WFMU: JA In The AM with John Allen: Playlist from February 9, 2018

Listener comments!
	9:06am George of Troy: Yo, John. Good morning.
	9:10am Planet Tyler: This intro gets stranger everytime i hear it
	9:12am Rev. Turnip Druid: am witchu.
	9:12am steveo: hello & happy to be listening
	9:13am Polyus: Gonna see JA In The AM favorite David Nance tonight. Not sure if it's with a band or solo, guess I'll find out when I get there.
	9:16am BEAVO: Don Everly just turned 81. Wonder if he’s heard that.
	9:17am John Allen: george! first comment! it's like we're back in 2016. HEY EVERYONE
	9:17am Planet Tyler: 2nd!
	9:18am BEAVO: 6th!
	👻 9:19am Ken From Hyde Park: 2016 was pretty cool, except near the end.
	9:20am Tiago from Portugal: Hi John.
	9:21am CeeDubbles: I'm so sleepy. I MISSED THE INTRO
	9:22am steveo: someday I'm going to get all my clickystar pieces and burn them on a giant CD and mail it to don everly
	9:26am StuBot: Way to kill the morning music... geez this show makes me want to kill things.
	9:28am BEAVO: Roswell Rudd plays a mean bone
	👻 9:29am Ken From Hyde Park: I'll bet listener Lyle is highly enjoying this.
	9:33am StuBot: Great, ONE listener likes this. I'm sure that ONE listener has deep pockets and can carry this whole show through the marathon.
	9:34am MD: Good Morning Freeform Fighters!!! SET YOUR PARTICLE BEAM WEAPONS TO.....W*FM**U!!!
	9:34am Polyus: That one listener is actually Jeff Bezos, so yes.
	9:35am sphere: hello peops
	9:36am StuBot: Well thank goodness for Bezos, he can listen on his own. I'm out.
	9:39am Vixo: JA in the AM = best show in the universe!!!
	9:40am MD: it's most likely true...1% of the "Radio"listeners in the world are WFMU fans,,,The other 99%...are not. It's the one case where the 1% are...the "Good Guys!"
	9:40am mjgoins: People who complain about the content of a freeform radio station == LULZ
	9:40am steveo: (whispering) is he gone? trombones are awesome.
	9:41am MD: There I go doing the Worlds Inventory!!!
	9:42am sphere: i've heard this McCraven twice this week on WFMU--wow!
	9:45am MD: FMU...ROCKS!!!!!!
	9:46am Thibault: Hi John!
	9:46am Thibault: Snowing in Paris right now...
	9:47am steveo: TOP DEFINITION Kidge The term for a child who is constantly around/in a fridge.
	👻 9:48am karlward: Best soundtrack to global stock selloff. Bring it on.
	9:52am show show: "keep on rocking in the free world"
	9:53am show show: mD speaks loud and clear
	9:53am BronwynB: good morning JA and pals
	9:54am Wild Neil: PEACE All. @Karlward-I just opened and IRA and rolled over my old 401k money into it...hopefully I can buy lots of good stock at a cheap price! I heard a rich guy say he buys when others are selling, and vice versa.
	9:54am StuBot: Click the live stream again...wow, such a great song... is that my tire going flat? No, it's another bizarre WFMU DJ selection. I get freeform- I'd even welcome noise like this at maybe 1am on drugs.But the drugs from last night WORE OFF.
	9:58am Fuzzy: Try the archives -- there's something for everybody at WFMU.
	10:00am MD: wfmu...if YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR...jUST GIVE IT 5 MINUTES...xo!!!
	10:00am Polyus: step clap step clap step clap*
	10:02am Wild Neil: Vertical lines gets a clicky star!
	10:05am mjgoins: So far this whole show has been great, wouldn't change a thing, keep it up John! :)
	👻 10:05am Ken From Hyde Park: Doug Schulkind has a show going on right now on the Drummer Stream.
	10:07am John Allen: teah, doug does a great show Stu, go check it out. you might even hear some more roswell rudd. someone wanna show Stu where to click?
	10:09am Passaic River Blues: I love this song so much. Reworking "Voices Inside My Head" in an interesting vein. A mixtape essential.
	10:13am Ike: A Police cover! And I just looked on the playlist search thingy and there are 2 or 3 other covers of this as well!
	10:15am BronwynB: i genuinely don't get people who comment complaining about weirdness. a) we are known for weirdness, there are plenty of more anodyne stations you could try and b) as others have mentioned, we have thousands of hours of archived radio and if you don't like what's currently playing you can find just about ANY style of music being given a spotlight somewhere in the archives.
	10:17am steveo: i genuinely don't get people who don't like trombones :)
	👻 10:19am Ken From Hyde Park: Maybe every playlist should have a "Help, get me out of here!" button at the bottom that links to a random archive. Or the text could read "Click here to hear something different."
	10:21am Mark Williams: I like that idea, Ken(FHP). Could be a "Please Mellow this Harsh" button or something.
