WFMU: The Radio Is Broken with Rich In Washington: Playlist from October 20, 2023

Listener comments!
	9:00pm ironybread: It is time once again for something terrible to happen. Something terrible. We're taking a close look at the situation. I mean listen.
	9:00pm ultradamno: Rich! Breaker-Breakers!
	9:01pm Rich in Washington: making my coffee! Damn. I nearly forgot. Hopefully I get back before the streamer starts without me
	9:02pm tom tom the pipers son: hello rich, people...
	9:02pm Don-O: Doooooon Paaaarrrrdo!!
	9:02pm pot8o: hi everyone!
	9:03pm Uncle Michael: I'm more of a Gary Owens man.
	9:04pm Rich in Washington: Hi everyone! Hi ironybread! Hi ultradamno! Hi tom tom! Hi Don O! Hi pot8o! Hi Uncle Michael!
	9:04pm ironybread: Hello all. Put your faces close to your screens & I'll spray everyone with Clove bud & Citronella to dispel mosquitoes.
	9:06pm tom tom the pipers son: unfamiliar w/ 80's wire, thx for fillin' me in...
	9:08pm Rich in Washington: whoops
	9:08pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:06 I've been revisiting it lately and picking up some packed reissues of their 80s stuff. Expect more.
	9:09pm ironybread: Good old #SeveredHeads
	9:09pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:08 oh, great...
	🥁 9:09pm WR: The heads on a shelf pic triggers Futurama plot lines for me. Where's the Nixon head?
	9:10pm ultradamno: Bell is one of my least loved Wire records. Not that I think it's bad, but no matter how much I listen to it, it doesn't really stick.
	9:12pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @9:09 picked this up at Everybody's Records the other day
	9:13pm ironybread: On my bike ride today I decided that two of the greatest images in modern music video are and will always be the dancing raw chickens from the "Sledgehammer" video, and Booji Boy putting the fork in the toaster in the "Satisfaction" video
	9:14pm erik-O-vert: 80s Wire: ¿are we supposed to know what Kidney Bingos are?
	9:15pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @9:13 The latter sorta hit me like a lightning bolt and mutated my preteen brain.
	9:16pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Song: "You Gotta Serve Somebody" by "Devo" This was SO close to being in my show today.
	9:16pm Dean: My favorite image from the "Sledgehammer" video is the brief cameo appearance of Gabriel's daughters. Such a cute expression so love.
	9:16pm ultradamno: ↳ erik-O-vert @9:14 I think it's when you slap someone on the lower side for percussion (something they don't go for, Gotobed hates anything more than a simple drumkit)
	9:17pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Uncle Michael @9:16 I didn't wanna be that nag. I liked your ranking approach to Dylan covers. It had to be super difficult to narrow some down.
	9:17pm erik-O-vert: ↳ ironybread @9:13 …so yer sayin imagery from lTarzan Boy” video doesn’t quite make the grade…?😜
	9:17pm Dean: ^of love ...but then who cares about adverbs versus prepositions, hmm?
	9:18pm ironybread: ↳ Dean @9:16 When do the daughters appear? Is it right after Peter is on a high chair and he hops off and a series of women appear in his place?
	9:18pm Dean: Yes, I think so, ironybread. He/they sit upon a stool or stools, as I recall.
	9:18pm ultradamno: Half Jap's "Tangled Up In Blue" and the Elevators' "Baby Blue" would be my top choices for that...
	9:18pm ironybread: ↳ erik-O-vert @9:17 I'm open to more indelible images! What's a good one from that video?
	9:18pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:17 The ranking thing spared me from paralysis by analysis.
	9:19pm Rich in Washington: my coffee is just.... PERFECT
	9:20pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Uncle Michael @9:18 It was fantastic. One I am sure I will be revisiting in archiveland.
	9:21pm ironybread: Rich I want to revisit your perfect coffee in the archive, when will that go live
	9:21pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, Rich.
	🥁 9:22pm WR: ↳ Uncle Michael @9:18 ranking aside, great choices of the versions, UM
	9:25pm erik-O-vert: ↳ ironybread @9:18 …a sarcastic quip, “Tarzan Boy” is one of the many god-awful cheap-O 1980s videos. So bad, it’s just still bad.
	9:26pm Dean: No, it occurs immediately after the cheesy dance with the group of women. The daughters appear quickly, one by one, around four minutes into the video. Lightning fast.
	9:26pm ironybread: ↳ erik-O-vert @9:25 Awfulness can also be an impeccable memory-blaster
	9:27pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Lonely" by "Tom Waits" thanks to my buddy Mongo who reminded me which early Waits album this was on.
	9:28pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:27 his name's not actually Mongo but he likes it when I call him that.
	9:29pm Dean: Generally, I do not like music videos, which are so gratuitous and pointless and disengaged from the music. "Sledgehammer" rightly deserves its position in the Pantheon. It's a brilliant achievement.
	9:30pm Dean: As a work of visual art, I mean. Gabriel never quite mastered thespianism, but that video stands to represent the times in which I lived.
	9:31pm ultradamno: By the way, did you know Meri Wilson, who did Telephone Man (played on this show last week) did an updated version in 1999 called Internet Man? It does not work, she really stumbles trying to work floppy and hard discs and RAM into the double entendres
	9:31pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ultradamno @9:31 NOOOO!!!!
	9:31pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ultradamno @9:31 I must have that!
	🥁 9:34pm WR: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:31 I like that, ultradamno says that "it does not work" and still you are totally enthusiastic about finding it. I totally agree with this.
	9:34pm ironybread: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:27 Gosh, I assumed this was strictly a "happy 50th anniversary" add to the playlist. It's pretty great, I guess it's just before he adopted the Bukowski voice full-time
	9:36pm Rich in Washington: ↳ WR @9:34 it made me want it even more. There's something broken way down inside of me.
	9:37pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @9:34 No. I literally own all of Waits' Asylum albums but for some reason could not locate the song in his catalog until I asked a Waits scholar. Stupid, I know.
	9:38pm ironybread: I couldn't stop myself from buying this, because all sorts of things are broken way down inside me too! But it was a good purchase, it turns out. #AnneSylvestre #Fabulettes taylorjessen.blogspot.com...
	9:38pm tom tom the pipers son: nice segue there...
	9:39pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @9:38 That looks fun! Did you get that on your PNW trek?
	9:40pm erik-O-vert: @UltraD; WIRE lyric site analysis presumes/perhaps more than we bargained for: “Our kidneys are bingos according to this esoteric line of associations…. We are the citizens of a capitalism whose every day existence is spent in an endless orgy of self-butchering, self-cooking, self-serving self-consumption and self-immolation”. Hahaha, how fun is that! Apparently the lyrics refer to ‘gambling habits’. Great arty lyrics in song ‘Kidney Bingos’.
