Hey Ken! Hey commentators! Superb mate, cor blimey love a duck.
9:24am
Neg-guh-tor:
Vicki's song is a masterpiece, isn't it? I can't get tired of it.
9:24am
Mary P.:
The street action is
supercrazyfrigballistic-
extrahoolidoucheous!
9:25am
Sam:
No reason to go on Facebook, it's going to be destroyed on Nov 5th
http://news.yahoo.com/hacker-group-anonymous-aims-destroy-facebook-nov-5-042925054.html
9:25am
Vicki:
download On The Rooftops of London here
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/People_Like_Us/On_the_Rooftops_of_London/
9:26am
ricardo montalban:
Loving the riot in my earholes right now!
Keep up the plundering, WFMUerites!
9:26am
Listen Fantod:
This song is making me want to riot.
9:26am
ricardo montalban:
Thanks, Vicki! That's a wonderful track!
9:27am
postmanpaul:
That would be....extrahoodyoucheous, Mary P ?!
9:27am
Robert:
Got anything to go with the Wisconsin disturbances, including the race riot they had in Milwaukee last week?
9:28am
annie:
wow.... pretty ballsy.. all this.. i love it in a very guilty kind of way
9:29am
M I S T E R G A R C I A:
loving the track Vicki!
(in Shoreditch)
9:30am
ricardo montalban:
Seems like The Crucifux had a track called Wisconsin...
9:30am
Sam:
I predict we will hear "Anarchy in the UK" before this show is over.
9:31am
Shane:
Great selections,
that happy children one put a smile on my face
Shane
Limerick Ireland
9:34am
iPhopho:
Sam, and I predict we won't hear nowhere here "I Predict a Riot" by the Kaiser Chiefs.
9:36am
postmanpaul:
Hey Vicki! Cor blimey girl, that that's a bit Robin Hood :)
9:38am
listener mark:
Buildings that survived the blitz have been destroyed, so sad.
9:39am
Bad Ronald:
How about Devo - "Beautiful World"?
9:42am
M I S T E R G A R C I A:
yes the 'lavender hill mop' as they were called by the news
9:43am
Robert:
Wireless coordination is alleged to have been used in Milwaukee and other American cities too.
9:44am
Bert the Chimney Sweep:
And quick as you can say "Bob's your uncle," the most unusual things begin to happen.
9:45am
Listener Mike D.:
Vicki's track is the PERFECT soundtrack for the riot footage. Sublime!
9:46am
iPhopho:
Where's Vicky based? I hear about 10% of the show. Someone rioted my internet connection. ¬¬'
9:47am
Irene:
Plague is usually caused by the bite of infected fleas...although it can go pneumonic.
9:48am
Nathan:
Ken, here's the photoshop thingy mcjigger...
http://photoshoplooter.tumblr.com/
9:48am
moose:
what'd she say, clapham?
9:49am
moose:
i wrote that right before they said , oy
9:50am
iPhopho:
moose, I heard she said something about being 30 minutes away from Clapham Junction. Brixton perhaps?
9:51am
Do or GPS:
half -mile from Clapham Junction.
9:52am
Neg-guh-tor:
Erect a bouncy castle! HA!
9:53am
postmanpaul:
Toffs pronounce that: "Cla'm."
9:53am
iPhopho:
Do or GPS, ok! :) Riots are spreading like a virus. I wonder if they can spread to other western countries (arab spring anyone?).
9:54am
fred von helsing:
inhaling bouncy castle fumes gives ya the pneumatic plague
9:54am
Mark:
well that was quick
9:54am
listener mark:
The 12-gauge auto-loader, the .45 long slide, with laser sighting, phased plasma rifle in the 40-kilo-watt range, the Uzi nine millimeter.
Weapons that Ken will need to face the rioters.
9:55am
Neg-guh-tor:
Gonna play a show with Irene next week! See you there Irene! Ken, Irene's band Nine Fingered Thug is really good.
9:55am
fred von helsing:
@iphoho not likely, in the 'burbs how can ya get a critical mass of mob
9:56am
Nathan:
I've always wanted a 12-gauge auto-loader with a chainsaw bayonet for working close in!
9:58am
iPhopho:
Talking about riots, I read like two weeks ago that Rodney King was arrested for DUI.
9:58am
postmanpaul:
@fred von helsing, burning down their shops....?