	10:21am Passaic River Blues: "CLICK HERE FOR FELDER"
	10:22am Polyus: "NOT ALVARUS B. AGAIN!"
	10:22am Mark Williams: @Polyus. Haha. Oh man...
	10:24am Passaic River Blues: @Ken of Hyde Park: that is a genuinely good idea. A randomized playlist selector would also be a nice way for WFMU addicts to trawl about the archives.
	10:24am ⓔⓘⓚ: Some people just want to watch the comments burn.
	10:25am steveo: guy just needed some attention, he'll figure something out to listen to on his own. also, there is a random archive page already wfmu.org...
	10:26am Passaic River Blues: @Steveo: well, there you go. I am going to bookmark that.
	10:28am steveo: there's also "random songs" wfmu.org...
	10:33am ⓔⓚⓔⓔ: Do not try to beat Fabio at the "moaning ladies" genre, JA. You'll lose. LOL
	10:34am steveo: funny, I thought of Fabio also, Ike.
	10:36am steveo: which also relevant because sometimes art has value even if you don't "like" it
	10:38am StuBot: I just don't like random noise, or bad musicians. Some shows are almost unlistenable. The show seems to have taken a turn to the listenable again.
	10:40am steveo: random noise is quite listenable; keep coming back :)
	10:42am Stepchild: Swear I have never heard random noise here and I’ve been here since go
	10:44am steveo: how about when the transmitter dies?
	10:46am Andrew Waterloo: noise rarely comes from something that doesn't have some kind of pattern or frequency
	10:49am Stepchild: The difficulty of making something actually random is little understood. That said, of course we all understand that “I, unlike you apparently, simply don’t like Bad Things” is def not a shopworn defense mech...
	10:52am Andrew Waterloo: I've never had much time for the "I like GOOOOD music" crowd.
	10:53am BronwynB: john cage used to take a crack at making actual Random Noise using the i ching as a sort of randomizer. in my experimental music class at cornell we got into an argument over whether experimental music is by definition made at random in that way (i was arguing against that definition...)
	10:54am BronwynB: i realize that the above comment makes me sound like an ivy league douche so i want to point out that i didn't actually go to cornell, i just took two classes there whilst attending the beer pong palace next door
	10:54am fleep: Every effect stems from a cause, back to the first cause. There is no random.
	10:54am Polyus: Eating caviar, I bet.
	10:54am Michiel: All these starlings coming out of the tower as the bells are rung are awesome when still only half awake.Thank you for playing that.
	10:55am steveo: is this random, Stepchild? www.random.org... (caution: it's loud as shit relative to wfmu)
	10:56am steveo: (or Bronwyn)
	10:58am coelacanth: good morning JA et AL.
	11:00am Wild Neil: @Bronwyn-yeah! And I am REALLY looking forward to that 3 hour Blues Traveler show you promised me un-ironically! It would ROCK. I think the music right on the edge of what I like is what intrigues me about WFMU. I forget about the stuff I DON"T like. It is simply not relevant to me. That is how I have grown to accept WFMU, as it IS not as I WISH IT TO BE. It is far more interesting this way in that I get to hear stuff I never knew I would love!
	11:04am KenW: Beautifully said Wild Neil. I remember when you first logged onto Bryce's show, you were honestly trying to navigate some extra trippy weird stuff, and like all of us who have become hooked to FMU, it's the music we never thought we'd hear, then love, that always keeps us growing.
	11:04am steveo: well said neil
	11:04am steveo: (jinx)
	11:05am steveo: ok I just needed some attention, too, but I'm shutting up now and listening
	11:06am BronwynB: fmu is the reason for my love for and knowledge of a great variety of odd and interesting music. i discovered it as a 17-year-old who only listened to indie rock, classical music, and showtunes. it retrained my ears and taught me to love the fringes and the abyss.
	11:06am Stepchild: I hoped my comment wouldn’t be misread as an insistence that I am some arbiter of what is and isn’t random. The linked page contains no reference to music, but a fair reading of it will surely hint at the difficulty of being random.
	11:11am KenW: Exactly my story Bronwyn! That's also what no other station can offer, a unique collection of brilliant minds programing music that always challenges me to explore what I never thought was possible. Your comment "retrained my ears and taught me love the fringes and the abyss', is absolutely the PERFECT way to describe this station!
	11:13am ɨkɛ: I listened yesterday. It's no reflection on you but as the official arbiter of what's good and what isn't, I declare you officially guilty of violations of the random noise penal code. Your penalty is death, or payment of 350,000 square Japanese watermelons in full at the Musical Snob County Courthouse. Also, this early 70s thing didn't get noticed the first time and you talk about friends of like Delaney and Bonnie who had records out like we're supposed to remember who they are, which is a violation of the random nostalgia penal code, section 69:6969, for which the penalty is lots of 69ing. Then you play this long-winded free jazz stuff that really grates on my nerves which is a violation of the Albert Ayler code. I liked it when you played that punk song though, although that was a violation of the Pat Duncan penal code. I like Joe Belock a lot.
