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Favoriting July 27, 2018: Put The Needle On The First Record You Bought

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments New Approx. start time
PTNOTRremixProject  Macs vs Law & Order vs Netflix vs Aaron   Favoriting     2018    Culled from samples of Apple computer Mac startup sounds off a YT video shared recently by WFMU'ers, the Law & Order SVU sound effect, the current Netflix opening sound, and Aaron in Minneapolis  *    
ST. Da Squad  To The Beat (feat. Hectic)   Favoriting     2018    an ode to that real hip-hop shit  *   0:00:22 (Pop-up)
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Klim Beats  On The Road   Favoriting     2018    one of several instrumental hip-hop / producer tracks I will be playing today  *   0:04:00 (Pop-up)
Westside Gunn  Westside Gunn The Steiners (feat. Elzhi)   Favoriting     2018      *   0:05:19 (Pop-up)
Planet Asia & SmooVth  Scaramanga   Favoriting     2018      *   0:07:55 (Pop-up)
Gwop Sullivan  Say Hi [EDIT]   Favoriting     2018    more from Bronx producer been playing a lot of lately    0:09:42 (Pop-up)
Sicknature  Rocking The Boat (feat. DJ KCL)   Favoriting     2018      *   0:11:14 (Pop-up)
Devaloop  Sit Back & Chill   Favoriting     2018      *   0:13:47 (Pop-up)
C Keys & Kazi  W.Y.M (feat. Guilty Simpson & DJ Grazzhoppa)   Favoriting     2018    more great new 2018 hip-hop disproving the belief among some that all new hip-hop sucks or that the genre is dead - to which I say - hells no  *   0:15:49 (Pop-up)
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Gwop Sullivan  Samba. {EDIT}   Favoriting     2018      *   0:20:00 (Pop-up)
Certain.Ones  Royals   Favoriting     2018    more great new hip-hop IMO  *   0:20:36 (Pop-up)
bugseed. & ill.sugi  Ninja Tail (EDIT)   Favoriting     2018      *   0:23:25 (Pop-up)
Marlowe (L'Orange + Solemn Brigham)  Tales From The East   Favoriting Marlowe    2018        0:24:35 (Pop-up)
bugseed  Raw Like Fish   Favoriting     2018      *   0:27:16 (Pop-up)
Nate Jolley  Real Ones (prod. by E.Smitty)   Favoriting   Sound Alive Records   2018    to my ears this South Carolina emcee sounds like his flow has been influenced bit by Mac Dre  *   0:28:45 (Pop-up)
Chuck N Lock  Plate Tectonics (prod. Al Boone)   Favoriting     2018    really like this track too  *   0:31:52 (Pop-up)
Illingsworth  Peeves (feat. Open Mike Eagle) You’re No Fun   Favoriting You’re No Fun  Mello Music Group  2018    brand new (as in leaked yesterday) ---- Producer/rapper Illingsworth (who I’ve played on this show before) invited Open Mike Eagle on his brand new track on topic of pet peeves which is the lead single the Detroit artist’s upcoming late September Mello Music Group debut album "You’re No Fun"  *   0:35:00 (Pop-up)
SmooVth  Piranha Bones   Favoriting     2018      *   0:37:30 (Pop-up)
Lord Luminous  Wu Artery (EDIT)   Favoriting     2018    like a lot songs I play - I often edit them down a bit if I think no need to play whole song - in this case chopped off two verses - so if u go looking for it online it will sound different and longer  *   0:38:56 (Pop-up)
J. Sands  The Twilight (feat. Grap Luva)   Favoriting     2018      *   0:40:34 (Pop-up)
Slug & Evidence  North American Money   Favoriting     2018    two of the most distinctive sounding and equally talented emcees in hip-hop today IMO - Slug of Atmosphere and recent show guest from Venice Beach CA - MC/producer Evidence  *   0:44:32 (Pop-up)
Rakim  King's Paradise   Favoriting Marvel’s Luke Cage Season 2    2018    Rakim’s ode to Harlem “King's Paradise” recently premiered in Marvel’s Luke Cage Season 2 with the legendary emcee performing the song in the packed fictitious nightclub Paradise - song is produced by Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of ATCQ fame.  *   0:47:07 (Pop-up)
Kaotic Style  Let A Nigga Flow   Favoriting     2018      *   0:50:32 (Pop-up)
DJ Gumba  Ain't No Half Steppin (feat. Keith Murray)   Favoriting     2018    great update/homage to a classic by the talented Keith Murray and DJ Gumba - new hip-hop in the tradition of older classic material  *   0:53:19 (Pop-up)
 
