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Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from August 30, 2021

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	Conformity (Are you sure that that thing is true?)	Show #779, from Aug. 30, 2021	2021	Live improvised sound collage mix, right now
Complete list of today's sampled sources:
Plantasia	Concerto for Philodendron & Pothos	Mother Earth's Plantasia	1976
Royskopp	Daddy's Groove
Jack London	The Jacket			2:05:59
Ken	World Trade Center concourse field recording		2001
Ken	NYC subway field recording		2001
Ken & Chut	Ken & Chut field recording #1		2001
Max Martin's daughter?	Since U Been Gone (Cassmix)			7'44
McGruff the Crime Dog	Smart Kids	McGruff’s Smart Kids Album	1986	Smart kids know that it's wrong feeling good. (Scruff McGruff) 8'54
S.A.M. (Software Automatic Mouth)	smart kids
The Art of Noise	Metaforce (loop)
The Beach Boys	California Girls loop		1965	2:13:39
The Beatles	Sexy Sadie loop	The White Album		2:15:07
McGruff the Crime Dog	Make Your Body Last	McGruff’s Smart Kids Album	1986	If you care about what goes inside you, you'll say "no way!" It's your body, you've got to make it last, treat it right. Since bodies are made to last a good, long time, don't hurt your body with drugs. 2:15:59
Bright Eyes	An Attempt to Tip the Scales loops	Fevers and Mirrors		2:19:31
Ken	Nostalgia		2021	21'33
S.A.M. (Software Automatic Mouth)	thank you			2:28:18
Lullatone	My Second Favorite Song in the World loops			2:29:35
Johann Strauss	The Blue Danube (reprise)	2001: A Space Odyssey Soundtrack	1968	2:30:43
Antonín Dvořák	Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": IV. Allegro con fuoco	The Complete Published Orchestral Works	2013	2:31:39
Ken & Chut	Ken & Chut field recording #2		2001	2:32:38
Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish	Some kids need lots of approval	How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk		2:33:26
McGruff the Crime Dog	No, No, No!	McGruff’s Smart Kids Album	1986	Just say no to drugs. Don't fall for the lies they tell you. 2:33:58
RRRR	RRRR and breath			Via Henry 2:34:42
Beck	Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime loop	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind		2:35:05
Joe Frank	The plague (excerpt 1)	A Call in the Night	1979	2:39:16
Plantasia	Plantasia	Mother Earth's Plantasia		2:42:45
Joe Frank	The plague (excerpt 2)	A Call in the Night	1979	Are you contaminated? (There are these crazy people running around.) 2:44:43
Dire Straits	On Every Street loops	On Every Street		Older loop version 2:47:47
Ken	A space within which		2021	It's good to cross over the lines sometimes. 48'32
They Might Be Giants	Put It to the Test	Here Comes Science	2009	Are you sure that that thing is true? Or did someone just tell it to you? If you want to know if it's the truth. Then, my friend, you are going to need proof.. Don't believe it 'cause they say it's so. If it's not true, you have a right to know. 2:51:11
Yossarian Feedback	Excerpts	The Synergetic Integral of All Truths	2010	Contains a couple of spoken samples (incl. Richard Feynman?) 2:52:48
James Burke	Conformity of politics, science, teaching; truth is always changing	The Day the Universe Changed, episode 10 (Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality)	1985	An invention of another version of how things are. We still go on believing that today's version of things is the only right one. We've always had to have conformity with the current view. If you didn't fit the mold, you were rejected. 2:56:00
Noam Chomsky	Hedgemonic common sense imprisons people	AMA with Noam Chomsky on Jung Wittgenstein and Gödel	2020	2:58
Noam Chomsky	Humans strive for freedom, working for master is intolerable assault on human rights, was called wage slavery	AMA with Noam Chomsky on Jung Wittgenstein and Gödel	2020	2:59
Ken	Identification, performative roles		2021	Not everybody has a sign that says, "I'm acting now." 59'48
Ifny	Howdy is the Portal to the Future		2020	3:05
War on Drugs	Eyes to the Wind loops	Lost in the Dream	2014	3:17
Tim Roth	What I want isn't out there, it isn't in here	Bodies, Rest & Motion		3:18
