Listener comments!

Wed. 7/23/08 3:03pm From: Lizardner Dave

Hello Irwin. Nice to see you again. The birght orange of your playlist is much warmer than the cold, cold blackness of Ken's playlist or the icy whiteness of Kenny G's.

Wed. 7/23/08 3:13pm From: Steve Barton

Q. What do Obama and Osama have in common?
A. They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.

Wed. 7/23/08 3:17pm From: barney

they rhyme with "yer mama"?

Wed. 7/23/08 3:21pm From: Otis

Pretty music there mister dj

Wed. 7/23/08 3:21pm From: Sean Daily

Steve: Waitaminnit, when did Obama's friends bomb the... what are you talking... HUH?

The reference obviously went right over my head...

Wed. 7/23/08 3:24pm From: Steve Barton

Sean: Look up Bill Ayers, another subject not often mentioned in mainstream news and discussions. All the best. -- Steve

Wed. 7/23/08 3:24pm From: north guinea hills

delia derbyshire tapes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7512072.stm

Wed. 7/23/08 3:25pm From: Sean Daily

I shall, Steve. Innerestin'...

Wed. 7/23/08 3:28pm From: lloyd

Bill Ayers is a famous NY Times contributor. He wrote a fascinating piece that was published on 9/11/2001. Worth checking out his patriotic views.

Wed. 7/23/08 3:28pm From: gigantor

Muchas gracias, Irwin!

Wed. 7/23/08 3:31pm From: Lizardner Dave

Yep, Steve's right. Obama and former Weather Underground memeber BIll Ayers were both on the board of a Chicago charity organization at the same time! Wow! Quite the smoking gun!

Good thing the Dems have that fact hidden away in an obscure place like Wikipedia. Nobody reads that!

(This is not intented to be pro-or anti-Obama. I just have no patience for people of any ideological stripe who "uncover conspiracies" that turn out to be, well, not so much.)

Wed. 7/23/08 3:35pm From: jon

Oh my... your music, Irwin, is making me very happy. Or at least "Come as you are" was truly bubbly.

Thanks.

jg

Wed. 7/23/08 3:37pm From: Otis

Abba Pain! And I love Abba.

Wed. 7/23/08 3:38pm From: Steve Barton

Chipmunks?! Yikes.

Wed. 7/23/08 3:39pm From: gigantor

If this was Ken or Kenny I'd accuse you of playing this at the wrong speed! I think we have to have more Mini-Pops in the future.

Wed. 7/23/08 3:40pm From: Otis

You make me want to break out my Stars on 45 records.

Wed. 7/23/08 3:42pm From: Yo

Yo man

Wed. 7/23/08 3:45pm From: Dean C. Rowan

A William Bolcom rag! Magnificent, even when tickled by Winston.

Wed. 7/23/08 3:46pm From: Otis

Nice. George Winston. Haven't heard his music in years. Winter is a fantastic album.

Wed. 7/23/08 3:53pm From: Steve Barton

Please Mr. DJ, may I go find the Soulful Dynamics MySpace page? I can't resist any song that starts with that choogling sound...

Wed. 7/23/08 4:12pm From: gigantor

from the Soul Parasol myspace page (translated by google):
WARNING: in some people, any abuse of the contents of this page may cause unrest caraibesques (limbo dancing, Junkanoo, goombay, etc. ...)

Wed. 7/23/08 4:30pm From: gigantor

Ake ended his days in this world as a rollerskiing cloth salesman and after his death the Swedish government actually had all his belongings, including all his records, destroyed and burnt!
(From the Ake Sandid Myspace page, that Irwin will NEVER look at)

Wed. 7/23/08 4:31pm From: gigantor

Does anyone know what "rollerskiing cloth" is?

Wed. 7/23/08 4:33pm From: Irwin

Gigantor, when I declare that I will not visit ANYONE's myspace page, I command others to go forth and do my bidding. Thanks for the report of Mr. Sandin's unfortunate demise. The world lost an obscure but not insignificant talent, and his government has committed unpardonable sins against Swedish culture.

Wed. 7/23/08 4:38pm From: gigantor

yes, my lord and master. I shall go forth and do thy bidding. Sandin seems like he was quite acharacter. And you might be interested in knowing that you are prominently mentioned on his myspace page.

Wed. 7/23/08 4:39pm From: Steve Barton

I hear and obey. Never liked 'em anyway.

Wed. 7/23/08 4:41pm From: Steve

"Rollerskiing cloth" is hoot-worthy, whatever it might be.

Wed. 7/23/08 4:47pm From: north guinea hills

i've been trying to figure who did "dream all day" since 1992 when i woke up at 3am and heard it playing on mtv..., but i never saw who did the song..... weird.....

Wed. 7/23/08 4:51pm From: Irwin

Gigantor wrote: "And you might be interested in knowing that you are prominently mentioned on his myspace page."

