Strategic GIF Initiative: Ken's show

Listener comments!

♥ 6:01am Ken:

Hello my friends!

6:28am F☇F☇ (:

Hola, Ken !

Early bird catches the huge gifs!

♥ 6:41am Ken:

You got that right f0f0. My goal is to make the page crash before the show begins.

♥ 7:37am Ken:

Pre-shpw suggestions welcome folks - let me know format also (CD,LP, Spotify, etc)

8:01am desdemono:

I am just kneeling in front of the Can Studio Equipment that now is part of a mediocre Rock'n Pop Museum (Gronau, Germany close to the Dutch border). But... there is an endless videotape playing a 1970 Can Concert in my hometown Soest. You can watch it here....www.youtube.com...

8:03am Okasa:

Morning Ken! Morning non Kens!

8:12am Cory:

Ken, do you have anything like Negativland? I'm trying to find more groups like them.

♥ 8:18am Ken:

Cory. try Ros Bobos.

♥ 8:22am Dan B From Upstate:

Morning, Ken. I went on amazon yesterday and there was a pop up showing that they will now take 0.5% of any purchase made on their website and donate it to a charity of your choosing. I did a quick search and saw that Auricle Communications was on the list, so now anytime I buy something on amazon, WFMU gets a little bump. Might wanna let the masses know.

♥ 8:25am Asheville Jon:

format suggestions: cassette and 8-track only

♥ 8:29am Ken:

Asheville Jon - I do love me some cassettes but a worse format for the freeform DJ was never conceived of. Dan - how do we do that without shilling for Amazon though?

8:30am Bickie:

Good morning from Switzerland Ken! Would love some Noah Creshevsky if you are in the mood.

♥ 8:30am Dan B From Upstate:

Wow. That's a really good point, Ken.

8:33am Cory:

Thanks Ken!

8:36am Robert:

What you do is say, "Some online retailers have a donation program...."

♥ 8:37am Ken:

Noah Creshevsky has been pulled.

♥ 8:38am Asheville Jon:

i hear ya Ken. Although i used to love what Dusty did with his cassette based shows before he went hollywood.

8:38am F☇F☇ (:

May I suggest The Ex? Perhaps I'm gonna see them live tonite!

♥ 8:38am Asheville Jon:

dusty being Clay of course

8:41am Robert:

Someone on Dan Bodah's comment thread Mon. night turned me on to the YouTube performances by Poopylungstuffing. She's one of TWO contemporary female singer-songwriters named Olivia Dvorak who play strings.

♥ 8:46am Ken:

But the Dusty shows on cassette are all pre-produced. That's the problem with cassettes, you can't use them live cause you cant easily find separate tracks.

8:47am Cory:

Family Circus meets True Detective.
timeisaflatcircus.tumblr.com

♥ 8:57am Asheville Jon:

i know the dusty shows were pre-produced. it was a pita to use cassettes when i did radio, but not an impossibility. i would think that in this modern era with all the technology available, a superhuman radio personality such as yourself could just use mind control or something to access tracks easily. maybe you could employ the powers of chuck norris for such a show in the future.

♥ 9:03am Guido from Cologne:

@ken
Old friend of mine (Don Campau) did/does whole shows with cassettes since mid-80ies. Of course you have to know in advance what to play.

9:03am Cory:

i wonder if Fred is any relation to Vic

9:03am Mark S:

I had a cassette player that found the gaps between songs

♥ 9:03am Guido from Cologne:

Good morning und guten TZAG Ken and everyone here and out there!

♥ 9:05am Sem Chumbo:

Hey, Ken. What the phoque?

9:05am Brendan:

Hi ken and all

♥ 9:09am common:

ken. all. wednesday.

9:09am fred von helsing:

sadly those are not the Peanuts, spotting Mothra

♥ 9:09am bbell:

Good morning hiccuping seal with superior balancing skill set!

9:10am bibi:

hi ken & woken.
@sans plomb, you are in a francophile mood lately.

♥ 9:10am Ken:

Morning everybody! It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

♥ 9:10am Guido from Cologne:

In order to make it complete:
Here's the Kraftwerk 1970 live in Soest www.youtube.com...

I heard through certain channels, that it's the German (and French) TV people themselves, who put their stuff "illegally" on YouTube. Just in case you wonder abou the good quality.

9:10am glenn:

oh look, it's seal. where's heidi klum?

9:11am bibi:

heidi wont hurt, she's hard like a stone.

