WFMU: Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from January 4, 2018

Listener comments!
	6:15pm Flash Strap: Let's ride
	7:00pm Flash Strap: ok here we go
	7:01pm Scraps deSelby: h'lo h'lo oh yeah
	7:02pm Flash Strap: H'lo Scraps! happy new year
	7:03pm hyde: hiya
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hyde! Hello!
	7:06pm hyde: i love Companeros
	7:06pm Flash Strap: This one's all due to you, Compañero Hyde
	7:07pm still b/p: Horses tired cuz so much snow shoveling today.
	7:07pm Flash Strap: Hi B/p!
	7:08pm just julia: (my favorite bob dylan song)
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Hi Just Julia mi Compañera
	7:10pm Flash Strap: @Hyde: on your suggestion I watched it recently and have been obsessed. thank you, it's amazing
	7:12pm just julia: hiya pal, glad to be here in the year with you and these sounds
	7:12pm david_: hi all. (Austin Powers voice) the dialectic, bay bay!
	7:13pm northguineahills: I thought I heard Christian Marclay back there!
	7:13pm Flash Strap: Hi David! NGH!
	7:13pm hyde: @Flash yeah, it's a good one. love the late 60's Corbucci films
	7:14pm Scraps: Probably the first John Zorn album that achieved a little bit of mass success
	7:15pm Flash Strap: Hey there Scraps! definitely the first one I ever heard
	7:16pm northguineahills: It was the first Zorn record I got.
	7:18pm Flash Strap: When the clock had struck midnight and we finished singing auld lang syne, me and my compañero inaugurated the year by singing this in karaoke, which i did not expect or plan but it completely blew my mind
	7:22pm northguineahills: I have the Story of Sacco and Vanzetti sndtrk on LP>
	7:26pm Scraps: I love Zorn's =Locus Solus=, and even before that I was confused by =Archery=. That was my much early foray into avant-gardeness, all because of Carla Bley and the New Music Distribution Service
	7:28pm Scraps: and I was intrigued with =Locus Solus= by the presence of Peter Blegvad, a weird entry point to Zorn, I guess
	7:28pm Scraps: Oh, I love Catherine Ribeiro + 2Bis
	7:29pm Flash Strap: not actually familiar with those releases, Scraps! gotta do some homework
	7:29pm Flash Strap: this is really one of my favorite vocal performances, ever
	7:30pm Flash Strap: +anarchist leanings
	7:31pm northguineahills: @Scraps: I love Locus Solus! (Christian Marclay was also involved w/ that as well). Check it out Evan!
	7:31pm northguineahills: ...and a hiphop turntabilist from Harlem called the Wiz Kid.
	7:32pm northguineahills: ....and a who's who of NYC downtown musicians in the early 80s....
	7:32pm Scraps: =Locus Solus= is great, in my opinion, but it's way out there, even for Zorn. Well, Zorn's early stuff is more out there than his later stuff. There is a live Locus Solus, for his 50th birthday; that's not what i'm talking about.
	7:33pm Flash Strap: yeah, it looks pretty essential, actually! there's a lot of Zorn I haven't spent much time with
	7:33pm geezerette: the bad fairy from sleeping beauty! Hello, Evan and seekers!
	7:34pm hyde: yay, geezerette!
	7:34pm Scraps: and the CD version is better than the LP. ;-)
	7:34pm Flash Strap: Hey hey Geezerette!
	7:35pm Flash Strap: @G: your new avatar is from Three Caballeros, unless I miss my guess! maybe my favorite film
	7:36pm geezerette: haha. BINGO!
	7:36pm geezerette: YAY, HYDE !
	7:38pm Flash Strap: lyrics to this one, if you take the time to look them up and translate them, are like perfect anti-patriarchal napalm
	7:39pm northguineahills: @Scraps: Yes, I have the cd version and compared it to my friend's LP, and you're correct. Well, when it comes to Zorn, you might be busy going through his discography, although it might only take a 8 weeks to go through as opposed to Merzbow, which might take years....
	7:39pm Scraps: (actually, it doesn't which one you get, LP or CD. The old Locus Solus, the 1983 [I think] one. I'll stop!)
	7:40pm Scraps: oops, i crossposted with northguineahills!
	7:43pm northguineahills: @Scraps: I dig your Slappy the squirrel avatar. Takes me back.... way back!
	7:43pm Scraps: ;-)
	7:43pm Flash Strap: always liked Slappy myself
	7:46pm Flash Strap: Probably the best krautrock-adjacent sound to come from France, here
	7:47pm Flash Strap: great cover: img.discogs.com...
	7:48pm Flash Strap: great back cover too: img.discogs.com...
	7:51pm Little Danny: Evenin' Flash, friends!
	7:52pm Flash Strap: Hi there LD, happy new year
	7:58pm northguineahills: Hadn't heard That Besombes-Rizet, thanks Flash! Leaving work to go to the grocers. Will get a bit of of you at the end. Then, off to a noise/DIY/performance art show. Salud!
	7:58pm Flash Strap: haven't really spent too much time with the rest of Clothilde's stuff, but this track is so cool
	7:59pm Scraps: I hadn't heard her, so I looked her up, and she's got an album called Saperlipopette!
	7:59pm Scraps: Clothilde, I mean
	8:00pm Flash Strap: adios, NGH! miss you already pal
	8:00pm Little Danny: this Gainsbourg is wild!
