WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from October 23, 2013

Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Lee Morgan	Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)	The Gigolo	0:00:00 (Pop‑up)
Cannonball Adderley Quintet	Sweet Emma	In Person	0:03:30 (Pop‑up)
Cake	Short Skirt, Long Jacket	Cake: B-Sides and Rarities	0:08:09 (Pop‑up)
8X8 (Lane Steinberg & Alex Khodchenko)	The Tie In	Azalea's Room	0:11:06 (Pop‑up)

12,000 Girl Scouts	Roundup Is Here / Swing Low, Sweet Chariot / Kum-Ba-Yah	12,000 Girl Scouts Sing America's National Favorites	0:19:14 (Pop‑up)
Courtney Barnett	Canned Tomatoes (Whole)	The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas	0:27:37 (Pop‑up)
Rude Mechanicals	The Perfect Child	The Cyclops and the Wildebeest	0:31:40 (Pop‑up)
The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan	I Respect You, Scott Williams	Songs About WFMU and the Important People Who Work There	0:36:26 (Pop‑up)
Chris Shaw	Astronomy Domine	Syd R.I.P.	0:37:55 (Pop‑up)

George Russell Smalltet	Round Johnny Rondo	Jazz Workshop	0:44:53 (Pop‑up)
Marshall Crenshaw	Stormy River	Jaggedland	0:48:08 (Pop‑up)
Professor and Maryann	House by the Water	Lead Us Not Into Penn Station	0:53:11 (Pop‑up)

Quartet San Francisco	Guamba (comp. Jeremy Cohen)	Pacific Premieres: New Works by California Composers	1:26:08 (Pop‑up)
Thebe Atles	Tomorrow, Never	Rev Lover	1:34:14 (Pop‑up)
Air	Sexy Boy	Moon Safari	1:40:19 (Pop‑up)
Procol Harum	Magdalene (My Regal Zonophone)	Shine on Brightly	1:45:22 (Pop‑up)
Magnetic Fields	Desert Island	Holiday	1:48:11 (Pop‑up)

My Morning Jacket	Outta My System	Circuital	1:55:18 (Pop‑up)
Alasdair MacLean	Since K Got Over Me	Live at WFMU 28 OCT 2009 (eng. Trent Wolbe)	1:59:13 (Pop‑up)
Michael D. Anderson	Extraterrestrials	Extraterrestials	2:02:59 (Pop‑up)
Spirit	Model Shop II (Clear)	Model Shop	2:06:56 (Pop‑up)
Dion and the Wanderers	Now	Wonder Where I'm Bound	2:11:01 (Pop‑up)

Asobi Seksu	My Baby	Fluorescence	2:19:56 (Pop‑up)
James	Laid	Laid	2:23:09 (Pop‑up)
Chairlift	Met Before	Something	2:25:35 (Pop‑up)
Uri Caine	Jelly	Sphere Music	2:28:09 (Pop‑up)
Bird Radio	Devil at the Door	The Boy and the Audience	2:35:39 (Pop‑up)
Coltrane Motion	Maya Blue	Hello Ambition!	2:40:10 (Pop‑up)
Mike Harrison	Call It a Day	Mike Harrison	2:42:56 (Pop‑up)

Cab Calloway and His Orchestra	A Strictly Cullud Affair	The Early Years: 1930-1934	2:52:05 (Pop‑up)
The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan	WFMU Silent Fundraiser spot 4	WFMU October Silent Fundraiser	2:55:22 (Pop‑up)

Listener comments!

Wed. 10/23/13 3:01pm rrg:

Let's not have any of that singles-going-steady stuff today, thank you very much.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Foist.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- d'oh ! rrg...

Wed. 10/23/13 3:02pm rrg:

No. Maybe on your birthday next month.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:02pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

: )

Wed. 10/23/13 3:03pm Sean D. Daily:

Not first! Hello all.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:05pm Laura L:

Irwin doesn't believe in going steady with records.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...like this artist's title - 'cloudy w/ a low chance of participation'...

Wed. 10/23/13 3:06pm Whosondephone:

That's what Daddy likes!

Wed. 10/23/13 3:06pm mark spits:

Canonball!

Wed. 10/23/13 3:07pm rrg:

Right, Laura. Toeing the WFMU line is not in his job description.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:07pm rrg:

Geronimo!

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 3:08pm Alison Porchnik:

That painting fascinates and disturbs me. It reminds me of Ken. Where did you find it?

