WFMU: Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan: Playlist from January 8, 2025

Listener comments!
	🇰🇷 7:01pm Listener Gregory: Good evening, cats. In honor of today's show, I am listening on cassette.
	🇰🇷 7:01pm Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: Greetings Gary, fellow Bodegaguerros! In the home stretch at work.
	7:01pm tim abdellah: Ezzayak ya Gary!
	7:03pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Gary and all!
	7:03pm still b/p: When a Venice Beach webcam turns north, you can see the bank of thick smoke heading out to sea below a band of blue sky. The quiet of it while hearing and seeing accounts of the hellish scenes and losses at the fire locations themselves is a bit eerie.
	7:03pm Yvang: hi Gary and Bodega customers!
	7:05pm peter: Hey Gary & all!
	7:05pm Gary: Evening, Gregory, Threemoons, Tim, James, b/p, Yvang, and Peter!
	7:06pm headcleaner: ↳ Song: "El Sah El Dah Embo السح الدح إمبو" by "Ahmed Adaw... Now this is hitting the ground running
	7:07pm Gary: Headcleaner!
	7:07pm mackeral: hey folks, and happy new year!
	7:08pm tim abdellah: ↳ Song: "Mawwal موال" by "Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية" Oh, a trumpet taqsim - nice!!
	7:08pm Gary: Mackeral!
	7:09pm Gary: ↳ tim abdellah @7:08 Lots of trumpet tonight!
	🇰🇷 7:10pm WR: Hello Gary and folks.
	7:10pm Gary: WR!
	🇰🇷 7:12pm chresti: Hi Gary bodega show!
	7:12pm Gary: Theee Chresti!
	7:15pm northguineahills: heyza gary!
	7:15pm wimpy: I was just coming in to say that trumpet is super neat! I can’t recall if I’ve heard a trumpet play like that in any of your shows
	7:16pm Gary: Wimpy!
	7:16pm wimpy: Granted I’ve only been listening since I think your Faust tribute show last year
	7:16pm Jeff g. via app: Help me cook dinner, Gary!
	7:17pm Gary: Jeff! My advice is to order out (it's what I did tonight)
	7:18pm mackeral: ↳ Song: "Sit El Banat Ya Shabatan ست البنات يا شابة" by "A... this tempo downshift is kick ass
	7:21pm Ike: Meow meow meow.
	7:22pm Gary: Tha Ike!
	7:22pm Gary: NGH! Missed you before somehow, hi!
	7:23pm northguineahills: ↳ Gary @7:22 i missed myself as well....
	🇰🇷 7:36pm Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: Stellar show so far. Had to run down to get the mail; will be signing off work and doing Kitchen Stuff shortly but will have the show on in the background!
	7:37pm Charles: Hey hey what's happening in the Bodega?
	7:38pm Gary: Evening, Charles!
	7:39pm Charles: ↳ Ike @7:21 I'll never get tired of this cat :)
	🇰🇷 7:42pm Alex from Media: Hi Gary and Bodega rats! This is very new territory for me. Gonna do the eyes closed headphone sit back thing.
	🇰🇷 7:43pm chresti: ↳ Charles @7:39 Me too!
	7:43pm Gary: Alex! I envy anyone getting to hear Ahmed for the first time
	🇰🇷 7:43pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Charles @7:39 But the cat is VERY tired by now.
	7:43pm mic_a: Hello Gary and Bo-boppers! Hope everyone is safe in our many disaster areas.
	7:44pm Gary: Hey there, mic_a!
	7:56pm mackeral: knockin it outta the park today, Gary
	🇰🇷 7:57pm Listener Gregory: ↳ mackeral @7:56 That would be fine if only he would retrieve the ball himself.
	7:58pm tim abdellah: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid" Loving the Adaweya, but yay for more Sidi Mansour 😅😅😅
	7:58pm tom tom the pipers son: hi gary ...all have been listening... treating it as a sound bath.i trust it completely
	8:00pm TDK60: Ho Gary.
	8:04pm Gary: TDK60 and Tomx2!
	8:05pm wimpy: Hey Gary, this doesn’t really have much to do with anything, but do you have any thoughts on farid al atrash? I was exposed to him through sun city girls and thought it was cool to hear some of those older live albums where the crowd cheers for every line, but I don’t have much context or experience with middle eastern music so I was curious what someone who does would think.
