Listener comments!

Thu. 3/26/09 9:03am From: fishmonkeystew

Yo, Trouble! Whaddup? Good morning, All!


p.s. First Comment!! Woohoo!

Thu. 3/26/09 9:05am From: chris

so nice to see that viking ship

Thu. 3/26/09 9:09am From: miketp

hi trouble and fellow listeners. home from work a mental health day. an overcact thurs in e rutherford nj music is our sunshine

Thu. 3/26/09 9:10am From: megisi

"A viking ship appears on the horizon, a likeness of Loretta Lynn carved into its bow."

Jack White hangs by a rope off the starboard side, his pants around his ankles and his karma stuck in neutral.

Thu. 3/26/09 9:10am From: trouble

good morning! did i play this song during the marathon? i can't rremeber, bcuz i had it cued up for half a show but don't remember if i let it rip...oh well, sounds great anywho

Thu. 3/26/09 9:11am From: fas

hello, everybody. you are all in US?

Thu. 3/26/09 9:13am From: takio

Portugal feeling the love of Trouble :)

Thu. 3/26/09 9:15am From: kittykittymeowmixhead

good morning

Thu. 3/26/09 9:16am From: megisi

nope ... detroit

Thu. 3/26/09 9:16am From: Parq

How cool is that? In a world where most radio stations play the exact same thing every couple of hours, an FMU staffer is hesitant because she *might* have played the same track two weeks ago. Miss T, you're far too good to us.

Thu. 3/26/09 9:16am From: north guinea hills

moondog on organ, this is new to me, and quite awesome!

Thu. 3/26/09 9:19am From: postmanpaul

hi trouble, not at work tday, tuning in earlier, did i catch an isreali radio stn at the end of kurt's show?!

Thu. 3/26/09 9:20am From: fas

wow, this song is amazing

Thu. 3/26/09 9:20am From: Parq

What a lovely version of "Afro-Blue"!

Thu. 3/26/09 9:20am From: miketp

hey parq i dont mind hearing a tune if iheard it afew weeks ago. sometimes i need to slow down and live with the music. either way its really ok for me. let the music play.

Thu. 3/26/09 9:25am From: Glenn L

Hi Postmanpaul, you probably heard a snippet of Jewish Moments in the Morning during the Brother Lucy/Trouble
transition. JM in the AM airs over WFMU's terrestrial signal
M-F from 6-9AM.

Thu. 3/26/09 9:28am From: postmanpaul

love beiruts last and loved that cd cover too.

Thu. 3/26/09 9:29am From: trouble

bom dia portugal!

Thu. 3/26/09 9:32am From: chris

thanks for the Cornell lab of ornithology link!

Thu. 3/26/09 9:32am From: takio

"Boa tarde", hehe :) oooh i missed those giggles :D

Thu. 3/26/09 9:33am From: Parq

My point exactly, Mike. In a world where most radio stations take it on faith that I want to hear the same song every 45 minutes, FMU gives us the luxury of embracing the chance to hear a really neat song with some infrequent regularity. Worth the cost of an annual pledge? Yes, I think so!

Thu. 3/26/09 9:35am From: postmanpaul

hi glenn, thanks for putting me in the picture; i guess it was the unlikewfmu style of 'delivery' that threw me as much as anything!

Thu. 3/26/09 9:38am From: Glenn L

You got it, postmanpaul.

I am really really late for work. Again.
-Bye

Thu. 3/26/09 9:41am From: trouble

boa tarde...it's not many people who can misspell in multiple languages, but that would be me. wrong but strong, i say

Thu. 3/26/09 9:41am From: "afro blue"

was listening on the ride in to work - great tune - thank you

Thu. 3/26/09 9:44am From: listener mark

Good Morning Trouble
Good Morning World

Thu. 3/26/09 9:46am From: gumby

Digging on this Dexy's track. I love those little leather clad ragamuffins.

Thu. 3/26/09 9:49am From: stingy d

i hate being so busy

Thu. 3/26/09 9:50am From: postmanpaul

same as mr gumby

Thu. 3/26/09 9:52am From: takio

you didn't misspell at all - just timeshifted :)

Thu. 3/26/09 9:53am From: megisi

whatta great set with the chilites smoothing things down in the middle ... thanks for the fetchin' sounds, trouble!

Thu. 3/26/09 9:53am From: 55ffrr

Good morning trouble & all. How 'bout some Sun Ra for our fellow shuttle travelers (Rocket #9)?

