Thursday, October 23, 2025

Bartlemania, Week of November 8, 2025 (repeat)

The Doctor's social media links:


NOTICE: On September 14, 2025, Facebook locked my account without warning or any apparent reason.

All attempts to recover my account have thus far proven unsuccessful.

My other social media accounts are functioning normally.


WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.

WBDY-LP is also allowing its Patreon subscribers to hear anything in its online archive, including previous episodes of Bartlemania. 

13:00:00 - 3:05 - Silicon Teens - Chip 'N' Roll - Music For Parties - Mute
13:03:05 - 2:57 - Various Artists - Salmon Song - Songs Of The System - refugecd.com

13:06:51 - 3:07 - The Great Society - Father Bruce - Born to be Burned - Sundazed
13:09:56 - 2:37 - Jefferson Airplane - Runnin' 'Round This World - Jefferson Airplane Takes Off - RCA
13:12:29 - 6:45 - Jefferson Airplane - The Other Side Of This Life - Bless Its Pointed Little Head - RCA

13:19:55 - 3:13 - Jefferson Airplane - Two Heads - After Bathing At Baxter's - RCA
13:23:08 - 2:31 - Jefferson Airplane - Come Up The Years (mono mix) - Jefferson Airplane Takes Off - RCA
13:25:33 - 9:05 - Jefferson Airplane - Fat Angel - Live At The Fillmore East (May 1968) - RCA
13:34:36 - 2:02 - Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers - Volunteers - RCA

13:37:24 - 18:33 - Finite Thor (Richard Kennicutt and H.G. Thor) Water Dreams (Live) - not on album - no label

13:56:17 - 1:43 - Juan Garcia Esquivel - Harlem Nocturne (excerpt) - Space Age Bachelor Pad Music - Bar None


14:00:15 - 47:50 - Avoidance - Recorded live at The Downstairs in Ithaca, NY, October 7, 2023 not on album - no label

14:48:30 - 6:54 - Synergy - Phobos & Deimos Go To Mars pts 1&2 - Cords - Mercury
14:55:18 - 2:42 - Synergy - On Presuming To Be Modern III (excerpt) - Cords - Mercury

Bartlemania, Week Of November 1, 2025 (repeat)

The Doctor's social media links:


NOTICE: On September 14, 2025, Facebook locked my account without warning or any apparent reason.

All attempts to recover my account have thus far proven unsuccessful.

My other social media accounts are functioning normally.


WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.

WBDY-LP is also allowing its Patreon subscribers to hear anything in its online archive, including previous episodes of Bartlemania. 

13:00:00 - 3:05 - Silicon Teens - Chip 'N' Roll - Music For Parties - Mute
13:03:05 - 1:39 - Double Dee - The Bells - not on album - https://ddsteinski.bandcamp.com/track/the-bells
13:04:37 - 2:25 - Bob Guy - Dear Jeepers - Frank Zappa-Cucamonga - Del-Fi

13:07:38 - 2:22 - Bob Guy - Letter From Jeepers - Frank Zappa-Cucamonga - Del-Fi
13:09:54 - 6:20 - Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath - WB

13:16:32 - 1:22 - Meat Department - The Monster's Gonna Get You - Moe's Meat Sandwich - private pressing
13:17:56 - 3:38 - Sloppy Seconds - The Thing From Uranus - The Thought Remains The Same - Nitro
13:21:28 - 4:15 - Michael Hurley - The Werewolf - Wolf Ways - Koch

13:28:24 - 7:44 - Lord Buckley - The Raven - A Most Immaculately Hip Aristocrat - Collectors Choice
13:34:01 - 2:11 - Basil Rathbone - Annabel Lee (with music by Todd Rundgren-"There Are No Words") - The Edgar Allan Poe Collection - Harper Audio
13:36:08 - 4:40 - Sky Cries Mary - 2000 Light Years From Home - A Return to the Inner Experience - World Domination

13:41:31 - 2:40 - William S Burroughs - Is Everybody In? - Stoned Immaculate - Elektra
13:44:11 - 8:40 - The Doors - The Soft Parade - The Soft Parade - Elektra

13:53:19 - 4:41 - Captain Beefheart - Kandy Korn (excerpt) - Strictly Personal - Blue Thumb


14:00:48 - 42:31 - Avoidance - The Downstairs, Ithaca, NY, October 21, 2023 - no on album - no label

14:43:39 - 9:35 - Drekka - The Water of Life (Unbeknownst to the Houses) - The Water of Life - bandcamp

14:53:43 - 3:17 - Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura - Black Rain (excerpt) - The Grand Celestial Purge - bandcamp

Friday, October 17, 2025

Bartlemania, Week Of October 25, 2025

The Doctor's social media links:


NOTICE: On September 14, 2025, Facebook locked my account without warning or any apparent reason.

