New Year's Day 2014: Ken's show

Listener comments!

♥ 8:33pm Ken:

Happy Hangover everybody! Lullabyes and hangover songs for all my friends today...

♥ 8:06am Ken From Hyde Park:

Good morning and Happy New Year. Hoping all goes well for you and WFMU in 2014! How is the in-house performance space coming along?

8:13am People Like Us:

Happy New Year :)

8:13am People Like Us:

If you want a nice rock lullabye there's Some Velvet Morning by Lydia Lunch and Roland S Howard

♥ 8:21am Ken From Hyde Park:

At this hour, Wikipedia already lists four notable dead people - en.wikipedia.org...

♥ 8:24am Ken:

Morning everybody! So great to know that I'm not alone on this, the latest morning of the year! I found that version Vicki, thanks! Ken from HP, the performance space is coming along but the holdup is the extremely picky Jersey City Building Department But we will get it open this year for sure.

8:28am People Like Us:

ah good, I just mp3d it to you as well so you have it twwwice

8:38am People Like Us:

Sandpaper Lullabye by The Virgin Prunes - I have it so will email you the mp3

♥ 8:51am Asheville Jon:

green grass and high tides forever!

8:52am Mark S:

A good hangover cure would be "Sister Ray"

8:55am Mark S:

The mono Version is great!
As is the mono version of "The Gift" Who knew!

9:00am tim:

Happy 2014, Ken at al. Smallish overhang, a 12oz can of Jolt Cola would surely hit the spot... Just have to mark the spot first.

9:02am f❂f❂ (:

Happy 2014 Ken and friends!! I wish you the best this year.

♥ 9:06am Ken:

Morning and Happy Happiness everybody! I'm thrilled to not be here all alone this morning.

♥ 9:09am Sem Chumbo:

Beautiful evocative start. And breakfast being served, yet. Nice.

9:10am SeanG:

Is this what they call hippie noise?

♥ 9:11am dale:

nice hangover music this morning - if one had a hangover that is.

9:12am Mark S:

I don't have a hangover, I'm still drunk

♥ 9:14am dale:

rinse and repeat mark.

♥ 9:14am fred:

Happy new year Ken and everyone
@Ken from Hyde Park: two writers, two priests. A tie so far, but the race is on!

9:16am f❂f❂ (:

It's not a lullaby, that's for sure, and it's not exactly a hangover song but it might qualify as well:

Otto Von Schirach - Gagged Gizzard Goo

"Schirach made the album Pukology, which made "beats" out of barf. Recordings of vomit comets and chunder tornadoes."

♥ 9:16am dale:

let us not forget those we lost on the eve - ricky nelson - or the day - mr. hank williams

9:16am mauri:

Hyvää uutta vuotta! Happy new year!

♥ 9:17am davex:

Good morning, afternoon, and happy new year Ken and everyone everywhere...

9:17am f❂f❂ (:

Jimmy Buffett - My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink and I Don't Love Jesus.

9:20am Mark S:

Hey I think Ken has slowed this down!

♥ 9:21am Ken:

My goal this morning is to do no harm. I dont want to increase the pain on anybody who happens to tune in whild they are still have a sweaty itching brain.

♥ 9:24am Asheville Jon:

how about some Yoko Ono. that would cause no harm! (insert sarcasm here)

♥ 9:24am dale:

did anyone here wear astronaut diapers last night to ride out the festivities? i hear they pass them out at times square

♥ 9:25am dale:

i only heard this roxy song recently. i thought nick cave had a puff of helium.

♥ 9:27am fred:

Ken, that's where you renew your Evil Genius creds. Why would anyone afraid of pain turn in to your show?
@Asheville Jon: I honestly, unsarcastically enjoy Yoko Ono's music. More than anything Lennon did, alone or with his band

♥ 9:28am fred:

@dale: The first version I heard was by Talk Normal. I like it better than the original

9:29am Mark S:

Sacrilege!

♥ 9:36am Sem Chumbo:

Mingus had a seasonal hangover cure: blogs.villagevoice.com...

♥ 9:37am fred:

Chances are a winner or runner-up for the Darwin awards has already staked his claim by now

♥ 9:40am Rob W:

Here's some pretty indie-pop hangover music for this sleepy new year morning from Andalucia (southern Spain) c/o the Atomic Lemons: soundcloud.com...

♥ 9:40am dale:

sunday morning coming down is a fine song for those who need some hair of the dog. on an unrelated note, i wish i was a 60 ft man and could peep like that

9:41am Mark S:

I hope that all in the greater tri-state area are prepared for Snowmageddon

♥ 9:41am Asheville Jon:

fred: while i can enjoy some ono stuff every now and again, i think many people might find it painful if nursing a head issue caused by overindulgence.

