Ken | Playlist | 26 July 2017

Listener comments!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 6:27am -Ken:

Morning Pals 'o Mine!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 7:29am maestroso:

G'morning Ken!

Wed. 7/26/17 7:30am FʡFʢ (:

Welcome back, Ken! I'm glad you're back.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 7:46am Cliff in Prague:

Good morning

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 8:24am Ken From Hyde Park:

Good morning, early risers. The early GIFs in the grid appear correctly, but the one above the grid isn't loading for me (Firfox, Chrome, IE).

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 8:30am NotARealDoctor:

Perhaps the one above the grid is meant to be a broken picture "x"?

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 8:34am -Ken:

Dang it to heck! Will fix. Hazmat Update coming up at 845 on Wake

Wed. 7/26/17 8:35am FʡFʢ (:

The problem is the URL. There's a comma getting on the way.

http://blogfiles,wfmu.org/KF/2017/07/26/gaze_title.gif

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 8:36am NotARealDoctor:

Ah! It's fixed now!

Wed. 7/26/17 8:38am Yvang:

This is Anna Karina (sous le soleil exactement!)

Wed. 7/26/17 8:47am FʡFʢ (:

Tune now! Newcaster Disaster is live on air!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 8:47am Cliff in Prague:

I love the Hazmat Report!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 8:56am (Murakami Whywolf))):

Awake, for a change.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:01am Lizardner Dave:

Uh.

Wed. 7/26/17 9:02am Timm in Chicago:

Morning Ken! If I may, I'd like to request the song Bustin' by Neil Cicierga

Freaky ghost bed!

Wed. 7/26/17 9:02am melinda:

Hi Ken and group!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:02am medson:

@-Ken just a heads up the last 7sec delay was great. Driving home in the future that night was awesome

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:04am Guido from Cologne:

You should invite Götz Almann for guest-deejaying with schlager oddities to the station!

Wed. 7/26/17 9:05am geoff mcq:

Ivor Cutler! Ya beauty Ken!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:05am Cliff in Prague:

BUTTS.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:06am (((Murakami Whywolf):

`I'm Happy' sounds like someone's impression of America.

Wed. 7/26/17 9:06am Andal:

Thank you for starting my day off right, Ken. Glad I was not driving or Butts might have caused an accident.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:11am pantz:

Richard Dawson was a pretty good singer, for a game show host.

Wed. 7/26/17 9:14am Goyim in the AM:

"We'll weather a storm of living needles" -- that can't be fun.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:14am Cliff in Prague:

And it's a pretty catchy song, for being named after an ogre.

Wed. 7/26/17 9:14am Andal:

wow, that is pretty uplifting. the sun isn't dying yet, guys! i feel better.

Wed. 7/26/17 9:16am Waking Bacon:

Listening on my old KHL table top radio. G'morning

Wed. 7/26/17 9:16am cory:

mornin all

Wed. 7/26/17 9:16am Lixiviated Life:

ken...

Wed. 7/26/17 9:17am Waking Bacon:

Those eyes on the first Gif though..

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:19am Lizardner Dave:

What's the deal with playing a good song with a melody and stuff? Did Richard Thompson die? What happened to the hippie noise!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:20am doctorjazz:

R and L Thompson are getting more FMU play these days, which is fine by me.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:22am Irwin:

Silver Apples cover!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:22am Roberto:

I'm predicting much favoriting of this new BB song.

Wed. 7/26/17 9:22am Dan B From Upstate:

Man, Big Blood loves their covers. Good on them.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:23am -Ken:

@Lizardner Dave - Im sorry! I
m trying to work my way to the hippie noise but it feel like Im trying to run in a dream... LEGS CANT MOVE

Wed. 7/26/17 9:23am Frankie:

die Kenshloppen still got that in my head from what one month?

Wed. 7/26/17 9:23am Mark S:

There is a posthumous Alan Vega release

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:23am melinda:

I liked the Thompson.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:24am Roberto:

Yep, already up to 3!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:24am Ike:

I ♥ hippie noise
(this is getting there, you're on your way)

Wed. 7/26/17 9:24am Waking Bacon:

The speed of this record is tripping me out.

Wed. 7/26/17 9:24am thedunkel:

Good Morning Ken - Good morning All!

Wed. 7/26/17 9:27am dale:

the young lady at the top of the page is staring into my soul and freaking me out.

Wed. 7/26/17 9:27am Lixiviated Life:

... "i imagine right now youre feeling a bit like alice...

