WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 22, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 4:19pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:00pm Krys O.: Howdy!
	9:00pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:00 Lovely to see you in the chat!
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:00 Thanks for tuning in!
	9:01pm laurapanic: here for my creature comforts
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:01 We suspect you will be... comforted?
	9:04pm Imaginos: Isn't that Peer Gynt?
	9:05pm postconsumer: ok what was that
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:04 I don't think so?
	9:05pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 Hmm...
	9:05pm postconsumer: can AI already do THAT?
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @9:05 Sort of? (If you are patient.)
	9:06pm postconsumer: Sounded quite coherent. You input anything at all? any audio?
	👻 9:07pm univac: Hello, all. This is incredible Austin!
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @9:06 Yeah, you can give it lyrics for the "voice" to sing, and patiently explain the kind of "music" you'd like behind. And then patiently refresh a million times until it actually sound like anything worth putting on the air.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:07 univac! Hooray! I love it when you drop by.
	9:08pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 It can be fun
	👻 9:08pm univac: Loving this!
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 It can be. But I'm picky, so I get really particular about which generations I use. I guess I can but, these days.
	9:11pm postconsumer: been listening to a lot of this kind of thing, lately, for a new mix. Love it a lot.
	9:15pm Imaginos: I'm sending my army to battle the monsters
	👻 9:16pm univac: I'm huddling in my studio. Giant radioactive mosquitos have been slowly corkscrewing their way in. I have my kerosene-flamethrower contact-mic'd and ready to go!
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: Good to know! I'll make sure to report these at the next talk break!
	👻 9:21pm univac: Beware! There is talk that they're heading your way too!
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "She's My Witch" by "Kip Tyler" I like how these songs from the late 50's are supposedly describing "scary" witches, but I can't help but think, "Aren't they just describing independent goth girls?"
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Witch Hunt" by "The Spits" One of my favorite albums of 2003.
	👻 9:23pm univac: lol
	👻 9:23pm univac: Re: your goth ref.
	9:24pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 I would say definitely
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:23 Ha! I'm like, "You think a witch is scary? I know girls that will eat you alive, sir. And you will LOVE it."
	9:26pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 Old Nancy was an impressive witch in her day
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:26 She really was.
	👻 9:27pm Heather Z: Reporting from Rochester NY: we're infested with witches. Can't shake a broomstick without hitting one of us so maybe people could quit swinging broomsticks already? We're getting tired of it!
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Blood Witch" by "Melvins" The metalhead kid I was as a youth will never stop loving the Melvins.
	👻 9:29pm univac: Hello Heather!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "You Must Be A Witch" by "The Lollipop Shoppe" For any Dead Moon fans out there: this is a Fred Cole band from his youth. Lollipop Shoppe had a cut on the infamous Nuggets comp.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:27 I have never swung a broom at anything but dirt. You don't want to ruin those bristles! A good broom is hard to find.
	👻 9:31pm Heather Z: ↳ univac @9:29 Hi univac!!!
	9:32pm coelacanth∅: greetings Austin Rich, monsters
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:32 Coelacanthø! Hopefully the monsters aren't plaguing you in your area...
	9:35pm Imaginos: Zombies. No problem. I will just turn into my star-vulture form and do as vultures do
	9:36pm Hunterian: Salutations Monsters, Mid-Valley Mutants
	9:40pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @9:33 well... no more than usual. i've learned to not watch as they attempt to park their motor vehicles.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Look A Ghost" by "unwound" I just saw unwound again, along with Steel Pole Bathtub, and Clickitat Ikatowi. It was incredible; unwound is still VERY good, over 30 year later. It was amazing to see Clickitat Ikatowi. Since the bands that came after have lost band members, it's the closest I'll ever come to seeing Drive Like Jehu or Hot Snakes ever again. Totally amazing show.
	9:45pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "Ghosts" by "Shellac" h god I haven't listened to shellac since we lost him. I haven't heard the new album, even though I bought a copy . Maybe I'm ready now.....
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Ghosts" by "Shellac" In the year 2000, when this came out, I listened to this record almost endlessly, as part of my "moving to Portland" soundtrack.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:45 I haven't listened yet. I saw them a few times live, and I'm sort of flummoxed that it won't happen again. What a live show!
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: Damn! Lost connection for a second! Sorry about that. I'll post a pristine copy to the archive, later.
	9:48pm Hunterian: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 Fantastic selection, and now of course I'm going to have Conan O'Brien's "In the year 2000" in my head until further notice.
	9:48pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 The hungry beast must be caught in the signal
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: I used to try and play bass like this. I don't think any other person alive can. Weston is a monster on bass.
	9:49pm laurapanic: great set.....