	8:00pm Scraps: or rather, an EP
	8:01pm Flash Strap: @LD: really weird LP all the way through
	8:01pm Flash Strap: @Scraps: what a cool word
	8:02pm melinda: Hola, explorers!
	8:03pm Scraps: oh dear, though: "Apparently, the Clothilde EPs represent a really dark time for the woman behind them, known as Élisabeth Beauvais. She was simply a sensitive teenage girl that was shanghaied into singing experimental pop songs with twisted and dark lyrics (that she totally objected to) against her will. She was forced to wear whatever nasty clothing her producer gave her and project an odd, unpleasant image to the world. She had no freedom and no say in any aspect of the Clothilde project, being forced to sing, mannerise, and act exactly how her producer told her to. Her friends and classmates made fun of her, her fellow chanteuses rejected her. The poor girl didn't want any part of it - she just desperately wanted to obey her mother, celebrity Gisèle Parry, who just wished for her daughter to have her own stab at fame. She felt manipulated by her label and alienated from her own music and became very depressed and scared. She hid herself and ran away until the label gave up trying to track her down. The whole ordeal ended up totally ruining her life; she had always wanted to be an actress, but whenever she even thought about it, she would have flashbacks from her time as Clothilde and simply freeze up. It is the heartbreaking story of a poor girl manipulated into doing something she wanted no part of. It is the very definition of evil, soulless major-label music."
	8:04pm Flash Strap: wow that sucks SO MUCH
	8:05pm Flash Strap: lyrics to this song may provide some balm: I live in the wind My body is a flame I show teeth Flowers and gendarmes The sun follows me I do not know God The world is my bed The wind blows where I want Like a chimera Like a drunk animal My moto-panther Trembling between my knees And you, Blanch 'Neige Poor dove With your sweet figure You Blanch 'Snow Big dove Return to your jams Black leather boots I am the woman fire The jaguar woman Ceremonial neck My fingers are as much Mobile syringes My arms snakes Long, fragile snakes My kidneys are iron And my satin belly My thighs in the air Play like dolphins You Blanch 'Snow Young rumbiere With your rosy mouth You Blanch 'Snow Pretty meme Go make pies with currants I like sometimes The pale and hot twinks Who are melting on me Comm 'eagle on the lamb I like brutal Large brass necks Who keeps a hat To confuse me When it's finished They lie like old men A little dislocated Blue lakes under the eyes And you Snow White Cute white Sensual as a mummy You Snow White Tender bobonne So go blow your husband
	8:05pm coelacanth∅: bonjour Evan; Explorateurs
	8:06pm Flash Strap: (that's the Fontaine lyrics, I should say. These lyrics are from a transcript of a heartbreaking statement by the Chief of Seattle, which you can read here: en.wikisource.org...)
	8:08pm Flash Strap: aloo Coelacanth!
	8:09pm Scraps: Every schoolkid who grew up in Seattle, at least, in the seventies was exposed to Chief Seattle's speech, though we didn't know how much was controversial in it
	8:11pm Doug Schulkind: Hey Sir Flash ans fellow exploristas!
	8:11pm Flash Strap: it's a pretty vivid document of a moment in time, hard to read, full of insights and despair
	8:12pm Flash Strap: Hello Doug! Pleasure to see you!
	8:28pm Scraps: people who comment on Clothilde's career on RateYourMusic also think her Yé-Yé music is good... complicated!
	8:29pm Flash Strap: L O V E when Sparrow goes class conscious and analytical! he's a king
	8:29pm still b/p: This thing is packed like an editorial sausage.
	8:30pm Flash Strap: haha he's not sparing us the verbiage nor should he
	8:30pm Scraps: love mighty sparrow
	8:30pm Scraps: just the title!
	8:31pm Doug Schulkind: Public schools are closed here tomorrow due to the extreme cold. My Chicago-born wife is disgusted.
	8:32pm Scraps: behaving like a mor-on!
	8:32pm Flash Strap: this (We Like It So) is a pretty politically significant work for Sparrow: if I understand it correctly, he comes out here in support of the Trinidadian political party ONR, despite being a lifelong vocal supporter of the PNM
	8:33pm Flash Strap: @Doug: there's a light dusting down here in NC, and we've got cancellations all over!
	8:35pm Flash Strap: This coming after he took about a decade off from political songs due to disillusionment with Solomon of the PNM, though I confess the intricacies of all this elude me entirely. I don't think the ONR faired well, ultimately, but it was a sort of left challenge to the dominant liberal party and Sparrow's alignment with it is remarkable in this context (I think)
	8:36pm Flash Strap: it's also just a brutal takedown of the lumpenproletariat mentality
	8:37pm northguineahills: I need fingerless gloves, I didn't turn my heat on at home. Luckily my jacket has fingerless liners.
	8:38pm Flash Strap: list of pointlessly horrible material conditions "But we're FREE"
	8:41pm coelacanth∅: this article (if the link works) goes into some detail. teleport-city.com... ...it seems to me the creator of clothilde is fairly innocent and fairly brilliant, and it's thanks to Elizabeth's asshole mother, and maybe Elizabeth's own lack of clarity with herself and communication with him, that he may not have even known how Elizabeth objected to being clothilde. if he'd have known he might've waited to find someone who knew and agreed with his objective.
	8:41pm Flash Strap: Sparrow sportin' a pretty wild goatee in 1981 : img.discogs.com...