The Temptations  Cloud Nine   Favoriting   Tamla Motown (UK)    7"      0:56:55 (Pop-up)


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Avatar 6:49pm
Billy Jam:

hey F M U fans tuned into the best damn station in da nation on the start of this summer 2018 weekend - Question: what was the first record or CD or mp3 you bought? Post in comments. - Today's show will be featuring tons of new hip-hop (mostly released in past few weeks) - Today's engineer is Bronwyn B - give it up for her and check out her show live or in archives - now bring dat beat back……..
Avatar 7:02pm
northguineahills:

Que chido, mis amigos!
Avatar 7:02pm
Cheri Pi:

Billy Jam! My bestie Chris and I are tuned in in Cincinnati!
Avatar 7:03pm
northguineahills:

Aaron from Minneapolis has a nice first name, but I might be a little biased ;)
Avatar 7:03pm
Billy Jam:

NGH in da hizzhouse + Cheri Pi - thanks for tuning in today guys
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chresti:

Aretha Franklin's "Think" when I was 11 years old -flipside was "You are my sunshine"
Avatar 7:04pm
Cheri Pi:

We've got Doug E Fresh on cassette As first, 1983?
Avatar 7:05pm
mb:

Bronwyn B on the 0's and 1's!

H
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p-hoppers near and far. "hey YO"
Avatar 7:05pm
BronwynB:

don't remember the first physical record i bought (i know it was a bunch at once and it was at Angry Mom Records in Ithaca NY) but I remember the first song I bought on iTunes (before streaming was a thing) - Goodnight Goodnight by Hot Hot Heat
Avatar 7:05pm
BronwynB:

hey mb!!
Avatar 7:09pm
mb:

tape: Rocky III soundtrack
record: The Wrestling Album
CD: The Who's Greatest Hits
Avatar 7:09pm
Billy Jam:

@chresti - nice one! - my first was kinda similar - as an American soul record when I was a very young well behaved Irish Catholic white kid in the suburbs of Dublin Ireland - Temptations' "Cloud Nine" which, upon listening to lyrics of again lately is kinda hilarious IMO. Am gonna play it later in show as the only non new 2018 track
Avatar 7:12pm
northguineahills:

First physical record I bought was Smashing Pumpkins "Cherub Rock" (17). (I believe I boughtBowie's Space Oddity the same weekend). (I had a bunch of Beatles records from my father when I was 16). First cd I bought was MJ's "Bad" w/ Weird Al's "Fat" age 11. First cassette, Genesis' "Invisible Touch" at age 10. I seriously didn't pay attention to music until I was 16. After 18. it was a tsunami that hemorrhaged all my income.
Avatar 7:12pm
Billy Jam:

@mb I like those firsts of yours inc. The Who hits album - and like how Bronwyn B didn't just buy one but many records upon her first music shopping spree + @NGH nice ones
  7:12pm
Tall Paul:

Yo Bill, how are you? One of the first tapes I bought was Adam & The Ants
Avatar 7:13pm
Billy Jam:

Adam and the Ants with two drummers right?
Avatar 7:14pm
Billy Jam:

@Cheri Pi - that Doug E Fresh tape is a nice first music buy - remember seeing bootlegs of it (and other early era hip-hop) at flea markets back in the day
  7:16pm
JakeGould:

First 45s I bought were from a neighborhood yard sale:

KC & the Sunshine Band’s “Shake Your Booty” and Paper Lace’s “The Night Chicago Died”. I think that cost me 50 cents?

First LP was the soundtrack to “The Empire Strikes Back.”

Unsure about what my first CD was.

First MP3s I bought from the iTunes store? Three Barry White LPs, “Can’t Get Enough,” “I’ve Got So Much to Give” and “Stone Gon’”
  7:17pm
xx:

the first 78 i bought was paul robeson swing low sweet chariot
Avatar 7:18pm
Billy Jam:

@xx - LOL you taking waaaay back
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
chresti:

I was given "aint too proud to beg" around the same time, in '68
Avatar 7:20pm
Billy Jam:

@Jake Gould - those are good ones - I was broke as hell as a kid so used to buy the KTel 22 Dynamic Hits compilations that preceded the "Now Thats What I Call Music" CD collections of hits
  7:21pm
Tall Paul:

The first HipHop album I bought was Kick IT The Def Jam Sampler album volume 1 in 85. It was the first time I heard Public Enemy. The first HipHop soundtrack I bought was Breakin
Avatar 7:22pm
Billy Jam:

@Tall Paul - I don't know that one - have a bunch of 80's hip-hop comps but not that one
Avatar 7:23pm
Billy Jam:

every year on WFMU during the annual "Singles Going Steady" week FMU DJs tend to dig up a lot of early life music purchases
  7:24pm
JakeGould:

@BillyJam: Yeah, I mean I was a kid and I think it was like 25 cents for both from that yard sale. When I was a teen and started to buy real LPs it was always cut out bins or used bins. Mainly at Titus Oaks records on Avenue U in Brooklyn.

