WFMU: Love Is Only Sleeping with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from January 31, 2018

Listener comments!
	7:03pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Bronwyn and all!
	7:03pm northguineahills: We're having the lack of volume problem again...
	7:03pm JtotheK: Hi Bronwyn, hi everyone!
	7:04pm coelacanth∅: and now, the quietest show on wfmu! hi Bronwyn! it's barely audible.
	7:05pm glenn: hewwo, bwonwyn.
	7:05pm BronwynB: im sorry i genuinely dont know what the issue is, the volume is all the way up on both the board and winamp player. let me see if i can get someone in here to take a look
	7:05pm northguineahills: You should be playing Bernhard Gunter and Morton Feldman w/ these volume levels, oh wait, it went up....
	7:06pm coelacanth∅: i'm listening on a laptop now and it is not possible to turn it up enough to enjoy it. (both the computer and the player are up all the way)
	7:06pm listener james from westwood: It's AOK on my end.
	7:06pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Maybe I was too loud
	7:07pm BronwynB: im sorry you guys im trying to figure out what the problem is please bear with me
	7:07pm coelacanth∅: maybe the eq on the winamp player?
	7:08pm listener james from westwood: No worries! Studio C is a cavern of mysteries! Zep is sounding fine over here.
	7:09pm BronwynB: does this sound better? I'm playing this from a different audio source just to test things
	7:09pm glenn: i'm getting some odd stairway thingy.
	7:10pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): BronwynB: It sounds the same level as the whole show has
	7:10pm geezerette: I'm hearing an instrumental version of stairway to heaven,
	7:10pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): What sends it to the stream? Can that thing be raised?
	7:11pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Maybe I'm wrong and it got louder. Certainly your mic sounds good!
	7:12pm geezerette: chillin' :)
	7:12pm listener james from westwood: Mic sounds AOK, and I was hearing both tracks fairly well with minimal computer volume on my side.
	7:13pm coelacanth∅: i stepped away for a minute but i'm sure it got a bit louder; it's still a lot quieter than the average wfmu show though.
	7:13pm BronwynB: that's so weird i swear it's turned all the way up
	7:15pm coelacanth∅: it just got a little louder? it's still quieter than average but it's enough, at least over here
	7:17pm coelacanth∅: okay i just compared it to the main fmu and the ichiban and it's comparable now.
	7:18pm still b/p: It's moved up to near normal for me now, too, after the great lowness. Was it a set of tries and twiddles or a specific "aha" adjustment?
	7:18pm glenn: giv'er, b.b.
	7:19pm northguineahills: @geezerette 7:10 : crap, not again, stay away from the light, by heaven's holy hells, stay away from the light~!
	7:23pm northguineahills: I no longer have my phone at max volume, and it's fine, albeit less then usually (the give the drummer streamer is usually louder then the main stream)
	7:25pm northguineahills: ack...! loud voice!
	7:27pm BronwynB: hello everyone! apologies for the weirdness! thank you for your patience and i hope you still enjoy the show :)
	7:28pm northguineahills: Is this Cage's 4'33"? oh, there it is! We all still heart you Bronwyn!
	7:28pm listener james from westwood: No worries! You're fine!
	7:28pm BronwynB: thanks guys!!! is the volume better now?
	7:31pm listener james from westwood: Could hear it from the kitchen on both the Wilson and this track!
	7:31pm northguineahills: The volume is fine at my end.
	7:31pm steveo: Just got here. Is this one of those dreams? (I hear it fine and it's surfy goodness.)
	7:32pm still b/p: Mine's OK: with levels for player, computer and separate speakers set where they'd typically be for FMU listening, this show level is still just a dight below standard.
	7:32pm coelacanth∅: it's good Bronwyn! i have main volume higher than usual but not that much. Than you for your dedication!
	7:32pm BronwynB: Yes!!!!!!!!!
	7:32pm BronwynB: Thanks for following up and for sticking with me :)
	7:33pm glenn: hmmm. chantays good, nico very quiet.
	7:36pm coelacanth∅: haha! then again...maybe one of your sound sources has a preamp that's lowered? (or maybe the Nico cd is mastered quiet...probably)
	7:36pm listener james from westwood: Love Is Only Sleeping is worth the bumps!
	7:36pm steveo: Wow coel, your null set character looks huge in this font!
	7:38pm BronwynB: thanks james :)
	7:41pm BronwynB: i turned the preamp all the way up on the winamp player, does that help?
	7:44pm northguineahills: That was the first time I've heard that Nico, thanks! (didn't show up at work until 11, so, I'm still here)
	7:45pm BronwynB: glad you liked it ngh :)
	7:51pm coelacanth∅: steveo really? i wish i could see that. this laptop doesn't show me the font selections. always the same.
	7:53pm SeanG: riding high tonight!
	7:55pm steveo: @coel photos.app.goo.gl...
	7:56pm BronwynB: thanks sean :)
	8:01pm coelacanth∅: that's how it always is on my computers steve! (except sometimes when someone else has gotten it from a different source it's small) i need to learn how to do what you just did with a screenshot, since i don't know how to use photobucket and am not sure i want to.
	8:02pm listener james from westwood: Last set sounded great; thanks in turn for digging into the weirdness!
	8:04pm northguineahills: It's a loud quiet! Thanks Bronwyn, I should leave work. chirrups!
