WFMU: Tony Coulter: Playlist from August 21, 2018

Listener comments!
	11:54am Tony Coulter: Hello, all! Can anyone ID today's LP-under-the-cassettes? It's an obscure one, but if you know it, it should be fairly easy to recognize, even though it's turned sideways.
	11:56am Tony Coulter: Big hint: The artist's name is partially visible.
	🥁 11:59am listener james from westwood: Good Tuesday, Tony and all! Hope the air quality isn't too ultra-brutal from the fires. It's just one after another, it seems, on the West Coast.
	12:01pm βrian: No but I see the outline of the state of Wisconsin there.
	12:02pm Tony Coulter: Heya, James! Unfortunately the air quality here in Portland is pretty bad at the moment. I've been going out as little as possible. Supposedly, tho, it'll improve tomorrow.
	12:03pm Tony Coulter: @ βrian: Hello ... and good spotting! Wisconsin is in the title of the album.
	12:03pm βrian: No fires here, but as I mentioned elsewhere, we got hammered with 11+ inches of rain last night.
	12:04pm βrian: Sufjan Stevens?
	12:04pm JtotheK: hi tony, hi everyone. I performed internet research and found the LP, the artist is familiar (i've seen other work in the 'local' section of area shops...but not seen that LP before.)
	12:06pm Tony Coulter: @ βrian:Not Sufjan, no.
	12:07pm Tony Coulter: Hiya, JtotheK! Thanks for not spilling the beans -- tho feel free to, if no one else gets it.
	12:10pm Rich in Washington: I am old enough to remember when Google Image Search worked. Thanks, Getty Images.
	12:11pm Tony Coulter: Rich! Heya!
	12:12pm Rich in Washington: Hola, Tony! Hope the smoke isn't killing us all.
	🥁 12:12pm listener james from westwood: Argh, sorry y'all have to endure this out there!
	12:13pm Rich in Washington: sure makes for some apocalyptic looking sunsets and sunrises!
	12:14pm Rich in Washington: sadly, the new normal as the West goes up in smoke every Summer.
	12:15pm Sem: Happy to be joining the tape hissteria amongst the Coultergeits today. Or anyday. Hello, Tony and all.
	12:15pm Tony Coulter: @ Rich: At least for Portland-area folks this year hasn't been as bad as last year -- yet, anyway.
	12:15pm Tony Coulter: Greetings, Sem!
	12:16pm Tony Coulter: I wonder what metal fans would make of this Dimthings track
	12:21pm mb: As a metal fan in 1986 i would be abhored. In 2018 i am intrigued.
	12:21pm Tony Coulter: No guesses re today's mystery LP? I'll give it five more minutes.
	12:22pm Tony Coulter: Hey, hey, mb!
	12:25pm Tony Coulter: This Dimthings tape -- or at least my version of it -- doesn't have cover art, as you can see -- just a folded insert with tracklist and lyrics.
	12:28pm mb: Hello Tony an all! βrian sent me here.
	12:28pm Mayuko: Hi Tony and everyone! Glad to be listening live!
	12:28pm JtotheK: 'sno-body seems to be guessing, Tony.
	12:28pm Tony Coulter: Mayuko! Glad you're here!
	12:29pm Tony Coulter: @ JtotheK: You're right. Want to do the big reveal?
	12:30pm JtotheK: sure! Sigmund Snopek III ‎– WisconsInsane
	12:30pm Tony Coulter: Right you are!! www.discogs.com...
	12:31pm JtotheK: Featuring: Accordion – Robin Pluer Banjo – Brian Ritchie Bass – Brian Ritchie Drums – Victor DeLorenzo
	12:31pm Tony Coulter: And, of course, the track on now is called "Going Back to the Insane"
	12:32pm Tony Coulter: Violent Femmes!
	12:33pm coelacanth∅: greetings Tony & hissycats
	12:33pm Webhamster Henry: Oh yeah, DX7 french horn!
	12:33pm JtotheK: curious what the Popular Poles are. North, South, Totem, Telephone -- what else?
	12:34pm Dean: Dang, gotta miss today's show. On the road.
	12:34pm Webhamster Henry: Ask DJ Stashu!
	12:34pm Tony Coulter: coelacanth∅! Webham! Truly I am blessed! Dean: sorry you can't hang around....
	12:35pm Dean: Au revoir!
	12:35pm coelacanth∅: ...JK - Polenta?
	12:35pm Tony Coulter: Au reservoir, Dean
	12:36pm JtotheK: @coel - that must be on the list! @webham - good point!
	12:42pm northguineahills: Dimthings, new to me!
	12:42pm Tony Coulter: Hola, NGH!
	12:43pm Tony Coulter: This "Banner of Doom" track has some Henry Cow flavorings, I'd say