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:28am -Ken:

Who is that at the top of the page, anyways? I kind of recognize her

Wed. 7/26/17 9:29am JakeGould:

Hey Ken.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:31am steveo:

Morning. Oh, I see I missed my favorite song, Ogre.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:31am JakeGould:

@-Ken: Anna Karina.

Wed. 7/26/17 9:31am dale:

google says:

en.wikipedia.org...

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:32am -Ken:

Ah yes of course, thank you jake~!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:32am The Oscar:

Aw, Lo Boob! Morning all!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:33am steveo:

I learned about it on WFMU, of course. But to play it for my kids , I looked it up on youtube. It is a surprisingly, nay, shockingly well produced video. This Dawson fellow seems to be well endowed.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:34am JakeGould:

You’re welcome Ken!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:34am Rev. Turnip Druid:

love me some refried ectoplasm.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:34am Rev. Turnip Druid:

also: hello.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:35am pantz:

Culture overload for a Wednesday morning! Not...enough...<gasp>...poopyflute!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:36am Webhamster Henry:

Ms. Sadier is playing my town again in September.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:37am Cliff in Prague:

Most obnoxious cross-fade ever

Wed. 7/26/17 9:37am Brendan:

Susanna Hoffs looks a lot like Anna K

Wed. 7/26/17 9:40am Waking Bacon:

lol @ Ken he funny

Wed. 7/26/17 9:41am Jim the Poet:

Loved the stereolab

Wed. 7/26/17 9:41am Waking Bacon:

Pablo Picasso was a jerk

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:43am JakeGould:

@WakingBacon: Stop yelling at me.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:43am (Murakami Whywolf))):

I want to see that {André the Giant}/Gojira image done on black velvet.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:45am Webhamster Henry:

Sheri was great, Ken! It's good to mix up the schedule from time to time with fill ins!

Wed. 7/26/17 9:46am Goyim in the AM:

@steveo: One amusing thing about that video is that he put up a "hey LARPers! Wanna be in my video?" message on his facebook page last fall, and that was the result (although I'm still not sure whether or not Mads Mikkelsen is in it).

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:47am steveo:

yeah, no, not that kind of endowed; oopsie

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:47am steveo:

@goyim that is excellent

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:50am steveo:

found it! "Come for a day of LARP (live action role play) led pseudo medieval frivolity, dancing and ritual at a secluded river valley location near Corbridge, Northumberland. All ages welcome."

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:50am Cliff in Prague:

Yeah! Sheri did a good job last week

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:56am MD:

Give my some skin Iggy! NO WAIT! TOO MIUCH!!!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:57am MD:

"MIUCH!" That's A lot!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 9:58am MD:

Good Morning all you Mad Cap Laughs...XO!!!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:02am Sebastian:

late, damn - oh man, I missed so much hippie noise!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:04am steveo:

double tracked schlampen!

Wed. 7/26/17 10:04am FʡFʢ (:

Now I understand why Ken played Bananarama. It was just an excuse to follow with the one, the only...

DIE FABULOOOOSEEEEEENNNN THEKEEENSHLAAAAMPEEEEEEEENNNNN!

Wed. 7/26/17 10:04am egal:

Speaking of hippies, I'm disappointed WFMU hasn't recognized the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love with events, giveaways, retrospectives, and a little LSD.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:05am dfb:

lots of top drawer gifs today ken!

Wed. 7/26/17 10:05am foreign_listener_k:

So, where is the GIF with what The Fab Ken Sluts are wearing their video?

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:05am Webhamster Henry:

Who needs LSD when you can have the LCD?
wfmu.org...

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:06am βrian:

For Peter Sellers, it was the Summer of Luff.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:07am medson:

I just had a banana. Thanks Ken

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:08am Cecile:

Hola, all!

Wed. 7/26/17 10:08am Jim the Poet:

I took 4 years of German and still liebe dich

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:09am βrian:

The Kazoo Soloist in Chief?

Wed. 7/26/17 10:09am egal:

The "hum-a-zoo" was a popular substitute for the notorious kazoo during my childhood. It was round and, unfortunately, filled with spit quite quickly.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:09am thedunkel:

Is this show being promoted by United Fruit?

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:10am Cecile:

if you can play Zarah Leander's "Kann die Lieber sunder sein", that would be great.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:10am Morphe:

Ken,

Simon (6yrs old)(Arnan's 1/2 brother) mumbling and humming his way through SCHAM. Simon loves his Kazoo when he is not playing the plastic Sax,Trumpet or recorder... Glad to catch you live ...