	8:04pm steveo: Oh hmm. I'm on my phone so can't that's probably the difference. Android phone, ends up on Google photos by magic.
	8:05pm steveo: Sorry Bronwyn. What am i talking about?
	8:05pm coelacanth∅: perseverance! my main volume is 20% higher than usual. that's not bad. Little Danny's show is much louder than others; Evan's (explorers room) mic breaks are much quieter than others. all, including this now within a good range.
	8:13pm BronwynB: yay!!!!
	8:13pm coelacanth∅: i'm cracking up! if you put a star next to that mic break i'd click it!
	8:14pm BronwynB: haha yay thanks :D
	8:15pm steveo: I'll have to go back and listen to the a capella thing, you really sold it!
	8:16pm BronwynB: thanks :D it's so great!!! another beach boys vocals only i would suggest is sloop john b, specifically for the part right after "sheriff john stone". actual angels
	8:18pm steveo: Lol ok!
	8:19pm still b/p: What are they sayin' 'bout Charlie?
	8:20pm steveo: Oh Charlie Chapin! Now I get the horn honks...
	8:20pm BronwynB: i literally have no idea hahaha
	8:22pm coelacanth∅: i've spent many years being repulsed by the beach boys. 1-2 years ago Explorers room did a beach boys program and i enjoyed it. all little known, not commercial stuff. then something<2 weeks ago led me to read something about Brian and i decided to listen to the entire beach boys catalog in chronological order, doing my best (which can be pretty good) to imagine what it was like the first time, at the time...which i started to do a week ago.
	8:25pm coelacanth∅: i know it's not a popular opinion. i actually have turned off wfmu many times because of the beach boys. ...i've gotten up to pet sounds and i know the best is yet to come, but i have a new, open appreciation for them; and i've had some surprising revelations.
	8:28pm rw: Hello! Driving home from work in slow traffic. LiOS is helping.
	8:28pm BronwynB: I'm so glad rw :D
	8:29pm listener james from westwood: Just realizing, like, >35 years after the show aired, that this Eagles tune was used as the in-theme for the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" TV show. Have not heard it since the early Reagan era. Wow; thanks for closing this mental loop!
	8:29pm northguineahills: @coel: sometime when I was around 23, i had a BB revelation, and Pet Sounds made sense, and the next few albums. I found some polaroids of them in 20/20 I found in a thrift store. My wife framed them and put them on the wall. Her friends would ask me if those were my family. Now the BB are gospel to me.
	8:31pm northguineahills: (my wife is of a darker hue then me, so, the BBs looked more like me)
	8:31pm SeanG: deep cut
	8:32pm BronwynB: @coel: That's actually a really similar trajectory to mine. Until about three and a half years ago I only knew them for Surfin USA, Barbara Ann, etc and I thought they were ungodly lame and had no interest in them whatsoever. Then in late 2014 I was doing a project for college where I had written a script about a radio drama recording gone horribly wrong and it was supposed to be a found recording of the producer berating the writer and actors and them all having a huge fight. Doing research I came across the Help Me Rhonda tape with Murry abusing the boys and was fascinated and then decided, what the hell, I'll listen to a BBs tune, and I ended up picking the aforementioned Sloop John B vocals only mix and I was floored. I then did what you're doing and listened to it all in chronological order and they became my favorite band and they still are, to the point that I've seen BW live four times and literally wrote a screenplay about them
	8:33pm BronwynB: you can tell i really care about the BBs because i write wall of texts about them. and 150-page screenplays!
	8:34pm BronwynB: @james: that's where I heard it for the first time! I was obsessed with Hitchhiker's as a kid and I loved the tv series and always thought that tune (particularly the arrangement they used in the series) was such a great theme for it. i was really glad it made it into the movie
	8:35pm steveo: Haha, did not realize that was Eagles. Loving this Bowie Floyd.
	8:35pm Ken From Hyde Park: Seems like this show only comes on once in a blue moon.
	8:35pm coelacanth∅: that's amazing Bronwyn! i 1/2 expected hate mail just for saying what i said.
	8:35pm foofs: There's a compilation called 'Endless Bummer' which acts as a good cure for Beach Boys enthusiasm. Anti-drugs radio jingles, Mike Love studio whining about the 'Surf's Up lyrics, all kinds of crap!
	8:37pm BronwynB: @foofs: i love endless bummer. it combines my two favorite things: the beach boys and utter shit
	8:38pm northguineahills: Yeah, same here, Bronwyn, I thought they were just 60s bubble gum, but a friend turned me on to Sunflower, Pet Sounds and Smile, and I was in love w/ them ever since, and even dig their teeny bop crap as well.
	8:39pm coelacanth∅: well- i always thought i detested mike love's voice, mainly; and i still do! and i don't like him, from what i've read about him (but who knows) but i've also greatly disliked Brian's voice, and now realise how dramatically his singing improved over the first few years. that's one revelation. i really like his singing starting with "today!". 2nd_ Carl was a tremendous Guitarist!
	8:39pm steveo: Ok, I'm definitely not going to listen to Sloop John vocals only if it's going to make meme wa to listen to their whole catalog :p
	8:39pm SeanG: rip it up!
	8:40pm steveo: Wow I'm bad at phone comments. Fun set!