	8:05pm Ike: Oh shit, I just realized I can get Kanopy and Hoopla with my Queens Public Library card. Brooklyn PL and NYPL do not have either one. I can finally watch "Kedi" now! Recommendations? (Nothing too depressing please.)
	8:07pm Gary: ↳ wimpy @8:05 Farid El Atrache is amazing, there are a couple of God-tier oud solos that everyone should hear at least once in their lives
	8:09pm Gary: ↳ Gary @8:07 Takasim Oud is one of them, from this release: www.discogs.com...
	8:10pm wimpy: Thanks for the tip! I’ll report back next week with thoughts
	8:11pm slugluv1313: greetings, Gary! Bodega dwellers! been listening -- WOW this is phenomenal! how am i so unfamiliar with Ahmed Adaweya?!? thank you so much for presenting these treasures! fascinating story behind that photo! Abdel Laim Hafez -- "The Dark Nightingale," iirc? and yes, according to wikipedia, the assault happened in 1989 those delis on Steinway Street! best dates i ever purchased were from one of those -- the shop was Egyptian, the dates from Algeria
	8:14pm Gary: Slugluv! Yes, there's a terrific accounting of the story in Andrew Simon's book on cassette culture in Egypt: www.sup.org...
	8:16pm mic_a: Yes -- I was just checking the index of "Media Of The Masses" and see he has a good number of citations. I'll get to read it later this year, I hope.
	8:19pm Gary: ↳ mic_a @8:16 He's working on a bio now of Sheikh Imam, which I can't wait for him to finish (altho I really wish he'd taken on Ahmed)
	🇰🇷 8:21pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Zamah زحمة" by "Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية" I like the backing singers on this.
	8:21pm slugluv1313: ↳ Ike @8:05 hi Ike! that is bizarre -- no Kanopy or Hoopla at NYPL or Brooklyn?!? (i remember Kedi! just never got to see it when it was released :( -- but i have Kanopy and Hoopla through the Hoboken public library, so i will correct that :) )
	8:22pm Gary: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:21 Love the bizarre doubling on Ahmed's voice on this too
	8:22pm slugluv1313: ↳ Gary @8:14 that looks incredible -- thanks, Gary!
	8:39pm Ike: ↳ slugluv1313 @8:21 Maybe I spoke too soon. This version of Kanopy is missing heaps of its best titles. (It's very expensive for these libraries to get Kanopy.) I wish there weren't all these different versions/tiers of Kanopy -- and it doesn't SAY you're getting a shitty low-budget version of it when you log in. It just says, "Sorry, this video is not available for your institution." Fuck. I blame the IP holders for being so greedy. Cassavetes' Mikey and Nicky? On other versions of Kanopy, but not this one. The Wages of Fear? "Not available for your institution." Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast? Forget it, not via QPL.
	8:43pm TDK60: ↳ Ike @8:39 Maybe they have Beauty and the Beast, etc. on DVD.
	8:45pm Gary: ↳ TDK60 @8:43 My memory is that you can order from any branch in Queens -- when I was trying to watch all of The Sopranos and The Wire on DVD the first time, I had to cobble together seasons from various branches. I know, I know, you're talking about Kanopy, which is online, but, maybe they do have some things on DVD that you'd wanna see ...
	8:52pm slugluv1313: ↳ Ike @8:39 oh geez, i had no idea -- that totally sucks! looks like Kedi may be available on youtube?? and to echo TDK60 and Gary -- you may be able to watch with DVDs? (the Hoboken library is similar, in that it is part of a network of libraries in northern NJ -- so i borrow stuff from other libraries all the time)
	8:53pm Gary: ↳ slugluv1313 @8:52 Kedi! I need to see that again
	8:55pm Dean: Librarian here. I second Ike's parenthetical. But as TDK60 intimates, if you demand convenience, you will pay for it, and in ways and to extents none of us is able to predict. Prices will go up, and some prices will go way up. If finding your way to the public library to check out an object is a pain in the ass, and if you prefer "virtual" engagement with the sources of the content you seek, then you must be prepared to deal with Terms of Service and varieties of "congestion pricing."
	8:58pm Dean: On a brighter note, I just learned that Fred Frith will be making a house concert appearance in N. Berkeley in early February. Gosh, I hope it's streamed.
	8:59pm TDK60: I still use a lot of DVDs and CDs from the library. I live in Manhattan so there is a big stock to choose from. Like some other systems mentioned you can borrow from the whole, get items delivered to your branch. But you still have to go into pick it up. I'm a bit old-fashioned so I don't mind.
