WFMU: The Radio Is Broken with Rich In Washington: Playlist from December 22, 2023

Listener comments!
	🥁 8:43pm Aitch: Happy Richmas!
	8:50pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Aitch @8:43 Hi Aitch! Hope you and yours have a great Christmas!
	8:59pm pot8o: hi everyone!
	9:00pm Rich in Washington: ↳ pot8o @8:59 Hi pot8o!
	9:00pm ultradamno: Rich! Breaker-Breakers!
	9:01pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ultradamno @9:00 Hi Ultra!
	9:01pm tom tom the pipers son: seizures grittings
	9:01pm Robm: evening fellow broken radio listeners, and merry christmas
	9:01pm Yvang: Hi Rich and richers!
	9:02pm pot8o: I've had maxine nightingale's right back where we started from stuck in my head for at least a week now it has nothing to do with anything that's been talked about, but i just need to get it off my chest
	9:02pm Rich in Washington: Hi tom tom! Hi Robm! Hi Yvang!
	🥁 9:02pm Aitch: ↳ Rich in Washington @8:50 Very old friend here visiting from Thailand
	9:02pm Robm: howdy rich
	9:02pm ultradamno: If Quentin Tarantino had the sense to do a Ferrante & Teicher biopic, this would be the poster mastodon.social...
	9:02pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "The Nutcracker Suite: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fai... gavin bryars!
	9:03pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Aitch @9:02 Oh nice!
	🥁 9:03pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "The Nutcracker Suite: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fai... This is exquisite
	9:04pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:03 Kat!
	🥁 9:04pm Kat in the chat: Rich! Breakers!
	9:05pm Rich in Washington: Kat, please feel free to post the deets of your brand spankin' new radio show!
	9:05pm ultradamno: Is that gif from the Austin City Limits where he had a gas pump on the stage at one point? You just never know when you might need to refuel...
	9:06pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ultradamno @9:05 I think it's the same episode but not sure. I think he's been on more than once.
	🥁 9:08pm WR: ↳ Song: "The Nutcracker Suite: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fai... could not remember what instrument Eno played so looked at discogs, surprised to see it wasn't issued on CD.
	9:09pm Rich in Washington: WR!!
	🥁 9:09pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:05 Thank you Rich! It was on last night and I'll be doing three more Thursdays, 6-8 CST, 7-9 EST, wluw.org. I haven't added a tracklist yet but here's the show from last night soundcloud.com...
	🥁 9:10pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:09 I'm not going back to WLUW on a regular basis, I'm just doing winter break.
	9:10pm tom tom the pipers son: recalling the scene in total recall i think it would be nice if tom waits ripped off his rubber mask and was arnold schwartzenegger underneath and wished everyone a merry christmas
	🥁 9:11pm Kat in the chat: ↳ WR @9:08 What instrument did Eno play?
	9:11pm macvicar: omg there needs to be a karaoke of this song
	9:11pm ultradamno: A Frippotron?
	9:11pm pot8o: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:11 iirc it was the clarinet
	🥁 9:12pm Aitch: all Xmas???
	9:12pm ironybread: Hey Rich, you star, if yer takin' requests on the Hot Drummer Request Hotline, can you play John Oswald's "White"? And dedicate it to my steady? I can't remember his name. Thanks!!!!
	🥁 9:13pm Kat in the chat: Melvins do any Xmas music?
	9:13pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Christmas Commercial" by "John Baker" nice and old cash register
	9:13pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Aitch @9:12 Yes, sorry!
	9:13pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @9:12 It's in the queue
	🥁 9:14pm Aitch: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:13 we must have been bad this year....
	9:14pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:13 pidge played a fall christmas song i had never heard before
	9:15pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "The Killer Trees" by "Saturday Night Live cast" This sketch and the giant lobsters one (and the Suburban Lawns clip) are the SNL moments most commonly present in my mind
	9:15pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:13 Gosh, I don't think so!
	🥁 9:15pm Kat in the chat: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:14 ooh. I don't turn on the radio early enough to hear the Pidge these days, but I might have to check the archives for that. I Am Curious Festiv
	9:15pm ironybread: Aitch! pot80! ultra! Rich! Kat! WR! Happy conifer revenge season!
	9:16pm ultradamno: Hiya irony!
	🥁 9:16pm Kat in the chat: ↳ ironybread @9:15 nice to see you, ironybread!
	9:16pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:15 ha! good one, i think it was jingle bell rock
	9:17pm ultradamno: All the Santa Dogs, for your holiday needs wfmu.org...
	🥁 9:18pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "The Killer Trees" by "Saturday Night Live cast" a few cones too many here
	9:20pm ultradamno: ...before or after land shark?
	9:20pm ultradamno: ...candygram?
	9:20pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:14 thanks for reminding me about The Fall.
	9:21pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @9:20 prob after killer bees
	9:21pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:14 I mean you reminded me to grab a Fall record.
	9:21pm ultradamno: A dissection of the Ersatz GB cover art falldata.blogspot.com...
	9:22pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:21 oh great
	9:23pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Silent Night" by "Can" Tender and mild? I'll take mine spicy, please!
	9:23pm David Shortell: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:22 I have long despised that song more than any other. However, just last night, guest WFMU DJ Christina Ginger played a good rendition by Los Straitjackets. Now I must hear the Fall’s version.
	9:23pm Robm: @Rich i forgot how funny the old snls are
	9:24pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ David Shortell @9:23 it's ok, but even they can't transcend that schlock
	🥁 9:25pm WR: ↳ Song: "NOT ON CHRISTMAS!!!" by "Divine, etc." Cha Cha Heels Christmas Eve Special, Drummer Stream, Sunday night. wfmu.org...
	9:25pm pot8o: "crazy people section" 🤔🤔🤔
	🥁 9:26pm Kat in the chat: I have been feeling very unchristmasy because work has been horrible all December, plus I got Covid at the beginning of the month. I have four days off though, I think I'll perk up.
	9:26pm ultradamno: Is Protomartyr's Feast Of Stephen an x-mas song? I mean good king wencelas was looking....
	🥁 9:28pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "White" by "John Oswald" now there's some cover art
	9:28pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:26 I'm sorry, Kat!
	🥁 9:28pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:28 it's ok! it was fun to be on the air again last night, even though I have to pre-record those shows
	9:29pm ultradamno: Enough! Stop! Christmas carols only have one verse! Well they may have more, but the second verse is where they get all weird and religiousy.
	9:29pm Rich in Washington: I can't hear rainforest pygmies without thinking of Christmas now. Thanks, John Oswald
	🥁 9:32pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "Christmas, Merry Christmas" by "Usha Uthup" OMG that album cover
	9:32pm tom tom the pipers son: chewing gum lips and other sensational favorites
	9:32pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Christmas, Merry Christmas" by "Usha Uthup" this whole album's fairly bonkers. It even has a tribute to India's first test tube baby, which must be heard.
	🥁 9:33pm Aitch: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:32 sign me up
	🥁 9:33pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:32 oh I've heard that! I think it was on World's Worst Records
	9:33pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:32 err...tracks
	9:34pm ironybread: When you're in hell, remember this song, kids!!
	9:35pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:32 would imagine a blend of hinduism and christianity make for a 'special' mix
	9:35pm ultradamno: The Kills' Gum is really the In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida of gum smacking album tracks
	9:36pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "No Xmas For John Quays" by "The Fall" 😍
	9:37pm tom tom the pipers son: thx for this one rich
	9:38pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:37 Glad to oblige!
	9:38pm ultradamno: I was listening to a live version of Frightened from 77 and it starts with him saying No X-mas For John Quays...I don't know if they were just playing it or what. This whole album is the top ten best Fall songs list.
	9:39pm David Shortell: ↳ ultradamno @9:35 Excessively long?
	9:39pm Dean: First Fall song I ever heard, "No Xmas," upon the release of this album, played on KROQ. A fan there and then.
	9:40pm ultradamno: ↳ David Shortell @9:39 No just the top example of the form...I'm not sure why Iron Butterfly came to mind aside from ubiquity
	9:41pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @9:40 Though if you've got issues with lip smacking (and innuendo) it could feel far too long.
	9:41pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Dean @9:39 I think the first Fall song I heard was Totally Wired and it was being played on some dumb college radio show and intro'd as 'the worst song ever' and I was immediately in love with them (The Fall - not the DJs)
	🥁 9:42pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:41 wow really? Totally Wired is so good!
