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Favoriting August 10, 2011: Sorry—since the alien abduction I can't form an original thought. Please be brilliant for me.

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Artist Track Album Approx. start time
Lee Morgan  Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)   Favoriting The Gigolo  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
U Can Unlearn Guitar  Hammer on Glass (Real Neat Mix)   Favoriting Glassworked  0:03:25 (Pop-up)
Gin Blossoms  Back of a Car   Favoriting New Miserable Experience (Rarities Edition)  0:06:35 (Pop-up)
Dirty Beaches  Speedway King   Favoriting Badlands  0:09:03 (Pop-up)
The Jungle Band  Admiration   Favoriting Rumba Jazz: A History Of Latin Jazz And Dance Music 1919-1945  0:12:45 (Pop-up)
 
Mary Lorson and the Soubrettes  Busboy   Favoriting BurnBabyBurn  0:23:06 (Pop-up)
Evan Lurie  Those Monkeys Weren't Typing   Favoriting Selling Water by the Side of the River  0:25:59 (Pop-up)
The Extra Glenns  Twelve Hands High   Favoriting Martial Arts Weekend  0:31:23 (Pop-up)
Amy Rigby  That Tone of Voice   Favoriting Diary of a Mod Housewife  0:33:47 (Pop-up)
Nomo  Last Beat   Favoriting Ghost Rock  0:36:50 (Pop-up)
Buddy Greco  Like Young   Favoriting 16 Most Requested Songs  0:43:01 (Pop-up)
 
Whitney3 (Jeff Liberty)  True Love Will Find You (comp. Daniel Johnston)   Favoriting Whitney3  0:50:21 (Pop-up)
My Morning Jacket  Outta My System   Favoriting Circuital  0:53:42 (Pop-up)
A Great Many  A Great Many Tullises and Clarks   Favoriting http://www.youtube.com/AGreatMany  0:57:05 (Pop-up)
Alexander Berger DNA  I Can't Give You Anything But DNA Love, Baby / The Party's Over for Party People   Favoriting Beyond the Horizons Radio Show (CKUT 90.3 FM, Montreal)  0:58:08 (Pop-up)
The Upsidedown  Silver Wind   Favoriting Human Destination  1:00:49 (Pop-up)
S P Bala & P Susheela  Ee Rey! Theeyanidi   Favoriting Hour of Babel (Transpacific Sound Paradise 2011 Premium CD)  1:03:29 (Pop-up)
Cut Copy  Corner of the Sky   Favoriting Zonoscope  1:06:25 (Pop-up)
 
Fountains of Wayne  Richie and Ruben (acoustic)   Favoriting Live on WFMU with Michael Shelley, July 23, 2011  1:16:21 (Pop-up)
Adam Benjamin  Meaningless   Favoriting Alphabets & Consequences  1:19:31 (Pop-up)
Univ. of Northern Iowa Percussion Ensemble (dir. Randy Hogancamp)  Kopeiya (comp. Jeremy Beck)   Favoriting Jeremy Beck: Never Final, Never Gone  1:21:38 (Pop-up)
Mike (?) and Andy McCormick  Poor Butterfly (for musical saw and theater organ)   Favoriting Wayne's Barchives  1:26:43 (Pop-up)
Mike Doughty  Into the Un   Favoriting Yes and Also Yes  1:31:24 (Pop-up)
Jef Barbara  Irony   Favoriting OrCondor  1:33:18 (Pop-up)
 
Wilco  You Never Know   Favoriting Wilco (The Album)  1:42:19 (Pop-up)
Lüger  Monkeys Everywhere   Favoriting Concrete Light  1:46:28 (Pop-up)
Dan Tullis & Joel Clark  A Selection of SelectQuote Favorites   Favoriting For SelectQuote.com  1:50:51 (Pop-up)
Amanda  Mad   Favoriting Don't Mess With the Power Child  1:54:54 (Pop-up)
Art Circus  Summer   Favoriting self-titled  1:59:16 (Pop-up)
 