	11:15am BronwynB: thanks kenw :)
	11:16am melinda: One of the long-time volunteers interviewed by Kim and Emily last year said that when the main stream was unlistenable he just switched to the Ichiban stream. I thought it was funny and probably reflects the feelings of many FMU fans, that unlistenability happens and is not a deal-breaker.
	11:16am aaronfromMI: this music goes great with doing taxes
	11:18am coelacanth∅: thanks for clearing that up, Ike
	11:19am BronwynB: i have ocd and am essentially compelled to keep listening even when its something i don't necessarily enjoy listening to because my brain doesn't really allow me to make preference-based decisions like turning something off because i don't like it (this is probably really hard for people without OCD to understand but its just the way it is for me). the only time i ever switch from fmu to a different audio source is when its a talk show or interview because my ocd-induced misophonia relating to hearing multiple people talk when im trying to focus on something overrides my inability to turn something off because i don't like it.
	11:20am coelacanth∅: (are there 350,000 square watermelons?)
	11:20am BronwynB: this has been today's edition of What It's Like To Have OCD, featuring your OCD Whisperer, BronwynB
	11:25am BronwynB: i hope i did not kill the comments board with my tale of woe (i did not mean it as a tale of woe, merely as a window of insight into the mind of a person who can't easily turn things off when she doesn't like them). lovely weather we're having!
	11:27am coelacanth∅: this is interesting,Bronwyn -and difficult to understand! i have too much & too many other sources of music whining for me to listen to them for me to keep the radio on when i'm not into it. there are shows, though, that i like as much for the dj as for the music, and will stay on through stuff i don't like because i know most likely it's just the one set i'm not digging.
	11:27am steveo: Bronwyn, I identified with your "retrained my ears" comment. I think that's what I meant by "keep listening". I'm sure I have some OCD, too, but I never thought about it in this context.
	11:27am Stepchild: In something is unlistenable for a minute, try it for two. If still unlistenable try four. Then eight, 16, and so on. Soon you will find it is not unlistenable at all, but very interesting. [apologies]
	11:29am Wild Neil: I am at work and randomly sample the show. Sometimes the result is a clicky star! Pandora tries to do what WFMU does, but it cannot come even close to what a real human DJ does. Without WFMU I never would have heard that weird Sumatran cover by Big Blood which is extra extra weird, echo-y and good. So damn weird! I NEVER EVEN KNEW I would like such a thing. But I do. There it is then.
	11:30am Wild Neil: Man, Ry Cooder is freaking EVERYWHERE. Literally. Wow.
	11:32am CeeDubbles: "HEY, YOU GUYS PLAYING CARDS?" - Kent "Flounder Dorfmann, Faber '68, Original Master of the Obvious, Patron Saint of StuBot
	11:32am Wild Neil: Hey, what is a good first Ry Cooder album to get? Anybody?
	11:33am yanik: hi John can I get tix to issue project room pls?-Yanik
	11:34am yanik: ps great show and hope ur well
	11:35am coelacanth∅: i've learned about many artists via pandora - and spotify; but with those it's a hit-or-miss thing, whereas with wfmu - mnay djs (many, not) it's practically a sure thing. i will like the next track, or at least find it interesting. and the segues make it a flow, which is important. that flow does not and never will exist on pandora.
	11:36am John Allen: hey yanik, yeah send me your info/ mailingh address to john@wfmu.org
	11:38am KenW: Hi Wild Neil, I really like the one he did with Ali Farka Toure www.youtube.com...
	11:39am Mark Williams: @Wild Neil. You also can't go wrong with the Paris, TX soundtrack. Recently reissued on vinyl.
	11:39am KenW: BEAUTIFUL show John, THANK YOU!
	11:41am coelacanth∅: i agree that Ali Farka Toure collaboration is a great album; but i don't know that much Ry Cooder
	11:44am Bad bob: No one should be listening to Pandora it's horrible ( no comment on Spotify idk anything about it) even if FMU isn't your thing there must be a thousand public free radio streams where a person who may share taste with you is DJ
	11:44am coelacanth∅: hahaha this is NOT the rolling stones!
	11:45am Polyus: This is probably what it sounded like to Keef.
	11:45am steveo: it's obviously the byrds
	11:48am coelacanth∅: i think i like it more though!
	11:48am coelacanth∅: read it
	11:49am coelacanth∅: did they recreate the album cover?
	11:50am fleep: He do go on
	11:52am Polyus: Haha, like the Stones haven't been doing harm to their reputation for decades now.
	11:53am steveo: thank you John, I loved everything, even the stuff I didn't like.
	11:53am coelacanth∅: the rolling stones should be stolen from at every opportunity.
	11:54am John Allen: thanks for destroying the reputation of the blues, rolling stones
	11:55am coelacanth∅: Polyus funny - and true!
	11:57am CeeDubbles: mmmm that feels really nice on my cans
	11:58am steveo: CeeDub, the headphones should go on your EARS
	11:58am TomDash: I totally know this one...