	9:42pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @9:38 Well, the IRS issue....the one pictured is eleven tracks, I think.
	9:43pm ultradamno: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:42 Brix's favorite (according to the Perverted vid)
	🥁 9:44pm Kat in the chat: I used to have so many Christmas compilation CDs. I think I still have most of them. Including Blowfly, and Christmas at Luke's Sex Shop
	9:45pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:41 did they have nancy reagan ' just say no' commercials on that station?
	9:45pm Rich in Washington: microphonemicrophonemicrophone
	9:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "No Xmas For John Quays" by "The Fall" Then there’s the Fall’s version of “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”. Just how many Christmas songs did they do?
	9:46pm ultradamno: Reminded me of going to a local record store at around 13 or 14 and asking about New York Dolls and getting a homophobic rant in response.
	9:47pm ultradamno: ↳ David Shortell @9:46 MES was a believer
	🥁 9:47pm Kat in the chat: ↳ ultradamno @9:46 oh that's nice
	9:47pm ultradamno: The owner turned out to be a bible thumper
	9:51pm tom tom the pipers son: @rich are you going to play sun ra's 'its christmastime'? probably the only straight xmas song i can listen to...
	9:52pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Dumbo the Clown (Who Loved Christmas)" by "The Re... Tuxedomoon and MX-80 have a couple of x-mas tracks (Holiday For Plywood, maybe a stretch but there is a nutcrackerish interlude, there's also a You (christmas mix) and Christmas With The Devil, not to be confused with the James Chance "with...Satan song"), I can't think of a Chrome one offhand
	9:57pm ultradamno: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:51 Yeah, The Qualities. Definitely a fav.
	🥁 9:57pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "An Old fashioned Christmas (Daddy’s Home)" by "Li... wow Xmas bummer jam!
	9:57pm tom tom the pipers son: is this a 'song poem' reminds me of that rodd keith song
	9:58pm ironybread: It's going to be an old-fashioned Xmas all right, we're leaving Daddy's corpse out for the birds of prey just like in the old country
	🥁 9:58pm Kat in the chat: wow that was horrible
	9:59pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:57 about a car crash
	9:59pm ultradamno: Well, Santa watches everything, he could take him away for them if he wanted to lighten their x-mas burden
	9:59pm ultradamno: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:59 Reminds me of my favorite x-mas song, Dead Joe
	10:01pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ultradamno @9:59 Oh yeah, I guess it IS
	10:01pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @9:59 do you know the rodd keith song? not really an xmas song iirc
	10:01pm pot8o: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:58 seconded
	10:03pm ultradamno: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:01 I Died Today? I know that one.
	10:03pm ironybread: For those who haven't heard it, you'll want to download Steve Fisk's "Christmas Cassette" from circa 1991: archive.org...
	10:04pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:01 song is sung from pov of dead man in car crash...yes that one
	10:04pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @10:03 yes
	10:04pm Bobby: Hi DJ and chat! Not-a-regular hanging out and enjoying all this
	10:05pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Good King Wenceslas" by "Butthole Surfers" The real story www.christiancentury.org...
	🥁 10:05pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Bobby @10:04 hi Bobby! Rich does good radioes
	10:05pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Bobby @10:04 Hi Bobby! Glad you're diggin' it!
	10:06pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @10:03 Why did I not know about this??
	🥁 10:11pm Kat in the chat: I must have listened to some radio station that broadcast Silhouette. that last one sounded kind of familiar
	🥁 10:14pm WR: ↳ ironybread @9:15 hello ironybread, seasoned greetings.
	10:14pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Fire" by "The Residents Uninc." THE OG!
	🥁 10:15pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Seasoned Greetings/ N-ER-GEE [excerpt]" by "The R... Ringo Starfish!
	10:16pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @10:14 My fav, then probably the gamelan
	10:17pm northguineahills: feels, residential, makes sense.
	🥁 10:17pm Aitch: ↳ northguineahills @10:17 house it going?
	10:18pm ultradamno: I've heard John Lennon had a framed copy
	10:18pm tom tom the pipers son: hey ngh!
	10:18pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ultradamno @10:18 i've heard that too. Cool if true
	10:18pm Rich in Washington: ↳ northguineahills @10:17 Hi ngh!
	🥁 10:22pm Aitch: My visitor is giving me concerned looks
	10:22pm northguineahills: ↳ Aitch @10:17 burning down? /needs the funds for my flight to nyc so work can ensue...
	10:23pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Happy Holidays" by "Smegma" you're speaking my language, rich, w/ smegma!
	10:24pm Rich in Washington: ↳ northguineahills @10:23 Ace Farren Ford of Smegma/LAFMS just flew the metaphysical coup the other day :(
	10:25pm ultradamno: By the way, I had an odd coincidental experience involving a ridiculous b-movie and a punk rock singer, fwiw mastodon.social...
	10:26pm northguineahills: ran into an actually friendly character on the street who had been in the program here for 1.5 years. he'd just been kicked out of the program for possession of alcohol (maybe more). he'd been on the the street for a week, now, and apologized about his smelled. I gave my trademarked hug, slipped him a few dollars, and told him i'd talk to the director. (13 days until i leave)
	10:27pm northguineahills: ↳ northguineahills @10:26 we shared decent tastes in electronica....(most people here, don't even consider music).
	10:28pm northguineahills: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:24 NOOOOEEEEESSSS!!! I didn't know! 😢
	10:30pm wendy del formaggio: RICH!
	10:31pm northguineahills: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:18 Tom! /a certain musician friend is seeing if i can piggyback off her ableton license.
	10:32pm wendy del formaggio: Also hello to people who are not named Rich.
	10:33pm Rich in Washington: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:32 Wendy! Thanks for the big pile of Buttholes! I played Wenceslas earlier!
	10:34pm ultradamno: I think I saw a movie called that once.
	10:34pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ northguineahills @10:31 oh very nice,...had to look that up... get a chance to nudge b.w.?
	10:36pm wendy del formaggio: If I had a nickel for every time someone thanked me for a big pile of Buttholes… You’re welcome! I think I have that Wenceslaus/Lord Monkey picture-disc 7” somewhere in the Wendo Music Library.
	10:36pm northguineahills: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:32 looks at all of IDs, passports, ss cards hello!
	10:38pm wendy del formaggio: Haha, hello, dear NGH.
	10:38pm Rich in Washington: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:36 I had it in a fairly wretched bitrate until you hepped me to that stash. Much obliged!
	10:39pm wendy del formaggio: Rich, you may refer to me as Satan Claus from now on. I also answer to Wendy. Or Wendo. Or Wendalah. Etc.
	10:39pm Rich in Washington: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:39 Noted!
	10:40pm wendy del formaggio: OMG you’re playing Happy Flowers!!! I listened to them all the damn time when I was a senior in HS.
	10:40pm ultradamno: Wendigo of the pet semetary?
	10:41pm northguineahills: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:34 i want to get back into doing electronic composition. I've been keen on that (my brain has been composing since i've been stuck here) even before all of my analog music equipment was thrown away by my paternal familial figure. I'd rather focus on using Ableton and some other programs then trying to rebuild all of the analog gear i lost.
	10:41pm ultradamno: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:40 Buying Music For Children in Cinti off the cover alone is a vivid memory for me.
	10:42pm ironybread: Is it too early to award this show Best Xmas Show Ever? I think not! #CallingItEarly
	10:42pm ultradamno: (discovering something legit bizarre with no prompting at all is just the best)
	10:42pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ northguineahills @10:41 that sounds expedient
	10:44pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @10:42 don't break the shrinkwrap on that statuette yet - I'm about to unleash some Song Poems and bring this program into a nosedive!
	10:44pm wendy del formaggio: Wow, I’ve never heard this ECC before. This is awesome.
	10:45pm ultradamno: Broken glass! Everywhere!
	10:45pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:44 i must have felt those song poems coming, invoking rodd keith...;)
	10:45pm Rich in Washington: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:44 It's from the reissued edition of Plagiarhythm Nation
	10:46pm wendy del formaggio: This SNL skit is making me laugh so hard. Ackroyd was always so good at sleaze.
	10:47pm northguineahills: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:46 meme material!
	10:48pm Ikė: Bag of Sulfuric Acid, ha.
