Listener comments!

Thu. 7/30/09 9:04am From: Adrian in London

Hello from rainy Britain, where the Met Office has had to offically revise its forecast that we would have, and I quote: "a barbecue summer." What with it pouring down for 40 days and 40 nights.

Thu. 7/30/09 9:07am From: trouble

good morning adrian, and everyone else in intermittent rainy lands

Thu. 7/30/09 9:07am From: gumby

It's OK Adrian
It's turning into London here. Coldest July in NYC history and it rains damn near everyday.

Thu. 7/30/09 9:08am From: PMD

Morning Trouble, and all.

Thu. 7/30/09 9:09am From: Barry

I remember writing (then) that we had no summer in Portland OR last year, well - high tues 101, high yesterday 105, high today 95 - it's 6 AM and its 77 degrees - this year we got all the summer you could want.

Thu. 7/30/09 9:32am From: Dum Dum Guy at the Gates of Dawn

No rain in DC, where your house can burn down because there is no pressure in the hydrants.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073000108.html?hpid=artslot

Morning!

Thu. 7/30/09 9:37am From: Chris

Where did that Wooden Shjips track come from? I didn't catch that.

Thu. 7/30/09 9:37am From: gumby

Yeah I see the weather channel guy is hanging out in Portland. If those guys or girls come to your town it's bad news.

Thu. 7/30/09 9:39am From: Leslie

Yesterday's papers: More an anti-monogamy song, (though with little regard for his soon to be ex-partner)

Thu. 7/30/09 9:39am From: trouble

chris, i don't know where it comes from originally. i got it off the web. look at fillessourires.blogspot.com

Thu. 7/30/09 9:41am From: Trapper

Whence comes this Hope Sandoval track? She's the only harmonica player I enjoy.

Thu. 7/30/09 9:41am From: PMD

Gumby, that is so true! Never thought of it that way.

Thu. 7/30/09 9:45am From: Barry

Brown lawns in Portland - the end of life as we know it.

Thu. 7/30/09 9:46am From: Chris

Thanks sooooo much for 'Letter Never Sent,' Trouble. This has made my day. You're a sweetheart!!!

Thu. 7/30/09 9:50am From: still b/p

In much of the country, the very clouds weep with sorrow at Obama's reported beer choice today: Bud Light.
The President of Hope, maybe, but not of much Hop.

Thu. 7/30/09 9:50am From: The first chris

Cool, I'm sort of a Wooden Shjips completist. Thanks.

Thu. 7/30/09 9:51am From: dale

barry, in the northeast it's mow every 5 days or else you'll have huge thick windrows of grass to rake up (the grass is growing to fast for the mulcher to be much use). and if you don't rake the grass roots die and weeds take its place. i always want to xeriscape (sp?), but I also don't want more deerticks than i pick off already.

Thu. 7/30/09 9:52am From: trouble

through the devil softly is the new hope sandoval and the warm inventions release, due out in september

Thu. 7/30/09 9:52am From: gumby

stillb/p hope not hop/ love it!
Yeah I was laughing at the beer thing, neither of the guys from Boston picked Sam Adams, you'd think th epolitician would know better. Then Obama picks the Belgian light. What is this country coming to?

Thu. 7/30/09 9:54am From: Jonathan Steinke

In other news, the condensation on bottles of Schlafly Beer are reported to actually be tears.

Thu. 7/30/09 9:54am From: Jonathan Steinke

That's "is reported"...

Thu. 7/30/09 9:55am From: annie

ok, i made it, been having a very odd week.. morning all!!

Thu. 7/30/09 9:55am From: Cecile

We have had little summer here in Minnnapolis. I love it, but I'm sure the tomatoes don't.

Thu. 7/30/09 9:55am From: still b/p

Our hope is for a better post-Bush and post-Busch world.

Thu. 7/30/09 9:57am From: dale

i love the seldom heard album version of 'love is like oxygen'

Thu. 7/30/09 9:57am From: Cecile

Obama is a perpetual dieter. Bud Light is lower in calories, and perhaps it was not a "cheat" day.

