WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from March 6, 2019

Listener comments!
	♥ 3:01pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Irwin! Looks like you get that calendar compiled -- and it's a laff-riot!
	♥ 3:02pm Henry in Hopatcong: Hello Irwin and George! Happy Marathon!
	🎸 ♥ 3:03pm rrg: Hi, Irwin and George and you-all.
	♥ 3:04pm Michael 98145: huzza
	3:05pm John from Florham Park: Hey guys
	3:06pm βrian: Morgan, Lee; Morgan, Lee; I say unto thee ...
	3:06pm John from Florham Park: What do you say Brian
	3:07pm Jan: all ears!
	3:08pm Listening Out There: I've got nothing to say but it's OK...
	3:10pm Laura L: So there!!!!
	🎸 ♥ 3:10pm rrg: Thank you, Cyrus.
	3:10pm ignatatus666: FU Cyrus
	♥ 3:10pm The Oscar: How does one accidentally get on the mailing list of a station they listened to three times and hated?
	3:11pm Listening Out There: Fan mail from some flounder....
	3:11pm Marley Dogg: Cyrus is a square
	♥ 3:12pm Michael 98145: { Ohio is just West Penn, anyway } :)
	3:13pm John from Florham Park: @the Oscar wondered that myself
	3:18pm ignatatus666: Cyrus put out a hit on the Warriors . We don’t need him.
	3:20pm Quasi Mojo: I think I hear vibes going on in this tune.
	♥ 3:22pm The Oscar: @ignatatus Now I'm picturing a remake with Irwin in the Lynne Thigpen role.
	3:24pm Andy M.: Irwin, the calendar looks great!
	♥ 3:26pm AnAnonymousParty: Already clicky-starred three in a row, that's a DJ hat trick for Irwin!
	♥ 3:28pm Mick: Oscar @3:22 Bwahahahaa!!!!
	3:29pm John from Florham Park: Oh god wake and bake was off the charts this morning
	♥ 3:43pm Marley P. Dogg: Come on people, Pledge!
	♥ 3:47pm Michael 98145: :)
	♥ 3:50pm Webhamster Henry: Theremin break!
	3:53pm βrian: Wheremin?
	♥ 3:56pm AnAnonymousParty: Everywheremin.
	3:57pm Listening Out There: ...Waiting for the pronunciation of Ray Collins' album...
	♥ 3:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Whithermax
	♥ 4:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& inevitably - the Omnimoderate...
	4:05pm Anne from Best Lafayette Indiana: I've never heard this Prince song before. Thanks! So great!
	♥ 4:12pm joe: All but Sid Vicious
	🎸 ♥ 4:13pm chris: a coworker introduced me to your show, Irwin. its been (mostly) love since.
	♥ 4:13pm Webhamster Henry: i got into WFMU so much, I once tuned to WPAT and thought it was Irwin recontextualizing Easy Listening.
	4:15pm Steven: John Peel plugging Laura Cantrell's Radio Thrift Shop on his show was how I heard about WFMU.
	♥ 4:15pm The Oscar: My intro was none other than Songs in the Key of Z!
	4:17pm laughingacademy: "She left me here like a warm can of beer" is an amazing line.
	🎸 ♥ 4:20pm rrg: My intro to WFMU was when I tuned into The Old Codger while driving one day in 1990.
	♥ 4:20pm Ike: Just spun the FM dial in college looking for indie rock. Heard Laura Cantrell and Dave Mandl. Didn't like Laura at first. Eventually her show grew on me. Dave Mandl's show made me say, "What the fuck is this crazy shit?!" but in a good way.
	♥ 4:20pm joe: I became aware of the WFMU due to the press it was receiving during the "troubles" somewhere in late 1989 early 1990. It was one of many stops down at that end of the dial becoming a more avid listener a year or two later when I was sure to catch Bronwyn's Truckstop Teaparty every week.
	♥ 4:21pm AnAnonymousParty: I think I've told this before. KMOX AM 1120, the Mighty Mox in Saint Louis had a morning drive show that had a sort of daily contest where you could call in to win something mundane or lose something in the form of being subjected to humiliation by a sound clip, which usually this guy singing badly about a 'Lover Without a Cause'. I really wanted a copy of that song, for reasons that is a much longer story. A few years later a web search led me to 'Incorrect Music'. My life has never been then same.
	4:22pm Carmichael: Who is Cyrus?
	4:24pm Cyrus: I am. Thanks for asking.
	4:24pm Carmichael: I was cruising the net looking for some different sounds, and I somehow found FMU. This was probably '90 or so, when I was working at UC Davis. Coincidentally, Liz Berg was the station manager there at KDVS.
	♥ 4:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The slope was so slippery - I don't remember.
	4:25pm Cyrus: So am I. That's weird.
	4:26pm HarktheUmpire: I don't even remember... It must've happened been while I was scouring the interweb cause I live in Berlin. I struck gold sometime back in the summer of 2013. But I don't remember what show I tuned into or even if I liked it or not. It might've been amEdeo. In which case I did like it. Must've been his conversations with Therese that got me hooked. Found loads of other good shows soon after, like this one, and I plan to leave never. What a story!!
	♥ 4:27pm The Oscar: Funny aside: WFMU actually served as my introduction to YouTube, back in the Beware of the Blog days.
	4:28pm maria: From Vancouver, BC
	4:30pm maria: A coworker told me about wfmu last year and I loved it ever since. It's so great!
	4:30pm Parq: I had just moved to New Jersey from Brighton MA at the end of summer 1979, and was in despair at the state of NYC radio. Dial-hopping down at the bottom end, like a lot of folks, I caught WFMU for the first time in the final minutes of Irwin's show. Within minutes, I knew I had found what I was looking for. In addition to Irwin, other early favorites included the Immigrant, Jim Price and John Narucki. Wasn't much longer before I became a fan of other (now) old timers like Kelly, Brainan and O'Toole. I made my first marathon pledge the following spring, and have never looked back.
