WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from January 31, 2018

Listener comments!
	8:42pm misterpickles69: Crap I overshot the timeline.
	2:28pm brainiac: FMU land is like monkeyland A bothersome, troublesome place FMU land is like monkeyland To the lunatic asylum I’m going.
	2:41pm Listener Robert: Michele Boule memorial coming soon?
	👻 3:03pm rrg: Here we all are.
	👻 3:04pm rrg: Most of us, anyway.
	👻 3:04pm rrg: Except for Irwin.
	3:04pm Wild Neil: PEACE All. Desperately want a Coca-Cola but WNY Fun Foods doesn't sell them. No coke machine nearby.
	3:06pm Hoboken Jack: Hello all! It's Wednesday afternoon and I choose Chusid!
	3:08pm Wild Neil: To think, when I was a little kid about 5 years old in 1972 there was all this weird psychedelic music being played around the country.
	3:09pm Wild Neil: Lee Morgan is awesome.
	3:10pm Hoboken Jack: My Lyft driver the other day is a trumpet player. I mentioned the Lee Morgan documentary and he wrote down the title.
	3:15pm Aaron Working In Newark: I am in a penny stock and over summer this one dude who was also invested in it wanted to meed me in the city to talk about it.. turns out he was the keyboard player for Maceo Parker.
	3:15pm Aaron Working In Newark: His name was Will.. Cool dude.
	👻 3:15pm chris: hi, Irwin and folks! swinging and digging!
	3:17pm Wild Neil: I wanted to drive for Uber but the app wouldn't load on my phone. So I guess I'll open a machine shop instead. If you all need any parts, ask me in a few months.
	3:23pm Jack: "Shazam" ? Isn't that from Gomer Pyle USMC ?
	3:26pm Parq: What a pity neither of the plumbers was Shemp. You could have played Spazz's relaxation tape.
	3:26pm Brian: Shazamable and unshazamable are new words.
	3:28pm Irwin: Ungoogleable.
	3:29pm Michael 98145: yahoocentric
	3:32pm Irwin: Wikipediastic
	👻 3:34pm Ken From Hyde Park: Shazam! Bam! Thank you, ma'am!
	3:34pm Jack: I just learned " pantoum" today: a Malay verse form consisting of an indefinite number of quatrains with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the following one
	3:34pm Irwin: Markesmithological
	3:36pm diciassette: "Markesmithological-uh"
	3:36pm Irwin: dici ftw!
	3:41pm Hoboken Jack: This is a great set!
	3:43pm Parq: From time immemorial, British PM's have wanted to declare war on France. But dammit, Mark E. Smith would have done it!
	3:43pm Irwin: Jack, it needs some Grandaddy, don't you think?
	3:45pm Janet H: Hi Irwin
	3:46pm Irwin: Hello, Janet.
	3:47pm Hoboken Jack: Every set needs a little Granddaddy IMHO.
	3:48pm Irwin: This band name will never grow older. Born geriatric.
	3:48pm Linda Lee: Lovely! Time for some gentle music in a sea of crazy. Thanks Irwin!
	3:49pm Dean: And yet he named his band after a French author?
	3:50pm Dean: Rather, after a work by a French author?
	3:51pm Linda Lee: Camus was Algerian, iirc.
	3:51pm Linda Lee: Maybe why he'd invade France!
	3:53pm Dean: The enemy of my enemy kinda thinking, maybe? Wish I'd l kept those Wigwam, Poholja, and Tolonen albums.
	3:56pm Linda Lee: Beating up on the bully, I'm assuming. Unsure of where health food fits in.
	👻 4:00pm Listening Out There: Finally watched "I Called Him Morgan." Good documentary...
	4:00pm ?: Hoboken Jack!
	4:04pm Linda Lee: I'm not a dummy, for the most part, but I just don't 'get' the Fall. Can someone explain?
	👻 4:04pm Listening Out There: One of THE funniest things I've read in the past few years was an article describing the entry and exit of the many members of The Fall. Sorry I can't recall where I read it. Obits pointed out one got fired for ordering a salad...
	4:05pm Lixiviated Life: A FANTASTIC LIfE
	4:06pm Linda Lee: I know, I know .. dancing about architecture .. but people with taste adore them .. I must be missing something.
	4:07pm Mark Williams: @Linda. The "music" is itself and viscerally it is your cup of tea or not, but as for him, I'd recommend reading this: http://thequietus.com/articles/03925-the-fall-and-mark-e-smith-as-a-narrative-lyric-writer
	4:09pm Itzall Ablurr: always thought they sounded like The Gang Of Four with Richard Hell on vocals and LOTS of heavy drugs. A band for the ages but also a taste of their time, in my opinion.
	4:11pm Circo Americano: Mark E. Smith & The Fall!!! Who knew? (till now...) I shall enjoy finding their albums and hearing them for the 1st time!
	4:12pm Linda Lee: Thanks Mark. Just concerned with the music really. Are you telling me I'm not alone? @Itzall Ablurr ~ thank you. Me, I just hear any number of bar bands ..
	4:12pm Parq: Linda, I think that, even more so than with some bands, either you're feeling it or you're not. I don't think there's any way to lay it out in written form. For the record, there are a lot of WFMU faves that don't do anything for me. Whaddaya gonna do?
	👻 4:13pm βrian: Snaggletooth chic, maybe.
