WFMU: Imaginary Radio: Playlist from January 7, 2016

Listener comments!
	9:01am Wild Neil: Happy New Year Chris M and all listeners!
	9:01am annie: ready!!
	9:02am Marcel M: Morning imaginary Chris and imaginary friends.
	9:02am Wild Neil: Interesting use of flanger on this.
	9:03am mott: should we be exercising to this?
	9:04am Utopiast: Good morning, Chris and other Brain Damaged listeners..
	9:06am djsheilab: Morning Chris M.! Very much enjoying waking up to this set.
	9:06am Chris M.: good morning and welcome to the best albums of 2015 show!
	9:08am MD: Good morning and Happy New Year...FREEFORMERS OF THE WORLD!
	9:10am P-90: Happy Imaginary New Year, Chris and Imaginubians!
	9:11am KP: Sounds good, Chris
	9:12am Wild Neil: @Chris-Is that monster vomiting up a bunch of people, or is that the curliecues from the imaginary raido logo?
	9:13am Chris M.: @Wild Neil: yes
	9:16am Utopiast: Watching Goodday Sacramento on the Ipad, listening to WFMU from N.Y. on the desktop PC, and playing/practicing Stratocaster in Colorado. Is this multi-tasking or ADD?
	9:17am P-90: @Utopiast: it's typical
	9:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...he consumed them on NewYearsEve, hence the jester cap & confetti streamers & such...the kitties just happened to be there - no black kitty profiling...their blood alcohol (&tc.) was too much for him...really it's all quite explicit & obvious...
	9:18am Wild Neil: Wand sounds like a Brian Eno record...
	9:18am Utopiast: @P90 Probably so. These modern times...
	9:19am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...upchuck streamers, double screeners, gittar screamers...
	9:25am P-90: Notice also that the Buddhist patriarch Bodhidharma makes an appearance as the the last of the barfed, and the only one who doesn't seem thrilled with it all, which is in character...
	9:28am Brendan: These jams doth soothe.
	9:28am Howard F: Great set Chris! It amazes me how each 'FMU has there own niche/specialty. It really gives "radio personality" a true meaning!
	9:29am Chris M.: thanks!
	9:31am Howard F: your welcome! who's the artist on the webpage?
	9:34am Chris M.: @Howard F: my niece drew it for her pre-k class the other day. pretty good for her age!
	9:35am Howard F: Cheeky?!!
	9:35am Howard F: It's really cool.
	9:37am PKNY: Oh yeah, High on Fire!
	9:37am Wild Neil: I GET IT. Its a 2015 show. Cool!
	9:41am sinuendo: did anyone cover bye bye blackbird last year?
	9:44am Risky: Go Chris!
	9:44am Chris M.: @sinuendo: apparently i missed some great versions of bye bye blackbird last week so i'm going to have to keep re-doing that show until it's perfect.
	9:54am ?: More doodles by Chis's niece: http://butdoesitfloat.com/All-the-things-an-artist-must-be-poet-explorer-of-nature-philosopher
	9:56am Howard F: @?: thanks!
	10:00am Polyus: Talcum Heir?
	10:03am coelacanth: good morning Chris and hello figments
	10:04am Risky: AYYYYYEEE
	10:10am pierre: Bonjour Chris and imaginary friends
	10:10am Donald Trump: I thought this was saying adopted by a polak
	10:11am Ike: "All I talk is money, ho" -- I love how you are playing the intellectual high points of music in 2015. Too bad that's the hip-hop that the money men still push out to the kids while serious minds like Killer Mike go mostly ignored.
	10:14am Ike: This one is cool though. Unlike those A$AP morons, these guys occasionally use words longer than 3 syllables....
	10:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Money is the reason most people get up' - you know it.
	10:16am hawkeye: Can you remix remix of a remix?
	10:17am Chris M.: @Ike: Killer Mike didn't put anything out in 2015. Run the Jewels 2 was one of my favorite albums of 2014 and nobody played them more than me on this station. i'm sorry you don't like most of rap music but you're completely a hypocrite about this.
	10:20am Ike: OK Chris. That comment was about Pimp C and A$AP not "most of rap music" BTW. But whatever.
	10:23am Chris M.: @Ike: this isn't the first or second time you've complained about me playing a rap song you find dumb or offensive. check out RTJ's Love Again and wake me up when you think you can criticize what i've played.
	10:24am Italo Disco Fan: Anyone know why the Rolling Motion program has disappeared from the program schedule? It should've been on at 3am this morning.
	10:24am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Chris & all!
	10:25am pierre: @ Italo Disco Fan : I was wondering the same question.
	10:25am Wild Neil: @Italo Disco Fan-hey, my wife and I both like Disco Polo! (Poland's version of that...)
	10:25am Greg from ZONE 5: Got my brother Kamasi tix for Christmas…and the other brother Robyn Hitchcock tix. Gonna be a good winter.
	10:26am Italo Disco Fan: what station Neil?
	10:26am Chris from DC: Heard a lot of good things about this record but have not heard any of it as yet. This is great.
	10:26am Cecile: I think rap has room for both ignorant party jams, and thoughtful work. I wouldn't call Killer Mike ignored by any stretch of the imagination. Also, he has had his very ignorant moments at times. And one of raps best minds, Kendrick Lamar is the biggest thing since sliced bread. Cream gonna rise to the top.
	10:27am Italo Disco Fan: I fear Rolling Motion has been FIRED!
	10:27am Chris M.: @Greg from ZONE 5: you have the luckiest brothers!
	10:27am PKNY: The Windhand record might be my favorite of '15, so crushing.
	10:27am steve: hey Chris and friends. woo hoo i got a rare Thursday morning off!
	10:28am Wild Neil: @Italo Disco-oh, we just have some CD's...no idea what station!
	10:28am Chris from DC: I'd also include Dorthia Cottrell's solo record with my favorites, along with Windhand. Beautiful stuff.
	10:28am Greg from ZONE 5: To say nothing about the matching IBJ sweaters for Sunday!
	10:28am Cecile: Italo, sometimes life happens mid-schedule. I would just email Rolling and ask them what's up? 99% that's that happens - they just can't do it for whatever reason.
	10:29am Cecile: But if you talk about Drake, well, that guy is horrible and I take back everything I said about cream and party rap being a good thing.
	10:29am Cecile: hey, Chris M, did Horrendous make your best of?
	10:30am Polyus: I think Jack Endino deserves a lot of credit for this Windhand record. The style hasn't changed, but he really gives them a new feel. I like the vocals higher in the mix.
	10:30am Chris M.: @Cecile: it was a runner-up
	10:30am Cecile: awwww. How about the Torche record?
	10:31am steve: Italo Disco Fan - do you listen to Intergalactic Classix on Intergalactic FM? check that out if not...
	10:31am PKNY: @Polyus - I agree, Dorthia was dialed back too far in the mix on "Soma". I believe they intentionally did that, but I can't for the life of me why you want to bury vocals as good as hers. And co-sign on her solo album, another good '15 release.
	10:31am Chris M.: @Cecile: sorry i only liked a couple songs on that. i'm much more of a Floor fan.
	10:32am Italo Disco Fan: ty
	10:33am Ken From Hyde Park: Happy New Year, Chris M. These are mighty fine selections this morning.
	10:33am Cecile: grumble I hopes you have some more good hard rock on your list, bruh.
	10:35am Wild Neil: At Italo Disco: maybe try this. Press the red square button then find WMP player, that worked for me...www.polskastacja.pl...
	10:35am Chris M.: @Ken From Hyde Park: thanks! @Cecile: we'll see
	10:36am Cecile: this is doing it. thanks, man.
	10:39am Cecile: now not so much. I'ma gonna bail for a while. Maintain the twee!
	10:40am Chris M.: ugh
	10:41am Chris M.: i wish someone would explain to me why i have the comments open
	10:41am βrian: I just updated to a recent version of iTunes. It's heinous! Lord-of-the-flies depraved, even.
	10:42am Cecile: hey, I'm not putting you down for your taste. It's just not my mood. I used to always say that to Faye. WFMU isn't all about my taste. That wasn't meant as a dig.
