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Favoriting February 5, 2014: Forgotify with Call Letters

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Lee Morgan  Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)   Favoriting The Gigolo  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Pulp  Dogs are Everywhere   Favoriting Dogs Are Everywhere (12")  0:03:41 (Pop-up)
Brian Dewan  Coconut   Favoriting This is the Town: A Tribute to Nilsson (Vol. 1)  0:08:37 (Pop-up)
Optiganally Yours  Down   Favoriting Spotlight on Optiganally Yours  0:12:26 (Pop-up)
 
Jenny O  1941   Favoriting This is the Town: A Tribute to Nilsson (Vol. 1)  0:22:52 (Pop-up)
Marchand Melcher  Coronado   Favoriting Royal Hollywod single RC-101  0:25:37 (Pop-up)
Courtney Barnett  History Eraser   Favoriting The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas  0:28:02 (Pop-up)
Papa Razzi and the Photogs  Bob Odenkirk, Everyone Loves You So Much   Favoriting Most of These People Were Guests on Podcasts I Listened To  0:31:19 (Pop-up)
The Contrast  We Are the Monsters   Favoriting A Sinister Flick  0:33:02 (Pop-up)
Bevis Frond  Flood Warning   Favoriting Hit Squad  0:36:07 (Pop-up)
The Tornados  Jungle Fever   Favoriting Telstar: The Original Sixties Hits of the Tornados  0:39:35 (Pop-up)
 
Joe Meek & The Blue Men  The Bublight / March of the Dribcots / Love Dance of the Saroos   Favoriting I Hear a New World: An Outer Space Music Fantasy  0:49:18 (Pop-up)
Mike Doughty  Unmarked Helicopters   Favoriting Circles Super Bon Bon Sleepless ...  0:56:31 (Pop-up)
Wolfgang Ruttkowski  Summer Wind   Favoriting one of WR's 540 YT vids  1:00:44 (Pop-up)
New Pink Floyd ft. Jaimie Sharkey  Boom Boom Boom   Favoriting The Animatronics of Fuck Yeah  1:03:00 (Pop-up)
Andrea Egert  My Bathroom   Favoriting Not Otherwise Specified  1:05:38 (Pop-up)
Jon Scofield  Sticks & Stones   Favoriting That's What I Say  1:08:05 (Pop-up)
 
Hannah Peel  You Call This Your Home   Favoriting The Broken Wave  1:18:13 (Pop-up)
Jim Putnam & Mickaël Mottet  Let Be   Favoriting Jim Putnam & Mickaël Mottet  1:21:09 (Pop-up)
Adalita  Warm Like You   Favoriting All Day Venus  1:25:59 (Pop-up)
Dr. Michael Dean, The Singing Hypnotist  Strange Psychiatric Mystery   Favoriting Lanson Records L-500 (7")  1:29:35 (Pop-up)
Walter Gross  Creepy Weepy (A Boogie-Woogie Study)   Favoriting Bluebird 78 rpm 10937-A  1:31:51 (Pop-up)
The Clientele  The Garden at Night   Favoriting God Save the Clientele  1:34:16 (Pop-up)
Papa Razzi and the Photogs  I Hate Helping People Move   Favoriting Most of These People Were Guests on Podcasts I Listened To  1:35:29 (Pop-up)
Each Other  Send Your Signals   Favoriting Being Elastic  1:36:41 (Pop-up)
 
Brian Beattie (vocs: Will Sheff & Grace London)  Busy, Busy, Busy/Nothing is Something   Favoriting Ivy & the Wicker Suitcase  1:45:53 (Pop-up)
Brian Beattie  Office-Stable   Favoriting Ivy & the Wicker Suitcase  1:52:11 (Pop-up)
Brian Beattie (vocs: James Hand & Grace London)  Sorry Won't Mend the Trouble I Made   Favoriting Ivy & the Wicker Suitcase  1:52:35 (Pop-up)
Beach Boys  Break Away (alternate)   Favoriting Hawthorne, California  1:55:31 (Pop-up)
Bob Weir  Playing in the Band   Favoriting Ace  1:59:13 (Pop-up)
For Against  Shadow   Favoriting Shelf Life  2:06:32 (Pop-up)
Brad Paisley  Working on a Tan   Favoriting This is Country Music  2:10:39 (Pop-up)
 