	4:15pm Linda Lee: Thanks Parq. I've been sitting quietly in the corner here .. passing over all the tributes .. & only 6 good teeth too! You'd think I'd respond! Also think trying to describe the indescribable is sort of fun. :-)
	4:15pm ?: you're killin it IC, thanks! i could listen to MES all day!
	4:16pm ?: Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, and I can't understand the lyrics but I'm sure they're cool.
	4:16pm pcnyc: Dang it...missed the Joe Frank Memorial show last week and see it's not available for listening. Any way to hear it still? Anyone? Please and thanks.
	4:17pm Linda Lee: is it the lyrics? is that it?
	4:17pm Irwin: It's the SOUND, Linda. That's all there is.
	4:17pm Linda Lee: @pcnyc ~ no archive in the archives?
	4:18pm Parq: That's bound to have something to do with it. As I used to say about the best Steely Dan lyrics, I have no idea what it means but I agree with it.
	4:18pm Lixiviated Life: its how the lyrics sound
	4:18pm Henry: .... what Irwin said....
	4:18pm thelma: Franks widow wants money.
	4:19pm Dean: A stab at The Fall: they arose immediately post-first-wave of mid-to-late-'70s punk. (For some of us, 1978 was the beginning of the end.) The early rush we experienced with punk--Ramones, Damned, Pistols, etc.--was flagging and we saw a glut of cookie-cutter bands. (I won't name names.) The Fall nearly one-upped the founding bands in terms of fuck-you sloppy swagger. Attitude, whatever. But that aside, MES and crew wrote amazing, if amazingly simple, pop songs, one right after the other. The sheer quantity of production was breathtaking. Pace John Peel, they were always the same--you could smell a Fall song two blocks away--and always different--they kept you on your toes in terms of new tricks or conceits they'd advance. I really think most rock music can be distilled into an early tune of theirs, "Repetition," which is a musical ding an sich, if ever there were one.
	4:20pm pcnyc: @Linda Lee, it's N/A in the archives: "audio removed at the direction of the rightsholder."
	4:21pm Kat in Chicago: Yay, "Paint Work"
	4:21pm Henry: people say "hey mark..."
	4:21pm Dominick: hey mark
	4:21pm Fredericks: "Paint Work" is perfect late night driving music.
	4:22pm Linda Lee: that's what i'm looking to parse out with my ears in the sound alone. what's special? what striking? i can't hear it! & your responses are as fine a tribute as can be, in words.
	4:23pm Linda Lee: @pcnyc ~ ah ok. must have to do with the estate then. that's too bad. Irwin ..?
	4:23pm thelma: I'm all for copyright to protect the living artist who must pay his bills, but once he's gone, it should belong to the public and to history. His heirs should not collect but they do.
	4:24pm Fredericks: Linda Lee, it is less a sound than a rhythm or feel and attitude.
	4:25pm Linda Lee: @thelma, unfortunately when the artist dies, that's when we can exploit what's been left. won't be no more.
	4:26pm Linda Lee: @Fredericks ~ are they a man's band? do they fit best with the Yang character type? I puzzle! i puzzle! :-D
	4:27pm Linda Lee: when i attended high school the man's band was Deep Purple. ya know?
	4:29pm Irwin: Brix Smith would take exception to calling the Fall a "man's band." They were ONE man's band (MES), but Brix contributed a lot to their sound when she was in the Fall.
	4:29pm Irwin: As the next track demonstrates.
	4:30pm Parq: The sad thing is how the relatives disregard the artists's restraint, and mine his or her legacy for every buck it's worth. Books that the author never meant to see the light of day get released by his or her estate, more than willing to get whatever people will pay for it whether their deceased relative would have wanted it that way or not.
	4:30pm Linda Lee: ok, i like 'Boxoctosis'. maybe cos MES isn't pushing the iconoclastic delivery so hard. also believe it's perfectly possible for women to be part of something that appeals mainly to men. :-)
	4:30pm Henry: yes, Brix! and her new band
	4:30pm Itzall Ablurr: anybody heard that new Hendrix album...
	4:31pm Irwin: Brix played lead gtr and sang on every Fall album graced by her presence.
	4:32pm Linda Lee: this is why i've loved FMU since 1985. i can be the weirdo listener without fear. :-)
	4:33pm TDK60: It's a sound and attitude; the 3 Rs: repetition, repetition, repetition; a regional flavor: "Leave the Capitol!"
	4:33pm Kat in Chicago: I like the stuff with Brix the best.
	4:34pm Linda Lee: the female may play, but the product isn't feminine. for lack of better terms for energy & color. know what i mean?
	4:35pm Passaic River Blues: @Linda: I am no expert but I think with the Fall it’s a confluence of many things resulting in something ineffable. There’s Smith’s vision, his acerbic wit, the words that undercut sacred cows in a series of penetrating phrases, but there’s also the music, the post-punk examination and deprogramming of the building blocks of other kinds of music, often repurposed in towering grooves. Then again, there are tons of songs that abandon the formula, and some where the trademark Smith wit is largely absent. I said this elsewhere, but I remember hearing “Barmy” many years ago on a Hudson Valley college radio station and it all just suddenly clicked with me. By the way, Brian Turner interviewed Brix a year and a half ago: wfmu.org...
	4:35pm Kat in Chicago: yes I do LL
	4:36pm Kat in Chicago: The Fall definitely has groove, I respond to that for sure
	4:38pm Linda Lee: Bush Tetras' sound was very yang too, & 3 out of 4 band members were women, iirc. gender is a funny thing; how it manifests musically is wild. we respond definitively to a sense of musical 'gender', too, i believe. sort of my point about the Fall ..
