WFMU: Imaginary Radio: Playlist from May 26, 2016

Listener comments!
	9:03am Cliff: Good morning Chris & listeners. I heard Bad Brains did a killer show at CBGB's back in '66. Both them and the club showed up in a fucking time machine and shit.
	♥ 9:07am Marcel M: Morning Chris et all. Nice start. Digging. Digging.
	9:08am sphere: Morning M and folks! Didn't Dylan go electric in 1966?
	9:09am Chris M.: good morning everybody
	♥ 9:13am pantz: I guess I just don't get Experimental Jazz. Maybe I'm not a hep cat after all.
	9:14am Cliff: "Albert Ayler famously said: 'Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost.'" - en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 9:16am Marcel M: @Pantz: There is a route you could take to it.. I'd start with early Coltrane and just keep listening in chronological order till he goes nuts. You may eventually start to appreciate it.
	♥ 9:16am Sem Chumbo: Hiya, Chris, and all Imaginary listeners here, or just in my mind.
	♥ 9:18am pantz: @Marcel Thanks. I've tried in the past, but it just sounds like a high school band warming up to me. Time to hang up my beret.
	♥ 9:19am Marcel M: @Pantz: Haha. Well Ayler sounds more like that than others (not that I don't like it).
	9:20am Cliff: Marcel & pantz - the way I did it was getting Ascension on CD, listening to the 1st take and going "WTF?!" the whole time, then hearing the opening notes of the 2nd take and going "Aha.....BINGO!!!!"
	♥ 9:20am SSS: No no...no hang up man! it is just technique and meter without melody...good for ya sometimes!
	♥ 9:21am SSS: Or sumptin..........
	9:23am Cheri Pi: YO!
	9:23am Cliff: Derp derp, I got my takes mixed up. "Edition I" of Ascension is the 2nd take, "Edition II" is the 1st take and Coltrane's preferred one. en.wikipedia.org...
	9:24am Cliff: PI!
	♥ 9:24am Marcel M: @Cliff: Actually Ascension was my gateway into free jazz as well. Incredible piece. I love the hook they come into.
	9:25am sphere: On this listen, this Who tune sounds a bit like the Byrds,
	♥ 9:25am Andrew Waterloo: My introduction to ascension was seeing Rova perform it with a large ensemble
	9:26am Cliff: Marcel I gotta dig that out again, haven't listened to it in years....
	♥ 9:29am holland oats: not a bad year
	9:29am Chris from DC: Seeing the Sun Ra Arkestra did it for me. Then we had a long running series here where heavyweights like Sonny Simmons and Sunny Murray came through town.
	♥ 9:32am SSS: Used to catch Sun Ra every week for a stretch in the Village...DAMN that was great
	♥ 9:33am Sem Chumbo: Yikes, time travel to a double bill I saw once , the Banke and the Blues MaGoos in their light-up-in-the-dark Victorian suits.
	♥ 9:36am Marcel M: Oh shit I just realized its a '66 show. Nice. Very cool you opened with the Ayler. What a year for Jazz!
	9:36am JoeRay: Leonard Bernstein really liked Pretty Ballerina in the doc "Inside Rock" on CBS in 1966.
	♥ 9:36am Marcel M: This Stones song was the used for the intro of the skate video Photosynthesis by Alien Workshop. Which I probably watched more than anything when I was in grade/high school. I picture it in my head every time I hear it.
	♥ 9:37am SSS: Don't mean to date myself (or maybe I do) but I like to go to Tompkins Square Park in East Village and go nuts in the area of the park where the amphitheater that Jimi Hendricks played in used to be....
	9:38am Polyus: Listen to these young art school fops.
	♥ 9:38am pantz: This set is starting to sound like a soundtrack to a Wes Anderson film...and I approve!
	9:39am Cliff: SSS, it must've been amazing to have been in NYC in the '60s.
	♥ 9:41am SSS: Fops...HeHeHe...I know @ Cliff...I was a little kid but would visit an older sister in the Village back then
	♥ 9:42am Sem Chumbo: OKaaaaay. Always dug this, could never figure out why. Maybe the Lee Hazelwood lyrics?
	♥ 9:43am SSS: Who doesn't like a woman high stepping in them white boots...white boots?
	♥ 9:44am Sem Chumbo: @SSS: yes, it might be something as simple as that;-D
	9:44am Cliff: DDDDDIIIAAAAMMMMOOOONNNNDDDDDDD
	♥ 9:48am pantz: Well, it's not The Laughing Gnome but a great early Bowie song for certain.
	9:50am Cecile: that is so weird, I heard that Bowie song on Sonic Tap on DirectTV last night!
	♥ 9:50am MD: YO YO YO!!!!
	♥ 9:51am MD: Sing it Tina!!!
	9:52am Cliff: TINA
	9:54am Cecile: Got Pretty Things?
	9:56am Cecile: Paul Revere and the Raiders?
	9:56am Cecile: 96 Tears...
	9:57am Cliff: All good stuff Cecile
	♥ 9:58am Andrew Waterloo: Secret Agent Man
	9:58am Cliff: The world's still here
	♥ 9:59am Rich in Washington: been listening w/ a tiny bit of room reverb 'cuz I accidentally left it on. Not perceptible during music but your back announcing parts sound like they're in a medium sized comedy club or something. It actually sounds cool.
