WFMU: Bob Brainen: Playlist from February 11, 2023

Listener comments!
	10:52am Meself: Good Morning Bob, Pete and all!
	🥁 10:54am RobbieWhite: Good morning everyone
	10:58am doctorjazz: Happy Saturday Bob and Bobbers!
	🥁 10:59am listener james from westwood: Morning, Bob, Pete, and all ragers!
	10:59am 1whoknewcthulhu: Good morning Bob, Pete, and Fellow Brainiacs!
	10:59am dan: Good morning all
	11:00am doctorjazz: The Bob and Pete show, psyched!
	11:00am Bob Brainen: Meself!
	11:00am Andrew in Toronto: Good morning Bob, Pete and all other listeners!
	🥁 11:00am (Mr) Bill: Burt Bacharach.
	11:00am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @11:00 Hey doc!
	11:00am Bob Brainen: RobbieWhite of WOWD!
	11:01am Bob Brainen: doctorjazz!
	🥁 11:01am wmfromD: Mornin' Bob & Pete and all! Looking forward to this show.
	11:01am Bob Brainen: listener james from westwood!
	11:01am Bob Brainen: 1whoknewcthulhu!
	11:01am Bob Brainen: dan!
	🥁 11:02am (Mr) Bill: I’m confident that this show will not be teenage wasteland.
	11:02am Soule: Good morning all!
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Pete will be here next week.
	🥁 11:02am Will thee Sound Guy: Good morning Bob Brainen, Pete Tomlinson, and all!!!
	11:02am Jeff: Good Morning Bob, Pete + fellow listeners! Looking forward to revisiting some of our teenage music obsessions. Hey Pete, I finally saw the Big Star doc (could’ve sworn I saw it before…). Loved your invaluable contribution!
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Andrew in Toronto!
	11:02am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @11:02 Hi Will!
	11:03am Bob Brainen: (Mr) Bill! Yup R.I.P. Burt.
	🥁 11:03am Will thee Sound Guy: Hi Andrew!
	11:03am SmokinJ: Mornin' brethren.. 8-)
	11:03am Bob Brainen: Soule!
	11:03am Bob Brainen: Will thee Sound Guy!
	11:03am Bob Brainen: Jeff!
	11:04am WR: Hello Bob and drummer streamers.
	11:04am Bob Brainen: SmokinJ!
	11:04am Bob Brainen: WR!
	11:05am WR: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:02 Hope all is well in Pete Land
	11:05am Bob Brainen: wmfromD!
	🥁 11:06am chresti: Morning Bob and braineniacs!
	11:06am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ chresti @11:06 Hi crestikins!
	11:06am Bob Brainen: Sorry folks, the playlist is laid out clunkily and if you look fast it looks like an upcoming show is happening today, but Teenage Rage is next week.
	11:06am Bob Brainen: chresti!
	11:06am WR: ↳ Song: "Keep On Pushing" by "Impressions" Good thoughts to bear in mind, keep on, keep on.
	11:08am Leonardo: Damn, I missed Gene Clark. Any chance you could play it again?
	🥁 11:08am (Mr) Bill: Perfect pop, this Laura—which makes “Stoney End” better pop than perfect.
	11:08am WR: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:06 No worries, we'll blame Doug and then he will come and fix it and later readers will wonder what we're writing about.
	11:09am Meself: ↳ Song: "Insomnia" by "David McCallum" This is my song! Ha, ha…
	11:10am dan: ↳ Song: "Insomnia" by "David McCallum" Is this McCallum the musician or his son the famous actor?
	11:10am doctorjazz: ↳ WR @11:08 True, that's what's on the Give The Drummer schedule for today.
	11:10am Bob Brainen: Ha, not Doug, it's the playlist database. Not that I would know how to make it more clear what's happening?!?!
	11:11am Bob Brainen: Jeez, just noticed the date is today on "upcoming events." That one is on me. My apologies.
	🥁 11:12am hopewithfeathers: No worries Bob, I’m looking forward to whatever you’re planning to play for us today.
	11:13am Roberto: ↳ Song: "The Joker" by "Chiles & Pettiford" This reminds me of the 1980 high school production of Roar/Smell that my brother starred in. Also, Anthony Newley's son was in my high school class.
	🥁 11:13am listener james from westwood: I grew up on the Sérgio Mendes version of "The Joker." Eventually heard Newley himself sing it on FMU and was amazed. This one's a delight!
	11:14am Bob Brainen: hopewithfeathers!
	11:14am Bob Brainen: Roberto!
	11:16am Bob Brainen: I played Newley doing The Joker year ago and got hate mail. My very first hate mail was playing Seals & Crofts. Good times.
	11:18am Gerry from Miami: BOB, perhaps a slight glitch with this week's show, but we did get to hear Ms. Nyro and Gene Clark. Always a gift!
	11:19am Roberto: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:16 Nothin' but love mail from me, Bob.
	🥁 11:19am (Mr) Bill: Bob, any hate mail from playing Three Dog Night last week?
	11:21am Bob Brainen: No hate mail in a long time. These were in the pre on-line playlist days. Now people can leave comments of any type. Luckily I have an understanding audience. :)
	🥁 11:22am wmfromD: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:16 Ya can't please 'em all Bob.
	11:22am Bob Brainen: No, (Mr.) Bill.
	11:22am Bob Brainen: Gerry from Miami, thanks!
	11:22am Roberto: ↳ Song: "Turn That Heartbeat Over Again" by "Steely Dan" DAAAANNNNN
	🥁 11:23am Will thee Sound Guy: It's about Dan time!!! 🕑
	11:24am Meself: ↳ Roberto @11:22 Good times!
	11:24am Bob Brainen: Yeah Wm. I have to say nothing has ever stopped me from playing anything I wanted. Ever. In fact I may have doubled the Seals & Crofts, you know, been defiant...like a teenager.
	11:24am dan: Any tribute to Burt Bacharach today?
	11:26am Bob Brainen: dan, I'll try to get to something but i didn't plan anything. But, rest assured, LOTS of tributes on the FMU mothership and on the the streams.
	🥁 11:28am (Mr) Bill: Bob has a unique aptitude for identifying musical value, even greatness, in music too easily dismissed as cheesy. Exhibit A: “Everything That Touches You.”
	11:29am Bob Brainen: Thanks to Doug S. for correcting the date of the Teenage Rage show to Feb. 18!
	11:30am Meself: ↳ (Mr) Bill @11:28 Yes!
	🥁 11:31am Will thee Sound Guy: 🐸 🐸 🐸
	11:31am Roberto: Without Bob, Roberto would have little to no appreciation for: - Left Banke - Del Amitri - Lots of others, I'm sure.
	11:31am Gerry from Miami: It always pisses me off when people(non-fans!) characterize Steely Dan's music as easy-listening. middle-of-the-road, "yacht rock." The cut you played, Bob, is so sophisticated and full of nuance that the average listener can't begin to appreciate it in any meaningful way. And this was from their debut album 50 years ago!
	11:33am spodiodi: good morning, Bob!
	11:34am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ spodiodi @11:33 Morning spodi!
	11:34am Roberto: ↳ Gerry from Miami @11:31 Many, if not most of Steely Dan's songs are about losers and outcasts. Yacht Rock doesn't celebrate losers and outcasts.
	11:35am spodiodi: gm, Andrew! hope you enjoy your Saturday
	11:36am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Roberto @11:31 If you`re into Del Amitri you should check out the Justin Currie solo cds.
	11:36am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ spodiodi @11:35 I sure am. I hope you are too.
	11:38am Bob Brainen: spodiodi!
	11:39am Bob Brainen: Andrew In Toronto, I saw that on your Youtube channel and watched some. Just great!
	11:40am WR: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:29 Doug S to the rescue. He takes good care of the drummer stream.
	11:41am doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Wee Dot" by "Art Blakey Quintet" GREAT!!! (Wotta Band!) Alto Saxophone – Lou Donaldson Bass – Curly Russell Drums – Art Blakey Piano – Horace Silver Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder Trumpet – Clifford Brown
	11:41am Gerry from Miami: @Roberto. My definition of "yacht rock" is pop music that doesn't reuire the listener to exert any effort to listen to while sipping tropical cocktails aboard an overpriced ocean-going vehicle. Is your definition different?
