WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 7, 2025

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 3:08pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 3:55pm Arvo Zylo: Hi!
	♥ 4:00pm Jan Turkenburg: Hi Austin and Arvo, have good show!
	4:01pm Mr Fab: Hey guys! krazy kooky busy at work today, but got my ears on.
	🎸 ♥ 4:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @4:00 Thanks Jan! It was nice to cross paths with you, even if it was briefly.
	🎸 ♥ 4:01pm Arvo Zylo: Some of these are discoveries whilst working at a used CD store in the '90s. In the case of The Blue Meanies, they were one of the first shows I ever saw as a teen, blew my mind at the time.
	🎸 ♥ 4:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @4:01 Gotta pay those bills! I understand.
	🎸 ♥ 4:02pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @4:00 Thanks for stopping by!
	🎸 ♥ 4:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:01 I feel like they got lumped into the "ska" scene at the time, but they were usually a little better than a lot of the ska going round then.
	🎸 ♥ 4:03pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @4:01 Hopefully the co workers can't hear it! And hopefully it is enjoyable in some way... some of this is about as close as I get to guilty pleasures.
	🎸 ♥ 4:04pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:02 I was never sure how much traction they had outside of Chicago, but to me they weren't really very ska. I thought of it more like metal with horns a lot of the time.
	4:05pm Mr Fab: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:03 Workin from home today! So got it cranked.
	🎸 ♥ 4:05pm Arvo Zylo: I still have not seen whatever Beatles movie it was that has a "Blue Meanie" in it.
	🎸 ♥ 4:06pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @4:05 WICKED!
	4:06pm Mr Fab: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:05 Oh "Yellow Submarine" is a fantastic animated freak out.
	🎸 ♥ 4:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:04 I saw them on a couple ska bills when they came through, and all the ska folks I knew seemed also into them. But I liked them pretty well. I think, with the possible exception of Mr. Bungle, there weren't a lot of metal bands with horns, so I think a lot of people sort of misunderstood where they were coming from.
	♥ 4:06pm god∅))): ↳ Song: "Worship Me" by "Excessive Force" this guy's asking for a beating
	🎸 ♥ 4:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:05 That's the "not bad" Beatles movie! It's actually pretty cool animation.
	♥ 4:08pm Jan Turkenburg: Weren't the Blue Meanies an evil army or something?
	🎸 ♥ 4:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @4:08 Yeah, they are the "enemy" in The Yellow Submarine, sort of "fighting" the Beatles, so to speak.
	♥ 4:10pm coelacanth∅))): i Love yellow submarine. ...not a beatles' movie, but a beatles movie. (the beatles had no direct part in it's making)
	♥ 4:10pm coelacanth∅))): ...hi Arvo Rich!
	🎸 ♥ 4:11pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:06 They played with a lot of Ska bands, but also Alkaline Trio, who were always tedious to me, but that was when "emo" was something completely different. They were signed to MCA, but then dropped as the album came out, so their sound was pretty widely varied with each album.
	🎸 ♥ 4:11pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ coelacanth∅))) @4:10 HI! Thanks for sticking it out!
	🎸 ♥ 4:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Fuckin' An Animal" by "GWAR" The author Kurt Zapata has a short story collection called, "40 Ouncer," and there's a VERY funny story about him dressing up like Batman and going to see GWAR on Halloween. It's worth tracking down!
	🎸 ♥ 4:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @4:12 www.abebooks.com...
	🎸 ♥ 4:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:11 Never saw / listened to Alkaline Trio, but I sort of sussed out they wouldn't be for me.
	🎸 ♥ 4:14pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:12 Interesting. I only like that song by GWAR. I think it might have been featured on some Troma film. That's how I remember hearing it, anyway. I had an opportunity to see GWAR with ICP, but I passed on it.
	🎸 ♥ 4:15pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Little Bitch" by "The Specials" I was alarmed at how mean these lyrics are when I heard them. I saw The Specials in 1998 or so.
