WFMU: Bryce: Playlist from December 8, 2017

Listener comments!
	12:06pm Carmichael: Seamless transition from Fahey, Bryce. You're actually an OK guy ...
	12:08pm steveo: hello dj bryce how many eyes do you have?
	12:10pm sphere (from app): hi bryce & co
	12:10pm KenW: Howdy Bryce, hi everyone, the BEST part of Friday begins!
	12:11pm Carmichael: @KenW, you mean lunch??
	12:11pm Bryce: :) helloooo
	12:13pm melinda: howdy!
	12:14pm Madame Psychotique: wot tf is up
	12:14pm Michael 98145: we is
	12:15pm Ike: In Lima, the "showtime" guys do their act in the street at stopped traffic when the lights are red.
	12:19pm Jeff Moore: Nice guitarring.
	12:20pm Carmichael: In Ecuador, nobody really cares what color the lights are.
	12:22pm Uncle Michael: 'allo.
	12:25pm sphere (from app): many places seem to require combat-oriented driving skills.
	12:25pm Honeybear: greetings fellow headbangers (and headrests)
	12:25pm Bryce: holloo!
	12:29pm Michael 98145: plenty of headroom in the capsule
	12:30pm adrian in mpls: hello!
	12:41pm Wild Neil: PEACE all. Favoriting this Joshua Abrams. Wow!
	12:42pm rw: Hellough!
	12:42pm chris: hi-ho, Bryce and gang. digging this Abrams.
	12:42pm woodzepper: This song is amazing!
	12:46pm Sebastian: agreed, great stuff
	12:46pm Lixiviated Life: Tuareg
	12:48pm Wild Neil: This sounds a bit like Brian Jonestown Massacre without the guitars.....
	12:48pm steveo: much goodness
	12:48pm Wild Neil: This show is ON FIRE! Woo!
	12:53pm Carmichael: They sound like they're marching past my home ...
	12:53pm chris: The Celts would have loved the Sierras
	12:57pm Rev. Turnip Druid: If I may greet the Bryce. And associated Brycenites.
	1:00pm Davis: veeerrryyy ggooooood henry the VIII party music
	1:01pm Carmichael: La Tene is described as "a Franco-Swiss trio" ...
	1:04pm northguineahills: it's a mescalin-filled Ren party (ack, Davis beat me to it!)
	1:09pm Fashion Tashjian: Holy lord almighty! Greetings from Yerevan.
	1:12pm northguineahills: Patch cords getting kinky!
	1:15pm Honeybear: @FT really - what's going on in Yerevan these days?
	1:15pm KenW: LOVING this Campbell/Youngs piece, WOW
	1:15pm northguineahills: Let's see Yerevan is a few time zones past Istanbul, so, it's 10:15 in Armenia? (UTM +4)
	1:16pm northguineahills: (I have a friend who lives in Istanbul, so it's the furthest east in that direction I know the time).
	1:19pm Mark Williams: i must own about 30 Richard Youngs related recordings by now. He's putting in the poor house.
	1:20pm Rev. Turnip Druid: I hear they have great tunes in the poor house.
	1:21pm northguineahills: Never disappointed w/ either Neil Campbell or Richard Youngs.
	1:25pm βrian: Rhythmic Bwootalism, that.
	1:27pm northguineahills: Time for lunch, I'll hear ya there!
	1:28pm βrian: You may now pull the switch, Bryce: i.pinimg.com...
	1:29pm chris: good gravy, Bryce, you are not effing around today. keep bringing it!
	1:30pm Cecile: Guten Taaaaaaag.
	1:31pm Davis: i agree with chris... i have it on no.1 hifi--- loud
	1:32pm βrian: Did you bring the pasties, Cecile? I'm hungry.
	1:34pm Randy in NC: This is making my dogs bark...
	1:35pm Chris from DC: Somehow this Inoue is perfect today. Great show.
	1:35pm mischi: bryce, this is a fantastic show !
	1:35pm Cecile: I did not. I neglected my duties.
	1:35pm Cecile: I did not. I neglected my duties.
	1:35pm nic: that was / is great !!!
	1:35pm Bryce: hi, all! wow, you guys are so nice!! :)
	1:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Bryce. Nice waveforms today.
	1:40pm JakeGould: Is this the show that sounds like a trash compactor that needs lubrication?
	1:40pm mischi: @jakegould : nope
	1:43pm Bryce: mmmmmmmmm sometimes?
	1:47pm Cecile: No, this is the show that Young America tunes into to catch the latest hits!
	1:49pm chris: speaking of hits, this Holtkamp. all the feels.
	1:49pm steve from gberg: hits me quite well, wonderful show!
