Congratulations Cory, you requested Negativland's worst song ever. But still, it's a move in the right direction. Negativland is indeed better than Barenaked Ladies.
this week is the anniversary of Don Joyce passing to the great radio station in the sky - maybe one of his Negativland tracks - maybe No Business - very topical, stealing, this week I hear
Got any songs that celebrate plagiarism? I guess The ECC has an album Plagiarhythm Nation, if that counts. If I recall, Kenny G had a whole book on plagiarism.
The only song I know of that ADMITS plagiarism is Neil Young's "Borrowed Tune." And I cant think of songs ABOUT plagiarism. I did a whole Seven Sec Delay recently about songs that rip off other songs.
I hear tell that Jim the Poet may be calling in. At what time would we be expecting him to call? No call-in time currently listed on the Tweeter. twitter.com...
'Been caught stealing'.. The video and the song had a mind-blowing effect on me when I first listen to it. It was just so different to everything I heard before it. More or less the same kind of effect I had when I discovered WFMU
Good morning! Silver Apples- just what my ears needed to purge "we are the champions" from my head.
It's been stuck in there since hearing it played Monday Night during the broadcast of the Republican convention.
When I first heard about the whole Bruce Springsteen and Allan Vega thing I was amazed, but now, when I hear songs like this, I just keep thinking about how much Springsteen sounds like Suicide.
@People Like Us: Also passing to the great Radio Station in the sky were favorite NYC radio personalities
Dandy Dan Daniels (early 60s radio) and Vaughn Harper (70s FM).
Some context, please, Ken. Is it about the GOP convention? I thought it was yesterday.
9:16am
P-90:
@cory and FoFo: "Been Caught Stealing" to me epitomizes the early 1990's. It's one of those songs that's like the soundtrack to a particular moment in time and space. For me, New York at the beginning of the nineties. It was all over the radio, and the video was in heavy rotation on MTV. When MTV was really like a radio station for videos of current songs. I don't know what it is these days...
9:18am
Li'l Miss Dog Pedant:
Please ask Jim the Poet if he's written haiku for any of the delegates or speaker at #RNCinCLE
Rudy is a Jelly Donut!!! Ist Bein Ein Jelly Donut!!!
9:18am
Zach:
GOP convention is 4 or 5 days long. Day 1 was make America Safe Again, day 2 was Make America Work again. Not sure what today is. Last night some speakers like the west virginia governor was absolute trash, but trumps son had a great speech.
I have to hand it to you people that have been able to watch this stuff - I find even the recaps to be kinda soul-crushing. Maybe I just can't maintain the proper perspective.
@Vivian: That was WBLS. Circa 1975, it was the first urban sound NYC station, playing disco, Barry White, Teddy Prendergrass and the like. The station was tolerable for about two years, but it soon was overrun with commercials and too much derivative music.
Jim said it was freezing in the convention hall and all he packed to wear were three FMU t-shirts. So maybe ask him if he got a sweater or sweatshirt to wear, or if he's just been wearing his FMU shirts in layers to keep warm?
9:30am
Sam:
Oh, I thought that was Occupy Wall Street.
9:31am
Li'l Miss Dog Pedant:
Tonight's theme at #GOPinCLE is Making America First Again. No Trumps or reality-show "celebrities" scheduled to speak, just GOP establishment. Expect most delegates to blow it off, Will Jim the Poet even bother going tonight?
The thing I was most amazed at about Jim on Sportsy Talk last night was that Andy Breckman called his cell. Are they chilling in Cleveland? They are homies?
The RNC is doing quite well for Jim. The DNC is next week. Will there be any WFMU coverage in Philadelphia of that?
9:43am
Sam:
I think it's funny that God creates certain people and immediately goes "Shit, I hate that guy. What was I thinking?" And then he just keeps on making more of them. Silly God!
