Favoriting The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from January 5, 2025 Favoriting

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Favoriting January 5, 2025: EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED IN 2025!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
The Stranglers  The Waltzinblack (Intro)   Favoriting The Gospel According To The Meninblack  EMI  1981  LP  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Bryan Ferry  The Only Face   Favoriting More Friends  Rhino  2002  CD  0:02:23 (Pop-up)
Kelly Wynton Trio with Wes Montgomery  If You Could See Me Now   Favoriting Complete Live At The Half-Note '65  Lone Hill Jazz  2005  CD  0:04:30 (Pop-up)
Rod Stewart & Jools Holland  Sentimental Journey   Favoriting Swing Fever  Rhino  2024  CD  0:12:25 (Pop-up)
Karl Blau  Fallin' Rain   Favoriting Introducing Karl Blau  Raven Marching Band / Bella Union  2015  CD  0:15:43 (Pop-up)
Lush  Sweetness & Light   Favoriting Ciao! The Best Of Lush  4AD  2000  CD  0:24:53 (Pop-up)
A Produce  Inscape and Landscape   Favoriting Brine: The Anti-Surf Soundtrack  Beach Recordings  1996  CD  0:30:21 (Pop-up)
SUSS  Gunfighter   Favoriting Ghost Box  Northern Spy  2018  CD  0:35:14 (Pop-up)
Martina Topley-Bird  I Still Feel   Favoriting Forever/Wait  Awal  2021  CD  0:39:40 (Pop-up)
Black Angels  The Sniper   Favoriting Phosphene Dream  Blue Horizon  2010  CD  0:44:50 (Pop-up)
The Cult  Wild Child   Favoriting Stoned Immaculate: The Music Of The Doors  Elektra Entertainment  2000  CD  0:48:46 (Pop-up)
Fontaines D.C.  Televised Mind   Favoriting A Hero's Death  Partisan/Rough Trade  2020  CD  0:51:46 (Pop-up)
 


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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:59pm
Fatherflot:

Hi Harry
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Aitch:

nobody expects the spanish inquisition
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:00pm
Jessie:

Evening Harry and Happy New Year!
  9:00pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

hey my man
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:00pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

Hi Harry and all!!!
Happy New Year!!!
  9:00pm
Bluesman:

Hello Harry!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:01pm
Tom in Brooklyn:

Hi Harry and all! Happy New Year!
Avatar 9:02pm
Harry Parmenter:

Hello All! Welcome and Happy New Year to everyone! appreciate you tuning in.
Avatar 9:03pm
Harry Parmenter:

Fatherflot! Cali! Bluesman! Jessie! Tom! and nobody EVER expects the Spanish inquisition, Aitch! Indeed...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:03pm
spodiodi:

greetings, Harry and all!
Avatar 9:04pm
Harry Parmenter:

spodiodi welcome! thx for joining and listening.
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Harry Parmenter:

aside to F2 and Mistress J--will be catching your archives last week on my next long drive north. Hope everyone out there doing well and had good holidays.
  9:06pm
CC:

Hi Harry & Co... I expect that everyone expects that the Lions will win tonight???...:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06pm
Jessie:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:05
All is well Harry. Hope you enjoyed the holidays.
  9:06pm
rychurd:

oooo Wes Montgomery. nice
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:06
Lots of chaos but yes. You too.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ rychurd @9:06
alright rychurd yeah sweet one eh
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ CC @9:06
gotta play the game right CC?!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:08pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:05
Sounds good.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:08
hey question for you Fatherflot: that version of I Can't Stand It--that off a Sally CD reissue? Couldn't find online.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:09pm
Fatherflot:

I'll send it your way via email
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:09
ah excellent. and then Good Rats' version I myself have played also seems to have disappeared. Love that version. Thx man.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:10pm
Jessie:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:07
That right thumb of Wes playing such soft notes. Wow!
  9:11pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

↳ Song: "If You Could See Me Now" by "Kelly Wynton Trio wi...
dad really liked Wes M and all the jazz folks of that era
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:10
yeah so fine. can you imagine being in that small room hearing this stuff? bliss.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Cali4nyaStreamin' @9:11
such good stuff.
  9:11pm
Bluesman:

Oohhhhhh! This is soothing my anxious soul riiiiiiight now! Thank you for playing!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Bluesman @9:11
glad you dig it! had same effect on me when i came across it.
  9:14pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

Woo Ooo Woo
  9:14pm
CC:

Can't go wrong with Hot Rod...:)
Avatar 9:15pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ CC @9:14
nice swing record from him and Holland
  9:19pm
Bluesman:

Why do I have a feeling that the next song will be the by the Lime Spiders or Mudhoney? Ha ha!
Avatar 9:20pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Bluesman @9:19
Ha and keep guessing! Mudhoney? Saw them once in Brooklyn. Was not, er, mellow...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:20pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Fallin' Rain" by "Karl Blau"
Nice vibe
Avatar 9:21pm
PAULS:

↳ Fatherflot @9:20
agreed!
  9:21pm
Michigan J Frog:

Hey Harry! Commanders beat Dallas! Bring on Tampa! Go Lions!
Avatar 9:22pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ PAULS @9:21
hey Paul S: saw a favorite of yours by Peter Kaukonen; son of Jorma?
Avatar 9:22pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Michigan J Frog @9:21
yes your teams are hot. no Globes gig for you tonight?
Avatar 9:23pm
PAULS:

↳ Michigan J Frog @9:21
GO Commanders! (live in texas, grew up in DC)

Hey Harry -- younger brother!
  9:23pm
CC:

I often wonder if bookies are like stock brokers???...:)
Avatar 9:23pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ PAULS @9:23
ah cool, got it thx. yes MJ Frog is a HUGE Commanders fan
  9:24pm
Michigan J Frog:

↳ PAULS @9:23
Where in DC Pauls? I lived in Woodley Park, Tenley Town, Cap Hill, etc
  9:24pm
Michigan J Frog:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:22
Just some parties later!
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PAULS:

↳ Michigan J Frog @9:24
I grew up in Bethesda/Walt Whitman HS, lived in Mt Pleasant, Arlington, Dupont right near the Hilton for the longest
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:25pm
Jessie:

Beauty of a segue way Harry! 😇
Avatar 9:26pm
PAULS:

↳ Michigan J Frog @9:24
Worked at a few restaurants in Georgetown after college then Reuters then NPR
Avatar 9:27pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:25
hey that means a lot Jess, thx. yeah Lush, didn't know their stuff but dig it.
Avatar 9:28pm
PAULS:

↳ Song: "Sweetness & Light" by "Lush"
Love Lush! I do a cover of "For Love" at open mics every so often...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:28pm
Fatherflot:

↳ PAULS @9:25
I lived in Mt. Pleasant and was there during the 1991 riot - got tear-gassed by DC police and almost crashed my car into a city bus that was completely on fire. Craziest night of my life.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ PAULS @9:28
i gotta get more into their stuff. will start with that one
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PAULS:

↳ Fatherflot @9:28
HA! I was there, too! I lived on Adams Mill Rd at the bottom of the hill so it didn't get too bad near me but it was crazy for sure
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Harry Parmenter:

what precipitated said riot?
Avatar 9:30pm
PAULS:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:29
A black female MPD officer shot and killed a guy from El Salvador
Avatar 9:31pm
Harry Parmenter:

Powder keg.
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PAULS:

It was also during Cinco de Mayo, kind of a tinderbox. Small, tight block neighborhood, too many people
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:31pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:29
Police shooting. But the neighborhood (which had been burned down in '68 and not fully recovered even then) was on edge after an illegal bank had collapsed and lots of Central American laborers had lost all their saving. It was Cinco de Mayo and people were dead drunk on the streets at 9 am and getting crazy.
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PAULS:

Ah right I forgot about that bank!
  9:33pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

↳ Song: "Inscape and Landscape" by "A Produce"
anti-surf or below-surf?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Cali4nyaStreamin' @9:33
anti. compilation by Mermen bass player Allen Whitman.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:35pm
Fatherflot:

I lived half a block from 16th street. My GF has just showed up that day from Indiana with her brand new car and we were out having dinner in Adam's Morgan. It broke out while we we eating and it was a war zone trying to get back. And when we did get back to the street after getting tear gassed, half the block was on fire. We got into her new car and just as we were about to turn onto 16th, a city bus completely engulfed in flames comes skidding through the intersection.
  9:36pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:34
liked the original bass guy; the new girl is ok but not the same
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PAULS:

↳ Fatherflot @9:35
"Welcome to Washgton, honey!"
  9:37pm
Michigan J Frog:

↳ PAULS @9:25
I went to Deal and Wilson in the district back in late 70s/early 80s
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:38pm
Fatherflot:

↳ PAULS @9:36
Exactly! She should have known something was up when someone had put a mattress in a giant pothole on our block and spraypainted on an abandoned car: "Hey Marion Barry --- why don't you stop smoking crack and fix this pothole?""
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PAULS:

↳ Michigan J Frog @9:37
I was Whitman '79
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Cali4nyaStreamin' @9:36
totally agree. you have a copy of ONLY YOU the live cd down at the pier circa 96? heck you were probably there.
  9:38pm
Michigan J Frog:

Hey Harry is this Suss all instrumental?
Avatar 9:39pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Michigan J Frog @9:38
believe so with some vox samples at the top. they're usually just insrumental.
  9:39pm
Michigan J Frog:

↳ PAULS @9:38
Wilson 83! Damn there are people (other than Harry) older than me here.
  9:39pm
Michigan J Frog:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:39
cool, once again you've turned me onto something new
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PAULS:

↳ Michigan J Frog @9:38
SUSS is mostly instrumental yes -- my former boss, Bob Holmes, is in the band, with Pat Irwin from The Raybeats.
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PAULS:

↳ Michigan J Frog @9:39
Ha! yes old old old... Like me, you must've done some time at Booeymonger's and Kemp Mill Music...
  9:43pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

have worked Tricky and Massive Attack shows but don't remember her
  9:44pm
Michigan J Frog:

↳ PAULS @9:41
Oh yeah, Booeymongers was a late night hang. Fox and Hound in Dupont and Dan's Cafe in Adams Morgan too
Avatar 9:45pm
PAULS:

↳ Michigan J Frog @9:44
Dans! the tiny airplane bottles!
  9:46pm
CC:

I'm curious if anyone has a good handle on what Payola was all about back in the day???...:)
  9:46pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

↳ Song: "The Sniper" by "Black Angels"
Austin & Awesome
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ CC @9:46
pay djs get airplay
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Cali4nyaStreamin' @9:46
yeah!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:47pm
Fatherflot:

Milly & Al's
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PAULS:

↳ Fatherflot @9:47
the raven!
  9:48pm
CC:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:47
Like Taylor Swift maybe???...:)
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ CC @9:48
you lost me there. it's long gone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:49pm
Jessie:

↳ CC @9:46
Read Hit Men by Fredric Dannen.
  9:49pm
Michigan J Frog:

↳ PAULS @9:45
yes!
  9:49pm
Michigan J Frog:

Harry the Cult sound like spinal tap on this one!
  9:49pm
CC:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:48
Dig this Wild Child cover!!!.:)
  9:50pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

↳ CC @9:46
just record industry bribes to broadcast music
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:50pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

Thank you Harry, been diggin the tunes
Avatar 9:51pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:50
alright Will. happy new year to ya.
  9:51pm
CC:

↳ Cali4nyaStreamin' @9:50
Kinda like bookies then???..:)
  9:52pm
Michigan J Frog:

↳ Fatherflot @9:47
Heaven and Hell
  9:52pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

remember FM 1960s and 70s had to listen and remember for half an hour to hear a DJ and few commercials
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:52pm
Fatherflot:

I saw the Cult open for Metallica at the Allentown, Pennsylvania fairground. They were sacrificial lambs
and were being pelted with shit by the Metallica fans.
  9:52pm
Bluesman:

Cool-Ass show tonight!
  9:53pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

↳ Song: "Televised Mind" by "Fontaines D.C."
Dublin wow this is great
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Bluesman @9:52
Thx Bluesman. Glad you dig it.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Cali4nyaStreamin' @9:53
yeah this band is something.
  9:54pm
CC:

↳ Fatherflot @9:52
Some people can be so rude...:)
  9:55pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

more enlightening than "unexpected"
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:52
tough gig opening for anybody that big
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:55pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Televised Mind" by "Fontaines D.C."
like that major to minor chord change
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:55pm
Tom in Brooklyn:

↳ Song: "Televised Mind" by "Fontaines D.C."
Reminiscent of Syd Barrett. Like it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:55pm
Jessie:

Perfect way to put Sunday in the books Harry. Enjoy the week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:56pm
Tom in Brooklyn:

Great show, Harry. Thanks!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Tom in Brooklyn @9:55
yeah!
  9:56pm
CC:

Great show Harry!!!...cheerz all..:)
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PAULS:

Thanks for a terrific show, Harry! good to meet you Michigan J Frog!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:55
Thx Jess. Mistress of a Thousand Moods thursdays 6pm ET folks. great stuff. and Fatherflot's Spot Fridays at 6m ET as well. Great stuff weekly. Thank you Everyone for listening and hanging on the board. Appreciate it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:57pm
Fatherflot:

Thanks Harry. Back to my classroom tomorrow. You've helped me steel myself.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ PAULS @9:57
thx all! A good week and 2025 to all.
  9:57pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

↳ CC @9:54
they booed Hendrix/Monkees Tour
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:57
Alright something constructive on my end! So glad to hear it. Have a good week in the classroom
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Cali4nyaStreamin' @9:57
Prince / Stones, Waits / Zappa etc. Tough gig opening.
  9:58pm
Michigan J Frog:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:57
you too
  9:58pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

Phantoram,Portishead
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