	4:38pm Fredericks: Linda Lee: Not really.
	4:39pm Linda Lee: talking about gender in the sound of music & how we respond. just trying to figure out why some bands are man bands :-D
	4:40pm Linda Lee: i hear you Kat. I actually liked 'Boxoctosis' & surprised myself.
	👻 4:40pm βrian: There goes my bus. Damn you, Irwin.
	4:40pm Dean: I get it. "Striking" doesn't say as much about the music as about its effect on listener moi. I'm closer to objective with "pop," which is a feature shared by lots of punk, of course. The Ramones obviously embraced an aesthetic of pop simplicity. But contra Fredericks @4:24, I think The Fall were less about attitude than a lot of punk, one reason being mere swagger had lost its value by then. MES and crew seemed to thrive fashioning quirky pop songs with qualities shared by less quirky ones, e.g., they're musically memorable, clever but not too, they elaborate a simple motif (instrumentally, rhythmically, God knows vocally) into, uh, striking variations.
	4:41pm Linda Lee: Great thoughts everyone, thanks!
	4:42pm Fredericks: The Fall hits the hips, Kat.
	4:42pm Parq: They covered the Move? Okay, now I've had my horizons expanded.
	4:44pm Kat in Chicago: His vocals on that cover crack me up. He barely even manages to sing the word "evening", it's like he can't be bothered to finish the lyric. Sorta like he was singing to himself.
	4:44pm Fredericks: Pretty great Fall set, Irwin. Hoped for "English People in Hot Weather."
	4:47pm Hoboken Jack: Hello Fredericks! Irwin, excellent tribute, thank you. Fun fact: A teenage James Murphy, now of LCD Soundsystem, introduced teenage me to The Fall by playing me This Nation's Saving Grace.
	4:47pm May Jillar: BARRENCE!!!!! Now you need to play "Crawl Out Through The Fallout" by Sheldon Allman.
	4:49pm Linda Lee: Now we're cookin. :-D
	4:49pm Kat in Chicago: Mr. Murphy's been taken to task on occasion for mimicking Mark E. Smith's vocal mannerisms.
	4:51pm Fredericks: Dean, my reference to attitude was MES's toward pop music. Simple, direct and effective. Not concerned with trends.
	4:52pm Aaron Working In Newark: This is the type of stuff on WFMU that will lead to be being fired and or evaluated.
	4:52pm Linda Lee: @Kat in Chicago ~ but it's-uhh so easy-uhh!
	4:53pm Fredericks: HoBo Jack! If I Swag for Life when would I talk to you?
	4:53pm Kat in Chicago: It is indeed-uh
	4:53pm Linda Lee: :-D
	4:54pm Linda Lee: This I like.
	4:54pm Bad bob: Aaron: burn the place down before they fire you
	4:55pm TDK60: They're yapping about nukes again, dimwits.
	4:57pm Fredericks: James Murphy? I heard on the BEST SHOW he had an interesting music related interaction with Alex Chilton.
	👻 4:57pm rrg: PF "Delicado" also from "No. 1 Hits of the 50s". In my house.
	4:58pm Linda Lee: Is this Percy Faith side a cha-cha?
	5:01pm Asheville Jon: LINDA LEE!!!
	5:01pm Linda Lee: Road Movie might be good fun if you're totally baked.
	5:01pm Linda Lee: Hiya Jon!!!!!!! How are you?
	5:01pm Asheville Jon: there are hours and hours and hours worth of russian dash cam videos on youtube.
	5:02pm acid casualty: Some of those Fall songs gave me shivers, or is it this flu I'm enduring? Great tribute, Irwin. Thanks.
	5:02pm Asheville Jon: doin ok Linda, about to be super busy for the next few weeks (and am very glad about it!) How are you doing?
	5:04pm Linda Lee: glad to hear you're glad Jon! :-) Me, life is totally crazy. Not a single thing is sure. :-D But I'm fine.
	5:05pm Linda Lee: As of right now no abode, but I have 4 different perches. That's just for starters. :-)
	5:06pm Linda Lee: Thanks for asking!
	5:06pm Michael 98145: @LL, whoa. hope you settle soon ...
	5:07pm Linda Lee: Thanks Michael! Me too! :-)
	5:07pm TDK60: There's probably footage of Hawaiians scrambling in panic recently. Not funny.
	5:13pm Asheville Jon: hope things work out and go well for you Linda!
	5:14pm Linda Lee: they always do Jon! thanks!! :-)
	5:17pm Tony Seymour: Never got the alert on Oahu. Was oblivious I was about to be obliterated. Bliss via unknowledgeable.
	5:19pm Michael 98145: time to re-read _On the Beach_
	5:21pm Hoboken Jack: Fredericks, I hope to be back in the phone room for this coming marathon!
	5:26pm Linda Lee: Gosh but I do love the song "Downtown'. as a child i thought 'Downtown' was what grown-up was about.
	5:26pm Fredericks: Perhaps then, Jack.
	👻 5:27pm rrg: I saw Petula at B. B. King's on 42nd Street just after Christmas. She's 85 and in good voice and still great.
	5:27pm Fredericks: Sang this (Downtown)in chorus for 5th grade graduation.
