WFMU: Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from October 2, 2019

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Playlist from October 2, 2019

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October 2, 2019: The Hills Are Alive / The Great Communicator / Better Off Dead: Julie Andrews & Ronald Reagan, from the Austin years (Shows #321,317,318,676)

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	The Hills Are Alive	Show #321, from July 6, 2004	2004	Failure is impossible.	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Sample listing from this episode, all out of order:
Camper Van Beethoven	Sweethearts	Key Lime Pie		18 cut up pieces, looped and arranged live	0:31:41 (Pop-up)
Gary Dickerson	KOOP Night promo			"Tuesday nights are boring. I HATE Tuesday." Captured 3/30/04	0:31:54 (Pop-up)
The Teaching Company	Excerpt	Natural Law and Human Nature			0:32:04 (Pop-up)
Cliff Martinez	Is That What Everybody Wants?	Solaris s.t.	2002		0:32:19 (Pop-up)
Tom Hook	Freedom, Equality and the War on Terror		2004	Recorded July 3, 2004	0:32:31 (Pop-up)
John Searle	Can A Machine Think?	The Teaching Company: Philosophy of Mind			0:32:43 (Pop-up)
The Teaching Company	The Problems & Promise of Collective Security	The Teaching Company: Must History Repeat the Great Conflicts?			0:32:52 (Pop-up)
The Teaching Company	8 Alternatives to the Present International System	The Teaching Company: Must History Repeat the Great Conflicts?			0:32:59 (Pop-up)
Julie Andrews	Prelude: The Sound of Music	The Sound of Music s.t.			0:33:08 (Pop-up)
Julie Andrews	My Favorite Things	The Sound of Music s.t.			0:33:16 (Pop-up)
Michael Starbird	Chance Surprises, Measuring Uncertainty	Joy of Thinking			0:33:24 (Pop-up)
Michael Starbird	Random Thoughts, Randomness in Our World	Joy of Thinking			0:33:31 (Pop-up)
Catholic Homily	Catholic Homily for July 5, 2004	Catholic Homily for Today			0:33:40 (Pop-up)
Catholic Homily	Catholic Homily for June 23, 2004	Catholic Homily for Today			0:33:46 (Pop-up)
Catholic Homily	Catholic Homily for June 19, 2004	Catholic Homily for Today			0:33:57 (Pop-up)
Joseph Koterski	Natural Law and the Founding Fathers	The Teaching Company: Natural Law and Human Nature			0:34:06 (Pop-up)
Fareed Zakaria	Chapter 6	The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad			0:34:14 (Pop-up)
Boyd Rice aka NON	Iron Destiny	Easy Listening for Iron Youth	1991	Experimental noise	0:34:29 (Pop-up)
Dronaement	Wassertank	Wassermond (7")	2000	Dark experimental ambient	0:34:46 (Pop-up)
?	Do Human Races Exist?	Biological Anthropology: An Evolutionary Perspective			0:34:57 (Pop-up)
Dalai Lama	Disc 2, Track 9	Training the Mind			0:35:05 (Pop-up)
Brian Tracy	Goal Setting Methods	The Science of Self Confidence			0:35:13 (Pop-up)
Tony Robbins	The Real Definition of FEAR (7 tracks)	Personal Power II	1996		0:35:25 (Pop-up)
Tony Robbins	It's Impossible to Fail (4 tracks)	Personal Power II	1996		0:35:36 (Pop-up)
R.E.M.	Gardening at Night (Different vocal mix)			One loop	0:35:46 (Pop-up)
Erasure	A Little Respect			Various copies to demonstrate Tony Robbins' Erasure technique	0:35:59 (Pop-up)
James Bamford	Various	A Pretext for War		Used beginnings of each track	0:36:12 (Pop-up)

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	The Great Communicator (Ronald Reagan)	Show #317, from June 8, 2004	2004	Ronald Reagan said, "We can leave our children with an unrepayable debt, and a shattered economy." (May cause stomach illness.) With layered copies of Antonio Vivaldi - Cello Concerto in E Minor, third movement, and Jello Biafra	0:59:01 (Pop-up)

