WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from January 25, 2023

Listener comments!
	1/23 8:54am Pierre Delecto: This better be good.
	2:30am Theremaniac: Looks good already!
	2:52pm Listener Robert: I don't care what the contract requires, Gus, nobody's making you break into this one! You can make good on Prof. Dum-Dum's.
	👻 2:57pm rrg: Looks like the gang's all here! And I'm first!
	2:58pm Laura L: The cat reserves judgment. Me too; never heard it before either. High five!
	2:59pm Irwin: rrg is indeed FIRST! We use New Math exclusively on this playlist.
	3:00pm common: irwin. everyone
	3:00pm Magenta: I guess I'm third? I'm bad with New Math.
	👻 3:00pm AnAnonymousParty: First at what?
	3:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: I have been looking forward to this show. And now it's time! Hello Irwin & friends.
	3:01pm Laura L: That means I'm 1+4, so I'm still 5!
	3:01pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: A pleasant good day to you Mr Irwin David Chusid
	👻 3:01pm Karl Ward: Did the cat look more or less annoyed before you put that copy of Astral Weeks next to the cat?
	3:02pm Alan near Boston: Been waiting all week for this - yes!
	3:02pm Handy Haversack: Irwin. Irwinners. Not sure we can improve on last week's premiere of Astral Weeks, but I'm here for the ride.
	3:02pm Crosby in KC: Hello, Irwin and everyone.
	3:02pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: Wet snow was falling here about an hour ago I hope your trip to the studio was a safe one
	3:03pm PaulRobeson1923: Hi Hi Hi
	3:03pm Rick from SC: I feel some Van comin' on.
	3:03pm katharsis: Hellos Irwin and all
	3:05pm mark: hi irwin and all!
	3:06pm Matt from Springfield: FOURTH! (new math) \| \| \| _ > \| - _! (ancient math) Hello there Irwin, Chusidians and Ludwig van Morrisons!
	3:06pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: Overcast rainy day. Perfect for jazz
	👻 3:06pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Irwin and effective listeners.
	3:07pm Magenta: I love the look of new vinyl. I hope that makes an audible noise when you open it.
	3:07pm Matt from Springfield: Most certainly agree, Phillip! @Irwin: That's what I mean when I say "jazz weather" - and there's been a lot of it on Wednesdays, your show is in sync! Incidentally, GLAD to start off on L.M. again! Different cut from The Sidewinder, but still that legendary album.
	3:10pm Irwin: ↳ Matt from Springfield @3:07 Time to get Lee back into semi-heavy rotation.
	3:10pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Irwin @3:10 I most heartily approve! Would that be Midnight the Cat pictured?
	3:10pm common: i dig astral weeks. something tells me irwin will hate it
	👻 3:11pm PigeonsAndRust: I also think he will hate it
	3:11pm Cooh John: Hello Irwin and irwits. Got my copy of "Astral Weeks" Monday. Let's hear it.
	3:12pm common: ↳ PigeonsAndRust @3:11 yes
	3:13pm Wendy del Formaggio: Maybe next week Irwin can play "The Bang Records Contractual Obligation Album" and discuss it. If it goes poorly, it'll only be about 20 minutes of airtime. If I remember correctly, all the songs are about a minute long.
	3:13pm Fishtown Mike: Been looking forward to this show, sort of. Don't care for VM at all, and have never heard this album previously. I'm not expecting this album to make me reconsider.
	3:13pm Irwin: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @3:13 Wendy, be careful what you wish for.
	3:14pm Irwin: ↳ PigeonsAndRust @3:11 I'll be listening with an open mind.
	👻 3:15pm rrg: We shouldn't be putting Irwin on the spot. We don't need to know immediately whether he loathes it. I'd be content to wait a week or so. Come on, people. Let's be reasonable!
	3:15pm Magenta: Plot twist: this is the start of a Van Morrison renaissance at the station.
	3:16pm Alan near Boston: Other than "Into the Mystic", never really got VM. Regardless of the album review, the cat wins!
	3:16pm chresti: We like Them.
	3:16pm lior: ye!!!!!!
	3:16pm swivs: The drum fill at the top of this song is apparently called the "Pat Boone Debbie Boone". Hey Irwin, everybody!
	3:17pm Luna: we love you eevan
	3:17pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @3:13 I recently found new enjoyment in his "Go For Yourself" track on VMCO - possibly a precursor rhythm for "Sweet Thing"? But also because one considers his accent on "Go Fo' Yourself"!
	3:17pm listener 126464: ↳ Song: "More" by "Pale Blue Eyes" Love their 2022 album, Souvenirs.
	3:18pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Irwin @3:13 I am! I love that album and would totally delight in your running commentary on it!
	3:18pm full_english_breakfast: i'm an astral weeks virgin myself... i do think "brown eyed girl" is one of the most impecably performed songs ever recorded
	3:19pm Irwin: ↳ swivs @3:16 It's a bit of "My Sharona."
	3:20pm zopa: ↳ rrg @3:15 Indeed. I couldn't care less whether he loathes it. More important to me is whether GUS loathes it...
	3:20pm Crosby in KC: I've never been a huge VM fan but Astral Weeks is pretty great, in my opinion. Though, I feel the opening track is the best and the rest just doesn't match up.
	3:20pm common: a friend of my uncle kicked me out of his house for only liking astral weeks and disliking the rest of his records.
	3:20pm Joe, just Joe: Irwin I had Astral Weeks in my little record collection when we lived on Claremont Ave.; you could have listened whenever you wanted to
	3:21pm Wendy del Formaggio: I don't remember if I've heard Astral Weeks. Probably. So, this'll be all kinds of an adventure for me.
	3:21pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ zopa @3:20 Gus Bodenheim would loathe it, mainly because he was a competitor in Bosstown of that period, according to his recent review of the "Astral Weeks" book.
	3:21pm Joe, just Joe: Also had all of the Velvet Underground LPs which I'll bet you never touched either
	3:22pm Fishtown Mike: I actually saw VM once, from the 3rd row. Wife bought tickets to see Willie Nelson, and VM was on the bill. I pissed off everyone around us by insisting he was Cat Stevens. "Why isn't he playing anything from "Tea for the Tillerman"? Boy, I love that album, been listening to it non-stop for weeks getting ready for this show".etc.
	3:23pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Matt from Springfield @3:17 The lyrics for "Go For Yourself" are top-notch and so relatable. I mean, who doesn't want to get a job on funky Broadway?
	3:24pm Irwin: Joe, you could have insisted I had to hear that record instead of delaying the inevitable for 40 years.
	3:24pm egould: Yeeeesss! Flyying Colours.
	3:24pm coelacanth∅: Ahoy Irwin, Irwinians
	3:25pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @3:23 It's sure freaky, if you got that far!
	3:25pm Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Goodbye to Music" by "Flyying Colours" This does not sound like Van Morrison at all.
	3:25pm Irwin: ↳ Joe, just Joe @3:21 I was already into the Velvets, albeit belatedly.
	3:25pm common: ↳ Fishtown Mike @3:22 ha!
	3:26pm Joe, just Joe: when did you ever know me to insist on anything? besides i was too busy learning about music from you
	3:26pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Matt from Springfield @3:25 haha, indeed! And I suddenly found myself wanting a danish.
	3:27pm Dean: This Astral Weeks album is amazing.
	3:28pm Fredericks: St. Dominic's Preview is a very good Van Morrison record. I love Listen To The Lion.
	👻 3:28pm Franco Twinkie: I too read the book Astral Weeks by Ryan Walsh. It didn't change my mind enough to dig out the album and listen to it with fresh ears. With the exception of the first album by Them, Van Morrison has always left me non-plussed.
	3:29pm Tommy in Neversink: If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams
	3:29pm egould: Jang jang a janga jang jangle
	3:29pm Aaron Working In Newark: Good afternoon
	3:30pm simono: Superior set, really enjoy this!
	3:30pm Tommy in Neversink: You either get Van or you don't ...I do
	3:30pm coelacanth∅: didn't this Cat Morrison guy have a brother Jim who played keyboard bass in a band called the windows of perception?
	3:30pm rbx: howdy folks, happy wednesday to you
	👻 3:31pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @3:30 You sir, are a smart-aleck.
	3:32pm coelacanth∅: it'll be funny if Irwin plays the whole album at 78rpm
	3:32pm sydnius: de—but
	3:33pm Physarum: I am decidedly not a Van Fan and am looking forward to hearing Astral Weeks in full for the first time.
	3:33pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Franco Twinkie @3:31 Always! But better than a dumb-aleck, or ignoramus-aleck. Hiya coelacanth!
	3:33pm sydnius: is that your adorable void?
	👻 3:33pm Franco Twinkie: Lester Bangs said a lot of things. Most of it drug induced insanity.
	3:33pm rbx: oooh astral weeks listening party, how exciting
	👻 3:34pm Karl Ward: Can we get Olivia to saw "LET THE HATERS FLOW" with a ton of reverb right before the record drops?
	3:34pm Tommy in Neversink: But there's never commercial interruption on FMU
	3:34pm hilaryprudy: karlward: great suggestion...
	3:34pm Wendy del Formaggio: I like how Irwin's playlist background is making all the "Hellraiser" pumpkins disappear except for their evil faces.
	3:34pm Matt from Springfield: Of course, get the commercials out the way before the Astral Weeks premiere! And now, Gus Bodenheim!
	3:35pm coelacanth∅: hi Matt! i knew someone called Alec. he was kind of a dick-aleck!
	3:35pm egould: What album is ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ on? Because I hate that fucking album.
	3:35pm Magenta: ↳ Song: "Gus B's in Love" by "Gus Bodenheim" I'm glad Gus has found love in his life.
	3:36pm Wendy del Formaggio: "A smattering of smittenings" is a lovely phrase.
	3:36pm Dean: Gus B. Weiss?
	3:37pm JG: Van has a powerful voice. Reminds me of a horn. He's also a singer who is a musician- able to use his voice as an instrument, understands music. He writes good songs.
	3:37pm Magenta: Ah, the Karen. A match made in heaven.
	3:37pm hilaryprudy: priceless..
	3:37pm Patty D: This is incredible.
	3:37pm Dean: Driving like an idiot most certainly is "a thing."
	3:37pm Quinn02: The police are coming. Yes they are.
	3:37pm sydnius: luscious pointless indignation
	3:37pm ?: She seems nice :)
	3:37pm Matt from Springfield: Wuh oh, Gus is about to get infected from a Viral video - V.D. is a big problem among Internet lovers.
	3:38pm Mike tp: hello IRWIN ,& FRIENDS..JUST POPPINGin on the fun 91..
	3:38pm sydnius: ↳ Song: "Gus B's in Love" by "Gus Bodenheim" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
	3:38pm Matt from Springfield: Ha, the adult film soundtrack remix of the Karen vid! 😄
	3:38pm zopa: This is delightful!
	3:38pm ?: Why is my black cat being subjected to that crappy LP? That's animal abuse.
	3:39pm abbazabba: Call me Karimozov because, oh brother, my blood is Russian/rushin' - - - hahaha clever!
	3:39pm RevWaldo: ↳ Song: "Gus B's in Love" by "Gus Bodenheim" Is he here? I look in the poolhall Well, is he here? I look in the drugstore Is he here? No, he don't come here no more
	3:39pm egould: Call me a “Kareem” cause I’m looking to score. Brilliant. Gold brilliance.
	👻 3:39pm G: Made it in time for the main event at the top of the hour...
	3:39pm jan: Must redirect attention to Gus; work suspended for now. Brilliant show today!
	3:40pm Quinn02: That was amazing
	3:40pm KWilde: Good Afternoon!
	3:40pm coelacanth∅: ↳ RevWaldo @3:39 exactly what i was thinking!
	3:41pm ?: ↳ egould @3:35 Brown Eye Girl...Don't it Make My Brown Eye Blue...same thing
	3:42pm Handy Haversack: I have a feeling that Astral Weeks is going to coincide perfectly with my commute home. Oh, well. I'll always have last week.
	3:42pm newberry: Anyone know if there are recordings or more info available about the genius "Gus Bodenheim?" Web search isn't turning up a ton. I'm a fan, want to get in on this...
	3:42pm PaulRobeson1923: I have yet to hear any Van Morrison Albums in their entirety
	3:42pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @3:42 Not on this show, but in general
	3:44pm Irwin: ↳ newberry @3:42 This year's marathon premium will be a CD (and download) comp of Gus's radio masterpieces. He has promised to record fresh, non-broadcast intros for the set.
	3:45pm ?: ↳ Song: "Gus B's in Love" by "Gus Bodenheim" where can i find this track????!!!!!!! i was laughing the whole time. loved it thank you thank you
	3:45pm Joey g: Wow! I'll be in for that!
	3:46pm Hugh: With Irwin. Can't stand the Van's voice.
	3:46pm Fredericks: If that cat had a small white spot on its chest I swear it was my Zelda.
	3:47pm KingOfJunk: ↳ Irwin @3:44 🖤🖤🖤
	3:47pm Irwin: ↳ Fredericks @3:46 Mischa is a Bombay. They're all-black, no tuxedo.
	👻 3:48pm rrg: ↳ Handy Haversack @3:42 Stay at work until 5pm, Handy! You don't want to miss this, do you?
	3:48pm Irwin: ↳ Irwin @3:47 She is my alarm cat.
	3:49pm coelacanth∅: i can't stand Van's voice either; but i once liked it. i don't remember at all what astral weeks sounds like. i must've heard it as i was already realizing how very limited he was/is as a vocalist -interesting at times and seemingly genuinely soulful for fleeting moments, a long, long, long time ago... but limited. so my assessment may've been unfair, as it did come along soon after his excellent work with Them, and directly before one of his extremely few excellent albums, moondance. so, as i did not find my copy in my mess here, i'm excited to hear it now.
	3:49pm ?: ↳ Irwin @3:48 Does she tell you when she's heard enough Van Morrison?
	3:49pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Irwin @3:47 Looks quite a bit like our Bugbear. He and his brother, Goblin: www.wfmu.org...
	3:50pm Handy Haversack: ↳ rrg @3:48 I mean ... I don't, but even more I don't want to stay at work!
	3:50pm Fredericks: Zelda is an alarm cat as well. I guess she's a Bombay with a spot of milk.
	3:51pm Various Julius: Here for the black cats.
	3:51pm Dean: Do alarm cats respect "spring ahead, fall back"?
	3:51pm dale: i picked up moondance for a quarter at my church thrift yesterday. a couple of songs i have never heard and enjoyed. his voice is an acquired taste and i don't have that taste yet. also got traffic and 8 others. was supposed to be buy one cd get one free so should have cost $1.25 but i paid $2.50. it's for jesus.
	👻 3:51pm rrg: Uh oh. My stream dropped. This can't be happening!
	3:52pm Fredericks: ↳ Dean @3:51 Definitely not.
	3:52pm PaulRobeson1923: Something* is happening to the stream
	3:52pm coelacanth∅: < that cat looks like she's procrastinating on a trip to the litter box
	3:52pm Various Julius: Had a stream fail as well, back up now
	3:52pm Dean: Another good reason to enact legislation banishing Daylight Savings.
	👻 3:52pm rrg: ↳ rrg @3:51 I don't think I can find the old transistor radio in time.
	3:52pm Andrew_in_WI: Turn on, tune in. DROP OUT
	3:53pm berb: ↳ rrg @3:51 If your stream lasts more than four hours, call your doctor.
	3:53pm coelacanth∅: dale, "into the mystic" is sublime
	3:53pm jg: 4 o’clock I gotta teach a homebound kid. He’s smarter than me and I’m out of stuff to do w him. And I’m gonna miss astral weeks. Unless we just listen together and then I make him write an essay on it. We’ll see
	👻 3:53pm rrg: "Reload page" fixed it.
	3:54pm love2laf: ↳ Dean @3:51 Absolutely never ever, by the time they adjust, it's the next time change.
	3:54pm ?: ↳ dale @3:51 jesus is always broke...what's up with that?
	3:54pm katharsis: I have no strong opinion of vm.
	👻 3:55pm rrg: ↳ Dean @3:52 Yeah, but their evil plan is to make Daylight Saving Time PERMANENT rather than banishing it. They want to banish Standard, Normal Time. I'm sick of their woke agenda.
	👻 3:55pm Karl Ward: I love Astral Weeks, Moondance, and His Band & the Street Choir; I love individual songs scattered across his catalog too, but those three albums are the only ones that stand out to me.
	3:55pm newberry: ↳ Irwin @3:44 Thanks Irwin!
	3:55pm Fredericks: I hadn't recognized the similarities between Mountain and the Small Faces before.
	3:56pm ?: ↳ jg @3:53 Sit with him & make him listen to Astral Weeks & then write anessay to explain just what it was he just heard. Thank me later
	3:56pm coelacanth∅: katharsis, then you neither "get" him, nor "don't get" him. is that possible?!
	👻 3:56pm DjLorraine: I would be interested in the cat's review.
	3:56pm Andrew_in_WI: ↳ Karl Ward @3:55 Correct answer.
	3:57pm Ike: ↳ rrg @3:55 The crazy night people like me win and you terrible morning people LOSE!!! Bwahahahaha! VICTORY IS OURS!!!
	3:57pm Various Julius: ↳ coelacanth∅ @3:56 Schrödinger's Van is a thing
	3:57pm morphe': Mountain Long Red Almost combed my hair .. happened just the other day was pickin my teeth with my girl's comb and I thought "Yeah.." but no..
	👻 3:57pm βrian: There are also those who get him … and then recover.
	3:57pm Dean: Guess I haven't read the bill. Isn't it six of one, half dozen of another? At some point (not in my lifetime) noon will arrive somewhere in the middle of the night?
	3:58pm ?: ↳ jg @3:53 hmm maybe teach him a little self awareness and humility? gifted children tend to lack that
	3:58pm ?: Van claims to be able to see leprechauns..no lie
	👻 3:59pm rrg: ↳ @3:58 If that's true, I'm outta here.
	3:59pm Handy Haversack: And the hour is upon us. Gotta head out. Don't get too astral! Hopefully I can catch the end from the home shores. Thanks, Irwin!
	3:59pm James: ↳ morphe' @3:57 Ok, that made me chuckle... but too soon, no?
	3:59pm ??: To avoid confusion I'm adding a ?
	👻 4:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Handy Haversack @3:59 Consult your astralogist if you have questions, Handy.
	👻 4:00pm rrg: My clock says it's 4pm ET. Do you know where your children are?
	4:00pm ??: ↳ @3:58 since some children are "gifted" can you return or re-gift them? Asking for a friend. Thanks
	👻 4:01pm Karl Ward: Nooooooooo
	👻 4:02pm Karl Ward: My stream stalled but it's back
	4:02pm ??: Asstrail Leaks...Morrison's got a theme going I think
	4:02pm Rick from SC: The anticipation...
	4:02pm Magenta: noooooooo
	4:02pm Fredericks: Noooooooooooooooo..... where did Irwin go? At four oh.......
	4:02pm miss g: NO! is van whatshisname a warlock? the stream went out
	4:02pm Crosby in KC: ugh! Stream drop
	👻 4:02pm rrg: This is a conspiracy. My stream has dropped and won't reconnect.
	4:02pm Jeezy: Uh oh... looks like we're all having streaming issues? Could Van be behind this?!?!
	4:02pm Magenta: VM's revenge!
	👻 4:03pm Elena: ↳ miss g @4:02 Mine went out also
	4:03pm Phillippe: same stream issue here
	4:03pm berb: The album that broke the internet
	4:03pm Laura L: Yep, stream is down... won't reconnect here either.
	4:03pm Dean: I bet you will recognize at least one song. "Sweet Thing" or "Madame George." But I've never heard the album in full.
	4:03pm Various Julius: disastral weeks - stream failed again
	4:03pm WoodsOfMaine: The stream is woke.
	4:03pm JetBoy of Astoria: Here we go. I’ll be honest - I’ve never heard it as I avoid the Van when I can
	4:03pm coelacanth∅: Karl, i said this a few (astral weeks ago when this subject first arose, but i also like " a period of transition" ... which is just that, and the apprehension in his composition is evident. maybe it was just that day a few months ago, but i really liked it. not a popular one with the idiots i mean the critics
	4:03pm Andrew_in_WI: There it is
	4:03pm Fredericks: Hate's St. Dominic's?
	4:03pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ ?? @3:59 Now, ?, ya don’t have to do this or anything else but you could give WFMU a 1 time donation of 10 dollars and create a wholesome and fun WFMU friendship society user profile!
	4:03pm Dean: After this, will you please play Wavelength or Into the Music?
	4:03pm Phillippe: too rainy for a moondance, I guess...
	4:04pm Laura L: Just got stream back.
	4:04pm Brian C.: Dang, the stream crapped out again
	👻 4:04pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @3:49 My antipathy towards Van Morrison has a deeply personal dimension. In the 1970's a person who was in the same social sphere as I, loved him insanely. One day he came over to our house and started making a hissy fit because I was listening to something contemporary that displeased him.(He was mad because I got the girl he was mad about) He never forgave me or her. Later when we broke up. I got together with yet another one of his failed conquests. Did this make me happy? Not really. It was quite sad really.
	👻 4:04pm G: This is like the day Sgt Pepper came out.
	👻 4:04pm PigeonsAndRust: I've been wondering all day if the wrong record is in there. Its happened to me before
	4:04pm chresti: Play it!
	4:04pm coelacanth∅: then you play fundadelic. simple.
	4:04pm Miss G: I switched to stream0.wfmu.org... and it is playing. I had the most insane day, but then I looked at the clock, and said "maybe I'll try that crazy hippie LP?"
	4:04pm ??: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @4:03 been donating sice 2016..just not signed in
	4:05pm Dean: Free Your Mind and Your Weak Ass Will Follow the Van
	4:05pm Dave in Vermont: Is Ryan Walsh here?
	4:05pm Fredericks: Hope he didn't scratch the record with the knife.
	👻 4:05pm Karl Ward: Irwin: These and other questions are fully answered by Astral Weeks
	4:05pm ?: ↳ ?? @4:00 regifting children is a wonderful idea. They are sustainably sourced so you don’t get those supply chain shortages.
	4:05pm MONEYBAG$: so is this guy like the Irish Jandek or something?
	4:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: GUNG HAY FAT CHOY ! ☆ All Blessings & Great Fortune in Year of the Water 🐇Hare ☆ wfmu.org...
	4:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Asstral Weeks...
	4:05pm allyjojo: will the comments be archived as well?
	4:05pm coelacanth∅: that happens a lot Irwin. mindless asses fill the streets.
	4:05pm ??: ↳ @4:05 Right?
	4:05pm egould: Assy flashy.
	4:06pm Noel: I was turned on to Van Morrison in 1984 by George Perry, a legendary marijuana grower from northeastern North Carolina.
	4:06pm Matt from Springfield: Bathroom breaks accomplished! Me as well, listen to this ecletic, "ununusal" album in its entirety the first time! And...THE UNSEALING SOUND! Clay Pigeon used to feature that sound!
	4:06pm coelacanth∅: ass troll weeks
	4:06pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ ?? @4:04 Ok no problem, so you could sign in… or not!
	4:06pm Dean: When I turned the corner down my quiet residential street yesterday afternoon, traffic was held up by a bunch of mindless turkeys.
	4:06pm Magenta: This is so exciting!
	4:06pm wind: IRWIIIIIIIIN! Hello?
	4:06pm Switchblade Batman: I'm looking forward to it, it's a really good album. I'm trying to find a used copy.
	4:07pm wind: Play it. Take a risk
	4:07pm KWD: its gonna sound worse than the old green warner label
	4:07pm Phillippe: 180 grahams
	4:07pm Switchblade Batman: This exchange is why I prefer CDs.
	4:07pm yippie: has anyone ever played a thirteen inch record on the equipment?
	4:07pm Dean: I wouldn't put a 180g LP on a turntable. I'd put it in the CD player.
	4:08pm Ike: ↳ Phillippe @4:07 Mmmm, grahams.
	👻 4:08pm Will thee Sound Guy: I'm catching this!!!
	4:08pm Sean: I don't fuck with any record less that 2 kilos
	👻 4:08pm βrian: Put it at the top of the stack.
	4:08pm PaulRobeson1923: Any bubbles or factory defects!!!!?
	4:08pm ??: ↳ Dean @4:07 Put it on the stove, lighten it up
	4:08pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:05 Welcome RevRab! And happy Eastern Lunar Astrological Return to you! Annual solar return to follow later this year. "As chriwl" Weeks for me...
	4:08pm Fredericks: It's a song cycle, Irwin.
	4:08pm allyjojo: Does anyone know if the comments are archived along with the program?
	👻 4:09pm Will thee Sound Guy: Hi Irwin and all!!!
	4:09pm Switchblade Batman: yeah they are @ally
	4:09pm Matt from Springfield: Vinyl surface noise makes contact...AND LIFT OFF!!
	4:09pm coldax: GAAHHH! what is that noise
	4:09pm Listener Robert: You sure it's all on ONE LP? Like maybe they cheaped out on sleeves and put two in a single slot of the album?
	4:09pm allyjojo: ↳ Switchblade Batman @4:09 thank you!
	4:09pm dug: nice
	4:09pm Jeezy: oooh... it sounds better than I remember already
	4:09pm Irwin: GOD I HOPE HE DOESN'T CURSE ON THIS ALBUM!!!!
	4:09pm Dean: "G-L-O-R-I-A...!" I recognize this.
	4:09pm love2laf: ↳ allyjojo @4:08 Yes, they show on the bottom of the archived playlist
	4:09pm N'Lo: Aaaaand I already hate it
	4:09pm wind: If it’s heavy does that mean this is heavy music?
	4:09pm Jeezy: WOULD YOU kiSSSaaaa my eyeS?!?!
	4:09pm Miss G: Oh, I see, it's farmer green jeans music (someone I knew used to call it.) But, what, Irish? OK. I'll be quiet.
	4:09pm Jeff Moore: Ohhh. Damn, it still sounds like Van Morrison.
	4:09pm Borg9: 180 gm = 6.35oz
	4:09pm Wendy del Formaggio: Oh. This is actually pretty nice.
	4:10pm Magenta: I like the strings?
	4:10pm dale: is ringworm on this album?
	4:10pm wind: Hi will the sound guy. I just got here too
	4:10pm Phillippe: ↳ allyjojo @4:08 I think one of the other DJs mentioned that she goes back and deletes comments from her older archives
	4:10pm Asheville Jon: oh cool, i didn't miss the world premier of astral weeks!
	4:10pm Feldy: My first time, too
	4:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Astral Weeks" by "Van Morrison" Not a lot of Pop songs apparently from the POV of someone being buried. Or are there.
	4:10pm sydnius: ↳ Borg9 @4:09 dat’s a lot of 🐶🐮
	4:10pm Persimmon: I LOVE wfmu!
	4:10pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ dale @4:10 Hahaha, I wish! Maybe "Dum Dum George" makes an appearance, too.
	4:10pm chresti: Is there an instrumental version of this?