	8:40pm northguineahills: Well, Mike Love is an anti-anything (he's a dick to everyone, even to a friend of mine, but he had talent).
	8:41pm northguineahills: I'm off on my Damned, 2008, hummm.
	8:41pm coelacanth∅: well, i chose to, and i've yet to hear sloop john b vox only...and i'm really looking forward to being home this weekend because "smile" and "sunflower" are coming up
	8:42pm listener james from westwood: Ivor!
	8:44pm coelacanth∅: maybe, ngh, but to be honest - so far, i see mike love as expendable! his only instrument was (is?) singing, & i don't like his voice...but yeah it probably was the right voice for most of the surfin' and car songs.
	8:45pm BronwynB: @coel: mike is the worst. he's the least talented one, a huge jerk, and just overall awful and a big part of the reason the BBs are often regarded as lame and not the innovators and geniuses they really were (IMO) @steveo: it's gonna happen!!! you can't escape now!!!
	8:45pm nardo: after the Ivor I was thinking the goons but this will do nicely
	8:45pm SeanG: eric idle4ever
	8:46pm BronwynB: @sean: when i was a teen i thought eric was the coolest BB because he had long hair and seemed edgy and wrote songs
	8:46pm northguineahills: True, Coel y Bronwyn, I concur!
	8:46pm BronwynB: not bb! python! eric idle was not in the beach boys!
	8:48pm coelacanth∅: - and he was friends with George Harrison the coolest and funniest beatle!
	8:48pm SeanG: haha! :-)
	8:48pm Parq: Hi Bronwyn. I gotta get busy in the kitchen, but happy to join you for the second half. By the way, the guy who played Stig O'Hara in the Rutles was in the Beach Boys.
	8:52pm northguineahills: Off to see my friend to electronic weirdness. Thanks Bronwyn, keep getting WFMU fill-ins for us!
	8:54pm SeanG: @coelacanth isn't george just the bestest?!? all things must pass is my desert island disc
	8:56pm listener james from westwood: Huge luck on getting the call back you're hoping for!
	8:56pm still b/p: I won't trace my BB path...but let's see where this lands: I've never cared for Olivia Newton John's voice and work. Always feels weak and uninteresting. A soft or easy or light voice can be fine, but hers...nuh-uh. Obviously many fans, and people who've disagreed with me, hear something I don't.
	8:57pm BronwynB: thanks james :))) if im being totally honest part of the reason i want this particular job is because the most convenient way for me to get to FMU from there would be by ferry and i just really want to sail to fmu with the wind in my buzz cut
	8:59pm coelacanth∅: Sean, as a child i was infatuated with George, then as a rebelious teen my friends and i put John on a pedestal; and maybe he should be, but in the end i still like George the best, and despite his religion, can relate to him the most.
	9:00pm listener james from westwood: That sounds like an excellent reason!
	9:02pm coelacanth∅: haha it's as good a reason as any...you know it's not actually sailing though!
	9:03pm BronwynB: well the view would at least be nicer than the path train!
	9:05pm steveo: I was born on George's birthday & my 11 year old loves the Hitchhikers Guide books, just like I did when I was a kid.
	9:05pm BronwynB: @steveo: that's how old i was when i got into them!
	9:06pm coelacanth∅: Sean that album is a work of art; one of the first albums i ever bought, as a child ($5.00 new from the record club of america) but i wish there were a stripped-down ("naked") version of it. i'm not into spector's wall of mess production on some of those tracks.
	9:06pm BronwynB: @still b/p: i don't love olivia either but i'm just endlessly amused by her ring of fire cover :D i also own a pretty sweet record by the 101 strings doing her songs which has a lot of comedic value to it
	9:08pm steveo: Greased Lightning was a favorite also when I was a kid. I wonder where that pile of 45s got to....
	9:08pm BronwynB: my favorite from grease is still you're the one that i want
	9:10pm still b/p: 101 Strings doing ONJ...those elements together could cause some catastrophe on the other side of the world or something...or discomfort in my teeth. Maybe a good gift for someone. Aw, all the folks who used to take transatlantic passage on the big liners would still say, "I sail tomorrow." Say it, say it, sail, sail.
	9:11pm coelacanth∅: steve my younger sister also born on that day (& my friend Karen) -i was hatched on groundhog day. most years i get blamed for things beyond my control.
	9:11pm BronwynB: my 101 strings play olivia record was a gift from my godfather who knows i love things that are utter shit (as mentioned above)
	9:12pm steveo: Yeah that is an amazing scene in the movie, too, but it doesn't have the word shit in it like Greased Lightning. Haha. I used to fantasize about getting an inflatable kayak when I worked in Jersey City in the early '00s.
	9:14pm SeanG: @coelacanth yep i know what you mean about the wall of sound, can be a bit much. there are some acoustic demos of those songs available. I've been listening to the traveling wilburys lately. jeff lynne and george=pure gold. :-D
	9:15pm steveo: Cool coel. I don't believe in groundhogs, so you're safe.
	9:15pm still b/p: Just this evening I was adding to a playlist of popular instrumentals from 50s-60s that I'm sure some percentage of listeners would regard as utter shit. But they are utterly right for certain things and from certain angles -- lock, shlock and barrel.
	9:18pm coelacanth∅: Sean i like those demos, that i've heard. precious few - unless i'm not looking in the right place.
