MOVING RIGHT ALONG!

First of all, this blog is moving to that hep spot for the kids, the TUMBLR. All future show announcements and show recordings (er I think people call those things podcasts?) will be posted there.

Secondly, the show time is changing to 9pm-11pm EST Saturday nights, one hour early, to make room for Bill's new show, The Loud Hours, 11pm-1am!

September 13, 2014: EVIL

Yeah satan woo!



Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night (Uneasy Listening Theme Song)
Blue Oyster Cult - Career of Evil
Venom - In League with Satan
Hank Williams III - Straight to Hell
Sacrilege - Flight of the Nazgul
Silenced - Skin of Evil
Witchfinder General - Friends of Hell
Radar Brothers - Still Evil
ACDC - Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be
Danzig - Twist of Cain
RKL - Evil in You
Robert Johnson - Hellhound on My Trail
The Salt- Lucifer
Exciter - Mistress of Evil
Judas Priest - Deceiver
The Poppy Family - Where Evil Grows
Josh White - Evil Hearted Man
Statuesque - Bad Egg
Yardbirds - Evil Hearted You
The Sonics - He's Waiting
Slayer - Angel of Death
Trouble - The Tempter
The Cowsills - The Prophecy of Daniel and John the Divine
The Louvin Brothers - Satan Is Real
El Ritual - Satanas
St. John Green - Messages from the Dead
Th'Inbred - Satan Youth

September 6, 2014: Transportation!

I capped off a SUPER LONG SATURDAY with this lazy show about transportation. It turned out good, I think!

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night (Uneasy Listening Theme Song)

Ides of March - Vehicle

The Happiness Boys - Henry's Made a Lady Out of Lizzie

The Royal Guardsmen - Come on Down to My Boat

The Mummies - Test Drive

The Red Crayola - Hurricane Fighter Plane

Shellac - The Rambler Song

Halo Benders - Freedom Ride

Bob Dylan - When the Ship Comes In

Gene Autry - Riding Down the Canyon

Sailcat Motorcycle Mama

The Cowsills - Captain Sad and His Ship of Fools

Dave van Ronk - Georgie and the IRT

Neil Young -Long May You Run

The Third Rail - Boppa Doo Down Down

Deep Purple - Highway Star

Pink Floyd - Bike

Modern Lovers - Roadrunner

The Count Five - Double Decker Bus

Jimmie Rodgers - Waiting for a Train

Nasty Facts - Drive My Car

The Kinks - Drivin'

The Equals - Green Light

The Super Stocks - Street Machine

Giorgio - London Traffic

Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train

Beat Happening - Drive Car Girl

Bee Gees - Sinking Ships

Paul Revere & the Raiders - The Great Airplane Strike

The Monkees - Midnight Train

Queen - Bicycle Race

1910 Fruitgum Company - The Train

Poppy Family - That's Where I Went Wrong

Lee Dorsey - My Old Car

The Clancy Brothers - The Irish Rover

The Archies - Truck Driver

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - This Train

Fats Domino - I'm Walkin'

August 30, 2014: Labor!

Somehow, a lot of people don't seem to know that LABOR day is about... LABOR. And not just... beer or whatever. So this show attempts to clear that up a bit with some songs about labor history, work, economic inequities, and straight up Communism. Enjoy yr holiday hot dog, capitalist swine!

Playlist:

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night (Uneasy Listening Theme Song)

The New Singers - The Internationale

Godfathers - Birth, School, Work, Death

Ron Angel - Chemical Worker's Song

Chumbawamba - Fitzwilliam

Cast of Pins & Needles - It's Better with a Union Man

Proletariat - Religion is the Opium of the Masses

Sonny Boy Williamson - Trying to Get Back on My Feet Again

Pete Seeger - Homestead Strike Song

Louvin Brothers - I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow

Chumbawamba - One by One

Sara Ogan Gunning - I'm Going to Organize Baby

American Quartet - On the 5:15

Cast of the Pajama Game - Seven and a Half Cents

Gang of Four - Capital (It Fails Us Now)

