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Sun ra  island in the sun   Favoriting Of Abstract Dreams  strut/art yard  74-75  *   0:00:00 (Pop-up)
nina simone  but beautiful   Favoriting nina simone  up front      0:08:39 (Pop-up)
mauricio pereira  imbarueri   Favoriting brasil acoustico v/a        0:13:07 (Pop-up)
marianne nowottny  what would i do?   Favoriting Abaton Book Company 20th Anniversary Compilation  abaton book co    *   0:17:01 (Pop-up)
brigitte fontaine  eternelle   Favoriting Brigitte Fontaine Est...        0:20:07 (Pop-up)
john lee hooker  boogie chillen'   Favoriting king of the boogie  craft    *   0:22:35 (Pop-up)
nina simone  blues on purpose ( instrumental)   Favoriting i put a spell on you        0:25:39 (Pop-up)
Belle & Sebastian  long black scarf   Favoriting the third eye center        0:28:48 (Pop-up)
nina simone  laziest girl in town   Favoriting our love  happy bird      0:31:28 (Pop-up)
Johann Johannson  the doldrums   Favoriting ost the mercy      *   0:33:39 (Pop-up)
 
nina simone  My Sweet Lord / Today Is A Killer   Favoriting Emergency Ward!        0:46:58 (Pop-up)
nina simone  Mississippi Goddamn   Favoriting anthology        1:05:01 (Pop-up)
nina simone  love me or leave me   Favoriting         1:09:11 (Pop-up)
nina simone  see line woman   Favoriting         1:12:29 (Pop-up)
marian conde  Tómame Que Tómame   Favoriting Naino! spanish gipsy soul funk disco 1974-1984  ada    *   1:14:44 (Pop-up)
manuel sanchez acosta  saona   Favoriting fania dj series gilles peterson v/a        1:17:36 (Pop-up)
nina simone  No Opportunity Necessary   Favoriting A Portrait of Nina simone        1:21:12 (Pop-up)
nina simone  backlash blues   Favoriting         1:25:04 (Pop-up)
nina simone  The Folks Who Live On The Hill   Favoriting a single woman        1:27:38 (Pop-up)
nina simone  little girl blue   Favoriting         1:31:05 (Pop-up)
nina simone  day and night   Favoriting the blues        1:34:55 (Pop-up)
nina simone  rich girl   Favoriting baltimore        1:37:25 (Pop-up)
 
nina simone  nobody's fault but mine   Favoriting the soul of nina simone        1:47:38 (Pop-up)
mia doi todd  portal da cor   Favoriting Floresta        1:49:59 (Pop-up)
lonnie hollie  here i stand knocking at your door   Favoriting just before music        1:53:59 (Pop-up)
robert glasper ( feat erykah badu and phonte)  afro blue( 9th wonder's blue light basement remix)   Favoriting black radio recovered the remix ep        1:57:29 (Pop-up)
brenda ray  swirlin hearts   Favoriting walatta        2:04:04 (Pop-up)
nina simone  i think it's going to rain today   Favoriting and piano!        2:06:14 (Pop-up)
horace andy  skylarking (oliver frost & eva be"s dub)   Favoriting broken beats        2:09:48 (Pop-up)
hollie cook  far from me   Favoriting vessel of love  merge    *   2:14:50 (Pop-up)
elk city  my mammal   Favoriting everybody's insecure  bar none    *   2:19:06 (Pop-up)
Bing Ji Ling  sunshine love   Favoriting shadow to shine        2:24:00 (Pop-up)
the yearning  do you remember   Favoriting take me all over the world  elefant    *   2:27:41 (Pop-up)
donna rhoden  it's true   Favoriting this is lovers rock v/a        2:31:17 (Pop-up)
 
brigid mae power  don't shut me up ( politely)   Favoriting the two worlds  tompkins square    *   2:40:51 (Pop-up)
charlie rich  turn around and face me   Favoriting too many teardrops: complete groove and rca recordings  ace    *   2:45:28 (Pop-up)
coco hames  when you said goodbye   Favoriting Coco Hames  merge    *   2:48:13 (Pop-up)
betty o'brien  she'll be gone   Favoriting Travelin' Gals!: Diesel Smoke & Dangerous Curves 2017 Premium  wfmu      2:50:49 (Pop-up)
bettie smith  city in the sky   Favoriting jetlagger  BLM records    *   2:52:54 (Pop-up)
nina simone  spring is here   Favoriting         2:55:52 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 2/20 2:51pm
Trouble:

good morning thursday! today's artwork is by Amy Sherald
  9:02am
queems:

good morning!
  9:02am
exile-on-hicks-street:

Ahhh... luxuriating with Trouble...
Avatar 9:03am
mr_mike:

Stunning portrait. thanks for posting
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TDK60:

Morning trouble. How about a spaceship to Mars? Not a convertible car, ridiculous.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:05am
listener james from westwood:

Was so happy to see both their portraits, but this one was the one that took my breath away. I love how her dress also seems to celebrate the fiber arts.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:05am
Ken From Hyde Park:

The leadership we once had, evidently not the leadership we deserved.
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Sem:

A better day already w/ Sun Ra right off. Thanks, Trouble, and good morning to you, and Modern World-ers.
  9:08am
arrow apple:

90.1 back and no fuzz. Played w/the tuner, yes tuner, no noise, if you know what I mean. Good band with and no cross talk. Thanks. (I like silence, but his is much better.)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08am
melinda:

Morning Trouble
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TDK60:

Sun Ra, often so healing. Bring him back from Saturn, please.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:12am
dale:

arrow apple - they must have had to change the feed to the transmitter cuz it sounds like crap.
  9:12am
Adrian in London:

Wandering round the sunny streets of London. Hello everyone.
Avatar 9:13am
TDK60:

Hello Adrian in merry olde England.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:22am
Trouble:

great article about this portrait
www.newyorker.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:28am
steveo:

Good morning! I heard a rumor that today is Nina Simone's birthday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:28am
steveo:

(And I heard that rumor yesterday, apparently.)
Avatar 9:30am
bore:

good morning trouble!
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Itzall Ablurr:

Art is so subjective. This painting seems to fall more into the category of "illustration" (not a BAD word, by the way) than fine art, in my opinion but I will agree that it IS nicely done. I really want to see it "in person", I'm sure that would make a difference, it always does.
Avatar 9:34am
TDK60:

Today is filmmaker Luis Bu~nuel's b.day.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:34am
BronwynB:

morning trouble and all my troubled friends
Avatar 9:37am
northguineahills:

The only downside to spring is the birds waking me up before my alarm outside my window. I'll survive.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:38am
steveo:

@TDK60 will slice my eyeball in tribute
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:38am
BronwynB:

i had a dj dream that i had a drummer stream show i forgot about so i RACED to the station and made it there right on time and then...i realized i DIDN'T have a drummer stream show
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:38am
Greg from ZONE 5:

Congrats, Trouble! That is so freaking cool.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:39am
BronwynB:

but the "naked in the studio" dream is the classic
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:39am
Passaic River Blues:

Hail, Ice Pack, valiant swordsman of Jerseyland!
Avatar 9:39am
northguineahills:

@TDK60: Your ideas on Sun Ra are intriguing, I wish to subscribe to your newsletter!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:39am
steveo:

I'm glad you made it in.
Avatar 9:40am
Itzall Ablurr:

Speaking of birds. Everybody (anybody?) get their bird count lists reported to Cornell? If you don't already participate, you're missing out. I've been doing this for 15 years or so and recommend it.
gbbc.birdcount.org
Avatar 9:40am
TDK60:

Morning N.G.H! My newsletter arrives via space parachute; it's free but I need reimbursed for postage.
  9:40am
queems:

remix!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:40am
melinda:

I'm more in the mood for Nina Simone than pounding boogie beats.
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northguineahills:

addendum, same w/ Luis Buneul!