	12:44pm Tony Coulter: Dimthings has quite a few releases, by the way -- including lots of LPs.
	12:45pm Tony Coulter: @ NGH: Dimthings was based in Florida for years -- think he's in NYC now, tho.
	12:46pm Tony Coulter: Miramar, FL, wherever that is.
	12:48pm Tony Coulter: Again, everything heard on this tape was played by James Edward Garcia (Dimthings).
	12:48pm Tony Coulter: played and sung
	12:50pm northguineahills: Miramar is just a wee bit b/tn Ft Lauderdale and Miami. So, rather far from me....
	1:05pm Tony Coulter: The next track features Dimthings fiddling around with CDs, DJ style -- '86 was pretty early for that, I'd say.
	1:06pm Tony Coulter: The next track ... aka "this track."
	1:10pm northguineahills: I didn't get my first cd until '86. (it was in Singapore, MJ's "Bad" and Weird Al's "Fat")
	1:13pm northguineahills: Whoops, that would have been xmas '87.
	1:15pm Tony Coulter: The very first CD I ever bought was this one: www.discogs.com... So that would've been '88.
	1:17pm Tony Coulter: PS: Sorry for the temporary playlist confusion. Damn you, twitchy fingers.
	1:20pm northguineahills: Considering I was just 11 at the time (but I still love those albums).
	1:24pm Rich in Washington: I don't remember if it was the very FIRST CD I bought, but the first one I remember buying and still have was John Zorn's Naked City.
	1:25pm northguineahills: @Rich: I have that one! (on cd, and mp3)
	1:25pm Tony Coulter: I still like CDs, but I have to say, almost all CDs from before around '88 sound horrible. In my opinion, the golden age of CDs, sound-wise, is the decade or so from the late '80s to the late '90s. After that, the loudness wars ruined everything.
	1:26pm Rich in Washington: Although I'm pretty sure the first CD I owned was The Misfits S/T compilation. It was only available on CD at the time and my (1st) wife bought it for me and an insanely expensive CD player.
	1:27pm Tony Coulter: ... with exceptions, of course!
	1:27pm Rich in Washington: Once one got over the novelty of hearing no rumble or crackle or tape hiss, the sterility of some of those early mastered CDs was really stark.
	1:29pm Rich in Washington: It's funny, though. It's as if some labels have forgotten how to master for vinyl, or simply don't care. I've bought quite a few recent vinyl reissues that just don't sound good.
	1:29pm northguineahills: Merzbow won the loudness war (he purposely did not master a volume high end and turned it up to 11.
	1:31pm Rich in Washington: The non-Superior Viaduct early Resident reissues really sound awful. I haven't yet bought any of the SV reissues, but I am reasonably sure they are very good, as other albums I've bought on that label are excellent.
	1:31pm Tony Coulter: @ Rich: The whole vinyl versus CD thing is silly -- mastering is the real issue. The majority of recent vinyl is horribly mastered -- often on a computer.
	1:36pm northguineahills: Love the label's name!
	1:41pm Mayuko: Love these Harald Sack Ziegler tracks!!
	1:42pm Tony Coulter: Yes, he is always super-fun!
	1:44pm Webhamster Henry: I told myself I wasn't getting a CD player until 10 of my friends gave me CDs (usuall of them) to play. The first CDs I got were "Inuit Games and Songs", "Jump (Van Dyke Parks)". If that doesn't scream "Give the Drummer Stream", I don't know what does!
	1:45pm northguineahills: @Mayuko: Got your awesome poster( going to frame it), thought I got your premium, but, considering I got two boxes of loot, I'm not complaining.
	1:46pm coelacanth∅: i had intended to never buy cds. in the 80s & 90s i was making sort of annual trips to shanachie records and picking up usually between 25 and 85 records; then one time they had almost no records, so i chose cassettes instead of cds. - then c.1997 an ex-girlfriend was moving for a year to renton and she asked me to keep her cds and player. a first generation fisher single-play cd deck. eventually i started buying used cds at the record store near work if under $3. to this day i haven't bought very many new cds.
	1:48pm Mayuko: @northguineahills aw! thank you!!!!!!!!
	1:48pm coelacanth∅: (i'm sure i have more new cds won during fmu fundraising time than those bought)
