WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from January 17, 2018

Listener comments!
	1/14 10:31am Fredericks: Hey, I am in the Future. Irwin, you here yet?
	2:43pm Listener Robert: No sooner do we get ready for a Michelle Boule tribute than Joe Frank dies. But the Old Codger will likely outlive Irwin; it's those unfiltered Camels and gin that keep him going.
	3:02pm BronwynB: hey irwin and everyone. i'm so sorry about Joe Frank
	3:02pm jess: I love Joe Frank. this is a great loss.
	👻 3:03pm chris: hi, Irwin and folks. rest in peace, Dear Joe. <3
	3:05pm Devin B.: R.I.P. Joe Frank. Many thanks to Irwin for championing his incredible work.
	3:05pm Lizardner Dave: Godspeed Joe Frank and thanks for introducing me to his work Irwin.
	3:06pm mb: Hello Irwin and errbody.
	👻 3:09pm Ken From Hyde Park: RIP Joe Frank. On the other side now.
	3:10pm Dean: Received this new-ish Alan Broadbent yesterday, and it occurred to me this might be up Mr. Chusid's alley: https://www.allaboutjazz.com/songbook-georgia-mancio-roomspin-records-review-by-bruce-lindsay.php I'm a big AB fan. Also, recently played again after several years Paul Plimley Trio's Safe-Crackers record. V-e-r-y nice.
	3:10pm Dominick: so much easier now
	3:10pm Michael 98145: [ www.allaccess.com... ] cripes
	3:10pm coelacanth∅: rest in peace Joe Frank; rest in peace Dolores O'Riordan.
	3:11pm coelacanth∅: and no, the old codger will not outlive Irwin.
	3:11pm ChrisB.: So sorry about Joe. He fought so hard over the last two years. Much love to Michal, who fought just as hard.
	3:12pm coelacanth∅: and, condolences Irwin.
	3:13pm Carmichael: Mum's the word on Ms. O'Riordan. She was fighting chronic back pain for the last few years, as was a friend of mine. My friend eventually took his own life, sadly.
	3:19pm northguineahills: @Carmichale: shit, just got news I lost a friend of mine. This week is beating the Cthulhu out me.
	3:19pm coelacanth∅: Carmichael, condolences as well. i can relate to your friend, and look forward to no pain myself, one day.
	👻 3:20pm chris: sorry for your losses, Carmichael and ngh.
	3:20pm northguineahills: Before I go back to workville, thanks Irwin for airing Joe Frank's episodes. It was a perfect surrealist noir to upend our Wednesday. He was a literary genius. Danks!
	3:23pm V Priceless: Hey all - RIP Joe Frank - thanks, Irwin for continuing your great work with the JF programming
	3:27pm Lixiviated Life: Woke up this morning around 3 AM to wrestle with my usual demons. Found myself listening to a Scott Carrier podcast (in lieu of chemistry). Mr. Carrier had incorporated into his own work, a Joe Frank piece about an ascent of K2. This led me to scroll around for another Joe Frank audio tale. Then another etc. and soon it was daylight. I will miss Mr. Frank's unique gifts, (as will my demons).
	3:33pm laughingacademy: XTC! I was listening to "Apple Venus" just the other day.
	3:34pm ChrisB.: Anyone see the new XTC Showtime documentary? Very good!
	3:35pm laughingacademy: Ooh, I did not know that was a thing, thanks for the tip ChrisB.
	👻 3:35pm chris: i think you've really hit on some of the magic of Joe Frank there, LL. it wasn't just the amazing stories he was weaving for us. it wasn't just the amazing production quality of the work, with the always exceptional background music. the sum seemed greater than the parts. we are there with him, transported into his stories. the shows have an ability to leave us thinking about our own lives, beliefs, experiences. they can be transformational. one of a kind, unparalleled story-telling.
	3:44pm BronwynB: philly represent!!
	3:46pm BronwynB: i know about the two hitlers in one bunker story because my boyfriend adores andy partridge and todd rundgren. he would not be a fan of the guy who loathes xtc
	3:48pm J: Andy and Todd hated eachother, but Todd made that record a masterpiece
	3:48pm coelacanth∅: what about the guy who loathes todd rundgren?!
	3:55pm J: Deal w it
	3:55pm BronwynB: @coel: clearly those two guys would be two hitlers in one bunker
	3:57pm Carmichael: Just saw Todd a few weeks ago and was thinking about that whole Skylarking recording process. Partridge grudgingly acknowledges TR's mad recording skillz, but nevertheless there sure ain't any love lost between those two.
