WFMU: This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from January 5, 2023

Listener comments!
	9:00am Handy Haversack: Great gray Thursday greetings, Trouble and all the Troubled.
	9:00am Strandlund: Happy Bird Day, Trouble!!
	9:01am listener james from westwood: Good Thursday, Trouble and all!
	9:01am jdaAndAnoukFromKöln: and my last happy new year this year goes to…
	9:02am Chris Hiatt: Let's keep this going, WFMU Thursdays are great radio days.
	9:03am Carmen: Happy new year and bird day Trouble
	9:03am MikeG: don't say that artists name out loud. You'll activate the robot.
	9:03am Wind: Morning Trouble 🙂 happy new year and good morning to all present here🖐🏾
	9:04am Tara: good morning , god i love emahoy
	9:05am fm Mike: Morning Trouble & Friends!
	9:06am Bluesky: Wow, this song is stunning.
	9:07am Zipperhead7: Good morning Trouble and Modernists! Going though 14 CDs I compiled last year, I was struck by how many tracks I learned about from this show
	9:07am Pax: ↳ MikeG @9:03 What Wobot ?
	9:09am Trouble: we have a robot that activates if there is a undue lengthy pause of silence, not b/c of words.
	9:10am Trouble: gooood morning all!
	9:11am riley: Good morning all! Asheville is finally sunny. God I am old. I bought this Cluster album way back on 8th St. NYC, I think "Sounds", the only place to find something like this way back when.
	9:12am jdaAndAnoukFromKöln: oh one of my fav. films… from Greenaway
	9:12am Wind: ↳ Trouble @9:10 happy birthday to You Ms T 🎈
	9:12am G: ↳ Trouble @9:09 So you could never play 4:33 without it getting interrupted...
	9:12am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Trouble @9:10 Mornin', Trouble!
	9:13am fm Mike: It is your birthday Trouble??? HAPPY BIRTHDAY TROUBLE!!!!!!! :D :D :D
	9:13am Wind: ↳ Trouble @9:09 Oh no! Is that an FCC requirement?
	9:13am Trouble: no it is not my birthday. i am a summer baby.
	9:13am Irene Trudel: Lovely sounds for a grey day, Trouble! Happy New Year and Birthday (if it is indeed the day)!
	9:14am captain beef fart: ↳ Wind @9:13 must be Samantha the new W&B morning music computer
	9:14am Trouble: we have requirements about the constancy of transmission according to our license
	9:14am Mike W.: portentousful yet resolvelicious
	9:15am Bryant in TO: Mornin', Trouble! Mornin', all!
	9:15am bobob Dublon: ..soooooothing
	9:15am fm Mike: ↳ Trouble @9:13 Oh ha ha ha xD
	9:16am Irene Trudel: ↳ Trouble @9:13 Well, happy half-birthday! Trouble, you are worthy of celebrating any time. 😸
	9:16am fm Mike: ↳ Song: "book depository" by "michael nyman" Well fellow Summer Baby, this is a wonderful song!
	9:19am Tara: oh ha, i was thinking the robot comment was related to emahoy somehow being in a walmart ad, like if we said her name we would all start getting pummeled with walmart ads. oof. well, that’s my cue to get the coffee rolling…
	9:19am bobobob: My band Plasticland opened up fr Rain Parade in Chicago..at the well lit Vic on Belmont..hope Sandoval..not in Attendance..Dave Roback yesssss
	9:19am BAMstutz: The music is good.
	9:21am winston legthigh: morning trouble, lovely listeners. silence is illegal.
	9:21am bobob Dublon Fab.trip: nice
	9:21am Edgar from Maine: Double dose of Hope this a.m.
	9:22am wizard frog: I was thinking recently, if you're a winter baby, your birthday is closer to the new year so the landmark dates are closer together, but if you're a summer baby, landmark date are is split over the year so may make for a different outlook in personality (if that makes sense?!)?
	9:22am Pax: ↳ Trouble @9:14 Sheesh, do red flashing lights and alarms go off, Then a panel opens up and some kind of crazy Robot comes out of the wall !
	9:23am Bryant in TO: ↳ winston legthigh @9:21 silence = illegal silence = golden gold = illegal
	9:23am peter in SEA: It WAS Ann Magnuson’s bday yesterday! Bon jour a touts
	9:24am bobobob Dublon: mr bee.fart..the captain walked up to my table at the club milwaukee.ill tell you what he said if u wanna know something
	9:25am winston legthigh: lol pax. reminds me of the bob burgers movie when angry robots swoop down in a ufo to stop his son jean from playing loud screechy music.
	9:25am sarah in md: The show is so good this morning!
	9:25am bobobob: Thanks Trouble ...keep it up lil lady wi da.gud tooooons
	9:26am Trouble: gracias for all the well wishes! let's share well wishes everyday with those we love
	9:26am Dan Bodah: Hope wow thx Trouble!
	9:28am Bryant in TO: ↳ wizard frog @9:22 That reminds me of how I was happy to have a spring birthday as a kid, rather than have Christmas and birthday lumped together like some of my December b-day friends. Maybe that's why I need to live somewhere with changing seasons. I guess what I'm saying is a May birthday might've predisposed me to constantly needing something to look forward to.
	9:28am Alanthepainter: The refrain in this song is Comme talle vous, so not my fore_tee…
	9:29am Pax: ↳ winston legthigh @9:25 Never seen bob's burgers, but it sounds like a hoot.
	9:29am Chris Hiatt: ↳ sarah in md @9:25 Yep, lots of click-y stars.
	9:29am Alanthepainter: Spelling not…my 4tae!
	9:30am Handy Haversack: Sometimes I glance out back at the birds and say, "Le bord de mer ..." I assume the birds get it. They must be fans.
	9:31am Edgar from Maine: "Bob's Burgers" is a winner.
	9:31am Wind: ↳ Trouble @9:13 oh lol me too! LOL happy Bird day was interpreted as birthday!!
	9:32am Pax: ↳ Alanthepainter @9:29 Mine neither, I'm embarrassed to say.
	9:33am Webhamster Henry: Today with extra oiseaux!
