WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from August 26, 2021

Listener comments!
	♥ 9:00am Yes: good morning
	9:01am john mcinerney: good morning trouble!
	9:02am YETI BOB: I thought this was Bob Fripp for a minute
	9:02am Jameson57: Derek Monypeny! Yes, please.
	♥ 9:02am Trouble: good morning thursday world!
	♥ 9:03am listener james from westwood: Morning, Trouble and all!
	♥ 9:03am Handy Haversack: Morning, Trouble and all the Troubled.
	9:05am βrian: No coffee in the house today unless I roast. How to chase away the torpor?
	9:06am Zipperhead7: Welcome back, Trouble! Always a pleasure
	9:09am oshiwoshi: Morning all. My name is Oisin and I am a Jumbly
	9:16am JT: hi jumbly oisin et al
	9:16am YETI BOB: βrian: Tea? Ice-cold shower? Breathing exercises? A brisk walk? Or maybe just roast some beans?
	9:19am Rev. Turnip Druid: I take my torpor black. of course.
	9:21am modern blaze: hello, Trouble! i'm totally hooked on this Maxine Funke)
	♥ 9:22am Rich in Washington: what a wonderful mix this AM.
	9:23am Roberto: I made good on my promise to attend Lonnie Holley's exhibition in Montauk. Sadly, the gallery did not hold up their end of the bargain. The publicized dates were erroneous and this show was no longer there by the time I arrived. TLDR: Roberto no see Lonnie.
	9:26am Jameson57: Laurie Anderson! Yes, please. She kinda crazy. Crazy good.
	9:26am Emily: So nice to hear this Laurie Anderson. I forgot that I once really liked her. It holds up
	♥ 9:26am Pale Son: Morning, all! Love this Laurie Anderson song!
	♥ 9:26am alanr: More cooling tunes for us Brooklyn listeners. It's hot in here (and my resistance to AC, for moral reasons).
	9:27am Jameson57: ...wirh Peter Gabriel thrown into the mix
	♥ 9:28am Pale Son: Also, my WFMU swag came in the mail this week, and I've been absolutely adoring Trouble's DJ premium mix. Thank you!
	9:29am YETI BOB: Trouble's premium CD is great!!
	♥ 9:30am Pale Son: Great for cooking and dancing to.
	9:32am winston legthigh: morning trouble and modern world inhabitants.
	9:34am garlic lover: Great set
	9:34am northguineahills: SY!
	9:34am βrian: Heading out to the back stoop with green coffee beans and a heat gun.
	9:35am winston legthigh: was just thinking about washing machine. still have the concert tee.
	♥ 9:35am Vivian: Good morning all. Kim Deal and Gordon's vocals pair perfectly with a sunny remote day.
	9:36am Anton: Thanks for playing this Sonic Youth track, Trouble! It’s been one of my favorites! Hope everyone is having a great day
	♥ 9:39am Trouble: www.faroutrecordings.com...
	♥ 9:39am Trouble: interesting story about the artist now playing, and this fab re-issue
	9:45am emily: so glad to be here with you. my LAST live listening with you. poor me. but am reveling in the sounds
	♥ 9:46am Trouble: i return to the actual classroom in september, how about you emily?
	♥ 9:51am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Touble Team!
	9:51am emily: I return on Tuesday!
	9:52am Kpx: Morning troubley Woubley.
	♥ 9:52am Handy Haversack: OK, it's brutal out there. Even though I know what the testing reveals, it was very tempting to just slide into the water when collecting the sample. Oh, jeez, missed "Little Trouble Girl"!
	9:54am winston legthigh: sounds like an early cocktail hour is in order.
	♥ 9:55am Handy Haversack: I like your thinking, winston! Though I'm still feeling K8's bday cocktails ... I go back to the office office three days a week after Labor Day.
	♥ 9:56am Irene Trudel: Loving this morning's offerings from the background today, Trouble!
	9:57am βrian: Where's the nearest trout steam, @Handy?
	♥ 9:57am Trouble: good morning@ irene, merci!
	♥ 10:00am Handy Haversack: Too far to walk, βrian, I know that much.
	♥ 10:01am Irene Trudel: Wow, Trouble! Going back in to the classroom must be a big deal for you, Trouble. My workplace is being rather vague about our return. As of Sept. 13th we are allowed to come back if we want. All employees must be vaccinated if they do. But still no live guests or music for the undetermined future. I think I'm still going to be working mostly from home.
	♥ 10:01am Peter in SEA: Bon jour, Trouble and listeners. A quick listen and then off to school prep! :-)
	10:01am winston legthigh: back to the office wow. in manhattan?
	10:01am Johnny Staten Island: Sultry sounds for a sultry day
	10:02am winston legthigh: and belated happy birthday k8!
	♥ 10:03am Irene Trudel: Winston, for me the office is New York Public Radio in Manhattan. But as a live music engineer, there still won't be any sessions for a while.
	♥ 10:06am Handy Haversack: For me, yeah, winston, back to the office in Manhattan. Between Columbus Circle and Lincoln Center. We're allowed to pick whether we want to go back full time, not at all, or hybrid. But I think I risk losing my own office space if I'm not there three days a week. So that's my plan.