	9:24pm listener james from westwood: Monkey versus Robot!
	9:27pm coelacanth∅: greasy kid stuff!
	9:36pm steveo: Hi Mom!
	9:36pm Funky16corners: Hello hello!
	9:38pm still b/p: College music moment: I was playing a cassette of Eno's Discreet Music in a studio painting class and a much older woman -- non-traditional student -- says, "Do you think anyone is really enjoying that?" She then said it was like a funeral dirge. I did shut it off with an over-dramatic harrumph about how we could all listen to Top 40 instead and have a great time.
	9:38pm coelacanth∅: did you say "potterhouse"? if so that leads to Jim Price.
	9:43pm Parq: Not to put too fine upon it, the Blues Brothers were all about taking obscure R&B and blues hits and introducing them to white college kids who assumed they were original. Their "Rubber Biscuit" was a huge hit on my college campus, where no one (including me, I'm constrained to admit) had ever heard of the Chips' original.
	9:45pm BronwynB: Yeah, on the one hand I really appreciate them shining a light on some little-known old songs, but on the other hand I wish they'd given more credit to the original artists (like Abner). The movie has always struck me as such a joyful celebration of that music though.
	9:48pm still b/p: Between the familiar numbers from earlier days such as Soul Man and the retro character flavor and the presence in the movie of some artists as tribute/nod, I thought it was pretty clear at the time the Brothers were serving covers, even if I didn't know all the songs.
	9:49pm Parq: Honestly, if they had been left purely to their own devices, they might have given the originals more props. But that's just the way the music industry was, and is. For that matter, it's just the way white college kids were, and are. Digging the show BB, gotta get back to the kitchen.
	9:50pm Funky16corners: Blues Brothers were a gateway, just like the Chesterfield Kings and the Lyres were to the garage punk era.
	9:53pm still b/p: The movie, unfortunately, was one of those that had people feeling compelled to describe and reenact almost every damn scene before I saw it.
	9:54pm Funky16corners: It was kind of a mess but the music was great
	9:58pm BronwynB: thanks for listening everyone :D
	9:59pm steveo: Thanks for the fun, Bronwyn!
	9:59pm listener james from westwood: Thanks a ton, Bronwyn!!
	10:00pm BronwynB: thank YOU!
	10:00pm coelacanth∅: to be accurate, it's not just "white" college kids that tend to think whatever they're hearing now is new. i'm sure it's exactly the same throughout the spectrum of shades and hues of college kids.
	10:01pm coelacanth∅: shit it 10! Thanks Bronwyn! take care Great program!
	10:01pm BronwynB: thanks coel :)

Love Is Only Sleeping with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from January 31, 2018

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
The Beach Boys	Slip On Through (vocals only mix)	Made in California	Capitol Records	2013	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Murry Wilson	The Warmth of the Sun	The Many Moods of Murry Wilson	Capitol	1967	0:08:32 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Robert Kreider	Stairway to Heaven Variations	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	0:08:48 (Pop-up)
Murry Wilson	Italia "Italia" by "Murry Wilson"	The Many Moods of Murry Wilson	Capitol	1967	0:27:25 (Pop-up)
The Chantays	Pipeline "Pipeline" by "The Chantays"	Pipeline	Tidewalker	1963	0:28:57 (Pop-up)
Nico	Evening of Light "Evening of Light" by "Nico"	The Marble Index	Elektra Entertainment	1969	0:32:03 (Pop-up)
The Residents	Rest Aria "Rest Aria" by "The Residents"	Meet the Residents	Cryptic Corporation	1974	0:36:33 (Pop-up)
Pink Floyd	Careful With That Axe Eugene	Relics	Pink Floyd Music Ltd.	1971	0:41:39 (Pop-up)
Fraction	Dawning Light "Dawning Light" by "Fraction"	Moon Blood	Kemado Records	2010	0:48:33 (Pop-up)
Alexander "Skip" Spence	Little Hands	Oar	Sony BMG Music	1969	0:53:31 (Pop-up)
Kim Fowley	Inner Space Discovery "Inner Space Discovery" by "Kim Fowley"	Outrageous	Zonophone	1968	0:56:34 (Pop-up)

Paradox	Lovers You Have Loved "Lovers You Have Loved" by "Paradox"	Plastic Dreams	Red Square Productions	1981	1:14:27 (Pop-up)
Mimi Ivanova & Start	Charlie Chaplin	Mimi Ivanova and Start	Balkanton	1979	1:17:24 (Pop-up)
Olivia Newton-John	Ring of Fire "Ring of Fire" by "Olivia Newton-John"	Making a Good Thing Better	MCA Records	1977	1:19:06 (Pop-up)
Sailcat	Motorcycle Mama "Motorcycle Mama" by "Sailcat"	Motorcycle Mama	MF V	1972	1:23:41 (Pop-up)
Eagles	Journey of the Sorcerer "Journey of the Sorcerer" by "Eagles"	One of These Nights	Elektra/Asylum Records	1975	1:25:20 (Pop-up)
David Bowie	See Emily Play "See Emily Play" by "David Bowie"	Pinups	RCA Records	1973	1:30:55 (Pop-up)
