WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 30, 2024

Listener comments!
	🎸 7:51pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 8:54pm Arvo Zylo: hail satan mr. cab driver hallelujah
	8:57pm Imaginos: Ahoy me hearties!
	9:00pm laurapanic: the sound is back to normal now, phew.
	🎸 9:01pm Krys O.: Howdy!
	9:01pm Mr. X: hi
	9:02pm ramencity: deaaaaaaaaaaad /breathe/ Moooooooooon
	🎸 9:02pm Austin Rich: Nice to see ya'll, Arvo, Imaginos, laurapanic, Krys O, and Mr. X! Hopefully you're ready for some Ramen City Kid love, with another one of his excellent mix tapes! And there he is!
	9:03pm ramencity: Mourning Martin Phillipps of the Chills as he starts his unknown passage...
	9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 Ramen City Kid always adds a new dimension to the show
	🎸 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:03 Oh no! I hadn't heard. That's awful. I have a few Chills songs I quite like.
	9:05pm Geoff-U: Happy Tuesday!
	9:05pm ramencity: He had hepatitis C for decades so it's kind of crazy he made it this far.
	9:05pm ramencity: ↳ Imaginos @9:03 Merci Imaginos! I didn't mean to infiltrate two weeks in a row, even, already
	9:06pm laurapanic: MORE MIX TAPES
	9:09pm Mr. X: I've been kind of obsessed with simulating the nature of mixtapes myself, lately. I've been limiting my digital playlists to 45 minutes, focused on a theme, a scene, or an era.
	🎸 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:09 That's smart! This week and last week have featured 90 minute cassettes, each week. There's something about that length that seems very perfect for the right kind of mix.
	9:11pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "Horse Heaven Hills" by "Mecca Normal" I just got some Jean Smith books in the mail today. This is my favorite Mecca Normal song. Oh LauraPanic, I pulled out that 2 Foot Flame record since last week, and rocked out while working last week
	🎸 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Dream of Sleeping Sheep" by "Eleventh Dream Day" As I get older, I love this band more and more. But I think that's also because I have more and more of their albums to listen to, now.
	9:13pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 My brain is hardwired to that length of time, due to so many jam sessions that ended abruptly when the tape ran out. I learned to anticipate it, to keep from getting cut off.
	🎸 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:13 There is something about tapes that started to infect the way people made art, and not always in the best ways. (The 45 Minute Limit being one.) But there are such breathtaking examples of cassette art that I keep finding, that makes me think cassettes will continute to be discovered for years and years to come.
	9:15pm wenzo: Howdee AR & radio Frenzz
	🎸 9:16pm Austin Rich: While there is a larger "cow punk" theme to this whole tape, we are dead in the middle of the cow punk set. As a "country mouse" who came to the city, I was sort of pre-disposed to like country music a bit, and was even an Uncle Tupelo fan in High School. So this kind of punk was PERFECT for me.
	🎸 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:15 wenzo! Thanks for joining us! Sit down, and enjoy the digital salon!
	🎸 9:18pm univac: Well, Hello, there.
	🎸 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:18 univac! Hooray!
	🎸 9:18pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Austin Rich and mutants
	🎸 9:19pm univac: I loved making mixtapes for friends (and girlfriends) in the 80s. Crafted, I'd say.
	🎸 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Ft. Lewis" by "Richmond Fontaine" I never gave Richmond Fontaine a fair chance, in spite of having seen them live. I was immediately convinced that they were an Uncle Tupelo rip-off, and sort of looked down on them. Now I really love them, but I was a jerk about them at first.
	🎸 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:18 coelacanthø! The party is getting better and better!
	9:19pm ramencity: I like to imagine you go on a trip somewhere with a couple of mix tapes, and some kind of Vonnegut-Galapagos situation happens, and that is the only music left. How would that change your experience? (or if Arthur Dent found a duffle bag with a couple of his old mix tapes somewhere in interstellar space)
	🎸 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:19 Most of the tapes I made were given away! I really had to scrounge to find ones that I made myself.
	9:19pm Imaginos: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:18 Ahoy
	9:20pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 Our friend Honey took me to see them once in the middle of a lunar eclipse. it was one of the most magical shows I've ever been to
	🎸 9:20pm coelacanth∅: aloha, Imaginos!
	🎸 9:21pm coelacanth∅: hi ramencity kid!
	9:21pm Mr. X: It was also fun to decorate one's mix tapes with colored markers and collages cut from magazines and such.
	🎸 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:20 That was the show I was at, too; I was dating Honey at the time.
	🎸 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Wish I Was..." by "Blood On The Saddle" This is one of my favorite songs of all time.
	9:21pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:21 Mmmm.. ceolacanth ramen... so elusive... Howdy!
	9:22pm Imaginos: ↳ ramencity @9:19 The Arthur Dent theme might fit nicely eggs Shoe Event Horizon idea I was talking with Austin about yesterday
	🎸 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Wish I Was..." by "Blood On The Saddle" I first heard this song on KWVA, on "Your Mother's" show. I immediately called her (I already had a crush on her) and asked who this was. I later found both of their records. I never managed to make any headway with that DJ, in spite of seeing her out at bars and shows. Oh well...
	🎸 9:22pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 Yeah, sometimes I wish I had all those mixtapes back...a few times I did make a copy for myself. But, probably gave those away too...
	🎸 9:23pm univac: ↳ Mr. X @9:21 Exactly!
	9:23pm ramencity: I made a mix tape for Keanu Reeves for his birthday in 1992 (back when there was a book that published the STARS' agents addresses). I wonder if he ever got it. I think it had My Bloody Valentine and early Green Day on it...
	🎸 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:21 Agreed. I was never as good at it as I wanted to be, but I always tried.
	9:24pm ramencity: ↳ Imaginos @9:22 Yes! Arthur Dent's Mixtape! Ok yall have to do that.
	🎸 9:24pm univac: ↳ ramencity @9:23 Neat!
	🎸 9:25pm coelacanth∅: ↳ ramencity @9:21 er, won't ajitama do?! -or maybe some bonito flakes?!!
	🎸 9:25pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 That was a great song!
	🎸 9:25pm Krys O.: G'night, all!
	9:25pm Mr. X: Mixtape brand of choice: TDK SA 90s.
	🎸 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:25 Sleep well, Krys O!
	9:26pm Geoff-U: Speaking of camping - went to a camping house party at my friend's property by Champoeg State Park outside of Salem over the weekend. Forgot to change into long pants before I started drinking and ended up being a mosquito buffet.
	9:26pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:25 Were they the ones with the pie piece or spindle tape holder?