	11:42am Bob Brainen: The Steely Dan hatred baffles me. Anyone read the Steve Albini article? I gotta say, if you don't like something the best thing to do is ignore it. I don't know why people have to waste time on stuff they dislike. Thanks Steve, for saving the f-ing planet.
	11:43am doctorjazz: ↳ Gerry from Miami @11:41 Is that a bad thing? (I'm ready if anyone will send me on such a trip, though I'd prefer a Carribean beach to the yacht)
	11:43am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:39 They`re spending this summer over here opening for the Barenaked Ladies.
	11:43am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @11:43 Hey doc!
	11:43am Frank Zaatar: Steely Dan got me through the mid-70s.
	11:44am Bob Brainen: Frank Zaatar! Me too!! I've said that for years.
	🥁 11:46am wmfromD: To actually take the time to write about something you dislike and then share it with the world is patently unhip/uncool.
	11:47am WR: ↳ doctorjazz @11:41 Yes, incredible lineup. Just looked at Wikipedia info, Russell and Blakey are about the same age, the others are 7 or more years younger. Is this the first Blakey with younger Jazz Messengers, although Silver is generally considered a cofounder of the Jazz Messengers.
	11:48am Gerry from Miami: I'm with you, doctor jazz! But just as long as we don't have to listen to any of what these "Dan-dissers" call their adopted baby, "yacht rock." The Dan ain't members of THAT club!
	11:48am Meself: ↳ wmfromD @11:46 Be sure to stay away from Reddit.
	11:48am Roberto: ↳ Gerry from Miami @11:41 That was my point. SD's songs often tell sad tales that aren't conducive to mindless recreation.
	11:48am WR: ↳ Song: "Calypso Be" by "Young Tiger" Wow. Calypso Be Bop!
	11:50am Gerry from Miami: Glad to get that straight, Roberto! You're on our team!
	11:50am doctorjazz: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:43 Hi Andrew!
	11:50am Roberto: ↳ Gerry from Miami @11:50 Hells yeah! Team Dan all the way!
	11:51am Roberto: ↳ Roberto @11:50 That said, if I had me a yacht, I'd definitely blast the Dan from it.
	11:51am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @11:50 What are you listening to after Bob?
	11:51am spodiodi: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:36 thanks. so far so good. digging the show
	11:52am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ spodiodi @11:51 Me too.
	11:53am Bob Brainen: So what is it about Steely Dan that brings out such animosity? And can you think of another artist/band that elicits such strong reactions which people feel it's their duty to share?
	11:53am Zipperhead7: Hi Bob! Nice to fire up th website and be greeted by Tony Allen et al
	11:57am coelacanth∅: Greetings Bob & all
	11:57am Bob Brainen: Zipperhead7! He was truly amazing, wasn't he?
	11:58am Zipperhead7: And I gotta say that the Association track you played last week sent me scrambling to rethink their ouevre. Lots of brilliant bass playing!
	11:58am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:44 This is lovely!
	11:58am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:57 Hiya coel!
	11:58am dan: Joe Cocker making a subpar band like U2 sound good
	🥁 11:58am (Mr) Bill: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:53 I dunno. Steely Dan’s music is simultaneously highly sophisticated and blessedly accessible. Perhaps the combination irks some folks.
	11:59am Meself: ↳ dan @11:58 🤔
	🥁 11:59am (Mr) Bill: ↳ dan @11:58 Agreed!
	12:00pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @11:47 I dug out my old Mosaic Box, The Complete Blue Note and Pacific Jazz Recordings of Clifford Brown (they generally have great notes included in the box), and checked on this session/live recording. It was actually before Art Blakey and Horace Silver formed the Jazz Messengers.
	12:00pm Zipperhead7: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:57 Those taillights! They look like a couple of small snapping mouths
	12:00pm coelacanth∅: hey Andrew!
	12:01pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:53 Beautiful segue way.
	12:01pm Bob Brainen: Could be (Mr) Bill. And Becker & Fagen could be a handful to interviewers and hard to pin down, but to being out such strong reactions is really something. Which brings up the point: is it better to be disliked than ignored?
	🥁 12:01pm wmfromD: ↳ Song: "Girl On A Swing" by "Kevin Ayers" Man, I really love this album.
	12:01pm coelacanth∅: hahaha Zipper why didn't i think of that?!
	12:02pm Meself: ↳ Song: "Girl On A Swing" by "Kevin Ayers" I listen to this song a lot. A bit Eno.
	🥁 12:04pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Meself @12:02 First time for me, and certaintly not the last.
	12:04pm Bob Brainen: IIRC, Blakey had a big band date that first used the Jazz Messengers name, maybe on Bethlehem? Then Blakey & Silver co-led the original small units. But was it an amicable parting when Silver left and Blakey took over the name?
	12:05pm Dean: Okay, I'll bite. I am not a SD fan or, rather, I can take SD only in small doses. To my ears, Can't Buy a Thrill is an outlier, inasmuch as it's enjoyable throughout. Why, in particular, do I not like too much SD, i.e., beyond the handful of tracks I hear on this station? Well, for one, I was working in a record store when Aja appeared. We played it over and over and over in the store, a circumstance that guarantees increasing weariness with the album. For all of the musical skill and songwriting cleverness, SD has a signature sound that can be irritating. I know: I haven't provided much in the way of evidence to support my opinion. But I don't "hate" SD. Rather, I can only extract so much enjoyment from their accessible sophistication. One day a few years ago I played The Royal Scam (I have the LP). It caused me to lose sleep that night, "Kid Charlemagne" running through my head on an endless loop. So, yes, the music is memorable, but to a fault.
	🥁 12:12pm Will thee Sound Guy: 🐸 🐸 🐸
	12:12pm Frank Zaatar: ↳ Dean @12:05 I'm convinced that stereo manufacturers in the 70s engineered their equipment so it would sound good on a Steely Dan record in a hifi store.
	12:12pm Gerry from Miami: @Dean. Yes, I too have a lot of "earworms" running unannounced through my head. Many of them are Steely Dan songs. Not 100% sure what that means, but there they reside. And there they will stay.
	12:15pm Gerry from Miami: @Frank Zaatar. I had a salesman of high-end stereo equipment say that same thing about Toto's records.
	🥁 12:16pm Will thee Sound Guy: ↳ Frank Zaatar @12:12 Probably a sound assumption
	🥁 12:18pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @12:16 Pun?
	12:18pm Meself: ↳ Song: "Wild Mountain Thyme (right channel doubled)" by "... So beautiful!
	🥁 12:19pm Will thee Sound Guy: ↳ (Mr) Bill @12:18 just a touch
	12:19pm Listener Robert: ↳ Song: "Wild Mountain Thyme (right channel doubled)" by "... This is Old Blue Rugby Football Club's official song.
	12:19pm Dean: Two records that were ubiquitously played in hi-end hi-fi stores: Jennifer Warnes' Bird On a Wire, and Cowboy Junkies' The Trinity Session. Props to engineers for taking care to record as much audio information as possible, but hi-end nerds could get carried away and miss (or simply not care about) the musical substance.
	12:19pm Frank Zaatar: ↳ Gerry from Miami @12:15 The prospect of spending that much money to listen to Toto makes me shudder.
	12:19pm lou in CHI: This is wild
	12:20pm Bob Brainen: lou in CHI!
	🥁 12:22pm Will thee Sound Guy: Sometimes I play Aja to see if the tops, side fills, and subs are all at a decent level when I'm doing live sound. There are other things that I'll play too
	12:26pm Meself: Listening to The Church always makes me nostalgic…
	12:27pm Dean: I remain a worshiper at the altar of CIMP's Marc Rusch, who pretty much exclusively engineers all-acoustic recordings, mostly of out jazz. His records are superior reproductions of what are often compelling performances.
	🥁 12:30pm Will thee Sound Guy: ↳ Dean @12:27 I'll have to check into it
	12:36pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Iron Man" by "Eric Dolphy" Great!!!