The Dream Syndicate	Cinnamon Girl	Out of the Grey	Atavistic	1986	1:35:53 (Pop-up)
The Damned	Love Song "Love Song" by "The Damned"	Machine Gun Etiquette	Ace Records	2008	1:38:17 (Pop-up)
Ivor Cutler	A Doughnut In My Hand	Privilege	Hoorgi House	2009	1:40:32 (Pop-up)
The Rutles	Cheese and Onions "Cheese and Onions" by "The Rutles"	The Rutles	Warner Bros. Records	1978	1:42:36 (Pop-up)

Abner Jay	I Wanna Job "I Wanna Job" by "Abner Jay"	One Man Band	Subliminal Sounds	2003	1:57:37 (Pop-up)
Abner Jay	I'm So Depressed "I'm So Depressed" by "Abner Jay"	One Man Band	Subliminal Sounds	2003	1:58:49 (Pop-up)
Van Morrison	Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child	Poetic Champions Compose	Exile	1987	2:02:35 (Pop-up)
Quicksilver Messenger Service	Pride of Man	Quicksilver Messenger Service	Capitol Records	1968	2:06:57 (Pop-up)
Cockney Rejects	Quiet Storm "Quiet Storm" by "Cockney Rejects"	Quiet Storm	The Cadiz Recording Co.	2013	2:10:59 (Pop-up)
Paul Weller	Wild Wood "Wild Wood" by "Paul Weller"	Modern Classics	Go! Discs	1998	2:16:05 (Pop-up)
Leonard Cohen	Closing Time "Closing Time" by "Leonard Cohen"	More Best Of	Columbia Records	1997	2:18:43 (Pop-up)
James Kochalka Superstar	Monkey vs. Robot	Monkey Vs. Robot	Tarquin Records	1997	2:23:20 (Pop-up)
The Residents	Satisfaction "Satisfaction" by "The Residents"	The Mole Show Live	Ralph Records	1998	2:25:27 (Pop-up)
John Zorn	The James Bond Theme "The James Bond Theme" by "John Zorn"	Naked City	Elektra Entertainment	1990	2:28:30 (Pop-up)

Gavin Turek	It's the Light "It's the Light" by "Gavin Turek"	Good Look for You - EP	Madame Gold	2017	2:42:43 (Pop-up)
Tune-Yards	Look At Your Hands "Look At Your Hands" by "Tune-Yards"	I can feel you creep into my private life	4AD	2018	2:46:47 (Pop-up)
Flo Morrissey & Matthew E. White	Look At What the Light Did Now	Gentlewoman, Ruby Man	Glassnote	2017	2:50:01 (Pop-up)
TAEMIN	Heart Stop "Heart Stop" by "TAEMIN"	Move	SM Entertainment	2017	2:53:21 (Pop-up)
BETSY	Lost & Found "Lost & Found" by "BETSY"	Lost & Found	Betsy	2016	2:55:43 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:03pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Bronwyn and all!
	7:03pm northguineahills: We're having the lack of volume problem again...
	7:03pm JtotheK: Hi Bronwyn, hi everyone!
	7:04pm coelacanth∅: and now, the quietest show on wfmu! hi Bronwyn! it's barely audible.
	7:05pm glenn: hewwo, bwonwyn.
	7:05pm BronwynB: im sorry i genuinely dont know what the issue is, the volume is all the way up on both the board and winamp player. let me see if i can get someone in here to take a look
	7:05pm northguineahills: You should be playing Bernhard Gunter and Morton Feldman w/ these volume levels, oh wait, it went up....
	7:06pm coelacanth∅: i'm listening on a laptop now and it is not possible to turn it up enough to enjoy it. (both the computer and the player are up all the way)
	7:06pm listener james from westwood: It's AOK on my end.
	7:06pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Maybe I was too loud
	7:07pm BronwynB: im sorry you guys im trying to figure out what the problem is please bear with me
	7:07pm coelacanth∅: maybe the eq on the winamp player?
	7:08pm listener james from westwood: No worries! Studio C is a cavern of mysteries! Zep is sounding fine over here.
	7:09pm BronwynB: does this sound better? I'm playing this from a different audio source just to test things
	7:09pm glenn: i'm getting some odd stairway thingy.
	7:10pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): BronwynB: It sounds the same level as the whole show has
	7:10pm geezerette: I'm hearing an instrumental version of stairway to heaven,
	7:10pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): What sends it to the stream? Can that thing be raised?
	7:11pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Maybe I'm wrong and it got louder. Certainly your mic sounds good!
	7:12pm geezerette: chillin' :)
	7:12pm listener james from westwood: Mic sounds AOK, and I was hearing both tracks fairly well with minimal computer volume on my side.
	7:13pm coelacanth∅: i stepped away for a minute but i'm sure it got a bit louder; it's still a lot quieter than the average wfmu show though.
	7:13pm BronwynB: that's so weird i swear it's turned all the way up
	7:15pm coelacanth∅: it just got a little louder? it's still quieter than average but it's enough, at least over here
	7:17pm coelacanth∅: okay i just compared it to the main fmu and the ichiban and it's comparable now.
	7:18pm still b/p: It's moved up to near normal for me now, too, after the great lowness. Was it a set of tries and twiddles or a specific "aha" adjustment?
	7:18pm glenn: giv'er, b.b.
	7:19pm northguineahills: @geezerette 7:10 : crap, not again, stay away from the light, by heaven's holy hells, stay away from the light~!