	🎸 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:25 I was not picky for a long time, but in my "workin' in the bookmines" days, there was a record store across the way, and I would buy the brand they sold, so I could flirt with the record store girls, who were both WAY out of my league. But... you know... I tried.
	9:27pm Geoff-U: Guessing those skeeters caught a nice secondhand buzz off my whiskey intake
	🎸 9:27pm univac: ↳ Mr. X @9:25 I liked those as well, but usually just bought whatever 5 pack of 90 or 120! was on sale. But always midlevel or above.
	🎸 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:27 Ha! That's always what I think when I'm camping.
	9:27pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:25 Mmm bonito flakes... or "kitty crack" as a coworker called it.
	🎸 9:28pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Geoff-U @9:26 feels good to be popular doesn't it!
	9:28pm Mr. X: ↳ Imaginos @9:26 I don't recall pie pieces or spindle holders, can you refresh my memory?
	9:29pm Imaginos: ↳ ramencity @9:27 Bonito flakes. Made for cats, but I like them, too. They're my Scooby snacks
	🎸 9:29pm coelacanth∅: i seem to've become much more popular with mosquitoes within the past year. -maybe they're lowering their standards.
	9:29pm ramencity: ↳ Imaginos @9:29 Yeah... fair nuff! Reminds me, I need to make some dashi tonight!
	9:30pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:28 When you have to respond a tape was it the wedge shaped piece that was easy to click into place or the one that looked like a plastic needle
	9:31pm Imaginos: R e spool
	🎸 9:32pm coelacanth∅: do they sell bonito flakes for cats? they used to be very expensive (per pound) in the health food stores
	9:33pm Mr. X: Yes, amphibians and reptiles.
	9:33pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:32 I get them at the Asian supermarket...
	🎸 9:33pm univac: Our mixtapes are at: www.synthlab.org...
	🎸 9:34pm univac: Thanks Austin! We each did each year. Lots and lots of mixtapes! Each year curated by the contributors' experience.
	🎸 9:35pm coelacanth∅: ↳ ramencity @9:33 yes -'makes sense. wakame is another. like 1/3 the price.
	🎸 9:35pm univac: 1955-2023, but not everyone did the early ~1960 ones.
	🎸 9:37pm Austin Rich: I want a band called "Fish Ladders." That's such a great phrase.
	9:37pm ramencity: ↳ univac @9:35 I will have to check those out- that is a great idear!
	9:38pm ramencity: These samples between the songs makes me think of that Bob Hope / Bing Crosby promotional record "The Road to Minnesota"
	🎸 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:38 I don't know that one! I'll have to check it out.
	9:39pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "Ab Teqay Qerebi" by "Tewolde Redda" Eritrean cowpunk!
	🎸 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:39 This song is so good! It gets stuck in my head.
	🎸 9:43pm univac: Wow, live Tom Waits. Nice.
	🎸 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Semi-Suite (Live, KQRS)" by "Tom Waits" There's a part of me that wants him to play this song for a hour solid, just improvising and jamming.
	🎸 9:44pm Austin Rich: "One of those towns where the average age is deceased."
	🎸 9:44pm univac: This is so good.
	9:45pm Mr. X: "big Velveeta cheeseball"
	9:45pm Geoff-U: Good ole Tom
	🎸 9:45pm Austin Rich: The Ramen City Kid and I shelled out what was a lot of money in those days to see Tom Waits, and it was FANTASTIC. We wore suits and got drunk and sang along. It was great!
	🎸 9:45pm univac: They were so bored, the Police had to do a cardiac arrest.
	9:45pm ramencity: This makes me want to look up that episode of Fernwood Tonight w/ Tom Waits on it...
	9:45pm Daniel from PEI.: Loving the show and the reminiscing about mixtape,but I need to go to bed. Good night all. Goodnight Mr Waits
	🎸 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Daniel from PEI. @9:45 Sleep well, Daniel! Thanks for joining us.
	🎸 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:45 Fernwood Tonight just needs to be better seen, in general.
	🎸 9:48pm Austin Rich: I like this era of Tom Waits. My mom had his first album, and listened to it a lot. I assumed all of his albums were like this. I didn't realize that he had made a bit of a change in style in the 80's until I lived on my own, and friends started playing his other albums for me.
	🎸 9:49pm Austin Rich: "Growl."
	🎸 9:49pm univac: Yeah, he did go through some changes. I think it had a lot to do with him stopping drinking, maybe?
	🎸 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Dusk" by "Long Hind Legs" I think I know the KARP version of this song better than the original, of course, because I'm silly.
	9:50pm Geoff-U: Spotify's crummy payout politics aside, they have a "High Energy Workout Mix" which pulls from what you listen to, and it's put Waits' "Hell Broke Loose" on, which was a great motivator at the gym
	🎸 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:49 I think it was that, and he got married, and she was a good influence on him. And his albums got WEIRDER after he cleaned up. It's great!
	9:51pm ramencity: ↳ Geoff-U @9:50 Wow, that is crazy! They should blast it over the gym's PA
	9:52pm Geoff-U: *Hell Broke Luce
	🎸 9:52pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:50 Yeah, true, weirder and better produced.
	9:53pm Barno in Akron: How do you do, fellow mutants?
	🎸 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:50 Yeah, I could imagine that is a good reason to keep going that extra mile. I was just on my exercise bike, trying to stay focused, before the show...
	🎸 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno in Akron @9:53 Barno! Thanks for joining us!
	9:54pm Mr. X: Rickie Lee Jones with Tom Waits is kind of like Laurie Anderson with Lou Reed. Weird matches made in heaven.
	9:54pm Barno in Akron: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 Thanks for tickling my ears, Austin
	🎸 9:55pm Austin Rich: RIP Vern Rumsey, who was both Long Hind Legs and Red Rumsey, as well as the bass player for unwound. I met him once, and gave him a cigarette and a light after the show. He was very nice, but apparently, a bit troubled, too.
	🎸 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:54 That is true! A good observation.
	9:56pm David Shortell: ↳ ramencity @9:45 youtube.com...
	9:56pm ramencity: ↳ David Shortell @9:56 Thanks! That is what I'm going after this show then!
	🎸 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Night of The Vampire" by "Moontrekkers" This is one of my favorite songs of all time. I usually play it around Halloween, but when the Ramen City Kid puts it on a mix, you gotta listen! Halloween in July!
	🎸 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:56 Everyone should watch this video after the show!
	🎸 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Night of The Vampire" by "Moontrekkers" I get this stuck in my head ALL the time.
	9:59pm Barno in Akron: Just returned from a walk around the Highland Square area of Akron. We met a nice young couple, TR and Melinda, who were admiring my Ween shirt. We talked music for a bit. They recommended that I check out a musician by the name of Oliver Tree. I look forward to giving him a listen.
