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January 20, 2013: I Watch You Like a Television
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Sun. 1/20/13 12:09am
sweet cheri:
greetings & g'morning joe, tell me what do you like about 2013 so far? | |
Sun. 1/20/13 12:10am
Holly in NC:
Hi Joe, glad you're back! Am listening via phone so can't sign in & play w the nifty friend stuff, bummer. But can listen w great enjoyment ;-) | |
Sun. 1/20/13 12:12am
sweet cheri:
cause the reason i asked is cause i'm really happy! can't ask for anything more!! | |
Sun. 1/20/13 12:13am
sweet cheri:
hi there holly, | |
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![]() Hey, all! Nice to be back. |
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![]() Ugh, it put my whole name in. That's better. |
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Sun. 1/20/13 12:17am
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
I'll edit! (OK?) |
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Sun. 1/20/13 12:17am
G:
That's what I said when I felt a hole in the toe. "Darn my socks." |
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Sun. 1/20/13 12:18am
G:
64 whole K of RAM, K.? HOLY. CRAP. |
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Sun. 1/20/13 12:18am
Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):
You couldn't actually access all 64K of RAM at once. |
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Sun. 1/20/13 12:19am
G:
awwwwwwwwww :) |
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![]() Thanks, Kenzo! |
Sun. 1/20/13 12:21am
sweet cheri:
joe ,please give us a sample of what you'll be playing during the "single file" segment.. | |
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Sun. 1/20/13 12:22am
G:
I feel cleaner and brighter already. And funkier. That, too. Funkier. |
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![]() @G: Ha ha! I forgot that I wrote that. Welcome to my Friendship Hoo-Hah! |
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Sun. 1/20/13 12:26am
G:
Yeah, I gots ta research me up a set o' them avatar whozits. I don't think I can stare at the same one all the time... |
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![]() Hi, Joe. |
Sun. 1/20/13 12:36am
sweet cheri:
well g'night all,, joe i'm going to listen to the rest of the show,,see you soon! it's great to have you back. | |
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![]() @G: I look forward to your little picture. Hey, KP! Nice picture! |
Sun. 1/20/13 12:38am
sweet cheri:
hi & g'night kp sorry i can't stay, | |
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![]() Thanks! |
Sun. 1/20/13 12:40am
Destroit:
Nice to have you back Joe. Hello everyone. | |
Sun. 1/20/13 12:41am
Holly in NC:
Joe, as I believe I'vd mentioned before, you are the only person EVER who plays Diana Ross songs tnat I actually like. | |
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![]() Hey, Destroit! @Holly: Thanks! It's hard to screw up Bill Withers songs, but Diana does a really great version of that one. |
Sun. 1/20/13 12:48am
sweet cheri:
i just have to say this, joe great tunes this morning! kp you look like a knockout!! | |
Sun. 1/20/13 12:50am
sweet cheri:
well i really got to head out now,, night all! | |
Sun. 1/20/13 12:57am
Holly in NC:
Curious... I just went & signed in on computer, but am now back in bed typing on phone...do I show as connected to the wfmu family or not? | |
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♥
Sun. 1/20/13 12:58am
listener mark:
Hello Joe Hi everybody |
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![]() @Holly: I see you, but I don't see the little picture yet...did you pick one? |
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![]() Hey, Listener Mark! |
Sun. 1/20/13 1:02am
Holly in NC:
Yes, I have a wee picture & twitter & links & favorites & friends & lions & tigers &... but I guess only works on computer, not mobile app | |
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![]() Great song, Camera Obscura. sums it all up. |
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![]() Ha ha! Lions and tigers much more important to have anyway. |
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![]() Lions and tigers and ... hmm, i forget. |
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![]() BEARS! |
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Sun. 1/20/13 1:11am
G:
As kids in the 60s going home from school we chanted, "Lions and tigers and bears, oh shit!" |
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Sun. 1/20/13 1:12am
G:
I'll get you yet, my pretty. |
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![]() Oh ... |
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![]() my, this Dando Shaft is very damn good. |
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![]() Even as a kid it made me mad that the "good" fairy put those shoes on her. |
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![]() Never thought of that way. The Good Fairy was an enabler. |
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Sun. 1/20/13 1:17am
G:
Good Fairies are known manipulators :) |
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![]() She used Dorothy as a tool to off her nasty sister. I think it's a pretty mean trick. What, the Good Fairy was too busy to do her own dirty work? |
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Sun. 1/20/13 1:19am
G:
And your little dog, too! |