♥ 9:44am fred:

@Asheville Jon: you do have a point

♥ 9:45am Sem Chumbo:

New Years Day coming down music. Easy does it.

9:45am b k:

91.1 signal is still seems a little fuzzy.even with the fuzz,nice start to show.

♥ 9:47am fred:

And it's done: my first music purchase of 2014 is "Don’t Think Right, It’s All Twice" by People Like Us

♥ 9:49am Ken:

Yes bk =- 91.1 is operating at low power right now due to transmitter problemos.

♥ 9:51am fred:

That's a great version of Some Velvet Morning. Clicky-star!

9:51am b k:

thanks ken,glad it's not just me.

9:52am Mark S:

the most obvious choice "Sunday Morning Coming Down"?

♥ 9:55am dale:

(in best horshack) - OOOOH OOOH - lee hazlewood's 'the night before'

9:57am People Like Us:

Thank you Fred, just got the order :)

9:59am SeanG:

good time to do laundry

10:00am Peter:

Happy New Year Ken! Welcome back to the frigid east!

10:02am Gordon:

Happy Sunday morning/2014, Ken & WFMU loyalists.

♥ 10:02am dale:

(in best quagmire) all right!

♥ 10:03am Ken:

Thanks for all these great song suggestions, Dale and Mark and everybody else!

♥ 10:04am dale:

sunday morning appears to be a bitch

♥ 10:07am dale:

when i was a little kid my parents went out to a social club (they rarely drank). they come home that night and my father was holding my stumbling mother up - she had pissed her pant suit and was laughing hysterically. scared the crap out of me.

♥ 10:09am Rick from SC:

Happy 2014 to Ken and all

10:11am m:

All these country tunes have put me in the mood for some Skeeter Davis.

♥ 10:13am fred:

@dale: Was that scare lasting, or was the lesson "practice makes perfect"?

10:15am burpage:

happy 2014 ken just wunderful again

♥ 10:16am fred:

@m: I'm usually in the mood for some Skeeter Davis. Despite my appreciation for Yoko Ono. No wonder I like this station

10:16am danjoseph:

You played this Dif Juz track last week too, and I still love it Ken!

♥ 10:17am jmd:

What do you mean this isn't Pell Mell? Hmm, sounds great anyway!

♥ 10:18am dale:

no, i went on to almost pee my own pants many a time. now i only imbibe at home where a change of clothes and clean bath are near at hand

10:19am will:

Wait I thought it was Durutti Column!

10:19am Mark S:

"Radio 4" by PiL is a rather soothing song, perhaps to close the show

♥ 10:20am Alison Porchnik:

Happy New Year, Ken! I would sure love to hear "Sunday Kind of Love." Not the Etta James version, though. The song by Israel Houghton, which is so much more your Kind of Style.

10:25am burpage:

riff killing me with nite time

♥ 10:25am fred:

@Mark S: I need to listen to Metal Box again, thanks for reminding me. I saw PiL two months ago, not great, but honest and generous, and all music, no crap. Lydon has lost an octave and doubled in width, but it was a nice show

10:26am egal:

Wish I had a pimpmobile.

♥ 10:30am Ken:

Egal, you hvae only yourself to blame for not having one.

♥ 10:31am davex:

Hey, take a ticket to ride instead.

10:32am Mark S:

@Fred I don't know Lydon has become a somewhat embarrassing with all his "I'm working class me" stuff and he will tell everyoine over and over how honest he is. Though Metal Box is still great.

♥ 10:33am Ken From Hyde Park:

Here's a list of 10 candidate songs - www.heraldextra.com...

10:36am rolf:

Content removed for reasons of national health

10:36am Michael:

New Year’s Resolution – Otis Redding & Carla Thomas

♥ 10:37am fred:

@Mark S: That was my opinion too, I only went because I had never seen PiL, and got a rebate on the ticket. But on stage there was none of that crap, and it was much better than what I expected (hooray for low expectations!). I'd say give him a chance if the ticket isn't expensive

♥ 10:41am fred:

@Ken From Hyde Park: My personal NYE cheese is Nina Simone's version of Feeling Good

10:42am Mark S:

Alright Fred, I know PiL is touring endlessly. I did see PiL at the Pallidium in NYC in 1980

♥ 10:43am fred:

This PLU track comes conveniently pre-starred, no need to test my eye-hand coordination, which is a good thing
@Mark S: in that case you're probably better off not seeing them now

10:45am Mark S:

Memories, right Fred?