	10:06am B Wad: Ahoy, trouble! Just getting up from the pottery wheel here, also loved the Laurie Anderson. A few years ago I saw her play a performance festival in Jerusalem. It was right on the eve of the 2016 US presidential election, and she started her performance by leading the entire auditorium in a full-on primal scream.
	10:06am Edwin Sierra: Hi trouble…interested in those tickets!!
	♥ 10:06am Threemoons: Heyo. Just stopping by to say that I am having a rough morning and a rough start but this gorgeous set is helping a lot.
	♥ 10:07am Threemoons: Tardy to the party but feel blessed to have seen, met, and even had drinks with Laurie Anderson back when she was doing the Voyager CD-ROMs. Fantastic artist and a true genius. Bonus: Also got to meet/hang with a stone-silent Lou Reed.
	♥ 10:08am Handy Haversack: Hope the day gets steadily better, Threemoons.
	♥ 10:09am Ken From Hyde Park: Wake 'n' Bake pixie dust to you, Threemoons.
	10:09am winston legthigh: im envious of your career choice irene trudell, as an electrical engineer i find mine to be quite boring. hope it works out for everyone going back to work from work.
	♥ 10:09am Threemoons: @Handy sorry RE office issue. May I ask what you do? @Ken Thank you so much! Need it today!
	♥ 10:10am Threemoons: @Handy and let me add that nothing short of a 100% salary increase would get me back in a cube farm.
	♥ 10:13am Handy Haversack: Threemoons, I work in scholarly publishing. I have a little office of my own with a closable door, which means WFMU can be in there with me!
	♥ 10:14am Jason from Houston: +:꒰◍• ᴗ •◍꒱:+
	10:15am winston legthigh: fantastic set today as always trouble.
	♥ 10:16am Trouble: gracias @ winston
	♥ 10:16am Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): greetings, Trouble and folx! enjoying these sounds from my cabin in the woods.
	♥ 10:19am Threemoons: @Handy aaah, yes, thanks for the refresher! If you have an actual office, then I can see wanting to keep it. When I used to have an Office Proper in NYC--one block from Grand Central--I used it as secondary storage for my "Manhattan Stuff."--gym clothes, a change of clothes, etc. I had not only my own door, but a full bookcase and a huge wardrobe as well as a wraparound desk with tons of drawers and a secondary book hutch. You know, almost A-suite....sigh.
	♥ 10:19am Threemoons: Heck, I LOST that job almost 10 years ago...sigh.
	10:19am headcleaner: Nearly all tech companies I've worked for in the past 20 years have insisted in the necessity of having everyone in one giant room with shitty air and shitty lighting, and constant interruptions, and when there aren't interruptions, nearly always so loud you can't think. Because "collaboration", and who needs to think anyway
	10:20am Avrilinmay: hello Trouble! Hello all. This is reminding me of the long message of thanks and admiration I wanted to write here after catching that french-centered show in the archives, in july (but could not get around to in time soon enough. because IRL life ugh...)
	♥ 10:21am Threemoons: @Headcleaner I hear you on that. I wasn't IT but I had a job at a brokerage doing Internet Stuff ages ago and the only place they had desk room for me was in the server/wire room. Luckily the two techies I worked with were great guys and also as funny as hell otherwise I never would have put up with freezing cold temperatures, flickering lights, and the constant hum of machines as well as someone stopping in every 5 seconds because they broke something on their Windows installation.
	10:23am Mike W.: Ooooh, pre-bossa Le Mans
	♥ 10:23am Threemoons: @Headcleaner and don't forget the shitty furniture! I actually got carpal tunnel because the desk was too high for me even with the crappy chair they gave me pumped as high as it goes. The two tech guys actually hooked me up with a pile of old phone books to sit on eventually.
	♥ 10:23am Jason from Houston: ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
	♥ 10:24am Ken From Hyde Park: @Threemoons - I hope your boss didn't grab your red stapler back then.
	♥ 10:25am Threemoons: @Ken LOL no I am doing 100% work from home now doing Legal Services Stuff...and the funny thing is, I actually bought the red Swingline stapler (special Office Space Edition) back when the Plague started and I was WFH....
	♥ 10:26am Threemoons: www.amazon.com...
	10:26am Danny C: Oooh Le mans .... I love it
	♥ 10:27am Threemoons: @Handy I think you need a Red Stapler for your meatspace office
	♥ 10:29am Handy Haversack: Maybe I do!
	10:30am headcleaner: 3moons - yeah I've been in that room, and sat on those chairs for many a stretch as well. Oh and the smells of these offices. Nothing like the bouquet of decades-old sweat and coffee stains to keep us motivated and on board with the company's mission
	♥ 10:35am HotTopicValuedCustomer: good morning friendos
	10:37am winston legthigh: when i did consulting for goldman sachs back in the dot com bubble days i needed a background check and escort to get into a data center. making someone sit in there all day every day just aint right.
	10:44am Zipperhead7: Beny More! Yesssss!!!
	10:44am βrian: Oh, habib'ti arrived with to-go coffee in hand. Salvation!
	♥ 10:47am karlward: I have kept a red Swingline stapler on my desk almost two decades now.
