WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlist from February 19, 2023

Currents with Brian D: Playlist from February 19, 2023

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February 19, 2023: "Cuz our poor boy/Believes in chance..."

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Images	New * / Special ***	Approx. start time
Pere Ubu	The Modern Dance "The Modern Dance" by "Pere Ubu"	The Modern Dance	Blank						0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Stranglers	No More Heroes "No More Heroes" by "The Stranglers"	No More Heroes	A&M						0:02:03 (Pop-up)
Studded Left	Winners Circle "Winners Circle" by "Studded Left"	Casual Flexer Maxi-Single	Studded Left Records						0:05:34 (Pop-up)
R. Stevie Moore	Part of the Problem	Games & Groceries	Think Like A Key Music						0:10:29 (Pop-up)
Richard Ohrn	Love and Friendship "Love and Friendship" by "Richard Ohrn"	Sounds In English	Big Stir						0:14:16 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Democracy Now!-aid reaches victims of earthquake in Syria								0:16:55 (Pop-up)
Beck	Earthquake Weather "Earthquake Weather" by "Beck"	Guero	Interscope Records						0:18:12 (Pop-up)
Giant Swan	Boasting "Boasting" by "Giant Swan"	Fantasy Food	Keck						0:22:46 (Pop-up)
Savana Funk	Madagascar "Madagascar" by "Savana Funk"	Ghibli	Garrincha GoGo						0:26:38 (Pop-up)
Wowza in Kalamazoo	Run the Numbers and Get Back to It	Why You Don't Come Around	Self-released						0:37:15 (Pop-up)
	Clip: CBS/WREG-Shootings in Michigan and Mississippi								0:40:43 (Pop-up)
Porno for Pyros	Packin' .25 "Packin' .25" by "Porno for Pyros"	Porno for Pyros	Warner Bros.						0:41:53 (Pop-up)
Boney M.	Daddy Cool "Daddy Cool" by "Boney M."	Take The Heat Off Me	Alco						0:47:23 (Pop-up)
Isley Brothers	Fight The Power Parts 1&2	The Heat Is On	T-Neck Records						0:54:15 (Pop-up)
Nina Simone	Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter	It Is Finished	RCA						0:59:35 (Pop-up)
Clipping	Blood of the Fang "Blood of the Fang" by "Clipping"	There Existed an Addiction to Blood	Sub Pop						1:04:48 (Pop-up)
Clash	Straight to Hell "Straight to Hell" by "Clash"	Combat Rock	CBS/Epic						1:13:22 (Pop-up)
John Cale	Night Crawling "Night Crawling" by "John Cale"	Mercy	Double Six			RIP photojournalist Julian Wasser: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/arts/julian-wasser-dead.html			1:21:39 (Pop-up)
	Clip: BBC-Russian censorship leads to house arrest of student								1:26:31 (Pop-up)
Weyes Blood	Children of the Empire	And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow	Sub Pop						1:28:01 (Pop-up)
Galactapus	Radio Kolossos "Radio Kolossos" by "Galactapus"	The Rainbows Of Wrong	Self-released						1:34:03 (Pop-up)
Pole	Tempus "Tempus" by "Pole"	Tempus	Mute						1:40:34 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Democracy Now!-Seymour Hersch report suggests US bombed Nordstream 2								1:48:18 (Pop-up)
Makaya McCraven	In These Times "In These Times" by "Makaya McCraven"	In These Times	International Anthem						1:50:23 (Pop-up)
Yang Chen	Nighttime renewals toward more friendship, more love, like snowfall, I want to sing with you	Longing For _	People Places Records						1:57:42 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Al Jazeera-Pablo Neruda poisoned								2:06:54 (Pop-up)
Kali Malone	Living Torch II "Living Torch II" by "Kali Malone"	Living Torch	Portraits GRM						2:08:26 (Pop-up)
Liraz	Roya (Female Version) "Roya (Female Version)" by "Liraz"	Roya	Glitterbeat						2:26:36 (Pop-up)
Majid Soula	Algerie Maroc "Algerie Maroc" by "Majid Soula"	Chant Amazigh	Habibi Funk						2:30:25 (Pop-up)
	Clip: Democracy Now!-Just Stop Oil/Extinction Rebellion protests in UK, US								2:39:01 (Pop-up)
Andrew Bernstein	Distant Cousins of a Common Ancestor	A Presentation	Hausu Mountain						2:40:23 (Pop-up)
Ozma	Dust City (Beijing) "Dust City (Beijing)" by "Ozma"	Hyperlapse	Cristal Records ‎						2:45:50 (Pop-up)
Etceteral	UY Scuti "UY Scuti" by "Etceteral"	Rhizome	Takitil						2:51:49 (Pop-up)
Ferkat Al Ard	Matar al Sabah (Rain of the morning)	Ogh Neya	Habibi Funk						2:54:25 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	⚡ 3:04am tom tom the pipers son: good morning brian!
