WFMU: Tony Coulter: Playlist from November 27, 2018

Listener comments!
	🥁 12:01pm listener james from westwood: Good Tuesday, Tony and all a' y'all!
	12:01pm Rich in Washington: I just had my head demagnetized for this show.
	12:01pm βrian: Pulling up a folding chair.
	12:02pm Tony Coulter: Hello, all. Don't see how anyone would be able to recognize today's LP-under-the-cassettes, so I'll just spill the beans straight off. It's this thing: www.discogs.com...
	12:02pm steveo: salutations!
	12:02pm Tony Coulter: Hey, hey, hey, James, Rich, βrian, and Steveo!!
	🥁 12:02pm Yvang: Hi Tony and all! Five promising cassettes today! Yeah!
	12:03pm Tony Coulter: @ Rich: Congrats on your new FMU show!
	12:03pm Tony Coulter: Hiya, Yvang!!
	12:04pm JtotheK: hi Tony, hello everyone!
	12:06pm Tony Coulter: Hola, JtotheK!
	12:09pm Tony Coulter: Thanks to my Portland compadre Dane for the loan of this Jonathan X tape.
	12:11pm Dane: Hey just got here
	12:12pm Tony Coulter: Dane! I guess I summoned you by mentioning your name!
	12:12pm ike: Hi! Today’s random letters are: CVHDFJSGJF
	12:13pm Tony Coulter: Hola, Ike! I will try to put those letters to good use.
	12:14pm Tony Coulter: As you may have deduced by now, Jonathan X is African American, which very much colors his lyrics.
	12:15pm Dane: Venus needs men that drive semi trucks.
	12:17pm Rich in Washington: Thank you, Tony! Preparing for it is one of my excuses for my relative unavailability lately. I am simultaneously psych'd and terrified.
	12:22pm Dean: Musique Plastique moved across the corridor. Picked up four LPs for almost nothing. Fun store.
	12:23pm Tony Coulter: Hey, Dean! Yes, great store -- I'll be heading there today after the show.
	12:24pm Dean: Well, don't expect to find the Bee Gees' Trafalgar for a buck. I grabbed it!
	12:24pm Rich in Washington: They moved across Alberta? Bigger space?
	12:25pm Tony Coulter: No, same building, but different room.
	12:25pm Dean: They moved from the NE end of the corridor in the building to the SW end.
	12:26pm Rich in Washington: Ah. Haven't been there in a while. I kind of liked it, just haven't gone back.
	12:26pm Rich in Washington: oh. Literally across the corridor.
	12:27pm Rich in Washington: This is pretty cool, Tony! Not a lot of stuff like this in the cassette scene, let alone 80s underground.
	12:29pm Tony Coulter: Yeah, there wasn't too much funk in the cassette underground scene.
	12:33pm Tony Coulter: (funk as in these bass lines)
	12:35pm Rich in Washington: Yikes! Lucky I didn't step out of my office just now. I had it up really loud.
	12:36pm Ike: So that'll be a new show on the Sheena's Jungle Room stream, then?
	12:37pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Tony and K7 Culturists.
	12:38pm Tony Coulter: Hola, Henry Hamster!
	12:39pm Mark R.: I only heard "Sexless Machine," but I like it. Pretty out there.
	12:39pm Mark R.: Rich, what sort of things might we expect to hear on your show, and when does it start?
	12:39pm Tony Coulter: Hey, Mark!
	12:41pm Mark R.: Hey Tony!
	12:44pm Rich in Washington: Hmmm. So far, random records and tapes and CDs from the fringes of my collection. A lot of moldy, Pacific NW thrift store finds. I'm kind of excited about it. I think it will be a bit less artsy fartsy than my KBOO radio show and a bit more about recorded oddities.
	12:46pm Mark R.: Sounds cool. Never got to hear your KBOO show--what city was that?
	12:46pm Rich in Washington: But who knows? I'm doing it even more by the seat of my pants than most shows I've done. I hope people don't hate it! I feel like I'm in good company on the Sheena stream. It seems to be strange record heaven.
	12:47pm Rich in Washington: I wonder if it's that guy's real name?
	12:47pm Tony Coulter: @ Rich: You mean: Barf Art / Bar Fart?
	12:48pm Mark R.: If your show is "polarizing," that means for every person who hates, it, there's someone else who loves it. Just play what you like, as if you're among friends, which you are (mostly).
	12:48pm Tony Coulter: @ Mark: KBOO is in Portland, OR. It's an official sister station of FMU.
	12:49pm Mark R.: Yes, that name sounds made up, Tony! Oh cool, "official," eh? That means we can travel there without a passport!
	12:49pm Rich in Washington: Thanks! I appreciate the encouraging words!
	12:50pm Mark R.: And Tony, you're in Portland, but you were once on FMU out of Jersey City, is that correct?
	12:50pm Rich in Washington: Barfart. And then his label name! He must have name taunting trauma issues!