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Ghosts Will Burn" by "Parts & Labor" I was so obsessed with this band when they first got going. I listened to this album over and over again. And then... I never kept up with them. For all I know, they put out an album this year and I just don't know. But I really like their first two albums.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:49 I had a good time piecing this one together, trying to play some stuff I don't usually include in my Halloween sets.
	9:52pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:51 90s noise rock and I'm sucked in at any time of year
	👻 9:52pm univac: ↳ Song: "Ghosts Will Burn" by "Parts & Labor" This is a great song! Never heard them. Thx!
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:52 I have new respect for Steel Pole Bathtub, after seeing them live. Those guys are epic noise rock, and I only knew them from compilations. Now I'm obsessively piecing together their back-catalog. Their HEAVY use of samples and weird basslines has sold me completely.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:52 They were a great band for a while. I should look into what happened to them. Maybe there's more albums I would also like?
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "A Ghostly Story" by "Daniel Johnston" I got to see Daniel a few times back in the day, mostly on his second wave of fame. (Never saw him in the 90's.) His shows were always uneven, and sort of weird, because you could tell he was sort of having a hard time with crowds and people he didn't know. I'm glad I got to see him play, but it was definitely a weird kind of show. I'm not sure he was ever together enough to tour and play live regularly, but I do have a fondness for his records.
	👻 9:59pm univac: I saw Steel Pole Bathtub in Long Beach, CA back in 1990-91 at a show we put on at the back of a large bookstore. I projected 16mm and Super 8 on the large brick wall. Fun times!
	👻 9:59pm univac: It was outdoor, by the way. And a great show!
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:59 That's rad! I saw them the other day, and they were loud, and epic, and the samples were very well chosen / played. It sort of reminded me of how confrontational those Butthole Surfers shows used to be, back when I first saw them. They were great!
	10:00pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. Must be all those tasty zombies
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:00 Thanks for doing your part! If you need to rest, by all means! We'll connect again.
	10:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:01 See you in the future.
	👻 10:02pm univac: ↳ Imaginos @10:00 Eat 'em up, yum!
	👻 10:07pm univac: Yikes!! Always backup!
	10:08pm laurapanic: I'm lurking, reading papers and stuff
	10:08pm laurapanic: I;m in australia, zombie apocalypse has not yet hit
	👻 10:09pm univac: I'm a professional.
	10:13pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 I saw Steel Pole Bathtub once at Maxwell’s. The great New Brunswick group Destroy All Bands opened for them. They called it quits over 30 years ago without commercially releasing anything. Their singer died in 2019.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: I love that the Digital Salon is full of Steel Pole Bathtub Boosters! "It's not class or ideology Colour creed or roots The only thing that unites us Is our SPB LPS."
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: I've mentioned this before, but the AI songs are not that easy to make, if you want them to sound good, or say anything specific. suno.com allows you to put in your own lyrics if you don't like the ones it generates for your, and you can get fairly specific when you try to tell it what kind of music you want it to make. It's not "AI Music" precisely. These kinds of services are mostly geared toward going viral, or being a hit with younger audiences, so trying to get them to replicate "vintage" song styles isn't really their first idea. You have to keep saying stuff like, #vintage #1930s #OldTimey, etc.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: After a point, you're writing a song, just using a tool to help.
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "I'm The Wolf" by "Howlin' Wolf" If Captain Beefheart was not feeling coy about interviews, he would usually say that his biggest influence is Howlin' Wolf. In terms of vocal delivery, that seems VERY evident.
	10:27pm David Shortell: I’m surprised we didn’t hear R. Dean Taylor’s “There's A Ghost In My House”. The Fall covered that. Last week you had song blocks for zombies, Frankenstein monsters and vampires. This week has been about witches, ghosts and werewolves. How many songs about mummies are there? I can only think of Bob McFadden & Dor’s “I’m a Mummy”. The Fall covered that too!
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:27 I think I can get almost 30 minutes of Mummy songs if I REALLY stretch, but yeah, they are a monster with a deficit of songs about them. I was thinking about trying to write a Mummy song, but I haven't cracked the code yet.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:27 I love that there is so much Fall out there to discover. Every so often someone tells me their fave Fall album, and I usually don't know it! It's a good way to filter out the less good Fall albums.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Red Riding Hood And The Wolf" by "Bunker Hill" I REALLY love the Bunker Hill songs. He was so excellent.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 The backing singers prove that he was distorting his vocals intentionally, to some degree. They sound great; he's distorted.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Wolfman Will Get Jealous" by "Girls On Fire" Girls On Fire / Leslie Singer has been making experimental sound art since the early 80's. Some of her recordings are more intense and wild that anything Merzbow was doing in those days. She's still making music, and each release is wild and excellent. I recommend her work.
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Hungry Wolf" by "X" I like how this X album sounds like they are inventing how you write songs all over again. It's such a weird - but incredible - X album.