Joe Glazer - The Preacher and the Slave

Chumbawamba - Idris Strike Song

Almanac Singers - Which Side Are You On

Lost Generation - Never Work

The Clash - Career Opportunities

Big Boys - Work

Caustic Christ - Government Job

Zounds - Subvert

Minutemen - The Product

Chumbawamba - The Triumph of General Ludd

Merle Travis - Sixteen Tons

Lee Dorsey - Working in a Coal Mine

Phil Ochs - Automation Song

The Pogues - Navigator

Woody Guthrie - Union Burying Ground

Chumbawamba - Diggers Song

Gil Scott-Heron - Three Miles Down

Earl Robinson - Joe Hill

Chumbawamba - Poverty Knock

The Almanac Singers - Union Maid

Poison Idea - Just to Get Away

August 23, 2014: COPS

A show about cops, in response to the police murder of Michael Brown and the subsequent militarized attacks on protesters in Ferguson, MO.



Playlist:
Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night (Uneasy Listening theme song)
Urban Waste - Police Brutality
AK-47 - The Badge Means You Suck
Doom - Police Bastard
Public Enemy - 911 is a Joke
Capital Scum - Police Patrol
Battalion of Saints - Cops are Out
The Equals - Police on My Back
Cheifs - Riot Squad
Afflicted - Here Come the Cops
Partisans - Police Story
Geto Boys - Crooked Officer
The Addiction - Copper
The Pist - Warning Shot
Burnt - Midland Park Police
KRS-One - Black Cop
The Freeze - Violent Arrest
Chumbawamba - The Police Have Been Wonderful
Deathreat - Courtesy Officer
Blitz - Nation on Fire
Black Flag - Police Story
Mercernarias - Policia
White Lie - Peace Officer
Subhumans (Canada) - Behind the Smile
Young Wasteners - Sirene Symphony
Dead Kennedys - Police Truck
Ohio Express - Up Against the Wall
Subhumans (UK) - Til the Pigs Come Round
Necros - Police Brutality
Poison Idea - The Badge
Citizens Arrest - Serve and Protect
Too $hort - I Want to Be Free
NOTA - Nightstick Justice
Social Circkle - Drunk Cop
Aus-Rotten - They Ignore Peaceful Protest
Regulations - Police Sirens
BGK - Police Crimes
Crucifix - Prejudice
OC - Constables
Agnostic Front - Blind Justice
Partisans - Bastards in Blue
Dils - National Guard
KRS-One - Sound of da Police
Funkadelic - Wake Up

Audio for August 9 show is posted!

This was a weird one! I had a super special guest, my husband Bill who is training for a show of his own on VFR. And that was really fun! But the recording came out all screwy so I actually re-recorded the whole dang thing (without Bill, he couldn't make it) because I am a maniac. And my show replays on Wednesday nights now and I just couldn't stand the thought of not having a new show to replay. So this is the slightly rethought, slightly more polished, do-over version! And it's all about crimes, and jail!



Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night
Judas Priest - Breaking the Law
The Robins - 10 Days in Jail
4 Skins - Jack the Lad
Neil Young - Tired Eyes
Mano Negra - I Fought the Law
Preston Wayne 4 - O.U.I.
2000 Maniacs - Psycho III
Dick Justice - Henry Lee
Humble Pie - 30 Days in the Hole
The Addiction - Criminal Youth
Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
The Wailers - Dirty Robber
Jack Acid - Jaywalking
Kasenetz-Katz Super Circus - Quick Joey Small
Los Saicos - Fugitive del Alcatraz
The Freeze - Trouble if You Hide
Anti-Nowhere League - Let's Break the Law
The Weirdos - Life of Crime
The Urinals - Ack Ack Ack Ack
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
ACDC - Jailbreak
Wanda Jackson - Riot in Cell Block #9
Richard Berry - The Big Break
Big Black - Things to Do Today
The Zombies - Care of Cell 44
Sonny Terry - It Takes a Chain Gang Man
The Smiths - Sweet and Tender Hooligan
The Ohio Express - Beg, Borrow and Steal
999 - Homicide
Combat 84 - Barry Prudom
Whyte Boots - Nightmare
English Dogs - Psycho Killer
Frank Hutchison - Stackalee
Channel 3 - I've Got a Gun
Dead Kennedys - Stealing People's Mail
Grand Funk Railroad - Inside Looking Out

 

This Saturday, August 9 on Uneasy Listening... Shake the crime stick!! It's songs about crime and jail! Let's go get some sushi and not pay, and then tune in for some tunes so rockin' they should be ILLEGAL!

