WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from September 28, 2023

Listener comments!
	9:00am Handy Haversack: Gray Thursday greetings, Trouble and all the Troubled.
	9:00am bradford: Good morning Trouble & all!
	9:00am listener james from westwood: Good Thursday, Trouble and all! Are gold bars an acceptable form of pledge during the Hellraiser?
	9:01am dreamyandseedy: good morning Trouble and everyone!
	9:02am Zip7: Hello Troubled modernists!
	9:02am TDK60: We have patches of blue sky along with the gray here in north Manhattan, Brooklyn Handy. Bonjour DJ T.
	9:03am chresti: Morning Trouble and trouble seekers!
	9:04am Adrian in London: Hello Trouble. Just dropping in to recommend Naomi Yang’s terrific documentary about boxing, and East Boston, Never be a Punching Bag for Nobody, on Prime and Vimeo. It’s a terrific film, well worth catching.
	9:04am love2laf: Good morning Trouble, what a beautiful opening track, very soothing. We've been lucky to have many days of sunshine in a row, will try to send some down to you all. Good morning Troubled friends.
	9:04am Philip: Greetings Trouble
	9:06am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "a dream sails out to sea scene 3" by "Takashi Kok... bookmarked for when i have income again (which will be soon!). the title of the comp alone! bonjour bonjour, trouble! it feels good to be actually cognizant in the morning to listen!
	9:06am BnowB: ↳ Song: "a dream sails out to sea scene 3" by "Takashi Kok... Very calming _/\_ TY
	9:07am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "bring on the loser" by "east river pipe" oh man, east river pipe!
	9:09am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "bring on the loser" by "east river pipe" Such a beautiful and poignant voice. Also, East River Pipe name-checks Tenafly, NJ on this record, which is quite rare.
	9:10am dreamyandseedy: ↳ Song: "hampstead way" by "linda lewis" voice of an angel
	9:11am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Trouble and bird watchers. Like a dunce, I left my gold bullion cubes in the cupboard.
	9:12am Handy Haversack: ↳ listener james from westwood @9:00 Bold gars are also acceptable.
	9:13am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "blue over blue" by "the clientele" This is certainly one of the most heavenly tracks on the new Clientele.
	9:14am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Song: "bring on the loser" by "east river pipe" Logging in a little late and see I missed East River Pipe. What a great songwriter. I used to see him on Twitter occasionally. Wishing we had more of his music.
	9:15am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Good morning, Trouble & the makers...
	9:16am Hughie Considine: Well, this sure is a wistful and heart-tugging set.
	9:18am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Song: "a dream sails out to sea scene 3" by "Takashi Kok... Also, wow, what an amazing collection this is. Desert Island Disc level.
	9:18am northguineahills: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:12 got hit the aquarium for that....
	9:18am northguineahills: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:18 right?
	9:20am Philip: east river pipe and big star. trouble batting 1,000
	9:20am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ northguineahills @9:18 Ambient Japan is an alternative world I visit whenever I can. Also recommended, on the topic: www.upress.umn.edu...
	9:21am Strandlund: It's a good day for Trouble!!
	9:22am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Heading out for a run, taking the app w/ me. I love where the show is going so far...
	9:22am Adrian in London: @ListenerBryan That books looks interesting, thanks. adds it to the wants pile I’ll never ever get through
	9:22am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "the minotaur" by "dick hyman" Dick Hyman would often play at the Cookery on the corner of East 8th and University. If only there were still a jazz club on that corner...
	9:22am Handy Haversack: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:20 Scholarly publishing? It'll never last! cup.columbia.edu...
	9:23am Zinn The Mood: Hello folks. Great to hear Big Star… Trying to catch up on some texts back to people. Alternating between sips of a raspberry/banana/peanut butter/flax smoothie, and the usual tall black coffee with chicory. Spotted at the library what’s turned out to be the fun, light book that I’ve needed, “1973: Rock at the Crossroads.” Kinda chilly this morning here… How’re you all?
	9:24am northguineahills: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:20 i needed a new book for my queue, thanks! as someone who grew up in japan, it hits it perfect...
	9:24am Listener Jonny in MA............. d-_-b: Hi Trouble!
	9:24am Robm: morning trouble and fellow troublemakers @Love2Laf please do not enough sunny skies
	9:24am Crownless Gander: Morning, folks! Late to the moogfest, but here for it now.
	9:25am Listener Jonny in MA............. d-_-b: ↳ Song: "the minotaur" by "dick hyman" Dick Hyman!! I grew up with his Age Of Electronicus album. It scared the hell out of me. He only died a few years ago!
	9:26am Robm: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:20 i think sheliab once worked in japan, she might enjoy this book too
	9:26am Trouble: good thursday morning to all!
	9:26am northguineahills: ↳ Listener Jonny in MA............. d-_-b @9:25 got to see him live at the Lincoln Center (the adjacent hall across the street) w/ uwe schmidt....
	9:27am Crownless Gander: BTW, I recently found out we're allowed to pronounce it to rhyme with fugue, as opposed to vogue. Robert himself apparently pronounced it the former way, even though most of the rest of his family didn't.
	9:27am Hughie Considine: Hmmm...the Clientele also have a song called "The Minotaur."
	9:27am estebangrande: ↳ Song: "the minotaur" by "dick hyman" ooh this is sweet. thanks Trouble and hi to all Modernists out there
	9:28am Roberto: ↳ Song: "threshold/ jet airliner" by "the steve miller band" Aww yeah
	9:29am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "threshold/ jet airliner" by "the steve miller band" We all saw this coming!
	9:29am love2laf: Must thank for the book recommendation "Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead" by Olga Tokarczuk, it was an excellent read. I deeply appreciated how the 'old' woman felt both physically, and how she felt treated by others. Really strong story, thank you. @Robm it's not hot sunshine, just lovely fall sunshine :)
	9:29am Lucky: So far, as expected. Unexpected excellence.
	9:30am Robm: ↳ love2laf @9:29 ha ha ha
	9:30am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "threshold/ jet airliner" by "the steve miller band" Certified Banger!
	9:31am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "the minotaur" by "dick hyman" last night i read an article penned by kurt gottschalk, former wfmu dj from miniature minotaurs...
	9:31am Robm: ↳ Song: "threshold/ jet airliner" by "the steve miller band" wow very unexpected @chris even if it’s been played to death and back
	9:32am bradford: Big ol' Jed had a light on...
	9:32am Zinn The Mood: With each successive Steve Miller smash hit single throughout the 70’s I’d be taking my lawn-mowing money during grade-middle school to the local record store to buy yet another 45. Finally my brother and I chipped in for the Book of Dreams (I think) compilation album.
	9:32am listener james from westwood: ↳ Song: "threshold/ jet airliner" by "the steve miller band" Bloody FCC. But ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
	9:32am kentuckywoman: ↳ love2laf @9:29 I feel like I need to read this now!
	9:33am Bethany in deBary, FL: I like this song
	9:33am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "threshold/ jet airliner" by "the steve miller band" The chorus is mondegreen heaven.
	9:33am ?: Just about to break into it and we jumped over a lot more than the S word.
	9:33am Zip7: ↳ Song: "threshold/ jet airliner" by "the steve miller band" Perhaps an allusion to pending govt. shutdown?
	9:34am Hughie Considine: Do any of us really want to get caught up in any of those funky kicks going down in the city? I would prefer not to.
	9:35am Zinn The Mood: ↳ Hughie Considine @9:34 Probably only if you were a midnight toker.
	9:35am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "cyborg stepper" by "badawi" thought this sounded familiar! raz and carolyne!
	9:36am Hughie Considine: ↳ Zinn The Mood @9:35 ...known as Maurice
	9:37am TDK60: ↳ TDK60 @9:02 The patches of blue have been covered up by clouds. Rain expected for days again. Thanks Duke for the pep.
	9:38am love2laf: ↳ kentuckywoman @9:32 I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it, translated books can be an awkward read, but this translation did an excellent job for me.
	9:38am Zinn The Mood: ↳ Hughie Considine @9:36 …,a well-known jungle lover.
	9:38am BnowB: ↳ Song: "malletoba spank" by "duke ellington" I can hear this in a Jacques Tati movie.
	9:39am Gregolomania: Here come the boids!