	12:51pm Tony Coulter: @ Mark: Yes, I did the show at the station for years, from 1990 to 2009. Then I moved out west.
	12:52pm Dean: One of my favorite real names belongs to a Renaissance Hungarian composer, Bálint Bakfark.
	12:54pm Rich in Washington: @Mark R: Oh. I didn't see your comment @12:46. I am on KBOO on 2nd and 4th Thursday nights. You can listen online outside the Portland area at kboo.fm/listen or m.kboo.fm
	12:54pm Rich in Washington: I used to crack up that there's an instrument called a Sackbutt.
	12:55pm Mark R.: I didn't move to NJ til 2012, and was ignorant and naive of the wonders of FMU before that. Cool Rich, thanks!
	12:56pm Rich in Washington: What would we do without WFMU? My virtual dial's been glued here since I can't remember when.
	12:58pm Rich in Washington: I daresay Freeform Portland comes close to WFMU's musical spirit. KBOO, while I love it and remain loyal, is a bit split in its devotion to music, vs its hybrid of news and public affairs programming with music in the late afternoon/evening/overnight shift. A bit like KPFA.
	1:00pm Mark R.: Well it sounds like an NPR station, yes? FMU's lack of affiliation with anybody, even a university since whenever Upsala College went bankrupt, is truly unique.
	1:01pm Tony Coulter: It's more like a WBAI type station.
	1:04pm Tony Coulter: Meaning, not as slick and corporate as NPR.
	1:05pm steveo: This weekend I discovered WPKN while driving near Bridgeport, CT (I'm surprised I never noticed it before). It is also an independent non-profit formerly associated with a university. Heard some far out/good stuff on it too. They spell it "free-form" on their About Us page.
	1:10pm Ike: I think Dave the Spazz is orig. from WPKN, yes?
	1:11pm Tony Coulter: Not sure.
	1:11pm steveo: yeah! and he blogged about it! blog.wfmu.org...
	1:13pm Mark R.: Cool. I grew up in the radio wasteland of Detroit, wish we'd had the internet in those days!
	1:18pm Rich in Washington: @Tony: I thought you wrote 'a WBIA type situation' and I about spittake'd my coffee! Let's hope not!
	1:19pm Tony Coulter: @ Rich: You mean the way they imploded? Nah, wasn't trying to hint at that!
	1:19pm Dean: Oh, man, WPKN is such a cool station. I used to stay with a friend in Fairfield in late May, when WPKN has an annual Zappa marathon. I'm no huge Zappa fan, but that one morning per year was always a delight.
	1:21pm Ike: Maryland and D.C. were also near-total radio wastelands before the days of streaming (a 10-watter from College Park and some bluegrass shows on WAMU pre-bluegrass-purge notwithstanding) and probably still are, which accounts for why FMU has so many fans who stream there. I've always wondered what qualities caused NJ, NY, MA, and much of CA to have so much better radio than, say, DC, MD, Las Vegas, etc., or if it was just mostly institutional accidents of fate.
	1:21pm Rich in Washington: KBOO used to do an all night Zappa/Mothers marathon on the Friday before Mother's Day. All the P Town Zappa collectors would come out of the woodwork and spin for an hour or so. It was amazing.
	1:25pm Webhamster Henry: KBOO was part of the KRAB nebula of community stations set up by Lorenzo Milam. KXRY "X-Ray" in Portland is also fun, Greasy Kid Stuff was there in its last incarnation. My old friend Alec Cumming does shows on WPKN, they are fun!
	1:27pm Tony Coulter: @ Ike: Mark Farre (who did a great FMU show during the '90s) started out on a Washington, D.C., station that I think was once pretty good: WGTB, the Georgetown University station.
	1:28pm Rich in Washington: Yes, the KRAB Nebula indeed. Also, one of the founding fathers was also Ernest Hood, now famous for his weird little LP called Neighborhoods. The FCC filing and other paperwork were all filled out and signed in Ernie's living room.
	1:29pm Tony Coulter: Wow! Didn't know that. Love that Ernest Hood LP.
	1:30pm Rich in Washington: Ernie's son is KBOO's head engineer.
	1:36pm Rich in Washington: This is spooky. Almost reminds me of early Cabaret Voltaire.
	1:36pm Michael 98145: i was a KRAB subscriber from the donut shop days. met Mr Milam a few times. there is an archive in the Jack Straw studio in the University district.
	1:37pm Michael 98145: ... probably why i loves this station
	1:37pm Tony Coulter: Heya, Michael 98145!