	4:10pm HyperDose: ↳ Feldy @4:10 Virgin club!
	4:11pm Irwin: So far, two minutes in, there's everything I don't like about Van Morrison.
	4:11pm Pedro in Arlington: Long-time caller, first-time listener. What was the history of Irwin never listening to this album?
	4:11pm Farrel Mutanto: I just drove out of WFMU broadcast range as the needle dropped on this record. now I'm never going to hear it
	4:11pm WoodsOfMaine: The whole album is kind of meditative, which is why I like it.
	4:11pm Earl City: I love the way it opens.
	4:11pm coelacanth∅: allyjojo yes. and yes they are, and occasionally not.
	4:12pm Dean: Richard Davis plays bass. Can't be all bad.
	4:12pm N'Lo: The whining. Haaaaaate.
	4:12pm Magenta: He does sound like Bob Dylan on helium though.
	4:12pm Matt from Springfield: I'm a huge fan of this album - agree that it's deserving of the Top 20 of all time that RS usually categorizes it. But, YMMV. Others might not think so. So I'll listen open-mindedly as well, consider what I LOVE about it...and, stuff I might not. Personally, the title track is amazing, the 2nd best of the album, next to "Madame George".
	4:12pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Astral Weeks" by "Van Morrison" Maybe it's wishful thinking, but I really do hear "Dum Dum George" in this song.
	4:12pm jan: My wife is home, so no listening by speakers, and the music played on my phone earbuds is in my head between my ears. But it doesn't seem too far off from tunes previously heard on this frequency or this particular show. The banter about the record is more entertaining, though.
	4:12pm Chris: I heard that the players on the record were impressed with van’s abilities, but very unimpressed when he was late for every session. They did not think it made him cool.
	4:12pm Thin Slice: Clay Pigeon on flute
	4:12pm Phillippe: Me: disliking VM's singing since 1968, apparently
	4:12pm Alan near Boston: Jeez Van, clear your throat already!
	4:12pm dale: i don't mind this. but that jerry lewis LAY-deeeee wailing.....geesh.
	4:12pm SeaCreature: Van played this album at the Beacon a few years back. It was pretty spesh
	4:12pm sydnius: While Mischa contemplates this record, might I comment on just how many black cats WFMU has to go around, us as well.
	4:12pm mr_donutsu: I probably haven’t heard any of this before either.
	4:12pm WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:12 Have you ever read the Lester Bangs take on it in the book "Stranded"?
	4:12pm newberry: I'm a fan of this record, but it's best to listen in the wee hours, in a dimly-lit bedroom, after imbibing and carousing...
	4:13pm JetBoy of Astoria: It’s a meandering “song.” Ok. Sounds like a lot of VM so far
	4:13pm Irwin: This album would be terrific if the producer hadn't hired this singer.
	4:13pm Miss G: ↳ Dean @4:12 Dean I am trying to concentrate on the musicians because I read about the making of the album yesterday.
	4:13pm Dean: Man, I'd love to hear Van sing "Baba O'Riley."
	4:13pm Earl City: ↳ Thin Slice @4:12 Ha!
	4:13pm Brian C.: Don't tell him I said so but I think Irwin is a bit of a contrarian
	4:13pm Feldy: Maybe after this album we should hear "You say France, I'll whistle"
	4:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Sounds a great pressing anyhow.
	4:13pm chresti: ↳ Irwin @4:13 Right?
	4:13pm ?: is there a problem with people not being signed in if they’re interacting civilly? why the gatekeepers?
	4:13pm KingOfJunk: My ex wife loved Van Morrison so I have totally emotional distachment to his music
	4:13pm Persimmon: Great first track
	👻 4:13pm Will thee Sound Guy: crisp
	4:13pm Phillippe: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:13 90 grams a side
	4:13pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Irwin @4:13 You've nailed the problem!
	4:13pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ yippie @4:07 I have an old Record of a General Electric company meeting or memorial to someone who worked for GE, they refer to Truman. It’s Not a 33 or a 45 but it’s big and one sided. Must be a 78 but i can only play it at 45rpm so it’s a bit of a mystery. Found it in Glens Falls, NY
	4:14pm Irwin: Band is awesome. Who's the vocalist ruining the session?
	4:14pm Fredericks: This is the only work of guitarist Jay Berliner that I enjoy. I really enjoy it though.
	4:14pm Alvy Singer: @Irwin--Lester Bang's would be so proud of you. :)
	4:14pm coldax: MAKE. IT. STOP.
	4:14pm Magenta: I'd buy a vocal-free album of this.
	4:14pm Andrew_in_WI: It's very possible that I first heard this album due to J. Jarnow
	4:14pm WoodsOfMaine: Prediction: Irwin's gonna do the Evan Funk Davies tonearm swipe before this thing is over.
	4:14pm JetBoy of Astoria: Nice pressing for sure - shake them shakers!
	4:14pm Dean: Roger Daltrey
	4:14pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Irwin @4:11 i turned it up. and now it's worn thin already. no composition; just a backdrop for his moaning. ... maybe the next song's better though
	4:14pm wind: Omg coldax lol
	4:14pm Miss G: I read VM hated the strings but so far this string part I think is the best part.
	👻 4:15pm rrg: Kenneth Clark: "How wonderful opera would be, if not for the singers."
	4:15pm Ike: ↳ Jeff Moore @4:09 My thoughts exactly.
	👻 4:15pm Karl Ward: Like I said, I love this album. I love this opener especially. But last night I was discussing perfect (no skip) records with some music nerd friends. I came to realize that I'm more interested in almost perfect records, and identifying what it is about them that makes them not quite perfect. For this album, it's "Slim Slow Slider" (the closer). It's not bad, it just doesn't hold up to the rest.
	4:15pm Irwin: ↳ rrg @4:15 Precisely.
	4:15pm ktmwq: Bland Morrison
	👻 4:15pm βrian: Now I'm wondering if the instrumentals were recorded on a separate channel.
	4:15pm joe: Are we listening to the entire album? do it live!!
	4:15pm ?: If you play it backwards you can hear him snoring
	4:15pm Late Bloomer: What a great recording this astral weeks is. Jim Dickinson talks about that brown/dirt sound. To me this is it. Earthy for sure
	4:15pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Song: "Astral Weeks" by "Van Morrison" The start of this song was not pleasant but it’s getting better
	4:16pm joe mulligan: ↳ Song: "Astral Weeks" by "Van Morrison" i too have never heard this album. it's so nice to hear it for the first time... all my life I've only heard the overplayed hits and avoided van Morrison like the plague until today. thank you Irvwn!
	4:16pm paddy in matawan: did somebody say brown?
	4:16pm hilaryprudy: I'm sympathetic re exteme sensitivity to vocals...Irwin feels about Van and Ella like I feel about Julianna Hatfield and the lady from Weyes Blood...yuk
	4:16pm PMCwhenever: thebetter the record, the easier it is to separate the real peep from the performative front peep/band, i find. The passage of time helps too… this is a great record despite himself
	4:16pm sydnius: how does a new album have crackle?
	4:16pm Earl City: I can't wait until you hear Ballerina. Oh man.
	4:16pm Phillippe: Not coincidentally, the dog is indicating she would rather go for a walk in the rain than sit in my office.
	4:16pm Magenta: So there's like 40 more minutes of this?
	4:16pm Irwin: Learning to love Van Morrison. So far, not happening.
	4:17pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @4:12 I have read an excerpt of his writing on it, whichever one appeared in the anthology "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung". My reaction to the album is similar to his.
	4:17pm Fredericks: Already has ticks?
	4:17pm newberry: ↳ sydnius @4:16 That's the 180 grams talking!
	4:17pm franklinsTower: ↳ Farrel Mutanto @4:11 Don't comment board and drive. Shame on you.
	4:17pm Susan: David Crosby tribute next week?
	4:17pm Asheville Jon: this is not nearly as good as his Contractual Obligation Album
	4:17pm Irwin: ↳ Magenta @4:16 I commiserate.
	4:17pm upstatesean: Don’t know if I can take this anymore. Irwin, you win!
	4:17pm Dean: Kenneth Clark actually wrote (and presumably believed) that?! Two words for Kenneth Clark: Conchita Supervia.
	4:17pm sydnius: remember to consider calling 988 if you feel you can’t go on
	4:18pm PNX: Some say new records need to be cleaned. They come dirty from the pressing plant.
	4:18pm Rick from SC: I hear Lonnie Holly
	4:18pm Persimmon: idk if i get it
	4:18pm Phillippe: ↳ Magenta @4:16 140 grams more, unfortunately
	4:18pm Magenta: BESIIIIIIIIIIDE YOUUUUU
	👻 4:18pm PigeonsAndRust: Is that tape hiss?
	4:18pm Noel: I think it has a very “early spring” sound.
	4:18pm Irwin: This album isn't dated at all. It sounds as annoying now as it did in 1968!
	👻 4:18pm Will thee Sound Guy: when does he say 'jelly roll' 🤔
	4:18pm Asheville Jon: tape hiss is on Tony Coulter's show
	4:18pm coelacanth∅: haha, yeah how many grams in are we?!
	4:18pm Tommy in Neversink: To answer a question someone posed: No..this is a live recording
	4:18pm Wendy del Formaggio: His voice is okay if he keeps it to a minimum and doesn't yodel around so much, or whatever it is he calls this style of singing. The music is nice, though. I agree with other commenters who wish for the instrumental version of the album.
	4:18pm Laura L: Either a person's gonna turn it up or down, I guess. I'm going to turn it up for the dead space between songs--I'm already looking forward to the next one.
	4:18pm jan: This "Beside you" is particularly grating on the ears, and fully supports your thesis, Irwin.
	4:19pm PaulRobeson1923: I think we’ve heard enough
	4:19pm coldax: This album sounds like an old pair of Frye boots smell.
	4:19pm Late Bloomer: Brown=💩 as in “shit This sounds awesome.”
	4:19pm Irwin: "Breathe in, breathe out, etc." Good GOD, mother of mercy.
	4:19pm paddy in matawan: my lady really likes Van. I have waited for this show to check it out.
	4:19pm Asheville Jon: i think astral weeks, overdubbed with some Amanada tapes, would make astral weeks tolerable
	4:19pm BH: ↳ Song: "Beside You" by "Van Morrison" excellent instructions on how to breathe in this song
	4:19pm Alan near Boston: "Help, I swallowed a balloon!" - Van Morrison
	4:20pm dale: i guess ivan was the youngest child and had to yell constantly just to get fed.
	4:20pm Phillippe: there's a reason why this isn't a hit on karaoke night...
	4:20pm coelacanth∅: Irwin please try not to post every minute!
	4:20pm ?: Im surprised people don’t parody him more. It’s almost comedy as is
	4:20pm sydnius: ↳ Song: "Beside You" by "Van Morrison" 😱🐐
	4:20pm KingOfJunk: ↳ Irwin @4:16 😂
	4:20pm Irwin: I promised the entire album. I shall deliver. But the only palate cleanser could be the Bang Records Contractual Demos (which I don't have on hand).
	👻 4:20pm Ken From Hyde Park: Astral Weeks, the movie > the book > the album
	4:20pm Miss G: ↳ dale @4:12 (spit out my electrolyte water on that dale) OK I'm out. Will say one more thing.
	4:20pm joe: we have ventured very far into the ..slipstream?
	👻 4:20pm βrian: Exalted torpor.
	4:20pm WoodsOfMaine: Comments are hilarious. If Mark E. Smith sang the same lyrics you'd be creaming your collective shorts.
	4:21pm Alvy Singer: Lester Bang's review of Astral Weeks. genius.com...
	4:21pm Irwin: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:20 Oops! My bad.
	4:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Van Morrison often thrown in with the Dylans & the Great Writers. But really he's like a Soul Singer in the throws of something himself ...on the borderlands of Articulacy whatsoever. In a way that's what this is about. Part JamesJoyce but equally some other drunk & some holy roller having an epiphany. Not everybody's chosen religion - but neither the album everyone else had made.
	4:21pm coldax: SHOOT. ME. NOW.
	4:21pm Ochre Ogre: Hi Irwin!
	4:21pm coelacanth∅: Will @418 Irwin's playing the moondance album right after this one
	👻 4:21pm PigeonsAndRust: I would rather hear Jack LaLanne sing . Bands good though. Wish he'd shut up
	4:21pm newberry: The alchemic magnificence of this album doesn't reveal itself unless you're smoking patchouli while listening...FYI
	4:21pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ sydnius @4:17 Thank you for at least reminding Americans (and Canadians?) that the Suicide Hotline is now a 3-digit emergency number! 😉
	4:21pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: HEY I had to step out to get my insulin prescription at riteaid. Is this the “David Crosby” tribute ???
	4:21pm mr_donutsu: Where is David Crosby when you need him?
	4:21pm PaulRobeson1923: Is this brand new record dusty?
	4:22pm Late Bloomer: You don’t have to be friends with the guy. Just listen to the record and compare it to what else was happening at the time. It’s more interesting than most
	4:22pm Quinn02: I gave it a good effort. But I guess I’m not as strong as the rest of you.
	4:22pm HyperDose: ↳ Song: "Sweet Thing" by "Van Morrison" Okay I know this song
	4:22pm paddy in matawan: I love it when it's cool to hate stuff on the comments board. Usually a mostly-hate-free spot.
	4:22pm Persimmon: Oh here we go. This is cool. I think i've heard this
	4:22pm ?: pfeh. Mark E Smith would nev-ahhh
	4:22pm dale: HE'S RUINING HIS OWN SONG. musicianship and arangement is fantastic. he sounds like he's about to throw up, however.
	4:22pm Chris: Great song
	4:22pm Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Sweet Thing" by "Van Morrison" I love this one.
	4:22pm Dave in Vermont: If I hadn't listened to this album many times I certainly wouldn't want to be trying to form an opinion about it while simultaneously reading the comments of a lot of people who think their opinions matter and are worth more than others.
	4:22pm BH: you think they maxed out the volume on his microphone or is he just that close to the mic?
	4:22pm Thin Slice: Fire that guitar tech.
	4:22pm Phillippe: Irwin, you need to hook up one of those automotive code readers to the turntable and find out why it's making this noise
	4:22pm Miss G: So, I love to learn. But sometimes,. . .last night on Dave Mandl, the first 5 minutes of Yes made my face scrunch up and tears seeped out. Bad flashbacks. ...
	4:22pm Tommy in Neversink: Wow, I didn't expect this level of negativity .
	4:22pm Matt from Springfield: "Sweet Thing" is often the only song from Astral Weeks that has made appearances on his "Best Of" albums.
	4:22pm Ike: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @4:20 Nah, I don't like him either.
	4:22pm joe mulligan: ↳ Irwin @4:19 Ken played a song with that exact title this morning by Negativland. Negativland wore it better of course
	4:22pm paddy in matawan: that cymbal is odd
	👻 4:22pm Karl Ward: ↳ Song: "Sweet Thing" by "Van Morrison" I turned this up crazy loud so you can all hear it if the stream drops out
	4:23pm Andrew_in_WI: I will clicky-star this entire album! Don't care what y'all think
	4:23pm Ochre Ogre: That was a great song, IF he was singing to that black cat in the pic.
	4:23pm Howard & the Cats: I was honestly expecting to like this album, but I really don't, at least not yet. And not a single mention of ringworm.
	4:23pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ dale @4:22 LOL
	👻 4:23pm Will thee Sound Guy: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @4:21 it's dust to make it sound better... it the same idea as putting Vaseline on a glass lens...
	4:23pm GIRABBE: Sweet thing is good
	4:23pm raoulvanhorn: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @4:20 I’m a huge fan of The Fall, and I love Astral Weeks too.
	4:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ paddy in matawan @4:22 It's all odd. & not really Rawk'n'Roll @ all.
	4:23pm VanGo: If this is a current new pressing would explain the horrible sound
	👻 4:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: How would it sound at 45 RPM? 78?
	4:24pm N'Lo: At this point I’m just here for the comments and yes, instrumental would have been fine! This chariot one is kind of growing on me though. Maybe it’s less screeching per bar?
	4:24pm judy from croton: Boring
	4:24pm KingOfJunk: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @4:20 👍🏿🖤😎
	4:24pm paddy in matawan: go van go
	4:24pm HyperDose: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @4:23 I always liked how they did that in the old movies
	4:24pm Irwin: For me, this album wore out its welcome at the two-minute mark. It's excruciating.
	4:24pm WoodsOfMaine: Lester Bangs on Astral Weeks in the book Stranded: www.screamyell.com.br...
	4:24pm berb: ↳ Andrew_in_WI @4:23 Andrew - the bassist is a professor at UW-Madison
	4:24pm Miss G: And with this, I am unknowledgeable, but, matter of taste? one of my favorite singers is Julie London, but, I began reading the book "Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan" and now I'm trying to learn about her, because before, I just called it "wailing" like some modern singers I don't care for. But, I guess I'm trying to say. . .pick your poison. (ie Sarah Vaughan is undoubtedly a genius)
	4:25pm coelacanth∅: i like this track
	4:25pm Magenta: ↳ Song: "Sweet Thing" by "Van Morrison" OK this one is kind of okay but so far this sounds like how old cheese smells.
	👻 4:25pm Seanbelly: Is this album all one song?
	4:25pm Matt from Springfield: An "early spring" sound - I often associate sounds with feelings or places, I suppose it might work with that. It does work well with this rainy cold drizzly day here. I would say that it's very "un-standard", unique is a word often used to praise art, but for those who listen to jazz or soul, this definitely isn't on the same page as what is normally considered jazz or soul. Actually it's more "psychedelic" in many ways, an observation about this album I previously didn't notice.
	4:25pm Phillippe: I'm wondering if it will get better as the turntable begins to drag after hauling these 180 grams of annoyance for 20 minutes or so
	4:25pm Physarum: Never say something once when you can sing it 1,000 times.
	4:25pm VanGo: The sound of someone full of himself
	4:25pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Dave in Vermont @4:22 Good afternoon, Vermont! @Dave, baby, the comments boards are like waves upon the sand!
	4:25pm Ike: ↳ Phillippe @4:22 ROTFLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
	4:26pm James Akers: Is this the new and improved comment board!? This Morrison album would be fun to karaoke- but only because all the vocal riffing would be fun to sing after several drinks
	4:26pm chresti: ↳ Seanbelly @4:25 It seems so
	4:26pm sydnius: remember, you’ve already all earned this: 🏆
	4:26pm coldax: ↳ VanGo @4:25 exactly!
	4:26pm WoodsOfMaine: ↳ raoulvanhorn @4:23 I'm not a fan but that band is kind of hallowed ground around here.
	👻 4:26pm PigeonsAndRust: Man, could you imagine being on a road trip with Van? In a car for sixteen hours ? "I gotta go to the ba-ba-BAAAthroom. Lawd, lawd, pull it over pull it over pull it O-o-oooover"
	4:26pm Irwin: Immersion therapy is supposed to help you overcome fears. I'm terrified of Van's next inevitable outburst.
	4:26pm paddy in matawan: ↳ Ike @4:25 P-0155 - Bad cymbal sensor
	4:27pm ?: You can’t be personally hurt when people don’t love the same exact music that you love. That’s nuts.
	4:27pm VanGo: Whats worse: this or Counting Crows?
	4:27pm Ochre Ogre: Don't remember ever hearing AW entirely. Back in the day seems everyone had a copy.
	👻 4:27pm Seanbelly: Astral weeks contain much longer minutes than regular weeks.
	4:27pm Asheville Jon: will Irwin be smashing the album after he is finished playing it?
	4:27pm BH: unfortunately Cyprus Avenue has been divided since 1974 with no resolution in sight
	4:27pm dale: it's like joe cocker on poppers.
	4:28pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Magenta @4:25 I'd like to defend old cheese here!
	4:28pm paddy in matawan: o man she loves countering crows too. I'm gonna be dead if she's watching the comments board.
	4:28pm coldax: One of the most over rated records of all time
	4:28pm Persimmon: lol dale
	4:28pm Andrew_in_WI: ↳ dale @4:27 That's just Joe cocker
	4:28pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Asheville Jon @4:27 Dan Bodah's "Breaking Records!" He used to do that, play a record, then smash it on Air afterwards!
	4:28pm pgalub: Sha la la la la!
	4:28pm Laura L: So--that contractual obligation... a record company wanted more of this? I was keeping an open mind too, I really was, because I never heard it before, but it got all shut down by VM.
	4:28pm sydnius: ↳ Asheville Jon @4:27 I’ve never been a fan of destruction. Hated when they blew up disco records in baseball stadia.
	4:29pm Magenta: ↳ paddy in matawan @4:28 True. It's an insult to old cheese really.
	4:29pm ??: I have a good friend who loves Van Morrison..My friend drinks only whiskey & slurs a lot. My friend ..he's still my friend
	4:29pm Asheville Jon: Matt, I am thinking more along the lines of when Ken smashed Matt Warwick's/the station's copy of Heavy Metal with an axe
	4:29pm paddy in matawan: Is it a new song yet?
	4:29pm Dave in Vermont: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @4:25 thanks for that reminder. I admit i'm feeling a little defensive. I know most of the comments are meant to be humorous, but folks seem really attached to being coller than thou
	4:29pm moaxey: I've just worked out, you can change the music, keep reading the comments feed and have the best of both worlds!
	4:29pm Nick: It's giving me bad anxiety!
	4:29pm WoodsOfMaine: Not often you see the comments board turn into a frathouse bro subreddit.
	4:30pm Gary: Saw him perform this at the Fillmore during Moondance tour. Scared the crap out of me
	4:30pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: WAIT am I mistake. Is this the VAN MORRSON who died while taking a bath in Paris France apartment back in 1970
	4:30pm dale: it's getting incomprehensible.
	👻 4:30pm PigeonsAndRust: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @4:29 Behold, the uniting power of VM
	4:30pm Asheville Jon: smashed heavy metal album: wfmu.org...
	4:30pm Irwin: The instrumentation and arrangements are great. Is there a Stack-O-Tracks version of this album?
	4:31pm Magenta: ↳ dale @4:30 I heard him go on about cherries a few minutes ago?
	4:31pm Alvy Singer: With consumate dynamics that allow him to snap from indescribably eccentric throwaway phrasing to sheer passion in the very next breath he brings the music surging up through crescendo after crescendo, stopping and starting and stopping and starting the song again and again.
	👻 4:31pm βrian: Excruciate: Latin excruciāt- participial stem of excruciāre , < ex- intensive (see ex- prefix1) + cruciāre to torment, < cruc-em cross.
	4:31pm sydnius: ↳ Irwin @4:30 feed it thru vocal removal AI, it’s quite amazing!
	4:31pm KingOfJunk: Did you flip to side 2 yet?
	4:31pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: What happened to his voice. It doesn’t sound like on the song “light my fire”
	4:31pm chresti: ↳ listener Phillip in the Bronx @4:30 That would be Jim?
	👻 4:31pm Ken From Hyde Park: Maybe this will next appear in the 50₵ bin when there is a Second Saturday Sidewalk Sale?
	👻 4:31pm Will thee Sound Guy: way up on what?
	4:31pm newberry: ↳ listener Phillip in the Bronx @4:30 yes, this was recorded as he was dying
	4:32pm coelacanth∅: i was looking forward to enjoying this album more than i am enjoying it, overall. so it's disappointing. but i liked "sweet thing". this song i liked and now he's gradually wrecking it, sadly. it's a good song; some actual composition, not just the 2-chord backdrop he does so much. but i'd like it more if he just sang, without the acrobatics.
	4:32pm paddy in matawan: skip it
	4:32pm dale: ↳ Magenta @4:31 cherry wine. i mean, boones farm? c'mon - grow up van!
	👻 4:32pm Elena: ↳ Asheville Jon @4:30 Do you remember the year when this happened?
	4:32pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Song: "Cyprus Avenue" by "Van Morrison" This one sounds pretty good
	👻 4:32pm PigeonsAndRust: Is this really only side one?
	4:32pm Marie: My cat is definitely intrigued by it (that or else it is the vegan enchilada casserole). Perhaps VM emits on a special feline wavelength.
	4:32pm ?: ↳ listener Phillip in the Bronx @4:30 Oestral Leaks by Vann Morrson
	4:33pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: So is the song “peace frog” up next
	4:33pm Claire of Wanamassa: Sounds like he is suffering from Ringworm. Could someone please give him a prune danish?
	4:33pm listener Rey: nooo, there's more!!!
	4:33pm Barclay: I too loved Ryan Walsh's book, despite having no love for this record. Anyone wondering WTF is going on with this record is still strongly encouraged to read that book! It's almost as good as Songs in Key of Z
	4:33pm Fredericks: I didn't get this record the first few listens. I was too much of a rocker. It did grow on me.
	4:33pm Dean: Had to step away for a meeting. He's still at it?
	👻 4:33pm βrian: Now for 78??
	4:33pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @4:29 Despite our Freeform ethos and extremely varied listeners, there are certain conventions that develop, and some listeners carry forth stronger than others. E.g., Don McLean is awful, Van Morrison is awful...but also an anti-elite streak. So if music journalists say Astral Weeks is the exception to that rule, they'll make a bigger point of voicing their displeasure than if it wasn't really mentioned.
	4:33pm Claire of Wanamassa: Thank all that is holy. Half over
	4:33pm Magenta: ↳ Song: "Young Lovers Do" by "Van Morrison" OK this is okay too, he's not even wailing so much.
	4:33pm sydnius: oh god it’s badly jazzier
	4:34pm Jeezy: It's got a great "vibe" but it ain't exactly fraught with memorable songs now, is it?
	4:34pm Chris: Van doing a very respectable big band vocal
	4:34pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Seanbelly @4:27 hahaha
	4:34pm Jeff Moore: Side two starting off strong! ...then the singing started.
	4:34pm Magenta: ↳ Magenta @4:33 Maybe he got laryngitis?
	4:34pm paddy in matawan: Is this 2 songs at the same time?
	4:34pm KingOfJunk: Irwin: u sound like ur full of energy!
	4:34pm jan: Was this record not available in the CD format, with scan feature, this whole exercise could have been condensed to a minute.
	4:34pm Ochre Ogre: Irwin- Can you play side 2 at 45/78 PLEASE!?
	4:34pm coelacanth∅: (how not abreast of the comments i am)
	4:34pm Earl City: The horns pop on this one.
	4:34pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: Is this record being played at the right speed? I remember his voice was deeper like on “stronger than dirt”
	4:34pm Phillippe: unforgettable in the wrong way...
	👻 4:35pm Karl Ward: Now I want Ken & Andy to solicit listener versions of Astral Weeks songs, to keep the party going here
	4:35pm dale: and the scatting....
	4:35pm sydnius: scatting. scatting.
	4:35pm Irwin: I feel vindicated.
	4:35pm joe: van's scatting
	4:35pm PaulRobeson1923: I think something happened to the record
	4:35pm listenerFern: are you constipated and when you finaly hear this xxxing album you will be able to relieve your self some things should be left a mystery
	4:35pm Magenta: OH GOD NO
	4:35pm Asheville Jon: Elena: i think it was maybe 2019?