	9:34am WoodsOfMaine: Icy here today. Do I paint or do I stack wood? (I think I know the answer). Looove this show, as always.
	9:34am winston legthigh: ↳ Pax @9:29 clay plays a sound clip of bob who's voice is h jon benjamin.
	9:34am Bernardo: I’ve bought the 2 Jean Roche I could get my hands on and he hardly speaks any French! Which was disappointing 😢 Happy Bird Day
	9:37am βrian: I love that empty-bottle bird.
	9:37am Wind: "capable of being in uncertainty " This Is the BEST theme for the new Year :)
	9:39am Bo: Love love this record
	9:41am Pax: ↳ winston legthigh @9:34 Doesn't ring a bell.
	9:45am Trouble: anthony davis NJ jazz greats zoom listening session sign up info bit.ly/GSJGAnthonyDavis weds jan 11 6:30 pm
	9:48am Handy Haversack: ↳ Trouble @9:45 Clickable live link here: bccls.libcal.com...
	9:49am Wind: ↳ Trouble @9:45 Thank you!
	9:49am Wind: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:48 Thank you!
	9:53am Bo: I think I first heard the Terry hill mushtaq collaboration on this very show back in the aughts. ‘A Tale of Woe’ was the ‘hit’ from that record that was played…🙏u, Trouble!
	9:54am Bo: *Hall :)
	9:55am rx scabin: Good morning, Trouble and Everyone.
	9:56am Pax: How about this for salvaging the bird day trouble birthday mix up. Happy birthday Birds ! With so many birds out there, there's bound to be a couple thousand or so just in the immediate area alone. Just making lemonade.
	9:56am pot8o: good morning everyone!
	9:58am katharsis: Hello’s trouble and modernists
	9:58am Dances with Moomins: Cuckoo birds! We hear them in Finland during the summer.
	9:59am Zipperhead7: For the last 40+ years, a friend has been supplying me with themes for the year. His sagacity rivals the Oracle at Delphi. The theme he gave me for 2023 is "It doesn't just happen," which seems an effective redress for the interdependence and remote and abstract causality that characterizes modernity.
	10:01am Tara: i have listened to that kaitlyn aurelia smith/emile mosseri lp about 5 billion times this year
	10:02am Zipperhead7: Wave Hill is a nice place to hang out. I felt I was on the set of a Merchant Ivory film
	10:02am Pax: Everyone remembers.
	10:03am Nona: African fabric scraps just rolls off the tongue
	10:04am Wind: ↳ Trouble @9:45 Says there are 44 seats left as of now
	10:05am Wind: ↳ rx scabin @9:55 morning :)
	10:05am Pax: They done did flew the coop.
	10:05am Wind: ↳ Pax @9:56 Good idea!
	10:06am Wind: ↳ pot8o @9:56 Good morning pot8o :)
	10:06am Handy Haversack: [blushing]
	10:06am Wind: ↳ katharsis @9:58 hello
	10:07am Trouble: that is a great theme@ zipperhead! i am loving it. also yes! to the wave hill merchant ivory moment.
	10:08am timinoak: Trouble! I love the show. Biking in Oakland, still just morning twilight, humid winds between the storms... yay
	10:09am Trouble: @moomins: your moomin advent calendar was great fun once again this year!
	10:14am Trouble: wow @ timinoak: what you are doing sounds very cool!
	10:25am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "gole-e gandom" by "Lloyd miller" Gamelan opening?
	10:28am Trouble: oops four letter word freak out, but come to find out the song was self cleaned.... let's try that again. oy erg
	10:33am Micheal: Long Hot Summer here in January. Thanks for the groove, Trouble!
	10:34am Trouble: Somewhere it's summer, maybe?@ micheal
	10:34am Andres: ↳ Song: "long hot summer" by "the style council" Good morning. Always love this song. Even when all our ski hills and outdoor rinks have melted away.
	10:35am Yetz: ↳ Fredericks @10:25 I believe that's santur (Persian hammered dulcimer) www.youtube.com...
	10:37am Yetz: ↳ Yetz @10:35 "There was never any score to this and never could be any because it requires a knowledge of the Persian traditional dastgah (actually avaz) Dashti. Persian traditional music is learned by rote form an authorized master and requires memorizing many small melodic pieces called gushe. Even though this video is improvised in a modal jazz genre similar to Miles' 50s Kind of Blue LP, it is also based on the Dashti mode of Persian traditional music and requires Persian instrumental skills." - Dr. L Miller
	10:41am timinoak: right on Yetz. TY
	10:46am Coco: Always a pleasure to catch your show. Keeps me dancing all morning
	10:51am Wind: wow a beautiful activist! song, so cool!
	10:55am Jason from Houston: Great song...
	10:55am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "sierra leone prinia" by "Sierra Leone's Refugee A... Thanks for these cuts from Pasteur Lappé and the Sierra Leone All-Stars. It's fresh to hear some different Western African stuff from the usual things I put on out of habit.
	10:59am Wind: belle vie
	11:00am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Morning Trouble, fellow Troublemakers! Happy 2023 to all I haven't said it to yet, and Happy Thursday! One more day until my usual weekend sleepathon....
	11:00am Wind: RIP Barbara Walters :)
	11:02am kat from Cyprus: Am enjoying this programme immensely. Thank you!
	11:04am Peter in SEA: love the paper pulp (?) art piece by Zahaykevich on the playlist page. Happy New Year!
	11:04am Wind: im a lover not the hater + it's new to me cause I just started listening to you Ms.T and wfmu ....
	11:06am Handy Haversack: When I was at Sarah Lawrence we had the Yoko Ono Waffle Bar. Huh, I didn't get anything from the pres. about Barbara Walters. TROUBLE! You should come to the NYC alum events! It was a blast this year!
	11:08am Webhamster Henry: Kanopy gives us 4/month here in the MidHudson, but it's so good in terms of movies you missed, TV documentaries and other goodies.
	11:08am Peter in Tappan: TC Boyle wrote about these drop city folks. I will check out the doc! Sounded like hell on earth
	11:09am Vivian: ↳ Peter in Tappan @11:08 just about to say the same thing!