	🇰🇷 9:00pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Taealamtuha Buqaa اتعلم وها بقى" by "Ahmed Adawey... The flute on these past few pieces is rocking!
	🇰🇷 9:00pm Alex from Media: I have sat back and listened for a bit now. I find the musicality of the vocals intersting. But I keep coming back to the idea that I should really know what they're singing about. This music is so vocals centric I feel I'm missing the whole point.
	9:03pm Gary: ↳ Alex from Media @9:00 Alex, grab the Arabic title for any of the songs and Google it along with the word "lyrics." Then, if you get a hit, take the Arabic and plop it into Google Translate -- better than nothing!
	9:07pm Ike: ↳ slugluv1313 @8:52 "Kedi" is the one good title that the QPL tier of Kanopy does have. I'm compiling a list of great movies that Kanopy is supposed to have and aren't available on the QPL version of Kanopy and submitting my gripe to Reddit as a public service. (Trying to stay off Reddit lately, but seriously, this is just a waste of taxpayer money. Either get Kanopy or don't get Kanopy, not this shitty not-even-half-assed version.)
	9:14pm mackeral: ↳ Ike @9:07 agreed re: interlibrary borrowing and sneakernet. 2025 is Delete Your Account year, for me. Services and convenience? Destination: out.
	9:15pm mackeral: ↳ mackeral @9:14 Ike, maybe QPL can articulate their collection development policy so everyone's ont he same page. They may even welcome suggestions.
	9:16pm TDK60: ↳ Ike @9:07 Does it cost libraries much to feature such streaming services like Kanopy? Is Kanopy a private company?
	🇰🇷 9:17pm Alex from Media: ↳ Gary @9:03 Thanks! Work in progress.
	9:27pm Gary: ↳ Song: "Alih Tayah" by "Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية" Some of you will recognize the riff here from Natacha Atlas's version of "I Put a Spell on You" -- I think they might have sampled (or recreated it)
	9:30pm mic_a: My bedtime snack is calling me... Thanks Gary. Good nights to you all.
	9:30pm Ike: ↳ TDK60 @9:16 First question: Yes. Second: Don't know. My point is they should either have it or don't have it, not some not-even-quarter-assed version that probably still costs way too much for what they're getting, which is very little IMHO. More here: www.reddit.com...
	9:31pm slugluv1313: ↳ Gary @9:27 omg YES! i am loving this -- and definitely hearing Natacha's totally arresting (imho!) version of "I Put a Spell On You" too (will have to listen to see if it is indeed sampled)
	9:32pm TDK60: Wickepee says: "On July 1, 2019, three of the largest public libraries in the United States—the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Queens Public Library—discontinued Kanopy, citing unpredictable and unsustainable costs." It is owned by a larger corp: KKR.
	9:33pm Gary: ↳ mic_a @9:30 Night, mic_a!
	9:36pm Dean: @TDK60: Yes, it does. And yes, it is. Kanopy is now owned by OverDrive: https://company.overdrive.com/company-profile/who-we-are/ Costs tend to be calibrated to FTE, e.g., the size of community served, the number of students, etc. This means libraries pay to permit access by their entire community, fully aware that not everybody will use the service. Ike, "quarter-assed-versions" are merely choices! If you can't or don't want to pay for the half-assed-version, you might choose the quarter-assed-version. We're here to supply your individual needs!
	9:40pm Ike: ↳ Dean @9:36 I clearly specified that this is "not-even-quarter-assed." It has fewer than approximately 5% of the movies from the various lists of correctly-updated "best movies on Kanopy right now" etc.: www.reddit.com... I absolutely do NOT blame the library. I blame Kanopy for instituting different tiers and not being open and transparent about it. And the greedy IP holders.
	9:43pm Ike: digs dusty DVD player out of closet
	9:44pm Gary: Music Lovers! Silence Haters! Stick around after this non-silent radio broadcast for another, similarly non-silent broadcast by the always-already non-silent Sam Segal and his program If You Lose Your Horse! Tonight's episode: "Loosing the Eternal Horses From the Dens of Night" wfmu.org...
	🇰🇷 9:45pm chresti: Haha "quarter-assed"!
	9:45pm Dean: That's exactly what I took what you wrote to. mean, Ike. The reason vendors (not libraries) offer gradations of stuff, rather than all or nothing at all, is because they will entice still another sucker/consumer who will "choose" the lower tier, rather than not purchase at all.
