WFMU: Martha: Playlist from May 21, 2013

Listener comments!
	3:12pm DCE: welcome back, Martha!
	3:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Just saw Mel Brooks on 'American Masters' PBS - & I picture the Chops' singer as him...
	3:16pm Martha: Thanks all - though I continue to be amazed at how fast my basic skill set erodes...
	3:17pm fred: Martha! It's great to hear you live: I like not knowing what's next. Any chance of having you back with the next schedule?
	3:17pm tim from champaign: Apparently in my friends PBS broadcast area the Mel Brooks show was pre-empted by Garrison Keiller. I could hear my friend yelling from 3 states away. Great show, Martha.
	3:17pm DCE: it's like falling off a bicycle!
	3:18pm Martha: Without getting gravel embedded in your face tho' -
	3:18pm SeanG: Don't Hide Your Hate is a killer comp!
	3:20pm KevinfromBayRidge: Hi Everyone. Looking forward to a great Martha show. @RR63- Gotta DVR that! Mel's contributed a large part to my humor sensibilities.@ Martha- NO EROSION!!
	3:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (>L < ) ))
	3:21pm Ralphine: The Mel Brooks PBS show was preceded by a "mature content" warning in my town.
	3:23pm Rory: Vulgaari! Go Martha!
	3:23pm DCE: chugga chugga chugga chugga
	3:24pm Nick Sakes: Yes! Great show!
	3:26pm Chris from DC: Yeah, digging the Vulgaari.
	3:30pm DCE: now why they gotta burn the witch at the end?
	3:32pm Martha: Thanks all for checking in - have to recommend both the Don't hide... comp *Thomas Storck's Premium) as well as the Vuilgaari -
	3:38pm Lopez: this Fall of Saigon track is great
	3:48pm Rev. Turnip Druid: [wanders in, nods appreciatively, sits on floor, enters larval state]
	3:52pm Martha: Nice!
	3:52pm fred: That's a great album title right there, even more so for this kind of sound
	3:53pm fred: Gnod! I want to see them live
	3:56pm Shana: watta riff, thanx Martha
	3:58pm tim from champaign: The heavy jams are sounding real good.
	3:58pm jljl: I'm digging these two dirgy tunes.
	3:59pm Andrew Waterloo: Must resist the music gods, must not buy more awesome music, at least for a few weeks.... days.... hours....
	3:59pm Martha: Hey Shana - you know I can't stay away from the riffage - and especially Gnod, they really are fantastic and must be great live - they are from the UK so maybe w/in your reach Fred? - and thanks to everyone for checking in!
	4:00pm Rory: Agreed, Gnod is fantastic.
	4:00pm Carmichael: Martha! Sure, I'll rock with ya!
	4:01pm Martha: dirge/doom/riff, etc. - all calling my name...
	4:02pm Rev. Turnip Druid: dirge/doom = doodge. I approve. Please carry on.
	4:03pm northguineahills: His voice (Source Family) sounds like Frank Oz.
	4:06pm Martha: It's the one and only Father Yod...
	4:06pm Julie: I never get tired of this Snapper Ep
	4:07pm northguineahills: I know, but for some reason I was picturing a surreal Sesame Street.
	4:12pm fred: @Martha: I thought so but their recent tour didn't stop in france. Well, that just means I need to start lobbying
	4:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Irwin played a track by Klaatu you would swear was Muppet-related. Like Mel Brooks - prob. just a subconscious point of reference most of us just carry around...
	4:15pm Martha: Agreed w/rt Snapper; and maybe there is a God-Muppet-hippie connection we are missing?
	4:16pm tim from champaign: This show is making me 100% stoked on music.
	4:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: blogs.indiewire.com... - I can't be the only one who watched Sesame Street stoned out of my wits back when I did that & when there were far fewer channels to choose from...
	4:21pm northguineahills: Faved this Sightings on Brian Turner's show. I like when that happens.
	4:22pm DCE: no, you're not alone, RRN63
	4:34pm Cecile: le punk rock!