	1:49pm Ken From Hyde Park: I'm pretty sure this article concludes that the mystery hum is emanating from Jersey City. www.dailymail.co.uk...
	1:50pm Wild Neil: Today its a bit droney musically more so. I mean its well lubricated machinery mellifluous madness with middle eastern influences at times.
	1:52pm Davis: i detect a casiotone... hooray
	1:53pm Rev. Turnip Druid: What is this plague of filth forever gathering 'neath my mouse? A vile Dirt From Nowhere. A ghost-mud, harmless yet mocking me.
	1:54pm Wild Neil: @Rev Turnip-If this was 2001 I would say you have a dirty mouse ball. But you don't.
	1:55pm Wild Neil: If this was 2001 I would tell myself "don't marry your first wife, there will only be heartache!"
	1:55pm Rev. Turnip Druid: I have grave suspicions...
	1:55pm River: I'm so thankful for WFMU and everyone who makes it happen this evening. It's the best conduit I know of for bringing music which is challenging, fascinating and beautiful (and every ratio mix of the three) into my life. Never in the world of commercial and rating-chasing radio would any of this music be given the time of day.
	1:56pm Michael 98145: what River just said
	1:56pm Wild Neil: @River-listener since 1984 here, in a field, smoking weed with a friend, on the car radio 91.1. You?
	1:58pm chris: well said, indeed, River.
	1:58pm JakeGould: Bryce, if you want to be the host of “The Takeaway”, now is your big chance! jobs.jobvite.com...
	1:58pm Davis: 1860S STONEBUILT HOVEL IN LEEDS DRINKING LIDL BEER. I NOW THINK ITS A JUNO
	1:59pm River: @Wild_Neil In my new flat in Bristol in the UK, doing some final unpacking and tidying, waiting for friends to arrive. A warm and peaceful room on a dark and damp night.
	2:00pm steveo: my coworkers are probably wondering why my soul is vibrating
	2:00pm Wild Neil: In 1984 I was smoking weed, etc...right now I'm at work!
	2:01pm northguineahills: @Wild Neil: I only became a listener once the tinny stream came out in '98 and my new job had the bandwidth to handle it. Before, I'd only read about WFMU.
	2:03pm Bryce: yikes, our cd is trashed! fortunately, we gots the vinyl as well....
	2:03pm Layet Johnson: Bryce I'm grinding away in the sculpture studio and your music is saving my life today!
	2:04pm Bryce: :)
	2:07pm River: I'm quite new to WFMU. I discovered back in April because it's namedropped in a song called Cult Boyfriend by Jeffrey Lewis. I've yet to watch Meet the Feebles...
	2:08pm northguineahills: Jeffrey Lewis is a lot of fun!
	2:10pm Wild Neil: @Layet-can you describe the sculpture you are working on? Subject, material, method of joining, etc? Maybe post a photo or link?
	2:10pm Doobois: "Cult Boyfriend" is yet another great, hilarious tune from the mighty Lewis.
	2:12pm steveo: Cool. I found Cult Boyfriend here (which I will listen to later) www.wfmu.org...
	2:18pm River: I'm sure I'm far from the only person who discovered WFMU because of that song. Being an international listener of the station feels like a special privilege because so few people in the UK are aware of it, so I get to feel like one of the coolest people I know whenever I can introduce someone new to this beautiful, joyous and unlikely madness. B-)
	2:20pm rw: River, get yourself a t-shirt or two. The guy at the bakery asked me about mine today. The only problem is figuring out how to describe the station when people do ask!
	2:20pm Bryce: wow, river, so nice to have you around! please drink this cup of totally not zombie cult enslaving unidentified liquid. shoves tin cup forcefully toward river
	2:22pm βrian: Yes, and eat of this pomegranate ...
	2:22pm northguineahills: Actually, not many people down here in FL have heard of WFMU. When I wear the tee-shirts, I get asked 'what is that?', a lot, even among many in the creative arts community,
	2:23pm Chris from DC: Nice to see this Khan Jamal reissued.
	2:23pm Davis: far out... like wes montgomery
	2:24pm Davis: oh, maybe it is.. did he have a freakout period in his music? i know so little
	2:25pm rsj: Not exactly sure of the cause, but the Bryce show has taken a great turn the last few weeks, keep it up! Haven't even missed the yoshi wada lately
	2:27pm Davis: my sensors and filters are blown
	2:28pm Guido from Cologne: Hello Bryce! NJoying! :-)
	2:32pm Bryce: hey, guido!
	2:33pm βrian: Abdullah Ibrahim has 24 fingers, I'm pretty sure.