	♥ 10:00am Andrew Waterloo: Monks!
	10:04am Cecile: Q65!
	10:05am Polyus: Oh this is excellent.
	10:06am Chris M.: @Rich in Washington: sometimes when i talk on this show i feel like i'm in a comedy club because i can't hear anyone laughing.
	♥ 10:07am Marcel M: @Chris: Haha.. makes you feel right at home, yes?
	10:08am Cliff: Chris I'll record myself snickering during your talk breaks and send you an mp3
	10:08am Chris M.: @Marcel M: instead of bed music i should play cricket sounds and occasional coughing
	♥ 10:10am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, all! @Chris: Ever consider radio prop comedy?
	10:12am Chris M.: @Greg from ZONE 5: i'm working on a routine with props. mostly it's like, "check this out. it's a mop and that's pretty fun. it could be hair. like this... see that?"
	10:15am Cliff: The theater of the mind
	♥ 10:15am Marcel M: @Chris M: That would actually be hysterical! You should. Morning Greg! You going to Heron tonight?
	10:19am Chris M.: "what's this? it's a comb. but maybe it's also a mustache. this is turning out to be quite a good disguise."
	10:20am βrian: I once had a cat who sang "These paws are made for walking" as she vamped upon my chest.
	10:22am βrian: Excellent cover art today, by the way.
	10:23am AndrewC.: you should have trained the cat to also play the song by walking on the piano.
	♥ 10:23am SSS: My goodness @Brian...THAT is a twenty two pound furnace cat!
	10:24am Chris M.: @βrian: thanks it's invisible
	♥ 10:25am Greg from ZONE 5: Yo Marcel—sure am! AND I don't have work tomorrow, so I hope it gets CRAZY. @Chris: Please do this. i.ytimg.com...
	10:26am βrian: @AndrewC: Perhaps. She had 24 toes which may have helped.
	10:28am βrian: @SSS: Orange Garden kitty is still with us. The Garden is his kingdom.
	10:28am Chris M.: my cat sings in a choir. she's a meowlto.
	♥ 10:28am Marcel M: @Greg: Awesome! See you there. Stacked bill.
	10:29am Dave in SoDak: Kinky Boots? Oh, wait, that was '64. I was born in '65. Loving this theme to the extreme.
	♥ 10:30am Greg from ZONE 5: Never seen Endless Boogie, so I'm psyched for that.
	10:31am Cliff: A good chunk of what Bill Kelly plays is from '66, what a year
	10:34am Chris M.: glad you're enjoying it Dave
	♥ 10:34am JP from KC: Good morning, Chris and imaginarians. I like this cover.
	♥ 10:35am Marcel M: Man, this version is making me really appreciate the lyrics.
	10:35am scuzfink1: This is making my housework quite pleasant. Thanks.
	10:36am Blinda: Wow. Judy Collins is terrible. On a related note, I love the diversity of our views.
	10:36am Chris M.: of all the year-themed shows i've done, this is the first time i've done a full show with music from the 60s.
	10:37am Jeff: Apparently I like 1966.
	10:39am Blinda: arrrrgh I missed so much good stuff already! DAMN YOU FORGETFUL MIND THAT ALWAYS FORGETS IT'S THURSDAY MORNING!
	10:39am Chris M.: @Jeff: there was practically no grindcore in 1966
	10:39am Jeff: Can't wait for 67 and 68, too.
	10:40am Billy London: I'm loving the vibe in here
	10:40am Billy London: Caught the high llamas last night and this is a nice chaser
	10:41am Jeff: @Chris: practically...
	10:42am Cliff: Oh groundskeepers, didja really have to start mowing all the courtyards now? A little too warm out to shut the windows
	10:43am Blinda: @Chris M, how do you search just for songs from 1966? And where do you get your comment page art?
	10:44am Jeff: My dad had this: www.discogs.com... ... and it got played a lot when I was a kid. I think he only had Volume 2, for some reason.
	10:46am Cliff: Saw Steve Lawrence on those liner notes, and my brain immediately went "whoOOAAooaoAOAOAOAAAOOAAAOOAAAooaoaaaaoaaaooo"
	♥ 10:46am Ken From Hyde Park: These songs will be great to listen to when I get back the '66 Impala my parents had when I was little. It'll be imaginary driving, though, since that car went off to a demolition derby or some such fate long ago.
	10:47am Chris M.: @Blinda: from ancient arcane texts that have been cursed for eons. beware!
	10:48am jt: good Fall cover. Ah ha ha
	10:48am βrian: No grindcore but carpet-bombing was a thing.
	♥ 10:48am Greg from ZONE 5: Maybe the BEST Fall cover!
	10:49am Chapelhillian: I was silly enough to think Mark E. Smith wrote this. While we are thinking back to cars, I had a 1966 Volvo 122S. Robins egg blue
	10:50am sphere: Grindcore had its origins in 1966 when Jim Henson created a proto-Cookie Monster for some ads: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:50am David Shortell: I only recently found out that group appeared on the pilot episode of "The Mod Squad". www.youtube.com...
	♥ 10:51am Marcel M: YES!!! MONKS
	10:51am sphere: M ONK S
	10:51am bobdoesthings: <3 monnnnkksss
	♥ 10:52am Greg from ZONE 5: MONK TIME
	10:52am AndrewC.: Two songs covered by the Fall.