	1:52pm northguineahills: @coel: That's definitely the case w/ me, as the missus has barred me from record stores....
	1:53pm northguineahills: Off to lunch, thanks Tony!
	1:53pm Tony Coulter: See ya!
	1:53pm coelacanth∅: why am i picturing a disgusting character dressed in white with a bowler hat?
	1:57pm Sem: Lovin' all of these things whilst sunning on the deck, breathing air I can't see. Gotta be Heaven's waiting room.
	1:59pm Tony Coulter: Air you can't see -- what a concept!
	2:17pm Rich in Washington: R. Stevie Moore is a national treasure. He really is.
	2:19pm ManDance: My first suggested RER pop star of a man.
	2:20pm Tony Coulter: Hola, ManDance!
	2:23pm Tony Coulter: The "Vini" this track is dedicated to must be Vini Reilly (Mr. Durutti Column).
	2:25pm Rich in Washington: Weird to think of the beginning of the CD era. Most retail music stores had just before let their vinyl record inventories dwindle, while stocking huge amounts of cassettes. I think cassettes dominated the market just before CDs came around. It was a completely portable format. You could listen in your car, take tapes to work to irritate and confuse your coworkers, etc. I don't think CDs where playable in cars for a quite a while after they emerged on the scene, or am I wrong? I remember my first 'portable' CD player, a Sony Discman D555 couldn't really be played in a moving car at all, and certainly not while walking around. It set me back something like 500 late 80s dollars.
	2:26pm Rich in Washington: But it was weird that I was SO into cassettes at the time but woefully unaware of the wonderful cassette releases of the type that are on this show. I guess it helps that I lived many, many miles away from any real music stores.
	2:28pm Tony Coulter: At lot of these kinds of cassettes were never in more than a tiny handful of stores anyway. Mostly you had to get them through the mail.
	2:28pm Rich in Washington: There's this funny and persistent, recurring meme with youngsters that cassettes sounded horrible and weren't fully embraced by music consumers. It sort of purports that cassettes were the 8-track of the 80s.
	2:30pm Rich in Washington: Someone should make a documentary on the cassette culture scene, but everyone's a documentary filmmaker these days (which is why so few niche culture docs are any good).
	2:32pm Tony Coulter: Actually, there are already two docs on the cassette underground scene. I've seen one....
	2:33pm Tony Coulter: Here's the one I've seen, which is just OK: www.youtube.com...
	2:34pm Webhamster Henry: It was definitely a mail-and-zine store "Cassette Culture" for me. That and taping shows off the air. And compiling my own stuff. But I was late to cassettes because I had an open reel deck and lots of tapes I had made as a teenager.
	2:38pm Tony Coulter: One bad/sad thing is that a lot of '80s cassettes are starting to go for a ton of money -- oh well.
	2:41pm Tony Coulter: Not even "starting" ... are already....
	2:45pm Tony Coulter: And, of course, the artists aren't getting any of that money.
	2:46pm coelacanth∅: ah, one of my favorites
	2:50pm coelacanth∅: Rich @2.28 there's also a persistent misconception that 8-track tapes sounded horrible!
	2:53pm northguineahills: Back!
	2:54pm Tony Coulter: Heya, NGH -- there are 7 big minutes left....
	2:55pm ManDance: Another example of disposable Capitalistic plastic & concrete?
	2:56pm JtotheK: enjoyed the tapes today, thanks Tony! g'day everyone!!!
	2:58pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Tony! ciao hissters
	2:58pm Tony Coulter: Thanks, everybody!! Until next time....
	2:58pm Webhamster Henry: I was a fan of the 8-track zine 8Track Mind! Fabio used to do 8-Track shows, I don't know if he still does.
	2:59pm Webhamster Henry: MAC did a Flexi/Carboard/Homemade Disk show yesterday, speaking of obscure and dead media.
	2:59pm Webhamster Henry: Hear ya next week!
	🥁 2:59pm listener james from westwood: Muchas gracias, Tony, and breathe easy!
	12:46pm RSTVMOR: wOw, how did I miss THIS! i mean, even the news never reached me. Thx TC...