	12:40pm doctorjazz: ↳ Bob Brainen @12:04 According to Wiki- Silver's final recordings with the Jazz Messengers were in May 1956.[37] Later that year, he left Blakey after one and a half years,[34][38] in part because of the heroin use prevalent in the band,[2] which Silver did not want to be involved in. Doesn't sound all that amicable (Blakey has a rep of sometimes paying sidemen with heroine).
	12:42pm Gerry from Miami: @Frank Zaatar. Ain't that the truth?!
	12:42pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @12:40 *heroin
	12:43pm SecretSquirrel: Hi Bob 'n' all!
	🥁 12:46pm Will thee Sound Guy: 🐸 🐸 🐸
	12:46pm SecretSquirrel: re Steely Dan: a lot of people don't understand the concept of an unreliable narrator. They think SD is endorsing the terrible things people do in their songs.
	12:47pm Gerry from Miami: Yes, folks, there was another band named Nirvana beside the one from Seattle! The Night Owl plays the British one quite often on her late-night show on the Rock & Soul stream here at WFMU.
	🥁 12:47pm chresti: ↳ Dean @12:27 CIMP?
	12:48pm doctorjazz: ↳ SecretSquirrel @12:46 Remids me of Fountains of Wayne's Stacey's Mom, I know folks who think they are advocating this kind of behavior.
	12:48pm Dean: Creative Improvised Music Projects https://cadnor.com/collections/creative-improvised-music-productions-cimp
	12:48pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ chresti @12:47 Hiya crestikins!
	12:49pm doctorjazz: ↳ chresti @12:47 Hey chresti- it's a small label that pretty much releases avant garde jazz.
	12:49pm Dean: Speaking of Sonny Simmons, he has a release or two on CIMP.
	12:50pm Meself: ↳ SecretSquirrel @12:46 I really like your take on this.
	🥁 12:51pm chresti: Ah, thanks doc 'n Dean!
	12:51pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ chresti @12:51 Hiya crestikins!
	🥁 12:52pm chresti: Hi Andrewkins!
	12:52pm Dean: I once played a Marshall Allen recording on CIMP for a hi-end stereo salesman who was also an engineer (and a friend of Joe Henderson). We put the disc on his store's system. His jaw dropped.
	12:54pm coelacanth∅: i like steely dan. but there's a cut-off, and that is aja. far too slick, very boring sound. on top of that by the time they got to aja they'd become completely predictable in their arrangements. i like can't buy a thrill a lot, and pretzel logic; the other 3 pre-aja records are pretty good. (i listened to katy lied not long ago and it was pretty boring. i liked it when i was a teenager though.)
	12:55pm Bob Brainen: Jeez Doc, you ask a question, you gotta be prepared for any answer. All in all I'd give Buhaina a thumbs up. Got to. Miles broke up the mid 50s quintet for the same reason: he was tired of sidemen & drugs: Philly Joe, Trane, maybe others (?) Trane went with Monk, kicked heroin and cigarettes, and rejoined Miles. It all worked out! Then Miles didn't want to let him go. Had a terribly hard time replacing him.
	12:56pm Franco Twinkie: I swiped Between the Buttons from the Thrifty Drugs Store in 1967 when I was eleven years old. At that time I could not have articulated the Brian-ness of the sound, but I sure heard it.
	12:56pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Franco Twinkie @12:56 Hi Franco!
	12:57pm Franco Twinkie: Hey Andrew.
	12:57pm Eugene Bentley: Checking in, Bob.
	12:58pm SecretSquirrel: @Dean: True story. I used to be the promo guy for the New Music Distribution Service. One day in about 1989 this band sent us a cassette of their upcoming album for consideration. The cassette broke through the cheap envelope they used and all I had was the note. So I called up the bandleader and said, "Hey Michael, could you send it again in a padded mailer?" Hung up the phone and said to my office mates, "How do they ever expect to succeed with a name like Cowboy Junkies?" And yes, the album was 'The Trinity Sessions.'
	12:59pm coelacanth∅: same here Franco (the latter part! i bought mine) i bought it because i knew the song "connection" from a NRPS/'dead bootleg; and i knew the big hits - but man what an album! top 5 'stones.
	12:59pm Bob Brainen: So back to Steely Dan, we have this music that is slick (I'd say it started w/Katy Lied and got increasingly slick. And, as Secret Squirrel says, they are singing about questionable characters so there's the disconnect between the characters and subject matter and the pristine sound. ....Hell, that description would make me want o hear the freakin' music! FWIW, my favorite Steely Dan is the 1st 3-4 albums. I think the haters focus on the last 2-3 albums. OK, enough 0f my take/recapitulation on Steely Dan.
	1:00pm Bob Brainen: Franco Twinkie!
	🥁 1:01pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Meself @12:50 I as well. I have a cousin-friend who’s fond of trotting out “Every cop is a criminal” in a mindlessly libertarian fashion. After I pointed out that it’s not Jagger and Richards he’s citing—no authorities themselves on policing—but none other than Old Scratch himself, he shut up for a while.
	1:02pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @12:52 Wasn't CIMP connected to a high end stereo outfit, Cadence? I remember seeing their stuff (many accessories, if I recall), but didn't find them now on a quick Google search.
	1:02pm Eugene Bentley: I liked steely Dan up to aja. Goucho took a little while to drow on me.
	1:02pm Dean: That's a great story, SecretSquirrel. My connection to distribution occurred about a decade earlier. I was working for Music+, a small chain in Southern California, when one of the execs, Steve Boudreau, started Greenworld. A buddy and I visited Steve's new digs. He gave me a copy of the first National Health album.
	🥁 1:03pm chresti: ↳ coelacanth∅ @12:59 "She was a waitress at a cocktail bar, a cocka-cocka-cocka cocktail bar..."
	1:03pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @12:59 Absolutely. I had to give that particular record to my friend Mark, because my mom kept asking me who it belonged to. As soon as I got a job, I bought a copy fair and square.
	1:03pm Dean: You are correct, doctorjazz. Cadence was the journal. North Country Audio was the stereo dealership. I bought an MSB DAC from them ages ago. Vladimir was the guy who ran it. He was very accommodating.
	1:04pm Frank Zaatar: ↳ Bob Brainen @12:59 @Bob and Squirrel: I think some of the haters are just turned off by the fans who don't look past the sheen and put them on their playlists.
	🥁 1:04pm chresti: ↳ chresti @1:03 Thank you, People Like Us!
	1:04pm Bob Brainen: Eugene Bentley!
	1:04pm SecretSquirrel: @Dean Nice one!
	🥁 1:05pm Will thee Sound Guy: ↳ Song: "Time Is On My Side" by "Kai Winding & Orchestra" such a full sound
	1:05pm Franco Twinkie: This is so good!
	1:06pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @1:03 North Countrt Audio doesn't seem to come up any more in a search.
	1:07pm Dean: It is no more. But the Cadence space in upstate NY continues to sell a small supply of gear.
	1:07pm Franco Twinkie: 'You're searching for good times, but you wait and see' on a trumpet no less - OYE!
	1:10pm coelacanth∅: it's difficult to imagine singing about unrelatable if not unsavoury characters is not something most people understand completely. (-even millenials and zoomers) there's barely an artist from pre-1980 that doesn't tell a story in a song now & then.
	🥁 1:12pm wmfromD: Did the Dan have it's detractors from the beginning? Or did it come about a little later as the punk/diy thing started to happen. They would seem an obvious target.
	🥁 1:13pm chresti: I was born in 57!
	1:14pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @1:10 To me, it's an aspect of humanity that's rich with possibilities. Just like in real life, the shady characters are some of the most interesting...and fun!
	1:14pm Listener Robert: Just took some time for a phone call, but getting back to the show, frankly, more of what you've played today was in the category that fit what you said it would last week -- "What were we thining?" -- and less of it the stuff that's still pleasing. I have to explain stuff like that to my friends who ask why I listen to WFMU.
	🥁 1:14pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Sounds Of Nature" by "Yusef Lateef" love the sounds!
	1:15pm coelacanth∅: when i was in school steely dan was respected, generally, even if not actively listened to by the popular kids. when aja came out even the popular kids liked it. (as did i)
	1:17pm coelacanth∅: ha, Franco -i've recorded a few albums -that no one will ever hear! and i've thought a few times that if anyone decides that these lyrics are autobiographical i'm in BIG trouble!