9:12am bibi:

like a rock, argh, poor english bibi...

9:13am Brendan:

Ken id like some Khlam in the live format. Shall i call the guys and tell em we're getting the band together?

9:13am bibi:

but im proud, it took me more than a minute to feel nauseous staring at the muffins gif...

♥ 9:14am Ken:

That's what I thought too Fred - who the hell are they, some Peanuts tribute group?!

♥ 9:14am common:

great gifs as always, ken.

9:16am fred von helsing:

probly Ultraman groupies ?

♥ 9:17am dc pat:

probably the most reasonable mashup ever.

9:17am listener scott:

If FMU goes to an all-cassette format might I suggest as a future premium a WFMU Pencil, not designed for writing, but for re-spooling the cassette tape.

9:18am nellie:

You are Ken!

9:20am Brendan:

Love the set Ken, you're killin' it - who needs requests. Just a man and his traktor.

♥ 9:20am Asheville Jon:

gonna see Kraftwerk at Moogfest soon

♥ 9:20am Ken:

That is true Nellie, I am.

9:21am Elisa in SPAIN! :) <3 <3 <3:

HOLA!!! I just moved to BARCELONA!!! It's a trip listening to Ken in Spain!! Cheers! :)

9:22am Elisa In Italy:

FUCK ITALIA!!! :)

♥ 9:23am Ken:

Welcome to Spain Elisa! I believe you and everything

9:23am Elisa In Spain. :) ♥ ♥ ♥::

♥ 9:23am dc pat:

Nice Elisa.. I just got back from Costa Rica. Fuck everyplace else!

♥ 9:23am Guido from Cologne:

Elefantenjager = Elephant-hunters

9:23am nellie:

I was referring to that Sexy song :)

9:24am bibi:

@fvh, they are pointing at thereal ken, holuto no ken.
@guido, did the girls have a specific accent, it sounded very understandable to me...

9:24am Elisa In Spain. :) ♥ ♥ ♥::

If you want I can take a photo of myself in front of the Primavera Music Festival and post it for you if you don't believe me.

9:24am bibi:

HOKUTO no ken, bibi cant type properly today...

9:25am F☇F☇:

Ole, Elisa!

Dc pat became a tico!?

9:25am bibi:

@elisa, aint you a bit early for primavera ?

9:25am Sam:

Good morning everyone! Wow, all of those gifs make me feel dizzy and nauseous! Well done.

♥ 9:25am Guido from Cologne:

@bibi
They are very "Hochdeutsch" (dialect-free clean official German) in an infantile way.

♥ 9:26am common:

can i move to barcelona? i wonder.

9:26am Elisa In Spain. :) ♥ ♥ ♥:

HOLA F☇F☇

♥ 9:26am common:

ken: sorry about the junior dad thing.

9:26am F☇F☇:

OK. Elisa, not that I don't believe you. But, quick, tell me what can you see outside from the window?

♥ 9:27am Guido from Cologne:

This version is cool.

♥ 9:28am dc pat:

I too want to move to Barcelona. Now. Are things less stupid there?

9:28am Brendan:

Love the tempo, this is gonna be a hit

♥ 9:28am dc pat:

this is definitely an improvement on the Beatles version

9:28am Elisa In Spain. :) ♥ ♥ ♥:

Ken is the seal hiccuping?

F☇F☇ It's sunny and see a long street with a garage on the left and graffiti corner on the right. I'm in HEAVEN. :)

♥ 9:29am dc pat:

clicky star on the moving beatles..

9:29am Brendan:

I feel like i can do tai chi to this song

9:29am bibi:

except mccartneys vocals, i dont see much to dislike on the original ?

9:30am Dave B:

Morning Ken and Ken's Krew

♥ 9:30am AnAnonymousParty:

I'll bet this song is better once it shifts into second gear.

♥ 9:30am Ken:

Yes Elisa, I like to think the seal is indeed hiccupping.

♥ 9:31am Ken:

Second gear?

♥ 9:31am Guido from Cologne:

John sang on the original.

9:32am F☇F☇:

Elisa,

A street with a garage on the left and a graffiti on the right?

That's Barcelona ideed! Bienvenida!

9:33am bibi:

@guido, thats exactly what i meant ;))

♥ 9:33am dc pat:

I don't mind original, just like that one better now.