	🥁 10:48pm Zip7: Hi Rich and folks! Anyone remember the Hippy Sippy: www.candywrappermuseum.com...
	10:48pm tom tom the pipers son: iirc candice bergen wrote an interesting auto bio w/ bits about her competition with her fathers puppet for attention
	10:49pm ultradamno: Never a word from this Mortimer Snerd....
	10:50pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @10:49 no ibelieve it was all charlie mccarthy
	10:50pm northguineahills: i think rich plays evolutionary control committee more than any other wfmu dj!
	10:52pm wendy del formaggio: It’s Christmas Eve Eve Eve!
	10:52pm ultradamno: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:50 s.ecrater.com...
	10:53pm wendy del formaggio: Is it a station wagon filled with nuns?
	10:54pm Erik-Overt: Oh Joy (& delight) … Rod Keith is in my future.
	10:54pm Rich in Washington: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:53 LOL!
	10:54pm ultradamno: I made an oblique ref to nuns @10:25...no station wagon for her though.
	10:54pm Rich in Washington: ↳ northguineahills @10:50 Interesting! I did not know that!
	10:54pm still b/p: Ventriloquism carries on and on today, some practitioners with big media and Vegas success, to my surprise. Like some painters must paint, some writers must write -- they can't NOT do it, and powerfully drawn-to-it ventriloquists must ventriloquise.
	10:55pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @10:52 i would hate growing up with that in the house poopr candice bergen
	10:56pm ultradamno: Well, the alternative is using your voice throwing powers to drive people crazy
	🥁 10:56pm Zip7: ↳ still b/p @10:54 I wonder if plate-spinners must spin plates?
	10:56pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:55 poor
	10:56pm still b/p: ↳ ultradamno @10:56 Old-school trolling.
	10:57pm wendy del formaggio: Totally turning it up for the Rodd Keith portion of tonight’s program.
	10:58pm still b/p: ↳ Zip7 @10:56 You're asking for...a friend...who misses the entertainment, and opportunities, of the Sullivan show?
	10:58pm ultradamno: I had a Lester dummy when I was a kid (OK, I still do...try to throw him out he comes back) img1.etsystatic.com...
	10:58pm Erik-Overt: …& as a ghost of my Xmas past present & future … omnipresent, as they say. Who’s ’they’ (small ‘t’).
	10:59pm northguineahills: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:52 Eve³, original sin boogaloo!
	🥁 11:00pm Zip7: ↳ still b/p @10:58 Yes, someone who still mourns the passing of Señor Wences
	11:01pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Zip7 @11:00 Hi Zip!
	11:01pm wendy del formaggio: Wow. That Sisterhood track was some creepy shit. I’m not complaining.
	11:03pm still b/p: We can only hope there was a ventriloquist attending the Wences funeral or burial, who kept throwing a nice "Open the box" into/out of the box.
	🥁 11:03pm Zip7: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:01 Hi there Rich! I've rejoined the Army of the Unemployed so can hang out again, slouchng and smoking cigarettes
	11:05pm tom tom the pipers son: has anybody heard rodd keith's experimental music?
	11:06pm northguineahills: ↳ wendy del formaggio @11:01 it would be not right if it wasn't so wrong!
	11:06pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "Santa Fix My Toys for Christmas" by "Rodd & Judy" this isn't really that bad, it's a bit cheesy but it's not terrible
	11:06pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:05 No! I've heard he did do some trippy non-Song Poem music but haven't looked.
	11:07pm tom tom the pipers son: rodd keith's son... ellery eskelin
	11:07pm northguineahills: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:07 waaat!??? i would never have made the connection!
	11:08pm Bobby: ↳ pot8o @11:06 I’m getting tired and heard fist my toys. I should tap out now
	11:08pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:06 it was put out on tzadik on cd, rambling nonsense but kind of interesting, played it for some people and they begged me to take it off.
	11:09pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Bobby @11:08 HA!
	11:09pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ northguineahills @11:07 true
	11:10pm still b/p: Looking briefly at MSR Records info. Surely want to hear The Ranger Had Too Much To Drink sometime.
	🥁 11:11pm Zip7: I don't know if there are any pencil men left, but there are still many, many pencil necks.
	11:12pm ultradamno: It takes awhile to get to the comps on his discogs but www.discogs.com... www.discogs.com...
	11:12pm tom tom the pipers son: looking at the image of the girl on album makes me remember how difficult and painful adolescence was
	11:13pm Otis Fodder: They told me to go right, but I said no... path of the left hand please and I arrived here! Hi Rich!!
	11:14pm ultradamno: The toy carriage matches the 'tree'
	11:15pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Otis Fodder @11:13 OTIS! Howdy old pal!
	11:15pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @11:12 yes ecstacy to frenzy is as advertised
	🥁 11:15pm Aitch: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:09 Guest that was looking concerned before now seems to be in open rebellion
	11:17pm wendy del formaggio: OTIS FODDER! Hello there, ol’ pal o’ mine!
	11:17pm Otis Fodder: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:15 Arrived at just the perfect time for songs treated as poems, timeless holiday classics. Pouring drinks for Aitch and Wendy and fellow friends.
	🥁 11:18pm Aitch: ↳ Otis Fodder @11:13 Hell-Otis
	11:18pm wendy del formaggio: That Peppermint Stick song was kinda nsfw.
	11:18pm ironybread: Hiya Otis!
	11:19pm still b/p: ↳ Aitch @11:15 Here in US, insurrection is de rigueur.
	🥁 11:19pm Aitch: ↳ Aitch @11:15 Houseguest introduced me to the ex all those years ago, he deserves this
	11:19pm wendy del formaggio: Otis, make mine a vodka gimlet, please! And if you have any little paper umbrellas and plastic monkeys, I love those in my grown-up drinks.
	11:19pm Otis Fodder: Merry Merry Ironybread, long time, nice to read ya!
	11:20pm Otis Fodder: ↳ wendy del formaggio @11:19 I do have little paper umbrellas here, next to random stir sticks all found in church basements.
	🥁 11:20pm Aitch: ↳ Otis Fodder @11:19 Some shows from both yourself and Ironybread would be a pleasant surprise
	11:21pm still b/p: ↳ Otis Fodder @11:20 Random Stir Sticks...hm, Schulkind was...I think...
	🥁 11:21pm Aitch: ↳ still b/p @11:21 swizzle-sticks
	11:23pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "Daddy, Please Tell Me" by "The Sisterhood" kid sounds way too old to still believe in Santa
	11:23pm wendy del formaggio: Otis, that’s the best source for random everything.
	11:23pm ironybread: "The truth is, son...Santa is a virus."
	11:23pm Otis Fodder: ↳ Song: "Daddy, Please Tell Me" by "The Sisterhood" While this is painful, it is in a wonderful way and I'd listen to this on repeat rather than the having a wonderful xmas time song any day.
	11:24pm ultradamno: I'll just take vodka neat. I would go with egg nog to be seasonal, but I saw that Sabrina Carpenter girl on that I ♥ Radio thing on TV last night sing something about sipping it that made me uncomfortable
	11:24pm wendy del formaggio: This kid is a fuckin’ sap.
	11:25pm Otis Fodder: ↳ ultradamno @11:24 I'll just take the baileys and coffee here first, but I would not refuse a spiked egg nog at a family event.
	11:25pm Otis Fodder: ↳ wendy del formaggio @11:24 Ha!
	🥁 11:25pm Zip7: Dabbing at tears here
	11:25pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Daddy, Please Tell Me" by "The Sisterhood" At age 5, I would've rolled eyes at something like this.
	🥁 11:26pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Santa Claus Goes Modern" by "Bobby Boyle With The... Santa's on the gear
	11:28pm ultradamno: 6'4" is freakishly tall for an elf...
	11:28pm northguineahills: ↳ ultradamno @11:24 you're doing it correcr!
	11:29pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Happy Birthday Jesus" by "Little Cindy" i swear ken has played this before!
	11:29pm Otis Fodder: ↳ Song: "Happy Birthday Jesus" by "Little Cindy" Oh, more fx please
	11:29pm Rich in Washington: ↳ northguineahills @11:29 possibly
	🥁 11:29pm Zip7: ↳ Song: "Happy Birthday Jesus" by "Little Cindy" "Those awful, naughty men!"