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August 21, 2018: Tony Coulter Presents Tape Hiss: Dimthings, Harald Sack Ziegler, & R. Stevie Moore [PLEASE NOTE: "Tape Hiss" shows are not archived.]

Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year
The In-Theme	Holger Hiller: Toyshopshoptoy

Dimthings	Dieting for Love "Dieting for Love" by "Dimthings"	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986
Dimthings	Yahweh Down the Road "Yahweh Down the Road" by "Dimthings"	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986
Dimthings	Our Lord "Our Lord" by "Dimthings"	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986
Dimthings	Prayer "Prayer" by "Dimthings"	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986
Dimthings	Future Forest "Future Forest" by "Dimthings"	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986
Dimthings	Going Back to the Insane	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986
Dimthings	Power of the Holy Spirit	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986
Dimthings	Banner of Doom "Banner of Doom" by "Dimthings"	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986

Dimthings	I'm Crazy ... and It's Great to Be Alive	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986
Dimthings	Gins 3 "Gins 3" by "Dimthings"	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986
Dimthings	The Drive Till the End of April	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986
Dimthings	Payin' the Bill on This Song Blues	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986
Dimthings	The Need "The Need" by "Dimthings"	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986
Dimthings	King of the CD Scratch "King of the CD Scratch" by "Dimthings"	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986
Dimthings	Of His Mystical Glory "Of His Mystical Glory" by "Dimthings"	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986
Dimthings	Thunderstorm Blues "Thunderstorm Blues" by "Dimthings"	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986
Dimthings	Dixie "Dixie" by "Dimthings"	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986
Dimthings	Anything Alone "Anything Alone" by "Dimthings"	Popular Poles / Worthy Opponents	Thingsflux Music	1986

Harald Sack Ziegler	Bungalow "Bungalow" by "Harald Sack Ziegler"	Sack auf Kassette	Scheißkasten Produkt	1987
Harald Sack Ziegler	Wenn Ich Tot Bin	Sack auf Kassette	Scheißkasten Produkt	1987
Harald Sack Ziegler	Neonlicht "Neonlicht" by "Harald Sack Ziegler"	Sack auf Kassette	Scheißkasten Produkt	1987
Harald Sack Ziegler	Klofrau "Klofrau" by "Harald Sack Ziegler"	Sack auf Kassette	Scheißkasten Produkt	1987

Harald Sack Ziegler	Ich Geh Kaputt	Sack auf Kassette	Scheißkasten Produkt	1987
Harald Sack Ziegler	Panzer War Dabei	Sack auf Kassette	Scheißkasten Produkt	1987
Harald Sack Ziegler	Mein Erster Reggae	Sack auf Kassette	Scheißkasten Produkt	1987
Harald Sack Ziegler	Teppich "Teppich" by "Harald Sack Ziegler"	Sack auf Kassette	Scheißkasten Produkt	1987
Harald Sack Ziegler	Singin in the Rain	Sack auf Kassette	Scheißkasten Produkt	1987

R. Stevie Moore	My Life Is Not a Joke (1981)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	Conflict of Interest (1979)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	Heaven on Earth (1976)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	And I Thought of You (1980)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	When You Gonna Find Me a Wife (1977)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	War Worse (1981) "War Worse (1981)" by "R. Stevie Moore"	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	One Moore Time (1979)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	The Path of Joy (1980)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	Oh Baby, Baby, Baby (1978)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	For Vini (1981) "For Vini (1981)" by "R. Stevie Moore"	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?

R. Stevie Moore	Welcome to London (1975)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	Baking It (1975) "Baking It (1975)" by "R. Stevie Moore"	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	Bloody Knuckles (1978)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	Where You Reside (1978)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	No Talking (1978)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	Puttin' Up the Groceries (1978)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	Copyright Infringement (1981)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	Are You Gonna Thank Me (1980)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	I Hate People (1980)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	I Don't Think She Knows (1978)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	Interlewd (1959) "Interlewd (1959)" by "R. Stevie Moore"	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	I Wanna Hit You (1977)	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	Forecast (1975) "Forecast (1975)" by "R. Stevie Moore"	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?
R. Stevie Moore	Even Tho (1981) "Even Tho (1981)" by "R. Stevie Moore"	Practically Everything by RSM	R. Stevie Moore Cassette Club ‎	1981?

