WFMU: Irwin Chusid: Playlist from May 16, 2018

Listener comments!
	2:59pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: First!
	3:01pm Jack: Stephin Merritt is so cute!
	3:01pm BronwynB: hey irwin and everyone! plz tell stephin merritt i said hi
	3:02pm bore: looking forward to hearing this!
	3:03pm Otis Fodder: Yeah!
	3:03pm Webhamster Henry: I have a cold, and when that happens, my voice drops a major third or so, and so I was trying to record the Gothic Archies' excellent "Smile! No One Cares How You Feel" this morning.
	3:04pm Carmichael: Heya Irwin and Chusidites.
	3:04pm Greg from ZONE 5: Afternoon, gang!
	3:09pm bore: in high school I had wayward bus on auto reverse until it got eaten
	3:09pm dei xhrist: This is our chance to share our Stephin Merritt stories: in the late 80s, I taped songs from a college radio station, but I never taped the banter. One ethereal song got to me, and years later I became a DJ at same station with the crazed hopes that I would find That Song. When the station lost its storage space and had to dump 1000s of CDs, I took as many as my van could carry. And within that treasure trove was That Song: If I Were Napoleon, on Distant Trees. Someday I'll find the person worth singing that to.
	3:09pm Stevel: The word "wasp's" is not easy to say on the radio.
	3:10pm dei xhrist: Distant PLASTIC Trees rather, for those playing along at home
	3:22pm BLCKDGRD: Saw Mag Fields in Philly at Union Station ten or so years ago, me his his mom and his brother, who looks just like Stephin. So it's only sorta a Stephin Merritt story.
	3:22pm Jeff Moore: @dei xhrist: and the song is actually called "Josephine", I believe.
	3:23pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: My wife just called, we have a new hornets nest on the garage near the patio. I will attack it tonight when they are sleeping. Chemical attack. Maybe I will sprinkle holy water on it and pray first to protect me from their painful stings. I did that once before, and it worked, they slept as they died.
	3:23pm bore: barley tea?
	3:23pm bore: oh! weak green tea!
	3:23pm tom from Glasgow: this is very exciting
	3:23pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: I HATE hornets, but they kill and eat bad garden insects. I just wish they would not get so close to my house.
	3:23pm Laura L: Hi Otis! Nice to see you here!
	3:24pm rf: Hooray for Stephin!
	3:24pm tom from Glasgow: did Stephin Merritt get the PATH to Exchange Place because that is a wild image to me
	👻 3:24pm βrian: That would be barely tea.
	3:24pm dei xhrist: You're right Jeff, that's what I get for geeking out at work
	3:25pm bore: first time I heard "wheat grain tea"
	👻 3:25pm βrian: It's a beautiful sunny day on the isthmus, so I expect you'll have the same in NYC soon.
	3:25pm melinda: Hi all.@Tom I like that image.
	3:25pm tom from Glasgow: @Webhamster Henry: my go-to lower range tester is "World Love"
	👻 3:25pm Ken From Hyde Park: @WN - You can do what Homer Simpson did and stuff the nest into your neighbor's mailbox.
	3:28pm tom from Glasgow: fill 11 minutes? if anyone can, Can can
	👻 3:28pm βrian: I once encountered a hornet's nest in a shed. It was about 4ft x 3 x 3. We called in the pros for that one.
	3:33pm Otis Fodder: Laying in a vertical position on the couch for the afternoon is a fine change of reaction. Includes pillow, internet stream, and 2 cats.
	3:34pm SueAdynamo: that joke was actually perfect
	3:36pm Ike: What's the most impertinent question you've ever been asked?
	3:38pm melinda: I've been listening to Wasps' Nests in the car for the last week.
	👻 3:39pm βrian: "There are wasps in the kitchen. I can hear 'em there buzzin'."
	3:39pm Beast of Boonton: Jorma still has it
	3:40pm berbo: Brautigan!
	3:41pm melinda: @Brian I have a flyswatter with the original quote on it, they were selling them at a John Prine concert years ago.
	3:41pm -_-: Come Up The Years Jefferson Airplane the lyrics scream pedophile....
	👻 3:42pm βrian: @melinda: Hah!
	3:42pm melinda: The early Jefferson Airplane was really nice.
	3:42pm Kevlicki: GOod afternoon Wednesday listeners and Irwin
	3:42pm TDK60: Thanks for Jefferson Airplane.
	👻 3:46pm karlward: Things I've learned today: 1) this isn't Yaz; 2) yaz is apparently also some kind of contraceptive?
	👻 3:46pm βrian: Shouldn't this be getting the goat alarm?
	3:47pm jmr3: 40 years on and Marc Almond annoys me more and more.
	3:47pm berbo: Ain't never gonna do it without the yaz on.
	👻 3:49pm βrian: YAZ is also is also a toolkit for bibliographic data.
	3:50pm Hoboken Jack: Hello sir! Been a fan since hearing "100,000 Fireflies" on Harriet Records' Long Secret comp.
	3:54pm Irwin: Jack: Stephin has consented to grant your request.
	3:55pm Carmichael: Definitely time for the robot dance.
	3:59pm Wild Neil\|\|Peace All: @Brian-gee, that is one HUGE MF'ing nest!
	4:00pm tom from Glasgow: hooray the Shaggs!
	4:02pm Linda Lee: shame on me for tardiness ~ but much better late than never.
	4:03pm Linda Lee: is Stephin our DJ right now?
	4:05pm Irwin: Stephen is providing all content.