Thu. 7/30/09 9:58am From: annie

cecile, i went out to see the garden this morning after that heavy rain last night.. i see very healthy and happy assorted green things, no peppers at all to speak of.. and harvested the garlic .. 59 grew ... all varying sizes, due to wet soil.. good news is that i have alot of pvc left over from the well pump being installed.. hoop houses, i hoop!!

Thu. 7/30/09 10:00am From: gumby

happenin' very best track here. Where are they from?

Thu. 7/30/09 10:01am From: dale

annie, i picked up a bunch of old tlarge riple track storm windows for $5 each and plan to build a little hot house for next year.I can't defeat the deer or rabits or woodchucks or slugs or tomato hornworms or verticillium rot or....

Thu. 7/30/09 10:02am From: Cecile

Peppers like it a little drier I think.
Did you plant tomatoes, how are they doing?
And do you haz water again?

Thu. 7/30/09 10:02am From: dale

...large triple track.....

Thu. 7/30/09 10:03am From: trouble

the very best are here:
http://www.greenowlrecords.com/album/esau-mwamwaya-and-radioclit-are

Thu. 7/30/09 10:04am From: color matters

Guinness for strength!

Thu. 7/30/09 10:05am From: annie

dale, i found eight sweet celery plants amongst the wormwoods. planted them... the rabbits found them.. bummer. cecile, i have tomatoes, but they are still short and not thriving.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:08am From: Cecile

You know, color, Guineess is a good, low-calorie option. Lower calories than anything but light beer.

(former perpetual dieter)

Thu. 7/30/09 10:09am From: Cecile

See, tomatoes need wet, hot weather with big blasts of dry days. I'm kind of glad I didn't plant this year.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:10am From: Cecile

we had to pass on the red-skinned potatoes.
We've OD'd on them

Thu. 7/30/09 10:11am From: annie

i'm sure my soil is still at a very low temperature.. i'm sad... .. and the potatoes got the blight.. harvested tiny little fingerlings this week,

Thu. 7/30/09 10:12am From: gumby

What I loved about the early REM was the Stipe/Mills harmonic. They could have been singin' "f you and your mother too" amd it wouldn't have mattered because the sound was just so tantalizing.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:13am From: still b/p

Every cornfield I see 'round here is a sorry crop of late, short 'n wimpy -- make a feeble fire. How's the corn? Weenie...really, really. We'll see what shows at the farmers market.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:13am From: gumby

The Jayhawks and The Band had that thing too.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:17am From: annie

corn fields around here are very sad. some are flourishing, but most sit sparse and pathetic. they've asked for an emergency situation..

Thu. 7/30/09 10:17am From: beaker

Thanks for playing that Hazlewood song. I did not know he had released that album.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:20am From: PMD

You're welcome. (I come from RI)

Thu. 7/30/09 10:20am From: Cecile

there has been some nice corn out of Wisconsin. Little ears, but very flavorful.

This is the time, if you have blueberries, wild or cultivated, to rejoice. They love this weather.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:20am From: gumby

This food list song is making me hungry!

Thu. 7/30/09 10:21am From: GP

This sounds like Sandy from SpongeBob singing.

I need to wake up
Hi Trouble, et al.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:22am From: Joe Steele

I've heard good things about Jersey corn this year. I can't believe its actually something I've heard but it is.

Headed to the Montclair Farmers Market on Saturday to find more things to grow along my apartment window sill.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:22am From: PMD

Annie, hi! My tomatoes in the pot and not happy, and ony produced a few small tomatoes. But the one in the plot of land went wild and I've gotten about 5 so far. Rhubarb never turned red, alas. Got one smalll pepper. Something attacked/is attacking my cucumber - I got one warped on and trying to get more.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:24am From: Patrick

yo trouble! have you seen thr Black Acid Co-Op show at deitch projects yet? i saw the artist give a talk up here on monday, good looking stuff. any way its been sunny and humid up here the last few days.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:29am From: Carmichael

Good morning Trouble and fellow ear users.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:30am From: Lawrence

Trouble, thanks for playing that REM song. Hearing it on FMU was like hearing it for the first time, and reminded me why I worshiped them 25 years ago. It sounded amazing. (Probably the first and last time I'll hear REM on FMU, right?) Anyway, I've been listening to you for about 15 years--thanks for making Thursday mornings so much fun.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:32am From: GP

I could listen to Texas Swing all day ( even though I know that is not going to happen).
Thanks for the McKinney Sisters Trouble.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:32am From: annie

cecile, this wet climate out here has produced a very hospitable climate for fungus on the blueberries in maine.. they may have to burn the crop...

