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February 12, 2009: garbage cans in the middle of the street/stump is it
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| Artist | Track | Album | Label | Comments | New | Approx. start time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wayne horvitz | close to you | great jewish music: burt bacharach v/a | 0:00:00 (Real | ) | ||||
| blossom dearie | figure eight | schoolhouse rock | 0:02:27 (Real | ) | ||||
| blossom dearie | rhode island is famous for you | 0:05:17 (Real | ) | |||||
| john pizzarelli jr | i like jersey best | 0:07:26 (Real | ) | |||||
| vasthi bunyan | song of a wishwanderer | the enlightened family v/a | 0:13:07 (Real | ) | ||||
| devendra banhart | happy birthday! | to ken | 0:13:39 (Real | ) | ||||
| duane and greg allman | back down home with you | duane and greg allman | 0:15:35 (Real | ) | ||||
| margie joseph | to know you is to love you | sweet surrender | 0:18:45 (Real | ) | ||||
| joe bataan | subway joe | 0:19:57 (Real | ) | |||||
| blossom dearie | i like london in the rain | 0:22:26 (Real | ) | |||||
| annette hanshaw | If You Want The Rainbow (You Must Have The Rain) | 0:31:34 (Real | ) | |||||
| yvette giraud | st happiness day | 0:34:12 (Real | ) | |||||
| nora dean | barbwire | 0:36:42 (Real | ) | |||||
| kraftwerk/florian | ruckzuck | !/2 | seidr | 0:39:34 (Real | ) | |||
| dennis alcapone | muhammed ali | Hits and Misses (Muhammad Ali and the Ultimate Sound of Fistfighting) v/a | 0:45:10 (Real | ) | ||||
| tinariwen | oualahila ar tesninam | Amassakoul | 0:51:43 (Real | ) | ||||
| dan auerbach | i want some more | keep it hid | nonesuch | * | 0:52:54 (Real | ) | ||
| paavoharju | tuoksu tarttuu meihin | laulu laakson kukista | 0:56:58 (Real | ) | ||||
| soft cell | tainted love | non-stop exotic cabaret | 1:04:29 (Real | ) | ||||
| flight of the conchords | inner city pressure | flight of the conchords | 1:06:52 (Real | ) | ||||
| au revoir simone | Oh! You Pretty Things | 1:10:00 (Real | ) | |||||
| the wibbley brothers | music to boil an egg | wobbly wave compiled by tony coulter for the 2006 WFMU fundraising marathon v/a | 1:15:35 (Real | ) | ||||
| royksopp | a higher place | 1:17:30 (Real | ) | |||||
| psapp | the camel's back | the camel's back | domino | * | 1:22:05 (Real | ) | ||
| the bird and the bee | again and again | the bird and the bee | 1:26:06 (Real | ) | ||||
| caetano veloso | odara | hoje e natal/brazilian funk v/a | 1:29:02 (Real | ) | ||||
| mv&ee | twitchin' | drone trailer | dicristina | * | 1:41:37 (Real | ) | ||
| bench | small fire | 1:47:41 (Real | ) | |||||
| andres subercaseaux | the illiest | aqui | 1:54:17 (Real | ) | ||||
| savoys | slappin rods and leaky oil | mad mike monsters volume 2 v/a | norton | * | 1:59:57 (Real | ) | ||
| clancy eccles | fattie fattie | 2:02:07 (Real | ) | |||||
| francisco nixon | me casare cuando me anamore | erre que erre v/a | 2:07:12 (Real | ) | ||||
| las tres bien ensemble | priere | rougeole | elefant | * | 2:11:39 (Real | ) | ||
| susumu yokota | morino gakudan | check the water v/a | 2:13:03 (Real | ) | ||||
| karen dalton | are you leaving for the country | in my own time | 2:17:04 (Real | ) | ||||
| charalambides | black branches | branches | 2:21:22 (Real | ) | ||||
| max punktezahl | dashes | monika barchen songs for bruno, knut and tom v/a | monika | 2:25:15 (Real | ) | |||
| leila | time to blow( feat terry hall) | blood, looms and blooms | 2:29:00 (Real | ) | ||||
| le tone | joli dragon | le petit nabab | 2:35:18 (Real | ) | ||||
| mr. scruff | music takes me up (w/ alice russell) | Ninja Tune | ninja tune | * | 2:39:26 (Real | ) | ||
| tall dwarfs | on and on and on | abbasalutely a flying nun tribute to the music of abba v/a | 2:45:06 (Real | ) | ||||
| las grecas | anabalina | por siempre grecas | 2:49:21 (Real | ) | ||||
| vetiver | sister | tight knit | sub pop | * | 2:52:57 (Real | ) | ||
Thu. 2/12/09 9:02am
From:
annie-not sean
first comment!! morning trouble
Thu. 2/12/09 9:03am
From:
listener mark
Hi Everybody
Thu. 2/12/09 9:03am
From:
annie
i knew you would pommel us with blossom.. i had no doubt.. good morning everyone.