	🎸 ♥ 4:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:14 GWAR is pretty good, but you have to go into it with a pretty dark sense of humor. I love the weird costumes, and their shows are legendarily gross and wild. I'm not sure of their shows these days, as I think most of the original line-up has passed on? I would need to look into it more to be sure. But I think there is still some weird version of GWAR around, even now...
	🎸 ♥ 4:16pm WR: Hello Arvo, Austin, coelacanth∅))), Mr Fab, and folks.
	🎸 ♥ 4:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:15 I bet that was good. Never saw them, but always wanted to.
	🎸 ♥ 4:17pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ WR @4:16 Hello WR! Thanks for coming around!
	🎸 ♥ 4:19pm WR: ↳ Song: "He Had It Coming" by "Wilmoth Houdini" A classic!
	4:20pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "He Had It Coming" by "Wilmoth Houdini" Ah, usually known as "Stone Cold Dead in the Market."
	🎸 ♥ 4:20pm Austin Rich: Some of you might notice that I have the time notes in the playlist, which I'm deleting once I deploy the song. While I'm familiar with some of these tunes, Arvo has a tendency to create playlists that trick me often, and I miss the transitions. So I'm trying to cheat with some notes...
	🎸 ♥ 4:20pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ WR @4:19 Indeed! It had occurred to me that I never played it on the radio before...
	🎸 ♥ 4:22pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @4:20 I think this is one of the early versions. I remember hearing a song from the 1900s that was about a woman beating someone to death with a rolling pin because he was trying to abuse her, but it was with an Italian accent...
	🎸 ♥ 4:22pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:20 It's slippery in here.
	🎸 ♥ 4:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Interstellar Soul" by "T. Rex" T. Rex is my preferred flavor of Glam Rock, unless you count the New York Dolls, which I would then probably then say two two are my faves. Bowie never quite did it for me, and a lot of other glam rock only has a few hits. But T. Rex is nearly flawless in my opinion.
	🎸 ♥ 4:25pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:23 I think T. Rex is unnecessarily tied to glam rock, just speaking purely in terms of structure, but aesthetically, he is somewhat quintessential for glam rock, as is Bowie. As much as I regret to mention his name, Gary Glitter is really the benchmark of glam rock for me, and a lot of the other stuff is too much muddied by blues riffs to really qualify full time as glam rock.
	🎸 ♥ 4:26pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:23 But yeah, T. Rex's "Slider" is my desert island record.
	4:26pm laurapanic: this is a weird time to find you here. It threw me off!
	🎸 ♥ 4:27pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ laurapanic @4:26 Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 4:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:25 Yeah, as much as it pains me, I like a lot of Gary Glitter too. But T. Rex is just the best! Bowie just doesn't work for me, but I know I'm an exception. I need something a little more punk.
	🎸 ♥ 4:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @4:26 I'm covering for Spacebrother. Rather, Arvo is, and I'm just the conduit...
	4:28pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @4:27 good conduiting
	🎸 ♥ 4:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @4:28 It is always delightful to see you in the digital salon. I have been debating pitching a "All Live Music" show to Mr. Fab, so I'd have an excuse to play live recordings of friends and listeners, which I have been prone to do in the past...
	🎸 ♥ 4:29pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:27 You are a facilitator and collaborator! You are complicit! It's too late to turn back!
	🎸 ♥ 4:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:29 'Tis true. I know a judge that I could ask for legal advice, but I think at this point I'd have to just keep quiet and take my lumps!
	🎸 ♥ 4:32pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Sleepy Hollow" by "Deadsy (featuring Jonathan Dav... This band features Cher's son. This album was not released after promo copies went out. Years later, the material was released years later without this track on it, which is obviously adlibbed/improvised vocally. Found it at a used CD store.
	🎸 ♥ 4:33pm Austin Rich: True story: I have seen Motorhead four times, and many other assorted rock and roll shows, with my friend Cheryl. When I met her, she was merely a lawyer. Now she has been a judge for Multnomah County for many years, and teaches other Judges how to navigate the trade. Meanwhile all I can remember is how loaded we would get at the shows, and some of the things she used to yell at Lemmy. I miss that gal...