Tune in from 10pm-12am EST at 103.3fm in the Pioneer Valley and www.valleyfreeradio.org/listen from anywhere!

Audio for the August 2 show has been posted!

Songs about summer!



Playlist:

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night (Uneasy Listening theme song)
Fastbacks - In the Summer
The Buoys - Sunny Days
Seompi - Summer's Coming on Heavy
The Fugs - How Sweet I Roamed from Field to Field
The Standells - Summer in the City
Danzig - Dirty Black Summer
The Cowsills - Indian Lake
The Barracudas - Summer Fun
Dead Milkmen - Beach Song
The Velvet Underground - Who Loves the Sun
The Drifters - Under the Boardwalk
Elton Motello - Pipeline
Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay
Naked Raygun - Surf Combat
Pavement - Summer Babe
Marianne Faithfull - Summer Nights
Jonathan Richman - That Summer Feeling
The Kinks - Sitting in the Midday Sun
The Ramones - Rockaway Beach
The Runaways - American Nights
Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues
TMA - Surf Nazis
Bruce & Terry - Summer Means Fun
The Monkees - The Door into Summer
Love - August
Agent Orange - Bloodstains
Beardsley - Summer Holiday
Fountains of Wayne - It Must Be Summer
Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band - Ukulele Lady
Nino Tempo & April Steves - Deep Purple
Half Japanese - Daytona Beach
Chad & Jeremy - A Summer Song
The Bangles - Bitchen Summer/Speedway
The Undertones - Here Comes the Summer
NOTA - Summer of 82
Red Cross - Annette's Got the Hits
Big Boys - PIL Beach
The Go Go's - Vacation
Brian Eno - On Some Faraway Beach

This Saturday, August 2 on Uneasy Listening - SUMMER!

Songs about summer, the beach, ice cream, sun tan lotion, generally summery things! 10pm-12am EST on Valley Free Radio, 103.3fm in the Pioneer Valley or www.valleyfreeradio/org from anywhere!


Post your requests here, or call in during the show at 413-585-1533!


The show will rebroadcast on Valley Free Radio at 11pm the following Wednesday!

July 26, 2014: Real People

It's songs about actual real people! 99% songs that name the person in question. Very few politicians because I already did a politician show.



Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night (Uneasy Listening theme song)
Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtenay
The Freeze - No Exposure
The Posies - Grant Hart (by request)
The Kinks - She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina
Black Randy and the Metrosquad - Marlon Brando
Misfits - Return of the Fly
The Pogues - Jesse James
Leadbelly - Blind Lemon
Billy Childish & the Blackhands - Louis Riel (by request)
Chumbawamba - The Triumph of General Ludd
The Carter Family - John Hardy was a Desperate Little Man
Vernon Dalhart - Lindbergh (The Eagle of the USA)
Walter Brennan - The Epic Ride of John H. Glenn
Chain Gang - Son of Sam
Child Molesters - Hillside Strangler
Adverts - Gary Gilmore's Eyes
Redd Kross - Charlie
Hollywood Squares - Hillside Strangler
JFA -Jodie Foster's Army
Kelly Harrell & the Virginia String Band - Charles Guiteau
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
Minutemen - Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs
Thee Hydrogen Terrors - All Andy Warhol Weekend
Van Morrison - Jackie Wilson Said
Candy Machine - Spotlight
Dicks - Marilyn Buck
Woody Guthrie - Pretty Boy Floyd
David Bowie - Andy Warhol
Raooul - Anna Joy
John Cale - Graham Greene
Oi Polloi - Willie MacRae
Nick Lowe - Marie Provost
Redd Kross - Linda Blair
Replacements - Alex Chilton
La Souris Delinguee - Marie-France
Theme from the Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
Stains - John Wayne was a Nazi
Chumbawamba - The Smashing of the Van
Your Mother - Hidden Bonus Track
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno

This Saturday, July 19 on Uneasy Listening - GHOSTS (lalalalalalalala) and other scary things! I am going to be pre-recording this show so I will be broadcasting from the PAST (currently it's the future, but by saturday it will be the past), exactly like a spooky ghost! I could even accidentally die and do the show from BEYOND THE GRAVE but I will try not to. If you have any requests, please post them because obviously I won't be in the station to take phone calls during the show!

