WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from December 7, 2016

Listener comments!
	3:00pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi Irwin, hi everybody!
	3:02pm Irwin: Hi, Wynbron.
	👻 3:05pm Alison Porchnik: Very Doge!
	3:05pm coelacanth: jeez i can't believe i caught my darling, Haley. Thanks Irwin!
	3:10pm Listening Out There: Festive greetings and all that...
	3:10pm Sem Chumbo: Hiya, Irwin, and those under the big Irwin tent.
	3:12pm JP from KC: Hey everyone. I have work to do that requires the use of my speakers, but I can't bring myself to turn off the stream. Guess I'll just have to quit my job. After the show, of course.
	3:12pm Tommy Jack Haynes: That's what I'm talking about... seriously, I was just talking about a upbeat blues in F
	3:13pm Passaic River Blues: This is so sweet.
	3:14pm Tommy Jack Haynes: with tritone substitutions on the turnarounds
	3:18pm robyn: yessss! i have tickets to this tour in may and can't wait
	3:22pm Irwin: I don't know if the tour staging will be as elaborate as the BAM two-night series, which was absolutely incredible musically, sonically and visually. It was theatrical in scope. And the songs are up to Stephin's astral standards.
	👻 3:22pm Alison Porchnik: Robyn- you will discover that everything you've ever suspected about Stephin Merritt is true, and then question whether any of it is true.
	3:23pm Irwin: Wot Alison ^ sez.
	👻 3:24pm Alison Porchnik: And some of it will be TMI. But only if it's true.
	👻 3:32pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, all. Happy Wednesday!
	3:44pm Brendan: Nice poem IDC ..food tumbling out of my mouth listening in stunned rapture...
	3:45pm Linda Lee: My Pledge: curmudgeonly!
	3:46pm berbo: My new play, "Explaining Neil Young's new song to Irwin Chusid" , opens next week.
	3:47pm coelacanth: haha! did he just throw in some autotune?! (as mockery i presume)
	3:47pm Irwin: Then again, I rarely understand Neil Young lyrics. I'm still trying to figure out "Broken Arrow" and "Last Trip to Tulsa."
	3:48pm Linda Lee: it's not the first time he's done autotune, tho
	👻 3:48pm Alison Porchnik: I don't know what the fark this is about but I like it. Sounds like an old guy on a park bench rambling on, and you don't know whether he's talking to you or not, so you just smile and not without making eye contact.
	3:48pm Linda Lee: his pledge is to tell it like he sees it. still. that's all.
	👻 3:48pm Alison Porchnik: Neil Young, not Jennifer Charles.
	3:50pm coelacanth: Linda he has? that's hard to imagine. ...anyway i will listen to that song at least several times again. good song.
	3:50pm Irwin: AP: For all we know, it's a verbatim transcription of an actual old guy rambling on a park bench.
	3:51pm Linda Lee: should say, it's not the first time he's used digital vocal manipulation. autotune is just the latest possibility.
	3:51pm coelacanth: his reference to lynard skynard kind of personalized it though.
	3:53pm coelacanth: still i can't imagine it - and haven't heard it. i think he'd be so opposed to it...it's indirectly what the whole song's about.
	3:53pm Brendan: Yea i think told Skynyrd to get off his lawn
	3:54pm Linda Lee: no vocal manipulation? do you remember Tron?
	3:55pm coelacanth: i've had to chase them off my lawn several times. Neil too.
	3:55pm Irwin: Tron was one of those contractual obligation albums. He need to get himself off Geffen's lawn.
	3:56pm Passaic River Blues: "Transformer Man" had vocoder effects.
	3:56pm Santos L Halper: Picturing Neil in a lightcycle duel with Jeff Bridges Tron vs Trans
	3:58pm Linda Lee: i'm hearing about something called La Noise .. plenty fx looks like
	3:59pm Dean: You've all switched the places of cause and effect. Neil Young isn't using Autotune to distort his vocals. Autotune was created to allow other singers to achieve a semblance of Young's timbre.
	3:59pm coelacanth: that must be 80s' Neil. no i haven't heard it, or i'd have heard him using vocal manipulation? ...anyway, that sounds like conceptual use, so exempt from my presumption!
	4:01pm Linda Lee: ain't it all conceptual use tho, really? unless it's meant to be undetected?
	4:01pm Linda Lee: ooh Mothers!
	4:02pm Irwin: This is the song with the famous singer. Guess without looking it up.
	4:03pm Linda Lee: i know that voice.
	4:03pm V Priceless: sounds like greg lake?
	4:03pm Irwin: The song was written by Janis Ian. She's not in the band.
	4:03pm Dean: Greg Lake
	4:03pm Irwin: VP FTW!
	4:04pm rsj: it's not the primus soundng opening song?
	4:04pm Dean: Scooped by VP!
	4:04pm coelacanth: ding
	4:04pm Santos L Halper: Good call vp
	4:04pm Linda Lee: yes!!
	4:04pm V Priceless: : )
	4:04pm Irwin: The opening theme is the Mothers of Invention, "Help, I'm a Rock."
	4:04pm Passaic River Blues: Nice one, VP.
	4:05pm Linda Lee: welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
	4:06pm Dean: "...mirrors of illusions..." catapults him over the wall and smack dab into Brain Salad Surgery, for sure.
	4:07pm Dean: Meltzer!