	♥ 10:47am karlward: Once it got stolen, and a colleague bought me a new one.
	10:48am βrian: Our workspace had just been re-done before the pandemic. Powered adjustable desks, cubby furniture and all. Love working from home, though.
	♥ 10:53am Handy Haversack: I keep a 2"-wide twenty-sided die on my desk for all important workplace decisions.
	♥ 10:56am karlward: Yes Handy but have you considered making your own 20 sided die entirely out of staples you commandeered from the supply closet?
	10:56am Yes: Currently relating to this
	♥ 10:57am Jason from Houston: How many pickles should I put on my sandwich for lunch, Handy?
	♥ 10:57am Handy Haversack: Sure! Who hasn't! I just have some reservations about true probabalistic outcomes. A personal hangup.
	10:57am Marie: Very much enjoying the show, Trouble. Merci! Hi everybody.
	♥ 10:58am Handy Haversack: Jason, because I love you I rolled my die-cast steel home thirty-sider: 23!
	10:58am Marie: I lurve this song!
	♥ 10:58am Trouble: merci @marie!
	11:02am Marie: Never heard this version before. It IS dynamite. Cool image by D. Hockney!
	♥ 11:02am Jason from Houston: !!! Thanks, boss! I don't know if I have that many left in the jar!
	♥ 11:03am Handy Haversack: Toots is never forgotten.
	11:04am modern blaze: love toots & the maytals
	♥ 11:09am Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): my body is not moving to this rhythm today
	♥ 11:25am adampsyche: trouble reggae sets are choice reggae sets
	♥ 11:27am Trouble: gracias@adam! i don't think a lot of people like reggae, and i am perplexed as to why that is...
	11:29am Carmichael: Heya Trouble and clock watchers. My office desk proudly displays my Beavis and Butthead action figures. If anyone asks, I give them a stern look and explain that they are my "personal saviors."
	11:33am Scott McDowell: It’s a lovers rock situation!
	♥ 11:33am Ken From Hyde Park: @Carmichael - Huh huh ... cool!
	11:35am woofer: people who don't like reggae can't be trusted 🙅
	♥ 11:35am Michele with One "L": Hi @Scott McDowell!
	11:35am winston legthigh: luvin the reggae, it is the best hot and steamy summer music imho.
	♥ 11:35am Pale Son: I think it got codified by a lot of white British artists in the '80s as a cheap arrangement trick, and after growing up on that, people have to be exposed to a lot of the real thing before they can hear what's really there.
	11:35am northguineahills: I really dug the lovers rock set. (then again, I djed Caribbean music for 20 years.) What woofer said, the same could be said about people who don't like jazz.
	♥ 11:35am listener james from westwood: Maybe the reggae dislike comes from most US radio stations only playing the same three Bob Marley tracks (same for the ad industry)? And then they just transfer that frustration to the whole genre?
	11:36am Marie: I have grown to love reggae more and more with time. Going to Jamaica for a psilocybin retreat further added to it. I never realized how fantastic it is to dance to--so many beats going on.
	♥ 11:36am tim from washington: I like reggae!But I will say it wasn't until my mid 20s until I really dug it. Up to then my only exposure was Bob Marley and anemic public radio reggae. My friend at the record store said "You know there's lots of good reggae. Try this...." and I've been in the deep end since.
	11:36am Scott McDowell: ((((((((Hi Michele))))))))
	11:37am Marie: @James--yeah, I think people think it all kinda sounds alike and they can't get past that bass line
	♥ 11:37am listener james from westwood: I had a junior-year roommate with a deep Eek-A-Mouse collection. First big bit of mind expansion on Jamaican music.
	11:38am Scott McDowell: Reggae is great in the humid summer and also the dead of winter!
	♥ 11:38am Pale Son: I had to be brought into the fold through dub. Now it all sounds great!
	11:38am ratso: My Sunday mornings are complete because of Reggae Schoolroom.
	11:38am woofer: @marie the bass lines are the best part! again, heathens!
	11:38am Marie: Shout out to Jeff Sarge here, too!
	11:38am winston legthigh: reggae schoolroom with jeff sarge sundays 9 til noon.
	♥ 11:39am Ken From Hyde Park: I see that the Explorers Room on the Drummer stream (7-10PM) tonight is a reggae show.
	11:40am Marie: @woofer--I hear ya'--it's a bass lovers dream! (btw, growing up, I pronounced the instrument the same as you pronounce the fish @). )
	11:40am Zipperhead7: It also took awhile for me to warm to reggae, but once it bit, it bit hard. As Greil Marcus wrote about the soundtrack to "The Harder They Come," "The Rolling Stones would have killed to make this record." Thanks, Trouble!
	11:42am Carmichael: I re-watched the Muscle Shoals documentary last night. They had a lengthy interview with Jimmy Cliff, who recorded Sitting in Limbo there.
	11:42am Marie: I would love to see that movie, Zipperhead7
	11:44am Mike W: Would not reggae be like most genres of music in that it’s capacious, and has stars and superstars and lesser-known acts and nobodys and copycats etc., and some of it is very very good, and some is okay one guesses, and some does not inspire such good feelings, and some is made by people such that questions are raised about culture and appropriation and such Bury me with my Love Joys records, that’s all
	11:44am northguineahills: @Pale Son: I didn't like reggae, b/c the potheads in my dorm blasted The Wailers all the time. Then I discovered Prince Far-I and King Tubby, when I was 19, and down the rabbit hole I went....