	🎸 ♥ 4:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Yelling In My Ear" by "The Blue Meanies" Masterfully done. More covers need to be "re-interpretations" like this.
	🎸 ♥ 4:35pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:33 Never did see Motorhead. I saw a fest that they played, but didn't have money for two days of the fest. Opted to see Jello Biafra at the time, and Genitorturers... among many others.
	🎸 ♥ 4:36pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:34 Agreed! It is a rare and joyous occasion when covers are done creatively and effectively.
	🎸 ♥ 4:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:35 Motorhead were great, both live and recorded, but I think it was always more fun with Cheryl, who was a big fan. While I never had to do anything about it (fortunately), I've had to ask her legal advice a few times.
	🎸 ♥ 4:40pm Austin Rich: It has been many years since I've had to worry about FCC guidelines, and even then, I was often on after 10 PM, at stations that had Safe Harbor hours, so "regulations" were often silly anyway. But I did spend MANY years on traditional, terrestrial, daytime radio, and I still have a little bit of a pre-programed "wince" in me when I hear "traditional" profanity. It's funny, because I'm so far away from needing to worry about it, but for so long, it was THE BIGGEST CONCERN. Now: who cares?
	🎸 ♥ 4:41pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Siegfried" by "Sherry Diaz & Her Devoted Lovers" For those who don't know, TV Pow is known as a noise project mainly, but they dabble in musicality, and have even done a dash of hip hop. I liked this track, it reminds me of Lungfish.
	♥ 4:41pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ WR @4:16 hola WR!
	🎸 ♥ 4:42pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:40 I always wanted to play this track on the radio, but never did! A lot of these tracks are like that, if that's not obvious. It's just more fuel for the freeform fire...
	♥ 4:42pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:41 funny... and not lyrically; but this reminds me of Victoria Williams
	🎸 ♥ 4:45pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Squash" by "Townes Van Zandt" I recently bought two biographies on him. I anticipate him being taken down a peg or two, but I do love Townes Van Zandt despite his blemishes. And anyway, I haven't heard a better song about roadlkill.
	🎸 ♥ 4:49pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ coelacanth∅))) @4:42 I am not familiar! I had to look her up!
	🎸 ♥ 4:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Downtrodden Song" by "Denis Leary" I forgot about this song! I probably haven't heard it since the 90's. Wild.
	🎸 ♥ 4:50pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:49 I listened to it in junior high!
	🎸 ♥ 4:51pm WR: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:32 whoa, amazing find.
	🎸 ♥ 4:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Downtrodden Song" by "Denis Leary" My wife and I watched "Demolition Man" a couple weeks ago, and Dennis Leary is in it, as the leader of the rebels. When he's on the screen, the movies stops dead, and he just does some of his routine for a while. Then the movie keeps going. It's really weird...
	♥ 4:51pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:49 she's interesting... something deeper going on than superficially apparent.
	🎸 ♥ 4:52pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:51 I remember that one. Sandra Bullock was great. Shovel it!
	🎸 ♥ 4:52pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ coelacanth∅))) @4:51 I will take note!
	🎸 ♥ 4:53pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Star-Strangled Banner" by "The Blue Meanies" This track is called "Star-Strangled Banner", I may have mistyped it...
	🎸 ♥ 4:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:52 It was written by the same guy who wrote "Hudson Hawk" and "Heathers." It's not bad...
	🎸 ♥ 4:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:53 Spell check could have been at fault there...
	🎸 ♥ 4:55pm Arvo Zylo: Thanks Austin and Mr. Fab for having me! Thanks all for coming by! Have a good day!
	🎸 ♥ 4:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:55 See ya'll later for Dimestore Radio Theater!
	♥ 4:57pm Hunterian: Strong exit music for a fab fill-in
	🎸 ♥ 4:57pm WR: Thank you Arvo! Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 4:57pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:56 I have an appointment, but might get to tune in!