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:12am Ken From Hyde Park:

"I want to live like common people" - William Shatner

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:12am steveo:

@medson; thank you for reminding me that I had not yet eaten my banana and hard-boiled egg. Mission accomplished.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:13am weiterso:

btw Götz Alsmann is (was) a great tv-entertainer in germany and he has his own radioshow, every monday: http://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr4/programm/sendungen/gogoetzgo124.html

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:13am βrian:

That won't play in Vermont.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:15am Sebastian:

fun fact on the fabulous Rosa Extra: they had to rename the band in 1984 to "Hard Pop" to be allowed to perform in the GDR. Rosa Extra was a brand of GDR sanitary towels and for some reason that wasn't OK...

Wed. 7/26/17 10:15am weiterso:

Götz Alsmann told me, that he likes doing radio more than tv...

Wed. 7/26/17 10:17am Udo in Munchen:

Un dis is der time we dance on Sprockets!

Wed. 7/26/17 10:17am Uncle Michael:

Could you shittyflute Mr. Sandman, please?

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:18am (Murakami Whywolf))):

'If a single kazoo makes it to the Reich, you can call me „Meyer“!`
—Air Ace 'Meyer' Göring

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:19am Cecile:

this is a bullshit song no matter who does it.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:19am dfb:

i remember gob ---cool

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:19am βrian:

My, this is a peppy little number.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:20am egal:

Didn't Mr Sandman pluck out the eyes of children.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:20am Udo in Munchen:

"Touch my monkey, my monkey loves you"

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:21am Cecile:

Tonio!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:21am (((Murakami Whywolf):

Oh shit, if the <em>German</em> people suffered and were blamed as a group because of the government they got in 1932 even though most of them didn't vote Nazi….

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:21am The Oscar:

TONIO K!!!!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:21am Cecile:

Fountain of sorrow my ass.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:21am coelacanth∅:

Yay Tony Okay!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:21am medson:

NICE !!!!!!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:22am Threemoons:

Ken and all assorted WoofMoo peeps--good late morning; me=getting a late start today out to JC because of social activities last night.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:23am steveo:

speaking of the Pavonia Newport mall, once we tried to see a movie there, but it was sold out, so we had a snowball fight on the roof of the parking garage instead. (See lh3.googleusercontent.com... )

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:24am (Murakami Whywolf))):

I'm more in a "The Night the Clocks All Quit and the Government Failed" sort of mood, but.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:24am Hughie Considine:

Nearly 40 years ago, Steve Simels called Life in the Food Chain "the greatest record ever made" in Stereo Review.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:24am The Oscar:

Easily in my top 5 "Why doesn't everyone know this album?" albums

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:25am Threemoons:

Also, everyone: Today is the LAST DAY to support the efforts to make a documentary about Other Music, the iconic record store off of Lafayette Street in NYC (and the one time that I had a verified David Bowie sighting--he lived around the corner from the place). Ken, can you please give it a shoutout? For those in forum, you can find the full deets at www.kickstarter.com...

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:25am Cecile:

I cut that article out!
I also did Tonio K fan art which no one ever saw.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:25am (Murakami Whywolf))):

"The Night Fast Rodney Went Crazy" hits too close to home about ten times per year, now.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:25am Cecile:

I gave already 3moons.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:26am Hughie Considine:

Wow, a true believer, Cecile!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:26am Cecile:

My husband loves "why can't I see you in my mirror"

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:26am coelacanth∅:

Hughie, it's a great album...he obviously didn't work for rolling stone then

Wed. 7/26/17 10:27am FʡFʢ (:

Sebastian,

I didn't know about the Rosa Extra/Hard Pop tip. Thank goodness for you and me since we are the definite authoritative voice when it comes to German knowledge and pronunciation (I did a German introductory course in 1998 just in case anybody doubts me).

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:27am Webhamster Henry:

If you ever have a chance to catch Kiki (Vivian Justin Bond), don't miss it!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:27am Threemoons:

Cecile, thanks!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:27am Megaroni:

Ken in full form today! Thanks for being so fabulous

Wed. 7/26/17 10:27am PMD:

I've never heard a cover of this! Now I understand all the words!

Wed. 7/26/17 10:28am Hughie Considine:

Didn't realize he was ever at Rolling Stone, was he? He was best known for Stereo Review and I actually worked with him in the late nineties at dot-com. He's as irascible as ever.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:28am đ¢ ÞäŦ:

This may be the greatest thing I've ever heard.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:28am herb.nyc:

excellent, Kiki & Herb! they are too crazy - once, kiki is just rambling away and then she stares at her cigarette. "smoking keeps me focused". or she tells us why she hates Reagan, on & on, and then says "somebody should do something. I would, but I was tired.". I saw their reunion show at Joe's Pube last year.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:29am Cecile:

This is the best thing ever.
I don't think Simels ever wrote for Rolling Stone.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:29am Waking Bacon:

Radio Drugs :)

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:29am Jeff:

This is beautiful.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:30am Brendan:

This Kiki and Herb is way better than Peaches and Herb. Unless you're firing up some herb and then eating a can of cling peaches in heavy syrup.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:30am Threemoons:

Really want to see JV Bond at some point; just need the combo of time and money at the same time...