	2:34pm crateslinger: Stories of how we found WFMU. I was in a squat on the lower east side in the freezing winter of 1988 scanning the dial on a battery operated boombox, when I came across Bronwyn C reading a story about a dog. Hooked.
	2:34pm melinda: When I'm asked to describe WFMU I say "it's freeform". I don't know if that means anything to them or not.
	2:36pm crateslinger: It wasn't really coming in very welll - it still doesn't - but something about her voice and the subject matter told me this wasn't my father's college radio station.
	2:36pm River: Definitely happy to drink the zombie cult enslaving liquid. :p As much as people laud the BBC and the public service broadcasting culture we have in Europe, there's still nothing as bold and free as WFMU. I feel like Americans do 'weird' much better than Brits. In the US if people want something they find a way to make it happen. Here if we want something and it's not readily available we just complain. Huge generalisation but some truth in it I think.
	2:37pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Sometime in the 1990s ('97? '98?) There was a short list of "radio WEB-casts" circulating, by some dude at MIT. Obscure stations in faraway lands, and WFMU. First show was T.Coulter, hooked immediately. Every workday, all day, headphones on.
	2:38pm Rev. Turnip Druid: There's also some weird overlap in my brain, between the "Lowest Common Denominator" station guide and the Archie McPhee toy catalog. Did McPhee stock FMU swag or something?
	2:39pm Rev. Turnip Druid: False Memory Syndrome is real.
	2:40pm Davis: Reverand. Tony Coulter was the 1st show i listened to too tutu. I DIDNT EVEN LIKE COMPUTERS. but i was glad
	2:41pm steveo: lately a lot of people I mention WFMU to confuse it with WFUV; i used to think wfmu was weird but now I just think it's good; i guess this is what happens over time; i love tony coulter and abdullah ibrahim too.
	2:42pm βrian: Such sweet pain, this.
	2:42pm crateslinger: WFUV and WNYC are the same broadcast for large portions of the day now. Just one more example of limited choices.
	2:43pm steveo: :)
	2:43pm steveo: [misread, withdrawn] nods
	2:43pm crateslinger: Sorry - not WNYC - WNYU. Fordham and NYU share a morning show or something like that. Great place to hear Courtney Barnett and Alvarius B!
	2:45pm rw: I was just thinking about this last night during Nick Name's show. I believe I first heard of FMU through R.Stevie Moore cassettes in the mid '80s. Wasn't able to listen until much more recently, around the time of Hurricane Sandy. It was pretty interesting to experience the hurricane through the WFMU filter, starting with jokes about having to read the weather warnings, into whether the DJ's were going to be able to make it home after their shifts and ultimately into broadcasting (web only) from home and having no information about the world outside.
	2:45pm melinda: I started listening online in 2010 after a local acquaintance from NJ was raving about WFMU on facebook. I didn't take to it immediately, but tried again on Saturday morning during Bob Brainen's show and it became a habit. When I figured out that FMU was the station where Yo la Tengo did the fundraising gigs that made me even more interested. And then I learned that Irwin was behind the Langley Schools Music Project! so many connections.
	2:47pm steveo: this piece is improvised, right? so creative.
	2:47pm dead_mic: WFMU connection... mid/late 90s, I was on a listserv discussion group which had Irwin, Citizen Kafka (and maybe other DJs as well) on board. Listened through the RealAudio stream that made everything sound as if it were filtered through an aquarium pump, on the occasions that the bits would flow fast enough through my dial-up. Mostly of the time: "BUFFERING".
	2:48pm Wild Neil: My friend who turned me onto FMU supposedly his brother did the accu-playlist for fmu....he built it!
	2:48pm chris: love Brainen! his was one of the first shows I branched out with, after Irwin, back in the late 90's, iirc
	2:48pm Mick: Fun catching up on the chat during today's amazeballs show. River, welcome to the zombie cult - you are my new hero! WFMU came into my life in the 90s, but the signal was sufficiently weak that I didn't become addicted until the streaming era. As for the T-shirts, I'm pretty sure my 'Eat Flaming Death' shirt gets more comments than anything else I own.
	2:49pm fleep: My gateway was Dave Emory. I was a listener on KPFK, but the archive was here, and I think Squirrel Carcass was the next step into this wonderland.
	2:49pm BLCKDGRD: This Cherry/Bra is the best cover of Gilligan's Island theme ever.
	2:50pm chris: me too, Mick. wore that thing to rags, i did. now its the malevolent bunny.
	2:51pm melinda: People love the bunny shirt.
	2:52pm Rev. Turnip Druid: First FMU shirt = choking on cufflinks. Still have it, ragged as hell but still breathing.