	9:47pm Asheville Jon: Really enjoyed the show tonight, thanks Gary!
	9:48pm Dean: Libraries are in a position to negotiate these licenses, but give me a break. Very few have the leverage to demand full access at the quarter-assed price. And it's absurd to imagine a library successfully negotiating wide-open access for everybody and his uncle, because then no other library, nor anybody else, would need to pay for the service.
	9:48pm Gary: Ashville Jon! Thanks for listening!
	9:49pm Dean: I realize you're at least as concerned about access-to-what as access-to-whom, but it's all part of the calculation.
	9:53pm northguineahills: ↳ Alex from Media @7:42 thanks, gary!
	9:54pm mackeral: This has been great. Thanks again, Gary!
	9:57pm tim abdellah: Thanks for the chaabi-fest, Gary. Catch ya soon!
	🇰🇷 9:57pm Alex from Media: Thanks Gary! Hi NGH! Thanks for thanking Gary for me!
	9:57pm Gary: Good night and thanks, all!
	9:59pm Listener Gregory: Hey, thanks, Gary! I’m still here, in one piece. Great show.
	9:59pm slugluv1313: this has been so cool and wonderful and fun, Gary -- thanks so much! 🐱🐱
	10:00pm Yvang: Thanks Gary! Great show, loved it!
	🇰🇷 10:01pm chresti: Thanks Gary!

Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan: Playlist from January 8, 2025

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January 8, 2025: AHMED ADAWEYA 1945-2024
A three-hour tribute to one of the greatest singers of all time, covering his early 70s hits through his mind-blowing cassette-only albums of the late 1970s-'80s.

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Ahmed Adaweya (crouching) soaks in the thrill of Abdel Halim Hafez (front, at mic) belting out Adaweya's "El Sah El Dah Embo." Hafez would later deny the event ever happened.

Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Bodega Pop	introduction "introduction" by "Bodega Pop"	Bodega Pop	2025		0:00:00 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	El Sah El Dah Embo السح الدح إمبو	El Sah El Dah Embo b/w Mawwal السح الدح إمبو / موال	1973	This was Ahmed Adaweya's first big hit.	0:04:40 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Mawwal موال	El Sah El Dah Embo b/w Mawwal السح الدح إمبو / موال	1973		0:07:02 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Ahu Aha Aha Aha Ahu أهو أها أهأ أهأ اهو	Ahu Aha Aha Aha Ahu b/w Sit El Banat Ya Shabatan أهو أها أهأ أهأ اهو / ست البنات يا شابة	1973		0:09:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Sit El Banat Ya Shabatan ست البنات يا شابة	Ahu Aha Aha Aha Ahu b/w Sit El Banat Ya Shabatan أهو أها أهأ أهأ اهو / ست البنات يا شابة	1973		0:14:52 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Salamitha Oum Hassen سلامتها أم حسن	Salamitha Oum Hassen b/w Mawal Atchaane سلامتها أم حسن / موال عطشان	1973		0:19:42 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Mawal Atchaane موال عطشان	Salamitha Oum Hassen b/w Mawal Atchaane سلامتها أم حسن / موال عطشان	1973		0:24:27 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	INSTRUMENTAL Egypt Nights ليالي مصر	Adaweya in London عدوية في لندن	1973		0:28:03 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Bint El Sultan بنت السلطان	Bint El Sultan بنت السلطان	1977		0:35:05 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Jouz Walla Fard جوز ولا فرد	Jouz Walla Fard جوز ولا فرد	1978		0:48:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Ahla El Ersan احلى العرسان	An Evening at Home سهرة في بيت	1976		0:54:14 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Omar Khorshid	Sidi Mansour "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid"	Guitar El Chark	2010		0:56:47 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Bagheer Ala El Set بغير على الست	Namema نميمة			1:02:51 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Alo (Hello) آلو	Qalaq قلق	1979		1:09:16 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Hez Ya Hob هز يا حب	Ahom Ahom Ahom أهم أهم أهم	1981		1:15:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Zamah زحمة	Zamah زحمة	1980		