J.A. Preston	More of everything bad since the wave started, everything is just a little askew	Body Heat	1981	3:19
Harlan Ellison	TV on in restaurants, and nobody watching. People are stupid. They feel imposed upon if you remove that giant tit from their mouth (radio is wonderful)	Dreams With Sharp Teeth		3:20
Martin Luther King, Jr.	I'm afraid we're integrating into a burning house			3:20
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Die Zauberflöte Overture (Magic Flute)			3:24
Albert Brooks, James Spader	Catastrophic health care, revenue, dying not in hospital bed, no insurance	Critical Care movie		3:24
George C. Scott	Medical failure list ("transplants")	The Hospital movie	1971	3:26
Noam Chomsky	Being subjected to a master during most waking hours is intolerable	AMA with Noam Chomsky on Jung Wittgenstein and Gödel	2020	3:27
Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 II. Allegro con bri			3:29
Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphony No. 7 In A Major Op. 92: I. Poco sostenuto - Vivace			3:29
Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphony No. 9: Poco Allegro, Stringendo II Tempo, Sempre Piu Allegro - Prestissimo			3:30
Ray Walston	Plague took people, not gadgets, the old way was a death trip	The Stand movie	1994	3:30
Robert Redford, Cliff Robertson	Economics, oil, food, heat running out, people will want us to get it for them	Three Days of the Condor		3:31
Charles M. Howell IV (voice), William Crain (writer)	What we eat helps determine whether we reach our potential physically	Nutrition: You Are What You Eat	1976	3:32
Ron Livingston (actor); Mike Judge (writer)	We don't have a lot of time on this earth. Human beings aren't meant to be sitting in little cubicles staring at computer screens, listening to eight bosses drone on about mission statements	Office Space movie	1999	3:33
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza & Sequoia	Forget the burden of history, disconnect from it	Show #473, from Sept. 18, 2013: I Believe (our favorite children)	2013	3:34
Richard Stallman	It's worth making sacrifices to gain control over the things that you live your life with	RT interview Aug. 2012	2012	3:35
Richard Stallman	Governments betray, empire of corporations keep public controlled, only looks like democracy	RT interview Aug. 2012	2012	Our governments betray the citizens. When the empire of the corporations imposes its governments of occupation, these governments exist to keep the public under control of business. They may have democratic form, but they don't really carry out democracy. 3:35
Ken	It's not that I believe anything. You can be changed		2021	95'20
S.A.M. (Software Automatic Mouth)	I am typing right at this moment		2021	3:40
Richard Stallman	That's why i don't carry mobile phone - Against state seeing	RT interview Aug. 2012	2012	It's not that my movements are a big secret. It's not that I actually am concerned whether they would know where I'm going. But I'm against any system whereby the state can see where anyone has gone. 3:43
Jacques Offenbach	Duo for Two Cellos, Op. 51 No 1: I. Allegro			3:43
Bright Eyes	An Attempt to Tip the Scales	Fevers and Mirrors		3:45
Faith No More	Non-Epic (Ken's minimalist remix)			Brief 3:47
Franz Schubert	Trio in E Flat	The Hunger OST		3:52
Shearwater	Animal Life	Animal Life		3:54
Lemon Jelly	Closer			3:56:31
Ken	They felt the ending brought them everything they were hoping for		2021	116'06

Listener comments!
	1:57pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Hi, here's this, say hello here yes
	2:35pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): and it will be heard on the air, but only if you type it before 4pm ET
	3:01pm Bas NL: Hey Kenzo!
	3:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): oh here
	3:02pm fred: Greetings Kenzo and all
	3:03pm Bas NL: Live/life is good!
	3:07pm Froggi: Yo Kenzoooo and world <3
	3:09pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Hi, Bas and fred and Froggi and all who else would where howfore
	3:09pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'll playlist this windy weave starting in an hour 'cause I'm still wovewending it. Hi!