Mary Lorson and the Soubrettes  River   Favoriting BurnBabyBurn  2:07:30 (Pop-up)
Cracked Latin  Diggin' Bonez   Favoriting The World Is Cracked Latin  2:10:24 (Pop-up)
Obits  I Blame Myself   Favoriting Moody, Standard and Poor  2:12:55 (Pop-up)
Ernie Henry  Active Ingredients   Favoriting Presenting Ernie Henry  2:16:20 (Pop-up)
Sam Bardfeld  I Was Basking In It   Favoriting Periodic Trespasses [The Saul Cycle]  2:21:19 (Pop-up)
Steve Hillage  It's All Too Much   Favoriting L  2:26:53 (Pop-up)
Joseph Arthur  Exhausted   Favoriting Come to Where I'm From  2:33:01 (Pop-up)
Alexander Berger DNA  I've Got You Under My DNA Skin   Favoriting Beyond the Horizons Radio Show (CKUT 90.3 FM, Montreal)  2:37:35 (Pop-up)
Andy & Ken  Andy Opens for the Human League   Favoriting Seven Second Delay, August 3, 2011  2:40:04 (Pop-up)
Headlights  On April 2   Favoriting Some Racing, Some Stopping  2:43:54 (Pop-up)
Echo & the Bunnymen  Never Stop (Discotheque)   Favoriting Porcupine  2:46:08 (Pop-up)
Megumi Hara  Everlasting Love   Favoriting Everlasting Love EP  2:50:27 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  3:00pm
Matt from Springfield:

Hi Irwin!
  3:00pm
Matt from Springfield:

HA! Stupid ellipsis! Your reign of terror is OVER!!!
Mwahahahaha!!!
  3:01pm
...:

Hi Irwin!
  3:02pm
G:

Ellipsis is dotty.
  3:02pm
Matt from Springfield:

Oh sure, act like you're not affected, but you know you're hurtin'!! You'll be obsessed about this forever, it will consume you...
OH NO IT'S HAPPENING TO ME!.......
  3:03pm
Matt from Springfield:

That said, that's a great comic--so epistemological, where'd you find it Irwin?
  3:04pm
Irwin:

Click on it, Matt
  3:05pm
Carl Sagan:

there's a fire breathing dragon in my garage
  3:05pm
G:

It poses issues of veritism, idealism, and perceptualism, while challenging us to think them through cohesively for ourselves.

Good luck with that, dude!
  3:07pm
Matt from Springfield:

XKCD: "A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language."

Hey, I do all those things! Well, maybe replace "romance" with "webcomic".
  3:10pm
Betty and Barney Hill:

@this week's slogan: Been there, been done like that.
  3:10pm
Matt from Springfield:

Never knew the Gin Blossoms did Big Star! This increases my respect for them slightly.
  3:10pm
Zzzzz:

Ah, Gin Blossoms. Time for a nap!
  3:11pm
Brass Knuckles:

Why not just play the original? Not like they're doing anything different here.
  3:11pm
The Gumbys Original Thought:

My BRAIN HURTS!!
  3:13pm
"Gin Blossoms":

whiners!
  3:16pm
Matt from Springfield:

"Admiration"--exactly how i feel towards this Rumba Jazz.
  3:19pm
PMD:

It's Irwin. Or an alien. I can't tell which.
  3:20pm
Lampshade Seam:

Hey there, Irwin. Give in to me--you KNOW you can't resist my charms...
  3:20pm
ScottC:

oooh kaaay....
  3:20pm
Monk and everyone other OCDer:

Irwin's right about the shade.
  3:21pm
Matt from Springfield:

@PMD: Did they return Irwin to the studio post-abduction, or is this an alien imitation who found his Kryptonite in a lampshade's seam?
  3:22pm
Comedy Cop:

@Matt: I'm ticketing you for a 322 -- an overcomplex premise.
  3:23pm
Brass Knuckles:

Whenever I listen to Irwin I picture a naked man crouched in a dark corner masturbating and talking to himself.
  3:24pm
Comedy Cop:

Irwin apparently eats just like his farming forebears from the 1800s
  3:24pm
don:

did you inject yourself with horse blood too?
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/08/horse-blood-art
  3:25pm
ScottC:

yea but are they "LIVE"
  3:25pm
G:

Will the Old Codger be at the UCB, drooling?
  3:29pm
G:

Release date on the new Lorson is tomorrow, saith the interwebs
  3:35pm
G:

The dulcet whine of Darnielle :-)
  3:36pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:

I really don't like John Darnielle. I just don't.
  3:38pm
Dead Corporate Eyes:

and I don't like the Thermals because the dude sounds just like John Darnielle
  3:39pm
Woo:

Amy Rigby, or Mrs. Wreckless Eric
  3:46pm
Matt from Springfield:

"Love, soft as April snow", and just as messy!
  3:47pm
Peter K.:

Buddy Greco and "Like Young" -- the ideal combination of terrible singer and terrible song!
  3:50pm
BDR:

What is the bed music this air break, please?
  3:50pm
Lou Reed:

Hey, come on, I do songs for swingin' heroin addicts!
  3:53pm
Velociraptor:

XKCD? Where is he...? BWAHAHAHAHA
  3:53pm
Matt from Springfield:

The "New Jersey Radio Museum"? Is that some kind of front Ken & Andy established for their Lifetime Achievement Award? I bet no one will hear of it again.
  3:55pm
G:

@BDR -- The Marco Benevento treated paino piece? Irwin may have additional info
  3:55pm
Irwin:

@Peter: I'll take Buddy over Ella and Sarah any day. In fact, I'd take buddy over most jazz singers.
  3:56pm
hamburger:

ahoy hoy
  3:58pm
Nathan Detroit:

Irwin you love Ella's "Sunshine of Your Love".
  3:58pm
?:

has everybody but me already remarked on the beach boys influence here on this MMJ?
  4:01pm
Matt from Springfield:

"We represent all 500,000 Joel Clarks"--that's a new one! Great job, "A Great Many"!
  4:02pm
Matt from Springfield:

Ahoy ahoy, hamburger!
  4:03pm
hamburger:

hey matt! wow, that's some pickup line, 'hey baby, can't give you anything but my dna' hah!
  4:04pm
Petula Clark:

The party's over now, and here am I.
  4:05pm
Matt from Springfield:

@hamburger: Fer sure! Actually everything Alexander Berger (DNA) does is funny like that!
  4:05pm
Van in Dallas:

Okay...the velociraptor thing was an inside joke...raptors have tormented XKCD's nightmares for many years :) Meanwhile, I can't get the horse head saying "That's a battery staple" out of my head.
  4:07pm
G:

Love is Blue in Hindi?
  4:08pm
Matt from Springfield:

The "Love Is Blue" ripoff again! There was some discussion on another playlist; the year of original release/writing was disputed, so actually Paul Mariat may have ripped THIS off, if it was before 1968!
  4:12pm
Peter K.:

@Irwin, re Buddy Greco: I know how you feel about Ella and Sarah -- you dislike them because you dislike scat singing (which represented maybe 40 percent of Ella's performances and maybe 25 percent of Sarah's). Why you like Buddy Greco, I have no idea. He leaves me completely cold. Ah well, you and I don't agree politically either...
  4:14pm
G:

quick and dirty research says the song is in Telugu, and it appeared in a 1970 Telugug-language movie.
  4:15pm
Lyra Cyst:

Soooome Hinnndu gods are blue,
Blue are the gods,
For instance, Vishnu...
  4:15pm
OCD:

Ee Reyi Theyanidi (1965, SP.Balu & P.Susheela, S.Rajeswara Rao)

http://tinyurl.com/3kl6zho

Chitti Chellelu (1965)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0263202/
  4:16pm
G:

Telugu is one of those minor languages, only 75 million speakers /irony
  4:18pm
Peter K.:

Buddy Greco's music makes me physically ill. And that's my final word on that subject.
  4:31pm
Linguist:

There have been several hipster whines today. Functional translation: "I think my current taste is better than yours, and there ain't nothing you can say to do anything about that. Now that we've established my superiority, what would you like to talk about?"
  4:32pm
Matt from Springfield:

Musical saw, all the romance of the theremin!
  4:34pm
Peter K.:

@Linguist: Irwin and I are old friends and enjoy needling each other about our musical tastes. I am so, so sorry if our exchange has offended you. And I am not a hipster.
  4:34pm
T-Zero:

Heh! Let's not be knockin on the theremin now. lol
  4:37pm
Matt from Springfield:

@OCD: That could be it, especially as the writers are the same--but remember there are several Indian movie songs with the same or similar titles. The music for "Love Is Blue" wasn't until '67, so this movie may have been first.
  4:38pm
Matt from Springfield:

@T-Z: Actually I think the theremin (and the musical saw) are both cold in their sound, but still with a rather romantic tone to them.
  4:42pm
Linguist:

Seems like there is a lot more virulently worded song-choice criticism today than usual -- don't people save the vitriol up for the first minute of an Amanda track? "...makes me physically ill" isn't exactly a light tone... If what you are going for is needling banter, a bantering tone might communicate better for you!
  4:44pm
Peter K.:

I disagree. I think that our current economic difficulties are not difficult. Oh, and I am not a hipster.
  4:44pm
Re-education Camps:

"Creating Comfortable Consensus Since 1969"
  4:45pm
Peter K.:

@Linguist: Thank you so much for your feedback.
  4:45pm
other david:

Irwin you have my vote sir. Now just move to Ireland so you can run for president.
  4:46pm
Ike:

I can confirm that Peter K. is too old to be a hipster. :) No, really, he is. (Um, sorry Peter -- just trying to help. Did that actually make things worse? Sigh.)
  4:50pm
OCD:

@Matt: I think the 1965 date for the Indian version is probably a mistake. Don't believe everything on the internet.
  4:51pm
Irwin:

Just to forge a consensus and keep things peaceful on the comments board, I'll mollify Peter by playing another Buddy Greco track.
  4:51pm
hoand oates:

ATTACK THE BLOCK!
  4:58pm
Re-education Camps:

BRING THE VITRIOL, HATAZ!
  4:58pm
Matt from Springfield:

Drunken-Digital Dan and Mad Mimi!!
ROCK IT CHILD!
  4:58pm
Droll:

Amanda's voice is deeper than Dan Tullis'
  5:00pm
tears:

you got it, re-education: christ. just one week without! just one!
  5:03pm
Re-education Camps:

@tears: Repetition is the mother of memory. Imprinting.
  5:04pm
jan:

what a lovely sound- Summer by Art Circus.
  5:05pm
Peter K.:

By the way, when I said Buddy Greco's voice makes me physically ill, that was not so much a criticism as a statement of fact. I have a rare medical condition that causes me to get sick when I hear Greco sing. I'm like the guy who had seizures when he heard Mary Hart talk. So Irwin, please keep that in mind if you decide to play another Buddy Greco track.
  5:08pm
John McCabe in L.A.:

comment
  5:09pm
Sentient Being:

Whoa, don't get me mixed up in this crap--I had nothing to do with this mess.
  5:09pm
Bots:

Look at me! I'm posting! I'm posting! Look at me posting!
  5:09pm
Moderator Bot:

@SB: Now, that isn't being friendly to others on the comment board, like Irwin said.
  5:10pm
Moderator Bot:

Psst--see how affordable Term-Life Insurance can be! CLICK HERE NOW!
(Sorry, side job y'know...)
  5:13pm
Matt from Springfield:

Soubrette
"1. a. A saucy, coquettish, intriguing maidservant in comedies or comic opera.
b. An actress or a singer taking such a part.
2. A young woman regarded as flirtatious or frivolous.

