WFMU: Burn It Down! with Nate K.: Playlist from May 5, 2020

Listener comments!
	9:01pm P-90: Burn Baby Burn
	9:01pm ultradamno: Hello Nate! Accelerants! Ready to soak my earballs in the Optic Sink.
	9:01pm JakeGould: Burn!
	9:02pm Nate K.: Hey, folks. Live music coming up around 10:00. Natalie from Nots recorded a synth set specifically for our show. "We're not worthy."
	9:08pm mb: Bout to Burn it Down! IG made me do it.
	9:08pm Ralf Hoffmann: Looking forward to Natalie's live set. This is her dad (for real) and of course I love her dearly!
	9:11pm Scott Williams: Nate, did I ever mention how much I love the transition from Bethany's show to yours? Well done
	9:12pm Aitch: d-k-ing
	9:12pm CC: Hi y'all...I'm in the mood!!!
	9:12pm Aitch: Certainly one of the stronger contrasts in the lineup Scott W
	9:13pm Nate K.: @Scott, there's just enough opera to prevent any whiplash lawsuits.
	9:15pm Joe D.: still really glad "Gunk Punk" did not catch on as a term
	9:16pm Aitch: it has now Joe D
	9:16pm ultradamno: Gunk Funk could have a future though. I imagine most gunks do have one...
	9:16pm CC: Now a daze all I can do is try to stop my my right leg..!..it's really hard!!!!
	9:17pm Nate K.: @Joe D, it feels like a name settled on after a long day.
	9:22pm Joe D.: "Y'know, something snappy, like "Cock Rock" or "Trap Rap"...."
	9:27pm CC: what is a person supposed to do when the world is all out of kilter???
	9:27pm sloweducation: dear CC - be like water.
	9:29pm ultradamno: Hey, look who gets namechecked on the page for this (with the delicious looking cover graphic) germhouse.bandcamp.com...
	9:30pm CC: I mean it's not like a dream we are all going to wake up from?!?
	9:31pm ultradamno: It doesn't end until X Æ A-12 reaches adulthood and starts the apocalypse.
	9:34pm Folsom: next bandcamp promo is june 5, first friday of the month, also july 3
	9:36pm CC: Stir it up!!!
	9:36pm ultradamno: Bring on the relaxabilly.
	9:37pm ultradamno: ...but not the chillaxabilly or the gunkabilly.
	9:38pm Nate K.: @Ultra, an honor.
	9:40pm Nate K.: I've been trying to place it; the Cowboys reminds me of the post-post-punk Scritti Politti stuff.
	9:47pm kym: I loved the Nots track and was convinced it was Niagara-era Destroy All Monsters. Looking forward to the Optic Sink set!
	9:52pm CC: I like hearing songs about old people dying nowadays?!?
	9:53pm Nate K.: @cc, yikes, sorry!
	9:56pm CC: I found a great version of the Monterey Pop movie on YouTube the other day...two plus hours!!!
	9:59pm ultradamno: I remember seeing Jimi Hendrix's set when I was very young. I've pretty much thought rock music is about setting things on fire ever since. Otis burns it down too.
	10:02pm CC: musical style with appropriate lyrics always does it for me!!!
	10:03pm steveL: Great set. Sad news from the Stranglers. Such an unusual collection of musical voices. So jarring and angular. Black and White was one of my earliest “Punk/NewWave” purchases.
	10:04pm Anon: Grinding on some killer Thai and super stoked on hearing something fantastic and new. Thanks for the hard work all oxo
	10:04pm CC: Math!!!
	10:05pm ultradamno: Naked Raygun strikes a familiar pose img.discogs.com...
	10:07pm ParUbi: hello everyone, hi Nate
	10:09pm ParUbi: just in time for this, phew
	10:10pm ultradamno: boomp baboomp baboompbaboomp
	10:12pm ParUbi: Loving this. Will the robots survive their journey through the forbidden zone?
	10:15pm JakeGould: Suicide-ish
	10:15pm ultradamno: opticsink.bandcamp.com
	10:15pm Nate K.: @ParUbi, indeed. Great, great stuff.
	10:15pm Aitch: Me and my rhythm box
	10:16pm Nate K.: Thanks, @ultra.
	10:19pm Aitch: Pretty sure you said Memphis?? The king really is dead, loving this though
	10:20pm ultradamno: Memphis is indicated as home on their bandcamp page.
	10:21pm CC: let's hope that we continue to breathe..!..cheerz!!!!