Thu. 2/12/09 9:04am
From:
Mooose
The saddest Schoolhouse Rock ever!
RIP Blossom Dearie...
Thu. 2/12/09 9:04am
From:
texas scott
how strange.I just watched 'figure 8' on youtube.one of my playlists.
thursdays are no good without trouble!
Thu. 2/12/09 9:05am
From:
listener mark
I'm not sean either.
Blossom passed away?
Thu. 2/12/09 9:10am
From:
55ffrr
Good morning trouble & all. Nice Blossom stuff. Pizzarelli & his wife have a cute radio show as well, 'radio deluxe'.
Thu. 2/12/09 9:10am
From:
Parq
Irwin will be pleased - he wanted to play "8" yesterday, but couldn't put his hand on it.
The arena hasn't had "Brendan Byrne" on the wall in a boatload of time, b/t/w.
Thu. 2/12/09 9:14am
From:
Stu
Hi Trouble !
Rhode Island is famous for you, and are you playing a Jersey song for me ???
love from Finland , Moomies wake up next week....it's official !
Thu. 2/12/09 9:17am
From:
trouble
good morning all. big hello to stu in finland
Thu. 2/12/09 9:25am
From:
listener mark
Pencils come from Pennsylvania.
I just got it. lol
Thu. 2/12/09 9:26am
From:
jaypee
Good morning! I hear Barn Swallows!
Thu. 2/12/09 9:28am
From:
dale
morning. I never knew blossom dearie was the figure 8 singer. that song seems so much deeper than mere multiplication
Thu. 2/12/09 9:31am
From:
Kevin in London
It's not raining... Love Vashti Bunyan, Diamond Day is lovely, and her voice is much the same on her latest album - the last 40 years have obviously been kind to her larynx.
Thu. 2/12/09 9:31am
From:
Mooose
Didn't BD also do the Adjectives song? Yes.
Thu. 2/12/09 9:38am
From:
55ffrr
Happy birthday to Abe & NAACP!
Thu. 2/12/09 9:39am
From:
J-Mar
I still have Corn Weenie on the brain.
Thu. 2/12/09 9:41am
From:
sugarwolf
it's the Newton's Apple song!
Thu. 2/12/09 9:41am
From:
tom
Are you sure this Kratwerk track is at the right speed?
Thu. 2/12/09 9:43am
From:
trouble
no tom, we are never sure of anything. but this is a cd so it is out of my hands...
Thu. 2/12/09 9:45am
From:
Ike
That version of "Ruckzuck" is wild. I could drive around the block naked to that a few times. Well, not really, but you know what I mean.
Thu. 2/12/09 9:45am
From:
Nakedfoul
It may be wrong, but it feels so right.
Thu. 2/12/09 9:49am
From:
David
Am I the only one who hears echoes of the "Figure 8 Song" from Schoolhouse Rock in Tom Waits' "Alice"?
Thu. 2/12/09 9:49am
From:
listener mark
Bit chilly to walk about sans pants
Thu. 2/12/09 9:54am
From:
Cecile
Speaking of no pants, Trouble, can you play something from Flight of the Conchords?
This Tinariwen makes me wish the whole floor could break out in spontaneous, yet meticulously synchronized boogying.
Thu. 2/12/09 9:57am
From:
trouble
cecile, i was thinking of them this a.m, and i forgot to pull it. thanks for the reminder!
Thu. 2/12/09 9:58am
From:
Cecile
you are welcome.
I know you like 'em, and now I am pretty completely obessess by him, I mean them as well.
Thu. 2/12/09 9:58am
From:
kent goldings
cecile - i liked your corn weenie remix! good job! can i ask what program you use to mix?
Thu. 2/12/09 9:58am
From:
Cecile
I'm so obsessed I can't even spel it.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:00am
From:
Cecile
Thanks, I had so much fun doing it!