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:30am Cliff in Prague:

I approve of this very much.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:31am Mark S:

Bravo!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:31am Sebastian:

this is great, I'd love to see that live

Wed. 7/26/17 10:31am FʡFʢ (:

PMD,

Ken did a 3-hour epic show playing covers of the song 'Institutionalized'. This great cover was featured in this show. Check in the archives of the Morning Show.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:31am (Murakami Whywolf))):

I once completed my work quota for the summer at a coöp by cleaning-out a f&oelig;cal bum's nest they'd made of a badly-locked bins room; I had an hose, a quart of Dr Bronner's Peppermint Soap (the good, pre-hemp stuff), and an auto-looping cassette player with a copy of "Life in the Food Chain".

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:31am Cecile:

We hum this music when things get tense.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:32am (((Murakami Whywolf):

The Dekapodian National Anthem!

Wed. 7/26/17 10:32am Stay Frosty:

I can feel it! Pon farr! Okay, I'm better now.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:32am coelacanth∅:

Amazing! i wonder how much of the audience never heard the original.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:32am dfb:

sing it nina!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:32am Sebastian:

Nina <3

Wed. 7/26/17 10:33am Henry:

she can make anything sound good

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:33am βrian:

There was a ligature in that stool sample.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:33am Roberto:

I've never had a problem taking what's given me.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:33am Cecile:

I bid 40 quatloos.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:33am Uncle Michael:

I could really go for a Pepsi.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:34am steveo:

money will get you pretty far really

Wed. 7/26/17 10:34am FʡFʢ (:

I love how Nina Simone's towering talent turns the vain Rich Girl into an immortal classic.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:35am Cecile:

She might have been a diva, but she lacked that streak of cold calculation that Daryl Hall has.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:36am Cecile:

He was actually born again at the time.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:37am medson:

Born Again LOL

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:37am dgg:

No wonder Kathleen left him.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:38am fm Mike:

This is a very soothing background song you have Ken.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:38am coelacanth∅:

what? Tonio K was a born again cultian? that's depressing.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:39am fred:

I can't figure out why anyone would want to be born again. The buddhist take makes more sense to me

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:39am Cecile:

No, he wasn't. He was actually a Christian and quite radical in his political beliefs.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:39am steveo:

can we also hear Nina Simone's version of Kiss on My List?

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:39am βrian:

Born again, but never brought up.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:40am egal:

Reincarnation is just long term born again.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:40am dgg:

Eldrige, I mean.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:41am fred:

I want to hear Nina Simone's version of Institutionalized

Wed. 7/26/17 10:41am FʡFʢ (:

I read that Kristine Mckenna (one of the two ladies Joe Frank frequently talks to in his radio dramas) is co-writing a book with David Lynch!

Wed. 7/26/17 10:41am egal:

Cleaver was basically the Trump of the Black Panthers. He would have done well in the age of social media.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:42am Cecile:

He seriously abused drugs and had a complete nervous breakdown. He studied philosophy and came to the conclusion Christianity worked for him. If you look at his liner notes, there are tons of references to that. His second album, Amerika featured a ton of tributes to Dada.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:42am khd:

he was the trotsky of the bpp

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:43am βrian:

"Who's your Dada?"

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:44am dgg:

It's worth reading the Church Committee Reports to see all the crazy shiz the FBI was up to. And it doesn't even get into things that local Red Squads were doing - like the outright murder of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark (w/ FBI help).

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:45am (((Murakami Whywolf):

Suddenly it seems even more wrong that Fred Hampton got murdered by the F.B.I. and the Chicago police when Cleaver got to be born twice. Maybe it resulted from a very astute assessment of their relative long-term effectivenesses at change.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:45am coelacanth∅:

yes i have "amerika" too...obviously radical; and i guess believing in some hippie stud that may or may not have lived 2000 years ago is okay, if you're not part of a cult (like catholicism, etc.)

