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Favoriting January 20, 2014: Gwilly Edmondez Sings Chart Sweep

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GWILLY EDMONDEZ Sings Chart Sweep

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Gwilly Edmondez  Sings Chart Sweep Part 1   Favoriting http://ubu.com/sound/edmondez.html  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Gwilly sings Chart Sweep    http://ubu.com/sound/chartsweep.html  0:08:32 (Pop-up)
Gwilly Edmondez  Sings Chart Sweep Part 1   Favoriting   0:16:40 (Pop-up)
Background on Chart Sweep:    http://ubu.com/sound/chartsweep.html  0:19:18 (Pop-up)
Download some Gwilly Edmondez    http://ubu.com/sound/edmondez.html  0:19:49 (Pop-up)
Also download Gwilly here:    http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Gwilly_Edmondez  0:20:15 (Pop-up)
Gwilly Edmondez Sings Chart Sweep 1      0:20:27 (Pop-up)
 
Gwilly Edmondez  Sings Chart Sweep Part 2   Favoriting   0:31:06 (Pop-up)
Gwilly    https://vimeo.com/feltbeak  0:36:50 (Pop-up)
Gwilly Edmondez Sings Chart Sweep 2      0:38:43 (Pop-up)
Gwilly Edmondez  Sings Chart Sweep Part 2   Favoriting   0:46:03 (Pop-up)
Gwilly Edmondez Sings Chart Sweep 2      0:51:03 (Pop-up)
thanks      0:59:56 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 6:50am
People Like Us:

See you back here later
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:47pm
groucho:

yes you will
Avatar 7:00pm
People Like Us:

starting in a sec
Avatar 7:02pm
People Like Us:

here we are
Avatar 7:02pm
ranjit:

whoo! more gwilly! hello.
Avatar 7:03pm
People Like Us:

herro
  7:03pm
steev:

awright! go gwilly!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
groucho:

I'm not sure I can handle this. giving it a go though, if I can weather Ken playing 3 hours of Bohemian Rhapsody I can survive anything
Avatar 7:04pm
People Like Us:

this is a lot easier than 3 hours of the same thing
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Chart Sweep
Brain Vacuum...
  7:04pm
steev:

please fade him up more, the tape down.
Avatar 7:05pm
People Like Us:

the fade changes throughout the mix
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...it's one up on karaoke for having historical interest...& variety...altho' karaoke bar sake would be a plus...pardon - getting a drink...
Avatar 7:07pm
People Like Us:

yes, people tend to sing karaoke to "intact" songs
Avatar 7:08pm
People Like Us:

Theme from a Summer Place (that's my DJ bed music too)
Avatar 7:08pm
ranjit:

maybe we can have do or diy cutup karaoke someday.
Avatar 7:08pm
People Like Us:

yes, how can we do that, cut up karaoke?
  7:09pm
steevh:

i was actualy hoping for acapella. :-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I'm only willing to take this as seriously as he is...
  7:09pm
steevh:

but definitely this is pretty great.
Avatar 7:10pm
People Like Us:

I think it's actually quite hard work to sing along with it - so although it's fun I think it's hard work to keep it up
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
groucho:

you should take the music track off this and play just Gwilly, it'll sound like he's having a breakdown, are you allowed to share this file? I'd love it
Avatar 7:10pm
People Like Us:

yes, it's of course good as is, as acapella, but as radio I think it's better with Chart Sweep
Avatar 7:11pm
People Like Us:

Gwilly's a pretty good singer actually
Avatar 7:11pm
ranjit:

well, first we need someone with audio and video editing skills to make the singalong videos with lyrics (*hint hint*)

I bet we could find more than one venue in nyc that would host it. Barbes? Roulette?
Avatar 7:12pm
People Like Us:

I would like to do a karaoke thing - have been thinking about how to do it actually
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:13pm
Rich in Washington:

this is nuts. Love it!
Avatar 7:13pm
People Like Us:

If you heard an hour of this it would of course push your Irritainment appreciation buttons but I assure you that this is the better way to listen to it as radio
  7:13pm
steevh:

i wonder what hugo keesing would think about this.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...it's a feat of endurance awlright !...on whose part...no I be funny...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
Rich in Washington:

Wasn't it Osymyso that did that piece with just the intros to hundreds of songs?
Avatar 7:14pm
People Like Us:

he has done something like that, yes
  7:15pm
Phil:

This sounds like me driving across country alone at 4 a.m., and trying to stay awake.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
groucho:

I'm a video editor, I'd love to take that on as a project ranjit, though I may regret saying that
Avatar 7:15pm
People Like Us:

a few people have - DJ Food did too, but not intros
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
Rich in Washington:

If I heard this out of context/out of nowhere I would assume it's some insane person in an institution singing along to a greatest hits compilation commercial.
Avatar 7:15pm
People Like Us:

yes, it is like radio on the radio, so to speak
  7:15pm
johnny cretaceous:

he's really nailing it! what a range!
Avatar 7:16pm
People Like Us:

it's amazing how many songs ARE recognisable
Avatar 7:16pm
ranjit:

Yeah he even "nails" the ones where he obviously doesn't know the song!