	🎸 10:03pm univac: ↳ Barno in Akron @9:59 Oliver Tree is amazing. There's a whole Ween-thing going on with new weird outsider post-music music. My youngest son (18) has turned me on to some over the years.
	10:04pm ramencity: "Semi Suite" is on "Heart of Saturday Night" /wellActually
	10:05pm Barno in Akron: ↳ univac @10:03 Awesome! Now I'm even more eager to hear it. They'd never heard of 100 gecs, so I traded that recommendation :)
	🎸 10:06pm univac: ↳ Barno in Akron @10:05 100 gecs is another recommend from my son. Love them too!
	🎸 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno in Akron @10:05 I impressed my nephew a bit by knowing who 100 Gecs were, largely because you play them often.
	🎸 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Johnny The Moondog" by "Cleaners From Venus" I got to interview Martin Newell, and a complete version of that interview has not aired anywhere, yet. I need to pull that interview and put it on this show someday. He's a very funny / clever man.
	10:10pm Mr. X: ↳ Barno in Akron @9:59 A conversation about Ween is what got me my first gig as a DJ on KWVA, 1995.
	🎸 10:11pm coelacanth∅: along with mixtapes i used to dub onto cassette any albums that i thought i'd be listening to a lot. i often put very different albums on each side (ie fear of music b/w Thelonious Monk; or tin huey b/w the firebird suite...) to be more able to satisfy the various musical desires with fewer tapes.
	10:11pm Barno in Akron: Taking off to pick up my son. I'll be listening from the car.
	10:11pm Imaginos: Getting tired. Going to get some sleep. Great show tonight
	10:11pm Mr. X: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:11 Tin Huey is an Akron band.
	10:11pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:11 Yes! I still have a tape a friend Eric made in the 90s that had Thelonious Monk on one side and Tom Waits on the other
	🎸 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:11 Sleep well! See ya next time.
	🎸 10:12pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Mr. X @10:11 Great, underappreciated band!
	🎸 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:11 I was noticing that some friends would make tapes with a mix on one side, and an album on the other side. It was a good way to get a little bet of both.
	10:13pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:12 Ok I will check them out when I'm not watching Fernwood Tonight tonight
	10:13pm Barno in Akron: ↳ Mr. X @10:10 I love KWVA - Listened all the time when we lived up the hill from the University - I got to guest host a show there once. I love Rev Marc Time's Sunday Morning Hangover
	🎸 10:13pm Austin Rich: "Here we go again..."
	10:14pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "I Am A Dalek" by "Art Attacks" Exterminate!
	🎸 10:14pm coelacanth∅: ↳ ramencity @10:11 that works! tchau Imaginos and Barno!
	🎸 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Devil Is My Friend" by "Jazz Butcher" I get this song stuck in my head ALL THE TIME.
	10:15pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 This is my favorite song ever. A good thing to sing while doing chores
	🎸 10:15pm Austin Rich: (We're back in the cow punk part of the show.)
	10:15pm Barno in Akron: ↳ Mr. X @10:11 We just had a dinner date with Tin Huey's Harvey Gold and his sweetie, Dolli - Great people!
	🎸 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:15 I know this song because of you, of course.
	🎸 10:16pm Austin Rich: "Godziller is my friend."
	🎸 10:16pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 i don't think i ever set out to do that but it sometimes happened! i'd always fill the tape; so if it was a short album there might be many other songs also, before &/or after tha album/ep.
	10:17pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "Portland, Oregon" by "Loretta Lynn & Jack White" so this mixtape contains a fatal flaw (as all mixtapes do). There is a song by Dolly Parton called "Eugene Oregon" that was supposed to go after this, but I only had it on an mp3. Although - in retrospect, I could've just put a line out from my computer to the tapedeck? Live n learn!
	🎸 10:17pm Austin Rich: What are other mix-tape oddities you got from friends? I made a tape, once, of all the stuff that I usually put between songs on other tapes. I recall that one did not get a very good reaction, back then. (I have a copy of that one still, and it is a bit hard to listen to, agreed.)
	🎸 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:17 Next time!
	🎸 10:18pm Austin Rich: "I lost my mind, in Oregon." You and me both, kid.
	🎸 10:20pm coelacanth∅: i remember a ramones tape, rocket to russia, which i recorded while friends were over, partying. i had mic/line mixing on my cassette deck, so i faded up the mics between some songs, before & after each side, and kept them on through we're a happy family! then i happened to put something entirely different on the other side, Billie Holiday of something. that actually didn't work so well!
	10:20pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 I had a reputation for liking weird stuff. Once a friend gave me a tape with a Meltable Snaps It selection on it. Still trying to track down the title all these years later.
	🎸 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Darkness on the Face of the Earth" by "Willie Nel... Willie is just the best. He and I share a birthday. I don't like them all, but I love so much of what he does. What a great dude.
	10:22pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:20 That works with "Happy Family!"
	🎸 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:20 That sounds like a tape I would love!
	🎸 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:20 Are we still gonna do that "unidentified songs" show?
	🎸 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Darkness on the Face of the Earth" by "Willie Nel... I think about this song a lot, lately. Because it feels like there is Darkness On The Face of The Earth, everywhere, these days.
	10:23pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 Oh yes, it's coming together.
	🎸 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Border Radio" by "The Blasters" I was able to think of two movies in the John Doe Film Festival: Border Radio Roadside Prophets But what's the third movie where he has a prominent role?
	🎸 10:24pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 i have a few as yet unidentified songs, recorded off wfmu in the 80s. songs i really Love.
	10:24pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "Border Radio" by "The Blasters" Does anyone else remember the movie this is from (also called 'Border Radio') - I haven't seen it in ages. I get it mixed up with 'Roadside Prophets' in my head
	10:24pm ramencity: Jinx!
	🎸 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:23 I think I have a couple left, but most of them I've figured out, thanks to the internet.
	10:25pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 John Doe has a pretty long imdb page - he was on an episode of Party of Five!
	🎸 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:25 I guess the question is: did he have a prominent role? He's in "Road House," too, but only in a few scenes, and he's the bartender that's stealing from the till!
	10:26pm ramencity: ...speaking of which: the new (supposedly last?) X album just showed up on my doorstep today
	10:27pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 "Georgia" with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Mare Winningham. I haven't seen it in 29 years.
	🎸 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:26 I still need to get it. The last one was SOOO GOOD!
	🎸 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:27 Oh, wow! I don't know that one.
	10:30pm laurapanic: had a thing. Back now.
	10:31pm ramencity: Apologies to my friend Slavko for the pro-Bulgarian propaganda on that picture on the tape cover - it's the town he's from, Demir Kapija, which is in Macedonia not Bulgaria!