	9:39am Zip7: ↳ Song: "malletoba spank" by "duke ellington" I recall a fantastic PBS doc about Duke Ellington -- how in 1969 he played a high school prom and then the White House the following night. He spent so much time on trains that he could only sleep sitting up
	9:39am Peter v: That opening set was inspired
	9:40am Handy Haversack: "Petite phrase triste." Preach it, man.
	9:40am Zinn The Mood: ↳ Song: "malletoba spank" by "duke ellington" Very cool, modern-sounding track, Trouble. Duke was beyond brilliant. Like an American Mozart or something.
	9:41am Bethany in deBary, FL: I agree not played to death.
	9:42am Cindy Snow: Second not played to death
	9:42am Bethany in deBary, FL: PBS always has the great shows. The semi-recent one on the making of the album “Plastic Ono Band” had me in tears
	9:43am Zip7: ↳ Zinn The Mood @9:40 What really stayed with me from that documentary is how he was utterly incandescent when he was onstage leading his band
	9:43am Robm: that was me trouble, guilty as charged, just heard it too much in high school
	9:44am Bethany in deBary, FL: Trouble, that is s legit NYC dream. I am a SI transplant and I used to have recurring dreams about leaping onto a departing ferry and falling into the water and getting sucked under the slip. All sorts of SI ferry stress “I’m late for work” dreams.
	9:45am listener james from westwood: I walked part of my district last Sunday to campaign for two Democratic borough council candidates, and fortunately none of the voters tried to link our local Dems with Diamond Joe Quimby down in Union City. Whoof.
	9:45am Bethany in deBary, FL: I have to check out that Duke Ellington doc. My husband would like that.
	9:45am Tinley Park Randy: Illinois takes the cake in political corruption.
	9:45am Hughie Considine: ↳ Robm @9:43 You are not alone.
	9:45am listener james from westwood: The cereal box! And the organleggers from South Jersey were involved, too?
	9:45am Handy Haversack: Exchanging body parts?
	9:46am Lucky: Gerald McCann!
	9:46am chresti: Those dastardly cereal boxes
	9:46am Roberto: I recall landing at Newark in the '80s and the flight attendant announcing, "Welcome to Newahk, the flowah of the Gahden State." It was freaking hilarious.
	9:46am rsj: there's nothing wrong with "proud to be stigma free"
	9:46am Gregolomania: Hoboken guy didn't even get sworn in before he was indicted.
	9:46am listener 126464: Sounds like Hudson County.
	9:46am Hughie Considine: What exit?
	9:46am Roberto: Agreed. GTFO, Bob!
	9:47am Tony From Chicago: I'm so sad for New Jersey. LOL. Now they need a new Senator. Glad Blagojevich isn't your Governor.
	9:47am Cindy Snow: ↳ Robm @9:43 I have sympathy for your position. If you said it about the Midnight Toker song I'd agree
	9:47am tonyb: NJ Corruption. Eat your heart out, Rhode Island.
	9:47am Eugene R: ↳ Roberto @9:46 Hardest is to get out-of-staters to say "Nork" (1 syllable) and not "New-ark" (2 syllables).
	9:47am Chris Hiatt: That thing with the rabbis and the mayors and the body parts happened right when I moved to the NYC metro area, and I was like, what the hell am I getting myself into here?
	9:47am Chief Guy: At least it’s not Illinois
	9:47am Trouble: yes@ handy: they were dealing in organs, cash and real estate
	9:47am Zinn The Mood: Was sitting on Coney Island beach with a friend less than a decade ago, watching a playful whale popping up out of the waves not that far relatively from the shore.
	9:48am Bethany in deBary, FL: Anyone who has had a SI ferry stress dream, and been to the union city ihop, and thinks Sen. Menendez should resign, please raise your hand.
	9:48am Tony From Chicago: ↳ Chief Guy @9:47 Hey now. lol.
	9:48am Gregolomania: ↳ Tinley Park Randy @9:45 Illinois is no slouch at corruption. Gotta give them that.
	9:48am Robm: ↳ Hughie Considine @9:45 thanks hughie but i know better than to slam a dj for overplaying a song @Trouble you nailed it about this state
	9:48am Eugene R: Best Onion headline ever: "Gay Man Tearfully Admits: 'I am Governor of New Jersey!'"
	9:49am unpopularfred: At age 96, Dick Hyman is still living with that name
	9:49am Robm: ↳ Cindy Snow @9:47 thanks cindy
	9:50am Trouble: @tonyb: yes! and i thought i knew all there was to know about corruption growing up in lil' rhody
	9:51am Robm: ↳ Bethany in deBary, FL @9:48 me me me bethany:)
	9:52am tonyb: Welcome to the Big League. 😉
	9:53am Webhamster Henry: Good morning Modern Worlders! Really nice so far!
	9:53am Robm: ↳ Trouble @9:50 every state has had their fair share of corruption, hell i think idaho has some, they just don’t make the national news
	9:53am Handy Haversack: ↳ Trouble @9:50 As I recall, "Vincent" Buddy Cianci's marinara sauce was pretty good, though. Handed me a jar himself!
	9:54am Handy Haversack: ↳ Robm @9:53 It's almost as if our entire system of government is based on corruption and selling out to the highest bidder as long as it allows the politicians to stay in power, no matter what the cost is to the people. Almost.
	9:55am chresti: worldpopulationreview.com...
	9:55am Zinn The Mood: ↳ Zip7 @9:43 Fitting that he physically embodied such extraordinary music. Think I may have seen some of that doc. Need to see the rest. “Black and Tan Fantasy” and “Sophisticated Lady” are two of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve ever heard.
	9:56am Cindy Snow: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:54 true dat :(
	9:56am northguineahills: ↳ Chris Hiatt @9:47 could be worse, you could be in the state i'm moving out of.....
	9:56am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Gregolomania @9:48 Aldermen are just dark magic druids, right?
	9:57am Listener Jonny in MA............. d-_-b: ↳ unpopularfred @9:49 HOly cats! Dick Hyman IS still alive!!! I remember seeing him in the press a couple years ago, and I thought for sure he died. What was it... Alas, 96! Damn!
	9:57am Robm: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:54 sad but very true, used to watch a lot of cspan, but now would rather listen to music or listen to an audiobook
	9:58am Gregolomania: ↳ Chris Hiatt @9:56 One can only hope.
	9:58am Robm: ↳ northguineahills @9:56 especially in miami-dade and broward counties
	9:59am Listener Jonny in MA............. d-_-b: ↳ Trouble @9:50 I've only just moved to MA, about 15 min from the RI state line. Getting accustomed to the history of the area. Gotta say that I love Providence.
	9:59am northguineahills: ↳ chresti @9:55 oooo, infographic map! florida's corruption is just old fashioned corruption, and if it's not prosecuted, it's not reported.....
	9:59am chresti: ↳ chresti @9:55 re: most corrupt states
	9:59am Andres: Corruption around here involves land developers seeing their holdings increase in value by $8.3B CDN by lobbying the provincial gov’t to release land from Greenbelt protected status. No body parts involved. Boring.
	10:00am tonyb: You’d think the narcotic of power, being a US Senator would be enough? But dirty cash sure does seduce. 🤷🏻‍♂️
	10:01am Zip7: My favorite political corruption story, from 1930s NYC: Judge Seabury: Where did you keep these moneys you had saved? Thomas Farley (Sheriff of New York County: In a safe-deposit box at home in my house. Q: Whereabouts at home in the house did you keep this money that you had saved? A: In the safe. Q: In a little box in a safe? A: A big safe. Q: But a little box in a big safe? A: In a big box in a big safe. Q: Was the box crowded or very full? A: Well, it was full and plenty in it. Q: Giving you the benefit of every doubt on sums from your official vocation, the $83,000 extra you deposited in 1929 came from the same source that the other money came from? A: It did. Same tin box. Q: Kind of a magic box? A: It was a wonderful box. Q: A wonderful box. What did you have to do - rub the lock with a little gold, and open it to find more money? A: I wish I could.
	10:01am chresti: ↳ northguineahills @9:59 That means it's probably more corrupt!
	10:02am Andres: ↳ chresti @9:55 The system works?
	10:03am Ken From Hyde Park: Seems like the voter fraud some people keep screeching about is actually occurring on the other side of the ballot box.
