WFMU: The Wiggle Room: Playlist from October 22, 2024

Listener comments!
	👻 5:01pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	5:47pm postconsumer: How do you end up seeing the page so early? Do you have a system set up, or what? oh, and Good Hello, to you as well! :)
	5:51pm postconsumer: See you all at 8pm, Eastern.
	7:21pm Krys O.: Hi! The default setting is published when you set up an episode. You can untick the box to unpublish until you wish.
	7:28pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @7:21 I thought I remembered something like that. I was just curious how Austin even thought to go looking for it, so early. He somehow knew it was live, immediately.
	7:47pm postconsumer: Is no one else as troubled by this, as I am?? 😂
	👻 7:57pm WR: Hello Jon, Krys, Austin, folks. Jon, I enjoyed the Northern Exposure/KBHR series you did earlier in the year. Interested to see what you've come up with for us to hear.
	8:01pm Imaginos: ahoy
	👻 8:02pm Austin Rich: Howdy, everyone! Nice to see ya'll in the chat!
	👻 8:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:01 Greetings & Salutations!
	8:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:02 Hope you're awesome tonight.
	8:03pm postconsumer: ahoy and welcome! and thank you, to WR, as well. This is one of the remaining songs from the original mix. It's a keeper.
	👻 8:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @5:47 I was logged in already, and had this page, and another page for my show, up and ready. As I do my other work, I occasionally refresh The Wiggle Room, to see if the DJ has posted the playlist yet. So I just got lucky, but it helps that I'm doing ohter computer work just before.
	8:03pm Krys O.: ↳ Song: "Flowers on the Wall" by "The Statler Brothers" Always loved this song.
	👻 8:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Flowers on the Wall" by "The Statler Brothers" As I get older, this song becomes more and more of a banger. Hell yeah, this is the lifestyle I want.
	8:05pm postconsumer: As I was telling Krys earlier, I was never happy with the original mixes of this KBHR chapter of the retrofit series, so this is the first in a couple of reimaginings...
	8:05pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:03 I could get behind watching Captain Kangaroo again from time to time.
	👻 8:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Human Fly" by "The Cramps" Damn, this week is off to the races! I think this might be one of the best punk singles ever. "Medi-Ogre" Music. So Brilliant! (And anything with a 96 Tears reference is almost perfect in my mind.)
	8:06pm postconsumer: Flowers has been with me since I was just a rugrat, in Dallas. It always mystified. Love it.
	8:08pm postconsumer: The first mixes were made with the tv show's audience very much in mind, and I think that's why I haven't listened to it since. It's good music, but it was a challenge to shoehorn it all in, and make it flow or work together. And it often doesn't.
	👻 8:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:05 There's something about smoking cigarettes and watching TV that seemed particularly indulgent. Like... that can't be good for you, on any level. But for some reason I want to do it.
	8:09pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:09 the worse something is for people, the more people want to do it.
	👻 8:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:09 Like eating candy while watching bad movies late at night. I know I shouldn't, but...
	8:11pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:10 bad movies, hmm? With or without riffs?
	8:12pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @8:05 I can remember CK from the seventies. mr. rogers, big bird and the captain.
	👻 8:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:11 Both. I've been trying to fill in the gaps in my MST3K viewing for a few years now. But I'm also trying to get through the entire Shock Theater package of horror movies, and a lot of them are TERRIBLE. But... even the worst Bela Lugosi movie has Bela in it occasionally.
	8:13pm Imaginos: ↳ postconsumer @8:12 From the 70s I remember the captain, Zoom, The Electric Company, Sesame Street, Hodge POdge Lodge and Pixanne.
	👻 8:14pm Austin Rich: "I've been dragging my psychic feet lately." I need to start some song off with that sample.
	8:14pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: "Tired of Waking Up Tired (orig. demo)" by "Diodes" I can relate.
	👻 8:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Tired of Waking Up Tired (orig. demo)" by "Diodes" The theme of middle age.