Wed. 10/23/13 3:09pm Whosondephone:

CAKE!

Wed. 10/23/13 3:09pm Nisus:

sweet emma! great stuff, good drumming

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 3:10pm Roberto:

This was playing in the Tribeca Whole Foods a few days ago. Made for an awesome shopping experience.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:11pm rrg:

Did it make you buy something?

That's supposed to be the idea. According to legend.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:11pm rrg:

This was used as the theme song to "Chuck". Am I the only one here who knows that?

Wed. 10/23/13 3:12pm Robert:

Sounds like Short Skirt, Long Jacket, and Sweet Jane.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:12pm founding father:

I want a girl with a long hoop skirt. Isn't even see an ankle. And a short jacket.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 3:12pm Roberto:

Well, logically I would have bought some cake. But I didn't. Or did I...

Wed. 10/23/13 3:13pm plutonic relationship:

What it do Irwin?

Wed. 10/23/13 3:15pm duane:

I want a girl with XXL undies.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:18pm Droll:

rrg, The "legend" playing music makes people come back and buy more stuff has been demonstrated a gazillion times, most recently at the Tribeca Whole Foods. Too bad the same phenomena doesn't occur in record stores.

Signals?! You're gonna play some 80's thin tie pastel jacket wearing Rush?

Wed. 10/23/13 3:20pm perv:

Girl Scout roundup sounds like something I'd like.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 3:20pm Alison Porchnik:

Girl Scouts get all the attention. No one cares about the 1997 recording of 12,000 Camp Fire Girls in Kalamazoo, singing narcocorridos.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:21pm Listening Out There:

What happens when 10,000 Maniacs meet 12,000 Girl Scouts?

Wed. 10/23/13 3:21pm Mike East:

fmu tweeted an article today about a pastor/radio host telling people to stop buying girl scout cookies because their organization promotes lesbianism and abortions.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 3:22pm Ken From Hyde Park:

That's a lot of cookies.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:23pm Kirsten:

Irwin, these singing Campire Girls are utterly moving. xo Mrs. Clay Pigeon

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 3:23pm Michele:

HI Irwin! Loving this Girl Scout track.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:23pm rrg:

Did...did you pick up the needle and drop it on the record farther along? Live, on air?

Wed. 10/23/13 3:24pm Whosondephone:

Wow!

Wed. 10/23/13 3:25pm rrg:

Now THAT showed a lack of respect.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 3:25pm Ken From Hyde Park:

The lyrics - www.scoutsongs.com...

Wed. 10/23/13 3:25pm rrg:

Appropriately so.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:26pm Listening Out There:

I miss Greasy Kid Stuff

Wed. 10/23/13 3:26pm Robert:

I'm impressed you can even synchronize that many voices, let alone make the product sound that good. Occupy Wall St. could've taken lessons.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:27pm rrg:

Send them all to reclaimmedia.com. Get 'em digitized.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:28pm Robert:

L.O.T., what I miss from Greasy Kid Stuff is when they would sneak adult material in. And by "adult" I don't mean XXX.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:29pm Whosondephone:

Especially the dynamics! @Robbert.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:29pm rrg:

Well, I listened to Greasy Kid Stuff. And then to The Radio Thrift Shop. Both gone now from WFMU.

Only Irwin left worth listening to.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:31pm Listening Out There:

Robert: Yep. Anything worthwhile that's intended for kids usually has something adultish to make it palatable for the household. E.g. Bugs Bunny, Loony Toons, Peewee's Playhouse, etc.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 3:33pm Ken From Hyde Park:

@LOT - Add Rocky & Bulwinkle to that list.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:33pm Droll:

rrg, Stan's still on, one of FMU's best-kept secrets!
The show I most miss is A440/Stochastic.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:35pm jan:

@robert. The girl scout chorus would be more impressive if individually miked. Consider the 40 Part Motet by Janet Cardiff with 40 singers played back through 40 loudspeakers.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:36pm Listening Out There:

Ken - Yeah, I was thinking of that too. Oh, and hip hop.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 3:36pm Irwin:

Droll: A440 Stochastic will fill for me in two weeks.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:37pm Listening Out There:

Yay, Bethany. Great substitution...

Wed. 10/23/13 3:40pm Scott Williams:

I liked it even better than "Watching Scotty Grow"!

