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Favoriting January 29, 2023: RIP Tom Verlaine

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
Tom Verlaine  Souvenir from a Dream   Favoriting Tom Verlaine  Elektra  1979    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
Television  The Dream's Dream   Favoriting Adventure  Elektra  1978    0:06:21 (Pop-up)
Tom Verlaine  Travelling   Favoriting Cover  Warner  1984    0:13:25 (Pop-up)
Patti Smith  Break It Up   Favoriting Horses  Arista  1975    0:18:22 (Pop-up)
Tom Verlaine  Always   Favoriting Dreamtime  Warner  1981    0:21:50 (Pop-up)
Tom Verlaine  Without a Word   Favoriting Dreamtime  Warner  1981    0:25:20 (Pop-up)
Tom Verlaine & the Million Dollar Bashers  Cold Irons Bound   Favoriting I'm Not There (Original Soundtrack)  Sony  2007    0:30:53 (Pop-up)
Television  See No Evil   Favoriting Marquee Moon  Elektra  1977    0:36:16 (Pop-up)
 
Television  Little Johnny Jewel Parts 1 and 2   Favoriting Marquee Moon/Adventure/Live at the Waldorf  Elektra  2005    0:43:54 (Pop-up)
David Bowie  Kingdom Come   Favoriting Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)  Warner  1980  a Tom Verlaine cover  0:50:20 (Pop-up)
Tom Verlaine  Let Go the Mansion   Favoriting Cover  Warner  1984    0:54:27 (Pop-up)
Naima Bock  Working   Favoriting Giant Palm  Sub Pop  2022    0:57:45 (Pop-up)
Jockstrap  Debra   Favoriting I Love You Jennifer B  Rough Trade  2022    1:00:55 (Pop-up)
Jenny Alien  Skating Rink   Favoriting single  self-released  2021    1:05:14 (Pop-up)
It It  Voices   Favoriting Two Squirrels Fighting Each Other At The End Of The World  self-released  2021    1:08:51 (Pop-up)
Omodaka  Kiso Bushi   Favoriting ZENTSUU: Collected Works 2001​-​2019  WRWTFWW  2022    1:14:52 (Pop-up)
Majid Soula  Algerie Maroc   Favoriting Chant Amazigh  Habibi Funk  2022 (compilation)    1:20:33 (Pop-up)
Bitter Moon, After 5:08  Pretty in the Dark   Favoriting Berliner Kinder  Blau Blau  2022    1:28:58 (Pop-up)
No Tongues  Kulning   Favoriting Ici  Carton  2022    1:33:20 (Pop-up)
Nyati Mayi & The Astral Synth Transmitters  Lulanga Tales   Favoriting Lulanga Tales  Bongo Joe  2022    1:34:02 (Pop-up)
 
Umillani  Produzione   Favoriting Problemi D'Oggi  Black Sweat  2022    1:50:11 (Pop-up)
Cat Temper  Scratch and Sniff   Favoriting Meow at the Moon  self-released  2022    1:50:41 (Pop-up)
Spill  Pure   Favoriting mycelium  Corvo  2022    1:56:21 (Pop-up)
Astroturf Noise  Tennessee Blazes   Favoriting         1:59:58 (Pop-up)
Bruce Russell  [several selections]   Favoriting Circuits of Omission  Feeding Tube  2022    2:14:15 (Pop-up)
Kraus  Song From A Crystal Cave   Favoriting         2:13:39 (Pop-up)
Devo  Toil Is Stupid   Favoriting [unreleased demo]        2:17:21 (Pop-up)
Jackie-O Motherfucker  Manual of the Bayonet   Favoriting Manual of the Bayonet  Feeding Tube  2022    2:21:38 (Pop-up)
Sadar Bahar and Marc Davis  I'm So Happy   Favoriting Disco Gospel  Mr, Bongo  2023    2:27:49 (Pop-up)
 