	10:53am burnsie5000: diggin the vibe of this show. monktime is goodtime!
	10:58am βrian: Get your tonsure on.
	10:58am jt: 1966...the year I was born, That music has really held up..50 years!
	10:58am Cliff: I'd be down with an hour of My Little Red Book on repeat
	11:00am Cliff: Happy birthyear jt!
	11:01am βrian: The all-white apartment, with the sunken living area?
	♥ 11:02am Marcel M: Off to work. Bye all. Great show Chris.
	11:03am Cliff: Later Marcel
	11:04am Cecile: bye marcel!
	11:04am jt: Thanks Cliff, Celebrating all year! Age has it's benefits, I saw the Monks : reunion tour at Cave Stomp/ Westbeth years ago.. excellent show Chris M, good luck raking those leaves!
	11:04am Blinda: how bout some SABBATH
	11:05am Cliff: James Brown, oh F yeah jt you must have some great memories and stories to tell, and they'd even be true (unlike Lyle ;)
	11:05am Chris M.: @βrian: yeah i have the same exact apartment thanks Marcel & jt
	11:06am sphere: JB is so sexist here but i love this tune despite it all.
	11:06am Jeff: Nice Residents cover!
	11:06am Cliff: Yeah totes sexist, but the way he belts this out man
	11:07am Blinda: I am the only person on Earth I believe who is unmoved by James Brown
	11:07am Cecile: the greatest! Lee Dorsey
	11:07am Blinda: I feel a little unsafe even revealing that
	11:07am βrian: Both "man" and "woman" have two syllables.
	11:08am Cliff: Everybody has their likes and dislikes Blinda, no worries
	11:08am Cecile: No, there was a guy who used to write for Stereo Review who used to hilariously pulverize his latest works. I didn't agree with him, but I understood where he was coming from.
	11:09am sphere: cool by me Blinda. :)
	11:09am Cecile: YAS
	11:12am Blinda: Thanks for the acceptance you guys!!
	11:13am Blinda: Question: What is it with songs of a certain era always calling women "little girl"?
	11:13am Jeff: @Cecile: was it Steve Simels?
	11:15am Cliff: QUESTION MARK
	11:15am Cheri Pi: 96!
	11:15am Cecile: No, it was Joel Vance.
	11:15am Cecile: YES
	♥ 11:15am Mike East: after the 96th tear, did ? suddenly open his eyes and say, meh, I'm over it.
	11:16am Polyus: Saginaw, MI represent.
	11:16am Cliff: My mom told me her older brothers useta play this over and over and over and over and over and over again
	11:16am Cecile: Blinda, insecurity because women were coming into their own.
	11:18am βrian: Always fun to hear Hugh.
	11:19am βrian: Wait, why Saginaw?
	11:19am Jeff: This show is fascinating. So many things I don't actually associate with a particular year, and would have guessed wrong about if pressed.
	♥ 11:19am tiago: Thanks for playing Mr Pharmacist. I knew the Fall track was a cover but hada actually never listened to the original if that is the original
	♥ 11:21am tiago: also the thing about playing only 1966 tracks is that you cannot do your usual grindcore/black metal section...or can you...?
	11:21am Cliff: Miles, yaaaasss
	11:21am Chris M.: will i do a 1956 show? i can't think of too many songs i like from that year
	11:23am Cliff: tiago, maybe Chris found some audience recordings from that Bad Brains show they did with the time machine
	11:23am Chris M.: @tiago: Albert Ayler is kind of like extreme metal except it's not as melodic.
	11:24am Polyus: @ Brian - that's where they were from. Although I only lived there a few years in high school, and on the outskirts, so I guess I can't really say represent with much authenticity.
	♥ 11:24am tiago: :)
	11:24am V Priceless: '66 kicks butt..and hey Chris M. - great show - somewhat of a bookend to Todd-o's great show this past Saturday w/Jon Savage, discussing his book "1966: The Year Decade Exploded"; required reading for sure!
	11:25am JoeRay: Zappa and Beefheart on the same WFMU show!!!
	11:26am V Priceless: there's a 'the' I left out in that book title...my bad
	♥ 11:26am Sem Chumbo: We know the answer to this now. I liked it better when it was a question, you know, the mystery.
	11:27am wdd: when corn flakes tasted like corn flakes and coffee knew how to be percolated.
	11:29am Chris M.: @V Priceless: thanks
	11:30am βrian: Can you zappa beefheart?
	11:31am Cliff: Yes, it will form a tin teardrop
	11:31am bobdoesthings: on a porcupine fence
	♥ 11:33am pantz: Don Cherry?! Beloved Canadian hockey enthusiast was also a Jazz man?
	11:33am Cliff: Aural demonstration that jazz and grind are not all that different
	11:35am βrian: I do agree that grind is indifferent, anyway.
	11:37am Polyus: Hey, it's that bit that Madlib sampled on the first Quasimoto album.
	11:42am Cecile: Dennis Gonzalez, the free jazz trumpeter plays in a band called Yells at Eels with his sons who used to play in a grindcore band themselves.