	11:59am jt: Hey John, Nice to hear you Friday mornings, damn I got up late today!
	11:59am Bad bob: Don't tell people how to enjoy music
	11:59am Polyus: Look out for me, I'll build you a cart.
	11:59am coelacanth∅: is this the song that it's fashionable on wfmu to hate or to love?
	12:00pm Aaron Working In Newark: sooo goood
	12:00pm zopa: look out for Bryce!
	12:00pm coelacanth∅: bad bob heed your own advice
	12:01pm Zetti: wonderful show, thanks john
	12:01pm jt: " taught me to love the fringes and the abyss." Bronwyn.. exactly!
	12:01pm coelacanth∅: Bryce likes ALL the notes. that's nice.
	12:02pm Stepchild: JA slays again!
	👻 12:02pm Ken From Hyde Park: Likes them in any order, which is a plus.
	12:02pm Stepchild: Also, if you find Bryce’s show unlistenable, there is always the Bryce archives mmkay
	12:02pm coelacanth∅: Thanks John!
	12:02pm SueAdynamo: i think we can all agree to watch out for middle management.
	12:03pm steveo: Bryce has excellent penmanship.
	12:04pm aaronfromMI: boom! taxes are done
	12:04pm rsj: bryce loves tom petty, which this sounds like
	12:05pm coelacanth∅: dogs like Bryce. that's a good sign.
	12:05pm Sebastian: Bryce almost never has bad breath
	12:06pm coelacanth∅: or smelly feet.
	12:06pm debt collector: Maybe the worst song ever
	12:06pm steveo: which one? there's 2 playing.
	12:07pm Stepchild: Look out don’t hesweltaint
	12:07pm aaronfromMI: is this a reprise?
	12:07pm coelacanth∅: i want to hear the dog barking along with it
	12:07pm Sebastian: Bryce has his nosehair under control
	12:08pm Lixiviated Life: hey... Zion the Rocket Ship? I haven't heard this one since ...
	12:08pm coelacanth∅: have you checked his earhair though?
	12:08pm steveo: "yeah"
	12:08pm aaronfromMI: noooooooooooooooooo
	12:08pm Sebastian: NOOO
	12:09pm debt collector: The chirping I like. Love, rather. The Zion ship should blow up crash die burn up on reentry.
	12:09pm cowfriend: Yes, I killin it. This is what I like again.
	12:09pm Bad bob: What were you guys saying about unlistenable?
	12:09pm coelacanth∅: ahhhhh
	12:09pm Sebastian: aaahhhh
	12:09pm karin: please stop!!
	12:10pm debt collector: When the Zion ship ceased it was like a rush of heroin.

JA In The AM with John Allen: Playlist from February 9, 2018

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"I listened yesterday. It's no reflection on you but I could'nt see where you were going or what you were going for. This early seventies thing did'nt get noticed the first time and you talk about friends of like Dealney and Bonnie who had records out like we're supposed to remember who they are. Then you play this long winded free jazz stuff that really grates on my nerves. And that noise without a beat and sounds like someones being pinched. Then you play a reggae song, I think you called it Dub, to what, be cool? You seem to really fetishize the whole folk thing too which is obnoxious to us who don't even care. I liked it when you played that punk song though. I like Joe Belock a lot." (Visit homepage.)

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February 9, 2018

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Approx. start time
neil rolnick	wake up "wake up" by "neil rolnick"	ex machina	innova	2016	CD	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
george lewis	dream sequence "dream sequence" by "george lewis"	the george lewis solo trombone record	sackville	1977	LP	0:11:53 (Pop-up)
paul rutherford	er player blues now	the gentle harm of the bourgeoisie	emanem	1975	LP	0:19:04 (Pop-up)
garrett list	first blues "first blues" by "garrett list"	american images	horo	1978	LP	0:22:19 (Pop-up)
roswell rudd	panonica "panonica" by "roswell rudd"	s/t	america	1971	12"	0:28:20 (Pop-up)
dirty songs	dirty planet "dirty planet" by "dirty songs"	play dirty songs	audika	2017	LP	0:32:33 (Pop-up)
makaya mcCraven	rfj III "rfj III" by "makaya mcCraven"	highly rare	international anthem	2018	LP	0:35:19 (Pop-up)
egnekn (gen ken montgomery)	with the kidge	downtown action plan	gen	2018	CD-R	0:42:08 (Pop-up)
dennis wize	consciousness program	consciousness program	om recordz	1980	LP	0:43:29 (Pop-up)
verticle lines	beach boy "beach boy" by "verticle lines"		tuff city	1982	12"	0:51:37 (Pop-up)
spirit of life ensemble	life lines	journey into freedom music	rise up productions/records	1986	LP	0:59:56 (Pop-up)
