Favoriting Currents with Brian D: Playlist from January 22, 2023 Favoriting

Brian D's avatar View Brian D's profile Favoriting

Music inspired by life and current events

Saturday 6 - 9am (EST) | On WFMU | 91.1, 90.1, 91.9 FM & wfmu.org
WFMU LIVE Audio Streams (Get help):   Pop-up  |  128k AAC  |  128k MP3  |  32k MP3

<-- Previous playlist | Back to Currents with Brian D playlists | Next playlist -->


Favoriting January 22, 2023: "We are not so gullible.."

Listen to this show: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!

Artist Track Album Images Approx. start time
Gang of Four  Natural's Not In It   Favoriting Entertainment!    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Mekons  Work All Week   Favoriting The Quality of Mercy is not Strnen    0:02:56 (Pop-up)
The Birthday Party โ€Ž  Guilt Parade   Favoriting The Birthday Party    0:06:15 (Pop-up)
B-Sides  Wolves Are at the Door   Favoriting Herald's Missing the Funny Pages    0:09:03 (Pop-up)
U2  Pride   Favoriting Songs of Surrender    0:14:27 (Pop-up)
  Clip: James Baldwin: From Another Place       0:18:34 (Pop-up)
Public Enemy  Fight The Power   Favoriting Fear of a Black Planet 
Favoriting
0:19:19 (Pop-up)
  Clip: James Baldwin: From Another Place/WTOL-Ohio voting law       0:23:52 (Pop-up)
Fishbone  Question of Life   Favoriting Truth and Soul 
Favoriting
0:25:06 (Pop-up)
Funkadelic  Can You Get to That   Favoriting Greatest Hits 
Favoriting
0:28:09 (Pop-up)
Gil Scott-Heron  New York is Killing Me   Favoriting I'm New Here 
Favoriting
0:30:57 (Pop-up)
Curtis Mayfield  Pusherman   Favoriting Super Fly 
Favoriting
0:35:26 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
James Murphy 

Golden Years   Favoriting

While We're Young motion picture soundtrack 

 

0:40:28 (Pop-up)
Special Interest  Midnight Legend   Favoriting Endurance 
Favoriting
0:48:28 (Pop-up)
  Clip: Baldwin''s N***** 1969/KENS-hunger strikes in Texas prisons       0:51:49 (Pop-up)
Bad Brains  The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth   Favoriting Rock for Light 
Favoriting
0:53:41 (Pop-up)
TMA  Dying the Empire Way   Favoriting What's for Dinner? Beach Party 2000? 
Favoriting
0:57:28 (Pop-up)
Kid Congo Powers and the Near Death Experience  Garbage Man   Favoriting Live In St. Kilda 
Favoriting
0:58:47 (Pop-up)
The Prof. Fuzz 63  Your Call is Not that Important   Favoriting Cinnamon Sea EP 
Favoriting
1:03:14 (Pop-up)
  Clip: Baldwin In Paris/TYT-police killings in US       1:07:24 (Pop-up)
Squalls  Modern World   Favoriting Live from the 40 Watt 
Favoriting
1:09:07 (Pop-up)
Ramones  Time Has Come Today   Favoriting Subterranean Jungle    1:11:36 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
James Murphy 

Golden Years   Favoriting

While We're Young motion picture soundtrack 

 

1:16:01 (Pop-up)
Wolfmanhattan Project  Respectable Pigs   Favoriting Summer Forever And Ever    1:21:46 (Pop-up)
  Clip: James Baldwin in Paris/Fox11-LA police kill cousin of BLM activist       1:25:27 (Pop-up)
Robyn Hitchcock  Noirer than Noir   Favoriting Shufflemania!    1:27:07 (Pop-up)
Nyxy Nyx  Can You Even Be Seen?   Favoriting Thee 3rd Album 
Favoriting
1:31:57 (Pop-up)
  Clip: Baldwin From Another Place/Red Nation-Peltier case       1:36:42 (Pop-up)
Spiritualized  I'm Coming Home Again   Favoriting Everything Was Beautiful    1:36:44 (Pop-up)
Alex Chilton  (Stranded on a) Dateless Night   Favoriting Live In London: Encore Edition    1:46:32 (Pop-up)
Emeralds  The Quaking Mess   Favoriting Solar Bridge    1:49:34 (Pop-up)
  Clip: Baldwin''s N***** 1969/KXAN glacier melt report       2:03:50 (Pop-up)
Rich Ruth  Older But Not Less Confused   Favoriting I Survived, It's Over    2:06:11 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
James Murphy 

