Favoriting The Forbidden Zone with Robotic Super Computer 6060842 - aka "Herbie": Playlist from January 16, 2024 Favoriting

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The show where anything goes! Hosted by "genre-fluid" Robotic Super Computer 6060842 aka “Herbie", playing musical gems mined over a lifetime - bits o’ old punk, new wave, glitter, disco, metal, ska, psych, pop, rock, HH, novelty, & retro-obscura.

Tuesday 3 - 5pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting January 16, 2024: "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass!"

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Oingo Boingo  Forbidden Zone   Favoriting
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Cheifs  Blues   Favoriting
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Gary Numan  Metal   Favoriting
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Mötley Crüe  Red Hot   Favoriting
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Jurasic 5  Red Hot   Favoriting
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Graham Parker and The Rumour  Protection   Favoriting
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Eric Burdon & The Animals  Monterey   Favoriting
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Oddio Gasser  Everybody Wins   Favoriting
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Bob Vylan  Run Up   Favoriting
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Bob Dylan  Subterranean Homesick Blues   Favoriting
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Sid & Marty Kroft  Lidsville Theme   Favoriting
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Focus  Hocus Pocus   Favoriting
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Kraftwerk  The Robots   Favoriting
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Ike Turner & His Kings of Rhythm  She Made My Blood Run Cold   Favoriting
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Uriah Heep  Bird of Prey   Favoriting
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Anita Ward  Ring My Bell   Favoriting
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Bender  "Bite my shiny metal ass!"   Favoriting
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White Trash  Rock And Roll Hoochie Coo   Favoriting
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DEVO  Mechanical Man   Favoriting
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Ventures  Journey to the Stars   Favoriting
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Coneheads  Out Of Conetrol   Favoriting
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Snoop Dogg  Drop It Like It's Hot   Favoriting
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Siouxsie & The Banshees  Love in a Void   Favoriting
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the sweet  Cockroach   Favoriting
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B52s  52 Girls   Favoriting
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Bette Davis  I've Written a Letter to Da   Favoriting
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45 Grave  Wax   Favoriting
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Annililator  Alison Hell   Favoriting
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Suburban Lawns  Gidget Goes To Hell   Favoriting
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Mercyful Fate  Black Funeral   Favoriting
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Vandals  People That Are Going to Hell   Favoriting
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Hüsker Dü  Love Is All Around   Favoriting
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Charles Bradley  Changes   Favoriting
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Mr Fab:

Greeting humans, robots, and misc.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:02pm
Herbie:

Beep Bop Beep- HELL-O!
Avatar 3:07pm
laurapanic:

I've not come across this show before...is it some kind of automated random thing? I mean its exciting!
Avatar 3:08pm
Mr Fab:

↳ laurapanic @3:07
Brand new show! Debuted last week.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:08pm
Herbie:

Automated random thing? I feel like a piece of meat - if I were to be made of meat. haha welcome!
Avatar 3:10pm
Mr Fab:

Right, it's not automated - herbie uses his advanced robotic brain to conceive of radio mere humans could never do
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:14pm
Herbie:

↳ Mr Fab @3:10
Well put - are you sure you're not also a robot Mr. Fab?
Avatar 3:19pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Herbie @3:14
if I am, my programmer sucks!

Imagine a robot who usually came close to flunking math. A disgrace to AIs everywhere!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:20pm
Herbie:

↳ Mr Fab @3:19
haha
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Sem:

Hello, Herbie, Mr. Fab., laurapanic. Heard about you, Herbie, through the grapevine.
Avatar 3:23pm
laurapanic:

big respect to herbie - and thanks for the context Mr Fab.
Avatar 3:23pm
Mr Fab:

hey Sem! How is the grapevine's reception? Can i play it thru Bluetooth? Is it on TuneIn?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:23pm
Herbie:

Hi - thanks for coming to the party
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:25pm
Sem:

Hey, Mr. F.. Just messin' w/ the DJ, trying to get a rise.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:26pm
Sem:

Guess it's time to look at Monterey again, if only to see Mama Cass mouth "Wow." during Janis' set.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:27pm
Herbie:

↳ Sem @3:25
Is that some kind of California Raisins crack?;)
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Mr Fab:

↳ Sem @3:26
Otis Redding's segment maybe my fave live set of all time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:29pm
Sem:

Nah, leaving the cracks to you, Herbie.
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Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Everybody Wins" by "Oddio Gasser"
I like how The Residents inspired every weirdo with a Casio and a 4-track to record stuff like this.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:31pm
Herbie:

↳ Sem @3:29
From the looks of it I'm full of them - or full of something else, not sure.
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Sem:

↳ Herbie @3:31
That's the spirit, Herbie. Funny!
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Sem:

↳ Mr Fab @3:30
From acorns, mighty oaks...
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:33pm
Herbie:

↳ Mr Fab @3:30
I'don't know what it is about that song that makes me chuckle every time!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:34pm
Sem:

Sweet segue there, Herbie.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:35pm
Herbie:

↳ Sem @3:34
Thanks - I felt obligated.
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Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Lidsville Theme" by "Sid & Marty Kroft"
Right on! I actually met Sid & Marty Kroft. Got my pic taken with them.
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Sem:

↳ Herbie @3:35
Is there nothing algorithms can't do?

Cool, Mr. F. Were they creepy in person?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:38pm
Herbie:

↳ Mr Fab @3:37
RAD!
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Mr Fab:

↳ Sem @3:37
No, they were super nice! One of em complemented my outfit.
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Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Hocus Pocus" by "Focus"
from "Mr Hocus Pocus" to this, haha.
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Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Hocus Pocus" by "Focus"
memo to songwriters: MORE YODEL-METAL, PLEASE.
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Sem:

↳ Mr Fab @3:40
Seconded!
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Herbie:

↳ Mr Fab @3:40
YAS!
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Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "The Robots" by "Kraftwerk"
my daughter used to request this song when she was little. She would sing along, complete with German accent.
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Herbie:

↳ Mr Fab @3:47
Ha - mine too!
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Sem:

Talented toddler. Movie star material?
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Mr Fab:

↳ Sem @3:50
She says she wants play guitar. We're starting off with the ukulele.
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Herbie:

I'm bummed I never got to see them. :(
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Mr Fab:

↳ Herbie @3:51
Robots get sad?!
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lame
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Sem:

↳ Mr Fab @3:51
Geo. Harrison loved his, I understand.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:55pm
Sem:

Did not know about this incarnation of Ike Turner.

pretty obvious rip-off of "Fever."
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:56pm
Sem:

Heep me, Herbie. Pile it on!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 3:57pm
Herbie:

↳ Mr Fab @3:52
Robots have feelings - just have a hard time expressing them. Not so unlike you skinjobs.
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Sem:

↳ Herbie @3:57
So, you've seen Blade Runner?
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Herbie:

↳ Sem @3:58
You mean the sequel to Knife Jogger? Yes.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:02pm
Aitch:

Bzzzt!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:04pm
Herbie:

Hi Aitch!
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Herbie:

↳ Sem @3:56
ha it just hit me - good one!
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laurapanic:

↳ Mr Fab @3:51
get the kid an electric guitar now!!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:13pm
Herbie:

I finally got to meet Mark Mothersbaugh when they played San Diego recently. We discussed our love of automated instrumentation. Cool guy
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Mr Fab:

↳ Herbie @4:13
Wow, cool!

i was listening to a recording of an old Church of the Subgenius cassette this morn, and he popped in.
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Herbie:

↳ Mr Fab @4:16
Which Sheena's show did I hear that Subgenius episode?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:19pm
Herbie:

↳ Mr Fab @4:16
SHYS?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:19pm
Herbie:

Fo zizzle
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Mr Fab:

↳ Herbie @4:18
now, i was listing to it on archive.org
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Sem:

↳ Mr Fab @4:21
I think you remarked recently that The Sweet was on tour, but 3 of the original members are deceased?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:26pm
Herbie:

Andy's Sweet is still playing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:27pm
WR:

should I pretend that I've been listening all along or 'fess up that I was actually working and talking to my customer instead of listening to this fun zone.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:28pm
Herbie:

I saw Steve Preist's SWEET at the Whisky a GoGo a few years ago. He sat the whole time - very ill but it still sounded great!
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Sem:

↳ WR @4:27
He knows if you've been sleeping, he knows when you're awake, WR.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:29pm
Herbie:

↳ WR @4:27
pretend. I won't know the difference.
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Mr Fab:

↳ Sem @4:25
Yeah, don't know how they're gonna do "Ballroom Blitz":

-Ae you ready, Steve?
-No, I'm dead
-Mick?
-Dead too
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Sem:

↳ Mr Fab @4:29
Wicked, Mr. F. Wicked w/ prejudice.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:29pm
Herbie:

↳ Mr Fab @4:29
haha
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:30pm
Herbie:

↳ Mr Fab @4:29
that would make a great shirt
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:31pm
Herbie:

↳ WR @4:27
priorities?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:32pm
scribble:

Thanks for completely destroying the afternoon doldrums, Herbie. Love your show
Avatar 4:33pm
laurapanic:

↳ Mr Fab @4:29
ha!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:33pm
Herbie:

↳ scribble @4:32
Thanks so much
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:34pm
Herbie:

I don't know where that odd pic for 52s came from
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:34pm
Herbie:

↳ Herbie @4:33
all good now
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:36pm
Sem:

Herbie, did you ever meet my friend, VIC 20?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:39pm
Herbie:

↳ Sem @4:36
No - but I believe my first time was with C64
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:43pm
Herbie:

↳ Mr Fab @4:16
I've got a really cool old Nickelodeon I need to have on the show sometime.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:44pm
Sem:

↳ Herbie @4:39
We always remember our first.
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Aitch:

↳ Mr Fab @4:29
Ha!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:47pm
Aitch:

↳ Mr Fab @4:29
I saw Gang of One (Four) a couple of years ago and then he died too.
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Sem:

The Dead End Gang.
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Scott_Oz:

G'day Herbie & Zoned Out! I'm still too bloody late.
🌏⛈☕😎🤙💨🍺
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:49pm
Herbie:

Never too late Scott!
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Mr Fab:

↳ Song: "Gidget Goes To Hell" by "Suburban Lawns"
YEAH!
All us weirdo New Wave boys in LA had a crush on Su Tissue.
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Sem:

↳ Scott_Oz @4:48
Good to see you, Ozome Scott.
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laurapanic:

↳ Scott_Oz @4:48
Pffft ya bum. (nah, I've just been doing the early shift at work so I've been here since 6am.....)
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:51pm
Herbie:

↳ Mr Fab @4:49
She was great. A coupel of the guys have reformed as Suburban John and playing around LA a bit. My master has played a couple of gigs with them
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:52pm
Scott_Oz:

↳ Sem @4:49
G'day! You too Semsational.
☕😎🤙💨🍺
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Mr Fab:

↳ Herbie @4:51
Really?! Suburban John, huh, will keep an eyeball out for em.
  4:54pm
Milkies:

Hello gang
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:54pm
Scott_Oz:

↳ laurapanic @4:50
Hardcore mate! I was woken in the wee ones my a storm, so slept in. Still pissin rain here.
☕😎🤙💨☕🌻
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Mr Fab:

Thanks for mentioning Dr Jeff, herbie. Yes, super fun NEW show that, like this one, debuted last week.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:58pm
Scott_Oz:

Thanks Herbie! Stay charged mate! My feeble mind may make it earlier next time.
🌏⛈☕😎🤙💨🔧⚡
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:59pm
Herbie:

↳ Mr Fab @4:56
My pleasure. I listened on my bike ride to and from work. Good show
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 4:59pm
Aitch:

Klaag beep until next week
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Mr Fab:

"possibly the worst Ozzie-era Black Sabbath song" haha.

Much thanks herbie! Super fun show today.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:00pm
Herbie:

Thanks again for tuning in everybody! Hope to see ya here next week. :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:00pm
Sem:

^what Aitch said!
Later, Herbie, and those in the Zone.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:01pm
Herbie:

10001010100001010101!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 5:06pm
WR:

Thank you!
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