	10:32pm ramencity: Real Genius
	🎸 10:33pm Heather: Popping in to say hi! Been bustling but enjoying the show as I bustle!!
	10:33pm ramencity: ↳ Heather @10:33 Thanks for bustlin' and hustlin'!
	🎸 10:34pm Austin Rich: Thanks for poppin' in.
	🎸 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:31 Hopefully he'll forgive you. He's a nice guy; that seems likely.
	10:34pm Mr. X: ↳ laurapanic @10:30 wb
	10:35pm David Shortell: ↳ ramencity @10:25 So I see. I forgot he was in "Sugar Town". That fine 1999 film also featured Jeff McDonald of Redd Kross, whom I saw last week for the first time in about 30 years.
	🎸 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:35 I bet Redd Kross is still pretty good?
	10:37pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 Quite.
	🎸 10:40pm Austin Rich: I have to admit: the idea of watching three movies in one day sounds exhausting. I used to do it a lot, and I even minored in film. But I usually have about one movie in me, and then I need to think about it for a while. I think college sort of ruined all art for me, because I need to Lit Crit everything afterward, to figure out what I "think" about it.
	🎸 10:41pm Austin Rich: This might be the most Reggae and Reggae-adjacent music I've played on this show in a while.
	10:41pm ramencity: I just got the Satantango blu-ray - now I just need a free 7 1/2 hours...
	🎸 10:41pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Song: "Life of Contradiction" by "Joe Higgs" Joe Higgs' album "blackman know yourself" was huge for me back in the day. going through a breakup, some of those songs killed me!
	🎸 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:41 Or, you can watch it in 15, 30 minutes installments? Like "Satantango" The TV Show?
	10:42pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:41 ooh, I just have this one album (and a 7" or two) -- I need to check that out.
	🎸 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:41 I'll have to check it out! Thanks for the tip. Sad songs are my jam lately.
	🎸 10:43pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Song: "Hold Down" by "Kingstonians" ...and this! their earlier song, sufferer (that this is a formula of!) was also huge for me JUST BECAUSE IT'S SO GREAT!
	10:44pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:43 Yeah, the Kingstonians miiight just be my favorite rocksteady/early reggae vocal group.
	🎸 10:44pm coelacanth∅: ↳ ramencity @10:42 (also had a worthy cover of "small axe")
	🎸 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Reconsider Me" by "Johnny Adams" I love the singing on this one. It's SOOO good.
	10:48pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "Mujo Kujo Konie Po Mjeseca" by "Zaim Imamović" My fave Sarajevo "sevdalinka" singer - his grandson Damir Imamović has an album out that is meant to be a soundtrack to the latest Alexander Hemon book - still need to listen to that...
	10:48pm Mr. X: We can always count on getting a multi-ethnic education from RCK. Loving the variety of selections here.
	🎸 10:48pm coelacanth∅: dumbass that i am, i'm off to work now. Thanks y'all, Great program! 'night
	🎸 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:48 Good luck! We'll see ya next time.
	10:48pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:48 Have fun storming the castle!
	🎸 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:48 I have a 90's tape that he made me that proves that has ALWAYS been the case. Well, maybe not when he was five. But for the most part.
	10:50pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 I was super into my parents' Perez Prado record when I was lil kiddo at least
	🎸 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:50 That's because Perez Prado rules! I had never heard him, growing up, or even until you played him for me. But I think it wasn't until I started really record shopping in a major way, that I started buying his records. I really love his stuff! What a cool dude.
	🎸 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Unknown Passage (Crack In The System)" by "Dead M... I'm very grateful to have seen Dead Moon as much as I did when I could. I could have seen them more, and I should have. But at least I saw them as much as I did.
	10:55pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: a song The 2020 camp-out was going to be in the Wallowas, then? Lovely area. Family went camping there when I was a kid. Took my first ride on horseback (of two total) on that trip.
	10:56pm Mr. X: Great show, Ramen City and Austin! Lots of stuff for me to explore further.
	10:57pm ramencity: Thanks X! I am looking forward to your bug-out!
	10:57pm Barno in Akron: Thank you, Austin! Fun show as always :)
	11:00pm laurapanic: MORE MIX TAPES
	11:01pm ramencity: Oh, yes, a Cheryl mixtape is DE RIGEUR!
	🎸 11:02pm Austin Rich: We watched so much Fishing With John in the 90's.
	🎸 11:04pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! See ya next week.
	11:04pm Geoff-U: I gotta head out, thanks for the great show!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 30, 2024

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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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Side A "Side A"
Dead Moon	Unknown Passage (Defiance)	0:01:34 (Pop-up)
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Opening Theme	0:03:42 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	The Sounds of The Mid-Valley (Day)	0:09:37 (Pop-up)
""
Mecca Normal	Horse Heaven Hills "Horse Heaven Hills" by "Mecca Normal"	0:09:39 (Pop-up)
Eleventh Dream Day	Dream of Sleeping Sheep	0:12:03 (Pop-up)
West Section Line	Airliner "Airliner" by "West Section Line"	0:15:12 (Pop-up)
Richmond Fontaine	Ft. Lewis "Ft. Lewis" by "Richmond Fontaine"	0:18:11 (Pop-up)
Blood On The Saddle	Wish I Was...	0:21:01 (Pop-up)
Thin White Rope	Thing "Thing" by "Thin White Rope"	0:23:02 (Pop-up)
Cleaners From Venus	Girl With Cars In Her Eyes	0:25:53 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	The Sounds of The Mid-Valley (Day)	0:28:56 (Pop-up)
Tewolde Redda	Ab Teqay Qerebi "Ab Teqay Qerebi" by "Tewolde Redda"	0:36:42 (Pop-up)
Lydia Mendoza	La Pollita "La Pollita" by "Lydia Mendoza"	0:40:11 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Semi-Suite (Live, KQRS)	0:42:50 (Pop-up)
Long Hind Legs	Dusk "Dusk" by "Long Hind Legs"	0:49:16 (Pop-up)
Red Rumsey	Shine On "Shine On" by "Red Rumsey"	0:51:29 (Pop-up)
Paleface	Burn & Rob "Burn & Rob" by "Paleface"	0:54:20 (Pop-up)
Moontrekkers	Night of The Vampire	0:56:52 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	The Sounds of The Mid-Valley (Night)	0:59:54 (Pop-up)
""
Side B "Side B"
Cleaners From Venus	Johnny The Moondog	1:08:05 (Pop-up)
Art Attacks	I Am A Dalek "I Am A Dalek" by "Art Attacks"	1:11:37 (Pop-up)
Jazz Butcher	The Devil Is My Friend	1:14:17 (Pop-up)
Loretta Lynn & Jack White	Portland, Oregon	1:16:28 (Pop-up)
Willie Nelson	Darkness on the Face of the Earth	1:20:17 (Pop-up)
The Blasters	Border Radio "Border Radio" by "The Blasters"	1:22:37 (Pop-up)
Conjunto Alamo	La Ratita "La Ratita" by "Conjunto Alamo"	1:25:16 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	The Sounds of The Mid-Valley (Night)	1:27:44 (Pop-up)
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Lalo Guerrero	Muy Sabroso Blues "Muy Sabroso Blues" by "Lalo Guerrero"	1:33:44 (Pop-up)
Joe Higgs	Life of Contradiction "Life of Contradiction" by "Joe Higgs"	1:36:33 (Pop-up)
Kingstonians	Hold Down "Hold Down" by "Kingstonians"	1:40:04 (Pop-up)
Johnny Adams	Reconsider Me "Reconsider Me" by "Johnny Adams"	1:42:43 (Pop-up)
Zaim Imamović	Mujo Kujo Konie Po Mjeseca	1:46:29 (Pop-up)
Lydia Mendoza	Ojos Tristes "Ojos Tristes" by "Lydia Mendoza"	1:48:19 (Pop-up)
Dead Moon	Unknown Passage (Crack In The System)	1:50:37 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	The Sounds of The Mid-Valley (Night)	2:01:27 (Pop-up)
John Lurie	Fish Dance (Inc.) "Fish Dance (Inc.)" by "John Lurie"	2:01:42 (Pop-up)
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	2:03:05 (Pop-up)
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	a song	1:52:46 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 7:51pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 8:54pm Arvo Zylo: hail satan mr. cab driver hallelujah
	8:57pm Imaginos: Ahoy me hearties!
