Monday, March 09, 2026

Bartlemania, Week Of March 14, 2026

The Doctor's social media links:


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  -  3:08  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute
13:03:08  -  1:34  -  Leroy Anderson  -  The Typewriter  -  Greatest Hits  -  RCA

13:04:58  -  3:32  -  The Vaselines  -  Son Of A Gun  -  Enter The Vaselines  -  Sub Pop
13:08:27  -  3:37  -  Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers  -  Rockin' Shopping Center  -  Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers  -  Omnivore
13:12:00  -  4:57  -  Snakefinger  -  Bring Back Reality  -  Manual of Errors  -  TEC Tunes

13:17:23  -  12:54  -  Frank Zappa  -  The Gumbo Variations  -  Hot Rats (original 1969 mix)  -  zappa.com

13:30:36  -  8:33  -  Johnny Dowd  -  A Picture From Life's Other Side  -  Live at the Night & Day Cafe, Manchester, UK  -  johnnydowd.com
13:39:09  -  2:29  -  Spirit  -  Atomic Boogie  -  The Mercury Years  -  Mercury
13:41:32  -  1:59  -  Ed Sanders  -  Nonviolent Direct Action  -  Beer Cans On The Moon  -  Reprise

13:43:52  -  2:38  -  The Dead Milkmen  -  Punk Rock Girl  -  Death Rides A Pale Cow  -  Restless
13:46:27  -  5:05  -  Grateful Dead  -  Eyes of the World  -  Wake of the Flood (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)  -  Grateful Dead Productions

13:51:46  -  3:27  -  Giles, Giles & Fripp  -  Passages of Time  -  The Brondesbury Tapes (1968)  -  Voiceprint
13:55:09  -  2:51  -  Dub Specialist  -  Granny Scratch Scratch (excerpt)  -  Roots Dub  -  Winro


14:00:10  -  8:07  -  CAN  -  Cuxhaven 76 Zwei (Two)  -  Cuxhaven 1976  -  Spoon
14:07:56  -  12:55  -  Jack Rose  -  Spirits In The House  -  Tour-Only CD  -  Archive CD
14:20:40  -  10:11  -  John Fahey  -  What The Sun Said  -  The Dance of Death & Other Plantation Favorites  -  Takoma

14:31:09  -  18:00  -  Baffo Banfi  -  Goodbye My Little Star  -  Galaxy My Dear  -  Red Record

14:49:27  -  8:33  -  Egg  -  Boilk (Including Bach's Durch Adams Fall Ist Ganz Verderbt)(excerpt)  -  The Polite Force  -  Esoteric


Sunday, March 01, 2026

Bartlemania, Week Of March 7, 2026

The Doctor's social media links:


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  -  3:08  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute
13:03:07  -  1:42  -  Robyn Hitchcock  -  Uncorrected Personality Traits  -  I Often Dream Of Trains  -  Rhino

13:05:12  -  5:04  -  Black Sabbath  -  Sweet Leaf  -  Master of Reality  -  Rhino
13:10:09  -  3:52  -  The Rolling Stones  -  Sway  -  Sticky Fingers  -  Capitol
13:13:51  -  3:44  -  Urge Overkill  -  The Break  -  Exit The Dragon  -  Geffen

13:17:57  -  6:02  -  The James Gang  -  Bluebird  -  Yer Album  -  MCA
13:22:57  -  6:19  -  Acid Mothers Temple  -  Electric love Machine  -  Spaceland, Los Angeles, June 6, 2004  -  https://archive.org/details/AMT2004-06-06
13:30:06  -  3:43  -  Cibo Matto  -  Sci-Fi Wasabi  -  Stereotype A  -  WB

13:34:21  -  5:16  -  Gary Numan & Tubeway Army  -  Are Friends Electric (demo)  -  Replicas Redux  -  Beggars Banquet
13:34:21  -  5:16  -  Lard  -  Drug Raid At 4AM  -  The Last Temptation of Reid  -  Alternative Tentacles