	11:29pm wendy del formaggio: Is Little Cindy actually Tammy Fae?
	11:30pm wendy del formaggio: Oh shit. Little Marcy. She cursed my turntable on my first GTDR show.
	🥁 11:31pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S" by "Little Marcy" you're a bad man Rich
	11:31pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Otis Fodder @11:29 Dang! I got Marcy on the TT without FX now!
	11:32pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:31 there's always a feedback loop
	11:32pm wendy del formaggio: I forgive Little Marcy though, because this song fuckin’ rocks.
	11:32pm northguineahills: there's a nightmare before xmas tie-in to this set, right, rich? as this is terrifying (a little close to home).
	11:32pm Otis Fodder: Bless you Rich for the holiday fx
	11:33pm doctorjazz: Hi all!
	11:34pm still b/p: You know how sometimes big speakers are brought in to play something repetitively at loud volume to make a holed-up subject unsettled and more willing to surrender? Such as Noriega or Koresh and company? These'd be the heavy artillery right here.
	11:34pm ultradamno: If you read the character descriptions on this page, you'll find it's shockingly easy to determine which of the core three Trump children are Lock, Shock & Barrel disney.fandom.com...
	11:48pm tom tom the pipers son: @ rich: could not imagine a better christmas show, this one spoke to me... seizures grittings
	11:49pm still b/p: Enjoying the Scattergun Christmas Sounds.
	11:50pm coelacanth∅: GOD damn it. looks like a playlist custom-made for me, and i missed it.
	11:54pm Rich in Washington: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:50 Hi coel!
	11:55pm doctorjazz: Thanks Rich! Happy Happy All!
	11:55pm Rich in Washington: Thanks tom tom!
	11:55pm still b/p: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:50 Santa gon' bring you a pea-soup green Porsche?
	11:55pm ironybread: YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS #ButItsJustTheRain
	11:55pm tom tom the pipers son: called off christmas in bethlehem, the nativity has child surrounded by rubble
	11:55pm pot8o: thanks rich! happy holidays everyone!
	11:55pm Rich in Washington: Thanks everybody!
	11:55pm ultradamno: Happy Holidays, all! And remember, if Carla Gugino shows up to your rave...LEAVE!
	11:56pm tom tom the pipers son: yay sparks christmas
	🥁 11:56pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Thank God It's Not Christmas" by "Sparks" Saved by Sparks!. Cheers Rich and all, merry happy.
	11:56pm still b/p: Thanks, Rich, for merry and moving holiday outing.
	11:56pm Otis Fodder: Merry Santamas Rich & All ! As a wise singer once said, don't eat the yellow snow!
	🥁 11:57pm Zip7: Thanx Rich!
	11:57pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Otis Fodder @11:56 Thanks Otis! Hope you have a splendid holiday! Nice to see you, if only as typography!
	11:57pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Zip7 @11:57 Thanks, Zip!
	11:58pm coelacanth∅: ↳ still b/p @11:55 probably more likely a picture of a porsche that he peed upon hi Rich!
	11:59pm ironybread: Have a merry happy, everyone, and thanks Rich for another swell joint.

The Radio Is Broken with Rich In Washington: Playlist from December 22, 2023

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December 22, 2023: Have Yourself A Very Merry Pessimist

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Ferrante & Teicher	Sleigh Ride "Sleigh Ride" by "Ferrante & Teicher"	Adventures In Carols	Westminster	1956		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Portsmouth Sinfonia	The Nutcracker Suite: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy	Plays The Popular Classics	Columbia Records	1974	Featuring Gavin Bryars and Brian Eno but you all knew that.	0:01:49 (Pop-up)
Tom Waits	Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis	Austin City Limits, December 1978	PBS	1978		0:04:05 (Pop-up)
Culturecide	Depressed Christmas "Depressed Christmas" by "Culturecide"	Santa Claus Was My Love b/w Depressed Christmas	No Label	1986		0:09:34 (Pop-up)
John Baker	Christmas Commercial "Christmas Commercial" by "John Baker"	BBC Radiophonic Workshop Music	BBC Records			0:11:55 (Pop-up)
Divine, etc.	NOT ON CHRISTMAS!!! "NOT ON CHRISTMAS!!!" by "Divine, etc."					0:12:50 (Pop-up)
Saturday Night Live cast	The Killer Trees	Saturday Night Live - December 11, 1976	NBC Television	1976	The Killer Trees Cast in order of appearance: Garrett Morris Dan Ackroyd John Belushi Candice Bergen Gilda Radner Frank Zappa (who was host that night) "..she looked like an angel... and now... she IS one.."	0:13:59 (Pop-up)
Can	Silent Night "Silent Night" by "Can"	Silent Night	Harvest	1976		0:22:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Can	Silent Night "Silent Night" by "Can"					0:25:15 (Pop-up)
John Oswald	White "White" by "John Oswald"	Plunderphonics		1988?	For ironybread's flame - he can't even remember his name	0:27:09 (Pop-up)
Usha Uthup	Christmas, Merry Christmas	Blast Off!	EMI	1984		0:31:29 (Pop-up)
The Fall	No Xmas For John Quays "No Xmas For John Quays" by "The Fall"	Live At The Witch Trials	Step-Forward	1979		0:35:00 (Pop-up)
The Reds Pinks and Purples	We Won't Come Home at Christmas Time	They Only Wanted Your Soul	Slumberland Records	2022		0:39:24 (Pop-up)
Poison Idea	Santa Claus Is Back In Town	V/A - It's Finally Christmas!	Tim/Kerr Records	1994		0:42:15 (Pop-up)
The Rudy Schwartz Project	Christmas Time's For Assholes	Remembering a Summertime Rash	Sick / DC Jam	2010		0:44:35 (Pop-up)
The Residents	Dumbo the Clown (Who Loved Christmas)	V/A - Subterranean Modern	Ralph Records	1979		0:47:00 (Pop-up)
Dead Moon	Christmas Rush "Christmas Rush" by "Dead Moon"	V/A - It's Finally Christmas!	Tim/Kerr Records	1994		0:49:02 (Pop-up)
Pastor John Rydgren	Christmas Montage	Silhouette Segments	Omni Recording Corporation	2012		0:51:36 (Pop-up)
Linda Bennett	An Old fashioned Christmas (Daddy’s Home)	An Old fashioned Christmas (Daddy’s Home)	Mercury	1975		0:54:11 (Pop-up)
Hitting Birth	Little Drummer Boy "Little Drummer Boy" by "Hitting Birth"	V/A - It's Finally Christmas!	Tim/Kerr Records	1994		0:58:41 (Pop-up)
Butthole Surfers	Good King Wenceslas	Good King Wenceslas	Trance Syndicate Records	1994		1:03:53 (Pop-up)
Pastor John Rydgren	A Christmas Reflection	Silhouette Segments	Omni Recording Corporation	2012		1:07:39 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ferrante & Teicher	Sleigh Ride "Sleigh Ride" by "Ferrante & Teicher"					1:09:49 (Pop-up)
The Residents Uninc.	Fire "Fire" by "The Residents Uninc."	Santa Dog EP	Ralph Records	1972		1:13:41 (Pop-up)
The Residents	Seasoned Greetings/ N-ER-GEE [excerpt]	Meet The Residents	Ralph Records	1974		1:15:15 (Pop-up)
Smegma	Happy Holidays "Happy Holidays" by "Smegma"	V/A - It's Finally Christmas!	Tim/Kerr Records	1994		1:22:33 (Pop-up)
The Residents Uninc.	Explosion / Lightning / Aircraft Damage	Santa Dog EP	Ralph Records	1972		1:25:44 (Pop-up)
The New Bad Things	Shoplifting You Something For Christmas	V/A - It's Finally Christmas!	Tim/Kerr Records	1994	New Bad Things on Bandcamp	1:35:03 (Pop-up)
Happy Flowers	All I Got Were Clothes For Christmas	V/A - God's Favorite Dog	Touch & Go Records	1986	Mr. Anus and Mr. Horribly Charred Infant reenact every child's nightmare, as only they can.	1:38:24 (Pop-up)
The Evolution Control Committee	Christmas Wrong	Plagiarythm Nation	Seeland Records	2003		1:43:00 (Pop-up)
Saturday Night Live cast	Consumer Probe	Saturday Night Live - December 11, 1976	NBC Television	1976	Host: Candice Bergen Irwin Mainway: Dan Aykroyd	1:44:24 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ferrante & Teicher	Sleigh Ride "Sleigh Ride" by "Ferrante & Teicher"					1:53:53 (Pop-up)
