Ken | Playlist | 14 November 2007

Wed. 11/14/07 9:01am From: Andrew

Hey Ken,
new Wire smokes!
Any band updates for the bar mitzvah?

Wed. 11/14/07 9:03am From: Doug

Holy crap new Wire!

Wed. 11/14/07 9:05am From: Ken

Don't get TOO excited about the new Wire. It's good, but not as great as their recent releases.

Wed. 11/14/07 9:11am From: Ken

Wire was going to play the Bar Mitzvah tonight, but now the Bar Mitzvah needs to be postponed due to Andy's recent conversion to Rosicrucianism.

Wed. 11/14/07 9:16am From: Keith

Even when Wire produces lukewarm material, it somehow ends up being catalogued as genius 15 years down the road.

Wed. 11/14/07 9:17am From: Ken

I'd say the new Wire EP is better than Lukewarm, it just not completely on fire like Read and Burn 01.

Wed. 11/14/07 9:18am From: Melissa

Hi, Ken. I'm feeling slutty but anxious today. Will your program have anything to offer me?

Wed. 11/14/07 9:20am From: Ken

Hi Melissa, funny you should ask. I do have some material which will be especially sppealing to the emerging Slutty, Anxious Female (SAF) demographic. Coming up in half an hour or so,

Wed. 11/14/07 9:21am From: Schvety

Holy crap, new Einsturzende Neubauten!?!
This makes me feel slutty but anxious. And greasy and verklempt also.

Wed. 11/14/07 9:23am From: Keith

Very good, Ken. Your management expertise has uncovered the secret of attracting the coveted SAF demographic. Commercial radio is going to snatch you up.

Wed. 11/14/07 9:24am From: Andrew

Isn't this LCD track on "The Sound of Silver" with vocals? "Something Great Has Gone"?

Wed. 11/14/07 9:25am From: Melissa

I am part of the SAFFFF demo. Slutty, Anxious, Floundering Free-Form Female.

Wed. 11/14/07 9:28am From: Parq

Never mind commercial radio. When are aspiring presidential candidates going to start courting the crucial SAF voting block? ("And I will fight tirelessly in Congress for tax credits toward the purchase of black lace security blankets!")

Wed. 11/14/07 9:29am From: zoe

huh, I think I too might be part of of this SAF/SAFFFF demographic

Wed. 11/14/07 9:30am From: Schvety

Snatchity-snatch.

Wed. 11/14/07 9:33am From: Andrew

Have there been any conclusive correlations drawn between the anxiety and sluttishness?

Wed. 11/14/07 9:34am From: nh_dave

Actually Ken it is the inverse. Sound of Silver took a chunk of 45:33 and put vocals to it.

I like the vocal version more oddly. Used to run to it all the time which was interesting.

Wed. 11/14/07 9:36am From: Hatch

Clinton's pollster is also targeting "Married couples who met on the internet." No joke.

Wed. 11/14/07 9:40am From: nh_dave

The level of pandering up here in NH is pretty funny every four years when our humble little state is relevant for a minute or two. You can literally meet up with some of the candidates at local residents bake sales and the like.

It almost makes you feel that they care.

More RX! Woohoo!

Wed. 11/14/07 9:41am From: cheri

heeey ken,,good morning,,,how was you're week??

Wed. 11/14/07 9:43am From: Schvety

I think anxiety and sluttishness feed on each other. For instance, when I'm feeling anxious, I feel slutty, and feeling slutty makes me anxious. It's rather a thrill, either way.

Wed. 11/14/07 9:45am From: Ken

Just trying to keep myself on my toes. As you were...

Wed. 11/14/07 9:46am From: proplox from florida

oddly enough, since both reps and dems have deemed Florida's "earlier" primaries as non-binding, there's virtually no ads or campaigning here. kinda eerie. you should be very envious.

much more gong, by the way

Wed. 11/14/07 9:47am From: Listener Randy

The official band of single anxious females? I vote for Pylon.

Wed. 11/14/07 9:50am From: Ken

If Slutty Anxious Females are defined as Hillary supporters and Hillary's official campaign song is some Celine Dion song, then doesn't that make Celine Dion the poster girl for SAFs?