	👻 10:45pm univac: That's awesome your show went so well and Watt enjoyed it!
	10:46pm Barno in Akron: Been wurking and lurking for the entire show. Fun stuff, Austin!
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:45 Watt's Tour Diary! He called my set a "Mind Movie." hootpage.com...
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno in Akron @10:46 Thanks Barno! Glad to hear you're around.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Creature Without A Head" by "Lenny And The Sq... Year's later, and I'm still trying to track down a copy of this record. Someday...
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Creature (From Outer Space)" by "The Jay Hawks" This record rules so hard! I would love to find a copy of this someday.
	10:51pm Mr. X: ...Last minute login ...
	👻 10:51pm univac: Great stuff! Thx much Austin! See you tomorrow night (virtually). Gotta run!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:51 Mr. X! My Human Dinosaur co-conspirator! You are a big part of why the show went so well yesterday! Thanks again!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:51 See ya tomorrow!
	👻 10:52pm univac: I can't wait to hear the recordings. You did record, right?
	10:53pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:52 Taking a bow. But man, am I wiped out today.
	👻 10:53pm univac: We'll talk tomorrow. See ya!
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:52 Oh yes. Got video too. There's a few moments missing from the second band, and I didn't get the video up for Watt's trio right away. But otherwise: I got a lot.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:53 Yeah. I had to work today, and I was BEAT.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Creature With The Atom Brain" by "Roky Erickson a... While I LOVE those 13th Floor Elevators records, this project was VERY good too, and I find this Aliens album to be VERY listenable.
	10:57pm Mr. X: ↳ univac @10:52 Thanks for your interest!
	10:57pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 It comes with a poster. Christopher Guest plays on it, using the name Nigel Tufnel. 5 years later, he reused that name for the character he played in "This is Spinal Tap".
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:57 One of the several reasons I've been curious! I'm sure it's obvious that I ADORE Spinal Tap. I used to watch that far too often back in the day, and my roommates would occasionally intervene, telling me I'd seen it too much. But it's so good!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Creature From The Black Leather Lagoon" by "T... I bought this album shortly after I lived on my own for the first time, and there's something about owning a Cramps album that feels very adult, in certain ways.
	👻 11:03pm Heather Z: I've been working late and tuned in! Thanks for making my work night way more enjoyable than it would have been!
	11:03pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 the BEST
	11:04pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "The Creature Without A Head" by "Lenny And The Sq... I saw a one-man enactment of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” yesterday. I spoke with the actor about how Tim Burton’s 1999 movie virtually threw out the Irving book and just did an homage to Hammer Horror. Somebody recently bought that English studio in the hopes of reviving it. If he wants to use the late Peter Cushing, “Rogue One” shows that it’s possible!
	11:09pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @11:04 Yeah, why stop with Cushing? Digitally resurrect Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Dwight Frye, Karloff, Lugosi, the Chaneys--everybody!
	11:15pm coelacanth∅: people have a great capacity to adapt to whatever is forced upon them. even if it kills them.
	👻 11:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:15 There is that, too. Yeah, let's not kill each other, if we can. (I know that's all that some folks live for, but really... can we not?)
	👻 11:17pm Austin Rich: (Oh, yeah. The chat might drop to the bottom any minute now. So... we'll be down there, if that happens.)
	11:20pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @11:17 I can stay with that wild ride!!
	11:21pm laurapanic: Definitely need a coffee if we are keeping going.....
	11:21pm coelacanth∅: mitch might like having a memory wipe. at least while it's happening.
	👻 11:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @11:21 We've got about 11 more mintues...
	👻 11:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:21 Sometimes, I imagine what it might be like to forget everything... that sort of sounds magical, in some ways.
	11:23pm coelacanth∅: only problem being you'd have no memory of how good it felt!
	👻 11:23pm Austin Rich: I didn't realize Mr. Fab had a pet Xenomorph.
	👻 11:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Great Pumpkin Waltz" by "Vince Guaraldi" For 20 years now, I have played a version of this song at least once, near the end of one of my Halloween shows, every year. It doesn't feel like October until I hear this song.
	11:26pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @11:23 but who doesn't? 1.6 offsprings, xenomorph, white picket fence...
	11:26pm Mr. X: Seems like there were at least a dozen of those Peanuts holiday specials. But only the first few were really memorable, if you ask me.
	👻 11:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:26 Living the dream, for sure.
	👻 11:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:26 Agreed. I like that Halloween one, and that Christmas one is mostly okay. But the others have diminishing returns, for sure.
	👻 11:28pm Austin Rich: I keep forgetting to add Leander to the denizens of the Mid-Valley! Hopefully soon...