kc flight	voices (original dub mix)		no label	1994	12"	1:01:01 (Pop-up)
tantra	wishbone "wishbone" by "tantra"	the double album	importe/12	1980	LP	1:11:00 (Pop-up)
jee day	sum of love "sum of love" by "jee day"	bis 001-020	beats in space	2017	CD	1:21:03 (Pop-up)
warning	in crowd "in crowd" by "warning"	warning	vertigo	1982	LP	1:27:26 (Pop-up)
david e. williams	charlotte's glass eye	psuedo erotica	red dog records	1987	LP	1:30:19 (Pop-up)
roland young	i believe in you "i believe in you" by "roland young"	hearsay evidence	flowchart records	1987	LP	1:34:08 (Pop-up)
lea bertucci	at dawn "at dawn" by "lea bertucci"	metal aether	NNA tapes	2018	Cassette	1:45:58 (Pop-up)
regular music (charles hayward)	the fourth door (dub)	regular music	rough trade	1985	LP	1:51:05 (Pop-up)
peter nooten & michael brook	searching	sleeps with the fishes	4ad	1987	LP	1:56:05 (Pop-up)
adam asnan	track 5 "track 5" by "adam asnan"	REV sets	entracte	2016	CD	1:59:51 (Pop-up)
lieven martens moana	port of spain (lento)	three amazonian essays	em records	2017	LP	2:04:15 (Pop-up)
rick cox	these things stop breathing		cold blue	1981	10"	2:09:46 (Pop-up)
marc santemma	grave seeker "grave seeker" by "marc santemma"	breeze blur	ozzera records	1985	LP	2:16:23 (Pop-up)
rick cuevas	birds "birds" by "rick cuevas"	symbolism	no label	1984	LP	2:29:35 (Pop-up)
virginia astley	melt the snow "melt the snow" by "virginia astley"		happy valley /rough trade	1985	12"	2:33:56 (Pop-up)
the rolling stones	coming down again	goats head soup	rolling stone records	1973	LP	2:39:44 (Pop-up)
tamia & pierre favre	poco a poco "poco a poco" by "tamia & pierre favre"	blues for pedro arcanjo	t records	1983	LP	2:47:48 (Pop-up)
strotter inst	halswesen "halswesen" by "strotter inst"	rebuilding l'alt empordà	strotter inst	2018	CD	2:50:23 (Pop-up)
alvarius b	zion the rocket ship "zion the rocket ship" by "alvarius b"	with a beaker on the burner and an otter in the oven	abduction	2017	LP	2:54:45 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:06am George of Troy: Yo, John. Good morning.
	9:10am Planet Tyler: This intro gets stranger everytime i hear it
	9:12am Rev. Turnip Druid: am witchu.
	9:12am steveo: hello & happy to be listening
	9:13am Polyus: Gonna see JA In The AM favorite David Nance tonight. Not sure if it's with a band or solo, guess I'll find out when I get there.
	9:16am BEAVO: Don Everly just turned 81. Wonder if he’s heard that.
	9:17am John Allen: george! first comment! it's like we're back in 2016. HEY EVERYONE
	9:17am Planet Tyler: 2nd!
	9:18am BEAVO: 6th!
	👻 9:19am Ken From Hyde Park: 2016 was pretty cool, except near the end.
	9:20am Tiago from Portugal: Hi John.
	9:21am CeeDubbles: I'm so sleepy. I MISSED THE INTRO
	9:22am steveo: someday I'm going to get all my clickystar pieces and burn them on a giant CD and mail it to don everly
	9:26am StuBot: Way to kill the morning music... geez this show makes me want to kill things.
	9:28am BEAVO: Roswell Rudd plays a mean bone
	👻 9:29am Ken From Hyde Park: I'll bet listener Lyle is highly enjoying this.
	9:33am StuBot: Great, ONE listener likes this. I'm sure that ONE listener has deep pockets and can carry this whole show through the marathon.
	9:34am MD: Good Morning Freeform Fighters!!! SET YOUR PARTICLE BEAM WEAPONS TO.....W*FM**U!!!
	9:34am Polyus: That one listener is actually Jeff Bezos, so yes.
	9:35am sphere: hello peops
	9:36am StuBot: Well thank goodness for Bezos, he can listen on his own. I'm out.
	9:39am Vixo: JA in the AM = best show in the universe!!!
	9:40am MD: it's most likely true...1% of the "Radio"listeners in the world are WFMU fans,,,The other 99%...are not. It's the one case where the 1% are...the "Good Guys!"
	9:40am mjgoins: People who complain about the content of a freeform radio station == LULZ
	9:40am steveo: (whispering) is he gone? trombones are awesome.
	9:41am MD: There I go doing the Worlds Inventory!!!
	9:42am sphere: i've heard this McCraven twice this week on WFMU--wow!
	9:45am MD: FMU...ROCKS!!!!!!
	9:46am Thibault: Hi John!
	9:46am Thibault: Snowing in Paris right now...
	9:47am steveo: TOP DEFINITION Kidge The term for a child who is constantly around/in a fridge.
	👻 9:48am karlward: Best soundtrack to global stock selloff. Bring it on.
