WFMU: Clear The Dance Floor with Colby Smith: Playlist from July 10, 2023

Listener comments!
	6:00pm Handy Haversack: Colby and all the Clearance Sales! I'm still going to hate surveillance capitalism, but also going to groove out.
	6:01pm Juli: 🖤♾
	6:03pm Franco Twinkie: Colby!
	6:09pm joe mulligan: although I was in tech sales and supposed to be an early adopter, ironically I was a late holdout until 2000 because I waited until my employer would expense it. I think the phone was an LG
	6:09pm Dano59: ↳ Song: "Transformer Man" by "Neil Young" some folks were shocked by what Neil was up to in '82, even confronted with his Vocoder performance video of 'Sample and Hold'. Some even called it 'lame.' You know what's lame? Mark Zuckerberg surfing in VR.
	6:12pm Ken From Hyde Park: First celly I had was a Nokia in the 90s. Possibly a 5110. You could get all kinds of different cases for them.
	6:12pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ joe mulligan @6:09 I waited until my boss threatened me - "If you want to work for this company you MUST get a cell phone!" I did, and promtly dropped it in the toilet.
	6:13pm Franco Twinkie: That's me!
	6:17pm Juli: My Mother's crush.
	6:17pm Tommy in Neversink: I hear David Geffen will sue you if you even like Trans
	6:18pm Juli: Or Juli Pisciotta.
	6:18pm Juli: I need a pen name.
	6:19pm Juli: Help.
	6:20pm Juli: David Geffen is a bigot?
	6:22pm dale: i have the landing on water album. think that was on geffen too and never went anywhere. got it in the cut out bin.
	6:23pm Jason from Houston: FRANCO
	6:23pm Juli: Ohhhh lol
	6:23pm Dano59: Late adopter, always. My girlfriend was insisting I get one, to make it easier to stay in touch. She went with me to the AT&T store in Binghamton in 2001 where I got a Samsung, an R220 I think. She took off anyway. Didn't have text capability til my next one, a Nokia 3310. Had a sliding-keyboard model and then an LG flip by 2005. All that planned obsolescence is wearisome.
	6:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: ¡Franco!
	6:23pm Barefootin’ 🌈 Along: Good evening, Freedom! TURN YER RADIO WAY UP FRANCO
	6:24pm Dano59: The song listed on the back cover and not included is pretty damn good! (If You Got Love).
	6:25pm Matt from OK: Where can you get a copy of Human Highway? I had it on my Google drive at one point, but I think DRM scrubbed it.
	6:25pm Barefootin’ 🌈 Along: MORE REVERB, & BACKGROUND! FRANCO, WE CANNOT HEAR YER RADIO
	6:26pm chresti: Hi Colby! Oh boy, Franco knows his album covers
	6:26pm Barefootin’ 🌈 Along: Poor, Poor, Bob Dylan. Poor Poor Bob Dylan
	6:27pm Feldy: Mr Twinkie I presume
	6:27pm Marie in Queens: Colby: "I'm stupid."--lol
	6:29pm DjLorraine: Hey guys. I just heard we have no leader of the the Marines bcuz Tuberville blocked all promotions.
	6:30pm Erik-O-Vert(VT): Re Leon Russell: Definitely don’t sleep on the incredible Les Blank documentary “A Poem is a Naked Person” (1974/2015 release). It’s fabulous and literally a time capsule of the 1973+ era.
	6:31pm Barefootin’ 🌈 Along: Bob says “I’ll take you on any Hot Balloon ride in the country. I love the feeling of being high above the ground”
	6:32pm Mennlinn Rebarts: Sample and Hold The underlying principle behind digitizing an analog audio signal, converting audio levels into 1's and 0's that can later be played back as discrete levels that resemble to our ears a song.
	6:33pm Andres: Elizabeth Holmes ears perked up.
	6:33pm PaulRobeson1923: Hi Hi Hi
	6:34pm DjLorraine: ↳ chresti @6:26 Hi Chresti. I wanted to add i have a fieldsheer top that's kinda cooling in the sunprotection catagory but the San Soleil is too hot and expensive.
	6:34pm Erik-O-Vert(VT): “Sample&Hold” … TRANS was 1983 -Wow, now that’s a kick in the pants. We were all Fascinated by Trans upon its release. Coming outta our obsessions with killer Rust Never Sleeps … it was a laugh for all those aging folks - still into the new wave scene.