	11:28pm Mr. X: Thanks for the show, Austin. Looking forward to hearing the parts I missed from the archive. Rest well tonight, you've earned it.
	11:28pm David Shortell: ↳ Mr. X @11:26 The one between the Xmas and Halloween specials, "Charlie Brown's All Stars!", hasn't been shown since 1971.
	👻 11:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:28 I had / have an LP of that when I was a kid. It's in terrible shape now, though.
	11:29pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Mr. X @11:26 our family watched the original one every year, (as a family) and i still Love it. i watched part of a newer peanuts halloween a few years ago and had to turn it off. it was soiling my Love.
	👻 11:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:29 Yikes! I will have to not see that.
	👻 11:30pm Austin Rich: But if there's still AI songs on Sheena's... OH NO!
	11:30pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Austin!
	👻 11:30pm Heather Z: These AI songs..ah my heart. I love them!!! Good night, all!!! And thanks for another great show!!!
	👻 11:31pm Austin Rich: See ya'll next time! Thanks again.
	👻 5:29am Arvo Zylo: Glad the show with Watt went well! He said that there was a sheep outside Haugen's house? Will check this archive, sorry to miss it in real time limbo.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 22, 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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October 22, 2024: Blocks And Blocks of Monster Rocks! (Part 2 of 2) (Halloween Spooktacular 2024!)

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
HOUR 4 "HOUR 4"
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Halloween Atmosphere Part 7	Halloween Spooktacular 2024	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024
Witch, Please. "Witch, Please."
The Sonics	The Witch "The Witch" by "The Sonics"	Here Are The Sonics	Etiquette Records	1965	0:08:37 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Halloween Atmosphere Part 8	Halloween Spooktacular 2024	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	0:15:11 (Pop-up)
Dave Gardner	Mad Witch "Mad Witch" by "Dave Gardner"	"Mad Witch" b/w "Love Is My Business"	OJ Records ‎	1957	0:18:57 (Pop-up)
Kip Tyler	She's My Witch "She's My Witch" by "Kip Tyler"	"She's My Witch" b/w "Rumble Rock"	Ebb Records	1958	0:21:21 (Pop-up)
The Spits	Witch Hunt "Witch Hunt" by "The Spits"	The Spits	Dirtnap Records	2003	0:23:35 (Pop-up)
Melvins	Blood Witch "Blood Witch" by "Melvins"	(A) Senile Animal	Ipecac Recordings	2006	0:26:40 (Pop-up)
The Lollipop Shoppe	You Must Be A Witch	"You Must Be A Witch" b/w "Don't Close The Door"	UNI Records	1968	0:29:26 (Pop-up)
Krys O	"Moster Attacks?" ""Moster Attacks?"" by "Krys O"				0:32:03 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Halloween Atmosphere Part 9	Halloween Spooktacular 2024	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	0:34:39 (Pop-up)
Spooky! "Spooky!"
unwound	Look A Ghost "Look A Ghost" by "unwound"	Leaves Turn Inside You	Kill Rock Stars.	2001	0:42:41 (Pop-up)
Shellac	Ghosts "Ghosts" by "Shellac"	1000 Hurts	Touch & Go Records	2000	0:45:40 (Pop-up)
Parts & Labor	Ghosts Will Burn "Ghosts Will Burn" by "Parts & Labor"	Mapmaker	Jagjaguwar	2007	0:49:11 (Pop-up)
Ty Segall	Ghost "Ghost" by "Ty Segall"	Twins	Drag City Records	2012	0:52:55 (Pop-up)
Daniel Johnston	A Ghostly Story "A Ghostly Story" by "Daniel Johnston"	Artistic Vice	Shimmy Disc Records	1991	0:56:49 (Pop-up)
Crap Detectors	Ghosts "Ghosts" by "Crap Detectors"	Diseases On Display	By The Skin Of Our Teeth Records	1983	0:59:41 (Pop-up)
The Surfmen	The Ghost Hop "The Ghost Hop" by "The Surfmen"	"Paradise Cove" b/w "The Ghost Hop"	Titan Records		1:02:38 (Pop-up)
HOUR 5 "HOUR 5"
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Halloween Atmosphere Part 10	Halloween Spooktacular 2024	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	1:06:21 (Pop-up)
Howlin' At The Moon "Howlin' At The Moon"
Round Robin	I'm The Wolfman "I'm The Wolfman" by "Round Robin"	"I'm The Wolf Man" b/w "Sit And Dance"	Domain Records	1965	1:20:06 (Pop-up)
Howlin' Wolf	I'm The Wolf "I'm The Wolf" by "Howlin' Wolf"	I'm The Wolf	Chess Records	1993	1:22:42 (Pop-up)
The Shindigs	Wolfman "Wolfman" by "The Shindigs"	"Wolfman" b/w "Thunder Reef"	Mustang Records	1964	1:25:18 (Pop-up)
Ray Harris	Lonely Wolf "Lonely Wolf" by "Ray Harris"	Sun: The Roots Of Rock: Volume 5: Rebel Rockabilly	Charly Records	1976	1:27:52 (Pop-up)
Bunker Hill	Red Riding Hood And The Wolf	"Nobody Knows" b/w "Red Ridin' Hood And The Wolf"	Mala	1962	1:30:35 (Pop-up)
Girls On Fire	The Wolfman Will Get Jealous	EC Split 1	Electronic Cottage	2020	1:32:41 (Pop-up)
X	The Hungry Wolf "The Hungry Wolf" by "X"	Under the Big Black Sun	Elektra Records	1982	1:34:09 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Halloween Atmosphere Part 11	Halloween Spooktacular 2024	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	1:37:55 (Pop-up)
Featured: Creature! "Featured: Creature!"