	7:23pm northguineahills: I no longer have my phone at max volume, and it's fine, albeit less then usually (the give the drummer streamer is usually louder then the main stream)
	7:25pm northguineahills: ack...! loud voice!
	7:27pm BronwynB: hello everyone! apologies for the weirdness! thank you for your patience and i hope you still enjoy the show :)
	7:28pm northguineahills: Is this Cage's 4'33"? oh, there it is! We all still heart you Bronwyn!
	7:28pm listener james from westwood: No worries! You're fine!
	7:28pm BronwynB: thanks guys!!! is the volume better now?
	7:31pm listener james from westwood: Could hear it from the kitchen on both the Wilson and this track!
	7:31pm northguineahills: The volume is fine at my end.
	7:31pm steveo: Just got here. Is this one of those dreams? (I hear it fine and it's surfy goodness.)
	7:32pm still b/p: Mine's OK: with levels for player, computer and separate speakers set where they'd typically be for FMU listening, this show level is still just a dight below standard.
	7:32pm coelacanth∅: it's good Bronwyn! i have main volume higher than usual but not that much. Than you for your dedication!
	7:32pm BronwynB: Yes!!!!!!!!!
	7:32pm BronwynB: Thanks for following up and for sticking with me :)
	7:33pm glenn: hmmm. chantays good, nico very quiet.
	7:36pm coelacanth∅: haha! then again...maybe one of your sound sources has a preamp that's lowered? (or maybe the Nico cd is mastered quiet...probably)
	7:36pm listener james from westwood: Love Is Only Sleeping is worth the bumps!
	7:36pm steveo: Wow coel, your null set character looks huge in this font!
	7:38pm BronwynB: thanks james :)
	7:41pm BronwynB: i turned the preamp all the way up on the winamp player, does that help?
	7:44pm northguineahills: That was the first time I've heard that Nico, thanks! (didn't show up at work until 11, so, I'm still here)
	7:45pm BronwynB: glad you liked it ngh :)
	7:51pm coelacanth∅: steveo really? i wish i could see that. this laptop doesn't show me the font selections. always the same.
	7:53pm SeanG: riding high tonight!
	7:55pm steveo: @coel photos.app.goo.gl...
	7:56pm BronwynB: thanks sean :)
	8:01pm coelacanth∅: that's how it always is on my computers steve! (except sometimes when someone else has gotten it from a different source it's small) i need to learn how to do what you just did with a screenshot, since i don't know how to use photobucket and am not sure i want to.
	8:02pm listener james from westwood: Last set sounded great; thanks in turn for digging into the weirdness!
	8:04pm northguineahills: It's a loud quiet! Thanks Bronwyn, I should leave work. chirrups!
	8:04pm steveo: Oh hmm. I'm on my phone so can't that's probably the difference. Android phone, ends up on Google photos by magic.
	8:05pm steveo: Sorry Bronwyn. What am i talking about?
	8:05pm coelacanth∅: perseverance! my main volume is 20% higher than usual. that's not bad. Little Danny's show is much louder than others; Evan's (explorers room) mic breaks are much quieter than others. all, including this now within a good range.
	8:13pm BronwynB: yay!!!!
	8:13pm coelacanth∅: i'm cracking up! if you put a star next to that mic break i'd click it!
	8:14pm BronwynB: haha yay thanks :D
	8:15pm steveo: I'll have to go back and listen to the a capella thing, you really sold it!
	8:16pm BronwynB: thanks :D it's so great!!! another beach boys vocals only i would suggest is sloop john b, specifically for the part right after "sheriff john stone". actual angels
	8:18pm steveo: Lol ok!
	8:19pm still b/p: What are they sayin' 'bout Charlie?
	8:20pm steveo: Oh Charlie Chapin! Now I get the horn honks...
	8:20pm BronwynB: i literally have no idea hahaha
	8:22pm coelacanth∅: i've spent many years being repulsed by the beach boys. 1-2 years ago Explorers room did a beach boys program and i enjoyed it. all little known, not commercial stuff. then something<2 weeks ago led me to read something about Brian and i decided to listen to the entire beach boys catalog in chronological order, doing my best (which can be pretty good) to imagine what it was like the first time, at the time...which i started to do a week ago.
	8:25pm coelacanth∅: i know it's not a popular opinion. i actually have turned off wfmu many times because of the beach boys. ...i've gotten up to pet sounds and i know the best is yet to come, but i have a new, open appreciation for them; and i've had some surprising revelations.
	8:28pm rw: Hello! Driving home from work in slow traffic. LiOS is helping.
	8:28pm BronwynB: I'm so glad rw :D
	8:29pm listener james from westwood: Just realizing, like, >35 years after the show aired, that this Eagles tune was used as the in-theme for the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" TV show. Have not heard it since the early Reagan era. Wow; thanks for closing this mental loop!
	8:29pm northguineahills: @coel: sometime when I was around 23, i had a BB revelation, and Pet Sounds made sense, and the next few albums. I found some polaroids of them in 20/20 I found in a thrift store. My wife framed them and put them on the wall. Her friends would ask me if those were my family. Now the BB are gospel to me.