Speaking of which, this convo reminded me of the first cassette I ever bought: Steve Martin’s “Wild and Crazy Guy” from Alexanders that used to be near Bloomingdales on the Upper East Side. Positive my parents went there bargain shopping because they were going out of business because there’s no other reason for us to visit that specific location back in the day.
Avatar 7:26pm
Billy Jam:

@Bronwyn B - love the name of that record store in Ithaca Angry Mom Records - was it a cool spot and who owned it? (past tense assuming it is gone now)
Avatar 7:27pm
Billy Jam:

@Jake Gould - never heard of that record store Alexander's - what was it like?
  7:29pm
JakeGould:

@BillyJam: Alexander’s was a discount department store. There was Macy’s, May’s, Korvette’s and Alexander’s. My parents loved department store hunting.

Also, I think the Angry Mom Records Bronwyn is talking about is this one? They are still around. I think the guy from Bunny Brains is connected to it in some way. www.angry-mom-records.com
  7:30pm
jdubz:

this set is EVERYTHING!!!!
  7:33pm
Tall Paul:

Yo Bill, wrong year it was 87. It may have only been released in Europe https://www.discogs.com/Various-Kick-It-The-Def-Jam-Sampler-Volume-One/release/89879 this was the same year when Ice-T dropped Rhyme Pays man I love that album
Avatar 7:35pm
Billy Jam:

@ jdubz - thanks am feeling all this new hip-hop too
@Tall Paul - okay got it. @Jake - wow never even heard of that store
Avatar 7:35pm
mb:

I too was broke as a kid. I would "borrow" records from the library. I gripped Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark. I dropped it on my basement floor and it shattered. My mom had to buy a replacement at Alwicks.

I'm actually standing next to the scene of the crime as i type, lol.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
Smilty69:

This Chuck N Lock track is sick. Where's this beat from? Thanks Billy Jam and Bronwyn B!
Avatar 7:37pm
Billy Jam:

hey Smilty69 - not sure where da beat is from - but it sounds kinda familiar
Avatar 7:39pm
Billy Jam:

love the old school dial up internet SFX in this track
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Heyo! The first that I bought was The Cars debut album.
Avatar 7:41pm
mb:

1st rap record was Run DMC "Raising Hell"
Avatar 7:42pm
Billy Jam:

@Ken from Hyde Park - years ago there was some stand up comedian I went to see and one of his bits was about how the first Cars album was so good while each one after was increasingly inferior :)
Avatar 7:43pm
Billy Jam:

@mb Run DMC is a good first rap record
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BronwynB:

song about my neighborhood!!! yaaaaay
Avatar 7:48pm
Billy Jam:

shout-out to everyone who lives in Harlem or has lived there
Avatar 7:49pm
Billy Jam:

big up to Bronwyn "Harlem NY" B
  7:50pm
Tall Paul:

Rakim Allah always great to hear final tune on Luke Cage second series. Great soundtrack
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
chresti:

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was one of the first hip hop records I bought- the message (?)
Avatar 7:50pm
mb:

Can't kill this beat. Rakim sounding..not like Rakim on this but it's a hot track.
  7:50pm
Jimmy K:

this is a really good set - thanks guys
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
chresti:

Sugar hill gang, too
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
chresti:

Thanks Billy! And BronwynB!
  7:54pm
Tall Paul:

Yo Bill head nodding to this beat dope tune. Have a dope weekend hope you are feeling better. Wishing everyone a great weekend
Avatar 7:55pm
Billy Jam:

thanks to YOU for listening and to BRONWYN B for doing engineering - next week will be in Oakland CA doing this show and then heading to Denver CO where I will be recording content for the following week's show - soon will announce other cities/dates of this show
  7:55pm
antman:

Yo ,ya kick"n it......ty
Avatar 7:56pm
Billy Jam:

thanks antman.
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mb:

Thanks and praises, Billy and Bronwyn!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Have a lovely weekend, me lovelies.
Avatar 8:08pm
Billy Jam:

thanks Ken from Hyde Park and mb and all else
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