	11:49am Cliff: Fantastic show today Chris M :D
	♥ 11:50am Michael 98145: @pantz, since this is imaginary radio we can only imagine what colorful outfit he is wearing
	♥ 11:50am Rich in Washington: You scofflaw, you! Great set!
	♥ 11:51am pantz: Good show, @Chris M. @Michael 98145 No doubt!
	11:51am BrianFromMA: Illegal to play??? Why???
	11:51am Cliff: Again: Theater of the mind
	11:53am Cliff: Yeah, "that show tonight"
	11:54am Cecile: Brian, it's Chris M. Take it with a grain of salt.
	♥ 11:54am Ĩkє: @BrianFromMA, he's being facetious. Which is a surprise because when is Chris M. ever facetious? Never! It's unheard of! But he means "illegal" as in "other FMU DJs will frown on playing Clapton because Clapton is lame Dad-rock." Which... well, he is, to be fair. So who gets this slot now that Chris's license is revoked? Lamin? Underwater Theme Park? Jonathan Herweg?
	11:54am Cliff: Yeah the FCC wouldn't even let them play in the Woodstock film, all we got was Garcia rollin' a joint
	11:55am BrianFromMA: I still have my FCC license....
	11:55am Cliff: Kenny G?
	11:56am Cecile: Ike, forget about Lamin. I've emailed him several times begging him to apply for a slot, but Ken says he never does.
	11:56am βrian: Coming up, Beach Music wth Charlie: wfmu.org...
	11:56am Cliff: Time for Prop Radio!
	♥ 11:56am JP from KC: I would give my left ventricle to be at that Heron show.
	11:56am Lewis: stalling tape?
	11:56am Cliff: Lamin was great, I miss him too Cecile
	11:57am Barbara: what a great show ... loving the sitting here quietly music
	♥ 11:57am Rich in Washington: Don't worry, Chris - you can make up a significant portion of points on the written.
	11:57am Ike: Bummer, C.
	11:57am Cliff: Dammit, I don't have Audacity installed on this laptop to record my laughter, sorry Chris M.
	11:58am Jeff: Bill Zurat became so confident that one time he played the Grateful Dead entirely without irony... and we haven't heard much from him since.
	11:58am greg: weekend at bernie's & 80s dc hardcore connection?
	♥ 11:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, CM!
	11:59am Jeff: BTW, that extended Don Cherry piece was gorgeous.
	♥ 11:59am Rich in Washington: I just this week was informed that I am off probation at my station for playing a clip of Peter Weller saying 'shit' before 10pm. I can now swear on the air again.
	♥ 11:59am Rich in Washington: Thanks, Chris! Great show!
	11:59am Chris M.: thanks
	12:00pm Cliff: Just don't make a mockery of the Emergency Alert System, that really gets the FCC riled up

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May 26, 2016: 1966

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Approx. start time
Albert Ayler	ITT "ITT" by "Albert Ayler"	New York Eye And Ear Control	1966	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Who	So Sad About Us "So Sad About Us" by "The Who"	A Quick One	1966	0:21:46 (Pop-up)
Cream	N.S.U. "N.S.U." by "Cream"	Fresh Cream	1966	0:24:47 (Pop-up)
The Kinks	Rainy Day In June "Rainy Day In June" by "The Kinks"	Face To Face	1966	0:27:27 (Pop-up)
The Left Banke	Pretty Ballerina "Pretty Ballerina" by "The Left Banke"		1966	0:30:34 (Pop-up)
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band	I Won't Hurt You	Volume 1	1966	0:33:10 (Pop-up)
The Rolling Stones	I Am Waiting "I Am Waiting" by "The Rolling Stones"	Aftermath	1966	0:35:20 (Pop-up)
Francoise Hardy	However Much (Et Meme)	In English	1966	0:38:24 (Pop-up)
Nancy Sinatra	These Boots Are Made For Walkin'	Boots	1966	0:40:32 (Pop-up)
Neil Diamond	Solitary Man "Solitary Man" by "Neil Diamond"	The Feel Of Neil Diamond	1966	0:43:10 (Pop-up)
David Bowie With The Lower Third	Can't Help Thinking About Me		1966	0:45:41 (Pop-up)
Ike & Tina Turner	River Deep - Mountain High	River Deep - Mountain High	1966	0:48:24 (Pop-up)

Wayne Shorter	The All Seeing Eye "The All Seeing Eye" by "Wayne Shorter"	The All Seeing Eye	1966	0:59:09 (Pop-up)
Jef Gilson Nonet feat. Jean Louis Chautemps	Adriano	New Call From France	1966	1:09:38 (Pop-up)
Antonio Carlos Jobim	The Face I Love (Seu Encanto)	Love, Strings and Jobim	1966	1:13:48 (Pop-up)
Jerry Goldsmith	Our Man Flint "Our Man Flint" by "Jerry Goldsmith"	Our Man Flint (Original Motion Picture Score)	1966	1:15:56 (Pop-up)
Francis Lai	Un Homme Et Une Femme (Orchestre)	Un Homme Et Une Femme (Bande Originale Du Film)	1966	1:17:39 (Pop-up)
Patty Waters	Moon, Don't Come Up Tonight	Patty Waters Sings	1966	1:20:23 (Pop-up)
Astrud Gilberto	Once Upon A Summertime	Look To The Rainbow	1966	1:23:18 (Pop-up)