	9:40pm ironybread: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:39 That one I picked up at the Record Exchange in Boise, along with a self-hypnosis record and a stripper-songs record
	🥁 9:41pm WR: ↳ ironybread @9:38 yes, one horrid aspect of digital is near total loss of associated artwork and metadata. As ever, nice work.
	9:41pm ultradamno: Apparently it's only on a one track CD www.discogs.com... (on you tube too)...she also has a song called Peter The Meter Reader...I'm going to have to screw up the courage to hear that.
	🥁 9:43pm WR: ↳ Song: "Some Things Last A Long Time" by "Daniel Johnston" When DJ died his family was overwhelmed with the demand for his work. I should visit the website again, hopefully they are still offering wide selection.
	9:43pm ironybread: ↳ WR @9:41 Thanks babe, I'm all about saving the visuals along with the noises
	9:45pm Rich in Washington: ↳ WR @9:43 I have an enormous box of CDRs which DJ gave to the other station I DJ at and an outgoing station manager dumped them in my mailbox. There could be something rare in there for all I know. It's a mess. Just a bunch of burned CDs with titles scrawled on them.
	9:46pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Been Alone So Long" by "Peter Hammill" never heard this before like the stoned tempo band 'underwater' vocals
	9:47pm tom tom the pipers son: and no 'b'
	🥁 9:47pm WR: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:45 If you want to send them to me to sort through and rip, I'm glad to offer my services. Only half joking on this. And you would learn how slow I am processing the back log of what I have...
	9:48pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:46 The whole album is fantastic. My favorite PH album
	🥁 9:48pm WR: ↳ WR @9:47 and there is the potential issue of 10 plus year old CDRs not playing.
	9:50pm Dean: "Perfect sound forever" To me, that's a war crime.
	9:51pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:48 thx, will make mental note
	🥁 10:05pm WR: A vid that Carla & Karen & Steve and some guy made a few years ago: www.wattxtrawatt.com...
	10:07pm ironybread: A great Quietus article about Bley that goes into detail on the making of this epic album thequietus.com...
	🥁 10:08pm WR: An article that John Pietaro (who has a show Wednesday nights on Sheena stream) wrote based on spending an afternoon visiting Bley & Swallow at their home in 2020: pleasekillme.com...
	10:09pm Rich in Washington: Eugene Chadbourne on 10/18: "CARLA I never met anyone like you, before or after. Thank you for being so kind to me when I was young. I’ll never forget you and Michael Snow showing up for one of my first solo concerts in Toronto. I’m sure someone somewhere has been playing one of your beautiful songs every night since. Thanks for rocking out with me in your studio in the late 70s. Peace and now you get to hang with Ida Lupino"
	10:11pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Hotel Overture (Side One)" by "Carla Bley, Paul H... been hearing brecht/wiell influence the last few days sometimes explicit sometimes not, this somewhat
	🥁 10:11pm WR: ↳ ironybread @10:07 Super! Thank you!
	10:12pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:11 Yeah. I agree, although I'm not super well versed in Brecht/Weill, although I love Threepenny Opera.
	10:14pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:12 same here... heard something by her that was very alabama song
	10:14pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Jesus Maria And Other Spanish Strains" by "The Ca... Thanks to ironybread for hooking me up with this!
	10:16pm ironybread: yow, totally forgot this album had our Eugene Chadbourne on it!
	10:17pm erik-O-vert: ↳ ultradamno @9:10 re post vintage 1970s Wire, I was so thrown by the new transitional sound of Wire 2.0 i wasn’t satisfied until years later as I kept plugging away with each new album. I believe, my ears finally adjusted to their inevitable changes. So it all sounds pretty darn ok by nowadays standards. Still, Nuttin beats-out ‘pink flag’ & ‘chairs missing’ (my fave). Bell/Cup is a worthy spin.
	10:19pm Rich in Washington: ↳ erik-O-vert @10:17 TBH, in the pre-internet world, I had never heard early Wire (but heard their name mentioned often) but was aware of them when they did their comeback (of sorts) in the mid 80s, so didn't think 'the new Wire SUCKS' or anything.
	10:21pm Rich in Washington: So I actually like The Ideal Copy quite a bit, not being really familiar with older Wire. But I like both their earliest stuff and their 80s stuff equally well but in different ways.
	10:22pm Rich in Washington: I like bands/artists that evolve, even if I eventually don't dig what they're doing initially.
	10:22pm tom tom the pipers son: there's a great yt video of wire at rockpalast in 1979 doing the 15th, better than album track
	10:23pm Dean: I like Wire's first two or three albums and one or two of the offshoot bands.
	10:23pm ultradamno: ↳ erik-O-vert @10:17 I like a lot of stuff just past that period...Send is top ten worthy, imo. And the post-Gilbert stuff all has it's moments.
	10:23pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:22 I've seen that. It's fantastic. I love the album 154 but it's so murky in production. Even the recent reissue doesn't fix it.
	10:23pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Dean @10:23 Dome is really enjoyable but kind of obtuse.
	🥁 10:24pm Aitch: Hey Rich and crew
	10:24pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Aitch @10:24 It's Aitch!
	10:24pm Dean: Yeah, Dome. I like Dome.
	10:25pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Dean @10:24 Maybe I'll play some later tonight if there's time.
	10:25pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:23 colin newman's delivery of the song is so snotty but kind of ironic too, much different than album
	10:27pm ironybread: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaitch
	10:27pm ultradamno: Cool new things released today. Martin Rev's collection of cassette work, listened to it this morning, it's awesome martin-rev.bandcamp.com... New Crime & The City Solution is out, haven't listened to the stream of it yet (have a CD coming) but I like what I've heard crimeandthecitysolution.bandcamp.com... and the vinyl of Messer Chups terrific new ep (the digital version has been out for a bit) is shipping ahead of sched. messer-chups.bandcamp.com...
	10:32pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Reactionary Tango (In Three Parts)" by "The Carla... really like these titles, 'reactionary tango' and 'social studies'
	🥁 10:36pm Aitch: Maybe it was the sheer comfiness of the ear worm pyjamas that kept me asleep?
	10:36pm Rich in Washington: I went downstairs to get a beverage and the long breaks between segments made me think the song ended.
	10:37pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Aitch @10:36 Go to sleeeeep, Aitch! Go to sleeeeeep!
	10:38pm Rich in Washington: when I go downstairs I hear the show on the living room stereo 2.5 seconds in the past.
	10:39pm DJ Peter: Ah Carla! We miss you already.
	10:40pm Rich in Washington: ↳ DJ Peter @10:39 Hi DJ Peter! Did the syncopated clock sound call you?
	🥁 10:41pm Aitch: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:37 I was up early, checked out the Flange. but went back for further snoozing, which is a rare thing, but good
	🥁 10:42pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Musique Mecanique II (After Midnight)" by "The Ca... quite the voice?