	5:28pm Linda Lee: @rrg ~ wow! that's great! @Fredericks ~ funny choice for a graduation song! but fitting too.
	5:28pm Michael 98145: spent part of my life as a huge Byrds fan
	5:29pm KP: The Boids!
	5:31pm glenn: i love the byrds. i even like david crosby in the byrds.
	5:32pm Linda Lee: byrds or buffalo springfield? votes?
	5:33pm Kat in Chicago: LL - As a five-year-old, I thought "Downtown" was very grown-up too. I had a fascination with Petula Clark that approached crush level.
	5:33pm Irwin: LL: Why must one be forced to choose?
	👻 5:33pm rrg: Tony Hatch was Petula's producer, not her husband.
	5:33pm Kat in Chicago: rrg - Amazing! I had no idea she still performed.
	5:34pm glenn: byrds, if only because they made more music.
	5:34pm Irwin: Thanks for the correction. Thought they were husband & wife. Never?
	5:34pm Michael 98145: doesn't appear to have been so
	5:35pm common: nice drums. hi
	👻 5:36pm rrg: Yes, Petula is still releasing new albums. Has a new one out right now. Never her husband. She's been married to the same person (Claude Wolff) since 1961 or so. Though she now has a paramour...all right, enough gossip!
	5:36pm Linda Lee: you & me both Kat. :-) female pop stars then .. had a fantastic look. @Irwin ~ we know there's really no choice possible or necessary. it's the old Stones/Beatles game! :-D
	5:38pm Fredericks: What happened to Irwin?
	5:38pm Michael 98145: tidying up the studio ?
	5:40pm Fredericks: Bennie Maupin involved here, by any chance?
	5:41pm Fredericks: Was just thinking about Jack Johnson.
	5:42pm Fredericks: Have you ever played Upside Down Irwin?
	5:43pm Irwin: Upside Down - remind me, which album?
	5:45pm Fredericks: Did I write this song?
	5:45pm glenn: oh, i thought upside down irwin was the new party game.
	👻 5:46pm rrg: Matt! I like him. He wrote a song for me and my daughter. He'll probably write a song for you too if you ask him to.
	5:46pm Tom: This sounds like the map man
	5:47pm Fredericks: Jack Johnson ‎– Upside Down Label: Brushfire Records
	5:49pm Fredericks: And really I mean have you ever played upside down?
	5:51pm Linda Lee: beautiful set... feeling very happy here. thanks Irwin! :-)
	5:52pm Fredericks: Look for Upside Down Irwin in stores this Christmas from Uncle Andy's Toys.
	5:53pm Linda Lee: the hero of a kids' book series, more like. :-)
	5:54pm glenn: look out, paddington.
	5:54pm Fredericks: Writing tips! Taking notes.
	5:54pm Booz: That whole Davis/Taborn record is wonderful.
	5:55pm Linda Lee: you know it glenn!
	5:58pm Michael 98145: well, thanks again, Irwin
	5:58pm Chapelhillian: The writing is not coming well, so its off to the pub. Mark E. Smith told me to.

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from January 31, 2018

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January 31, 2018: The station that triggers chronic Shazam Fail.

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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)
Mast	Bemsha Swing "Bemsha Swing" by "Mast"	Thelonious Sphere Monk	0:03:19 (Pop-up)
Temples	How Would You Like to Go "How Would You Like to Go" by "Temples"	Toe Rag Session	0:07:04 (Pop-up)
Jazz Party	Rock 'n' Roll Graveyard	Monday Night	0:10:57 (Pop-up)

Luis Perdomo (w/Drew Gress & Jack DeJohnette)	Gene's Crown	Universal Mind	0:18:20 (Pop-up)
Yo La Tengo	She May, She Might "She May, She Might" by "Yo La Tengo"	There's a Riot Going On	0:24:14 (Pop-up)
Proper Ornaments	The Frozen Stare	Foxhole	0:29:16 (Pop-up)
Snail Mail	Slug "Slug" by "Snail Mail"	Habit	0:33:38 (Pop-up)
Grandaddy	So You'll Aim Toward The Sky	The Sophtware Slump	0:38:02 (Pop-up)
Wigwam	Kite "Kite" by "Wigwam"	Nuclear Nightclub	0:42:40 (Pop-up)
Oddgeir Berg Trio	A.c.m. "A.c.m." by "Oddgeir Berg Trio"	Before Dawn	0:46:46 (Pop-up)

MARK E. SMITH	1957-2018 "1957-2018" by "MARK E. SMITH"		0:58:17 (Pop-up)
The Fall	No Bulbs "No Bulbs" by "The Fall"	Call for Escape Route (12" single)	0:56:50 (Pop-up)
The Fall	15 Ways "15 Ways" by "The Fall"	Middle Class Revolt aka the Vapourisation of Reality	1:03:59 (Pop-up)
The Fall	What About Us? "What About Us?" by "The Fall"	Fall Heads Roll	1:07:26 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Paint Work "Paint Work" by "The Fall"	This Nation's Saving Grace	1:13:11 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Boxoctosis "Boxoctosis" by "The Fall"	The Real New Fall LP (formerly Country on the Click)	1:19:54 (Pop-up)
The Fall	L.A. "L.A." by "The Fall"	This Nation's Saving Grace	1:23:28 (Pop-up)