Heather Noel	Santa Came On A Nuclear Missile	V/A - The American Song Poem Christmas: Daddy, Is Santa Really Six Foot Four?	Bar None Records	2003		1:53:15 (Pop-up)
Rodd Rogers & The Librettos	Santa Claus Goes Modern	V/A - The American Song Poem Christmas: Daddy, Is Santa Really Six Foot Four?	Bar None Records	2003	aka Rodd Keith	1:55:47 (Pop-up)
The Sisterhood	Little Ragged Boy "Little Ragged Boy" by "The Sisterhood"	Christmas Is Love With "The Sisterhood"	M.S.R. Records	197?	The Sisterhood was M.S.R. Record's house female gospel group.	1:58:15 (Pop-up)
Gene Marshall	Evelyn Christmas "Evelyn Christmas" by "Gene Marshall"	V/A - M.S.R. Madness, Vol. 5: I Like Yellow Things	Who	when		2:01:21 (Pop-up)
Rodd & Judy	Santa Fix My Toys for Christmas	V/A - The American Song Poem Christmas: Daddy, Is Santa Really Six Foot Four?	Bar None Records	2003		2:04:19 (Pop-up)
The Sisterhood	The Pencil Man "The Pencil Man" by "The Sisterhood"	Christmas Songs With "The Sisterhood"	M.S.R. Records	1974	Written by Dolly O. Curran	2:06:57 (Pop-up)
Norris the Troubadour Seaboard Coastliners	Christmas Time Philosophy	V/A - The American Song Poem Christmas: Daddy, Is Santa Really Six Foot Four?	Bar None Records	2003		2:09:46 (Pop-up)
The Sisterhood	Under Our Christmas Tree	Christmas Is Love With "The Sisterhood"	M.S.R. Records	197?	Written by Beatrice D. Miller	2:12:12 (Pop-up)
Randall Reed with the Forerunners	The Peppermint Stick Man	V/A - The American Song Poem Christmas: Daddy, Is Santa Really Six Foot Four?	Bar None Records	2003		2:14:35 (Pop-up)
The Sisterhood	An Ode To Music "An Ode To Music" by "The Sisterhood"	Joyous Songs For Christmas With The Sisterhood	M.S.R. Records		written by Erma Hemminghouse(!)	2:17:00 (Pop-up)
Kay Brown	Daddy, Is Santa Really Six Foot Four	V/A - The American Song Poem Christmas: Daddy, Is Santa Really Six Foot Four?	Bar None Records	2003		2:19:04 (Pop-up)
The Sisterhood	Daddy, Please Tell Me	Christmas Is Love With "The Sisterhood"	M.S.R. Records	197?	Written by Esther M. Cox	2:22:25 (Pop-up)
Bobby Boyle With The Singers	Santa Claus Goes Modern	V/A - The American Song Poem Christmas: Daddy, Is Santa Really Six Foot Four?	Bar None Records	2003	Same song as the Rodd Keith version but different singers	2:25:20 (Pop-up)
Little Cindy	Happy Birthday Jesus	Happy Birthday Jesus / He's Around When Everybody Turns You Down	Salem	1967		2:27:34 (Pop-up)
Little Marcy	C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S "C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S" by "Little Marcy"	Marcy Favorites 20 Songs From Her Best Selling Albums	Cornerstone Records	19??		2:29:48 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ferrante & Teicher	Jingle Bells "Jingle Bells" by "Ferrante & Teicher"					2:32:32 (Pop-up)
Cassetteboy	Festive Christmas "Festive Christmas" by "Cassetteboy"	Festive Christmas	Barry's Bootlegs	2003	Ho Ho Ho Are You Wizzard Card Turkey Dropping The Bomb Santa Claus Is Drinking Simply Having... La La La La La Merry Merry Merry Merry Merry Walking In The High Pitched Air Christmas Tree Roasting I Believe In The Virgin Megastore A Sailor's Bells Snow Snow Snow Oh Yeah Snow Everyday Bingmas Happy Cliffmas Shakin' Through Banned Aid Christmas Time Gentlemen, Please! Merry Christmas Cajun And Louisiana And Stuff, No Doubt Early 80's Christmas On The Open Fire The Dire Rea More Cajun And Louisiana And Stuff, No Doubt God Rest You... Ooh, It's Paul McCartney Cashing In Again! Bastard! A Bulging Sack Up The Chimney Gangsta Wrapping Hadenuff	2:38:30 (Pop-up)
Sparks	Thank God It's Not Christmas	Kimono My House	Island Records	1974		2:55:10 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🥁 8:43pm Aitch: Happy Richmas!
	8:50pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Aitch @8:43 Hi Aitch! Hope you and yours have a great Christmas!
	8:59pm pot8o: hi everyone!
	9:00pm Rich in Washington: ↳ pot8o @8:59 Hi pot8o!
	9:00pm ultradamno: Rich! Breaker-Breakers!
	9:01pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ultradamno @9:00 Hi Ultra!
	9:01pm tom tom the pipers son: seizures grittings
	9:01pm Robm: evening fellow broken radio listeners, and merry christmas
	9:01pm Yvang: Hi Rich and richers!
	9:02pm pot8o: I've had maxine nightingale's right back where we started from stuck in my head for at least a week now it has nothing to do with anything that's been talked about, but i just need to get it off my chest
	9:02pm Rich in Washington: Hi tom tom! Hi Robm! Hi Yvang!
	🥁 9:02pm Aitch: ↳ Rich in Washington @8:50 Very old friend here visiting from Thailand
	9:02pm Robm: howdy rich
	9:02pm ultradamno: If Quentin Tarantino had the sense to do a Ferrante & Teicher biopic, this would be the poster mastodon.social...
	9:02pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "The Nutcracker Suite: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fai... gavin bryars!
	9:03pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Aitch @9:02 Oh nice!
	🥁 9:03pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "The Nutcracker Suite: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fai... This is exquisite
	9:04pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:03 Kat!
	🥁 9:04pm Kat in the chat: Rich! Breakers!
	9:05pm Rich in Washington: Kat, please feel free to post the deets of your brand spankin' new radio show!
	9:05pm ultradamno: Is that gif from the Austin City Limits where he had a gas pump on the stage at one point? You just never know when you might need to refuel...
	9:06pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ultradamno @9:05 I think it's the same episode but not sure. I think he's been on more than once.
	🥁 9:08pm WR: ↳ Song: "The Nutcracker Suite: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fai... could not remember what instrument Eno played so looked at discogs, surprised to see it wasn't issued on CD.
	9:09pm Rich in Washington: WR!!
	🥁 9:09pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:05 Thank you Rich! It was on last night and I'll be doing three more Thursdays, 6-8 CST, 7-9 EST, wluw.org. I haven't added a tracklist yet but here's the show from last night soundcloud.com...
	🥁 9:10pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:09 I'm not going back to WLUW on a regular basis, I'm just doing winter break.
	9:10pm tom tom the pipers son: recalling the scene in total recall i think it would be nice if tom waits ripped off his rubber mask and was arnold schwartzenegger underneath and wished everyone a merry christmas
	🥁 9:11pm Kat in the chat: ↳ WR @9:08 What instrument did Eno play?
	9:11pm macvicar: omg there needs to be a karaoke of this song
	9:11pm ultradamno: A Frippotron?
	9:11pm pot8o: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:11 iirc it was the clarinet
	🥁 9:12pm Aitch: all Xmas???
	9:12pm ironybread: Hey Rich, you star, if yer takin' requests on the Hot Drummer Request Hotline, can you play John Oswald's "White"? And dedicate it to my steady? I can't remember his name. Thanks!!!!
	🥁 9:13pm Kat in the chat: Melvins do any Xmas music?
	9:13pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Christmas Commercial" by "John Baker" nice and old cash register
	9:13pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Aitch @9:12 Yes, sorry!
	9:13pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @9:12 It's in the queue
	🥁 9:14pm Aitch: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:13 we must have been bad this year....