Yeaaahh groucho.
  7:18pm
Phil:

My wife loves all the songs from this era
Avatar 7:19pm
People Like Us:

so do I
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- are these only #1s ?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
groucho:

aye me mam's loving this
Avatar 7:19pm
People Like Us:

even though Chart Sweep is "avant" it is also "pop", so it's perfect
Avatar 7:20pm
People Like Us:

I think they are number 1's yes
here's the background.. about to post urls
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
Rich in Washington:

There needs to be a bit more 'pop' in 'avant' anyway. It keeps it from becoming too pretentious.
  7:21pm
tom:

Hello! Great show, just tuning in. Chart sweep!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
Andrew Waterloo:

I remember watching all those K-Tel and Time Life commercials thinking it would be cool if I could hear those songs all the time.
Avatar 7:22pm
People Like Us:

there needs to be more avant in pop in avant in pop
  7:22pm
Cliff:

My mind has turned to musical mush
Avatar 7:23pm
People Like Us:

I would never recognise a Chart Sweep made this decade, I only know things through mashups now
Avatar 7:23pm
People Like Us:

it IS like a radio tuning on a car journey, that is quite correct
  7:23pm
Phil:

agreed
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
Rich in Washington:

I know what you mean. Most popular mashups these days go completely over my head, unless there's something kind of weird in it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
Krys O.:

Reminds me of spinning the dial on the old family Grundig as a kid.
Avatar 7:25pm
People Like Us:

when I hear something from now I think "oh that's from xxx mashup!"
  7:25pm
Phil:

Gwilly gets easier to listen too after awhile... ;-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
Rich in Washington:

Or the Girl Talk route; use the lowest-hanging-fruit in terms of grooves and bits of the most popular tunes imaginable.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
Andrew Waterloo:

I just find it unsettling that I can hear a song on the radio and usually be able to guess which artist it is withing two tries simply because I've scanned a magazine rack
Avatar 7:26pm
People Like Us:

yes he does, you're slowly sinking in the mud
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...an old joke deserves infinite retelling
...guy visits his old Dad @ the Home - they're all sitting around saying #s to each other & laughing uproariously. He asks his Dad what's up & is told, 'We've told the old jokes so much we just refer to them by # now. Try it!'
- so he says - '32 !!'
...No one laughs...
- Old Dad tells him - 'Well son - some people can tell a joke - some can't'...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Rich in Washington:

I love how suddenly Gwilly goes totally apeshit on a particular song and gives it maximum gusto.
  7:28pm
Phil:

Like being in a pot of water slowly brought up to boil...
Avatar 7:28pm
People Like Us:

there's a video in the left hand column - he shot it a couple of weeks ago to advertise this show
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
Krys O.:

Ding a ling!
Avatar 7:29pm
People Like Us:

btw if you like this you should listen to Nick The Bard singing on headphones on Kenny G's show from a few years back, it's great. I would have liked to have heard that WITH the music too though :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
Rich in Washington:

This chart sweep is making me aware of how much top 40 radio I was exposed to as a youngster - a lot.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
Andrew Waterloo:

It's like having your crush press up against you.... because he/she is making out with your friend.
Avatar 7:29pm
People Like Us:

SO much Paul McCartney in this Chart Sweep
Avatar 7:30pm
People Like Us:

yes, I know 95% of this
  7:30pm
ANNA:

SO BEAUTIFUL! LOVE YOU GWILLY!
  7:31pm
ANNA:

I love singing along with Gilly
  7:31pm
Daddy Rich:

This is f-ing awesome.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
Rich in Washington:

I love how he just gives the Hooga Hooga Hooga Shocka a cursory reading
  7:31pm
Cliff:

Paul and MJ were battling each other for a while there...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
Andrew Waterloo:

I haven't heard anything the music that Micheal Shelley calls a #1 hit yet
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I always say me & Top40 parted ways mid70s...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
Rich in Washington:

I think as he progresses through the 80s, into the 90s and the oughties, I will recognize less and less of it.
Avatar 7:33pm
People Like Us:

I got lost this century
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
dale:

just tuned in - god, this is good. sounds like it's fueled by caffeine, sugar and stout.
Avatar 7:34pm
People Like Us:

Top 40 - I lost track in about 1985
  7:34pm
Bluff Chill:

Anyone else detect utter contempt for all the Beatles tunes there!? Ha!
Avatar 7:34pm
People Like Us:

this is fuelled by cooking
  7:34pm
marc:

An old friend of mine introduced this to me in the 80s. He recorded on cassette and added to the chart sweep "medley" every time a new number one song charted on Billboard.
Avatar 7:35pm
People Like Us:

Oh Gwilly LOVES the Beatles!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- yerknow - why didn't TheRamones chart - all that...I would be taking the piss out of it all the way - he's a champ !...
Avatar 7:35pm
People Like Us:

do you still have the cassette, Marc?
  7:35pm
ANNA:

potential to become next justin bieber if we post these on youtube
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
dale:

vicki - meth cooking?
  7:36pm
Bluff Chill:

I hope one day to see him live again he is such enormous fun
Avatar 7:36pm
People Like Us:

one would think but if you check the video on the left it looks like polenta but maybe Gwilly will let me know and I'll tell you what fuelled it
  7:37pm
Phil:

dale: LOL!
Avatar 7:38pm
ranjit:

i've been cooking while listening to this, and it's going well, so i can attest that the connection is real.
  7:39pm
Phil:

I am in fact enjoying this - just sayin'
Avatar 7:39pm
People Like Us:

what are you cooking?
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tim:

Don't fear the subjectivity.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
groucho:

this second half is going a lot slower than the first half, probably because I don't know as many of the songs as I did in part 1. still laughing regularly though
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
dale:

only thing he doesn't do that i do is make up dirty lyrics to the songs. he does scat and improvise quite nicely though
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
dale:

this needs to be a marathon premium
Avatar 7:40pm
People Like Us:

Chart Sweep 2 is significantly shorter than Chart Sweep 1 - which would signify that the maker wasn't so interested in the latter decade
Avatar 7:40pm
People Like Us:

Gwilly knows the radio rules
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- exactly dale - he's an endurance athlete...
Avatar 7:41pm
People Like Us:

check some of the video links I'm putting on the left - some great stuff and lots of downloads/videos
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
dale:

i just microwaved a piece of vegetable pot pie i made a couple of nights ago, with some spinach salad on the side. washed down by vodka and tonic
Avatar 7:41pm
People Like Us:

damn I know - I have already submitted my marathon premium idea though
I wish it was this now
Avatar 7:42pm
ranjit:

I made lentil soup and rice with pepper butter and collard greens with potatoes and turnips.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
dale:

ranjit - i made lentil soup a few days ago and can't finish it. i have the worst gas from it. read that baking soda in the water helps
Avatar 7:44pm
People Like Us:

thanks for the food news everyone
Avatar 7:44pm
ranjit:

Ha! It helps to soak the lentils for a long time beforehand, and change the water a few times.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
Rich in Washington:

I have gotten to really appreciate bok choy lately. Plus, it's fun to say.
  7:44pm
tom:

Love the cheesy 80's production. Reminds me of pop music today except more memorable.
  7:44pm
Rueandfork:

This is perfect music. If I drink some chartreuse, it will be even more perfecter.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:45pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...he's just like us - he doesn't know the later ones either...
Avatar 7:45pm
People Like Us:

it helps to put the lentils down the toilet, cut out the middle man
Avatar 7:45pm
ranjit:

I sense we have a lentil negativist here
Avatar 7:46pm
People Like Us:

Gwilly is probably our average age, dare I say
Avatar 7:46pm
People Like Us:

where? where?
  7:46pm
Phil:

Vicki- THAT'S funny!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- also - it's like a runner in those last few yards...
Avatar 7:46pm
People Like Us:

what is our average age, people?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

..I'm 50 - so my average age has been 25.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:47pm
dale:

HA! down the toilet.....sad but true.