	4:35pm Mister Dobalina: I've got to head out the, uh, uh...dentist, yeah that's what it is, the dentist... bbl.
	4:35pm nathan: man, I had no idea people hated this album so much
	4:35pm Ike: "Scat" indeed.
	4:35pm Jeff Moore: Remember: scat is poop.
	4:36pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:33 Some listeners even express their displeasure for Richard Harris' "MacArthur Park", despite the common paradox that WFMU "Despises American Pie, but loves MacArthur Park" - that's a good summary of said ethos, but by no means universal.
	👻 4:36pm chris in the redwoods: ↳ Song: "Young Lovers Do" by "Van Morrison" i actually like this one. is there a hotline i should call?
	4:36pm coldax: ↳ Song: "Young Lovers Do" by "Van Morrison" It's big band music for hippies
	4:36pm dale: ↳ Irwin @4:35 this is a public service, really.
	4:36pm WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:33 Most of the strong complaints I see are about artists that had the audacity to be gasp popular.
	4:36pm Miss G: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:33 Thank you Matt from Springfield, so well said. I was trying to think of some example "It's not as if this were ___ show and suddenly everyone began to pile on ___" My loathing of _____ shall forever go unsaid, in front of one of my favorite DJs, for instance. . .
	4:36pm Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Young Lovers Do" by "Van Morrison" I don't recall the strings being so prominent on this song.
	4:36pm Magenta: I need to go to the bathroom but I also can't look away from this trainwreck.
	4:36pm chresti: horns, full orchestra? Haha
	4:36pm Wendy del Formaggio: I'm listening to this as I watch the snow and freezing rain fall outside, and I mend a sweater. It's not bad, but again, I wish it was just music w/o VM's voice. But I'm sensitive, and some singing voices make me cringe.
	4:36pm ?: Wow Irwin recreated the platonic ideal of the “you’re probably wondering how I got here” record scratch foley of countless tv show openings when he flipped it. Bravo!
	👻 4:36pm Elena: ↳ Asheville Jon @4:35 Thanks! I will investigate further.
	4:36pm newberry: ↳ coldax @4:36 nailed it
	4:36pm coelacanth∅: oh shit, sydnius i forgot all about that! i was into it because i hated the choices my favorite rock bands were making. but actually i agree with you.
	4:36pm upstatesean: Please Stop!😁
	4:37pm Irwin: Van Morrison and scat-singing. Two of my least favorite things happening at once.
	4:37pm paddy in matawan: the clicky stars dont lie tho
	4:37pm Matt from Springfield: Now the masterpiece! I think. Your Mileage Varies.
	4:37pm Magenta: ↳ Song: "Madame George" by "Van Morrison" "click and clack"
	4:37pm Chris: Sorry, amazing song. Marianne Faithfuls cover is great.
	4:37pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: I don’t know this album. Does it have the song “people are strange” that’s a favorite of mine ???
	4:37pm Irwin: "Madame George" is NINE FUCKING MINUTES LONG.
	👻 4:38pm βrian: ↳ Irwin @4:37 Auto-tune would complete the equation.
	4:38pm PaulRobeson1923: I wonder if the original Sounds better? Back to back comparison?
	👻 4:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Irwin @4:37 How many grams is that?
	4:38pm Brian C.: This LP came out right after Brown Eyed Girl?
	4:38pm Alvy Singer: Van Morrison is interested, obsessed with how much musical or verbal information he can compress into a small space, and, almost, conversely, how far he can spread one note, word, sound, or picture. To capture one moment, be it a caress or a twitch.
	👻 4:38pm Will thee Sound Guy: ↳ Irwin @4:37 lol, 9 minutes of terror for you
	👻 4:38pm Karl Ward: ↳ Irwin @4:37 I believe you meant to say "NINE ALMOST PERFECT MINUTES LONG"
	4:38pm Hugh: Frisbee this crap into the woods.
	4:38pm Marie: I do like the flutage
	4:38pm Thin Slice: I cued up Gone With the Wind at the needle drop on pt. 1, and the synchronicity is eerie.
	4:39pm James Akers: @Ken From Hyde Park, I think each side is 90 grams
	👻 4:39pm chris in the redwoods: madame joy-je.
	4:39pm Dean: An ambitious me would propose a program for one of the streams consisting only of artists/works the DJ dislikes. I assure you, my own list of despised artists would hurt a lot of WFMU feelings. Der Ring des Nibelungen is FIFTEEN FUCKING HOURS LONG.
	4:39pm Louis Boon: Rock solid album. Very glad I tuned in!
	4:39pm sydnius: ↳ Hugh @4:38 Kids might find it! 🤣
	4:39pm Jeff Moore: One thing I'm finding interesting is that I'd always assumed my complete inability to stand Van Morrison was unusual. I guess I'm not alone.
	4:39pm berb: Some listeners seem to be confusing Van Morrison with Jim Morrison. I regret to inform you that this album has no "The End", nor does the singer die.
	4:39pm WR: ↳ Irwin @4:14 Was thinking of writing something like this but worried that I would seem too snarky.
	4:39pm coldax: ↳ Song: "Madame George" by "Van Morrison" This was going to be George Santos' drag queen name before he settled on Kitara Revache.
	4:39pm Magenta: ↳ Dean @4:39 I'd listen. This is an interesting concept!
	4:40pm Louis Boon: The Lester Bangs essay is also amazing!
	4:40pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Irwin @4:37 So, your music nightmare is Van M and Ella Fitzgerald duo LP.
	4:40pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Miss G @4:36 True, there's what we think, and what we reveal to our in-groups, further more what we reveal to wider society.
	4:40pm upstatesean: If you auto tuned, there’d be nothing left…
	4:40pm Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Madame George" by "Van Morrison" Lovely strings.
	4:40pm KWilde: I have to admit I do love some of Moondance - particularly Into The Mystic
	4:40pm Alvy Singer: ↳ berb @4:39 No, but this record will eventually END. :)
	4:40pm Dave in Vermont: So much for being open-minded. See, @paddy 4:37
	4:40pm FishtownMike: TBH, if I only have 9 minutes left to live, I hope they can play this song. Those nine minutes will last forever, and I'll be ready to go at the end.
	4:40pm Marie: It's very wistful and I think there is a lot of beauty in it
	4:40pm Hugh: I thought Atrocious Music show was mothballed.
	4:40pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ coldax @4:39 How is that pronounced anyway? So I can "Dry your eye for Kitara Revache"...
	4:41pm upstatesean: Yeah the flute is cool
	4:41pm paddy in matawan: Apparantly Van has a new single out.
	4:41pm KingOfJunk: I’m calling 911
	4:41pm dale: when he keeps the caterwauling in check it's listenable.
	4:41pm Irwin: Unlike Andy Breckman, Lester Bangs didn't have perfect taste.
	4:41pm PaulRobeson1923: I bet the original sounds better
	4:41pm Matt from Springfield: Dry your eye your eye your eye your eye your eye your eye your eye your eye your eye your eye Say goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye
	4:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It is about someone in drag of course.
	4:42pm ?: ↳ Dean @4:39 what with the hurt feelings? It’s like getting upset that someone doesn’t like tomatoes or the color green
	4:42pm Tommy in Neversink: Nine wonderful, blissful minutes Irwin
	👻 4:42pm Ken From Hyde Park: What's hot: 2022: Prog 2023: Plod
	4:42pm joe: the love to love the love to love
	4:42pm WoodsOfMaine: ↳ paddy in matawan @4:41 Is it called "I hate woke m&m's"?
	4:43pm paddy in matawan: Almond Joy?
	4:43pm Barclay: FWIW Maria McKee does a great version of "Way Young Lovers Do" that made me think I might like the original. I do not.
	4:43pm Late Bloomer: I had no idea this record was so polarizing. Set and setting I guess. Always love listening to Irwin play records though. You are a very entertaining dj Irwin
	4:43pm psdnyc: Wow, thank you for playing this album through. It's been a while. Brings tears to my eyes.
	4:43pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Song: "Madame George" by "Van Morrison" I hope Madame George is ok
	4:43pm ILikedWaterworld: best album ever, so far. and i have great taste in things.
	4:43pm berb: love to love you, baby
	4:43pm John L: ↳ @4:42 I hate tomatoes and I get plenty of guff for it.
	4:43pm upstatesean: Yeah Hugh, Irwin still doing that!
	4:43pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:42 Not there's anything wrong with that.
	4:43pm Magenta: you're right you're right you're right
	4:44pm PB: The one and only Van Morrison track I could ever deal with was TB Sheets.
	4:44pm Louis Boon: Lester Bangs: "For one thing, what it means is Richard Davis's bass playing, which complements the songs and signing all the way with a lyricism that's something more than inspired, something that has been touched, that's in the realm of the miraculous. The whole ensemble – Larry Fallon's string section, Jay Berliner's guitar (he played on Mingus' BLACK SAINT AND THE SINNER LADY), Connie Kay's drumming – is like that: they and Van sound like they're not just reading but dwelling inside of each other's minds."
	4:44pm Tommy in Neversink: I didn't expect the nastiness .I'm a bit taken aback by it
	4:44pm WoodsOfMaine: Music resonance (or lack of) is an interesting thing. We've all got that list. Why do I not like David Bowie or Ween? Dunno, I keep trying but nothing ever happens.
	4:44pm dale: sometimes his phrasing is like he has his tongue froze to a metal light pole.
	4:44pm Irwin: ↳ Hugh @4:40 On point, Hugh!
	4:44pm Gary: If you heard this album in 1968, you would have had a different opinion. There was nothing comparable
	4:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I think it's flawless & beautiful - Van for all his - make your own list - made a Classic & gave it to the World - & y'all otoh are all high on your own supply of mutual & self-congratulatory bitterness. But hey - whatever gets you thru.
	4:45pm paddy in matawan: drum tech! we need a drum tech down here!
	4:45pm The Butterman: Is that fucking “moon dance “ song on this album? I hope not. I really know nothing about this so called lizard king.
	4:45pm Tommy in Neversink: Rev. Rabbit ..I'm with you
	4:45pm Magenta: The bass sounds nice I guess.
	👻 4:45pm G: He didn't have a tourettes diagnosis, did he?
	4:45pm PB: @Woods - Bowie never did it for me either, with the one major exception of Aladdin Sane. That whole album is great.
	4:45pm WoodsOfMaine: I love how this was such a left turn from the previous album. No hits, singles, etc. But I think some legal hooey had something to do with that.
	4:45pm chresti: Ricky Lee Jones did that "lubdlaluvdeluvdeluv.." thing too
	4:45pm upstatesean: Nobody’s attacking anyone else here! It’s just different opinions about some music
	4:45pm sydnius: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:44 One man’s tripe is delicious.
	4:46pm Jules in VT: meh
	4:46pm Hopatcong Doug: “And the loves that love to love that loves to love That loves to love the loves that loves to love The love that loves to love…”
	4:46pm coelacanth∅: Matt, i like "american pie" (and "vincent" but the rest of the album's pretty boring) and don't know anything about Don MacCleen (sp!) so have nothing at all against him personally. i don't care much about "macArthur park" - and mostly can't stand yoko ono, musically and personally... and know that she never did anything that someone else didn't do first. so there! Fuck the wolf pack.
	4:46pm Louis Boon: Incredible that he was only 22/23 when he recorded this
	4:46pm Crosby in KC: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:41 I don't think it's really the repetition. Bill Withers says, "I know" 26 times in a row on Ain't No Sunshine and it works.
	4:46pm Irwin: Jandek would be a palate-cleanser after this.
	4:46pm Dave in Vermont: ↳ Jules in VT @4:46 lol
	4:46pm ??: Not a fan of Van, or Mark E. Smith or Don Maclean or Richard Harris or Sonic Youth. WFMU or popularity of an artist does not "dictate' my like or dislike of them. I listen, I may like some aspect of these songs (like most of the bass playing so far) or maybe nothing but hey, they all have/had success in a very tough biz. I'm happy for them all. Over-analyzation is a common thread on these boards. The rest is just for comedy's sake. If people are too thin skinned, scroll on by
	4:46pm Alvy Singer: He repeats certain phrases to extremes that from anybody else would seem ridiculous, because he's waiting for a vision to unfold, trying as unobtrusively as possible to nudge it along. Sometimes he gives it to you through silence, by choking off the song in midflight: "It's too late to stop now!"
	4:46pm Tommy in Neversink: upstream...the comments are unnecessarily mean
	4:46pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ sydnius @4:45 I ate tripe in Philly a few months ago. Actually "tripe" is quite good, regardless of that reputation!
	4:46pm AC Paint: I love Lester Bangs,but this is certainly not the best album ever. I have never heard it in it’s entirety either. Time has acclimated me to Van, he’s not as annoying as, say, The Beach Boys. Pet sounds is another greatest record I never liked.
	4:47pm dale: was it wnew that used to play a new album in it's entirety once a week? fmu should do this more often.
	4:47pm Dean: I was being a bit hyperbolic, ?@4:42. Just as some listeners might have been hoping in vain that Irwin would come around to appreciating Van, if I played, say, Elvis Costello, precisely because I can't stomach anything he's ever done (with an exception or two), it might provoke needless tension on the comment board.
	4:47pm joe: from Bangs: "'Madame George' where he sings the word 'dry' and then 'your eye' twenty times in a twirling melodic arc so beautiful it steals your own breath..."
	4:47pm sydnius: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:46 😉
	4:47pm wheelocks latin: Not a bad album, appreciate his willingness to stretch out. VM I think does love music and makes music that he cares about, so he can only be so bad.
	4:47pm Dean: Whoo, boy, ??@4:46, Sonic Youth would get a ton of play on my imagined show.
	4:48pm Ochre Ogre: And i thought Doobie Bro's song ending, 'World listen to the music, the world listen to music, oh the world listen to...' was too much.
	4:48pm Jeezy: I kinda like that they didn't tune the guitar on Ballerina...
	4:48pm Asheville Jon: ugh, this whole album is endless drivel
	4:48pm Magenta: I apologize if I was unnecessarily mean. I got caught up in the moment.
	4:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Have thot that it's a truism - if a Work is strongly Polarizing ...usually an indication something worthwhile is for sure happening there.
	4:48pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:46 "Fuck the wolf pack"! That's what we all have in common! 😃
	👻 4:49pm PigeonsAndRust: ↳ Gary @4:44 You're right, that is an important point being ignored
	4:49pm Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ: Never was a big Van Morrison fan. This rekkid hasn't converted me.
	👻 4:49pm chris in the redwoods: never heard this album. don't hate it at all!
	4:49pm VanGo: Re: truisms - I believe in the philosophy of the exception
	4:49pm joe: ↳ PB @4:44 'TB Sheets' is a bop
	4:49pm Irwin: ↳ ?? @4:46 I love Mark E. Smith, but I get why lots of people aren't fans. I even get why people are fans of Van. I just don't get his overwrought wailing. I wish he'd dial it down a bit.
	4:49pm KingOfJunk: ↳ ?? @4:46 🖤🤡
	4:49pm Listener Robert: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @4:36 Yes, the whole album sounds very pretty and relaxing except for the vocals. The same voice singing with less sweet and pretty music would be good, though. Maybe he should make stuff like that some time.
	4:49pm Hugh: String overdubs and the whining make my ears bleed
	4:50pm ??: ↳ Dean @4:47 and that's fine too :) It's just a matter of taste. ALL music is good music to someone & that's the way it is
	4:50pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:48 Love it-Loathe it-Confused by it-or Never heard it. But seldom would someone listen to this whole album without any personal reaction.
	4:50pm James Douglas: Gastral creaks
	4:50pm Late Bloomer: “I like waterworld”. Hahaha!
	4:50pm Magenta: I mean, I personally liked "Taste the Biscuit" but I can understand why people don't like it.
	4:50pm PB: @ Joe, a “bop”? What is that?
	4:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ VanGo @4:49 - that's a good truism.
	4:50pm PaulRobeson1923: What is that song Van sings about fishing poles and getting wet? That IS a Great song
	4:50pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Irwin @4:49 Everything you just said, I second.
	4:51pm headcleaner: My take so far (having tuned in just now): A lovely bed of instruments - but I just can't get past the voice. Maybe there's good songwriting crafstmanship behind what we're hearing, or maybe there isn't. The guy may even have a story to tell. But with the incessant verbal squawking that keeps tumbling out over the impeccable musical arrangements, I'm not sure I'll ever get to know. Plus (this song, Madame George) at least is just too long, way too long. Pray for The End.
	👻 4:51pm rrg: "If two people disagree about a work of art, the person who likes it is correct."
	4:51pm coelacanth∅: i like this song too
	4:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @4:50 'Stoned Me'
	4:51pm Fredericks: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:25 Interesting point Matthew.
	4:51pm listener monica: wow I didn't like Van Morrison until this.
	4:51pm ??: ↳ Irwin @4:49 and that's fine too :) It's just a matter of taste. ALL music is good music to someone & that's the way it is
	4:51pm Alan near Boston: ↳ PB @4:44 Yeah forgot about TB Sheets - a good 'un!
	4:51pm Persimmon: love that rrg
	4:52pm KingOfJunk: ↳ Irwin @4:49 🖤☠️
	4:52pm katharsis: Haven’t looked at the chat since it started. I think it’s almost over?
	👻 4:52pm PigeonsAndRust: ↳ Irwin @4:49 Imagine if he sang this album in a style like, say Fred Neil. I could get into it then
	4:52pm sydnius: This, too, shall pass.
	4:52pm Dean: Van doesn't sound entirely unlike Mick Jagger at times.
	4:52pm HyperDose: Got my line dancing shoes on!
	4:52pm Persimmon: dean i thought that
	4:52pm joe: ↳ PB @4:50 It's what the kids call a good upbeat song you could dance to
	4:52pm ILikedWaterworld: ↳ Dean @4:52 i hear it
	4:52pm Jeezy: I got no prob with the voice. I just like memorable songs with solid hooks. But I understand that makes me an anachronism in the age of Billie Eilish, etc. In a way. Van was ahead of his time with this kind of formless yet enchanting mush...
	4:52pm VanGo: ↳ Dean @4:52 True
	4:53pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Alan near Boston @4:51 Interesting early version of "Madame George" on that one - more of a soul-chorus arrangement than the jazzy chamber music one on AW.
	👻 4:53pm Mark Hurst: Greetings, Irwin. All.
	4:53pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Irwin @4:49 Good point, difficult for most, but when one clicks into The Fall they're hooked for life.
	4:53pm The Butterman: ↳ rrg @4:51 I like that! I used to say shala la la la la la la la la la la…la dee dah but I don’t say that anymore!
	4:53pm Marie: You know, I like album listening "parties." It's interesting to hear this whole album
	4:53pm upstatesean: Unpopular Music? Was that the name of Irwin’s old show?
	4:53pm listener Rey: ↳ headcleaner @4:51 My feelings exactly re: arrangements. Wish he would sit one out.
	4:54pm Alvy Singer: What Astral Weeks deals in are not facts but truths. Astral Weeks, insofar as it can be pinned down, is a record about people stunned by life, completely overwhelmed, stalled in their skins, their ages and selves, paralyzed by the enormity of what in one moment of vision they can comprehend.
	4:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ PigeonsAndRust @4:52 Well, Fred Neil singing anything. Van is the Auteur of this entire outing. Of course this thing they're doing is about the precise Players, but disecting his Credits is counterfactual.
	4:54pm Alan near Boston: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:53 I'll check it out!
	4:54pm hilaryprudy: some people like Bjork, to me she's a shreiker...
	4:54pm Mark in Columbus Ohio: Enjoying part 2 as opposed to part 1. Thanks for playing this album I never listened to despite being 70 years old.
	4:54pm KingOfJunk: ↳ rrg @4:51 👍🏿
	4:55pm andy fuchs: this dreck can't end soon enough....
	4:55pm WoodsOfMaine: I love this album but I do like Van's vocals more on later albums where they are indeed dialed back.
	4:55pm coelacanth∅: i just wish he sang the songs and left it at that. i don't dislike his voice, in fact i like it -as i always have... but the scat/acrobatics ruins most of his music , what i've heard (maybe 15 albums)
	4:55pm joe: do a yoko album next week
	4:55pm Asheville Jon: some people like cupcakes better. i, for one, care less for them.
	4:55pm Dean: It's not his voice, or not exclusively his voice, that sometimes turns me off. It's his tendency to stick a toe in Gospel and to milk the vibe in search of a transcendence that so rarely occurs in music. (Sibelius, sometimes, maybe?)
	4:55pm Yvang: Imagine the same songs sang by Nick Drake.
	4:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ hilaryprudy @4:54 You know - fair enuff. Prince frankly irritates me somehow - @ the same time I acknowledge he was probly as broadly talented as anyone ever.
	4:56pm Asheville Jon: i wish Jandek would do a full length cover of astral weeks
	4:56pm Jeezy: I was hoping Irwin and maybe Micah were gonna chat over it the whole time. That would be entertaining!
	👻 4:56pm Ken From Hyde Park: Needs more cowbell, that's the problem.
	4:56pm sydnius: I had a roommate who couldn’t take Kate Bush. Me, Nat Merch. nthx
	4:56pm coldax: this record does not deserve the pedestal people place it upon. You can like it but I have never heard anything that places in a pantheon of greatness.
	4:56pm Alvy Singer: Maybe what it boiled down to is one moment's knowledge of the miracle of life, with its inevitable concomitant, a vertiginous glimpse of the capacity to be hurt, and the capacity to inflict that hurt.
	👻 4:56pm rrg: I remember liking this one ("Slim Slow Slider"). Maybe I still do. But I can't rationalize that.
	4:56pm ?: ↳ The Butterman @4:45 ha ha Butterman you just reminded me of an SNL sketch of people in a crowd at a VM show. Moondance figures heavily into it
	4:56pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Jeezy @4:52 "Formless yet enchanting mush..." there's our marquee sign!! I do admit as a fan, that "Slim Slow Slider" is a disappointing ending to this album. Some have written that it finishes the character arc and expresses his disappointment, but Pet Sounds finished with "Caroline No" - sad and disappointing sentiment but SO BEAUTIFUL in every way. And the strange album ending with the trains and dogs! Perhaps another track, or an extension of this track might make the ending I want to the rest of this album.
	👻 4:56pm PigeonsAndRust: ↳ Marie @4:53 And its great that there are also people here who are deeply moved by it and love it! A good friend told me it changed her life. When they said that I listened to it twice, and put it aside. That was years ago. Revisiting it here with very different eyes, it's still not for me...but its fun listening with other people
	4:56pm paddy in matawan: DRUM TECH! NOW!
	4:56pm Patty D: Never heard this song before. It’s good.
	4:56pm HyperDose: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @4:56 That's it
	4:56pm raoulvanhorn: Imagine Guernica painted by da Vinci. Pointless.
	4:56pm hilaryprudy: Bjork is incredibly talented...I just don't care for her music...
	👻 4:57pm admiral crisp: it's been emotional
	4:57pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:51 Thanks Rev Rabbit
	👻 4:57pm Will thee Sound Guy: It's over?
	4:57pm Asheville Jon: oh thank freakin Gus Bodenheim that aw is finally freakin' over
	4:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...You did it !
	4:57pm coelacanth∅: i wont stay for a yoko album, except "plastic ono band"
	4:57pm Dean: Van has a tribute album to Mose Allison. He also has a nice tune, "What's Wrong With This Picture?," in which he laughs out loud to good effect.
	4:57pm Phillippe: That was educational
	4:57pm Magenta: That was it?
	👻 4:57pm βrian: The passengers are really clapping now.
	4:57pm James Akers: sweet relief to my ears- its finally over!
	4:57pm Chris: That was fun!
	4:57pm Howard & the Cats: At least it's not a double LP...
	4:57pm markinbrooklyn: That went by in a flash! Sounded like one song…
	4:57pm Claire of Wanamassa: Hooray. It’s over.
	4:57pm paddy in matawan: Now back to the irregularly unscheduled programmeng ??
	4:57pm The Butterman: ↳ @4:56 I’ll have to check that out. !
	4:57pm coelacanth∅: Dean, yes, it's the milking.
	4:57pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ hilaryprudy @4:56 Same. It's never said anything to me. But I get why people love her.
	4:57pm listener 126464: Not too bad!
	4:58pm Dean: I hope Irwin pulls a Matt Warwick "Heavy Metal" and devotes part of his show each week to a replay of the album.
	4:58pm dale: i liked the last song. and not because it was last.
	4:58pm Cooh John: I don't hear a single.
	👻 4:58pm admiral crisp: you have to listen to an album at least three times to really judge it. run it back irwin
	4:58pm paddy in matawan: \m/
	4:58pm P.Welles: Its classic for a reason
	4:59pm AC Paint: The instrumental parts are nice. Vocals go on and on.
	4:59pm Magenta: It was okay. The vocals weren't my cup of tea but I liked the music.
	4:59pm PaulRobeson1923: Perhaps the vocals are better on the original?
	4:59pm Matt from Springfield: And now Irwin, you know for sure! If ever there was an exception to a Van Morrison preference, this is it! So your Van dislike is proven to be complete!
	👻 4:59pm Karl Ward: ↳ admiral crisp @4:58 Let's do this
	4:59pm HyperDose: ↳ admiral crisp @4:58 And stoned too!
	4:59pm Asheville Jon: please play an hour of Amanda to make up for that horrible van morrison dreck
	4:59pm rbx: "overwrought caterwauling" is a good one
	4:59pm Dean: Van's "All In The Game" is gorgeous.
	4:59pm Brendan: You're wise to fear the Van. Even more so if somebody is trying to talk you into it.
	4:59pm The Butterman: ↳ raoulvanhorn @4:56 Leonardo da Vinci( use his full name not the town he was from) would fuck ( in a good way ) up a version of Guernica!
	4:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Van doesn't sing he testifies.' That's astute especially from someone who doesn't like him.
	4:59pm Lizardner Dave !: ME WANT COOKIE!!!!!
	5:00pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ HyperDose @4:59 Stoned me just like a jelly roll...
	👻 5:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: "You have to listen to the notes his isn't singing." "I could do that at home."
	5:00pm sydnius: ooh plz some Jandek palate cleanser
	5:00pm ILikedWaterworld: Lyin' Eyes on repeat, please
	5:00pm raoulvanhorn: A guy I knew long ago said Van is the only guy he knows who can sound like a saxophone when he sings.
	5:00pm Alvy Singer: Then put on The Shaggs.
	5:00pm J-W from B: When will you do another Moondog special?
	5:00pm jan: RE Van Morrison, I'm with you Irwin. The singing was perilously close in quality to the music you played back lo those many decades ago on Atrocious Music and Incorrect Music.
	5:00pm coelacanth∅: i like a solid 3 songs, and another 1-2 with reservations
	5:00pm Dean: Compare "judicious caterwauling."
	5:00pm Magenta: And the turntable didn't break! Yay!
	5:00pm Marie: It was very of its time, that album, I think
	5:00pm Tommy in Neversink: Since you're not gonna listen to it again can I have the album
	5:01pm Laura L: I don't think I even want to hear Ringworm again after that!