	8:15pm postconsumer: idk some of those. where were you watching them?
	8:15pm Imaginos: ↳ postconsumer @8:15 Cape Cod on PBS
	8:15pm postconsumer: ↳ postconsumer @8:15 and if you could include, as well, your mother's maiden name. 🤣
	8:16pm postconsumer: What was Hodge Podge Lodge about?
	8:17pm Imaginos: ↳ postconsumer @8:16 it was a children's nature show with occasional bits where the kids would learn to draw the animals.
	👻 8:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:15 We talked about this last week on my show, but the local kids TV personality here in the Northwest - Ramblin' Rod - would interview the Peanut Gallery between cartoons, and would usually ask the kids where they were from, which had a strange, stalker quality to in the the early 80's. (It didn't help that Ramblin' Rod was pretty eccentric, and didn't seem to know much about kids, for a guy who hosted a kids show.)
	8:18pm Krys O.: I remember Hodge Podge Lodge from the early 70s. I'm in my early 60s.
	8:18pm postconsumer: the sped up tape in the back there is supposedly a Christian prayer sped up. idk
	👻 8:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "How Are You" by "Cheap Trick" While they don't have a perfect record, I'm a unashamed Cheap Trick fan, and those beats and lyrics are just the best. This album in particular: almost perfect!
	8:19pm Krys O.: The Magic Garden was great.
	8:19pm Krys O.: ↳ Krys O. @8:19 The Magic Garden was on NYC-area TV 1972-1984.
	8:20pm Imaginos: I still get Swing on a Star from PIxanne stuck in my head from time to time. I was watching it back around the same time Star Trek came out, so I used to think that the lyrics wsere "Carrie Moon beams home in a jar" rather than "carry moonbeams home in a jar"
	👻 8:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @8:18 Ramblin' Rod would wear a jacket covered in buttons, badges, and other novelty items that kids would give him. He became known for "guy wearing lots of buttons" in public. His legacy in the Northwest became shorthand at punk shows: you would hear a lot of people call the kids wearing tons of buttons on their jackets a "Ramblin' Rod." I actually heard someone use this at the show last night, which warmed my heart.
	8:24pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:18 I really worked hard to find music I thought "Chris Stevens" would actually play, and at least a couple which the actor himself likes. And the key ingredient to having the songs really hang together is to stick to two things: Follow your nose (Just go with it). And also be very selfish: Stick to what YOU like, among other considerations, and it will all make sense, on some level.
	👻 8:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Loser" by "Beck" I recall buying this cassingle when it came out, which almost perfectly dates this song.
	8:24pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:23 Reminds me, fashion wise, of Randall Flagg in the original TV miniseries of The Stand
	8:24pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:23 that's awesome
	👻 8:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:24 Oh yeah, he had a handful of buttons on his jacket. That was in the book, too, if I recall correctly?
	8:25pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:24 This was a banger in 1995, which is when "Chris" is supposedly DJing...
	👻 8:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:25 It was EVERYWHERE that year. It's a great song! How could it not be a hit?
	8:26pm postconsumer: I really loved it, then, and I absolutely love it, still.
	👻 8:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Last Day of Our Acquaintance" by "Sinéad O’Co... Talk about people who were MASSIVE in their day...
	8:28pm postconsumer: It was one of many songs on the radio which were beautifully in line with my feelings about samples in music at the time. I was obsessed with the subject, clearly. 🤣
	8:28pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:28 She was really popular, then? I know I had a couple of her CDs.
	8:29pm postconsumer: She did get on SNL, so she must have been, yeah.
	👻 8:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:28 Are you a Steel Pole Bathtub fan? They are a 80's / 90's rock band with a LOT of samples in their music. I sort of forgot how many samples where in their songs until the other day. Now I need to revisit.
	8:30pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:29 I've never heard of them until now. Thanks, I'll check them out.
	👻 8:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:29 Her songs were everywhere in the late 80's / early 90's. Because they were great.