	8:31pm northguineahills: (my wife is of a darker hue then me, so, the BBs looked more like me)
	8:31pm SeanG: deep cut
	8:32pm BronwynB: @coel: That's actually a really similar trajectory to mine. Until about three and a half years ago I only knew them for Surfin USA, Barbara Ann, etc and I thought they were ungodly lame and had no interest in them whatsoever. Then in late 2014 I was doing a project for college where I had written a script about a radio drama recording gone horribly wrong and it was supposed to be a found recording of the producer berating the writer and actors and them all having a huge fight. Doing research I came across the Help Me Rhonda tape with Murry abusing the boys and was fascinated and then decided, what the hell, I'll listen to a BBs tune, and I ended up picking the aforementioned Sloop John B vocals only mix and I was floored. I then did what you're doing and listened to it all in chronological order and they became my favorite band and they still are, to the point that I've seen BW live four times and literally wrote a screenplay about them
	8:33pm BronwynB: you can tell i really care about the BBs because i write wall of texts about them. and 150-page screenplays!
	8:34pm BronwynB: @james: that's where I heard it for the first time! I was obsessed with Hitchhiker's as a kid and I loved the tv series and always thought that tune (particularly the arrangement they used in the series) was such a great theme for it. i was really glad it made it into the movie
	8:35pm steveo: Haha, did not realize that was Eagles. Loving this Bowie Floyd.
	8:35pm Ken From Hyde Park: Seems like this show only comes on once in a blue moon.
	8:35pm coelacanth∅: that's amazing Bronwyn! i 1/2 expected hate mail just for saying what i said.
	8:35pm foofs: There's a compilation called 'Endless Bummer' which acts as a good cure for Beach Boys enthusiasm. Anti-drugs radio jingles, Mike Love studio whining about the 'Surf's Up lyrics, all kinds of crap!
	8:37pm BronwynB: @foofs: i love endless bummer. it combines my two favorite things: the beach boys and utter shit
	8:38pm northguineahills: Yeah, same here, Bronwyn, I thought they were just 60s bubble gum, but a friend turned me on to Sunflower, Pet Sounds and Smile, and I was in love w/ them ever since, and even dig their teeny bop crap as well.
	8:39pm coelacanth∅: well- i always thought i detested mike love's voice, mainly; and i still do! and i don't like him, from what i've read about him (but who knows) but i've also greatly disliked Brian's voice, and now realise how dramatically his singing improved over the first few years. that's one revelation. i really like his singing starting with "today!". 2nd_ Carl was a tremendous Guitarist!
	8:39pm steveo: Ok, I'm definitely not going to listen to Sloop John vocals only if it's going to make meme wa to listen to their whole catalog :p
	8:39pm SeanG: rip it up!
	8:40pm steveo: Wow I'm bad at phone comments. Fun set!
	8:40pm northguineahills: Well, Mike Love is an anti-anything (he's a dick to everyone, even to a friend of mine, but he had talent).
	8:41pm northguineahills: I'm off on my Damned, 2008, hummm.
	8:41pm coelacanth∅: well, i chose to, and i've yet to hear sloop john b vox only...and i'm really looking forward to being home this weekend because "smile" and "sunflower" are coming up
	8:42pm listener james from westwood: Ivor!
	8:44pm coelacanth∅: maybe, ngh, but to be honest - so far, i see mike love as expendable! his only instrument was (is?) singing, & i don't like his voice...but yeah it probably was the right voice for most of the surfin' and car songs.
	8:45pm BronwynB: @coel: mike is the worst. he's the least talented one, a huge jerk, and just overall awful and a big part of the reason the BBs are often regarded as lame and not the innovators and geniuses they really were (IMO) @steveo: it's gonna happen!!! you can't escape now!!!
	8:45pm nardo: after the Ivor I was thinking the goons but this will do nicely
	8:45pm SeanG: eric idle4ever
	8:46pm BronwynB: @sean: when i was a teen i thought eric was the coolest BB because he had long hair and seemed edgy and wrote songs
	8:46pm northguineahills: True, Coel y Bronwyn, I concur!
	8:46pm BronwynB: not bb! python! eric idle was not in the beach boys!
	8:48pm coelacanth∅: - and he was friends with George Harrison the coolest and funniest beatle!
	8:48pm SeanG: haha! :-)
	8:48pm Parq: Hi Bronwyn. I gotta get busy in the kitchen, but happy to join you for the second half. By the way, the guy who played Stig O'Hara in the Rutles was in the Beach Boys.
	8:52pm northguineahills: Off to see my friend to electronic weirdness. Thanks Bronwyn, keep getting WFMU fill-ins for us!
	8:54pm SeanG: @coelacanth isn't george just the bestest?!? all things must pass is my desert island disc
	8:56pm listener james from westwood: Huge luck on getting the call back you're hoping for!
	8:56pm still b/p: I won't trace my BB path...but let's see where this lands: I've never cared for Olivia Newton John's voice and work. Always feels weak and uninteresting. A soft or easy or light voice can be fine, but hers...nuh-uh. Obviously many fans, and people who've disagreed with me, hear something I don't.
	8:57pm BronwynB: thanks james :))) if im being totally honest part of the reason i want this particular job is because the most convenient way for me to get to FMU from there would be by ferry and i just really want to sail to fmu with the wind in my buzz cut
	8:59pm coelacanth∅: Sean, as a child i was infatuated with George, then as a rebelious teen my friends and i put John on a pedestal; and maybe he should be, but in the end i still like George the best, and despite his religion, can relate to him the most.
