The Program with an Obscurameter Rating of 80.27% : Ken's show

Listener comments!

♥ 6:08am Ken:

Hi there friends!

7:23am Mark S:

Hi Dee Ho

♥ 7:39am Ellirb:

Good morning Ken

♥ 7:41am Yvang:

Hello! Bonjour! Holà!

7:41am Cory:

hello everyone

7:42am Cory:

sweet avatar Yvang

7:50am f•ิf•ิ (:

Good morning Ken and fellow winged monkeys!

♥ 7:51am Yvang:

Thanks Cory!

♥ 8:00am Ken:

What do y'all wanna hear this AM?

8:02am Cory:

it's shitty outside and I'm getting stoned. something hyper?

♥ 8:07am Yvang:

Chrome, Melted Men, a crazy japanese band, dogs barking some classic tune...

♥ 8:15am Ken From Hyde Park:

It's probably a good a time as any for some Russian/Soviet army music.

♥ 8:20am Guido from Cologne:

Good Morning Ken!

The DVA-song that needs to get played:
"Vampira" ... starting with samba drums ... followed by a miniature horror radio play ... flollowed by a crazy track with marvelous "birds singing" rhythm sample loop.

♥ 8:21am Ken:

Great suggestions, keep 'em coming!

8:22am KOTJ:

Ich Stehe Morgens Um Sieben Uhr Auf - Fritz Muller

♥ 8:29am Guido from Cologne:

France Gall : "Der Computer Nummer Drei" (maybe you find it as "Der Computer Nr. 3"), German song:

Computer number three,
will find the right boy for me,
and love is involved for both
with guaranteeee.

Cute! 1968, 30 years before online dating!

♥ 8:36am Ken:

Where can a lady find this France Gall tine, Guido?

♥ 8:37am Planet Tyler:

www.myvideo.de...

♥ 8:38am Planet Tyler:

FG is adorable!

♥ 8:39am Guido from Cologne:

Try to find digital version of compilation "Das Beste in deutsch" or "En Allemand"

♥ 8:39am Ken:

Thanks Tyler!

♥ 8:42am Guido from Cologne:

In doubt:
"Teenie Weenie Boppie" on France Gall album "1968" is also cool!

8:43am f•ิf•ิ (:

Talking about DVA...

I went the other day into the interwebz with one goal in mind: Find more information about the band, but more specifically, make some sense out of their song titles and lyrics.

But I failed miserably. But fortunately I had a great Plan B. Or Plan CR because I have a Czech Republic roommate that loves music!!! So on behalf of the Wfmu and its listeners I subjected him to an intense interrogation session that lasted an one hour or so.

And now, my friends, I'll share you some of the most relevant and interesting insights I discovered about the band DVA...

FINDING #1

The album Nipomo has a song named Meteor which translated into English means...er..Meteor.

More exciting insights coming up...

♥ 8:46am Guido from Cologne:

I have the DVA LP.
There are translations to English and to Czech to each song.

It really looks like a mix of skandinavian and other languages.
They anwered me on FaceBook with info "our personal language"

But head on, I'm curious!
they look like well known in the c´Czech by the way!

♥ 8:48am Guido from Cologne:

Liz played an amazing set on Monday!
Among that "Entropicalia", new album by The Soundcarriers.
For the osychedelic section! Seems worthwhile tryíng more tracks from that.

8:57am f•ิf•ิ (:

FINDING #2

Since they sing in a language my roommate failed to understand I had to put into question his nationality! But after reviewing his passport I came to the conclusion that he is not a fake Czech.

So it ocurred to me for a moment that maybe, just maybe, DVA are not from the Czech Republic!

So I showed him a video of the band playing in an undisclosed location in the outdoors. You can see some trees and a lot of snow. I asked him: Is this the Czech Republic? And my roommate said: "It really can be anywhere where it snows."

Well, that's was finding #2. But I have more! Hold on...

♥ 8:59am Ken From Hyde Park:

@f•ิf•ิ ( - I wish my daughter put as much effort into her homework as you have on DVA.

♥ 9:00am common:

hello ken! people!

♥ 9:01am Planet Tyler:

This is a great start

9:02am Brendan:

Ken!

9:02am nah:

Sehr gut

♥ 9:03am Guido from Cologne:

Has anyone played the Botanicula-game?
(Sounds by DVA)
Impressions on YouTube:
www.youtube.com...

9:04am doca:

Hi, Ken. I,m checking in just to say that though I like the video streams, I think a GIF STREAM would be more suited for WFMU. Just think aboug it!