	4:06pm Linda Lee: beautiful. thank you Irwin!
	4:06pm Carmichael: Yes doesn't get played on FMU very much at all.
	4:07pm jmr3: Tormato is one of the first albums I bought with my own money (after the second Foreigner lp and The Kids are Alright). Traded it in for beer money at some point, but those first few notes put me "right there" No clowns, indeed.
	4:07pm Roberto: I am content with this content.
	4:07pm Tom Y.: Whoa! Just tuned in and couldn't believe what I was hearing. Never heard this song from anywhere but my record player.
	4:07pm Linda Lee: very big with my high school graduating class (78) & don't believe i've heard them since! interesting tune!
	4:08pm seth from muddy creek: This song. This song made me fall in love with MF forever.
	4:08pm melinda: 100,000 Fireflies is one of my favorites
	4:09pm Linda Lee: isn't that lovely! wow!
	4:09pm Linda Lee: melinda, how are you?
	4:09pm jmr3: Dig it! Dig it!
	4:10pm melinda: I'm ok Linda, thanks for asking
	4:11pm Linda Lee: good. glad to hear you're doing ok.
	4:13pm Linda Lee: love a true organ though. the physicality is the thing!
	4:14pm seth from muddy creek: Pier platters. Sup. First location was the best.
	4:15pm Linda Lee: must say i'm looking forward to the non-music!!!
	4:16pm Linda Lee: we don't have enough non-music on fmu at all. then again, all sound can be music.
	4:16pm glenn: Hello from Corsica.
	4:17pm Hoboken Jack: The former Maxwell's building is slated to become part of a small NJ chain called The Committed Pig -- burgers and such. YLT continues to rehearse in Hoboken, where they recorded their latest album.
	4:18pm Linda Lee: don't quite hear your voice there, Stephin! :-)
	4:18pm jmr3: Would love to listen to Ursula, but I'd have to ignore the meaning - I need words in my mind to do my work.
	4:20pm Carmichael: @Linda Lee@4:16: I guess you listen to Bryce's show ... :)
	4:21pm Linda Lee: not regularly, but i should!
	4:21pm Carmichael: Lots of non-music on his show.
	4:22pm Linda Lee: really? i've heard nothing but music there! :-D
	4:23pm Linda Lee: i have a very flexible definition of music though .. that has more to do with the listener than the source.
	4:27pm tom from Glasgow: what a great bunch of selections. thanks Stephin + Irwin
	4:31pm Chi Bill: Erase You, another forgotten treasure for me. Excellent show guys!!!
	4:33pm Linda Lee: "danceteria"! brilliant! must check out the 50 song memoir! we were young together in at least one common place.
	4:34pm Jack: Ursula K. Le Guin wrote the introduction to "Roadside Picnic" by the Strugatsky Brothers that I'm reading right now.
	👻 4:34pm chris: <3 ship song
	4:39pm Fletcher Fletcher: GREAT CHOICE STEPHEN!!! Japan!!
	4:41pm Linda Lee: help me. not bryan ferry?
	4:42pm rf: This is just great, thank you Stephin and Irwin. Thanks also for 69 Love Songs, the soundtrack to my nervous breakdown and dropping out of college. Unparallelled
	4:42pm Chi Bill: I was just thinking B Ferry! Never heard this before. Where have I been all my life?
	4:43pm Laura L: LL: David Sylvian.
	4:43pm Linda Lee: fantastic residents.
	4:44pm Linda Lee: thanks Laura L. did seem a bit off..
	4:45pm Jack: The second time I heard Irwin play "Ferdinand de Saussure" (from 69 Love Songs) I called him up (long before the comments board existed) to ask the name of the artist. Many many years ago.
	4:46pm laughingacademy: Ooh, this is a lovely version of "Motherless Child."
	4:47pm Linda Lee: it's all about the decayed background vocals.
	4:47pm Linda Lee: really lovely.
	4:48pm Otis Fodder: Thanks Stephin and Irwin. Wonderful show.
	4:49pm Jack: Best doc ever: "Theory of Obscurity" by the Residents!
	4:49pm TDK60: Got to see Odetta once.
	4:50pm Linda Lee: darling if your clubbing youth was like mine, your memory isn't the sharpest.
	4:51pm Linda Lee: i'd hate to answer questions on it :-D
	4:51pm andrewb: danceteria=21st St
	4:52pm TDK60: Love this Neu! always feels like wide open space.
	4:53pm Laura L: What Otis said, so say we all.
	4:53pm Kevlicki: I'm waiting for Scott Williams' voiceover..!
	👻 4:53pm chris: this makes me so happy. Thanks, Stephin Merritt!
	4:53pm TDK60: Those German hippies.
	4:54pm essodame: I was at those danceteria neubauten shows( I think it was two nights)—Got my shirt burned!
	4:54pm melinda: @kevlicki me too. Thanks Stephin and Irwin!
	4:55pm Kevlicki: @TDK60 no work today, I presume, crummy weather out there. Power lines out everywhere up here in the HuVa
	4:56pm Kevlicki: generator is keeping the internet up on the farm. Funny, the wi-fi is the best its been in weeks!
	4:57pm Parq: Oh boy, is it good to see you guys. They gave me a new (Neu!) puter at work -- lucky me -- and I just spent two and a half hours sorting it out.
	4:58pm Vex: I played a card game with Stephin Merritt at a restaurant on 14th Street in 2006. I was trying not to say something dumb. I did not succeed. This is only my second most embarrassing SM story.
	5:00pm TDK60: Kev.- the "derecho" storm got you. Wow, a generator.
	👻 5:02pm 12539: (Thank you, Irwin and Stephin)
	5:04pm Kerbo: looking forward to the double Apollo show....