	4:36pm Cecile: dead moon!
	4:38pm Martha: Yes, all Dead Moon covers on that one -
	4:38pm fred: Upstairs neighbors are complaining, so I have to sign off
	4:38pm Cecile: cool, I gotta check it out.
	4:42pm r i s k y: GREAT SHOW MARTHA! Lovin tha Pus!!!!!
	4:44pm northguineahills: I wasn't stoned (something I kept in my freezer), but I do recall channel surfing and landing on Sesame Street early in the morning when I was a freshman in college.
	4:47pm Parq: I remember watching the original Sesame Street episodes with I was in HS. I understand that CTW is now obliged to put warnings on DVDs of those shows that they are for adults only, because they show awful things like grown-ups smoking and kids eating junk food. Sigh.
	4:48pm braveness23: B23 here! What is this ruckus I am listing to?
	4:51pm Andrew Waterloo: @Parq, I own both DVDs and I'd say the warnings are more to do with the hostile behaviour, the name calling, and things like kids going home with their teachers.
	5:01pm Carmichael: B23, Martha is about to release THE KRAKEN!
	5:01pm Rev. Turnip Druid: re:sesame street -- I don't have the stomach to see what it is today (most certainly modernized, etc) but that cartoon psychedelic pinball machine that counted to 12 destroyed my mind forever...
	5:02pm Rev. Turnip Druid: circa 1972 or whenever it was...
	5:03pm Carmichael: Reverend, was that Schoolhouse Rock your were thinking of?? Peter Max looking graphics, with numbers morphing all over and hip soul chicks singing "1-2-3 four five, 6-7-8 nine ten, 11 TWELVE!"
	5:06pm Rev. Turnip Druid: very school-of Peter Max, but it ran in Sesame Street. I believe these were the days before Grover morphed into SuperGrover. We were such charmed young'uns.
	5:07pm Andrew Waterloo: The Pinball machine and the Ladybugs picnic. I believe it's the Pointer Sisters on the vocals for the Pinball machine. There's a Youtube video that compiles every scene.
	5:08pm still ball/pin: www.youtube.com...
	5:08pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Ladybugs Picnic was a gas.
	5:08pm Andrew Waterloo: I don't find the new Sesame Street that much different. It's a little more directed toward preschoolers, but they're also still willing to take on some tough topics like Big Bird losing his nest in a hurricane.
	5:11pm Carmichael: Thanks for the link, BP. That is exactly as I remember it. Druid, you still have some grey cells. Congratulations!
	5:12pm Mike East: Sesame Street got more Elmo-centric in recent years, and that annoyed me...also seemed to be trying to sell more toys and sesame street related products.
	5:13pm Rev. Turnip Druid: I guess it's nice that the show takes on modern "hard times" stuff but it's a bit disappointing. I was told they made the hairy elephant freak (snuffleupagus, or whatever) visible to humans because they were concerned about kids having the courage to tell people if they've been abused (he was big-bird's invisible friend at first) -- and cookie monster mellowed-out his binge lifestyle due to "childhood obesity" or whatever. Sad.
	5:16pm Martha: Wow - am feeling as though I really missed out - tho' I was def. around for that earlier Sesame Street - I think my parents objected to it's being too didactic, not to, uh, ?threatening/hostile?
	5:17pm Carmichael: My parents used it as a babysitting/calming device.
	5:17pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Sesame Street & Electric Company were hot jams in my day. I remember being totally creeped & put off by Mr. Rogers....and his "neighborhood..."
	5:18pm Andrew Waterloo: it was Friendly Giant that terrified me
	5:19pm Andrew Waterloo: I remember the warm feeling of relief when he starting putting out the furniture knowing it was almost over.
	5:19pm northguineahills: I think the Elmocentricity happened shortly after Jim Henson died.
	5:19pm Rev. Turnip Druid: and of course LIDSVILLE was a total game-changer.
