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Favoriting November 21, 2012: As a God-like creature, I command ye, but I am above my own commandments. In other word, do as I say ...

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Lee Morgan  Yes I Can, No You Can't (edit)   Favoriting The Gigolo  0:00:00 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra  That Happy Feeling   Favoriting Instrumental Favorites: Bert Kaempfert  0:03:31 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Tame Impala  Music to Walk Home By   Favoriting Lonerism  0:06:25 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
The Go! Team  Doing It Right   Favoriting Proof of Youth  0:11:13 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Cults Percussion Ensemble  Percussion Suite (Third Movement)   Favoriting Cults Percussion Ensemble  0:14:44 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
 
Clinic  Miss You   Favoriting Free Reign  0:22:05 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Fat Mattress  I Don't Mind   Favoriting Fat Mattress  0:27:22 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Keyboard Rebel  My Lordship   Favoriting My Lordship  0:31:10 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Cal Tjader  Yesterdays   Favoriting Tjader Plays Mambo  0:34:27 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Mulatu Astatke  Yokermo Sew - A Man of Experience and Wisdom   Favoriting Late Night Tales, Vol. 2  0:37:55 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Cigarbox Planetarium  Who's Who in Hibernation   Favoriting Society of Rubber Cement  0:42:05 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
 
Andrew Bird  Spirograph   Favoriting Hands of Glory  0:50:07 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Horace Silver Trio  Ecaroh   Favoriting Horace Silver Trio  0:53:55 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
My Bubba & Mi  Nothing Much   Favoriting Wild & You  0:57:08 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Fotheringay  The Way I Feel   Favoriting Fotheringay  1:00:03 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Etta Baker  Spanish Fandango   Favoriting One-Dime Blues  1:04:56 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Harry Nilsson  Cuddly Toy (demo)   Favoriting Demos, TV, and Live  1:06:49 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Caleb  From Scratch   Favoriting Travel  1:09:57 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
 
Gregory Page  Le Carrousel Magique   Favoriting Love Made Me Drunk  1:19:26 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Aztec Camera  Oblivious   Favoriting High Land, Hard Rain  1:21:40 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
The Raveonettes  Dead Sound   Favoriting Lust Lust Lust  1:24:58 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Juliana Hatfield  The Easy Way Out   Favoriting Beautiful Creature  1:28:08 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
The Cave Singers  Black Leaf   Favoriting No Witch  1:31:35 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
David Friedman  Hand Dance   Favoriting Air Sculpture  1:34:39 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Rob Ickes  Watermelon Man   Favoriting Slide City  1:40:40 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
DE.L  My Favourite Question Mark   Favoriting Songs We Wrote  1:44:58 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
 
Sylvie Simmons  Famous Blue Raincoat   Favoriting Live on WFMU November 14, 2012  1:54:44 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Lindisfarne  Winter Song   Favoriting Nicely Out of Tune  1:59:48 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Cults Percussion Ensemble  Autun Carillon   Favoriting Cults Percussion Ensemble  2:04:54 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Sonny Rollins  Raincheck   Favoriting Worktime  2:08:18 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
DE.L  My Favourite Question Mark   Favoriting Songs We Wrote  2:14:33 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Tom Jones & Charles Blackwell  (It Looks Like) I'll Never Fall in Love Again   Favoriting Gold (1965-1975)  2:18:49 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Toro y Moi  Still Sound   Favoriting Underneath the Pine  2:22:58 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
 
Pat Metheny  Don't Know Why   Favoriting One Quiet Night  2:32:37 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
The Collectors  Howard Christman's Older   Favoriting The Collectors  2:35:26 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Rosebuds  Break My Body   Favoriting Dig for Fire: A Tribute to the Pixies  2:40:21 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Dirty Louie  Suck It for the U.S.A.   Favoriting Suck It For the U.S.A.  2:42:53 (Pop-up | Pop-up)
Fleetwood Mac  Oh Well   Favoriting Then Play On  2:45:08 (Pop-up | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  3:04pm
Denise in DC:

First?
  3:04pm
rrg:

All right, then. The long weekend starts NOW.
  3:05pm
Carmichael:

Jeez, I'm here on the ground floor of Irwin's show for once. Lee Morgan is a cat who knows how to swing!
  3:05pm
rrg:

For me, anyway.
  3:05pm
Matt from Springfield:

Yes I Cran, No You Cran't
  3:06pm
Denise in DC:

Just sent a few extra $$ on the cusp between Duane and Irwin, out of thanks for WFMU.
  3:06pm
Caryn:

It's as if your show title is explaining the name of the Lee Morgan track...
  3:07pm
rrg:

So who gets credit? Duane or Irwin?
  3:07pm
Parq:

Exactly.
  3:08pm
Matt from Springfield:

DUANE! Of course! :P
  3:08pm
rrg:

Ooh, I like this.
  3:09pm
Irwin:

Like it? You demanded it!
  3:09pm
Denise in DC:

rrg: Good question. Duane's playlist stopped taking comments before my pledge showed up on his bar chart.
  3:09pm
Listening Out There:

I did calisthenics to this in sixth grade.
  3:10pm
Listening Out There:

Made me what I am today.
  3:10pm
rrg:

I have sometimes thought about getting a chorus of children to peform this in an acapella style. If I had the skill to do it, I mean.
  3:11pm
Matt from Springfield:

@rrg: Guests will be taken into your atrium on monorail, with the children's chorus singing these strains as they arrive.
  3:11pm
Matt from Springfield:

Yeah! Tame Impala! It's been a while since I heard them.
  3:11pm
other david:

Ahoy hoy.
  3:12pm
rrg:

Sixth grade? You're even older than I am. Assuming that it wasn't already a blast-from-the-past when you were exercising to it.
  3:12pm
rrg:

New TI album, I think.

I try to keep up. Sometimes.
  3:13pm
Dselyixa:

Ooooow! Tamim peala!
  3:13pm
Matt from Springfield:

Ahoy, OD, welcome aboard!
  3:14pm
other david:

*salutes*
  3:14pm
rrg:

"Hoy" means "today" in Spanish. I think.
  3:16pm
rrg:

I'll accept this as proof of youth.
  3:17pm
Caryn:

@od: have you been taken over by the spirit of Alexander Graham Bell? It's either that or Mr. Burns.
  3:18pm
other david:

@Caryn: Mr. Burns! Well spotted :)
  3:19pm
Matt from Springfield:

It's Go! "team"!
  3:21pm
rrg:

I'm listening in headphones today. Hey, this show is in stereo!
  3:21pm
Matt from Springfield:

@OD: Mr. Burns still holds animosity towards Thomas Edison for throwing "Hello" into the mix.
  3:21pm
Caryn:

@od: yep, the character got it from Bell, who answered the phone "ahoy hoy". Edison was the one who came up with "hello" as the thing to say when on the phone. One of the rare things the thieving bastard actually invented.
  3:23pm
rrg:

A short walking distance from me is a town that bears Mr. Edison's name.
  3:23pm
rrg:

What's this talkover music that we're listening to?
  3:24pm
other david:

@Matt & Caryn: haha! Good lord, how did I did not know this?

WFMU, a musical and historical education :)
  3:25pm
Matt from Springfield:

@Caryn: And the stock ticker--that apparently was the first electronic "broadcast" of data and gave him a lot of investment capital.
  3:26pm
rrg:

Gosh, thanks.
  3:26pm
Denise in DC:

Speaking of edjimicashun: a few weeks/months back, somebody in here mentioned a place that will digitize one's vinyl. Can anyone remind me of what place that is?
  3:27pm
rrg:

Reclaim Media. http://reclaimmedia.com
  3:27pm
Irwin:

RRG: Peng Cafe Orch "Milk" (extended)
  3:28pm
Caryn:

@Matt: well, he was the first one to use alphanumeric characters, but morse code stock tickers had been invented over a decade previously.
  3:28pm
rrg:

I've used them (reclaimmedia). They do good work.
  3:30pm
Caryn:

@Matt actually, that was wrong. The printing system had been invented 13 years earlier, but the morse code ticker was just 6 years earlier.
  3:30pm
Denise in DC:

That's who I was thinking of, rrg -- thanks!
  3:32pm
Matt from Springfield:

An improvement and re-integration of various existing technologies.
  3:32pm
other david:

I actually had my first morse code contact last friday, with a station in Italy via the wonders of shortwave propagation. Nerd points +1000, methinks.
  3:32pm
rrg:

I do have a non-extended version of "Milk" by the PCO.
  3:34pm
Irwin:

Bass screw-up by the late Noel Redding. Otherwise an exemplary part.
  3:34pm
rrg:

Do we still use (original) Morse code? Or do we use so-called "International" code?