Wed. 10/23/13 3:41pm Droll:

I, Thanks for the heads up, and picking my crush for a fill-in!

...and this cover demonstrates a "conspicuous appreciation".

Wed. 10/23/13 3:51pm rrg:

40% raised!

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 3:53pm Irwin:

Can we hit 50%? Any generous souls out there?

Wed. 10/23/13 3:54pm Brendan:

I miss hearing Marshall Crenshaw, funny but now that I think of it his vocal phrasing sounds like Ben Folds.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:56pm rrg:

Oh my, it was funny there when she suddenly sang "bow wow wow".

Wed. 10/23/13 3:58pm berbo:

happiness is a day with no meetings.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:58pm Brendan:

Give me Maryann over Ginger anyday, come to think of it, then give me Ginger any night.

Wed. 10/23/13 3:59pm Brendan:

Why leave the island

Wed. 10/23/13 4:00pm G:

Uh oh :)

Wed. 10/23/13 4:00pm Robert:

rrg, wasn't Laura Cantrell just filling in a couple months ago? Her voice stays with me so long, it probably seems more recent than it was.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:01pm Robert:

I miss Wild Girl too, though she wasn't one of my favorites and was on for only a brief period in the 1980s IIRC.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:01pm G:

@Robert: Aug 18. Three times this year

Wed. 10/23/13 4:02pm Robert:

Let's reminisce about Paul & Morbid while we're at it.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:02pm G:

Warning: Disillusion Ahead.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:02pm Sean D. Daily:

I'm back! How much misery and human suffering did I miss?

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 4:03pm Roberto:

Joe sounds different here. Less deadpan.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:05pm Robert:

And then there was Thos. Edison's Attic, which was the Antique Phonograph Radio Hour with less personality...actually NO personality IIRC.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:06pm G:

Title: Slouching Toward Adolescent

Wed. 10/23/13 4:06pm G:

-ence, even

Wed. 10/23/13 4:07pm Listening Out There:

Misery and human suffering...I thought the Shutdown was behind us?

Wed. 10/23/13 4:07pm G:

The guy was picking him up? Never saw that coming.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 4:07pm Roberto:

Whoa. Didn't see that coming.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:07pm G:

great minds etc

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 4:07pm Roberto:

Jinx, G.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:08pm Green Mountain Man Mark:

Is this early Joe Frank? To me his voice sounds younger.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:08pm Robert:

What's he building in there?

Wed. 10/23/13 4:09pm Green Mountain Man Mark:

Then he gave birth later to an ass baby.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 4:09pm Roberto:

Nooo! Take the money dammit!

Wed. 10/23/13 4:09pm G:

he earned it...

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 4:10pm Ken From Hyde Park:

He should be quite hung over at this point.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:11pm G:

"Hey kid, you weren't using your ass. I just borrowed it for a while."

Wed. 10/23/13 4:13pm G:

The one thing I haven't figured out yet is which character is the queen.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:14pm G:

Maybe the woman and the man are married, or exes...

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 4:16pm Ken From Hyde Park:

This was evidently written before Facebook was invented.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:16pm Sean D. Daily:

FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS?! That's a small favor?!

Wed. 10/23/13 4:16pm Green Mountain Man Mark:

When I was very young I had a job as an oil changer. We were not supposed to take tips. An old man kept insisting I take his tip. I kept refusing. His face went angry and he grabbed my hand and shoved the money in it and grumbled "Take it you son of a bitch!"

Wed. 10/23/13 4:17pm ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:

Rowing a boat?

Wed. 10/23/13 4:18pm G:

Waiting for the circle to close...

Wed. 10/23/13 4:18pm G:

He was boring in bed, Jennique.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:18pm Sean D. Daily:

Pink lady? That's a hell of a long way to go for a cocktail.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:19pm ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:

I figured but that is just too oblique.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:19pm G:

It wasn't oblique to him...

Wed. 10/23/13 4:21pm ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:

Apparently it was if he took afterward.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:21pm G:

Nah, he totally got it. He moved out of the country.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:21pm berbo:

West German toothpaste?

Wed. 10/23/13 4:21pm Sean D. Daily:

West German toothpaste? Well, that dates this show.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:22pm ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:

Ah, Gauloises.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:22pm G:

toothpaste? i'm lagging bad :)

Wed. 10/23/13 4:23pm G:

Now the old guy would think he's a manslut.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 4:24pm SeanG:

I like it raw.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:28pm Robert:

Am I a meanie if I was LOL at the subject of this "Queen of Puerto Rico"?