	5:22pm Mike East: @ngh - after that whole tickle me elmo craze, it got outta hand. I don't know if you've watched, but the "Elmo's World" segment takes up about 15 minutes...and its pretty uncreative by their old standards, imo. But yes, you're right. Jim Henson's death definitely had an impact on the whole enterprise.
	5:22pm Cecile: I always got a weird vibe from those Elmo/Frugal Gourmet PBS fundraisers. In retrospect, my gut was right.
	5:22pm Andrew Waterloo: I am a fan of the old British show The Klangers
	5:24pm Andrew Waterloo: watching Dora the Explorer quickly turned into the spot the reused scene game.
	5:24pm Andrew Waterloo: oops.. Clangers
	5:25pm Martha: I thought Mr. Rogers was v. boring - it took him so long to do the shoes and cardigan drill at the beginning and the end of the show - and he always sang the same thing!
	5:25pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Thank Cthulhu I was too old & out of the Sesame Street scene by the time Elmo hatched. I would have probably grown up to kill everyone.
	5:26pm Cecile: I was more into the Friendly Giant.
	5:28pm Carmichael: Christopher Guest does a great spoof of Mr. Rogers on the National Lampoon album That's Not Funny, That's Sick. He interviews a hungover rock star, and later gets the crap beaten out him by the dads in the neighborhood, who think he's a perv.
	5:29pm Andrew Waterloo: I'm glad I just didn't have access to the new Sesame Street and my daughter was more than happy with things like Backyardigans, Peep, Tiny Planets, old Thomas the Train and Chapi Chapo.
	5:38pm Mike East: I like the Backyardigans. Much better than those damn Wonderpets.
	5:39pm Dead Mime Walking: Shout out to Yo Gabba Gabba
	5:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...C3PO was shocked to open - that door - & discover R2's - other side...
	5:40pm northguineahills: +DOG+ +1
	5:42pm northguineahills: I pretty much never glanced often at Sesame Street by the time I was 12 as my brothers were 5 years my junior, so, I missed out on the Elmoization.
	5:44pm Cecile: I saw it when I was 8, I was a little old for it, but it was fun as was the Electric Company.
	5:46pm Cecile: It's worth your while downloading or finding Roosevelt Franklin Sings! The great Gordon Robinson wrote the lyrics and Joe Raposo the music. It's got the best song about not walking in traffic ever.
	5:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Lefty the Pusher : www.youtube.com...
	5:48pm Carmichael: Putrida would not be invited to perform on Sesame Street.
	5:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: CrazyHarry the MadBomber :www.youtube.com...
	5:51pm northguineahills: I think you can find Roosevelt Franklin sings on Youtube.
	5:52pm still b/p: The comments for this show started with Mel Brooks references. and his voice was in Electric Company animations, including the one that came to a satisfyingly profound end with, I think, the line, "Would someone tell Mr. Smith his hat is in the onion dip."
	5:57pm Cecile: I found it as a free DL, and also it is part of a Sesame Street 60s/70s boxed CD set.
	5:58pm northguineahills: Thanks for an excellent show, Martha!
	5:59pm Carmichael: Thanks for bringin' the rock, Martha!
	6:04pm Martha: Thanks all for checking in - have a great week -

Martha: Playlist from May 21, 2013

Music for your inner 17-year old.

