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Favoriting June 17, 2023: Calvin Johnson, Thee Sinseers and The Altons!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments New Approx. start time
Beat Happening  Teenage Caveman   Favoriting You Turn Me On  K/Sub Pop    LP  Don't miss my conversation with Calvin Johnson on today's show!     
Death By Unga Bunga  Camouflage   Favoriting   Jansen Records  2023  MP3    *   0:04:45 (Pop-up)
Brad Marino  Ramones and Stones   Favoriting   https://bradmarino.bandcamp.com/    MP3      0:07:34 (Pop-up)
Ramones  Why Is It Always This Way?   Favoriting Rocket To Russia  Sire    LP      0:08:55 (Pop-up)
The Hives  Countdown To Shutdown   Favoriting The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons  Disques Hives  2023  MP3    *   0:10:57 (Pop-up)
The Cliques  So Hard   Favoriting   Custom    45      0:14:05 (Pop-up)
Beat Happening  Hangman   Favoriting Jamboree  K Records    LP      0:16:22 (Pop-up)
The Low Spirits  You Lied   Favoriting   Outro Records  2023  45  playing at Union Pool w/Mooney Suzuki on 7/29 and Berlin with The Elevator Operators on 8/3  *   0:18:56 (Pop-up)
 
 
Thee Sinseers live on WFMU engineered by Glenn Luttman
Thee Sinseers live on WFMU!  Love Me Like. You Used To   Favoriting             0:26:25 (Pop-up)
Thee Sinseers live on WFMU!  Left With A Broken Heart   Favoriting             0:29:53 (Pop-up)
Thee Sinseers live on WFMU!  Gone For Good   Favoriting             0:33:27 (Pop-up)
Thee Sinseers live on WFMU!  Seems Like   Favoriting             0:37:17 (Pop-up)
The Penguins  Memories Of El Monte   Favoriting   Original Sound    45      0:40:49 (Pop-up)
 
Beat Happening  Our Secret   Favoriting   K    45      0:44:45 (Pop-up)
Beat Happening  What's Important   Favoriting   K    45      0:47:33 (Pop-up)
Beat Happening  Cat Walk   Favoriting Jamboree  K    LP      0:49:29 (Pop-up)
Beat Happening  Indian Summer   Favoriting Jamboree  K    LP      0:51:20 (Pop-up)
Beat Happening  Midnight A Go-Go   Favoriting Jamboree  K    LP      0:54:20 (Pop-up)
Beat Happening  Cast A Shadow   Favoriting Black Candy  K    LP      0:56:34 (Pop-up)
Heavenly  C Is The Heavenly Option   Favoriting Le Jardin De Heavenly  Sarah Records    CD      0:59:16 (Pop-up)
Beat Happening  Fortune Cookie Prize   Favoriting Dreamy  Sub Pop Records    LP      1:02:30 (Pop-up)
 
 
Calvin Johnson interview pt. 1
Beat Happening/Screaming Trees  Tales Of Brave Aphrodite   Favoriting Beat Happening/Screaming Trees  Homestead    EP      1:35:10 (Pop-up)
Beat Happening  Nancy Sin   Favoriting   K    45      1:38:02 (Pop-up)
The Halo Benders  Don't Touch My Bikini   Favoriting God Don't Make No Junk  K    LP      1:40:38 (Pop-up)
Dub Narcotic Sound System & The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion  Love Ain't On The Run   Favoriting Sideways Soul: Dub Narcotic Sound System Meets The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion In A Dancehall Style!  K    CD      1:44:12 (Pop-up)
Beat Happening  Dreamy   Favoriting   K    45      1:46:49 (Pop-up)
Calvin Johnson  Good and Crazy   Favoriting Gallows Wine  K  2023  LP    *   1:50:26 (Pop-up)
 
 
Calvin Johnson interview pt. 2
The Cramps  The Way I Walk   Favoriting   Vengeance Records    45      2:20:35 (Pop-up)
Tav Falco's Panther Burns  She's The One That's Got It   Favoriting Behind The Magnolia Curtain  Rough Trade/Frenzi    LP      2:23:11 (Pop-up)
 
 
The Altons live on WFMU. Engineered by Dave Mambach
The Altons live on WFMU!  Tangled Up In You   Favoriting             2:27:14 (Pop-up)
The Altons live on WFMU!  When You Go   Favoriting             2:33:03 (Pop-up)
The Altons live on WFMU!  Float   Favoriting         The Altons and The Sinseers appear tonight at the 9:30 Club in D.C. and tomorrow night at The Ardmore Music Hall near Philly.    2:35:15 (Pop-up)
The Altons live on WFMU!  Shiny Shoes   Favoriting             2:39:36 (Pop-up)
 