	9:14pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:13 pidge played a fall christmas song i had never heard before
	9:15pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "The Killer Trees" by "Saturday Night Live cast" This sketch and the giant lobsters one (and the Suburban Lawns clip) are the SNL moments most commonly present in my mind
	9:15pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:13 Gosh, I don't think so!
	🥁 9:15pm Kat in the chat: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:14 ooh. I don't turn on the radio early enough to hear the Pidge these days, but I might have to check the archives for that. I Am Curious Festiv
	9:15pm ironybread: Aitch! pot80! ultra! Rich! Kat! WR! Happy conifer revenge season!
	9:16pm ultradamno: Hiya irony!
	🥁 9:16pm Kat in the chat: ↳ ironybread @9:15 nice to see you, ironybread!
	9:16pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:15 ha! good one, i think it was jingle bell rock
	9:17pm ultradamno: All the Santa Dogs, for your holiday needs wfmu.org...
	🥁 9:18pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "The Killer Trees" by "Saturday Night Live cast" a few cones too many here
	9:20pm ultradamno: ...before or after land shark?
	9:20pm ultradamno: ...candygram?
	9:20pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:14 thanks for reminding me about The Fall.
	9:21pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @9:20 prob after killer bees
	9:21pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:14 I mean you reminded me to grab a Fall record.
	9:21pm ultradamno: A dissection of the Ersatz GB cover art falldata.blogspot.com...
	9:22pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:21 oh great
	9:23pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Silent Night" by "Can" Tender and mild? I'll take mine spicy, please!
	9:23pm David Shortell: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:22 I have long despised that song more than any other. However, just last night, guest WFMU DJ Christina Ginger played a good rendition by Los Straitjackets. Now I must hear the Fall’s version.
	9:23pm Robm: @Rich i forgot how funny the old snls are
	9:24pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ David Shortell @9:23 it's ok, but even they can't transcend that schlock
	🥁 9:25pm WR: ↳ Song: "NOT ON CHRISTMAS!!!" by "Divine, etc." Cha Cha Heels Christmas Eve Special, Drummer Stream, Sunday night. wfmu.org...
	9:25pm pot8o: "crazy people section" 🤔🤔🤔
	🥁 9:26pm Kat in the chat: I have been feeling very unchristmasy because work has been horrible all December, plus I got Covid at the beginning of the month. I have four days off though, I think I'll perk up.
	9:26pm ultradamno: Is Protomartyr's Feast Of Stephen an x-mas song? I mean good king wencelas was looking....
	🥁 9:28pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "White" by "John Oswald" now there's some cover art
	9:28pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:26 I'm sorry, Kat!
	🥁 9:28pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:28 it's ok! it was fun to be on the air again last night, even though I have to pre-record those shows
	9:29pm ultradamno: Enough! Stop! Christmas carols only have one verse! Well they may have more, but the second verse is where they get all weird and religiousy.
	9:29pm Rich in Washington: I can't hear rainforest pygmies without thinking of Christmas now. Thanks, John Oswald
	🥁 9:32pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "Christmas, Merry Christmas" by "Usha Uthup" OMG that album cover
	9:32pm tom tom the pipers son: chewing gum lips and other sensational favorites
	9:32pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Song: "Christmas, Merry Christmas" by "Usha Uthup" this whole album's fairly bonkers. It even has a tribute to India's first test tube baby, which must be heard.
	🥁 9:33pm Aitch: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:32 sign me up
	🥁 9:33pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:32 oh I've heard that! I think it was on World's Worst Records
	9:33pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:32 err...tracks
	9:34pm ironybread: When you're in hell, remember this song, kids!!
	9:35pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:32 would imagine a blend of hinduism and christianity make for a 'special' mix
	9:35pm ultradamno: The Kills' Gum is really the In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida of gum smacking album tracks
	9:36pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "No Xmas For John Quays" by "The Fall" 😍
	9:37pm tom tom the pipers son: thx for this one rich
	9:38pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:37 Glad to oblige!
	9:38pm ultradamno: I was listening to a live version of Frightened from 77 and it starts with him saying No X-mas For John Quays...I don't know if they were just playing it or what. This whole album is the top ten best Fall songs list.
	9:39pm David Shortell: ↳ ultradamno @9:35 Excessively long?
	9:39pm Dean: First Fall song I ever heard, "No Xmas," upon the release of this album, played on KROQ. A fan there and then.
	9:40pm ultradamno: ↳ David Shortell @9:39 No just the top example of the form...I'm not sure why Iron Butterfly came to mind aside from ubiquity
	9:41pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @9:40 Though if you've got issues with lip smacking (and innuendo) it could feel far too long.
	9:41pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Dean @9:39 I think the first Fall song I heard was Totally Wired and it was being played on some dumb college radio show and intro'd as 'the worst song ever' and I was immediately in love with them (The Fall - not the DJs)
	🥁 9:42pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:41 wow really? Totally Wired is so good!
	9:42pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @9:38 Well, the IRS issue....the one pictured is eleven tracks, I think.
	9:43pm ultradamno: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:42 Brix's favorite (according to the Perverted vid)
	🥁 9:44pm Kat in the chat: I used to have so many Christmas compilation CDs. I think I still have most of them. Including Blowfly, and Christmas at Luke's Sex Shop
	9:45pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @9:41 did they have nancy reagan ' just say no' commercials on that station?
	9:45pm Rich in Washington: microphonemicrophonemicrophone
	9:46pm David Shortell: ↳ Song: "No Xmas For John Quays" by "The Fall" Then there’s the Fall’s version of “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”. Just how many Christmas songs did they do?
	9:46pm ultradamno: Reminded me of going to a local record store at around 13 or 14 and asking about New York Dolls and getting a homophobic rant in response.
	9:47pm ultradamno: ↳ David Shortell @9:46 MES was a believer
	🥁 9:47pm Kat in the chat: ↳ ultradamno @9:46 oh that's nice
	9:47pm ultradamno: The owner turned out to be a bible thumper
	9:51pm tom tom the pipers son: @rich are you going to play sun ra's 'its christmastime'? probably the only straight xmas song i can listen to...
	9:52pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Dumbo the Clown (Who Loved Christmas)" by "The Re... Tuxedomoon and MX-80 have a couple of x-mas tracks (Holiday For Plywood, maybe a stretch but there is a nutcrackerish interlude, there's also a You (christmas mix) and Christmas With The Devil, not to be confused with the James Chance "with...Satan song"), I can't think of a Chrome one offhand
	9:57pm ultradamno: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:51 Yeah, The Qualities. Definitely a fav.
	🥁 9:57pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Song: "An Old fashioned Christmas (Daddy’s Home)" by "Li... wow Xmas bummer jam!
	9:57pm tom tom the pipers son: is this a 'song poem' reminds me of that rodd keith song
	9:58pm ironybread: It's going to be an old-fashioned Xmas all right, we're leaving Daddy's corpse out for the birds of prey just like in the old country
	🥁 9:58pm Kat in the chat: wow that was horrible
	9:59pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:57 about a car crash
	9:59pm ultradamno: Well, Santa watches everything, he could take him away for them if he wanted to lighten their x-mas burden
	9:59pm ultradamno: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @9:59 Reminds me of my favorite x-mas song, Dead Joe
	10:01pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ultradamno @9:59 Oh yeah, I guess it IS
	10:01pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @9:59 do you know the rodd keith song? not really an xmas song iirc
	10:01pm pot8o: ↳ Kat in the chat @9:58 seconded
	10:03pm ultradamno: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:01 I Died Today? I know that one.
	10:03pm ironybread: For those who haven't heard it, you'll want to download Steve Fisk's "Christmas Cassette" from circa 1991: archive.org...
	10:04pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:01 song is sung from pov of dead man in car crash...yes that one
	10:04pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @10:03 yes
	10:04pm Bobby: Hi DJ and chat! Not-a-regular hanging out and enjoying all this
	10:05pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Good King Wenceslas" by "Butthole Surfers" The real story www.christiancentury.org...
	🥁 10:05pm Kat in the chat: ↳ Bobby @10:04 hi Bobby! Rich does good radioes
	10:05pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Bobby @10:04 Hi Bobby! Glad you're diggin' it!
	10:06pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @10:03 Why did I not know about this??
	🥁 10:11pm Kat in the chat: I must have listened to some radio station that broadcast Silhouette. that last one sounded kind of familiar
	🥁 10:14pm WR: ↳ ironybread @9:15 hello ironybread, seasoned greetings.