	5:05pm tom from Glasgow: "house of tomorrow"? that's a nice resonance
	5:07pm Linda Lee: my gosh, is this 'new york' song from my life or what? :-D
	5:09pm bore: so good
	5:09pm Linda Lee: what amazing music!! bravo!!!
	5:10pm Switchblade Batman: California Girls is my FAVORITE Magnetic Fields song.
	5:11pm Linda Lee: i'm officially in love with Magnetic Fields now. :-D
	5:12pm melinda: @Linda it happens sooner or later
	5:12pm rbx: yeah seriously, why did I never follow through with listening to Magnetic Fields.
	5:12pm melinda: ahh, another one of my favorites. So beautiful.
	5:13pm Linda Lee: there's just so much out there. sometimes we need a second or third pass.
	5:14pm rbx: @Linda very correct - but it's been on my todo list since 2008 or so. Oy.
	5:15pm Switchblade Batman: I arrived late to the Magnetic Fields party too @Linda and @RBX, but better late than never.
	5:15pm Linda Lee: much better late than never! ;-)
	5:15pm seth from muddy creek: Fuck this song kills it. Thx Stephen.
	5:16pm Otis Fodder: Just one more comment to say, great show. New cuts and old favorites all together.
	5:17pm Linda Lee: shame i couldn't be in the studio today. we could compare our mothers' odious boyfriends. :-D
	5:17pm bore: part of my high school soundtrack
	5:18pm rbx: @Switchblade for sure!
	👻 5:19pm karlward: Question for Stephin: a lot of folks listening have "first time I heard Magnetic Fields" stories (mine was hearing "Love is Like a Bottle of Gin" on a playlist that my friends made over email). What is your "first time I heard Magnetic Fields" story?
	5:20pm dan in wisconsin: Great show today. Love Merritt and Gonson! Great song writers!
	5:21pm tom from Glasgow: "you can't use a bulldozer to study orchids," he said
	5:23pm dan in wisconsin: "You Pretend To Be The Moon" by the Future Bible Heroes is one of my all time favorites, among so many others.
	5:24pm Linda Lee: that might be a funny one, karlward.
	5:24pm seth from muddy creek: Stop playin these records backwards
	5:24pm bore: another classic
	5:25pm Zamfir: Why has stephin never publicly addressed The Battle of Hastings? It was almost 1000 years ago. What is he hiding?
	5:27pm Snortley: First time hearing Magnetic Fields was live on FMU, on, I think, Nick Hill's show.
	5:27pm Linda Lee: thanks for sharing the mic with Stephin today Irwin!
	5:27pm melinda: My first Magnetic Fields song was All My Little Words, heard on WGDR in Vermont.
	5:28pm tom from Glasgow: my first was "Asleep on Dreaming", on last.fm radio, oddly enough (when it was good)
	5:30pm Linda Lee: wow!!! so glad to hear about the Monk broadcast!! bravissimo!
	5:31pm ChrisB.: Monk is great, but I thought you were going to announce the Sabu appearance.
	5:33pm SeanG: Billie!
	👻 5:36pm karlward: Miho Hatori, so great.
	5:36pm bore: I'm not familiar with these but they're great
	5:38pm R. Dakota: Enjoying every minute. Thanks, Irwin.
	5:38pm common: yay! made it.
	5:38pm seth from muddy creek: Road trip music
	5:39pm borr: yes looking forward to that Monk broadcast also
	5:39pm seth from muddy creek: Keeps making think about eating schrooms
	5:40pm bore: yes trippy
	5:42pm seth from muddy creek: Oh my. The hits just keep on coming
	5:49pm rbx: this track was on the most recent this american life, which I listened to this morning.
	5:49pm tom from Glasgow: love Starlee Kine, hate Phil Collins
	5:50pm rbx: hahaha. so net neutral then?
	5:51pm Linda Lee: at one point in my life i dressed in black, read Camus & drank vermouth. is this common? :-D
	5:51pm tom from Glasgow: damn you, i've never stayed up as late as this </3
	5:51pm PMD: I beg to differ. San Francisco is pretty.
	5:52pm Linda Lee: tom, isn't it only about 11 pm there?
	5:53pm rbx: the big reveal - it was the closing line!
	5:53pm PMD: Comas are not commas
	5:53pm R. Dakota: Aww, nice! Thanky!
	5:55pm Linda Lee: aha! :-D
	5:56pm rbx: I too was wondering why tom was complaining about being up at 11 pm :p
	5:56pm tom from Glasgow: oh my god, Come Back from San Francisco AND The Book of Love. maybe i'll die
	5:57pm melinda: 69 Love Songs brings back the memories.
	5:59pm Linda Lee: always wanted to be the subject of someone's art. music, poetry, like that. then it happened & i found out that what was created wasn't really about me, but an idea of me.
	5:59pm seth from muddy creek: Thx for this show
	👻 5:59pm chris: thanks, Irwin!
	6:00pm tom from Glasgow: thank you Irwin!
	6:00pm rbx: Thanks Irwin - great show. Glad I got to learn more about Stephin Merritt tonight!
	6:00pm Linda Lee: many thanks for a lovely show Irwin!
	6:00pm Bas NL: Just checked in, but will check archives.. Thanks Irwin!
	6:01pm rbx: this might be an episode to download and put on the mp3 player
	2:05pm robyn: rats i missed this live just as i feared! thanks for doing this irwin! the 50 song memoir show is just sublime.
	12:49pm widnesian: For pedants such as I everywhere. Irwin announced The Flowers She Said She Sent. It wasn't that song playing. It was Torn Green Velvet Eyes, the song before it on the same LP Get Lost. I checked. Thanks for the show. It was glory.