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![]() Think i will follow above lede and get more comfortable. Peeps are coming soon. |
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![]() Great folk, you folks! Hey Joe! Love your avatar! And everyone else! Who's your avatar, KP? :) |
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![]() Hey, Matt! Do you recognize him? |
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![]() Someone with a tuning harmonica? It's kind of small. I DO recognize Harold & Maude (and Ms. MILLIE!!) on your page! |
Sun. 1/20/13 1:22am
Holly in NC:
Everyone should read the whole Oz series - well, the Baum originals. Brilliant. Ozma in Oz, the 3rd, is my favorite, most days. The Melvins', too ;-) | |
Sun. 1/20/13 1:22am
KP:
Me and it's a very recent shot. | |
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![]() @Matt: It's Ned Sparks. If you get a chance, catch him in some old movie clips. In my head, that's how I speak. |
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![]() Ah, didn't recognize this guy, but now I want to see some of his older movies. Canadian, to boot! en.wikipedia.org... |
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![]() I joined the society. I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this site everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name on a social media site - that makes people. I'm on the internet! Things are going to start happening to me now. |
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![]() Congratulations, Nardo, you are now an official Person (TM). |
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![]() Welcome to the Society, Nardo Wuar! |
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Sun. 1/20/13 1:30am
G:
Things *are* starting to happen to you now. You're being teased. :) |
Sun. 1/20/13 1:30am
KP:
I just dropped out. | |
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Sun. 1/20/13 1:31am
G:
Deviant :) |
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![]() @G: I noticed your "pseudonymous" comments made while signed in the past couple weeks (and my own! and Parq's, it turns out). Make sure you leave a separate, unsigned browser open for using fake handles! ;) |
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Sun. 1/20/13 1:34am
G:
I didn't know how posting was going to work till after they activated it post-beta. :-) Fear not, I learn fast. I scoped out how things work on the morning of day one. :) |
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![]() I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in |
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![]() Avatar fun! |
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![]() I myself am glad it just went back retro-actively to the start of Beta testing, and not ever since I signed this email address to my handle! :0 ;) |
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![]() My favorite part of this is the fact that there's happy little stars all over everything. |
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Sun. 1/20/13 1:46am
G:
Look out, I see spots! The lines on the road just look like dots! |
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![]() Like The Manhattans, you can tell the world what your Shining Stars are. |
Sun. 1/20/13 1:47am
Mark_M:
I did not hear the entire remark, Joe, sorry. (moving from car to home...) But you remarked about the Utopia song doing a tribute (you didn't use that word, but the sentiment was along those lines) to the Beatles. Check out the album 'Nazz Nazz' (or listen to it again, specifically for this aspect) where one can find Mr. Runtgren paying homage to several artists of the day (Electric Flag, Beatles, etc.) One of my all-time favorite albums... Good stuff tonight. As always. Thanks Mark | |
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![]() @Matt: I haven't figured out the favorites part of this yet, but that's okay. It took me about a year to figure out how to use Facebook. |
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Sun. 1/20/13 1:50am
G:
CotB: Haven't heard this in 40 years. CKLW |
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![]() So THAT'S why they're the Chairmen of the Board! Chairman of their baby's board! Makes sense.. |
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![]() @MarK: Yes, Todd made a habit of paying tribute to people he liked. As I recall, he also did a note-for-note recreation of "Good Vibrations" at some point. |
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![]() Matt, I didn't see your tiny smiley face on my iPhone but one day recently I got my hair cut and had a passport pic taken and sent it in. According to mrs. KP I did it in wrong order. |
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![]() @KP: It's like my informal rule, of getting your hair cut 1-2 weeks before something important - definitely not the day before! Or, did Mrs. KP just prefer the long shaggy look on you? :) |
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Sun. 1/20/13 1:58am
G:
wiki: "When Holland/Dozier/Holland left Motown in 1967 to establish their own Invictus/Hot Wax group of record labels, they teamed [their main performing talent together] as the new company's flagship act, under the appropriate name "Chairmen of the Board"." |
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![]() @G: Cool. They also had Freda Payne under Invictus, I remember. |
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![]() Nervous Norvus' "Transfusion" sounds like some industrial noise -- "Leader of the Pack" and "Dead Man's Curve" use the same "screeching" effect. Probably the same FX record, and both were from '64. |