	10:42am Cecile: It sucks monkey balls, Brian. That's all I can say.
	10:43am Wild Neil: @Chris-you are doing a hell of a job, man. Thank you!
	10:43am Andrew Waterloo: somebody has to suck those monkey balls. May as well be Apple.
	10:43am Cecile: what Wild Neil said. I just need my head hammered today.
	10:44am βrian: More like Mastodon balls. The icons are bigger than my head!
	10:44am Cecile: @AW - "we work hard so you don't have to"
	10:44am Cecile: I am still bitter about the runaround I have to go through just to shuffle my music library on my iPod.
	10:44am βrian: Yes, loving this noise.
	10:45am Andrew Waterloo: Yonatan Gat was one my highlights for live shows this year. Actually, a good year for seeing stuff live.
	10:45am Wild Neil: Hey should I have a more "ironic" icon? Hey did you all get my "irony"?? This is really me in the woods, for real. With sunglasses. I wish it was warmer...this cold virus is killing me!
	10:45am Andrew Waterloo: @Cecile. it should be "we work hard so you can work hard"
	10:47am Cecile: ha, or "we work hard so you can work harder!"
	10:47am Cecile: I didn't think it was ironic. I though it was apropos, Neil.
	10:48am steve: i dont know if i went to a single live show outside Monty Hall this year. that said my favorite show at ol Monty was Brian Dewan, which I'm still thinking about months later.
	10:48am Ken From Hyde Park: Working hard or hardly working?
	10:48am Mark R: Digging this Yonatan Gat track. Have to admit they're new to me. Thanks for expanding my horizons. Love this Coil song, too. THEM I've heard of.
	10:50am Cecile: I saw Neurosis AND Bianca Del Rio this year. That pretty much made it a good year.
	10:50am Wild Neil: I was being silly about the irony thing.
	10:50am Chris M.: 100
	10:51am Chris from DC: I like this Coil, but the Drew Macdowall album was next level.
	10:51am steve: big yay for Coil
	10:53am βrian: John Prine: "... She called everybody Coil."
	10:54am Wild Neil: I almost saw King Crimson in Toronto, , but could not afford it.
	10:54am Andrew Waterloo: I did see King Crimson in Toronto.
	10:55am βrian: (To have and have not.)
	10:55am Wild Neil: @Andrew-I am genuinely happy for you. Glad you got to go....
	10:56am Andrew Waterloo: I'm glad I went :)
	10:56am Greg from ZONE 5: I didn't like Chopper :(
	10:57am Cecile: that's so cool, AW
	10:57am Wild Neil: Did King Crimson play anything unexpected?
	10:58am Andrew Waterloo: Wild Neil. I honestly wouldn't know. The three drummers were fun to see.
	10:59am Cecile: did they play older, good stuff?
	11:00am Risky: FIIIIIIIIIIIST!!!!!!!!!
	11:00am Chris from DC: Yes!
	11:00am Andrew Waterloo: Yah, they did a great job on Court of the Crimson King
	11:00am Blinda: Imaginary Radio makes me so, so happy you guys.
	11:01am Cecile: niiiiice. yay! Black Met-tal!
	11:01am Chris M.: thanks, Blinda!
	11:02am Blinda: Guns n Roses, L-A!
	11:02am Chris M.: @Cecile: you perfectly well this is death metal. or do i have to revoke your license?
	11:03am Cecile: I get them all mixed up. They didn't have this when I was growing up, you know.
	11:03am ?: Rust Belt metal.
	11:03am Blinda: Thank YOU Chris M.!!!! I miss your show on Mondays bc I need it so bad on Mondays, but since you moved to Thursdays, the Thursday lineup is PERFECT. STUPID perfect.
	11:04am Cecile: Well I'm glad that unsane titled their record with the genre so I won't feel like an idiot.
	11:04am Risky: NOOOOOOO!!! YEEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!
	11:04am Cecile: Blinda, I have to agree wholeheartedly.
	11:04am Chris from DC: Any Abyssal? Brilliant record.
	11:04am Ike: Hey at least I don't comment about it every time I wander away and then come back. :) (j/k Cecile pls don't kill me, u know I love ya)
	11:05am steve: i unfortunately rarely get to listen on Thursdays cuz of work, but the extreme metal primer was one of my fav fmu specials of the year.
	11:05am Blinda: Ok is this song "grindcore"? What's the difference between "grindcore" and "death metal"? Explain it to me like I'm your dad.
	11:05am Risky: MY DUDES! ORGAN DEALER! Hail Chris!
	11:06am Cecile: That's right Ike. The void I leave in my departure is so obvious that it shouldn't even need to be mentioned. You miss me. That is enough for me.
	11:06am Ken From Hyde Park: Music to scare kids and old people by!
	11:07am Blinda: @Steve: was that a premium? How do I listen to this extreme metal primer?
	11:07am Dean: Grindcore is all, like, GGGZZZZHHHH, GGGZZZHHHH!!!, but death metal is all, like, HHHHHAAAAAARRRRR!!!
	11:07am Cecile: this is what rev rab said about it: Death metal - I will kill you! Black Metal - Hail Satan! Blackened Death Metal - Satan will kill you!
	11:08am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (>L < ))))
	11:08am hippokleides: grindcore is punk. death metal is redneck.
	11:08am ?: Like Guy Lomabardo or Lawrence Welk.
	11:08am Chris M.: @Blinda: wfmu.org...
	11:08am Cecile: Blinda, Diane did a show with one of the guys from Decibel who explained it all to us.
	11:08am Jeff: @Blinda: I think it's this show: www.wfmu.org...
	11:09am steve: Blinda - wfmu.org...
	11:09am Cecile: oh! Chris I missed that show. I will have to listen and catch up. Can I get extra credit?
	11:09am Chris M.: @Cecile: "the guys from Decibel" you are banned now
	11:10am Blinda: If Cecile is banned I'm burned at the stake for asking this stuff
	11:10am Cecile: Why? He was nice enough. But he didn't answer any of my flippant questions about the Finnish metal issue.
	11:10am Ike: @Cecile@11:06/11:07: Bwahahaha!
	11:10am Chris from DC: Oh yeah, Bosse-de-Nage, good one
	11:11am Polyus: Grindcore features a slightly higher percentage of sweatpants worn by band members. Only slightly though.
	11:11am Cecile: If you ban me, I will only grow stronger.
	11:11am Chris M.: @Blinda: no chance! :)
	11:11am Blinda: Wait the "Finnish metal issue"? Please elaborate!!
	11:12am Ike: Also, Chris, don't feel like you're alone. I also harass Irwin when he plays overproduced mainstream country. I'm kind of a pain in the taint like that. + co-sign on "WFMU isn't all about my taste" (but I adore the ability to gripe about it, it's so cool to be able to do that).
	11:12am Devin B.: I love Thursdays.
	11:12am Cecile: this guitar break is kind of gorgeous
	11:13am Blinda: @Devin B. YES.
	11:13am Wild Neil: Finnair is awesome! Also, they have smoked reinedeer meat at the Helsinki airport which is like sushi with hooves...wow! But the stuffed reindeer there is like the size of a large dog. Weird!
	11:13am Wild Neil: Bosse-de-Nage sounds a bit like Fields of the Nephilim-who are deeply evil in my opinion...
	11:14am Cecile: It was an issue about Finland and metal. The best part was the guy from Korpiklaani hating on everything that wasn't done by his friends.
	11:14am Andrew Waterloo: Grind core is more punk, bursty, blasty, and usually characterized by shorter songs with less structure. Death Metal is more thrash metal, more focus on longer staccato riffs, guitar solos, more song structure.
	11:14am Blinda: @Wild Neil: sounds like they are harvesting those reindeer too soon.
	11:14am Cecile: I just have to go. That country has touched my life in more ways than whatever the DNA test tells me my real ancestry is.
	11:15am Wild Neil: They might just be really SMALL anyway....
	11:15am Ken From Hyde Park: Speaking of Finland, I miss listener Caryn for her wit and insight. Happy New Year, Caryn, wherever you are!
