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Favoriting February 4, 2015: Legendary, Classic, Historic, Genius, None of the Above.

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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)
DRKWAV  Scars   Favoriting The Purge  0:03:30 (Pop-up)
Panda Bear  This Side of Paradise   Favoriting Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper  0:11:14 (Pop-up)
East River Pipe  Down 42nd Street to the Light   Favoriting The Gasoline Age (LP reissue)  0:15:28 (Pop-up)
Kevin Ayers  Religious Experience (Singing A Song In The Morning)   Favoriting not from Joy of a Toy but it could've been  0:19:14 (Pop-up)
 
Brendan Benson  Tiny Spark   Favoriting Lapalco  0:27:03 (Pop-up)
Bruce Lash  We Disagree   Favoriting Sad Sack  0:30:19 (Pop-up)
Courtney Barnett  Pedestrian at Best   Favoriting Sometimes I Sit and Think, An Sometimes I Just Sit  0:33:22 (Pop-up)
Vagabond Cinema Pops Arkestra  Donky Brothers   Favoriting Promotional Only (From Outer Space)  0:37:06 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields  The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure   Favoriting 69 Love Songs, Vol. 3  0:40:34 (Pop-up)
Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox (ft. Kate Davis)  All About That Bass   Favoriting Historical Misappropriation  0:43:32 (Pop-up)
 
Ruth Etting  A Faded Summer Love   Favoriting Easy Come, Easy Go (Original Recordings 1931-1937)  0:51:46 (Pop-up)
Sarah Michelle Gellar & Cast  Overture / I've Got a Theory / Bunnies   Favoriting Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Feeling (soundtrack)  0:54:46 (Pop-up)
The 1900s  Acutiplantar Dude   Favoriting Cold & Kind  1:00:31 (Pop-up)
Jan & Lorraine  Number 33   Favoriting Gypsy People  1:04:34 (Pop-up)
A.C. Thompson  Morning Light   Favoriting I'm Alive!  1:05:54 (Pop-up)
 
Publio Delgado (guitar)  Jones Big Ass Truck Rentals and Storage   Favoriting YouTube  1:12:31 (Pop-up)
Charlie Hunter & Bobby Previte (with John Medeski)  Kingda Ka   Favoriting Altitude  1:13:27 (Pop-up)
Beat Circus  Delirium Tremens   Favoriting Dreamland  1:20:31 (Pop-up)
Tony Villa  Satellite Mouse   Favoriting The Sensational Tony Villa - The Singing Inventor  1:24:29 (Pop-up)
The Red Button  I Could Get Used to You   Favoriting She's About to Cross My Mind  1:26:24 (Pop-up)
The Knickerbockers  I Can Do It Better   Favoriting Rockin' with the Knickerbockers  1:29:10 (Pop-up)
Jesus Alemany's Cubanismo  Pa' Que Gozen   Favoriting Que Rico: Hot Latin Dance Tracks From Hannibal Records  1:31:18 (Pop-up)
 
The Wind  Fight Like a Girl   Favoriting Re-Wind  1:39:02 (Pop-up)
Jason Karaban  Pay with a .45   Favoriting Shift  1:41:33 (Pop-up)
Pussy  Come Back June   Favoriting An Introduction to Morgan Blue Town  1:44:37 (Pop-up)
Triplicate  Hit on Twelve   Favoriting Day & Age  1:48:25 (Pop-up)
Musette Explosion  A Recurring Dream   Favoriting Introducing Musette Explosion  1:54:30 (Pop-up)
 
Harry Partch  Windsong   Favoriting The Harry Parch Collection Vol. 3  2:04:39 (Pop-up)
Gary Jules  Mad World   Favoriting Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets  2:16:15 (Pop-up)
Sex Mob  La Dolce Vita   Favoriting Sexmob Plays Fellini: The Music Of Nino Rota  2:19:04 (Pop-up)
Eugene Erickson  Starcrash   Favoriting Stars Falling From Heaven  2:23:48 (Pop-up)
Sylvie Simmons  Midnight Cowboy   Favoriting Sylvie  2:27:10 (Pop-up)
 