	4:07pm Brendan: A camel with no humps is named Humphrey
	4:08pm coelacanth: bittersweet beauty.
	4:11pm geezerette: coel,yep.
	4:11pm Linda Lee: so many teenage girls in the business then. kids.
	4:12pm Jeff: When I use the word "gassy", I'm referring to an unfortunate byproduct of bean consumption.
	4:12pm berbo: "so gassy"
	4:12pm Linda Lee: my pledge is to start using the word 'gassy' proper
	4:13pm Linda Lee: this one's by Leon Russell
	4:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...don't trust anybody under 30...If it's too loud, you're too young...
	4:13pm melinda: Hi Irwin & all. Nice painting.
	4:14pm Brendan: Nocturnal emissions
	4:15pm Dean: @Linda Lee: "If I Were a Carpenter"? Or did I miss a tune before this one while I was away from desk?
	4:15pm Linda Lee: sure do miss the freaky people.
	4:15pm Linda Lee: yes, if i were a carpenter.
	4:15pm coelacanth: i pledge to start using the word "gassy", which i never use; but only at inappropriate times.
	4:16pm Dean: It's not by Hardin?
	4:16pm Linda Lee: no.
	4:18pm Linda Lee: sh*t, just checked myself. you're right. it was Tim Hardin! sorry
	4:18pm Linda Lee: i'll go away now. :-D
	4:19pm Brendan: Love me some Ian and Sylvia
	4:19pm Dean: No, there is some talk of Leon writing the lyrics. I'm checking the copyright records...
	4:20pm geezerette: this is the first version I've been able to tolerate. The performer might have been Leon Russel.
	4:20pm coelacanth: i only know "if i were a carpenter" by JR Cash and June Carter, but i figured neither of them wrote it.
	4:20pm Linda Lee: lots of folks recorded it.
	4:22pm Dean: Reg'd Sept. 7, '66, "w & m Tim Hardin," second from the top in the first column: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015085477605;view=1up;seq=266
	4:23pm Linda Lee: thanks for checking on that.
	4:26pm melinda: I love Tim's version. The first I heard was joan Baez.
	4:26pm Parq: One of my all time favorite puns was the title Lester Bangs picked for his piece on Brit skinhead hardcore, "If Oi Were A Carpenter>"
	4:26pm Dean: Really, my pleasure. I love dipping into the (c) records via HathiTrust. On the same page, an entry for a song titled, "If Trouble Were Money." It includes a parenthetical, "If trouble was money," which makes me wonder whether there was some dispute about subjunctive mood!
	4:27pm Linda Lee: clearly.
	4:27pm Linda Lee: i love this Mothers album. pop genius.
	4:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Me too LindaLee.
	4:28pm Irwin: This recording is not on the Mothers album. Rare single.
	4:29pm Linda Lee: i remember this one on the LP. my memory must be real crap!
	4:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Different edit. Odetta is sex!
	4:31pm Brendan: The announcer in the ad has a little Troy McLure
	4:31pm coelacanth: Odetta Rules! i Thank my cool aunt for introducing me to such good music. rest in peace.
	4:32pm Passaic River Blues: I want to eat with Tom. Damn.
	4:33pm Linda Lee: Sandoz? very funny man.
	4:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (Sandoz is the Swiss Co. discovered LSD.)
	4:34pm coelacanth: 'version sounds different - maybe better...
	4:34pm Irwin: The album version is a minute long. This is an entirely different recording. (The Mothers song, that is.)
	4:35pm Jack: My mind has wings.
	4:35pm Linda Lee: right! got it.
	4:35pm Linda Lee: thanks Irwin. i'm not entirely insane yet.
	4:36pm Irwin: Misremembering the tracks on a 1968 album does not make you a bad person, LL.
	4:37pm Linda Lee: thank you dear. :-)
	4:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...we don't even care if you're so poor you can't afford a pair of mod-a-gogo stretch elastic pants...
	4:42pm Linda Lee: sorry to miss hearing Tim Buckley clearly. this show is amazing. bittersweet indeed.
	4:44pm Irwin: Tim Buckley was the guest on episode 7, which aired here a few weeks ago. You can listen in the archives.
	4:44pm Linda Lee: earlier today watched a video performance of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. so it's a strange time-travel day.
	4:45pm Linda Lee: i would like hearing that show. i'll look for it.
	4:46pm robyn: @Alison @Irwin I had to walk away from the computer for an hour. Catching up now re: Stephin Merritt and you're blowing my mind.
	4:47pm coelacanth: i hopefully turned on a 21-year-old to both Tim Buckley and Bridget St. John yesterday. (& maybe wfmu) - she turned me onto "the microphones"; but i haven't listened to it yet.
	4:47pm Irwin: Two weeks ago: Nov. 30 www.wfmu.org...
	4:47pm Linda Lee: thank you sir!
	4:49pm coelacanth: still a survivor. please don't follow your friend Leonard for a few years at least, Judy.
	4:49pm Passaic River Blues: @LL: during that episode Irwin also aired a Tim Buckley performance recorded on the set of "The Monkees". It was at the same both very good and very insane.
	4:49pm melinda: aahhh....I love Judy Collins's Suzanne.
	4:51pm Irwin: This song was written by a recently dead guy.
	4:51pm Linda Lee: he followed Suzanne herself very closely.
	4:52pm Dean: Now that is talent.