9:58am
Brian in UK:
More than 12 people constiutes a riot. The Prime Minister is loathe to call it that because the Police could be culpable for damage compensation.
9:59am
other david:
Hey tuned in late, glad Vicki is ok :)
Visions of Ken and Nardwuar defending the station, "Ba-boom...motherf'er"
10:00am
anon:
Murdoch + the Police + Prime Minister ALL are psyched that this is happening and all are benefiting. Could they have made it happen??
10:01am
Nathan Detroit:
good thing you id'd that photo ken
10:01am
Irene:
hey thanks Neg-guh-tor!
10:03am
Brian in UK:
The Trumpton Riots by Half Man, Half Biscuit would be a humorous antidote to this downwardspiralling.
10:03am
Neg-guh-tor:
Your welcome, Irene. It's Nick, the drummer from Rocket Cottage. Always listening to, Ken!
10:04am
fred von helsing:
Mojo sez: Burn down the malls!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAoh_yteKkc
10:05am
iPhopho:
By the way, I'm selling a brand new laptop, a new pair of trainers, and a used bat for £20. Anyone interested?
10:07am
iPhopho:
I'm based in Croydon. I can do international deliveries.
10:08am
hamburger:
I've got a freakin' boxes full of fish food too.. £15 or nearest offer..
10:08am
Vivian:
Is...is...is Sinead pregnant in that picture?
10:10am
clairedelune49:
Comment I just received about Andy Breckman (and Jeff Lewis) on Youtube :
"The Radio guy was a douche, and Semi retarded. Jeff worked for the Census,but at least he wasn't a fat slob of a radio commentator......."
10:10am
hamburger:
the box had a picture of an Panasonic HDTV on it, but lo-and-behold I was scammed.. and I also have no fish
10:11am
Vicki:
"Panic" by The Smiths
10:11am
fred von helsing:
GOING TO ALASKA ! FRÄK YEAH !
10:11am
R I S K Y!:
ALASKA!!!! YEAAAAH KEN!
10:12am
Mark:
either Sinead is pregnant or she's got quite a beer belly
10:12am
fred von helsing:
it's the > Voluptuous Horror < of Karen Black
10:13am
holland oats:
ha - my wife and i watched 'five easy pieces' just the other night!
10:16am
Brian in UK:
Cisco Pike???
10:16am
fred von helsing:
Whoa! Brownie point!
10:18am
monica:
Corn Weenie (CW Cyruss Mix) please!
10:19am
Neg-guh-tor:
Dead Kenedys 'Riot'
10:20am
jeremy:
mojo nixon - elvis is everywhere
10:21am
Stevel:
Borstal Breakout/Sham 69, or perhaps, He'd Send in the Army/Gang of Four.
Me? I'm going to go to the mountains and live in a cave.
10:21am
Brendan:
I have a request!! Can we see that pic of you getting yr Eagles tattoo?? Sorry to ask Ken, but for some reason It makes me insanely happy. Thank you very much!
10:21am
yayson:
welcome back ken.
10:21am
iPhopho:
Can't hear the show! Wo-hooooo! \o/
I'm happy, I'm happy
And I'll punch the man who messed my internet connection
I'm happy, I'm happy...
PUNCH!
10:22am
βrian:
A sad day in Wisconsin. We just can't seem to get it right.
10:22am
Brian in UK:
Lyme disease is bacterial, surely, Shirley. You get it going fishing.
10:22am
Brendan:
The Fall 'City Hobgoblins'
10:22am
fred von helsing:
got a song full of Earth-shattering kabooms ?
10:23am
Vicki:
PANIC by THE SMITHS
10:23am
Cobra Dan:
THE COUP: 5 million ways to kill the ceo
10:23am
bruceleh:
Root Boy Slim!
10:23am
Lou:
there's a riot goin on? sly stone
10:23am
giselle:
borstal breakout?
10:23am
Mark:
"Never Been in a Riot" The Mekons
10:23am
Soap Distant:
Smash and Grab Raid by Peter and the test Tube Babies!
10:23am
hamburger:
The Fall - Reuters
10:23am
ricardo montalban:
yeah, Borstal Breakout
10:24am
david:
play some Botanist! I heard it on Thunk Tank last night and want more! I know it's in the studio. Hammered Dulcimer Black Metal!
10:24am
Vivian:
I have to second Vicki's suggestion-PANIC by the Smiths!!
