Listener comments!

Thu. 6/26/08 3:04pm From: Foreign Listener K

Verily, we are naught but pitchers with ears waiting to be filled, as our vessel sails in.

Thu. 6/26/08 3:05pm From: sugarwolf

yay Monica!

Thu. 6/26/08 3:07pm From: Chunky A

Yo bro

Thu. 6/26/08 3:11pm From: north guinea hills

damn monica, awesome set. did i ever tell you that you were the first wfmu dj i listened to when i was in g-ville fl back when wfmu had a tinny stream?.... god, it was literally a decade ago.....

two years later i moved here... thanks!!!!

Thu. 6/26/08 3:25pm From: Foreign_listener_K

Not to be pushy about devotion, but Monica was the first WFMU DJ I ever heard - on a 33.6 modem. Playing whale music.

I've been hooked since.

Thu. 6/26/08 3:27pm From: Sean Daily

Liking this Noise Ramones, Monica.

Thu. 6/26/08 3:30pm From: jeanli

yes to the noise ramones
yes to monica
yes

Thu. 6/26/08 3:31pm From: monica

hi there folks! thanks so much for checking in. foreigner listener k and north guinea hills, you're killin' me with fond memories. hope everyone's have a swell week..

Thu. 6/26/08 3:34pm From: HotRod

Lovely sounds!

Thu. 6/26/08 3:36pm From: north guinea hills

hmmmm..., maybe it was '99, that would have been about the time the lonesome organst came out... i still remembering listening to you at my office at my first job out of college at 9pm by myself...... and remembering, "damn, i clear crowds when i play this shit!"

Thu. 6/26/08 4:06pm From: Foreign Listener K

Who doesn't want to listen to hippie whale music? My kids loved it, just like they did the Muslim Gauze which was also a part of the set.

We are talking the freeform Godhead here. But then, I'm spoiled - I found Monica after Janet, the last vestige of freeform at a WHFS successor, disappeared from the ether.

Freeform and a DJ with fantastic taste? - paradise on earth.

And for those who think freeform is freeloading - you do contribute to WFMU, right? Right?

Amen.

Thu. 6/26/08 4:09pm From: Scott Blake

MORE! Marching Band. I turned my little computer speakers up as loud as possible for Marching Band "Drill". Please play more of that CD.

Thu. 6/26/08 4:10pm From: north guinea hills

i contribute more then i can afford. still nothing but ramen and coor's lite...(and no substances) until at least august. my student loan creditors wish i would sacrifice as much....

Thu. 6/26/08 4:12pm From: sugarwolf

I liked the Becoming Roxy Music book. And I found For Your Pleausre on used vinyl last month, yay yay yay.

I wish I had Bryan Ferry dreams!

Thu. 6/26/08 4:14pm From: north guinea hills

but i got 2 awesome wfmu cd comps that my friends aleady copied for me....

sucker.... that's me!!! jejejeje

Thu. 6/26/08 4:15pm From: Foreign Listener K

No, not coor's lite - really. Either buy some real beer, or spend the money on something worthwhile - bud comes to mind, and not the kind proudly brewed with rice.

I mean, the Belgians brew beer with cherries, but really, do they know what they are trying to acquire?

Thu. 6/26/08 4:19pm From: Dead Corporate Eyes

everyone wants a good buzz

Thu. 6/26/08 4:19pm From: monica

so y'all at the snack machine right about now or what? thanks for the freeform ups Listener K, more marching band to came Blake, Hey Hot Rod, whattup? thanks lovely jeanli, sean d, sugarwolf, chunky A

Thu. 6/26/08 4:22pm From: jonathan

is that really a rubber band?

Thu. 6/26/08 4:26pm From: Swami

This song has made me weep copiously since I was a lad.

Thu. 6/26/08 4:28pm From: Parq

What a nifty version of P(TMD)! Sort of makes me picture little 6-year-old surfer dudes. Beatniks, maybe.

Thu. 6/26/08 4:30pm From: north guinea hills

holy shit, i used side B from tusk to help me get over a breakup 7 years ago... i sense have used the "humming part" of this track for a sample of a minimal techno track, a l a herbert style. tusk, i cry every time.

Thu. 6/26/08 4:31pm From: north guinea hills

THANK YOU FOR THE MAC!!!!!!

Thu. 6/26/08 4:33pm From: HotRod

YOU'RE WHAT'S UP, MONICA!