All attempts to recover my account have thus far proven unsuccessful.

My other social media accounts are functioning normally.


WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.

WBDY-LP is also allowing its Patreon subscribers to hear anything in its online archive, including previous episodes of Bartlemania. 

13:00:00  -  3:10  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute
13:03:07  -  3:36  -  African Head Charge  -  Throw It Away  -  Off The Beaten Track  -  On-U Sound

13:07:03  -  5:02  -  Willie Williams  -  Armagideon Time  -  Armagideon Time  -  Studio One
13:12:04  -  3:21  -  Bunny Wailer  -  Trouble Is On The Road Again  -  Solomonic Singles Vol. 2 (Rise & Shine 1977-1986)  -  Dub Store Records
13:15:21  -  5:16  -  Linton Kwesi Johnson  -  What About The Workin' Class  -  Paris Theater, London, May 1984  -  no label

13:21:08  -  4:18  -  Blanc Du Blanc  -  Difficulty At The Beginning  -  Scientist Meets Blanc Du Blanc (Before The Beginning)  -  Soul Selects
13:25:21  -  2:23  -  Emancipator  -  Pollo Sneeps  -  Mountain Of Memory  -  Loci Records
13:27:40  -  4:34  -  Ikebe Shakedown  -  Kings Left Behind  -  Kings Left Behind  -  Colemine

13:32:42  -  4:31  -  Jimmy Witherspoon  -  Evil Man Blues  -  Handbags & Gladrags  -  ABC
13:37:12  -  3:03  -  Leonard Schaeffer  -  The Artist  -  A Boy & His Dog  -  Warner Bros
13:40:12  -  2:09  -  The Pretty Things  -  Don't Bring Me Down  -  The EP Collection Plus  -  See For Miles
13:42:21  -  2:18  -  Jim Kweskin & Jug Band  -  Garden Of Joy  -  Garden of Joy  -  Reprise

13:45:09  -  9:20  -  Frank Zappa  -  Inca Roads  -  Stockholm, Sweden, May 1, 1988  -  no label
13:54:28  -  3:32  -  Pink Floyd  -  Brain Damage (excerpt)  -  Rainbow Theater, London, Feb 17, 1972  -  no label

14:00:34  -  18:10  -  Darsombra  -  Mega-Void part 1  -  Mega-Void  -  https://darsombra.bandcamp.com/
14:18:44  -  6:15  -  Darsombra & The Heirs Of Rockefeller  -  Nymphaea (The Drugs Won the Drug War Mix)  -  Nymphaea (remixed-reinterpreted)  -  https://darsombra.bandcamp.com/

14:25:28  -  15:40  -  Sun Ra  -  Calling Planet Earth-Hit That Jive Jack  -  Live In Roma 1980  -  Holidays Records

14:41:37  -  16:23  -  Charlie Nothing  -  The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing (excerpt)  -  The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing  -  Real Gone Music

Wednesday, October 01, 2025

Bartlemania, Week of October 18, 2025 (repeat)

The Doctor's social media links:


NOTICE: On September 14, 2025, Facebook locked my account without warning or any apparent reason.

All attempts to recover my account have thus far proven unsuccessful.

My other social media accounts are functioning normally.


WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.

13:00:00  -  3:02  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute
13:03:08  -  2:27  -  They Might Be Giants  -  I Should Be Allowed to Think  -  John Henry Demos  -  Idlewild

13:05:56  -  3:20  -  Zerosen  -  Scramble  -  Asphalt (1976)  -  JVC
13:09:15  -  3:50  -  Roots Radics  -  Midwife Dub  -  Jah Thomas Meets The Roots Radics Dubbing (1999)  -  Trojan
13:13:02  -  3:10  -  Emancipator  -  Blue Dream  -  Mountain of Memory  -  Loci

13:16:40  -  19:37  -  Frank Zappa  -  Chunga's Revenge (Take 8)  -  Funky Nothingness  -  zappa.com

13:36:33  -  11:30  -  CAN  -  Paperhaus/Mushroom  -  Tago Mago  -  Restless Retro
13:48:00  -  7:00  -  Magma  -  Thaud Zaïa  -  Kobaïa (Remastered)  -  https://seventhrecordsmagma.bandcamp.com/

13:55:25  -  2:35  -  Sardonicus  -  Evaporated Brain (excerpt)  -  Wayfaring Strangers/Acid Nightmares  -  Numero Group


14:00:08  -  8:00  -  Brian Auger & The Trinity  -  Season Of The Witch  -  Genesis  -  Polydor
14:08:09  -  6:50  -  Fever Tree  -  Man Who Paints The Pictures Part II  -  Another Time, Another Place (1970)  -  UNI

14:15:28  -  11:10  -  Cold Sun  -  Ra-Ma  -  Dark Shadows  -  Sonobeat

14:26:50  -  6:19  -  Brand X  -  Don't Make Waves  -  Roxy Theater-West H'Wood, Sep 21, 1979  -  no label

14:33:40  -  24:20  -  Soft Machine  -  Set 2 (excerpt)  -  Live at Henie Onstad Art Centre 1971  -  Reel Recordings

Bartlemania, Week Of October 11, 2025 (repeat)

The Doctor's social media links:


NOTICE: On September 14, 2025, Facebook locked my account without warning or any apparent reason.