	3:58pm Listener Robert: A month ago Listener Steve, who'd been living with me, died. When I moved in with him the previous year I knew he might pop off any time, but when his death did come, the circumstances were very stressful to me & other friends because of our suspicion of his estranged daughter, who administered his living will and had him declared incompetent. Maybe she did the right thing, but you couldn't convince us. I started listening to Joe Frank when he had his own slot on WFMU. He made a statement on air during a spring marathon around the turn of the century, after his shows had been off WFMU a few years, to the effect that FCC restrictions had made it not worth his while to produce any more shows for radio, but to please donate to WFMU anyway and maybe some day those restrictions would be gone or surmounted.
	3:59pm dgg: Thanks to Irwin for introducing me to Joe Frank. Sad loss. Brilliant shows.
	👻 4:07pm Ken From Hyde Park: The bed music there sounded like a track that Joe might use.
	👻 4:07pm AnAnonymousParty: Is this the same Rosalie that works at the Five & Dime?
	4:07pm karmester: my deepest condolences to you, Michael Frank, for your loss. He was a true genius, gentleman and humanitarian.
	4:07pm Irwin: "Rosalie's" writ by Shel Silverstein
	4:07pm J: As much as I admire and respect his work, Partridge has always struck me as an epic stick in the mud.
	4:11pm coelacanth∅: i must admit i don't know any stories of the collaboration, or any horror stories about Andy. of course rundgren was an excellent producer, when he tried - which was a solid sometimes; and he had at least one great album and some decent ones, where his terrible singing wasn't quite as terrible...it's just HIM, as a person that i loath! the stories of his out of control ego and disrespect and temper tantrums go all the way back to when he worked with badfinger, at least. i liked him enough to see him c.1981, but bit by bit i lost my tolerance for him - except for something anything - the sole basis for him ever becoming famous.
	4:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh man... What to say about Joe Frank... I feel like he goes back almost to childhood - when I didn't even know enuff to tell his sonorous tones & mysterious pronouncements on the ray-deeoh from say, KenNordine's...; I guess he started his programs around 1977? So - adolescence I guess... I remember no introduction - he was just there on Public Radio. Like when I 1st saw Monty Python - around about then also: Life as you knew it kid is over... Later - when I moved to SantaBarbara in SouthernCalifornia - I would her him from his then home of KCRW - & relate in a whole other way... Someone once said about JimiHendrix: He founded a unique School - from which he is still the only Graduate...in obviously a whole different way - I feel that's true about Joe too: such a distinct & impactful Artist...True - I have learned a little more about Radio History, & his possible antecedents (Jean Shepherd Before I became familiar w/ the word 'Existentialism' - JoeFrank had already taken my callow mind far out into those waters... - - 'Are Answers better than Questions?' - - Perhaps now, joining the Greater Force, Joe has Answers he has long pondered...& perhaps even, new Questions...
	4:18pm J: Rundgren has produced so many hit records, there's a book cataloging all of them. Excellent chapter of Skylarking. I'd hardly characterize him as hit or miss. His own work, of course, is subjective; but A Wizard A True Star is an unparalleled psychedelic masterpiece.
	4:20pm Reddit: <3 Grandaddy
	👻 4:20pm Listening Out There: This sofphtware has bugghes...
	4:21pm coelacanth∅: i have no recollection of when i first heard Joe Frank. sometime in the 80s perhaps? was he on wfmu then? that's how it seems. like it's always been there in my adult life.
	4:21pm Irwin: Grandaddy's been around for 133 years. How did I miss them until recently? I blame Hoboken Jack.
	4:21pm nah: It’s simple, it’s dumb, it makes me weepy
	4:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @coelacanth0: Right - it's like WyntonMarsalis calling Monk 'so logical': JoeFrank's work is so definitive - wasn't it always there??
	4:24pm Hoboken Jack: Here's to ya, Mr. Frank. Thanks for being deceptively weird.
	4:25pm Passaic River Blues: I was surprised by the number of random people I came across on Instagram mourning Joe. It was heartening. Joe Frank is one of those literary geniuses (like a Baudelaire or Bruce Chatwin) whose nimble wit and singular voice required the creation of a new, hybrid genre for full expression. No one was doing what he did before he did because it just didn't exist. Every episode of "The Other Side" is like an invitation into a sui generis, world-class brain. I heard occasional bits of Frank over the years, but it was here that I really had continued, thoughtful exposure to him and for that I am thankful.
	4:25pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Joe Frank and Don Joyce were (are) my radio idols. I was so glad they were keeping that torch lit all the way to the end. (I've got a Joe Frank sample in my collage today 5-7pm on the Drummer stream. wfmu.org...)
	4:25pm pollypinocle: So sad to hear about Joe Frank's passing, and that it's been such a struggle for him and Michal these past few years. I've long loved Joe's otherworldly radio programs, delivered in that masterful voice, and found they've come in handy as a litmus test for discovering kindred spirits. Storytelling at its very best.
	4:30pm flashbazbo: High concept country. These people don't like anything from England anyway.