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![]() @Joe: I thought the prob w/ "Dance Your Ass Off" was a live recording. Sounded like one, so I thought maybe there were problems when recorded. |
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![]() @Matt: Maybe you're right! I did hear crowd noise, although I thought that was the usual "we're having a party in the studio" vibe. I have to look that one up. I think you're TOTALLY right about the car effect. It was on "Transfusion" and a million others, too. |
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![]() The 50s "Teen-Age" (WITH hyphen, mind you!) introduced car crash melodrama into pop music, and since Norvus may have been the first, everyone else used that more primitive effect until a better sample was produced for the 60s-70s. |
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![]() Except Blondie, who used the exact same sample! Maybe they did it on purpose. Their tribute to Nervous Norvus! |
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![]() @Joe: Do you remember the "stereo novelty" records from the early days of stereo in the 50s? Like a ping pong ball bouncing from one channel to another? Apparently the train at the end of "Caroline No" was taken from one of those records, which featured recordings of trains. It was compressed to mono for the song; and even the stereo remix of the song decades later! But I would agree with that artistically - the point is to have a railroad crossing and dogs barking. Don't think too much into it. |
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![]() I didn't hear the effect too well, hafta listen again for it! :) But Nervous Norvus inspired lasting tributes...Dr. Demento took that name after someone called him "demented" for playing "Transfusion" on his first ever radio show! :D |
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![]() @Matt: Those barking dogs are real, though, aren't they? |
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![]() Banana and Louie, Brian's dogs at the time! Blew a supersonic dog whistle to get them to bark. Along with the end of Sgt. Pepper's, those experimental pop albums had really grating endings for dogs' ears! |
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![]() @Matt: Great trivia! Banana and Louie should be the name of a band. |
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![]() Now, in terms of "real" vs. not sound fx, I am also at liberty to disclose that the "seagull" sounds at the start of "Tomorrow Never Knows" is a very sped up tape of Paul McC laughing. But even if you knew that already, there is NO limit to musical trivia and useless knowledge when you're a DJ! ;) |
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![]() But just as I feared, there is at least one, and perhaps more bands calling themselves "Banana and Louie"! But I too would like a "real" band who tours and plays gigs and releases albums, not just making a webpage! By that standard everything *is* a band already! |
Sun. 1/20/13 2:31am
Josephteilhard:
avatars! wow... | |
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Sun. 1/20/13 2:32am
tomB:
but the seagulls from "Walking in the Sand Remember" were actually taped by Shadow Morton on the beach, n'est-ce pas? |
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![]() @TomB: Is that right? I believe he would! |
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![]() @tomB: I would guess so. That was before the tape experiment craze, and the beach and seagulls sound pretty ambient on that song. |
Sun. 1/20/13 2:34am
Josephteilhard:
and now? | |
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Sun. 1/20/13 2:35am
josephteilhard:
this works? |
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![]() You're all red now! |
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![]() NOW you're good-to-go, Joseph! |
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![]() Oooh! Very math-prog like, I'm diggin' this. |
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![]() This song is exactly 11 minutes and 11 seconds. |
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Sun. 1/20/13 2:43am
Droll:
Ditto MfS. |
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![]() More importantly, it turns into disco. |
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![]() @Joe: Spooooky!?! @Droll: Glad you agree! And I'm pleased this is a brand new release, they're bringing the unusual rhythms and long spacey tracks back. |
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![]() Go Flamingos!! |
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![]() Goodnight, all, thanks for listening! |
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Sun. 1/20/13 2:55am
Droll:
Damn you for catching that miscue. That was going to be fun! |
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![]() Haha! Show's not quite over.... |
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![]() Nice choice of good night doo-wop! Thanks Joe! Have a pleasant [and/or valley] Sunday, everyone! |
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![]() It goes without saying...and pleasant DREAMS, too! |
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Sun. 1/20/13 2:58am
Droll:
Yeah! Big endiiiiiinnnnnnnnnngggg |
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![]() I just want to be red |
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