	1:19pm SecretSquirrel: @wmfromD: SD weren't immediately divisive – they were seen as a solid rock band and had two Top 40 hits right off their first album. It wasn't until they moved into more fusion-y territory that attitudes began to split.
	1:19pm coelacanth∅: ↳ wmfromD @1:12 so that (me^) to say i think the hate came later.
	1:21pm Meself: ↳ wmfromD @1:12 My first experience with Steely Dan was their Aja album, which came out during my high school years. At the same time, we were also listening to Alice Cooper, The Tubes, Yes, and The Bonzo Dog Band. To me, it was a very eclectic time.
	1:22pm coelacanth∅: i remember hearing "bodhisattva" on the radio when it came out and loving it. so mathematical yet melodic. but that seemed to be somewhat of a dividing line with kids that liked ricki don't lose that number and dirty work.
	1:22pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @1:17 That's why we get along. Tarred with the same brush, as they say.
	1:24pm Frank Zaatar: ↳ wmfromD @1:12 @wmfromdc, I think you got it. It's hard to explain how weird they sounded when they came out (Yamaha organ? electric sitar?). By the time of punk came out those chords and harmonies were an (undeserved) symbol of Rock Bloat. Frankly, The Dan's lyrics have more in common with Lou Reed's than Jimmy Buffet's.
	1:25pm coelacanth∅: why,Franco i thought the characters in your art were all YOU! ...(although i do know you ARE mixed into it -as i am in mine)
	🥁 1:26pm Will thee Sound Guy: 🐸 🐸 🐸
	1:28pm Eugene Bentley: My first Steely Dan record was Rikki Don't Lose That Number 4. I really liked the B-side Any Major Dude.
	1:28pm coelacanth∅: hot rocks version of time is on my side is circumsised
	1:28pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @1:25 Well, I try an separated, but anyone who knows me....
	1:29pm coelacanth∅: (or the single version is... now forget; been a while)
	1:29pm doctorjazz: Gotta run, thanks Bob!
	1:30pm Eugene Bentley: I think there is vast difference between the mono and stereo versions of the Rolling Stones Time Is On My Side.
	1:32pm Dean: Copland is a rightly beloved composer whose output was far more varied than we generally regard it. I'm a sucker for his Our Town, but then I still enjoy Wilder's play, too.
	1:34pm Eugene Bentley: The vinyl version of Hot Rocks has the mono version while the cd version has the stereo which sounds like entirely different take.
	1:34pm Meself: ↳ Meself @1:21 Oh, and Queen.
	🥁 1:34pm chresti: ↳ coelacanth∅ @1:25 They are!
	1:48pm coelacanth∅: chresti!
	1:49pm Andrew in Toronto: What a fabulous show! Thanks Bob!
	1:49pm Meself: ↳ Song: "Parachute" by "Pretty Things" Love this
	🥁 1:49pm (Mr) Bill: Bob is helping me get through the early ’20s and my late ’60s.
	🥁 1:50pm wmfromD: ↳ Song: "Parachute" by "Pretty Things" as great a piece of work as S.F. Sorrow!
	🥁 1:50pm (Mr) Bill: Oh! You Pretty Things!
	🥁 1:52pm chresti: ↳ coelacanth∅ @1:48 Hi coel!
	1:52pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Eugene Bentley @1:34 hi Eugene if time is on my side on hot rocks is a mono version then it's a stereo recording of a mono recording. but what i was referring to was that the us was given that song without a guitar intro
	1:53pm coelacanth∅: (because hot rocks is stereo, that is)
	1:56pm Meself: A pleasure as usual; till we meet again…
	1:56pm spodiodi: great show! thanks, Bob
	🥁 1:56pm listener 126464: Bob, thanks for today's show. Good day all!
	🥁 1:56pm chresti: Thanks Bob!
	🥁 1:57pm listener james from westwood: Many thanks, Bob!
	🥁 1:57pm wmfromD: Great show Bob!
	🥁 1:58pm Will thee Sound Guy: 🐸 🐸 🐸
	1:58pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Willow's Song" by "Magnet" There was a more recent indie-rock band called Magnet. I saw them play at the Brighton Bar in 1997, with Moe Tucker on drums. discogs.com...
	🥁 1:58pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Bob, great show!!!
	1:59pm Eugene Bentley: The version that was on hot rocks cd had what sounds like an organ instead of guitar.
	1:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Bob!
	2:00pm Eugene Bentley: ↳ Eugene Bentley @1:59 Or the original cd release of Hot Rocks.
	2:00pm coelacanth∅: oh, interesting, Eugene -that's the first version, the original us version
	2:01pm coelacanth∅: (i assume)
	9:39am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ Good ♄Saturday FMUvianz ! ~ ~ TY Always DJ BB ~

Bob Brainen: Playlist from February 11, 2023

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Hank Levine & His Orchestra w/ Timothy Leary	Image, Part One / The Psychedelic Experience		1961/1966			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Gene Clark	Keep On Pushin' "Keep On Pushin'" by "Gene Clark"	Gene Clark with The Gosdin Brothers	1967			0:02:20 (Pop-up)
Impressions	Keep On Pushing "Keep On Pushing" by "Impressions"	Definitive Impressions	1964 / 1989			0:04:04 (Pop-up)
Laura Nyro	Hands Off the Man (Flim Flam Man)	More Than a New Discovery	1967			0:06:32 (Pop-up)
David McCallum	Insomnia "Insomnia" by "David McCallum"	Music-A Part Of Me	1966			0:09:06 (Pop-up)
Chiles & Pettiford	The Joker "The Joker" by "Chiles & Pettiford"	Live At Jilly's	1965			0:11:20 (Pop-up)
Professor Longhair	Willie The Prince		1965	Watch label		0:14:16 (Pop-up)
Mark Weinstein and his Cosa Nueva Orchestra	Just Another Guajira	Cuban Roots	1967			0:16:35 (Pop-up)
Steely Dan	Turn That Heartbeat Over Again	Can't Buy A Thrill	1972			0:19:51 (Pop-up)
Tinariwen	Amassakoul 'n' Ténéré	Putamayo Presents: Mali	2003 / 2005	VAR		0:24:45 (Pop-up)
David Greenberger & The Waldameer Players	Simonizer Boss	Today!	2022		*	0:28:06 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"						0:29:57 (Pop-up)
Pee Wee Marquette	Announcement "Announcement" by "Pee Wee Marquette"	Art Blakey Quintet - Live At Birdland	1954			0:37:02 (Pop-up)
Art Blakey Quintet	Wee Dot "Wee Dot" by "Art Blakey Quintet"	Live At Birdland, Vol. 2	1954 / 1956			0:38:00 (Pop-up)
Young Tiger	Calypso Be "Calypso Be" by "Young Tiger"	Beat Jazz - Pictures From The Gone World Vol. 2	1953 / 2009	VAR		0:44:55 (Pop-up)
Tony Allen, Ali Shaheed Muhammed & Adrian Younge	Ebun	Jazz Is Dead 011	2022		*	0:47:53 (Pop-up)
Elizondo, Ojeda, Taveira Trio	Real Fake Love	Cerentenyal	2023		*	0:53:21 (Pop-up)
Joe Cocker	One "One" by "Joe Cocker"	Heart & Soul	2004			0:56:04 (Pop-up)
Kevin Ayers	Girl On A Swing "Girl On A Swing" by "Kevin Ayers"	Joy Of A Toy	1969			1:00:33 (Pop-up)
Ólafur Arnalds & Alice Sara Ott	Eyes Shut	Chopin Project Live	2015			1:03:23 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"						1:09:57 (Pop-up)
Byrds	Wild Mountain Thyme (right channel doubled)	originally from 5d (Fifth Dimension)	1966			1:17:31 (Pop-up)
Rolling Stones	Yesterday's Papers [backing track]		1966	from Between The Buttons sessions		1:20:02 (Pop-up)
The Church	Sisters "Sisters" by "The Church"	Of Skins & Heart	1991	CD bonus track		1:23:17 (Pop-up)
unk	7 Up Ad "7 Up Ad" by "unk"		1968			1:27:28 (Pop-up)
