Favoriting It's Complicated with Dave Mandl: Playlist from March 3, 2025 Favoriting

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An hour of prog and prog-adjacent music.

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Favoriting March 3, 2025: Fundraising Marathon show with co-host Fabio

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Artist Track Album Approx. start time
Yes  Five Percent for Nothing   Favoriting Fragile  0:00:00 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Zopp  Eternal Return   Favoriting Zopp  0:05:44 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Area  La mela di Odessa   Favoriting Crac!  0:22:50 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Cheer-Accident  This Is the New That   Favoriting No Ifs Ands or Dogs  0:37:40 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Devo  Blockhead   Favoriting Duty Now for the Future  0:49:17 (MP3 | Pop-up)
 
Ahleuchatistas  Vanished   Favoriting Heads Full of Poison  0:55:34 (MP3 | Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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ultradamno:

Dave! Mandl Hordes! Fablio!
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dale:

herro dere.
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Handy Haversack:

Dave and the Complications! And Fabio! The Failure of Failure!
Avatar 7:00pm
Troy:

Hey Dave & Prog people!
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Barry P.:

Happy Marathon everybody!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
B R M:

Listening live again... at last!
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Coach32sm:

PRRROOOOGGG!!!!!
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common:

dave, fabio, all!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
tim:

Hey Dave and Fabio!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

Good evening Dave Mandl, Fabio, and all!!!
Avatar 7:02pm
HollyRT:

Yay, Prog time! Greets Dave, all.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY:

Dave. Fabio. People of the progressive sort.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

¡ Hola Complicados !
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
bleubombersune:

Dave and all Progolytes good Marathon evening
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
dale:

someone should call and try to sell fabio gutters that are guaranteed not to clog.
  7:03pm
mic_a:

Hello Dave & Progglepines & Fabiosians!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi Dave & Fabio! Keep it Complicated!
  🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

Hey there progathoners.
  7:05pm
rw:

Dave Mandle AND Fabio? Complicated indeed.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Barry P.:

Zopp is modern day Canterbury sound.
  7:06pm
P-90:

screw that “adjacent” crap
  7:06pm
Tom from Stirling:

Prog pledge time for WFMU and Our man, Dave.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
chresti:

Hi Dave and Fabio and complicated show!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

Soo many facets to pledge for...
The Mothership 🎸, Rock'N'Soul 🎵, Give the Drummer 🥁, Sheena's Jungle Room 🎶, brick and mortar building 🏢, Monty Hall 🎟, the awesome and extensive Archives 💾🗃, the servers 💻, the website 🌐, the bandwidth 📈, multiple transmitters 📡🗼, electric💡, plumbing 🚽, licensing fees💲, unexpected and expensive repairs 🛠, etc!!!

Freeform ain't free, give what you can!
Pledge, and Pledge often!!!!

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Avatar 7:07pm
Dave Mandl:

Evening, everybody, and thanks for joining the fun. Sorry I won't be able to chat much here tonight.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Folsom:

I was hoping Dave would one-up Jim the Poet and have Prog Underwear for the premium.
Avatar 🤯 7:07pm
drumbone:

↳ Song: "Eternal Return" by "Zopp"
Kinda EGG like
  7:08pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @7:07
Pledge for Prog, c'mon. Don't make it too complicated.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
tim:

↳ Folsom @7:07
Hmmm. I kinda assumed prog rockers didn't wear underwear.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ Tom from Stirling @7:08
it's complicated 🧠🤯
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
San Pedro Girl:

Hi Dave, Complicated friends et al!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
tim:

↳ Tom from Stirling @7:08
Prog pledge! Prog pledge!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Bob Tankenstein:

Hello Dave and proglodytes
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
San Pedro Girl:

Digging this one!
  7:10pm
John:

Digging Zopp Dave
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ drumbone @7:07
Agree!
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drumbone:

Hi Dave & Fabio !!
  7:11pm
red_door_what_for in ypsilanti:

Roundabout 7pm I heard a faint "Hi Ho!" and I said "it can't be, it's a Monday night..." but sure enough Fabio is on the air!
Avatar 🤯 7:16pm
erictheise:

greetings from Guanajuato. perhaps dopey to say but but this show's been kind of a guardrail for me the past few months, so thanks Dave & all ye prog chatters.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
chresti:

Salmon?
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ chresti @7:17
Hi Chresti!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
chresti:

Hi San Pedro Girl!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
dale:

melotonin gummies.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
chresti:

Yay potheads!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
dale:

...or mellotronin gummies.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ erictheise @7:16
Music, Culture & Community matter, Brother.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
PaulRobeson1925:

Clean living
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ dale @7:19
Nice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
chresti:

↳ dale @7:19
ha
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TDK60:

Ho, Dave, Fabio. Best for the freeform funding fun.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
Mi-rgod:

Dang, is there another Eric in Portland, OR out there?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
chresti:

rw!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
G:

We prog commenters are very tame. Verbose but tame.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

prog!
  7:24pm
red_door_what_for in ypsilanti:

mind is too busy getting tangled to misbehave 🔥🎸🧶🧠🎶
  🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
listener phat in Lincoln:

↳ Song: "La mela di Odessa" by "Area"
Well, this is fun!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Prawg scares the Low Literacy RightWing Trolls
...a considerable virtue...
Avatar 7:26pm
laurapanic:

↳ Song: "La mela di Odessa" by "Area"
morning team! this is delightfully difficult for grooving
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
tim:

↳ Song: "La mela di Odessa" by "Area"
I don't think you can get much more prog than this!
  7:27pm
John:

This is pretty hip - more than a little Soft Machine, but that’s a good thing
Avatar 7:27pm
morphe':

Thanks Dave and all... other side of the globe ....gotta see a pillow about a trip down the country early am ...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...different opinions on Musical merits tho ...let thee Mapps of War be drawn...
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MJ Turner:

↳ Song: "La mela di Odessa" by "Area"
This is Amazing
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:27pm
tim:

↳ laurapanic @7:26
Hey laura!
  7:28pm
John:

Now we’re somewhere else all together. How many piece band?
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ Song: "La mela di Odessa" by "Area"
... giving up the funk. Clearly these guys have been listening George Clinton
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
ultradamno:

Chakrachas of the library
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San Pedro Girl:

*to
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ultradamno:

Chakachas, rather
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Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ Song: "La mela di Odessa" by "Area"
this is rad
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HollyRT:

↳ Song: "La mela di Odessa" by "Area"
Very cool
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
tim:

I keep hearing some Leon Thomas in there!
  7:31pm
red_door_what_for in ypsilanti:

Thank you DJs for always keeping our minds sharp with the experimental sounds 🧩🌀🎺 (keeps your body sharp too if you try to dance to the beat! 💫)
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
redkayak:

Good evening all!
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Lee B:

yes, why Prog in Italy?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
Folsom:

That rebels band backed up Adriano Celentano
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laurapanic:

↳ tim @7:27
hi Tim!
  7:32pm
Ben:

Weren't Van der Graaf huge in Italy?
Avatar 🤯 7:32pm
Coach32sm:

I hid like that when I first got into the Dead
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
dale:

we put our rick wakeman capes on after dark.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
Lee B:

Proud to Prog
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ Coach32sm @7:32
Oh? You hid your GD enthusiasm from your cool friends who were into what?
  7:34pm
pp:

non-prog Joey Molland from Badfinger has died. He moved to Minneapolis 40 years ago and never learned to drive. Inspirational.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

One day, historians will find evidence that Leonardo daVinci invented prog.
  7:35pm
Tom from Stirling:

Good stories tonight Dave and Fabio. Makes you wanna pledge.
  7:35pm
pmcWhenever:

levine roadied for YES as a kid so…
  7:35pm
mic_a:

Levene ROADIED for Yes!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
chresti:

chris in the redwoods!
  7:35pm
mic_a:

Oops.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
tim:

I'm telling you guys, the Defund The Prog Police movement succeeded!
Avatar 🤯 7:36pm
Coach32sm:

↳ San Pedro Girl @7:34
Didn't want people to think I was a “Dead Head” Kind of different from my athletic image, imagine that???
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Like Lydon was an acidhead @ Hawkwind shows.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
Alvy Singer:

Sherman Hemsley was an enormous fan of Gong! Pat Smear of the Germs loved Yes.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:37pm
San Pedro Girl:

↳ Coach32sm @7:36
I see. The jock vs. head conflict. The magic elixir usually is the solution to that problem.💧
Avatar 🤯 7:38pm
drumbone:

CHEER-ACCIDENT !!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:38pm
Alvy Singer:

John Lydon loved Van der Graaf Generator.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ drumbone @7:38
I found out about this album from you, Mr. drumbone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:39pm
Nardo:

Holy Henry Cow! I can finally come out of the prog closet!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
tim:

↳ Song: "This Is the New That" by "Cheer-Accident"
These guys have a great sense of humor and fun too without being wacky.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
spodiodi:

Greetings, Dave, Fabio and all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:40pm
PaulRobeson1925:

Clean cleeannn livin’
  7:41pm
John:

Cuneiform Records is the A24 of modern music
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
ultradamno:

I don't know why they'd be shocked he liked Yes, post-punk is rife with prog/prog adjacent points of inspiration
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Folsom:

↳ Tom from Stirling @7:35
yeah good talk between them!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
tim:

↳ Song: "This Is the New That" by "Cheer-Accident"
That whole 90s Chicago Weasel Walter/Skin Graft scene was very prog adjacent.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:42pm
Aitch:

↳ Song: "This Is the New That" by "Cheer-Accident"
Progtastic
  7:42pm
red_door_what_for in ypsilanti:

Yes roadie? Man I live for these stories !! Long live It"s Complicated & WFMU 🤘
  7:43pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Song: "This Is the New That" by "Cheer-Accident"
This prog music is like music to my ears. Itsa gooda.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
ultradamno:

When I first saw Flying Luttenbachers as a trio, I would not have said that, but when they became a quartet, most definitely
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Coach32sm:

↳ San Pedro Girl @7:37
Yeah it got fixed pretty quickly. Now I'm a Phish Head for a looong time. Over 100 shows
  7:44pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Song: "This Is the New That" by "Cheer-Accident"
And suddenly it was over.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
B R M:

I included the show in my Swag For Life renewal, so exploding head coming soon, but join our family in supporting the great @Dave Mandl and this fantastic show...
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
tim:

↳ ultradamno @7:41
Agreed! Anyone over a certain age who has musical genre angst is a weenie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
PaulRobeson1925:

What did you eat for Breakfast, Barry! I’m curious
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
tim:

Take the money and start the same station with different call numbers!
  7:47pm
red_door_what_for in ypsilanti:

only for sale if you can rebuild WFMU as a giant broadcasting robot megacomplex in the sky independent of nationality
  7:48pm
Tom from Stirling:

Yeah, FMU is great. You get everything from little-eyed Joe to hello I know.
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
ultradamno:

Rorschach, the sweathog with the ever changing inkblot on his face
  7:50pm
Jon:

Getting out the calculator 😎
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:50pm
ultradamno:

I think it's in a Search & Destroy interview with Devo where they talk of being physically attacked over odd time signatures "people NEED 4/4"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
PaulRobeson1925:

Fantastically clean living
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Alvy Singer:

4/4 is just a date on the calendar!
Avatar 🤯 7:51pm
Coach32sm:

Gotta love the Mothersbaughs!!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Blockhead" by "Devo"
Nice choice.
  7:52pm
Brad in Boone:

Sounds more like 11/8
  7:52pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Alvy Singer @7:51
Or a perfect day at the plate.
  7:53pm
red_door_what_for in ypsilanti:

Rare and Exquisite DEVO
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
ultradamno:

www.vinylpulse.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
chresti:

Handy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
spodiodi:

The local Jazz station has started featuring prog segments... WFMU: setting the trends
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
FoolishBandit:

Whip it, whip it real good
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
tim:

Thanks, Dave and Fabio!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
Handy Haversack:

Thanks, gentlemen! Heck of a fun time!

Dave, I'll be on your phones next week!
  7:57pm
mic_a:

Surf prog! Thanks Dave & Fabio, best wishes everyone.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Swag for Life is great.
It's just a name for automatic payments...
I'm poor - so I do a tiny bit every month
- & the regularity is the best thing for FMU @ the same time.
  7:57pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Song: "Vanished" by "Ahleuchatistas"
muy travieso
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Barry P.:

↳ Song: "Vanished" by "Ahleuchatistas"
Wonder if the band name is a Miles Davis reference
  7:58pm
P-90:

Thanks, guys!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "Vanished" by "Ahleuchatistas"
Kind of a Pelog scale here...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Every track hella fun tonight.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
spodiodi:

Thank you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
bleubombersune:

Dave and Fabio thanks all Progolytes stray safe and be well
Avatar 🤯 7:59pm
drumbone:

Thanks, guys!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJs DaveMandl & Fabio ~
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
ultradamno:

The album with the song that should be this show's theme is now on BC thegizmos.bandcamp.com...
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Barry P.:

Thanks Dave and Fabio! Good night all
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
San Pedro Girl:

Thank you Dave, Fabio and everyone!
Avatar 🤯 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

Thank you Dave, Fabio, and all the Pledgers!!!
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