	9:00pm laurapanic: the sound is back to normal now, phew.
	🎸 9:01pm Krys O.: Howdy!
	9:01pm Mr. X: hi
	9:02pm ramencity: deaaaaaaaaaaad /breathe/ Moooooooooon
	🎸 9:02pm Austin Rich: Nice to see ya'll, Arvo, Imaginos, laurapanic, Krys O, and Mr. X! Hopefully you're ready for some Ramen City Kid love, with another one of his excellent mix tapes! And there he is!
	9:03pm ramencity: Mourning Martin Phillipps of the Chills as he starts his unknown passage...
	9:03pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:02 Ramen City Kid always adds a new dimension to the show
	🎸 9:04pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:03 Oh no! I hadn't heard. That's awful. I have a few Chills songs I quite like.
	9:05pm Geoff-U: Happy Tuesday!
	9:05pm ramencity: He had hepatitis C for decades so it's kind of crazy he made it this far.
	9:05pm ramencity: ↳ Imaginos @9:03 Merci Imaginos! I didn't mean to infiltrate two weeks in a row, even, already
	9:06pm laurapanic: MORE MIX TAPES
	9:09pm Mr. X: I've been kind of obsessed with simulating the nature of mixtapes myself, lately. I've been limiting my digital playlists to 45 minutes, focused on a theme, a scene, or an era.
	🎸 9:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:09 That's smart! This week and last week have featured 90 minute cassettes, each week. There's something about that length that seems very perfect for the right kind of mix.
	9:11pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "Horse Heaven Hills" by "Mecca Normal" I just got some Jean Smith books in the mail today. This is my favorite Mecca Normal song. Oh LauraPanic, I pulled out that 2 Foot Flame record since last week, and rocked out while working last week
	🎸 9:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Dream of Sleeping Sheep" by "Eleventh Dream Day" As I get older, I love this band more and more. But I think that's also because I have more and more of their albums to listen to, now.
	9:13pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @9:10 My brain is hardwired to that length of time, due to so many jam sessions that ended abruptly when the tape ran out. I learned to anticipate it, to keep from getting cut off.
	🎸 9:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:13 There is something about tapes that started to infect the way people made art, and not always in the best ways. (The 45 Minute Limit being one.) But there are such breathtaking examples of cassette art that I keep finding, that makes me think cassettes will continute to be discovered for years and years to come.
	9:15pm wenzo: Howdee AR & radio Frenzz
	🎸 9:16pm Austin Rich: While there is a larger "cow punk" theme to this whole tape, we are dead in the middle of the cow punk set. As a "country mouse" who came to the city, I was sort of pre-disposed to like country music a bit, and was even an Uncle Tupelo fan in High School. So this kind of punk was PERFECT for me.
	🎸 9:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ wenzo @9:15 wenzo! Thanks for joining us! Sit down, and enjoy the digital salon!
	🎸 9:18pm univac: Well, Hello, there.
	🎸 9:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:18 univac! Hooray!
	🎸 9:18pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Austin Rich and mutants
	🎸 9:19pm univac: I loved making mixtapes for friends (and girlfriends) in the 80s. Crafted, I'd say.
	🎸 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Ft. Lewis" by "Richmond Fontaine" I never gave Richmond Fontaine a fair chance, in spite of having seen them live. I was immediately convinced that they were an Uncle Tupelo rip-off, and sort of looked down on them. Now I really love them, but I was a jerk about them at first.
	🎸 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:18 coelacanthø! The party is getting better and better!
	9:19pm ramencity: I like to imagine you go on a trip somewhere with a couple of mix tapes, and some kind of Vonnegut-Galapagos situation happens, and that is the only music left. How would that change your experience? (or if Arthur Dent found a duffle bag with a couple of his old mix tapes somewhere in interstellar space)
	🎸 9:19pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:19 Most of the tapes I made were given away! I really had to scrounge to find ones that I made myself.
	9:19pm Imaginos: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:18 Ahoy
	9:20pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 Our friend Honey took me to see them once in the middle of a lunar eclipse. it was one of the most magical shows I've ever been to
	🎸 9:20pm coelacanth∅: aloha, Imaginos!
	🎸 9:21pm coelacanth∅: hi ramencity kid!
	9:21pm Mr. X: It was also fun to decorate one's mix tapes with colored markers and collages cut from magazines and such.
	🎸 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:20 That was the show I was at, too; I was dating Honey at the time.
	🎸 9:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Wish I Was..." by "Blood On The Saddle" This is one of my favorite songs of all time.
	9:21pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:21 Mmmm.. ceolacanth ramen... so elusive... Howdy!
	9:22pm Imaginos: ↳ ramencity @9:19 The Arthur Dent theme might fit nicely eggs Shoe Event Horizon idea I was talking with Austin about yesterday
	🎸 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Wish I Was..." by "Blood On The Saddle" I first heard this song on KWVA, on "Your Mother's" show. I immediately called her (I already had a crush on her) and asked who this was. I later found both of their records. I never managed to make any headway with that DJ, in spite of seeing her out at bars and shows. Oh well...