Garage Band on my Macbook.
Also, because of the events of yesterday (being reassigned gender), I also have an answer remix coming. ma hah ahahahahahahah
Thu. 2/12/09 10:01am
From:
listener mark
I love the Modern World. Look at the playlist. Is anything misspelled? Would we even know?
Thu. 2/12/09 10:01am
From:
chris
Look what I just found on facebook (speaking of weanies) http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=2245398031&ref=nf
Thu. 2/12/09 10:03am
From:
dale
where are all the interns busting down the door to handle these tasks?
Thu. 2/12/09 10:04am
From:
cordesc
Hey Pheezy, turn your speakers down.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:04am
From:
postmanpaul
hi trouble, city slickers and office-ionados.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:05am
From:
annie
chris, that is not working for me
Thu. 2/12/09 10:05am
From:
jon
it's really nice outside! fresh and clean!
Thu. 2/12/09 10:05am
From:
Cecile
I LOVE THAT SOFT CELL RECORD, ALL OF IT, SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:06am
From:
tombom
it's a facebook group for "March 21st, 2009 is National Corndog Day! Home of meat on a stick, tots, drinks and the greatest basketball tournament of the year, you can't beat Corndog Day!!! Sponsored by Foster Farms, PBR, and Jones Soda Co., Corndog Day is your chance to celebrate the finest of Americana!" yw
Thu. 2/12/09 10:06am
From:
jen v.
yes! are you going to play the cover of "where did our love go" as well, trouble?
Thu. 2/12/09 10:06am
From:
erella
Good morning Trouble, Annie and everyone!
Thu. 2/12/09 10:07am
From:
listener mark
You're dating yourself Cecile
Thu. 2/12/09 10:07am
From:
Cecile
yes!
Thu. 2/12/09 10:07am
From:
chris
nice Tombom
Thu. 2/12/09 10:07am
From:
annie
morning erella! chris i am in FB right now; is it a group?
Thu. 2/12/09 10:08am
From:
Cecile
yes, listerner mark, I am, er, not young.
INNAH CITY PRESSHAH
Thu. 2/12/09 10:08am
From:
Webhamster Hemulen
Wake Up, Moomins!
Thu. 2/12/09 10:08am
From:
dale
this sounds like a pet shop boys remix thingy. I like it!
Thu. 2/12/09 10:08am
From:
postmanpaul
listener mark - cecile rules.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:08am
From:
Cecile
Trouble, I hope you are doing the robot to this. Or the robo-boogie.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:09am
From:
?
Yes Erella. look up National Corndog Day
Thu. 2/12/09 10:10am
From:
annie
i joined.. :)
Thu. 2/12/09 10:10am
From:
Hugo
Very Pet Shop Boys-like, I thought, this inner city thing. They do make good videos, though, the Boys ...
Thu. 2/12/09 10:12am
From:
jaypee
Yay! Thanks for au revoir simone.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:13am
From:
PMD
Cool! Corndog day! Yummm... I should go join that too.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:13am
From:
Kevin in London
Mmm... you make me want to measure stars in the backyard with a calculator and a ruler, baby
Thu. 2/12/09 10:14am
From:
Cecile
Hugo, the clip for that song is a spot on parody of West End Girls.
I await their take on "Money"
Thu. 2/12/09 10:17am
From:
PMD
annie, I'll write on the corndog wall - still want to touch base with you about maple syrup! don't know how else to touch base with you.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:17am
From:
jon
this is fun. I wish I had an egg to follow along.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:18am
From:
annie
notsowisewoman at yahoo...
Thu. 2/12/09 10:19am
From:
annie
there, now you know!! and feel free to friend me, too.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:19am
From:
trouble
hey i'm just trying to get some muesli
Thu. 2/12/09 10:20am
From:
annie
PMD- i am also the admin for "monsanto and it's ilk must be stopped"
Thu. 2/12/09 10:28am
From:
Ike
The Bird and the Bee... meeeeee-ow.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:29am
From:
dale
wfuv always ruins good songs for me. I liked the bird and the bee til they played it nonstop a couple of years ago. it's starting to sound fresh now. thank you wfmu for being eclectic (or having ADD, however you look at it).
Thu. 2/12/09 10:32am
From:
postmanpaul
trouble - grace slick's song 'manhole' is not heard on the radio often enough, is it not?
Thu. 2/12/09 10:32am
From:
Listener Dave from NH
New Psapp? Keen!