1:19:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Baligh Hamdi بليغ حمدي	Rihla رحلة	Qadayna Allayali b/w Rihla قضينا الليالي / رحلة	1970		1:28:50 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	A-Baa Fouk (Haba Fouk We Haba Taht حبة فوق وحبة تحت)	A-Baa Fouk b/w Ya Naghma (Haba Fouk We Haba Taht b/w Mawal حبة فوق وحبة تحت / موال)	1974		1:34:31 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Ya Naghma (Mawal موال)	A-Baa Fouk b/w Ya Naghma (Haba Fouk We Haba Taht b/w Mawal حبة فوق وحبة تحت / موال)	1974		1:40:10 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Kolo Ala Kolo كله على كله	Kolo Ala Kolo b/w Ya Qalbi Sibak كله على كله / يا قلبى سيبك	1974		1:43:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Ya Qalbi Sibak يا قلبى سيبك	Kolo Ala Kolo b/w Ya Qalbi Sibak كله على كله / يا قلبى سيبك	1974		1:47:43 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Sitt al-Hawanim ست الهوانم	Sitt al-Hawanim b/w Mawal Farah ست الهوانم / موال الفرح	1974		1:50:36 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Mawwal Farah موال الفرح	Sitt al-Hawanim b/w Mawal Farah ست الهوانم / موال الفرح	1974		1:54:13 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Taealamtuha Buqaa اتعلم وها بقى	Taealamtuha Buqaa b/w Mawwal Habeit Geid اتعلم وها بقى / موال حبيت جديد	1974		1:58:06 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Abd al-Rahman al-Khamisi عبد الرحمن الخميسي	African Dance رقصة افريقيا	Faten = فاتن / African Dance = رقصة افريقيا			2:03:45 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	6/6 ٦/٦	Ahom Ahom Ahom أهم أهم أهم	1981		2:08:08 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Ekteblena Ya Qady إكتب لنا يا قاضي	Salam Murabae عدوية سلام مربع	1978		2:17:09 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Alih Tayah	Very Best of Ahmed Adaweya	1995		2:24:26 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mohammad Jamal محمد جمال	Mili Ma Mal El Hawa - Instrumental ميلي ما مال الهوى - موسيقى	Doroup El Hawa دروب الهوى	1981		2:34:04 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Eajabiun Ealayk Ya Zaman / Alawilat Ah عجبي عليك يا زمن / الاولة اه	عجبي عليك يا زمن / الاولة اه / ياللي بتعمل طيب / عجبي على ناس يا زمن	1971		2:40:17 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	El Marassi	Very Best of Ahmed Adaweya	1995		2:44:20 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Dawar A'l Hanan	Senin Takhodna	1993		2:48:59 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية	Nas Lama Bakht	Ahmed Adaweya			2:53:29 (MP3 \| Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Catrina Paslaru	Hei La Bodega "Hei La Bodega" by "Catrina Paslaru"	Hei La Bodega - Carnaval!	2000		2:58:30 (MP3 \| Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🇰🇷 7:01pm Listener Gregory: Good evening, cats. In honor of today's show, I am listening on cassette.
	🇰🇷 7:01pm Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: Greetings Gary, fellow Bodegaguerros! In the home stretch at work.
	7:01pm tim abdellah: Ezzayak ya Gary!
	7:03pm listener james from westwood: Evening, Gary and all!
	7:03pm still b/p: When a Venice Beach webcam turns north, you can see the bank of thick smoke heading out to sea below a band of blue sky. The quiet of it while hearing and seeing accounts of the hellish scenes and losses at the fire locations themselves is a bit eerie.
	7:03pm Yvang: hi Gary and Bodega customers!
	7:05pm peter: Hey Gary & all!
	7:05pm Gary: Evening, Gregory, Threemoons, Tim, James, b/p, Yvang, and Peter!
	7:06pm headcleaner: ↳ Song: "El Sah El Dah Embo السح الدح إمبو" by "Ahmed Adaw... Now this is hitting the ground running
	7:07pm Gary: Headcleaner!
	7:07pm mackeral: hey folks, and happy new year!
	7:08pm tim abdellah: ↳ Song: "Mawwal موال" by "Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية" Oh, a trumpet taqsim - nice!!
	7:08pm Gary: Mackeral!
	7:09pm Gary: ↳ tim abdellah @7:08 Lots of trumpet tonight!
	🇰🇷 7:10pm WR: Hello Gary and folks.
	7:10pm Gary: WR!
	🇰🇷 7:12pm chresti: Hi Gary bodega show!
	7:12pm Gary: Theee Chresti!
	7:15pm northguineahills: heyza gary!
