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Saturday April 5th, 2025 with Heavy Ben
Attack of the Heavy B's!

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Heavy Ben in with B-sides from 12" singles: non-album tracks, dubs, and versions. new wave | electro | post punk | reggae | funk | electronic | indie rock | hip hop (to embiggen the show icon, right-click and choose "Open image in new tab")
Late Bar
Duran Duran - Planet Earth 12" - EMI - 1981
Closet Freak (Special Mix)
Videeo - Closet Freak 12" - HCRC (Houston Connection Recording Corporation) - 1982
Click Of The Clock
Bolero Lava - Inevitable 12" - MO DA MU - 1984 Canadian
Down Jamaica Way
Joe Gibbs & The Professionals - Send Some Rain 12" - Errol T - 1978
I'll Be Good (Instrumental)
René And Angela - I'll Be Good 12" - Mecury - 1985
The Man With The 4-Way Hips (Dub Version)
The Tom Tom Club - The Man With The 4-Way Hips 12" - Island - 1983
Mummy's Not At Home Tonight
Antena - Be Pop 12" - Les Disques Du Crépuscule - 1983
Tonto (Four Tet Remix)
Battles - Tonto+ 12" - Warp - 2007
Fade Away
Kinetic Ideals - Angular Sky 12" - Mannequin Records - 1982 Canadian
Funky Little Beat (Instrumental)
Connie - Funky Little Beat" - Sunnyview - 1985
Hospital, Hospital (Psychotic Version)
Sweet Marauders - Hospital, Hospital 12" - Lotus - 1982 Canadian
Something's Burning
The Stone Roses - One Love 12" - Silvertone - 1990
Yr City's A Sucker (Instrumental Version)
LCD Soundsystem - Yr City's A Sucker 12" - DFA - 2005
Telephone Dub
The Fall - Telephone Thing 12" - Cog Sinister - 1990
Tomato
Phillis Dillion - Right Track 12" - High Note - ~1970s
Touch The Rock (Rhythm Rap Rock Revival) (Instrumental)
Count Coolout - Touch The Rock 12" - Boss Records - 1982
Boomerang (instrumental)
U2 (prod. Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois) - Pride 12" - Island - 1984
It's Over Now (Dubba)
Manzel - It's Over Now 12" - Dopebrother - 2003 (rec. 1970s)
(Long) Beach Culture
Thompson Twins - Lies 12" - Arista - 1982
Detective Pandit Rey
Païkan And The Sadhus - Dance Floor Fight 12" - Jazzman - 2009
China Darling (Instrumental)
Radar - China Darling 12" - Matra - 1983 Canadian
Can't Get Over Losing You
Gregory Isaacs - Disrespectful Woman 12" - Fidel - 1985
Interactive CKCU
X
"HEigh!" (As instructed, looking in to say this.) ;^)

8:07 PM, April 5th, 2025
Wally
Good evening Heavy Ben, great to hear some B-sides not sure if you saw this article by music writer Pete Paphides talking about B-sides https://www.patreon.com/posts/one-day-you-find-125757827?utm_campaign=patron_engagement&utm_source=post_link&post_id=125757827&token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJyZWRpc19rZXkiOiJpYTI6NGYwYjZhZmQtODhlZS00ZDczLWE4YWEtODJlZmUzMWRiNzUxIiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTI1NzU3ODI3LCJwYXRyb25faWQiOjUzMDgwMDA2fQ.cZRvWtczysNOpMf6bsrgug_MmYNKGp6kzWpEqm64Epk&utm_id=d7e73e56-732e-4f46-a388-4f512b9db03b&utm_medium=email

8:10 PM, April 5th, 2025
Ben Armstrong (host)
Hello X. From whom do you take instructions?

8:14 PM, April 5th, 2025
Ben Armstrong (host)
Hey Wally, thanks for the link, I'll check that out!

8:14 PM, April 5th, 2025
X
From you Ben. You said to say to log in and say "heigh" when you did your intro. or might have been "hay", or possibly "hey". This dad joke apparently doesn't work in texts. Pretty damn funny in person (imho( in the car with the kids in the summer, yelling "hay!" and pointing at the bales in the fields as we drive past.

8:24 PM, April 5th, 2025
Ben Armstrong (host)
X - good to hear that my instructions are making their way over the air waves! There's a far side cartoon of cows in a car yelling at people standing in a field.