	4:30pm berbo: I'll always remember my first Joe Frank. "Oh this is interesting... wait, what?" And the earth shifted on its axis.
	4:31pm Michael 98145: I would encourage us to acquire Joe Frank episodes and spread the word. He will not be forgotten. Never.
	4:32pm coelacanth∅: i met a woman once who said "beatles, or the rolling stones?" i said "i'm glad i don't have to choose."
	4:34pm misterpickles69: I've only recently discovered this station and Joe Frank (from this program) about a year and a half ago and I'm sad he's passed. Joe is the roughage in your auditory diet. It's hard to absorb but absolutely necessary for a healthy life.
	4:37pm Hoboken Jack: I accept the blame. I had the entire discography, and the Jason Lytle solo records, and the Admiral Radley album, all a stone's throw away, yet said nothing. Just sat here eating sandwiches and staring at the floor.
	4:39pm coelacanth∅: well... what kind of sandwiches?
	4:40pm misterpickles69: Peanut butter and jelly on whole wheat?
	4:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...or, around Robyn's - sarnies w/ legs...
	4:43pm Hoboken Jack: Coel, I'm a traditionalist. The meats, the cheeses. Chicken parm. Prosciutto and mozzarella. Salami and American.
	4:44pm coelacanth∅: this is what's important. so you're saying it was worth it!
	4:50pm Irwin: Jack, I have some swaggage for you. Will bring Friday. You can model it for the Kesslerians.
	👻 4:51pm chris: the message from the godfather is clearly, "get funky now."
	4:57pm adampsyche: excellent show today
	👻 4:58pm karlward: Why does this Ursula 1000 jam make me want to eat Cool Ranch Doritos? Why am I playing Super Mario Bros? How did I end up wearing capri pants?
	5:02pm Courtney of Morris: Did I miss joe frank today?
	5:03pm coelacanth∅: we all miss Joe Frank today.
	5:05pm Michael 98145: amen
	5:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (...who's imagining a scathing JoeFrank routine about phony perfunctory & supercilious tributes & condolences...haha...Joe Forever...)
	5:12pm TehBadDr: Wow Irwin! Love and Rockets!
	5:14pm JFR: the porter's glad refrain
	5:20pm popsicornia: RIP Joe Frank, explains the rainy west coast day.
	5:22pm Jack: Damn! I been outside playing in the snow, I missed the show.
	5:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...recalling BillFrisell - but just the other side of it...'Julian Lage'...huh...
	5:23pm JFR: I work as a box truck driver for a moving company and one of life's joys is being in the cab with an unsuspecting crew as a Joe Frank broadcast comes on. Transports away from transportation into an alternate city, alternate time. alternate mind. Hat eternally tipped to Mr. Frank.
	5:24pm Uncle Michael: If Joe never addressed the giving of a eulogy, I'd be surprised.
	5:24pm Irwin: JFR: Joe is a very peculiar and effective form of escapism.
	5:25pm thelma blitz: Death can't hurt a man like Joe Frank. It will only prove him right.
	👻 5:30pm Alison Porchnik: Love these last two pieces
	5:32pm Irwin: Someone help me on pronouncing "Joep."
	5:33pm BronwynB: jape?
	5:33pm BronwynB: jerp?
	5:33pm BronwynB: jeep!
	5:33pm Clay: Sad news about Joe Frank. Of course, we all thought of you when we heard the news, Irwin, you've been such a great champion of Joe's work. Thanks for that. On a lighter note, nice to see you at the staff party. You've been working out haven't you? Never noticed those guns of yours before. How much you benching these days?
	👻 5:33pm βrian: Solipsism goes so well with navel-gazing.
	5:33pm Irwin: Don't guess. Tell me.
	5:35pm coelacanth∅: hahaha i think that's it - japejerpjeep!
	5:36pm Goyim in the AM: It's between yoop and yup. (Not a joke.)
	5:36pm Irwin: Checking YT interview vids with Joep, can't understand a word anyone's saying.
	5:36pm ?: "Dutch composer Joep (pronounced Yoop) Beving was stunned to discover the blissed-out piano tracks he intended purely for his nearest and dearest had hit 60,000 streams."
	5:36pm Irwin: A-ha! Thought I heard a "yoop" in one host's opening intro.
	5:37pm geezerette: sigh...first listened to Joe Frank on KCRW. Tried to share my enthusiasm with friends, most of whom would back away and stare at me with horror. "Too dark!!! How can you stand it?" was a frequent response. I hope I'm offending no one here when I say that he could also be hilarious. An intellectual thrill ride.
	5:37pm Monica: feel like we're sitting shiva with you, irwin. thx to wfmu and you for presenting joe frank in such a thoughtful way all these years. you did him proud. sorry i forgot to bring the lox platter.