	7:15pm wimpy: I was just coming in to say that trumpet is super neat! I can’t recall if I’ve heard a trumpet play like that in any of your shows
	7:16pm Gary: Wimpy!
	7:16pm wimpy: Granted I’ve only been listening since I think your Faust tribute show last year
	7:16pm Jeff g. via app: Help me cook dinner, Gary!
	7:17pm Gary: Jeff! My advice is to order out (it's what I did tonight)
	7:18pm mackeral: ↳ Song: "Sit El Banat Ya Shabatan ست البنات يا شابة" by "A... this tempo downshift is kick ass
	7:21pm Ike: Meow meow meow.
	7:22pm Gary: Tha Ike!
	7:22pm Gary: NGH! Missed you before somehow, hi!
	7:23pm northguineahills: ↳ Gary @7:22 i missed myself as well....
	🇰🇷 7:36pm Threemoons 🌛🌝🌜: Stellar show so far. Had to run down to get the mail; will be signing off work and doing Kitchen Stuff shortly but will have the show on in the background!
	7:37pm Charles: Hey hey what's happening in the Bodega?
	7:38pm Gary: Evening, Charles!
	7:39pm Charles: ↳ Ike @7:21 I'll never get tired of this cat :)
	🇰🇷 7:42pm Alex from Media: Hi Gary and Bodega rats! This is very new territory for me. Gonna do the eyes closed headphone sit back thing.
	🇰🇷 7:43pm chresti: ↳ Charles @7:39 Me too!
	7:43pm Gary: Alex! I envy anyone getting to hear Ahmed for the first time
	🇰🇷 7:43pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Charles @7:39 But the cat is VERY tired by now.
	7:43pm mic_a: Hello Gary and Bo-boppers! Hope everyone is safe in our many disaster areas.
	7:44pm Gary: Hey there, mic_a!
	7:56pm mackeral: knockin it outta the park today, Gary
	🇰🇷 7:57pm Listener Gregory: ↳ mackeral @7:56 That would be fine if only he would retrieve the ball himself.
	7:58pm tim abdellah: ↳ Song: "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid" Loving the Adaweya, but yay for more Sidi Mansour 😅😅😅
	7:58pm tom tom the pipers son: hi gary ...all have been listening... treating it as a sound bath.i trust it completely
	8:00pm TDK60: Ho Gary.
	8:04pm Gary: TDK60 and Tomx2!
	8:05pm wimpy: Hey Gary, this doesn’t really have much to do with anything, but do you have any thoughts on farid al atrash? I was exposed to him through sun city girls and thought it was cool to hear some of those older live albums where the crowd cheers for every line, but I don’t have much context or experience with middle eastern music so I was curious what someone who does would think.
	8:05pm Ike: Oh shit, I just realized I can get Kanopy and Hoopla with my Queens Public Library card. Brooklyn PL and NYPL do not have either one. I can finally watch "Kedi" now! Recommendations? (Nothing too depressing please.)
	8:07pm Gary: ↳ wimpy @8:05 Farid El Atrache is amazing, there are a couple of God-tier oud solos that everyone should hear at least once in their lives
	8:09pm Gary: ↳ Gary @8:07 Takasim Oud is one of them, from this release: www.discogs.com...
	8:10pm wimpy: Thanks for the tip! I’ll report back next week with thoughts
	8:11pm slugluv1313: greetings, Gary! Bodega dwellers! been listening -- WOW this is phenomenal! how am i so unfamiliar with Ahmed Adaweya?!? thank you so much for presenting these treasures! fascinating story behind that photo! Abdel Laim Hafez -- "The Dark Nightingale," iirc? and yes, according to wikipedia, the assault happened in 1989 those delis on Steinway Street! best dates i ever purchased were from one of those -- the shop was Egyptian, the dates from Algeria
	8:14pm Gary: Slugluv! Yes, there's a terrific accounting of the story in Andrew Simon's book on cassette culture in Egypt: www.sup.org...
	8:16pm mic_a: Yes -- I was just checking the index of "Media Of The Masses" and see he has a good number of citations. I'll get to read it later this year, I hope.
	8:19pm Gary: ↳ mic_a @8:16 He's working on a bio now of Sheikh Imam, which I can't wait for him to finish (altho I really wish he'd taken on Ahmed)
	🇰🇷 8:21pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Zamah زحمة" by "Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية" I like the backing singers on this.