♥ 9:34am Guido from Cologne:

i must say, when i was a little school kid... good old Beatles provided some hard to take lessons in musical tastes, but all in all worthwhile. "Come Together" was a long-time-un-favourite.

♥ 9:35am Ken:

Yeah, I'm a life-long Beatles fan, but I've always hated Come Together for some unknown reason.

♥ 9:36am dc pat:

There was some discussion recently on the internets about the worst Beatles tunes. Come Together was never mentioned for some reason.

9:36am Elisa In Spain. :) ♥ ♥ ♥:

Ken if for some crazy reason you could help me get tickets (I will pay obviously) or any contacts to the Primavera Music Festival I would love to go! I'm sad WFMU won't be there this year.

♥ 9:36am dc pat:

...this cover is also great.

9:36am bibi:

the structure and even the sound of come together are quite divergent compared to most of the beatles repertoire. it has always been a polemic track for that.

9:38am Mark S:

something from Bongwater next?

♥ 9:38am Rev. Turnip Druid:

Mornin' troops.
Hey, yer humble rev is in this husik tune. Ancient history.

♥ 9:40am dc pat:

Nice Rev. Way to be.

♥ 9:40am Ken:

Wow Rev, you're actually singing background on this!

♥ 9:41am common:

nice, rev!

♥ 9:42am Roberto:

Happy Pesach y'all. I want bread real bad.

9:42am Elisa In Italy:

PRIMAVERA SOUND...FESTIVAL HERE I COME!!!

♥ 9:42am Rev. Turnip Druid:

just a few everybodys & a few baba-shoop-shoops, plus a few noises on sampler. That was Lida's first LP. Million years ago. Fun stuff.

♥ 9:42am dc pat:

Mark S: your pic reminds me of that pic of Brooke Shields smokin weed with HR of Bad Brains. Ever see that? www.artifacting.com...

♥ 9:44am Rev. Turnip Druid:

and HOLY CRAP, i missed the Muffins. From my 2nd favorite LP of theirs. I swear to god I'll never be late again.

♥ 9:44am Roberto:

I went to grade school with Brooke.

9:44am glenn:

oblidi, oblida. easily the worst of the worst.

9:44am Mark S:

dc pat, yes I've seen it

♥ 9:44am dc pat:

..did you smoke weed with her?

9:44am Cory:

thanks Ken, you rock

♥ 9:45am dc pat:

@glenn: now THAT I can get behind. Hate that tune.

♥ 9:45am Roberto:

No such luck.

♥ 9:45am Guido from Cologne:

I used to hate "Drive My Car" even more ... until I got into R&B and then with the help of the classic "loudness"-button on my old stereo it was a relevation: gee, what a bass player!

9:46am Mark S:

never smoked weed with Brooke

♥ 9:46am Ken:

Im with Glenn - Ob La Di Ob La Da. Jesus.

9:47am Dave B:

@FvH - some advanced google image searching ... those "Peanuts" wanna be's are from the group "The W"

en.wikipedia.org...

♥ 9:48am egal:

I'm not a friend of Rocky Raccoon.

♥ 9:48am dc pat:

I miss the loudness button...

♥ 9:49am dc pat:

lot of clicky star this morning

9:49am Mark S:

Ob La Di Ob La Da worse than Maxwell's Silver Hammer?

♥ 9:49am Guido from Cologne:

I must say:
I LOVE the idea of having "Ob La Di Ob La Da" and "Revolution 9" on one album!
In 70ies Germany such things were important!
Really!

9:49am bibi:

@glenn, the intro is relentless, the bass is so big on that fanfare groove. then the lyrics...
the lyrics.

9:51am glenn:

much much worse. maxwell's silver hammer is like mozart compared to ob li di ob li da.

9:52am glenn:

of course, the common denominato is that the worst beatles songs are ALL mccartney songs.

9:52am fred von helsing:

roger that, Dave B !

9:53am KOTJ:

39 Clocks...flashback song of the day.

♥ 9:53am Rob W:

I'm Dreaming of a White Pesach! Wait... it's no dream... it's REAL! (At least, in our backyard here in Hoboken.) Photo: tinyurl.com...

♥ 9:53am dc pat:

yeah Paul wrote a lot of stupid songs but he was a masterful pop musician.

♥ 9:54am common:

rocky raccoon is the worst. and glass onion...

♥ 9:54am dc pat:

good to hear the Ming hasn't tried to upgrade the quality of his music...

9:54am Sam:

I heard this guy on the radio who could name all four Beatles off the top of his head - very impressive.