	4:30pm Laura L: Reception was awful, but I tuned into Irwin's Atrocious Music program I guess about 25 years ago but don't recall how I found out about it in the first place. I gotta go now, got to leave early today, but thanks, Irwin!
	♥ 4:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Very early - it may have been around Xmas - Jason Sigal ? - somebody seriously deconstructing traditional values shall we say...
	♥ 4:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & WHAT A RIDE IT'S BEEN.
	4:32pm yippie: is the watch a chronometer?
	4:33pm Jeff Moore: I don't trust anyone who doesn't wear a wristwatch.
	♥ 4:33pm queems: the watch is such a great idea
	4:34pm Robert Tables: It's a very nice watch.
	4:35pm Carmichael: Andy Breckman's favorite artist!
	4:35pm geo in jc: @yippie:The watch is not a certified chronometer
	♥ 4:35pm Webhamster Henry: Vicki is in town and will co host with Hearty White!
	♥ 4:36pm jmr3: I think I heard it in 94 or 95 driving through New Jersey from Vermont to DC after seeing the Dead just twisting the dial - unless there was another station that would have been playing a mix of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" with the first moon landing and who knows what else. Could have been People Like Us or people like People Like Us . . . Discovered again about 10 years later on the internet and thought - this MUST have been THAT station!!!
	4:37pm Carmichael: Vickie and Kenzo should do a show together, although my radio may explode.
	4:37pm Parq: See, this. This People Like Us. This is exactly the kind of thing that makes me a loyal listener-contributor. Where else are you going to hear this? Where?
	4:38pm Jeff Moore: @jmr3: Love it: "people like People Like Us"
	4:38pm Listener Robert: Darn, heard my name in passing, now have to wait for the archive to find out what it was about, because I was listening to Reason's SoundCloud interview with Peter Bagge, whose cartoons Irwin probably enjoys.
	🎸 ♥ 4:38pm chris: in a fairer world, Vicki would be one of the most well known contemporary artists
	♥ 4:38pm Webhamster Henry: @jmr3, that may well have been John Schnall's Midnite Matinee, which remixed movie soundtracks with carefully chosen music.
	4:38pm Jeff Moore: ..and Vicki is RIGHT OVER THERE.
	4:39pm Parq: {looks over there} Hi, Vicki!
	♥ 4:40pm joe: Oh was Vicki the UK expert from the Long Rally this morning?
	♥ 4:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...am this summa that FreeForms I hears about...
	4:41pm Jeff Moore: @Listener Robert: @Robert Tables was mentioned, as the happy owner of the custom watch from the Wake auction. Perhaps that's what caught the corner of your ear.
	♥ 4:42pm joe: @Parq will you be station side at all outside of finally?
	♥ 4:44pm joe: sorry finale
	♥ 4:44pm jmr3: @webhamster harry - was it on in the early evening? It wasn't past midnight . . . I remember a Jersey sunset.
	♥ 4:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I tried : Looking for a Storyteller to listen to ? Need some Southern Inspirational Dada ? Want something uplifting, affirmative, intriguing, nostalgic, postmodern, futuristic, naive, philosophical ?? Joseph Campbell said we are the story-telling monkey: we need that ...but we are having trouble getting our Story together @ this time in History. ...Well - Hearty White is among those pointing the direction to a solution to this evolutionary challenge. ...I mean that.
	4:51pm Listener Robert: Thanks, Jeff. Far from the watch league, I'm in the process of getting $12 into my PayPal from the PineCone surveys I respond to; would've been a few bucks more but for the old OS I'm running on this castoff computer, which a few surveys were incompatible with. I'll pledge it to the DJ whom I most abused on the comments lately, Pseu Braun.
	♥ 4:51pm Webhamster Henry: @jmr3 it was on next to Nick Hill's Live Music Faucet show. There used to be the "Nick Hill- John Schnall Transitional Moment", rather like the Jim Price show in the current schedule.
	4:59pm Carmichael: Monsoon style rain right now here in NorCal. Nice light show, too.
	♥ 5:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...which fails, for but one thing, to mention how funny Hearty is...
	5:10pm Listener Robert: I know I've told it before, but it was late 1980 or early 1981 when Alan Hyams said if I wanted to hear this punk stuff I'd just read about, listen to Frank O'Toole and Pat Duncan (and Morbid) -- as well as to a couple shows on WFDU and maybe WSOU, but I didn't stick with them. Soon my listening spread to Jim Price, then Bill Kelly and Irwin. But then I moved a short distance downhill in the Bronx into a shadow zone where I had to go to my car (when I had one) or at least outside to hear WFMU. Then came the pirates on 91.1, and limited my WFMU listening even further. But then I found open WiFis I could get the stream on. My WFMU listening kept increasing, such that when I moved here in WMFU territory (mono) with Steve Mason, who I then found out had been a listener since the 1970s and donated more than me, he said I was into the station WAY more than he was. I also found out in recent years that my Cousin Allan was a listener and especially appreciated that many DJs here promoted new and local acts.
	♥ 5:10pm Hoboken Jack: I just wish I was there to pick up the phone and hear Fredericks on the other end.
	♥ 5:14pm Michael 98145: I probably discovered WFMU via a Liz Berg podcast. Long ago.
	5:15pm Mandy: whenever I suggest to people WFMU, they always for some reason tune in at the exact time that a 20 minute macaroni and cheese stirring or cans falling abstract noisescape is playing.
	♥ 5:16pm queems: HELL YES
	5:17pm Carmichael: @Mandy, tell them not to start with Bryce's show ...
	5:17pm Eric from Lake Hiawatha: Upsala College Radio since late 70’s
	5:17pm Listener Robert: Also in 2 degrees of separation from WFMU, I got to know Dave Mandl via the Libertarian Book Club's Anarchist Forums, and became a friend via pagan circles of Will de Vito, who since then has been an actor in one of Bill Z. Bub's movies. After the marathon I should remember to send Micah a link to a video of Will singing a Balder version of a Christian song. Will can really sing.