Nice try, big guy.

Wed. 7/23/08 4:55pm From: Steve Barton

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Barack Obama.
That's racist.
*****
Previous Obama joke (posted near top of comments) req'd info not in common circulation, hindering amusement. And the joke above is a pale (ha!) imitation of the succinct classic: Why did the feminist cross the road? That's not funny.
*****
I haven't heard or seen an Obama joke half as entertaining or amusing as a few minutes of listening to the Mini Pops. Maybe that's why we aren't hearing them around here.

Wed. 7/23/08 4:55pm From: Otis

Whoa! Cool! I gave Stevie this album as his Dad, Bob Moore is playing Bass on It's Cool in the Furnace.

Wed. 7/23/08 5:00pm From: lloyd

Andy Borowitz posted a list of jokes approved by the Obama campaign. Sample:

A Christian, a Jew and Barack Obama are in a rowboat in the middle of the ocean. Barack Obama says, "This joke isn't going to work because there's no Muslim in this boat."

Wed. 7/23/08 5:01pm From: Drew

Re: north... That same thing happened to me with the cool song "X-French T-Shirt" by the shitty band Shudder to Think. I ended up buying their album like 5 years later when I found out who it was. And it sucked.

Wed. 7/23/08 5:03pm From: Steve Barton

Ha! And did God just say "Well done" about the three guys in the furnace?!

Wed. 7/23/08 5:04pm From: north guinea hills

that made me chuckle, drew.... ...shudder to think..... wow...

Wed. 7/23/08 5:19pm From: Sean Daily

lloyd: Can you put up a link to that link of Obama-approved jokes?

Wed. 7/23/08 5:22pm From: lloyd

don't know how to post linx on this forum. it was on the huffpo july 15

Wed. 7/23/08 5:25pm From: Sean Daily

lloyd: All you should need to to do is cut and paste the URL into the comment box. You can't click it, but you can copy it. 'Least, that's how I've always done it... the one time that I actually did it.

But I'll head over to HuffPo and check it out after work.

Wed. 7/23/08 5:27pm From: lloyd

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/obama-releases-list-of-ap_b_112837.html

Wed. 7/23/08 5:36pm From: maria

Hi Irwin

Im with you there on the TV tip.

Wed. 7/23/08 5:37pm From: Sean Daily

TV was everywhere, but now its EEVVEERRYYWWHHEERREE where where where echo reverb...

Wed. 7/23/08 5:38pm From: Steve Barton

There's one peeking out of my wife's blouse!

Wed. 7/23/08 5:38pm From: hjmaiere

So I decide to check out the playlist comments to see if there's some explanation for the totally weird vibe this particular show seems to have, and all I see is Obama. That doesn't quite explain it.

Wed. 7/23/08 5:39pm From: Audie Ence

Irwin, agree on TV. I got one of these, and voila, TV-B-Gone: http://www.tv-b-gone.com. Great fun!

Wed. 7/23/08 5:41pm From: Mike

TV story. I was bartending once and there was no one in the bar but two men having lunch. All 4 TVs were apparently being ignored and so I jumped at my chance to turn them all off. No sooner had I done that one of the guys protested. I apologized. "I'm sorry, I didn't see anyone paying attention to them. Where you watching something?" "Well, no," he answered, "I just liked having it on." I turned it on then retreated to the kitchend to bury my hands in my face for the fate of humanity. Dramatic? Maybe? TV hater? Certainly.

Wed. 7/23/08 5:41pm From: Steve Barton

I think the vibe of this show is great, but if it is weird it might be because Irwin has restrained himself from playing any Star Country today. Let it loose Ir-Man!

Wed. 7/23/08 5:42pm From: Mike

Forgive my typos, I'm at work and typing fast...

Wed. 7/23/08 5:43pm From: hjmaiere

By "weird vibe," I mean like I'm coming down from something. But maybe that's just me.

Wed. 7/23/08 5:44pm From: Irwin

Steve, my man -- neglected to bring any tall hat music today. Next week -- double dose.

Wed. 7/23/08 5:46pm From: hjmaiere

You know, like the entire '70s.

Wed. 7/23/08 5:47pm From: Steve Barton

Tall hat is great, but don't forget the big hair/shiny anatomy side of the genre.

Wed. 7/23/08 5:53pm From: Sean Daily

Don't'cha love it when the advertising department gets its hands on a hymn?

Wed. 7/23/08 5:59pm From: Mike

I'll never hear Modern English's "Melt With You" ever again without thinking of Burger King hamburgers.

Wed. 7/23/08 9:08pm From: lloyd

Lizardner Dave wrote: "This is not intented [sic] to be pro-or anti-Obama"

Liar.

Thu. 7/24/08 2:11pm From: Steve Barton

Yo north guinea hills,
Thanx for that link (up there) to the article + sound clips re Delia Derbyshire. Cool stuff that I enjoyed. -- skb

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