Eric Dolphy	Iron Man "Iron Man" by "Eric Dolphy"	Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions	1963 / 2018			1:27:30 (Pop-up)
Nirvana	Nova Sketch "Nova Sketch" by "Nirvana"	Deep In The Woods: Pastoral Psychedelia & Funky Folk 1968-1975	1972 / 2022	VAR	*	1:36:44 (Pop-up)
Nirvana	Home (Reconstruction) "Home (Reconstruction)" by "Nirvana"	Lullabies For Catatonics: A Journey Through The British Avant-Pop/Art Rock Scene 1967-74	1970 / 2019	VAR		1:38:29 (Pop-up)
World Party	Put The Message In The Box	Goodbye Jumbo	1990			1:41:57 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"						1:46:15 (Pop-up)
Jelly Roll Morton	Carves St. Louis (Part One)	The Complete Library of Congress Recordings	1938 / 2005			1:53:27 (Pop-up)
P.J. O'Connell	That's Gone "That's Gone" by "P.J. O'Connell"	Dream Life	2001			1:57:48 (Pop-up)
Duncan Browne	Cherry Blossom Fool [demo]	Early Morning Hush: Notes From the UK Folk Underground 1969-1976	1967 / 2006	VAR		2:01:37 (Pop-up)
Kai Winding & Orchestra	Time Is On My Side		1963	The original version		2:04:37 (Pop-up)
Teo Macero w/Charles Mingus]	How Low The earth	Teo	1953 / 2002			2:07:49 (Pop-up)
Yusef Lateef	Sounds Of Nature "Sounds Of Nature" by "Yusef Lateef"	Gong!	1957 / 1978			2:11:12 (Pop-up)
Jon Brion	Hands & Feet "Hands & Feet" by "Jon Brion"	Punch Drunk Love	2002	OST		2:14:56 (Pop-up)
Le Groupe X	Transfert 2002 "Transfert 2002" by "Le Groupe X"	split 7"	1972 / 2004			2:18:35 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"						2:22:11 (Pop-up)
Aaron Copland	Buckaroo Holiday from Rodeo	The Copland Collection: Orchestral & Ballet Works	1942 / 1990			2:29:00 (Pop-up)
Dusty Springfield	In The Middle Of Nowhere		1966	MONO		2:36:45 (Pop-up)
Magnet	Willow's Song "Willow's Song" by "Magnet"	The Wicker Man	1973 / 2010	OST Lesley Mackie-vocal		2:39:49 (Pop-up)
John Rubenstein	Swan "Swan" by "John Rubenstein"	Jeremiah Johnson	1976	OST		2:44:26 (Pop-up)
Pretty Things	Parachute "Parachute" by "Pretty Things"	Parachute	1970			2:47:11 (Pop-up)
Ray Mason Band	Wilson Rd. "Wilson Rd." by "Ray Mason Band"	Old Soul's Day	1998			2:50:52 (Pop-up)
Lincoln Chase	Our Love Is Satisfactory		1957	Dawn label		2:53:27 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"						2:55:41 (Pop-up)
Thanks To David Borks, Ron Jett, Doug Young, Mike Greenberg & Pete Tomlinson

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Listener comments!
	10:52am Meself: Good Morning Bob, Pete and all!
	🥁 10:54am RobbieWhite: Good morning everyone
	10:58am doctorjazz: Happy Saturday Bob and Bobbers!
	🥁 10:59am listener james from westwood: Morning, Bob, Pete, and all ragers!
	10:59am 1whoknewcthulhu: Good morning Bob, Pete, and Fellow Brainiacs!
	10:59am dan: Good morning all
	11:00am doctorjazz: The Bob and Pete show, psyched!
	11:00am Bob Brainen: Meself!
	11:00am Andrew in Toronto: Good morning Bob, Pete and all other listeners!
	🥁 11:00am (Mr) Bill: Burt Bacharach.
	11:00am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @11:00 Hey doc!
	11:00am Bob Brainen: RobbieWhite of WOWD!
	11:01am Bob Brainen: doctorjazz!
	🥁 11:01am wmfromD: Mornin' Bob & Pete and all! Looking forward to this show.
	11:01am Bob Brainen: listener james from westwood!
	11:01am Bob Brainen: 1whoknewcthulhu!
	11:01am Bob Brainen: dan!
	🥁 11:02am (Mr) Bill: I’m confident that this show will not be teenage wasteland.
	11:02am Soule: Good morning all!
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Pete will be here next week.
	🥁 11:02am Will thee Sound Guy: Good morning Bob Brainen, Pete Tomlinson, and all!!!
	11:02am Jeff: Good Morning Bob, Pete + fellow listeners! Looking forward to revisiting some of our teenage music obsessions. Hey Pete, I finally saw the Big Star doc (could’ve sworn I saw it before…). Loved your invaluable contribution!
	11:02am Bob Brainen: Andrew in Toronto!
	11:02am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @11:02 Hi Will!
	11:03am Bob Brainen: (Mr) Bill! Yup R.I.P. Burt.
	🥁 11:03am Will thee Sound Guy: Hi Andrew!
	11:03am SmokinJ: Mornin' brethren.. 8-)
	11:03am Bob Brainen: Soule!
	11:03am Bob Brainen: Will thee Sound Guy!
	11:03am Bob Brainen: Jeff!
	11:04am WR: Hello Bob and drummer streamers.
	11:04am Bob Brainen: SmokinJ!
	11:04am Bob Brainen: WR!
	11:05am WR: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:02 Hope all is well in Pete Land
	11:05am Bob Brainen: wmfromD!
	🥁 11:06am chresti: Morning Bob and braineniacs!
	11:06am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ chresti @11:06 Hi crestikins!
	11:06am Bob Brainen: Sorry folks, the playlist is laid out clunkily and if you look fast it looks like an upcoming show is happening today, but Teenage Rage is next week.
	11:06am Bob Brainen: chresti!
	11:06am WR: ↳ Song: "Keep On Pushing" by "Impressions" Good thoughts to bear in mind, keep on, keep on.
	11:08am Leonardo: Damn, I missed Gene Clark. Any chance you could play it again?
	🥁 11:08am (Mr) Bill: Perfect pop, this Laura—which makes “Stoney End” better pop than perfect.
	11:08am WR: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:06 No worries, we'll blame Doug and then he will come and fix it and later readers will wonder what we're writing about.
	11:09am Meself: ↳ Song: "Insomnia" by "David McCallum" This is my song! Ha, ha…
	11:10am dan: ↳ Song: "Insomnia" by "David McCallum" Is this McCallum the musician or his son the famous actor?
	11:10am doctorjazz: ↳ WR @11:08 True, that's what's on the Give The Drummer schedule for today.
	11:10am Bob Brainen: Ha, not Doug, it's the playlist database. Not that I would know how to make it more clear what's happening?!?!
	11:11am Bob Brainen: Jeez, just noticed the date is today on "upcoming events." That one is on me. My apologies.
	🥁 11:12am hopewithfeathers: No worries Bob, I’m looking forward to whatever you’re planning to play for us today.
	11:13am Roberto: ↳ Song: "The Joker" by "Chiles & Pettiford" This reminds me of the 1980 high school production of Roar/Smell that my brother starred in. Also, Anthony Newley's son was in my high school class.
	🥁 11:13am listener james from westwood: I grew up on the Sérgio Mendes version of "The Joker." Eventually heard Newley himself sing it on FMU and was amazed. This one's a delight!
	11:14am Bob Brainen: hopewithfeathers!
	11:14am Bob Brainen: Roberto!
	11:16am Bob Brainen: I played Newley doing The Joker year ago and got hate mail. My very first hate mail was playing Seals & Crofts. Good times.
	11:18am Gerry from Miami: BOB, perhaps a slight glitch with this week's show, but we did get to hear Ms. Nyro and Gene Clark. Always a gift!
	11:19am Roberto: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:16 Nothin' but love mail from me, Bob.
	🥁 11:19am (Mr) Bill: Bob, any hate mail from playing Three Dog Night last week?
	11:21am Bob Brainen: No hate mail in a long time. These were in the pre on-line playlist days. Now people can leave comments of any type. Luckily I have an understanding audience. :)
	🥁 11:22am wmfromD: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:16 Ya can't please 'em all Bob.