Wed. 11/14/07 9:50am From: SAF #77

Oh, Ken! Pleeeeeeezzzeee play M Train!

Wed. 11/14/07 9:52am From: Andrew

R.I.P. Lady Jaye

This new Psychic TV is strong despite some of the condescending reviews by the internet cognoscenti. The transposition of the woot woots from "Sympathy for the Devil" are always welcome.

Secondly, my sluttishness is the precursor to my anxiety.

Wed. 11/14/07 9:52am From: cheri

ken,,i'm just wondering why don't you play any blues on your show?? with artists such as jon hendricks,,slim harpo,,howlin wolf,,etc

Wed. 11/14/07 9:56am From: Andrew

BLUESHAMMER!

Wed. 11/14/07 9:57am From: Vicki

I think I'd be far more interested in knowing WHY Ken plays what he does :)

Wed. 11/14/07 9:57am From: Ken

NH Dave - You should get a few fellow New Hampshire-ites and sell your collective votes on eBay. You might have to phrase it carefully so the eBay doesn't pull it though.

Wed. 11/14/07 9:58am From: proplox

39 Clocks
48 Chairs
I'm envisioning a trend here.
By my calculations, 57 Curtains within the hour

Wed. 11/14/07 10:00am From: Listener Dave from NH

I'd consider getting in on that action too, but I'm afraid that the insane LaRouche-ites would buy my vote up and there are depths that even I can't sink to.
I was amused - I was out in Burlington, VT to see Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings this weekend and for the first time, I saw "GOOGLE RON PAUL" print-outs all over the place. His supporters should Google primary 2008 to find out where those posters might make a bit of a difference.

Wed. 11/14/07 10:01am From: jamesie

from one psychle slut to another I salute thee

Wed. 11/14/07 10:02am From: cheri

ken?? i think you SHOULD play some blues on you're show,,,

Wed. 11/14/07 10:02am From: Schvety

how exciting!

Wed. 11/14/07 10:05am From: Richard

JCC! Saw him a few times in the UK a loooong time ago. It always cracked me up - trying to bring poetry to a usually very unreceptive audience. But he didn't seem to care and I think he may have even had a few singles in the (UK) charts.
Ken thanks for the "event" last night - the Ken/Andy bit was funny! American Pie anyone?

Wed. 11/14/07 10:07am From: cheri

OK i'm detecting a pattern here,,,,

Wed. 11/14/07 10:07am From: nh_dave

Oh the Ron Paul supporters are great. There is a guy down the street from me that has a huge "Ron Paul, RLOVEution" sign. Thing is like 10X12 on his front yard.

Seriously tempted to toss my vote at him in the primary just to keep the humor alive a bit longer.

Wed. 11/14/07 10:08am From: Keith

Suzi Quatro for president!!

Wed. 11/14/07 10:09am From: Ron Paula

Wasn't Suzi Quatro on some Seventies TV show?

Wed. 11/14/07 10:10am From: Andrew

The RLOVEution has already been co-opted by Lenny Kravitz for his huge comeback!

Is that Little Annie in there with the Runaways, this makes me tranquil in my slutsiness.

Wed. 11/14/07 10:11am From: jon

happy days...i think

Wed. 11/14/07 10:13am From: pat

Suzi was "Leather Tuscadero" on Happy Days....right?

Wed. 11/14/07 10:15am From: Listener Dave from NH

If you were as big of a monster as I am, you could make your own "GOOGLE RON PAUL AND STORMFRONT" posters and plaster them all over the neighborhood.
Too much like for work, considering he'll pull fewer votes than Stephen Colbert.

Wed. 11/14/07 10:21am From: hjmaiere

Yes, Diebold will see to that.

Wed. 11/14/07 10:22am From: cheri

ken,,i take it you won't play any blues on you're show,,,::sigh::

Wed. 11/14/07 10:23am From: Ken

Regarding last week's complaints about the auto-refresh feature on these here comments, Kenzo has made the comments refresh every 60 seconds instead of every 30, and he will soon add a "pause" and "resume" auto-refresh feature so that people can catch up on old comments and then let them resume the autoamtic refreshing.

