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Favoriting December 14, 2011: Treading water beats sinking

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Artist Track Album Approx. start time
Lee Morgan  Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)   Favoriting The Gigolo  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Sonny Rollins  The Bridge   Favoriting The Bridge  0:03:09 (Pop-up)
Marco Benevento  Friends   Favoriting Me Not Me  0:09:16 (Pop-up)
Yo La Tengo  Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)   Favoriting Electr-O-Pura  0:13:21 (Pop-up)
 
Annie  Chewing Gum   Favoriting Anniemal  0:24:18 (Pop-up)
Drunks with Guns  Zombie   Favoriting Behemoth Records 2 x 7" singles  0:27:41 (Pop-up)
The Sick Rose  Putting Me Down   Favoriting No Need for Speed  0:30:29 (Pop-up)
Terese Kelly & Diane Schacht  You Light Up My Life   Favoriting The Deep Shag Project  0:33:45 (Pop-up)
Leon Melaragno  Old Dog Tray   Favoriting source unknown (that is, forgotten)  0:36:13 (Pop-up)
Stereolab & High Llamas  Harve Daley Hix   Favoriting The Free Design: The Now Sound Redesigned  0:39:11 (Pop-up)
Kid Baltan (Dick Raaijmakers)  Song of the Second Moon   Favoriting Popular Electronics: Early Dutch Electronic Music 1956-1963  0:44:38 (Pop-up)
 
The Vestibules  Laurence Olivier for Diet Coke   Favoriting Sketches Songs and Shoes  0:54:12 (Pop-up)
Art Brut  I Will Survive   Favoriting It's A Bit Complicated  0:53:47 (Pop-up)
Sonja van Hamel  395   Favoriting Transcendental Man  0:56:49 (Pop-up)
Some Girls  Magnetic Fields   Favoriting Crushing Love  1:00:28 (Pop-up)
Smitty  Blue Velvet   Favoriting Upstairs at Larry's: Lawrence Welk Uncorked  1:03:06 (Pop-up)
Sisters of St. Francis  I Love To Dance   Favoriting Transcendental / Music by Lenny Rich  1:08:57 (Pop-up)
 
Leo Kottke  Machine #2   Favoriting Mudlark  1:18:32 (Pop-up)
Elvis Presley vs. The Farm  Strung Out King   Favoriting Go Home Productions  1:21:07 (Pop-up)
Kids of Camp Lenni-Len-A-Pe  Worthwhile Occupation   Favoriting self-titled  1:24:28 (Pop-up)
Tim Friese-Greene  4   Favoriting 10 Sketches for Piano  1:27:04 (Pop-up)
Bob & Ray  Barry Campbell   Favoriting The Lost Episodes, Vol. 4 (bobandray.com)  1:30:51 (Pop-up)
A Great Many  T&C Term Life Agents   Favoriting http://www.youtube.com/AGreatMany  1:35:09 (Pop-up)
Chris Palestis a.k.a. Wizz-O  Don't You Want Me Baby   Favoriting Wizz-O: Live & Insane, May 1, 1982  1:39:32 (Pop-up)
Royal Baths  Darling Divine   Favoriting Better Luck Next Life  1:43:06 (Pop-up)
OP8 (Howe Gelb & Lisa Germano)  Tom, Dick & Harry   Favoriting Slush  1:46:58 (Pop-up)
Aaron Roche  Etude   Favoriting !Blur My Eyes  1:50:59 (Pop-up)
 
The Clientele  Graven Wood   Favoriting Bonfires on the Heath  2:03:18 (Pop-up)
Bryan Wright  Candlelights (comp. Bix Beiderbecke)   Favoriting Breakin' Notes: Ragtime and Novelty Piano Solos  2:06:19 (Pop-up)
Lee Feldman  The Magician   Favoriting Trying to Put the Things Together That Never Been Together Before  2:10:22 (Pop-up)
Paul Rubenstein  Flat Bars   Favoriting Solo Trios (Microtonal Works)  2:13:41 (Pop-up)
Newband (conductor: Dean Drummond)  Daphne of the Dunes (comp. Harry Partch)   Favoriting Newband Play Microtonal Works  2:17:52 (Pop-up)
 
Gail Angelos  Hello Santa   Favoriting source unknown (that is, forgotten)  2:44:32 (Pop-up)
San D'Jinn Din  Rainy Weekend   Favoriting found tape  2:47:39 (Pop-up)
Traffic  Means to An End   Favoriting Traffic  2:52:17 (Pop-up)
Amanda  Lurch   Favoriting Let's Get Plastered and Raid Circus World  2:54:30 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  3:02pm
Guess:

Pseu is riveted to the stream awaiting your Guetta selection...
  3:02pm
Matt from Springfield:

Who're those guys?
  3:04pm
abby in france:

that is a great pic...
  3:04pm
Guess:

See Pseu's Friday playlist and Irwin's raves thereupon
  3:04pm
hamburger:

just a couple o' pee pals
  3:05pm
Laura L:

Looks like Kevin McCarthy in the light suit but it's not, is it, Irwin.
  3:06pm
still b/p:

Today's show: Treading water, beat synching.
  3:06pm
Listening Out There:

Whittaker Chambers on the left, maybe?
  3:07pm
hamburger:

a truly unifying stream
  3:08pm
Irwin:

Click on for the reveal.
  3:10pm
Matt from Springfield:

REVEAL! Interesting.
  3:12pm
G:

I won't spill the surprise, but given the lefty's best-known character...

If the photog had asked them to turn around and pose, now THAT would be a REVEAL.
  3:13pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:

it says those guys are "skylarking". I guess that's what that's called...
  3:13pm
das:

http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/david_bowie_pissing_into_a_toaster
  3:16pm
G:

urbandictionary.com, "skylarking": "to fool around or act strange, also to galavant or to commit tomfoolery or shenanigans. " (w/ the usual web 2.0 dumbass writing slips corrected)
  3:20pm
Matt from Springfield:

XTC did a great song called "Skylarking"--the tranquil feel of it probably relates to fooling around. Good to know there's no pee connotations to it.

There isn't, is there???????
  3:21pm
G:

urbandictionray alternate skylarking definition: "A sexual act whereby a woman lays down naked on her back and man crouches over her, naked as well, and vomits down into her open mouth. Originated from the common misconception that the cover of seminal English Pastoral-New Wave-Baroque Pop band XTC's classic 1986 album of the same name depicts a pair of lovers engaging in the described act. In reality, they are each just playing the flute."
  3:21pm
Matt from Springfield:

@das: Wow, Bowie's committing "taboobicide"!
  3:23pm
G:

Ken'll sic Krampus on him.
  3:24pm
Sir Winston:

And that, Irwin, is why you will use Firefox regardless.
  3:24pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:

I'm gonna skylark all over this playlist
  3:24pm
Obvious Line:

Someone firefuxed up
  3:25pm
Sir Winston O'Boogie:

Give pees a chance!
  3:26pm
das:

that explains the decline in popularity of the buick skylark
  3:32pm
paula pc:

thanks for playing zombie...an old favorite...
  3:33pm
das:

Still an odd cover: http://www.coveralia.com/caratulas/XTC-Skylarking-%282001%29-Frontal.php
  3:36pm
eric:

I was totally gonna listen to the Patti Smith version of this later today.
  3:36pm
Joe Brooks:

Send that yowling chick up to my apartment, stat. She'll do.
  3:36pm
Matt from Springfield:

At least the piano playing is adequate and technically proficient.
  3:37pm
Matt from Springfield:

Really the problem is that's a terrible song--I don't know any way to make it amazing (wink,wink, Tullis and Clark remixers!!)
  3:38pm
Matt from Springfield:

@Joe: The piano player too? Or is "adequate and technically proficient" not kinky enough for ya?
  3:38pm
Reality Check:

Unless someone rescues you fairly soon, treading water actually PRECEDES sinking.
  3:39pm
still b/p:

My life's all it up now like the biggest. cheeriest, craziest Christmas light display in the neighborhood.
  3:39pm
Joe Brooks:

Someone give that guy some pepto-bismol.
  3:39pm
Matt from Springfield:

Play this at 45! Or 78!!!
  3:40pm
still b/p:

This sounds like Terry Jones of Monty Python.
  3:40pm
Roberto:

Oh now I get it, Tray is the dog's name.
  3:41pm
Joe Brooks:

tray bien, bob
  3:43pm
Matt from Springfield:

Mellotron!
  3:45pm
Roberto:

Yes initially I thought it had something to do with a surface on which to serve an old dog, or perhaps a surface on which an old dog's secretions are stored.
  3:48pm
Matt from Springfield:

Wow, those Dutch sure are catching up to Raymond Scott!
  3:48pm
Matt from Springfield:

@Roberto: A tray made out of an old dog?
  3:48pm
Excessive Dog Owner / Excessive Gambler:

Walk time! Come Ace, come Deuce, come Trey! Here, Jack! Here, Queen! Here, King!
  3:50pm
Roberto:

Or perhaps it is the tray itself that is old. These are all valid interpretations.
  3:51pm
Matt from Springfield:

Positivity, hrrrumph!
  3:53pm
Cynic:

I'm positively negative
  3:53pm
Jello Biafra:

Shut up. Be happy.
  3:55pm
Matt from Springfield:

YES, post-modern expropriating of dead people in advertisements!!