	1:37pm Ike: WGTB, as an FM station, was before my time. The Catholics at Georgetown didn't like its "strong left-wing sentiments, especially ads for the Washington Free Clinic", and sold it to the Univ. of DC for $1 in 1979 to get rid of it. Then UDC sold it to C-SPAN. So yes, now you can hear the scintillating sounds of C-SPAN Radio on what should be a good college station's frequency! The "real" WGTB exists online, though.
	1:39pm Michael 98145: first time i've ever heard any of this
	1:40pm Tony Coulter: @ Ike: I mostly know of WGTB as a station where bands like the Muffins and Happy the Man often played live. Never heard the station back then, though -- only later on, via the tape-trader network
	1:46pm Tony Coulter: Oh, this Cal cassette is the one w/ the bowtied kiddie.
	1:47pm steveo: wacky-parsed as "bowtied kittie" and I'm like, that cat doesn't have a bowtie! (don't worry, I got it now)
	1:47pm Stanley: Joy arises in the fortunate working man's heart on a Tuesday evening on WFMU.
	1:49pm Tony Coulter: Stanley! Heya!
	1:49pm Ike: @steveo: www.businesscatual.com (From Portland, no less.)
	1:49pm Tony Coulter: Joy is not a big component of today's tapes.
	1:51pm Tony Coulter: One of our neighbor's cats, who's frequently in our house, wears a sporty blue bowtie.
	1:52pm Tony Coulter: Tho it often looks pretty disheveled.
	1:53pm Tony Coulter: (the bowtie, I mean -- not the cat.)
	1:54pm steveo: i was thinking of "business cat" but that's a regular necktie, unfortunately (knowyourmeme.com... )
	1:55pm Ike: I'm surprised any cat will put up with that. Maybe it's a Portland thing? Oh, right, Business Cat. I love Business Cat. Best meme ever.
	1:58pm steveo: I like Cal. Probably because of the bowtie.
	1:59pm Tony Coulter: I suppose wearing a bowtie is no more annoying for a cat than wearing a collar.
	2:02pm Michael 98145: ... or a camera
	2:04pm crateslinger: I think cal was listening to When Doves Cry in 1986
	2:04pm Tony Coulter: Hey, hey, crateslinger!
	2:06pm crateslinger: buenos dias
	2:14pm crateslinger: or should i say buenos meows
	2:15pm Tony Coulter: Talking of meows, the Banana Head cassette (on now) is the one with the cat on the cover.
	2:16pm crateslinger: you mean the young jazz cat in the bowtie?
	2:16pm Tony Coulter: Nah, that cat is Cal.
	2:30pm Tony Coulter: It's funny how this 2009 cassette is so intentionally lo-fi -- unlike '80s cassettes, where the lo-fi-ness was mostly an unavoidable offshoot of having super-basic, cheap equipment.
	2:36pm Rich in Washington: I remember there being a lot of tonal loss and - you guessed it - TAPE HISS - from bouncing multitracks to stereo in order to accomodate more tracks. Every time you did it, it sounded more lo-fi. But we never said "kids are gonna dig this sound in the 2000s!".
	2:37pm Tony Coulter: I guess in general the whole lo-fi thing began just as better home-recording equipment finally became affordable.
	2:37pm Rich in Washington: I sure want another 4 track cassette machine but they're going for ridiculous prices now.
	2:37pm Tony Coulter: @ Rich: This tape definitely added in tape hiss and noise.
	2:38pm crateslinger: I have an old fostex four track around here somewhere....
	2:39pm Tony Coulter: @ Rich: Well, not so much hiss, I guess, but extraneous noise. I do get and appreciate the lo-fi aesthetic, tho.
	2:39pm steveo: every cat is a criminal, all the sinners saints
	2:39pm crateslinger: Isn't it mostly the vocals that are crumbled on this? Guitar sounds like it's in the room with me.
	2:41pm Rich in Washington: Mine was a Fostex! I foolishly gave it to my sons, thinking I would never use it again and they more or less destroyed it.
	2:43pm Tony Coulter: @ crateslinger: True -- I was thinking of the added crackly noise most hearable at the beginning of some of the Banana Head tracks.
	2:48pm crateslinger: Yeah it was there. This conversation reminds me of the new Jonathan Richman song about how the old world sucks and why does everybody want to go back there.
	2:55pm crateslinger: @Rich - that sucks but don't feel bad. You did a good dad thing.
	2:56pm David D: Here's that subway transfer: wfmu.org...
	2:57pm Michael 98145: thanks again, Tony C
	2:57pm steveo: thanks Tony!
	2:57pm Rich in Washington: Thanks, Tony! Wonderful show!
	🥁 2:57pm listener james from westwood: Jam packed! Thanks, Tony!
	2:57pm David D: Thanks, Tony!
	2:58pm crateslinger: awesome show - never to be heard again...
	2:58pm Tony Coulter: Thanks for showing up, everyone! See you next week!! (Heya, David D!)
	2:59pm steveo: just realized that "Die Trip Computer" is not German....