The Out-Theme	Gelbart: My Favorite Vacation [part of] + Die Trip Computer Die: Airborn [part of]

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Listener comments!
	11:54am Tony Coulter: Hello, all! Can anyone ID today's LP-under-the-cassettes? It's an obscure one, but if you know it, it should be fairly easy to recognize, even though it's turned sideways.
	11:56am Tony Coulter: Big hint: The artist's name is partially visible.
	🥁 11:59am listener james from westwood: Good Tuesday, Tony and all! Hope the air quality isn't too ultra-brutal from the fires. It's just one after another, it seems, on the West Coast.
	12:01pm βrian: No but I see the outline of the state of Wisconsin there.
	12:02pm Tony Coulter: Heya, James! Unfortunately the air quality here in Portland is pretty bad at the moment. I've been going out as little as possible. Supposedly, tho, it'll improve tomorrow.
	12:03pm Tony Coulter: @ βrian: Hello ... and good spotting! Wisconsin is in the title of the album.
	12:03pm βrian: No fires here, but as I mentioned elsewhere, we got hammered with 11+ inches of rain last night.
	12:04pm βrian: Sufjan Stevens?
	12:04pm JtotheK: hi tony, hi everyone. I performed internet research and found the LP, the artist is familiar (i've seen other work in the 'local' section of area shops...but not seen that LP before.)
	12:06pm Tony Coulter: @ βrian:Not Sufjan, no.
	12:07pm Tony Coulter: Hiya, JtotheK! Thanks for not spilling the beans -- tho feel free to, if no one else gets it.
	12:10pm Rich in Washington: I am old enough to remember when Google Image Search worked. Thanks, Getty Images.
	12:11pm Tony Coulter: Rich! Heya!
	12:12pm Rich in Washington: Hola, Tony! Hope the smoke isn't killing us all.
	🥁 12:12pm listener james from westwood: Argh, sorry y'all have to endure this out there!
	12:13pm Rich in Washington: sure makes for some apocalyptic looking sunsets and sunrises!
	12:14pm Rich in Washington: sadly, the new normal as the West goes up in smoke every Summer.
	12:15pm Sem: Happy to be joining the tape hissteria amongst the Coultergeits today. Or anyday. Hello, Tony and all.
	12:15pm Tony Coulter: @ Rich: At least for Portland-area folks this year hasn't been as bad as last year -- yet, anyway.
	12:15pm Tony Coulter: Greetings, Sem!
	12:16pm Tony Coulter: I wonder what metal fans would make of this Dimthings track
	12:21pm mb: As a metal fan in 1986 i would be abhored. In 2018 i am intrigued.
	12:21pm Tony Coulter: No guesses re today's mystery LP? I'll give it five more minutes.
	12:22pm Tony Coulter: Hey, hey, mb!
	12:25pm Tony Coulter: This Dimthings tape -- or at least my version of it -- doesn't have cover art, as you can see -- just a folded insert with tracklist and lyrics.
	12:28pm mb: Hello Tony an all! βrian sent me here.
	12:28pm Mayuko: Hi Tony and everyone! Glad to be listening live!
	12:28pm JtotheK: 'sno-body seems to be guessing, Tony.
	12:28pm Tony Coulter: Mayuko! Glad you're here!
	12:29pm Tony Coulter: @ JtotheK: You're right. Want to do the big reveal?
	12:30pm JtotheK: sure! Sigmund Snopek III ‎– WisconsInsane
	12:30pm Tony Coulter: Right you are!! www.discogs.com...
	12:31pm JtotheK: Featuring: Accordion – Robin Pluer Banjo – Brian Ritchie Bass – Brian Ritchie Drums – Victor DeLorenzo
	12:31pm Tony Coulter: And, of course, the track on now is called "Going Back to the Insane"
	12:32pm Tony Coulter: Violent Femmes!
	12:33pm coelacanth∅: greetings Tony & hissycats
	12:33pm Webhamster Henry: Oh yeah, DX7 french horn!
	12:33pm JtotheK: curious what the Popular Poles are. North, South, Totem, Telephone -- what else?
	12:34pm Dean: Dang, gotta miss today's show. On the road.
	12:34pm Webhamster Henry: Ask DJ Stashu!
	12:34pm Tony Coulter: coelacanth∅! Webham! Truly I am blessed! Dean: sorry you can't hang around....
	12:35pm Dean: Au revoir!
	12:35pm coelacanth∅: ...JK - Polenta?
	12:35pm Tony Coulter: Au reservoir, Dean
	12:36pm JtotheK: @coel - that must be on the list! @webham - good point!
	12:42pm northguineahills: Dimthings, new to me!
	12:42pm Tony Coulter: Hola, NGH!
	12:43pm Tony Coulter: This "Banner of Doom" track has some Henry Cow flavorings, I'd say
