ALICE NOT JOHN Episode 9: A Fictional Radio Transmission Guest: Frank Dommert (A-Musik)

ALICE NOT JOHN
Episode 9: A Fictional Radio Transmission
Guest: Frank Dommert (A-Musik)
Host: Joeri Bruyninckx

A conversation I overheard in a record store:

Customer: “Do you have Coltrane?”
Record shop owner: “In the jazz section.”
Customer: “I mean Alice, not John.”
Record shop owner: “In the jazz section.”

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ALICE NOT JOHN is the name of a fictional radio show. The idea is this: for every episode, I ask a musician the same 12 questions. The answers I receive are the “playlist” of my fictional radio show. The questions are these:

1) Which song always brings you back to your childhood?

Frank Dommert: One is ‘Tainted Love’ by Soft Cell. Marc Almond is featured on Psychic TV’s ‘Force The Hand Of Chance,’ which was my start into Industrial Music around 1983 or ’84.

2) Which is your favorite shower sing-along song?

I don’t sing along though Eek-A-Mouse sometimes makes me wish I could: ‘Border Patrol’ (to find on an underrated album from 1991, ‘U-Neek’; the song is also pretty up to date).

3) What was your favorite song as a teenager?

‘Norepinephrine’ from Nocturnal Emissions – ‘Drowning In A Sea Of Bliss’ (‘Anthems Of The Meat Generation’)

4) What is your favorite air-guitar song?

Guru Guru – ‘Baby Cake Walk’ from ‘Käng Guru,’ their 3rd album and maybe the best. Acid Krautrock.

5) Which song do you associate with your 20s?

Pere Ubu – ‘We Have The Technology’.

6) From which song do you know the lyrics by heart?

Alvin Lucier – ‘I Am Sitting In A Room’.

7) Which song gives you consolation when you feel sad?

‘Diane’ – Hüsker Dü.

8) Tell me about a song you think people wouldn’t expect you to like.

‘Independent Women Part I’ from Destiny’s Child – ‘Survivor’.

9) Which song do you recommend to people if you think they don’t know it?

‘The Drum’ from Slapp Happy – ‘Acnalbasac Noom’.

10) ‘Wonderful Tonight’ by Eric Clapton is a break-up song (about a couple who decide not to tell their friends they just broke up because they don’t want to spoil a party they’re planning to go to). Strangely enough, this song often gets played as the opening song at weddings. Tell me about a song you misunderstood when you first heard it.

Thought she sings “penis” in love.

11) Which song always makes you do silly dance moves?

‘Sun Watcher’ from Albert Ayler – ‘New Grass’.

12) Which song do you quote most often? Which line?

Last Few Days – ‘Too Much Is Not Enough’.

Joeri Bruyninckx