This is some distinction I recall from my childhood. Though I never really used either of them.
  3:34pm
still b/p:

dot > tweet
  3:36pm
Matt from Springfield:

@OD: Congrats! Your 1000 nerd points are redeemable for the Gold Filling of Communication medal, with which you can pick up ever more signals.
  3:37pm
other david:

International/continental morse code is the one that's used now, the clicky american/railroad code is now pretty much only used for re-enactments.
  3:37pm
Carmichael:

I got to feed my face. See y'all in a while.
  3:39pm
other david:

@Matt: woot!
  3:39pm
Caryn:

@Matt: yep. I always consider Edison more a Bill Gates than a Da Vinci: not so much an inventor, but just really good at taking stuff that's already been invented and putting it together in a way that is practical and can be sold easily to the public.
  3:40pm
rrg:

Just as long as you're not dissing Bill Gates.
  3:40pm
rrg:

Or Edison!
  3:42pm
Caryn:

@rrg: I do not diss Gates. I think I do prefer him to Edison.
  3:44pm
Matt from Springfield:

@Caryn: Now the *big* question: Edison, or S. Jobs? :)

It doesn't matter much to me, as I was always more of a "Woz" fan myself :)
  3:50pm
rrg:

I'm as hep as they come.
  3:51pm
rrg:

I've heard that Papa loves mambo.
  3:51pm
Intruder:

*groan*
What's a fella have to do to intrude into a building? What's taking so long? Buzz me in!
Am I going to have to break a window and sneak in? So 20th Century!
  3:52pm
Caryn:

@Matt: "Woz" fan here too, but I do prefer Jobs to Edison, even if I do think Apple is highly over-rated, especially these days.
  3:52pm
Ricardotron Montalbanics:

That Mulatu Astatke song is the coolest song ever. Maybe it helps that it was in that Jarmusch movie with Bill Murray (which name escapes me).
  3:54pm
Caryn:

@Ricardotron: "Broken Flowers"
  3:58pm
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  3:59pm
Michael:

Thanks for pointing out how Noel Redding botched that transition. But did you also notice how he made up for it the next time around at that same transition? He starts to rip there, definitely more than before.
  3:59pm
rrg:

I guess it wasn't "Ghostbusters".
  4:00pm
Mike East:

Ghostbusters woulda been a totally different movie if Jarmusch directed.
  4:01pm
Ricardotron Montalbanics:

@ Caryn: Yes. That's it. I saw it in the theater but can't remember anything about it but that music. And I think Sharon Stone. I don't remember. Cats and dogs living together.
  4:01pm
other david:

@badronald: hello to you too! welcome aboard!

dah-da-di-di-di di-di-dih-da-dah
  4:03pm
rrg:

Sharon Stone. Now there's a name you don't hear every day.
  4:03pm
Irwin:

@Michael: Yep, he goes into overdrive, hoping you'll forget the earlier clam.
  4:03pm
rrg:

All this arithmetic tires me.
  4:03pm
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  4:05pm
rrg:

Holy cow. I love this too.
  4:05pm
Matt from Springfield:

Bad Ronald :)
  4:05pm
other david:

<3
  4:06pm
dale:

did gordon lightfoot write this or is it a traditional song?
  4:06pm
rrg:

The harmony in this is just haunting. It sticks in my brain.
  4:06pm
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  4:06pm
rrg:

Lightfoot wrote it.
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Irwin:

I wrote it. Lightfoot stole it. Now I have to kill him.
  4:08pm
rrg:

This version is so different from Lightfoot's. It seems so much sadder. And it's a pretty sad song to begin with.
  4:09pm
Matt from Springfield:

Fotheringay preserved a lot of Lightfoot's style and cadence, while contributing their own instrumentation to it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:10pm
Irwin:

The one thing missing from Fotheringay's version was a drum solo. I give it a 93.
  4:10pm
rrg:

And their British voices.
  4:11pm
Matt from Springfield:

Nilsson demo!
  4:12pm
rrg:

Fab. I will say fab.
  4:12pm
Denise in DC:

Holy crap. I recognized this song from the first "La la la la."
  4:13pm
Caryn:

So, that's how you do a morse emoticon, badronald!
  4:13pm
Denise in DC:

It's a pretty damn nasty song, too.
  4:14pm
rrg:

You're not the only cuddly toy either, Denise.
  4:15pm
rrg:

Playlist malfunction!
  4:15pm
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.... .- .... .- -.-. .- .-. -.-- -. . --. --. ... .- -.-. -.- .-.. . -.--
  4:15pm
rrg:

Because our DJ is not speaking over this.
  4:16pm
Caryn:

@rrg: maybe Irwin is communicating telepathically over this?
  4:17pm
Caryn:

Or using very quiet morse code?
  4:17pm
rrg:

Morse-challenged listeners can try using

http://www.onlineconversion.com/morse_code.htm#morse2english

to try to work out all this secret code.
  4:17pm
Matt from Springfield:

Here comes your 19th Caleb album!
  4:18pm
Michael:

Hey now old pal Irwin and fellow felloes. Giving thanks for another year of Irwin and 'FMU as I slave in the kitchen a while. Hope everyone's T-Day is warm and somewhat fuzzy.
  4:19pm
rrg:

Pulse is 72. Temp 37 C.
  4:20pm
Matt from Springfield:

Well, Thanksgiving's a kinda goofy holiday. We're getting closer to that.
  4:20pm
rrg:

Seems fine.
  4:20pm
Matt from Springfield:

Hi Michael, thanks for the good wishes!
  4:21pm
still b/p:

I'm guessing the Monkees version of Cuddly Toy won't be included if I go tonight to see a local event -- bands doing their sporting throwdown of covers, Beach Boys v. Monkees
  4:25pm
rrg:

Beach Boys vs. Monkees, that's a tough choice. Please don't make me choose.
  4:28pm
Alison Porchnik:

I had to interrupt my pie-making to say "Aztec Camera!" I used to love this song. Still do.
  4:29pm
Michael:

BTW Irwin - I caught most of the Raymond Scott special Friday and thought it was well done. Hope you were able to listen.
  4:29pm
rrg:

What kind of pie?
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Irwin:

@Michael: Yes, caught it all. Brian did an incredible job programming the music and editing the interviews. Wasn't Tom Rhea terrific?
  4:31pm
rrg:

Ooh, the Raveonettes. Thanks. I don't think you've played them for a while.
  4:33pm
Michael:

Irwin: He really was. It was so entertaining and informative. Even your bits =)
  4:33pm
still b/p:

Winner determined by crowd response to the execution (though hopefully not torture) by the local musicians. It was Kenny Loggins over Lionel Ritchie (friend of mine sang some of the Lionel vocals) last time I attended. All the songs were better than I expected, even impressive, and I think the fun trumps any disappointment for the runners-up.
  4:34pm
Alison Porchnik:

RRG - Pumpkin. My special colonial-era recipe. Minus the dairy and the wheat flour. (Modern-day diet restrictions must be observed.)
  4:36pm
rrg:

The colonists used wheat and milk. I'm just sayin'.
  4:37pm
rrg:

I'll have a pumpkin pie tomorrow too. And maybe for a few days thereafter.
  4:37pm
rrg:

@still b/p: That's "Clash of the Titans" in Portland ME?
  4:38pm
DG:

Never heard that version of the Nilsson song before....great. Also thanks for Oblivious---so whatever happened to Aztec Camera? They were supposed to be the next big thing.
  4:39pm
rrg:

If not, what a coincidence, because they're doing the same thing tonight.
  4:41pm
still b/p:

@rrg: That's the one.
  4:42pm
Matt from Springfield:

Loving the percussion!
  4:42pm
rrg:

"unlocking those long-buried melodies of childhood before you head back to the homestead".

Childhood?
  4:43pm
Caryn:

Aztec Camera stopped in 1995. Not sure of all the reasons, but Roddy Frame at least decided to go solo. He's had a few bands since then.
  4:43pm
Parq:

DG: They didn't get enough exposure. Hah! Get it? Camera - "exposure"? Oh, good times, folks, I tell ya.
  4:43pm
rrg:

I like the name "Roddy".
  4:43pm
Alison Porchnik:

rrg - I know. I try to limit the recipe to native or conceivably available ingredients but aging bodies require special dispensations. Thus gluten-free pie crust and nut-based cream. Just as tasty without the resulting borborygmus.
  4:45pm
rrg:

Had to look that up. Ew. Okay, sure.