	10:04am chresti: ↳ Andres @10:02 Some systems do?
	10:05am love2laf: Also, my absolute head shake of the week. TD bank issues $300k Certified Cheque, from an inheritance, brother mails it to his brother by registered mail (must be picked up in person, ID shown, and signed for). Notice arrives, goes in to pick up mail, mail not found. TD will issue another cheque, but money must be returned in full if the first cheque is fraudulently cashed by someone. Canada Post conducts a 'thorough' search, can't find it, and refunds the $12 to the sender. Bank can't prevent fraud on a possibly stolen cheque, cause hey, not their problem, and not like they have the money. Then, in a shocking twist, Canada Post found the cheque. It had fallen behind the drawer. Behind the drawer?! Wasn't that the first place for the thorough search to look?
	10:05am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "it must change" by "anohni and the johnsons" yes, new anohni!
	10:06am HesperusWrecked: ↳ Song: "every day shines" by "earwig" This lovely song was originally on an album called "under my skin I am laughing" which had a really creepy back cover showing the singer peeling (fake) skin off her face. Still disturbs me all these years later.
	10:07am Robm: ↳ chresti @9:59 interesting just bookmarked it for future study
	10:08am sydnius: that is a lot of NJ political experience
	10:09am McGroovey: ↳ Song: "give me another chance" by "big star" Hey, I know who she's talking about...
	10:10am Vivian: ↳ love2laf @10:05 Odd question - for a payment that large, couldn't the bank wire it?
	10:10am Mattynotimes: Im so bummed I missed this show. Those albums were big for me at that time of my life
	10:10am Eugene R: Yes, the annoying thing about our gay ex-governor was him thinking we were upset he was gay, when we were upset 'cause he put his boyfriend on the state payroll. Sigh.
	10:10am listener james from westwood: You want a good chat, find a forensic accountant. They have stories (anonymized likely) of client fuckery that would make you need to sit down.
	10:10am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "such great heights live" by "the postal service" Was there ever a better use of "freckle" in a pop song?
	10:11am Robm: ↳ Vivian @10:10 wondered that myself
	10:11am listener james from westwood: Didn't McG's companion have Israeli intelligence links?
	10:12am McGroovey: ↳ McGroovey @10:09 (I'm probably verrrrrrrrry distantly related to that governor)
	10:13am listener james from westwood: Or am I getting too Dave Emory on this?
	10:13am love2laf: ↳ Vivian @10:10 I went through this myself with my dad's estate, and no. The bank recommends a bank draft and carrying it from one bank to another. A certified cheque is considered to be as good as cash, and with the name and often address on it as well. And seriously, you take that to the bank and they hold it anyways. We did it my etransfer in smaller increments over several days.
	10:13am The Oscar: ↳ Song: "such great heights live" by "the postal service" As someone who was in college when this album was huge, I am deeply offended by its current "20th anniversary tour."
	10:14am dreamyandseedy: ↳ The Oscar @10:13 same
	10:14am chresti: ↳ Song: "#3" by "?" ⭐
	10:17am Zinn The Mood: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:54 I don’t know what you’re talking about, Handy? I’m continually told by fellow citizens, government officials and media pundits that we live in the Greatest Country In the World, and because of that everyone wants to come here. I’ve pledged allegiance to its flag throughout my childhood, and can’t look for more than a minute and not see some form of nationalistic iconography anywhere in the land. We have the best form of democracy the world’s ever seen (legalized bribery), forged by brilliant “Founding Fathers” (rich white slave holders and monopoly merchants who cleverly convinced farmers to fight their fight against taxation instead of the class war that was brewing all throughout the colonies, a reaction to the same kind of insider corruption and nepotism that exists today). Hey, well, at least I have lots of freedom of choice to buy as many cheap disposable trinkets (made by child save labor in SE Asia) with which to full up my basement and garage with, to take the sting off of an increasingly empty and precarious existence within the hellhole of capitalism, under which I still don’t have universal healthcare or free college tuition or affordable housing or a job that pays a living wage. You’re free to choose from the monopoly from whom everything you see, hear, eat, buy, etc comes from. Thank goodness for the “Free Market.” Land of the Fee. Home of the Slave.
	10:17am robfoto: I didn’t know ? ever recorded without the Mysterions!
	10:18am gauche knee: Kicking myself for not seeing postal & death cab recently. Felt like it was an overly sentimental amber in time that didn’t need revisiting…but just those opening notes put me @ great ease.
	10:18am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Trouble and Everyone. A beautiful Autumn/autumn day here.
	10:19am Tony From Chicago: Speaking of Trouble, I have a new crush on a radio DJ.
	10:20am chresti: ↳ Zinn The Mood @10:17 That's the spirit! Truth.
	10:23am chresti: ↳ chresti @10:20 The land of opportunistity
	10:24am Zip7: ↳ Zinn The Mood @10:17 I remember "patriotic" bumper stickers from the '60s. Besides "America, love it or leave it," there was the. one with a peace sign and "footprint of the American chicken." My favorite was "The next time you're in trouble, call a hippie!"
	10:24am Vivian: And honestly, sending it through FedEx wouldn't be much better. I hope everything gets sorted out soon.
	10:27am love2laf: ↳ Vivian @10:24 It's sorted, thankfully. Just blows my mind that the bank and the post office just were like nope, nothing we can do. They have no trouble finding ways to pay themselves and their shareholders though.
	10:31am Zinn The Mood: Gotta go make a Trader Joe’s bicycle jaunt to get a few things for the home. Taking the show with me on the Bose speaker…
	10:31am Jason from Houston: Good greetings, good people. And wowowowowowowow Chioma Ebinama... New to me.
	10:36am Handy Haversack: ↳ Jason from Houston @10:31 Thanks for the lovely card, Jason! A spirit lifter, no doubt.
	10:37am Zinn The Mood: ↳ Bethany in deBary, FL @9:42 Thanks for mentioning that Lennon doc. Just read in the “1973” book the chapter on Dark Side of the Moon. One of the distinctions of it being a transition from indirect and nebulous lyrics to more frank and purposeful simplicity. Waters took the reigns, recognizing his own struggles with madness, capitalism and family situations, taking inspiration from the Plastic Ono Band record: “I just think that’s one of the truly great moments in history of rock ‘n’ roll, or the history of any writing.”
	10:43am Jason from Houston: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:36 Oh shoot! Glad it landed okay. I worry sometimes about sending paper that is weird sized (and distorted).
	10:45am Handy Haversack: ↳ Jason from Houston @10:43 It's always a shock when the worst PO in NYC manages to get anything to us.
	10:45am TDK60: I haven't seen the documentary Bethany mentioned at 9:42, but the album was a real shocker when it came out. Stark. I later read somewhere that a certain sound engineer had bands listen to it as an example of what can be done with simple instrumentation, arrangements.
	10:45am Jason from Houston: I just have to remind myself that people have sent weird sized stuff through the mail for years and years and years now.
	10:46am Jason from Houston: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:45 That's a high designation!
	10:48am Handy Haversack: ↳ Jason from Houston @10:46 It's a grim, grim scene.
	10:50am Yes: 😎😎
	10:52am Jason from Houston: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:48 I have been spoiled by great post offices and post people my whole life. I don't know what I would do with a stinker at this point.
	10:54am Zip7: ↳ Jason from Houston @10:45 A friend who worked at the Missoula post office said they once got a cake from Florida -- someone bought a supermarket cake and slapped a mailing label on the box. He said they handled it like a piece of crystal and it arrived at destination completely intact!
	10:54am βrian: We know our postal carrier by name. He never misses outgoing mail.
	10:56am βrian: ↳ Song: "diva loves opera house!" by "Malcolm McLaren pres... I hear Délibes.
	10:56am Listener Sean in Long Valley: Missing Malcolm McLaren and William ninja. RIP
	10:57am captain beef fart: ↳ βrian @10:54 Same here. I've been impressed with USPS speed ever since the issues of recent years.
	10:59am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "diva loves opera house!" by "Malcolm McLaren pres... Is this a Pink Floyd sample I'm hearing? the little piano thing?
	10:59am Peter in SEA: Bonjour Trouble and Thursday People, dark and rainy in the PNW!
	11:00am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "underwater love" by "smoke city" Wait, what comes after the sun?