Golden Years   Favoriting

While We're Young motion picture soundtrack 

 

2:14:56 (Pop-up)
Helical Snowfall  Binaural Experiment   Favoriting BGM 4 My 'Tubes    2:16:09 (Pop-up)
  Clip: Baldwin interview ~1985/Scotland's LGBTQ law overruled       2:23:46 (Pop-up)
Martin Bisi  Mystery of the Skin Suit   Favoriting Feral Myths    2:25:42 (Pop-up)
Phil Ranelin, Wendell Harrison, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad  Fire in Detroit   Favoriting Phil Ranelin and Wendell Harrison JID016    2:31:31 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra and His Arkestra  They Plan to Leave   Favoriting Prophet    2:36:28 (Pop-up)
  Clip: Baldwin From Another Place       2:45:08 (Pop-up)
Sonny Sharrock  As We Used To Sing   Favoriting Ask the Ages    2:45:28 (Pop-up)
Bill Frisell  Bird on the Wire   Favoriting Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen    2:52:57 (Pop-up)


<-- Previous playlist | Back to Currents with Brian D playlists | Next playlist -->

RSS feeds for Currents with Brian D: RSSPlaylists feed | RSSMP3 archives feed

| E-mail Brian D | Other WFMU Playlists | All artists played by Currents with Brian D |

Listen on the Internet | Contact Us | Music & Programs | WFMU Home Page | Support Us | FAQ

Live Audio Streams for WFMU: Pop-up | 128k AAC | 128k MP3 | 32k MP3    (More streams: [+])


Listener comments!

  3:02am
Listener Bop Monroe:

Howdy from dog walked Tannersville DJBD. too cloudy 4 stars.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05am
tom tom the pipers son:

good thing you're not brian (d)aboll, coach of the ny giants, or you'd be in a very bad mood right now...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07am
Brian D:

There is that, Tom Tom. Hello everyone!
  3:07am
tonyb:

Gang & Mekons!! Birds of a feather. Top shelf.
Avatar 3:10am
Don in Tampere:

Hello from the forest!They finally got the toilet and hot water installed so could spend the night here. Listening at very low volume since my friend is still sleeping in the next room.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:20am
tom tom the pipers son:

i don't think mlk was looking for love.
  3:21am
persimmon:

Nice don!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22am
Brian D:

↳ Don in Tampere @3:10
Congrats Don. Enjoy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23am
Brian in UK:

Hello Brian & toilet owners everywhere!
Quick visit before setting off for a family birthday get together.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:25am
Brian in UK:

Not sure if you can view this over there.
www.bbc.co.uk...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:28am
Brian D:

↳ Brian in UK @3:25
Heard about that Brian. Not sure HOW I can view over here. Good morning, by the way.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:38am
tom tom the pipers son:

met the grafitti artist daze while working at club usa, back in the day. i was helping him hang graffitied mannequin parts from the ceiling. have pleasant memories of the experience
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:38am
Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:38
Wow. That must have been something, Tom Tom.
  3:40am
devlawn:

listening and watching the tennis match. Pusher has other meanings.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:51am
Brian D:

Australian Open... forgot about that.
  3:52am
devlawn:

a couple of long hairs playing now.
  3:56am
devlawn:

anyone that tries to be a giant, should look down on baldwin.
  3:57am
devlawn:

↳ Brian D @3:51
Sinner's hair is crazy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:58am
Brian in UK:

↳ devlawn @3:57
He does play some good gospel though!!!!
Seizure later.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:03am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "Garbage Man" by "Kid Congo Powers and the Near De...
new theme for matt warwick?
  4:04am
devlawn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants
Avatar 4:05am
Heidee:

Good morning Brian D and Brian in UK and Tom, and oh! Don! I so owe you an e-mail, dear! ๐Ÿ˜˜
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:06am
tom tom the pipers son:

hello heidee!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:06am
Brian D:

Heidee!
Avatar 4:08am
Heidee:

Who are the paws in the profile photi, Brian?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:11am
Brian D:

Heidee, that's one half of the Currents Canine Contingent, Lira (aka The Piglet).
Avatar 4:12am
Heidee:

gorgeous dog ๐Ÿ˜
  4:13am
devlawn:

Sinner's hair is pretty glorious but he hides it under a cap in the australia sun
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:13am
Brian D:

Thank you! Yes, she is, with a personality to match.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:15am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @4:11
brian, was it a hot day when that photo was taken? your doggie looks awfully contented.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:16am
Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @4:15
Yes, August. In Boston. Mrs. Currents was speaking at a conference up there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:17am
Brian D:

August 2016, I think.
Avatar 4:19am
Fox:

Yes, yes I have forgotten.
  4:24am
devlawn:

Bad Brains was the best band I saw by accident at rock festival.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:25am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @4:19
Fox!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:25am
Brian D:

↳ devlawn @4:24
So great live.
Avatar 4:25am
Heidee:

↳ Brian D @4:11
Will we see the second half some time too?
  4:25am
devlawn:

an out door rock festival, Bad Brains rocked it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:26am
Brian D:

↳ Heidee @4:25
Be careful what you wish for, Heidee. I'm a proud puppy poppa.
Avatar 4:26am
Heidee:

Great!!
Avatar 4:30am
Heidee:

↳ Song: "Clip: James Baldwin in Paris/Fox11-LA police kill...
๐Ÿ˜ฑ
  4:33am
Robm:

Hello fellow listeners, did anyone hear of the shooting in LA?
Avatar 4:33am
Fox:

↳ Brian D @4:25
BRIAN!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:34am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @4:33
How are you, my friend?
  4:34am
Robm:

↳ Fox @4:33
Morning fox
Avatar 4:35am
Heidee:

Hi Robm! Didn't hear till now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:36am
Brian D:

↳ Heidee @4:26
You asked for it, Heidee. Puca as a baby. Appears next to this song on the playlist.
Avatar 4:37am
Heidee:

↳ Brian D @4:36
Awww โค๏ธ
  4:39am
Robm:

↳ Heidee @4:35
Yeah got an alert from the BBC
Avatar 4:40am
Mr. Oxford:

Hello everyone: Brian D, Bop Monroe, tom tom the pipers son, devlawn, Heidee, Fox, Don in Tempere (Terve Don, mitรค kuuluu?)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:41am
StringOFperils:

Hi, Brian and all. My AIM was simply to sleep...but no go...
Avatar 4:42am
Mr. Oxford:

Hello Robm and SoP.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:43am
Brian D:

↳ Heidee @4:37
Dog person Heidee?
  4:44am
Listener Bop Monroe:

howdy MrO, Fox (!) and all.
awoken and bokin' round the table with L'il Stormy who sez hi also and Alanna the Dog and Sqweek the Cat.
Avatar 4:44am
Mr. Oxford:

↳ Mr. Oxford @4:40
Also hello to Brian in UK and persimmon. I always forget someone in such greetings list the first time around.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:45am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @4:33
Fox, read this the other day and thought of you. www.theguardian.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:45am
Brian D:

Greetings Ox, Bop, String and Rob.
Avatar 4:49am
Heidee:

↳ Brian D @4:43
Tote! Ailsa the Beddy-Whippet in Heidee's profile :-)
Avatar 4:50am
Heidee:

Bedlington Terrier x Whippet
  4:50am
Listener Bop Monroe:

↳ Brian D @4:45
good article thnx!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:51am
StringOFperils:

↳ Song: "(Stranded on a) Dateless Night" by "Alex Chilton"
Heh heh...I got to see fellow Memphis psychobilly meisters Tav Falco & Panther Burns perform this song on a few occasions
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:52am
Brian D:

↳ Heidee @4:50
Beautiful!
Avatar 4:52am
Mr. Oxford:

↳ Song: "(Stranded on a) Dateless Night" by "Alex Chilton"
I need to get into Alex Chilton solo stuff. Seems like he changed his style quite a lot in those records.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:53am
tom tom the pipers son:

hello mr. oxford
Avatar 4:55am
Heidee:

Thanks. She's a clown.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:56am
StringOFperils:

↳ Mr. Oxford @4:52
Yes, he decided to tear it up, and do what he wanted, after the Box Tops and Big Star didn't get him where he wanted to be. I was with a few people talking to him after a gig once, and said he never saw a dime from all of that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:57am
Brian D:

↳ Heidee @4:55
In their own ways, they all are.
Avatar 4:58am
Heidee:

Stimmt. :-)
Avatar 4:58am
Mr. Oxford:

↳ Song: "The Quaking Mess" by "Emeralds"
This is lovely.
Avatar 4:59am
Mr. Oxford:

↳ StringOFperils @4:56
Interesting. I'll check his post-Big Star records out. Thanks for sharing your story.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:04am
StringOFperils:

↳ Mr. Oxford @4:59
Look for the ep called Feudalist Tarts, or the album called Like Flies on Sherbert.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:05am
tom tom the pipers son:

heidee, cute pup, but what's that image of an old city at night, looks like edinburgh, but you're in germany, right?
Avatar 5:10am
Fox:

↳ Brian D @4:34
I was wallowing in my own life crap, but your show has a lovely ability to snap me out of it and see a more expansive view.
Avatar 5:10am
Mr. Oxford:

↳ StringOFperils @5:04
Thanks for the recommendations, SoP. Will check those records out.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:11am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @5:10
Right back at you, Fox.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:12am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @5:10
Haven't listened to your Poe show yet.
Avatar 5:15am
Fox:

Brian, would you get in trouble if you actually said the word, instead of "the N word"?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:19am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @5:15
No, but I don't feel comfortable saying it, even when it's the title of the film, Fox.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:21am
Brian D:

Is saying "N-word" annoying?
Avatar 5:21am
Fox:

↳ Brian D @5:19
Yeah, I don't know that I could actually say it either. Especially on the air. I'd literally gag.

But in principle, I wish I could say it when quoting or referencing.
Avatar 5:22am
Fox:

I'm more on the George Carlin way of thinking about it.
Avatar 5:23am
Fox:

Maybe I would say it? Man, I don't know.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:23am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @5:22
Yeah, I get that. See the Patti Smith song. But these are such charged times. It's the title of the film, but the last thing I want to do is upset anyone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:24am
StringOFperils:

That's a tough one, working with the self-decision to keep that word out of circulation even, if you're a DJ. Just mediating it, by broadcasting it, arguably perpetuates it...but it's part of the content of so many records, particularly in hip-hop, where the artists, debatably, took the word back
Avatar 5:24am
Fox:

↳ Brian D @5:23
Oh, totally. Language and words are an idea delivery system, so the times of interpretations are best considered when trying to communicate.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:26am
StringOFperils:

It means you can't play Stevie Wonder's Living for the City...I'd find that hard
Avatar 5:26am
Fox:

I actually played some James Baldwin in that fill-in I did for you! AND a bunch of people talking about the N word issue.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:28am
Brian D:

↳ StringOFperils @5:26
Oh we can play the song. Stevie can say the word if he wants to.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:29am
Brian D:

↳ Fox @5:26
I forgot about that! .
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:31am
tom tom the pipers son:

just saw james baldwin died young...62/63
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:32am
Brian D:

↳ StringOFperils @5:26
The Patti Smith song "Rock 'n' Roll N*****" is debatable.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:33am
StringOFperils:

I know. It's not the FCC, or Ken or anything. I goes to some of the issues James Baldwin talks about with the position of white liberalism though, I think. Personally, I don't like to see the censure of recorded history, to remove its untidiness. The ugliness should be there for all to see, but then there's the reality of a certain contingent of boneheads out there on the receiving end who don't get that
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:34am
Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:31
The Big C. He was a prolific smoker.
Avatar 5:34am
Heidee:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:05
Hey there Tom Tom, sry was away for French Toast :-)
Thanks! ๐Ÿถ
Yes, well clocked, Heidelberg in Germany defo has the Embruh vibes!
Avatar 5:34am
Heidee:

↳ Mr. Oxford @4:40
Hiya Mr. Oxford!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:35am
Brian D:

↳ StringOFperils @5:33
I'd say it's more down to the comfort level of the DJs, here, String. I'd happily play Ice Cube's "N***a You Love to Hate." Just won't say the full title.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:36am
Brian D:

↳ Heidee @5:34
mmm French toast...
Avatar 5:36am
HyperDose:

Looks like I missed some rad tunage. Nice way to wake up though!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:36am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @5:34
oh,in that last clip they were talking about aids crisis... was curious how old he was when that was happening.
Avatar 5:37am
Heidee:

↳ Brian D @5:36
with maple sirup ๐Ÿ˜‹
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:37am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Heidee @5:34
thanks, heidee.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:38am
Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:36
Near death, as it turns out. That clip was from 1985. Correcting it on the playlist now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:39am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @5:38
two years away
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:39am
StringOFperils:

↳ Brian D @5:35
Sounds right to me. Something to think about though...as it should be.
  5:40am
LiXiviated Life:

the end is near
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:41am
tom tom the pipers son:

never heard sun ra quite like this
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:43am
Brian D:

↳ StringOFperils @5:39
Right. That's the idea, anyway.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:44am
Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @5:41
WFMU's own Irwin Chusid has a new book coming out: news.artnet.com...
Avatar 5:46am
Michael of Cologne:

Rather late to the party -- good day Brian & all!
Avatar 5:47am
Heidee:

Thanks for the company y'all, great music, Brian! Have a lovely Sunday. x
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:48am
Brian D:

↳ Michael of Cologne @5:46
Hello Michael!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:48am
Brian D:

↳ Heidee @5:47
You too, Heidee!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:48am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @5:44
thanks brian
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:48am
Brian D:

"City of Kings" at Howl Archive: www.howlarts.org...
  5:49am
geoff:

oh man, i havenโ€™t heard this in ages. I used to love all that Axiom stuff
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:49am
Brian D:

Baldwin Abroad at Film Forum: filmforum.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:50am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Brian D @5:48
y.know ther was at least one queen... lady pink
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:51am
StringOFperils:

Sun Ra: Art on Saturn looks great. And Irwin would be the guy, being the admin of all of that...I have too many books....but...maybe..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:53am
tom tom the pipers son:

i think irwin is very self conscious as a dj
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:55am
tom tom the pipers son:

thanks for the journey, as they say, brian... they three hours go by quickly
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:56am
Brian D:

Alright all. Almost it for me. Thank you for joining me. Stay safe and have a great week. Locals: see "Baldwin Abroad" at Film Forum and "City of Kings" at Howl! Arts.
Avatar 5:56am
Fox:

I think Irwin is a perfectionist
Avatar 5:57am
HyperDose:

Thanks for clearing that morning brain fog, Brian!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:57am
Brian D:

So am I. Believe it or not.
Avatar 5:58am
Fox:

↳ Brian D @5:57
Oh, I believe it! Your shows are a whole lot of meticulous work.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:59am
StringOFperils:

Thanks for being meticulous...and generous...and considerate. Cheers!
Bottom
Comment!
Name
Email
(C) 2024 WFMU. Generated by KenzoDB, written 2000-2024 by Ken Garson