Bert Jansch	The Waggoner's Lad "The Waggoner's Lad" by "Bert Jansch"	Jack Orion	1966	1:26:16 (Pop-up)
Judy Collins	Tom Thumb's Blues "Tom Thumb's Blues" by "Judy Collins"	In My Life	1966	1:29:40 (Pop-up)
Lee Hazlewood	Sand "Sand" by "Lee Hazlewood"	The Very Special World Of Lee Hazlewood	1966	1:34:44 (Pop-up)
Buffalo Springfield	Flying On The Ground Is Wrong	Buffalo Springfield	1966	1:38:17 (Pop-up)
Tracy Rogers	Baby "Baby" by "Tracy Rogers"		1966	1:40:56 (Pop-up)
The 13th Floor Elevators	You're Gonna Miss Me	The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators	1966	1:43:26 (Pop-up)
The Other Half	Mr. Pharmacist "Mr. Pharmacist" by "The Other Half"		1966	1:45:51 (Pop-up)
The Sonics	The Hustler "The Hustler" by "The Sonics"	Boom	1966	1:48:20 (Pop-up)
The Monks	I Hate You "I Hate You" by "The Monks"	Black Monk Time	1966	1:50:24 (Pop-up)
Love	My Little Red Book "My Little Red Book" by "Love"	Love	1966	1:53:57 (Pop-up)

James Brown	It's a Man's Man's Man's World		1966	2:03:42 (Pop-up)
Lee Dorsey	So Long "So Long" by "Lee Dorsey"	Ride Your Pony - Get Out Of My Life Woman	1966	2:06:25 (Pop-up)
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	Who Do You Think You're Fooling?		1966	2:08:54 (Pop-up)
John Mayall And Eric Clapton	Little Girl	Blues Breakers	1966	2:11:00 (Pop-up)
? And The Mysterians	96 Tears "96 Tears" by "? And The Mysterians"	96 Tears	1966	2:13:33 (Pop-up)
Hugh Masekela	U, Dwi "U, Dwi" by "Hugh Masekela"	Grrr	1966	2:16:11 (Pop-up)
Miles Davis Quintet	Orbits "Orbits" by "Miles Davis Quintet"	Miles Smiles	1966	2:19:18 (Pop-up)
Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention	Who Are The Brain Police?	Freak Out!	1966	2:23:57 (Pop-up)
Don Cherry	Complete Communion "Complete Communion" by "Don Cherry"	Complete Communion	1966	2:27:24 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:03am Cliff: Good morning Chris & listeners. I heard Bad Brains did a killer show at CBGB's back in '66. Both them and the club showed up in a fucking time machine and shit.
	♥ 9:07am Marcel M: Morning Chris et all. Nice start. Digging. Digging.
	9:08am sphere: Morning M and folks! Didn't Dylan go electric in 1966?
	9:09am Chris M.: good morning everybody
	♥ 9:13am pantz: I guess I just don't get Experimental Jazz. Maybe I'm not a hep cat after all.
	9:14am Cliff: "Albert Ayler famously said: 'Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son, I am the Holy Ghost.'" - en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 9:16am Marcel M: @Pantz: There is a route you could take to it.. I'd start with early Coltrane and just keep listening in chronological order till he goes nuts. You may eventually start to appreciate it.
	♥ 9:16am Sem Chumbo: Hiya, Chris, and all Imaginary listeners here, or just in my mind.
	♥ 9:18am pantz: @Marcel Thanks. I've tried in the past, but it just sounds like a high school band warming up to me. Time to hang up my beret.
	♥ 9:19am Marcel M: @Pantz: Haha. Well Ayler sounds more like that than others (not that I don't like it).
	9:20am Cliff: Marcel & pantz - the way I did it was getting Ascension on CD, listening to the 1st take and going "WTF?!" the whole time, then hearing the opening notes of the 2nd take and going "Aha.....BINGO!!!!"
	♥ 9:20am SSS: No no...no hang up man! it is just technique and meter without melody...good for ya sometimes!
	♥ 9:21am SSS: Or sumptin..........
	9:23am Cheri Pi: YO!
	9:23am Cliff: Derp derp, I got my takes mixed up. "Edition I" of Ascension is the 2nd take, "Edition II" is the 1st take and Coltrane's preferred one. en.wikipedia.org...
	9:24am Cliff: PI!
	♥ 9:24am Marcel M: @Cliff: Actually Ascension was my gateway into free jazz as well. Incredible piece. I love the hook they come into.
	9:25am sphere: On this listen, this Who tune sounds a bit like the Byrds,
	♥ 9:25am Andrew Waterloo: My introduction to ascension was seeing Rova perform it with a large ensemble
	9:26am Cliff: Marcel I gotta dig that out again, haven't listened to it in years....
	♥ 9:29am holland oats: not a bad year
	9:29am Chris from DC: Seeing the Sun Ra Arkestra did it for me. Then we had a long running series here where heavyweights like Sonny Simmons and Sunny Murray came through town.
	♥ 9:32am SSS: Used to catch Sun Ra every week for a stretch in the Village...DAMN that was great
	♥ 9:33am Sem Chumbo: Yikes, time travel to a double bill I saw once , the Banke and the Blues MaGoos in their light-up-in-the-dark Victorian suits.
