WFMU: Underwater Theme Park with Meghan: Playlist from February 1, 2018

Listener comments!
	12:01pm Listener Bob in PGH: Greetings!
	12:02pm Meghan: Happy February!
	12:03pm coelacanth∅: that didn't sound like Big Mama Thornton
	12:03pm βrian: 5 degrees this morning. Ugh.
	12:03pm Parq: I fear we may be hearing the robot feed and not Meghan's show.
	12:04pm Meghan: Oh?
	12:04pm coelacanth∅: right now pop reggae
	12:04pm βrian: I hear ruggy music.
	12:04pm northguineahills: 69F/21C here in FL (although it was 41F/5C this morning) I missed Big Mama Thorton's reggae phase.
	12:05pm Meghan: hmmmmmmm, grabbing help!
	12:05pm coelacanth∅: she had a jammy electric phase too, apparently!
	12:05pm Meghan: I restarted it..... did that help?
	12:05pm βrian: Stop and start, and now I hear Big Mama.
	12:06pm Meghan: Phew!
	12:06pm coelacanth∅: i think?
	12:06pm coelacanth∅: (i'm not familiar with Nicole Willis)
	12:07pm Meghan: bluesy soul
	12:07pm coelacanth∅: we're good
	12:08pm Listener Bob in PGH: I really like the page illustration this week. Thanks for turning me on to Tin Can Forest. Super!
	12:08pm Jeff Moore: Sounds like the lyrics I hear now match this title...
	12:08pm coelacanth∅: Hi Meghan! and members of the Themesters Union
	12:08pm Parq: While I'm not familiar with the Willis track, what I'm hearing is about what I would expect based on the band name and track name.
	12:09pm Meghan: Great! Thanks Jeff for double checking!
	12:09pm Parq: Coales, dig it -- I want that on a tee shirt. Maybe M's 2019 premium?
	12:10pm still b/p: You can wear a necktie in bed and your animal friends won’t judge you.
	12:10pm Meghan: Listener Bob- I love finding interesting images....
	12:10pm βrian: Ye shall be judged by your thermal mass.
	12:11pm Meghan: I love how observant you all are of the images..... no clocks in this one though
	12:11pm βrian: Is that pileated woodpecker eyeing the guy's noggin?
	12:11pm coelacanth∅: Parq Yeah! plain grey shirt with "THEMESTERS WFMU18"
	12:12pm Jeff Moore: Yep. I do for sure know what Isaac Hayes sounds like, and he's coming out of my speakers.
	12:12pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Meghan. February is here. No full moons this month. Took me a minute to find the rabbit in the drawing. Is there a second rabbit?
	12:12pm northguineahills: Second time in days I've heard "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic " in as many days on WFMU (not complaining, I'm celebrating!).
	12:12pm βrian: Reminds me of that novel, The Long Night of White Chickens.
	12:12pm coelacanth∅: you may also have mushrooms growing out of your boots without being judged.
	12:13pm Meghan: only one rabbit that I see.... just trying to start the month off correctly by saying rabbit rabbit
	12:15pm coelacanth∅: i have not noticed any positive response when i've played this extraordinary track in the pub. i will keep trying.
	12:16pm βrian: I've been hearing owls a lot lately. But I see none in here.
	12:16pm still b/p: But stick a candle in your money bottle and ye shall rightly be scorned!
	12:18pm Meghan: when I used to bartend, we had the worst classic rock playing, so coworker and I would try to find the longest (listenable) songs we could find to take over the jukebox. This was on that list.... maybe it's the pubs you are going to.....
	12:19pm Parq: Glad Jeff got it fixed in time for this smoking Isaac track.
	12:22pm βrian: The only pub where I was a regular, the first bartender (of two) ruled the playlist. No requests, no classic rock (unless they were feeling cynical).
	12:23pm Jeff Moore: @Parq: I didn't do nothin'. I just arrived in time to confirm that Meghan had already beaten the computers back into submission.
	12:23pm βrian: Bartók popped up occasionally.
	12:23pm Parq: Tssch -- here I am in that cliched situation of giving a man credit for a woman's accomplishment. I bow deeply in apology, Meghan.