	10:14pm ultradamno: ↳ Song: "Fire" by "The Residents Uninc." THE OG!
	🥁 10:15pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Seasoned Greetings/ N-ER-GEE [excerpt]" by "The R... Ringo Starfish!
	10:16pm ultradamno: ↳ ultradamno @10:14 My fav, then probably the gamelan
	10:17pm northguineahills: feels, residential, makes sense.
	🥁 10:17pm Aitch: ↳ northguineahills @10:17 house it going?
	10:18pm ultradamno: I've heard John Lennon had a framed copy
	10:18pm tom tom the pipers son: hey ngh!
	10:18pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ultradamno @10:18 i've heard that too. Cool if true
	10:18pm Rich in Washington: ↳ northguineahills @10:17 Hi ngh!
	🥁 10:22pm Aitch: My visitor is giving me concerned looks
	10:22pm northguineahills: ↳ Aitch @10:17 burning down? /needs the funds for my flight to nyc so work can ensue...
	10:23pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Happy Holidays" by "Smegma" you're speaking my language, rich, w/ smegma!
	10:24pm Rich in Washington: ↳ northguineahills @10:23 Ace Farren Ford of Smegma/LAFMS just flew the metaphysical coup the other day :(
	10:25pm ultradamno: By the way, I had an odd coincidental experience involving a ridiculous b-movie and a punk rock singer, fwiw mastodon.social...
	10:26pm northguineahills: ran into an actually friendly character on the street who had been in the program here for 1.5 years. he'd just been kicked out of the program for possession of alcohol (maybe more). he'd been on the the street for a week, now, and apologized about his smelled. I gave my trademarked hug, slipped him a few dollars, and told him i'd talk to the director. (13 days until i leave)
	10:27pm northguineahills: ↳ northguineahills @10:26 we shared decent tastes in electronica....(most people here, don't even consider music).
	10:28pm northguineahills: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:24 NOOOOEEEEESSSS!!! I didn't know! 😢
	10:30pm wendy del formaggio: RICH!
	10:31pm northguineahills: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:18 Tom! /a certain musician friend is seeing if i can piggyback off her ableton license.
	10:32pm wendy del formaggio: Also hello to people who are not named Rich.
	10:33pm Rich in Washington: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:32 Wendy! Thanks for the big pile of Buttholes! I played Wenceslas earlier!
	10:34pm ultradamno: I think I saw a movie called that once.
	10:34pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ northguineahills @10:31 oh very nice,...had to look that up... get a chance to nudge b.w.?
	10:36pm wendy del formaggio: If I had a nickel for every time someone thanked me for a big pile of Buttholes… You’re welcome! I think I have that Wenceslaus/Lord Monkey picture-disc 7” somewhere in the Wendo Music Library.
	10:36pm northguineahills: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:32 looks at all of IDs, passports, ss cards hello!
	10:38pm wendy del formaggio: Haha, hello, dear NGH.
	10:38pm Rich in Washington: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:36 I had it in a fairly wretched bitrate until you hepped me to that stash. Much obliged!
	10:39pm wendy del formaggio: Rich, you may refer to me as Satan Claus from now on. I also answer to Wendy. Or Wendo. Or Wendalah. Etc.
	10:39pm Rich in Washington: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:39 Noted!
	10:40pm wendy del formaggio: OMG you’re playing Happy Flowers!!! I listened to them all the damn time when I was a senior in HS.
	10:40pm ultradamno: Wendigo of the pet semetary?
	10:41pm northguineahills: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:34 i want to get back into doing electronic composition. I've been keen on that (my brain has been composing since i've been stuck here) even before all of my analog music equipment was thrown away by my paternal familial figure. I'd rather focus on using Ableton and some other programs then trying to rebuild all of the analog gear i lost.
	10:41pm ultradamno: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:40 Buying Music For Children in Cinti off the cover alone is a vivid memory for me.
	10:42pm ironybread: Is it too early to award this show Best Xmas Show Ever? I think not! #CallingItEarly
	10:42pm ultradamno: (discovering something legit bizarre with no prompting at all is just the best)
	10:42pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ northguineahills @10:41 that sounds expedient
	10:44pm Rich in Washington: ↳ ironybread @10:42 don't break the shrinkwrap on that statuette yet - I'm about to unleash some Song Poems and bring this program into a nosedive!
	10:44pm wendy del formaggio: Wow, I’ve never heard this ECC before. This is awesome.
	10:45pm ultradamno: Broken glass! Everywhere!
	10:45pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @10:44 i must have felt those song poems coming, invoking rodd keith...;)
	10:45pm Rich in Washington: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:44 It's from the reissued edition of Plagiarhythm Nation
	10:46pm wendy del formaggio: This SNL skit is making me laugh so hard. Ackroyd was always so good at sleaze.
	10:47pm northguineahills: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:46 meme material!
	10:48pm Ikė: Bag of Sulfuric Acid, ha.
	🥁 10:48pm Zip7: Hi Rich and folks! Anyone remember the Hippy Sippy: www.candywrappermuseum.com...
	10:48pm tom tom the pipers son: iirc candice bergen wrote an interesting auto bio w/ bits about her competition with her fathers puppet for attention
	10:49pm ultradamno: Never a word from this Mortimer Snerd....
	10:50pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @10:49 no ibelieve it was all charlie mccarthy
	10:50pm northguineahills: i think rich plays evolutionary control committee more than any other wfmu dj!
	10:52pm wendy del formaggio: It’s Christmas Eve Eve Eve!
	10:52pm ultradamno: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:50 s.ecrater.com...
	10:53pm wendy del formaggio: Is it a station wagon filled with nuns?
	10:54pm Erik-Overt: Oh Joy (& delight) … Rod Keith is in my future.
	10:54pm Rich in Washington: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:53 LOL!
	10:54pm ultradamno: I made an oblique ref to nuns @10:25...no station wagon for her though.
	10:54pm Rich in Washington: ↳ northguineahills @10:50 Interesting! I did not know that!
	10:54pm still b/p: Ventriloquism carries on and on today, some practitioners with big media and Vegas success, to my surprise. Like some painters must paint, some writers must write -- they can't NOT do it, and powerfully drawn-to-it ventriloquists must ventriloquise.
	10:55pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @10:52 i would hate growing up with that in the house poopr candice bergen
	10:56pm ultradamno: Well, the alternative is using your voice throwing powers to drive people crazy
	🥁 10:56pm Zip7: ↳ still b/p @10:54 I wonder if plate-spinners must spin plates?
	10:56pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @10:55 poor
	10:56pm still b/p: ↳ ultradamno @10:56 Old-school trolling.
	10:57pm wendy del formaggio: Totally turning it up for the Rodd Keith portion of tonight’s program.
	10:58pm still b/p: ↳ Zip7 @10:56 You're asking for...a friend...who misses the entertainment, and opportunities, of the Sullivan show?
	10:58pm ultradamno: I had a Lester dummy when I was a kid (OK, I still do...try to throw him out he comes back) img1.etsystatic.com...
	10:58pm Erik-Overt: …& as a ghost of my Xmas past present & future … omnipresent, as they say. Who’s ’they’ (small ‘t’).
	10:59pm northguineahills: ↳ wendy del formaggio @10:52 Eve³, original sin boogaloo!
	🥁 11:00pm Zip7: ↳ still b/p @10:58 Yes, someone who still mourns the passing of Señor Wences
	11:01pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Zip7 @11:00 Hi Zip!
	11:01pm wendy del formaggio: Wow. That Sisterhood track was some creepy shit. I’m not complaining.
	11:03pm still b/p: We can only hope there was a ventriloquist attending the Wences funeral or burial, who kept throwing a nice "Open the box" into/out of the box.
	🥁 11:03pm Zip7: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:01 Hi there Rich! I've rejoined the Army of the Unemployed so can hang out again, slouchng and smoking cigarettes
	11:05pm tom tom the pipers son: has anybody heard rodd keith's experimental music?
	11:06pm northguineahills: ↳ wendy del formaggio @11:01 it would be not right if it wasn't so wrong!
	11:06pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "Santa Fix My Toys for Christmas" by "Rodd & Judy" this isn't really that bad, it's a bit cheesy but it's not terrible
	11:06pm Rich in Washington: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:05 No! I've heard he did do some trippy non-Song Poem music but haven't looked.