Thu. 7/30/09 10:35am From: Lulu

....nothing is sweeter than the Modern World with Trouble!

Thu. 7/30/09 10:36am From: Cecile

oh jeez

Thu. 7/30/09 10:36am From: annie

lulu, concurrence here. goes very well with that second cuppa!!

Thu. 7/30/09 10:37am From: Carmichael

It's a Sisters setlist. Just to throw everyone off, you could spin some Del Rubio Triplets.

And I'm a Neville Brothers completist. You're spot on today, Trouble!

Thu. 7/30/09 10:37am From: trouble

hey patrick! i'll chek that show out.
super thanks to lulu and lawrence for the kind words!!

Thu. 7/30/09 10:38am From: GP

Trouble,
You sure you are not broadcasting from Southern Louisiana today...this set puts me back on the bayou!

Thu. 7/30/09 10:39am From: sugarwolf

local sweet corn is the best, I could eat it every day

Thu. 7/30/09 10:40am From: dale

i did manage to pick a lot of wild black raspberries this year and the wild blackberries are just coming in. the challenge is sharing with the birds.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:40am From: Cecile

I love black orpheus, I have the soundtrack. Beautiful and clamorous

Thu. 7/30/09 10:41am From: Carmichael

Wrap the sweet corn in foil with olive oil, garlic, tabasco and parmesan. Throw it on the grill next to your chicken. Mmmmm

Thu. 7/30/09 10:42am From: annie

dale, my wild raspberries only produced enough to munch on while walking the dog, who loves any berry. the balckberry crop will be better than the blueberry crop.
carm, what a great recipe!!!

Thu. 7/30/09 10:44am From: Laurie

Oh, hey, thanks for playing my husband Jarvis.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:44am From: Aliza

Picked a ton of red potatoes and green beans from an empty Baltimore lot farm yesterday. Thanks for talking about the movement!

Thu. 7/30/09 10:51am From: dale

trouble, don't know if you get NJN but they had a nice prgram called 'natural history of the chicken'. it's back from around 2001 i think. it imbued so much personality to them that i question eating chicken again.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:54am From: trouble

that sounds great dale. i'll look for it.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:55am From: Cecile

This is the camille from Ratatouille!
Does she have a full record out? This is great.

Thu. 7/30/09 10:57am From: trouble

oh do you mean that she did songs in the soundtrack for that movie? sure she has a few albums and is huge in france!

Thu. 7/30/09 10:58am From: Cecile

Yes, she sang the theme song. It's great!

which one would you start with?

Thu. 7/30/09 10:59am From: Cecile

Man, I loved Scritti around Songs to Remember. Wood Beez album not so much

Thu. 7/30/09 11:02am From: sugarwolf

my grandma rented the 'natural history of the chicken' dvd from the library and loved it.

Thu. 7/30/09 11:03am From: v k

truly, truly love your show - thanks Trouble

Thu. 7/30/09 11:04am From: trouble

fabulous sugarwolf. i will search it out. cecille look hear and listen:http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/artist/Camille/a/Camille.htm

Thu. 7/30/09 11:04am From: GP

Trouble, you are freaking me out. I was just thinking about how Ineeded to hear some Macy Gray ( That probably isn't going to occur on FMU) so Jaqee is the next best thing....awesome. Thank you.

Thu. 7/30/09 11:07am From: Cecile

That's a great song, Trouble. I must disagree.

I don't like SP's anarchist stuff.
I love the soulful Songs to Remember period.

Thu. 7/30/09 11:08am From: Cecile

In fact, I re-bought Songs just as few months ago.

And thanks for the link!

Thu. 7/30/09 11:10am From: Cecile

OMG. I remember seeing Osibisa on the Marty Feldman show in the early 70s...