Also, a heck of a hooray for Caetano Veloso. I can't wait for summer so I can get to listening to "Livro" some more.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:32am
From:
Ike
Dale, that's how I feel about commercial classic rock stations with regards to certain rawwwwk staples. Except that the classic rock stations never rest any of it, so those 400-800 songs can never sound fresh again... they're ruined forever.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:34am
From:
dc pat
hey annie, I just befriended you...just a warning...
Thu. 2/12/09 10:35am
From:
annie
cool pat!!!
Thu. 2/12/09 10:35am
From:
SeanG
Trouble coming every day
Thu. 2/12/09 10:36am
From:
dc pat
Ike, Dale, but if you're stuck in a car somewhere, every once in awhile, they play a non-standard classic rawk tune which can make it all worthwhile.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:37am
From:
annie
trouble, joe has a bird-song record i sent to the station. i told him to give it to you, has he done that yet?
Thu. 2/12/09 10:39am
From:
Ike
Well, Pat, if you're in D.C., then FM is mind-bogglingly horrible, so I can sort of understand why you'd subject yourself to... actually, no, I can't understand it. They never play enough deep cuts to make the pain remotely worthwhile. I'd rather listen to static while futilely attempting to pick up WMUC or WRNR or WTMD.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:43am
From:
dc pat
You're right about DC radio--it blows hard, why do you think I'm here?-- but it's sort of a game: how long can I listen to songs I've heard 10000 times before they play one I've only heard 1000 times
Thu. 2/12/09 10:44am
From:
trouble
no annie. not yet. but i should just prompt him, perhaps...
Thu. 2/12/09 10:44am
From:
Cecile
trouble, you can catch chunks of the first eps on YouTube.
I have a funny story about this. i have had directTV for a zillion years, and I never get good deals like the new customers.
So I called them up. I said "I want free HBO for 3 months like the new people because I've been with you forever."
My call got lost in the depths of the system and I got transferred to someone else. I said "I want free HBO because the new people get it, and I want to see Flight of the Conchords."
Ten minutes later, I set my Tivo Season Pass to "stun".
Thu. 2/12/09 10:45am
From:
trouble
cecile, that is a touching story. sob sob. why can't i do that?
Thu. 2/12/09 10:45am
From:
annie
when i was working for the contracting company down there, the only station i heard from the radios of co-workers was that awful rock station that had howard stern. then came the greaseman. but i listend to amu in head phones the bluegrass was great..
Thu. 2/12/09 10:47am
From:
Cecile
maybe because you're one of those wonderful people with integrity who only get broadcast and round it out with Netflix? ;D
Thu. 2/12/09 10:48am
From:
chris
Ummm.. that was interesting.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:49am
From:
dc pat
yeah, AMU decided to dump the bluegrass for some reason...so it's kind of useless now.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:51am
From:
annie
i loved lee michael demspey... his show rocked. i moved away before they took the BG off. i also miss whfs... they were great! til they moved to annapolis.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:54am
From:
Cecile
it's such a sad story remembering all the free form and community stations that ended up being boring classic rock.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:56am
From:
annie
on the last day of HFS's broadcast the djays really let loose and broke a few rules. they were pissed..the music that day was amazing
Thu. 2/12/09 10:56am
From:
Cecile
now I got a boring meeting. Have fun!
Great show as always, Trouble.
Thu. 2/12/09 10:57am
From:
Cecile
I can imagine, Annie.
I heard similar things happened the day Ann Arbor's last commercial freeform station made the switch, too
Thu. 2/12/09 10:58am
From:
dale
people pay for television? funny, in this economy you'd think that might be the first thing to go (after the starbucks, of course). on top of the rooftop antenna we have blockbuster, but they have really cut down the # of movies and free exchanges we get in our plan. still cheaper than cable. besides, have you ever seen the 400 blows or fitzcarraldo on cable?
Thu. 2/12/09 11:03am
From:
55ffrr
Herzog has been absent from most cable stations, but 400 blows was just shown on tcm last month.
Thu. 2/12/09 11:03am
From:
Civil Joe
I kept the cable, and the Starbucks for that matter (just black coffee, no fancy latte this or that) The first thing to go was the landline phone.
Thu. 2/12/09 11:07am
From:
Kevin in London
Dale, I have satellite TV - 600 channels and nothing to watch. Fondly remember when I was a kid in the '70s, when we had 3 channels and a black & white TV - those were the days...