	11:15am βrian: I agree about the redneck comment. Hit's the nail on the head re why it's so hard to take seriously.
	11:15am Andrew Waterloo: Are red-nosed reindeers considered inedible or a delicacy?
	11:15am Blinda: How they pull that big sleigh?
	11:15am Cecile: this is a toy stuffed reindeer, right? Not a whole one to eat?
	11:15am Mark R: I've been told that even Station Manager Ken has said he has to turn the station off sometimes. You're most likely not going to like everything everybody plays. Some people's shows you may choose to skip. My own method is usually to stay tuned--if I'm not digging what's happening at the moment, chances are, I'll hear something I like soon. If you're going to have your taste expanded, you're going to have to hear some stuff that's not right up your alley sometimes. Otherwise, you end up on the classic rock station.
	11:16am Wild Neil: @Cecile-by a taxidermist was what I reckon...
	11:17am Cecile: My method is to tune out and MAKE A HUGE GODDAMN DEAL ABOUT IT IKE. Oh, ok. that's not so bad, Neil.
	11:17am Cecile: not that I wouldn't have dug in if it were offered. It would be rude to refuse.
	11:17am Wild Neil: @Cecile-it was NOT located at the smoked meat stand, it was in the corridor at a newsstand or gift shop or something....
	11:18am Andrew Waterloo: Sometimes I'll just switch to something on Youtube or my own MP3 collection and remain in the comments and see if anything interesting shows up on the playlist.
	11:18am Blinda: oh my gosh you guys, learning about the various heavy metals from you all is SO, SO, SO FUN!! Sorry for the caps and exclamation points but it's really how I feel!!
	11:18am Cecile: I think it would have been awesome if it was, Neil.
	11:18am Wild Neil: I am a redneck with a thick skin. But NOT white trash. No way!
	11:18am Cecile: EXCLAMATION POINTS ARE REALLY METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	11:18am PKNY: The fact that there are shows on FMU that I have to turn off is one of the things I love about it. Someone out there digs it, and it's great that there's an outlet for any type of music/sounds here.
	11:19am Cecile: This is the greatest cognitive dissonance between band name and sound ever.
	11:19am Wild Neil: I have a love/hate relationship with FMU. Sometimes I force myself to listen anyway as a zen exercise.
	11:20am βrian: Each exclamation point has it's own distinct character, you see.
	11:20am Cecile: Ken always says, we're not doing something right if you don't turn off FMU at least once a day.
	11:20am Andrew Waterloo: PKNY, the way I see it, if radio station is going to make somebody happy, I will not be that person.
	11:21am Blinda: that's what I loved about Kenny G's show...equal parts huh? AAAH turn it off and OMG THIS IS GENIUS. It was like a tiny representation of FMU.
	11:21am Blinda: @Wild Neil what's the difference between a redneck and white trash?
	11:22am βrian: It promotes promiscuous listening. That's ok. I invariably duck under the covers with WCBN.
	11:22am Cecile: Blinda, altitude.
	11:22am Chris M.: @Blinda: death metal and black metal both evolved primarily from early thrash (black metal also came from much more specific things like 80s satanic metal). grindcore evolved from extreme hardcore punk and took it into metal territory. but they all became distinctly different from each other as musical forms.
	11:23am Andrew Waterloo: Redneck is an embraced lack of sophistication. White trash is complete lack of personal dignity.
	11:23am Cecile: oh, never mind, I thought you said hillbilly. That's the difference. The difference is the arrest record.
	11:24am Dean: Beg to differ, Andrew. I have a modicum of personal dignity.
	11:24am Mark R: I did a fill-in for Infinite Distortion a couple of months ago and played a bunch of stuff like this. I never listen to this kind of music, it was fun for an hour!
	11:25am PKNY: I use the 'gotta turn off the livestream' moments to either catch up on stuff via the archive, or try to chip away at the huge 'stuff to listen to' Spotify playlist I've compiled over the years.
	11:25am Polyus: @Chris - any chance new records by False and Obsequiae made your list?
	11:26am Chris M.: @Polyus: False didn't make the cut. haven't heard Obsequiae i don't think?
	11:26am Andrew Waterloo: @Dean, are you wearing pants that have no holes and are in no way snap or stretchy?
	11:26am Cecile: I am wearing stretchy pants.
	11:27am Dean: @Andrew: Today, yes.
	11:27am Wild Neil: @Blinda-Rednecks are mildly nationalistic, proud of their self-sufficiency, have some kind of marketable skill and are proud of it. Rednecks are often, but not always religious in the Judeo Christian tradition. Han Solo is a redneck. White trash are generally Jerry Springer material.
	11:28am Dean: But we don't want the Irish!
	11:28am Marcel M: Gotta run. Awesome show Chris.
	11:28am Wild Neil: The Irish are awesome.
	11:29am βrian: My stretchy pants are broadfalls.
	11:29am Greg from ZONE 5: Is there any relation between gutbucket and boogie-woogie?
	11:29am Wild Neil: I am a little odd in that I am a Catholic redneck.
	11:29am Chris M.: thanks Marcel!
	11:29am Risky: This song is about NJ, I'm sure of it.
	11:29am βrian: Love this Elliot Sharp, by the way.
	11:30am Wild Neil: Rednecks are often Veterans. White trash are not in that they probably could not get accepted.
	11:30am Cecile: I think gutbucket is an adjective for the place, boogie-woogie is the music.
	11:30am Andrew Waterloo: I come from a redneck family. It's not something you can simply shake off.
	11:31am Cecile: I don't know what kind of family I came from. Maybe aggravated hillbilly intelletuals.
	11:31am Wild Neil: My dad was a farmer who dropped out of eighth grade in 1932 to work on the farm. He read four newspapers a a day and collected world coins. He was a real ladies man in his day.
	11:32am Ken From Hyde Park: I'd rather listen to WFMU "Who likes this?" programming than commercial radio "Who likes this?" programming.
	11:32am Wild Neil: @Cecile-Hillbillies are mountain folks I suppose.
	11:33am Andrew Waterloo: When I go home for Christmas I go home to the people who make it well known that they are happy with their $5 bottle of wine, for no particular reason.
	11:33am Wild Neil: This is the sound of my mind being forced open with a crowbar.
	11:33am Cecile: pursuing sophistication in the most unsophisticated way possible. Neil, he sounds like my grandpa. He had mountains of books and papers in his house, loved to learn. At the same time, he'd get thrown out of bars when he'd visit us because he was a pool hustler and took everyone for their money.
	11:34am Cecile: My dad was an artist at finding a $6 dollar bottle of wine. It used to be $2, but it crept up.
	11:34am Andrew Waterloo: Lucky Peach had a interesting article about Appalachian mountain people and saphron.
	11:34am Wild Neil: @Andrew-I think $5.00 is the threshold where it stops being Boone Farms and starts being actual grown-up wine. Just a guess....
	11:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Here in smalltown NorthNewEngland - it's so North of NorthEast of Nowhere - so out of the loop & so non-populous - there isn't even a word for the people...
	11:34am Cecile: Wine from countries you didn't even know made wine, but still delicious.
	11:35am Cecile: Boone's Farm is actually more expensive than some good wines of my acquaintance. It must be the name...
	11:36am βrian: Some say, there is wine made in Wisconsin. Maybe, but I've never been in that basement.
	11:37am crateslinger: Rev Rabbit - they're called woodchucks.
	11:37am Andrew Waterloo: there is a difference between being a connoisseur of cheap wine, and feeling ill will toward anyone who isn't happy with your box of wine.
	11:37am Dean: I eschew most domestic (US) wines. I live a short drive from California's wine country, yet I've never been there to sample the wares. I'll stick to France, Italy, and Spain.
	11:37am Cecile: I had good mead and fruit wine at White Winter Winery in Iron River, WI. It was everyone's Christmas present this year. They have a black mead that is not sweet at all, more like a nice Cab. Good point, AW!
	11:38am crateslinger: or just yanks
	11:38am Wild Neil: @Dean-Argentinian Malbec is quite popular and quite good now...you can get a good $12.00 bottle no problem...I would avoid the ones that say they have notes of tobaccoo, however and stick to the plums and berries tack...