Lenny And The Squigtones	The Creature Without A Head	Lenny & Squiggy Present: Lenny And The Squigtones	Casablanca Records	1979	1:49:17 (Pop-up)
The Jay Hawks	The Creature (From Outer Space)	"The Creature" b/w "Everyone Should Know"	Alladin Records	1957	1:51:09 (Pop-up)
Roky Erickson and the Aliens	Creature With The Atom Brain	Roky Erickson And The Aliens	CBS Records	1980	1:53:50 (Pop-up)
Lord Luther	Teenage Creature "Teenage Creature" by "Lord Luther"	"Teenage Creature" b/w "Turn The Key"	Frantic Records	1958	1:57:55 (Pop-up)
The Cramps	The Creature From The Black Leather Lagoon	Stay Sick!	Enigma Records	1990	2:00:34 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Halloween Atmosphere Part 11	Halloween Spooktacular 2024	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024	2:03:46 (Pop-up)
Mr. Fab	's Final Message To Our Listeners.
Vince Guaraldi	The Great Pumpkin Waltz	It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (Original Soundtrack Recording)	Craft Recordings	2022
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Halloween Atmosphere Part 12	Halloween Spooktacular 2024	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024
Shadows In Blue	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations Closing Theme	Mid-Valley Mutations	2024

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Listener comments!
	👻 4:19pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	9:00pm Krys O.: Howdy!
	9:00pm Imaginos: Ahoy
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @9:00 Lovely to see you in the chat!
	👻 9:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:00 Thanks for tuning in!
	9:01pm laurapanic: here for my creature comforts
	👻 9:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:01 We suspect you will be... comforted?
	9:04pm Imaginos: Isn't that Peer Gynt?
	9:05pm postconsumer: ok what was that
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:04 I don't think so?
	9:05pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:05 Hmm...
	9:05pm postconsumer: can AI already do THAT?
	👻 9:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @9:05 Sort of? (If you are patient.)
	9:06pm postconsumer: Sounded quite coherent. You input anything at all? any audio?
	👻 9:07pm univac: Hello, all. This is incredible Austin!
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @9:06 Yeah, you can give it lyrics for the "voice" to sing, and patiently explain the kind of "music" you'd like behind. And then patiently refresh a million times until it actually sound like anything worth putting on the air.
	👻 9:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:07 univac! Hooray! I love it when you drop by.
	9:08pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:07 It can be fun
	👻 9:08pm univac: Loving this!
	👻 9:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:08 It can be. But I'm picky, so I get really particular about which generations I use. I guess I can but, these days.
	9:11pm postconsumer: been listening to a lot of this kind of thing, lately, for a new mix. Love it a lot.
	9:15pm Imaginos: I'm sending my army to battle the monsters
	👻 9:16pm univac: I'm huddling in my studio. Giant radioactive mosquitos have been slowly corkscrewing their way in. I have my kerosene-flamethrower contact-mic'd and ready to go!
	👻 9:18pm Austin Rich: Good to know! I'll make sure to report these at the next talk break!
	👻 9:21pm univac: Beware! There is talk that they're heading your way too!
	👻 9:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "She's My Witch" by "Kip Tyler" I like how these songs from the late 50's are supposedly describing "scary" witches, but I can't help but think, "Aren't they just describing independent goth girls?"
	👻 9:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Witch Hunt" by "The Spits" One of my favorite albums of 2003.
	👻 9:23pm univac: lol
	👻 9:23pm univac: Re: your goth ref.
	9:24pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:22 I would say definitely
	👻 9:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:23 Ha! I'm like, "You think a witch is scary? I know girls that will eat you alive, sir. And you will LOVE it."
	9:26pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:24 Old Nancy was an impressive witch in her day
	👻 9:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @9:26 She really was.