	8:21pm slugluv1313: ↳ Ike @8:05 hi Ike! that is bizarre -- no Kanopy or Hoopla at NYPL or Brooklyn?!? (i remember Kedi! just never got to see it when it was released :( -- but i have Kanopy and Hoopla through the Hoboken public library, so i will correct that :) )
	8:22pm Gary: ↳ Listener Gregory @8:21 Love the bizarre doubling on Ahmed's voice on this too
	8:22pm slugluv1313: ↳ Gary @8:14 that looks incredible -- thanks, Gary!
	8:39pm Ike: ↳ slugluv1313 @8:21 Maybe I spoke too soon. This version of Kanopy is missing heaps of its best titles. (It's very expensive for these libraries to get Kanopy.) I wish there weren't all these different versions/tiers of Kanopy -- and it doesn't SAY you're getting a shitty low-budget version of it when you log in. It just says, "Sorry, this video is not available for your institution." Fuck. I blame the IP holders for being so greedy. Cassavetes' Mikey and Nicky? On other versions of Kanopy, but not this one. The Wages of Fear? "Not available for your institution." Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast? Forget it, not via QPL.
	8:43pm TDK60: ↳ Ike @8:39 Maybe they have Beauty and the Beast, etc. on DVD.
	8:45pm Gary: ↳ TDK60 @8:43 My memory is that you can order from any branch in Queens -- when I was trying to watch all of The Sopranos and The Wire on DVD the first time, I had to cobble together seasons from various branches. I know, I know, you're talking about Kanopy, which is online, but, maybe they do have some things on DVD that you'd wanna see ...
	8:52pm slugluv1313: ↳ Ike @8:39 oh geez, i had no idea -- that totally sucks! looks like Kedi may be available on youtube?? and to echo TDK60 and Gary -- you may be able to watch with DVDs? (the Hoboken library is similar, in that it is part of a network of libraries in northern NJ -- so i borrow stuff from other libraries all the time)
	8:53pm Gary: ↳ slugluv1313 @8:52 Kedi! I need to see that again
	8:55pm Dean: Librarian here. I second Ike's parenthetical. But as TDK60 intimates, if you demand convenience, you will pay for it, and in ways and to extents none of us is able to predict. Prices will go up, and some prices will go way up. If finding your way to the public library to check out an object is a pain in the ass, and if you prefer "virtual" engagement with the sources of the content you seek, then you must be prepared to deal with Terms of Service and varieties of "congestion pricing."
	8:58pm Dean: On a brighter note, I just learned that Fred Frith will be making a house concert appearance in N. Berkeley in early February. Gosh, I hope it's streamed.
	8:59pm TDK60: I still use a lot of DVDs and CDs from the library. I live in Manhattan so there is a big stock to choose from. Like some other systems mentioned you can borrow from the whole, get items delivered to your branch. But you still have to go into pick it up. I'm a bit old-fashioned so I don't mind.
	🇰🇷 9:00pm Listener Gregory: ↳ Song: "Taealamtuha Buqaa اتعلم وها بقى" by "Ahmed Adawey... The flute on these past few pieces is rocking!
	🇰🇷 9:00pm Alex from Media: I have sat back and listened for a bit now. I find the musicality of the vocals intersting. But I keep coming back to the idea that I should really know what they're singing about. This music is so vocals centric I feel I'm missing the whole point.
	9:03pm Gary: ↳ Alex from Media @9:00 Alex, grab the Arabic title for any of the songs and Google it along with the word "lyrics." Then, if you get a hit, take the Arabic and plop it into Google Translate -- better than nothing!
	9:07pm Ike: ↳ slugluv1313 @8:52 "Kedi" is the one good title that the QPL tier of Kanopy does have. I'm compiling a list of great movies that Kanopy is supposed to have and aren't available on the QPL version of Kanopy and submitting my gripe to Reddit as a public service. (Trying to stay off Reddit lately, but seriously, this is just a waste of taxpayer money. Either get Kanopy or don't get Kanopy, not this shitty not-even-half-assed version.)
	9:14pm mackeral: ↳ Ike @9:07 agreed re: interlibrary borrowing and sneakernet. 2025 is Delete Your Account year, for me. Services and convenience? Destination: out.
	9:15pm mackeral: ↳ mackeral @9:14 Ike, maybe QPL can articulate their collection development policy so everyone's ont he same page. They may even welcome suggestions.