The Fall	The $500 Bottle of Wine "The $500 Bottle of Wine" by "The Fall"	Middle Class Revolt aka the Vapourisation of Reality	1:27:38 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Overture from "I Am Curious Orange"	I Am Kurious Oranj	1:30:05 (Pop-up)
The Fall	I Can Hear the Grass Grow	Fall Heads Roll	1:33:05 (Pop-up)

Barrence Whitfield & the Concussion Ensemble	Nuclear War (comp. Sun Ra)	Barrence Sings Sun Ra (unreleased)	1:39:02 (Pop-up)
Elliot Galvin	Bikini Island "Bikini Island" by "Elliot Galvin"	The Influencing Machine	1:43:07 (Pop-up)
Percy Faith & His Orchestra	Delicado (Latin version)	The Music of Brazil!	1:48:22 (Pop-up)

Walter Davis, Jr.	Sweetness "Sweetness" by "Walter Davis, Jr."	Davis Cup	1:57:34 (Pop-up)
Diego Barber	Veleta's Peak "Veleta's Peak" by "Diego Barber"	One Minute Later	2:05:17 (Pop-up)
The Shacks	Texas "Texas" by "The Shacks"	Follow Me/Texas (single)	2:11:36 (Pop-up)
Dan Auerbach (with the Preservation Hall Band)	Cellophane Angel	Cellophane Angel	2:14:27 (Pop-up)
Sandie Shaw	Downtown "Downtown" by "Sandie Shaw"	Sandie	2:17:28 (Pop-up)
Reno Bo	Have You Seen Her Face "Have You Seen Her Face" by "Reno Bo"	Flashback to the Future: B-Sides, Covers & Others	2:20:19 (Pop-up)

Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra	Bakiff	Never No Lament: The Blanton-Webster Band, 1940-1942	2:26:10 (Pop-up)
Lettuce	Right Now "Right Now" by "Lettuce"	Witches Stew	2:29:17 (Pop-up)
The Passionate & Objective Jokerfan	Sun Ra: Music Awesome Legend	Here's Another Brilliant Album for You to Misunderstand	2:37:51 (Pop-up)
Kris Davis & Craig Taborn	Love in Outer Space (comp. Sun Ra)	Octopus	2:39:10 (Pop-up)
Mark E. Smith	Mark E. Smith's Guide to Writing Guide	Mark E. Smith	2:46:48 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Cab It Up! "Cab It Up!" by "The Fall"	458489 B Sides	2:47:56 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	8:42pm misterpickles69: Crap I overshot the timeline.
	2:28pm brainiac: FMU land is like monkeyland A bothersome, troublesome place FMU land is like monkeyland To the lunatic asylum I’m going.
	2:41pm Listener Robert: Michele Boule memorial coming soon?
	👻 3:03pm rrg: Here we all are.
	👻 3:04pm rrg: Most of us, anyway.
	👻 3:04pm rrg: Except for Irwin.
	3:04pm Wild Neil: PEACE All. Desperately want a Coca-Cola but WNY Fun Foods doesn't sell them. No coke machine nearby.
	3:06pm Hoboken Jack: Hello all! It's Wednesday afternoon and I choose Chusid!
	3:08pm Wild Neil: To think, when I was a little kid about 5 years old in 1972 there was all this weird psychedelic music being played around the country.
	3:09pm Wild Neil: Lee Morgan is awesome.
	3:10pm Hoboken Jack: My Lyft driver the other day is a trumpet player. I mentioned the Lee Morgan documentary and he wrote down the title.
	3:15pm Aaron Working In Newark: I am in a penny stock and over summer this one dude who was also invested in it wanted to meed me in the city to talk about it.. turns out he was the keyboard player for Maceo Parker.
	3:15pm Aaron Working In Newark: His name was Will.. Cool dude.
	👻 3:15pm chris: hi, Irwin and folks! swinging and digging!
	3:17pm Wild Neil: I wanted to drive for Uber but the app wouldn't load on my phone. So I guess I'll open a machine shop instead. If you all need any parts, ask me in a few months.
	3:23pm Jack: "Shazam" ? Isn't that from Gomer Pyle USMC ?
	3:26pm Parq: What a pity neither of the plumbers was Shemp. You could have played Spazz's relaxation tape.
	3:26pm Brian: Shazamable and unshazamable are new words.
	3:28pm Irwin: Ungoogleable.
	3:29pm Michael 98145: yahoocentric
	3:32pm Irwin: Wikipediastic
	👻 3:34pm Ken From Hyde Park: Shazam! Bam! Thank you, ma'am!
	3:34pm Jack: I just learned " pantoum" today: a Malay verse form consisting of an indefinite number of quatrains with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the following one
	3:34pm Irwin: Markesmithological
	3:36pm diciassette: "Markesmithological-uh"
	3:36pm Irwin: dici ftw!
	3:41pm Hoboken Jack: This is a great set!
	3:43pm Parq: From time immemorial, British PM's have wanted to declare war on France. But dammit, Mark E. Smith would have done it!
	3:43pm Irwin: Jack, it needs some Grandaddy, don't you think?
	3:45pm Janet H: Hi Irwin
	3:46pm Irwin: Hello, Janet.
	3:47pm Hoboken Jack: Every set needs a little Granddaddy IMHO.
	3:48pm Irwin: This band name will never grow older. Born geriatric.
	3:48pm Linda Lee: Lovely! Time for some gentle music in a sea of crazy. Thanks Irwin!
	3:49pm Dean: And yet he named his band after a French author?
