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Favoriting November 13, 2022: "My life is a sham / I pretend that I'm free..."

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Artist Track Album Label Comments Approx. start time
American Music Club  America Loves The Minstrel Show   Favoriting Love Songs for Patriots  Merge    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
David Bowie  This Is Not America   Favoriting Bowie at the Beeb  EMI/Virgin    0:04:21 (Pop-up)
Suicide  Rocket USA   Favoriting Suicide  Mute    0:08:00 (Pop-up)
Low + Dirty Three  I Hear... Goodnight   Favoriting In The Fishtank 7  In the Fishtank (Konkurrent)  RIP Mimi Parker  0:12:13 (Pop-up)
Violent Femmes  America Is   Favoriting Add It Up (1981-1993)  Slash/Reprise    0:16:14 (Pop-up)
The Clash  I'm So Bored With The U.S.A.   Favoriting The Clash  CBS    0:18:17 (Pop-up)
The John-Pauls  Same Dweller, Different Cave   Favoriting Bon Mots  Aagoo Records    0:20:40 (Pop-up)
Boomtown Rats  Banana Republic   Favoriting Mondo Bongo  Columbia  RIP Garry Roberts  0:23:08 (Pop-up)
Public Image Limited  Public Image   Favoriting First Issue  Light in the Attack  RIP Keith Levene  0:28:07 (Pop-up)
Alvvays  Lottery Noises   Favoriting Blue Rev  Polyvinyl    0:31:01 (Pop-up)
REM  What's the Frequency, Kenneth?   Favoriting Monster  Warner Bros.    0:34:21 (Pop-up)
Oneida  Beat Me to the Punch   Favoriting Success  Joyful Noise Recordings    0:38:20 (Pop-up)
 
Low  Stay   Favoriting Single/Digital Release  Sub Pop  Rihanna cover  0:48:47 (Pop-up)
n/a  Clip: Democracy Now! Midterms in NY   Favoriting n/a  n/a    0:53:01 (Pop-up)
Nas  American Way   Favoriting Street's Disciple  Columbia    0:54:10 (Pop-up)
Low  Murderer   Favoriting Drums and Guns  Sub Pop    0:58:40 (Pop-up)
n/a  Clip: ABC-still counting votes   Favoriting n/a  n/a     
Sophia Djebel Rose  Liberte   Favoriting Metempsycose  Oracle Records    1:03:12 (Pop-up)
n/a  Clip: Al Jazeera-Northern Ireland update   Favoriting n/a  n/a    1:06:51 (Pop-up)
Tim Hill  The Irish Sea   Favoriting Giant  Innovative Leisure /Calico Discos    1:08:14 (Pop-up)
 
Low  Medicine Magazines   Favoriting Things We Lost in the Fire  Kranky    1:19:42 (Pop-up)
Eric Arn and Eyal Maoz  Optimus Locus and Finem   Favoriting Kost Nix  Feeding Tube Records    1:24:07 (Pop-up)
n/a  Clip: CBS-Somalia famine   Favoriting n/a  n/a    1:32:26 (Pop-up)
Low  Immune   Favoriting Secret Name  Kranky    1:32:57 (Pop-up)
Jean-Baptiste Favory  Ciels   Favoriting Ciels  Feeding Tube Records    1:36:29 (Pop-up)
Low  Born by the Wires   Favoriting Songs for a Dead Pilot  Kranky    1:44:28 (Pop-up)
Susana López  Valhalla   Favoriting The Edge of the Circle  Elevator Bath    1:58:09 (Pop-up)
n/a  Clips-WUSA-CNBC-Climate hell and Cop27   Favoriting n/a  n/a    2:10:26 (Pop-up)
Cool Maritime  Big Earth Energy   Favoriting Big Earth Energy  Western Vinyl    2:11:43 (Pop-up)
 