	11:22am Bob Brainen: No, (Mr.) Bill.
	11:22am Bob Brainen: Gerry from Miami, thanks!
	11:22am Roberto: ↳ Song: "Turn That Heartbeat Over Again" by "Steely Dan" DAAAANNNNN
	🥁 11:23am Will thee Sound Guy: It's about Dan time!!! 🕑
	11:24am Meself: ↳ Roberto @11:22 Good times!
	11:24am Bob Brainen: Yeah Wm. I have to say nothing has ever stopped me from playing anything I wanted. Ever. In fact I may have doubled the Seals & Crofts, you know, been defiant...like a teenager.
	11:24am dan: Any tribute to Burt Bacharach today?
	11:26am Bob Brainen: dan, I'll try to get to something but i didn't plan anything. But, rest assured, LOTS of tributes on the FMU mothership and on the the streams.
	🥁 11:28am (Mr) Bill: Bob has a unique aptitude for identifying musical value, even greatness, in music too easily dismissed as cheesy. Exhibit A: “Everything That Touches You.”
	11:29am Bob Brainen: Thanks to Doug S. for correcting the date of the Teenage Rage show to Feb. 18!
	11:30am Meself: ↳ (Mr) Bill @11:28 Yes!
	🥁 11:31am Will thee Sound Guy: 🐸 🐸 🐸
	11:31am Roberto: Without Bob, Roberto would have little to no appreciation for: - Left Banke - Del Amitri - Lots of others, I'm sure.
	11:31am Gerry from Miami: It always pisses me off when people(non-fans!) characterize Steely Dan's music as easy-listening. middle-of-the-road, "yacht rock." The cut you played, Bob, is so sophisticated and full of nuance that the average listener can't begin to appreciate it in any meaningful way. And this was from their debut album 50 years ago!
	11:33am spodiodi: good morning, Bob!
	11:34am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ spodiodi @11:33 Morning spodi!
	11:34am Roberto: ↳ Gerry from Miami @11:31 Many, if not most of Steely Dan's songs are about losers and outcasts. Yacht Rock doesn't celebrate losers and outcasts.
	11:35am spodiodi: gm, Andrew! hope you enjoy your Saturday
	11:36am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Roberto @11:31 If you`re into Del Amitri you should check out the Justin Currie solo cds.
	11:36am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ spodiodi @11:35 I sure am. I hope you are too.
	11:38am Bob Brainen: spodiodi!
	11:39am Bob Brainen: Andrew In Toronto, I saw that on your Youtube channel and watched some. Just great!
	11:40am WR: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:29 Doug S to the rescue. He takes good care of the drummer stream.
	11:41am doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Wee Dot" by "Art Blakey Quintet" GREAT!!! (Wotta Band!) Alto Saxophone – Lou Donaldson Bass – Curly Russell Drums – Art Blakey Piano – Horace Silver Recorded By – Rudy Van Gelder Trumpet – Clifford Brown
	11:41am Gerry from Miami: @Roberto. My definition of "yacht rock" is pop music that doesn't reuire the listener to exert any effort to listen to while sipping tropical cocktails aboard an overpriced ocean-going vehicle. Is your definition different?
	11:42am Bob Brainen: The Steely Dan hatred baffles me. Anyone read the Steve Albini article? I gotta say, if you don't like something the best thing to do is ignore it. I don't know why people have to waste time on stuff they dislike. Thanks Steve, for saving the f-ing planet.
	11:43am doctorjazz: ↳ Gerry from Miami @11:41 Is that a bad thing? (I'm ready if anyone will send me on such a trip, though I'd prefer a Carribean beach to the yacht)
	11:43am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:39 They`re spending this summer over here opening for the Barenaked Ladies.
	11:43am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @11:43 Hey doc!
	11:43am Frank Zaatar: Steely Dan got me through the mid-70s.
	11:44am Bob Brainen: Frank Zaatar! Me too!! I've said that for years.
	🥁 11:46am wmfromD: To actually take the time to write about something you dislike and then share it with the world is patently unhip/uncool.
	11:47am WR: ↳ doctorjazz @11:41 Yes, incredible lineup. Just looked at Wikipedia info, Russell and Blakey are about the same age, the others are 7 or more years younger. Is this the first Blakey with younger Jazz Messengers, although Silver is generally considered a cofounder of the Jazz Messengers.
	11:48am Gerry from Miami: I'm with you, doctor jazz! But just as long as we don't have to listen to any of what these "Dan-dissers" call their adopted baby, "yacht rock." The Dan ain't members of THAT club!
	11:48am Meself: ↳ wmfromD @11:46 Be sure to stay away from Reddit.
	11:48am Roberto: ↳ Gerry from Miami @11:41 That was my point. SD's songs often tell sad tales that aren't conducive to mindless recreation.
	11:48am WR: ↳ Song: "Calypso Be" by "Young Tiger" Wow. Calypso Be Bop!
	11:50am Gerry from Miami: Glad to get that straight, Roberto! You're on our team!
	11:50am doctorjazz: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:43 Hi Andrew!
	11:50am Roberto: ↳ Gerry from Miami @11:50 Hells yeah! Team Dan all the way!
	11:51am Roberto: ↳ Roberto @11:50 That said, if I had me a yacht, I'd definitely blast the Dan from it.
	11:51am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ doctorjazz @11:50 What are you listening to after Bob?
	11:51am spodiodi: ↳ Andrew in Toronto @11:36 thanks. so far so good. digging the show
	11:52am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ spodiodi @11:51 Me too.
	11:53am Bob Brainen: So what is it about Steely Dan that brings out such animosity? And can you think of another artist/band that elicits such strong reactions which people feel it's their duty to share?
	11:53am Zipperhead7: Hi Bob! Nice to fire up th website and be greeted by Tony Allen et al
	11:57am coelacanth∅: Greetings Bob & all
	11:57am Bob Brainen: Zipperhead7! He was truly amazing, wasn't he?
	11:58am Zipperhead7: And I gotta say that the Association track you played last week sent me scrambling to rethink their ouevre. Lots of brilliant bass playing!
	11:58am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:44 This is lovely!
	11:58am Andrew in Toronto: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:57 Hiya coel!
	11:58am dan: Joe Cocker making a subpar band like U2 sound good
	🥁 11:58am (Mr) Bill: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:53 I dunno. Steely Dan’s music is simultaneously highly sophisticated and blessedly accessible. Perhaps the combination irks some folks.
	11:59am Meself: ↳ dan @11:58 🤔
	🥁 11:59am (Mr) Bill: ↳ dan @11:58 Agreed!
	12:00pm doctorjazz: ↳ WR @11:47 I dug out my old Mosaic Box, The Complete Blue Note and Pacific Jazz Recordings of Clifford Brown (they generally have great notes included in the box), and checked on this session/live recording. It was actually before Art Blakey and Horace Silver formed the Jazz Messengers.
	12:00pm Zipperhead7: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:57 Those taillights! They look like a couple of small snapping mouths
	12:00pm coelacanth∅: hey Andrew!
	12:01pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Bob Brainen @11:53 Beautiful segue way.
	12:01pm Bob Brainen: Could be (Mr) Bill. And Becker & Fagen could be a handful to interviewers and hard to pin down, but to being out such strong reactions is really something. Which brings up the point: is it better to be disliked than ignored?
	🥁 12:01pm wmfromD: ↳ Song: "Girl On A Swing" by "Kevin Ayers" Man, I really love this album.
	12:01pm coelacanth∅: hahaha Zipper why didn't i think of that?!
	12:02pm Meself: ↳ Song: "Girl On A Swing" by "Kevin Ayers" I listen to this song a lot. A bit Eno.
	🥁 12:04pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Meself @12:02 First time for me, and certaintly not the last.
	12:04pm Bob Brainen: IIRC, Blakey had a big band date that first used the Jazz Messengers name, maybe on Bethlehem? Then Blakey & Silver co-led the original small units. But was it an amicable parting when Silver left and Blakey took over the name?