	3:50pm Dean: Rather, after a work by a French author?
	3:51pm Linda Lee: Camus was Algerian, iirc.
	3:51pm Linda Lee: Maybe why he'd invade France!
	3:53pm Dean: The enemy of my enemy kinda thinking, maybe? Wish I'd l kept those Wigwam, Poholja, and Tolonen albums.
	3:56pm Linda Lee: Beating up on the bully, I'm assuming. Unsure of where health food fits in.
	👻 4:00pm Listening Out There: Finally watched "I Called Him Morgan." Good documentary...
	4:00pm ?: Hoboken Jack!
	4:04pm Linda Lee: I'm not a dummy, for the most part, but I just don't 'get' the Fall. Can someone explain?
	👻 4:04pm Listening Out There: One of THE funniest things I've read in the past few years was an article describing the entry and exit of the many members of The Fall. Sorry I can't recall where I read it. Obits pointed out one got fired for ordering a salad...
	4:05pm Lixiviated Life: A FANTASTIC LIfE
	4:06pm Linda Lee: I know, I know .. dancing about architecture .. but people with taste adore them .. I must be missing something.
	4:07pm Mark Williams: @Linda. The "music" is itself and viscerally it is your cup of tea or not, but as for him, I'd recommend reading this: http://thequietus.com/articles/03925-the-fall-and-mark-e-smith-as-a-narrative-lyric-writer
	4:09pm Itzall Ablurr: always thought they sounded like The Gang Of Four with Richard Hell on vocals and LOTS of heavy drugs. A band for the ages but also a taste of their time, in my opinion.
	4:11pm Circo Americano: Mark E. Smith & The Fall!!! Who knew? (till now...) I shall enjoy finding their albums and hearing them for the 1st time!
	4:12pm Linda Lee: Thanks Mark. Just concerned with the music really. Are you telling me I'm not alone? @Itzall Ablurr ~ thank you. Me, I just hear any number of bar bands ..
	4:12pm Parq: Linda, I think that, even more so than with some bands, either you're feeling it or you're not. I don't think there's any way to lay it out in written form. For the record, there are a lot of WFMU faves that don't do anything for me. Whaddaya gonna do?
	👻 4:13pm βrian: Snaggletooth chic, maybe.
	4:15pm Linda Lee: Thanks Parq. I've been sitting quietly in the corner here .. passing over all the tributes .. & only 6 good teeth too! You'd think I'd respond! Also think trying to describe the indescribable is sort of fun. :-)
	4:15pm ?: you're killin it IC, thanks! i could listen to MES all day!
	4:16pm ?: Repetition, Repetition, Repetition, and I can't understand the lyrics but I'm sure they're cool.
	4:16pm pcnyc: Dang it...missed the Joe Frank Memorial show last week and see it's not available for listening. Any way to hear it still? Anyone? Please and thanks.
	4:17pm Linda Lee: is it the lyrics? is that it?
	4:17pm Irwin: It's the SOUND, Linda. That's all there is.
	4:17pm Linda Lee: @pcnyc ~ no archive in the archives?
	4:18pm Parq: That's bound to have something to do with it. As I used to say about the best Steely Dan lyrics, I have no idea what it means but I agree with it.
	4:18pm Lixiviated Life: its how the lyrics sound
	4:18pm Henry: .... what Irwin said....
	4:18pm thelma: Franks widow wants money.
	4:19pm Dean: A stab at The Fall: they arose immediately post-first-wave of mid-to-late-'70s punk. (For some of us, 1978 was the beginning of the end.) The early rush we experienced with punk--Ramones, Damned, Pistols, etc.--was flagging and we saw a glut of cookie-cutter bands. (I won't name names.) The Fall nearly one-upped the founding bands in terms of fuck-you sloppy swagger. Attitude, whatever. But that aside, MES and crew wrote amazing, if amazingly simple, pop songs, one right after the other. The sheer quantity of production was breathtaking. Pace John Peel, they were always the same--you could smell a Fall song two blocks away--and always different--they kept you on your toes in terms of new tricks or conceits they'd advance. I really think most rock music can be distilled into an early tune of theirs, "Repetition," which is a musical ding an sich, if ever there were one.
	4:20pm pcnyc: @Linda Lee, it's N/A in the archives: "audio removed at the direction of the rightsholder."
	4:21pm Kat in Chicago: Yay, "Paint Work"
	4:21pm Henry: people say "hey mark..."
	4:21pm Dominick: hey mark
	4:21pm Fredericks: "Paint Work" is perfect late night driving music.
	4:22pm Linda Lee: that's what i'm looking to parse out with my ears in the sound alone. what's special? what striking? i can't hear it! & your responses are as fine a tribute as can be, in words.
	4:23pm Linda Lee: @pcnyc ~ ah ok. must have to do with the estate then. that's too bad. Irwin ..?
	4:23pm thelma: I'm all for copyright to protect the living artist who must pay his bills, but once he's gone, it should belong to the public and to history. His heirs should not collect but they do.
	4:24pm Fredericks: Linda Lee, it is less a sound than a rhythm or feel and attitude.
	4:25pm Linda Lee: @thelma, unfortunately when the artist dies, that's when we can exploit what's been left. won't be no more.
	4:26pm Linda Lee: @Fredericks ~ are they a man's band? do they fit best with the Yang character type? I puzzle! i puzzle! :-D
	4:27pm Linda Lee: when i attended high school the man's band was Deep Purple. ya know?