	10:21pm ultradamno: Tennessee not Egypt.
	10:21pm ParUbi: Somehow the Memphis thing is very reassuring. Sure enough, "life from Memphis"-- the king is dead, long live the weird
	10:22pm Wilson.: Dance Hard Music
	10:22pm Nate K.: Memphis, TN, yeah.
	10:22pm Handy Haversack: Kate and I have been listening outside -- great show, Nate! It really feels Burned Down! Hey, pals.
	10:23pm ParUbi: Hey there, HH! How're the things?
	10:25pm ultradamno: From the listening I would have guessed SF, it's got a would have fit on Red Spot or played on the same bill as Tuxedomoon and Nervous Gender feel to it (which is praise)
	10:29pm Rory: Hey everyone! Live set has been goood!
	10:31pm Scott Williams: Optic Sink hitting all the right spots
	10:37pm ultradamno: Live footage twitter.com...
	10:38pm Nate K.: Glad everybody is digging it.
	10:42pm JakeGould: This is a good band. Not retro but real. Great live set!
	10:48pm JakeGould: Which Korg? Mini what?
	10:49pm ultradamno: The stand-in for all social media on the show Middleman was Your Face In A Tube, that's how we'll go to shows, head capsules.
	10:50pm ParUbi: Korg Minilogue
	10:51pm JakeGould: Dude, not just a gym… But SoulCycle’s CEO… That’s nuts.
	10:51pm ultradamno: If WWE is an essential service in Florida (as flying fluids go)...yeah, bring back the mosh pit, may as well.
	10:51pm Nate K.: @Jake, oh shite! I didn't realize it was SoulCycle!
	10:52pm Rory: Hehehehe....open things back up...
	10:53pm Rory: If u don’t laugh you cry.
	10:53pm JakeGould: Yup! www.thedailybeast.com...
	10:54pm ultradamno: I feel that was (afraid to watch it again) about the early seasons of Rescue Me, in no small part owing to how bad it got by the end.
	11:00pm Rory: I’ve been watching Santo movies on YouTube. That’s where I’m at.
	11:02pm ultradamno: You may like this Blue Demon comic book cover then twitter.com...
	11:04pm Rory: Love it! Anything Blue Demon & Santo fighting monsters, zombies, mummies, ect.
	11:18pm ultradamno: Probably something he couldn't hardly stand
	11:24pm Rory: No, but it is bizarre spectacle and fun.
	11:25pm Scott Williams: Jesse Jarnow better do this one with the Hoof & Mouth in 2021! What a spectacle it woulda been this year...
	11:27pm Nate K.: Yes!, Scott. I hope we get the chance to see it.
	11:31pm JakeGould: It feels so weird to think that 2020 is — effectively — written off already.
	11:31pm Scott Williams: We got in 3 practices, Nate - good god! Everyone who saw it got their frow good n' blowed
	11:33pm Nate K.: I was there, man!
	11:36pm Nate K.: Probably one of the best Monkees covers I can recall. So much so that I asked Joe McG (I think), "Who is this?"
	11:39pm Scott Williams: You were there! Of course! Yep, right up there with Amanda's "As We Go Along" form a few years back (in a waaaaay different vein)
	11:39pm Scott Williams: Also, Nate, this whole show's been top-shelf tonight - thanks!
	11:41pm Nate K.: Thank you, sir!
	11:42pm Scott Williams: Thanks Malkmus for answering the musical question could Lou Reed sing the word if'n?
	11:42pm Rory: love this track!
	11:50pm Nate K.: Oh, and for the record, I don't think Todd-o-Phonic Todd is on "Wake and Back" tomorrow; the time warp got me again.
	11:53pm Scott Williams: Looks like Matt Warwick is doing Wake tomorrow
	11:56pm Nate K.: Yup!
	11:56pm Nate K.: Thank as always for hanging out everybody. See you next week.
	12:00am Nate K: Sorry for the wrong info!!!!
