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Playlist for 08 January 2014 Favoriting | Polar Vortex's 2nd Demo Tape

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Artist Song Album Comments New Approx. start time
Magik Markers  Crebs   Favoriting Surrender To The Fantasy 
 
   
Emiliana Torrini  Blood Red   Favoriting Tookah 
 
*   0:03:36 (Pop-up)
Circuit des Yeux  Bud & Gin   Favoriting Overdue 
 
*   0:09:30 (Pop-up)
Matias Aguayo  Ay Linda, Amiga   Favoriting New German Ethnic Music (V/A) 
 
*   0:16:19 (Pop-up)
Fourtet  Parellel Jalebi   Favoriting Beautiful Rewind 
 
*   0:22:37 (Pop-up)
Lali Puna  Faking the Books   Favoriting Title Track 
 
  0:25:33 (Pop-up)
Claudine Longet  How Insensitive   Favoriting Hello Hello: The Best Of Claudine Longet 
 
  0:29:48 (Pop-up)
Juana Molina  Les Edades   Favoriting Wed 21 
 
  0:33:16 (Pop-up)
Juana Molina  La Rata   Favoriting Wed 21 
 
  0:37:27 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
 
   
 
  0:41:25 (Pop-up)
R Weis  Kirby's Ball   Favoriting Excitable Audio 
 
  0:49:21 (Pop-up)
Okapi  Love Him   Favoriting Title Track 
 
  0:53:29 (Pop-up)
People Like Us  Panic as Usual and Avoid Shopping   Favoriting Don't Thing Right, It's All Twice 
 
  0:58:38 (Pop-up)
Matmos  Tunnel   Favoriting The Marriage of True Minds 
 
  1:01:41 (Pop-up)
Katapulto  Striptease   Favoriting Cock Rock Discos Greatets It 
 
  1:06:53 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
Neu 
Isi   Favoriting       1:14:42 (Pop-up)
Unknown North Korean Combo  Motherland Megamix   Favoriting Radio Pyongyang: Commie Funk and Agit Pop from the Hermit Kingdom 
 
  1:19:33 (Pop-up)
Ghost Riders In the Sky  Thanh Nam "Teu" 11 / Dan Bau Vietnam   Favoriting Ho! #1: Roady Music From Vietnam (various artists) 
 
  1:25:22 (Pop-up)
Henry Kaiser and Sergei Kuryokhin  Rattlesnake Roundup   Favoriting Popular Science 
 
  1:29:12 (Pop-up)
Funkadelic  Maggot Brain   Favoriting Title Track 
 
  1:32:51 (Pop-up)
 
Music behind DJ:
ImpLOG 
Holland Tunnel   Favoriting  
 
  1:41:59 (Pop-up)
Sudden Infant  Dies Irae   Favoriting Psychotic Einzelkind 
 
  1:58:54 (Pop-up)
Rudimentary Peni  Crazed Couplet   Favoriting Cacophony 
 
*   2:02:55 (Pop-up)
When  Fellini's Hat   Favoriting Black, White and Grey 
 
  2:04:02 (Pop-up)
The Melvins  Psychodelic Haze   Favoriting Tres Cabrones 
 
  2:06:19 (Pop-up)
Endvra  Intrauterine Sabbat   Favoriting Elder Signs 
 
  2:10:38 (Pop-up)
Arrington de Dionyso  O Thunder, Perfect Mind   Favoriting Songs of Psychic Fire Vol. 9    *   2:17:52 (Pop-up)
Yat Kha  Ramblin' Man   Favoriting Re-Covers 
 
  2:21:42 (Pop-up)
Sun Ra & His Arkestra  Pink Elephants on Parade   Favoriting Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music From Vintage Disney Films (V/A) 
 
  2:26:30 (Pop-up)
Makugami Koichi  Machiboke No Kissaten   Favoriting Koroshi No Blues 
 
  2:29:09 (Pop-up)
 
Peter Wahlbeck  Baby Animal   Favoriting  
 
  2:45:01 (Pop-up)
The Teletubbies  Animals   Favoriting  
 
  2:49:02 (Pop-up)
Rockabye Baby  Hurt   Favoriting  
 
  2:57:45 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:21am Ken:

Morning everybody! Sorry I'm late.
  7:46am F❅F❄ (:

Good morning, Ken & people from US*A!