	11:02am Bob Barth: ↳ Song: "underwater love" by "smoke city" I've heard it can't get you pregnant.
	11:02am Jason from Houston: ↳ Zip7 @10:54 HOLY CRAP!!!
	11:03am love2laf: ↳ Zip7 @10:54 This is such a nice story, made my morning :)
	11:06am Mezzetino: amazing music, thank you
	11:06am βrian: ↳ Zip7 @10:54 I once overnighted a homemade blackberry pie (frozen) to my GF. It arrived intact and still frozen hard.
	11:07am rx "rexy" scabin: I am now.
	11:07am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Song: "underwater love" by "smoke city" Under the sea! www.frinkiac.com...
	11:08am Mezzetino: he'll regret it when he sees the leprechauns...
	11:09am Kelly Jones: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @11:07 Anyone see White Lotus on HBO? I think it's an Underwater Love homage?
	11:13am Trouble: weds oct 4th garden state jazz greats free zoom listening session , cozy cole featured bit.ly/GSJGCozyCole
	11:14am Mezzetino: it sounds like they're singing "hola pendejo"
	11:17am Dan from Delco: Singing ‘hello tambourine (pandeiro) hello guitar (viola - a Brazilian style guitar)’
	11:19am gauche knee: Ha! Just came to say the same thing… thought it was just me & my migraine.
	11:25am rx "rexy" scabin: I must water the chrysanthemums and New Guinea impatiens. Summer and Fall are crossing paths florally here. Then off to work mold the minds of future teachers (rx's revenge). 🙂 Thank you, Trouble and Everyone.
	11:25am gauche knee: Thnx 4 clarification Dan! Great show, Trouble! 🌱💦🔫 Best to my fellow Troubled & Troublemakers 🪴 Off to hide from sights & sounds for a few.
	11:26am rx "rexy" scabin: Lucky for them that I do not teach proof reading.
	11:27am rx "rexy" scabin: @gauche knee feel better soon.
	11:27am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Song: "all tomorrow's parties" by "Pascal Comelade, Ramo... Wow, great version of a classic!
	11:31am Minky: ↳ Song: "all tomorrow's parties" by "Pascal Comelade, Ramo... Super cover!
	11:31am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Heyo. Tardy to the party. Long day ahead.
	11:31am Crownless Gander: ↳ Song: "postcards of scarborough" by "michael chapman" I really thought this was Cleaners from Venus at first.
	11:31am gauche knee: Thnx rx! Love that we were on same wavelength, I posted that before seeing your comment! A gray (feeling) day but still, we must water & nurture what we what to grow.
	11:42am Michael 98145: An objectively gray day here. Hello, Everyone.
	11:47am love2laf: ↳ gauche knee @11:31 Hope the migraine fades away to nothingness soon. Rest easy.
	11:48am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Kelly Jones @11:09 Have not seen that. May I borrow your HBO password? (just kidding)
	11:50am Zinn The Mood: (If you’ll permit one last indulgence, to go back the earlier part of the set…) Steve Miller is conspicuous in a theory I’ve had for years. That being, that any artist who was successful in the 70’s fell into a vortex of horrible output in the 80’s. Just his example alone, in which from Fly Like An Eagle to the few others we discussed and other we didn’t, to the vapid and forgettable Abracadabra in the 80’s, is just one of very many examples of artists getting sucked into the downward spiral of the 80’s. Just off the top of my head there’s Heart, Jefferson Starship, The Cars, Queen, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Genesis, Rush, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, and many more. Furthermore, the sheer depth breadth of variety in the 70’s just blows away the staid, milquetoast producer-driven drivel of the MTV age. If you have any doubts just pull up a Billboard Hot 100 chart from say, Nov 74 and compare it to Nov 84. It’s staggering. Will elaborate more on this another time. Thanks for a great show, as always, Trouble!
	11:50am Chris Hiatt: Been writing, listening and enjoying. Thanks for the show, DJ Trouble!
	11:52am Trouble: the mark and the void by paul murray
	11:52am tom tom the pipers son: while waiting tables at an outdoor cafe in providence, buddy cianci came up with a cop on horseback and tied up their horses next to cafe. told him if horse takes a shit he'd have to clean it up, he complied, felt i was making my request literally and metaphorically
	11:53am love2laf: Thank you Trouble, clicky starred this fabulous episode of the Modern World. Thank you Troubled friends for the company and conversation.
	11:53am bradford: Thanks as always, Trouble.
	11:54am Handy Haversack: I can't believe it's been three hours. How did that happen? Many thanks, Trouble!
	11:54am Ochre Ogre: Thanks Trouble!
	11:56am dreamyandseedy: ↳ Zinn The Mood @11:50 i await your elaboration! would love to hear your theory on why this occurred. thank you Trouble!
	11:56am Trouble: @ tomtom that is an excellent story!
	11:56am Trouble: thanks for sitting in today!
	11:57am Ochre Ogre: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:54 Hi Handy, peasant music time passes quickly.
	11:57am TDK60: ↳ dreamyandseedy @11:56 Big hair spray got into people's brains? / Thanks Trouble.
	11:57am Bob Barth: Very enjoyable morning Trouble. Thank you.
	11:57am Ochre Ogre: ↳ Ochre Ogre @11:57 *l
	11:57am Handy Haversack: ↳ Ochre Ogre @11:57 Hey, Ochre Ogre!
	11:58am miketp: joinedlate time for wonderfullights.be well trouble & pals
	11:58am Zinn The Mood: ↳ dreamyandseedy @11:56 See ya next week, comrade!
	11:59am βrian: I'm hopping the turnstile to get on the Continental Subway. wfmu.org...
	12:00pm Erella: Hearing Lhasa is always a good thing
	12:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Trouble. Bird migrations commencing! www.battaly.com...

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Format	New	Approx. start time
Takashi Kokubo	a dream sails out to sea scene 3	Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Environmental, Ambient & New Age Music 1980-1990				0:00:00 (Pop-up)
east river pipe	bring on the loser	poor fricky				0:06:49 (Pop-up)
linda lewis	hampstead way "hampstead way" by "linda lewis"	Bob Stanley Presents London A-Z 1962–1973	ace		*	0:09:51 (Pop-up)
the clientele	blue over blue "blue over blue" by "the clientele"	i am not there anymore	merge		*	0:12:52 (Pop-up)
big star	give me another chance "give me another chance" by "big star"	#1 Record				0:16:17 (Pop-up)
dick hyman	the minotaur "the minotaur" by "dick hyman"	Moog - The Electric Eclectics Of Dick Hyman				0:19:34 (Pop-up)
the steve miller band	threshold/ jet airliner	book of dreams				0:27:57 (Pop-up)
badawi	cyborg stepper "cyborg stepper" by "badawi"	badawi presents bedouin sound clash featuring honeychild				0:32:53 (Pop-up)
duke ellington	malletoba spank "malletoba spank" by "duke ellington"	jazz party				0:35:13 (Pop-up)

helen money/will thomas	trace "trace" by "helen money/will thomas"	trace	thrill jockey		*	0:47:02 (Pop-up)
earwig	every day shines "every day shines" by "earwig"	in th light of time UK post rock and leftfield pop 1992-1998	ace		*	0:52:23 (Pop-up)
anohni and the johnsons	it must change	My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross	secretely canadian		*	1:00:55 (Pop-up)

the postal service	such great heights live	everything will change	sub pop		*	1:09:29 (Pop-up)
?	#3 "#3" by "?"	khmer rocks #40				1:13:33 (Pop-up)
arthur russell	boy with a smile "boy with a smile" by "arthur russell"	picture of a bunny rabbit	audika		*	1:16:28 (Pop-up)
mary akpa	a hurum gi n'anaya ( i do)			Single		1:20:26 (Pop-up)
the roger webb sound	moon bird "moon bird" by "the roger webb sound"	Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs present English Weather v/a				1:24:55 (Pop-up)
De Leon	A1 "A1" by "De Leon"	Garage Gamelan: Ridgewood Radio Premium 2023 wfmu				1:27:45 (Pop-up)
lizard	sa ka na "sa ka na" by "lizard"	tokyo mobile music I v/a				1:34:31 (Pop-up)
Lydia Kandou	siape yang salah "siape yang salah" by "Lydia Kandou"	Disco Planet: Transpacific Sound Paradise's 2023 WFMU Marathon Premium				1:39:23 (Pop-up)
luiz bonfa	bahia soul "bahia soul" by "luiz bonfa"	Brazil USA 70: Brazilian Music In The USA In The 1970s (V/A)				1:43:09 (Pop-up)
essiebons	ahwene pa nkasa "ahwene pa nkasa" by "essiebons"	analog africa no 33: essebons special				1:44:34 (Pop-up)
Malcolm McLaren presents The World's Famous Supreme Team Show	diva loves opera house!	Round The Outside! Round The Outside!				1:51:16 (Pop-up)
smoke city	underwater love "underwater love" by "smoke city"	flying away				1:59:41 (Pop-up)

smokey and miho	canto do caboclo pedra preta	tempo de amor	afro sambas			2:12:35 (Pop-up)
YMO	seoul music "seoul music" by "YMO"	technodelic				2:20:11 (Pop-up)
arlo parks	i'm sorry "i'm sorry" by "arlo parks"	my soft machine	Transgressive Records			2:20:51 (Pop-up)
teke::teke	me no heya "me no heya" by "teke::teke"	hagata	kill rock stars			2:23:43 (Pop-up)
Pascal Comelade, Ramon Prats, Lee Ranaldo	all tomorrow's parties	velvet serenade	staubgold		*	2:25:29 (Pop-up)
michael chapman	postcards of scarborough	Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present Occasional Rain (V/A)				2:28:29 (Pop-up)
matt robidoux	green corn moongreen corn moon	music for aluminum corn	crash symbols		*	2:33:41 (Pop-up)
Future Pilot AKA	tu mera mata "tu mera mata" by "Future Pilot AKA"	secrets from the clockhouse				2:39:11 (Pop-up)
R.N.A. - organism	weimar 22 "weimar 22" by "R.N.A. - organism"	Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds of Japan 1980—1988				2:42:08 (Pop-up)
josephine foster	only a shrine, but mine	graphic as a star				2:45:54 (Pop-up)

lights	at midnight "at midnight" by "lights"	lights				2:52:21 (Pop-up)
lhasa	la confession "la confession" by "lhasa"	the living road				2:57:44 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:00am Handy Haversack: Gray Thursday greetings, Trouble and all the Troubled.