Thu. 6/26/08 4:35pm From: Dead Corporate Eyes

oh my god, is this Scarlett Johanssen?

Thu. 6/26/08 4:35pm From: phat

good show today.

Hits the spot.

Thu. 6/26/08 4:36pm From: Parq

Oh dang, you beat me to it. One of my all-time tearjerkers is Waits's "Kentucky Avenue", but here you've already played a Waits song. I also get sentimental about any version (including the original) of "Time After Time".

Thu. 6/26/08 4:36pm From: Negator

Three sad cry songs:
I thought-Brian Ferry
Strange Fruit-Billie Holiday
Summer Lies-Magnetic Fields
I just wasn't made for these times-Beach Boys
Crown of Love-Arcade Fire
Ok so I thought of more..... Great show Monica!

Thu. 6/26/08 4:37pm From: Don Pubah

Two tear-jerkers for me....Wilco's "We're Just Friends" and Sinatra singing "September Song."

Good to have you back, Monica!

Thu. 6/26/08 4:37pm From: Listener David

Bruddah Iz's version of Somewhere over the Rainbow

Thu. 6/26/08 4:38pm From: phat

Parg, ditto on the "Time After Time"

Thu. 6/26/08 4:40pm From: Droll

One of the sweetest songs/performances I've heard is Sarah, by Ween (on Pure Guava). It's 2:11 of impossibly beautiful music for them.
Maybe I'm Amazed (McCartney) also Beatle-Cheese that works on me every time.

Thu. 6/26/08 4:41pm From: swami

Waaaaaah! Why?! Waaaaaahhhhh!

Thu. 6/26/08 4:42pm From: Parq

DCE, if that was Scarlett Jo singing, I'd hate to think what we'd get if a picture of her got posted.

Thu. 6/26/08 4:43pm From: frenchee

"Mad World" by Gary Jules. Sob, slobber, rinse, repeat.
Though that Dusty song nearly broke me!

Thu. 6/26/08 4:43pm From: phat

Wow, I wasn't a Percy Sledge fan until now.

Thu. 6/26/08 4:44pm From: Sean Daily

Monica, do you have a song from "The Idiot Formerly Known as FOOM" called "Godzilla"? That song always gets the waterworks going on me, for some reason.

Thu. 6/26/08 4:45pm From: Dominick

One of my favorite songs. Never heard Percy do his magic to it - nice!

Thu. 6/26/08 4:46pm From: Negator

tHE GIRL FROm Ipaneama. is sad too.

Thu. 6/26/08 4:46pm From: alex d

Leonard cohen - One of Us cannot be wrong
Leonard Cohen - Stories of the Street (mainly the last line)
Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet

when i was around 8yrs old Sloop John B always made cry.

Thu. 6/26/08 4:48pm From: frenchee

"Calling You" by Jevetta Steele--even when it was a telephone commercial I wept like a baby.

Thu. 6/26/08 4:50pm From: Negator

Wichita Lineman-sad

Thu. 6/26/08 4:50pm From: GUMBY

Funny song, If anyone was a legend in their time beyond The King and The Godfather of Soul it was probably The Man in Black

Thu. 6/26/08 4:50pm From: Negator

Midnight Cowboy Theme-sad

Thu. 6/26/08 4:50pm From: north guinea hills

zarusthathra damn it! now johnny, are you trying to make me cry today!!! f you monica! (*sniff) f' you (*sob)

Thu. 6/26/08 4:51pm From: Foreign Listener K

From a Douglas Wolk show, Frankie Armstrong singing Tam Lin using nothing but her voice, and ending -

...Crying, "Me love I've won, I've won"
Oh crying, "Me love I've won."

And outten spoke the Queen of Elfenland
From the bush wherein she stood
"I should have tore out your eyes Tam Lin
And put in two eyes of wood, of wood
Put in two eyes of wood."

Amazing - certainly gets me.

On the other hand, my son always cried to a German lullabye, called 'La Le Lu' -
La-le-lu
nur der Mann im Mond schaut zu
wenn die kleinen Babies schlafen
drum schlaf' auch du

La-le-lu
vor dem Bettchen steh'n zwei Schuh'
die sind genauso muede
geh'n jetzt zur Ruh'...

He grew out of it, but I doubt that will ever happen to me with that version of Tam Lin.