Wed. 11/14/07 10:26am From: (NV)S(NV)AF

Good Kenzo idea.

cheri-- there's loads already.

Wed. 11/14/07 10:26am From: dei xhrist (NH)

Thanks Dave/NH - I DID just google Ron Paul & Stormfront. Some of my neighbors are Ron Paulers, yet 2nd or 3rd generation emigres to America. And, the best kept house on their block belongs to a Latino family.

Wed. 11/14/07 10:28am From: Nena

Nein und neinzig Lauftballoons? Ich hope so

Wed. 11/14/07 10:30am From: Doug

http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?genre=blues

Wed. 11/14/07 10:34am From: cheri

ken?? you're not even listening to me,,are you???

Wed. 11/14/07 10:35am From: Nena

Lena Zavaroni, that's blues, there you go

Wed. 11/14/07 10:37am From: SueB

This song is disturbing

Wed. 11/14/07 10:38am From: cannonball

cheri, my guess is all requests/genre questions will fall on deaf ears. Its just not what this forum is for. Hit up the archives if you want some blues.

Wed. 11/14/07 10:41am From: Ken

Sorry Cheri, you're just comin' at me from left field. E-mail me off playlist if you want a more full explanation - ken at wfmu dot org

Wed. 11/14/07 10:44am From: jonathan

yes! monster noises!

Wed. 11/14/07 10:45am From: nEGATOR

KEN! LISTEN TO ME! i'M WRITING IN CAPS!

Wed. 11/14/07 10:45am From: dave in vermont

it's so intersting to me how we who listen online and follow the playlist/comments have such a very different expereince of the show than if we were driving around hearing the airwaves broadcast

Wed. 11/14/07 10:45am From: Vivian

Good morning Ken and fellow WFMU listeners! Is this the Muppets scatting? Speaking of which, anyone heard of a Muppets UNCUT special to air in the next few weeks?

Wed. 11/14/07 10:46am From: SueB

gee - Tina has the pants on TODAY

Wed. 11/14/07 10:46am From: SueB

it took me 3 times to post that b/c of the math. what is wrong with me?

Wed. 11/14/07 10:47am From: dave from baltimore

woah... year of the slutty anxious female.... wtf?

Wed. 11/14/07 10:48am From: Doug

Haha! I thought Melissa had made that up, and then I googled "slutty anxious female." I'll be danged! Ken,, play some AOR,,

Wed. 11/14/07 10:50am From: Mark

SueB, perhaps you're feeling extra slutty and anxious today

Wed. 11/14/07 10:52am From: dei xhrist

they're only "practicing" medicine, as mom always said.

Wed. 11/14/07 10:53am From: Negator

Collect up those ear crystals and sprinkle them on a bong hit! You'll thank me, Ken!

Wed. 11/14/07 10:53am From: pfapfap

Ken says "aughts"! I've been trying for a decade to get others to say it. Well, at least since '02, when I could say "back in aught-one..."

Wed. 11/14/07 10:54am From: -max-

WFMU! Where unusual maladies are diagnosed by our own listeners!!

Wed. 11/14/07 10:57am From: north guinea hills

i've been saying naught, as in naught -7

Wed. 11/14/07 10:57am From: hjmaiere

This song sounds suspiciously like the blues.

Wed. 11/14/07 10:58am From: Jim T.

Hey Ken! What are you doing for the inner ear thing?
I think my wife has it.

Wed. 11/14/07 10:58am From: Listener David

Howard Stern also was cured after reading Dr. Sarno's book. He used to rave about it on his show.

Wed. 11/14/07 10:59am From: SueB

it seems pfapfap has trouble with math too. more SAF syndrome?

Wed. 11/14/07 11:01am From: cheri

ken,,,even though he's not here i want to give a shout out to mta tony,,thank soo much ken,,

Wed. 11/14/07 11:03am From: John from Oslo

BPPV?! Read all about it: http://www.tchain.com/otoneurology/disorders/bppv/bppv.html

Imagine Ken, you might be able to listen to radio airwaves, just like the first radios - using your inner ear crystals! Go patent that Icrystal Ken!