	4:52pm Linda Lee: Passaic River Blues ~ that's something i might try to find online.
	4:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I love the story - Judy literally had to shove Leonard onto stage to start his career as a performer.
	4:54pm Linda Lee: rat finks in the record industry! they were everywhere!
	4:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Imagine - a young earnest Dustin Hoffman-looking Cohen.
	4:54pm Linda Lee: i can picture it Rev!
	5:00pm coelacanth: Leonard & Judy, for later... www.youtube.com...
	5:01pm Passaic River Blues: Is that Tom himself singing a bit on "Help, I'm a Rock"? That bass "hehhh - uh"? ... Anyway, once again, the Music Factory does not disappoint.
	5:02pm ?: So, who was the mystery vocalist at the beginning of the Tom Wilson show?
	5:03pm Irwin: Greg Lake. Priceless ID'd him above.
	5:04pm ?: That's what I thought, but was too cowardly to comment.
	5:05pm Irwin: Lyle has some great stories about Greg Lake. I wish he'd post one here.
	5:08pm Linda Lee: oh my. left the house in 1968, came back in 2014! :-D
	5:08pm coelacanth: haha! that reminds me of once at a blues club the band said whoever knows who "the original honeydripper" was gets a free tape. i knew but said nothing because i wasn't sure how to pronounce "Roosevelt Sykes". ...then i bought the tape.
	👻 5:09pm chris: or even Rocket... he'd approve of the pop sounds in some of these tracks.
	5:11pm V Priceless: ahh..Joe makes a cameo on Joy's new LP? That's cool! She was a part of his live band a while back...in the mid/late 80's I think...
	5:11pm Mark R: Like this Joy Askew track a lot!
	5:12pm Jack: Wow. I first saw Joy Askew with Joe Jackson. I think it was the early 80's. Them great.
	5:12pm Linda Lee: Irwin brings us back to the present nice & easy.
	5:15pm Parq: I never knew Joy A worked with Joe J. I always associated her with Laurie Anderson. I first heard her (Joy, I mean) on the presentation of "United States" at BAM, back in '83 when both Anderson and BAM were relatively obscure. Tickets for the two-night, eight-hour performance? A then-shocking $35. How the world has changed.
	5:17pm Linda Lee: my gosh. 35 dollars! & you still had to go to Brooklyn! :-D
	5:17pm V Priceless: @ Parq - cool - was unaware of the Askew/Anderson connection! Thanx for sharing!
	5:20pm Parq: Linda, she actually made a joke about it in the second half. One scene had her talking on the phone to (we were left to assume) her boyfriend, trying to convince him to get out of bed and join her at "this really great party." At one point, her lines were "Okay, yeah, it's in Brooklyn. Okay, yeah, it's $35, but it's two nights!"
	5:21pm Linda Lee: :-D i lived in Brooklyn then ~ Manhattan transplant ~ & it really was an effort getting people to cross the river. :-D
	5:21pm Mark R: Chris Nightcap really cooks, yeah? I confess I've never heard of him! Great playing all around.
	5:23pm common: hello good people!
	5:26pm Moshe: is this live?
	5:26pm Linda Lee: do believe we're live, Moshe
	5:26pm Listening Out There: is Moshe live?
	5:27pm Listening Out There: is this a Moshe bot?
	5:27pm Moshe: nah, I'm not
	5:28pm Listening Out There: ah. just checking...
	5:28pm Irwin: Chris Lightcap: en.wikipedia.org...
	5:29pm northguineahills: YLT! Did Jan and Dean do this one, I only have the Beach Boys version.
	5:29pm V Priceless: hey common!
	5:29pm common: love the guitar solo in this one
	5:30pm common: yo v.p.!
	5:30pm Irwin: I think the Hondells originally. Maybe one of those Gary Usher groups.
	5:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...best solo since 'I Can See for Miles'...well, same one really...
	5:31pm Irwin: Yes, Hondells w/Gary Usher, who worked a lot with Brian Wilson early on. en.wikipedia.org...
	5:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: BBoys 1st: en.wikipedia.org... ...love Carl on resisting distorted guitar here...
	5:34pm Mark R: One of my favorite Who tunes--super singing, my god!
	5:34pm V Priceless: lovely 'oo cut!
	5:35pm Linda Lee: this one's a beauty.
	5:36pm andrew: when the who did their first encore at shea they did this one
	5:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: They'd deffo picked up on 'Pet Sounds' - but also like an Anglo church choir.
	5:36pm Linda Lee: i don't think i'll ever forget seeing Keith Moon on drums. spectacular drummer.
	5:38pm flashbazbo: Irwin. Last week you said you had never pronounced Pete towns heads name. Can this mean you have never played a cut from who came first on your show? If not, well...
	5:38pm Dan from Toronto: Sounds good, Irwin
	5:39pm Carmichael: Never saw Moon, but played with Entwhistle once at an all-star mega jam thing in about 1999 or 2000. And I was not one of the all-stars, more like a guest non-star.
	5:39pm Mark R: Love this Washed Out track, too. Actually, the whole album's quite good. You're encouraging me to drag it out of mothballs (I think it's only about 3 or 4 years old!)
	👻 5:40pm chris: superlative picks, Irwin!
	5:40pm Linda Lee: really! how was it?
	5:41pm Linda Lee: love that phrase ~ a guest non-star. :-)
	5:41pm V Priceless: @ andrew - yes!!