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May 21, 2013

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	New	Approx. start time
Dajiu Xibo	Pambie "Pambie" by "Dajiu Xibo"	Ethnic Minority Music of Southern China (V/A)	Sublime Frequencies	*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The 49 Americans	It's Time "It's Time" by "The 49 Americans"	We Know Nonsense	Staubgold		0:06:18 (Pop-up)
The Pearls	Away "Away" by "The Pearls"	s/t	Rijapov	*	0:06:52 (Pop-up)
Black Bug	TV-Screen "TV-Screen" by "Black Bug"	Reflecting the Light	Hozac	*	0:08:12 (Pop-up)
The Chops	Dangerous for the Brain	Don't Hide Your Hate: Dutch DIY Obscurities, Thomas Storck's 2013 WFMU Marathon Premiuim (V/A)	WFMU	*	0:10:25 (Pop-up)
Medusa	Black Wizard "Black Wizard" by "Medusa"	First Step Beyond	Numero		0:14:33 (Pop-up)
Iron Dogs	Cold Bitch "Cold Bitch" by "Iron Dogs"	Cold Bitch	Dying Victims	*	0:18:06 (Pop-up)
Vulgaari	Outride the Reaper "Outride the Reaper" by "Vulgaari"	s/t	Los Discos Mas Peligrosos	*	0:22:38 (Pop-up)
Syclops	Karo's B "Karo's B" by "Syclops"	A Blink of an Eye	Running Back	*	0:33:20 (Pop-up)
Fall of Saigon	She Leaves Me All Alone	s/t	Captured Tracks		0:35:23 (Pop-up)

Bludded Head	[Track no. 2] "[Track no. 2]" by "Bludded Head"	My Ice Cream Fell on the Ground and Someone Ate It	Bludded Head	*	0:46:16 (Pop-up)
Gnod	Tron "Tron" by "Gnod"	Chaudelande	Rocket Recordings	*	0:51:51 (Pop-up)
The Source Family	Live Performance / Chant 2	s/t	Drag City	*	1:01:49 (Pop-up)
Snapper	Death and Weirdness in the Surfing Zone	s/t	Captured Tracks / Flying Nun		1:03:55 (Pop-up)
Maan	Damocles "Damocles" by "Maan"	Manifold	Kraak	*	1:08:56 (Pop-up)
Q4U	Family "Family" by "Q4U"	01 Deluxe Edition: 1980-83	Dark Entries		1:09:33 (Pop-up)
Banque Allemande	Warmes Wasser "Warmes Wasser" by "Banque Allemande"	Willst du Chinese Sein	S-S		1:12:32 (Pop-up)
Sightings	Bundled "Bundled" by "Sightings"	Terribly Well	Dais	*	1:16:07 (Pop-up)

Rings	I Wanna Be Free "I Wanna Be Free" by "Rings"	The Chiswick Story (V/A)	Ace		1:28:24 (Pop-up)
Benny Blue	Made Cap "Made Cap" by "Benny Blue"	Je Suis Punk: The Very Best of European Punksploitation (V/A)	Faux 077	*	1:31:53 (Pop-up)
A Place To Bury Strangers	54 40 "54 40" by "A Place To Bury Strangers"	Strange Moon	Dead Oceans	*	1:34:01 (Pop-up)
Black Pus	Fly on the Wall "Fly on the Wall" by "Black Pus"	All My Relations	Thrill Jockey	*	1:39:46 (Pop-up)
Holism Gaea	But in the Wine Presses...	Blakesian Williamness	Heart & Crossbone	*	1:41:34 (Pop-up)
Deviation Social	Understanding "Understanding" by "Deviation Social"	Tempus / Deathwatch	Dais	*	1:49:13 (Pop-up)
Cough / Windhand	Shepherd's Crook	Reflection of the Negative	Relapse	*	1:58:31 (Pop-up)
Richard Dawson	Grandad's Deathbed Hallucinations	The Music Bridge	Pink Triangle	*	2:09:07 (Pop-up)
Guo Wen Biao, Ghu Zhong, Mei Hua, and Peng Hua	Responded Love Song	Ethnic Minority Music of Southern China (V/A)	Sublime Frequencies	*	2:16:36 (Pop-up)

Family Curse	Truth Will Out "Truth Will Out" by "Family Curse"	Twilight Language	Doormat	*	2:24:20 (Pop-up)
PC Worship	It's My Name "It's My Name" by "PC Worship"	Beat Punk	New Images	*	2:26:05 (Pop-up)
Monitor	Pet Wedding "Pet Wedding" by "Monitor"	s/t	Superior Viaduct		2:30:19 (Pop-up)
Nu Creative Methods	Tabarikala "Tabarikala" by "Nu Creative Methods"	Supersitions	Music a la Coque		2:32:35 (Pop-up)
+DOG+	Humiliation "Humiliation" by "+DOG+"	The Family Music Book, Vol. 1	Love Earth Music	*	2:35:32 (Pop-up)
Purling Hiss	Lolita "Lolita" by "Purling Hiss"	Water on Mars	Drag City	*	2:40:05 (Pop-up)
Hero Dishonest	Kipu "Kipu" by "Hero Dishonest"	Alle Lujaa	Peterwalkee	*	2:44:07 (Pop-up)
Anasazi	R.I.P. "R.I.P." by "Anasazi"	Ground Zero NYC 2013 (V/A)	Toxic State	*	2:45:01 (Pop-up)
Kawabata Makoto's Mainliner	Revelation Space	Revelation Space	Riot Season	*	2:48:58 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	3:12pm DCE: welcome back, Martha!