	9:52am show show: "keep on rocking in the free world"
	9:53am show show: mD speaks loud and clear
	9:53am BronwynB: good morning JA and pals
	9:54am Wild Neil: PEACE All. @Karlward-I just opened and IRA and rolled over my old 401k money into it...hopefully I can buy lots of good stock at a cheap price! I heard a rich guy say he buys when others are selling, and vice versa.
	9:54am StuBot: Click the live stream again...wow, such a great song... is that my tire going flat? No, it's another bizarre WFMU DJ selection. I get freeform- I'd even welcome noise like this at maybe 1am on drugs.But the drugs from last night WORE OFF.
	9:58am Fuzzy: Try the archives -- there's something for everybody at WFMU.
	10:00am MD: wfmu...if YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU HEAR...jUST GIVE IT 5 MINUTES...xo!!!
	10:00am Polyus: step clap step clap step clap*
	10:02am Wild Neil: Vertical lines gets a clicky star!
	10:05am mjgoins: So far this whole show has been great, wouldn't change a thing, keep it up John! :)
	👻 10:05am Ken From Hyde Park: Doug Schulkind has a show going on right now on the Drummer Stream.
	10:07am John Allen: teah, doug does a great show Stu, go check it out. you might even hear some more roswell rudd. someone wanna show Stu where to click?
	10:09am Passaic River Blues: I love this song so much. Reworking "Voices Inside My Head" in an interesting vein. A mixtape essential.
	10:13am Ike: A Police cover! And I just looked on the playlist search thingy and there are 2 or 3 other covers of this as well!
	10:15am BronwynB: i genuinely don't get people who comment complaining about weirdness. a) we are known for weirdness, there are plenty of more anodyne stations you could try and b) as others have mentioned, we have thousands of hours of archived radio and if you don't like what's currently playing you can find just about ANY style of music being given a spotlight somewhere in the archives.
	10:17am steveo: i genuinely don't get people who don't like trombones :)
	👻 10:19am Ken From Hyde Park: Maybe every playlist should have a "Help, get me out of here!" button at the bottom that links to a random archive. Or the text could read "Click here to hear something different."
	10:21am Mark Williams: I like that idea, Ken(FHP). Could be a "Please Mellow this Harsh" button or something.
	10:21am Passaic River Blues: "CLICK HERE FOR FELDER"
	10:22am Polyus: "NOT ALVARUS B. AGAIN!"
	10:22am Mark Williams: @Polyus. Haha. Oh man...
	10:24am Passaic River Blues: @Ken of Hyde Park: that is a genuinely good idea. A randomized playlist selector would also be a nice way for WFMU addicts to trawl about the archives.
	10:24am ⓔⓘⓚ: Some people just want to watch the comments burn.
	10:25am steveo: guy just needed some attention, he'll figure something out to listen to on his own. also, there is a random archive page already wfmu.org...
	10:26am Passaic River Blues: @Steveo: well, there you go. I am going to bookmark that.
	10:28am steveo: there's also "random songs" wfmu.org...
	10:33am ⓔⓚⓔⓔ: Do not try to beat Fabio at the "moaning ladies" genre, JA. You'll lose. LOL
	10:34am steveo: funny, I thought of Fabio also, Ike.
	10:36am steveo: which also relevant because sometimes art has value even if you don't "like" it
	10:38am StuBot: I just don't like random noise, or bad musicians. Some shows are almost unlistenable. The show seems to have taken a turn to the listenable again.
	10:40am steveo: random noise is quite listenable; keep coming back :)
	10:42am Stepchild: Swear I have never heard random noise here and I’ve been here since go
	10:44am steveo: how about when the transmitter dies?
	10:46am Andrew Waterloo: noise rarely comes from something that doesn't have some kind of pattern or frequency
	10:49am Stepchild: The difficulty of making something actually random is little understood. That said, of course we all understand that “I, unlike you apparently, simply don’t like Bad Things” is def not a shopworn defense mech...
	10:52am Andrew Waterloo: I've never had much time for the "I like GOOOOD music" crowd.
	10:53am BronwynB: john cage used to take a crack at making actual Random Noise using the i ching as a sort of randomizer. in my experimental music class at cornell we got into an argument over whether experimental music is by definition made at random in that way (i was arguing against that definition...)
	10:54am BronwynB: i realize that the above comment makes me sound like an ivy league douche so i want to point out that i didn't actually go to cornell, i just took two classes there whilst attending the beer pong palace next door
	10:54am fleep: Every effect stems from a cause, back to the first cause. There is no random.
	10:54am Polyus: Eating caviar, I bet.
	10:54am Michiel: All these starlings coming out of the tower as the bells are rung are awesome when still only half awake.Thank you for playing that.
	10:55am steveo: is this random, Stepchild? www.random.org... (caution: it's loud as shit relative to wfmu)
	10:56am steveo: (or Bronwyn)
	10:58am coelacanth: good morning JA et AL.