	♥ 4:57pm coelacanth∅))): Thanks Arvo! Thanks Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 4:58pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Hunterian @4:57 Thanks! I thought so too! This one is too catchy for me to deny.
	🎸 ♥ 4:58pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ WR @4:57 thank you!
	♥ 4:58pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Austin Rich @4:56 (i'll be at work, unfortunately)
	🎸 ♥ 4:58pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ coelacanth∅))) @4:57 Thank you!
	🎸 ♥ 5:43pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Yooo stoked to catch this in the archives ✨🛋️📻✨
	🎸 ♥ 7:45pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Song: "Squash" by "Townes Van Zandt" As i drink this beer from Pawtucket and family guy is on the TV, i thought i was trippin lmao ⚡🍻 fuckin nice cathartic show today 🤬😁✌️ hi if anyone sees this!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 7, 2025

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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Artist	Track	Comments	Approx. start time
The Blue Meanies	Tread "Tread" by "The Blue Meanies"
Excessive Force	Worship Me "Worship Me" by "Excessive Force"		0:01:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Big Dumb Face	Buralveist "Buralveist" by "Big Dumb Face"		0:04:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
GWAR	Fuckin' An Animal "Fuckin' An Animal" by "GWAR"		0:07:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Chaos UK	Little Bastard "Little Bastard" by "Chaos UK"		0:10:33 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Specials	Little Bitch "Little Bitch" by "The Specials"		0:12:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Robert Corbert Orchestra	Quentin's Theme (Dark Shadows)		0:15:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
""
Wilmoth Houdini	He Had It Coming "He Had It Coming" by "Wilmoth Houdini"		0:16:58 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
T. Rex	Interstellar Soul "Interstellar Soul" by "T. Rex"		0:19:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Tony Bellus	The Girl Is Mine "The Girl Is Mine" by "Tony Bellus"		0:23:07 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Deadsy (featuring Jonathan Davis)	Sleepy Hollow		0:26:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Blue Meanies	Yelling In My Ear	Operation Ivy Cover	0:30:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sherry Diaz & Her Devoted Lovers	Siegfried	Featuring members of TV POW	0:34:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Townes Van Zandt	Squash "Squash" by "Townes Van Zandt"		0:42:12 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Robbie The Werewolf	Vampire Man "Vampire Man" by "Robbie The Werewolf"		0:44:25 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Denis Leary	The Downtrodden Song "The Downtrodden Song" by "Denis Leary"		0:46:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Robert Corbert Orchestra	I'll Be With You Always (Dark Shadows)		0:48:19 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
""
The Blue Meanies	Star-Strangled Banner		0:50:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Snoop Dogg (featuring Bootsy Collins)	Can I Get A Flicc Witchu		0:52:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 3:08pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	🎸 ♥ 3:55pm Arvo Zylo: Hi!
	♥ 4:00pm Jan Turkenburg: Hi Austin and Arvo, have good show!
	4:01pm Mr Fab: Hey guys! krazy kooky busy at work today, but got my ears on.
	🎸 ♥ 4:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @4:00 Thanks Jan! It was nice to cross paths with you, even if it was briefly.
	🎸 ♥ 4:01pm Arvo Zylo: Some of these are discoveries whilst working at a used CD store in the '90s. In the case of The Blue Meanies, they were one of the first shows I ever saw as a teen, blew my mind at the time.
	🎸 ♥ 4:01pm Austin Rich: ↳ Mr Fab @4:01 Gotta pay those bills! I understand.
	🎸 ♥ 4:02pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @4:00 Thanks for stopping by!
	🎸 ♥ 4:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:01 I feel like they got lumped into the "ska" scene at the time, but they were usually a little better than a lot of the ska going round then.
	🎸 ♥ 4:03pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @4:01 Hopefully the co workers can't hear it! And hopefully it is enjoyable in some way... some of this is about as close as I get to guilty pleasures.
	🎸 ♥ 4:04pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:02 I was never sure how much traction they had outside of Chicago, but to me they weren't really very ska. I thought of it more like metal with horns a lot of the time.