	🥁 10:44pm Aitch: ↳ ironybread @10:27 It's a black fly in your Chardonnaaaaaitch
	10:46pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "Walking Batteriewoman" by "The Carla Bley Band" anything off the ecm label is guaranteed to be solid gold
	10:47pm Rich in Washington: Thanks again to ironybread for contributing to this segment.
	10:48pm ironybread: Vocal on "Musique Mecanique II" was by trombonist Roswell Rudd, I think
	10:49pm ironybread: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:47 My pleasure sir!
	10:49pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @10:48 yep
	🥁 10:51pm WR: ↳ ironybread @10:07 just finished reading the article. pretty good career overview with lots of spicy details from Ms Carla.
	10:52pm ultradamno: Speaking of Wire and people who have died this week mastodon.social...
	10:53pm tom tom the pipers son: maybe a good compare and contrast would be carla bley/gil evans, although evans much older, but just as far as composed jazz goes
	10:54pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "This Is Here" by "Carla Bley, Paul Haines" Likely ex-Mothers Of Invention's Don Preston on keyboards here.
	10:55pm Rich in Washington: Charlie Haden and John McLaughlin also play on this.
	10:57pm Rich in Washington: Jack Bruce and Linda Ronstatd, Don Cherry
	10:58pm Rich in Washington: It's crazy.
	10:58pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Like Animals" by "Carla Bley, Paul Haines" on a certain mainstream website, they used escalator over the hill in the thread title for carla's obit. (i was surprised she got mentioned there)
	10:58pm Rich in Washington: I haven't seen such a huge and crazy lineup outside of an electric period Miles record.
	10:58pm Dean: My intro to Escalator Over the Hill was the Rolling Stone review.
	10:59pm erik-O-vert: Carla Bley: so brilliant. Twas partial to lesser yet wonderful re-contextualizations on “Mortelle Randonnéel” (French film soundtrack)1983 & “I Hate to Sing”1984. I so wish I collected even more than I already have.
	10:59pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Escalator Over The Hill" by "Carla Bley, Paul Hai... i have quite a few carla bley recs, but i have never heard escalator over the hill...
	🥁 10:59pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Escalator Over The Hill" by "Carla Bley, Paul Hai... all new to me, this is wild
	11:00pm Rich in Washington: ↳ northguineahills @10:58 Hi ngh!
	11:00pm tom tom the pipers son: this brechtian...
	11:01pm ironybread: If you want a completely different Bley taste try "Night-Glo", an album of smooth jazz; and she's not just taking the piss, it's pretty awesome
	11:02pm northguineahills: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:00 richinwa!
	11:02pm pot8o: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:57 i was surprised they got linda ronstadt on this, but this would've been before she got famous
	11:02pm northguineahills: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:00 good call!
	11:02pm tom tom the pipers son: brecht/weill a little like pornography... you know it when you see/hear it
	11:04pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ northguineahills @11:02 brought it up earlier it's kind of ingrained in carla bley from what i've recently heard
	11:05pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:02 that was a joke
	11:11pm pot8o: for a lark, think i should send a demo doug's way? been musing about it for a while, but i go back & try to do airchecks i feel like i sound like i'm being held at gunpoint
	11:12pm Rich in Washington: ↳ pot8o @11:11 Do it!
	11:12pm DJ Peter: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:40 that must have been it!
	11:14pm northguineahills: ↳ pot8o @11:11 do it, you have our support!
	11:14pm ironybread: ↳ pot8o @11:11 Absolutely no reason not to, dear
	11:15pm pot8o: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:12 i'll try to cobble one together over the weekend
	11:16pm erik-O-vert: ↳ northguineahills @10:59 “Escalator”: It was (& still is) a monster move (1971 3Lp box set of wildly mixed personnel Rockin modern art song). Up there with the Hampton Grease Band 2Lp “music to eat”, coincidentally also 1971, both playful wonderful audacious.
	11:16pm tom tom the pipers son: like the floyd/eno back to back
	11:16pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "Julie With..." by "Brian Eno" i'd kill for an original pressing of this
	11:16pm Rich in Washington: ↳ pot8o @11:11 You can get used to speaking on mic. It's kinda scary for some reason. I have a really difficult time doing pre-recorded talk segments for some reason. I guess the chatterbox in me has to be speaking to someone, even if I can't see them.
	11:17pm Rich in Washington: I was raised by late night radio wolves and they threw me headfirst onto a mic with no warning.
	11:18pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:16 one of the tendencies of speaking on mic is saying 'um' a lot
	11:18pm pot8o: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:17 my radio class is the opposite, they won't even think about putting me on the air until the beginning of next year
	11:19pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:18 for a beginner
	11:19pm pot8o: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:18 i do that, plus i have a mild stutter so here's to hoping i can set it aside for long enough to make it sound alright
	11:20pm ironybread: ↳ erik-O-vert @11:16 ooh, never heard "Music to Eat", just added it to my list, thanks eOv
	11:20pm pot8o: hopefully my taste in jazz & krautrock will be enough to win him over 😅
	11:22pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ pot8o @11:19 maybe the trick is to imagine that you're singing even though you're not, make it performative
	11:22pm erik-O-vert: ↳ ironybread @11:01 Yea. I was too nervy for “Night-glo” at its release, now I’m sure I’d love it!
	11:22pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Bad Cabaret For Children" by "Saturday Night Live... pretty, pretty funny
	11:23pm northguineahills: ↳ pot8o @11:19 i used to have a mild stammer. it wasn't until i was 22 until i was able overcome it. it still can visit me when i have anxiety. you'll be fine (b/c if you do radio for the wfmu fam, we're all here for you).
	11:24pm Rich in Washington: If my goofy ass can talk on a mic, anybody can! (wait - that didn't come out right!)
	🥁 11:25pm WR: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:24 talking out your ass is why many must do radio, other venues would be problematic.
	11:25pm northguineahills: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:24 thanks for that image, rich!
	11:27pm pot8o: ↳ WR @11:25 it wouldn't be am radio without it
	11:27pm tom tom the pipers son: damien hirst probably got the idea for his stupid sculpture from this album cover
	11:33pm erik-O-vert: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:22 Wire continued; Hafta try that live-Wire(heh) at Rockpalaast. I also unequivocally recommend their “Peel Sessions” radio broadcast collection. As nearly ALL (of any band) of the Peel Sessions collections are stellar. Most ALL of Colin Newman solo stuff swims for me as well.
	🥁 11:34pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Tubular Bells (Part 2) [excerpt]" by "Mike Oldfield" Same creepy primary school teacher that played us early Kraftwerk used to play this.
	11:34pm ironybread: Suddenly have a very strong need to hear the four children's singles Ron Geesin did with Derek Bowskill in 1974 www.discogs.com...