	👻 9:27pm Heather Z: Reporting from Rochester NY: we're infested with witches. Can't shake a broomstick without hitting one of us so maybe people could quit swinging broomsticks already? We're getting tired of it!
	👻 9:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Blood Witch" by "Melvins" The metalhead kid I was as a youth will never stop loving the Melvins.
	👻 9:29pm univac: Hello Heather!
	👻 9:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "You Must Be A Witch" by "The Lollipop Shoppe" For any Dead Moon fans out there: this is a Fred Cole band from his youth. Lollipop Shoppe had a cut on the infamous Nuggets comp.
	👻 9:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Heather Z @9:27 I have never swung a broom at anything but dirt. You don't want to ruin those bristles! A good broom is hard to find.
	👻 9:31pm Heather Z: ↳ univac @9:29 Hi univac!!!
	9:32pm coelacanth∅: greetings Austin Rich, monsters
	👻 9:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:32 Coelacanthø! Hopefully the monsters aren't plaguing you in your area...
	9:35pm Imaginos: Zombies. No problem. I will just turn into my star-vulture form and do as vultures do
	9:36pm Hunterian: Salutations Monsters, Mid-Valley Mutants
	9:40pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @9:33 well... no more than usual. i've learned to not watch as they attempt to park their motor vehicles.
	👻 9:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Look A Ghost" by "unwound" I just saw unwound again, along with Steel Pole Bathtub, and Clickitat Ikatowi. It was incredible; unwound is still VERY good, over 30 year later. It was amazing to see Clickitat Ikatowi. Since the bands that came after have lost band members, it's the closest I'll ever come to seeing Drive Like Jehu or Hot Snakes ever again. Totally amazing show.
	9:45pm laurapanic: ↳ Song: "Ghosts" by "Shellac" h god I haven't listened to shellac since we lost him. I haven't heard the new album, even though I bought a copy . Maybe I'm ready now.....
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Ghosts" by "Shellac" In the year 2000, when this came out, I listened to this record almost endlessly, as part of my "moving to Portland" soundtrack.
	👻 9:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:45 I haven't listened yet. I saw them a few times live, and I'm sort of flummoxed that it won't happen again. What a live show!
	👻 9:47pm Austin Rich: Damn! Lost connection for a second! Sorry about that. I'll post a pristine copy to the archive, later.
	9:48pm Hunterian: ↳ Austin Rich @9:46 Fantastic selection, and now of course I'm going to have Conan O'Brien's "In the year 2000" in my head until further notice.
	9:48pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @9:47 The hungry beast must be caught in the signal
	👻 9:49pm Austin Rich: I used to try and play bass like this. I don't think any other person alive can. Weston is a monster on bass.
	9:49pm laurapanic: great set.....
	👻 9:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Ghosts Will Burn" by "Parts & Labor" I was so obsessed with this band when they first got going. I listened to this album over and over again. And then... I never kept up with them. For all I know, they put out an album this year and I just don't know. But I really like their first two albums.
	👻 9:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:49 I had a good time piecing this one together, trying to play some stuff I don't usually include in my Halloween sets.
	9:52pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @9:51 90s noise rock and I'm sucked in at any time of year
	👻 9:52pm univac: ↳ Song: "Ghosts Will Burn" by "Parts & Labor" This is a great song! Never heard them. Thx!
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @9:52 I have new respect for Steel Pole Bathtub, after seeing them live. Those guys are epic noise rock, and I only knew them from compilations. Now I'm obsessively piecing together their back-catalog. Their HEAVY use of samples and weird basslines has sold me completely.
	👻 9:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:52 They were a great band for a while. I should look into what happened to them. Maybe there's more albums I would also like?
	👻 9:58pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "A Ghostly Story" by "Daniel Johnston" I got to see Daniel a few times back in the day, mostly on his second wave of fame. (Never saw him in the 90's.) His shows were always uneven, and sort of weird, because you could tell he was sort of having a hard time with crowds and people he didn't know. I'm glad I got to see him play, but it was definitely a weird kind of show. I'm not sure he was ever together enough to tour and play live regularly, but I do have a fondness for his records.
	👻 9:59pm univac: I saw Steel Pole Bathtub in Long Beach, CA back in 1990-91 at a show we put on at the back of a large bookstore. I projected 16mm and Super 8 on the large brick wall. Fun times!
	👻 9:59pm univac: It was outdoor, by the way. And a great show!
	👻 10:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @9:59 That's rad! I saw them the other day, and they were loud, and epic, and the samples were very well chosen / played. It sort of reminded me of how confrontational those Butthole Surfers shows used to be, back when I first saw them. They were great!
	10:00pm Imaginos: Getting sleepy. Must be all those tasty zombies
	👻 10:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @10:00 Thanks for doing your part! If you need to rest, by all means! We'll connect again.