	5:18pm jmr3: Thanks, Henry. That’s cool to know.
	♥ 5:18pm medson: I discovered WFMU back in 1986 by stumbling across the Hound's show and I've been listening ever since upon first listen unlike Ohio Man.
	♥ 5:19pm Travisano66: Gouge my ears out.
	5:20pm HarktheUmpire: Why have I not heard this song before? Thank you, Irwin!
	5:20pm Carmichael: This is wonderfully bad. And seemingly never-ending.
	5:21pm Listener Robert: BTW, medson, The Hound has his own stream now, including Chris T.'s program. That's another thing WFMU's been great at: disseminating talent elsewhere.
	♥ 5:21pm Irwin: Heavenly tune.
	5:21pm jmr3: When I found it again years later on the internet it was mainly Kenny G and Fabio with some Diane’s Kamikaze Fun Machine thin in at my desk at work.
	♥ 5:21pm Travisano66: Because you hear it once, and then you die.
	♥ 5:21pm Travisano66: I hate you, Irwin. Never change.
	5:22pm Carmichael: The pledges should be rolling in now ...
	5:22pm zpulpa: I love that song so much.
	5:23pm hidingintrumpsamerica: that was maybe the first time I was genuinely annoyed by wfmu! : - D
	5:23pm kevlicki: I grew up in the broadcast range of 90.1fm in the Hudson valley. As a teenager hanging out with other skateboarders in the 90’s, there was an odd fellow in our group that would sit in his car and listen to these odd fictional stories by a guy named Joe Frank. This friend would become my punk rock mentor exposing me to the punk shows on Thursday nights, who Ken Freedman will remember the host. I’ve continued listening ever since! moving to the 91.1FM range in my 20’s & 30’s and being able to travel worldwide with the WFMU app. As a young and now aging punk, I’ve enjoyed the independent freeform minded programming ever since being exposed to WFMU. Irwin, who would’ve been airing joe frank back then?
	♥ 5:24pm Irwin: Joe Frank was a regular weekly feature in his own time slot for many years.
	5:25pm Mandy: @Carmichael they ALWAYS tune into Bryce or Fabio, without fail! it's like the universe demands they listen to the extreme deep end of WFMU. lol
	♥ 5:25pm queems: when i moved into my grandparents' house a couple years ago, i kept their old boombox on in my kitchen at all times because i felt so alone in my new surroundings. i fiddled around at this end of the dial for a little bit, and then settled on wfmu because it was weird as hell, and i could talk trash on the internet at the same time. it's been playing on the boombox 24/7 ever since.
	5:27pm Carmichael: The Dogs!
	5:28pm SeanG: an old girlfriend introduced me to WFMU, her dad was Paul Sobolik, an fmu dj at one point.
	♥ 5:29pm coelacanth: i can't get my sister, who gives lots of money to those scumbags at fuv, to even try wfmu once, because she's overheard 7 second delay, Bryce, and one of Ken's krampus shows. now i think after hearing Hearty White singing last week it's done. she'll never be open.
	🎸 ♥ 5:31pm rrg: I will never forgive WFUV for what they tried to do to WFMU.
	♥ 5:32pm coelacanth: rrg -yeh me neither. talk about selfish.
	♥ 5:33pm queems: what did they do?
	5:34pm Listener Robert: Back in the lab where I was doing my doctoral work in the '80s, I'd put on WFMU until the lab head yelled, "Turn that shit off!" A labmate called it "Your Station for Screeching Cats". Then there came out Kaz's front page cartoon in the NY Press featuring a screeching cat at the top of WFMU's tower, to confirm it. Loved showing that one to my labmate.
	5:35pm Spankyflop: My older brother used to get me x-mas presents from the old catalog of curiosities in the pre internet age.
	5:35pm herb.nyc: lovely calendar. i have the BEV DAVIES calendar that NARDWUAR had as a premium, and i reuse it. i'm happy to reuse irwin's colander as well.
	🎸 ♥ 5:35pm rrg: WFUV, claiming interference with their own signal, tried to have WFMU's signal strength cut back to a level that would have effectively killed it.
	♥ 5:36pm queems: @rrg that's messed up
	♥ 5:36pm nickybones: just tracked down the story (i think). wow, i had no idea. i only knew i disliked the station! www.nytimes.com...
	♥ 5:37pm Michael 98145: { brought to you by: en.wikipedia.org... }
	5:37pm Spankyflop: I'm also pretty sure that I listened when I would drive from south Jersey to college in Boston in the 1980's. I would always try to find that weird station when I got passed exit 100 on the parkway.
	♥ 5:38pm coelacanth: queems blog.wfmu.org...
	♥ 5:39pm queems: @coelacanth thanks!
	5:40pm geo in jc: How about naming bands Irwin's introduced you to. I'll start, Broadcast, Stereolab, Ivy...
	♥ 5:40pm ultradamno: This is purty.
	♥ 5:41pm Michael 98145: @geo, ... Bent Knee
	♥ 5:42pm Michael 98145: .. and of course a total appreciation for Lee Morgan
	5:43pm markinbrooklyn: I moved to nyc in 1983. Crashed at my friends studio on 2nd and C. Would navigate my way through junkies and burning cars to get home. We’d huddle together in our ice cold tenement and warm up while listening to “old pal” Irwin, Kaz et al... we loved clock dva, the the, the fall, rat at rat r, three teens kill 4, and cookie puss!!!!
	5:45pm Parq: Agreeing with others on how WFUV is permanently on my shit list. It's all the more frustrating because I have several friends who are big fans of the Fordham juggernaut. And don't get me started on the people who confuse the two. ("You listen to WFMU? Oh man, I love their Sunday afternoon Irish show!")