It's freezing cold in there, innit?

(*) 'S' as in Siberia
Avatar Ken's Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 7:50am Ken From Hyde Park:

Three hours of "Happy Birthday" dedicated to Kim Jong-un, whaddaya say?
Avatar Ken's Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 7:52am Planet Tyler:

Morning Ken! And...that GIF is too sad
  7:59am F❅F❄ (:

yes, or at the very least a song dedicated to Kim's late uncle...or that late fox.
Avatar 8:09am Dr. Goot:

Morning!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15am Aaron in Minneapolis:

Can you play some stuff in honor of my trip down to Disney World in a week? Any weird disney stuff will do. Tom Waits singing High Ho maybe?
Avatar 8:20am Okasa:

Good Morning to Uncle Ken and all the Kensters.
Avatar 8:26am Dr. Goot:

@Aaron in Minneapolis - www.youtube.com...
  8:28am F❅F❄ (:

Aaron,

What about a Cookie Monster-Tom Waits mashup ?

Hell Broke Luce
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbiioBFkD_Q

The above is one of those rare youtube vids that has a 100% of positive comments (i.e. no fights, no arguments, no flame wars, nor spam). For a Youtube epic BTL bitter argument refer to this other vid:
Youtube COmment Reconstruction #1: One Direction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxrWuE5qC5c
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30am Aaron in Minneapolis:

Well did you ever see Tom Waits and Cookie Monster in the same room together? Makes you think right?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49am Ken:

Disney and Commie Funk coming right up.
Avatar Ken's Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 8:58am Planet Tyler:

Maybe Reynard The Fox - you have a plethora of covers to choose from but I love the Country Teasers one. Maybe not playable on the radio though...
Avatar 9:03am thedunkel:

Morning Ken and Ken-ders!
  9:03am Fern:

New Magik Markers?? Oh, it's gonna be a good day.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:03am common:

yes ken. poor fox.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:04am Ken:

Poor fox? He was asking for it!
Avatar 9:05am thedunkel:

the fox said too much
Avatar Ken's Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:05am Ken From Hyde Park:

Fox is never going to catch that vole at this rate.
Avatar 9:06am Dan B From Upstate:

What does the fox say? Brrr.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06am dale:

i like foxes, gorgeous creatures. wish they were more prevalent. why the downer music today mr. ken?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:06am SeanG:

Fox in the Snow.
  9:08am laugh at my pain:

Good song to start off with. I wasn't expecting it
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08am Ken:

Stupid fox shouldnta been standing in one spot for so long. Move around! WTF?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:08am Tome:

Good Morning Fearless leader one and all !
  9:09am laugh at my pain:

It's still fricken cold here in Brooklyn
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:11am common:

fox is looking for field mice in the ice. using magnetic fields. magnetic field mice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:12am Tome:

He's going to be ok FFS !! his ears are still moving .
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:13am dale:

i like when things melt and you can see all the snow tunnels the chipmunks and moles made impressed in the grass
  9:14am Sam:

Ken, the fox could have been retarded. He or she didn't realize that he or she should move.
Avatar 9:15am Dr. Goot:

The Imogen_Cunningham_1929.gif is cracking me up!!!
  9:16am ?:

Perhaps we need some GIFs of cuddly foxes, enjoying their happy existence to its full extent whilst running away from fox hunters, to lift our spirits this morning, Ken.
  9:17am Sam:

Is it Guy Fox day?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:21am common:

I like that eyeball guy.
  9:22am F❅F❄ (:

For gender balance we should also be provided with an animated GIF of a frozen dog and another one of an ice cube cat.
  9:22am Mark:

Digging the Eyeball Conductor--he's right on time, too. Great minds think alike, common--saw your post just as I was typing that.
Avatar Ken's Marathon 2024 9:23am Snortley:

Feel like I'm a vixen to die.
Avatar 9:23am Dr. Goot:

residentsmovie.com
  9:23am Mark:

It's a stereotype to always assign male gender roles to dogs and female to cats.
Avatar Ken's Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:25am Ken From Hyde Park:

Hey, at least there's not a gif of a bear gnawing on a frozen fox carcass.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:26am common:

Mark: we were zoning in on each other's brainwaves
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:27am SeanG:

thanks for that Goot. Never knew the Residents were from North Louisiana.
Avatar 9:27am egal:

Fortunately, bears hibernate during winter, so there's no frozen fox chewing.
Avatar Ken's Marathon 2024 9:31am Snortley:

A while back, Irwin posted a link to the Alaska Bearcam. If you watched for a while, you could see the bears devour salmon alive; gruesome sashimi. The don't even use wasabi or soy sauce, just gnaw right in.
Avatar Ken's Marathon 2024 9:32am Snortley:

*They*
Avatar 9:33am Dr. Goot:

You're welcome SeanG!
  9:33am laugh at my pain:

It this going to be an "all female" fronted bands show!
  9:33am Michael:

SeanG:
Well, at least one of the Residents...though [s]he could have been visiting---or that's a backlot scene from the upciming season of "True Blood"....
Avatar 9:37am KP:

Did Juana Molina play for the Yankees as well as the A's?
Avatar 9:37am onemanclapping:

yo yo yo
  9:38am laugh at my pain:

I love "all girl" groups like Le Tigre. The Donnas. The barbarellatones
  9:38am F❅F❄ (:

Ken,

Did you heard the actor Shia LaBeouf plagiarized Kenny G?
Avatar 9:38am Okasa:

There really needs to be some system in place for attributing the artists who created the gifs on the playlist.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:39am common:

dr. goot: thank you also for that residents link. exciting!
Avatar 9:42am Dr. Goot:

My pleasure Common.
  9:43am laugh at my pain:

No no no... Keep going your on the right track. I like it:-)
Avatar 9:44am the glowing one:

the rolling stones recorded a song about that murder, it was never officially released
Avatar Ken's Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:45am Irene Trudel:

How the fox got into that situation:
braedencox.tumblr.com...
  9:45am Brendan:

Ken.
Avatar 9:45am Fernando:

Tell me more about the Dave Hill Show last night. I fell asleep.
Avatar 9:46am Dr. Goot:

@ The Glowing One - www.youtube.com...
Avatar 9:46am thedunkel:

are hobo nickels viable for a donation to the wfmu marathon?
Avatar Ken's Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 9:48am Webhamster Henry:

Why not make Hobo Bitcoins?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:50am Marcel M:

Its funny because a few songs in I thought, "Man this set is pretty straight ahead...." and then....
Avatar 9:55am Jeezy:

Wednesday again?!
  9:58am jan:

Loving the Okapi!
Avatar 9:59am herb.nyc:

since someone asked about DAVE HILL (@fernando), it was excellent. DICK CAVETT phoned in & he's uber-funny, as was the previous caller, a PANTERA (pizza? no.) person. when DOUG GILLARD came on, i was just about falling asle...
Avatar 10:00am jamesie:

PLU fab track
Avatar 10:01am Dan B From Upstate:

I'd guess based on the song title, Vicki is sick of seeing Keep Calm and Carry On signs everywhere, too.
  10:03am trs:

Another fab track from that, yeah! Go Vicki!
  10:05am Todd:

Explosive Christie GWB emails just released
  10:07am F❅F❄ (:

I think Okapi was brought to the WFMU library via Vicki (via Rome), too.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:07am Ken:

Really Todd?! Post a link!!!! I love that story!
Avatar 10:11am steve:

whoa! www.nytimes.com...

“Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” she emailed David Wildstein, Mr. Christie’s close friend and appointee at the Port Authority.
Avatar 10:11am egal:

Christie: "It's time to shut down that WFMU transmitter." Shocking.
Avatar 10:12am Jeezy:

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!
Avatar 10:12am the glowing one:

huh?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12am Cory:

AAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOO
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:12am Asheville Jon:

ho
Avatar Ken's Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:13am Webhamster Henry:

Just wait until you are doing live shows with audiences in the WFMU Performance Cave!
Avatar 10:13am ottovonbqe:

ho?
  10:13am Brendan:

Freebird!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13am Tome:

....does the Snoopy Dance to the coffee Pot ,,,, yeah HEYHOOHOO!!!!
Avatar 10:13am steve:

ho
Avatar Ken's Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:13am Lizardner Dave:

Who?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:13am Cory:

hoooooooo
  10:13am Neg-guh-tor:

Ayyyy, ho!
  10:13am dwayneweed:

Hey! Hey! Hey! Says Robin Thicke
Avatar 10:14am bobdoesthings:

ho!
  10:14am ?:

Hoe
  10:14am Neg-guh-tor:

Ho!
  10:14am laugh at my pain:

HO!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:14am Marcel M:

BOBBY GOLD SAY HOOOOOO!!!!!!
  10:14am Neg-guh-tor:

Heyyy!, oh!
  10:14am Brendan:

Himalayan a HOedown in the street
Avatar 10:14am KP:

These GWB stories are taking a toll on Christie
  10:15am FRANKENNEWYORK:

Ho!
  10:15am H❅H❄ (:

There.
Avatar 10:16am ottovonbqe:

christie expected the press to give him a pass on this, but it looks like it won't be ez for him.
Avatar 10:16am bobdoesthings:

Marcel.... SHHHHH ..
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:16am Marcel M:

Not shhh..... HOOOOOOOOOOO
  10:17am Sam:

I agree. Ho.
Avatar 10:17am the glowing one:

At our home during christmas mommy got to be Santa... why? Because she always came home late and when daddy saw her he said: Hoe! Hoe! Hoe! *rimshot* *ba-dum-tsh*
Avatar Ken's Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:19am Webhamster Henry:

Ho! www.youtube.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:19am ! I X Key !:

Ho is the chemical symbol for Holmium, atomic number 67, a radioactive rare earth metal, or Lanthanide element
  10:22am kim jung whatever the latest:

This is crap. These are actually south Koreans playing intentionally bad to disparage our great artistic culture
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:24am Marcel M:

The best part of that Obama gif is the white guy in the corner
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:26am Stanley:

Isn't that Paul Simon?
  10:26am Brendan:

Ride em ken. Yehaaaaa!
  10:27am F❅F❄ (:

'Ho!' is also the distinctive mark of the Santa Claus.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:28am Marcel M:

oh my god... is it? hahahahha
Avatar Ken's Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 10:29am Webhamster Henry:

Ghost theremins of the sky!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:32am dale:

maggotbrain!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:33am dale:

or basketball jones - i forget
Avatar 10:34am PKNY:

"Maggot Brain" never gets old, or ceases to amaze me. Eddie Hazel is that dude.
Avatar 10:35am steve:

is there any way to see a list of the most clicky starred songs on FMU?
  10:37am Michael:

Is that Shimura Takashi in "Ikiru"?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:44am Guido (Cologne):

hello everyone!

Liked the cover art of "Maggot Brain" the most. It never quite grabbed me so much music-wise. maybe because I'm not the biggest fan of guitar solos, maybe at the time I bought a dozen re-issues of Funkadelia in one pile, so it fell behind a bit.
  10:46am Speck:

WFMU DOCUMENTARY!?!?!? Can't wait!!!!!!!
  10:47am van:

okay what's up?
  10:49am Speck:

Ken, is there any footage of the East Orange old house in this Doc?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:50am common:

that was great!
Avatar 10:50am Sean D. Daily:

The funny thing is that the e-mail actually says, "MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 10:53am Ken:

Eric - I dont think so unfortunately.
Avatar 10:54am steve:

haha. have Ken and Andy ever done a mock news hour program for SSD? i think they'd nail it
  10:57am julieta:

where did you get those amazing gif ????
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:01am Ken:

Julieta, I buy them from my newphew's dealer, "Ace."
Avatar 11:02am the glowing one:

are those two pintles?
Avatar 11:03am glenn:

swim, brother, swim.
  11:03am julieta:

could I get your newphew's blog/facebook/ wen site address ?? haha . great music !!! REgards
Avatar 11:08am cthulhu:

buzz
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:13am Ken:

Julieta - Ace isnt online. You gotta go to his apartment and give cash to "his bitch" and then she slips the GIFs through a slot in the door. I think that "his bitch" is actually Ace's Mom.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:16am dale:

oh, this endvra sounds like what hearty white's been going through at the airports
Avatar 11:17am Sean D. Daily:

I want them to play "Intrauterine Sabbat" at my kid's baptism.
  11:18am F❅F❄ (:

Scary hippie noise.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:18am Mike Noble:

I'm here to say thank you for the dose of de Dionyso.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:25am Aaron in Minneapolis:

Gee the Disney sound has changed since I was younger
Avatar 11:27am Dr. Goot:

I love this scene from Dumbo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:31am Aaron in Minneapolis:

I think the animators were using something other than pixie dust with that pink elephants scene
  11:35am Brendan:

Yeah claudine killed a savage spider in her bathtub
  11:35am Brendan:

Who wouldnt
  11:36am B Z:

Hooooooooo!
  11:38am F❅F❄ (:

Tres cabrones? Does the FCC allows to swear in Spanish?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:39am common:

ken, was there crack?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:39am dale:

was there any dirty sanchez?
Avatar 11:40am bobdoesthings:

or found in diapers drunk on his porch?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:40am common:

@dale and ken: Hee Hee Hee!!!
Avatar Ken's Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:40am Webhamster Henry:

Was there any Carlos Danger?
  11:40am laugh at my pain:

No hookers?
No drugs?
What kind of scandal doesn't have hooker and drugs?
  11:41am ?:

Just looked up felching. Bleah.
Avatar 11:41am fleep:

No one kept the dress. No one bugged the lamps.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:41am dale:

there had to be just a little cross dressing
Avatar 11:43am Carmichael:

Good morning, Kenneth. Good day, everyone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:44am Ken:

Why say bleh? There Was NO FELCHING. Jesus! Dont blame him for something that DID NOT HAPPEN.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:47am Mike Noble:

favorite 30 rock character: Gaylord Felcher, head of NBC Standards and Practices.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:49am dale:

you guys in jersey need jim mcgreevey back to straighten things up
Avatar 11:50am Carmichael:

Ken, have you heard the radio piece called Armageddon, that reports on a felching session gone awry?
Avatar Ken's Marathon 2024 Swag For Life Member 11:51am Webhamster Henry:

If you like felching, you'l probably like squicking.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:51am dale:

i just looked up felch - dear god, i'm gonna skip lunch
  11:52am laugh at my pain:

No FMU all day tomorrow:( I guess I could live with that? But the stream will be up and running?
Avatar 11:53am jamesie:

FCC wont like it
Avatar 11:53am Dan B From Upstate:

Yeah. If you don't know that word, don't look it up.
Avatar 11:53am People Like Us:

wash your mouth out
  11:54am F❅F❄ (:

Had to googled that up. This is what showed up:

Felching with a Gerbil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_U5f8k5V1U

Well. At least they are not doing it with a frozen fox.
Avatar 11:55am Okasa:

Is there a Scottish version of the FCC? They'll be on you like animal stomach on Haggis.
  11:56am F❅F❄ (:

Felching remind me of:

Natural Harvest: A collection of semen-based recipes:
http://www.amazon.com/Natural-Harvest-collection-semen-based-recipes/dp/1481227041
  11:56am Brendan:

Thank you Ken for expanding my sonic horizons and taking me on a musical journey to the place . Where the hell am I?
  11:57am F❅F❄ (:

You are in the felching zone, my friend.
  11:58am F❅F❄ (:

Thank you very mucho! ADios amigos and amigas! Till next episode. Please no more felching nor frozen foxes (bettter frozen dogs and ice cube cats!)
  11:58am Brendan:

See you all at the tire fire
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:58am Ken:

Bye everybody! Thanks for a great morning.
Avatar 11:58am People Like Us:

ta ta
  12:00pm Brendan:

Ken is messing with my hearing aid
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