	12:27pm northguineahills: Spring starts here in a few weeks. I dread spring in FL, as it means the overbearing heat and humidity will be here by April.
	12:27pm JakeGould: Hey! Wazzup!
	12:27pm Alex in Illinois: January was National Polka Month
	12:27pm northguineahills: huh, my brother's beagle's name is Baylee.
	12:28pm βrian: Won't there soon be friendly college kids visiting, NGH?
	12:28pm Parq: Here's a rabbit named Bailey. Nuff said. www.oasisanimalrescue.ca...
	12:28pm βrian: I didn't know we had a National Polka.
	12:30pm Sem: Hiya, Meghan. Wow, the Captain right there as I check in. This must be the place!
	12:30pm northguineahills: @βrian: they're already here, but they usually stay close to campus, so, outside of Saturdays, I rarely see them. The nice part about summers here is the town empties out.
	12:31pm Rf: YAAAYYYYY Turtles
	12:32pm βrian: Summers are pretty quiet on the isthmus, too, save for the occasional troupe of marching band campers, etc.
	12:32pm Meghan: you made up for your faux pas Parq with that cute bunny picture....
	12:33pm βrian: Four paws to fix a faux pas.
	12:34pm Meghan: hahaha! Yes!
	12:35pm coelacanth∅: Meghan (@12.18) "my" pub you could hear anything. what gets played is as varied as wfmu. but there are some regulars who play the worst gangsta rap and usually 20-40$ worth so if i see them come in i'll put a tenner in there. it's $1/song but some are 1/2 that, and if an album gets enough plays it goes into the 50cent section. i've been the primary reason for several albums getting reduced.
	12:40pm coelacanth∅: ...i think i can get hot buttered soul in there at 1/2 price. i have twice played walk on by both times with much excitement.
	12:40pm queems: this one is super fun
	12:46pm northguineahills: There is plenty of good 90s music! (I was there)
	12:47pm βrian: T-shirts with no pocket make no sense to me.
	12:49pm northguineahills: I'm a navy blue kind of guy myself.
	12:53pm Carmichael: Heya Meghan and aquanauts. I'm here at work, hacking my brains out with a chest cold. Many of the bars 'round here use TouchTunes, which uses the internet. I have the app, so I can download "coins" and enter music from the comfort of my stool. Also, if some punk asses are programming ghetto music, an extra coin is all it takes to jump the queue and play your tune next.
	12:55pm Meghan: oh no! Feel better Carmichael! I suffered from a chest cold in December. It was miserable! And yes, I love that app. I've used it many times to override someone's bad choice of music!
	12:57pm northguineahills: hey, I like some ghetto music.... some...
	1:01pm still b/p: A friend handed off several t-shirts to me that he’d ordered printed when momentarily extra- amused by a line. I ain’t likely to wear ‘em, but have to be judicious in re-passing. They say, “As my Irish granny always said: WHALE OIL BEEF HOOKED”
	1:04pm northguineahills: digging this Pierre Antoine, a different take on the Fela sound. New to me!
	1:04pm Parq: What a great groove this Ivory Coast number is!
	1:05pm Parq: I'm picturing a jukebox war once all the regulars in those bars get that app. Not one track played to completion.
	1:06pm βrian: Yeah, I think it's better to leave the playlist to the bar staff.
	1:06pm Passaic River Blues: @still b/p: I had shirt as a kid that simply read "Eejit" (I wore it because I was one, I guess). Your friend's shirt concept is BEAUTIFUL. Thank you for sharing!
	1:07pm northguineahills: Meghan is ghettoing us! :)
	1:07pm JakeGould: Collaborative jukeboxes are bullshit. THERE I SAID IT! Just let it play. At least if it’s good stuff.
	1:08pm Meghan: hehehe..... when you said you liked ghetto music, I had to double check to see if I had posted this up early!
	1:08pm Parq: One thing I know about my own musical taste is this; no matter who you are, even without having ever met you, I can state for a fact that I like something you hate.
	1:09pm northguineahills: I actually haven't heard that Mittoo, and I have a lot of his music.
	1:10pm Meghan: I think the bar staff should totally have control of what is being played. as a bartender, you are trying to create an atmosphere, and since you are being paid by tips, you are curating the scene. Having music that could be good talking points and conversation starters. At least that is how I view it!