	3:31pm annie: too many players, not enough headphones
	3:37pm Rich in Washington: Hi Kenzo!
	3:40pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I am typing right at this moment
	3:42pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): It's very risky, there is no plan, here we go, in an hour
	3:44pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Kenzo! It's 2026 and I'm 70 today!
	3:50pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): "rrrrrrrrr", I say. And hi everyone else who hasn't heard me say hi to them yet because audio delay
	4:00pm Bas NL: I've got silence..
	4:01pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Whoops
	4:01pm annie: yep... wait... there it is
	4:01pm Bas NL: :)
	4:01pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Did anything get skipped, I guess it probably did
	4:03pm Bas NL: It was a short minute.
	4:03pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I wonder if anything repeated after the silence or
	4:04pm Bas NL: Not yet! :)
	4:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): good I hate loops
	4:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): It feels funny to pretend to hate
	4:05pm annie: little boxes
	4:10pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): OK here comes the filled out playlist I think
	4:29pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I think
	4:40pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): annie, did you hear the Jack London?
	4:40pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Henry, did you hear the rrrrrrr?
	4:51pm Rich in Washington: I'm not real
	4:54pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Well clearly I'm not going to finish typing the playlist before the show ends, but I'll finish it tonight I think
	4:57pm fred: Thanks Kenzo!
	4:58pm Bas NL: Thanks Kenzo! Nice one!
	4:58pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Thanks everyone. Good growing drooping expanding hearts everyone
	4:59pm Rich in Washington: Thanks Kenzo! See you on the radio next week!
	4:59pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'll get the playlist finished sometime and the audio archive will be up in 10 minutes or so! Thanks radio friends.
	10:55pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): The playlist is rather filled out now! The audio archive is here, and a higher-quality version will be posted Tuesday nightish.
	12:57pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): A nicely high-quality version of the audio is now here. I'll add timestamp clickability throughout the playlist next!

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	Conformity (Are you sure that that thing is true?)	Show #779, from Aug. 30, 2021	2021	Live improvised sound collage mix, right now
Complete list of today's sampled sources:
Plantasia	Concerto for Philodendron & Pothos	Mother Earth's Plantasia	1976
Royskopp	Daddy's Groove
Jack London	The Jacket			2:05:59
Ken	World Trade Center concourse field recording		2001
Ken	NYC subway field recording		2001
Ken & Chut	Ken & Chut field recording #1		2001
Max Martin's daughter?	Since U Been Gone (Cassmix)			7'44
McGruff the Crime Dog	Smart Kids	McGruff’s Smart Kids Album	1986	Smart kids know that it's wrong feeling good. (Scruff McGruff) 8'54
S.A.M. (Software Automatic Mouth)	smart kids
The Art of Noise	Metaforce (loop)
The Beach Boys	California Girls loop		1965	2:13:39
The Beatles	Sexy Sadie loop	The White Album		2:15:07
McGruff the Crime Dog	Make Your Body Last	McGruff’s Smart Kids Album	1986	If you care about what goes inside you, you'll say "no way!" It's your body, you've got to make it last, treat it right. Since bodies are made to last a good, long time, don't hurt your body with drugs. 2:15:59
Bright Eyes	An Attempt to Tip the Scales loops	Fevers and Mirrors		2:19:31
Ken	Nostalgia		2021	21'33
S.A.M. (Software Automatic Mouth)	thank you			2:28:18
Lullatone	My Second Favorite Song in the World loops			2:29:35
Johann Strauss	The Blue Danube (reprise)	2001: A Space Odyssey Soundtrack	1968	2:30:43
Antonín Dvořák	Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": IV. Allegro con fuoco	The Complete Published Orchestral Works	2013	2:31:39
Ken & Chut	Ken & Chut field recording #2		2001	2:32:38
Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish	Some kids need lots of approval	How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk		2:33:26
McGruff the Crime Dog	No, No, No!	McGruff’s Smart Kids Album	1986	Just say no to drugs. Don't fall for the lies they tell you. 2:33:58