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:45am The Oscar:

The UMass Lowell had a show when I was in high school that exclusively played songs from '80s movie soundtracks. I think Tonio's "I'm Supposed to Have Sex With You" and Gleaming Spires' "Are You Ready for the Sex Girls" were played every single week. It was a pretty great show.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:46am FʡFʢ (:

OGREE YOU ___________________________________________________________________________________________________!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:47am The Oscar:

*Umass Lowell RADIO STATION, that is.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:47am fred:

Clicky starred this Ogre You Asshole song (mystified as to how I hadn't done so before)

Wed. 7/26/17 10:48am Undead83:

Hello Ken, what was the sample song played right before Hajire Garigari Hakase???

Wed. 7/26/17 10:49am khd:

i think it was a japanese translation of Sex and Broadcasting :D

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:49am dgg:

Amazing to think that the FBI/police were running around killing activists, but we're left with a society that thinks the Weathermen - who did their best to prevent casualties w/ their bombings of buildings - are seen as "terrorists" (see the campaign in 2008 "Obama's terrorist friends" bs)

Wed. 7/26/17 10:49am FʡFʢ (:

Oh, damn! I always forget I can't write _____________ in the comment section.

So here I go again..

OGREE YOU AAAAA5SSSSSS5h0000000L33333333!!!!!

Ha! There you go, FCC!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:50am -Ken:

@undead - that must have been the Haunting Fight Theme from Star Trek (the TV Show).

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:51am Cliff in Prague:

What's this about commie pinkos infiltrating our society?! I was in the shower just now.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:52am JakeGould:

What’s happening? The songs this week are coherent, enjoyable and well sequenced.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:53am dgg:

Careful cliff, they can hide under your bed and in the shower drain too.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:54am fred:

@JakeGould: don't worry, this can only mean some poopyflute is coming soon

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:54am (((Murakami Whywolf):

Soggy cereal
Commie cereal

Wed. 7/26/17 10:55am Matt Warwick:

YES

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 10:59am (((Murakami Whywolf):

Jetzt will ich „I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman“ hören.

Wed. 7/26/17 10:59am Mark S:

The commies are already hiding in my shower

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:00am (Murakami Whywolf))):

Those aren't commies, they're graphie novels.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:01am fm Mike:

Oh my god I love this song!

Wed. 7/26/17 11:02am Undead83:

@Ken not that one actually, it was an R&B tune with an exciting rhythm guitar and a chorus that sounded like "so long, so long", played slightly after Nina Simone's Rich Girl and before Singer's Three & Tenjo Sajiki

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:03am fm Mike:

Ken you're killin' it this morning!!!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:04am fred:

@Ken: The Latvian band Konstrukcija covered Polaroid/Roman/Photo, with Thierry Müller providing vocals: brouillard-definitif.bandcamp.com...

Wed. 7/26/17 11:04am Waking Bacon:

fm Mike I agree... KEN!!!! great show this AM :)

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:04am steveo:

parallel text translation for Humpe Humpe lyricstranslate.com...

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:06am steveo:

oh sorry that's for Dans Ta Vrai Vie

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:06am Cecile:

one of the top ten songs in the English language.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:08am JakeGould:

Tigra has a very NYC accent.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:09am Waking Bacon:

the last gif LMFAO

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:09am fm Mike:

Accents are cute as hell lol

Wed. 7/26/17 11:09am Waking Bacon:

cars that go boom

Wed. 7/26/17 11:10am Stay Frosty:

That's some nice L'Trimm

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:10am Cecile:

by giving him your virginity

Wed. 7/26/17 11:10am Mark S:

bawble

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:11am fm Mike:

@ CECIL

Wed. 7/26/17 11:11am JakeGould:

And Mary Weiss’ accent is another adorable NYC accent.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:11am fm Mike:

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
SHIT
YESSSSSSSSS

SALT & PEPA!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:11am fred:

@steveo: One issue with the translation: "hirondelle" means "swallow", now just any little brown bird

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:11am Cliff in Prague:

This was the jam back in 5th grade

Wed. 7/26/17 11:11am Stay Frosty:

Oh yeah. Ken, you the man. You the man. Great stuff.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:12am fm Mike:

"Thankss Mom"

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:12am The Oscar:

Spinderella is playing a DJ night at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston coming up, and I'm seriously tempted.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:12am FʡFʢ (:

Talking about commies here's a selfie pic I especially collected for Comrade Ken and all other lovers of T.a.t.U and the like (i.e. Russians in uniforms).

http://i.imgur.com/JyqcV4c.jpg

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:12am The Oscar:

Also this set is phenomenal.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:12am Cliff in Prague:

What am I talking about, freshman year of high school. I'm not *that* young

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:12am fm Mike:

I was playing this the other night :)

@The Oscar GO!!!!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:13am fred:

Wasn't there a fine performance of Cars that go boom during a Hoof'n'Mouth?