Damn, I saw Johann Johannson live, and picked up some of his vinyl in Reykjavik.
Avatar 9:42am
northguineahills:

@TDK60: I'm down!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:43am
MD:

Good Moring Freeform Fighters!!!
  9:44am
Kurt:

They should get their money back.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:44am
MD:

A Beautiful and Intelligent First lady! And Michelle ain't bad also!
  9:46am
Kurt:

Unless they were wanting for a caricature not a portrait.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:46am
хтinа:

fascinating background on this portrait and the artist, trouble, thanks!
  9:46am
Kurt:

Oh wait, I got: It was the Russians who paid for it. Just for a laugh.
  9:46am
WeRAlone:

She also paints african american women cutting off the heads of white women. Really unites the audience. More music and not this political garbage.
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TDK60:

It's great Nina Simone is so popular with many WFMU DJs. She's a challenging artist for us, still.
  9:48am
M:

Fuck yes girl!!! NINA ETERNAL GODDESS
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:48am
BronwynB:

im all right with that, frankly, given the atrocities whites have been committing against POC for so many hundreds of years
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:48am
Webhamster Henry:

This skin color is actually reminiscent of the "raceless" people as depicted in U.K. LeGuin's "The Lathe of Heaven" - the PBS TV version.
  9:48am
Kurt:

I agree with WRAlone.
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kimzilla:

Ahh, just what I needed this morning, thanks for some Nina!
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northguineahills:

Examples of said quits were displayed at the Folk Art Museum next to MOMA last time I was there.
  9:49am
queems:

i love obama’s portrait but michelle’s doesn’t immediately appeal to my personal aesthetic. i want to read more about the artist though and maybe it will grow on me
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:50am
steveo:

sadly, that building is long gone, ngh; moma ate it
  9:50am
sinner:

More political garbage! Politics are always everywhere. It's just you don't agree with these particular views.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:51am
Trouble:

@weRalone: not amy sherald. kehinde wiley referenced a painting of judith chopping off the head of holofernes, from the bible, as he does ref to historical paintings in his art.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:51am
BronwynB:

IA queems, i like obama's better, it seems like a better likeness and i love the background and colors of obama's, but i LOVE michelle's dress in the portrait, although maybe that just means i like the designer of the dress she was wearing when she sat for it
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:52am
Passaic River Blues:

Racist trolls opining about art they neither understand nor are willing to engage in good faith. Good morning, America!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 9:52am
βrian:

Seeing the portrait here, the effect is much less ashen than I remember The tones of blue offer more depth than I saw before.
  9:53am
queems:

@bronwyn agreed. michelle’s facial likeness seems off to me, but i also haven’t seen the painting in high resolution and apparently it is better that way. and her gown is fantastic
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TDK60:

I like when grays are used in art, to make us look in new ways.
  9:55am
Kurt:

I think the raceless people of The Lathe of Heaven were gray.
  9:56am
carter:

loving the tunes trouble. thanks for lovely morning
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:58am
Trouble:

art is frequently talking in metaphors, to try to engage conversation about what we perceive as "truth". To many people on guard for insults, art is the first place that they look to. Rudy Giuliani made being offended by art a defining moment when he tried to cancell funding for the brooklyn museum's showing of an english show that included art that he found repulsive. partners.nytimes.com...
  9:58am
Kurt:

Passaic River Blues: It figures you would go around calling people ignorant and racist. Truly shows what you are all about.
  9:58am
sugarplumfairywolf:

I like Wiley's Judith and Holofernes paintings.
  9:59am
gauche knee:

Get us through this mess,
Sweet Lord.
  10:02am
still b/p:

Both portraits are fine to me, with distinguishing strength, though the expectations of conventional treatment did need reset on first exposure. Because they’re degrees out of standard mode, each new encounter keeps reminding me to fully expect sneering derision of the paintings from political and personal and expectation-bound critics.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:02am
BronwynB:

trouble, im really amused by one sentence in that article: "Meanwhile, Chris Ofili, a Roman Catholic whose portrait of the Virgin Mary so offended the Mayor and whose work often features clumps of elephant dung..." He's really found his niche!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:03am
melinda:

I forgot about the dung Mary.
  10:04am
gauche knee:

I found Obama’s painting jarring initially & yes “non-presidential” but I’ve come to love it ...for just that! It’s confrontational , & simultaneously warm, rich, & humbling depiction of a US president.
  10:04am
βrian:

It's a dung deal.
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bore:

i really like her portrait overall, especially the colors, but her head tilt doesn't match her eye tilt...I wish that didn't bother me but it does...
  This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:05am
tadpoles:

The nice thing Trouble and Bronwyn is that Gulliani helped make Chris Ofili famous. Deservedly so too.
  10:05am
carter:

criticism of the portraits being too political or offensive are thinly veiled insecurities about your own place in culture
  10:05am
sinner:

hallelujah! Ms. Simone!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 10:05am
βrian:

Heh. Nina and Polka. Love 'em but only in small doses.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:05am
Adrian in London:

@TDK60 If it's Buñuel's birthday then let's raise an *extremely* dry Martini to him
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:06am
Passaic River Blues:

Probably will regret replying to a troll, but Kurt, man, I was responding to a particular statement: "She also paints african american women cutting off the heads of white women. Really unites the audience." This statement is both a lie (Sherald has never used such imagery) and likely intended to misdirect discussion and inflame people. So it was at once stupid and malicious. You are free to draw your own, well-informed conclusions.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:06am
Webhamster Henry:

I was at that protest for "Sensation" at the Brooklyn Museum - we used to live a few blocks away.
The real offense was not the elephant dung - or any of the other interesting unconventional pieces, but that it was Saatchi's collection, which kind of was promoting his taste and acquisitions.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:07am
Trouble:

chris ofili was a substantial artist by the time guilliani had a kitten over his painting. not trying to understand the work at all, or what his use of dung is about, he just assumed insults were intended
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Itzall Ablurr:

Dear bore, that's the first thing I noticed about her face also. Just... askew. I know it's not always the point when painting a portrait, but she is SUCH a beautiful, powerful woman and I just don't feel that from this work.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 10:09am
βrian:

I love that she's asserting her right to bare arms.
  10:10am
Kurt:

Passaic River Blues: The polite thing to do is point out the error. What you did was insult the person who made the error and inflame things further.
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bore:

@itzall, it is one of those funny things that goes back and forth in my head. if I stare long enough then it stats looking OK again, but then if I look away and look back it looks strange. i can't decide, but it definitely draws my attention. maybe that is the point...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:11am
steveo:

Simone is so great. I'm amused at the idea that music is necessarily less "political" than visual art.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 10:12am
βrian:

Je ne reviens que pour les oiseaux.
  10:13am
karen eliot:

morning all! love nina. she sure could play the piano.
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mr_mike:

These songs were supposed to change the world...signed disenchanted
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TDK60:

Adrian, I don't follow, you may have to explain; sorry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14am
steveo:

Les oiseaux ont ici leur propre politique.
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melinda:

see line woman is one of my favorites
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steveo:

oh it is not time to get some tea -- naino!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 10:15am
βrian:

And now I've run into a series of Sun Ra pieces. It's a serial day, I guess.
  10:16am
still b/p:

The Verve remix See Line Woman really had a holta me for a while.
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TDK60:

Itzall: Your funny name looks Basque somehow.
  10:17am
sinner:

Teach me how to be polite, Kurt! I want to be polite! I want to be polite-ical! I want to be as polite as the right wing. That's my goal. If only I could......
  10:18am
emily:

Late to party but glad to be here.
Hope not to be stumped by the addition today.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:18am
melinda:

@b/p I really liked those remixes. Sinnerman was good too.
  10:22am
still b/p:

I typically listen to CDs just when driving. A recollection of See Line Woman on a narrow lakeside dirt road to a friend’s camp has attached to the track for good.
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Itzall Ablurr:

Dear TDK60, "funny" name? Why whatever do you mean?!? It's all in the pronunciation; I prefer AAH-blr, but most insist on "A BLUR" and I have no idea what the implication is.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:22am
Adrian in London:

@TDK60 Sorry. Buñuel was a HUGE fan of the Martini. www.youtube.com...
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TDK60:

Thanks Adrian. Haven't seen most of Bu~nuel's films, just some. Need to see more. Great surrealist but I heard he was homophobic.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 10:24am
βrian:

So what, does he pour off the Vermouth?
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jake6573:

Awesome set, really enjoying it.
  10:26am
gauche knee:

ALL THE NINA.
Forever.
And Ever
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:26am
Trouble:

merci @ jake6573
  Swag For Life Member 10:28am
Walt:

@Itzall and @Bore - the eyes of the Sherald portrait remind me of a number of John Singer Sargent portraits that have (purposely IMO) mismatched eyes. Here is one, "The Lady Agnew": www.nationalgalleries.org... ... which also features a left arm that's way too long and perspective/geometry of the left and right sides of the chair don't match. I think Sherald's rendering of the eyes is absolutely a calculated effect.
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TDK60:

Langston Hughes wrote the lyrics to Backlash Blues.
  10:29am
karen eliot:

so into this music. major decision. seriously thinking about retiring from teaching next year. am i coping out? my students are great-but the thought of my peers being armed scares me. adults! my love are pets and children.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:30am
Rich in Washington:

This is beautiful.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 10:31am
βrian:

I'm surprised the wingnuts haven't suggested arming all postal workers, just to be safe. That will surely work out well.
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TDK60:

And...it is still Black History Month.
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northguineahills:

@Walt: I think you hit it perfect. I knew there was a previous reference that would add another letter of complexity to it. Thanks!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:32am
Trouble:

@karen elliot: teach at a private school, usually they won't go there. i know mine won't
  10:33am
sugarplumfairywolf:

The funny thing, to me, about the Sensation show was that in the UK they weren't as bothered by the Ofili, but were super upset about the Myra Hindley portrait. And no one cared about that in NY!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:33am
Webhamster Henry:

Wenceslas/Little Girl Blue Mashup!
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northguineahills:

@Trouble: It will take another few infinites before I have my grocery list, if you're not in a hurry. (the title of this show).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:34am
melinda:

@Henry so beautiful. I like how it feels like xmas at first then turns into something else.
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Itzall Ablurr:

Dear Walt, I agree that it was 100% intentional, just not sure I'm a fan. Like I've heard before from free form jazz critics (my wife, mainly) "Can't they just play the right notes?!?" Amy Sherald is certainly a talented artist and definitely aware of what she's doing here. Like I said earlier, I really want to see it in situ.
  10:36am
karen eliot:

@trouble thanks. it might be time for that.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:36am
Adrian in London:

@TDK60 I didn't know that.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:37am
Adrian in London:

@Trouble Please play some Nina Simone on today's show ;-)
  10:37am
still b/p:

@karen — if you bring and get valuable things in your work with kids, I hope you can keep at it.

As for ocular asymmetry in portraiture, it might...might... be accurate rendering of pseudo strabismus. I got some of that goin’ on that seems Hey! prominent in some photos.
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Jeff Moore:

Such a treat to marinate in so much Nina Simone.
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TDK60:

Postal tellers should be armed with that squirty cheese, to surprise rude customers. Just a fantasy. // Adrian re. Luis B. It's hearsay, never researched.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:39am
Trouble:

@adrian: good idea! i'll see if i can find her in the record library
  10:40am
gauche knee:

@Trouble, wanted to thank u 4 painting info!
I hated Michelle’s portrait; felt artist white-washed her , I wrote it off. Now have an actual appreciation for complexity of it & artist. So thnx!
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northguineahills:

@TDK60: Maybe if they got jiggy w/ the cheese wiz, that will work too!
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 10:41am
βrian:

Ah, les oiseaux. Quel soulagement.
  10:42am
Barbara:

Yes, so good. Call My Agent
  10:43am
Dean:

Randy Newman.

She very much disliked that album, a CTI release. I particularly love it.
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Chris from DC:

This is the best ever.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:44am
Devin B.:

Randy Newman
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mr_mike:

Get behind me, Hall & Oates
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northguineahills:

Speaking of Netflix, the German series, Babylon Berlin shows the artsy sexually transgressive nitelife of the Weimer Republic (it takes place 1929-1931, so far). It's all in German and Russian w/English subtitles. It also shows the infighting of various socialist groups which allowed the Nazis to come to power.
  10:46am
Listener Gregory:

Should note that Randy Newman also wrote "I think it's gonna rain today," which Nina does a great version of. I don't find her Hall & Oates work to stand the test of time as well.
  10:46am
emily:

TROUBLE: what's the name of that "sad sack singer"! Randy Newman. C'mon. He deserves better than that! (you know I love you, but Randy Newman can be profound and musical
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:46am
melinda:

@Gregory I love her version of I think it's gonna rain today
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northguineahills:

I have a friend only a few years younger then I named after Nina.
Avatar This Is The Modern World with Trouble Marathon 2024 10:49am
ranjit:

Discography of Nina Simone for President in 2020!
  10:50am
Dean:

Her "I Loves You Porgy" is pretty stunning, too.
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Mick:

Late to the show and even later to the comments today. Trouble, I'm guessing you've seen it already, but in case not: the Toyin Ojih Odutola show at the Whitney closes on Sunday and I think it's pretty fantastic. Thanks for all the Nina (and everything else)!
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Trouble:

merci @mick! yes, she is pretty fabulous!!
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Trouble:

@emily, not sad sack in a bad way> he projects a sad persona...
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Passaic River Blues:

I was introduced to Nina by my first girlfriend. She warned, "Don't make fun of her voice. I will not stand for that shit." She needn't have worried. I loved Nina immediately, still somewhat surprising to me given I was an idiot kid at the time. "Lilac Wine" still wrecks me. Really all of it (even the "bad" late work) is worth absorbing.
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TDK60:

If in the Jersey City Metro Area, beware, as I think it's going to rain today, be in the 40s F. but dropping all day to the 30s with added wind chills.
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BronwynB:

hey i love this lonnie holley! used to play it on college radio
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northguineahills:

yeah, this Lonnie Hollie really works...
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emily:

Trouble: I agree. He is kind of shambling.
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TDK60:

Lonnie H. is back on the charts!
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BronwynB:

one time my mom couldn't remember randy newman's name so she just started miming playing a piano really hard and going "you know, THIS guy!"
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Listener Gregory:

It's gonna rain!
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coelacanth∅:

i was just thinking about Nina Simone before i turned the computer on, thinking i should've by now encountered an old friend on these comment boards. she didn't listen to wfmu when we hung out 20 years ago, but made me many mix tapes, turned me on to Jeff Buckley (weirdly, since i used to listen to Nick Hill's show pretty regularly; but that one slipped by); Diamanda Galas; Peter Rowan; Dan Bern...and thinking she probably thought she was turning me on to Nina, but didn't by many years. but she did turn me on to my favorite song by Ms. Simone: cotton-eyed joe. (which i didn't find out for years was usually a goofy old folk song)
i miss her.
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melinda:

Beautiful. I like sadsack songs.
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coelacanth∅:

...not that anyone cares. i'm glad i apparently didn't miss all of Nina.
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Listening Out There:

We recently watched the Nina Simone documentary "What Happened, Miss Simone?" Good film...
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melinda:

@coel that's funny about Cotton-Eyed Joe. There's a dance to go with it that I think everyone In Texas has to learn at some point.
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BEAVO:

Another Randy Newman cover great version
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steveo:

the new york yankees have been playing cotton-eyed joe after take me out to the ballgame for years
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northguineahills:

Nice skylarking dub,,,,
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steveo:

(some dance version from the 90s or something)
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tadpoles:

Always loved the expression "skylarking"! We need more skylarking.
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TDK60:

I must leave this building now. Promise to listen to the rest of the show when archived.
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coelacanth∅:

haha that makes sense melinda! i found out when my niece was taking piano lessons a few years ago and i said "you should learn cotton-eyed joe" she immediately started cracking up and went into this ridiculous dance and started singing it as a goofy -almost traditional irish-sounding song! i had no idea!
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queems:

the 90s version is by rednex
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BronwynB:

the cotton eyed joe dance version was extremely popular when i was a kid. we used to do the dance at summer camp and shit
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Trouble:

@tdk60 take your parapluie! that is if you are in nyc metro area
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melinda:

It's the only line dance I know.
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Passaic River Blues:

@Queems: yes! Rednex, part of the '90s Swedish techno pop wave.
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ⓔⓚⓔⓔ:

@BronwynB@11:00 BWAHAHAHA
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Ken From Hyde Park:

@queems - Yes, the one that Beavis & Butt-head aired.
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queems:

a couple years ago my boyfriend and i were watching the worst fred astaire movie of all time (daddy longlegs) and there was a scene that reminded us of 90s cotton eyed joe so we got sucked into a cotton eyed joe hole for a week or so. and now i know about rednex
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steveo:

oh they are swedish, that's sort of amazing
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Wild Neil:

Peace all. My sister claims the term redneck implies racist white person. Thoughts?
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Itzall Ablurr:

Dear queems, is that as bad as those K-Holes I've heard about?
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Hughie Considine:

Redneck refers to certain rural Southerners and more broadly to a set of attitudes that are racist.
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coelacanth∅:

(i'm very happy i learned about that song via Nina Simone. i still think it bizarre that those lyrics would be put to a silly,fast-tempo song.)
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queems:

@itzall i’d say they are both along the same lines
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Kurt:

I'm a redneck. I neither live in the south or am a racist.
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coelacanth∅:

i don't assume a redneck is racist. many are but i don't think any more than the general population and probably not as much as wealthy city and suburban folk. it's just that rednecks may tend to be more honest and up-front about it.
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βrian:

I wouldn't say Southerners. There are plenty of rednecks in Wisconsin, for example. One def:
"a working-class white person, especially a politically reactionary one from a rural area"
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Mick:

@coelcanth I wish I had learned that song via Nina Simone! I think i first heard it in a folk song class, but like a lot of people here, the rednex version is now burned into my brain.
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Kurt:

I am neither reactionary or working class.
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Adrian in London:

Oh this Yearning EP is lovely. Have you got the 10-inch, Trouble? I know you're fond of that format.
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coelacanth∅:

Mick maybe in time and abstinence you can purge it and start over! it's really a beautiful song, as i know it.
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βrian:

And I grew up amongst many working class white people. Most weren't rednecks.
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Itzall Ablurr:

Of course it referred, initially, to people who had to, you know, actually WORK for a living. Like, chopping tobacco all day working, where the sun might give one a RED neck.
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Trouble:

ooooo i need to look for that @adrian! merci
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Peter in Sea/Bklyn:

Good Morning,checkin in from the County of KINGS!
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coelacanth∅:

i've talked with people who refer to themselves as rednecks who said they consider it being resourceful (which makes sense) having somewhat more ingenuity than spoiled people (which also makes sense) and living simply, enjoying nature and the beauty and peace that a simple life has to offer.
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Adrian in London:

@Trouble VERY limited edition
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Adrian in London:

@Trouble And they're playing a gig in their local village hall in the middle of nowhere in Oxfordshire soon.
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northguineahills:

man, I miss the NY county of Kings....
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βrian:

I would say it implies anti-intellectualism and a suspicion of wide-ranging learning.
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coelacanth∅:

(and i've known "typical rednecks" who shared a house, or an apartment with people who were not "white")
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kuriousornj:

hello from Kosovo...
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βrian:

Le mouettes?
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steveo:

Hello pig-sounding bird!
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βrian:

c.a.d. "Les"
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queems:

i love pigbird
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tadpoles:

Like your avatar Adrian. We don't hear enough David Sylvain nor Japan on FMU IMHO.
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stue:

yes ralph waldo emerson was in fact a self-proclaimed redneck
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βrian:

Les mouettes ne sont pas muettes!
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northguineahills:

I support a more variety of animal noises, especially les cochons!
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Adrian in London:

@Tadpoles Avatar? That's my passport photo! ;-)
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Itzall Ablurr:

βrian, that very neatly sums it up, I'd say.
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coelacanth∅:

βrian i'm suspicious of the validity of that implication; although i would think that as a "typical" redneck experiences more, becomes more "worldly", heshe would naturally become less "redneck-like".
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steveo:

Les porc-oiseaux ne disent pas moo.
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tadpoles:

Oi! Adrian....lucky Gulianni is no longer mayor...he wouldn't let you in to New York!
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northguineahills:

There are redneck hippies and liberal rednecks in my neck of the woods, not common, but they exist.
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northguineahills:

(my local dive has a few older crusty examples).
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riley:

Brigid coming to USA (Brooklyn/Asheville) in July 2018.
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Adrian in London:

@Tadpoles Sylvian, the real one, lives in New York State, by the way…
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tadpoles:

Nice to hear thanks Adrian, I didn't know...wish he would perform sometime. Cheers.
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Itzall Ablurr:

ceeley, you may be overlooking the fact that to a "real" redneck, experiencing anything beyond their comfort zone or knowledge level would most likely be shrugged off as "that wierdo shit" or somesuch and immediately discounted and forgotten in a blur of Pabst and fried pig ears.
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coelacanth∅:

right,ngh. i probably know more of them because i live in an area with a lot of woody, rural areas around it, but also "progressive" colleges nearby.
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Mick:

Coelcanth: I'll work on it! re. rednecks, I agree it doesn't necessarily mean racist; but rural - or at least working/spending a bunch of time outdoors - seems to be part of the deal. I'm from the north, and lots of the people I grew up with would self-identify as rednecks. As with many words, context is key.
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βrian:

Brigid's voice reminds me a bit of Annie Haslam.
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Itzall Ablurr:

This Brigid Mae Power is ethereal, love it.
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βrian:

Wait, I thought Brooklyn hipsters had appropriated the Pabst brand.
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βrian:

Schlitz, maybe? Blatz?
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coelacanth∅:

I. Ablurr, i'm not though. that reaction should be expected from most of the entire population -just expressed in different ways.
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SeanG:

CHARLIE RICH RULES!
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rw:

Trouble! Thanks for the music today! I missed your take on the Michelle Obama portrait in the midst of getting my son to school but it seems we may be on the same page. Personally I find it way more compelling than the Wiley painting (though I understand there's probably a good degree of compensation and compromise going into a painting like that).
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Webhamster Henry:

This show had more Ninas the a Hirschfeld drawing.
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Itzall Ablurr:

Ceeley, that's true; but most, um, "normal" people would be less likely to express their disregard or anger by hurling hot welding rods & bolts at that which annoys them. For instance. It may come down to a certain lack of subtlety.
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Passaic River Blues:

@WH: Nice!
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coelacanth∅:

haha Itzall, well as i said, they live simply!
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melinda:

To me the term redneck suggests rural connection, and many non-rural types mistakenly think that being rural is inextricably linked with ignorance (and racism).
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Kurt:

Love to see all the efforts here to play identity politics. I'm glad it's been decided what a redneck is and the behavior of such folk. Make me wonder who the real racists are. Just saying...
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Itzall Ablurr:

And it seems that PBR as the barley-pop of choice has lost ground over the last few years to Miller High Life® (at least here in Atlanta).
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Dean:

OED: orig. N. Amer. (usually derogatory). Originally: a poorly educated white person working as an agricultural labourer or from a rural area in the southern United States, typically considered as holding bigoted or reactionary attitudes. Now also more generally: any unsophisticated or poorly educated person, esp. one holding bigoted or reactionary attitudes.
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βrian:

Coming up on the hour:
Underwater Theme Park with Meghan ↴

wfmu.org...
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rw:

Dean, you're so level headed.
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks, Trouble. Very nice show today. The homework for next week: Definitions and opinions on "hayseeds."
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Passaic River Blues:

@Kurt: you've already stated that you are a redneck but are not Southern, racist, reactionary, working class. Apart from being white presumably, how are you a redneck? How do you define what is often a pejorative term?
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Trouble:

thanks for sitting in this morning! wfmu listerner susan dory has an opening www.susandory.com...
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Dean:

@rw, Tell that to my kids.
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northguineahills:

Thanks Trouble!

Rednecks got their name from popular lore from being out in the fields and having sunburned necks.
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judy from croton:

Wow one of my favorite songs. Didn’t know ms simone recorded it. Thanks trouble, much thanks.
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coelacanth∅:

melinda, true.
...i'm sure not an authority - but i grew up in white suburbia; have lived in the mountains of rural north carolina; have lived in cities; have lived in a "rural" college town surrounded by "redneck country".
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Mick:

Thanks for a great show, Trouble.
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Itzall Ablurr:

Beautiful ending note!
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Josh:

Thanks for the tunez
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yippie:

im in trouble
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