	5:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...wait - whut?! Bad enuff somebody saw the Who w/ Moon - but played w/ Entwistle!?! ...I'ma die...& we was gettin' along...
	5:44pm Linda Lee: at least we're not the same person Rev. that would be just shameful.
	5:50pm Carmichael: Was that question meant for me, Linda? It was fun, lotsa different songs for the all stars who were performing. I got to play on an Ambrosia song (How Much I Feel), Heart's Crazy on You, Who's Boris the Spider, and a bunch of Beatle tunes at the end of the show. It was a kick.
	5:50pm Mark R: This last hour is just killing me--every single track is beautiful, such a nice flow between old and new, rock and jazz--this to me is what a great freeform set is all about.
	5:50pm Michael 98145: i believe i need this Morgan Rewind collection.
	5:51pm Linda Lee: sounds like a blast! those are some fun songs. what do you play?
	5:51pm Irwin: M-98145: There's a vol. 1, and I can't find it anywhere.
	5:51pm Carmichael: You always play great jazz, Irwin. I get a lesson every week.
	5:52pm Michael 98145: what Carmichael said
	5:52pm Carmichael: I play guitar, like everyone else on earth ... :)
	5:52pm Irwin: Incidentally, "Libreville" is not a Lee Morgan tune. It's one of several Magris originals on the album, and they're damned good.
	5:53pm Passaic River Blues: @Carmichael: Word. While I am not always 100% behind some of the rock selections, I think Irwin has an inerrant ear for jazz.
	👻 5:53pm chris: picking up on what folks are putting down here: anytime you wanna put on a three hour jazz/bop in-service, Irwin, we're game.
	5:53pm Linda Lee: rhythm guitar mainly?
	5:54pm P-90: "Inerrant Irwin"
	5:54pm Linda Lee: i was just thinkin, there's precious little jazz on fmu.
	5:56pm V Priceless: thanx for the swell sonics, Irwin!
	5:56pm Michael 98145: yes, thanks again, Irwin
	5:58pm Michael 98145: ( uh oh, the Irwin-bot broke the belt drive :)
	5:58pm coelacanth: Thanks Irwin
	5:58pm Passaic River Blues: Thank you, Irwin!
	5:59pm Dean: Great FMU jazz on Sunday mornings with Jeff Golick and D:O Radio. But it's a particular species of jazz...
	5:59pm Linda Lee: Dean ~ i'll take it!
	6:00pm Dean: Tune in, Linda! Jeff's a terrific DJ.
	6:00pm coelacanth: D.O is all excellent, though it's far from all jazz.
	6:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx IC !

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Lee Morgan	Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)	The Gigolo	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Haley Bonar	Kismet Kill "Kismet Kill" by "Haley Bonar"	Impossible Dream	0:03:28 (Pop-up)
Charles Earland	My Blues is Funky	If Only for One Night	0:07:00 (Pop-up)

The Magnetic Fields	No "No" by "The Magnetic Fields"	50 Song Memoir	0:17:57 (Pop-up)
Wilco	I'm Always In Love "I'm Always In Love" by "Wilco"	Summerteeth	0:20:28 (Pop-up)
Joy of Cooking	Closer to the Ground	Closer to the Ground	0:24:24 (Pop-up)
Charlie Hunter	We Don't Want Nobody Nobody Sent	Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth	0:28:49 (Pop-up)
Harris Eisenstadt September Trio (w/Ellery Eskelin & Angelica Sanchez)	Swimming, Then Rained Out	The Destructive Element	0:34:18 (Pop-up)

Neil Young	My Pledge "My Pledge" by "Neil Young"	Peace Trail	0:43:40 (Pop-up)
Elysian Fields	Ksheor Dolek "Ksheor Dolek" by "Elysian Fields"	Great Jewish Music: Sasha Argov	0:47:15 (Pop-up)
Jason Isbell	24 Frames "24 Frames" by "Jason Isbell"	Something More Than Free	0:50:48 (Pop-up)
Roy Wood's Helicopters	Green Glass Windows	Roy Wood: Through the Years	0:54:17 (Pop-up)

TOM WILSON	The Music Factory (ep. 6: Paul Williams of Crawdaddy magazine)	THE MUSIC FACTORY (MGM-Verve series, 1967-68)	1:01:35 (Pop-up)
Tom Wilson	Program intro (theme: "Help, I’m a Rock") and welcoming Paul Williams
The Shame (vocal: Greg Lake)	Too Old to Go 'Way Little Girl (comp. Janis Ian)	MGM Records 45
commercial	Sopwith Camel (debut album)
Tom Wilson	Paul Williams interview seg 1
Janis Ian	Society's Child "Society's Child" by "Janis Ian"	Society's Child
Tom Wilson	Paul Williams interview seg 2
Tim Hardin	If I Were a Carpenter "If I Were a Carpenter" by "Tim Hardin"	Tim Hardin 1
Ian and Sylvia	I Don't Believe You	Lovin' Sound
commercial	Mike Kellin - And The Testimony's Still Coming (album)
Tom Wilson	Paul Williams interview seg 3
Seth Connors	Why Concern Yourself	MGM 45
Tom Wilson	Paul Williams interview seg 4
The Mothers of Invention	Lonely Little Girl (single version)	Verve Records 45
commercial	Odetta (self-titled album)