	9:16pm TDK60: ↳ Ike @9:07 Does it cost libraries much to feature such streaming services like Kanopy? Is Kanopy a private company?
	🇰🇷 9:17pm Alex from Media: ↳ Gary @9:03 Thanks! Work in progress.
	9:27pm Gary: ↳ Song: "Alih Tayah" by "Ahmed Adaweya أحمد عدوية" Some of you will recognize the riff here from Natacha Atlas's version of "I Put a Spell on You" -- I think they might have sampled (or recreated it)
	9:30pm mic_a: My bedtime snack is calling me... Thanks Gary. Good nights to you all.
	9:30pm Ike: ↳ TDK60 @9:16 First question: Yes. Second: Don't know. My point is they should either have it or don't have it, not some not-even-quarter-assed version that probably still costs way too much for what they're getting, which is very little IMHO. More here: www.reddit.com...
	9:31pm slugluv1313: ↳ Gary @9:27 omg YES! i am loving this -- and definitely hearing Natacha's totally arresting (imho!) version of "I Put a Spell On You" too (will have to listen to see if it is indeed sampled)
	9:32pm TDK60: Wickepee says: "On July 1, 2019, three of the largest public libraries in the United States—the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Queens Public Library—discontinued Kanopy, citing unpredictable and unsustainable costs." It is owned by a larger corp: KKR.
	9:33pm Gary: ↳ mic_a @9:30 Night, mic_a!
	9:36pm Dean: @TDK60: Yes, it does. And yes, it is. Kanopy is now owned by OverDrive: https://company.overdrive.com/company-profile/who-we-are/ Costs tend to be calibrated to FTE, e.g., the size of community served, the number of students, etc. This means libraries pay to permit access by their entire community, fully aware that not everybody will use the service. Ike, "quarter-assed-versions" are merely choices! If you can't or don't want to pay for the half-assed-version, you might choose the quarter-assed-version. We're here to supply your individual needs!
	9:40pm Ike: ↳ Dean @9:36 I clearly specified that this is "not-even-quarter-assed." It has fewer than approximately 5% of the movies from the various lists of correctly-updated "best movies on Kanopy right now" etc.: www.reddit.com... I absolutely do NOT blame the library. I blame Kanopy for instituting different tiers and not being open and transparent about it. And the greedy IP holders.
	9:43pm Ike: digs dusty DVD player out of closet
	9:44pm Gary: Music Lovers! Silence Haters! Stick around after this non-silent radio broadcast for another, similarly non-silent broadcast by the always-already non-silent Sam Segal and his program If You Lose Your Horse! Tonight's episode: "Loosing the Eternal Horses From the Dens of Night" wfmu.org...
	🇰🇷 9:45pm chresti: Haha "quarter-assed"!
	9:45pm Dean: That's exactly what I took what you wrote to. mean, Ike. The reason vendors (not libraries) offer gradations of stuff, rather than all or nothing at all, is because they will entice still another sucker/consumer who will "choose" the lower tier, rather than not purchase at all.
	9:47pm Asheville Jon: Really enjoyed the show tonight, thanks Gary!
	9:48pm Dean: Libraries are in a position to negotiate these licenses, but give me a break. Very few have the leverage to demand full access at the quarter-assed price. And it's absurd to imagine a library successfully negotiating wide-open access for everybody and his uncle, because then no other library, nor anybody else, would need to pay for the service.
	9:48pm Gary: Ashville Jon! Thanks for listening!
	9:49pm Dean: I realize you're at least as concerned about access-to-what as access-to-whom, but it's all part of the calculation.
	9:53pm northguineahills: ↳ Alex from Media @7:42 thanks, gary!
	9:54pm mackeral: This has been great. Thanks again, Gary!
	9:57pm tim abdellah: Thanks for the chaabi-fest, Gary. Catch ya soon!
	🇰🇷 9:57pm Alex from Media: Thanks Gary! Hi NGH! Thanks for thanking Gary for me!
	9:57pm Gary: Good night and thanks, all!
	9:59pm Listener Gregory: Hey, thanks, Gary! I’m still here, in one piece. Great show.
	9:59pm slugluv1313: this has been so cool and wonderful and fun, Gary -- thanks so much! 🐱🐱
	10:00pm Yvang: Thanks Gary! Great show, loved it!
	🇰🇷 10:01pm chresti: Thanks Gary!

Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan: Playlist from January 8, 2025

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