Ken | Playlist | 07 May 2008

Wed. 5/7/08 9:02am From: JJZ

This seems like a nice song.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:04am From: Listener Dave

Mornin' Ken. Mornin' fellow listeners. Hello Sweden!

Wed. 5/7/08 9:05am From: Ken

Mornin' all! No slideshow today, that was a disaster last week, it crashed a stream and a server!

Wed. 5/7/08 9:07am From: norwegian mountain dude

good morning.. hello usa!!

Wed. 5/7/08 9:09am From: billyjam

greetings Ken - good to hear the samples of Judge Judy -

Wed. 5/7/08 9:09am From: dei xhrist

Hello FMU! You did have some very nice photo selections. I showed the Iggy one to a co-worker - she did not know who he is. *sigh*.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:12am From: cribley

Check out #8

http://listverse.com/bizarre/top-10-incredible-recordings/

Wed. 5/7/08 9:13am From: Ken

Actually, you can see last week's slideshow in all its 105 photo glory on last week's playlist page right here:

http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/27093

I just can't put slideshows on an active playlist page. I have to wait till the show is over untilw e can overhaul the playlist page with Ajax.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:15am From: Parq

Del, the fact that you even thought your co worker might know who he is would be a step in the right direction. My co workers wouldn't know who he is even *after* I explained it.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:17am From: Negator

HERE WE GO! HERE WE GO!

Wed. 5/7/08 9:19am From: Cecile

the roof is on fire...

Wed. 5/7/08 9:22am From: cissy davis

g'morn ken & everybody!!!!! ken tell me AINT LIFE BEAUTIFULL & SWEET???ohhhh ken--please keep this a secret,,but miss buxley--toni daytona--70s chick--jackie burkhardt are all clones of mine,,,SHHHHH,,ken i think ALL the dee jays at fmu should have a comment board,,OHHHH KEN btw have you been gettin my mail from thye past few weeks?? PEACE--LOVE--JOY & HAPPINESS WITH LOVE ,,,SABRINA & CHERI =)=)=)

Wed. 5/7/08 9:23am From: jan

Hey -what about hard candy- I haven't heard it yet, and it's already at the top of the charts- Ken?

Wed. 5/7/08 9:25am From: Ken

Good question - why don't we have Hard Candy in the library yet? Mardonna dont need our hep - the label probably didnt send it to us. Record labels are poor starving bastards these days...

Wed. 5/7/08 9:26am From: Bad Ronald

Dig the kid with the melon.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:26am From: dlroth

ha ha ha ha ho ho ho ho ho he he he he hellllooo KwedEN!

Wed. 5/7/08 9:27am From: dlroth

where is the kid with the nice melon from?

Wed. 5/7/08 9:29am From: dc pat

Our Gang?

Wed. 5/7/08 9:29am From: jonathan

he should be happy with his melon.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:29am From: Cecile

I prefer a nice berber with a cold beer myself. ;)

Wed. 5/7/08 9:31am From: JJZ

Speaking of pictures, there's a lot of interesting pictures to be found at www.shorpy.com. Old stuff.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:31am From: dc pat

Oh I was going to say Messiaen...

Wed. 5/7/08 9:31am From: JJZ

Back from the times when everyone wore hats.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:33am From: Ken

The Melon kid is actually from an "erotic sound effects" LP!

Wed. 5/7/08 9:35am From: jonathan

kazuki sounds a bit like dio at certain points.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:36am From: Ken

All the gaps this morning should tell you that I am, howshallwesay.. a little more open to requests than usual.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:36am From: Ghengis Jung

I LIKE THE TUBA!

Wed. 5/7/08 9:36am From: devotio moderna

i dunno from the kid but the "melon" should come from sweden. great melons grow over there.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:36am From: ?

nice melons = nice music= http://franklinmintblog.blogspot.com/

Wed. 5/7/08 9:37am From: Mickey Mephistopheles

I prefer the sounds of the gigolo to the kazuki. The gigolo makes beautiful music.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:38am From: dlroth

need to do a fark photo contest of the melon kid!

Wed. 5/7/08 9:39am From: Mickey Mephistopheles

"G is for gigolo. See the gigolo. A gigolo is a musical instrument. The next time your mommy goes shopping ask her to buy you a gigolo. She will think you are very cute and she will write it in to the Reader's Digest and they will print it and send you money." - Shel Silverstein from _Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book_

Wed. 5/7/08 9:41am From: Ken

Go ahead, everybody, have your way with the Melon kid! I have a higher res version, but the one up there is gtood enough.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:41am From: Vivian

Requests? Did I hear someone ask for requests? New Portishead, Object of my Affection-can't remember who sang it, you picked it up at the last WFMU record fair, Snoop Zepplin, Bridget Fontaine..