Freddie Hubbard  Asiatic Raes   Favoriting Karioka  2:34:32 (Pop-up)
The Growlers  Humdrum Blues   Favoriting Gilded Pleasures  2:40:52 (Pop-up)
Rude Mechanicals  Body Fluids   Favoriting Beyond the Marble Ear (compilation)  2:44:22 (Pop-up)
Mr. Griddles  A Long Goodbye   Favoriting Around the World with Mr. Griddles  2:47:03 (Pop-up)
John Gorka  I'm From New Jersey   Favoriting Fathers and Sons (soundtrack)  2:51:53 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 3:04pm
Claw!:

Hey, Irwin! Happy Day of Wednes. :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
Sem Chumbo:

Hiya, Irwin. Good afternoon. Hey, Claw!!
  3:05pm
Listening Out There:

No picture on the playlist today? We are sad... :(
Avatar 3:06pm
V Priceless:

Top o' the Afternoon, Irwin!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
Irwin:

Got a good pic that isn't already overexposed on the webs? Was too busy launching cyberattacks against ISIS this past week to look for a playlist pic.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:10pm
Polyus:

Hey Irwin (or anyone who has had to deal with this): I did the monthly charge thing for last year's fundraiser, and just had to get a new card. Who at WFMU do I get in touch with to change that info?
Avatar 3:10pm
Claw!:

Yo, Sem!
  3:11pm
Dean:

Cindy Sherman's always my go-to: http://www.brandchannel.com/home/image.axd?picture=2011%2f8%2fmac_cosmetics_cindysherman1.jpg
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
Mike East:

@Polyus - Joe McGasko is the man. he'll hook it up
Avatar 3:11pm
Michael:

Poly - Joe McGasko helped me when my card expired. He sent an email with a link to change the info. I couldn't believe how utterly professional!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:12pm
Mike East:

jmcgasko at wfmu dot org
Avatar 3:12pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

@Polyus: Joe McGasko is strenuously polite. He should be recommended on yelp! ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:14pm
Polyus:

Cool, thanks everyone. I had better get on that.
Avatar 3:14pm
Studio B Ben:

I could hear Medeski distinctly in there--he has such a signature sound on the organ--and my ears did not deceive me! Looking forward to that album now!
Avatar 3:21pm
V Priceless:

Mr. Ayers! Nice!!
  3:24pm
Joe McG:

@Polyus: Drop me an e-mail and I'll help you out (although it will be tomorrow since I'm not in the office today!). I promise to be very polite!
Avatar 3:25pm
still b/p:

Use this horn cat for a playlist pic:

static01.nyt.com...

Or this:

powerofdesign.wolfsonian.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:26pm
Ike:

@RRN63, holy cow, there actually ARE reviews of WFMU on Yelp. From one of the many five-star reviews: "I was going to give WFMU four stars [out of five], but Andy Breckman sounded so sincere when I heard him apologize for hurting listeners' feelings tonight that any damage done by him is forgiven completely."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:26pm
Sem Chumbo:

Kevin Ayers. Wonderful cut, IC.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 3:28pm
chris:

Irwin, you're freaking out my cat with crumply paper sounds.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:30pm
Hoboken Jack:

Some melodic goodness thus far, thank you sir!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
Irwin:

hey, Jack, Beans sends her mrrrrrrowgards.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:33pm
Hoboken Jack:

an ear nuzzle right back at sweet Beansie
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:34pm
Irwin:

thanks still b/p
Avatar 3:34pm
Mister Dobalina:

What a great song to iron, my fine quality dress shirts to. ! .
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
Mike East:

very excited for the new Courtney Barnett record. Also the new Mikal Cronin record. Hooray for good music!
Avatar 3:37pm
Mister Dobalina:

Yeah this really seems to work!
  3:41pm
Mark:

This Donky Brothers thingy is wack-a-doo as shit. (That's a compliment.)
Avatar 3:44pm
glenn:

speaking of doggy things. www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca...
  3:44pm
Mark:

A truly great set this first hour. You should just go home now. There's nowhere to go but down from here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:44pm
Mike East:

was just looking into buying this magnetic fields record yesterday
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:44pm
common:

just saw a decent doc on magnetic fields.
Avatar 3:46pm
glenn:

hey, postmodern jukebox. they do great stuff.
Avatar 3:46pm
Mister Dobalina:

I'm all about that face, 'bout that face!
Avatar 3:47pm
Claw!:

@mark - hahaha... I really hope you're a motivational speaker.
Avatar 3:47pm
Mister Dobalina:

Thunder thighs, booty hugger! = Me!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
Irwin:

I'm afraid Mark is right. Played all the good stuff in hour #1.
  3:48pm
Mark:

Yes, Claw, I live in a van down by the river.
Avatar 3:50pm
V Priceless:

@ Mark: haha!
Avatar 3:51pm
steve:

Mike i haven't listened to my copy of the 3cd box in 5+ years... if you were nearby id probably just give it to you.
Avatar 3:52pm
Claw!:

Oh, nice, Mark! Are you living in Matt Foley's old van?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:52pm
Mike East:

very kind of you, steve
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:52pm
Sem Chumbo:

@glenn: puzzling conditions on the name of the dog:
The name must start with the letter “H”.
The name must have no more than nine (9) letters.
The name must be one or two syllables.
  3:54pm
Alison Porchnik:

The pop up player pas de marche
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:54pm
Sem Chumbo:

"Poutin' Shanty". Franchising opportunity, or am I crazy?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:54pm
Webhamster Henry:

The Codger is gonna notice the missing Carson Robison.
  3:54pm
Listening Out There:

Stolen 78s? Don't tell anyone...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:55pm
Sem Chumbo:

@A.P.: happening for me OK all afternoon.
  3:56pm
Alison Porchnik:

Or to be more correct, ne parche pas. It's not dancing. But it's not working either. From where I listen.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
Sem Chumbo:

Quel dommage.
Avatar 3:59pm
glenn:

right? it's almost like the mounties don't want names foe them.
  3:59pm
berbo:

Favorite line from the show:
Mom: "You died? you didn't tell me you died!"
Avatar 4:00pm
glenn:

bunnies!!!!
  4:01pm
KevinfromBayRidge:

Ain't nothin like musical Buffy!
Avatar 4:01pm
glenn:

joss whedon's a weirdo.
  4:03pm
berlusconi's nose:

Bunnies?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:03pm
Kat in Chicago:

The 1900s!
  4:04pm
Flubby:

No Joe Frank this week?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:05pm
ChrisB.:

Jack Webb gives birth to the cool on "Pete Kelly's Blues."
Avatar 4:05pm
Jeff:

@Alison Porchnik: The pop-up player marche for me. Listening to it now.

I've even tried three different browsers.

When it fails, what happens?
  4:06pm
berbo:

@Flubby: Joe Frank coming up in about 168 hours.
Stay tuned!
  4:08pm
Alison Porchnik:

Nothing happens but Stilton cheese and silence. I'm listening to the stream.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:09pm
Sem Chumbo:

Ah, thanks @ChrisB. Looked awfully familiar. As a token of my esteem, there's this: DRAGNET 1967 first show in colour: Joe Fridays learns about LSD www.youtube.com...
Avatar 4:10pm
glenn:

heck, who DIDN'T learn about l.s.d. from teevee?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:14pm
Sem Chumbo:

hahaha,glenn.
Avatar 4:15pm
glenn:

hey, clem cattinni was the drummer on gypsy people.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:17pm
Irwin:

Glenn: There's an 8-minute track on that album called "Assignment Song-Sequence" which features some maniac drumming by Cattini. He's outsized, great talent. Also played drums on Joe Meek's "Telstar."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:17pm
ChrisB.:

@Sem: Thanks! How apropos.
  4:17pm
mike y:

listening from down town got the mobile app albany
Avatar 4:18pm
glenn:

and also - " The pair also had pretty interesting tastes in outside music with the album including a pair of Perth County Conspiracy covers (Richard Keelan's rocking 'Break Out the Wine' and 'Don't You Feel Fine')."
i mention this because richard's my neighbour.
  4:19pm
mike y:

its not working comment wise
Avatar 4:24pm
Carmichael:

Clem Cattini was the drummer for just about everyone, including most of the Dave Clark 5 stuff.