Tom Wilson	breaking for lunch (program mid-point)
commercial	Tim Hardin 1 (album) "Tim Hardin 1 (album)" by "commercial"
Tom Wilson	Paul Williams interview seg 5
Eric Burdon & the Animals	A Girl Named Sandoz	The Best of Eric Burdon and the Animals Vol. 2
Tom Wilson	Paul Williams interview seg 6
Howard Tate	How Come My Bulldog Don't Bark	Get It While You Can
Tom Wilson	Paul Williams interview seg 7
James Cotton Blues Band	Knock on Wood	The James Cotton Blues Band
Willie Bobo	Knock on Wood "Knock on Wood" by "Willie Bobo"	Juicy
commercial	The Cowsills (self-titled album)
Tom Wilson	Paul Williams interview seg 8
Judy Collins	Suzanne "Suzanne" by "Judy Collins"	In My Life
Tom Wilson	Paul Williams interview seg 9
The Butterfield Blues Band	One More Heartache	The Resurrection Of Pigboy Crabshaw
commercial	Gone with the Wind (soundtrack album)
Tom Wilson	Outro (theme: "Help I’m a Rock") and thanks to Paul Williams

The Magnetic Fields	How I Failed Ethics	50 Song Memoir	2:03:01 (Pop-up)
Electric Youth	Runaway "Runaway" by "Electric Youth"	Innerworld	2:05:35 (Pop-up)
Joy Askew (ft. Joe Jackson)	Glass Bricks	Queen Victoria	2:09:08 (Pop-up)
Chris Lightcap Quartet	Neptune 66	Bigmouth	2:14:47 (Pop-up)

Yo La Tengo	Little Honda "Little Honda" by "Yo La Tengo"	I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One	2:28:20 (Pop-up)
Deerhoof	Super Duper Rescue Heads !	Deerhoof vs. Evil	2:31:00 (Pop-up)
The Who	Tattoo "Tattoo" by "The Who"	The Who Sell Out (deluxe edition)	2:33:50 (Pop-up)
Washed Out	Eyes Be Closed "Eyes Be Closed" by "Washed Out"	Within and Without	2:36:16 (Pop-up)
John Prine (ft. Fiona Prine)	My Happiness	For Better, or Worse	2:41:07 (Pop-up)
Fountains of Wayne	I-95 "I-95" by "Fountains of Wayne"	Traffic and Weather	2:43:57 (Pop-up)
Roberto Magris Septet	Libreville "Libreville" by "Roberto Magris Septet"	Morgan Rewind: A Tribute to Lee Morgan, Vol. 2	2:47:22 (Pop-up)
John Eaton & His Synket	Blues Machine	Decca single 32220-A

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Listener comments!
	3:00pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi Irwin, hi everybody!
	3:02pm Irwin: Hi, Wynbron.
	👻 3:05pm Alison Porchnik: Very Doge!
	3:05pm coelacanth: jeez i can't believe i caught my darling, Haley. Thanks Irwin!
	3:10pm Listening Out There: Festive greetings and all that...
	3:10pm Sem Chumbo: Hiya, Irwin, and those under the big Irwin tent.
	3:12pm JP from KC: Hey everyone. I have work to do that requires the use of my speakers, but I can't bring myself to turn off the stream. Guess I'll just have to quit my job. After the show, of course.
	3:12pm Tommy Jack Haynes: That's what I'm talking about... seriously, I was just talking about a upbeat blues in F
	3:13pm Passaic River Blues: This is so sweet.
	3:14pm Tommy Jack Haynes: with tritone substitutions on the turnarounds
	3:18pm robyn: yessss! i have tickets to this tour in may and can't wait
	3:22pm Irwin: I don't know if the tour staging will be as elaborate as the BAM two-night series, which was absolutely incredible musically, sonically and visually. It was theatrical in scope. And the songs are up to Stephin's astral standards.
	👻 3:22pm Alison Porchnik: Robyn- you will discover that everything you've ever suspected about Stephin Merritt is true, and then question whether any of it is true.
	3:23pm Irwin: Wot Alison ^ sez.
	👻 3:24pm Alison Porchnik: And some of it will be TMI. But only if it's true.
	👻 3:32pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, all. Happy Wednesday!
	3:44pm Brendan: Nice poem IDC ..food tumbling out of my mouth listening in stunned rapture...
	3:45pm Linda Lee: My Pledge: curmudgeonly!
	3:46pm berbo: My new play, "Explaining Neil Young's new song to Irwin Chusid" , opens next week.
	3:47pm coelacanth: haha! did he just throw in some autotune?! (as mockery i presume)
	3:47pm Irwin: Then again, I rarely understand Neil Young lyrics. I'm still trying to figure out "Broken Arrow" and "Last Trip to Tulsa."
	3:48pm Linda Lee: it's not the first time he's done autotune, tho
	👻 3:48pm Alison Porchnik: I don't know what the fark this is about but I like it. Sounds like an old guy on a park bench rambling on, and you don't know whether he's talking to you or not, so you just smile and not without making eye contact.
	3:48pm Linda Lee: his pledge is to tell it like he sees it. still. that's all.
	👻 3:48pm Alison Porchnik: Neil Young, not Jennifer Charles.
	3:50pm coelacanth: Linda he has? that's hard to imagine. ...anyway i will listen to that song at least several times again. good song.