	3:05am Brian D: Greetings Tom Tom and all.
	⚡ 3:07am Don in Tampere: Good morning Brian and tom tom. Nice to be back; this time last week I was on a plane to Vienna.
	3:07am Brian D: Hello Don. Never been to Vienna Always wanted to visit. How was your trip?
	⚡ 3:08am tom tom the pipers son: hi don!
	3:10am JetBoy of Astoria: Hello Brian and all
	3:11am Brian D: Greetings JetBoy.
	3:19am Chris Crisco: Cheers Brian & Currentologists!
	3:20am Brian D: Hey Chris. Was thinking of you this week with the cyclone. Hope you and yours are safe and well.
	3:20am Fox: I didn't think I liked Beck for years, and then Sea Change came out and became one of my favorite albums. I need to go through his body of work.
	3:21am Brian D: Hey Fox! So weird. I was literally just thinking of you. Great interview last week!
	3:22am Chris Crisco: Thanks Brian! We got lucky here in the Bay Of Plenty area. Auckland & Napier and other spots where rivers overflowed got hit pretty hard.
	3:23am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @3:22 Good to hear, Chris. Though sorry to see the devastation in NZ.
	⚡ 3:26am Don in Tampere: ↳ Brian D @3:07 Sorry for the delay in answering, was fixing breakfast. The trip went well. I had a good gig Sunday night, good project meetings Monday and Tuesday, and drank some wonderful coffee - something the Austrians do especially well.
	3:27am Brian D: ↳ Don in Tampere @3:26 Mmmm... coffee. Sounds great, Don.
	⚡ 3:28am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Boasting" by "Giant Swan" really did hark back to dance music in days of yore... 90's
	3:28am Fox: ↳ Brian D @3:21 Thanks, dude!
	⚡ 3:36am Brian in UK: Buenos dias Senor Currents.
	3:37am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @3:36 Hola mi amigo, Brian. Como esta?
	3:38am Fox: Wasn't there a very similar rash of murderous attacks on elementary schools in China? The main difference being they were done with knives, and not automatic guns?
	⚡ 3:38am Brian in UK: ↳ Don in Tampere @3:07 Don, we visited Vienna in 2015, from London by train. Mainly to see some Egon Schiele's paintings. Yes, the coffee is good. Would loved to have visited in the first decade of the Twentieth century.
	3:38am Brian D: ↳ Fox @3:38 Yes, and in Russia a few years back. Violence is everywhere.
	⚡ 3:41am Brian in UK: ↳ Brian D @3:37 That's the extent of Spanish for me. All good here, sun is shining & preparing to walk the dawg. Trust all is good in the Current household.
	⚡ 3:42am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:28 my dancing days are behind me but weren't there more places to dance in the90's or am i just out of the loop?
	3:42am Chris Crisco: True story when we first came to New Zealand in 2005 we were in a taxi and the driver a very prim & proper gent asked if we had "heard about the murder" which of course struck us as odd coming from the US. So we got to talking and I asked him if police carried guns in New Zealand. "Guns!" he gasped "They're our friends! They're here to help us! They're not here to shoot us!"
	3:42am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @3:41 Enjoy the sun, Brian. Yes, all good.
	3:43am ryansterlingvirtue: Wow, what a great song! Haven’t heard this since it came out. I saw them so many times live. Obsessed
	3:43am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:42 My dancing days have never arrived, Tom Tom. But, am told the dance scene was much stronger in the 90s, yes.
	3:44am Fox: ↳ Brian D @3:38 Odd that the target is schools. I wonder if it's some mammalian instinct to kill the young that might pose competition?
	3:45am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @3:42 There's an old joke about police procedural TV shows in other countries... That they have less fodder for stories, or that's the gist of it.
	3:45am Fox: ↳ Chris Crisco @3:42 That idea of friendly cops is so alien to us. How sad.
	3:47am Fox: Wow, you do that Ho Ho Ho AMAZINGLY well!!