	8:42pm Flash Strap: that's interesting to hear, C. That arrangement was really pretty brilliant, if nothing else
	8:43pm Flash Strap: Stage parents, yeesh
	8:44pm coelacanth∅: yeh it's too bad. it would've worked out better for everybody if he'd found someone who was into what he was trying to do.
	8:47pm Flash Strap: it's part of the dilemma of the creative producer... the Temptations weren't real into performing Norman Whitfield's vision either or Vanilla Fudge with Shadow Morton
	8:51pm Flash Strap: not Sparrow's best arrangement on record, but damn what a statement
	8:53pm coelacanth∅: ..even Jimi Hedrix, to some degree.
	9:01pm Flash Strap: @C: oh totally. or virtually any girl group, etc.
	9:03pm Flash Strap: this is one of my favorite Scott Walker songs, but it's a long list. And it has virtually every Brel cover on it
	9:03pm Uncle Michael: 'allo.
	9:03pm coelacanth∅: sly and the family stone "whitened" their sound after the first (excellent) album, by their label's prodding. ...we all got lucky on that one, but still!
	9:05pm Flash Strap: 'allo Uncle! excited for your all-requests show tomorrow
	9:06pm Uncle Michael: I am excited. I've gotten some very good requests! (it's not too late)
	9:06pm Flash Strap: every song on H'art songs is a classic
	9:07pm Flash Strap: how to best request, for myself or anyone else in these comments? direct harangue or discreet email?
	9:08pm Dean: Best request mode? I tried DDOS.
	9:08pm Flash Strap: hi DDean!
	9:09pm Dean: Hi, hi, hi!
	9:10pm Dean: If tomorrow's show is all Osmond Bros., all the time, then I will have prevailed!
	9:11pm Uncle Michael: Use this link to reqyest. Thanks for asking! www.wfmu.org...
	9:12pm Flash Strap: splendid
	9:12pm Uncle Michael: Dean, Crazy Horses, time-stretched to 3:00:00.
	9:13pm Flash Strap: i cancel my request, i now just want to hear that. alternately, Crazy Horses on loop for 3 hours
	9:13pm melinda: haha Dean. Goin' Back to Utah.
	9:13pm Dean: Is there an orgasm emoji?
	9:14pm Flash Strap: this record is SO WEIRD every time I pull it out it bewilders me again
	9:14pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	9:15pm melinda: hi Flash!
	9:19pm Flash Strap: Wendy Rene, a master practitioner of a great vocal style
	9:20pm Little Danny: ahhhh, Wendy Rene
	9:20pm Uncle Michael: Theme show! Going Back To Utah Going Back To Indiana Going Back To Miami...
	9:21pm Little Danny: Man I musta missed your soul show the first time around. Fun to hear you spinning this stuff!
	9:22pm Uncle Michael: Christ...Ronald is just the greatest.
	9:22pm still b/p: Going Back to Cali. Meanwhile, back with the O-Team -- when they were still just the young Andy-Williams-show-appearing act, those brothers could get it done, arangements and vocal-wise.
	9:22pm Dean: I'm hearing where Boz Scaggs learned a lesson or two.
	9:23pm Flash Strap: this here is the first time around! last week was retrospective, this week, new year, new sounds (mostly).
	9:25pm Scraps: Breaking News: NYTimes says Mueller has handwritten notes from Reince Priebus saying Trump pressured Comey to drop the Russia investigation. Comey's story is now corroborated. Of course the Republicans won't care, but still, this is big
	9:26pm Little Danny: @flash: Ah, gotcha. Tonight makes a lot more sense now.
	9:26pm Scraps: That's Michael Schmidt again. Thank you Mr Schmidt
	9:26pm melinda: I watched a TV movie about the Osmonds once and woke up the next morning with their early vocalizations still in my head, not in a good way. I heard Bob Brainen describe it as barbershop harmonies from hell.
	9:27pm coelacanth∅: Coup d'état! Coup d'état!
	9:27pm Flash Strap: @melinda: that's hilarious
	9:28pm Uncle Michael: link, Scraps?
	9:29pm still b/p: Barbershop harmonies or "One Bad Apple".....would you prefer to be shot or hung?
	9:30pm Dean: Meanwhile, the NYT is worried about how Seth Meyers will handle the harassment issue at the Golden Globes. Jesus, these people are dicks. High school history class, c. 1975, we played the 7" of "One Bad Apple" on the turntable in the back of class at 33 1/3 right in the middle of a lecture. Teacher liked us, so it was cool. Another time one of my buddies brought an oscillator to class. We played a high frequency at low, slowly increasing volume. The teacher is all, "What is going on?!"
	9:30pm Uncle Michael: I need a fresh viewing of Wattstax.
	9:31pm Scraps: UM, it's up on the times page. there's lots more
	9:31pm Flash Strap: this is such a world-stopping spoken-word interlude
	9:31pm Scraps: www.nytimes.com
	9:32pm melinda: One Bad Apple, hands down. Though I do appreciate the talent behind the barbershop harmonies.
	9:33pm coelacanth∅: "what is going on?"!
	9:33pm Flash Strap: that is a top-notch classroom prank, Dean
	9:34pm Uncle Michael: thanks, Scraps
	9:35pm Dean: Am I supposed to sit down through this?
