Episode #265 - I Know! (4/16/26)

9:01 PM | Swapmeet | I Know! 
9:04 PM | Common People | Don't Fall 
9:09 PM | Steely Dan | Black Cow 
9:15 PM | Jesse Welles | No Kings (w/ Joan Baez) 
9:18 PM | Radiohead | Lucky 
9:22 PM | Oasis | Acquiesce 
9:29 PM | Young Fresh Fellows | Killing Time in Union Square 
9:33 PM | Hiding Places | One Hand 
9:38 PM | Lou Black | The Kid 
9:44 PM | Joe Jackson | Fabulous People 
9:48 PM | Yellowcard | Bedroom Posters (feat. Good Charlotte) 
9:52 PM | Sloe Noon | I Happen to the World and It Happens to Me

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:03

Wash and dry your clothes, play your radios, I can eat your coffee pop. I am always there with lots of power that's fair calls. I'm ready, killow.

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From beautiful downtown Merrifield in the shadow of the Mosaic District, it's the Ready Kilowatt Hour on Radio Fairfax. This evening, folk singer Jesse Wells and Joan Baez together, plus the first new ones in a while from Young Fresh Fellows and Joe Jackson, and the latest from Yellow Card. Performing with the pride of Waldorf, Maryland, good Charlotte. And also common people, German singer Slow Noon, hiding places, and from Washington, D.C., we'll hear another great one from Lou Black. Plus lots more. For now, from Adelaide, Australia, just signed to a U.S. record label. They made their debut at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas in March. This is SWAT Meat. I know.

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I know, I know, I got you, I got you, I know, I know, I know you wanna hurt me if you wanna try. If I had your heart in my hand, would you mind? I am the dull tone, I am the wet clothes, I know the word on your tongue that comes in your pocket.

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By the way, it's so so complicated in state of mind. Look through the rubble, get up and stumble back with the new mind.

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Don't let me down. What's y'all have to do about it? Is the fires gone out? Sleeping on the peace and quiet. Can it play well? Don't you miss the land? The wood in your hands. Was it ever too? Did you change the plan? Broken glass, holes in the wild. Yeah, the house still stands, but the colors are gone. Don't you miss the way it was? Don't let it fall, don't let it outfall. Don't let it fall down.

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Picture perfect frame. The shadow behind your shoes.

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Dancing on the steps, what a lovely afternoon. What's there left to do about it? Will we ever find the time? Where's my happy ever after? Was it ever been right? Don't you miss the way it was? Was it ever up to us? You change the band Broken glass, holding up Yeah the heart still stands, but the currents are gone Don't you miss the way you don't let me bow down? Don't you miss it?

SPEAKER_11 9:32

On the hand by your keys, was the end on another and your remedies. Surely we'll screen out the sorrow, but where are you tomorrow?

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I can't cry anymore.

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Break away just when it seems so clear that it's over now. Freak your big black cow and get out of here Down the Green Street, there you go Looking so outraged, and they tell you so you should know how all the pros play the game You change home Like a gangster on a wrong You will stagger home to your precious one. I am the one who must make everything right, talk it out till daylight. I don't care anymore why you burn Break away just when it seems so clear that it's over now. Break your face like cow and get out here. Just when it seems so clear that it's over now. Dreak your beef like cow and get out of here.

SPEAKER_00 13:58

Steely Dan doing black cow off the 1977 album Asia. It's been sampled for rap songs thanks to the Delas. It's been preserved in the Library of Congress. And it's Asia is on just about every greatest albums list ever made. But don't call it a yacht radical. Because Donald Reagan may swore at you and may never talk to you anymore. It's so perfect, I can't stand it. Anyway, before that, common people with Don't Rall off the EP from late last year called games that were quite from many different places, like Utah, Connecticut, and California, and eventually they met in a basement somewhere in Southern California. Their demo ended up in the hands of Red Shoulder and Cage the Elephant, who signed them to his record label. Currently, common people touring the southern U.S. tomorrow night they are playing in Baton Rouge. Red Bar and Grill, and I understand they have uh they have some uh tasty chowder there, uh, as well as probably grilled frog or whatever it is they eat down there. I haven't been down to Baton Rouge in a while, and uh their food is quite memorable. We started out with uh Swap Meat with I Know from an album of the same name called I Know. Well that sounds redundant, doesn't it? From this year, they're from Adelaide, Australia! Good evening to you. I'm not redundant, I'm ready to make a watt, your rock and roll servant. Glad to have you along with us tonight. Jesse Wells is a folk singer from California. Last year he wrote a song called No Kings in honorable in honor, of course, of uh the various protests. And he performed it live in Berkeley, California, and Joan De Baez joined him for that. Not long after they performed it live, they decided, you know what, we're gonna perform a version in the studio. So this is Jesse Wells with Joan De Baez. This is called No Kings.

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No hatred, no violence, no starvation, and no greed, and no kings, no kings, no kings, no lies, no bullets, no bombs, and no need, and no kings, no kings, no kings, no walls, no judgments, no oppression cowering, no kings, no kings, no kings, every color, every culture, every language, every creed, no kings, no kings, no kings. No more dying in the clutches, no more dying underneath. No kings, no kings, no kings, no more dying for the causes No one asked for, no one needs, no kings, no kings, no kings. To all the dignity, the love that they deserve and need. No kings, no kings, no kings. The pursuit of happiness, the right to life and liberty. No kings, no kings, no kings No child going hungry, for there's plenty enough to eat, with no kings, no kings, no kings. May I recognize your soul that you might see the soul in me? No kings, no kings, no kings. Close your eyes and listen so that you may truly see. No kings, no kings, no kings. Let the killing of my foe indeed destroys a part of me. No kings, no kings, no kings, no hatred, no violence, no starvation, and no greed, no kings, no kings, no kings.