	12:01am Rory: Thanks Nate

Burn It Down! with Nate K.: Playlist from May 5, 2020

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Music for the revolution in my head: choogling punks; power pop, both skinny-tied and long-haired; soul shouters and girl groups; bubblegum and acid rock; global fuzz; weirdos and outsiders, and the Weirdos and the Outsiders; Archie Shepp and J. Geils. Plus, live bands.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Nots	Floating Hand "Floating Hand" by "Nots"	3	Goner					0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Negative Trend	Black and Red "Black and Red" by "Negative Trend"	Negative Trend EP	Heavy Manners		7"			0:06:53 (Pop-up)
Rixe	Coups & Blessures "Coups & Blessures" by "Rixe"	Coups & Blessures 7"	La Vida Es Un Mus		7"			0:10:34 (Pop-up)
New Bomb Turks	Hamerless Nail (alt version)	We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut (companion CD)	No label					0:13:51 (Pop-up)
The Vultures	Looking for a Job "Looking for a Job" by "The Vultures"	At Home	La Vida Es Un Mus		7"	1981 original		0:16:40 (Pop-up)
Neutrals	Hitler's in the Charts Again	Rent/Your House EP	Emotional Response	2020			*	0:19:10 (Pop-up)
Primo	Best and Fairest "Best and Fairest" by "Primo"	Sogni	Upset! the Rhythm	2020			*	0:22:09 (Pop-up)
Germ House	Can't Feel My Feet "Can't Feel My Feet" by "Germ House"	Bandcamp Cashgrab EP	No Label				*	0:25:20 (Pop-up)

The Cowboys	Everybody in the World Is Happy	Room of Clons	Feel It	2020			*	0:35:44 (Pop-up)
Graph	Life in the Mono "Life in the Mono" by "Graph"	Graph 1978	Sheffield Tape Archive					0:40:13 (Pop-up)
Jackie Lynn	Casino Queen "Casino Queen" by "Jackie Lynn"	Jacqueline	Drag City	2020			*	0:44:10 (Pop-up)
Solid Space	Platform 6 "Platform 6" by "Solid Space"	Space Museum	Dark Entries					0:47:21 (Pop-up)
The Stranglers	Genetix "Genetix" by "The Stranglers"	The Raven	United Artists			RIP Dave Greenfield		0:50:37 (Pop-up)
Lori & the Chameleons	Touch "Touch" by "Lori & the Chameleons"	Touch 7"	Zoo	1979				0:55:30 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Brigitte Bardot	Gang Gang "Gang Gang" by "Brigitte Bardot"	La Belle et Le Blues	Ace International					0:59:48 (Pop-up)

A Live Set from Optic Sink!!! and an Interview with Natalie Hoffmann

Joe Stubbs	Keep On Loving Me Baby	The Birth of Motor Town	RPM Records					1:53:47 (Pop-up)
Mighty Sam	Lovebones "Lovebones" by "Mighty Sam"	Atlantic Unearthed: Soul Brothers	Atlantic					1:55:58 (Pop-up)
Sweet Pearl	You Mean Everything to Me	Stone Crush: Memphis Modern Soul 1977–1987	Light in the Attic Records					1:59:12 (Pop-up)
Jack Oblivian & The Dream Killers	Loose Diamonds	Lost Weekend	Black & Wyatt Records				*	2:03:14 (Pop-up)
Les Sexareenos	Do the Rat Dog "Do the Rat Dog" by "Les Sexareenos"	14 Frenzied Shakers	Sympathy For The Record Industry					2:07:49 (Pop-up)
Kit Convict & Thee Terrible Two	Coyote	Watch Your Skull	Off the Hip					2:10:28 (Pop-up)
Charlie Feathers	So Ashamed "So Ashamed" by "Charlie Feathers"	The Sun Recordings	Sun					2:12:03 (Pop-up)

Oxford Collapse	Dance Dance Dance	Seven-inch Single	Comedy Minus One	2020		Unreleased Bandcamp single https://oxfordcollapse.bandcamp.com/track/dance-dance-dance	*	2:21:32 (Pop-up)
The Monkees	Listen to the Band "Listen to the Band" by "The Monkees"	The Definitive Monkees	Warner					2:23:32 (Pop-up)
Penny Arkade	Give Our Love (to All the People)	Not the Freeze	Sundazed Music					2:25:46 (Pop-up)
Astrology Now	Dear Sun "Dear Sun" by "Astrology Now"	Semi-Hollow Review	No Label		Cassette			2:28:27 (Pop-up)
Various Quarantined Artists	Small Town Talk	Save Me Jesus: A Tribute	No label			Song-for-song cover of Bobby Charles's 1972 self-titled album.		2:32:42 (Pop-up)
Stephen Malkmus	Cash Up "Cash Up" by "Stephen Malkmus"	Traditional Techniques	Matador					2:39:10 (Pop-up)
Kaleidoscope	Egyptian Gardens "Egyptian Gardens" by "Kaleidoscope"	Side Trips	Epic					2:41:02 (Pop-up)
Goldberg	Pop and Ice "Pop and Ice" by "Goldberg"	Misty Flats	Future Days			1974 original		2:44:07 (Pop-up)
Wall Matthews	Urgent Rites (home demo)	The Guitar Music of Mall Matthews	Tompkins Square					2:47:36 (Pop-up)
Mary Lattimore	Live in the Rain from the Russian Woods	Live in the Rain from the Russian Woods	No label					2:53:38 (Pop-up)
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Listener comments!