	9:36pm Flash Strap: you can stand if it helps you dance
	9:37pm coelacanth∅: when i got my first cassette recorder, age 7-8, i recorded themes from tvs shows - the munsters; hogan's heroes; ster trek...and somehow smuggled that thing into school. in & out. 2 days of that and never brought it back. there was a close call once, but i never found out if they knew who was responsible.
	9:39pm Dean: Come to think of it, I'd like to hear "Going Home" (Woodstock) in reverse.
	9:41pm coelacanth∅: the git would be crazy but the extremely quiet passage into the loud n fast part might be anticlimactic.
	9:42pm Uncle Michael: That might help. It's the worst thing in the film.
	9:42pm MrFab: Howdy y'all! Backwards Hendrix sounded like the Eno/Fripp albums if those 2 had gone all loopy on cough syrup.
	9:42pm Flash Strap: i love backwards music i also love double music
	9:44pm Flash Strap: Hey Mr. Fab! I thought the same thing, though I have to say our Pussyfooting boys sound pretty syrupy too
	9:45pm Dean: Then you'll love my buddy's, uh, derivation of Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" (multiple eccentric holes) that Mary Wing played a few weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CCB59CTZmM
	9:46pm Flash Strap: gotta check that out, thanks dean
	9:47pm coelacanth∅: should i assume everyone knows that the (no pussyfooting) cd release has one of the tracks backward? (or 2?)...and one at 1/2 speed.
	9:48pm Flash Strap: i know, for what that's worth
	9:49pm MrFab: I did not know that - I still have my old vinyl and never bothered to "upgrade." But now I'm curious.
	9:50pm coelacanth∅: i was tempted to get it, but i have the means to create all those variations myself; so buying that would just make me lazy.
	9:52pm coelacanth∅: eh -i wouldn't say it's an upgrade. unless your record is scratchy, you already have the best you can get.
	9:54pm Little Danny: Thanks Flash, another ear-opening show!
	9:54pm Little Danny: Now more than ever, the Cool Blue Flame is forthcoming: wfmu.org... Please join us!
	9:55pm coelacanth∅: MrFab Stan opened his show with the slowed down track a while back. too long ago for the good archive, but you can at least hear the pop up facsimile.
	9:55pm MrFab: Dean, that "BaKeR StReEt" is great, gonna pass it on to Vicki People Like Us. Would be perfect for her show.
	9:55pm still b/p: A...blizzard(!) of good music. Thanks!
	9:58pm Flash Strap: Thanks all! see you in three weeks!
	9:59pm Dean: Thanks, MrFab. Yes, it is a remarkable analog achievement.
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan! enjoy your vacation from us!
	9:59pm Dean: Reminds me, too, to buy Vicki's Optimized!
	10:00pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Evan!
	10:00pm Flash Strap: good night, I'll miss you all
	10:34pm Irwin: Listening to the archive. Excellent program, full of surprises.

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from January 4, 2018

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January 4, 2018: Compañeros!

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
	Intro "Intro"
The London Experimental Jazz Quartet	The Sound Of Next Year's Echo	Invisible Roots	1974		0:00:52 (Pop-up)
Bob Dylan	All The Tired Horses "All The Tired Horses" by "Bob Dylan"	Self Portrait	1970		0:03:32 (Pop-up)
Ennio Morricone E La Sua Orchestra	Vamos A Matar, Compañeros	Vamos A Matar, Compañeros 7"	1971		0:06:07 (Pop-up)
Chico Buarque de Hollanda - Ennio Morricone	Funerale Di Un Contadino	Per un Pugno di Samba	1970		0:08:06 (Pop-up)
Ennio Morricone / Gillo Pontecorvo	June 1956: The People Revolt	Battle Of Algiers: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	1967		0:11:09 (Pop-up)
John Zorn	Battle Of Algiers "Battle Of Algiers" by "John Zorn"	The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone	1986		0:12:02 (Pop-up)
Joan Baez - Ennio Morricone	Here's To You	Here's To You / Ballata Di Sacco E Vanzetti 7"	1971		0:15:52 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Harmonia 76	Vamos Companeros "Vamos Companeros" by "Harmonia 76"	Harmonia '76			0:18:54 (Pop-up)
Catherine Ribeiro + 2Bis	La Feés Carabosse	Catherine Ribeiro + 2Bis	1969		0:27:29 (Pop-up)
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes	Sîrba "Sîrba" by "Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes"	Nº2	1970		0:31:57 (Pop-up)
Brigitte Fontaine / Areski Belkacem	Patriarcat	Vous et Nous	1977		0:37:37 (Pop-up)
Besombes - Rizet	Haute Pression "Haute Pression" by "Besombes - Rizet"	Pôle	1975		0:44:27 (Pop-up)
Clothilde	Fallait Pas Écraser La Queue Du Chat	Fallait Pas Écraser La Queue Du Chat 7"	1967		0:55:18 (Pop-up)
Serge Gainsbourg	Qui Est "In", Qui Est "Out", January 1966	Marie Mathématique, les aventures de la petite soeur de Barbarella	196?	(excerpt)	0:58:34 (Pop-up)