Adrian Quesada  Ídolo (Feat. Angelica Garcia)   Favoriting Boleros Psicodelicos  ATO    2:22:07 (Pop-up)
Ghost Funk Orchestra  A New Kind of Love (part 2)   Favoriting A New Kind of Love  Colemine Records    2:26:03 (Pop-up)
Al-Qasar  Barbès Barbès (feat. Mehdi Haddab)   Favoriting Who Are We?  Glitterbeat    2:30:01 (Pop-up)
Low  Dancing and Blood   Favoriting Double Negative  Sub Pop    2:36:39 (Pop-up)
Seb Martel  Seventy Feat Sabrina Bellaouel   Favoriting Saturn 63  InFiné    2:43:04 (Pop-up)
Diatom Deli  Sunday's Dying Light   Favoriting Time-Lapse Nature  Rving Intl.    2:48:09 (Pop-up)
Low  Don't Walk Away   Favoriting HEY WHAT  Sub Pop    2:54:11 (Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

  3:10am
Chris Crisco:

Cheers Brian where is everyone?!
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ike̶̬̕:

Greetings, humans.
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Brian D:

Hey Chris! Glad this thing is on!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:12am
Brian D:

Hello Ike!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:15am
fred:

Hello Brian and listeners
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:16am
ike̶̬̕:

This news is 3 to 5 hours old now but if you haven't noticed, AP has called it for the Democratic senator in Nevada, so Dems have held the Senate.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:17am
StringOFperils:

Still counting, and still discounting. Hey, is it safe to stand on this thing?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:19am
Brian D:

Yes, Ike, I saw that. One of my clips may be a bit dated as a result.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:19am
Brian D:

I'm just glad the mic was working. Mercury must be in retrograde. The board is acting funky.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:21am
Brian D:

By the way, hello Fred and String.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22am
StringOFperils:

Hi!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:29am
StringOFperils:

So long, Keith L whose guitar slashing still sounds pretty fresh.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:32am
fred:

Those first PiL records held up pretty well over 40 years (gasp!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:57am
ike̶̬̕:

Sean Patrick Maloney is such a complete and total jackass. He pushed (or "bigfooted", which I didn't know could be used as a verb until this happened) a more progressive representative, Mondaire Jones, out of his seat and then lost the seat in a blue district. Of course Jones came down here to NY-10 and screwed up *our* primary race too. Lots of blame should also go to Jay Jacobs, the hateful and corrupt Chair of the NY State Democratic Committee, who, like SPM, cares more about fighting progressive Dems than fighting Republicans.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:57am
fred:

Maloney wasted no time blaming AOC for his loss. Not sure how he think that works
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:02am
ike̶̬̕:

@fred, word to the max. (Remember when people used to say "word to the max"? No? Anyway, definitely, yes.)
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Foutracbaldisco:

Hi Brian, hi all listeners
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Brian D:

The redistricting was a huge factor, but the Dems didn't respond well, and had no strategy. They ended up campaigning against themselves.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:04am
Brian D:

Hello Foutracbaldisco!
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Michael of Cologne:

Golden morning Brian & all. You guys over there have quite a week. A noticeable change of mood. And maybe that malicious, mendacious clown is losing his grip on the GOP.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:08am
Brian D:

Hello Michael. Fingers crossed...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:11am
ike̶̬̕:

The corruption of the state-level Dem leadership is reflected in the official Brooklyn Dem Party as well -- focusing all their efforts on grifting and fighting Democratic reform groups instead of fighting Republicans in southern Brooklyn. As a result, we lost seats in southern Brooklyn that could've been won.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:13am
ike̶̬̕:

www.thecity.nyc...
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Don in Tampere:

Hi Brian, Chris, fred, String, Ike, Michael (and any silent listeners). joining late because I just got up after getting back at 4 am from a gig in Helsinki. I lived in ireland for a while and hell yeah, don't say the word Londonderry to anyone in the Republic of Ireland.
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fred:

@Don: How did the gig go?
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Heidee:

Good morning all! Dang, missed all the good info, will go back to the archives!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:20am
Brian D:

Greetings Don! "Londonderry" is NOT my preferred name for the city.
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Brian D:

And good morning, Heidee!
Avatar 4:23am
Don in Tampere:

@fred, the gig went really well and we made some new fans It was only the second one with our new bassist Jypi but it's clearer and clearer that he is a perfect fit to the band.
  4:27am
feral parsnip:

very sad to learn of m parker's passing. getting teary about it.
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Heidee:

What's your music, Don?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:29am
Brian D:

I can relate @Feral. She was far too young. And, I can't imagine losing one's life partner...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:30am
fred:

@Ike: I saw this play out here too. They feel more threatened by progressives than by the right, which makes sense on several levels. So they withhold support at best, a passive-aggressive path to losing
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Don in Tampere:

Heidee, the band is Dark Bottle, sort of punk-Americana but with elements of krautrock and stoner and doom metal instead of the usual Muddy Roots stuff of heavily tattooed and pierced people playing folks songs fast and badly; sometimes we call it doombilly or krautbilly. Solo I do different stuff and am close to finishing a new remix album called "Banjo Machine Music!
Avatar 4:36am
Foutracbaldisco:

Heartbreaking
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:37am
Brian in UK:

Hello Brian.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:39am
Brian D:

Hey Brian!
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fred:

@Don: You mean you have neither tattoos or piercings? Anyway, when are you playing in Paris or nearby?
Avatar 4:43am
Don in Tampere:

Hi Fred, nope, never got either one and figure that at my advanced age there is no need to start. I'd love to play Paris if we could get a gig there and somewhere on the way from Germany, where we're going next August, but I have absoutely zero contacts there.
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Heidee:

@Don, sounds great stuff! 😎🤟😈 Which places in Germany are you touring? Have you got a link?
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fred:

@Don: The scene is bleak: there are few venues between a bar's basement and a 2000+ hall (a long-time issue made worse by the pandemic). Bar shows only make sense if it's a stop on the way, little money there
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Ike:

@fred, in Europe at least the centrists have the excuse that those are different parties (right?) although I’m sure that doesn’t make it truly feel any better on the ground there. Here, we’re all ostensibly together in the Democratic party. Some states certainly have functional D parties and others… not so much. Some have joked the NY Dems need to placed into receivership and operated by the Michigan Dems from now on.
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Don in Tampere:

Heidee, so far we have dates in Bielefeld, Offenbach and Bamberg but working on more. Here's our bandcamp page darkbottle.bandcamp.com... We are also on IG and FB
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Heidee:

@Don, That's great, will be looking out for you! Offenbach is closest to me (Heidelberg) so far, but do let me know if your tour dates around here will expand. :-)
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Don in Tampere:

the party landscape varies from country to country. I would say the social democrats in Finland are probably more progressive than their namesakes in Germany (and of course those "wacko radical left" policies progressive American Democrats want are to a large extent things that would count as moderately social democratic or would not even be questioned by conservatives, such as free education and public health care.
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fred:

@Ike: Different system for sure, parties come and go. Here the "socialist" party went the way you describe into a sudden collapse. Not applicable in the US. So we have a center-right party, a growing fascist one, and a populist ego-cult on the left with little staying power. Scary situation. Grassroots progressives abound, but they are ignored by the media and weakened by (surprise) bitter infighting
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Don in Tampere:

While the Vasemmistoliitto (left alliance) is my preferred party in Finland for local elections, where I can vote, but Die Linke in Germany(where I've been a citizen since 2007) is out of the question for me as long as they have populists like Sahra Wagenkneckt who are sometimes hard to tell from AfD in their rhetoric.
Heidee, Heidelberg/MannheimLudwigshafen would be awesome but so far no luck, and I don't know the current venue scene. I am going to try to get into the Krone in Darmstadt, which is a little closer than Offenbach. (I lived in Franfurt/M for 24 years, by the way)
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fred:

@Don: thanks for the link, I'll give it a listen and see if I know someone who could help setting up a gig (unlikely though)
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Heidee:

@Don, wow you were living here for such a long time? You must be fluent in Deutsch. Where are you located now, actually back in Tampere? - Krone in DA is a nice venue, BTW.
  5:05am
Chris Crisco:

Have to say I'm surprised the red wave fizzled out. Dems showed a will to lose throughout. How the Nazi Party even managed to hijack the term "woke" and re-brand it as anti-white, anti-straight, anti-Christian, anti-American is nothing short of mind boggling. Fortunately enough voters wised up that saving Democracy was more important than giving Elon Muskrat a tax cut. I think Bernie Sanders was an unsung hero going around the country campaigning.
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Foutracbaldisco:

I really appreciate the Low's songs interspersed with other ambiant/field recordings/electronic/ improvised musics. Such a great idea! Wonderful tribute ! You're the third WFMU dj to pay a substantial tribute to Mimi Parker after Joe Belock and Mary Wing, yours is my favorite one. (I was sure you were going to do it!). Your show is quite touching. Thank you Brian!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:07am
Brian D:

Thank you for the kind words, Foutracbaldisco. To be named with Joe and Mary is an honor for me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:15am
fred:

He did say "Highway to (climate) hell". Wing has a... Winglike... cover version
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Ike:

@chris, the cons also had mind-boggling success on a regional level here in the NYC area blowing isolated gruesome incidents of crime way out of proportion. I call it the Great Fake Republican Crime Wave of ‘22. People in the burbs and southern Brooklyn are absolutely convinced that NYC is a burning post-apocalyptic hellscape of roving cannibalistic mutant homeless people with terrible BO. Sadly the COVID-related hate crimes against Asian-Americans have pushed a lot of them towards the R party as well, as some are now terrified to go out after dark, and some are falling prey to R conspiracy theories going around in Chinese.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:19am
Ike:

(And Vietnamese, and other languages.)
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fred:

@Ike: We have that here too, fantasies of Islamic states with heavily armed drug dealers enforcing Sharia law (making sense is optional). Seriously I saw a newspaper headline yesterday that ran "Drugs, Islam, Kalash". Then they mention neighborhoods I go through at night with no worries (there are tough ones I avoid, but that's a very different story, about poverty and neglect)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:24am
Brian D:

@Ike, I'm thinking most of these people fretting about "crime" weren't around in the 1970s. Or even the 1990s.
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Michael of Cologne:

@Don: Any chance of your doing a gig in Cologne? Music Hall?
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Heidee:

We are all one world. Music connects.
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Michael of Cologne:

Thanks for the low-down on the Dems, Ike, Fred, Chris, ...
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fred:

Barbès is indeed a dangerous place: I was robbed once there. By cops
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Heidee:

F*ck me, fred.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:35am
Brian D:

Ah, the French police...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:36am
fred:

I was robbed 4 times so far, half by cops
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Don in Tampere:

Michael, I always thought Music Hall was more for better known bands (which we certainly aren't) but I see that the site also says "ob Newcomer". As long as that hasn't started meaning "new car" the way "Oldtimer" means "classic car", it might be an option after all. I'll PM from the chat here if it's ok with you (Heidee, you too) and we can talk about possible places without boring everybody here
  5:38am
Chris Crisco:

Anyone other than a straight white Christian that support the Nazi Party need to have their head examined.
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Don in Tampere:

Actually, any Christian who pays any attention to what Jesus was actually talking about would have no use for the Nazi party or for most of what passes for conservative politics these days.
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fred:

The cops were actually the worst. I got robbed right after christmas one year, they took a CD player, but since they were not cops I asked to get the CD inside and I got it. Geinoh Yamashirogumi's Akira Suite, so I'm sure glad they gave it back to me. Cops just make you strip down to get at all the cash and will beat you up if you say a word
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Heidee:

so does the straight white Christian
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Heidee:

@Don, happy to receive PM
  5:44am
LiXiviated Life:

All I want right now
is a return of civility
to citizenship.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:45am
Brian D:

@Lix, that would be nice, wouldn't it? Good morning, by the way.
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Don in Tampere:

Michael, Heidee, the format has changed so I can't send a message, just give WFMU permission to send you my e-mail addresses, but did that.
  5:47am
Chris Crisco:

For sure even if you are a straight white Christian but especially if you are anything else the Nazi Party hates your guts just for that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:47am
fred:

@Heidee: I did see a dance show called Fuck Me this week, by Marina Otero. Too wordy (maybe because I don't understand Spanish), but well worth seeing. I can't say much without spoiling it
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Heidee:

Hah, thanks fred.
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Foutracbaldisco:

Marvellous set, thanks Brian!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:56am
Brian D:

That's almost it for me, folks. Thank you all for joining me. RIP Mimi Parker, Keith Levene and Garry Roberts. Stay safe and have a great week, everyone.
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Michael of Cologne:

Yes, Don. Let's exchange e-mails. I'll check out WFMU instructions. Bye all!
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fred:

Thanks Brian!
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Heidee:

Thanks Brian, intruiging show
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Heidee:

intriguing
  6:04am
LiXiviated Life:

Greeting from the edge of Schenectady
  9:03am
John Paul:

So cool to hear our relatives the John-Pauls on your show!
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