	5:01pm Rick from SC: Ahhhh.... Back to the music.
	5:01pm ILikedWaterworld: ↳ Tommy in Neversink @5:00 too heavy for US Mail
	👻 5:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ coelacanth∅ @5:00 My feelings, too.
	5:01pm Dave in Vermont: ↳ Tommy in Neversink @5:00 Oh that's a good idea. My daughter would love have this on vinyl.
	5:01pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:59 Good way of putting it! I like the testifyin' and beltin' on this album - I did notice some points where he kind of diverges into...Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" voice maybe? I like those parts less, but overall enjoy the music, lyrics and presentation.
	5:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...because Irwin is famous for not appreciating Artists with atypical technique or expression. See...
	5:02pm Sean: I kinda liked it. It would grow on me if I cared to listen to it again but I don't. I can see why people who listened to it obsessively during breakups or something are attached. It would have worked for that. Some albums are salves you kinda have to dredge up some pain and let it get coated. I did a bit of that here, laying on the bed, and I felt it.
	5:02pm Alvy Singer: ↳ Tommy in Neversink @5:00 Too soon to ask Tommy. The wounds are still fresh.
	5:02pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Song: "Scissors" by "Mélissa Laveaux" A song about being drawn and quartered? A? Does Van have anything comparable?
	👻 5:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Should've invited Shooby Taylor for some backing vocals.
	5:03pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Alvy Singer @5:00 YES! Did The Shaggs issue a complete album? Let's do a full listen of that next! 😁
	5:03pm Listener Robert: There are a lot of not-so-good singers whose music I like because the production as a whole complements their not-so-good singing. Jonathan Richman's not a good singer but, whether live or recorded, the music he makes is very enjoyable.
	5:03pm HyperDose: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:00 I'm afraid to scroll up and peruse the slander. I enjoyed it!
	5:03pm raoulvanhorn: ↳ The Butterman @4:59 He wasn’t from “da Vinci”, he was from Vinci. I’ve been to his house. He said it was ok to call him that.
	5:03pm coelacanth∅: hey well i also can't stand the breathy, devoid of sincerity vocals that are so fashionable nowadays too, so... everyone has an opinion.
	5:04pm Dean: I guess Irwin didn't know about the mystery track at the end of Astral Weeks. It's the one he was concerned about @4:09. Van sings The Fish Cheer.
	5:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Sean @5:02 Context matters much more than we want to admit I do think ...FMU is rather often a study in just this. Dylan's early 70s BreakUp Classics kind of saved my life. Do I want to go there a lot ? Not actually. Hell - a lot of early 90s Musics I bonded deeply with - but don't wanna have to put on the right shoes to trudge thru Grungeland again that much...
	5:05pm The Butterman: ↳ raoulvanhorn @5:03 Oh good. Tell him I said hi and ask if we can call him Vince. That’d be cool.
	5:05pm popchop: Wow. Caterwauling, Counting Crows comparisons...Hahaha.
	5:05pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ HyperDose @5:03 Understandable! For the most part the reactions are funny, those who didn't like it mostly played it well in a 7SD-Ken & Andy way. But, no need to go back and review if you know yourself what you like! 😄
	👻 5:06pm Franco Twinkie: I was drawing with ink the whole time, and in that regard it worked beautifully. Hypnotic and monotonous, I never dropped my brush once.
	5:06pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ coelacanth∅ @5:03 Amen, in general such crap!
	5:06pm raoulvanhorn: ↳ The Butterman @5:05 Well, he’s dead now, so…
	5:06pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ coelacanth∅ @5:03 I don't like the breathy vocals thing, either, especially when grown women use that style and sound like what I call "breathy toddlers." It's too pedo for me. Claudine Longet, I'm looking at you!
	5:06pm Listener Robert: Dean, did you ever get an explanation of why the Niebelungenlied made such an impression in the culture? When I was given the reason, it was mind-blowing. It's posibly the best vindication of Keynesian economics, which generally I'm skeptical of.
	5:06pm nathan: ↳ Song: "Broken Cd" by "Beabadoobee" keeping the Van Morrison theme going by playing artists named after some of his best scats
	5:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ popchop @5:05 Van very influential in a few ways on a few people. Not an accident.
	5:07pm Asheville Jon: i sure hope that gus Bodenheim comes back whhhith a whhhhhitty and scathing rebuke on the awfulness of astral weeks.
	5:07pm sydnius: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:05 I’ve never noticed the ”710 fluid” nature of that acronym before, thanks for enlightening me! 😀
	5:07pm dale: irwin - maybe robin kahn (sp?) can cover the moondance album.
	5:07pm Brendan: I love Wavelength . Some of his songs though , wow. The glutteral vocal phrasings sound like he could benefit from more fiber in his diet.
	5:08pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @5:05 A younger 90s kid, technically too late for even grunge, but it's notable bands and influence persisted the rest of the decade when I grew up. I think...the main problem with grunge is "grunge". And its biggest virtue is also "grunge". Complex relationship with its output fer shure...
	5:08pm Dean: That is an intriguing notion, Listener Robert. You're skeptical of Keynesian economics, or of The Ring as its vindication?
	5:09pm Dean: Compared to Billy Corgan, Van Morrison is angelic.
	5:09pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Weeded Out" by "The Roches" Irwin, is this song dedicated to "Astral Weeks"?
	5:09pm zzz: ↳ Song: "Weeded Out" by "The Roches" Roches vocals definitely a palate cleanser
	5:09pm Phillippe: ↳ Song: "Weeded Out" by "The Roches" Likin' this a lot
	5:09pm Listener Robert: I'm skeptical of Keynesian economics, but the story behind the Ring seems to show that under some conditions it works spectacularly.
	5:09pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ sydnius @5:07 "7SD" = "710 fluid"?
	5:09pm hilaryprudy: enjoying the sisters...
	👻 5:10pm Elena: Love the Roches. Their eponymous album from 1979 was recently back-reviewed at Pitchfork pitchfork.com...
	5:10pm sydnius: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:09 stay on it worth the work
	5:10pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @5:06 haha Wendy yeah even worse! - and the little girl bubblegum pop, without the breathiness, also something i wont stick around for. it's the reason i rarely ever listened to Sheila's probably mostly good show - because i turned it off as soon as her opening song started!
	5:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:08 Well - I liked Screaming Trees most of all - less Popular than most. But I use 'Grunge' as shorthand ...& because it's pretty descriptive of the feeling of the era in fact - & what I mean about that.
	5:11pm Carmichael: Just got free to listen. Was Astral Weeks on ode to, or a send-up of?
	5:11pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Weeded Out" by "The Roches" The Roche sisters: likewise a very "un-standard" folk variety. Some might tune them out. Me, I love them for their quirks even more.
	5:11pm Carmichael: I enjoy the Hammond Song and the song about cleaning behind the steam table.
	5:12pm HyperDose: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:05 Good call. 7SD is always a nice palate cleanser 🍨
	5:12pm Dean: Is the story behind The Ring the mythology it recounts, or the story of the work's composition and production? Have to confess, I can't see either connection, but I don't know the details.
	👻 5:13pm chris in the redwoods: ↳ Song: "Oceans Niagara" by "M83" Geddy Lee on synths? i hear Rush.
	5:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:11 Course a characteristic of Pop(ular Musics) is a distinctive voice often gets you further than a truly fine one. It's about Sounds, right ? ...Or - like someone observing Mickey Dolenz being an Actor (if not a background in Singing) gave him an edge in getting a thing across.
	5:14pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ coelacanth∅ @5:10 Yeah, the little girl vocals thing...blecch! I have two exceptions to my anti-"I'm a grown woman sounding like a baby" rule. Jessica Pratt, because her music is odd and lovely, and her use of reverb remedies some of the baby thing. And Blossom Dearie, because she's got a good sense of musical humor, but that took a lot of work on my part to get to liking her.
	5:14pm ?: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @4:42 ha ha Is he is big libertarian dipshit now too? Typical.
	5:14pm PaulRobeson1923: Encore!! Encore!
	5:15pm Wind: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @5:14 LOL
	5:16pm PaulRobeson1923: That was a good song, wind. Hope yer doing well
	5:16pm Wind: Don't forget this is from the perspective of Gus B being in Love !
	5:17pm Marie: "the silent g spot of agnostics" @)))
	5:17pm Wendy del Formaggio: Not a fan of Boston at all, but that Joe D'Allessandro comment just made me laugh out loud VERY... um... hard.
	5:17pm HyperDose: This is gold 😂
	5:17pm sydnius: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @5:14 I loved Blossom Dearie from SHR, as many.
	5:17pm Dean: Is Gus B married to Cardi? Now that woman can sing.
	5:17pm Wind: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @5:16 yes thanks Paul just got a new job so im still trying to feel out what shows I can listen to on fmu :) I've been randomly in and out of chats...
	5:17pm hilaryprudy: ah Mission Hill..
	5:17pm Listener Robert: The Avars were a semi-civilized people in central Europe. They were masters at raiding, plundering all nations and then just hoarding the spoils. They had no idea what else to do with them, so they just hoarded them. Because so much of what they plundered was stuff used as money, and modern banking had not been invented, they therefore plunged Europe into a deflationary depression for generations. Eventually, after repeated campaigns, the Franks conquered the Avars. The Avar land was surrounded by fortifications. When the Carolingians liberated the spoils, they didn't hoard it, they distributed it among their cronies, and although you'd think this would result only in a transfer of wealth to their crown, it eventually caused a diffusion of all that money -- and an economic boom throughout Europe! This period was so important in Europe's history that it was retold allegorically as the Niebelung's song. Oh, the innermost of the Avar fortresses? It was called...the Ring.
	5:17pm Fredericks: Lyman is a fascinating character.
	5:17pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @5:13 Certainly doesn't pay to sound the same, "indistinct". Did Gus record a 1968 album? Let's listen to that! (Even if it's more Shatner-esque, speaking over background music!)
	5:18pm coelacanth∅: Wendy i LOVE Jessica! especially her first album. i'll have to check out Blossom Dearie
	👻 5:18pm Will thee Sound Guy: 🔥
	5:18pm Listener Robert: And of course, they gave us..."avarice".
	5:18pm PaulRobeson1923: Huxley wrote crystals and rare earth metals are portals/they reflect the other side…
	5:19pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Song: "Weeded Out" by "The Roches" The Roches are balm for the soul and ear. Songs like this from Another World are paradoxically extra fresh to me because of the way I initially rejected the records not produced by Fripp — so, less listening more fresh. The sound still sucks compared to the Fripp records, but Roches is better than not-Roches!
	5:19pm Dean: That's marvelous, Listener Robert.
	5:19pm PaulRobeson1923: Crystals by themselves are just Crystals
	5:19pm Wind: ↳ Song: "Into the Mystic" by "Gus Bodenheim" ❤️❤️❤️
	5:19pm raoulvanhorn: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @5:14 I agree about Jessica Pratt. How about Joanna Newsome?
	5:20pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ sydnius @5:17 That's what mostly turned the tide for me, her work with SHR. It's perfect.
	5:20pm Wind: ↳ HyperDose @5:17 Gus IS Gold
	5:20pm Magenta: I think maybe Micah should tackle L. Ron Bodenheim on his next episode of Music of Mind Control.
	5:21pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @5:18 Anyone else read that book. I think Morrison’s brother read it
	5:21pm Mup Mahoy: Are there a limited number of Gus rants? I know I've heard this one before. Keep 'em comin!
	5:21pm Phillippe: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @5:14 I'm a fan of Blossom Dearie as well
	5:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Into the Mystic" by "Gus Bodenheim" Bears repeat play.
	5:21pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ raoulvanhorn @5:19 JN's early stuff makes my ears bleed, but Ys. is stunning.
	5:22pm Phillippe: ↳ raoulvanhorn @5:19 I can't do Johanna Newsome
	5:22pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Parallelograms" by "Linda Perhacs" Ahhhhhh, a true Irwin fave and classic here!
	5:23pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Parallelograms" by "Linda Perhacs" This song has been running through my head for a few weeks. Math rock!
	5:23pm Wendy del Formaggio: Sorry. Math FOLK.
	5:23pm Dean: I'm generally not a fan of "breathy" female (nor, for that matter, male) voices, but then I grew to admire A Girl Called Eddy thanks to WFMU. The kewpie doll voice doesn't bother me. I love Blossom Dearie, Doja Cat, SZA...
	5:24pm coelacanth∅: the Ys ep (3 tracks recorded with Joanna's touring band) is by far my favorite Newsom release. it's Incredible. Beautiful. Brilliant!
	5:24pm raoulvanhorn: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @5:23 Geometry folk, to be exact. :)
	5:24pm Alan near Boston: Yo, Irwin, me and so many people I know have horrible colds. Can you play "Bless You" by John Lennon?
	5:24pm coelacanth∅: ...and there's some fantastic saw playing on it!
	5:24pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @5:23 Math psych-folk-rock-singer-songwriter-dreamer
	5:24pm Carmichael: Non-Euclidian Folk ...
	5:25pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Carmichael @5:24 For the Win! 😀
	5:27pm Phillippe: ↳ Song: "Water in Your Hands" by "Tommy Guerrero" This is pretty sweet
	5:28pm hilaryprudy: Phillippe...agreed
	5:28pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Dean @5:23 I love the voice of the lead singer of A Girl Called Eddy. I don't remember her as being breathy/childish. Sometimes I guess vocals are mic'ed close in recording, but that never bothers me.
	5:29pm coelacanth∅: reminds me of Peter Green
	5:30pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:24 And damn dreamy, at that! What a weird and wonderful song.
	5:30pm Phillippe: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @5:28 Erin Moran. I really liked her 1st record years and years ago.
	5:30pm Fredericks: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @4:50 It Stoned Me.
	5:31pm sydnius: ↳ HyperDose @5:12 ”find the others”
	5:32pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Fredericks @5:30 Thank you, Fredericks. Good2CU
	5:32pm Matt from Springfield: Re: Linda Perhacs: Check out "Sandy Toes" from that same re-issued album - that's my 2nd favorite cut of hers.
	5:33pm Matt from Springfield: Virtual whiteboard? Pah! I've no use for it unless you can get high smelling the markers..
	5:33pm sydnius: those 🍎 bastards stole ”configurator” from me
	5:33pm paddy in matawan: Times New Roman?
	5:33pm Ike: This "Freeform" app just popped up on iOS on iPhone as well. Bleh.
	5:34pm listener 126464: Times New Viking
	5:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yer a Font of knowledge.
	👻 5:34pm Mark Hurst: Another reason to avoid Apple...
	5:35pm sydnius: BTW: they just released the Lisa source. Good reading.
	5:35pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @5:34 And always on Point.
	5:35pm Ochre Ogre: Sue Apple for big $, but still have The Marathon.
	5:35pm paddy in matawan: Gravitate toward Google
	5:35pm Lizardner Dave !: I've never heard an Apple user NOT follow "I updated my OS" without a long complaint followed by a story about how they should be like this other Apple user they know that never updates their OS.
	5:35pm coelacanth∅: wfmu should legally restrain crapple from using that terminology, before those shitheads stop fmu from using it.
	👻 5:36pm Mark Hurst: ↳ paddy in matawan @5:35 neverrrr
	5:36pm katharsis: I’m sure it was interesting and groundbreaking “in its day” the voice does grate and I listen to lyrics…the repetitive theme of that dated style worship of women or young girls in several references…here she comes 14” or something is what I heard in one tune…haven’t verified…in another 22…how old was he? I’m not going spend hours researching any of this. I refuse….sprinkled with flowery, mystical phrases. I hear a man wanting to get laid. Which is totally ok. No sex shaming or dissing on anyone’s good time. I can’t admit there isn’t a tad of nostalgia. I just don’t have much time for it. Enjoy the group listen. Let’s do it again!
	5:36pm listener 126464: Put it in your Font Book app, Irwin.
	5:36pm ?: library>users>blah blah blah
	5:37pm PaulRobeson1923: LOL LOL
	5:37pm Laura L: Times was meant to stand the test of time, goddamn it!
	5:37pm sydnius: 😆
	5:37pm katharsis: Not the same album! A different album
	👻 5:37pm Mark Hurst: Satisfying rant.
	5:37pm Mister Dobalina: Now we're talking! & almost as funny as the Van Morrison stint earlier.
	5:37pm KWilde: After installing Big Sur I vowed to never upgrade Mac OS again
	5:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...pretty sure this is in the 'Grumpy NonSequitur' folder...
	5:38pm N'Lo: It’s a Techtonic Takeover!
	5:38pm Matt from Springfield: "Up Yer Cat's Ass!, opening for The Banned Times Font, this Friday at Monty Hall..."
	5:38pm Irwin: ↳ listener 126464 @5:36 No such thing in Ventura.
	5:38pm sydnius: ↳ KWilde @5:37 OS 8 4 EVA
	5:38pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Key" by "The Guess Who" Never heard this one before! This rocks, I need to examine Canned Wheat (haven't heard all of that either).
	5:39pm Carmichael: Laughing and Undun are on this LP. A classic, I tell ya.
	5:39pm Mister Dobalina: Hurst in da house!
	5:39pm ramon: love mac, i can never use their computers or phones.
	5:39pm Matt from Springfield: @Irwin: You've never played the goth band Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat, have you? 😉
	5:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Key" by "The Guess Who" Love how popular GuessWho once were with stuff like this. Okay maybe not this one.
	👻 5:40pm rrg: ↳ Irwin @5:38 Yes, there is.
	5:40pm headcleaner: Now here's an underrated band
	5:40pm ?: I know designers who are still using non-subscription adobe applications on ancient macs. It’s a battle for stability and ownership.
	5:41pm Carmichael: I saw the Guess Who in '73, headlining over Elvin Bishop, Montrose and Redwing (Tim Schmitt pre-Poco). At a horse racing track.
	5:41pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Key" by "The Guess Who" Percussitastic!
	5:41pm Irwin: This version omits the pointless drum solo.
	👻 5:41pm Elena: ↳ rrg @5:40 I concur.
	5:42pm Alan near Boston: ↳ Song: "Key" by "The Guess Who" Man what a groove!
	5:42pm Wind: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:39 I think he might have Matt :)
	👻 5:42pm Hunterian: Isn't Breckman's entrance music when he totters into the studio a song by the Guess Who? Maybe this should be it if it isn't already?
	5:42pm listener 126464: ↳ Irwin @5:38 I upgraded to 13.0 and still have it. So, what did you wind up doing?
	5:43pm mb: Irwin ::nods::
	5:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Be like me unable to afford new iterations of anything & you won't have these vexations.
	5:44pm Irwin: ↳ listener 126464 @5:42 I have 13.1. It ain't there. Actually it is, because I put it back, but no app in my system can locate it.
	5:44pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Wind @5:42 A favorite of DJ Julie, yet she never could announce them without a chuckle!
	5:45pm dale: i pre clicky starred that guess who. thought i had never heard it before. i just deleted about 5 or 6 hundred mac fonts from a hard drive. i haven't used mac in about 15 years. wasn't sorry to see olive extra bold go away.
	5:45pm Wind: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:44 I don't blame her!
	5:45pm katharsis: It’s not that I dismiss any music or musician that has a cringe factor in the lyrics. I take everything in context of the time and culture to some extent. I just don’t expose myself unnecessarily to it unless there is another strong draw of some kind.
	5:45pm Carmichael: I didn't know there were pointless/necessary drum solos ...
	5:47pm mb: oh my. I too never sat thru Astral Weeks. Did i miss a good on air bad review?
	5:48pm Wind: on a not so light note, I always wonder if we knew more about the species with whom we share this planet and less about type face font names...we might not be in the midst of the 6th mass extinction now....crap!
	5:49pm Dean: Wendy, way up there, yeah, part of it has to do with the close mic'g, but she also wanders into Eilish territory with the almost muttered word or two.
	5:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "John Wayne is Big Leggy (Groovy Long version)" by... Ah. The third leg.
	5:49pm Yvang: I haven't heard this in fourty years.
	5:49pm PB: The story about Iggy encountering John Wayne shortly after he moved to LA is a good one.
	5:50pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "John Wayne is Big Leggy (Groovy Long version)" by... Haysi Fantayzee! Definitely the quirky early 80s UK pop!
	5:50pm Wind: fun!
	5:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "John Wayne is Big Leggy (Groovy Long version)" by... Loves a good little girly vocal.
	5:51pm Carmichael: Being Irish, Van was not only required listening, but required liking. His being from Belfast songled him out as "more Irish". I have a soft spot for him, but completely understand the modern day dimissal of his talent/attitude.
	5:51pm Yvang: Talking about annoying singing.
	5:51pm Wind: ↳ PB @5:49 tell us
	5:51pm markinbrooklyn: I foolishly bought this cuz the brit music press told me to… now it sounds almost like a eurovision contender!
	5:51pm MarciB: ↳ Yvang @5:49 Same!!
	👻 5:52pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Song: "Take the Easy Way Out" by "Mira Cook" Mira Cook coming to Radio Ravioli on Monday (sorry if that was mentioned on the mic break, I stepped away for a moment). www.miracook.com...
	5:52pm PB: Check out the Stooges documentary Gimme Danger.
	5:52pm Wind: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @5:52 cool
	5:52pm MarciB: ↳ markinbrooklyn @5:51 omg you are 100% correct!
	5:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "John Wayne is Big Leggy (Groovy Long version)" by... ...cause if a rekkid has a good beat to dance to - it has a chance of being populah with thuh rekkidt buying publicg...
	5:53pm Irwin: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @5:53 Killer groooooove.
	5:54pm Whosondephone: Caught the tail end of that Van Morrison. I've heard of Van Morrison but never associated that voice with him. I was kind of expecting something closer to Van Halen, maybe? I learned something today, for better or worse. I really wonder what the songs would sound like if he actually sang. Let's just say I prefer Bob Dylan.
	5:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @5:53 - also not unattractive woman.
	5:54pm dale: everyone knows milton berle had the biggest member in hollywood.
	👻 5:54pm 12539: Thanks, Mr Irwin David Chusid!
	5:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ dale @5:54 ...also not unattractive woman...
	5:55pm Carmichael: Kate Garner ...
	5:55pm paddy in matawan: ↳ Whosondephone @5:54 Crazy Eddie Van Morrissey
	5:55pm markinbrooklyn: Stashu could get away with this
	5:55pm PaulRobeson1923: No times font, no ruined years, no clocks
	5:55pm dale: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @5:55 at least 45 years before ru paul.
	5:56pm Carmichael: ↳ markinbrooklyn @5:55 Hoof N Mouth number for Stashu??
	5:56pm listener 126464: Thank you, Irwin.
	5:56pm Wind: ↳ markinbrooklyn @5:55 totally
	5:56pm HyperDose: Thank you, mister Chusid!
	5:56pm Fredericks: ↳ coelacanth∅ @5:00 How many times have you heard the record?
	5:57pm PB: So, is Van going back on ice for another 30 years or so? Let’s hope so.
	👻 5:57pm rrg: It's almost time to say goodbye to all our company. Goodbye, company, thanks for the rants an' stuff, thanks IC, and let's all plan to meet again.
	5:57pm Asheville Jon: Bow Wow Wow, nice! haven't heard this in forever
	5:57pm Carmichael: If yo want lightweight Japan pop rock, jump over to Sheena and Mike Rogers!
	👻 5:58pm DjLorraine: I was breathless at one point. Thank you
	5:58pm Carmichael: And thanks, Irwin!
	5:58pm Wind: Fun time flies with Mr.Chusid
	5:58pm Matt from Springfield: Splendid show this has been! Thanks Irwin, have a great evening everyone!
	👻 5:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Irwin. Are there some other albums you've never played before?
	5:59pm dale: was so in love with annabella. then felt creepy about myself because she was illegal.
	5:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always Mr. DJ IDC Sir ~
	5:59pm Wind: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:58 adios
	5:59pm paddy in matawan: fun show thank you IC
	5:59pm Crosby in KC: Thanks, Irwin!
	👻 5:59pm chris in the redwoods: thanks, Irwin!
	5:59pm Noel: A. B. Lwin was soooo hot.
	👻 5:59pm Elena: Thank you!
	5:59pm mb: Thx Irwin!
	5:59pm radioronan: Thanks Irwin. Cheers Bodenheims !
	6:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Irwin!
	6:00pm Ochre Ogre: Thanks Irwin!
	6:26pm wind: Pittsburg!!!

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from January 25, 2023

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January 25, 2023: The World Premiere of Van Morrison's Astral Weeks

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Lee Morgan	Boy, What a Night "Boy, What a Night" by "Lee Morgan"	The Sidewinder
OTE	Indie Garden "Indie Garden" by "OTE"	California Sunset	0:06:59 (Pop-up)
Say Sue Me	Beginning to See the Light	It's Just a Short Walk!	0:10:23 (Pop-up)
Pale Blue Eyes	More "More" by "Pale Blue Eyes"	This House	0:14:47 (Pop-up)
Gary McFarland	Runaway Heart (Scorpio)	Scorpio and Other Signs	0:19:04 (Pop-up)
Flyying Colours	Goodbye to Music "Goodbye to Music" by "Flyying Colours"	You Never Know	0:22:00 (Pop-up)
East River Pipe	Ah Dictaphone "Ah Dictaphone" by "East River Pipe"	Poor Fricky	0:25:47 (Pop-up)

Gus Bodenheim	Gus B's in Love "Gus B's in Love" by "Gus Bodenheim"	A Fistful of Gus	0:34:00 (Pop-up)
Danilo Perez	Panamonk "Panamonk" by "Danilo Perez"	Panamonk	0:37:55 (Pop-up)
Holy Wave	I'm Not Living in the Past Anymore	Interloper	0:42:26 (Pop-up)
Philip B. Price	Intention is Everything	Oceans Hiding in Oceans	0:46:12 (Pop-up)
Post Age	Bison IV "Bison IV" by "Post Age"	Previously Archived	0:48:59 (Pop-up)
Papernut Cambridge	Cobwebs "Cobwebs" by "Papernut Cambridge"	Channel Suite	0:50:09 (Pop-up)
Mountain	Long Red "Long Red" by "Mountain"	Mountain	0:52:14 (Pop-up)
Oracle Sisters	High Moon "High Moon" by "Oracle Sisters"	High Moon	0:55:07 (Pop-up)

Van Morrison	Astral Weeks "Astral Weeks" by "Van Morrison"	Astral Weeks	1:08:16 (Pop-up)
Van Morrison	Beside You "Beside You" by "Van Morrison"	Astral Weeks	1:14:50 (Pop-up)
Van Morrison	Sweet Thing "Sweet Thing" by "Van Morrison"	Astral Weeks	1:20:16 (Pop-up)
Van Morrison	Cyprus Avenue "Cyprus Avenue" by "Van Morrison"	Astral Weeks	1:24:40 (Pop-up)
Van Morrison	Young Lovers Do "Young Lovers Do" by "Van Morrison"	Astral Weeks	1:32:11 (Pop-up)
Van Morrison	Madame George "Madame George" by "Van Morrison"	Astral Weeks	1:35:08 (Pop-up)
Van Morrison	Ballerina "Ballerina" by "Van Morrison"	Astral Weeks	1:44:46 (Pop-up)
Van Morrison	Slim Slow Slider "Slim Slow Slider" by "Van Morrison"	Astral Weeks	1:52:04 (Pop-up)

Mélissa Laveaux	Scissors "Scissors" by "Mélissa Laveaux"	Camphor & Copper	1:59:49 (Pop-up)
Beabadoobee	Broken Cd "Broken Cd" by "Beabadoobee"	Beatopia	2:02:24 (Pop-up)
The Roches	Weeded Out "Weeded Out" by "The Roches"	Another World	2:05:18 (Pop-up)
M83	Oceans Niagara "Oceans Niagara" by "M83"	Fantasy	2:08:56 (Pop-up)
Gus Bodenheim	Into the Mystic "Into the Mystic" by "Gus Bodenheim"	The Bodenheim Better Living Library	2:13:49 (Pop-up)
Pneumatic Tubes	TreeTops "TreeTops" by "Pneumatic Tubes"	A Letter from TreeTops	2:18:24 (Pop-up)
Linda Perhacs	Parallelograms "Parallelograms" by "Linda Perhacs"	Parallelograms	2:21:14 (Pop-up)
Tommy Guerrero	Water in Your Hands	Perpetual	2:25:18 (Pop-up)

The Guess Who	Key "Key" by "The Guess Who"	Canned Wheat	2:36:27 (Pop-up)
Mira Cook	Take the Easy Way Out "Take the Easy Way Out" by "Mira Cook"	Lashes to Lashes	2:42:22 (Pop-up)

Haysi Fantaysee	John Wayne is Big Leggy (Groovy Long version)	Battle Hymns for Children Singing	2:48:01 (Pop-up)
Bow Wow Wow	Do You Wanna Hold Me?	When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going	2:54:34 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	1/23 8:54am Pierre Delecto: This better be good.
