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Favoriting June 8, 2025: Fiddling While Rome Burns

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Artist Track Album Year Comments Approx. start time
The Stooges  Down on the Street   Favoriting Funhouse  1970    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Wipers  Over the Edge   Favoriting Over the Edge  1983    0:03:42 (Pop-up)
Special Interest  Concerning Peace   Favoriting Endure  2022    0:07:22 (Pop-up)
Stiff Little Fingers  Suspect Device   Favoriting Infammable Material  1979    0:11:41 (Pop-up)
Plastique de Reve featuring the Radical Cheerleaders  R.E.S.I.S.T.   Favoriting DFA Supersoul Recordings  2008    0:14:23 (Pop-up)
Divine Styler & DJ Shadow  Divine Intervention   Favoriting Quannum Spectrum  1999    0:21:56 (Pop-up)
Public Enemy  Fight the Power   Favoriting 7"  1989    0:26:46 (Pop-up)
Rolling Stones  Undercover of the Night   Favoriting 12"  1983    0:35:14 (Pop-up)
The Ex  Frenzy   Favoriting Starters / Alternators  1998    0:39:42 (Pop-up)
 
Ruts  Baylon's Burning   Favoriting Grin & Bear It  1980    0:48:33 (Pop-up)
The Flames  Stand Up and Be Counted   Favoriting 7"  1971    0:51:00 (Pop-up)
The Clash  The Call Up   Favoriting Sandanista!  1980    0:53:56 (Pop-up)
Eddie and the Subtitles  American Society   Favoriting Bloodstains across California  1993  Orig. 1981  0:58:59 (Pop-up)
Noh Mercy  Revolutionary Spy   Favoriting EarCom 3 7"  1979    1:03:52 (Pop-up)
Pailhead  I Will Refuse   Favoriting 12"  1987    1:08:21 (Pop-up)
Blackalicious  Trouble (Eve Of Destruction)   Favoriting NIA  2000    1:12:27 (Pop-up)
Damon Locks  Click   Favoriting List Of Demands  2025    1:16:10 (Pop-up)
Stevie Wonder  Higher Ground   Favoriting Innervisions  1973    1:21:19 (Pop-up)
 
Crass  Shaved Women   Favoriting Best Before  1984    1:30:17 (Pop-up)
Citizen Fish  Possession   Favoriting Free Souls in a Trapped Environment  1990    1:34:37 (Pop-up)
Lambrini Girls  God's Country   Favoriting 7"  2024    1:36:30 (Pop-up)
Avengers  The Amerikan in Me   Favoriting Avengers  1983    1:38:45 (Pop-up)
Melvins  Youth Of America   Favoriting Sludge Glamorous EP  2010  Wipers cover  1:40:36 (Pop-up)
Variable Unit  Walking with my Son   Favoriting Handbook for the Apocalypse  2003    1:49:39 (Pop-up)
Tom Robinson Band  Power In The Darkness   Favoriting Power In The Darkness  1978    1:54:34 (Pop-up)
Shudder to Think  Let it Ring   Favoriting State of the Union  1989    1:59:20 (Pop-up)
 
Sand in the Face  Stand in Line   Favoriting Sand in the Face  1986    2:10:58 (Pop-up)
Big Blood  Oh Country   Favoriting Big Blood & The Bleedin' Hearts  2023    2:16:02 (Pop-up)
Franklin  Bad Children with Wings   Favoriting Franklin  1999    2:21:19 (Pop-up)
Billy Bragg  Which Side Are You On   Favoriting Life's A Riot  1985    2:26:04 (Pop-up)
Linton Kwesi Johnson  Time Come   Favoriting Forces of Victory  1979    2:28:27 (Pop-up)
Nomeansno  Dark Ages   Favoriting Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed  1988    2:31:49 (Pop-up)
Jesters of Destiny  Fortunate Son   Favoriting In a Nostalgic Mood  1987  Creedence cover  2:37:19 (Pop-up)
Brother Ah  Love Piece   Favoriting Sound Awareness  1972    2:41:48 (Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
DJ Peter:

Thanks Mike for helping us process. And thanks, Iggy.
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Yvang:

Damn! The Stooges!
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Numero 6:

Greetings!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
Mike Lupica:

I feel like I got nothing for these fucked times. So letting some pissed off records doing the talking tonight.
  🚀 9:03pm
JAZZfromPHILLY:

Crank it up,!!!
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Alex from Media:

Yo Mike! Crew! Let the anger fly!
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Chop Scott:

Agreed Mike--thanks for being here.
  🚀 9:06pm
JAZZfromPHILLY:

Over ~ the ~ edge 🔥👮🏼‍♀️🚔🚨🔥
  🚀 9:10pm
JAZZfromPHILLY:

Howdy 🤠 Mike & Starliters!
Seems like a fine rant of a rave part tonight. 🎶📻🎙️🎉
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
Alex from Media:

↳ Song: "Suspect Device" by "Stiff Little Fingers"
Kind of got a power pop feel for an angry song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:13pm
Mike Lupica:

Yo Jazz, glad you are here! And to you all as well.
  🚀 9:13pm
JAZZfromPHILLY:

↳ Mike Lupica @9:02
Glad I got got my shit-kickin' boots on in the pit
  🚀 9:16pm
JAZZfromPHILLY:

🥾🥾🥾🥾
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 9:17pm
Yvang:

By the way, if I remember well : Happy cranky Birthday!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:18pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ Yvang @9:17
Indeed, Yvang! Maybe not the happiest given what's happening in LA, but reporting for duty nonetheless.
  🚀 9:18pm
JAZZfromPHILLY:

🎉🎶🎂📻🎙️🎶
  🚀 9:20pm
JAZZfromPHILLY:

↳ Mike Lupica @9:18
Great angry party, Mike.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:23pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ JAZZfromPHILLY @9:20
I am also available for children's birthday parties, church socials, and barn dances.
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 9:24pm
Alex from Media:

The city of LA has a flag. (see avatar)
  🚀 9:27pm
JAZZfromPHILLY:

DJ Shadow! 💪🏼🤘🏼🖕🏼 🚨🚨
  🚀 9:27pm
JAZZfromPHILLY:

FIGHT!!
🔥🚨🔥🚨🔥🚨
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
Yvang:

Legitimate Anger.
  🚀 9:29pm
JAZZfromPHILLY:

Public Enemy tells it 🔥🚨
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:30pm
chresti:

↳ Alex from Media @9:24
Cool!
  🚀 9:32pm
JAZZfromPHILLY:

Spit it Chuck 🔥🚨🔥
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:34pm
chresti:

↳ Song: "Fight the Power" by "Public Enemy"
People people!
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 9:44pm
tom tom the pipers son:

Hi Mike and everyone
  🚀 9:44pm
JAZZfromPHILLY:

↳ Mike Lupica @9:02
Are you ready to hurl a stick at your pinata yet? 🎉🪅🎈
Avatar 9:45pm
Uncle Monk:

At least you're above ground Mr. Lupica.
  9:46pm
pp:

my birthday too, so Happy Biway Birthday
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
StringOFperils:

Greetings starlite lounge swimmers
  🚀 9:49pm
JAZZfromPHILLY:

The R U T S !! 🔥🥾🔥🥾
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:50pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ Uncle Monk @9:45
Fair point.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:50pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ pp @9:46
Great! You, me, and Nick Rhoades from Duran Duran. Let's start a band.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:51pm
chresti:

Happy Birthday! My son's is later this week
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ chresti @9:51
HBD to him as well!
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 9:53pm
tom tom the pipers son:

Hbd Mike
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:56pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:53
Thx Tom!
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 9:57pm
tom tom the pipers son:

On bus... difficult typing
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:03pm
Franco Twinkie:

The call up is happening as I write this in D,T.LA. The protesters are building barricades with furniture and other junk. Waymo cars continue to burn in the middle of the street.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:04pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ Franco Twinkie @10:03
Thx for the update, Franco. Stay safe out there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:05pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ Mike Lupica @10:04
We're about 7or 8 miles from the hot spot.
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Alex from Media:

Good night, HBD and safe travels Mike. Headache getting the best of me, gotta bail.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:09pm
Mike Lupica:

Take care, Alex.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11pm
Midge:

Hello and happy bday Mike! Hey to everyone! The pissed off music is a balm
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:18pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ Midge @10:11
Thanks Midge. Many different shades of pissed off tonight, plus some healing sounds interspersed to help prevent infection.
Avatar 10:20pm
ChristinaInCanada:

↳ Franco Twinkie @10:03
My friend on Mastodon commnted on that. I wonder if the cars displayed ads for ultra-processed S'Mores food products during the conflagration.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:21pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:20
Mastodon has been my primary source for info on what's going on.
Avatar 10:23pm
ChristinaInCanada:

↳ Mike Lupica @10:21
Mine too. Happy Birthday, you're the other WFMU stream DJ I know of who celebrated another spin around the earth this week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:23pm
Franco Twinkie:

↳ ChristinaInCanada @10:20
I've been dipping in since this afternoon when stuff was still relatively calm. Now the shit is starting to fly.