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:14am Cecile:

yes, there was! Liz and Keiligh, I think?

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:14am fm Mike:

Best part of the soooong!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:14am Cliff in Prague:

Are you the one on the left or on the right FʡFʢ?

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:14am fm Mike:

foor the smell of it

soundin' like a retaRd - yyyYeUH!

Wed. 7/26/17 11:15am FʡFʢ (:

I'm the one in the middle:

http://imgur.com/a/VjhnB

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:15am dgg:

thoI'd let those russian girls occupy my crimea. if you know what I mean. (its subtle, think about it)

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:15am βrian:

Jiff?

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:15am fm Mike:

I know you didn't say "jiff"

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:16am Cliff in Prague:

Everyone knows it's pronounced "gif", just like it's spelled

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:16am steveo:

@fred -- i know that word from Joan Miró (www.joan-miro.net... ), but I'm not sure of the significance of "swallow" here, unless it's somehow meant as a bilingual (english) pun.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:16am Waking Bacon:

lmao @ Ken

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:16am Ikeschlampen:

I can't wait to see this video of this focus group. Really curious to know what the 10 choices were.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:16am Matt ww:

Running to go get pretzel dogs now

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:16am Cecile:

hahahhaha

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:17am Cliff in Prague:

Excuse me while I take a flight to Moscow to get myself arrested

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:17am steveo:

Also, "Avec des cœurs de toutes les couleurs dessinés sur les ailes" doesn't seem to be completlely translated. But anyway, we get the idea.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:17am will:

Thanks for the advice, Gilbert gottfried

Wed. 7/26/17 11:17am Mark S:

They were all smart!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:18am fred:

@steveo: I think you can rule out a bilingual pun. It wouldn't fit there, and bilingual and French don't go together

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:18am Cecile:

prrrretzel dog.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:19am steveo:

agree

Wed. 7/26/17 11:19am Waking Bacon:

Ill bring the brownies.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:19am Mark S:

Joe Belock is 21?

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:20am medson:

Focus groups cause pretzel dog consumption

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:20am fred:

@steveo: indeed, that would be something like "with hearts drawn in many colors over your wings"

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:21am βrian:

I want kimchee on my seitan pretzel dog.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:21am đ¢ ÞäŦ:

I'm with Brian.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:22am Matt ww:

The chorizo quesadilla is AMAZING

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:22am steveo:

So imperfect translation, but a good aid to understanding the song, which I think is quite a good song

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:23am steveo:

oh god is there an emergency?

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:23am Sebastian:

YES, the emergency alert system works!

Wed. 7/26/17 11:23am đ¢ ÞäŦ:

yeah, what the hell happened with year 14? I never understood that..

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:23am Listening Out There:

Are we under attack? I'm confused....

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:23am MD:

THE SKY IS FALLING!!!

Wed. 7/26/17 11:23am Mark S:

Does the 21 years include the time he was suspended?

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:24am Cliff in Prague:

I think we should continue talking about Russian policewomen.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:24am Webhamster Henry:

Here's what Emergency Alert System tests used to sound like on WFMU:
www.jhhl.net...

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:24am Cecile:

he had a summer where he wasn't on the schedule, and ended up doing more radio than he did when he was on the air!

Wed. 7/26/17 11:24am Mr. Lowry:

What's a "bobble"?

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:24am fred:

@steveo: a funny one is that "cou" means "neck", not "butt". That would have been "cul"

Wed. 7/26/17 11:25am Gilbert C:

An absolute perfect morning, thanks to you Master Ken.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:25am Cliff in Prague:

Is Olga training to be a member of the Siberian Special Forces? I want this to be true.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:25am đ¢ ÞäŦ:

Yeah, but WHY, Cecile? I never heard why..

Wed. 7/26/17 11:26am Mark S:

He was a bad boy

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:26am MD:

scary music makes the voices in my head fight!!!

Wed. 7/26/17 11:26am FʡFʢ (:

SCHLAAAAMMMPPPPPEEEEEIIIITTTTZIIIIGGGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

Exactly. Georgios' Dilemma. But, who here knows how it is pronounced? Yes, that's right. Me.