	4:05pm Mr Fab: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:03 Workin from home today! So got it cranked.
	🎸 ♥ 4:05pm Arvo Zylo: I still have not seen whatever Beatles movie it was that has a "Blue Meanie" in it.
	🎸 ♥ 4:06pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @4:05 WICKED!
	4:06pm Mr Fab: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:05 Oh "Yellow Submarine" is a fantastic animated freak out.
	🎸 ♥ 4:06pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:04 I saw them on a couple ska bills when they came through, and all the ska folks I knew seemed also into them. But I liked them pretty well. I think, with the possible exception of Mr. Bungle, there weren't a lot of metal bands with horns, so I think a lot of people sort of misunderstood where they were coming from.
	♥ 4:06pm god∅))): ↳ Song: "Worship Me" by "Excessive Force" this guy's asking for a beating
	🎸 ♥ 4:07pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:05 That's the "not bad" Beatles movie! It's actually pretty cool animation.
	♥ 4:08pm Jan Turkenburg: Weren't the Blue Meanies an evil army or something?
	🎸 ♥ 4:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Jan Turkenburg @4:08 Yeah, they are the "enemy" in The Yellow Submarine, sort of "fighting" the Beatles, so to speak.
	♥ 4:10pm coelacanth∅))): i Love yellow submarine. ...not a beatles' movie, but a beatles movie. (the beatles had no direct part in it's making)
	♥ 4:10pm coelacanth∅))): ...hi Arvo Rich!
	🎸 ♥ 4:11pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:06 They played with a lot of Ska bands, but also Alkaline Trio, who were always tedious to me, but that was when "emo" was something completely different. They were signed to MCA, but then dropped as the album came out, so their sound was pretty widely varied with each album.
	🎸 ♥ 4:11pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ coelacanth∅))) @4:10 HI! Thanks for sticking it out!
	🎸 ♥ 4:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Fuckin' An Animal" by "GWAR" The author Kurt Zapata has a short story collection called, "40 Ouncer," and there's a VERY funny story about him dressing up like Batman and going to see GWAR on Halloween. It's worth tracking down!
	🎸 ♥ 4:12pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @4:12 www.abebooks.com...
	🎸 ♥ 4:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:11 Never saw / listened to Alkaline Trio, but I sort of sussed out they wouldn't be for me.
	🎸 ♥ 4:14pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:12 Interesting. I only like that song by GWAR. I think it might have been featured on some Troma film. That's how I remember hearing it, anyway. I had an opportunity to see GWAR with ICP, but I passed on it.
	🎸 ♥ 4:15pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Little Bitch" by "The Specials" I was alarmed at how mean these lyrics are when I heard them. I saw The Specials in 1998 or so.
	🎸 ♥ 4:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:14 GWAR is pretty good, but you have to go into it with a pretty dark sense of humor. I love the weird costumes, and their shows are legendarily gross and wild. I'm not sure of their shows these days, as I think most of the original line-up has passed on? I would need to look into it more to be sure. But I think there is still some weird version of GWAR around, even now...
	🎸 ♥ 4:16pm WR: Hello Arvo, Austin, coelacanth∅))), Mr Fab, and folks.
	🎸 ♥ 4:16pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:15 I bet that was good. Never saw them, but always wanted to.
	🎸 ♥ 4:17pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ WR @4:16 Hello WR! Thanks for coming around!
	🎸 ♥ 4:19pm WR: ↳ Song: "He Had It Coming" by "Wilmoth Houdini" A classic!
	4:20pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "He Had It Coming" by "Wilmoth Houdini" Ah, usually known as "Stone Cold Dead in the Market."
	🎸 ♥ 4:20pm Austin Rich: Some of you might notice that I have the time notes in the playlist, which I'm deleting once I deploy the song. While I'm familiar with some of these tunes, Arvo has a tendency to create playlists that trick me often, and I miss the transitions. So I'm trying to cheat with some notes...