All attempts to recover my account have thus far proven unsuccessful.

My other social media accounts are functioning normally.


WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.

13:00:00  -  3:06  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute
13:03:06  -  3:21  -  Stan Freberg  -  Saint George & The Dragonet  -  Stan Freberg Greatest Hits  -  Curb

13:06:48  -  4:10  -  Joy Division  -  Atmosphere  -  Heart & Soul (1997)  -  London
13:10:55  -  5:08  -  Cabaret Voltaire  -  Yashar  -  2X45  -  Mute
13:16:01  -  6:36  -  DOM  -  Let Me Explain  -  Edge Of Time (1972)  -  Melocord

13:23:08  -  4:06  -  Ikebe Shakedown  -  Hammer Into Anvil  -  Kings Left Behind  -  Colemine
13:27:11  -  4:53  -  Incredible Bongo Band  -  Apache  -  Bongo Rock  -  Strut
13:31:59  -  3:12  -  The Ophelias  -  In America The Other Day  -  The Ophelias  -  https://theopheliasofficial.bandcamp.com/

13:35:40  -  2:03  -  The Beatles  -  Baby's In Black  -  Beatles For Sale  -  Parlophone
13:37:41  -  3:18  -  The Beatles  -  Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 26)  -  Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Ed)  -  Apple
13:40:57  -  4:44  -  R. Stevie Moore  -  Waiting For Life To Stop  -  Pow Wow  -  https://rsteviemoore.bandcamp.com/

13:46:11  -  4:35  -  John Cale  -  Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)  -  Fragments Of A Rainy Season  -  Hannibal
13:50:46  -  3:29  -  Omnivore  -  Pink Electric  -  Rounds  -  https://omnivoresounds.bandcamp.com/album/rounds
13:54:12  -  2:41  -  Tom Waits  -  Ice Cream Man  -  Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 10-8-74  -  no label

13:57:18  -  0:42  -  Don Muro  -  Squash (YUUKI MATTHEWS Remix) (excerpt)  -  Squash Remixes  -  Flannelgraph


14:00:05  -  6:14  -  Synergy  -  Delta Four  -  Games  -  Mercury

14:06:32  -  20:55  -  (J Robert) Lennon, (Trevor) Pinch & (James) Spitznagel  -  Swarm 4  -  Swarm 123&4  -  https://plus-ultra.bandcamp.com/album/swarm-123-4

14:27:41  -  11:30  -  Terry Riley  -  Celestial Valley  -  Shri Camel  -  Columbia Masterworks

14:39:22  -  15:52  -  Avoidance  -  There is a Hole in the Moon I Shall Fill with Shadow and Bone  -  Avoidance  -  https://avoidanceds.bandcamp.com/album/avoidance

14:55:45  -  2:15  -  Sun Ra  -  The Prophet At Play (excerpt)  -  Prophet  -  https://sunramusic.bandcamp.com/

Saturday, September 27, 2025

Bartlemania, Week Of October 4, 2025

The Doctor's social media links:


NOTICE: As of September 14, 2025, Facebook locked my account without warning or any apparent reason.

I may be locked out of Facebook for the foreseeable future. 

My other social media accounts are functioning normally.


WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.

13:00:00  -  3:10  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute
13:03:07  -  4:55  -  Barney Wilen & His Amazing Free Rock Band  -  Dear Professor Leary  -  Dear Professor Leary  -  MPS

13:08:21  -  6:45  -  Jefferson Airplane  -  The Other Side of This Life  -  Bless Its Pointed Little Head  -  RCA
13:15:01  -  3:16  -  The Seeds  -  Pushin' Too Hard (Take 1)  -  The Seeds (CD reissue)  -  Big Beat

13:18:35  -  2:56  -  Thunderclap Newman  -  Look Around  -  Hollywood Dream  -  Polydor
13:21:25  -  2:30  -  Nick Lowe  -  American Squirm  -  Labour of Lust  -  Yep Roc
13:23:51  -  4:38  -  The Alan Parsons Project  -  The Tell-Tale Heart  -  Tales of Mystery & Imagination  -  Mercury

13:29:02  -  4:41  -  Fanny  -  Young And Dumb (live at the Bijou Cafe, Phila)  -  Fanny-The Reprise Years  -  Cherry Red
13:33:43  -  3:30  -  Gloria Lynne  -  Something Is Wrong  -  The Other Side Of Gloria Lynne (1967)  -  Fontana
13:37:11  -  6:36  -  Curved Air  -  Woman On A One-Night Stand  -  Live On The BBC 1.31.1975  -  no label

