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Favoriting November 3, 2008: Pre-election mental surgery, along with Songs for Newsworthy News

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Artist Track Album Label Format
The United States of America  The American Metaphysical Circus   Favoriting The United States of America  Sony Legacy   
Carla Bley  Reactionary Tango   Favoriting Social Studies  ECM   
The Bad Plus  Everybody Wants To Rule The World   Favoriting Prog  Heads Up   
Randy Newman  A Few Words in Defense of Our Country   Favoriting Harps and Angels  Nonesuch   
Robert Plant and the Strange Sensation  Takamba   Favoriting Mighty Rearranger  Es Paranza   
Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians  America   Favoriting Luminous Groove  Yep   

Music behind DJ:
The Bad Plus 

Cheney Pinata   Favoriting

Give 

 

 
Elvis Costello  Tramp the Dirt Down   Favoriting Spike  Rhino   
Charlie Haden Family and Friends  Is This America?   Favoriting Rambling Boy     
Garry Dial & Terry Roche  USA   Favoriting Us An'them     
Bob Dylan  The Times They Are A-Changin'   Favoriting The Times They Are A-Changin'  Columbia   
Del McCoury & friends  Breadline Blues 2008   Favoriting Moneyland  McCoury Music   
 
 
Songs for Newsworthy News with Michael Hearst
 
When it comes to music and writing, Michael Hearst can't seem to sit still. Even with such satisfying songwriting projects as One Ring Zero, Songs for Ice Cream Trucks, in addition to the 18:59 Podcast, Hearst has a timely new venture - Songs for Newsworthy News. Topical events are set to song, and there's no more perfect day to invite Michael to present this on WFMU than the day before election day.
Michael Hearst  Songs for Newsworthy News   Favoriting      
One Ring Zero  Silver Girl   Favoriting Wake Them Up  Barbes Records  CD 
Hang the Lights  I am the Half King   Favoriting City Park    CD 
Michael Hearst  Songs for Newsworthy News   Favoriting      
 
One Ring Zero  Here Come the Mannequins   Favoriting Wake Them Up     
Curtis Eller's American Circus  Taking Up Serpents Again   Favoriting Taking Up Serpents Again     
Micah Blue Smalldone  A Derelect   Favoriting The Red River     
Ledbelly  Fannin Street   Favoriting Folkways: The Original Vision  Folkways   
Woody Guthrie  Talking Hard Work   Favoriting Folkways: The Original Vision  Folkways   
Larkin Grimm  Ride That Cyclone   Favoriting Parplar  Young God   
Tall Firs  Blue in the Dark   Favoriting Too Old to Die Young  Ecstatic Peace!   

Music behind DJ:
The Bad Plus 

Cheney Pinata   Favoriting

 

 

 
Yma Sumac  Xtabay (Lure: Of the Unknown)   Favoriting The Spell of Yma Sumac  Pair   
Bill Frisell  A Change is Gonna Come   Favoriting History, Mystery  Nonesuch   
Pete M. Wyer  Dina's AllNight Diner   Favoriting Stories from the City at Night     
Terence Blanchard  Ghost of Congo Square   Favoriting A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)     
Mavis Staples  Eyes on the Prize   Favoriting sdtk "My Blueberry Nights"  Blue Note   

Music behind DJ:
The Bad Plus 

Cheney Pinata   Favoriting

 

 

 


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Listener comments!

  3:06pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:

go USA!! USA!! USA!!
  3:08pm
concered citizen:

four more years! four more years!
  3:10pm
concerted citizen:

four more tangos! four more tangos!!
  3:17pm
Richard - New Zealand:

Good luck USA...from New Zealand. We have our general election this weekend...but has been overshadowed by your own! (Parties and Prime Ministers in NZ... the English system...not Presidents)

BTW ...loving the Carla Bley...I'm an Annette Peacock fan...quite an extended family that...haven't heard this before.
  3:19pm
stingy d:

richard makes an excellent point... it's time for some annette peacock
  3:22pm
grubbus:

i thought that this was bad plus?
  3:23pm
stingy d:

http://vimeo.com/1585090
get your young mc/screwed and chopped fix
  3:25pm
GP:

Irene, This is a nice version of EWTRTW.
  3:31pm
stingy d:

http://www.myspace.com/dollarkulldollar
  3:33pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:

the old man still gots it
  3:38pm
Pyramid Theme:

Mandatory play next, anything by
Sam the sham and the pharaohs, followed by
Steve Martin, "King Tut"
And the Bangles "walk like an Egyptian"
  3:40pm
stingy d:

please no king tut
  3:41pm
GP:

Just saw this headline...Did I tell you how much I love this country:

Nudist group wants clothing-optional polling site
  3:42pm
fishmonkeystew:

Ever see the Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping choir movie? Excellent and enlightening.
  3:43pm
Bad Ronald:

Love this Costello tune!!
  3:45pm
Bad Ronald:

Kinda hits the same chord as "Shipbuilding"...
  3:45pm
Parq:

You beat me to it, Ron. IMO, "Spike" was his last must-have album.
  3:46pm
Bad Ronald:

You no like Brutal Youth?
  3:48pm
Parq:

"Like", yeah. Essential? Not by me, but what do I know?
  3:49pm
Bad Ronald:

Understood... I'm still looking for BY on vinyl...
  3:51pm
Sean Daily:

Not even close to first comment! Woo hoo!
  3:51pm
GP:

W O W....nice guitar work here
  3:53pm
Plinky:

thought i heard Bill Frisell for a second there
  3:56pm
Swami:

It's my birthday. Carry on.
  3:57pm
Plinky:

i love that scene in the Wanderers when this plays
  3:58pm
GP:

I just looked it up and on guitar is Bryan Sutton who I am not familiar with, what really surprised me is that Elvis Costello also appears a Friend on that Charlie Haden album...this looks like one to get.
  4:01pm
GP:

Swami,
Birthday greetings to you!
  4:05pm
JB:

Woooo! Michael Hearst!
  4:06pm
Peter K.:

My, aren't we political today? (And isn't Terre Roche's "Star Spangled Banner" the greatest?)
  4:14pm
Cecile:

I want to hear a song about Sarah Palin's kid and her Louis Vuitton purse
  4:15pm
G. E. Schwartz:

The Palin Prank....set it to tune!
  4:26pm
Webhamster Henry:

Your project is very like Ice Cream Headache... which didn't come off. But some nice Ice Cream songs were written by me and others!
  4:29pm
stingy d:

i reccomend "don mattingly" by dan deacon for ice cream song fans
  4:30pm
Doug in DC:

I found a Mr. Softee graveyard in Richmond, VA once. A whole fenced-off parking lot full of rusted-out ice cream trucks.
  4:33pm
Cecile:

Please contact the Ice Cream trucks in Minneapolis.

The only thing they ever play is "Turkey in the Straw"
  4:33pm
stingy d:

we are the monsters of the original mr softee ice cream trucks!
  4:35pm
Webhamster Henry:

Here's an NPR story with some of Ice Cream Headache's Songs:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9945901

The Gamelany "Mr. Softy" by Nina Katchadourian should be someone's bed music!
  4:35pm
stingy d:

your exaggeration perpetration levels are at exaggerating full speed
why must i answer to you evil monsters?
  4:38pm
Cecile:

We commenters just mainly deal in obscure weirdness, in-jokes, and shout-outs to absent members.
  4:39pm
Sean Daily:

Or we just go "Woo hoo!" and otherwise make nuisances of ourselves.
  4:41pm
Plinky:

this dude plays really short songs. or are they more sketches.. ditties?
  4:41pm
AnAnonymousParty:

Some of these songs could be haikus with a little planning.
  4:44pm
stingy d:

YO not for nothin
i like this song immensely
and everything
  4:46pm
paulthepostman:

AAP, yeah, japanese poems of seventeen syllabubs!
  4:47pm
Cecile:

Pass me a syllabub, extra grog please.
  4:48pm
Swami:

Thanks GP. Late. Busy work day.
  4:49pm
paulthepostman:

what is this 'grog', cecile?
  4:49pm
Cecile:

happy anniversary of your natal day, swami.
  4:50pm
Cecile:

"hooch" "liquor" "Estonian marching nectar"
It, and egg white make up a good syllabub.
  4:51pm
Cecile:

shoe repair guys rule!
Mine are nice.
  4:56pm
Sean Daily:

Grog is anything that makes a pirate go "Arrrr!" Of course, gold, women, a cat, underwear, rain, oxygen and other pirates also make pirates go "Arrrr!", so by that definition...
  4:56pm
GP:

Chupacabra song is now my favorite
  4:57pm
Sean Daily:

They're guerilla gorillas. Rim shot.
  4:57pm
Cecile:

not to mention barabcoa, parrots, potable water and shore leave....
  4:58pm
stingy d:

my sources tell me that obama's grandmother just died
  4:58pm
Cecile:

I'm sorry to hear that.

Does Michael have a song about Knut the Polar Bear?
  5:00pm
stingy d:

knut makes me happy!

mccain's grandmother is gonna rise from the dead in a classic show of one-upmanship
  5:02pm
Sean Daily:

Well, we all knew that McCain was one of the living dead, so that only makes sense, stingy.

"He is... NOSFERATU." "HE'S ITALIAN?!"
  5:03pm
stingy d:

john mccain has general warts
  5:06pm
stingy d:

no?
  5:11pm
stingy d:

so... ah-h-hem...did you ever hear the one about the paparazzi with a heart of gold?
  5:12pm
bzul:

Little late to the grog barrel --

Booty and wenches without inhibitions,
Ukrainian freghters stuffed fat with munitions,
Casual-kill Fridays and big bling earrings,
These are a pirate dude's favorite things...

What's Somali for "Arrrr"?
  5:12pm
stingy d:

hmm, yea he stole it from obama's grandmother on her death bed.
  5:13pm
stingy d:

too soon?
  5:17pm
Sean Daily:

bzul: Arrrrr!

stingy d: Arrrr...
  5:18pm
north guinea hills:

thank you for woody!!!!
  5:18pm
bzul:

Jesus, Woody, what'd you do AFTER lunch?
  5:18pm
stinfgy d:

my bust
  5:19pm
Sean Daily:

But if yer goin' t' be a pirrrrrate, you have t'know... THE PIRRRRRRATE ALPHABET!

Arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, aye, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr, arrrr an' arrrr!
  5:19pm
no f in stingy:

i got them fast hands
  5:23pm
stingy d:

JON - THEY'RE STEEEAALINGGG!!!!!!
  5:25pm
paulthepostman:

yo my tarrrty hearties, and arrrty farties,..
  5:31pm
Sean Daily:

An album of nothing but Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie? I'll take nineteen, please.
  5:33pm
stingy d:

me and woody guthrie is da same born days
  5:36pm
stingy d:

how about some hardcore
  5:41pm
Plinky:

Yes Bill Fisell!!! Thank youuu
  5:53pm
Sean Daily:

MORE COWBELL! WOOOOOOOOO (pass out drunk)
  5:55pm
paulthepostman:

Mooooooooooooo!
  6:02pm
paulthepostman:

bzul, liked your ditty, can't get sound of music out of my head now!
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