	11:39am βrian: Good U.S. wines are stratospherically priced. So yep: France, Italy, and Spain. Especially from the marginal areas.
	11:39am Cecile: I think one of the best alcoholic beverages I ever drank was peach wine from my pa-in-law's friend Stirch. it wasn't real sweet and so many flavors, I thought, this is what $1000/bottle wine tastes like. Unfortunately, Stirch never got to that level again.
	11:39am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @crateslinger: Yeah - but that almost sounds like the old farmer types who are actually kinda worthy & kewl in their way...I mean the people who are our equivalent of white trash (somewhere else's term). Also - the Yuppie/Hillbilly (not our own term either) hybrid...
	11:41am βrian: I had an excellent sparkling from Mawby, once, in Michigan. But they import their grapes, so that doesn't count.
	11:41am Greg from ZONE 5: I once bought an unopened bottle of pineapple wine from an estate sale. I have no idea how old it was. I drank the whole thing and lived to tell about it.
	11:41am crateslinger: A term for New England redneck is Woodchuck, but they don't shun that word so if you're looking for a pejoritive, you can say Townie, or in the real sticks, Dirthead. They hate them last two tho.
	11:41am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Surely it's gotten easier to get a decent bottle o' wine @ an affordable price - & the coffee's gotten better too? Broadly speaking?
	11:42am Cecile: it sure does. They made it there.
	11:42am Dean: @Wild Neil: I work from time to time with a wine country attorney and independent wine scholar who traveled to Argentina a year or so ago to sample the Malbecs. He recommended them heartily, too. The main reason I avoid Argentina, Chile, etc., is simply the difficulty of making a choice. There are good, cheap French wines I can rely on. Also, it's the plum quality of many California reds that I've grown tired of.
	11:43am Wild Neil: Walmart sells Café Buselo which is AWESOME Cuban coffee...and its DIRT CHEAP.
	11:43am Cecile: I like Riesling, and it's still a good deal. You can get ones that aren't real sweet at all.
	11:44am Wild Neil: This is the sound of my mind being burgled...ak!
	11:44am Dean: Best white wine I've had in a long time: Favaro Erbaluce. It's not dirt cheap, but at twenty bucks a bottle a real showstopper.
	11:45am βrian: There are fewer distinctly horrible wines out there, but the relentless jammy sameness of what remains wearies the soul. Not unlike some, eh, "redneck" music, don't you know.
	11:45am Andrew Waterloo: The homemade alcoholic beverage I've ever had was a Limoncello I had in Italy. So good, so syrupy, so lemony.
	11:45am Cecile: I wish Gorgoroth, Cynic and Torche would play at Pride somewhere. it would be great.
	11:46am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - analogous to IPA bitterness for its' sake?...
	11:46am Mark R: OK so this group is unfamiliar to me, but I believe the name "Gorgoroth" (which I don't know what it means) sounds like their music.
	11:46am Chris from DC: Digging this one very much.
	11:46am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: *own sake...
	11:46am Andrew Waterloo: the IPA thing has gotten a bit old.
	11:47am crateslinger: All I know about wine is only buy it if it says, "Mis en bouteille au chateau", so if it ain't french I don't know what to do.
	11:47am steve: there was a pretty interesting recent episode of Stuff You Should Know podcast about wine fraud... people selling wine they claim is hundreds of years old, owned by historical figures, etc.
	11:47am βrian: @Andrew: Yes. I had a limoncello made by a chef whose family is from Capri. His was bitter, oily, and obscene. "You will either love this or loathe it, " he warned. It was love for me.
	11:48am Cecile: I like exactly one IPA these days. The rest are damn near undrinkable.
	11:48am Jeff: Oh, Satan! They do love that guy, don't they?
	11:50am Dean: @Rev: Not quite analogous. Bitterness is a necessary, but not sufficient, characteristic of an IPA or pale ale. Gratuitous extremes of IBUs are, of course, part of the marketing plan, but lord, Knee Deep's Simtra, a very bitter triple IPA, is a glorious mouthful. The plummy quality of so much California red wine--last I tried them--is just reminiscent of ... fruit.
	11:50am Greg from ZONE 5: I walked past a store yesterday called "Skin Laundry", and I was like "How is this a place for ladies and not a metal band?"
	11:50am βrian: All I can find these days, are "Art School" IPAs. Iconoclastic palate assassins. Not for me.
	11:52am Polyus: Nick ambles to the podium to accept his award
	11:52am Chris M.: @Greg from ZONE 5: i really want to hear that band
	11:52am Cecile: I like Fulton's "Sweet Child of Vine". It had a bite, but drinks like what they call "session beer" now. "Session beer" is what we used to call "beer".
	11:52am Dean: We can thank Dogfish Head for that, @βrian. They were pioneers, but damn, I've never gotten them.
	11:52am Andrew Waterloo: Yah, the IPA game has become more of an IBU arms race with a quirky randomness outlier.
	11:52am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Chris M. Smell ya later!
	11:53am paula pc: huh what??? was asleep when this came out --- THANKS for noting, Chris!!!!
	11:53am Cecile: If I drink an IPA and have to use my inhaler within 2 minutes of drinking it, it's way too hoppy
	11:53am Greg from ZONE 5: You should hip Jonesy to this song. He'll play it every week!
	11:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yes Thx ChrisM.
	11:53am steve: excellent show, glad i finally got to listen for once!
	11:54am βrian: "Session beer" vs "seizure beer?"
	11:54am Chris from DC: 22 albums and still going strong.
	11:54am Wild Neil: Great show Chris!
	11:55am Cecile: exactly, Brian.
	11:55am Mike East: I don't mind an IPA, but I stay away from the ones that have labels that look like they're daring you to drink it.
	11:55am Blinda: @ Greg from ZONE 5 hahah too true.
	11:55am Dean: Well, now that they mention hot sauce, has anybody suffered/enjoyed Bigfat's 8o8 Naga Jolokia? Ow.
	11:55am Cecile: yes, like the hot sauces that make you sign a waiver.
	11:56am βrian: Coming up: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie on the Drummer stream. wfmu.org...
	11:57am Dean: The 7o8 7 Pot Citrus is less hot, but still a burner, and worthy of the name, really full of flavor. The 8o8 is a sinus clearer.
	11:57am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks much, Chris!
	11:58am Cecile: thanks, Chris!

