Favoriting The Wiggle Room: Playlist from May 7, 2024 Favoriting

A different show every week! Rotating DJs include Jon Nelson's "Sheena 'ssembly Required" (Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations),
MarkTime (vintage radio airchecks), and Krys O (aka Sister Krys - WFMU alumna 1985-1991, longtime Church of the Subgenius monk. Playing cinematic ephemera, schizoid weirdos, all styles served here). Plus: surprise guests galore. (illustration courtesy of https://www.jimflora.com/)

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Favoriting May 7, 2024: BC Sterrett presents a marathon listen to DIY bedroom band "Bereft" from their Oddity Rock Radio promotional cassette "Candy Corn" (Circa 1999)
Back in 1997 I began a college radio show in Ogden, Utah called "Oddity Rock Radio" for KWCR 88.1 FM, which began as a midnight radio show on Saturday Nights, then after the DJ before me got fired, I took his slot from 9 PM till Midnight. My goal was to play music you couldn't find in record stores, and with the new advantage of the internet, I was able to seek out creative, unusual and outsider bedroom musicians who were posting their music online. One of my favorites was the band "Bereft," three friends who claimed the inability to play any instrument, yet felt the need to make 10 second to 1 minute "songs" and posting them online. It was so inspiring to me at the time, to claim that you had "no talent" yet produced funny and interesting music that was stupid yet imaginative. It caused me to start writing music as well and I ended up playing in several bands. My thanks to Bereft for putting their music that had been released up to that point of my inquiring for a copy of their songs to play on radio. Because their songs were so short and on cassette, it made programming difficult. Yet, I tried to squeeze them in as often as I could. AND...because their songs are so minuscule, it's great to listen to this work as a whole. Don't like a song? Wait about 8 seconds. I won't be talking much on this show or at all, to make room for more audio. Hope you enjoy this rare cassette from The Lost Media Archive :)

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Artist Track Album Year Format Comments Images Approx. start time
Bereft  Anal Warts   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bereft  The Appropriately Titled Song   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:01:07 (Pop-up)
Bereft  The Ballad of Charlie Tuna   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:01:47 (Pop-up)
Bereft  The Bathroom Song   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:02:24 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Beef Jerky   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:02:43 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Big Plastic Chickens   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:03:15 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Bob Dole   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:04:06 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Bonky Partner   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:04:26 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Burrito (Live)   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:05:30 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Candy Corn   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:05:51 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Climb Inside   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:06:27 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Commerciality   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette   
Favoriting
0:07:04 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Communism   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)  1999  Cassette      0:07:36 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Def Kazoo   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:08:08 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Diarrhea Squirt Splat   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:08:57 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Doofnoil   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette   
Favoriting
0:09:48 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Fear of Leather Nipples   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:10:23 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Filler   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)          0:10:54 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Fishpaste   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:11:29 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Fumbling Toward Mediocrity   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:12:24 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Getting Old   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:13:09 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Gorditas   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:13:31 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Happy Birthday   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:14:00 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Hmm...   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:14:22 (Pop-up)
Bereft  In Your Vomit   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette   
Favoriting
0:15:52 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Insipid Wawa   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:16:35 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Le Monde Plastique   Favoriting           0:18:47 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Llama Chameleon   Favoriting " "    Cassette      0:16:53 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Merry Christmas   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:18:22 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Mood Ring   Favoriting " "    Cassette      0:19:18 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Mystical Valet   Favoriting " "    Cassette      0:20:09 (Pop-up)
Bereft  No Talent (Live)   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:20:35 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Non-Stick Cookware   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:21:48 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Not a Toy   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:22:17 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Pencil Sharpener   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:22:40 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Pet Monkey   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:23:09 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Pinkie Toes   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette  (Featuring bands like Hot Waffles, NSPS and others, in tribute to They Might Be Giants' "Fingertips")    0:23:40 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Quasimofo   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:26:18 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Rock You Like a Hurricane   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:27:18 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Rumble   Favoriting Candy Corn    Cassette      0:28:51 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Something   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 1)    Cassette      0:29:42 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
YOur DJ Speaks or Turns over the Cassette.... 
 
