Good morning, all. I notice my car is receiving free Sirius® radio this week. Channel 30 is the Eagles channel, between the jam channel and the Tom Petty channel. Enjoy!
A month ago after listening to the end of an all-calypso program on I forgot what station, I was hankering for more calypso, but couldn't find it as such on the FMA, so could you please play some?
What time does the formal ceremony to swap the billboard take place?
9:01am
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Good morning, Ken, people!
I'm very disappointed with you Ken and you fellow listeners and commenters because no one, no single one of you told me there is another Washing Machine song! If you know I'm the #1 fan of the Rosa Park's WM song why you never told me Kate Bush's Mrs Bartolozzi song (from the Aerial released in 2005) is the ultimate washing machine song?!
Also, why you never told me Samsung is about to release 'Washing Machine, The Movie' with soundtrack by Michael Nyman?! Why keeping me behind the veil of ignorance?!
Me too. But do you have a song or group of songs which made you stick with Ken in the first place? I do remember. For me it was Ergo Phizmiz and People Like Us.
Good morning and love from Burlington VT, Ken!
Been listening since 1985 and proselytizing ever since. You may recall your “sons of Kafka” mixtape premium from this days....we are old.
Listening at work at the lowest volume possible because of co-workers.
9:15am
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cory!
You are not only late for this show but If I'm not mistaken you didn't even show up in the last one! What is going on? You seem to be working too much! Remember, we WFMU listeners don't work! That goes beyond our duties to the station. I'm starting to getting worried about you, brother.
Thanks so much, Sebastian! I don't know how that escaped my att'n. Looks like Irwin had these on a semi-regular schedule. If it was a segment of his regular program (probably not, since separately archived), it may have been during a period when I was working during his show, or unable to stream and with local reception precluded by pirates, so it didn't come to my attention. Was he working on it only in digital form during that year he was off-schedule?
btw WFMU and more specifically Irwin got some really nice mentions on the latest Dork Forest podcast. they were discussing outsider music
9:21am
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Yes, cory! Staying in bed, or sitting on a couch all day. Those are the much needed attitudes! Anyway, get better soon. I'm getting out of a cold as well.
So NBC sacked Matt Lauer this morning for improprieties. They should install some cameras in Studio A and broadcast Wake and Bake instead of their old morning show. Chair throwing, pixie dust - it's got all the cool stuff for great television.
Now the recollection of that segment of Irwin's coming back, dimly. I think I was bugged then by his pointed exclusion of Belafonte, but I think the idea was that you could get Belafonte anywhere, so why WFMU? But I may already have been closing my ears at that hour in anticipation of Kenny G, who may have induced retrograde amnesia extending some time before his show.
Don't go by me for recollection of WFMU schedules. I conflated Rex with The Hound, and for a while after Glen Jones started, I thought it was just that Bill Kelly had changed his musical taste to square.
9:31am
Scotty C from Tennessee:
F8F8 there wasn’t a specific song, just an appreciation of Ken’s sense of humor and his excellent representation of the “stance” of WFMU. Freeform is freedom!
9:33am
Morgan:
ken, you did a hazmat report about a cosmetics factory exploding and maybe 36 hours later I spotted a chemical barrel washed up about 60 miles downstream from there.
@Melinda: that tune was from her "return of red emma" LP, which was the last of the shimmy-disc releases. A goodie. I still see it around occasionally..
9:39am
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Who is Fat Freddy anyway?that is, where the name comes from? In one episode of those Irwin occasionally plays about this old radio personality (Jim Shepherd, I think?). Anyway, there's one episode where he tells the fictional story of a hamster named Fat Freddy which is about to be launched into space. Could this little story be the inspiration of the name of the band?
Fat Freddy was a Freak Brother in the underground comics....Fat Freddy Freak, Phineas Freak, et al....and of course, Fat Freddy's Cat who had his own comic book also.
I hope my sarcasm wasnt lost in translation here. It literally sounds like you are in a disaster situation while doing the report. Or is that really what it's like there during clay's show?