Wed. 5/7/08 9:43am From: dc pat

How about playing that German song about whiskey with the puking at the end...forget who it is. How about a puke set--songs about or containing puke.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:45am From: m

no Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock though please

Wed. 5/7/08 9:45am From: JJZ

Play Glukoza - "Schweine" which is one song that's been in my head for the past few days from Grand Theft Auto IV's eastern european station.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:45am From: dei x

you could easily make a barf inducing set, using field recordings from WalMart. The store is like a hyper parody of itself.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:45am From: Ken

DC Pat - I remember that song but I cant remember the name of the comp - did it start with shit? shitkatapul?

Wed. 5/7/08 9:47am From: dc pat

hang on...

Wed. 5/7/08 9:49am From: dc pat

Anaphie vs Phlex, Caramba Caracho Ein Whisky , Shitkatapult Strike 88cd

Wed. 5/7/08 9:51am From: Ken

Well done, my winged monkey, I shall dig it out.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:52am From: dc pat

"winged monkey"? Don't know if I like that. What does that make you? The green lady that scared the shit out of me when I was 8?

Wed. 5/7/08 9:53am From: Ken

Yes, sorry about that. Clearly Andy Breckman has has a bad effect on me. I need some detergent.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:55am From: jonathan

hell yeah, my bloody valentine!

Wed. 5/7/08 9:56am From: dc pat

don't mean to be a comment hog, but I saw an interview w/ the MBV guy and he said they were working on a "folow up" to Loveless.

Wed. 5/7/08 9:57am From: Cecile

what year was that?

Wed. 5/7/08 9:58am From: jonathan

i think that's been in the works for years.

Wed. 5/7/08 10:00am From: Wes

Is that a sour watermelon, or did that kid bite his tongue?

Wed. 5/7/08 10:00am From: Cecile

Yes, I have read interviews with him from 1992 on that have said "any day now"

Wed. 5/7/08 10:00am From: Ken

MBV is touring in a few months - coming to NYC in September, to Roseland i think.

Wed. 5/7/08 10:01am From: dc pat

Yeah, they've been saying crap like that for years but this was a recent interview w/ Ian Svenonius on his Soft Focus show.

Wed. 5/7/08 10:01am From: HotRod

CARPET MUNCHERS UNITE!!!

Wed. 5/7/08 10:03am From: dc pat

http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=1293598938

no date but he's only been doing these interviews for a couple of years. Check out Billy Childish, whataguy...

Wed. 5/7/08 10:03am From: Cecile

that's very cool.

Wed. 5/7/08 10:04am From: GUMBY

I think Woody would dig this SJ & the DK's funked up version of his grammer school classic.

Wed. 5/7/08 10:07am From: Listener Dave

Any chance of mixing Breckman singing "God Only Knows" with this?

Wed. 5/7/08 10:08am From: jonathan

ROSELAND? SEPTEMBER? holy shit.

Wed. 5/7/08 10:10am From: Listener Dave

Thanks!

Wed. 5/7/08 10:11am From: Cecile

Okay, now you have to play Stars by Hear'n Aid.

Wed. 5/7/08 10:11am From: Rob W

Hearing this Jesusian mashup reminds me: I just watched a pretty curious period piece (borrowed the DVD from the wonderful NYPL Lincoln Center library!) that Ken's listeners might enjoy, especially all you Catholic heresy fans: Bunuel's 1969 "The Milky Way" / "Voie Lactee". See: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066534.

Wed. 5/7/08 10:11am From: Bad Ronald

Mmmm yummy 45s!

Wed. 5/7/08 10:14am From: woj

mbv tour dates http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/my-bloody-valentine-us-tour-dates/

Wed. 5/7/08 10:15am From: jonathan

i just saw the milky way. strange.

Wed. 5/7/08 10:16am From: woj

oh, and pitchfork has the full slate including european dates

Wed. 5/7/08 10:25am From: GUMBY

Feelin' the Love, Lovin' the Funky feelin'

Wed. 5/7/08 10:25am From: Cecile

A bigger improvement than Lee Dorsey's original!?!?!?!?! Blasphemy.

Wed. 5/7/08 10:25am From: Happy Listener

Good Morning, Ken! Thanks again for providing the killer soundtrack to my Wednesday morning! ^_^

Wed. 5/7/08 10:27am From: woj

"your dj speaks"? "speaks" seems like the wrong verb for what ken does....

Wed. 5/7/08 10:33am From: Ike

I'll believe there's a new My Bloody Valentine album coming out when I hear it. And not until then.