	2:30am Theremaniac: Looks good already!
	2:52pm Listener Robert: I don't care what the contract requires, Gus, nobody's making you break into this one! You can make good on Prof. Dum-Dum's.
	👻 2:57pm rrg: Looks like the gang's all here! And I'm first!
	2:58pm Laura L: The cat reserves judgment. Me too; never heard it before either. High five!
	2:59pm Irwin: rrg is indeed FIRST! We use New Math exclusively on this playlist.
	3:00pm common: irwin. everyone
	3:00pm Magenta: I guess I'm third? I'm bad with New Math.
	👻 3:00pm AnAnonymousParty: First at what?
	3:01pm Wendy del Formaggio: I have been looking forward to this show. And now it's time! Hello Irwin & friends.
	3:01pm Laura L: That means I'm 1+4, so I'm still 5!
	3:01pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: A pleasant good day to you Mr Irwin David Chusid
	👻 3:01pm Karl Ward: Did the cat look more or less annoyed before you put that copy of Astral Weeks next to the cat?
	3:02pm Alan near Boston: Been waiting all week for this - yes!
	3:02pm Handy Haversack: Irwin. Irwinners. Not sure we can improve on last week's premiere of Astral Weeks, but I'm here for the ride.
	3:02pm Crosby in KC: Hello, Irwin and everyone.
	3:02pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: Wet snow was falling here about an hour ago I hope your trip to the studio was a safe one
	3:03pm PaulRobeson1923: Hi Hi Hi
	3:03pm Rick from SC: I feel some Van comin' on.
	3:03pm katharsis: Hellos Irwin and all
	3:05pm mark: hi irwin and all!
	3:06pm Matt from Springfield: FOURTH! (new math) \| \| \| _ > \| - _! (ancient math) Hello there Irwin, Chusidians and Ludwig van Morrisons!
	3:06pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: Overcast rainy day. Perfect for jazz
	👻 3:06pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Irwin and effective listeners.
	3:07pm Magenta: I love the look of new vinyl. I hope that makes an audible noise when you open it.
	3:07pm Matt from Springfield: Most certainly agree, Phillip! @Irwin: That's what I mean when I say "jazz weather" - and there's been a lot of it on Wednesdays, your show is in sync! Incidentally, GLAD to start off on L.M. again! Different cut from The Sidewinder, but still that legendary album.
	3:10pm Irwin: ↳ Matt from Springfield @3:07 Time to get Lee back into semi-heavy rotation.
	3:10pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Irwin @3:10 I most heartily approve! Would that be Midnight the Cat pictured?
	3:10pm common: i dig astral weeks. something tells me irwin will hate it
	👻 3:11pm PigeonsAndRust: I also think he will hate it
	3:11pm Cooh John: Hello Irwin and irwits. Got my copy of "Astral Weeks" Monday. Let's hear it.
	3:12pm common: ↳ PigeonsAndRust @3:11 yes
	3:13pm Wendy del Formaggio: Maybe next week Irwin can play "The Bang Records Contractual Obligation Album" and discuss it. If it goes poorly, it'll only be about 20 minutes of airtime. If I remember correctly, all the songs are about a minute long.
	3:13pm Fishtown Mike: Been looking forward to this show, sort of. Don't care for VM at all, and have never heard this album previously. I'm not expecting this album to make me reconsider.
	3:13pm Irwin: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @3:13 Wendy, be careful what you wish for.
	3:14pm Irwin: ↳ PigeonsAndRust @3:11 I'll be listening with an open mind.
	👻 3:15pm rrg: We shouldn't be putting Irwin on the spot. We don't need to know immediately whether he loathes it. I'd be content to wait a week or so. Come on, people. Let's be reasonable!
	3:15pm Magenta: Plot twist: this is the start of a Van Morrison renaissance at the station.
	3:16pm Alan near Boston: Other than "Into the Mystic", never really got VM. Regardless of the album review, the cat wins!
	3:16pm chresti: We like Them.
	3:16pm lior: ye!!!!!!
	3:16pm swivs: The drum fill at the top of this song is apparently called the "Pat Boone Debbie Boone". Hey Irwin, everybody!
	3:17pm Luna: we love you eevan
	3:17pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @3:13 I recently found new enjoyment in his "Go For Yourself" track on VMCO - possibly a precursor rhythm for "Sweet Thing"? But also because one considers his accent on "Go Fo' Yourself"!
	3:17pm listener 126464: ↳ Song: "More" by "Pale Blue Eyes" Love their 2022 album, Souvenirs.
	3:18pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Irwin @3:13 I am! I love that album and would totally delight in your running commentary on it!
	3:18pm full_english_breakfast: i'm an astral weeks virgin myself... i do think "brown eyed girl" is one of the most impecably performed songs ever recorded
	3:19pm Irwin: ↳ swivs @3:16 It's a bit of "My Sharona."
	3:20pm zopa: ↳ rrg @3:15 Indeed. I couldn't care less whether he loathes it. More important to me is whether GUS loathes it...
	3:20pm Crosby in KC: I've never been a huge VM fan but Astral Weeks is pretty great, in my opinion. Though, I feel the opening track is the best and the rest just doesn't match up.
	3:20pm common: a friend of my uncle kicked me out of his house for only liking astral weeks and disliking the rest of his records.
	3:20pm Joe, just Joe: Irwin I had Astral Weeks in my little record collection when we lived on Claremont Ave.; you could have listened whenever you wanted to
	3:21pm Wendy del Formaggio: I don't remember if I've heard Astral Weeks. Probably. So, this'll be all kinds of an adventure for me.
	3:21pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ zopa @3:20 Gus Bodenheim would loathe it, mainly because he was a competitor in Bosstown of that period, according to his recent review of the "Astral Weeks" book.
	3:21pm Joe, just Joe: Also had all of the Velvet Underground LPs which I'll bet you never touched either
	3:22pm Fishtown Mike: I actually saw VM once, from the 3rd row. Wife bought tickets to see Willie Nelson, and VM was on the bill. I pissed off everyone around us by insisting he was Cat Stevens. "Why isn't he playing anything from "Tea for the Tillerman"? Boy, I love that album, been listening to it non-stop for weeks getting ready for this show".etc.
	3:23pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Matt from Springfield @3:17 The lyrics for "Go For Yourself" are top-notch and so relatable. I mean, who doesn't want to get a job on funky Broadway?
	3:24pm Irwin: Joe, you could have insisted I had to hear that record instead of delaying the inevitable for 40 years.
	3:24pm egould: Yeeeesss! Flyying Colours.
	3:24pm coelacanth∅: Ahoy Irwin, Irwinians
	3:25pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @3:23 It's sure freaky, if you got that far!
	3:25pm Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Goodbye to Music" by "Flyying Colours" This does not sound like Van Morrison at all.
	3:25pm Irwin: ↳ Joe, just Joe @3:21 I was already into the Velvets, albeit belatedly.
	3:25pm common: ↳ Fishtown Mike @3:22 ha!
	3:26pm Joe, just Joe: when did you ever know me to insist on anything? besides i was too busy learning about music from you
	3:26pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Matt from Springfield @3:25 haha, indeed! And I suddenly found myself wanting a danish.
	3:27pm Dean: This Astral Weeks album is amazing.
	3:28pm Fredericks: St. Dominic's Preview is a very good Van Morrison record. I love Listen To The Lion.
	👻 3:28pm Franco Twinkie: I too read the book Astral Weeks by Ryan Walsh. It didn't change my mind enough to dig out the album and listen to it with fresh ears. With the exception of the first album by Them, Van Morrison has always left me non-plussed.
	3:29pm Tommy in Neversink: If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams
	3:29pm egould: Jang jang a janga jang jangle
	3:29pm Aaron Working In Newark: Good afternoon
	3:30pm simono: Superior set, really enjoy this!
	3:30pm Tommy in Neversink: You either get Van or you don't ...I do
	3:30pm coelacanth∅: didn't this Cat Morrison guy have a brother Jim who played keyboard bass in a band called the windows of perception?
	3:30pm rbx: howdy folks, happy wednesday to you
	👻 3:31pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @3:30 You sir, are a smart-aleck.
	3:32pm coelacanth∅: it'll be funny if Irwin plays the whole album at 78rpm
	3:32pm sydnius: de—but
	3:33pm Physarum: I am decidedly not a Van Fan and am looking forward to hearing Astral Weeks in full for the first time.
	3:33pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Franco Twinkie @3:31 Always! But better than a dumb-aleck, or ignoramus-aleck. Hiya coelacanth!
	3:33pm sydnius: is that your adorable void?
	👻 3:33pm Franco Twinkie: Lester Bangs said a lot of things. Most of it drug induced insanity.
	3:33pm rbx: oooh astral weeks listening party, how exciting
	👻 3:34pm Karl Ward: Can we get Olivia to saw "LET THE HATERS FLOW" with a ton of reverb right before the record drops?
	3:34pm Tommy in Neversink: But there's never commercial interruption on FMU
	3:34pm hilaryprudy: karlward: great suggestion...
	3:34pm Wendy del Formaggio: I like how Irwin's playlist background is making all the "Hellraiser" pumpkins disappear except for their evil faces.
	3:34pm Matt from Springfield: Of course, get the commercials out the way before the Astral Weeks premiere! And now, Gus Bodenheim!
	3:35pm coelacanth∅: hi Matt! i knew someone called Alec. he was kind of a dick-aleck!
	3:35pm egould: What album is ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ on? Because I hate that fucking album.
	3:35pm Magenta: ↳ Song: "Gus B's in Love" by "Gus Bodenheim" I'm glad Gus has found love in his life.
	3:36pm Wendy del Formaggio: "A smattering of smittenings" is a lovely phrase.
	3:36pm Dean: Gus B. Weiss?
	3:37pm JG: Van has a powerful voice. Reminds me of a horn. He's also a singer who is a musician- able to use his voice as an instrument, understands music. He writes good songs.
	3:37pm Magenta: Ah, the Karen. A match made in heaven.
	3:37pm hilaryprudy: priceless..
	3:37pm Patty D: This is incredible.
	3:37pm Dean: Driving like an idiot most certainly is "a thing."
	3:37pm Quinn02: The police are coming. Yes they are.
	3:37pm sydnius: luscious pointless indignation
	3:37pm ?: She seems nice :)
	3:37pm Matt from Springfield: Wuh oh, Gus is about to get infected from a Viral video - V.D. is a big problem among Internet lovers.
	3:38pm Mike tp: hello IRWIN ,& FRIENDS..JUST POPPINGin on the fun 91..
	3:38pm sydnius: ↳ Song: "Gus B's in Love" by "Gus Bodenheim" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
	3:38pm Matt from Springfield: Ha, the adult film soundtrack remix of the Karen vid! 😄
	3:38pm zopa: This is delightful!
	3:38pm ?: Why is my black cat being subjected to that crappy LP? That's animal abuse.
	3:39pm abbazabba: Call me Karimozov because, oh brother, my blood is Russian/rushin' - - - hahaha clever!
	3:39pm RevWaldo: ↳ Song: "Gus B's in Love" by "Gus Bodenheim" Is he here? I look in the poolhall Well, is he here? I look in the drugstore Is he here? No, he don't come here no more
	3:39pm egould: Call me a “Kareem” cause I’m looking to score. Brilliant. Gold brilliance.
	👻 3:39pm G: Made it in time for the main event at the top of the hour...
	3:39pm jan: Must redirect attention to Gus; work suspended for now. Brilliant show today!
	3:40pm Quinn02: That was amazing
	3:40pm KWilde: Good Afternoon!
	3:40pm coelacanth∅: ↳ RevWaldo @3:39 exactly what i was thinking!
	3:41pm ?: ↳ egould @3:35 Brown Eye Girl...Don't it Make My Brown Eye Blue...same thing
	3:42pm Handy Haversack: I have a feeling that Astral Weeks is going to coincide perfectly with my commute home. Oh, well. I'll always have last week.
	3:42pm newberry: Anyone know if there are recordings or more info available about the genius "Gus Bodenheim?" Web search isn't turning up a ton. I'm a fan, want to get in on this...
	3:42pm PaulRobeson1923: I have yet to hear any Van Morrison Albums in their entirety
	3:42pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @3:42 Not on this show, but in general
	3:44pm Irwin: ↳ newberry @3:42 This year's marathon premium will be a CD (and download) comp of Gus's radio masterpieces. He has promised to record fresh, non-broadcast intros for the set.
	3:45pm ?: ↳ Song: "Gus B's in Love" by "Gus Bodenheim" where can i find this track????!!!!!!! i was laughing the whole time. loved it thank you thank you
	3:45pm Joey g: Wow! I'll be in for that!
	3:46pm Hugh: With Irwin. Can't stand the Van's voice.
	3:46pm Fredericks: If that cat had a small white spot on its chest I swear it was my Zelda.
	3:47pm KingOfJunk: ↳ Irwin @3:44 🖤🖤🖤
	3:47pm Irwin: ↳ Fredericks @3:46 Mischa is a Bombay. They're all-black, no tuxedo.
	👻 3:48pm rrg: ↳ Handy Haversack @3:42 Stay at work until 5pm, Handy! You don't want to miss this, do you?
	3:48pm Irwin: ↳ Irwin @3:47 She is my alarm cat.
	3:49pm coelacanth∅: i can't stand Van's voice either; but i once liked it. i don't remember at all what astral weeks sounds like. i must've heard it as i was already realizing how very limited he was/is as a vocalist -interesting at times and seemingly genuinely soulful for fleeting moments, a long, long, long time ago... but limited. so my assessment may've been unfair, as it did come along soon after his excellent work with Them, and directly before one of his extremely few excellent albums, moondance. so, as i did not find my copy in my mess here, i'm excited to hear it now.
	3:49pm ?: ↳ Irwin @3:48 Does she tell you when she's heard enough Van Morrison?
	3:49pm Handy Haversack: ↳ Irwin @3:47 Looks quite a bit like our Bugbear. He and his brother, Goblin: www.wfmu.org...
	3:50pm Handy Haversack: ↳ rrg @3:48 I mean ... I don't, but even more I don't want to stay at work!
	3:50pm Fredericks: Zelda is an alarm cat as well. I guess she's a Bombay with a spot of milk.
	3:51pm Various Julius: Here for the black cats.
	3:51pm Dean: Do alarm cats respect "spring ahead, fall back"?
	3:51pm dale: i picked up moondance for a quarter at my church thrift yesterday. a couple of songs i have never heard and enjoyed. his voice is an acquired taste and i don't have that taste yet. also got traffic and 8 others. was supposed to be buy one cd get one free so should have cost $1.25 but i paid $2.50. it's for jesus.
	👻 3:51pm rrg: Uh oh. My stream dropped. This can't be happening!
	3:52pm Fredericks: ↳ Dean @3:51 Definitely not.
	3:52pm PaulRobeson1923: Something* is happening to the stream
	3:52pm coelacanth∅: < that cat looks like she's procrastinating on a trip to the litter box
	3:52pm Various Julius: Had a stream fail as well, back up now
	3:52pm Dean: Another good reason to enact legislation banishing Daylight Savings.
	👻 3:52pm rrg: ↳ rrg @3:51 I don't think I can find the old transistor radio in time.
	3:52pm Andrew_in_WI: Turn on, tune in. DROP OUT
	3:53pm berb: ↳ rrg @3:51 If your stream lasts more than four hours, call your doctor.
	3:53pm coelacanth∅: dale, "into the mystic" is sublime
	3:53pm jg: 4 o’clock I gotta teach a homebound kid. He’s smarter than me and I’m out of stuff to do w him. And I’m gonna miss astral weeks. Unless we just listen together and then I make him write an essay on it. We’ll see
	👻 3:53pm rrg: "Reload page" fixed it.
	3:54pm love2laf: ↳ Dean @3:51 Absolutely never ever, by the time they adjust, it's the next time change.
	3:54pm ?: ↳ dale @3:51 jesus is always broke...what's up with that?
	3:54pm katharsis: I have no strong opinion of vm.
	👻 3:55pm rrg: ↳ Dean @3:52 Yeah, but their evil plan is to make Daylight Saving Time PERMANENT rather than banishing it. They want to banish Standard, Normal Time. I'm sick of their woke agenda.
	👻 3:55pm Karl Ward: I love Astral Weeks, Moondance, and His Band & the Street Choir; I love individual songs scattered across his catalog too, but those three albums are the only ones that stand out to me.
	3:55pm newberry: ↳ Irwin @3:44 Thanks Irwin!
	3:55pm Fredericks: I hadn't recognized the similarities between Mountain and the Small Faces before.
	3:56pm ?: ↳ jg @3:53 Sit with him & make him listen to Astral Weeks & then write anessay to explain just what it was he just heard. Thank me later
	3:56pm coelacanth∅: katharsis, then you neither "get" him, nor "don't get" him. is that possible?!
	👻 3:56pm DjLorraine: I would be interested in the cat's review.
	3:56pm Andrew_in_WI: ↳ Karl Ward @3:55 Correct answer.
	3:57pm Ike: ↳ rrg @3:55 The crazy night people like me win and you terrible morning people LOSE!!! Bwahahahaha! VICTORY IS OURS!!!
	3:57pm Various Julius: ↳ coelacanth∅ @3:56 Schrödinger's Van is a thing
	3:57pm morphe': Mountain Long Red Almost combed my hair .. happened just the other day was pickin my teeth with my girl's comb and I thought "Yeah.." but no..
	👻 3:57pm βrian: There are also those who get him … and then recover.
	3:57pm Dean: Guess I haven't read the bill. Isn't it six of one, half dozen of another? At some point (not in my lifetime) noon will arrive somewhere in the middle of the night?
	3:58pm ?: ↳ jg @3:53 hmm maybe teach him a little self awareness and humility? gifted children tend to lack that
	3:58pm ?: Van claims to be able to see leprechauns..no lie
	👻 3:59pm rrg: ↳ @3:58 If that's true, I'm outta here.
	3:59pm Handy Haversack: And the hour is upon us. Gotta head out. Don't get too astral! Hopefully I can catch the end from the home shores. Thanks, Irwin!
	3:59pm James: ↳ morphe' @3:57 Ok, that made me chuckle... but too soon, no?
	3:59pm ??: To avoid confusion I'm adding a ?
	👻 4:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Handy Haversack @3:59 Consult your astralogist if you have questions, Handy.
	👻 4:00pm rrg: My clock says it's 4pm ET. Do you know where your children are?
	4:00pm ??: ↳ @3:58 since some children are "gifted" can you return or re-gift them? Asking for a friend. Thanks
	👻 4:01pm Karl Ward: Nooooooooo
	👻 4:02pm Karl Ward: My stream stalled but it's back
	4:02pm ??: Asstrail Leaks...Morrison's got a theme going I think
	4:02pm Rick from SC: The anticipation...
	4:02pm Magenta: noooooooo
	4:02pm Fredericks: Noooooooooooooooo..... where did Irwin go? At four oh.......
	4:02pm miss g: NO! is van whatshisname a warlock? the stream went out
	4:02pm Crosby in KC: ugh! Stream drop
	👻 4:02pm rrg: This is a conspiracy. My stream has dropped and won't reconnect.
	4:02pm Jeezy: Uh oh... looks like we're all having streaming issues? Could Van be behind this?!?!
	4:02pm Magenta: VM's revenge!
	👻 4:03pm Elena: ↳ miss g @4:02 Mine went out also
	4:03pm Phillippe: same stream issue here
	4:03pm berb: The album that broke the internet
	4:03pm Laura L: Yep, stream is down... won't reconnect here either.
	4:03pm Dean: I bet you will recognize at least one song. "Sweet Thing" or "Madame George." But I've never heard the album in full.
	4:03pm Various Julius: disastral weeks - stream failed again
	4:03pm WoodsOfMaine: The stream is woke.
	4:03pm JetBoy of Astoria: Here we go. I’ll be honest - I’ve never heard it as I avoid the Van when I can
	4:03pm coelacanth∅: Karl, i said this a few (astral weeks ago when this subject first arose, but i also like " a period of transition" ... which is just that, and the apprehension in his composition is evident. maybe it was just that day a few months ago, but i really liked it. not a popular one with the idiots i mean the critics
	4:03pm Andrew_in_WI: There it is
	4:03pm Fredericks: Hate's St. Dominic's?
	4:03pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ ?? @3:59 Now, ?, ya don’t have to do this or anything else but you could give WFMU a 1 time donation of 10 dollars and create a wholesome and fun WFMU friendship society user profile!
	4:03pm Dean: After this, will you please play Wavelength or Into the Music?
	4:03pm Phillippe: too rainy for a moondance, I guess...
	4:04pm Laura L: Just got stream back.
	4:04pm Brian C.: Dang, the stream crapped out again
	👻 4:04pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ coelacanth∅ @3:49 My antipathy towards Van Morrison has a deeply personal dimension. In the 1970's a person who was in the same social sphere as I, loved him insanely. One day he came over to our house and started making a hissy fit because I was listening to something contemporary that displeased him.(He was mad because I got the girl he was mad about) He never forgave me or her. Later when we broke up. I got together with yet another one of his failed conquests. Did this make me happy? Not really. It was quite sad really.
	👻 4:04pm G: This is like the day Sgt Pepper came out.
	👻 4:04pm PigeonsAndRust: I've been wondering all day if the wrong record is in there. Its happened to me before
	4:04pm chresti: Play it!
	4:04pm coelacanth∅: then you play fundadelic. simple.
	4:04pm Miss G: I switched to stream0.wfmu.org... and it is playing. I had the most insane day, but then I looked at the clock, and said "maybe I'll try that crazy hippie LP?"
	4:04pm ??: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @4:03 been donating sice 2016..just not signed in
	4:05pm Dean: Free Your Mind and Your Weak Ass Will Follow the Van
	4:05pm Dave in Vermont: Is Ryan Walsh here?
	4:05pm Fredericks: Hope he didn't scratch the record with the knife.
	👻 4:05pm Karl Ward: Irwin: These and other questions are fully answered by Astral Weeks
	4:05pm ?: ↳ ?? @4:00 regifting children is a wonderful idea. They are sustainably sourced so you don’t get those supply chain shortages.
	4:05pm MONEYBAG$: so is this guy like the Irish Jandek or something?
	4:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: GUNG HAY FAT CHOY ! ☆ All Blessings & Great Fortune in Year of the Water 🐇Hare ☆ wfmu.org...
	4:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Asstral Weeks...
	4:05pm allyjojo: will the comments be archived as well?
	4:05pm coelacanth∅: that happens a lot Irwin. mindless asses fill the streets.
	4:05pm ??: ↳ @4:05 Right?
	4:05pm egould: Assy flashy.
	4:06pm Noel: I was turned on to Van Morrison in 1984 by George Perry, a legendary marijuana grower from northeastern North Carolina.
	4:06pm Matt from Springfield: Bathroom breaks accomplished! Me as well, listen to this ecletic, "ununusal" album in its entirety the first time! And...THE UNSEALING SOUND! Clay Pigeon used to feature that sound!
	4:06pm coelacanth∅: ass troll weeks
	4:06pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ ?? @4:04 Ok no problem, so you could sign in… or not!
	4:06pm Dean: When I turned the corner down my quiet residential street yesterday afternoon, traffic was held up by a bunch of mindless turkeys.
	4:06pm Magenta: This is so exciting!
	4:06pm wind: IRWIIIIIIIIN! Hello?
	4:06pm Switchblade Batman: I'm looking forward to it, it's a really good album. I'm trying to find a used copy.
	4:07pm wind: Play it. Take a risk
	4:07pm KWD: its gonna sound worse than the old green warner label
	4:07pm Phillippe: 180 grahams
	4:07pm Switchblade Batman: This exchange is why I prefer CDs.
	4:07pm yippie: has anyone ever played a thirteen inch record on the equipment?
	4:07pm Dean: I wouldn't put a 180g LP on a turntable. I'd put it in the CD player.
	4:08pm Ike: ↳ Phillippe @4:07 Mmmm, grahams.
	👻 4:08pm Will thee Sound Guy: I'm catching this!!!
	4:08pm Sean: I don't fuck with any record less that 2 kilos
	👻 4:08pm βrian: Put it at the top of the stack.
	4:08pm PaulRobeson1923: Any bubbles or factory defects!!!!?
	4:08pm ??: ↳ Dean @4:07 Put it on the stove, lighten it up
	4:08pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:05 Welcome RevRab! And happy Eastern Lunar Astrological Return to you! Annual solar return to follow later this year. "As chriwl" Weeks for me...
	4:08pm Fredericks: It's a song cycle, Irwin.
	4:08pm allyjojo: Does anyone know if the comments are archived along with the program?
	👻 4:09pm Will thee Sound Guy: Hi Irwin and all!!!
	4:09pm Switchblade Batman: yeah they are @ally
	4:09pm Matt from Springfield: Vinyl surface noise makes contact...AND LIFT OFF!!
	4:09pm coldax: GAAHHH! what is that noise
	4:09pm Listener Robert: You sure it's all on ONE LP? Like maybe they cheaped out on sleeves and put two in a single slot of the album?