	♥ 11:45am drr: Whatever genre Prince Buster is, that's what I like.
	11:45am northguineahills: Amen, drr!
	♥ 11:46am drr: Whatever genre "Could You Be Loved" is? Not so much.
	♥ 11:47am Trouble: i like bob marley. i saw him in providence, right before he died, he played brown. it was super amazing.
	♥ 11:48am drr: (Bob Marley actually has a bunch of good songs, it's just that one...that one makes me feel angry.)
	11:49am ?: I love Bob omg
	11:50am Kpx: C'ya teach, moderneer's.
	11:50am winston legthigh: i like what is sometimes referred to as roots reggae. bob marley +++
	11:51am emily: I love the cosmic mood today. You are often in outer space but today, more outer
	♥ 11:51am tim from washington: I'm not too keen on later Bob Marley but I've read many accounts of his amazing performances in the late 70s/80s. In the late 90s I had a neighbor from Nigeria. I asked him about Fela. He said Fela was great but Bob Marley was The People's Music in all of Africa.
	♥ 11:52am Pale Son: Ha ha, @northguineahills! Pothead associations can be so damaging to unbiased listening.
	11:53am headcleaner: Bob Marley's final words to his son: "Money can't buy life"
	♥ 11:53am Ken From Hyde Park: The pot-heads in my dorm preferred Peter Tosh over Bob.
	11:54am northguineahills: oh, I like Bob Marley now, it's just it took a while for me to appreciated him. Actually, the first song I liked was hist "Mr Brown" (b/c of the organ), and I was 19.
	11:54am Scott McDowell: Rastaman Vibration > Exodus > Natty Dread > Uprising > Confrontation > Kaya > Survival
	♥ 11:54am Ryansterlingvirtue: this song is amazing.
	11:55am winston legthigh: "smoked 2 fat joints in the morning" over and over and over.
	11:56am Kpx: Headcleaner: He should have followed that up with, "but it can buy the good life" .
	♥ 11:57am Trouble: see you next week. thanks for tuning in today!
	♥ 11:57am radioronan: Thanks Trouble!
	11:57am winston legthigh: thanks trouble. a good day to all.
	♥ 11:57am Handy Haversack: I discovered Desmond Dekker in college and still love his music a ton. Thanks, Trouble!
	11:57am northguineahills: arigato, Trouble!
	11:57am emily: thanks!
	11:58am Mike W: Handy! “Israelites!”
	♥ 11:58am tim from washington: Thanks Trouble!
	♥ 11:58am drr: I got to meet Nigerian reggae artist Majek Fashek in Brooklyn and...wow.
	♥ 11:59am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Trouble. Walk good!
	♥ 11:59am drr: Well, well, look at the time. Maybe I can finish that long story next week.

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from August 26, 2021

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Derek Monypeny	the hand as dealt (excerpt)	The Hand as Dealt	2182 Recording Company				*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
lafawndah	don't despair "don't despair" by "lafawndah"	the fifth season	latency recordings				*	0:06:37 (Pop-up)
otagh band	rotenburg 2020 ( excerpt)	this is tehran?	30 M records				*	0:12:02 (Pop-up)
maxine funke	quiet shore "quiet shore" by "maxine funke"	seance	a colourful storm				*	0:17:20 (Pop-up)
laurie anderson	gravity's angel "gravity's angel" by "laurie anderson"	Mister Heartbreak						0:24:46 (Pop-up)

sonic youth	little trouble girl "little trouble girl" by "sonic youth"	washing machine						0:34:38 (Pop-up)
agustin pereyra lucena quartet	pra que chorar	La Rana	far out records	1980/2021			*	0:39:14 (Pop-up)
sun ra	that's how i feel "that's how i feel" by "sun ra"	lanquidity	Strut	1978/2021		amazing box set!	*	0:53:23 (Pop-up)

nite jewel	before i go "before i go" by "nite jewel"	no sun					*	1:06:08 (Pop-up)
apifera	pulse 420 "pulse 420" by "apifera"	overstand	stones throw				*	1:09:28 (Pop-up)
arlo parks	too good ( unknown mortal orchestra remix)						*	1:13:28 (Pop-up)
serge gainsbourg	les oubliettes "les oubliettes" by "serge gainsbourg"	la javanaise v 2						1:17:18 (Pop-up)
pahua & la dame blanche	la trampa				Single		*	1:19:44 (Pop-up)
le mans	un rayo de sol "un rayo de sol" by "le mans"	catastrophe no 17						1:23:16 (Pop-up)
melanie charles	Woman of the Ghetto (Re-Imagined)						*	1:26:10 (Pop-up)
rejoicer	no bells rang that day feat nitai hershkovits	spiritual sleaze					*	1:31:45 (Pop-up)
Mikado Koko	the queen of hearts "the queen of hearts" by "Mikado Koko"	maza gusu	akuphone				*	1:33:36 (Pop-up)
Beny Moré y Su Orquesta	pachito e'che	magia antillana						1:39:07 (Pop-up)
zero 7	shadows "shadows" by "zero 7"	shadows ep						1:42:33 (Pop-up)