	6:34pm PaulRobeson1923: The H Bomb was created without the use of digital technology
	6:36pm asb: Isn't putting a resume together (and formatting, etc etc) exactly the kind of soul-sucking chore that ChatGPT would be good for a first pass at? It'd be different if she used it to write her official job interview sonnet.
	6:36pm Dano59: Reactor was on Reprise. (81) . Then Trans on Geffen in '82, followed by Old Ways (country; an early all-digital recording) first turned in in 1983, then rejected -- so he gave the label Everybody's Rockin' in '83 - all 25 minutes of it as a sop to Geffen: "...you want a rock record? Here you go". After Old Ways in '85: 'Landing on Water' in '86 (inspired by machine-human interactions and his work with his disabled son) and finally Life in '87, his most 'Neil Young'-sounding album of the Geffen years. The 'Lucky Thirteen' comp also collects stray tracks / outtakes and may have been a final contractual obligation thing. It has some great Shocking Pinks live stuff.
	6:38pm Dano59: ↳ Matt from OK @6:25 I have a VHS. It must be out there somewhere.
	6:38pm Erik-O-Vert(VT): Yea - I too miss the inappropriate rougher & tumbler television entertainments (that are now very vetted and ironed out).
	6:40pm Jason from Houston: Hero.
	6:41pm P-90: House had a Razr?
	6:41pm Dano59: Franco, Taylor isn't all bad. Of course I have yet to find a song to play on my radio show other than Ryan Adams' "maybe she'll sleep with me" song-by-song 1989 record.
	6:41pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Feldy @6:27 FELDY! The book is signed and siting on top of the ironing board!
	6:43pm thin slice: I appreciate the Captain Fantastic deep cut:-)
	6:43pm P-90: Right channel?
	6:44pm Dano59: ... me too. 'Solar Prestige A Gammon' might have been a more futuristic EJ choice.
	6:44pm Franco Twinkie: I was going to say...
	6:44pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:12 My second phone was a RAZR. Had it about a week and dropped it into the Hudson, right along the shore. Dried it out and it worked fine for maybe five years.
	6:45pm dday: Flip phones are back. I saw a commercial for one yesterday..Samsung I think. I don't own a phone. My last was a little tracfone about 10 years ago. I glued a picture of a lizards eye on it & told people it was my eye-phone
	6:45pm Feldy: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:41 Excellent, Franco! I look forward to seeing it
	6:45pm Tommy in Neversink: Wow loved that EJ
	6:46pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Feldy @6:45 Post office tomorrow morning!
	6:46pm Dano59: ↳ dday @6:45 I'm definitely going for a tracfone and a landline whenever my 6-yr-old iPhone dies
	6:46pm Feldy: ↳ P-90 @6:43 Same here, P-90... I'm getting right channel only
	6:46pm Feldy: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:46 Yessssssssss
	6:47pm PaulRobeson1923: Turn It Up!!!! Turn Up yer radio!!!
	6:47pm Will thee Sound Guy: I haven't said hi yet.... So hello, Colby Smith, Handy, Juli, Franco, joe m, Dano59, Ken HP, Tommy, dale, Jason, Barefootin', Matt, chresti, Feldy, Marie, DjLorraine, Erik-O-Vert, Mennlin, Andres, PR1923, asb, P-90, thin slice, dday, , and anyone I missed!
	6:47pm PaulRobeson1923: DANG IT TURN YER RADIO WAY UP
	6:47pm PaulRobeson1923: UP UP UP
	6:48pm dday: ↳ Song: "Transformer Man" by "Neil Young" TRANS..aka..Neil Young discovers the vocorder
	6:48pm thin slice: Hello Will!
	6:49pm PaulRobeson1923: Neil Postman wrote about this very thing - www.penguinrandomhouse.com...
	6:50pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ dday @6:48 Thanks. I couldn't remember the name of that seriously outdated device.
	6:50pm dday: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:50 He used it on Landing on Water as well (Weight of the World"
	6:51pm Dano59: ↳ dday @6:48 Vocorder was around at least since the early '70s ... National Lampoon Radio Hour ran Vocorder ads in '74 all the time
	6:51pm dday: ↳ Dano59 @6:51 Originally custom built for Kraftwerk I believe
	6:52pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ dday @6:50 He actually wrestled away the tarnished legacy from Peter Framton, I think
	6:53pm P-90: Best call ever
	6:53pm Dano59: ↳ dday @6:50 Yes! And as far as all that goes, in retrospect I can hear a through-line from 'On the Beach' to 'Live Rust' to 'reactor' and 'Trans' to 'Landing on Water' pretty clearly.