	👻 8:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:30 They're sort of on the Melvins end of the "rock music" spectrum. I had a single by them back in the day, but I saw them play last week, picked up a record, and realized that they were doing some interesting stuff back in the day, and I missed it.
	👻 8:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Where Is My Mind" by "The Pixies" Another banger that gets better as I get older.
	8:31pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:30 I just love everything about her. my generation would call her fierce, I think.
	👻 8:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:31 Totally. She's about due for a discovery by the younger generations, as she's got a voice and a style that I think folks would really love, now. Someone needs to Tik Tok about her and teach the kids...
	8:35pm Imaginos: Speaking of opening lines, I challenge anyone to know the opening lines of Lavender Blue. (hint: It's probably not what you think)
	👻 8:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "I Don’t Know" by "Teenage Fanclub" You are killing me with the early 90's hits! I went to a show last week - one of the few shows I've been to in the last few years - for a 1994 reunion show. Three bands doing material from their early 90's era. It was like I was living in Eugene again, listening to KWVA, playing in my first band again. Damn, what a time machine some songs are.
	8:36pm Imaginos: ↳ Imaginos @8:35 most record makers and djs leave off the intro
	8:37pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @8:36 I'm not familiar with the artist, sorry
	8:38pm Imaginos: ↳ postconsumer @8:37 actually, you are, but you know him better for his Christmas songs. Burl Yves.
	👻 8:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:36 Radio has a long tradition of talking over the opening of great songs. When you could perfectly introduce a song so that you end your voice over with enough pad for the lyrics to comfortably start just afterwards, they called that "Hitting The Post."
	👻 8:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Ever Fallen in Love… (With Someone You Shouldn’t’... Every single time?
	8:41pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:39 True. But in this case, they don't get played at all. Because usually they play the records that don't include them.
	8:42pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:36 As I said, I was not happy with the final mix, the first time I did this one. I'm learning, as I go here. And the first thing I tried, when programming new music and rearranging the breaks, for the remix, was to put in a lot MORE music, and to try to do a really 90's focused hour, at least. ...I have kind of a prejudice AGAINST my own decade, musically, so this was a challenge for me. What I ended up with though, after poring through playlists and charts for 1990-1995, was a good long list of music which was fairly great, in various ways. However, it just didn't work with the KBHR format which is way more stream of conscious and all over the place. And all 90s music just didn't feel right.
	👻 8:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:41 Most radio singles are shorter than the LP version, and usually cut out something to come in under the "single" length. The idea that "long songs" could be played on the radio is a fairly modern idea, that started to come in around the 70's.
	8:44pm postconsumer: I love this song. I feel like I've rediscovered rockabilly and vintage country pop, if that's even a thing, while working on this.
	👻 8:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:44 My grandfather liked music like this. It reminds me of him.
	8:45pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:44 Mine, as well! And my father.
	8:46pm postconsumer: I love story songs though and a lot of these older 78s are along those lines...
	8:46pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:42 Bat Out of Hell is a good example of this phenomenon.
	👻 8:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:46 Totally.
	8:47pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @8:38 😮
	👻 8:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:46 Country songs are just so good at telling stories.
	👻 8:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Pink Moon" by "Nick Drake" Am I finally old enough to be going through a Nick Drake phase? Perhaps...
	8:48pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:47 Legend of Woolley Swamp is a great example
	8:49pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @8:47 Country music lyrics can be as inventive as Shakespeare. Check out Henson Cargill's song Skip a Rope. Piercing commentary.
	8:49pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:39 oof sorry to hear that! There are a few I remember well.
	👻 8:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Stormy Weather" by "Etta James" At my old radio station, KPSU, we had our collection numbered in the order CDs were purchased for the station. This album was Number 1 in the KPSU collection, and I played it OFTEN.
	👻 8:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:49 I don't know that song! I'll have to check it out. (Thanks for the tip!)
