Favoriting Showy McShowface with Jim the Poet: Playlist from August 9, 2017 Favoriting

Jim the Poet's avatar View Jim the Poet's profile Favoriting

Classic overnight radio with that feel of an unanticipated fill-in! Hour-long installation pieces, murmurs in the dark, endless hurtling to the bottomless abyss! Hi Mom!

On WFMU | 91.1, 90.1, 91.9 FM & wfmu.org
WFMU LIVE Audio Streams (Get help):   Pop-up  |  128k AAC  |  128k MP3  |  32k MP3

<-- Previous playlist | Back to Showy McShowface with Jim the Poet playlists | Next playlist -->


Upcoming events:

Sat. Dec 21st, Midnight - 3am: Jim the Poet fills in for Rich Hazelton
Wed. Dec 25th, Midnight - 3am: Jim the Poet fills in for Radio Futura
Wed. Dec 25th, 6pm - 7pm: Jim the Poet fills in for Seven Second Delay
Fri. Jan 3rd, 2025, 6pm - 7pm: Jim the Poet fills in for Bucci

Favoriting August 9, 2017: Nuclear War Dance Party: Text 949 JIM WFMU for your End of the World Requests!

Listen to this show: Pop-up listen Pop-up player!

Artist Track Album Label
Camera Obscura  Let's Get Out of this Country   Favoriting Let's Get Out Of This Country  Merge 
Barry McGuire  Eve of Destruction (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Eve Of Destruction  ABC Records 
Cat Power  Empty Shell (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting The Greatest  Matador 
Randy Newman  Putin (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Dark Matter  Nonesuch 
The Hives  Hate to Say I Told You So (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Hate to Say I Told You So  Gearhead 
Eric Clapton  Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting There's One in Every Crowd  RSO 
The Breeders  Cannonball (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Last Splash  4AD 
Alphaville  Forever Young (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Forever Young  Warner Atlantic 
Billy Bragg  Accident Waiting to Happen (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Accident Waiting to Happen  Elektra 
Cutting Crew  (i just) died in your arms tonight (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Broadcast  Siren Records 
Daniel Johnston  True Love Will Find You in the End (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Welcome to my World  High Wire Music 
Tori Amos  Icicle (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Under the Pink  Atlantic 
Peter Tosh  No Nuclear War (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting No Nuclear War  EMI 
The What Four  I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Honeybeat: Groovy 60's Girl-Pop  Real Gone Music 
Lana Del Rey  National Anthem (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Born to Die  Interscope 
The Glass Menagerie  I Said Goodbye to Me (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Gotta Get Up! The Songs Of Harry Nilsson 1965-1972  Ace Records 
Tiffany  Drop that Bomb (Listen: Pop-up)   Favoriting Hold a Friend's Hand  MCA Records 
Smashing Pumpkins  Doomsday Clock   Favoriting Zeitgeist  Reprise  
Psy  Gangnam Style   Favoriting Psy Psy 6 (Six Rules), Part 1  YG Entertainment 
David Bowie  Future Legend/Diamond Dogs   Favoriting Diamond Dogs  Virgin 
The Gap Band  You Dropped a Bomb on Me   Favoriting Gap Band IV  Total Experience 
Bob Dylan  It's All Over Now, Baby Blue   Favoriting Greatest Hits Volume II  Columbia 
Europe  The Final Countdown   Favoriting The Final Countdown  Epic 
The Rolling Stones  It Must Be Hell   Favoriting Undercover  Virgin 
Le Tigre  I'm With Her   Favoriting I'm With Her  S/R 
Pixies  Break My Body   Favoriting Pixies  spinART 
Elvis Costello  Waiting for the End of the World   Favoriting My Aim Is True  Stiff 
AC/DC  Highway to Hell   Favoriting Highway to Hell  Epic 
Blonde Redhead  Missile ++   Favoriting In An Expression Of The Inexpressible  Touch and Go 
Briana Marela  Give Me Your Love   Favoriting Call It Love  Jagjaguwar 
Lou Reed  Metal Machine Music, Part I   Favoriting Metal Machine Music  Buddha / BMG 
Lou Reed  Metal Machine Music, Part II   Favoriting Metal Machine Music  Buddha / BMG 
Lou Reed  Metal Machine Music, Part III   Favoriting Metal Machine Music  Buddha / BMG 
Lou Reed  Metal Machine Music, Part IV   Favoriting Metal Machine Music  Buddha / BMG 


