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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: Susannah on November 27, 2007, 09:50:30 AM
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Not exactly Best Show-related, but WFMU related:
Do you have a computer? If not, are you in listening range of 91.1 FM in
Jersey City, New Jersey or 90.1 FM in the Hudson Valley of New York State?
If you can answer yes to either of these questions, then you are in luck or
out of luck, depending on how you define the term. On Tuesday, November
27, from 11 pm-2 am, Eastern Standard Time, I will be on the air, in the
air slot usually occupied by Small Change, playing records and chatting
about this and that. You can listen live either on your radio or by going
to wfmu.org.
If this is the kind of message you would like to receive whenever I take to
the airwaves, please go to http://www.yolatengo.com/wfmu.html and sign up
to receive updates on my WFMU whenabouts. I will not be using this mailing
list again, only the new one. Hope you listening. Don't bother calling--I
won't be answering the phone!
Ira
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Don't get me wrong, Small Change is awesome, but...yay!
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Super! I now have something to keep me up till 2 a.m.
Can you play Decora or Sugarcube or Detouring America w/Horns for me?
That would be swell.
Any chance of getting tix for YLT @ Maxwell's?
bye ...
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No way! I was at WFMU a couple of weeks ago and there was a guy named Ira futzing around in Studio B, which is where people make audition tapes. I thought, "is that Ira from Yo La Tengo?" And looky here, it was! I'll never wash these eyeballs again.
Speaking of Yo La Tengo, Dorian played their contribution to the I'm Not There soundtrack on last week's Speakeasy and it was awesome. I find myself sort of wanting to see it even though I found Velvet Goldmine unwatchable.
PS: Martin, Susannah was just forwarding the email from Ira. I'm sure she'd be happy to play those songs in her car or something but you wouldn't hear it.
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I caught him filling in for someone else before and it wasn't bad. Looking forward to tonight.
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Ira's fill-ins have been pretty good so far; except for the last one where he went on a half-hour rant about some guy who soaked his luggage on tour.
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I enjoyed I'm Not There, but I'm a big Dylan fan. If you're not much of a Dylan fan, you may find it a bit confusing.
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Ira's fill-ins have been pretty good so far; except for the last one where he went on a half-hour rant about some guy who soaked his luggage on tour.
Chris, you listen to WFMU and you don't enjoy half-hour rants about things that only matter to the DJ? That's part of the fun.
I enjoyed I'm Not There, but I'm a big Dylan fan. If you're not much of a Dylan, you may find it a bit confusing.
I'm what I guess you would call a lay Dylan-fan - as in, I have all of the major records and a few of the lesser ones and a copy of Chronicle that I've never read. But I also don't mind confusing movies so maybe i will check it out.
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Ira's fill-ins have been pretty good so far; except for the last one where he went on a half-hour rant about some guy who soaked his luggage on tour.
Chris, you listen to WFMU and you don't enjoy half-hour rants about things that only matter to the DJ? That's part of the fun.
I do enjoy that (depending on the dj), I just wanted to be a big shot with my "Soaker" reference :'(
I enjoyed I'm Not There, but I'm a big Dylan fan. If you're not much of a Dylan, you may find it a bit confusing.
I'm what I guess you would call a lay Dylan-fan - as in, I have all of the major records and a few of the lesser ones and a copy of Chronicle that I've never read. But I also don't mind confusing movies so maybe i will check it out.
Chronicles is great! Among other things (singing, dancing, playing guitar), Dylan is a fantastic music writer.
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I do enjoy that (depending on the dj), I just wanted to be a big shot with my "Soaker" reference :'(
I was very impressed.
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Ira's fill-ins have been pretty good so far; except for the last one where he went on a half-hour rant about some guy who soaked his luggage on tour.
Chris, you listen to WFMU and you don't enjoy half-hour rants about things that only matter to the DJ? That's part of the fun.
I do enjoy that (depending on the dj), I just wanted to be a big shot with my "Soaker" reference :'(
Whoops, went right over my head, and it's still floating around up there. I may have been zung.
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I do enjoy that (depending on the dj), I just wanted to be a big shot with my "Soaker" reference :'(
I was very impressed.
I got it too, big shot.
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Whoops, went right over my head, and it's still floating around up there. I may have been zung.
Rick In Albany (http://www.friendsoftom.com/fotpedia/index.php?title=Rick_in_Albany) has the answers.
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I'm what I guess you would call a lay Dylan-fan
I believe Dylan fans say "Lay Dylan-fan lay"
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Whoops, went right over my head, and it's still floating around up there. I may have been zung.
Rick In Albany (http://www.friendsoftom.com/fotpedia/index.php?title=Rick_in_Albany) has the answers.
Ah, thanks, Samir. I forgot all about the Poster Children debacle.
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PS: Martin, Susannah was just forwarding the email from Ira. I'm sure she'd be happy to play those songs in her car or something but you wouldn't hear it.
Susannah. Can you make this happen?
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I can't wait to call him!!!
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I only have Electr-o-Pura and I Can Hear The Heart... in my car, so I would be happy to oblige you with either of those requests when I (finally) get to leave work for the day.
I have a WFMU sticker on my car, though. Surely that counts for something.
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Is it above board to ask if somebody recorded this and if they could share it later?
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It'll be archived probably.
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It'll be archived probably.
Ah, just checking. Best Show appearances of Yo La Tengo are not, but I guess that's because of the fun music.
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http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/IK It'll be there probably. He's got some killer playlists.
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http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/IK It'll be there probably. He's got some killer playlists.
Oh how about that, I didn't know he was semi-regular enough to get a playlist like that. Thanks for adding like 20 hours to my geeking out.
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I fell asleep on the couch listening to it because I was very tired. I literally woke up at 1:57 am during the final mic break.
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I was having a really weird dream while that Vermonster track was playing toward the end of Ira's show. I woke up right before it was over. This seems to always happen when I fall asleep listening to FMU, I wake up in the middle of the night and there's some freaky nightmare music playing (NOTE: I like freaky nightmare music).
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I loved it. I was tortuously grading papers into the wee hours (or rather, grading tortuous papers - you didn't read that, Dan B) and when some of the noise-rockier stuff came on, my wife asked how I could take being stressed out and listening to it. I told her the truth - it relaxes me.
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I was having a really weird dream while that Vermonster track was playing toward the end of Ira's show. I woke up right before it was over. This seems to always happen when I fall asleep listening to FMU, I wake up in the middle of the night and there's some freaky nightmare music playing (NOTE: I like freaky nightmare music).
Ah, that Vermonster track turned out to be a cover of "Children of the Sun" I first heard on the Best Show years ago. I was trying to figure out which show it was and who recorded it for a long time. Listeners really win!
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Is it a bad idea to post a link to the direct mp3 for this?