April 26, 2025

TONIGHT on Uneasy Listening - It's my birthday!

Rather than take a day off from radio like a normal person I’ve opted to do a birthday show of a bunch of my favorite songs, with no regard to whether I’ve played them before or like they’re too obvious or whatever! No rules, anarchy!!!! playing the (commie francis style) hits! 8-11pm eastern (no transistor sister since this is basically just one big episode of transistor sister) on wprb!

I have like 800 additional favorite songs, so don’t be sad if I missed some corner of my musical taste that you were expecting. I’ll get to them, I’ve probably got another 40 years of radio in me. very generally speaking this year’s show is pretty upbeat and rock-oriented.

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Here’s last week’s flying in vehicles show and I also added shows going back to March 29 that I’d gotten behind on!

Flying in Vehicles April 19, 2025 by Uneasy Listening | Mixcloud

Songs about flying in planes and other vehicles! I did an aviation show in 2018 but there are no repeats from that save ONE SHINING example that I think you will be happy I repeated for you. I mean if you're into weird minimalist covers of songs that spurred copyright battles with King Features Syndicate.

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night
Plato and the Philosophers - 13 O'Clock Flight to Psychedelphia

DJ speaks over Big Jim Sullivan - Translove Airways (Fat Angel)

Talking Heads - The Big Country
Cub - Flying Carpet
Moby Grape - Naked, If I Want To

The Specials - International Jet Set
The McGuire Sisters - Will There Be Space in a Spaceship
Gomez Presley - The Letter
Hard Copy - Airlines
Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees - Flying Down to Rio

XTC - Helicopter
Candy Machine - John Law
Tru Fax and the Insaniacs - Pinned Under a Jet
Thee Hydrogen Terrors - The Enemy Mancini
Silver Fleet - Come on Plane

Gruff Rhys - Skylon!
Telepathic - Attack Helicopter
Performance - Pilotes

The Red Crayola - Hurricane Fighter Plane
Blondie - Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45)
Reducers - Airways
Alice Donut - The Chicken Door
The Vibrators - Fighter Pilot (Demo 1978)
Astrud Gilberto - Non-Stop to Brazil

The Baltimore and Ohio Marching Band - Snoopy vs. the Red Baron
Human Switchboard - Who's Landing in My Hangar?
Emotional Violence - Big Balloon
Heavy Metal - Black Helicopter

Blackalicious - First In Flight (feat. Gil Scott-Heron)