Hiya Irwin and listener types.
Avatar 4:26pm
glenn:

he's the british hal blaine.
  4:27pm
beavo:

So Porchnik, let me guess Jewish intellectual New York upper West side father with the Ben Shan paintings socialist summer camp just stop me anytime.
Avatar 4:28pm
DeaconDave:

It must be Wednesday . . . my favorite afternoon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
dale:

tony villa rocks. or swings. or whatever this is.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
Webhamster Henry:

This goes well with the Moon Man Mambo.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:29pm
PMD:

LIstening live to the silky sounds. Oh, except for that bigasstruckwarehouse...
  4:30pm
Listening Out There:

A fine program thus far.
Avatar 4:30pm
glenn:

oh, florida. www.torontosun.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
ChrisB.:

The Red Button are very good, and Seth Swersky is a very interesting fellow.
  4:31pm
Alison Porchnik:

@Beavo Please don't reduce me to a cultural stereotype. And don't hate me because I'm beautiful. hate me because I'm worth it.
Avatar 4:31pm
V Priceless:

love these Knickerbockers deep cuts!
Avatar 4:32pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- Knockerbickers !...I mean...them.
Avatar 4:33pm
TDK60:

These guys remind me of some band.
Avatar 4:33pm
V Priceless:

(which is just about everything other than 'Lies')
Avatar 4:33pm
Carmichael:

Ha ha Alison. I was just marveling at the sheer "take a chance" desperate statement. Beavo, the truth is always more real than the non-truth.
Avatar 4:34pm
glenn:

lies is so great, though. nobody listens beyond that.
  4:34pm
Alison Porchnik:

Carmichael, I just remember too many TV commercials from the 1980s
Avatar 4:38pm
glenn:

huh. i always associate hannibal records with british folk rock.
Avatar 4:38pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I got a long Best Of Knickerbees - ain't nothin' I don't like on it - yeah I like that 60sGarage & GuitarPop type stuff - but they had some skills too...
Avatar 4:40pm
glenn:

oh, north carolina. news.nationalpost.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:42pm
Sem Chumbo:

"Right to work anyway we want," state, I seem to recall.
  4:44pm
JakeGould:

Hey!
  4:44pm
p:

ew.
  4:44pm
phat:

eas test woke up my cat
Avatar 4:45pm
Carmichael:

Next thing you know, they'll be forcing us to wipe our bums, too. Damn government.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:45pm
Parq:

"Dear customers: We are exercising our rights as Americans to serve tainted meat and spoiled dairy products. Now here's a picture of a naked supermodel." And it would work.
Avatar 4:45pm
glenn:

honestly, irwin's the only republican i can think of with an i.q. in triple digits.
Avatar 4:46pm
glenn:

yeah, but the japanese eat sushi off of a naked model, and THEY don't get sick.
Avatar 4:49pm
Carmichael:

If you would just eat tainted beef instead, you wouldn't have that problem.
Avatar 4:50pm
TDK60:

RevRab, DJ, etc. Yeah, Knicks were obviously Fab 4 inspired but they came up with good arrangements and could rock.
  4:50pm
JakeGould:

I hear McDonald’s is giving away food if you come in and do a soft-shoe act nowadays.
Avatar 4:51pm
V Priceless:

yeah, 'cause nothing says 'Big Government' more than 'All employees must wash hands'!
Avatar 4:52pm
TDK60:

Rumor has it that even WFMU DJs are asked to wash their hands after visiting the rest room. How authoritarian! Stalinism creeping.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:53pm
Parq:

TDK, well that just makes sense, especially around marathon time. They have to handle our money.
  4:55pm
JakeGould:

Unless you ask people to wash their hands, they would just walk around with feces on their hands all day.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:57pm
Parq:

The thing is, the senator probably knows how silly the statement is. But here's something else he knows; he's a freshman senator from the Carolinas who's now made national news and has all of us talking about him. No such thing as bad publicity and all that.
Avatar 4:58pm
V Priceless:

@ Parq: throw him to Pizza The Hutt, I say!
Avatar 4:59pm
Carmichael:

They'd say, "Hey, here comes ol' Feces Hands!"
Avatar 5:02pm
glenn:

shitfinger, to the likes of us.
  5:03pm
Dean:

Beg to disagree. The senator does not know how silly the opinion sounds. He views freedom as purely rivalrous. Your regulation directly depletes my freedom. He can't conceive of the regulation as possibly facilitating freedom.
Avatar 5:03pm
V Priceless:

ol' doodie digits!
  5:03pm
JakeGould:

America was better when signs didn’t tell us how to live. DAMN YOU SIGNS!
Avatar 5:04pm
glenn:

sign, sign, everywhere a sign......
Avatar 5:05pm
TDK60:

Wow, gotta see 'Delusion of the Fury' and the new instruments. 'Boo' on Montclair St.
  5:05pm
berbo:

blocking out the scenery
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:05pm
Webhamster Henry:

Trouble played Ring Around The Moon yesterday. These repro instruments looks really good and are probably more sturdily built.
Avatar 5:06pm
glenn:

43 notes to the octave, huh? nobody plays that stuff by ear.
  5:07pm
Listening Out There:

Henry...Irene played Harry Partch last night...her playlist says it's the same tune...
Avatar 5:07pm
TDK60:

Don't know if this was discussed, but the fellow playing trumpet in the photograph above looks like the guy who played the sourpuss cop in the old TV series 'Dragnet', eh?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:08pm
Webhamster Henry:

Yeah Irene, not Trouble.
Avatar 5:09pm
Carmichael:

One and the same, TDK.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:10pm
Webhamster Henry:

Windsong is on Castor and Pollux, and there's no Chromelodeon. Ring Around the Moon was a live performance.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:13pm
Irwin:

What do you mean Windsong is "on" Castor and Pollux?
Avatar 5:14pm
TDK60:

Back to Harry. Thanks to Irwin, I was directed to the last performance of Partch instruments at Montclair State last year. The audience got to try out the instruments after the show. I headed right for the chromolodeon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:15pm
Webhamster Henry:

C&P were the main instruments .. I think he built them for WindSong. I don't have my copy of Genensis of a Music on me right now though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:17pm
Irwin:

Henry: I've never heard of Partch instruments called Castor and Pollux. That was a composition of his.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:18pm
Webhamster Henry:

C&P were two harmonic canons. Anyway, it's very different from Ring Around The Moon.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:18pm
Irwin:

Didn't know that. Thanks, Henry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:21pm
Webhamster Henry:

The American Festival of Microtonal Music is doing a Partch piece on March 29th at Spectrum I think. I don't know which one, though. Plenty of other works in that festival though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:23pm
Irwin:

What instruments are they using?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:24pm
Irwin:

< - BTW, that is Jack Webb. Supposedly had one of the greatest jazz record collections in Hollywood. Don't think he actually played, tho.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:27pm
Webhamster Henry:

Skip LaPlante built a few of the stringed instruments like the Kithara years ago, some older pieces use adapted violas and guitars, and I programmed a synthesizer to be in Harry's tuning and sub for chromelodeon (decades ago). But I don't know which ones will be used in that show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:27pm
Webhamster Henry:

(I used to play with them when I lived closer to the city). I was also their webhamster for many years.
Avatar 5:29pm
V Priceless:

fine show, Irwin! thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:29pm
Irwin:

My pleasure, VP.
Avatar 5:30pm
Carmichael:

I understand the University of Washington has agreed to house the Partch collection. I have a daughter who will likely attend UW, so I see many surprise visits in her future.
Avatar 5:30pm
Carmichael's Daughter:

As if.
Avatar 5:35pm
Carmichael:

He he ....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:37pm
Irwin:

Oh, heck
  5:39pm
fdurieux:

Great tune!
  5:39pm
Jess:

Come for the Partch, stay for the Bop.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:42pm
Sem Chumbo:

Yeah, old Father Hubbard.:-D
  5:42pm
fdurieux:

Any chance of slipping the Lynchmob remix of the tune 'Sun Ra' by the Belgian band Deus in the playlist?
  5:52pm
Laura L:

Too many meetings today--but that's what the archive's for. Where is Mr. Griddles from?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:54pm
dale:

john gorka? that is fuv territory! but i do like him.
  5:55pm
oks:

the best song ever!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:55pm
Hoboken Jack:

Song is a stone-cold classic, Dale!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:56pm
Sem Chumbo:

Thanks, Irwin, well above average show today! See ya again.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:56pm
Irwin:

I love this song. Recorded my own version.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:56pm
Parq:

Dale, the guys at FUV probably first heard it when one of them was secretly listening to Irwin.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:57pm
Parq:

Fine show, Irwin. Enjoy your evening. I gotta go wash my hands.
Avatar 5:57pm
Claw!:

Good show, Irwin. Thanks!
Avatar 5:58pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...song reminds me of how a writer said John Lennon tended to compose in almost monotones
...form matching content ?
Avatar 5:58pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

☆ed every track - but not the episode. Discuss...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:00pm
dale:

irwin - listen to 'i saw a stranger with your hair' very hangdog
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