	👻 8:51pm Austin Rich: The images of Chris that you picked are very excellent. It reminds me of when I used to watch the show. I've been wanting to re-watch it for a while now. I suspect it's probably time.
	8:53pm Imaginos: Oh, btw Austin, did you get the song I sent you about the kitten?
	8:53pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:49 I'll look it up! I can't believe some of the astounding music I've never even heard of, from every decade. It's been so fun to learn about. KITH used that "Brand New Key" song in that great sketch. I'd never heard that. What a crazy, poppy little thing. loved it.
	👻 8:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:53 Yes! You've sent me a lot of songs recently. I've got two more shows I need to fret over, and then I'll be able to give them more attention.
	👻 8:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:53 There's so much out there still to learn about, for everyone. I'm constantly astonished as the things I don't know.
	8:55pm Krys O.: Brand New Key was HUGE when I was a kid. I loved (Lay Down) Candles in the Rain more. It still gets to me.
	8:55pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:49 That's awesome. As it was the first thing to come to mind in a panic, when you were unable to get the next record cued up yet, am I right?
	8:55pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:54 I understand. Fret! Its not just part of a guitar!
	8:56pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:51 it's such a good show. I just rewatched it for the third or fourth time, probably. It's turning into my "Star Trek"
	👻 8:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:55 Not quite, but that's a good idea! As is often the case: I was over-prepared, with too many things to play, almost every show, so I would have plenty to reach for when I wasn't quite able to get the next record ready.
	8:57pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:55 😮 I'm adding that to my list of songs to listen to later
	👻 8:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:56 Nice! I watched it when it was on, and then a friend had some episodes on tape that I watched when we were roommates... and that's been it for years. I suspect I would like it more, now.
	👻 8:57pm Austin Rich: Great show tonight! Super fun!
	8:58pm Krys O.: Thanks, Jon!
	8:58pm Imaginos: Great show
	8:58pm postconsumer: Thanks everyone, for tuning in, and for chatting. And thanks to Krys, for board op!
	8:59pm postconsumer: Thanks! and stay tuned in the next couple of months, for parts two and three of this KBHR remix...

The Wiggle Room: Playlist from October 22, 2024

A different show every week! Rotating DJs include Jon Nelson's "Sheena 'ssembly Required" (Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations),
MarkTime (vintage radio airchecks), and Krys O (aka Sister Krys - WFMU alumna 1985-1991, longtime Church of the Subgenius monk. Playing cinematic ephemera, schizoid weirdos, all styles served here). Plus: surprise guests galore. (illustration courtesy of https://www.jimflora.com/)

Tuesday 8 - 9pm (EST) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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October 22, 2024: Radio Retrofit (remix - new music!) with "Chris in the Morning" on KBHR (Part 1 of 3)
Radio Retrofit is a new series by Some Assembly Required producer, Jon Nelson. This NEW episode features the first part of a 3-hour remix (and expansion), of our KBHR program (parts 5 and 6, specifically), from June.

Part One (of 3) airs today. "Chris Stevens" is playing a freeform, nineties mix of music from 1948 to 1995...

Radio Retrofit pulls from a variety of incomplete "found sound" broadcast recordings, and creates entertaining approximations of what might have aired, at fictional radio stations such as KBHR (Northern Exposure), WKRP (WKRP In Cincinnati) and AFVN (Good Morning, Vietnam). More to come...