	12:44pm Tony Coulter: Dimthings has quite a few releases, by the way -- including lots of LPs.
	12:45pm Tony Coulter: @ NGH: Dimthings was based in Florida for years -- think he's in NYC now, tho.
	12:46pm Tony Coulter: Miramar, FL, wherever that is.
	12:48pm Tony Coulter: Again, everything heard on this tape was played by James Edward Garcia (Dimthings).
	12:48pm Tony Coulter: played and sung
	12:50pm northguineahills: Miramar is just a wee bit b/tn Ft Lauderdale and Miami. So, rather far from me....
	1:05pm Tony Coulter: The next track features Dimthings fiddling around with CDs, DJ style -- '86 was pretty early for that, I'd say.
	1:06pm Tony Coulter: The next track ... aka "this track."
	1:10pm northguineahills: I didn't get my first cd until '86. (it was in Singapore, MJ's "Bad" and Weird Al's "Fat")
	1:13pm northguineahills: Whoops, that would have been xmas '87.
	1:15pm Tony Coulter: The very first CD I ever bought was this one: www.discogs.com... So that would've been '88.
	1:17pm Tony Coulter: PS: Sorry for the temporary playlist confusion. Damn you, twitchy fingers.
	1:20pm northguineahills: Considering I was just 11 at the time (but I still love those albums).
	1:24pm Rich in Washington: I don't remember if it was the very FIRST CD I bought, but the first one I remember buying and still have was John Zorn's Naked City.
	1:25pm northguineahills: @Rich: I have that one! (on cd, and mp3)
	1:25pm Tony Coulter: I still like CDs, but I have to say, almost all CDs from before around '88 sound horrible. In my opinion, the golden age of CDs, sound-wise, is the decade or so from the late '80s to the late '90s. After that, the loudness wars ruined everything.
	1:26pm Rich in Washington: Although I'm pretty sure the first CD I owned was The Misfits S/T compilation. It was only available on CD at the time and my (1st) wife bought it for me and an insanely expensive CD player.
	1:27pm Tony Coulter: ... with exceptions, of course!
	1:27pm Rich in Washington: Once one got over the novelty of hearing no rumble or crackle or tape hiss, the sterility of some of those early mastered CDs was really stark.
	1:29pm Rich in Washington: It's funny, though. It's as if some labels have forgotten how to master for vinyl, or simply don't care. I've bought quite a few recent vinyl reissues that just don't sound good.
	1:29pm northguineahills: Merzbow won the loudness war (he purposely did not master a volume high end and turned it up to 11.
	1:31pm Rich in Washington: The non-Superior Viaduct early Resident reissues really sound awful. I haven't yet bought any of the SV reissues, but I am reasonably sure they are very good, as other albums I've bought on that label are excellent.
	1:31pm Tony Coulter: @ Rich: The whole vinyl versus CD thing is silly -- mastering is the real issue. The majority of recent vinyl is horribly mastered -- often on a computer.
	1:36pm northguineahills: Love the label's name!
	1:41pm Mayuko: Love these Harald Sack Ziegler tracks!!
	1:42pm Tony Coulter: Yes, he is always super-fun!
	1:44pm Webhamster Henry: I told myself I wasn't getting a CD player until 10 of my friends gave me CDs (usuall of them) to play. The first CDs I got were "Inuit Games and Songs", "Jump (Van Dyke Parks)". If that doesn't scream "Give the Drummer Stream", I don't know what does!
	1:45pm northguineahills: @Mayuko: Got your awesome poster( going to frame it), thought I got your premium, but, considering I got two boxes of loot, I'm not complaining.
	1:46pm coelacanth∅: i had intended to never buy cds. in the 80s & 90s i was making sort of annual trips to shanachie records and picking up usually between 25 and 85 records; then one time they had almost no records, so i chose cassettes instead of cds. - then c.1997 an ex-girlfriend was moving for a year to renton and she asked me to keep her cds and player. a first generation fisher single-play cd deck. eventually i started buying used cds at the record store near work if under $3. to this day i haven't bought very many new cds.
	1:48pm Mayuko: @northguineahills aw! thank you!!!!!!!!
	1:48pm coelacanth∅: (i'm sure i have more new cds won during fmu fundraising time than those bought)