Wed. 5/7/08 10:38am From: Cecile

It's the Chinese Democracy of shoegaze...

Wed. 5/7/08 10:41am From: Ken

And the Chinese Democracy of Shitgaze is the new Psychedelic Horsehit record. I've been waiting, like 7 months already!

Wed. 5/7/08 10:45am From: Cecile

That is forever in dog years.

Wed. 5/7/08 10:45am From: Ike

"Shitgaze"?! BWAH! You're shitting me. Horseshit.

Wed. 5/7/08 10:46am From: Sanon.

*7^n

Wed. 5/7/08 10:46am From: Cecile

now is that death shitgaze, power shitgaze, black shitgaze or technical shitgaze?

Wed. 5/7/08 10:48am From: Ken

Cecile, it would technically be Math Shitgaze, also known as Mathgaze.

Wed. 5/7/08 10:48am From: Cecile

Ah, thank you. I wanted to make sure the nomeclature was correct.

Wed. 5/7/08 10:51am From: Ken

I just posted a pic of John from Oslo's listening setup in Sweden. Anybody else want to take a pic of their listening setup and mail it in, send it to me at ken at wfmu dot org

Wed. 5/7/08 10:51am From: HotRod

Wow! This makes two lava lamp pics that I've come across in one week. The lava gods are up to no good!

Wed. 5/7/08 10:55am From: Brian

Wow, that version of This Land is Your Land is mind blowing. I just finished reading a Guthrie bio - thanks.

Wed. 5/7/08 10:59am From: g

sorry if I'm totally ignorant and out of the loop, but I'm just tuning in and wonder who the mystery composer was from last week . . .

Wed. 5/7/08 11:00am From: Mark

Cool I aint heard this in years

Wed. 5/7/08 11:02am From: nh_dave

Wow I just took a picture of my office and my camera phone just sucks so much I can't dare send it in Ken

Wed. 5/7/08 11:02am From: Ken

g - that was Olivier Messaien's Turangalila Symphony

Wed. 5/7/08 11:02am From: Keithster

This Titanic song is great! YoooW!

Wed. 5/7/08 11:03am From: wiz

I haven't heard this in over 30 years woooowww

Wed. 5/7/08 11:03am From: listener jeremy

"the rope factory she catch on fire" lol

Wed. 5/7/08 11:04am From: Ken

Yeah, this was a huge FMU hit back in the day... so I hear, anyway.

Wed. 5/7/08 11:04am From: Bad Ronald

"I see O.J."

Wed. 5/7/08 11:05am From: Parq

I've always wondered. "They said this ship don't haul no ___"?

Wed. 5/7/08 11:05am From: Mark

coal

Wed. 5/7/08 11:05am From: uta

SUPER!

Wed. 5/7/08 11:06am From: g

thx, Ken. I now feel complete

Wed. 5/7/08 11:08am From: molerat

First time I heard this. Now I know where Mojo Nixon got a lot of his schtick.

Wed. 5/7/08 11:08am From: Vivian

A belated thank you for the Portishead. Still on the fence about getting the new release...

Wed. 5/7/08 11:09am From: pietro

Last heard this on KALX berkeley, laid up in my crib, cracking up with friends 1985? Hoo boy, this flies my kite, baby! Where are the snows of yesteryear?

Wed. 5/7/08 11:10am From: ?

it's like a punk Alice's Restaurant . . .

Wed. 5/7/08 11:10am From: Ken

Parq- It's "this ship dont haul no colored folk."

Wed. 5/7/08 11:12am From: Mark

http://www.rkdn.org/titanic%20lyrics.htm

Wed. 5/7/08 11:12am From: theloniouscrunk

"this ship dont haul no coal"

Wed. 5/7/08 11:15am From: Parq

Hmm. See what I mean? I had a college buddy who said it was "cord". Whatever -- oh man, it was great hearing it again. The last time I heard it, some three decades ago, it was off an LP so worn that it skipped like an 8 year old on the way home from school.

Wed. 5/7/08 11:17am From: dc pat

WHERE'S THE PUKING??

Wed. 5/7/08 11:19am From: Ken

There ya go indeed! The other day my 13 year old son took off his iPod for a second and asked me of the Kinks's "Apeman," Dad, is it fogging up me eyes, or fucking up my eyes?

Wed. 5/7/08 11:20am From: Ken

Cant find that comp dc, sorry! Wow, failed the math test for the first time!

Wed. 5/7/08 11:22am From: dc pat

ah, that's okay--it's on my iPod. Hey if your son is listening to Apeman, you're a good dad.

Wed. 5/7/08 11:32am From: Kevin

nice show, I usually listen to "Strength Through Failure" and just happened upon yr show today, eclectic mix....