Brigitte Fontaine	Blanche Neige "Blanche Neige" by "Brigitte Fontaine"	Brigitte Fontaine Est…?	1968		1:02:11 (Pop-up)
Cheval Fou	La Fin De La Vie, Le Début De La Survivance	Cheval Fou	19??		1:05:44 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Harmonia 76	Vamos Companeros "Vamos Companeros" by "Harmonia 76"	Harmonia '76			1:18:13 (Pop-up)
Mighty Sparrow	Neurosis (Of The Rich)	Calypso Maestro	1974		1:27:00 (Pop-up)
Mighty Sparrow	We Like It So (Steel Beam)	Sweeter Than Ever	1981		1:30:36 (Pop-up)
Mighty Sparrow	Isolate South Africa	Sweeter Than Ever	1981		1:38:18 (Pop-up)
Mighty Sparrow	Capitalism Gone Mad	The Greatest	1982		1:46:24 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Black Stalin	Burn Dem (Instrumental)				1:52:55 (Pop-up)
Tariverdiev	Expectation of the New Year	Film Music	1973	from the film "Irony of Fate"	1:59:35 (Pop-up)
Scott Walker	Sons Of "Sons Of" by "Scott Walker"	Scott 3	1969		2:00:09 (Pop-up)
Moondog	Here's To John Wesley Hardin	H'Art Songs	1978		2:03:52 (Pop-up)
Stark Reality	Comrades "Comrades" by "Stark Reality"	The Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop	1970		2:10:51 (Pop-up)
Wendy Rene	What Will Tomorrow Bring	After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volt Singles + Rarities 1964-1965	1964-65		2:17:26 (Pop-up)
Isley Brothers	Feels Like The World	The Brothers: Isley	1969		2:19:54 (Pop-up)
Baby Huey	A Change Is Going To Come	The Baby Huey Story - The Living Legend	1971		2:23:11 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix	The Star Spangled Banner 3 - reversed	Studio '69	1969		2:34:09 (Pop-up)
Ruby & The Romantics	Our Day Will Come	Our Day Will Come / Moonlight and Music	1963	composed by Mort Garson	2:40:06 (Pop-up)
Black Stalin	Better Days "Better Days" by "Black Stalin"	You Ask For It	1984		2:42:32 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Eddie Hooper	Tomorrow's Sun "Tomorrow's Sun" by "Eddie Hooper"	Tomorrow's Sun	1982	"Introducing the mellow sound of new wave soca rock. "	2:47:33 (Pop-up)
Violetta Parra	Gracias a la Vida "Gracias a la Vida" by "Violetta Parra"	La Ultimas Composiciones de Violetta Parra	1966		2:56:50 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:15pm Flash Strap: Let's ride
	7:00pm Flash Strap: ok here we go
	7:01pm Scraps deSelby: h'lo h'lo oh yeah
	7:02pm Flash Strap: H'lo Scraps! happy new year
	7:03pm hyde: hiya
	7:04pm Flash Strap: Hyde! Hello!
	7:06pm hyde: i love Companeros
	7:06pm Flash Strap: This one's all due to you, Compañero Hyde
	7:07pm still b/p: Horses tired cuz so much snow shoveling today.
	7:07pm Flash Strap: Hi B/p!
	7:08pm just julia: (my favorite bob dylan song)
	7:09pm Flash Strap: Hi Just Julia mi Compañera
	7:10pm Flash Strap: @Hyde: on your suggestion I watched it recently and have been obsessed. thank you, it's amazing
	7:12pm just julia: hiya pal, glad to be here in the year with you and these sounds
	7:12pm david_: hi all. (Austin Powers voice) the dialectic, bay bay!
	7:13pm northguineahills: I thought I heard Christian Marclay back there!
	7:13pm Flash Strap: Hi David! NGH!
	7:13pm hyde: @Flash yeah, it's a good one. love the late 60's Corbucci films
	7:14pm Scraps: Probably the first John Zorn album that achieved a little bit of mass success
	7:15pm Flash Strap: Hey there Scraps! definitely the first one I ever heard
	7:16pm northguineahills: It was the first Zorn record I got.
	7:18pm Flash Strap: When the clock had struck midnight and we finished singing auld lang syne, me and my compañero inaugurated the year by singing this in karaoke, which i did not expect or plan but it completely blew my mind
	7:22pm northguineahills: I have the Story of Sacco and Vanzetti sndtrk on LP>
	7:26pm Scraps: I love Zorn's =Locus Solus=, and even before that I was confused by =Archery=. That was my much early foray into avant-gardeness, all because of Carla Bley and the New Music Distribution Service
	7:28pm Scraps: and I was intrigued with =Locus Solus= by the presence of Peter Blegvad, a weird entry point to Zorn, I guess
	7:28pm Scraps: Oh, I love Catherine Ribeiro + 2Bis
	7:29pm Flash Strap: not actually familiar with those releases, Scraps! gotta do some homework
	7:29pm Flash Strap: this is really one of my favorite vocal performances, ever
	7:30pm Flash Strap: +anarchist leanings
	7:31pm northguineahills: @Scraps: I love Locus Solus! (Christian Marclay was also involved w/ that as well). Check it out Evan!
	7:31pm northguineahills: ...and a hiphop turntabilist from Harlem called the Wiz Kid.
	7:32pm northguineahills: ....and a who's who of NYC downtown musicians in the early 80s....
	7:32pm Scraps: =Locus Solus= is great, in my opinion, but it's way out there, even for Zorn. Well, Zorn's early stuff is more out there than his later stuff. There is a live Locus Solus, for his 50th birthday; that's not what i'm talking about.