	2:53pm Mick: I do miss the shirt with the people dancing - that got lost somewhere along the way...
	2:53pm Fuzzy: Earliest email I can find in my Gmailbox that mentions WFMU is from February 2005 -- I don't remember exactly how I discovered WFMU, either an active search for streamable radio or a coincidental find on the web while surfing.
	2:54pm Carmichael: I found FMU online in the 90s. I was working at UC Davis, right across the hall from the campus station KDVS. Although I didn't know it, Liz Berg was a dj there. I listened all day to FMU and didn't recognize a single song. I've listened ever since, and my batting average is still pretty bush league.
	2:54pm crateslinger: My oldest FMU shirt is either the old codger, or the guy drinking from the XXX jug. Not my first, but my oldest extant.
	2:54pm Wild Neil: This is cool Jazz! I mean Jazz that's actually good like in a Dirty Harry movie.....
	2:54pm rsj: dave emory, that's awesome, thanks for listening trouble was my gateway but like it all now. telling my poor kid that pop is simple and makes the world seem dirty in a bad way by comparison, wfmu the opposite, my poor kids...
	2:55pm Fuzzy: I think I was listening when I lived in Alaska 2001-2004.
	2:55pm Rev. Turnip Druid: want lentils now.
	2:56pm Wild Neil: I remember in the 90's they had a call-in improv show....I called in and gave them the topic "3 pound hammers" because they were impracticably heavy at work.....
	2:56pm Chris from DC: This is great. That Three:four label had a very good year.
	2:56pm crateslinger: Dirty Harry Jazz - I think that was the name of a bin in the record store I used to work at.
	2:56pm rw: rsj, WFMU is good for your kids; like eating vegetables.
	2:57pm Carmichael: Who was the DJ who rode out Sandy, staying in the building and broadcasting? Pat Byrne, perhaps? It was a crazy stunt.
	2:57pm Wild Neil: I play FMU for my kids sometimes!
	2:57pm βrian: Different vegetables for different shows.
	2:58pm crateslinger: There used to be a kid's show, Greasy Kid's Stuff on Saturday mornings. They wished my daughter happy birthday when she was three and she lost her shit.
	2:58pm Wild Neil: I think Clint Eastwood movies have really good Jazz....and also that really trippy jazz song from Taxi Driver? What is that called??
	2:59pm crateslinger: Steaming Street Jazz I believe.
	2:59pm Wild Neil: AWESOME SHOW DUDE!
	2:59pm queems: i only started listening regularly 6 months ago when i moved back to new jersey. there was a radio in my kitchen and i was feeling really isolated after leaving the city, so i left the radio on all the time. dialed to wfmu and it has been on 24 hours a day ever since.
	2:59pm chris: every once in a while, i see my boy enjoying what he's hearing on fmu, but since he's a teen, he won't admit it. thanks, Bryce! what great selections, today! thanks for the commentary, folks!
	2:59pm Bryce: hey, thanks so much, everyone. been lovely gettin such good vibes from you people. big love to you all!
	2:59pm Warwick joe: What a show today. Really great.
	2:59pm DC: Great closing track there!
	3:00pm Rev. Turnip Druid: that was insanely lovely.
	3:00pm steveo: that went fast ;thank you bryce
	3:00pm crateslinger: This was a exceptionally melodic show. Thanks, Bryce!
	3:00pm melinda: Thank you for the vibes, Bryce!
	3:01pm rw: Thanks Bryce! You rock!
	3:01pm Guido from Cologne: C U
	3:04pm River: Thank you Bryce for the amazing show, and thank you to everyone in the chat for the conversation. I am completely convinced 'FMU has the nicest comments sections on the internet.

Bryce: Playlist from December 8, 2017

I never miscue a record. I am punctual, well-prepared, and dislike clutter. Outgoing and helpful, I'm always appropriately dressed. I do not behave erratically and have excellent penmanship. My CD's never skip, and I am in good health. I like all the notes, in any order.

