Favoriting Tony Coulter: Playlist from March 17, 2020 Favoriting

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Favoriting March 17, 2020: Tony Coulter Presents Tape Hiss: R. Sysinger, "Mope Dope," Smith & Erickson, & PMA [PLEASE NOTE: "Tape Hiss" shows are not archived.]

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Artist Track Album Label Year
The In-Theme  Holger Hiller: Toyshopshoptoy   Favoriting      
 
R. Sysinger  Her Name Is Mary   Favoriting 12 Mins to Kill  no label  1988 
R. Sysinger  It's Easy for You Pt. 1   Favoriting 12 Mins to Kill  no label  1988 
 
R. Sysinger  It's Easy for You (Conclusion)   Favoriting 12 Mins to Kill  no label  1988 
R. Sysinger  I Am the Man   Favoriting 12 Mins to Kill  no label  1988 
 
??  Mope   Mope Dope  no label  d.? 
 
??  Dope   Mope Dope  no label  d.? 
 
Smith & Erickson  Blue Skies   Favoriting Blue Skies  no label  1985 
Smith & Erickson  Stars   Favoriting Blue Skies  no label  1985 
Smith & Erickson  The Big Finale   Favoriting Blue Skies  no label  1985 
 
Smith & Erickson  Surf's Up   Favoriting Blue Skies  no label  1985 
Smith & Erickson  Roll Over, Vangelis   Favoriting Blue Skies  no label  1985 
Smith & Erickson  Midnight Mambo   Favoriting Blue Skies  no label  1985 
Smith & Erickson  Sweet Dreams   Favoriting Blue Skies  no label  1985 
 
PMA  All That Happens   Favoriting PMA  no label  1984 
PMA  City of Friends   Favoriting PMA  no label  1984 
PMA  The Door   Favoriting PMA  no label  1984 
 
PMA  I Spend Time   Favoriting PMA  no label  1984 
PMA  Anne   Favoriting PMA  no label  1984 
PMA  Day of Atonement   Favoriting PMA  no label  1984 
PMA  Think of Love   Favoriting PMA  no label  1984 
 
Theatre of Sheep  Glamour   Favoriting A Quiet Crusade  Sheepish  1983 
Bernthöler  Images (1983)   Favoriting V.A.: Insane 80s [EV01>EV10]  EE Tapes  2014 
 
The Out-Theme  Gelbart: My Favorite Vacation [part of] + Die Trip Computer Die: Airborn [part of]   Favoriting      


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Listener comments!

Avatar 11:21am
Tony Coulter:

HUGE THANKS to the phine pfolks who pledged after last week's show:

Mark S from Australia
Little Fyodor from Denver
Steve L from Cleveland
Walter from Elmhurst, NY
John and Kristin S from Rockford, IL
and the station's own Nick Name!

Thanks so much -- you are all princes and princesses!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:27am
chresti:

Hello forks and Tony! The show link wasn't on the home page
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:28am
chresti:

It sounds like the stream is on..
Avatar 11:51am
Tony Coulter:

Hey, chresti! Yep, the stream seems to be fine....
Avatar 12:01pm
Tony Coulter:

Now there's a strange transition! From Jesus to the metal grate
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm
Cmurtha:

I like the look of this rabbit. Hello everyone!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02pm
Yvang:

Hello hello, Tony and the tape hiss addicts!
Avatar 12:02pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey, hey, Cmurtha!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02pm
listener james from westwood:

Happy and hopefully healthy Tuesday, Tony and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
JtotheK:

hiya Tony, hi everyone. looking forward to some tapes today.
Avatar 12:03pm
Tony Coulter:

.... and, greets, Yvang and James!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
Rory:

Hello FMU allllllll day, no work!
  12:03pm
melinda:

Hi everyone!
  12:05pm
melinda:

I’m at work but I got permission to go home early!
Avatar 12:06pm
Tony Coulter:

Greetings, Jtothek, Rory, and Melinda!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm
Sem:

Greets, Tony, and howdoyoudo to all lithissening in.
Avatar 12:07pm
Tony Coulter:

Hiya, hiya, Sem!
Avatar 12:08pm
Tony Coulter:

So, all of today's cassettes are sort of atypical for Tape Hiss -- oddities and soddities, maybe....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
Cmurtha:

This is such an odd song. This vocalist does work, and yet, that makes it work. Love that synth
Avatar 12:10pm
Tony Coulter:

Her name is Mary, her legs are hairy....
Avatar 12:11pm
Tony Coulter:

Rusty Dan....
Avatar 12:12pm
Tony Coulter:

i.e., Rusty Steely Dan....
  12:14pm
JakeGould:

Thank you for reminding us all that as bad as you things can get it can always get worse.
Avatar 12:15pm
Tony Coulter:

Ha! (Hey, Jake!)
Avatar 12:16pm
Listening Out There:

Virusless in Seattle.
Avatar 12:17pm
Tony Coulter:

Ahoy, L.O.T.!
  12:21pm
JakeGould:

I think this YouTube user is related to this: https://www.youtube.com/user/sysingerr
Avatar 12:23pm
Tony Coulter:

Aha -- thanks, Jake. I'll check that out post-show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:24pm
Cmurtha:

How does a mixtape work for the purposes of Radio? Does some poor soul have to track down these people to give them a penny? OR CONSPIRACY TIME - Do you as the secret creator of the tape get the penny.
Avatar 12:25pm
Tony Coulter:

Good question -- there are lots of radio hits mixed in here.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:26pm
listener james from westwood:

LOL, that "Oh my gawd ... Harry!" was from an old glasses ad.
Avatar 12:29pm
Tony Coulter:

If you're wondering: yes, this whole tape is mono.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
Cmurtha:

What a topical tape
Avatar 12:34pm
Tony Coulter:

This side of the tape is a lot more audio collagey -- side B is more of a straight mixtape.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm
Cmurtha:

A Cowboy's work is never done is a mad underplayed Sonny and Cher song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
Sem:

Is this a first, Sonny and Cher on the Drummer stream?
Avatar 12:35pm
Tony Coulter:

Could be!
Avatar 12:36pm
Tony Coulter:

Tho I can see Uncle Michael playing them....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:36pm
Sem:

Right you are. UM would do that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:41pm
Cmurtha:

That was poetry, and now its lost forever...Tears in Rain and all that.
Avatar 12:44pm
Tony Coulter:

By the way, delayed response to Cmurtha above: I am most definitely not the maker of this tape. Someone gave it to me, or I bought it in a thrift store somewhere -- just can't remember where it came from.
Avatar 12:47pm
Tony Coulter:

Did anyone recognize the song that ended side A?
Avatar 12:50pm
Tony Coulter:

I suppose this could even be an aircheck tape
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:53pm
Yvang:

By the way, is this a (mystery) LP cover on the background?
Avatar 12:54pm
Tony Coulter:

Interesting: No star is appearing next to the sides of this tape, because I credited it to "??"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:55pm
Cmurtha:

Yeah, no star shows up if thats blank. Typos or variance in attribution (both in albums and by djs) can also let you clicky-star the same song twice. I think I have 2-3 doubles because of that.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:57pm
Yvang:

Can't show your appreciation fr "Unknow" neither
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:57pm
Yvang:

I mean unknown
Avatar 12:58pm
Tony Coulter:

@ Yvang: It is! Forgot to mention that.

So, can anyone ID today's mystery LP-under-the-cassettes? Here are some clues: It's Brit jazz rock from the '70s with links to lots of bands: Blossom Toes, Battered Ornaments, Mike Westbrook, even Magma. Any guesses?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:58pm
Yvang:

Which is outrageous for WFMU
Avatar 12:58pm
Tony Coulter:

Ha!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:00pm
Yvang:

Gong?
Avatar 1:01pm
Tony Coulter:

Good guess -- but, no. It's a more obscure band, with only one album.
Avatar 1:04pm
Tony Coulter:

The cover art reminds me slightly of "Nursery Crime," by Genesis.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:05pm
Yvang:

Or a Rothko painting?
Avatar 1:05pm
Tony Coulter:

Any other guesses? You don't want to miss out on today's big prizes. I'll do the big reveal in 5 minutes.
Avatar 1:06pm
Tony Coulter:

@ Yvang: The cover is less abstract that the portion I used would suggest.
Avatar 1:07pm
Tony Coulter:

Actually, to make things harder: I used the back cover.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:07pm
Cmurtha:

One of the odder James Bond songs
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:09pm
Yvang:

Some songs on this tape are strangely accurate with the current state of the world...
Avatar 1:11pm
Tony Coulter:

Guess we're always on the brink of disaster....
Avatar 1:12pm
Tony Coulter:

And .... today's mystery LP is .... Mirage's "Now You See It...": www.discogs.com...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:14pm
Yvang:

Now I see it
Avatar 1:25pm
Tony Coulter:

Will you take to the skies?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:44pm
ynod:

Heya Tony and all!
Avatar 1:46pm
Tony Coulter:

Hola, ynod! (Why do I always feel like your handle is backward?)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:47pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Tony and hissters
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:47pm
Franco Twinkie:

Thank you Tony for that admission. I was wondering why I felt so unsettled. It was the Music! I suppose some folks found it calming, I was silently gnashing my teeth.
Avatar 1:48pm
Tony Coulter:

Greetings, coel and Franco T!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:50pm
ynod:

@TC~ not backwards~ shorthand.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:52pm
coelacanth∅:

(i immediately thought of gnod)
Avatar 1:52pm
Tony Coulter:

Someone left the drum machine out in the rain
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:55pm
ynod:

gnod makes some good soundSSSsss
  1:58pm
Rory:

This is so good!
Avatar 2:04pm
Tony Coulter:

Glad you're enjoying it!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:04pm
listener james from westwood:

Calming music for studying the style sheet for a new editing project!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:05pm
ynod:

Imagine if public transportation and municipal vehicles all had engines that sound like this...
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:05pm
ynod:

Maybe in Stuttgart
Avatar 2:06pm
Tony Coulter:

@ James: That would make a great album title
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:09pm
coelacanth∅:

but the piston engine goes Boing Boing Boing, and the mazda goes mmmmm.
Avatar 2:09pm
Tony Coulter:

"Soothing Music for Babies" .... "Calming Music for a Brand New Style Sheet."
  2:10pm
Little Fyodor:

Hi Tony! Thanks to the virus, I can listen to your show live!! Well, the last hour anyway, I thought you started at 3 not finished at 3 and I just double checked to find out I was wrong! Well, home for three weeks so I'll catch more the next two times!!
Avatar 2:11pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey, Fyodor! I'll be here!
Avatar 2:12pm
Tony Coulter:

At least the virus is good for something.....
  2:15pm
Dean:

It's good for a number of things. For instance, GHG levels near Wuhan are down 25%.
Avatar 2:17pm
Tony Coulter:

True! Think how unpolluted the world will eventually become after humanity dies off. (Heya, Dean!)
  2:19pm
Dean:

Spare humanity, but Ford? GM? Shell? Not so much.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:21pm
fred:

Hello Tony and listeners. I read that a distillery in Portland was making sanitizer now. A troubling reversal of how things have worked for centuries
Avatar 2:22pm
Tony Coulter:

Hiya, Fred! Hadn't heard that....
Avatar 2:26pm
Listening Out There:

@fred, et al: Smart move by the distillery. Some folks are using vodka or Everclear for hand sanitizing.
Avatar 2:26pm
Listening Out There:

...the distiller can create a "boutique" product and survive the slowdown in business!
Avatar 2:34pm
Tony Coulter:

Here in Portland I've noticed that while business in restaurants has dropped of a lot, food carts seems to be doing OK. (Not a scientific study, just random observation, but....)
  2:38pm
Dean:

But random observation is fundamental to scientific study!
Avatar 2:40pm
Tony Coulter:

OK: My preliminary field work suggests....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:40pm
ynod:

Like this murky sound.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:41pm
coelacanth∅:

the last track reminded me strongly of a song from the early 80s that got played on fmu a lot then, on the punk shows...so close, but i can't think of it.
something with a spoken story...
Avatar 2:42pm
Tony Coulter:

Not sure....
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:42pm
ynod:

I wish I had discovered WFMU in the early eighties!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:42pm
coelacanth∅:

hmm, maybe that one about the fine young teenagers who kill themselves in a car crash
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:45pm
coelacanth∅:

gonna have to pull out all my own hissy tapes and look at song titles. my mind wont rest, i know it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:46pm
chresti:

Car Crash by the Avengers?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:47pm
Sem:

Thank you, Tony, for driving us down obscure sideroads, with thrills an' chills at every turm. See you next time, wouldn't mhiss it for the world.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:47pm
Cmurtha:

thank you for another great hiss!
Avatar 2:48pm
Tony Coulter:

Thanks, everybody! But ... stay tuned for two more tracks....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:51pm
coelacanth∅:

no but good guess chresti!
this is narrated in front of a wall of swirling distorted guitars and a medium-slow beat. he talks about these good students who were dating then "pretending to be drunk" and crashed the car...
Avatar 2:51pm
Tony Coulter:

A little rock star gossip for you all: the lead vocalist of Theatre of Sheep (Rozz Rezabek) was Courtney Love's boyfriend for a while....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:52pm
coelacanth∅:

...anyway 2 of the PMA tracks reminded me of it, especiallythe 2nd or 3rd track on side b.
good stuff that pma.
Avatar 2:52pm
Tony Coulter:

... while she was still in Portland.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:53pm
JtotheK:

thanks for the tunes, Tony. The chilled out New Age vibes were superb!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:54pm
David Dichelle:

Hello Tony and everyone! Please join me for Continental Subway - Home Edition - up next on the stream: wfmu.org...
Avatar 2:54pm
Tony Coulter:

Heya, David!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:56pm
fred:

Thanks Tony!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:56pm
coelacanth∅:

Thanks Tony!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:56pm
Yvang:

Thanks for the tapes, Tony!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:57pm
chresti:

Thanks Tony!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:57pm
ynod:

Thanks Tony~ See you all. !
Avatar 2:57pm
Tony Coulter:

Thanks much, everybody!! See you next week, I hope....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:58pm
Doug Schulkind:

Hi Tony and all Coulterettes! I just began my work-from-home journey. Hope I don't get lost!
Avatar 2:59pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey, hey, hey, Doug!
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