Favoriting The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from January 12, 2025 Favoriting

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Favoriting January 12, 2025: L.A. IS BURNING

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format Approx. start time
The Stranglers  The Waltzinblack (Intro)   Favoriting The Gospel According To The Meninblack  EMI  1981  LP  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Mermen  Burn   Favoriting The Amazing California Health And Happiness Road Show  Mesa/Blue Moon Recordings  2000  CD  0:01:03 (Pop-up)
 
Bob Seger  Busload of Faith   Favoriting I Knew You When  Capitol  2017  CD  0:18:47 (Pop-up)
Bad Company  Burnin' Sky   Favoriting Burnin' Sky  Island/Swansong  1977  45  0:23:55 (Pop-up)
William Orbit  Fire and Mercy   Favoriting The Best of Strange Cargos  IRS Records  1996  CD  0:28:19 (Pop-up)
Rickie Lee Jones  Firewalker   Favoriting Ghostyhead  Reprise Records  1997  CD  0:33:36 (Pop-up)
Eddie Hazel  California Dreamin'   Favoriting Games, Dames, and Guitar Thangs  Warner Bros. Records  1977  LP  0:37:05 (Pop-up)
Imogen Heap  The Fire   Favoriting Ellipse  Megaphonic Records  2009  CD  0:43:41 (Pop-up)
The Cure  Burn   Favoriting The Crow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack  Atlantic    CD  0:45:14 (Pop-up)
The Stranglers  Dead Loss Angeles   Favoriting The Raven  EMI Records  1979  LP  0:51:17 (Pop-up)
X  All The Time In The World   Favoriting ALPHABETLAND  Fat Possum Records  2020  CD  0:53:45 (Pop-up)
 
Jerry Lee Lewis  Great Balls of Fire   Favoriting single (b/w You Win Again)  Sun  1957  45  0:56:33 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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medson:

Hey Harry.
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Fatherflot:

Hey Harry. This is the real descent into the maelstrom!
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Will thee SG OCNY:

Hi Harry and all!!!
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Harry Parmenter:

Ha! Gentlemen how are you doing. Thanks for joining. Managed to throw something together between power outages!
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Harry Parmenter:

Evening Will!
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Jessie:

Evening, Harry!
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Fatherflot:

Hey Medson. Hey Jessie. Hi Will
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:01
Evening, Jess!
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medson:

↳ Fatherflot @9:02
Hola.
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Jessie:

↳ Fatherflot @9:02
Hey, Ff!
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Fatherflot:

"You suppose me a very old man, but I am not. It took less than a single day to change these hairs from a jetty black to white, to weaken my limbs, and to unstring my nerves." --- Poe, "Descent Into the Maelstrom
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Soulstealer007:

Hey Everyone
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:04pm
Jessie:

↳ Soulstealer007 @9:03
Hi, Soulstealer!
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Harry Parmenter:

A few years ago when the annual fires were burning veryclose to my house and we were forced to evacuate I listened to this song very loud in the car as we drove away wondering if we'd see our house again. We were fortunate unlike so very many this time around.
Avatar 🥃 9:05pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:03
Indeed!
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Soulstealer007:

↳ Jessie @9:04
This is already heart wrenching
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:04
🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:07pm
Aitch:

Work lurking, hey Harry and crew
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Aitch @9:07
hey Aitch how are you doing
  9:10pm
rychurd:

hey Harry!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ rychurd @9:10
hey rychurd how are you doing down there in SD! Loved that Norman Greenbaum band track btw
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Tom in Brooklyn:

Hi Harry and everyone!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Tom in Brooklyn @9:13
Evening Tom how goes it
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:15pm
Fatherflot:

Why does the road in the picture appear to have the word "HUMPS" written on it
Avatar 🥃 9:16pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:15
that's how they warn you out here in certain areas, believe it or not. either that or the "C" is covered up...!
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:17pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:16
What is the warning?
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:17
bumps in the road; reduce speed.
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Harry Parmenter:

kind of irrelevant when your neighborhood is burning down.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:18
Yeah, I was just talking here last week about being in a burning neighborhood in Washington DC
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:19pm
Jessie:

↳ Song: "Busload of Faith" by "Bob Seger"
Seger does a bang up job covering this Lou Reed song.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:19
That's right! The riot! Different scene here, sadly.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:19
yeah Lou's version is great but this is pretty good, too.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:19
Rooting for the Commanders?
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:25pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:20
I don't have a real rooting interest in any of the playoff games. Can't see them either, so I've only been looking at scores and highlights. The Chargers are the most consistently disappointing team. They haven't won a big game since 1982 in Miami
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:26pm
medson:

It’s great to have you on tonight Harry with all you’re dealing with.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:25
yeah same here and Chargers once again failed to execute. 1982! Fouts? Few years ago when Rivers went into Foxboro thought they could do it but didn't, as usual.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:26
Yeah Fouts. Herbert may be a big Oregon QB, but he's no Fouts
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:26
hey thx medson, long week but nothing like the folks all over the city suffering. winds kicking up tonight and tomorrow so a long way from being over. this will reverberate for many, many years. i don't know how rebuilding gets done in the Palisades. know former colleagues who lost everything.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:28
yes I have never understood the hype on this kid. he's fine but not Stroud or Love.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:28pm
medson:

↳ Fatherflot @9:28
Air Don Coryell
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:29pm
Fatherflot:

↳ medson @9:28
I was a Charlie Joiner guy
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:29
he was great. Lance Alworth!
  9:32pm
rychurd:

doin good down here. all clear! love to my brothers n sisters up in Boss Angeles!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ rychurd @9:32
backatcha Mr. Whig
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medson:

↳ Fatherflot @9:29
You were a big Rolf Benirschke guy too I hear.
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Fatherflot:

↳ medson @9:33
They kicked in the NFL with a colostomy bag strapped on
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:35
Talk about in the bag
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Firewalker" by "Rickie Lee Jones"
Never heard this one -- nice!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:36
yeah it's cool. good live version on Conan '97 too: www.youtube.com...
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Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:28
That's terrible Harry, hopefully they can figure the fires out soon. May you guys get the rain you desperately need
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:38
potentially rain in a week. we need a rain dance.
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Soulstealer007:

This is FANTASTIC!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Soulstealer007 @9:41
yeah sweet aint it
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:42pm
medson:

↳ Song: "California Dreamin'" by "Eddie Hazel"
Hazel one hell of a guitarist
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Harry Parmenter:

tell ya one thing about these fires; you get your priorities together in a hurry. interesting to think about What Do I Grab To Throw in the Car if I have 15 minutes??!!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:42
Funkadelic's finest, right?
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Soulstealer007:

Thought of nothing else since Tuesday night.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:44pm
medson:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:43
Indeed.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:47pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:43
Becky said she's keep her most important stuff in her car just in case
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:47
yeah when you expect evac you have a bit more time. it'd kill me to leave all this vinyl and cds behind let alone books!
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Soulstealer007:

Well produced show Harry. You said it all.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Soulstealer007 @9:48
thx soulstealer. just something tiny to express the grief for our city.
  9:48pm
Chuck:

Such a sad occasion to warrant such a set list... thanks for showing up Harry considering the circumstances... it kills me to see all the reports... I have an old buddy that lives in Simi Valley I haven't talked to in years... everyday brings a new round of Horror...:(
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Soulstealer007:

Amen Brother
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Chuck @9:48
thx Chuck and well said. new rounds of horror is spot on.
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:51pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:48
It's like an apocalyptic alternative ending to "Chinatown"
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:51
you're right. where's the water??
Avatar 🥃 Swag For Life Member 9:52pm
Fatherflot:

I just read "Day of Locust" recently, and the main character is working on an epic painting called "The Burning of Los Angeles"
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:52
Homer Simpson! Seen the film? Crazy
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Will thee SG OCNY:

Thank you Harry, wishing you the best of luck.
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Soulstealer007:

WHOA!!!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @9:54
Thx Will and thx for joining in tonight.
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medson:

Thank you for tonight Harry.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Soulstealer007 @9:54
never get tired of this
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:53
The painter is Tod Hackett. Homer Simpson is from Iowa!
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Jessie:

Thanks so very much Harry. Will definitely stay in touch. ❤️
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ medson @9:54
thx medson and everyone for hanging out on the board and listening. good to be among friends and escape the horror for a bit. good week to all. be safe out there.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:55
right!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Jessie @9:55
thx Jess, so appreciate it.
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Harry Parmenter:

leave you with a little levity. see you next time.
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Fatherflot:

This has been a chilling and profound show, Harry.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:56
Glad you enjoyed, Jeff. Appreciate that. Good week to you and see you guys next Thursday/Friday.
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Fatherflot:

Take care and may the wind cease and the rain come down in buckets
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Harry Parmenter:

Amen, Fatherflot.
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