	11:36pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Aitch @11:34 we must've had the same teacher
	11:37pm northguineahills: ↳ Aitch @11:34 my creepy primary school teachers were too lame to play mike oldfield or kraftwerk...
	11:38pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ erik-O-vert @11:33 thx, will look for wire peel sessions... that wire yt video is def worth a look
	11:38pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Cruel When Complete (feat. A.M.C)" by "Dome" yes, Dome!
	11:40pm Dean: Thanks.
	11:40pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ northguineahills @11:37 my sixth grade teacher was nabbed for inappropriate touching of girls, his name, mr browser
	11:41pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "And Then..." by "Dome" this was pre clicky-starred, but from where?
	11:42pm Rich in Washington: ↳ pot8o @11:41 future you did/will do it
	11:43pm tom tom the pipers son: dome... new to me, thx
	🥁 11:43pm Aitch: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:40 Same creepy teacher had his own (b+w) video camera which we all thought was also being used for creepy movie-making. Liked the music though. Know not of Dome also, this is good
	11:44pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:43 Yeah. I cool offshoot of half of Wire by Bruce Gilbert & Graham Lewis
	11:44pm Dean: Wasn't there also a Wire offshoot called something like Cupola?
	11:45pm Dean: I had an EP...unloaded it long ago.
	11:45pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:44 i see, did not know
	11:45pm Rich in Washington: There was also something like Emmet Duo.
	11:46pm Rich in Washington: The first two Dome albums were also reissued together as Dome 1 & 2
	11:46pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Aitch @11:43 video camera in classroom sounds creepy...
	11:47pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Dean @11:44 Oh wow. Cupol. I just looked them up. 1980. I must get it
	11:48pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Rolling Upon My Day" by "Dome" This track has always reminded me of something from the BBC Radiophonics Workshop played at the wrong speed.
	11:49pm Dean: Ah, right, Cupol. Marvelous, but somehow I got bored with all this stuff for several years. I don't entirely regret it. I spent time exploring classical and early music.
	11:53pm northguineahills: rich in hs drama class?! looks frantically for my fainting chaise lounge...
	11:55pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "House Burning Down" by "Eugene Chadbourne" nice finish, thanks rich. enjoy your weekend!
	11:55pm Rich in Washington: ↳ northguineahills @11:53 LOL! I did stuff like built sets and ran sound. I was terrified to act on stage. Plus, the cooler girls were in Drama.
	11:56pm pot8o: thanks everyone for the advice & encouragement! thanks rich for the awesome music! have a great week everyone!
	11:56pm northguineahills: ↳ pot8o @11:56 do it, en serio!
	11:57pm pot8o: (but god, do i speak like i was given enough tranquilizers to knock out an elephant)
	🥁 11:57pm WR: ↳ Song: "House Burning Down" by "Eugene Chadbourne" damn you playing party dance music just when I am trying to chill out and go to sleep. POLKA!
	🥁 11:57pm Aitch: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:55 I did sound for the Uni shows, on stage no thanks
	11:57pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks, rich, good night folks
	11:58pm Dean: I did a lot of theater from middle school through college. Treaded the boards. Supremely marvelous experience. Real acting is totally absorbing.
	11:58pm northguineahills: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:55 i was too coy for girls in hs, i was clueless when the drama girls kept on taking me out to coffee and live shows (it wasn't until i was visiting home during holidays in uni, that i 'got it' when hanging out w/ them again...
	🥁 11:59pm Aitch: Cheers Rich, thanks for show
	12:00am Rich in Washington: O Tubular Bells, you perennial dollar bin record, you earned yourself a new poly bag tonight.
	12:00am ironybread: Just realized that if certain aliens were only into our Popeye broadcasts, they'd refer to the third planet as "That Popeye Planet"
	12:01am ironybread: Another barnburner tonight, sir. Thanks!
	🥁 12:02am WR: OK, thank you.
	12:02am Rich in Washington: Goodnight everyone! See you next week!

The Radio Is Broken with Rich In Washington: Playlist from October 20, 2023

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October 20, 2023: Pure silk pyjamas woven from real earworms

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Wire	Silk Skin Paws "Silk Skin Paws" by "Wire"	A Bell Is A Cup... Until It Is Struck	Mute	1988		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Severed Heads	Mount "Mount" by "Severed Heads"	Dead Eyes Opened 12"	Ink Records	1984		0:06:41 (Pop-up)
Devo	You Gotta Serve Somebody "You Gotta Serve Somebody" by "Devo"	Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Devo Anthology	Rhino/Handmade	2000	As Dove, the Band of Love. For Uncle Michael, who did a marvelous Bob Dylan cover show today.	0:08:49 (Pop-up)
Ministry	Lay Lady Lay "Lay Lady Lay" by "Ministry"	Filth Pig	Warner Bros.	1996		0:15:12 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Syd Dale	Clippety Clop "Clippety Clop" by "Syd Dale"					0:20:55 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Lonely "Lonely" by "Tom Waits"	Closing Time	Asylum	1973		0:24:30 (Pop-up)
Charles Bukowski	Shoelace "Shoelace" by "Charles Bukowski"	Reads His Poetry	Takoma	1980		0:27:31 (Pop-up)
Steven Jesse Bernstein	It's Just A Little Bit Of Everything (That Brought Me Down To This)	The Sad Bag cassette	Trigger Recordings	1990		0:31:30 (Pop-up)
Daniel Johnston	Some Things Last A Long Time	"1990"	Shimmy Disc	1990		0:36:31 (Pop-up)
Peter Hammill	Been Alone So Long "Been Alone So Long" by "Peter Hammill"	Nadir's Big Chance	Charisma	1975		0:41:41 (Pop-up)
Morphine	In Spite Of Me "In Spite Of Me" by "Morphine"	Cure For Pain	Rykodisc	1993		0:45:54 (Pop-up)
Lou Reed	Coney Island Baby "Coney Island Baby" by "Lou Reed"	Take No Prisoners	RCA	1978	Recorded live at Bottom Line 17-21 May 1978	0:48:59 (Pop-up)

RIP Carla Bley 1936 - 2023 "RIP Carla Bley 1936 - 2023"
Carla Bley, Paul Haines	Hotel Overture (Side One)	Escalator Over The Hill	JCOA Records	1971	RIP Carla Bley 1936 - 2023 Her birthname was Lovella May Borg	1:00:03 (Pop-up)