	1:13pm JakeGould: Also, I know some people frown on music being called “wallpaper” but honestly sometimes that is what it is and sometimes wallpaper can be nice. And there’s just so much Goerge Thorogood anyone can take past teh age of 16.
	1:15pm βrian: And then there's the option of having no music at all, so people can — gasp — converse.
	1:15pm Carmichael: I and a friend are collaborating on a St. Paddys tee that has Guinness foam dripping down a pint glass all the way around the tee, with the words "Patrick 3:17" on the front. Please don't steal this idea ...
	1:18pm Meghan: There is nothing more awkward than no music in a bar.
	1:18pm northguineahills: I go to bars to read, I need music to read....
	1:19pm βrian: Oh, I completely disagree. It can be really nice.
	1:19pm ⓔⓘⓚ: Wait, how is this person's butt like ice?
	1:20pm queems: that’s what i want to know
	1:20pm βrian: The very worst is when the music level is raised, to compete with the conversation level. Then it's just time to go home.
	1:22pm Parq: βrian, that's bad enough in bars, but what I really hate is when it happens in sit-down restaurants -- as it often does in NYC. What the hell do they think the customers are in there for?
	1:22pm still b/p: I can enjoy music in a bar, but often when it’s site-choosing time for a drink, I urge “Somewhere we can talk!” Extended yelling sucks, and hoarsens next morning.
	1:22pm northguineahills: Hollie Cook was played yesterday, I want to say on Jack Mello's show.
	1:23pm northguineahills: You pronounced it correctly,
	1:24pm βrian: @still b/p: "What??" [Sign language ensues.]
	1:24pm Filip: Hi, this wasn't Ghetto Organ by Jackie Mitoo. It didn't even sound like anything from JM....
	1:26pm Meghan: It was, I bought it....
	1:27pm northguineahills: I went two weeks w/o heat in Brooklyn 3 years ago,and my scalp flaked off from the bone-chilling showers. Wearing a winter coats indoors was fun. (The missus was smart, and showered at the gym or at friends' places. I can't imagine surviving the whole winter w/o heat, unless I was at a squat.
	1:27pm northguineahills: Earth!
	1:27pm Meghan: As for music in bars.... I need music on in a bar. But I do agree, I like music to be at a level where I am able to hear the person I am talking to
	1:28pm Meghan: NGH, it's only 2 of my 4 radiators.... and we have hot water, so that is good. It's manageable, but annoying.
	1:29pm northguineahills: In Gainesville, we have a certain antagonism for Tallahassee, for superficial and pragmatic reasons.
	1:29pm Filip: Maybe it was someones remix with 10% of Jackie Mittoo in it. Ghetto Organ is a JM classic, so pls don't mess with it :-)
	1:29pm northguineahills: oh, phew, that would be a nightmare, otherwise, meghan.
	1:30pm Meghan: Filip- www.discogs.com...
	1:31pm Alex in Illinois: Mark E. Smith died last week
	1:32pm Meghan: That's what I played it off of.... so I don't know what to tell you....
	1:32pm βrian: Where I come from, if you don't have heat, you won't have water either.
	1:32pm JakeGould: Mark E. Smith died?
	1:33pm Sem: Jake: some days ago now.
	1:33pm Meghan: our radiator is off a different system than our hot water heater
	1:33pm βrian: Why the "E"?
	1:33pm stevz: the "ão" makes a nasal sound in portuguese! :)
	1:33pm Meghan: He died last Wednesday? or Tuesday? I feel like it was Wednesday...
	1:34pm Sem: Mark E. Smith - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org... Mark Edward Smith (5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018) was an English singer, songwriter and musician
	1:34pm northguineahills: @βrian: b/c Mark Smith is a common name...
	1:34pm Meghan: Ohhhh, thank you stevz! so it should sound like oooow?
	1:35pm stevz: not really, its like "ah-oumm"
	1:37pm stevz: https://pt.forvo.com/word/camar%C3%A3o/
	1:38pm northguineahills: Like how you prononce the "ão" in São Paolo is how I remember it.