So you can't enjoy ice cream either?
  4:47pm
rrg:

This "Watermelon Man" is pretty great.
  4:53pm
Caryn:

How the hell did I manage to type "bands" when I meant "albums" in my Roddy Frame post? WTH?
I've heard "Live at Ronnie Scott's", but otherwise can't really comment on his post-AC career.
  4:55pm
Matt from Springfield:

Marrrrrrrrrrrrrrrimba!
  4:56pm
still b/p:

@rrg: Well, my childhood, sure. For others, maybe yer folks was still playin' 'em from their childhood when you was childhoodin'. Even for the Ritchie v. Loggins edition, I noted the enthusiastic players had to have been wicked tiny or not born when the songs were current.
  4:59pm
rrg:

As long as Sylvie doesn't mind...
  4:59pm
Matt from Springfield:

Woohooo! Encore of Sylvie Simmons!
  5:00pm
DG:

Parq: That joke made me shutter.
  5:02pm
rrg:

@still b/p: Now that I think about it, I can claim "childhood" for myself for that era. It's not too much of a stretch.
  5:02pm
Caryn:

Now, Irwin, according to your own ideas, is this Sylvie Simmons, the person, or Sylvie Simmons, the band of the same name? ;)
  5:02pm
Ike:

Oooh, I can play this game? It's not as bad a band name as Everybody Was In The French Resistance… NOW. Or Breathe Owl Breathe, or the Vomettes, or "...music video?"
  5:02pm
Matt from Springfield:

I wondered about why this captivating song was titled after the line about the "famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder" -- I found an interesting explanation that the raincoat is based on a "legendary" one Leonard himself had.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:03pm
Irwin:

Pledge anyone? Twelve cents? A buck? More?
  5:03pm
Matt from Springfield:

"In the liner notes to 1975's The Best of Leonard Cohen, which includes the song, he mentions that the famous blue raincoat to which he refers actually belonged to him, and not someone else:

'I had a good raincoat then, a Burberry I got in London in 1959. Elizabeth thought I looked like a spider in it. That was probably why she wouldn't go to Greece with me. It hung more heroically when I took out the lining, and achieved glory when the frayed sleeves were repaired with a little leather. Things were clear. I knew how to dress in those days. It was stolen from Marianne's loft in New York sometime during the early seventies. I wasn't wearing it very much toward the end.' "
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:04pm
Irwin:

@Ike: Be a Familiar, Lost in the Trees, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Swearing at Motorists, How To Dress Well, At the Close of Every Day ...
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Irwin:

Throw Me the Statue, Dirty on Purpose, Follow the Elephants, The Hundred in the Hands, Keep Shelley in Athens ...
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Irwin:

We Were Promised Jetpacks, The Fresh & Onlys, Cosby You Black Entertainer, I Am Robot and Proud, You Me And Everyone We Know, Beginning of the End ...
  5:06pm
Ike:

I'll see your Lost in the Trees and raise you a Treefight For Sunlight.
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Irwin:

Saturday Looks Good To Me, Explosions in the Sky, Her Space Holiday, The Rural Alberta Advantage ...
  5:07pm
rrg:

We WERE promised jetpacks, you know.
  5:08pm
Stanley:

Some time ago I entered the bad band names thing Ken had going. Does anyone know what happened to that? Was there a winner?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:08pm
Irwin:

Throwing Paper Airplanes, The War on Drugs, You Say Party!, Dogs Die in Hot Cars ...
  5:09pm
Matt from Springfield:

Nice Lindisfarne.
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Irwin:

We Are Scientists, Great Lakes Myth Society, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Follow That Bird!, The Trouble With Me, Yoko Ono ...
  5:10pm
Stanley:

... or did I just dream it?
  5:10pm
rrg:

If there was a winner, I guess it wasn't you, Stanley.
  5:11pm
Ike:

Between The Rain, Haunting The Disconnect, the Rocturnals, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, I Hate Our Freedom.

@Irwin, some of yours just aren't dredging the true foul depths of awfulness. I'll give you major points for Cosby You Black Entertainer though.
  5:11pm
Stanley:

Shucks!
  5:12pm
Caryn:

I quite like the name "Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly", but I am well aware I may be in the minority.
  5:13pm
Stanley:

How about Ponty Mython or Wevie Stonder?
  5:13pm
Ike:

Naked On The Vague. I rest my case.
  5:14pm
Matt from Springfield:

A NC area band has a name you might put on the list, but I quite like: Sorry About Dresden.
  5:15pm
Matt from Springfield:

@Stanley: I would TOTALLY see a band called Wevie Stonder!! But, they would have to be an energetic parody band. Otherwise, yeah, that's a disgusting ripoff.
  5:15pm
Droll:

Tribute bands often are at the opposite end and come up with great names: Hell's Belles (All-girl AC/DC), We Got The Meat (all-guys Go Go's), Tragedy (heavy metal Bee Gees), etc.
  5:15pm
Caryn:

But I still prefer bad band names to bad lyrics. My brother has done album cover art, and I can still remember the chorus to a song from his first job. (The band had a bad name too, but I can't recall it.) Mind you, it's difficult to forget a song where the chorus starts "Would you piss on me if I was on fire?"
  5:15pm
rrg:

Strawberry Alarm Clock! How about that, huh?
  5:17pm
Caryn:

I still maintain 1910 Fruitgum Company is one of the worst band names ever.
  5:18pm
Stanley:

@ Matt - I've actually seen Wevie Stonder. They a sort of crosss between The Mothers of Invention and The Bonzo Dogs
  5:19pm
Stanley:

How about Sarcastic Orgasm?
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Irwin:

A song so good, it's played twice!
  5:22pm
rrg:

You really had me confused there for a minute.
  5:23pm
rrg:

The playlist said otherwise at first. Maybe that'll be next...
  5:24pm
rrg:

Gloriosky, what an enormous record collection you must have.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 5:24pm
Irwin:

Formula for bad band names: take a sentence, brief statement, or dependent clause, then struggle to make it fit on the kick drum head.
  5:25pm
Matt from Springfield:

YES! Go Tom Jones!
  5:26pm
Caryn:

@Irwin: I maintain that The Teardrop Explodes is the exception that proves the rule, because I love that frigging band name.
  5:27pm
Matt from Springfield:

@Stanley 5:18: That sounds workable. I'd give them a chance! :)
  5:28pm
Mike East:

re: bad band names, replace all "i's" with "y's", "c's" with "k's" and remove all unnecessary vowels,
  5:28pm
Matt from Springfield:

@Irwin: You mean like: "Enormous and complex undertaking that will require time"?
  5:28pm
Matt from Springfield:

Toro y Moi! Also long time, no hear!
  5:30pm
Droll:

Mike, Bad band names also have a meaningless random number at the end of the name (ie: Blink 182) It's like the umlauts of the 00's.
  5:32pm
Matt from Springfield:

@Droll: Eureka! You got it - "The ÖÖ's"!! Awesomely bad band name on SO many levels!
  5:35pm
Caryn:

Oh Irwin, we're so used to Ken playing the same song sometimes 4 times during one show, that one repeat isn't going to raise eyebrows.
  5:40pm
ADM:

Oh god. I was about to puke.
  5:40pm
Some girl:

Irwin, can you dedicate this to Brian from me... tanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTjcjIsSX90
  5:43pm
rrg:

The most surprising thing I learned about Leonard Cohen from last week's show was that he studied Scientology and became a "clear". Holy fuck.

But I haven't read the book. I'm sure there are even more surprises in store there.
  5:47pm
Caryn:

@Droll: to be fair, Blink-182 were originally just Blink, and only added the random numbers because they were sued by a band with the same name. Then again, after they broke up, two of them started a band called +44, so I suppose they got too attached to the random number element.
  5:49pm
Caryn:

@rrg: that surprised me too. Then again, I still can't get over Beck being a Scientologist. Sheesh.
  5:50pm
rrg:

Oh, oh, I love this too!
  5:52pm
Stanley:

@ caryn +44 could be a reference to the international dailing code for the UK
  5:53pm
rrg:

Thanks for a very fine, uh, Thanksgiving show. Made my weekend. And it's just starting.
  5:54pm
Caryn:

@Stanley: well, it is, but I still wouldn't give a band that name.
  5:56pm
Matt from Springfield:

Old school FM, this is nice.
  5:56pm
sfrances from VA:

Happy Feast Day of Thanks everyone!
  5:56pm
Stanley:

.... could be The Plus Fours?
  5:58pm
rrg:

I'll be eating well tomorrow. So you should you all.

À bientôt.
  5:59pm
Droll:

Blink-182 is an American band, so they would have been the +1's until Google sued them 43 times.
Caryn, I understand the need to make the name unique, but randomizing your old name isn't any better than using label's catalog numbers instead of names at all... I guess Yes has already done that.
  6:00pm
Matt from Springfield:

Great show, have a great Thanksgiving everyone!
A good holiday for gobblers, or as us sophisticated people prefer: gobbeliers.
  6:00pm
Matt from Springfield:

And if you're outside the U.S., just consume a lot of poultry and booze! Have a good one!
  6:03pm
Caryn:

@Droll: true, but all I'm saying is that at least they didn't originally plan to have weird numbers in their band name. And I can appreciate even using dumb numbers to differentiate yourself, rather than ye olde "New" addition. No "New Blink", like a boatload of 60s bands would've solved things.
Aah, it's still a crap band name.
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