	11:10am Handy Haversack: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:06 I did hear that right? Your son is at SLC now, and you're an alum? I was a little distracted by a super annoying project.
	11:10am Trouble: the tc boyle book is a bit of a fictional account, from what i understand. more like another group further west
	11:11am Trouble: @ handy i am not an alum, i am art school/risd. my son is s senior at SLC right now
	11:12am Zipperhead7: The original Drop City had nothing to do with Doyle's book in any way, shape or form. In fact, they were furious with him.
	11:14am northguineahills: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:10 TIL that handy has a son and is an alum at SLC and enjoys talking to himself (well, at least the last part).
	11:14am Handy Haversack: ↳ Trouble @11:11 Ah, I gotcha! What's his concentration. I was up there several times last year -- a memorial for a favorite professor and then my 25th reunion.
	11:14am Handy Haversack: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:14 Crazy place to have gone as a working-class kid, but I'm grateful to have been able to.
	11:15am Trouble: tamara has a show up, that closes on sasturday, at satchel projcts in chelsea: www.satchelprojects.com...
	11:15am Shagalov: brilliant music ♡
	11:15am Peter in Tappan: Understood! Sorry. Maybe looking for a little acknowledgement for having read a book.
	11:16am Trouble: wow< I can imagine @ handy. I felt similarly as an outsider at RISD and first gen college graduate
	11:17am rx scabin: Thank you for the lovely music, Trouble. BTW did you see that Helado Negro has a name your price download of his ROM project? I'll see (hear) you next week.
	11:19am pot8o: unfortunately i have to go in a few minutes thanks trouble for the wonderful music! have a great rest of the week everyone
	11:19am Karl Ward: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:14 I was also a low income student and first gen college grad.
	11:20am Trouble: thanks for that info rx!!! thanks@ shagalov!
	11:21am rx scabin: Went on thw SL College tour with daughter. Was impressed that thy showed the gym last as a sort of "that's the gym over there."
	11:21am Karl Ward: I don't think people think enough about the absolute socioeconomic shock experienced by first gen / low income students in higher education. One of the best articles I've read on the subject is "Generation Later, Poor Are Still Rare at Elite Colleges" www.nytimes.com...
	11:22am Trouble: college used to be a truly transforming moment for low income, first gen, working class students. That is changing sadly with the skyrocketing cost of college. a book that offers some interesting info on it is: after the the ivory tower falls by will bunch
	11:24am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: I have to see which libraries out here support various free streaming services. I have cards for the NYPL and QPL; I may have let my Brooklyn card lapse. I also have to renew all of my cards, which I THINK they let you do online now. I know the last time it lapsed was before COVID and I had to go to an NYPL branch to get it done. So, I chose the fancy branch with Patience and Fortitude (the two lions) so I could feel smart and stuff while standing in a gorgeous newly-renovated reading room while they dug up my records...
	11:26am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: @Trouble My Mom, may she rest in peace, was one of the first women to go to Yale's graduate program back in the day, and my immigrant Dad also benefitted from some of the first scholarship programs. Now, someone born today to their identical circumstances wouldn't stand a chance of an Ivy education alas. I feel blessed that I was able to go to Cornell. Oddly and coincidentally enough, I got emailed Cornell's desktop calendar GIF pack this AM and for the first time in ages actually used it for my desktop....
	11:28am Handy Haversack: ↳ Trouble @11:22 Part of what I feel lucky about is that SLC was, to the extent possible, an outsider (well, outsider-insider) to that elite world precisely because it was all female (presenting) for so long and so just evolved different from the massively endowed real-estate/media company private colleges. Not that the student body didn't mostly come from the elite -- it did. But the nature of teaching and the economies of education there were very different from most "similar" schools. Though I stumbled so back-assward into it (as I do most things) that on day one, I remember standing on line for registration and thinking, "Where are all the boys?"
	11:28am Karl Ward: ↳ Trouble @11:22 One thing that people don't generally realize is that higher education is full of off-ramps. Low income students see those off-ramps much more frequently than students with income advantages. Example: almost every semester I was locked out of registering for classes because I struggled to come up with money for the fees, despite having a huge scholarship that covered most of the tuition. Each semester I thought "is this going to be the semester I don't make it?" Always scrambling to afford housing. It goes on. Even the small number of low income students who make it through expensive schools is amazing.
	11:29am Handy Haversack: ↳ Karl Ward @11:28 WORD, Karl. I don't think there was a semester that went by when I didn't seriously consider chucking it all and getting out of the struggle and just getting a restaurant job.
	11:31am Trouble: so true@ kard. and then those studnets have to pay the loans back without the benefit of a degree: huge student loan debt with no chance at $$ salaries.
	11:33am Handy Haversack: I think the debt they come out with today is orders of magnitude more than we faced. It's totally off the hook. I managed to get my loans paid off at age forty. Biggest raise I ever got, and I gave it to myself. (Quitting smoking was also a big raise!)
	11:34am Wind: dog gone ...I make me cry again lol
	11:34am Trouble: i defaulted on my student loans and was tortured for years by that, and it was a measly bit compared to today
	11:35am Trouble: i also worked multiple jobs during every degree i earned, watching the rich kids waste time and not finish projects
	11:35am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:28 Sorry, pardon my ignorance, SLC=??
	11:36am Handy Haversack: I always felt default was a real option -- I always said, "They can't repossess time!" Unless ... ! But defaulting maybe should be the, er, default position. If the govt. won't eliminate student debt, former students might need to do it en masse. Threemoons: Sarah Lawrence College, Yonkers, NY.
	11:37am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:36 Aaah, thanks!
	11:37am Trouble: slc is sarah lawrence college, alma mater of barbara walters, yoko ono, jordan peele, soma star wars movie director, etc
	11:38am WoodsOfMaine: I thought the debt I had after college was massive but heck, this was 1984 and I did manage to pay it off. But I struggled to keep my financial head above water during those years. Seems like a previous lifetime, especially since I've recently retired.