	9:00am bradford: Good morning Trouble & all!
	9:00am listener james from westwood: Good Thursday, Trouble and all! Are gold bars an acceptable form of pledge during the Hellraiser?
	9:01am dreamyandseedy: good morning Trouble and everyone!
	9:02am Zip7: Hello Troubled modernists!
	9:02am TDK60: We have patches of blue sky along with the gray here in north Manhattan, Brooklyn Handy. Bonjour DJ T.
	9:03am chresti: Morning Trouble and trouble seekers!
	9:04am Adrian in London: Hello Trouble. Just dropping in to recommend Naomi Yang’s terrific documentary about boxing, and East Boston, Never be a Punching Bag for Nobody, on Prime and Vimeo. It’s a terrific film, well worth catching.
	9:04am love2laf: Good morning Trouble, what a beautiful opening track, very soothing. We've been lucky to have many days of sunshine in a row, will try to send some down to you all. Good morning Troubled friends.
	9:04am Philip: Greetings Trouble
	9:06am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "a dream sails out to sea scene 3" by "Takashi Kok... bookmarked for when i have income again (which will be soon!). the title of the comp alone! bonjour bonjour, trouble! it feels good to be actually cognizant in the morning to listen!
	9:06am BnowB: ↳ Song: "a dream sails out to sea scene 3" by "Takashi Kok... Very calming _/\_ TY
	9:07am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "bring on the loser" by "east river pipe" oh man, east river pipe!
	9:09am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "bring on the loser" by "east river pipe" Such a beautiful and poignant voice. Also, East River Pipe name-checks Tenafly, NJ on this record, which is quite rare.
	9:10am dreamyandseedy: ↳ Song: "hampstead way" by "linda lewis" voice of an angel
	9:11am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Trouble and bird watchers. Like a dunce, I left my gold bullion cubes in the cupboard.
	9:12am Handy Haversack: ↳ listener james from westwood @9:00 Bold gars are also acceptable.
	9:13am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "blue over blue" by "the clientele" This is certainly one of the most heavenly tracks on the new Clientele.
	9:14am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Song: "bring on the loser" by "east river pipe" Logging in a little late and see I missed East River Pipe. What a great songwriter. I used to see him on Twitter occasionally. Wishing we had more of his music.
	9:15am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Good morning, Trouble & the makers...
	9:16am Hughie Considine: Well, this sure is a wistful and heart-tugging set.
	9:18am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ Song: "a dream sails out to sea scene 3" by "Takashi Kok... Also, wow, what an amazing collection this is. Desert Island Disc level.
	9:18am northguineahills: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:12 got hit the aquarium for that....
	9:18am northguineahills: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:18 right?
	9:20am Philip: east river pipe and big star. trouble batting 1,000
	9:20am Listener Bryan (the Professor): ↳ northguineahills @9:18 Ambient Japan is an alternative world I visit whenever I can. Also recommended, on the topic: www.upress.umn.edu...
	9:21am Strandlund: It's a good day for Trouble!!
	9:22am Listener Bryan (the Professor): Heading out for a run, taking the app w/ me. I love where the show is going so far...
	9:22am Adrian in London: @ListenerBryan That books looks interesting, thanks. adds it to the wants pile I’ll never ever get through
	9:22am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "the minotaur" by "dick hyman" Dick Hyman would often play at the Cookery on the corner of East 8th and University. If only there were still a jazz club on that corner...
	9:22am Handy Haversack: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:20 Scholarly publishing? It'll never last! cup.columbia.edu...
	9:23am Zinn The Mood: Hello folks. Great to hear Big Star… Trying to catch up on some texts back to people. Alternating between sips of a raspberry/banana/peanut butter/flax smoothie, and the usual tall black coffee with chicory. Spotted at the library what’s turned out to be the fun, light book that I’ve needed, “1973: Rock at the Crossroads.” Kinda chilly this morning here… How’re you all?
	9:24am northguineahills: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:20 i needed a new book for my queue, thanks! as someone who grew up in japan, it hits it perfect...
	9:24am Listener Jonny in MA............. d-_-b: Hi Trouble!
	9:24am Robm: morning trouble and fellow troublemakers @Love2Laf please do not enough sunny skies
	9:24am Crownless Gander: Morning, folks! Late to the moogfest, but here for it now.
	9:25am Listener Jonny in MA............. d-_-b: ↳ Song: "the minotaur" by "dick hyman" Dick Hyman!! I grew up with his Age Of Electronicus album. It scared the hell out of me. He only died a few years ago!
	9:26am Robm: ↳ Listener Bryan (the Professor) @9:20 i think sheliab once worked in japan, she might enjoy this book too
	9:26am Trouble: good thursday morning to all!
	9:26am northguineahills: ↳ Listener Jonny in MA............. d-_-b @9:25 got to see him live at the Lincoln Center (the adjacent hall across the street) w/ uwe schmidt....
	9:27am Crownless Gander: BTW, I recently found out we're allowed to pronounce it to rhyme with fugue, as opposed to vogue. Robert himself apparently pronounced it the former way, even though most of the rest of his family didn't.
	9:27am Hughie Considine: Hmmm...the Clientele also have a song called "The Minotaur."
	9:27am estebangrande: ↳ Song: "the minotaur" by "dick hyman" ooh this is sweet. thanks Trouble and hi to all Modernists out there
	9:28am Roberto: ↳ Song: "threshold/ jet airliner" by "the steve miller band" Aww yeah
	9:29am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "threshold/ jet airliner" by "the steve miller band" We all saw this coming!
	9:29am love2laf: Must thank for the book recommendation "Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead" by Olga Tokarczuk, it was an excellent read. I deeply appreciated how the 'old' woman felt both physically, and how she felt treated by others. Really strong story, thank you. @Robm it's not hot sunshine, just lovely fall sunshine :)
	9:29am Lucky: So far, as expected. Unexpected excellence.
	9:30am Robm: ↳ love2laf @9:29 ha ha ha
	9:30am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "threshold/ jet airliner" by "the steve miller band" Certified Banger!