I did see one enterprising fellow selling drinks from a rolling cooler however.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:27pm
Franco Twinkie:

Play The Silver Chalice!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30pm
Franco Twinkie:

Relax Mike. It's all chaos.
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 10:31pm
tom tom the pipers son:

back at home… phew...
  10:33pm
CC:

Happy Birthday ML... between the president the speaker of the house and the richest man in the world I can't figure out what I should be happy about???...:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:34pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ CC @10:33
Be happy that you're here, now, among good hearted friends.
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 10:36pm
WR:

Flying to Denver tomorrow? Remember to take it easy on your first day at high altitude, particularly with alcohol or major physical exertion. Give yourself some time to acclimate.
  10:36pm
CC:

↳ Mike Lupica @10:34
Oh yes...cheerz every'one'...:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:38pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ WR @10:36
SLC, but point taken anyway. 😉
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ Song: "Youth Of America" by "Melvins"
There's no beating the Wipers original of "Youth of America", but this Melvins treatment is all muscle and I'm here for it.
  10:43pm
CC:

↳ Mike Lupica @10:38
That's right you don't want to get up too fast after laying or sitting in a comfortable position for too long...:)
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 10:43pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "God's Country" by "Lambrini Girls"
not to discount the valid emotions in the song, but the lambrini girls make me think of a character on little britain…vicki pollard… a kind of delinquent who would get nabbed for petty crime and try to get out of it by using the only tool at hand which was language
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:45pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:43
Oh language they do gots. The album from last year came with a hat emblazoned with the C-word. Have yet to figure out the right occasion to wear it.
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 10:46pm
tom tom the pipers son:

Times 6/2/25

Why Swiss Watches and Japanese Pianos Leaving This Broadway Show in Tears Feels So Cruel Right Now in the Underworld of the Family Treasure Chest Amid the Fatal Shooting of Teen Campers in the Wilderness Who Appeared to Live a Low-Key Life Within A New Impasse Over a Very Old Expensive Mistake that Yields Little Scientific Progress, Discoveries, and Dreams, and Leaves This Year’s Hot New Tool for Genital Cutting in the Balance In a Search for Anyplace but the Most Charming Village in France to Flip the Script on How Wars are Waged in a Gratuitous Surrealist Scene
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:47pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:46
Nice one, Tom.
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 10:49pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Mike Lupica @10:45
that’s a tough one for a guy…where pretty much it can only be seen as being self reflexive
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 10:50pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Mike Lupica @10:47
thx mike
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:52pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:49
I choose to support their reclamation of that word w/o feeling butthurt that I "can't" use it myself. (A frequent argument of... well... idiots.)
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 10:55pm
StringOFperils:

TRB... :)
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 10:57pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Mike Lupica @10:52
in england its a frequently used word by both male and female… almost as common as bloody…but yeah i imagine they put their own spin on it… its the americans that call it the c word…. we don’t know what to do with it...
  10:59pm
Blissland:

long haired layabouts, that would be me
  11:00pm
Blissland:

lots of words I grew up with you can only use the first letter now. At least if you want to be pc
  11:01pm
Blissland:

The weirdest one is the R word
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:01pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ Blissland @10:59
I know, that part of the song is like "tag yourself" for all my favorite people.
  11:01pm
Blissland:

↳ Mike Lupica @11:01
wonder whatever happened to Tom Robinson anyway
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:02pm
Mike Lupica:

He's still around! Pops up on YouTube now and then. Still seems to be in the mix.
  11:02pm
Blissland:

that's cool
  11:10pm
Blissland:

they all suck
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:20pm
tom tom the pipers son:

comments have gone slow… i have another cut up from yesterday...
  11:21pm
Blissland:

in wikipedia there's a picture of Nikki Sudden 2 days before he died
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:21pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:20
My room clearing abilities are not to be fucked with.
  11:21pm
CC:

Some people still think the driving force behind every fucked up thing is population control0???...:)
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:22pm
WR:

↳ Mike Lupica @11:21
nah, a warren of rabbit holes out here.
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:23pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Mike Lupica @11:21
is that a yes…? or should i save it...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:24pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ Blissland @11:21
Yep. He played on my show on March 20th, 2006. About a week before he died. I think that set was his last recording session. (It's in the archives.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:25pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:23
No need to ask, just post ahoy!
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:26pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Mike Lupica @11:25
gotcha...
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:26pm
Yvang:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:23
Go Tom Tom go!
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:26pm
tom tom the pipers son:

Times 6/7/25

The Ethical Minefield of Recalling 3.8 Million Adjustable Dumbbells After Crime Fiction Filled With The Latest Air Jordans Shows No Desire to Mend Relationship With Ancient North America in a Struggle for Power that Comes to Light as A How-To Manual for the Self-Sacrificing Magazine Writer and Editor on Beauty Who Refused a Native American Mascot Ban and Keeps Pushing Forward on TV’s Magical Mystery World With A DNA Technique Finding The Secret Lives of a Samurai Who Left Babies for Dead in a Thriller that Captures the Dark Side of Small Town Life
  11:27pm
Blissland:

↳ Mike Lupica @11:24
the Jacobites Ragged School was one of my favorite records in the 80s
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:31pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ Blissland @11:27
Did you rock the many scarves that Nikki and Dave did on said album's cover?
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:31pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:26
admittedly this is a tough one to get your head around...
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
Yvang:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:26
The dark side of entertainment journalism in plain light.
  11:32pm
Blissland:

↳ Mike Lupica @11:31
heh no, I might have worn one scarf at a time for a while
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:32pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:26
I feel like the "Dark Side of Small Town Life" has been "captured" more times than I can count.
  11:34pm
Blissland:

↳ Mike Lupica @11:24
I found that show and gave it a bookmark
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:34pm
Yvang:

Free the DSOSTL!
  11:35pm
CC:

In a dog eat dog world it all gets down to who has the most attractive advertising campaign for how to live...:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:36pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ Blissland @11:34
He was very charming and cool, though I was trying hard not to let on how starstruck I was by having him on. I brought him a bottle of champagne which he walked out of FMU carrying at midnight. Somewhere on someone's Flickr page, there's a photo of him drinking from it while descending the escalator of the Exchange Place PATH station.
  11:38pm
Blissland:

↳ Mike Lupica @11:36
I found the studio photos. That must be the bottle on the floor there
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:38pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ Blissland @11:38
Link? I haven't seen those photos in eons!
  11:39pm
Blissland:

↳ Mike Lupica @11:38
at 1:50 in the playlist
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:40pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ Blissland @11:39
Ha! Oh, duh on my part. Figures the photos are right on my own playlist page from 19 years ago. Thanks, I'll see myself out.
  11:41pm
Blissland:

it's ok, it's been a long night
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:41pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Mike Lupica @11:32
yes but i thought the samurai who left babies for dead was a novel angle
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:42pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:41
Yes, that was a three pointer.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:44pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ Blissland @11:41
Looks like a bottle of Cava or Prosecco. Oh, how embarrassing for me to have tried to pass that off as champagne...
  11:45pm
Blissland:

↳ Mike Lupica @11:44
no doubt he appreciated it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:48pm
Midge:

Thanks DJ! Don't forget: Fuck ICE😉
  11:48pm
CC:

Memories and dreams about those memories sometimes become entangled into a new reality...:)
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
Chop Scott:

Again--thanks as ever for being here with your program tonight. Cheers Mike!!
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:50pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Yvang @11:32
i’m glad you gleaned that from it.. it was a good find of a protagonist …sometimes the protagonists are objects as stand ins for human subjects but remaining as commodities….like swiss watches crying… it’s too discordant to become anthropomorphism … i think
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:53pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Love Piece" by "Brother Ah"
Didn't expect to be going to church tonight, but gratefully received: Preach it Brother Ah!
  11:53pm
CC:

Pulling weeds is no fun..:)
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:54pm
Yvang:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:50
I don't know...My disbelief is suspended at any moment.
  11:55pm
CC:

↳ CC @11:53
Until you're done..:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55pm
Mike Lupica:

↳ WR @11:53
That's Max Roach doing the spoken rap. I love this song so much -- first time I heard it was while stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge in pissing rain under grey skies. Very affecting - I think it was Brian Turner who was playing it on FMU.
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
Yvang:

↳ WR @11:53
That's the preaching we need.
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:56pm
WR:

↳ Mike Lupica @11:55
That is the ghost of Max Roach in my avatar pic.
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:57pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Yvang @11:54
thanks that’s interesting… it might be what i’m asking of people
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:58pm
tom tom the pipers son:

i met max roach….twice...
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 11:59pm
tom tom the pipers son:

oh that’s it….. thanks mike… good night all...
  🚀 11:59pm
JAZZfromPHILLY:

Birthday Celebrations to you, Mike🎉
  11:59pm
CC:

Thanks ML...Cheerz all...:)
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 12:00am
WR:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:58
Great! Never met him but saw him a few times, the first time is when I took that photo. At the time I was very pissed how bad my photos turned out but I now can appreciate The Spirit aspect of the grainy b x w photo.
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 12:00am
Numero 6:

Thanks for the PO show. BCNU!
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 12:01am
Yvang:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:57
Great works of art (or at least the ones I dig) require to be open minded, so they often are perceived at controversial.
  12:01am
Blissland:

good night and good luck
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 12:01am
Yvang:

Thanks Mike! Stay cool!
Avatar 🚀 Swag For Life Member 12:01am
WR:

Thank you for the tracks Mike.

Onward!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01am
Mike Lupica:

Thanks, pitcrew.
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