Schlam => Slam
Mpei => Hmmm.....Pie (yes, just like Homer does)
Tzi => Tse-tse
Ger => War

So basically, pronouncing 'Schlammpeitziger' is it's like saying...
Slam--Hmm....Pie-tse-war

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:26am Cecile:

They left Diane off the schedule this past summer. I don't know why. I'm not going to guess except they maybe wanted to give someone else a chance.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:27am -Ken:

No, Year 14 was the year that Joe Belock took on a new persona and talked in a Greek accent all summer. Some people liked it. Most did not.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:27am fred:

@steveo: one subtle put down is "you'll be all alone in front of your mac". In French "mac" means "pimp" which echoes an earlier line

Wed. 7/26/17 11:27am Waking Bacon:

Is she chewing it? Oh, its a bottle. How embarrassing..

Wed. 7/26/17 11:28am đ¢ ÞäŦ:

I guess it's best to let these things be..

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:28am fm Mike:

Here's the info for that DJ Spinderella appearance at Boston:
www.icaboston.org...

Tickets are sold out, but I'm sure they're taking people at the door.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:29am mary jane:

yo ken meow

Wed. 7/26/17 11:31am FʡFʢ (:

What we need to do, Cliff, Ken, people, is throw the most epic Joe Belock party in Moscow, make sure we cause great anti-social behaviour and unrest and wait for our arrest by the Russian politzya:

http://imgur.com/a/VjhnB

Wed. 7/26/17 11:31am UNNAMED_PLAYER:

Dot matrix!

Wed. 7/26/17 11:31am archyman:

Worst song ever.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:32am steveo:

@fred i didn't know that slang, nice

Wed. 7/26/17 11:32am jjz:

Oh, for a moment I thought it was Printer Jam by Mistabishi.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:32am Cliff in Prague:

It's not a song, it's a symphony. For dot matrix printers.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:33am fm Mike:

Ahh, this is beautiful :)

Wed. 7/26/17 11:33am ?:

They could wrap this up anytime now

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:34am Cliff in Prague:

Does Putin have a special unit of all-female bodyguards, like Qaddafi did? I wonder what they look like.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:34am The Oscar:

@Mike The ICA quietly puts on a lot of really awesome shows. I saw Zola Jesus with JG Thirlwell and a string quartet a few years back, and, many moons ago, JANDEK.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:34am steveo:

this is excellente

Wed. 7/26/17 11:35am UNNAMED_PLAYER:

ascii art

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:35am steveo:

also, a very good question

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:36am Passaic River Blues:

This is the third inspired cover of Haddaway I've heard on WFMU this twelve-month. Props due.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:37am Carmichael:

Good morning Kenneth and all the ships at sea.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:37am fm Mike:

@ The Oscar
That is awesome.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:38am Cecile:

Here is Darude Sandstorm on 8 hard drives

Wed. 7/26/17 11:38am asheville jon:

this sounds like its being played on a tesla coil

Wed. 7/26/17 11:39am FʡFʢ (:

The more we play all these cover songs the quicker we forget the originals. So bring them all!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:40am steveo:

sometimes
i wish that the happy valley band also scrambled the vocals

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:40am fm Mike:

3.bp.blogspot.com...

@ What Is Love by Mr Solid Snake

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:40am Cecile:

Here's the link.

www.youtube.com...

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:40am The Oscar:

@FʡFʢ I have maybe a dozen recordings of "My Heart Will Go On" on my computer, and zero are by Celine Dion.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:41am fred:

I've shared that Happy Valley Band project band with some coworkers. Some were fascinated, some were insulted. No middle ground (they are MIR researchers)

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:42am Cecile:

also by Mr Solid Snake.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:42am FʡFʢ (:

Ken,

Happy Valley Band is so june 2017!

Now what is up is Spotify fake artists' songs (that make millions on royalties for themselves) made with machine learning algorithms.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:43am Cliff in Prague:

Machine learning applied to pop music, that's right up my alley

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:44am fm Mike:

Oh my god lol

I am wearing headphones, big over the head headphones, and I still turned the volume down when I heard "I love heroin addicts".

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:44am fred:

@FʡFʢ (: I doubt that claim. Making millions from Spotify is unlikely enough, but saying that machine learning works that well is outlandish

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:45am Webhamster Henry:

Jokerfan is stuck again!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:45am Cliff in Prague:

Well nothing FʡFʢ has ever said before has been in any way outlandish.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:46am steveo:

estás en fuego, señor ken!

Wed. 7/26/17 11:46am Stay Frosty:

Gotta love that Suzie.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:46am medson:

I love Suzie.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:47am dgg:

Suzie is better off without this loser

Wed. 7/26/17 11:47am Stay Frosty:

Then she lost her teeth. Damn you meth!