<-- Previous playlist | Back to Showy McShowface with Jim the Poet playlists | Next playlist -->

RSS feeds for Showy McShowface with Jim the Poet: RSSPlaylists feed | RSSMP3 archives feed

| E-mail Jim the Poet | Other WFMU Playlists | All artists played by Showy McShowface with Jim the Poet |

Listen on the Internet | Contact Us | Music & Programs | WFMU Home Page | Support Us | FAQ

Live Audio Streams for WFMU: Pop-up | 128k AAC | 128k MP3 | 32k MP3    (More streams: [+])


Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05am
Jim the Poet:

FIRST
Avatar 🌮 Swag For Life Member 3:06am
Ken From Hyde Park:

Hi, Jim. I'm sure I heard a song long ago with lyrics "Nuclear attack," but I have no idea what was the song title or the artist. I found nothing helpful in Google.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:08am
Jim the Poet:

it's the effort that counts
  3:08am
Jeff in Whately:

Hi Jim. Sleepless on the couch , fancy meetin' you here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:10am
Jim the Poet:

Hey Jeff!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:10am
chad from oregon:

FOURTH
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:11am
Jim the Poet:

HANG IN THERE WEST COAST
  3:13am
miketp:

king rootin tootin
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:14am
chad from oregon:

Hanging on with fire and fury!
Avatar 3:16am
Vincent Nifigance:

SIXTH!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:19am
Jim the Poet:

Hey Vincent where you listening from
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:25am
chad from oregon:

We'll all be Forever Young... because after nuclear annihilation, we won't age! It's winning all around!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:26am
Jim the Poet:

You see the pattern that's forming here
Avatar 3:27am
Vincent Nifigance:

I Jim, I am outside the likely blast radius, here in rainy Manchester, England.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:28am
chad from oregon:

And then the final twenty minutes of the show melts down into some Metal Machine Music!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:29am
Jim the Poet:

The last hour of the Show is just Metal Machine Music
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:30am
chad from oregon:

I'm totally staying up now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:33am
Jim the Poet:

STAY OUT OF THE BLAST RADIUS
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:34am
chad from oregon:

I think that was on one of the mid-90's Tears For Fears albums.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:35am
chad from oregon:

Stay Out Of The Blast Radius (Of My Love), Josephine
Avatar 3:45am
Vincent Nifigance:

Can you play 'Drop That Bomb' by Tiffany off her sophomore effort 'Hold An Old Friend's Hand'?
Avatar 3:46am
Vincent Nifigance:

Yes it's the one preceded by 'Walk Away While You Can'!!! Either one would do.
Avatar 3:52am
Vincent Nifigance:

Okay, the titular track from Megadeth's Rust In Peace.
Avatar 4:01am
Vincent Nifigance:

NO FUCKING WAY!!
Avatar 4:03am
Vincent Nifigance:

Thanks Jim!!! Gah, so prescient, she never gets her due.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:08am
Jim the Poet:

She's deep
Avatar 4:34am
Vincent Nifigance:

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
  4:38am
basement:

then trump is the quidzack shadarack!!!
Avatar 4:41am
Vincent Nifigance:

@basement He always reminded me of Baron Harkonnen, but yes!
  4:45am
basement:

Panic in the world : Bill Nelson
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:49am
chad from oregon:

Only twelve minutes until the blast radius brings us the Metal Machine Music.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:53am
Jim the Poet:

I think if I play it all I may fall asleep
Avatar 4:54am
Vincent Nifigance:

It's decided then.
Avatar 5:00am
Vincent Nifigance:

Give it to me.
Avatar 5:00am
future transport:

its good
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:02am
Jim the Poet:

METAL MACHINE ME
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:03am
Smilty69:

Good morning, all. How about an old John Sterling call "An A-bomb from A Rod!"
Avatar 5:10am
future transport:

JOYOUS
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:10am
Jim the Poet:

I was wrong. It makes me feel alive.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:13am
Sem Chumbo:

Been along for the last hour, Jim. Pretty great. Thank you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:14am
Jim the Poet:

Thanks Sem!
  5:18am
J Dream:

Ahhhhhhhh! You weren't kidding. I love this record so much...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:20am
Jim the Poet:

I wouldn't kid about Metal Machine Music
  5:20am
J Dream:

It's such a complete work. Too easily dismissed. Listen to this! Is glorious!!!!
  5:23am
J Dream:

The elusive, hallowed 8 track version of this really is the ideal format for this. Realizing
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:23am
Jim the Poet:

Yeah, I'm not sure why it's still never gotten the respect it deserves. I used to love to listen to it on the Subway.
  5:26am
J Dream:

I think the myth around it being Lou's "fuck you" to get out of contract is a bit conflated. It's not for everyone so I guess easy to dismiss. Similarly, I loved his new age record much later. Everyone laughed...
Avatar 5:27am
Vincent Nifigance:

I didn't even think Lulu was bad.
  5:27am
J Dream:

I really liked Lulu actually
Avatar 5:28am
Vincent Nifigance:

I think more than ever we live in a society that just enjoys feverishly liking and disliking certain things depending on what sort of cultural currency it has/how it makes them appear to others.
  5:28am
J Dream:

*Hudson River Wind Meditations is the "new age" record. It's excellent
  5:29am
hOLLYWOOD BILL:

This sounds so good, Thanks! Early Modern Lovers would help as well
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:30am
Jim the Poet:

They would
  5:32am
b k:

I once owned "Metal Machine Music" on 8 track. It was in the 99 cent bin and I kept it with me to put in friends 8 track car players to make the Led Zeppelin stop. I did not have an 8 track player but it was still well worth the 99 cents.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:34am
Jim the Poet:

How was the sound on 8 tracks?
  5:34am
J Dream:

Hey, I'm just a really big Lou fan. Have been for years. I tend to enjoy his more severe oddball excursions more as I get older. True artist. Gave no shits. That's more and more rare these days.
  5:35am
hOLLYWOOD BILL:

Hey b k- Do you still have it, and what's the price?
  5:35am
J Dream:

Whoa you scored it for 99 cents????
  5:37am
J Dream:

Rare one
  5:39am
b k:

I bought it for 99 cents in 1977!!! Same time I bought Be Bop DeLuxes' "Sunburst Finish" in the 99 cent bin.
  5:40am
hOLLYWOOD BILL:

It was a very good year
  5:42am
b k:

oh, the sound on ANY 8 track was horrid.
  5:42am
basement:

Truly doth remind one of sir glen campbell shorting out on the lineman he of late
  5:45am
Marcel M:

nice metal machine

Thanks for jumping in, Jim! I'm on my way to Seattle
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:46am
Jim the Poet:

Marcel! Clay says hi!
  5:48am
Sometimes Jasmine:

Man this is immensely joyous, what a treat. I'm refusing to take phone calls whilst this is playing.
Avatar 5:49am
Vincent Nifigance:

There should be an installation of as close to Lou's original MMM set-up as can be replicated, permanently installed in NYC somewhere, where it can generate itself forever. Might have to be in a disused subway station to minimise disturbance, but still, it's the thought that counts!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:50am
Jim the Poet:

Glad you guys enjoyed it!
Avatar 5:52am
Vincent Nifigance:

Dance, Clay, DANCE!
  5:54am
Marcel M:

yo clay!
  5:54am
Davee:

Where am I?
  5:56am
basement:

when does ringo get to sing?
Ive got blisters on me earlobes
  5:59am
jess:

what is this? I bet Clay opens with a Glen Campbell song. wanna bet?
Bottom
Comment!
Name
Email
(C) 2024 WFMU. Generated by KenzoDB, written 2000-2024 by Ken Garson