	1:38pm Filip: Hmmm... Here is the true "Ghetto Organ" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEzXlc3AQtk Cheers!
	1:41pm βrian: I feel compelled to pronounce the "j".
	1:42pm stevz: northguineahills exactly! here is a song with a lot of "ãos", (it is probably one of the weakest rhymes in portuguese, lol) https://chapamamba.bandcamp.com/track/eles-n-o-passar-o
	1:45pm βrian: Speaking of, can anyone suggest good sources of info for traveling to Portugal? We'd like to spend a little time in Lisbon, but just park for a few weeks somewhere rural.
	1:48pm Meghan: I workout with a woman from Portugal.... she's a delight. Everyone that I know that has gone there has loved it
	1:54pm Parq: Another finest-kind show, Meghan, and thanks. I always enjoy hearing your opinions about bars, since you know them from both sides of the counter.
	1:56pm βrian: As far as I know, we have only one local bar that has no TV. That's a treasure. Most all bars are sports bars here. Ugh.
	1:56pm still b/p: Waited until my device change allowed pasting this from an article, and excuse the length, but it's such a nice -- no, NOT nice -- tangent to the topic of media curating/control and associated risks. Thought timing was funny that I'd read this today just shortly before the bar music-choice discussion, in a profile of a local rough guy with a father as rough or rougher, and when junior was a kid... "when he was in traction in the hospital, a male nurse would come in and switch the TV in his room to coverage of Watergate. The hearings were riveting the nation, but not its seven-year-olds. 'Finally, one day my father come in … dragged him out into the hallway and kicked the shit out of him, fucked him up real bad.' Cartoon time resumed immediately." Careful out there. And brogue or no brogue, I've hit my expletive posting quota.
	1:57pm βrian: That talk-singing sounds like Marky to me.
	1:57pm Parq: βrian, yeah, here too. I hate 'em.
	1:59pm Sem: I suggest you have a look at Sintra and environs, βrian. Stayed there for a week once time, could get the train into Lisbon ( and avoid the maniac drivers), and north of Sintra, pretty relaxed places.
	1:59pm Meghan: oh damn! though in the current events here, I'd rather watch cartoons over what our politics is, which in itself is like a cartoon!
	2:01pm βrian: @Sem: Thanks!
	2:01pm Sem: also: goo.gl...
	2:02pm βrian: @Sem: I was already there!
	2:03pm βrian: I thought the superbowl already happened.
	2:04pm still b/p: Good good show, thanks!
	2:04pm stevz: yes great show!
	2:05pm Carmichael: Gracias, Meghan!

Underwater Theme Park with Meghan: Playlist from February 1, 2018

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Big Mama Thornton	Ball N' Chain "Ball N' Chain" by "Big Mama Thornton"	Ball N' Chain	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators	Blues Downtown	Keep Reachin' Up	0:05:22 (Pop-up)
Isaac Hayes	Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic	Hot Buttered Soul	0:10:30 (Pop-up)
The Andrew Oldham Orchestra	Play with Fire	The Rolling Stones Songbook	0:19:56 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Alvino Rey And His Orchestra	Side B	Ping Pong!	0:22:30 (Pop-up)
Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band	Sure ‘Nuff ’n Yes I Do	Safe As Milk	0:28:29 (Pop-up)
CAN	Turtles Have Short Legs "Turtles Have Short Legs" by "CAN"	The Singles	0:30:23 (Pop-up)
Davey Sands and the Essex	Advertising Girl	New Rubble Vol 4: Utopia Daydream	0:33:43 (Pop-up)
Oum Shatt	Hot Hot Cold Cold "Hot Hot Cold Cold" by "Oum Shatt"	Oum Shatt	0:36:13 (Pop-up)
Candace	Rewind "Rewind" by "Candace"	New Ruins	0:39:57 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Alvino Rey And His Orchestra	Side B	Ping Pong!	0:43:19 (Pop-up)