9:05am doca:

Shit cell phone keyboard... hi all!

♥ 9:05am common:

all the sudden infant stuff is so good!

♥ 9:06am Guido from Cologne:

... hahaha, hi Doca!

9:07am doca:

Hi, guido!

9:07am johnPow:

I am unrested and over-caffeinated in preparation for the show

♥ 9:07am Ken:

I think aboug it a lot doca, it is coming!

9:08am KOTJ:

Swipe face=awesome

♥ 9:08am MD:

GOOD MORNING MY FMU-BEEEEES!!!

9:08am doca:

I was reading the earlier comments. I got the DVA LP too and I was intrigued by the lyrics. Not that I mind it too much, as Czech is almost an invented language to me, but I didn't know they sang in a "personal language"

♥ 9:08am Guido from Cologne:

.. hey! classic Chrome!

♥ 9:11am Guido from Cologne:

Recend fun Helios Creed interview:
soundcloud.com...

9:12am Dave B:

Greetings

♥ 9:13am davex:

Good morning Ken, good day one and all...

9:14am dc pat:

This is all I have to say about the Good, Bad, Ugly:

www.reactiongifs.us...

♥ 9:14am Ken:

Morning everybody!

9:15am doca:

Silly question, but this new Swans is really worth it, isn't? Those 3-LP albums get so expensive when shipped to Brazil

9:16am dc pat:

oh wait, then there's this: www.reactiongifs.com...

♥ 9:16am Ken:

Silly answer: I got no fuckin idea, doca. I checked out the first track and I liked it so Im playing it now but this is all I know of the entire album. Plus the GIF.

♥ 9:16am AnAnonymousParty:

No shit.

♥ 9:16am Guido from Cologne:

... also shiping to europe can be annoying ...

♥ 9:16am Ken From Hyde Park:

Invention idea #468713A: 3D printer LPs.

9:17am dc pat:

oh man, you guys gotta move here, that's all. It's great here! Really! Come on!

♥ 9:17am davex:

Swans is only 61.3% obscure: obscurometer.com...

9:18am Dave B:

If anyone in the NYC area is up in the air with nothing to do Saturday night, come and see Mike Keneally over at the Cutting Room on 32nd Street.

Should be a good show!

9:18am RIAA:

@KFHP: We'll be contacting you shortly.

9:18am dc pat:

great, Davex. I'm going to be on that site all day...

9:19am Dave B:

@davex - Keneally hits about 85%

obscurometer.com...

♥ 9:19am AnAnonymousParty:

Hmmm, is an LP printed from a 3D printer 'digital' or 'analog'?

9:20am f•ิf•ิ (:

FINDING #3

I showed him a video from Youtube where DVA plays live for a radio show. In this song the singer sings a song in a language that reminded my roommate of a dialect spoken in the central Czech Republic. He said: "The way they pronounce 'zík' sounds very similar to the way the 'zék' sounds in the bohemian dialect. For instance they would say: 'Daj múku ze mlýna na vozík' whether we would say 'Dé móku ze mléna na vozék' ".

Well, I have other 26 findings, but I think I'm going to stop the sharing here. I don't want to overwhelm you with tons of DVA insights.

9:20am doca:

@ken: daniel blumin played this track too, thought it was awesome. Maybe if I stick with WFMU I'll the whole album before I buy it.

9:20am dc pat:

Big Flame is 87%. I'm only listening to groups > than 90% from now on.

9:20am doca:

@dave: LOL loved the obscuremeter

♥ 9:21am AnAnonymousParty:

And I thought the last song was kind of Pink Floyd-ey . . .

♥ 9:21am Guido from Cologne:

WFMUDVAEG
= WFMU-DVA-Expert-Group

9:22am SFL John:

Yeh Ken, Floyd head checking in!

9:22am dc pat:

wait, how is JFA less obscure than Big Boys?? Something's wrong here..

9:22am KOTJ:

Swans into Floyd is a segue for the angels

9:22am Cory:

how did you know this is my favourite song ever?

9:23am johnPow:

speaking of vinyl over the internet

♥ 9:23am Guido from Cologne:

Is KEN THE DeeJay-MONSTER singing on this classic Floyd track? (He is not credited on the jacket)

♥ 9:24am AnAnonymousParty:

I was hoping for 'Careful with that axe'.

9:24am thedunkel:

Morning (obscure) Ken and other Andy Breckman Fans!

9:24am dc pat:

my friends' group is 96.8% obscure. Maybe I should give them another listen.

