Listener comments!

Thu. 9/17/09 3:07pm From: Cecile

hola, Fabio!

Thu. 9/17/09 3:08pm From: north guinea hillsn

speaking of mr. giant man: http://www.neatorama.com/2009/09/17/new-world-record-tallest-man/

Thu. 9/17/09 3:20pm From: ?

Bryce played this Orphan Fairytale record last week, and I felt like I was tripping. Still do . . . Is it only available on vinyl?

Thu. 9/17/09 3:22pm From: m

it's on ultra eczema so probably vinyl only

Thu. 9/17/09 3:23pm From: Chris

Looks that way, and it's a tad pricey. But man that's good.

Thu. 9/17/09 3:25pm From: ?

bummer: I'm so ahead of the curve that I don't use my turntable anymore and am waiting for CD nostalgia to hit, somewhere around 2023

Thu. 9/17/09 3:30pm From: The 70's

8-tracks are where it's at baby!

Thu. 9/17/09 3:31pm From: Ike

If the cassette is now the standard-bearer, as Fabio says, then my car is, ummm, ahead of the curve. Lots of tapes in my back seat!

Thu. 9/17/09 3:39pm From: north guinea hills

i'm more into magnetic wire "tape" for my preferred music media. shellac is too mainstream.....

Thu. 9/17/09 3:42pm From: marty mcsorley

tapes have been and will always be cool. strong, portable, durable, and if you dont like it you can record over it, what else do you want?

Thu. 9/17/09 3:51pm From: dc pat

it's amazing how similar Scott's and Fabio's shows are at this point...

Thu. 9/17/09 3:56pm From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

I only listen to records pressed for playback at 16⅔ rpm.

Thu. 9/17/09 3:57pm From: Cecile

I only listen to wax cylinders

Thu. 9/17/09 3:58pm From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

Do subway trains hit people often in NYC? It seems to be a weekly occurrence here in DC.

Thu. 9/17/09 3:59pm From: C

yeah, i'm dying to listen to your premium marty, but i got rid of the cassette player a few months ago. i need to find someone with an old car that will let me sit there for an hour or something now.

Thu. 9/17/09 4:01pm From: el chango gris

¿Como es que tocas lo que tengo en la cabeza..?

Thu. 9/17/09 4:04pm From: dc pat

jeeze DDG@tGoD: just discussing the same topic over email...

Thu. 9/17/09 4:05pm From: Carmichael

I believe this is the first time EVER that I can say, "Damn, I missed the Carpenters".

Thu. 9/17/09 4:05pm From: Cecile

superstar is such a creepy, creepy sad song

Thu. 9/17/09 4:06pm From: Carmichael

So is Paul Williams ....

Thu. 9/17/09 4:07pm From: el chango gris

Srta Cecilia - estoy de acuerdo, "Superstar:" muy creepy, tambien Srta Carpenter, muy triste...

Thu. 9/17/09 4:08pm From: Cecile

Leon Russell and Bonnie Bramlett wrote that.

Thu. 9/17/09 4:08pm From: Cecile

Si, chango

Thu. 9/17/09 4:10pm From: el chango gris

WFMU - el ultimo momento de radio verdadero

Thu. 9/17/09 4:10pm From: Carmichael

Whoa, my bad. Sorry Leon & Bonnie. I assumed that Paul Williams wrote ALL the Carpenters stuff. I just re-saw Phantom of the Paradise, so I'm sticking with the creepy remark.

Thu. 9/17/09 4:11pm From: north guinea hills

I saw Tony Conrad waiting for the Brooklyn bound L train at 3rd Ave Friday night. 2nd time I've bumped into on the subway. (why was he going to williamsburg? didn't ask, i was w/ my drunk friends).

Thu. 9/17/09 4:14pm From: Cecile

that's true, Carm.
He did write a whole lot of songs to them. He was a great villian in that.

When Anita Bryant was still hawking OJ on TV, and she backed that anti-gay initiative in the late 70s, and there was the OJ boycott, he and his wife took out a full page newspaper ad saying "Mr. and Mrs. Paul WIlliams are now drinking screwdrivers at every meal." LOL!

Thu. 9/17/09 4:26pm From: Cecile

No, sorry, "Mr and Mrs WIlliams have given up drinking screwdrivers at every meal."

DER. Memory dyslexia

Thu. 9/17/09 4:33pm From: Carmichael

Ahhh, precious memories ... She is immortalized in song by the Dead Kennedys. And not in a good way.

Thu. 9/17/09 4:34pm From: Stephen

loving the caretaker track.

Thu. 9/17/09 4:35pm From: Cecile

A kid in a tea shop was telling me how great the 70s were, and I said, uh, no they weren't.
They were funny and aggravating and weird, but not a happy place.

Thu. 9/17/09 4:45pm From: annie

hhmmm. 70s... they were the best years of my life... more or less.

Thu. 9/17/09 4:46pm From: annie

we made fun of everything... it was easy

Thu. 9/17/09 4:48pm From: Cecile

That is very very true. But then again, you were free and not in HS. Which sucked. So much!

Thu. 9/17/09 4:48pm From: annie

hi fabio, sorry to miss the beginning of the show... cecile, if i can remember the 70's maybe that's not a good thing.. i forgot about anita bryant...

Thu. 9/17/09 4:52pm From: Bad Ronald

Andy Kaufman, The Blackout, Thin Lizzie, 714s... the list goes on. I'm w/Annie the 70s was a gas!!!

Thu. 9/17/09 4:54pm From: Cecile

I have warmer feelings because I am distanced from it. But ugh, living in a small town back then? No fun.

Thu. 9/17/09 4:55pm From: annie

yeah, it was the decade i turned 25, which ruled!! i was living in northern virginia.. great job, decent boyfriend. also the years i traveled out west... yeah, freedom was good..

Thu. 9/17/09 4:57pm From: Carmichael

High school and the military. That was my 70s. And disco.

Thu. 9/17/09 5:00pm From: Cecile

I feel much more warmly about the 80s - getting married, college, indie music, just being part of stuff in general

Thu. 9/17/09 5:04pm From: annie

80s. that was great too, and the advent of mtv! my kid was born, i was enveloped in a circle of really good friends.. yeah..

Thu. 9/17/09 5:08pm From: Bad Ronald

Any locals here going to the Son Volt show tonight?

Thu. 9/17/09 5:32pm From: Chuck

Cecile, how true. High school in the 70s up north 10 miles from town. I couldn't wait til I could move to my real hometown of Mpls, The Cedar, the Walker, and decent radio like KFAI. And now WFMU, life's better.

Thu. 9/17/09 5:33pm From: Cecile

Exactly! I got to live in Ann Arbor, and now Mpls. Much better!

Thu. 9/17/09 5:47pm From: Chuck

Nice to meet you, if we haven't met already in the last three decades. I started listening about the time a discussion about restaurants was going on a few months ago and I recognized another local.

Thu. 9/17/09 5:50pm From: Cecile

nice to meet you too! Our paths have probably crossed at one point or another...

Thu. 9/17/09 5:59pm From: Ike

I'll have to check out that Fuck Buttons record.

Mon. 9/21/09 10:10pm From: FUTURE MAN

what are ALL of you talking about tonight??? WOW! it's some kind of bizzare, tripping over yourselves down various memory lanes, you should know that the best of times are those times about to happen!

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