	3:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...Just saw Mel Brooks on 'American Masters' PBS - & I picture the Chops' singer as him...
	3:16pm Martha: Thanks all - though I continue to be amazed at how fast my basic skill set erodes...
	3:17pm fred: Martha! It's great to hear you live: I like not knowing what's next. Any chance of having you back with the next schedule?
	3:17pm tim from champaign: Apparently in my friends PBS broadcast area the Mel Brooks show was pre-empted by Garrison Keiller. I could hear my friend yelling from 3 states away. Great show, Martha.
	3:17pm DCE: it's like falling off a bicycle!
	3:18pm Martha: Without getting gravel embedded in your face tho' -
	3:18pm SeanG: Don't Hide Your Hate is a killer comp!
	3:20pm KevinfromBayRidge: Hi Everyone. Looking forward to a great Martha show. @RR63- Gotta DVR that! Mel's contributed a large part to my humor sensibilities.@ Martha- NO EROSION!!
	3:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (>L < ) ))
	3:21pm Ralphine: The Mel Brooks PBS show was preceded by a "mature content" warning in my town.
	3:23pm Rory: Vulgaari! Go Martha!
	3:23pm DCE: chugga chugga chugga chugga
	3:24pm Nick Sakes: Yes! Great show!
	3:26pm Chris from DC: Yeah, digging the Vulgaari.
	3:30pm DCE: now why they gotta burn the witch at the end?
	3:32pm Martha: Thanks all for checking in - have to recommend both the Don't hide... comp *Thomas Storck's Premium) as well as the Vuilgaari -
	3:38pm Lopez: this Fall of Saigon track is great
	3:48pm Rev. Turnip Druid: [wanders in, nods appreciatively, sits on floor, enters larval state]
	3:52pm Martha: Nice!
	3:52pm fred: That's a great album title right there, even more so for this kind of sound
	3:53pm fred: Gnod! I want to see them live
	3:56pm Shana: watta riff, thanx Martha
	3:58pm tim from champaign: The heavy jams are sounding real good.
	3:58pm jljl: I'm digging these two dirgy tunes.
	3:59pm Andrew Waterloo: Must resist the music gods, must not buy more awesome music, at least for a few weeks.... days.... hours....
	3:59pm Martha: Hey Shana - you know I can't stay away from the riffage - and especially Gnod, they really are fantastic and must be great live - they are from the UK so maybe w/in your reach Fred? - and thanks to everyone for checking in!
	4:00pm Rory: Agreed, Gnod is fantastic.
	4:00pm Carmichael: Martha! Sure, I'll rock with ya!
	4:01pm Martha: dirge/doom/riff, etc. - all calling my name...
	4:02pm Rev. Turnip Druid: dirge/doom = doodge. I approve. Please carry on.
	4:03pm northguineahills: His voice (Source Family) sounds like Frank Oz.
	4:06pm Martha: It's the one and only Father Yod...
	4:06pm Julie: I never get tired of this Snapper Ep
	4:07pm northguineahills: I know, but for some reason I was picturing a surreal Sesame Street.