Kandia Crazy Horse  Congo Square   Favoriting Stampede  2:20:08 (Pop-up)
Chuck Berry  You Never Can Tell   Favoriting The Definitive Collection  2:22:58 (Pop-up)
 
Soft Machine  Why Are We Sleeping?   Favoriting Produced by Tom Wilson (Irwin's 2014 cd premium)  2:30:14 (Pop-up)
The Fauves  Surf City Limits   Favoriting Lazy Highways  2:35:07 (Pop-up)
8X8 (Lane Steinberg & Alex Khodchenko)  I'm a Werewolf, Baby   Favoriting Azalea's Room  2:38:33 (Pop-up)
Nigel Bunn  Worshipping the Whiteware God   Favoriting Index  2:42:28 (Pop-up)
Snatch (with Eno)  R.A.F.   Favoriting Snatch  2:47:38 (Pop-up)
 
Raag Billy Bop  Stay   Favoriting Stranger Here Myself  2:53:26 (Pop-up)
Mark E. Smith  The Mark E. Smith Guide to Writing Guide   Favoriting MES on Greenwich Sound Radio  2:56:39 (Pop-up)
Matt Farley  FMU Red Tape Song   Favoriting Fans2  2:58:12 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
rrg:

Hello. And why, pray tell, is the Record Fair moving to late May this year?
Avatar 3:02pm
Droll:

I wanted to make a Forgotify for YT...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
Alison Porchnik:

Where's today's funny picture?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
rrg:

Droll, is there an API that would make that possible?
Avatar 3:03pm
steve:

rrg - probably less chance of it getting hurricaned out again?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
rrg:

Maybe, but surely that can't be a serious concern. Must be something else.
Avatar 3:04pm
Droll:

rrg, Yes, but that's an offline discussion.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
Irwin:

Sorry for lack of visuals. Couldn't find anything worthwhile this week. Use your imagination.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
rrg:

Imagination fails me. Words fail me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Stevel:

I am making bad shadow puppets on the wall. Pretty much just a rabbit, really.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
rrg:

A rabbit is the only shadow puppet I can do, too.

And I can't juggle.

But I can whistle.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
common:

dogs are everywhere.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Alison Porchnik:

I'm picturing a sea of dogs
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
rrg:

I like this dog song.
Avatar 3:08pm
Droll:

I know one place there are no dogs -- this song. How ironic. It begs the question, who let the dogs out?
Avatar 3:08pm
Whooda:

Irwin, just checked out the Flora site. Am amazed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
Alison Porchnik:

Yay! Coconut!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
rrg:

Yay! A Nilsson song!
  3:09pm
Laura L:

Is that a call for help? You need some funny pictures?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
rrg:

Yes, Laura. He's crying for help.
Avatar 3:10pm
steve:

Dewan! no -atron though
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:10pm
Irwin:

LL: Mail a few, hep me out heah.
Avatar 3:11pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...just heard some Damon on KCRW...that one was about robots though, not dogs...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
rrg:

The reason I never heard of this is (in this case) that it was just released.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
rrg:

My research tells me that there is an "acoustic version" of "Dogs Are Everywhere".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
Uncle Michael:

Greetings, Irwin, et al.
Avatar 3:15pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Forgotify sounds like an App to help you forget something you are already overexposed to...now *that* would be useful...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
rrg:

Tell me again what an optigan is.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:17pm
Uncle Michael:

It's a geometric shape with just the right number of sides.
Avatar 3:19pm
steve:

i was offered a free working Optigan last year, and didnt take it. sure there's zero room for it in my apartment, but i'll never stop regretting it.
Avatar 3:19pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...aim it @ TVs & Commercial Radio - Forgotified !!...
...an Optimally Organic Octagon...or a Spanish Conquistador Explorer...or an opponent of Godzilla...I don't know...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
rrg:

Jenny O.!
Avatar 3:21pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- hey ! - it's all of the above :
en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 3:22pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

Wow, I haven't thought of Optiganally Yours since Yancy played them on January 5, 2003.
Avatar 3:23pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

Oh, man. The one Wednesday I have WFMU on all day and no Joe Frank.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
rrg:

More music to get. But it's an inexpensive indulgence.
Avatar 3:23pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...she's good for this too...
  3:24pm
steve, the horse with no name:

Dogs are everywhere in Sochi, so local death squads killing them.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:24pm
Webhamster Henry:

Looks like a nice Nillson tribute. Note: there's a yellow vinyl version.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
rrg:

Mr. Pete from Boston and NJ: Make up your mind!