Listen live from 10pm-12am Saturday night at 103.3fm in the Pioneer Valley or www.valleyfreeradio.org/listen worldwide!

If you miss the show, it will rebroadcast the following Wednesday at 11pm! And you can hear my Ramones show from last week TONIGHT at 11pm!

July 5, 2014: AMERICA!!!!

No, I didn't just have my wisdom teeth out, the mic was acting funny so the talking parts sound pretty... weird. But here are a bunch of songs about the USA, places in the USA, plus tributes to fireworks safety, Bobby Womack and Gerry Goffin!



Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night
Galaxie 500 - Fourth of July
Bratmobile - Cherry Bomb
The Drags - Explosives
Shadows of Knight - My Fire Department Needs a Fireman
The Monkees - Porpoise Song
Bobby Womack - Arkansas State Prison
Ill Repute - Clean Cut American Kid
The Four Preps - 26 Miles
The Impressions - This Is My Country
Rose Maddox - Philadelphia Lawyer
Cyanamid - NJ Is a Mall
Ohio Express - Sausalito
Eggs - Evanston, IL
Jim Kweskin - Crazy Words, Crazy Tune
Articles of Faith - American Dreams
Neil Young - Alabama
Emmylou Harris - Boulder to Birmingham
Bad Brains - Banned in DC
Woody Guthrie - Baltimore to Washington
Hank Ballard & the Midnighters - Kansas City
Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)
Parliament - Chocolate City
J.D. Short - Tennessee Peaches
G.R.I.M. - Old Towne Mall
Crazy Elephant - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'
Pagans - Cleveland Confidential
Them - Route 66
Sly & the Family Stone - Love and Haight
Dead Kennedys - Moon Over Marin
Lotte Lenya - Alabama Song
Louvin Brothers - Browns Ferry Blues
Naked Raygun - Only in America
Mott the Hoople - All the Way to Memphis
The Freeze - American Town
The Avengers - The Amerikan in Me
Shangri La's - Train to Kansas City
MC5 - Back in the USA

 

This Saturday, June 28 on Uneasy Listening - Should we talk about the weather? (yes) Should we talk about the government? (probly not) All songs about meteorological phenomena! Tune in Saturday from 10pm-12am EST at 103.3fm in the Pioneer Valley or www.valleyfreeradio.org/listen from anywhere in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE!

This Saturday, June 14 on Uneasy Listening: Nonsense!

 

This Saturday night, from 10pm-12am EST, it's ooh ee ooh ah ah ting tang walla walla bingbang! Songs with nonsense lyrics! Post your requests here, or call 413-585-1033 during the show! Listen live at 103.3 FM in the  Pioneer Valley or at www.valleyfreeradio.org/listen anywhere in the world!

This Saturday - People Who Died of Drugs!

Tomorrow, Saturday June 7 on Uneasy Listening from 10pm-12am EST - it's People Who Died! This month I will play the Middle Class (that guy died a while ago but it's been a while since I've done one of these shows) and I don't know what else, who else died since April? Any notable recent anniversaries? Post your suggestions here! Then it's on to music by people who died from drugs! An easy one!

Listen on the air at 103.3 fm in the Pioneer Valley or at www.valleyfreeradio.org/listen from anywhere!

This Saturday, May 31 on Uneasy Listening, rescheduled from last week - covers! Maybe even some covers of covers! Songs you didn't know were covers! Get in touch with your requests here, or call 413-585-1033 during the show. Tune in from 10pm-12am EST at 103.3 FM in the Pioneer Valley or www.valleyfreeradio.org/listen from anywhere in the entire universe that has internet access.