	5:47pm geo in jc: (soak Andy not so candy)
	♥ 5:48pm Sem: Late to the "How Did you get to 'FMU" thread, but saw it mentioned on Arts and Letters Daily sidebar, underneath the title: Diversions. Irwin was here playing the runaway train phone recording of an actual runaway train in a province here in Canada where I was raised and the track was just out back. Hooked good, still here.
	5:48pm John from Florham Park: Damn FUv played dirty then
	5:50pm geo in jc: ...Harry Parch, Slapp Happy, Julie London, Esquivel
	♥ 5:51pm coelacanth∅: there's a more detailed article about the sleazy maneuver, but i'm not finding it so easily. it was fuv and 3 other stations. wshu is another - which i listen to sometimes when i'm driving and lose fmu in ct, but i will never support them. - but fuv were the big pigs. already powerfully transmitting their tame blandness to much bigger area than fmu was.
	♥ 5:51pm Michael 98145: for me this station helps fill the void left by the demise of our beloved KRAB-fm, founded by Lorenzo Milam
	♥ 5:52pm Henry in Hopatcong: My high school girlfriend introduced me to WFMU around 1999. I then fell in love with Alan Watts and all the great, crazy music and sounds I heard on the station. Been listening ever since. Never would have imagined I'd one day be a part of the greatest station there is!
	5:53pm Pennsyltucky: In 2007 I was working on a construction site in Newark, NJ (new school) and I befriended the lead surveyor who was probably in his late thirties at the time. I asked a bunch of radio stations whether he listened to (q1043, 92.3, etc. and he kept saying no no no no). He told me he only listens to one station and doesn’t tolerate commercials and typical BS that comes along with syndicated programming - WOOFMOO—been hooked ever since!
	5:53pm Listener Robert: Parq, I hope you lead them on saying, "Yes, the Sunday afternoon Irish show with BILL KELLY."
	♥ 5:53pm Doug in JC: I was rolling the little tuning wheel on my walkman back and forth late one night in 1993 when I was 12. Church of the Subgenius was on and I'd never heard anything like it before, having been raised mostly on CBS-FM and Mix 105. It took me a few days to find the station again, and Pat Duncan was on. I finally figured out the frequency and wrote it down. My few friends at the time were just as weird as I was so they got as heavily into it as I did.
	♥ 5:54pm coelacanth∅: i discovered fmu when the usual stations a teenager in the 70s listened to started to be unbearably boring (if not annoying, with their slogans and ads for the us army. wnew.) and found balinese gamelan music at the left end of the dial.
	5:54pm John from Florham Park: And after reading the story as much as I like Dennis elyses on Friday’s I will never ever listen to the station again, THATS A PROMISE
	♥ 5:55pm Doug in JC: @kevlicki If I remember correctly, Joe Frank had his own time slot
	5:55pm Mandy: I want to spin glow sticks to this
	♥ 5:55pm ultradamno: I think it was the mailorder catalogs in the late 80s or so that first attracted my attention to WFMU
	♥ 5:55pm common: What’s all this?
	♥ 5:56pm Doug in JC: @kevlicki here you go, thursdays at 7, right after Alan Watts wfmu.org...
	5:58pm Listener Paul: I remember as an 80s teen growing up on the Jersey shore reading an article (perhaps in The Aquarian, but I cannot say for sure) about "The Greatest Station in NY is actually in NJ". I wanted to listen to that station, but alas, reception was spotty at best, so I made due with WHTG and sometimes WRSU (the Rutgers Station). And so, I knew about a station but never really lived in a place where I could get reliable reception. I'd listen driving up the Parkway to visit my girlfriend sometimes, but that was it. Even when I started grad school in New Brunswick, reception was difficult. I do remember a Bronwyn C show where she talked about 17th century English radicals, a topic I was very much interested in, but again, my listening in the early 90s was irregular. Until I found myself moving to Bloomfield in 1998. Where reception was crystal clear. And I was working from home much of the time, and so I listened. A lot. The shows I remember from those days include Chris T, Glen Jones, Hova, but really I listened to lots of the programming. And I became a supporter soon after. Fortunately, when I moved from Bloomfield down to Arkansas, the internet meant I would never be out of broadcast range again. I do miss the donor map.

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March 6, 2019: Marathon Week #1 with co-host George

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FILED AND DEFILED:
A 2020 Wall Calendar of Iconic LPs from WFMU's Record Library
All 12 months, 53 beat-to-crap album covers, 12"x12" LP-sized, foldover format
Irwin's 2019 WFMU marathon premium

Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Lee Morgan	Zambia (Big Band Version)	Delightfulee	0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Yo La Tengo	Shades of Blue "Shades of Blue" by "Yo La Tengo"	There's a Riot Going On	0:12:04 (Pop-up)
Chip Wickham	Sling Shot "Sling Shot" by "Chip Wickham"	La Sombra	0:14:09 (Pop-up)
Kait Dunton	Frontier "Frontier" by "Kait Dunton"	TrioKAIT 2	0:21:05 (Pop-up)

Swell Maps	Ammunition Train "Ammunition Train" by "Swell Maps"	International Rescue	0:32:17 (Pop-up)
Moving Panoramas	Baby Blues "Baby Blues" by "Moving Panoramas"	In Two	0:35:21 (Pop-up)
John Medeski's Mad Skillet	The Golden Lady	Mad Skillet	0:40:04 (Pop-up)