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December 8, 2017

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Steffen Basho-Junghans	3rd Movement	Inside	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Headroom	The Second Blazing Star "The Second Blazing Star" by "Headroom"	Head in the Clouds	0:21:02 (Pop-up)
Joshua Abrams	Mysterious Delirious Fluke of the Beyond	Natural Information	0:29:49 (Pop-up)
La Tène	La Tardive "La Tardive" by "La Tène"	Tardive/Issime	0:45:15 (Pop-up)

F. Ampism	Welcome Sweet Sacred Feet	The Unstruck Sound Centre	1:02:26 (Pop-up)
Neil Campbell & Richard Youngs	Perhaps Forbidden	Six Scores	1:08:27 (Pop-up)
Alexandra Atnif	Decay Mode "Decay Mode" by "Alexandra Atnif"	Rhythmic Brutalism Vol.2	1:17:25 (Pop-up)
Broken English Club	Concrete Desert	The English Beach	1:22:57 (Pop-up)
Tetsuo Inoue	Modem and I "Modem and I" by "Tetsuo Inoue"	Fragment Dots	1:27:02 (Pop-up)
Koen Holtkamp	Scene II "Scene II" by "Koen Holtkamp"	Voice Model	1:32:18 (Pop-up)
David Behrman	Interspecies Smalltalk	Leapday Night	1:48:16 (Pop-up)
Khan Jamal Creative Art Ensemble	Inner Peace	Drum Dance To The Motherland	2:12:26 (Pop-up)
Abdullah Ibrahim	Cherry / Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro	Ancient Africa	2:28:25 (Pop-up)
Oba Loba	Lentilhas "Lentilhas" by "Oba Loba"	Sir Robert Williams	2:49:39 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:06pm Carmichael: Seamless transition from Fahey, Bryce. You're actually an OK guy ...
	12:08pm steveo: hello dj bryce how many eyes do you have?
	12:10pm sphere (from app): hi bryce & co
	12:10pm KenW: Howdy Bryce, hi everyone, the BEST part of Friday begins!
	12:11pm Carmichael: @KenW, you mean lunch??
	12:11pm Bryce: :) helloooo
	12:13pm melinda: howdy!
	12:14pm Madame Psychotique: wot tf is up
	12:14pm Michael 98145: we is
	12:15pm Ike: In Lima, the "showtime" guys do their act in the street at stopped traffic when the lights are red.
	12:19pm Jeff Moore: Nice guitarring.
	12:20pm Carmichael: In Ecuador, nobody really cares what color the lights are.
	12:22pm Uncle Michael: 'allo.
	12:25pm sphere (from app): many places seem to require combat-oriented driving skills.
	12:25pm Honeybear: greetings fellow headbangers (and headrests)
	12:25pm Bryce: holloo!
	12:29pm Michael 98145: plenty of headroom in the capsule
	12:30pm adrian in mpls: hello!
	12:41pm Wild Neil: PEACE all. Favoriting this Joshua Abrams. Wow!
	12:42pm rw: Hellough!
	12:42pm chris: hi-ho, Bryce and gang. digging this Abrams.
	12:42pm woodzepper: This song is amazing!
	12:46pm Sebastian: agreed, great stuff
	12:46pm Lixiviated Life: Tuareg
	12:48pm Wild Neil: This sounds a bit like Brian Jonestown Massacre without the guitars.....
	12:48pm steveo: much goodness
	12:48pm Wild Neil: This show is ON FIRE! Woo!
	12:53pm Carmichael: They sound like they're marching past my home ...
	12:53pm chris: The Celts would have loved the Sierras
	12:57pm Rev. Turnip Druid: If I may greet the Bryce. And associated Brycenites.
	1:00pm Davis: veeerrryyy ggooooood henry the VIII party music
	1:01pm Carmichael: La Tene is described as "a Franco-Swiss trio" ...
	1:04pm northguineahills: it's a mescalin-filled Ren party (ack, Davis beat me to it!)
	1:09pm Fashion Tashjian: Holy lord almighty! Greetings from Yerevan.
	1:12pm northguineahills: Patch cords getting kinky!
	1:15pm Honeybear: @FT really - what's going on in Yerevan these days?
	1:15pm KenW: LOVING this Campbell/Youngs piece, WOW
	1:15pm northguineahills: Let's see Yerevan is a few time zones past Istanbul, so, it's 10:15 in Armenia? (UTM +4)
	1:16pm northguineahills: (I have a friend who lives in Istanbul, so it's the furthest east in that direction I know the time).
	1:19pm Mark Williams: i must own about 30 Richard Youngs related recordings by now. He's putting in the poor house.
	1:20pm Rev. Turnip Druid: I hear they have great tunes in the poor house.
	1:21pm northguineahills: Never disappointed w/ either Neil Campbell or Richard Youngs.
	1:25pm βrian: Rhythmic Bwootalism, that.
	1:27pm northguineahills: Time for lunch, I'll hear ya there!
	1:28pm βrian: You may now pull the switch, Bryce: i.pinimg.com...
	1:29pm chris: good gravy, Bryce, you are not effing around today. keep bringing it!
	1:30pm Cecile: Guten Taaaaaaag.
	1:31pm Davis: i agree with chris... i have it on no.1 hifi--- loud
	1:32pm βrian: Did you bring the pasties, Cecile? I'm hungry.