Camarao	Serei Do Mar "Serei Do Mar" by "Camarao"	The Imaginary Soundtrack to a Brazilian Western Movie	0:50:28 (Pop-up)
Pierre Antoine	Kalabuley Women "Kalabuley Women" by "Pierre Antoine"	Ivory Coast Soul Afrofunk in Abidjan from 1972-1982	0:52:41 (Pop-up)
Jackie Mittoo	Ghetto Organ "Ghetto Organ" by "Jackie Mittoo"	Macka Fat	1:04:26 (Pop-up)
Hollie Cook	Turn It Around "Turn It Around" by "Hollie Cook"	Vessel of Love	1:08:45 (Pop-up)
Doug Hream Blunt	Gentle Persuasion	My Name Is Doug Hream Blunt	1:13:11 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Alvino Rey And His Orchestra	Side B	Ping Pong!	1:19:38 (Pop-up)
Earth	Tallahassee "Tallahassee" by "Earth"	Spring Lineup, Sub Pop's Heavy Hitters	1:25:33 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Blindness "Blindness" by "The Fall"	Fall Heads Roll	1:29:18 (Pop-up)
Wooden Shjips	Staring at the Sun "Staring at the Sun" by "Wooden Shjips"	V.	1:36:31 (Pop-up)
The Clean	Beatnik "Beatnik" by "The Clean"	Anthology	1:44:23 (Pop-up)
HOLY	and she breaks the day! A clarity	All These Worlds Are Yours	1:45:45 (Pop-up)
The Limiñanas	The Gift (feat. Peter Hook)	Shadow People	1:48:30 (Pop-up)
Ought	Money Changes Everything "Money Changes Everything" by "Ought"	Aquarium Drunkard Covers	1:53:20 (Pop-up)
Manchester Mekon	No Forgetting "No Forgetting" by "Manchester Mekon"	Messthetics #106 The Manchester Musicians Collective 1977-1982	1:57:47 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:01pm Listener Bob in PGH: Greetings!
	12:02pm Meghan: Happy February!
	12:03pm coelacanth∅: that didn't sound like Big Mama Thornton
	12:03pm βrian: 5 degrees this morning. Ugh.
	12:03pm Parq: I fear we may be hearing the robot feed and not Meghan's show.
	12:04pm Meghan: Oh?
	12:04pm coelacanth∅: right now pop reggae
	12:04pm βrian: I hear ruggy music.
	12:04pm northguineahills: 69F/21C here in FL (although it was 41F/5C this morning) I missed Big Mama Thorton's reggae phase.
	12:05pm Meghan: hmmmmmmm, grabbing help!
	12:05pm coelacanth∅: she had a jammy electric phase too, apparently!
	12:05pm Meghan: I restarted it..... did that help?
	12:05pm βrian: Stop and start, and now I hear Big Mama.
	12:06pm Meghan: Phew!
	12:06pm coelacanth∅: i think?
	12:06pm coelacanth∅: (i'm not familiar with Nicole Willis)
	12:07pm Meghan: bluesy soul
	12:07pm coelacanth∅: we're good
	12:08pm Listener Bob in PGH: I really like the page illustration this week. Thanks for turning me on to Tin Can Forest. Super!
	12:08pm Jeff Moore: Sounds like the lyrics I hear now match this title...
	12:08pm coelacanth∅: Hi Meghan! and members of the Themesters Union
	12:08pm Parq: While I'm not familiar with the Willis track, what I'm hearing is about what I would expect based on the band name and track name.
	12:09pm Meghan: Great! Thanks Jeff for double checking!
	12:09pm Parq: Coales, dig it -- I want that on a tee shirt. Maybe M's 2019 premium?
	12:10pm still b/p: You can wear a necktie in bed and your animal friends won’t judge you.
	12:10pm Meghan: Listener Bob- I love finding interesting images....
	12:10pm βrian: Ye shall be judged by your thermal mass.
	12:11pm Meghan: I love how observant you all are of the images..... no clocks in this one though
	12:11pm βrian: Is that pileated woodpecker eyeing the guy's noggin?
	12:11pm coelacanth∅: Parq Yeah! plain grey shirt with "THEMESTERS WFMU18"
	12:12pm Jeff Moore: Yep. I do for sure know what Isaac Hayes sounds like, and he's coming out of my speakers.
	12:12pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Meghan. February is here. No full moons this month. Took me a minute to find the rabbit in the drawing. Is there a second rabbit?