♥ 9:24am Ken From Hyde Park:

Bah...my stupid VLC player stopped during "Rollercoaster" during JA's show and went into loop mode. It's been playing the same 20 seconds of howling wind sounds all this time. I thought it was normal WFMU programming.

9:25am Mark S:

Miley Cyrus's overall obscurity level is...
30.1%

♥ 9:25am davex:

WFMU: Obscure and not-so-obscure music.

9:25am f•ิf•ิ (:

Ken From Hyde Park:

And you haven't checked my 'My trails and tribulations of my DVA discovery journey' blog.

♥ 9:25am Lizardner Dave:

Andy is 95.5% obscure. Someone should tell him. obscurometer.com...

♥ 9:26am Andrew Waterloo:

@Ken, same problem except I got the Drummer stream

9:26am KP:

One of these days ... I'm not going to forget to bring down the laundry detergent.

9:28am Frank from VT:

Beatles are 56.5% obscure? I thought that band name was familiar....

9:28am dc pat:

you should put an obscurity column on the playlist.

♥ 9:29am Guido from Cologne:

Why is VLC going into loop mode?
I think it is the player's problem, isn't it?

i had that several times and with some avant music i do not even notice.

♥ 9:29am davex:

@Frank: try "The Beatles"

♥ 9:29am Ken From Hyde Park:

This laptop is the whack. If I unplug the charger from the wall (or plug it back in at some point), it screws up the wireless connection somehow. Maybe half the time. Maybe I need to wear an ESD strap when I plug/unplug it?

9:29am dc pat:

ah yes, Sudden Infant is 91.2% obscure. Thank gosh, I found some one to listen to

9:30am Frank from VT:

opps, should have gone with "The Beatles" , my bad. (12% obscure)

♥ 9:31am Guido from Cologne:

Grauzone is a Swiss band though ... just sayin'

♥ 9:32am Guido from Cologne:

Rolling Stones's overall obscurity level is...
53.0% ???

9:33am Dave B:

Guido - add that "The" to their name

♥ 9:33am AnAnonymousParty:

@KFHP, have you checked your power settings to see if the networking/wireless is set to go idle if the power profile changes from A/C to battery?

♥ 9:33am Ken:

Yes Guido - that looping thing is something VLC and other audio players sometimes do when they lose connectivity. Highly annoying and 74.2% obscure.

♥ 9:35am Andrew Waterloo:

hmm Ufomammut is only 74% obscure...

♥ 9:35am Ken From Hyde Park:

@AAP - Will look at that later, thanks.

♥ 9:36am Guido from Cologne:

@Dave B
So it is two different groups.
Looks like the tool is still in developement.

♥ 9:37am Marcel M:

That obscurometer thing only takes date from Last.fm... which no one uses. I wish it was more broad.

♥ 9:37am davex:

@Guido: The ones without "the" are from incorrect tags, so those groups are even less obscure.

♥ 9:37am Andrew Waterloo:

@Guido, it uses last.fm statistics so the inaccuracies come from scrobbling and the way people tag their music.

9:39am f•ิf•ิ (:

I'm going to try to guess when this Viva La Fete song ends.

I hope I get it in the first try.

9:39am JakeGould:

Hello there. Sick day for me. How are you all fine folks & related whoozits.

9:40am DeaconDave:

Justin Bieber is 38.2%; I wonder what happens if you slow him down by 400%

9:41am JakeGould:

“Maybe I need to wear an ESD strap when I plug/unplug it?” Probably badly grounded or badly designed. Shocked at how many devices in 2014 can’t handle the shift from line power to battery well.

9:41am dc pat:

There he is. Mr. Eastwood. What a dick.

9:41am Okasa:

Morning… sorry I'm late. What did I miss? Obscuro- what now?

9:41am dc pat:

how does this song not have the living crap clicked out of its star???

♥ 9:41am Ken From Hyde Park:

Invention idea #468714B: Peanut butter and jelly dispenser. The top part is two holding tanks and then a pair of levers or pump handles to dispense the creamy goo onto your waiting bread. A variation on a soft ice cream machine.

♥ 9:42am Sem Chumbo:

@dc pat: you should hear what his chair has to say about him.
Hi, Ken, and all.

♥ 9:42am Andrew Waterloo:

Ken, you should play Duchess Says

9:43am f•ิf•ิ (:

This is where the song ends!!!!!

9:43am f•ิf•ิ (:

NO! Hold on..A second chance

HERE IT ENDS!!!

♥ 9:43am fred:

@Andrew Waterloo: Duchess Says? Wow, I saw them many years ago. Are they still around?