	11:38am Trouble: default is a horrible place to be. I couldn't get a credit card, they hound you and place all kinds of treachery in your path
	11:38am Handy Haversack: My boss also went there. And Alice Walker. Julianna Margulies. Andrea Zuckerman.
	11:43am Yes: Loving this
	11:44am Wind: ↳ Yes @11:43 me too...if you're referring to the sounds :)
	11:45am Wind: what a lovely Rose, Yes! it almost seems to me like it was hand finger painted ..
	11:48am Meeahhmio: This song came on as there was a video on my screen of Whole Foods prepping for the Great Reset by binstalling QR code exits at some stores and let me tell you, very fitting and very creepy!!
	11:49am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: I was super lucky RE law school debt. Firstly, I had really good summer jobs during college -- back in the day, $25/hour was the going rate for office gigs when gas was still about a buck a gallon, and I saved up a LOT. Also, Cornell Financial Credit Union had something like a 12% interest rate on saving accounts over a thousand dollars, so my summer money just sat there. I was able to pay off my first year of law school in cash under a special program -- you got a HUGE discount, almost 30%, if you paid up front and agreed not to ask for it back if you dropped out. By living on next to nothing I was able to graduate with only $50K in loans ("only" almost needs the sarcasm tag) because I also worked to pay off my interest during school. Also, when I had it whittle down to $30K, it was close to my 30th birthday. We had tried to get Mom to buy Amazon stock when it first went public, but we missed out, so I told her to go for Krispy Kreme stock. So...for my 30th birthday, she and I went out to dinner, and she gave me two birthday cards---one cutesy one with a few hundred bucks spending money for fun shit, and then a fatter envelope...full of my paid off promisary notes. She had hit over 100K on the Krispy Kreme, which my Stepdad's stockbroker had advised her AGAINST. I'm forever grateful that they got paid off then -- over the ensuing 20 years I have had long periods of unemployment where I was barely scraping by, and paying loans on top of it would have sunk me. My best friend from law school still has almost $300K left on his education-related loans between college and law school, as well as car payments, a mortgage, etc. On top of that, his wife got Stage IV cancer and lost HER job, and they have 2 kids. America is so broken....
	11:50am JimmyTallow: At least we know it dates from “the modern world” :)
	11:51am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "lover to lover" by "bobbi humphrey" This was my intro to Bobbi Humphrey, holy crap.
	11:53am Guy Walker: There’s an ancient reason record companies don’t want you to think you are buying the old one.
	11:53am willjfield: Just read this disturbing crossover piece between today's episode and Techtonic: www.vice.com...
	11:53am Carmichael: I couldn't afford college, so I joined the military in the waning days of the original GI Bill. I go t Master's degree out of the deal ...
	11:54am timinoak: Thank you for the show!
	11:54am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Thanks for the show!
	11:54am love2laf: Thank you for a wonderful morning of music Trouble. Too busy for the comments board this morning, but had to pop in to say how much I enjoyed today's show. Cheers all!
	11:55am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: ↳ Carmichael @11:53 My Stepdad was one of the earlier wave of GI bill beneficiaries -- was dirt poor from El Paso, joined the Navy in WW2, got a PhD out of the bill....
	11:57am wind: Thank you Trouble my troubles seem less because of you.
	11:57am Jason from Houston: Many thanks, Trouble. Fine sounds.
	11:57am Trouble: thanks for sitting in today! happppy new year, make it happen!
	11:57am Zipperhead7: Thanx for the great show, Trouble! It was as fine as frog's hair, and you can't get any finer than that!
	11:58am Handy Haversack: Great show, Trouble! Many thanks! Stay Troubled, everyone!
	11:59am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Trouble. Lurking and listening and more today. Much juggling over here.
	11:59am bradford: Thanks Trouble, great show as always!
	12:00pm JohnEBGood: Thanks DJ Trouble. Happy New Year 🎉
	5:30pm Jeffrey Davison: This show is so fine....thanks!

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from January 5, 2023

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January 5, 2023: capable of being in uncertainty

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by Tamara Zahaykevich

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
emahoy tsege mariam gebru	The Homeless Wanderer	Spielt Eigen Kompositionen	mississippi			*	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
cluster & eno	Für Luise "Für Luise" by "cluster & eno"	cluster & eno					0:06:49 (Pop-up)
michael nyman	book depository "book depository" by "michael nyman"	ost the cook, the thief, his wife and her lover					0:10:48 (Pop-up)
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions	for the rest of your life	through the devil softly					0:15:46 (Pop-up)
Grachan Moncur III	aco dei de madrugada	Aco Dei De Madrugada (One Morning I Waked Up Very Early)					0:22:19 (Pop-up)

terry hall & mushtaq	grow "grow" by "terry hall & mushtaq"	the hour of two lights		2003			0:40:16 (Pop-up)
99letters	tamakagiru "tamakagiru" by "99letters"	Kaibou Zukan	disciples				0:44:16 (Pop-up)
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Emile Mosseri	glendora	i could be your dog/i could be your moon	ghostly international			*	0:49:11 (Pop-up)
david rothenberg	the far field "the far field" by "david rothenberg"	whale music					0:51:31 (Pop-up)

roland p young	caress "caress" by "roland p young"	mystiphonic	em				1:04:33 (Pop-up)
nightlands	stare into the sun "stare into the sun" by "nightlands"	moonshine	western vinyl			*	1:09:12 (Pop-up)