13:44:16  -  3:20  -  Jackie Washington  -  Lily Of The West  -  Morning Song  -  Vanguard
13:47:34  -  3:19  -  Guitar Wolf  -  Invader Ace  -  Planet of the Wolves  -  Matador
13:50:51  -  3:04  -  Crazy World of Arthur Brown  -  The Lord Doesn't Want You  -  Strangelands  -  Reckless

13:54:26  -  3:34  -  Goliath  -  If Johnny Comes Marching Home (excerpt)  -  Goliath  -  ABC Records


14:01:38  -  42:14  -  Various Artists  -  Naked Noise Number 12 - Part 2  -  CSMA Ithaca, NY, September 20, 2025  -  no label

14:44:37  -  13:23  -  Yea Big and Greg Saunier  -  No Timing, Second Variation (excerpt)  -  No Timing  -  https://personalarchives.bandcamp.com/album/no-timing

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Bartlemania - Week Of September 27, 2025

The Doctor's social media links:


NOTICE: As of today (September 14, 2025), Facebook locked my account without warning or reason.
All attempts to re-activate my account thus far have failed (they never sent me their confirmation code).

I may be locked out of Facebook for the foreseeable future. 

My other social media accounts are functioning normally.


WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM.

Go to: https://spinitron.com/WRFI/calendar, and click on "Bartlemania" (Saturday at 1PM, natch). You will be redirected to a page with a media player and a playlist.


13:00:00  -  3:11  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute
13:03:06  -  4:25  -  Rahsaan Roland Kirk  -  Freaks For The Festival  -  The Case Of The 3-Sided Dream in Audio Color  -  Collectables

13:07:45  -  2:27  -  The Rubinoos  -  She Loves You  -  The CBS Tapes  -  https://therubinoos.bandcamp.com/album/the-cbs-tapes
13:10:10  -  5:00  -  Houston Fearless  -  Mr Soul  -  Houston Fearless  -  Imperial
13:15:07  -  3:40  -  J.J. Jackson & The Greatest Little Soul Band In The Land  -  Fat, Black & Together  -  The Greatest Little Soul Band In The Land  -  Congress

13:19:13  -  3:02  -  Bob Mould  -  You Need To Shine  -  Here We Go Crazy  -  Granary
13:22:12  -  2:58  -  Buzzcocks  -  Boredom (demo)  -  Another Music In A Different Kitchen (special edition)  -  EMI
13:25:06  -  3:19  -  Elvis Costello  -  Waiting For The End Of The World  -  My Aim Is True  -  Rhino

13:28:51  -  3:00  -  Happy & Artie Traum  -  Mama, It's Such A Long Ride Home  -  Happy & Artie Traum  -  Capitol
13:31:49  -  4:35  -  Goliath  -  Man's Temptation  -  Goliath  -  ABC
13:36:23  -  1:48  -  JK and Company  -  Land of Sensations & Delights  -  Suddenly One Summer  -  White Whale

13:38:38  -  1:58  -  Bob McFadden & Dor  -  The Mummy  -  Songs Our Mummy Taught Us  -  RGM
13:40:35  -  4:02  -  LIARS  -  It Fit When I Was A Kid  -  Drum's Not Dead  -  Mute
13:44:36  -  2:56  -  Lovecraft  -  Will I Know When My Time Comes  -  Valley Of The Moon  -  Reprise

13:47:59  -  4:49  -  Jade Warrior  -  Dance Of The Sun  -  Way Of The Sun  -  Island
13:52:48  -  3:17  -  The Flying Luttenbachers  -  Mass Manslaughter Ma'am  -  7-inch  -  Rock Is Hell Records

13:56:32  -  1:28  -  I Marc 4  -  Ray Ban (excerpt)  -  GLP 1005  -  https://imarcquattro.bandcamp.com/album/g-l-p-1005


14:00:11  -  8:18  -  CAN  -  Vitamin C (U.N.K.L.E. Mix)  -  Sacrilege  -  Mute

14:08:44  -  12:02  -  GONG  -  Captain Capricorn's Dream Saloon  -  Pre-Modernist Wireless-Peel Sessions  -  Strange Fruit

14:21:12  -  11:36  -  Nerve Net  -  Enclosed Conjunction  -  Reverse Lock  -  https://plus-ultra.bandcamp.com/album/reverse-lock-2

14:33:14  -  14:24  -  Charlie Nothing  -  In Eternity With Brother Frederick  -  The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing  -  Real Gone Music

14:48:02  -  9:58  -  Morton Subotnick  -  Touch Part 2 (excerpt)  -  Touch  -  Columbia Masterworks