	11:07pm tom tom the pipers son: rodd keith's son... ellery eskelin
	11:07pm northguineahills: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @11:07 waaat!??? i would never have made the connection!
	11:08pm Bobby: ↳ pot8o @11:06 I’m getting tired and heard fist my toys. I should tap out now
	11:08pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:06 it was put out on tzadik on cd, rambling nonsense but kind of interesting, played it for some people and they begged me to take it off.
	11:09pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Bobby @11:08 HA!
	11:09pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ northguineahills @11:07 true
	11:10pm still b/p: Looking briefly at MSR Records info. Surely want to hear The Ranger Had Too Much To Drink sometime.
	🥁 11:11pm Zip7: I don't know if there are any pencil men left, but there are still many, many pencil necks.
	11:12pm ultradamno: It takes awhile to get to the comps on his discogs but www.discogs.com... www.discogs.com...
	11:12pm tom tom the pipers son: looking at the image of the girl on album makes me remember how difficult and painful adolescence was
	11:13pm Otis Fodder: They told me to go right, but I said no... path of the left hand please and I arrived here! Hi Rich!!
	11:14pm ultradamno: The toy carriage matches the 'tree'
	11:15pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Otis Fodder @11:13 OTIS! Howdy old pal!
	11:15pm tom tom the pipers son: ↳ ultradamno @11:12 yes ecstacy to frenzy is as advertised
	🥁 11:15pm Aitch: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:09 Guest that was looking concerned before now seems to be in open rebellion
	11:17pm wendy del formaggio: OTIS FODDER! Hello there, ol’ pal o’ mine!
	11:17pm Otis Fodder: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:15 Arrived at just the perfect time for songs treated as poems, timeless holiday classics. Pouring drinks for Aitch and Wendy and fellow friends.
	🥁 11:18pm Aitch: ↳ Otis Fodder @11:13 Hell-Otis
	11:18pm wendy del formaggio: That Peppermint Stick song was kinda nsfw.
	11:18pm ironybread: Hiya Otis!
	11:19pm still b/p: ↳ Aitch @11:15 Here in US, insurrection is de rigueur.
	🥁 11:19pm Aitch: ↳ Aitch @11:15 Houseguest introduced me to the ex all those years ago, he deserves this
	11:19pm wendy del formaggio: Otis, make mine a vodka gimlet, please! And if you have any little paper umbrellas and plastic monkeys, I love those in my grown-up drinks.
	11:19pm Otis Fodder: Merry Merry Ironybread, long time, nice to read ya!
	11:20pm Otis Fodder: ↳ wendy del formaggio @11:19 I do have little paper umbrellas here, next to random stir sticks all found in church basements.
	🥁 11:20pm Aitch: ↳ Otis Fodder @11:19 Some shows from both yourself and Ironybread would be a pleasant surprise
	11:21pm still b/p: ↳ Otis Fodder @11:20 Random Stir Sticks...hm, Schulkind was...I think...
	🥁 11:21pm Aitch: ↳ still b/p @11:21 swizzle-sticks
	11:23pm pot8o: ↳ Song: "Daddy, Please Tell Me" by "The Sisterhood" kid sounds way too old to still believe in Santa
	11:23pm wendy del formaggio: Otis, that’s the best source for random everything.
	11:23pm ironybread: "The truth is, son...Santa is a virus."
	11:23pm Otis Fodder: ↳ Song: "Daddy, Please Tell Me" by "The Sisterhood" While this is painful, it is in a wonderful way and I'd listen to this on repeat rather than the having a wonderful xmas time song any day.
	11:24pm ultradamno: I'll just take vodka neat. I would go with egg nog to be seasonal, but I saw that Sabrina Carpenter girl on that I ♥ Radio thing on TV last night sing something about sipping it that made me uncomfortable
	11:24pm wendy del formaggio: This kid is a fuckin’ sap.
	11:25pm Otis Fodder: ↳ ultradamno @11:24 I'll just take the baileys and coffee here first, but I would not refuse a spiked egg nog at a family event.
	11:25pm Otis Fodder: ↳ wendy del formaggio @11:24 Ha!
	🥁 11:25pm Zip7: Dabbing at tears here
	11:25pm still b/p: ↳ Song: "Daddy, Please Tell Me" by "The Sisterhood" At age 5, I would've rolled eyes at something like this.
	🥁 11:26pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Santa Claus Goes Modern" by "Bobby Boyle With The... Santa's on the gear
	11:28pm ultradamno: 6'4" is freakishly tall for an elf...
	11:28pm northguineahills: ↳ ultradamno @11:24 you're doing it correcr!
	11:29pm northguineahills: ↳ Song: "Happy Birthday Jesus" by "Little Cindy" i swear ken has played this before!
	11:29pm Otis Fodder: ↳ Song: "Happy Birthday Jesus" by "Little Cindy" Oh, more fx please
	11:29pm Rich in Washington: ↳ northguineahills @11:29 possibly
	🥁 11:29pm Zip7: ↳ Song: "Happy Birthday Jesus" by "Little Cindy" "Those awful, naughty men!"
	11:29pm wendy del formaggio: Is Little Cindy actually Tammy Fae?
	11:30pm wendy del formaggio: Oh shit. Little Marcy. She cursed my turntable on my first GTDR show.
	🥁 11:31pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S" by "Little Marcy" you're a bad man Rich
	11:31pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Otis Fodder @11:29 Dang! I got Marcy on the TT without FX now!
	11:32pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Rich in Washington @11:31 there's always a feedback loop
	11:32pm wendy del formaggio: I forgive Little Marcy though, because this song fuckin’ rocks.
	11:32pm northguineahills: there's a nightmare before xmas tie-in to this set, right, rich? as this is terrifying (a little close to home).
	11:32pm Otis Fodder: Bless you Rich for the holiday fx
	11:33pm doctorjazz: Hi all!
	11:34pm still b/p: You know how sometimes big speakers are brought in to play something repetitively at loud volume to make a holed-up subject unsettled and more willing to surrender? Such as Noriega or Koresh and company? These'd be the heavy artillery right here.
	11:34pm ultradamno: If you read the character descriptions on this page, you'll find it's shockingly easy to determine which of the core three Trump children are Lock, Shock & Barrel disney.fandom.com...
	11:48pm tom tom the pipers son: @ rich: could not imagine a better christmas show, this one spoke to me... seizures grittings
	11:49pm still b/p: Enjoying the Scattergun Christmas Sounds.
	11:50pm coelacanth∅: GOD damn it. looks like a playlist custom-made for me, and i missed it.
	11:54pm Rich in Washington: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:50 Hi coel!
	11:55pm doctorjazz: Thanks Rich! Happy Happy All!
	11:55pm Rich in Washington: Thanks tom tom!
	11:55pm still b/p: ↳ coelacanth∅ @11:50 Santa gon' bring you a pea-soup green Porsche?
	11:55pm ironybread: YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS #ButItsJustTheRain
	11:55pm tom tom the pipers son: called off christmas in bethlehem, the nativity has child surrounded by rubble
	11:55pm pot8o: thanks rich! happy holidays everyone!
	11:55pm Rich in Washington: Thanks everybody!
	11:55pm ultradamno: Happy Holidays, all! And remember, if Carla Gugino shows up to your rave...LEAVE!
	11:56pm tom tom the pipers son: yay sparks christmas
	🥁 11:56pm Aitch: ↳ Song: "Thank God It's Not Christmas" by "Sparks" Saved by Sparks!. Cheers Rich and all, merry happy.
	11:56pm still b/p: Thanks, Rich, for merry and moving holiday outing.
	11:56pm Otis Fodder: Merry Santamas Rich & All ! As a wise singer once said, don't eat the yellow snow!
	🥁 11:57pm Zip7: Thanx Rich!
	11:57pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Otis Fodder @11:56 Thanks Otis! Hope you have a splendid holiday! Nice to see you, if only as typography!
	11:57pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Zip7 @11:57 Thanks, Zip!
	11:58pm coelacanth∅: ↳ still b/p @11:55 probably more likely a picture of a porsche that he peed upon hi Rich!
	11:59pm ironybread: Have a merry happy, everyone, and thanks Rich for another swell joint.

The Radio Is Broken with Rich In Washington: Playlist from December 22, 2023

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