	12:12pm northguineahills: Second time in days I've heard "Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic " in as many days on WFMU (not complaining, I'm celebrating!).
	12:12pm βrian: Reminds me of that novel, The Long Night of White Chickens.
	12:12pm coelacanth∅: you may also have mushrooms growing out of your boots without being judged.
	12:13pm Meghan: only one rabbit that I see.... just trying to start the month off correctly by saying rabbit rabbit
	12:15pm coelacanth∅: i have not noticed any positive response when i've played this extraordinary track in the pub. i will keep trying.
	12:16pm βrian: I've been hearing owls a lot lately. But I see none in here.
	12:16pm still b/p: But stick a candle in your money bottle and ye shall rightly be scorned!
	12:18pm Meghan: when I used to bartend, we had the worst classic rock playing, so coworker and I would try to find the longest (listenable) songs we could find to take over the jukebox. This was on that list.... maybe it's the pubs you are going to.....
	12:19pm Parq: Glad Jeff got it fixed in time for this smoking Isaac track.
	12:22pm βrian: The only pub where I was a regular, the first bartender (of two) ruled the playlist. No requests, no classic rock (unless they were feeling cynical).
	12:23pm Jeff Moore: @Parq: I didn't do nothin'. I just arrived in time to confirm that Meghan had already beaten the computers back into submission.
	12:23pm βrian: Bartók popped up occasionally.
	12:23pm Parq: Tssch -- here I am in that cliched situation of giving a man credit for a woman's accomplishment. I bow deeply in apology, Meghan.
	12:27pm northguineahills: Spring starts here in a few weeks. I dread spring in FL, as it means the overbearing heat and humidity will be here by April.
	12:27pm JakeGould: Hey! Wazzup!
	12:27pm Alex in Illinois: January was National Polka Month
	12:27pm northguineahills: huh, my brother's beagle's name is Baylee.
	12:28pm βrian: Won't there soon be friendly college kids visiting, NGH?
	12:28pm Parq: Here's a rabbit named Bailey. Nuff said. www.oasisanimalrescue.ca...
	12:28pm βrian: I didn't know we had a National Polka.
	12:30pm Sem: Hiya, Meghan. Wow, the Captain right there as I check in. This must be the place!
	12:30pm northguineahills: @βrian: they're already here, but they usually stay close to campus, so, outside of Saturdays, I rarely see them. The nice part about summers here is the town empties out.
	12:31pm Rf: YAAAYYYYY Turtles
	12:32pm βrian: Summers are pretty quiet on the isthmus, too, save for the occasional troupe of marching band campers, etc.
	12:32pm Meghan: you made up for your faux pas Parq with that cute bunny picture....
	12:33pm βrian: Four paws to fix a faux pas.
	12:34pm Meghan: hahaha! Yes!
	12:35pm coelacanth∅: Meghan (@12.18) "my" pub you could hear anything. what gets played is as varied as wfmu. but there are some regulars who play the worst gangsta rap and usually 20-40$ worth so if i see them come in i'll put a tenner in there. it's $1/song but some are 1/2 that, and if an album gets enough plays it goes into the 50cent section. i've been the primary reason for several albums getting reduced.
	12:40pm coelacanth∅: ...i think i can get hot buttered soul in there at 1/2 price. i have twice played walk on by both times with much excitement.
	12:40pm queems: this one is super fun
	12:46pm northguineahills: There is plenty of good 90s music! (I was there)
	12:47pm βrian: T-shirts with no pocket make no sense to me.
	12:49pm northguineahills: I'm a navy blue kind of guy myself.
	12:53pm Carmichael: Heya Meghan and aquanauts. I'm here at work, hacking my brains out with a chest cold. Many of the bars 'round here use TouchTunes, which uses the internet. I have the app, so I can download "coins" and enter music from the comfort of my stool. Also, if some punk asses are programming ghetto music, an extra coin is all it takes to jump the queue and play your tune next.
	12:55pm Meghan: oh no! Feel better Carmichael! I suffered from a chest cold in December. It was miserable! And yes, I love that app. I've used it many times to override someone's bad choice of music!
	12:57pm northguineahills: hey, I like some ghetto music.... some...
