The Calm Before The Storm 2012: Ken's show

Listener comments!

9:01am -max-:

Good morning, peoples!

9:02am the glwoing one:

morning!

9:02am The_GB_Kid:

Morning Ken. Morning Everyone.

9:03am fofo (-:

hola and good morning everyone!

9:04am tusk89:

you are the walrus, ken.

♥ 9:04am Ken:

Morning everybody! Friendship, coffee and go-go dancing for all my friends!

9:06am Aaron in Jcity:

morning all n ken!

9:07am tusk89:

working the piers again, ken?

9:07am -max-:

Just the thing for a Wednesday morning, though I'm going with tea today.

9:07am Mark:

from what was learned about Nixon, that coffee probably has a healthy shot of booze in it

9:09am fofo (-:

mark,
or a "bug" on it.

9:09am Detroit Mac:

Another day getting jerked around by my clients made tolerable by Ken!

9:10am Lizardner Dave:

The pic next to Tonetta is dedicated to X Ray Burns, I assume.

9:10am Upstate Doug:

Damn! missed Tonetta....but I'm ready to settle in for the Ken show with my bagel and hot lox...truly the apex of the week.

9:15am john:

that was actually A.D.O.R, produced by Pete Rock!

9:15am dc pat:

hi e'rybuddy. I guess I'm here..

9:16am Dan B From Upstate:

Sup, ya'll?

♥ 9:16am Ken:

Wow, Im all settled in and I didnt even have to resort to Zebra Trucks. I never expected THIS.

9:16am multitusker:

Kissle mah bristle, fo' shizzle.

9:17am anne:

absolutely love the walruses

9:20am yayson:

ah man i thought that this was tesla

♥ 9:21am Ken:

Does Tesla do THIS?!

♥ 9:21am Ken:

Oh man, I wish I hadn't a oughta learned about the Tesla cover...

9:22am PKNY:

@Ken - Tesla had a pretty big hit with their version of "Signs" back in the day.

9:22am yayson:

yup, it was a formative moment for young yayson to realize that there were these things called cover versions

9:22am Mark:

yes Tesla covered this and changed blocking to fucking

9:22am glenn:

thanks for the can con, ken.

9:24am Dan B From Upstate:

From what I understand it was a strange week on the comments board because of, um... last week's discussion.

9:25am dc pat:

so we're not allowed to mention...that type of food?

9:26am Dan B From Upstate:

That type of food = cats pictures.

9:29am BSI:

Bless you Ken. This was the tune that planted Big Blood in my addled brain for the first time...

9:30am dc pat:

damn, I've never been banned from FMU comments before but I'm tempted...

9:31am annie:

i really love big blood....bsi, mine too, i've been addicted since

9:32am bc pat:

tempted with the words of another.......

9:33am dc pat:

HEY!

9:33am bc pat:

what?

9:34am pc pat:

not cool.

9:34am dc pat:

there ain't enough room for 2 pats on this comments board..

9:34am fcunmys:

Gezunheit!

9:35am Pat Nixon:

what about me?

9:35am butter:

oh. i like two pats.

9:36am Nathan:

LAIBACH!

9:36am Cage:

Morning, all!

Any Noise fans here? Check this out ...Former WFMU DJ/Engineer, Dan Andreana's group, DaDa Frolic ... http://orangepunch.com/df-trailer
They have a gig at The Stone, NYC next Tuesday night.

9:36am Tupat:

Thug off.

9:36am fcunmys:

Whoopee!!! More bad schlock rock! Oy Vey! Whadda day!

9:36am ab pat:

what about me?

9:36am Pat Paulson:

Hey, Pat.

9:36am Rammstein:

[whimper, whimper, snuffle]

9:37am BSI:

Moondog & Julie Andrews? HOLY CRAP, man, slap that floppy disc on the table! Immediately!

9:37am rammsteen:

what?

9:37am x marks the post:

Hi Ken!

9:37am fcunmys:

Ken Freedman meet Bad Music in The Chamber Of Dub

9:37am dc pat:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Ken, isn't there a way to check if these people are REAL pats?

9:37am jojo:

don't take this the wrong way fearless leader:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/02/15/world/RUSSIA/RUSSIA-popup.jpg

9:37am ?:

<spit take> Moondog and Julie Andrews??