	9:00pm listener james from westwood: That sounds like an excellent reason!
	9:02pm coelacanth∅: haha it's as good a reason as any...you know it's not actually sailing though!
	9:03pm BronwynB: well the view would at least be nicer than the path train!
	9:05pm steveo: I was born on George's birthday & my 11 year old loves the Hitchhikers Guide books, just like I did when I was a kid.
	9:05pm BronwynB: @steveo: that's how old i was when i got into them!
	9:06pm coelacanth∅: Sean that album is a work of art; one of the first albums i ever bought, as a child ($5.00 new from the record club of america) but i wish there were a stripped-down ("naked") version of it. i'm not into spector's wall of mess production on some of those tracks.
	9:06pm BronwynB: @still b/p: i don't love olivia either but i'm just endlessly amused by her ring of fire cover :D i also own a pretty sweet record by the 101 strings doing her songs which has a lot of comedic value to it
	9:08pm steveo: Greased Lightning was a favorite also when I was a kid. I wonder where that pile of 45s got to....
	9:08pm BronwynB: my favorite from grease is still you're the one that i want
	9:10pm still b/p: 101 Strings doing ONJ...those elements together could cause some catastrophe on the other side of the world or something...or discomfort in my teeth. Maybe a good gift for someone. Aw, all the folks who used to take transatlantic passage on the big liners would still say, "I sail tomorrow." Say it, say it, sail, sail.
	9:11pm coelacanth∅: steve my younger sister also born on that day (& my friend Karen) -i was hatched on groundhog day. most years i get blamed for things beyond my control.
	9:11pm BronwynB: my 101 strings play olivia record was a gift from my godfather who knows i love things that are utter shit (as mentioned above)
	9:12pm steveo: Yeah that is an amazing scene in the movie, too, but it doesn't have the word shit in it like Greased Lightning. Haha. I used to fantasize about getting an inflatable kayak when I worked in Jersey City in the early '00s.
	9:14pm SeanG: @coelacanth yep i know what you mean about the wall of sound, can be a bit much. there are some acoustic demos of those songs available. I've been listening to the traveling wilburys lately. jeff lynne and george=pure gold. :-D
	9:15pm steveo: Cool coel. I don't believe in groundhogs, so you're safe.
	9:15pm still b/p: Just this evening I was adding to a playlist of popular instrumentals from 50s-60s that I'm sure some percentage of listeners would regard as utter shit. But they are utterly right for certain things and from certain angles -- lock, shlock and barrel.
	9:18pm coelacanth∅: Sean i like those demos, that i've heard. precious few - unless i'm not looking in the right place.
	9:24pm listener james from westwood: Monkey versus Robot!
	9:27pm coelacanth∅: greasy kid stuff!
	9:36pm steveo: Hi Mom!
	9:36pm Funky16corners: Hello hello!
	9:38pm still b/p: College music moment: I was playing a cassette of Eno's Discreet Music in a studio painting class and a much older woman -- non-traditional student -- says, "Do you think anyone is really enjoying that?" She then said it was like a funeral dirge. I did shut it off with an over-dramatic harrumph about how we could all listen to Top 40 instead and have a great time.
	9:38pm coelacanth∅: did you say "potterhouse"? if so that leads to Jim Price.
	9:43pm Parq: Not to put too fine upon it, the Blues Brothers were all about taking obscure R&B and blues hits and introducing them to white college kids who assumed they were original. Their "Rubber Biscuit" was a huge hit on my college campus, where no one (including me, I'm constrained to admit) had ever heard of the Chips' original.
	9:45pm BronwynB: Yeah, on the one hand I really appreciate them shining a light on some little-known old songs, but on the other hand I wish they'd given more credit to the original artists (like Abner). The movie has always struck me as such a joyful celebration of that music though.
	9:48pm still b/p: Between the familiar numbers from earlier days such as Soul Man and the retro character flavor and the presence in the movie of some artists as tribute/nod, I thought it was pretty clear at the time the Brothers were serving covers, even if I didn't know all the songs.
	9:49pm Parq: Honestly, if they had been left purely to their own devices, they might have given the originals more props. But that's just the way the music industry was, and is. For that matter, it's just the way white college kids were, and are. Digging the show BB, gotta get back to the kitchen.
	9:50pm Funky16corners: Blues Brothers were a gateway, just like the Chesterfield Kings and the Lyres were to the garage punk era.
	9:53pm still b/p: The movie, unfortunately, was one of those that had people feeling compelled to describe and reenact almost every damn scene before I saw it.
	9:54pm Funky16corners: It was kind of a mess but the music was great
	9:58pm BronwynB: thanks for listening everyone :D
	9:59pm steveo: Thanks for the fun, Bronwyn!
	9:59pm listener james from westwood: Thanks a ton, Bronwyn!!
	10:00pm BronwynB: thank YOU!
	10:00pm coelacanth∅: to be accurate, it's not just "white" college kids that tend to think whatever they're hearing now is new. i'm sure it's exactly the same throughout the spectrum of shades and hues of college kids.
	10:01pm coelacanth∅: shit it 10! Thanks Bronwyn! take care Great program!
	10:01pm BronwynB: thanks coel :)

Love Is Only Sleeping with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from January 31, 2018

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