	11:00am Wild Neil: @Bronwyn-yeah! And I am REALLY looking forward to that 3 hour Blues Traveler show you promised me un-ironically! It would ROCK. I think the music right on the edge of what I like is what intrigues me about WFMU. I forget about the stuff I DON"T like. It is simply not relevant to me. That is how I have grown to accept WFMU, as it IS not as I WISH IT TO BE. It is far more interesting this way in that I get to hear stuff I never knew I would love!
	11:04am KenW: Beautifully said Wild Neil. I remember when you first logged onto Bryce's show, you were honestly trying to navigate some extra trippy weird stuff, and like all of us who have become hooked to FMU, it's the music we never thought we'd hear, then love, that always keeps us growing.
	11:04am steveo: well said neil
	11:04am steveo: (jinx)
	11:05am steveo: ok I just needed some attention, too, but I'm shutting up now and listening
	11:06am BronwynB: fmu is the reason for my love for and knowledge of a great variety of odd and interesting music. i discovered it as a 17-year-old who only listened to indie rock, classical music, and showtunes. it retrained my ears and taught me to love the fringes and the abyss.
	11:06am Stepchild: I hoped my comment wouldn’t be misread as an insistence that I am some arbiter of what is and isn’t random. The linked page contains no reference to music, but a fair reading of it will surely hint at the difficulty of being random.
	11:11am KenW: Exactly my story Bronwyn! That's also what no other station can offer, a unique collection of brilliant minds programing music that always challenges me to explore what I never thought was possible. Your comment "retrained my ears and taught me love the fringes and the abyss', is absolutely the PERFECT way to describe this station!
	11:13am ɨkɛ: I listened yesterday. It's no reflection on you but as the official arbiter of what's good and what isn't, I declare you officially guilty of violations of the random noise penal code. Your penalty is death, or payment of 350,000 square Japanese watermelons in full at the Musical Snob County Courthouse. Also, this early 70s thing didn't get noticed the first time and you talk about friends of like Delaney and Bonnie who had records out like we're supposed to remember who they are, which is a violation of the random nostalgia penal code, section 69:6969, for which the penalty is lots of 69ing. Then you play this long-winded free jazz stuff that really grates on my nerves which is a violation of the Albert Ayler code. I liked it when you played that punk song though, although that was a violation of the Pat Duncan penal code. I like Joe Belock a lot.
	11:15am BronwynB: thanks kenw :)
	11:16am melinda: One of the long-time volunteers interviewed by Kim and Emily last year said that when the main stream was unlistenable he just switched to the Ichiban stream. I thought it was funny and probably reflects the feelings of many FMU fans, that unlistenability happens and is not a deal-breaker.
	11:16am aaronfromMI: this music goes great with doing taxes
	11:18am coelacanth∅: thanks for clearing that up, Ike
	11:19am BronwynB: i have ocd and am essentially compelled to keep listening even when its something i don't necessarily enjoy listening to because my brain doesn't really allow me to make preference-based decisions like turning something off because i don't like it (this is probably really hard for people without OCD to understand but its just the way it is for me). the only time i ever switch from fmu to a different audio source is when its a talk show or interview because my ocd-induced misophonia relating to hearing multiple people talk when im trying to focus on something overrides my inability to turn something off because i don't like it.
	11:20am coelacanth∅: (are there 350,000 square watermelons?)
	11:20am BronwynB: this has been today's edition of What It's Like To Have OCD, featuring your OCD Whisperer, BronwynB
	11:25am BronwynB: i hope i did not kill the comments board with my tale of woe (i did not mean it as a tale of woe, merely as a window of insight into the mind of a person who can't easily turn things off when she doesn't like them). lovely weather we're having!
	11:27am coelacanth∅: this is interesting,Bronwyn -and difficult to understand! i have too much & too many other sources of music whining for me to listen to them for me to keep the radio on when i'm not into it. there are shows, though, that i like as much for the dj as for the music, and will stay on through stuff i don't like because i know most likely it's just the one set i'm not digging.
	11:27am steveo: Bronwyn, I identified with your "retrained my ears" comment. I think that's what I meant by "keep listening". I'm sure I have some OCD, too, but I never thought about it in this context.
	11:27am Stepchild: In something is unlistenable for a minute, try it for two. If still unlistenable try four. Then eight, 16, and so on. Soon you will find it is not unlistenable at all, but very interesting. [apologies]
	11:29am Wild Neil: I am at work and randomly sample the show. Sometimes the result is a clicky star! Pandora tries to do what WFMU does, but it cannot come even close to what a real human DJ does. Without WFMU I never would have heard that weird Sumatran cover by Big Blood which is extra extra weird, echo-y and good. So damn weird! I NEVER EVEN KNEW I would like such a thing. But I do. There it is then.
	11:30am Wild Neil: Man, Ry Cooder is freaking EVERYWHERE. Literally. Wow.
	11:32am CeeDubbles: "HEY, YOU GUYS PLAYING CARDS?" - Kent "Flounder Dorfmann, Faber '68, Original Master of the Obvious, Patron Saint of StuBot
	11:32am Wild Neil: Hey, what is a good first Ry Cooder album to get? Anybody?