9:43am f•ิf•ิ (:

Wait....

HERE!!!!

9:44am f•ิf•ิ (:

I almost got it in the first try.

♥ 9:45am Andrew Waterloo:

@Fred, if you 're talking about the Montreal group, yes. They just played Victoriaville..

9:46am JakeGould:

“Peanut butter and jelly dispenser.” YES!

9:47am Mark S:

peanut butter and jelly's overall obscurity level is...
98.7%

9:48am f•ิf•ิ (:

I like the idea, Ken From Hyde Park. I'll add a banana slicer (or small guillotine) on top of that. So you can have your peanut buttter sandwich a la Elvis.

9:48am Cory:

neat video for this song www.youtube.com...

9:49am KP:

I get looping on my iphone when i try to listen to archives and/or shows saved to the phone.

9:50am dc pat:

SMKen, you should do a whole show of songs with made up words.

9:50am Dave B:

Would need to be some thin PB. No good for "chunky" variety.

9:50am Brendan:

P .. P... Pri ... F... it...

9:51am f•ิf•ิ (:

Adriano Celentano!

Let's freeze that goat!!

♥ 9:52am common:

yes for pbj dispenser and this tune.

9:52am dc pat:

Gene Vincent is 4.6% more obscure than Eddie Cochran....ok I'm bored.

♥ 9:53am Ken From Hyde Park:

For chunky peanut butter, a third chamber will loose chunks. That's like the toppings a the ice cream bar. Did I say loose chunks? That doesn't sound appetizing. The marketing team will have to find a more appealing term.

♥ 9:54am davex:

Call them peanut gems.

9:54am dc pat:

Eiszeit is 98.2% obscure. Nice choice.

9:54am dc pat:

Wait, I think the group name is Ideal and the song is Eiszeit.

9:55am dc pat:

in that case only 77.6% obscure...

♥ 9:55am Guido from Cologne:

Ice-Abe has minus 90° Celsius!
No feelings from Inga!
Ice queen!

9:55am Lewis:

what happens in the limit of 100% obscure?

9:55am Dave B:

GIFs of drummers are the best!

cruftlabs.tumblr.com...

9:57am dc pat:

GIFs of Ginger Baker rule. Hey any gifs of Clem Fucking Burke?

♥ 9:57am common:

just watched the ginger baker doc last eve. krazy, he is.

♥ 9:57am Asheville Jon:

guten morgen

9:58am f•ิf•ิ (:

Die Ubershenking deutchland oder tish ein ober danke!!!

9:59am dc pat:

Nein, kein GIFs von Clem Burke

10:00am OTB:

@Ken From HP: The legal team is afraid of lawsuits from people with nut allergies and the marketing team is grateful because the best they could come up with was "nut loosener."

10:01am Cecile:

Hola!

♥ 10:02am Ken From Hyde Park:

Homer Simpson's best invention: Gum and peanuts...together at last!

10:03am dc pat:

crack me up KenFHP...

10:04am dc pat:

Sounds like Moe Howard's favorite food: bologna and whipped cream.

10:05am Cecile:

@ken
"Somehow I thought it would be better.@

♥ 10:07am common:

@dc pat: good call on the moe!

10:08am Bill Graef:

SPECTRE is Bond. KAOS is Get Smart.

10:08am Nick from Indy:

Gilbert & Lewis was the Rodgers & Hammerstein of messed up Contemporary Dance soundtracks. Daughter like papa.

10:09am dc pat:

...and SMERSH for Bond.

10:10am Dave B:

@ Bill Graef - C.H.U.M.P. is Lancelot Link Secret Chimp

♥ 10:12am Ken From Hyde Park:

It's not a villain's group, but a movie - C.H.U.D. Is that a good one to rent? It's 96.9% obscure.

10:14am Dave B:

depends on what your definition of "good" is....

♥ 10:14am common:

c.h.u.d. is totally worth it, ken. horrible.

♥ 10:15am Andrew Waterloo:

If you like Ken's show you'll probably appreciate C.H.U.D.

♥ 10:15am Ken:

careful common. C.H.U.D. is good people.

♥ 10:16am common:

oh, i aint saying chud aint good people. did i say horrible? i meant great. exactly, andrew!

10:17am nadnerb:

DIF JUZ!!

10:18am Green Mountain Man Mark:

I recently watched an Australian movie and it had a long ass neck turtle in it. I had never seen nor heard of these creatures. The neck is often as long as or longer than the body and shell. The neck and head can't be stuffed back inside the shell. It can only bend back and be wrapped along the front of the shell. The long ass necked turtle of Australia.