Lemon Twigs	If You Give Enough "If You Give Enough" by "Lemon Twigs"	Go to School	0:48:23 (Pop-up)
Eerie Wanda	Pet Town "Pet Town" by "Eerie Wanda"	Pet Town	0:50:49 (Pop-up)
Ray Collins Hot-Club	Barefoot "Barefoot" by "Ray Collins Hot-Club"	Tohuwabohu	0:54:15 (Pop-up)
Prince	When the Lights Go Down "When the Lights Go Down" by "Prince"	The Vault ... Old Friends 4 Sale	0:58:00 (Pop-up)

The Piggies	She Ran Away "She Ran Away" by "The Piggies"	Something to Chew On	1:13:11 (Pop-up)
Curtis Harding	Dream Girl "Dream Girl" by "Curtis Harding"	Face Your Fear	1:16:38 (Pop-up)
Viagra Boys	Slow Learner "Slow Learner" by "Viagra Boys"	Street Worms	1:19:55 (Pop-up)
Odetta Hartman	Cowboy Song "Cowboy Song" by "Odetta Hartman"	Old Rockhounds Never Die	1:22:59 (Pop-up)

People Like Us	Do You See What I Hear	The Mirror	1:33:38 (Pop-up)
Chip White	Excuse Me Now "Excuse Me Now" by "Chip White"	Harlem Sunset	1:40:13 (Pop-up)

Snail Mail	Pristine "Pristine" by "Snail Mail"	Lush	1:56:10 (Pop-up)
Sure Sure	Giants "Giants" by "Sure Sure"	Sure Sure	2:01:11 (Pop-up)
Erika Wennerstrom	Extraordinary Love	Sweet Unknown	2:04:55 (Pop-up)

unknown	You Are the Best Thing in the World	demo tape	2:16:21 (Pop-up)
Sunflower Bean	Easier Said "Easier Said" by "Sunflower Bean"	Human Ceremony	2:22:12 (Pop-up)
Three Dog Night	Shambala "Shambala" by "Three Dog Night"	Cyan	2:25:14 (Pop-up)

Jimmy Giuffre	Deep Purple "Deep Purple" by "Jimmy Giuffre"	The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet	2:36:00 (Pop-up)
Krom	Fly "Fly" by "Krom"	Krom	2:40:17 (Pop-up)

Tracyanne and Danny	Alabama "Alabama" by "Tracyanne and Danny"	Tracyanne and Danny	2:47:26 (Pop-up)
Curha	Madgit "Madgit" by "Curha"	Curha I	2:51:48 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 3:01pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Irwin! Looks like you get that calendar compiled -- and it's a laff-riot!
	♥ 3:02pm Henry in Hopatcong: Hello Irwin and George! Happy Marathon!
	🎸 ♥ 3:03pm rrg: Hi, Irwin and George and you-all.
	♥ 3:04pm Michael 98145: huzza
	3:05pm John from Florham Park: Hey guys
	3:06pm βrian: Morgan, Lee; Morgan, Lee; I say unto thee ...
	3:06pm John from Florham Park: What do you say Brian
	3:07pm Jan: all ears!
	3:08pm Listening Out There: I've got nothing to say but it's OK...
	3:10pm Laura L: So there!!!!
	🎸 ♥ 3:10pm rrg: Thank you, Cyrus.
	3:10pm ignatatus666: FU Cyrus
	♥ 3:10pm The Oscar: How does one accidentally get on the mailing list of a station they listened to three times and hated?
	3:11pm Listening Out There: Fan mail from some flounder....
	3:11pm Marley Dogg: Cyrus is a square
	♥ 3:12pm Michael 98145: { Ohio is just West Penn, anyway } :)
	3:13pm John from Florham Park: @the Oscar wondered that myself
	3:18pm ignatatus666: Cyrus put out a hit on the Warriors . We don’t need him.
	3:20pm Quasi Mojo: I think I hear vibes going on in this tune.
	♥ 3:22pm The Oscar: @ignatatus Now I'm picturing a remake with Irwin in the Lynne Thigpen role.
	3:24pm Andy M.: Irwin, the calendar looks great!
	♥ 3:26pm AnAnonymousParty: Already clicky-starred three in a row, that's a DJ hat trick for Irwin!
	♥ 3:28pm Mick: Oscar @3:22 Bwahahahaa!!!!
	3:29pm John from Florham Park: Oh god wake and bake was off the charts this morning
	♥ 3:43pm Marley P. Dogg: Come on people, Pledge!
	♥ 3:47pm Michael 98145: :)
	♥ 3:50pm Webhamster Henry: Theremin break!
	3:53pm βrian: Wheremin?
	♥ 3:56pm AnAnonymousParty: Everywheremin.
	3:57pm Listening Out There: ...Waiting for the pronunciation of Ray Collins' album...
	♥ 3:57pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Whithermax
	♥ 4:04pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...& inevitably - the Omnimoderate...
	4:05pm Anne from Best Lafayette Indiana: I've never heard this Prince song before. Thanks! So great!
	♥ 4:12pm joe: All but Sid Vicious
	🎸 ♥ 4:13pm chris: a coworker introduced me to your show, Irwin. its been (mostly) love since.
	♥ 4:13pm Webhamster Henry: i got into WFMU so much, I once tuned to WPAT and thought it was Irwin recontextualizing Easy Listening.
	4:15pm Steven: John Peel plugging Laura Cantrell's Radio Thrift Shop on his show was how I heard about WFMU.
	♥ 4:15pm The Oscar: My intro was none other than Songs in the Key of Z!
	4:17pm laughingacademy: "She left me here like a warm can of beer" is an amazing line.
	🎸 ♥ 4:20pm rrg: My intro to WFMU was when I tuned into The Old Codger while driving one day in 1990.
	♥ 4:20pm Ike: Just spun the FM dial in college looking for indie rock. Heard Laura Cantrell and Dave Mandl. Didn't like Laura at first. Eventually her show grew on me. Dave Mandl's show made me say, "What the fuck is this crazy shit?!" but in a good way.
	♥ 4:20pm joe: I became aware of the WFMU due to the press it was receiving during the "troubles" somewhere in late 1989 early 1990. It was one of many stops down at that end of the dial becoming a more avid listener a year or two later when I was sure to catch Bronwyn's Truckstop Teaparty every week.
	♥ 4:21pm AnAnonymousParty: I think I've told this before. KMOX AM 1120, the Mighty Mox in Saint Louis had a morning drive show that had a sort of daily contest where you could call in to win something mundane or lose something in the form of being subjected to humiliation by a sound clip, which usually this guy singing badly about a 'Lover Without a Cause'. I really wanted a copy of that song, for reasons that is a much longer story. A few years later a web search led me to 'Incorrect Music'. My life has never been then same.