Thu. 6/26/08 4:51pm From: Negator

Dark Globe-Syd Barrett-sad

Thu. 6/26/08 4:51pm From: Slink

Hallejuah devastates me (just saw L Cohen in montreal. oh my...humble majesty) also, Slip Slidin' Away (P Simon); Crying (R. Orbison); Condemnation (Dep Mode)

thanks, Monica -- this is...well fun is the not the word. how about good?

Thu. 6/26/08 4:52pm From: north guinea hills

(cowokers aren't looking, i can drop my manly pretensions). THANK YOU MONICA!

Thu. 6/26/08 4:54pm From: Dead Corporate Eyes

come on get happy!

Thu. 6/26/08 4:55pm From: Negator

Stardust-Hoagy Carmichal

Thu. 6/26/08 4:55pm From: north guinea hills

'tis a nice version of tam lin, of my recent youth i loved, Foreign Listener K, there be a version none the finer!

Thu. 6/26/08 4:55pm From: GUMBY

Ben by Michael Jackson is so sad. Rats really do have nowhere to go, no friends, just other rats. sniff, sniff. Lots and lots of other rats.

Thu. 6/26/08 4:56pm From: alex d

yeah hallejuah too, but mostly jeff buckley's cover...a lot of leonard cohen and tom waits do it to me

Thu. 6/26/08 4:58pm From: Dead Corporate Eyes

punch-out time, bye bye, have a nice day!

Thu. 6/26/08 4:59pm From: Don Pubah

nostalgic tears somehow from Spirit in the Night by the Boss.

Thu. 6/26/08 5:00pm From: Parq

"Ben" is about rats?? And all this time, I thought it was about lawyers . . .

Thu. 6/26/08 5:03pm From: slink

true, alex. that buckley cover is crushing. but LC takes the crown overall in these matters of melancholy.

: that B Raitt song "can't make you love me" always makes me stop what i'm doing(in the place that's playing lite fm)...to feel sad and wistful. love it.

and speaking of lite FM "everbody's gotta learn sometime" by the korgis. so resigned and sad (and wafting)....

Thu. 6/26/08 5:04pm From: GUMBY

rats/lawyers same difference
I love hallejuah for its art & delivery, but I don't find it sad at all. Take your breath away yes, cry no.

Thu. 6/26/08 5:05pm From: slink

"send in the clowns," sinatra; "love hurts" nazareth. ok, i'll chill out and just listen now.

Thu. 6/26/08 5:07pm From: dale

Yea Jamestown! I'm from WNY....pretty area, financially depressed unfortunately.

Thu. 6/26/08 5:07pm From: north guinea hills

(shhh... , former marching band geek....)

Thu. 6/26/08 5:07pm From: GUMBY

I heard The Ledge by the Replecements the other day on my headphones and there is one sad song. Even with that pop-pop-pop drum and everything the melencholy seeps through.

Thu. 6/26/08 5:08pm From: north guinea hills

mas canciones en espanol!!!!

Thu. 6/26/08 5:11pm From: alex d

last one... "Waitin For a Superman" by the flamming lips...so sad.

Thu. 6/26/08 5:29pm From: phil from tha hill

Wow, i was just thinking about the last time you were on (killer playlist as always) and lucky moi, here you are again! Keep it going m'lady!

Thu. 6/26/08 5:37pm From: Richard

1. You dont miss your water by Taj Mahal 2. It makes no difference by The Band 3.Hot Burrito by Gram Parsons. Nuff said. Pas the sleeping pills please.

Thu. 6/26/08 5:42pm From: Negator

Party down the Line- The Replacements-sad song

Thu. 6/26/08 5:43pm From: dAN

There's no such song so how can it be sad?

Thu. 6/26/08 5:44pm From: HotRod

Can you believe it!?! Hercules & Love Affair finally came out domestically! Too bad so many people already bought the import. The kids are so impatient!

Thu. 6/26/08 5:51pm From: san francisco spike

thanx for playing this -- I'm in SF listening right now!

Thu. 6/26/08 5:53pm From: spaniel

i'm loving the crazy eclecticness of your show. this last set is too much fun. come on, everybody sing!!!

Thu. 6/26/08 5:57pm From: Negator

Swingin' Party-The Replacements-Dan's correct

Thu. 6/26/08 6:01pm From: frenchee

Oh.My.God.
Two WFMU Idols together on the airwaves!

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