	3:50pm Irwin: AP: For all we know, it's a verbatim transcription of an actual old guy rambling on a park bench.
	3:51pm Linda Lee: should say, it's not the first time he's used digital vocal manipulation. autotune is just the latest possibility.
	3:51pm coelacanth: his reference to lynard skynard kind of personalized it though.
	3:53pm coelacanth: still i can't imagine it - and haven't heard it. i think he'd be so opposed to it...it's indirectly what the whole song's about.
	3:53pm Brendan: Yea i think told Skynyrd to get off his lawn
	3:54pm Linda Lee: no vocal manipulation? do you remember Tron?
	3:55pm coelacanth: i've had to chase them off my lawn several times. Neil too.
	3:55pm Irwin: Tron was one of those contractual obligation albums. He need to get himself off Geffen's lawn.
	3:56pm Passaic River Blues: "Transformer Man" had vocoder effects.
	3:56pm Santos L Halper: Picturing Neil in a lightcycle duel with Jeff Bridges Tron vs Trans
	3:58pm Linda Lee: i'm hearing about something called La Noise .. plenty fx looks like
	3:59pm Dean: You've all switched the places of cause and effect. Neil Young isn't using Autotune to distort his vocals. Autotune was created to allow other singers to achieve a semblance of Young's timbre.
	3:59pm coelacanth: that must be 80s' Neil. no i haven't heard it, or i'd have heard him using vocal manipulation? ...anyway, that sounds like conceptual use, so exempt from my presumption!
	4:01pm Linda Lee: ain't it all conceptual use tho, really? unless it's meant to be undetected?
	4:01pm Linda Lee: ooh Mothers!
	4:02pm Irwin: This is the song with the famous singer. Guess without looking it up.
	4:03pm Linda Lee: i know that voice.
	4:03pm V Priceless: sounds like greg lake?
	4:03pm Irwin: The song was written by Janis Ian. She's not in the band.
	4:03pm Dean: Greg Lake
	4:03pm Irwin: VP FTW!
	4:04pm rsj: it's not the primus soundng opening song?
	4:04pm Dean: Scooped by VP!
	4:04pm coelacanth: ding
	4:04pm Santos L Halper: Good call vp
	4:04pm Linda Lee: yes!!
	4:04pm V Priceless: : )
	4:04pm Irwin: The opening theme is the Mothers of Invention, "Help, I'm a Rock."
	4:04pm Passaic River Blues: Nice one, VP.
	4:05pm Linda Lee: welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
	4:06pm Dean: "...mirrors of illusions..." catapults him over the wall and smack dab into Brain Salad Surgery, for sure.
	4:07pm Dean: Meltzer!
	4:07pm Brendan: A camel with no humps is named Humphrey
	4:08pm coelacanth: bittersweet beauty.
	4:11pm geezerette: coel,yep.
	4:11pm Linda Lee: so many teenage girls in the business then. kids.
	4:12pm Jeff: When I use the word "gassy", I'm referring to an unfortunate byproduct of bean consumption.
	4:12pm berbo: "so gassy"
	4:12pm Linda Lee: my pledge is to start using the word 'gassy' proper
	4:13pm Linda Lee: this one's by Leon Russell
	4:13pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...don't trust anybody under 30...If it's too loud, you're too young...
	4:13pm melinda: Hi Irwin & all. Nice painting.
	4:14pm Brendan: Nocturnal emissions
	4:15pm Dean: @Linda Lee: "If I Were a Carpenter"? Or did I miss a tune before this one while I was away from desk?
	4:15pm Linda Lee: sure do miss the freaky people.
	4:15pm Linda Lee: yes, if i were a carpenter.
	4:15pm coelacanth: i pledge to start using the word "gassy", which i never use; but only at inappropriate times.
	4:16pm Dean: It's not by Hardin?
	4:16pm Linda Lee: no.
	4:18pm Linda Lee: sh*t, just checked myself. you're right. it was Tim Hardin! sorry
	4:18pm Linda Lee: i'll go away now. :-D
	4:19pm Brendan: Love me some Ian and Sylvia
	4:19pm Dean: No, there is some talk of Leon writing the lyrics. I'm checking the copyright records...
	4:20pm geezerette: this is the first version I've been able to tolerate. The performer might have been Leon Russel.
	4:20pm coelacanth: i only know "if i were a carpenter" by JR Cash and June Carter, but i figured neither of them wrote it.
	4:20pm Linda Lee: lots of folks recorded it.
	4:22pm Dean: Reg'd Sept. 7, '66, "w & m Tim Hardin," second from the top in the first column: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015085477605;view=1up;seq=266
	4:23pm Linda Lee: thanks for checking on that.
	4:26pm melinda: I love Tim's version. The first I heard was joan Baez.
	4:26pm Parq: One of my all time favorite puns was the title Lester Bangs picked for his piece on Brit skinhead hardcore, "If Oi Were A Carpenter>"
	4:26pm Dean: Really, my pleasure. I love dipping into the (c) records via HathiTrust. On the same page, an entry for a song titled, "If Trouble Were Money." It includes a parenthetical, "If trouble was money," which makes me wonder whether there was some dispute about subjunctive mood!
	4:27pm Linda Lee: clearly.
	4:27pm Linda Lee: i love this Mothers album. pop genius.
	4:28pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Me too LindaLee.