	6:53pm dday: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:52 Peter didn't use a vocorder. He used a Heil talkbox invented by Bob Heil. Now Peter has his own line of talkboxes called Framptone's
	6:54pm Dano59: ↳ dday @6:53 yep, the talkbox was different. (and cheesier.)
	6:54pm dday: ↳ Dano59 @6:53 I'm a casual Neil listener. His very early stuff, Live Rust abit of all the rest here & there
	6:55pm dday: ↳ Dano59 @6:54 Not as easy to master master as many would think
	6:55pm PaulRobeson1923: Called a Dias - on the dais
	6:55pm Franco Twinkie: The New Yorker responds! Now I can die happy.
	6:56pm Dano59: ↳ dday @6:54 I've sort of. lost track in recent years. His. last good. political album was 'The Monsanto Years' (2015) and his worst was 'Fork in the Road' (2009)
	6:56pm PaulRobeson1923: This man’s radio is too low!!!
	6:57pm Dano59: thx Colby! (TURN UP THE RADIO)
	6:57pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Colby!
	6:57pm P-90: The ReDiscovery of Stereo
	6:58pm PaulRobeson1923: Neil Postman on the Dais Baby NYC’s own son We r rehashing Neil
	6:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Colby and callers and listeners.
	6:59pm listener 126464: TA! Thanks, Colby!
	7:00pm PaulRobeson1923: Thanks, Colby baby
	7:00pm Franco Twinkie: Colby Smith IS a serious contender! Double EE thanks!

Clear The Dance Floor with Colby Smith: Playlist from July 10, 2023

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July 10, 2023: Colb entertains callers' tales of their first cell phones

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Neil Young	Transformer Man "Transformer Man" by "Neil Young"	Unplugged
Molly Ringworm	Down/Out "Down/Out" by "Molly Ringworm"		0:03:54 (Pop-up)
Leon Russell	Stranger In A Strange Land		0:07:25 (Pop-up)
Elton John	Tell Me When the Whistle Blows	Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy	0:44:23 (Pop-up)
Titus Andronicus	Lost My Mind "Lost My Mind" by "Titus Andronicus"	A Most Lamentable Tragedy	0:53:44 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	6:00pm Handy Haversack: Colby and all the Clearance Sales! I'm still going to hate surveillance capitalism, but also going to groove out.
	6:01pm Juli: 🖤♾
	6:03pm Franco Twinkie: Colby!
	6:09pm joe mulligan: although I was in tech sales and supposed to be an early adopter, ironically I was a late holdout until 2000 because I waited until my employer would expense it. I think the phone was an LG
	6:09pm Dano59: ↳ Song: "Transformer Man" by "Neil Young" some folks were shocked by what Neil was up to in '82, even confronted with his Vocoder performance video of 'Sample and Hold'. Some even called it 'lame.' You know what's lame? Mark Zuckerberg surfing in VR.
	6:12pm Ken From Hyde Park: First celly I had was a Nokia in the 90s. Possibly a 5110. You could get all kinds of different cases for them.
	6:12pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ joe mulligan @6:09 I waited until my boss threatened me - "If you want to work for this company you MUST get a cell phone!" I did, and promtly dropped it in the toilet.
	6:13pm Franco Twinkie: That's me!
	6:17pm Juli: My Mother's crush.
	6:17pm Tommy in Neversink: I hear David Geffen will sue you if you even like Trans
	6:18pm Juli: Or Juli Pisciotta.
	6:18pm Juli: I need a pen name.
	6:19pm Juli: Help.
	6:20pm Juli: David Geffen is a bigot?
	6:22pm dale: i have the landing on water album. think that was on geffen too and never went anywhere. got it in the cut out bin.
	6:23pm Jason from Houston: FRANCO
	6:23pm Juli: Ohhhh lol
	6:23pm Dano59: Late adopter, always. My girlfriend was insisting I get one, to make it easier to stay in touch. She went with me to the AT&T store in Binghamton in 2001 where I got a Samsung, an R220 I think. She took off anyway. Didn't have text capability til my next one, a Nokia 3310. Had a sliding-keyboard model and then an LG flip by 2005. All that planned obsolescence is wearisome.