	♥ 9:36am Marcel M: Oh shit I just realized its a '66 show. Nice. Very cool you opened with the Ayler. What a year for Jazz!
	9:36am JoeRay: Leonard Bernstein really liked Pretty Ballerina in the doc "Inside Rock" on CBS in 1966.
	♥ 9:36am Marcel M: This Stones song was the used for the intro of the skate video Photosynthesis by Alien Workshop. Which I probably watched more than anything when I was in grade/high school. I picture it in my head every time I hear it.
	♥ 9:37am SSS: Don't mean to date myself (or maybe I do) but I like to go to Tompkins Square Park in East Village and go nuts in the area of the park where the amphitheater that Jimi Hendricks played in used to be....
	9:38am Polyus: Listen to these young art school fops.
	♥ 9:38am pantz: This set is starting to sound like a soundtrack to a Wes Anderson film...and I approve!
	9:39am Cliff: SSS, it must've been amazing to have been in NYC in the '60s.
	♥ 9:41am SSS: Fops...HeHeHe...I know @ Cliff...I was a little kid but would visit an older sister in the Village back then
	♥ 9:42am Sem Chumbo: OKaaaaay. Always dug this, could never figure out why. Maybe the Lee Hazelwood lyrics?
	♥ 9:43am SSS: Who doesn't like a woman high stepping in them white boots...white boots?
	♥ 9:44am Sem Chumbo: @SSS: yes, it might be something as simple as that;-D
	9:44am Cliff: DDDDDIIIAAAAMMMMOOOONNNNDDDDDDD
	♥ 9:48am pantz: Well, it's not The Laughing Gnome but a great early Bowie song for certain.
	9:50am Cecile: that is so weird, I heard that Bowie song on Sonic Tap on DirectTV last night!
	♥ 9:50am MD: YO YO YO!!!!
	♥ 9:51am MD: Sing it Tina!!!
	9:52am Cliff: TINA
	9:54am Cecile: Got Pretty Things?
	9:56am Cecile: Paul Revere and the Raiders?
	9:56am Cecile: 96 Tears...
	9:57am Cliff: All good stuff Cecile
	♥ 9:58am Andrew Waterloo: Secret Agent Man
	9:58am Cliff: The world's still here
	♥ 9:59am Rich in Washington: been listening w/ a tiny bit of room reverb 'cuz I accidentally left it on. Not perceptible during music but your back announcing parts sound like they're in a medium sized comedy club or something. It actually sounds cool.
	♥ 10:00am Andrew Waterloo: Monks!
	10:04am Cecile: Q65!
	10:05am Polyus: Oh this is excellent.
	10:06am Chris M.: @Rich in Washington: sometimes when i talk on this show i feel like i'm in a comedy club because i can't hear anyone laughing.
	♥ 10:07am Marcel M: @Chris: Haha.. makes you feel right at home, yes?
	10:08am Cliff: Chris I'll record myself snickering during your talk breaks and send you an mp3
	10:08am Chris M.: @Marcel M: instead of bed music i should play cricket sounds and occasional coughing
	♥ 10:10am Greg from ZONE 5: Morning, all! @Chris: Ever consider radio prop comedy?
	10:12am Chris M.: @Greg from ZONE 5: i'm working on a routine with props. mostly it's like, "check this out. it's a mop and that's pretty fun. it could be hair. like this... see that?"
	10:15am Cliff: The theater of the mind
	♥ 10:15am Marcel M: @Chris M: That would actually be hysterical! You should. Morning Greg! You going to Heron tonight?
	10:19am Chris M.: "what's this? it's a comb. but maybe it's also a mustache. this is turning out to be quite a good disguise."
	10:20am βrian: I once had a cat who sang "These paws are made for walking" as she vamped upon my chest.
	10:22am βrian: Excellent cover art today, by the way.
	10:23am AndrewC.: you should have trained the cat to also play the song by walking on the piano.
	♥ 10:23am SSS: My goodness @Brian...THAT is a twenty two pound furnace cat!
	10:24am Chris M.: @βrian: thanks it's invisible
	♥ 10:25am Greg from ZONE 5: Yo Marcel—sure am! AND I don't have work tomorrow, so I hope it gets CRAZY. @Chris: Please do this. i.ytimg.com...
	10:26am βrian: @AndrewC: Perhaps. She had 24 toes which may have helped.
	10:28am βrian: @SSS: Orange Garden kitty is still with us. The Garden is his kingdom.
	10:28am Chris M.: my cat sings in a choir. she's a meowlto.
	♥ 10:28am Marcel M: @Greg: Awesome! See you there. Stacked bill.
	10:29am Dave in SoDak: Kinky Boots? Oh, wait, that was '64. I was born in '65. Loving this theme to the extreme.
	♥ 10:30am Greg from ZONE 5: Never seen Endless Boogie, so I'm psyched for that.
	10:31am Cliff: A good chunk of what Bill Kelly plays is from '66, what a year
	10:34am Chris M.: glad you're enjoying it Dave
	♥ 10:34am JP from KC: Good morning, Chris and imaginarians. I like this cover.
	♥ 10:35am Marcel M: Man, this version is making me really appreciate the lyrics.
	10:35am scuzfink1: This is making my housework quite pleasant. Thanks.