♥ 10:46am davex:

Great track, Vicki!

10:47am People Like Us:

thankee

10:47am danjoseph:

It's pronounced "Diffuse", or "dif-fuse"

10:48am egal:

I like tahini sauce with my hubris.

10:49am long time listener:

The transmitter is not tuned. It usually comes in fine on my car and home radios. But since yesterday at at least 6:50 it has not been coming in clearly on 91.1. I hope I'm not the only person who has reported this.

10:49am Mark S:

Humis, hubris, what's the diff?

10:49am People Like Us:

"91.1 is operating at low power right now due to transmitter problems"

♥ 10:50am Ken:

Yes longtime listener, we're operating on our backup transmitter at LOW power due to problemos at the transmitter location.

♥ 10:51am cosmic matrix:

happy new year, all! hey at the childcare center i work at, we used to listen to a led zeppelin nap music tape for many months. it worked!

10:51am long time listener:

Thanks people like us. That would explain it.

♥ 10:51am fred:

Late breaking entrant: the Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic apparently blew himself up, staking a claim to both the Darwin awards and the Wikipedia notable list. YMMV, it's all unconfirmed media blather

10:52am danjoseph:

...not to be telling KEN how to pronounce things!.... just sayin'

10:53am Karen in Sleepy Hollow:

It's ok Ken, you can keep playing lullabies.

♥ 10:56am Ken:

Danjoseph - are you flailing around for how to pronounce the name of the band Dif Juz?

♥ 10:57am Ken:

long time listener, I'm curious - where are you located? I want to know how far we get at low power.

10:58am danjoseph:

yes, I believe it's "diffuse"...longtime listener of the band

♥ 11:01am Ken:

aha I see! I thtand corrected. Thanks.

♥ 11:03am fred:

re: the NSA logo: back when I was working in the defense industry, the NSA were highly respected, in part because nobody on the street had heard of them. How the mighty have fallen.

11:04am KP:

Happy New Year, Ken

♥ 11:06am Ike:

Sounds good on home stereos here in beautiful Nwk. Car stereo was good last night except when it was so cold that my retractable antenna couldn't get it up.

♥ 11:06am Ken:

Thanks KP< same to you and yours. Fred, that's not really the NSA logo, is it? I thought the NSA logo was a menacing feral octopus sucking the life out of Lady Liberty.

♥ 11:06am Guido (Cologne):

Happy 'everything is becoming better' everyone!

♥ 11:09am fred:

@Ken: What you posted is the NSA logo, what you're referring to is the NSA mascot

11:10am Mark S:

The NSA logo should be a menacing feral octopus sucking the life out of Lady Liberty!

♥ 11:14am fred:

It puzzled me too at first: an eagle clutching a key looks like it's just because it's shiny, a raven would know better. Then again, accumulating shiny things without a clue what to do with them looks like a fit

♥ 11:14am Ken From Hyde Park:

The latest octopus gifs - www.pinterest.com...

11:15am steve:

*burp*

11:17am Mark S:

oh I woke up rapidly!

♥ 11:17am fred:

A conscious audience, you're being either picky or flattering

♥ 11:17am Ike:

I went to a random hippie warehouse party last night in Union City. Too many smokers. My clothes smell like smoke. What is this, 1991?

♥ 11:18am Ken:

Steve, did I burp on the air?!!

♥ 11:19am Ike:

But a very good band, Ochestura, was playing spacy kosmischy sounds. Can't find them online, must be spelling it wrong. Definitely only one "R."

11:20am Mark S:

Let's hope for a speedy recovery for Barbara Bush:
www.cnn.com...

11:21am Mark S:

Maybe

11:21am steve:

no sorry Ken, I just woke up and immediately burped into the comments page

♥ 11:21am Ken:

Ike, when that happens to me, know what I do? Change my clothes.

♥ 11:22am Ike:

AH! Good idea, thanks!

♥ 11:23am fred:

Thinks seem to be picking up on this programme. Will the 2014 successor to Khlam be revealed?

11:24am egal:

Khlam is forever.

11:26am f❂f❂ (:

KLHAAAAAUSSS!

♥ 11:27am Ken:

Phew! Steve, you scared me. I just finished an apple and thought I had belched audibly and unconsciously on the air.

Fred, there will never be another Khlam. Alas.

11:28am Mark S:

Alas

♥ 11:29am fred:

Did Rob Ford get into wrestling?