10:19am f•ิf•ิ (:

So I went to the interwebz to check what the heck is Chud.

And this is what I found:

"Chud or Chude is a term historically applied in the early Russian anals..."

I stopped reading there. I don't want to know anymore about Chud.

♥ 10:20am Greg from Bloomfield:

C.H.U.D. Fun Fact™: John Goodman makes a cameo as a cop in a diner!

♥ 10:20am Andrew Waterloo:

C.H.U.D. was the name of the stuffed dog Skinny Puppy dissected on stage.

♥ 10:21am common:

c.h.u.d. = cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers...right?

10:21am f•ิf•ิ (:

Wait... I think I made a typo up there.

♥ 10:21am Guido from Cologne:

Best GIF for now. (Guitar smashing)

♥ 10:23am AnAnonymousParty:

I'm still hoping fo a Gif of a jar of Gif.

10:24am βrian:

Audrey Hepburn!

10:24am f•ิf•ิ (:

"The long ass necked turtle of Australia."

Another interesting task for Duckduckgo...Here I go!!! I'll report my impressions back to you, Green mountain man. Hold on.

10:26am f•ิf•ิ (:

Woaah! It's like a serpent turtle!

10:26am bobdoesthings:

a handful of these gifs are really expressing my rage at work today..

♥ 10:27am common:

i have not been sleeping well, ken. having very strange dreams and night sweats/chills.

10:27am Green Mountain Man Mark:

Animal House. My daughter recently said one of her teachers complained that she and some of the other kids were creating a "party animal atmosphere" in class.

10:27am thedunkel:

bob bebson = andy breckman (fetus jar king)

10:27am f•ิf•ิ (:

GMMM:

It's actually called Erected long-necked turtle.

10:28am f•ิf•ิ (:

ops.

*Eastern long-necked turtle

♥ 10:28am listener james from westwood:

Bob Benson: "How do you like my necrophilia, Ken?"
Ken: "NOT GREAT, BOB!"

♥ 10:28am Kat in Chicago:

You've Got Foetus On Your Shelf!

10:28am The Brooklyn Kid:

OMG!!! Ken please STOP!!! I'd like to have an appetite for lunch. Now I'm nauseous

10:28am ᏠЄႶႶỊѺµЄ:

This is for you Ken - images.buddytv.com...

10:29am johnPow:

has anybody ever figured out what these pyramids are all about?

10:30am f•ิf•ิ (:

Only a real DJ would talk about having sex with dead people over Rockabye Baby.

♥ 10:32am Andrew Waterloo:

I just got a postcard from Joe McGasko.

♥ 10:32am Webhamster Henry:

I liked the Recfairs in the Armory.

10:32am The Brooklyn Kid:

I hope Andy will do another listener back yard barbecue

10:32am That_Guy:

Can't wait for the record fair.

10:33am βrian:

"Fort Smith, Arkansas." reads the pattern label.

♥ 10:33am MD:

BLONDIE!!!!!

10:34am The Brooklyn Kid:

I'm in the park using my itouch. I found a free wifi signal to hop on and listen to your show

♥ 10:36am Marcel M:

Which park Brooklyn Kid? Prospect? Maria Hernandez?

10:36am That_Guy:

itouch Ken at the record fair.

10:38am bobdoesthings:

don't be that_guy

♥ 10:38am Marcel M:

Ken, are you gonna do the Polaski Skyway thing another time?

♥ 10:38am common:

me too, andrew. pretty great!

♥ 10:39am Station Mgr Ken:

Marcel, no probably not.

♥ 10:39am Marcel M:

was it just a joke the whole time Ken? I did suspect that.

10:40am bibi:

hi all, hey fred duchess says a crazy vid somewhere around paris few years ago. they sure are still around !

♥ 10:40am Marcel M:

Hi Bob! Did you make it to work?

♥ 10:41am Ken:

Actually it was NOT a joke. But I understannd your suspicions and they are well placed.

♥ 10:42am MD:

so i figured it out! when i have the playlist and message board up my audio likes to "skip" and "Double" but when i "X" out of the playlist i can listen fine...any thoughts people???

♥ 10:43am Webhamster Henry:

A little quote from Icarus there.

♥ 10:43am MD:

i like to listen and read the stream of all thoughts also!!!!!

10:43am βrian:

@MD Probably the agitated gifs. They eat up a *lot* of bandwidth.

♥ 10:44am MD:

....@ Brian...thanks...I do notice it on ken's show often...MD

♥ 10:45am common:

the jif gif!