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May 16, 2018: Stephin Merritt: The Magnetic Fields 50 Song Memoir

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Performing the album over two nights at
The Apollo Theater, June 15–16
Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

Artist Track Album Label Year Format Comments Images New * / Special *** Approx. start time

The Gothic Archies The World is a Very Scary Place The Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events Nonesuch 0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields Yeah! Oh, Yeah! "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!" by "Magnetic Fields" 69 Love Songs Nonesuch 0:02:07 (Pop-up)

The Sixths San Diego Zoo (Barbara Manning, vocal) Wasps' Nests London 0:03:56 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields How I Failed Ethics 50 Song Memoir Nonesuch 0:09:58 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields At the Pyramid "At the Pyramid" by "Magnetic Fields" 50 Song Memoir Nonesuch 0:12:59 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields Desert Island "Desert Island" by "Magnetic Fields" Holiday Merge 0:15:27 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields Please Stop Dancing Distortion Nonesuch 0:19:48 (Pop-up)

STEPHIN MERRITT DJ SET featuring artists who are name-checked on 50 Song Memoir

Can Chain Reaction "Chain Reaction" by "Can" Soon Over Babaluma Spoon / Mute 0:24:20 (Pop-up)

Jefferson Airplane Come Up the Years Jefferson Airplane Takes Off RCA 0:33:55 (Pop-up)

Richard Brautigan Love Poem "Love Poem" by "Richard Brautigan" Listening to Richard Brautigan Collectors Choice 0:39:57 (Pop-up)

Marc and the Mambas Torment "Torment" by "Marc and the Mambas" Torment and Toreros Some Bizarre 0:43:18 (Pop-up)

John Foxx & Louis Gordon Ultraviolet/Infrared Crash and Burn Metamatic 0:56:59 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields Foxx and I "Foxx and I" by "Magnetic Fields" 50 Song Memoir Nonesuch 0:56:13 (Pop-up)

The Shaggs Who Are Parents? "Who Are Parents?" by "The Shaggs" Philosophy of the world RCA Victor 0:59:47 (Pop-up)

Yes Circus of Heaven "Circus of Heaven" by "Yes" Tormato Elektra/Rhino 1:02:46 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields 100,000 Fireflies Distant Plastic Trees Merge 1:07:20 (Pop-up)

Ursula K. Le Guin interview with Ursula K. Le Guin Science Fiction Writers BBC Records 1:17:03 (Pop-up)

ESG Erase You "Erase You" by "ESG" ESG: A South Bronx Story Souljazz 1:26:04 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields Danceteria "Danceteria" by "Magnetic Fields" 50 Song Memoir Nonesuch 1:30:03 (Pop-up)

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds The Ship Song The Good Son Mute 1:33:13 (Pop-up)

Japan Ghosts "Ghosts" by "Japan" Tin Drum Virgin 1:38:02 (Pop-up)

The Residents Santa Dog "Santa Dog" by "The Residents" Santa Dog Cryptic Corporation 1:42:42 (Pop-up)

Odetta Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child Best of the Vanguard Years Vanguard 1:48:29 (Pop-up)

Neu! Isi "Isi" by "Neu!" Neu! '75 Astralwerks 1:51:37 (Pop-up)

Cluster & Eno Wehrmut "Wehrmut" by "Cluster & Eno" Cluster & Eno Water 1:56:18 (Pop-up)

END OF STEPHIN MERRIT INTERVIEW AND DJ SET

Magnetic Fields You Can Never Go Back to New York 50 Song Memoir Nonesuch 2:05:34 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields California Girls "California Girls" by "Magnetic Fields" Distortion Nonesuch 2:08:21 (Pop-up)

The Sixths (vocal: Katherine Whalen) You You You You You Hyacinths & Thistles Merge 2:11:11 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields Old Orchard Beach The Wayward Bus Merge 2:14:17 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure 69 Love Songs Nonesuch 2:17:03 (Pop-up)

The Gothic Archies Walking My Gargoyle The Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events Nonesuch 2:20:05 (Pop-up)

Stephin Merritt Take Ecstacy with Me (Susan Anway, vocal) Obscurities Merge 2:22:37 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields Washington D.C. "Washington D.C." by "Magnetic Fields" 69 Love Songs Nonesuch 2:30:22 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields No One Will Ever Love You 69 Love Songs Nonesuch 2:32:00 (Pop-up)

The Sixths (vocal: Miho Hatori) Lindy Lou Hyacinths & Thistles Merge 2:35:08 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields Torn Green Velvet Eyes Holiday Merge 2:36:57 (Pop-up)

The Sixths (vocal: Mac McCaughan) Dream Hat Wasps' Nests London 2:41:19 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields Lonely Highway "Lonely Highway" by "Magnetic Fields" The Charm of the Highway Strip Merge 2:43:41 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields Reno Dakota "Reno Dakota" by "Magnetic Fields" 69 Love Songs Nonesuch 2:46:32 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields I Don't Want to Get Over You 69 Love Songs Merge 2:48:07 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields Come Back from San Francisco 69 Love Songs Nonesuch 2:50:36 (Pop-up)

Future Bible Heroes Keep Your Children in a Coma Partygoing Merge 2:53:10 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields Book of Love "Book of Love" by "Magnetic Fields" 69 Love Songs Nonesuch 2:55:16 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!

2:59pm
Wild Neil||Peace All:

First!

3:01pm
Jack:

Stephin Merritt is so cute!

3:01pm
BronwynB:

hey irwin and everyone! plz tell stephin merritt i said hi

3:02pm
bore:

looking forward to hearing this!

3:03pm
Otis Fodder:

Yeah!