Wed. 7/26/17 11:47am ChrisVB:

Suzie's cool with me

Wed. 7/26/17 11:48am FʡFʢ (:

Cliff, Fred,

Problem is Spotify and/or people behind them, are fabricating fake artists and pushing them into their playlists to profit for themselves at the cost of real artists. We are talking about millions of plays generated by quite a few fake bands. Have you heard of this, Ken?

Wed. 7/26/17 11:48am medson:

Her twisted mind was fulla dope

Wed. 7/26/17 11:48am Mark S:

I heard a story about Jokerfan somewhere (Radiolab?) he makes something like $40-50000 a year from his songs, not millions

Wed. 7/26/17 11:48am đ¢ ÞäŦ:

Ah, shut the fuck up Billy Ray.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:49am Mark S:

Not Robert Quine!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:49am MD:

THANK HANK...

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:49am MD:

AND OXY!!!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:49am βrian:

Pettin' parties? Wha?

Wed. 7/26/17 11:50am Waking Bacon:

yes to the cell in hell

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:50am The Oscar:

Every time I hear Luke the Drifter I have the thought "More famous country stars should record under obscure aliases." Then I have the thought "CHRIS GAINES."

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:50am fred:

@FʡFʢ (: not saying this isn't what Spotify is aiming for. They're actually buying many researchers in machine learning applied to music. For a lot of money. So there is something to it

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:50am MD:

bIG pHARMA lEAD HER TO THE STREET...

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:51am dgg:

Hank knows. He woulda stood with Suzie.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:51am Rich in Washington:

These songs remind me of that wonderful, perhaps illegit, collection Twisted Tales from the Vinyl Wastelands

Wed. 7/26/17 11:52am Waking Bacon:

Cash sounds like a dead man singing.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:52am fred:

Hank Williams. What a difference two letters can make, when they are J and r

Wed. 7/26/17 11:52am ?:

If you pronounce his name with an emphasis on Johnny rather than Cash, it sounds like a product in an infomercial.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:53am The Oscar:

I like the idea of an asylum filled entirely with failed country singers.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:53am βrian:

Will WFMU be hosting any petting parties? They're a kind of meet-and-greet, I guess.

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:53am MD:

yeah! the dope-booze-insanity set!!! praise satan!!!

Wed. 7/26/17 11:53am Stay Frosty:

I want to pet wolverines.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:53am Waking Bacon:

@brian ill bring the hand sanitizer

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:54am Cliff in Prague:

I'm reading up on this Spotify fake band stuff....... it's absurd

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:54am Sebastian:

can someone stop the rain, plz?

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:55am fm Mike:

Oooo yes, this sweet melodic houl!

Wed. 7/26/17 11:55am Agent Peter:

Stay of the glue Ken, ok?

Wed. 7/26/17 11:55am Waking Bacon:

Ken: Heroes of Heroin

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:55am MD:

DON'T DRIVE HOME KEN!!! NO FORKLIFT EITHER!!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:56am steveo:

strong preference for abnormal dj duties

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:56am steveo:

thanks for show

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:56am Cliff in Prague:

Ken, have you heard about Fentanyl?

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:57am MD:

clean your works people...

Wed. 7/26/17 11:57am FʡFʢ (:

fred,

Yes, machine learning making music is great! But now when is used to take unfair advantage over real artists. Same type of fraud was uncovered by Spain police last month (google SGAE fraud).

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:57am βrian:

Voiceover: "Ask your dealer about fentanyl."

Wed. 7/26/17 11:57am Waking Bacon:

omg a friend came in my room and was like "is that a dot matrix printer" lmao it was !!!

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:58am βrian:

Soon the machines will be taking heroin, in the mistaken belief that it aids creativity.

Wed. 7/26/17 11:58am FʡFʢ (:

Thanks Ken, people! Great show, GIFs and comments as usual. Till next episode! And remember, folks, be happy.

I SAID BE HAPPPYY!!!!!!! >:|

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:58am MD:

he needs a date that bad!?!?!?!

Wed. 7/26/17 11:58am Dean:

You can say Bangkok on the radio?

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:58am fred:

@FʡFʢ (: I'm not saying it doesn't exist. Machine learning isn't the problem, it's just not that good. Greed and fake artists are

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 11:59am Cliff in Prague:

Thanks Ken! See you next week if you don't OD

Wed. 7/26/17 11:59am Waking Bacon:

ty ken

♥ Wed. 7/26/17 12:59pm listener jeff:

Happy that you played I'm Happy!

Thu. 7/27/17 3:23am grace gold way:

hey ken, i'm glad you're into the Tken these days. wondering if this will be the gateway to other...related... music... stay tuned to the comments, for whatever that's worth....