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January 7, 2016: Best Of 2015

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Artist	Track	Album	Year
6Blocc	Brain Damage (6Blocc's Lunar Step Flex)	Dark Side Of The Boom	2015
New Order	Nothing But A Fool "Nothing But A Fool" by "New Order"	Music Complete	2015
Chris Connelly	Mistreated & Wild "Mistreated & Wild" by "Chris Connelly"	Decibels From Heart	2015
Wand	Sleepy Dog "Sleepy Dog" by "Wand"	1000 Days	2015
Sacri Monti	Glowing Grey "Glowing Grey" by "Sacri Monti"	Sacri Monti	2015
Elder	Compendium "Compendium" by "Elder"	Lore	2015
High On Fire	The Falconist "The Falconist" by "High On Fire"	Luminiferous	2015
Acid King	Silent Pictures "Silent Pictures" by "Acid King"	Middle Of Nowhere, Center Of Everywhere	2015
Open Hand	Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)	Electric Ladyland [Redux]	2015

Onra	We Ridin' (Feat. Daz Dillinger & Olivier Daysoul)	Fundamentals	2015
Pimp C	Wavybone (Feat. A$ap Rocky, Juicy J, Bun B)	Long Live The Pimp	2015
L'Orange & Kool Keith	Dr. Bipolar	Time? Astonishing!	2015
Czarface	Nightcrawler (Feat. Method Man)	Every Hero Needs A Villain	2015
Bixiga 70	Di Dancer "Di Dancer" by "Bixiga 70"	III	2015
Kamasi Washington	Final Thought "Final Thought" by "Kamasi Washington"	The Epic	2015
Windhand	Crypt Key "Crypt Key" by "Windhand"	Grief's Infernal Flower	2015
Mekons & Robbie Fulks	Go From My Window	Jura	2015
Deaf Wish	They Know "They Know" by "Deaf Wish"	Pain	2015
Momus	Old Nick "Old Nick" by "Momus"	Glyptothek	2015
Spencer Moody And The Anzalones	Bird On A Wire	Spencer Moody And The Anzalones	2015
Yonatan Gat	East To West "East To West" by "Yonatan Gat"	Director	2015
Coil	Fire Of The Green Dragon "Fire Of The Green Dragon" by "Coil"	Backwards	2015

Entrails	Beyond The Flesh "Beyond The Flesh" by "Entrails"	Obliteration	2015
Unrest	Identity In The Internet Age	Grindcore	2015
Organ Dealer	No Answer "No Answer" by "Organ Dealer"	Visceral Infection	2015
Captain Cleanoff	Rage Of Odour "Rage Of Odour" by "Captain Cleanoff"	Rising Terror	2015
Bosse-de-Nage	At Night "At Night" by "Bosse-de-Nage"	All Fours	2015
The Nepalese Temple Ball	Knee Deep	Arbor	2015
Jute Gyte	Forces Of Self-Shedding	Ship Of Theseus	2015
Horna	Nekromantia "Nekromantia" by "Horna"	Hengen Tulet	2015
Yellow Eyes	What Filters Through The Copper Stain	Sick With Bloom	2015
Gorgoroth	Radix Malorum "Radix Malorum" by "Gorgoroth"	Instinctus Bestialis	2015

The Bevis Frond	Waiting For Sinatra	Example 22	2015
The Bevis Frond	Hot Sauce Or Nothing	Example 22	2015

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Listener comments!
	9:01am Wild Neil: Happy New Year Chris M and all listeners!
	9:01am annie: ready!!
	9:02am Marcel M: Morning imaginary Chris and imaginary friends.
	9:02am Wild Neil: Interesting use of flanger on this.
	9:03am mott: should we be exercising to this?
	9:04am Utopiast: Good morning, Chris and other Brain Damaged listeners..
	9:06am djsheilab: Morning Chris M.! Very much enjoying waking up to this set.
	9:06am Chris M.: good morning and welcome to the best albums of 2015 show!
	9:08am MD: Good morning and Happy New Year...FREEFORMERS OF THE WORLD!
	9:10am P-90: Happy Imaginary New Year, Chris and Imaginubians!
	9:11am KP: Sounds good, Chris
	9:12am Wild Neil: @Chris-Is that monster vomiting up a bunch of people, or is that the curliecues from the imaginary raido logo?
	9:13am Chris M.: @Wild Neil: yes
	9:16am Utopiast: Watching Goodday Sacramento on the Ipad, listening to WFMU from N.Y. on the desktop PC, and playing/practicing Stratocaster in Colorado. Is this multi-tasking or ADD?
	9:17am P-90: @Utopiast: it's typical
	9:17am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...he consumed them on NewYearsEve, hence the jester cap & confetti streamers & such...the kitties just happened to be there - no black kitty profiling...their blood alcohol (&tc.) was too much for him...really it's all quite explicit & obvious...
	9:18am Wild Neil: Wand sounds like a Brian Eno record...
	9:18am Utopiast: @P90 Probably so. These modern times...
	9:19am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...upchuck streamers, double screeners, gittar screamers...
	9:25am P-90: Notice also that the Buddhist patriarch Bodhidharma makes an appearance as the the last of the barfed, and the only one who doesn't seem thrilled with it all, which is in character...
	9:28am Brendan: These jams doth soothe.
	9:28am Howard F: Great set Chris! It amazes me how each 'FMU has there own niche/specialty. It really gives "radio personality" a true meaning!
	9:29am Chris M.: thanks!
	9:31am Howard F: your welcome! who's the artist on the webpage?
	9:34am Chris M.: @Howard F: my niece drew it for her pre-k class the other day. pretty good for her age!
	9:35am Howard F: Cheeky?!!
	9:35am Howard F: It's really cool.
	9:37am PKNY: Oh yeah, High on Fire!
	9:37am Wild Neil: I GET IT. Its a 2015 show. Cool!
	9:41am sinuendo: did anyone cover bye bye blackbird last year?
	9:44am Risky: Go Chris!
	9:44am Chris M.: @sinuendo: apparently i missed some great versions of bye bye blackbird last week so i'm going to have to keep re-doing that show until it's perfect.
	9:54am ?: More doodles by Chis's niece: http://butdoesitfloat.com/All-the-things-an-artist-must-be-poet-explorer-of-nature-philosopher
	9:56am Howard F: @?: thanks!
	10:00am Polyus: Talcum Heir?
	10:03am coelacanth: good morning Chris and hello figments
	10:04am Risky: AYYYYYEEE
	10:10am pierre: Bonjour Chris and imaginary friends
	10:10am Donald Trump: I thought this was saying adopted by a polak
	10:11am Ike: "All I talk is money, ho" -- I love how you are playing the intellectual high points of music in 2015. Too bad that's the hip-hop that the money men still push out to the kids while serious minds like Killer Mike go mostly ignored.
	10:14am Ike: This one is cool though. Unlike those A$AP morons, these guys occasionally use words longer than 3 syllables....
	10:14am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: 'Money is the reason most people get up' - you know it.
	10:16am hawkeye: Can you remix remix of a remix?
	10:17am Chris M.: @Ike: Killer Mike didn't put anything out in 2015. Run the Jewels 2 was one of my favorite albums of 2014 and nobody played them more than me on this station. i'm sorry you don't like most of rap music but you're completely a hypocrite about this.
	10:20am Ike: OK Chris. That comment was about Pimp C and A$AP not "most of rap music" BTW. But whatever.
	10:23am Chris M.: @Ike: this isn't the first or second time you've complained about me playing a rap song you find dumb or offensive. check out RTJ's Love Again and wake me up when you think you can criticize what i've played.
	10:24am Italo Disco Fan: Anyone know why the Rolling Motion program has disappeared from the program schedule? It should've been on at 3am this morning.
	10:24am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, Chris & all!
	10:25am pierre: @ Italo Disco Fan : I was wondering the same question.
	10:25am Wild Neil: @Italo Disco Fan-hey, my wife and I both like Disco Polo! (Poland's version of that...)
	10:25am Greg from ZONE 5: Got my brother Kamasi tix for Christmas…and the other brother Robyn Hitchcock tix. Gonna be a good winter.
	10:26am Italo Disco Fan: what station Neil?
	10:26am Chris from DC: Heard a lot of good things about this record but have not heard any of it as yet. This is great.
	10:26am Cecile: I think rap has room for both ignorant party jams, and thoughtful work. I wouldn't call Killer Mike ignored by any stretch of the imagination. Also, he has had his very ignorant moments at times. And one of raps best minds, Kendrick Lamar is the biggest thing since sliced bread. Cream gonna rise to the top.
	10:27am Italo Disco Fan: I fear Rolling Motion has been FIRED!
	10:27am Chris M.: @Greg from ZONE 5: you have the luckiest brothers!
	10:27am PKNY: The Windhand record might be my favorite of '15, so crushing.
	10:27am steve: hey Chris and friends. woo hoo i got a rare Thursday morning off!
	10:28am Wild Neil: @Italo Disco-oh, we just have some CD's...no idea what station!
	10:28am Chris from DC: I'd also include Dorthia Cottrell's solo record with my favorites, along with Windhand. Beautiful stuff.
	10:28am Greg from ZONE 5: To say nothing about the matching IBJ sweaters for Sunday!
	10:28am Cecile: Italo, sometimes life happens mid-schedule. I would just email Rolling and ask them what's up? 99% that's that happens - they just can't do it for whatever reason.
	10:29am Cecile: But if you talk about Drake, well, that guy is horrible and I take back everything I said about cream and party rap being a good thing.
	10:29am Cecile: hey, Chris M, did Horrendous make your best of?
	10:30am Polyus: I think Jack Endino deserves a lot of credit for this Windhand record. The style hasn't changed, but he really gives them a new feel. I like the vocals higher in the mix.