10:47am dc pat:

Melted Men, new favorite group.

10:48am dc pat:

96.3% obscure

10:48am Parq:

Neat -- the Simplicity GIF is in synch with this Melted Man.

♥ 10:48am Greg from Bloomfield:

Somebody made this song. FINALLY!

10:49am bobdoesthings:

@marcel - ahhh yes i did.. works busy and i am in a daze .. sorry for late responce

10:49am bobdoesthings:

@marcel - fun show last night... even though you didn't play the long awaited cover of Freebird

♥ 10:50am Ken:

Will somebody go through the show when it is over, and take the obscurity rating of every band I played and average it so I can have an average obscurity rating for the entire show, or would i have to sleep with dead people to make such a request?

10:51am That_Guy:

I'll do anything for you, Ken.

♥ 10:52am Ken:

Anybody other than That Guy?

10:53am adrian in mpls:

I can - I'm on effing spreadsheets all day anyway.....

♥ 10:53am Ken:

Yo adrian! You are on! Thank you.

10:54am Mark S:

Would you want a mean obscurity rating as well?

♥ 10:55am Marcel M:

@BOB - Haha, One day !

♥ 10:55am Ken:

Mean? No thanks. Im not a hater.

♥ 10:56am Yvang:

Thanks for the Melted Men!

10:57am adrian in mpls:

No prob!

10:58am Mark S:

Now you're being willfully obtuse

10:59am That_Guy:

I already have a specialized Excel template with Ken's portrait made out in cells. It's taken care of.

11:00am dc pat:

Hey Ken, if Adrian lets you down, I'll write an excessively complicated python script to do it.

11:00am bobdoesthings:

@that_guy - oooooo let me see! post it!

11:01am MikeY:

In three words.. what the fuck.

11:01am egal:

This band is obscure.

11:02am That_Guy:

I have a specialized PERL script just for Ken.

11:02am johnPow:

I'm fine and I'm glad your fine

11:02am βrian:

c.a.d. qu'est-que le phoque !

11:02am MikeY:

Evolution Control Committee i THOUGHT I was the only person that knew of them

11:02am northguineahills:

I knew this was either going to be PLU or ECC.

♥ 11:02am Webhamster Henry:

I was just reading bArt's yodeling book yesterday.

11:03am Slater:

Merkin Muffley in the house

11:03am That_Guy:

I remember their Dan Rather mashup.

11:04am MikeY:

God I havent smoked weed in months glad I did this morning LOL

11:04am Dave B:

"Rocked By Rape"

11:05am Okasa:

Um, for Ken's sake, maybe we shouldn't be encouraging That_Guy… I suggest avoiding eye contact and casually but quickly walking in another direction.

11:06am mythopeic_industries:

can you play the Evolution Control Committee "By The Time I Get To Arizona (Whipped Cream Mix)" the Public Enemy Herb Alpert mix

11:08am northguineahills:

@mythopeic_industries: I have that 7", it's a hoot!

♥ 11:09am Ellirb:

I demand Die Goldenen Zitronen with Der Investor!!

11:10am Parq:

The Kid Koala gif is my new favorite.

11:10am That_Guy:

I should be out in time for the record fair.

11:11am f•ิf•ิ (:

dc python pat?!

11:11am Parq:

Mikey, for real? ECC is so popular in WFMU-land that Small Change once did that "Rocked by Rape" thing as a marathon finale number.

11:13am Dave B:

Before there was the ECC, there was Emergency Broadcast Network.

♥ 11:14am davex:

Bribery is 99.8% obscure.

11:14am That_Guy:

Someone say stalking?

♥ 11:14am Planet Tyler:

Hey Ken & Guido, that song worked - a German just arrived in the reference room. Since I have the same fetish as Ken, this is pretty awesome.

11:21am mythopeic_industries:

Farty Synths!

11:22am dc python pat:

what?

♥ 11:23am Asheville Jon:

wow. i need some wine with this cheese!

11:26am nah:

Is there a MG42 machine gun (or indeed any machine gun) next to that drummer in the blue jacket?

11:26am Mark S:

Groovy!

♥ 11:26am Guido from Cologne:

for certain time in 1982 i had to suffer this song every morning from the radio!

11:27am Mark S:

1982?

♥ 11:27am Webhamster Henry:

I've been suffering from it since 1969.

♥ 11:28am Doug Schulkind:

Tonight on Gary Sullivan's Bodega Pop Live (7-10pm, on the Drummer Stream), all acts will be guaranteed at least 90% or your money back: bodegapop.blogspot.com...