	9:31am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "the minotaur" by "dick hyman" last night i read an article penned by kurt gottschalk, former wfmu dj from miniature minotaurs...
	9:31am Robm: ↳ Song: "threshold/ jet airliner" by "the steve miller band" wow very unexpected @chris even if it’s been played to death and back
	9:32am bradford: Big ol' Jed had a light on...
	9:32am Zinn The Mood: With each successive Steve Miller smash hit single throughout the 70’s I’d be taking my lawn-mowing money during grade-middle school to the local record store to buy yet another 45. Finally my brother and I chipped in for the Book of Dreams (I think) compilation album.
	9:32am listener james from westwood: ↳ Song: "threshold/ jet airliner" by "the steve miller band" Bloody FCC. But ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
	9:32am kentuckywoman: ↳ love2laf @9:29 I feel like I need to read this now!
	9:33am Bethany in deBary, FL: I like this song
	9:33am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "threshold/ jet airliner" by "the steve miller band" The chorus is mondegreen heaven.
	9:33am ?: Just about to break into it and we jumped over a lot more than the S word.
	9:33am Zip7: ↳ Song: "threshold/ jet airliner" by "the steve miller band" Perhaps an allusion to pending govt. shutdown?
	9:34am Hughie Considine: Do any of us really want to get caught up in any of those funky kicks going down in the city? I would prefer not to.
	9:35am Zinn The Mood: ↳ Hughie Considine @9:34 Probably only if you were a midnight toker.
	9:35am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "cyborg stepper" by "badawi" thought this sounded familiar! raz and carolyne!
	9:36am Hughie Considine: ↳ Zinn The Mood @9:35 ...known as Maurice
	9:37am TDK60: ↳ TDK60 @9:02 The patches of blue have been covered up by clouds. Rain expected for days again. Thanks Duke for the pep.
	9:38am love2laf: ↳ kentuckywoman @9:32 I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it, translated books can be an awkward read, but this translation did an excellent job for me.
	9:38am Zinn The Mood: ↳ Hughie Considine @9:36 …,a well-known jungle lover.
	9:38am BnowB: ↳ Song: "malletoba spank" by "duke ellington" I can hear this in a Jacques Tati movie.
	9:39am Gregolomania: Here come the boids!
	9:39am Zip7: ↳ Song: "malletoba spank" by "duke ellington" I recall a fantastic PBS doc about Duke Ellington -- how in 1969 he played a high school prom and then the White House the following night. He spent so much time on trains that he could only sleep sitting up
	9:39am Peter v: That opening set was inspired
	9:40am Handy Haversack: "Petite phrase triste." Preach it, man.
	9:40am Zinn The Mood: ↳ Song: "malletoba spank" by "duke ellington" Very cool, modern-sounding track, Trouble. Duke was beyond brilliant. Like an American Mozart or something.
	9:41am Bethany in deBary, FL: I agree not played to death.
	9:42am Cindy Snow: Second not played to death
	9:42am Bethany in deBary, FL: PBS always has the great shows. The semi-recent one on the making of the album “Plastic Ono Band” had me in tears
	9:43am Zip7: ↳ Zinn The Mood @9:40 What really stayed with me from that documentary is how he was utterly incandescent when he was onstage leading his band
	9:43am Robm: that was me trouble, guilty as charged, just heard it too much in high school
	9:44am Bethany in deBary, FL: Trouble, that is s legit NYC dream. I am a SI transplant and I used to have recurring dreams about leaping onto a departing ferry and falling into the water and getting sucked under the slip. All sorts of SI ferry stress “I’m late for work” dreams.
	9:45am listener james from westwood: I walked part of my district last Sunday to campaign for two Democratic borough council candidates, and fortunately none of the voters tried to link our local Dems with Diamond Joe Quimby down in Union City. Whoof.
	9:45am Bethany in deBary, FL: I have to check out that Duke Ellington doc. My husband would like that.
	9:45am Tinley Park Randy: Illinois takes the cake in political corruption.
	9:45am Hughie Considine: ↳ Robm @9:43 You are not alone.
	9:45am listener james from westwood: The cereal box! And the organleggers from South Jersey were involved, too?
	9:45am Handy Haversack: Exchanging body parts?
	9:46am Lucky: Gerald McCann!
	9:46am chresti: Those dastardly cereal boxes
	9:46am Roberto: I recall landing at Newark in the '80s and the flight attendant announcing, "Welcome to Newahk, the flowah of the Gahden State." It was freaking hilarious.
	9:46am rsj: there's nothing wrong with "proud to be stigma free"
	9:46am Gregolomania: Hoboken guy didn't even get sworn in before he was indicted.
	9:46am listener 126464: Sounds like Hudson County.
	9:46am Hughie Considine: What exit?
	9:46am Roberto: Agreed. GTFO, Bob!
	9:47am Tony From Chicago: I'm so sad for New Jersey. LOL. Now they need a new Senator. Glad Blagojevich isn't your Governor.
	9:47am Cindy Snow: ↳ Robm @9:43 I have sympathy for your position. If you said it about the Midnight Toker song I'd agree
	9:47am tonyb: NJ Corruption. Eat your heart out, Rhode Island.
	9:47am Eugene R: ↳ Roberto @9:46 Hardest is to get out-of-staters to say "Nork" (1 syllable) and not "New-ark" (2 syllables).
	9:47am Chris Hiatt: That thing with the rabbis and the mayors and the body parts happened right when I moved to the NYC metro area, and I was like, what the hell am I getting myself into here?
	9:47am Chief Guy: At least it’s not Illinois
	9:47am Trouble: yes@ handy: they were dealing in organs, cash and real estate
	9:47am Zinn The Mood: Was sitting on Coney Island beach with a friend less than a decade ago, watching a playful whale popping up out of the waves not that far relatively from the shore.
	9:48am Bethany in deBary, FL: Anyone who has had a SI ferry stress dream, and been to the union city ihop, and thinks Sen. Menendez should resign, please raise your hand.
	9:48am Tony From Chicago: ↳ Chief Guy @9:47 Hey now. lol.
	9:48am Gregolomania: ↳ Tinley Park Randy @9:45 Illinois is no slouch at corruption. Gotta give them that.
	9:48am Robm: ↳ Hughie Considine @9:45 thanks hughie but i know better than to slam a dj for overplaying a song @Trouble you nailed it about this state
	9:48am Eugene R: Best Onion headline ever: "Gay Man Tearfully Admits: 'I am Governor of New Jersey!'"
	9:49am unpopularfred: At age 96, Dick Hyman is still living with that name
	9:49am Robm: ↳ Cindy Snow @9:47 thanks cindy
	9:50am Trouble: @tonyb: yes! and i thought i knew all there was to know about corruption growing up in lil' rhody
	9:51am Robm: ↳ Bethany in deBary, FL @9:48 me me me bethany:)
	9:52am tonyb: Welcome to the Big League. 😉
	9:53am Webhamster Henry: Good morning Modern Worlders! Really nice so far!
	9:53am Robm: ↳ Trouble @9:50 every state has had their fair share of corruption, hell i think idaho has some, they just don’t make the national news
	9:53am Handy Haversack: ↳ Trouble @9:50 As I recall, "Vincent" Buddy Cianci's marinara sauce was pretty good, though. Handed me a jar himself!
	9:54am Handy Haversack: ↳ Robm @9:53 It's almost as if our entire system of government is based on corruption and selling out to the highest bidder as long as it allows the politicians to stay in power, no matter what the cost is to the people. Almost.
	9:55am chresti: worldpopulationreview.com...
	9:55am Zinn The Mood: ↳ Zip7 @9:43 Fitting that he physically embodied such extraordinary music. Think I may have seen some of that doc. Need to see the rest. “Black and Tan Fantasy” and “Sophisticated Lady” are two of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve ever heard.
	9:56am Cindy Snow: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:54 true dat :(
	9:56am northguineahills: ↳ Chris Hiatt @9:47 could be worse, you could be in the state i'm moving out of.....
	9:56am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Gregolomania @9:48 Aldermen are just dark magic druids, right?
	9:57am Listener Jonny in MA............. d-_-b: ↳ unpopularfred @9:49 HOly cats! Dick Hyman IS still alive!!! I remember seeing him in the press a couple years ago, and I thought for sure he died. What was it... Alas, 96! Damn!
