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Saturday, September 4, 2021 Favoriting

Rob and Katie's Labor of Love



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The twentieth edition of an annual late summer tradition: Rob Weisberg and longtime sidekick Katie Gentile play radio ping-pong, trading tracks back and forth. Rob bounces popular and unpopular music from around the world off Katie's vintage and contemporary indie rock. It's genre-clashing at its FMU-iest.

Rob, as you may know, is an unpaid radio DJ and record geek. Katie, on the other hand, is an academic, a Gradiva Award winning author, open-water swimmer and violinist in the band The Special Pillow.

This Week's Playlist:

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Tommy Keene: Places That Are Gone Favoriting / Places That Are Gone / Dolphin (0:00:00 Pop-up)

Cem Karaca: Oy Gulum Oy Favoriting / 4 (0:06:22 Pop-up)

The Phoenix Foundation: 40 Years Favoriting / Happy Ending (0:09:57 Pop-up)

The Melodians (Singapore): White Orchids Fragrance Favoriting / 7" (0:14:09 Pop-up)

The Brilliant Corners: Why Do You Have to Go Out With Him Favoriting / Somebody Up There Likes Me (0:16:41 Pop-up)

Monsieur Doumani: Tirititchas Favoriting / Pissourin / Glitterbeat / * (0:27:05 Pop-up)

Peter Townshend: Pure and Easy Favoriting / Who Came First (0:30:41 Pop-up)

Ofege: Geb Mi Lo Favoriting / Try and Love (0:35:08 Pop-up)

Broadcast: Before We Begin Favoriting / Ha Ha Sound (0:39:15 Pop-up)

Namgar: Kadin Khursa Favoriting / Nayan Navaa / Naxos / * (0:42:45 Pop-up)
Ancient Buryat song

These Immortal Souls: Marry Me (Lie! Lie!) Favoriting / Get Lost (0:48:26 Pop-up)

Arbete och Fritid: Springare och gångare (Kung Karls halling) Favoriting / ...Sen dansar vi ut (0:53:02 Pop-up)

Ed Kuepper: Car Headlights / Second Winter Favoriting (1:05:25 Pop-up)

Alamaailman Vasarat: Asuntovelka Favoriting / Vasaraasia (1:08:18 Pop-up)

The New Christs: Circus of Sour Favoriting / Distemper (1:08:56 Pop-up)

Jambinai: Naburak Favoriting / A Hermitage (1:11:58 Pop-up)
South Korea

Juana Molina: Que Llueva Favoriting / Segundo (21st Anniversary) / * (1:20:23 Pop-up)

Comet Gain: She Never Understood Favoriting / Réalistes (1:23:25 Pop-up)

HRDZA: Rozmarin Favoriting / 22 / * (1:27:14 Pop-up)
Slovak folk rock band from Prešov

Reigning Sound: Never Coming Home Favoriting / Shattered (1:30:34 Pop-up)

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino: Ninnarella Favoriting / Meridiana (1:37:50 Pop-up)

Elf Power: Let The Serpent Sleep Favoriting / Creatures (1:42:56 Pop-up)

Moonlight Benjamin: Pale Pawol Favoriting / Simido / Ma Case (1:46:52 Pop-up)

The Field Mice: Coach Station Reunion Favoriting (1:48:50 Pop-up)

Ros Sereysothea: I'm 16 Favoriting / Love Peace and Poetry: Asia (1:55:30 Pop-up)

Plimsouls: A Million Miles Away Favoriting (1:56:38 Pop-up)

Maurice Louca: El-Gullashah (Foul Tongue) Favoriting / Saet El Hazz (The Luck Hour) / * (2:04:54 Pop-up)

Swell Maps: International Rescue Favoriting / Mayday Signals / * (2:10:59 Pop-up)
New anthology

Warsaw Village Band: Drowned Bride Favoriting / Waterduction (Uwodzenie) (2:12:04 Pop-up)

Jacobites: Country Girl Favoriting / Robespierre's Velvet Basement (2:16:39 Pop-up)

Minyo Crusaders: Tora Joe Favoriting / Live At Le Guess Who? / Mais Um / * (2:19:24 Pop-up)

The Primary Five: Make Believe Favoriting / Go (2:23:50 Pop-up)

Arooj Aftab with Sunny Jain: Say It Favoriting / Phoenix Rise / Sinj / * (2:26:53 Pop-up)

Al Qalaa Band: Ya Tayr al Hajal Favoriting / Hanin: Field Recordings in Syria 2008/9 / * (2:31:19 Pop-up)

David Kilgour: No No No Favoriting (2:36:47 Pop-up)

Blowzabella: Kolomtanz Favoriting / Blowzabella / Plant Life (2:40:13 Pop-up)

Withered Hand: Heart Heart Favoriting (2:41:12 Pop-up)

Ak Dan Gwang Chil: Blooming Love Favoriting / Such is Life (2:44:43 Pop-up)

Jonny: Candy Floss Favoriting / Jonny (2:48:33 Pop-up)

Rachel Magoola: Kati Kantwaala Favoriting / Resilience / ARC / * (2:54:36 Pop-up)




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Check out the Transpacific Sound Paradise World Covers YouTube Playlist at http://tiny.cc/youtube-worldcovers.