Thu. 3/26/09 9:58am From: doug

digging tudo azul

Thu. 3/26/09 9:58am From: stingy d

anyone know the best bike shop to go to in greenpoint/willaimsburg??? i need to stop being unhappy

Thu. 3/26/09 9:58am From: nasok

on point as always

Thu. 3/26/09 10:04am From: stingy d

yo nevermind because i've decided ok!? so if anyone knows where i can get a new or rebuilt pair of legs, that would also be welcome information.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:06am From: tiny tim

the birds are coming the birds are coming the birds are coming the birds are coming the birds are coming the birds are coming the birds are coming the birds are coming the birds are coming the birds are coming the birds are coming the birds are coming the birds are coming the birds are coming

Thu. 3/26/09 10:07am From: texas scott

Good morning,Trouble and all the rest!
I am grateful to be busy here at work.
So I am listening as I toil!

Thu. 3/26/09 10:07am From: chalbeda

your Voice !!!?..Its great ! I love it!

Thu. 3/26/09 10:09am From: Pete

The only river between Chicago & Detroit is I-94.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:13am From: Carmichael

Sylvia!!! Play "Bell Jar"!!!!

Thu. 3/26/09 10:13am From: Vivian

Trouble:

From what I read, Ted Hughes left Sylvia for Assia Wevill, who also killed herself in the same manner as Sylvia. Unfortunately, Assia also took the life of her daughter by Hughes.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:13am From: listener mark

depression can lead to terrible things

Thu. 3/26/09 10:13am From: esch oder anarchie!

I always enjoy it when you play this, Tr. Sad news about the son in Alaska. Talk about Joy Division!

Thu. 3/26/09 10:14am From: Cecile

wow.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:15am From: listener mark

anger and depression

Thu. 3/26/09 10:15am From: ~L

Thanks for playing the Plath, more poetry!
Ted Hughes did write the Iron Giant, which was turned into a good kids animation.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:16am From: a reader

Plath was all about suicide long before she met Hughes, you know.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:16am From: listener mark

anger, depression, and resentment

Thu. 3/26/09 10:17am From: Cecile

On the more frivolous side:

trouble, Season two of Conchords is set for August, and will have lots of DVD extras...

I want to tell you about the finale, but shan't.
it is beautiful, though.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:17am From: Cecile

DVD, I mean. Left that off.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:18am From: Pearlÿ Sweets

Is it official now that it is the last season? I know last year that is what they kept hinting at in interviews.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:20am From: mike tp

don cherry sounds great is he still alive?

Thu. 3/26/09 10:21am From: Cecile

No one knows for sure.
It takes a lot out of them.

Itwill be a while before Season 3. Jemaine Clement is doing a TV show with Conchords/Eagle Vs Shark director Taika Waititi in New Zealand, and Bret McKenzie is releasing another Video Kid album, his solo project. Trouble, you might like Video Kid - very gentle, melodic, electronic and dubby. More wry than funny.

So they have stuff to do.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:21am From: Cecile

if there is a season 3

Thu. 3/26/09 10:21am From: Pearlÿ Sweets

Don Cherry passed away in the 90's.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:22am From: the diacritic kid

oh, and on a lighter note from the last mic break, the band múm pronounce their name "moom" with a long vowel (i think). they played at an atp in england some years ago and gained a reputation for repeatedly explaining that their band name is not 'mum'.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:24am From: Matt

Ahh, Land o' tha Loops. Forgot about them, actually him - I used to skate with that guy back in high school.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:25am From: miketp

thanks never got to see him. did see pharoah sanders roland kirk elvin jones at the vanguard in my late teens sun ra too.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:25am From: Cecile

nice, i like land of the loops.

Hey, someone could do a great legal drug set with that Nation of Ulysses aspirin song, and this one.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:26am From: stingy d

i bought a land of the loops cd about ten years ago and it gave me three liner note thingies.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:26am From: sugarwolf

Don Cherry the hockey guy is still alive tho

Thu. 3/26/09 10:27am From: Cecile

mike tp, that's great.
I saw Pharoah about 7 years ago, still was amazing.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:27am From: Cecile

HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA
never watched it all the way through, but if you're from Upper Michigan, the CBC is part of your culture.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:27am From: Carmichael

One of my oddest and most entertaining concert experiences was Sun Ra & the Arkestra.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:29am From: Carmichael

Trouble, does Sippie Wallace appear on that comp? I really like Shorty Blues.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:29am From: Cecile

I remember seeing them on Saturday Night Live (WTH!?!?!) as as teen.
I miss those days when SNL would put anyone on Hal Willner liked. now it's just an industry showcase.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:31am From: Parq

Aw, this auction number is collossal! Even more over the top than Porter Wagoner, and that's going some.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:32am From: texas scott

what a sweet song about losing your home...