	7:33pm Flash Strap: yeah, it looks pretty essential, actually! there's a lot of Zorn I haven't spent much time with
	7:33pm geezerette: the bad fairy from sleeping beauty! Hello, Evan and seekers!
	7:34pm hyde: yay, geezerette!
	7:34pm Scraps: and the CD version is better than the LP. ;-)
	7:34pm Flash Strap: Hey hey Geezerette!
	7:35pm Flash Strap: @G: your new avatar is from Three Caballeros, unless I miss my guess! maybe my favorite film
	7:36pm geezerette: haha. BINGO!
	7:36pm geezerette: YAY, HYDE !
	7:38pm Flash Strap: lyrics to this one, if you take the time to look them up and translate them, are like perfect anti-patriarchal napalm
	7:39pm northguineahills: @Scraps: Yes, I have the cd version and compared it to my friend's LP, and you're correct. Well, when it comes to Zorn, you might be busy going through his discography, although it might only take a 8 weeks to go through as opposed to Merzbow, which might take years....
	7:39pm Scraps: (actually, it doesn't which one you get, LP or CD. The old Locus Solus, the 1983 [I think] one. I'll stop!)
	7:40pm Scraps: oops, i crossposted with northguineahills!
	7:43pm northguineahills: @Scraps: I dig your Slappy the squirrel avatar. Takes me back.... way back!
	7:43pm Scraps: ;-)
	7:43pm Flash Strap: always liked Slappy myself
	7:46pm Flash Strap: Probably the best krautrock-adjacent sound to come from France, here
	7:47pm Flash Strap: great cover: img.discogs.com...
	7:48pm Flash Strap: great back cover too: img.discogs.com...
	7:51pm Little Danny: Evenin' Flash, friends!
	7:52pm Flash Strap: Hi there LD, happy new year
	7:58pm northguineahills: Hadn't heard That Besombes-Rizet, thanks Flash! Leaving work to go to the grocers. Will get a bit of of you at the end. Then, off to a noise/DIY/performance art show. Salud!
	7:58pm Flash Strap: haven't really spent too much time with the rest of Clothilde's stuff, but this track is so cool
	7:59pm Scraps: I hadn't heard her, so I looked her up, and she's got an album called Saperlipopette!
	7:59pm Scraps: Clothilde, I mean
	8:00pm Flash Strap: adios, NGH! miss you already pal
	8:00pm Little Danny: this Gainsbourg is wild!
	8:00pm Scraps: or rather, an EP
	8:01pm Flash Strap: @LD: really weird LP all the way through
	8:01pm Flash Strap: @Scraps: what a cool word
	8:02pm melinda: Hola, explorers!
	8:03pm Scraps: oh dear, though: "Apparently, the Clothilde EPs represent a really dark time for the woman behind them, known as Élisabeth Beauvais. She was simply a sensitive teenage girl that was shanghaied into singing experimental pop songs with twisted and dark lyrics (that she totally objected to) against her will. She was forced to wear whatever nasty clothing her producer gave her and project an odd, unpleasant image to the world. She had no freedom and no say in any aspect of the Clothilde project, being forced to sing, mannerise, and act exactly how her producer told her to. Her friends and classmates made fun of her, her fellow chanteuses rejected her. The poor girl didn't want any part of it - she just desperately wanted to obey her mother, celebrity Gisèle Parry, who just wished for her daughter to have her own stab at fame. She felt manipulated by her label and alienated from her own music and became very depressed and scared. She hid herself and ran away until the label gave up trying to track her down. The whole ordeal ended up totally ruining her life; she had always wanted to be an actress, but whenever she even thought about it, she would have flashbacks from her time as Clothilde and simply freeze up. It is the heartbreaking story of a poor girl manipulated into doing something she wanted no part of. It is the very definition of evil, soulless major-label music."
	8:04pm Flash Strap: wow that sucks SO MUCH
	8:05pm Flash Strap: lyrics to this song may provide some balm: I live in the wind My body is a flame I show teeth Flowers and gendarmes The sun follows me I do not know God The world is my bed The wind blows where I want Like a chimera Like a drunk animal My moto-panther Trembling between my knees And you, Blanch 'Neige Poor dove With your sweet figure You Blanch 'Snow Big dove Return to your jams Black leather boots I am the woman fire The jaguar woman Ceremonial neck My fingers are as much Mobile syringes My arms snakes Long, fragile snakes My kidneys are iron And my satin belly My thighs in the air Play like dolphins You Blanch 'Snow Young rumbiere With your rosy mouth You Blanch 'Snow Pretty meme Go make pies with currants I like sometimes The pale and hot twinks Who are melting on me Comm 'eagle on the lamb I like brutal Large brass necks Who keeps a hat To confuse me When it's finished They lie like old men A little dislocated Blue lakes under the eyes And you Snow White Cute white Sensual as a mummy You Snow White Tender bobonne So go blow your husband
	8:05pm coelacanth∅: bonjour Evan; Explorateurs
	8:06pm Flash Strap: (that's the Fontaine lyrics, I should say. These lyrics are from a transcript of a heartbreaking statement by the Chief of Seattle, which you can read here: en.wikisource.org...)
	8:08pm Flash Strap: aloo Coelacanth!
	8:09pm Scraps: Every schoolkid who grew up in Seattle, at least, in the seventies was exposed to Chief Seattle's speech, though we didn't know how much was controversial in it
	8:11pm Doug Schulkind: Hey Sir Flash ans fellow exploristas!