[French, from Provençal soubreto, feminine of soubret, conceited, from soubra, to leave aside, from Old Provençal sobrar, to be excessive, from Latin superre, from super, above]"
  5:14pm
Peter K.:

By the way, Irwin, very nice show today.
  5:19pm
Irwin:

Thanks, PK. Some Ernie Henry atcha.
  5:20pm
Lizardner Dave:

Irwin doesn't have a TV last I read but the rest of you may have noticed that Selectquote.com is advertising on TV now. Could it be that Irwin's Tullis and Clark remixes have brought the company enough business that they can afford TV spots like the big insurance oompanies now?
  5:21pm
Irwin:

@LD: Haven't seen, didn't know. Are Dan & Joel featured?
  5:22pm
Matt from Springfield:

@LDave: from Wikipedia, 14 Jun 2008:

"Tullis is currently serving as a radio and television spokesman for Select Quote Insurance, a life insurance company."

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dan_Tullis_Jr.&oldid=219211082
  5:23pm
Matt from Springfield:

I've noticed mentions of TV spots going back pretty far, but I've never seen one, even though I vaguely remember a radio spot from long before Irwin featured them here.
  5:25pm
Sam Baskfeld:

I Was Barding In it.
  5:29pm
Lizardner Dave:

It sounds like Tulis. It also looks like these were done in 2008:
http://www.youtube.com/user/selectquote
  5:30pm
Matt from Springfield:

Check--finally heard a cover version of "It's All Too Much".
  5:31pm
Stanley:

Hey-Hey its Steve Cabbage!!
  5:35pm
Matt from Springfield:

Pretty faithful cover. And wow, it's all the way back from 1976. Steve also has a version of "Hurdy Gurdy Man" on that album!
  5:35pm
Hugh:

Irwin,
You are asolutly right--*#I IT''S TOOO MU-UCH *^#
  5:36pm
joe:

that guitar solo at the end was too much
  5:38pm
John McCabe in L.A.:

http://whiporwill.tumblr.com/post/8737161666/if-record-executives-got-their-hands-on-the
speaking of "all too much"
  5:40pm
kat330:

Noticed I'm tuning into FMU earlier on 7SD nights (when I can) just to listen to Irwin and see some clever comments. Not so mas y mas as the folks on 7SD.
  5:41pm
Curious:

Wasn't DNA Martin one of the rat pack?
  5:42pm
kat330:

[Should have noted "mas" = mutual admiration society, not too many comments.]
  5:43pm
h4mburg3r-b0t:

omg - what's with the DNA? :)
  5:43pm
other david:

The retelling of this story may be the greatest moment in WFMU history :D
  5:45pm
Robert:

Hey, just like nighttime commercial talk radio, where you rerun an hour from 3 hrs. earlier. This mmust be the big time!
  5:47pm
Elisa:

YOU SUCK!!!! LO really L!!!!
  5:48pm
Curious:

Define "YOU".
  5:49pm
Matt from Springfield:

@OD: YES! That was totally Andy! I was I could say we're still talking about it in DC to this day, but it seems everyone just wants to forget! :)
  5:52pm
Elisa:

Nobody and everybody...I guess...I just had to say it...I guess we all suck at something to a certain extent.
  5:54pm
Curious:

@Elisa: Totally agreed! CONSENSUS FTW
  5:58pm
Matt from Springfield:

Unfortunately I have to miss TWO 7SDs in a row!
But I'm glad I made it to such a great show of Irwin's!
Have a good night everybody!
  5:58pm
...:

Thanks Irwin!
  5:58pm
Curious:

Great show! Group hug!
  5:59pm
other david:

Cya Matt, thanks for the show Irwin :)
  11:12pm
Whitney 3:

Thanks!! :)
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