11:29am JakeGould:

Signal is good out in Bay Ridge. What happened? Changed the squirrels or greased up the wheel better?

11:30am glenn:

please. no rob ford talk.

♥ 11:31am Guido (Cologne):

Ken's show quite often makes me feel like I'm the way to Düsseldorf.
Is it wooing Eropean listeners? ;-)

♥ 11:32am fred:

sorry glenn, this IS a hangover free zone, my bad

♥ 11:32am Ike:

Oh, it's Okestura, not Ochestura.
soundcloud.com...

11:32am Owlex:

My Sis got me this album for Christmas

11:33am Mark S:

Did you know that was supposed to be a "La Düsseldorf" album but it was blocked at the last minute by Hans Lampe, the band's original drummer.

11:34am Owlex:

I've been wanting it ever since I heard it on on Ken's show way back in February

♥ 11:36am davex:

@Guido: Düsseldorf is a bit closer for you. I'd have to listen to a few albums on the way.

11:37am jan:

It's Wednesday AM- I forgot- thinking only that it was 2014. Fortunately I can listen to the archive,
kind of like leftover turkey the day after Thanksgiving. Still tastes good, just reheated. Happy new year to you Ken, and all of the listeners who gather here each Wednesday morning.

11:37am f❂f❂ (:

davex,

Or you just can listen to the Wagner's album Der Ring des Nibelungen

♥ 11:38am Guido (Cologne):

Hard to believe that exactly La Düsseldorf and Neu had the most quarrels and sues of all German bands. Maybe because of drug-nebulised mind of Klaus Dinger.

Düsseldorf has the largest Japan community in Germany by the way.

♥ 11:38am Ken From Hyde Park:

Here's an amusing trick: scroll your browser so that bopping owl's head peeks up from the bottom of your screen. Peek-a-boo!

11:39am Detroit Mac:

New Years All.

11:39am f❂f❂ (:

I, for one welcome our new overlady, A. Merkel.

11:40am Owlex:

marijuana, lsd and heroin

11:40am egal:

Meet the new Merkel, same as the old Merkel.

♥ 11:41am Guido (Cologne):

@davex : my ears were in the east quite recently, checking my old Amiga pressings (Renft, Team4, early Electra-Combo, early Nina Hagen), great performances and good productions.

11:41am Owlex:

I dare you to not bob your head to this song

♥ 11:42am Guido (Cologne):

Die Radierer from Limburg ... seen them as support for The Fall in 1983/83.

♥ 11:43am Stanley:

Happy New Year to you Ken and to everyone at the station.
Here's to another fantastic WFMU year.

♥ 11:44am davex:

@Guido - yep, we have some old Amigas which need some revisiting as well...

11:44am f❂f❂ (:

People,

If we all cross our fingers and pray aloud together, we might hear next Harte 10, Schlammpeitziger's 2-4 and Helga Schneider!!

11:46am Mark S:

Howling Wolf is conflicted

♥ 11:47am Guido (Cologne):

Driving down the RIAA-curve .... boooooom ....

11:49am listener mark:

boom boom boom boom

♥ 11:53am Ken From Hyde Park:

A story my mom told me on the phone this morning - my brother-in-law has been drinking lots of coffee & Mountain Dew for years and decided Monday morning to quit cold turkey. That evening, he felt very weak and spent the night in the hospital. That's some serious caffeine withdrawal.

♥ 11:55am Ken:

Oh man! You never quit caffeine cold turkey! That's crazy.

♥ 11:57am davex:

How was that 3 hours? Thanks, Ken!

11:58am f❂f❂ (:

Time flies! Can't believe show's over! Thank you very much, Ken! Take care all!

11:58am JakeGould:

You don’t do that! You ween yourself off! For example, now I just have one or two cups of green tea. Boom! Done… After years of weening… And Sanka… Holy crap, Sanka… That will stop you ingesting anything.

♥ 11:58am Ken:

Bye everybody!

♥ 11:58am Guido (Cologne):

We LOVE the pronouncing thing thing!!!
You should hear me talking English.
Just in caste of interst: Radierer = ra-deer-err

♥ 11:59am Guido (Cologne):

Bye bye ...

♥ 11:59am fred:

I can't quit caffeine: I'm a software developer, I can't get below a set threshold or I'd get fired. They test us for this, you know

♥ 11:59am Marcel M:

Bye KEN!

11:59am long time listener:

Irvington, ny

1:10pm trs:

Hahaha-ha (the magazine cover).

9:01pm Fred R:

Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast was a nice touch to the morning after. Thanks Ken