	4:29pm Irwin: Brix Smith would take exception to calling the Fall a "man's band." They were ONE man's band (MES), but Brix contributed a lot to their sound when she was in the Fall.
	4:29pm Irwin: As the next track demonstrates.
	4:30pm Parq: The sad thing is how the relatives disregard the artists's restraint, and mine his or her legacy for every buck it's worth. Books that the author never meant to see the light of day get released by his or her estate, more than willing to get whatever people will pay for it whether their deceased relative would have wanted it that way or not.
	4:30pm Linda Lee: ok, i like 'Boxoctosis'. maybe cos MES isn't pushing the iconoclastic delivery so hard. also believe it's perfectly possible for women to be part of something that appeals mainly to men. :-)
	4:30pm Henry: yes, Brix! and her new band
	4:30pm Itzall Ablurr: anybody heard that new Hendrix album...
	4:31pm Irwin: Brix played lead gtr and sang on every Fall album graced by her presence.
	4:32pm Linda Lee: this is why i've loved FMU since 1985. i can be the weirdo listener without fear. :-)
	4:33pm TDK60: It's a sound and attitude; the 3 Rs: repetition, repetition, repetition; a regional flavor: "Leave the Capitol!"
	4:33pm Kat in Chicago: I like the stuff with Brix the best.
	4:34pm Linda Lee: the female may play, but the product isn't feminine. for lack of better terms for energy & color. know what i mean?
	4:35pm Passaic River Blues: @Linda: I am no expert but I think with the Fall it’s a confluence of many things resulting in something ineffable. There’s Smith’s vision, his acerbic wit, the words that undercut sacred cows in a series of penetrating phrases, but there’s also the music, the post-punk examination and deprogramming of the building blocks of other kinds of music, often repurposed in towering grooves. Then again, there are tons of songs that abandon the formula, and some where the trademark Smith wit is largely absent. I said this elsewhere, but I remember hearing “Barmy” many years ago on a Hudson Valley college radio station and it all just suddenly clicked with me. By the way, Brian Turner interviewed Brix a year and a half ago: wfmu.org...
	4:35pm Kat in Chicago: yes I do LL
	4:36pm Kat in Chicago: The Fall definitely has groove, I respond to that for sure
	4:38pm Linda Lee: Bush Tetras' sound was very yang too, & 3 out of 4 band members were women, iirc. gender is a funny thing; how it manifests musically is wild. we respond definitively to a sense of musical 'gender', too, i believe. sort of my point about the Fall ..
	4:38pm Fredericks: Linda Lee: Not really.
	4:39pm Linda Lee: talking about gender in the sound of music & how we respond. just trying to figure out why some bands are man bands :-D
	4:40pm Linda Lee: i hear you Kat. I actually liked 'Boxoctosis' & surprised myself.
	👻 4:40pm βrian: There goes my bus. Damn you, Irwin.
	4:40pm Dean: I get it. "Striking" doesn't say as much about the music as about its effect on listener moi. I'm closer to objective with "pop," which is a feature shared by lots of punk, of course. The Ramones obviously embraced an aesthetic of pop simplicity. But contra Fredericks @4:24, I think The Fall were less about attitude than a lot of punk, one reason being mere swagger had lost its value by then. MES and crew seemed to thrive fashioning quirky pop songs with qualities shared by less quirky ones, e.g., they're musically memorable, clever but not too, they elaborate a simple motif (instrumentally, rhythmically, God knows vocally) into, uh, striking variations.
	4:41pm Linda Lee: Great thoughts everyone, thanks!
	4:42pm Fredericks: The Fall hits the hips, Kat.
	4:42pm Parq: They covered the Move? Okay, now I've had my horizons expanded.
	4:44pm Kat in Chicago: His vocals on that cover crack me up. He barely even manages to sing the word "evening", it's like he can't be bothered to finish the lyric. Sorta like he was singing to himself.
	4:44pm Fredericks: Pretty great Fall set, Irwin. Hoped for "English People in Hot Weather."
	4:47pm Hoboken Jack: Hello Fredericks! Irwin, excellent tribute, thank you. Fun fact: A teenage James Murphy, now of LCD Soundsystem, introduced teenage me to The Fall by playing me This Nation's Saving Grace.
	4:47pm May Jillar: BARRENCE!!!!! Now you need to play "Crawl Out Through The Fallout" by Sheldon Allman.
	4:49pm Linda Lee: Now we're cookin. :-D
	4:49pm Kat in Chicago: Mr. Murphy's been taken to task on occasion for mimicking Mark E. Smith's vocal mannerisms.
	4:51pm Fredericks: Dean, my reference to attitude was MES's toward pop music. Simple, direct and effective. Not concerned with trends.
	4:52pm Aaron Working In Newark: This is the type of stuff on WFMU that will lead to be being fired and or evaluated.
	4:52pm Linda Lee: @Kat in Chicago ~ but it's-uhh so easy-uhh!
	4:53pm Fredericks: HoBo Jack! If I Swag for Life when would I talk to you?
	4:53pm Kat in Chicago: It is indeed-uh
	4:53pm Linda Lee: :-D
	4:54pm Linda Lee: This I like.
	4:54pm Bad bob: Aaron: burn the place down before they fire you
	4:55pm TDK60: They're yapping about nukes again, dimwits.