RRRR	RRRR and breath			Via Henry 2:34:42
Beck	Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime loop	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind		2:35:05
Joe Frank	The plague (excerpt 1)	A Call in the Night	1979	2:39:16
Plantasia	Plantasia	Mother Earth's Plantasia		2:42:45
Joe Frank	The plague (excerpt 2)	A Call in the Night	1979	Are you contaminated? (There are these crazy people running around.) 2:44:43
Dire Straits	On Every Street loops	On Every Street		Older loop version 2:47:47
Ken	A space within which		2021	It's good to cross over the lines sometimes. 48'32
They Might Be Giants	Put It to the Test	Here Comes Science	2009	Are you sure that that thing is true? Or did someone just tell it to you? If you want to know if it's the truth. Then, my friend, you are going to need proof.. Don't believe it 'cause they say it's so. If it's not true, you have a right to know. 2:51:11
Yossarian Feedback	Excerpts	The Synergetic Integral of All Truths	2010	Contains a couple of spoken samples (incl. Richard Feynman?) 2:52:48
James Burke	Conformity of politics, science, teaching; truth is always changing	The Day the Universe Changed, episode 10 (Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality)	1985	An invention of another version of how things are. We still go on believing that today's version of things is the only right one. We've always had to have conformity with the current view. If you didn't fit the mold, you were rejected. 2:56:00
Noam Chomsky	Hedgemonic common sense imprisons people	AMA with Noam Chomsky on Jung Wittgenstein and Gödel	2020	2:58
Noam Chomsky	Humans strive for freedom, working for master is intolerable assault on human rights, was called wage slavery	AMA with Noam Chomsky on Jung Wittgenstein and Gödel	2020	2:59
Ken	Identification, performative roles		2021	Not everybody has a sign that says, "I'm acting now." 59'48
Ifny	Howdy is the Portal to the Future		2020	3:05
War on Drugs	Eyes to the Wind loops	Lost in the Dream	2014	3:17
Tim Roth	What I want isn't out there, it isn't in here	Bodies, Rest & Motion		3:18
J.A. Preston	More of everything bad since the wave started, everything is just a little askew	Body Heat	1981	3:19
Harlan Ellison	TV on in restaurants, and nobody watching. People are stupid. They feel imposed upon if you remove that giant tit from their mouth (radio is wonderful)	Dreams With Sharp Teeth		3:20
Martin Luther King, Jr.	I'm afraid we're integrating into a burning house			3:20
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Die Zauberflöte Overture (Magic Flute)			3:24
Albert Brooks, James Spader	Catastrophic health care, revenue, dying not in hospital bed, no insurance	Critical Care movie		3:24
George C. Scott	Medical failure list ("transplants")	The Hospital movie	1971	3:26
Noam Chomsky	Being subjected to a master during most waking hours is intolerable	AMA with Noam Chomsky on Jung Wittgenstein and Gödel	2020	3:27
Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 II. Allegro con bri			3:29
Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphony No. 7 In A Major Op. 92: I. Poco sostenuto - Vivace			3:29
Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphony No. 9: Poco Allegro, Stringendo II Tempo, Sempre Piu Allegro - Prestissimo			3:30
Ray Walston	Plague took people, not gadgets, the old way was a death trip	The Stand movie	1994	3:30
Robert Redford, Cliff Robertson	Economics, oil, food, heat running out, people will want us to get it for them	Three Days of the Condor		3:31
Charles M. Howell IV (voice), William Crain (writer)	What we eat helps determine whether we reach our potential physically	Nutrition: You Are What You Eat	1976	3:32
Ron Livingston (actor); Mike Judge (writer)	We don't have a lot of time on this earth. Human beings aren't meant to be sitting in little cubicles staring at computer screens, listening to eight bosses drone on about mission statements	Office Space movie	1999	3:33
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza & Sequoia	Forget the burden of history, disconnect from it	Show #473, from Sept. 18, 2013: I Believe (our favorite children)	2013	3:34
Richard Stallman	It's worth making sacrifices to gain control over the things that you live your life with	RT interview Aug. 2012	2012	3:35
Richard Stallman	Governments betray, empire of corporations keep public controlled, only looks like democracy	RT interview Aug. 2012	2012	Our governments betray the citizens. When the empire of the corporations imposes its governments of occupation, these governments exist to keep the public under control of business. They may have democratic form, but they don't really carry out democracy. 3:35