Thu. 7/30/09 11:11am From: Ne-guh-tor

I know, Trouble! Back in the day I loved Cupid and Psyche (and still do). I had no idea of SP past efforts in '84 and marveled over the unique almost Micheal Jackson quality of these faux R&B songs. His transition is sort of like Paul Weller (you're man) to Style council. You would not believe the flack I caught from my Iron Maiden listening friends!

Thu. 7/30/09 11:13am From: Carmichael

I saw Osibisa live many moons ago in Oakland CA, with Tower of Power and 3 or 4 other soul/funk bands. What memories I forgot I had ....

Thu. 7/30/09 11:13am From: ?

did Osibisa use the same guy who did the album covers for Yes?

Thu. 7/30/09 11:14am From: Cecile

Yes, Roger Dean did their artwork.

Thu. 7/30/09 11:16am From: dale

i have the 12" 45 rpm single of SP's 'Aboslute' in my collection. can't imagine i'd ever listen to it again (along with rebbe jackson's 'centipede')...some things don't hold up other than for nostalgia.

Thu. 7/30/09 11:22am From: Cecile

I love Faithless, it's an incredible trainwreck of 80s production, and yet really moving.

Thu. 7/30/09 11:26am From: Marshall Stacks

The Marty Feldman Show - that brings back memories. It ran in the summer, right?

Thu. 7/30/09 11:30am From: Cecile

That's right! Summer of 71 or 72...I thnk.

Thu. 7/30/09 11:34am From: jeremy the listener

she could be covered with a rash, as long as she's got cash. that's awesome

Thu. 7/30/09 11:35am From: jeremy the listener

is this a cover of the cramps? or did the cramps cover this??

Thu. 7/30/09 11:36am From: Ike

To go back to produce: There were really awesome NJ blueberries at the Stop & Shop a couple of weeks ago. Haven't gone back there, but another market had MICHIGAN blueberries the other day -- is NJ blueberry season over already?! Sure doesn't last long!

Wow, that Diplo and Santigold dub was killer!

Thu. 7/30/09 11:37am From: doug from dc

Found a Marty Feldman Show clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7CpkzJU9kA

Thu. 7/30/09 11:39am From: PJH

Like Scritti? "White Bread Black Beer" is great.

Thu. 7/30/09 11:39am From: Marshall Stacks

The Marty Feldman Show featured short skits by a group of British comedians with what was apparently a very memorable name. I remembered the name when the local PBS station started showing their show a year or two later, and made all of my friends watch. Thus were Monty Python fans made.

@jeremy: The Cramps covered Hasil Adkins.

Thu. 7/30/09 11:40am From: jeremy the listener

cool thanks.

Thu. 7/30/09 11:42am From: ?

c'mon, Trouble, there has to be at least one Yes song you like. Not even the first album?

Thu. 7/30/09 11:49am From: Carmichael

Looks like you're alone, ? :-)

Thu. 7/30/09 11:52am From: ?

ouch. I will just keep wearing my black jeans and white high-top sneakers, with feathered hairdo, thank you very much.

Thu. 7/30/09 11:53am From: Ike

Agreed, Carm. ;)

Why always such intense nostalgia for washed-up crummy famous rockers of yesteryear in FMU's comments, but less discussion of great new music?

Thu. 7/30/09 11:54am From: doug from dc

I grinned at the total obscurity of a Norwegian Folk Jazz 1971-1977 comp, but this is very nice.

Thu. 7/30/09 11:56am From: Cecile

Ike, I love how you NEVER EVER resort to generalities or BROAD SWEEPING AND VAGUELY INSULTING statements in the comments board.

Thu. 7/30/09 11:59am From: Ike

Don't worry, I'm already being nibbled on by '90s nostalgia, so soon I'll be right there with you Cecile, just focused on a different decade than you! Now, where did I put those Lush and Swervedriver CDs?!? ;) ;) :)

Thu. 7/30/09 12:01pm From: Cecile

I'm going to go away now. Not going to swallow the bait.

Thu. 7/30/09 12:01pm From: doug from dc

Ike, Lush and Swervedriver are all well and good, but for me it's been Loop and Slowdive. Try not to be so vehement in bashing prog. I'm over it, myself, but prog does tend to be the pinata of rock.

Thu. 7/30/09 2:11pm From: Sylvain

"Nu au soleil" is a protest action from BB. Beware, walk away!

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