brown sugar	hurtin (with dennis bovell)	I'm In Love With a Dreadlocks: Brown Sugar and the Birth of Lovers Rock 1977-80						1:50:42 (Pop-up)
carl bryan	sunday version "sunday version" by "carl bryan"				7"			1:51:08 (Pop-up)
jennifer lara	i am in love "i am in love" by "jennifer lara"	studio one women the original v/a						1:52:05 (Pop-up)
chosen few	everybody plays the fool	Trojan Soulful Reggae Box Set						1:55:03 (Pop-up)
toots & the maytals	Bam Bam "Bam Bam" by "toots & the maytals"	500 % dynamite						1:58:23 (Pop-up)

bobbi humphrey	say the word "say the word" by "bobbi humphrey"	the good life						2:07:58 (Pop-up)
sound defenders	headache "headache" by "sound defenders"				7"			2:13:31 (Pop-up)
Freddie McKay	love is a treasure "love is a treasure" by "Freddie McKay"	nice up the dance studio one discomixes v/a						2:16:34 (Pop-up)
alpha	can't get over you "can't get over you" by "alpha"	this is lovers rock v/a						2:24:10 (Pop-up)
dawn penn	too much hurt "too much hurt" by "dawn penn"	melody life: trojan sisters v/a						2:29:07 (Pop-up)

hollie kenniff	flourish "flourish" by "hollie kenniff"	the quiet drift	western vinyl				*	2:35:20 (Pop-up)
jabu	us alone "us alone" by "jabu"	sweet company	do you have peace?				*	2:38:25 (Pop-up)
NTsKI	on divination in sleep feat DOVE	orca					*	2:41:16 (Pop-up)
Kenny Graham and his Satellites	utsu	moondog and suncat suites						2:44:23 (Pop-up)
saskia	my lips get hot ( long version)	eu wig op reis						2:48:52 (Pop-up)
shakti	pi pi ( turbotito and ragz rework)	naya beat v 1	naya beat				*	2:56:25 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 9:00am Yes: good morning
	9:01am john mcinerney: good morning trouble!
	9:02am YETI BOB: I thought this was Bob Fripp for a minute
	9:02am Jameson57: Derek Monypeny! Yes, please.
	♥ 9:02am Trouble: good morning thursday world!
	♥ 9:03am listener james from westwood: Morning, Trouble and all!
	♥ 9:03am Handy Haversack: Morning, Trouble and all the Troubled.
	9:05am βrian: No coffee in the house today unless I roast. How to chase away the torpor?
	9:06am Zipperhead7: Welcome back, Trouble! Always a pleasure
	9:09am oshiwoshi: Morning all. My name is Oisin and I am a Jumbly
	9:16am JT: hi jumbly oisin et al
	9:16am YETI BOB: βrian: Tea? Ice-cold shower? Breathing exercises? A brisk walk? Or maybe just roast some beans?
	9:19am Rev. Turnip Druid: I take my torpor black. of course.
	9:21am modern blaze: hello, Trouble! i'm totally hooked on this Maxine Funke)
	♥ 9:22am Rich in Washington: what a wonderful mix this AM.
	9:23am Roberto: I made good on my promise to attend Lonnie Holley's exhibition in Montauk. Sadly, the gallery did not hold up their end of the bargain. The publicized dates were erroneous and this show was no longer there by the time I arrived. TLDR: Roberto no see Lonnie.
	9:26am Jameson57: Laurie Anderson! Yes, please. She kinda crazy. Crazy good.
	9:26am Emily: So nice to hear this Laurie Anderson. I forgot that I once really liked her. It holds up
	♥ 9:26am Pale Son: Morning, all! Love this Laurie Anderson song!
	♥ 9:26am alanr: More cooling tunes for us Brooklyn listeners. It's hot in here (and my resistance to AC, for moral reasons).
	9:27am Jameson57: ...wirh Peter Gabriel thrown into the mix
	♥ 9:28am Pale Son: Also, my WFMU swag came in the mail this week, and I've been absolutely adoring Trouble's DJ premium mix. Thank you!
	9:29am YETI BOB: Trouble's premium CD is great!!
	♥ 9:30am Pale Son: Great for cooking and dancing to.
	9:32am winston legthigh: morning trouble and modern world inhabitants.
	9:34am garlic lover: Great set
	9:34am northguineahills: SY!
	9:34am βrian: Heading out to the back stoop with green coffee beans and a heat gun.
	9:35am winston legthigh: was just thinking about washing machine. still have the concert tee.
	♥ 9:35am Vivian: Good morning all. Kim Deal and Gordon's vocals pair perfectly with a sunny remote day.
	9:36am Anton: Thanks for playing this Sonic Youth track, Trouble! It’s been one of my favorites! Hope everyone is having a great day
	♥ 9:39am Trouble: www.faroutrecordings.com...
	♥ 9:39am Trouble: interesting story about the artist now playing, and this fab re-issue
	9:45am emily: so glad to be here with you. my LAST live listening with you. poor me. but am reveling in the sounds
	♥ 9:46am Trouble: i return to the actual classroom in september, how about you emily?