Along with AM radio mashups, WFMU is becoming not a "non-commercial", but a "post-commercial" station! Ba-da-da-da-da, I'm lovin' it!
  4:03pm
Roberto:

Next up: Magnetic Fields covers the Stones' "Some Girls"
  4:04pm
Matt from Springfield:

The Magnetic Fields could cover "Some Girls" on their next album. And the Rolling Stones could record "Crushing Love" for the Some Girls reissue.
  4:04pm
Marmalade kitty:

whats going down in the photograph?
  4:05pm
Matt from Springfield:

Crushing Love could then cover "Rolling Stones" on their Magnetic Fields album and<rip of space-time>
  4:05pm
Duh:

@MK: Neither of them, yet
  4:06pm
Marmalade kitty:

cheeky shot, whoever took that one!
  4:06pm
Matt from Springfield:

This Lawrence Welk Uncorked is a great album, liking all the stuff off it so far!
  4:07pm
Shaggy:

Wasn't me.
  4:07pm
Duh:

with their pants on, it's not as cheeky as it might be
  4:09pm
Duh:

@MK: click the pic for detailed info
  4:09pm
Matt from Springfield:

What's new, Marmalade cat?
  4:11pm
Matt from Springfield:

In Heaven there is no beer, and so it seems the Sisters of St. Francis are drinking it here!
  4:17pm
Carmichael:

Checking in, dawgs.
  4:17pm
Marmalade kitty:

the "caught", guilty look and the how dare you! look. I love the tiled wall
hello Matt!
  4:18pm
Announcement:

Note: Lou Reed will dis-appear on any upcoming program before it actually happens
  4:18pm
trrs:

How about a decent moments reel.
  4:19pm
or:

a could be worse reel
  4:19pm
trrs:

From the "it rarely gets better than this" pile.
  4:20pm
Van in Dallas:

Been enjoying, gotta run. Thanks Irwin!

@Matt from Springfield - how ya doing? That was a nicely solved mystery for us you did over on Julie's show-before-last :)
  4:21pm
Parq:

Aha, that's Dame Edna! Looks a little like Lee J. Cobb, I think.
  4:21pm
trrs:

it can always get worse.
(Not with this song, though; it's been years since I last heard this on a boxed tape.)
  4:21pm
Carmichael:

OK, so what's mudlarking??
  4:22pm
Don't Ask:

If skylarking is done by two guys at a urinal, the mudlarking is...
  4:23pm
Listening Out There:

Mudlarking = http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mudlarking
  4:25pm
Matt from Springfield:

@Van: Thanks! I was reading comments before looking at the Archive, and was wondering what that comment meant; then when I heard the Jefferson Airplane song, I suddenly remembered it and put the pieces together!
  4:26pm
Matt from Springfield:

Go GHP! Always great!
  4:27pm
Matt from Springfield:

Wow, can't believe they let them sing this one.
  4:28pm
Maybe:

Every camp counsler was under 25
  4:28pm
Blob:

Is Worthwhile Occupation a cover? Of what? I loved that!
  4:32pm
Maybe:

...someone at the camp wrote it; the lyrics for "Worthwhile Occupation" are not showing up on google, at a quick search...
  4:33pm
Blob:

Holy cow! Irwin is that an original track?
  4:33pm
Irwin:

No clue.
  4:34pm
Matt from Springfield:

Ha ha, Bob's cracking up!
  4:37pm
Alternate Title:

"Black Hole SelectQuote"
  4:38pm
Son:

How is this not a cover of Big Bikes, from Wretch by Kyuss?
  4:38pm
chris:

Best selectquotes yet!
  4:38pm
Matt from Springfield:

Grungey Tullis & Clark!
  4:40pm
Matt from Springfield:

Cars 4 Kids - 666 thrown in there too! YES!
  4:42pm
wildneil:

This clown is ruining a GREAT song! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
  4:42pm
Karaoke bartender:

Jeez, I hope this guy tips well.
  4:42pm
Terese Kelly & Diane Schacht:

Chris is pretty good!
  4:43pm
hamburger:

he's giving it his all people!
  4:43pm
Listeners:

That's the problem, hamburger
  4:43pm
another old man:

sing is listenable now
  4:43pm
Roberto:

Wizz-O OWNS!!
  4:44pm
Matt from Springfield:

@TK&DS: He can play guitar too! Have him join you two as your male vocalist, and he'll play some shredding acoustic solos as well!
  4:44pm
conrad:

i cant imagine this song without a guy clapping for about 10 seconds during that little part.
  4:50pm
Matt from Springfield:

Tom, Dick & Harry...
Can you believe that on the Classical WETA radio station, an underwriter they always announce is "the law firm of Harness, Dickey & Pierce". I mean do they realize what it sounds like when you read their name aloud?!
  4:51pm
Matt from Springfield:

Their website is hdp.com--you'd think "HDP" or "HDP Inc" would sound more professional and less like a joke.
  4:51pm
Blob:

I love this! I love you Irwin!
  4:52pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:

law firms always have the weirdest names. My guess is that people become lawyers because they're always getting picked on because of their weird names.
  4:55pm
Dewey Screwham and Howe:

Expect a cease and desist letter messengered in the morning.
  4:57pm
G:

@Blob: That camp seems to be there still -- Orange County, NY. Google it.
  4:58pm
Nasty Brutish & Short LLC:

ditto DS&H
  5:00pm
Winkebottom Personal Injury:

@NB&S THAT IS INFRINGEMENT OF CONCURRENCE NB&S! WE'RE ON YOUR ASSES
  5:00pm
Parq:

I've met a lawyer named Lawless, and another one named -- I swear -- Greathead.
  5:01pm
SelectQuote:

We're focusgrouping a new tagline: "We buy spots, you turn down the volume." How about it?
  5:04pm
Ike:

"It's been discreetly removed from the schedule" -- LOL! Whut happened?! Did somebody do something bad on the air for the lulz? Heh.
  5:04pm
Brass Knuckles:

That sermon show was some god awful crap.
  5:06pm
Matt from Springfield:

I wasn't surprised by the discreet removal, weev probably didn't want to do that a whole season, but Ken helped him do 2 royally-pissing-off broadcasts as a joke on us and the wider radio audience.
  5:06pm
Beavis:

He said "God awful" heheheh
  5:14pm
corduroy moccasins:

just noticed weev's posted a rant since being fired on his playlist page: http://bit.ly/sncBWe
  5:15pm
G:

Yep, his goodbye at the end of his last playlist, from last week
  5:18pm
Lizardner Dave:

So basically his point was if WFMU had Islam in the AM he'd be fine and Dave Emory would not have lasted. I could see that.
  5:19pm
Ike:

Hmmm, now I'm curious to hear it. Will check archives.

I am surprised that so many people apparently took it seriously though. What, you thought a real Xtian preacher was on FMU?
  5:20pm
Sinner's Crossroads:

@Ike: Yeah, recockulous.
  5:21pm
glenn:

why not? irwin's on the air alongside all the commies.
  5:22pm
Brass Knuckles:

Didn't know there was any controversy other than it made me turn off the radio. The cadence of his voice annoyed me.
  5:22pm
Irwin:

@Glenn: Durned tootin'! I was one once. Then I kinda sorta growed up.
  5:24pm
Common Sense:

Some people change their thinking as they gather information and figure things out better, over the years and decades.

Some people ossify after their early 20s and never have a single new thought ever again.
  5:26pm
glenn:

don't get me wrong. i abhor extremists of all stripes, particularly the christian right wing.
  5:29pm
Irwin:

What about Harry Partch? Can you deal with his extremism?
  5:30pm
glenn:

meh.
  5:31pm
Mr. Lowry:

Harry Partch extreme? He was background music to my childhood.

Actually, that explains a lot.
  5:33pm
Lizardner Dave:

I abhor the Islamic right wing more than the Christian right wing but that's mainly because I know people who were killed by Islamic right wingers and I don't know any of the people who were killed by Christian right wingers. YMMV.
  5:35pm
glenn:

that's a reasonable point of view. but what if you did?
  5:35pm
kat330:

(Permission to come aboard.) Such a serious discussion as a holiday prelude!
  5:36pm
glenn:

what does ymmv mean?
  5:36pm
kat330:

Your mileage may vary.
  5:37pm
Common Sense:

your mileage may vary. internet lingo since the 90s, if not the 80s
  5:37pm
Lizardner Dave:

"Your Mileage May Vary". It's an Internet abbreviation thing meaning "You may have had a different experience regarding this issue". All the kids use it, it's more popular than Pokemon.
  5:37pm
Common Sense:

YMMV, FTW
  5:37pm
glenn:

first time i've ever seen it.
  5:38pm
Mr. Lowry:

YMMV: l33t haxor for "yummy'
  5:38pm
Matt from Springfield:

@LDave: Are you a veteran? Or did you know victims of 9/11? Or both?