Thu. 3/26/09 10:32am From: stingy d

this reminds me of that herzog film for some reason... i mean i guess there is the obvious... i can't think of the name of it

Thu. 3/26/09 10:32am From: mike tp

remember that david sanborn late nite music show on in the 80s he had a real rare mix of artists.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:33am From: Cecile

it is amazing.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:33am From: Carmichael

I still have a VHS of Captain Beefheart on SNL. It was really strange; he played free-form clarinet as a song-ending solo, and the stunned audience sat in silence. Someone can clearly be heard saying, "Shhhiiittt ..."

The Jonas Brothers were on a few weeks ago.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:33am From: owen

stroszek

Thu. 3/26/09 10:33am From: Cecile

yes, mike!
I couldn't get it where I was at, but everyone I know was absolutely crazy about it.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:35am From: stingy d

how much wood would a woodchuck chuck, but yea stroszek he did use them fellers too

Thu. 3/26/09 10:35am From: Carmichael

Night Music was Sanborn's show. I have them all on VHS. I just yesterday watched Jo-El Sonnier & Richard Thompson singing Tear Stained Letter, with Sanborn and that whole kick-ass band behind them.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:37am From: Carmichael

As you can see, inferior technology is right at home in my house.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:38am From: postmanpaul

is that a skylark up there?

Thu. 3/26/09 10:39am From: Carmichael

Swiss Family Weymouth.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:39am From: trouble

no carmichael no tippie...

Thu. 3/26/09 10:40am From: trouble

i mean sippie

Thu. 3/26/09 10:41am From: Parq

Words over there!

Thu. 3/26/09 10:42am From: Carmichael

Thanks anyway, Troub. I'll look up that v/a coll and perhaps expand my horizons. I did like the Anna Jones track.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:42am From: Parq

He don't stop, and he don't stop.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:42am From: Doug from DC

That Sanborn show was actually really good. I remember one time Sun Ra was on, and Sanborn went to jam with them. He dropped all the smooth jazz bs and ripped out a wildfire solo. Sun Ra looked at him from the piano like wtf?

Thu. 3/26/09 10:43am From: Carmichael

Strangely, I knew exactly what you meant and never noticed the typo ....

Thu. 3/26/09 10:43am From: Cecile

Carm, they should really reissue that whole show on DVD.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:44am From: Cecile

Sanborn did a killer Ornette album and also a tribute to Julius Hemphill with Tim Berne.

I had a friendship fall apart with a Sanborn loving friend because those two releases of his were the only ones I liked. Her loss.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:45am From: Parq

B/t/w, SNL was always an industry showcase, I say. It's just that now they're showcasing bands that suck.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:47am From: Matt

Love those Meters.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:47am From: Carmichael

I saw Todd Rundgren, Taj Mahal and Nancy Griffiths act out, in full costume, a Gilbert & Sullivan tune. The image of Sanborn with a sailor hat on is burned into my synapses.

His most uncomfortable discussion was clearly Bootsy Collins, who spent an inordinate amount of time discussing all the acid and coke he used to do. He kept trying to bring Sanborn into the mix, saying "Remember, man?? that night???"

Thu. 3/26/09 10:47am From: Cecile

But people like Zappa and the Kinks and Ornette and Sun Ra weren't exactly burning up the charts then...

Thu. 3/26/09 10:48am From: gumby

I saw Fleet Foxes on SNL & they did White Winter Hymnal it was quite a beautiful acapella song about a young death. I probably never would have heard of them any other way.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:50am From: Carmichael

SNL used to be rock, but they sold out to pop many years ago. About the time Rod Stewart sang Hot Legs.

And you're right Cecile, it's a friggin' travesty that this stuff is not available on DVD. Maybe Michelob is holding back.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:51am From: Doug from DC

Sanborn started out trying to sound like Coltrane. It's funny that more than one sax player like that went commercial. But the jazz biz was bleak for a long time during the seventies and early eighties.

Thu. 3/26/09 10:51am From: ferreal

love da sounds...

Thu. 3/26/09 10:52am From: PMD

seriously, this is nice. prefuse 73, eh?

Thu. 3/26/09 10:59am From: andy

First time listener in the uk, really enjoying the show.
That Prefuse 73 sounded like a remix of a song by The Books, i forget which one. But it was great!

Thu. 3/26/09 10:59am From: still b/p

Looook! ...at such a playlist that passed while I was out in the truck that sounds like an airplane to talk to the man about a used vehicle loan. Now one more face-to-face with the ice-blood salesmen. This show is mojo and salve....can it gimme armor and a cold axe, too?