	10:36am Blinda: Wow. Judy Collins is terrible. On a related note, I love the diversity of our views.
	10:36am Chris M.: of all the year-themed shows i've done, this is the first time i've done a full show with music from the 60s.
	10:37am Jeff: Apparently I like 1966.
	10:39am Blinda: arrrrgh I missed so much good stuff already! DAMN YOU FORGETFUL MIND THAT ALWAYS FORGETS IT'S THURSDAY MORNING!
	10:39am Chris M.: @Jeff: there was practically no grindcore in 1966
	10:39am Jeff: Can't wait for 67 and 68, too.
	10:40am Billy London: I'm loving the vibe in here
	10:40am Billy London: Caught the high llamas last night and this is a nice chaser
	10:41am Jeff: @Chris: practically...
	10:42am Cliff: Oh groundskeepers, didja really have to start mowing all the courtyards now? A little too warm out to shut the windows
	10:43am Blinda: @Chris M, how do you search just for songs from 1966? And where do you get your comment page art?
	10:44am Jeff: My dad had this: www.discogs.com... ... and it got played a lot when I was a kid. I think he only had Volume 2, for some reason.
	10:46am Cliff: Saw Steve Lawrence on those liner notes, and my brain immediately went "whoOOAAooaoAOAOAOAAAOOAAAOOAAAooaoaaaaoaaaooo"
	♥ 10:46am Ken From Hyde Park: These songs will be great to listen to when I get back the '66 Impala my parents had when I was little. It'll be imaginary driving, though, since that car went off to a demolition derby or some such fate long ago.
	10:47am Chris M.: @Blinda: from ancient arcane texts that have been cursed for eons. beware!
	10:48am jt: good Fall cover. Ah ha ha
	10:48am βrian: No grindcore but carpet-bombing was a thing.
	♥ 10:48am Greg from ZONE 5: Maybe the BEST Fall cover!
	10:49am Chapelhillian: I was silly enough to think Mark E. Smith wrote this. While we are thinking back to cars, I had a 1966 Volvo 122S. Robins egg blue
	10:50am sphere: Grindcore had its origins in 1966 when Jim Henson created a proto-Cookie Monster for some ads: en.wikipedia.org...
	10:50am David Shortell: I only recently found out that group appeared on the pilot episode of "The Mod Squad". www.youtube.com...
	♥ 10:51am Marcel M: YES!!! MONKS
	10:51am sphere: M ONK S
	10:51am bobdoesthings: <3 monnnnkksss
	♥ 10:52am Greg from ZONE 5: MONK TIME
	10:52am AndrewC.: Two songs covered by the Fall.
	10:53am burnsie5000: diggin the vibe of this show. monktime is goodtime!
	10:58am βrian: Get your tonsure on.
	10:58am jt: 1966...the year I was born, That music has really held up..50 years!
	10:58am Cliff: I'd be down with an hour of My Little Red Book on repeat
	11:00am Cliff: Happy birthyear jt!
	11:01am βrian: The all-white apartment, with the sunken living area?
	♥ 11:02am Marcel M: Off to work. Bye all. Great show Chris.
	11:03am Cliff: Later Marcel
	11:04am Cecile: bye marcel!
	11:04am jt: Thanks Cliff, Celebrating all year! Age has it's benefits, I saw the Monks : reunion tour at Cave Stomp/ Westbeth years ago.. excellent show Chris M, good luck raking those leaves!
	11:04am Blinda: how bout some SABBATH
	11:05am Cliff: James Brown, oh F yeah jt you must have some great memories and stories to tell, and they'd even be true (unlike Lyle ;)
	11:05am Chris M.: @βrian: yeah i have the same exact apartment thanks Marcel & jt
	11:06am sphere: JB is so sexist here but i love this tune despite it all.
	11:06am Jeff: Nice Residents cover!
	11:06am Cliff: Yeah totes sexist, but the way he belts this out man
	11:07am Blinda: I am the only person on Earth I believe who is unmoved by James Brown
	11:07am Cecile: the greatest! Lee Dorsey
	11:07am Blinda: I feel a little unsafe even revealing that
	11:07am βrian: Both "man" and "woman" have two syllables.
	11:08am Cliff: Everybody has their likes and dislikes Blinda, no worries
	11:08am Cecile: No, there was a guy who used to write for Stereo Review who used to hilariously pulverize his latest works. I didn't agree with him, but I understood where he was coming from.
	11:09am sphere: cool by me Blinda. :)
	11:09am Cecile: YAS
	11:12am Blinda: Thanks for the acceptance you guys!!
	11:13am Blinda: Question: What is it with songs of a certain era always calling women "little girl"?
	11:13am Jeff: @Cecile: was it Steve Simels?
	11:15am Cliff: QUESTION MARK
	11:15am Cheri Pi: 96!
	11:15am Cecile: No, it was Joel Vance.
	11:15am Cecile: YES
	♥ 11:15am Mike East: after the 96th tear, did ? suddenly open his eyes and say, meh, I'm over it.
	11:16am Polyus: Saginaw, MI represent.
	11:16am Cliff: My mom told me her older brothers useta play this over and over and over and over and over and over again
	11:16am Cecile: Blinda, insecurity because women were coming into their own.
	11:18am βrian: Always fun to hear Hugh.