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Artist	Track	Year	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Chris Stevens	"Chris Stevens"		0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Statler Brothers	Flowers on the Wall	1965	0:01:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Cramps	Human Fly "Human Fly" by "The Cramps"	1978	0:03:32 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Romeo Void	Never Say Never "Never Say Never" by "Romeo Void"	1981	0:05:37 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Chris Stevens	"Chris Stevens"		0:08:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Bill Haley and the Comets	See You Later, Alligator	1956	0:09:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Chris Stevens	"Chris Stevens"	1995	0:33:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Diodes	Tired of Waking Up Tired (orig. demo)	1978	0:13:48 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Cheap Trick	How Are You "How Are You" by "Cheap Trick"	1978	0:17:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Chris Stevens	"Chris Stevens"	1995	0:20:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Beck	Loser "Loser" by "Beck"	1993	0:21:56 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Sinéad O’Connor	The Last Day of Our Acquaintance	1990	0:25:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Pixies	Where Is My Mind "Where Is My Mind" by "The Pixies"	1988	0:30:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Chris Stevens	"Chris Stevens"	1995	0:12:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Teenage Fanclub	I Don’t Know "I Don’t Know" by "Teenage Fanclub"	1991	0:34:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Buzzcocks	Ever Fallen in Love… (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve?)	1978	0:38:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Chris Stevens	"Chris Stevens"	1995	0:41:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
The Stanley Brothers	Rank Stranger	1960	0:42:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Nick Drake	Pink Moon "Pink Moon" by "Nick Drake"	1972	0:45:41 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Chris Stevens	"Chris Stevens"	1995	0:47:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Etta James	Stormy Weather "Stormy Weather" by "Etta James"	1960	0:48:35 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Elliott Smith	No Name #3 "No Name #3" by "Elliott Smith"	1994	0:51:28 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Psychedelic Furs	Heartbreak Beat "Heartbreak Beat" by "Psychedelic Furs"	1986	0:54:34 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	👻 5:01pm Austin Rich: Good Hello.
	5:47pm postconsumer: How do you end up seeing the page so early? Do you have a system set up, or what? oh, and Good Hello, to you as well! :)
	5:51pm postconsumer: See you all at 8pm, Eastern.
	7:21pm Krys O.: Hi! The default setting is published when you set up an episode. You can untick the box to unpublish until you wish.
	7:28pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @7:21 I thought I remembered something like that. I was just curious how Austin even thought to go looking for it, so early. He somehow knew it was live, immediately.
	7:47pm postconsumer: Is no one else as troubled by this, as I am?? 😂
	👻 7:57pm WR: Hello Jon, Krys, Austin, folks. Jon, I enjoyed the Northern Exposure/KBHR series you did earlier in the year. Interested to see what you've come up with for us to hear.
	8:01pm Imaginos: ahoy
	👻 8:02pm Austin Rich: Howdy, everyone! Nice to see ya'll in the chat!
	👻 8:02pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:01 Greetings & Salutations!
	8:02pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:02 Hope you're awesome tonight.
	8:03pm postconsumer: ahoy and welcome! and thank you, to WR, as well. This is one of the remaining songs from the original mix. It's a keeper.
	👻 8:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @5:47 I was logged in already, and had this page, and another page for my show, up and ready. As I do my other work, I occasionally refresh The Wiggle Room, to see if the DJ has posted the playlist yet. So I just got lucky, but it helps that I'm doing ohter computer work just before.
	8:03pm Krys O.: ↳ Song: "Flowers on the Wall" by "The Statler Brothers" Always loved this song.
	👻 8:03pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Flowers on the Wall" by "The Statler Brothers" As I get older, this song becomes more and more of a banger. Hell yeah, this is the lifestyle I want.
	8:05pm postconsumer: As I was telling Krys earlier, I was never happy with the original mixes of this KBHR chapter of the retrofit series, so this is the first in a couple of reimaginings...
	8:05pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:03 I could get behind watching Captain Kangaroo again from time to time.
	👻 8:05pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Human Fly" by "The Cramps" Damn, this week is off to the races! I think this might be one of the best punk singles ever. "Medi-Ogre" Music. So Brilliant! (And anything with a 96 Tears reference is almost perfect in my mind.)
	8:06pm postconsumer: Flowers has been with me since I was just a rugrat, in Dallas. It always mystified. Love it.
	8:08pm postconsumer: The first mixes were made with the tv show's audience very much in mind, and I think that's why I haven't listened to it since. It's good music, but it was a challenge to shoehorn it all in, and make it flow or work together. And it often doesn't.