Hello. I am sad. I have many broken bones in my feet and the Department for Work and Pensions in the UK have just declared me 'Fit For Work'. I have an operation due next month and lots of big bills to pay. Please please please put some shittyflute in my ears
Is there an mp3 of the recent Kanye / Taylor Swift phone call? The one that's getting someone in trouble for illegal wiretapping? I haven't heard it yet.
I think the Crocodile Chop Gif guy propels viewer forward into the seemingly infinite progression of possible reproductions that the man's faux-penis torture practice engenders, whilst simultaneously pulling them backwards in a quest for the 'original' source or referent that underlines Koons's oeuvre.
Ken, thanks for giving us the "word on the street" from the RNC. I'm being serious. It feels like I'm getting real-live, real-time news. Even if it's just from some dude in a parking lot. This feels more real than any other news I've heard.
I'd like to hear Jim moderate a round-table discussion with The Duck Dynasty guy, Scott Baio, and Wolf Blitzer (whose beard apparently deserves its own Haiku)
11:18am
Ochre Ogre:
Trump coming out to Queen is like the KKK playing NWA at one of their rallies.
Buddy Ebsen, who played Jed Clampett, was a fairly rabid right-winger, and campaigned against Nancy Kulp (Jane Hathaway) when she was running for the House.
Taylor Swift's parents are/were Merryl Lynch financial advisors and huge 1%'ers ... they essentially bought her a record contract and negotiated via bribing the label so that she would retain all rights... wouldn't surprise me if she was a republican.
Sorry, forgot to mention that he specifically mentioned eliding the near-total extent that Fred Trump's name and connexions made Trump's way for him...and it's the Trump campaign that inveighs against 'cronies' and corruption.
Actually, I could accept the rest of it—we've had obnoxious movements in American politics before—but the praise of violence against protesters is pure-D Brownshirt stuff. The Founders disliked democracy a little too much, but their fear of The Mob[ile Party] has never seemed wiser to me. Welcome to the Pobucker 'Sixties.
Ken is disappointed that Cleveland isn't an apocalyptic bloodbath. Don't worry, Ken, the apocalypse comes soon enough -- when Drumpf gets the nuclear codes, of course!
there is an earlier edit of this piece attributed solely to Don Joyce (RIP) that was a commission for New American Radio. Slightly different, not cut into two pieces.
It was transmitted to radio stations via ISDN from NAR. A diligent KBOO radio news producer captured it on reel-to-reel and now it's on Ubuweb forever.
The real damage of the speech plagiarism is that it contradicts the narratives that the Trumps are competent, and that the Obamas are Absolute Eevyil divorced from all that is Good American...and (speaking of divorce) it gives Melania obamacooties, he might have to replace her ahead of schedule.
hi all, just tuning in. and the images here help to get the taste of last night's Chris Christie's speech out. as will band ROYAL HEADACHE, whom i see tonight at music hall of w'burg
The problem with this plagiarism distraction is the simple fact that despite ever shred of common sense—including that his trophy wife is a plagiarist—this racist, hateful idiot is really one election away from being President of the United States.
ASIDE, kinda: a cop was interviewed on npr, said "i wake up each morning and make my peace with god, for maybe i'll die today. and that's ok, it's my job". so this cop is saying the p.c. thing. which makes me fear that those who say "i'll never vote for Trump" are saying that because they're *supposed* to say that. the cop and the voter are really lying. am i being paranoid?
11:53am
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Thanks, Laura L. I've read that articible before. King of Good sounded a bit like Jim Roche.
since AnAnon...Party mentions DOG - wnyc mentioned this joke, in ref to republicans and democrats: 2 dogs in tuxedos are talking, "it's not good enough for dogs to succeed, cats need to fail".
I have that Jim Roche album - it was given to me by an ex-boyfriend who had been a student of his at FSU. I don't think that was Roche either, but certainly similar.
11:57am
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herb.nyc,
That happened in the 2015 UK's General Election. All poll firms failed to predict Conservatives unexpected win because of the so-called closet-Tories.