	3:47am P.Welles: Birth of uncool is in.
	⚡ 3:47am tom tom the pipers son: sometimes i go for the uni-look myself
	3:49am Brian D: ↳ Fox @3:44 Could be. I'm guessing male whales don't often feel "wronged."
	3:49am Brian D: ↳ Fox @3:47 One of my few talents.
	3:53am katharsis: Hellos dj Brian and all.
	3:54am coelacanth∅: been tuned in, gotta sleep soon -but Thank you Brian. -and Fuckin' Isleys!
	3:55am Brian D: Greetings Katharsis and Coel!
	⚡ 3:56am tom tom the pipers son: fcc ain't listening at 4am
	3:57am Brian D: ↳ tom tom the pipers son @3:56 Shhh...
	3:58am katharsis: Hey coel, sweet dreams. I will dance until my last breath. Dance is a life sport someone said to me once.
	3:58am Destroit: Hi everyone. Will be listening and likely drifting off soon.
	⚡ 4:03am tom tom the pipers son: there was a uhf show in the 90's named flava videos. it was hosted by bobby simmons of stetsasonic. one time he made the case that jay-z was older than he said he was by playing early hip hop videos that jay-z appeared in. any body remember flava videos?
	4:03am katharsis: rubble kings I appreciated. music and dance defusing gang violence
	4:05am Brian D: Hello Destroit.
	4:06am Fox: ↳ Song: "Blood of the Fang" by "Clipping" This is excellent.
	4:07am LiXiviated Life: hello electronic night listeners
	4:12am LiXiviated Life: all things being equal I’d rather be asleep (no disrespect intended Brian and all) I’ve been fighting a virus all week and I’ve had it up to here. It seems like it always waits until night to try to suffocate me. It’s getting on my last good nerve
	4:13am Fox: Fuck man, right?!?! Brian, every time I'm on mic, half my brain is frantically scanning my words before and after I say them revising and rephrasing against my natural manner of speech.
	4:14am Brian D: ↳ Fox @4:13 I sometimes have my hand poised by the dump button just in case I forget where I am.
	4:14am Brian D: ↳ LiXiviated Life @4:07 Greetings Lix.
	4:15am Brian D: ↳ Fox @4:06 I'm not big on videos, but the video for Clipping's "Blood of the Fang" is incredible.
	4:20am ted wing: thanks for straight to hell hit the spot
	4:20am Fox: I just watched the Zappa documentary by Alex Winter tonight. Zappa was very anti video (of course).
	4:22am Brian D: ↳ ted wing @4:20 Truly my pleasure, Ted. I'll never tire of that song.
	4:27am LiXiviated Life: I’m gonna close my eyes who knows I might fall asleep anyway thanks for being there
	⚡ 4:28am Michael of Cologne: Good grey morning from Cologne, Brian & everyone!
	⚡ 4:31am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Song: "Children of the Empire" by "Weyes Blood" weyes blood makes me nostalgic... that's why i don't entirely trust it.
	4:35am Chris Crisco: Another true story my wife is Russian and we were in JFK airport when a Russian young lady maybe age 25 or so approached my wife and asked directions. Her first time ever outside Russia. Turned out we were both headed uptown so we took the train together. This was around the time when Pussy Riot first came on the scene. So I asked her (or asked my wife to ask her since she spoke no English) what she thought of Pussy Riot. Her response was to inform us not to believe any of that. That there is a special committee in Russia that manufactures fake news for the rest of the world and that only Russians get the real news.
	4:35am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @4:28 Hello Michael.
	4:36am Harktheumpire: I share your suspicion. I also find it how, though I like both Weyes Blood and Father John Misty, they’re one and the same. Correct me if I’m wrong, but to my brain they’re basically the same artist; they write the same songs, melodically and thematically speaking. Is it deliberate?
	4:36am morphe': Ukraine war: The Russian student under arrest for an Instagram story https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64625127
	4:37am Brian D: ↳ Chris Crisco @4:35 And here I thought only Americans got the real news.
	4:38am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @4:37 Only those who watch Foxy Lady News
	4:39am morphe': ps: Full List of Russians to Fall Out of Windows Since Putin Invaded Ukraine [probably not full] https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-russians-fall-windows-putin-ukraine-war-1781790
	4:39am Chris Crisco: ↳ Brian D @4:37 Or Off Air Network
	⚡ 4:40am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Radio Kolossos" by "Galactapus" This rock is rolling!