	4:22pm Carmichael: Who is Cyrus?
	4:24pm Cyrus: I am. Thanks for asking.
	4:24pm Carmichael: I was cruising the net looking for some different sounds, and I somehow found FMU. This was probably '90 or so, when I was working at UC Davis. Coincidentally, Liz Berg was the station manager there at KDVS.
	♥ 4:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: The slope was so slippery - I don't remember.
	4:25pm Cyrus: So am I. That's weird.
	4:26pm HarktheUmpire: I don't even remember... It must've happened been while I was scouring the interweb cause I live in Berlin. I struck gold sometime back in the summer of 2013. But I don't remember what show I tuned into or even if I liked it or not. It might've been amEdeo. In which case I did like it. Must've been his conversations with Therese that got me hooked. Found loads of other good shows soon after, like this one, and I plan to leave never. What a story!!
	♥ 4:27pm The Oscar: Funny aside: WFMU actually served as my introduction to YouTube, back in the Beware of the Blog days.
	4:28pm maria: From Vancouver, BC
	4:30pm maria: A coworker told me about wfmu last year and I loved it ever since. It's so great!
	4:30pm Parq: I had just moved to New Jersey from Brighton MA at the end of summer 1979, and was in despair at the state of NYC radio. Dial-hopping down at the bottom end, like a lot of folks, I caught WFMU for the first time in the final minutes of Irwin's show. Within minutes, I knew I had found what I was looking for. In addition to Irwin, other early favorites included the Immigrant, Jim Price and John Narucki. Wasn't much longer before I became a fan of other (now) old timers like Kelly, Brainan and O'Toole. I made my first marathon pledge the following spring, and have never looked back.
	4:30pm Laura L: Reception was awful, but I tuned into Irwin's Atrocious Music program I guess about 25 years ago but don't recall how I found out about it in the first place. I gotta go now, got to leave early today, but thanks, Irwin!
	♥ 4:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Very early - it may have been around Xmas - Jason Sigal ? - somebody seriously deconstructing traditional values shall we say...
	♥ 4:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: & WHAT A RIDE IT'S BEEN.
	4:32pm yippie: is the watch a chronometer?
	4:33pm Jeff Moore: I don't trust anyone who doesn't wear a wristwatch.
	♥ 4:33pm queems: the watch is such a great idea
	4:34pm Robert Tables: It's a very nice watch.
	4:35pm Carmichael: Andy Breckman's favorite artist!
	4:35pm geo in jc: @yippie:The watch is not a certified chronometer
	♥ 4:35pm Webhamster Henry: Vicki is in town and will co host with Hearty White!
	♥ 4:36pm jmr3: I think I heard it in 94 or 95 driving through New Jersey from Vermont to DC after seeing the Dead just twisting the dial - unless there was another station that would have been playing a mix of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" with the first moon landing and who knows what else. Could have been People Like Us or people like People Like Us . . . Discovered again about 10 years later on the internet and thought - this MUST have been THAT station!!!
	4:37pm Carmichael: Vickie and Kenzo should do a show together, although my radio may explode.
	4:37pm Parq: See, this. This People Like Us. This is exactly the kind of thing that makes me a loyal listener-contributor. Where else are you going to hear this? Where?
	4:38pm Jeff Moore: @jmr3: Love it: "people like People Like Us"
	4:38pm Listener Robert: Darn, heard my name in passing, now have to wait for the archive to find out what it was about, because I was listening to Reason's SoundCloud interview with Peter Bagge, whose cartoons Irwin probably enjoys.
	🎸 ♥ 4:38pm chris: in a fairer world, Vicki would be one of the most well known contemporary artists
	♥ 4:38pm Webhamster Henry: @jmr3, that may well have been John Schnall's Midnite Matinee, which remixed movie soundtracks with carefully chosen music.
	4:38pm Jeff Moore: ..and Vicki is RIGHT OVER THERE.
	4:39pm Parq: {looks over there} Hi, Vicki!
	♥ 4:40pm joe: Oh was Vicki the UK expert from the Long Rally this morning?
	♥ 4:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...am this summa that FreeForms I hears about...
	4:41pm Jeff Moore: @Listener Robert: @Robert Tables was mentioned, as the happy owner of the custom watch from the Wake auction. Perhaps that's what caught the corner of your ear.
	♥ 4:42pm joe: @Parq will you be station side at all outside of finally?
	♥ 4:44pm joe: sorry finale
	♥ 4:44pm jmr3: @webhamster harry - was it on in the early evening? It wasn't past midnight . . . I remember a Jersey sunset.
	♥ 4:50pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I tried : Looking for a Storyteller to listen to ? Need some Southern Inspirational Dada ? Want something uplifting, affirmative, intriguing, nostalgic, postmodern, futuristic, naive, philosophical ?? Joseph Campbell said we are the story-telling monkey: we need that ...but we are having trouble getting our Story together @ this time in History. ...Well - Hearty White is among those pointing the direction to a solution to this evolutionary challenge. ...I mean that.
	4:51pm Listener Robert: Thanks, Jeff. Far from the watch league, I'm in the process of getting $12 into my PayPal from the PineCone surveys I respond to; would've been a few bucks more but for the old OS I'm running on this castoff computer, which a few surveys were incompatible with. I'll pledge it to the DJ whom I most abused on the comments lately, Pseu Braun.
	♥ 4:51pm Webhamster Henry: @jmr3 it was on next to Nick Hill's Live Music Faucet show. There used to be the "Nick Hill- John Schnall Transitional Moment", rather like the Jim Price show in the current schedule.
	4:59pm Carmichael: Monsoon style rain right now here in NorCal. Nice light show, too.
	♥ 5:09pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...which fails, for but one thing, to mention how funny Hearty is...