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza	Better Off Dead (Ronald Reagan)	Show #318, from June 15, 2004	2004	Is it easier for you to buy things in a store than it was four years ago? (The sound of someone shooting Ronald Reagan.) With: Vivaldi, Cello Concerto in E Minor, Barry Lyndon, backwards, Stanley Kubrick, 40 Room Tones, 107 Restaurants, Bars, Ronald Reagan, We have tried to negotiate with Nicaragua but they won't mind their own business, Are you better off than you were four years ago, Reagan shot assassination attempt, Grenada not a friendly island paradise but a Soviet colony, solidiers in Korea didn't say they wanted to go home, Four Tet, All the Chimers, I've Got Viking in Me, My Angel Rocks Back and Forth, The Infant Cycle, 4 a.m. Wallpaper, In a Deserted Hotel Hallway, Walt Disney, EPCOT, American Adventure, Astuter Computer, US Supreme Court, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld Argument, Michael Nyman, Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepards, The Draughtman's Contract, Peter Greenaway, Llewellyn, Gnome Woods, Journey to the Faeries, Ray Charles, God Bless America, Biosphere, Vibratoire, Deviation	1:27:48 (Pop-up)

Wax Audio	Happy Xmas (War is Over) w/George W. Bush & John Lennon			(Not from 2004)	1:57:05 (Pop-up)

Artist

Track

Album

Year

Comments

Images

Approx. start time

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza

The Hills Are Alive

Show #321, from July 6, 2004

2004

Failure is impossible.

0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Sample listing from this episode, all out of order:

Camper Van Beethoven

Sweethearts

Key Lime Pie

18 cut up pieces, looped and arranged live

0:31:41 (Pop-up)

Gary Dickerson

KOOP Night promo

"Tuesday nights are boring. I HATE Tuesday." Captured 3/30/04

0:31:54 (Pop-up)

The Teaching Company

Excerpt

Natural Law and Human Nature

0:32:04 (Pop-up)

Cliff Martinez

Is That What Everybody Wants?

Solaris s.t.

2002

0:32:19 (Pop-up)

Tom Hook

Freedom, Equality and the War on Terror

2004

Recorded July 3, 2004

0:32:31 (Pop-up)

John Searle

Can A Machine Think?

The Teaching Company: Philosophy of Mind

0:32:43 (Pop-up)

The Teaching Company

The Problems & Promise of Collective Security

The Teaching Company: Must History Repeat the Great Conflicts?

0:32:52 (Pop-up)

The Teaching Company

8 Alternatives to the Present International System

The Teaching Company: Must History Repeat the Great Conflicts?

0:32:59 (Pop-up)

Julie Andrews

Prelude: The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music s.t.

0:33:08 (Pop-up)

Julie Andrews

My Favorite Things

The Sound of Music s.t.

0:33:16 (Pop-up)

Michael Starbird

Chance Surprises, Measuring Uncertainty

Joy of Thinking

0:33:24 (Pop-up)

Michael Starbird

Random Thoughts, Randomness in Our World

Joy of Thinking

0:33:31 (Pop-up)

Catholic Homily

Catholic Homily for July 5, 2004

Catholic Homily for Today

0:33:40 (Pop-up)

Catholic Homily

Catholic Homily for June 23, 2004

Catholic Homily for Today

0:33:46 (Pop-up)

Catholic Homily

Catholic Homily for June 19, 2004

Catholic Homily for Today

0:33:57 (Pop-up)

Joseph Koterski

Natural Law and the Founding Fathers

The Teaching Company: Natural Law and Human Nature

0:34:06 (Pop-up)

Fareed Zakaria

Chapter 6

The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad

0:34:14 (Pop-up)

Boyd Rice aka NON

Iron Destiny

Easy Listening for Iron Youth

1991

Experimental noise

0:34:29 (Pop-up)

Dronaement

Wassertank

Wassermond (7")

2000

Dark experimental ambient

0:34:46 (Pop-up)

Do Human Races Exist?

Biological Anthropology: An Evolutionary Perspective

0:34:57 (Pop-up)

Dalai Lama

Disc 2, Track 9

Training the Mind

0:35:05 (Pop-up)

Brian Tracy

Goal Setting Methods

The Science of Self Confidence

0:35:13 (Pop-up)

Tony Robbins

The Real Definition of FEAR (7 tracks)

Personal Power II

1996

0:35:25 (Pop-up)

Tony Robbins

It's Impossible to Fail (4 tracks)

Personal Power II

1996

0:35:36 (Pop-up)

R.E.M.