9:38am Pat:

Not sure if I'm a boy or a girl.

9:38am Pat Paulson:

Suck it up, buttercup.

9:38am Vivian:

Ken, will you be offering scotcharoos during the marathon??

9:39am Aaron in Jcity:

SCOTCHEROOS!

9:39am Vivian:

Ken! I'm still waiting on my vegan scotcharoos from the LAST marathon!!! Do I have to come over and help you?

9:39am bc pat:

how about some weederoos?

9:39am fcunmys:

Ken, Do You make Scotcharoos which real Scotch? Or NyQuil?

9:39am fofo (-:

Leave dc pat alone!

9:40am Dead Corporate Eyes:

*your results may vary*

9:40am ac pat:

pats unite!

9:41am dc pat:

enchiladas

9:41am bc pat:

to quote krusty the klown - "i kid because i love"

9:42am Dead Corporate Eyes:

is there a zz pat in the house?

9:43am dc pat:

I wonder if Ken will catch the unmentionable food reference while he is back-announcing. Or has he hired a lacky to do the deleting?

9:44am tusk89:

you are such a whistle queen!

9:44am dc pat:

bald pat. <<--Quick, what's that from??

9:46am pat sajak:

it was all a cunning plan.

9:47am dc pat:

wrong, apparently you can't google it

"history is a nightmare from which I'm trying to awake..."

9:48am BSI:

my god, it's real.

9:49am Pat Nixon:

trippy baby

9:49am moose:

well i'm ruined for 5 years

9:51am BSI:

"I think perhaps I shall become a corporate banker now... or sumthin'" -- Moondog

9:51am Cecile:

this sounds like a Monty Python musical sketch.

9:51am still b/p:

This would have to rank with her "SOB" flash scene as one of the most wonderfully unusual moments captured in her long career.

9:52am x marks the post:

proper nightmares

9:52am Cecile:

Please play something by Divine so I can clean my ears out.

9:52am dc pat:

still: oh yeah, forgot about that...hubba, hubba...

9:53am Dead Corporate Eyes:

gotta admit though, that's the best version of the alphabet I've ever heard

9:53am Cecile:

Still haven't seen that movie. Just know about it.

9:54am fofo (-:

Chim chiminey
Chim chiminey
Chim chim cher-ee!
Moondong is not impressed
As impressed can be

9:55am BDR:

Mama's w/Rammstein, the one who insists he was first in the line is the last to remember her name.

9:56am dc pat:

papusas

Cecile: it's a must see for those of us turned on by the voice of purity and innocence exposing herself...

9:56am MIchael:

I like it---then again I grew up with Martyn Green's voice, and like it, and Ms ANdrews is at least on key. As for a creator's horror, I basically don't care, Moondog's being safe from all cares now---"Watchman" is a good movie, and "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" a good _terrible_ movie, despite what Mr Moore may think---I don't pay attention to soi-disant wizards anyway.

9:56am glenn:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3yiqm_fare-thee-well-x-rated-version_music

9:58am still b/p:

SOB movie ain't so good. One of the tangents: In a Julie profile, 60 Minutes showed the infamous clip uncensored, and caught predictable trouble for it. Mike Wallace claimed to be at a loss to understand why it should be a problem.

9:58am Cecile:

this is great.

10:04am bb:

dylan in a teffilin: http://bokertov.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451bc4a69e20120a7f8d8d0970b-800wi

10:07am Helga Humpa:

weiterso

10:08am Kenzo:

Hey, last-week people: Is the playlist behaving nicer than last week's?

10:09am Ken From Hyde Park:

Playlist page better for me on Firefox today.

10:09am Cecile:

The stream is, Kenzo.

10:10am Lizardner Dave:

The playlist is actually about 3 songs ahead of what I'm hearing on the Windows stream, or am I just buffered and behind? We just got new machines at the office with Windows 7 and all kinds of weird shit keeps happening.

10:11am Antony:

Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of water-fetch!

10:11am Upstate Doug:

Havin' Fun now

10:11am Kenzo:

Yeah, it's the AccuFuture. It posts your comments before you write them.

10:12am BSI:

DCP: that's a definite challenge. Fight the good fight.

10:12am xx marks the post:

The images are caching? I like the comment option links.

