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The run-around drill sergeant of love meets the freeform radio nurse in an international popularity crisis. Twang, dub, noise, rockers, aliens, drum machines, foreigners, imported goods, songs, rumbles, hollers, blips and squiggles, along with an occasional musical number.

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Favoriting May 6, 2022: Daniel B. fills in for Sophisticated Boom Boom!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
Le Mans  Un Rayo de Sol   Favoriting Le Mans  Grimsey  1998  '93  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Comsat Angels  Will You Stay Tonight?   Favoriting Will You Stay Tonight?  Jive  1983    0:04:30 (Pop-up)
Camera Obscura  Break it to You Gently   Favoriting Break It To You Gently  4AD  2013    0:07:41 (Pop-up)
Split Enz  I Got You   Favoriting True Colors  A&M  1979    0:12:04 (Pop-up)
David Kilgour  Today Is Gonna Be Mine   Favoriting A Feather in the Engine  Merge  2001    0:14:26 (Pop-up)
Eurythmics  Never Gonna Cry Again   Favoriting In the Garden  RCA  2005  '81  0:18:07 (Pop-up)
Stereolab  Captain Easychord   Favoriting Sound-Dust  Elektra  2001    0:20:29 (Pop-up)
 
Close Lobsters  Just Too Bloody Stupid   Favoriting Foxheads Stalk This Land  Enigma  1987    0:31:59 (Pop-up)
The Housemartins  Me and the Farmer   Favoriting The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death  Elektra  1987    0:35:00 (Pop-up)
The Jazz Butcher  Big Saturday   Favoriting Bloody Nonsense  Bigtime  1986    0:37:18 (Pop-up)
The Woodentops  Good Thing   Favoriting Giant  Rough Trade  1986    0:40:34 (Pop-up)
The Go-Betweens  Streets of Your Town   Favoriting 16 Lovers Lane  Beggars Banquet  1988    0:43:57 (Pop-up)
Moose  Dress You The Same   Favoriting Honey Bee  Play It Again Sam Records –  1994    0:46:53 (Pop-up)
Destroyer  Farrar, Straus & Giroux (Sea of Tears)   Favoriting Streethawk: A Seduction  Misra  2001    0:50:42 (Pop-up)
The Passions  I'm in Love With a German Film Star   Favoriting I'm In Love With a German Film Star  Polydor  1981    0:54:21 (Pop-up)
 
Low  Stay   Favoriting Split w/ Shearwater  Sub Pop  2013    1:02:04 (Pop-up)
Dump  The Beautiful Ones   Favoriting That Skinny Motherfucker With The High Voice?  Shrimper  1998    1:05:58 (Pop-up)
Tindersticks  We Have All The Time In The World   Favoriting Split w/ Gallon Drunk  Clawfist  1993    1:11:50 (Pop-up)
Marc Almond  The Sun Will Arise   Favoriting Trials Of Eyeliner (The Anthology 1979/2016)  UMC  2016    1:16:38 (Pop-up)
 
Lambchop  This Corrosion   Favoriting Is A Woman  City Slang/Virgin  2002    1:24:19 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields  Take Ecstasy With Me   Favoriting Holiday  Feel Good All Over  1994    1:30:24 (Pop-up)
Butterfly Child  Triumphant   Favoriting Onomatopoeia  Rough Trade  1993    1:33:33 (Pop-up)
Disco Inferno  The Atheist's Burden   Favoriting The 5 EPs  One Little Indian  2012  '94  1:38:39 (Pop-up)
The Boo Radleys  Barney (...And Me)   Favoriting Giant Steps  Columbia  1993    1:42:29 (Pop-up)
Belle & Sebastian  We Are the Sleepyheads   Favoriting The Life Pursuit  Matador  2006    1:47:32 (Pop-up)
 