3:03pm
Webhamster Henry:

I have a cold, and when that happens, my voice drops a major third or so, and so I was trying to record the Gothic Archies' excellent "Smile! No One Cares How You Feel" this morning.

3:04pm
Carmichael:

Heya Irwin and Chusidites.

3:04pm
Greg from ZONE 5:

Afternoon, gang!

3:09pm
bore:

in high school I had wayward bus on auto reverse until it got eaten

3:09pm
dei xhrist:

This is our chance to share our Stephin Merritt stories: in the late 80s, I taped songs from a college radio station, but I never taped the banter. One ethereal song got to me, and years later I became a DJ at same station with the crazed hopes that I would find That Song. When the station lost its storage space and had to dump 1000s of CDs, I took as many as my van could carry. And within that treasure trove was That Song: If I Were Napoleon, on Distant Trees. Someday I'll find the person worth singing that to.

3:09pm
Stevel:

The word "wasp's" is not easy to say on the radio.

3:10pm
dei xhrist:

Distant PLASTIC Trees rather, for those playing along at home

3:22pm
BLCKDGRD:

Saw Mag Fields in Philly at Union Station ten or so years ago, me his his mom and his brother, who looks just like Stephin. So it's only sorta a Stephin Merritt story.

3:22pm
Jeff Moore:

@dei xhrist: and the song is actually called "Josephine", I believe.

3:23pm
Wild Neil||Peace All:

My wife just called, we have a new hornets nest on the garage near the patio. I will attack it tonight when they are sleeping. Chemical attack. Maybe I will sprinkle holy water on it and pray first to protect me from their painful stings. I did that once before, and it worked, they slept as they died.

3:23pm
bore:

barley tea?

3:23pm
bore:

oh! weak green tea!

3:23pm
tom from Glasgow:

this is very exciting

3:23pm
Wild Neil||Peace All:

I HATE hornets, but they kill and eat bad garden insects. I just wish they would not get so close to my house.

3:23pm
Laura L:

Hi Otis! Nice to see you here!

3:24pm
rf:

Hooray for Stephin!

3:24pm
tom from Glasgow:

did Stephin Merritt get the PATH to Exchange Place because that is a wild image to me

👻 3:24pm
βrian:

That would be barely tea.

3:24pm
dei xhrist:

You're right Jeff, that's what I get for geeking out at work

3:25pm
bore:

first time I heard "wheat grain tea"

👻 3:25pm
βrian:

It's a beautiful sunny day on the isthmus, so I expect you'll have the same in NYC soon.

3:25pm
melinda:

Hi all.@Tom I like that image.

3:25pm
tom from Glasgow:

@Webhamster Henry: my go-to lower range tester is "World Love"

👻 3:25pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

@WN - You can do what Homer Simpson did and stuff the nest into your neighbor's mailbox.

3:28pm
tom from Glasgow:

fill 11 minutes? if anyone can, Can can

👻 3:28pm
βrian:

I once encountered a hornet's nest in a shed. It was about 4ft x 3 x 3. We called in the pros for that one.

3:33pm
Otis Fodder:

Laying in a vertical position on the couch for the afternoon is a fine change of reaction. Includes pillow, internet stream, and 2 cats.

3:34pm
SueAdynamo:

that joke was actually perfect

3:36pm
Ike:

What's the most impertinent question you've ever been asked?

3:38pm
melinda:

I've been listening to Wasps' Nests in the car for the last week.

👻 3:39pm
βrian:

"There are wasps in the kitchen. I can hear 'em there buzzin'."

3:39pm
Beast of Boonton:

Jorma still has it

3:40pm
berbo:

Brautigan!

3:41pm
melinda:

@Brian I have a flyswatter with the original quote on it, they were selling them at a John Prine concert years ago.

3:41pm
-_-:

Come Up The Years
Jefferson Airplane

the lyrics scream pedophile....

👻 3:42pm
βrian:

@melinda: Hah!

3:42pm
melinda:

The early Jefferson Airplane was really nice.

3:42pm
Kevlicki:

GOod afternoon Wednesday listeners and Irwin

3:42pm
TDK60:

Thanks for Jefferson Airplane.

👻 3:46pm
karlward:

Things I've learned today: 1) this isn't Yaz; 2) yaz is apparently also some kind of contraceptive?

👻 3:46pm
βrian:

Shouldn't this be getting the goat alarm?

3:47pm
jmr3:

40 years on and Marc Almond annoys me more and more.

3:47pm
berbo:

Ain't never gonna do it without the yaz on.

👻 3:49pm
βrian:

YAZ is also is also a toolkit for bibliographic data.

3:50pm
Hoboken Jack:

Hello sir! Been a fan since hearing "100,000 Fireflies" on Harriet Records' Long Secret comp.

3:54pm
Irwin:

Jack: Stephin has consented to grant your request.

3:55pm
Carmichael:

Definitely time for the robot dance.

3:59pm
Wild Neil||Peace All:

@Brian-gee, that is one HUGE MF'ing nest!

4:00pm
tom from Glasgow:

hooray the Shaggs!

4:02pm
Linda Lee:

shame on me for tardiness ~ but much better late than never.

4:03pm
Linda Lee:

is Stephin our DJ right now?

4:05pm
Irwin:

Stephen is providing all content.

4:06pm
Linda Lee:

beautiful. thank you Irwin!

4:06pm
Carmichael:

Yes doesn't get played on FMU very much at all.

4:07pm
jmr3:

Tormato is one of the first albums I bought with my own money (after the second Foreigner lp and The Kids are Alright). Traded it in for beer money at some point, but those first few notes put me "right there"
No clowns, indeed.