Tony Coulter: Playlist from November 27, 2018

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November 27, 2018: Tony Coulter Presents Tape Hiss: Jonathan X and Black Heat, Jim E. Barfart, Cal, Banana Head, Death Light [PLEASE NOTE: "Tape Hiss" shows are not archived.]

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year
The In-Theme	Holger Hiller: Toyshopshoptoy

Jonathan X & Black Heat	Ass Backwards	Venus Needs Men	no label	1985
Jonathan X & Black Heat	Love Love Love	Venus Needs Men	no label	1985
Jonathan X & Black Heat	Die Bitch Die	Venus Needs Men	no label	1985
Jonathan X & Black Heat	Retroactive	Venus Needs Men	no label	1985
Jonathan X & Black Heat	I Hate It	Venus Needs Men	no label	1985
Jonathan X & Black Heat	Power Struggle Back	Venus Needs Men	no label	1985

Jonathan X & Black Heat	Black On Black	Venus Needs Men	no label	1985
Jonathan X & Black Heat	Abort No More	Venus Needs Men	no label	1985
Jonathan X & Black Heat	No Love Is the Last Love	Venus Needs Men	no label	1985
Jonathan X & Black Heat	Church Is State	Venus Needs Men	no label	1985
Jonathan X & Black Heat	Sexless Machine	Venus Needs Men	no label	1985

Jim E. Barfart ‎	Blah "Blah" by "Jim E. Barfart ‎"	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986
Jim E. Barfart ‎	Playing Along with Mother Goose	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986
Jim E. Barfart ‎	Sublime "Sublime" by "Jim E. Barfart ‎"	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986
Jim E. Barfart ‎	Ego Die "Ego Die" by "Jim E. Barfart ‎"	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986
Jim E. Barfart ‎	The End of Nothing	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986
Jim E. Barfart ‎	21 "21" by "Jim E. Barfart ‎"	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986
Jim E. Barfart ‎	Joker "Joker" by "Jim E. Barfart ‎"	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986
Jim E. Barfart ‎	Want "Want" by "Jim E. Barfart ‎"	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986
Jim E. Barfart ‎	Intermission "Intermission" by "Jim E. Barfart ‎"	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986
Jim E. Barfart ‎	What Happen "What Happen" by "Jim E. Barfart ‎"	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986
Jim E. Barfart ‎	T. C-W "T. C-W" by "Jim E. Barfart ‎"	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986
Jim E. Barfart ‎	Horn "Horn" by "Jim E. Barfart ‎"	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986