Jacobites  Son of a French Nobleman   Favoriting Robespierre's Velvet Basement  Regency Sound  1993  '85  1:57:02 (Pop-up)
Robin Gibb  Kathy's Gone   Favoriting How Old Are You?  Polydor  1983    1:59:58 (Pop-up)
June Tabor & The Oyster Band  All Tomorrow's Parties   Favoriting Freedom And Rain  Cooking Vinyl  1990    2:02:43 (Pop-up)
Martin L. Gore  Candy Says   Favoriting Counterfeit²  Mute  2003    2:07:20 (Pop-up)
Antony And The Johnsons  Paddy's Gone   Favoriting You Are My Sister EP  Secretly Canadian  2005    2:10:57 (Pop-up)
Julee Cruise  Mysteries of Love   Favoriting Floating Into The Night  Warner Bros.  1989    2:14:08 (Pop-up)
David Sylvian  Let The Happiness In   Favoriting Secrets of the Beehive  Virgin  1987    2:18:45 (Pop-up)
Nick Drake  Saturday Sun   Favoriting Five Leaves Left  Island  1969    2:23:47 (Pop-up)
T. Rex  Monolith   Favoriting Electric Warrior  Reprise  1971    2:27:29 (Pop-up)
 
Insides  All Life Long   Favoriting Sweet Tip  3rd Stone  2000    2:35:42 (Pop-up)
Tony Renaissance  Ice Blue   Favoriting We Stand with Ukraine (V/A)  Eastern Bloc  2022  https://notowar.bandcamp.com/track/tony-renaissance-ice-blue  2:40:30 (Pop-up)
Westbam & Nena  Oldschool, Baby (Piano Mix)   Favoriting Oldschool, Baby / Family Transmissions  Low Spirit Recordings  2002    2:43:38 (Pop-up)
Tracey Thorn  Dancefloor   Favoriting Record  Unmade Road / Merge  2018    2:48:46 (Pop-up)
Secession  Michael   Favoriting Michael  Siren  1986    2:51:48 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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listener james from westwood:

Welcome to the Boom-Boom Room, Daniel!
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luka:

let's keep it cookin for Bryce if you can www.gofundme.com...
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

YOU.
Avatar 3:02pm
Carmichael:

Daniel! At work, so no dancy pants. Hopefully Levis will suffice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:03pm
Handy Haversack:

Day-Blumin! Serious!

Hey there, Daniel and all the most Sophisticated of Boom-Booming Blumers!

Sophisticated Blume Blume?
Avatar 3:03pm
Claire from Montclair:

I love songs I can air tambourine to!
  3:03pm
Miss G:

Ready to get. . Bluminized! Hey all!
  3:03pm
Robm:

This is the one week where i wish sheliab was here giving her rant about that supreme court decision that is coming up
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:05pm
Chop Scott:

Wunderschnapps!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
luka:

tune
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
karlward:

Holy shit I love this song
Avatar 🌫 Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
chresti:

Hi Daniel and boomin bluminoffs!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:06pm
Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜:

Hello all LOVE this song...been ages...
  3:07pm
Stux XYZ:

Le Mans always gets me in
a good mood ... even though theyre depressing asf
Avatar 🌫 Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
BLCKDGRD:

Yay, Monday nights usually booked elsewhere and listen Tuesday morning, wunderschnapps to hear you in real time!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:07pm
tim from washington:

Hi Daniel! Hi Folks! Nice going with Comstat Angels!
  3:07pm
Cooh John:

Welcome, Daniel. A most acceptable substitute. You and Sheila play great music, are naturalized, and have given me hugs.😃 You beat me to the bloom-bloom, Handy 👍 Yoohoo, DjLorraine 🙋
Avatar 3:09pm
abbazabba:

Daniel Blumin oh yeah!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
karlward:

Claire from Montclair: I just bought a foot tambourine in Ridgewood
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
Ryansterlingvirtue:

I love Sheila but I ain't complainin! Except now Friday feels like Monday lol
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
Handy Haversack:

Cooh John!