	4:12pm fred: @Martha: I thought so but their recent tour didn't stop in france. Well, that just means I need to start lobbying
	4:14pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Irwin played a track by Klaatu you would swear was Muppet-related. Like Mel Brooks - prob. just a subconscious point of reference most of us just carry around...
	4:15pm Martha: Agreed w/rt Snapper; and maybe there is a God-Muppet-hippie connection we are missing?
	4:16pm tim from champaign: This show is making me 100% stoked on music.
	4:20pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: blogs.indiewire.com... - I can't be the only one who watched Sesame Street stoned out of my wits back when I did that & when there were far fewer channels to choose from...
	4:21pm northguineahills: Faved this Sightings on Brian Turner's show. I like when that happens.
	4:22pm DCE: no, you're not alone, RRN63
	4:34pm Cecile: le punk rock!
	4:36pm Cecile: dead moon!
	4:38pm Martha: Yes, all Dead Moon covers on that one -
	4:38pm fred: Upstairs neighbors are complaining, so I have to sign off
	4:38pm Cecile: cool, I gotta check it out.
	4:42pm r i s k y: GREAT SHOW MARTHA! Lovin tha Pus!!!!!
	4:44pm northguineahills: I wasn't stoned (something I kept in my freezer), but I do recall channel surfing and landing on Sesame Street early in the morning when I was a freshman in college.
	4:47pm Parq: I remember watching the original Sesame Street episodes with I was in HS. I understand that CTW is now obliged to put warnings on DVDs of those shows that they are for adults only, because they show awful things like grown-ups smoking and kids eating junk food. Sigh.
	4:48pm braveness23: B23 here! What is this ruckus I am listing to?
	4:51pm Andrew Waterloo: @Parq, I own both DVDs and I'd say the warnings are more to do with the hostile behaviour, the name calling, and things like kids going home with their teachers.
	5:01pm Carmichael: B23, Martha is about to release THE KRAKEN!
	5:01pm Rev. Turnip Druid: re:sesame street -- I don't have the stomach to see what it is today (most certainly modernized, etc) but that cartoon psychedelic pinball machine that counted to 12 destroyed my mind forever...
	5:02pm Rev. Turnip Druid: circa 1972 or whenever it was...
	5:03pm Carmichael: Reverend, was that Schoolhouse Rock your were thinking of?? Peter Max looking graphics, with numbers morphing all over and hip soul chicks singing "1-2-3 four five, 6-7-8 nine ten, 11 TWELVE!"
	5:06pm Rev. Turnip Druid: very school-of Peter Max, but it ran in Sesame Street. I believe these were the days before Grover morphed into SuperGrover. We were such charmed young'uns.
	5:07pm Andrew Waterloo: The Pinball machine and the Ladybugs picnic. I believe it's the Pointer Sisters on the vocals for the Pinball machine. There's a Youtube video that compiles every scene.
	5:08pm still ball/pin: www.youtube.com...
	5:08pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Ladybugs Picnic was a gas.
	5:08pm Andrew Waterloo: I don't find the new Sesame Street that much different. It's a little more directed toward preschoolers, but they're also still willing to take on some tough topics like Big Bird losing his nest in a hurricane.
	5:11pm Carmichael: Thanks for the link, BP. That is exactly as I remember it. Druid, you still have some grey cells. Congratulations!
	5:12pm Mike East: Sesame Street got more Elmo-centric in recent years, and that annoyed me...also seemed to be trying to sell more toys and sesame street related products.
	5:13pm Rev. Turnip Druid: I guess it's nice that the show takes on modern "hard times" stuff but it's a bit disappointing. I was told they made the hairy elephant freak (snuffleupagus, or whatever) visible to humans because they were concerned about kids having the courage to tell people if they've been abused (he was big-bird's invisible friend at first) -- and cookie monster mellowed-out his binge lifestyle due to "childhood obesity" or whatever. Sad.
	5:16pm Martha: Wow - am feeling as though I really missed out - tho' I was def. around for that earlier Sesame Street - I think my parents objected to it's being too didactic, not to, uh, ?threatening/hostile?