And I would say, use the archives to feed your hunger for Joe Frank. And the Internet.

I know, it's easier if Irwin just does it when you need it.
Avatar 3:25pm
KP:

rrg, what is the inexpensive indulgence if you dont mind me asking.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
rrg:

Why would you want all that surface noise?

Get the CD.
  3:27pm
mike Y:

iS joe FraNK THIS WEEK?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:27pm
Alison Porchnik:

This sounds like a Libertarian anthem
Avatar 3:27pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...this M.Melcher makes me miss Jason Elbogen somehow...I'd forgotten for a minute...well it also makes up for it same time...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:27pm
rrg:

I would not object if you played a few more tracks from "This Is the Town" this afternoon.
Avatar 3:31pm
Droll:

I think the Aussies quietly stole the pop crown from Sweden sometime in 2013.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
Alison Porchnik:

He has a song about EVERYBODY!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
rrg:

Not me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
Mike East:

great album title
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:33pm
Mike East:

@rrg - if you call him up, I'll bet you he'll write a song about you.
his phone # is readily available
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:34pm
rrg:

Wait, "Papa Razzi and the Photogs": that's the same guy? The Passionate and Objective Jokerfan?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:35pm
Mike East:

yeah, same guy. Watch "Local Legends" - it is a very good film, imo.
Avatar 3:36pm
bobdoesthings:

Jokerfan is also - The Ultra Right Wing Conservatives and The Extreme Left Wing Liberals ... played on Ken's show this morning.. as well as one or two other names..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:38pm
Mike East:

a lot more than one or two other names...a LOT more. the dude is prolific.
Avatar 3:38pm
glenn:

yes. matt farley.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:39pm
Uncle Michael:

I'd let him write my theme. I'm generous like that.
Avatar 3:39pm
steve:

heres a complete list of all Matt Farley bands (its from his own website so is probably accurate) www.moternmedia.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:41pm
rrg:

Wow. Tornados.

I think a "wow" is sufficient in this case.
Avatar 3:41pm
bobdoesthings:

Ahh.. neat.
  3:41pm
rat musk love:

Nice set list
Avatar 3:41pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

My mind IS made up, I just can't decide which way it's made up.
Avatar 3:42pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...'NewHampshuh LoveSong Warriors' !...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:42pm
rrg:

Dozens of names on that Matt Farley list.
  3:42pm
LovecraftDude888:

man, you guys missed some great 70s cheeze pop earlier....Cheezier than Annnie's mac and cheese
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
Parq:

RRG, thanks for that list. I think we can all agree that FMU listeners would want to hear a track from "The Strange Man Who Sings About Dead Animals".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
rrg:

I suppose that's why "(and NJ)" is parenthesized.

Well, that's the wrong choice if you ask me.
Avatar 3:44pm
bobdoesthings:

I did this 6-7 years ago.. me and college buddies made about10-12 band names with rules as to what type of songs we'd make.. and we'd get drunk and make songs on the spot..
Avatar 3:44pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

Nick Saloman from the Bevis Frond co-hosts the Friday morning 7-8am psych-rock show on WMBR here. Great stuff, especially the commentary. But what always feels (ironically) odd is that his speaking voice sounds just like his singing voice.
  3:47pm
LovecraftDude888:

oh boy didn't know this story...so sick and sad. He thought the kitty kats were talking from beyond the grave to him earlier than that.....now that is not good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
Uncle Michael:

First UK single to hit #1 in the U.S.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
rrg:

Hey, my stream is cutting out.