4:07pm
Roberto:

I am content with this content.

4:07pm
Tom Y.:

Whoa! Just tuned in and couldn't believe what I was hearing. Never heard this song from anywhere but my record player.

4:07pm
Linda Lee:

*very* big with my high school graduating class (78) & don't believe i've heard them since! interesting tune!

4:08pm
seth from muddy creek:

This song. This song made me fall in love with MF forever.

4:08pm
melinda:

100,000 Fireflies is one of my favorites

4:09pm
Linda Lee:

isn't that lovely! wow!

4:09pm
Linda Lee:

melinda, how are you?

4:09pm
jmr3:

Dig it! Dig it!

4:10pm
melinda:

I'm ok Linda, thanks for asking

4:11pm
Linda Lee:

good. glad to hear you're doing ok.

4:13pm
Linda Lee:

love a true organ though. the physicality is the thing!

4:14pm
seth from muddy creek:

Pier platters. Sup. First location was the best.

4:15pm
Linda Lee:

must say i'm looking forward to the non-music!!!

4:16pm
Linda Lee:

we don't have enough non-music on fmu at all. then again, all sound can be music.

4:16pm
glenn:

Hello from Corsica.

4:17pm
Hoboken Jack:

The former Maxwell's building is slated to become part of a small NJ chain called The Committed Pig -- burgers and such. YLT continues to rehearse in Hoboken, where they recorded their latest album.

4:18pm
Linda Lee:

don't quite hear your voice there, Stephin! :-)

4:18pm
jmr3:

Would love to listen to Ursula, but I'd have to ignore the meaning - I need words in my mind to do my work.

4:20pm
Carmichael:

@Linda Lee@4:16: I guess you listen to Bryce's show ... :)

4:21pm
Linda Lee:

not regularly, but i should!

4:21pm
Carmichael:

Lots of non-music on his show.

4:22pm
Linda Lee:

really? i've heard nothing but music there! :-D

4:23pm
Linda Lee:

i have a *very* flexible definition of music though .. that has more to do with the listener than the source.

4:27pm
tom from Glasgow:

what a great bunch of selections. thanks Stephin + Irwin

4:31pm
Chi Bill:

Erase You, another forgotten treasure for me. Excellent show guys!!!

4:33pm
Linda Lee:

"danceteria"! brilliant! must check out the 50 song memoir! we were young together in at least one common place.

4:34pm
Jack:

Ursula K. Le Guin wrote the introduction to "Roadside Picnic" by the Strugatsky Brothers that I'm reading right now.

👻 4:34pm
chris:

<3 ship song

4:39pm
Fletcher Fletcher:

GREAT CHOICE STEPHEN!!! Japan!!

4:41pm
Linda Lee:

help me. not bryan ferry?

4:42pm
rf:

This is just great, thank you Stephin and Irwin. Thanks also for 69 Love Songs, the soundtrack to my nervous breakdown and dropping out of college. Unparallelled

4:42pm
Chi Bill:

I was just thinking B Ferry! Never heard this before. Where have I been all my life?

4:43pm
Laura L:

LL: David Sylvian.

4:43pm
Linda Lee:

fantastic residents.

4:44pm
Linda Lee:

thanks Laura L. did seem a bit off..

4:45pm
Jack:

The second time I heard Irwin play "Ferdinand de Saussure" (from 69 Love Songs) I called him up (long before the comments board existed) to ask the name of the artist. Many many years ago.

4:46pm
laughingacademy:

Ooh, this is a lovely version of "Motherless Child."

4:47pm
Linda Lee:

it's all about the decayed background vocals.

4:47pm
Linda Lee:

really lovely.

4:48pm
Otis Fodder:

Thanks Stephin and Irwin. Wonderful show.

4:49pm
Jack:

Best doc ever: "Theory of Obscurity" by the Residents!

4:49pm
TDK60:

Got to see Odetta once.

4:50pm
Linda Lee:

darling if your clubbing youth was like mine, your memory isn't the sharpest.

4:51pm
Linda Lee:

i'd hate to answer questions on it :-D

4:51pm
andrewb:

danceteria=21st St

4:52pm
TDK60:

Love this Neu! always feels like wide open space.

4:53pm
Laura L:

What Otis said, so say we all.

4:53pm
Kevlicki:

I'm waiting for Scott Williams' voiceover..!

👻 4:53pm
chris:

this makes me so happy. Thanks, Stephin Merritt!

4:53pm
TDK60:

Those German hippies.

4:54pm
essodame:

I was at those danceteria neubauten shows( I think it was two nights)—Got my shirt burned!

4:54pm
melinda:

@kevlicki me too. Thanks Stephin and Irwin!

4:55pm
Kevlicki:

@TDK60 no work today, I presume, crummy weather out there.
Power lines out everywhere up here in the HuVa

4:56pm
Kevlicki:

generator is keeping the internet up on the farm. Funny, the wi-fi is the best its been in weeks!

4:57pm
Parq:

Oh boy, is it good to see you guys. They gave me a new (Neu!) puter at work -- lucky me -- and I just spent two and a half hours sorting it out.

4:58pm
Vex:

I played a card game with Stephin Merritt at a restaurant on 14th Street in 2006. I was trying not to say something dumb. I did not succeed. This is only my second most embarrassing SM story.

5:00pm
TDK60:

Kev.- the "derecho" storm got you. Wow, a generator.

👻 5:02pm
12539:

(Thank you, Irwin and Stephin)

5:04pm
Kerbo:

looking forward to the double Apollo show....