	♥ 9:51am Ken From Hyde Park: Good morning, Touble Team!
	9:51am emily: I return on Tuesday!
	9:52am Kpx: Morning troubley Woubley.
	♥ 9:52am Handy Haversack: OK, it's brutal out there. Even though I know what the testing reveals, it was very tempting to just slide into the water when collecting the sample. Oh, jeez, missed "Little Trouble Girl"!
	9:54am winston legthigh: sounds like an early cocktail hour is in order.
	♥ 9:55am Handy Haversack: I like your thinking, winston! Though I'm still feeling K8's bday cocktails ... I go back to the office office three days a week after Labor Day.
	♥ 9:56am Irene Trudel: Loving this morning's offerings from the background today, Trouble!
	9:57am βrian: Where's the nearest trout steam, @Handy?
	♥ 9:57am Trouble: good morning@ irene, merci!
	♥ 10:00am Handy Haversack: Too far to walk, βrian, I know that much.
	♥ 10:01am Irene Trudel: Wow, Trouble! Going back in to the classroom must be a big deal for you, Trouble. My workplace is being rather vague about our return. As of Sept. 13th we are allowed to come back if we want. All employees must be vaccinated if they do. But still no live guests or music for the undetermined future. I think I'm still going to be working mostly from home.
	♥ 10:01am Peter in SEA: Bon jour, Trouble and listeners. A quick listen and then off to school prep! :-)
	10:01am winston legthigh: back to the office wow. in manhattan?
	10:01am Johnny Staten Island: Sultry sounds for a sultry day
	10:02am winston legthigh: and belated happy birthday k8!
	♥ 10:03am Irene Trudel: Winston, for me the office is New York Public Radio in Manhattan. But as a live music engineer, there still won't be any sessions for a while.
	♥ 10:06am Handy Haversack: For me, yeah, winston, back to the office in Manhattan. Between Columbus Circle and Lincoln Center. We're allowed to pick whether we want to go back full time, not at all, or hybrid. But I think I risk losing my own office space if I'm not there three days a week. So that's my plan.
	10:06am B Wad: Ahoy, trouble! Just getting up from the pottery wheel here, also loved the Laurie Anderson. A few years ago I saw her play a performance festival in Jerusalem. It was right on the eve of the 2016 US presidential election, and she started her performance by leading the entire auditorium in a full-on primal scream.
	10:06am Edwin Sierra: Hi trouble…interested in those tickets!!
	♥ 10:06am Threemoons: Heyo. Just stopping by to say that I am having a rough morning and a rough start but this gorgeous set is helping a lot.
	♥ 10:07am Threemoons: Tardy to the party but feel blessed to have seen, met, and even had drinks with Laurie Anderson back when she was doing the Voyager CD-ROMs. Fantastic artist and a true genius. Bonus: Also got to meet/hang with a stone-silent Lou Reed.
	♥ 10:08am Handy Haversack: Hope the day gets steadily better, Threemoons.
	♥ 10:09am Ken From Hyde Park: Wake 'n' Bake pixie dust to you, Threemoons.
	10:09am winston legthigh: im envious of your career choice irene trudell, as an electrical engineer i find mine to be quite boring. hope it works out for everyone going back to work from work.
	♥ 10:09am Threemoons: @Handy sorry RE office issue. May I ask what you do? @Ken Thank you so much! Need it today!
	♥ 10:10am Threemoons: @Handy and let me add that nothing short of a 100% salary increase would get me back in a cube farm.
	♥ 10:13am Handy Haversack: Threemoons, I work in scholarly publishing. I have a little office of my own with a closable door, which means WFMU can be in there with me!
	♥ 10:14am Jason from Houston: +:꒰◍• ᴗ •◍꒱:+
	10:15am winston legthigh: fantastic set today as always trouble.
	♥ 10:16am Trouble: gracias @ winston
	♥ 10:16am Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): greetings, Trouble and folx! enjoying these sounds from my cabin in the woods.
	♥ 10:19am Threemoons: @Handy aaah, yes, thanks for the refresher! If you have an actual office, then I can see wanting to keep it. When I used to have an Office Proper in NYC--one block from Grand Central--I used it as secondary storage for my "Manhattan Stuff."--gym clothes, a change of clothes, etc. I had not only my own door, but a full bookcase and a huge wardrobe as well as a wraparound desk with tons of drawers and a secondary book hutch. You know, almost A-suite....sigh.
	♥ 10:19am Threemoons: Heck, I LOST that job almost 10 years ago...sigh.
	10:19am headcleaner: Nearly all tech companies I've worked for in the past 20 years have insisted in the necessity of having everyone in one giant room with shitty air and shitty lighting, and constant interruptions, and when there aren't interruptions, nearly always so loud you can't think. Because "collaboration", and who needs to think anyway
	10:20am Avrilinmay: hello Trouble! Hello all. This is reminding me of the long message of thanks and admiration I wanted to write here after catching that french-centered show in the archives, in july (but could not get around to in time soon enough. because IRL life ugh...)