	8:11pm Flash Strap: it's a pretty vivid document of a moment in time, hard to read, full of insights and despair
	8:12pm Flash Strap: Hello Doug! Pleasure to see you!
	8:28pm Scraps: people who comment on Clothilde's career on RateYourMusic also think her Yé-Yé music is good... complicated!
	8:29pm Flash Strap: L O V E when Sparrow goes class conscious and analytical! he's a king
	8:29pm still b/p: This thing is packed like an editorial sausage.
	8:30pm Flash Strap: haha he's not sparing us the verbiage nor should he
	8:30pm Scraps: love mighty sparrow
	8:30pm Scraps: just the title!
	8:31pm Doug Schulkind: Public schools are closed here tomorrow due to the extreme cold. My Chicago-born wife is disgusted.
	8:32pm Scraps: behaving like a mor-on!
	8:32pm Flash Strap: this (We Like It So) is a pretty politically significant work for Sparrow: if I understand it correctly, he comes out here in support of the Trinidadian political party ONR, despite being a lifelong vocal supporter of the PNM
	8:33pm Flash Strap: @Doug: there's a light dusting down here in NC, and we've got cancellations all over!
	8:35pm Flash Strap: This coming after he took about a decade off from political songs due to disillusionment with Solomon of the PNM, though I confess the intricacies of all this elude me entirely. I don't think the ONR faired well, ultimately, but it was a sort of left challenge to the dominant liberal party and Sparrow's alignment with it is remarkable in this context (I think)
	8:36pm Flash Strap: it's also just a brutal takedown of the lumpenproletariat mentality
	8:37pm northguineahills: I need fingerless gloves, I didn't turn my heat on at home. Luckily my jacket has fingerless liners.
	8:38pm Flash Strap: list of pointlessly horrible material conditions "But we're FREE"
	8:41pm coelacanth∅: this article (if the link works) goes into some detail. teleport-city.com... ...it seems to me the creator of clothilde is fairly innocent and fairly brilliant, and it's thanks to Elizabeth's asshole mother, and maybe Elizabeth's own lack of clarity with herself and communication with him, that he may not have even known how Elizabeth objected to being clothilde. if he'd have known he might've waited to find someone who knew and agreed with his objective.
	8:41pm Flash Strap: Sparrow sportin' a pretty wild goatee in 1981 : img.discogs.com...
	8:42pm Flash Strap: that's interesting to hear, C. That arrangement was really pretty brilliant, if nothing else
	8:43pm Flash Strap: Stage parents, yeesh
	8:44pm coelacanth∅: yeh it's too bad. it would've worked out better for everybody if he'd found someone who was into what he was trying to do.
	8:47pm Flash Strap: it's part of the dilemma of the creative producer... the Temptations weren't real into performing Norman Whitfield's vision either or Vanilla Fudge with Shadow Morton
	8:51pm Flash Strap: not Sparrow's best arrangement on record, but damn what a statement
	8:53pm coelacanth∅: ..even Jimi Hedrix, to some degree.
	9:01pm Flash Strap: @C: oh totally. or virtually any girl group, etc.
	9:03pm Flash Strap: this is one of my favorite Scott Walker songs, but it's a long list. And it has virtually every Brel cover on it
	9:03pm Uncle Michael: 'allo.
	9:03pm coelacanth∅: sly and the family stone "whitened" their sound after the first (excellent) album, by their label's prodding. ...we all got lucky on that one, but still!
	9:05pm Flash Strap: 'allo Uncle! excited for your all-requests show tomorrow
	9:06pm Uncle Michael: I am excited. I've gotten some very good requests! (it's not too late)
	9:06pm Flash Strap: every song on H'art songs is a classic
	9:07pm Flash Strap: how to best request, for myself or anyone else in these comments? direct harangue or discreet email?
	9:08pm Dean: Best request mode? I tried DDOS.
	9:08pm Flash Strap: hi DDean!
	9:09pm Dean: Hi, hi, hi!
	9:10pm Dean: If tomorrow's show is all Osmond Bros., all the time, then I will have prevailed!
	9:11pm Uncle Michael: Use this link to reqyest. Thanks for asking! www.wfmu.org...
	9:12pm Flash Strap: splendid
	9:12pm Uncle Michael: Dean, Crazy Horses, time-stretched to 3:00:00.
	9:13pm Flash Strap: i cancel my request, i now just want to hear that. alternately, Crazy Horses on loop for 3 hours
	9:13pm melinda: haha Dean. Goin' Back to Utah.
	9:13pm Dean: Is there an orgasm emoji?
	9:14pm Flash Strap: this record is SO WEIRD every time I pull it out it bewilders me again
	9:14pm Flash Strap: Hi Melinda!
	9:15pm melinda: hi Flash!
	9:19pm Flash Strap: Wendy Rene, a master practitioner of a great vocal style
	9:20pm Little Danny: ahhhh, Wendy Rene
	9:20pm Uncle Michael: Theme show! Going Back To Utah Going Back To Indiana Going Back To Miami...
	9:21pm Little Danny: Man I musta missed your soul show the first time around. Fun to hear you spinning this stuff!
	9:22pm Uncle Michael: Christ...Ronald is just the greatest.