	9:57am Robm: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:54 sad but very true, used to watch a lot of cspan, but now would rather listen to music or listen to an audiobook
	9:58am Gregolomania: ↳ Chris Hiatt @9:56 One can only hope.
	9:58am Robm: ↳ northguineahills @9:56 especially in miami-dade and broward counties
	9:59am Listener Jonny in MA............. d-_-b: ↳ Trouble @9:50 I've only just moved to MA, about 15 min from the RI state line. Getting accustomed to the history of the area. Gotta say that I love Providence.
	9:59am northguineahills: ↳ chresti @9:55 oooo, infographic map! florida's corruption is just old fashioned corruption, and if it's not prosecuted, it's not reported.....
	9:59am chresti: ↳ chresti @9:55 re: most corrupt states
	9:59am Andres: Corruption around here involves land developers seeing their holdings increase in value by $8.3B CDN by lobbying the provincial gov’t to release land from Greenbelt protected status. No body parts involved. Boring.
	10:00am tonyb: You’d think the narcotic of power, being a US Senator would be enough? But dirty cash sure does seduce. 🤷🏻‍♂️
	10:01am Zip7: My favorite political corruption story, from 1930s NYC: Judge Seabury: Where did you keep these moneys you had saved? Thomas Farley (Sheriff of New York County: In a safe-deposit box at home in my house. Q: Whereabouts at home in the house did you keep this money that you had saved? A: In the safe. Q: In a little box in a safe? A: A big safe. Q: But a little box in a big safe? A: In a big box in a big safe. Q: Was the box crowded or very full? A: Well, it was full and plenty in it. Q: Giving you the benefit of every doubt on sums from your official vocation, the $83,000 extra you deposited in 1929 came from the same source that the other money came from? A: It did. Same tin box. Q: Kind of a magic box? A: It was a wonderful box. Q: A wonderful box. What did you have to do - rub the lock with a little gold, and open it to find more money? A: I wish I could.
	10:01am chresti: ↳ northguineahills @9:59 That means it's probably more corrupt!
	10:02am Andres: ↳ chresti @9:55 The system works?
	10:03am Ken From Hyde Park: Seems like the voter fraud some people keep screeching about is actually occurring on the other side of the ballot box.
	10:04am chresti: ↳ Andres @10:02 Some systems do?
	10:05am love2laf: Also, my absolute head shake of the week. TD bank issues $300k Certified Cheque, from an inheritance, brother mails it to his brother by registered mail (must be picked up in person, ID shown, and signed for). Notice arrives, goes in to pick up mail, mail not found. TD will issue another cheque, but money must be returned in full if the first cheque is fraudulently cashed by someone. Canada Post conducts a 'thorough' search, can't find it, and refunds the $12 to the sender. Bank can't prevent fraud on a possibly stolen cheque, cause hey, not their problem, and not like they have the money. Then, in a shocking twist, Canada Post found the cheque. It had fallen behind the drawer. Behind the drawer?! Wasn't that the first place for the thorough search to look?
	10:05am northguineahills: ↳ Song: "it must change" by "anohni and the johnsons" yes, new anohni!
	10:06am HesperusWrecked: ↳ Song: "every day shines" by "earwig" This lovely song was originally on an album called "under my skin I am laughing" which had a really creepy back cover showing the singer peeling (fake) skin off her face. Still disturbs me all these years later.
	10:07am Robm: ↳ chresti @9:59 interesting just bookmarked it for future study
	10:08am sydnius: that is a lot of NJ political experience
	10:09am McGroovey: ↳ Song: "give me another chance" by "big star" Hey, I know who she's talking about...
	10:10am Vivian: ↳ love2laf @10:05 Odd question - for a payment that large, couldn't the bank wire it?
	10:10am Mattynotimes: Im so bummed I missed this show. Those albums were big for me at that time of my life
	10:10am Eugene R: Yes, the annoying thing about our gay ex-governor was him thinking we were upset he was gay, when we were upset 'cause he put his boyfriend on the state payroll. Sigh.
	10:10am listener james from westwood: You want a good chat, find a forensic accountant. They have stories (anonymized likely) of client fuckery that would make you need to sit down.
	10:10am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "such great heights live" by "the postal service" Was there ever a better use of "freckle" in a pop song?
	10:11am Robm: ↳ Vivian @10:10 wondered that myself
	10:11am listener james from westwood: Didn't McG's companion have Israeli intelligence links?
	10:12am McGroovey: ↳ McGroovey @10:09 (I'm probably verrrrrrrrry distantly related to that governor)
	10:13am listener james from westwood: Or am I getting too Dave Emory on this?
	10:13am love2laf: ↳ Vivian @10:10 I went through this myself with my dad's estate, and no. The bank recommends a bank draft and carrying it from one bank to another. A certified cheque is considered to be as good as cash, and with the name and often address on it as well. And seriously, you take that to the bank and they hold it anyways. We did it my etransfer in smaller increments over several days.
	10:13am The Oscar: ↳ Song: "such great heights live" by "the postal service" As someone who was in college when this album was huge, I am deeply offended by its current "20th anniversary tour."
	10:14am dreamyandseedy: ↳ The Oscar @10:13 same
	10:14am chresti: ↳ Song: "#3" by "?" ⭐
	10:17am Zinn The Mood: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:54 I don’t know what you’re talking about, Handy? I’m continually told by fellow citizens, government officials and media pundits that we live in the Greatest Country In the World, and because of that everyone wants to come here. I’ve pledged allegiance to its flag throughout my childhood, and can’t look for more than a minute and not see some form of nationalistic iconography anywhere in the land. We have the best form of democracy the world’s ever seen (legalized bribery), forged by brilliant “Founding Fathers” (rich white slave holders and monopoly merchants who cleverly convinced farmers to fight their fight against taxation instead of the class war that was brewing all throughout the colonies, a reaction to the same kind of insider corruption and nepotism that exists today). Hey, well, at least I have lots of freedom of choice to buy as many cheap disposable trinkets (made by child save labor in SE Asia) with which to full up my basement and garage with, to take the sting off of an increasingly empty and precarious existence within the hellhole of capitalism, under which I still don’t have universal healthcare or free college tuition or affordable housing or a job that pays a living wage. You’re free to choose from the monopoly from whom everything you see, hear, eat, buy, etc comes from. Thank goodness for the “Free Market.” Land of the Fee. Home of the Slave.
	10:17am robfoto: I didn’t know ? ever recorded without the Mysterions!
	10:18am gauche knee: Kicking myself for not seeing postal & death cab recently. Felt like it was an overly sentimental amber in time that didn’t need revisiting…but just those opening notes put me @ great ease.
	10:18am rx "rexy" scabin: Good morning, Trouble and Everyone. A beautiful Autumn/autumn day here.
	10:19am Tony From Chicago: Speaking of Trouble, I have a new crush on a radio DJ.
	10:20am chresti: ↳ Zinn The Mood @10:17 That's the spirit! Truth.
	10:23am chresti: ↳ chresti @10:20 The land of opportunistity
	10:24am Zip7: ↳ Zinn The Mood @10:17 I remember "patriotic" bumper stickers from the '60s. Besides "America, love it or leave it," there was the. one with a peace sign and "footprint of the American chicken." My favorite was "The next time you're in trouble, call a hippie!"
	10:24am Vivian: And honestly, sending it through FedEx wouldn't be much better. I hope everything gets sorted out soon.
	10:27am love2laf: ↳ Vivian @10:24 It's sorted, thankfully. Just blows my mind that the bank and the post office just were like nope, nothing we can do. They have no trouble finding ways to pay themselves and their shareholders though.
	10:31am Zinn The Mood: Gotta go make a Trader Joe’s bicycle jaunt to get a few things for the home. Taking the show with me on the Bose speaker…
	10:31am Jason from Houston: Good greetings, good people. And wowowowowowowow Chioma Ebinama... New to me.
	10:36am Handy Haversack: ↳ Jason from Houston @10:31 Thanks for the lovely card, Jason! A spirit lifter, no doubt.