	👻 8:09pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:05 There's something about smoking cigarettes and watching TV that seemed particularly indulgent. Like... that can't be good for you, on any level. But for some reason I want to do it.
	8:09pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:09 the worse something is for people, the more people want to do it.
	👻 8:10pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:09 Like eating candy while watching bad movies late at night. I know I shouldn't, but...
	8:11pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:10 bad movies, hmm? With or without riffs?
	8:12pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @8:05 I can remember CK from the seventies. mr. rogers, big bird and the captain.
	👻 8:13pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:11 Both. I've been trying to fill in the gaps in my MST3K viewing for a few years now. But I'm also trying to get through the entire Shock Theater package of horror movies, and a lot of them are TERRIBLE. But... even the worst Bela Lugosi movie has Bela in it occasionally.
	8:13pm Imaginos: ↳ postconsumer @8:12 From the 70s I remember the captain, Zoom, The Electric Company, Sesame Street, Hodge POdge Lodge and Pixanne.
	👻 8:14pm Austin Rich: "I've been dragging my psychic feet lately." I need to start some song off with that sample.
	8:14pm Imaginos: ↳ Song: "Tired of Waking Up Tired (orig. demo)" by "Diodes" I can relate.
	👻 8:14pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Tired of Waking Up Tired (orig. demo)" by "Diodes" The theme of middle age.
	8:15pm postconsumer: idk some of those. where were you watching them?
	8:15pm Imaginos: ↳ postconsumer @8:15 Cape Cod on PBS
	8:15pm postconsumer: ↳ postconsumer @8:15 and if you could include, as well, your mother's maiden name. 🤣
	8:16pm postconsumer: What was Hodge Podge Lodge about?
	8:17pm Imaginos: ↳ postconsumer @8:16 it was a children's nature show with occasional bits where the kids would learn to draw the animals.
	👻 8:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:15 We talked about this last week on my show, but the local kids TV personality here in the Northwest - Ramblin' Rod - would interview the Peanut Gallery between cartoons, and would usually ask the kids where they were from, which had a strange, stalker quality to in the the early 80's. (It didn't help that Ramblin' Rod was pretty eccentric, and didn't seem to know much about kids, for a guy who hosted a kids show.)
	8:18pm Krys O.: I remember Hodge Podge Lodge from the early 70s. I'm in my early 60s.
	8:18pm postconsumer: the sped up tape in the back there is supposedly a Christian prayer sped up. idk
	👻 8:18pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "How Are You" by "Cheap Trick" While they don't have a perfect record, I'm a unashamed Cheap Trick fan, and those beats and lyrics are just the best. This album in particular: almost perfect!
	8:19pm Krys O.: The Magic Garden was great.
	8:19pm Krys O.: ↳ Krys O. @8:19 The Magic Garden was on NYC-area TV 1972-1984.
	8:20pm Imaginos: I still get Swing on a Star from PIxanne stuck in my head from time to time. I was watching it back around the same time Star Trek came out, so I used to think that the lyrics wsere "Carrie Moon beams home in a jar" rather than "carry moonbeams home in a jar"
	👻 8:23pm Austin Rich: ↳ Austin Rich @8:18 Ramblin' Rod would wear a jacket covered in buttons, badges, and other novelty items that kids would give him. He became known for "guy wearing lots of buttons" in public. His legacy in the Northwest became shorthand at punk shows: you would hear a lot of people call the kids wearing tons of buttons on their jackets a "Ramblin' Rod." I actually heard someone use this at the show last night, which warmed my heart.
	8:24pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:18 I really worked hard to find music I thought "Chris Stevens" would actually play, and at least a couple which the actor himself likes. And the key ingredient to having the songs really hang together is to stick to two things: Follow your nose (Just go with it). And also be very selfish: Stick to what YOU like, among other considerations, and it will all make sense, on some level.
	👻 8:24pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Loser" by "Beck" I recall buying this cassingle when it came out, which almost perfectly dates this song.