	4:09pm allyjojo: ↳ Switchblade Batman @4:09 thank you!
	4:09pm dug: nice
	4:09pm Jeezy: oooh... it sounds better than I remember already
	4:09pm Irwin: GOD I HOPE HE DOESN'T CURSE ON THIS ALBUM!!!!
	4:09pm Dean: "G-L-O-R-I-A...!" I recognize this.
	4:09pm love2laf: ↳ allyjojo @4:08 Yes, they show on the bottom of the archived playlist
	4:09pm N'Lo: Aaaaand I already hate it
	4:09pm wind: If it’s heavy does that mean this is heavy music?
	4:09pm Jeezy: WOULD YOU kiSSSaaaa my eyeS?!?!
	4:09pm Miss G: Oh, I see, it's farmer green jeans music (someone I knew used to call it.) But, what, Irish? OK. I'll be quiet.
	4:09pm Jeff Moore: Ohhh. Damn, it still sounds like Van Morrison.
	4:09pm Borg9: 180 gm = 6.35oz
	4:09pm Wendy del Formaggio: Oh. This is actually pretty nice.
	4:10pm Magenta: I like the strings?
	4:10pm dale: is ringworm on this album?
	4:10pm wind: Hi will the sound guy. I just got here too
	4:10pm Phillippe: ↳ allyjojo @4:08 I think one of the other DJs mentioned that she goes back and deletes comments from her older archives
	4:10pm Asheville Jon: oh cool, i didn't miss the world premier of astral weeks!
	4:10pm Feldy: My first time, too
	4:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Astral Weeks" by "Van Morrison" Not a lot of Pop songs apparently from the POV of someone being buried. Or are there.
	4:10pm sydnius: ↳ Borg9 @4:09 dat’s a lot of 🐶🐮
	4:10pm Persimmon: I LOVE wfmu!
	4:10pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ dale @4:10 Hahaha, I wish! Maybe "Dum Dum George" makes an appearance, too.
	4:10pm chresti: Is there an instrumental version of this?
	4:10pm HyperDose: ↳ Feldy @4:10 Virgin club!
	4:11pm Irwin: So far, two minutes in, there's everything I don't like about Van Morrison.
	4:11pm Pedro in Arlington: Long-time caller, first-time listener. What was the history of Irwin never listening to this album?
	4:11pm Farrel Mutanto: I just drove out of WFMU broadcast range as the needle dropped on this record. now I'm never going to hear it
	4:11pm WoodsOfMaine: The whole album is kind of meditative, which is why I like it.
	4:11pm Earl City: I love the way it opens.
	4:11pm coelacanth∅: allyjojo yes. and yes they are, and occasionally not.
	4:12pm Dean: Richard Davis plays bass. Can't be all bad.
	4:12pm N'Lo: The whining. Haaaaaate.
	4:12pm Magenta: He does sound like Bob Dylan on helium though.
	4:12pm Matt from Springfield: I'm a huge fan of this album - agree that it's deserving of the Top 20 of all time that RS usually categorizes it. But, YMMV. Others might not think so. So I'll listen open-mindedly as well, consider what I LOVE about it...and, stuff I might not. Personally, the title track is amazing, the 2nd best of the album, next to "Madame George".
	4:12pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Astral Weeks" by "Van Morrison" Maybe it's wishful thinking, but I really do hear "Dum Dum George" in this song.
	4:12pm jan: My wife is home, so no listening by speakers, and the music played on my phone earbuds is in my head between my ears. But it doesn't seem too far off from tunes previously heard on this frequency or this particular show. The banter about the record is more entertaining, though.
	4:12pm Chris: I heard that the players on the record were impressed with van’s abilities, but very unimpressed when he was late for every session. They did not think it made him cool.
	4:12pm Thin Slice: Clay Pigeon on flute
	4:12pm Phillippe: Me: disliking VM's singing since 1968, apparently
	4:12pm Alan near Boston: Jeez Van, clear your throat already!
	4:12pm dale: i don't mind this. but that jerry lewis LAY-deeeee wailing.....geesh.
	4:12pm SeaCreature: Van played this album at the Beacon a few years back. It was pretty spesh
	4:12pm sydnius: While Mischa contemplates this record, might I comment on just how many black cats WFMU has to go around, us as well.
	4:12pm mr_donutsu: I probably haven’t heard any of this before either.
	4:12pm WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:12 Have you ever read the Lester Bangs take on it in the book "Stranded"?
	4:12pm newberry: I'm a fan of this record, but it's best to listen in the wee hours, in a dimly-lit bedroom, after imbibing and carousing...
	4:13pm JetBoy of Astoria: It’s a meandering “song.” Ok. Sounds like a lot of VM so far
	4:13pm Irwin: This album would be terrific if the producer hadn't hired this singer.
	4:13pm Miss G: ↳ Dean @4:12 Dean I am trying to concentrate on the musicians because I read about the making of the album yesterday.
	4:13pm Dean: Man, I'd love to hear Van sing "Baba O'Riley."
	4:13pm Earl City: ↳ Thin Slice @4:12 Ha!
	4:13pm Brian C.: Don't tell him I said so but I think Irwin is a bit of a contrarian
	4:13pm Feldy: Maybe after this album we should hear "You say France, I'll whistle"
	4:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Sounds a great pressing anyhow.
	4:13pm chresti: ↳ Irwin @4:13 Right?
	4:13pm ?: is there a problem with people not being signed in if they’re interacting civilly? why the gatekeepers?
	4:13pm KingOfJunk: My ex wife loved Van Morrison so I have totally emotional distachment to his music
	4:13pm Persimmon: Great first track
	👻 4:13pm Will thee Sound Guy: crisp
	4:13pm Phillippe: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:13 90 grams a side
	4:13pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Irwin @4:13 You've nailed the problem!
	4:13pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ yippie @4:07 I have an old Record of a General Electric company meeting or memorial to someone who worked for GE, they refer to Truman. It’s Not a 33 or a 45 but it’s big and one sided. Must be a 78 but i can only play it at 45rpm so it’s a bit of a mystery. Found it in Glens Falls, NY
	4:14pm Irwin: Band is awesome. Who's the vocalist ruining the session?
	4:14pm Fredericks: This is the only work of guitarist Jay Berliner that I enjoy. I really enjoy it though.
	4:14pm Alvy Singer: @Irwin--Lester Bang's would be so proud of you. :)
	4:14pm coldax: MAKE. IT. STOP.
	4:14pm Magenta: I'd buy a vocal-free album of this.
	4:14pm Andrew_in_WI: It's very possible that I first heard this album due to J. Jarnow
	4:14pm WoodsOfMaine: Prediction: Irwin's gonna do the Evan Funk Davies tonearm swipe before this thing is over.
	4:14pm JetBoy of Astoria: Nice pressing for sure - shake them shakers!
	4:14pm Dean: Roger Daltrey
	4:14pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Irwin @4:11 i turned it up. and now it's worn thin already. no composition; just a backdrop for his moaning. ... maybe the next song's better though
	4:14pm wind: Omg coldax lol
	4:14pm Miss G: I read VM hated the strings but so far this string part I think is the best part.
	👻 4:15pm rrg: Kenneth Clark: "How wonderful opera would be, if not for the singers."
	4:15pm Ike: ↳ Jeff Moore @4:09 My thoughts exactly.
	👻 4:15pm Karl Ward: Like I said, I love this album. I love this opener especially. But last night I was discussing perfect (no skip) records with some music nerd friends. I came to realize that I'm more interested in almost perfect records, and identifying what it is about them that makes them not quite perfect. For this album, it's "Slim Slow Slider" (the closer). It's not bad, it just doesn't hold up to the rest.
	4:15pm Irwin: ↳ rrg @4:15 Precisely.
	4:15pm ktmwq: Bland Morrison
	👻 4:15pm βrian: Now I'm wondering if the instrumentals were recorded on a separate channel.
	4:15pm joe: Are we listening to the entire album? do it live!!
	4:15pm ?: If you play it backwards you can hear him snoring
	4:15pm Late Bloomer: What a great recording this astral weeks is. Jim Dickinson talks about that brown/dirt sound. To me this is it. Earthy for sure
	4:15pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Song: "Astral Weeks" by "Van Morrison" The start of this song was not pleasant but it’s getting better
	4:16pm joe mulligan: ↳ Song: "Astral Weeks" by "Van Morrison" i too have never heard this album. it's so nice to hear it for the first time... all my life I've only heard the overplayed hits and avoided van Morrison like the plague until today. thank you Irvwn!
	4:16pm paddy in matawan: did somebody say brown?
	4:16pm hilaryprudy: I'm sympathetic re exteme sensitivity to vocals...Irwin feels about Van and Ella like I feel about Julianna Hatfield and the lady from Weyes Blood...yuk
	4:16pm PMCwhenever: thebetter the record, the easier it is to separate the real peep from the performative front peep/band, i find. The passage of time helps too… this is a great record despite himself
	4:16pm sydnius: how does a new album have crackle?
	4:16pm Earl City: I can't wait until you hear Ballerina. Oh man.
	4:16pm Phillippe: Not coincidentally, the dog is indicating she would rather go for a walk in the rain than sit in my office.
	4:16pm Magenta: So there's like 40 more minutes of this?
	4:16pm Irwin: Learning to love Van Morrison. So far, not happening.
	4:17pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @4:12 I have read an excerpt of his writing on it, whichever one appeared in the anthology "Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung". My reaction to the album is similar to his.
	4:17pm Fredericks: Already has ticks?
	4:17pm newberry: ↳ sydnius @4:16 That's the 180 grams talking!
	4:17pm franklinsTower: ↳ Farrel Mutanto @4:11 Don't comment board and drive. Shame on you.
	4:17pm Susan: David Crosby tribute next week?
	4:17pm Asheville Jon: this is not nearly as good as his Contractual Obligation Album
	4:17pm Irwin: ↳ Magenta @4:16 I commiserate.
	4:17pm upstatesean: Don’t know if I can take this anymore. Irwin, you win!
	4:17pm Dean: Kenneth Clark actually wrote (and presumably believed) that?! Two words for Kenneth Clark: Conchita Supervia.
	4:17pm sydnius: remember to consider calling 988 if you feel you can’t go on
	4:18pm PNX: Some say new records need to be cleaned. They come dirty from the pressing plant.
	4:18pm Rick from SC: I hear Lonnie Holly
	4:18pm Persimmon: idk if i get it
	4:18pm Phillippe: ↳ Magenta @4:16 140 grams more, unfortunately
	4:18pm Magenta: BESIIIIIIIIIIDE YOUUUUU
	👻 4:18pm PigeonsAndRust: Is that tape hiss?
	4:18pm Noel: I think it has a very “early spring” sound.
	4:18pm Irwin: This album isn't dated at all. It sounds as annoying now as it did in 1968!
	👻 4:18pm Will thee Sound Guy: when does he say 'jelly roll' 🤔
	4:18pm Asheville Jon: tape hiss is on Tony Coulter's show
	4:18pm coelacanth∅: haha, yeah how many grams in are we?!
	4:18pm Tommy in Neversink: To answer a question someone posed: No..this is a live recording
	4:18pm Wendy del Formaggio: His voice is okay if he keeps it to a minimum and doesn't yodel around so much, or whatever it is he calls this style of singing. The music is nice, though. I agree with other commenters who wish for the instrumental version of the album.
	4:18pm Laura L: Either a person's gonna turn it up or down, I guess. I'm going to turn it up for the dead space between songs--I'm already looking forward to the next one.
	4:18pm jan: This "Beside you" is particularly grating on the ears, and fully supports your thesis, Irwin.
	4:19pm PaulRobeson1923: I think we’ve heard enough
	4:19pm coldax: This album sounds like an old pair of Frye boots smell.
	4:19pm Late Bloomer: Brown=💩 as in “shit This sounds awesome.”
	4:19pm Irwin: "Breathe in, breathe out, etc." Good GOD, mother of mercy.
	4:19pm paddy in matawan: my lady really likes Van. I have waited for this show to check it out.
	4:19pm Asheville Jon: i think astral weeks, overdubbed with some Amanada tapes, would make astral weeks tolerable
	4:19pm BH: ↳ Song: "Beside You" by "Van Morrison" excellent instructions on how to breathe in this song
	4:19pm Alan near Boston: "Help, I swallowed a balloon!" - Van Morrison
	4:20pm dale: i guess ivan was the youngest child and had to yell constantly just to get fed.
	4:20pm Phillippe: there's a reason why this isn't a hit on karaoke night...
	4:20pm coelacanth∅: Irwin please try not to post every minute!
	4:20pm ?: Im surprised people don’t parody him more. It’s almost comedy as is
	4:20pm sydnius: ↳ Song: "Beside You" by "Van Morrison" 😱🐐
	4:20pm KingOfJunk: ↳ Irwin @4:16 😂
	4:20pm Irwin: I promised the entire album. I shall deliver. But the only palate cleanser could be the Bang Records Contractual Demos (which I don't have on hand).
	👻 4:20pm Ken From Hyde Park: Astral Weeks, the movie > the book > the album
	4:20pm Miss G: ↳ dale @4:12 (spit out my electrolyte water on that dale) OK I'm out. Will say one more thing.
	4:20pm joe: we have ventured very far into the ..slipstream?
	👻 4:20pm βrian: Exalted torpor.
	4:20pm WoodsOfMaine: Comments are hilarious. If Mark E. Smith sang the same lyrics you'd be creaming your collective shorts.
	4:21pm Alvy Singer: Lester Bang's review of Astral Weeks. genius.com...
	4:21pm Irwin: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:20 Oops! My bad.
	4:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Van Morrison often thrown in with the Dylans & the Great Writers. But really he's like a Soul Singer in the throws of something himself ...on the borderlands of Articulacy whatsoever. In a way that's what this is about. Part JamesJoyce but equally some other drunk & some holy roller having an epiphany. Not everybody's chosen religion - but neither the album everyone else had made.
	4:21pm coldax: SHOOT. ME. NOW.
	4:21pm Ochre Ogre: Hi Irwin!
	4:21pm coelacanth∅: Will @418 Irwin's playing the moondance album right after this one
	👻 4:21pm PigeonsAndRust: I would rather hear Jack LaLanne sing . Bands good though. Wish he'd shut up
	4:21pm newberry: The alchemic magnificence of this album doesn't reveal itself unless you're smoking patchouli while listening...FYI
	4:21pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ sydnius @4:17 Thank you for at least reminding Americans (and Canadians?) that the Suicide Hotline is now a 3-digit emergency number! 😉
	4:21pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: HEY I had to step out to get my insulin prescription at riteaid. Is this the “David Crosby” tribute ???
	4:21pm mr_donutsu: Where is David Crosby when you need him?
	4:21pm PaulRobeson1923: Is this brand new record dusty?
	4:22pm Late Bloomer: You don’t have to be friends with the guy. Just listen to the record and compare it to what else was happening at the time. It’s more interesting than most
	4:22pm Quinn02: I gave it a good effort. But I guess I’m not as strong as the rest of you.
	4:22pm HyperDose: ↳ Song: "Sweet Thing" by "Van Morrison" Okay I know this song
	4:22pm paddy in matawan: I love it when it's cool to hate stuff on the comments board. Usually a mostly-hate-free spot.
	4:22pm Persimmon: Oh here we go. This is cool. I think i've heard this
	4:22pm ?: pfeh. Mark E Smith would nev-ahhh
	4:22pm dale: HE'S RUINING HIS OWN SONG. musicianship and arangement is fantastic. he sounds like he's about to throw up, however.
	4:22pm Chris: Great song
	4:22pm Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Sweet Thing" by "Van Morrison" I love this one.
	4:22pm Dave in Vermont: If I hadn't listened to this album many times I certainly wouldn't want to be trying to form an opinion about it while simultaneously reading the comments of a lot of people who think their opinions matter and are worth more than others.
	4:22pm BH: you think they maxed out the volume on his microphone or is he just that close to the mic?
	4:22pm Thin Slice: Fire that guitar tech.
	4:22pm Phillippe: Irwin, you need to hook up one of those automotive code readers to the turntable and find out why it's making this noise
	4:22pm Miss G: So, I love to learn. But sometimes,. . .last night on Dave Mandl, the first 5 minutes of Yes made my face scrunch up and tears seeped out. Bad flashbacks. ...
	4:22pm Tommy in Neversink: Wow, I didn't expect this level of negativity .
	4:22pm Matt from Springfield: "Sweet Thing" is often the only song from Astral Weeks that has made appearances on his "Best Of" albums.
	4:22pm Ike: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @4:20 Nah, I don't like him either.
	4:22pm joe mulligan: ↳ Irwin @4:19 Ken played a song with that exact title this morning by Negativland. Negativland wore it better of course
	4:22pm paddy in matawan: that cymbal is odd
	👻 4:22pm Karl Ward: ↳ Song: "Sweet Thing" by "Van Morrison" I turned this up crazy loud so you can all hear it if the stream drops out
	4:23pm Andrew_in_WI: I will clicky-star this entire album! Don't care what y'all think
	4:23pm Ochre Ogre: That was a great song, IF he was singing to that black cat in the pic.
	4:23pm Howard & the Cats: I was honestly expecting to like this album, but I really don't, at least not yet. And not a single mention of ringworm.
	4:23pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ dale @4:22 LOL
	👻 4:23pm Will thee Sound Guy: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @4:21 it's dust to make it sound better... it the same idea as putting Vaseline on a glass lens...
	4:23pm GIRABBE: Sweet thing is good
	4:23pm raoulvanhorn: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @4:20 I’m a huge fan of The Fall, and I love Astral Weeks too.
	4:23pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ paddy in matawan @4:22 It's all odd. & not really Rawk'n'Roll @ all.
	4:23pm VanGo: If this is a current new pressing would explain the horrible sound
	👻 4:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: How would it sound at 45 RPM? 78?
	4:24pm N'Lo: At this point I’m just here for the comments and yes, instrumental would have been fine! This chariot one is kind of growing on me though. Maybe it’s less screeching per bar?
	4:24pm judy from croton: Boring
	4:24pm KingOfJunk: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @4:20 👍🏿🖤😎
	4:24pm paddy in matawan: go van go
	4:24pm HyperDose: ↳ Will thee Sound Guy @4:23 I always liked how they did that in the old movies
	4:24pm Irwin: For me, this album wore out its welcome at the two-minute mark. It's excruciating.
	4:24pm WoodsOfMaine: Lester Bangs on Astral Weeks in the book Stranded: www.screamyell.com.br...
	4:24pm berb: ↳ Andrew_in_WI @4:23 Andrew - the bassist is a professor at UW-Madison
	4:24pm Miss G: And with this, I am unknowledgeable, but, matter of taste? one of my favorite singers is Julie London, but, I began reading the book "Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan" and now I'm trying to learn about her, because before, I just called it "wailing" like some modern singers I don't care for. But, I guess I'm trying to say. . .pick your poison. (ie Sarah Vaughan is undoubtedly a genius)
	4:25pm coelacanth∅: i like this track
	4:25pm Magenta: ↳ Song: "Sweet Thing" by "Van Morrison" OK this one is kind of okay but so far this sounds like how old cheese smells.
	👻 4:25pm Seanbelly: Is this album all one song?
	4:25pm Matt from Springfield: An "early spring" sound - I often associate sounds with feelings or places, I suppose it might work with that. It does work well with this rainy cold drizzly day here. I would say that it's very "un-standard", unique is a word often used to praise art, but for those who listen to jazz or soul, this definitely isn't on the same page as what is normally considered jazz or soul. Actually it's more "psychedelic" in many ways, an observation about this album I previously didn't notice.
	4:25pm Phillippe: I'm wondering if it will get better as the turntable begins to drag after hauling these 180 grams of annoyance for 20 minutes or so
	4:25pm Physarum: Never say something once when you can sing it 1,000 times.
	4:25pm VanGo: The sound of someone full of himself
	4:25pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Dave in Vermont @4:22 Good afternoon, Vermont! @Dave, baby, the comments boards are like waves upon the sand!
	4:25pm Ike: ↳ Phillippe @4:22 ROTFLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
	4:26pm James Akers: Is this the new and improved comment board!? This Morrison album would be fun to karaoke- but only because all the vocal riffing would be fun to sing after several drinks
	4:26pm chresti: ↳ Seanbelly @4:25 It seems so
	4:26pm sydnius: remember, you’ve already all earned this: 🏆
	4:26pm coldax: ↳ VanGo @4:25 exactly!
	4:26pm WoodsOfMaine: ↳ raoulvanhorn @4:23 I'm not a fan but that band is kind of hallowed ground around here.
	👻 4:26pm PigeonsAndRust: Man, could you imagine being on a road trip with Van? In a car for sixteen hours ? "I gotta go to the ba-ba-BAAAthroom. Lawd, lawd, pull it over pull it over pull it O-o-oooover"
	4:26pm Irwin: Immersion therapy is supposed to help you overcome fears. I'm terrified of Van's next inevitable outburst.
	4:26pm paddy in matawan: ↳ Ike @4:25 P-0155 - Bad cymbal sensor
	4:27pm ?: You can’t be personally hurt when people don’t love the same exact music that you love. That’s nuts.
	4:27pm VanGo: Whats worse: this or Counting Crows?
	4:27pm Ochre Ogre: Don't remember ever hearing AW entirely. Back in the day seems everyone had a copy.
	👻 4:27pm Seanbelly: Astral weeks contain much longer minutes than regular weeks.
	4:27pm Asheville Jon: will Irwin be smashing the album after he is finished playing it?
	4:27pm BH: unfortunately Cyprus Avenue has been divided since 1974 with no resolution in sight
	4:27pm dale: it's like joe cocker on poppers.
	4:28pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Magenta @4:25 I'd like to defend old cheese here!
	4:28pm paddy in matawan: o man she loves countering crows too. I'm gonna be dead if she's watching the comments board.
	4:28pm coldax: One of the most over rated records of all time
	4:28pm Persimmon: lol dale
	4:28pm Andrew_in_WI: ↳ dale @4:27 That's just Joe cocker
	4:28pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Asheville Jon @4:27 Dan Bodah's "Breaking Records!" He used to do that, play a record, then smash it on Air afterwards!
	4:28pm pgalub: Sha la la la la!
	4:28pm Laura L: So--that contractual obligation... a record company wanted more of this? I was keeping an open mind too, I really was, because I never heard it before, but it got all shut down by VM.
	4:28pm sydnius: ↳ Asheville Jon @4:27 I’ve never been a fan of destruction. Hated when they blew up disco records in baseball stadia.
	4:29pm Magenta: ↳ paddy in matawan @4:28 True. It's an insult to old cheese really.
	4:29pm ??: I have a good friend who loves Van Morrison..My friend drinks only whiskey & slurs a lot. My friend ..he's still my friend
	4:29pm Asheville Jon: Matt, I am thinking more along the lines of when Ken smashed Matt Warwick's/the station's copy of Heavy Metal with an axe
	4:29pm paddy in matawan: Is it a new song yet?
	4:29pm Dave in Vermont: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @4:25 thanks for that reminder. I admit i'm feeling a little defensive. I know most of the comments are meant to be humorous, but folks seem really attached to being coller than thou
	4:29pm moaxey: I've just worked out, you can change the music, keep reading the comments feed and have the best of both worlds!
	4:29pm Nick: It's giving me bad anxiety!
	4:29pm WoodsOfMaine: Not often you see the comments board turn into a frathouse bro subreddit.
	4:30pm Gary: Saw him perform this at the Fillmore during Moondance tour. Scared the crap out of me
	4:30pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: WAIT am I mistake. Is this the VAN MORRSON who died while taking a bath in Paris France apartment back in 1970
	4:30pm dale: it's getting incomprehensible.
	👻 4:30pm PigeonsAndRust: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @4:29 Behold, the uniting power of VM
	4:30pm Asheville Jon: smashed heavy metal album: wfmu.org...
	4:30pm Irwin: The instrumentation and arrangements are great. Is there a Stack-O-Tracks version of this album?
	4:31pm Magenta: ↳ dale @4:30 I heard him go on about cherries a few minutes ago?
	4:31pm Alvy Singer: With consumate dynamics that allow him to snap from indescribably eccentric throwaway phrasing to sheer passion in the very next breath he brings the music surging up through crescendo after crescendo, stopping and starting and stopping and starting the song again and again.
	👻 4:31pm βrian: Excruciate: Latin excruciāt- participial stem of excruciāre , < ex- intensive (see ex- prefix1) + cruciāre to torment, < cruc-em cross.
	4:31pm sydnius: ↳ Irwin @4:30 feed it thru vocal removal AI, it’s quite amazing!
	4:31pm KingOfJunk: Did you flip to side 2 yet?
	4:31pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: What happened to his voice. It doesn’t sound like on the song “light my fire”
	4:31pm chresti: ↳ listener Phillip in the Bronx @4:30 That would be Jim?
	👻 4:31pm Ken From Hyde Park: Maybe this will next appear in the 50₵ bin when there is a Second Saturday Sidewalk Sale?
	👻 4:31pm Will thee Sound Guy: way up on what?
	4:31pm newberry: ↳ listener Phillip in the Bronx @4:30 yes, this was recorded as he was dying
	4:32pm coelacanth∅: i was looking forward to enjoying this album more than i am enjoying it, overall. so it's disappointing. but i liked "sweet thing". this song i liked and now he's gradually wrecking it, sadly. it's a good song; some actual composition, not just the 2-chord backdrop he does so much. but i'd like it more if he just sang, without the acrobatics.
	4:32pm paddy in matawan: skip it
	4:32pm dale: ↳ Magenta @4:31 cherry wine. i mean, boones farm? c'mon - grow up van!
	👻 4:32pm Elena: ↳ Asheville Jon @4:30 Do you remember the year when this happened?
	4:32pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Song: "Cyprus Avenue" by "Van Morrison" This one sounds pretty good
	👻 4:32pm PigeonsAndRust: Is this really only side one?
	4:32pm Marie: My cat is definitely intrigued by it (that or else it is the vegan enchilada casserole). Perhaps VM emits on a special feline wavelength.
	4:32pm ?: ↳ listener Phillip in the Bronx @4:30 Oestral Leaks by Vann Morrson
	4:33pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: So is the song “peace frog” up next
	4:33pm Claire of Wanamassa: Sounds like he is suffering from Ringworm. Could someone please give him a prune danish?
	4:33pm listener Rey: nooo, there's more!!!
	4:33pm Barclay: I too loved Ryan Walsh's book, despite having no love for this record. Anyone wondering WTF is going on with this record is still strongly encouraged to read that book! It's almost as good as Songs in Key of Z
	4:33pm Fredericks: I didn't get this record the first few listens. I was too much of a rocker. It did grow on me.
	4:33pm Dean: Had to step away for a meeting. He's still at it?
	👻 4:33pm βrian: Now for 78??
	4:33pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @4:29 Despite our Freeform ethos and extremely varied listeners, there are certain conventions that develop, and some listeners carry forth stronger than others. E.g., Don McLean is awful, Van Morrison is awful...but also an anti-elite streak. So if music journalists say Astral Weeks is the exception to that rule, they'll make a bigger point of voicing their displeasure than if it wasn't really mentioned.
