What's That Spell?: Ken's show

Listener comments!

♥ 6:20am -Ken:

Hello there

6:31am Jack:

Good morning Ken. Are you flooded there? we got a lot o' rain last night. Ending now, I think, I hope.

♥ 6:32am -Ken:

No flooding here at home but I bet plenty of Hoboken flooded.

8:04am cory:

mornin' all

♥ 8:21am Asheville Jon:

morning.
Ken, please play something that will hurt my head and disturb my neighbors. Thanks

♥ 8:23am Ken From Hyde Park:

Yikes...the weather report mentions that tropical storm Joaquin is on the loose and possibly heading this way. More rain is on the way.

♥ 8:26am -Ken:

Fucking Joaquin. No thank you.

8:34am Brendan:

Good (wet) morning Ken and folks

♥ 8:41am Marcel M:

Morning Ken and friends

8:43am cory:

way to go ken. you pissed of Joaquin, he's a hurricane now.

♥ 8:45am -Ken:

Shit! It just got upgraded to a hurricane. But it looks like it will make landfall south of the NYC area. Like the Carolinas maybe. Looking at YOU Asheville Jon.

♥ 8:50am Asheville Jon:

Meh, it could hit the coast and be sunny here. Been raining here for almost a week. Another storm is no big deal.

8:52am Okasa:

Good morning everybody. Everybody everywhere.

♥ 8:55am -Ken:

That's the spirit Jon!

8:55am Michael:

Hello Ken and fellow wet people.

♥ 9:01am Ken From Hyde Park:

Here we go!

♥ 9:01am Andrew Waterloo:

Never considered that the awful weather could be connected to hurricanes

9:02am cee:

is that jimmy osmond on lead vocal?

♥ 9:02am AnAnonymousParty:

Yay, same day, same time, same show, same task.

9:02am Neg-guh-tor:

Crazy, babies!

9:03am Torbjørn:

.. and they're off, a strong start right out of the gate. Fellow Kenianists, for those who are about rock, I salute you.

♥ 9:04am Marcel M:

Woahhhhhh!

9:04am r i s k y:

Yeeeeeeahhhhh!!!! Go Ken!!!

♥ 9:04am Ken From Hyde Park:

Need someone to supply a GIF from that insipid Marie Osmond diet product commercial. She looks really fake.

9:07am Losermom:

My time of Zen is finally here. By that I mean Ken's show.

9:08am Losermom:

Oh, yeah, and GO BERNIE!!!!

♥ 9:08am -Ken:

Honored to be your three hours of Zen, Losermom

9:13am Pip Von Birmingham:

Gnod! This bodes well....

♥ 9:17am Ken From Hyde Park:

@-Ken - How did your secret meeting with the pope go? Did he request Jandek or Khlam?

9:18am Pip Von Birmingham:

Did you ever get to the bottom of the new jersey tsunami warning last week? Got me all scared for a minute.

9:18am Pip Von Birmingham:

Did you ever get to the bottom of the new jersey tsunami warning last week? Got me all scared for a minute.

9:20am Okasa:

So, at what point do you move the station to Ohio? We rarely get hurricanes out here in the hinterlands.

9:21am cee:

jean-e rotten

9:21am Slazenger:

What kind of mania is Ken going to perpetrate this week. Don't play any crap though. Okay?

9:21am mto:

je suis un anarchiste

♥ 9:22am -Ken:

Pip, I missed that. Was it real?

9:23am Brendan:

Do you still have the FMU drone . It would make an auspicious hurricane reconnaissance craft. You could retrofit it with speakers ala the Apocolypse Now choppers and play Khlam

9:24am mto:

Oui bien sûr

9:24am bobdoesthings:

good morning

♥ 9:27am Webhamster Henry:

I like American Accents.

9:28am Pip Von Birmingham:

I forget which show it was (in the early morning NJ time) but a tsunami warning flashed up on your news feed or something. I managed to perpertrate a panic on facebook...

9:29am bobdoesthings:

iggy pulls it off.. i think

9:36am Brendan:

French music will only further irritate and attract a storm named Joaquin

♥ 9:39am Webhamster Henry:

nice dump button there!