	10:30am Chris M.: @Cecile: it was a runner-up
	10:30am Cecile: awwww. How about the Torche record?
	10:31am steve: Italo Disco Fan - do you listen to Intergalactic Classix on Intergalactic FM? check that out if not...
	10:31am PKNY: @Polyus - I agree, Dorthia was dialed back too far in the mix on "Soma". I believe they intentionally did that, but I can't for the life of me why you want to bury vocals as good as hers. And co-sign on her solo album, another good '15 release.
	10:31am Chris M.: @Cecile: sorry i only liked a couple songs on that. i'm much more of a Floor fan.
	10:32am Italo Disco Fan: ty
	10:33am Ken From Hyde Park: Happy New Year, Chris M. These are mighty fine selections this morning.
	10:33am Cecile: grumble I hopes you have some more good hard rock on your list, bruh.
	10:35am Wild Neil: At Italo Disco: maybe try this. Press the red square button then find WMP player, that worked for me...www.polskastacja.pl...
	10:35am Chris M.: @Ken From Hyde Park: thanks! @Cecile: we'll see
	10:36am Cecile: this is doing it. thanks, man.
	10:39am Cecile: now not so much. I'ma gonna bail for a while. Maintain the twee!
	10:40am Chris M.: ugh
	10:41am Chris M.: i wish someone would explain to me why i have the comments open
	10:41am βrian: I just updated to a recent version of iTunes. It's heinous! Lord-of-the-flies depraved, even.
	10:42am Cecile: hey, I'm not putting you down for your taste. It's just not my mood. I used to always say that to Faye. WFMU isn't all about my taste. That wasn't meant as a dig.
	10:42am Cecile: It sucks monkey balls, Brian. That's all I can say.
	10:43am Wild Neil: @Chris-you are doing a hell of a job, man. Thank you!
	10:43am Andrew Waterloo: somebody has to suck those monkey balls. May as well be Apple.
	10:43am Cecile: what Wild Neil said. I just need my head hammered today.
	10:44am βrian: More like Mastodon balls. The icons are bigger than my head!
	10:44am Cecile: @AW - "we work hard so you don't have to"
	10:44am Cecile: I am still bitter about the runaround I have to go through just to shuffle my music library on my iPod.
	10:44am βrian: Yes, loving this noise.
	10:45am Andrew Waterloo: Yonatan Gat was one my highlights for live shows this year. Actually, a good year for seeing stuff live.
	10:45am Wild Neil: Hey should I have a more "ironic" icon? Hey did you all get my "irony"?? This is really me in the woods, for real. With sunglasses. I wish it was warmer...this cold virus is killing me!
	10:45am Andrew Waterloo: @Cecile. it should be "we work hard so you can work hard"
	10:47am Cecile: ha, or "we work hard so you can work harder!"
	10:47am Cecile: I didn't think it was ironic. I though it was apropos, Neil.
	10:48am steve: i dont know if i went to a single live show outside Monty Hall this year. that said my favorite show at ol Monty was Brian Dewan, which I'm still thinking about months later.
	10:48am Ken From Hyde Park: Working hard or hardly working?
	10:48am Mark R: Digging this Yonatan Gat track. Have to admit they're new to me. Thanks for expanding my horizons. Love this Coil song, too. THEM I've heard of.
	10:50am Cecile: I saw Neurosis AND Bianca Del Rio this year. That pretty much made it a good year.
	10:50am Wild Neil: I was being silly about the irony thing.
	10:50am Chris M.: 100
	10:51am Chris from DC: I like this Coil, but the Drew Macdowall album was next level.
	10:51am steve: big yay for Coil
	10:53am βrian: John Prine: "... She called everybody Coil."
	10:54am Wild Neil: I almost saw King Crimson in Toronto, , but could not afford it.
	10:54am Andrew Waterloo: I did see King Crimson in Toronto.
	10:55am βrian: (To have and have not.)
	10:55am Wild Neil: @Andrew-I am genuinely happy for you. Glad you got to go....
	10:56am Andrew Waterloo: I'm glad I went :)
	10:56am Greg from ZONE 5: I didn't like Chopper :(
	10:57am Cecile: that's so cool, AW
	10:57am Wild Neil: Did King Crimson play anything unexpected?
	10:58am Andrew Waterloo: Wild Neil. I honestly wouldn't know. The three drummers were fun to see.
	10:59am Cecile: did they play older, good stuff?
	11:00am Risky: FIIIIIIIIIIIST!!!!!!!!!
	11:00am Chris from DC: Yes!
	11:00am Andrew Waterloo: Yah, they did a great job on Court of the Crimson King
	11:00am Blinda: Imaginary Radio makes me so, so happy you guys.
	11:01am Cecile: niiiiice. yay! Black Met-tal!
	11:01am Chris M.: thanks, Blinda!
	11:02am Blinda: Guns n Roses, L-A!
	11:02am Chris M.: @Cecile: you perfectly well this is death metal. or do i have to revoke your license?
	11:03am Cecile: I get them all mixed up. They didn't have this when I was growing up, you know.
	11:03am ?: Rust Belt metal.
	11:03am Blinda: Thank YOU Chris M.!!!! I miss your show on Mondays bc I need it so bad on Mondays, but since you moved to Thursdays, the Thursday lineup is PERFECT. STUPID perfect.
	11:04am Cecile: Well I'm glad that unsane titled their record with the genre so I won't feel like an idiot.
	11:04am Risky: NOOOOOOO!!! YEEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!
	11:04am Cecile: Blinda, I have to agree wholeheartedly.
	11:04am Chris from DC: Any Abyssal? Brilliant record.
	11:04am Ike: Hey at least I don't comment about it every time I wander away and then come back. :) (j/k Cecile pls don't kill me, u know I love ya)
	11:05am steve: i unfortunately rarely get to listen on Thursdays cuz of work, but the extreme metal primer was one of my fav fmu specials of the year.
	11:05am Blinda: Ok is this song "grindcore"? What's the difference between "grindcore" and "death metal"? Explain it to me like I'm your dad.
	11:05am Risky: MY DUDES! ORGAN DEALER! Hail Chris!
	11:06am Cecile: That's right Ike. The void I leave in my departure is so obvious that it shouldn't even need to be mentioned. You miss me. That is enough for me.
	11:06am Ken From Hyde Park: Music to scare kids and old people by!
	11:07am Blinda: @Steve: was that a premium? How do I listen to this extreme metal primer?
	11:07am Dean: Grindcore is all, like, GGGZZZZHHHH, GGGZZZHHHH!!!, but death metal is all, like, HHHHHAAAAAARRRRR!!!
	11:07am Cecile: this is what rev rab said about it: Death metal - I will kill you! Black Metal - Hail Satan! Blackened Death Metal - Satan will kill you!
	11:08am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (>L < ))))
	11:08am hippokleides: grindcore is punk. death metal is redneck.
	11:08am ?: Like Guy Lomabardo or Lawrence Welk.
	11:08am Chris M.: @Blinda: wfmu.org...
	11:08am Cecile: Blinda, Diane did a show with one of the guys from Decibel who explained it all to us.
	11:08am Jeff: @Blinda: I think it's this show: www.wfmu.org...
	11:09am steve: Blinda - wfmu.org...
	11:09am Cecile: oh! Chris I missed that show. I will have to listen and catch up. Can I get extra credit?
	11:09am Chris M.: @Cecile: "the guys from Decibel" you are banned now
	11:10am Blinda: If Cecile is banned I'm burned at the stake for asking this stuff
	11:10am Cecile: Why? He was nice enough. But he didn't answer any of my flippant questions about the Finnish metal issue.
	11:10am Ike: @Cecile@11:06/11:07: Bwahahaha!
	11:10am Chris from DC: Oh yeah, Bosse-de-Nage, good one
	11:11am Polyus: Grindcore features a slightly higher percentage of sweatpants worn by band members. Only slightly though.
	11:11am Cecile: If you ban me, I will only grow stronger.