Gardening at Night (Different vocal mix)

One loop

0:35:46 (Pop-up)

Erasure

A Little Respect

Various copies to demonstrate Tony Robbins' Erasure technique

0:35:59 (Pop-up)

James Bamford

Various

A Pretext for War

Used beginnings of each track

0:36:12 (Pop-up)

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza

The Great Communicator (Ronald Reagan)

Show #317, from June 8, 2004

2004

Ronald Reagan said, "We can leave our children with an unrepayable debt, and a shattered economy." (May cause stomach illness.)

With layered copies of Antonio Vivaldi - Cello Concerto in E Minor, third movement, and Jello Biafra

0:59:01 (Pop-up)

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza

Better Off Dead (Ronald Reagan)

Show #318, from June 15, 2004

2004

Is it easier for you to buy things in a store than it was four years ago? (The sound of someone shooting Ronald Reagan.)

With: Vivaldi, Cello Concerto in E Minor, Barry Lyndon, backwards, Stanley Kubrick, 40 Room Tones, 107 Restaurants, Bars, Ronald Reagan, We have tried to negotiate with Nicaragua but they won't mind their own business, Are you better off than you were four years ago, Reagan shot assassination attempt, Grenada not a friendly island paradise but a Soviet colony, solidiers in Korea didn't say they wanted to go home, Four Tet, All the Chimers, I've Got Viking in Me, My Angel Rocks Back and Forth, The Infant Cycle, 4 a.m. Wallpaper, In a Deserted Hotel Hallway, Walt Disney, EPCOT, American Adventure, Astuter Computer, US Supreme Court, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld Argument, Michael Nyman, Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepards, The Draughtman's Contract, Peter Greenaway, Llewellyn, Gnome Woods, Journey to the Faeries, Ray Charles, God Bless America, Biosphere, Vibratoire, Deviation

1:27:48 (Pop-up)

Wax Audio

Happy Xmas (War is Over) w/George W. Bush & John Lennon

(Not from 2004)

1:57:05 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!

♥ 5:02pm chresti:

Hello

5:06pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Laugh & cry

5:12pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Sigh

♥ 5:14pm david w:

I'm floating along, but prepared to be knocked down by unseen forces.

5:15pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Ominous

5:17pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

chresti, you'll have to re-favorite the image, I swapped it

♥ 5:22pm david w:

Or rather, pulled under.

5:26pm Sandra:

Hi Ken, was this when you were in Austin?

5:29pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

It sure was. 304 E 5th St.

5:37pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

And, there's the whole sample listing, all out of order.

5:51pm Ian!:

I am in order. The chair will recognize me, even without my glasses.

6:00pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Self-recognition furnishings.

6:02pm Ian!:

The curtains were drawn, but the furniture was real. (Spike Milligan)

6:03pm Ian!:

I want this cello music. What is it?

6:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Probably Vivaldi. But it only comes with Reagan included.

6:04pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I only collage add, not collage remove * (*not true)

6:05pm Ian!:

I went to collage years ago. Psychology and then Computer Science. Quite the collage.

6:09pm Ian!:

Reagan's musical voice is in three flats, because he had to move three times while composing it.

6:09pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

The day of this collage was the day his final decomposition began.

6:14pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

How dare someone interrupt Reagan

6:15pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

@Ian! It is (a few copies of) a Vivaldi cello concerto

6:16pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

in E minor, third movement

6:19pm Ian!:

I am powerless against cellos in E minor.

6:22pm Ian!:

wikipedia.org/wiki/Cello_Sonatas_(Vivaldi)

♥ 6:23pm Franco Twinkie:

Boy, I forgot what a despicable old gas bag Reagan was. Thanks for reminding me.

6:24pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Never Forget.

6:26pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Oh - Ronnie was a turning point.

6:27pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Jello Biafra

6:28pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

This one, after he'd been under for a week.

6:30pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Jello Biafra is a turning point.

6:31pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

In fact I don't think the DKs get enuff cred for how much they dropped amphetamine into peoples' social conscience.

♥ 6:36pm Franco Twinkie:

I only saw them once in 1980 with The Cramps and X. I found them tedious after the first ten minutes. I'll admit I was having a bad night, but by then the whole punk rock circus was wearing a little thin.

6:37pm Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

His speeches are quite great.

6:39pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'Having seen how much they can take out & still have Rawk
- now they are seeing how much they can put back & still be the Ramones.'
- possibly my brother.

When the nation went for a lousy B-Movie fraud for Leader of the Free World
...what a sad Puppet Show it all is...