	6:23pm Ken From Hyde Park: ¡Franco!
	6:23pm Barefootin’ 🌈 Along: Good evening, Freedom! TURN YER RADIO WAY UP FRANCO
	6:24pm Dano59: The song listed on the back cover and not included is pretty damn good! (If You Got Love).
	6:25pm Matt from OK: Where can you get a copy of Human Highway? I had it on my Google drive at one point, but I think DRM scrubbed it.
	6:25pm Barefootin’ 🌈 Along: MORE REVERB, & BACKGROUND! FRANCO, WE CANNOT HEAR YER RADIO
	6:26pm chresti: Hi Colby! Oh boy, Franco knows his album covers
	6:26pm Barefootin’ 🌈 Along: Poor, Poor, Bob Dylan. Poor Poor Bob Dylan
	6:27pm Feldy: Mr Twinkie I presume
	6:27pm Marie in Queens: Colby: "I'm stupid."--lol
	6:29pm DjLorraine: Hey guys. I just heard we have no leader of the the Marines bcuz Tuberville blocked all promotions.
	6:30pm Erik-O-Vert(VT): Re Leon Russell: Definitely don’t sleep on the incredible Les Blank documentary “A Poem is a Naked Person” (1974/2015 release). It’s fabulous and literally a time capsule of the 1973+ era.
	6:31pm Barefootin’ 🌈 Along: Bob says “I’ll take you on any Hot Balloon ride in the country. I love the feeling of being high above the ground”
	6:32pm Mennlinn Rebarts: Sample and Hold The underlying principle behind digitizing an analog audio signal, converting audio levels into 1's and 0's that can later be played back as discrete levels that resemble to our ears a song.
	6:33pm Andres: Elizabeth Holmes ears perked up.
	6:33pm PaulRobeson1923: Hi Hi Hi
	6:34pm DjLorraine: ↳ chresti @6:26 Hi Chresti. I wanted to add i have a fieldsheer top that's kinda cooling in the sunprotection catagory but the San Soleil is too hot and expensive.
	6:34pm Erik-O-Vert(VT): “Sample&Hold” … TRANS was 1983 -Wow, now that’s a kick in the pants. We were all Fascinated by Trans upon its release. Coming outta our obsessions with killer Rust Never Sleeps … it was a laugh for all those aging folks - still into the new wave scene.
	6:34pm PaulRobeson1923: The H Bomb was created without the use of digital technology
	6:36pm asb: Isn't putting a resume together (and formatting, etc etc) exactly the kind of soul-sucking chore that ChatGPT would be good for a first pass at? It'd be different if she used it to write her official job interview sonnet.
	6:36pm Dano59: Reactor was on Reprise. (81) . Then Trans on Geffen in '82, followed by Old Ways (country; an early all-digital recording) first turned in in 1983, then rejected -- so he gave the label Everybody's Rockin' in '83 - all 25 minutes of it as a sop to Geffen: "...you want a rock record? Here you go". After Old Ways in '85: 'Landing on Water' in '86 (inspired by machine-human interactions and his work with his disabled son) and finally Life in '87, his most 'Neil Young'-sounding album of the Geffen years. The 'Lucky Thirteen' comp also collects stray tracks / outtakes and may have been a final contractual obligation thing. It has some great Shocking Pinks live stuff.
	6:38pm Dano59: ↳ Matt from OK @6:25 I have a VHS. It must be out there somewhere.
	6:38pm Erik-O-Vert(VT): Yea - I too miss the inappropriate rougher & tumbler television entertainments (that are now very vetted and ironed out).
	6:40pm Jason from Houston: Hero.
	6:41pm P-90: House had a Razr?
	6:41pm Dano59: Franco, Taylor isn't all bad. Of course I have yet to find a song to play on my radio show other than Ryan Adams' "maybe she'll sleep with me" song-by-song 1989 record.
	6:41pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Feldy @6:27 FELDY! The book is signed and siting on top of the ironing board!
	6:43pm thin slice: I appreciate the Captain Fantastic deep cut:-)
	6:43pm P-90: Right channel?
	6:44pm Dano59: ... me too. 'Solar Prestige A Gammon' might have been a more futuristic EJ choice.
	6:44pm Franco Twinkie: I was going to say...