This week on Uneasy Listening - Engeland Swings!

This Saturday, May 17 on Uneasy Listening, it's songs all about YE OLDE ENGELANDE, cities in England, the Queen, etc due to it being my brother Ben's birthday this week (he lives in London)! Happy Birthday Ben!!!! Tune in live from 10pm-12am EST at 103.3FM in the Pioneer Valley or from anywhere in the entire world at www.valleyfreeradio.org/listen!

This week on Uneasy Listening - Gimme Some Money!

This Saturday, May 10 on Uneasy Listening, it's pledge drive time! So to celebrate, I'm doing a rockin' show all about MONEY, which is what Valley Free Radio wants. If you enjoy Uneasy Listening and the other awesome, unique programming that this listener-supported, volunteer-run, community radio station broadcasts, tune in and throw us a few bucks! Uneasy Listening airs from 10pm-12am EST on 103.3 FM in the Pioneer Valley, streaming live at www.valleyfreeradio.org/listen.

Even if you can't listen live, you can still donate at http://valleyfreeradio.org/donate/ 

This Saturday, April 12 on Uneasy Listening - songs about politicians! Of course there's going to be a boatload of Thatcher and Reagan songs, of which there exist a zillion, but I dug extra deep for songs about a bunch of other people too! Listen live from 10pm-12am Saturday night at www.valleyfreeradio.org/listen or on the air at 103.3 FM in the Pioneer Valley! Requests are welcome before or during the show!

This week on Uneasy Listening - murder most foul!!!

This Saturday, April 5 from 10pm-12am eastern, it's the monthly People Who Died show! This month, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Marvin Gaye's murder by his father, I'll be playing songs by people who were killed by other people! I'll also be paying tribute to Dave Gregg of DOA and my friend Jen's lab gecko Candida. Listen live at http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/listen or on the air on 103.3 FM in the Pioneer Valley! And feel free to get requests to me any way you like (phone, blog comment, facebook, ask me in person)!

This Saturday, March 22 on Uneasy Listening - I Like Food! Food Tastes Good!

Buttered popcorn, shortnin bread, sweet potatoes, potato chips and maybe even BANANA NUT CAKE! Uneasy Listening delves into the sticky subject of what we put into our digestive tracts. Yummy! Requests welcome before or during the show! This Saturday, March 22, from 10pm-12am EST. Streaming live at http://valleyfreeradio.org/listen or on the air at 103.3 FM in the Pioneer Valley!

This week's show - TOP SECRET

I have decided upon the theme for this week's show but it is a SECRET SURPRISE! Tune in to find out what it could possibly be - Saturday night, March 8 from 10pm-12am at http://www.valleyfreeradio.org/listen or 103.3 FM in the Pioneer Valley!

In Which You Help Rachel Pick a Show Theme!

This Saturday, March 8, on Uneasy Listening.... I dunno! I have a ton of ideas for shows but I haven't decided on one for this Saturday yet. Should I do songs about food? Songs about the apocalypse, maybe with some general cold war/arms race stuff mixed in? Cars and other modes of travel? Weather? Any suggestions, preferences, other ideas are welcome! I'll decide by tomorrow, I hope!

This Saturday, March 1, 10pm-12am on Uneasy Listening - the first installment of my monthly series, People Who Died! I'll be paying tribute to some noteworthy musicians who died in the last.... bit. Lou Reed, Pete Seeger, and Bob Casale, and anyone else I can think of. After that, the theme is SERIOUS AS A HEART ATTACK. Musicians who died of a heart attack or heart disease. Maybe some who died of "heart attacks" like Jim Morrison. But not Jim Morrison, yuck. Listen online at Valley Free Radio or over the air on 103.3 FM in the Pioneer Valley!

This Saturday, February 23 on Uneasy Listening - HARD TIMES! Songs about poverty, struggle, and plain old bad luck! Post your suggestions/requests here and tune in Saturday from 10pm-12am EST! Listen online at Valley Free Radio, or on the air at 103.3 FM in the Pioneer Valley!