	1:52pm northguineahills: @coel: That's definitely the case w/ me, as the missus has barred me from record stores....
	1:53pm northguineahills: Off to lunch, thanks Tony!
	1:53pm Tony Coulter: See ya!
	1:53pm coelacanth∅: why am i picturing a disgusting character dressed in white with a bowler hat?
	1:57pm Sem: Lovin' all of these things whilst sunning on the deck, breathing air I can't see. Gotta be Heaven's waiting room.
	1:59pm Tony Coulter: Air you can't see -- what a concept!
	2:17pm Rich in Washington: R. Stevie Moore is a national treasure. He really is.
	2:19pm ManDance: My first suggested RER pop star of a man.
	2:20pm Tony Coulter: Hola, ManDance!
	2:23pm Tony Coulter: The "Vini" this track is dedicated to must be Vini Reilly (Mr. Durutti Column).
	2:25pm Rich in Washington: Weird to think of the beginning of the CD era. Most retail music stores had just before let their vinyl record inventories dwindle, while stocking huge amounts of cassettes. I think cassettes dominated the market just before CDs came around. It was a completely portable format. You could listen in your car, take tapes to work to irritate and confuse your coworkers, etc. I don't think CDs where playable in cars for a quite a while after they emerged on the scene, or am I wrong? I remember my first 'portable' CD player, a Sony Discman D555 couldn't really be played in a moving car at all, and certainly not while walking around. It set me back something like 500 late 80s dollars.
	2:26pm Rich in Washington: But it was weird that I was SO into cassettes at the time but woefully unaware of the wonderful cassette releases of the type that are on this show. I guess it helps that I lived many, many miles away from any real music stores.
	2:28pm Tony Coulter: At lot of these kinds of cassettes were never in more than a tiny handful of stores anyway. Mostly you had to get them through the mail.
	2:28pm Rich in Washington: There's this funny and persistent, recurring meme with youngsters that cassettes sounded horrible and weren't fully embraced by music consumers. It sort of purports that cassettes were the 8-track of the 80s.
	2:30pm Rich in Washington: Someone should make a documentary on the cassette culture scene, but everyone's a documentary filmmaker these days (which is why so few niche culture docs are any good).
	2:32pm Tony Coulter: Actually, there are already two docs on the cassette underground scene. I've seen one....
	2:33pm Tony Coulter: Here's the one I've seen, which is just OK: www.youtube.com...
	2:34pm Webhamster Henry: It was definitely a mail-and-zine store "Cassette Culture" for me. That and taping shows off the air. And compiling my own stuff. But I was late to cassettes because I had an open reel deck and lots of tapes I had made as a teenager.
	2:38pm Tony Coulter: One bad/sad thing is that a lot of '80s cassettes are starting to go for a ton of money -- oh well.
	2:41pm Tony Coulter: Not even "starting" ... are already....
	2:45pm Tony Coulter: And, of course, the artists aren't getting any of that money.
	2:46pm coelacanth∅: ah, one of my favorites
	2:50pm coelacanth∅: Rich @2.28 there's also a persistent misconception that 8-track tapes sounded horrible!
	2:53pm northguineahills: Back!
	2:54pm Tony Coulter: Heya, NGH -- there are 7 big minutes left....
	2:55pm ManDance: Another example of disposable Capitalistic plastic & concrete?
	2:56pm JtotheK: enjoyed the tapes today, thanks Tony! g'day everyone!!!
	2:58pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Tony! ciao hissters
	2:58pm Tony Coulter: Thanks, everybody!! Until next time....
	2:58pm Webhamster Henry: I was a fan of the 8-track zine 8Track Mind! Fabio used to do 8-Track shows, I don't know if he still does.
	2:59pm Webhamster Henry: MAC did a Flexi/Carboard/Homemade Disk show yesterday, speaking of obscure and dead media.
	2:59pm Webhamster Henry: Hear ya next week!
	🥁 2:59pm listener james from westwood: Muchas gracias, Tony, and breathe easy!
	12:46pm RSTVMOR: wOw, how did I miss THIS! i mean, even the news never reached me. Thx TC...

Tony Coulter: Playlist from August 21, 2018

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