Jim E. Barfart ‎	The Salesman "The Salesman" by "Jim E. Barfart ‎"	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986
Jim E. Barfart ‎	Stalemate "Stalemate" by "Jim E. Barfart ‎"	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986
Jim E. Barfart ‎	Music Master "Music Master" by "Jim E. Barfart ‎"	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986
Jim E. Barfart ‎	Depression Is a Four Letter Word	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986
Jim E. Barfart ‎	I Hate Today "I Hate Today" by "Jim E. Barfart ‎"	Blah	Small Tools Tradition	1986

Cal	Same "Same" by "Cal"	Cal	no label	1986
Cal	... And After "... And After" by "Cal"	Cal	no label	1986
Cal	Right "Right" by "Cal"	Cal	no label	1986
Cal	Min. Sin "Min. Sin" by "Cal"	Cal	no label	1986

Cal	Degeneration "Degeneration" by "Cal"	Cal	no label	1986
Cal	Strength "Strength" by "Cal"	Cal	no label	1986
Cal	Blind "Blind" by "Cal"	Cal	no label	1986

Banana Head	Desk Man "Desk Man" by "Banana Head"	In the Tubs	Goaty Tapes	2009
Banana Head	In the Tubs "In the Tubs" by "Banana Head"	In the Tubs	Goaty Tapes	2009
Banana Head	Phone Call "Phone Call" by "Banana Head"	In the Tubs	Goaty Tapes	2009
Banana Head	You're Mine "You're Mine" by "Banana Head"	In the Tubs	Goaty Tapes	2009
Banana Head	Eat to Death "Eat to Death" by "Banana Head"	In the Tubs	Goaty Tapes	2009

Banana Head	Gang Tough "Gang Tough" by "Banana Head"	In the Tubs	Goaty Tapes	2009
Banana Head	The Sisters "The Sisters" by "Banana Head"	In the Tubs	Goaty Tapes	2009
Banana Head	Monday "Monday" by "Banana Head"	In the Tubs	Goaty Tapes	2009
Banana Head	Take It Back "Take It Back" by "Banana Head"	In the Tubs	Goaty Tapes	2009

Death Light	Empty Brains "Empty Brains" by "Death Light"	In the Chamber	Goaty Tapes	2010
Death Light	Next Sickness "Next Sickness" by "Death Light"	In the Chamber	Goaty Tapes	2010
Death Light	Snake Palace "Snake Palace" by "Death Light"	In the Chamber	Goaty Tapes	2010

Death Light	Hawaii 80 "Hawaii 80" by "Death Light"	In the Chamber	Goaty Tapes	2010
Death Light	Sucker Dimension "Sucker Dimension" by "Death Light"	In the Chamber	Goaty Tapes	2010
Death Light	Late Nite Memorium "Late Nite Memorium" by "Death Light"	In the Chamber	Goaty Tapes	2010

The Out-Theme	Gelbart: My Favorite Vacation [part of] + Die Trip Computer Die: Airborn [part of]