	6:44pm Ken From Hyde Park: ↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:12 My second phone was a RAZR. Had it about a week and dropped it into the Hudson, right along the shore. Dried it out and it worked fine for maybe five years.
	6:45pm dday: Flip phones are back. I saw a commercial for one yesterday..Samsung I think. I don't own a phone. My last was a little tracfone about 10 years ago. I glued a picture of a lizards eye on it & told people it was my eye-phone
	6:45pm Feldy: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:41 Excellent, Franco! I look forward to seeing it
	6:45pm Tommy in Neversink: Wow loved that EJ
	6:46pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ Feldy @6:45 Post office tomorrow morning!
	6:46pm Dano59: ↳ dday @6:45 I'm definitely going for a tracfone and a landline whenever my 6-yr-old iPhone dies
	6:46pm Feldy: ↳ P-90 @6:43 Same here, P-90... I'm getting right channel only
	6:46pm Feldy: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:46 Yessssssssss
	6:47pm PaulRobeson1923: Turn It Up!!!! Turn Up yer radio!!!
	6:47pm Will thee Sound Guy: I haven't said hi yet.... So hello, Colby Smith, Handy, Juli, Franco, joe m, Dano59, Ken HP, Tommy, dale, Jason, Barefootin', Matt, chresti, Feldy, Marie, DjLorraine, Erik-O-Vert, Mennlin, Andres, PR1923, asb, P-90, thin slice, dday, , and anyone I missed!
	6:47pm PaulRobeson1923: DANG IT TURN YER RADIO WAY UP
	6:47pm PaulRobeson1923: UP UP UP
	6:48pm dday: ↳ Song: "Transformer Man" by "Neil Young" TRANS..aka..Neil Young discovers the vocorder
	6:48pm thin slice: Hello Will!
	6:49pm PaulRobeson1923: Neil Postman wrote about this very thing - www.penguinrandomhouse.com...
	6:50pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ dday @6:48 Thanks. I couldn't remember the name of that seriously outdated device.
	6:50pm dday: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:50 He used it on Landing on Water as well (Weight of the World"
	6:51pm Dano59: ↳ dday @6:48 Vocorder was around at least since the early '70s ... National Lampoon Radio Hour ran Vocorder ads in '74 all the time
	6:51pm dday: ↳ Dano59 @6:51 Originally custom built for Kraftwerk I believe
	6:52pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ dday @6:50 He actually wrestled away the tarnished legacy from Peter Framton, I think
	6:53pm P-90: Best call ever
	6:53pm Dano59: ↳ dday @6:50 Yes! And as far as all that goes, in retrospect I can hear a through-line from 'On the Beach' to 'Live Rust' to 'reactor' and 'Trans' to 'Landing on Water' pretty clearly.
	6:53pm dday: ↳ Franco Twinkie @6:52 Peter didn't use a vocorder. He used a Heil talkbox invented by Bob Heil. Now Peter has his own line of talkboxes called Framptone's
	6:54pm Dano59: ↳ dday @6:53 yep, the talkbox was different. (and cheesier.)
	6:54pm dday: ↳ Dano59 @6:53 I'm a casual Neil listener. His very early stuff, Live Rust abit of all the rest here & there
	6:55pm dday: ↳ Dano59 @6:54 Not as easy to master master as many would think
	6:55pm PaulRobeson1923: Called a Dias - on the dais
	6:55pm Franco Twinkie: The New Yorker responds! Now I can die happy.
	6:56pm Dano59: ↳ dday @6:54 I've sort of. lost track in recent years. His. last good. political album was 'The Monsanto Years' (2015) and his worst was 'Fork in the Road' (2009)
	6:56pm PaulRobeson1923: This man’s radio is too low!!!
	6:57pm Dano59: thx Colby! (TURN UP THE RADIO)
	6:57pm Will thee Sound Guy: Thank you Colby!
	6:57pm P-90: The ReDiscovery of Stereo
	6:58pm PaulRobeson1923: Neil Postman on the Dais Baby NYC’s own son We r rehashing Neil
	6:58pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Colby and callers and listeners.
	6:59pm listener 126464: TA! Thanks, Colby!
	7:00pm PaulRobeson1923: Thanks, Colby baby
	7:00pm Franco Twinkie: Colby Smith IS a serious contender! Double EE thanks!

Clear The Dance Floor with Colby Smith: Playlist from July 10, 2023

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