13:44:55  -  2:08  -  Norma Tanega  -  Maggie My Dog  -  I'm the Sky, Studio and Demo Recordings, 1964 - 1971  -  https://anthologyrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/i-m-the-sky-studio-and-demo-recordings-1964-1971
13:46:58  -  2:40  -  Mephistopheles  -  In Frustration I Hear Singing  -  In Frustration I Hear Singing  -  Reprise
13:49:34  -  2:23  -  Dr. West's Medicine Show And Junk Band (Norman Greenbaum)  -  How Lew Sin Ate  -  The Eggplant That Ate Chicago  -  Go-Go

13:52:52  -  5:08  -  The Art Of Noise  -  Beat Box (Diversion One) (excerpt)  -  Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise  -  Island


14:00:05  -  11:31  -  Josh Oxford And Co.  -  Tritox (w-Band Intro)  -  Live At Lot 10, Dec 20 2019  -  no label

14:12:05  -  10:30  -  The Electric Golem  -  Smiling Like An Angry Turtle Reworked 2  -  Smiling Like An Angry Turtle  -   Level Green
14:21:39  -  10:23  -  Jan Steele-John Cage  -  Distant Saxophones  -  Voices & Instruments  -  https://jansteelejohncage.bandcamp.com/album/voices-and-instruments
14:31:32  -  5:54  -  The Blitzoids  -  Anniversary Mix  -  Stealing From Innocent Children-Look Up  -  Ad Hoc
14:36:59  -  9:23  -  Boreal Path  -  Life in Cataracts Poured Down  -  Boreal Covenant
14:45:41  -  12:12  -  A Produce  -  The Dreaming Room (Live)  -  Land Of A Thousand Trances  -  Independent Project Records

Sunday, February 22, 2026

Bartlemania, Week Of February 28, 2026

The Doctor's social media links:


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  -  3:09  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute
13:03:06  -  2:48  -  The Cleavers  -  Guns  -  Demo Cassette  -  no label

13:06:21  -  2:33  -  Bull Moose Jackson  -  Meet Me With Your Black Dress On  -  Bad Man Jackson  -  Proper
13:08:53  -  3:06  -  Danny Gatton & Robert Gordon  -  Cruisin'  -  The Humbler  -  NRG
13:11:55  -  2:40  -  The Bad Livers  -  One More Night In A Hotel  -  Blood & Mood  -  Sugar Hill

13:14:56  -  3:20  -  R Stevie Moore  -  Why Should I Love You?  -  Glad Music  -  rsteviemoore.bandcamp.com
13:18:08  -  3:54  -  Lightnin' Hopkins  -  Open Up Your Door  -  Free-Form Patterns  -  Charly
13:21:57  -  3:18  -  The Traveling Wilburys  -  The Devil's Been Busy  -  The Traveling Wilburys Collection  -  Rhino

13:25:43  -  4:36  -  Elton John  -  Screw You  -  Rare Masters  -  Polydor
13:30:13  -  4:18  -  Jean Shepherd  -  Monkey On My Back  -  Jean Shepherd & Other Foibles  -  Collectors Choice
13:34:27  -  2:28  -  Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper  -  Legalize It  -  Root Hog Or Die  -  IRS

13:37:25  -  7:50  -  Frank Zappa  -  Pound For A Brown, Part 2  -  The Mothers, 1971  -  zappa.com
13:45:14  -  3:12  -  Karma  -  Tributo Ao Sorriso  -  Karma  -  Sony
13:48:24  -  2:15  -  The Yellow Balloon  -  Yellow Balloon  -  The Yellow Balloon  -  Sundazed

13:51:12  -  3:48  -  UK Subs  -  Police State  -  Left For Dead  -  ROIR
13:55:00  -  3:00  -  Roy Ayers  -  I Did It In Seattle (excerpt)  -  Virgin Ubiquity  -  BBE

