Favoriting Currents with Brian D: Playlist from January 2, 2022 Favoriting

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Favoriting January 2, 2022: "Struggling, struggling/As I am for peace..."

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Artist Track Album Comments Approx. start time
Massive Attack  Man Next Door   Favoriting Mezzanine    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Gil Scott-Heron  Peace   Favoriting Pieces of a Man    0:05:38 (Pop-up)
Regulator Watts  Clayton Clementine   Favoriting The Mercury    0:13:13 (Pop-up)
Parquet Courts  Marathon of Anger   Favoriting Sympathy for Life    0:15:48 (Pop-up)
  Clip: NBC-New Year's Celebrations Omicron       0:20:12 (Pop-up)
U2  New Year's Day   Favoriting War (remastered)    0:21:52 (Pop-up)
Terry Malts  Well Adjusted   Favoriting Nobody Realizes This is Nowhere    0:27:44 (Pop-up)
Ty Segall  Gotta Get Up   Favoriting Segall Smeagol    0:31:34 (Pop-up)
  Clip: ABC News Death of Desmond Tutu       0:34:24 (Pop-up)
Bob Geldof  The Song of the Emergent Nationalist   Favoriting The Happy Club  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/26/desmond-tutu-priest-bob-geldof  0:35:31 (Pop-up)
  CBC-Death of Desmond Tutu       0:42:40 (Pop-up)
Space Afrika  Honest Labour (ft. HforSpirit)   Favoriting Honest Labour    0:43:45 (Pop-up)
Moor Mother  Tarot (ft. Yatta & Dudu Kouate)   Favoriting Black Encyclopedia of the Air    0:47:29 (Pop-up)
Mdou Moctar  Tala Tannam   Favoriting Afrique Victime    0:53:24 (Pop-up)
Fela Kuti  Why Black Man Dey Suffer   Favoriting Why Black Man Dey Suffer    1:05:52 (Pop-up)
Tony Allen  Progress   Favoriting Afro Disco Beat    1:21:05 (Pop-up)
KMRU  Guiding Wind   Favoriting As It Still Is    1:30:52 (Pop-up)
  Clip: NBC-Sarah Weddington Dies at 76       1:35:00 (Pop-up)
Vanishing Twin  The Organism   Favoriting Ookii Gekkou    1:35:37 (Pop-up)
  Clip: France24-Impact of Sarah Weddington       1:42:28 (Pop-up)
Salem Witch Army  Cherchez la femme   Favoriting Thunder In Solitude / Sundown In Silence    1:42:36 (Pop-up)
David Bowie  Ashes to Ashes   Favoriting Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)    1:55:39 (Pop-up)
  Clip: DW News-Colorado wildfires       2:00:31 (Pop-up)
Gazelle Twin & NYX  Fire Leap   Favoriting Deep England    2:01:39 (Pop-up)
Marie Claudel  Les années folles   Favoriting Version Longue    2:08:43 (Pop-up)
Grouper  Basement Mix   Favoriting Shade    2:13:01 (Pop-up)
Dirty Three  Stellar   Favoriting Whatever You Love, You Are  RIP Ben McFall  2:21:59 (Pop-up)
Poly-Math  Ink of Scholars/Blood Tigris   Favoriting House of Wisdom/We Are The Devil    2:29:31 (Pop-up)
  Clip: Reuters-closure of Stand News in Hong Kong       2:36:08 (Pop-up)
Broadcast  Papercuts   Favoriting The Noise Made by People    2:37:29 (Pop-up)
CIA Debutante  Online Presence   Favoriting The Landlord    2:42:00 (Pop-up)
Margo Guryan  16 Words   Favoriting 16 Words  RIP: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/24/arts/music/margo-guryan-dead.html  2:48:39 (Pop-up)
Margo Guryan  Sunday Morning   Favoriting Take A Picture    2:52:26 (Pop-up)
Desmond Earley/Kiri O'Neill/The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin  Auld Lang Syne   Favoriting Be All Merry    2:54:37 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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coelacanth∅:

great track
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:03am
Scott67:

G'day Brian & Massive Mates!
👍😎🍻👣🎶📻🌞🌏
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:04am
Scott67:

Just popped it outa my CD rack so I could admire the Beetle.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:05am
coelacanth∅:

greetings Brian, Scott, future others
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:06am
Hoboken Jack:

Happy new year Brian, Scott67, CoelyC!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:07am
Scott67:

I see it originally cost me $25.95AU. Music is still mad expensive in Oz.
Avatar 3:07am
Brian D:

Hello all. Happy New Year!
Avatar 3:07am
Brian D:

Jack! Just getting home?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:08am
Scott67:

G'day Jack! A Happy, healthy & humorous one to you too mate!
✌😎🎶📻🌻
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:14am
Hoboken Jack:

Brian, I haven't been to a show since 12/16 -- everything's been canceled!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:16am
coelacanth∅:

greetings H Jack!
Avatar 3:16am
Brian D:

Yeah, I wondered, @Jack...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:23am
Scott67:

Okay! I confess, I was a U2 fan back then.
Avatar 3:24am
Brian D:

Me too, Scott.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:25am
Scott67:

Had Unforgettable Fire on Vinyl.
& the T-shirt.✌😎👕
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:25am
coelacanth∅:

they were great back then
-and what a voice he had (has?)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:28am
coelacanth∅:

when boy came out they were lumped in with the "punk" thing and we were very hip in the clubs to know who u2 is!
  3:29am
Gnomon:

I for one have been wondering how long it would take for that song to show up this year, as for the first time in years I wasn’t working a NYE party. Pleased to see it took almost exactly 24 hours. Thank you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:29am
coelacanth∅:

haha! i didn't even make the connection!
(i've had it pop into my head on past new years days though)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:32am
Scott67:

I'm with you coel. I just think of the N.Ireland Troubles.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:35am
coelacanth∅:

-just so, Scott.
  3:37am
listener phillip (in the bronx):

Also gothic horror novelist anne rice and just a few days ago betty white. I hope sir you arent going to leave them out
  3:38am
listener phillip (in the bronx):

I'm awake because I caught the omacron variant and have 100 fever.
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Brian D:

Phillip, we "covered" Anne Rice last week. May address Ms. White next week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:39am
Scott67:

Brian, making me go to my CD Rack tonight mate. I have Bob's Vegetarians of Love there.
Avatar 3:39am
Brian D:

Sorry to hear, Phillip. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:39am
coelacanth∅:

Scott, and random coincidence (?), i was reading the back of a that petrol emotion album yesterday -about england's "prevention of terrorism act" which has allowed them to detain for up to 7 days around 5500 people that were ultimately never convicted of anything.
  3:40am
listener phillip (in the bronx):

I'm sorry to say tylenol or advil isnt working😔
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:40am
coelacanth∅:

(5500 between 1975 & 1984)
  3:41am
listener phillip (in the bronx):

Ugh🤬 nice I go out with a,mask and gloves wash hands and social distance and still got it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:42am
Scott67:

It was rough there back then coel.
I lived there for a year in 92. & shit was blowing up & getting shot still then.
  3:43am
listener phillip (in the bronx):

Two weeks in self isolation. That sucks
Avatar 3:44am
Brian D:

Bob wrote an interesting op-ed about his "friend" Desmond Tutu. It's in the comments for the song, but I'll put it here, too: www.theguardian.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:45am
coelacanth∅:

hmmm, i'd like to read it, but the guardian... their over-the-top capitalism freezes up my computer!
Avatar 3:46am
Brian D:

Some very "1984"-ish policies in Britain back then, @Coel. The BBC had a policy about not allowing "terrorists" to speak on the air, so they'd have Gerry Adams interviewed, but dub over his voice using an actor (Stephen Rea, as it turns out).
Avatar 3:46am
Brian D:

So sorry for your troubles, Phillip. Shows how dangerous this thing is, I guess.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:47am
Scott67:

Hah!! The irony!📽🎬
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:49am
Scott67:

Get well soon, or sooner Phillip.
✌😎🌷
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:53am
coelacanth∅:

yeah for sure Brian... and the bush family (starting with their puppet reagan, if not before) wanted a piece of that action so created the "patriot act"...which is worse in some ways, being more covert, and more insidious.
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Pablexa™:

She's Talking™ cuz I doubt I'll be awake
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Brian D:

Indeed, @Coel. More on Bush later, if we have time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:56am
Scott67:

Pabs, I will hold ya to that mate!
👍😎🍻
Avatar 3:59am
Pablexa™:

@Scott67 Happy New Year mate - Although it may be 2023 with you - I've never been good at the maths and time zone thingy
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:02am
Scott67:

Same to you Pabs! 2022+2 here this evening mate! Nothing has fallen off yet!
👍😎🍻
  4:03am
Cooh John:

Good morning Brian, Scott67, coelacanthø, et.al. Happy New Year.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:04am
Scott67:

G'day Cooh.J! Good ta seeya mate!
👍😎🍻
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:06am
coelacanth∅:

it's warm and dreary. no sunshine.

hey Cooh J
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Don in Tampere:

Happy new year all! It's a snowy day here in Tampere, hope to go for a walk on the lake later. Also was sorry here to read about Tutu's passing.
Avatar 4:06am
Brian D:

Hello @Cooh. Happy New Year. And you too, @Don.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:08am
Scott67:

Paulo would be here. But UAE changed the Weekend to Sat/Sun. So he can sleep in now. Plus he just flew home from the States yesterdayish.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:18am
coelacanth∅:

hey Don, Pablexa
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:39am
coelacanth∅:

my raft is here, honking its horn for me
Thanks Brian!
'night y'all.
Avatar 4:41am
Brian D:

Thank you, @Coel.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:41am
Scott67:

Sate voyage to the subconscious coel! & a swift return.
✌😎
Avatar 4:41am
Brian D:

Smooth sailing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:41am
Scott67:

Safe even**
  4:43am
?:

Politics? Ugh
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:44am
Scott67:

Protect the living! Not the litigation. Women are the decision maker. No other fundamental fucker!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:48am
Scott67:

I have co-contributed & was conspiritor to end a pregnancy.
It's not a choice made lightly. But must always remain thechoiceof the woman who is pregnant.
Avatar 4:56am
Brian D:

Been there, too, @Scott. And agreed.
Avatar 4:57am
Brian D:

Tony Allen's Afro Disco Beat originally released in 1977, by the way. For those of you who care.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:14am
fred:

Good morning Brian and all
Avatar 5:15am
Brian D:

Hello Fred. Happy New Year!
Avatar 5:22am
Brian D:

RIP Ben McFall: www.nytimes.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:23am
Scott67:

G'day Fred! ✌😎
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:39am
fred:

I had never heard of Ben McFall, looks like he was an important figure
Avatar 5:42am
Brian D:

For the Strand Bookstore, its customers and the surrounding city, he was indeed, Fred.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:46am
fred:

CIA Debutante has been getting a lot or airplay on the station. Which is extra weird to me because I haven't seen them in years because of you know what
Avatar 5:49am
Brian D:

Right, Fred. They are well liked/respected here, for sure.
  5:52am
LiXiviated Life:

Hello
current
people
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:52am
fred:

And Nathan is from Oz, though I don't know from where
Avatar 5:53am
Brian D:

Good morning, Lix.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:55am
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Aloha
Avatar 5:57am
Brian D:

Thank you all for joining me. Wishing you all a happy and healthy 2022. Stay safe and "see" you next week!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:58am
Scott67:

Thanks Brian,.✌😎🌏🌻
Avatar 9:29am
geo in jc:

Brian! Excellent show as always. Thanks so much for the shout out! That Mdou show was indeed one of the best. I miss hanging out with you at Monty so much my friend.
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