	1:01pm still b/p: A friend handed off several t-shirts to me that he’d ordered printed when momentarily extra- amused by a line. I ain’t likely to wear ‘em, but have to be judicious in re-passing. They say, “As my Irish granny always said: WHALE OIL BEEF HOOKED”
	1:04pm northguineahills: digging this Pierre Antoine, a different take on the Fela sound. New to me!
	1:04pm Parq: What a great groove this Ivory Coast number is!
	1:05pm Parq: I'm picturing a jukebox war once all the regulars in those bars get that app. Not one track played to completion.
	1:06pm βrian: Yeah, I think it's better to leave the playlist to the bar staff.
	1:06pm Passaic River Blues: @still b/p: I had shirt as a kid that simply read "Eejit" (I wore it because I was one, I guess). Your friend's shirt concept is BEAUTIFUL. Thank you for sharing!
	1:07pm northguineahills: Meghan is ghettoing us! :)
	1:07pm JakeGould: Collaborative jukeboxes are bullshit. THERE I SAID IT! Just let it play. At least if it’s good stuff.
	1:08pm Meghan: hehehe..... when you said you liked ghetto music, I had to double check to see if I had posted this up early!
	1:08pm Parq: One thing I know about my own musical taste is this; no matter who you are, even without having ever met you, I can state for a fact that I like something you hate.
	1:09pm northguineahills: I actually haven't heard that Mittoo, and I have a lot of his music.
	1:10pm Meghan: I think the bar staff should totally have control of what is being played. as a bartender, you are trying to create an atmosphere, and since you are being paid by tips, you are curating the scene. Having music that could be good talking points and conversation starters. At least that is how I view it!
	1:13pm JakeGould: Also, I know some people frown on music being called “wallpaper” but honestly sometimes that is what it is and sometimes wallpaper can be nice. And there’s just so much Goerge Thorogood anyone can take past teh age of 16.
	1:15pm βrian: And then there's the option of having no music at all, so people can — gasp — converse.
	1:15pm Carmichael: I and a friend are collaborating on a St. Paddys tee that has Guinness foam dripping down a pint glass all the way around the tee, with the words "Patrick 3:17" on the front. Please don't steal this idea ...
	1:18pm Meghan: There is nothing more awkward than no music in a bar.
	1:18pm northguineahills: I go to bars to read, I need music to read....
	1:19pm βrian: Oh, I completely disagree. It can be really nice.
	1:19pm ⓔⓘⓚ: Wait, how is this person's butt like ice?
	1:20pm queems: that’s what i want to know
	1:20pm βrian: The very worst is when the music level is raised, to compete with the conversation level. Then it's just time to go home.
	1:22pm Parq: βrian, that's bad enough in bars, but what I really hate is when it happens in sit-down restaurants -- as it often does in NYC. What the hell do they think the customers are in there for?
	1:22pm still b/p: I can enjoy music in a bar, but often when it’s site-choosing time for a drink, I urge “Somewhere we can talk!” Extended yelling sucks, and hoarsens next morning.
	1:22pm northguineahills: Hollie Cook was played yesterday, I want to say on Jack Mello's show.
	1:23pm northguineahills: You pronounced it correctly,
	1:24pm βrian: @still b/p: "What??" [Sign language ensues.]
	1:24pm Filip: Hi, this wasn't Ghetto Organ by Jackie Mitoo. It didn't even sound like anything from JM....
	1:26pm Meghan: It was, I bought it....
	1:27pm northguineahills: I went two weeks w/o heat in Brooklyn 3 years ago,and my scalp flaked off from the bone-chilling showers. Wearing a winter coats indoors was fun. (The missus was smart, and showered at the gym or at friends' places. I can't imagine surviving the whole winter w/o heat, unless I was at a squat.
	1:27pm northguineahills: Earth!
	1:27pm Meghan: As for music in bars.... I need music on in a bar. But I do agree, I like music to be at a level where I am able to hear the person I am talking to
	1:28pm Meghan: NGH, it's only 2 of my 4 radiators.... and we have hot water, so that is good. It's manageable, but annoying.
	1:29pm northguineahills: In Gainesville, we have a certain antagonism for Tallahassee, for superficial and pragmatic reasons.