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 4:29pm Carmichael:

Well dang, just got here to miss Joe Frank and a lot of the witty repartee. I got me some catchin' up to do.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 4:29pm Irwin:

$80 away from hitting 50% for this show's goal. Can two of ya's kick in $40 each? Take pity on a faceless soul with good intentions. Or pledge because you love Joe Frank's ass.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 4:30pm Irwin:

I meant "soulless face," of course.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 4:32pm Alison Porchnik:

A face only his cat could love. Well, and a bunch of other people too.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:34pm Green Mountain Man Mark:

I already gave what I can for now. I lost my job due to budget cuts. While job searching I saw an add from a 62 y/o man in wheel chair who needs a male to come clean his place. And he specifically asked for the person to be willing to do the cleaning in his underwear.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:36pm Whosondephone:

Sounds like the Beatles!

Wed. 10/23/13 4:37pm Listening Out There:

Beatles' attorney, now dialing...

Wed. 10/23/13 4:41pm Green Mountain Man Mark:

Did you all hear that Paul McArtney put out a NEW album?

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 4:41pm Carmichael:

Have I crossed the stream into Kenzo's show?

Wed. 10/23/13 4:42pm rrg:

50% raised!

Wed. 10/23/13 4:42pm Sean D. Daily:

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this Air song is about a sexy boy.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 4:42pm Irwin:

50%. tHANKS, jAMES aND sHANA!!!111!!!

Wed. 10/23/13 4:43pm rrg:

Paul has put out several new albums in the last couple of years. Plus a big remaster of RAM.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:44pm ?:

where can i find more of this thebe atles??

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 4:45pm Irwin:

Thebe Atles are in the outernet.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:48pm rrg:

Hey! The cow is moving.

I've seen this before. It's a celebration of 50% raised.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:48pm Ratso:

Ah Procul Harum. One of the most underappreciated bands ever.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:48pm G:

A progger shade of Procol

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 4:48pm Alison Porchnik:

Kazoos?

Wed. 10/23/13 4:49pm G:

Desert Island linking up with the Joe Frank tale

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 4:49pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Lucky for us, they aren't one of the under-Irwined bands.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:54pm steve:

i missed Joe Frank... was it bleak?

Wed. 10/23/13 4:56pm G:

Possibly the backstory of Joe Frank's book availibility is a dark tale of disillusionment. Just a stab.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:56pm G:

No, steve, this one was really lighthearted.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:57pm Ratso:

From the horse's mouth. Joe Frank trashes his sole book:
BLVR: Do you feel your work on the written page is not fully realized? You wrote a book of short stories, Queen of Puerto Rico—

JF: I’m glad you mentioned that. I hated that book.

BLVR: Why?

JF: It just didn’t play. If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn’t be remotely the same thing. Music is really important.

Wed. 10/23/13 4:58pm rrg:

Who's this guy BLVR?

Wed. 10/23/13 4:58pm steve:

im still waiting on the uplifting episode... there has to be one, right? maybe one day he started writing immediately after petting a purring cat or hugging a loved one

Wed. 10/23/13 5:00pm Ratso:

Jonathan Goldstein interviewing Joe in an online magazine The Believer.

Wed. 10/23/13 5:01pm rrg:

I remember this set. You asked Mr. MacLean about the song and he said he didn't want to talk about it.

Wed. 10/23/13 5:03pm Laura L:

Thanks for the Alasdair--good any old time. Yeah, rrg, as I recall A.M. didn't want to say who was K.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 5:05pm Irwin:

I like a song that refers to a person by a single letter. It's Kafkaesque. Or Pynchonian. Or something else literary.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 5:11pm Carmichael:

I am actually almost getting TOO mellow.

Wed. 10/23/13 5:11pm dale:

ola - i assume this isn't the same spirit that gave us
'i gotta line on you'

Wed. 10/23/13 5:12pm jan:

Spirit- I knew that sounded familiar. What ever happened to?
great to hear it again.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 5:13pm Irwin:

Dale: Same group, original lineup.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 5:14pm Carmichael:

Jo Jo Gunne was the original guitarist.

Wed. 10/23/13 5:16pm Jim Duffy:

Nice Tom Wilson work on that fine Dion track. And good on you, Irwin, for doing your bit to bring Tom Wilson to greater attention.