♥ 11:28am Andrew Waterloo:

I only know the Futurama parody.

♥ 11:28am Rich in Washington:

I remember hearing it nearly everyday on my school bus ride in the early 70s.

♥ 11:29am Guido from Cologne:

the song before:
Deutsch-Österreichisches Feingefühl (DÖF)
German-Austrian-Sensibility ... also Humpe Sitsers involved.

11:29am Parq:

Looking forward to seeing the obscurity rating for this Z&E. For me, it represents ten thousand listens while at summer camp that year.

11:29am duke:

I've been suffering it since 2525

11:29am f•ิf•ิ (:

This is the best prediction song ever.

♥ 11:30am Rich in Washington:

I like Laibach's cover of 2525.

11:30am That_Guy:

The barrel isn't right for an MG42.

11:30am Roberto:

The Futurama version is better.

♥ 11:30am Webhamster Henry:

Where's Lucia Pamela when you need her?

♥ 11:31am Guido from Cologne:

I always wondered what the Mexican Mariachi trumpets are doing in the year 2525. Most non-futuristic arrangement to a future-song.

♥ 11:31am Goyim in the AM:

VEE DO NOT NEED ANY SCHMALTZ ON DIS PLANET. TÖTET ESTELLE.

11:32am thriftstoreleather:

BRILLIANT!

♥ 11:32am Guido from Cologne:

... now it sounds futuristic!
head on!

♥ 11:32am Rich in Washington:

Nicht schmaltzen?

11:32am adrian in mpls:

No - we have to push on - further into the future!

11:33am Dan B From Upstate:

In the year 252525. Good ol futurama.

♥ 11:33am Rich in Washington:

The future ain't what it used to be

11:33am Foolbert:

"In the year 2525" always brings* to mind an old Mystery Science Theatre 3000 bit, probably the best mash-up of Criswell, James Brown, and Dr Bronner to date:

www.youtube.com...

*beside my nonexistent breakfast up

♥ 11:33am Goyim in the AM:

...the Humpe Sisters and a couple of Austrian comedians, to be exact.

11:33am f•ิf•ิ (:

Remember the days when the biggest threat to humanity was the Y2K bug ? There was no terrorist crap. No Miley Cirus. Oh, man, those were the days.

11:33am paulWCBN:

I love you Dr. Zaius! <3

♥ 11:33am Asheville Jon:

is this Dracula singing?

♥ 11:34am Webhamster Henry:

He actually sounds more like Paul Frees, R.I.P.

11:34am KOTJ:

I thought it was Yul Brenner

♥ 11:34am SSS:

@GOYIM - Is it not all schmaltz really, after all?

11:34am nah:

Cheers That_Guy

11:35am Slater:

Lugosi!

11:35am That_Guy:

Is this the new remix with epilogue by Kirk Cameron?

11:36am KOTJ:

I had shmaltz from Zabar and Evans. I was guged but it as worth it.

♥ 11:36am Goyim in the AM:

It is not all Schmaltz. Some of it is Bratenfett.

♥ 11:36am Rich in Washington:

the guy singing this looks like Rasputin. He's a Slovene poet or something. He sings two songs on that album.

♥ 11:37am SSS:

I guess we all do what we can.

11:37am Foolbert:

@Guido from Cologne:
The Mexican trumpets are there to make the piece seem even more severely dated, insofar as that were possible, than it would be otherwise---the group whose name Cooke and Moore canted into 'Al Pervert and His Marijuana Brass' (in their similarly dated 'L.S.Bumble-bee') are responsible....

11:39am Mark S:

horse?

11:39am βrian:

My cat says "arlt" to alert me to a forthcoming hairball.

♥ 11:39am Goyim in the AM:

Ken: No, although you did hear "2000 years" in German at the beginning. I will translate the German lyrics for you now.

11:39am That_Guy:

I thought it was because Mexico and the American Southwest have resembled a post-apocalyptic wasteland since the beginning of time.

♥ 11:40am davex:

I think DÖF sang more about the past and hatred and, um, stuff. But they did mention 2000 years, so it works!

11:40am Okasa:

"Everybody's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain. But when you put it in the body of a great white shark… ooooh, suddenly you've gone too far."

~ Professor Farnsworth

11:41am bobdoesthings:

this song makes me imagine a sesame street skit

11:41am johnPow:

I could see a balloon version of Good Vibrations

♥ 11:42am Guido from Cologne:

DÖF
Und ich düse, düse, düse, düse im Sauseschritt
und bring' die Liebe mit von meinem Himmelsritt.
Denn die Liebe, Liebe, Liebe, Liebe, die macht viel Spass,
viel mehr Spass als irgendwas.