	1:29pm Filip: Maybe it was someones remix with 10% of Jackie Mittoo in it. Ghetto Organ is a JM classic, so pls don't mess with it :-)
	1:29pm northguineahills: oh, phew, that would be a nightmare, otherwise, meghan.
	1:30pm Meghan: Filip- www.discogs.com...
	1:31pm Alex in Illinois: Mark E. Smith died last week
	1:32pm Meghan: That's what I played it off of.... so I don't know what to tell you....
	1:32pm βrian: Where I come from, if you don't have heat, you won't have water either.
	1:32pm JakeGould: Mark E. Smith died?
	1:33pm Sem: Jake: some days ago now.
	1:33pm Meghan: our radiator is off a different system than our hot water heater
	1:33pm βrian: Why the "E"?
	1:33pm stevz: the "ão" makes a nasal sound in portuguese! :)
	1:33pm Meghan: He died last Wednesday? or Tuesday? I feel like it was Wednesday...
	1:34pm Sem: Mark E. Smith - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org... Mark Edward Smith (5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018) was an English singer, songwriter and musician
	1:34pm northguineahills: @βrian: b/c Mark Smith is a common name...
	1:34pm Meghan: Ohhhh, thank you stevz! so it should sound like oooow?
	1:35pm stevz: not really, its like "ah-oumm"
	1:37pm stevz: https://pt.forvo.com/word/camar%C3%A3o/
	1:38pm northguineahills: Like how you prononce the "ão" in São Paolo is how I remember it.
	1:38pm Filip: Hmmm... Here is the true "Ghetto Organ" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEzXlc3AQtk Cheers!
	1:41pm βrian: I feel compelled to pronounce the "j".
	1:42pm stevz: northguineahills exactly! here is a song with a lot of "ãos", (it is probably one of the weakest rhymes in portuguese, lol) https://chapamamba.bandcamp.com/track/eles-n-o-passar-o
	1:45pm βrian: Speaking of, can anyone suggest good sources of info for traveling to Portugal? We'd like to spend a little time in Lisbon, but just park for a few weeks somewhere rural.
	1:48pm Meghan: I workout with a woman from Portugal.... she's a delight. Everyone that I know that has gone there has loved it
	1:54pm Parq: Another finest-kind show, Meghan, and thanks. I always enjoy hearing your opinions about bars, since you know them from both sides of the counter.
	1:56pm βrian: As far as I know, we have only one local bar that has no TV. That's a treasure. Most all bars are sports bars here. Ugh.
	1:56pm still b/p: Waited until my device change allowed pasting this from an article, and excuse the length, but it's such a nice -- no, NOT nice -- tangent to the topic of media curating/control and associated risks. Thought timing was funny that I'd read this today just shortly before the bar music-choice discussion, in a profile of a local rough guy with a father as rough or rougher, and when junior was a kid... "when he was in traction in the hospital, a male nurse would come in and switch the TV in his room to coverage of Watergate. The hearings were riveting the nation, but not its seven-year-olds. 'Finally, one day my father come in … dragged him out into the hallway and kicked the shit out of him, fucked him up real bad.' Cartoon time resumed immediately." Careful out there. And brogue or no brogue, I've hit my expletive posting quota.
	1:57pm βrian: That talk-singing sounds like Marky to me.
	1:57pm Parq: βrian, yeah, here too. I hate 'em.
	1:59pm Sem: I suggest you have a look at Sintra and environs, βrian. Stayed there for a week once time, could get the train into Lisbon ( and avoid the maniac drivers), and north of Sintra, pretty relaxed places.
	1:59pm Meghan: oh damn! though in the current events here, I'd rather watch cartoons over what our politics is, which in itself is like a cartoon!
	2:01pm βrian: @Sem: Thanks!
	2:01pm Sem: also: goo.gl...
	2:02pm βrian: @Sem: I was already there!
	2:03pm βrian: I thought the superbowl already happened.
	2:04pm still b/p: Good good show, thanks!
	2:04pm stevz: yes great show!
	2:05pm Carmichael: Gracias, Meghan!

Underwater Theme Park with Meghan: Playlist from February 1, 2018

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