10:24am
Sam:
Anarchy in the UK
10:24am
Soap Distant:
Run Like hell also by them
10:24am
fred von helsing:
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen - Riot in Cell Block #9 -
10:24am
βrian:
And to make things worse, we've got ehrlichiosis.
10:24am
lewis:
hendrix - God save the queen?
10:25am
Brian in UK:
Sham were from SW London. I think they never broke in. So they could never break out.
10:25am
popo:
tricky's black steel
10:25am
Nathan:
The Ruts - S.U.S (Regarding the stop and search laws that lead to the Brixton riots in 1981) Is a good one...
10:25am
Derek:
The Terrorways "Never Been to Borstal" please
10:26am
Noah:
I LOVE The Dead Kennedys! Ken, now I'm sad in the heart...
10:26am
ricardo montalban:
while i normally abhor song requests with the subject word in the song or title that have no apparent bearing on the subject at hand, I appeal to you to consider Wire's Up To the Sun, with the lyric "A riot of red" if only because it's a lovely song and would play well with looting, rioting footage, in an absurd, juxtaposition sense.
10:26am
Cobra Dan:
KILLDOZER: Nasty
10:26am
Vicki:
Billy Nicholls - London Social Degree
Caetano Veloso - London London
Donovan - Sunny South Kensington
10:27am
Vivian:
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
10:27am
Soap Distant:
Yes!
10:27am
Swami:
White Riot.
10:27am
Mrs Mom:
Now, you must enunciate, young man.
10:27am
Tom:
49 Americans - Involved in Local Chaos
10:27am
postmanpaul:
If possible Ken, play London Pride by Noel Coward with any of the above, simultaneously.
10:27am
Noah:
ELO?
10:27am
Brendan:
Mekons ' Snow'
10:28am
ricardo montalban:
Wasn't there a UK band from the 70s called Move that had riot themed songs?
10:29am
Brian in UK:
For those who want to get away from it all.
Erika Eigen's I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper
10:29am
Mark:
"Powder Keg" The Fall
10:29am
Mrs Mom:
Silly hobgoblins, indeed.
10:29am
ricardo montalban:
Did you play Urban Guerrilla by Hawkwind?
10:30am
Vicki:
The Jam "Down in the tube station at midnight"
The Jam "Going Underground"
10:30am
lewis:
ub40 - Tyler
10:30am
fred von helsing:
Riot Grrrl pleezz! L7! The Masses Are Asses. Runnin' from the Law. This Ain't the Summer of Love.
10:30am
ricardo montalban:
So let's not talk of love and flowers
And things that don't explode
We've used up all of our magic powers
Trying to do it in the road
10:31am
Vicki:
ok I give up working today, ha ha
10:31am
Vicki:
The Jam "In The City"
10:32am
ricardo montalban:
I want to hear more of Ken's hatred of the Dead Kennedys.
10:32am
Michele:
Great show Ken!
10:32am
Soap Distant:
Frances Farner Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle is also very underplayed and mentions burning
10:32am
Neg-guh-tor:
I don't love Dead Kenedys, either, but Riot is a good dong!
10:32am
Brendan:
Linton Kwesi johnson ' Dread, Beat, & Blood'
10:32am
Cobra Dan:
Hang the dj for playing the Smiths
10:33am
ricardo montalban:
I can't leave for work. Wish I could listen in my car and comment incessently without wrecking
10:33am
Swami:
Any MC5
10:33am
Hugo:
Linton Kwesi Johnson - It dread inna Inglan
10:34am
Vicki:
The Damned "Smash It Up"
10:34am
Vivian:
Thank you for playing the Smiths, Ken!
10:34am
fred von helsing:
somewhere out there there MUST be a parody of (What's so funny 'bout) peace love and understanding
10:34am
Swami:
Butthole Surfers "Revolution"
10:34am
Jack:
The Tom Robinson Bands first album "Power in the Darkness"
pick any one song
10:36am
other david:
UK Decay - For My Country
If you so please Ken
10:36am
Brendan:
Spacemen 3 'Revolution'
10:36am
Listener John from NJ who lives in NJ:
How about those mekons, with their song "Never Been in a Riot?" (By the way, this Hawkwind is great, in my opinion.)