	1:34pm Randy in NC: This is making my dogs bark...
	1:35pm Chris from DC: Somehow this Inoue is perfect today. Great show.
	1:35pm mischi: bryce, this is a fantastic show !
	1:35pm Cecile: I did not. I neglected my duties.
	1:35pm Cecile: I did not. I neglected my duties.
	1:35pm nic: that was / is great !!!
	1:35pm Bryce: hi, all! wow, you guys are so nice!! :)
	1:38pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Bryce. Nice waveforms today.
	1:40pm JakeGould: Is this the show that sounds like a trash compactor that needs lubrication?
	1:40pm mischi: @jakegould : nope
	1:43pm Bryce: mmmmmmmmm sometimes?
	1:47pm Cecile: No, this is the show that Young America tunes into to catch the latest hits!
	1:49pm chris: speaking of hits, this Holtkamp. all the feels.
	1:49pm steve from gberg: hits me quite well, wonderful show!
	1:49pm Ken From Hyde Park: I'm pretty sure this article concludes that the mystery hum is emanating from Jersey City. www.dailymail.co.uk...
	1:50pm Wild Neil: Today its a bit droney musically more so. I mean its well lubricated machinery mellifluous madness with middle eastern influences at times.
	1:52pm Davis: i detect a casiotone... hooray
	1:53pm Rev. Turnip Druid: What is this plague of filth forever gathering 'neath my mouse? A vile Dirt From Nowhere. A ghost-mud, harmless yet mocking me.
	1:54pm Wild Neil: @Rev Turnip-If this was 2001 I would say you have a dirty mouse ball. But you don't.
	1:55pm Wild Neil: If this was 2001 I would tell myself "don't marry your first wife, there will only be heartache!"
	1:55pm Rev. Turnip Druid: I have grave suspicions...
	1:55pm River: I'm so thankful for WFMU and everyone who makes it happen this evening. It's the best conduit I know of for bringing music which is challenging, fascinating and beautiful (and every ratio mix of the three) into my life. Never in the world of commercial and rating-chasing radio would any of this music be given the time of day.
	1:56pm Michael 98145: what River just said
	1:56pm Wild Neil: @River-listener since 1984 here, in a field, smoking weed with a friend, on the car radio 91.1. You?
	1:58pm chris: well said, indeed, River.
	1:58pm JakeGould: Bryce, if you want to be the host of “The Takeaway”, now is your big chance! jobs.jobvite.com...
	1:58pm Davis: 1860S STONEBUILT HOVEL IN LEEDS DRINKING LIDL BEER. I NOW THINK ITS A JUNO
	1:59pm River: @Wild_Neil In my new flat in Bristol in the UK, doing some final unpacking and tidying, waiting for friends to arrive. A warm and peaceful room on a dark and damp night.
	2:00pm steveo: my coworkers are probably wondering why my soul is vibrating
	2:00pm Wild Neil: In 1984 I was smoking weed, etc...right now I'm at work!
	2:01pm northguineahills: @Wild Neil: I only became a listener once the tinny stream came out in '98 and my new job had the bandwidth to handle it. Before, I'd only read about WFMU.
	2:03pm Bryce: yikes, our cd is trashed! fortunately, we gots the vinyl as well....
	2:03pm Layet Johnson: Bryce I'm grinding away in the sculpture studio and your music is saving my life today!
	2:04pm Bryce: :)
	2:07pm River: I'm quite new to WFMU. I discovered back in April because it's namedropped in a song called Cult Boyfriend by Jeffrey Lewis. I've yet to watch Meet the Feebles...
	2:08pm northguineahills: Jeffrey Lewis is a lot of fun!
	2:10pm Wild Neil: @Layet-can you describe the sculpture you are working on? Subject, material, method of joining, etc? Maybe post a photo or link?
	2:10pm Doobois: "Cult Boyfriend" is yet another great, hilarious tune from the mighty Lewis.
	2:12pm steveo: Cool. I found Cult Boyfriend here (which I will listen to later) www.wfmu.org...
	2:18pm River: I'm sure I'm far from the only person who discovered WFMU because of that song. Being an international listener of the station feels like a special privilege because so few people in the UK are aware of it, so I get to feel like one of the coolest people I know whenever I can introduce someone new to this beautiful, joyous and unlikely madness. B-)
	2:20pm rw: River, get yourself a t-shirt or two. The guy at the bakery asked me about mine today. The only problem is figuring out how to describe the station when people do ask!
	2:20pm Bryce: wow, river, so nice to have you around! please drink this cup of totally not zombie cult enslaving unidentified liquid. shoves tin cup forcefully toward river
	2:22pm βrian: Yes, and eat of this pomegranate ...
