Friday Night Record Club

Stream the Show Download the Songs Sex & Drugs & Rock and Roll - Ian Dury & the Blockheads — 1977 …  Dury insists this is not a punk anthem.  Rather a suggestion to live beyond the 9 to 5 world.  Sex — Walk On the Wild Side - Lou Reed — 1972 …. Nothing says sexy like music about the  transgendered, male prostitution, and oral sex. All of the characters in the song are based on real people from the Andy Warhol studio of the day.  Drugs — White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane — 1967  ….  Grace Slick insists it’s not about drugs. Just about embracing experiences, particularly the psychedelic ones.   RnR — Rock Lobster - B52s — 1978  …. “Upstairs, they were playing disco, and downstairs I suddenly heard 'Rock Lobster' by the B-52's for h the first time. Do you know it? It sounds just like Yoko's music, so I said to meself, 'It's time to get out the old ax and wake the wife up! '”John Lennon-Nov 27, 2024 Sex — Can’t Get Enou...

  Stream the Show Download the Songs " I always said if I ever recorded an album I would call it 1st grade revisited. The picture is of Pine Hill where I attended school K-4." - Geno

Stream the Show Download the Songs In collaboration with Friday Night Record Club, Refracting Sound celebrated it’s two year anniversary with a curated a three hour music set on Friday, April 18th. What follows is the link and notes for said music set. Enjoy!! Public Enemy “Lost At Birth” 1991 – Public Enemy are one of the best hip hop groups of all time. With Chuck D’s authoritative delivery and Flavor Flav’s personality and comic relief, they literally moved mountains with their music and challenged things every step of the way. “Apocalypse ‘91” isn’t widely considered to be their best album, but this opener is undeniable. Public Enemy “1 Million Bottlebags” 1991 – Another song off “Apocalypse ‘91”, I love the sentiment questioning alcohol in general and the marketing to Black communities. EPMD “So Watcha Sayin’” 1989 – Erick and Parrish Making Dollars are one of the greatest hip hop duos ever, effortlessly bouncing rhymes back and forth. This is one of their best songs, just straigh...

Stream the Show Download the Songs (from Nick)      Welcome to my tribute to Super45.fm! When I’m not listening to my local public radio alternative station, or one of Shlep’s great mixes, I’m tuning to https://super45.fm/. It is the finest collection of music I have found anywhere. Super45 is a music stream, but not a music app. No interactivity, customization or algorithms. You tune in and hear a carefully created playlist produced by a dedicated team of volunteers. Many of the programmers are former radio professionals who were dissatisfied with the offerings of commercial radio and streaming apps: “they're built to show you tried-and-tested songs and melodies that, based on your tastes, they know will hook you, hiding from you all those wonderful songs that are out of reach, those that are on the fringes of the mainstream. With our daily programming, we want to delight you again, make you sing and surprise you through a human selection, lovingly curated from our c...