	4:28pm Irwin: This recording is not on the Mothers album. Rare single.
	4:29pm Linda Lee: i remember this one on the LP. my memory must be real crap!
	4:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Different edit. Odetta is sex!
	4:31pm Brendan: The announcer in the ad has a little Troy McLure
	4:31pm coelacanth: Odetta Rules! i Thank my cool aunt for introducing me to such good music. rest in peace.
	4:32pm Passaic River Blues: I want to eat with Tom. Damn.
	4:33pm Linda Lee: Sandoz? very funny man.
	4:34pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: (Sandoz is the Swiss Co. discovered LSD.)
	4:34pm coelacanth: 'version sounds different - maybe better...
	4:34pm Irwin: The album version is a minute long. This is an entirely different recording. (The Mothers song, that is.)
	4:35pm Jack: My mind has wings.
	4:35pm Linda Lee: right! got it.
	4:35pm Linda Lee: thanks Irwin. i'm not entirely insane yet.
	4:36pm Irwin: Misremembering the tracks on a 1968 album does not make you a bad person, LL.
	4:37pm Linda Lee: thank you dear. :-)
	4:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...we don't even care if you're so poor you can't afford a pair of mod-a-gogo stretch elastic pants...
	4:42pm Linda Lee: sorry to miss hearing Tim Buckley clearly. this show is amazing. bittersweet indeed.
	4:44pm Irwin: Tim Buckley was the guest on episode 7, which aired here a few weeks ago. You can listen in the archives.
	4:44pm Linda Lee: earlier today watched a video performance of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. so it's a strange time-travel day.
	4:45pm Linda Lee: i would like hearing that show. i'll look for it.
	4:46pm robyn: @Alison @Irwin I had to walk away from the computer for an hour. Catching up now re: Stephin Merritt and you're blowing my mind.
	4:47pm coelacanth: i hopefully turned on a 21-year-old to both Tim Buckley and Bridget St. John yesterday. (& maybe wfmu) - she turned me onto "the microphones"; but i haven't listened to it yet.
	4:47pm Irwin: Two weeks ago: Nov. 30 www.wfmu.org...
	4:47pm Linda Lee: thank you sir!
	4:49pm coelacanth: still a survivor. please don't follow your friend Leonard for a few years at least, Judy.
	4:49pm Passaic River Blues: @LL: during that episode Irwin also aired a Tim Buckley performance recorded on the set of "The Monkees". It was at the same both very good and very insane.
	4:49pm melinda: aahhh....I love Judy Collins's Suzanne.
	4:51pm Irwin: This song was written by a recently dead guy.
	4:51pm Linda Lee: he followed Suzanne herself very closely.
	4:52pm Dean: Now that is talent.
	4:52pm Linda Lee: Passaic River Blues ~ that's something i might try to find online.
	4:53pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: I love the story - Judy literally had to shove Leonard onto stage to start his career as a performer.
	4:54pm Linda Lee: rat finks in the record industry! they were everywhere!
	4:54pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Imagine - a young earnest Dustin Hoffman-looking Cohen.
	4:54pm Linda Lee: i can picture it Rev!
	5:00pm coelacanth: Leonard & Judy, for later... www.youtube.com...
	5:01pm Passaic River Blues: Is that Tom himself singing a bit on "Help, I'm a Rock"? That bass "hehhh - uh"? ... Anyway, once again, the Music Factory does not disappoint.
	5:02pm ?: So, who was the mystery vocalist at the beginning of the Tom Wilson show?
	5:03pm Irwin: Greg Lake. Priceless ID'd him above.
	5:04pm ?: That's what I thought, but was too cowardly to comment.
	5:05pm Irwin: Lyle has some great stories about Greg Lake. I wish he'd post one here.
	5:08pm Linda Lee: oh my. left the house in 1968, came back in 2014! :-D
	5:08pm coelacanth: haha! that reminds me of once at a blues club the band said whoever knows who "the original honeydripper" was gets a free tape. i knew but said nothing because i wasn't sure how to pronounce "Roosevelt Sykes". ...then i bought the tape.
	👻 5:09pm chris: or even Rocket... he'd approve of the pop sounds in some of these tracks.
	5:11pm V Priceless: ahh..Joe makes a cameo on Joy's new LP? That's cool! She was a part of his live band a while back...in the mid/late 80's I think...
	5:11pm Mark R: Like this Joy Askew track a lot!
	5:12pm Jack: Wow. I first saw Joy Askew with Joe Jackson. I think it was the early 80's. Them great.
	5:12pm Linda Lee: Irwin brings us back to the present nice & easy.
	5:15pm Parq: I never knew Joy A worked with Joe J. I always associated her with Laurie Anderson. I first heard her (Joy, I mean) on the presentation of "United States" at BAM, back in '83 when both Anderson and BAM were relatively obscure. Tickets for the two-night, eight-hour performance? A then-shocking $35. How the world has changed.
	5:17pm Linda Lee: my gosh. 35 dollars! & you still had to go to Brooklyn! :-D
	5:17pm V Priceless: @ Parq - cool - was unaware of the Askew/Anderson connection! Thanx for sharing!
	5:20pm Parq: Linda, she actually made a joke about it in the second half. One scene had her talking on the phone to (we were left to assume) her boyfriend, trying to convince him to get out of bed and join her at "this really great party." At one point, her lines were "Okay, yeah, it's in Brooklyn. Okay, yeah, it's $35, but it's two nights!"