Ken	It's not that I believe anything. You can be changed		2021	95'20
S.A.M. (Software Automatic Mouth)	I am typing right at this moment		2021	3:40
Richard Stallman	That's why i don't carry mobile phone - Against state seeing	RT interview Aug. 2012	2012	It's not that my movements are a big secret. It's not that I actually am concerned whether they would know where I'm going. But I'm against any system whereby the state can see where anyone has gone. 3:43
Jacques Offenbach	Duo for Two Cellos, Op. 51 No 1: I. Allegro			3:43
Bright Eyes	An Attempt to Tip the Scales	Fevers and Mirrors		3:45
Faith No More	Non-Epic (Ken's minimalist remix)			Brief 3:47
Franz Schubert	Trio in E Flat	The Hunger OST		3:52
Shearwater	Animal Life	Animal Life		3:54
Lemon Jelly	Closer			3:56:31
Ken	They felt the ending brought them everything they were hoping for		2021	116'06

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Listener comments!
	1:57pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Hi, here's this, say hello here yes
	2:35pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): and it will be heard on the air, but only if you type it before 4pm ET
	3:01pm Bas NL: Hey Kenzo!
	3:02pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): oh here
	3:02pm fred: Greetings Kenzo and all
	3:03pm Bas NL: Live/life is good!
	3:07pm Froggi: Yo Kenzoooo and world <3
	3:09pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Hi, Bas and fred and Froggi and all who else would where howfore
	3:09pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'll playlist this windy weave starting in an hour 'cause I'm still wovewending it. Hi!
	3:31pm annie: too many players, not enough headphones
	3:37pm Rich in Washington: Hi Kenzo!
	3:40pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I am typing right at this moment
	3:42pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): It's very risky, there is no plan, here we go, in an hour
	3:44pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Kenzo! It's 2026 and I'm 70 today!
	3:50pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): "rrrrrrrrr", I say. And hi everyone else who hasn't heard me say hi to them yet because audio delay
	4:00pm Bas NL: I've got silence..
	4:01pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Whoops
	4:01pm annie: yep... wait... there it is
	4:01pm Bas NL: :)
	4:01pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Did anything get skipped, I guess it probably did
	4:03pm Bas NL: It was a short minute.
	4:03pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I wonder if anything repeated after the silence or
	4:04pm Bas NL: Not yet! :)
	4:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): good I hate loops
	4:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): It feels funny to pretend to hate
	4:05pm annie: little boxes
	4:10pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): OK here comes the filled out playlist I think
	4:29pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I think
	4:40pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): annie, did you hear the Jack London?
	4:40pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Henry, did you hear the rrrrrrr?
	4:51pm Rich in Washington: I'm not real
	4:54pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Well clearly I'm not going to finish typing the playlist before the show ends, but I'll finish it tonight I think
	4:57pm fred: Thanks Kenzo!
	4:58pm Bas NL: Thanks Kenzo! Nice one!
	4:58pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): Thanks everyone. Good growing drooping expanding hearts everyone
	4:59pm Rich in Washington: Thanks Kenzo! See you on the radio next week!
	4:59pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): I'll get the playlist finished sometime and the audio archive will be up in 10 minutes or so! Thanks radio friends.
	10:55pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): The playlist is rather filled out now! The audio archive is here, and a higher-quality version will be posted Tuesday nightish.
	12:57pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever): A nicely high-quality version of the audio is now here. I'll add timestamp clickability throughout the playlist next!

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from August 30, 2021

Listener comments!

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