	🎸 9:22pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:19 Yeah, sometimes I wish I had all those mixtapes back...a few times I did make a copy for myself. But, probably gave those away too...
	🎸 9:23pm univac: ↳ Mr. X @9:21 Exactly!
	9:23pm ramencity: I made a mix tape for Keanu Reeves for his birthday in 1992 (back when there was a book that published the STARS' agents addresses). I wonder if he ever got it. I think it had My Bloody Valentine and early Green Day on it...
	🎸 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:21 Agreed. I was never as good at it as I wanted to be, but I always tried.
	9:24pm ramencity: ↳ Imaginos @9:22 Yes! Arthur Dent's Mixtape! Ok yall have to do that.
	🎸 9:24pm univac: ↳ ramencity @9:23 Neat!
	🎸 9:25pm coelacanth∅: ↳ ramencity @9:21 er, won't ajitama do?! -or maybe some bonito flakes?!!
	🎸 9:25pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:21 That was a great song!
	🎸 9:25pm Krys O.: G'night, all!
	9:25pm Mr. X: Mixtape brand of choice: TDK SA 90s.
	🎸 9:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:25 Sleep well, Krys O!
	9:26pm Geoff-U: Speaking of camping - went to a camping house party at my friend's property by Champoeg State Park outside of Salem over the weekend. Forgot to change into long pants before I started drinking and ended up being a mosquito buffet.
	9:26pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:25 Were they the ones with the pie piece or spindle tape holder?
	🎸 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:25 I was not picky for a long time, but in my "workin' in the bookmines" days, there was a record store across the way, and I would buy the brand they sold, so I could flirt with the record store girls, who were both WAY out of my league. But... you know... I tried.
	9:27pm Geoff-U: Guessing those skeeters caught a nice secondhand buzz off my whiskey intake
	🎸 9:27pm univac: ↳ Mr. X @9:25 I liked those as well, but usually just bought whatever 5 pack of 90 or 120! was on sale. But always midlevel or above.
	🎸 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:27 Ha! That's always what I think when I'm camping.
	9:27pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:25 Mmm bonito flakes... or "kitty crack" as a coworker called it.
	🎸 9:28pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Geoff-U @9:26 feels good to be popular doesn't it!
	9:28pm Mr. X: ↳ Imaginos @9:26 I don't recall pie pieces or spindle holders, can you refresh my memory?
	9:29pm Imaginos: ↳ ramencity @9:27 Bonito flakes. Made for cats, but I like them, too. They're my Scooby snacks
	🎸 9:29pm coelacanth∅: i seem to've become much more popular with mosquitoes within the past year. -maybe they're lowering their standards.
	9:29pm ramencity: ↳ Imaginos @9:29 Yeah... fair nuff! Reminds me, I need to make some dashi tonight!
	9:30pm Imaginos: ↳ Mr. X @9:28 When you have to respond a tape was it the wedge shaped piece that was easy to click into place or the one that looked like a plastic needle
	9:31pm Imaginos: R e spool
	🎸 9:32pm coelacanth∅: do they sell bonito flakes for cats? they used to be very expensive (per pound) in the health food stores
	9:33pm Mr. X: Yes, amphibians and reptiles.
	9:33pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:32 I get them at the Asian supermarket...
	🎸 9:33pm univac: Our mixtapes are at: www.synthlab.org...
	🎸 9:34pm univac: Thanks Austin! We each did each year. Lots and lots of mixtapes! Each year curated by the contributors' experience.
	🎸 9:35pm coelacanth∅: ↳ ramencity @9:33 yes -'makes sense. wakame is another. like 1/3 the price.
	🎸 9:35pm univac: 1955-2023, but not everyone did the early ~1960 ones.
	🎸 9:37pm Austin Rich: I want a band called "Fish Ladders." That's such a great phrase.
	9:37pm ramencity: ↳ univac @9:35 I will have to check those out- that is a great idear!
	9:38pm ramencity: These samples between the songs makes me think of that Bob Hope / Bing Crosby promotional record "The Road to Minnesota"
	🎸 9:38pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:38 I don't know that one! I'll have to check it out.
	9:39pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "Ab Teqay Qerebi" by "Tewolde Redda" Eritrean cowpunk!
	🎸 9:40pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:39 This song is so good! It gets stuck in my head.
	🎸 9:43pm univac: Wow, live Tom Waits. Nice.
	🎸 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Semi-Suite (Live, KQRS)" by "Tom Waits" There's a part of me that wants him to play this song for a hour solid, just improvising and jamming.
	🎸 9:44pm Austin Rich: "One of those towns where the average age is deceased."
	🎸 9:44pm univac: This is so good.
	9:45pm Mr. X: "big Velveeta cheeseball"
	9:45pm Geoff-U: Good ole Tom
	🎸 9:45pm Austin Rich: The Ramen City Kid and I shelled out what was a lot of money in those days to see Tom Waits, and it was FANTASTIC. We wore suits and got drunk and sang along. It was great!
	🎸 9:45pm univac: They were so bored, the Police had to do a cardiac arrest.
	9:45pm ramencity: This makes me want to look up that episode of Fernwood Tonight w/ Tom Waits on it...
	9:45pm Daniel from PEI.: Loving the show and the reminiscing about mixtape,but I need to go to bed. Good night all. Goodnight Mr Waits
	🎸 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Daniel from PEI. @9:45 Sleep well, Daniel! Thanks for joining us.
	🎸 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @9:45 Fernwood Tonight just needs to be better seen, in general.
	🎸 9:48pm Austin Rich: I like this era of Tom Waits. My mom had his first album, and listened to it a lot. I assumed all of his albums were like this. I didn't realize that he had made a bit of a change in style in the 80's until I lived on my own, and friends started playing his other albums for me.
	🎸 9:49pm Austin Rich: "Growl."
	🎸 9:49pm univac: Yeah, he did go through some changes. I think it had a lot to do with him stopping drinking, maybe?
	🎸 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Dusk" by "Long Hind Legs" I think I know the KARP version of this song better than the original, of course, because I'm silly.
	9:50pm Geoff-U: Spotify's crummy payout politics aside, they have a "High Energy Workout Mix" which pulls from what you listen to, and it's put Waits' "Hell Broke Loose" on, which was a great motivator at the gym
	🎸 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:49 I think it was that, and he got married, and she was a good influence on him. And his albums got WEIRDER after he cleaned up. It's great!