	9:22pm still b/p: Going Back to Cali. Meanwhile, back with the O-Team -- when they were still just the young Andy-Williams-show-appearing act, those brothers could get it done, arangements and vocal-wise.
	9:22pm Dean: I'm hearing where Boz Scaggs learned a lesson or two.
	9:23pm Flash Strap: this here is the first time around! last week was retrospective, this week, new year, new sounds (mostly).
	9:25pm Scraps: Breaking News: NYTimes says Mueller has handwritten notes from Reince Priebus saying Trump pressured Comey to drop the Russia investigation. Comey's story is now corroborated. Of course the Republicans won't care, but still, this is big
	9:26pm Little Danny: @flash: Ah, gotcha. Tonight makes a lot more sense now.
	9:26pm Scraps: That's Michael Schmidt again. Thank you Mr Schmidt
	9:26pm melinda: I watched a TV movie about the Osmonds once and woke up the next morning with their early vocalizations still in my head, not in a good way. I heard Bob Brainen describe it as barbershop harmonies from hell.
	9:27pm coelacanth∅: Coup d'état! Coup d'état!
	9:27pm Flash Strap: @melinda: that's hilarious
	9:28pm Uncle Michael: link, Scraps?
	9:29pm still b/p: Barbershop harmonies or "One Bad Apple".....would you prefer to be shot or hung?
	9:30pm Dean: Meanwhile, the NYT is worried about how Seth Meyers will handle the harassment issue at the Golden Globes. Jesus, these people are dicks. High school history class, c. 1975, we played the 7" of "One Bad Apple" on the turntable in the back of class at 33 1/3 right in the middle of a lecture. Teacher liked us, so it was cool. Another time one of my buddies brought an oscillator to class. We played a high frequency at low, slowly increasing volume. The teacher is all, "What is going on?!"
	9:30pm Uncle Michael: I need a fresh viewing of Wattstax.
	9:31pm Scraps: UM, it's up on the times page. there's lots more
	9:31pm Flash Strap: this is such a world-stopping spoken-word interlude
	9:31pm Scraps: www.nytimes.com
	9:32pm melinda: One Bad Apple, hands down. Though I do appreciate the talent behind the barbershop harmonies.
	9:33pm coelacanth∅: "what is going on?"!
	9:33pm Flash Strap: that is a top-notch classroom prank, Dean
	9:34pm Uncle Michael: thanks, Scraps
	9:35pm Dean: Am I supposed to sit down through this?
	9:36pm Flash Strap: you can stand if it helps you dance
	9:37pm coelacanth∅: when i got my first cassette recorder, age 7-8, i recorded themes from tvs shows - the munsters; hogan's heroes; ster trek...and somehow smuggled that thing into school. in & out. 2 days of that and never brought it back. there was a close call once, but i never found out if they knew who was responsible.
	9:39pm Dean: Come to think of it, I'd like to hear "Going Home" (Woodstock) in reverse.
	9:41pm coelacanth∅: the git would be crazy but the extremely quiet passage into the loud n fast part might be anticlimactic.
	9:42pm Uncle Michael: That might help. It's the worst thing in the film.
	9:42pm MrFab: Howdy y'all! Backwards Hendrix sounded like the Eno/Fripp albums if those 2 had gone all loopy on cough syrup.
	9:42pm Flash Strap: i love backwards music i also love double music
	9:44pm Flash Strap: Hey Mr. Fab! I thought the same thing, though I have to say our Pussyfooting boys sound pretty syrupy too
	9:45pm Dean: Then you'll love my buddy's, uh, derivation of Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" (multiple eccentric holes) that Mary Wing played a few weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CCB59CTZmM
	9:46pm Flash Strap: gotta check that out, thanks dean
	9:47pm coelacanth∅: should i assume everyone knows that the (no pussyfooting) cd release has one of the tracks backward? (or 2?)...and one at 1/2 speed.
	9:48pm Flash Strap: i know, for what that's worth
	9:49pm MrFab: I did not know that - I still have my old vinyl and never bothered to "upgrade." But now I'm curious.
	9:50pm coelacanth∅: i was tempted to get it, but i have the means to create all those variations myself; so buying that would just make me lazy.
	9:52pm coelacanth∅: eh -i wouldn't say it's an upgrade. unless your record is scratchy, you already have the best you can get.
	9:54pm Little Danny: Thanks Flash, another ear-opening show!
	9:54pm Little Danny: Now more than ever, the Cool Blue Flame is forthcoming: wfmu.org... Please join us!
	9:55pm coelacanth∅: MrFab Stan opened his show with the slowed down track a while back. too long ago for the good archive, but you can at least hear the pop up facsimile.
	9:55pm MrFab: Dean, that "BaKeR StReEt" is great, gonna pass it on to Vicki People Like Us. Would be perfect for her show.
	9:55pm still b/p: A...blizzard(!) of good music. Thanks!
	9:58pm Flash Strap: Thanks all! see you in three weeks!
	9:59pm Dean: Thanks, MrFab. Yes, it is a remarkable analog achievement.
	9:59pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Evan! enjoy your vacation from us!
	9:59pm Dean: Reminds me, too, to buy Vicki's Optimized!
	10:00pm Uncle Michael: Thanks Evan!
	10:00pm Flash Strap: good night, I'll miss you all
	10:34pm Irwin: Listening to the archive. Excellent program, full of surprises.

Explorers Room with Flash Strap: Playlist from January 4, 2018

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