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 5:26pm Carmichael:

Strum that box, dude. STRUM!!

Wed. 10/23/13 5:31pm rrg:

Dion had a few other nice things post-1969, some of which showed up on those superb Warner/Reprise "Loss Leaders" collections.

Wed. 10/23/13 5:35pm Droll:

I remember "SUPER SAVER" stickers, but I don't remember "LOSS LEADER" stickers on cut-outs and bargain bin music.

Wed. 10/23/13 5:38pm rrg:

I'm not sure if you're being droll, Droll, or whether you actually don't know about the WB LL collections.

Wed. 10/23/13 5:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

rrg 3:11 - I was a 'Chuck' fan - I guess w/put the lyrics I only ever partially knew that it was 'Short Skirt' - !...
...got Loss Leaders thru Record Club??...

Wed. 10/23/13 5:40pm Droll:

I meant that, I don't remember ironically branded albums from Warner... Are you saying I can't claim that as the name of my new music label? Loss Leader Music Group, LLC?

Wed. 10/23/13 5:40pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...holding breath for Bird Radio to tour w/ Radio Birdman...

Wed. 10/23/13 5:41pm G:

or, Loss Follower

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 5:41pm Carmichael:

Loss Leaders would often be printed on the inner paper sleeve of WB albums. That was the 1st time I ever saw the name Yusef Lateef in print.

Wed. 10/23/13 5:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...that's right Carm.

Wed. 10/23/13 5:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...you got stones to call yourself 'Coltrane' anything...okay track & all...

Wed. 10/23/13 5:46pm rrg:

The Loss Leaders were a series of bargain-price albums, $1 per LP, mostly double-LPs plus a few single-LP and one triple-LP collections, available only by mail order (no record club involved). They were intended to promote Warner/Reprise artists who might otherwise have been overlooked, liberally sprinkled with selections by more well-known artists. Some real rarities and gems in there, along with clever and entertaining liner notes, many written by what's-his-name who is/was Dr. Demento (though not yet that at the time).

🎃 Wed. 10/23/13 5:49pm Irwin:

Dr. D: Barry Hansen, roommate of Spirit.

Wed. 10/23/13 5:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...skipped out - knocked out by that Chris Shaw cover of Syd's Floyd...

Wed. 10/23/13 5:53pm Droll:

RRG, Special packaging, or just moving old stock? I still have a box full of cassettes I made of Dr. Demento around 1981 using my shoebox cassette recorder sitting in front of a Realistic clock radio. Those need digitizing so badly...

Wed. 10/23/13 5:55pm Robert:

rrg, the name you're thinking of is Barry Hansen. I knew someone who was a college dorm-mate of his.

Wed. 10/23/13 5:55pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I have some memory of some underground comic-like face associated w/ Loss Leaders ; not even sure by now if I only saw the adverts on sleeves or actually ended up w/ one or two...

Wed. 10/23/13 5:56pm Droll:

Thanks Irwin -- see yinz next week, but not two weeks.

Wed. 10/23/13 5:57pm rrg:

No, Droll, these were specially-prepared and packaged collections, unique. To young me they were very exciting and influential. It's regrettable that they haven't ever been re-released in any form.

WB released these all these all through the 1970s.

A good description of them here:

www.dustbury.com...

Wed. 10/23/13 5:57pm Robert:

Gah! With delays here, I see info was beaten by Irwin's. I don't know if my friend was also a roommate of Spirit's.

Wed. 10/23/13 5:57pm Aaron in Minneapolis:

So much for the silent fundraiser

Wed. 10/23/13 5:58pm rrg:

Huh? 6pm? Huh?

All right, I'll see you when I see you.

Thanks, Irwin, and bye, all.

Wed. 10/23/13 5:59pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I ♡ NY...

Wed. 10/23/13 5:59pm Droll:

I'm still shooting for a review like that!

Wed. 10/23/13 5:59pm Denise in DC:

I remember those loss leaders! they were advertised on record sleeves. I should have bought some . . .

Wed. 10/23/13 6:00pm Droll:

I mean *ANOTHER* one. Of course I'm proud of that one.

Wed. 10/23/13 6:00pm Aaron in Minneapolis:

Thank you for your informed opinion NYU Film School grduate

Wed. 10/23/13 6:00pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Thx As Ever.

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from October 23, 2013

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