Wed. 11/14/07 11:03am From: nh_dave

It is funny, I have never actually listened to FMU over the air. Always been an internet streamer (and literally over a decade ago my company pitched FMU to do the streaming). Even when I lived in NYC it was streaming. (yes I mouse of today to keep things going hehehehe)

I do think that the experience would be much different. The thing I have always loved about FMU is the strange community of which I am part of that really tries to understand the odd music LOL

Wed. 11/14/07 11:06am From: Negator

Slutty anxious female song, Patti Smith's, "Rock-n-Roll Nigger" The ultimate sluttyanxious female song!

Wed. 11/14/07 11:07am From: Torbjorn (from Haugesund)

I have listened to the terrestrial broadcast just once, in January, when I was over there.
It was such a life-changing experience that I videotaped it and uploaded it to youtube, actually, hehe ..
How I do love the internet, and the fact that it brings me WFMU !
John from Oslo, finnes det noen andre norske lyttere, eller ? .. Jeg har enda ikke moett noen.

Wed. 11/14/07 11:07am From: Ken

It was listener Burt who done diagnosed my problem: "Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo" The Epley Maneuver is the treatment, basically hanging your head upside down a few times a day.

Wed. 11/14/07 11:08am From: SueB

My audio prof put that song on a project compilation for the students. in Jersey City.

Wed. 11/14/07 11:12am From: Lukas

I think that CNN news bit is bogus. My inside sources tell me that Miranda July, Karen Finley and Sandra Bernhard all support Mike Gravel.

Wed. 11/14/07 11:13am From: SueB

R U upside down right now?

Wed. 11/14/07 11:14am From: John from Oslo

Hi Torbjorn. I can't tell how many Norwegians are listening. Maybe Ken has some stats from the streams he'd like to share.

Wed. 11/14/07 11:15am From: Parq

Following up on Doug's comment, I am astonished and a bit chagrined to find that the "Slutty Anxious Female voting block" is a pre-existing concept that has already been noted in the major news media. Naiively, I thought that, along with the other commenters back around 9:15 EST, I was just making it up. Reaffirms the old saw about the paucity of satire in the face of modern reality.

Wed. 11/14/07 11:18am From: Vivian

Parq, you used the term '...the old saw'. That is the second time I've seen that phrase in the last 24 hours. What does it mean when one says 'the old saw'?

Wed. 11/14/07 11:20am From: Listener Dave from NH

I thought that the comments on CNN were just some writers for "The Daily Show" surreptitiously breaking the writer's strike and ghost-writing some high comedy for the network.
Do you think that the people on the news networks ever stop for a minute to think about the words that are coming out of their mouths? I'm embarrassed for them.

Wed. 11/14/07 11:20am From: Chad

Does Autor de Lucie remind anyone else of the Sundays?

Wed. 11/14/07 11:21am From: cheri

geeeeeeesh i wish tony was here,,he'd know what to do,,,,,

Wed. 11/14/07 11:22am From: Ken

I am shocked and appaled that some of you think that I would make up that "Slutty Anxious Females" business. You can't make shit like that up! I found it at Media Matters - mediamatters.org - my one stop shop for all media psychoses.

Wed. 11/14/07 11:27am From: Dough

I think "old saw" is synonymous with "old saying."

Wed. 11/14/07 11:28am From: Negator

This sounds like Fatty Jubbo!

Wed. 11/14/07 11:31am From: pfapfap

Will the hooker still be there?

Wed. 11/14/07 11:31am From: Parq

From something called phrases.org.UK:

Main Entry: saw
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English sawe, from Old English "sagu" discourse; akin to Old High German & Old Norse "saga" tale, Old English "secgan" to say
Date: before 12th century

Parq appends: I found it on the Internet so it must be true.

Wed. 11/14/07 11:38am From: Andrew

Etymological refuse.
However, I may have to adopt the "saw".

Meanwhile, this "SAF" business is very troubling.

Wed. 11/14/07 11:40am From: Jim T.

Ken, thanks for the info on the inner ear problem. I will have my wife try hanging her head upside down (at home).
ps-Andy is a baby

Wed. 11/14/07 11:40am From: cheri

tell me....will you consider getting THE SIMPSONS MOVIE when it comes out ken??