	5:10pm Listener Robert: I know I've told it before, but it was late 1980 or early 1981 when Alan Hyams said if I wanted to hear this punk stuff I'd just read about, listen to Frank O'Toole and Pat Duncan (and Morbid) -- as well as to a couple shows on WFDU and maybe WSOU, but I didn't stick with them. Soon my listening spread to Jim Price, then Bill Kelly and Irwin. But then I moved a short distance downhill in the Bronx into a shadow zone where I had to go to my car (when I had one) or at least outside to hear WFMU. Then came the pirates on 91.1, and limited my WFMU listening even further. But then I found open WiFis I could get the stream on. My WFMU listening kept increasing, such that when I moved here in WMFU territory (mono) with Steve Mason, who I then found out had been a listener since the 1970s and donated more than me, he said I was into the station WAY more than he was. I also found out in recent years that my Cousin Allan was a listener and especially appreciated that many DJs here promoted new and local acts.
	♥ 5:10pm Hoboken Jack: I just wish I was there to pick up the phone and hear Fredericks on the other end.
	♥ 5:14pm Michael 98145: I probably discovered WFMU via a Liz Berg podcast. Long ago.
	5:15pm Mandy: whenever I suggest to people WFMU, they always for some reason tune in at the exact time that a 20 minute macaroni and cheese stirring or cans falling abstract noisescape is playing.
	♥ 5:16pm queems: HELL YES
	5:17pm Carmichael: @Mandy, tell them not to start with Bryce's show ...
	5:17pm Eric from Lake Hiawatha: Upsala College Radio since late 70’s
	5:17pm Listener Robert: Also in 2 degrees of separation from WFMU, I got to know Dave Mandl via the Libertarian Book Club's Anarchist Forums, and became a friend via pagan circles of Will de Vito, who since then has been an actor in one of Bill Z. Bub's movies. After the marathon I should remember to send Micah a link to a video of Will singing a Balder version of a Christian song. Will can really sing.
	5:18pm jmr3: Thanks, Henry. That’s cool to know.
	♥ 5:18pm medson: I discovered WFMU back in 1986 by stumbling across the Hound's show and I've been listening ever since upon first listen unlike Ohio Man.
	♥ 5:19pm Travisano66: Gouge my ears out.
	5:20pm HarktheUmpire: Why have I not heard this song before? Thank you, Irwin!
	5:20pm Carmichael: This is wonderfully bad. And seemingly never-ending.
	5:21pm Listener Robert: BTW, medson, The Hound has his own stream now, including Chris T.'s program. That's another thing WFMU's been great at: disseminating talent elsewhere.
	♥ 5:21pm Irwin: Heavenly tune.
	5:21pm jmr3: When I found it again years later on the internet it was mainly Kenny G and Fabio with some Diane’s Kamikaze Fun Machine thin in at my desk at work.
	♥ 5:21pm Travisano66: Because you hear it once, and then you die.
	♥ 5:21pm Travisano66: I hate you, Irwin. Never change.
	5:22pm Carmichael: The pledges should be rolling in now ...
	5:22pm zpulpa: I love that song so much.
	5:23pm hidingintrumpsamerica: that was maybe the first time I was genuinely annoyed by wfmu! : - D
	5:23pm kevlicki: I grew up in the broadcast range of 90.1fm in the Hudson valley. As a teenager hanging out with other skateboarders in the 90’s, there was an odd fellow in our group that would sit in his car and listen to these odd fictional stories by a guy named Joe Frank. This friend would become my punk rock mentor exposing me to the punk shows on Thursday nights, who Ken Freedman will remember the host. I’ve continued listening ever since! moving to the 91.1FM range in my 20’s & 30’s and being able to travel worldwide with the WFMU app. As a young and now aging punk, I’ve enjoyed the independent freeform minded programming ever since being exposed to WFMU. Irwin, who would’ve been airing joe frank back then?
	♥ 5:24pm Irwin: Joe Frank was a regular weekly feature in his own time slot for many years.
	5:25pm Mandy: @Carmichael they ALWAYS tune into Bryce or Fabio, without fail! it's like the universe demands they listen to the extreme deep end of WFMU. lol
	♥ 5:25pm queems: when i moved into my grandparents' house a couple years ago, i kept their old boombox on in my kitchen at all times because i felt so alone in my new surroundings. i fiddled around at this end of the dial for a little bit, and then settled on wfmu because it was weird as hell, and i could talk trash on the internet at the same time. it's been playing on the boombox 24/7 ever since.
	5:27pm Carmichael: The Dogs!
	5:28pm SeanG: an old girlfriend introduced me to WFMU, her dad was Paul Sobolik, an fmu dj at one point.
	♥ 5:29pm coelacanth: i can't get my sister, who gives lots of money to those scumbags at fuv, to even try wfmu once, because she's overheard 7 second delay, Bryce, and one of Ken's krampus shows. now i think after hearing Hearty White singing last week it's done. she'll never be open.
	🎸 ♥ 5:31pm rrg: I will never forgive WFUV for what they tried to do to WFMU.
	♥ 5:32pm coelacanth: rrg -yeh me neither. talk about selfish.
	♥ 5:33pm queems: what did they do?
	5:34pm Listener Robert: Back in the lab where I was doing my doctoral work in the '80s, I'd put on WFMU until the lab head yelled, "Turn that shit off!" A labmate called it "Your Station for Screeching Cats". Then there came out Kaz's front page cartoon in the NY Press featuring a screeching cat at the top of WFMU's tower, to confirm it. Loved showing that one to my labmate.
	5:35pm Spankyflop: My older brother used to get me x-mas presents from the old catalog of curiosities in the pre internet age.
	5:35pm herb.nyc: lovely calendar. i have the BEV DAVIES calendar that NARDWUAR had as a premium, and i reuse it. i'm happy to reuse irwin's colander as well.
	🎸 ♥ 5:35pm rrg: WFUV, claiming interference with their own signal, tried to have WFMU's signal strength cut back to a level that would have effectively killed it.