"Hippychick" (composed by Timothy London), which was a Top 15 U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart hit in December 1990, and a Top 10 hit single in the UK Singles Chart in 1991. The song featured a sample from The Smiths' recording "How Soon Is Now?" sequenced over a Soul II Soul rhythm. London told Mojo magazine that it "was written as a blues before The Smiths' samples and the rhythm were added". "Hippychick" also went to number two for two weeks on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart.
The first underground comic I inadvertently purchased were two “Fat Freddy’s Cat” mini compilations in 1979. I was 11 years old, kind naive and my dad was with me in the shop and just nodded “Yes!” when the clerks looked over me to get his approval.
I liked the art but it took me growing into an adult to fully realize how horrible the writing of those things were. Still like the art.
yeah, right steveo, we don't hear much of Eugeniusz Rudnik!
10:17am
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Funny you mention that, JakeGould. I didn't inadvertently purchase my first comic. I inadvertently stole my first comic. Yeah . I was so little and I only realised when my mother found it and realised she didn't pay for it when in the shop. Anway, I don't know if I should feel more embarrassed by that fact or that the comic was one from Woody Woodpecker.
10:17am
Mark Williams:
i think Ken's playing this from the latest Wire magazine CD, and they only provided the excerpted version of this.
Q: Why do mice have such small balls?
A: Because they're not very good dancers
10:31am
Brendan:
Nix the brussels sprouts for tonights menu
10:31am
Velvet Frog:
I was at a reading once where a poet read from her poem "Balls". All I remember is the first line: Balls, balls, I love them all.
It got even better from there.
this track sounds like it's falling down the stairs
10:48am
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I'm sorry to say but the songs from the album 'Astro Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000 ' don't sound like beyond 2000. In fact, they still sound like from the late 60's.
I just told my ex-girlfriend on Facebook to buy a hand truck to get a chair home from Salvation Army in NY NY. Manhattan, that is. A folding hand truck for a tiny apartment dweller.
I called! It went ok! I didn't let loose with a political tirade. Whew! It was kinda boring, just me reading. I FORGOT to announce "this is WFMU". Sorry Ken!
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Science fiction tends to reflect their times really well: a Heinlein story from 1940 about 2100 can tell you so much about 1940, "Logan's Run" is so damn '70s it hurts. Any year's assumptions about the future can end-up being more important than the actual plot.
Related: if you want to see a good sample of '60s and '70s home furnishings, check-out cheap horror, sci-fi, and (yes) pornography from then.
Wild Neil - IMO, WFMU should name, say, a restroom soap dispenser in your honor. Ken, whaddaya say...?
11:07am
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(Murakami Whywolf))),
Yes. I know what you mean. For instance, I haven't seen the new edition of Blade Runner but I have read that it tells you more about our times than the future it is supposed to portray. This is why the future is not what it used to be anymore!
where the hell did that green screen gif come from?
11:19am
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pocket vito,
When you aren't a native English speaker most lyrics of most English songs seem to say things like "I can hear the voices of the fishes go bananas in the sea". We just make the words up when we don't understand what we hear. It's like the song 'Alice The Seal' (Our lips are sealed').
Wait which is it naked or a long scarf? If its a toss up id go naked. Long scarfs are dangerous- at least in the past. Just ask Isadora Duncan...oh wait you can’t - she’s dead . Thanks murderous long scarf. Im a guessing naked is the way of the future.
11:26am
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I think it is time, Ken, to know that the 'nh' in Apanhador is pronounced like the Spanish 'ñ'.It doesn't bothers me but I can't help think of all the Portuguese and Brazilians listening to the show laughing their asses off on their desks.By the way, Ken's Spanish pronounciation is good.
I tried to present Gigham Dress for the stage at Monty Hall, but Clay Pigeon pulled the plug on the productin.. maybe someday. I wanted to play the Father with the Sackfull of Eyes.
'I Don't Drink, etc' was written and originally performed by Brenda Kahn. I used to work with Brenda, she was (and I assume still is) very nice. That is all.
Thanks, Ken, people! Great music, GIF, and commentst! Thanks a lot and have a good rest of the week. Till next episode and remember...be happy! No, seriously, loosen up, BE HAPPY!