deeply than I can express.
	🏝 ♥ 11:02pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, that sounds right to me, but I have no idea, off the top of my head. Personally, Telecasters are my fav.
	♥ 11:03pm Zipperhead7: Mick Jones definitely playing a Strat here
	♥ 11:03pm Cp304: Derek yal are a blast
	🏝 ♥ 11:03pm Derek Westerholm: Zipper, ah, see, you know! Joe = Tele, Mick = Strat?
	🏝 ♥ 11:04pm ultradamno: Really? Most pics I see of him he has a Les Paul
	🏝 ♥ 11:04pm Derek Westerholm: Cp304, Barno, Will Thee, hello hello!!!
	🏝 ♥ 11:06pm Derek Westerholm: Ahh, now we're getting into it. I have to confess I don't much notice gear half the time... So when someone sounds like they have authority on the matter, I just go with that, haha.
	🏝 ♥ 11:06pm Derek Westerholm: I'm sure there's a fair amount of switching through the years of musicianship
	🏝 ♥ 11:07pm Derek Westerholm: Cycling through gear, I mean.
	🏝 ♥ 11:07pm ultradamno: Sure, it's not impossible he had one wild, sloppy indiscretion with a stratocaster
	🏝 ♥ 11:08pm Derek Westerholm: lololol

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from November 17, 2022

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