	♥ 10:21am Threemoons: @Headcleaner I hear you on that. I wasn't IT but I had a job at a brokerage doing Internet Stuff ages ago and the only place they had desk room for me was in the server/wire room. Luckily the two techies I worked with were great guys and also as funny as hell otherwise I never would have put up with freezing cold temperatures, flickering lights, and the constant hum of machines as well as someone stopping in every 5 seconds because they broke something on their Windows installation.
	10:23am Mike W.: Ooooh, pre-bossa Le Mans
	♥ 10:23am Threemoons: @Headcleaner and don't forget the shitty furniture! I actually got carpal tunnel because the desk was too high for me even with the crappy chair they gave me pumped as high as it goes. The two tech guys actually hooked me up with a pile of old phone books to sit on eventually.
	♥ 10:23am Jason from Houston: ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤
	♥ 10:24am Ken From Hyde Park: @Threemoons - I hope your boss didn't grab your red stapler back then.
	♥ 10:25am Threemoons: @Ken LOL no I am doing 100% work from home now doing Legal Services Stuff...and the funny thing is, I actually bought the red Swingline stapler (special Office Space Edition) back when the Plague started and I was WFH....
	♥ 10:26am Threemoons: www.amazon.com...
	10:26am Danny C: Oooh Le mans .... I love it
	♥ 10:27am Threemoons: @Handy I think you need a Red Stapler for your meatspace office
	♥ 10:29am Handy Haversack: Maybe I do!
	10:30am headcleaner: 3moons - yeah I've been in that room, and sat on those chairs for many a stretch as well. Oh and the smells of these offices. Nothing like the bouquet of decades-old sweat and coffee stains to keep us motivated and on board with the company's mission
	♥ 10:35am HotTopicValuedCustomer: good morning friendos
	10:37am winston legthigh: when i did consulting for goldman sachs back in the dot com bubble days i needed a background check and escort to get into a data center. making someone sit in there all day every day just aint right.
	10:44am Zipperhead7: Beny More! Yesssss!!!
	10:44am βrian: Oh, habib'ti arrived with to-go coffee in hand. Salvation!
	♥ 10:47am karlward: I have kept a red Swingline stapler on my desk almost two decades now.
	♥ 10:47am karlward: Once it got stolen, and a colleague bought me a new one.
	10:48am βrian: Our workspace had just been re-done before the pandemic. Powered adjustable desks, cubby furniture and all. Love working from home, though.
	♥ 10:53am Handy Haversack: I keep a 2"-wide twenty-sided die on my desk for all important workplace decisions.
	♥ 10:56am karlward: Yes Handy but have you considered making your own 20 sided die entirely out of staples you commandeered from the supply closet?
	10:56am Yes: Currently relating to this
	♥ 10:57am Jason from Houston: How many pickles should I put on my sandwich for lunch, Handy?
	♥ 10:57am Handy Haversack: Sure! Who hasn't! I just have some reservations about true probabalistic outcomes. A personal hangup.
	10:57am Marie: Very much enjoying the show, Trouble. Merci! Hi everybody.
	♥ 10:58am Handy Haversack: Jason, because I love you I rolled my die-cast steel home thirty-sider: 23!
	10:58am Marie: I lurve this song!
	♥ 10:58am Trouble: merci @marie!
	11:02am Marie: Never heard this version before. It IS dynamite. Cool image by D. Hockney!
	♥ 11:02am Jason from Houston: !!! Thanks, boss! I don't know if I have that many left in the jar!
	♥ 11:03am Handy Haversack: Toots is never forgotten.
	11:04am modern blaze: love toots & the maytals
	♥ 11:09am Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): my body is not moving to this rhythm today
	♥ 11:25am adampsyche: trouble reggae sets are choice reggae sets
	♥ 11:27am Trouble: gracias@adam! i don't think a lot of people like reggae, and i am perplexed as to why that is...
	11:29am Carmichael: Heya Trouble and clock watchers. My office desk proudly displays my Beavis and Butthead action figures. If anyone asks, I give them a stern look and explain that they are my "personal saviors."
	11:33am Scott McDowell: It’s a lovers rock situation!
	♥ 11:33am Ken From Hyde Park: @Carmichael - Huh huh ... cool!
	11:35am woofer: people who don't like reggae can't be trusted 🙅
	♥ 11:35am Michele with One "L": Hi @Scott McDowell!
	11:35am winston legthigh: luvin the reggae, it is the best hot and steamy summer music imho.
	♥ 11:35am Pale Son: I think it got codified by a lot of white British artists in the '80s as a cheap arrangement trick, and after growing up on that, people have to be exposed to a lot of the real thing before they can hear what's really there.
	11:35am northguineahills: I really dug the lovers rock set. (then again, I djed Caribbean music for 20 years.) What woofer said, the same could be said about people who don't like jazz.
	♥ 11:35am listener james from westwood: Maybe the reggae dislike comes from most US radio stations only playing the same three Bob Marley tracks (same for the ad industry)? And then they just transfer that frustration to the whole genre?
	11:36am Marie: I have grown to love reggae more and more with time. Going to Jamaica for a psilocybin retreat further added to it. I never realized how fantastic it is to dance to--so many beats going on.