8:27 PM, April 5th, 2025
Wally
I really like The Tom Tom club

8:31 PM, April 5th, 2025
Jas Nasty
Sounding good

8:31 PM, April 5th, 2025
Ben Armstrong (host)
Not just any Tom Tom Club, Wally

8:32 PM, April 5th, 2025
Ben Armstrong (host)
Jas Nasty, thanks for dropping in!

8:32 PM, April 5th, 2025
Wally
When you add dub it makes it even better 👌

8:34 PM, April 5th, 2025
X
I know (groc) that one. Also good, and surprisingly closes the loop (!) is the cartoon: "Donning his new canine decoder, prof Schwartzman becomes the first human to hear what barking dogs are actually saying" Spoiler alert it's Hey! Hey! Hey!. Also, thanks for the shout out ! Also, you are killing the tunes tonight.

8:39 PM, April 5th, 2025
Eddy
Hey Ben, to me B-sides were always that surprise unfiltered part of a single hit track …..I am the Walrus goo-goo g’ajoob 🎶

8:45 PM, April 5th, 2025
Wally
I have a single by Kinetic Ideals and I'm pretty sure my brother and I saw them play live back in the day. I may even still have the poster 👌

8:47 PM, April 5th, 2025
Brian
Digging the show lots tonight!

8:48 PM, April 5th, 2025
Ben Armstrong (host)
X - ah yes Prof Schwartzman!

8:49 PM, April 5th, 2025
Ben Armstrong (host)
Hi Eddy, glad you appreciate the B-side theme. That was a lesson I learned as teen... turn the record over and you might be surprised

8:50 PM, April 5th, 2025
Wally
I found the poster https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xo2gqulithqjtyd8604eh/Kinetic-Ideals-Dave-Howard-Singers-Jungle-Club-Mar-3-4-5.jpg?rlkey=uaicf24cm2lur0n9lf2ib8l3s&st=a049peky&dl=0

8:51 PM, April 5th, 2025
Eddy
Hey Wally, how many posters do you still have, talked to big Al on FaceTime yesterday from his music cave and there were many classic ones.

8:51 PM, April 5th, 2025
Ben Armstrong (host)
Hey Wally, that's cool if you saw Kinetic Ideals. Dig up that poster!

8:52 PM, April 5th, 2025
Ben Armstrong (host)
Brian, thanks for letting me know!

8:52 PM, April 5th, 2025
Wally
Hi Eddy, please send my greetings to Al. I still have hundreds of posters and have started to digitize some of them. My brother even has pictures and recordings of many of the shoes as well. Wish I had the technology to digitize them before the cassettes deteriorate too much.

8:55 PM, April 5th, 2025
Wally
That should read "shows" not "shoes"

9:00 PM, April 5th, 2025
Eddy
Corney Forest Gump joke …"life is like a box of B-sides ya never know what you’ll get 🤩

9:01 PM, April 5th, 2025
Ben Armstrong (host)
Nice one, Eddy. Especially on Heavy Friends!

9:05 PM, April 5th, 2025
Eddy
LCD is awesome like Talking Heads Bush of Ghosts

9:12 PM, April 5th, 2025
Wally
The Fall played at The Roxy on Elgin Street

9:17 PM, April 5th, 2025
Ben Armstrong (host)
Yes Eddy, LCD mos def drank from the Byrne & Eno fountain. And The Fall, too, apparently as Mark E. Smith accused James Murphy of ripping him off!

9:18 PM, April 5th, 2025
X
My life in the bush of ghosts. Epic

9:32 PM, April 5th, 2025
Ben Armstrong (host)
You got it, X. This Thompson Twins b-side is another example!

9:39 PM, April 5th, 2025
Wally
Cool grooves 👌👍

9:39 PM, April 5th, 2025
X
Thanks Medium and a bit more Ben great show. :^)

9:54 PM, April 5th, 2025
Ben Armstrong (host)
Thanks X and all for joining me tonight on Heavy Friends!

9:55 PM, April 5th, 2025
Dee Jay Buddah
Hi Wally, saw your note to Eddy! Hope you're doing well--I still have a Kinetic Ideals 12" somewhere LOL Regards Big Al

10:35 PM, April 5th, 2025
Wally
Hi Al ir should I say Dee Jay Buddah, I'm doing well and hope you are too. I'm still collecting music. Kinetic Ideals were a great band. Saw may cool bands back in the day. Take care and hope our paths cross again.

10:41 PM, April 5th, 2025