	5:17pm Carmichael: My parents used it as a babysitting/calming device.
	5:17pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Sesame Street & Electric Company were hot jams in my day. I remember being totally creeped & put off by Mr. Rogers....and his "neighborhood..."
	5:18pm Andrew Waterloo: it was Friendly Giant that terrified me
	5:19pm Andrew Waterloo: I remember the warm feeling of relief when he starting putting out the furniture knowing it was almost over.
	5:19pm northguineahills: I think the Elmocentricity happened shortly after Jim Henson died.
	5:19pm Rev. Turnip Druid: and of course LIDSVILLE was a total game-changer.
	5:22pm Mike East: @ngh - after that whole tickle me elmo craze, it got outta hand. I don't know if you've watched, but the "Elmo's World" segment takes up about 15 minutes...and its pretty uncreative by their old standards, imo. But yes, you're right. Jim Henson's death definitely had an impact on the whole enterprise.
	5:22pm Cecile: I always got a weird vibe from those Elmo/Frugal Gourmet PBS fundraisers. In retrospect, my gut was right.
	5:22pm Andrew Waterloo: I am a fan of the old British show The Klangers
	5:24pm Andrew Waterloo: watching Dora the Explorer quickly turned into the spot the reused scene game.
	5:24pm Andrew Waterloo: oops.. Clangers
	5:25pm Martha: I thought Mr. Rogers was v. boring - it took him so long to do the shoes and cardigan drill at the beginning and the end of the show - and he always sang the same thing!
	5:25pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Thank Cthulhu I was too old & out of the Sesame Street scene by the time Elmo hatched. I would have probably grown up to kill everyone.
	5:26pm Cecile: I was more into the Friendly Giant.
	5:28pm Carmichael: Christopher Guest does a great spoof of Mr. Rogers on the National Lampoon album That's Not Funny, That's Sick. He interviews a hungover rock star, and later gets the crap beaten out him by the dads in the neighborhood, who think he's a perv.
	5:29pm Andrew Waterloo: I'm glad I just didn't have access to the new Sesame Street and my daughter was more than happy with things like Backyardigans, Peep, Tiny Planets, old Thomas the Train and Chapi Chapo.
	5:38pm Mike East: I like the Backyardigans. Much better than those damn Wonderpets.
	5:39pm Dead Mime Walking: Shout out to Yo Gabba Gabba
	5:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...C3PO was shocked to open - that door - & discover R2's - other side...
	5:40pm northguineahills: +DOG+ +1
	5:42pm northguineahills: I pretty much never glanced often at Sesame Street by the time I was 12 as my brothers were 5 years my junior, so, I missed out on the Elmoization.
	5:44pm Cecile: I saw it when I was 8, I was a little old for it, but it was fun as was the Electric Company.
	5:46pm Cecile: It's worth your while downloading or finding Roosevelt Franklin Sings! The great Gordon Robinson wrote the lyrics and Joe Raposo the music. It's got the best song about not walking in traffic ever.
	5:47pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Lefty the Pusher : www.youtube.com...
	5:48pm Carmichael: Putrida would not be invited to perform on Sesame Street.
	5:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: CrazyHarry the MadBomber :www.youtube.com...
	5:51pm northguineahills: I think you can find Roosevelt Franklin sings on Youtube.
	5:52pm still b/p: The comments for this show started with Mel Brooks references. and his voice was in Electric Company animations, including the one that came to a satisfyingly profound end with, I think, the line, "Would someone tell Mr. Smith his hat is in the onion dip."
	5:57pm Cecile: I found it as a free DL, and also it is part of a Sesame Street 60s/70s boxed CD set.
	5:58pm northguineahills: Thanks for an excellent show, Martha!
	5:59pm Carmichael: Thanks for bringin' the rock, Martha!
	6:04pm Martha: Thanks all for checking in - have a great week -

Martha: Playlist from May 21, 2013

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