	10:01pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @10:01 See you in the future.
	👻 10:02pm univac: ↳ Imaginos @10:00 Eat 'em up, yum!
	👻 10:07pm univac: Yikes!! Always backup!
	10:08pm laurapanic: I'm lurking, reading papers and stuff
	10:08pm laurapanic: I;m in australia, zombie apocalypse has not yet hit
	👻 10:09pm univac: I'm a professional.
	10:13pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @9:44 I saw Steel Pole Bathtub once at Maxwell’s. The great New Brunswick group Destroy All Bands opened for them. They called it quits over 30 years ago without commercially releasing anything. Their singer died in 2019.
	👻 10:18pm Austin Rich: I love that the Digital Salon is full of Steel Pole Bathtub Boosters! "It's not class or ideology Colour creed or roots The only thing that unites us Is our SPB LPS."
	👻 10:21pm Austin Rich: I've mentioned this before, but the AI songs are not that easy to make, if you want them to sound good, or say anything specific. suno.com allows you to put in your own lyrics if you don't like the ones it generates for your, and you can get fairly specific when you try to tell it what kind of music you want it to make. It's not "AI Music" precisely. These kinds of services are mostly geared toward going viral, or being a hit with younger audiences, so trying to get them to replicate "vintage" song styles isn't really their first idea. You have to keep saying stuff like, #vintage #1930s #OldTimey, etc.
	👻 10:22pm Austin Rich: After a point, you're writing a song, just using a tool to help.
	👻 10:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "I'm The Wolf" by "Howlin' Wolf" If Captain Beefheart was not feeling coy about interviews, he would usually say that his biggest influence is Howlin' Wolf. In terms of vocal delivery, that seems VERY evident.
	10:27pm David Shortell: I’m surprised we didn’t hear R. Dean Taylor’s “There's A Ghost In My House”. The Fall covered that. Last week you had song blocks for zombies, Frankenstein monsters and vampires. This week has been about witches, ghosts and werewolves. How many songs about mummies are there? I can only think of Bob McFadden & Dor’s “I’m a Mummy”. The Fall covered that too!
	👻 10:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:27 I think I can get almost 30 minutes of Mummy songs if I REALLY stretch, but yeah, they are a monster with a deficit of songs about them. I was thinking about trying to write a Mummy song, but I haven't cracked the code yet.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:27 I love that there is so much Fall out there to discover. Every so often someone tells me their fave Fall album, and I usually don't know it! It's a good way to filter out the less good Fall albums.
	👻 10:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Red Riding Hood And The Wolf" by "Bunker Hill" I REALLY love the Bunker Hill songs. He was so excellent.
	👻 10:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @10:30 The backing singers prove that he was distorting his vocals intentionally, to some degree. They sound great; he's distorted.
	👻 10:33pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Wolfman Will Get Jealous" by "Girls On Fire" Girls On Fire / Leslie Singer has been making experimental sound art since the early 80's. Some of her recordings are more intense and wild that anything Merzbow was doing in those days. She's still making music, and each release is wild and excellent. I recommend her work.
	👻 10:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Hungry Wolf" by "X" I like how this X album sounds like they are inventing how you write songs all over again. It's such a weird - but incredible - X album.
	👻 10:45pm univac: That's awesome your show went so well and Watt enjoyed it!
	10:46pm Barno in Akron: Been wurking and lurking for the entire show. Fun stuff, Austin!
	👻 10:46pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:45 Watt's Tour Diary! He called my set a "Mind Movie." hootpage.com...
	👻 10:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Barno in Akron @10:46 Thanks Barno! Glad to hear you're around.
	👻 10:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Creature Without A Head" by "Lenny And The Sq... Year's later, and I'm still trying to track down a copy of this record. Someday...
	👻 10:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Creature (From Outer Space)" by "The Jay Hawks" This record rules so hard! I would love to find a copy of this someday.
	10:51pm Mr. X: ...Last minute login ...
	👻 10:51pm univac: Great stuff! Thx much Austin! See you tomorrow night (virtually). Gotta run!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:51 Mr. X! My Human Dinosaur co-conspirator! You are a big part of why the show went so well yesterday! Thanks again!
	👻 10:52pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:51 See ya tomorrow!
	👻 10:52pm univac: I can't wait to hear the recordings. You did record, right?
	10:53pm Mr. X: ↳ Austin Rich @10:52 Taking a bow. But man, am I wiped out today.
	👻 10:53pm univac: We'll talk tomorrow. See ya!
	👻 10:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ univac @10:52 Oh yes. Got video too. There's a few moments missing from the second band, and I didn't get the video up for Watt's trio right away. But otherwise: I got a lot.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @10:53 Yeah. I had to work today, and I was BEAT.