	5:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...not just knowing these Artists / trax - but the artfulness of sequencing this set...
	5:38pm ?: His label says Yoop: https://tinyurl.com/y9bo8faq
	5:38pm Michael 98145: these last couple tracks are exceptional.
	5:39pm Irwin: Set was not planned. They never are. Programming in real-time. Whatever seems to follow.
	5:40pm Michael 98145: " ... his two-metre frame (nearly 6’10), wild hair and flowing beard." !!
	5:40pm geezerette: Exquisite show, Irwin.
	5:41pm Uncle Michael: Sad not to be the first to return with Yoop Bay-ving.
	5:41pm miles: just remembered it was Wednesday . tuning in especially here especially now especially cuzza joe frank
	5:41pm Frege's Nightmare: I first heard Joe Frank on this program about a year and a half ago, driving back to suburban NJ after an expedition to Haverstraw. What madness could this be, my friend and I wondered, careening in and out of the broadcasting radius along the curves of route 9W, remaining tuned and intrigued despite the persistent radio static. Our car moved slowly and cautiously on the one-lane road, trapped for many miles in the middle of an armada of 18-wheelers, as though Joe's broadcast had conjured the surreal scene.
	5:42pm miles: been listening to him for 30 years or more
	5:45pm miles: tuned in late...haven't read every comment...are we going to hear a Joe Frank piece??
	5:47pm Sean B.: Hmmm Irwin you mentioned KCRW. That's how I became very familiar with a 45 archivist/Dj named Steve Propes. Extrememly nice man. I hope he is still kicking around.
	5:47pm miles: today?
	5:47pm TehBadDr: I will miss Joe. Truth be told, I've scoured back years through Irwin's playlists looking for that 30 min or 1 hr unnamed segment!
	5:50pm Passaic River Blues: @miles: I believe next week will feature plenty of Joe.
	5:52pm common: good eve all!
	👻 5:54pm chris: evenin', common!
	👻 5:55pm chris: thanks for another great show and for all you do, Irwin!
	5:56pm Michael 98145: thank you again, Irwin
	5:56pm Booz: Joe Frank taught me so much. Many thanks to Irwin for keeping the channels open all this time.
	5:57pm Passaic River Blues: Thank you, Irwin.
	5:57pm Michael 98145: Sez Yoop: “The world is a hectic place right now and I feel a deep urge to reconnect on a basic human level with people in general."
	5:57pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Irwin
	5:58pm Old Dave: Enjoyed this show and looking fwd to the Joe Frank Special next week. Thanks, Irwin!
	5:58pm J: RIP Joe Frank. Will be missed dearly. Looking fwd to next week!
	6:53pm Webhamster Henry: I'm pretty sure Joe phoned in during a marathon at one point, not too long ago. That might be good to put in the mix!
	12:10am Irwin: Joe Frank documentary (2018): www.imdb.com...

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Lee Morgan	Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)	The Gigolo	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Shacks	Follow Me "Follow Me" by "The Shacks"	Haze	0:03:31 (Pop-up)
Nicky Hopkins & His Whistling Piano	Mr. Pleasant	7" Polydor single (1967)	0:06:50 (Pop-up)
Faults	Love Goes "Love Goes" by "Faults"	Love Goes/Dry Ice (single)	0:09:24 (Pop-up)

Roberto Magris	What Love "What Love" by "Roberto Magris"	Need to Bring Out Love	0:16:08 (Pop-up)
The Clientele	The Neighbour "The Neighbour" by "The Clientele"	Music for the Age of Miracles	0:25:20 (Pop-up)
Andy Partridge	Summer's Cauldron (demo)	Fuzzy Warbles	0:30:27 (Pop-up)
Eltro	Lady of the Highway "Lady of the Highway" by "Eltro"	Past and Present Futurists	0:35:54 (Pop-up)

Peggy Lee	Come Back to Me "Come Back to Me" by "Peggy Lee"	Big Spender	0:46:20 (Pop-up)
Chip Wickham	Sling Shot "Sling Shot" by "Chip Wickham"	La Sombra	0:47:31 (Pop-up)
Lydia Lunch	A Cruise to the Moon "A Cruise to the Moon" by "Lydia Lunch"	Queen of Siam	0:53:57 (Pop-up)

Bobby Bare	Rosalie's Good Eats Cafe	Lullabys, Legends and Lies (And More)	1:04:12 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Giuffre, Paul Bley & Steve Swallow	Afternoon	1961	1:11:53 (Pop-up)
Grandaddy	He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot	The Sophtware Slump	1:17:20 (Pop-up)