Here's a video from our World Covers YouTube playlist:



I have a few other world musicky YouTube playlists under construction including an intriguing "World Music 70s" playlist - you can see them all and subscribe at: http://tiny.cc/wfmu-tsp-youtube.

Check out our quirky new Spotify playlist of world musicky songs using the Bo Diddley beat! It's here: https://tiny.cc/wfmu-tsp-bo

And our newly expanded African popular music faves Spotify playlist at: http://tiny.cc/wfmu-tsp-african-faves

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Here's a link to WFMU's Public Service page with links and info for / related to racial justice issues, coronavirus testing, food and economic assistance, musician aid, voting rights organizations and lots more: https://wfmu.org/psa/.

Also: BRIC has an extensive and regularly updated pandemic crisis resource list on its website with artists, performers etc. in mind but relevant for everyone. See it here: https://www.bricartsmedia.org/blog/resources-artists-during-public-health-crisis.

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Listener comments!

Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 6:01pm Bas NL:

Hi Rob! TSP fans!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 6:02pm chresti:

Hi Rob and Katie! Let the games begin..
Hi paradisians!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 6:02pm Bas NL:

Oh! And hi Katie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:02pm listener 126464:

It's that time of year! Hi everyone.
  6:04pm M&K:

Hello
601 and 604
  6:09pm Will:

Love the show when you guys do this thang...
  6:12pm Katie:

Hi everyone. Happy to join the TSP airwaves.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:12pm Rob Weisberg:

Greetings and thanks everyone
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:18pm Franco Twinkie:

Strangely like The Smiths in theme and sound, no?
  6:19pm Will:

Ahh, the Brilliant Corners. It's been 15 years since this song was played on WFMU (sorry, had to check) -- such a beaut!
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 6:19pm Bas NL:

@Franco *nods*!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:20pm listener 126464:

Was this a Glasgow band?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:20pm common:

Rob, all. Enjoying
  6:21pm Will:

@Franco. It sure is, and this band wrote 20 songs this good. Start with Somebody Up There Likes Me, best record that is not the Smiths debut.
  6:22pm M&K:

Work it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:24pm Franco Twinkie:

The Smiths caught a lot of shade I seem to remember for constantly dwelling in the misery pool. People thought they should be out throwing rocks. Am I wrong?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:26pm Franco Twinkie:

I like it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:29pm Megaroni:

Another fav of my Turkish beau Cem Karaca! Thanks Rob:)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:30pm common:

And Katie
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 6:31pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Hello, Rob room / Katie corner!
  6:32pm Katie:

@Listener they were from Bristol. But that lovely sound is there.
Avatar 6:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Put an interview with Townshend on hold @ this very same time to go into another room ...not that this is unusual for me... but wondered if it had started up again... Anyhow here's what he does by himself. Has been suggested TheWho are a Townshend cover band as he handed them Demos a but like this...
Avatar 6:33pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

*bit
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:34pm listener 126464:

Thanks Katie.
  6:36pm timinoak:

Great Townshend recording
  6:47pm Katie:

Pete is an amazing songwriter (as a human there are some issues) but the others made the songs their own. To me.
  6:50pm ledzeppelinsucks:

The most kooks on the road this weekend. Rookie travelers that cram summer vacation into the weekend.
  6:51pm Gnomon:

Is the singer for These Immortal Souls Rowland S Howard or does he just sound very similar?
  6:54pm NikiaA:

this fiddle tho
  6:54pm Carmichael:

Heya Rob and Katie and kids.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm Franco Twinkie:

Ledsuck, In California all the National Parks and forests are closed for that reason. You can't deny entrance to idiots, so as a result no one gets in this weekend. Good, they can camp in their backyards.
  7:02pm ledzeppelinsucks:

That’s right, Labor Day Weekend is worst for Rangers and Search. They are not drunks or ambitious hikers-they are idiots that under plan and over plan and screw up everything. The types that cause crisedures in motels, airports, theme parks and this weekend camp grounds.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm Handy Haversack:

Hi, Rob, Katie, Spanners! Been listening the whole time but busy looking at maps and legends. Sounding great!
  7:03pm Katie:

@Gnomon yes that was Rowland S Howard. Epic Soundtracks on drums.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm radioronan:

Good evening Rob and Katie and global and local citizens of the comment board! I look forward to this show every year and I'm an hour late..thank goodness for the wfmu archives!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm Franco Twinkie:

Great show so far. I have to run off and get some tacos. so no psycho drama till I get back, okay?
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 7:15pm chresti:

Plenty of hikers at the city parks.
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 7:16pm chresti:

Plenty of rattlesnakes too.
  7:24pm Katie:

Can’t guarantee no psycho drama but it’s archived.
  7:25pm listener monica:

I'm loving this!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm Rob W:

Thanks Monica, and everyone
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm full metal monkey:

Hi Rob, hi Katie, we’re digging the psychedelic-ness. :)
Avatar 7:43pm TDK60:

Hello Rob & Katie.
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 7:44pm chresti:

A woman twisted her knee trying to catch herself from tumbling down a cliff while filming the view with her phone on a trail in Griffith Park.
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 7:45pm ParUbi:

Loving the show
  7:47pm Will:

This show has been a bracing thrill ride so far. Stunning how the back and forth works so well. Arbete Och Fritid into Ed Kuepper! It is to live.
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 7:52pm chresti:

Good ol' Elf Power, have not heard them in a long time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm katie:

Thanks everyone. It is a bracing ride from here too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm full metal monkey:

Love the plimsouls
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm listener 126464:

Have 12-ich single of Million Miles - pretty perfect pop psych
  7:58pm Phil in Framingham:

Plimsouls and Nangar on the same program. Love it.
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm chresti:

SAY IT IN UNISON
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:04pm chresti:

*the station ID
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:07pm katie:

It is the perfect pop song, those Plimsouls
Avatar 8:09pm Doug in JC:

That bass sounds like it's from a Crass song
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:09pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they):

hey there, Rob and folx!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm Handy Haversack:

I was cooking so could not say: PLIMSOULS!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:17pm coelacanth∅:

greetings Rob and all
  8:19pm Andres:

Hi, Rob and Katie! Loving tonight’s back and forth! My wife has been raiding your program adding many songs to her playlist. I feel like someone owes you a commission!
  8:25pm Miguel de Portland:

Hey Rob & Katie, great ping ponging. And yeah, any day I hear the Plimsouls on the radio is a good day., so thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm Rob W:

Thanks M!
  8:34pm Andal:

Japanese folk and cumbia... so that's what happened. That song flabbergasted me.
Avatar 8:37pm Avrilinmay:

re: the Cairo non-mainstream scene : Hell Yeah!
Shout out to Tamer Abu Ghazelah & Mariam Salah !!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm Franco Twinkie:

I've been listening while Chresti and I had our dinner. It appears that no furniture was overturned.
Avatar 8:51pm slugluv1313:

greetings, Rob, Katie, Everyone!
been trying to listen since i got home about 45 minutes ago -- cool stuff!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:52pm Franco Twinkie:

Hey Slug! Ready to dance on the table?
Avatar 8:53pm TDK60:

Thanks ! G'night !
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:54pm Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks, Katie & Rob. Excellent turntable teamwork tonight!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm radioronan:

Thanks Rob & Katie! Be well, y'all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm Franco Twinkie:

This was a holiday superset! Thanks Katie and Rob.
Avatar 8:56pm slugluv1313:

hiya Franco!
i am exhausted! but OF COURSE totally READY
Avatar 8:56pm Avrilinmay:

and Abdullah Miniawy and aly talibab ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm coelacanth∅:

but americans are stupid. labour = "la-bower"
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm Bas NL:

Thanks Rob & Katie! Great show!
Avatar 8:57pm slugluv1313:

thank you Rob and Katie!
wish i could have been here for the whole show -- thank goodness for FMU archives
in the meantime -- please cuddle DUMPLING and FEBO for me <3 <3 <3
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm katie:

Thanks everyone. It's always a treat to infiltrate TSP!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm listener 126464:

Thanks Katie, thanks Rob!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm coelacanth∅:

Thanks Rob! Thanks Katie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm katie:

Howdy Slugluv. I hope your weekend isn't crazy.
Avatar 🌍 Swag For Life Member 9:00pm chresti:

Thank you Rob and Katie!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Rob and Katie!
Avatar 9:00pm slugluv1313:

howdy Katie!
it totally is! but dealing . . . hope all is well with you all, and that Ida did not cause harm
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm full metal monkey:

Thanks Rob and Katie. Great show
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