	🎸 ♥ 4:20pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ WR @4:19 Indeed! It had occurred to me that I never played it on the radio before...
	🎸 ♥ 4:22pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Mr Fab @4:20 I think this is one of the early versions. I remember hearing a song from the 1900s that was about a woman beating someone to death with a rolling pin because he was trying to abuse her, but it was with an Italian accent...
	🎸 ♥ 4:22pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:20 It's slippery in here.
	🎸 ♥ 4:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Interstellar Soul" by "T. Rex" T. Rex is my preferred flavor of Glam Rock, unless you count the New York Dolls, which I would then probably then say two two are my faves. Bowie never quite did it for me, and a lot of other glam rock only has a few hits. But T. Rex is nearly flawless in my opinion.
	🎸 ♥ 4:25pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:23 I think T. Rex is unnecessarily tied to glam rock, just speaking purely in terms of structure, but aesthetically, he is somewhat quintessential for glam rock, as is Bowie. As much as I regret to mention his name, Gary Glitter is really the benchmark of glam rock for me, and a lot of the other stuff is too much muddied by blues riffs to really qualify full time as glam rock.
	🎸 ♥ 4:26pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:23 But yeah, T. Rex's "Slider" is my desert island record.
	4:26pm laurapanic: this is a weird time to find you here. It threw me off!
	🎸 ♥ 4:27pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ laurapanic @4:26 Hello!
	🎸 ♥ 4:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:25 Yeah, as much as it pains me, I like a lot of Gary Glitter too. But T. Rex is just the best! Bowie just doesn't work for me, but I know I'm an exception. I need something a little more punk.
	🎸 ♥ 4:27pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @4:26 I'm covering for Spacebrother. Rather, Arvo is, and I'm just the conduit...
	4:28pm laurapanic: ↳ Austin Rich @4:27 good conduiting
	🎸 ♥ 4:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ laurapanic @4:28 It is always delightful to see you in the digital salon. I have been debating pitching a "All Live Music" show to Mr. Fab, so I'd have an excuse to play live recordings of friends and listeners, which I have been prone to do in the past...
	🎸 ♥ 4:29pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:27 You are a facilitator and collaborator! You are complicit! It's too late to turn back!
	🎸 ♥ 4:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:29 'Tis true. I know a judge that I could ask for legal advice, but I think at this point I'd have to just keep quiet and take my lumps!
	🎸 ♥ 4:32pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Sleepy Hollow" by "Deadsy (featuring Jonathan Dav... This band features Cher's son. This album was not released after promo copies went out. Years later, the material was released years later without this track on it, which is obviously adlibbed/improvised vocally. Found it at a used CD store.
	🎸 ♥ 4:33pm Austin Rich: True story: I have seen Motorhead four times, and many other assorted rock and roll shows, with my friend Cheryl. When I met her, she was merely a lawyer. Now she has been a judge for Multnomah County for many years, and teaches other Judges how to navigate the trade. Meanwhile all I can remember is how loaded we would get at the shows, and some of the things she used to yell at Lemmy. I miss that gal...
	🎸 ♥ 4:34pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Yelling In My Ear" by "The Blue Meanies" Masterfully done. More covers need to be "re-interpretations" like this.
	🎸 ♥ 4:35pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:33 Never did see Motorhead. I saw a fest that they played, but didn't have money for two days of the fest. Opted to see Jello Biafra at the time, and Genitorturers... among many others.
	🎸 ♥ 4:36pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:34 Agreed! It is a rare and joyous occasion when covers are done creatively and effectively.
	🎸 ♥ 4:37pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:35 Motorhead were great, both live and recorded, but I think it was always more fun with Cheryl, who was a big fan. While I never had to do anything about it (fortunately), I've had to ask her legal advice a few times.
	🎸 ♥ 4:40pm Austin Rich: It has been many years since I've had to worry about FCC guidelines, and even then, I was often on after 10 PM, at stations that had Safe Harbor hours, so "regulations" were often silly anyway. But I did spend MANY years on traditional, terrestrial, daytime radio, and I still have a little bit of a pre-programed "wince" in me when I hear "traditional" profanity. It's funny, because I'm so far away from needing to worry about it, but for so long, it was THE BIGGEST CONCERN. Now: who cares?