William Clark Green	She Likes the Beatles	Rose Queen	1:26:11 (Pop-up)
Sunwatchers	Silent Boogie "Silent Boogie" by "Sunwatchers"	II	1:30:15 (Pop-up)
The Butchies	Gertrude + Stein "Gertrude + Stein" by "The Butchies"	Population 1975	1:34:36 (Pop-up)
Robyn Hitchcock	Mad Shelley's Letterbox	Robyn Hitchcock	1:38:05 (Pop-up)

James Taylor Quartet	Message from the Godfather	Message from the Godfather	1:45:48 (Pop-up)
Rachel Sweet	Pin a Medal on Mary "Pin a Medal on Mary" by "Rachel Sweet"	Fool Around	1:51:21 (Pop-up)
Ursula 1000	Disko-Tech (featuring Ms. G)	Mondo Beyondo	1:54:44 (Pop-up)
Jackie McLean	Marney "Marney" by "Jackie McLean"	Vertigo	1:58:19 (Pop-up)
Mr. Elevator & the Brain Hotel	Nico & Her Psychedelic Subconscious	Nico & Her Psychedelic Subconscious	2:04:28 (Pop-up)
Love and Rockets	Kundalini Express	Kundalini Express 12"	2:09:34 (Pop-up)

Julian Lage	Atlantic Limited "Atlantic Limited" by "Julian Lage"	Modern Lore	2:18:00 (Pop-up)
Jenny Scheinman	The Rabbi's Lover	The Rabbi's Lover	2:21:27 (Pop-up)
Joep Beving	Zoetrope "Zoetrope" by "Joep Beving"	Solipsism	2:28:12 (Pop-up)
Matthew Stevens	Cocoon "Cocoon" by "Matthew Stevens"	Preverbal	2:31:55 (Pop-up)

Max Roach	Sadiga "Sadiga" by "Max Roach"	Award Winning Drummer	2:41:56 (Pop-up)
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	Barefoot Desert	Gumboot Soup	2:48:06 (Pop-up)
Esquivel	Adios, Mariquita Linda "Adios, Mariquita Linda" by "Esquivel"	Latin-esque	2:52:18 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	1/14 10:31am Fredericks: Hey, I am in the Future. Irwin, you here yet?
	2:43pm Listener Robert: No sooner do we get ready for a Michelle Boule tribute than Joe Frank dies. But the Old Codger will likely outlive Irwin; it's those unfiltered Camels and gin that keep him going.
	3:02pm BronwynB: hey irwin and everyone. i'm so sorry about Joe Frank
	3:02pm jess: I love Joe Frank. this is a great loss.
	👻 3:03pm chris: hi, Irwin and folks. rest in peace, Dear Joe. <3
	3:05pm Devin B.: R.I.P. Joe Frank. Many thanks to Irwin for championing his incredible work.
	3:05pm Lizardner Dave: Godspeed Joe Frank and thanks for introducing me to his work Irwin.
	3:06pm mb: Hello Irwin and errbody.
	👻 3:09pm Ken From Hyde Park: RIP Joe Frank. On the other side now.
	3:10pm Dean: Received this new-ish Alan Broadbent yesterday, and it occurred to me this might be up Mr. Chusid's alley: https://www.allaboutjazz.com/songbook-georgia-mancio-roomspin-records-review-by-bruce-lindsay.php I'm a big AB fan. Also, recently played again after several years Paul Plimley Trio's Safe-Crackers record. V-e-r-y nice.
	3:10pm Dominick: so much easier now
	3:10pm Michael 98145: [ www.allaccess.com... ] cripes
	3:10pm coelacanth∅: rest in peace Joe Frank; rest in peace Dolores O'Riordan.
	3:11pm coelacanth∅: and no, the old codger will not outlive Irwin.
	3:11pm ChrisB.: So sorry about Joe. He fought so hard over the last two years. Much love to Michal, who fought just as hard.
	3:12pm coelacanth∅: and, condolences Irwin.
	3:13pm Carmichael: Mum's the word on Ms. O'Riordan. She was fighting chronic back pain for the last few years, as was a friend of mine. My friend eventually took his own life, sadly.
	3:19pm northguineahills: @Carmichale: shit, just got news I lost a friend of mine. This week is beating the Cthulhu out me.
	3:19pm coelacanth∅: Carmichael, condolences as well. i can relate to your friend, and look forward to no pain myself, one day.
	👻 3:20pm chris: sorry for your losses, Carmichael and ngh.
	3:20pm northguineahills: Before I go back to workville, thanks Irwin for airing Joe Frank's episodes. It was a perfect surrealist noir to upend our Wednesday. He was a literary genius. Danks!
	3:23pm V Priceless: Hey all - RIP Joe Frank - thanks, Irwin for continuing your great work with the JF programming
	3:27pm Lixiviated Life: Woke up this morning around 3 AM to wrestle with my usual demons. Found myself listening to a Scott Carrier podcast (in lieu of chemistry). Mr. Carrier had incorporated into his own work, a Joe Frank piece about an ascent of K2. This led me to scroll around for another Joe Frank audio tale. Then another etc. and soon it was daylight. I will miss Mr. Frank's unique gifts, (as will my demons).