Chit Chat with The Altons
 
Vito and The Salutations  Liverpool Bound   Favoriting   Wells    45      2:49:02 (Pop-up)
Bonnie Jo Mason  Ringo I Love You   Favoriting   Annette Records    45      2:51:15 (Pop-up)
The Scramblers  The Beatle Walk   Favoriting   Del-Fi    45      2:53:07 (Pop-up)
Ernie Maresca  The Beetle Dance   Favoriting   Rust    45      2:55:55 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
ironybread:

Hi Todd, you glorious pile of exploding DJ awesomeness! I won't be able to listen to the show live so I'm posting a question for Calvin ahead of time. Mark Hosler of Negativland asks: Does Calvin still have the 8-channel Kelsey mixer with spring reverb that Mark sold him years ago (which Calvin later used to mix Beck's "One Foot in the Grave")?
  3:01pm
Robm:

Hello fellow music fans
Avatar 3:02pm
Christina Ginger:

Good afternoon, everyone!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:02pm
prof.fuzz:

greetings from howdy arabia!
  3:02pm
Victrola Tom:

Hola fellow fans of great music!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
Chris Hiatt:

Hey Todd-o-phonic Todd and citizens of the board!
  3:03pm
Robm:

↳ prof.fuzz @3:02
How are things in the land where they don’t care about human rights
  3:04pm
Cooh John:

Hello Todd and Todd-o-philes. Still flying from last week 's SO.🤸🫠
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:04pm
prof.fuzz:

↳ Robm @3:03
hot, humid, and oppressive!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
JB:

Hi ho Todd O, from lovely Turkey Town
  3:05pm
Victrola Tom:

Not sure what everyone else is doing, but I’m sitting poolside, fat, dumb, & happy with the fact I scored Gonerfest tix!! Woohoo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
egould:

↳ Victrola Tom @3:05
Winning!
  3:06pm
Robm:

↳ prof.fuzz @3:04
Just as I thought
  3:06pm
dug:

we need a pow! pow! pow!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
JB:

↳ Robm @3:03
California?
  3:07pm
Victrola Tom:

Whoa, Dangerous Dave & Victrola Leslie share a birthday?? Earth-shattering news! 😂
  3:07pm
johnk77:

berlusconi dead by unga bunga
Avatar 3:07pm
Todd-o-phonic Todd:

Big show today! Live sets from Thee Sinseers and The Altons and a conversation with Calvin Johnson!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
prof.fuzz:

↳ JB @3:07
howdy arabia
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:08pm
egould:

↳ Todd-o-phonic Todd @3:07
It’s just TOO MUCH STUFF!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:10pm
JB:

↳ prof.fuzz @3:08
It's a dry heat, moist oppression??
  3:10pm
P-90:

I downed a few pints of Black & Tan with Sirius Trixon at the old Cat & Fiddle Pub on Sunset Boulevard back in the day
  3:11pm
Van Winkle ;-):

↳ Song: "Ramones and Stones" by "Brad Marino"
Just need TOPT...on a Saturday afternoon!!! Greetings Todd et al from above the 49th!!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
Jeff formerly from Rahway:

Good afternoon TOPT! Tuning in from the sunny Jersey Shore!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
prof.fuzz:

↳ JB @3:10
92F. Heat Index 95F.
66% humitity with severe thunderstorms in the forecast for the backside of dallas today.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:20pm
GPB:

Hello TOPT! Good Saturday to all!
Transiting to Fishkill NY with Todd Tunes!
Avatar 3:20pm
Christina Ginger:

↳ Song: "You Lied" by "The Low Spirits"
YEAH! This is a great one.
  3:21pm
Victrola Tom:

@prof.fuzz I’m in the DFW area so often for work I call it my 2nd home. I also call Three Links my musical home away from home!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
prof.fuzz:

↳ Victrola Tom @3:21
hey tom! 3 links is a great bar/venue! lots of other cool spots in the area too. hit me up next time you're in town...
  3:23pm
Dungaroos Kipawah:

I hope you have some prepared questions re what happened to Tiger Trap/The Softies. I miss TT
  3:24pm
Dungaroos Kipawah:

Tiger Trap a K Records favorite
  3:26pm
wenzo:

Send Hamtramck MI some love their city council is very confused rn
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:26pm
Frank In Queens:

Hell of an idea!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:27pm
Mennlinn Rebarts:

Solidarity with this!
  3:27pm
goes211:

Tell it Todd!!
  3:27pm
P-90:

“Up against the wall, starving homophobes!”
  3:28pm
Victrola Tom:

Hey prof.fuzz, I’ve done a double-up more than once with shows at either Trees or Dada, along with Three Links on the same night! Will definitely send an alert for my next visit! Wish it was next Friday, the Dollyrots are there!
  3:28pm
Van Winkle ;-):

Happy to report...almost every establishment in my new locale...sports their rainbow colours...year round!!!
  3:29pm
(another) Patrick in Hoboken:

Sunsets sound great!
  3:29pm
Victrola Tom:

@P-90, I see what you did with Redneck Mothers there! 😂
  3:29pm
Yapper:

Todd, I listened to The Shivas “Perder” about 100 times after you played it last week. Compelled to do a deeper dive, turns out it’s a song by their friend who had passed. Mexico City garage punk. Here’s the original. So so good. https://laspipasdelapaz.bandcamp.com/track/perder
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:30pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

If they don't like it, they can go to Russia!
  3:31pm
Ochre Ogre:

Hi Todd!
Yes, support all that support Gay Pride.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
prof.fuzz:

↳ Victrola Tom @3:28
we're gonna see The Go-Go Rillas tonight at a tiki fest thing in arlington. should be a blast.
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Bob Barth:

Hey Todd! I'm here for the rants & the tunes and just a smidge of snark.
  3:32pm
johnk77:

glenn luttman for the win
  3:34pm
Ochre Ogre:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @3:30
Right, with trump's buddy putin!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:35pm
Your Ace From Exchange Place:

@johnk77

Love you, man.
Been thinking about you lots.
Hope you and CZ are well.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
Pete from Hoboken:

Hey Todd! Is there going to be a Frantic City Festival this year?
  3:37pm
Ochre Ogre:

Whoa, 2 songs into this set and I'm hooked.
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Todd-o-phonic Todd:

↳ Pete from Hoboken @3:36
Not this year, unfortunately.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:40pm
Chris Hiatt:

Gotta love a band that rolls with a horn section and singers able to do the heavy lifting on these vocal harmonies.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:41pm
myron feld:

Thee Sinseers are fabulous! This is great!
  3:41pm
Van Winkle ;-):

Live set is sounding amazing ...kudos to Glenn...and of course thee band...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:42pm
Chop Scott:

Great work Glenn!
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Bob Barth:

They're great! I need them to come out to LA!
  3:43pm
Ochre Ogre:

WOW!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
Your Ace From Exchange Place:

↳ Chop Scott @3:42
@Van Winkle too

Cheers!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:43pm
Chris Hiatt:

That was great. Thanks, Thee Sinseers, and Glenn Luttman too!
  3:44pm
Vee Vee:

👏
  3:44pm
P-90:

Those El Monte nights
  3:44pm
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Hi Calvin - from Claudia at d.c.space. Come play in the Hudson Valley, please! Great going Todd! Love hearing you always on WFMU - in your glorious multi-fold manifestations.
Avatar 🎸 3:46pm
80sZuulScully:

And here I thought I'd missed it!
Avatar 3:47pm
Todd-o-phonic Todd:

↳ @3:44
Hi Claudia! Great to hear from you. You'll be hearing your name later in the program I believe!
  3:47pm
johnk77:

↳ Your Ace From Exchange Place @3:35
roots u killed it;>
we are fine
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
DonJuanTijuana:

Stoked to check out this interview with Calvin TOPT…from Ashtabula OH today
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:48pm
Your Ace From Exchange Place:

↳ johnk77 @3:47
So glad to hear!
  3:51pm
johnk77:

↳ Your Ace From Exchange Place @3:48
email me johnknoerr at gmail.com
i will buy u a drink or?
  3:51pm
Van Winkle ;-):

↳ Song: "Our Secret" by "Beat Happening"
Is this really from 1985!?! Or do I have my facts wrong... Definitely shares a lot of similarities with many of the new / current crop of post-punk releases...
Avatar 🎸 3:52pm
80sZuulScully:

↳ Van Winkle ;-) @3:51
It totally is, good stuff -- Calvin K and Beat Happening were doing the same thing 30 years ago... I highly recommend a London set they did with The Vaselines if you can find it
Avatar 🎸 3:53pm
80sZuulScully:

↳ Song: "Indian Summer" by "Beat Happening"
This is the only Calvin K song where I wish he sang a little better ;), sorry Calvin
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
PaulRobeson1923:

Hi Hi Hi
  3:54pm
Van Winkle ;-):

↳ Song: "Indian Summer" by "Beat Happening"
Love it!!! Thanks for another "new to moi" intro TOPT...
  3:54pm
toorushed:

Calvin Johnson and TOPT. Day of legends! We are fortunate folks.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:55pm
DonJuanTijuana:

I luv this Indian Summer tune
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 3:55pm
PaulRobeson1923:

Sounding good to turned on ears
Avatar 🎸 3:56pm
80sZuulScully:

↳ Song: "Indian Summer" by "Beat Happening"
I may have worn this song out which is why I wish Calvin sang a little better but still, a classic since I haven't listened to it in a while
  3:56pm
DaveinVA:

Twee Pop!
Avatar 🎸 3:57pm
80sZuulScully:

If Todd's reading this, can you please ask Calvin about his thoughts on Kurt Cobain and the Seattle scene? He was so lucky to be in the right place at the right time and be there as the scene was exploding...
Avatar 🎸 3:59pm
80sZuulScully:

↳ Song: "Cast A Shadow" by "Beat Happening"
Hmm. I also forgot how melodic Beat Happening's songs are. Thanks for the reminder, Todd -- and thanks for the music, Calvin!
Avatar 4:00pm
Hubig Pie:

This is my fav BH song just in case anyone was wonderin'
  4:02pm
Victrola Tom:

Tony Marciano is dancing around the pool to this track! ❤️
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:04pm
Jeff formerly from Rahway:

I saw Heavenly and Beat Happening play in the Fantagraphics Books warehouse in Seattle(?) in 1992. I have photos. I got a free Heavenly yo-yo.
Avatar 🎸 4:04pm
80sZuulScully:

↳ Song: "Fortune Cookie Prize" by "Beat Happening"
I appreciate all these tunes played on different formats, adds to the special sonic experience on this show :)
Avatar 4:05pm
Hubig Pie:

Got any Dub narcotic in the queue ?
  4:05pm
meli in the woods:

wow! serendipity to tune in at this moment 💛
Avatar 🎸 4:05pm
80sZuulScully:

↳ Song: "Fortune Cookie Prize" by "Beat Happening"
And thanks for playing a song with Heather Lewis on lead! :) She sounds great.
Avatar 4:06pm
βrian:

↳ Song: "Fortune Cookie Prize" by "Beat Happening"
For me, this is back-to-school music after having wrapped up the missing years.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:07pm
Will thee Sound Guy:

Hi Todd-o-Phonic Todd and all!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:08pm
Barney Grubbs:

I was at the show in Reseda in 1990 (?) where they opened for Fugazi when Calvin finished the set with a bloody nose after some meathead there to see Minor Threat clocked him with an ashtray. When they were done they walked off through the crowd. It was a bad-ass move. (Then we got a lecture from Ian Mackaye.)
  4:08pm
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↳ Todd-o-phonic Todd @3:47
It is fun to remember those heady times when punk was new. Heather, Brett and Calvin took me with them on to NYC and Boston - I drove their rental car back to DC and they continued on. No GPS and no map. Worked out great - and I had just met them.
  4:10pm
Victrola Tom:

Tony Marciano says “I’ve never heard Todd talk so much”! In a good way! He’s loving it!
Avatar 🎸 4:11pm
80sZuulScully:

↳ @4:08
Jealous! How cool!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:12pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Calvin Johnson interview pt. 1.1
  4:12pm
Van Winkle ;-):

Blips happen...no biggie. It's real radio...not AI... thankfully...
  4:13pm
Victrola Tom:

Is there an echo in here? 😂
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:19pm
Elena:

Cool bit of Maxwell's history!
  4:20pm
toorushed:

Flaming Lips and BH at Maxwells together? That sounds like a blast.
Avatar 🎸 4:21pm
80sZuulScully:

Yessssssssssss
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80sZuulScully:

Didn't know about the anger though...
Avatar 4:21pm
Hubig Pie:

Cult leader gets the fancy car with TV and telephone
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:22pm
prof.fuzz:

9 months is an academic year...
  4:24pm
P-90:

“…you must have done some research”
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:24pm
PaulRobeson1923:

↳ prof.fuzz @4:22
Turn on to that sound in yer ears when the room is silent
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:25pm
prof.fuzz:

↳ PaulRobeson1923 @4:24
hello tinnitus my old friend...
  4:26pm
meli in the woods:

wouldn't a yearly pop convention in Atlantic city be nice
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
PaulRobeson1923:

↳ prof.fuzz @4:25
That is the sound of the universe, my friend!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:29pm
prof.fuzz:

↳ PaulRobeson1923 @4:28
the cramps are the sound of the universe...
Avatar 🎸 4:29pm
80sZuulScully:

...I kind of forgot that Calvin is a hard to pin down interview.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:30pm
PaulRobeson1923:

It’s all coming Together
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:31pm
prof.fuzz:

↳ PaulRobeson1923 @4:30
i know!
in another six degrees moment... we played with the klitz sisters in memphis a few weeks ago. lovely folks, and great band.
  4:37pm
goes211:

Great interview. This guy lived inside a Rockwell painting.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:38pm
TheDerek:

RIP Van Conner
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:38pm
PaulRobeson1923:

Out of the sea O’ Aphrodite
  4:39pm
Rick G:

Mark Pickerel has a record booth at the Thorp Antique/fruit building outside Ellensburg, for anyone traveling on I-90. I got this EP there. Great interview Todd.
Avatar 🎸 4:41pm
80sZuulScully:

↳ Song: "Nancy Sin" by "Beat Happening"
Cramps vibes!
  4:43pm
Van Winkle ;-):

Agree.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:43pm
Bobby:

Hi Doug
Avatar 🎸 4:45pm
80sZuulScully:

Someone's getting their Dub Narcotic!
  4:46pm
Harry Corvair:

You can stare, that’s a freebie

Don't Touch My Bikini by The Halo Benders (God Don't Make No Junk)
  4:48pm
Ochre Ogre:

↳ 80sZuulScully @4:41
Yeah big time, in a couple other tracks too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:49pm
Chris Hiatt:

↳ Song: "Calvin Johnson interview pt. 1"
That was a really interesting interview/hang/discussion.
Avatar 4:49pm
Todd-o-phonic Todd:

↳ Chris Hiatt @4:49
We're not done yet!
  4:51pm
Van Winkle ;-):

↳ Song: "Dreamy" by "Beat Happening"
Another fine tune...
  4:53pm
rich from Red Hook:

Great show/interview! Todd you probably booked Dub Narcotic Sound System and Junior Senior at Maxwells. Amazing show. Junior or Senior was too sick from a night of drinking and missed the show
  4:53pm
ShelbyG:

Hey ToT! Just back from a garden party. The summer in Devon, UK, is amazing. Cherry on top, catching a bit of your show!!
Avatar 4:54pm
Bob Barth:

enjoying the interview, however i sense the vaguest whiff of hostility in the air... or is it just me?
Avatar 4:54pm
Todd-o-phonic Todd:

↳ rich from Red Hook @4:53
Now that you mention it, I have a vague memory of the Junior Senior scenario that night.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:54pm
Chris Hiatt:

↳ Todd-o-phonic Todd @4:49
Dig it, just seeing the pt. 1 now.
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Todd-o-phonic Todd:

↳ Bob Barth @4:54
Just you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:55pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ ShelbyG @4:53
Cheers, ShelbyG!
Avatar 4:55pm
Bob Barth:

↳ Todd-o-phonic Todd @4:54
well then, happy to hear that
  4:55pm
ShelbyG:

This track is great 👍🏼
  4:55pm
ShelbyG:

Hey Ken!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:57pm
Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ ShelbyG @4:55
hi ShelbyG, how are you doing across the Atlantic?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 4:58pm
PaulRobeson1923:

Rectum!
  4:58pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ rich from Red Hook @4:53
way back, junior senior opened for a band i wanted to see at summerstage, did not care for j/s and listened to back sabbath on my cd player instead and watched the crowd "what is this that stands before me"
  Swag For Life Member 5:02pm
SeaCreature:

Interesting shake-up. This show reminds me that a) I had no interest in American music for most of the 80s and B) I took the 90s off from music entirely.
  5:04pm
ShelbyG:

Hey Will! Hope married life is treating you right? 😉
Life here is beyond what I’d hoped, I love it 🥳
Avatar 🎸 5:05pm
80sZuulScully:

↳ SeaCreature @5:02
Hm. As an 80s music fan, what American bands were you a fan of in the '80s, may I ask?
  5:05pm
ShelbyG:

Interviewing this guy is challenging. Well done ToT.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:06pm
radioronan:

Got to see the restored footage of the Cramps @ Napa State show along with The Mutants footage the other night w/ q&a with Sally & Fritz Mutant. What was surprising to me was how many in the audience had never seen the Cramps portion. I assumed every Cramps fan had seen the Target vid.
  5:06pm
morphe':

What is/was Johnson's relationship to the Flaming Lips?? just mentioned by Todd???
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 5:06pm
Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ ShelbyG @5:04
right on, chillin, grillin, etc... we've been well. our daughter Char is 17 months old
  5:06pm
markinbrooklyn:

I miss the yellow newsprint K newsletter!
Thats where i first heard about Dead Moon.
Bought so many great cassettes, singles from K…
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Todd-o-phonic Todd:

↳ morphe' @5:06
I think the relationship consisted solely of sharing a bill at Maxwell's.
  5:08pm
morphe':

Thanks TopT .....
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Ken From Hyde Park:

No charge to visit the Roger Maris Museum - www.westacres.com...
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prof.fuzz:

this is a lovely interview.
thanks todd!
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Todd-o-phonic Todd:

↳ prof.fuzz @5:09
You're welcome!
  5:12pm
MD:

Snarky? A bit… bustin de olde dj’s “turntables!”
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Will thee Sound Guy:

diggin the conversation
  5:13pm
Victrola Tom:

I’ll no longer associate the nickname Megatron with the name Calvin Johnson after today and this great interview!
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80sZuulScully:

Have to go, thank you for this slice of musical history Todd, appreciate the interview. Thanks for stopping by, Calvin.
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SeaCreature:

↳ 80sZuulScully @5:05
Mostly Brit stuff but would go see frightwig, pussy galore, Stevie Moore, CVB. Quirky stuff on wfmu where there was mostly a personal connection.
  5:22pm
Ochre Ogre:

Great interview, thanks Todd!
Calvin reminds me of a friend of mine.
  5:22pm
ShelbyG:

Great interview, really interesting! Thank you, Todd & Calvin.
  5:25pm
bobobob plasticland:

my guitar player from Plasticland talked me into goin to see The Cramps ...it was a life changing experience
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ Song: "Calvin Johnson interview pt. 2"
Very cool. Calvin has such a great philosophy. Learned a lot!
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Todd-o-phonic Todd:

↳ Chris Hiatt @5:27
Glad to hear! And thanks @Ochre Ogre and @ShelbyG!
  5:32pm
Van Winkle ;-):

I love these "conversations"...they always stir up lots of fine memories of shows/music that had such a big impact on quite a few of us...I suspect. Cramps at Commodore Ballroom early 1982...was a fine show....as was that Vancouver show by The Jam...back in '79.
It was definitely the emergence of a strong and supportive DIY ethos/period that touched many cultural matters back then...because there were no other options. Especially on the "tech" front...no cells, no internet but lots of indie spirit.
  5:38pm
ShelbyG:

The Altons sound fab!! Very cool 😎
  5:42pm
Mr C:

Truly great show today Todd. Gracias
The kids are alright!
  5:42pm
morphe':

Great interview.. Great Altons !!!
  5:43pm
Victrola Tom:

Great show maestro, as usual!
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Todd-o-phonic Todd:

Thank you all!
  5:44pm
MFlynn:

Love the Altons Todd. Thanks. Great show as usual!
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PaulRobeson1923:

Thank you! TODD OH!
  5:46pm
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Great interview Todd! Thank you!
  5:47pm
Ochre Ogre:

↳ Song: "Float" by "The Altons live on WFMU!"
Man, would love to see these two bands together!
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chresti:

Hi Todd and guests! listening from San Gabriel, CA
  5:50pm
ShelbyG:

I’m excited to check The Altons & Sinceres!!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks a bunch, Todd and guests. I may have stepped away for part of Calvin's interview. Did the K-tel people ever come after K Records?
  5:55pm
ShelbyG:

Thank you for a great show, loved it!!!!
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radioronan:

Great interview and sets..Thanks Todd! Cheers y'all!
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Thank you Todd-o-Phonic Todd, Calvin Johnson, The Sinseers, Glenn Luttman, The Altons, Dave Mambach and all the accu peeps!!!
  5:58pm
Van Winkle ;-):

Thanks again TOPT for a great 3 hours of "parallel universe" sounds. I'm popping across the road next to check out the 2nd annual Black Culture fest...just starting up. Hip Hop makes a nice change to the usual soft jazz many in my hood generally support.
  5:58pm
Ochre Ogre:

No longer in BKLYN, miss Mikey Post DJ night at Harefield Road, if he still does it.
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Elena:

Thanks!
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