♥ 9:54am jamesie:

My mate Sexton

♥ 9:55am dc pat:

the self-referential stuff is hard to take but I kind of like Glass Onion.

9:55am fred von helsing:

@common yup I think ya pegged'em

♥ 9:56am egal:

Bungalow Bill thumbs down too.

♥ 9:57am Guido from Cologne:

just to put it:
whole white album is great and Glass Onion is one of my faves from the very beginning.

9:58am Sam:

Bungalow Bill is brilliant. It skewers the old militaristic macho British culture.

♥ 9:58am dc pat:

huh. I think the title of this tune translates to "Mishima and Lipstick"

9:58am bibi:

is that some boredoms side/residual/project ?

9:58am KOTJ:

Rocky Raccoon... They're no Fall.

♥ 9:58am Guido from Cologne:

@Sam
agree!

♥ 10:00am dc pat:

sounds like it bibi

♥ 10:00am Ken:

Aint anybody feeling this Gezan? Jesus! It's crazy.

10:01am bibi:

ken, asking if somehow linked to boredoms means what it means, it is starclicked if that is yr question.

♥ 10:01am dc pat:

I AM KEN!!!! I wanna see these guys... (I don't think any Boredoms are in this group..)

10:01am Mark S:

I'm digging it

♥ 10:01am Stevel:

I'd be feeling the music if the gif hadn't possessed my soul on behalf of Satan.

10:02am Cheri Pi:

I'm feeling it. And I'm also hungover from BT's show yesterday. This helps immensely

10:03am paula pc:

felt it utterly

♥ 10:03am Jeff:

I'm feeling it's awfully... crashy for the morning.

10:04am Sam:

That was bad ass!

♥ 10:04am Foolbert:

I'm ignorant: in the belovèd "Down at Mississippi" by RIAA, what's the rap that's being played against Howlin Wolf's version of "Down in the Bottom"? Thanks.

10:04am Brendan:

Keili is gonna love that

10:04am bibi:

pat, you are ken ? so nellie was eventually wrong.

♥ 10:04am dc pat:

dang. That was killer.

♥ 10:05am dc pat:

well, yeah. Now that you mention it, I AM Ken.

♥ 10:07am Vivian:

'Love Me Do' ranks up there with fingers on a chalkboard

♥ 10:07am common:

i love come together.

♥ 10:08am dc pat:

Waiwaiwaiwait a minute. Love Me Do? That's a perfect pop song. It may be a bit dated but it's classic!

10:08am Mark S:

Gezan:

www.piccadillyrecords.com...

10:08am bibi:

vivian, im with you.

♥ 10:09am common:

thanks, fred. just me.

10:09am F☇F☇:

DVA! The former Russian band!

♥ 10:09am Ken:

Foolbert, I wanna know too.

10:10am mkostek:

Maxwell's Silver Hammer--it goes on forever, and finished off the band--John hated it. "That’s Paul’s. I hate it. ‘Cuz all I remember is the track – he made us do it a hundred million times. He did everything to make it into a single and it never was and it never could’ve been, but he put guitar licks on it and he had somebody hitting iron pieces and we spent more money on that song than any of them in the whole album. I think." Even George called it "fruity."

♥ 10:10am Ken From Hyde Park:

I am a Ken.

♥ 10:10am Guido from Cologne:

It seems to me like Dva do not sing in Czech.
I have the LP now.
On the lyric insert there are two translations:
One to English and one to what seems Czech ..
???

♥ 10:12am dc pat:

it's almost like Paul never grew up.

♥ 10:12am Jeff:

Yeah, everybody needs to keep listening through into Duane's show (as if anybody wouldn't, given the choice) for the Arto Lindsay set.

Imagine, if you will: an angelic song in Portuguese... punctuated by great crunching improvised guitar explosions which hit you like steel-jacketed granite.

It could be like that. You'll have to listen and find out. But if it were like that... it'd be pretty great.

www.flickr.com...

10:14am marmalade kitty:

for no one

♥ 10:15am Foolbert:

I've always hated "Hey Jude, but that doesn't mean it's bad; I don't love "Obla-di... " but its their only calypso and it's decently constructed. I'd say that "Good Night" is a strong contender.

Related: is "Across the Universe" Lennon's attempt to shew that he could write a better George Harrison song than could Harrison?

10:16am marmalade kitty:

It makes doctor robert sound twice as good!