Wed. 11/14/07 11:41am From: Ron D

WIRE!!! Read and burn 03 is great stuff!!!

Thanks Ken!!!

Wed. 11/14/07 11:45am From: Andrew

All hail the rechristening of the Rosicrucianists!

This Wire is a bit less the smokestack lightning I proclaimed earlier, it has that 80's English lyrical preoccupation with cataloguing absurdities in that "We Didn't Start the Fire" type way with an emphasis on morbid curios. I dig it though, the vocals are almost goth in a faux Transylvanian accent way.

Wed. 11/14/07 11:46am From: vivian

Thank you for the explanation Parq and thank you for the WIRE Ken!

Wed. 11/14/07 11:46am From: Ken

Cheri, please dont become the first person ever banned from playlist commenting.

Wed. 11/14/07 11:50am From: Andrew

Tinny Blues!
Psych Horseshit!!!
(This is what the Strokes could've sounded like)

Wed. 11/14/07 11:55am From: Doug

Speaking of that, Ken, I've been really, really surprised at the almost total lack of abuse and idiotic behavior in the playlist comments. It's remarkable.

Wed. 11/14/07 11:57am From: Lukas

Doug, remember that only people who can solve advanced math problems are allowed to comment here.

Wed. 11/14/07 11:58am From: Bad Ronald

SNort grunt gack arghhhl!

Wed. 11/14/07 11:59am From: NEGATOR

FATTY IS THAT YOU?

Wed. 11/14/07 11:59am From: Ken

zatumba

Wed. 11/14/07 11:59am From: Marcus

Zatumba

Wed. 11/14/07 11:59am From: Bryant

zatumba

Wed. 11/14/07 11:59am From: Chad

ZATUMBA

Wed. 11/14/07 11:59am From: jim T.

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Wed. 11/14/07 11:59am From: Listener Dave

zatumba

Wed. 11/14/07 11:59am From: Vivian

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Wed. 11/14/07 11:59am From: DEI XHRIST

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Wed. 11/14/07 11:59am From: north guinea hills

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Wed. 11/14/07 11:59am From: Bad Ronald

zatumba

Wed. 11/14/07 11:59am From: pfapfap

ZATUMBA

Wed. 11/14/07 12:00pm From: NEGATOR

ZATUMBA

Wed. 11/14/07 12:00pm From: Vicki

zatumba!

Wed. 11/14/07 12:00pm From: (NV)S(NV)AF

zatumba

Wed. 11/14/07 12:00pm From: pheezy

Z A T U M B A !

Wed. 11/14/07 12:00pm From: tpm

zatumba

Wed. 11/14/07 12:00pm From: Parq

zatumba

Wed. 11/14/07 12:00pm From: (mta) Tony

zatumba

Wed. 11/14/07 12:00pm From: mark

zatumba

Wed. 11/14/07 12:00pm From: jonathan

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Wed. 11/14/07 12:00pm From: Ron D

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Wed. 11/14/07 12:00pm From: jason

zatumba

Wed. 11/14/07 12:00pm From: Jack

zatumba

Wed. 11/14/07 12:00pm From: -max-

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Wed. 11/14/07 12:00pm From: big thought

ZATUMBA

Wed. 11/14/07 12:00pm From: Bartley

zatumba

Wed. 11/14/07 12:01pm From: SueB

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Wed. 11/14/07 12:01pm From: jarvis

zatumba

Wed. 11/14/07 12:01pm From: porcine

porcine

Wed. 11/14/07 12:01pm From: Doug

Zatumba?

Wed. 11/14/07 12:01pm From: Listener Dave from NH

zatumba
The intro to that Yo La Tengo song sounded like Tim Hecker to me (and that's a good thing).

Wed. 11/14/07 12:02pm From: Rococo Pagoda

Zatumba

Wed. 11/14/07 12:02pm From: zatumba

zatumba

Wed. 11/14/07 12:02pm From: NEGATOR

FATTY?

Wed. 11/14/07 12:02pm From: Parq

Wass ist das "zatumba"?

Wed. 11/14/07 12:03pm From: zatumba

ken, you feel 'nauseated,' not 'nauseous'

adjective: causing or able to cause nausea (Example: "Nauseous offal")

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