	11:19am βrian: Wait, why Saginaw?
	11:19am Jeff: This show is fascinating. So many things I don't actually associate with a particular year, and would have guessed wrong about if pressed.
	♥ 11:19am tiago: Thanks for playing Mr Pharmacist. I knew the Fall track was a cover but hada actually never listened to the original if that is the original
	♥ 11:21am tiago: also the thing about playing only 1966 tracks is that you cannot do your usual grindcore/black metal section...or can you...?
	11:21am Cliff: Miles, yaaaasss
	11:21am Chris M.: will i do a 1956 show? i can't think of too many songs i like from that year
	11:23am Cliff: tiago, maybe Chris found some audience recordings from that Bad Brains show they did with the time machine
	11:23am Chris M.: @tiago: Albert Ayler is kind of like extreme metal except it's not as melodic.
	11:24am Polyus: @ Brian - that's where they were from. Although I only lived there a few years in high school, and on the outskirts, so I guess I can't really say represent with much authenticity.
	♥ 11:24am tiago: :)
	11:24am V Priceless: '66 kicks butt..and hey Chris M. - great show - somewhat of a bookend to Todd-o's great show this past Saturday w/Jon Savage, discussing his book "1966: The Year Decade Exploded"; required reading for sure!
	11:25am JoeRay: Zappa and Beefheart on the same WFMU show!!!
	11:26am V Priceless: there's a 'the' I left out in that book title...my bad
	♥ 11:26am Sem Chumbo: We know the answer to this now. I liked it better when it was a question, you know, the mystery.
	11:27am wdd: when corn flakes tasted like corn flakes and coffee knew how to be percolated.
	11:29am Chris M.: @V Priceless: thanks
	11:30am βrian: Can you zappa beefheart?
	11:31am Cliff: Yes, it will form a tin teardrop
	11:31am bobdoesthings: on a porcupine fence
	♥ 11:33am pantz: Don Cherry?! Beloved Canadian hockey enthusiast was also a Jazz man?
	11:33am Cliff: Aural demonstration that jazz and grind are not all that different
	11:35am βrian: I do agree that grind is indifferent, anyway.
	11:37am Polyus: Hey, it's that bit that Madlib sampled on the first Quasimoto album.
	11:42am Cecile: Dennis Gonzalez, the free jazz trumpeter plays in a band called Yells at Eels with his sons who used to play in a grindcore band themselves.
	11:49am Cliff: Fantastic show today Chris M :D
	♥ 11:50am Michael 98145: @pantz, since this is imaginary radio we can only imagine what colorful outfit he is wearing
	♥ 11:50am Rich in Washington: You scofflaw, you! Great set!
	♥ 11:51am pantz: Good show, @Chris M. @Michael 98145 No doubt!
	11:51am BrianFromMA: Illegal to play??? Why???
	11:51am Cliff: Again: Theater of the mind
	11:53am Cliff: Yeah, "that show tonight"
	11:54am Cecile: Brian, it's Chris M. Take it with a grain of salt.
	♥ 11:54am Ĩkє: @BrianFromMA, he's being facetious. Which is a surprise because when is Chris M. ever facetious? Never! It's unheard of! But he means "illegal" as in "other FMU DJs will frown on playing Clapton because Clapton is lame Dad-rock." Which... well, he is, to be fair. So who gets this slot now that Chris's license is revoked? Lamin? Underwater Theme Park? Jonathan Herweg?
	11:54am Cliff: Yeah the FCC wouldn't even let them play in the Woodstock film, all we got was Garcia rollin' a joint
	11:55am BrianFromMA: I still have my FCC license....
	11:55am Cliff: Kenny G?
	11:56am Cecile: Ike, forget about Lamin. I've emailed him several times begging him to apply for a slot, but Ken says he never does.
	11:56am βrian: Coming up, Beach Music wth Charlie: wfmu.org...
	11:56am Cliff: Time for Prop Radio!
	♥ 11:56am JP from KC: I would give my left ventricle to be at that Heron show.
	11:56am Lewis: stalling tape?
	11:56am Cliff: Lamin was great, I miss him too Cecile
	11:57am Barbara: what a great show ... loving the sitting here quietly music
	♥ 11:57am Rich in Washington: Don't worry, Chris - you can make up a significant portion of points on the written.
	11:57am Ike: Bummer, C.
	11:57am Cliff: Dammit, I don't have Audacity installed on this laptop to record my laughter, sorry Chris M.
	11:58am Jeff: Bill Zurat became so confident that one time he played the Grateful Dead entirely without irony... and we haven't heard much from him since.
	11:58am greg: weekend at bernie's & 80s dc hardcore connection?
	♥ 11:58am Greg from ZONE 5: Thanks, CM!
	11:59am Jeff: BTW, that extended Don Cherry piece was gorgeous.
	♥ 11:59am Rich in Washington: I just this week was informed that I am off probation at my station for playing a clip of Peter Weller saying 'shit' before 10pm. I can now swear on the air again.
	♥ 11:59am Rich in Washington: Thanks, Chris! Great show!
	11:59am Chris M.: thanks
	12:00pm Cliff: Just don't make a mockery of the Emergency Alert System, that really gets the FCC riled up

Imaginary Radio: Playlist from May 26, 2016

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