Thu. 3/26/09 11:01am From: Matt

Yes, thank you. The Camille Yarborough original is so much better than DJ What's His Name's version.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:01am From: owen

i've never liked prefuse much, but he has done some really pretty stuff with savath & savalas.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:01am From: fidel

i love this song, trouble!

Thu. 3/26/09 11:03am From: miketp

hey trubbs this shw is party tested great show will play for one of my house parties soon and i thnk you

Thu. 3/26/09 11:03am From: hello caller

reverse. snow is flying in up. the mix 'ole Music makes it warm

Thu. 3/26/09 11:04am From: PKNY

First Cyrille Nevillie, then "Take Your Praise"? HAWT. You are killing it right now!

Thu. 3/26/09 11:08am From: Vivian

Did Book of Love lift the intro to this song for 'Witchcraft'?

Thu. 3/26/09 11:09am From: Carmichael

Watching Cyril Neville & Brian Stoltz duet on "Caravan" at a Neville Brothers concert was a thing of beauty.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:16am From: Cecile

It's sad that we are talking about the 80s as a golden age for music on TV. How did this happen?

Thu. 3/26/09 11:17am From: Rob and Katie

Katie sez she thinks Musee Mechanique may have quoted Fairport's "Farewell Farewell" in the intro to their lovely The Propellars. Anyone else hear that?

Thu. 3/26/09 11:20am From: Cecile

uh, maybe? what she said?

Thu. 3/26/09 11:22am From: trouble

hi rob and katie! that would be fairport sampling the traditional " willie of winsbury",as that snippet was from a trad recording. i mixed it so you thought it was part of musee mecanique.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:27am From: Carmichael

Yes, Fairport does indeed *cover* Willie O' Winsbury. Love to hear about others' Celtic ear.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:29am From: still b/p

That was it -- that tewelde redda! That's what I'll sing/channel with some head and shoulder jerking at the car salesman's desk!

Thu. 3/26/09 11:31am From: Rob and Katie

Thanks Carmichael, Trouble for the illumination there. And Trouble for your fancy live mixing, very impressive! And hi Cecile!

Thu. 3/26/09 11:32am From: Cecile

hi RobandKatie!

Thu. 3/26/09 11:33am From: Cecile

which Fairport record is the good one?
I keep buying ones that I like 1/2 of...

Thu. 3/26/09 11:34am From: Parq

Hmm. Does anybody else remember a UHF broadcast channel in the 80s that ran music videos? They had a very tight rotation, but I did get to see (repeatedly) Husker Du's video for the Mary Tyler Moore theme and a live Zappa performance of "Whippin' Post" (seems he finally listened to all those catcalls).

Thu. 3/26/09 11:35am From: miketp

hey carmichael sat 6 to 9am fmu show shrunken planet has folk and celtic groove. jeff davidson has a fine show

Thu. 3/26/09 11:35am From: BSI

aieeee!
So I get a late start on FMU and end up missing Don Cherry AND the Monks! It'll never happen again! Wah!

Thu. 3/26/09 11:36am From: Glenn L

U-68, Parq!

Thu. 3/26/09 11:37am From: Sean Daily

Not even close to first comment! Woo hoo!

Thu. 3/26/09 11:38am From: mike tp

hi parq wish id see zappa do whippin post. seen him at carnegie hall with flo and eddie and anysley dunbar on drums the mud shark era.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:39am From: GP

Right there with ya BSI..and morning to all, Trouble, this Uncle Wooody stuff is jst what I needed.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:39am From: Cecile

OH, love this SONG.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:39am From: stingy d

everybody likes rick rubin

Thu. 3/26/09 11:40am From: Katie

Re: Fairport: yes, that kind of is the way, although by saying this I will be inciting the wrath of countless fans.
That said, because the good songs are so transcendent...I deal.
what we did on our holidays, liege & lief...you probably already have.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:41am From: GP

OK...an extra 'o' and no 'u'...I have to buy some vowels....

Yeah, we ALL like Rick about as much as Kanye and Snoop dog...yeah we like him a lot....ahem

Thu. 3/26/09 11:42am From: Cecile

My favorite debauched expatriate rai singer!

Yeah, Katie, that's what I thought. And it's true!

And I'll incure some more wrath by saying I don't like their version of "Time Will Show The Wiser"

And my favorite Sandy Denny perofrmance might be on that one Led Zeppelin album.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:43am From: Cecile

although rick rubin aside, taha is really galvanzing live.

(and he wears leather pants)

Thu. 3/26/09 11:43am From: megisi

Fuse me, Rachid!