The Carla Bley Band	Jesus Maria And Other Spanish Strains	Musique Mecanique	WATT	1979	Bass, Guest – Charlie Haden Effects [Walkie Talkie], Guest – Eugene Chadbourne Piano – Carla Bley Voice [Child] – Gary Windo	1:13:05 (Pop-up)
The Carla Bley Band	Reactionary Tango (In Three Parts)	Social Studies	WATT/ECM	1981		1:24:57 (Pop-up)
The Carla Bley Band	Musique Mecanique II (After Midnight)	Musique Mecanique	WATT	1979	Vocals – Roswell Rudd	1:37:41 (Pop-up)
The Carla Bley Band	Walking Batteriewoman	Social Studies	WATT/ECM	1981		1:44:35 (Pop-up)
Carla Bley, Paul Haines	This Is Here	Escalator Over The Hill	JCOA Records	1971		1:48:59 (Pop-up)
Carla Bley, Paul Haines	Like Animals	Escalator Over The Hill	JCOA Records	1971		1:54:48 (Pop-up)
Carla Bley, Paul Haines	Escalator Over The Hill	Escalator Over The Hill	JCOA Records	1971		1:56:27 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Sun City Girls	Wild World Of Animals					2:01:20 (Pop-up)
The Soft Boys	Human Music "Human Music" by "The Soft Boys"	Can Of Bees	Two Crabs Universal	1979		2:04:45 (Pop-up)
Pink Floyd	Pillow Of Winds "Pillow Of Winds" by "Pink Floyd"	Meddle	Harvest	1971		2:08:56 (Pop-up)
Brian Eno	Julie With... "Julie With..." by "Brian Eno"	Before And After Science	Island Records	1977		2:13:44 (Pop-up)
Saturday Night Live Cast	Bad Cabaret For Children	02/24/79	NBC Television	1979		2:19:30 (Pop-up)
Ron Geesin & Roger Waters	Breathe / Old Folks Ascension (etc.)	Music From The Body	EMI/Harvest	1970		2:23:23 (Pop-up)
Mike Oldfield	Tubular Bells (Part 2) [excerpt]	Tubular Bells	Virgin	1973	the Piltdown Man bit	2:30:54 (Pop-up)
Dome	Cruel When Complete (feat. A.M.C)	Dome 1	Dome Records	1980		2:36:11 (Pop-up)
Dome	And Then... "And Then..." by "Dome"	Dome 1	Dome Records	1980		2:39:21 (Pop-up)
Dome	Here We Go "Here We Go" by "Dome"	Dome 1	Dome Records	1980		2:43:35 (Pop-up)
Dome	Rolling Upon My Day "Rolling Upon My Day" by "Dome"	Dome 1	Dome Records	1980		2:46:54 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ennio Morricone	Dies Irae Psichedelico					2:50:31 (Pop-up)
Eugene Chadbourne	House Burning Down	LSDC&W - The History Of The Chadbournes In America	Fundamental	1987		2:53:40 (Pop-up)
Eugene Chadbourne	3rd Stone From The Sun	LSDC&W - The History Of The Chadbournes In America	Fundamental	1987		2:56:29 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:00pm ironybread: It is time once again for something terrible to happen. Something terrible. We're taking a close look at the situation. I mean listen.
	9:00pm ultradamno: Rich! Breaker-Breakers!
	9:01pm Rich in Washington: making my coffee! Damn. I nearly forgot. Hopefully I get back before the streamer starts without me
	9:02pm tom tom the pipers son: hello rich, people...
	9:02pm Don-O: Doooooon Paaaarrrrdo!!
	9:02pm pot8o: hi everyone!
	9:03pm Uncle Michael: I'm more of a Gary Owens man.
	9:04pm Rich in Washington: Hi everyone! Hi ironybread! Hi ultradamno! Hi tom tom! Hi Don O! Hi pot8o! Hi Uncle Michael!
	9:04pm ironybread: Hello all. Put your faces close to your screens & I'll spray everyone with Clove bud & Citronella to dispel mosquitoes.
	9:06pm tom tom the pipers son: unfamiliar w/ 80's wire, thx for fillin' me in...
	9:08pm Rich in Washington: whoops
	9:08pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:06 I've been revisiting it lately and picking up some packed reissues of their 80s stuff. Expect more.
	9:09pm ironybread: Good old #SeveredHeads
	9:09pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:08 oh, great...
	🥁 9:09pm WR: The heads on a shelf pic triggers Futurama plot lines for me. Where's the Nixon head?
	9:10pm ultradamno: Bell is one of my least loved Wire records. Not that I think it's bad, but no matter how much I listen to it, it doesn't really stick.
	9:12pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @9:09 picked this up at Everybody's Records the other day
	9:13pm ironybread: On my bike ride today I decided that two of the greatest images in modern music video are and will always be the dancing raw chickens from the "Sledgehammer" video, and Booji Boy putting the fork in the toaster in the "Satisfaction" video
	9:14pm erik-O-vert: 80s Wire: ¿are we supposed to know what Kidney Bingos are?
	9:15pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @9:13 The latter sorta hit me like a lightning bolt and mutated my preteen brain.
	9:16pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Song: "You Gotta Serve Somebody" by "Devo" This was SO close to being in my show today.
	9:16pm Dean: My favorite image from the "Sledgehammer" video is the brief cameo appearance of Gabriel's daughters. Such a cute expression so love.
	9:16pm ultradamno: ↳ erik-O-vert @9:14 I think it's when you slap someone on the lower side for percussion (something they don't go for, Gotobed hates anything more than a simple drumkit)
	9:17pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Uncle Michael @9:16 I didn't wanna be that nag. I liked your ranking approach to Dylan covers. It had to be super difficult to narrow some down.
	9:17pm erik-O-vert: ↳ ironybread @9:13 …so yer sayin imagery from lTarzan Boy” video doesn’t quite make the grade…?😜
	9:17pm Dean: ^of love ...but then who cares about adverbs versus prepositions, hmm?
	9:18pm ironybread: ↳ Dean @9:16 When do the daughters appear? Is it right after Peter is on a high chair and he hops off and a series of women appear in his place?
	9:18pm Dean: Yes, I think so, ironybread. He/they sit upon a stool or stools, as I recall.
	9:18pm ultradamno: Half Jap's "Tangled Up In Blue" and the Elevators' "Baby Blue" would be my top choices for that...
	9:18pm ironybread: ↳ erik-O-vert @9:17 I'm open to more indelible images! What's a good one from that video?
	9:18pm Uncle Michael: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:17 The ranking thing spared me from paralysis by analysis.
	9:19pm Rich in Washington: my coffee is just.... PERFECT
	9:20pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Uncle Michael @9:18 It was fantastic. One I am sure I will be revisiting in archiveland.
	9:21pm ironybread: Rich I want to revisit your perfect coffee in the archive, when will that go live
	9:21pm Uncle Michael: Thanks, Rich.
	🥁 9:22pm WR: ↳ Uncle Michael @9:18 ranking aside, great choices of the versions, UM
	9:25pm erik-O-vert: ↳ ironybread @9:18 …a sarcastic quip, “Tarzan Boy” is one of the many god-awful cheap-O 1980s videos. So bad, it’s just still bad.