	3:33pm laughingacademy: XTC! I was listening to "Apple Venus" just the other day.
	3:34pm ChrisB.: Anyone see the new XTC Showtime documentary? Very good!
	3:35pm laughingacademy: Ooh, I did not know that was a thing, thanks for the tip ChrisB.
	👻 3:35pm chris: i think you've really hit on some of the magic of Joe Frank there, LL. it wasn't just the amazing stories he was weaving for us. it wasn't just the amazing production quality of the work, with the always exceptional background music. the sum seemed greater than the parts. we are there with him, transported into his stories. the shows have an ability to leave us thinking about our own lives, beliefs, experiences. they can be transformational. one of a kind, unparalleled story-telling.
	3:44pm BronwynB: philly represent!!
	3:46pm BronwynB: i know about the two hitlers in one bunker story because my boyfriend adores andy partridge and todd rundgren. he would not be a fan of the guy who loathes xtc
	3:48pm J: Andy and Todd hated eachother, but Todd made that record a masterpiece
	3:48pm coelacanth∅: what about the guy who loathes todd rundgren?!
	3:55pm J: Deal w it
	3:55pm BronwynB: @coel: clearly those two guys would be two hitlers in one bunker
	3:57pm Carmichael: Just saw Todd a few weeks ago and was thinking about that whole Skylarking recording process. Partridge grudgingly acknowledges TR's mad recording skillz, but nevertheless there sure ain't any love lost between those two.
	3:58pm Listener Robert: A month ago Listener Steve, who'd been living with me, died. When I moved in with him the previous year I knew he might pop off any time, but when his death did come, the circumstances were very stressful to me & other friends because of our suspicion of his estranged daughter, who administered his living will and had him declared incompetent. Maybe she did the right thing, but you couldn't convince us. I started listening to Joe Frank when he had his own slot on WFMU. He made a statement on air during a spring marathon around the turn of the century, after his shows had been off WFMU a few years, to the effect that FCC restrictions had made it not worth his while to produce any more shows for radio, but to please donate to WFMU anyway and maybe some day those restrictions would be gone or surmounted.
	3:59pm dgg: Thanks to Irwin for introducing me to Joe Frank. Sad loss. Brilliant shows.
	👻 4:07pm Ken From Hyde Park: The bed music there sounded like a track that Joe might use.
	👻 4:07pm AnAnonymousParty: Is this the same Rosalie that works at the Five & Dime?
	4:07pm karmester: my deepest condolences to you, Michael Frank, for your loss. He was a true genius, gentleman and humanitarian.
	4:07pm Irwin: "Rosalie's" writ by Shel Silverstein
	4:07pm J: As much as I admire and respect his work, Partridge has always struck me as an epic stick in the mud.
	4:11pm coelacanth∅: i must admit i don't know any stories of the collaboration, or any horror stories about Andy. of course rundgren was an excellent producer, when he tried - which was a solid sometimes; and he had at least one great album and some decent ones, where his terrible singing wasn't quite as terrible...it's just HIM, as a person that i loath! the stories of his out of control ego and disrespect and temper tantrums go all the way back to when he worked with badfinger, at least. i liked him enough to see him c.1981, but bit by bit i lost my tolerance for him - except for something anything - the sole basis for him ever becoming famous.
	4:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh man... What to say about Joe Frank... I feel like he goes back almost to childhood - when I didn't even know enuff to tell his sonorous tones & mysterious pronouncements on the ray-deeoh from say, KenNordine's...; I guess he started his programs around 1977? So - adolescence I guess... I remember no introduction - he was just there on Public Radio. Like when I 1st saw Monty Python - around about then also: Life as you knew it kid is over... Later - when I moved to SantaBarbara in SouthernCalifornia - I would her him from his then home of KCRW - & relate in a whole other way... Someone once said about JimiHendrix: He founded a unique School - from which he is still the only Graduate...in obviously a whole different way - I feel that's true about Joe too: such a distinct & impactful Artist...True - I have learned a little more about Radio History, & his possible antecedents (Jean Shepherd Before I became familiar w/ the word 'Existentialism' - JoeFrank had already taken my callow mind far out into those waters... - - 'Are Answers better than Questions?' - - Perhaps now, joining the Greater Force, Joe has Answers he has long pondered...& perhaps even, new Questions...
	4:18pm J: Rundgren has produced so many hit records, there's a book cataloging all of them. Excellent chapter of Skylarking. I'd hardly characterize him as hit or miss. His own work, of course, is subjective; but A Wizard A True Star is an unparalleled psychedelic masterpiece.