carla dal forno	stay awake "stay awake" by "carla dal forno"	come around	kallista records			*	1:13:06 (Pop-up)
trembling blue stars	what can i say to change your heart?	her handwriting					1:16:50 (Pop-up)
Lloyd miller	gole-e gandom "gole-e gandom" by "Lloyd miller"	Spiritual Jazz - Esoteric, Modal + Deep Jazz From The Underground 1968-77					1:21:56 (Pop-up)
the style council	long hot summer	introducing					1:27:41 (Pop-up)
snoh allegra	nothing to me "nothing to me" by "snoh allegra"	ugh, those feels again					1:33:33 (Pop-up)
suba	a noite sem fin "a noite sem fin" by "suba"	São Paulo Confessions					1:37:07 (Pop-up)
Pasteur Lappé	Sanaga Calypso "Sanaga Calypso" by "Pasteur Lappé"	Pop Makossa: The Invasive Dance Beat of Cameroon 1976-1984					1:43:26 (Pop-up)
Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars	sierra leone prinia	A Guide to the Birdsong of Western Africa v/a	shika shika/ the bird song project				1:48:10 (Pop-up)
Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators	invisible man	keep reachin up'					1:52:16 (Pop-up)
jeri southern	run "run" by "jeri southern"	It's A Scandal! Songs For Soho Blondes v/a					1:54:42 (Pop-up)
barbara	la nuit tu dors "la nuit tu dors" by "barbara"	madame					1:57:12 (Pop-up)
	a song						2:00:09 (Pop-up)
ndiko and the natives	nomusa "nomusa" by "ndiko and the natives"	ndiko and the natives	mississippi		reissue	*	2:09:18 (Pop-up)
gary burton	three "three" by "gary burton"	Seven Songs For Quartet And Chamber Orchestra					2:16:36 (Pop-up)
marie laforet	tu qui dors "tu qui dors" by "marie laforet"	v 3					2:22:43 (Pop-up)
caroline peyton	engram "engram" by "caroline peyton"	Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies From the Canyon (V/A)					2:25:52 (Pop-up)
charlotte day wilson	doubt "doubt" by "charlotte day wilson"	stone woman					2:31:07 (Pop-up)
ronnie von	baby de tal "baby de tal" by "ronnie von"	A Maquina Voadora					2:32:58 (Pop-up)
bobbi humphrey	lover to lover "lover to lover" by "bobbi humphrey"	tailor made					2:35:58 (Pop-up)
savath & savalas	Equipatge De Flores Segues	mañana					2:41:47 (Pop-up)
	a song						2:49:01 (Pop-up)
hollywood freeway	you're the song( that i can't stop singing)	76 degrees in the shade v/a					2:53:38 (Pop-up)
ginger root	loneliness "loneliness" by "ginger root"	nisemono	acrophase			*	2:58:36 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	9:00am Handy Haversack: Great gray Thursday greetings, Trouble and all the Troubled.
	9:00am Strandlund: Happy Bird Day, Trouble!!
	9:01am listener james from westwood: Good Thursday, Trouble and all!
	9:01am jdaAndAnoukFromKöln: and my last happy new year this year goes to…
	9:02am Chris Hiatt: Let's keep this going, WFMU Thursdays are great radio days.
	9:03am Carmen: Happy new year and bird day Trouble
	9:03am MikeG: don't say that artists name out loud. You'll activate the robot.
	9:03am Wind: Morning Trouble 🙂 happy new year and good morning to all present here🖐🏾
	9:04am Tara: good morning , god i love emahoy
	9:05am fm Mike: Morning Trouble & Friends!
	9:06am Bluesky: Wow, this song is stunning.
	9:07am Zipperhead7: Good morning Trouble and Modernists! Going though 14 CDs I compiled last year, I was struck by how many tracks I learned about from this show
	9:07am Pax: ↳ MikeG @9:03 What Wobot ?
	9:09am Trouble: we have a robot that activates if there is a undue lengthy pause of silence, not b/c of words.
	9:10am Trouble: gooood morning all!
	9:11am riley: Good morning all! Asheville is finally sunny. God I am old. I bought this Cluster album way back on 8th St. NYC, I think "Sounds", the only place to find something like this way back when.
	9:12am jdaAndAnoukFromKöln: oh one of my fav. films… from Greenaway
	9:12am Wind: ↳ Trouble @9:10 happy birthday to You Ms T 🎈
	9:12am G: ↳ Trouble @9:09 So you could never play 4:33 without it getting interrupted...
	9:12am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Trouble @9:10 Mornin', Trouble!
	9:13am fm Mike: It is your birthday Trouble??? HAPPY BIRTHDAY TROUBLE!!!!!!! :D :D :D
	9:13am Wind: ↳ Trouble @9:09 Oh no! Is that an FCC requirement?
	9:13am Trouble: no it is not my birthday. i am a summer baby.
	9:13am Irene Trudel: Lovely sounds for a grey day, Trouble! Happy New Year and Birthday (if it is indeed the day)!
	9:14am captain beef fart: ↳ Wind @9:13 must be Samantha the new W&B morning music computer
	9:14am Trouble: we have requirements about the constancy of transmission according to our license
	9:14am Mike W.: portentousful yet resolvelicious
	9:15am Bryant in TO: Mornin', Trouble! Mornin', all!
	9:15am bobob Dublon: ..soooooothing
	9:15am fm Mike: ↳ Trouble @9:13 Oh ha ha ha xD
	9:16am Irene Trudel: ↳ Trouble @9:13 Well, happy half-birthday! Trouble, you are worthy of celebrating any time. 😸
	9:16am fm Mike: ↳ Song: "book depository" by "michael nyman" Well fellow Summer Baby, this is a wonderful song!
	9:19am Tara: oh ha, i was thinking the robot comment was related to emahoy somehow being in a walmart ad, like if we said her name we would all start getting pummeled with walmart ads. oof. well, that’s my cue to get the coffee rolling…
	9:19am bobobob: My band Plasticland opened up fr Rain Parade in Chicago..at the well lit Vic on Belmont..hope Sandoval..not in Attendance..Dave Roback yesssss
	9:19am BAMstutz: The music is good.
	9:21am winston legthigh: morning trouble, lovely listeners. silence is illegal.
	9:21am bobob Dublon Fab.trip: nice
	9:21am Edgar from Maine: Double dose of Hope this a.m.
	9:22am wizard frog: I was thinking recently, if you're a winter baby, your birthday is closer to the new year so the landmark dates are closer together, but if you're a summer baby, landmark date are is split over the year so may make for a different outlook in personality (if that makes sense?!)?
	9:22am Pax: ↳ Trouble @9:14 Sheesh, do red flashing lights and alarms go off, Then a panel opens up and some kind of crazy Robot comes out of the wall !