10:37am
Vicki:
Arthur Brown "Fire"
10:39am
Hugo:
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Inglan is a Bitch
10:39am
Neg-guh-tor:
crass 'big a little a'
10:39am
Listener John from NJ who lives in NJ:
I second the opinion of the people who requested Linton Kwesi Johnson.
10:41am
Mark:
big a little a has naughty words
10:43am
SiHV:
The Bug - "Angry"
10:43am
moose:
we love the city by hefner?
10:43am
Neg-guh-tor:
I think it would fly. He doesn't say fuck. Says bollocks and asses.
10:44am
why not:
Play Panic in Detroit...and maybe Detroit could get some fresh shit going and establish a civil-unrest-sister-city relationship with London.
10:45am
Cobra Dan:
Hulk Hogan Talks London Riots on BBC Radio: “I’ll Body Slam the Youth”
10:45am
holland oats:
xtc - towers of london
10:46am
Mark:
Remember:
The shit we have to climb through is the shit we choose to take
If you don't like the life you live, change it now it's yours
10:46am
other david:
Superb choice on The Buddy Scott Trio :D
10:46am
Vicki:
wow this song by Buddy Scott is great
10:47am
Hugo:
Crass - Stations of the Crass - any track will do ...
10:47am
fred von helsing:
maybe there's songs about the Watts riots ?
10:47am
jan:
dunno whether to hope the riots are soon over in GB or to hope that riots
start in Japan and Germany, cause Ken is stressing British music
a bit too much on today's show.
10:48am
Bob Mitchum:
Meat...it's what's for dinner:
http://tinyurl.com/3tpyp5l
10:49am
holland oats:
NILSSON!!!
10:49am
postmanpaul:
Make mine a Londoner kabab.
10:50am
Irene:
Love Nilsson! How about Eno's "Baby's On Fire?"
10:50am
kwhitehead:
People. Step back and let Ken roll. He's got this.
10:51am
bbell:
I LOVE NILSSON! My husband was about to leave the house, but is listening to this song instead.
10:51am
M I S T E R G A R C I A:
police and thieves - junior murvin
10:51am
SG:
This Buddy Scott song, the tune is not originally his is it?
10:52am
holland oats:
@kwhitehead he axed for requests
10:52am
Detroit Mac:
Late plugging in. Gotta say there isn't enough people or stuff work destroying in Detroit any more. (the city is tearing down my old high school right now.)
10:54am
kwhitehead:
Sorry...the "too much British music" jab got me riled.
Carry on.
10:54am
Soap Distant:
Bottom of The Chain by Alice Donut has a "waiting for the city to burn" line
10:54am
Vicki:
me too
10:55am
Soap Distant:
I second police and thieves, Rockers!
10:55am
M I S T E R G A R C I A:
@kwhitehead - this show is always interactive. ken will always play what he wants and stick in others off here. wot is so wrong wiv that mate? you've sort of dulled the tone now
10:57am
Rodney King:
Can't we all just get along?
10:57am
Soap Distant:
Sister Irene O Connor - Fire from the free music archive/ beware of the blog
10:58am
Hugo:
Lee Perry - City too hot
10:59am
Vicki:
Burn Baby Burn
Disco Inferno
10:59am
Soap Distant:
Fireball XL5 by the Lost T-Shirts of Atlantis
10:59am
postmanpaul:
Well, I thought 'Londoner kebab' was funny.... :")
10:59am
Michael:
A vote for "Oh, Superman", unless it's being held in readiness for 14-09.
11:00am
Lorange:
Meatmen!
11:00am
Soap Distant:
Hoarse Fire by Krumble
11:01am
Brian Epstein:
Beat the Meatles!
11:01am
fred von helsing:
Disco Inferno by The Trammps d'oh fat chance
11:01am
M I S T E R G A R C I A:
The Ruts - Babylons Burning
11:01am
Bill Griffith:
"All life is a blur of Republicans and meat."
11:02am
popo:
pork soda!
11:03am
Nomenclature:
You mean like that horrible Ken Friedman?-
11:05am
Nomenclature:
as in "fried man"
11:07am
postmanpaul:
Gotta rock off. Hot show Ken.
11:07am
Listener John from NJ who lives in NJ:
This "Tricky Wipeout" from RIAA is great. How do they do that?
11:08am
Rodney King:
it's a mystery!