10:12am fofo (-:

Hm...I saw what you did there dc pat.

10:12am Pat Nixon:

Fantastic Kenzo!

10:14am Cecile:

I think the band of the Black Watch is a pipe and drum band.

10:14am richard:

10:14am Cecile:

BLACK WATCH!!!!!!

10:15am moose:

rattlesnakes

10:15am bill:

Let's go to Jersey!

10:15am BSI:

DCP: that's a definite challenge. Fight the good fight.

10:15am giselle:

can you read the choices out again?

10:15am r i s k y:

LETS GO TO JERSEY!

10:16am Spankyflop:

Let's All Go To JERSEY!

10:16am Detroit Mac:

Jersey

10:16am bbell:

Missed the first hour due to dental work. Listening now with a numb left side of face and and tingly tongue. Seems appropriate.

10:17am Cecile:

dcp, I ended up knocking off two holidays in one last night. My husband got a coupon for a free bottle of wine with dinner at an Irish pub. So we took care of Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's. And placed 2nd in trivia.

10:17am richard:

10:18am Cecile:

now the comments are not refreshing for me.

10:18am Bz:

Oooh Ramstein!

10:18am Doug C.:

02/15/12 Dateline:NJ Re: Shlock Rock comment: The Horror, The Horror!

10:19am Skirkie:

I predict you will break the record for fundraising during a 1 minute timeslot.

10:19am Rammstein:

[eyes on floor]

10:19am Mark:

I'll vote Rammstein just so their feelings are not hurt

10:19am Cecile:

Excellent

♥ 10:19am Ken:

WTF? Comments have ceased to refresh!

10:21am Dead Corporate Eyes:

hmm, I thought it was just quiet time!

10:21am Cecile:

this is choice cheese.

10:21am Mark:

I have the same problem re comments

10:21am Ralphine:

I think they're very refreshing.

10:21am maja:

who's rule is it not to play a Rammstein twice? And who is the judge? Rammstein rules!

10:22am Detroit Mac:

I'm from Milwaukee and I ought to know..." "...It's draft brewed Blatz beer, wherever you go. Smoother and fresher, less filling that's clear...

10:22am BSI:

Let's Go To Jersey: brilliant. Must be followed by The Buskers doing "GLORIOUS BEER." It was a thrift-store find ages ago, marvelous stuff.

10:22am xx marks the post:

comments froze @ 10:11, Tonetta 777

10:24am Dan B From Upstate:

Ah! The comments keep 'refreshing' instead of sliding in! I'm not in basic mode, either.

10:24am dc pat:

now it's working

10:24am Cecile:

I think Billy Jam should play it when he goes to Old Jersey again.

10:25am Dead Corporate Eyes:

*switching to basic mode*!!!!

10:26am Nancy & Lee:

Screw Jackson -- we're goin' to Jersey!

10:27am xx marks the post:

They appear to bust after I post, I notice.

10:28am xx marks the post:

Maybe it's the third party add-ons? Is that addthis thingy really necessary?

10:29am xx marks the post:

And who the fuck is media6degrees.com ?

10:30am glenn:

bling teeth? who the fuck thinks this shit up?

10:30am xx marks the post:

vacuum sales

10:31am dc pat:

yeah glitches today, not seeing these covers of Teenage Kicks in the playlist.

10:32am tim from champaign:

Anyone ever notice that Teenage Kicks and Some Kinda Hate have the same melody?

10:32am dc pat:

oh now I am..

10:32am maja:

Nice and sweet this punkharmonicorchestra

10:34am dc pat:

I can't stand the Misfits. Does that make me a bad punk?

10:34am xx marks:

@dc pat
... creeped out?

10:35am Dead Corporate Eyes:

it's a sign of intelligence, dcp

10:36am Cecile:

dcp, did you see my comment to you about multitasking holidays?

10:37am Cecile:

I like the Misfits, but I don't love them anywhere near as much as a lot of people do.

10:38am dc pat:

oh yeah, Cecile. Good idea. Stick Cinco de Mayo too! ...are we allowed to say that?

♥ 10:40am Ken:

xx marks the post - can you email me at ken@wfmu.org - im curious about what you are seeing.

10:40am Cecile:

they do have nachos. So next year nachos at the Irish bar on February 14! LOL.