	8:24pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:23 Reminds me, fashion wise, of Randall Flagg in the original TV miniseries of The Stand
	8:24pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:23 that's awesome
	👻 8:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:24 Oh yeah, he had a handful of buttons on his jacket. That was in the book, too, if I recall correctly?
	8:25pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:24 This was a banger in 1995, which is when "Chris" is supposedly DJing...
	👻 8:25pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:25 It was EVERYWHERE that year. It's a great song! How could it not be a hit?
	8:26pm postconsumer: I really loved it, then, and I absolutely love it, still.
	👻 8:28pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "The Last Day of Our Acquaintance" by "Sinéad O’Co... Talk about people who were MASSIVE in their day...
	8:28pm postconsumer: It was one of many songs on the radio which were beautifully in line with my feelings about samples in music at the time. I was obsessed with the subject, clearly. 🤣
	8:28pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:28 She was really popular, then? I know I had a couple of her CDs.
	8:29pm postconsumer: She did get on SNL, so she must have been, yeah.
	👻 8:29pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:28 Are you a Steel Pole Bathtub fan? They are a 80's / 90's rock band with a LOT of samples in their music. I sort of forgot how many samples where in their songs until the other day. Now I need to revisit.
	8:30pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:29 I've never heard of them until now. Thanks, I'll check them out.
	👻 8:30pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:29 Her songs were everywhere in the late 80's / early 90's. Because they were great.
	👻 8:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:30 They're sort of on the Melvins end of the "rock music" spectrum. I had a single by them back in the day, but I saw them play last week, picked up a record, and realized that they were doing some interesting stuff back in the day, and I missed it.
	👻 8:31pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Where Is My Mind" by "The Pixies" Another banger that gets better as I get older.
	8:31pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:30 I just love everything about her. my generation would call her fierce, I think.
	👻 8:32pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:31 Totally. She's about due for a discovery by the younger generations, as she's got a voice and a style that I think folks would really love, now. Someone needs to Tik Tok about her and teach the kids...
	8:35pm Imaginos: Speaking of opening lines, I challenge anyone to know the opening lines of Lavender Blue. (hint: It's probably not what you think)
	👻 8:36pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "I Don’t Know" by "Teenage Fanclub" You are killing me with the early 90's hits! I went to a show last week - one of the few shows I've been to in the last few years - for a 1994 reunion show. Three bands doing material from their early 90's era. It was like I was living in Eugene again, listening to KWVA, playing in my first band again. Damn, what a time machine some songs are.
	8:36pm Imaginos: ↳ Imaginos @8:35 most record makers and djs leave off the intro
	8:37pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @8:36 I'm not familiar with the artist, sorry
	8:38pm Imaginos: ↳ postconsumer @8:37 actually, you are, but you know him better for his Christmas songs. Burl Yves.
	👻 8:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:36 Radio has a long tradition of talking over the opening of great songs. When you could perfectly introduce a song so that you end your voice over with enough pad for the lyrics to comfortably start just afterwards, they called that "Hitting The Post."
	👻 8:39pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Ever Fallen in Love… (With Someone You Shouldn’t’... Every single time?
	8:41pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:39 True. But in this case, they don't get played at all. Because usually they play the records that don't include them.
	8:42pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:36 As I said, I was not happy with the final mix, the first time I did this one. I'm learning, as I go here. And the first thing I tried, when programming new music and rearranging the breaks, for the remix, was to put in a lot MORE music, and to try to do a really 90's focused hour, at least. ...I have kind of a prejudice AGAINST my own decade, musically, so this was a challenge for me. What I ended up with though, after poring through playlists and charts for 1990-1995, was a good long list of music which was fairly great, in various ways. However, it just didn't work with the KBHR format which is way more stream of conscious and all over the place. And all 90s music just didn't feel right.
	👻 8:42pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:41 Most radio singles are shorter than the LP version, and usually cut out something to come in under the "single" length. The idea that "long songs" could be played on the radio is a fairly modern idea, that started to come in around the 70's.