	2:22pm northguineahills: Actually, not many people down here in FL have heard of WFMU. When I wear the tee-shirts, I get asked 'what is that?', a lot, even among many in the creative arts community,
	2:23pm Chris from DC: Nice to see this Khan Jamal reissued.
	2:23pm Davis: far out... like wes montgomery
	2:24pm Davis: oh, maybe it is.. did he have a freakout period in his music? i know so little
	2:25pm rsj: Not exactly sure of the cause, but the Bryce show has taken a great turn the last few weeks, keep it up! Haven't even missed the yoshi wada lately
	2:27pm Davis: my sensors and filters are blown
	2:28pm Guido from Cologne: Hello Bryce! NJoying! :-)
	2:32pm Bryce: hey, guido!
	2:33pm βrian: Abdullah Ibrahim has 24 fingers, I'm pretty sure.
	2:34pm crateslinger: Stories of how we found WFMU. I was in a squat on the lower east side in the freezing winter of 1988 scanning the dial on a battery operated boombox, when I came across Bronwyn C reading a story about a dog. Hooked.
	2:34pm melinda: When I'm asked to describe WFMU I say "it's freeform". I don't know if that means anything to them or not.
	2:36pm crateslinger: It wasn't really coming in very welll - it still doesn't - but something about her voice and the subject matter told me this wasn't my father's college radio station.
	2:36pm River: Definitely happy to drink the zombie cult enslaving liquid. :p As much as people laud the BBC and the public service broadcasting culture we have in Europe, there's still nothing as bold and free as WFMU. I feel like Americans do 'weird' much better than Brits. In the US if people want something they find a way to make it happen. Here if we want something and it's not readily available we just complain. Huge generalisation but some truth in it I think.
	2:37pm Rev. Turnip Druid: Sometime in the 1990s ('97? '98?) There was a short list of "radio WEB-casts" circulating, by some dude at MIT. Obscure stations in faraway lands, and WFMU. First show was T.Coulter, hooked immediately. Every workday, all day, headphones on.
	2:38pm Rev. Turnip Druid: There's also some weird overlap in my brain, between the "Lowest Common Denominator" station guide and the Archie McPhee toy catalog. Did McPhee stock FMU swag or something?
	2:39pm Rev. Turnip Druid: False Memory Syndrome is real.
	2:40pm Davis: Reverand. Tony Coulter was the 1st show i listened to too tutu. I DIDNT EVEN LIKE COMPUTERS. but i was glad
	2:41pm steveo: lately a lot of people I mention WFMU to confuse it with WFUV; i used to think wfmu was weird but now I just think it's good; i guess this is what happens over time; i love tony coulter and abdullah ibrahim too.
	2:42pm βrian: Such sweet pain, this.
	2:42pm crateslinger: WFUV and WNYC are the same broadcast for large portions of the day now. Just one more example of limited choices.
	2:43pm steveo: :)
	2:43pm steveo: [misread, withdrawn] nods
	2:43pm crateslinger: Sorry - not WNYC - WNYU. Fordham and NYU share a morning show or something like that. Great place to hear Courtney Barnett and Alvarius B!
	2:45pm rw: I was just thinking about this last night during Nick Name's show. I believe I first heard of FMU through R.Stevie Moore cassettes in the mid '80s. Wasn't able to listen until much more recently, around the time of Hurricane Sandy. It was pretty interesting to experience the hurricane through the WFMU filter, starting with jokes about having to read the weather warnings, into whether the DJ's were going to be able to make it home after their shifts and ultimately into broadcasting (web only) from home and having no information about the world outside.
	2:45pm melinda: I started listening online in 2010 after a local acquaintance from NJ was raving about WFMU on facebook. I didn't take to it immediately, but tried again on Saturday morning during Bob Brainen's show and it became a habit. When I figured out that FMU was the station where Yo la Tengo did the fundraising gigs that made me even more interested. And then I learned that Irwin was behind the Langley Schools Music Project! so many connections.
	2:47pm steveo: this piece is improvised, right? so creative.
	2:47pm dead_mic: WFMU connection... mid/late 90s, I was on a listserv discussion group which had Irwin, Citizen Kafka (and maybe other DJs as well) on board. Listened through the RealAudio stream that made everything sound as if it were filtered through an aquarium pump, on the occasions that the bits would flow fast enough through my dial-up. Mostly of the time: "BUFFERING".
	2:48pm Wild Neil: My friend who turned me onto FMU supposedly his brother did the accu-playlist for fmu....he built it!