	9:26pm Dean: No, it occurs immediately after the cheesy dance with the group of women. The daughters appear quickly, one by one, around four minutes into the video. Lightning fast.
	9:26pm ironybread: ↳ erik-O-vert @9:25 Awfulness can also be an impeccable memory-blaster
	9:27pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Lonely" by "Tom Waits" thanks to my buddy Mongo who reminded me which early Waits album this was on.
	9:28pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:27 his name's not actually Mongo but he likes it when I call him that.
	9:29pm Dean: Generally, I do not like music videos, which are so gratuitous and pointless and disengaged from the music. "Sledgehammer" rightly deserves its position in the Pantheon. It's a brilliant achievement.
	9:30pm Dean: As a work of visual art, I mean. Gabriel never quite mastered thespianism, but that video stands to represent the times in which I lived.
	9:31pm ultradamno: By the way, did you know Meri Wilson, who did Telephone Man (played on this show last week) did an updated version in 1999 called Internet Man? It does not work, she really stumbles trying to work floppy and hard discs and RAM into the double entendres
	9:31pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ultradamno @9:31 NOOOO!!!!
	9:31pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ultradamno @9:31 I must have that!
	🥁 9:34pm WR: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:31 I like that, ultradamno says that "it does not work" and still you are totally enthusiastic about finding it. I totally agree with this.
	9:34pm ironybread: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:27 Gosh, I assumed this was strictly a "happy 50th anniversary" add to the playlist. It's pretty great, I guess it's just before he adopted the Bukowski voice full-time
	9:36pm Rich in Washington: ↳ WR @9:34 it made me want it even more. There's something broken way down inside of me.
	9:37pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @9:34 No. I literally own all of Waits' Asylum albums but for some reason could not locate the song in his catalog until I asked a Waits scholar. Stupid, I know.
	9:38pm ironybread: I couldn't stop myself from buying this, because all sorts of things are broken way down inside me too! But it was a good purchase, it turns out. #AnneSylvestre #Fabulettes taylorjessen.blogspot.com...
	9:38pm tom tom the pipers son: nice segue there...
	9:39pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @9:38 That looks fun! Did you get that on your PNW trek?
	9:40pm erik-O-vert: @UltraD; WIRE lyric site analysis presumes/perhaps more than we bargained for: “Our kidneys are bingos according to this esoteric line of associations…. We are the citizens of a capitalism whose every day existence is spent in an endless orgy of self-butchering, self-cooking, self-serving self-consumption and self-immolation”. Hahaha, how fun is that! Apparently the lyrics refer to ‘gambling habits’. Great arty lyrics in song ‘Kidney Bingos’.
	9:40pm ironybread: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:39 That one I picked up at the Record Exchange in Boise, along with a self-hypnosis record and a stripper-songs record
	🥁 9:41pm WR: ↳ ironybread @9:38 yes, one horrid aspect of digital is near total loss of associated artwork and metadata. As ever, nice work.
	9:41pm ultradamno: Apparently it's only on a one track CD www.discogs.com... (on you tube too)...she also has a song called Peter The Meter Reader...I'm going to have to screw up the courage to hear that.
	🥁 9:43pm WR: ↳ Song: "Some Things Last A Long Time" by "Daniel Johnston" When DJ died his family was overwhelmed with the demand for his work. I should visit the website again, hopefully they are still offering wide selection.
	9:43pm ironybread: ↳ WR @9:41 Thanks babe, I'm all about saving the visuals along with the noises
	9:45pm Rich in Washington: ↳ WR @9:43 I have an enormous box of CDRs which DJ gave to the other station I DJ at and an outgoing station manager dumped them in my mailbox. There could be something rare in there for all I know. It's a mess. Just a bunch of burned CDs with titles scrawled on them.
	9:46pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Been Alone So Long" by "Peter Hammill" never heard this before like the stoned tempo band 'underwater' vocals
	9:47pm tom tom the pipers son: and no 'b'
	🥁 9:47pm WR: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:45 If you want to send them to me to sort through and rip, I'm glad to offer my services. Only half joking on this. And you would learn how slow I am processing the back log of what I have...
	9:48pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:46 The whole album is fantastic. My favorite PH album
	🥁 9:48pm WR: ↳ WR @9:47 and there is the potential issue of 10 plus year old CDRs not playing.
	9:50pm Dean: "Perfect sound forever" To me, that's a war crime.
	9:51pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:48 thx, will make mental note
	🥁 10:05pm WR: A vid that Carla & Karen & Steve and some guy made a few years ago: www.wattxtrawatt.com...
	10:07pm ironybread: A great Quietus article about Bley that goes into detail on the making of this epic album thequietus.com...
	🥁 10:08pm WR: An article that John Pietaro (who has a show Wednesday nights on Sheena stream) wrote based on spending an afternoon visiting Bley & Swallow at their home in 2020: pleasekillme.com...
	10:09pm Rich in Washington: Eugene Chadbourne on 10/18: "CARLA I never met anyone like you, before or after. Thank you for being so kind to me when I was young. I’ll never forget you and Michael Snow showing up for one of my first solo concerts in Toronto. I’m sure someone somewhere has been playing one of your beautiful songs every night since. Thanks for rocking out with me in your studio in the late 70s. Peace and now you get to hang with Ida Lupino"
	10:11pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Hotel Overture (Side One)" by "Carla Bley, Paul H... been hearing brecht/wiell influence the last few days sometimes explicit sometimes not, this somewhat
	🥁 10:11pm WR: ↳ ironybread @10:07 Super! Thank you!
	10:12pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:11 Yeah. I agree, although I'm not super well versed in Brecht/Weill, although I love Threepenny Opera.
	10:14pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:12 same here... heard something by her that was very alabama song
	10:14pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Jesus Maria And Other Spanish Strains" by "The Ca... Thanks to ironybread for hooking me up with this!
	10:16pm ironybread: yow, totally forgot this album had our Eugene Chadbourne on it!
	10:17pm erik-O-vert: ↳ ultradamno @9:10 re post vintage 1970s Wire, I was so thrown by the new transitional sound of Wire 2.0 i wasn’t satisfied until years later as I kept plugging away with each new album. I believe, my ears finally adjusted to their inevitable changes. So it all sounds pretty darn ok by nowadays standards. Still, Nuttin beats-out ‘pink flag’ & ‘chairs missing’ (my fave). Bell/Cup is a worthy spin.
	10:19pm Rich in Washington: ↳ erik-O-vert @10:17 TBH, in the pre-internet world, I had never heard early Wire (but heard their name mentioned often) but was aware of them when they did their comeback (of sorts) in the mid 80s, so didn't think 'the new Wire SUCKS' or anything.