♥ 9:40am -Ken:

Thank you. But that was no dump button. that was a real time edit to silencio by hitting unprogram.

♥ 9:41am -Ken:

Pip, what day was that?

9:42am Listener Robert:

I appreciate that in cases like that, you've done the necessary research to deliver to us every split second of lyrics the FCC entitles us to.

9:45am Velvet Frog:

@Ken I heard that tsunami report too. I'm pretty sure it was last Tuesday, maybe during Sasha's show? But then again, my memory is faulty.

9:45am Losermom:

It was just a test that freaked some folks out.
pix11.com...

9:46am bobdoesthings:

DVA! ?!

9:47am Velvet Frog:

looks like my memory failed me again.

9:47am Brendan:

Dva ... Ya!

♥ 9:47am -Ken:

Thanks everybody for the info on the erroneous tsunami warning/ Jaysuss! Cant believe that happened. Glad I didnt hear it!

9:50am Brendan:

Sweet ! Dva in Maryland Saturday!

♥ 9:51am -Ken:

Where, Brendan?!

♥ 9:53am SeanG:

COCKTAIL!

♥ 9:54am Lizardner Dave:

I miss Kenny G.

9:54am bobdoesthings:

we need wfmu swizzlesticks! for these cocktails!

♥ 9:54am Rich in Washington:

there used to be some lady in Portland who would call any late night KBOO DJ every time there was any kind of earthquake - however small- in the Pacific ocean and would insist they announce it and warn of a possible tsunami.

♥ 9:54am Ken From Hyde Park:

Ayee! The cocktail bar!

♥ 9:55am rsj:

this is awesome, the real version of this song brings back painful memories of being bullied by the gang of friends at JC Camp when I was like 10.

9:55am Sam:

Oh no.... This goddamn song was stuck in my head all last week! It finally stopped, until now.

9:56am egal:

The original version is still the best one.

9:56am Losermom:

I'm so glad that folks have so much time on their hands that they can make up genius stuff like 'cocktail bar' I'm serious.

♥ 9:57am Webhamster Henry:

The Industrial Musical Movie is on the way!

9:57am Brendan:

@Ken ...Transmodern Festival in Baltimore . Hope i can see em

9:57am Sam:

What'd he say? Monorail!

9:59am Dan B From Upstate:

My first car was a Oldsmobile. Emphasis on old. The year was 1997. The car's year? 1981. I think it died rolling off of the lot.

♥ 9:59am AnAnonymousParty:

"You think you hate it now, but wait till you drive it!"

9:59am Laura L:

That's right--talk about a rocket--the Industrial Musical Movie will soon be launched!

♥ 10:00am rsj:

you gonna get yours

♥ 10:00am Ken From Hyde Park:

From the Blues Brothers movie: "The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year."

♥ 10:01am Webhamster Henry:

Chicken Fat is a classic from the 365 Days Project, always worth bringing up once in a while.

♥ 10:03am Stevel:

Oh God. Chicken Fat. Elementary school gym class.

10:03am Hot Mess:

My cigarette gets crushed when i try to do pushups in the morning.

♥ 10:03am Ken From Hyde Park:

Our gym teacher in third & fourth grade played the Chicken Fat song.

10:03am Cooh John:

This is how we did calisthenics in school

♥ 10:04am Stevel:

...although, I had no idea Robert Preston voiced it. The more you know...

10:04am Listener Robert:

Once a P.S. 108 our teacher put on 'Chicken Fat" as a supposed exercise record, telling us to actually follow the instructions. I knew the tune & tried to tell her otherwise. To this day I don't know whether she was the victim of a joke, or making a deadpan joke herself.

10:04am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

what DIDN'T Robert Preston do? And Hi.

10:06am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

Ken, I can only take about 10 more minutes of this.

10:07am Nick S.:

GOOOOOOOOO!

10:07am bobdoesthings:

more songs about chickens!

♥ 10:07am Irene Trudel:

Knew it was "Chicken Fat" from the first notes! When I was in elementary school I knew this by heart. Yeah, I think it was definitely used in lieu of the teacher actually giving us an exercise program.