	9:23am Bryant in TO: ↳ winston legthigh @9:21 silence = illegal silence = golden gold = illegal
	9:23am peter in SEA: It WAS Ann Magnuson’s bday yesterday! Bon jour a touts
	9:24am bobobob Dublon: mr bee.fart..the captain walked up to my table at the club milwaukee.ill tell you what he said if u wanna know something
	9:25am winston legthigh: lol pax. reminds me of the bob burgers movie when angry robots swoop down in a ufo to stop his son jean from playing loud screechy music.
	9:25am sarah in md: The show is so good this morning!
	9:25am bobobob: Thanks Trouble ...keep it up lil lady wi da.gud tooooons
	9:26am Trouble: gracias for all the well wishes! let's share well wishes everyday with those we love
	9:26am Dan Bodah: Hope wow thx Trouble!
	9:28am Bryant in TO: ↳ wizard frog @9:22 That reminds me of how I was happy to have a spring birthday as a kid, rather than have Christmas and birthday lumped together like some of my December b-day friends. Maybe that's why I need to live somewhere with changing seasons. I guess what I'm saying is a May birthday might've predisposed me to constantly needing something to look forward to.
	9:28am Alanthepainter: The refrain in this song is Comme talle vous, so not my fore_tee…
	9:29am Pax: ↳ winston legthigh @9:25 Never seen bob's burgers, but it sounds like a hoot.
	9:29am Chris Hiatt: ↳ sarah in md @9:25 Yep, lots of click-y stars.
	9:29am Alanthepainter: Spelling not…my 4tae!
	9:30am Handy Haversack: Sometimes I glance out back at the birds and say, "Le bord de mer ..." I assume the birds get it. They must be fans.
	9:31am Edgar from Maine: "Bob's Burgers" is a winner.
	9:31am Wind: ↳ Trouble @9:13 oh lol me too! LOL happy Bird day was interpreted as birthday!!
	9:32am Pax: ↳ Alanthepainter @9:29 Mine neither, I'm embarrassed to say.
	9:33am Webhamster Henry: Today with extra oiseaux!
	9:34am WoodsOfMaine: Icy here today. Do I paint or do I stack wood? (I think I know the answer). Looove this show, as always.
	9:34am winston legthigh: ↳ Pax @9:29 clay plays a sound clip of bob who's voice is h jon benjamin.
	9:34am Bernardo: I’ve bought the 2 Jean Roche I could get my hands on and he hardly speaks any French! Which was disappointing 😢 Happy Bird Day
	9:37am βrian: I love that empty-bottle bird.
	9:37am Wind: "capable of being in uncertainty " This Is the BEST theme for the new Year :)
	9:39am Bo: Love love this record
	9:41am Pax: ↳ winston legthigh @9:34 Doesn't ring a bell.
	9:45am Trouble: anthony davis NJ jazz greats zoom listening session sign up info bit.ly/GSJGAnthonyDavis weds jan 11 6:30 pm
	9:48am Handy Haversack: ↳ Trouble @9:45 Clickable live link here: bccls.libcal.com...
	9:49am Wind: ↳ Trouble @9:45 Thank you!
	9:49am Wind: ↳ Handy Haversack @9:48 Thank you!
	9:53am Bo: I think I first heard the Terry hill mushtaq collaboration on this very show back in the aughts. ‘A Tale of Woe’ was the ‘hit’ from that record that was played…🙏u, Trouble!
	9:54am Bo: *Hall :)
	9:55am rx scabin: Good morning, Trouble and Everyone.
	9:56am Pax: How about this for salvaging the bird day trouble birthday mix up. Happy birthday Birds ! With so many birds out there, there's bound to be a couple thousand or so just in the immediate area alone. Just making lemonade.
	9:56am pot8o: good morning everyone!
	9:58am katharsis: Hello’s trouble and modernists
	9:58am Dances with Moomins: Cuckoo birds! We hear them in Finland during the summer.
	9:59am Zipperhead7: For the last 40+ years, a friend has been supplying me with themes for the year. His sagacity rivals the Oracle at Delphi. The theme he gave me for 2023 is "It doesn't just happen," which seems an effective redress for the interdependence and remote and abstract causality that characterizes modernity.
	10:01am Tara: i have listened to that kaitlyn aurelia smith/emile mosseri lp about 5 billion times this year
	10:02am Zipperhead7: Wave Hill is a nice place to hang out. I felt I was on the set of a Merchant Ivory film
	10:02am Pax: Everyone remembers.
	10:03am Nona: African fabric scraps just rolls off the tongue
	10:04am Wind: ↳ Trouble @9:45 Says there are 44 seats left as of now
	10:05am Wind: ↳ rx scabin @9:55 morning :)
	10:05am Pax: They done did flew the coop.
	10:05am Wind: ↳ Pax @9:56 Good idea!
	10:06am Wind: ↳ pot8o @9:56 Good morning pot8o :)
	10:06am Handy Haversack: [blushing]
	10:06am Wind: ↳ katharsis @9:58 hello
	10:07am Trouble: that is a great theme@ zipperhead! i am loving it. also yes! to the wave hill merchant ivory moment.
	10:08am timinoak: Trouble! I love the show. Biking in Oakland, still just morning twilight, humid winds between the storms... yay
	10:09am Trouble: @moomins: your moomin advent calendar was great fun once again this year!
	10:14am Trouble: wow @ timinoak: what you are doing sounds very cool!
	10:25am Fredericks: ↳ Song: "gole-e gandom" by "Lloyd miller" Gamelan opening?
	10:28am Trouble: oops four letter word freak out, but come to find out the song was self cleaned.... let's try that again. oy erg
	10:33am Micheal: Long Hot Summer here in January. Thanks for the groove, Trouble!
	10:34am Trouble: Somewhere it's summer, maybe?@ micheal
	10:34am Andres: ↳ Song: "long hot summer" by "the style council" Good morning. Always love this song. Even when all our ski hills and outdoor rinks have melted away.
	10:35am Yetz: ↳ Fredericks @10:25 I believe that's santur (Persian hammered dulcimer) www.youtube.com...