	12:05pm Dean: Okay, I'll bite. I am not a SD fan or, rather, I can take SD only in small doses. To my ears, Can't Buy a Thrill is an outlier, inasmuch as it's enjoyable throughout. Why, in particular, do I not like too much SD, i.e., beyond the handful of tracks I hear on this station? Well, for one, I was working in a record store when Aja appeared. We played it over and over and over in the store, a circumstance that guarantees increasing weariness with the album. For all of the musical skill and songwriting cleverness, SD has a signature sound that can be irritating. I know: I haven't provided much in the way of evidence to support my opinion. But I don't "hate" SD. Rather, I can only extract so much enjoyment from their accessible sophistication. One day a few years ago I played The Royal Scam (I have the LP). It caused me to lose sleep that night, "Kid Charlemagne" running through my head on an endless loop. So, yes, the music is memorable, but to a fault.
	🥁 12:12pm Will thee Sound Guy: 🐸 🐸 🐸
	12:12pm Frank Zaatar: ↳ Dean @12:05 I'm convinced that stereo manufacturers in the 70s engineered their equipment so it would sound good on a Steely Dan record in a hifi store.
	12:12pm Gerry from Miami: @Dean. Yes, I too have a lot of "earworms" running unannounced through my head. Many of them are Steely Dan songs. Not 100% sure what that means, but there they reside. And there they will stay.
	12:15pm Gerry from Miami: @Frank Zaatar. I had a salesman of high-end stereo equipment say that same thing about Toto's records.
	🥁 12:16pm Will thee Sound Guy: ↳ Frank Zaatar @12:12 Probably a sound assumption
	🥁 12:18pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @12:16 Pun?
	12:18pm Meself: ↳ Song: "Wild Mountain Thyme (right channel doubled)" by "... So beautiful!
	🥁 12:19pm Will thee Sound Guy: ↳ (Mr) Bill @12:18 just a touch
	12:19pm Listener Robert: ↳ Song: "Wild Mountain Thyme (right channel doubled)" by "... This is Old Blue Rugby Football Club's official song.
	12:19pm Dean: Two records that were ubiquitously played in hi-end hi-fi stores: Jennifer Warnes' Bird On a Wire, and Cowboy Junkies' The Trinity Session. Props to engineers for taking care to record as much audio information as possible, but hi-end nerds could get carried away and miss (or simply not care about) the musical substance.
	12:19pm Frank Zaatar: ↳ Gerry from Miami @12:15 The prospect of spending that much money to listen to Toto makes me shudder.
	12:19pm lou in CHI: This is wild
	12:20pm Bob Brainen: lou in CHI!
	🥁 12:22pm Will thee Sound Guy: Sometimes I play Aja to see if the tops, side fills, and subs are all at a decent level when I'm doing live sound. There are other things that I'll play too
	12:26pm Meself: Listening to The Church always makes me nostalgic…
	12:27pm Dean: I remain a worshiper at the altar of CIMP's Marc Rusch, who pretty much exclusively engineers all-acoustic recordings, mostly of out jazz. His records are superior reproductions of what are often compelling performances.
	🥁 12:30pm Will thee Sound Guy: ↳ Dean @12:27 I'll have to check into it
	12:36pm doctorjazz: ↳ Song: "Iron Man" by "Eric Dolphy" Great!!!
	12:40pm doctorjazz: ↳ Bob Brainen @12:04 According to Wiki- Silver's final recordings with the Jazz Messengers were in May 1956.[37] Later that year, he left Blakey after one and a half years,[34][38] in part because of the heroin use prevalent in the band,[2] which Silver did not want to be involved in. Doesn't sound all that amicable (Blakey has a rep of sometimes paying sidemen with heroine).
	12:42pm Gerry from Miami: @Frank Zaatar. Ain't that the truth?!
	12:42pm doctorjazz: ↳ doctorjazz @12:40 *heroin
	12:43pm SecretSquirrel: Hi Bob 'n' all!
	🥁 12:46pm Will thee Sound Guy: 🐸 🐸 🐸
	12:46pm SecretSquirrel: re Steely Dan: a lot of people don't understand the concept of an unreliable narrator. They think SD is endorsing the terrible things people do in their songs.
	12:47pm Gerry from Miami: Yes, folks, there was another band named Nirvana beside the one from Seattle! The Night Owl plays the British one quite often on her late-night show on the Rock & Soul stream here at WFMU.
	🥁 12:47pm chresti: ↳ Dean @12:27 CIMP?
	12:48pm doctorjazz: ↳ SecretSquirrel @12:46 Remids me of Fountains of Wayne's Stacey's Mom, I know folks who think they are advocating this kind of behavior.
	12:48pm Dean: Creative Improvised Music Projects https://cadnor.com/collections/creative-improvised-music-productions-cimp
	12:48pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ chresti @12:47 Hiya crestikins!
	12:49pm doctorjazz: ↳ chresti @12:47 Hey chresti- it's a small label that pretty much releases avant garde jazz.
	12:49pm Dean: Speaking of Sonny Simmons, he has a release or two on CIMP.
	12:50pm Meself: ↳ SecretSquirrel @12:46 I really like your take on this.
	🥁 12:51pm chresti: Ah, thanks doc 'n Dean!
	12:51pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ chresti @12:51 Hiya crestikins!
	🥁 12:52pm chresti: Hi Andrewkins!
	12:52pm Dean: I once played a Marshall Allen recording on CIMP for a hi-end stereo salesman who was also an engineer (and a friend of Joe Henderson). We put the disc on his store's system. His jaw dropped.
	12:54pm coelacanth∅: i like steely dan. but there's a cut-off, and that is aja. far too slick, very boring sound. on top of that by the time they got to aja they'd become completely predictable in their arrangements. i like can't buy a thrill a lot, and pretzel logic; the other 3 pre-aja records are pretty good. (i listened to katy lied not long ago and it was pretty boring. i liked it when i was a teenager though.)
	12:55pm Bob Brainen: Jeez Doc, you ask a question, you gotta be prepared for any answer. All in all I'd give Buhaina a thumbs up. Got to. Miles broke up the mid 50s quintet for the same reason: he was tired of sidemen & drugs: Philly Joe, Trane, maybe others (?) Trane went with Monk, kicked heroin and cigarettes, and rejoined Miles. It all worked out! Then Miles didn't want to let him go. Had a terribly hard time replacing him.
	12:56pm Franco Twinkie: I swiped Between the Buttons from the Thrifty Drugs Store in 1967 when I was eleven years old. At that time I could not have articulated the Brian-ness of the sound, but I sure heard it.
	12:56pm Andrew in Toronto: ↳ Franco Twinkie @12:56 Hi Franco!
	12:57pm Franco Twinkie: Hey Andrew.
	12:57pm Eugene Bentley: Checking in, Bob.
	12:58pm SecretSquirrel: @Dean: True story. I used to be the promo guy for the New Music Distribution Service. One day in about 1989 this band sent us a cassette of their upcoming album for consideration. The cassette broke through the cheap envelope they used and all I had was the note. So I called up the bandleader and said, "Hey Michael, could you send it again in a padded mailer?" Hung up the phone and said to my office mates, "How do they ever expect to succeed with a name like Cowboy Junkies?" And yes, the album was 'The Trinity Sessions.'
	12:59pm coelacanth∅: same here Franco (the latter part! i bought mine) i bought it because i knew the song "connection" from a NRPS/'dead bootleg; and i knew the big hits - but man what an album! top 5 'stones.
	12:59pm Bob Brainen: So back to Steely Dan, we have this music that is slick (I'd say it started w/Katy Lied and got increasingly slick. And, as Secret Squirrel says, they are singing about questionable characters so there's the disconnect between the characters and subject matter and the pristine sound. ....Hell, that description would make me want o hear the freakin' music! FWIW, my favorite Steely Dan is the 1st 3-4 albums. I think the haters focus on the last 2-3 albums. OK, enough 0f my take/recapitulation on Steely Dan.
	1:00pm Bob Brainen: Franco Twinkie!
	🥁 1:01pm (Mr) Bill: ↳ Meself @12:50 I as well. I have a cousin-friend who’s fond of trotting out “Every cop is a criminal” in a mindlessly libertarian fashion. After I pointed out that it’s not Jagger and Richards he’s citing—no authorities themselves on policing—but none other than Old Scratch himself, he shut up for a while.