	5:21pm Linda Lee: :-D i lived in Brooklyn then ~ Manhattan transplant ~ & it really was an effort getting people to cross the river. :-D
	5:21pm Mark R: Chris Nightcap really cooks, yeah? I confess I've never heard of him! Great playing all around.
	5:23pm common: hello good people!
	5:26pm Moshe: is this live?
	5:26pm Linda Lee: do believe we're live, Moshe
	5:26pm Listening Out There: is Moshe live?
	5:27pm Listening Out There: is this a Moshe bot?
	5:27pm Moshe: nah, I'm not
	5:28pm Listening Out There: ah. just checking...
	5:28pm Irwin: Chris Lightcap: en.wikipedia.org...
	5:29pm northguineahills: YLT! Did Jan and Dean do this one, I only have the Beach Boys version.
	5:29pm V Priceless: hey common!
	5:29pm common: love the guitar solo in this one
	5:30pm common: yo v.p.!
	5:30pm Irwin: I think the Hondells originally. Maybe one of those Gary Usher groups.
	5:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...best solo since 'I Can See for Miles'...well, same one really...
	5:31pm Irwin: Yes, Hondells w/Gary Usher, who worked a lot with Brian Wilson early on. en.wikipedia.org...
	5:32pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: BBoys 1st: en.wikipedia.org... ...love Carl on resisting distorted guitar here...
	5:34pm Mark R: One of my favorite Who tunes--super singing, my god!
	5:34pm V Priceless: lovely 'oo cut!
	5:35pm Linda Lee: this one's a beauty.
	5:36pm andrew: when the who did their first encore at shea they did this one
	5:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: They'd deffo picked up on 'Pet Sounds' - but also like an Anglo church choir.
	5:36pm Linda Lee: i don't think i'll ever forget seeing Keith Moon on drums. spectacular drummer.
	5:38pm flashbazbo: Irwin. Last week you said you had never pronounced Pete towns heads name. Can this mean you have never played a cut from who came first on your show? If not, well...
	5:38pm Dan from Toronto: Sounds good, Irwin
	5:39pm Carmichael: Never saw Moon, but played with Entwhistle once at an all-star mega jam thing in about 1999 or 2000. And I was not one of the all-stars, more like a guest non-star.
	5:39pm Mark R: Love this Washed Out track, too. Actually, the whole album's quite good. You're encouraging me to drag it out of mothballs (I think it's only about 3 or 4 years old!)
	👻 5:40pm chris: superlative picks, Irwin!
	5:40pm Linda Lee: really! how was it?
	5:41pm Linda Lee: love that phrase ~ a guest non-star. :-)
	5:41pm V Priceless: @ andrew - yes!!
	5:42pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...wait - whut?! Bad enuff somebody saw the Who w/ Moon - but played w/ Entwistle!?! ...I'ma die...& we was gettin' along...
	5:44pm Linda Lee: at least we're not the same person Rev. that would be just shameful.
	5:50pm Carmichael: Was that question meant for me, Linda? It was fun, lotsa different songs for the all stars who were performing. I got to play on an Ambrosia song (How Much I Feel), Heart's Crazy on You, Who's Boris the Spider, and a bunch of Beatle tunes at the end of the show. It was a kick.
	5:50pm Mark R: This last hour is just killing me--every single track is beautiful, such a nice flow between old and new, rock and jazz--this to me is what a great freeform set is all about.
	5:50pm Michael 98145: i believe i need this Morgan Rewind collection.
	5:51pm Linda Lee: sounds like a blast! those are some fun songs. what do you play?
	5:51pm Irwin: M-98145: There's a vol. 1, and I can't find it anywhere.
	5:51pm Carmichael: You always play great jazz, Irwin. I get a lesson every week.
	5:52pm Michael 98145: what Carmichael said
	5:52pm Carmichael: I play guitar, like everyone else on earth ... :)
	5:52pm Irwin: Incidentally, "Libreville" is not a Lee Morgan tune. It's one of several Magris originals on the album, and they're damned good.
	5:53pm Passaic River Blues: @Carmichael: Word. While I am not always 100% behind some of the rock selections, I think Irwin has an inerrant ear for jazz.
	👻 5:53pm chris: picking up on what folks are putting down here: anytime you wanna put on a three hour jazz/bop in-service, Irwin, we're game.
	5:53pm Linda Lee: rhythm guitar mainly?
	5:54pm P-90: "Inerrant Irwin"
	5:54pm Linda Lee: i was just thinkin, there's precious little jazz on fmu.
	5:56pm V Priceless: thanx for the swell sonics, Irwin!
	5:56pm Michael 98145: yes, thanks again, Irwin
	5:58pm Michael 98145: ( uh oh, the Irwin-bot broke the belt drive :)
	5:58pm coelacanth: Thanks Irwin
	5:58pm Passaic River Blues: Thank you, Irwin!
	5:59pm Dean: Great FMU jazz on Sunday mornings with Jeff Golick and D:O Radio. But it's a particular species of jazz...
	5:59pm Linda Lee: Dean ~ i'll take it!
	6:00pm Dean: Tune in, Linda! Jeff's a terrific DJ.
	6:00pm coelacanth: D.O is all excellent, though it's far from all jazz.
	6:01pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Thx IC !

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from December 7, 2016

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