10:43am Detroit Mac:

I don't like the misfits since I was constantly kicked in the head by crowd surfers at the Warped Tour.

10:46am Cecile:

should I mention the version Cake does?

10:47am moose:

hats off to malachy the pekingese, coolest winner ever

10:48am Dan B From Upstate:

Is it a bad thing that I love Cake's cover of this song?

10:48am dale:

don't know if this is a beautiful hit, but i would lay down in the rain for melanie. probably won't ever come to that

10:48am Cecile:

moose, Pekingnese in that coat still look like hassocks to me. But he looks like he has a great personality.

10:48am Neg-guh-tor:

Thanks, Ken. That toothbrush song is now burned in my brain like a laser on a retina. Guess I'll have to find it now.

10:49am bb:

wait, there's a cover of do you want to hurt me on this collection too? when was this even recorded? i love melanie, but this...this is strange ken

10:50am Cecile:

don't f with Cheryl Lynn.

10:50am Cecile:

awesome song.

10:52am dc pat:

sorry but grocery stores have ruined this kind of music for me..

10:53am bill:

I used to hate this stuff. Now I marvel at how the musicians are actually playing instruments.

10:54am moose:

i heard blondie's atomic in the jersey city shoprite a couple of months ago and am still shaken

10:54am Cecile:

I loved this song even when I was a punk wannabee.

10:55am Dan B From Upstate:

Imagine hearing Bieber and Miley Cyrus hits in Rite-Aid 40 years from now.

10:55am Cecile:

that and anything by EWF and Heatwave and Funkadelic.

10:55am Detroit Mac:

2 B Reel?

♥ 10:57am Kenzo:

Hey, that 2/10 Tonetta photo of Alizee with the power chord guitar backing band...watch the video! There are no guitars to be heard. The backing band's function is to stand around with mute instruments and clothes on for contrast.

10:58am Cecile:

I am buying that as we speak.

10:59am dc pat:

gotta go, have fun.

11:01am fofo (-:

bye dcp!

11:02am richard:

the best version of Got to be Real is a very early rap by Brother D & The Collective called How We Gonna Make The Black Nation Rise. You can find it on a Soul Jazz (again!) comp Big Apple Rappin'

11:03am earwax:

I love Jersey?

11:04am Cecile:

I got the CDs and there is also a book (sold separately)

11:05am Skirkie:

Joke's on you Ken, I live alone. No one will be concerned about MY well being.

11:07am Larry:

Is the bed music by Can?

11:07am bill:

Disco's OK for 70s nostalgia, but I prefer Harmonia

11:10am drr:

wow, this is really cool (Jet Ear Party)

♥ 11:12am Ken:

Good guess Larry, but it was not Can, it was an offshoot of Neu called Hallogallo.

11:13am Carmichael:

Hi Kenneth and that-word-not-saying peoples.

11:13am Larry:

Ah, thanks. I had a feeling it wasn't Can!

11:18am Mark:

who isn't sick of Snow Patrol really?

11:19am Cecile:

BELLRAYS

11:19am Carmichael:

I'm sick of the Foo Fighters. AND Snow Patrol.

11:19am Glacier:

@Mark: They're really intrusive, aren't they?

11:19am ttacular:

Excellent listening.
And alll the crap, too.

♥ 11:21am Ken:

Yeah! I'm also sick of all these bands that WFMU never plays!

11:21am Nathan:

@Ken Exactly.. I don't quite understand... isn't that why we listen to WFMU?

11:23am Dan B From Upstate:

Maybe I listen to too much WFMU... Can't say I'm familiar with Snow Patrol.

11:24am G:

I'm here hiding from Snow Patrol and Foo Fighters and every other way overplayed and worn-out group/song. I accidentally glimpsed Foo Fighters at the Grammys b/c my gf wanted to see Jennifer Hudson sing Whitney Houston.

11:24am Nathan:

Actually, Pseu has played Snow Patrol more than a few times and Joe Belock (of all people) once.

11:25am G:

Nathan is on "Snow Patrol Watch" :-)

11:25am G:

Snow Patrol Patrol!

♥ 11:25am Ken:

What's everbody;s favorite Snow Patrol song? How about some Foster the People?!

11:26am 67tele:

careful, John Cook! That's a nice tie, you're certainly going to ruin it!!!