♥ 10:17am dc pat:

Yeah, Hey Jude and Let It Be drive me NUTS. Every time they come on I just wait for the 4 minutes or so to be up.

10:17am Uke Goldberg:

Hey Jude is bad.

10:18am Uke Goldberg:

I like the Faces rendition of Let It Be.

10:18am marmalade kitty:

take a bad song & make it better

10:19am Maria D:

I forgot about this Maccoll song! Nostalgia rushing in.

10:20am Brendan:

Rip km

♥ 10:21am dc pat:

everybody seems to hate Mr. Moonlight too but I always liked that one. but doesn't really count cuz it's a cover.

10:21am Dave B:

@FvH - deeper digging... Here's the video for the song "恋のバカンス" (Vacation of Love) by The Double U. The gif is taken from about 2:34 in...

www.youtube.com...

♥ 10:22am Vivian:

@dc pat- just my opinion. I'm not saying it's a terrible song, for me it grates on my nerves. I use to like the Beatles but now, not at all. However, my husband loves them. In all honesty, he'll put on White Album, which I kinda like but can only listen to a few songs.

♥ 10:22am Rev. Turnip Druid:

I tend to steer clear of Beatles conversations but I'll admit to digging "i want you (she's so heavy)" -- it's ponderous as hell. Pretty much the anti-ob-la-di-ob-la-da...

10:24am dk:

don't need much than 'letter from an occupant" to prove that the new pornographers are the best damn thing in pop music. everything since then has just gilded the lily.

♥ 10:25am Rev. Turnip Druid:

Also: I want to be a hiccuping sea-lion when I grow up.
....is that thing a sea-lion?
Or Clay Pigeon's "corpulent britisher" maybe?

♥ 10:25am dc pat:

@Viv: yep, I hear you. It's kind of hard liking a group that's so fucking famous/popular. But the Beatles are part of my family I guess...no getting rid of them.

♥ 10:26am Roberto:

My dad bought very few pop/rock albums during the '60s (mostly Simon and Garfunkel) but he did pick up the "White Album" and Abbey Road. I once asked him why he bought them when he didn't generally care for that kind of music. He said he wanted to see what all the fuss was about -- and after listening to both, determined that it was about nothing.

♥ 10:26am dc pat:

Rev: think it's a seal. Sea lions are cute and seals are kind of weird looking.

10:27am earrie:

Is this all song-I-hate-always. Or song that's lousy if heard too often.
The blanket alls seem skewed.

Me, I'd put something like ob-la-di in the tasty and in-context (whatever the hell that is) occasional file, like ketchup.

♥ 10:27am dc pat:

My dad, for some reason, decided he was an Iron Butterfly fan at one point. Bought 2 albums by them and never really listened to them. But I did.

10:28am fred von helsing:

@Dave B yer hired !

10:28am glenn:

definitely a seal. cod decimating pricks of misery that they are.

♥ 10:28am Foolbert:

Maybe:

Paul never could grow up because he's stuck trying to get the approval a fourteen-year-old boy might still want from his mother if he hadn't at that point started to rebel...and it's harder to rebel against a very sick parent. It's how he later became `everybody's mother's favourite Beatle`.

At that age, Lennon had already constructed a defensive shell rooted in the knowledge that he would never get that approval, even as he retained a core desperate for it.

10:28am still b/p:

Oc....to...pus's....Garden goes near the bad end of the tolerability range for the lads' music. Of course, it might belong in a whole different category of assessment.

♥ 10:28am dc pat:

@earrie: that's what I was thinking. That's the problem with the Beatles, just played way too much. Hey Jude falls into that category for me.

♥ 10:30am Rev. Turnip Druid:

Clearly I'm not up on my seal-spotting. Around here the most exotic creatures are alley rats. And Hill interns all goofed-up on hopballs.

♥ 10:31am Jeff:

About those Beatles... thinking about it, I realize I don't have many defined critical opinions about their songs. There are some of their songs I've definitely gravitated toward over the years, and others I tend not to play, but somehow they've managed to be so much a part of the social and musical fabric I grew up in that it's hard to see them from enough distance to even develop the same sorts of opinions I have about most other music.

Probably another of the many reasons I'd be a terrible music critic.

♥ 10:34am dc pat:

@Jeff: exactly. part of the family..

10:36am Dave B:

Ken - here's a Tumblr you should follow:

okkultmotionpictures.tumblr.com

"EXCERPTS | A collection of Animated GIFs excerpted from out-of-copyright/unknown/historical moving images. A digital curation project for the diffusion of open knowledge."