Thu. 2/12/09 11:07am
From:
jamesie
nice eccles... Effric is coming back from Barbados in an hour after a horrible week.
Thu. 2/12/09 11:09am
From:
postmanpaul
hi annie, does the bird-song record include the curlew? they sound so cool and eerie-ish; theirs is my estuary mud-flats bird-song of choice as the sun sets behind the anchored wooden hulk on-which the story of the 'heart of darkness' begins to unfold.
and curlew was the name of my rowing club in greenwich london :)
Thu. 2/12/09 11:10am
From:
dc pat
when I was a kid, we received channel 29 fro Philly over antenna, so it was 3 Stooges, Batman, and Japanese monster shows EVERY afternoon.
Thu. 2/12/09 11:10am
From:
dale
we need the fax old tech (fax machine, unfortunately) so the landline has to stay. kevin, I had a free-to-air mpeg sat reciever set up until a lightening strike took out the reciever, but I got a couple hundred channels of arab, german, indian and asian television. I saw a lot of movies on it, dubbed but with english subtitles. China Central Televsion was a great network, a lot of english language documentaries about China.
Thu. 2/12/09 11:11am
From:
Sean Daily
Not even close to first comment! Woo hoo!
Thu. 2/12/09 11:11am
From:
annie
PMP- i am not really sure, i listened to it years ago. trouble can tell you once she wrests it from joe's cold dead hands..
Thu. 2/12/09 11:12am
From:
dale
dc pat: Ultra Man in the afternoon, Godzilla and Gammara at night?
Thu. 2/12/09 11:14am
From:
annie
we were lucky enough to live in long island with the great television from the city.. little rascals were regulars on our list and(when our parents weren't looking) the wretling. all thos ekids shows too... i have found alot of them on youtube now..
Thu. 2/12/09 11:19am
From:
dc pat
Ultra Man, Johnny Socko, and Space Giants which was by far the best. I think these shows had a huge effect on my social development...as did the stooges (both stooges).
Thu. 2/12/09 11:20am
From:
vivian
Is Karen Dalton covering a Neil Young song?
Thu. 2/12/09 11:20am
From:
jamesie
I loved the Grand Ole Oprey coming out of Athens airport by courtesty of the American Forces Radio and Television Service every Saturday night at 8pm during the time of the fascist Greek Colonels regime in 1967. The US 6th fleet hung around to help the Israeli Jets get spare parts while they pounded the other lot. Great radio though!
Thu. 2/12/09 11:20am
From:
trouble
paul, i am putting you in charge of getting us some curlew sounds!
Thu. 2/12/09 11:20am
From:
fishmonkeystew
Howdy all! Nice set list yet again, Trouble. Thanks!
Thu. 2/12/09 11:21am
From:
annie
and i would lie in bed at night with my beloved transistor radio, listening to stations from all over the country.
Thu. 2/12/09 11:24am
From:
postmanpaul
trouble, cool, but failing that i'll post a brace of 'em to you.
Thu. 2/12/09 11:25am
From:
dc pat
ah, a brace, meaning two. We covered that about a month ago...
Thu. 2/12/09 11:28am
From:
dale
my first purchase ever was a GE transitor radio (got the emergency band, too). I would listen to it at night with a radio Shack pillow speaker and imagine what Chicago or Pittsburgh looked like.
Thu. 2/12/09 11:28am
From:
trouble
great!
Thu. 2/12/09 11:29am
From:
annie
trouble- you should ask joe about that record.. i told him it had your name on it..
Thu. 2/12/09 11:40am
From:
listener mark
Trouble, I tried the risotto recipe. I need more practice. It turned thick, well sort of solid.
Thu. 2/12/09 11:43am
From:
trouble
listener mark, you need to add more stock and not let it cook down so much...keep testing it so see if the rice is done, not soft but still with a little tooth to it.
Thu. 2/12/09 11:44am
From:
listener mark
Thank You
Thu. 2/12/09 11:45am
From:
postmanpaul
fu..ing hell, the orig 'heart of darkness' really should be filmed. i for one am looking forward to the bit where the cannibals 'manning' the engine room lose their hippopotamus.
Thu. 2/12/09 11:47am
From:
PMD
dc pat, I think AMU has an HD channel that they play bluegrass on... but yes, does suck that it's gone.
Thu. 2/12/09 11:55am
From:
chris
what a great show
Thu. 2/12/09 11:56am
From:
trouble
thanks everybody for chiming in, cheers.
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