♥ 10:07am Marcel M:

Hehe.. Mule.. hahahah

♥ 10:07am common:

hello

10:07am adrian in mpls:

Troy McClure!

♥ 10:08am Marcel M:

Mornin' Common!

10:08am YETI BOB:

RIP Phil Hartman

10:08am Listener Moe:

"I call the Big one 'Bitey' "

♥ 10:08am Marcel M:

I love leonard nimoy's appearance in this episode

10:08am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

Captain Carl

10:08am Dan B From Upstate:

Mono... D'oh!

♥ 10:09am Mark the Sardine:

Chicken Fat followed by Monorail... brilliant

10:09am brain implant:

oh phil hartman...you have to listen to the Flat TV album if you havent yet

10:09am moose:

that's not troy mcclure! it's lyle something

♥ 10:10am Greg from ZONE 5:

Pidge!

10:10am YETI BOB:

Clay Pigeon is a freak among freaks. (And that's a complement!)

10:10am Nick S.:

Damnit, I want this Clay Pigeon collection! I tried to talk him into pressing vinyl. Great!

♥ 10:11am Marcel M:

Ken, you thought Troy was selling Monorails? You may remember him from Monorail Death, 5! or Mono? Mego.. RAIL! But I don't think he'd stoop THAT low.

10:11am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

Clay is amazing.

10:12am Grok-o-matic:

Woah! wtf Q-tip vs Leprechaun? This is cracking me up.

♥ 10:12am Greg from ZONE 5:

(Lyle Langley)

10:12am Brendan:

Your not gettin me Lucky Charms

10:13am Dr. Goot:

That Hitler gif rocks!

10:15am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

That's all it takes to be a leprechaun? Fuckin buckles on your shoes??

♥ 10:17am common:

marcel!

10:20am YETI BOB:

just change the "d" to a "t", the "v" to a "w", and the "a" to an "o" and it's easy to see that "dva" = "two"

10:21am egal:

Imaginary Voyage!

♥ 10:23am Ken From Hyde Park:

My daughter had me order a new cell phone cover. Turns out the vendor was from Compton, CA. So we're joking that the cover is "Straight Outta Compton!"

10:24am Brendan:

@ Ken ... here's the DVA show info (its the Sat 7 pm set) http://transmodernfestival.com/2015/tickets/

10:24am Cecile:

The contractors are working on my roof. I trust you will provide enough irritainment to drown it out, Overlord Ken.

10:27am Cecile:

Lyle Lanley was the Monorail salesman. RIP Phil

10:28am BEAVO:

The Oldsmobile ad was a parody of the salesmen on the train song from The Music Man. So Meridith Willson invented rap.

♥ 10:29am Ken From Hyde Park:

He sold monorails to the towns of Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook.

10:31am bobdoesthings:

my mother was a music teacher for a long time and always said that germans invented rap.. apparently there was a popular form of music back in like.. im going to say the 1800s.. where they did spoken word/no instrumentals and would make songs with fast rhyme schemes.. I never heard any examples of this stuff.. and something tells me my mom doesn't really get it..

10:32am BEAVO:

Straight outta River City

10:32am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

..and Robert Preston was the Music Man, so I'm TOTALLY right ^^(see above)

10:37am Dr. Goot:

Is that a tromboner?

♥ 10:38am Marcel M:

I'm sure the Egyptians were rapping... they did it all.

10:38am Mark S:

I bet he stops at 100

10:39am Mark S:

yay

10:39am bobdoesthings:

@marcelm - well sure.. but that's because the aliens visited them and showed them how.

10:39am egal:

Gregorian chant is a form of rap.

10:40am Cecile:

Hedningarna!

♥ 10:41am Ken From Hyde Park:

@bobdoesthings - Let Dan Bodah know about that German theory. He might find something and play it on Vocal Fry.

♥ 10:42am Marcel M:

@Bob: true... so I guess that doesn't really count.

♥ 10:44am Webhamster Henry:

WFMU means More Autoharps.