10:37am Cheri Pi:

PINK FLOYD, izzatchoo???

♥ 10:38am Sem Chumbo:

About your hiccuping grey or harbour seal: it looks like one of the fat phoques (as we semi-bilingual locals like to say) I see most days, taking a breather from chasing escaped farmed salmon from the pens not far from here. As @glenn mentioned, these things are fish vacuum cleaners, taking a belly bite from every fish and moving on:-(

♥ 10:38am Andrew Waterloo:

I just have a lack of enthusiasm for the Beatles. I think it's partially because I've never shared the level of excitement that most people have for them.

♥ 10:40am MichelleinGreenBay:

Greetings, friends!

♥ 10:40am Jeff:

@still b/p: by some rational, critically-distant judgement, yes, Octopus's Garden is probably a thoroughly ridiculous song... but I have such a great memory of a gangly friend at a party decades and decades ago galumphing around the room to it with such complete joy, that the song still brings me a smile completely independent of its musical merits or lack thereof.

♥ 10:41am Vivian:

@dc pat- I don't mean to offend anyone, including you. Just my opinion.

10:44am Cory:

now comes the part of the day where I need to decided what game I'm going to play

♥ 10:44am dc pat:

@Viv: no offense at all! I'm just talkin. Really I don't care if Love Me Do blows up into a million pieces. Just a dumb pop song.

♥ 10:45am Guido from Cologne:

One of the oddest things (that was back in the 80ies) , was to have people from the British hardcore-punk scene for a visit and they appeared to be absolutely fond of PIKNK FLOYD "THE WALL". They continued to ask "Can we put on THE WALL please?"

10:45am KOTJ:

Sun song sounds like a twisted Everybody's Talkin'

10:46am Cory:

ugh, The Wall is the 2nd worst Floyd album. Final Cut being the absolute worst.

10:46am AZ Dave:

Hey Jude, A Long and Winding Road, Let It Be -- pure pretentious evil. In the same vein as the worst song ever -- Bridge Over Troubled Water.

10:49am Cheri Pi:

I thought it sounded like Margaritaville

10:49am F☇F☇:

I read today Neil Young's Pongo (Poco? Pogo? Don't remember) project is the third largest one in the history of Kickstarter.

10:50am fred von helsing:

beatles... I've read a claim that Paperback Writer basically invented the format of the short pop song

10:50am glenn:

pono.

10:51am F☇F☇:

Do you guys think there's enough market for listeners interested in lossless quality music? I have the impression kids today don't care about quality especially when listening to music via their smartphones, tablets, laptops, etc.

10:51am earrie:

I can't listen to the Beatles tunes our (jackass) prime minister crooned anymore -- With a little help from my friends and Hey Jude. Gah.

10:52am F☇F☇:

Pono! Thanks, glenn.

10:53am glenn:

singing hey jude to a bunch of jews seemed a little, shall we say. clueless.

♥ 10:53am Andrew Waterloo:

I don't think there's a market that involves paying a premium for it. They've tried it before with SACD and DVD Audio and the response has always been crickets.

♥ 10:57am Rev. Turnip Druid:

Massively digging this BLEnsemble ...

♥ 10:58am Rev. Turnip Druid:

AND this bit from the 'tapper.

♥ 10:58am mariano:

@earrie: where do you live, what country has a singing prime minister?

♥ 10:59am Guido from Cologne:

Bren't Lewiis Ensemble has something ... yes ... trippy ...

10:59am F☇F☇ (:

Yeah, Andrew. I suspect the listener segment that cares about lossless is shrinking year by year, and it is mainly composed by lonely hippies audiophiles.

♥ 10:59am dc pat:

EX!!!

10:59am glenn:

it's the jackass part that's important. canada.

11:00am F☇F☇ (:

Hey, it's the Ex!!!! Thanks Ken!

11:01am Cheri Pi:

EEEXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

♥ 11:01am Ken:

Yeah f0f0, I think Neil's pono venture is doomed, unfortunately, Despite him raising 6 million on Kickstarter.

11:02am Cory:

is that a bioshock gif?

11:02am Mark S:

I don't think Neil is lonely

♥ 11:02am Andrew Waterloo:

@F<F< (:, I suspect that the listener segment that cares about lossless, just like the one that cared about constant bit rate has always been composed by lonely hippies, over zealous nerds, and audiophiles.