	10:37am Yetz: ↳ Yetz @10:35 "There was never any score to this and never could be any because it requires a knowledge of the Persian traditional dastgah (actually avaz) Dashti. Persian traditional music is learned by rote form an authorized master and requires memorizing many small melodic pieces called gushe. Even though this video is improvised in a modal jazz genre similar to Miles' 50s Kind of Blue LP, it is also based on the Dashti mode of Persian traditional music and requires Persian instrumental skills." - Dr. L Miller
	10:41am timinoak: right on Yetz. TY
	10:46am Coco: Always a pleasure to catch your show. Keeps me dancing all morning
	10:51am Wind: wow a beautiful activist! song, so cool!
	10:55am Jason from Houston: Great song...
	10:55am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "sierra leone prinia" by "Sierra Leone's Refugee A... Thanks for these cuts from Pasteur Lappé and the Sierra Leone All-Stars. It's fresh to hear some different Western African stuff from the usual things I put on out of habit.
	10:59am Wind: belle vie
	11:00am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Morning Trouble, fellow Troublemakers! Happy 2023 to all I haven't said it to yet, and Happy Thursday! One more day until my usual weekend sleepathon....
	11:00am Wind: RIP Barbara Walters :)
	11:02am kat from Cyprus: Am enjoying this programme immensely. Thank you!
	11:04am Peter in SEA: love the paper pulp (?) art piece by Zahaykevich on the playlist page. Happy New Year!
	11:04am Wind: im a lover not the hater + it's new to me cause I just started listening to you Ms.T and wfmu ....
	11:06am Handy Haversack: When I was at Sarah Lawrence we had the Yoko Ono Waffle Bar. Huh, I didn't get anything from the pres. about Barbara Walters. TROUBLE! You should come to the NYC alum events! It was a blast this year!
	11:08am Webhamster Henry: Kanopy gives us 4/month here in the MidHudson, but it's so good in terms of movies you missed, TV documentaries and other goodies.
	11:08am Peter in Tappan: TC Boyle wrote about these drop city folks. I will check out the doc! Sounded like hell on earth
	11:09am Vivian: ↳ Peter in Tappan @11:08 just about to say the same thing!
	11:10am Handy Haversack: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:06 I did hear that right? Your son is at SLC now, and you're an alum? I was a little distracted by a super annoying project.
	11:10am Trouble: the tc boyle book is a bit of a fictional account, from what i understand. more like another group further west
	11:11am Trouble: @ handy i am not an alum, i am art school/risd. my son is s senior at SLC right now
	11:12am Zipperhead7: The original Drop City had nothing to do with Doyle's book in any way, shape or form. In fact, they were furious with him.
	11:14am northguineahills: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:10 TIL that handy has a son and is an alum at SLC and enjoys talking to himself (well, at least the last part).
	11:14am Handy Haversack: ↳ Trouble @11:11 Ah, I gotcha! What's his concentration. I was up there several times last year -- a memorial for a favorite professor and then my 25th reunion.
	11:14am Handy Haversack: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:14 Crazy place to have gone as a working-class kid, but I'm grateful to have been able to.
	11:15am Trouble: tamara has a show up, that closes on sasturday, at satchel projcts in chelsea: www.satchelprojects.com...
	11:15am Shagalov: brilliant music ♡
	11:15am Peter in Tappan: Understood! Sorry. Maybe looking for a little acknowledgement for having read a book.
	11:16am Trouble: wow< I can imagine @ handy. I felt similarly as an outsider at RISD and first gen college graduate
	11:17am rx scabin: Thank you for the lovely music, Trouble. BTW did you see that Helado Negro has a name your price download of his ROM project? I'll see (hear) you next week.
	11:19am pot8o: unfortunately i have to go in a few minutes thanks trouble for the wonderful music! have a great rest of the week everyone
	11:19am Karl Ward: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:14 I was also a low income student and first gen college grad.
	11:20am Trouble: thanks for that info rx!!! thanks@ shagalov!
	11:21am rx scabin: Went on thw SL College tour with daughter. Was impressed that thy showed the gym last as a sort of "that's the gym over there."
	11:21am Karl Ward: I don't think people think enough about the absolute socioeconomic shock experienced by first gen / low income students in higher education. One of the best articles I've read on the subject is "Generation Later, Poor Are Still Rare at Elite Colleges" www.nytimes.com...
	11:22am Trouble: college used to be a truly transforming moment for low income, first gen, working class students. That is changing sadly with the skyrocketing cost of college. a book that offers some interesting info on it is: after the the ivory tower falls by will bunch
	11:24am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: I have to see which libraries out here support various free streaming services. I have cards for the NYPL and QPL; I may have let my Brooklyn card lapse. I also have to renew all of my cards, which I THINK they let you do online now. I know the last time it lapsed was before COVID and I had to go to an NYPL branch to get it done. So, I chose the fancy branch with Patience and Fortitude (the two lions) so I could feel smart and stuff while standing in a gorgeous newly-renovated reading room while they dug up my records...
	11:26am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: @Trouble My Mom, may she rest in peace, was one of the first women to go to Yale's graduate program back in the day, and my immigrant Dad also benefitted from some of the first scholarship programs. Now, someone born today to their identical circumstances wouldn't stand a chance of an Ivy education alas. I feel blessed that I was able to go to Cornell. Oddly and coincidentally enough, I got emailed Cornell's desktop calendar GIF pack this AM and for the first time in ages actually used it for my desktop....
	11:28am Handy Haversack: ↳ Trouble @11:22 Part of what I feel lucky about is that SLC was, to the extent possible, an outsider (well, outsider-insider) to that elite world precisely because it was all female (presenting) for so long and so just evolved different from the massively endowed real-estate/media company private colleges. Not that the student body didn't mostly come from the elite -- it did. But the nature of teaching and the economies of education there were very different from most "similar" schools. Though I stumbled so back-assward into it (as I do most things) that on day one, I remember standing on line for registration and thinking, "Where are all the boys?"