	4:33pm Claire of Wanamassa: Thank all that is holy. Half over
	4:33pm Magenta: ↳ Song: "Young Lovers Do" by "Van Morrison" OK this is okay too, he's not even wailing so much.
	4:33pm sydnius: oh god it’s badly jazzier
	4:34pm Jeezy: It's got a great "vibe" but it ain't exactly fraught with memorable songs now, is it?
	4:34pm Chris: Van doing a very respectable big band vocal
	4:34pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Seanbelly @4:27 hahaha
	4:34pm Jeff Moore: Side two starting off strong! ...then the singing started.
	4:34pm Magenta: ↳ Magenta @4:33 Maybe he got laryngitis?
	4:34pm paddy in matawan: Is this 2 songs at the same time?
	4:34pm KingOfJunk: Irwin: u sound like ur full of energy!
	4:34pm jan: Was this record not available in the CD format, with scan feature, this whole exercise could have been condensed to a minute.
	4:34pm Ochre Ogre: Irwin- Can you play side 2 at 45/78 PLEASE!?
	4:34pm coelacanth∅: (how not abreast of the comments i am)
	4:34pm Earl City: The horns pop on this one.
	4:34pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: Is this record being played at the right speed? I remember his voice was deeper like on “stronger than dirt”
	4:34pm Phillippe: unforgettable in the wrong way...
	👻 4:35pm Karl Ward: Now I want Ken & Andy to solicit listener versions of Astral Weeks songs, to keep the party going here
	4:35pm dale: and the scatting....
	4:35pm sydnius: scatting. scatting.
	4:35pm Irwin: I feel vindicated.
	4:35pm joe: van's scatting
	4:35pm PaulRobeson1923: I think something happened to the record
	4:35pm listenerFern: are you constipated and when you finaly hear this xxxing album you will be able to relieve your self some things should be left a mystery
	4:35pm Magenta: OH GOD NO
	4:35pm Asheville Jon: Elena: i think it was maybe 2019?
	4:35pm Mister Dobalina: I've got to head out the, uh, uh...dentist, yeah that's what it is, the dentist... bbl.
	4:35pm nathan: man, I had no idea people hated this album so much
	4:35pm Ike: "Scat" indeed.
	4:35pm Jeff Moore: Remember: scat is poop.
	4:36pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:33 Some listeners even express their displeasure for Richard Harris' "MacArthur Park", despite the common paradox that WFMU "Despises American Pie, but loves MacArthur Park" - that's a good summary of said ethos, but by no means universal.
	👻 4:36pm chris in the redwoods: ↳ Song: "Young Lovers Do" by "Van Morrison" i actually like this one. is there a hotline i should call?
	4:36pm coldax: ↳ Song: "Young Lovers Do" by "Van Morrison" It's big band music for hippies
	4:36pm dale: ↳ Irwin @4:35 this is a public service, really.
	4:36pm WoodsOfMaine: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:33 Most of the strong complaints I see are about artists that had the audacity to be gasp popular.
	4:36pm Miss G: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:33 Thank you Matt from Springfield, so well said. I was trying to think of some example "It's not as if this were ___ show and suddenly everyone began to pile on ___" My loathing of _____ shall forever go unsaid, in front of one of my favorite DJs, for instance. . .
	4:36pm Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Young Lovers Do" by "Van Morrison" I don't recall the strings being so prominent on this song.
	4:36pm Magenta: I need to go to the bathroom but I also can't look away from this trainwreck.
	4:36pm chresti: horns, full orchestra? Haha
	4:36pm Wendy del Formaggio: I'm listening to this as I watch the snow and freezing rain fall outside, and I mend a sweater. It's not bad, but again, I wish it was just music w/o VM's voice. But I'm sensitive, and some singing voices make me cringe.
	4:36pm ?: Wow Irwin recreated the platonic ideal of the “you’re probably wondering how I got here” record scratch foley of countless tv show openings when he flipped it. Bravo!
	👻 4:36pm Elena: ↳ Asheville Jon @4:35 Thanks! I will investigate further.
	4:36pm newberry: ↳ coldax @4:36 nailed it
	4:36pm coelacanth∅: oh shit, sydnius i forgot all about that! i was into it because i hated the choices my favorite rock bands were making. but actually i agree with you.
	4:36pm upstatesean: Please Stop!😁
	4:37pm Irwin: Van Morrison and scat-singing. Two of my least favorite things happening at once.
	4:37pm paddy in matawan: the clicky stars dont lie tho
	4:37pm Matt from Springfield: Now the masterpiece! I think. Your Mileage Varies.
	4:37pm Magenta: ↳ Song: "Madame George" by "Van Morrison" "click and clack"
	4:37pm Chris: Sorry, amazing song. Marianne Faithfuls cover is great.
	4:37pm listener Phillip in the Bronx: I don’t know this album. Does it have the song “people are strange” that’s a favorite of mine ???
	4:37pm Irwin: "Madame George" is NINE FUCKING MINUTES LONG.
	👻 4:38pm βrian: ↳ Irwin @4:37 Auto-tune would complete the equation.
	4:38pm PaulRobeson1923: I wonder if the original Sounds better? Back to back comparison?
	👻 4:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Irwin @4:37 How many grams is that?
	4:38pm Brian C.: This LP came out right after Brown Eyed Girl?
	4:38pm Alvy Singer: Van Morrison is interested, obsessed with how much musical or verbal information he can compress into a small space, and, almost, conversely, how far he can spread one note, word, sound, or picture. To capture one moment, be it a caress or a twitch.
	👻 4:38pm Will thee Sound Guy: ↳ Irwin @4:37 lol, 9 minutes of terror for you
	👻 4:38pm Karl Ward: ↳ Irwin @4:37 I believe you meant to say "NINE ALMOST PERFECT MINUTES LONG"
	4:38pm Hugh: Frisbee this crap into the woods.
	4:38pm Marie: I do like the flutage
	4:38pm Thin Slice: I cued up Gone With the Wind at the needle drop on pt. 1, and the synchronicity is eerie.
	4:39pm James Akers: @Ken From Hyde Park, I think each side is 90 grams
	👻 4:39pm chris in the redwoods: madame joy-je.
	4:39pm Dean: An ambitious me would propose a program for one of the streams consisting only of artists/works the DJ dislikes. I assure you, my own list of despised artists would hurt a lot of WFMU feelings. Der Ring des Nibelungen is FIFTEEN FUCKING HOURS LONG.
	4:39pm Louis Boon: Rock solid album. Very glad I tuned in!
	4:39pm sydnius: ↳ Hugh @4:38 Kids might find it! 🤣
	4:39pm Jeff Moore: One thing I'm finding interesting is that I'd always assumed my complete inability to stand Van Morrison was unusual. I guess I'm not alone.
	4:39pm berb: Some listeners seem to be confusing Van Morrison with Jim Morrison. I regret to inform you that this album has no "The End", nor does the singer die.
	4:39pm WR: ↳ Irwin @4:14 Was thinking of writing something like this but worried that I would seem too snarky.
	4:39pm coldax: ↳ Song: "Madame George" by "Van Morrison" This was going to be George Santos' drag queen name before he settled on Kitara Revache.
	4:39pm Magenta: ↳ Dean @4:39 I'd listen. This is an interesting concept!
	4:40pm Louis Boon: The Lester Bangs essay is also amazing!
	4:40pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Irwin @4:37 So, your music nightmare is Van M and Ella Fitzgerald duo LP.
	4:40pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Miss G @4:36 True, there's what we think, and what we reveal to our in-groups, further more what we reveal to wider society.
	4:40pm upstatesean: If you auto tuned, there’d be nothing left…
	4:40pm Fredericks: ↳ Song: "Madame George" by "Van Morrison" Lovely strings.
	4:40pm KWilde: I have to admit I do love some of Moondance - particularly Into The Mystic
	4:40pm Alvy Singer: ↳ berb @4:39 No, but this record will eventually END. :)
	4:40pm Dave in Vermont: So much for being open-minded. See, @paddy 4:37
	4:40pm FishtownMike: TBH, if I only have 9 minutes left to live, I hope they can play this song. Those nine minutes will last forever, and I'll be ready to go at the end.
	4:40pm Marie: It's very wistful and I think there is a lot of beauty in it
	4:40pm Hugh: I thought Atrocious Music show was mothballed.
	4:40pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ coldax @4:39 How is that pronounced anyway? So I can "Dry your eye for Kitara Revache"...
	4:41pm upstatesean: Yeah the flute is cool
	4:41pm paddy in matawan: Apparantly Van has a new single out.
	4:41pm KingOfJunk: I’m calling 911
	4:41pm dale: when he keeps the caterwauling in check it's listenable.
	4:41pm Irwin: Unlike Andy Breckman, Lester Bangs didn't have perfect taste.
	4:41pm PaulRobeson1923: I bet the original sounds better
	4:41pm Matt from Springfield: Dry your eye your eye your eye your eye your eye your eye your eye your eye your eye your eye Say goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye
	4:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: It is about someone in drag of course.
	4:42pm ?: ↳ Dean @4:39 what with the hurt feelings? It’s like getting upset that someone doesn’t like tomatoes or the color green
	4:42pm Tommy in Neversink: Nine wonderful, blissful minutes Irwin
	👻 4:42pm Ken From Hyde Park: What's hot: 2022: Prog 2023: Plod
	4:42pm joe: the love to love the love to love
	4:42pm WoodsOfMaine: ↳ paddy in matawan @4:41 Is it called "I hate woke m&m's"?
	4:43pm paddy in matawan: Almond Joy?
	4:43pm Barclay: FWIW Maria McKee does a great version of "Way Young Lovers Do" that made me think I might like the original. I do not.
	4:43pm Late Bloomer: I had no idea this record was so polarizing. Set and setting I guess. Always love listening to Irwin play records though. You are a very entertaining dj Irwin
	4:43pm psdnyc: Wow, thank you for playing this album through. It's been a while. Brings tears to my eyes.
	4:43pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Song: "Madame George" by "Van Morrison" I hope Madame George is ok
	4:43pm ILikedWaterworld: best album ever, so far. and i have great taste in things.
	4:43pm berb: love to love you, baby
	4:43pm John L: ↳ @4:42 I hate tomatoes and I get plenty of guff for it.
	4:43pm upstatesean: Yeah Hugh, Irwin still doing that!
	4:43pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:42 Not there's anything wrong with that.
	4:43pm Magenta: you're right you're right you're right
	4:44pm PB: The one and only Van Morrison track I could ever deal with was TB Sheets.
	4:44pm Louis Boon: Lester Bangs: "For one thing, what it means is Richard Davis's bass playing, which complements the songs and signing all the way with a lyricism that's something more than inspired, something that has been touched, that's in the realm of the miraculous. The whole ensemble – Larry Fallon's string section, Jay Berliner's guitar (he played on Mingus' BLACK SAINT AND THE SINNER LADY), Connie Kay's drumming – is like that: they and Van sound like they're not just reading but dwelling inside of each other's minds."
	4:44pm Tommy in Neversink: I didn't expect the nastiness .I'm a bit taken aback by it
	4:44pm WoodsOfMaine: Music resonance (or lack of) is an interesting thing. We've all got that list. Why do I not like David Bowie or Ween? Dunno, I keep trying but nothing ever happens.
	4:44pm dale: sometimes his phrasing is like he has his tongue froze to a metal light pole.
	4:44pm Irwin: ↳ Hugh @4:40 On point, Hugh!
	4:44pm Gary: If you heard this album in 1968, you would have had a different opinion. There was nothing comparable
	4:44pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I think it's flawless & beautiful - Van for all his - make your own list - made a Classic & gave it to the World - & y'all otoh are all high on your own supply of mutual & self-congratulatory bitterness. But hey - whatever gets you thru.
	4:45pm paddy in matawan: drum tech! we need a drum tech down here!
	4:45pm The Butterman: Is that fucking “moon dance “ song on this album? I hope not. I really know nothing about this so called lizard king.
	4:45pm Tommy in Neversink: Rev. Rabbit ..I'm with you
	4:45pm Magenta: The bass sounds nice I guess.
	👻 4:45pm G: He didn't have a tourettes diagnosis, did he?
	4:45pm PB: @Woods - Bowie never did it for me either, with the one major exception of Aladdin Sane. That whole album is great.
	4:45pm WoodsOfMaine: I love how this was such a left turn from the previous album. No hits, singles, etc. But I think some legal hooey had something to do with that.
	4:45pm chresti: Ricky Lee Jones did that "lubdlaluvdeluvdeluv.." thing too
	4:45pm upstatesean: Nobody’s attacking anyone else here! It’s just different opinions about some music
	4:45pm sydnius: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:44 One man’s tripe is delicious.
	4:46pm Jules in VT: meh
	4:46pm Hopatcong Doug: “And the loves that love to love that loves to love That loves to love the loves that loves to love The love that loves to love…”
	4:46pm coelacanth∅: Matt, i like "american pie" (and "vincent" but the rest of the album's pretty boring) and don't know anything about Don MacCleen (sp!) so have nothing at all against him personally. i don't care much about "macArthur park" - and mostly can't stand yoko ono, musically and personally... and know that she never did anything that someone else didn't do first. so there! Fuck the wolf pack.
	4:46pm Louis Boon: Incredible that he was only 22/23 when he recorded this
	4:46pm Crosby in KC: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:41 I don't think it's really the repetition. Bill Withers says, "I know" 26 times in a row on Ain't No Sunshine and it works.
	4:46pm Irwin: Jandek would be a palate-cleanser after this.
	4:46pm Dave in Vermont: ↳ Jules in VT @4:46 lol
	4:46pm ??: Not a fan of Van, or Mark E. Smith or Don Maclean or Richard Harris or Sonic Youth. WFMU or popularity of an artist does not "dictate' my like or dislike of them. I listen, I may like some aspect of these songs (like most of the bass playing so far) or maybe nothing but hey, they all have/had success in a very tough biz. I'm happy for them all. Over-analyzation is a common thread on these boards. The rest is just for comedy's sake. If people are too thin skinned, scroll on by
	4:46pm Alvy Singer: He repeats certain phrases to extremes that from anybody else would seem ridiculous, because he's waiting for a vision to unfold, trying as unobtrusively as possible to nudge it along. Sometimes he gives it to you through silence, by choking off the song in midflight: "It's too late to stop now!"
	4:46pm Tommy in Neversink: upstream...the comments are unnecessarily mean
	4:46pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ sydnius @4:45 I ate tripe in Philly a few months ago. Actually "tripe" is quite good, regardless of that reputation!
	4:46pm AC Paint: I love Lester Bangs,but this is certainly not the best album ever. I have never heard it in it’s entirety either. Time has acclimated me to Van, he’s not as annoying as, say, The Beach Boys. Pet sounds is another greatest record I never liked.
	4:47pm dale: was it wnew that used to play a new album in it's entirety once a week? fmu should do this more often.
	4:47pm Dean: I was being a bit hyperbolic, ?@4:42. Just as some listeners might have been hoping in vain that Irwin would come around to appreciating Van, if I played, say, Elvis Costello, precisely because I can't stomach anything he's ever done (with an exception or two), it might provoke needless tension on the comment board.
	4:47pm joe: from Bangs: "'Madame George' where he sings the word 'dry' and then 'your eye' twenty times in a twirling melodic arc so beautiful it steals your own breath..."
	4:47pm sydnius: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:46 😉
	4:47pm wheelocks latin: Not a bad album, appreciate his willingness to stretch out. VM I think does love music and makes music that he cares about, so he can only be so bad.
	4:47pm Dean: Whoo, boy, ??@4:46, Sonic Youth would get a ton of play on my imagined show.
	4:48pm Ochre Ogre: And i thought Doobie Bro's song ending, 'World listen to the music, the world listen to music, oh the world listen to...' was too much.
	4:48pm Jeezy: I kinda like that they didn't tune the guitar on Ballerina...
	4:48pm Asheville Jon: ugh, this whole album is endless drivel
	4:48pm Magenta: I apologize if I was unnecessarily mean. I got caught up in the moment.
	4:48pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Have thot that it's a truism - if a Work is strongly Polarizing ...usually an indication something worthwhile is for sure happening there.
	4:48pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ coelacanth∅ @4:46 "Fuck the wolf pack"! That's what we all have in common! 😃
	👻 4:49pm PigeonsAndRust: ↳ Gary @4:44 You're right, that is an important point being ignored
	4:49pm Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ: Never was a big Van Morrison fan. This rekkid hasn't converted me.
	👻 4:49pm chris in the redwoods: never heard this album. don't hate it at all!
	4:49pm VanGo: Re: truisms - I believe in the philosophy of the exception
	4:49pm joe: ↳ PB @4:44 'TB Sheets' is a bop
	4:49pm Irwin: ↳ ?? @4:46 I love Mark E. Smith, but I get why lots of people aren't fans. I even get why people are fans of Van. I just don't get his overwrought wailing. I wish he'd dial it down a bit.
	4:49pm KingOfJunk: ↳ ?? @4:46 🖤🤡
	4:49pm Listener Robert: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @4:36 Yes, the whole album sounds very pretty and relaxing except for the vocals. The same voice singing with less sweet and pretty music would be good, though. Maybe he should make stuff like that some time.
	4:49pm Hugh: String overdubs and the whining make my ears bleed
	4:50pm ??: ↳ Dean @4:47 and that's fine too :) It's just a matter of taste. ALL music is good music to someone & that's the way it is
	4:50pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:48 Love it-Loathe it-Confused by it-or Never heard it. But seldom would someone listen to this whole album without any personal reaction.
	4:50pm James Douglas: Gastral creaks
	4:50pm Late Bloomer: “I like waterworld”. Hahaha!
	4:50pm Magenta: I mean, I personally liked "Taste the Biscuit" but I can understand why people don't like it.
	4:50pm PB: @ Joe, a “bop”? What is that?
	4:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ VanGo @4:49 - that's a good truism.
	4:50pm PaulRobeson1923: What is that song Van sings about fishing poles and getting wet? That IS a Great song
	4:50pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Irwin @4:49 Everything you just said, I second.
	4:51pm headcleaner: My take so far (having tuned in just now): A lovely bed of instruments - but I just can't get past the voice. Maybe there's good songwriting crafstmanship behind what we're hearing, or maybe there isn't. The guy may even have a story to tell. But with the incessant verbal squawking that keeps tumbling out over the impeccable musical arrangements, I'm not sure I'll ever get to know. Plus (this song, Madame George) at least is just too long, way too long. Pray for The End.
	👻 4:51pm rrg: "If two people disagree about a work of art, the person who likes it is correct."
	4:51pm coelacanth∅: i like this song too
	4:51pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @4:50 'Stoned Me'
	4:51pm Fredericks: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:25 Interesting point Matthew.
	4:51pm listener monica: wow I didn't like Van Morrison until this.
	4:51pm ??: ↳ Irwin @4:49 and that's fine too :) It's just a matter of taste. ALL music is good music to someone & that's the way it is
	4:51pm Alan near Boston: ↳ PB @4:44 Yeah forgot about TB Sheets - a good 'un!
	4:51pm Persimmon: love that rrg
	4:52pm KingOfJunk: ↳ Irwin @4:49 🖤☠️
	4:52pm katharsis: Haven’t looked at the chat since it started. I think it’s almost over?
	👻 4:52pm PigeonsAndRust: ↳ Irwin @4:49 Imagine if he sang this album in a style like, say Fred Neil. I could get into it then
	4:52pm sydnius: This, too, shall pass.
	4:52pm Dean: Van doesn't sound entirely unlike Mick Jagger at times.
	4:52pm HyperDose: Got my line dancing shoes on!
	4:52pm Persimmon: dean i thought that
	4:52pm joe: ↳ PB @4:50 It's what the kids call a good upbeat song you could dance to
	4:52pm ILikedWaterworld: ↳ Dean @4:52 i hear it
	4:52pm Jeezy: I got no prob with the voice. I just like memorable songs with solid hooks. But I understand that makes me an anachronism in the age of Billie Eilish, etc. In a way. Van was ahead of his time with this kind of formless yet enchanting mush...
	4:52pm VanGo: ↳ Dean @4:52 True
	4:53pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Alan near Boston @4:51 Interesting early version of "Madame George" on that one - more of a soul-chorus arrangement than the jazzy chamber music one on AW.
	👻 4:53pm Mark Hurst: Greetings, Irwin. All.
	4:53pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ Irwin @4:49 Good point, difficult for most, but when one clicks into The Fall they're hooked for life.
	4:53pm The Butterman: ↳ rrg @4:51 I like that! I used to say shala la la la la la la la la la la…la dee dah but I don’t say that anymore!
	4:53pm Marie: You know, I like album listening "parties." It's interesting to hear this whole album
	4:53pm upstatesean: Unpopular Music? Was that the name of Irwin’s old show?
	4:53pm listener Rey: ↳ headcleaner @4:51 My feelings exactly re: arrangements. Wish he would sit one out.
	4:54pm Alvy Singer: What Astral Weeks deals in are not facts but truths. Astral Weeks, insofar as it can be pinned down, is a record about people stunned by life, completely overwhelmed, stalled in their skins, their ages and selves, paralyzed by the enormity of what in one moment of vision they can comprehend.
	4:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ PigeonsAndRust @4:52 Well, Fred Neil singing anything. Van is the Auteur of this entire outing. Of course this thing they're doing is about the precise Players, but disecting his Credits is counterfactual.
	4:54pm Alan near Boston: ↳ Matt from Springfield @4:53 I'll check it out!
	4:54pm hilaryprudy: some people like Bjork, to me she's a shreiker...
	4:54pm Mark in Columbus Ohio: Enjoying part 2 as opposed to part 1. Thanks for playing this album I never listened to despite being 70 years old.
	4:54pm KingOfJunk: ↳ rrg @4:51 👍🏿
	4:55pm andy fuchs: this dreck can't end soon enough....
	4:55pm WoodsOfMaine: I love this album but I do like Van's vocals more on later albums where they are indeed dialed back.
	4:55pm coelacanth∅: i just wish he sang the songs and left it at that. i don't dislike his voice, in fact i like it -as i always have... but the scat/acrobatics ruins most of his music , what i've heard (maybe 15 albums)
	4:55pm joe: do a yoko album next week
	4:55pm Asheville Jon: some people like cupcakes better. i, for one, care less for them.
	4:55pm Dean: It's not his voice, or not exclusively his voice, that sometimes turns me off. It's his tendency to stick a toe in Gospel and to milk the vibe in search of a transcendence that so rarely occurs in music. (Sibelius, sometimes, maybe?)
	4:55pm Yvang: Imagine the same songs sang by Nick Drake.
	4:56pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ hilaryprudy @4:54 You know - fair enuff. Prince frankly irritates me somehow - @ the same time I acknowledge he was probly as broadly talented as anyone ever.
	4:56pm Asheville Jon: i wish Jandek would do a full length cover of astral weeks
	4:56pm Jeezy: I was hoping Irwin and maybe Micah were gonna chat over it the whole time. That would be entertaining!
	👻 4:56pm Ken From Hyde Park: Needs more cowbell, that's the problem.
	4:56pm sydnius: I had a roommate who couldn’t take Kate Bush. Me, Nat Merch. nthx
	4:56pm coldax: this record does not deserve the pedestal people place it upon. You can like it but I have never heard anything that places in a pantheon of greatness.
	4:56pm Alvy Singer: Maybe what it boiled down to is one moment's knowledge of the miracle of life, with its inevitable concomitant, a vertiginous glimpse of the capacity to be hurt, and the capacity to inflict that hurt.
	👻 4:56pm rrg: I remember liking this one ("Slim Slow Slider"). Maybe I still do. But I can't rationalize that.
	4:56pm ?: ↳ The Butterman @4:45 ha ha Butterman you just reminded me of an SNL sketch of people in a crowd at a VM show. Moondance figures heavily into it
	4:56pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Jeezy @4:52 "Formless yet enchanting mush..." there's our marquee sign!! I do admit as a fan, that "Slim Slow Slider" is a disappointing ending to this album. Some have written that it finishes the character arc and expresses his disappointment, but Pet Sounds finished with "Caroline No" - sad and disappointing sentiment but SO BEAUTIFUL in every way. And the strange album ending with the trains and dogs! Perhaps another track, or an extension of this track might make the ending I want to the rest of this album.
	👻 4:56pm PigeonsAndRust: ↳ Marie @4:53 And its great that there are also people here who are deeply moved by it and love it! A good friend told me it changed her life. When they said that I listened to it twice, and put it aside. That was years ago. Revisiting it here with very different eyes, it's still not for me...but its fun listening with other people
	4:56pm paddy in matawan: DRUM TECH! NOW!
	4:56pm Patty D: Never heard this song before. It’s good.
	4:56pm HyperDose: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @4:56 That's it
	4:56pm raoulvanhorn: Imagine Guernica painted by da Vinci. Pointless.
	4:56pm hilaryprudy: Bjork is incredibly talented...I just don't care for her music...
	👻 4:57pm admiral crisp: it's been emotional
	4:57pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:51 Thanks Rev Rabbit
	👻 4:57pm Will thee Sound Guy: It's over?
	4:57pm Asheville Jon: oh thank freakin Gus Bodenheim that aw is finally freakin' over
	4:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...You did it !
	4:57pm coelacanth∅: i wont stay for a yoko album, except "plastic ono band"
	4:57pm Dean: Van has a tribute album to Mose Allison. He also has a nice tune, "What's Wrong With This Picture?," in which he laughs out loud to good effect.
	4:57pm Phillippe: That was educational
	4:57pm Magenta: That was it?
	👻 4:57pm βrian: The passengers are really clapping now.
	4:57pm James Akers: sweet relief to my ears- its finally over!
	4:57pm Chris: That was fun!
	4:57pm Howard & the Cats: At least it's not a double LP...
	4:57pm markinbrooklyn: That went by in a flash! Sounded like one song…
	4:57pm Claire of Wanamassa: Hooray. It’s over.
	4:57pm paddy in matawan: Now back to the irregularly unscheduled programmeng ??
	4:57pm The Butterman: ↳ @4:56 I’ll have to check that out. !
	4:57pm coelacanth∅: Dean, yes, it's the milking.
	4:57pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ hilaryprudy @4:56 Same. It's never said anything to me. But I get why people love her.
	4:57pm listener 126464: Not too bad!
	4:58pm Dean: I hope Irwin pulls a Matt Warwick "Heavy Metal" and devotes part of his show each week to a replay of the album.
	4:58pm dale: i liked the last song. and not because it was last.
	4:58pm Cooh John: I don't hear a single.
	👻 4:58pm admiral crisp: you have to listen to an album at least three times to really judge it. run it back irwin
	4:58pm paddy in matawan: \m/
	4:58pm P.Welles: Its classic for a reason
	4:59pm AC Paint: The instrumental parts are nice. Vocals go on and on.
	4:59pm Magenta: It was okay. The vocals weren't my cup of tea but I liked the music.