	9:51pm ramencity: ↳ Geoff-U @9:50 Wow, that is crazy! They should blast it over the gym's PA
	9:52pm Geoff-U: *Hell Broke Luce
	🎸 9:52pm univac: ↳ Austin Rich @9:50 Yeah, true, weirder and better produced.
	9:53pm Barno in Akron: How do you do, fellow mutants?
	🎸 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Geoff-U @9:50 Yeah, I could imagine that is a good reason to keep going that extra mile. I was just on my exercise bike, trying to stay focused, before the show...
	🎸 9:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno in Akron @9:53 Barno! Thanks for joining us!
	9:54pm Mr. X: Rickie Lee Jones with Tom Waits is kind of like Laurie Anderson with Lou Reed. Weird matches made in heaven.
	9:54pm Barno in Akron: ↳ Austin Rich @9:53 Thanks for tickling my ears, Austin
	🎸 9:55pm Austin Rich: RIP Vern Rumsey, who was both Long Hind Legs and Red Rumsey, as well as the bass player for unwound. I met him once, and gave him a cigarette and a light after the show. He was very nice, but apparently, a bit troubled, too.
	🎸 9:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @9:54 That is true! A good observation.
	9:56pm David Shortell: ↳ ramencity @9:45 youtube.com...
	9:56pm ramencity: ↳ David Shortell @9:56 Thanks! That is what I'm going after this show then!
	🎸 9:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Night of The Vampire" by "Moontrekkers" This is one of my favorite songs of all time. I usually play it around Halloween, but when the Ramen City Kid puts it on a mix, you gotta listen! Halloween in July!
	🎸 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @9:56 Everyone should watch this video after the show!
	🎸 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Night of The Vampire" by "Moontrekkers" I get this stuck in my head ALL the time.
	9:59pm Barno in Akron: Just returned from a walk around the Highland Square area of Akron. We met a nice young couple, TR and Melinda, who were admiring my Ween shirt. We talked music for a bit. They recommended that I check out a musician by the name of Oliver Tree. I look forward to giving him a listen.
	🎸 10:03pm univac: ↳ Barno in Akron @9:59 Oliver Tree is amazing. There's a whole Ween-thing going on with new weird outsider post-music music. My youngest son (18) has turned me on to some over the years.
	10:04pm ramencity: "Semi Suite" is on "Heart of Saturday Night" /wellActually
	10:05pm Barno in Akron: ↳ univac @10:03 Awesome! Now I'm even more eager to hear it. They'd never heard of 100 gecs, so I traded that recommendation :)
	🎸 10:06pm univac: ↳ Barno in Akron @10:05 100 gecs is another recommend from my son. Love them too!
	🎸 10:08pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno in Akron @10:05 I impressed my nephew a bit by knowing who 100 Gecs were, largely because you play them often.
	🎸 10:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Johnny The Moondog" by "Cleaners From Venus" I got to interview Martin Newell, and a complete version of that interview has not aired anywhere, yet. I need to pull that interview and put it on this show someday. He's a very funny / clever man.
	10:10pm Mr. X: ↳ Barno in Akron @9:59 A conversation about Ween is what got me my first gig as a DJ on KWVA, 1995.
	🎸 10:11pm coelacanth∅: along with mixtapes i used to dub onto cassette any albums that i thought i'd be listening to a lot. i often put very different albums on each side (ie fear of music b/w Thelonious Monk; or tin huey b/w the firebird suite...) to be more able to satisfy the various musical desires with fewer tapes.
	10:11pm Barno in Akron: Taking off to pick up my son. I'll be listening from the car.
	10:11pm Imaginos: Getting tired. Going to get some sleep. Great show tonight
	10:11pm Mr. X: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:11 Tin Huey is an Akron band.
	10:11pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:11 Yes! I still have a tape a friend Eric made in the 90s that had Thelonious Monk on one side and Tom Waits on the other
	🎸 10:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:11 Sleep well! See ya next time.
	🎸 10:12pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Mr. X @10:11 Great, underappreciated band!
	🎸 10:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:11 I was noticing that some friends would make tapes with a mix on one side, and an album on the other side. It was a good way to get a little bet of both.
	10:13pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:12 Ok I will check them out when I'm not watching Fernwood Tonight tonight
	10:13pm Barno in Akron: ↳ Mr. X @10:10 I love KWVA - Listened all the time when we lived up the hill from the University - I got to guest host a show there once. I love Rev Marc Time's Sunday Morning Hangover
	🎸 10:13pm Austin Rich: "Here we go again..."
	10:14pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: "I Am A Dalek" by "Art Attacks" Exterminate!
	🎸 10:14pm coelacanth∅: ↳ ramencity @10:11 that works! tchau Imaginos and Barno!
	🎸 10:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Devil Is My Friend" by "Jazz Butcher" I get this song stuck in my head ALL THE TIME.
	10:15pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @10:14 This is my favorite song ever. A good thing to sing while doing chores
	🎸 10:15pm Austin Rich: (We're back in the cow punk part of the show.)
	10:15pm Barno in Akron: ↳ Mr. X @10:11 We just had a dinner date with Tin Huey's Harvey Gold and his sweetie, Dolli - Great people!
	🎸 10:15pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:15 I know this song because of you, of course.
	🎸 10:16pm Austin Rich: "Godziller is my friend."
	🎸 10:16pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @10:13 i don't think i ever set out to do that but it sometimes happened! i'd always fill the tape; so if it was a short album there might be many other songs also, before &/or after tha album/ep.
	10:17pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "Portland, Oregon" by "Loretta Lynn & Jack White" so this mixtape contains a fatal flaw (as all mixtapes do). There is a song by Dolly Parton called "Eugene Oregon" that was supposed to go after this, but I only had it on an mp3. Although - in retrospect, I could've just put a line out from my computer to the tapedeck? Live n learn!
	🎸 10:17pm Austin Rich: What are other mix-tape oddities you got from friends? I made a tape, once, of all the stuff that I usually put between songs on other tapes. I recall that one did not get a very good reaction, back then. (I have a copy of that one still, and it is a bit hard to listen to, agreed.)
	🎸 10:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:17 Next time!
	🎸 10:18pm Austin Rich: "I lost my mind, in Oregon." You and me both, kid.
	🎸 10:20pm coelacanth∅: i remember a ramones tape, rocket to russia, which i recorded while friends were over, partying. i had mic/line mixing on my cassette deck, so i faded up the mics between some songs, before & after each side, and kept them on through we're a happy family! then i happened to put something entirely different on the other side, Billie Holiday of something. that actually didn't work so well!
	10:20pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:17 I had a reputation for liking weird stuff. Once a friend gave me a tape with a Meltable Snaps It selection on it. Still trying to track down the title all these years later.