	♥ 5:36pm queems: @rrg that's messed up
	♥ 5:36pm nickybones: just tracked down the story (i think). wow, i had no idea. i only knew i disliked the station! www.nytimes.com...
	♥ 5:37pm Michael 98145: { brought to you by: en.wikipedia.org... }
	5:37pm Spankyflop: I'm also pretty sure that I listened when I would drive from south Jersey to college in Boston in the 1980's. I would always try to find that weird station when I got passed exit 100 on the parkway.
	♥ 5:38pm coelacanth: queems blog.wfmu.org...
	♥ 5:39pm queems: @coelacanth thanks!
	5:40pm geo in jc: How about naming bands Irwin's introduced you to. I'll start, Broadcast, Stereolab, Ivy...
	♥ 5:40pm ultradamno: This is purty.
	♥ 5:41pm Michael 98145: @geo, ... Bent Knee
	♥ 5:42pm Michael 98145: .. and of course a total appreciation for Lee Morgan
	5:43pm markinbrooklyn: I moved to nyc in 1983. Crashed at my friends studio on 2nd and C. Would navigate my way through junkies and burning cars to get home. We’d huddle together in our ice cold tenement and warm up while listening to “old pal” Irwin, Kaz et al... we loved clock dva, the the, the fall, rat at rat r, three teens kill 4, and cookie puss!!!!
	5:45pm Parq: Agreeing with others on how WFUV is permanently on my shit list. It's all the more frustrating because I have several friends who are big fans of the Fordham juggernaut. And don't get me started on the people who confuse the two. ("You listen to WFMU? Oh man, I love their Sunday afternoon Irish show!")
	5:47pm geo in jc: (soak Andy not so candy)
	♥ 5:48pm Sem: Late to the "How Did you get to 'FMU" thread, but saw it mentioned on Arts and Letters Daily sidebar, underneath the title: Diversions. Irwin was here playing the runaway train phone recording of an actual runaway train in a province here in Canada where I was raised and the track was just out back. Hooked good, still here.
	5:48pm John from Florham Park: Damn FUv played dirty then
	5:50pm geo in jc: ...Harry Parch, Slapp Happy, Julie London, Esquivel
	♥ 5:51pm coelacanth∅: there's a more detailed article about the sleazy maneuver, but i'm not finding it so easily. it was fuv and 3 other stations. wshu is another - which i listen to sometimes when i'm driving and lose fmu in ct, but i will never support them. - but fuv were the big pigs. already powerfully transmitting their tame blandness to much bigger area than fmu was.
	♥ 5:51pm Michael 98145: for me this station helps fill the void left by the demise of our beloved KRAB-fm, founded by Lorenzo Milam
	♥ 5:52pm Henry in Hopatcong: My high school girlfriend introduced me to WFMU around 1999. I then fell in love with Alan Watts and all the great, crazy music and sounds I heard on the station. Been listening ever since. Never would have imagined I'd one day be a part of the greatest station there is!
	5:53pm Pennsyltucky: In 2007 I was working on a construction site in Newark, NJ (new school) and I befriended the lead surveyor who was probably in his late thirties at the time. I asked a bunch of radio stations whether he listened to (q1043, 92.3, etc. and he kept saying no no no no). He told me he only listens to one station and doesn’t tolerate commercials and typical BS that comes along with syndicated programming - WOOFMOO—been hooked ever since!
	5:53pm Listener Robert: Parq, I hope you lead them on saying, "Yes, the Sunday afternoon Irish show with BILL KELLY."
	♥ 5:53pm Doug in JC: I was rolling the little tuning wheel on my walkman back and forth late one night in 1993 when I was 12. Church of the Subgenius was on and I'd never heard anything like it before, having been raised mostly on CBS-FM and Mix 105. It took me a few days to find the station again, and Pat Duncan was on. I finally figured out the frequency and wrote it down. My few friends at the time were just as weird as I was so they got as heavily into it as I did.
	♥ 5:54pm coelacanth∅: i discovered fmu when the usual stations a teenager in the 70s listened to started to be unbearably boring (if not annoying, with their slogans and ads for the us army. wnew.) and found balinese gamelan music at the left end of the dial.
	5:54pm John from Florham Park: And after reading the story as much as I like Dennis elyses on Friday’s I will never ever listen to the station again, THATS A PROMISE
	♥ 5:55pm Doug in JC: @kevlicki If I remember correctly, Joe Frank had his own time slot
	5:55pm Mandy: I want to spin glow sticks to this
	♥ 5:55pm ultradamno: I think it was the mailorder catalogs in the late 80s or so that first attracted my attention to WFMU
	♥ 5:55pm common: What’s all this?
	♥ 5:56pm Doug in JC: @kevlicki here you go, thursdays at 7, right after Alan Watts wfmu.org...
	5:58pm Listener Paul: I remember as an 80s teen growing up on the Jersey shore reading an article (perhaps in The Aquarian, but I cannot say for sure) about "The Greatest Station in NY is actually in NJ". I wanted to listen to that station, but alas, reception was spotty at best, so I made due with WHTG and sometimes WRSU (the Rutgers Station). And so, I knew about a station but never really lived in a place where I could get reliable reception. I'd listen driving up the Parkway to visit my girlfriend sometimes, but that was it. Even when I started grad school in New Brunswick, reception was difficult. I do remember a Bronwyn C show where she talked about 17th century English radicals, a topic I was very much interested in, but again, my listening in the early 90s was irregular. Until I found myself moving to Bloomfield in 1998. Where reception was crystal clear. And I was working from home much of the time, and so I listened. A lot. The shows I remember from those days include Chris T, Glen Jones, Hova, but really I listened to lots of the programming. And I became a supporter soon after. Fortunately, when I moved from Bloomfield down to Arkansas, the internet meant I would never be out of broadcast range again. I do miss the donor map.

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from March 6, 2019

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