11:26am tusk89:

ken, please play that old white guy who closed the grammys.

11:27am Cecile:

I like some Foo Fighters songs. And i would go and have a drink with Dave any time. Not my favorite band, but they're a'ight.

11:27am SirTophamHatt:

Show's great today, listening & whistling while I work. GIFS of happiness. Can I request The Shirts 'Laugh and Walk Away' or somesuch?

11:27am Nathan:

Yellow Snow Patrol...

11:27am Mark:

I don't know, I was referencing what Mark E Smith was gurgling about Snow Patrol. Don't know if I would know a Snow Patrol song if I fell over it

11:28am Carmichael:

I actually enjoyed FTP's performance at the Grammys. (the Beach Boy's Wouldn't It Be Nice). Other than that, me no like.

11:28am G:

Snow P's highest charting and most overplayed tune is Chasing Cars. Wikipedia says it went triple platinum in Australia. Which of their tunes is most annoying is a more subjective metric.

11:29am bill:

OMG when I was a teenager stationed in Frankfurt my German teacher tried teaching us that song - "so oder so oder anders komm so wie es kommt so is est recht ..."

11:30am alt SP:

http://tinyurl.com/75qw3mt
Hello and welcome to Snow Patrol team! In these highlands covered with snow, near to a holiday resort, we play snowballs with people who came here to have a rest from their everyday life and office routine. And from now, youÃ¢â‚¬â„¢re one of us!

♥ 11:31am Ken:

I just played Snow Patrol and you all missed it!!!!

11:31am Nathan:

They stationed Teenagers in Frankfurt? Was this at the height of the Cold Pizza War?

11:31am ttacular:

11:31am Carmichael:

Ken, every week you seem to bring some sort of Nazi/Eastern European uniforms to the playlist. You are a fashion hound, sir.

11:34am G:

Barry needs Tums

11:35am fofo (-:

I liked the JC Satan song. New for me!

11:35am bill:

Nathan, haha, of course it was my father who was in the military, I just tagged along. Not surprisignly it was set up so that Americans never had to interact with any Germans if they didn't want to.

11:36am qiz:

What is that awesome background music?

11:36am Dan B From Upstate:

Oh, that's Snow Patrol? Um.... I kinda like that song. I look forward to being pelted.

11:37am fofo (-:

well..It didn't hurt.

11:37am G:

Old enough to know better

11:38am Nick the Bard:

Cub Scouts are usually 6 - 9, Boy Scouts 10 - 17, ugh, worst years of my life...

11:38am G:

The bed music is Barry White, seemingly a 45 played at 33.

11:39am G:

Show me the melody for this.

11:40am Nathan:

@Bill I'm a military brat myself... though we managed to stay in one place during my pop's 20 year service. That's kind've messed up though.. would think that would be the advantage of serving in a foreign country would be exposure to local culture/education. But I suppose most military bases are set up to provide literally everything a family would need.

11:40am F:

Hey Ken,
Did you win Valentine's Day in the end?

11:43am bill:

Nathan, how can you be a military brat and not have moved every 3 years?

11:44am fofo (-:

I don't know what is more awesome in the Leonard Cohen image. The kid holding the rocket like if it was a bazooka, or the 3-D paiting in the background.

11:47am Nathan:

@Bill He spent 16 years in the Recruitment division at El Toro after his 4 years of active. Not sure really.

♥ 11:47am Ken:

F, i DID win Valentine's Day! I kicked everybody's BUTT at it. I RULE!~!!!!

11:51am Mark:

that's the Valentine's Day spirit!

11:51am jt:

Love this fuzz bass Curtis has got going.

11:51am G:

Curtis Mayfield, the darker-lyriced Marvin Gaye.

11:52am fofo (-:

Look at that old record store in the Todd Rundgren image!! I thought people were telephone operators. I wonder what record shop was that.

11:53am Dan B From Upstate:

Three hours flew by this morning.

11:54am andymorphic:

please...curtis mayfield destroys marvin gaye

11:55am G:

Marvin Gaye has just been Snow Patrolled.

11:56am Carmichael:

Now we're talkin'.

11:58am Nathan:

Thanks Ken!

11:59am bill:

Thanks for the tunes and GIFS ken!

11:59am fofo (-:

thanks again mr DJ!