	8:44pm postconsumer: I love this song. I feel like I've rediscovered rockabilly and vintage country pop, if that's even a thing, while working on this.
	👻 8:44pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:44 My grandfather liked music like this. It reminds me of him.
	8:45pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:44 Mine, as well! And my father.
	8:46pm postconsumer: I love story songs though and a lot of these older 78s are along those lines...
	8:46pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:42 Bat Out of Hell is a good example of this phenomenon.
	👻 8:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:46 Totally.
	8:47pm postconsumer: ↳ Imaginos @8:38 😮
	👻 8:47pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:46 Country songs are just so good at telling stories.
	👻 8:48pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Pink Moon" by "Nick Drake" Am I finally old enough to be going through a Nick Drake phase? Perhaps...
	8:48pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:47 Legend of Woolley Swamp is a great example
	8:49pm Krys O.: ↳ Austin Rich @8:47 Country music lyrics can be as inventive as Shakespeare. Check out Henson Cargill's song Skip a Rope. Piercing commentary.
	8:49pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:39 oof sorry to hear that! There are a few I remember well.
	👻 8:49pm Austin Rich: ↳ Song: "Stormy Weather" by "Etta James" At my old radio station, KPSU, we had our collection numbered in the order CDs were purchased for the station. This album was Number 1 in the KPSU collection, and I played it OFTEN.
	👻 8:50pm Austin Rich: ↳ Krys O. @8:49 I don't know that song! I'll have to check it out. (Thanks for the tip!)
	👻 8:51pm Austin Rich: The images of Chris that you picked are very excellent. It reminds me of when I used to watch the show. I've been wanting to re-watch it for a while now. I suspect it's probably time.
	8:53pm Imaginos: Oh, btw Austin, did you get the song I sent you about the kitten?
	8:53pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:49 I'll look it up! I can't believe some of the astounding music I've never even heard of, from every decade. It's been so fun to learn about. KITH used that "Brand New Key" song in that great sketch. I'd never heard that. What a crazy, poppy little thing. loved it.
	👻 8:54pm Austin Rich: ↳ Imaginos @8:53 Yes! You've sent me a lot of songs recently. I've got two more shows I need to fret over, and then I'll be able to give them more attention.
	👻 8:55pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:53 There's so much out there still to learn about, for everyone. I'm constantly astonished as the things I don't know.
	8:55pm Krys O.: Brand New Key was HUGE when I was a kid. I loved (Lay Down) Candles in the Rain more. It still gets to me.
	8:55pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:49 That's awesome. As it was the first thing to come to mind in a panic, when you were unable to get the next record cued up yet, am I right?
	8:55pm Imaginos: ↳ Austin Rich @8:54 I understand. Fret! Its not just part of a guitar!
	8:56pm postconsumer: ↳ Austin Rich @8:51 it's such a good show. I just rewatched it for the third or fourth time, probably. It's turning into my "Star Trek"
	👻 8:56pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:55 Not quite, but that's a good idea! As is often the case: I was over-prepared, with too many things to play, almost every show, so I would have plenty to reach for when I wasn't quite able to get the next record ready.
	8:57pm postconsumer: ↳ Krys O. @8:55 😮 I'm adding that to my list of songs to listen to later
	👻 8:57pm Austin Rich: ↳ postconsumer @8:56 Nice! I watched it when it was on, and then a friend had some episodes on tape that I watched when we were roommates... and that's been it for years. I suspect I would like it more, now.
	👻 8:57pm Austin Rich: Great show tonight! Super fun!
	8:58pm Krys O.: Thanks, Jon!
	8:58pm Imaginos: Great show
	8:58pm postconsumer: Thanks everyone, for tuning in, and for chatting. And thanks to Krys, for board op!
	8:59pm postconsumer: Thanks! and stay tuned in the next couple of months, for parts two and three of this KBHR remix...

The Wiggle Room: Playlist from October 22, 2024

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