	🎸 ♥ 4:41pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Siegfried" by "Sherry Diaz & Her Devoted Lovers" For those who don't know, TV Pow is known as a noise project mainly, but they dabble in musicality, and have even done a dash of hip hop. I liked this track, it reminds me of Lungfish.
	♥ 4:41pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ WR @4:16 hola WR!
	🎸 ♥ 4:42pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:40 I always wanted to play this track on the radio, but never did! A lot of these tracks are like that, if that's not obvious. It's just more fuel for the freeform fire...
	♥ 4:42pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:41 funny... and not lyrically; but this reminds me of Victoria Williams
	🎸 ♥ 4:45pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Squash" by "Townes Van Zandt" I recently bought two biographies on him. I anticipate him being taken down a peg or two, but I do love Townes Van Zandt despite his blemishes. And anyway, I haven't heard a better song about roadlkill.
	🎸 ♥ 4:49pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ coelacanth∅))) @4:42 I am not familiar! I had to look her up!
	🎸 ♥ 4:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Downtrodden Song" by "Denis Leary" I forgot about this song! I probably haven't heard it since the 90's. Wild.
	🎸 ♥ 4:50pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:49 I listened to it in junior high!
	🎸 ♥ 4:51pm WR: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:32 whoa, amazing find.
	🎸 ♥ 4:51pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Downtrodden Song" by "Denis Leary" My wife and I watched "Demolition Man" a couple weeks ago, and Dennis Leary is in it, as the leader of the rebels. When he's on the screen, the movies stops dead, and he just does some of his routine for a while. Then the movie keeps going. It's really weird...
	♥ 4:51pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:49 she's interesting... something deeper going on than superficially apparent.
	🎸 ♥ 4:52pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:51 I remember that one. Sandra Bullock was great. Shovel it!
	🎸 ♥ 4:52pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ coelacanth∅))) @4:51 I will take note!
	🎸 ♥ 4:53pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Song: "Star-Strangled Banner" by "The Blue Meanies" This track is called "Star-Strangled Banner", I may have mistyped it...
	🎸 ♥ 4:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:52 It was written by the same guy who wrote "Hudson Hawk" and "Heathers." It's not bad...
	🎸 ♥ 4:53pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:53 Spell check could have been at fault there...
	🎸 ♥ 4:55pm Arvo Zylo: Thanks Austin and Mr. Fab for having me! Thanks all for coming by! Have a good day!
	🎸 ♥ 4:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ Arvo Zylo @4:55 See ya'll later for Dimestore Radio Theater!
	♥ 4:57pm Hunterian: Strong exit music for a fab fill-in
	🎸 ♥ 4:57pm WR: Thank you Arvo! Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 4:57pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Austin Rich @4:56 I have an appointment, but might get to tune in!
	♥ 4:57pm coelacanth∅))): Thanks Arvo! Thanks Austin!
	🎸 ♥ 4:58pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ Hunterian @4:57 Thanks! I thought so too! This one is too catchy for me to deny.
	🎸 ♥ 4:58pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ WR @4:57 thank you!
	♥ 4:58pm coelacanth∅))): ↳ Austin Rich @4:56 (i'll be at work, unfortunately)
	🎸 ♥ 4:58pm Arvo Zylo: ↳ coelacanth∅))) @4:57 Thank you!
	🎸 ♥ 5:43pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: Yooo stoked to catch this in the archives ✨🛋️📻✨
	🎸 ♥ 7:45pm red_door_what_for in ypsilanti: ↳ Song: "Squash" by "Townes Van Zandt" As i drink this beer from Pawtucket and family guy is on the TV, i thought i was trippin lmao ⚡🍻 fuckin nice cathartic show today 🤬😁✌️ hi if anyone sees this!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from April 7, 2025

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