14:00:16  -  3:02  -  Avi C. Engel  -  Raven Asleep  -  A Little Light  -  https://aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/a-little-light
14:02:47  -  10:31  -  Mount Shrine  -  Earth Bridge  -  Shortwave Ruins  -  Cryo Chamber
14:12:46  -  9:41  -  PearlyKesh  -  Octo 9  -  Ongoing October 2023  -  https://pearlykesh.bandcamp.com/album/ongoing-october-2023
14:21:12  -  8:32  -  Water Is The Sun  -  Inward She Turns Her Feathered Hand/Western Grave  -  Ritual Fever  -  Bluesanct
14:28:32  -  12:25  -  Tangerine Dream  -  Journey Through A Burning Brain  -  Electronic Meditation  -  Relativity

14:41:57  -  12:28  -  Robert Fripp  -  Loop 4 and Solo  -  The Kitchen, New York, Feb 5, 1978, First Show  -  https://www.dgmlive.com/

14:54:52  -  3:07  -  Jimi Hendrix Experience  -  Third Stone From The Sun (excerpt)  -  Are You Experienced?  -  MCA

Sunday, February 15, 2026

Bartlemania, Week Of February 21, 2026

The Doctor's social media links:


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  -  3:08  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute
13:03:06  -  9:15  -  Steppenwolf  -  Monster  -  Monster  -  MCA

13:12:31  -  2:28  -  The Byrds  -  I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better (alt ver)  -  Mr Tambourine Man  -  Columbia
13:14:57  -  2:41  -  Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band  -  It's Strange  -  Flowers Never Cry (reissue)  -  Drop Out
13:17:34  -  6:52  -  Arthur Brown/Rustic Hinge  -  Crystallized Petard  -  Replicas/Strangelands  -  Reckless

13:25:00  -  3:47  -  Captain Beefheart  -  Moonlight On Vermont  -  Trout Mask Replica  -  Reprise
13:28:47  -  2:45  -  Cro-Magnon  -  First World Of Bronze  -  Orgasm  -  ESP-Disk
13:31:32  -  2:46  -  Holy Modal Rounders  -  My Mind Capsized  -  The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders  -  Water

13:34:42  -  3:21  -  Rolling Stones  -  Can't You Hear Me Knocking (alt ver)  -  Sticky Fingers (dlx ed)  -  Rolling Stones Records
13:38:03  -  9:51  -  Cat Mother & The All Night Newsboys  -  Track In 'A' (Nebraska Nights)  -  The Street Giveth & The Street Taketh Away  -  Polydor

13:48:21  -  3:09  -  Sume ("Where")  -  Erkigsinek Sapinarama (Uro)  -  Sumut ("Where To")  -  Ulo 
13:51:27  -  2:09  -  Titanic  -  Cry For A Beatle  -  Titanic  -  Repertoire

13:54:12  -  3:48  -  Pussy  -  GEAB (excerpt)  -  Pussy Plays  -  Background


14:00:05  -  8:41  -  Samuel Prody  -  Hallucination  -  Samuel Prody  -  https://samuelprody.bandcamp.com/album/samuel-prody
14:08:38  -  7:36  -  Quill  -  Shrieking Finally  -  Quill  -  Wounded Bird

14:16:40  -  16:52  -  Nektar  -  A Tab In The Ocean (original 1972 mix)  -  A Tab In The Ocean (dlx ed)  -  Purple pyramid

14:33:38  -  8:31  -  Can  -  Quantum Physics  -  Soon Over Babaluma  -  Restless Retro
14:41:58  -  11:36  -  Henry Wolff & Nancy Hennings  -  Through The Void  -  Tibetan Bells 2  -  Celestial Harmonies

14:54:00  -  4:00  -  Pas Musique  -  Shout At The Horizon (excerpt)  -  Come Follow Me  -  Alrealon

Sunday, February 08, 2026

BARTLEMANIA - Week of February 14, 2026 (archive)


The Doctor's social media links:

Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@bartlemania

Bluesky: https://bartlemania.bsky.social

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bartlemania/

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. 