	4:41am Fox: I'm digging this, but my headache says GO LAY DOWN. I hope we get to co-host, Brian! Goodnight!
	4:41am Brian D: ↳ Fox @4:41 Likewise, Fox. Sleep well and feel better.
	4:42am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @4:39 Hello Morphe. Who hasn't fallen out of a window?
	4:43am morphe': pss: Not only Russians "fall" out of windows "CIA sued over 1950s 'murder' of government scientist plied with LSD" "....Olson's sons Eric and Nils claim their father was murdered after he witnessed extreme interrogations in which the CIA killed suspects using the biological agents he had developed..." [full article] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/29/cia-lawsuit-scientist-1950s-death
	⚡ 4:44am Michael of Cologne: ↳ morphe' @4:39 There's an interesting 4-part series on BBC World Service on the Invention of Russia. Reveals whence the window method came.
	⚡ 4:44am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ morphe' @4:39 stephen colbert did a bit about the viagra embargo in russia with a penis getting pushed out a window for not performing ... or something like that.
	4:50am Panther: Biden SUCKS!!!!
	4:51am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @4:43 Sy Hersch appeared in a docuseries about that incident, Morphe.
	4:54am morphe': ↳ Brian D @4:51 Is that murder not also linked to a larger CIA mind control experiment which also involved music??? Cannot recall the name ... Letters and numbers???
	4:55am Brian D: USBWL: en.wikipedia.org...
	4:57am Steavin Las Vegas: Mr. D, gotta say, haven’t heard your show before but definitely commendable, admirable, and all the fucking jams I needed to hear this late night on the west coast time zone!!! 🤘🏼💅🏼🤘🏼
	4:57am Harktheumpire: It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the US did bomb Nord Stream 2. The Russians definitely had no interest to. In my opinion, it was completely unnecessary, as Germany wasn’t going to use it anymore. Typical American overreach. The EU should take it as a warning; it’s high time they invest in gaining more actual independence from the US. Having said all that, the pipeline should absolutely never have been built in the first place. On another note, I read the Hersch interview on DemocracyNow, and imo he is very naive about Putin/underestimates the danger of Russia as the neo-fascist state that it already is. Chomsky seems out of his depth on this topic too, siding w Kissinger of all people and completely oblivious to Ukraine’s rights as a state/the interests of the Ukrainian people. Oddly, Zizek seems the voice of reason when it comes to that conflict.
	⚡ 5:01am tom tom the pipers son: worm wood still on netflix
	5:01am Brian D: ↳ Steavin Las Vegas @4:57 Thank you, Steavin. Glad you enjoy.
	5:05am Brian D: ↳ Harktheumpire @4:57 Hark, haven't heard Chomsky's take on Putin. The pipeline was never a good idea, particularly in light of the climate emergency.
	5:07am morphe': ↳ Brian D @4:55 Recently got Nextflix access so I'll check it out..
	5:09am morphe': CIA Mind Control Program MK-ULTRA NPR Text: The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control: Torture, LSD And A 'Poisoner In Chief'
	5:12am P.Welles: I hate reading about politics on wfmu. i come here for the music. to escape this stupidity.
	5:12am Brian D: MK-Ultra. Right. Duh. Can't believe I forgot that.
	5:16am Harktheumpire: Re: Chomsky, he’s mostly (imo, of course) very insightful on the situation. What bothers me is his insistence on the talks back in April having been torpedoed by the US, when in fact Russia was not putting anything reasonable on the table/not negotiating in earnest. That and his agreeing w Kissinger that the Ukraine should cede territory to end the conflict; that’s just not up anyone but Ukraine. I expect better from a self-proclaimed anti-imperialist.
	5:16am Brian D: ↳ P.Welles @5:12 News and current events are sort of the inspiration for the show, P. But, we strive to be a "buzzkill-free" zone here. So, sorry you feel that way.
	5:18am Panther: I’m with P.wells. Let’s hear Ramones - Rocket To Russia and make everybody happy
	5:18am Brian D: ↳ Harktheumpire @5:16 Sadly, a lot of people are making decisions that are best left to Ukraine to make, Hark.
	5:18am morphe': ↳ Brian D @5:12 I too had forgotten the name and had to use THE INTERNETS ..
	5:19am Brian D: ↳ Panther @5:18 Maybe next week...
	⚡ 5:27am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @5:18 Big men playing geopolitics. Pity the suffering populations.