	11:11am Chris M.: @Blinda: no chance! :)
	11:11am Blinda: Wait the "Finnish metal issue"? Please elaborate!!
	11:12am Ike: Also, Chris, don't feel like you're alone. I also harass Irwin when he plays overproduced mainstream country. I'm kind of a pain in the taint like that. + co-sign on "WFMU isn't all about my taste" (but I adore the ability to gripe about it, it's so cool to be able to do that).
	11:12am Devin B.: I love Thursdays.
	11:12am Cecile: this guitar break is kind of gorgeous
	11:13am Blinda: @Devin B. YES.
	11:13am Wild Neil: Finnair is awesome! Also, they have smoked reinedeer meat at the Helsinki airport which is like sushi with hooves...wow! But the stuffed reindeer there is like the size of a large dog. Weird!
	11:13am Wild Neil: Bosse-de-Nage sounds a bit like Fields of the Nephilim-who are deeply evil in my opinion...
	11:14am Cecile: It was an issue about Finland and metal. The best part was the guy from Korpiklaani hating on everything that wasn't done by his friends.
	11:14am Andrew Waterloo: Grind core is more punk, bursty, blasty, and usually characterized by shorter songs with less structure. Death Metal is more thrash metal, more focus on longer staccato riffs, guitar solos, more song structure.
	11:14am Blinda: @Wild Neil: sounds like they are harvesting those reindeer too soon.
	11:14am Cecile: I just have to go. That country has touched my life in more ways than whatever the DNA test tells me my real ancestry is.
	11:15am Wild Neil: They might just be really SMALL anyway....
	11:15am Ken From Hyde Park: Speaking of Finland, I miss listener Caryn for her wit and insight. Happy New Year, Caryn, wherever you are!
	11:15am βrian: I agree about the redneck comment. Hit's the nail on the head re why it's so hard to take seriously.
	11:15am Andrew Waterloo: Are red-nosed reindeers considered inedible or a delicacy?
	11:15am Blinda: How they pull that big sleigh?
	11:15am Cecile: this is a toy stuffed reindeer, right? Not a whole one to eat?
	11:15am Mark R: I've been told that even Station Manager Ken has said he has to turn the station off sometimes. You're most likely not going to like everything everybody plays. Some people's shows you may choose to skip. My own method is usually to stay tuned--if I'm not digging what's happening at the moment, chances are, I'll hear something I like soon. If you're going to have your taste expanded, you're going to have to hear some stuff that's not right up your alley sometimes. Otherwise, you end up on the classic rock station.
	11:16am Wild Neil: @Cecile-by a taxidermist was what I reckon...
	11:17am Cecile: My method is to tune out and MAKE A HUGE GODDAMN DEAL ABOUT IT IKE. Oh, ok. that's not so bad, Neil.
	11:17am Cecile: not that I wouldn't have dug in if it were offered. It would be rude to refuse.
	11:17am Wild Neil: @Cecile-it was NOT located at the smoked meat stand, it was in the corridor at a newsstand or gift shop or something....
	11:18am Andrew Waterloo: Sometimes I'll just switch to something on Youtube or my own MP3 collection and remain in the comments and see if anything interesting shows up on the playlist.
	11:18am Blinda: oh my gosh you guys, learning about the various heavy metals from you all is SO, SO, SO FUN!! Sorry for the caps and exclamation points but it's really how I feel!!
	11:18am Cecile: I think it would have been awesome if it was, Neil.
	11:18am Wild Neil: I am a redneck with a thick skin. But NOT white trash. No way!
	11:18am Cecile: EXCLAMATION POINTS ARE REALLY METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	11:18am PKNY: The fact that there are shows on FMU that I have to turn off is one of the things I love about it. Someone out there digs it, and it's great that there's an outlet for any type of music/sounds here.
	11:19am Cecile: This is the greatest cognitive dissonance between band name and sound ever.
	11:19am Wild Neil: I have a love/hate relationship with FMU. Sometimes I force myself to listen anyway as a zen exercise.
	11:20am βrian: Each exclamation point has it's own distinct character, you see.
	11:20am Cecile: Ken always says, we're not doing something right if you don't turn off FMU at least once a day.
	11:20am Andrew Waterloo: PKNY, the way I see it, if radio station is going to make somebody happy, I will not be that person.
	11:21am Blinda: that's what I loved about Kenny G's show...equal parts huh? AAAH turn it off and OMG THIS IS GENIUS. It was like a tiny representation of FMU.
	11:21am Blinda: @Wild Neil what's the difference between a redneck and white trash?
	11:22am βrian: It promotes promiscuous listening. That's ok. I invariably duck under the covers with WCBN.
	11:22am Cecile: Blinda, altitude.
	11:22am Chris M.: @Blinda: death metal and black metal both evolved primarily from early thrash (black metal also came from much more specific things like 80s satanic metal). grindcore evolved from extreme hardcore punk and took it into metal territory. but they all became distinctly different from each other as musical forms.
	11:23am Andrew Waterloo: Redneck is an embraced lack of sophistication. White trash is complete lack of personal dignity.
	11:23am Cecile: oh, never mind, I thought you said hillbilly. That's the difference. The difference is the arrest record.
	11:24am Dean: Beg to differ, Andrew. I have a modicum of personal dignity.
	11:24am Mark R: I did a fill-in for Infinite Distortion a couple of months ago and played a bunch of stuff like this. I never listen to this kind of music, it was fun for an hour!
	11:25am PKNY: I use the 'gotta turn off the livestream' moments to either catch up on stuff via the archive, or try to chip away at the huge 'stuff to listen to' Spotify playlist I've compiled over the years.
	11:25am Polyus: @Chris - any chance new records by False and Obsequiae made your list?
	11:26am Chris M.: @Polyus: False didn't make the cut. haven't heard Obsequiae i don't think?
	11:26am Andrew Waterloo: @Dean, are you wearing pants that have no holes and are in no way snap or stretchy?
	11:26am Cecile: I am wearing stretchy pants.
	11:27am Dean: @Andrew: Today, yes.
	11:27am Wild Neil: @Blinda-Rednecks are mildly nationalistic, proud of their self-sufficiency, have some kind of marketable skill and are proud of it. Rednecks are often, but not always religious in the Judeo Christian tradition. Han Solo is a redneck. White trash are generally Jerry Springer material.
	11:28am Dean: But we don't want the Irish!
	11:28am Marcel M: Gotta run. Awesome show Chris.
	11:28am Wild Neil: The Irish are awesome.
	11:29am βrian: My stretchy pants are broadfalls.
	11:29am Greg from ZONE 5: Is there any relation between gutbucket and boogie-woogie?
	11:29am Wild Neil: I am a little odd in that I am a Catholic redneck.
	11:29am Chris M.: thanks Marcel!
	11:29am Risky: This song is about NJ, I'm sure of it.
	11:29am βrian: Love this Elliot Sharp, by the way.
	11:30am Wild Neil: Rednecks are often Veterans. White trash are not in that they probably could not get accepted.
	11:30am Cecile: I think gutbucket is an adjective for the place, boogie-woogie is the music.
	11:30am Andrew Waterloo: I come from a redneck family. It's not something you can simply shake off.
	11:31am Cecile: I don't know what kind of family I came from. Maybe aggravated hillbilly intelletuals.
	11:31am Wild Neil: My dad was a farmer who dropped out of eighth grade in 1932 to work on the farm. He read four newspapers a a day and collected world coins. He was a real ladies man in his day.
	11:32am Ken From Hyde Park: I'd rather listen to WFMU "Who likes this?" programming than commercial radio "Who likes this?" programming.
	11:32am Wild Neil: @Cecile-Hillbillies are mountain folks I suppose.
	11:33am Andrew Waterloo: When I go home for Christmas I go home to the people who make it well known that they are happy with their $5 bottle of wine, for no particular reason.
	11:33am Wild Neil: This is the sound of my mind being forced open with a crowbar.
	11:33am Cecile: pursuing sophistication in the most unsophisticated way possible. Neil, he sounds like my grandpa. He had mountains of books and papers in his house, loved to learn. At the same time, he'd get thrown out of bars when he'd visit us because he was a pool hustler and took everyone for their money.