	11:33am yanik: hi John can I get tix to issue project room pls?-Yanik
	11:34am yanik: ps great show and hope ur well
	11:35am coelacanth∅: i've learned about many artists via pandora - and spotify; but with those it's a hit-or-miss thing, whereas with wfmu - mnay djs (many, not) it's practically a sure thing. i will like the next track, or at least find it interesting. and the segues make it a flow, which is important. that flow does not and never will exist on pandora.
	11:36am John Allen: hey yanik, yeah send me your info/ mailingh address to john@wfmu.org
	11:38am KenW: Hi Wild Neil, I really like the one he did with Ali Farka Toure www.youtube.com...
	11:39am Mark Williams: @Wild Neil. You also can't go wrong with the Paris, TX soundtrack. Recently reissued on vinyl.
	11:39am KenW: BEAUTIFUL show John, THANK YOU!
	11:41am coelacanth∅: i agree that Ali Farka Toure collaboration is a great album; but i don't know that much Ry Cooder
	11:44am Bad bob: No one should be listening to Pandora it's horrible ( no comment on Spotify idk anything about it) even if FMU isn't your thing there must be a thousand public free radio streams where a person who may share taste with you is DJ
	11:44am coelacanth∅: hahaha this is NOT the rolling stones!
	11:45am Polyus: This is probably what it sounded like to Keef.
	11:45am steveo: it's obviously the byrds
	11:48am coelacanth∅: i think i like it more though!
	11:48am coelacanth∅: read it
	11:49am coelacanth∅: did they recreate the album cover?
	11:50am fleep: He do go on
	11:52am Polyus: Haha, like the Stones haven't been doing harm to their reputation for decades now.
	11:53am steveo: thank you John, I loved everything, even the stuff I didn't like.
	11:53am coelacanth∅: the rolling stones should be stolen from at every opportunity.
	11:54am John Allen: thanks for destroying the reputation of the blues, rolling stones
	11:55am coelacanth∅: Polyus funny - and true!
	11:57am CeeDubbles: mmmm that feels really nice on my cans
	11:58am steveo: CeeDub, the headphones should go on your EARS
	11:58am TomDash: I totally know this one...
	11:59am jt: Hey John, Nice to hear you Friday mornings, damn I got up late today!
	11:59am Bad bob: Don't tell people how to enjoy music
	11:59am Polyus: Look out for me, I'll build you a cart.
	11:59am coelacanth∅: is this the song that it's fashionable on wfmu to hate or to love?
	12:00pm Aaron Working In Newark: sooo goood
	12:00pm zopa: look out for Bryce!
	12:00pm coelacanth∅: bad bob heed your own advice
	12:01pm Zetti: wonderful show, thanks john
	12:01pm jt: " taught me to love the fringes and the abyss." Bronwyn.. exactly!
	12:01pm coelacanth∅: Bryce likes ALL the notes. that's nice.
	12:02pm Stepchild: JA slays again!
	👻 12:02pm Ken From Hyde Park: Likes them in any order, which is a plus.
	12:02pm Stepchild: Also, if you find Bryce’s show unlistenable, there is always the Bryce archives mmkay
	12:02pm coelacanth∅: Thanks John!
	12:02pm SueAdynamo: i think we can all agree to watch out for middle management.
	12:03pm steveo: Bryce has excellent penmanship.
	12:04pm aaronfromMI: boom! taxes are done
	12:04pm rsj: bryce loves tom petty, which this sounds like
	12:05pm coelacanth∅: dogs like Bryce. that's a good sign.
	12:05pm Sebastian: Bryce almost never has bad breath
	12:06pm coelacanth∅: or smelly feet.
	12:06pm debt collector: Maybe the worst song ever
	12:06pm steveo: which one? there's 2 playing.
	12:07pm Stepchild: Look out don’t hesweltaint
	12:07pm aaronfromMI: is this a reprise?
	12:07pm coelacanth∅: i want to hear the dog barking along with it
	12:07pm Sebastian: Bryce has his nosehair under control
	12:08pm Lixiviated Life: hey... Zion the Rocket Ship? I haven't heard this one since ...
	12:08pm coelacanth∅: have you checked his earhair though?
	12:08pm steveo: "yeah"
	12:08pm aaronfromMI: noooooooooooooooooo
	12:08pm Sebastian: NOOO
	12:09pm debt collector: The chirping I like. Love, rather. The Zion ship should blow up crash die burn up on reentry.
	12:09pm cowfriend: Yes, I killin it. This is what I like again.
	12:09pm Bad bob: What were you guys saying about unlistenable?
	12:09pm coelacanth∅: ahhhhh
	12:09pm Sebastian: aaahhhh
	12:09pm karin: please stop!!
	12:10pm debt collector: When the Zion ship ceased it was like a rush of heroin.

JA In The AM with John Allen: Playlist from February 9, 2018

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