	4:20pm Reddit: <3 Grandaddy
	👻 4:20pm Listening Out There: This sofphtware has bugghes...
	4:21pm coelacanth∅: i have no recollection of when i first heard Joe Frank. sometime in the 80s perhaps? was he on wfmu then? that's how it seems. like it's always been there in my adult life.
	4:21pm Irwin: Grandaddy's been around for 133 years. How did I miss them until recently? I blame Hoboken Jack.
	4:21pm nah: It’s simple, it’s dumb, it makes me weepy
	4:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @coelacanth0: Right - it's like WyntonMarsalis calling Monk 'so logical': JoeFrank's work is so definitive - wasn't it always there??
	4:24pm Hoboken Jack: Here's to ya, Mr. Frank. Thanks for being deceptively weird.
	4:25pm Passaic River Blues: I was surprised by the number of random people I came across on Instagram mourning Joe. It was heartening. Joe Frank is one of those literary geniuses (like a Baudelaire or Bruce Chatwin) whose nimble wit and singular voice required the creation of a new, hybrid genre for full expression. No one was doing what he did before he did because it just didn't exist. Every episode of "The Other Side" is like an invitation into a sui generis, world-class brain. I heard occasional bits of Frank over the years, but it was here that I really had continued, thoughtful exposure to him and for that I am thankful.
	4:25pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Joe Frank and Don Joyce were (are) my radio idols. I was so glad they were keeping that torch lit all the way to the end. (I've got a Joe Frank sample in my collage today 5-7pm on the Drummer stream. wfmu.org...)
	4:25pm pollypinocle: So sad to hear about Joe Frank's passing, and that it's been such a struggle for him and Michal these past few years. I've long loved Joe's otherworldly radio programs, delivered in that masterful voice, and found they've come in handy as a litmus test for discovering kindred spirits. Storytelling at its very best.
	4:30pm flashbazbo: High concept country. These people don't like anything from England anyway.
	4:30pm berbo: I'll always remember my first Joe Frank. "Oh this is interesting... wait, what?" And the earth shifted on its axis.
	4:31pm Michael 98145: I would encourage us to acquire Joe Frank episodes and spread the word. He will not be forgotten. Never.
	4:32pm coelacanth∅: i met a woman once who said "beatles, or the rolling stones?" i said "i'm glad i don't have to choose."
	4:34pm misterpickles69: I've only recently discovered this station and Joe Frank (from this program) about a year and a half ago and I'm sad he's passed. Joe is the roughage in your auditory diet. It's hard to absorb but absolutely necessary for a healthy life.
	4:37pm Hoboken Jack: I accept the blame. I had the entire discography, and the Jason Lytle solo records, and the Admiral Radley album, all a stone's throw away, yet said nothing. Just sat here eating sandwiches and staring at the floor.
	4:39pm coelacanth∅: well... what kind of sandwiches?
	4:40pm misterpickles69: Peanut butter and jelly on whole wheat?
	4:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...or, around Robyn's - sarnies w/ legs...
	4:43pm Hoboken Jack: Coel, I'm a traditionalist. The meats, the cheeses. Chicken parm. Prosciutto and mozzarella. Salami and American.
	4:44pm coelacanth∅: this is what's important. so you're saying it was worth it!
	4:50pm Irwin: Jack, I have some swaggage for you. Will bring Friday. You can model it for the Kesslerians.
	👻 4:51pm chris: the message from the godfather is clearly, "get funky now."
	4:57pm adampsyche: excellent show today
	👻 4:58pm karlward: Why does this Ursula 1000 jam make me want to eat Cool Ranch Doritos? Why am I playing Super Mario Bros? How did I end up wearing capri pants?
	5:02pm Courtney of Morris: Did I miss joe frank today?
	5:03pm coelacanth∅: we all miss Joe Frank today.
	5:05pm Michael 98145: amen
	5:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (...who's imagining a scathing JoeFrank routine about phony perfunctory & supercilious tributes & condolences...haha...Joe Forever...)
	5:12pm TehBadDr: Wow Irwin! Love and Rockets!
	5:14pm JFR: the porter's glad refrain
	5:20pm popsicornia: RIP Joe Frank, explains the rainy west coast day.
	5:22pm Jack: Damn! I been outside playing in the snow, I missed the show.
	5:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...recalling BillFrisell - but just the other side of it...'Julian Lage'...huh...
	5:23pm JFR: I work as a box truck driver for a moving company and one of life's joys is being in the cab with an unsuspecting crew as a Joe Frank broadcast comes on. Transports away from transportation into an alternate city, alternate time. alternate mind. Hat eternally tipped to Mr. Frank.
	5:24pm Uncle Michael: If Joe never addressed the giving of a eulogy, I'd be surprised.