♥ 11:03am dc pat:

What Pi said. Trying to listen during a meeting...shhhhhh....

♥ 11:03am mariano:

@glenn: Thanks. The comment made me think of old presidential campaigns in the Philippines, where the candidates and their spouses were expected to sing full-on duets in evening dress during campaign events.

♥ 11:04am dc pat:

"Yeah, boss, I agree...and I'm Moved TOWARD A STATE OF SHOCK!!!"

♥ 11:04am Andrew Waterloo:

Does anyone believe that Neil Young still has high-fidelity hearing?

♥ 11:05am mariano:

This Sound and Fury works really well with the Ti Tho gif.

♥ 11:09am Ken:

Neil Young not lonely? Neil COINED the phrase "lonesome hippy," in the song "Roll Another Number"

11:10am F☇F☇ (:

Still I think the Pono project has a chance to pivot and perhaps build something valuable for the new generations out of the music player that looks like a Toblerone.

♥ 11:11am Jeff:

I don't see where some special weird pono thing fits in the world, although I can't say I completely understand what they're trying to do.

There already exist good-sounding portable and home music playing gizmos which play the lossless recordings (usually delivered as flac files) which are commercially available increasingly broadly. hdtracks.com keeps adding mainstream labels, and I see some labels' digital-download stored adding flacs as an option.

That seems like progress; I just don't know how many of The Kids will care. Some, maybe.

11:11am F☇F☇ (:

Really?! And I thought the phrase was coined by Andy Breckman!

11:12am Ralphine:

Speaking of Kickstarter, whatever happened to that Kickstarter-funded movie about WFMU?

11:12am Brendan:

This tune reminds of a girl i knew called Kandy Kane.

11:13am Mark S:

But is Neil lonely still?

♥ 11:14am Guido from Cologne:

I heard Neil quit weed?

11:14am Ralphine:

Does Pono sound as good as vinyl?

11:14am bibi:

ken, where all that amazon kickstarter (marathon) money falls ? is there some underground massive gif factory you are trying to hide from us ?

♥ 11:14am Ken:

The WFMU Movie has been retitled "Sex and Broadcasting," and will be release in a few months. It's a;; done and it's great, but the filmmaker is trying to line up distribution and a film fest for it to premiere at .

♥ 11:15am Guido from Cologne:

Charlie!

♥ 11:15am dc pat:

MINGUS!!!!

11:16am Ralphine:

Thanks.

♥ 11:17am Andrew Waterloo:

Pono recreates the natural resonance of vinyl using 60s Kazoo technology.

11:17am Ralphine:

This is weird. I hadn't listened to that Fred Frith song or to Mingus for a LONG time, but I've listened to them both a bunch in the past week.

11:17am Prashanth:

Hey Ken! Is your show available as a podcast? If not, why not?

11:17am Dave B:

Ken - tell him to hit up Oscilloscope Laboratory...

www.oscilloscope.net...

11:17am Mark S:

Mingus hated being called Charlie

♥ 11:18am Vivian:

@ Guido - true and alcohol. Neil admitted to having a hard time wrting songs without weed. I'm halfway through Neil's book 'Waging Heavy Peace'. Ken, your review of the book is correct - he does bounce around quite a bit.

♥ 11:18am mariano:

That's awesome about the movie, was wondering about that myself.

♥ 11:18am ChrisB.:

Ken, you okay? Much of the music this morning has been, well, how should I put it: GOOD.

11:19am Mark S:

Neil and weed:

www.theguardian.com...

♥ 11:20am Jeff:

Okay, so I just had a look at the Pono site. It's Just Another Audiophile Portable Music Player.

Why hope for some future magical Pono when you can just buy, say, an Astell & Kern today?

www.astellnkern.com

♥ 11:20am Ken:

Yeah Chris, I noticed that myself... not sure what is wrong.. Prashanth, my show's not available as a podcast but you can download it via the WFMU app, or you can email me and I can get you more info.

11:21am jan:

every now and again a track you play pierces the attention I am giving the work at hand, and the music comes clearly to the front of my consciousness. This Mingus cut does exactly that.

11:22am Prashanth:

@Ken: Thanks for the hint. Keep rockin!

♥ 11:22am ken:

Thanks Jan!

11:27am Cory:

i'm digging this

11:28am Robert:

Gary Cooper & Walter Brennan played air baseball in "Meet John Doe".