21:00:00  -  3:15  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute

21:03:15  -  1:30  -  Unknown  -  Intro (excerpt)  -  not on album  -  no label

21:04:39  -  3:00  -  The Beatles  -  Rain (2022 Stereo Mix)  -  Revolver (Super deluxe ed)  -  Parlophone


21:07:59  -  3:58  -  Radio Birdman  -  Aloha Steve and Danno  -  The Essential Radio Birdman  -  Sub Pop

21:11:52  -  3:36  -  Lou Reed  -  Hangin’ ’Round  -  Transformer  -  RCA

21:15:19  -  2:37  -  Snakefinger  -  Talking In The Town (Bonus Track)  -  Manual of Errors  -  TEC Tones


21:18:15  -  3:34  -  Traffic  -  Medicated Goo  -  Welcome To The Canteen  -  Island.

21:21:41  -  3:34  -  Skyhooks  -  Horror Movie  -  Ego Is Not A Dirty Word  -  Mercury

21:25:12  -  3:00  -  Mason Williams  -  The Exciting Accident  -  Hand Made  -  WB


21:28:48  -  11:32  -  Crack The Sky  -  Ice  -  Live Sky  -  Lifesong


21:40:41  -  10:05  -  The Tea Company  -  Flowers  -  Come and Have Some Tea With The Tea Company  -  Smash


21:51:02  -  2:44  -  Young Marble Giants  -  Ode to Booker T  -  Colossal Youth (deluxe ed)  -  Domino

21:53:44  -  3:12  -  Bruce Haack  -  OO-Bah Humbug  -  Ebenezer Electric  -  Dimension


21:57:20  -  0:40  -  Sandy Nelson  -  Drums A Go Go (excerpt)  -  King of the Drums  -  See For Miles


22:00:16  -  8:49  -  Coldcut with Lisa Stansfield  -  People Hold On - The Blaze Mix  -  12-inch  -  Ahead Of Our Time

22:09:03  -  6:41  -  Ian Dury & The Blockheads  -  Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3  -  Do It Yourself (expanded)  -  Fuel


22:16:07  -  11:23  -  Gong  -  You Never Blow Yr Trip Forever  -  Gong You  -  Virgin

22:27:17  -  3:32  -  Kenneth Patchen & The Jazz Chamber Sextet  -  Do The Dead Know What Time It Is?  -  Kenneth Patchen Reads His Poetry with Jazz  -  Two-Beat Beatniks


22:31:20  -  2:46  -  The Residents  -  Six things to a Cycle-part 1  -  Fingerprince  -  ESD

22:34:05  -  1:39  -  The Residents  -  Six things to a Cycle-part 2  -  Fingerprince  -  ESD

22:35:44  -  2:26  -  The Residents  -  Six things to a Cycle-part 3  -  Fingerprince  -  ESD

22:38:09  -  3:49  -  The Residents  -  Six things to a Cycle-part 4  -  Fingerprince  -  ESD

22:41:58  -  4:49  -  The Residents  -  Six things to a Cycle-part 5  -  Fingerprince  -  ESD

22:46:48  -  2:18  -  The Residents  -  Six things to a Cycle-part 6  -  Fingerprince  -  ESD


22:49:45  -  9:15  -  Robert Fripp  -  Loop 1 (excerpt)  -  The Kitchen, New York, February 5th, 1978  -  DGMLive


Sunday, February 01, 2026

Bartlemania - Week of February 7, 2026

The Doctor's social media links:


WRFI is archiving my programs for two weeks after they air on Saturdays, 1-3PM (and again, Sunday mornings, 1-3AM).