Stop doing that.
  3:47pm
mike Y:

Your looping or its a mind fuck
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
Uncle Michael:

Here too.
  3:48pm
Laura L:

Uh-oh, me too, RRG. iTunes not responding......
  3:48pm
LovecraftDude888:

mine's cutting too. Cutting Crew....oh noooo
Avatar 3:48pm
Droll:

Damn stream stopped in the middle of the Joe Meek story! Curse you, technology!
  3:48pm
serendepity dawd:

40 yrs ago yesterday american pie was #1, the same day the music died in 1959.
Avatar 3:48pm
bobdoesthings:

stream is cutting out on me too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
Lizardner Dave:

Pop up player went dead, switched to Windows 24k which is fine.
Avatar 3:49pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...took like a minute to rebuffer...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:49pm
rrg:

I have a Joe Meek collection here in my iTunes library. I surprise myself sometimes.
  3:49pm
mike Y:

I just refreshed it works fine now... However it was freaky
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:50pm
Parq:

J'regret, the pop up player is my only option at the moment. Hope it settles down.
  3:50pm
LovecraftDude888:

switched to 128 now i'm good.
  3:50pm
Laura L:

Just now came back on. Digital hiccup.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:50pm
rrg:

Gesundheit.
  3:51pm
LovecraftDude888:

anyway...when you are watching The Exorcist playing with yer Ouija Board all day long...and thinking the kitty cats are speaking from the Beyond....that is no guten!
  3:51pm
LovecraftDude888:

so that must be where Phil Spector got his inspiration to go nutty
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:51pm
Irwin:

You guys should invest that newfangled device called a RADIO.
Avatar 3:51pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

BTW, I am deeply steeped in Joe Frank on the internet -- I even have a joefrank.com account. I was just in one of those "can't wait to see what comes on at 4:00" moods only human surprise radio can provide.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:52pm
rrg:

Joe Meek produced Peter Cook singing "Georgia on my Mind". It's in this collection here. Oh my.
Avatar 3:52pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Joe Meek's spirit having a funny...wonder if he & Spector were ever in the same room - or if George Martin knew him...& calls to mind the Radiophonic people...amazing sound on this thing awlright - & he got it in the Charts !...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:52pm
rrg:

Yeah, you're going to push me back to the airwaves, you are.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:52pm
Ike:

91.1 is solid. I can only say that because I'm not in the office today -- reception on the East Side blows.
  3:53pm
LovecraftDude888:

reception in my neck of LI is really awful....I can't even get WFMU easily without tons of powered antennae on any of my other systems here. Really terrible.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:54pm
Parq:

Harsh, Irwin. You know your popularity extends well beyond the reach of the East Orange xmitter.
  3:54pm
mike Y:

Last wed was the first show I missed in 10 weeks. I cant Irwin I live in Saratoga Springs but have net will travel
Your show insppired me to mine back up and running again .
EVIL TWISTED TUNES @ Blogspot
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:55pm
Mike East:

@Ike - you're lucky. The city's a mess today. My boots are still drying out.
  3:55pm
LovecraftDude888:

but weird thing is growing up in thrilling exciting Levittown LI I had great radio recep. with basic Terk antenna for years! Makes no sense...I'm only 10 miles or under from there
  3:56pm
LovecraftDude888:

now I have a Twerk Antenna....
  3:56pm
mike Y:

14 inches out my front door and still snowing. DAY off dont care drinking fourloco and bourbon cocktails and Listening to fmu Life is good
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
Irwin:

Just kidding. I hate radios. Useless anachronisms.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:58pm
Parq:

Mike Doughty is one of the all time greats.
Avatar 3:58pm
bobdoesthings:

I went to an electronic store to buy a radio once... they just laughed.
  3:59pm
mike Y:

However liver is a bit pissed LOL
Avatar 3:59pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

Pandora has pretty much made radios obsolete. It knows what I want better than I do, never plays anything with the potential to upset me, and helps trim my tastes down to manageable, streamlined parameters.
Avatar 3:59pm
Carmichael:

Will be ear-gleaning the tunes whilst I work. Not lots of posting, but maybe a clicky-star here, as opposed to there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:00pm
Alison Porchnik:

After the Rapture/Apocalypse (whichever comes first) you'll only hear WFMU on terrestrial radio.
  4:00pm
mike Y:

Pandora takes the surprise out of stuff new.
Avatar 4:01pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

At which point, Alison, I drive the 200 miles back to signal range immediately.
  4:01pm
mike Y:

Yay wolfgang
  4:01pm
LovecraftDude888:

I got a Grundig shortwave radio a few years back, why I dunno...for emergency reasons...so useless. Shortwave is like..a joke now
Avatar 4:01pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

Pandora is the radio equivalent of going to the WFMU record fair and just standing there and being annoyed that people haven't come up to me with records they've figured out I'll enjoy.
Avatar 4:01pm
Droll:

I prefer the sound of "He-low copters" over "hell-ih copters", even though I know it's wrong. I also prefer the phrasing of Wolfgang to other singers.
Avatar 4:02pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...even though...
Avatar 4:02pm
bobdoesthings:

After the apocalypse.. we'll still have The Passionate and Objective Jokerfan.. thank god
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:02pm
Kat in Chicago:

"My fecal friend"?
  4:03pm
mike Y:

I just downloaded a buch of Mike patton solo stuff, I am awe struck
Avatar 4:03pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Ruttkowski does have good diction...
Avatar 4:04pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

What goes on on shortwave nowadays? What goes on on CB nowadays, for that matter? I have a strong desire to buy a CB except that it'll be something interesting in the truck for the smash-n-grabbers (though the joke will be on them).
Avatar 4:05pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- you need a portable/take w/ Pete.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:05pm
Alison Porchnik:

Is this a cover?
Avatar 4:06pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

We love to cream. & cream.
  4:06pm
LovecraftDude888:

haven't touched a CB for decades...the shortwave now is like....just nothing but propaganda stations third world and non-english programming and mainly Fire n Brimstone preacher shows. Awful!! total waste o' time.
  4:06pm
berbo:

Its spelled Gila copter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPrCfmaj3ZY
Avatar 4:06pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

This bathroom song speaks to me like few do.
Avatar 4:06pm
Droll:

I believe you can still listen to Numbers Stations on shortwave, but they play insurance ads 23 minutes out of the hour.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:06pm
Webhamster Henry:

My Bathroom needs a bossa nova arrangement.
  4:07pm
LovecraftDude888:

I prefer the Long Wave....can hear Joe Meek's spirit coming through from The Great Beyond...much more intriguing!
Avatar 4:07pm
Droll:

WH, ...and doom metal.
Avatar 4:07pm
glenn:

c.b. is kinda the original internet, in a way.
Avatar 4:07pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

Did I hear "cream and dream"?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:08pm
Parq:

That cover was brilliant, but I can find jack about it on Google.
  4:08pm
LovecraftDude888:

anybody recall that 80s movie with Arnie from Christine (Keith Gordon) where he tunes in Heaven on a radio...or something
  4:08pm
Laura L:

Wow! a lovely cover--much in the spirit of the spectacular original by Pat Stanton Gjonola!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:09pm
Webhamster Henry:

@LovecraftDude it was called STATIC. I used to catsit for Keith Gordon.
Avatar 4:09pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

CB is specifically the original chatroom.
Avatar 4:09pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I think she got rid of a cream or two...
  4:09pm
LovecraftDude888:

Static was the film 1985...right WH thanks! Really nutty film.... not uplifting but good
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:10pm
Irwin:

LL: How do you pronounce Gjonola?
  4:10pm
berbo:

@Pete
Yes she did. That was really climax of the song.
  4:10pm
LovecraftDude888:

I tried watching Convoy two years ago and couldn't do it
  4:11pm
LovecraftDude888:

catsit for Keith G? holy shite!
  4:11pm
Laura L:

Ooh, I am not sure--that was the last name of the man who played the caveman in the show--she married him. When she sang that she was still with maiden name of Stanton. Lives outside Chicago.
  4:14pm
LovecraftDude888:

makes great use of The The "This is the Day"....
  4:17pm
LovecraftDude888:

what would be a goof is, one day WFMU does a show or two all on CB....I dunno how....virtual CB? "breaker breaker HPL Dude...got a smokey on your tail" etc.
  4:18pm
LovecraftDude888:

there's also these Ham Radio transmitter/receivers that are act. cheap...but no idea what that's all about, or if it's worth getting one. I doubt it. And to do shows you gotta get a license
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:18pm
Irwin:

Laura and Porchnik: Got the photos. If I don't post one today (still might), will consider for future playlists. Thanks for sending.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:19pm
Alison Porchnik:

I am, as always, your servant, &c.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:20pm
rrg:

My job got in the way of my WFMU. I hate when that happens. What did I miss?