	♥ 11:36am tim from washington: I like reggae!But I will say it wasn't until my mid 20s until I really dug it. Up to then my only exposure was Bob Marley and anemic public radio reggae. My friend at the record store said "You know there's lots of good reggae. Try this...." and I've been in the deep end since.
	11:36am Scott McDowell: ((((((((Hi Michele))))))))
	11:37am Marie: @James--yeah, I think people think it all kinda sounds alike and they can't get past that bass line
	♥ 11:37am listener james from westwood: I had a junior-year roommate with a deep Eek-A-Mouse collection. First big bit of mind expansion on Jamaican music.
	11:38am Scott McDowell: Reggae is great in the humid summer and also the dead of winter!
	♥ 11:38am Pale Son: I had to be brought into the fold through dub. Now it all sounds great!
	11:38am ratso: My Sunday mornings are complete because of Reggae Schoolroom.
	11:38am woofer: @marie the bass lines are the best part! again, heathens!
	11:38am Marie: Shout out to Jeff Sarge here, too!
	11:38am winston legthigh: reggae schoolroom with jeff sarge sundays 9 til noon.
	♥ 11:39am Ken From Hyde Park: I see that the Explorers Room on the Drummer stream (7-10PM) tonight is a reggae show.
	11:40am Marie: @woofer--I hear ya'--it's a bass lovers dream! (btw, growing up, I pronounced the instrument the same as you pronounce the fish @). )
	11:40am Zipperhead7: It also took awhile for me to warm to reggae, but once it bit, it bit hard. As Greil Marcus wrote about the soundtrack to "The Harder They Come," "The Rolling Stones would have killed to make this record." Thanks, Trouble!
	11:42am Carmichael: I re-watched the Muscle Shoals documentary last night. They had a lengthy interview with Jimmy Cliff, who recorded Sitting in Limbo there.
	11:42am Marie: I would love to see that movie, Zipperhead7
	11:44am Mike W: Would not reggae be like most genres of music in that it’s capacious, and has stars and superstars and lesser-known acts and nobodys and copycats etc., and some of it is very very good, and some is okay one guesses, and some does not inspire such good feelings, and some is made by people such that questions are raised about culture and appropriation and such Bury me with my Love Joys records, that’s all
	11:44am northguineahills: @Pale Son: I didn't like reggae, b/c the potheads in my dorm blasted The Wailers all the time. Then I discovered Prince Far-I and King Tubby, when I was 19, and down the rabbit hole I went....
	♥ 11:45am drr: Whatever genre Prince Buster is, that's what I like.
	11:45am northguineahills: Amen, drr!
	♥ 11:46am drr: Whatever genre "Could You Be Loved" is? Not so much.
	♥ 11:47am Trouble: i like bob marley. i saw him in providence, right before he died, he played brown. it was super amazing.
	♥ 11:48am drr: (Bob Marley actually has a bunch of good songs, it's just that one...that one makes me feel angry.)
	11:49am ?: I love Bob omg
	11:50am Kpx: C'ya teach, moderneer's.
	11:50am winston legthigh: i like what is sometimes referred to as roots reggae. bob marley +++
	11:51am emily: I love the cosmic mood today. You are often in outer space but today, more outer
	♥ 11:51am tim from washington: I'm not too keen on later Bob Marley but I've read many accounts of his amazing performances in the late 70s/80s. In the late 90s I had a neighbor from Nigeria. I asked him about Fela. He said Fela was great but Bob Marley was The People's Music in all of Africa.
	♥ 11:52am Pale Son: Ha ha, @northguineahills! Pothead associations can be so damaging to unbiased listening.
	11:53am headcleaner: Bob Marley's final words to his son: "Money can't buy life"
	♥ 11:53am Ken From Hyde Park: The pot-heads in my dorm preferred Peter Tosh over Bob.
	11:54am northguineahills: oh, I like Bob Marley now, it's just it took a while for me to appreciated him. Actually, the first song I liked was hist "Mr Brown" (b/c of the organ), and I was 19.
	11:54am Scott McDowell: Rastaman Vibration > Exodus > Natty Dread > Uprising > Confrontation > Kaya > Survival
	♥ 11:54am Ryansterlingvirtue: this song is amazing.
	11:55am winston legthigh: "smoked 2 fat joints in the morning" over and over and over.
	11:56am Kpx: Headcleaner: He should have followed that up with, "but it can buy the good life" .
	♥ 11:57am Trouble: see you next week. thanks for tuning in today!
	♥ 11:57am radioronan: Thanks Trouble!
	11:57am winston legthigh: thanks trouble. a good day to all.
	♥ 11:57am Handy Haversack: I discovered Desmond Dekker in college and still love his music a ton. Thanks, Trouble!
	11:57am northguineahills: arigato, Trouble!
	11:57am emily: thanks!
	11:58am Mike W: Handy! “Israelites!”
	♥ 11:58am tim from washington: Thanks Trouble!
	♥ 11:58am drr: I got to meet Nigerian reggae artist Majek Fashek in Brooklyn and...wow.
	♥ 11:59am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Trouble. Walk good!
	♥ 11:59am drr: Well, well, look at the time. Maybe I can finish that long story next week.

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from August 26, 2021

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