 
 
 
 
 
0:31:13 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Subwoofa   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff    Cassette      0:31:16 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Sunshine   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff    Cassette      0:31:48 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Taken By the Sea   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff      You already know this is a cassette so I will stop listing the format. lol 
Favoriting
0:34:04 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Thulungamungus   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff          0:34:38 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Toddler Hiway   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff      TMBG cover.    0:35:10 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Yin Yang   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff          0:35:31 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Yoda   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff      Weird Al cover ;)    0:36:36 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Zucchini   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff          0:39:23 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Anal Warts (Old Version)   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff      And now the "old stuff"    0:40:35 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Vegetable Land   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff    Cassette      0:41:39 (Pop-up)
Bereft  This is the Song   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff          0:42:55 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Number Three   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff      Another TMBG cover song :)    0:43:56 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Evisceratron   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff    Cassette      0:45:18 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Commerciality (Old Version)   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff          0:45:52 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Fear of Leather Nipples (Old Version)   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff          0:45:54 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Dance Mix   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff          0:46:20 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Conservation of Life   Favoriting " "          0:47:38 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Warning   Favoriting           0:48:24 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Communism   Favoriting           0:49:26 (Pop-up)
Bereft  White Noise   Favoriting           0:49:58 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Looking For Boogers   Favoriting           0:50:16 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Buffy   Favoriting           0:51:11 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Def Kazoo (Old Version)   Favoriting           0:51:27 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Pencil Sharpener (Old Version)   Favoriting Candy Corn (Side 2) + Old Stuff          0:52:14 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Solo, I Can't Hear You   Favoriting           0:52:42 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Emulsifier   Favoriting           0:53:14 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Non-Stick Cookware (Old Version)   Favoriting           0:54:18 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Burrito   Favoriting           0:55:56 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Mystical Valet (Old Version)   Favoriting           0:56:30 (Pop-up)
Bereft  Insipid Wawa (Old Version)   Favoriting           0:57:35 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 👻 7:58pm
BC Sterrett:

Unable to make a connection...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
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Krys O.:

Hello!
Avatar 👻 7:59pm
BC Sterrett:

Hello. Did someone forget to turn off BUTT from the last show?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Krys O.:

I think it's been the robot stream.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Krys O.:

Herbie was finished three hours ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Krys O.:

Keep trying.
Avatar 8:02pm
Imaginos:

Ahoy!
Avatar 👻 8:03pm
BC Sterrett:

Got it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Krys O.:

Yay!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:02
Lovely to see you tonight!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Austin Rich:

I recognize some "Scream Tracker" / "Impulse Tracker" sounds...
Avatar 8:04pm
Imaginos:

↳ Austin Rich @8:03
You too, Austin. Did you get those sfx ?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:04
Yes.
Avatar 8:05pm
Imaginos:

Are we celebrating lo-tech tonight?
Avatar 👻 8:05pm
BC Sterrett:

Is the sound coming through?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Austin Rich:

↳ BC Sterrett @8:05
Yep!
Avatar 8:06pm
Imaginos:

Sound is but the list looks weird
Avatar 👻 8:07pm
BC Sterrett:

How weird?
Avatar 8:07pm
Imaginos:

Looks like a cassette insert very old fashioned
Avatar 👻 8:08pm
BC Sterrett:

There we go :)
Avatar 8:09pm
Imaginos:

Same shape now black. Now it looks like a chalkboard in a science lab
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Austin Rich:

This tape is pretty dope. It sounds a lot like the way the early internet used to sound.
Avatar 8:10pm
Imaginos:

There's the picture!
Avatar 👻 8:14pm
BC Sterrett:

How do I get everyones names to appear? lol
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Austin Rich:

↳ BC Sterrett @8:14
I think the color of our names and the color of the background is the same. I think you need to change one of them.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
Austin Rich:

The DIY world of the late 90's was pretty cool. I had a lot of leftover ideas from the 70's and 80's, but we could take advantage of the nascent internet to meet each other and distribute our music. It's was pretty neat.
Avatar 👻 8:16pm
BC Sterrett:

It's so hard to pay attention to the chat when these songs are so short! lol
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
Austin Rich:

... It had a lot...
Avatar 👻 8:18pm
BC Sterrett:

↳ Austin Rich @8:16
Exactly!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
Austin Rich:

Do you have any recordings of your show from 1997? I started in radio in 1998, and I feel like there were a lot of weirdos getting into radio back then.
Avatar 👻 8:20pm
BC Sterrett:

↳ Austin Rich @8:19
I do somewhere, I think I have bags of cassettes of my old show. WFMU was definitely an influence
Avatar 👻 8:20pm
BC Sterrett:

...even then
Avatar 👻 8:22pm
BC Sterrett:

I got fired several times from radio. My show kept creating new rules for the station...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Austin Rich:

Ha! I kept changing with the times... and with my interests... so it had eras, and even a few different names. There were a couple breaks for a year or two each, but you couldn't keep me away for long.
Avatar 👻 8:24pm
BC Sterrett:

When they felt I was scaring people away more than attracting, they would dump me. lol
Avatar 👻 8:25pm
BC Sterrett:

BUT, they said my show created more talk than any other show they had. ha
Avatar 👻 8:25pm
BC Sterrett:

Looks like I scared away the others in the chat?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Austin Rich:

↳ BC Sterrett @8:25
Isn't that always the way!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Austin Rich:

There's a lot of lurkers, I suspect.
Avatar 8:26pm
Imaginos:

I'm here. Just enjoying the weird
Avatar 👻 8:27pm
BC Sterrett:

When friends told me they listened in, I asked why they didn't call in to say "Hi."
They said they were too curious about what was going to come on next
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
Austin Rich:

In High School, I recorded my own re-arrangements of "Fingertips," just putting the sections in different orders for mix tapes. Surprisingly, it still works, even in different order.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Austin Rich:

↳ BC Sterrett @8:27
I think a lot of people listen at work, now, so being able to comment / chat isn't always possible.
Avatar 👻 8:31pm
Mr Fab:

Yo, BC! I love bedroom weirdos who make a slew of 30-second long goofy songs. There’s more of these kinds of outsider They Might be Giants-type groups out there than you might suspect.
Avatar 👻 8:31pm
BC Sterrett:

ha ha I'd love to listen to this in my office cubicle
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:31
I'm still waiting for the "Nuggets" style boxed set on "90's bedroom weirdos".
Avatar 👻 8:32pm
BC Sterrett:

↳ Mr Fab @8:31
Totally, every band I was in, was TMBG influenced back then, ... and The Residents...
Avatar 8:33pm
Imaginos:

↳ BC Sterrett @8:32
The Residents put out some awesomely weird videos
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:33
Yeah. You gotta love those Residents videos.
Avatar 👻 8:37pm
BC Sterrett:

I played accordion, drums and theremin for The Nourishment, for their live shows, but I don't appear on any of their albums...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Austin Rich:

There's a little bit of a Men's Recovery Project vibe, here and there.
Avatar 👻 8:39pm
BC Sterrett:

All songs on the actual album in alphabetical order. Impressive.
Avatar 👻 8:40pm
BC Sterrett:

Mostly in order...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:40pm
Austin Rich:

I recall being completely blown away, and perplexed, by They Might Be Giants as a youth. (I still sort of am.) Especially the first two albums. I was just completely in awe of how strange they were.
Avatar 👻 8:41pm
Mr Fab:

Kitten Sparkles has his own ‘80s/‘90s cassette They Might Be Residents discovery, Klausemeyer. Totally funny and brilliant, and utterly unavailable. You just have to check out his archives.
Avatar 👻 8:42pm
BC Sterrett:

I still have my tapes of recording They Might Be Giant's Dial-A-Song off my phone!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:41
Kitten Sparkles is usually onto pretty excellent things.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:43pm
Austin Rich:

↳ BC Sterrett @8:42
"Free when you call from work."
Avatar 👻 8:43pm
BC Sterrett:

Yes :)
Avatar 👻 8:44pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Yoda" by "Bereft"
With a bit of weird Al tossed in. Not too surprising.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:44
There is something charming about someone approaching a Weird Al cover very sincerely.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Austin Rich:

I'm also getting a little bit of a "Pleaseeasaur" vibe off of this tape, but only in certain ways.
Avatar 👻 8:47pm
BC Sterrett:

Ha, I love this cover
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Number Three" by "Bereft"
I get this song stuck in my head far too often.
Avatar 👻 8:48pm
BC Sterrett:

<3
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Austin Rich @8:48
Particularly when I'm writing new songs.
Avatar 👻 8:51pm
BC Sterrett:

So many songs to go, will they all fit in? lol
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Austin Rich:

Time to play at double speed.
  👻 Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
WR:

Dad gummit. In time to be totally late. Praise WFMU for the archive
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Austin Rich:

↳ WR @8:52
You could be early for the next thing?
Avatar 8:53pm
Imaginos:

Lumpy's proletariat?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:53pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Imaginos @8:53
My favorite show!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Austin Rich:

Another weird one, BC! Thanks again. I'm glad this is now in the archives, forever and ever, until the power goes out.
Avatar 👻 8:55pm
BC Sterrett:

Forever and EVER EVER EVER!
Avatar 👻 8:56pm
BC Sterrett:

StaY tuned for Austin Rich!!!!!
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Imaginos:

↳ BC Sterrett @8:56
Who is a delight to, listen to
Avatar 👻 8:58pm
BC Sterrett:

YEss!!!!
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Krys O.:

Thanks!
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WR:

Don't! Stop! etc.

Thank you!
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BC Sterrett:

THanks for Listening! Until next time!
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