5:05pm
tom from Glasgow:

"house of tomorrow"? that's a nice resonance

5:07pm
Linda Lee:

my gosh, is this 'new york' song from my life or what? :-D

5:09pm
bore:

so good

5:09pm
Linda Lee:

what amazing music!! bravo!!!

5:10pm
Switchblade Batman:

California Girls is my FAVORITE Magnetic Fields song.

5:11pm
Linda Lee:

i'm officially in love with Magnetic Fields now. :-D

5:12pm
melinda:

@Linda it happens sooner or later

5:12pm
rbx:

yeah seriously, why did I never follow through with listening to Magnetic Fields.

5:12pm
melinda:

ahh, another one of my favorites. So beautiful.

5:13pm
Linda Lee:

there's just *so much* out there. sometimes we need a second or third pass.

5:14pm
rbx:

@Linda very correct - but it's been on my todo list since 2008 or so. Oy.

5:15pm
Switchblade Batman:

I arrived late to the Magnetic Fields party too @Linda and @RBX, but better late than never.

5:15pm
Linda Lee:

much better late than never! ;-)

5:15pm
seth from muddy creek:

Fuck this song kills it. Thx Stephen.

5:16pm
Otis Fodder:

Just one more comment to say, great show. New cuts and old favorites all together.

5:17pm
Linda Lee:

shame i couldn't be in the studio today. we could compare our mothers' odious boyfriends. :-D

5:17pm
bore:

part of my high school soundtrack

5:18pm
rbx:

@Switchblade for sure!

👻 5:19pm
karlward:

Question for Stephin: a lot of folks listening have "first time I heard Magnetic Fields" stories (mine was hearing "Love is Like a Bottle of Gin" on a playlist that my friends made over email). What is your "first time I heard Magnetic Fields" story?

5:20pm
dan in wisconsin:

Great show today. Love Merritt and Gonson! Great song writers!

5:21pm
tom from Glasgow:

"you can't use a bulldozer to study orchids," he said

5:23pm
dan in wisconsin:

"You Pretend To Be The Moon" by the Future Bible Heroes is one of my all time favorites, among so many others.

5:24pm
Linda Lee:

that might be a funny one, karlward.

5:24pm
seth from muddy creek:

Stop playin these records backwards

5:24pm
bore:

another classic

5:25pm
Zamfir:

Why has stephin never publicly addressed The Battle of Hastings? It was almost 1000 years ago. What is he hiding?

5:27pm
Snortley:

First time hearing Magnetic Fields was live on FMU, on, I think, Nick Hill's show.

5:27pm
Linda Lee:

thanks for sharing the mic with Stephin today Irwin!

5:27pm
melinda:

My first Magnetic Fields song was All My Little Words, heard on WGDR in Vermont.

5:28pm
tom from Glasgow:

my first was "Asleep on Dreaming", on last.fm radio, oddly enough (when it was good)

5:30pm
Linda Lee:

wow!!! so glad to hear about the Monk broadcast!! bravissimo!

5:31pm
ChrisB.:

Monk is great, but I thought you were going to announce the Sabu appearance.

5:33pm
SeanG:

Billie!

👻 5:36pm
karlward:

Miho Hatori, so great.

5:36pm
bore:

I'm not familiar with these but they're great

5:38pm
R. Dakota:

Enjoying every minute. Thanks, Irwin.

5:38pm
common:

yay! made it.

5:38pm
seth from muddy creek:

Road trip music

5:39pm
borr:

yes looking forward to that Monk broadcast also

5:39pm
seth from muddy creek:

Keeps making think about eating schrooms

5:40pm
bore:

yes trippy

5:42pm
seth from muddy creek:

Oh my. The hits just keep on coming

5:49pm
rbx:

this track was on the most recent this american life, which I listened to this morning.

5:49pm
tom from Glasgow:

love Starlee Kine, hate Phil Collins

5:50pm
rbx:

hahaha. so net neutral then?

5:51pm
Linda Lee:

at one point in my life i dressed in black, read Camus & drank vermouth. is this common? :-D

5:51pm
tom from Glasgow:

damn you, i've never stayed up as late as this </3

5:51pm
PMD:

I beg to differ. San Francisco is pretty.

5:52pm
Linda Lee:

tom, isn't it only about 11 pm there?

5:53pm
rbx:

the big reveal - it was the closing line!

5:53pm
PMD:

Comas are not commas

5:53pm
R. Dakota:

Aww, nice! Thanky!

5:55pm
Linda Lee:

aha! :-D

5:56pm
rbx:

I too was wondering why tom was complaining about being up at 11 pm :p

5:56pm
tom from Glasgow:

oh my god, Come Back from San Francisco AND The Book of Love. maybe i'll die

5:57pm
melinda:

69 Love Songs brings back the memories.

5:59pm
Linda Lee:

always wanted to be the subject of someone's art. music, poetry, like that. then it happened & i found out that what was created wasn't really about me, but an idea of me.

5:59pm
seth from muddy creek:

Thx for this show

👻 5:59pm
chris:

thanks, Irwin!

6:00pm
tom from Glasgow:

thank you Irwin!

6:00pm
rbx:

Thanks Irwin - great show. Glad I got to learn more about Stephin Merritt tonight!

6:00pm
Linda Lee:

many thanks for a lovely show Irwin!

6:00pm
Bas NL:

Just checked in, but will check archives.. Thanks Irwin!

6:01pm
rbx:

this might be an episode to download and put on the mp3 player

2:05pm
robyn:

rats i missed this live just as i feared! thanks for doing this irwin! the 50 song memoir show is just sublime.