	👻 10:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Creature With The Atom Brain" by "Roky Erickson a... While I LOVE those 13th Floor Elevators records, this project was VERY good too, and I find this Aliens album to be VERY listenable.
	10:57pm Mr. X: ↳ univac @10:52 Thanks for your interest!
	10:57pm David Shortell: ↳ Austin Rich @10:49 It comes with a poster. Christopher Guest plays on it, using the name Nigel Tufnel. 5 years later, he reused that name for the character he played in "This is Spinal Tap".
	👻 10:59pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @10:57 One of the several reasons I've been curious! I'm sure it's obvious that I ADORE Spinal Tap. I used to watch that far too often back in the day, and my roommates would occasionally intervene, telling me I'd seen it too much. But it's so good!
	👻 11:00pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Creature From The Black Leather Lagoon" by "T... I bought this album shortly after I lived on my own for the first time, and there's something about owning a Cramps album that feels very adult, in certain ways.
	👻 11:03pm Heather Z: I've been working late and tuned in! Thanks for making my work night way more enjoyable than it would have been!
	11:03pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @11:00 the BEST
	11:04pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "The Creature Without A Head" by "Lenny And The Sq... I saw a one-man enactment of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” yesterday. I spoke with the actor about how Tim Burton’s 1999 movie virtually threw out the Irving book and just did an homage to Hammer Horror. Somebody recently bought that English studio in the hopes of reviving it. If he wants to use the late Peter Cushing, “Rogue One” shows that it’s possible!
	11:09pm David Shortell: ↳ David Shortell @11:04 Yeah, why stop with Cushing? Digitally resurrect Christopher Lee, Vincent Price, Dwight Frye, Karloff, Lugosi, the Chaneys--everybody!
	11:15pm coelacanth∅: people have a great capacity to adapt to whatever is forced upon them. even if it kills them.
	👻 11:17pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:15 There is that, too. Yeah, let's not kill each other, if we can. (I know that's all that some folks live for, but really... can we not?)
	👻 11:17pm Austin Rich: (Oh, yeah. The chat might drop to the bottom any minute now. So... we'll be down there, if that happens.)
	11:20pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @11:17 I can stay with that wild ride!!
	11:21pm laurapanic: Definitely need a coffee if we are keeping going.....
	11:21pm coelacanth∅: mitch might like having a memory wipe. at least while it's happening.
	👻 11:21pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @11:21 We've got about 11 more mintues...
	👻 11:22pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:21 Sometimes, I imagine what it might be like to forget everything... that sort of sounds magical, in some ways.
	11:23pm coelacanth∅: only problem being you'd have no memory of how good it felt!
	👻 11:23pm Austin Rich: I didn't realize Mr. Fab had a pet Xenomorph.
	👻 11:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Great Pumpkin Waltz" by "Vince Guaraldi" For 20 years now, I have played a version of this song at least once, near the end of one of my Halloween shows, every year. It doesn't feel like October until I hear this song.
	11:26pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Austin Rich @11:23 but who doesn't? 1.6 offsprings, xenomorph, white picket fence...
	11:26pm Mr. X: Seems like there were at least a dozen of those Peanuts holiday specials. But only the first few were really memorable, if you ask me.
	👻 11:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:26 Living the dream, for sure.
	👻 11:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr. X @11:26 Agreed. I like that Halloween one, and that Christmas one is mostly okay. But the others have diminishing returns, for sure.
	👻 11:28pm Austin Rich: I keep forgetting to add Leander to the denizens of the Mid-Valley! Hopefully soon...
	11:28pm Mr. X: Thanks for the show, Austin. Looking forward to hearing the parts I missed from the archive. Rest well tonight, you've earned it.
	11:28pm David Shortell: ↳ Mr. X @11:26 The one between the Xmas and Halloween specials, "Charlie Brown's All Stars!", hasn't been shown since 1971.
	👻 11:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ David Shortell @11:28 I had / have an LP of that when I was a kid. It's in terrible shape now, though.
	11:29pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Mr. X @11:26 our family watched the original one every year, (as a family) and i still Love it. i watched part of a newer peanuts halloween a few years ago and had to turn it off. it was soiling my Love.
	👻 11:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:29 Yikes! I will have to not see that.
	👻 11:30pm Austin Rich: But if there's still AI songs on Sheena's... OH NO!
	11:30pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Austin!
	👻 11:30pm Heather Z: These AI songs..ah my heart. I love them!!! Good night, all!!! And thanks for another great show!!!
	👻 11:31pm Austin Rich: See ya'll next time! Thanks again.
	👻 5:29am Arvo Zylo: Glad the show with Watt went well! He said that there was a sheep outside Haugen's house? Will check this archive, sorry to miss it in real time limbo.

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from October 22, 2024

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