Favoriting The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from May 28, 2023 Favoriting

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Favoriting May 28, 2023: THE LAST DAYS OF MAY

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format New Approx. start time
The Stranglers  The Waltzinblack (Intro)   Favoriting The Gospel According To The Meninblack  EMI  1981  CD    0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Grassy Knoll  Art of Fear   Favoriting Electric Verdeland Vol. 1  5638421075  2015  LP    0:01:13 (Pop-up)
The The  I Saw the Light   Favoriting Hanky Panky  550 Music/Epic  1995  CD    0:03:54 (Pop-up)
Wire Train  Chamber of Hellos   Favoriting In a Chamber/Between Two Worlds  Oglio Records  1995  CD    0:06:42 (Pop-up)
Glen Hansard  Trying to Pull Myself Away   Favoriting Once: Music from the Motion Picture  Canvasback/Columbia/Sony Music  2007  CD    0:10:24 (Pop-up)
The Grassy Knoll  Headlong into the Sun   Favoriting Electric Verdeland Vol. 1  5638421075  2015  LP    0:13:57 (Pop-up)
Critters Buggin'  Shag   Favoriting Guest  Kufala  1994  CD    0:16:39 (Pop-up)
Fontaines D.C.  Cello Song   Favoriting Endless Coloured Ways: Songs of Nick Drake  BWSCD/Chrysalis Records  2023  MP3  *   0:21:00 (Pop-up)
Grian Chatten  Fairlies   Favoriting Chaos for the Fly  Partisan  2023  MP3  *   0:26:12 (Pop-up)
 
Blue Öyster Cult  Then Came The Last Days of May   Favoriting Blue Oyster Cult  Columbia  1972  LP    0:32:14 (Pop-up)
Webb Wilder  Slow Death   Favoriting Scattered Smoothered and Covered  Varese Sarabande  2005  CD    0:35:44 (Pop-up)
Varios Artistas  What It Is   Favoriting Dictators Forever Forever Dictators  Triquinoise  1996  CD    0:40:02 (Pop-up)
Varios Artistas  Borneo Jimmy   Favoriting Dictators Forever Forever Dictators  Triquinoise  1996  CD    0:42:33 (Pop-up)
The Dictators  Avenue A   Favoriting D.F.F.D.  Norton  2001  CD    0:45:07 (Pop-up)
The Dictators  Faster and Louder   Favoriting New York New York: The Dictators Live  ROIR  1998  CD    0:48:44 (Pop-up)
 
David Gilmour  Wish You Were Here   Favoriting Live in Gdansk  Columbia  2008  CD    0:54:29 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  8:59pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

ready for some fun at Harry's house
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Harry Parmenter:

oh hey Cali, how ya doin out there
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Soulstealer007:

Greetings fro Ocean City NJ
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Aitch:

fun times ahead
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medson:

Hey Harry and all
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Hi Harry and all!!!
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Woo:

Harry, Cali, Soulstealer, Aitch, medson. Hello!
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Harry Parmenter:

oh hello all: medson Aitch and Ss! still wired on donuts 007?
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Max D:

Hey Harry and fun folks!
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Soulstealer007:

Hey Medson
  9:01pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

loud thunder but only a little rain in NorCal
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Harry Parmenter:

hey good to see ya Will Wo Max and Co
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medson:

↳ Soulstealer007 @9:01
Hey there.
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Soulstealer007:

🍩🍩🍩
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Harry Parmenter:

I sense a significant Jersey contingent here Soulstealer
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Jessie:

Hi ya Harry and everyone!
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Will thee Sound Guy:

I think we're going to have a fire tonight... the pool is almost all good
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @9:02
that sounds fine
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Soulstealer007:

Little chilly but ready to Rock
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:02
hey Jessie, welcome!
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Hi Cali4nyaStreamin' , Soulstealer007, Aitch, medson, Woo, Max D, and Jessie!
  9:04pm
Androu B.:

Good Evening, Harry!
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Harry Parmenter:

If you haven't already checked it out new show on the RNS Stream from Jessie, MISTRESS OF A THOUSAND MOODS. Good stuff: wfmu.org...
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Soulstealer007:

Howdy Will
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Max D:

Gorgeous May evening on the banks of the Salish Sea. Sun is setting around 9pm now.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Androu B. @9:04
Evening Androu! Thx everyone for stopping in. Sounds lyrical, Max.
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Jessie:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:04
Thank you Harry. Hope you enjoyed it.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:05
indeed
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Hi Androu B!
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Jessie:

Hi Will!
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Fatherflot:

Hi Harry. Make this haus phun
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:07
vill do
  9:09pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

↳ Song: "Chamber of Hellos" by "Wire Train"
i remember Wire Train when I moved to San Francisco 1983
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Cali4nyaStreamin' @9:09
did not know them at all. wire, of course, yes.
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medson:

Great opening set Harry
  9:10pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

↳ Song: "I Saw the Light" by "The The"
saw The The once late 80s/early 90s
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Soulstealer007:

↳ medson @9:10
Amen!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:10
hey thx man
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Cali4nyaStreamin' @9:10
never did.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:12
good ?
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Jessie:

Sounding great tonight!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:14
hey thanks you know the feeling, appreciate it
  9:16pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

another shot from the Grassy Knoll?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Cali4nyaStreamin' @9:16
yeah, i absolutely dig their vibe on this album.
  9:18pm
Androu B.:

↳ Song: "Headlong into the Sun" by "The Grassy Knoll"
I happen to have one of their three releases from the 90's, "Positive". Their early material is pretty decent.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Androu B. @9:18
haven't heard yet will check out thx
  9:19pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

↳ Song: "Headlong into the Sun" by "The Grassy Knoll"
you made me wiki them; "flaccid acid jazz" made me laugh
  9:19pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

↳ Song: "Art of Fear" by "The Grassy Knoll"
Thurston Moore worked with them; stopped laughing; props
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Cali4nyaStreamin' @9:19
now That is a description
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:20
and pretty perfect
  9:22pm
Androu B.:

↳ Cali4nyaStreamin' @9:19
Discogs describes their music as "rooted in jazz fusion and hip hop rhythms".
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Max D:

↳ Song: "Cello Song" by "Fontaines D.C."
I love this record!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Max D @9:23
yeah it's good eh! just what i thought when i first heard it days ago.
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Soulstealer007.:

This is interesting
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Soulstealer007. @9:24
yeah they got a sound. 10/3 Wiltern
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Max D:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:24
I think the whole album will come out in July. 2 x lp.
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Soulstealer007.:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:26
Sweet
We’ll park at Kate’s
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Soulstealer007.:

↳ Max D @9:26
👌
  9:29pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

don't know about the hip hop Androu?
  9:29pm
Sammy Glick:

Hey Harry, I'm here
  9:30pm
Sammy Glick:

delaying my succession viewing for your show
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sammy Glick @9:29
Sammy! Welcome.
  9:30pm
Sammy Glick:

and yes I've run out of names
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Harry Parmenter:

Flattered, to say the least
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sammy Glick @9:30
doubtful
  9:32pm
Androu B.:

↳ Cali4nyaStreamin' @9:29
That was their earlier sound in the 90's. It would eventually evolve after that.
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patrick321:

Hey Harry and all

Fantastic opening set!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ patrick321 @9:32
hey welcome and thank you patrick!
  9:35pm
Sammy Glick:

needs more cowbell (sorry couldn't help myself)
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sammy Glick @9:35
you're missing succession, you know
  9:36pm
Sammy Glick:

ha ha. recording it
  9:37pm
Sammy Glick:

Never heard this version.
  9:37pm
Sammy Glick:

first thought it was del lords
  9:37pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

BOC=Soft White Underbelly
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sammy Glick @9:37
swings
  9:38pm
Androu B.:

Why is the lead singer (Buck Dharma?) in this reminding me of Billy Joel? Was Phil Ramone was in the engineering room? (This is a Columbia release, after all.)
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Jessie:

↳ Song: "Slow Death" by "Webb Wilder"
Really cool Flamin' Groovies cover.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Cali4nyaStreamin' @9:37
i think they made a good move changing the name. Eric Bloom lead singer. Buck sings and lead guitar.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:38
yes from a friend, didn't know it! so much great stuff out there: infinite
  9:40pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

↳ Song: "Slow Death" by "Webb Wilder"
they sure smoothered this one
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Cali4nyaStreamin' @9:40
good word
  9:41pm
Sammy Glick:

Oh man.
  9:42pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

↳ Song: "What It Is" by "Varios Artistas"
Dictators! [the band]
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Harry Parmenter:

I mean...
  9:43pm
Sammy Glick:

Maybe they should be opening for the damned.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sammy Glick @9:43
hilarious
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Soulstealer007.:

DFFD🤘
  9:47pm
Sammy Glick:

Avenue A, their last great song
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sammy Glick @9:47
hard to argue. love moronic inferno also
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Jessie:

Danzig totally stole the riff from The Dictators track The Minnesota Strip for his song Snakes of Christ.
  9:50pm
Sammy Glick:

oh man it's a marathon
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:50
never heard that. will check it out. that Danzig rascal!
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Harry Parmenter:

Snakes of Christ though; that may trump MS as a song title.
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medson:

Great show Harry
  9:54pm
Sammy Glick:

we made the right decision.
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Thank you Harry, great Funhouse show!!!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:53
Thank you much medson. Thanks everyone for listening.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Sammy Glick @9:54
yep
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Soulstealer007.:

Cool show tonight Harry. Thank you, as always.
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Jessie:

Enjoyed the show Harry. Thank you.
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Harry Parmenter:

thx man. have fun at the Shore.
  9:55pm
Cali4nyaStreamin':

cheers Harry
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Max D:

Thanks, Harry!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:54
Thank you. Appreciate you listening! MISTRESS OF A THOUSAND MOODS Thursday on the RNSS folks.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Cali4nyaStreamin' @9:55
backatcha Cali
  9:56pm
Androu B.:

Thanks, Harry! Excellent final set!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Androu B. @9:56
welcome, Max. good evening to you
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Androu B. @9:56
appreciate it. have fun out there.
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Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ Song: "Wish You Were Here" by "David Gilmour"
I think this was one of the last concerts with Richard Wright... He died just before the live album was released
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