12:49pm
widnesian:

For pedants such as I everywhere. Irwin announced The Flowers She Said She Sent. It wasn't that song playing. It was Torn Green Velvet Eyes, the song before it on the same LP Get Lost. I checked. Thanks for the show. It was glory.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Approx. start time
The Gothic Archies	The World is a Very Scary Place	The Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events	Nonesuch	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	Yeah! Oh, Yeah! "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!" by "Magnetic Fields"	69 Love Songs	Nonesuch	0:02:07 (Pop-up)
The Sixths	San Diego Zoo (Barbara Manning, vocal)	Wasps' Nests	London	0:03:56 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields	How I Failed Ethics	50 Song Memoir	Nonesuch	0:09:58 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	At the Pyramid "At the Pyramid" by "Magnetic Fields"	50 Song Memoir	Nonesuch	0:12:59 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	Desert Island "Desert Island" by "Magnetic Fields"	Holiday	Merge	0:15:27 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	Please Stop Dancing	Distortion	Nonesuch	0:19:48 (Pop-up)

STEPHIN MERRITT DJ SET	featuring artists who are name-checked on 50 Song Memoir
Can	Chain Reaction "Chain Reaction" by "Can"	Soon Over Babaluma	Spoon / Mute	0:24:20 (Pop-up)

Jefferson Airplane	Come Up the Years	Jefferson Airplane Takes Off	RCA	0:33:55 (Pop-up)
Richard Brautigan	Love Poem "Love Poem" by "Richard Brautigan"	Listening to Richard Brautigan	Collectors Choice	0:39:57 (Pop-up)
Marc and the Mambas	Torment "Torment" by "Marc and the Mambas"	Torment and Toreros	Some Bizarre	0:43:18 (Pop-up)

John Foxx & Louis Gordon	Ultraviolet/Infrared	Crash and Burn	Metamatic	0:56:59 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	Foxx and I "Foxx and I" by "Magnetic Fields"	50 Song Memoir	Nonesuch	0:56:13 (Pop-up)
The Shaggs	Who Are Parents? "Who Are Parents?" by "The Shaggs"	Philosophy of the world	RCA Victor	0:59:47 (Pop-up)
Yes	Circus of Heaven "Circus of Heaven" by "Yes"	Tormato	Elektra/Rhino	1:02:46 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	100,000 Fireflies	Distant Plastic Trees	Merge	1:07:20 (Pop-up)

Ursula K. Le Guin	interview with Ursula K. Le Guin	Science Fiction Writers	BBC Records	1:17:03 (Pop-up)
ESG	Erase You "Erase You" by "ESG"	ESG: A South Bronx Story	Souljazz	1:26:04 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	Danceteria "Danceteria" by "Magnetic Fields"	50 Song Memoir	Nonesuch	1:30:03 (Pop-up)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds	The Ship Song	The Good Son	Mute	1:33:13 (Pop-up)
Japan	Ghosts "Ghosts" by "Japan"	Tin Drum	Virgin	1:38:02 (Pop-up)
The Residents	Santa Dog "Santa Dog" by "The Residents"	Santa Dog	Cryptic Corporation	1:42:42 (Pop-up)
Odetta	Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child	Best of the Vanguard Years	Vanguard	1:48:29 (Pop-up)

Neu!	Isi "Isi" by "Neu!"	Neu! '75	Astralwerks	1:51:37 (Pop-up)
Cluster & Eno	Wehrmut "Wehrmut" by "Cluster & Eno"	Cluster & Eno	Water	1:56:18 (Pop-up)

END OF STEPHIN MERRIT INTERVIEW AND DJ SET
Magnetic Fields	You Can Never Go Back to New York	50 Song Memoir	Nonesuch	2:05:34 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	California Girls "California Girls" by "Magnetic Fields"	Distortion	Nonesuch	2:08:21 (Pop-up)
The Sixths (vocal: Katherine Whalen)	You You You You You	Hyacinths & Thistles	Merge	2:11:11 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	Old Orchard Beach	The Wayward Bus	Merge	2:14:17 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure	69 Love Songs	Nonesuch	2:17:03 (Pop-up)
The Gothic Archies	Walking My Gargoyle	The Tragic Treasury: Songs from a Series of Unfortunate Events	Nonesuch	2:20:05 (Pop-up)
Stephin Merritt	Take Ecstacy with Me (Susan Anway, vocal)	Obscurities	Merge	2:22:37 (Pop-up)

Magnetic Fields	Washington D.C. "Washington D.C." by "Magnetic Fields"	69 Love Songs	Nonesuch	2:30:22 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	No One Will Ever Love You	69 Love Songs	Nonesuch	2:32:00 (Pop-up)
The Sixths (vocal: Miho Hatori)	Lindy Lou	Hyacinths & Thistles	Merge	2:35:08 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	Torn Green Velvet Eyes	Holiday	Merge	2:36:57 (Pop-up)
The Sixths (vocal: Mac McCaughan)	Dream Hat	Wasps' Nests	London	2:41:19 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	Lonely Highway "Lonely Highway" by "Magnetic Fields"	The Charm of the Highway Strip	Merge	2:43:41 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	Reno Dakota "Reno Dakota" by "Magnetic Fields"	69 Love Songs	Nonesuch	2:46:32 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	I Don't Want to Get Over You	69 Love Songs	Merge	2:48:07 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	Come Back from San Francisco	69 Love Songs	Nonesuch	2:50:36 (Pop-up)
Future Bible Heroes	Keep Your Children in a Coma	Partygoing	Merge	2:53:10 (Pop-up)
Magnetic Fields	Book of Love "Book of Love" by "Magnetic Fields"	69 Love Songs	Nonesuch	2:55:16 (Pop-up)

Irwin Chusid: Playlist from May 16, 2018

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