	11:28am Karl Ward: ↳ Trouble @11:22 One thing that people don't generally realize is that higher education is full of off-ramps. Low income students see those off-ramps much more frequently than students with income advantages. Example: almost every semester I was locked out of registering for classes because I struggled to come up with money for the fees, despite having a huge scholarship that covered most of the tuition. Each semester I thought "is this going to be the semester I don't make it?" Always scrambling to afford housing. It goes on. Even the small number of low income students who make it through expensive schools is amazing.
	11:29am Handy Haversack: ↳ Karl Ward @11:28 WORD, Karl. I don't think there was a semester that went by when I didn't seriously consider chucking it all and getting out of the struggle and just getting a restaurant job.
	11:31am Trouble: so true@ kard. and then those studnets have to pay the loans back without the benefit of a degree: huge student loan debt with no chance at $$ salaries.
	11:33am Handy Haversack: I think the debt they come out with today is orders of magnitude more than we faced. It's totally off the hook. I managed to get my loans paid off at age forty. Biggest raise I ever got, and I gave it to myself. (Quitting smoking was also a big raise!)
	11:34am Wind: dog gone ...I make me cry again lol
	11:34am Trouble: i defaulted on my student loans and was tortured for years by that, and it was a measly bit compared to today
	11:35am Trouble: i also worked multiple jobs during every degree i earned, watching the rich kids waste time and not finish projects
	11:35am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:28 Sorry, pardon my ignorance, SLC=??
	11:36am Handy Haversack: I always felt default was a real option -- I always said, "They can't repossess time!" Unless ... ! But defaulting maybe should be the, er, default position. If the govt. won't eliminate student debt, former students might need to do it en masse. Threemoons: Sarah Lawrence College, Yonkers, NY.
	11:37am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: ↳ Handy Haversack @11:36 Aaah, thanks!
	11:37am Trouble: slc is sarah lawrence college, alma mater of barbara walters, yoko ono, jordan peele, soma star wars movie director, etc
	11:38am WoodsOfMaine: I thought the debt I had after college was massive but heck, this was 1984 and I did manage to pay it off. But I struggled to keep my financial head above water during those years. Seems like a previous lifetime, especially since I've recently retired.
	11:38am Trouble: default is a horrible place to be. I couldn't get a credit card, they hound you and place all kinds of treachery in your path
	11:38am Handy Haversack: My boss also went there. And Alice Walker. Julianna Margulies. Andrea Zuckerman.
	11:43am Yes: Loving this
	11:44am Wind: ↳ Yes @11:43 me too...if you're referring to the sounds :)
	11:45am Wind: what a lovely Rose, Yes! it almost seems to me like it was hand finger painted ..
	11:48am Meeahhmio: This song came on as there was a video on my screen of Whole Foods prepping for the Great Reset by binstalling QR code exits at some stores and let me tell you, very fitting and very creepy!!
	11:49am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: I was super lucky RE law school debt. Firstly, I had really good summer jobs during college -- back in the day, $25/hour was the going rate for office gigs when gas was still about a buck a gallon, and I saved up a LOT. Also, Cornell Financial Credit Union had something like a 12% interest rate on saving accounts over a thousand dollars, so my summer money just sat there. I was able to pay off my first year of law school in cash under a special program -- you got a HUGE discount, almost 30%, if you paid up front and agreed not to ask for it back if you dropped out. By living on next to nothing I was able to graduate with only $50K in loans ("only" almost needs the sarcasm tag) because I also worked to pay off my interest during school. Also, when I had it whittle down to $30K, it was close to my 30th birthday. We had tried to get Mom to buy Amazon stock when it first went public, but we missed out, so I told her to go for Krispy Kreme stock. So...for my 30th birthday, she and I went out to dinner, and she gave me two birthday cards---one cutesy one with a few hundred bucks spending money for fun shit, and then a fatter envelope...full of my paid off promisary notes. She had hit over 100K on the Krispy Kreme, which my Stepdad's stockbroker had advised her AGAINST. I'm forever grateful that they got paid off then -- over the ensuing 20 years I have had long periods of unemployment where I was barely scraping by, and paying loans on top of it would have sunk me. My best friend from law school still has almost $300K left on his education-related loans between college and law school, as well as car payments, a mortgage, etc. On top of that, his wife got Stage IV cancer and lost HER job, and they have 2 kids. America is so broken....
	11:50am JimmyTallow: At least we know it dates from “the modern world” :)
	11:51am Chris Hiatt: ↳ Song: "lover to lover" by "bobbi humphrey" This was my intro to Bobbi Humphrey, holy crap.
	11:53am Guy Walker: There’s an ancient reason record companies don’t want you to think you are buying the old one.
	11:53am willjfield: Just read this disturbing crossover piece between today's episode and Techtonic: www.vice.com...
	11:53am Carmichael: I couldn't afford college, so I joined the military in the waning days of the original GI Bill. I go t Master's degree out of the deal ...
	11:54am timinoak: Thank you for the show!
	11:54am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: Thanks for the show!
	11:54am love2laf: Thank you for a wonderful morning of music Trouble. Too busy for the comments board this morning, but had to pop in to say how much I enjoyed today's show. Cheers all!
	11:55am Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜: ↳ Carmichael @11:53 My Stepdad was one of the earlier wave of GI bill beneficiaries -- was dirt poor from El Paso, joined the Navy in WW2, got a PhD out of the bill....
	11:57am wind: Thank you Trouble my troubles seem less because of you.
	11:57am Jason from Houston: Many thanks, Trouble. Fine sounds.
	11:57am Trouble: thanks for sitting in today! happppy new year, make it happen!
	11:57am Zipperhead7: Thanx for the great show, Trouble! It was as fine as frog's hair, and you can't get any finer than that!
	11:58am Handy Haversack: Great show, Trouble! Many thanks! Stay Troubled, everyone!
	11:59am Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Trouble. Lurking and listening and more today. Much juggling over here.
	11:59am bradford: Thanks Trouble, great show as always!
	12:00pm JohnEBGood: Thanks DJ Trouble. Happy New Year 🎉
	5:30pm Jeffrey Davison: This show is so fine....thanks!

This Is The Modern World with Trouble: Playlist from January 5, 2023

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