	🎸 10:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Darkness on the Face of the Earth" by "Willie Nel... Willie is just the best. He and I share a birthday. I don't like them all, but I love so much of what he does. What a great dude.
	10:22pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:20 That works with "Happy Family!"
	🎸 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:20 That sounds like a tape I would love!
	🎸 10:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:20 Are we still gonna do that "unidentified songs" show?
	🎸 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Darkness on the Face of the Earth" by "Willie Nel... I think about this song a lot, lately. Because it feels like there is Darkness On The Face of The Earth, everywhere, these days.
	10:23pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 Oh yes, it's coming together.
	🎸 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Border Radio" by "The Blasters" I was able to think of two movies in the John Doe Film Festival: Border Radio Roadside Prophets But what's the third movie where he has a prominent role?
	🎸 10:24pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @10:22 i have a few as yet unidentified songs, recorded off wfmu in the 80s. songs i really Love.
	10:24pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "Border Radio" by "The Blasters" Does anyone else remember the movie this is from (also called 'Border Radio') - I haven't seen it in ages. I get it mixed up with 'Roadside Prophets' in my head
	10:24pm ramencity: Jinx!
	🎸 10:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:23 I think I have a couple left, but most of them I've figured out, thanks to the internet.
	10:25pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 John Doe has a pretty long imdb page - he was on an episode of Party of Five!
	🎸 10:26pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:25 I guess the question is: did he have a prominent role? He's in "Road House," too, but only in a few scenes, and he's the bartender that's stealing from the till!
	10:26pm ramencity: ...speaking of which: the new (supposedly last?) X album just showed up on my doorstep today
	10:27pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:23 "Georgia" with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Mare Winningham. I haven't seen it in 29 years.
	🎸 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:26 I still need to get it. The last one was SOOO GOOD!
	🎸 10:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:27 Oh, wow! I don't know that one.
	10:30pm laurapanic: had a thing. Back now.
	10:31pm ramencity: Apologies to my friend Slavko for the pro-Bulgarian propaganda on that picture on the tape cover - it's the town he's from, Demir Kapija, which is in Macedonia not Bulgaria!
	10:32pm ramencity: Real Genius
	🎸 10:33pm Heather: Popping in to say hi! Been bustling but enjoying the show as I bustle!!
	10:33pm ramencity: ↳ Heather @10:33 Thanks for bustlin' and hustlin'!
	🎸 10:34pm Austin Rich: Thanks for poppin' in.
	🎸 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:31 Hopefully he'll forgive you. He's a nice guy; that seems likely.
	10:34pm Mr. X: ↳ laurapanic @10:30 wb
	10:35pm David Shortell: ↳ ramencity @10:25 So I see. I forgot he was in "Sugar Town". That fine 1999 film also featured Jeff McDonald of Redd Kross, whom I saw last week for the first time in about 30 years.
	🎸 10:35pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:35 I bet Redd Kross is still pretty good?
	10:37pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:35 Quite.
	🎸 10:40pm Austin Rich: I have to admit: the idea of watching three movies in one day sounds exhausting. I used to do it a lot, and I even minored in film. But I usually have about one movie in me, and then I need to think about it for a while. I think college sort of ruined all art for me, because I need to Lit Crit everything afterward, to figure out what I "think" about it.
	🎸 10:41pm Austin Rich: This might be the most Reggae and Reggae-adjacent music I've played on this show in a while.
	10:41pm ramencity: I just got the Satantango blu-ray - now I just need a free 7 1/2 hours...
	🎸 10:41pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Song: "Life of Contradiction" by "Joe Higgs" Joe Higgs' album "blackman know yourself" was huge for me back in the day. going through a breakup, some of those songs killed me!
	🎸 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:41 Or, you can watch it in 15, 30 minutes installments? Like "Satantango" The TV Show?
	10:42pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:41 ooh, I just have this one album (and a 7" or two) -- I need to check that out.
	🎸 10:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:41 I'll have to check it out! Thanks for the tip. Sad songs are my jam lately.
	🎸 10:43pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Song: "Hold Down" by "Kingstonians" ...and this! their earlier song, sufferer (that this is a formula of!) was also huge for me JUST BECAUSE IT'S SO GREAT!
	10:44pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:43 Yeah, the Kingstonians miiight just be my favorite rocksteady/early reggae vocal group.
	🎸 10:44pm coelacanth∅: ↳ ramencity @10:42 (also had a worthy cover of "small axe")
	🎸 10:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Reconsider Me" by "Johnny Adams" I love the singing on this one. It's SOOO good.
	10:48pm ramencity: ↳ Song: "Mujo Kujo Konie Po Mjeseca" by "Zaim Imamović" My fave Sarajevo "sevdalinka" singer - his grandson Damir Imamović has an album out that is meant to be a soundtrack to the latest Alexander Hemon book - still need to listen to that...
	10:48pm Mr. X: We can always count on getting a multi-ethnic education from RCK. Loving the variety of selections here.
	🎸 10:48pm coelacanth∅: dumbass that i am, i'm off to work now. Thanks y'all, Great program! 'night
	🎸 10:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:48 Good luck! We'll see ya next time.
	10:48pm ramencity: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:48 Have fun storming the castle!
	🎸 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:48 I have a 90's tape that he made me that proves that has ALWAYS been the case. Well, maybe not when he was five. But for the most part.
	10:50pm ramencity: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 I was super into my parents' Perez Prado record when I was lil kiddo at least
	🎸 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ ramencity @10:50 That's because Perez Prado rules! I had never heard him, growing up, or even until you played him for me. But I think it wasn't until I started really record shopping in a major way, that I started buying his records. I really love his stuff! What a cool dude.
	🎸 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Unknown Passage (Crack In The System)" by "Dead M... I'm very grateful to have seen Dead Moon as much as I did when I could. I could have seen them more, and I should have. But at least I saw them as much as I did.
	10:55pm Mr. X: ↳ Song: a song The 2020 camp-out was going to be in the Wallowas, then? Lovely area. Family went camping there when I was a kid. Took my first ride on horseback (of two total) on that trip.
	10:56pm Mr. X: Great show, Ramen City and Austin! Lots of stuff for me to explore further.
	10:57pm ramencity: Thanks X! I am looking forward to your bug-out!
	10:57pm Barno in Akron: Thank you, Austin! Fun show as always :)
	11:00pm laurapanic: MORE MIX TAPES
	11:01pm ramencity: Oh, yes, a Cheryl mixtape is DE RIGEUR!
	🎸 11:02pm Austin Rich: We watched so much Fishing With John in the 90's.
	🎸 11:04pm Austin Rich: Thanks everyone! See ya next week.
	11:04pm Geoff-U: I gotta head out, thanks for the great show!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from July 30, 2024

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