	4:57pm Fredericks: James Murphy? I heard on the BEST SHOW he had an interesting music related interaction with Alex Chilton.
	👻 4:57pm rrg: PF "Delicado" also from "No. 1 Hits of the 50s". In my house.
	4:58pm Linda Lee: Is this Percy Faith side a cha-cha?
	5:01pm Asheville Jon: LINDA LEE!!!
	5:01pm Linda Lee: Road Movie might be good fun if you're totally baked.
	5:01pm Linda Lee: Hiya Jon!!!!!!! How are you?
	5:01pm Asheville Jon: there are hours and hours and hours worth of russian dash cam videos on youtube.
	5:02pm acid casualty: Some of those Fall songs gave me shivers, or is it this flu I'm enduring? Great tribute, Irwin. Thanks.
	5:02pm Asheville Jon: doin ok Linda, about to be super busy for the next few weeks (and am very glad about it!) How are you doing?
	5:04pm Linda Lee: glad to hear you're glad Jon! :-) Me, life is totally crazy. Not a single thing is sure. :-D But I'm fine.
	5:05pm Linda Lee: As of right now no abode, but I have 4 different perches. That's just for starters. :-)
	5:06pm Linda Lee: Thanks for asking!
	5:06pm Michael 98145: @LL, whoa. hope you settle soon ...
	5:07pm Linda Lee: Thanks Michael! Me too! :-)
	5:07pm TDK60: There's probably footage of Hawaiians scrambling in panic recently. Not funny.
	5:13pm Asheville Jon: hope things work out and go well for you Linda!
	5:14pm Linda Lee: they always do Jon! thanks!! :-)
	5:17pm Tony Seymour: Never got the alert on Oahu. Was oblivious I was about to be obliterated. Bliss via unknowledgeable.
	5:19pm Michael 98145: time to re-read _On the Beach_
	5:21pm Hoboken Jack: Fredericks, I hope to be back in the phone room for this coming marathon!
	5:26pm Linda Lee: Gosh but I do love the song "Downtown'. as a child i thought 'Downtown' was what grown-up was about.
	5:26pm Fredericks: Perhaps then, Jack.
	👻 5:27pm rrg: I saw Petula at B. B. King's on 42nd Street just after Christmas. She's 85 and in good voice and still great.
	5:27pm Fredericks: Sang this (Downtown)in chorus for 5th grade graduation.
	5:28pm Linda Lee: @rrg ~ wow! that's great! @Fredericks ~ funny choice for a graduation song! but fitting too.
	5:28pm Michael 98145: spent part of my life as a huge Byrds fan
	5:29pm KP: The Boids!
	5:31pm glenn: i love the byrds. i even like david crosby in the byrds.
	5:32pm Linda Lee: byrds or buffalo springfield? votes?
	5:33pm Kat in Chicago: LL - As a five-year-old, I thought "Downtown" was very grown-up too. I had a fascination with Petula Clark that approached crush level.
	5:33pm Irwin: LL: Why must one be forced to choose?
	👻 5:33pm rrg: Tony Hatch was Petula's producer, not her husband.
	5:33pm Kat in Chicago: rrg - Amazing! I had no idea she still performed.
	5:34pm glenn: byrds, if only because they made more music.
	5:34pm Irwin: Thanks for the correction. Thought they were husband & wife. Never?
	5:34pm Michael 98145: doesn't appear to have been so
	5:35pm common: nice drums. hi
	👻 5:36pm rrg: Yes, Petula is still releasing new albums. Has a new one out right now. Never her husband. She's been married to the same person (Claude Wolff) since 1961 or so. Though she now has a paramour...all right, enough gossip!
	5:36pm Linda Lee: you & me both Kat. :-) female pop stars then .. had a fantastic look. @Irwin ~ we know there's really no choice possible or necessary. it's the old Stones/Beatles game! :-D
	5:38pm Fredericks: What happened to Irwin?
	5:38pm Michael 98145: tidying up the studio ?
	5:40pm Fredericks: Bennie Maupin involved here, by any chance?
	5:41pm Fredericks: Was just thinking about Jack Johnson.
	5:42pm Fredericks: Have you ever played Upside Down Irwin?
	5:43pm Irwin: Upside Down - remind me, which album?
	5:45pm Fredericks: Did I write this song?
	5:45pm glenn: oh, i thought upside down irwin was the new party game.
	👻 5:46pm rrg: Matt! I like him. He wrote a song for me and my daughter. He'll probably write a song for you too if you ask him to.
	5:46pm Tom: This sounds like the map man
	5:47pm Fredericks: Jack Johnson ‎– Upside Down Label: Brushfire Records
	5:49pm Fredericks: And really I mean have you ever played upside down?
	5:51pm Linda Lee: beautiful set... feeling very happy here. thanks Irwin! :-)
	5:52pm Fredericks: Look for Upside Down Irwin in stores this Christmas from Uncle Andy's Toys.
	5:53pm Linda Lee: the hero of a kids' book series, more like. :-)
	5:54pm glenn: look out, paddington.
	5:54pm Fredericks: Writing tips! Taking notes.
	5:54pm Booz: That whole Davis/Taborn record is wonderful.
	5:55pm Linda Lee: you know it glenn!
	5:58pm Michael 98145: well, thanks again, Irwin
	5:58pm Chapelhillian: The writing is not coming well, so its off to the pub. Mark E. Smith told me to.

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from January 31, 2018

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