11:42am f•ิf•ิ (:

I predict that the WFMU Marathon goal for 2525:

- Will try to raise $1,800 gazillions to buy the NJ land that will hold all the WFMU buildings and complexes.
- The final marathon show will be conducted by Andy Breckman's head in a jar.

11:42am Nardo:

Are you sure this isn't the Residents

11:43am Johannes Raggam:

hey ken, CODO's song is an sci fi parody, about the earth reigned by hate. someone from outer space is bringing love to earth (düse im sauseschritt translates roughly to hurry up). also see: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codo_%E2%80%A6_d%C3%BCse_im_Sauseschritt

11:43am northguineahills:

I saw Judy Dunaway play at ABC No Rio. Good fun w/ balloons.

♥ 11:43am davex:

Thanks Guido, yes, they sang about love, of course!

♥ 11:45am Guido from Cologne:

... ridiculous children's language.
it was one of the most unbarable NDW cash-in rip-offs.
And if you have to hear it every day, you can get serious depressions.

♥ 11:45am SSS:

Yes, they say st. paul did to.

11:45am KOTJ:

How this Floyd song used to scare the bejeebebus out of me when I was a kid

♥ 11:45am Whosondephone:

UMMAGUMMA!!!

♥ 11:47am Guido from Cologne:

"ummagumma" is possibly the most influential Floyd album ever!
It inspired so many experimental musicians.
and the group itself hates it ...

11:47am Johannes from Graz:

actually i like this döf song. that's a hit from my childhood. apparently i just hear it once in a while on wfmu

11:48am βrian:

Pock-marked by depressions.

♥ 11:48am Goyim in the AM:

For 2,000 Years the World has lived without love.
The Lord of Hate rules!

"Hateful (ugly), I am so hateful, so dreadful hateful, I am Hate.
Hating, hatefully hating, I just can't stop it -- I am Hate!"

"Attention, attention.
Unknown flying object approaching the planet."

"Identify unknown flying object."

"Codo the Third, I am the third one from the left out of the middle of the stars."

"Unknown flying object identifies as: 'Codo'"

"and I'm jetting, jetting, jetting, jetting damn fast
Bringing Love with me
from my part of the universe
because love, love, love, love is a lot of fun
way more fun
than anything"

etc.

♥ 11:49am davex:

@Goyim: Great Nachdichtung!

♥ 11:50am Ken From Hyde Park:

Did I break the obscurity meter? Klahm is showing 0.0%.

♥ 11:50am Guido from Cologne:

... depending on age and perception maybe ...
NDW had a hopeful beginning with DIY ethics and denal of all rules. and it ended in such a cash-in-deaster. For a certain time it was hard to publish records in German language because everyone was so fed of it.

♥ 11:51am davex:

@Ken From Hyde Park: Хлам is 95.9%

♥ 11:51am SSS:

Poor babies. Hope it works out.

♥ 11:52am SeanG:

loving this

♥ 11:52am Goyim in the AM:

I think DÖF was more of a parody than a cash-in, as the punning name on DAF and the male singer's day jobs as comedians should indicate.

11:53am Cecile:

BABY ANIMAL

♥ 11:53am AnAnonymousParty:

I have to go away and do some actual work for a while and miss the Gif of Jif.

11:53am Brendan:

Love the baby animal!

11:53am f•ิf•ิ (:

Oh noes. THe baby animal song. It's Ken's time to go

Many thanks, Ken! It was a great show. It had a perfect mix of obscure ingredients.

Till next episode everybody!

♥ 11:54am Ellirb:

Time for Malaria! with Thrash Me ?

11:54am John from Fort Lauderdale:

Ken just confused my coworkers. They just asked me if today was Tuesday because they know that Trouble (the bird lady) is on Tuesday’s

11:55am βrian:

"animull"

♥ 11:55am common:

this is one of the creepiest songs ever!

11:55am northguineahills:

Thanks for injecting some aural fun into our Wednesday.

11:56am βrian:

@John de FL: Those are oiseaux.

♥ 11:57am AnAnonymousParty:

Isn't Pict pronounced with a long 'i', like Pykt?

11:57am Nardo:

Thanks for turning up the weird quotient in that last set Ken! Wonderful.

11:58am Cecile:

Oioioioiohcoco

12:24pm thedunkel:

Thanks ken!