That's a good point, btw. Fortunately I don't know any victims of either personally, but statistically more people worldwide have been killed by Islamic extremists than by Christian extremists in the last century.
  5:38pm
Common Sense:

NP gramps, LMFAO
  5:39pm
noob:

lol :-)
  5:39pm
Common Sense:

O:-)
  5:40pm
glenn:

well gee, common sense, aren't you special?
  5:40pm
noob:

8-)
  5:41pm
Lizardner Dave:

I know two 9/11 victims and while I didn't know him personally a close friend of my nephew's was killed in Afghanistan. Interestingly enough his funeral was picketed by the Westboro Baptist Church.

I don't know anyone who was killed in Oklahoma City or Norway.
  5:42pm
newt:

Anis and Anis on Journal Square
  5:43pm
Common Sense:

Common Sense is not common ( <--- cliche alert )
  5:44pm
kat330:

What a shocker. (Lou Reed has been postponed until January.)
  5:44pm
other david:

Ahhhhh Lamin is back?!

*fistpumps*
  5:47pm
glenn:

it's almost 2012. as far as i am concerned, anybody who is living according to the dictates of a mythical god, as laid out on the pages of the greatest work of fiction the world has ever known, is a deluded retard. that goes for muslims and jews as well.
  5:47pm
The Next Supergroup:

Terese Kelly
Diane Schacht
Wizz-O
Gail Angelos

first release: "We'd Like to Teach the World to Sing"
  5:47pm
Matt from Springfield:

@LDave: My respects--three people at my high school had close relatives who were on the Pentagon plane or the WTC. The Pentagon plane actually passed over my high school; I didn't hear it in the middle of the 2-story block, but those in trailers and the library heard it.
  5:48pm
kat330:

Question: What IS the novelty of novelty music, at least long-term?
  5:49pm
Matt from Springfield:

Knock on wood that no one I know or work with in the Army and other services will meet his/her maker. Fortunately Iraq is out of the equation.
  5:50pm
DS:

Robert Earl Keen
"Merry Christmas From The Family"
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=1&ved=0CEYQtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DP37xPiRz1sg&ei=ACjpTpuwBITZgQfG3az4CA&usg=AFQjCNE02KGr7c8KWO8lEjufnGbVAjFqhQ&sig2=Az_cgeLScfAsGe9v7nb8hA
  5:50pm
The Next Supergroup:

OK, with San it's now a quintet
  5:50pm
Matt from Springfield:

@Irwin: I heard this on your first NJX@NY$! Love all the NY/NJ voices on that collection!
  5:51pm
other david:

@The Next Supergroup - no room for Wing or Mrs. Miller?
  5:52pm
Jasperodus:

Novelty requires lack of short term memory. That's probably why it appeals in my case.
  5:52pm
Matt from Springfield:

Rainy weekends are nice and cozy to spend with one you love, it's a good topic but it's his (lack of) songwriting skill and thick talk-sing-scat voice that really make this song.
  5:52pm
kat330:

Lamest Christmas release this year, IMO, is "She & Him"'s ("Shim's). Uninspired and sounds like they knocked if off in a couple of spare hours.
  5:52pm
Jasperodus:

Appreciating novelty requires problems with short term memory. I think that may be why I like it.
  5:53pm
Matt from Springfield:

@OD: Wing deserves a higher class of supergroup! :)
  5:53pm
Ike:

Hallelujah, @Glenn@5:47.
  5:55pm
Old Timer's Disease Victim:

What was that again, Jasper? Sorry, it slipped my mind.
  5:55pm
Matt from Springfield:

@OD: Wing could partner with the Alexander Berger(DNA) guy from Canada for example :)
  5:56pm
Matt from Springfield:

Power children to cap off the day!
WAWAWWAWAWAWWAA!!
  5:56pm
Show Setup:

Amanda Climax Format
  5:58pm
other david:

@Matt hah nice idea :)
  5:58pm
Lurch:

YOOOOOOUUUUU SCREEEEECHEDD???
  5:59pm
Matt from Springfield:

Thanks Irwin! Always a fun show over here!
  5:59pm
Al from England:

ur voice is nice and a little bit (a lot) of harry partch is ALWAYS a great idea. also nice job of cutting off that traffic song at the guitar solo..
  6:00pm
kat330:

Yay! Any possibility of getting your new compilation with a donation tomorrow (at least an IOU for it)?
  6:01pm
Matt from Springfield:

@Al: He probably cut it off because he dislikes the DRUM solo! He does that sometimes! :)
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