Celestine Ukwu and His Philosophers' National  Tomorrow Is So Uncertain   Favoriting No Condition is Permanent  Mississippi  2022    2:41:00 (Pop-up)
Markos Vamvakaris  Bitch, You Made Me Waste Away   Favoriting Death Is Bitter  Mississippi  2022    2:51:14 (Pop-up)
Junk DNA  Darbo Gatve   Favoriting Kopk Kopa  The Helen Scarsdale Agency  2022    2:55:56 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Franco Twinkie:

Testify Abby!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:05am
StringOFperils:

Thank you. This is fantastic. He was fantastic.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:05am
Cooh John:

Hello Abbie. Grabbing us by the... eardums!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:05am
Franco Twinkie:

Lets grieve together.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:06am
chresti:

↳ Song: "Souvenir from a Dream" by "Tom Verlaine"
Nice choice!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:06am
Franco Twinkie:

Good start, Abby.
  12:06am
Bongo:

Sounds great. Keep it up.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:07am
StringOFperils:

I just found out, and I have to say I'm quite emotional about it. And I don't like it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:08am
San Pedro Girl:

Hey Abbie and folks. Excellent start!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:10am
San Pedro Girl:

↳ StringOFperils @12:07
I'm with you. :(
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:10am
Franco Twinkie:

I felt sick when I first heard the news.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:12am
Cooh John:

Fill me with Tom, sigh.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:13am
Franco Twinkie:

From the beginning, Toms music was about dreams.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:14am
Zipperhead7:

Really sorry to hear this. I was lucky to have seen Television live. His interplay with Richard Lloyd reminded me a lot of John Cipollina/Gary Duncan. Verlaine was one of those players you could identify in a couple of notes
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:14am
Abbie from Mars:

So nicely said, Franco
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:15am
coelacanth∅:

hello
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:16am
Franco Twinkie:

↳ Abbie from Mars @12:14
He was a funny one. Whether by design or shyness, he was not a talker. But oh, could he write!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:17am
San Pedro Girl:

I was a little too young to catch them at the onset. But once I knew of them I was enamored, fully enthralled.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:19am
San Pedro Girl:

VERY NICE!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:20am
StringOFperils:

↳ Zipperhead7 @12:14
It's true. No one ever played guitar in this way before or after he showed up. And his writing and song structure; it's so great. I only saw Television once in a place where the sound sucked. I'm usually pretty stoic about this stuff but I guess, for me, this is like a really important light getting snuffed out. Feels like somebody punched me in the gut.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:22am
Franco Twinkie:

↳ San Pedro Girl @12:17
The first time they played in L.A. I missed them(I saw Iggy Pop the night before and didn't feel like going out two night in a row) One of the big regrets of my life. I NEVER missed then again.

I did see him with Patti Smith however.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:25am
Franco Twinkie:

I saw Tom eleven times, but it will never be enough.
  12:28am
pp:

"Always" ... the band Alvvays has a recent song called "Tom Verlaine" that is not about him, which is elliptical just like a TV song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:29am
Franco Twinkie:

This is just to sad. Time for popcorn and blueberries.
Avatar 12:30am
TroyD8:

Thank you for honoring Tom. 🥲
Avatar 12:30am
northguineahills:

I should have known trying to study during marty was a bad idea. ok, almost done.

thanks for the tom verlaine love, abbie!
Avatar 12:31am
northguineahills:

↳ Franco Twinkie @12:29
aha! it is your to-go snack! (just wish it occurred under different auspices)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:31am
San Pedro Girl:

↳ Franco Twinkie @12:22
I was fortunate in that I saw a Television reunion show at the Fillmore in SF in the 2000s--excellent show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:33am
StringOFperils:

Wow, I don't even remember this; I'll have to watch that film again.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:38am
San Pedro Girl:

The second and last time I saw them was at the Solid Sound Festival at MASS MoCA in 2017. Very few people in that audience seemed to know of them. Due to that, I was able to score a spot in the very front, a highly unusual occurrence for me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:39am
San Pedro Girl:

↳ Song: "See No Evil" by "Television"
This is the song that pulled me in.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:39am
Cooh John:

Slay me some more, Abbie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:39am
Zipperhead7:

This is a great tribute set: Tom Verlaine 101. Maybe "Little Johnny Jewel" later?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:39am
Franco Twinkie:

↳ San Pedro Girl @12:31
You know, they were always the same. They were so remarkable in that respect. They didn't pander. We saw them at The Great American Music Hall in SF sometime in the aughts and they sounded exactly the same as the did in the late 70's.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:40am
StringOFperils:

Richard Lloyd is f***ing awesome all over this stuff too. Not really news for anyone here, I know, but...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:41am
San Pedro Girl:

↳ StringOFperils @12:40
Agree!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:43am
coelacanth∅:

maybe venus de milo is my favorite television song
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:43am
Cooh John:

Anything, Abbie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:43am
coelacanth∅:

("venus")
  12:43am
wenzo (listener #143834):

Thanks AFM
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:44am
San Pedro Girl:

Tom did some great solo shows in the 90s. I recently stumbled upon a live audience recording CD from the Bowery Ballroom I believe--great stuff, very dreamy.
  12:45am
pp:

It's all elliptical with TV. Patti Smith's daughter announced Tom's passing, who's late father was Fred Smith, but not the Fred Smith bassist in Television. The media notes that Tom was known by having David Bowie cover one of his songs, yet Gaylord Fields coaxes Tom to spin records on WFMU, Gaylord himself never playing Bowie on air, until his last day. I don't think he played Fame.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:45am
Zipperhead7:

Thanx Abbie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:46am
StringOFperils:

↳ coelacanth∅ @12:43
Robert Forster agrees. He must be devastated. The Go-Betweens sprung from the forehead of Television, so to speak.
www.theguardian.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:46am
San Pedro Girl:

↳ Song: "Little Johnny Jewel Parts 1 and 2" by "Television"
Awesome! Thank you Abbie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:48am
San Pedro Girl:

↳ pp @12:45
Curious factoids! :-)
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northguineahills:

↳ StringOFperils @12:46
hmmm, i can hear/see that...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:49am
Cooh John:

↳ pp @12:45
How perceptive.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:50am
Ciggy:

Damn - I just read that Tom Verlaine died.
The summer of '77 was when I fell down the Television hole. The Blackout. The unbearable heat. One of the greatest summers ever.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:50am
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hello, Abbie and Marsy pans.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:52am
Aitch:

↳ StringOFperils @12:46
I can certainly hear echoes of TV track Venus in Go Between's work
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:52am
Cooh John:

Transcendent, Abbie.
  12:52am
Bongo:

My favorite Bowie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:54am
Yvang:

Maybe "Let Go The Mansion" ? it's a hit.
  12:55am
pp:

↳ San Pedro Girl @12:48
You're welcome. Watched a live YouTube chat with Will Sergeant of the Bunnymen during the pandemic and someone online asked him who his guitar influences were and without skipping a beat he reaches back behind him to his wall of records and pulls out Marquee Moon and he says "these two"
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:55am
Franco Twinkie:

I couldn't resist. Here's my original copy of Little Johnny Jewel I bought in 1977.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:55am
Cooh John:

Clicky-starred.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:57am
Yvang:

↳ Song: "Let Go the Mansion" by "Tom Verlaine"
Thank you! It's been fast ... or coincidence?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:57am
coelacanth∅:

StringO Thanks for that link. the guardian is on my website blacklist though! -so much capitalist activity that it freezes my computer. this Robert Forster person has good taste though!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:58am
coelacanth∅:

hi Ken
Avatar 12:58am
alan the painter:

Abbie! thanKyou! Television was the first "pUnk" show I saw away back in '76. Drove M&D's micro bus up to Boston from Providence, birth of a newbee!
Avatar 12:59am
Kenzilla in Tokyo:

Thank you, Abbie.
  1:00am
Bongo:

Your playlist is beyond good tonight.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:00am
coelacanth∅:

ohhh, the go-betweens... sorry, StringO, i've heard of them! not very familiar (obviously) but i've liked what i heard (on wfmu)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:00am
Franco Twinkie:

Thanks Abby. I'm so tired I need to go to bed.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:00am
StringOFperils:

↳ coelacanth∅ @12:57
Sorry coelacanth∅, I didn't want to make your machine cack out. :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:01am
Cooh John:

↳ Franco Twinkie @1:00
Night, Franco.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:02am
San Pedro Girl:

↳ Franco Twinkie @1:00
Sweet dreams, Franco!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:09am
Cooh John:

You can hang with Todd with the on-the-fly dump.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:10am
Abbie from Mars:

Eyyy I appreciate that haha
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:11am
Cooh John:

Good night, good people.
  1:13am
pp:

Cooh Night, good John ,)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:13am
StringOFperils:

I'm gonna hang until the show gets about 15% weirder, and then I'll probably go to sleep too. I could be up for a while.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:16am
Cooh John:

↳ StringOFperils @1:13
Next song
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:18am
StringOFperils:

Mild. I'm holding out for something.
  1:23am
tonyb:

I must be an unapologetic fanboy? I even enjoyed the 1992 Television reunion
They played SUMMERSTAGE, but Lloyd was a no show. Many disappointed, some even left…
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:32am
San Pedro Girl:

↳ tonyb @1:23
Did he really not show up or was he just not actually a part of that project?
  1:37am
tonyb:

It was unpublicized before the show, but it makes sense that Richard was just not involved. I caught soundcheck and fans coming in were crushed that he wouldn’t be playing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:39am
coelacanth∅:

is this singer from the jibber mainland?
  1:39am
JimmyTallow:

Thank you Tom Verlaine RIP
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Hubig Pie:

This music is beautiful. Wow, Tom Verlaine,Rip. Now only Richard Hell is left standing
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:44am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Hubig Pie @1:41
billy ficca and fred smith are with us...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:44am
coelacanth∅:

haha abbie...speaking of...
  1:45am
Cassie:

Why can't we have more of this type of show and not like Glen Jones who plays the same 20 songs every show
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:46am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:44
and richard lloyd too
Avatar 1:47am
Hubig Pie:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @1:44
Yay
  1:47am
Stanley Crook, Durham, U.K.:

Took the dog for a walk through some pitch-black woodland an hour or two ago and didn’t realise how scary Tom’s music would sound out there, it was really cool but terrifying
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:50am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Stanley Crook, Durham, U.K. @1:47
interesting, something witchy about it...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:52am
Marley P. Dogg:

Güten abend meine freünde
  1:53am
tonyb:

June 16, 2007. Article on the show in Brooklyn vegan says Richard Lloyd was in the hospital. Jimmy Ripp sat in…

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/richard-lloyd-d/
  1:53am
BH:

greetings... lights off here, TV off, music on, LED lights going, and the orange cat is massaging the bedsheets
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:54am
San Pedro Girl:

↳ tonyb @1:37
Understandable. Fans have expectations.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 1:55am
San Pedro Girl:

↳ tonyb @1:53
Thanks for researching that tonyb.
  2:01am
tonyb:

✅ was curious to remember the circumstances myself
Avatar 2:01am
Hubig Pie:

Here it is -2f outside. Lights off, drifting off and so is the grey tabby. G'night
  2:14am
BH:

finally, car alarms in music
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:17am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ BH @2:14
car alarms aren't as ubiquitous as they used to be...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:19am
San Pedro Girl:

↳ tonyb @2:01
Good save Abbie. That was headed south.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:35am
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Song: "I'm So Happy" by "Sadar Bahar and Marc Davis"
that refrain went on for a while didn't it?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:45am
tom tom the pipers son:

been hearing good stuff from mississippi label... that ethiopian pianist too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:54am
tom tom the pipers son:

rembetika sped up
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 2:57am
San Pedro Girl:

↳ Song: "Pure" by "Spill"
Thanks Abbie. G'night all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:04am
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Abbie

g'night
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