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Listener comments!
	🥁 12:01pm listener james from westwood: Good Tuesday, Tony and all a' y'all!
	12:01pm Rich in Washington: I just had my head demagnetized for this show.
	12:01pm βrian: Pulling up a folding chair.
	12:02pm Tony Coulter: Hello, all. Don't see how anyone would be able to recognize today's LP-under-the-cassettes, so I'll just spill the beans straight off. It's this thing: www.discogs.com...
	12:02pm steveo: salutations!
	12:02pm Tony Coulter: Hey, hey, hey, James, Rich, βrian, and Steveo!!
	🥁 12:02pm Yvang: Hi Tony and all! Five promising cassettes today! Yeah!
	12:03pm Tony Coulter: @ Rich: Congrats on your new FMU show!
	12:03pm Tony Coulter: Hiya, Yvang!!
	12:04pm JtotheK: hi Tony, hello everyone!
	12:06pm Tony Coulter: Hola, JtotheK!
	12:09pm Tony Coulter: Thanks to my Portland compadre Dane for the loan of this Jonathan X tape.
	12:11pm Dane: Hey just got here
	12:12pm Tony Coulter: Dane! I guess I summoned you by mentioning your name!
	12:12pm ike: Hi! Today’s random letters are: CVHDFJSGJF
	12:13pm Tony Coulter: Hola, Ike! I will try to put those letters to good use.
	12:14pm Tony Coulter: As you may have deduced by now, Jonathan X is African American, which very much colors his lyrics.
	12:15pm Dane: Venus needs men that drive semi trucks.
	12:17pm Rich in Washington: Thank you, Tony! Preparing for it is one of my excuses for my relative unavailability lately. I am simultaneously psych'd and terrified.
	12:22pm Dean: Musique Plastique moved across the corridor. Picked up four LPs for almost nothing. Fun store.
	12:23pm Tony Coulter: Hey, Dean! Yes, great store -- I'll be heading there today after the show.
	12:24pm Dean: Well, don't expect to find the Bee Gees' Trafalgar for a buck. I grabbed it!
	12:24pm Rich in Washington: They moved across Alberta? Bigger space?
	12:25pm Tony Coulter: No, same building, but different room.
	12:25pm Dean: They moved from the NE end of the corridor in the building to the SW end.
	12:26pm Rich in Washington: Ah. Haven't been there in a while. I kind of liked it, just haven't gone back.
	12:26pm Rich in Washington: oh. Literally across the corridor.
	12:27pm Rich in Washington: This is pretty cool, Tony! Not a lot of stuff like this in the cassette scene, let alone 80s underground.
	12:29pm Tony Coulter: Yeah, there wasn't too much funk in the cassette underground scene.
	12:33pm Tony Coulter: (funk as in these bass lines)
	12:35pm Rich in Washington: Yikes! Lucky I didn't step out of my office just now. I had it up really loud.
	12:36pm Ike: So that'll be a new show on the Sheena's Jungle Room stream, then?
	12:37pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Tony and K7 Culturists.
	12:38pm Tony Coulter: Hola, Henry Hamster!
	12:39pm Mark R.: I only heard "Sexless Machine," but I like it. Pretty out there.
	12:39pm Mark R.: Rich, what sort of things might we expect to hear on your show, and when does it start?
	12:39pm Tony Coulter: Hey, Mark!
	12:41pm Mark R.: Hey Tony!
	12:44pm Rich in Washington: Hmmm. So far, random records and tapes and CDs from the fringes of my collection. A lot of moldy, Pacific NW thrift store finds. I'm kind of excited about it. I think it will be a bit less artsy fartsy than my KBOO radio show and a bit more about recorded oddities.
	12:46pm Mark R.: Sounds cool. Never got to hear your KBOO show--what city was that?
	12:46pm Rich in Washington: But who knows? I'm doing it even more by the seat of my pants than most shows I've done. I hope people don't hate it! I feel like I'm in good company on the Sheena stream. It seems to be strange record heaven.
	12:47pm Rich in Washington: I wonder if it's that guy's real name?
	12:47pm Tony Coulter: @ Rich: You mean: Barf Art / Bar Fart?
	12:48pm Mark R.: If your show is "polarizing," that means for every person who hates, it, there's someone else who loves it. Just play what you like, as if you're among friends, which you are (mostly).
	12:48pm Tony Coulter: @ Mark: KBOO is in Portland, OR. It's an official sister station of FMU.
	12:49pm Mark R.: Yes, that name sounds made up, Tony! Oh cool, "official," eh? That means we can travel there without a passport!
	12:49pm Rich in Washington: Thanks! I appreciate the encouraging words!
	12:50pm Mark R.: And Tony, you're in Portland, but you were once on FMU out of Jersey City, is that correct?
	12:50pm Rich in Washington: Barfart. And then his label name! He must have name taunting trauma issues!