	5:24pm Irwin: JFR: Joe is a very peculiar and effective form of escapism.
	5:25pm thelma blitz: Death can't hurt a man like Joe Frank. It will only prove him right.
	👻 5:30pm Alison Porchnik: Love these last two pieces
	5:32pm Irwin: Someone help me on pronouncing "Joep."
	5:33pm BronwynB: jape?
	5:33pm BronwynB: jerp?
	5:33pm BronwynB: jeep!
	5:33pm Clay: Sad news about Joe Frank. Of course, we all thought of you when we heard the news, Irwin, you've been such a great champion of Joe's work. Thanks for that. On a lighter note, nice to see you at the staff party. You've been working out haven't you? Never noticed those guns of yours before. How much you benching these days?
	👻 5:33pm βrian: Solipsism goes so well with navel-gazing.
	5:33pm Irwin: Don't guess. Tell me.
	5:35pm coelacanth∅: hahaha i think that's it - japejerpjeep!
	5:36pm Goyim in the AM: It's between yoop and yup. (Not a joke.)
	5:36pm Irwin: Checking YT interview vids with Joep, can't understand a word anyone's saying.
	5:36pm ?: "Dutch composer Joep (pronounced Yoop) Beving was stunned to discover the blissed-out piano tracks he intended purely for his nearest and dearest had hit 60,000 streams."
	5:36pm Irwin: A-ha! Thought I heard a "yoop" in one host's opening intro.
	5:37pm geezerette: sigh...first listened to Joe Frank on KCRW. Tried to share my enthusiasm with friends, most of whom would back away and stare at me with horror. "Too dark!!! How can you stand it?" was a frequent response. I hope I'm offending no one here when I say that he could also be hilarious. An intellectual thrill ride.
	5:37pm Monica: feel like we're sitting shiva with you, irwin. thx to wfmu and you for presenting joe frank in such a thoughtful way all these years. you did him proud. sorry i forgot to bring the lox platter.
	5:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...not just knowing these Artists / trax - but the artfulness of sequencing this set...
	5:38pm ?: His label says Yoop: https://tinyurl.com/y9bo8faq
	5:38pm Michael 98145: these last couple tracks are exceptional.
	5:39pm Irwin: Set was not planned. They never are. Programming in real-time. Whatever seems to follow.
	5:40pm Michael 98145: " ... his two-metre frame (nearly 6’10), wild hair and flowing beard." !!
	5:40pm geezerette: Exquisite show, Irwin.
	5:41pm Uncle Michael: Sad not to be the first to return with Yoop Bay-ving.
	5:41pm miles: just remembered it was Wednesday . tuning in especially here especially now especially cuzza joe frank
	5:41pm Frege's Nightmare: I first heard Joe Frank on this program about a year and a half ago, driving back to suburban NJ after an expedition to Haverstraw. What madness could this be, my friend and I wondered, careening in and out of the broadcasting radius along the curves of route 9W, remaining tuned and intrigued despite the persistent radio static. Our car moved slowly and cautiously on the one-lane road, trapped for many miles in the middle of an armada of 18-wheelers, as though Joe's broadcast had conjured the surreal scene.
	5:42pm miles: been listening to him for 30 years or more
	5:45pm miles: tuned in late...haven't read every comment...are we going to hear a Joe Frank piece??
	5:47pm Sean B.: Hmmm Irwin you mentioned KCRW. That's how I became very familiar with a 45 archivist/Dj named Steve Propes. Extrememly nice man. I hope he is still kicking around.
	5:47pm miles: today?
	5:47pm TehBadDr: I will miss Joe. Truth be told, I've scoured back years through Irwin's playlists looking for that 30 min or 1 hr unnamed segment!
	5:50pm Passaic River Blues: @miles: I believe next week will feature plenty of Joe.
	5:52pm common: good eve all!
	👻 5:54pm chris: evenin', common!
	👻 5:55pm chris: thanks for another great show and for all you do, Irwin!
	5:56pm Michael 98145: thank you again, Irwin
	5:56pm Booz: Joe Frank taught me so much. Many thanks to Irwin for keeping the channels open all this time.
	5:57pm Passaic River Blues: Thank you, Irwin.
	5:57pm Michael 98145: Sez Yoop: “The world is a hectic place right now and I feel a deep urge to reconnect on a basic human level with people in general."
	5:57pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Irwin
	5:58pm Old Dave: Enjoyed this show and looking fwd to the Joe Frank Special next week. Thanks, Irwin!
	5:58pm J: RIP Joe Frank. Will be missed dearly. Looking fwd to next week!
	6:53pm Webhamster Henry: I'm pretty sure Joe phoned in during a marathon at one point, not too long ago. That might be good to put in the mix!
	12:10am Irwin: Joe Frank documentary (2018): www.imdb.com...

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