	4:59pm PaulRobeson1923: Perhaps the vocals are better on the original?
	4:59pm Matt from Springfield: And now Irwin, you know for sure! If ever there was an exception to a Van Morrison preference, this is it! So your Van dislike is proven to be complete!
	👻 4:59pm Karl Ward: ↳ admiral crisp @4:58 Let's do this
	4:59pm HyperDose: ↳ admiral crisp @4:58 And stoned too!
	4:59pm Asheville Jon: please play an hour of Amanda to make up for that horrible van morrison dreck
	4:59pm rbx: "overwrought caterwauling" is a good one
	4:59pm Dean: Van's "All In The Game" is gorgeous.
	4:59pm Brendan: You're wise to fear the Van. Even more so if somebody is trying to talk you into it.
	4:59pm The Butterman: ↳ raoulvanhorn @4:56 Leonardo da Vinci( use his full name not the town he was from) would fuck ( in a good way ) up a version of Guernica!
	4:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Van doesn't sing he testifies.' That's astute especially from someone who doesn't like him.
	4:59pm Lizardner Dave !: ME WANT COOKIE!!!!!
	5:00pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ HyperDose @4:59 Stoned me just like a jelly roll...
	👻 5:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: "You have to listen to the notes his isn't singing." "I could do that at home."
	5:00pm sydnius: ooh plz some Jandek palate cleanser
	5:00pm ILikedWaterworld: Lyin' Eyes on repeat, please
	5:00pm raoulvanhorn: A guy I knew long ago said Van is the only guy he knows who can sound like a saxophone when he sings.
	5:00pm Alvy Singer: Then put on The Shaggs.
	5:00pm J-W from B: When will you do another Moondog special?
	5:00pm jan: RE Van Morrison, I'm with you Irwin. The singing was perilously close in quality to the music you played back lo those many decades ago on Atrocious Music and Incorrect Music.
	5:00pm coelacanth∅: i like a solid 3 songs, and another 1-2 with reservations
	5:00pm Dean: Compare "judicious caterwauling."
	5:00pm Magenta: And the turntable didn't break! Yay!
	5:00pm Marie: It was very of its time, that album, I think
	5:00pm Tommy in Neversink: Since you're not gonna listen to it again can I have the album
	5:01pm Laura L: I don't think I even want to hear Ringworm again after that!
	5:01pm Rick from SC: Ahhhh.... Back to the music.
	5:01pm ILikedWaterworld: ↳ Tommy in Neversink @5:00 too heavy for US Mail
	👻 5:01pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ coelacanth∅ @5:00 My feelings, too.
	5:01pm Dave in Vermont: ↳ Tommy in Neversink @5:00 Oh that's a good idea. My daughter would love have this on vinyl.
	5:01pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @4:59 Good way of putting it! I like the testifyin' and beltin' on this album - I did notice some points where he kind of diverges into...Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" voice maybe? I like those parts less, but overall enjoy the music, lyrics and presentation.
	5:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...because Irwin is famous for not appreciating Artists with atypical technique or expression. See...
	5:02pm Sean: I kinda liked it. It would grow on me if I cared to listen to it again but I don't. I can see why people who listened to it obsessively during breakups or something are attached. It would have worked for that. Some albums are salves you kinda have to dredge up some pain and let it get coated. I did a bit of that here, laying on the bed, and I felt it.
	5:02pm Alvy Singer: ↳ Tommy in Neversink @5:00 Too soon to ask Tommy. The wounds are still fresh.
	5:02pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Song: "Scissors" by "Mélissa Laveaux" A song about being drawn and quartered? A? Does Van have anything comparable?
	👻 5:03pm Ken From Hyde Park: Should've invited Shooby Taylor for some backing vocals.
	5:03pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Alvy Singer @5:00 YES! Did The Shaggs issue a complete album? Let's do a full listen of that next! 😁
	5:03pm Listener Robert: There are a lot of not-so-good singers whose music I like because the production as a whole complements their not-so-good singing. Jonathan Richman's not a good singer but, whether live or recorded, the music he makes is very enjoyable.
	5:03pm HyperDose: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:00 I'm afraid to scroll up and peruse the slander. I enjoyed it!
	5:03pm raoulvanhorn: ↳ The Butterman @4:59 He wasn’t from “da Vinci”, he was from Vinci. I’ve been to his house. He said it was ok to call him that.
	5:03pm coelacanth∅: hey well i also can't stand the breathy, devoid of sincerity vocals that are so fashionable nowadays too, so... everyone has an opinion.
	5:04pm Dean: I guess Irwin didn't know about the mystery track at the end of Astral Weeks. It's the one he was concerned about @4:09. Van sings The Fish Cheer.
	5:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Sean @5:02 Context matters much more than we want to admit I do think ...FMU is rather often a study in just this. Dylan's early 70s BreakUp Classics kind of saved my life. Do I want to go there a lot ? Not actually. Hell - a lot of early 90s Musics I bonded deeply with - but don't wanna have to put on the right shoes to trudge thru Grungeland again that much...
	5:05pm The Butterman: ↳ raoulvanhorn @5:03 Oh good. Tell him I said hi and ask if we can call him Vince. That’d be cool.
	5:05pm popchop: Wow. Caterwauling, Counting Crows comparisons...Hahaha.
	5:05pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ HyperDose @5:03 Understandable! For the most part the reactions are funny, those who didn't like it mostly played it well in a 7SD-Ken & Andy way. But, no need to go back and review if you know yourself what you like! 😄
	👻 5:06pm Franco Twinkie: I was drawing with ink the whole time, and in that regard it worked beautifully. Hypnotic and monotonous, I never dropped my brush once.
	5:06pm Ochre Ogre: ↳ coelacanth∅ @5:03 Amen, in general such crap!
	5:06pm raoulvanhorn: ↳ The Butterman @5:05 Well, he’s dead now, so…
	5:06pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ coelacanth∅ @5:03 I don't like the breathy vocals thing, either, especially when grown women use that style and sound like what I call "breathy toddlers." It's too pedo for me. Claudine Longet, I'm looking at you!
	5:06pm Listener Robert: Dean, did you ever get an explanation of why the Niebelungenlied made such an impression in the culture? When I was given the reason, it was mind-blowing. It's posibly the best vindication of Keynesian economics, which generally I'm skeptical of.
	5:06pm nathan: ↳ Song: "Broken Cd" by "Beabadoobee" keeping the Van Morrison theme going by playing artists named after some of his best scats
	5:07pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ popchop @5:05 Van very influential in a few ways on a few people. Not an accident.
	5:07pm Asheville Jon: i sure hope that gus Bodenheim comes back whhhith a whhhhhitty and scathing rebuke on the awfulness of astral weeks.
	5:07pm sydnius: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:05 I’ve never noticed the ”710 fluid” nature of that acronym before, thanks for enlightening me! 😀
	5:07pm dale: irwin - maybe robin kahn (sp?) can cover the moondance album.
	5:07pm Brendan: I love Wavelength . Some of his songs though , wow. The glutteral vocal phrasings sound like he could benefit from more fiber in his diet.
	5:08pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @5:05 A younger 90s kid, technically too late for even grunge, but it's notable bands and influence persisted the rest of the decade when I grew up. I think...the main problem with grunge is "grunge". And its biggest virtue is also "grunge". Complex relationship with its output fer shure...
	5:08pm Dean: That is an intriguing notion, Listener Robert. You're skeptical of Keynesian economics, or of The Ring as its vindication?
	5:09pm Dean: Compared to Billy Corgan, Van Morrison is angelic.
	5:09pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Weeded Out" by "The Roches" Irwin, is this song dedicated to "Astral Weeks"?
	5:09pm zzz: ↳ Song: "Weeded Out" by "The Roches" Roches vocals definitely a palate cleanser
	5:09pm Phillippe: ↳ Song: "Weeded Out" by "The Roches" Likin' this a lot
	5:09pm Listener Robert: I'm skeptical of Keynesian economics, but the story behind the Ring seems to show that under some conditions it works spectacularly.
	5:09pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ sydnius @5:07 "7SD" = "710 fluid"?
	5:09pm hilaryprudy: enjoying the sisters...
	👻 5:10pm Elena: Love the Roches. Their eponymous album from 1979 was recently back-reviewed at Pitchfork pitchfork.com...
	5:10pm sydnius: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:09 stay on it worth the work
	5:10pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @5:06 haha Wendy yeah even worse! - and the little girl bubblegum pop, without the breathiness, also something i wont stick around for. it's the reason i rarely ever listened to Sheila's probably mostly good show - because i turned it off as soon as her opening song started!
	5:10pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:08 Well - I liked Screaming Trees most of all - less Popular than most. But I use 'Grunge' as shorthand ...& because it's pretty descriptive of the feeling of the era in fact - & what I mean about that.
	5:11pm Carmichael: Just got free to listen. Was Astral Weeks on ode to, or a send-up of?
	5:11pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Weeded Out" by "The Roches" The Roche sisters: likewise a very "un-standard" folk variety. Some might tune them out. Me, I love them for their quirks even more.
	5:11pm Carmichael: I enjoy the Hammond Song and the song about cleaning behind the steam table.
	5:12pm HyperDose: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:05 Good call. 7SD is always a nice palate cleanser 🍨
	5:12pm Dean: Is the story behind The Ring the mythology it recounts, or the story of the work's composition and production? Have to confess, I can't see either connection, but I don't know the details.
	👻 5:13pm chris in the redwoods: ↳ Song: "Oceans Niagara" by "M83" Geddy Lee on synths? i hear Rush.
	5:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:11 Course a characteristic of Pop(ular Musics) is a distinctive voice often gets you further than a truly fine one. It's about Sounds, right ? ...Or - like someone observing Mickey Dolenz being an Actor (if not a background in Singing) gave him an edge in getting a thing across.
	5:14pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ coelacanth∅ @5:10 Yeah, the little girl vocals thing...blecch! I have two exceptions to my anti-"I'm a grown woman sounding like a baby" rule. Jessica Pratt, because her music is odd and lovely, and her use of reverb remedies some of the baby thing. And Blossom Dearie, because she's got a good sense of musical humor, but that took a lot of work on my part to get to liking her.
	5:14pm ?: ↳ WoodsOfMaine @4:42 ha ha Is he is big libertarian dipshit now too? Typical.
	5:14pm PaulRobeson1923: Encore!! Encore!
	5:15pm Wind: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @5:14 LOL
	5:16pm PaulRobeson1923: That was a good song, wind. Hope yer doing well
	5:16pm Wind: Don't forget this is from the perspective of Gus B being in Love !
	5:17pm Marie: "the silent g spot of agnostics" @)))
	5:17pm Wendy del Formaggio: Not a fan of Boston at all, but that Joe D'Allessandro comment just made me laugh out loud VERY... um... hard.
	5:17pm HyperDose: This is gold 😂
	5:17pm sydnius: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @5:14 I loved Blossom Dearie from SHR, as many.
	5:17pm Dean: Is Gus B married to Cardi? Now that woman can sing.
	5:17pm Wind: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @5:16 yes thanks Paul just got a new job so im still trying to feel out what shows I can listen to on fmu :) I've been randomly in and out of chats...
	5:17pm hilaryprudy: ah Mission Hill..
	5:17pm Listener Robert: The Avars were a semi-civilized people in central Europe. They were masters at raiding, plundering all nations and then just hoarding the spoils. They had no idea what else to do with them, so they just hoarded them. Because so much of what they plundered was stuff used as money, and modern banking had not been invented, they therefore plunged Europe into a deflationary depression for generations. Eventually, after repeated campaigns, the Franks conquered the Avars. The Avar land was surrounded by fortifications. When the Carolingians liberated the spoils, they didn't hoard it, they distributed it among their cronies, and although you'd think this would result only in a transfer of wealth to their crown, it eventually caused a diffusion of all that money -- and an economic boom throughout Europe! This period was so important in Europe's history that it was retold allegorically as the Niebelung's song. Oh, the innermost of the Avar fortresses? It was called...the Ring.
	5:17pm Fredericks: Lyman is a fascinating character.
	5:17pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @5:13 Certainly doesn't pay to sound the same, "indistinct". Did Gus record a 1968 album? Let's listen to that! (Even if it's more Shatner-esque, speaking over background music!)
	5:18pm coelacanth∅: Wendy i LOVE Jessica! especially her first album. i'll have to check out Blossom Dearie
	👻 5:18pm Will thee Sound Guy: 🔥
	5:18pm Listener Robert: And of course, they gave us..."avarice".
	5:18pm PaulRobeson1923: Huxley wrote crystals and rare earth metals are portals/they reflect the other side…
	5:19pm Jeff Moore: ↳ Song: "Weeded Out" by "The Roches" The Roches are balm for the soul and ear. Songs like this from Another World are paradoxically extra fresh to me because of the way I initially rejected the records not produced by Fripp — so, less listening more fresh. The sound still sucks compared to the Fripp records, but Roches is better than not-Roches!
	5:19pm Dean: That's marvelous, Listener Robert.
	5:19pm PaulRobeson1923: Crystals by themselves are just Crystals
	5:19pm Wind: ↳ Song: "Into the Mystic" by "Gus Bodenheim" ❤️❤️❤️
	5:19pm raoulvanhorn: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @5:14 I agree about Jessica Pratt. How about Joanna Newsome?
	5:20pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ sydnius @5:17 That's what mostly turned the tide for me, her work with SHR. It's perfect.
	5:20pm Wind: ↳ HyperDose @5:17 Gus IS Gold
	5:20pm Magenta: I think maybe Micah should tackle L. Ron Bodenheim on his next episode of Music of Mind Control.
	5:21pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @5:18 Anyone else read that book. I think Morrison’s brother read it
	5:21pm Mup Mahoy: Are there a limited number of Gus rants? I know I've heard this one before. Keep 'em comin!
	5:21pm Phillippe: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @5:14 I'm a fan of Blossom Dearie as well
	5:21pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Into the Mystic" by "Gus Bodenheim" Bears repeat play.
	5:21pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ raoulvanhorn @5:19 JN's early stuff makes my ears bleed, but Ys. is stunning.
	5:22pm Phillippe: ↳ raoulvanhorn @5:19 I can't do Johanna Newsome
	5:22pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Parallelograms" by "Linda Perhacs" Ahhhhhh, a true Irwin fave and classic here!
	5:23pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Song: "Parallelograms" by "Linda Perhacs" This song has been running through my head for a few weeks. Math rock!
	5:23pm Wendy del Formaggio: Sorry. Math FOLK.
	5:23pm Dean: I'm generally not a fan of "breathy" female (nor, for that matter, male) voices, but then I grew to admire A Girl Called Eddy thanks to WFMU. The kewpie doll voice doesn't bother me. I love Blossom Dearie, Doja Cat, SZA...
	5:24pm coelacanth∅: the Ys ep (3 tracks recorded with Joanna's touring band) is by far my favorite Newsom release. it's Incredible. Beautiful. Brilliant!
	5:24pm raoulvanhorn: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @5:23 Geometry folk, to be exact. :)
	5:24pm Alan near Boston: Yo, Irwin, me and so many people I know have horrible colds. Can you play "Bless You" by John Lennon?
	5:24pm coelacanth∅: ...and there's some fantastic saw playing on it!
	5:24pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @5:23 Math psych-folk-rock-singer-songwriter-dreamer
	5:24pm Carmichael: Non-Euclidian Folk ...
	5:25pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Carmichael @5:24 For the Win! 😀
	5:27pm Phillippe: ↳ Song: "Water in Your Hands" by "Tommy Guerrero" This is pretty sweet
	5:28pm hilaryprudy: Phillippe...agreed
	5:28pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Dean @5:23 I love the voice of the lead singer of A Girl Called Eddy. I don't remember her as being breathy/childish. Sometimes I guess vocals are mic'ed close in recording, but that never bothers me.
	5:29pm coelacanth∅: reminds me of Peter Green
	5:30pm Wendy del Formaggio: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:24 And damn dreamy, at that! What a weird and wonderful song.
	5:30pm Phillippe: ↳ Wendy del Formaggio @5:28 Erin Moran. I really liked her 1st record years and years ago.
	5:30pm Fredericks: ↳ PaulRobeson1923 @4:50 It Stoned Me.
	5:31pm sydnius: ↳ HyperDose @5:12 ”find the others”
	5:32pm PaulRobeson1923: ↳ Fredericks @5:30 Thank you, Fredericks. Good2CU
	5:32pm Matt from Springfield: Re: Linda Perhacs: Check out "Sandy Toes" from that same re-issued album - that's my 2nd favorite cut of hers.
	5:33pm Matt from Springfield: Virtual whiteboard? Pah! I've no use for it unless you can get high smelling the markers..
	5:33pm sydnius: those 🍎 bastards stole ”configurator” from me
	5:33pm paddy in matawan: Times New Roman?
	5:33pm Ike: This "Freeform" app just popped up on iOS on iPhone as well. Bleh.
	5:34pm listener 126464: Times New Viking
	5:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yer a Font of knowledge.
	👻 5:34pm Mark Hurst: Another reason to avoid Apple...
	5:35pm sydnius: BTW: they just released the Lisa source. Good reading.
	5:35pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @5:34 And always on Point.
	5:35pm Ochre Ogre: Sue Apple for big $, but still have The Marathon.
	5:35pm paddy in matawan: Gravitate toward Google
	5:35pm Lizardner Dave !: I've never heard an Apple user NOT follow "I updated my OS" without a long complaint followed by a story about how they should be like this other Apple user they know that never updates their OS.
	5:35pm coelacanth∅: wfmu should legally restrain crapple from using that terminology, before those shitheads stop fmu from using it.
	👻 5:36pm Mark Hurst: ↳ paddy in matawan @5:35 neverrrr
	5:36pm katharsis: I’m sure it was interesting and groundbreaking “in its day” the voice does grate and I listen to lyrics…the repetitive theme of that dated style worship of women or young girls in several references…here she comes 14” or something is what I heard in one tune…haven’t verified…in another 22…how old was he? I’m not going spend hours researching any of this. I refuse….sprinkled with flowery, mystical phrases. I hear a man wanting to get laid. Which is totally ok. No sex shaming or dissing on anyone’s good time. I can’t admit there isn’t a tad of nostalgia. I just don’t have much time for it. Enjoy the group listen. Let’s do it again!
	5:36pm listener 126464: Put it in your Font Book app, Irwin.
	5:36pm ?: library>users>blah blah blah
	5:37pm PaulRobeson1923: LOL LOL
	5:37pm Laura L: Times was meant to stand the test of time, goddamn it!
	5:37pm sydnius: 😆
	5:37pm katharsis: Not the same album! A different album
	👻 5:37pm Mark Hurst: Satisfying rant.
	5:37pm Mister Dobalina: Now we're talking! & almost as funny as the Van Morrison stint earlier.
	5:37pm KWilde: After installing Big Sur I vowed to never upgrade Mac OS again
	5:38pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...pretty sure this is in the 'Grumpy NonSequitur' folder...
	5:38pm N'Lo: It’s a Techtonic Takeover!
	5:38pm Matt from Springfield: "Up Yer Cat's Ass!, opening for The Banned Times Font, this Friday at Monty Hall..."
	5:38pm Irwin: ↳ listener 126464 @5:36 No such thing in Ventura.
	5:38pm sydnius: ↳ KWilde @5:37 OS 8 4 EVA
	5:38pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Key" by "The Guess Who" Never heard this one before! This rocks, I need to examine Canned Wheat (haven't heard all of that either).
	5:39pm Carmichael: Laughing and Undun are on this LP. A classic, I tell ya.
	5:39pm Mister Dobalina: Hurst in da house!
	5:39pm ramon: love mac, i can never use their computers or phones.
	5:39pm Matt from Springfield: @Irwin: You've never played the goth band Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat, have you? 😉
	5:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "Key" by "The Guess Who" Love how popular GuessWho once were with stuff like this. Okay maybe not this one.
	👻 5:40pm rrg: ↳ Irwin @5:38 Yes, there is.
	5:40pm headcleaner: Now here's an underrated band
	5:40pm ?: I know designers who are still using non-subscription adobe applications on ancient macs. It’s a battle for stability and ownership.
	5:41pm Carmichael: I saw the Guess Who in '73, headlining over Elvin Bishop, Montrose and Redwing (Tim Schmitt pre-Poco). At a horse racing track.
	5:41pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "Key" by "The Guess Who" Percussitastic!
	5:41pm Irwin: This version omits the pointless drum solo.
	👻 5:41pm Elena: ↳ rrg @5:40 I concur.
	5:42pm Alan near Boston: ↳ Song: "Key" by "The Guess Who" Man what a groove!
	5:42pm Wind: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:39 I think he might have Matt :)
	👻 5:42pm Hunterian: Isn't Breckman's entrance music when he totters into the studio a song by the Guess Who? Maybe this should be it if it isn't already?
	5:42pm listener 126464: ↳ Irwin @5:38 I upgraded to 13.0 and still have it. So, what did you wind up doing?
	5:43pm mb: Irwin ::nods::
	5:43pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Be like me unable to afford new iterations of anything & you won't have these vexations.
	5:44pm Irwin: ↳ listener 126464 @5:42 I have 13.1. It ain't there. Actually it is, because I put it back, but no app in my system can locate it.
	5:44pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Wind @5:42 A favorite of DJ Julie, yet she never could announce them without a chuckle!
	5:45pm dale: i pre clicky starred that guess who. thought i had never heard it before. i just deleted about 5 or 6 hundred mac fonts from a hard drive. i haven't used mac in about 15 years. wasn't sorry to see olive extra bold go away.
	5:45pm Wind: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:44 I don't blame her!
	5:45pm katharsis: It’s not that I dismiss any music or musician that has a cringe factor in the lyrics. I take everything in context of the time and culture to some extent. I just don’t expose myself unnecessarily to it unless there is another strong draw of some kind.
	5:45pm Carmichael: I didn't know there were pointless/necessary drum solos ...
	5:47pm mb: oh my. I too never sat thru Astral Weeks. Did i miss a good on air bad review?
	5:48pm Wind: on a not so light note, I always wonder if we knew more about the species with whom we share this planet and less about type face font names...we might not be in the midst of the 6th mass extinction now....crap!
	5:49pm Dean: Wendy, way up there, yeah, part of it has to do with the close mic'g, but she also wanders into Eilish territory with the almost muttered word or two.
	5:49pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "John Wayne is Big Leggy (Groovy Long version)" by... Ah. The third leg.
	5:49pm Yvang: I haven't heard this in fourty years.
	5:49pm PB: The story about Iggy encountering John Wayne shortly after he moved to LA is a good one.
	5:50pm Matt from Springfield: ↳ Song: "John Wayne is Big Leggy (Groovy Long version)" by... Haysi Fantayzee! Definitely the quirky early 80s UK pop!
	5:50pm Wind: fun!
	5:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "John Wayne is Big Leggy (Groovy Long version)" by... Loves a good little girly vocal.
	5:51pm Carmichael: Being Irish, Van was not only required listening, but required liking. His being from Belfast songled him out as "more Irish". I have a soft spot for him, but completely understand the modern day dimissal of his talent/attitude.
	5:51pm Yvang: Talking about annoying singing.
	5:51pm Wind: ↳ PB @5:49 tell us
	5:51pm markinbrooklyn: I foolishly bought this cuz the brit music press told me to… now it sounds almost like a eurovision contender!
	5:51pm MarciB: ↳ Yvang @5:49 Same!!
	👻 5:52pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Song: "Take the Easy Way Out" by "Mira Cook" Mira Cook coming to Radio Ravioli on Monday (sorry if that was mentioned on the mic break, I stepped away for a moment). www.miracook.com...
	5:52pm PB: Check out the Stooges documentary Gimme Danger.
	5:52pm Wind: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @5:52 cool
	5:52pm MarciB: ↳ markinbrooklyn @5:51 omg you are 100% correct!
	5:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Song: "John Wayne is Big Leggy (Groovy Long version)" by... ...cause if a rekkid has a good beat to dance to - it has a chance of being populah with thuh rekkidt buying publicg...
	5:53pm Irwin: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @5:53 Killer groooooove.
	5:54pm Whosondephone: Caught the tail end of that Van Morrison. I've heard of Van Morrison but never associated that voice with him. I was kind of expecting something closer to Van Halen, maybe? I learned something today, for better or worse. I really wonder what the songs would sound like if he actually sang. Let's just say I prefer Bob Dylan.
	5:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @5:53 - also not unattractive woman.
	5:54pm dale: everyone knows milton berle had the biggest member in hollywood.
	👻 5:54pm 12539: Thanks, Mr Irwin David Chusid!
	5:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ↳ dale @5:54 ...also not unattractive woman...
	5:55pm Carmichael: Kate Garner ...
	5:55pm paddy in matawan: ↳ Whosondephone @5:54 Crazy Eddie Van Morrissey
	5:55pm markinbrooklyn: Stashu could get away with this
	5:55pm PaulRobeson1923: No times font, no ruined years, no clocks
	5:55pm dale: ↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @5:55 at least 45 years before ru paul.
	5:56pm Carmichael: ↳ markinbrooklyn @5:55 Hoof N Mouth number for Stashu??
	5:56pm listener 126464: Thank you, Irwin.
	5:56pm Wind: ↳ markinbrooklyn @5:55 totally
	5:56pm HyperDose: Thank you, mister Chusid!
	5:56pm Fredericks: ↳ coelacanth∅ @5:00 How many times have you heard the record?
	5:57pm PB: So, is Van going back on ice for another 30 years or so? Let’s hope so.
	👻 5:57pm rrg: It's almost time to say goodbye to all our company. Goodbye, company, thanks for the rants an' stuff, thanks IC, and let's all plan to meet again.
	5:57pm Asheville Jon: Bow Wow Wow, nice! haven't heard this in forever
	5:57pm Carmichael: If yo want lightweight Japan pop rock, jump over to Sheena and Mike Rogers!
	👻 5:58pm DjLorraine: I was breathless at one point. Thank you
	5:58pm Carmichael: And thanks, Irwin!
	5:58pm Wind: Fun time flies with Mr.Chusid
	5:58pm Matt from Springfield: Splendid show this has been! Thanks Irwin, have a great evening everyone!
	👻 5:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Irwin. Are there some other albums you've never played before?
	5:59pm dale: was so in love with annabella. then felt creepy about myself because she was illegal.
	5:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always Mr. DJ IDC Sir ~
	5:59pm Wind: ↳ Matt from Springfield @5:58 adios
	5:59pm paddy in matawan: fun show thank you IC
	5:59pm Crosby in KC: Thanks, Irwin!
	👻 5:59pm chris in the redwoods: thanks, Irwin!
	5:59pm Noel: A. B. Lwin was soooo hot.
	👻 5:59pm Elena: Thank you!
	5:59pm mb: Thx Irwin!
	5:59pm radioronan: Thanks Irwin. Cheers Bodenheims !
	6:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Irwin!
	6:00pm Ochre Ogre: Thanks Irwin!
	6:26pm wind: Pittsburg!!!

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from January 25, 2023

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