	9:01pm P-90: Burn Baby Burn
	9:01pm ultradamno: Hello Nate! Accelerants! Ready to soak my earballs in the Optic Sink.
	9:01pm JakeGould: Burn!
	9:02pm Nate K.: Hey, folks. Live music coming up around 10:00. Natalie from Nots recorded a synth set specifically for our show. "We're not worthy."
	9:08pm mb: Bout to Burn it Down! IG made me do it.
	9:08pm Ralf Hoffmann: Looking forward to Natalie's live set. This is her dad (for real) and of course I love her dearly!
	9:11pm Scott Williams: Nate, did I ever mention how much I love the transition from Bethany's show to yours? Well done
	9:12pm Aitch: d-k-ing
	9:12pm CC: Hi y'all...I'm in the mood!!!
	9:12pm Aitch: Certainly one of the stronger contrasts in the lineup Scott W
	9:13pm Nate K.: @Scott, there's just enough opera to prevent any whiplash lawsuits.
	9:15pm Joe D.: still really glad "Gunk Punk" did not catch on as a term
	9:16pm Aitch: it has now Joe D
	9:16pm ultradamno: Gunk Funk could have a future though. I imagine most gunks do have one...
	9:16pm CC: Now a daze all I can do is try to stop my my right leg..!..it's really hard!!!!
	9:17pm Nate K.: @Joe D, it feels like a name settled on after a long day.
	9:22pm Joe D.: "Y'know, something snappy, like "Cock Rock" or "Trap Rap"...."
	9:27pm CC: what is a person supposed to do when the world is all out of kilter???
	9:27pm sloweducation: dear CC - be like water.
	9:29pm ultradamno: Hey, look who gets namechecked on the page for this (with the delicious looking cover graphic) germhouse.bandcamp.com...
	9:30pm CC: I mean it's not like a dream we are all going to wake up from?!?
	9:31pm ultradamno: It doesn't end until X Æ A-12 reaches adulthood and starts the apocalypse.
	9:34pm Folsom: next bandcamp promo is june 5, first friday of the month, also july 3
	9:36pm CC: Stir it up!!!
	9:36pm ultradamno: Bring on the relaxabilly.
	9:37pm ultradamno: ...but not the chillaxabilly or the gunkabilly.
	9:38pm Nate K.: @Ultra, an honor.
	9:40pm Nate K.: I've been trying to place it; the Cowboys reminds me of the post-post-punk Scritti Politti stuff.
	9:47pm kym: I loved the Nots track and was convinced it was Niagara-era Destroy All Monsters. Looking forward to the Optic Sink set!
	9:52pm CC: I like hearing songs about old people dying nowadays?!?
	9:53pm Nate K.: @cc, yikes, sorry!
	9:56pm CC: I found a great version of the Monterey Pop movie on YouTube the other day...two plus hours!!!
	9:59pm ultradamno: I remember seeing Jimi Hendrix's set when I was very young. I've pretty much thought rock music is about setting things on fire ever since. Otis burns it down too.
	10:02pm CC: musical style with appropriate lyrics always does it for me!!!
	10:03pm steveL: Great set. Sad news from the Stranglers. Such an unusual collection of musical voices. So jarring and angular. Black and White was one of my earliest “Punk/NewWave” purchases.
	10:04pm Anon: Grinding on some killer Thai and super stoked on hearing something fantastic and new. Thanks for the hard work all oxo
	10:04pm CC: Math!!!
	10:05pm ultradamno: Naked Raygun strikes a familiar pose img.discogs.com...
	10:07pm ParUbi: hello everyone, hi Nate
	10:09pm ParUbi: just in time for this, phew
	10:10pm ultradamno: boomp baboomp baboompbaboomp
	10:12pm ParUbi: Loving this. Will the robots survive their journey through the forbidden zone?