Wed. 5/7/08 11:34am From: dei x

what did that black face George W use for makeup? Great even coverage!

Wed. 5/7/08 11:36am From: Ken

Welcome all "Stremgth Through Failure" Listeners! It is my humble goal to pilfer all of Fabio's listeners.

Wed. 5/7/08 11:39am From: Kevin

Hopefully you don't talk as much as Fabio though....heh

Wed. 5/7/08 11:41am From: Bad Ronald

The A. Hoffman tribute was pretty cool last week...

Wed. 5/7/08 11:43am From: Parq

"Ho ho, I'm the Giant Ken!"

Wed. 5/7/08 11:43am From: woj

lali puna >> imogen heap

Wed. 5/7/08 11:43am From: woj

the giant ken? or the ken of giant land?

Wed. 5/7/08 11:45am From: Bad Ronald

Who's the chick with the syringe?

Wed. 5/7/08 11:45am From: Ken

Yeah, the LSD tribute on Fabio's show was great! Dont say nuthin bad 'bout my Fabio~!!

Wed. 5/7/08 11:45am From: uta

ken of the mountain grill!!

Wed. 5/7/08 11:45am From: jan

Teletubbies again! great

Wed. 5/7/08 11:45am From: Keithster

that teletubbies song sounds alot like "Pink Elephants"

Wed. 5/7/08 11:46am From: Ken

Bad Ronald - That's my wife.

Wed. 5/7/08 11:47am From: dei x

she's hawt and her eyebrows are in the same class as Divine's.

Wed. 5/7/08 11:49am From: Bad Ronald

No Way, Cool! Does she always carry the needle?

Wed. 5/7/08 11:49am From: dc pat

or Edith Piaf's

Wed. 5/7/08 11:50am From: Kevin

Is that Judge Judy?

Wed. 5/7/08 11:51am From: Bruce

Who's syringe lady???

Wed. 5/7/08 11:55am From: Ghengis Jung

DON'T DIE!

Wed. 5/7/08 11:56am From: Kevin

yr doing an LSD tribute aren't you? Should be a weekly thing anyway.....

Wed. 5/7/08 11:56am From: ~L

?Is the person in the turban related to the kid with the melon?

Wed. 5/7/08 11:57am From: HotRod

I'm still trying to understand why anyone would be on the fence about buying the new Portishead.

Wed. 5/7/08 11:59am From: Bad Ronald

"Portishead" sounds like a lavatory fixture.

Wed. 5/7/08 12:00pm From: marc

melanie-- freekin genius man

Wed. 5/7/08 12:02pm From: HotRod

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portishead%2C_Somerset

Wed. 5/7/08 12:03pm From: Bad Ronald

TX HotRod

Wed. 5/7/08 12:22pm From: Kevin

what is this playing now? no playlist, more weirdness.....nice

Wed. 5/7/08 12:23pm From: crybaby

best use of the WAH pedal I've heard in years

Wed. 5/7/08 12:24pm From: AnAnonymousParty

Weirdness? What weirdness?

Wed. 5/7/08 12:25pm From: Kevin

tune in turn on....

Wed. 5/7/08 12:25pm From: Bad Ronald

I'm glad Ken left his comments up for Tony's show. I wonder if it was inadvertent...

Wed. 5/7/08 12:27pm From: Bad Ronald

...or he did it to garner the most comments EVER Muaohahahahah!!!

Wed. 5/7/08 12:27pm From: Ike

Tony's show is massively awesome today.

Wed. 5/7/08 12:30pm From: Kevin

todays show should be titled "music for the psychiatric ward"

Wed. 5/7/08 12:56pm From: ?

Posting in ghost thread just because I can.

Wed. 5/7/08 12:57pm From: AnAnonymousParty

Or, "music FROM the psychiatric ward". Either way, it's awesomely massive.

Wed. 5/7/08 12:58pm From: Bad Ronald

Go-Go Ghost Thread!

Wed. 5/7/08 1:04pm From: Ken

Cool, I'm on the ghost thread too. Got more pictures to add up top also..

Thu. 5/8/08 8:58am From: Steve

When you played Jame Brockett's "Legend of the Titanic" on Wednesday" you said your station had not been able to play it since about 1968 because of repeated canards it contains to the effect that the Titanic's passengers were primarily rich, wife-swapping Jews. Why are you now able to play it again after all that time? Is this your way of celebrating Israel's 60th anniversary, or what?

Thu. 5/8/08 11:01am From: Ken

Yes Steve, that was my way of celebrating Israel's 60th Anniversary.

Thu. 5/8/08 12:05pm From: Steve

In what way does airing this song celebrate it?

Listener comments!