	10:37am Zinn The Mood: ↳ Bethany in deBary, FL @9:42 Thanks for mentioning that Lennon doc. Just read in the “1973” book the chapter on Dark Side of the Moon. One of the distinctions of it being a transition from indirect and nebulous lyrics to more frank and purposeful simplicity. Waters took the reigns, recognizing his own struggles with madness, capitalism and family situations, taking inspiration from the Plastic Ono Band record: “I just think that’s one of the truly great moments in history of rock ‘n’ roll, or the history of any writing.”
	10:43am Jason from Houston: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:36 Oh shoot! Glad it landed okay. I worry sometimes about sending paper that is weird sized (and distorted).
	10:45am Handy Haversack: ↳ Jason from Houston @10:43 It's always a shock when the worst PO in NYC manages to get anything to us.
	10:45am TDK60: I haven't seen the documentary Bethany mentioned at 9:42, but the album was a real shocker when it came out. Stark. I later read somewhere that a certain sound engineer had bands listen to it as an example of what can be done with simple instrumentation, arrangements.
	10:45am Jason from Houston: I just have to remind myself that people have sent weird sized stuff through the mail for years and years and years now.
	10:46am Jason from Houston: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:45 That's a high designation!
	10:48am Handy Haversack: ↳ Jason from Houston @10:46 It's a grim, grim scene.
	10:50am Yes: 😎😎
	10:52am Jason from Houston: ↳ Handy Haversack @10:48 I have been spoiled by great post offices and post people my whole life. I don't know what I would do with a stinker at this point.
	10:54am Zip7: ↳ Jason from Houston @10:45 A friend who worked at the Missoula post office said they once got a cake from Florida -- someone bought a supermarket cake and slapped a mailing label on the box. He said they handled it like a piece of crystal and it arrived at destination completely intact!
	10:54am βrian: We know our postal carrier by name. He never misses outgoing mail.
	10:56am βrian: ↳ Song: "diva loves opera house!" by "Malcolm McLaren pres... I hear Délibes.
	10:56am Listener Sean in Long Valley: Missing Malcolm McLaren and William ninja. RIP
	10:57am captain beef fart: ↳ βrian @10:54 Same here. I've been impressed with USPS speed ever since the issues of recent years.
	10:59am Hughie Considine: ↳ Song: "diva loves opera house!" by "Malcolm McLaren pres... Is this a Pink Floyd sample I'm hearing? the little piano thing?
	10:59am Peter in SEA: Bonjour Trouble and Thursday People, dark and rainy in the PNW!
	11:00am Handy Haversack: ↳ Song: "underwater love" by "smoke city" Wait, what comes after the sun?
	11:02am Bob Barth: ↳ Song: "underwater love" by "smoke city" I've heard it can't get you pregnant.
	11:02am Jason from Houston: ↳ Zip7 @10:54 HOLY CRAP!!!
	11:03am love2laf: ↳ Zip7 @10:54 This is such a nice story, made my morning :)
	11:06am Mezzetino: amazing music, thank you
	11:06am βrian: ↳ Zip7 @10:54 I once overnighted a homemade blackberry pie (frozen) to my GF. It arrived intact and still frozen hard.
	11:07am rx "rexy" scabin: I am now.
	11:07am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Song: "underwater love" by "smoke city" Under the sea! www.frinkiac.com...
	11:08am Mezzetino: he'll regret it when he sees the leprechauns...
	11:09am Kelly Jones: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @11:07 Anyone see White Lotus on HBO? I think it's an Underwater Love homage?
	11:13am Trouble: weds oct 4th garden state jazz greats free zoom listening session , cozy cole featured bit.ly/GSJGCozyCole
	11:14am Mezzetino: it sounds like they're singing "hola pendejo"
	11:17am Dan from Delco: Singing ‘hello tambourine (pandeiro) hello guitar (viola - a Brazilian style guitar)’
	11:19am gauche knee: Ha! Just came to say the same thing… thought it was just me & my migraine.
	11:25am rx "rexy" scabin: I must water the chrysanthemums and New Guinea impatiens. Summer and Fall are crossing paths florally here. Then off to work mold the minds of future teachers (rx's revenge). 🙂 Thank you, Trouble and Everyone.
	11:25am gauche knee: Thnx 4 clarification Dan! Great show, Trouble! 🌱💦🔫 Best to my fellow Troubled & Troublemakers 🪴 Off to hide from sights & sounds for a few.
	11:26am rx "rexy" scabin: Lucky for them that I do not teach proof reading.
	11:27am rx "rexy" scabin: @gauche knee feel better soon.
	11:27am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Song: "all tomorrow's parties" by "Pascal Comelade, Ramo... Wow, great version of a classic!
	11:31am Minky: ↳ Song: "all tomorrow's parties" by "Pascal Comelade, Ramo... Super cover!
	11:31am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Heyo. Tardy to the party. Long day ahead.
	11:31am Crownless Gander: ↳ Song: "postcards of scarborough" by "michael chapman" I really thought this was Cleaners from Venus at first.
	11:31am gauche knee: Thnx rx! Love that we were on same wavelength, I posted that before seeing your comment! A gray (feeling) day but still, we must water & nurture what we what to grow.
	11:42am Michael 98145: An objectively gray day here. Hello, Everyone.
	11:47am love2laf: ↳ gauche knee @11:31 Hope the migraine fades away to nothingness soon. Rest easy.
	11:48am Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Kelly Jones @11:09 Have not seen that. May I borrow your HBO password? (just kidding)
	11:50am Zinn The Mood: (If you’ll permit one last indulgence, to go back the earlier part of the set…) Steve Miller is conspicuous in a theory I’ve had for years. That being, that any artist who was successful in the 70’s fell into a vortex of horrible output in the 80’s. Just his example alone, in which from Fly Like An Eagle to the few others we discussed and other we didn’t, to the vapid and forgettable Abracadabra in the 80’s, is just one of very many examples of artists getting sucked into the downward spiral of the 80’s. Just off the top of my head there’s Heart, Jefferson Starship, The Cars, Queen, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Genesis, Rush, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, and many more. Furthermore, the sheer depth breadth of variety in the 70’s just blows away the staid, milquetoast producer-driven drivel of the MTV age. If you have any doubts just pull up a Billboard Hot 100 chart from say, Nov 74 and compare it to Nov 84. It’s staggering. Will elaborate more on this another time. Thanks for a great show, as always, Trouble!
	11:50am Chris Hiatt: Been writing, listening and enjoying. Thanks for the show, DJ Trouble!
	11:52am Trouble: the mark and the void by paul murray
	11:52am tom tom the pipers son: while waiting tables at an outdoor cafe in providence, buddy cianci came up with a cop on horseback and tied up their horses next to cafe. told him if horse takes a shit he'd have to clean it up, he complied, felt i was making my request literally and metaphorically
	11:53am love2laf: Thank you Trouble, clicky starred this fabulous episode of the Modern World. Thank you Troubled friends for the company and conversation.
	11:53am bradford: Thanks as always, Trouble.
	11:54am Handy Haversack: I can't believe it's been three hours. How did that happen? Many thanks, Trouble!
	11:54am Ochre Ogre: Thanks Trouble!
	11:56am dreamyandseedy: ↳ Zinn The Mood @11:50 i await your elaboration! would love to hear your theory on why this occurred. thank you Trouble!
	11:56am Trouble: @ tomtom that is an excellent story!
	11:56am Trouble: thanks for sitting in today!
	11:57am Ochre Ogre: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:54 Hi Handy, peasant music time passes quickly.
	11:57am TDK60: ↳ dreamyandseedy @11:56 Big hair spray got into people's brains? / Thanks Trouble.
	11:57am Bob Barth: Very enjoyable morning Trouble. Thank you.
	11:57am Ochre Ogre: ↳ Ochre Ogre @11:57 *l
	11:57am Handy Haversack: ↳ Ochre Ogre @11:57 Hey, Ochre Ogre!
	11:58am miketp: joinedlate time for wonderfullights.be well trouble & pals
	11:58am Zinn The Mood: ↳ dreamyandseedy @11:56 See ya next week, comrade!
	11:59am βrian: I'm hopping the turnstile to get on the Continental Subway. wfmu.org...
	12:00pm Erella: Hearing Lhasa is always a good thing
	12:00pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Trouble. Bird migrations commencing! www.battaly.com...

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from September 28, 2023

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