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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: Broccoli Rob Funicello on January 29, 2012, 06:30:20 PM
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What do the FOT think about Mr. T's other show?,
his podcast Low Times.
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What do the FOT think about Mr. T's other show?,
his podcast Low Times.
I listened to the worst lyrics show yesterday. Very enjoyable, even when I didn't know the song being quoted.
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Low Times is great. Maggie and Daniel are really impressive as interviewers. The awful lyrics brackets breakdown is pretty spectacular.
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Is there a story and/or reference behind the title of the show? Just curious.
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I agree, it’s impressive and seems to be a real passion project
for Tom and not a vanity head trip, particularly since the other
two interviewers are into a different type of music then Tom,
which is good because Tom’s music sense is questionable and
a bit esoteric.
About the name, the only thing I could come up with is that
it’s a play on High Times?, that’s all I got.
Broccoli Rob Funicello
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The best way to find out if it's a High Times reference would be to sent some weed through the mail.
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Tom’s music sense is questionable and
a bit esoteric.
What?
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I supposed it was a play on the phrase High Times as used prior to the magazine's appropriation of it.
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High Time, 5/18/77 ☮ Grateful Dead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnJSiyuxds4#)
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What?
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Thanks for letting FoTs know about this podcast. I just subscribed...
I'm curious about the worst lyrics podcast. It's a great, and bottomless idea. My pick? Elton John's song "Island Girl". I fucking cringe every time I hear "well she's black as coal, but she burns like fire". Other picks: ZZ Top's "Mexican Black Bird" ("Well, she's hot as a pepper but smooth as a Mexican brew") and (of course) Foreigner's "Hot Blooded" (take your pick. I'll go with "I'm hot blooded/ Every night/ Hot blooded/ You're lookin' so tight")
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...is good because Tom’s music sense is questionable and
a bit esoteric.
I wouldn't use the word "questionable". As far as "esoteric" goes, that might be applicable at times. I would suggest a better word might be "encyclopedic". I'm often amazed at the breadth of Tom's knowledge of bands...
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It's amazing to me that the worst lyrics of all time are in a song that everyone knows:
The first time that I got it I was just ten years old
I got it from the kitty next door
I went to the doctor and he gave me the cure
I think I got it some more
Add in:
I got the cat scratch fever
I got it bad scratch fever
And that's about it for humankind.
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It's hard to say which song has the worst lyrics in this ever changing world in which we live in.
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It's hard to say which song has the worst lyrics in this ever changing world in which we live in.
This may be the sort of theory that has its own 42-page thread on www.WingsBandOnTheRun.com/forums/lyrics (http://www.WingsBandOnTheRun.com/forums/lyrics), but could McCartney have messed up there Neil Armstrong On The Moon-style and meant to say "ever changing world in which we're living" but got it wrong? That's a question best left to the philosophers, maybe.
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I love Low Times, even though I'm a music-dummy. Is it quiet for anyone else, though?
Podcasts, I tell ya.
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No discussion on the Monster Magnet interview?
I thought it was AWESOME. I always thought they were some Marilyn Manson type of band from down the shore and completely ignored them. I had no idea that the guy behind Monster Magnet was around the NYC CBGB's scene and also attributes Hawkwind as a gigantic influence, which rules.
It was just a great interview with a guy I never thought I would ever care about.
Daniel and Maggie keep getting better and better. Daniel's interview with Nils Lofgren (I had no idea Nils was a basketball fan!) and Maggie's with Dean Wareham (I'm a huge Luna fan) were great.
Tom also did a very good job of almost making Lou Barlow likable. I love Dinosaur and Sebadoh but Lou just irritates me. Tom brought a lot of stuff out about Lou I liked hearing about his sense of humor.
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No discussion on the Monster Magnet interview?
I thought it was AWESOME. I always thought they were some Marilyn Manson type of band from down the shore and completely ignored them. I had no idea that the guy behind Monster Magnet was around the NYC CBGB's scene and also attributes Hawkwind as a gigantic influence, which rules.
It was just a great interview with a guy I never thought I would ever care about.
I'm a huge Monster Magnet fan from way back so I was really delighted with the interview. I actually wish it had gone on a bit longer. I would've liked to hear more in-depth discussion of Dopes to Infinity, which is my favorite MM album and kinda got glossed over.
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Tom also did a very good job of almost making Lou Barlow likable. I love Dinosaur and Sebadoh but Lou just irritates me. Tom brought a lot of stuff out about Lou I liked hearing about his sense of humor.
I thought the Lou Barlow interview was great. Maybe I don't know enough of the behind-the-scenes stuff, but I thought he came off pretty likable and surprisingly funny. The story about Eric Gaffney suddenly wanting to play all of his old songs for Glasonbury was a goody.
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this podcast is GREAT.. I wish there was a comment section or forum on the low times site.. or is it being discussed somewhere else??
I particularly enjoyed the newest episode where they just discuss music w/ no interviews, looking forward to more of that!
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Thanks for mentioning this! I would never have known about the podcast and hate to miss anything Tom related. :D
Tom is da man!
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the oh yeah/oh no episode should be required listening for aspiring musicians and music critics alike. i'm very much on board. i will agree that the podcast's volume is a little quiet on the whole, but the content is outstanding.
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I love these round table episodes. The new one is great.
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No discussion on the Monster Magnet interview?
I thought it was AWESOME. I always thought they were some Marilyn Manson type of band from down the shore and completely ignored them. I had no idea that the guy behind Monster Magnet was around the NYC CBGB's scene and also attributes Hawkwind as a gigantic influence, which rules.
It was just a great interview with a guy I never thought I would ever care about.
Daniel and Maggie keep getting better and better. Daniel's interview with Nils Lofgren (I had no idea Nils was a basketball fan!) and Maggie's with Dean Wareham (I'm a huge Luna fan) were great.
Tom also did a very good job of almost making Lou Barlow likable. I love Dinosaur and Sebadoh but Lou just irritates me. Tom brought a lot of stuff out about Lou I liked hearing about his sense of humor.
You had a bad experience w/ Lou? I don't particularly know him but have been a Dinosaur/Sebadoh fan since way back. I saw a Sebadoh show where both Lou and Jason were baffled by the 'social environment of this crowd here' (it was at IU), but it was more funny to me than annoying. I saw Dinosaur on tour a couple of years back and thought Lou was pretty funny making references to Dinosaur 'owning my ass now, but that's OK', and additionally he did an in-store acoustic set before the show that was really great.
So...not that you have to like the guy or anything, of course, just curious as to what the irritants are...
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I love Low Times, even though I'm a music-dummy. Is it quiet for anyone else, though?
Podcasts, I tell ya.
Yeah..a lil' bit. I love the show and can't wait for APMike's cameo interviewing Cameo.
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Could anyone identify the intro music to the Low Times podcast?
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Could anyone identify the intro music to the Low Times podcast?
I believe it's a Daniel Ralston original.
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It's by Daniel, Mollie (who did the logo), and a guy named Brian Abelson. Brian has played in a band named Oars (http://www.myspace.com/oars (http://www.myspace.com/oars)) and he is very tall and can occasionally dunk. I have not yet seen Daniel dunk but he will still post up on you.
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I've been catching up on Low Times and have really enjoyed it.
It would be great to hear Tom interview Robert Pollard. Fingers crossed.
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These are excellent podcasts. Doesn't matter if you're a fan of the person being interviewed or not. Just great.
My favourite part though is when people reference "uncool" music and Maggie snorts mockingly almost trying to start a dissing session and the interviewee just continues talking about how great such and such is/was. Anyone else cop that, or I hearing things?