EVERYTHING.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:20pm
Ike:

@Lovecraft, it's a little hard to keep up with ya sometimes. So many comments. I've done that in the past, but people seem to pay more attention if I'm more concise.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:21pm
rrg:

A half-hour hole to be filled with archive listening later.
  4:21pm
LovecraftDude888:

sorry Ike...was just ruminating. will stop that...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:22pm
Ike:

I've been there....
  4:22pm
Laura L:

Ir, did you send that cover to Sport & Steve or should I?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:23pm
Irwin:

LL: Did not. Was going to surprise them.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:23pm
Irwin:

Michael Mottet = Angil (& the Hiddentracks)
  4:24pm
Laura L:

Ok, will let you do that. Oh, they will be delighted.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:25pm
rrg:

I see I missed Wolfgang while i was out.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:25pm
rrg:

Oh, I misspelled "I" in my haste.
  4:29pm
ADM:

Nice song. Funny... I never took you as a serious DJ.
Avatar 4:29pm
Droll:

rrg, You better watch it, on Mary Wing's comments we discussed "offensive comments board behavior" and concluded being a fuckin' jerk and grammar errors were most offensive to WFMU listeners.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
rrg:

I'm usually inoffensive on at least one of those two criteria, Droll.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
rrg:

Picture!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
Irwin:

Thanks to Alison Porchnik for the medical illustration.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:32pm
rrg:

Wait. You played a cover of "My Bathroom"?

All right, I'll get to it later.
  4:33pm
berbo:

That picture will help me choose a color scheme for My Bathroom.
  4:34pm
Laura L:

The special Pantone Pees for graphic designers!
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common:

diggin the clientele
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glenn:

i don't know. if your pee is purple i'd suggest going to the doctor instanter.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...& bring a sample to Home Depot...
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Pete from Boston (and NJ):

To quote my then-3-year-old niece looking at a picture of X.Ray Burns in full Santa Clown makeup, "But... why?"
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Droll:

That color test is nothing, they also make a scratch-n-sniff urine test.
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Pete from Boston (and NJ):

RRN63, are you trying to match paint and urine?
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Uncle Michael:

I got old and people stopped asking me to help them move. And that's a good thing....as Irwin might say.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...well - could go for Contrast...
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Alison Porchnik:

Looks good with the page color scheme.
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common:

i had back surgery, but i think i've still helped someone move. maybe it was myself.
  4:39pm
~L:

My local dollar store sells alcohol testing and pregnancy test kits for a dollar.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...we'll have to write imaginary Joe Franks together...
  4:40pm
?:

I'll take 3 gallons of the 'puritan' urine...and a couple of stir sticks!!!...:)O(:..
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...it's Organic !...mostly...
  4:42pm
ccrides:

Charge it to C.C.'s account..:)O(:..
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Droll:

Apparently one of Brian Beattie's nicknames is Brian "Bongwizard" Beattie. Yes. I believe he earned it.
  4:52pm
ccrides:

Purty!!!...:)O(:..
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Lewis:

I bought 2 copies of Ivy and the Wicker suitcase for christmas. One of them was for me, but I haven't listened to it yet. Thaks for the the Intro!
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Lewis:

p.s. - the second one was stolen from my kid and will have to be replaced
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Uncle Michael:

You just keep on turnin'...
  4:59pm
ccrides:

I'm so Grateful for this...:)O(:..
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Uncle Michael:

I listen to the Ace version of this just about never. Wow.
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Droll:

Walking around aimlessly with sign: NEED TICKETS
  5:00pm
nate:

did jesse jarnow start his shift early?
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Irwin:

Love the musicianship on this. Every part is brilliant.
  5:01pm
Santos L Halper:

Beach Boys and Bobby! Thanks Irwin
  5:02pm
ccrides:

Damned right, Mr. Chusid!!!...:)O(:..
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Irwin:

And when I say "every part," I mean the drums, of course.
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Uncle Michael:

This was recorded in the studio my friend Stephen Barncard built at Weir's, I believe.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...right well - Dead can't play, sing or write, & no good in the Studio - everybody knows that...
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Irwin:

Can you imagine the color spectrum when the Dead took urine tests?
  5:04pm
nate:

(~};)
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fleep:

They piss in colors everywhere, it's like a raaaaaainbow
  5:05pm
nate:

this song is ok but it's no "money money"
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Jerry:

...you know too much Irwin...
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Sem Chumbo:

@fleep: hahaha.
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rrg:

Hey, Unca Mike, do the "Give the Drummer Some" streams originate in Jersey City like other WFMU stuff, or from elsewhere (like, say, people's homes)?
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Uncle Michael:

I was wrong, this was recorded in Studio D at Wally Heider's.
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Rick from SC:

These are people with a B this time
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- wull fleep - that's more indiscreet than people think - & lifted from Arthur Lee anyhow...
  5:07pm
ccrides:

Fleep...in the wind!!!...hehehe...:)O(:..
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Uncle Michael:

rrg, a couple originate from the mothership...Amanda and Matt's shows do...and sometimes D:O does...the rest from various basements and bedrooms.
  5:08pm
LuC:

aww thanks for Playing in the Band!
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Uncle Michael:

It's really a treat to have a snow day for listening to Irwin.
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rrg:

Indeed, This Is Country Music.
  5:12pm
ccrides:

Rub 'it in, why don't ya?!?...LOL...:)O(:..
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Uncle Michael:

Who's playing guitar on this...that's smokin'
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Irwin:

Brad plays his own guitar parts.
  5:14pm
ccrides:

Hello???...Brad??...are you there???...:)O(:..
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rrg:

Hey, my power went out. Damn.
  5:15pm
ccrides:

He does a great guitar rendition of 'Old Rugged Cross'...:)O(:..
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rrg:

It came back.
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glenn:

brad paisley's a great guitarist, absolutely.
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Uncle Michael:

Nothing about that track really caught my ear till the guitar solo. That was hot.
  5:18pm
ccrides:

Irwin...everything you say rings true!!!...:)O(:..
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- cast of 1,000s - but it says he does the leads :
en.wikipedia.org...
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Droll:

Why is everyone else so suspicious of country music and it's musicians? I think they're the some of the few remaining legitimate profession musicians. He doesn't use Autotune, either.
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glenn:

probably because most of today's "country" isn't.
  5:22pm
ccrides:

Country is kinda like rock...mmmm...that evolved in a groovy way...or something...hehehe...maybe???...:)O(:..
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Irwin:

What Droll said. ^
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Jeff:

Something about the aesthetic of that Ivy & the Wicker Suitcase (and indeed some of the voices) reminds me of the ZBS radio serials.

Fourth Tower of Inverness, anyone?

www.zbs.org...
  5:23pm
nate:

walking the city with the cargo pants?
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rrg:

"Send more Chuck Berry."
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- well - for Guitarhead - yerknow, like - GuitarPlayer mag readers - Nashville was recognized as Capital of the Universe whatever you were into - before Culture & Politics became utterly Polarized
...& what glenn said...
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Jeff:

"I like both kinds of music: Country AND Western."
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duke:

I love the term coolerator. I'm going to use that from now on.
  5:25pm
ccrides:

I need an order of cajon fries and some gumbo, please!!!...:)O(:..
  5:26pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

The piano in this song always makes me think of Uncle Floyd.
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TDK60:

Mr. DJ, yeah Weir's 'Ace' has another great tune -- 'Cassidy' @ Beatnik/proto-hippie Neal C. Interesting, haunting chord changes.
Yes, to Brian Beattie -- great Austin bassist. His '80s band Glass Eye was cool. Great guy too, hosted me as a struggling musician in his humble Austin abode.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- of course 'Country' meant Bluegrass, & 'Western' Cowboy songs - so that may have been said once or twice in earnest...
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TDK60:

For Against has been doing guitar dream pop out of Nebraska [?] for eons.
  5:29pm
ccrides:

TDK60...indeed!!!...:)O(:..
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Uncle Michael:

Cassidy was inspired by a death and a birth. "There he goes and now here she starts..."
  5:32pm
berbo:

I think I have that Batman album. I had no idea who made it. wow.
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glenn:

another great tribute album is deadicated. suzanne vega does cassidy.
  5:32pm
ccrides:

I think Irwin is trippin', again...hehehe...:)O(:..
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TDK60:

Wow, didn't know Wilson produce this! I thought he only did Stateside stuff. 1st Soft Machine was recorded in merry old UK, right?
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rrg:

I remember Soft Machine. I'm old enough.
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TDK60:

@ rrg: Do you look like John Sebastian?
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rrg:

No one has ever told me so, TDK.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

I wonder if Soft Machine get credit for being very early Fusion. I wonder if they were earlier than people who get credit for it; not that this is Fusiony - which maybe relates to Tom Wilson's presence - ??
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rrg:

Though some people used to think I looked like Steven Spielberg.
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Droll:

I'm so old I remember when Soft Machine was still called "Soft Stone Tool", and then "Soft Wheel", and eventually when all the bronze age bands hit, they changed it to "Machine".
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Droll:

...looks like New Soft Machine is still up for grabs.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...trying to work Sebastion & Spielberg into dif. color pee joke...nah nevermind...
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Irwin:

So is New Velvet Underground.
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Sem Chumbo:

Oh, Droll...
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ccrides:

rrg...do you have beads from the neck of princess that was born in the year of oh '1'..?..:)O(:..
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rrg:

Dibs!
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rrg:

No, I jest. Anyone else, go for it.
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TDK60:

Will there ever be a Soft Machine reunion? Don't know if M. Ratledge and R. Wyatt get along or wanna go back there.
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New Droll Band:

...& you can't stop me...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- from what I've heard them say, they'd poo-poo it as nostalgia under that name...
  5:41pm
djelrock:

Wow. Irwin is not playing CRAP like Miley Cirus!!???!! Unbelievable!
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rrg:

Hello, djelrock. Have you come to stir the pot?
  5:43pm
ccrides:

Any man who's pure of heart and says his prayers by night...may become a wolf...when the wolfbane blooms...and the full moon shines at night!!!...:)O(:..
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...if you have, then choose your pee color & grab a stick...
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Droll:

I just talked to my band and yes, both Dan and Joel called the "New Droll Band" poo-poo nostalgia.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- so - we @ least have parameters...now choose a color...
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Droll:

Specifically, when I asked if knockoffs of our band name was poo-poo, Joel said "Sure" and Dan asked for an example, which I provided.
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rrg:

That was my guess, Droll.
  5:49pm
Listening Out There:

Snatch bassist channeling Jaco Pastorius...
  5:50pm
Marmalade kitty:

I am so glad I have not seen the purple pee yet!
  5:52pm
djelrock:

Always rgg
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Carmichael:

Brick Dust ...
  5:53pm
ccrides:

I need a lady doctor!!!...:)O(:..
  5:54pm
djelrock:

Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley rrg Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley Miley SUCKSSSSS
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Carmichael:

I thought this was Martha Davis at 1st.
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rrg:

djelROCKS
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glenn:

miley cyrus can sing. you may hate what she does, but she can sing.
  5:57pm
am:

Possibly the most annoying song ever.
  5:57pm
Listening Out There:

H-e-e-e-r-e's Mark E.!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Please Stay.
- & please NOTICE ME.
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rrg:

So much music here today. I'm awash in it. Too much!

And other stuff! Not just music.
  5:58pm
ccrides:

Day nine...try tantric sex!!!...LOL...:)O(:..
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Droll:

[taking notes] Drunken penmanship truly put to the test...
  5:58pm
Listening Out There:

Mark E's screed can replace The Elements of Style. Yup.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...took four days to be annoyed - must be an excellent pub...
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Droll:

Thanks Irwin. have a fun week!
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rrg:

Another three hours gone. Well, I missed some. I'll get to it later.

Thanks, Irwin. Fine show.

See youse all later.

And stop snowing. Please. This isn't fucking Canada.
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks for the show, Irwin. Later, all...
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glenn:

oh. another canada / snow wisecrack.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- not a clunker in the bunch Irwin. Cheers.
  6:01pm
Pete from Boston (and NJ):

Ohhhh... Bible Salesman's a good one!
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