	12:51pm Tony Coulter: @ Mark: Yes, I did the show at the station for years, from 1990 to 2009. Then I moved out west.
	12:52pm Dean: One of my favorite real names belongs to a Renaissance Hungarian composer, Bálint Bakfark.
	12:54pm Rich in Washington: @Mark R: Oh. I didn't see your comment @12:46. I am on KBOO on 2nd and 4th Thursday nights. You can listen online outside the Portland area at kboo.fm/listen or m.kboo.fm
	12:54pm Rich in Washington: I used to crack up that there's an instrument called a Sackbutt.
	12:55pm Mark R.: I didn't move to NJ til 2012, and was ignorant and naive of the wonders of FMU before that. Cool Rich, thanks!
	12:56pm Rich in Washington: What would we do without WFMU? My virtual dial's been glued here since I can't remember when.
	12:58pm Rich in Washington: I daresay Freeform Portland comes close to WFMU's musical spirit. KBOO, while I love it and remain loyal, is a bit split in its devotion to music, vs its hybrid of news and public affairs programming with music in the late afternoon/evening/overnight shift. A bit like KPFA.
	1:00pm Mark R.: Well it sounds like an NPR station, yes? FMU's lack of affiliation with anybody, even a university since whenever Upsala College went bankrupt, is truly unique.
	1:01pm Tony Coulter: It's more like a WBAI type station.
	1:04pm Tony Coulter: Meaning, not as slick and corporate as NPR.
	1:05pm steveo: This weekend I discovered WPKN while driving near Bridgeport, CT (I'm surprised I never noticed it before). It is also an independent non-profit formerly associated with a university. Heard some far out/good stuff on it too. They spell it "free-form" on their About Us page.
	1:10pm Ike: I think Dave the Spazz is orig. from WPKN, yes?
	1:11pm Tony Coulter: Not sure.
	1:11pm steveo: yeah! and he blogged about it! blog.wfmu.org...
	1:13pm Mark R.: Cool. I grew up in the radio wasteland of Detroit, wish we'd had the internet in those days!
	1:18pm Rich in Washington: @Tony: I thought you wrote 'a WBIA type situation' and I about spittake'd my coffee! Let's hope not!
	1:19pm Tony Coulter: @ Rich: You mean the way they imploded? Nah, wasn't trying to hint at that!
	1:19pm Dean: Oh, man, WPKN is such a cool station. I used to stay with a friend in Fairfield in late May, when WPKN has an annual Zappa marathon. I'm no huge Zappa fan, but that one morning per year was always a delight.
	1:21pm Ike: Maryland and D.C. were also near-total radio wastelands before the days of streaming (a 10-watter from College Park and some bluegrass shows on WAMU pre-bluegrass-purge notwithstanding) and probably still are, which accounts for why FMU has so many fans who stream there. I've always wondered what qualities caused NJ, NY, MA, and much of CA to have so much better radio than, say, DC, MD, Las Vegas, etc., or if it was just mostly institutional accidents of fate.
	1:21pm Rich in Washington: KBOO used to do an all night Zappa/Mothers marathon on the Friday before Mother's Day. All the P Town Zappa collectors would come out of the woodwork and spin for an hour or so. It was amazing.
	1:25pm Webhamster Henry: KBOO was part of the KRAB nebula of community stations set up by Lorenzo Milam. KXRY "X-Ray" in Portland is also fun, Greasy Kid Stuff was there in its last incarnation. My old friend Alec Cumming does shows on WPKN, they are fun!
	1:27pm Tony Coulter: @ Ike: Mark Farre (who did a great FMU show during the '90s) started out on a Washington, D.C., station that I think was once pretty good: WGTB, the Georgetown University station.
	1:28pm Rich in Washington: Yes, the KRAB Nebula indeed. Also, one of the founding fathers was also Ernest Hood, now famous for his weird little LP called Neighborhoods. The FCC filing and other paperwork were all filled out and signed in Ernie's living room.
	1:29pm Tony Coulter: Wow! Didn't know that. Love that Ernest Hood LP.
	1:30pm Rich in Washington: Ernie's son is KBOO's head engineer.
	1:36pm Rich in Washington: This is spooky. Almost reminds me of early Cabaret Voltaire.
	1:36pm Michael 98145: i was a KRAB subscriber from the donut shop days. met Mr Milam a few times. there is an archive in the Jack Straw studio in the University district.
	1:37pm Michael 98145: ... probably why i loves this station
	1:37pm Tony Coulter: Heya, Michael 98145!