55 - ugh!
  7:47pm
Phil:

How about a poll of listener ages?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Rich in Washington:

I got my average down to 48, by working on my short game.
  7:48pm
Cliff:

35
Avatar 7:48pm
People Like Us:

go on then - tell us how old you are and we do a poll
  7:48pm
Phil:

i'm 54
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Andrew Waterloo:

I'm 35 we're right into my childhood right now
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People Like Us:

46
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ranjit:

he put a tombola in key largo!!
  7:49pm
tom:

I am 33. Just like J.C.
Avatar 7:49pm
People Like Us:

what will we do when we run out of recognisable music?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
dale:

i say the average fmu listener is 40s-50s, or the ne'er do wells and slag abouts who comment here are, anyway
Avatar 7:50pm
People Like Us:

I think Gwilly is 48
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People Like Us:

so he IS our average age!
  7:50pm
Suffolk Annie:

76!
Avatar 7:50pm
ranjit:

sing along to the 60 hz hum of our robot overlords?
  7:50pm
johnny cretaceous:

32 successful solar orbits. Kids table!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
Andrew Waterloo:

Yah.. I'd estimate late 40s early 50s too
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Nigh:

I guess I'm the youngest by a lot, 18 here.
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ranjit:

(50 hz over on your side)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
dale:

oh, actually i'm only 54 til october. phew!
Avatar 7:51pm
tim:

Stay tuned for unrecognizable music, as I (tim) fill in for Bethany in 10 minutes.
Avatar 7:51pm
People Like Us:

this is like Sissyfight. Remember Sissyfight?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
Andrew Waterloo:

Yah... Kids on the Block were a show and tell thing
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
dale:

gwilly has a nice bass-y timbre to his voice. makes the falsettos extra special and the barky grunts so sweet
Avatar 7:52pm
People Like Us:

Yes, thanks for board opping Tim - stay tuned, folks, he's filling in for Bethany at the top of the hour!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
Rich in Washington:

I've been enjoying that minor/major key change thing but many more modern songs re-done aren't familiar to me.
Avatar 7:53pm
ranjit:

I MADE SISSYFIGHT! Working on the re-releaase now!
Avatar 7:53pm
People Like Us:

yes, Gwilly does a good range, pitchwise
he's very good at rapping too, shame we can't go on a decade or at least into a different chart
Avatar 7:53pm
People Like Us:

what?!!!
Avatar 7:53pm
ranjit:

waaait, how is this like sissyfight? maybe you're thinking of a totally different sissyfight?
Avatar 7:54pm
People Like Us:

oh my god, me and friends were on sissyfight all the time (before it got taken over by kids)
how is this like sissyfight? a/s/l - the website game
Avatar 7:54pm
Mr. Lowry:

Recognizing one out of three--no four--and falling.
Avatar 7:54pm
Rueandfork:

33.
  7:55pm
Cliff:

I love hearing my subconscious barfing all over the radio waves.
Avatar 7:55pm
ranjit:

ah yes, that was me and my friends what made it. New version coming out in a month or two.
Avatar 7:55pm
People Like Us:

different sissyfight?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...no - *I* did a sissyfight - slap slap !!...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
Andrew Waterloo:

4 out of ever 5 and the fifth I could probably get if Gwilly wasn't drowning it out.
Avatar 7:56pm
People Like Us:

well I never
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People Like Us:

well let's resign ourselves to not knowing any of this music now
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
groucho:

26, am I the youngest?
  7:57pm
tom:

This must have been exhausting. Does he ever stop for a sip of water?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
dale:

can gwilly do this at the superbowl half time show?
Avatar 7:57pm
People Like Us:

yes, it's all a blur now
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People Like Us:

ha ha
Avatar 7:58pm
ranjit:

can gwilly do an all xmas-songs version of this for next yuletide?
Avatar 7:58pm
People Like Us:

your homework is to follow all those links I put in the lefthand column
you want xmas gwilly? remind me later
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- yeah - do we have start-stop edits - dale yer on it today...
Avatar 7:58pm
tim:

Hard act to follow.
Avatar 7:59pm
People Like Us:

yes, what will you do?
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People Like Us:

here goes Gwilly with his rapping
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
dale:

miss vicki - hoping the aunties make a repeat performance some day
  8:00pm
tom:

Right said Fred.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...holy crap - an hour...
Avatar 8:00pm
People Like Us:

yes was thinking about getting them back
Avatar 8:00pm
People Like Us:

thanks all!
Avatar 8:00pm
People Like Us:

byeeee
  8:00pm
Phil:

Thanks for the show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...having an FMU what the hell just happened moment...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:01pm
groucho:

I survived!
Avatar 8:01pm
People Like Us:

me too!
Avatar 8:01pm
ranjit:

whoo thanks vicki and gwilly!
Avatar 8:01pm
People Like Us:

goodnight all :)
Avatar 8:01pm
Rueandfork:

THNAKS POEPLE LIEK US!
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