	5:28am Harktheumpire: Re: Hersch, I’ll leave one quote here from the DemocracyNow interview, which I personally think reflects quite badly on him. Judge for yourselves; „Right now it’s a question of how many more people Zelensky wants to kill of his own people.“
	5:28am P.Welles: Rage against the war machine today in D.C.
	5:29am Brian D: ↳ Harktheumpire @5:28 Yeesh.
	5:30am Chris Crisco: Crimea was for all intents ceded, as were parts of Georgia. Did that end the conflict?
	⚡ 5:32am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Brian D @5:29 The Hersh quote is dripping clots of cynicism.
	5:32am morphe': ↳ Harktheumpire @5:28 Hark: serious question: Does Democracy Now have a set editorial position on the Russian War? I have not picked up on one?
	⚡ 5:35am Brian in UK: ↳ Fox @4:20 Brian, got to cut & run. Keep it coming.
	⚡ 5:35am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Chris Crisco @5:30 Mama Merkel, for one, thought Vlad could be controlled, sort of. Gas and oil deals favourable to both sides.
	5:35am Brian D: ↳ Michael of Cologne @5:32 Yes. Very simplistic. But his take is not unique. Anyway, the world turned a blind eye toward Putin's invasion of Georgia and his takeover of Crimea, not to mention his helping of Assad in Syria. This war doesn't happen if more had been done -- ideally without bombs -- earlier.
	5:36am morphe': Next room down the corridor is Moldova and upstairs we have the Baltic states ... It would be fascinating to see what would happen if Putin died in this coming week... I hope Putin only listens to FMU and does not read the Board....
	5:36am Brian D: ↳ Brian in UK @5:35 Thank you, Brian. Enjoy your day.
	5:37am Brian D: ↳ morphe' @5:36 Ha! I hear he's a big fan of the Drummer stream.
	5:37am devlawn: I like this colour scheme.
	5:38am Strandlund: I'm up extra early on a Sunday...Good Morning Brian D...I like what I'm hearing!!
	5:39am Harktheumpire: I don’t think so, morphe. I think they’re trying to have several sides represented. Their guests w pacifist views have just not been very credible; imo. Recently they invited a fairly obscure Kurdish-German politician from Die Linke, for example, whose position was basically to blame everything on the US. Now, I also think the „West“ has a lot to answer for when it comes to Russia‘s descent into fascism, but she just very clearly could not back up her arguments with anything factual/hadn’t a clue about the history of the conflict. Really made me wonder why she had been invited in the first place.
	5:39am Brian D: Greetings Dev and Strand. Good to have you both.
	⚡ 5:46am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Harktheumpire @5:39 The pacifist German wing against the Ukraine war superimposes a layer of normativity (aka morality) on top of the factual situation of a deadly struggle against an invading army. Ought is supposed to triumph over Is.
	5:46am Harktheumpire: Btw, Zizek on the issue: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/neutrality-functions-as-support-for-russian-aggression-by-slavoj-zizek-2023-02
	5:48am Harktheumpire: Ah.. paywall. Something without paywall: https://www.rferl.org/amp/zizek-interview-russia-denazification-ukraine-war/32204259.html
	⚡ 5:51am Michael of Cologne: ↳ Song: "Dust City (Beijing)" by "Ozma" The jazz finale - thanks Brian!
	⚡ 5:51am tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian, hope you enjoy your breakfast when you get home, have a good one all
	5:52am morphe': Thanks Brian D and all ... off to get my butt kicked in Ping Pong by my 11 year old son ... MIND THE WINDOWS !!!! ps: for those interested in world issues, came across this yesterday:Story Killers Project https://forbiddenstories.org/story-killers/
	⚡ 5:52am tom tom the pipers son: ↳ Harktheumpire @5:48 thanks for the link.
	5:52am P.Welles: Zizek cant even screw in a light bulb. Not a joke!
	5:55am Fredericks: ↳ P.Welles @5:52 What does screwing in lightbulbs have to do with foreign policy?
	5:55am Brian D: Thank YOU all for joining me this week. Have a great week and stay safe.
	5:57am Strandlund: Thanks Brian...I'm definitely going to check out the archives for your show!! Have a great day everyone!!
	5:58am P.Welles: ↳ Fredericks @5:55 was he not publishing on RT? He is a fraud imho.
	6:00am Harktheumpire: So was Chomsky. Doesn’t disqualify his opinion if you ask me
	9:34am TDK60: Brian, thanks for the show, as usual. Listening later. [AM of 2.25.23]

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