10:45am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

Boom Bip image is perfectly timed to the music. We're dealing with a high class DJ here, folks.

10:46am bobdoesthings:

@egal - yeah I think my mom wanted to seem interesting at parties.. not so much that "germans invented rap" but that .. rhyming to a beat has been around for a long time.. more like it.

♥ 10:48am -Ken:

Thanks for noticing, DC Pat. It is something I strive for and rarely pull off.

♥ 10:48am Marcel M:

The Last Poets invented Rap, fuck what ya hurd

10:49am Brendan:

Rock a bye baby?

♥ 10:52am Ken From Hyde Park:

I hear Trevor Noah is a music fan. If you make it on The Daily Show, Ken, I'd definitely watch that episode.

10:53am thedunkel:

Good late Morning Everybody!

♥ 10:53am -Ken:

Wilkommen thedunkel!

♥ 10:55am Asheville Jon:

Ken, very enjoyable show today.

10:57am YETI BOB:

this sounds so 80's ... that gtr sound ....

10:59am Dr. Goot:

Sounds like a sample of the Pretenders....

11:01am Sam:

Is Pongo in there too?

11:04am redkayak:

Running on fumes.....ahhh, the joys of running a business :)

11:12am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

Google tells me that this is The WorldDreamResearcher.

11:12am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

..which I just clicky starred...

11:13am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

ok Good, Bad, and Ugly with little eyes wins everything.

11:14am Sam:

More like the Ugly, the Ugly and the Ugly.

♥ 11:19am PMD:

Yo ho ho and a bottle of Ken

11:20am fבfב (:

Hello, Ken, people!

I am late again. Great giffery so far! And as for the music, I don't know: there are tons of new songs I haven't heard before! Can't wait to listen to the archives!

11:21am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

@fבfב (: I can attest to a high quality aural output today.

11:22am Okasa:

Aw Ken, I am just eating lunch. Good timing.

11:24am fבfב (:

Oh, Ken! I always forget to ask you this: Did you know Leibach played in North Korea while you were away in your road trip through the USA?! I believe it was the first time a western band played over there. Good choice, mr Kim!

11:26am steve:

whoa. do i hear Smegma and NWW in there?

♥ 11:30am Ken From Hyde Park:

News headline: "Georgia woman sings 'Amazing Grace' as she's executed." Ewww. If someone recorded that, it'll probably get played somewhere at some point.

11:30am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:

Is this one of those records that comes with a picture book, and you turn the page every time you hear the bell ring?

11:34am fבfב (:

Thanks, Dc Pat. Your input is always welcomed.

11:37am Hot Mess:

Ken Hyde Pk: Perfect for Blasphemy Day: en.wikipedia.org...

11:39am fבfב (:

Ken From Hyde Park,

Very sad. Anyway, my favourite last words from someone executed in the death row are : "Expect tomorrow in the headlines: French Fries!" from a French man whose last name was Fries.

11:40am fבfב (:

I forgot to mention that the French man was executed in the electric chair.

11:40am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

Yeah, that GA woman was executed for asking someone else to kill her husband. That's what we've come to??

♥ 11:40am Ken From Hyde Park:

Aretha Franklin's character in the Blues Brother's movie: "Don't you blaspheme in here!"

11:43am ----|d¢ (pät)|----:

So in summary, this Fall song is about WFMU. That's all you need to know.

11:44am Hot Mess:

If the late French's body was then tongue-kissed by some weirdo, the headline would be 'Fried French Frenched'

11:44am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:

i5.walmartimages.com...

11:44am thedunkel:

I dont buy it Ken - You (and more than likely Andy Breckman) must have enticed the Mark E Smith with something to have you write this song for WFMU. And my ears thank you for that bribery…Well Done Ken!

11:46am Dan B From Upstate:

ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ is on point.

11:47am Hot Mess:

'Fried Frog Fries Frenched' actually

11:52am fבfב (:

If I were to be executed I will start singing and perform ala Tonetta and hopefully everybody will leave the room.

11:53am cory:

thanks for the great show ken. have a good day!

11:53am Dan B From Upstate:

I like that "Sailing By" has become a staple of this show.