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Favoriting May 3, 2025

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images New Approx. start time
Clinic  Distortions   Favoriting Internal Wrangler  Domino  2000  Hello and welcome! 
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Curve  Horror Head   Favoriting Doppelganger  Anxious Records  1992  heyyyy heyyyyy 
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Wayne Shorter  Ponta De Areia   Favoriting Native Dancer  Sony  1975  go off, wayne ! It's 3am and I'm ready to boogie 
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Cash Cobain 

rump punch (instrumental)   Favoriting

PLAY CASH COBAIN (instrumental) 

Giant 

2024 

time to yap 

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Cindy Lee  Kingdom Come   Favoriting Diamond Jubilee  Superior Viaduct  2024  Album of the year for last year? 
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Flaming Lips  Riding to Work In The Year 2025   Favoriting Race for the Prize (Deluxe EP)  Warner  1999  Zaireeka! 
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Deep Heat  Do It Again   Favoriting Eccentric Soul: Omnibus  numero group  2012  some dan. 
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Scratch Acid  Owner's Lament   Favoriting s/t EP  Touch And Go Records  1984  ok im trying to wake myself up. 3am is just 5pm but earlier in the day. a good jumping around studio A should help me feel that way. 
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Chris Gantry  Flashlight   Favoriting Motor Mouth  Sony Music  1970  wow these drums!!!!!!!! 
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Rick Deitrick 

Abedonia   Favoriting

River Sun River Moon 

Tompkins Square 

2017 

blah blah blah 

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Winter  Wish I Knew   Favoriting What Kind of Blue Are You?  Bar None  2022  perfect dream poppyness. Delish 
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Greg Mendez  Maria   Favoriting Greg Mendez  Dead Oceans  2023  Greg! you did so good with this song. very proud 
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Happy End  Ashita Atari wa Kitto Hare   Favoriting HAPPY END  King Record Co.  1973  Hosono is always going off 
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Archie Shepp & Romulus Franceschini  Quiet Dawn   Favoriting Attica Blues  Verve  1972  these vocals were made for WFMU. 
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The Boys Next Door  Shivers   Favoriting Door, Door  Mushroom  1979  down my SPIYAYAYAYANE YAYAYAYAYAYANE 
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Music behind DJ:
Miles Davis Quintet 

Circles   Favoriting

Miles Smiles 

Sony 

1967 

yapping away 

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Debris Bardot  Demonstration/Demonetization   Favoriting What Does Demo Stand For - Single  Dis chord  2025  great new single from a great NYC band! 
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Lily Seabird  Sweepstake   Favoriting Trash Mountain  Lame-O  2025  New album is incredible. Thank you lily, and godbless 
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The Sundays  Can't Be Sure   Favoriting Cry - EP  Geffen  1997  le demo! 
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The Concretes  You Can't Hurry Love   Favoriting The Concretes  Licking Fingers  2003  thank you sweden 
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Graham Nash  I Used to Be a King   Favoriting songs for beginners  Atlantic  1971  Thank you Matt Warwick for putting me on, oh so many years ago! 
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Bill Callahan  Sycamore   Favoriting Woke on a Whaleheart  Drag City  2007  best songs named after trees? anyone got some ideas? 
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Good Morning  Oppsie   Favoriting Single  self-released  2016  Thank you, australia ! 
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fIREHOSE  Sometimes   Favoriting if'n  SST  1987  Husker Du on le cover! 
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Yuck  Get Away   Favoriting Yuck  Fat Possum Records  2011  top 5 band name 
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Boy Factory  Collages   Favoriting Closer To/Collages  Angel Landing  2024  also a good band name... 
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800 Cherries  honeydew blue   Favoriting romantico  March Records  1998  the album cover makes me think of spongebob. in a good way 
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Built To Spill  Fling   Favoriting There's Nothing Wrong with Love  Sub Pop  1994  Thinking about it, built to spill is also an awesome band name. and here I am, thinking that making a good band name is an impossible task. This set says otherwise... 
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My Morning Jacket  Sweetheart   Favoriting Chocolate and Ice EP  Badman Recording Co.  2002  God awful album cover, but the music is great. 
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Beck  Teenage Wastebasket   Favoriting One Foot In the Grave  Iliad Records  1994  Big thank you to Isaiah Fraley for showing me this one! 
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Ivy  Baker   Favoriting Apartment Life  Bar None  1997  Oh, to be a baker. To have a fresh loaf of bread this morning. 
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Evinha  Olha Eu Aqui Oh! Oh! Oh!   Favoriting Eva  EMI Record Ltd  1974  Oh I'm dancing my heart out here in Jersey City. 
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Florry  Hey Baby   Favoriting Sounds Like...  Dear Life  2025  Highly anticipated album this year. Florry is one special freakin band! 
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ya ya ya 

 

 