It is the foot tambourine district, karlward. You gotta blend!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:09pm
Ryansterlingvirtue:

and then Camera Obscura AFTER I write that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:10pm
tim from washington:

Also, I'm glad Daniel's here. I'm about to dig into a Bahn Mi which usually ends up on my shirt. I feel like a total schlub when this happens while classy Sheila B is on the air.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:10pm
spodiodi:

Daniel! Bluminites!
Avatar 🌫 3:10pm
Niall:

Daniel Blumin! What a nice surprise on a Friday evening!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
karlward:

I am putting my foot down. No more air tambourine for me.
  3:11pm
Robm:

@Tim listening ti sheliab makes me want to dress up in a tuxedo
Avatar 🌫 3:11pm
Niall:

And I appreciate the Sheila B-ing of this set.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:11pm
tim from washington:

@Robm - exactly!
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Hubig Pie:

Breezy and whimsical sounds abound
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
chris in the redwoods:

hola, Daniel and Blum-Blumers.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
luka:

yes. YES.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
tim from washington:

In today's rock history - the Hindenburg blew up in Jersey on this day in 1937 which laughed Led Zeppelin 31 years later. It's also Bob Seger's birthday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

KrellPop™️
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:13pm
tim from washington:

laughed = launched
Avatar 3:14pm
Claire from Montclair:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  3:14pm
Robm:

Damn seger is 77
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'I Got You' is as good as TheBeatles.
Any fans of the 'Try Whistling This' album?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:15pm
dreamyandseedy:

greetings Daniel and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:16pm
DjLorraine:

Cooh John 🙋
  3:16pm
Luvs me some:

Split enz
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Hubig Pie:

TCM is featuring air disaster movies this eve. including The Hindenburg and Zero Hour! which inspired Airplane!
  3:17pm
headcleaner:

Thank you for reclaiming that Split Enz song, Даниэль (some pop songs are dead to us until we here them on FMU - at which point they burst back into life)
  3:18pm
thesecoronalives:

all hail the brilliant, versatile Daniel Blumin !
  3:20pm
Luvs me some:

Bob Seger is so underrated. Sad. Happy bday Mr Detroit.
  3:20pm
Andres:

Hello! This David Kilgour is a beaut!
Avatar 3:21pm
Hubig Pie:

It;s also Laetitia Sadier's Bday
and Willie Mays is 91
and Hubig Pie is 63
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
thepalaceat4am:

Eurythmics with Can's rhythm section ... been hearing about this for a couple of decades, but this is my first listen. Nice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
Rory:

Hey DB! All Star fill-ins!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:22pm
Little Danny:

hell yeah db what a delight!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
thepalaceat4am:

oh and right on cue, happy birthday Laetitia Sadier. Great show, Daniel.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
spodiodi:

happy bday, Hubig Pie!
  3:23pm
ryansterlingvirtue:

Love a little SL.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
tim from washington:

Say hey, Hubig Pie! Happy birthday.

Daniel Blumin right on cue with the Stereolab.!
  3:23pm
Cooh John:

It is raining and I have tears of joy.🎶🌧
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:23pm
chris in the redwoods:

happy birthday, Hubig!
  3:24pm
Miss G:

Happy BDay Hubig Pie and many happy returns of the day! And happy birthday to Laetitia Sadier, she's been putting out so much amazing stuff of late!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:24pm
Handy Haversack:

Right! Happiest of birthday wishes winging your way, Hubig!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
Handy Haversack:

For my bday in October, I have decided to see Stereolab *twice* -- once here in NYC and once in Hudson, NY. You can't take it with you.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:25pm
Rory:

Happy bday Hugbig Pie!
  3:25pm
rich from Red Hook:

Greetings Daniel!! A pleasant surprise hearing you this afternoon. You've got to crack that whip again on Sheila B!
  3:26pm
Robm:

Happy birthday hubig pie
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Hubig Pie:

Well, thank you all. I so happy I'm gonna go for a bike ride. Later Blumin-atics and groovers.
Avatar 3:26pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

haven't heard Sound-Dust in ages, and egad, that was out in 2001?!!?
  3:27pm
P-90:

Blumincredibly Bluminspiring to hear you here today @Daniel
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abbazabba:

Cheers, Hubig Pie! Happy Birthday!
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Rev. Turnip Druid:

PIE DAY.
  3:28pm
ryansterlingvirtue:

What a set!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:28pm
spodiodi:

you sound different, Daniel!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:28pm
Handy Haversack:

May the Sixth be with you as you ride, Hubig!
  3:28pm
barba Yiorgi:

great stuff Daniel! gettin my New Wave-y tune jones tickled. that Stereolab was soo nice!
  3:30pm
P-90:

Allergies or no, bed music or no, you’re sounding Wunderschnapps, Daniel
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:30pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...the giddy DanielB...
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chresti:

Was gonna say you sound faster.
  3:30pm
Miss G:

Mish the mash DB! Sounding great!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:31pm
Passaic River Blues:

Missing that Sadier Source Ensemble show in 2017 at Monty Hall is still something I hate myself for.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:31pm
Little Danny:

haha chresti it's daytime db!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:31pm
Rory:

Rock n roll hall of shame! No Motorhead!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
Peter in SEA:

I was gonna say it was at least 5 years ago....then we went and saw her in Seattle where she played a cool little bar here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:32pm
luka:

i am hearing the bed music in my head fwiw
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abbazabba:

Chresti @3:30 - that's hilarious!
  3:36pm
Andres:

This is great! Missed it in ‘87.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:36pm
Hughie Considine:

oh boy, what did I just stumble upon? This is glorious.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:37pm
Handy Haversack:

Hey, Barba Yiorgi! It's been too long!
Avatar 🌫 Swag For Life Member 3:37pm
Keys_Made:

<3<3<3
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:37pm
spodiodi:

Housemartins <3
  3:38pm
Andres:

Hit!!!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Greetings, Daniel and Bluminifigures!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:39pm
Hughie Considine:

Jangle me. Just jangle me all over.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:39pm
Booz:

Pat Fish!
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Carmichael:

We're edging closer and closer to the Smiths ...
  3:40pm
Andres:

Trifecta!
Avatar 🌫 Swag For Life Member 3:40pm
chresti:

LD and abbazabba, must be the Daytime Formula antihistamine for his allergies.
  3:41pm
Miss G:

In honor of this glorious cheery music, I'm going to have a vegan strawberry rhubarb tart I bought earlier. Because, um, it's Laetitia Sadier's birthday! ;-)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:42pm
Hughie Considine:

You're killing me now with the 'Tops!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:42pm
tim from washington:

In retrospect, Bigtome had some pretty great bands...Jazz Butcher, Scientists, Redd Kross, Alex Chilton....
  3:43pm
Miss G:

oops, here comes the storm. Getting my phone ready to take WFMU with me if there's a tornado and I have to go to the basement.
Avatar 3:44pm
KittenVillage:

Thought this was a Jazz Butcher song
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:45pm
Hughie Considine:

Daniel, how did you gain access to my record collection? There must me some explanation.
Avatar 🌫 Swag For Life Member 3:45pm
Keys_Made:

Blumin bringing the sunshine!
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Jeezy:

AMAZEballs set... but Daniel, I'm pretty sure international law prohibits the playing of Streets Of Your Town on rainy days....
Avatar 3:46pm
waters7:

Lovely set!
  3:46pm
Katharsis:

Hello all, returning to a meeting. Nice break. Might catch you at the end. Thanks
  3:47pm
carrots:

Woodentops!! My buddy won tix from WFMU to see these guys at the old ritz! mustve been 1988!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:47pm
paddy in matawan:

good vibes for rainy today
  3:48pm
Andres:

Loving this set!!
  3:48pm
ryansterlingvirtue:

Fucking moooooose.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:49pm
listener james from westwood:

College flashback on that Go-Betweens! In a good way.
  3:49pm
ryansterlingvirtue:

Absolutely fav band ever
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abbazabba:

Be careful Miss G. Also, that's some serious dedication!
Avatar 3:49pm
KittenVillage:

All this late 80s makes me want to hear "Phoenix 99" by The River Roses. ... anyone know that one?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:50pm
Krull Sagan:

love to love this lovely set Mister Bloomin'....oh it appears I am not alone in this sentiment!
Avatar 3:51pm
Ike:

Moose! The 90s-est 90s that ever 90s-ed?
  3:51pm
RK:

Wow Moose! The band that led to the coining of the term "shoegazing" (review of one of their gigs in either the MM or the NME)
  3:52pm
ryansterlingvirtue:

@rk correct. 4 perfect albums that no one’s ever listened to lol
Avatar 🌫 Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
BLCKDGRD:

I know someone who LOVES Destroyer, laugh!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:53pm
nathan:

seeing Destroyer on saturday! woo!
Avatar 🌫 Swag For Life Member 3:54pm
BLCKDGRD:

@nathan - I'm 50/50 I'll be at Black Cat tomorrow too, my 50 is there, the other 50 outside of my control
Avatar 3:55pm
Jenn in the BX:

Enjoying these tunes immensely!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:55pm
Hughie Considine:

Got to interview Daniel Bejar after the release of "Ken" - he was down to earth, approachable, and of course drily funny.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:55pm
McGroovey:

Destroyer : Not Pavement
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:56pm
Booz:

Shimmer shimmer shimmy
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:57pm
Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜:

HOLY CRAP I LOVE THIS PASSIONS SONG. I have it on repeat all the time, my neighbors must hate it...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:58pm
coelacanth∅:

good afternoon Daniel & Blumincendiaries
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:58pm
thepalaceat4am:

Saw Barbara Gogan perform at Union Hall in 2008 as one-half of the Monarchs ... and they so unexpectedly and wonderfully closed with this song. <3
  3:58pm
Miss G:

I wish you were my neighbor, 🌛🌕🌜!
  3:58pm
Neil in Somerset:

The Passions were great. I love This.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 3:59pm
tim from washington:

The Passions are new to me. I'm digging this!
  4:01pm
Barba Yiorgi:

German Film Star! haven't heard in decades. meeemories..
  4:01pm
RK:

Also, Le Mans rules! "La Balada de la Primavera" is especially lovely. Some throwback vibes today, Daniel!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:02pm
Handy Haversack:

The bass player in the Passions is an FMU listener and a friend. Check out her current music project: barbaramarco.bandcamp.com...

They have played shows with K8!
  4:02pm
carrots:

1986!?!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:03pm
diciassette:

Hello and RIP Grant McLennan ❤️
  4:04pm
Miss G:

Wow HH thanks for that link! Barbara+Marco is a collaboration project between Barbara Gogan and Marco Dianese.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:04pm
tim from washington:

Long sets (and songs for that matter) are A-OK with me!
Avatar 4:05pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

discovering that Laetitia Sadier is a mere 3 months older than one leaves one feeling one has achieved not very much in this life. ah well...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:05pm
Handy Haversack:

They are lovely people, Miss G! The first live music we heard during the pandemic was sitting on Barbara's porch while she and Marco played inside the house. We wept for joy.
  4:05pm
Barba Yiorgi:

Hey Handy H! hope all is well - stay tuned for gig news soon from our worlds..
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Ike:

Weird cover! Very strange to hear Low do this song! Freaky!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:06pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

JohnnyMarr is three days older than me
...he's been there 1st, you see. No catching up so I don't bother with anything...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:07pm
Handy Haversack:

Good news, Barba Yiorgi!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:07pm
tim from washington:

The bandcamp link reminds me I need to order the Prof.fuzz's new disc.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:07pm
disco_nap_:

So many cover versions of this song (I actually discovered it through a friend’s band covering it) and I love all of them! And the original.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:08pm
tim from washington:

Ike - who did the original?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:08pm
patrick321:

Good afternoon Daniel and all. Sounding good!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:08pm
chris in the redwoods:

Handy, was it Barbara and Marco with C&K, last summer at the arcade place? if so, those two are wonderful!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:10pm
disco_nap_:

Oh wow! Another lovely, unexpected cover. Love this set 🖤
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:10pm
Handy Haversack:

Chris, yes! And they played the show that Ken from HP saw at Arrowood Brewery in Accord, NY.
  4:11pm
Miss G:

Handy, I love your story @4:05. When the first live musical vibrations hit my ears recently, I got pretty choked up myself
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:11pm
disco_nap_:

@Tim from Washington - Rihanna & Mikky Ekko (songwriter)
  4:11pm
Marcel M:

Yo
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:11pm
paddy in matawan:

Hey dis good
  4:12pm
Marcel M:

Hello Mr. Blumin
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:12pm
Rory:

Great track here Dump
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:14pm
tim from washington:

Thanks disco_nap_ - Thanks! I was way off in my guess. By decades.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:15pm
Phin The Hyooman:

That entire Dump album (with the best title ever, BTW) is amazing. Was just listening to it the other day and comparing back to the original Prince versions for my daughter.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:16pm
Handy Haversack:

With Bandcamp, has anyone else had a thing lately where if you pay with Paypal, it works but then generates an error, and you have to navigate back to your cart rather than being redirected to the next item in it? Or is it the fault of some privacy thing I have installed in my browser?
  4:17pm
judy from croton:

Sure am enjoying your show, mr blumin. In fact, the word 'enjoying' hardly seems strong enough
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:17pm
Bimbus Bambus:

I think I'm having a stroke
Avatar 4:18pm
Carmichael:

Another plug for Bryce: www.gofundme.com...

Give till it hurts, because he currently hurts a lot. Now back to your regular superior programming.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:27pm
Krull Sagan:

ho wow!!! what a cover!!! Sisters 4eva
Avatar 🌫 Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
chresti:

Handy, I had something like that happen a while back, I stopped loading up the cart and now purchase albums separately from my wishlist?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:28pm
sinner:

Danny B.
  4:28pm
Nastase1:

Wow. Listener since 1985 your music is stupendous trying to get to the library and I can’t get out of the car listening to this
  4:29pm
Simone:

Hi Daniel, greetings from London! You're right, we're listening over here. Very much enjoying your show!
Didn't know about Bryce, flipping heck :-(
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:30pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...& featuring sometimes on a Friday the Occasional Band...
  4:31pm
NikiA:

Immediately added to my playlist
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:32pm
tim from washington:

Was the Lambchop a cover?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 4:33pm
Krull Sagan:

Ahhh! Classic Banger, this....take ecstasy with me, everyone
Tim, it was Sisters of Mercy!
Avatar 🌫 Swag For Life Member 4:33pm
Jack Mello:

such a great show, DJ alt.daniel rules!
  4:36pm
NikiA:

Yes @tim lambchop was a cover of Sisters of Mercy
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Handy Haversack:

Thanks, chresti!

And it turns out there was a five-o'clock me beside my clothes. Cheers, m'dears!
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tim from washington:

Now that is very interesting, Krull. Thanks!
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Handy Haversack:

Could barely hear the Lambchop and MF songs as I had the volume down real low on the boombox while making the cocktails since K8's on a meeting call. Back to the stereo now. Please play those two once more, DB?
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coelacanth∅:

hey dici! hey Marcel!
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Gaylord Fields:

Hooray for Daniel in the Daytime!
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tim from washington:

The band !!! covered Take Ecstasy With Me. I liked t he Magnetic Fields original much better.
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diciassette:

buongiorno coelacanthø!
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diciassette:

This has been rad, DJ Daniel B. You could probably get away with a lot of MF/6ths songs if you varied the vocalist (just a suggestion)
  4:45pm
RK:

Wow Daniel you're hitting the 90s British indie hard today! Fun fact: the "Barney" in this song is Bernard Sumner.
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diciassette:

^ that makes perfect sense
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Stephen from Glasgow:

Wow. The Boo Radleys. I haven't heard this song in a long time. I loved that Giant Steps album.
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Thin Slice:

Thought I was listening to Clay for a minute when that recorder came in
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Gaylord Fields:

This show is a keep-and-repeat, Daniel! Loving the Old New Afternoon Show vibes!
  4:49pm
Miss G:

Good afternoon Gaylord! Have a wonderful weekend! This show of DB is off the charts!
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karlward:

Handy what is on the cocktail menu?
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waters7:

You are making my day!
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Gaylord Fields:

Hi, Miss G! Always a pleasure!
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Handy Haversack:

Hemingway Daiquiris, karlward! Got a new shaker and wanted to shake it!
  4:54pm
Miss G:

*L* at 2:55 I sat myself down and said "Now G, you mustn't be disappointed that Sheila is not here for your Friday Fun, you enjoy Daniel very much, but, you might not dance." WELL, wrong!
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listener james from westwood:

No International No-Pants Day at FMU? That would have been news to Kenny G.
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Booz:

this is a solid side of Daniel Blumin
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tim from washington:

No wonder no one else at work is wearing pants today.
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Handy Haversack:

And we are heading out soon to meet up with listener Kat in Chicago (in Brooklyn!) for a beverage out in the world!
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_Ike_:

@LJfW, wildly accurate, LOL
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coelacanth∅:

no pants day? or left hand day?
i've got one of those covered but not the other.
  4:58pm
Miss G:

hmm is it UK or US definition of "pants"?
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tim from washington:

Have fun, Handy! Don't forget to forget your pants.
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tim from washington:

Does this Jacobites contain Nikki Sudden?
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Handy Haversack:

I have put them where I can see them, tim, just to make sure I bring them along.
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abbazabba:

I thought this was Bowie haha
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Ike:

Here's DJ Kenny G during the FMU marathon in 2008 trying to offend as many people as possible (sort of NSFW): flic.kr...
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Mark Hurst:

loving it, blumin, thanks
  5:02pm
?:

wunderschnapps, daniel, all
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abbazabba:

@tim - I don’t wear pants anymore. Only the fannypack for me now
  5:03pm
lazy pierogi:

? = me

wunderschnapps all around
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nathan:

a swell map into a bee gee? yes, YES
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Handy Haversack:

It's been days since I heard a cover of this track!
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Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜:

@abbazabba me too re thinking that Jacobites was early Bowie!
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tim from washington:

@abbazabba - as it should be!
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steveo:

Great to hear some daytime Daniel.

Is anyone else listening wondering what happened to all tomorrow's bagpipes?
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Carmichael:

Wow, June Tabor does a cover of this? Trying to celtic-ize this, apparently.
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coelacanth∅:

stoked for the skinny puppy Daniel
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karlward:

Guerrilla Toss closed their Friday night set with a cover of “All Tomorrow’s Parties,” magical
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popchop:

Nice! I went to see them when they were touring to this record. It was a big deal to see June Tabor.
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Handy Haversack:

karlward, I mentioned that when Mary Wing did an hour of covers of ATP on her show on Wed. afternoon. It was so good! (Both!)
  5:09pm
Miss G:

sad for the locals (RVA:) Japanese Breakfast outdoor concert cancelled tonight due to severe weather
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chris in the redwoods:

wow, wow, wow! what a cover!
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abbazabba:

@tim - that whole snl “c$&*in the box” thing is silly. I prefer “ sack in a pack”
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Threemoons 🌛🌕🌜:

Whoa RE this cover of Candy Says
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chris in the redwoods:

(re last two tracks, but esp this Martin Gore)
  5:14pm
morphe':

Wow - when that Martin song was on .. I was thinking of Antony ...
  5:15pm
morphe':

ps Antony has gone back to Paddy's Land... NW...
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abbazabba:

That was beautiful
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chris in the redwoods:

love her voice! thanks for that, Daniel.
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Carmichael:

My cousin's name is Antony ...
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tim from washington:

I haven't kept up with Antony's records. I really should go back to the ones I haven't hear. I love Lou's spoken intro to Fistfull of Love.
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Handy Haversack:

OK, we're off to meet Kat in Chicago in Brooklyn! Later on, Blumin Ones! And many thanks, Daniel. Fantastic show! Hate to leave it.
  5:20pm
Miss G:

HH you and K8 have a great time with Kat from Chicago! float into the night
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spodiodi:

adios, Handy! hi to Kat!
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coelacanth∅:

have fun Handy!
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dale:

hey now. great music!
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chris in the redwoods:

ttfn, Handy. enjoy!
  5:24pm
Barbara+Marco in PA:

Hi Handy and all, thanks for the lovely comments! And greetings from rainy Pennsylvania, where we’re rehearsing for our upcoming Italian tour! Can’t wait. And thank you, Daniel, for playing our old Passions tune.
  5:24pm
Marko:

Thanks, Daniel, for providing us throughout your show with one stunning, if often unjustly obscure, tune after another!
  5:25pm
morphe':

ANOHNI says she has played her ‘last show’
The musician performed in the Danish city of Denmark last night (November 18)
By
Rhian Daly
19th November 2017
https://www.nme.com/news/music/anohni-says-played-last-show-2160980
  5:25pm
toorushed:

This DS song is really a beautiful song
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tim from washington:

Oh man. Hear come the water works.
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Carmichael:

Oh man, Nick Drake ...
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rx scabin:

Good evening. Daniel and Everyone. I hear the oppressive and shaming lawnmowers.
  5:27pm
Katharsis:

I return. theoretically wiser.
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GR60:

This has been the perfect set to come down from an insane day. David Sylvian into Nick Drake with a Guinness. Thank you!
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Booz:

The Sylvian -> Drake segue was kinda brilliant.
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dale:

this music fits the weather perfectly.
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rx scabin:

I missed Lambchop. :(
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tim from washington:

Yes!
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tokenware:

really happy to hear this song right now!
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Carmichael:

Wow, a mellow T Rex song.
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Keys_Made:

<3
  5:32pm
NYsoul living in another place:

Daniel, your playlist is absolutely incredible ! I’ve been listening while at work and your choices are making me feel so happy. Thank you thank you.
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rx scabin:

Heavens.
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Carmichael:

More bowling polka songs!
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tim from washington:

Dave The Spazz played a killer bowling song last night.
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ifeelfatnsassy:

Well, this sure is nice. Great show, Daniel.
  5:43pm
morphe':

Thanks DB and all !!!!!!!!!
  5:43pm
carol:

Amazing show!! Thank you, Daniel!!
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Destroit:

Im so so tragically late to the party. Hi Daniel, sorry i missed 92% of your show. Whats the over/under on sophisticated blume blume in here….3….4…?
  5:47pm
morphe':

We Stand with Ukraine (V/A)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelpeck/2022/05/06/another-russian-warship-is-burning-in-the-black-sea/?sh=7ad616dc7149
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rx scabin:

My goodness, DB Keep up the good work..
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TomDash:

Friday is my zone-out day after my own early show and with the cold, crummy, rainy weather, this has been the perfect show zone out show today!
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spodiodi:

nice, morphe'
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Dano59:

sounding great today, Daniel! esp. enjoyed hearing Julee Cruise.
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rx scabin:

What that Dash fellow said.
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radioronan:

Thanks for the fine fill-in Daniel!
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listener james from westwood:

Many thanks, Daniel! And well done, everyone who kicked in for Bryce!
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Dano59:

wow what a throwback vibe!
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rx scabin:

Tracey Thorn!
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rx scabin:

Thank you, Mr. Blumin.
  5:54pm
Miss G:

www.gofundme.com... getting close to $35,000 for Bryce!
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tim from washington:

Thanks, Daniel! Excellent show!
  5:56pm
rf:

wow this show has been so great argh
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Dano59:

too bad there's a 3 hr gap before Mona ... extended dance party dinner & hydration break
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spodiodi:

thanks, Daniel! great to hear you while the sun is up!
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abbazabba:

Thank you Daniel !
  5:57pm
P-90:

Many thanks Daniel. Masterfully done.
  5:58pm
Miss G:

What a show Daniel, thank you so much! And hope Sheila B is having a wonderful time, and safe travels back.
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waters7:

thank you! This was so much fun!
Happy Weekend. You did Sheila proud.
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chris in the redwoods:

thanks, Daniel B!

take care, everyone.
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Booz:

Wotta great show. Thanks dB!
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diciassette:

Thank you Daniel B
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steveo:

You're welcome. I'm home now though haha
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks, Daniel. Now to exchange dancy pants for polka dancy pants.
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Daniel
  6:03pm
lazy pierogi:

☺︎☺︎☺︎
  6:04pm
lazy pierogi:

☺︎☺︎☺︎
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chresti:

Thanks Daniel!
  10:17pm
BlackJar:

What?! Two Blumins in one week!? Gods be praised!
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Daniel Blumin:

Kind thank yous to everyone for listening, commenting, lurking and sophisticating and to Miss B for coordinating the festivities! To help Bryce with medical bills: gofund.me...
Resources to support Ukraine: linktr.ee...
  9:59am
Marco Dianese:

Thank you for the lovely comments about Barbara+Marco, we love you and WFMU! ciao M.
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12539:

Belated yet exultant thanks, Daniel, for these glorious moments of relived youth!
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