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  -  3:08  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute
13:03:07  -  7:24  -  Depeche Mode  -  People Are People (On-U Sound Remix)  -  12-inch  -  Sire

13:10:57  -  7:38  -  Josh Oxford  -  Electronic Rondo  -  The OXtet  -  private pressing
13:18:28  -  6:06  -  The Rolling Stones  -  Jigsaw Puzzle  -  Beggars Banquet  -  Abkco
13:24:17  -  4:32  -  The Beatles  -  A Day In The Life (First Mono Mix)  -  Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (Super Dlx Ed.)  -  Apple

13:29:16  -  0:46  -  Bill Hicks  -  Pot Should Be Mandatory (excerpt)  -  Dangerous  -  Invasion
13:30:02  -  2:42  -  Aura  -  Sativa  -  Sativa  -  Cicadelic
13:32:42  -  5:37  -  Way Papa Muse  -  We Will Not Be Afraid (radio edit)  -  digital single  -  papamuse.com
13:38:18  -  5:27  -  R Stevie Moore  -  Traded My Heart For Your Parts  -  7-inch  -  Sweaters and Pearls Records

13:44:20  -  1:37  -  Negativland  -  Megaphone Guy  -  No Brain EP  -  Seeland
13:45:56  -  4:51  -  Johnny Dowd  -  FIRE AND DUST  -  Is Heaven Real? How Would I Know?  -   https://johnnydowd1.bandcamp.com/album/is-heaven-real-how-would-i-know-album
13:50:45  -  6:40  -  Jah Pelikaho  -  KYLYN  -  21st Century Dub  -  ROIR

14:00:06  -  8:42  -  Avi C. Engel  -  Bee Robber  -  A Little Light  -  https://aviengel.bandcamp.com/album/a-little-light
14:08:10  -  21:33  -  John Hassell & Brian Eno  -  Charm (over Burundi Cloud)  -  Possible Musics  -  EG

14:29:55  -  18:33  -  Finite Thor  -  Water Dreams  -  Live at NEEMfest 2024, Homer, NY  -  no label

14:48:56  -  9:04  -  Weasel Walter  -  Half-Death (excerpt)  -  Half-Death  -  https://weaselwalter.bandcamp.com/album/half-death

Sunday, January 25, 2026

Bartlemania, Week Of January 31, 2026

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  -  3:09  -  Silicon Teens  -  Chip 'N' Roll  -  Music For Parties  -  Mute
13:03:05  -  1:57  -  Barbara Moore  -  Take Off  -  Premium Cuts-DeWolfe  -  Vivid Sound

13:05:26  -  8:37  -  Negativland  -  Now  -  Guns  -  SST
13:13:59  -  1:40  -  Teenage Jesus and the Jerks  -  Burning Rubber  -  Discography  -  bandcamp
13:15:36  -  2:04  -  They Might Be Giants  -  (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future  -  Cast Your Pod To The Wind  -  Idlewild

13:18:04  -  3:40  -  Alex Chilton  -  Never Found A Girl  -  Set  -  Bar None 
13:21:47  -  1:40  -  Jonathan Richman  -  The New Teller  -  Berserkeley Chartbusters  -  Line
13:23:26  -  3:03  -  Yabby You Meets King Tubby  -  Plague Upon The Land  -  Walls Of Jerusalem (Expanded Version)  -  Pressure Sounds

13:26:57  -  9:01  -  Frank Zappa with John Lennon & Yoko Ono  -  Well  -  The Mothers 1971  -  zappa.com
13:35:58  -  7:45  -  Camper Van Beethoven  -  Interstellar Overdrive  -  Camper Van Beethoven  -  IRS

13:44:05  -  2:26  -  Mandrake Memorial  -  House Of Mirrors  -  The Mandrake Memorial  -  Poppy
13:46:31  -  4:59  -  Pussy  -  We Built The Sun  -  Pussy Plays  -  Background
13:51:25  -  5:31  -  Seatrain  -  Despair Tire  -  Seatrain-Marblehead Messenger  -  BGO 


14:00:16  -  25:17  -  After Tea  -  Trial,Punishment,The End  -  Joint House Blues  -  Pseudonym

14:25:49  -  14:06  -  Kraftwerk  -  Ananas Symphonie (Pineapple Symphony)  -  Ralf & Florian  -  Vertigo

14:40:12  -  14:54  -  Miles Davis  -  Ascent  -  The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions  -  Columbia

14:55:24  -  2:36  -  Azymuth  -  Mel� Dos Dois Bicudos (excerpt)  -  Azimuth - Deluxe Edition  -  bandcamp