11:30am Brendan:

Ken if your gettin funky, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89ZVXqw770A

♥ 11:31am Guido from Cologne:

Volker Kriegel German Guitarist of Dave Pike Set -fame !!!

11:31am Walter Brennan:

Yep, I reckon that's so, but my pitchin' was off that day because my hip was hitchin' up on me.

11:32am Mark S:

Volker Kriegel

www.allmusic.com...

♥ 11:32am Guido from Cologne:

The track is from his 1st solo album

11:32am AZ Dave:

Looks like a balance wheel around the archduke's neck.

11:34am still b/p:

And Cooper and Brennan jammed on harmonica and ocarina -- William Tell Overture.

11:34am fred von helsing:

keepin' it reelin'. and us too.

11:35am Bickie:

yeah Creshevs comin in thanks Ken!

11:36am Jimmy Wa:

Speaking of Walter Brennan, anyone have any nude pics of him? I'll pay top $

11:36am jan:

Reel to reel! good time to post that gif I sent to you.

♥ 11:36am danjoseph:

Who is Noah Howard??

11:37am berlusconi's nose:

I worked with Arto a few months ago on a performance. Man, he was a mess! He couldn't even remember how to use his pedals!!

♥ 11:39am Kat in Chicago:

This Noah Creshevsky business is delightful.

♥ 11:40am Guido from Cologne:

@danjoseph
audio art veteran

11:41am Brendan:

I think Wayne Butane studied under this guy in Nepal for 5 yrs

11:42am Brendan:

Just a gut feeling

♥ 11:42am Asheville Jon:

this is kinda boring

11:43am bibi:

berlusconi's nose, yr pseudo name just ruined my day, hopefully you declined having a graphic avatar ;)

♥ 11:44am danjoseph:

I know who Noah Creshevsky is, but not Noah Howard...which artist are we listening to Ken?

♥ 11:44am Ken From Hyde Park:

My browser is becoming sluggish and unresponsive. If you add some Adobe Flash animation to the page, that should put it over the edge.

11:45am Cory:

thank you again, Ken!

♥ 11:45am Ken:

IM becoming sluggish and unresponsive, Ken.

Dan, that was indeed Noah Creshevsky... the auto-suggest feature hijacked my Noah.

♥ 11:46am Sem Chumbo:

@bibi: now that you mention it, I am always reminded of Benjamin Netanyahu when I read your name. No so much when I see your avatar;)

11:47am berlusconi's nose:

Well, I've just been consigned to work at an old folks home near Milan so my days of glory are over...

♥ 11:49am Guido from Cologne:

LOVED THE SHOW!
Must run (to be in time 4 Quilt live show) ...
CU later!

11:50am bibi:

if physics are still to be trusted, this fat seal should have slipped on the right side long ago. and his ribs would hurt so much. poor boy.
@sans plomb, reading yr name without knowing much portuguese and noticing the giraffe, i was pretty sure you were kenyan...

♥ 11:50am mariano:

See ya Guido, bis bald!

♥ 11:50am Ken From Hyde Park:

Sluggishness an unresponsiveness for all!

♥ 11:51am Sem Chumbo:

Thanks, Ken, been very fine and rewarding, especially now with the agony bags blaring. See ya!

11:53am Mark S:

never trust physics

11:54am adrian in mpls:

Destroy all monsters!!!!

♥ 11:55am Ken From Hyde Park:

"That's not a snail," he replied, sluggishly.

♥ 11:56am Sem Chumbo:

@bibi: on the Internet, nobody knows if you are from Kenya or not.

11:56am Cecile:

Looks like I missed a good one...

11:56am Green Mountain Man Mark:

plenty of sunshine but cold today.

11:57am Cecile:

Shore.

11:57am earrie:

Thanks for the fine listening Ken.

Here's hoping you and Scrappy receive a call by a female singing 'nobody does it better' auf Deutcsch this eve.

11:57am Brendan:

Thanks be to Ken

11:57am bibi:

nice ending,
bis spaeter, heer ken.

11:57am Mark S:

how bout singing "Nobody does it better" in German?

11:58am Cory:

see you guys next wednesday

12:00pm F☇F☇ (:

Thank you, Ken! Tremendous show. I was left speechless and lossless

♥ 12:34pm Foolbert:

F☇F☇ (:

...and as the hippie audiophiles age, we will generally lose the ability to tell the difference, unless the compression lossage constructively interferes with our ears'/brains'.