	10:21pm Rich in Washington: So I actually like The Ideal Copy quite a bit, not being really familiar with older Wire. But I like both their earliest stuff and their 80s stuff equally well but in different ways.
	10:22pm Rich in Washington: I like bands/artists that evolve, even if I eventually don't dig what they're doing initially.
	10:22pm tom tom the pipers son: there's a great yt video of wire at rockpalast in 1979 doing the 15th, better than album track
	10:23pm Dean: I like Wire's first two or three albums and one or two of the offshoot bands.
	10:23pm ultradamno: ↳ erik-O-vert @10:17 I like a lot of stuff just past that period...Send is top ten worthy, imo. And the post-Gilbert stuff all has it's moments.
	10:23pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:22 I've seen that. It's fantastic. I love the album 154 but it's so murky in production. Even the recent reissue doesn't fix it.
	10:23pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Dean @10:23 Dome is really enjoyable but kind of obtuse.
	🥁 10:24pm Aitch: Hey Rich and crew
	10:24pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Aitch @10:24 It's Aitch!
	10:24pm Dean: Yeah, Dome. I like Dome.
	10:25pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Dean @10:24 Maybe I'll play some later tonight if there's time.
	10:25pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:23 colin newman's delivery of the song is so snotty but kind of ironic too, much different than album
	10:27pm ironybread: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaitch
	10:27pm ultradamno: Cool new things released today. Martin Rev's collection of cassette work, listened to it this morning, it's awesome martin-rev.bandcamp.com... New Crime & The City Solution is out, haven't listened to the stream of it yet (have a CD coming) but I like what I've heard crimeandthecitysolution.bandcamp.com... and the vinyl of Messer Chups terrific new ep (the digital version has been out for a bit) is shipping ahead of sched. messer-chups.bandcamp.com...
	10:32pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Reactionary Tango (In Three Parts)" by "The Carla... really like these titles, 'reactionary tango' and 'social studies'
	🥁 10:36pm Aitch: Maybe it was the sheer comfiness of the ear worm pyjamas that kept me asleep?
	10:36pm Rich in Washington: I went downstairs to get a beverage and the long breaks between segments made me think the song ended.
	10:37pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Aitch @10:36 Go to sleeeeep, Aitch! Go to sleeeeeep!
	10:38pm Rich in Washington: when I go downstairs I hear the show on the living room stereo 2.5 seconds in the past.
	10:39pm DJ Peter: Ah Carla! We miss you already.
	10:40pm Rich in Washington: ↳ DJ Peter @10:39 Hi DJ Peter! Did the syncopated clock sound call you?
	🥁 10:41pm Aitch: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:37 I was up early, checked out the Flange. but went back for further snoozing, which is a rare thing, but good
	🥁 10:42pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Musique Mecanique II (After Midnight)" by "The Ca... quite the voice?
	🥁 10:44pm Aitch: ↳ ironybread @10:27 It's a black fly in your Chardonnaaaaaitch
	10:46pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "Walking Batteriewoman" by "The Carla Bley Band" anything off the ecm label is guaranteed to be solid gold
	10:47pm Rich in Washington: Thanks again to ironybread for contributing to this segment.
	10:48pm ironybread: Vocal on "Musique Mecanique II" was by trombonist Roswell Rudd, I think
	10:49pm ironybread: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:47 My pleasure sir!
	10:49pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @10:48 yep
	🥁 10:51pm WR: ↳ ironybread @10:07 just finished reading the article. pretty good career overview with lots of spicy details from Ms Carla.
	10:52pm ultradamno: Speaking of Wire and people who have died this week mastodon.social...
	10:53pm tom tom the pipers son: maybe a good compare and contrast would be carla bley/gil evans, although evans much older, but just as far as composed jazz goes
	10:54pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "This Is Here" by "Carla Bley, Paul Haines" Likely ex-Mothers Of Invention's Don Preston on keyboards here.
	10:55pm Rich in Washington: Charlie Haden and John McLaughlin also play on this.
	10:57pm Rich in Washington: Jack Bruce and Linda Ronstatd, Don Cherry
	10:58pm Rich in Washington: It's crazy.
	10:58pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Like Animals" by "Carla Bley, Paul Haines" on a certain mainstream website, they used escalator over the hill in the thread title for carla's obit. (i was surprised she got mentioned there)
	10:58pm Rich in Washington: I haven't seen such a huge and crazy lineup outside of an electric period Miles record.
	10:58pm Dean: My intro to Escalator Over the Hill was the Rolling Stone review.
	10:59pm erik-O-vert: Carla Bley: so brilliant. Twas partial to lesser yet wonderful re-contextualizations on “Mortelle Randonnéel” (French film soundtrack)1983 & “I Hate to Sing”1984. I so wish I collected even more than I already have.
	10:59pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Escalator Over The Hill" by "Carla Bley, Paul Hai... i have quite a few carla bley recs, but i have never heard escalator over the hill...
	🥁 10:59pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Escalator Over The Hill" by "Carla Bley, Paul Hai... all new to me, this is wild
	11:00pm Rich in Washington: ↳ northguineahills @10:58 Hi ngh!
	11:00pm tom tom the pipers son: this brechtian...
	11:01pm ironybread: If you want a completely different Bley taste try "Night-Glo", an album of smooth jazz; and she's not just taking the piss, it's pretty awesome
	11:02pm northguineahills: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:00 richinwa!
	11:02pm pot8o: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:57 i was surprised they got linda ronstadt on this, but this would've been before she got famous
	11:02pm northguineahills: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:00 good call!
	11:02pm tom tom the pipers son: brecht/weill a little like pornography... you know it when you see/hear it
	11:04pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ northguineahills @11:02 brought it up earlier it's kind of ingrained in carla bley from what i've recently heard
	11:05pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:02 that was a joke
	11:11pm pot8o: for a lark, think i should send a demo doug's way? been musing about it for a while, but i go back & try to do airchecks i feel like i sound like i'm being held at gunpoint
	11:12pm Rich in Washington: ↳ pot8o @11:11 Do it!
	11:12pm DJ Peter: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:40 that must have been it!
	11:14pm northguineahills: ↳ pot8o @11:11 do it, you have our support!
	11:14pm ironybread: ↳ pot8o @11:11 Absolutely no reason not to, dear
	11:15pm pot8o: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:12 i'll try to cobble one together over the weekend
	11:16pm erik-O-vert: ↳ northguineahills @10:59 “Escalator”: It was (& still is) a monster move (1971 3Lp box set of wildly mixed personnel Rockin modern art song). Up there with the Hampton Grease Band 2Lp “music to eat”, coincidentally also 1971, both playful wonderful audacious.