	1:02pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @12:52 Wasn't CIMP connected to a high end stereo outfit, Cadence? I remember seeing their stuff (many accessories, if I recall), but didn't find them now on a quick Google search.
	1:02pm Eugene Bentley: I liked steely Dan up to aja. Goucho took a little while to drow on me.
	1:02pm Dean: That's a great story, SecretSquirrel. My connection to distribution occurred about a decade earlier. I was working for Music+, a small chain in Southern California, when one of the execs, Steve Boudreau, started Greenworld. A buddy and I visited Steve's new digs. He gave me a copy of the first National Health album.
	🥁 1:03pm chresti: ↳ coelacanth∅ @12:59 "She was a waitress at a cocktail bar, a cocka-cocka-cocka cocktail bar..."
	1:03pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @12:59 Absolutely. I had to give that particular record to my friend Mark, because my mom kept asking me who it belonged to. As soon as I got a job, I bought a copy fair and square.
	1:03pm Dean: You are correct, doctorjazz. Cadence was the journal. North Country Audio was the stereo dealership. I bought an MSB DAC from them ages ago. Vladimir was the guy who ran it. He was very accommodating.
	1:04pm Frank Zaatar: ↳ Bob Brainen @12:59 @Bob and Squirrel: I think some of the haters are just turned off by the fans who don't look past the sheen and put them on their playlists.
	🥁 1:04pm chresti: ↳ chresti @1:03 Thank you, People Like Us!
	1:04pm Bob Brainen: Eugene Bentley!
	1:04pm SecretSquirrel: @Dean Nice one!
	🥁 1:05pm Will thee Sound Guy: ↳ Song: "Time Is On My Side" by "Kai Winding & Orchestra" such a full sound
	1:05pm Franco Twinkie: This is so good!
	1:06pm doctorjazz: ↳ Dean @1:03 North Countrt Audio doesn't seem to come up any more in a search.
	1:07pm Dean: It is no more. But the Cadence space in upstate NY continues to sell a small supply of gear.
	1:07pm Franco Twinkie: 'You're searching for good times, but you wait and see' on a trumpet no less - OYE!
	1:10pm coelacanth∅: it's difficult to imagine singing about unrelatable if not unsavoury characters is not something most people understand completely. (-even millenials and zoomers) there's barely an artist from pre-1980 that doesn't tell a story in a song now & then.
	🥁 1:12pm wmfromD: Did the Dan have it's detractors from the beginning? Or did it come about a little later as the punk/diy thing started to happen. They would seem an obvious target.
	🥁 1:13pm chresti: I was born in 57!
	1:14pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @1:10 To me, it's an aspect of humanity that's rich with possibilities. Just like in real life, the shady characters are some of the most interesting...and fun!
	1:14pm Listener Robert: Just took some time for a phone call, but getting back to the show, frankly, more of what you've played today was in the category that fit what you said it would last week -- "What were we thining?" -- and less of it the stuff that's still pleasing. I have to explain stuff like that to my friends who ask why I listen to WFMU.
	🥁 1:14pm chresti: ↳ Song: "Sounds Of Nature" by "Yusef Lateef" love the sounds!
	1:15pm coelacanth∅: when i was in school steely dan was respected, generally, even if not actively listened to by the popular kids. when aja came out even the popular kids liked it. (as did i)
	1:17pm coelacanth∅: ha, Franco -i've recorded a few albums -that no one will ever hear! and i've thought a few times that if anyone decides that these lyrics are autobiographical i'm in BIG trouble!
	1:19pm SecretSquirrel: @wmfromD: SD weren't immediately divisive – they were seen as a solid rock band and had two Top 40 hits right off their first album. It wasn't until they moved into more fusion-y territory that attitudes began to split.
	1:19pm coelacanth∅: ↳ wmfromD @1:12 so that (me^) to say i think the hate came later.
	1:21pm Meself: ↳ wmfromD @1:12 My first experience with Steely Dan was their Aja album, which came out during my high school years. At the same time, we were also listening to Alice Cooper, The Tubes, Yes, and The Bonzo Dog Band. To me, it was a very eclectic time.
	1:22pm coelacanth∅: i remember hearing "bodhisattva" on the radio when it came out and loving it. so mathematical yet melodic. but that seemed to be somewhat of a dividing line with kids that liked ricki don't lose that number and dirty work.
	1:22pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @1:17 That's why we get along. Tarred with the same brush, as they say.
	1:24pm Frank Zaatar: ↳ wmfromD @1:12 @wmfromdc, I think you got it. It's hard to explain how weird they sounded when they came out (Yamaha organ? electric sitar?). By the time of punk came out those chords and harmonies were an (undeserved) symbol of Rock Bloat. Frankly, The Dan's lyrics have more in common with Lou Reed's than Jimmy Buffet's.
	1:25pm coelacanth∅: why,Franco i thought the characters in your art were all YOU! ...(although i do know you ARE mixed into it -as i am in mine)
	🥁 1:26pm Will thee Sound Guy: 🐸 🐸 🐸
	1:28pm Eugene Bentley: My first Steely Dan record was Rikki Don't Lose That Number 4. I really liked the B-side Any Major Dude.
	1:28pm coelacanth∅: hot rocks version of time is on my side is circumsised
	1:28pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @1:25 Well, I try an separated, but anyone who knows me....
	1:29pm coelacanth∅: (or the single version is... now forget; been a while)
	1:29pm doctorjazz: Gotta run, thanks Bob!
	1:30pm Eugene Bentley: I think there is vast difference between the mono and stereo versions of the Rolling Stones Time Is On My Side.
	1:32pm Dean: Copland is a rightly beloved composer whose output was far more varied than we generally regard it. I'm a sucker for his Our Town, but then I still enjoy Wilder's play, too.
	1:34pm Eugene Bentley: The vinyl version of Hot Rocks has the mono version while the cd version has the stereo which sounds like entirely different take.
	1:34pm Meself: ↳ Meself @1:21 Oh, and Queen.
	🥁 1:34pm chresti: ↳ coelacanth∅ @1:25 They are!
	1:48pm coelacanth∅: chresti!
	1:49pm Andrew in Toronto: What a fabulous show! Thanks Bob!
	1:49pm Meself: ↳ Song: "Parachute" by "Pretty Things" Love this
	🥁 1:49pm (Mr) Bill: Bob is helping me get through the early ’20s and my late ’60s.
	🥁 1:50pm wmfromD: ↳ Song: "Parachute" by "Pretty Things" as great a piece of work as S.F. Sorrow!
	🥁 1:50pm (Mr) Bill: Oh! You Pretty Things!
	🥁 1:52pm chresti: ↳ coelacanth∅ @1:48 Hi coel!
	1:52pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Eugene Bentley @1:34 hi Eugene if time is on my side on hot rocks is a mono version then it's a stereo recording of a mono recording. but what i was referring to was that the us was given that song without a guitar intro
	1:53pm coelacanth∅: (because hot rocks is stereo, that is)
	1:56pm Meself: A pleasure as usual; till we meet again…
	1:56pm spodiodi: great show! thanks, Bob
	🥁 1:56pm listener 126464: Bob, thanks for today's show. Good day all!
	🥁 1:56pm chresti: Thanks Bob!
	🥁 1:57pm listener james from westwood: Many thanks, Bob!
	🥁 1:57pm wmfromD: Great show Bob!
	🥁 1:58pm Will thee Sound Guy: 🐸 🐸 🐸
	1:58pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "Willow's Song" by "Magnet" There was a more recent indie-rock band called Magnet. I saw them play at the Brighton Bar in 1997, with Moe Tucker on drums. discogs.com...
	🥁 1:58pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Bob, great show!!!
	1:59pm Eugene Bentley: The version that was on hot rocks cd had what sounds like an organ instead of guitar.
	1:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Bob!
	2:00pm Eugene Bentley: ↳ Eugene Bentley @1:59 Or the original cd release of Hot Rocks.
	2:00pm coelacanth∅: oh, interesting, Eugene -that's the first version, the original us version
	2:01pm coelacanth∅: (i assume)
	9:39am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ Good ♄Saturday FMUvianz ! ~ ~ TY Always DJ BB ~

Bob Brainen: Playlist from February 11, 2023

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