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Favoriting 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)   Favoriting Delightfulee  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
Yo La Tengo  Shades of Blue   Favoriting There's a Riot Going On  0:12:04 (Pop-up)
Chip Wickham  Sling Shot   Favoriting La Sombra  0:14:09 (Pop-up)
Kait Dunton  Frontier   Favoriting TrioKAIT 2  0:21:05 (Pop-up)
 
Swell Maps  Ammunition Train   Favoriting International Rescue  0:32:17 (Pop-up)
Moving Panoramas  Baby Blues   Favoriting In Two  0:35:21 (Pop-up)
John Medeski's Mad Skillet  The Golden Lady   Favoriting Mad Skillet  0:40:04 (Pop-up)
 
Lemon Twigs  If You Give Enough   Favoriting Go to School  0:48:23 (Pop-up)
Eerie Wanda  Pet Town   Favoriting Pet Town  0:50:49 (Pop-up)
Ray Collins Hot-Club  Barefoot   Favoriting Tohuwabohu  0:54:15 (Pop-up)
Prince  When the Lights Go Down   Favoriting The Vault ... Old Friends 4 Sale  0:58:00 (Pop-up)
 
The Piggies  She Ran Away   Favoriting Something to Chew On  1:13:11 (Pop-up)
Curtis Harding  Dream Girl   Favoriting Face Your Fear  1:16:38 (Pop-up)
Viagra Boys  Slow Learner   Favoriting Street Worms  1:19:55 (Pop-up)
Odetta Hartman  Cowboy Song   Favoriting Old Rockhounds Never Die  1:22:59 (Pop-up)
 
People Like Us  Do You See What I Hear   Favoriting The Mirror  1:33:38 (Pop-up)
Chip White  Excuse Me Now   Favoriting Harlem Sunset  1:40:13 (Pop-up)
 
Snail Mail  Pristine   Favoriting Lush  1:56:10 (Pop-up)
Sure Sure  Giants   Favoriting Sure Sure  2:01:11 (Pop-up)
Erika Wennerstrom  Extraordinary Love   Favoriting Sweet Unknown  2:04:55 (Pop-up)
 
unknown  You Are the Best Thing in the World   Favoriting demo tape  2:16:21 (Pop-up)
Sunflower Bean  Easier Said   Favoriting Human Ceremony  2:22:12 (Pop-up)
Three Dog Night  Shambala   Favoriting Cyan  2:25:14 (Pop-up)
 
Jimmy Giuffre  Deep Purple   Favoriting The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet  2:36:00 (Pop-up)
Krom  Fly   Favoriting Krom  2:40:17 (Pop-up)
 
Tracyanne and Danny  Alabama   Favoriting Tracyanne and Danny  2:47:26 (Pop-up)
Curha  Madgit   Favoriting Curha I  2:51:48 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Webhamster Henry:

Hi Irwin! Looks like you get that calendar compiled -- and it's a laff-riot!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
Henry in Hopatcong:

Hello Irwin and George! Happy Marathon!
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rrg:

Hi, Irwin and George and you-all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
Michael 98145:

huzza
  3:05pm
John from Florham Park:

Hey guys
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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!
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Listening Out There:

I've got nothing to say but it's OK...
  3:10pm
Laura L:

So there!!!!
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rrg:

Thank you, Cyrus.
  3:10pm
ignatatus666:

FU Cyrus
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:10pm
The Oscar:

How does one accidentally get on the mailing list of a station they listened to three times and hated?
Avatar 👻 3:11pm
Listening Out There:

Fan mail from some flounder....
  3:11pm
Marley Dogg:

Cyrus is a square
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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!
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AnAnonymousParty:

Already clicky-starred three in a row, that's a DJ hat trick for Irwin!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:28pm
Mick:

Oscar @3:22 Bwahahahaa!!!!
  3:29pm
John from Florham Park:

Oh god wake and bake was off the charts this morning
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
Marley P. Dogg:

Come on people, Pledge!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
Michael 98145:

:)
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Webhamster Henry:

Theremin break!
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βrian:

Wheremin?
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AnAnonymousParty:

Everywheremin.
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Listening Out There:

...Waiting for the pronunciation of Ray Collins' album...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Whithermax
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...& inevitably - the Omnimoderate...
  4:05pm
Anne from Best Lafayette Indiana:

I've never heard this Prince song before. Thanks! So great!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:12pm
joe:

All but Sid Vicious
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chris:

a coworker introduced me to *your* show, Irwin. its been (mostly) love since.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:15pm
The Oscar:

My intro was none other than Songs in the Key of Z!
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laughingacademy:

"She left me here like a warm can of beer" is an amazing line.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 4:20pm
rrg:

My intro to WFMU was when I tuned into The Old Codger while driving one day in 1990.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
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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.
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Carmichael:

Who is Cyrus?
  4:24pm
Cyrus:

I am. Thanks for asking.
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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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:25pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The slope was so slippery - I don't remember.
  4:25pm
Cyrus:

So am I. That's weird.
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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!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Very early - it may have been around Xmas - Jason Sigal ? - somebody seriously deconstructing traditional values shall we say...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

& WHAT A RIDE IT'S BEEN.
  4:32pm
yippie:

is the watch a chronometer?
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Jeff Moore:

I don't trust anyone who doesn't wear a wristwatch.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:33pm
queems:

the watch is such a great idea
  4:34pm
Robert Tables:

It's a very nice watch.
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Carmichael:

Andy Breckman's favorite artist!
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geo in jc:

@yippie:The watch is not a certified chronometer
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:35pm
Webhamster Henry:

Vicki is in town and will co host with Hearty White!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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!!!
Avatar 4:37pm
Carmichael:

Vickie and Kenzo should do a show together, although my radio may explode.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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?
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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.
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chris:

in a fairer world, Vicki would be one of the most well known contemporary artists
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:38pm
Webhamster Henry:

@jmr3, that may well have been John Schnall's Midnite Matinee, which remixed movie soundtracks with carefully chosen music.
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Jeff Moore:

..and Vicki is RIGHT OVER THERE.
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Parq:

{looks over there} Hi, Vicki!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:40pm
joe:

Oh was Vicki the UK expert from the Long Rally this morning?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...am this summa that FreeForms I hears about...
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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.
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joe:

@Parq will you be station side at all outside of finally?
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joe:

sorry finale
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jmr3:

@webhamster harry - was it on in the early evening? It wasn't past midnight . . . I remember a Jersey sunset.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
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Carmichael:

Monsoon style rain right now here in NorCal. Nice light show, too.
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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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:10pm
Hoboken Jack:

I just wish I was there to pick up the phone and hear Fredericks on the other end.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
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queems:

HELL YES
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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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:19pm
Travisano66:

Gouge my ears out.
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HarktheUmpire:

Why have I not heard this song before?
Thank you, Irwin!
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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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:21pm
Travisano66:

Because you hear it once, and then you die.
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Travisano66:

I hate you, Irwin. Never change.
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Carmichael:

The pledges should be rolling in now ...
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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?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
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Carmichael:

The Dogs!
  5:28pm
SeanG:

an old girlfriend introduced me to WFMU, her dad was Paul Sobolik, an fmu dj at one point.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
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rrg:

I will never forgive WFUV for what they tried to do to WFMU.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:32pm
coelacanth:

rrg -yeh me neither. talk about selfish.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:35pm
Spankyflop:

My older brother used to get me x-mas presents from the old catalog of curiosities in the pre internet age.
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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.
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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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:36pm
queems:

@rrg that's messed up
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nickybones:

just tracked down the story (i think). wow, i had no idea. i only knew i disliked the station! www.nytimes.com...
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Michael 98145:

{ brought to you by: en.wikipedia.org... }
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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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:38pm
coelacanth:

queems blog.wfmu.org...
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queems:

@coelacanth thanks!
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geo in jc:

How about naming bands Irwin's introduced you to. I'll start, Broadcast, Stereolab, Ivy...
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ultradamno:

This is purty.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:41pm
Michael 98145:

@geo, ... Bent Knee
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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!")
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geo in jc:

(soak Andy not so candy)
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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
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geo in jc:

...Harry Parch, Slapp Happy, Julie London, Esquivel
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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.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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
Avatar Swag For Life Member 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."
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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.
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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
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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
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ultradamno:

I think it was the mailorder catalogs in the late 80s or so that first attracted my attention to WFMU
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common:

What’s all this?
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Doug in JC:

@kevlicki here you go, thursdays at 7, right after Alan Watts wfmu.org...
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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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