	2:48pm chris: love Brainen! his was one of the first shows I branched out with, after Irwin, back in the late 90's, iirc
	2:48pm Mick: Fun catching up on the chat during today's amazeballs show. River, welcome to the zombie cult - you are my new hero! WFMU came into my life in the 90s, but the signal was sufficiently weak that I didn't become addicted until the streaming era. As for the T-shirts, I'm pretty sure my 'Eat Flaming Death' shirt gets more comments than anything else I own.
	2:49pm fleep: My gateway was Dave Emory. I was a listener on KPFK, but the archive was here, and I think Squirrel Carcass was the next step into this wonderland.
	2:49pm BLCKDGRD: This Cherry/Bra is the best cover of Gilligan's Island theme ever.
	2:50pm chris: me too, Mick. wore that thing to rags, i did. now its the malevolent bunny.
	2:51pm melinda: People love the bunny shirt.
	2:52pm Rev. Turnip Druid: First FMU shirt = choking on cufflinks. Still have it, ragged as hell but still breathing.
	2:53pm Mick: I do miss the shirt with the people dancing - that got lost somewhere along the way...
	2:53pm Fuzzy: Earliest email I can find in my Gmailbox that mentions WFMU is from February 2005 -- I don't remember exactly how I discovered WFMU, either an active search for streamable radio or a coincidental find on the web while surfing.
	2:54pm Carmichael: I found FMU online in the 90s. I was working at UC Davis, right across the hall from the campus station KDVS. Although I didn't know it, Liz Berg was a dj there. I listened all day to FMU and didn't recognize a single song. I've listened ever since, and my batting average is still pretty bush league.
	2:54pm crateslinger: My oldest FMU shirt is either the old codger, or the guy drinking from the XXX jug. Not my first, but my oldest extant.
	2:54pm Wild Neil: This is cool Jazz! I mean Jazz that's actually good like in a Dirty Harry movie.....
	2:54pm rsj: dave emory, that's awesome, thanks for listening trouble was my gateway but like it all now. telling my poor kid that pop is simple and makes the world seem dirty in a bad way by comparison, wfmu the opposite, my poor kids...
	2:55pm Fuzzy: I think I was listening when I lived in Alaska 2001-2004.
	2:55pm Rev. Turnip Druid: want lentils now.
	2:56pm Wild Neil: I remember in the 90's they had a call-in improv show....I called in and gave them the topic "3 pound hammers" because they were impracticably heavy at work.....
	2:56pm Chris from DC: This is great. That Three:four label had a very good year.
	2:56pm crateslinger: Dirty Harry Jazz - I think that was the name of a bin in the record store I used to work at.
	2:56pm rw: rsj, WFMU is good for your kids; like eating vegetables.
	2:57pm Carmichael: Who was the DJ who rode out Sandy, staying in the building and broadcasting? Pat Byrne, perhaps? It was a crazy stunt.
	2:57pm Wild Neil: I play FMU for my kids sometimes!
	2:57pm βrian: Different vegetables for different shows.
	2:58pm crateslinger: There used to be a kid's show, Greasy Kid's Stuff on Saturday mornings. They wished my daughter happy birthday when she was three and she lost her shit.
	2:58pm Wild Neil: I think Clint Eastwood movies have really good Jazz....and also that really trippy jazz song from Taxi Driver? What is that called??
	2:59pm crateslinger: Steaming Street Jazz I believe.
	2:59pm Wild Neil: AWESOME SHOW DUDE!
	2:59pm queems: i only started listening regularly 6 months ago when i moved back to new jersey. there was a radio in my kitchen and i was feeling really isolated after leaving the city, so i left the radio on all the time. dialed to wfmu and it has been on 24 hours a day ever since.
	2:59pm chris: every once in a while, i see my boy enjoying what he's hearing on fmu, but since he's a teen, he won't admit it. thanks, Bryce! what great selections, today! thanks for the commentary, folks!
	2:59pm Bryce: hey, thanks so much, everyone. been lovely gettin such good vibes from you people. big love to you all!
	2:59pm Warwick joe: What a show today. Really great.
	2:59pm DC: Great closing track there!
	3:00pm Rev. Turnip Druid: that was insanely lovely.
	3:00pm steveo: that went fast ;thank you bryce
	3:00pm crateslinger: This was a exceptionally melodic show. Thanks, Bryce!
	3:00pm melinda: Thank you for the vibes, Bryce!
	3:01pm rw: Thanks Bryce! You rock!
	3:01pm Guido from Cologne: C U
	3:04pm River: Thank you Bryce for the amazing show, and thank you to everyone in the chat for the conversation. I am completely convinced 'FMU has the nicest comments sections on the internet.

Bryce: Playlist from December 8, 2017

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