Yeow, what a crusher tune.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:43am From: Doug from DC

He's singing:
Out! Out!
Sadness, hate and the reign of arbitrary
Out! Out!
Destruction, jealousy ; there is no trust left
Out! Out!
Thirst and people are unlucky
Out! Out!
No honour, but oppression and slavery
Out! Out!
Rivers were dried up and seas have ruined everything
Out! Out!
Stars are switched off and the sun went down
Out! Out!
There are no trees left and the birds stopped singing
Out! Out!
There are neither days, nor nights left, darkness only
Out! Out!
Hell; there is no beauty left

Thu. 3/26/09 11:44am From: stingy d

not for nothin - this song is excessively rick rubin-ish

Thu. 3/26/09 11:45am From: stingy d

i'm not dissin yr man, i'm just sayin

Thu. 3/26/09 11:45am From: katie

yes, one of the most incredible live shows ever.
though rob's hoof and mouth cover was pretty smashing. (I'm biased)

Thu. 3/26/09 11:45am From: Cecile

Aw, man, I got that Death disc the other day. It is great.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:45am From: Pearlÿ Sweets

Ray Manzarek: Show me the leather.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:45am From: BZ

Death Death Death Death!!

Thu. 3/26/09 11:46am From: stingy d

ugh ray manzarek was the biggest pouch of douche ever

Thu. 3/26/09 11:46am From: mike tp

leather underwear too.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:47am From: BSI

Leather handkerchief as well.
...or so they say in nasal circles...

Thu. 3/26/09 11:48am From: miketp

what do you mean you do not know how to hustle?

Thu. 3/26/09 11:49am From: Cecile

Aw, man. i gotta hear that.

I loved Taha's banter: "Minneapolice! We are sex machines! ALGERIAN sex machines!"

Thu. 3/26/09 11:49am From: Carmichael

Cecile, you didn't like Liege and Lief? Unhalfbricking? Their 1st self-titled? I don't think there's another that will knock you flat; the rest are representive of that style. Maybe try some RT solo stuff, or the Fotheringay album.

Parq, that Zappa video is from "Does Humour Belong in Music", available on DVD. They're playing Dancin' Fool, and they stop dead and swerve directly into Whippin' Post.

The DVD has many great examples of Zappa's superior jazz/rock and metal solos. Amazing guitarist.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:51am From: Cecile

Carm, I love half of those records, and am confused by the other half. And I know the RT solo stuff very well.
I guess I'm more a fan of Steeleye Span's more straightforward, bashing approach.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:51am From: Carmichael

Tal friggin' Farlow. Wow, Trouble, I never thought I'd hear him again on radio.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:52am From: miketp

sounds like the velvet frog mel torme

Thu. 3/26/09 11:53am From: stingy d

damn man, i didn't know i had an ed grimley in effect, fuckin mirror

Thu. 3/26/09 11:53am From: efd

How lame am I that I only know this melody because of "You Went The Wrong Way Old King Louis" by Allan Sherman?

Thu. 3/26/09 11:53am From: mb

Tal, Tal, Tal! A Jersey treasure for sure.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:55am From: Carmichael

Ya Cecile, at one point they didn't know if they were Jefferson Airplane or the Dubliners. Fair play to yeh.

Steeleye Span is great, as are the Albion Band, the House Band, the Home Service, and Planxty. But my soft spot enjoys the Pogues and Horslips. Can ya tell I'm Irish?

Thu. 3/26/09 11:56am From: stingy d

nad huhuhhuhhuuhuh

Thu. 3/26/09 11:57am From: still b/p

efd: That's where I first heard it and a fistful of other songbook standards.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:57am From: BSI

I'll second the nod towards Steeleye Span. The early stuff, naturally. Below the Salt, Please to See the King... great stuff.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:57am From: Doug from DC

Fairport's version of Sailor's Life is a psych classic, but they could throw people by switching styles all over the place. That R&LT album Hokey Pokey is a good example. Sometimes when I listen to it I have to skip every other track.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:59am From: Cecile

that's it Carm.
maybe a little?
My husband loves Irish music, too.
But I found out about the Steeleye on my own - I lived in Australia for a year, and saw a clip of them doing "all around my hat" in a sailboat outsie the Sydney Opera House!

Yeah, BSI. I liked them up to All Around my hat, and then not so much.

Thu. 3/26/09 11:59am From: GP

Stingy, did ya punch it? Ed Grim is cool though

Thu. 3/26/09 11:59am From: Carmichael

On the other hand, I couild never truly appreciate the Strawbs, because I can only handle so much of Dave Cousins' voice.

Thu. 3/26/09 12:00pm From: stingy d

nah we held hands.

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