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Oasis soon to be the newest members of the Rock and Roll Hall theme alongside Iron Maiden and Hilk Holland. And that's gonna be interesting because Lil Yoger doesn't really like Hilk Hillens very much. And I think the feeling is mutual. Liam Yelder. The Rock and Hall fame or Mother. Mother Hall. Liam is Mother Fly. Anyway, you know, you know the man like it. We have a V-side. One of the more famous V Side. And the recording was made of that song, which was their second song, and what a video they did last year. And we stadium and at the bonus track on a new album by the British Hurry Warchild UK. The album is called Help 2, and it provides a variety of hated children affected by wars around the world. And there are a few of those going on right now. Before that, we heard radiohead! OK Computer 1997 around the thing. We heard the thing. The phone was originally recorded and released on the original health album by War in 1995. Before it was released on OK Computer. Right now. This is a song called Union Diamond Union Square.

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Poison perfume in the end. I stuck my ears to the siren's call. And I don't see anything at all. Scarlet open the horse to the hand. Are you going to scover? Time to kill it.

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If being bad was cool. And not just bad, bad, but good, bad. And not just bad, bad, I mean not evil. I wouldn't say I was a problem child. The moral detail culture made me wild. The first words I spoke were real snake. It came from a song I said, take that crazy kick up. She looked as dangerous as she was glamorous. What the hell? That damn world death. With the blue, black, and the bleach, white. I still have the darkness about them. It's often me enjoying the helmet. My lunatic glorious daydream. And my fragile self-esteem. Everyone in the magazine. Photo was a rock star by proxy rox. So I spent my nights watching focus play. At the rock sea, rox. But the next time to make it work. I want to be dangerous and glamorous and amorous and also serious. I want to be dangerous and also glamorous. I want to be dangerous and glamorous.

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Great tune, The Kid. He just has one great song after the other. He was featured on our locals-only show last month, Lou Black, Born in Peru, based here in Washington, DC. A song about one of his rock and roll heroes, Kid Congo, the founder of the band The Gun Club. And a former guitar for the cramping and Friday 24th.

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Billy grew up in the middle of everywhere. He never had a say. Billy wondered every weekend what he was doing there. Everything was gray. Then he looked at the right bow. Flying on the shopping mall. Shopping mall. But he had to have it all. Then he said, Can I be one of the fabulous people? Always fun and never scared. I tried being myself, but no one cared. Soon Billy was like a kid in a makeup store. He had to get away. Especially because Star Marcy was the place he headed for. Happy, glad and gay. Oh city. No, really had to have it all. And he said, Can I be one of the fabulous people? Always fun and never scared. I tried being myself, but no one cared One night Billy went in a place where there were no girls. Oh happy day. A genie appeared, whispered in his ear, You wanna give it a whirl. Billy ran away. But he looked every noin by the mirror ball. Billy had to have it all. And he said, Can I be one of the fabulous people? Always fun and never scared. I tried being myself, but no one cared.

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I'm tired of waiting on a movie time machine. Sick of windowing if my family misses me. I love my sister, but I hate it in LA. My parents need me, but they know that I can't stay. I can't stay down my bedroom.

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You lost the currency, I'm running below these days. I never listen when they tell me. I just say I don't wanna leave and I don't know myself. Without the big mistakes that I make so well. What stories could I tell?

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Don't say those days I'm restless, let me rest, just let me try it back. Don't say those days of world. I have gone to the I didn't have anything I thought I was a responsible person. So I had responsibilities. So I woke up from my dream, wish I wasn't born in this town. So it didn't have to wanna leave it.

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That's slow noon. She has an EP out called Principles in the Way of Progress, and we heard, I happen to the world, and it happens to me. She's a singer and guitar player, she's lived in Germany and the UK and a bunch of other places. Before that, we heard Yellow Card. Doing a song that was off their album from last year, Better Days. The song was called Bedroom Posters. They re-recorded it recently, featuring members of Good Charlotte, the pride of Waldorf, Maryland, including Joel Madden singing on vocals on that tune. Both of those bands toured together this past winter in Australia and New Zealand. Well, Yellow Card is touring the US this summer with the bands Newfound Glory and Plain White Tees, and they seem to be playing in most of the US except within a 200-mile radius of DC. We must have some kind of reverse horse feel that's pushing them away. So you gotta go to Charlotte or Asbury Park or Pittsburgh or New York to go see them. Before that, Joe Jackson, the song Fabulous People, off their latest and his latest and greatest, Hope and Fury. And you can see Joe Jackson in DC. He's gonna be at the Lincoln Theater on July 7th. And with that, it's time to unplug the Ready Kilowatt Hour for another week. A reminder, you can stream our old shows at readykradio.busrout.com and also on your favorite podcast apps. We'll be back on Radio Fairfax next Thursday night at 9 with both rock and roll. Until next week, it's ReadyJ Kilowatt, your rock and roll servant. Stay well, stay safe, and please don't kill anyone. Good night!