11:09am
still b/p:
Speaking of naked and Nasty -- a local burlesque performer is Rosie Rimjob. When she was interviewed in the main local daily paper, kind of odd to see "Rimjob" repeated over and over with such nonchalance, when it never would've made it into print at all a while back. Now all the children are confused.
11:09am
Aaron in JCity:
Nice - Wugazi - Awesome ken!
11:10am
Dan B From Upstate:
Bronwyn played this Wugazi last night... I prolly listened to is a dozen times this morning. Love it!
11:11am
Mark:
@still b/p, if she were interviewed in The New York Times, she would be referred to as Ms Rimjob
11:11am
Nomenclature:
Greetings from Shaolin, otherwise known as the land of Jersey Shore performers.
11:12am
postmanpaul:
Hell is Round the Corner by Tricky?
11:12am
Brass Knuckles:
The melody is really good, but then i'm like is that someone rapping in the background?
11:13am
Rapper:
I'me just there for atmosphere.
11:14am
dw:
Q'est que fuck?
11:16am
Mr. Horse:
No sir. I didn't like it.
11:17am
Psycho Killer:
I need more fingering practice.
11:18am
fred von helsing:
Messer Chups live - Zombie Girl is somethin' else again !
11:20am
trs:
Come for the fingers. Stay for the ____.
11:20am
trs:
Come for the fingers. Stay for the ____.
11:26am
PMD:
I want a Ken pillow too.
11:26am
J J:
That sounded kind of like Devendra Banhart doing an impersonation of Frank Sinatra doing burlesque.
11:27am
Pillow Ken:
But now people are drooling on my face all night.
11:28am
ricardo montalban:
Been commuting.
What'd I miss..? (reads list)
11:28am
Listener Bill:
Hey where can I get a haircut like that?
11:28am
Ken:
I would really love more dream date photoshops.. just sayin. I only got two of 'em!
11:30am
david:
that one with andy and you is gonna be hard to top. maybe Kinski und Herzog?
11:31am
Ken:
Think outside the pillow, David.
11:36am
david:
where is the original image?
11:36am
Lorange:
"Though facing new questions about social exclusion, Johnson and other Conservatives dismissed that the riots were anything other than the product of poor parenting, wanting morals and misdirected anger."
11:37am
Jeffersonic/Jervix:
I love Ken, Ken's bad brain, and WAYNE BUTANE!
11:40am
Rioters:
If we thought longer term, we'd just encourage all bourgeois types to wakeboard. Maximum long-term destruction with minimum legal liability.
11:40am
Bad Ronald:
@ david
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6002/5990439872_298d4ca040_z.jpg
11:40am
Ken:
David and other photoshoppers, the original image for photoshopping is here: http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2011/08/03/dream_date_pillow_original.jpg
11:41am
JT:
what was the Fleetwood Mac / Talking Heads mashup called?
11:42am
Ken:
JT - It was called "Psycho Dreams."
11:49am
ricardo montalban:
Do you have any Blacksmoke, a Jim Cauty project? (I think). Lots of mob//moron stuff, especially USA USA. Also a song called Fuck the Fucking Fuckers, which will wipe out your dump button about halfway through..
11:49am
Pavel Chekov:
I like teewee as vell.
11:50am
-max-:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14449675
(England riots - Key points)
British rapper Plan B condemns the riots in England in an audio clip released on his website. The 27-year-old east London rapper questions the rioters motives, asking: "What's the point of getting arrested and getting put in jail for a pair of new trainers or a microwave?"
11:53am
iPhopho:
I just read about the Hackney heroine (she's an internet radio community DJ)!
Her name is Pauline Pearce and she's also a 45 year old jazz singer! :)
Check the youtube video to see how she confronted the looters!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITJcparImeQ
11:58am
su:
is this the one and only tonetta?
i am a long time follower of his.
youtube him. youll understand why.
11:58am
Ken:
Bye everybody! Thanks for all the great requests. See you tonight or next week!
11:58am
iPhopho:
Thanks, Ken and listeners! It was a great theme show! Take care! See you in the next episode :)
11:59am
Vicki:
Great show Ken :)
11:59am
J J:
Tonetta gives me the creeps and the videos are even creepier.
12:00pm
ricardo montalban:
Thanks, Ken! Wonderful show!
12:02pm
Sock Puppet 23:
The looters are doing exactly what they're supposed to do: strengthen the power structure by making the alternative look too scary.
11:31pm
oona:
Yes!
2:43am
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