	1:37pm Ike: WGTB, as an FM station, was before my time. The Catholics at Georgetown didn't like its "strong left-wing sentiments, especially ads for the Washington Free Clinic", and sold it to the Univ. of DC for $1 in 1979 to get rid of it. Then UDC sold it to C-SPAN. So yes, now you can hear the scintillating sounds of C-SPAN Radio on what should be a good college station's frequency! The "real" WGTB exists online, though.
	1:39pm Michael 98145: first time i've ever heard any of this
	1:40pm Tony Coulter: @ Ike: I mostly know of WGTB as a station where bands like the Muffins and Happy the Man often played live. Never heard the station back then, though -- only later on, via the tape-trader network
	1:46pm Tony Coulter: Oh, this Cal cassette is the one w/ the bowtied kiddie.
	1:47pm steveo: wacky-parsed as "bowtied kittie" and I'm like, that cat doesn't have a bowtie! (don't worry, I got it now)
	1:47pm Stanley: Joy arises in the fortunate working man's heart on a Tuesday evening on WFMU.
	1:49pm Tony Coulter: Stanley! Heya!
	1:49pm Ike: @steveo: www.businesscatual.com (From Portland, no less.)
	1:49pm Tony Coulter: Joy is not a big component of today's tapes.
	1:51pm Tony Coulter: One of our neighbor's cats, who's frequently in our house, wears a sporty blue bowtie.
	1:52pm Tony Coulter: Tho it often looks pretty disheveled.
	1:53pm Tony Coulter: (the bowtie, I mean -- not the cat.)
	1:54pm steveo: i was thinking of "business cat" but that's a regular necktie, unfortunately (knowyourmeme.com... )
	1:55pm Ike: I'm surprised any cat will put up with that. Maybe it's a Portland thing? Oh, right, Business Cat. I love Business Cat. Best meme ever.
	1:58pm steveo: I like Cal. Probably because of the bowtie.
	1:59pm Tony Coulter: I suppose wearing a bowtie is no more annoying for a cat than wearing a collar.
	2:02pm Michael 98145: ... or a camera
	2:04pm crateslinger: I think cal was listening to When Doves Cry in 1986
	2:04pm Tony Coulter: Hey, hey, crateslinger!
	2:06pm crateslinger: buenos dias
	2:14pm crateslinger: or should i say buenos meows
	2:15pm Tony Coulter: Talking of meows, the Banana Head cassette (on now) is the one with the cat on the cover.
	2:16pm crateslinger: you mean the young jazz cat in the bowtie?
	2:16pm Tony Coulter: Nah, that cat is Cal.
	2:30pm Tony Coulter: It's funny how this 2009 cassette is so intentionally lo-fi -- unlike '80s cassettes, where the lo-fi-ness was mostly an unavoidable offshoot of having super-basic, cheap equipment.
	2:36pm Rich in Washington: I remember there being a lot of tonal loss and - you guessed it - TAPE HISS - from bouncing multitracks to stereo in order to accomodate more tracks. Every time you did it, it sounded more lo-fi. But we never said "kids are gonna dig this sound in the 2000s!".
	2:37pm Tony Coulter: I guess in general the whole lo-fi thing began just as better home-recording equipment finally became affordable.
	2:37pm Rich in Washington: I sure want another 4 track cassette machine but they're going for ridiculous prices now.
	2:37pm Tony Coulter: @ Rich: This tape definitely added in tape hiss and noise.
	2:38pm crateslinger: I have an old fostex four track around here somewhere....
	2:39pm Tony Coulter: @ Rich: Well, not so much hiss, I guess, but extraneous noise. I do get and appreciate the lo-fi aesthetic, tho.
	2:39pm steveo: every cat is a criminal, all the sinners saints
	2:39pm crateslinger: Isn't it mostly the vocals that are crumbled on this? Guitar sounds like it's in the room with me.
	2:41pm Rich in Washington: Mine was a Fostex! I foolishly gave it to my sons, thinking I would never use it again and they more or less destroyed it.
	2:43pm Tony Coulter: @ crateslinger: True -- I was thinking of the added crackly noise most hearable at the beginning of some of the Banana Head tracks.
	2:48pm crateslinger: Yeah it was there. This conversation reminds me of the new Jonathan Richman song about how the old world sucks and why does everybody want to go back there.
	2:55pm crateslinger: @Rich - that sucks but don't feel bad. You did a good dad thing.
	2:56pm David D: Here's that subway transfer: wfmu.org...
	2:57pm Michael 98145: thanks again, Tony C
	2:57pm steveo: thanks Tony!
	2:57pm Rich in Washington: Thanks, Tony! Wonderful show!
	🥁 2:57pm listener james from westwood: Jam packed! Thanks, Tony!
	2:57pm David D: Thanks, Tony!
	2:58pm crateslinger: awesome show - never to be heard again...
	2:58pm Tony Coulter: Thanks for showing up, everyone! See you next week!! (Heya, David D!)
	2:59pm steveo: just realized that "Die Trip Computer" is not German....

Tony Coulter: Playlist from November 27, 2018

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