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Pavement  Greenlander   Favoriting Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe  Matador  1992  Has anyone seen the new movie yet? 
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Addie Alaimo  Shatto 39   Favoriting A For Album  self-released  2025  arguably the best song about bowling 
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Forth Wanderers  Tough Love   Favoriting Tough Love  self-released  2016  Many thanks to the greatest state there is, New Jersey. The devils might not have made it out the playoffs, but they've won the championship that is my heart. 
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One Plus Two  Promise   Favoriting Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987 (V/A)  Numero  2020  you can taste the rickenbackers 
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S.C.A.B.  Patterns   Favoriting Beauty and Balance  Spirit Goth Records  2019  I believe SCAB is the acronym for their names... shoutout Sean Cory Alec and Brandon 
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Should  Spangle   Favoriting Feed Like Fishes  Numero  1998  Sometimes the formula for indie rock band names is opening to a random page in the dictionary—Frog. Pavement. Should. 
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Island of Love  Hideaway   Favoriting Promo Tape  Smoking Room  2020  another hit from one of my favorite labels ! 
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Oldstar  Chrome Drumset   Favoriting Of the Highway  self-released  2025  im a rock and roller, late for my show! 
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Hayden  Dynamite Walls   Favoriting Skyscraper National Park  Hardwood  2001  shoutout my dad for sending this to me. Jon Gertner! 
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Dutch Interior  The Man Can Dance   Favoriting Blinded By Fame  American Death  2023  I hope this song is about me. 
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The Byrds  My Back Pages   Favoriting Younger Than Yesterday  Columbia  1967  absolute classic. have a lovely saturday ! 
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Damien Jurado  Hello, I'm Leaving   Favoriting Passing the Giraffes  Maraqopa  2023  Letting the noise go until they kick me out. I'd like to see them try. 
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Listener comments!

  3:02am
bengertner:

hello and welcome !
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Rob Gee - Hanoi:

great start of the set!
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Spikey BXL:

Good morning Ben, lamenters
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Destroit:

Zaireeka!
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Hubig Pie:

Nice sounds. Missed the Curve. Bought the CD when it was released and played the hell outta it. I think it's currently residing somewhere in an unexplored part of the house.
  3:52am
cbunny:

what the hoo ha?
Quiet Dawn is new to me and so fresh!
  3:54am
cbunny:

it’s only 1 am here, a longer way to dawn than you are!
  3:55am
cbunny:

rsh 4ever
  3:56am
cbunny:

i’ve been experimenting a lot lately with the mxr blue box
  3:57am
cbunny:

and mxr distortion
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radioronan:

↳ Song: "Shivers" by "The Boys Next Door"
Oh, lovely to hear this in the middle morn-night..Thanks!
  4:15am
cbunny:

really good selections. love that Concretes song, new to me, and this Graham Nash is a welcome reminder.
Thanks!
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tom tom the pipers son:

good morning all...
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fred:

Hello Ben and all
  4:27am
cbunny:

yep. bill callahan does good things. his last couple tours included jerry decicca. Jerry’s new record is a really good one..
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fred:

There's also Sycamore Trees by Jimmy Scott from Twin Peaks (though I don't know how it would go without the context)
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Spikey BXL:

↳ Song: "Sometimes" by "fIREHOSE"
⭐️⭐️⭐️
  4:32am
cbunny:

Hi Gert! This is the first time I’ve heard your show.
I like it !
noticing and appreciating your inclinations toward warped twisted distorted guitar parts.
  4:33am
bengertner:

↳ cbunny @4:32
Glad you like! Those are the best guitar parts, I must say.
  4:45am
cbunny:

there’s nothing wrong with love
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Spikey BXL:

Digging the selection too. Slow lazy morning on the couch with coffee and cats
  4:53am
cbunny:

i’m obsessed with LA, and i love it here!
one of my favorite times last year was sitting next to Bibbe Hansen before and after her reading at a little wine bar, reading bits of her story.
I’ve never met Beck.
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Bonnie Prince Jamie:

Hey Gert, first time catching one of your shows and it’s been stellar. Honestly you had me at Clinic, local-ish heroes here in Cheshire UK. Great selections so far my friend.
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fred:

↳ Bonnie Prince Jamie @5:01
I love Clinic! I haven't seen them in a long time, but their shows were great. And well ahead of the curves wearing surgical masks (with exceptions, hard to play a melodica through those things)
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Mr. Pumpy:

↳ Song: "Sycamore" by "Bill Callahan"
Late to the party on the accu...Marriage Tree - Throwing Muses
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Mr. Pumpy:

I love the taste of Rickenbacker in the morning!
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fred:

↳ Mr. Pumpy @5:17
Frank O'Toole had Under the Bamboo Tree in his opening sequence
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Strandlund:

Morning Ben and all those tuned in...
  5:48am
cbunny:

quite clear no doubt somehow
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radioronan:

Great show..Thanks for the fill-in, Ben!
  5:53am
bengertner:

thanks for listening, everyone! Until next time...
  5:54am
cbunny:

thank you Ben for a good time.
i’ve been feeling better and better while listening.
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