	11:16pm tom tom the pipers son: like the floyd/eno back to back
	11:16pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "Julie With..." by "Brian Eno" i'd kill for an original pressing of this
	11:16pm Rich in Washington: ↳ pot8o @11:11 You can get used to speaking on mic. It's kinda scary for some reason. I have a really difficult time doing pre-recorded talk segments for some reason. I guess the chatterbox in me has to be speaking to someone, even if I can't see them.
	11:17pm Rich in Washington: I was raised by late night radio wolves and they threw me headfirst onto a mic with no warning.
	11:18pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:16 one of the tendencies of speaking on mic is saying 'um' a lot
	11:18pm pot8o: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:17 my radio class is the opposite, they won't even think about putting me on the air until the beginning of next year
	11:19pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:18 for a beginner
	11:19pm pot8o: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:18 i do that, plus i have a mild stutter so here's to hoping i can set it aside for long enough to make it sound alright
	11:20pm ironybread: ↳ erik-O-vert @11:16 ooh, never heard "Music to Eat", just added it to my list, thanks eOv
	11:20pm pot8o: hopefully my taste in jazz & krautrock will be enough to win him over 😅
	11:22pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ pot8o @11:19 maybe the trick is to imagine that you're singing even though you're not, make it performative
	11:22pm erik-O-vert: ↳ ironybread @11:01 Yea. I was too nervy for “Night-glo” at its release, now I’m sure I’d love it!
	11:22pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Bad Cabaret For Children" by "Saturday Night Live... pretty, pretty funny
	11:23pm northguineahills: ↳ pot8o @11:19 i used to have a mild stammer. it wasn't until i was 22 until i was able overcome it. it still can visit me when i have anxiety. you'll be fine (b/c if you do radio for the wfmu fam, we're all here for you).
	11:24pm Rich in Washington: If my goofy ass can talk on a mic, anybody can! (wait - that didn't come out right!)
	🥁 11:25pm WR: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:24 talking out your ass is why many must do radio, other venues would be problematic.
	11:25pm northguineahills: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:24 thanks for that image, rich!
	11:27pm pot8o: ↳ WR @11:25 it wouldn't be am radio without it
	11:27pm tom tom the pipers son: damien hirst probably got the idea for his stupid sculpture from this album cover
	11:33pm erik-O-vert: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:22 Wire continued; Hafta try that live-Wire(heh) at Rockpalaast. I also unequivocally recommend their “Peel Sessions” radio broadcast collection. As nearly ALL (of any band) of the Peel Sessions collections are stellar. Most ALL of Colin Newman solo stuff swims for me as well.
	🥁 11:34pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Tubular Bells (Part 2) [excerpt]" by "Mike Oldfield" Same creepy primary school teacher that played us early Kraftwerk used to play this.
	11:34pm ironybread: Suddenly have a very strong need to hear the four children's singles Ron Geesin did with Derek Bowskill in 1974 www.discogs.com...
	11:36pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Aitch @11:34 we must've had the same teacher
	11:37pm northguineahills: ↳ Aitch @11:34 my creepy primary school teachers were too lame to play mike oldfield or kraftwerk...
	11:38pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ erik-O-vert @11:33 thx, will look for wire peel sessions... that wire yt video is def worth a look
	11:38pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Cruel When Complete (feat. A.M.C)" by "Dome" yes, Dome!
	11:40pm Dean: Thanks.
	11:40pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ northguineahills @11:37 my sixth grade teacher was nabbed for inappropriate touching of girls, his name, mr browser
	11:41pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "And Then..." by "Dome" this was pre clicky-starred, but from where?
	11:42pm Rich in Washington: ↳ pot8o @11:41 future you did/will do it
	11:43pm tom tom the pipers son: dome... new to me, thx
	🥁 11:43pm Aitch: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:40 Same creepy teacher had his own (b+w) video camera which we all thought was also being used for creepy movie-making. Liked the music though. Know not of Dome also, this is good
	11:44pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:43 Yeah. I cool offshoot of half of Wire by Bruce Gilbert & Graham Lewis
	11:44pm Dean: Wasn't there also a Wire offshoot called something like Cupola?
	11:45pm Dean: I had an EP...unloaded it long ago.
	11:45pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:44 i see, did not know
	11:45pm Rich in Washington: There was also something like Emmet Duo.
	11:46pm Rich in Washington: The first two Dome albums were also reissued together as Dome 1 & 2
	11:46pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Aitch @11:43 video camera in classroom sounds creepy...
	11:47pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Dean @11:44 Oh wow. Cupol. I just looked them up. 1980. I must get it
	11:48pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Rolling Upon My Day" by "Dome" This track has always reminded me of something from the BBC Radiophonics Workshop played at the wrong speed.
	11:49pm Dean: Ah, right, Cupol. Marvelous, but somehow I got bored with all this stuff for several years. I don't entirely regret it. I spent time exploring classical and early music.
	11:53pm northguineahills: rich in hs drama class?! looks frantically for my fainting chaise lounge...
	11:55pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "House Burning Down" by "Eugene Chadbourne" nice finish, thanks rich. enjoy your weekend!
	11:55pm Rich in Washington: ↳ northguineahills @11:53 LOL! I did stuff like built sets and ran sound. I was terrified to act on stage. Plus, the cooler girls were in Drama.
	11:56pm pot8o: thanks everyone for the advice & encouragement! thanks rich for the awesome music! have a great week everyone!
	11:56pm northguineahills: ↳ pot8o @11:56 do it, en serio!
	11:57pm pot8o: (but god, do i speak like i was given enough tranquilizers to knock out an elephant)
	🥁 11:57pm WR: ↳ Song: "House Burning Down" by "Eugene Chadbourne" damn you playing party dance music just when I am trying to chill out and go to sleep. POLKA!
	🥁 11:57pm Aitch: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:55 I did sound for the Uni shows, on stage no thanks
	11:57pm tom tom the pipers son: thanks, rich, good night folks
	11:58pm Dean: I did a lot of theater from middle school through college. Treaded the boards. Supremely marvelous experience. Real acting is totally absorbing.
	11:58pm northguineahills: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:55 i was too coy for girls in hs, i was clueless when the drama girls kept on taking me out to coffee and live shows (it wasn't until i was visiting home during holidays in uni, that i 'got it' when hanging out w/ them again...
	🥁 11:59pm Aitch: Cheers Rich, thanks for show
	12:00am Rich in Washington: O Tubular Bells, you perennial dollar bin record, you earned yourself a new poly bag tonight.
	12:00am ironybread: Just realized that if certain aliens were only into our Popeye broadcasts, they'd refer to the third planet as "That Popeye Planet"
	12:01am ironybread: Another barnburner tonight, sir. Thanks!
	🥁 12:02am WR: OK, thank you.
	12:02am Rich in Washington: Goodnight everyone! See you next week!

The Radio Is Broken with Rich In Washington: Playlist from October 20, 2023

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