	10:15pm JakeGould: Suicide-ish
	10:15pm ultradamno: opticsink.bandcamp.com
	10:15pm Nate K.: @ParUbi, indeed. Great, great stuff.
	10:15pm Aitch: Me and my rhythm box
	10:16pm Nate K.: Thanks, @ultra.
	10:19pm Aitch: Pretty sure you said Memphis?? The king really is dead, loving this though
	10:20pm ultradamno: Memphis is indicated as home on their bandcamp page.
	10:21pm CC: let's hope that we continue to breathe..!..cheerz!!!!
	10:21pm ultradamno: Tennessee not Egypt.
	10:21pm ParUbi: Somehow the Memphis thing is very reassuring. Sure enough, "life from Memphis"-- the king is dead, long live the weird
	10:22pm Wilson.: Dance Hard Music
	10:22pm Nate K.: Memphis, TN, yeah.
	10:22pm Handy Haversack: Kate and I have been listening outside -- great show, Nate! It really feels Burned Down! Hey, pals.
	10:23pm ParUbi: Hey there, HH! How're the things?
	10:25pm ultradamno: From the listening I would have guessed SF, it's got a would have fit on Red Spot or played on the same bill as Tuxedomoon and Nervous Gender feel to it (which is praise)
	10:29pm Rory: Hey everyone! Live set has been goood!
	10:31pm Scott Williams: Optic Sink hitting all the right spots
	10:37pm ultradamno: Live footage twitter.com...
	10:38pm Nate K.: Glad everybody is digging it.
	10:42pm JakeGould: This is a good band. Not retro but real. Great live set!
	10:48pm JakeGould: Which Korg? Mini what?
	10:49pm ultradamno: The stand-in for all social media on the show Middleman was Your Face In A Tube, that's how we'll go to shows, head capsules.
	10:50pm ParUbi: Korg Minilogue
	10:51pm JakeGould: Dude, not just a gym… But SoulCycle’s CEO… That’s nuts.
	10:51pm ultradamno: If WWE is an essential service in Florida (as flying fluids go)...yeah, bring back the mosh pit, may as well.
	10:51pm Nate K.: @Jake, oh shite! I didn't realize it was SoulCycle!
	10:52pm Rory: Hehehehe....open things back up...
	10:53pm Rory: If u don’t laugh you cry.
	10:53pm JakeGould: Yup! www.thedailybeast.com...
	10:54pm ultradamno: I feel that was (afraid to watch it again) about the early seasons of Rescue Me, in no small part owing to how bad it got by the end.
	11:00pm Rory: I’ve been watching Santo movies on YouTube. That’s where I’m at.
	11:02pm ultradamno: You may like this Blue Demon comic book cover then twitter.com...
	11:04pm Rory: Love it! Anything Blue Demon & Santo fighting monsters, zombies, mummies, ect.
	11:18pm ultradamno: Probably something he couldn't hardly stand
	11:24pm Rory: No, but it is bizarre spectacle and fun.
	11:25pm Scott Williams: Jesse Jarnow better do this one with the Hoof & Mouth in 2021! What a spectacle it woulda been this year...
	11:27pm Nate K.: Yes!, Scott. I hope we get the chance to see it.
	11:31pm JakeGould: It feels so weird to think that 2020 is — effectively — written off already.
	11:31pm Scott Williams: We got in 3 practices, Nate - good god! Everyone who saw it got their frow good n' blowed
	11:33pm Nate K.: I was there, man!
	11:36pm Nate K.: Probably one of the best Monkees covers I can recall. So much so that I asked Joe McG (I think), "Who is this?"
	11:39pm Scott Williams: You were there! Of course! Yep, right up there with Amanda's "As We Go Along" form a few years back (in a waaaaay different vein)
	11:39pm Scott Williams: Also, Nate, this whole show's been top-shelf tonight - thanks!
	11:41pm Nate K.: Thank you, sir!
	11:42pm Scott Williams: Thanks Malkmus for answering the musical question could Lou Reed sing the word if'n?
	11:42pm Rory: love this track!
	11:50pm Nate K.: Oh, and for the record, I don't think Todd-o-Phonic Todd is on "Wake and Back" tomorrow; the time warp got me again.
	11:53pm Scott Williams: Looks like Matt Warwick is doing Wake tomorrow
	11:56pm Nate K.: Yup!
	11:56pm Nate K.: Thank as always for hanging out everybody. See you next week.
	12:00am Nate K: Sorry for the wrong info!!!!
	12:01am Rory: Thanks Nate

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