	11:34am Cecile: My dad was an artist at finding a $6 dollar bottle of wine. It used to be $2, but it crept up.
	11:34am Andrew Waterloo: Lucky Peach had a interesting article about Appalachian mountain people and saphron.
	11:34am Wild Neil: @Andrew-I think $5.00 is the threshold where it stops being Boone Farms and starts being actual grown-up wine. Just a guess....
	11:34am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Here in smalltown NorthNewEngland - it's so North of NorthEast of Nowhere - so out of the loop & so non-populous - there isn't even a word for the people...
	11:34am Cecile: Wine from countries you didn't even know made wine, but still delicious.
	11:35am Cecile: Boone's Farm is actually more expensive than some good wines of my acquaintance. It must be the name...
	11:36am βrian: Some say, there is wine made in Wisconsin. Maybe, but I've never been in that basement.
	11:37am crateslinger: Rev Rabbit - they're called woodchucks.
	11:37am Andrew Waterloo: there is a difference between being a connoisseur of cheap wine, and feeling ill will toward anyone who isn't happy with your box of wine.
	11:37am Dean: I eschew most domestic (US) wines. I live a short drive from California's wine country, yet I've never been there to sample the wares. I'll stick to France, Italy, and Spain.
	11:37am Cecile: I had good mead and fruit wine at White Winter Winery in Iron River, WI. It was everyone's Christmas present this year. They have a black mead that is not sweet at all, more like a nice Cab. Good point, AW!
	11:38am crateslinger: or just yanks
	11:38am Wild Neil: @Dean-Argentinian Malbec is quite popular and quite good now...you can get a good $12.00 bottle no problem...I would avoid the ones that say they have notes of tobaccoo, however and stick to the plums and berries tack...
	11:39am βrian: Good U.S. wines are stratospherically priced. So yep: France, Italy, and Spain. Especially from the marginal areas.
	11:39am Cecile: I think one of the best alcoholic beverages I ever drank was peach wine from my pa-in-law's friend Stirch. it wasn't real sweet and so many flavors, I thought, this is what $1000/bottle wine tastes like. Unfortunately, Stirch never got to that level again.
	11:39am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: @crateslinger: Yeah - but that almost sounds like the old farmer types who are actually kinda worthy & kewl in their way...I mean the people who are our equivalent of white trash (somewhere else's term). Also - the Yuppie/Hillbilly (not our own term either) hybrid...
	11:41am βrian: I had an excellent sparkling from Mawby, once, in Michigan. But they import their grapes, so that doesn't count.
	11:41am Greg from ZONE 5: I once bought an unopened bottle of pineapple wine from an estate sale. I have no idea how old it was. I drank the whole thing and lived to tell about it.
	11:41am crateslinger: A term for New England redneck is Woodchuck, but they don't shun that word so if you're looking for a pejoritive, you can say Townie, or in the real sticks, Dirthead. They hate them last two tho.
	11:41am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Surely it's gotten easier to get a decent bottle o' wine @ an affordable price - & the coffee's gotten better too? Broadly speaking?
	11:42am Cecile: it sure does. They made it there.
	11:42am Dean: @Wild Neil: I work from time to time with a wine country attorney and independent wine scholar who traveled to Argentina a year or so ago to sample the Malbecs. He recommended them heartily, too. The main reason I avoid Argentina, Chile, etc., is simply the difficulty of making a choice. There are good, cheap French wines I can rely on. Also, it's the plum quality of many California reds that I've grown tired of.
	11:43am Wild Neil: Walmart sells Café Buselo which is AWESOME Cuban coffee...and its DIRT CHEAP.
	11:43am Cecile: I like Riesling, and it's still a good deal. You can get ones that aren't real sweet at all.
	11:44am Wild Neil: This is the sound of my mind being burgled...ak!
	11:44am Dean: Best white wine I've had in a long time: Favaro Erbaluce. It's not dirt cheap, but at twenty bucks a bottle a real showstopper.
	11:45am βrian: There are fewer distinctly horrible wines out there, but the relentless jammy sameness of what remains wearies the soul. Not unlike some, eh, "redneck" music, don't you know.
	11:45am Andrew Waterloo: The homemade alcoholic beverage I've ever had was a Limoncello I had in Italy. So good, so syrupy, so lemony.
	11:45am Cecile: I wish Gorgoroth, Cynic and Torche would play at Pride somewhere. it would be great.
	11:46am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - analogous to IPA bitterness for its' sake?...
	11:46am Mark R: OK so this group is unfamiliar to me, but I believe the name "Gorgoroth" (which I don't know what it means) sounds like their music.
	11:46am Chris from DC: Digging this one very much.
	11:46am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: *own sake...
	11:46am Andrew Waterloo: the IPA thing has gotten a bit old.
	11:47am crateslinger: All I know about wine is only buy it if it says, "Mis en bouteille au chateau", so if it ain't french I don't know what to do.
	11:47am steve: there was a pretty interesting recent episode of Stuff You Should Know podcast about wine fraud... people selling wine they claim is hundreds of years old, owned by historical figures, etc.
	11:47am βrian: @Andrew: Yes. I had a limoncello made by a chef whose family is from Capri. His was bitter, oily, and obscene. "You will either love this or loathe it, " he warned. It was love for me.
	11:48am Cecile: I like exactly one IPA these days. The rest are damn near undrinkable.
	11:48am Jeff: Oh, Satan! They do love that guy, don't they?
	11:50am Dean: @Rev: Not quite analogous. Bitterness is a necessary, but not sufficient, characteristic of an IPA or pale ale. Gratuitous extremes of IBUs are, of course, part of the marketing plan, but lord, Knee Deep's Simtra, a very bitter triple IPA, is a glorious mouthful. The plummy quality of so much California red wine--last I tried them--is just reminiscent of ... fruit.
	11:50am Greg from ZONE 5: I walked past a store yesterday called "Skin Laundry", and I was like "How is this a place for ladies and not a metal band?"
	11:50am βrian: All I can find these days, are "Art School" IPAs. Iconoclastic palate assassins. Not for me.
	11:52am Polyus: Nick ambles to the podium to accept his award
	11:52am Chris M.: @Greg from ZONE 5: i really want to hear that band
	11:52am Cecile: I like Fulton's "Sweet Child of Vine". It had a bite, but drinks like what they call "session beer" now. "Session beer" is what we used to call "beer".
	11:52am Dean: We can thank Dogfish Head for that, @βrian. They were pioneers, but damn, I've never gotten them.
	11:52am Andrew Waterloo: Yah, the IPA game has become more of an IBU arms race with a quirky randomness outlier.
	11:52am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Chris M. Smell ya later!
	11:53am paula pc: huh what??? was asleep when this came out --- THANKS for noting, Chris!!!!
	11:53am Cecile: If I drink an IPA and have to use my inhaler within 2 minutes of drinking it, it's way too hoppy
	11:53am Greg from ZONE 5: You should hip Jonesy to this song. He'll play it every week!
	11:53am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Yes Thx ChrisM.
	11:53am steve: excellent show, glad i finally got to listen for once!
	11:54am βrian: "Session beer" vs "seizure beer?"
	11:54am Chris from DC: 22 albums and still going strong.
	11:54am Wild Neil: Great show Chris!
	11:55am Cecile: exactly, Brian.
	11:55am Mike East: I don't mind an IPA, but I stay away from the ones that have labels that look like they're daring you to drink it.
	11:55am Blinda: @ Greg from ZONE 5 hahah too true.
	11:55am Dean: Well, now that they mention hot sauce, has anybody suffered/enjoyed Bigfat's 8o8 Naga Jolokia? Ow.
	11:55am Cecile: yes, like the hot sauces that make you sign a waiver.
	11:56am βrian: Coming up: Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie on the Drummer stream. wfmu.org...
	11:57am Dean: The 7o8 7 Pot Citrus is less hot, but still a burner, and worthy of the name, really full of flavor. The 8o8 is a sinus clearer.
	11:57am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks much, Chris!
	11:58am Cecile: thanks, Chris!

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